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Co- OPERATIVE FLOURING MILLS.

Among the most specious projects
which come to the attention of the
Tradsman in the way of ‘‘co-operation’’
and ‘‘doing away with the middle-
man’’ are those for the manufacture of
flour. The ideas of the simplicity of
the process of manufacture inherited
from the days when the millstone was
the principal factor seem still to domi-
nate the mind of the average farmer,
ahd so when the anti-middleman comes
along with his plausible story, it is apt
to fall upon willing ears. In this line
the Tradesman notes the following out-
line of a brilliant scheme as set forth in
a newspaper published at Holland:

Another scheme is maturing to in-
crease the gains of the farmers in this
part of the country. Klaas Roo, of
Crisp, with the aid of several others, is
working up a stock company to build a
flouring mill in this city. The struc-
ture is to be of brick and will cost about
$20,000 when completed. It will bea
farmers’ enterprise,

The object of the enterprise is to se-
cure for the farmers the full profit for
their wheat. The promoters of the
project reasonably conclude that if mill-
ing is profitable to parties who purchase
wheat and manufacture flour it certain-
ae must be profitable to the farmer who
grows the wheat. If this scheme is car-
ried out the farmer will get all there is
in it instead of giving a part of the
profit to middlemen.

The farmers are opening their eyes to
their own interests. The time will soon
come when speculators and middlemen
will not be allowed to reap the profits
from the farm, leaving the farmers bare-
ly enough on which to subsist.

Intelligence is the agency which lifts
men higher.

There is in this item a degree of
astuteness and a study of what will catch
the unwary farmer that mark the prac-
tical anti-middleman promoter. Indeed,
the appeal to the farmers’ profit, with
the reference to their awakening to their
interests, with the final tribute to intel-
ligence, shows an unusual attainment in
the art of fishing for suckers.

Beyond question there is a profit in
the establishing of co-operative flouring
mills, but, unfortunately for the poor
farmer who is so unlucky as to be found
in such nets, the profit is nct for him.
Neither is it for those who may essay
to operate such mills after the projector
has finished his part of the enterprise.
The only profit is that which comes to
the promoter of the enterprise, who is
usually nothing but a professional shark.

Since the days of the Patrons of Indus-
try the country has been strewn with the
wrecks of co-operative flouring mills,
such as may be found at Conklin and
many other places throughout the State.
In many communities the memories of
buried hopes and savings are yet too
green to make such localities suitable
for further operations of this kind, so
the schemer must make careful search
for less sophisticated localities. That
they are yet numerous enough to make
his work profitable is indicated by the
number of such items as the one above
quoted.

There are many reasons why co-oper-
ative milling will always prove a fail-
ure, even when the project is pushed
with the idea of doing more than to

 

fleece the siihicibers to the stock. It
is well known to those who are at all
familiar with modern methods of flour
manufacture that the processes are so
complicated that there can only be profit
in the production on a large scale. The
enterprises which can compete in the
markets to-day are those which have
gradually attained large dimensions and
capacity, with the attendant training of
operators, Managers and salesmen. Ad-
ditions to the number of such enter-
prises must involve the employment of
the latest and most modern machinery,
experienced operators, competent mana-
gers, successful salesmen and— quite as
important as any one of the above
requisites—ample capital.

The production of flour in the large
city mulls is very generally profitable
because they possess all of the above
requisites, besides having a large home
market at their very doors, with experi-
enced representation at other great con-

suming markets, both at home and
abroad. There is a difference, also, be-
tween operating a large mill 24 hours

a day and a small mill to or 12 hours a
day.

The Tradesman is always sorry to see
the prosecution of such enterprises as
these, not only for the reason that they
so often result in a temporary interfer-
ence in legitimate trade, but because,
where the money is once invested, it
is natural that the stockholders should
hold on, hoping against hope that they
may by some means secure the return of
their investment, until finally comes
the unloading on the market of plant
and apparatus at figures which can only
serve to demoralize when the unhealthy
competition in production is finally
given up.

In the present instance the Trades-
man does not assume that the promoter
of the enterprise is necessarily an inten-
tional swindler, although the wording of
the item would seem to show the ear-
marks of one. Sometimes well-meaning,
although not well-advised, projectors of
such enterprises are honest in their in-
tention and believe that they will gain
the profits they promise; but, unfor-
tunately for the investors and the trade,
the eventual result is the same. In_ its
strictures the Tradesman is not actuated
by other than general reasons, as the
ones interested in the undertaking in
question are entirely unknown.

 

 

There is no change in the express sit-
uation, the companies still holding out
with the stubbornness of their prototypes,
the Spaniards. In the meantime, busi-
ness men are diverting shipments by
mail and freight as much as possible
and public sentiment is assuming an at-
titude which bodes no good to the ex-
press companies in future Legislatures
and Congresses.

 

 

While Spain is segeliitite and fixing
the terms upon which she will consent
to an honorable peace, it will be well
enough to have Commodore Watson
bombard and capture a few Spanish
cities. The tumbling walls of their
citadels may help Spain to get a move
on her peacefulness,

 

Number 774

BEWARE OF GUARANTIES.

The Tradesman has frequently warned
its readers to beware of the recommen-
dations of banks and bank officials in
the case of produce houses and commis-
sion merchants, and this week it feels
constrained to second the warning of the
State Food Commissioner against ac-
cepting the guaranties of distant vine-
gar manufacturers in their dealings with
both the wholesale and retail trade.

The letter from Mr. Callahan, pub-
lished elsewhere in this week’s paper,
discloses a condition of things which is
anything but creditable to him as a
manufacturer and business man. His
broker sold several carloads of the
Prussing goods to the jobbing trade on a
positive guaranty that they conformed
to the Michigan food laws and that
any expense incurred in establishing
such a claim would be voluntarily as-
sumed by him. When the Food Com-
missioner brought suit against the Wor-
den Grocer Co. on account of the Pruss-
ing goods, Mr. Callahan visited the city
and called on the jobbing trade, repeat-
ing the guaranty which had already been
made by his broker. Notwithstanding
all this, Mr. Callahan now notifies his
attorney that he will not carry out the
terms of his guaranty, except in the
case of the Worden Grocer Co., in con-
sequence of which the other jobbers who
have been so unfortunate as to have
dealings with him are left in the lurch
and compelled to depend on their own
resources. Notonly this, but they must
make good the numerous’ guaranties
they have given their customers among
the retail trade in case the Food Com-
missioner concludes, later on, to attack
the retailer as well as the jobber for
violation of the law in selling gouds
below the legal standard.

 

Nations, ‘hike people; who. don't pay
their debts are likely to be confronted
with a writ of execution backed by a
deputy sheriff in the shape of a warship.
That is the situation in Colombia. The
Cerruti claim was allowed by President
Cleveland, who was chosen as arbitra-
tor by the Italian and Colombian gov-
ernments. Colombia hasn’t paid it, and
Italy is going to seize the custom-house
at Cartagena as security for the debt.
The United States has no pretext for in-
terfering in behalf of Colombia. In-
deed, if we took any action at all we
should have to enforce Italy’s demand
in order to be consistent. It is to be
noted, however, that this summary
process of debt collection is put in oper-
ation only against feeble states. Italy
wouldn’t send any warships to enforce
the New Orleans riot claims, for in-
stance, nor did Great Britain press for
payment of the fisheries award. It is
only when the debtor is a little fellow
that diplomacy is superseded by the
more potent argument of battleships and
rapid-fire guns.

 

Applications for National bank privi-
leges ‘‘in the colonies’’ are already
pouring into the Treasury Department
at Washington. The trade syndicates
have not yet spoken, but it can be con-
a predicted that they are close be-

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___Dry Goods

The Dry Goods Market.

Staple Cottons—The cotton goods mar-
ket as a whole is just as Strong as was
the case a month ago, yet the season has
reached a stage where such weak spots
as there are in the market become very
prominent. Leading lines of both fancy
and staple cottons have not occupied a
better sold position in years than is the
case now. The export trade in staple
cottons up to date has been the largest
in the history of the trade,and the posi-
tion of staple cottons has been further
Strengthened by the large purchases
made by the Government for the army
and navy. Certain lines of goods, how-
ever, notably bleached cottons and print
cloths, have not protited by this trading
and are suffering from overproduction,
Demand for these goods has been de-
creasing during several years past
through the competition of other fabrics,
so that manufacturers have no cause to
lay their present troubles to undercon-
sumption. There are too many looms
employed upon regular print cloths and
4-4 bleached cottons to meet the normal
home demand for these goods. There
are two remedies for the present unfor-
tunate condition: one is to seek a
broader market and the other is to per-
manently decrease the production of
these goods. Temporary curtailment
will help the market, but it will afford
only temporary relief. Lower wages and
longer hours of labor will only intensify
the trouble under which the market is
laboring. Anything that makes for low-
er prices will not aid the market unless
it forces a certain proportion of manu-
facturers to abandon the production of
the goods in question. The projected
adoption of improved looms by Fall
River manufacturers that is expected to
decrease the cost of weaving about 25
per cent. is undoubtedly a step in the
right direction as far as their individual
interests, but it simply means that un-
less other manufacturers can afford to
make the same improvement they must
give up the production of such goods,
Lower prices will not help either the
print cloth or bleached goods market in
the long run; the remedy must be more
radical.

Prints and Ginghams—Prices are very
steady, and the largest business has been
for dark fancy calicoes for fall. Light
fancies have been in much smaller de-
mand, although prices are reasonably
firm. Indigo blues are steady, but in
small request. Fine woven shirtings are
in light request. Tie new dark patterns
for fall in printed calicoes are reported
as getting well sold up in the jobbers’
hands, chiefly through selections by the
small jobbers.

Hosiery—Importers of hosiery are
ready with their fall lines, and have
prepared for a good fall trade. They
Say that their spring business, although
of a conservative nature, has reached a
Satisfactory volume, and feel that stocks
are in about the right condition. Im-
porters seem to expect a good business
in medium and _ finer grades of fancy
hosiery, in spite of the fact that there
have been free predictions in regard to
their lessening ground in the popular
fancy. We should advise a little care in
regard to heavy stocks of fancies, for
although they may still sell well, the
most conservative buyers predict a con-
siderable lessening of the consumption
of these goods. Golf hosiery has been
somewhat more active during the week
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Of course, the mark down. sales have
bad something to do with this, but it
shows that there 1s still a market where
prices are attractive.

Carpets—The ingrain manufacturers
are busy on cheap grades. The repre-
sentative of one prominent mill, which
makes a specialty of cotton tapestry car-
pets, says that he has orders enough to
last up to next November. There are
also fully a dozen manufacturers in
Philadelphia now engaged in the man-
ufacture of the granite ingrain. ‘his
is made with a cotton warp and jute
filling and wholesales at 17%c per yard.
Some manufacturers are selling ten rolls
of the granite to one of extra super all
wool guods. Some of those engaged on
all wool first quality extra super ingrains
State that rather than sell their goods
for less than 47%c per yard, they will
shut down. Other manufacturers are
making a No. 2 quality, which they are
offering at 45c. Art square manufactur-
ers are quite well employed, and have a
very fair amount of orders already
booked. Smyrna wool and jute rug
manufacturers are well employed, and
the outlook continues very favorable for
this season. Tapestry Carpet makers
are moderately employed on new busi-
ness. The low prices .obtained at the
last auction sale in New York have
tended to check for the time being con-
siderable of the new business usually ob-
tained at this season. With a general
improvement in business conditions,
manufacturers of this and other grades
of Brussels, velvets, wiltons and axmin-
sters anticipate more activity. There is
less disposition this season than ever
before with the average manufacturer to
make up stock goods, and they are con-
fining themselves to actual orders. Sev-
eral large Eastern mills continue closed,
and will remain shut down until there
is a decided improvement in the goods

market.
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Pertinent Hints on Advertising.

Don’t waste good advertising on bad
goods. Don't handicap good goods with
bad advertising.

Luck is a good thing, but can’t be
depended upon. Correct advertising is
the only sure thing in up-to-date busi-
ness.

The best effects are felt through a
combination of best business methods,
best advertising and best gcods. It’s a
trio which makes business,

Nothing means more in business than
confidence. Confidence in yourself and
your goods and the times creates con-
fidence among your patrons,

Business is not always subject to the
beck and call of an individual, but there
are those who always get business by
knowing how to beckon or how to call
for it.

Business will improve if every article
in the store is an argument to that end.

The measure of business success de-
pends on the proportion of excellent ar-
ticles at right price.

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Take Care of Your Credit.

It is very important to every retail
merchant that he keep his business
well in hand, the details properly looked
after, the stock well insured, expenses
carefully guarded, his debts within easy
control and his collections promptly
looked after. Failure is not likely to
come to those who appreciate the value
of a good credit and who take the proper
means of meriting and retaining it,

There is no National feeling in China,
The different sections of the country
hate each other more cordially than they
hate foreigners. Such military and naval
forces as exist are provincial rather
than imperial.

oes.
There is a vast difference between the
man who is a lover of the good and he
who is merely a lover of the goods,

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' A HINT

Pretty prints attract attention; they are, in fact,
the biggest card a dry goods merchant has. Our
new fall styles 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

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are in:

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.

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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. Letus start
you to success.

For One Dollar

We will send you a book of Carpet Sam-
ples containing about 50 patterns—size
9x18 inches. These samples are cut
from the roll, so you can guarantee every
carpet as represented—in style, color and
quality. No picture scheme or Misrep-
resentation. Every sample is finished,
numbered and quality specified on ticket,
So you can make no mistake when order-
ing. Wealso make up books as above,
18x18 in., which we will furnish

For Three Dollars

This size 1s very popular, as the patterns show up beautifully. If you
prefer large samples we will cut them any length desired at the price of
the goods per yard. We have the best-selling goods on earth. Don't

wait, order samples at once; it will be to your interest and we want you
to represent us.

} HENRY NOEE & CO.,
4 SOUTHEAST CORNER MARKET & MONROE STS., CHICAGO.

Complete price list and telegraph code will be sent with samples.

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On Whom the Burden of War Falls
Hardest.
Stroller in Grocery World.

War isa cruel thing. Not so cruel,
perhaps, to the men who go from home
to engage in it as to those who are left
behind without means of support. |
know men who were members of the
National Guard. When the war com-
menced they were the first expected to
volunteer. hey had people depending
on them for the very bread of life, but
their comrades went and, afraid to
brave their jeers, they went, too. Lasi
week | saw something which shows how
those left behind are getting on.

I was in a little town not far from
Pittsburg. It was a town that before the
war boasted a company all its own, and
when the Pennsylvania quota of soldier
boys went to Chickamauga this company
went as a part of it.

There are several grocery stores in
this place, and every ong of them ex-
cept one, and that’s a cagh cutting es-
tablishment, is having rather a hard
time. The families of these soldier
boys are for the most part without
means of support, and the grocers are
looked to by the community to help
them out. It is regarded as the grocer’s
contribution to the cause, don’t you
know, and before the war is over it is
liable to kecome decidedly heavy. The
grocers may get their money back; they
may not. It’s a risk at best.

One day last week | was standing in
one of these stores when I saw a most
pathetic sight. I was standing near the
door when | noticed an old lady coming
slowly down the street. She was one of
those clean little old bodies that you
covet for a grandmother—snow-white
hair and silver spectacles and as neat as
a pin.
g.As she walked the old soul eyed the
grocery store rather deprecatingly, I
tancied, and I wasn’t surprised to see
her come hesitatingly in.

**Good morning, Mrs. Culin,’’ said
the grocer.

The old tady was plainly in trouble.
She perked up a little at the grocer’s
friendly salutation, and answered it
brightly, but she at once relapsed
again.

‘‘What can I do for you?’’ asked the
grocer, for there was no one else in the
store.

The old lady took some time to an-
swer. I turned to see why,and was sur-
prised to see her dear old cheek crim-
son and her head down.

‘‘Mr. Jones,’’ she faltered, ‘‘I—I will
have to ask you for a favor that I. never
asked anyone for before, My son,
Freddy, went with the company, and [
—I lived with him, you know, and I am
expecting a remittance from him every
day, but it hasn't come as yet, and I—1
really need some supplies. Could you
—could I—?’’

The poor old lady looked so anxious
that only a dog could have had the heart
to refuse her.

““Why, certainly, Mrs. Culin,’’ said
the grocer, heartily; ‘‘anything you
want here you can have. Your credit’s
good as gold at this store.’’

The grocer’s voice wasn’t any too
clear, and I knew the poor old lady’s
story affected him just as it did me,

‘‘T thank you,’’ she faltered. Then
she mentioned a few simple little things,
asking only for the smallest quantities
of each. The grocer didn't pay any at-
tention to quantities, though, following
only the articles.

‘Now, Mrs. Culin,’’ said the grocer,
as he tied the last package up, ‘‘I want
you to promise me that you'll let me
supply you with groceries while your
son's away. I'll be proud to do it, for
I can’t go to the front myself, you know,
and I look on this as sort 0’ my share.
Will you do it?’’

‘Oh, Mr. Jones, I—.’’ The poor old
lady’s lips trembled and she had to stop
a moment. Then she said:

“*God bless you for your kindness to
an old woman!’’

Boys, I'm not ashamed to say that I
found a tear or so in my eyes just then.
She was such a dear old lady, and it
seemed so dastardly that she should be
left to humiliate herself this way that it
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

I felt so moved toward this dear old
grandma that I made bold to speak to
her, breaking the ice by asking her
where her son was, and soon. She
didn’t seem to feel in the least that her
boy had done a cowardly thing to go off
and leave her, old and without support,
to the mercy of strangers. She talked
of him with the utmost enthusiasm, even
to me, a perfect stranger. I'm very sure
of one thing—if I had a mother like
that that I wouldn't leave her uncared
for for a thousand wars, even if every
man in a hundred regiments stood in
solid phalanx and called me traitor, If
I had to go, I’d borrow enough money
to keep my mother while I was gone,

I have no doubt that if this war lasts
much longer the retail grocers of the
country will be actually supporting
thousands of soldiers’ families. Who'll
do it if they don't? They sell food and
food is the only thing a family can't do
without. It'll be a pretty hard pull for
some of you fellows, and when the
thing’s footed up at the close of the war
my word on it you’ll find that the gro-
cers have averaged a bigger contribu-
tion to the expenses than anybody else
in the country.

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Do Not Be Over Fastidious.

The conversation turned on the use of
tobacco, whereupon a successful mer-
chant remarked:

‘‘T am a moderate user of tobacco
and occasionally I take a drink of
whisky, but I never let it interfere with
my business. I believe that eight out
of ten men use tobacco in some form
and I’m sure I couldn’t afford to refuse
to do business with a man just because
he gave evidence of using tobacco. To
me cigarette smoke is offensive, yet it
isn’t any worse than the smell of strong
cheese, which some people eat with great
relish. ’’

On the same subject a man who is en-
gaged in the manufacturing business in
which he associates witb all classes of
men expressed himself in these terms:

‘“No, [ don’t care to do business with
a man who doesn’t smoke. When such a
man comes into my office I feel that
there is a high fence between us—we
can’t get together just right. But if I
meet a Man with a cigar in his mouth
there immediately arises a bond of sym-
pathy. I feel more friendly toward that
man. There is that congeniality between
us which assures me that our business
relations will be pleasant. Then if such
a man_ should ask me for a chew of to-
bacco I would feel complimented, for
that would prove that he considered me
a ‘good fellow.’’ I believe in the use
of tobacco, but when it comes to whisky
—well, a man oughtn’t to drink much
during working hours.’’

Another man who was asked for an
opinion reported the case of a wholesale
house in his city where anybody who
spits on the floor is requested to leave.
He knows several instances where cus-
tomers of the house were turned out be-
cause they unthinkingly expectorated on
the floor.

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Keep Faith With the Public.

From the Minneapolis Commercial Bulletin.

The honest policy wins in the long
run in advertising as in other things. It
pays to keep faith with the public. The
trimmer behind the counter is a fail-
ure, just as he is in all the walks of
life. People lose confidence in the
merchant who lies to them. A Minne-
apolis retailer who makes it a point to
keep faith with the public, said toa
clerk, in the presence of the writer this
week, when a customer returned a dress
pattern that he had found duplicated at
another store, and the clerk had hesi-
tated about accepting a return: ‘‘Cer-
tainly, take it back, and what is more,
please every customer who comes in this
store, even if you know the customer is
in the wrong."’ Here is the keynote to
successful retailing. Keep the public
on your side and all will go well. Be
honest in advertising and never descend
to the level of a public thief in your
dealings,

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Send i. orders for

LADIES’ AND GENTS’ MIDSUMMER NECKWEAR

in White Pique, Satin and Silk Puffs, Bows and Clubs.

NEW PALL SILKS in up-to-date styles just received.

 

 

ENTERPRISE NECKWEAR CO., Kortiander Block, Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

Chas. A. Coye

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Manufacturer of and wholesale
and retail dealer in

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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, ete.
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.

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This Man Was aj
Merchant Once

But he insisted that he could do
business on the same lines estab-
lished by his grandfather, and
like other back numbers, he fell
by the wayside. Had he been
wide awake to the needs and

adapted the coupon book system
and other modern methods in
use by up-to-date merchants, he
might have been prosperous and
happy, instead of an outcast.

We are the originators of the
Coupon Book System and are
always pleased to*send samples
and quote prices to any address.

Tradesman Company
Grand Rapids, Mich.

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Around

the State

Movements of Merchants.

Peck—Jas. H. Rose succeeds
Bros. in general trade.

Mt. Pleasant—Alpern & Co. have re-
moved their dry goods stock to Gaylord.

Buchanan—W. L. Pollock succeeds
Pollock & Hice in the grocery business.

Saginaw—C. S. Jamison, of Buffalo,
has engaged in the men’s shoe business.

Kent City—E. O’Connor will shortly
open a meat market in his store build-
ing.

Adrian—Schultz & Gray have pur-
chased the Vowels & Smith grocery
stock,

Rose

Houghton—Jas. Groggan has pur-
chased the meat business of W. F.
Miller.

Hardwood—The Monona Cedar Co. is
succeeded by the Monona Lumber &
Cedar Co.

L’Anse—H. J.
his grocery and
Houghton.

Durand—A. B. Covey has purchased
the blacksmith and wagon shop of Rob-
inson & Bigsby.

Hamburg—Burton Royce succeeds
Royce & Rollison in general trade and
the drug business,

Kalamazoo— Gold & Wells succeed
Gold & Galligan in the drug and watch
repairing business.

Detroit——Lareau Bros. have purchased
the grocery stock of W. H. Chevalier at
1499 Russell street.

Marine City—Edward Reid succeeds
Peter Sicher in the confectionery and
ice cream business.

Battle Creek—John E. Linihan has
sold his drug stock at 8 West Main street
to Burton N. Beedon.

Stanton—E. F. Tidd bas purchased
the confectionery stock and news stand
of Harry Hempstead.

Saginaw—Ellen C. (Mrs. W. E.)
Robey succeeds Mitts & Robey in the
boot and shoe business.

Jackson—Drake & Morehouse have
embarked in the grocery business at 707
South Blackstone street.

Bronson—C, J. Keyes will occupy one
of the new stores in the Rudd & Powers
block witb a grocery stock.

Knot Maul—Lee & Blumberg, gen-
eral dealers, have dissolved partnership,
F. W. Blumberg succeeding.

Deertield—Geo. Fredericks is closing
out his hardware business, preparatory
to removing to Hamler, Ohio.

Jackson--—Markham & McDonald,
dealers in men's furnishing goods and
trunks, have dissolved partnership.

Fremont—Gibson & Wilcox, furniture
dealers and undertakers, have dissolved
partnership, C. M. Gibson succeeding.

Hancock—The retail clerks at this
place are undertaking to bring about the
uniform closing of stores at 8 o'clock
p. m.

Negaunee—Davidson & Bloch, bazaar
dealers, have dissolved partnership.
The business will be continued by Jacob
Davidson.

New Era—Martin Vanderveen has
sold his general stock to H. W. Reid,
who will continue the business at the
same location.

Ludington—W. B. Cota suffered the
loss of his grocery stock and store build-
ing by fire on July to. The insurance
was only partial.

Durand—F, E. McCollom has resigned
his position as head salesman in the
dry goods and grocery store of Obert
Bros. and removed to Greenville, where
he has taken the position as manager of
a department store.

Ingersoll has removed
hardware stock to

 

Davison—A. Austin, cf Bancroft, bas
purchased the hardware stock of I. T.
Hurd, and will continue the business at
the same location.

Reed City—Wm. Goehrend & Co.
have sold their meat business to Upp
Bros. and will devote their entire atten-
tion to their implement business.

St. Louis-—Whittaker & Buck have
purchased the grocery stock of Chas. E.
Throop and will consolidate it with their
bazaar stock and remove to a_ larger
store building.

Ce“’ar Springs—Fred Hubbard has
embarked in the banking business
under the style of the Cedar Springs
Exchange Bank. Herbert W. Wheeler
will act as Cashier.

Saginaw—S. H. Knox, of Buffalo, has
embarked in the bazaar business on
Genesee avenue. Mr. Knox 1s the own-
er of similar stores in thirteen cities in
the United States and Canada.

Grand Haven-—-The partnership ex-
isting between D. O. Watson and J. M.
Walsh, who conduct a dry goods store
under the style of Walsh & Co., will be
dissolved by limtation on Aug. to.

Big Rapids—The copartnership exist-
ing between C. D. Crandell and E. P.
Clark, under the style of the Big Rapids
Produce Co., bas been dissolved. E.
P. Clark will continue the business.

Dexter—P. Sloan & Co. have leased
the building formerly occupied by C.
L. Bowman with his meat market and
will remove their stock of boots, shoes
and groceries into same as soon as it
can be remodeled.

3ay City—The People’s House Fur-
nishing Co. has been organized by Jas.
A. Lee, Guy E. Marsh and H. H.
Norrington for the purpose of conduct-
ing the house furnishing goods business
in the Norrington block.

Hudson— Fred G. Friend has sold bis
interest in the general stock of Wright
& Friend to his partner, who will con-
tinue the business under the style of Or-
vin J. Wright. Mr. Friend will shortiy
engage in the shoe business at Albion.

Petoskey—Chas. W. Failas, of Cedar
Springs, has purchased one-third inter-
est in the book business of Coburn &
Harner, who have, in company with
Mr. Fallas, purchased the Farnsworth
pharmacy. The style of the firm will
be Coburn, Harner & Fallas,

Red Jacket—The F. J. Hargrave Co.,
which has been carrying on a_ general
merchandise and banking business at
Ewen and Matchwood since 1889, has
closed its store at Ewen and removed the
stock to this place, where it will engage
in a general merchandise business.”

Ypsilanti—Weinmann & Mathews will
embark in the drug business Aug. 1.
Mr. Weinmann has been engaged in the
drug business with E. R. Beal, and Mr.
Mathews was formerly in the drug store
of Morford & Hyzer, but bas recently
been traveling salesman for the Michi-
gan Drug Co., of Detroit.

Lenox—The Macomb County Savings
Bank was organized here last Saturday,
with a capital of $25,000. Officers were
elected as follows: President, J. E.
Weter; Vice-President, Andrew Sim-
mons; Cashier, M. W. Davis: Attor-
ney, O. C. Lungerhausen. The bank
will be in operation within two months,

Manufacturing Matters.

Detroit—The Dearing Water Tube
Boiler Co. has been incorporated under
the same style.

Cheboygan—The band saw in the
plant of the Cheboygan Lumber Co. has
been in operation about a month and
the company is well pieased with it.

 

Mikado—Tbhe Michigan Cheese Co.
sold the output of the Mikado cheese
factory at.8!4 cents per pound,

Sault Ste. Marie—A new industry has
been established in the Soo in the form
of a woolen mill, which is now in suc-
cessful operation by G. J. Griffith and
A. E, Cullis under the style of Griffith
& Cullis.

Alpena—J. C. Walker is building a
veneer factory at this place. The build-
ing is 30x60 feet, with an engine and
boiler house adjoining the factory build-
ing. The machinery 1s being placed in
the factory.

Lexington—The Lexington Creamery
Co. has secured the services of J. J.
Ohiemacher, of Sandusky, Obio, a grad-
uate of the Columbus, Ohio, dairy
school, to conduct the dairy department
of its establishment.

Manistee ~The Babcock Lumber Co.'s
mill is shut down at present and prob-
ably will not start until shingles are do-
ing better. In the meantime the com
pany’s docks and sheds are pretty well
filled with all grades and it can care for
its transient trade without any great
trouble.

Holland—The Walsh-De Roo Milling
Co. has shipped nine barrels of flour
and nine barrels cf meal to the Cuban
sufferers, ip accordance with a proposi-
tion made last spring to the farmers of
this vicinity to the effect that it would
grind free all wheat and corn contrib-
uted for that purpose.

Menominee—The 3S. K. Martin Lum-
ber Co. refused to pay taxes on lumber
at this place in the amount of $2,174.
The city thereupon sued for recovery,
and levied on lumber piled on the dock
ot Forster & Burns. That firm replev-
ined the lumber, and the suit in replevin
came on for trial before Judge Stone, of
the Circuit Court, at Menominee. The
court sustained the tax, and held that
the replevin would not exempt the lum-
ber from being held for tax purposes.
Judgment was given the city for the full
amount of the tax.

Detroit—-Detroit’s business men, mer-
chants and manufacturers rejoice at the
prospects of an early termination of the
war. Most of them lock for a great
trade revival to follow. The steambnat
lines and grain, ore and lumber carriers
have been seriously affected by the war,
and even with its termination they can
not see much chance of an improvement
this season unless it be in grain ship-
ments The stove manufacturers, the
paint producers and those interested in
such products as are made in Detroit
are making preparations for the ex-
pected stimulus in trade.

Perry—About a year ago the Lamb
Knit Goods Co., of Co'on, began suit
in the Shiawassee Circuit Court against
the Lamb Glove and Mitten Co. of this
place. The complainant claimed, in
substance, that it had the exclusive right
to use the name ‘‘Lamb"’ as a part of
the name of a corporation engaged in
the knitting business; that it had also
the exclusive right to use the word
‘‘Lamb knit’’ as descriptive of knit
goods, as ‘‘Lamb goods, or Lamb knit
goods ;"’ that it had the exclusive right
to make goods with the peculiar siitch
commonly known as‘' rack ribbed or rick
rack work.’’ It asked for an injunction,
restraining the Lamb Glove and Mitten
Co. from using that corporate name:
also to restrain it from selling its goods
as ‘‘Lamb goods, or Lamb knit goods ;"’
also to restrain it from making goods
in the rack ribbed stitch. The testi-
mony in the case covered something like
400 pages of type written matter. On
July 14 Judge Smith rendered a deci-
sion, dismissing the bill and taxing the
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BACKS DOWN.

The Prussing Vinegar Co. Leaves the
Trade in the Lurch.

Lansing, July 19—Kindly allow the
writer Space in your columns upon a
subject that is of vital interest to the
grocery houses in Michigan, both whole-
sale and retail, and which is often met
with in the enforcement of our food
statutes. I refer to the custom of sell-
ing goods under a guarantee that the
same are pure and comply with food
regulations. It has now come to be
pretty well understood that a guarantee
of this nature, either from the manufac-
turer or from the jobber, is mot a valid
excuse for a retailer when his goods are
found wrong, but it is almost universal-
ly urged as a proof of good faith shown
in the transaction when a guarantee has
been exacted.

The Department has had some experi-
ence with these guarantees and tinds
that, as a rule, the parties making them
do not live up to them, but when they
tind their trade in trouble, hasten to
leave the State and permit their custom-
ers to fight it out for themselves.

Some time ago, an agent of the Pruss-
ing Vinegar Co. sold several consign-
ments of vinegar in the city of Grand
Rapids under a guarantee that the goods
were up to the standard of the Michi-
gan law and a further guarantee to as-
sume the defense of any prosecutions
that might be started under the pure
tood law. ,We are informed that this
guarantee .was given all purchasers,
These vinegars were found upon exam-
ination not to comply with the law and
cases were begun against the Grand
Rapids jobbers who had been selling
these goods, protected, as they sup-
posed, by these guarantees.

Under recent date, Andrew P. Calla-
han, of the Prussing Vinegar Co., writes
his attorney in Grand Rapids that he
will not defend the Grand Rapids job-
bers excepting in the first case started.
Allow me to quote a paragraph from his
letter:

‘*We will contest the Worden case, but
can not do so as early as the date you
set, the 4th of July, because your letter
has just been received and there is not
enough time to get the testimony to-
gether. We will not contest any other
cases and we will not pay any other fines
for any other parties. We do not pro-
pose that Mr. Grosvenor shall reach us
through the jobbers. If he wants to
make a fight with the jobbers, let him
settle his case with them. We have done
our full duty when we received back all
the vinegar we had shipped and agreed
to refrain from shipping any more of
any kind, and agree to prosecute one
test case to the Supreme Court. If this
can not be done, we will drop the whole
litigation and let Mr. Grosvenor fight it
out with the citizens of Michigan. We
have not made one dollar of profit in
the State during the last three years and
we do not think that the trade there dur-
ing the next three will amount to the
cost of prosecuting this one case.’’

Now, Mr. Editor, I think the contents
of this letter prove conclusively that at
the time the agent was soliciting orders
and authorized to give this guarantee,
Mr. Callahan, at least, had no idea that
any prosecutions would ever result, and
could not have had a well-defined inten-
tion to live up to the guarantees. Since
his Michigan trade appears to have been
unprofitable, by what method of reason-
ing can you arrive at the conviction that
this guarantee was given in good faith?
Not infrequently do we find this con-
dition of affairs exist. Sales are made
with all kinds of promises attached to
assume the defense of the purchasers _ if
any trouble results, when the seller has
no intention whatever to stand behind
his agreement. We are compelled to
look upon some guarantees of this kind
with suspicion.

Let dealers beware of these ready-
made agreements, made for the purpose
of selling goods and with no idea of the
maker being called upon to fulfill them.

ELLIoT O. GROSVENOR,
State Food Commissioner.
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Grand Rapids Gossip

The Grocery Marxet.

Sugar—The Trust is from day to day
renewing its guaranty of the market
against lower prices, this lasting for
thirty days. There seems no reason to
expect any advance, either, and in all
probability .the market will remain
steady for several weeks. The raw mar-
ket is slightly off, by about %c, and
sales are now being made at the de-
cline. The consumptive demand is only
fair. The Arbuckle refinery is getting
under way, although it is not yet in full
operation. It is reported that this re-
finery will sell sugar in packages, these
packages being put up in crates. This
will be better for all concerned, from
the manufacturer to the consumer, be-
ing particularly advantageous for the
retailer.

Tea—There is absolutely no sign of
weakening and the market in Japan is
unchanged. The low grades of the new
Japan teas will rule at much higher
prices than last year. The higher grades
are the same. There has been no change
in prices during the past week, and
none is expected during the next few
months. It is practically settled that
prices will be no lower in any event.

Coffee—There is nothing in the situa-
tion to raise expectations of better mar-
kets on Brazil coffees. The crcep of the
season ending July 1 shows about 11,000, -
ooo bags Rio and Santos coffees, being
about 3,000,000 bags larger than the
crop of the preceding year. This makes
a good sized surplus in the market,
which is not likely to be taken out
even if the coming crop is lighter than
expected. However, the prospect for
the coming crop is good at the present.

Canned Goods—There are varying re-
ports regarding tomatoes, some holding
that the market is weaker and some that
it is stronger. There isn’t much doubt
that prices have been shaded consider-
ably in the past week, although no one
wants to quote lower figures. The ac-
tual situation seems to be that the ap-
parent approach of the close of the war
has caused a weakening, because there
is little prospect of further Government
demand. In view of this the trade is dis-
posed to await developments before
making further decisive moves. The
same may be said of salmon, which has
been bolstered by Government demands,
and any cessation in that demand causes
holders to wait. The action of the
Western Packers’ Association is awaited
by the trade, and until the outcome
of the conditions which now control is
known there will be nochange. Sardines
are unchanged. The outcome of the
American Sardine Co.'s efforts to con-
trol the market is unknown. The com-
pany has filed its articles of incorpora-
tion, giving Bangor, Me., as its head-
quarters, with $3,000,000 capital. It is
reported that some canners who joined
the combine are hard to get into line,
and that all is not running smoothly in
consequence. Meanwhile, there is little
fishing being done, and prices on all
stocks remain firm at quotations. Vege-
tables are quiet. In fact, the situation
in the market is such that no changes
are expected for some weeks yet. Not
until the actual output is known can
jobbers make prices. Canners are ap-
parently indifferent, not even sending
samples. Short crops are reported from
practically all canning centers, but how
extensive this may be can not yet be
told with accuracy. The lobster pack
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Almost no stock is coming forward.
Prices are very firm, but demand is
ligbt and conditions favor the holder.

Dried Fruits—Reports from the West
coast show a better feeling in prunes
and in some other lines of dried fruits,
notably in apricots. There will be as
few fruits dried this year as possible
in the regions of canneries. The high
opening prices for canned fruits induce
a smaller drying output, and this argues
for higher prices in dried fruits. All
reports from the fruit crop of the coast
indicate that the prices of dried fruits
can not be as low the coming season as
last year. The exception, if any, to this
general statement is raisins. In this
line the State promises to raise more and
a better crop of raisins this year than
ever before. The producers are attempt-
ing to form a growers’ association that
will control the output of the State and
prevent a demoralization of prices. Re-
ports show that their efforts thus far
have been very successful. That they
will be a strong factor in the market is
generally believed.

Syrups and Molasses——Compound
syrup is moving in a small way, and
prices show no further decline. It is
believed that prices have about reached
bottom. Very little is doing in sugar
syrup. Molasses is in about the same
position as syrup, being in small de-
mand at unchanged prices.

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The Grain Market.

The wheat market has shown more an-
imation during the past week. The
receipts of new wheat have not come up
to the expectations, which is due to the
high prices paid in May, and now farm-
ers are Icth to sell at the going prices,
notwithstanding the outlook is splendid
for a large crop of spring wheat. The
outlook is also excellent for a large crop
in the foreign wheat producing coun-
tries. During the last crop year (from
July 1,1897, to July 1, 1898), we export-
ed about 238,000,000 bushels in wheat
and flour (flour reduced to wheat, ) but
we Can not expect to repeat this during
the next crop year. The exports were
fair during the week and, with the light
receipts, the visible decreased 2,065,000
bushels, leaving the amount in sight
10,461,000 bushels, against 15,321,000
bushels at the corresponding date last
year. The visible is now the smallest
in years, Our harvest has been com-
pleted in good shape and we hear of no
complaints of small yields.

Owing to the hot and dry weather, corn
has made quite an advance and the
short sellers are forcing prices up to
cover their short sales. Should the hot
and dry weather continue, the market
will rule higher. The most complaints
come from Ohio, Indiana, Michigan and
Illinois. Our State does not grow much
corn, but the crop was very good last
year; in fact, was so large that the
farmers had plenty and did not have to
buy. The present outlook is not flatter-
ing.

The present condition of the oat crop
is not encouraging and it looks now as
though higher prices would prevail.

The receipts of grain are increasing,
having been 46 cars of wheat, 23 cars of
corn and 6 cars of oats during the week.

Local millers are paying 7oc for both
old and new wheat. The new wheat is
very nice and dry and the difference is
obliterated. . G. A. Voier.

- -ec--

H. Tuniss has opened a grocery sture
at the corner of Shamrock street and
Grandville avenue. The Olney & Jud-
son_Grocer Co. furnished the stock.

 

The Produce Market.

Apples —Red_ Astrachans, small in
size, command 75c per bu. Duchess,
larger in size, fetch $1 per bu. Benoni
from the South are held at $3.50 per bbl.

Bananas—The high price on fancy
bananas made a_ few weeks ago could
not hold, and figures are again back to
the old point. The top notch for a fancy
bunch fit for shipment is $2.25. The
demand is active, with better receipts
at ports of the Gulf.

Beets—r5c per doz. bunches.

Blackberries—$1.25 per crate of 16
qts. for home grown. The price will
probably go lower before the end of the
week,

3utter——The market
strengthen, on account of the drought.
Local dealers hold separator creamery
at 17c and choice dairy at 14@15¢c, al-
though the latter is very scarce and hard
to Zet.

Cabbage—Home grown is in plentiful
supply at 60@65c per doz.

Celery—z2oc per bunch.

Carrots—12'%c per doz. bunches.

Cauliflower—$1.25 per doz. heads for
Illinois stock

Cherries —Red are in better demand,
due to the fact that the crop is nearly
at an end, commanding 75c@$1 per bu.
White are entirely out of market. Black
are in active demand, fetching $1.25 for
sour and $1.75 for sweet.

Cocoanuts—4@5c.

Corn—Green, 15c per doz. ears.

Cucumbers—The price has declined
to 30c per doz., due to the increased re-
ceipts,

Eggs—Local dealers pay careful ship-
pers who send their eggs in regularly
gsc on track, holding case count at
1o¥sc and candled at 11 4c.

Gooseberries—Slow sale at 5o@6oc per
crate of 16 qts.

Green Onions—12c per doz., accord-
ing to size.

Green Peas—$s1 per bu. for home
grown Marrowfats, which are very scarce
and hard to get.

Honey—Fine new
12@13¢.

Lemons—The hot weather has caused
an increased demand for lemons, and
the market has responded. Some _ very
fancy California fruit is on the market,
with an advance in price. From $4.50
to are the figures for California
stock, and a haif dollar higher is ob-
tained for fancy Messina fruit. The
market is fairly well stocked. The tend-
ency is toward a still higher range of
prices
Lettuce—30@4oc per bu. for head.
Muskmelons--Little Gems command
5c per basket of about 20. Osage fetch
1.25 per crate of a dozen.

Onions — Home grown are now in mar-
ket, commanding $1 per bu.

Oranges—Seedlings show a. little
better feeling, being quoted at 25c_bet-
ter than last figures. The movement is
good, and supplies are ample, the qual-
ity being first class.

Peaches—Alexanders_ will begin to
come in next week. The crop is re-
ported to be large, in which case the
price will probably be low.

Pop Corn-—5oc per bu.

Potatoes—Home grown stock is in
heavy demand on the basis of 65@75c
per bu.

Radishes—toc per doz. bunches,

Raspberries—Black fetch 60@75c per
16 qt. case. Red command $1.10 for 12
qt. and $1.25 for 16 qt. case.

Tomatoes— 60@7oc per 4 basket crate.

Wax Beans—$1 per bu.

Watermelons——18@2o0c apiece for
choice Georgia stock, which is scarce.

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The Morning Market.

There has been on the whole an in-
crease in the average business of the
market during the week, although the
variations from day to day are decided-
ly pronounced. Monday morning was
especially dull, indicating that the most
prominent factor in furnishing the sup-
plies are those who allow Sunday to
make an interruption in their work, in-
stead of finding it necessary to bring
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time at their disposal caused by lack of
a Sunday morning market. During
some parts of the season the latter influ-
ence seems to predominate and the Mon-

|day markets are among the largest; but
| just now the spirit of Sunday observance

seems to be more in evidence.

While the effects of the continued dry
weather and the frost of ten days ago
would seem to be elements tending to
strengthen prices, both seem to be so
local that the influence was confined to
comparatively few articles and was felt
for only a day or so. The general tend-
ency for the week has been to lower
quotations on the majority of products,
as might be expected at the season.

‘Prospects are favorable for the open-
ing of the large fruit season earlier this
year than the average, although
early, fortunately, as two years ago.
apples are now on and
peaches promise to put in an appearance
in the course of a week or two. There
is no question of an abundance of both
these fruits, as well as of pears and
plums.

[t is curious that, while the majority
of fruit and produce growers in Western
Michigan have been reaping excellent
harvests of returns from their
there is a large class of them who com-
plain that they can get but little more
than the net cost of preparing for market
and selling. It is to be noted, however,
that the ones who complain the most in
this regard are those who are striving
bardest to find a more profitable outlet
than that afforded at the home markets.
Those who are obtaining the best aver-
age returns are the ones who most stead-
ily offer their wares in season, and out
of season if they can. The disposal of
the product of the smallest market gar-
den is a matter which requires much
experience and the skill of as constant
practice and acquaintance in the market
as possible. The successful producer
builds up his trade the same as any
merchant, makes it constant as he
can and so Is alwavs ready to turn the
penny when the penny is to be_ turned.
But those who are always striving to get
only the largest profits, to sell only when
the market is at its best or to search for
something better will find
that their opportunity ts taken by the
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The trial of the case brought against
the Prussing Vinegar Co. by the State
Food Commissioner, in which the Wor-
den Grocer Co. is the nominal defend-
ant, has been set for July 26 inthe Kent
Circuit Court. Both sides have made
extensive preparations for the trial of
the case, and Mr. Callahan, proprietor
of the Prussing Vinegar Co., insists that
he will take the matter to the Supreme
Court in case the Circuit Court verdict
is an adverse one. This is very gener-
ally regarded as a bluff on his part, in
view of the fact that he has retired from
the State and refuses to stand back of
the jobbers whom he guaranteed to pro-

tect in case of trouble.
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Henry J. Vinkemulder and Ed. M.
Smith, dealers in fruits and produce at
Grand Rapids and Cedar Springs, re-
spectively, visited the Buffalo market
last week and formed a number of
pleasant business acquaintances.

oe

W. Schuiling has engaged in the gro-
cery business at 859 East Fulton street.
The stock was furnished by the Olney
& Judson Grocey Co.

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Gillies New York Teas at old prices

while they hold out. Phone Visner, 800,

 

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAIN

 

 

_Getting the People —

 

 

Practical Advertising Methods Pur-
sued by a Flint Merchant.

I attack my subject with borrowed
words: ‘‘Trying to do business without
advertising is like winking in the dark
—-you know what you are doing, but no-
body else does.’’ Religion is a matter
of faith, so is advertising. You keep the
commandments, go to church, pay your
debts and expect, through decency and
enterprise in right directions, to receive
your reward in Heaven, if not in Mich-
igan. You patronize the newspapers,
buy postage stamps, lick and apply them

to letters and circulars, daub fences
with instructions to call on you—and
you are bright and ingenious in your

ways of attracting public attention: but
when all is done,the only thing in either
religion or advertising that you are cer-
tain about is the expense account. We
dare not die without religion, and we
can not live without advertising.

Before I attempt to advance ideas,
born of experience in retail ruts, to my
brothers in the retail business and teil
how I bait my own hook to catch Gene-
see county ‘suckers,’ I will prescribe
advertising medicine for the jobber and
his gentlemanly partners—the traveling
men. The dose will be homeopathic,
consequently harmless, yet I hope will
leave the impression you have been
treated, if only with little pills.

The jobber at home can usually be
found in a rear office—carpeted, uphol-
stered, electric-lighted and inaccessible
to the average modest bucolic purchaser,
whose country-cut, knee-baggy pants
contrast uncomfortably with the creased-
leg variety worn by the line of ushers
and book-keepers, the gauntlet which
he tremulously runs before he reaches
him whose garment hem he would
touch. The hearty handshake and the
pleasant ‘‘Good day’’ are just as valu-
able an advertisement for the city mer-
chant as for the country one, and the
most successful and agreeable in both
cases. Learn the trick of limbering
up, not only to your trade but to your
help. ‘‘Familiarity breeds contempt,’’
but is not half so prolific as iceberg
formality or snippy snobism. The
jobber should personally see his trade
oftener, both in his place of business
and theirs. A little country ozone will
benefit him and a run out there will
take him out of his ruts and show him
his customer's ruts,eut of which he may
pilot him, to their mutual advantage.
A personal look at your customer's stock
and surroundings will furnish more cor-
rect information than Dun or Brad-
street. Something will tell you whether
your customer is prospering or retro-
grading. You will see for yourself
whether he is at his post commanding
the situation by good, intelligent work,
or has grown yachty, fishy or horsey.
Make yourself more accessible by put-
ting your office in front—and your pretty
typewriters in the rear. (Some country
merchants are weak and wish to avoid
temptations at home and abroad. )

Advertise yourself through your trav-
elers by putting more confidence in
them, and trusting them with that spe-
Cial 2}4 or 5 per cent. you have kept up
your sleeve for the last six months, fear-
ing they would fire it into the first cus-
tomer they met. They won’t do any-
thing of the kind. They know their
bread and butter depends on the money
they make for you, and they love their
babies as well as-you do yours, and lost
jobs means hungry babies. They do

 

 

 

 

want that extra ammunition to meet
emergencies, with which the traveler's
pathway is beautifully ornamented, and
he grows in grace and wisdom by these
tokens country merchants kindly admin-
ister—when they know enough.

This suggestion is born of experience
acquired by agents telling us next trip
after a turn-down because of price,
‘They have that special now, but the
house had not given it to them before.’’
It is another case of locking the stable
after the horse has been stolen. Some
houses do advertise by putting the right
kind of boys on the road and putting
the right kind of instruction into those
boys, employing the kind that don’t
shoot it off in the wrong place or at the
wrong time. It is easier to put plenty
of rubber into travelers’ general instruc-
tions than recover a lot of lost trade
scattered because your customer’s order
book has become a sealed volume to
you. Your traveler strikes the low
prices before you do, because his path-
way 1s crossed by missionaries from
other towns. You first learn of it
through them; they are your hunters,
with your guns and ammunition,and are
on the runway and can bag the game if
you will only let them shoot. Country

merchants may lie and bulldoze about |

quotations, but their race is short, and
you will classify them properly when
you place them alongside of the class
that always report shortages and never
report overs. The crime in both cases
is petty larceny. The value of putting
confidence your roadman appears
again ustment cases, covering
those shorts and overs, warrantees and
other complaints that they, being ac-
quainted with the personal peculiarities
of your trade and being on the ground,
can best pass judgment on—better than
you or your office force to whom you
may refer the matter and who have only
before them the meager explanations
offered by order-book or mail. When
your traveler looks one of us in the eye
he should be able to decide whether we
are lying or not.

A preacher occupies a delicate posi-
tion in life, but he has a snap compared
with the traveler who is trying to please
the house and the customer—it is an-
other case of trying to serve two masters.

I am unable, by lack of ability and
experience, to suggest anything to my
jobbing friends except as I have been
made to see it; and I have learned that
it is much sweeter and more natural to
direct my mail-orders to those houses
who are cordial and approachable, who
are ready to acknowledge that their sys-
tem is not perfect, who give their trav-
elers credit for possessing sense enough
to straighten out the little crooks.

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I confess the correspondent for a job-
bing house requires much godliness and
must be the possessor of a remarkably
healthy liver and good digestion. But
if you want the best kind of advertising,
hire one and don’t mind the price.

Steam, electricity and the traveling
agent, the three greatest commercial
mediums known to man, began their
usefulness about the same time, and the
memory of some dealers reaches back
far enough to confirm me in my state-
ment that in the early forties the sphere
of each was narrow. The old-time mer-
chant planned to go once or twicea year
via team, lake aud canal to New York,
and what a ! ! ! time our grandfathers
bad among the red lights of that city,
and what they saw and _ what they did
would make poor Sunday School reading.
But these trips are memories and are
replaced by a hoard of useful and _use-

less agents. You can tell a first-tripper
as easily as you can tell a young robin
fresh tumbled from its nest. Don’t kill
them—they will make birds when their
bodies grow to match their mouths! Of
course, they can’t fly: they simply think
they can betause their parents did.
They don't realize that it takes time to
grow wing-feathers, and experience to
use them, nor does the young robin-agent
realize what a comical figure he cuts
among the older birds, but they are gen-
erally a well-bred variety and he quickly
develops both sense and feathers and
learns to pick up just as many and as
fat worms as the older ones.

I speak from my heart when I say
the traveling agent is the greatest up-
}to-date advertising medium and _ the
most correct one. You can reach
through him the widest and most bene-
ficial advertising results with only the
outlay of intelligence, courtesy and kind-
ness. He is not selected in reference
to his stupidity, and he can read us like
an open book. Flying as he does from
town to town, we are to him a pano-
rama of curiosity. They are good diplo-
;mats, so don’t often resent insults, but
| they take our measure and bide their
|time to get even. They want our busi-
ness for the profits, but they have no re-
spect for unbusinesslike men or methods.
| All the judges that sit on our cases are
| not located at the Home Offices; they
| hold court on the road. They don't want
to be bribed by invitations to smoke,
wine and dine, but will appreciate it
more if we will dispatch matters faster,
| letting them catch the next train out of
| town and head off that long hotel bill.
| You meet your trade at the front door
and invite them to call again—meet the
traveler there,and treat bim just as con-
siderately. The poorest of them is able
| to teach you something. I don’t care
| how long you have been in trade nor how
| smart you are, they come fresh primed
| with new prices and new goods you
|haven’t seen. Cultivate them, so that
| the specialties, the good things, the only
ithings we make easy money on, will
come to you before they do to your com-
petitor. This will happen if your hand-
shake and welcome are what they ought
to be. The pleased agent tells the next

 

 

J. A. MURPHY, Genera! Manager.

Special Reports.
Represented

Main Office:

Personal service given all claims.

one about you, and you are advertised
as a good one to call on, or as a bad one
to keep away from; so read your paper
after he has gone, and don’t run after
that light of 8x10 glass while your
clerks are chewing gum. With the
traveler drop that air of seeming to
know everything. You don’t; there is
such a variety of goods to buy, and
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in such small quantities, that you must
take the agent into your confidence as
adviser and friend. These boys are
wonderfully human and will do right
and not ‘‘do’’ you if you are not narrow
and suspicious. So if you want a good
advertisement throughout the State, im-
press the traveler with your business
qualifications and not with your conceit
and crabbedness. They will ‘‘give it to
you’’ in big type if you win their favor,
but they will do a lot of thinking and no
advertising if you do not deserve it.

I will now suggest advertising meth-
ods to the retailer. It has been dinned
into you from boyhood, ‘‘ He that by the
plow would thrive himself must either
hold or drive.’ You must get to the
store early in the morning and stay all
day. When the cares of life multiply
and the task becomes irksome and your
time is not wholly your customer's, sell
out, for an army of young men are on
your trail, hungry, ambitious and zeal-
ous. It is another illustration of the sur-
vival of the fittest. Clerks are not
‘‘guideless wonders’’ and you must stand
at every corner of the track and urge them
to greater speed. ‘‘Absent treatment'’
may kill some diseases, but it cultivates
competition.

Nothing I encourage more in my com-
petitors than politics, summer cottages,
horse racing, extreme religion and ex-
treme cussedness—in fact, anything but
constantly meeting the trade we are both
seeking for. The oftener he misses them
the oftener I will get a chance to ad-
vertise myself, my prices and my goods.

I grant it isa demnition grind, but
it is the only stroke that wins the race.
The successful advertisers of the age are
like successful pugilists, who aim their
blows at one spot and deliver but few
wild ones. ‘‘Jones pays the freight’’
sold thousands of scales and sent Jones
to Congress. ‘‘ You touch the button and
we do the rest’’ brought ‘‘Kodak East-
man’’ a fortune and extended his busi-
ness to Europe. ‘* Mrs. Winslow’s Sooth-
ing Syrup’’ has saved you fathers many
an all-night walk because your wives
bought a bottle to still the baby—some-
thing she would not have done but for
those four words appearing before her a
thousand times. Other advertising art-
ists have won wealth and fame by win-
ning a trademark, by simply selecting
a striking word or sentence and fixing
it in the minds of the people, by having
it appear in every field of literature and
every farm field; they have decorated
the millionaire’s city horseblock and the
banker’s country pigpen; entered every
field of literature, from the yellow cov-
ered kind your boy hides in the haymow
to grandfather's family bible, so rever-
ently read by him every Sunday morn-
ing. True, their field is broad and ours
narrow, but if we don’t reap so large
a crop we don’t pay so much for seed
and plowing. Remember about the little
farm well tilled.

I know most about my own work in
advertising, and must ask your kind in-
dulgence if I quote myself; in fact, I
must stop for lack of ammunition. 1
realize I am growing old and, like other
old men, I like to talk over with my
friends the medicine that has cured my
bunions and biliousness and recommend
the same to my afflicted neighbor.

I have had most direct benefit by a
peculiar sign I issued some years ago
and it has become my trade mark. It is
this: ‘‘G. W. Hubbard sells hardware
and implements, but not farmers’
notes.’’ I ring the changes just as often
as I can. On oil cans it reads: ‘‘G.
W. H. sold me this oil, but he does not

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

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sell farmers’ notes. The same on var-
nish cans, farm tools and everything
having a broad enough surface on which
to put it.

The preacher has a donation -once a
year; the retail! hardware man can have
one every day of the year if he will
write for or accept all the advertising
matter the manufacturers will gratis
him. If you are not lazy yourself, and
will organize your clerks during dull
days and dull seasons into a corps of
circular folders and stamp lickers, you
will fill baskets with the fruit of your
economy and foresight. Then see that
it is run into the country instead of into
the cellar. Hire men, not boys, to put
up your signs and distribute your liter-
ature. Once a year I have two of my
best men employed twelve days arran-
ging and distributing advertising matter
on twelve of the leading roads out of
the city of Flint. They take teams,
ladders, wood signs, etc., and do effec-
tive work ata season of the year when
they would he less profitably employed
in the store. By this means I am doing
a class of work less ambitious com-
petitors will not take the pains to do.
The sowing is broad and is bound in
time to ripen into a harvest. Very little
the majority of us acquire in this life
without hard work; nothing that we can
do pays better than this if not done
spasmodically. Getting a ton of it and
running it down cellar is like keeping
your seed corn astride the old drying
pole until planting season is past—-good
enough seed, but it won't sprout on a
pole.

Write your newspaper advertisements
so peculiarly that people will subscribe
for the paper on account of the amuse-
ment you furnish them rather than for
the wisdom they may possibly gather
from reading the editorial column.
Crack it into them in this shape: ‘‘]
offer a great amount of Methodist hard-
ware fora small amount of Presbyte-
rian money.’’ (You can alter the de-
nominations to suit the religion of the
town.) Owning newspaper space and
using it as the average advertiser does
is the poorest medium employed accord-
ing to the money it costs. Not one busy
man in a dozen has a second attack of
enthusiasm on the subject. The mer-
chant buys the space, writes one or two
good advertisements, becomes busy and
doesn’t think of it again until next July,
when his skate and bob sleigh advertise-
ments stare him in the face; or in the
February issue he reads about his won-
derful lawn mowers and fly screens.

I don’t care to create a row with any
of my good newspaper friends, who may
think my statement of facts will tend to
reduce the size and number of their
loaves and fishes. The fault lies in our-
selves, not the papers; the medium is
good, backed by patrons who are system-
atic, but is of little use as the work is
usually conducted. If you are person-
ally toc busy, select from your help the
brightest one in your employ who is
best adapted to this work, give him full

power to act and instruct the others to
assist. It will occupy them profitably
many idle hours and will make better

men of them, for while you have been
economizing for yourself you have been
instructing them in the same line, and
there is no better one. You have a
place in your store for the boys’ hats,
coats and bicycles—create one for all
that valuable printed matter, and see
that it is kept there clean and orderly,
to be used dull days when you can rest
your help from gossip, smoking and

 

story-telling and educate them in the |
higher art of stamp-licking.

I have tried the plan for years and am |
delighted with the hearty co-operation,
and the best thoughts in this work fre-|
quently come to me from my clerks. I
think one of the most important things
I can say before closing is how to ad-
vertise ourselves to our competitors.
The smaller the town the smaller the |
business, the smaller our souls, the big- |
ger the hair-pulling match and the
smalier the profits. Nine times out of |
ten our competitor is just as good a fel- |
low as we are, and God intended he |
should have his full share of the fruits’
of the one vineyard we are both tilling.
You can’t ever raise yourself by pulling
him down and every uncomfortable |
thing you say about him only tips the |
teeter his way. Don’t be so ready to be-
lieve everything customers say about |
him. Remember, ‘‘A dog that will fetch
a bone will carry a bone;’’ and these
customers are cunning enough to try and |
make a feeling in order to lower prices. |
If circumstances compel you to speak of
your competitor, speak only
him, especially in the presence of your |
clerks and customers. They will catch
the spirit and harmony will dwell where |
discord sought a foothold. There are|
money and manliness in it. Forget, |
when you meet him on neutral grounds,
that you are in a contest. The best
thing we can say about lawyers is that,
while they skin us, they never skin each
other.

good of

Artemus Ward became famous through
his lecture on ‘‘Babes in the Woods.”’ |
It was a two hours’ talk, but not one!
mention did he make of either babes or |
woods. I + ap!

want to be famous a.
have devoted a quarter of an hour ia |
practical advertising methods, and,

skated all around the
would ordinarily be con- |
and brought out points that I}

Ward-like, have
subject as it
sidered,

FURNITURE

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| will come benefits,

WATCHES

HENRY M.

|regard more important than little de-

| tails, and which I trust will lead up to

larger profits than the discussion of
details, which is wholly
of personal taste and ability.

a matter
Our home
so different that hints
helpful to a dealer catering to a com-
munity stocked with Irish would poison
off the Dutch element, and
thrown out hints to the
eler and the retailer,

so | have
the trav-
suggesting along

jobber,

| these lines ideas to each that, if heeded,

may lighten the burdens of life; and
perhaps my offering will have the merit
of antagonizing some one to the extent
of starting a discussion out of which
if not from the
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WEDNESDAY, - = - JULY 20, 1898.

 

 

INCREASE IN MILITARY FORCE.

There are few thinking people who
will not admit that the lessons of the
present war have pointed unmistakably
to the necessity for some increase in the
size of the standing army. This does
not mean that we should maintain an
army of such size as would place us on
the same footing as the great military
nations of Europe. No such immense
military force is required to render our
boundaries safe from attack. It is evi-
dent, however, that an army which was
considered adequate when the pupulation
numbered 40,000,000 can not be consid-
ered sufficient now that we have double
that number of people. A reasonable
limit to our standing army would be
50,000 men, a good proportion of which
should be heavy artillery, to properly
garrison the many new seacoast forts
and batteries which have been built and
are now in course of building. The
army should be maintained on the
three-battalion system, without, in time
of peace, skeletonizing the third battal-
ion, as the existing army bill provides.

It will be realized at once, however,
that a regular army which may serve all
the purposes of peace will prove entire-
ly inadequate to meet the demands of
war. Should it become necessary to
attack Havana, we will require at least
100,000 men. We already have equipped,
or have in process of being equipped, a
sufficient force to meet all prospective
needs of the present war; but were our
quarrel with a more formidable and bet-
ter prepared country than Spain, we
would have been in serious straits while
getting our volunteers into some sort of
condition for service. A reasonable
regard for the country’s safety demands
the inauguration of some sort of Na-
tional reserve, both for the army and
navy, which on the outbreak of war will
permit the immediate strengthening of
the army by a large body of men well
trained and fully armed and equipped.

The organized militia force of the
country affords a convenient nucleus for
a suitable reserve. It is true that in its
former shape, as it was prior to the out-
break of hostilities, it was not in such
condition as a proper reserve force
should have been; but it was infinitely
superior to a mere volunteer force with-
out training or equipment. The delay
in organizing the first batch of volunteers
called for, which were furnished almost
altogether from the National Guard,
was due mainly to the inability of the
Government to furnish equipment. Ow-

 

ing to the short-sighted policy followed
for so many years by Congress, there
was no surplus supply of either arms or
equipment for war purposes.

The National Guard of the future
must, therefcre, be organized strictly on
a uniform basis throughout the country.
The size of companies, battalions and
regiments must be made to conform to
the regular army standard. The General
Government should see that the Nationa!
Guard is properly equipped; that its
members are supplied with weapons of
the latest make and of uniform pattern
with those supplied to the regular army.
These troops should be kept in a state
of constant preparation to respond at
once to any call to arms for use either
within or without the borders of the
country.

A reserve will also be needed for the
navy, in addition to a considerable per-
manent increase in its personnel. It
will be absolutely necessary to maintain
a very much larger fleet of warships in
commission than has heretofore been
found necessary. This will necessitate
an increased number of officers and
men, which will have to be supplied, in
the case of the officers, from appoint-
ments from among the best material
temporarily absorbed during the present
war, and for the future by increasing
the size of the classes at Annapolis and
shortening the term at that institution.

Some policy of a permanent sort with
respect to the military strength of the
country must be adopted, as it is evi-
dent that for the future we can no longer
rely on the good fortune which has kept
us out of international difficulties in the
past.

 

As the United States is in a fair way
to be respected on the seas, we may some
day have a United States Transatlantic
line of steamers good enough for Amer-
icans to travel on, and on which pas-
sengers would be protected and humane-
ly treated in case of accident.

 

The officers and crew of the Bourgogne
were politeness itself until the ship com-
menced to sink. Subsequently, when
they commenced to fight and strike
women, their conduct was what the po-
litest nation on earth would call a little
ungentlemanly.

 

 

Spain with his colors flying and the
bands playing, so that he can tell the
Spanish people that he generously
paroled Shafter’s army. It is a ques-
tion of head or no head with Toral.

 

The English papers appear to be as
much delighted at the exhibitions of
American gunnery and valor as if we
were genuine Britons. Still even a
forty-second cousin who can be useful
to you can arouse lots of affection.

 

Terms of surrender are dead easy.
Having failed in laying down the law,
General Toral laid down his arms and
the surrender was complete.

 

A rat in a trap has no business mak-
ing terms of surrender. To get out alive

is satisfaction and happiness for the rat.

Spain wants to float a loan; but it
seems she has not a reliable bottom of
any sort fit to float anything with.

Spain has given up the National pas-
time of bull fights and is thinking seri-
ously of Yankee fights.

 

War heroes who are made by war cor-
respondents last until a second edition
comes out.

 

MARCHING ON TO A NEW ERA.

To be in the world and not of it is an
impossibility for a country with a vast
population full of activity and enter-
prise like ours. The American people,
producing a large surplus of many im-
portant articles, have the greatest need
to find reliable and ever enlarging mar-
kets for them. To do this requires
not only extensive commercial inter-
course with other countries, but, in ad-
dition, facilities for getting all the ad-
vantage possible out of that communica-
tion.

Heretofore, for many years, the Amer-
ican people have been so engrossed with
the development of their own country
and its resources that they have left the
trade with foreign countries to take care
of itself. If foreigners wanted our grain,
petroleum, meats, cotton, timber and
other products, they came with their own
ships and carried away their purchases.
We have no merchant ships,and we have
no commercial travelers swarming in
foreign countries selling American
wares. On the contrary, foreign com-
mercial drummers and agents are seen
everywhere in the United States selling
foreign products. Thus the whole world
is getting rich out of the American peo-
ple, who are constantly paying away
their wealth, not only for foreign pro-
ducts and in foreign travel, but for for-
eign service.

The day will come when it will not be
so easy to make fortunes in this great
republic as it has been. The country is
rapidly filling up with foreigners who
have been brought up to practice ex-
treme economies and to make the most
of every advantage. These foreingers
are fast rising to prominence in com-
merce and industries of all sorts. They
can subsist well where the American,
brought up to the old-time methods of
extravagance and_ waste, would starve.

With all this, the time is coming
when the cream of the rich resources of
this country will have been skimmed.
In fact, even at this moment, the great
western section of the Union has been
pretty well exploited and already thou-
sands of adventurous souls are looking
out for new enterprises. If the war with
Spain shall offer them desired oppor-
tunities, they will be eagerly embraced.

The American people have never op-
posed the acquisition of new territory.
Mr. Jefferson stretched almost to the
breaking point his constitutional powers
when he bought Louisiana, a territory
larger than the original thirteen States,
and appearing on the map to-day in the
sixteen States into which it was carved.
There was no serious opposition to the
purchase at the time and to-day its wis-
dom and value can not be enough
praised. In 1819, when Florida was se-
cured from Spain, there was no popular
objection. The annexation of Texas
was received with general favor, and
the acquisition of a vast territory, asa
result of the Mexican war, has fully jus-
tified itself in the enormous treasures
poured out by California, Nevada, New
Mexico, Utah, Arizona and the portion
of Colorado secured then. The pur-
chase of Alaska elicited considerable
ridicule at the [time it was completed,
but to-day it is considered a wise con-
summation.

If the American people were interro-
gated on the subject, they would say
that the National territory has not in-
creased any too rapidly for the good of
the population and the welfare of the
country, and they will be just as willing
as ever they were to accept more.

A question which will arise is as to

 

the wisdom of acquiring territory in
another hemisphere. There are two
nations that have never ceased, when
opportunity offered, to enlarge their do-
minions, but their plans and policies
are wholly unlike. One of them is Great
Britain, which owns islands and conti-
nental possessions in every zone and
quarter of our globe. The other is Rus-
sia, which has acquired a vast empire in
Europe and Asia, but all the territory
of which is contiguous and contermi-
nous. Its parts are not separated by seas
nor continents, but form one vast expanse
of land, embracing in its limits peoples
of many races and languages,

It has been suggested that the United
States, in acquiring territory, sbould
confine itseif to the continental policy ;
that is, it should in time absorb all the
land of the Western Hemisphere, but
should carefully abstain from making
aggression upon Europe, Asia and Afri-
ca. It has been held that the Monroe
doctrine in its last analysis means this,

The absorption and acquirement of
control over the Western Hemisphere
could only be accomplished by holding
to a fixed determination to that end for
a very long period, perhaps for centu-
ries. Such constancy of purpose in a na-
tion is only possible where the govern-
ment is not alternately controlled by
rival and opposing political parties, each
fighting, without regard to results, against
the course or policy of the other. A
government like that of Russia can re-
main constant to a fixed purpose and
plan banded down from one to all the
balance of a long line of rulers, each
devoting himself to the work of belping
on the final consummation.

Nothing of the sort is possible in this
country. The famous Monroe doctrine
itself has, through party jealousies and
prejudice, time and again fallen into
disuse, if not disfavor. Nor is it likely
that the American people will for any
great length of time remain united on
any principle of public policy. What
one party may advocate the other is sure
to oppose, and, therefore, it is not like-
ly there will be any fixed National pol-
icy. The American people are too fickle
to have any special distinctive and dis-
tinguishing National doctrine, but they
are more apt to be carried away by the
impulses, passions and conditions oper-
ating at some particular moment. There-
fore, if possessions in Asia are among
the consequences of the war with Spain,
the people will want to hold onto them.

The Russian statesmen have suggested
the possibility of a time when the whole
of Europe and Asia will be under Rus-
sian control, while the Western Hemis-
phere will be dominated by the great
republic of North America. This might
be a possibility if the American people
could be brought under the same sort of
subjection to a dominant will and_ idea,
as is the case in Russia. This, how-
ever, iS so contrary to the genius and
spirit of the American people that any
such result is impossible, so that when
they shall launch out on a regular career
of foreign conquest and colonization,
they will, in all probability, adopt the
English idea, one vastly more full of
peril and difficulty than is the Russian,
Any policy of conquest and aggression
upon the dominions of other nations
is sure to create very radical changes,
not only in the political conditions at
home, but in relations abroad.

Se anc ea a

The man who can not forget his poli-
tics long enough to remember his coun-
try should never try to do anything in
the memory line but remember the
Maine,

 

- —a

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MILITARY HEROES.

All men join in admiration and
“praise of those of their fellows who have
illustrated human nature by the exhibi-
tion of heroic traits. The stand of the
Spartan band at Thermopylae, the charge
of the light brigade at Balaklava, of
Pickett’s division at Gettysburg, and
other like displays of supreme courage
and devotion live in history, not be-
cause of their immediate military effect
or strategic importance,-but because
men rejoice in such conclusive demon-
Strations of the nobility of their kind.
This is a very different feeling from
that disposition which gives force to the
adage that ‘‘ Nothing succeeds like suc-
cess.’’ The whole brood of politic flat-
terers is irresistibly attracted to the
standard of the conqueror who has_ hon-
ors to bestow and whose _ protection
affords a complete security. The im-
pulse to monumentalize the deeds of
those who have fallen at the post of duty
is of a more unselfish sort.

It is a saying that men accord the
highest rewards to their destroyers, the
great soldiers of their time, and next
those who entertain and amuse them.
But this saying will not stand analysis
if it is taken literally; for the advance-
ment and emolument which the success-
ful general enjoys are given to him by
those whom he is supposed to have
served, his own countrymen. Cicero,
in his oration in defense of Murena,
whose claims to the consulship had been
derided by Cato and others, notwith-
standing his brilliant military record,
did not hesitate to affirm that ‘‘the high-
est dignity attaches to those who have
achieved prestige by military renown,
since everything that pertains to empire
and the condition of the State is sup-
posed to be defended and made secure
by them,’’ and, he adds, ‘‘theirs is the
highest usefulness, because by their
counsel and the danger they incur we
are safe in the enjoyment both of the
commonwealth and of our own private
property.’’ He recurs to this point again
and again. ‘‘There are two arts,’’ he
says, ‘‘which can place men in the most
exalted degree of dignity—one is that of
the military commander, the other is
that of the good speaker. For by the
latter the ornaments of peace are pre-
served, while by the former the dangers
of war are repelled.’’ There are, he
goes on to Say, certain traits of excel-
lence, such as justice, good faith, mod-
esty, temperance, which deserve consid-
eration ; but when war befalls a people,
everything is accounted below the
soldier's prowess and the general's skill.
Then the most popular orator must
stand back as if he were of no more ac-
count than a disagreeable or verbose
speaker, for the rough soldier, when
anything must be done by force, is the

idol of the day—‘‘horridus miles
amatur.’’
Such things were said naturally

enough in a State which had grown
great by war, and which rarely ever
knew the repose of a general peace. But
it is true in the United States to-day,
as it was in Rome in the time of
Caesar and Cicero, that oratory and all
the accomplishments of statesmanship
“‘pale their ineffectual fires’’ before the
glory of the warrior’s renown. All the
elected Republican Presidents since the
war of secession served in the armies of
the Union—Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Har-
rison, McKinley. Arthur may be men-

tioned as an exception, but he was
elected only to the vice-presidency. Be-
fore the war, Andrew Jackson, William
Henry Harrison and Zachary Taylor all

 

owed their preferment to military suc-
cesses. Washington is hardly to be
placed in the same category, for while
it is true that he achieved pre-eminence
as a soldier,it is also true that his coun-
trymen had had opportunities to cis-
cover his exceptional capacity from the
discharge of the duties of the presi-
dency at a time when the successful ad-
ministration of that office demanded
the highest qualifications of intellect and
of character. Taylor and Grant were
nominated to the presidency because
they were popular military heroes, and
for no other reason. Neither of them
had ever had anything to do with poli-
tics before they were named for the
highest office within the gift of the peo-
ple. It isa remarkable fact that Wel
lington, ‘‘the iron duke,’’ was the only
famous English soldier of modern times
who was ever put at the head of a_ civil
administration. He represented his gov-
ernment at the diplomatic congress at
Verona and was afterwards a member
of the Cabinet before he was made
Premier in 1828; but his civil career, as
a whole, was brief and not particularly
distinguished, and it is to his credit
that before his advancement to the
premiership he had himself declared his

entire unfitness for any civil office. Mil-
itary heroes are much more availabie
for political purposes in the United

States, not because soldiers are more
admired here than in Great Britain,
but because the highest offices in that
country are not directly within the gift
of the people.

It 1s just now a question whether party
men will so far follow usage in this
country as to select their candidates for
the presidency in tooo from a list of
distinguished sailors and soldiers. So
far the navy has made rather the better
showing; but, when occasion serves,
heroes ashore will no doubt come to the
front fast enough. The men before San-
tiago have already displayed the utmost
courage and fortitude, and events may
yet show that some among their leaders
possess a high order of military genius.
Dewey sounded the first note high at
Manila, and so far the war has been
fought at a lofty pitch of heroism on
both sides. The soldiers and sailors of
Spain have exhibited a courage in keep-
ing with the glorious traditions of the
great days gone by. In the old mon-
archy, as in the young republic, senti-
ments of honor, of chivalry and
patriotic devotion still nerve men to
dare and to suffer as nobly as of yore,
although this is called pre-eminently a
commercial age.

ot

 

It was Hamilton Fish, Secretary of
State in Grant's administration, and
grandfather of the young man who was
killed in Cuba, who may be said to have
originated the line of conduct concern-
ing Spain and Cuba which this Govern-
ment has followed for the past thirty
years, and the causes which have made
us go to war were clearly set forth by
him in a series of state papers nearly a
generation ago.

The superstitious Spanish sailors say
that fate was against them at Manila
and Santiago. History will say that they
were up against United States gunboats,
as well as fate.

 

It will be necessary for the annexing
agent to tie a great many islands to the
United States to keep them from becom-
ing lost.

Where a man will spend his vacation
depends upon when he gets it-and how
much money he has to turn loose.

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

AMERICAN GUNNERS.

An attempt has been made to create a
belief that the excellent shooting done
on the American warships was by Brit-
ish gunners, secured at fabulous salaries.

Nothing could be more ridiculous than
such a statement. Every person who
has paid any attention to marksmanship,
whether with small arms or heavy guns,
knows that the ability to hit the target
is partly the result of practice and part-
ly of a sort of special aptness possessed
by some individuals.

While the science of gunnery is based
mathematics, the crack marksman
may be wholly ignorant of the nature of
the trajectory described by the shot in
its flight, or of the uses of the ballistic
pendulum, or of the chemical composi-
tion of gunpowder or other explosives:
but he may be able to put his bullet or
cannon ball with the greatest precision
just where it is wanted in the target.

on

In the same way the game of billiards
may be resolved into its elements of
geometry and projectiles; but it is much
to be doubted if some of the best play-
ers ever take notice of the fact that the
angle of incidence is equal to the angle

of reflection. The boy who ‘‘plumps
the middle man from taw’’ in a game
of marbles unconsciously deals with

forces and motions that may be dis-
cussed in scientific dissertations: but
all he knows of it is that his eye meas-
ures the distance and the muscles of his

hand and arm communicate to his
‘‘china’’ or ‘‘crystal’’ force enough to
Hit) the oman’? in the (rime! tas
much the same with the billiard player

and, in an analogous way, with the gun-
ner. No man can attain excellence in
any one of these pursuits unless he
possess a sort of special faculty or tal-
ent for it and the man who can excel in
one could in all probability become
proficient in the others.

The American people are extremely
apt in all such exercises. As to marks-
manship their experience with firearms
from early youth is most favorable to the
attainment of skill and quickness in
shooting. It was truly astonishing in
the Civil War how soon boys from the
farms and boys from the towns acquired
skill and precision with cannon. They
met and successfully contended with the
regular artillery of the army in all the
engagements of that war.

American boys are naturally qualified
to be the best marksmen in the world
and they need no lessons from Euro-
peans. ihe of the United
States navy have always in every war
made excellent records and it is intense-
ly ridiculous to suppose that the phe-
nomenal that destroyed two
Spanish war fleets was done by foreign-
ers and not by our own boys.

gunners

shooting

 

It iS a Curious instance of the irony
of history that at the close of the first
great naval battle between the United
States and Spain in the waters of the
New World there should have been left
battered and stranded upon the Cuban
coast a great war vessel named in honor
of the discoverer whom Ferdinand and
Isabella sent out to find that very island
and this huge destined hemisphere. And
should it prove possible, as Commodore
Schley believes it is, to save the Cristo-
bal Colon and to add her to the United
States navy as a retributive namesake
of the sunken Maine the coincidence
would be doubly strange.

Blanco ought to see the uniform of
Miles. He would then die of envy, and

 

save the expense of killing him.

  

 
 

9

For a year a wholesale house in San
Francisco has experimented with the
plan of closing its place of business
each day from 12.to 1 o'clock, during
which hour all the employes obtain their
noonday meal. The arrangement was
found to have many advantages over the
old way of permitting the clerks to go

to luncheon by relays, and it has so
commended itself to other wholesalers
there that a movement is on foot to

make the plan general. In most of the
large houses the first relay goes to lunch
at 11 o'clock, and generally it is well on
into the afternoon before the last of the
clerks get a chance to get away from
their work for the midday meal. The
managers of the houses say that the
working forces of the stores are demor-
alized for at least, say three hours each
day on account of the lunch hour system
now in vogue. With the proposed system
the stores would be closed for an hour
every day, but during business hours all
hands would be ready for service, mak-
ing less friction in the transaction of
business and securing greater attention
to customers.

tenet

To those whose duty or pleasure calls
them into the busy thoroughfares of
large cities and whose ears are assailed
with the shocking expressions with which
many of the passers-by delight to gar-
nish their language Japan should be a
terrestrial paradise—for the Japanese
never utter an oath. Asa matter of fact
the reason for this is that there is no
word in the Japanese language which is
equivalent to an oath. Even the vast
number of foreigners who have gone to
that country during the last ten years
and the thousands of new words added
to the language have not in the least
affected the Japanese in swearing. In
this respect the Japanese stand alone,
for all other inhabitants of the earth can
use pretty strong language when for ex-
ample on getting out of bed they step
on a tack with its ‘‘business end up.’’

 

The skill and devotion to duty dis-
played by the American surgeons at the
front have prevented death and amputa-
tion in numerous cases where one or the
other seemed inevitable. It is said that
some operations bordering upon the
marvelous have been performed by the
surgeons in front of Santiago and the
small percentage of deaths recorded is
proof of the fact that this branch of the
service has been up to the very highest
standard of excellence.

 

‘‘Is America right in going to war
with Spain?’’ was the question before a
rural debating society recently. It was
a remarkable debate. Those who took
the side of Spain soon retired from the
hall and enquired the way to the hos-
pital. The coroner traveled five miles
to attend the meeting and, being tired
out when he arrived, sat on several of
the Spanish partisans for three hours.

 

Hawaii offers a chance for a Yankee
to start a factory for making gas burner
lava tips, where lava is plentiful and
costs nothing. This is merely a tip.

 

If American guns had not been trained
on them so accurately,some of the ships
of Cervera’s fleet might have been saved
for training ships.

A Nebraska man wants to be governor
of the Canary Islands. He must bea
bird, as a politician, in his own estima-
tion,

 

Unconditional surrender has come _ to
be a motto of the United States,

 

 

 

  

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

The young woman of the period does
not look at paper soles and pointed toes
any more when she goes to get shod.
She curls her lip at the feminine crea-
ture who asks for lasts too narrow and
heels too high, and then, in stentorious
tones, demands samples of merchandise
for boys—stiff, stout, high-laced boots,
and, in the glove department, youths’
sizes, in their regulation styles. As the
set which dominates the fashions in
America have, through choice, set the
lead, it so happens that every woman in
and out of ‘‘society’’ is buying broad-
toed footgear with projecting wooden
soles—a cut that would suggest the Hol-
land sabot to our foremothers. But our
foremothers simpered and winced, and
went in for swoons and vinaigrettes,and
we of this generation at least keep the
men in sight with our seven league
boots, sensible dress and good comrade-
ship.

So the girls are buying the shoes of
half-grown boys and saving money
thereby, because women’s toilet acces-
sories are always more expensive than
those of boys. Fancy wearing ‘*pumps’’
of patent leather to do the service of
slippers, if you please; the difference
is just about $5 in price and the vogue
is on the side of the boy’s shoe. Thick
gloves which conceal all digital taper,
Alpine hats for walking and bicycling,
stiff shirt bosoms, umbrellas tight-rolled
and men’s neckties dictate the mode of
woman's dress for the present and com-
ing seasons—and a feminine woman is
not the less so because of this sensible
and most convenient fashion.

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The Overstocking Evil.

It is a question worthy of the retail-
er'’s speculation whether too much or too
little stock in the store is the grosser
evil, Certain it is that the dealer may
have ample capital with which to con-
duct his business and to take all dis-
counts, and yet if he buys too heavily
he will get overstocked and all manner
of hardships will naturally arise. Bills
fall due; lots of stock is on hand, but
no money with which to discount bills.
The discount must be lost and a little
extension of time is necessary. The for-
mer loses the dealer money, and the
latter affects bis credit. So much for
the evil for overstocking. It is now
equally certain that understocking often
causes disappointment to customers by
reason of the dealer’s being short of a
size or style, and after a few failures of
that kind the purchasers gain the im-
pression that the dealer’s stock is run
down, so that it is not surprising if the
trade switches off to some other store
where a more complete assortment is
found. The inference is justifiable,
therefore, that a dealer should buy his
shoes according to his capital and in a
way consistent with an assured outlet

for them.
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Proper Treatment for the Feet of
Soldiers.

A good many soldier boys who fitted
themselves for experiences in Cuba have
been induced by their well-meaning but
ignorant friends to purchase a lot of
refined sulpbur for wear in their boots,
by way of a preventive against yellow
fever,

Good, clean wheat flour would be
quite as effective, so far as warding off
the yellow-jack goes, and would do very
much less harm in the boots of an in-

 

fantryman. Any woman knows, or ought
to know, that the best part of a warrior’s
Strength lies in his feet. Long, rapic
marches have won almost as many _bat-
tles as steady courage and good marks-
manship; therefore, it behooves sweet-
hearts and wives to frown on the sulphur
superstition, and, before sending their
country’s defenders to the front, take
some of the fullowing precautions: Just
suggest to your brave, good man to buy
his boots close in the heel and hroad_ in
the toe. If his feet are in a state of ten-
der irritation, as the feet of city dwell-
ers are apt to become just at the advent
of spring, persuade him to let you poul-
tice the particularly sensitive spots for
a couple of nights in succession.

A little flaxseed meal, in which boil-
ing water and a bit of sweet cream is
stirred, makes the proper poultice. It
must be tied onto the feet while quite
warm and kept there all night. The way
it draws intlammation out of tender
reddened joints is a wonder. This is
the proper treatment for soft corns and
bunions, but not for hard corns until! they
have been skillfully cut. Then, if any
soreness is left, a poultice will quiet
the pain in short order.

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Minor Shoe Notes.

The Blucher cut shoe for men’s wear
is taking well and lots of them, espe-
cially in the better grade of footwear,
will be worn this fall.

The shoe dealer who puts a 79 cent

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shoe and a $7 shoe into the same show |

window at the same time has much to
learn about the art of window dressing.

The circular seam, making once more
the pieced vamp, is seen again in the
fall samples of men’s shoes and is very
likely to become popular.

It may not be generally known that |
there are plants in the East whose sole |

business it is to try out the oil from
scraps of leather. This indicates that
in leather nothing is wasted but the con-
stant attempts to raise the price.

A new idea in fine shoe making is to
have the manufacturer's and the retail-
er’s names appear together on the top
facing of the shoe. In these days of
sharp competition it is a question, how-
ever, if this will come into general use.

Retailers will do well to carefully plan
for a largely increased trade this fall.
There never was a time when so many
new shoe stores were Starting up as at
the present time. They keep on com-
ing to the front all through the hot days
of summer, which would indicate that
many men believe that the present is a
good time to invest their money. It is
a sign of the times and it behooves deal-
ers to prepare now for the increased
trade ahead of them.

—__—~>-2 2
Shopping by Mail Not Satisfactory.

Speaking of shopping by mail,a wom-
an writer in the Commercial Advertiser
says:

‘‘It is a cool and convenient way to
buy things, but some shops are too con-
scientious. I sent to town from the
Adirondacks last summer for a pair of
bicycle boots. I wore them for walking.
My usual shoe number is 3A. So to
make sure that I would have peace and
comfort I ordered 4A. My letter took
a day and a night to get to New York,
and the shoes took two days and a night
to travel to the mountains. With them
came a polite letter from the shop say-
ing that, to avoid any possible discom-
fort which the boots might cause me,

jthey had taken the precaution to send

me 5A. It was late in the season, and I
needed the boots to scale a mountain or
two, so | wore them. The toes turned
up, of course, and Ned suggested that I
attach chains from them to my _ belt, as
they did in medieval days. They would
have made splendid snow shoes, but we
didn’t have any snow last September, so
I was not exactly overjoyed with my
purchase by mail. It is a convenient
way, I admit, when the shops do not
assume a paternal attitude.’’

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War Man’s Golden Opportunity to
Assert Himself.
Written for the TRADESMAN.

The present era has been called with
at least a certain degree of justice, the
Woman’s Age. At no time in the his-
tory of the human race has she made so
great and varied achievements in the
fine and industrial arts, in literature, in
the professions, as in this latter half of
the present century, She has occupied
so many of the fields once held exclus-
ively by men, her presence in large
numbers in wage-earning avocations is
so important a factor in economic ques-
ttions, working at lower wages she has
often so entirely crowded out the for-
mer masculine tenants of the same _po-
sitions, that mnay a thoughftul mind
looking at the seemingly inevitable trend
of affairs, has questioned whether the
new-gained privileges and powers are
unmixed blessings. Why were the
shoulders of man broad and his arms
brawny if some slender woman must
supply both herself and him with the
means of life? With the opportunity to
make her own way in the world, was
there inevitably associated the necessity
of providing for others as well? Were
men in general, or even any consider-
able proportion of men, to become lazy
incompetents, leaving the responsibili-
ties of the home, the church, and even
the workshop and counting-house, upon
the shoulders of their less muscular
but more energetic wives and sisters?
Or was there to be a great body of men
able and willing to work, but whose
places were filled by women who would
do the same work a little better for a
little less money? And these were not
mere pessimistic croakings. Far-sighted
and clear-headed observers were won-
dering just where the New Woman
would bring up, and how far behind
her natural companion, man, would be
left. For she had successfully assumed
many of his former duties, while, by
some seeming failure in the law of com-
pensation, he was utterly unable or un-
willing to take any of hers.

Indeed, what was left him for his very
own? She had even braved the dangers
and exposures of the Klondike and
must needs share with him the buried
Arctic treasures,

Thus things stood a few short months
ago. But behold a transformation! As
with magic wand the blooded hand of
War has wrought a change. Are these
of the same kind of creature who but
yesterday could not hold his own on the
contested ground of industry? A few
weeks and quiet unknown men have
world-wide fame, the pampered pets of
wealth and aristocracy are Rough Rid-
ers, humble, commonplace boys are
bronzed heroes. The present conflict
means more than the liberty of an op-
pressed people. It is the opportunity
of a sex, a sex crowded out, eclipsed,
surpassed, outrun on its own well-beaten
track. Man, civilized man, has found
his natural monopoly. He has been
quick to see his opportunity and make
the most of it. And woman, be it said
to her everlasting credit, has not sought
to intrude. It is true she has done what
she could. She has tried to alleviate
the inevitable suffering, to soften the
horrors of the terrible enterprise in every
possible way; but she has not tried to
run the enterprise. She has realized in-
tuitively that her work is auxiliary in
its character. When it comes to plac-
ing mines, planting batteries, pointing
rifles, working artillery, or even forced
marching and sleeping on the bare
ground, woman, be she ever so selfre-

 

liant, ever so capable, ever so new, is
not ‘‘in it.’’ Weare thankful she has
the sense to know she is not ‘‘in it.’’
And it is safe to assume that the sex
which has been so quickly roused to per-
form such deeds of valor will not soon
again lapse into apathy nor forget its
responsibilities. And this will be a
recompense for the loss and misery and
devastation. It is one of the most prom-
ising rainbows on the gloom laden cloud

of war. QUILLO.
>

Woman’s Fetich of Getting Ready for
Everything.

What a delight it would add to wom-
an’s many other charms if, for once in
a way,she would do something right off-
hand and Spontaneous without stopping
to get ready! This miserable old fetich
of getting ready for everything is always
the shadow over her sun, the kill-joy
of pleasure, the thief that steals away a
thousand delightful opportunities for lit-
tle pleasures. No woman can ever heed
the poet’s admonition to catch pleasure
as it flies. She must get ready, and,
alas! by the time we are all fixed and
ready to welcome joy to our house, how
seldom is he waiting and knocking at
the door.

In his delightful story of ‘‘ Margaret
Ogilvy,’’ Barrie tells how long it took
his mother to get ready to go on a jour-
ney. Even if it was only for a few days
and a matter of twenty miles, she must
clean the house from top to bottom, put
away treasures, and overlook keepsakes
as if it were for the last time. We smiled
as we read of the simple old Scotch
woman, but how many of us are much
wiser? If someone suggests a little out-
ing for a day or two—something unex

pected and unprepared for—we are
aghast at the idea. ‘Why, I’m -not
ready,’’ we cry, and we look enviously

at the men who can throw a few things
in a grip, and start off to the ends of
the earth at five minutes’ notice. In
reality it is just as possible for a wom-
an, if we only thought so, for the secret
of comfortable traveling is to learn what
to leave at home.

This mania of women for wearing
themselves out in getting ready to enjoy
themselves is absurdly illustrated in
the average woman who is preparing to
go off on her summer outing. Ostensibly
and avowedly she is run down in health
and needs rest and a change. She pre-
pares for the rest by weeks of slaving
over the machine, making ruffles and
tucks and heaven knows what, at such
an expense of nerve-wrecking labor as
leaves us wondering if any holiday is
worth buying at such a price. And after
all our sewing and fitting and fretting
and worrying it is love’s labor lost, for
there is always some other woman who
has more frocks and more ruffles and
tucks and has gotten readier than we.

There is a world of suggestion, phys-
ically as well as financially, in the old
story of the woman who said she could
afford to get ready to go off to a summer
resort and stay at home, or she could go
without getting ready, but she couldn’t
do both.

If, as the old proverb says, there is
more pleasure in anticipation than
realization it is largely because we have
so spent ourselves in getting ready we
have no strength left to enjoy anything.
If we are going to have company we
wear ourselves out so in getting ready
for them that when they do come we are
too tired to enjoy any conversation no
matter how brilliant. If we are going
on a trip we have exhausted ourselves
so in putting things away and making
unnecessary clothes and getting ready
that we are in no mood to see attractions
in anything but a rest cure, and so we
get harm from the change instead of
good. And so it goes through life.
Happy those who are strong enough
minded to emancipate themselves from
the superstition that they must get ready
for everything and who are always ready
to seize every pleasure as it comes.

—___~>-2
A woman is never really happy when

she starts on a trip unless she can think
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Bootblacking Supplies at Wholesale.
From the New York Sun.

A business that has sprung up in New
York in recent years is that of bootblack |
supplies. It owes its origin to the
growth of the city, the multiplication of
bootblack stands and _ the introduction
and extensive use of colored shoes. |'n
There are now a number of concerns, | [U
small but complete establishments, de- rl Dehli al tiara
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Grand Rapids, Micl

thing a bootblack requires, and his  re-
quirements are greater than they former-
ly were.

At one place there are kept on hand
sixty-five varieties of shoe blacking or
polish, for shoes of all kinds and colors,
including blackings and _ polishes in
boxes and bottles, and imported black-

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ings as well as domestic, and water-
proof blacking and oil. There are sold =
here cans for oil and for water: black- . ; ;
ing pans, the small round pans made to A line ot Men s and MW wil
hold a larger quantity of blacking than men’s Medium Priced
would be contained ina blacking box; Shoes that are Money
brushes of all kinds, including daubers, Winners. The most of
dust brushes and blacking brushes and | ao) Bat Piss
whisk brooms and shoestrings of various them sol oe eee
kinds and colors, We are still making the
Some of these establishments send out Men’s Heavy Shoes in
supply-wagons, which regularly make Oil Grain and Satin: also
the rounds of their customers at boot- I i a

carry Snedicor & Hatha
way’s Shoes at Factory
Pricein Men’s, Boys’
Youths’. Lycoming and
Keystone Rubbers are the
best. See our Salesmen
or send mail orders.

blacking stands all over the city and
supply their wants, whatever they may
be, on the Spot. and
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Serviceable Army Shoes.
The sole of the modern army shoe is
made of oak leather of the best quality,
and of extra thickness. The heel is con-

 

structed of the same material. The GEO. H. REEDER & CO.,
counters and rands are also of oak 19 S. lonia St., Grand Rapids, Mich
leather. The stitching is not now done | i a

by hand, as was ordinarily the case, as
the machines which do this work have
reached to such a degree of perfection
that hand work is no desirable.
The are and
through and fastened to the uppers in
the securest manner possible. On look-
Ing at samples of these army shoes the
impression is gained that there is a lot
of wear them, and that they also
ought to be comfortable as well as dur-
able. The toes are practically as wide
as the foot itself, and there is no cap or
tip whatever.

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Fruits and Produce.

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the warehouse was as high

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of the company. Part of the
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them. For that purpose an arrange-
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ment of black screens is made in front

of an open door, and a tray of eggs is
suspended in it. The ‘‘viewer’’ looks
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detect a bad by its dark color.
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were aware that he made a test
year with 6,000 eggs. He held in
hands certificates from several gentle
men, bankers, merchants, grocers, an
private people, who had tested the
eggs. The eggs were put in on March
5, 1897, and were taken out in the end
of December. He had no complaints
as to the quality of the eggs. Out of
the 6,000 eggs there were 100 really rot-
ten,and if he had had the collecting of
them, he believed there would not have
been a single egg destroyed He was
now making a final test of over 50, 000
eggs. Provost Bennett said he had tested
eggs which had been preserved in the
patent apparatus. He got from Mr.
Christiansen, a month ago, four eggs
which had been in the apparatus for
fourteen months. He had the eggs
boiled, and the two which he ate were
as fresh as he would wish to have
them. Dr. Donald (Leith) said that
he had a dozen eggs sent to him at the
end of last July by Mr. Christiansen,

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Yours very truly

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Philadelphia, Pa.

REFERENCES
Corn Exchange National Bank, Philadelphia.
W. D, Hayes, Cashier Hastings National Bank, Hastings, Mich.
Fourth National Bank, Grand Rapids, Mich.
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How the Cuban Fruit Trade Can be
Built Up.

From the Florida Times-Union.

Among the things of which but pleas-
ant memories remain to the natives of
Cuba may be counted the fruit industry,
that was once a thriving business that
the native planters fondly believed was
theirs forever and a day. A change
came over the spirit of their dream when
the Americans decided to try their hands
at raising oranges and pineapples, and
the dream has been changing ever
since, until to-day the Cubans and
Spaniards of Cuba would be glad to see
some chance of getting back even a
small remnant of their former prosper-
ous fruit trade. How it came to pass
that the fruit trade of Cuba passed from
the islanders into the hands of the
American growers is told by a produce
merchant who lived in the fruit dis-
trict for many years, and, in fact, until
the less of the fruit trade to the island
forced him to leave.

‘*When we shall have won Cuba,’’
said this man, ‘‘the Cuban fruit trade
will be once more a part of the indus-
trial life of Cuba. The conditions of
soil and climate are perfect for the cul-
tivation of fruit like the orange and the
pineapple, but the people are quite un-
equal to the task of taking advantage of
these conditions. It is not quite fair to
call the natives of Cuba lazy. Shift-
lessness or carelessness more aptly de-
scribes their state. They always choose
the easiest way of accomplishing an
end, and leave the rest to Providence.

‘Now, fruit like oranges and pine-
apples requires the most careful handling
from the time it is picked until it is
offered for sale in the markets. How
do the Cubans gather and market this
fruit—or, rather, how did they, for the
market is theirs no longer? To get the
fruit from the trees the Cuban or Span-
ish planter shook the tree or knocked
the fruit down with a long pole. It
reached the ground bruised by the fall
and battered by the rap from the pole.
Considering that the fruit was picked
for a journey of thousands of miles, it
will be seen that it began its market life
seriously handicapped for competition
with the carefully picked fruit of the
American planter.

‘‘The next step was to transport the
fruit to the town to be packed for ship-
ment. This was done by mules. The
oranges or pineapples were bundled _in-
to the panniers or saddlebags, and away
went the mule over the rough country
roads, jolting the fruit in the saddle-
bags and making sad _ havoc with the
cargo. When the destination was
reached, instead of carefully lifting the
burden from the mule's back and de-
positing it tenderly on the ground, the
mule driver dragged it off in the rough-
est way and threw it down in the nearest
corner of the storehouse. The next man
threw his consignment of fruit on the
top of the other, and so they were piled
up without the slightest regard to the
consequences to the fruit.

‘‘Next we come to the packing pro-
cess. I have seen the men stand several
feet away from the barrels or hampers
in which the fruit is to be packed and
actually throw it into the mouth of the
receptacle, hit or miss, and in either
event adding to the bruises that the poor
fruit had received. When the barrel
was full the lid had to be got on, and if
it didn’t quite fit a little physical force
would make it. Have you seen an
obstreperous trunk lid forced to close by
being sat upon? Well, that is actually
what I have seen done with the oranges
and pineapples that were shipped from
Cuba to this country. After the box or
barrel was packed the next thing was to
roll it down to the steamer. No care
was taken to carry it gingerly. Ifa
barrel it was rolled down the gangplank
and thrown into the hold of the vessel.
If a box it was carried down, if that
way of getting it there was the easier,
and then dropped on top of the others.

‘‘The inevitable result of all this
rough treatment was that the fruit had
become rotten for the most part when it
arrived in America, and half of it was
wasted. It is not to be supposed that
this sort of thing could continue. Amer-
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beat the Cubans at fruit growing. They
tried it, and the Cubans speedily found
that there was no longer a market for
their rotting oranges.’’

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The Passing of Dairy Butter.

A striking feature of the butter trade,
especially in Pennsylvania, but more or
less in all dairy sections, is the rapid
retrogression of dairy butter —the butter
made by farmers in their own homes—
in the favor of grocers and consumers.

Dairy butter at present can not bring
within from 3 to 5 cents per pound as
much as average creamery butter. The
quality of this butter is often not such
as to commend it to dealers who want
a first-class, uniform article throughout
the year.

While it is possible to produce just as
good butter in a private dairy as in a
creamery, yet, as a matter of fact, all
who have given the subject any thought
and observation must acknowledge that,
as a rule, creamery butter is of better
quality than average dairy butter. The
reason is quite evident: in a great many
home dairies the work is carried on, as
work is in too many other departments
of the farm, in a somewhat careless
manner and without that care and _ at-
tention which are given to milk and
cream in the creamery. The home
dairy facilities are not always adequate,
and the result is that the butter is not
uniform in color, salting or flavor. In
summer it is soft and greasy, contain-
ing a good deal of buttermilk, which
could not be removed because of the
high temperature at which the butter
was churned, and which soon made_ the
butter strong. In winter the butter is
likely to be crumbly, because the cream
is allowed to freeze. Through a better
education of buttermakers and because
of improved machinery, the quality of
creamery butter is constantly improv-
ing. Now, there is not the same degree
of improvement in dairy butter, conse-
quently, the difference between the price
of creamery butter and that of dairy
butter becomes continually greater.
And, as one old dealer in dairy goods
said, the daughter of the American
farmer is not so good a buttermaker as
her mother was, because she will not
take the necessary pains.

A large part of this poor butter is
sold to the huckster who makes weekly
visits to collect such farm produce as
he can handle. The butter is wrapped
in a cloth and put in a box containing,
perhaps, salt pork, vegetables and other
things which tend to give the peculiar
flavor for which the huckster butter is
noted. After the butter becomes the
property of the huckster it is taken to
town, where it is picked over and the
best culled out by each buyer, until! it is
all disposed of for what it will bring.
A large number of grocers who are sell-
ing country butter consider it an unsat-
isfactory article to handle, because it
is so irregular in quality. Some must
have it, however, to supply a certain
demand. When the gross selling price
of creamery butter gets down to 13 cents
it will be readily seen that dairy butter
can not pay the cost of its production.

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SUNDAY
TRAINS

G. R. & I, trains are now running be-
tween Grand Rapids and Muskegon
every Sunday. Leave Union Station g
a. m., returning, leave Muskegon 6:35
p.m. An inexpensive Sunday outing.

50 CENTS
ROUND
TRIP.

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doctor?

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troubled with it?

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wife has. Sometimes she doesn’t get to
sleep until two or three o'clock in the
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DETROIT, MICH.

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GOTHAM GOSSIP.

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

New York, July 16—Everybody is
trying to keep cool and visiting mer-
chants are all making straight for the
seashore to feel the reviving influence
of the ocean breezes. A good many of
them are here and they are going to do
a lot of purchasing, too, if appearances
count for anything. The victory in Cuba
comes just in time for fall trade, speak-
ing from perhaps a mercenary point of
view, and the chances are that we shall
have one of the best autumns we have
seen for many years. Jobbers generally
report a good trade and some of them
have almost as much as they can do to
get the floors clear in time for closing.

Coffee is one of the staples not partic-
ularly active, but the general feeling is
one of more confidence than was ex-
hibited last week. Prices are held firmly
and full quotations were paid in prac-
tically every instance. Very little bas
been done in a speculative way and the
street seems to be enjoying a holiday.
Rio No. 7 is held steady at6'%c. In
store and afloat the stock aggregates
894,068 bags, against 715,623 bags at the
same time last year. Mild West India
sorts of coffee are steady, the better
grades being mostly sought for. As
desirable sorts are not plentiful, the
rates continue firm.

Raw sugars are firm. Refiners seem
to be willing to take large supplies, but
importers are not rushing to fill orders
on the present basis and evidently an-
ticipate something better farther on,
Refined sugars are showing more activ-
ity, but orders, while numerous, are for
small lots. Of course, as long as prices
are guaranteed tor 3c days, there is no
inducement to carry a larger stock than
necessary.

The tea market is steady. The de-
mand is light and orders are simply for
sorting-up purposes. Quotations are
firmly held and the outlook is not bad.
Fine to choicest Formosas are within the
range of 30@45c, the latter, of course,
for superior sorts.

Out-of-town buyers have been free
operators in the rice market during the
week and the demand is fully up to the
average of other years at this time.
Stocks in jobbers’ hands are thought to
be rather light and the market may be
called firm. The incoming crop prom-

ises to be excellent, although rather
late. From foreign countries advices
are strong.

The spice market is firm. Pepper is
meeting with a better request than any-
thing: else, but the whole line shows
more strength and orders have been of
very respectable proportions during the
week. Quotations are firmly adhered to,

Molasses is dull, extremely so. Per-
haps this is to be expected at this sea-
son, however, so no disappointment is
felt. The demand is almost nil and
prices are at so low an ebb that the
goods are almost given away. Stocks are
not excessive, however, and dealers ap-
pear to be of good cheer. Good to prime
New Orleans centrifugal, 16@25c ; open-
kettle, 29@32c. Syrups are steady, but
transactions are on a limited scaie and
all hands are waiting for the season to
“move along.’’ Prime to fancy sugar,
16@2oc.

It is said that the deliveries of canned
goods on the Atlantic coast will not be
half as great as the amount sold. New
York peas, Delaware peaches, Califor
nia apricots—all are failures. A big lot
of lobster was sunk in the steamer and
prices are high. The volume of trade
generally is as large as at any time in
summer and prices are firm all along
the line. No. 3 spot tomatoes, 971%4c@
$1.05.

Lemons are higher and the demand is
sufficient to keep the market closely
cleaned up. Valencia oranges are doing
well, but California oranges lack ani-
mation. Sicily lemons are worth from
$3.75@5 per box, as to size and quality.

Dried fruits are very quiet, both for
foreign and domestic. Evaporated ap-
ples are moving slowly with jobbers at
about 9%c. Raisins are very quiet.

 

Pea and medium beans are in better
request and rates are stronger. Choice
pea, $1.17%@1.20; choice medium,
$1.20@1.22% ; choice red kidney, $1.20
@1.25.

Strictly fancy Western creamery but-
ter is readily disposed of at 17¢ and
perhaps in exceptional cases a fraction
more has been obtained. From New
York State have come quite liberal re-
ceipts and for the best 16!4c is the rate.
Western imitation creamery extras, 14c;
firsts, 1214@13c. Western factory butter
shows up better and the market is de-
cidedly in better shape than last week.
Extras, 1234 @13C¢.

In cheese, the quality of arrivals is ex-
cellent and altogether the market is bet-
ter than last week. Large size full
cream, colored fancy, 7%c for State;
small size, 714c. ra

Receipts of eggs are not large and the
market is firm; that is, for the best
goods. There is any quantity of stock
here that will not grade up to the mark
and such goes for what it will fetch.

Fancy Michigan eggs are worth 14@
1414c. Western fresh gathered, loss off,
4c,

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New Route to Chicago.

Commencing May 15, 1808, a througb
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 disiricts. Other
railroads using this staticn are the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, Wabash,
Chicago & Eastern Illinois, Chicago,
Indianapolis & Louisville, and Erie.
No transfer will, therefore, be neces-
sary for passengers to or from the above
mentioned lines.

Important stations on this through car
line between Chicago and Grand Rap-
ids are Valparaiso, South Bend, Mish-
awaka, Ind., Cassopolis, Macellus,
Schoolcraft, Vicksburg, Kalamazoo and
Plainwell, Mich.

The equipment used in providing this
service will consist of new standard
vestibuled day coaches. Pullman buffet
parlor cars and the latest designs of
Pullman wide vestibuled, gaslighted,
twelve section drawing room sleeping
cars. It is believed that the character
of this equipment and the convenience
of the schedules will be such as to merit
a liberal patronage by the traveling pub-
lic.

The following is a condensed schedule:

Daily.
Lv Grand Rapids.........7:10am_2:10pm_—.11:35pm
Ast tucaro.... |... 2:00pm 9:10pm 6:30am
Ly Cocero.. a, 3:02pm) 11:45pm
Ay Grand Kapids........ 9:30pm 7:25am

Cc. L. Locewoop,
General Passenger and Ticket Agent.
#0 —

An exchange gives some information
as to the origin of the word ‘‘Dago’’ as
applied to dark-colored Europeans in
America, saving: ‘‘We owe the word
‘Dago’ to the Spaniard, whose language
furnished this slang name for the men
of the Mediterranean countries who
came to the United States. One of the
most familiar names borne by Spaniards
is ‘Diego.’ It serves nearly as well as
John in this country as a typical name
fora boy or man. English sailors long
ago came to know Spaniards as ‘Da-
goes,’ because ‘Dago’ was about as near
as they could handily come to ‘Diego,’
which sounds like ‘De-aye-go’ in Span-
ish. It was not for jolly seamen to dis-
criminate too closely between Spaniards
and Portuguese, or even between the
Spanish and the Italians. All of these
nationalities looked much alike and the
general sound of the language they
spoke was similar. So they were all
‘Dagoes,’ for seafaring purposes, and
from the coast the nickname followed
the immigrants from Mediterranean
countries to whatever part of the United
States they made their way.’’

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A man laughs when he is amused; a
woman laughs when she thinks other
people think she ought to laugh.

 

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SEEDS

WATERMELONS, LEMONS,
EARLY VEGETABLES.
YOUR ORDERS SOLICITED.

26-28-30-32 OTTAWA ST.,
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

The best are the cheapest
and these we can always
supply.

ALFRED J. BROWN SEED CO.

24 and 26 North Division Street,

Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

Georgia Peaches

Very fine Albertus.
igan Peaches

Prices good.
not far hence.

Flavor VERY good. Mich-
Watermelons, Cherries, Rasp-

berries, Lemons, Oranges and Bananas.

Home grown New Potatoes, Cabbage, Beets, Peas, Celery, Green Onions,
Radishes, Cucumbers, Spinach, Asparagus, Pie Plant, New Dry
Onions, Turnips, Carrots, Squash, Wax Beans, Tomatoes.

BUNTING & CO., Jobbers, Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

HARVEY P. MILLER.

EVERETT P. TEASDALE.

MILLER & TEASDALE CO.

WHOLESALE BROKERAGE AND COMMISSION.

FRUITS, NUTS, PRODUCE

WATERMELONS

835 NORTH THIRD ST.,
830 NORTH FOURTH ST.,

ST. LOUIS, 10.

 

Watermelons
Raspberries
Cucumbers
Egg Plant Tomatoes
Celery Squash
New Potatoes
New Cabbage
New Onions

Peaches and Plums will soon be
here. Your best interests will be
served if you write us at once
about your needs.

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list to better advan-
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Vinkemulder

Company,
Grand Rapids.

 

We are now offering our 1898 pack of
Canned Goods for future delivery. Com-

pare our new prices with prices of spot

stock and you will buy.

MUSSELMAN GROCER CO.,
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

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House That Berries Built.

Hazleton, Pa., July 16—One of the
handsomest double blocks of houses in
the Diamond Addition of this city be-
longs to a woman who by the death of
her husband was left penniless with
three small children, all girls. The
block was built and paid for eutirely by
the sale of huckleberries picked on the
mountains about Hazleton by the widow
and her three daughters during the last
eight years.

The huckleberry crop returns between
$35,000 and $40,000 to the families of
coal miners at and _ in the vicinity of
Hazleton every season. The season lasts
about two months, The berry pickers
are Chiefly the wives azd children of the
Hungarian miners and Italian laborers.
Early every morning during the berry
season every avenue leading to the
mountains is thronged with picturesque
parties laden with baskets, boxes, pails
and receptacles of every kind and hurry-
ing to favorite berry patches. Between
the hours of to and 11 in the forenoon
the berry pickers begin to come in from
the hills, every vessel filled to over-
flowing with the wild fruit. The first
picking of the day is ready to be de-
livered to the dealers, who, to expedite
the business, meet the pickers witb
wagons at convenient points, where the
berries are purchased and paid for in
cash on the spot. The average price is
5 cents a quart, although for the early
blues, the variety that ripens first, 8 and
Io cents a quart is paid.

After delivering their first pick the
women and children hurry back to the
mountains, Neither the fatigue of the
forenoon’s work nor the heat of the mid-
day sun—and a huckleberry barren is a
sweltering, stifling spot almost without
a parallel—has a deterring effect on the
pickers. They think only of how many
berries it is possible for them to get in-
to market for the day. Frequently it
happens that miners are working on
short time at this season, and the mo-
ment they are released from their toil
underground they hasten to the huckle-
berry grounds to help.

The Italian women and children are
the most apt and skillful huckleberry
pickers. An Italian woman can pick
easily forty quarts a day, which is
equivalent to $2 earned. These women
have on an average three children old
enough to be pickers, who will add as
much more to the day’s income. Every
Italian picker comes from the picking
bearing a box of berries on her head
and carrying a large pail or basket full
in each hand. The stranger might won-
der at the large number of little whiffet
dogs that always accompany the huckle-
berry pickers to the patches. These
dogs are an important item in the
equipment of the pickers. Their duty
is to hunt out and kill the rattlesnakes
and copperheads that abound where the
berries are. They seem to delight in
hunting the snakes, and to be well
aware of the deadly nature of the rep-
tiles. This is manifest from the wari-
ness with which they govern themselves
when confronted by a rattler, and the
skill with which they flank and seize
the reptile from behind, always by the
neck. The dogs, however, can not guard
the pickers against the hornets and yel-
low jackets that seem to favor the berry
grounds for their nesting places, and
these insects frequently force pickers to
leave particularly choice spots by their
hot and painful attacks. ‘The earnings
of the Hungarian ‘and Italian families
at picking huckleberries in this part of
the coal region will range from $100 to
$200 during the season, according to the
number and skill of the pickers. It is
estimated that they will pick and sell
between 600,000 and 700,000 quarts at
Hazleton alone this season.

HO

How Canadians Pack Butter.

Consul Loton S. Hunt, ina report to
the State Department, tells of the method
of the packing and marking of butter
from Canada to the dealers in Manches-
ter and other large cities in England:

Weekly consignments of creamery
butter are being exported from this dis-
trict at present to commission brokers
in Manchester and other English cities.

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

The butter is being put up in new pine
boxes, nearly square and lined with
oiled paper, each box containing 56
pounds. The boxes are constructed about
three-fourths of an inch wider all around
at the top (which is screwed on), in or-
der to permit the contents being. easily
shaken therefrom by the consignees,
who weigh nothing but the butter. The
weight of the contents of the lightest
box in each consignment is taken as the
average weight per box of the whole.
Thus, great care is necessary in order
that the full quantity shall be packed
therein. Coverings of bagging opened
at the top and gathered with a stout
String are made for each box, to keep
the packages perfectly clean for ulti-
mate distribution.

English dealers are insisting upon
every particular of the foregoing details
being carried out. In pursuance of re-
cent legislation, boxes are all marked
with the name of the maker and the
number of the factory; and the bagging
is marked with the initials of the maker,
government number and country of pro-
duction.

8 -

Where Claims Should Be Made.
From the American Hatter.

Manufacturers and jobbers and others
shipping goods are often put to consid-
erable trouble and loss through claims
from their customers for shortage or
damage to goods. The common law is
that after a bill of goods is shipped and
bill rendered the goods are the property
of the purchaser, and any loss or dam-
age is at his risk. Sometimes through
ignorance or a desire to evade payment
the customer takes it upon himself to
deduct the loss from his bill, and leaves
the shipper the option of allowing the
deduction or fighting the transportation
company, in which latter case he must
obtain the affidavit of the customer that
the goods were received in bad _ condi-
tion, and the affidavit of his own ship-
ping clerk that they were shipped in
good order. The mode of procedure
should be just the reverse. The party
receiving the goods should examine
them at once, check them off, and, if
found short or damaged, the transporta-
tion company should be notified and in-
spection of the cases or packages made.
An affidavit should be required from the
order and shipping clerk of the consign-
or and turned in to the transportation
company by the consignee. All of this
work can easily be done by the con-
signee, and in most cases the matter can
be quickly adjusted, as the transporta-
tion company naturally favors the con-
signee, who can say to them if this loss
is not adjusted to his satisfaction he
will in future order his goods shipped
by some other line. It is safe to say
that no dealer is disposed to put the loss
on the consignor, and if he honestly be-
lieves that it is the fault of the transpor-
tation company, and in most cases it
will be shown that the goods have been
tampered with en route, he is disposed
to collect the loss or damage from them.

If the above facts were thoroughly
known we believe in most cases the con-
signee would put himself to the trouble
to cullect from the transportation com-
pany. In any event, by a strict con-
struction of the law, the consignee can
not collect from the consignor, but, of
course, no seller wishes to get into any
unpleasant controversy with his custom-
er. oe /

Stamped His Store Accounts.

There was at least one conscientious,
although ignorant, bill collector in
Americus, Ga., who was determined to
comply with the revenue law as ,he un-
derstood it. Starting forth upon his
monthly round with a big batch of store
accounts, he likewise took along a good-
ly supply ot the little red 2 cent postage
stamps, and whenever a bill was paid
he solemnly stuck a stamp beneath his
signature. It cost him a couple of sil-
ver dollars unnecessarily, but his debtors
were just that-much ahead on postage,
as it was easy to remove the stamps and
use them otherwise.

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has a motive in view; the woman who
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attention of the trade to the fact that
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

Difficulty of Getting Along With Wo-
men With Ways.

It seems to me that human nature is
never so near sanctification and down-
right imbecility as when we excuse some
perfectly inexcusable thing by saying:
(3%, weil, it is just her way.’’ The
very phrase has become a kind of bar-
ricade behind which the guerillas of so-
ciey hide while they bombard a defense-
less world with their ill nature and ma-
lignity and selfishness and general dis-

man’s World

agreeableness,
That is strange enough, goodness
knows, but not half so Strange as that

the excuse
body calls

should pass as valid. No-
them down and demands to
know what right they may have to have
‘“ways,’’ anyhow. Instead we meekly
submit, while they go on walking rough-
shod over our pet susceptibilities and
making a doormat out of our tenderest
feelings.

The worst thing about the woman with
‘ways’’ is her goodness. That’s her
cleverness and where she gets in her
work. You could protect yourself
against her if she were only bad, but
you can’t quarantine against a person
possessed of al] the cardinal virtues sim-
ply because she happens to be as irrita-
ting as a blister. Yet the thorough-go-
ing selfishness and unintentional cruel-
ties a good woman with ‘‘ways’’ will
inflict on her fellow creatures would
make a hardened criminal turn pale and
shudder with horror.

I suppose there isn't anybody who
hasn't at some time or other lived in the
house with her, and gone on trips with
her, and afterwards, when we recalled
what we had suffered at her hands, we
could only account for our submission
on the grounds that we were hypnotized
and that she was a kind of Svengali in
petticoats. One of the chief offenders
among the women with ‘‘ways’’ is the
woman who is always bound to have
everything. Of course, with any one
else it would be the most culpable
selfishness, but we excuse it in her as
being her peculiar ‘‘way.’’ She must
have the first cup of coffee and the tid-
hits of everything. She preempts the
easiest chair by the window while you
sit humbly in a dark corner on a stool,
she always gets the window seat in the
cars and rides facing the horses ina
carriage.

You may be paying the same ata
hotel or boarding-house, but it doesn’t
matter. The servants leave you waiting
without spoon or fork, while they fly to
the kitchen to cook an especial dish for
her. Even the haughty Pullman car
conductor trembles at her bidding. It is
no use for him to tell her that he hasn’t
a lower berth left. She stands calmly in
the aisle and says she never slept in an
upper berth and never will and _ intends
to have the middle lower, on the right
hand side, and she gets it. He may
have to move a sick woman and a cry-
ing baby for her, but that doesn’t dis-
turb her. She simply pities the other
woman for being a poor weak creature
who didn’t know any better.

Then there is the woman who pro-
fesses to be our friend. She is a good
woman and, of course, we know she
doesn't mean anything unkind. It is just
her ‘‘way’’ that makes her say when we
meet, ‘‘Why, what in the world is the
matter with you? You look as sallow as
a pumpkin. Have you seen the doctor?
You are perfectly ghastly. Perhaps,
though, it is that dress. Green is so try-

‘

 

ing to people with poor complexions.
Is that your new hat? Um-er-er yes, it
is rather pretty, but don’t you think it
is a little too young? I always think it
is such a mistake for people to try to
dress young after they begin to break
and get gray hair, don’t you?’’ and so

on and on, every word a stab in our
pleasure in our new things. You can’t
resent it. You must smile and smile

and keep her on your visiting list, sim-
ply because nobody has yet had the
courage to organize an effectual boycott
against a woman with ‘‘ways.’’
Another woman with ‘‘ways,’’ who is
a terror and a nuisance is the one who
can’t refrain from giving you advice.
It’s all very well for her to say that she
has your good at heart and is only moved
by affection to try to put her finger in
your pie. It's wearing, nevertheless;
and moreover, you don’t want it. The
minute she takes a seat in your house
you can feel her eyes boring into every-
thing, spying out the spots on the car-
pet and the dust under the sofa.
**What!’' she cries, ‘‘don’t you take up
your carpets in the summer? Of all the
thriftless, extravagant waste—goodness
gracious, look at the way that child is
eating! Do you mean to say, Maria,
that you let a child that is not yet 6
years old eat figs? No wonder your eld-
est daughter got pneumonia and died
and that your son is in Cuba suffering
right this minute from the heat and like
as not will get shot. It does beat all
that the Lord will send children to peo-
ple who haven't got enough sense to—
good land! Is that your husband smok-
ing in the parlor? Don’t you know it
will ruin the curtains?’’ etc. And it
doesn’t once occur to her that she is
gratuitously meddling with what doesn’t
concern her. Oh, dear, no! She expects
such impertinent interference to be ex-
cused on the grounds of its being her

ay

‘‘ way.
Then there’s your mother-in-law’s
‘‘way.’’ You want to be friends with her

and you appreciate all her good points.
When she is about a thousand miles off
so you can get a good focus on her vir-
tues, so to speak, you can give her the
credit that is her due. You could even
love her at closer range if it wasn’t for
her ‘‘ ways But why, you ask your-
self, should she always speak of your
husband as ‘‘poor John,’’ and treat him
with a pitying tenderness as of one who
is afilicted beyond his deserts? She is
always bemoaning that he, too, has to
work so hard, and she looks volumes
when you buy a new frock, and makes
you feel you have done a mean thing in
taking in a poor, unsuspecting man and
marrying him and making a slave of
him. Of course, she doesn’t mean it all.
It’s just her ‘‘way,’’ and there isn’t any
offense set down in the criminal code
you couldn’t forgive easier.

There are lots of women whose ‘‘ way’’
it is to exaggerate. Just let them hear
any one idly wonder how such and such
a young man can afford to dress so well
or how it happened such and such a girl
was at such and such a place, and it is
enough. By the time they have gotten
through with it, it is a scandal that
wrecks a life and convulses the town,
and it seems a pretty poor excuse to say
that nobody should take it seriously, be-
Cause it is just her ‘‘way’’ to always rep-
resent things in a dramatic and startling
light.

There are other women who apologize
for continued fretting by saying it is
their ‘‘way.’’ Nothing ever suits them
and they keep their houses and their
families in a continual state of turmoil

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and there is no peace and rest for the
afflicted who are bound to live with
them. It must require a mental effort
for many a man to be able to recall -his
wife’s good qualities, they are so
snowed-under by her ‘‘ ways.’’ He knows
that she is true and kind and loyal and
generous-hearted—and he appreciates it
when he can get far enough out of ear-
shot to miss her querulous fault-finding
with the children and her nagging at
the servants and the dressmaker and the
garbageman, but’ when he is with her
he can be conscious of nothing but the
discomfort. It is said, as a reproach,
that many a wife and mother is more
appreciated after she is dead than while
she lived. It is true, and it is because
we do not remember the faults of the
dead against the living that many a
man has been able to conscientiously
erect a reasonably veracious tombstone
and sincerely grieve for the wife who
was a continual aggravation while liv-
ing.

he a matter of fact, we have all been
bulldozed by people with ‘‘ways’’ long
enough. It 1s time to call a halt and
demand that they surrender privileges
they were never entitled to. No more
masquerading under false pretenses. If
they want to be disagreeable and selfish
and overbearing and impertinent, let
them be shown up in their true colors.
It is no excuse to say it is their ‘‘way.’’
They haven't any right to any sucha
way. There are other ways. There are
ways of gentle courtesy and forbearance
and tenderness and consideration for
others and there are women with ways
so sweet and winning their mere pres-
ence is a joy and a delight. These are
the only ways for which there is room.
The other ways must go.

Dorotuy Dix.
eee
The American Girl in Business Life.
From the New York Commercial.

If one happens to go over the same
route to business daily he soon awakens
to the fact that the well-dressed and
healthy-looking young women he sees
are as much a constant factor in the
business thoroughfares as he himself is;
and if perchance his business is such
that it calls him from point to pomt in
the business world of the city and
makes him familiar with the inside
forces of other offices than his own, he
finds the explanation of this agreeable
mixture of the gentler sex among the
fixed elements of early morning busi-
ness-seeking throngs. He finds every-
where in the offices and stores the young
lady of the ferryboat and street car,
whose presence he has before noted in
transit cityward or officeward, and a
new phase of American civilization
dawns upon him. For there is scarcely
a branch of American commercial life
which has not been invaded and con-
quered by our American girls.

Woman in business life may be well
said to fill a long-felt want, both for the
business life and for herself. The office
and store have needed her for the civi-

 

lizing and elevating effect of her pres-
ence. For let the humdrum business
philosophers say their worst about busi-
ness being business, and all sex dis-
tinctions being forgotten amid the cold
facts of the counting room, there never
was a man who was worthy of the name
who was insensible to the refining pres-
ence of gentle, self-poised young woman-
hood, and who was not more of a gen-
tleman at his desk because at the next
desk or in the same room was a member
of the other sex, whose natural pro-
tector he is. And the girl supplies a
long-felt want of her organization by
her contact with the business world. She
finds discipline there of a character
which she much needs,

Hard facts are to be dealt with in a way
which eliminates all fiction and trains
her to face the realities of life and in a
great measure to conquer her own des-
tiny. She learns to distinguish between
the good fairies of the nursery tales and
the flesh and blood denizens of a mat-
ter-of-fact world. She learns to reason
hard and to trace cause to effect and
effect back to cause, to know good when
she sees it and to abhor evil with an in-
stinct that becomes more and more
powerful as she grows older and observes
over and over again that, after all, it is
the truly good who are the truly wise,
and that it is he with the lightest con-
science who enjoys the earth and the
fullness therof. She learns to penetrate
the shallow shams of the surface and _ to
read the deep undercurrents of the lives
about her. Superficial finery, external
blandishments deceive her less and
less, and solid, intrinsic value claims
more and more of her esteem, until she
rounds out into the full-measured, well-
seasoned, hard-headed, but ever soft-
hearted and deep-souled American
woman.

This discipline does not perish with
the generation that has experienced it.
It is handed down, and forms a stronger
foundatioun upon which the next gen-
eration may build, and it is destined
to prove the source of a race which for
perfect development in mind and body
was never equaled. Colleges have been
endowed for our girls, and their educa-
tion is now as much a matter of course
as that of our boys. It is well that so
many are able to benefit by the oppor-
tunities thus afforded them, and the
value of these noble institutions can
never be overestimated. But in this
college of commercial life a thousand
times more of American girls are being
educated to a far finer point of mental
and physical discipline than ever has
been or ever will be possible at Vassar,
Smith or Wellesley. Its course is not
limited to four years; it runs half a life-
time. It is not bounded by theory, by
hazy hypothesis, but by rock-hard prac-
tice. It is not drawn in at the hour of
recitation and at term-time only; it
forms the whole atmosphere of waking
existence, and let him who believes that
the education received is narrow and
shallow compare the results as devel-
oped in the lives of the respective sub-
jects. American civilization has every-
thing to hope for and nothing to fear
from the Americar girl in business life.

 

 

  

Are You
Anxious

To increase your trade?
Are you anxious to secure
the better patronage of
your community? If so,
our advice to you is to
handle the best line of
spices, baking powders
and extracts. Of course, we
refer to goods manufac-
tured by the leading house
in that line in Michigan.

Northrop, Robertson & Carrier,
Lansing, Mich.

 

MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

17

 

Commercial Travelers

Michigan Knights of the Grip.
President, JoHN A. Horrman, Kalamazoo: Secre-
tary, J. C. SAUNDERS, Lansing; Treasurer, Cyas.
McNOotry, Jackson.

Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Association.

President, C. C. SNEDEKER, Detroit:

: E Secretary
and Treasurer, C. W.

ALLEN Detroit.

United Commercial Travelers of Michigan.
Grand Counselor, J. J. Evans, Bay City: Grand
Secretary, G. S. Vatmorg, Detroit: Grand Treas
urer, W. S. West, Jackson.

Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Mutual Acci-
dent Association.
President, J. Boyp PanTuinp, Grand Rapids;

Secretary and Treasurer, Gro. F. OWEN, Grand
Rapids.

Lake Superior Commercial Travelers’ Club.
President, W. C. Brown, Marquette; Secretary
and Treasurer, A. F. Wrxson, Marquette.

GENERAL TRADE SITUATION.
While the confidence which has been
steadily growing since the outbreak of
hostilities seems to have discounted the
influences on stock and financial mar-
kets to an extent which makes them in-
different to the most sensationally favor-
able war news, showing unusual dul-
ness, the week has been one of unex-
pected general activity for the season of
the year. Indeed, the elements of gen-
eral demand are so numerous that it
seems difficult for the usual summer
dulness to fairly get a foothold. Re-
ports of foreign trade show that with an
unprecedented export of over $1, 200, -
000,000 our imports amount to only
$616,000,000, or about half as much, thus
making us creditor to the rest of the
world for that amount. This in itself
would be sufficient to give us the most
assured financial standing, even while
indulging in the somewhat expensive
luxury of a foreign war. In this connec-
tion it is significant that the reports of
British toreign trade show an almost
corresponding decrease in exports and
increase in imports. This is naturally
attributed to the recent high price of
breadstuffs and to the dulness in the
textile markets.

It is especially significant that iron
activity seems to refuse to be affected
by the usual season of summer dulness.
The output for current weeks exceeds
all records prior to November, and yet
there is reported a decrease in unsold
stocks. The consequence of this condi-
tion is that fewer furnaces than ever are
shut down for repairs and the work on
these is pushed with the utmost expedi-
tion on account of the pressure of or-
ders far ahead. With 15,000 tons rails
sold last week, the Chicago works have
contracts until December 1 or later. The
great steel concerns appear to be
crowded, both East and West, with
structural orders. The plate works in
both sections are much behind in deliv-
eries, and at the West the demand for
car building is still remarkably large.

As returns and assurances of abundant
wheat harvests accumulate the price is
forced to yield a few cents, although
still high enough to assure healthy re-
turns to the farmers. Export demand
continues heavy and gives assurance of
the maintenance of a fair basis. While
it is somewhat early to predict, the pros-
pect of the corn crop is good in most lo-
Calities, but there is less yielding in
price than in that of the white cereal.

The textile situation shows some slight
improvement in both cotton and wool
products, although prices of some lines
of the latter have been slightly reduced.
General demand is better and it looks
as though the woolen trade would as-
sume a more satisfactory basis as soon
as the price of wool is fairly settled. It

 

is complained that the undue advance in
leather is making the shoe business un-
certain, and the fact of lower quotations
for hides would seem to indicate that
leather must also yield before long.

There is still ample evidence that the
volume of business is larger than ever
at this season, although from this time
on comparisons with 1892 will be with
the most active months of a Presidential
year, The July clearings thus far show
an increase of 11.6 per cent. over last
year, and 8.4 per cent. over 1892. Rail-
road earnings in June, 1892, showed
extraordinary gain, but the returns this
year are 1 per cent. larger on United
States roads only, and 6.9 per cent.
larger than last year. Following the
unprecedented volume of foreign trade
during the last year, it was hardly to be
expected that similar gains could be
realized, but at New York for two weeks
of July the increase in domestic exports
is 50 per cent., while the imports, al-
though unusually large last week, have
been for two weeks 18.6 per cent. less
than last year.

Sa

The latest trade returns of Porto Rico
are for the year 1896. These, which are
just published, amount to $36,624, 120—
the largest in the history of the island.
The business was very evenly divided
as to exports and imports, the excess of
less than $100,000 being on the export
side. The United States had a little less
than 20 per cent. of the trade. Sugar
and coffee constitute the bulk of the ex-
ports. With the stars and stripes float-
ing over the island, its commerce will be
greatly stimulated and the United States
naturally will become the chief benefi-
ciary from the increase.

 

Conducting the war against Spain is
like putting a big iron safe into the
window of a fourth story. The men
who are guiding the load and pulling
at the ropes and risking their lives are
doing the best they can; but they can
not hope to please the critics who are
standing opposite doing nothing and
having no knowledge of what ought to
be done.

Armies and navies of Spain that have
been put up against United States forces
are willing enough to surrender, It is
the people safe at home in Spain—where
American guns are not fired—who say
they will never surrender. They are
willing to sacrifice any relatives of their
wives in the struggle to keep Cuba in
slavery.

 

cure for insanity. It probably diverts
the mind from melancholia, and other
forms of insanity, by putting wheels in
the head of the patient.

It is said there are more blind people
among the Spaniards than any other
European race. It certainly appears
that they are very short-sighted if they
can not see their finish.

 

Men must possess courage if they would
display it.

 

The greatest flag raising of the season
was the raising of the American flag at
Santiago.

The Queen of Honglulu is a Lil Lu;
but she is not thrown in with the is-
lands.

Men who are small in the head fear
the United States will become too big.

 

 

The Washington brigadier general
mill is still rynning overtime,

Why Process Butter Cannot be Regu-
lated in Michigan.

Lansing, July tg9—The writer has
noted in some recent issues of the
Tradesman communications and edito-
rial comments upon the subject of proc-
ess butter. Lately there appeared a
Criticism in the form of a question as
to why nothing is being done by the
Michigan Dairy and Food Department to
control or regulate the sale of process
butter under the name of creamery but-
ter. More than a year ago this Depart-
ment undertook an investigation to as-
certain what there was in the reworking
of process butter and to study the appli-
cation of the food laws to this process.
After securing an exhaustive report con-
cerning the various methods used in the
manufacture of these goods, we submit-
ted the same to chemical authority and
found that it was extremely difficult to
secure chemical testimony as to the real
origin of these process butters. While
it is our belief that the sale of process
butter should be regulated and con-
trolled, we are satisfied it can not be
done upon the ground of its being in-
jurious to health. If it could be posi-
tively established that these butters are
really injurious, our Michigan food law
would cover them, but we have been un-
able, so far, to tind a chemist of com-
petent authority who believes this prop-
osition could be maintained. On the
other hand, there is nothing in the
Michigan food statutes by which we can
reach these goods, with the exception
noted. We have submitted the possibil-
ities of proof to the proper legal author-
ities and are advised that there is noth-
ing in our law to interfere with the sale
of process butter unless we can establish
that the same is injurious to health. In
the writer’s judgment there is a growing
demand (brought about through the com-
petition forced upon butter by this
spurious article) for legislation that will
effectually promote distinction between
genuine dairy or creamery butter and
the renovated article.

Is it not a good time to start a move-
ment looking to the passage of some
such act by the next Legislature?

ELLIOT O. GROSVENOR.
—_—_—_~-9
Jackson Grocers to Go to Belle Isle.

Jackson, July 18 —The members of the
Jackson Retail Grocers’ Agsociation are
making active preparations for their
seventh annual excursion, which is to
be given Aug. 11 to Detroit and Belle
Isle Park. The active work of arranging
for the event is in the hands of a gen-
eral committee of twelve—N. H.
Branch, chairman, J. F. Helmer, H. C.
Eddy, M M. Whitney, C. G. Hill, L.
Pelton, B. S. Mosher, D. C. Sauer, W.

R. Houghton, H. H. Neesley, Geo. E.
Lewis; and W. AH. Parter, The sub-
committees are as follows:

Tickets—W. H. Porter, L.. Peter-

1.
man, J. F. Helmer, Geo. E. Lewis and

L. Pelton.

Transportation—C. G. Hill, Geo. E.

Lewis and J. F. Helmer.

Advertising—-W. H. Porter, P. W.
Haefner and B. D. Legg.

Music—H. C. Eddy, J. F. Helmer
and J L. Peterman.

Badges—M. M. Whitney, M. Fisher
and W. H. Porter.

The indications are that this will be
the greatest of all of the excursions that
have been given by the Association.
Messrs. Branch, Hill, Helmer and
Lewis devoted several days to investi-
gating the merits of the different points
that had been discussed and, after their
report had been made, the general com-
mittee decided Belle Isle Park to he the
best adapted to care for so large a crowd
as the Jackson grocers have on their ex-
cursions, whicharealways looked forward
to as the event of the year in this city
and vicinity. W. H. PorTER, Sec’y.

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Preliminary Excursion to the Saginaws.

Port Huron, July 18—A delegation of
thirty-three grocers, eighteen from Port
Huron and fifteen from Sarnia, visited
Saginaw last Thursday to make arrange-
ments for a monster excursion to that
city on August 14. Thetrip to Saginaw
was made ina parlor car in charge of

 

Ticket Agent Geo. E, Hall, of this city.

 

On arriving in Saginaw the visitors
were met by Mayor Baum and a delega-
tion of grocers, headed byaband. After
dinner at the Bancroft House the party
were taken to Riverside park and _ elab-
orately entertained during the afternoon.
No visitor from Port Huron or Sarnia
was allowed to part with any of his
money. Speeches were made and a royal
good time was had.

The grocers arrived home at 9 :30
o'clock in the evening, and will work
from now until Aug. 14 to make the ex-
cursion a success. Yale, Marlette and
Brown City will join with Port Huron
and Sarnia.

>>> .
account of the intense heat last
Saturday evening, the meeting of Grand
Rapids traveling men was adjourned to
Saturday evening, July 30, when final
arrangements will be consummated for
the annual picnic of the fraternity and
the train gate system will be given an
exhaustive hearing. Geo. DeHaven,
General Passenger Agent of the Heald
system, has accepted an invitation to be
present on that occasion and present the
commendable features of the innova-
tion which has been the cause of so
much friction and ill feeling on the part
of the traveling public and resulted in
so much discrimination against the
freight department of the system by
traveling men and large shippers who
sympathize with the salesmen in the
antagonistic position they have assumed
on the subject.

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Geo. B. Caulfield (Lemon & Wheeler
Co.) is putting in a few days at Ottawa
Beach. Fish stories of no smal! dimen-

sions will be in order on his
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T. Eugene Reynolds, of West Bay
City, has entered the employ of Morley
Bros. (Saginaw), with the intention of
taking a position on the road.

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Heman G. Barlow (Olney & Judson
Grocer Co.) is taking a trip on the

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Lakes to Port Arthur and return. He
is accompanied by his wife.
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The interesting article on page 13,

entitled ‘‘The Passing of Dairy But-
ter,’’ should have been credited to the
Philadelphia Grocery World.
Se
Sumner M. Wells (Clark-Jewell-Wells
Co.) is spending a fortnight with his
family on the banks of Crystal Lake,
near Frankfort.

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H. E. Moseley has engaged in the
fruit and produce business at 3 North

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Drugs--Chemicals

MICHIGAN STATE BOARD OF PHARMACY.

Term expires
Dec. 31, 1898
Dec. 31, 1899
Dec. 31, 1900
Dec. 31, 1901
Dec. 31, 1902

 

F. W. R. Perry, Detroit

A. C. ScHUMACHER, Ann Arbor .

Gro. Gunprvm, Ionia . -

L. E. REYNOLDS, St. Joseph

Henry Heim, Saginaw - -
President, Gro. GunpRuM, Ionia.
Secretary, A. C. ScoHUMACHER, 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. Murr, Grand Rapids.

 

The Drug Store Cellar.

Any one who has had occasion to en-
ter many cellars of drug stores will
agree with the writer that they are usu-
ally anything but inviting places to
visit. ‘There are, however, exceptions
to this rule, and the cellar that is de-
scribed here is, in my opinion, one of
them. This cellar is not a myth exist-
ing only on paper, but is a picture true
to the facts.

The cellar is usually regarded by the
druggist as a part of the store from
which the public must be excluded, so
not much care is exercised in keeping
it in order. Now, there are many good
reasons why this part of the store should
be kept in perfect order, and I shall try
to give a few here: :

1. A neatly-kept cellar shows care
and good management on the part of
the proprietor.

2. It will prevent mistakes in refill-
ing the shelfware and containers of the
Store.

3. It gives work for
aa.

4. It will prevent fires starting in
rubbish left carelessly in a corner of
the cellar.

5. It establishes methods of order,
carefulness and precision in the appren-
tice, which are not forgotten in his fu-
ture career as a druggist.

6. A pharmacy, above all places,
should answer to the rigid rule, ‘‘A
place for everything, and everything in
its place.’’ Mistakes often occur from
not observing this rule.

The early training which I received in
this cellar, while the duties seemed lab-
orious and difficult at the time,gave me
an experience which has been of much
value to me in my work since. The first
impression usually lasts in memory,
and I shall never forget the first time I
saw this cellar. The proprietor said to
me on this occasion: ‘‘This is to be
your own private domain; see how or-
derly you can keep it. Study carefully

‘idle hands to

the place for every bottle, box, barrel:

and demijohn; try to keep each article
in its proper place.’’ I think this ad
vice had more to do with my working
hard to accomplish the end than any
other one thing, and if more proprietors
were to give kindly advice to the boy,
and then give him credit for his work,
they would get better service.

The store was located on a corner; the
cellar was divided into two rooms, the
front one being for a stock room, and
the rear one for manufacturing. The
front room, which was the larger of the
two, had a good board floor, and was
arranged as follows: At the foot of the
box ‘stairs] were shelves for our surplus

 

stock of patents. On the floor, to the
left of these and towards the front of the
cellar, were two pieces of timber about
6x14 Inches and 16 feet long, on which
barrels were laid on their sides; here
we kept our alcohol, whisky, port wine
and rock candy syrup. Above these
barrels were a series of shelves, extend-
ing from the patents to the corner of
the cellar, on which we kept our extra
stock of fluid extracts, tinctures, lini-
ments, etc. ; these were arranged alpha-
betically, each class on separate shelves.
Under the front door, at the corner of
the store, which was the coolest place
in our cellar, we had a cupboard in
which we kept our stock of peroxide of
hydrogen, concentrated nitrous ether,
chloroform, essential oils and sulphuric
ether. Under this cupboard we had
bins in which our stock of bottled min-
eral waters was kept, the bottles lying
on their sides. Between these bins and
the outside cellarway, we had our liquid
carbonic gas machine for charging our
soda water fountains. On the other
side of the cellarway we had a still
where our water was distilled for the
store, no other kind being used in mak-
ing our preparations. Near the water
still, in the corner of the cellar, we had
a large ice-chest, where we kept the
jugs with our surplus stocks of syrups
for the soda fountain; over the chest we
had shelves on which we kept our stock
of fruit juices used in making the
syrups.

To the left of the ice-chest we had a
series of shelves for our stock of roots,
leaves, herbs and such chemicals as
would keep in paper. On the packages
as received from the wholesale houses
the labels are usually on the sides of the
packages, and when they are piled on
one another on a shelf the labels of the
under packages are invisible. To over-
come this objection we cut pieces of
cardboard about four inches by five
inches and printed the name of the drug
on them ; these we put on the end of the
packages under the string with which
they were tied; when more of these
drugs were wanted in the store, the
packages were opened, the containers
filled, then tied again and the card in-
serted as before. When the last of the
stock in the package was emptied, the
cards were placed in a box and kept for
the next supply received from our job-
ber.

To the left of these shelves were bins
for our prescription and various other
stock bottles which were taken from the
cases in which they were shipped and
stored here. Under the stairs we had
shelves for storing various ointments,
vaseline, cosmoline, etc. At the side
of the stairs we had shelves for our stock
of flavoring extracts, perfumes, etc. In
the center of the celiar we had a large
table on which we had scales, gas stove
and water bath for use in manufactur-
ing. At this table all the goods for the
store were unpacked (thus avoiding dirt
in the store) and marked with the pri-
vate cost mark and the selling price in
plain figures. The cases were carefully
opened with a nail-puller so as not to
break the lids, which were tacked on
again when the case was empty, and
the cases stored in the rear cellar until
we had a wagonload, when they were
sold. Along the back of the table were
bins which had a door in front of each
one and a lid or cover on hinges to keep
out dust. Each bin was just large
enough to hold a barrel, with such ma-
terials as epsom salts, glauber salts, bi-
carbonate of soda, ground flax seed,
whiting, etc., which were bought in bar-

 

rel lots. When the stock of any of these
materials was exhausted and the new
barrel came in, we took out the empty
barrel, removed the head of the new
one carefully and put it in the bin.
These bins looked very neat in the cel-
lar and kept our materials in a dirt-
proof place.

In the rear cellar, which was entered
by a door to the right at the foot of the
stairs, we did all the grinding, mixing
and sieving or any work which would
make a dust. The various processes of
percolation, maceration and filtration
were carried on here. In this cellar we
had a rack for our percolators and_ fun-
nels. We also stored the empty cases
and dirt barrels here and all refuse and
sweepings were put in the barrels. We
also had a sifter and mixer for our tooth-
powder, face-powder and like goods.
We manufactured a complete line of
specialties and had a large sale for the
same; these were all prepared, bottled
and wrapped in this cellar.

In conclusion, I would add that there
are Many proprietors who never think of
giving the boy any credit for his work,
but this was not the case with my em-
ployer, for every visitor to our cellar was
told that this was the boy’s own work-
shop, and of course the visitor could not
help but notice the perfect order in
which the place was kept, and give him
some encouragement for his good work.
—F. C. Weber in American Druggist.

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Investigation in Senna Leaves.

During the last two years Indian and
Alexandrian sennas have been the sub-
ject of bistological research by Professor
Sayre and Dr. Schneider. These two
investigators differed somewhat on es-
sential points in the results obtained,
and therefore a further investigation
was deemed advisable.

R. H. Denniston in the Pharmaceu-
tical Review has published the results
of a further study of these two plants as
conducted by himself. He finds that the
Alexandrian senna has more than double
the number of hairs on the upper leaf
surface than the Indian senna; also that
the average number of epidermal cells
between the hairs on the Alexandrian
leaf is three and in the Indian or Tin-
nevelly senna six.

 

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4 to mail orders.

FRANKE BROS., Muskegon, Michigan.

Jobbers in Druggists’ and Grocers’Sundries, Fishing
Tackle, Sporting Goods, Notions, Toys, Etc. >

The Drug Market.

Eastern markets are still very dulll
and there are few changes of importance
to note.

Soap Bark—As the season for sale is
about over, prices have declined.

Gum Camphor—Is firm but unchanged.

Buchu Leaves—Are very scarce
primary markets and strictly prime
green leaf is higher.

Oil Cassia—Is frm and an advance is
looked for.

Cod Liver Oil, Norwegian—Will be
much higher the coming season.

Opium—Is very firm. Foreign mar-
kets show an advancing tendency.

Morphine—Is unchanged,

Quinine—Is firm and higher prices
would not surprise any one.

Spices—Are very firm.

Sulphur and Brimstone—Lower prices
are looked for soon, as manufacturers
are revising their schedules.

Linseed Oil—On account of competi-
tion, has declined.

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Hydrocyanic Acid as an Antidote to
Chloroform.

Hobday (Lancet) believes that hydro-
cyanic acid stands foremost as an anti-
dote to chloroform poisoning. He re-
ports fifteen cases of recuperation after
respiration had actually ceased. As soon
as breathing ceased or became danger-
ous, artificial respiration was resorted
to and a full medicinal dose of Scheele’s
acid placed as rapidly as possible at the
back of the throat by means of a gradu-
ated drop-tube. When respiration had
begun again the ammonia vapor was
applied carefully to the nostrils, and in
the majority of cases a safe termination
was the result. He believes the use of
this agent is attended with no more
danger than that of strychnine.

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Fatal Case of Lead Poisoning.

Dr. Abbot reports in the Boston Med-
ical and Surgical Journal the death of a
girl and the severe sickness of her _par-
ents caused by the drinking of water
which came through a lead pipe around
the soldered joints of which the plumber
had carelessly allowed a considerable
amount of lead filings to remain.

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Abies, C — a ha 50@ 55 csiaca simi ea 80 07s ° 5 at
Cassiza anadian.... 18 Chlorate..po. 17@19 2@ 15 Iodine etree. © aC aS SIC Pee S 09
See Cyanide. @ive tee 19 | 1edine, coloriess."*: 50 Jag on pe
E ona Flava... 1 ladige 3@ 49| Kino ®, colorless. = g SCENE Sas
wrvien Oc: atropurp 18 | Potassa, Bitar 2 60 2 40 | Lobelia... cteeseees, | ¢ oO es S. om fos a oR
ne Cerifera, po. 30 Potassa Bitart, pure 2@ =o ah a i 50 ° em IC
Quillaia. — ie 2 —— Witras, one 6 “S Nex \ Donate = oof, o
g , :_ . ass Nitra 0@ 12 a Gans z °
oo are © et Sos. 10@ | OPil, camph 23 | Ne Gas
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Gl ene Radi Tepe d es a a esr 150] ae Srofo
a.” 6h lu a . STM SRY. ---- ------- 20 osx -
a. oO.... Clee § «| Bhele eee, 50 °
Heematox, 15 Ib box. iq 30| Anchusa 2002000001 = eS 50 |
x, is... i S| Atmaea 1 ~ i 50 &
Hematox,%s....... 19an_— «14 | € po...... 0@ = 12| Stromoni teens Foren So
aes 1! G 4 tee @ 2B T mite... 50 o
Heematox, 4s....... 16 Gentiana nn oo _— 10 7acae a “ 8) we AND oe
Ferru ayS rhiza ny 2@ 15| Ve rete aa dei 80 | o}6 a
aw Precip —— Canaden” 16@ 18 ne any Veride . 2 ° ; Ps 2
Goon and Quinia.. aoe Hollcbore Can., po. 6 Se i 20 ‘g :
at Soluble...... 2 25| Inula, — po.. on 60 | ASther, i Srofo 25
i Goon %3| tpeeac, po... 8G | Hiner Spts. Near Mae :
3 MLOTIGE..... 0} Iris plox. ... po2s@3a 2 A“) AlU . d
Sulphate, com’]... 15 Talk plox.. . porss@s 80@ 3 00 ‘Maan 5 i 9 4@ 38 |} 2 o ir
Ss lap a Os en 24@
[ae com’l, by . ee os a = Annatto gro’ d -PO.7 7 2 2 we
, per Cw . Ss : we é ee :
sa 50 Podophyilum, | oS an ae ioe 50 ee e
a % 2@e iet ST 5
aia maa Be 1 = Atimon! eb Baia 40@ 50 | Gao jd
Arnica ....... . mee @1% Antifebrin |... ...! @ 8019 “
nao 12@ 14| SPigelia. 222 load et ee Nitras, oz”. @ 5 . 3 cP
Matricaria .......... 18@ 25 jaadieet oc u 50 38 Arsenicum. Oz . @ 50/4 ° Be Ge ove
e oe 30@ 35 Serpentaria -po. 15 @ 18 ~ie Gilead Bud | 10@ 12] 2% o q ow
Barosma olla Semege a. 30@ 35 | Calelum Ct ee 40] Go® oh
cn a milax,officinalis 1 40@ 45 | Gs ium Chlo @ 150| RED 0
eect ees 9: ‘ né 4 r., 1
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p He ee @ 2%! Cs Jhlor., ° Ne ch- i D
ee Acutifol, Ale ao 25 Symplocarpt os -Po.. 35 108 2 | ¢ ( /antharides, oa @ 7? ° Cc shall sample in “ is
via officinalis, %s 30| dus, pc 1s, Foeti- : Capsici Fr pe @ ile a few d i a
and es si ee a Vv: laleviena. re @ & Capsici Hrue tus, af. @ 0 4 | il ays a laro ‘ ae
ate 12@ 20 | Valeria Eng. po.30 25 | Capsici Fr ictus, po. @ 5 os o Cc nec W el] as Pa ° gc Ao
: 8@ 10|Z na, Germa _@ 2%| Car uctusB, po 5 2 sorted » “
- geen Zingiber a. ... n. 15@ 20) C frnine, No. i cote 2 15 | 80 ine o 29
eacia, Ist pick giber j. “te: 2% 16 Ce ne, No. 40 “G 14 oe 0
Acacia, Ist picked... @ g5|, Semen. See ican a @ 3 0| we 0
pick Q@ 27 | Cere oa 5 aE y
Acacia, iq Picked. @ | Aplum = - game we Baw Ladies’ 2
sifted s 5 | Apium (gra ste oe | So pss aag ena a : “| Go P °
ea sy SOB | Soe m (graveleons) ie 1g Cassia frictaa. | OS ies Pocket Books S
ar po. 18@2 m= ‘ Narui... 4I@ 2 | Ceta . ° °
es : “= = eg = ‘polis 6 1 an e 2S 4
oe 40 @ 12 | Coriandrum..*.) |") 1 2@ 1 % Chloroform, squibbs 60@ 63 9, i 2
= ean Eun 55 30 | Cannabis oe Re, 3 Ghioral Hi smh @ 115 © I ° i oo
Seeactenas ...po. 30 25 = Cydonium ca va... 4@ 44% Cc a Crst.... 15@ 1 50 ° adies Pur ae
@atschn ts. 50@ 55 nsesreak Bd podium |... |. 75@ 1 00 Cinchonidine, P.& W 20@ 2/8 ses oe
Catechu, %s......... @ 128 eaten Gmuade Rael ronson aw —_ = Ae REP
Gatectuy eo Feenugreek, po... XD 2 20| Corks, ist dis. prt 3 Seep 3.50 | OSs yee
ar seo - sg 3 eee up hh ™@ 9 Creosotum dis. pr.ct. 3 So Gentl 7 =
orbiu a Aint eee | aa ac. R14 9) Greta pails or ° a °
Gs bac “po. 35 g 10 Lobeite -bbl. 334 , 34a ‘6 oo 4 g 7 . v c ch S Pocket Bo = o
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Kino ol os 1 0| Rhariaris Cinatian: "A atg Greta, precip.) ag il De
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Myrrh...» ere @ 60 pis Nigra... ig ’ ee, ai en "S 20| Go Gentleme ' oe 2
my ‘ 9 eee
9 30ep5.40 3 s5@ 8 65 | Frumenti, bcp q Dexiring ies 108 “6 | sNef0 ns Purses —
sees ce ceee eee . Y ither § cas as eiaa 9
see, higached || 23@ 35 Frumenti. D. = >? 2 00@ 2 50 Euory, _ ee an 2 oF pe
ragacanth ...... ne 0@ 45 es a 2.. 2 00@ 2 95 | Emery, . numbers @ 8|oxo eo
cia 50@ «80 yuniperis Co. 0. Tt! 1 25@ 1 50 Ergota.... i. as A An | : i °
Absinthit S imeris Co.. 65@ 2 00 Flake W ite: ° 40 30@ 35 ° a C invite TO i i 6
Gaeuaeten aa pkg 95, Spt Vini N. ae : 75@ 3 50 Galla. eo L2@ . : y ur inspection and
Lobelia.... - pkg 20 | Vini a Gari... 1 4 oo | Gambier. ace = ic. 9 order. e
Majorum ....oz. pkg 25 | Vini A + ad oe ; a | Semaae’ Cooper. . 3 9/5 7
— Pip..oz. ar 28 a. ioe 00 mon atin, French 352 60 | 2ASf%o BO 5)
— Vir..oz. ae a Seiumeee 25@ 2 00 lassware, flint, box 35@ a ° - eco
oes e cles oz. pks 25 ridash _Less than b 7 o » os
oo be pre 39 a wool Se brown... a 60| © , es es . °
ymus, V..oz. pkg 99 | Nassau sheeps w 2 50@ 2% Gina aie an 122| és As
Magnesia ™ WehemenEs - Grana Pa seaigi 154@ 33 | hs a
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gumuehmc, ge g|aacapriow: O° waisrnis “Ble | Hi a
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Carbonate, Jennings 3 36 — carriage 1, @ 1 00 | Hedrane baa Rub'm. g eis - zelt I ne i. g : 0
carriage ° : raag Am as 95 °
Ole ee. HydraagU moniati 1 %
Absinthinm.. we Hard, for slate use. st. 6G | 33| Cae S =
ppd ring Duic..:: 3 50@ 3 75 ninte Reef, for @ % Ichthyobolla, preach @ 7 3: 0}920
ygdale, Ama 50 use. 1... Indigo a, Am... 6@ %5|°Xfo °
Anisi.. r® 8 OOD 8 25 --  @140| Iodine, Resubi...27! 7@ 1 00 | FS 2
Auranti Cortex..." 3 59 2 li“. fodoforme Bas ASS ru KX
a. 2%5@ 2 40| Auranti Cortes... ae ‘ Oo a
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Caryophyiii 2.00... S0@ ss | Ipecac, 2 2 ss caneanag 10g 45) &e 3
Chencpadit ee 5@ S01 Ferri tod. ||| @ = Liquer mak. ; 75 | oSSfo GRAND ROD
Cinnam is a arall kcg 2 65 Rhei eae @ 50 ti rarg a: 2 ° RAPIDS o
Cc wa ne 7 | Smilax Officinal: baits iquorPotassA rsinit GQ | Re ’ MICH “eC
utroneHa. ... 1 1 70 | Senega Officinalis. . 50 50 | Magnesia, Sul a 10@ 12} 8 " mH? 5
cesses 45@ 50] Scil as. : 60 Magnesia, s Pp: 2@ 3 ‘
Sea 2 s Mannig 8. cs bbl @ 1% o v2 . ole
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

ROCERY PRICE CURRENT.

The prices quoted in this list are for the trade only, in such quantities as are usually purchased by retail

dealers.
possible to give

erage prices ; for average conditions of purchase.
those who have poor credit.

They are prepared just before going to press and are an accurate index of the local market.

It is im-

> quotations suitable for all conditions of purchase, and those below are given as representing av-

our aim to make this feature of the greatest possible use to dealers.

Cash buyers or those of strong credit usually buy closer than
Subscribers are earnestly requested to point out any errors or omissions, as it is

 

 

AXLE GREASE.
doz.

 

   

gross | Cotton, 40 ft, per doz....... 1 00
oo 55 6 00 | Cotton, 50 ft, per doz....... 1 20
Castor Qil.............60 100) Cotton, 60 ft, per dos.......1 40
Diamond..............50 400) Cotton, 70 ft, per dox....... 1 60
Frazer’s .... 7% 9 00| Cotton, 80 ft, per doz.......1 80
TxL Golden, tin boxes75 9 00| Jute, 60 ft, por 20s......... 80 |
Plica, tin boxes........75 9 00 | Jute. 72 ft. per dos,,........ 95 |
Paragon... -- 5 600) COCOA SHELLS.
BAKING POWDER. |201b bags........ 2%
Absolute. | Less quantity. eae 3
ai Decanndos............. ] Pound packages...... 4
i ie OMe Oz. ............ 85 CREAN TARTAR. le
Ib can doz. .... 15015 and 10 1b. wooden boxes..30-35
Acme. FEE.
14 Ib Cans 3 doz...........- 45 ve
% lb cans 3 doz. i. = Rio.
1 ee . 9
Bulk.. 10 Fair ee el
" sh a Me Good «......----++0-rerereoee eM
Acetic, Pome |
6 oz. Eng. Tumblers. . Siegogen 12
El Parity. Peaberry (0.00...) ...
1¢ Ib cans per doz......... 75 Santos.
46 Ib Cans per doz ........ ea lL ee
1 Ib cans per doz......... Sees es
Home. Prime. See eee ees 14
14 lb cans 4 dozcase...... 3 Peaberry | Lo 5
i lb cans 4 doz case...... 55 Mexican a, Guatamala.
lb cans 2 doz case 20 tate 15
‘ Goat 2 16
Piney |... 17
2 Meracaibo
34 1b cans, 4 doz case..... i Pome... ..-.--..--.---..... 19
% lb cans, 4 doz case...... Bol afitied |
lb cans, 3 doz case...... 1 G0
Jersey Cream. Java. s
a th. cans, per doz... |... 2 00 | Interior......... lien
9 oz. cans, per doz.......... 1 95 | Private Growtl a
6 oz. Cans, per doz.......... 85 | Mandehling.. reeeec cece +
Gur Leader. Mocha.
14 1D Cans.. 45 | Imitation ..... ae vere 20
¥% lb cans........ Ee
foe... meat sted.
Peerless. os | Clark Jewell-Wells Co s Brands
1 Ib. cans ccd o° | Fifth Avenue..... i
s 5 Queen | Flake, 9 oq | Jewell’s Arabian Mocha. a
6 sii — case rns 3 Sj | Wells’ Mocha and Java..... =
ee - 2 <" | Wells’ Perfection Java... . .2:
ae i oo : ' ; a Saneaibo cimprmRnainRlie 21
9 7 + UU | Breakfast Blend. ‘... 2
5 lb., 1 doz. 9 00] welac cs apaitio. |. tik
a ee
— reece ne $0 Leader Biena 0. |. oe
zg ar mains.

 

Small, 3 doz... oe
Lape. 2 Ger...

- Seguin
No. 1 Carpet...
No. 2 Carpet.

No. 3 Carpet... ee

No. 4 Carpet......

Pome eee

  

DD pt st pt
on
>

Comme Whisk... .
Mancy Woek............_.- 80
Warehouse. . 23
ANDLES.
ee 7
Se 8
 ————— 8
CANNED GOODS.
Manitowoc Peas.
Lakeside Marrowfat....... 95
oe 15
Lakeside, Cham. of Eng.... 1 20
Lakeside. Gem, Ex. Sifted. 1 45
Extra Sifted Early June....1 75
CATSUP.

Golumtia, pints........:.2 06
Columbia, % pints..........1 ©
CHEESE
ome @ 8%
OO _ @ &%
Bartsernut..:.-...... @ 6
(Carson City .......... a 8s
Beauiom........ . @ 8%
—  ..... @ 9
Ideal . @ 8%
ee @ 8%
PEACE So... oe @ 8
Riverside.... @ 8%
Sparta oe @ 8

— on @

Brick .. . @ tl
oe. @ 70
——e.._.......... @ .17
TArmeeer.... @ 12
Finecappic..........-.0 @ &
an Sapo... 2. @ 17

Chicory.
ne oe 5
Boe .... 7
CHOCOLATE.

Walter —— = — 38.
German Sweet . -
eee, 5, ee 34
Breakfast Cocoa.. oe) se

 

CLOTHES LINES.

 

  

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

pound. In 60 1b.
is 10c per 100 ibs. above the
price in full cases.
Avuoekwio ...... ....... 20 08
Jr 9 50

MNcLaughlin’s XXXX.
MeL aughlin’s XXXX sold to
retailers = ily. Mail all orders

 

direct to F. McLaughlin &
Co., pen.

' Extract.
Valley City % gross ..... 75

Felix % gross. i
Hummel’s foil & gross... 85
Hummel’s tin % gross 3
= PINS.

5 gross box 40

CONDENSED MILK.

4 doz in case.

Gail Borden Eagle.........

6 %
nae... 6 2
= ..... ooo ee
Champion ...........--..- 4 50
aes = ....--..- a 25
Chationge......-.0«0.....--. 3 35

i .8 3S

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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....1i 50

1,000 books. any denom....20 00
Superior Grade.

50 books, any denom.... 1 50
100 books, any denom.... 2 50
500 books, any denom....11 50

1,000 books, any denom....20 00

Coupon Pass Books,
Can be made to represent any
denomination from #10 down.

me eoeee = Uc. 1 00
50 books 2 00
eee ................. 3 00
eS a)
RN is ew oe 10 00
ee SOOEE. 5... ses. 17 50

 

 

Universal Grade.
50 books, any denom....
100 books, any denom....
500 books, any denom....
1,000 books, any denom....:

Credit Checks.
500, any one denom’n.....
1000, any one denom’n.....
2900, any one denom’n.....
Steel punch. ....
DRIED FRUITS— _DOMESTIC
Applies.
Benerieg @5
Evaporated 50 1b boxes. @ 8
a Fruits.
Apricots.. . 8%
Blackberries. et ge
—— ee @
Peaches.. ee “@
Powe... @
Pitted Cherries..
Pranneiien....-........
Raspberric#............
California Prunes.
100-120 25 lb boxes.......
90-100 25 Ib boxes.......
80 - 90 25 Ib boxes.......
70 - 80 25 Ib boxes..... . @
60-70 25 Ib boxes.. .... @
50-60 25 Ib boxes.......
40 - 50 25 lb boxes.......
30 - 40 25 1b boxes...
1g cent less in 50 1b cases
Raisins.
London Layers 3 Crown.
London Layers 4 Crown.
Dehesias. _
Loose Muscatels 2 Crown 33%
Loose Muscatels 3 Crown
Loose Muscatels 4 Crown 53%

Srwe
asses Sess

DUNK

3.34)

be |
%
%

a>

FOREIGN.
ange
Patras bbls.. : --@ 74
Vostizzas 50 Ib cases. --@ IT
Cleaned, bulk .....-... @ a1
Cleaned, packages........ @ 8%

Peel.
Citron American 101b bx @13
Lemon American 10]b bx @12
Orange American 101b bx @12
Raisins.

Ondura 28 ib boxes.....8 @ 8%
Sultana 1 Crown..... @
Sultana 2Crown ..... ©
Ssuitena 3Crown....... @ 7%
Sultana 4 Crown....... @
Snitana 5 Crown a
Sultana 6 Crown @12
Snitana package @14

FARINACEOUS GOODS.

Farina.
tiv. paekepee......:...1 50
Bulk, per 100 itde..... ....3 50
Grits.

Waish-DeRoo Co.’s Brand.

 

42 lb. packages...........2 0

oo 10. heee.......,-.......5 oe

200 Fb, barrels... ..- .. - 5%
Hominy.

parmee 2. se 25

Fiske, 50 tb. drums. ......1 @
Beans.

Dried Lima...

Medium Hand Picked..
Maccaroni and Vermicelli.

Domestic, 10 lb. box. 60
Imported, 25 lb. box.. ...2 50
Peart Barley.
(oreo. ie
Guess z
ero ..... .......,.,.. 3 00
Peas.
Green, bu.. SS.
Split, per Ib. 2

Rolled Oats.

Rolled Ayena, bbi.......3 @
Boasrcn, bh)........... 28
Monarch, % bbi....:..... 1 80
Monarch, 90 1b sacks......1 60
osteo eee. .....-.....2 28
Huron, cases....- es
Sago.
Or 4
East India.. 3%
Tapioca.
Haske 3 3%
Pee a 356
havc 40 11h. pkges.... 5
Wheat.
Cracked. balk. ..... .....: 3%
242 1b packages fue cep oeee 2 50

 

 

Salt Fish.

 

Cod.
Georges cured......... @4
Georges genuine...... @5
Georges selected ...... @ 5%
Strips or bricks.......6 @9
Herring.

Holland white hoops, bbl.
Holland white hoop %bbi 2 =
Holland, ¢ Dbl... .
Holland white hoop, keg.
Holland white hoop mchs 85
Norwegian.

 

Round 100 bee 23

ioged s0Toe............. 1 30

a Se 13
oe

Mess 100 Ibs... a

Mess 20 ie... ... ....... Oso

Mess 10 Ibs......- 1 Lo

I .

- BS

. 5

1 48

12

8 50

at

10

83

5 2

2 40

68

57

No.1 No.2 Fam

m0 ibe. ..... .. s om io

40 lbs a te ia

i... 78 7 33

Sibe...... 61 29

FLAVORING EXTRACTS.

 

  

ae nnings’.

D. C. Vanilla D. C. Lemon

Poe 1m 2... ee
3 0oz.-.---1 50 soz....:1
402... ...2 0 1 40
6 OZ......3 00 2
No. 4 00 :
No. 10. .6 00
No. 1 25
No -2 00
No 2 40

Northrop Brand.
vem. Van

2 oz. Taper Panel.. 75 20
2oe Oval...) 2... % 1 20
3 oz, Taper Panel..1 35 2 00
4 oz. Taper Panel..1 60 2 2

Souders’.
Oval bottle, with corkscrew.
Best in the world for the

Regular

Vanilla.

XX Grade

FLY PAPER.

 

Tanglefoot, per box........ 30
Tanglefoot, c’se of 10 b’x’s 2 55
Tanglefoot, 5 case lots..... 50
Tanglefoot, 10 case lots.... 2 40

nr

GUNPOWDER.
Rifle—Dupont’s.
a 4 00
Matt Biees:. 23
Guster Meps. .......... 1 25
Tie cams 3 8... 30
1 OA: 18
Choke Bore—Dupont’s.
See 423
inet Reps ts.
Quarter Kegs Se a 1 35
Die Cee 34
higua Duck—Dupont’s.

See ee eee ee 8 00
helt Pere 42
Quarter Kegs.. <5 oe
fi Cans. 8 45

HERBS.
mee
eps... 15
—

Madras, 5 lb boxe:

 

8. F.2,3and5 1b ca 50
JELLY.

Sip pea... sc. 35
ip pees... 65
LYE.

Condensed, 2 doz .......... 1 20
Condensed. 4 dos........... 22
LICORICE.
ee 30
Calabria bee ie Slee ase woes y-3)
eee 14
foe. 10
MINCE MEAT.

Ideal, 3 doz. in Case......... 223
MATCHES.

Diamond Match Co.’s ——
No, 9 euiveur. .....
Anehor Faner..... i %
Moe Meme. 2 110
Bxpos Parior.........-... 400

MOLASSES.
New Orleans.
Peek. 2 11
a... 14
Good — e 20
Fancy .. Se le 24
Open Mee 25@35
Half-barrels 2c extra.
MUSTARD.
Horse Radish, 1 doz......... 1%
Horse Radish, 2 doz.........3 50
Bayle’s Celery, 1 doz... .....1 75
a
(Glan, Oe, Sie. 170
Clay, T. D full count... 65
I, Oe 85
POTASH.

48 cans in Case.

Dare ee 4 00
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 bbls 1,200 count...... 3 50
RICE.

Domestic.

Carolina head... .....-.... 8%
arose Nef... 5
Casotum Ne 2... 4
POON oe 38%
Imported.
depen Not. Bae
Japan, No.2 6

 

SALERATUS.
Packed 60 lbs. in box.
Church’s 3

Se 3 30
60 |b
case
$3.15

SAL SODA.
Granulated, bbls.......... %
Granulated, 100 tb cases.. 90
Lump, bbls vi)

ae ee 85

 

   

 

SEEDS.
Anise .. .. oe
Canary, Smyrna. ee 3%
Caraway . _. &
Cardamon, “Malabar ..... 60
RONOET cele cops ce ey 11
Hemp. Russian........... 3%
ee Oe
Mustard, white.. 8
epee ee 10
Ra Ts
Gustie Bone

SNUFP.
Scotch, in bladders......... 37
Macceboy, injars........... 35
French Rappee, in jars..... 43

SALT.

Diamond Crystal.

Table, cases, 24 3-lb boxes..1 50

Table, barrels, 100 3 1b bags.2 75
Table, barrels, 40 7 1b bags.2 40
Butter, barrels, 2801b. bnik.2 25
Butter, barrels, 20 14 aa 9 50

Butter, sacks, 28lbs.. 25
Batter, sacks, 56 Ibs......... 55
Common Grades.
fees ibeeeks.. |... 1 90
Oieipeaces.... 1%
Ss MA BACKS.:.-.. 21. 1.60
Worcester.

i CAvions |... 3 25
00

 

28 Ib. linen sacks............ 32
oO bo, Timon sacks... 2... .. 60
Sulk in barreis.............- 2 50
Warsaw.
56-lb dairy in drill bags..... 30
28-Ib dairy in drill bags..... 15
Ashton.
56-lb dairy in iinen sacks... 60
Higgins.
56-lb dairy in linen sacks 60
Solar Rock.
worn SRS... ae
Common.
Granniated Wine........._.. 70
Meaqiuum Hime 2s. qT
SOAP.
BeeIe DOM. oe 2 Th
5 box lots, delivered........ 2 70
10 box lots, delivered....... 2 65
3
JAS. 8. KIRK & 6O.’S BRANDS.
American Saat wrp’d....2 66
oe 2 %5
ence 2 20
eee ee ues ce 2 50
White Russian.. a
White Cloud, laundry eee oe 6 25
White Cloud, toilet......... 3 50
Dusky Diamond, 30-6 .02.....2 10
Dusky Diamond, 50 8 oz....3 00
Blue India, 100 % Ib......... 3 00
Boren. 3 50
ee 2 50
Schulte Soap Co.’s Brand.
100 cakes, 75 Ibs.
Renee Bek. 2 80
Boe tee 6 2%
ROE 166... 3.7. 27
ey BOM IONS er 2 60

Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands.

Old Country, 80 1-lb. bars ..2 %
Good Cheer, 60 1-lb. bars....3 75
Uno, 100 4 Tb. bars.......-.. 2 56
Doll, 100 10-oz. bars. ........ 2 05
Scouring.

Sapolio, kitchen, 3doz..... 2 40
Sapolio, hand, 3 doz........ 2 40
SODA.

8 ie oon . BK
Kegs, Bnglish...........0... 4%

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“aoe —— Candies. Grains and Feedstufis | Provisions. | Crockery and
Cigars. ee as . a
Alleniog 00 <i one ee | Swift & Company quote Glassware.
Cassia, China in mats....__. 12 | Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s brand. Stick Candy. Wheat. | foto ae oe
Cassia, Batavia in bund....25 | New Brie 33 00 Wheat 70 r
Cassia, Saigon in rolls... 32 eiatalia “— gz" oe ri Barreled Pork. AKRON STONEWARE.
: Btezidard. 2.00.00... 3 : '
Gloves Zatetar cB | | Hed P. Drug Core rana. |Standardiis fi gag} | Winter Wheat Plow. | os Butters
Mace, "Batavia ee Guintette ge ae ere Pwist..... 6 = e, Loecai Brands. | Clear a |
COO OO Oe ie Ci Sz
qresmnes, = paces ree = cases | Patents... ..... 5 Short cut
Nutmegs, No. 2...077 27" "45 | G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s brand. Jumbo, 321b ........ @ 6% — a ’ Pig...
Pepper, Singapore, black | “11 ao oa 2. ee ees
Pepper, Singapore, white... 2 | fig, Sop Biwi, | O82 Cream..---. ee eel Dry Salt Meats
eee Gaeaa in ai c Mixed Candy. a es
Allspice 15 Competition. .... @ 6%! Subject to usual eash dis. | Br -* ype
Cassia, Batavia... |... 3) oN Standard @ | count. Soe Extra shoris. — :
Cassia, Saigon.. ....... ...40 COmserve, .... .... @ 7 Flour in bbls., 25e per bbl. Smoked Meats. - il., per gal a
Cloves, MOREIDAY 2. i4 Royal ...... @ 7% | ditional. | Hams, 12 1b aver ( Das! » ber doz. 85
Ginger, APee. (8. > REOmOn @ | Hams, 14 lb aver: ctiseas
Ginger, Caoghin. ....|..., 8 Broken @ Ball-Bart sy art-Putman’s Brand Hams. 16 Ib i ave 1 i o
Ginger, Jamaica 1.1... |. 33 oe Cat igat @ § Diamond. 4s... 4 59 | Hams. 2 gal. flat or rd doz. 45.
a ae rare SE eins enn oie oe — Rock....... @ Diamond) 4g oe 50 | lg Fine di cna ach 4%
Nutmegs, a "*"40@50 Michigan Cigar Co.’s brand. Preneh Cream = ‘ - umond, 68. a alias i Bacon ‘cl lear a I ia 60
Pepper, Sing , ‘black . pe ES 12 Dandy Pan.. C @i Worden Grocer Co.’s Bran | Cal iforni & hams 514
poreee, Sing., white a 0 U U kI Valley Cream.. @i: ee B %
PPR oid alo a wlial Say a uaker. us 55 | 30 L i 4
ee 15 re nl c Fancy—In Bulk. a: ae ooke in 2a | \% ga 85
| Hi ar In Tierces | igalt
—" Ure Unite... “ao te ae : Spring ilies Flour. ompound oT nal ”
ec 2. BS Trinte k
ge See oe ees ae - Ruhe Bros. Co.’s ioe Choc. Drops........ Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.'s Brand. | page "% T ibe per dos... ae
Double Eagles, 6 sizes. 8.855270 00 + nea a Pillsbury’s Best %s... | 80 lb Tubs Ber dog. ....-1 42
Gen. Maceo, 5 sizes.... —_— 00 | Moss Drops... pe Pillsbury’s Best 14s... 50 lb Ti per gal........, o%
Mr. Thomas. . 35 00 Sour Dro i oe P ilisbury’s Best | s. 20 Ib P: Tomato in.
Cuban Hand Made.. 35 00 banca a Pillsbury’s Best 44s paper . | 10 Ib Pails. ae
age api eed el 35 00 cae Wn nag Pillsbury’ s Best de aly . aps ‘ -ad e a 5%
Bir Walia...) 35 00 ib Pails .-advance 3 for 4 “acne eae
Club Five......007277. 35 00|  Famcy—in § tb. Boxes. | Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand. a Jorke for 1esl” per dee. ae
Gens. Grant and Lee.. 35 00} Lemon Drops...... aii Daminahiaty Pp i a. Hi ao eC NY
Eittic Peggy ... .. . 35 00] Sour Drops.. secant reserve Jars and Covers.
wenal Hive... |. 35 00 ae

 

Kingsford’s Corn.

0 Tib packares ....... 6
2 tin peckages.........._.. 634
Kingsford’s Silver Gloss.
49 1-1b packages............. 6%
Gib boxes. 7
Diamond.

64 iGe packaves ........... 5 00
128 5c packages... .-» 00

32 10¢ and 64 5e packages. 5 00

Common Corn.

2 tib. packages. ......... |. 5
461'b. packazes.........._.. 434
Common Gloss.

Lip packages... ......... 414
Sie poeckeses............... =
6-lb packages. . as

40 and 50 lb boxes........... 3
Berrele ee  . 3

STOVE POLISH.

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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 cf the barrel.

 

Pierame co 5 8&8
a toe... 5 838
Crmemee 5 88
utes a, 5 63
Powmucrca ...............5..; 5 63
SEAM Powdered........... 5 69
Granulated in bbis... ...... 5 38
Granulated in bags......... 5 38
Fine Granulated............ 5 38
Extra Fine Granulated..... 5 50
Extra Coarse Granulated...5 50
Wout AO 5 63
Diamond Confec. A........ 5 38
ee Standard A........:3 °
ie fs. 5 00
we 2s 5 00
Oe Be, 5 00
Me 6 5 00
he Oe 4 94
Re Oe 4 88
~— FT... 481
Oc: Be ee 4 75
ee ..4 63
Oe ee 4 63
ee ee 4 63
4 50

4 44

4 38

4 31

oz in case, gross.. 4 50
oz in case, gross.. 7 20

 

 

Knights of Pythia: 35 00
Key West Perfects, 2 sz 55@60 00

TABLE SAUCES.

Lea & Perrin’s, ee. a
Lea & Perrin’s, small. 2
Halford, large. oo 3%
Halford small. 2
Salad Dressing, large. 4
Salad Dressing, small..... 2 65

VINEGAR.

Malt White Wine, 40 grain.... 6
Malt White Wine, 80 grain.... 9
bure Cider se

  

Fure Cider, Leroux...) 0... 11

Pure Cider, Genesee.......... 11

Pure Cider, Robinson......... i
WICKING.

Ne. 0, pergross. 25
No. f pores 30
No. 2; jee ee NE 40
No. 3. eo... 5

Crackers.

The National Biscuit Co.

quotes as follows:
Butter.

Seymour XxX.
Seymour XXX, 3 1b. carton 8%
Pamiay Se 6
te — 31b carton.. 6%
Naued See 6
Salted XA. 3 lb carton. 6%

Soda.
Soda XXX . . 6%
Soda XXX, 31b carton. a
Soda, City... 2 2
Zephyrette — oe 10
Long Island Wafers....... 11
L. I. Wafers, 1 lb carton .. 12
Oyster.
Square Oy meer MeN... 6

Sq. Oys. XXX. 1 1b carton. 7
Farina Oyster, XXX 6

SWEET GOODS—Boxes.

Anas 10%
Bent’s Cold Water......... 14
Gelte Hose... 8
Cocoanut Taffy... |... 12
Cottee Cakes... |, lu
wromed Haney... .... |. 12%

Graham Crackers.......... 8
Ginger Snaps, XXX round. 7%
Ginger Snaps, XXX city. TM
Gin. Snps,X X X home made 7%
TY

Gin. Snps,X XX scalloped.. a
Ginger Gems...
pers
aamoles, Honey... .. | 11%
Molasses Cakes... 1... ..; 8
Marshmallow 15
Marshmallow Creams..... 16
Pretzels, hand made ..... 9

Pretzelettes, LittleGerman 7

 

 

 

   
 

pucer Cake... oe 8
Bae 12%
Sear’ Dien... 8... T%
SUPar SQRATES............
Vanilla Waters ........... 14
Pocan Wafors....... 0... -. 15%
Mited fiente..  : 11%
Cream Jumbles........ -. i
Boston Ginger Nuts........ 9%
Pineapple Glace...... ..... 16
remy Cakes... 3... 8%
Marshmallow Walnuts.... 16
Belle Isle Pienie __. | 10%
Oils.
Barrels.
Peecne |... 1... @i1%
XXX W.W.Mich.Hdlt @ 8%
WW iichican........ @ 8%
Diamond White....... @7%
@ 8%
@7
@34
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Bleek, manger... - @8

 

 

Peppermint Drops.
Chocolate Drops....
H. M. Choe. ——
Gum Drops.. :
Licorice Drops.

A. B. Licorice Drops
Lozenges, plain..
Lozenges, printed.
imperial .. ee. '
Mottoes

ena Made Creams. 80

 

Plain Creams....__ 60
Decorated Creams..
string Rock.
Burnt Almonds..... 1%
Wintergreen Berries
Caramels,

No. 1 wrapped, 2 lb.
boxes

No.1 1 wrapped, oe
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Fruits.

 

 

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Lemons.

Strictly choice 360s..
Strictly choice 300s..
Fancy 360s or 300s...
Ex.Fancy 300s..
Ex.Fancy 360s

Bananas.
Medium bunches...1 25
Large bunches...... 1s

Foreign Dried Fruits.

Figs.

Choice, 101b boxes...
Extra choice, 14 1b
DOxves
Fancy, 12 1b boxes..
imperi: al Mikados, 18
lb boxes. —
Pulled, 6 1b ‘boxes.
Naturals, in bags. .

Dates.
Fards in 10 lb boxes
Fards in 60 ib eases
Persians, G. M’s....
lb cases, new

Sairs, 601b cases....

 

Almonds, Tarragona. .
Almonds, Ivaca.
Almonds, California,
soft shelled Cesc es
Brasia new... |...
HUEOTOS ooo
Walnuts, Grenobles
Walnuts, Calif No. 1.
Walnuts, soft shelled
Cait
Table Nuts, fancy...
Table Nuts, choice..
Pecans, Mea
Pecans, Ex. Large..
Pecans, Jarn Os. ......
Hickory Nuts per bu.,
Gmto new...
Cocoanuts, full sacks

Peanuts.

Faney, H. P., Suns.

Fancy, H. P., Flags
Roasted... 2. 6.

Choice, H. P., Extras.

Choice, H. P., ues,
Roasted

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Duluth Imperial, 14s t 90}
Duluth Imperial, s....... 4 89

Lemon & Wheeler Co.’s Brand.

Gold Medal vs eet ee, 4 90
Gord Médaltgs.... 4 sO |
Gold Medal } See ll a ae
Parisian, 4s. ......,. 20

Parweian “ek, 4 80 |

Parisian, }
Oiney & Judson’s Brand.
Ceresoea 468...
Cerreors, a. 0
Ceresota, is. 5
Worden Grocer Co.’s sa and.
baurel, 445... _...

  

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Laurel, 4s vo 0 os i
Lanrel, 4s... .... 5 Ub
Meal |
Bolte 1 90
(Granginted = |S ie
Feed and Millstuffs. |
| St. Car Feed. screened 16 CO}
| No. 1 Corn and Oats.......15 00
| Unbolted Corn Meal -.. 4 50
| Winter Wheat Bran . 2 OO
| Winter Wheat Middlings 450
=| Sereenings 1d OG
| Corn.
Car tots..... 37
| Less than ear ‘lots =
| Oats.
1 Car lots. .. oo
| Carlots, cli ipped ... etc ee ae
| Less than @ar lots Lo: oe
Hay.
2} No. 1 Timothy carlots. _. oa
No. 1 Ti ater fon tots -..20 OG

| Fish and Oy sters -

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Whitefish ...... i. @ 8
| a .. a ¢
mace Bass... ..... &§ @ 0
| i: mIDUt ...... . @ 15
Ciseoes or Herrin 1g. @ 4
Blachsh.......... @ 10
Live Lobster....... @ 16
Boile -d Lobster. .... @ 18
Coa .; @ 10
| Haddock @ 8s
| No. 1 Picke @ 8
me, @ 7
Perch. a @ 4
Smoked W hite o. @ 8
Red Sg apper es @ 10
| Col River Salmon @ iz
| Mackerel i : @ 18

Oysters in oad.
iF. & Counts. ......:; @ 40
Shell Goods.
Oysters, per 100.......1 25@1 50
ic ams, per 100.. @i 25

| Frankf

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Rump

[ror .... a
| Beef rounds... ....

| Beef middles.

Sheep

Rolls, dai ty
Solid, dai ry

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Carcass

Round as

Chuck
Fata

Dressed ...
Lome... ..
Shoul Ide rs
Leaf Lard

Carcass omem aaa 4
Spring Lambs...

 

| Calfskins, cured No.

Washed, fine
Washed, medium
Unwashed, fine. —.
Unwashed, medium ..

 

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| Head cheese

Beef.

| Extra Mess..

3oneless

Pigs’ Pee,

| Kits, 5 Ibs...

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i M4 bbls, ibs ......
% bbls, 80 Ibs

Kits, 15 1
14 bbls,
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| Solid, creamery

Canned —

Corned beef, 2 lb
| Corned beef, 14 lb..
Roast beef, 2 lb
Potted ham, 48

 

Fresh Meats.

Beef.

  

Mutton.

Veal.

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Hides and Pelts.

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Co., 100 Cana
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Tallow.

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wrap # ae a...

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Na. 2 San. ce mp top,
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No. 0 in, crimp top,

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(Ne. I Sun, crim top,
wrapped oo gy - = oo
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wrapper land 1 labeled bes
ee -Pearl Top.
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2 Sun, ‘wrapped. ‘and
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2 88
| No. 2 Sun, “Small “Bulb,”
for Globe Lamps......... 80
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No. 2, Lime (70¢ doz) ..... 4 00
No, 2, Flint (80e doz)...... 4 40

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Gases 1 doz. each......... 1%
LAMP WICKS,

No. 0 per 2rogs.......... 15
No. i Per RrOG6 .660 5.5... 21
| NO. 2 Der eroga (2. 30

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Hardware

Special Leaders at Special
Special Sales Days.

The ethics of the hardware business
are distinct and recognizable from the
ethics of all other businesses and pro-
fessions, but it takes genuine genius to
distinguish them after all.

We in the hardware business are look-
ng eagerly for what others are looking
for with no less eagerness, namely,
profits. We are not in the business as a
matter of recreation or convenience but
to make money.

We might dissimulate and say that we
are philanthropists, that we are doing
business for the benefit of others, but
even the Io-year old schoolboy has been
taught to look upon such sort of protes-
tation as being of the nature of broad
humor and we must forego the employ-
ment of the convenient subterfuge to
save ourselves from being the objectives
of twiddling fingers poised uncertainly
on the terminals of impudent noses.

The ethics of our business are the
ethics of every other gainful profession
or profit-bearing enterprise. Why try to
conceal 11? The progressive tendency
ot the times has converted every man,
even the evangel, into a money-getter.
Why try to make our fellowmen believe
what we ourselves do not believe by liit-
ing up the veil of ethics to cloak our rea!
purposes?

 

Prices—

The ethics of our business are to get
business, just as the ethics of the medi-
cal profession or the clerical profession
are to get business, and to get business
we must make known to our fellows that
we have business to do with them.

How can we establish each for him-
self, a bureau of publicity and promo-
tion that wili give notice to the people
of the respective communities in which
we live that we are in business and want
to do business with them, and after that
get them to do business with us?

It is possible that the best answer is
that the man that can conceive and exe-
cute such an enterprise successfully can
command a salary exceeding that of the
United States President and at once as-
sume a rank of importance that the
world’s benefactors have never dreamed
of for themselves.

But if that is the best answer it is not
a satisfactory answer. What we want to
know is how best we may use our re-
sources and facilities to command trade
and patronage that would not come to
us by natural gravitation.

The resources and facilities of the
trade are not common and universal.
The hardware merchant in villages and
small cities does not command the
sources of publicity that merchants in
larger towns and cities command and
hence no general rule of publicity would
apply to all localities with equal force.

For illustration, a merchant in the
country may place a plow and bag of
fertilizer before his store and that will
announce to his zone of trade that he has
plows and fertilizers for sale and inci-
dentally would imply that he had other
staples in the hardware line. But the
city merchant would announce himself a
freak and also run the risk of getting
himself into trouble with the constituted
health authorities if he placed on the
waik in front of his place of business a
plow and a bag of fertilizer. That would
not advertise effectively to the city trade
that he dealt in kitchen utensils, fishing
tackle, screen doors, hammocks and
lawn mowers. In short, it wouldn't be
anything more than a suggestion that

 

he was too ijazy to take his farm supplies
in out of sight.

Special leaders at special prices on
anything in a sparsely settled region
would be abortive, for the reason that,
with trade at its best,the merchant must
have normal profits on all goods sold or
else he can not do business. Special
leaders at special prices on special sales
days in large towns and in cities must
depend largely on the originality, enter-
prise and popularity of the merchants
making them; a gigantic success in one
place might prove a lamentable failure
in another although the attractions are
identical.

The measure of success that attends a
special sale is not determined so much
by the price of the article offered for
sale as upon the reputation of the house
offering it for sale. Let me make this
clear: Suppose Jones offers a_high-
grade lawn mower for $5, claiming that
the regular price is $9. Ordinarily that
kind of an offer, if generously adver
tised, ought to attract a large trade; but
Jones has the reputation of dealing in
cheap goods. The public have been
drawn to his store by cheap prices, only
to learn that his goods are cheap; there-
fore, his sale of lawn mowers turns out
to be a chilling frost. He gets no more
trade than he would had he not adver-
tised the special sale price. He has
fooled the people once or twice,and that
settled it.

Now let Brown advertise a lawn mow-
er worth $7 for $5 on a day named and
in the season when lawn mowers are in
demand. The public know that Brown
can be relied upon. He seils a score or
more of lawn mowers at $5 and saves
himself from loss. The people believe
that what Brown says is true. You catch
the idea, of course. Jones made a fail-
ure. Brown made a success. Brown
sold his mowers at cost and enough
other goods to pay interest and running
expenses.

Brown succeeded in his undertaking,
he advertised himself and added to his
sales other goods, purchased by the peo-
ple who came to buy mowers, which
would not have been sold or seen except
for the special sale.

Will special sales of special goods out
of season attract trade and prove profit-
able? No. No merchant can ever ex-
pect to make money by giving goods
away. He must buy to sell to makea
profit. If he can not do that, he would
better go out of business before the
sheriff visits him.

The first condition of business pros-
perity is confidence—the kind that es-
tablishes belief. The merchant must
be believed nowadays in order to get
trade. The time when people liked to
be humbugged and laugh over deceit in
trade is a long way past. The early
theory of Barnum would not be popular
now, as is proved by his opposite
method in later life and the excellence
of the show that now bears his name and
the excellence of the shows of his com-
petitors.

In speaking with a former advertising
writer for R. H. Traver on this subject,
he said to mea few days ago: ‘‘Our
aim in advertising is not to win a repu-
tation for printing sharp repartee, which
might be our own or borrowed from an-
other, but to state plain truths’in a plain
way about things to wear. We want
our advertisements read at the breakfast

table along with other news of the day}

and commented on by the members of
the family. We have special sales—
some of them look surprising—but back
of every inducement we put out is the

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> (GLARK-RUTKA-JEWELL ff0.,

38 & 40 South Ionia St.
Opposite ‘Union Depot.

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Complete stock of HARDWARE,
TINWARE, CUTLERY and every-
thing {usually kept in a first-class
hardware store.

STRICTLY WHOLESALE
All orders‘filled promptly at bottom

ruling prices. Mail orders solicited.

CLARK-RUTKA-JEWELL CO., Grand Rapids, Mich.

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reputation of our house. We make the
Traver label the synonym of value.
When we say $15 suits for $5, we mean
that we are offering for sale suits that
we ought to sell for $15 and our patrons
know it is so. Some of the suits cost us
$12, but if they woudd not sell for $15
this year, they would not sell for it next
year. The value of these suits sticks
out like a sore on your thumb and, while
we lose on the special sale, we always
sell hats, furnishing goods and other
things for profit enough usually to make
the sale save us. '

Michell, the man whose success _ in
business is amazing to all other mer.
chants, is positive and outspoken about
special sales. Said he: ‘‘First, I be-
lieve in telling the truth in my adver-
tisements, tell it strongly and offensive-
ly, if need be, but nevertheless tell it,
and I do it in and out of season, If |
find myself loaded up with a line of un-
salable goods in any department, I
charge them up to loss. My concern
about them is to sell them at any price
that will not demoralize prices on other
goods of like nature. We do cultivate
special sales. '’

J. L. Hudson believes in special
Sales, but his specials are on a large
scale and embrace whole stocks of
goods, instead of separate articles.

T. B. Rayl is one of the cleverest in-
dividual advertisers in Detroit, having
something special for every day and
saying special things about it in a spe-
cially clever way.

H. C. Weber carries the most genial
face of any man in Detroit. Heisa
firm believer in special sales at special
prices on special days, but his hard
common sense, coupled with his devo-
tion to established principles in busi-
ness, leads him to advise scrupulous ad-
herence to truth in advertising such
sales,

I gather from my observations, ex-
perience and conversations with the
trade that special leaders on special
days are all right, provided you know
how to do it. You must have originality
and adapt your sales to the field you
have or you can hope to do but little.
Having these, use your windows artis-
tically, your newspapers judiciously,
and your common sense lavishly, and
you can not fail to get good results from
‘*Special Leaders at Special Prices and
Special Sales Days.’’

Cuas. G. JEWETT,

Howell, Mich.

- ->-eo .
Those Didn’t Count.

‘‘Have you taken anything for your
trouble?’’ asked the doctor of a long,
lank, hungry-looking man, who com-
plained of being ‘‘all run down.”’
‘Well, nothing to speak of. I took a
couple of bottles of Pinkham’s Bitters
a week back, and a bottle of Quickem’s
Invigorator, with a couple ot boxes of
Curem’s Pills, and a lot of quinine and
some drops. I’ve got a porous plaster
on my back, and I’m wearing an elec-
tric belt, and taking powders four times
a day, with a dose or two of salts every
other day; excepting for that I’m tak-
ing nothing.’”’

—~>-0
To Destroy Ants in Lawns.

A mixture of one tablespoonful of car-
bon bisulphide with two or three gallons
of water has been recommended for this
purpose. The mixture should be well
agitated and poured into holes six inches
deep and twelve inches apart, the holes
being immediately filled in with earth.
The fumes of the bisulpbide permeate
throughout the soil and drive away the
ants. It must be remembered that the
bisulphide is very inflammable.

——_~> 0. _____
Kissing is unhealthy—if her. father

 

The Hardware Market.

Trade in a general way keeps up re-
markably well, although at this time of
the year the disposition among the trade
is to be conservative in their buying,
and manufacturers are pursuing a wait-
ing tendency and in a general way re-
vising their prices for fali business. At
the present time there is no perceptible
change in prices, as manufacturers are
not disposed to make any advances un-
til they can form a better idea of future
trade. It is believed, however, in a
general way, that trade in different parts
of the country will show a marked in-
crease this fall over previous years.
Whether this increase will extend to
Michigan or not is a question which at
the present time is hard to determine.

Wire Nails—There has been no in-
creased demand for wire nails and con-
sequently large stocks have accumulated
in the hands of all manufacturers. They
do not, however, seem disposed to make
any cut prices in order to move stocks
on hand and it is believed that the pro-
duction will be curtailed and present
prices firmly held. Prices remain the
same as reported in our last report.

Wire—There has been a lessening in
the demand for both barbed and _ plain
wire, which wili undoubtedly continue
until the fall trade opens up. Prices are
firm and it is believed that there will
be no change during the coming fall,
unless the demand should be great
enough to induce a small advance.

Steel Goods—The demand for steel
and wooden goods of all kinds has been
far beyond the capacity of the manufac-
turers to supply. Cradles have been
very scarce in all parts of the country
aud it is impossible to pick up any,
either in the hands of jobbers or manu-
facturers.

Rope-—There is an impression among
the jobbers of cordage that the price on
rope has reached its highest mark. If
this is the case, it undoubtedly will not
be stationary and we may look fora
slight decline in the near future.
Window Glass—As all glass factories
are now Closed down and the stocks on
hand are not any larger than is usual at
this time of the year, it is believed that
prices now ruling will be firmly held.
There is no question but that before new
glass is made a great scarcity will exist
among certain sizes, which will un-
doubtedly prevent any general rate-cut-
ting being done.

—_——~> +>

Short Answers.
A traveler recently met a settler near
a house in the backwoods, when the fol-

lowing colloquy occurred :
*“Whose house?’

/ Neges| 7
*“What’s it built of2’’
‘| Bogs.”

**Any neighbors?’’
PB rOgs. |”
‘*What’s the soil?’’
BOs.” |
‘*The climate?’’
Ops."
‘*What do you eat?’’
‘eogs.
‘*How do you catch them?’’
Dogs. 77

—___~» #._____
In the peach orchards of Southwestern
Georgia there is just now maturing one
of the most magnificent crops of the
luscious fruit that has been known in
the history of the State. The probability
is that, without accident, it will surpass
any Georgia fruit crop heretofore known.
The railroads have been figuring on ar-
rangements for the transportation and
distribution of this immense amount of
peaches. The lowest estimate is that it
will require 1,400 cars to move it, while
other estimates go all the way up to
2,000 cars, and many of the fruit grow-
ers and railroad men believe the latter

 

catches you at it.

\

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

Hardware Price Current.

 

 

AUGURS AND BITS
ee 70

 

 

Jennings’, Beuurne cae 4 cee
Jennings’, imitation . 60410
AXES
Hirst Quatity,S B. Bronze.............___. 5 00
Hirst Quality, DB Broage.. 9 50
Birss Quality, SS. Steay 5 50
Biret Quality, BB Sie sa 50
BARROWS
ON $12 00 14 00
Caren - Bet 200
BOLTS
ON 60&10
AEEEREe EW TEMG eee
Ce 5
BUCKETS
Wen aie $33
BUTTS, CAST
Cast Ldose Pin, fisnred... 1... 1... FOK10
Wredgnc Narrow ones UGEIG
BLOCKS
GLaany Tae 70
CROW BARS
ee per Ib 4
CAPS
Se per m 65
Bee per m 55
ee perm 35
eee per m 60
CARTRIDGES
Re ee ttecees «00m
eee 2& 5
CHISELS
Oe 80
pocaes Praming....... —. 80
Ct 80
CC 80
DRILLS
Mores Big Meeks 60
Paper aud SiraizhiShank |. d0& 5
Morse’s TaperShank. |... 50k 5
ELBOWS

Com 4 piece Gin... .._._.
Comunpaied 8
Ad@justable........_.

EXPANSIVE BITS

  

os 12
--+...dis 40d10

Clark’s small, $18; large, $26.............. . .80&10
aves’, 5 Cine 2) ea 8 Ga 25
FILES—New List
NeW SMCMEN 70&10
SOMONE 70
Hetlers Home Haspa.. -60&10
GALVANIZED IRON
Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 25 and 26; 27. ow ee 28
List 12 13 i4 15  .... ig

Discount, 75 to 75-10
GAUGES
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s............... 60410
KNOBS—New List
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings... 70
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings............
MATTOCKS
Aa ye 816 00, dis 60410
Ont Wve, $15 00, dis 60410
OMG $18 50, dis 20&10
NAILS

Advance over base, on both Steel and Wire.
peccr Hate Nlte 8 1 60
Wire nails, base..... . 1 6

puto Gg aavance....... 6... Base
ito (aevemte.

SOOVNNCe 10
Covitce 20
Seqvenee 30
oS Mvediee tc... eee. 5
ROOM 70
Pane og Ue 50
Desens 0 avanee. 15
Canine Saqvance 25
Casing Gadvance. 35
Pilion fOccivance. 25
NINIGH Sadivanee. 35
Pemise OA@vanec... 45
Barrel 6 GGvarnee ee

MILLS

Comoe Purrers Cos... 40
Coffee, P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s Malleables... 40
Coffee, Landers, Ferry & Clark’s........... 40
Coffee, Enterprise........... 30

MOLASSES GATES
ReenUn Ss Peer eee

  

  
 

pecvuar Ss Gemumme..................... 60410
Enterprise, self-measuring ............ r
PLANES
Onse Toot Ca.’s, fancy... ......_.......... @50
eee OMG 60
Sandusky Foe! Co.’s, faney................. @a0
Benen, RYSSQUSIGY. ...................._.. @50
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s wood......... 60
PANS
Wry, Aeme ea
CGmmmen, polished... WO& 5
RIVETS
iron and Vie wt... 60
Copper Hivets and Gura. 60
PATENT PLANISHED IRON
‘‘A’? Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 10 20
‘“‘B’? Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 25 to 27 9 20
Broken packages 4c per pound extra.
HAMMERS
Maydole & Co.'s, new list........ ......dis S855
ee dis 2
Meshes dc Pinmbe@ .... ............., .. dis 10&10

Mason’s Solid Cast Steel..... 70

 

figure is nearer correct,

     

HOUSE PURNISHING GOODS

Stamped Tin Ware....... .........new list 75&10
vapanned Tin Ware.............000 | ae
Granite Iron Ware.................new list 40&10

HOLLOW WARE

ny ete ies. «+s tos nn
Meteee .. ++ 60810
Spiders .... 6010
HINGES
Gue Carma 12 es dis 60&10
ee per doz. net 2 50
*

WIRE GOODS
Se 80
meow MNCe 80
POGe . 80
Gare Hogksand Hyca 80

LEVELS
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s............ dis 70
ROPES
Sisal, 4 inch and larger............... ov. 2
De a 11%
SQUARES
CEE 7010
Piven Deve 60
SHEET IRON
com. smooth. com.
Nes tte Me 82 70 82 40
Nee teh. ee 2 40
Sl . 280 2 45
OR Sete ee 2 55
NOS Ste 2e... 3 10 2 65
Oe 3 20 2%
All sheets No. 18 and lighter, over 30 inches
wide not less than 2-10 extra,

SAND PAPER

ee CCE ee dis 6&8
SASH WEIGHTS
On Myce per ton 20 00
TRAPS

mod Game...

60&10
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s....... 5

Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s 70&10
Motea €haker per doz 15
Mouse, delusion............. ||. per doz 1 26

WIRE
Bright Market, .........._.

 

POMCRIn MARCEL 6
Copuerea Markee -- 70&10
oaeee Mame 62%
Coppered Spring Stet

Barbed Fence, galvanized ............ —.
Barbed Neuce, painted 1%

HORSE NAILS
Audanie. totwee ooo Ghil SOG
Se dis 5
NOrtnWORtGr ee dis 10&10
WRENCHES
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.............. 30
SeceGGntme 50
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought ....... 80
Coe’s Patent, mattedble 80
MISCELLANEOUS
te Cae 50
ee 80
merows, Hew ling... 85
Casters, Bed and Plate........... --- 50&10&10
Damper, American 50
METALS—Zinc
er POR Ca 614
SN es 6%
SOLDER

OE 12%

The prices of the many other qualities of solder
in the market indicated by private brands vary
according to composition.

TIN—Melyn Grade

Mme tC Charcoal 85 75
ae i Cuarcom. 5 75
ones EN Charcoal ...,........., ‘veges. oa
Each additional X on this grade, 81.25.
TIN—Allaway Grade
eset Cosreoas 4 50
14x20 IC, Charcoal .. + 50
ieate ee Cearcoge 5 50

 

a EN Charen 5 50
Each additional X on this grade, 81.50.
ROOFING PLATES

 

ieee IC, Chareaal Dean. ............. |. 4 50
Bixee IX Charcoal Nea ................. | 5 50
euxes IC, Charcoal, Dean........ ........... 9 00
14x20 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade......... 4 00
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade......... 5 00
20x28 1C, Charcoal, Allaway Grade......... 8 00
20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade......... 10 00
BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE
14x56 IX, for No. 8 Bodlers, }
14x56 IX, for No. 9 Boilers, { Pet Pound... 9
# FSS RGESTOHT THORS ROMERO ROR
ci
s La
= Paris Green Labels
7 Che 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:
I aia Sia le Oda, a 25 cents.
200... + comee -. 40 cents,
§00........0.secseveee 75 Cents,

Labels sent postage prepaid where cash
accompanies order.

Tradesman Company,
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

weve. eee List
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel Hand 30c lis; 40&19

   

  

24.

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

EFFECT OF WAR ON TRADE.

The traditional policy of non-inter-
ference in the affairs of our neighbors
which has always characterized the
American Government and_ people,
while it indicates a generous recognition
of the rights and privileges of others, in
its extreme application has operated as
an undue hindrance to our proper work
of aiding in the advancement of the
civilization and enlightened develop-
ment of the whole world. Pursuing the
opposite policy, Great Britain has al-
ways been severely criticised by Ameri-
can writers for what has been considered
an undue disposition to meddle in any
and all affairs on the slightest pretext.
And in a_ review of the history of her
foreign policy there is shown enough to
warrant all that has been said in this
regard. Early English intercourse with
other nations was controlled by the most
unscrupulous selfishness, and no small
degree of this attribute has come down
in that same policy to the present day.
Yet in spite of all this the greatest fac-
tor in modern civilization throughout
the whole world has been British trade
aggression. Jt must be remembered
that, in the early days of English
extension, which are not yet far dis-
tant, the degree of civilization in the
kingdom itself was very low; and it
could scarcely be expected that a high-
er standard should be raised abroad.
As enlightenment progressed at home,
more of a humane policy actuated the
dealings with colonies and those nations
in whose affairs circumstances enabled
her to meddle, so that,in spite of such
instances as the Chinese opium war and
other similar outrages of as recent date, it
must be acknowledged that English rule
to-day is on the whole of the greatest be-
neficence to most of the peoples con-
cerned. In India and in Egypt and other
parts of Africa comparative tranquility
and greatly increased prosperity are the
result of what is considered a purely
selfish domination, and opportunity is
given for the preservation of the better
qualities in the civilization of the va-
rious countries, with as little interfer-
ence as possible. Thus, while English
politics and English trade have been by
no means model missionaries, there is
no denying the fact that their work has
been effective and that the world is
much farther advanced on account of
English aggressiveness,

But the conservatism of American
generosity, while admirable in theory,
has operated to deprive us, and the
world, of our proper share in this work.
Confining our attention to the develop-
ment of our own civilization and re-
sources, we have neglected opportunities
for the building up of foreign trade for
the reason that to build up such trade
we must interfere in the affairs of the
world to the extent necessary to secure
markets. We have been willing to sell,
but have followed the foolish policy of
waiting for our customers to come for
their purchases. So, while English
politics have prospected and opened
abundant markets, we have been content
to perfect ourselves in production and
dispose of such wares as the world
should come after.

At last, circumstances, against our
generous impulses and policy, have
compelled us reluctantly to meddle with
the affairs of others, even to the extent
of annexation for political and trade
reasons, It has taken us over five years
to make up our minds that we would
forsake the traditional policy to the
extent of accepting the Hawaiian Is-
lands, which were begging to come to

 

us. And these we should probabiy have
continued to refuse if the needs of the
Spanish conflict had not made the an-
nexation imperative.

But in the progress of the Spanish
war we are finding ourselves with other
and more extensive and important for-
eign possessions and the question as to
what we are going to do with them is
becoming a live one. The more the
condition and affairs of the Spanish
colonies which are coming into our
possession through the fortune of war
are investigated it is found that of a
necessity outside authority must operate
to maintain order and permit the de-
velopment of the power of self-govera-
ment among the people. Thus, while it
has been so often asserted that we do
not want Cuba, it begins to look as
though we shall be compelled to have
her, and that we shall have to face the
question of a policy of protection in
several of the late possessions of Spain.

It is significant that the demand for
the exercise of authority by the United
States comes from the leading citizens
of the countries concerned. In this de-
mand they are doubtless prompted by
two considerations, the lack of the
power of self-government among their
own number and the recognition of the
high attainment of the American peo-
ple. There could be no other object
lesson which would’ enforce more
effectually the proposition that the
Latin races must come to be dependent
upon the Saxon. The Spanish officers
and soldiers are filled with unbounded
astonishment at the phenomenal effect-
iveness of indifferent military equip-
ment under the control of American
intelligence, and so it is not strange
that, so far as they may be able to ap-
preciate the situation, Spanish colonists
should be anxious to become incorpo-
rated into our Government.

The most important consequence of
the present war promises to be the rec-
ognition of the fact that the American
people have a part in the enlightenment
of the world under the banners of Saxon
civilization. The high attainment in
mechanical science which we have been
quietly and unconsciously gaining is not
for us alone—its benefits belong to the
world and we must do our part in their
extension.

The influence of the present war upon
the trade of the world will be almost in-
conceivable. Nothing could have hap-
pened to more effectually advertise the
high degree of perfection in American
mechanical science and manufactures,
Even proud England is compelled to
admit that her equipment is not up to
date and that there are lessons for her
in the performance of the Yankees.
With the access to the world’s markets
which will foliow our reluctant policy of
extension and the prestige of what has
been shown in the present conflict of
American scientific and mechanical at-
tainment it will be strange indeed if
the next few months or years do not
witness a tremendous increase in our
foreign trade in every part of the world.

Predictions about the horseless age
have been called in. The armies of the
world alone absorb an immense number.
The price of cavalry and artillery horses
in this country has doubled within a few
months. Horses are no longer quoted at
two dollars. Cavalry horses in New
York have risen from $60 to $120 and the
standard has been slightly lowered as to
age and height. The Government, by
the way, never buys a horse whose tail

is docked or otherwise changed from its
natural shape.

 

PERPLEXING PROBLEM.

A marine or commercial question of
more than ordinary interest and impor-
tance is about to arise in consequence
of the annexation of Hawaii. The point
at issue 1s whether foreign vessels will
be allowed in the carrying trade between
Hawaiian ports and other ports belong-
ing to the United States.

Put in another form the question is,
whether the trade between Hawaii and
our mainland is to be regarded as
‘*coastwise?’’ The American flag cov-
ers such trade. Will the British and
others now carrying exports and imports
from and to Honolulu to and from San
Francisco, Seattle and otber mainland
ports be driven from their trade and
none but American vessels be allowed to
ply between the Pacific coast and the
islands?

If such a conclusion is reached we
shall still further irritate the commer-
cial communities of the Old World. As
a precedent, it would threaten a large
carrying trade by Europeans were we
to annex the Philippines, Porto Rico or
other islands. Aiready angered by our
selfish trade policies ane contemplating
and, indeed, practicing retaliation, the
Europeans would, in view of such direct
inroads or assaults upon their carrying
trade, become still more hostile towards
us and the more earnestly and, perhaps,
successfully seek the formation of inter-
national combinations against us of both
a political and commercial character.

If we are to take trade away from riv-
als let us do it fairly and not attempt it
by force. It would be a great thing to
see the merchant marine of the United
States once more of large dimensions,
but it should come through the repeal or
amendment of our absurd and hurtful
navigation laws. The New York Jour-
nal of Commerce thinks that, in framing
the new laws for the government of
Hawaii and other possible remote addi-
tions to our National domain, Congress
should provide for practically open ports
between our colonies and mainland,
subject only to our revenue regulations.

It is pointed out that we should find
ourselves charged with inconsistency
and be accordingly embarrassed if we
should object to Germany or Russia
closing conquered ports in China or the
East to our vessels and yet insist upon
excluding their common carriers from
the trade between the Pacific coasts and
any Asiatic territory we might possess.

If we must enter the international
scamble for trade and territory we must
relax many of our present regulations.
As the Journal of Commerce says, ‘‘We
can not honorably favor the open door
policy abroad before our acquisition of
new territory and deliberately repudiate
that policy as soon as we have taken
possession. "’

OR SALE—HARDWARE STOCK INVOIC-
ing about $2,200 and building and lot valued
at about $800 in a good live town of 1,500. Coun-
try is being rapidly settled with farms. One
good factory employiug 100 men. Good reasons
for selling. The only hardware store in town.
Must be cash. Address No. 655, care Michigan
Tradesman. 655
SNAP—-FIRST-LLASS STOCK OF DRY
goods; best town in fruit belt of Michigan;
centrally located in village of 1,000 population.
Reason for selling, other business. Address
Dry Goods, care Michigan Tradesman. 657
JOR SALE—DRUG STORE IN BEST CITY IN
Michigan. Average daily sales, #2); per
Cent. profits, 50 per cent. Monthly ex
penses, $00. These are facts. Investigate. Ad-
659, care Michigan Tradesman 659

 

    

\ AKE US AN OFFER. WELL-SITUATED,
i good-paying wall paper, paint and picture
framing business must be sold at once, for cash
only. 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
_ 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
5 EXCHANGE—GOOD WESIRABLE CITY
property for good clean drug stock. Address
J. J., 150 South Jefferson St., Battle Creek, Mich.
‘ 647
Vy JisH TO CORRESPOND WITH FIKST-
class dry goods or shoe man; object, busi-
ness. Wish also to exchange farming land in
Michigan for grocery or miltinery stock. Ad-
dress Lock Box 40, St. Louis, Mich. 6
re SALE—ONE SECONDHAND FIVE-
barrel oil tank; one double-door safe; one
jeweler’s safe. H. Leonard & Sons, Grand
Rapids, Mich. 643
pes SALE—GENERAL MERCHANDISE
stock in growing town in Southern Michi-
gan. Will bear investigation. Address No. 644,
eare Michigan Tradesman 644
EST LOCATION IN MICHIGAN FOR A
cold storage and general produce dealer.
Write to the Secretary of the Otsego Improve-
ment Association, Otsego, Mich. 631
SS Ss GENERAL STOCK I1N
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 five years. WHI sell land at its cash value.

 

 

 

No old stock desired. No poor towns need ap--

ply. Address No. 633, care Michigan Trades-
man. €33
N ERCHANTS—DO YOU WISH CASH QUICK
x for your stock of merchandise, or any part
of it? Address John A. Wade, Cadillac, Mich.
628

 

OR SALE—A PROSPEROUS DRUG AND
grocery stock, invoicing from ,000 to
$5,000, 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-
well invite inspeciion. 625
HAVE SMALL STOCK OF DRUGS AND
fixtures in Ionia, taken on mortgage. Will
sell cheap for cash or trade for productive real
estate. Answer immediately. Wil! sell soon.
W. W. Hunt, Under National City Bank, Grand
Rapids. 596

a SALE, EXCHANGE OR REN?—LARGE
two-story store and residence building in
town of 1,000 population in Northern Indiana;
stone basement, 120 feet in dimensions. Inves-
tigate. Address No. 575, care Michigan Trades
man. 575
rRO EXCHANGE—FOR CLOTHING, DRY
goods or shoes, very nice well rented Grand
Rapids property. Address No. 552, care Michi-
gan Tradesman. 5d2
. EXCHANGE — FARMS AND OTHER
property for dry goods, clothing and shoes.
Address P. Medalie, Mancelona, Mich. 553
J ANTED—A PRACTICAL MILL MAN,
with $1,000 capital, to take a one-half or
full interest in a stave, heading and planing
mill. 3,000 contract, with stock to fillit. All
goes. Five years’ cut in sight. Side track te
mill. Good reasons for selling. Address Stave
Mill, care Michigan Tradesman. 546

 

 

 

 

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 eek than
25 cents. Advance payment.

 

___ BUSINESS CHANCES.
OR SALE—STOCK OF DRY GOODS AND
groceries. Will sell cheap for cash. Ad-

dress Box I. Montgomery, Mich. 656
RICK STORE FOK RENT--BEST LOCATION
in the city. Finished with latest modern

fixtures. A grand opportunity for an opening

for a general stock. Is located in the richest
sgricult .ral country in the State, thirty-five
miles away from any large town. Reasonable
rent. For further particulars address C. Light-

stone, Carson City, Mich. 66)

{OR SALE—STOCK OF GENERAL MER-
chandise. Must be sold. Cost about $4 000,

Bids received until Aug. 9, 1°98. Stoek may be

inspected at Maucelona, Mich. N. C. Weter,

Assignee, £58
OR SALE—FIRST-CLASS MEAT MARKET
in hustling town of 1,700 population. Ad-

dress No. 650, care Michigan Tradesman. 650

 

 

BROOMS
OR SALE--MODERN, WELL-ESTABLISHED
and equipped broom factory and good trade.
Other business commands our attention. Ad-
dress No. 584, care Michigan Tradesman. 584

COUNTRY PRODUCE
ANTED — FIRST-CLASS BUTTER FOR
retail trade. Cash paid. Correspond with
Caulkett & Co., Traverse City, Mich. 381
yo CASES FRESH EGGS,
daily. Write for prices. F. W. Brown,
Ithaca, Mich. 556
FIREPROOF SAFES
XN EO. M. SMITH, NEW AND SECONDHAND
safes, wood and brick building mover, 157
Ottawa street, Grand Rapids. - 613
SHIRTS.

AVE YOURS MADE TO YOUR MEASURE.
Send for measurement blanks. Frank T.
Collver, 103 Washtenaw St. E., Lansing, Mich. 635

MISCELLANEOUS.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ANTED~— REGISTERED PHARMACIST,
young man. Address Drugs, 106 Portage
St., Kalamazoo, Mich. 653

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Travelers’ Time Tables.

& Northeastern Ry.

Best route to Manistee.

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Chicago.
Ly. G. — See eis 7:30am 3:40pm * 2:15am
Ar. Chicago.. 2:10pm 9:05pm 7 30ar

Ly. Chicago ee na 7:20am 4: 15pm * 8:45pm
Ar. @’d Rapids......... 1:25pm 10:30pm * 2:15°m
Traverse sity. —— and Petoskey.
Ly. @’d Rapids..........2:15am 8:05am 2:10pm

Parlor and Se Cars on afternoon and
night trains to and from Chicago.

*Every day. Others week days only.

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Detroit.
Ly. Grand Rapids...... 7:00am 1:35pm 5:35pm
Ar. Detroit... . 2.2... it: — 5:45pm 10:05pm
Ey. Detrott.......: 2. .: 8:00am 1:10pm 6:10pm

Ar. Grand Rapids.....12:55pm 5:20pm 10:55pm
Saginaw, Alma and Greenville.
Lv. G R7:00am 4:20pm Ar. GR 12:20pm 9:30pr
Parlor cars on all trains to and from Detroit
and Saginaw. Trains run week days only.
Gro. DEHAVEN. General Pass. Agent.

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GRAND  Soccssnt ttesceen nr

(In effect May 15, 1898 )

 

 

 

Leave EAST. Arrive.
+ G: am. Sag., Detroit, Buffalo & N Y .+ 9:55pm
710-10am... |... 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....* 7:059m

+12:53pm. Ga. Haven and Intermediate. + 3:12pm
+ 5:32pm..Gd. Haven and Intermediate. +10:0sam
* 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. +tExcept Sunday.
. H. Huenes, A.G. P. & T. A.
BEN. FLETCHER, Trav. Pass. Agt.,
C. A. Justin, City Pass. Agent.
97 Monroe St. Morton House.

GRAND Rapids & Indiana Railway

Northern Div.

Tray. C’y, Petoskey & Mack...
Trav. C’y, Petoskey & Mack...¢ 2:15pm + 6:35am
Trav. C’y, Petoskey & Mack... ........ $10:50pm
eee “+5: 25pm +11 15am
Train leaving at 7:45 a. m. has parlor car, and
train leaving at 2:15 p. m. has sleeping car to

Mackinaw.

Southern wane so Arrive
So 7:10am + 8:25pm
BG Wave... +3: 10pm + 2:00pm
Cincinnati.. --...--* 7:00pm * 7:25am

7:10a.m. train has parlor car og Cincinnati
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 10pm *11 35pm

 

 

 

Leave Arrive
* 7:45am + 5:15pm

Ar Chieage. 20pm 9 10pm 6 30am
FROM CHICAGO.

En. Chsearo : 3s ee +3 02pm *11 45pm

Ar Grand Rapids,........2:... 9 30pm 7 2am

Train leaving Grand Rapids 7.10 a. m. has
buffet parlor car to Chicago. Train leaving
Grand Rapids 11 35 p. m. has coach and Pullman
sleeping car to Chicago.

Train leaving Chicago 3.02 p. m. has buffet
parlor car to Grand Rapids. Train leaving
Chicago 11.45 p. m. has coach and Pullman
sleeping car to Grand Rapids.

Muskegon Trains.
GOING WEST.
Lv G’d Rapids......... — +1:00pm +5:40pm
Ar Muskegon........... 9:00am 2:10pm 7:05pm
GOING EAST
Lv Muskegon....... .. +8: 10am +11:45am = 00pm
ArG’d Rapids... ..... 9:30am 12:55pm 5:20pm

Sunday trains leave Grand Rapids 9.00 a. m.
— m. Leave Muskegon 8.35 a. m. and

6.35 p. m
+Except Sunday. *Daily. {Saturday only.
Cc. L. LOCKWOOD,
Gen’! Passr. and Ticket Agent.
W. C. BLAKE,
Ticket Agent Union Station.

 

 

South Shore and Atlantic
Railway.

 

DULUT

Ly. Grand Rapids (G. R. & I. +11: 10pm +7:45am

Ly. ag cre Ci... 7:35am 4:20pm
Ar. St. Ignace. eseeeeee. 9:00am 5:20pm
Ar. Sault Ste-Marie.......... = 20pm 9:50pm
Ar Berguedte. ..- 2... 2:50pm 10:40pm
AD Nestea. oc... ss 5: —_— 12:45am
Ar. Duluth........... aac as 8:30am
EAST BOUND.
Ly. DO eee een re oan +6:30pm
Ar. Nestoria............. - til:Ibam 2:45am
Ad, Marauetse........ 21... 1:30pm 4:30am
Ly. Sault Ste. Marie.. <<.) ee oe
Ar. Mackinaw City........... 8:40pm 11:00am
G. W. Hrsparp, Gen. Pass. Agt. Marquette.

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Ly. Holland, daily (except Sanday)... .._ S:00 p.m.
Ey. Plovand, Sunday. 26000). ol 3:00 p.m.
Ly. Holland, Saturday (special)............ 6:30 a.m,
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