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[ was once a prosperous merchant, Our friend on the right says: |
but, like hundreds of other merchants,
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and always have been, prosperous.
was a poor collector. I was afraid
/ credit is good.
that I would offend my customers if I
sist On prompt settlements.
perience, but I cannot buy new goods
cessfully. due accounts.
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Fe Me Storms, Tis, Miche, May 27, 1898.
Plainweil, Miche,
Dear Sir—In reply to yours of 26th would Say that we gave the
Mercantile Agenoy about $600 worth of old accounts, mostly outlawed, some of
them being twelve years old, thinking we would never hear from the company or
from our claims, as we had put them in the hands of other encies without
avail, but, to our surprise, it has collected abc $400 and is in a fair way
to collect the balancee We are more than pleased with its methods, as we
considered as lost what it has collected.
You enquire if we do not think we are
accounts in the hands of such an agency.
give it the accounts we consider good.
lost, and I presume it is
injuring our firm by placing our
In reply we would say that we do not
They are the ones we had counted as
the same case with you. We lost their trade when we
gave them credit; and our experience is that these same people, who have not
purchased anyth of us for years, come and buy now, as they have paid their
indebtedress and do not have to dodge us now. We also find it to be an incen-
tive to our other trade to adjust their accounts more frequently in order to
avoid receiving "notices, !
This agency has done all it
you employ it we think you would be a
some old sores on your books it will
sharpers, who do not sare how much
agreed to do for us and more, +00. Should
8 well pleased as we aree If you have
be a relief to get even with these old
they may worry yous
Yours,
WRIGHT BROS.
I always discount
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insisted on the prompt settlement of ac- bills. My profits are not represented by
counts. My present condition is the a lot of worthless book accounts.
result. To be sure, I have had the ex-
friends and increase my business by
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Honor.
The New York Financier has pub
lished its eighth annual ‘‘roll of honor’’
of National banks that have surplus and
undivided profits to an amount equal to
or exceeding the capital stock of the
3,617 National banks in the country.
Only 346 are on the roll of honor list,
and of these eight are in Michigan. The
Michigan roll, with percentage of sur-
plus and capital stock, is as follows:
Saginaw—Second National, 140.02
Lapeer—First National, 125.78.
Kalamazoo—Michigan National, 118.-
62.
Kalamazoo—First National,
Marshall—First National, 113.71.
Ishpeming-——National, roo. 48.
Charlotte—Merchants’ National, 103.-
79:
Ypsilanti—First National, 100.81.
None of the Grand Rapids National
banks are on this list, nor are the De-
troit banks represented. The Old Na-
TIO 27.
tional, according to the July statement,
has about 24. per cent.; the National
City, 2132; Grand Raped National,
27%; Fourth National, 1724, and the
Fifth National, 5 per cent. The Grand
Rapids National banks are all near the
end of their charter limit, and it is
probable there will not be any very
elaborate sugaring off when the time
comes for their reorganization. One of
the reasons that the banks do not make
a better showing is due, undoubtedly, to
over Capitalization and undue competi-
tion, and the hard times of the past four
years has also had something to do with
it. A comparison with the reports of
1894 will show that the banks have re-
mained at just about a standstill. The
reports of July 18, 1894, showed surplus
and undivided earnings of $499,842. 10,
while the aggregate in the reports of
July 14, 1898, was $501,749.53. Per-
haps, when everything is considered,
the comparison may be looked upon as
fairly satisfactory. The ensuing years
will doubtless produce better results.
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John A. Tinholt, the Muskegon drug-
gist, was in town Wednesday on his
way home from Colon, whither he went
with the remains of Wm. Elliott, of
Muskegon. He was very enthusiastic
over the manner in which the funeral
arrangements were conducted by Frank
S. Cummings, the Centerville under-
taker, whom he regards as an artist in
his profession.
Number 776
Some Problems Which Confront the
Dry Goods Trade.
Written for the TRADESMAN.
It is an old-time saying that there is
no friendship in trade, and it is true in
many respects. Real downright selfish-
ness Sways men, irrespective of clique
or clan in the business world, and no
law is really violated except the moral.
There is in all tbis procedure a reflex
action very hurtful concerned,
Nothing will cause the uprising of our
merchants so quickly and so uniformly
as the traveling merchant’s fire and flood
and blood and thunder style of adver-
tising his shopworn wares, as he period-
ically appears in all towns where he can
find a footing. Yet these are not the
only disorderly elements in the midst of
our daily commerce. Watch the daily
ads. of some stores in every town or
city and you will find the same charac-
ter of advertising—not by the Arabic
merchantman, but over the signatures
of some of your own townsmen. They
read like a fairy tale. The Monday
washing is no sooner on the line than
to all
the mother or daughter is off to find
the ‘‘pot of gold at the end of the rain-
bow,’’ only to have their hope of glit-
tering bargains cha
ment. The penny-a-card hooks and
eyes, the 2 cent cotton or calico, the 15
cent an ounce perfume, the $2 shoe for
75 cents—all are delusions. The result
of bankrupt and assignees, sales is that
nge to disappoint-
the people become dissatisfied, which
soon grows into distrust and from dis-
trust to unsettled confidence. Hence we
have the stigma resting upon merchants
in general. ‘‘Who can tell where to
place confidence?’’
The underlying principle and object
of any merchant Is not glory, but to
make monev—honest, legitimate money
—and every sensible mind knows this:
and until al] merchants realize the force
of Lincoln’s trite saying, ‘‘ You can fool
all of the people some of the time and
some of the people all the time, but not
all the people all the time,’’ and set-
tle down upon the basis of truthful ad-
vertising, so long you will serve to en-
gender discords and discontent among
the trading fraternity. The system is
injurious because it is educating the
people falsely to expect worth for a
worthless price, hence the merchant who
is aiming to get a uniformly honest
margin on his goods is confronted with
the evils arising from the other and
must spend much time and care to ex-
plain away the erroneous impressions
made by such advertising.
My advice to merchants is: Get
upon the true principle of doing busi-
ness; cease to see white black and
black white; inspire everybody with
real confidence by your business meth-
ods; let the people understand that real
worth is worth a price; get from under
the delusion that the wisdom or cunning
you are employing is not comprehended
by the masses, forit is. Once the pub-
lic know beyond a peradventure that
chicanery is dead to the ~ ld, the
business of the world will be easier
done. Let the great underlying prin-
ciple of right prevail and all these diffi-
culties will pass away! RETAILER,
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Dry Goods
What of the Future of the Shirt Waist?
Written for the TRADESMAN.
Some few years ago when plush was
the favorite and fashionable material for
covering photograph albums and parlor
furniture, when there were plush cloaks
and plush clocks, plush dresses and
plush picture frames, as well as plush
toilet cases and table scarfs, when those
who could not procure entire garments
of the coveted material appeased the
aesthetic hunger of their souls with cuffs
and vest fronts and folds and points and
panels of plush, a famous writer spoke
of that happy time as the Plush Age.
We have seen the passing of plush.
It has not yone entirely out of use, but
the high tide of its favor is long since
It has lapsed into almost the po-
sition it held before its period of short
but glorious popularity. It is now lke
a hundred other fabrics—used only for a
over.
few purposes for which its peculiar
qualities make it fitting.
These fin de siecle years through
which we are now passing might well
be called the Age of the Shirt Waist.
Less than a decade ago, when shirt
waists first made their appearance, who
could foresee that their manufacture
would become a regular industry, that
they would be offered tor sale almost as
commonly as coffee and sugar and _ that
during a considerable portion of the
year this waist, with its accompanying
skirt, would be the form of feminine
costume most generally worn? Who
could know that the shirt waist would be
of snow:est white and of duskiest sable
and of all shades and combinations of
shades? And the variety in fabrics has
been as great as in colors. Cotton and
linen and wool and siik, in their many
varied forms, have all been brought into
service. And it has been worn by the
old and the young, the high and the
iow. It is not too good for the pauper
nor too poor for the princess. Some one
has summed up its wide range of utility
by saying that the shirt waist has been
worn on all occasions except by the
bride at her wedding and by the corpse
at a funeral. And even this range of
exception is perhaps too wide. Who
knows but some bonny bride has lisped
her long-enduring vows clad in a de-
lightfully fresh white or pink or blue
shirt waist, and who can say that the
same garb has not been worn by some
poor mortal being laid in her final rest-
ing place?
Has it come to stay? We doubt
whether the supreme oracle Fashion
herself can reply. There are certain
tixed stars in the firmament of apparel.
The skirt and the plain waist, the jacket
and the wrapper are, like trousers and
overcoats on the masculine side, per-
manent and abiding. Is the shirt waist
destined to become one of these? Then
there are certain comets, like the polu-
naise and the pelisse, the long basque,
the bustle and the overskirt, the chignon,
which make their sudden appearance at
irregular intervals, are seen for a time
and then disappear in some remote Cor-
ner of fashionable space, the time of
whose reappearance baffles all calcula-
tion. Is the shirt waist one of these?
From an aesthetic point of view the
shirt waist isan intensifier. It makes
the dainty woman more dainty stili. The
slovenly woman looks more ‘‘sloppy”’
in it. It makes the thin woman seems
thinner and the fat woman more volu-
minous.
A modern writer has discoursed de-
lightfully on the philosophy of clothes,
Maintaining that there not only is such
a philosophy, but that it isa vital and
a most important one. Such being the
case, there is doubtless some profound
reason for this so remarkable phenom-
enon of the shirt waist. Its chief merit
is its availability. But when has avail-
ability ever been the shibboleth of per-
manent favor in any style of feminine
apparel! The inconvenient, the uncom-
fortable, the lacking in availability,
even the ugly, have endured, while the
comfortable, the sensible, the fitting
and the beautiful have passed away.
Availability never bas been the standard
in the woman's world, but is it becom-
ing the criterion of popularity and does
that account for the shirt waist? Sure-
ly, it has no beauty in itself to com-
mend it; nor does it confer this greatly-
to-be-desired quality upon its wearers
Che pretty woman is still pretty in it,
but the effect on the great body of plain
women ts to enhance plainness into pos-
itive ugliness. The shirt waist costume
at its best estate lacks the elegance of
an entire gown of one material. As to
expounding the why of the shirt waist,
we must conclude that nearness of vision
destroys cerrectness of perspective, and
makes present opinion valueless. Some
Sartorial philosopher of the future will
explain it. He will be able to say just
why it made its appearance when it did,
why it had not come before, the cause
of its widespread and long-continued
adoption. If it has come to stay, he will
tell why it remains. If it must needs
vanish from our sight, he will explain
why it vanishes, and if particularly as-
tute, he may be able to predict when it
will appear again. QUILLO.
The Dry Goods Market.
Staple Cottons—There 1s said to be a
better business in almost all lines of
staple cottons. Some very fair sized
purchases are now being made, and _ all]
well-known tickets are steady and strong
in price.
Prints and Ginghams—Fancy calicoes
are steady and prices are’ without
change. This report will also cover in-
digo blue prints, blacks, whites and
grays. Dress styles are in fairly good
request for re-orders; dometts and other
woven patterned napped’ goods are
steady and without change. There is
no change to report in the Fall River
market for print cloths, though the mar-
ket is very firm in the face of the pro-
posed plans for curtailment of produc-
tion. The demand for regulars con-
tinues quiet, and business in odd goods
is moderate.
Dress Gocds—There is a much more
cheerful tone to the dress goods market
this week, and jobbers generally ex-
press the opinion that within, probably,
the next ten days, a great change will
come over the conditions of the dress
goods market, and that all lines of
trade will feel the impulse of new life
in their business. Why the trade has
been so stagnant for the past few weeks
is more or less of a mystery; for, theo-
retically, the conditions are all that
could be wished for excellent business,
yet nearly every branch of the textile
trade has been exceptionally quiet.
There seems to be a change taking
place, however, and while the present
business is confined largely to the job-
bing trade and importers, agents for the
comestic mills feel quite positive that
their part of the trade is on the eve of
a considerably increased activity.
Woolens—The woolen’ goods trade
continues to improve slowly as the time
at which new lightweight lines are to
be opened approaches. Improvement
used in this sense is a purely relative
term, and the present business is only
slightly more active than the extreme
dullness existing heretofore. The out-
look for the new season is discouraging
to buyer and seller alike, and especially
so to the latter, because of the big ad-
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Some of the Requisites to Success in
That Field.
Women who buy for the great retail
shops are at the top of the ladder in
their business. The little cash girls
look upon them with awe, the sales-
women admire or envy them, the mem-
bers of the firm take counsel with them
and the drummers and wholesale dealers
bow down before them. There is not
a dry goods house in New York City
that does not intrust a large share of its
buying to women. In some as many as
ten or twelve are employed for that pur-
pose, buying all manner of things from
tooth brushes to imported gowns.
‘*Tbhe woman buyer is not a new wom-
an,’’ remarked the manager of a large
New York store. ‘‘There were always
women who bought millinery and no-
tions and things of that sort for their
own little shops, and when the stores
grew into such enormous businesses as
they have come to be the women grew
with them. They bought at first the kind
of thing which it had been their prov-
ince to handle under certain limitations
and conditions. When a woman showed
her ability to do more the chance was
given to her to do it.
‘‘In our business we employ more
women than men as buyers. No, not
for the sake of economy, but because we
think them better suited to the work. A
woman buyer gets almost as much pay
as a man whv does the same kind of
work. Some of them make as much as
$8,000 and $10,000 a year.”’
“‘T like my work better than anything
else I can think of!’ exclaimed the
woman who is probably the largest buy-
er in the country and the only one inthe
store in which she is employed. She
has the exclusive control of seven de-
partments, which is more than any one
man has, and her purchases include
such various articles as jewelry, toilet
articles, silverware, leather bags, cut-
. lery, optical goods, fans, picture frames
and parasols.
In addition to her duties as buyer she
has personal oversight of about 100 em-
ployes and sees that her goods are ar-
ranged in the most attractive manner on
the counters and in the windows.
‘‘I began my work as a_ window
dresser,’’ she explained, ‘‘and I always
take great pride in having a neat and
attractive display.
‘‘T have never regretted going into
business. I was well educated and
could have taught school, but I chose
this instead. It is far more interesting.
Oh, yes, there is no end of variety in
it, and no limit to the work either, but
you can work hard without feeling it
when you enjoy a thing. I like to see,
to handle and to buy pretty things. |
go abroad with carte blanche to buy for
my departments, and I have been for-
tunate in never getting loaded up with
stock that wouldn’t sell. I go to France,
Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Eng-
land for my goods. You see, that gives
mea ‘tour.’ I could get almost every-
thing in Paris or London, but we like
to go to the source of manufacture—one
gets better prices and greater variety.
‘Now, I don’t want to boast, but I
think there are few buyers, men or
women, who have bought as extensively
as I have, who have been abie to get
their goods worked off so well. 1 don't
think I am given to taking many risks,
and yet am not afraid to go in pretty
steep on anything that 1am assured in
My own opinion is going to be a good
seller. I am not a timid buyer, neither
am I a plunger.
‘*The plungers have had a bad time
this year. They are usually on a tidal
wave of success or in the ebb of failure.
The ‘golden mean’ occurs rarely in their
lexicon or experience. Some houses
take pride in the fact that their buyers
are not afraid ef a good thing—that is,
as long as it all ends well; but when
losses result, the plunger is admonished,
and if they continue, she loses her pres-
tige and her job.”’
‘‘T have been a bold buyer,’’ confided
a troubled-looking woman to the writer.
‘‘T have been called a plunger, but I
almost always come out well until this
season. It promised to be a great year
for trimmings, and I determined to go
beyond anyone in the city in that line of
goods. I bought the best of everything
I could find here and abroad and—well,
the season didn’t pan out as I and most
folks thought it would. I got stuck—I
have to own upto it. The firm has
been ‘decent’ about it, but I wouldn’t
like to risk such luck again in spite of
the fact that since I have been with
them I have made some bold ventures
that turned out beyond anyone’s expec-
tations. I would rather buy in that way
and lose something now and then than
to peg away ina rut all the time—only
one must not go too far. I believe a lot
in luck, and mine is pretty good on the
whole.’’
From the plunger the reporter turned
to an extremely conservative buyer.
‘‘T have been highly commended by
my firm for my careful buying,’’ she
said.
‘“Of course, I have to keep a good
stock of staple goods on hand, but I get
only a few novelties ata time. I don’t
like to have them about so long that
they get to looking shop-worn, and if
they sell readily one can easily geta
new supply.
‘“‘When I first took up this work I
thought about it all the time, day and
night. I bad been a saleswoman and I
didn't want to undertake this, but the
firm insisted, and when I had consented,
I lost sleep for fear of getting bad bar-
gains. I still worry a good deal, but
nothing like that any more. I have in-
troduced several features into my work
which have proved quite helpful, One
of these is a ‘callbook.’
‘*T have one of these books placed in
each of my departments, and whenever
a customer calls for anything that we do
not have in stock the saleswoman puts
it down in the book. In the evening I
collect the books, look them over and
order accordingly.
‘‘Notions are the hardest things to
manage. It does not matter if one is
out of dress goods, but it gives you a
bad name to be out of any sort of no-
tions that may be called for. Now, about
trimmings: I look ahead in regard to
them just as far as [ can and try to
make up my mind what line to follow.
I think satin folds will be the thing
this coming season. Why? Because
braids have been worn to death, and
satin folds are so different that I believe
they will meet with great favor. I am
going to buy them.
‘‘No, I do not go abroad for any of
my buying. I think one can do just as
well here. I give up my mornings to
the drummers, having certain ones set
apart for certain lines of goods. Then
in the afternoon I go to the different
houses and factories where we buy,
some in the city and some outside. [|
usually look over everything in the
different places first to get a good idea
of the market. Then I go over it more
carefully and make my selection.
‘*T set my own profits on my goods,
but I have to look out not to get the
price above my neighbor's. I often
send out half a dozen times a day to see
what things are selling for in other
stores, and if one of my rivals hasa
mark-down sale, down my prices have
to come.’"’
A bright young woman who sailed for
France last week went to buy under.
clothing, children’s garments and
lingerie.
“You are not afraid of your French
goods being boycotted?’’ she was asked
just before she started.
‘*No,’’ she replied with a smile, ‘‘I
don’t think there will be any prejudice
against French underwear. The reason
we buy that is on account of the hand
work. As far as designs go, the Amer-
ican manufacture is just as desirable,
but you can’t get hand work in this
country without paying exorbitant prices
for it.
‘““My friend who is going with me is
going to buy French millinery and she
doesn’t expect to buy any less because
of the scare there has been about its be-
ing boycotted. The war will have to
last longer and the French become mvure
obnoxious before we can get along with-
out Parisian models in headgear. We
shall have about a month in Parisand a
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
run over to London and combine a good
time with business,’
But even with a salary of several
thousand dollars a year, trips to Europe
and an annual vacation of from four to
six weeks, life is not all ‘‘beer and
skittles’’ for the woman buyer. No one
among the thousands of employes of the
store works harder. In almost all cases
the buyer has graduated from humbler
service. She dares never to relax her
vigilance, her judgment must be always
keen and accurate, and all her faculties
alert. Mentally and physically she must
have great endurance. Her responsibi]-
ities are enormous. A false step may
cost her firm thousands of dollars and
ruin her reputation in the business
world. If a woman maintains her suc-
cess as a buyer you may be sure that she
deserves it.
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Curtailment in Output of
Print Cloth.
Fall River, Aug. 2—The committee
in charge of the contemplated shut-down
of cotton mulls announces that more
names have recently been added to the
list of mulls that will agree to curtail,
and the committee will detinitely know
by the end of this week just what to ex-
pect. There seems to be no difference
of opinion that the depression in the
print cloth business is due to overpro-
duction.
There is held here a stock of nearly
2,000,000 pieces of goods. Even if the
present demand for goods would use up
the production of the mills, there is that
quantity to prevent any marked advance
to the selling price of goods.
The talk of pooling goods has disap-
peared. The promoters of the proposi-
tion find that they are met by manufac-
turers who have few or no goods on
hand, and who do not take kindly to
the curtailment plan, preferring to keep
machinery in operation so as to be ina
position to supply customers and to
profit by any improvement in price.
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
Around the State
Movements of Merchants.
Lansing—L. S. Hudson has engaged
in the drug business at 235 Washington
avenue, south.
Detroit—Clarence Chrysler succeeds
Christopher Chrysler & Son in the gro-
cery business.
Detroit—Miss Alice Davis has pur-
chased the millinery stock of Mrs.
Frances Russell,
Laurium—The John Strand & Sundin
Co., grocers, bas dissolved, John
Strand succeeding.
Hartford—-Helen Codman has sold her
boot and shoe and furnishing goods
stock to V. E. Manley.
St. Ignace—M. D. Murray's new
building is now completed and is oc-
cupied by his meat market and grocery
stock.
Negaunee—John Mitchell, whose gro-
cery stock was recently destroyed by
fire, will shortly re-engage in the same
line ot trade.
Onaway—Chris. Miller has purchased
the stock of hardware belonging to J.
M. Clark and removed the same to his
store building.
Fremont—Chas. E. Fellows, of Lyons,
N. Y., has leased the fruit evaporator
of Jos. Gerber and will utilize 500 bush-
els of apples per day.
Mt. Clemens—Gerlach & Houghton
succeed Ameis, Gerlach & Houghton
in the agricultural implement, wagon
and harness business.
Belleville—P. W. Felt has purchased
a store building and will remove his
drug stock inio same as soon as it can
be refitted for his use.
Benton Harbor—A. L. Smith has sold
his furniture stock to Gus. Schaub, of
St. Joseph, who will continue the busi-
ness at the same location.
Allegan—C. P. O'Brien and G. L.
Shipman, representing Ware & O’Brien
of Kalamazoo, have opened a line of
boots and shoes at this place.
Dexter—L. L. James has purchased
the interest of his partner, Edward H.
Croarkin, in the clothing business and
will continue the business in his own
name.
Carson City—C. Lightstone has leased
a store building at Otsego and will close
out his dry goods stock and remove his
clothing and shoe stock to that place
about Sept. 1.
Shelby—H. W. Ried has moved his
grocery stock from New Era to Shelby
and will occupy the store in the Hedges
building formerly occupied by the
Griffin grocery.
Port Huron—Wilbur Sylvester, who
for several years has been prescription
clerk in the drug store of Ed. J. Rodg-
ers, has engaged in the drug business
on his own account.
Ovid—C. E. Jillson has purchased the
corner building of Jas. Woodworth, oc-
cupied by the E. E. Cowan Clothing
Co,, and will occupy same with his dry
goods stock about Sept. 1.
Otsego—Albert Knoblock has pur-
chased Frank Fairfield’s interest in the
meat business of the firm of Knoblock
& Fairfield, and the firm will hereafter
be known as Knoblock & Son.
Adrian—R. A. Garrison, of Marine
City, and H. W. Glover, of Detroit,
have purchased Harry E. Cook’s stock
of dry goods and notions. They will
add a line of carpets and curtains. Mr.
Cook will remove to Coldwater to as-
sume a responsible position with the
Coldwater Cement Co., in which he is
largely interested
Bronson— Coward & Monroe are in-
creasing their facilities for conducting
the produce business by the erection of
a building to be used tor cleaning and
elevating grain to the bins, which they
have leased of the railroad company.
Cassopolis—J. L. Thomas and Peter
Nycewander, both of whom have been
employed in the grocery store of G. C.
Underhill & Co., have formed a copart-
nership and engaged in the grocery and
crockery business on their own account.
Belleville—A bank will shortly be es-
tablished at this place. Temporary
quarters will be secured for the present,
and, if the business proves a success, a
bank building will be erected in the
fall. Harry S. German is interested in
the enterprise.
St. Johns—James Oliver McQuistion,
who for several years has been book-
keeper for John Hicks, dealer in dry
goods, and who operates a grain eleva-
tor, has resigned his position to accept
the cashiership of the South Lyon Bank-
ing Co, at South Lyons.
Petoskey—Frank Baldwin and Charles
Edwards, of Hillsdale, have decided to
put in a cold storage and a wood and
coal yard at this place. Mr. Baldwin
is cashier of the freight department of
the Lake Shore Railroad, at Hillsdale,
while Mr. Edwards is a farmer resid-
ing near the same place.
Detroit—Several months ago the
Tradesman stated that Lyon Bros, &
Co. had retired from the wholesale ho-
siery business, which wascorrect. The
business was continued, however, un-
der another name, that of the Lyon
Bros. Hosiery Co., which is located at
96 Jefferson avenue. ‘he Tradesman
makes this statement in justice to the
new house, which claims to have
suffered the loss of some trade through
the publication above referred to.
Manufacturing Matters.
Breckenridge—The new elevator of
C. Hopkins & Co, is completed and in
operation.
Drenthe—The Drenthe Creamery Co.
paid a semi-annual dividend last week
of 25 per cent.
Corunna-—jarvis & Harrington, flour-
ing mill operators at this place, have
erected a branch mill at Durand.
Holland—The Holland Furniture Co,
has completed an addition to its tactory
building, goxtoo feet in dimensions and
four stories high.
Lewiston—The Michelson & Hanson
Lumber Co. has voluntarily increased
the wages of its employes in mills
and camps Io per cent.
Caro—C. E. Mudge has purchased
the brick and tile machinery formerly
owned by J. B. Thompson and engaged
in the brick manufacturing business.
Flint—The Wm. A. Paterson Co. is
erecting a large two-story brick block
to be used as a factory building in the
manufacture of carriages and road carts.
Petoskey—C. A. Sams and H. A.
Piester have formed a _ copartnership
and engaged in the manufacture of fla-
voring extracts, proprietary medicines
and pharmaceuticals.
Shaftsburg—W. H. Payne, of Ban-
croft, has bought J. G. March’s wheat
house and elevator. He will put ina
gasoline engine and a bean cleaner, and
make other improvements.
Richmond—McCrea “& Swadling, of
Walworth, N. Y., have purchased the
fruit evaporator here and will enlarge
its Capacity to 400 or 500 bushels of ap-
ples per day, employing from twenty-
five to thirty hands,
Flint—George C. Wilson, of this city,
and W. F. Pape, of St. Louis, Mo., are
organizing a stock company in this city
for the manufacture of buggy stops and
buggy gearings. The organization will
have a capital stock of $100,000.
Stronach—The Union Salt & Lumber
Co.’s mill has been shut down for the
past week or so,owing to a lack of logs,
and probably will not be in operation
again until about the middle of August,
as the logs are coming very slowly.
Lansing—The plant of the Michigan
Wheel Co. was bid in at foreclosure sale
last week by the Capitol Investment,
Building & Loan Association, the mort-
gagees, whose claim amounted to
$16,300. It was struck off on a bid of
$10, 000.
Holland—The Walsh De Roo Milling
Co. has established a business branch
at Allegan and will build an elevator on
land between the Lake Shore house and
the C. & W. M. round house. Wheat,
corn, oats and other grains and potatoes,
apples and other produce will be bought.
Grand Ledge—Louis Lonier, one of
the proprietors of the Grand Ledge
flouring mills, has invented a machine
for the manufacture of pretzels. The
inventor Claims that the output of five
of his machines would be sufficient to
supply the pretzei trade of the United
States,
Saginaw—Isaac Bearinger has sold the
timber on 16,000 acres of land in Presque
Isle county to a gentleman named
Mitchell, who has been operating a mill
in Huron county, and he will move his
mill to some point on the tract and cut
up the timber, which consists of cedar,
hemlock and hardwood.
Manistee—The bark trade has been
more than ordinarily active this season.
For the past two or three years the tan-
neries have been running light and bave
not been buying nearly as much bark
as usual. They have allowed their
stocks to get low so that now they are
beginning to stock up again when
there is good trade in view.
Grand Marias—Morse & Schneider,
the mercantile and lumbering firm in
Alger county, have filed two chattel
mortgages in favor of their creditors to
Enos Petitfren as trustee. The liabili-
ties are $26,000, principally to Detroit
firms and National Bank of Marquette
and Preston of Detroit. The firm also
owned the Grand Marais Exchange
Bank, but all depositors were paid off
before the firm went into liquidation.
Manistee—The first installment of the
Buckley & Douglas logs, which are be-
ing brought from Ford River, was de-
livered at Portage Lake last Saturday.
There was about 1,000,000 feet on the
raft in tow of the tug Temple Emery,
which was about eight days on the way,
delivering the raft without losing a log.
There is about 15,000,000 feet in all to
come, about 1,000,000 feet being cedar,
the balance good white pine.
Escanaba—It is stated that work on
the erection of the large wood-work ing
factory at this place will soon begin.
The principal men of the company are
M. H. and C. D. Ritzweller and Jacob
Kahn. These were all recently at Es-
canaba and with them was G. K. Al-
bey, architect at Neenah, who will draw
up plans for the buildings. The plant
will consist of the factory proper, a
large frame building three stories high,
twelve large dry kilns, two large ware-
houses, a sawmill, and engine and boiler
buildings, the last of brick. All the
machinery has been ordered. The fac-
tory will turn out tubs, pails and other
wooden goods, using 10,000,000 feet of
lumber yearly. Between 300 and 400
hands will be employed.
The Grain Market.
As is usual at this time of the year,
the wheat market was neglected, espe-
cially as the bear news was very prolific.
The fine weather, good yields and light
demand all tended to depress the mar-
ket. Even the small decrease in the
visible did not stem the weak feeling
and prices sagged slightly, although
with the present low prices it is much
harder to depress the market than it was
when wheat was I5c per bushel higher,
The exports were fair, but the receipts
were also large and had not the millers
and the country elevators been well
stocked up the visible would have been
much larger. However, from now on
we think the visible will increase in-
stead of decrease, and it will be some
time ere the burden will be heavy, espe-
cially when we find that we have only
9,000,000 bushels, or 14bushels per
capita in sight.
Corn, owing to the dry weather, is
firmer. The local rains came rather
late and were too light and, as stated,
prices advance steadily. Oats are very
short and prices are likely to advance.
The receipts of grain during the month
of July were of a diminutive character,
being I97 cars of wheat, 66 cars of corn
and 37 cars of oats, while the receipts
during the week were 66 cars of wheat,
12 cars of corn and 6 cars of oats. Ow-
ing to one mill being shut down, the re-
ceipts for the month are lower than they
would have otherwise been. The re-
ceipts for the season were very fair.
Millers are paying 61c for wheat,
C. G. A. Vorert.
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Butter Accumulating in Montreal.
From the Montreal Trade Bulletin.
There is more butter in this city than
many people even in the trade have
any idea of, the total quantity in cold
Storage and in warebouses being be-
tween 30,000 and 35,000 packages, a
smaller proportion of same being Amer-
ican than at this time last year. Of
course, a_ large portion of this butter is
held on English account to be shipped
out later, some of which will probably
not go out before September, parties on
the other side not having as good re-
frigerator facilities as we have. At this
time last year there was about 40, 000
packages in store here.
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More Peaches To Be Marketed Here
Than Ever Before.
Grand Rapids, Aug. 2—I have made
quite a careful estimate of the peach
crop of Kent County for 1898, and am
of the opinion that it will not be a full
crop, estimating all the trees of bearing
age, but I think there will be more
peaches marketed here than ever before,
as the number of trees has increased
enormously. The quality should be
good, but will be subject to weather con-
ditions. We are very much in need of
rain now, and should this condition con-
tinue, the crop must suffer.
ROBERT D. GRAHAM.
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Evidently an Impostor.
‘‘] don’t believe that he was ever at
Klondike. ’’
“Why? He told a straight story.’”’
“Yes. But he tried to borrow a dollar
from me and did not offer any mining
Stock as security.’’
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Wifely Ways.
“Is your wife getting you ready for
the front?’’
‘‘You bet she is—even all of my pock-
ets are rifled.’’
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The bible does not promise it, but
there is no doubt but that the Lord will
forgive all the lies a man tells when he
is in love,
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Grand Rapids Gossip
The Grocery Market.
Sugar—There is a steady demand for
refined grades and the oversold list cf
the refiners has been increased. Prices
are unchanged. Mail advices from
Louisiana: indicate favorable growing
weather recently, with the cane crop al-
most laid by, mostly in good condition.
The season is said to have been espe-
cially favorable for cane, with moisture
and warmth enough to make it grow
rapidly. Conditions abroad were gen-
erally favorable as to the weather.
Teas—Japanese holders have advanced
their quotations on the second pickings,
but whether the advance will meet with
a reciprocity movement in this country
remains to be seen. The market is
quiet, with little stock moving.
Coffee—There is no change in the
market, the crop in sight being almost,
if not quite, as large as a year ago,
while the coming crop is estimated by
many as being as large as the crop just
harvested. If these reports prove true,
this means a comparatively low market
all the coming year.
Rice—The sales movement for July
was in excess of the movement during
July last year, although it was less than
the movement for June and May.
Stocks, as compared with the supply for
corresponding period last year, are about
equal. The supply in first hands is es-
timated at 15,000 bags. It looks as if
the season would go out with only _nor-
mal supplies on hand. It is said that
from 6,000 to 8,000 bags of rice have
been shipped recently to Cuba and Porto
Rico, and that there will be a further
considerable call from those markets in
the future.
Canned Goods—Spot tomatoes are 2%4c
lower, due to the nearness to the com-
ing of the new pack and the prospects
of a large crop and pack. No futures
are selling. Spot corn is selling fairly
well in a small way, at unchanged
prices. No futures are offered. Peas
are not selling, and prices are un-
changed. The packers of string beans,
by reason of the short first crop, were
unable to deliver ali their future orders,
and for that reason are carrying some
orders over to the second crop. Prices
are 5@toc_ higher than last year.
Peaches are selling only in smal! lots,
no large lots being on hand. Prices
seem to be getting gradually higher.
Advices from the Coast say there is sure
to be an advance soon. California
canned peaches are probably very good
property at ruling prices.
Dried Fruits—Apricots will be un-
usually scarce and are bound to rule
high. Future prunes will rule high,
with large sizes scarce. There will be
practically no 30's, very few 4o's, and
50’s will have to be considered the
large size. Spot peaches are moving
out in a small way and stocks are light.
All business done is in small lots, at un-
changed prices. Nothing is doing in
currants and the market is easy. Rai-
sins are selling very well and the cheap-
er grades are getting cleaned up. Bet-
ter grades bring full prices. Holders
decline to shade. Apples are bound to
be scarce and high, on account of a
short crop in New York and the South-
west.
Syrup—Compound syrup shows no
change over the advance noted last
week, but the market is firm and the
demand good. No further advance is
likely, however, usless glucose advances
Stocks are ample.
further. There is
not much demand for sugar syrup,
stocks of which seem more ample.
Cheese—Cheese is not unduly high,
even at the recent advance, although
a little higher than last year. The de.
mand for cheese is very good, as it al-
ways is at this season. No change is
expected in the near future, although
the market is firm.
Provisions— Provisions are strong and
some lines are %c higher than a week
ago. The generally large demand is
the cause of the advance. All smoked
meats are selling very well. Lard stays
down because the make is very large.
No decline is likely, however, a slight
advance in sympathy with other provi-
sions being more likely than a de-
cline. The market will hold its own
in all probability.
Fish—There has been no actual ad-
vance in salmon, but the feeling is
strong and a higher range of values is
looked for, based on the fact that August
and September are the months of heav-
lest consumption. The new pack of low-
grade salmon will not be available until
November or December. Spot stocks
of low-grade salmon are light. The
mackerel market is in very good shape,
there being a good demand and steadily-
advancing prices. Cod is selling very
well, and the quality is good. Prices
are unchanged. Lake fish are moving
nicely at unchanged prices. Sardines
are practically unchanged. Three-quar-
ter mustards are getting very scarce and
the price has advanced about roc per
case.
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Hides, Tallow and Wool.
There is a small take off of hides in
Michigan. Light stock is more plentiful
and the demand is fully up to the sup-
ply. The general hide market does not
change, asking prices being “@%c
above the selling price.
Tallow is slow and sluggish, with
some call from soapers who wish to pur-
chase at a still lower price than seems
to be ruling. There is a good supply
of old stock, which low prices do not
move,
Wool is again a selling commodity in
the East. Sales last week were up to
last January sales. Manufacturers are
looking for some wool, but find no soft
spots; in fact, our market is really
higher in the selling price, especially
so on fine. London sales closed 5 per
cent. higher all around, while fine was
advanced 2%4c from previous sales, with
no demand from this side and little
salable offering for our needs. On the
other hand, manufacturers seem to have
a good supply from what they carried
over, so that they are running full time
and no spindles idle. The future is
bright for wool. Wm. T. HEss.
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At the regular meeting of the Grand
Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association,
held at the Tradesman office Tuesday
evening, the final report of the Picnic
Committee was received and accepted.
No business of importance was trans-
acted, aside from perfecting the final
arrangements of the annual event which
takes plae Thursday.
John F. Hartmann has erected a store
building, 22x38 feet in dimensions, at
the corner of Third and Fremont streets
and will shortly open a new grocery
store at that location, having purchased
his stock of the Worden Grocer Co. Mr.
Hartmann proposes to adopt the cash
plan altogether.
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H. E. Beasley has engaged in the
grocery business at Ithaca. The Lemon
& Wheeler Company furnished the stock,
The Produce Market.
Apples—FEating varieties, such as
Astrachans and Duchess, command $1.75
per bbl., and cooking varieties fetch
$1.25.
Beets— toc per doz. bunches.
Blackberries—8oc per crate of 16 qts.
for home grown. The late rains will
have a marked effect in the size of
berry, both home grown and wild.
Butter—The market is in very good
shape, there being a good, steady de-
mand. The dry weather which has pre-
vailed all over the country has greatly
curtailed the make by injuring the pas-
turage. The demand for milk for ice
cream, etc., is also having its effect,
and these causes have made the market
advance Ic per pound. The butter ar-
riving now is of fair quality for the
season, which always shows effects of
heat. Factory creamery is held at 18c
and fancy dairy at 15@16c.
Cabbage—Home grown is in ample
supply at 45@5oc per doz. Chicago stock
fetches $1.25 per crate of 30 to 50 heads.
Celery—15c per bunch.
Carrots—toc per doz. bunches.
Cauliflower—$1.25 per doz. heads for
Illinois stock.
Cocoanuts—4@5c.
Corn—Green, 15c per doz. ears. The
stock is still so poor that dealers do not
undertake to ship it to outside points,
although the demand is active, espe-
cially from the resort towns.
Cucumbers—-The price has declined
to 20c per doz., due to the increased re-
ceipts.
Eggs—The hot wave bas played havoc
with eggs, so far as quality is con-
cerned, and not much improvement in
this respect is expected before the end
of the month. Handlers are taking in
stock on the basis of value, holding
carefully candled stock at t1c and
choice candled at 12c.
Green Onions—toc per doz., accord-
ing to size.
Green Peas—75c per bu. for home
grown Marrowfats, which are very
scarce, on account of the drought.
Honey—Fine new comb commands
12@13C¢.
Lemons—Fancy Messinas are ad-
vanced to $5.50@6 per box and prices
on the entire line are very firm. The
demand is excellent, the weather favor-
ing a large movement.
Lettuce—50@6oc per bu. for head.
Muskmelons--—Indiana_ Cantaloups
fetch 75c per doz. Little Gems com-
mand 6oc per basket of about 20. Osage
fetch $1 per crate of a dozen.
Onions—Home grown command goc
per bu.
Oranges—There are still good sup-
plies cf fruit on hand and prices are
firm, with fair movement.
Peathes— Alexanders are coming in
like a deluge, but as they literally ‘‘rot
on sight,’’ growers are realizing only
25@4oc for the crop. Early Rivers,
which are a trifle better in quality and
can be shipped short distances, com-
mand 40@5o0c. Each succeeding variety
will be better from now on.
Pears—Small Michigan command 50@
75c per bu, Marys fetch 75c@$1, but
do net stand up well enough for ship-
ping purposes.
Plums—Wild Goose from Indiana
command $1 per crate. Michigan va-
rieties will begin to come in about Aug.
fo. The crop is the largest ever known
in this vicinity.
Pop Corn—soc per bu.
Potatoes—Home grown
ample supply at 45@5oc.
Radishes—toc per doz. bunches.
Tomatoes—Home grown command
$1.50 per bu., but the price will grad-
ually drop to a lower level.
Wax Beans—7sc per bu. and scarce
at that.
Watermelons—14@2oc for choice Mis-
souri stock, which is in ample supply.
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The Morning Market.
While in general the management of
the market seems to operate with little
friction, there are some evidences of a
lack of thoroughness which are made
manifest by a copious rain. It had been
Stock: is in
observable for some time that the sur-
face of the roadways were being con-
verted into fine powder to an undue de-
gree, but this fact excited little atten-
tion until the powder was transformed
into mud, producing a quantity which
is a great disappointment to those who
fondly hoped that the hard rolled drive-
ways would be permanent. With the
exercise of proper care on the part of
the management this hope would have
been justified, although the work would
have been attended with a little ex-
pense, but only such as the conditions
fully justified. It was only necessary to
keep the driveways properly sprinkled
during the dry weather to prevent the
pulverization of the dust. It is singular
that this matter seems to have failed to
engage the attention of the market
authorities until a rain should develop
an unqualified mudhole, and it remains
to be seen whether steps will be taken
to prevent a recurrence and _intensifica-
tion of the annoyance, to be alternated
with the scarcely less disagreeable
affliction of dust during the dry seasons.
While the rain shows pretty accurate
grading and fair surface drainage, a
few places seem to have settled so that
considerable ponds are retained, which
should have the attention of the repair
department if there is such an institu-
tion.
It is surprising to see how little effect
a rain seems to have upon the market
attendance. Of course, decrease in the
number of grocers and gardeners, but
not to an extent to prevent a lively busi-
ness after a night of heavy rain. This
is on account of the necessity of mar-
keting what is prepared to prevent its
loss, and then as there is likely to be
nearly as much buying as ever, those
who do venture have the better chance.
The feature of the week has been the
heavy offerings of early peaches. These
have been in unusual profusion for so
early in the season. Prices have been
moderate, but sales have been suffi-
ciently easy to show that there is money
in the hands of consumers to warrant the
use of an unusual quantity of the more
delicate fruits. Apples are making a
fair show, although greatly overshadowed
by the peaches. Small fruits are be-
coming scarce, indicating that the sea-
son is going to end rather early for
them. Tomatoes are beginning to be
offered in small quantities and com-
mand, as yet, rather fancy prices. Veg-
etables are in great variety and seem to
find a steady, healthy sale at prices
which, on the average, seem low to the
sellers yet yield reasonably profitable re-
turns.
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J. Geo, Lehman and a party of friends
made a fishing excursion to Pine Island
Lake Monday. Mr. Lehman succeeded
in landing several fish, but the feature
which interested him the most was a
bite—on one arm—inflicted by the busi-
ness end of a bumble bee. The arm
has swelled to twice its usual size and
its owner is receiving the condolences
of his friends, all of whom insist on his
trying a favorite recipe or formula for
the relief of the injured member.
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Heman G. Barlow (Olney & Judson
Grocer Co.) has returned to his desk—
a monster new one, by the way—after
a fortnight’s trip around Lake Huron
and Lake Superior.
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Sumner M. Wells (Clark-Jewell-Wells
Co.) has returned from a month’s out-
ing on the banks of Crystal Lake.
a
A. D. Beardsley has opened a grocery
store at Owosso. The Worden Grocer
Co. furnished the stock.
6
MICHIGAN TRADESMAIN
Woman’s Wor
We Are Martyrs to Our
Neighbors.
Time and time again I have been
tempted to exclaim,
had no neighbors! What a happy, care-
free, comfortable sort of a time she must
have had!
her clothes were in the fashion, nobody
to watch what she bought in the market,
no observant eye taking in her wash
line, no listening ear to overhear every
time she had a spat with her husband
and spanked the baby!
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Wherein
Why, do you know, we are simply
slaves to our neighbors?
our going outs and coming ins and run
us into extravagance and debt, and we
spend time and money and _ health and
temper and bring on nervous prostration
doing what we think they expect of us
and not what we want to do ourselves.
It is they who are responsible for half |
our miseries and mistakes.
be as brave as Julius Caesar or Mr.
Hobson about everything else, but we
They regulate |
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are abject cowards before the opinions |
of our neighbors. We may think thos
and so, and every dictate of common
sense and reason may point to our fol-
lowing a certain course, but it is weighed
in the balance and found wanting if
Mrs. Smith across the way, and Mrs.
Jones around the corner, and Mrs,
Brown next door hold contrary views,
And the queerest part of it is that in-
dividually we may think those ladies
chumps who don't know enough to come
in out of the rain, but that has nothing
to do with the case, and doesn’t give
us the nerve to go along and do as we
please, independent of their approba-
tion.
What makes everyone of us who can
rake and scrape the money go away
from our comfortable homes in summer
to some deadly dull resort, where we
eat stale fruit and canned vegetables
and hang up for six or eight weeks in
a room no bigger than a cupboard? Do
we expect to enjoy it? Not on our life.
Nobody who has ever tried it once ex-
pects to enjoy it. The summer exodus
is half the time an excursion solely for
the benefit of our neighbors. They ex-
pect us to go, and if we don’t they
speculate about it and wonder over why
we didn't, and we lack the moral cour-
age to stand it.
In the same way they are responsible
for the way we build our houses, The
money that would have bought a roomy
lot on an unpretentious thoroughfare
goes for a strip on the avenue, where
we wedge in between people whom we
fondly believe to be fashionable, and
we plaster the front of the house over
with jim-cracks that we have
across the street to see, even if we have
to scrimp on the conveniences in the
back to pay for them. Even the f urni-
ture is bought on the same unselfish
plan, and we load the parl
onrnaments, no matter how many
forts we lack in the kitchen.
done for our neighbors.
There's telling
this
causes,
no
the trouble that
awe of
couples know who
could
you get
Start out In a sensible
able way, with a litt]
furniture and
cooking, and
comfortable, and get along.
the girl doing her own
But they
and so they havea fine wedding,
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i the bill collector.
ido it. They knew better, They were | think that if we could emancipate our-
Nobody to notice whether |
| bottom of the domestic problem. There
|} are So Many women wanting work, and
| they are so awfully particular what kind
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the girl's people are put on half rations| to have the neighbors go away and _ say
for the next six months to pay fora that Mrs. Smith had only three potted
silly white satin gown. palms and two punch bowls, while Mrs.
They go to|
housekeeping in a house that is gorgeous Jones had six. We must do what the
into one prolonged struggle to head off!a blood vessel in the attempt.
They didn’t want to] I confess there are times when I
simply victims to our common dread of |
selves from this bugaboo of what our
what people will say about us. |
neighbors say, we should have solved
| the great problem of comfortable living.
We would be able to do what we pleased
without explanation or apologies or
fibs. We should be able to enjoy sim- |
ple things, and, above, all, we would |
be able to love our neighbor as our-
selves, when she no jonger was either
It is this same feeling that is at the
vider dhl edulddv'd W vid valued ville vive
of work it is. I think I know personal-
ly a couple of millions of girls who are
preparing themselves to be artists and
illustrators and prima donnas, and not
a single one who is qualifying for a
good cook. If you advertise in the
paper for typewriter or stenographer or
man woman, as glad to get rid of us
and in as much dread of our opinion as
we were of hers. DorotHy Dix.
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and lucrative than that of the illy paid
girl who clerks in a store, who must be
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idea that clerking is more respectable
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cooking stove.
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7
How Capricious Fortune Came in a
Fiery Ordeal.
J. A. Foote in the American Druggist.
In no sense could the ‘‘ Black Street
Pharmacy’’ be regarded as a_ beautiful,
OF €ven preity, drug store Pove arty
and lack of means were written 1n every
line of the cheap white fixtures: in the
scanty assortment of labeled shelf-bot-
tles “all thinly scattered to make up a
show,’’ and in the meagre stock showa
in the three lonesome-looking show-
cases that dotted the long bare counter.
Yet in the eyes of one person it was
beautiful. James Brown, Ph. G., loved
his store with the same unselfish affec-
tion that a fond father gives an erring
son who has caused him pain and
trouble.
To his store and business James
Brown had given the best years of his
life and the priceless treasures of
youth, hope and ambition. In return,
the store had given him thinning locks,
wrinkled brows, anxiety, and, at last,
poverty.
Perhaps these things came into his
mind to-night; but if they did they
were again quickly banished. He had
loved his store always; he loved it more
than ever to-night. True it had brought
him care and worry, but had it not also
brought him happiness? And like the
exiled patriot yearning toward his na-
tive land, he loved the poor little store,
not for what it was, but for what it
should have been, for what he dreamed
it might have become.
What ruins speak more eloquently of
pitiable misery than the shattered re
mains of the castles we rear in the land
of imagination? To-night James Brown
stood amidst the ruins of the bright-
hued hopes he had builded, and mock-
ing reality only served to show him how
beautiful were his cherished ambitions.
He saw himself at the head of his class
on graduation day; he listened to the
applause that greeted him when he was
awarded his prizes, and he heard again
the voices of his friends telling him
that he was a lucky fellow and that he
would succeed. And then there came
before him the sweet face that had
stirred him to exert himself, the one
who had come with him to the little
store when he first took possession of it,
the one who had cheered him in his
successes and consoled him in_ his
losses.
‘“God bless her!’’ he involuntarily
said.
It was her presence that had made
the store so dear to him. When he first
commenced business he got along very
well. He had hopes of buying the place
and enlarging it. He began to put
money in his interest account at the
bank and his hopes were coming to
pass. But then a change came. The
big department stores and the cutters
made inroads on his trade and some of
the physicians commenced to use tab-
lets and to dispense their own medi-
cines. His customers dropped away
gradually and he was no longer able to
keep up his stock. Matters went from
bad to worse. He worked with all his
energy to revive his failing business,
but to no purpose. Care and worry be-
gan to tell on him, and now no one
would recognize in this man with bowed
shoulders and haggard cheeks the
James Brown of a few years ago.
He had struggled against misfortune
as long as he could. To-morrow would
see the end of it, for Morgan & Co.,
the wholesale druggists, intended to levy
on his stock for debt. This night would
be his last night upon earth; he looked
upon his store for the last time. At
supper he yearned to kiss his wife and
children good-bye, but he feared to do
so lest they should suspect his purpose
He intended to deceive them as he
would deceive the world. They would
be happy; they would not want for food
after his death, and no one would know
that he was a suicide. Long ago he had
carefully laid his plans for this crisis
His insurance of $10,000 would support
his family, his stock would satisfy the
claim of Morgan & Co. Aconite was
sure and left no trace. ‘‘Heart dis-
ease,’’ the coroner would say.
He laughed softly to himself and
looked at his watch. It was 10 o’clock ;
the hour had arrived.
pulled down the blinds
money in the
Carefully he
and counted the
drawer. It was a very
small sum. He locked the door and
then worked for a while on his books,
Having finished bis entries, he calmly
and deliberatsly tock a bottle labeled
Tr. Aconit. Rad. from the shelf and pro-
cured a graduate. A look of disap-
pointment crossed his face. The bottle
was empty He searched for the fluid
extract, but found that container empty
also. In his search he found some fluid
extract of cannabis indica. *‘This will
answer the purpose,’' he said, and he
poured a quantity in the graduate and
regarded the green fluid with a critical
eye. He raised it to his lips and sud-
denly set it down again. ‘There was a
sharp peal of the night bell.
He unlocked the door and let bis cus-
tomer in. It was a man who wanted a
bottle of colic cure. ‘* Big fire uptown,’
said the customer as he was leaving.
**Where is it?’’ asked the druggist.
‘Up to old Morgan's, the wholesale
druggist. His house is afire. Well, he
can afford to build a new one, I guess.
Good night!’’
“Yes, he can afford
bitterly.
He looked out upon the street before
locking the door again. A misty rain
was falling, and the eastern sky was
it,’’ said Brown
reddened with the murky glare of the
burning dwelling. He gazed on the
dismal scene for a moment and then
walked behind the prescription case and
emptied the graduate of poison with |
one draught. After rinsing his mouth
with water, he carefully washed the
graduate and replaced the bottle of
poison in its usual position on the shelf.
Then he seated himself at his desk
and awaited the action of the narcotic.
After a while a peculiar feeling of be-
atitude and exhilaration seized him.
The familiar outlines of the store dis-
appeared and he was surrounded by un-
dulating, irradiant shapes of countless
beautiful tints and colors that changed
with kaleidoscopic rapidity. Their
motion, slow at first, gradually quick-
ened and produced a preternaturally
sweet music that increased in loudness
with the rapidity of the changes of
color. Quicker and quicker flashed the
colors and louder and louder waxed the
harmony, until at last, with a flash of
color and a crash of music, he felt his
soul separate from his body and soar
away into space.
Everything now was dark and a ter-
rible silence prevailed. Inthe distance
there was a vast light and he felt him-
self borne on toward it with an_irresist-
ible impulse. For hours he sped on
with frightful velocity and at last he
stood in the glare of a vast piilar of fire
that reached from the earth to far above
the skies. At the base of the at
there were thousands of men, who
screamed and shouted and dashed to-
ward the flames and then retreated when
the destroying element touched them
They were trying to reach a figure that
stood in the centre of the fiery pillar,
and none had the courage to brave the
flames. As he looked he knew that the
figure they would gain was Success, the
thing that he himself had tried to claim
when he was mortal. But now he was
a spirit and the flames could not harm
him and he could grasp Success with
scarce an effort. He laughed at the
puny efforts of the crowd and dashed
into the midst of the pillar of fire.
Clasping the fair-haired goddess to his
breast, he soared away again into the
oceans of darkness and limitless space,
where the cries of the baffled mortals
could not pursue him.
ee
He was still in darkness, but the feel-
ing of exhilaration and ambition that
had possessed him was now succeeded
by an enervating numbness and weari-
ness. He heard tones of familiar
voices, but his benumbed faculties
could not grasp the meaning of the
words that were spoken. With a pain-
ful mental effort he tried to comprehend
his situation Then be recognized the
voice of his wife.
‘‘Is he out of danger, doctor?’’ she
asked,
A man’s voice answered her, but he
dow
could
on the
him.
could not understand what was said ; | to be commended,’’ they said, ‘‘from
the voice seemed to be getting farther | the circumstance that the father of the
and farther away until it was lost entire- ichild whom Mr. Brown rescued had a
ly. mortgage on Mr. Brown’s stock which
before he could |
occurred,
It was many days
realize what had
wife and
he could not
meant; but gradually
their remarks the story
happenings, and also learned that they
had no knowledge of his
suicide.
Either on account of some
tion of the drug he had taken or some
physical idiosyncrasy in himself, the
poison only served to stimulate him into
a half-frenzied state of ‘‘hasheesh’’
toxication. In this condition he
gone to the fire, dashed into the burning |
building a
ter of Mr.
understand what they
deteriora-
Morgan, who stood at a win-
screaming for aid. What they
not understand was that, after
seizing her in his arms, he had jumped
from the window in stead of descending
ladder that had been reared for |
He was badly burned and his arm |
was broken from his daring leap.
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When his}
his nurses spoke of his bravery |
he gleaned from |
of the night’s |
attempted |
in-|
had |
and reached the young daugh- |
The}
newspapers spoke in extravagant praise
of his bravery,
was to have been foreclosed on the day
succeeding the tire.’’ But the mortgage
was never foreclosed. Mr. Morgan not
only declared the obligation cancelled,
but he also bought the stock at a figure
far in excess of its value,and afterwards
installed James Brown in a_ responsible
position in the wholesale house of Mor-
igan & Co.
Capricious fortune, that bad so long
| deserted him, seemed to have come to
him in the fiery ordeal of the night when
he plotted his own destruction, and to-
day one of the largest drug corporations
in the Western States is the Morgan &
Brown Co.
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Trust the Landlord for That.
I Suppose you get a lot of honey-
moon couples billing and cooing around
| here: ?'’ asked the inquisitive stranger of
jthe landlord of our favorite week-end
seclusion.
‘Well, ye-es, "replied the man of ex-
perience, ‘plenty of cooing. I manage
‘which was all the more|the rest.
or only one cent you can have an
imine
YOUR LEAKY ROOF
and tell you why
EX pert ex:
it leaks and how
much it will cost “to stop that
hole.”” We have had 28 years’ ex-
perience ir business, and are
reliable and pane We have
men traveling and can send them to
you on short notice. All kinds of
roofs put on and repaired by
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THE COTTON GOODS TRADE.
In a recent issue the Chicago Tribune
reviews editorially the depression in
the cotton goods trade of the New Eng-
land States and seeks to explain the
causes and suggest remedies. The
Tribune admits that the depression does
not extend to the South; but, on the con-
trary, the relative cheapness of manu-
facturing cost in the South is one of the
powerful contributing factors in the
trouble affecting the New England mills.
While giving due weight to success-
ful Southern competition, our Chicago
contemporary points out that New Eng
land depression is not entirely due to
that cause. Lack of enterprise on the
part of manufacturers in pushing trade
with foreign couutries is said to be one
of the causes, as through this lack of
enterprise American manufacturers lose
much trade that they should properly
control.
This country does not export cotton
goods to the extent that it sbould. Our
production has outstripped the country’s
ability to consume; hence, unless we
look abroad for a market, we must suffer
the evils of over-production. As we
produce the raw material, there is no
reason why we should not compete suc-
cessfully with all comers and secure the
lion’s share of the foreign demand for
cotton goods. That we have not secured
the share of the foreign demand for cot-
ton goods to which we are entitled is
unfortunately well known. Take, for
instance, the Latin-American countries
to the south of us. Although nearer to
us, and maintaining the most friendly
relations with us, these countries,
nevertheless, persist in purchasing by
far the greater share of the goods they
consume, whether cotton goods or other
commodities, from European countries.
Take the republic of Colombia as an
example. In 1893 the exports of the
four principal countries trading with
Colombia were as follows: France,
$7,394,000; Germany, $1,315,000; Great
Britian, $4,908,000; the United States,
$3,156,000. Of the British trade, more
than one-half ($2,700,000) was in cotton
goods, while that of the United States
was only $301,690—and this, in spite of
the fact that it requires only nine days
for our steamers to reach the principal
Colombian port from New York, against
fifteen from Liverpool and eighteen from
Germany.
The reason for this anomalous condi
tion of things is not due to prejudice
against us or our goods, but to the fact
that American merchants and manufac-
turers do not take the proper steps to
cater to the Latin-American trade. Our
New England manufacturers take no
steps to manufacture especially for the
South American trade. They do not
turn out such patterns as are desired by
the trade there, nor are the goods
packed in the way that meets the spe-
cial needs of the markets whose trade
we desire. European merchants are
careful to look after all these points,
and, as a result, they secure the trade
even in cotton goods, for the manufac-
ture of which they must buy the raw
material of us.
Our victory over Spain will open up
to us new markets and, consequently,
will afford our cotton manufacturers an
opportunity to make money; but there
is no reason why they sbould not cap-
ture the lion's share of the Latin-Amer-
ican trade if they only take the proper
steps to secure it by producing such
goods as the trade demands and putting
the goods up iu suitable packages. The
attempt to educate foreign countries to
admire our tastes in goods and pack-
ages is sure to prove a dismal failure.
Our European competitors are wise
enough not to make such an experi-
ment, and, consequently, they capture
the trade.
MEXICO’S PROSPERITY.
While we have been enjoying a phe
nomenal export trade during the past
year, owing to our unprecedented ship-
ment of foodstuffs to all parts of the
world, we have not been alone among
American countries in this kind of
prosperity. Our next door neighbor to
the south, Mexico, according to official
figures just published, has also been
reaping a rich export harvest.
The tctal sales by Mexico to outsiders
during its past fiscal year reached
$112,000,000, in round numbers, while
the imports were about $80, 000, 000 in
value. This leaves the balance of trade
in Mexico’s favor at $32,000, 000, or over
16 per cent. of her total foreign trade.
The notable point about this balance is
that it is $22,000,000 larger than the ex-
cess of the preceding year. This indi-
cates a growth of foreign trade almost
as great in proportion to the whole vol-
ume as that observed in the United
States. It means certainly a developing
importance of Mexican trade and points
to agricultural and industrial activity.
It is unfortunate that our people, and
especially our Congress, do not seem to
appreciate how Mexico is steadily de-
veloping in a commercial way. We are
not making that effort through reciproc-
ity or otherwise that might give us large
increase of trade south of the Rio
Grande. It will be matter for astonish-
ment that last year our exports to Mex-
ico actually decreased in value com-
pared with the preceding year. Of the
$80, 000,000 worth of imports into Mex-
ico last year, our share was only about
$20,000,000, when it ought to have been
three times that amount.
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Blanco may blow as long as there is
breath in his hody, but a town in which
dog’s meat is becoming a rarity as weil
as a luxury is in a bad way and could
not muster much strength to repel a vig-
orous assault,
There are some surprises for our
troops in Porto Rico, notably good roads.
The majority of our forces are not used
to such luxuries at home.
{ A man with trust on the brain is dis-
trusted by everybody.
OUR RECEPTION IN PORTO RICO.
The experiences of our army and
navy at Guanica and Ponce, if the ac-
tion of the inhabitants of those places
is a criterion for judging the island
sentiment, would indicate that Porto
Rico is a ripe apple waiting to fall in-
to the American lap. The scenes at
Ponce were almost as inspiriting as
those at Santiago when the Spanish flag
came down, notwithstanding the dissim-
ilarity.
The city of Ponce is nearly as large
as Santiage. It isa place of commer-
cial importance and its population is
possibly representative of the best ele-
ments to be found on the island. To
have captured such a place with its in-
habitants hostile toward us and aided
by a strong and determined garrison
would have given General Miles all he
could do with the force at his command
at the time of the surrender. To have
captured it without losing a man or
firing a shot is remarkarble as showing
that the sentiment there is strongly anti-
Spanish, and indeed pro-American, in
spite of the fact that no rebellion has
been in progress in the island.
It is easy to believe, as the reports
say, that there is a much higher order
of citizenship and intelligence in Porto
Rio than in Cuba. People who have
been always under the flag of Spain
who can yet meet American invaders
with a brass band and cheer the Stars
and Stripes testify to an intelligent ap-
preciation of the difference between
Spanish and American sovereignty and
what the latter will mean for them in
the way of peace and prosperity. The
mayor of the city appears to have voiced
this recognition of the meaning of the
coming of the Americans. And yet
Porto Rico has been about the best gov-
erned of any of the Spanish colonies.
Still the burdens have been heavy and
revolution has only been avoided be-
cause the island failed to offer the phys-
ical opportunities and advantages for
conducting a desultory or guerilla war to
be found in Cuba. It was always pos-
sible for Spain easily to put down a re-
bellion.
There may yet bea stubborn resist-
ance at different points by the Spanish
troops in the island, but it is almost
certain that no assistance will be given
them by the native inhabitants and that
conquest will be comparatively easy.
We cannot but the more think that we
are obtaining a valuable possession in
Porto Rico, not only by reason of its
Strategic value, but on account of the
character of its population and its
splendid commercial promise. People
who can appreciate the coming of the
flag of freedom are largely prepared to
meet the responsibilities of self-govern-
ment.
GENERAL TRADE SITUATION.
As the beginning of the war with
Spain seemed to have little effect on the
stock market conditions, probably by
reason of iis effects being discounted
beforehand, so its probable ending is as
devoid of material effect. Indeed, at
no recent time has the market shown as
little variation for a period of six weeks
as in the last week, and that while the
most sensational conditions were immi
nent. There has been a steady though
slight strengthening of values, the vari-
ation being less than a dollar per share
on the average. One of the most potent
factors in the past in stock speculation
has been rumors of political complica-
tions and ‘‘war clouds,"’ but the present
experience seems likely to deprive that
factor of much of its potency in the fy-
ture.
General trade continues to manifest
unexpected activity for the season. Clos-
ing for repairs has been made as _ short
as possible and work, in anticipation of
a heavy fall demand, is being pushed
energetically. While there has been
some talk of a probable lessening of
railway traffic, based on the assumption
that so long as a period of unusual ac
tivity must be followed by a reaction,
as a matter of fact indications seem to
favor a continuance of the present
movement. There is an unusually heavy
crop of wheat to be moved, with pros-
pects favorable for corn and an unsup-
plied demand, which gives assurance
of a market on the other side. This
would seem to be sufficient, with the
other favoring conditions, to warrant the
expectation of a heavy traffic for a con-
siderable time to come.
The downward movement of wheat
and other grains, which has character-
ized the past few weeks since the Leiter
collapse, appears to have reached its
level and the last day or two has scored
an advance. Foreign demand con-
tinues to keep up a heavy export, and
a little conservatism in selling on the
part of farmers, who seem to be able to
wait, is enough to turn the scale when
the proper level is reached. Export of
wheat for the month exceeds that of the
corresponding time last year by about
25 per cent., and corn in somewhat less
proportion.
The characteristic feature of the iron
and steel manufacture is the unexpect-
edly larger booking of orders. Summer
repairs have been cut as short as pos-
sible and most works are again in oper-
ation,
The near ending of the war, with the
consequent political changes, brings
prospect of the arrival of Cuban and
other West Indian trade on a scale not
known under the old conditions. Al-
ready steamship lines are projected for
Cuba and the new colony of Porto Rico,
and manufacturers of sugarmaking ma-
chinery, etc., in Pittsburg and _ else-
where are turning their attention in that
direction. It is certain that the new or-
der will bring a material trade impetus
in that direction, while the restoration
of Eastern trade following the interrup-
tions of the war will exert a still greater
general influence.
For the month of July the volume of
business in progress throughout the
country is considerably in excess of any
corresponding month on record. Ac-
counts of retail trade, especially in the
West, are almost universally encoura-
ging, and urgency of dealers to obtain
stocks earlier than were expected isa
common feature.
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The Chicago dailies have had to raise
the price of their papers, Cut-throat
business was tried long enough to dem-
onstrate that it doesn’t pay. Every
now and then some fellow has to cut
that kind of a wisdom tooth.
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Spaniards think Miles ought to have
landed where he promised to land, after
they had taken the trouble to defend the
place,
——— ein
Most of the ‘‘ Remember-the-Maine”’
poetry is of such nature as to make peo-
ple wish to forget the Maine.
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For subduing hungry Spaniards, the
American army ration is mightier than
the sword,
—_—_—_——
Spain wants the earth, but does no
know how to fight for it,
Giger
QUESTIONS AS TO ALLIANCE.
The sudden and notable drawing to-
gether in a sort of mutual sympathy,
since the outbreak of the wor between
the United States and Spain, of Great
Britain and the United States -is the
most remarkable circumstance that has
been brought into existence by the war.
This curious expression of interna-
tional sympathy was primarily the re-
sult of a sort of foreboding that the war
with a European nation, and the con-
quest and occupation of that nation’s
East and West Indian possessions, would
project the United States into the
world’s arena as one of the great powers
to be reckoned with, and necessitate a
readjustment of the European balance
of national power.
In such a case, new combinations and
new alliances would be formed, and
these would be accomplished on the
basis of mutual and common interest
among the nations socombining. It was
some such idea that seemed to draw the
two great English-speaking powers to-
gether and may, in the course of time,
effect some such alliance, but it will
only be under the stress of extreme pres-
sure of peril.
Alliances between nations are not
made from considerations of generous
sentiment, but of selfish advantage. In
this connection, a story is told about
the purchase of Alaska from Russia im-
mediately after the close of the Civil
War. It was then that Russia, unsolic-
ited, and, to the general public at least,
unexpected, offered to sell to this coun-
try all ber possessions in North America.
Alaska was then a territory as little
known and less esteemed than were the
Philippines by the general publica year
ago. The negotiations were conducted
by Secretary Seward, and the transfer
was made after some opposition by Con-
gress. It was thought that the country
was Sterile; that it would never have
any value, and that to pay $7,500,000
for it was pure extravagance. Most of
the country is in the Arctic zone, and,
prior to the rich discoveries of gold
there, the country was considered well
nigh worthless, although it has some
strategic value from a military point of
view.
The story in connection with the pur-
chase of Alaska is that it was to reim-
burse the Czar’s government for fitting
out a fleet at the opening of the Civil
War to be used in behalf of the United
States in case they got into a war with
France or Great Britain or with both.
There is said to be this basis for the
story. At the opening of the Civil War,
a Russian fleet did cruise in American
waters and there was left no doubt what-
ever as to the sympatbies of the Czar
with the Northern government. There
was a large sympathy in England with
the Southern people, the English polit-
ical economists holding the idea that,
if the Southern States should secure
their divorcement from the Union, Eng-
land would enjoy special advantages
in getting cotton and striking a deadly
blow at the cotton industry in the
Northern States.
Whether there was any secret treaty
between the United States and
cannot
Russia
be stated, but the existence of
such a convention is mucb to be
doubted. Russian statesmanship is ex-
tremely sagacious and farseeing. For
many reasons there has long been antag-
onism between Russia and Great Brit-
ain, and the possibility of interference
by England in favor of the Southern
States in 1861 might well have aroused
Russia to show a preference for the
other side. This expression on the part
of Russia for the Northern States was
made much of in Washington and
throughout the part of the Union repre-
sented at the capital.
It looks as if, in the course of time,
Russia and Great Britain may come to
blows for supremacy in the Far East.
Should the United States become estab-
lished as a military power in Asia, by
reason of holding possessions in the
Philippine, Ladrone and Caroline ar-
chipelagoes, there will have to be some
readjustment of international relations
The United States and Japan will be
new and powerful factors in the settling
of the problem.
Spaniards can own their stores and
plantations in Cuba the same as other
men, provided they keep within the
law. They may do this iu the United
States and hold office, too, if they adopt
its Citizenship. The same applies to
Cubans. What are Americans in Cuba
for if not for business?
Senators who think the indemnity
Spain must give the United States
should be fixed according to her ability
to pay are lawyers, of course. A good
lawyer will not make his fee bigger
than the property possessions of bis
client,
It does not appear that Germany has
been asked to say how much or how lit-
tle the United States shall receive from
Spain in the way of cash indemnity,and
little things like islands and ports that
may be useful some day.
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WE WILL RETALIATE.
The German government forbids the
importation into the empire of Ameri-
can food products for the alleged rea-
son that they threaten the health of the
people. For instance, our hog products
are excluded on the ground that they
contain trichinae. Careful investiga-
tions by our consuls have failed to find
any case of Germans contracting dis-
ease through the use of American meat.
On the contrary they have traced every
case of that character to diseased home
products. Notwithstanding that inves-
tigation even by its own experts has
failed to substantiate the charge that
there is danger of contracting trichinosis
from the use of American hog products,
Germany persists in excluding them. It
has also sought to place an embargo on
our fruit, on the ground that is is in
fected with scale, although an examina-
tion of this disease in German orchards
has thus far shown it to be of native
origin. The exclusion of American
products on sanitary and precautionary
grounds is simply for the purpose of
shutting out American competition in
auswer to the demands of the German
agriculturists, especially the large
landed proprietors, who are a power in
politics.
This sanitary pretense game is one
others can play at, and the Washington
Government proposes to take a hand in
it. In Germany the livelihood of a
large number of people cepends on toy
making. The United States is a large
customer for German toys; in fact, it
absorbs about all the surplus production.
The chemists of the Agricultural De-
partment are now engaged in analyzing
the paints and colorings on all toys im-
poted to this country from Germany,
with a view to ascertaining whether or
not they contain poisonous matter,
which it is believed they do If the
analysis shows that the toys are danger-
ous for children to handle, their further
impecrtation will be prohibited.
The climate of Porto Rico is much
superior to that of Cuba. Indeed it is,
at its worst, very similar to that of New
York in July, seldom exceeding 97 de-
grees, and sinking to 68 at night. Even
at the hottest it is not vexed with much
humidity, the air being kept generally
free of moisture by the prevailing north-
east wind. Porto Ricans are more sen-
sible about accepting weather condi-
tions than we are in our hot days. They
act on the belief that they will do more
work in the course of the year if they
do none at all when the sun is fiercest,
so for three hours in the middle of the
days when the thermometer is highest
they cease ail work. Even at other
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hours, those most favorable for labor,
they go about the struggle for life in a
leisurely manner. As little energy as
the Cubans have, by our standards, the
Porto Ricans have less. This is shown
in the lack of energy they display in
their periodic attempts to free them-
selves from Spanish rule. They have
attempted this often, but always have
given up after a struggle which would
only have encouraged the Cubans.
Among the white natives there is the
large number of 25,000 who are not of
Spanish descent, and among these it is
interesting to note that the rebellious
feelings against Spain are aroused more
by social than political wrongs.
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Those glowing Klondike stories that
reach us by way of the upper coast cities
are strongly suggestive of an effort to
create a fresh outfitting boom. Seattle,
particularly, is straining suspiciously
hard in the effort to spread the Klon-
dike fever anew. The victims of the
original boom, many of whom are said
to be returning in poverty, may have
some outstanding personal accounts to
settle with the persons who got their
cash and lured them to destruction. On
the other hand, we have an encouraging
sign of the times in the report that the
famous Comstock mine is likely to be
pumped out and that comprehensive
work will begin in the old wealth-pro-
ducer. It will be an expensive under-
taking, but many experts believe the
mine is wonderfully rich in the low
levels. One good feature about the un-
dertaking will be an awakening of in-
terest In many other good mines that
have been inoperative for several years.
The war with Spain bas done the
monocle glass dudes of New York an
abundance of good. It has lodged in
their weak brains an idea that ‘‘ Amer-
icwa is the right sort of nation, don’t
yer know!’’
American soup kitchens will be
opened up in Cuba to feed the hungry
natives who love libetty. If it should
happen that they do not love bean soup,
there will be another rebellion.
There is a vast difference between
the liberty of the press and the black-
guard impudence of yellow journalism.
The hungry people of Cuba were hun-
gry before their Spanish masters blew
up the Maine. They are still hungry.
When Cervera was bottled up, Schley
regarded him as a dose that should be
well shaken before taken.
The war is knocking the bull fight out
of Spain. It gives the bull a rest.
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Shoes and Leather
How the Department Stores Sell Shoes
Cheap.
A retail shoe dealer has asked us the
question, ‘‘How do the department
stores sell well-known $3 and $4 shoes
fer $1.972""
Here is the way one department house
conducted its sale:
Siegel, Cooper & Co., of New York,
recently advertised the W. L. Dougias
$3 Brockton shoes at $1.95. The public
know that these shoes retail at $3, and
accordingly believed that they would get
good values. People don't understand
shoe materials very well, but they know
prices, and $1 95 was a taking price.
The salesmen started in on a Thurs-
day with 2,100 pairs. One aisle was
reserved for their bargain sale, and two
tables at one end were filled with the
shoes. The customers began to swoop
down on them early in the day, and in
the middle of the afternoon some of the
sizes were broken. The aisle was
crowded with men, women and boys,
ordering, snatching and trying on
shoes, and evincing every sign of the
genuine dry goods bargain distemper.
They had to wait their turn a good
while to secure a salesman’s attendance,
and those who preferred to wait on
themselves fought for places at the tables
where scores of pairs of shoes were
piled, and customers hauling them out.
The sale was a decided success. It
had been, of course, extensively adver-
tised in the newspapers. The Doulgas
shoes were in the windows with Siegel,
Cooper & Co's regular stock. The lat-
ter bore price tags; the Douglas shoes
did not.
The bargain stock included ox blood
shades in large quantity, and coin,
London, Yale and opera toes. As far
as could be learned there were no bull-
dog toes. The shoes were shapely, al
though the styles were mostly passe, and
once in a while some slight abrasion or
other defect could be discovered on
close examination. It was evidently a
case of sacrifice of old and somewhat
shopworn shoes by the Douglas Co. in
order to keep their stocks fresh and
clean. It was the opinion of the sales-
men that, notwithstanding the low
price, the dry goods firm made a fair
profit per pair cn the shoes. Most of
them, it is said, are over three years
old, having weathered seven seasons.
The Douglas Company are raising
their grade and price. Henceforth they
will sell $3.50 shoes. There is a pro-
nounced difference between these and
their $3 shoes—hbetter material and
workmanship, and more attention paid
to details. The old styles in $3 shoes
were collected from all their stores and
sent to the factory at Brockton, whence
they were sent to Siegel, Cooper & Co.
The Douglas people retained the up-to-
date $3 styles, but will close them out
promptly, and next season only $3.50
shoes will be sold at Douglas stores.
Another instance of this kind oc-
curred at the dry goods store of R. H.
White & Co., Boston. Their customers
and the public in general were pretty
familiar with their standard $3 shoes.
One day the firm surprised their friends
by offering their ordinary $3 shoes for
$2. The public took hold and cleared
out the stock in short order. It seems
that a dealer had countermanded an or-
der given to a prominent Lynn manu-
facturer, and the latter had the shoes on
his hands, offered them at’a very low
price, and White & Co. promptly took
advantage of it, particularly as they were
counterparts of their own styles.
Those dealers whose trade is such that
price is the main consideration should
have an occasional bargain to win new
trade and convince their old customers
that they are not falling behind in the
race. They will let it be known among
the manufacturers that they are always
open for propositions on odd lots of
shoes. They will not be afraid of large
quantities, if the prices are below com-
petition, for it should be an easy matter
for dealers in non-competing territory
to co-operate in disposing of a lot that
has been bought to advantage. The de-
partment houses in large cities hear of
a ‘good thing’’ quicker, generally, than
the regular trade, because they have the
capital, sales force and advertising
space to warrant them in taking hold of
it. The dealers who are understood to
be open to these offers will naturally be
approached. Then there are many lots
that make good trade winners that can
be picked up at the auction houses.
Of course, the first thing to be con-
sidered will be the desirability of offer-
ing bargains. Will it not hurt the reg-
ular business? We think not, unless the
business is established upon such a
plane that the dealer is known as a
leader of shoe styles and in his shop
quality is first and foremost while price
modestly sits in the back seat. A name
for and trade in high grades is the shoe
dealer's paradise, but the majority of
retailers who sell shoes exclusively have
many a worry over their lack of custom-
ers and the tendency to follow the trail
of the bargain, Consequently, if without
indiscriminate and purposeless price-
cutting they can offer some line so low
as to focus the public eye upon them, it
holds their old friends and wins new
ones.
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‘“‘Competition is the life of trade.’’
The merchant who promotes a healthy
rivalry and honorable competition will
find it so.
Opposition is rank poison to legiti-
mate business. The merchant who
wastes his time clubbing his neighbors
and digging pitfalls for them will find
itso; he will eventually fall into his
own trap.
Competition and opposition are easily
confounded.
Competition is
means.
Opposition is a two-edged sword like-
ly to draw blood on the reckless handler.
Competition, be it ever so sharp, is
tempered with fair play.
Opposition arouses passion, puts a
premium on trickery, and degrades
business.
Competition brings improvement and
activity.
Opposition suggests any old scheme
to injure an opponent.
Competition makes friends.
Opposition destroys friendship and
makes enemies.
Competition nourishes profits.
Opposition kills them.
Competition means friendly rivalry,
with honor and mutual success.
Ofposition means unfriendly strife
and hostility, without success to either
party.
The benefits of competition are world
wide.
The evils of opposition are just as
widely distributed.
You pay your money and take your
choice.
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Opinion Based on Experience.
Bookkeeper——This man has always
paid cash and now wants to open an ac-
count. - Shall J accommodate him?
Manager—Certainly not.
Bookkeeper—And this man has had
an account and now pays cash.
Manager—Never trust him again,
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all the others for wear and style. We are
selling agents.
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From the Syracuse Standard.
There is one line of goods that a
woman clerk can not se!l as well as
man. There is no use to dispute the
fact, one woman can not sell footwear
to another. Although some shoe stores
do employ a woman, it is often because
her services are slightly cheaper and she
can attend well enough to the children’s
trade. But as for waiting on the women
patrons, that is in the majority of cases
out of the question.
The reason is just this. There is no
part of her wardrobe over which the av-
erage woman is more fastidious than
over her shoes. A man will cater to hei
fancies and her whims; another woman
won't; not even if she’ s paida salary
for so doing. Nor is there any point
upon which a woman is more suscept-
ible to flattery than in regard to her
feet. The man who sells her shoes
knows at just what juncture to inter-
polate a well turned compliment upon
her trim ankle or her high arched in-
step, or if perchance there is not the
slightest foundation for any such remark
and her shoe happens to be anything but
fairylike in size, he comforts her with
the assurance that there are many larger
feet than hers and really the boot which
he is showing her makes her foot look
only half its size. At any rate the suc-
cessful clerk is always blind to any nat-
ural defects in the feet of his customers
and is quite sure to discover some good
points or in a final extremity imagine
them if they do not exist.
‘There is a clever trick of the shoe
trade’’ remarked a shoe clerk the other
day. It consists in marking the shoes
in ciphers, so that a customer can not
tell the size she is buving. You seea
woman witha 4-E foot will come in
here and ask for a 3-B shoe, and if we
should offer her a shoe marked the larg-
er size she wouldn’t have it even asa
gift. So we simply pay no attention to
the size a customer asks for. We look
at her foot, gauge it at a glance and get
her a shoe that fits it. Then we call
that shoe any size that we see she has
set her heart on having. Generally it
is a size or two less than what she wears.
Oh, yes, to be sure we have to do some
fibbing, in fact, we do a lot of it. But
I don’t think the recording angel lays
it up against a shoe clerk, fur by pro-
tecting humanity against their Own van-
ity he saves them a lot of suffering. ’’
It is an interesting fact observed by
shoe dealers and manufacturers, that
the feet of American women have grown
several sizes larger within the past two
or three years. Ones and twos are no
longer kept in stock, for no Cinderella
can be found whom they will fit, A
number five is the size most generally
worn and there are many of the eight,
eight and one-half and even nine sold.
What would our dainty grandmothers
have said to such pedal extremities!
Seven used to be the horrifying limit
which the largest woman was ever guilty
of requiring. But the times have
changed. With plenty of outdoor exer-
cise and improved physical health wom-
en are on their feet more than they were
once able to be. Asa result, their feet
have grown larger. Wheeling, too, is
responsible for some of the inrease in
size, the constant exercise of pedaling
tending to broaden the ball of the foot.
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Cannot Stop Work to Receipt for a
Legacy.
A_ lawyer had come all the way from
California to pay a $10,000 legacy over
to Uncle Jerry Hopefield, who had lived
all his life in a little town in Ohio, and
after breakfast two or three of us were
invited to go along and witness the
transfer. When we reached the house,
Uncle Jerry was tightening up the hoops
on the rain barrel, while his wife had
gone to see a sick neighbor. They had
been fully identified the day before as
the proper parties, and now the lawyer
said:
‘*Well, Uncle Jerry, I want to hand
you that money and geta receipt and be
off this morning.
‘I’m kinder busy just now,’’ said the
old man, as he stopped hammering for
a moment.
‘Yes, but I have $10,000 here for you.
I don’t believe there’s a man in the
world who wouldn't stop work long
enough to sign a receipt for such a for-
tune, ie
‘*Mebbe not, but it looks like rain,and
[ want to git this bar’ fixed right away,
Can’ t you come over in about an hour?’’
‘Loo« here,man,but did you ever see
$10,co0 in all your ‘life?’ asked the law-
yer, as he opened the satchel and dis-
played a package ot new greenbacks,
‘'No, I never did,’’ replied Uncle
Je Iry, as he pounded away.
‘Did you ever havea thousand dollars
of your own?"’
‘* Lands, no!
‘“ Never had a hundred all at once, did
you?’’
‘“Never, Durn that hoop, but it don’t
want to go on!"’
‘IT must ask you to get this business
over as soon as possible,’’ continued the
lawyer, as the old man kept at his werk.
‘But it’s going to rain.’’
‘“Yes, but here’s your money.’’
‘*And I've go to get this bar’l fixed.’’
It won't take over ten minutes to fix
up our business. Run along and fetch
your wife.’’
‘See here,’’ said Uncle Jerry, as he
laid down his hammer and wiped the
back of his neck, Mariar has gone over
to Blodgett’s to be gone an hour. Be-
fore she went she said I must tinker up
this rain bar’ LS
‘But can’t you stop your tinkering to
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accept $10,000 in cold cash!’’ exclaimed
the lawyer in indignant tones.
‘Yes, yes, I kin stop work: but
what about Mariar?’’
‘‘Well, what about her?’’
‘‘Why, she'd come home expectin’
this bar’] to be all tinkered up, and if
she found it wasn't, them $10,000
wouldn't hold her no more’n a tow
string would hold a hoss. She'd jest
shove me clean down among the cab-
bages and jump on the bar’! with both
feet and squash it all to squash, and fur
the next week I’d hev to walk around
on tiptoe and eat my meals in the wood-
shed.’’
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No Need For the Minister.
Here is a queer story from the wilds
of Oklahoma about a Methodist preach-
er. While the latter was returning home
one evening he had the misfortune to
fall into an abandoned well.
For some time his cries for assistance
brought no response, but at length Alkali
Ike chanced to pass by on his home-
ward way after an evening of pleasure
at the Blue Ruin fortune parlors.
‘‘Help! Help!” cried the clergyman
in a hollow voice.
‘‘Who’s that?’’ demanded Ike
turn.
‘It is I, Rev. Jenks.’
‘* That’ sso? Wal, whur are you, any-
how, an’ what’s the trouble?’’
in re-
“T am down in Bill Gaw’s old. well,
and—’’
‘*Any danger of drownin’?’’
‘“No the well is almost dry. But I—’’
‘““Huh!’’ broke in Ike, who entertained
a grudge against the minister. ‘‘Stay
thar, then! We don’t particularly need
you till next Sunday.’’
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it Looked Suspicious.
They were now driving in the mellow
twilight and their engagement was yet
in its infancy.
‘*Darling,’’ he said, ‘‘you are sure
that I am the first and only ‘man whose
lips have ever come in contact with
yours?’’
‘‘Of course I am, dearest,’’ she re-
plied. ‘ You do not doubt my word, do
you?”’
‘*No, no sweetheart, he answered ;
‘*T love you too devotedly forthat. But
when I put my arm around you a mo-
ment ago and you made a grab for the
lines, I couldn't help thinking you pos-
sessed wonderful intuition.’
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Quite a Drop.
Molly—Mary is engaged to Lord Ded-
broke.
Dolly—Was it a case of falling in love
on his part?
Molly—Yes, indeed! He wanted half
a million at first, but finally fell to one
hundred thousand.
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chief for a wealthy bachelor, she prob-
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them Perfect Foot Comfort by selling
PEDA-CURA (Flint’s Original Foot
Powder). Shaken in spt stocking it
will relieve burning, stinging and
perspiring feet, cure ap corns and
J keep the feet as sweet and healthy as
an infant’s. PEDA- CURA has been
sold for eight years and is superior to
all other foot powders. Largest pack-
age. fKetails for 25 cents; $1.75 per
doz. of jobbers. Dealers in Michigan
supplied by Hirth. Krause & Co.,
Mfd. only by
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latest and newest designs
and colorings. It will pay
you to see us regarding
Wall Paper, Paints and Pic-
ture Frames.
C. L. HARVEY & CO.
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GRAND RAPIDS.
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We are still making the
Men’s Heavy Shoes in
Oil Grain and Satin; also
carry Snedicor & Hatha
Way’s Shoes at Factory
{Price in Men’s, Boys’ and
Youths’. Lycoming and
Keystone Rubbers are the
best. See our Salesmen
or send mail orders.
GEO. H. REEDER & CO.,
19 S. Ionia St., Grand Rapids, Mich.
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able for parties keeping from one to
four or five animal Phere is only
one size, and is made so it can be
knocked down and packed for ship
ment, thus securing lower freight
rate; has 11} inch knife, and by very
simple changes makes four lengths
ot cut. This is only one of the on10
family of Feed and Ensiiage Cutters
and Shredders. A good agent wanted
in every locality in Michig: in where
we are not represented.
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Are our FREIGHT ELEVATORS of any capacity.
Our SCALE TRUCK is an 800-lb scale combined with
the regular warehouse truck.
Boilers, Smokestacks, Iron and Brass Castings, Steel
Culvert Pipe and General Machine Work.
Repairs done in any part of the state.
any hour, day or night, by long distance phone.
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Wherein the Dealer and Maker Can_|
Co-operate. |
Man-on-the-Street in N. Y. Produce Review.
A Warren street butter merchant re- |
ceutly took me down cellar to see some
moldy butter that had come _ in this
week, and which in some respects dif-
fered from anything that I had ever ex-
amined. The first tub brought out of
the box was stripped and showed a very
strongly developed case of mold. It
began close to the top, and a strip some
six or eight inches wide ran all around
the tub. To all appearances the tub had
been well soaked, as it was very wet |
when the butter was dumped out, and a|
good quality of parchment paper had
been used, but the mold, which was
plainly seen on the outside of the tub,
fairly covered the inside, and it had
gone through the paper and about one
quarter inch Into the butter. The butter
was spoiled for best trade,and the seller
remarked that he would probably have
to sell it to either the packing or bak-
ers’ trade. On inquiry, I found that
the shipment contained some packages
that were in even a worse condition, but
that part of the butter was as clean and
-handsome as a picture. I then ex-
amined the tub carefully, and found it
to be a poor factory made tub, in the
manufacture of which very unsuitable
wood had undoubtedly been used. The
rims to the cover were broken in several
cases, side hoops were gone and parts
of the bottom had slipped out. It was
apparent to all who saw the butter that
the fault was mainly, if not entirely,
with the tub.
The next tub turned out was from an-
other shipment. There was absolutely
nothing on the outside to indicate the
presence of mold—it was clean and
bright. On the inside a considerable
growth of mold had already developed,
and it was quite thick upon the butter.
It was more difficult to trace the exact
cause of the trouble here, as the tub
seemed to be well made. However, the
presence of the mold indicated that
something was wrong either with the
tub or the place in which it was stored
previous to shipment.
Then | was shown another tub of but-
ter, which, on stripping and_ boring,
showed a development of mold in the
butter itself. This seemed so strange
to me that I made rather a critical ex-
amination. The appearance at first was
that of white spots or patches, which
soon became darker in color, and finally
became a dark blue. The surface of the
butter had lost its life and glossy ap-
pearance and looked dead, and it had
a sort of musty smell. I asked the re-
ceiver to account for that condition, and
his explanation was that the cream tn
the vat had undoubtedly become old
and covered with white mold. This
was not noticed by the buttermaker and
he had stirred it up and churned, pro-
ducing an article that had in it the
seeds of death. The receiver said that
it was not the first lot that had come to
his store in that way, and he was quite
positive as to the cause of the trouble.
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‘‘T want to show you something that |
cannot explain, but which is a very
curious thing,’’ said a _ receiver the
other day. ‘‘Here is a shipment of
fourteen tubs of creamery butter. It 1s
one of the fine makes and has some-
thing of a reputation. When it came in
a few days ago I examined three tubs.
The first two were fancy, but the next
was almost grease. I looked the butter
over carefully to see whether some mis-
take had been made, but no, there were
no distinguishing marks on the tubs:
it was put up in creamery style and the
whole appearance of the butter was
handsome. Well, I sent for Mr. Healy,
the inspector, and he found six tubs in
the lot that scored 96 points; the other
eight tubs he graded creamery fourths,
I cannot imagine what happened to the
butter unless the maker was trying an
experiment.’’ We bored the butter, and
I took a small hite, sufficient at least to
show the rankest flavor that ever went
into my mouth, The taste lasted for
hours and was not removed until I ate a
juicy peach. I can’t describe the fla-
vor. It was oily and nasty, and I know
of no place to put such stuff except the
rendering kettle. If experiments are
tried or accidents happen, the butter-
maker should mark every package that
is not right. If the receiver had hap-
pened to get three of the good tubs on
the first showing, he would have classed
the butter as fancy, and sold it and
made returns to the shipper as such.
The trouble that would follow might be
very serious.
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It is most gratifving to butter dealers
to see with what eagerness the majority
of creamery buttermakers seek knowl-
edge pertaining to their profession.
This eagerness or willingness on the
part of buttermakers to improve the
quality of their product is certainly
bound to prove beneficial to them as
time goes on. While speaking of but-
termakers and their work a dealer said
last Friday: ‘'‘Come in here and I will
show you a mark of butter that four
weeks ago graded as thirds; this lot I
think will score under Mr. Healy’s in-
spection a good first. As soon as we
began to receive these goods, I saw at
once that the buttermaker needed con-
siderable coaching before he would be
able to turn out fancy butter, and being
anxious to retain the creamery, I have,
since then, been endeavoring to help
the buttermaker to improve his work, I
began by having Mr. Healy score the
butter; then I would write to the but-
termaker explaining wherein his goods
were faulty and suggesting such reme-
dies as I deemed were necessary for im-
provement. He tock kindly to my sug-
gestions and is now doing nicely and I
believe he will be making extras be-
fore a great while. As you can see, he
still packs his butter poorly, but I have
arranged with a creamery located a few
miles from him, and which is also ship-
ping to us, to allow their buttermaker,
who is an artist in his work, to go over
and give this man a few lessons in
packing.’’
This is an excellent way to educate
buttermakers who are not well up in
their work, but it is difficult to always
find a fancy buttermaker close enough
by to give these lessons. But if butter-
makers are anxious to learn, they can
get many valuable pointers from their
dealers if they will only ask for them.
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Another case that came to my _ notice
last week, but just the opposite from
the one cited, was where a commission
merchant had written to a creamery
whose product he was handling, stating
that gocds were not put up to standard
and therefore impossible to sell at top
prices. He also offered some sugges-
tions for the buttermaker’s guidance.
The creamery replied that if their but-
ter couldn't be sold to wire them at
once, as they knew parties that could
sell it.
The merchant replied to this letter,
and, after stating that there was no diffi-
culty in disposing of the goods ata
price, said that he had always believed
that it was the province of a commis-
sion merchant to point out to his ship-
pers wherein their goods were faulty, in
order to improve the quality of them,
and thereby realize a greater profit.
The butter from this creamery contin-
ues to come to him, so he thinks his
efforts for advancement have not been
in vain.. It is surprising, in these en-
lightened days of keen competition and
small pronfts, that there should be any
creamery managers or secretaries who
cannot see the folly of totally ignoring
the advice of their dealers in preparing
their butter for the market. Such a
course is sure to result disastrously to
all those who follow it, sooner or later,
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Never despise a suggestion. The
most ignorant person in the world may
have an idea that will benefit you in
your business, if you will keep your ears
open and listen.
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There are some people so peaceable
they would permit the devil to inherit
the earth for fear he would raise hell if
they resisted him.
ESTABLISHED 1886.
F. CUTLER & SONS
BUTTER, EGGS
AND POULTRY.
Consignments solicited directly to
our house, 874 Washington Street,
NEW YORK. Our Eastern Connec-
tion enables us to realize our shipper’s
full market value for any stock re-
ceived at either place.
REFERENCES:
State Savings Bank, Ionia, and the
Commercial Agencies.
For cash prices F. O. B. your station.
Write us at IONIA, [HICH.
SEEDS
ALFRED J. BROWN SEED CO.
24 and 26 North Division Street,
Grand Rapids, Mich.
The best are the cheapest
and these we can always
supply.
NEW POTATOES, NEW DRY ONIONS,
WATERMELONS, LEMONS,
EARLY VEGETABLES.
YOUR ORDERS SOLICITED.
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R. HIRT, Jr., Detroit, Mich.
6 34 and 36 Market Street,
2 43574377439 Winder Street.
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Only Exclusive Wholesale BUTTER and EGG
House in Detroit. Have every facility for han- e
dling large or small quantities. Will buy on track
at your station Butter in sugar barrels, crocks or
tubs. Also fresh gathered Eggs.
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dustry.
From the New York Commercial.
Auction sales of oranges from the
Mediterranean were of frequent occur-
rence in New York City early in the
present century, but no separate men-
tion of oranges in the schedules of im-
ports appeared until 1855, when their
value is given as $476,694. During the
four years that the fruit was separately
scheduled the imports varied from that
amount to $753,695, in 1860. From 1862
to 1882, inclusive, orange imports
amounted to $3,010,662. That “was the
maximum, and was followed by a de-
cline, which reached its lowest point in
1894. The great freezes of 1894 and 1895
were promptly followed by largely in-
creased importations, which probably
reached their maximum in 1897, when a
value of $3,341,646 was reached. The
following table shows the average an-
nual imports of oranges by decades,
from 1860 to 1890:
Decade ending Values
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inclusive, were as follows:
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The sour orange is supposed to have
been introduced to Florida soon after
the settlement of St. Augustine, in 1565.
The species found a congenial home,
and was soon widely scattered through-
out the peninsula. The sweet orange
was undoubtedly introduced at a later
date, and being easily propagated, both
by seed and buds, was generally distrib-
uted throughout the settled portions be-
fore the beginning of the present cen-
tury. Commercial orange culture, as
now practiced, did not begin until after
the acquisition of Florida by the United
States, and was at first confined to such
eligible sites as existed along navigable
water, which afforded transportation for
the fruit.
After the close of the late war the in-
dustry grew with wonderful rapidity, as
railroads and steamboats made possible
the shipment of the fruit for longer dis-
tances. In the season of 1886-87 over
1,000,000 boxes were marketed, and _ by
1894-5 the annual crop amounted to over
5,000,000 boxes. Since 1894-95 ship-
ments have been comparatively insig-
nificant, but with favorable seasons
may be expected to reach 1,000, 000 boxes
by the year 1900. A considerable pro-
duction of oranges was developed ina
limited district in Southern Louisiana
previous to 1886, but since the freeze of
that year the crop of that district has
been of little commercial importance.
In California the orange was planted in
the mission gardens at an early date,
the first orchard being planted at San
Gabriel in 1804. An orchard was plant-
ed at Los Angeles by Don Louis Vignes
in 1834, and General Bidwell reported
that in 1845 the three largest orange
orchards there were those of Wolfskill,
Carpenter and Vignes.
The present era of commercial orange
growing in California dates from the
foundation of the Riverside colony in
1872. After the adaptability of the
Bahis, two trees of which were sent to
Riverside by William Saunders, of the
Department of Agriculture, in 1873,
was demonstrated, it soon became, as it
continues to be, the leading fruit dis-
trict. Oranges are grown commercially
in several portions of the State, but
chiefly in Southern California. It is es-
timated that the crop now being mar-
keted from that State will exceed 3, 500, -
ooo boxes. Oranges are also commer-
cially grown in Arizona, shipments ag-
gregating 149 carloads having been
made from Phoenix in a single week of
December, 1897.
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Erie County Apple Orchards Rapidly
Degenerating.
Correspondence Country Gentleman.
The apples are going. In fact, so far
as I have been able to examine the or-
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Is
chards in this vicinity, they are about
gone already. It is too bad, for most
trees set a fair crop, and with proper
effort to rid them of well-known enemies
they would have made a good return. It
is too early to say what the apple crop
will bring this fall and winter, but it
is plainly time to make effort to save
the fruit or to cut the trees down and
have the use of the ground for field
crops; for old-fashioned methods ‘‘go’’
there yet for the most part, and it is go-
ing to be a very exceptional year, like
1896, one of half a lifetime, when the
apple orchards produce paying crops
again.
The nurserymen who depend at all on
apple trees are in despair, for the de-
mand for them is now very small, in
spite of the fact that orchards are get-
ting old and feeble, often beyond recov-
ery, and there are no new ones of ac-
count. One of the best nurserymen in
this vicinity reports that he was obliged
to burn all the second-grade trees that
were offered for sale last fall and spring,
and that the firsts did not all sell.
Fruit-tree nurseries are being driven in-
to the cuiture of ornamental trees and
plants in order to exist.
I stopped the other day under an ap-
ple tree, a Greening I think it was,
and joined the owner in a sad survey of
the condition it was in. On the ground,
almost as if piled up by hand, lay a
bushel of apples, from the size of a pi-
geon's egg down. They would have
made half a dozen bushels if they had
grown to full size. The tree was young,
thrifty, low-topped, and spreading, and
it stood in a fence row in the open, just
the handiest spot possible for an easy
experiment in spraying.
From the fallen crop of another tree
near by I took a dozen apples at random
and cut them open for private dissec-
tion. Every one of them showed evi-
dence of the work of the codlin moth,
and some contained one or more small
worms. There was ina few of them
some appearance of decay that I could
not trace to worms, though there was no
general appearance outwardly of fungus.
The semicircular wound characteristic
of the curculio was found more than
once, but there was no track of worm
under it.
I was surprised to note that none of
the routes of the worm of the codlin
moth had begun at the blossom end of
the apples examined. The middle
point from blossom to stem seemed to
be the favorite starting place. Often
it was difficult to find the wound from
the outside, but on cutting the apple
open it was easy to trace the minute
line at the surface. Twothings became
apparent from this examination: The
apples might have been’ saved by
spraying ; but if the attack is not gen-
erally at the blossom end cf the apple,
which always stands upward on the
young apple, ready to receive falling
liquids, there is need of a very thorough
and somewhat copious use of spray to
reach the egg of the moth.
The farming public is not a convert
to spraying. Talk to almost any man
whose orchards are now strewn with
fallen apples, and he will listen to noth-
ing of the sort. He is bound not to be
convinced that it amounts to anything,
and is usually ready with a report of
some experiment of the sort that failed
to save the apples. The State and gen-
eral government are ‘aiming at the old
farmer too low. Literature is_ still
‘‘book larnin’’ to him. Let them se-
lect or plant in conspicuous places or-
chards or single trees—best of all, trees
of kinds that have refused to bear of
late—and then, by proper care of them,
raise good crops alongside the unfruit-
ful orchards that have been left to them-
selves. This would force conviction
where tons of literature would make no
impression.
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The Government Apple Report.
The Government apple report says
the outlook is very discouraging ; that
of the fourteen apple-growing states
eleven report a lower average of condi-
tion than at a corresponding date last
year.
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Reports from the Michigan Fruit Belt.
It affords the Tradesman much pleas-
ure to be able to present to its readers
detailed reports from five of the coun-
ties in the fruit belt of Western Michi-
gan, setting forth the present condition
of the peach crop as follows:
BERRIEN COUNTY.
Roland Morrill, Benton Harbor: Re-
plying to your favor, would say that I
think the peach crop of Berrien county
will equal in quantity and quality the
crop of 1896, which was thought to be
very large. Conditions are very favor-
able now, and unless long continued
rains should set in, which is hardly
probable, we can expect good size and
color and good shipping quality.
ALLEGAN COUNTY.
E. C. Reid, Allegan: I have your
letter asking what conclusion I have
come as to the peach crop of Allegan
county, its quality and quantity. I fbeg
to say to you that present indications
are that the quality of the crop will
never have been surpassed. Nothing
but continued drouth is likely to prevent
this consummation. In quantity the
crop will be very nearly or quite an av-
erage, for it is necessary in very many
cases for the growers to thin the fruit
on the trees. It is a little difficult to
convey a proper impression as to what
an ‘‘average’’ peach crop is, for the
yield is so variable year by year. It is
sufficient, though, to have it understood
that there will be thousands of bushels
of peaches in Allegan county—an ample
supply for the market, as marketing is
done these days,
KENT COUNTY.
H. J. Vinkemulder, Grand Rapids:
Replying to your favor of recent date,
enquiring what conclusion I have
reached as to the peach crop of Kent
county, would say: From personal in-
vestigation and what information I have
been able to get by talking with fruit
growers, I should judge that we shall
have a very good crop of peaches and
that the quality of the fruit will be fine.
The trees are not as heavily loaded as
they were in 1896, but the large number
of young trees in bearing this year leads
me to believe that we shall see more
and better fruit than we had two years
ago, which was the year of the big crop.
We shall also have a large crop of
plums, pears and grapes. All fruits are
suffering more or less from drouth at
the present time, but if we get rain
now within a reasonable time, I can
see no reason why we shall not have the
largest fruit season on record.
VAN BUREN COUNTY.
Hon. C. J. Monroe, South Haven:
Apples are about half a crop, the larger
portion being summer and fall fruit.
Summer and fall is about two-thirds,
and winter about one-third. Peaches
are a good half crop, being estimated by
many at two-thirds of a crop. Many
young orchards just coming into bear-
ing will probably crowd the latter esti-
mate. Cultivation and thinning are
quite thorough, so that the quality will
average better than in former years.
Pears and grapes are about an average.
Old orchards are not so full, but many
new ones more than make up.
OCEANA COUNTY.
Hon. Fred J. Russell, Hart: On the
trees I think Oceana county has about
one-third of a crop of peaches, as com-
pared with the crop of 1896. I should
Say that, owing to the increased number
of trees old enough to bear, we may
have half as many as that year. The
quality is very good. The early ones
have already begun to move. Oceana
county has a good crop of plums, with
apples running about one-third of the
1896 crop. They do not run so largely
to winter fruit as that year.
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Let Preservatives Alone.
From the New York Produce Trade Review.
Some months ago we looked into the
question of the use of boracic acid pre-
servatives in butter, and became fully
convinced that it would be very unwise
for the buttermakers of this country to
introduce any foreign matter into. their
product in order to give the butter keep-
ing properties which it did not possess
in itself. Later developments have not
lessened the deepness of this conviction,
nor furnished the slightest ground upon
which we might modify our position.
For home use there is certainly no
need of preservatives. The adoption of
the freezer method of holding butter by
all the large cold storage warehouses
of the country gives sufficient guarantee
that the right kind of butter put away in
June and July will come out in good
useful condition any time before the
first of January. That is certainly long
enough to carry any article of the deli-
cate character of butter. And with the
gradual change to winter dairying in so
many sections it is more than likely
that fresh butter will hereafter be plen-
tiful enough to make a longer holding
of the summer goods unprofitable. If
preservatives were used in the stock in-
tended for home consumption that fact
would soon become known, and the cry
of adulteration would menace the trade
at once. Just what effect it would have
on the demand cannot be anticipated,
but it is far too serious a matter to ex-
periment with. So long as nineteen-
twentieths, or more, of the butter made
in this country is consumed at home it
is essential to study the means of con-
Stant enlargement of our outlets rather
than to close a single channel.
The recessity for a preservative in
the butter intended for export does not
appear from any investigation that
either private shippers or the United
States Government have made. On the
contrary there is an almost universal]
demand from abroad for a pure article.
At the present time the Dairy Depart-
ment at Washington is making weekly
shipments of butter from several of the
Western creameries and we understand
that these goods are kept free from the
slightest suspicion of boracic acid. The
regular exporters at New York are do-
ing practically nothing just now, owing
to the poor condition of the English
markets; but if there was a margin so
that they could do business they would
demand from the receivers here a guar-
antee of purity, which would accompany
the invoices of goods to the other side.
We have kept aware of the discussions
and prosecutions in parts of England,
and note the fact that there is such a
wide diversity of views regarding the
boracic acid treatment of butter that no
definite understanding has heen reached
as yet. At the same time the drift of
the arguments as brought out in the
Magistrates’ courts is toward a more re-
stricted use of the preservatives, if not
an entire abandonment of their use.
The firm stand that Denmark has taken
against preservatives is an object les-
son to the buttermakers of this country,
and one which we will do well to follow.
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Peach Crop Short in Delaware and
Maryland.
N. P. Husted, the nurseryman of
Lowell, has just returned from an exten-
Sive tour of Delaware and Maryland,
and says that he knows from personal
observation that the peach crop there is
nearly a complete failure, and that the
crop in New Jersey will be very light.
The same may be said of other local-
ities he visited. He was greatly sur-
prised to learn that the growers in this
vicinity were thinning their trees. Mr.
Husted is of the opinion that,on account
of the small crop throughout the coun-
try, our people should receive a good
price for their fruit,
Give me a chance to bid for your butter.
I pay cash on track your station.
Yours for butter,
E. M. SMITH, Cedar Springs, Mich.
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Lemons, Oranges and Bananas.
Home Grown New Potatoes, Cabbage, Celery, Green
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“News from the Metropolis---index to
the Market.
Special Correspondence
New York, July 30.—As summer ad-
Vanices it becomes more and more evi-
dent that the fall trade will be of ex-
tremely large proportions among jobbers
in this city. The Merchants’ Associa-
tion is to be credited with a good deal
of this trade, yet there is not the sup-
port there which should be given to the
organization. It has run behind several
thousand dollars and the directors have
made good the deficiency. It would
seem that every merchant in the city
would be glad to spend the $25 per
year it costs to belong to this Associa-
tion; but, of course, the directors can’t
stand everything and if more cordial
support is not given it, the Association
will wind up its affairs at the close of
the year and thus make New York once
more the butt of ridicule for Kalama-
zoo and Kokomo and Kankakee.
The coffee market during the week
has remained, to all intents and pur-
poses, practically unchanged. Interior
dealers show a little more interest, but
so far their demands have been of a
character that shows they want only
enough for sorting-up purposes. Rio
No. 7 is quotable as last week at 6c
The stock here and afloat aggregates
894,841 bags, against 700,848 at the
same time last year. The supply at
present, as compared with last year,
shows less difference almost every weck.
Mild coffees are held at full values,
and the general feeling is one of confi-
dence. Good Cucuta is firm at gc.
Raw sugars are dull. Refined show
very little animation and jobbers say
there is plenty of room for improve-
ment. Refiners also Say Matters. are
slow. No changes have occurred, and
the 30 day guarantee is again extended.
Tea stocks generally were so largely
augmented just before the tariff went
into operation that there has been very
little doing since. Orders have come
simply for the wants of every day, but
quietude generally prevails.
Holders of rice show no great anxiety
to part with their stocks, and seem to
think they will see better times witbin
a month. Buyers, on the other hand,
are equally unconcerned, and seem to
give no heed to the morrow. Prices
are practically unchanged. Prime to
choice Southern, 6%@63(c.
Continued firmness characterizes the
spice market and buyers are paying
full rates all around. Nutmegs and
pepper have been extremely firm, a
shipment of the former having been
made for the Continent. Singapore
pepper, 93s@9%c; Zanzibar cloves, 8%
@8 bc.
Absolutely lifeless is the only adjec-
tive that will describe the molasses
market. Supplies are not large, and
holders seem to think they will soon see
a change in the condition of things. If
not, they might as well hang up their
fiddle. Trade is always dull, of course,
at this time.
In syrups, the volume of business is
not large, but prices are quite firm, and,
as supplies are not excessive, holders
are quite well satisfied with the outlook.
Good to prime sugar syrups, 14@I17Cc.
In canned goods, everything points to
one of the best markets we have had
for a decade. One large dealer says he
believes we shall see higher prices than
we have had for twenty years. This
may not take place, but the indications
are that purcbases of canned goods at
present prices will be all right and the
buyer will make no mistake in laying
in liberal supplies. Everything seems
to be short, and this, in connection with
good business conditions, makes for
higher rates all around.
So much fresh fruits of other varieties
has been received that the demand _ for
lemons and oranges has been rather
light. Lemons, however, are steady and
the weather has been favorable for good
sales.
The dried fruit market is slow. The
yield of apricots promises to be so light
that prices must inevitably appreciate.
The butter market is firm, and fora
long time has not shown as much
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
strength as at this writing. Extra West-
ern creamery fetches 181c; firsts, 17
@171$c; seconds, 16@17c; Western im-
itation Creamery extras, 15@16c; firsts,
1344@14c; Western factory, June extras,
14c; firsts, 13%c. For current make
the range is 12@13%c.
The hot. weather has demoralized
large lots of cheese, and the general sit-
uation is not altogether encouraging.
Large fancy colored full cream is worth
7@7 Ke.
Fancy Northern Ohio and Michigan
eggs which are really up to standard re-
quirements fetch 14@15c. The mar-
ket is rather slow, except for strictly
fresh eggs, which become scarcer every
day. The loss on nearly all arrivals
this weather is very heavy. About
4,800 cases were received on Friday.
Choice Marrow beans are worth $1.60;
choice pea, $1.324%@1.35. Calitornia
Lima beans are strong and it is said
that $2.20 has been refused.
In a recent letter, I noted the opinion
of Deputy Collector Chas. H. Treat,
that commission merchants were not
amenable to the new revenue law taxing
‘“commercial brokers.’’ Since tben,
however, Washington officials have ren-
dered a decision in the matter to the
effect that commission merchants are
held as ‘‘commercial brokers’’ and
must therefore pay the $20 tax. Presi-
dent James Rowland announced to the
members of the Mercantile Exchange
the final decision of the Government,
and explained how the tax could be
paid with the least amount of trouble.
Most of the merchants are taking a
philosophical view of the matter, and
are sending their checks over to Deputy
Collector Treat. The commission mer-
chants of New York have never pro-
tested against paying a tax to meet war
expenses—they are too patriotic for that
—but they have looked upon the deci-
sion as very strange that would class
them as brokers.
Rice as a Money Crop.
From the Plaquemines Protector.
There is one crop which bids fair to
be the most profitable under existing
conditions, and that is the rice crop—a
good many years—tor reasons easily
explained. Statistics show that the
United States has only grown about one-
fourth of the rice she consumes, and of
late years, barely one-eighth. One rea-
son 1s that this crop can only be grown
in a small portion of about four States,
to-wit: North and South Carolina,
Georgia and Louisiana. In the second
place, the low import duty on rice for
many years past made it easy for China,
Japan and otber rice growing countries
to invade our markets and sell the arti-
cie at such low prices as to make it un-
profitable for our planters to compete
with them. Now the conditions are
changed. Our last Congress put a duty
equal to 34 cents per bushel on rough
rice. This, with the freight charges
from foreign countries, will give our
planters a protection equal to 50 cents
per bushel, and just as long as this duty
remains in force our rice planters may
gather a rich harvest.
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Fruit Flavors From Rancid Butter.
Chemists who make ‘‘pure fruit
syrups’’ for flavoring ice cream soda
water have discovered a use for deviled
butter. Rancid butter is distilled with
alcohol and sulphuric acid, and the re-
sult is ethy butrate. This substance has
a very strong pineapple odor, and when
dyed an attractive yellow with aniline
coloring, it is ready for the glass of
soda. Rancid butter, sulphuric acid,
and gas-tar waste, rendered effervescent
by marble dust, do not suggest a highly
refreshing combination, froma hygienic
potnt of view. There are plenty of gen-
uine fruit syrups made in this country,
but the facility of adulteration and imi-
tation should make every one careful in
selecting them.
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WISDOM IN FOOD SELECTION
Scarcely a day passes that the editorial depart
ment of this journal is not confronted with fresh
proof that those responsible for the catering for the
family table rely largely upon the guidance of the
hygienic writer. The grave importance of the proper
selection of food products is becoming deeply im-
pressed the housekeeper. The labor, time,
and space in its columns which the American Journal
of Health constantly devotes to the subject of food
selection receive, we find, the fullest appreciation
from its readers; and it is our own thorough con-
upon
sciousness of this fact, joined to our own keen appre-
ciation of the responsibility devolving upon the hy-
gienic press, that urges us to unrelaxeed effort to
afford the most thorough information. Good health
and pure food are almost synonymous terms; no man,
woman or child ever was or ever will be healthy if
they are careless about the food they eat.
too, a constant reminder of this truth.
They need,
And as the public perpetually needs this reminder,
we perpetually investigate on its behalf, and have just
concluded our examination into the claims of Robin-
son’s Cider Vinegar, offered by Robinson’s Cider &
Vinegar Company, of Benton Harbor, Mich. As in
every similar instance, our mode of ascertaining the
facts about this product has included the tests which
we have repeatedly referred to in previous articles.
We have thus secured a result which leaves no uncer-
tainty, and are able to report that this product is dis-
tinguished by the highest percentage of nutritive
quality, that it is notably pure, and can be used with
entire satisfaction.
Such is the verdict we pronounce for the benefit
of the readers of the American Journal of Health,
whom we are so frequently obliged to warn against
inferior food products of all kinds. Robinson’s Cider
Vinegar is an article eminently desirable for the most
careful and conscientious housekeeper’s use; we have
demonstrated this fact so unmistakably in the course
of our examination that we desire to impress it on al]
who read this article. The separation of the food
products which, by reason of their excellence, should
be kept permanently upon the housekeeper’s list from
those which should be avoided is the hygienist’s
task. In performing it, he is aided by skillful analysts
and the scientific knowledge which comes from train-
When this task
is performed he publishes the facts he has discovered
ing and long, practical experience.
—he instantly and impartially either condemns or en-
dorses, according to the facts. Purity which has been
proved, wholesomeness that cannot be doubted, the
nutrition that can be derived from its use are alj
qualities found in a, marked degree in Robinson’s
Cider Vinegar.
When we can say so much after a food product
has undergone analysis in our test kitchens at the
hands of scientific experts, and everything has been
done to render its examination thorough, Robinson’s
Cider Vinegar has received the strongest endorsement it
is in the hygienist’s or the physician’s power to bestow.
—A. W. Gray, M. D., in American Journal of Health.
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AS OTHERS SEE US.
How the Continental Nations Regard
Americans.
Written for the TRADESMAN.
There are no pleasanter experiences,
when traveling abroad, than to meet the
different nationalities, and learn their
impressions of everything in generai,
and America in particular.
The other day, when I was in Lucerne,
1 meta Russian lady from St. Peters-
burg. I afterwards learned that she
belonged to a noted family of that gay
capital, but she certainly was nothing to
look at. She was short, she was stout,
she was plain in features and blunt in
manners, yet she spoke five languages
fluently and couid keep a host of peo-
ple spellbound with her rendering of
classical music, especially her own na-
ticn’s. She had traveled extensively and
held distinct notions of people, books
and things which she was not loath to
express,
To my eager enquiry about the Czar
and Czarina she quickly replied:
‘*So you are very much interested in
our Emperor and Empress. It is very
strange. All Americans are. Now, we
do not care one thing about them, and
do not pay any attention to what they
do. I have not seen the Emperor in
several years, and never the Empress.’’
‘*But you would not dare to say such
things in your own country, would you’’
I added.
‘‘No, not on the street, but we do
much talking in our own rooms.’’
‘*Well you must come to America,’’
I volunteered. ‘‘You could say what
you pleased there. Would you not like
to make a visit in the United States?
You have visited so many strange lands,
I should think you would enjoy some-
thing as radically different as my coun-
try. Do you not think you will make a
visit there some day?’’
“No.”
‘*Truly, but why not?
‘‘ Because there is no poetry in Amer-
ica.”
"(1 do not see it in that light.’’
‘Weil, it is just this way. A man in
America makes very much money. He
comes to Europe and buys a _ picture, a
very good picture. He takes it home
and builds a room in his house for it.
Then he invites his friends to a grand
banquet at bis house and takes his
friends into the room to see his picture.
He himself exclaims at once, ‘Is that
not magnificent! By golly, I paid a
million dollars for that bit of canvass
and color." Now we think we can have
a little poetry in our lives and still live
in cottages. ’’
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This reminds me of a story which the
Germans love to tell to the American
visitor. An American can get through
a gallery or museum a little sooner than
the swiftest. He simply hires a guide
by the day who shows him the sights.
In a gallery he walks as rapidly as pos-
sible and simply glances this way or
that way as he passes through the vari-
ous rooms and halis. If the guide at-
tempts to turn aside and point out to
him a something in particular—a gem
in painting, or a masterpiece in sculp-
ture—he enquires, ‘‘What is the mat-
tere
‘‘But, Monsieur, this is the Venus de
Milo!’’
‘‘So, seems to me I have heard that
name, but I am not sure. Good, isn't
it. We must be getting along. How
much of this kind of stuff must we
wade through, anyway? You know I
must get to my hotel at 12 o'clock
promptly, so as to be sure of a good
lunch. ”'
The Dresdeners say that an American
went to the Zwinger one day. Of
course, he was conducted at once to
Raphael’s immortal Sistine Madonna.
The picture is eight feet long and six
feet wide and with its deep gilt frame
neatly covers one side of the reom.
There is no other picture in this room,
simply Haenel’s excellent bust of the
artist on the opposite side facing it.
About the sides of the room are ar-
ranged benches, upholstered in red
plush. Here the visitors sit, sometimes
by the hour, trying to absorb some of
the transcendent beauties of the picture.
No word is said except in a silent whis-
per. Men, women and children enter
the room on tiptoes and bated
breath, as if in the presence of death.
Without hesitancy the aforesaid Ameri-
can entered, erect, unabashed, with
firm step as though the world was his
and who could question his possession.
Did he not get his suit of clothes made
at the best tailors in London? Was not
his linen immaculate and his shoes the
latest style? The guide simply waved
his hand toward the picture and stcod
aside, for he had already announced the
name before entering the door. The
visitor looked a moment and then spoke
up in clear accents:
“*So that’s the picture I heerd them
speak so much about. ’Taint a bad job,
is it? Wouldn't mind having a picture
like that myself.’’
The guide button-holed him at once
and led him to the next room.
‘‘I have a friend who can makea
magnificent copy of the picture for you.
Here he is now.’’
So he was ied up to an old stoop-
shouldered, paint-besmeared man,
whose easel is in front of Correggios’
Holy Night.
‘‘Well, my good man, ken you make
me a picture of the Madonna like in
the other room.’’
‘‘I think I can get permission to copy
it. What size would you wish?’’
‘*Oh, natural size is all right.’’
‘But we are not allowed to make
copies the same dimensions as_ the
originals.’’
‘‘Oh, I guess you can manage that all
right, old man,’’ as he pressed several
gold pieces into the hand of the hungry
artisan.
The Germans have queer notions of
America and the Americans, which is
generally gleaned from the newspapers
of the Vaterland. Nothing less than
an earthquake, blizzard, murder, raii-
road accident or war is of enough im-
portance to publish. What can the Ger-
mans say to be affable to their visitors
except to carry on some such conversa-
tion as this:
‘*So you are an American—then you
must live in New York?”’
Ol:
‘‘Chicago, nicht wahr?’’
‘*No, but near there. ’’
‘‘Is that so? Well, I bave some
friends living in Chicago. You must
know them—Herr Schmidt and his fam-
ily. I have forgotten the name of the
street and the number. They say they
do not like it there, but they make more
money. You had the World's Fair in
Chicago. Did you goto it? Did you
think it is as good as our Berliner Aus-
stellung? Some of my friends went to
it, but they did not like it much, They
Say everything costs very much_ in
America, and that they were cheated
all the time.
‘“Your steam cars go very fast. I
with
would be afraid to ride on them. Are
not you afraid you will be killed by one
of your big storms sometime?’’
Two years ago several delegates from
a Berlin church were sent to the Meth-
odist Conference held in Cleveland. On
their return they described their experi-
ences to an enthustastic audience. One
of the gentlemen had had the misfortune
to be caught in three fires during the
two weeks he sojourned in America.
He declared that the buildings were
carelessly erected—many of them of
wood—which made them the best kind
of firetraps. Nevertheless,he spent more
time in describing the food. No nice
coffee and rolls in bed, no luncheon of
beer and sandwiches, no coffee in the
afternoon. There was meat three times
a day, but what kind of meat! A quar-
ter of a pound of German meat was
worth more than four pounds of Amer-
ican meat. Their steaks were at least
two or three centimeters thick and only
cooked a little on each side, and raw
inside. And they have Pfahnkuchem,
eier-kuchen and all kinds of meat and
even potatoes for breakfast. In most of
the towns they have wooden sidewalks,
which are getting out of order all the
time. Now, if a person comes along
in the dark and steps into a hole and
breaks his leg, the police says to him,
*“Haven’t you eyes,’ and he must go
home and lose much time and much
””
money.
The Norwegians say: ‘‘We think we
like America very much. We have
many friends there and they wish not
to live in Norway any more.. Some of
the daughters of our best professors in
the University go to America and work
in families. They say that the work is
easier and they get more money than
they can earn in Norway. We wish free-
dom in Norway, too, but our country is
small. We are like a family. We are
trying to wait to grow larger and strong-
er, and then Sweden shall rule us no
longer. We have a hard time, first to
belong to Denmark and now to Swed-
en.
The French are frankness itself:
‘*No, we do not care for the Americans.
They are too stiff and cold and we can
not get aquainted with them. We like
their money, but they do not like us.
They do not like our goods any more.
We like the American women better.
They read, they travel, they know very
much, but the men can not talk of any-
thing except business. We call them
blufflers, because they do not want to
pay their bills. When we wish to col-
lect they tell us to wait until next month
and sometimes we have to wait two or
three years before weare paid. I donot
like the Germans, but they are the most
honest people we deal with. When a
man fails in business in Germany, he
gives up all his property and his wife
gives up hers, too, and they begin over
again. An American fails and he knows
how to keep much money. He buildsa
fine house and when he knows he must
tail he deeds it over to his wife. She
keeps her diamonds, her handsome
dresses and her fine furniture and keeps
on having a good time. Yes, the Amer-
icans will beat the Spaniards. Spain
has no money and is already worn out
witn her wars. America has much
money and many men and Spain has
no chance at all, but all the same I feel
sorry for Spain.’’ ZaipA E. UDELL.
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Commercial Travelers
Michigan Knights of the Grip.
President, JoHn A. Horrman, Kalamazoo; Secre-
tary, J. C. SaunpERs, Lansing; Treasurer, Cuas.
McNo try, Jackson. :
Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Association.
President, C. C. SNEDEKER, Detroit; Secretary
and Treasurer, C. W. ALLEN Detru't.
United Commercial Travelers of Michigaa.
Grand Counselor, J. J. Evans, Bay City; Grand
Secretary, G. S. VaALMORE, Detroit; Grand Treas-
urer, W. S. Wzst, Jackson.
Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Mutual Acci-
dent Association.
President, J. Borp PANTLIND, 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.
AGIN’ THE GATES.
Local Travelers Oppose Them As
Strongly As Ever.
At the regular meeting of Post E,
Michigan Knigthts of the Grip, held at
Sweet’s Hotel last Saturday evening,
Chairman Wetzell presided.
= The first subject introduced was the
annual picnic of the organization and,
after a full discussion of the Situation,
L. M. Mills moved that the picnic be
held on Saturday, Aug. 27, which was
adopted.
B. S. Davenport moved that the pic-
nic be held at Reed’s Lake, which was
adopted.
Geo. F. Owen stated that he had just
returned from the Lake, where he had
eaten a picnic supper on one of the
boats, temporary tables having been
placed on the upper deck for that pur-
pose. This arrangement proved to be
such an enjoyable one that he suggested
that the same feature be included in the
programme for the traveling men’s pic-
nic.
Mr. Davenport moved that the Chair-
man appoint committees on athletics,
commissary, entertainment and _trans-
portation, which was adopted, and the
Chairman subsequently announced the
committees as follows:
Athletics—Fred Ephlin, B. S. Daven-
port, Will Richmond, Harry Winchester,
A. D. Baker.
Commissary—J. N. Bradford, Edward
Frick, E. D. Wright, Manley Jones,
W. R. Foster.
Entertainment—Geo. F. Owen, F. E.
Walther, W. S. Burns, Wm. VanLeuven,
C. C. Crawford.
Transportation—W. F. Blake, W. P.,
Townsend, David S. Haugh, .
Millar, L. M. Mills.
Capt. Bradford called attention to the
fact that the State Fish Commission is
seriously hampered in its work this
year on account of the cutting down of
the appropriation allowed by the Legis-
lature for the prosecution of the work
of the commission and moved that every
member of Post E use his influence to
secure the restoration of the appropria-
tion to the former amount. The matter
was Carefully discussed and the motion
adopted.
Then came the feature of the evening
—the discussion of the gate system in
use on some of the trains of the C. &
W. M. and D., G. R. & W. Railways.
The chairman announced that Mr. De-
Haven had kindly volunteered to attend
the meeting and present the railroad
side of the question, and that gentle-
man thereupon read an exhaustive de-
fense of the gate system, setting forth
the several reasons why the gates were
placed on the trains and why their re-
tention is deemed desirable. The paper
was moderate in tone and careful in
statement and appeared to cover the
ground, from the railway standpoint,
fully and completely. The Tradesman
solicited an opportunity to print the
paper entire, but as it subsequently ap-
peared verbatim in the Grand Rapids
Herald of July 31, and as the Trades-
man makes it an invariable rule never
to print anything secondhanded, the
publication is necessarily omitted. Mr.
DeHaven was accorded a_ respectful
hearing, and, at the conclusion of his
paper, offered to answer any questions
which might be suggested by those
present. Then the fun began. Valda
Johnston started the ball rolling by en-
quiring why the gates were not placed
on all the trains, if they were sucha
grand success, whereupon Mr. DeHaven
goodnaturedly admitted that the ques-
tioner had ‘‘got him the first time.’’
E. P. Dana fired some hot shot, the
effect of which was impaired by the
stress of feeling on the subject under
which the enquirer apparently labored.
P. F. Delahunt related the circum-
stances surrounding the recent death of
an infant ona C. & W. M. train, which
he attributed solely to the train gates,
because the gateman compelled the
mother to stand in the hot sun several
minutes, during which time the infant
received a shock which approximated a
sunstroke. Capt. Bradford, with subtle
irony, insisted that he liked the train
gates, his remarks being substantially
as follows:
‘I don’t know what you fellows are
kicking about. I like the gate system
and I know others who like it, also.
The trains on the northern division of
the C. & W. M. appear to be run in
utter disregard to the convenience of
Michigan traveling men, and when I
succeed in catching one of the trains—
when it happens to stop for water—and
manage to get past the gatekeeper, |
frequently find I am the only passenger
in the coach. What more do you fel-
lows want, when you have a private car
all to yourself?’’
Mr. DeHaven appeared to be sur-
prised to learn that the train service
is not satisfactory, and asked why the
matter had not been brought to his at-
tention before, whereupon Mr. Bradford
made the most telling remark of the
evening:
‘“The experience of those who visit
your office to register a complaint or
ask a question is such that they never
go a second time.’’
Max Mills candidly referred to the
former popularity of the Heald system
and deplored the fact that the gate in-
novation has soured the traveling men
against the road and made it one of the
most unpopular lines in the country,
thus depriving it of much of the freight
which it would otherwise receive,
Geo. F. Owen, W. R. Foster and
others got in some telling blows, which
were appreciated by all present, unless
it might be the honored guest of the
evening.
Mr. DeHaven answered such ques-
tions as he was able to answer, parried
those which he could not answer, and
really appeared to enjoy the controversy,
although he was alone against the field.
He handled himself splendidly and
plainly showed that he is a consum-
mate genius in debate and repartee.
But for the fact that Mr. DeHaven
had a prior engagement, the inquisition
would probably have been continued
until midnight. No resolutions were
adopted expressive of the sense of the
meeting, because it was plainly noted
that such a proceeding was entirely un-
necessary, there being no_ division of
sentiment on the subject among the
members of the fraternity. At the con-
clusion of the meeting, one of the boys,
who sells goods in carload lots almost
exclusively, asserted: ‘‘The train gates
are all right. They don’t keep passen-
gers off the trains—people must travel,
you know—but they are exceedingly
effective in diverting freight from the
Heald system.’’
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Kalamazoo Opinion of the Train Gates.
Kalamazoo, July 27—If the Chicago &
West Michigan Railway had chosen as
its deliberate purpose to annoy and
offend the traveling men of Michigan,
it could scarcely have done so more suc-
cessfully than by attaching the odious
prison gates to its trains. It is an in-
novation so foreign to the liberty and
independence of American manhood
that the traveling public is sure to re-
sent what ought to be considered not
much less than an insult to the patrons
of this road. One would think that, it
dishonesty. had been practiced by any
of the officials of this road (and this we
are told is the reason, or one of the rea-
sons, tor the prison gates), common
sense as well as justice would bave sug-
gested that those who are the guilty par-
ties be the ones subjected to the suspi-
cion, inconvenience and confinement of
prison life, but the C. & W. M.. Rail-
way takes a new departure in seeking
to inflict the penalty on the traveling
public instead. It is now only neces-
sary that it should require its patrons to
wear the stripes and straight-jacket,
when the suggestion that it regards its
trains as so many prisons and its patrons
as so many thieves and rogues will be
complete. It is not so much the ap
pearance and suggestiveness of the
prison gates of which I wish to make
mention, although that is bad enough,
but it is the actual inconvenience and
annoyance at which we traveling men
are indignant. There is, first, the un-
kindness which this innovation works to
the traveling public in general in board-
ing the train. Men frequently desire
to help their wives and children or
friends on the car and find a seat for
them, but he who expects any such
kindness or politeness from a_ prison
gate train has forgotten that good man-
ners are generaliy left behind at the
entrance of a prison cage. There is,
again, the fact that traveling men are
obliged to board the train in all kinds
of weather, in rain and storm and sleet
as well as sunshine. Carrying grips in
both hands, we are unable to find shel-
ter under some friendly umbrella. If
tke C. & W. M. would build train sheds
at every depot this difficulty would be
avoided, but, as it is, we are compelled
to stand -in pouring torrent or driving
sleet, able to gain entrance only through
the one ingress, the prison gate, and
even then at that uninviting portal com-
pelled to soak or freeze until our turn
shall come for the herdsman gateman
to put his brand on us.
It is a fact that traveling men fre-
quently have only just time to catch a
train, and these prison gate trains make
that not only difficult but even impos-
sible. In order to verify this, I have
but to relate an experience of my own,
which could be duplicated in the ex-
perience of other traveling men: I left
Kalamazoo on Monday, July 11, over
the G. R. & I. on the 5:40 a. m. train.
When we left Kalamazoo the train was
on time. We were sidetracked, how-
ever, south of Grand Rapids to allow
another train to pass, and this made_ us
eight or nine minutes late. The prison
gate train on the C. & W. M. was just
pulling out on our arrival. I asked the
conductor of our train whether he would
not be kind enough to hai! the engineer
of the prison gate train, as I was bound
for Grand Haven and desired to reach
there as soon as possible. The engineer
of the prison gate train heeded the call
and stopped his train. Had it not been
for the prison gate I could easily have
boarded the train; but there I stood be-
fore the closed iron gate, the Cerberus
whom the road places there to watch
the passage having locked the gate and
e
gone inside, I was obliged to go across
the city and take the next D. & M.
train, which, by the way, was nota
prison gate train.
And here lies the redress which we
traveling men have: If the C. & W.
M. insists on insulting and inconven-
lencing us by making its trains into
prisons and its conductors into turn-
keys, there are other roads which will
not do so. And it is for this reason we
traveling men are not working in favor
of the C. & W. M. Railway and are
shipping our goods, wherever ‘possible,
over roads which are fairer and more
considerate to us.
ihe) Gl) Se 7 Wi ME has always been a
good road, and we appreciate that; but
we can be friendly only to those who are
fair to us, and we shall discriminate as
much as we have power against any
road which works against us by inter-
posing the injustice of the prison gate.
The public ought to catch the hint
from the very appearance of the struc-
ture that no such favors are to be given
or expected there.
Yours against the prison gate trains,
WALTER BAKER,
Representing Hanselman Candy Co.
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Gripsack Brigade.
Joseph Triel succeeds O. D. Price
as city salesman for the Lemon &
Wheeler Company.
It is reported that John Martin (Welt
& Redelsheimer) has about concluded
to engage tn the dairy and stock busi-
ness in connection with his work on the
road. The report probably originated
from the fact that John was negotiating
for a fine blooded calf at Lakeview last
week,
M. M. Read (E. B. Millar & Co. )
leaves the middle of the month for Hen-
derson Harbor, on Lake Ontario, where
hisfamily have been spending the Heated
term in their summerhome. Mr. Read
will remain at the resort about two
weeks, accompanying his family on their
return to Yysilanti.
Lansing Republican: A letter has
been received from Mrs. J. J. Bush,
who was called to Hornellsville, N. Y.,
on account of the serious illness of her
husband, stating that she expects to
bring him home the last of this week.
Mr. Bush is suffering from a_ sunstroke
received while driving twenty-seven
miles across the country. His horse
was fractious and would not endure the
carriage top to be raised.
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
Drugs--Chemicals
MICHIGAN STATE BOARD OF PHARMACY.
Term expires
F. W. R. Perry, Detroit - - Dec. 31, 1898
A. C. ScoUMacHER, Ann Arbor - Dee. 31, 1899
Gro. GuNDRUM, Ionia - . - Dec. 31, 1900
L. E. REYNOLDS, St. Joseph - - Dec. 31, 1901
Henry Heim, Saginaw - - - Dec. 31, 1902
President, GEo. GunpRuM, Ionia.
Secretary, A. C. ScouMACHER, Ann Arbor.
Treasurer, HENRY HEIM, Saginaw.
Examination Sessions.
Marquette—Aug. 30 and 31.
Lansing— Nov. 1 and 2.
All meetings will begin at 9 o’clock a. m. ex-
cept the Star Island meeting, which begins at 8
o’clock p. m.
MICHIGAN STATE PHARMACEUTICAL
ASSOCIATION.
President—A. H. WEBBER, Cadillac.
Secretary—-CHas. MANN, Detroit.
Treasurer—Joun D. Murr, Grand Rapids.
Pertinent Kick from a_ Registered
Kicker.
Written for the TRADESMAN.
Away back in 1885, the Michigan
Legislature passed a law relating to and
governing pharamcy, as practiced by
the retail druggist, and created the
Michigan State Board of Pharmacy, of
five members, whose duties were to ex-
amine applicants for pharmaceutical
honors and attend to ways and means of
enforcing the existing law and suggest
new ones from their experience and ob-
servation.
It was clearly a good and wise act.
This was admitted alike by those who,
by virtue of their experience, were en-
titled to enrollment as registered phar-
macists, and those who were not.
Since that time the Board has held
regular meetings and examined candi-
dates five times each year, and scores
of pharmacists have been added to the
even then crowded list. The examina-
tions have been made more rigid each
year, so that where it was few who for-
merly failed, it is now a very small per-
centage of the applicants who pass. And
this is as it should be.
The drug journals have been faithful
and persistent in urging the higher ed-
ucation of the pharmacist, and have
been the means of inciting many strug-
gling novices to greater efforts in the
pursuit of knowledge. The Board has
appointed a very capable and energetic
attorney, who has made many arrests
and prosecuted dozens of cases to con-
viction and fine; but for all this, while
the struggling and conscientious phar-
macist has been beset on the one hand
by the cutter and on the other hand by
the department stores who have appro-
priated line after line that used to be
handled exclusively by druggists, there
has crept into the ranks of the pharma-
cist a new evil—the unregistered drug
dealer, who, when the law was new and
sternly enforced, was unknown. Now
as if to emphasize the old saying that
‘Familiarity breeds contempt,’’ anyone
who cares to investigate the matter will
find them not only working for regis-
tered pharmacists who hire them because
they will work for less wages, but they
will also be found the sole proprietors
and only managers of drug stores. To
be sure, this latter class is at present
mostly confined to the smaller towns,
but it is none the less in competition
with the registered men for all that;
and, instead of growing less, the evil
is steadily increasing and, to a certain
extent, with the aid of the wholesale
houses who find this class of trade as
profitable, and often more so, than that
of the regular pharmacist, who is often
a close buyer.
It would seem, of course, that the
remedy is easy to find; that a complaint
lodged against the offenders with the
proper authorities would soon bear fruit,
but you know it is an old saying, and a
true one, that what is everybody's busi-
ness is attended to by no one. So it is
that the pharmacists who are not in di-
rect competition with this class do not
care enough about it to interfere, while
those who are, often have business rea-
sons for not making a complaint. The
man who dares to run a drug store
without conforming to the law, is usual-
ly popular in a local way and has noth-
ing to fear from his customers, so that
the registered man who wishes to do
business with the same people prefers
unlawful competition to the wrath of a
community who are apt to think all laws
are an infringement on their natural
rights and would probably refuse to deal
with a man who tried to enforce them.
Under these circumstances, it would
not be strange if the yourg pharmacist
who had, by dint of much study and _ in
many Cases positive hardship, success-
fully passed the now very rigid exami-
nation, and after much search and ex-
tensive use of the ‘‘Want Columns’’
had at last found a position at a_ salary
of six to eight dollars per week of
seven days; with no future but hard
work, and long hours ; without much hope
of advancement, and none of a bank ac-
count, should conclude that his choice
of a vocation had been unwise.
KICKER.
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The Drug Market.
Opium-—-Is steady, although the ad-
vanced prices are well maintained.
Morphine—Is firm at the late advance
and higher prices would not surprise
any one.
Quinine—Very firm under large de-
mand. Outside holders with large lots
are not shading the prices of the manu-
facturers.
Antipyrine—The price has been re-
duced to 35c per oz., on account of the
patent having expired.
Lanolin—Has declined to 75c per lb.
Bismuth—Preparations have advanced
toc per lb. This is not on account of
the advance in metal, but the result of
an agreement among manufacturers to
get a profit. They have been selling it
at about cost.
Chloral Hydrate—The Government
has decided that this article should pay
a higher duty, with the result that the
price has advanced 4oc per lb.
Balsam Copaiba—Is lower, on account
of accumulated stock.
Essential Oils—Bergamot has ad-
vanced rapidly during the week, on ac
count of small stocks. Anise is very
firm. Cassia has advanced.
Linseed Oil—Has again declined, on
account of lower prices for seed.
Fortunes from Bananas
Immense fortunes have been made
out of the banana business. Revenues
do not accrue alone from the sale of the
fruit, for the leaves are used for pack-
ing; the juice, being strong in tannin,
makes an indelible ink and shoe black-
ing ; the wax found on the under side of
the leaves is a valuable article of com-
merce; manila hemp is made from the
stems, and of this hemp are made mats,
plaited work and lace handkerchiefs of
the finest texture; moreover, the banana
is ground into banana flour. The fruit
to be sold for dessert is ripened by the
dry warmth of flaring gasjets in the stor-
age places in which it is kept, and im-
mense care has to be taken to prevent
softening or overripening. The Island
of Jamaica yields great crops of this
useful and money-making fruit.
—_~> 2.
_ Married men do not live lunger than
single ones—it only seems longer.
The Clerk That Failed.
Some pharmacists are in business for
the glory of the thing, but | am in the
drug trade merely for the accumulation
of Uncle Sam's dollars and leave all the
glory to those who prefer it to filthy
lucre.
Knowledge is a very good thing, but
the faculty of turning it into currency is
better. I know a man who has collected
recipes and formulas for ten years or
more, and he would be better off selling
shoe laces, because he is not gifted with
the commercial sense of using the in-
formation acquired.
My late junior clerk had the peculiar-
ity not uncommon of thinking he knew
all about the business after being in it
a year or so in a store where a prescrip-
tion was a curiosity. His materia
medica was probably near enough, as
he bad an idéa that Turkey rhubarb oft
came from Schieffelin & Co.’s; he was
not so well up in chemistry, as the se-
quel will show.
Two months ago a lady came into my
emporium and handed him a simple
prescription calling for bicarbonate of
potash, citric acid ; 2 drams of each in
6 ounces of camphor water. I happened
to be eating my lunch, and he started
in and filled it his way in short order,
and I have no doubt gave it to the lady
with all the confidence of a world worn
experienced dispenser, The lady, a
Mrs, W., had a Maltese terrier dog
under one arm, and, as ladies will do,
tucked the bottle of medicine up with
the dog.
I was startled to hear a terrific scream-
ing, accompanied by the yelping of a
dog, and before I could rise from my
chair, a most unearthly yell came from
outside the store. Rushing cut behind
the counter, I beheld a lady fainting in
a chair and a crowd gathering outside
on the sidewalk, and a policeman short-
ly after pushed his way through the
throng carrying a dead dog by its
tail, which he brought in and laid upon
the floor, explaining that it had been
run over by a brewer's wagon. It looked
to me like a fancy breed of dachshund.
I know different now; it was only a
Maltese terrier flattened out.
My junior simply evaporated, and left
me busy with smelling salts, sal volatile,
etc., which at last revived the poor lady
sufficiently to notice the remains of the
dog at her feet, also that her jacket and
dress were dripping with the mixture,
which had burst the bottle and caused
the mischief; then—well--the tongue-
lashing I received will keep me a bach-
elor all my life.
After explaining to the policeman that
I had not used dynamite nor any other
deadly explosive with malice afore-
thought, and that it was merely an ac-
cident, he fetched a cab for the lady,
who insisted on taking all that was left
of the dog, wrapped up in paper, and at
last departed vowing vengeance, amidst
the sympathetic cheers and comments
of the crowd, who seemed sadly disap-
pointed that I was not arrested. I found
the junior clerk had left through the
side door, and the next day I received
the following letter:
Dear Sir—Am very sorry to have left
you so abruptly, but the event of yester-
day convinces me that I am not cut out
for a business that requires superhuman
abilities and cast-iron nerves. I have
obtained a position as book-canvasser,
which I think will be more suitable to
my mental capacity. Wishing you
every success, Respectfully yours,
JAMES H.
Mrs. W. has brought an action against
me for $500 damages as compensation
for the loss of her dog, a new dress and
tailor-made jacket, also, last and not
least, shock to her feelings and system
generally, and I am now taking bromide
regularly and seeking for points on
dressmaking, the price of imported
Maltese terrier dogs, and what the prob-
able cost should be of the entire upset
of a lady’s complex susceptibilities
when she loses her favorite dog and has
ber outer wearing apparel ruined. —Ed-
ward Swallow in American Druggist.
. . ~> 0 >
Gave Her a Check for a Receipt.
A Monroe street physician thinks he
is entitled to the prize for the champion
absent-minded man. Some weeks ago
a woman who lives some miles out of
the city called at his office and paid a
bill of $10 for professional services.
Monday she came into his office again
and asked him if he was always willing
to rectify mistakes. Of course he re-
plied that he was, and she thereupon
produced the doctor’s check for $10
drawn to her order, all in due form.
After thinking hard for a moment, it
dawned on the physician that when the
woman had paid him on her previous
visit he had seized his check book in-
stead of his receipt book. The filing
out of the check embraced about the
same process as the making out of a re-
ceipt, and neither noted the mistake un-
til the woman chanced to examine the
paper at her home.
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Why Cider Was Not Taxed.
Dealers in cider are rejoicing because’
that beverage is omitted from the list of
taxable articles under the new war tax
Other drinks, such as_ beer, wine,
whisky, gin and rum are subject to the
war tax and must bear the revenue
stamps. The taxed beverages are all
warehoused, whereas cider is not ware-
housed to any great extent, but the trade
is largely direct from producer to con-
sumer. There is no other drink in this
country of which the producer is also
the consumer to so great an extent.
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Novelty in Canned Goods.
The London Grocers’ Gazette has had
submitted to it samples of a brand of
roast spring chickens, intins, and says:
Each tin contains one whole chicken,
guaranteed not to be more than four
months old. The chickens turn out un-
broken from the shell, and are of dis-
tinctly good flavor, and as they can be
retailed at 1s. 6d. per tin with a good
margin of profit, they should have a
ready sale.
AMERICAN PLAYING CARDS
a competitor.
Best Value for the Money.
Quality and price put together are sure to win, and
we have got them. No other line of playing cards
offers the inducements that the American does.
Rover Playing Cards are the cheapest enameled
card on the market, and at the price are without
Send for samples and prices.
THE AMERICAN PLAYING CARD CO.,
KALAMAZOO, MICH.
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TRADESMAN
WHOLESALE PRICE CURRENT.
Advanced— ae i
Declined—
Acidum Conium Mac........ 35¢ 50 Beta Co............ @
Aceticum.. 3 6@8 8B Copaiba oe Levon, & a 22 | eaten Ge w
Benzoicum, Geeaan | 0@ 7% f ubebee. . Pees aa, S0@ 1 OO} Prunus vire.. ...... @ +50
Borage 0. @ 15| Exechthitos ........ 1 00@ 1 10 Tinctures
Carbolicum ......... 2G 41 | Srieerom 1 00@ 1 10] Aconitum Napellis R
Ciricun: 000.) 45@ 4g| Gaultheria..... --- 150@ 1 60 Aconitum Napellis F 50
Hydrochlor......... 3 5 | Geranium, ounce. a | Atoes 60
Hitrocum |<... 8@ 10| Gossippii, Sem. gal. 0@ 60 he and Myrrh... 30
Oxahoum..... |. 12@ 14| Hedeoma.. os ON LAO} Menten 50
Phosphorium, dil... @ 15 Junipe ra. ..... - 150@ 2 00! Assafoetida ...1. 11”! 50
Salicylicum. ........ 60@ 65 po ee teste - _ 9@ 2 00! Atrope Belladonna. 60
Sulphuricum.. ...... 1%@ 5} lmonis............. 1 30@ 1 50| Auranti Cortex 50
Vanvieemn ..._. 1 25@ 1 40 Mentha a 60@ 2 20 | Benzoin 60
Tartaricum.......... 38@ 40} Mentha Verid....... 150@ 1 60| B, neotneGa. | 50
MOrtnbse, fal... 1 ide t 25) Bae : 5
Ammonia 6 parosma ............ 50
3 “— ‘ a Seen eel 4 00@ 450) Cantharides....._.. q
Aqua, 16 deg........ 4@ eo totteee 5@ 300) Capsicum ........ 50
Aqua, 2) deg........ 6@ 8 | Picis Liquida. 10@ 12] Gardamon 5
Chlorides SS i if ton Liquida, gal. @ 35! Cardamon Co... 3
Chisridum .......... 2 1 eins 9°@ 1 10| Castor ce 1 oO
¢ oe 0
Aniline --saseggee Levees ceeeee ie : OC} Cateehn, |... 50
; ‘ 9 95 Se, Ounce... 6 50@ 8 50} Cinchona........ 5
—— a ' on ; = Succini Pete ee eee es 40@ 45/ Cinchona Uo. ||)” =
] en 1550 sao a : @ 1 = Columba 50
ved . : : 5 cae « Santal............... 2 0@ 7 00! Cubeba. 5
Yellow. ............ 2 50@ 3 00| Sacsatras 01200101! 55 60} C eaeae i.sutifol.___. =
Baccez. Sinapis, ess., ounce. 65 iGGye AGH fal Ci 5
- nutifolCo . 50
Cubeme........ - 18 BQ Thyme tt ee. 1 0 \ S biSi lie | 50
Juniperus.. ; @ 8 lac dea an Oe ov Meeeeg 50
Xanthoxylum.. 25@ 30| Thyme, opt.. @ 1 60 Ferri Chioridu ’ 35
° ' Theobromas ....___. 15@ | Gentiar =
Balsamum ¢ Gentian... _.. 50
Cann 22 53 Potassium — Ca... 60
RO oe os ha eS niaca eee 50
Perm. --............. @ 2 75 | Bi-Carb. be la... : )
Terabin, Canada.... 15@ 50| Bichromate......... B@ 15 a on i | Se
Pointed. 0) 50@ 455 —— i — ae oh
} 2@ 15 ea 9
Cortex Chlorate. ‘Po. 1 ‘@19e 16@ 18 Iodine, coloriess o)
Abies, Canadian.... - ie 35a Se teeta ee =
Casshe 00000... 2| Iodide...... eg : ee. 7
Cinch ona Flava..... 18| Potassa, Bitart. pure 28@ 30 | a . ana 50
Enonymus atropurp 30 | Potassa, Bitart, com @ 15} Soil Vomica...-.... 50)
Myrica Cerifera, po. 20 | Potass Nitras, opt. 10@ 12 pe ea an he
Prunus Virgini...... 12} Potass Nitras........ 10@ 1 oo camphorated. a0
Quillaia, gr’d....... 12 | Prussiate....... 2 | Cet Coeerined de
Sassafras...... po. 18 12] Sulphate po .. 15@ 18 a sores =
Ulmus...po. 15, gr’d 15 R :
adix Rhei.. a 50
Extractum _ | Aconitym ...... 20@ 22 Sanguinaria _ 50
Glycyrrhiza Giabra. 4@ 2/| Althea... 2m | Serpentaria.....___. 50
Glycyrrhiza, po..... 2m, «= | Anehusa.. . 10@ 12|Stromonium... : 60
Hematox,ibbox. li ii Arumpo........._. @ | Tolan... }
Heematox, is ........ 1a@ EE Calamng i, 4) Valerian... |. 50
Heamatox,%s....... 14@ 15] Gentiana. -po. 15 12@ 15] Veratrum Veride. 50
Heematox, 48....... 16m. i Glyehrrhiza.. pv-15 16@ 18| Zingiber.. E 20
Bee Hede rastis C anaden . Qa Vileciilieeaens
l : i" ydrastis Can., po.. @ 69] Atther, Sp r we 35
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“i #2 | Inula, ae 15@ | 20) Alumen 24u@
sitrate Soluble... A ee b@ . 20/ Alumen..... 4G 3
Ferrooyantamm Soi: 13 Ie gion”. can * Bug ° | tum R's SS
: : a 5 ) I OSH. 3G 4 Annatto . . : 40@ 50
een og 5. oe Se
. "he S........ @® 35| Ar -otassT , 5
Sulphate, com’l, by L ae po. 2h i A ntimont et Potass! “ =
bbl, per cwt....... 50| py cu ntipyrin. bees @ 3%
Sulphate, pure ..... © laevrse oan Yo@ 1 00) Antifebrin | -. 2.2... @
r ’ Rt hei, Sn @ 1 25/| Argenti Nitras, oz oo
Flora BOL DV... 2... 75@ 1 35| Arsenicum. | ia
Arates 000. oo «414 | Speers. 33@ 38) Balm Gilead Bud .. 38@ 40
Anthemis........... 18Q@ 2% — — -po. 15 — 2% a 1 40@ 1 50
Matricaria .......... 20@ 35 | S@rpentaria 30@ 35 | , iA @ 9
Poll Renews 40m 45 48. @ 10
olla Similax,officinalis H @ 40} Calcium Chlor., 4s @
Sarosma. ttccscsrce: GO oo | Se @ | Cantharides. eae @ "5
Cassia Acutifol, Tin- ei. 0.35 10 121 Ce ipsici Fructus, af. @ b
mevelly 00) 000, 18@ 25 | Symplocarpus, Feti- | Capsici Fructus, po. @ 15
Cassia Acutifol, Ax 2a aun, pO... a | Capsici FructusB,po @ 5
Salvia officinalis, 44s Valeriana, Eng.po.30 @ 2%| Car yophyllus. 7 56 Ba it4
woe ee le, = - ae German. @ 2| Carmine, No. 40. @ 3 00
WA UrSt i... 8@ ingiber a. : a | Cera Alba. 5 55
Geum Seaeier sy. 2... 25@ 27 Cera Flava... 42
. : : Cocens ... ..: 40
Acacia, Ist picked... 65 Semen Re cts nite n wn 4
Acacia, 2d picked.. @ 4%) Anisum...... po. 15 @ 2 ee 33
Acacia, 3d picked.. @ 3 —. ae eons) 13@ 15 pining eeu. 2
Acacia, sifted sorts. @ 28| Bird, 1s.. Bah 6 ne eee :
Acacia, po. mm wi Card... .... “PO. ‘18 oe tt x ao i. Se
Aloe, Barb. ‘po. 18@20 a 4) Cardamon..... PG . ze ein re aa be ibbs I 15
Aloe, Cape .... po. 15 @ if) Comanddum 2 7 — ya Crst.. 1 90
Aloe, Socotri..po. 40 @ 30} Cannabis Sativa || > aiz| © — ie ae i 25
Avomoniac.......... Som 46880; Cydoniam. .... TB 1 00 . Cinchonidine, P.& W 35
Assafctida....po.30 25@ 28} Chenopodium .....” 100@ 12/¢ eae ine, Germ : a
Dpenaomnum ......... 50@ 55 Dipterix Odorate... 2 00@ 2 20 Corks, ii . ais ae . a
Catechn, t6.)......., @ 13|Feniculum......._. . pr.ct, . 3
Catechu, 44s,........ @ 14 ee OO... 7a Sete Sovum br 2 35
Catechu, ¥s......... [6 | Lint... 3B4@ 4% aoe nore -ObL. 7% } 2
Camphore . -.. oo 2} Lini, erd.. . bbl. 34 4@ 1% Creta, ) eg / ‘ 1
Euphorbium..po. 35 @ 10| Lobelia ... 35@ 401 Greta’ Put p........ *@ _
Gamenvim........... @ 1 00} Pharlaris Canarian, 4@ 4%] Grocus Tae ae 180 on
Gamboge po........ 55@ 70| Rapa. oe Sigua ae
Guaiacum..... po. 25 Oo ww Sinapis| Albu. 92 10| GupriSulph. || 7 @ .
Kine... po. 83.00 @ 3 00| Sinapis Nigra. N@ 12 airing Bree aes aan <
rot ea po. iE 3 > Spiritus Ether Sulph....__ O 90
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3% } i @ z ow
Opi po Bihas 0 ong | 95| Krumenti, D. FR: 3 wg 2 2 per? To oe
pcian) MiGeaEe | om 45|Frumenti..... . 125@ 1 50| Ergota......... po.40 30@ 3
nanan d bs 4 a Juniperis Co. 0. T._ 16 2 Flake W — cee IQ 15
Cee ee Ue Juniperis Co 7 59 | Galla. @ 2
Herb pers GO... .. cz | :
erbe Saacharum N. E.... 1 90@ 2 10| Gambier. .20 1271127) sS@ 9
Absinthium..oz. pkg 25 | Spt. Vini Galli...... 1 75@ 650 | Gelatin, Cooper. G&G &
Eupatorium .oz. pkg 20 | Vini Oporto......._. 1 25@ 2 00} Gelatin, French..... 35@ 60
Eopelta 2.1. oz. pkg 25 | Vini Alba.. 1 25@ 2 00 | Glassware, flint, box v0
Majorum ....0z. pkg 28 Sein r , Less than ox... 60
Mentha Pip..oz. pk 28 : 708, UFOWN........ @
Mentha > agg od 95, | Florida sheeps’ wool Glue, white... ina 3
Bae: |. oz. pkg 39 carriage. . 2 50@ 2 % Glycerina 15%4@ 2
TanacetumV oz. pkg 99 | Nassau sheeps ‘wool Grana Paradisi @ &
Thymus, V..oz. pkg 25 carriage. @ 200) Himuius........ . Se
la iii Velvet extra sh 1eeps’ | Hydraag Chlor Mite @ 8
i g . wool, carriage. .... @iz lydraag Chlor Cor. @ &
Calcined, Fat..... 55@ 60} Extra yellow sheeps’ | Hydraag Ox Rub’m. a &
Carbonate, Pat... ... 200@ 2 wool. carriage... @ 1 00| Hydraag Ammoniati @ 1 10
pc os & M 0@ eee sheeps’ wool, |HydraagUnguentum 45@ 55
Carbonate, Jennings - 35 36 carriage. @ 1 00} Hydrar; Eyruny....... @
‘Oise Hard, for slate | use. @ 7} Ichthyobolia, Am.. 6Q
Yellow Reef, for Pee 75@ 1 00
Absinthium.. -. 350@ 3 75 Ginte use... 2. @ 1 40| Iodine, Resubi...... 2 6(0@ 37
Amygdale, Dule 30@ 50 | lodoform...... : @ 4 20
Amygdale, / Amare. 8 00@ 8 25 — Euptulia. 3... @z2x
nis 1.@ 2 26| Acacia . @ 50| Lycopodium........ 40@ 45
Auranti Cortex. 2 25@ 2 40| Auranti Cortes. 30 | Macis ae 65 %
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Berean: |... .. 2 Oe Se | Aimsiper @ 50} Liquer Arsex et by-
Cees... we wires |... @ 60 drare lod... ce DD
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chenopadi. ae HG ok : 2 seca Officinalis. . 50@ 60 | Magnesia, Sulph,bbl @ 1%
te. ) 7 oe @ Si Mannia. 8. F........
Cisronelis. ......... 45@ 50| Scilla... .__ @ %0| Menthol... ........; @2%
| |
Morphia, S.P.& W... 2 55@ 2 80| Sinapis............. ‘ 18 Linseed, pure raw. 35
Morphia, 8 No ¥ -Q & : | Si i : 2 3 | Linseed, boiled “d 37 0
C. Ca. -.. 2 46 2 De "| Neatsfoot,winterstr 65 70
Mos schus Canton... @ 40] a | Spirits Turpentine.. 34 40
prstica, No.1t..... 65@ 280! Snuff s Scoteh, DeVo’'s |
7 Vomica. . po. 20 @ 10} Soda Boras ]
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Picis Lig N.N ‘M% gal. Soda, Bi-Carb | ot Co o @A
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Picis Liq., quarts... i. @ 1 00} Soda, Sulphas. lly com mercial... 2M 2%4@3
Picis Liq., pints. Qa % Spts s. Cologne... trictly ve 2% °4@?
Pil Hydrarg...po. 80 a ww e ithe r Cc 20..... 2G =
Piper Nigra...po. 22 @ 18 : BQO
Fiper Alba....po. 35 @ 30 : vi = 2
Pits Bureun. ...... @ 7 Vir 18%4@ 22
Plumbi Acet. 100@ 12 . Vini Rect. 10gal 13Q@ 16
Pulvis Ipecac et Opii 1 10@ 1 20 Vini Rect 5gal 54@ 6%4
Pyrethrum, boxes H. 5c gal. cash 10 daz by sis »4@ 64
"& P. D. Co., doz @ 1% nin, Crystal... 1 40 Wihities ail ot = -
Pyrethrum, py...... 2A@ 30 aiphur, Bepr....... ¢ W nite. BP: aaa ae 2 1 za
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
GROCERY PRICE CURRENT.
The prices quoted in this list are for the trade only, in such quantities as are usually purchased by retail
dealers.
They are prepared just before going to press and are an accurate index of the local market.
It is im-
possible to give quotations suitable for < Tl conditions of purchase, and those below are given as representing av-
erage prices for average conditions of purchase.
those who have
our aim to make this feature of the greatest possible use to dealers.
poor credit.
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
Aurors.. Le oe 6 00
Castor Oil. oe To
Dee... 4 00
Frazer's ..... 2 9 00
IXL Golden, tin boxes 75 $ 00
Tica, tin boxes........ 7 9 00
Pacacon... .. 55 6 00
BAKING ‘POWDER.
Absolute.
~ ‘0 Cans doz. 45
4% lb 2ans doz 5
ib can doz 50
Acme.
i i) Cameo dom............ 5
Cones ae............
. Gans i dox............ 1 OO
| eee eeee eke tee etc | ae
Arctic.
Sos. Eng. Tumblers........ &
Ei Purity.
361) Cans pergor......... %
4 Ib cans per doz ....... 1 20
1 tb cans per doz........ 2 00
Home.
4¢ ib cans 4 doz case..... 35
% ib cans 4 doz case..... 55
lb cans 2 doz case ..... 90
iIJAXON
1g 1b cans, 4 doz case... 45
% 1b cans, 4 doz case... .. 85
Ib cans, 2 doz case...... 1 60
Jersey Cream.
Lit. Cane perdoz.......... 2 00
SOx. CABG, per dox.......... 1s
6 Os. Gans, per Gos.......... 85
Our Leader.
ig iD Cans.. oe 45
% Ib Cans. 5
1 Tb Gans.. i. 156
Pecriess.
11>. Cans ... 85
Queen Flake.
Bom. Gdoe care. ......... 27
Bor. tdon case _.........3 2
Won. 4 don. casc............ 4 80
tip 2 dene case........... 4 00
5 Ib., 1 doz. case. 9 00
= | BRiC
eel SGoe........_._..
Lame, 2 doz......
BRoorS
70
Wareh 19nse ‘ _2e
CANDLES.
nee LN
166.. Re
Paraffine.. s
CANNED GOODS.
Manitewoc Peas.
iuakeside Marrowfat 9
ip
ase sll
Lakeside, ae = Eng. he
Lakeside. Gem, Sifted.
Extra Sifted Early June..
CATSUP.
Columbia, pinis..
Columbis, chEESE
Rese ..... .. @ 9
Ramee; ........_. : @ 9
espera... ....... @ 8s
Carson City.......... @ &%
ae @ 8%
ee @ 9%
aa @ &&%
oe: @ 9%
ieee... ao 8b
Birermiae.......__... a 2
ere. @ s&s
Springdale..... a. @
Brick @ i1
@ 70
a @ 17
iimeburper........ @ 12
Prackenie............ 50 @ &
a ae 17
Chicory.
Bulk : 5
Red 7
CHOCOLATE.
Walter Baker & Co.'s.
Cletenan SapOOE os.
Premium. ......
Breakfast Cocoa...........
5 and 10 1b. wooden boxes..30-35
COFFEE.
Green.
Rio.
Fair cue ee tae ee es
Good Le cece peweg ee 10
EEO —____loe il
Golden
Peaberry eee ee
Santos.
Fair i.
a.
Prime .....
oe LINES.
Cotton, 40 ft, per doz..... i 0
Cotton, 50 ft, per dos.......1
Cotton, 60 ft, per doz.......1 40
Cotton, 70 ft, per a es i 60
Cotton, 80 ft, pe r aoe.......1 38
Jute, 6076, per dos......... 3
Jute. 72 ft, ner lox,,
COCOA SHEL LS.
2015 DReS...._.- 2
Less quantity oe 3
Pound packages 4
CREASI TARTAR.
Peaberry .....- ul
Mexican ané Guetamate.
| 1,000 books,
Universal Grade.
50 books, any denom.... 1 50
100 books, any denom.... 2 50
500 books, any denom....11 50
any denom....20 00
Credit Checks.
500, any one denom’n..... 3 00
1060, any one denom’n..... 5 00
one denom’n 8 00
s “nk. v1)
DRI: RD , PRUITS. —DOMESTIC
Apples.
Sun @bd
Evaporated 50 1b boxes. @8
Sallfornia Fruits.
“ 100-126 25 ib boxe Sm
‘oi : a
oa 16 90-10 Ib boxes, @ 4%
a ..17 | 80 Ib boxes Q
K ee . i é
y =e ti
Maracaibo a @ 5%
ee 19 @ 6%
b boxes...
eva 1
Interior ... ? .19 i cent les in 50 1b cases
Private Growth. Muscatels2 Crown 3%
TEE «ene one en tate se Muscatels3Crown 4%
Roa ited. e Muscatels4Crown 5%
Clark-Jewell-W ells Co. ‘s Brands FOREIGN
Pifth Avenue. .... : Currants.
Jewell’s Arabian Mocha 30 Patras } oe @ 7H |
Mogae ie javac at | Moana eases BS
erfection Java.....2 ‘ “bi Hm QL
Saneaibo oe <.e ust > alk get Pa
BAnraet Blend 12 aned : 1 packages Sees @ 8%
oa a | ne ee
Valley City Maracaiho. .. J 6 | oy tron American 1f Ol bx @13
faee! Blend ........... - + bie T Ame fean 19 b hx @i12
Leader Blend....... re >» American 101b bx @12
Package. i Raisins
Below are given New York | Gndurs 28 ib boxes.....8 @ 8%!
prices on pacl e coffees, to & 1 1Croe a
which the wholesaie dealer | Suitena®? Cro a
adds the loca] freight from | Sutiena ? Crow: @ i%
New York to your shipping] Ssitensa 4 Crewr G
point, giving you credit on the
1voice for the amount of
ht buyer pays from the
in wh ch he pur chases
oin t, including
pound. In 6015. cases the list
is 10c per 100 lbs. above the
price in full cases.
4 ? 10 50
9 50
lies’ 6) xXXX.
MeL. augh] lin’s XXXX sold to
retailers only. Mail all orders
direct to W. F. McLaughlin &
Co., Chicago.
mae
Hnmmel's tin % gre 4
CLOTHES PINS.
& cross boxes 40
CONDENS2D MILK
4 doz in cas ne.
Gail Borden Ergle.....
Crown eee
Dais
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Magnolia
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COUPON BOOKS.
Tradesman Grade.
50 books, any denom.... 1 50
100 books, any denom 5D
500 books, any denom....
1,000 books, any denom....2
Economic Grade.
50 books, any denom.... 1 50
100 books, any denom.... 2 50
500 books any denom....11 50
1,9 books. any denom 20 90
Superio- Grade.
50 books, any denom.... 1 50
100 books, any denom.... 2 50
500 books, any denom....
1,000 books, any denom....2!
Coupon Pass Books,
Can be madeto oa any
denomination from —" own.
J books... 1 00
desig ook ee TS 2 00
Se hoees 3
Ss ultana 6 Crown pole
Sultana package..
FARIN ACEOUS GOODS.
Parina.
241 res 1 ae
Bu 2 oe
Grits.
Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s Brand.
242 1b. packages......
20
| .3 00
200 1b. barrels. 2 5 75
Hominy.
Barrels ... <-. oO
Flake, 50 Ib. ‘drums....... 1 00
Beans.
Dried Lima... 3%
Medium Hand Picked.
Maccaroni and Vermicelli.
60
Domestic, 10 Ib. box.
Imported, 25 Ib. box.. .. "2 50
— Barley.
Common.... 1%
Chester . ieee
ss... Ce
Peas.
oon oe... ....... Soe 95
Split, per Ib.. . =
Rolled Oats.
Rolied Ayena, bbi.......2 96
Monarch, bb! a ee
monarch, % bbl....... .2 06
Monarch, 90 lb sacks...... 1 60
Quaker. cases. .3 20
orem, caees..............8 wo
Sago.
ENA 4
Recs 14Gm........... 3%
Tapioca.
Pistc...........,....--.. 3%
Pee. 35%
Anchor, 40 1 1b. pkges.... 5
Wheat.
Cracked balk ........._. 314
2421b packages eed 2 50
Salt Fish.
Cod.
Georges cured......... @ 4
Georges genuine... . @5
Georges selected...... @ 5%
Strips or bricks.. _.6 @o
Herring.
Holland white hoops, bbl.
Holland white hoop %bbi 2 75
Holland, 4 Dbi.-........ 1%
Holland white hoop, keg. 30
Holland white hoop mchs 85
Norwegian ..
Round 100 lbs............. es
Roun @ie........... 1 30
co es ee 13
Mackerel.
Mess 10 tha... .. oo
on 2 ie............... Om
Mees 10 308....... _...... ES
ee 15
ho ite he......... . ae
No.1 401bs. 5 60
No.i 10 Ibs. 1 48
mo.8 Sipe... ........... 1 20
No.2 100i... ... 8 50
Mo.2 @ibs... -.. 37
No.2 0 ibe.....- _.. 1A
No.2 Sihe...... 83
Trout
No. { 100 lds. 5 25
Mo.t @ie...... 2 40
No. 1 IDE... 68
mot gi... 57
Whitefish.
No.1 No.2 Fam
[Moie.......65 6s it
40 lbs 208 2m to
teies......_. 78 73 43
Sim: 61 29
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D.C. Vanilla D.C Lemon
oo... 1 26 x. . 5
SOs......1 oO 3 Oz. a 00
i4oz.. _..200 on... 1 40
Gos.....30 Con... .. 2
No. 8 400 No. 8...2 40
i No. 10. .6 00 No. 10...4 00
ino. 2735 5 “. fy.
N 3'T.2 00 Bo. 37.15
No 4T2 0 No. <4T.1 50
Northrop Brand.
Lem. Van.
20s. Taper Pancl.. % 120
Sos. tve.......... % 1 90
3 oz. Taper Panel..1 35 2 00
4 oz. Taper Panel..1 60 2 25
Souders’.
val bottle, with corkscrew.
Best in the world for the
Regular
Grade
Lemon.
doz
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_-“...... 1 50
Regular
Vanilla.
doz
-.......
ELEGANT j a et 2 40
Fravorinc Il Xxx Grade
ol Lemon.
“Wil 2oz...... 1 50
la ike 402 -3 00
oe XX Grade
Ee Vanilla.
Sos...... 1%
con... ... 3 50
wee 15
Rao SE SEARO SG n pus at na 15
—
— 5 lb boxe
55
S. FF. 2, 3 and 5 1b aaa 50
GUNPOWDER.
Rifle—Dupont’s.
feos 4 00
Pair Riegel 22
perser Hees... 6... 1%
Din cane 30
SiO Gate. 18
Choke Bore—Dupont’s.
Bees 423
Man Rees... ee
Cyaniger Mere... ......- 13
Fie One 34
Eagie Duck—Dupont’s.
oe 8 00
Half Kegs. a
Quarter Ber ie
fietan. le
JELLY.
Pip petie.
Pibmie... |... 65
LYB.
Condensed, 5 des ......... 1
Condensed. 4 doz = oe
LICORICE.
Pere... 2... ees 30
ae 25
Sicily.. SS a |
meee. i
MINCE MBAT.
Ideal, 3 doz. in case..... = oo
MATCHES.
Diamond Match Co.’s —
Mo. 9 Saige 1 6
BmGMOr Parmer... 1 70
Me.> Home... 110
Mxport Farior.............. 400
MOLASSES.
New Orleans.
Black. 11
a... 14
Good . ace. 20
Faney 24
Open Metiie. 25@35
Half-barrels 2e extra.
MUSTARD.
Horse Radish, 1 doz......... 1%
Horse Radish, 2 doz.........3 50
Bayle’s Celery, 1 doz.. .... 1 75
PIPES.
Clay. No. 216.. 17
Clay. T. D. fullcount..._. 65
Cob, No. 3..... oo
POTASH.
48 Cans in case.
Babbitt oe
Penna Sait Gots... 2.
PICKLES.
Medium.
Barrels, 1,200 count........ 5 30
| Half bbls, 600 count........ 3 00
Small.
Barrels, 2,400 count....... 6 00
Half bbls 1,200 count...... 3 50
RICE.
Domestic.
Carolina head...... i. ook
Carona Net ........... &
Carolina No. 2.. 4
Broken. 3%
oe
gepean, NO.t 63,
Japan, No. 2. a
Java, fancy Hose 6
Java, No.1... ees 5%
Table ........ :
SALERATUS,
Packed 66 lbs. in box.
eo. eS 3 3C
orange. 88 3 15
Dwight’s .-3 30
a 3 00
60 Ib.
case
$3.15
SAL SODA.
Granulated, bbls.......... 7
Granulated, 100 lb cases.. 90
J oo a an 75
Lump. 145lb kegs..........
SNUFF.
Scotch, in bladders......... 3?
Maccaboy, injars........... 35
French Rappee, in jars..... 43
SEEDS.
ee
Canary, Smyrna.. | 3%
Caraway . ae. 8
Cardamon, Malabar _. - O
eee ee 11
Hemp, = eee eee 3%
Mixea Bird... ...:...._. 4%
Mustard, a 5
Pepey oo... 10
ee 4%
Cuttle Bone.. i. ee
SALT.
Diamond Crystal.
Table, cases, 24 3-lb boxes..
Table, barrels, 100 3 1b bags.:
1
2
2
Butter, barrels, 2801b. bnlk.2 25
9
Table, barrels, 40 7 lb bags.2 40
Butter, barrels, 2014 Ibbags.2 50
Butter, sacks, 28lbs......... 25
Butter, SACKS, 56 1De......... 55
Common Grades.
HOcibssexs.... ._..__....4 00
PoSipeaees.... eS
ee tOinsaeks.........._....1 60
Worcester.
SO 4 Tb: Cartons. .......... 3 25
1m 26lD. epeke..... _......4 00
m > Th eee... 3%
meee 1D. SOOKR..... |... 3 50
bom) Ib seems. |... 3 50
2s lb. linen ekeks............ 32
S61b. linen sacks............ 60
uk in barrels... 2 50
Warsaw.
56-lb dairy in drill bags..... 30
28-lb dairy in drill bags..... 15
Ashton.
56-lb dairy in iinen sacks... 60
Higgins.
56-lb dairy in linen sacks. 60
Solar Rock.
bOip sacks... ...:.... 1... Ss
Common.
Granulated Fine............ 70
wediam Fine. ............. z
SOAP.
Gast & Pulte’s Brands.
White Rose, 100 bars, 75 lbs.2 75
White Rose, 5 box lot...... 2 60
White Rose, 10 box lot..... 2 50
G, & P.’s Leader, 100 bars. ..2 50
G. & P.’s Leader, 5 box lot.2 40
G. & P.’s Leader, 10 box lot.2 30
JAXON
Single Me 2 2 io
5 box lots, delivered.. 2 70
10 box lots, delivered....... '2 65
JAS. §. KIRK & C0.’S BRANDS.
American Family, wrp’d....2 66
ome 2%
A 2 20
PeeWee 2 50
White Russian.. <2 Oo
White Cloud, laundry. eee 6 25
White Cloud, toilet.. 3 50
Dusky Diamond, 50 6 Oz... 2 10
Dusky Diamond, 50 8 oz....3 00
Blue India, 100 % Ib......... 3 00
rw 3 50
oe 2 50
Schulte Soap Co.’s Brand.
100 sis % =
Single box. 2
5 Oex tO 2%
box tis. 2 70
op DOM 10ts. 2 60
Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands.
Old Country, 80 1-lb. bars ..2 7
Good Cheer, 60 1-lb. bars....3 75
Uno, 100 3%-lb. bars...... 2 oo
Doll, 100 10-o0z. bars......... 2 05
Scouring.
Sapolio, kitchen, 3 doz ..... 2 40
Sapolio, hand, 3 doz........2 40
SODA.
MOCes cc . 5%
Mees. tnelish............-.. 4%
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SPICES
Whole Sifted,
Ailspice ... ; 13
Usk ia, Unina in mats |
Cassia, Batavia la bund... 25
'a3314, SAigon in rolls .....32
& Wioves, Amooyna.. oe
COVGR, SANZIbAr ........... 12
Mace, Batavia .............55
Nutmegs, — Coa ae .6u
Nutmegs, No. i. een ee
Nutimcen, Nea 2... coy
Pepper, Singapore, black...11
Pepper, Singapore, white... .12
Feprer, chor. 12
Pure Ground in Buik.
Cassia, Batavia
Cassia, Saigon a
Cloves, Zanzibar. ...
Ginger, African
Ginger, Cochin
Ginger, Jamaica
Mace, Balavia... ......... 65
Mustard a
Names... 106: 00
Pepper, Sing , black ....__..
Pepper, Sing., white........ Es
—- Cayenne Leu eceee sce 20
Sage.. 0
‘SYRUPS.
rn.
REOIR i 15
Heit bbls... wo... 17
Pure Cane.
ONe s 16
On 20
Ore 5
STARCH.
Kingsford’s Corn.
40 1-lb packages............. 6
Uf 1b packager............. 614
Kingsford’s Silver Gloss.
40 1.-1b packages. ...........- 6%
Gin boxes 8. 7
Diamond.
64106 packages ........... 5 00
18 S@ packaces......... .. 5 00
32 10¢c and 64 5c packages...5 00
Common Corn.
11: packages. ........ |. 5
40 1 Ib, packages. ............ 4%
Common Gioss.
Pip packages... 4%
Sib packages... |. 4%
6-lb packages.. eee ee. Se
40 and 50 lb boxes........... 34%
Barrels Reece.
STOVE POLISH.
Pie
a eA Tt RASR ed ce
Nem
No. 4, 3 doz in case, gross.. 4 50
No. 6, 3 doz in case, gross.. 7 20
SUGAR.
Below are given New York
prices on sugars, to which the
wholesale dealer adds the local
freight from New York to your
shipping point, giving you
credit on the invoice for the
amount of freight buyer pays
from the market in which he
purchases to hisshipping point,
including 20 pounds for the
weight of the barrel.
Dogme oo. 5 8&8
Cm tow... 5 88
Cygenee 5 88
MOS 5 63
Fowocrea ............ 5 63
XXXX Powdered...... wees BD 69
Granulated in bbls... ...... 5 38
Granulated in bags.........5 38
Fine Granulated............ 5 38
Extra Fine Granulated..... 5 50
Extra Coarse Granulated...5 50
mould A. 5 63
Diamond Confec. A........ 5 38
Confec. Standard A......... 5 2
TOBACCOS.
Cigars,
Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s brand.
New Brice 2 33 00
H. & P. Drug Co.’s brand.
QUST 35 00
G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s brand.
8. C.
Ruhe Bros. Co.’s Brands.
Double Eagles, 6 sizes. —— 00
Gen. Maceo, 5sizes.... — 00
Mr. Thomas. . 35 00
Cuban Hand Made.. 35 00
Crown Vive......_.._. 35 00
hie Williams... 35 00
Cito Hive. 35 U0
Gens. Grant and Lee.. 35 00
Little Peggy .... ' 35 00
mipmel Wave... :. = =
Knights of Pythias..
Key West Perfects, 282 55@60 00
TABLE SAUCES.
Lea & Perrin’s, large... 4 75
Lea & Perrin’s, small... 2 75
Baliord larce. 3%
Halford small. yee oe
Salad Dressing, large... 4 55
Salad Dressing, smail.....2 65
VINEGAR.
Malt White Wine, 40 —_- 6
Malt White Wi ine, SO grain.... 9
mre Ciera "10
Pure Cider, Leroux......... 1l
Pure Cider, Genesee.......... il
Pure Cider, Robingon......... i
WICKING.
No.0 persross......, 25
Ne. l percroms 30
No. 2; so .............. 40
No. 3, Porerogs .... ........ %
Crackers.
The National Biscuit Co.
quotes as follows:
Butter.
seyinour Mae
Seymour XXX, 3 1b. carton ou
Raniy Ae 6
Family — 31b carton... 6%
Salted XX 5
Salted XXX, 3 lb carton. 6%
Soda.
Soda XXX . 6%
Soda XXX, 31b carton. <
Soda, City... 8
Zephyrette.. ap
Long Isiand Wafers... || ll
L. 1. Wafers, 1 lb carton 12
Oyster.
Square Oyster, XXX. _ 6
Sq. Oys. XXX. 1 Ib carton. z
Farina Oyster, XXX....._. 6
SWEET GOODS—Boxes.
A oe
Bent’s Cold Water.........
Poe Goes s
Cocoanut : eects cea | a
Coffee Cakes. . eee. lu
Frosted Honey... ee eee eee 12%
Graham Crackers ..... 3
Ginger Snaps, XXX round. 7%
Ginger Snaps, XXX city... 7%
Gin. Snps,X XX home made 48
Gin. Snps,XXX scalloped... 7%
GinserGome... 8
Deeper 8
dumbles, Honey........... 11%
Molasses Cakee 8
Marshmallow ............. 1b
Marshmallow Creams..... 16
Pretzels, hand made ..... 9
Pretzelettes, LittleGerman 7
Sugar Cake inn 8
BUMSMAN 12%
Sears Lumen... iM
Sugar Squares............
Vanilla Wafers. .......... 14
Pecan Wafers.........._... 15%
mined Piente 11%
Cream Jumbies ............ 12
Boston Ginger Nuts,....... 9%
Pineapple Glace...... ..... 16
Penny Cakes... 8%
Marshmallow Walnuts.... 16
Belle Isle Pieniec __. Looe : 10%
Oils.
Barrels.
Recene .. 8... @i2
XXX W.W. — Hdlt @ 9%
W W Michigan........ @ 8%
Diamond White....... @ 7%
2. Sas... Sass @9
Deo. Naptha Seeeecce ns @i
cyeneer 2 @34
Meee, 11 @2l
B'ack, winter... __ @e
Candies.
Stick Candy.
bbls. pails
ol. ........... 64G 7
Standard H. H..... 644@ 7
Standard Twist..... 6 @8
Cas teat... |... @ 8%
cases
Jumbo, 32 1b . @ 6%
Do @ 8%
Boston Cream...... @
Mixed Candy.
Competition......... @ 6%
Standard @i
Conserve @BI%
Royal @Bi*%
Bingen. @ 8%
Broken @ 8%
Cur veer... @ &&%
English Rock....... @8
Kindergarten....... @ 8%
French Cream...... @ 8%
Dandy Pan... |. | @i0
Valley Cream.. .. @i2
Fancy—In Bulk.
Lozenges, plain..... @ 8%
Lozenges, printed.. @ 9
Choe, Drops... __. @i4
Choc. Monumentals @il
Gum ieps. @ 6
Moss Drops.. @s
pourDrops...... |. @ 9
Emiperials. @ 9
Fancy—in 5 Ib. Boxes.
Lemon Drops.. @50
pour Drops. @5v0
Peppermint Drops oe
Chocolate Drops....
H. M. Choe. —— G5
Gum Drops.. @30
Licorice Drops. a Gia
A. B. Licorice — @sv
Lozenges, plain.. @ao
Lozenges, printed. @v
Imperials a. @5v
Mottoes. @55
Cream Bar. //)()) 7/7) @5v
Molasses Bar ... @50
Hand Made Creams. 80 @l oH
Plain Creams.. 0 @IO
Decorated Creams. @w
String Rock. @b60
Burnt Almonds..... 13 @
Wintergreen Berries @so
Caramels.
No. 1 wrspped, 2 2 ID.
BOxes @35
No. 1 wrapped, 3 Ib.
boxes @5v0
No. 2 wrapped, = ib,
Fruits.
Oranges.
Medt Sweets........ @3 H
Late Valencias...... @3 50
Lemons.
Strictly choice 360s., @ UO
Strictly choice 300s.. @5 00
Fancy 360s or 300s.. @5 50
Ex.Fancy 300s. @6 0
Ex.Fancy 360s. . — @E OU
Bananas.
Medium bunches...1 25 @1 50
Large bunches...... 1% @2 a
Foreign Dried Fruits.
Pigs.
Choice, 101b boxes..
Extra choice, 14 lb
boxes..
Fancy, 12 ‘ib. boxes...
Imperial Mikados, 13
TO DOMES...
Pulled, 6 1b boxes...
Naturals, in bags. .
Dates.
Fards in 10 lb boxes
Fards in 60 lb cases
lb cases, new. Ce
Sairs, 601b cases....
@ hi
@
@
@ 6%
@8
@é6
@5
G6
@ 4%
N rN
Almonds, Tarragona. .
Almonds, vaca.......
Almonds, >
soft shelled
Brass new... ......
Lo ee
Walnuts, Grenobles ..
Walnuts, Calif No. 1.
WwW alnuts, soft shelled
Cate
Table Nuts, fancy..
Table Nuts, choice..
Pecans, Mea
Pecans, Ex. Large..
Pecans, Jumbos.......
Hickory Nuts per bu.,
Ohio, new....
Cocoanuts, full sacks
Peanuts.
Fancy, H. P., Suns.
Fancy, H. P., Flags
HUOROGG
Choice, H. P., Extras.
Choice, H. a ——
Roas: ‘
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Grains and Feedstuffs F
Wheat
Winter Wheat Flour.
Local Brand:
Patents ....
Second Patent.
Straight ao
Cae
Gidiieata
Buckwheat
Wr COW he
as of
UO
Re 50
Subject to usual cash dis-
count.
Flour in bbls.,25¢ per bbl. ad-
ditional
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand
Pam 36a 4 00
Diamond, } 48 -4 00
Diamond, %s. a 00
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Quaker, \s... 4 00
Quaker, 4s ..... 4 00
Quaker, %s..... 4 00
Spring Wheat Flour.
Clark-Jewell-Wells Uo.’s Brand.
Pillsbury’s Best ¢s. 4 95
Pillsbury’s Best is. ..... 2 oe
Pillsbury’s Best } 2
Pillsbury’s Best 4s pay er. 4 75
Pillsbury’s Best 4s paper.. 4 75
3all-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand.
*
J
se
f
hy
Duluth Imperial,
Dulutb faeeel J
Duluth Imperial,
Lemon & Whector Ce 0.’s Brand.
Gold Medaligs...__....... 495
Gold Medal 14S.. . 485)
Gold Medal %s.... i. 2 0 |
asec ae. 4 95}
14 4 85
Parisi¢ te bes. 1. 2
Olney & Judson’s Brand.
Ceresora, ¢s........_... 5 00
Ceresicn, ie... | 4 90 |
(erect, a ............. & 80 }
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand. |
Laurel, %s. .
Laurel, 348. (ee 2 Oe
Laurel. | os... ol 4 85
Meal.
Bolted . a . 190]
Granul uted . eee. = oe
Feed and Millstutis.
St. Car Feed, screened 17 CO
No. 1 Corn and Oats. . 16 5) |
Unbolted Corn Meal.. 15 50 |
Winter Wheat Bran... . .14 00 \
Winter Wheat Middlings..15 50
POrceminen............ 16 00
Corn.
Car iots . S74
Less than ear lots ! 4
Oats. |
Car lots. .. -_ 1. oe
Carlots, clipped... ce. oe
Less than car lots. _... _., oo
Hay. |
No. 1 Timothy carlots.. 9 00}
No. i Thmothy, ton lots \ = 00 |
Fish and Oysters - |
Fresh Fish.
Per Ib.
Whitessh .......... am = |
..........,, . ae: 8s 3
Biaek Bass.......... § @ 10
ia. @ 6
Ciscoes or —— a 4 |
Bluefish. — a wi
Live Lobster....... @ 16
Boiled Lobster...... @ 18
Cee @ 10
Haddock cs, oo
No. 1 Piekerel.. : @ 8
Pike ees ea. @ 7
Perch. a @ 4
Smoked W hite. uae @ @
Red Snapper. ...... @ 10
Col River Salmon.. @ iz
Mackerel ......_... @ 18
Oysters in Cans.
B. H. Counts... ...... @ 40
Shelli Goods.
Oysters, per 100.......1 25@1 50
Clams, per 100 @i 2
}HOre @uarters «5
| Hind quarters
Provi sions,
Swift t & Company
follows
Barreled Pork
Mess
Back
Clear back
Short cut.
a
H Family
_ Salt Misate.
kets
Extra short :
Semoked eats.
Hams, 12 lb average 8%
Hams, 14 ib ay > k%
Hams, 16 Ib averag ge By
Hams, 20 lb ave 4gze 8
Ham dried beet Lo , 133%
Shoulders (N. Y. cut) 6%
Bacon, clear we wera IMQDIN
California hams.. 6
Boneless hams 9
Cooked ham.. 10@13
Lards. In Tierces.
Compound....__.. . 1%
Bee... nia 6%
5d Ib Tubs... 14
SOIb Tubs... .. by
50 1b Tins . 4B
20 Ib Pails. adve al Ace 56
10 lb Pails ps
5 lb Pails. 1
3 lb Pails. ile
Sausages.
Bologna . 544
Liver.... ous bY%
F'rg ankfort. 4
Pork . 4 6
Blood 6
ongue .
| Head chee : 6
| oa
| Extra Mess li 3
| Boneless .... eee 13 00
fap... 14 U0
Pigs’ feet,
Kits, 15 lbs.. Lo. 70
% bbls, 40 Ibs io... Fao
Ye bbls, 80 Ibs . . oo
Tripe.
Kits, 15 lbs. . 70
14 BOI, 40 be) 4 3
46 Dbls, SO ibe... 2 25
aitied
Pork . a 15
Beef rounds. aa 3%
Beef middles.... 10
Pe 60
Butterine.
Rolls, dairy... 10
Sol ia, dang. 9%
Rolls, creame _....... 14
Solid, creamery oo. 134%
Canned Moats.
Corned beef, 2 It
Corned beef, 14 Ib.
Roast beef, 2 Ib
Potted ham, 48
Potted ham, s.. ' 90
Deviled ham, — 5U
Deviledham, Xs... 90
Potted tongue 4s hl 50
Potted tongue a 90
F Tesh Meats.
Beef.
Carcass .......
6%4@ 7 7%
@6
Loins No. 3.
Hides and Pelts.
The Cappon & Bertsch Leather
quote as}
|
|
|
|
Crockery and
5] % gal.,
Glassware.
AKRON STONEW ARE.
Butters,
per doz.. . 40
i to 8 gal., per gai. —— 5
ear eoen. . 38
| 10 gal. , cach... _. Pca 4H
12 gal., each... . roe i
15 gal. meat-tubs, each... Ww
20 gal. meat-tubs, each....1 20
25 gal. meat-tubs, each....2 25
30 gal. meat-tubs, each....2 7
Churns.
2 to 6 gal., per gal. a
| Churn Dashers, pe r ‘doz.. 85
ane,
44 gal. flat or rd. bot., doz 45
1 gal. flat or rd. bot., each 434
Fine Glazed Milkpans.
flat or rd. bot.,doz. 60
flat or rd. bot., each
Stewpans.
ro
% gal.
1 gal.
% gal. fireproof, bail, doz. 4%;
1 gal. fireproof, bail, doz.i 13
Jugs.
| i Sal., perdos........._.. 40
maul. perder. ........ 42
Atdo gal pergal... .__. 5%
Tomato Jugs.
Ye gal. » per dos.. . =
i gal., each... -- oa. Bty
Corks for % gal., per doz.. 20
Corks for 1 gal., per doz.. 30
Preserve Jars and Covers.
% gal., stone cover, dogs... 75
1 gal., stone cover, doz...1 00
Sealing Wax.
5 lbs. in package, per lb... 2
LAMP eo
No. 0 Sun. i‘ a. =
No. 1 Sun.. We eee eee 40
bo 58
ee a ee 1 00
ee i...
curity, Nc a a...
jou No. 2 a
Nutmeg 50
LAMP CHIMNEYS—Common.
Per box of 6 dez
Ne OS 1 33
No. 1 Sun 1 48
NG 2 oie 2 18
First Quailty,
No. 0 San, éri mp _ top,
eee and labeled.... 2 10
No. Sun, crimp top,
Ww rappe: dand labeled.... 2 25
No. 2 Sun, crimp top
wrapped and labeled.... 3 25
XXX Flint,
No. 0 Sun, crimp top,
wrapped and labeled. 2 55
No. 1 Sun, crimp top,
wrapped and labeled. 2%
No. 2 Sun, crimp top,
wrapped and labeled. 3 73
CHIMNEYS—Peari Top.
No.1 Sun, wrapped and
labeled. 3 70
No. 2 Sun, “wrapped. ‘and
labele ed...
No. ho ge wrapped ‘and
labele d..
No.2 Sun, “Small Bulb,”
for Globe Lamps. . .
Le Bastie.
No. 1 Sun. plain bulb, per
doz
No, 2 Sun, plain “bulb, ber
| Goa... 15
| No, 1 Crimp, per doz.. _1
| No. 2 Crimp, per doz - 1
j Rochester.
| No. 1, Lime (65¢ doz). .... 3 50
| No.2 2} Lime (70¢ doz).. .. 406
| No. 2, Flint (80e doz)...... 47
Blectric.
No. 2, Lime (70c doz) ..... 4 00
| No. 2, Flint (80e doz)...... 4 40
| OIL CANS. Doz.
| 1 gal tin cans with spout.. 1 25
1 gal galy iron with spout. 1 55
| 2 gal galv iron with spout. 2 75
| 3 gal galv iron with spout. 3
| 5 gal galv iron with spout. 4
ee
ROunGs 1... |.
Chucks.... lg
| Plates
Pork
Se co. 44@ 5
Be @ 7% |
Shoulders : a @ 6
Leet Lard........ 0.@
Mutton.
| Carcass .... : _7 @8
| OPting tambse... ..... 9 @li
| Veal.
| Carcass 7 @s
3 gal galv iron with faucet 4
5 gal galv iron with faucet 5
gal Tilting Cane... 8
5 gal galv iron Nacefas.... 9
Pump Cans.
5 gal Rapid steady stream. 9
1 Eureka non- en 10
gseee asKaaZes
3S 2a) Home Riie..... ..... 10
5 a Home Rule.... . .2
5 gal Pirate King.. deh eee 9
LANTERNS.
| No. 0Tubular.. a. 48
|No. 1B Tubular..... «a. 6 Oe
No. 13 Tubular Dash. " 6 50
No. 1Tub., glassfount.... 7 00
No. 12 Tubular, side lamp. 4 oc
No. 3Street Lamp........ 3 7%
LANTERN GLOBES.
| No. 0 Tubular, cases 1 doz,
each, box 10 cents.. ne
No. 0 Tubular, cases 2 doz.
| Co., 100 Canal Street, quotes as
| follows:
Hides.
[Green NOt ............ @ 8%
[Green No.2... @ 7%
[Coreg Nak... .. @ 9% |
: men no. f......,.... @ 8% |
Calfskins, green No. 1 @ 3
Caifskins, green No. 2 @i%
Calfskins, cured No. 1 @10%
Calfskins, cured No. 2 @ 9
Pelts.
Pelts, cae... ........ 50@1 00 |
Tallow.
a @ 3
Naf... @ 2
Wool.
Washed fie ......... @18
Washed, medium...... @23
UnwasheG, fine.... . Ga
Unwashed, medium ..16 @I8
each, box 15 cents... ....
| No. 0 Tubular, bbls 5 doz.
eacm, DOI SG... 1...
No. 0 Tubular, bull’s eye,
eases 1 doz. each. ehesoe
LAMP WICKS,
No. © per groms........... 1b
| NO. 1 per @rogs............. 21
elf sa, al Sites cteeece | Oe
‘itvececeud | Ua
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
Hardwar
Importance of Displaying Goods.
Too much stress cannot be laid upon
the effectiveness of clever show cards
and carefully arranged interior and win-
dow displays in the selling of goods.
While we do not believe that they sell
more goods than competent clerks, yet
there is reason to believe that there are
great possibilities in them which are
not always fully realized. One often
observes and experiences the truth of
this statement when- going into stores
which make it a point to display effect-
cards, exhibit the goods to
advantage and dress the win-
ive show
the best
dows properly, each of which is the nat-
ural complement of the other and fin-
isbes off 1ts general appearance. Ac-
cording to and varying with their intel-
ligence, most people are quick to dis-
cern and appreciate the exercise of in-
genuity in the arrangement of the store.
They often show their appreciation ina
tangible way which is gratifying both
to the merchant’s personal pride and to
his bank account.
lo excite admiration by a mere pret-
tiness in some little decorative effect is
not exactly what the ambitious merchant
is striving for; he does not want people
to walk into his about
them in wonder and surprise as ata free
tight rope performance; and yet that is
just what they will undoubtedly do if he
does not carry out his artistic ideas so
completely that in a subtle but decided
way the merits and individuality of the
goods are brought to people’s notice.
By all means, tuen, the love of the pic-
turesque ought not to preclude the op-
portunity for an adroit reference to
prices, utility and attractiveness—as
the case may be—of his wares. What
will be the best plan is to combine the
charm of ornamentality in interior and
window displays with a serious effort to
show the in the most attractive
manner possible.
store and look
t anc
goods
This may -seem an easy thing to do,
yet we do not observe that it is put into
execution as often as it might be. Win-
dow dressers either think of and dispose
the goods and decorations in the win-
dow with a view wholly to ornamental
effect and allow their ideas of the artis-
tic tu bring that characteristic to the
fore too prominently for the benefit of
the goods, or else they go to another ex-
treme in which the goods are displayed
alone without any effort at adornment,
either of which is detrimental to the
sale of the goods. In the former case
people admire the embellishments and
lose sight of the main feature, which is
the goods themselves, and in the latter in-
stance the goods alone appear uninter-
esting without sufficient individuality to
attract any great amount of attention
and thus with no distinguishing charac-
teristics they are passed unnoticed.
Judgment, then, should be exercised
in preventing either unfortunate contin-
gency which we have just described.
This particularly applies to hardware,
which does not readily lend itself to ar-
tistic, ornamental effects and which re-
quires some embellishment to relieve
its rather sombre dullness and bring out
its best points. Beyond a doubt bril-
liant colors in draperies will do this
most effectively. They should be re-
newed as soon as they grow dingy, either
by washing or purchase of others. To
sum it all up in a few words, the chief
object of window and interior displays
is to sell all goods possible by attracting
attention to them. Individuality must
be obtained over other displays in order
to do this. A man must not be afraid
of a little outlay to secure an originality
which will accrue to the benefit of the
store. This desire te draw customers
by an honest and ingenious method is
both laudable and admirable if carried
out honestly and conscientiously. I
most cases it is better to mention prices,
but we do not believe that any extrav-
agant and exaggerated statements should
be made under any circumstances. -
Hardware Reporter.
> eo
Some Hardships Which Must be En-
dured at Home.
‘‘Are there any greater hardships than
those endured by our brave boys at the}
front?’’ asked the speaker.
‘*Well, I don’t know,’’ replied the
demure little woman in the back of the
hall, rising. ‘‘Were you ever in a house
where four boys between 10 and 16
caught the martial spirit, mounted guard
eight times a day, and made it a point
to charge on the cook at least twice? |
Did vou ever note the enthusiasm with |
which four boys can enter into the spirit
of military operations and patrol the
front of the house, insisting upon the
countersign when callers arrive?’’
‘“*Madam,’’ broke in the speaker, “I
assure you, [—’’
‘‘Did you ever come home froma
shopping tour,’’ she persisted, ‘‘and
find the baby in the guard house, yell-
ing itself hoarse, while four boys heid a
council of war to decide whether it
should be shot or hung?’’ |
‘As I was about to say, madam—’’ |
‘Did you ever return from a short |
call at a neighbor's to find the front door |
barricaded and gimlet holes bored in
the hardwood panels in order that the
approach of the enemy might be easily
detected?’’
‘| Madam, | concede—"’
‘*Did you ever have your front porch
mined and the mine exploded just as
you were welcoming a maiden aunt who
is expected to leave you quite a little
money, even although it is well known
that she has an antipathy to children
and never has quite forgiven you for
having so many?’’
‘* There can be no question—’
‘*Did you ever have a new sheet torn
up to make hospital bandages and three
yards of colored silk cut up into signal
flags? Did you ever have a flower gar-
den ruined because it was deemed _ nec-
essary to throw up fortifications where
the flowers happened to be? Did you
ever have a_ whole new clothesline cut
up into short pieces that could be used
to securely bind prisoners of war? Did
you ever have your barn carried by as-
sault, one of your horses so frightened
that it was four days before it was safe
to drive him, and your coachman
tripped up and thrown down a flight of
stairs because he foolishly attempted to
check the invading force? Did you
ever—’’
‘*Madam,’’ broke in the speaker at
last, ‘‘I never did. If I had, I wouldn’t
have spoken as I did. I now publicly
concede that the sufferings in the field
really amount to nothing compared with
what this war has brought upon some of
those who have to remain at home.”’
a
An Aristocratic Term.
‘‘I understand she has had an attack of
nervous prostration.’’
"Oh, dear, no- not at all.’’
‘‘But the doctor said—’’
‘*T know he did at first, but just as soon
as he learned the size of her husband’s
income he changed his mind and _ said
that she was merely overcome by that
tired feeling.’’
—___ 685 __
Sure Evidence of Infallibility.
Weawer ava ea eewdtee
>
‘‘Is your partner a man of good judg-
ment?’’ asked an old friend who is in
the city on a visit.
‘*There,’’ was the unctuous answer,
‘‘is a man of infallible judgment. He
never makes a move without taking my
advice.’’
—__>2>____
The marriageable age of woman is
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; Buckeye Paint & Varnish Co. :
3 PAINT, COLOR AND VARNISH MAKERS
@ @)
. ° @
® Mixed ; =: Shingle @°
$ Paints -_—— -
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Opening a New Store.
When a man is making his debut into
ihe business world as the full-fledged
storekeeper, he should be as careful as
the social debutante of the first impres-
sion which he makes upon the public.
From hearsay we infer that the debu-
tante in society makes strenuous efforts
to conceal ali defects, brings out good
points more tellingly by proper and be-
coming adornment, and in so many
words ‘‘puts her best foot foremost, ’’
in the most engaging manner. By thus
impressing people favorably at the be-
ginning of her career, she is able to
capture some prize in the market, called
the noble ambition of matrimony. The
young merchant, then, should model his
mercantile venture on somewhat similar
lines. He should regard the world as it
is, know that it is apt to judge of him
entirely by appearances, tor no one has
a magic wand or sorcerer’s art which
will enable him to divine intentions
which are not put into execution. Cus-
tomers will expect to see the new store
spick and span, and will doubtless exact
more perfections in it than they have
always obtained in the older, better es-
tablished firms. They will also be more
inclined to look for flaws, magnify mis-
takes, exaggerate the importance of un-
fortunate errors and in general assume
a more critical attitude toward the
young or new aspirant to mercantile
honors. The public, en masse, is not
given to great leniency, consideration
or unselfishness, as a rule, hence it will
be disposed to doubt the merchant's
ability as a business man till it has tried
his mettle. If the merchant is young
people will say that he is inexperienced ;
if he is old they will think he has made
a failure somewhere else and is trying
to recoup his fortunes at the expense of
a long-suffering public. Above all,
then, be circumspect and careful in
every way at all times, and particularly
when opening a new store,
Hardware Price Current.
AUGURS AND BITS
Se 70
scuuines connie .-29&10
Jennings imitation =... -- --G0d10
AXES
Pires Quality, S. B. Bronze... 5 00
Binet Quality, DB Bronze... 9 50
mites Qualieg, SBS Sida 50
Hirss Quality, DB Stee 10 50
BARROWS
COON 812 00 14 00
ie a era 00
BOLTS
Oe 60410
Carmaretow lt 70 to 75
TT 50
BUCKETS
Lhe $32
BUTTS, CAST
Cast Loose) Fim, fisnred .. . geate
MrOugeG Neteew 70&10
BLOCKS
cmdinary Meme 70
CROW BARS
Casgstee per lb 4
CAPS
De perm 65
Mees. Fo. miceeace.... DOE FA 55
ee ‘tease or 35
DE perm 60
CARTRIDGES
Te dU& 5
Central fire... ee
CHISELS
SOCKES PieMmee 30
necked Hrawtie 80
See CON 80
POCKet oMems _. 80
DRILLS
morc Ss BIG ROCKS 60
Taper and SiraightShank.. <---... oe oe
Mores Taper shame eae 5
ELBOWS
Com apiece, Gin... |... dow. net 50
Corrugated... ... eee oe, 1 2
OOO dis 40410
EXPANSIVE BITS
Clark’s smali, $18; large, #26................30é210
ives 1, Oa: 2 et 28 25
FILES—New List
New American FO&10
oe 70
Hemera tere Haspe -60&10
GALVANIZED IRON
Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 25 and 26; 27. ..... 28
Hist 2 13 14 15 s .... 17
Discount, 7% to 75-10
GAUGES
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s...............60&10
KNOBS—New List
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings.... ......__. WO
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings............ 80
MATTOCKS
pao Be. $16 00, dis 60&1u
Ee 00, dis 60&10
See $18 50, dis 20410
NAILS
Advance over base, on both Steel and Wire.
Steel nails, base..... ... a 5d
Moc eee. |.hCUClU 1 00
a UO OU aGQvante.. Bawa
to iseavance.... U5
SOveanee 10
6 advance.. _ 20
4 advance.. 30
3 advance... 45
Peace 7
Pee ugavanee. 50
Casas kU aevaee 15
ising Sadvanes oo 25
Case GCad@vance 35
dhecmusumetmion a 2
Einis Sagvance oo. 35
Din) Gadyanee. 45
Barrel S Stvanice 85
MILLS
Coffee, Parker Con. 1... 40
Coffee, P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s Malleables... 40
Coffee, Landers, Ferry & Clark’s........... 40
Coitee Macrmeine 30
MOLASSES GATES
PCUOIN Ss PAtkOre. Ll. 6010
peOnonr Ss Conwell 6010
Enterprise, self-measuring ............ .... 30
PLANES
Ohio Tool Cos, faney..... .... 5... @50
perms Bence 60
Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy................. @50
IGRCH, BVAUQUAHEN oo. ests wl. @a0
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s wood......... 60
PANS
Pry, Acme..... a
Common, polished............... a oi TO& 5
RIVETS
trom ane@ Tinwed . 6... 8... 60
Copper Hivetsand Baya... ............. 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 %c per pound extra.
HAMMERS
Maydole & Co.'s, new list........ ......dis 3355
dis 25
Mores @ Piamise ....... dis 10410
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel.......... ..30¢ lis. 70
Binch-miti’s Solid Cist Steci Hané eile. 1819
23
HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS
oumped Tin Ware... . id...
Japanned Tin Ware.......
Granite Iron Ware.......
- Dew list 75&10
. - - 2010
wes... new Hat 40610
HOLLOW WARE
rom. ieee
ie) ... 60&10
een toi... Orne
HINGES
Gite Carats dis 0410
eee per doz. net 2 50
WIRE GOODS
Se )
Rete eee 30
ROG Le 80
Gate Hooks and Eyes........... ee 4]
LEVELS
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s............dis iv
ROPES
Sisal “inehand lager = __. 10%
CT - HM
SQUARES
CCUG 70&10
ary and Beyels ... ... a 60
ee 50
SHEET IRON
com. smooth. cu ..
Hee ite Cl #2 70 2 40
Nea Tetet eS ae 2 40
be 2 80 2 45
NOR Sete 3 00 2 55
Nee Stee 3 10 2 63
No. 27 3 20 2 %
All sheets No. 18 and lighter, ‘over 30 inches
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
SAND PAPER
Hin sece ee
SASH WEIGHTS
Solid EE ieee tele 20 00
TRAPS
oe Gael. HU&LY
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s....... 50
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s 70&10
Mouse Choker per doz id
Mouse, delusion, |... per doz re
WIRE
Se 75
PCANCee DANE 75
Coppered Market....... {0&10
Panes Mare 6234
Coppered Spring Sééel. 50
Barbed Fence, galvanized ............ 1 26
Barbed Fenee, painted. 0 1 75
HORSE NAILS
ee ais 40d 1C
io a dis 5
ORCRWEHSC ae 10&10
WRENCHES
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.............. 30
CGesGecname 50
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought ....... 30
Coes Patent, malleabia 30
: MISCELLANEOUS
Bere Cage 50
Pune Cite 80
pemowe New hime 3d
Casters, Bed and Plate............. 2... 50&10&10
Dampers, Aineriggn...... a0
METALS—Zinc
CUO Paani Ca Sy
ET O¥
SOLDER
y
Te 12%
_ The prices of the many other qualities of solder
in the market indicated by private brands vary
according to composition.
TIN—Melyn Grade
10x14 IC, Charcoal..... 25
ere tt, Cearcoa:. 5 7%
mare EN Ceareogl ll 7 00
Each additional X on this grade, 81.25.
TIN—Allaway Grade
irish Chavet | 4 50
tee Chareon: ll 4 50
[Care en Chareone Ss Se
14x20 IX, Charcoal .. 5 50
Each additional X on this grade, 81.50.
ROOFING PLATES
14x) IC, Charcoal, Dean..............
..., «
sox) TX, Charcoal Dean i Baa
eae IC, Charcoal, Dean. ..... | 9
4
14x20 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade......... vd
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade....... 5 00
20x28 1C, Charcoal, Allaway Grade........ 8 00
20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade......... 70 00
BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE
14x56 IX, for No. 8 Boilers,
14x56 IX’ for No. 9 Boilers, ¢ Per pound. ..
i.
Paris Green Labels
The Paris Green season is at hand and
those dealers who break bulk must Jabel
their packages according to law. We are
prepared to furnish labels which meet the
requirements of the law, as follows:
ee. 25 cents.
ieee c cere G 40 cents.
ce wa emnaae 75 cents.
DOO eee ee $1 00.
Labels sent postage prepaid where cash
accompanies order.
Tradesman Company,
Grand Rapids, Mich.
ORORORGUOROROROROHONOHOE
24
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
Human Nature in a Candy Store.
*‘Say,’’ remarked the sweet young
salesiady in the candy store, ‘‘did you
ever notice the different ways people
buy things? Talk about studying hu-
man nature! The place to take a post-
graduate course is behind the counter in
a candy store. Now you might think
there could be but one way to buy
candy, but tnere is. Here comes a
woman rustling in, all flounces and fur-
belows and_ self-importance. She's
probably made up her mind just exactly
what she is going to buy, but she just
takes a look at all the dishes that are
set out on the counter. ‘These look
nice,’ she says, taking the biggest
marshmallow off of a plate, “how much
are they? No, I don’t believe I care
for them after all. They are so insipid.
How much are these?’ (Takes another
sample from another dish.) ‘Forty
cents a pound? How much are these
buttercups?’ (Tries a few buttercups. )
‘Are those caramels flavored with
vanilla?’ (Samples a couple of cara
mels.) ‘Gracious, I do believe they
have got wintergreen in them, and |
never could bear that. Give me some-
thing to take the taste out of my mouth.”
(Annexes a chocolate cream uninvited. )
‘Here, let me see some ot those crystal-
lized nuts in the case.’ (Tries a few.)
‘Um-um-um, no, I don’t believe they
are quite fresh.’ (Returns to her first
love, and tries the chocolate creams
over again.) ‘Well, I believe I’!] take
some chocolates, after all. They are
wholesome, and I know of a woman whose
cousin's grandchild was poisoned eating
some green candy he got off a Christ-
mas tree. You may give me Io cents’
worth, and don’t keep me waiting for
my change,’ and she sails out with the
air of having conferred a lasting benefit
on the establishment. Now, a man 1s
different. He makes up his mind a
block off what he wants, and his only
idea is to get it and get out before any-
body he knows catches him buying
candy; and he stands and looks at the
ceiling while you are waiting on him
in an abstracted sort of way, that seems
to indicate that he is sacrificing himself
for somebody, and that he only hopes
they are going to realize what he has
done for them. Of course that doesn’t
mean the young men who are in love
and who send expensive boxes and bas-
kets of bonbons to their sweethearts.
My, but when one starts on that we can
see his finish, and sometimes when we
girls behind the counter are putting up
such a box for some poor young fellow
on a little salary, and know that he is
going in debt, or worse, for it, because
some rich girl has hinted for it or other
men send sweets to her, we wonder if
she knows—or cares—that he may be
wrecking his life about as silly a thing
as a box of candy. Then sometimes
there is a little bit of pathos in a sale.
A hungry little child will come in,
hugging a penny in its grimy paw, or
a poor old woman with work-hardened
hands will stop and untie her handker-
chief and take out a nickel, and buy a
little pink-striped candy to take toa
sick baby, and we will know that she
has spent her car fare for it, and will
have to toil home all the long, dreary
way, that will not be long or tiresome
for her, thinking off the flash of joy
there will be in the childish tace when
she opens her bundle. Oh, it all goes
by, and you see the sad and the gay
and the fun and the folly of life, as you
stand behind the counter.’’
———_- > e >
The Era of Men’s Rights.
_It is one of the hopeful signs of the
times that a popular journal has recently
-domestic felicity.
Started a ‘correspondents’ column de-
signed for the exclusive benefit of men.
Here they may take their perplexities
and troubles and doubts, and find balm
and comfort. It almost amounts to a
moral awakening, and one can look for-
ward to a time when men will no longer
be deprived of that source of advice
which women have found so_ helpful.
Every reader recalis how women are
counseled to do thus and so to make
home happy and retain their husband’s
affection, and it is about time that men
were getting some advice on the same
lines. Perhaps the day 1s not far dis-
tant when the men's column of the
paper will say something like this:
Husbands should always meet their
wives with a smile when they return
from work, Remember that she may
have had a hard time with a smoking
stove and a crying baby and a cross
servant, and needs to be cheered and
comforted. There is nothing that
brightens a home like a sweet smile on
a man’s face. Don't get cross if a wor-
ried look rests on your wife's face. If
your back ached like hers does, and
you had as many nerves, you would be
in bed with the doctor and a trained
nurse. Remember that marriage doesn't
necessitate the cessation of all the little
attentions you showed her before the
wedding. Then you would have danced
all night with her, and were ready to
murder the man who wanted a turn in a
waltz. Don't look like a martyr now
because she wants you to go with her to
callona’neighbor. Don’t torget to make
her little gifts now and then. Fewer
presents before marriage and more
afterwards would raise the average of
Don't go down to
the club every night and leave her
alone. If she had been seeking solitude
she would have entered a convent. Do
not expect your wife to take it for
granted that you love her. You were
never weary of telling her so in your
courting days. Mention the matter to
her again sometimes. It might still in-
terest her to hear it. Don’t scorn her
opinions and tell her she doesn’t know
what she is talking about. She hasn’t
forgotten the time when you listened to
every word she said as if it were incar-
nate wisdom. Don’t raise a row every
time you find a button off or anything
out of place in the house. Think of
how you used to say that your only care
in life would be to shieid that lily white
hand from any labor. Don’t forget that
cleanliness and neatness are next to
godliness and an absolute necessity if
you would keep love. Little affection
is robust enough to survive slovenliness
in man or woman. Above all, don’t
forget your wife is a woman, and make
allowance for human faults and_ short-
comings. If she had been an angel or
a goddess she would never in the world
have married you,
ah
Yonie Yonson Tackies the Train Gates
Again.
Travarca Caity, Yuly 15—Yo tank aie
bane com bae war yust caus aie skal not
wraiting yo lattar. Aie skal tal yo gude
lot: Fallar bae das town com bae war.
Aie tank bae maisalf battar aie vorkang
far tan Dollar mont dan gattang kill
bae Spanash or das onder fallar bae nam
Yallo Yack. Aie bane rading bae nuse-
papar gude lot fallar kackang yust caus
grub bane not so gude lake Park Place
gavang. Aie tank battar aie skal stae
hare an hare drummar fallar swar bae
das Wast Mich R. R. Co. Aie tank at
bane mor fun. Bae gol! dam fallar as
skal managang das R. R. Co. look liak
dae don’t got som sanse laft. Corse dae
mus bane smart bae dar own astamataon.
Aie skal tal yo at bane lookang to Sweed
mans up trea liak das falars bane ovar
astamatad dam salves. Yo bane van-
tang to com bae Gran Rapad, yo mus
lave Travarca Caity bae naight cars
an com hom naxt wake; avary tang,
yust acept Rasortars don’t got som show
bae das strake rust das taine yar.
Avary fallar bane travalang bae das
contry bane shipang gudes bae das G.
R. & I. R. R. Co. Dam fallar got
gude Horse Sance; tha skal not tank one
mans bane whol tang. Drummar fallar
sae of hae skal bane askang favar bae
dasG. R. & I. or F. & P. M. R. R. Co.,
lake fast cars stoppang som place _hal-
pang out travalang mans, hae gattang
gude treatmant, but C. & W. M. can
com to H—la; das fallar tallang mae
yong womans ba Thompsonvile skal
bane wantang ta com bai Chicago an
skal lake to com on fast cars Agant
bae Thompsonvile, hae talagraph to
gattang ordar bae supirtandant hae skal
stop cars, Nit, takang too much taime
to opan gates; das yong lady mus_ wate
tal elaven two naxt day. Aie skal tank
sombody bane takang tumbal bae dam
salves sometaime; Aie skal tank das fal-
lars got yust bout much_sanse as Span-
ard:
Aie skal close das lattar hopang das
Spanards an C. & W. M. R. R: Co.
skal bane gattang gude Hors sanse
sometaime. YONIE YONSON.
>>. —
Gustave Metzger has purchased the
interest of John F. Hartmann in the
frm of Hartmann & Metzger, grocers
at 346 Fourth street, and will continue
the business in his own name at the
same location.
WANTS COLUMN.
Advertisements will be inserted under this
head for two cents a word the first insertion
and one cent a word for each subsequent in-
sertion. No advertisements taken for less than
25cents. Advance payment.
BUSINESS CHANCES. ae
C ENTRALLY LOCATED DRUG STORE, DO-
/ ing a good busiuess in the city, for sale.
Good reasons for seiling. Address I, Frank-
ford, fire Insurance and Keal Estate Agent,
Phone 1236, 53 West Bridge Street, Grand
tapids, 667
~~ EXCHANGE FOR A STOCK OF GEN-
eral merchandise or shoe stock—good 80-
acre farm, all improved, three miles north of
Coopersville, Mich Also a sawmill and edger
with 20,000 capacity per day. Address R. D.
McNaughton, Coopersville, Mich. 671
re SALE—SMALL DRUG STOCK. ADD
from $100 to #2u0 and you have a complete
stock. Good chance to rignt party. Address H.
G. M., care Michigan Tradesman. 670
POR EXCHANGE—TWO GOOD LOTS IN CHIL
cago, valued at $1,000 each, free and clear,
for a stock of goods, groceries preferred. Mercer
& Mather, Grand Rapids, Mich. 669
NOR SALE—DRUG, BOOK AND STATION-
' ery stock. invoicing 4,500, and fixtures
invoice ng $e, which include show cases, shelv-
ing and bottles. Daily cash sales in 1891, $2;
092, $30; 1893, $31; 1894, $34.65; 1895, $25; 1896,
$21.20, and 1897,#24.13 Located in manufactur-
ing town. Nocut prices. Rent reasonable, $29
permonth. Living rooms in connection. Ad-
dress No. 668, care Michigan Tradesman. 668
a“ RENT OR SALE—FACTORY AND TWO
warehouses, belonging to Michigan Fire
Ladder and Engine Company, on D., G. R. & W.
R.R., near East street crossing. Call upon or
address The Michigan Trust Company. 172
Op- SALE—FURNITURE AND UNDERTAK-
ing business in the most enterprising town
in Southwestern Michigan, Best location in the
city. Address No. 673, care Michigan Trades-
man, for particulars. 673
OR -ALE—PATENTS COVERING TRAVIS
Adjustable Blackbuard Eraser. Also ma-
chines and all stock on hand. A rare opportu
nity for right party. An article upon which 1060
per cent. profit may be realized, Must be sold at
once, Address Box 222, Clinton, Mich. B75
Taps SALE—STOCK OF CLOTHING AND
furnishings ina city of 12,000 and growing
fast, Stock will invoice from $5,000 to $6,000:
nearly all new within a year; doing a good bust-
ness and trade increasing. Stock, lease and
good will will be sold at a bargain if done
quickly. This is a rare opportunity to step intoa
fine business, with a nice, clean, well-selected
stock in the be-t town of its size in Michigan.
Address No. 676, care Michigan Tradesman. 676
Fv SALE CHEAP FOR CASH—WELL IM-
proved farm, good buildings, &@ acres choice
land, located in Ionia county. J. H. Putnam,
Custer, Mich. 663
YOR SALE~—A _ $10,000 STOCK OF DRY
goods; doing a good business. Will take
some unincumbered real estate. Address G.,
Lansing, Mich. 661
OR SALE—STOCK OF GENERAL MER-
chandise. Must be sold. Cost about $4,000,
Bids received until Aug. 9, 1898. Stock may be
inspected at Maucelona, Mich. N. C. Weter,
Assignee. 658
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 employiag 100 men. Good reasons
for telling. The only hardware store in town.
Must be cash. Address No. 655, care Michigan
Tradesman. 655
OR SALE—STOCK OF DRY GOODS AND
groceries. Will sell cheap for cash. Ad-
dress Box I, Montgomery, Mich. 656
— STORE FOR 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
agricultural country in the State, thirty-five
miles away from any large town. Reasonable
rent. For further particulars address C. Light-
stone, Carson City, Mich. 660
OR SALE--DRUG STORE IN BEST CITY 1N
Michigan. Average daily sales, $20; per
cent. profits, 50 per cent. Monthly ex-
penses, 360. These are facts. Investigate. Ad-
dre Yo. 659, care Michigan Tradesman. 659
N AKE US AN OFFER. WELL-SITUATED,
4¥E goud-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 RENT 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
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
N ERCHANTS—DO YOU WISH CASH QUICK
Be for your stock of merchandise, or any part
of it? Address John A. Wade, Cadillac, aor
28
oe SALE—A PROSPEROUS DRUG AND
grocery stock, invoicing from $4,000 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 inspection. 625
- EXCHANGE—FOR CLOTHING, DRY
goods or shoes, very nice well-rented Grand
Rapids property. Address No. 552, care Michi-
gen Tradesman. 552
T° EXCHANGE — FARMS AND OTHER
property for dry goods, clothing and shoes.
Address P. Medalie, Mancelona, Mich. 553
BROOMS
J{OR SALE-MODERN, WELL-ESTABLISHED
and equipped broom factory and good trade.
Other business commands our attention. Ad-
dress No. 534, care Michigan Tradesman. 584
COUNTRY PRODUCE
y JANTED —F uASS BUTTER FOR
retail trade. Cash paid. Correspond with
Caulkett & Co., Traverse City, Mich. 381
AN TED—1,000 CASES FRESH EGGS,
daily. Write for prices. F. W. Brown,
Ithaca, Mich. 556
- FIREPROOF SAFES _
\ EO. M. SMITH, NEW AND SECONDHAND
safes, wood and brick building mover, 157
Ottawa street, Grand Rapids. s1é
So
AVE YOURS MANE TO YOUR MEASURE.
Send for measurement blanks. Frank T.
Coliver, 103 Washtenaw St. E., Lansing, Mich. 635
MISCELLANEOUS.
TANTED—DRUG CLERK. SOME EXPERI-
ence required. Apply J. A. Tinholt, Mus-
kegon, Mich, 674
OSITION WANTED BY A SINGLE MAN.
Large experience in general merchandise.
Can give good references. Address No. 664, care
Michigan Tradesman. 664
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GRAND HAVEN, MICH.
A. VAN PUTTEN & C0.
MFRS, OF
BuTTER TuBS
Lard Packages and
Handmade Creamer
Butter Tubs a specialty.
HOLLAND, MICH.
Travelers’ Time Tables. M ANI STEE & Northeastern Ry.
Best route to Manistee.
HOLLAND & GHIGAGO LINE! Established 1780.
|
| LTD
Via. & W. M. Railway. Walter Baker & Co. LTD, :
CHIC AGO and West Michigan R’y | Ly Granda Rapides: 2 os aa peat os: : bia =
June 19, 1898. dite MER IiStee oe iro oe 12:05pm a ; f A dorchester, Mass.
9 9 Lv Manistee. eet ee eee eee ns S:3oam_ 4:1opm | t Dae | wil ys The Oldest and
Ar Grand Hapids 0... .3.5.,..2,' teopm 9:55pm i Largest Manufacturers of
Chicago. ee j ~y iat O TENG Maen ae
Lv. G. Rapids........... 7:30am 3:40pm * 2:15am | Wes) oc:
Ar. Chicago.............2:10pm 9:05pm 7:30am TRAVEL ES of) ee
Ly. Chieago.......5.::. 7:20am 4:15pm * 8:45pm = a J
Ar.G’d Rapids......... 1:25pm 10:30pm * 2:15am VIA wl
Traverse City, Charlevoix and Petoskey. | oa
Ly. G’d Rapids.......... 2:15am 8:05am 2:10pm F.& P.M. R. R. | laamidise P
Parlor and Sleeping Cars on afternoon and | ey iN
night trains to and from Chicago. oer er aa ee | |) ae a AND
*Every day. Others week days only. | Bact: mE
H. F. MOELLER, a.c.p.a. | | \ \\\ GHOGOLATES
' t 4 }
| Operating the elegant and fast steamers ‘Soo | 1 Baa tet
Grand Rapids & Western. 4 | City’ and “City of Holland” between Holland and | | LA i ee :
9 June 19, 1898. EEELLLALLLLLLLLLLLLLLL@) | ~ 1icago, connecting at Holland w ith the C. & W, | i} as on this Continent.
| M. Railway for Grand Rapids and all points east | No Chemicals are used in
1d I S i 3 sc < | & ip uf :
and north. eee Trade-Mark. their manufactures.
Lv. Holland, daily (except Sunday)........8:00 p.m. | Their Breakfast Cocoa is absolutely pure,
Ae eee ee scl ge ™ Ly. Holland, Sunday ....3:00 p.m, | elicious, nutritious, and costs less than one
= ae ee eee Se ae aon Se ct eee en cae Lv. Holland, Saturday (special)............6:30 a.m. | centa cup.
Wa PGerOre a, oi eee s: :00am : m :10pm Lv. Chicago, daily (except Fri. and Sat.)..7:00 p.m, | Their Premium No. 1 Chocolate, put up in
Ar. Grand Rapids..... 12:55pm 5:20pm 10:55pm We have a large line of new Lv. Chicago, Friday........2........:.....4:00p.m.| Blue Wrappers and Yellow Labels, is the best
Saginaw, Alma and Greenville. Ly plain chocolate in the market for family use.
*, Chicago, Saturday. .....9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m.
goods in fancy shapes and ‘ ]
Ly. G R7:00am 4:20pm Ar. G R 12:20pm 9:30pm
Parlor cars on all trains to and from Detroit
and Saginaw. Trains run week days only.
Gro. DEHAvEN, Genera! Pass. Agent.
Round
os ee eee co ed Their German Sweet Chocolate is good to
seb Fae end tod —— ne " 35° | eat and good to drink. It is palatable, nutri.
: : ‘ ‘ a Sanon men Can CHEO 3.25 3°°| tious, and healthful; a great favorite with
offering at right prices. Samples serth included. children.
unique designs, which we are
SPECIAL RATES.
oe FS nd Pile. Cars
|
cheerfully sent on application. Chicago to Holland and Resorts, Friday and Sat- | Buyers should ask for and be sure that the
urday, leaving Chicago at 4 p. m. one way, $1.75:| get the genuine goods. The above trade-mar
GRAND Trank Railway System : round trip, $2.50. Saturday morning, leaving | 18 on every package.
Detroit and mitwaukee Div |S TRADESMAN COMPANY, GION ROPIOS. — Chicawo "sea, Vitiandy Sis eich was. ‘About | Walter Baker & Co. Ltd
: Office, No. 1 State St., Charles B. Hopper, é
(In effect May 15, 1898 ) Chicago. Gen'l F. & P. Agt. | Dorchester, Mass.
Leave. EAST. Arrive.
t 6:45am Sag., Detroit, Buffalo & N Y .+ 9:55pm
+10:10am... ...Detroit and East.... ..¢ 5:27pm
+ 3:20pm..Sag., Det., N. Y. & Boston..+12:45pm *
* 8:00pm... Detroit, East and Canada. ..* 6:35am
+10:45am...... Mixed to Durand........ + 3:15pm
22 parlor car. Westward—No 11 parlor car.
No. 17 Wagner parlor car.
e : e
*Daily. +Except Sunday.
E. H. Huewes, A. G. P. &T. A. go c Tit c a c 0 itew Cc
BEN. FLETCHER, Trav. Pass. Agt., 3
C. A. Justin, City Pass. Agent.
97 Monroe St. Morton House.
WEST @
* 8:35am....Gd. Haven and Int. Pts....* 7:05pm
+12:53pm.Gd. Haven and Intermediate.+ 3:12pm
t 5:32pm..Gd. Haven and Intermediate.+10:0ham
* 7:40pm...Gd. Haven and Chicago...... 8:15am
+10:00pm...... Gd. Haven and Mil....... 6:40am
Eastward—No. 16 has Wagner parlor car. No.
To
GRAND Rapids & Indiana Railway HENRY KOCH, your clerizs, attorneys, agers
Sailesmem and workmen, and all claiming of
Northern Div. Leave Arrive holding through or under you,
Tray. C’y, Petoskey & Mack...* 7:45am + 5:15pm FREETING :
Trav. C’y, Petoskey & Mack... .+ 2:15pm + 6:35am
Trav. C’y, Petoskey & Mack... ........ $10:50pm
CR eects ecee cece + 5:25pm tli:15am
Train leaving at 7:45 a.m. has parlor car, and creas :
ae oda at 2:15 p. m. has sleeping car to 3 it has been represented to us in our Circuit Court of the United States for the District of
: Southern Div. Leave Arrive ; . . :
Pia GO a ae 7:10am + 8:25pm New Jersey, in the Third Circuit, on the part of the ENOCH MORGAN’S SONS COMPANY, Complainant, that
Boe rons hrs hres ten ted 7:00om 8 Teen it has lately exhibited its said Bill of Complaint in our said Circuit Court of the United States for the District
7:10a. m. train has parlor car to Cincinneti of New Jersey, against you, the said HENRY KO > i i i
$10 p: ma. traie: has perior car to Yor! Warne: : , J y, ag you, KOCH, Defendant, to be relieved touching the matters therein
7:00 p.m train has sleeping car to Cincinnati. complained of, and that the said
Chicago Trains.
TO CHICAGO. ‘
Ly. Grand Rapids...t7 10am +2 19pm *11 35pm 5
AP, CHAR «35... 20pm 9 10pm 6 30am ‘
4 FROM CHICAGO. 9
Ly Cbioger ou cas e eek +3 02pm = *11 45pm
Ar. Grand Rapids.............. 930pm 7 2am P : é “ ‘ i
Train leaving Grand Rapids 7.10 a. m. has Complainant, is entitled to the exclusive use of the designation ‘‘SAPOLIO” as a trade-mark for scouring soap,
buffet parlor car to Chicago. Train leaving
Grand Rapids 11 35 p. m. has coach and Pullman
—— to sero 3.02 has buffet UW €
rain leaving Chicago 3.02 p. m. has buffe OW ere ore i i
parlor car to Grand Rapids. Train leaving J J we do strictly command and perpetually enjoin you, the said HENRY
hicago 11.45 p. m. has coach and Pullman
eee er ee tetas. KOCH, your clerks, attorneys, agents, salesmen and workmen, and all claiming or holding through or under you,
ae im ee sees: dienes under the pains and penalties which may fall upon you and each of you in case of disobedience, that you do
Ar Muskegon...... <<, Snes 2:10pm 7:05pm absolutely desist and refrain from in any manner unlawfully using the word ““SAPOLIO,” or any word or words
Lv Muskegon....... .. +8:10am ti1:45am +4:00pm substantially similar thereto in sound or appearance, in connection with the manufacture or sale of any scouring
Nader ea aes pe nun sel soap not made or produced by or for the Complainant, and from directly, or indirectly,
and 7.00p.m. Leave Muskegon 8.35 a. m. and
.35 p.m.
+E xcept Sunday. *Daily. {Saturday only.
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cu Miattteegn| BY Word of mouth or otherwise, selling or delivering as
C. BLAKE
susie! SAPOLIO,” or when “SAPOLIO” is asked for,
DULUTH, Sttive. |
WEST BOUND.
Ly. Grand Rapids (G. R. & L.)¢11:10pm 9 +7:45am ° :
Ly. Mackinaw City............ 7:35 4:20 { < :
AY. nue ma 5:20pm AY 1255, The honorable MEtvitLe W. Futter, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the
eee 10:40pm United States of America, at the City of Trenton, in said District of New
Ar Hestoria..........-.:++... 6: 12:Gam Jersey, this 16th day of December, in the year of our Lord, one thousand,
' a oo : seisact eight hundred and ninety-two, I j
: : SEAL SIGNED
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Ar. Marquette........ eesaness 1:30pm 4:30am Céerh
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re Mackinaw City. <...-” Sidinen Hiaabuae ROWLAND COX,
that which is not Complainant’s said manufacture, and from ‘n any way using the word ‘“‘SAPOLIO” in any
false or misleading manner.
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G. W. Hipparp, Gen. Pass, Agt. Marquette. Complainant's Solicitor
E. C. Oviatt, Tray. Pass, Agt., Grand Rapids
brings prosperity to the Merchants. 2
It saves the pennies and dimes by
checking overweights and giving cor-
rect values. It is a safe, paying in- =
vestment, because it actually saves
many dollars annually.
Until the Money Weight System was ~
invented, no merchant ever dreamed
how much he was losing by the use
of the old pound and ounce scales. o
The Money Weight System has been
a blessing and merchants do not hes-
itate to endorse it. oi
Yours for SUCCESS,
The Computing Scale Co., =
Dayton, Ohio. js
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