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THE FORGOTTEN PAST

Which we read about can never be
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a ‘‘nightmare.’’ The present is an
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BOGUS GOODS.

Vile Mixture Sold by Hoyt as Pure
Cream of Tartar.
The Tradesman has quoted cream of

cents, acccompanying the quotations
with the statement that the articles in-
cluded under the heading of ‘‘ Pure’’
brand are ‘‘good, honest goods’’ and
‘warranted to give entire satisfaction. "’

Yet the State Chemist asserts that the
‘‘Pure’’ brand cream of. tartar pro-
duced by the Fort Dearborn Mills,
which is only anotber name for the Wm.
M. Hoyt Co., is not cream of tartar at
all, but a vile compound of acids and
gypsum, mixed in the following pro-
portions :

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formed—and it has sought information
from some of the best chemists of the
city—Ioo pounds of the mixture de-
scribed in the above analysis would cost
exactly $1.98—a little less than 2 cents
a pound.

Is it any wonder that Hoyt’s Criterion
can quote what purports to be cream of
tartar at 14 cents, while the Tradesman
quotes the genuine article at 30@35
cents? Is it any wonder that dealers
should enquire why Hoyt's Criterion can
quote goods generally lower than the
Tradesman can quote them? Is it at all
surprising that merchants who are not
thoroughly posted should be led astray
by the apparent discrepancy in the quo-
tations of the two publications and sum-
marily conclude that the Hoyt house is
a low-priced establishment and that
Hoyt’s Criterion is a good thing to
have around to hammer down the quo-
tations of the salesman whose house
handles genuine goods and does not
palm off as cream of tartar a mixture of
cheap acids and land plaster? These
things are not surprising; in fact, the
only strange thing about it is that a
legitimate house and a legitimate pub-
lication can live and thrive in the face
of competition so disreputable as that
presented by the cream of tartar depart-
ment of the Wm. M. Hoyt Co. and the
quotation department of Hoyt’s Crite-
rion.

Serious as this matter is from the
standpoint of the legitimate jobber and
trade journal, it is more serious in the
case of the retail dealer who is led into
handling bogus goods sent out by the
Hoyt house. Where illegal goods are
sold in the store of the dealer, it has
been the custom of the Food Commis-
sioner to prosecute the traveling sales-
man or jobbing house, but no such cus-
tom can be pursued in the case of goods
purchased of*the Hoyt house, for the

 

reason that the deaier sends in his or-

tartar for several months at 30@35c per
pound. This quotation is for pure
goods, which is the only kind of cream |
of tartar which it is permissible to sell
in this State under provisions of the
present law.

The Wm. M. Hoyt Co, quotes its
‘‘Pure’’ brand cream of tartar at 14

ders by mail and the goods are sold in
Chicago, which is beyond the jurisdic-
tion of a Michigan official. There is
only one. course open to the Food Com-
missioner, and that is to prosecute the
retail dealer who is found with the im-
pure and adulterated goods in his pos-
session. The present Food Commis-
sioner has always been loath to prose-
cute retail dealers, if he could avoid it,
but in the present emergency he will
probably feel impelled to cause the ar-
rest of those dealers who persist in
handling the Hoyt goods, now that they
have been duly warned as to their true

character.
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GENERAL TRADE SITUATION.

The story of steadily improving con-
ditions almost everywhere is still con-
tinued. The few exceptions to satisfac-
tory prices and an apparently less fa-
vorable export and import situation are
owing to causes which have little effect
in the general outlook. The textile trade,
in Cotton goods esp¢cially, has long been
struggling with the problem of over-
production at a cost which eliminates
profits, and the unsatisfactory showing
of the recent auctions in such goods
only emphasizes the fact that there must
be an adjustment to new conditions of
production and demand. That this ad-
justment seems likely to work havoc
with the Eastern manufacturers only in-
dicates that greater enterprise in meth-
ods cheapens labor and _ less transporta-
tion is removing the production else-
where. That there should be a less fa-
vorable showing in exports and imports
is owing to the unprecedentedly favor-
able showing of the past year which
could not always be maintained. There
is no real reaction but the lessening in
wheat transactions and the improvement
in American demand for foreign prod-
ucts owing to the increasing consuming
capacity have madea manifest difference
in the proportion.

The most noticeable improvement in
industrial activity continues in the West
and Middle West. It would seem that
the work of development arrested by the
panic was being resumed in full force
everywhere. This is the natural result
of the unprecedented agricultural pros
perity in those regions. A most pro-
nounced indication is the increase in
railway passeuger traffic, indicating that
the people have an abundance of money
to spend. Instead of the few half empty
cars of a year or two ago trains are long
and heavily laden. The number of
trains is being increased in every di-
rection. That there is not so great an
amount of new mileage being built is
owing to the fact that the building had
been so greatly overdone when the panic
came upon us.

Perhaps the most favorable indications
are found in the iron and steel situa-
tion. Continual improving demand
seems to have strengthened prices al-
most all along the line. The Mahoning
and Shenango furnace men, with but a
few days of stoppage ina few works,
have brought prices up to their mark
and all are resuming again. Minor

metals are also reported more favorable

 

than for a long time past; copper is

Number 780

strong at $12.15 and tinplate has shown
an advance decidedly encouraging to
the producers.

Variations in wheat and other grain
prices have been less than during pre-
ceding weeks, but the general tendency
is toward a lower level. That the de-
Cline is not likely to continue very far
is indicated by the fact that the world's
visible supply is reported the smallest
since modern reports began. Export
movement is large for the season, but
seems small] by contrast with the tremen-
dous outgo of the past season.

A favorable feature of reports from
many of the boom sections of the West
is that there seems to be a revival of
the old activity. For instance, the north-
western Pacific coast cities are showing
a most encouraging activity, owing, no
doubt, to the prospects of increasing for-
eign trade from those localities.

The volume of business as indicated
by clearing house reports for last week
exceeded that of the reviving business
of last year by over 20 per cent. and was
37 per cent. above the business of the

corresponding week of 1892.
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The United States Attorney General
having decided that a stamp must be
affixed to express receipts for money,
bonds, securities and other commercial
papers, the same as to receipts for or-
dinary merchandise, one of the com-
panies has instructed its agents to com-
ply with this interpretation of the law,
but at the same time to quote rates
“plus the Government tax.’’ This
means that the shippers must settle for
the stamps. The framers of the law in-
tended that the companies should pay
the tax, but they might have foreseen
that eventually the dear public would

have to stand it.
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The largest proportion of the immi-
gration to the United States last year
was Italian. No country is getting such
a large Italian immigration, however,
as Argentina. It is said that Itaiians
are now in a majority down there, mak-
ing the Argentine republic a new Italy.
Heavy burdens and industrial depres-
sion at home are driving the sons of
Sunny Italy westward in increasing
numbers,

 

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The ordinary expenses of the Govern-
ment upon a peace footing appear to
be practically covered by the old in-
ternal revenue law and the Dingley law.
Assistant Secretary Howell of the Treas-
ury Department calculates the surplus

under the Dingley law for the five
months ending with June last at
$9,652,719, and at the rate of about

$22,000,000 per year.
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who wants to be Governor of

Nebraska makes the statement that he
is a friend of labor. He would bea
very poor politician if he did nct say
that. Every office seeker is a friend of
labor; but he wants others to do the la-
boring. The standing candidate is a
friend of labor, but his friendship is
confined solely to working his mouth,
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Effects of Unwise Competition on the
Retail Trade.
Written for the TRADESMAN.

Competition is endeavoring to gain what an-
other is endeavoring to gain; mutual strife for the
same object.—WEBSTER.

If Mr. Webster were on earth to-day
and could note the mistaken idea of
competition, as we have it in vogue at
this present time, he would, doubtless,
open his unabridged and add: ‘‘Com-
petition is legitimate strife for the same
object (not trickery).’’ The writer
knows no more threatening aspect con-
fronting the present-day retailer than
the mode of competition now employed
and which is steadily undermining
healthy traffic. A leading furniture
manufacturer hit the nail on the head
when he recently remarked: ‘‘ Dealers
seem to be afraid of each other. Each
is endeavoring to ‘do up’ the other
man at the expense of himself, instead
of waging a mutual strife for the same
object.’’ Thus trade is being demoral-
ized, confidence—the basis of all busi-
ness—destroyed, consumers educated to
depreciate real values, regular lines ig-
nored and job lots made the coveted
prize. Well may we raise the question,
Whence are we drifting? Shall our fac-
tories be expected to maintain their
well-earned reputation for honest pro-
ducts and pay honest wages for labor,
only to be confronted by the abnormal
demand for an article of no merit for
the sake of meeting unscrupulous com-
petition? Wiil not business men soon
take an honest stand for honest goods
and cease to indulge the caprices of a
deluded class of consumers, that cheap-
ness is the panacea for all evils? Why
not strive to raise the standard of values?
Strive for an honest profit that pays for
honest labor and rewards an honest con-
sumer in the purchase? There can be
no other good reason given for the pres-
ent ‘‘cut rate’’ system than the one
above named—that business men are
afraid of each other.

Why encourage a poor man to buy
cheap shoes for his children or a shoddy
coat for his own back or a worthless
piece of furniture for his house? He is
not the gainer in the end, neither is the
merchant making for himself an
enviable reputation. Rather have him
understand the real meaning of Solo-
mon’s wisdom: ‘‘ The destruction of the
poor is their poverty.’’ Have him know,
also, that every so-called ‘‘cheap arti-
cle’? means cheaper labor for his fel-
lowman ; and just in proportion as_ this
character of manufacture is encouraged
so long will labor be sold in a cheap
market. The purchaser of a 33% cent
shirt made of ‘‘good cotton with linen
bosom’’ ora shirt waist of washable ma-
terial for 3734 cents is giving his or ber
consent to a system of cheap labor that
is holding men and women in a condi-
tion akin to abject slavery and sending
their children to the almshouse, if not
to moral ruin. It is not only the poor
man and his wife who are seeking out
these so-called bargains, but those who
are abundantly able to pay a better
price for better goods.

Who is responsible for this condition
of things? Not the manufacturer, for
so long as the demands are made upon
him for a certain class of goods he will
produce them. Not wholly the purchas-
er, for he will buy the ‘‘big drives’’
just as long as they are offered—hence
the middleman is largely responsible
and should consciously aim to change
the current into another direction. Hap-

 

MICHIGAN

pily, some branches of business are com-
ing to a better understanding, no longer
hedging themselves in by a_ bigoted
selfishness, but have stepped out on
the broad platform of real protection to
their own interest. When all dealers
and manufacturers lay down the sharp-
edged machete of selfish rivalry and
come to one common understanding of
values and prices, there will a new era
dawn upon us which will have a bene-
ficial effect upon business, as ‘‘oil upon
troubled waters.’’ Then there will be
no incentive to produce commodities at
Starvation prices. Then the middleman
will make a uniformly legitimate profit.
Then the consumer will get honest goods
at honest prices. Let us join hands over
the chasm of distrust, get a better un-
derstanding af each other, stop the war-
fare, harmonize the discord and ‘‘saw
wood’’ the old-fashioned way.

RETAILER.
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The Dry Goods Market.

Staple Cottons—Business can not be
described as active by any means. The
aggregate results of spot and mail order
business are very fair, particularly the
former. Pressure to sell is pretty well
eliminated from the situation, sellers in
some instances having assumed a more
reserved attitude, and showing less readi-
ness to supply demands at previous
prices. The heavier lines of brown
sheetings of well-known brands are no
ticeably firm, as are also 4-yard goods
and heavier for early delivery. Bleached
cottons are unchanged in price, with de-
mand moderate.

Prints and Ginghams—Taking things
as a whole,the situation is encouraging.
Stocks in second hands are reputed
small and a good steady trade is antici-
pated. Indigo blues, percales, shirting
prints, printed napped goods, etc., are
moving fairly well. Staple ginghams
are in good request at previous prices,
no accumulations being reported. Dress
ginghams are also moving steadily.

Knit Goods—Some houses that have
had their men on the road for a couple
of weeks or so have expressed them-
selves as wishing they had delayed their
departure for a time, owing to the fact
that buyers are not ready to take hold
yet with freedom. This state of affairs,
it is anticipated, will be only of tem-
porary duration, as indications, as read
by the knit goods trade without excep-
tion, point toa good brisk season. It
wi:l not be long now before all the sales-
men are on the road putting their best
foot forward in an endeavor to get their
lines into buyers’ hands, and then the
market will present a much more active
and interesting exterior.

Carpets—The carpet manvufacturers
are only moderately employed on any
line of goods. The cheap grades of in-
grain have received the most attention.
It will take the remainder of this sea-
son, if not a part of the next, to recover
from the effects of the unnatural condi-
tion in which the auction sales have
placed the manufacturers. To be sure,
some have made the effort recently to
advance the price on new orders taken,
but this is only a portion of what it
should be, as the last sale forced prices
down over Ioc per yard on some grades
of tapestry and velvets. The advance
asked is from 24%@s5c rer yard. It isa
much more difficult matter to advance
prices than to lower them, especially
when a very large share of the retail and
large cut-orders stores have placed or-
ders for all they will need this season.
It will mean that it is a step in the di-
rection of recovery of natural prices,
and place the trade in better shape for
the commencement of next season, pro-
vided the manufacturers are nct again

confronted by another auction just be-
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How Zach Cured a Sampling Cus-
tomer.
Written for the TRapEsMAN.

The Weighson Brothers have a gro-
cery store down on Santa Fe avenue.
For same reason or other they couldn’t
get a clerk to stay with them. This had
been going on for something like a year
and a half until life had come to be
almost a burden to them. Zach MclIn-
tyre, a stout young fellow of some nine-
teen winters, heard of the vacancy and
applied for it. The brothers looked
him over, asked him some questions
and concluded he'd do. He might go
right to work if he wanted to.

‘‘All right, I want to, but before I
begin, I'd just like to bave an inkling
of what the trouble has been all along
with the other fellows who have been
working here. They all seemed to like
both of you, but somehow they didn't
stay. Now that’s what I don’t want to
do. It isn’t going to be any credit to
me to come here, work for a week and
then quit, whether you fire me or I do
it myself. So just tell me what I’ve got
to buck against, and if I think I can
stand it, all right. If I can’t, that’s all
right; but I don’t want to go into a
thing just for the sake of backing out.
Now what’s the matter?’’

“‘Suppose we arrange the thing this
way: You go to work. Try it a week.
We'll give you $1.25 a day. When the
week is over, if you want to stay, you
can. In the meantime, go ahead. You
don't look like a fellow that gives up at
nothing and we honestly don’t believe
you are going to find anything which
will be too much for you. Just hang up
your coat and hat and go to work.
There is your list of orders. Fill 'em,
and take care of what customers you

can.

Witha‘‘ What in thunder !’’ in his mind
Zach went to work. The store was as
neat as a pin. There was everything
handy to work with. The proprietors
were good nature itself. The wages were
all right; and, so far as he could guess,
it didn't look like a place where there
was any systematic overwork. ‘‘Well,’’
he thought, ‘‘there is no use in  worry-
ing over what may never happen; so
I'll keep my own counsel and ‘saw
wood,’ ”’

He had filled about half of his orders
when a big woman with a big market
basket sidled through the door. ‘‘ Lordy,
suz! ef we hain't got another new clerk
this morning! When did you come,
sonny?’’

‘‘An hour ago. Been on the jump
ever since. Here! let’s have your bas-
ket. What's first on the list?’’

‘‘Say, young feller, don’t hurry me. I
hain’t built that way. Alluz hev ter
look erround and see what I want. In
the fust place, hev ter fill up; and pick-
les are good ter begin on. This old
pickle bar’! bas stood it off and on fur
nigh onto a couple o’ years now. Here's
a good fat one.—My gracious! but that
vinegar’s strong enough ter—um-—stran-
gle anybody—’specially when it goes
down the wrong way—thanks. I might
uv ben a dead corpse before any the rest
of ’em would known enough ter hand
me some water.—Them are likely look-
in’ apples. Guess 1 shall hev ter sink
my teeth inter that there top one. How's
that fer a bite! These fellers gits their
stuff all paraded out with the best on top
and I comes along and samples ’em fer
‘em! I'd like ter bet with ye that them
peaches ain't freestone.—It'’s good and
meller, I'll say that for it. Gracious
Peter! ‘twas a freestone, sure enough!
Glad I didn’t wait fer you ter take up

 

my bet —Well, say! ain't ye got "bout
ready ter wait on me? | can’t stand
around here all day long doing nothing.
Bartletts? Well, I don’t care if Ido. 1
believe, my soul, ef I was full as a tick,
and anybody should put a tray of pears
up under my nose, I'd eat one ef I knew
I was going ter split the minute I’d
swallowed my last swaller !—Waal, now,
let’s see. I’ve got ter hev a pound o’
tea ; a couple pounds 0’ coffee—I'll tell
you right here and now, you gimme any
such stuff as I got here the last time
and I'l] bring it back and throw it on
yer old floor!-a dozen eggs, and I’ll
break a bone fur every rotten one |
find, and don’t you fergit it!’’

The list was a long one, and the com-
ments varied as each item of the order
was ‘filled and placed in the basket.
Then, to everybody's astonishment, the
new clerk ‘‘hefted’’ the basket, got bis
bat and, with a ‘‘You can’t carry it.
I’m not going to let you, anyway—you
don’t look well this) morning!’’ he
started for the door. ‘‘How far is it,
ma'’am?’’ he asked, pausing on the side-
walk.

“It ain't so very fur; but land sake!
you needn’t take all that trouble.—1
guess I[’]] let you, though, fur ter tell the
plain truth, I don't feel out and out
scrumptious this morning. Nobody else
ever seemed to notice it. It’s my stom-
ach. Hain’t et nothing fer months ’ith-
out its "most killing me!’’

All the way back to the store Zach
McIntyre walked with his head down.
‘*T guess that’s what it is; and I don't
know anything that would wear a fellow
out quicker than that, day in and day
out. I rather hit ’er on the health dodge,
That kind is always complaining, What
bothers me, though, is the way she sails
into the best of things from the time
she comes in until she gets filled up to
her neck !’’

“Ts that the daily program?"’ he asked
on reaching the store. ‘‘Does she al-
ways begin with the pickles?’’

‘* Always.’’

‘Is she good pay?"’

" BESE class, |”

‘*The other fellows couldn’t stop it?’’

‘“Not one of them has dared to try!"’

“*T'll be kicked !"’

All that day Zach went around with
his hat tipped up on one side. He was
watched with considerable interest by
both his employers, for, take him all in
all, they had found no one, so far, who
came so near to what they wauted; and
they watched him with some misgivings
as he left the store for the night with
his hat still tilted and his eyes resting
on the ground.

He was there the first one in the
morning, with his head up and his hat
on straigbt—he even whistled as he went
about his work. The first thing he did
was to hunt up one of these wire screens
and fasten it on the pickle barrel, so
that it could not be easily taken off, an
act that would have called forth a re-
buke from the younger Weighson if the
elder had not shaken his head behind
Zach's back; the clerk was to havea
fair field. If the pickle barrel was to be
the point of attack, well and good—
matters couldn’t begin too soon.

A few minutes later the dreaded cus-
tomer came in and the fun began.

‘‘Good morning!’’ cheerily called
Zach from behind the counter.

‘*Good morning, youngster,’’ was the
stout customer’s response, as she steered
straight for the pickle barrel. ‘‘ Waal!
what’s here! Gitting stingy with your
pickles, Weighson?’’

‘*No, that’s my work,’’ put in Zach.

 

‘*To teil you the plain truth, Mrs. Von
Blatter,’’ Zach lowered his voice as he
came nearer, ‘‘I’ve been thinking that
pickles, and especially such strong
pickles as these are, are the worst thing
in the world you can take into a stomach
so weak as yours, and I just put the
screen over so that I could have a
chance tv tell you before you got hold
of one. If you say so, though, I'll take
it right off; but I tried one of those
pickles myself this msrning and it
made me sick. Don’t you think you'd
better let ’em alone?’’

‘You take that screen off ez quick's
the Lord'!] let ye! There! I’ve et them
there pickles fur over a year, and it’s
the only thing that I can find to brace
me up and take away that goneness that
- good Lord!’’ and without finishing the
sentence she rushed to the door, closely
followed by Zach, whose face was the
picture of solicitude

‘‘T was afraid there’d be trouble, Mrs.
Von Blatter,’’ he said, as they turned
back to the store. ‘‘A person witha
stomach as weak as yours can't eat such
things forever. There always has to be
a first time, and I guess yours has

”

come,

‘*Let me have somehing ter take this
awful taste out o’' m’ mouth! It's
dreadful! Gimme that there big Bart-
lett pear !"’

‘*I will—if you say so; but I don’t
believe you'd better try it. Let me put
one into your basket for you to eat by
and by when you feel better.’’

‘*What do you take me for?'’

Seizing the pear as she spoke, she
took what wasa big bite even for Mrs.
Von Blatter, and was just about to give
an exultant, ‘‘ There!’’ when both hands
again frantically flew to the head and

 

the woman, now thoroughly
again rushed to the door.

She did not immediately return. Zach
again followed and relieved her as much
as he could. He saw her safely home,
returned with her order, which he filled
and promptly delivered; and for days
after that, he went over for the order,
filled it and returned it. Afterwards
Mrs. Von Blatter did her own market-
ing; but she never eats pickles now.
Time was when she ‘‘et everything ;’’
but now even a Bartlett pear or a peach
will just set her ‘‘into a conniption!”’

When Zach was paid at the end of the
week they gave him $800, with the
promise of a raise when the times grow
better.

RICHARD MALCOLM STRONG.
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Around the State

Movements of Merchants.

Athens—L. B. Thompson has opened
a new jewelry store.

Saranac--C. A. Brown has opened a
harness shop at this place.

Augusta—Fred Black succeeds Ridley
& Black in the meat business.

Beiding—Mrs. S. Unger will shortly
embark in the millinery business

Kalkaska—Wm. Knowles succeeds
Knowies & Hurley in the meat business.

Port Huron—Jenkinson & Samberg,
coal and wood dealers, have dissolved.

Croswell—Allen & Dafoe, hay deal-
ers, are erecting a warehouse Igo feet
long.

Concord—N. McKenzie & Son suc-
ceed Nathan McKenzie in the grocery
business.

Jonesville—Scott Lane has opened a
bicycle repair shop and salesroom at
this place.

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Rogers has pur-

chased the general stock of H. G.
Graves & Bro.
Harbor Springs—Mrs. A. D. Rice

succeeds Mrs. Dr. Runyan in the mil-
linery business.

Otsego—W. S. Eddy and J. A. Mc-
Cauley, of Eagle, have engaged in the
grocery business.

Lake Odessa—Frank C. Stevens, no-
tion dealer and confectioner, has re-
moved to Pine Lake.

Saranac—Mrs. J. E. Brown has sold
her millinery stock to her daughter,
Mrs. A. E. Wilkinson.

Owosso—S. F. Henderson has pur-
chased the grocery stock of W. E.
Miller in West Owosso.

Belding—Mrs. Susan Mabbett has
leased the Gooding store and wili occupy
it with a millinery stock.

Holland—Ender & Young, of Benton
Harbor, have opened a clothing and
shoe stock in the Beach biock.

Belding—W. D. & I. J. Booth, of Ne-
waygo, have embarked in the general
merchandise business at this place.

Charlotte—A. M. Lockard has re-en-
gaged in the harness and men’s shoe
business in his new building on Main
street.

Lapeer—Bellaire & Marsh have sold
their grocery stock to S. A. Lockwood,
who will add same to his stock of gen-
eral merchandise.

Portland—Allen & Gamble have se-
cured larger quarters and will add a
line of dry goods to their clothing and
furnishing goods stock.

Saginaw—S. H. Knox & Co., owners
of fourteen retail stores in different
parts of the country, have opened a
bazaar store at this place.

Homer—The Saxton Sisters have sold
their bakery business to Sam Hannah,
who will continue same in connection
with his grocery business.

Onaway—Wm. McMullen has begun
the erection of a store building, 20x32
feet, two stories high, which he will oc-
cupy with his furniture and grocery
stock.

Lansing—Leo Ebrlich, formerly pro-
prietor of the Boston clothing store, has
purchased the grocery stock of R. C.
Peez and will hereafter conduct the
business.

Carson City—Geo. W. Cadwell has
sold the drug and grocery stock con-
ducted under the style of Kelley & Cad-
well to W. A. Crabb, who will continue
the business at the same location. Mr.
Cadwell has earned a rest and will re-
cuperate his health before resuming ac-
tive business.

 

Portland—M. J. Dehn,’ merchant tai-
lor and dealer in dry goods and boots
and shoes, has leased a building ad-
joining his store on the south and an
archway will be put in connecting the
two,

Lansing—A. M. McNeal has sold his
stock of groceries on Franklin street to
Norris & Co, of North Lansing He
has purchased a bakery in Albion and
will go there with his family in a few
weeks to reside.

Portland—H. F. Caswell will close
out his general stock here and remove
to Detroit for the purpose of forming a
copartnership with J. B. Roe, under the
firm name of Roe & Caswell, to engage
in the produce and commission busi-
ness.

Ionia—Alfred Broad, who has been
engaged in business at this place almost
continuously for the past thirty years,
has sold bis meat market to H. G.
Coney, and will take a well-earned rest.
He has made no definite plans for the
future.

Flint—Chas. Crawford and Geo. M.
Bieck have formed a copartnership and
will conduct a merchant tailoring es-
tablishment on South Saginaw street,
where Mr. Crawford has been engaged
in the same line of business for the past
eighteen years.

Kalkaska—Wheeler Wooden has pur-
chased the lunch counter and bath room
business of B. O. Brown and removed
it to his own building. He will enlarge
the business by the addition of a line of
groceries, fruits and produce and tobac-
cos and cigars,

Petoskey—G. J. Robinson has retired
from the cashiership of the First State
Bank, and sold his stock to his Sister,
Miss Mary A. Robinson, Geo. S. Rice
and B. H. Cook. Vice-President Leon
Chichester has been elected Cashier to
succeed Mr. Robinson.

Manton—Mrs, Wm. Northrup has sold
her millinery stock to Mrs. Monroe and
will remove with her husband to Grand
Rapids, where she will engage in the
millinery trade and Mr. Northrup in the
boot and shoe business. Mrs Monroe
will continue the millinery business at
its present location.

South Lyon—The patrons of the late
J. E. Just & Co."s bank were recipients
last week of one-fifth of their deposit,
the aggregate amount being about $15,-
ooo distributed. A sort of commingled
joy and disgust illuminated the counte-
nances of the patrons when the result
was made known to them. There is yet
considerable property to dispose of, and
a great majority think a more rapid dis-
position of the assets was reasonable to
expect.

 

Manufacturing Matters.

Benton Harbor—C. H. Godfrey has
decided to reopen his canning factory
here, placing Wm. Bush in charge.

Bronson--Ed. Morris has purchased
the cigar manufacturing stock of M.
Dorn and will continue the business in
the same building.

Traverse City—The directors of the
Hannah & Lay Mercantile Co. have de-
clared a dividend of 5 per cent. from
the profits of the past year.

Eaton Rapids—H. P. Webster is mak-
ing extensive improvements in the Is-
land City flouring mill, including the
introduction of new machinery.

Cheboygan—D. Quay & Sons have
closed a contract to manufacture 7,000, -
ooo shingles for the John Spry Lumber
Co., of Chicago. The mill will be run
day and night two months to fill the con-
tract.

 

Tawas City—C. H. Prescott & Sons
have begun building a railroad to their
timber at Styles Lake, in that district,
and will take the logs to Tawas for saw-
ing. The firm has about three years’ cut.

Ionia—The Ionia Evaporating Co.
has refitted the old Globe house for the
purpose of doing an extensive business
in evaporating fruit. It will be able to
consume 1,000 bushels per day and ex-
pects to employ from twenty to thirty
hands.

Bay City—Green & Braman, of this
city, are negotiating for the purchase of
the John Welch sawmill plant in West
Bay City. They have decided not to re-
build on the site of their Stone island
mill, recently burned, but if they can
secure the Welch mill they will continue
business,

Big Rapids—The headquarters of the
Gale-Bundy Lumber Co. have been re-
moved from Big Rapids to Saginaw,
Mr. Gale removing also to Saginaw.
He has resided in Big Rapids twenty
years. This company operates a saw-
mill at West Branch, on the Mackinaw
division of the Michigan Central.

Saginaw—Parties from this city have
taken the contract to manufacture the
soft and hardwood timber on several
thousand acres of land owned by Mrs.
James Hay, of this city, located in
Midland and Gladwin counties, have
purchased a site and will erect a saw
and shingle mill. There is timber on
the land sufficient to keep the plant em-
ployed several years.

Manistee—The East Shore Manufac-
turing Co., which has been idle for
some time, is getting some stock on
dock again and will make a start next
week on some unfinished box contracts
which have been hanging fire for some
time. It is rumored that when these are
finished some new machinery will be
added and a line of paying novelties
will be manufactured,

Gladstone—Arrangements have been
compieted for the construction of a rail-
way north of this place, running up the
Whitefish River valley. The necessary
funds have been raised and the engineers
are already selecting a route, It is ex-
pected that the road will be finished
early next spring. It will traverse a
large body of hardwood and pine tim-
ber, which will be converted by the
Cleveland Cliffs Iron Co. and the mills
at Little Bay de Noque. :

Jackson—The Michigan Bag & Paper
Co. has been organized for the purpose
of engaging in the manufacture of paper
and paper bags and other secondary
products of paper and for dealing in
paper and paper supplies and products.
The capital stock is placed at $10,000,
$8,000 of which is actually paid in. The
stockholders are Nathan S. Potter, 200
shares; Wiley R. Reynolds, 200; Lester
H. Cheeseman, Detroit, 200; Jacob K.
Smalley, 180; Jacob D. Smalley, ‘20.

Saginaw—-—Representatives of the
Opaque Shade Roller Cloth Co., of Chi-
cago, have purchased the stock of the
Keystone Shade Roller Co. held by the
gentlemen who commenced suit against
the Chicago company July 23. fhe
stock, which was sold at par, amounted
to $25,000. This practically discontin-
ues the lawsuit now pending in the
Circuit Court, and is of vital interest
to Saginawians, as the Keystone Shade
Roller Co. will now continue operations
in this city.

—_—_2__

If a man doesn't expect anything else
for Christmas, he can always depend
on his wife’s relatives.

Se Se eee

UNDER A NEW NAME.

Sulter Resumes Business Under a
Corporate Style.

Cleveland, Ohio, Aug. 30—A new cor-
poration has been formed here under
the name of the American Butter Co,
The place of business is at 68 Woodland
avenue, which was Sulter’s old stand.
R. D. Sulter is President and Geo. Sul-
ter is Secretary and Treasurer; capital
stock $50,000. I enclose you their first
card issued to the grocerymen of this
city. I understand they have bought
from the assignee all the butter and
eggs that were in storage in Cleveland.
I presume those are the goods they are
offering to the trade as fresh stock,
We are getting 13c for fresh eggs, 12@
16c for dairy and 19@109%c for fresh
Elgin. I do not know how much capi-
tal is paid in, but understand that
about $35,000 worth of goods was in
storage here. In order to buy of the
assignee it would be necessary to pay
cash. Of course, you can ste through
this business better than I can use words
to express it. Cor.

The Tradesman is also in receipt of a
card issued by the American Butter
Co., quoting fresh eggs at 1114c, fancy
dairy at 14c and fresh Elgin creamery
at 18c. These quotations are so mani-
festly below the market that they natur-
ally suggest the enquiry, Is Sulter up
to his old tricks?

The Tradesman has been unable to
secure a detailed schedule of Sulter’s
assets and liabilities, but some of the
Michigan creditors have received a re-
port from the assignee, showing the as-
sets to be $98,000 and the liabilities to
be $110,000. Considering that liabilities
do not shrink and that assets invariably
suffer shrinkage, the Tradesman will be
very much surprised if the creditors re-
ceive over 50 cents on the dollar; in
fact, several Michigan creditors who
are interested in the failure would jump
at a chance to realize 50 per cent. of the
face of their claims.

If it is a fact that the American But-
ter Co. paid $35,000 in cash for the
goods of the Sulter house in cold stor-
age at Cleveland, it would be interest-
ing to learn where the cash came from.
The columns of the Tradesman are open
to Mr. Sulter in case he cares to use
them for this purpose.

—_—__0.___
Grape Growers Form an Association.

Lawton, Aug. 30—An_ association
known as the Southern Michigan Grape
Association has been organized here,
officered as follows: N. H. Bangs, F.
S. Kipp, George Tuttle, C. Dunham,

E, Durkee, F. E. Bitely, C. D. Town-
send, auditing committee. Following
the meeting the directors organized by
electing C. L. Balch, President, D. T.
Root, Secretary, and Juan McKeyes,
Treasurer. The object of the Associa-
tion is to secure a better price for fruit
than has been paid in the past. All
grapes will be weighed and inspected
before being placed on the market. A.
D. Benway, of Chicago, has been chosen
manager and salesman for the Associa-
tion. It is estimated that the output
of grapes from that section will reach
six bundred carloads this year.
—_—_ 2 _____

The Grocery World describes a shrewd
bunco game by means of which numer-
ous Philadelphia grocers were duped by
loaded soap. Boxes of soap were bought
by a number of grocers because of the
great bargain they were reported to be.
The boxes were branded ‘‘Excelsior
Soap Company, New York and Phila-
delphia.’’ In endeavoring to sell this
soap at 5 cents per cake, the retailers
found that a second sale was futile. The
Soap appeared to be composed toa great
extent of marble dust and the bars soon
shrunk from 14 ounces to less than 6
ounces per cake.

 

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Grand Rapids Gossip

The Grocery Marx«et.

Sugar—The advancing tendency inci-
dent to this season of the year has put
in an appearance, several minor changes
having been made during the past three
days. Raw sugars are stronger, both at
home and abroad, and the wholesale
trade generally look forward to a higher
range of values during the season of
heaviest consumption. It is not thought
that the Arbuckle or Doscher refineries
will give the Trust much trouble for a
few weeks yet, but along about Christ-
mas their influence may be felt.

Canned Goods—It is said that the
Ohio and Indiana tomato pack will be
shortened by blight, but in the East the
pack will be large. Corn is strong.
The Eastern pack will be light unless
the late ¢rop sbows up better than the
first pickings. In the West the pack
will be about an average. New Califor-
nia fruit is on the market here. The
quotations are not changed this week.
Sardines are firm. Although the short-
age is being made up on late packing,
the total shortage of the season will be
about 100,000 cases less than last year.
The shortage in the salmon pack is con-
firmed for the Columbia and Fraser
Rivers, but the pack of Alaska is still
uncertain.

Dried Fruits—There has been no
change in prunes, the new pack of
which wiil shortly come forward. The
market is firm and may goa little
higher. The demand is small. Some
grades of raisins have advanced Xc,
and the demand is good. Higher prices
are possible. Currants are dull at un-
changed prices. Peaches are dull,
mainly because there are none to sell.
Prices are unchanged, but if any good-
sized block was wanted an advance
would have to be paid. The few people
who have stocks of peaches are holding
onto them, as the new pack will be
small and high. Apricots are firm at
unchanged prices They are moving in
a small way. Small stocks of new apri-
cots are already offered.

Tea—There is but little tea in the
country on which to do business, while
the coming crop is shortened by the fact
that the duty is high, the leaf in Japan
is short, and the standard of excellence
for inspection in this country is so high
that low price teas are an impossibility.
The lowest priced new teas that can be
brought into this country this year can
not be sold at less than 3o0c to the deal-
er. There are some offerings of low
price teas now that are lower than that,
but they are the sweepings up of old
stocks in this country and Canada, some
of them three or four years old, and un-
fit for consumption. Almost the same
condition is noted of dusts as of low
price leaf. About 21 cents in bulk or
22@23c in one-pound packages is the
lowest that can be sold from the new
crop teas. This high price of teas will
tend to drive the trade toward coffee, as
it has the past year, for coffee can not
average high this year.

0
The Preduce Market.

Apples—Maiden Blush, Strawberry
and Wine varieties are in large supply
at $1.25@1.75 per bbl.

Beets—25c per bu.

Butter—The market is strong, the re-
ceipts not being equal to the demand
Fancy dairy is firm at 17c and factory
creamery is in eager demand at I9@
19 4c.

Cabbage—$4 per 100 heads for home
grown.

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Cauliflower —$1@1.25 doz, for
home grown.

Cocoanuts—4@5c.

Corn—Green, foc per doz. ears.

Cucumbers—soc per bu.

Eggs—Dealers pay toc for case count
and ric for fresh, holding at 12c. The
receips of fresh eggs have not been
heavy, and the demand, on account of
the exceedingly hot weather, has been
very small. During the past week the
receipts have been just about sufficient
for the demand. With cooler weather
the egg market is apt to show a decid-
edly firmer feeling. Although this
means a much larger demand, the trade
do not look for much higher prices, as
the storage stock wil! prevent this. ©

Grapes—Moore’s Early are in plenti-
ful supply on the basis of toc for 5 Ib.
baskets and 15c for 8 lb. baskets. Wor-
dens are beginning to come in freely.

Green Onions—8c per doz. i

Honey—Fine new comb commands
12@13¢c. l

Muskmelons—Musk, Cantaloups and
Osage are in ample supply and strong de-
mand at 75c per doz.

Onions—Home grown command $1.50
per bbl. for yellow or red.

Oranges—The movement
with no change in values.

Peaches—Receipts are in excess of all
precedent, there having been upward of
a thousand wagons on the market Tues-
day morning. Barnards command 50@
75c and Early Crawfords fetch 75c@$1,
with extra fancy stock ranging as high
as $1.25.

Pears—Little sugar fetch 4oc; Clapp’s
Favorite command about soc; Bartlett,
80c. The supply is in excess of anything
ever known at this market.

Plums—Bradshaws and Guyos are over
for this season. Lombards are in ample
supply at 60c and Moore’s Arctics are
plentiful at 5oc.

Pop Corn—soc per bu.

Potatoes—Home grown stock is in am-
ple supply at 40@45c.

Tomatoes—Home grown command 4oc,
with offerings fully equal to the demand.

Watermelons—toc for Missouri and
15c for Sweethearts.

Ce

The Grain Market.

While wheat remains about the same,
it seems to have gained a few friends,
and the bear element has been kept in
check by the small receipts in the
Northwest. While the visible was ex-
pected to show a decrease of 500,000
bushels, there was an increase of 77,000
bushels, which still left the visible be-
low 6,000,000 bushels, against 15, 473,-
000 in 1897 and 45,600,000 in 1896 and
67,000,000 in 1894.

Exports are rather small, but the re-
ports from Russia are not so rosy as
they were some time ago. We are of the
opinion that prices have about touched
bottom, that is unless the farmers should
take a notion to sell all at once, when a
slump would occur.

Corn and oats remain about stationary.
They vary in price some days from one-
eighth of a cent to one-half of a cent,
but that goes for naught.

Receipts were: wheat, 48 cars; corn,
Ig Cars; oats, 16 cars,

Millers are paying 60c at the mills for
wheat to-day. C. G. A. Vorer.

———_> 2.

S. M. Lemon, President of the Lemor
& Wheeler Company, surprised his
friends by taking atwo davs’ respite

at a lake shore resort this week.
——___9—__

Tyroler’s Emporium, general dealers
at St. Louis, has added a line of gro-
ceries. The Musselman Grocer Co. fur-

nished the stock.
——

C. De Witt Valentine bas sold his
grocery stock at the corner cf Hall and
South Ionia street to Cornelius J. Brou-
wer.

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The Morning Market.

Each recurring Tuesday during the
season has exceeded the preceding until
all records of attendance and_ business
are broken by the last. Yesterday the
number of teams exceeded those of any
former market day in the history of the
city. Monday morning the heavy offer-
ings of Early Crawfords sold freely at
good prices. This fact led to an in-
creased effort on the part of the growers
to rush in all that was possible yester-
day. Naturally, such an unprecedented
rush caused more or less demoraliza-
tion, so that the range of prices was con-
siderable, yet the average was sufficient-
ly sustained to make the business easily
exceed that of any preceding day in the
history of the city.

The feature of the situation which is
most apparent is the inadequacy of the
grounds for the business offered. The
congestion of teams yesterday caused
almost entire suspension of trading for
a considerable time. Steps are being
taken to increase the stall space by
grading and adding streets on the south,
but this work now only serves to render
the space useless for standing room.

It is noticeable and significant that
many of the newcomers on the market
are from increased distances. This, as
noted in preceding comments, is owing
to the constantly spreading road im-
provement. Year by year the radius
has been constantly extending, by al-
most imperceptible degrees, to be sure,
but a slight increase in every direction
exerts a wonderful influence in the to-
tal. It may be noted that local ship-
ping points are comparatively ignored,
but this is accounted for in the fact that
the first essential in the distribution of
delicate fruits is the quickest and surest
market.

The wonderful increase in the morn-
ing market business is dependent upon
conditions which have never obtained
in anything like the same degree in
cther parts of the country, for the era of
road building is new in the older parts
of the country as well as the new. The
development of distributive facilities is
also new evérywhere. Thus the increase
is dependent on new and unprecedented
conditions which make it an interesting

question as to where it will end.
OO

Decisive Victory in the Vinegar Cases.

The July Bulletin of the Dairy and
Food Commissioner contained eight
analyses of cider vinegar produced by
the Dahinden & Gallasch Manufactur-
ing Co., of Milwaukee, from samples
taken at Bay City, West Bay City, Es-
sexville, Petoskey and Detroit. In all
cases the samples were below the legal
standard in ash or deficient in acid
strength. Three arrests were subse-
quently made as the result of the dis-
closures, and last Tuesday Mr. Dahin-
den stood trial on the first case at Bay
City. He plead his own case and suc-
ceeded in securing a disagreement. The
case was tried again on Wednesday,
when Mr. Dahinden retained the ablest
lawyer in Bay City and succeeded in
getting himself convicted. The fine
and costs incident to the conviction
amounted to over $100, and he took an
appeal to the higher court. Instead of
trying the second case on Thursday, he
sought a settlement of the matter out of
court, which was granted on the basis
of his paying the fine and costs imposed
the previous day, withdrawing his no-
tice of appeal, pleading guilty in the
second case, paying the costs, pleading
guilty in the third case at Grand Rapids
the next day, paying his costs in this

 

case, and also in the case of Geo. Leh-
man, whose case was nolle prossed when
service was secured on Dahinden, he
agreeing to take his goods out of the
State, in consideration of which the
Commissioner agreed that sentence
should be suspended in the second Bay
City case and in the Grand Rapids case.
The’ week’s experience with the Food
Commissioner cost Mr. Dahinden in
the neighborhood of $500, but he took
his loss good naturediy, because he
realized that he was in the wrong and
that the Food Commissioner was in the
right. He insists that whatever goods
he sends into the State hereafter will be
up to the legal standard. The outcome
of the cases is a decided victory for the
Food Commissioner and for the cause
of better food products generally.
- > o> —
Hides, Pelts, Tallow and Wool.

Hides are of uncertain value at pres-
ent. Tanners have no surplus and work
only from hand to mouth. Heavies are
firm, with large sales. Light-hides are
weaker and quotable at toc, while sales
have been made at 10'%c, dealers asking
1o%c. Tanners are anxious, as stock
is at its best in quality at this time of
the year. Leather prices, however, do
not warrant the high price of hides.
There is no surplus.

Pelts are so few in number that the
market is not quotable. Values are
made on values of wool, although the
demand, from short supply, makes the
price.

Tallow is slow of sale at low value
and only prime stock is in demand,
which shows a slight advance Soap-
er’s stock is in large supply, with de-
mand but fair.

Wool feels a depression from sales of
cloth at New York auctions, which show
a decline of 20 per cent. on wool goods.
It does not break prices on wool, but
stops sales to some extent, which had
shown some improvement in quantity for
the past few weeks. It is a waiting
game between clothiers and manufac-
turers, with wool dealers not inclined to
lessen prices. Wools of the 1898 clip
have cost fully up to the market and,
with cheap money, buyers are inclined
to hold for future development, knowing
that stocks can not be replaced from
abroad except at a loss. The small im-
ports for the last few months remain in
bond and will bring more money by
sending back to England, but a loss to
importers to sell on this side. Old
stock on hand at the mills is disappear-
ing, while many are in the market to
know what they must pay for a new sup-
ply, on which they base their prices for
their goods. The slow dragging wool
market is a surprise to the oldest, while
free wool seems to hang on as the solu-

tion. Wm. T. Hess.
a
The G. R. Mayhew Shoe Co. has

been organized with a capital stock of
$20,000, of which $5,530 is paid in.
There are four stockholders, all of whom
are officers, as follows: President,
Lucy A. Mayhew; Vice-President, T.
A. McGee; Secretary, C. N. Hudson:
Treasurer and Manager, Geo. R. May-
hew. The store will probably be lo-
cated at 51 or 53 Monroe street, and it
is expected that the fixtures and stock
can be gotten in place by Oct. 1. Mr.
Mayhew enjoyed the confidence and re-
spect of the trade to an unusual degree
during the time he was actively iden-
tified with his former business and it is
believed that his friends will rally to bis
support and assist him in getting on his
feet again.

 

  

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

Woman’s World

The Case of Miss Amanda.

If there is one thing I like above all
others in Fairmount, and that makes re-
turning to it an ever-recurring delight,
it is the deep sense of neighborliness
that pervades the community. There
no one lives or dies to himself, no one
rejoices or grieves alone. A _ birth or
wedding thrills the community with a
pleasant excitement scarcely less per-
sonal than that felt by the principals
themselves. To hire a trained nurse in
sickness would be thought to put an
affront upon the loving kindness of one’s
neighbors, and _ finally, when death
comes, the tender hands of those who
have known you all your life robe you
for your burial and bear you out to the
graveyard on the hill, where one is not
lonely or forgotten,so close about lie the
graves of friends and kindred.

So it seemed to them, and to me, the
most natural thing in all the world that,
when I went back to Fairmount for my
vacation a year or two ago almost
the first thing I should be told was about
Miss Amanda. Of course, for one
thing, she had always been a subject of
great interest to all of us, and of no
small pride When strangers came to
see us we always took them to call on
her in her picturesque, vine-embowered
old house, where the rooms always
smelled of mignonette and rose gera-
nium, and where the solid old mahogany
furniture made strangers’ eyes glisten
with covetous yearnings that filled us
with secret pride and joy.

Afterwards it amused us to watch their
tentative advances towards the subject:

‘You —er—do you suppose Miss
Amanda would be willing to sell that
old mahogany table in the library?"’
they would ask in a voice they tried in
vain to make sound indifferent and
casual, ‘‘or that buffet with the claw
feet or that old rosewood writing desk?’’

Then came our hour of triumph.
‘‘Miss Amanda sell her furniture?’’ we
would cry. ‘‘Goodness, no! Why, they
are the things her father had in Wash-
ington, or brought home with him from
Europe. ’’

You see, Miss Amanda had once be-
longed to the great world and we were
proud of it. Her father had represented
our State in the Senate, and had then
been sent abroad as Minister to some
minor foreign court, where Miss Amanda
and her sisters were celebrated as the
beautiful Americans.

Of course, that is ancient history now.
The Senator has been in his grave these
many years and the other girls are mar-
ried and live in distant cities and only
Miss Amanda is left to us. Not that
we ever cared for the other girls, and
we all bitterly resented the way they
treated her in the settlement of her
father’s estate. They, or their hus-
banus—it is quite the same thing when
you come to money matters—took all
the best of everything. Miss Amanda
never knew how to stand up for her own
rizhts, and she let them have what they
would, and in particular when they di
vided up the fine farm that had been the
Senator’s choicest possession they took
all the rich, broad acres of pasture land
and the fertile wheat fields, and left her
only the poor land about the house.

The senator had planted some walnut
trees on the knoll upon which the house
was built and christened the place ‘‘ The
Walnuts,’’ and had been very fond of
the place, but as we pointed out to Miss
Amanda she couldn’t sell reminiscences,

and one acre of good pasture land
was worth a hundred acres of sentiment.

‘Oh, well,’’ she said excusingly,
‘the other girls needed the money more
than I did. They have families, and
their husbands don’t get along well and,
anyway, | have enough to live on.”’

Now all of that was changed. An un-
lucky business venture had swept away
all her income; even the house she lived
in was hopelessly mortgaged, and at
middle age the frail, delicately-nurtured,
unworldly little gentlewoman was about
to be forced into the army of bread-
winners,

“She has just been robbed!"’ cried
Maria Wheat, vindictively, because of
the sympathy that was tearing her gen-
tle heart. ‘‘ Don't tell me that precious
nephew of hers ever intended to pay her
back. I know better! Coming here
with all his smooth ways and his graces
and airs and palavering. Goodness
knows, it does look like a woman as
old as Miss Amanda might have had
enough sense to see through it all, and
after the way her family treated her,
too !""

““TIs it so bad as that,’’ I asked; ‘‘will
she Jose everything?’’

‘**Everything but that old farm, that
is all grown up with walnut Sprouts un-
til it’s a perfect thicket. Now, the ques-
tion is, what is she to do?’’

Well, it was a question that might
have puzzled wiser philanthropists than
we, for there is nothing else on earth so
pathetically helpless as the old gentle-
woman, untrained in any business or
profession, too proud to accept charity,
who must offer her poor little accom.
plishments in the great market of labor.
We can laugh at our effort now—with
the tears very near brimming over in
the eyes that smile—but it was a serious
matter then that we discussed over in-
numerable cups of tea. Of course, our
first idea—it is always the inevitable
idea of women who cling to home as to
the one ark of refuge—was that Miss
Amanda should take boarders.

“You remember her angel food!’’
cried one excitedly.

‘*Think of her rolls,’? chimed in an-
other, and we agreed that in that way
ease and _fortune lay for Miss Amanda,
and we felt it nothing less than a Spe-
cial Providence that just at that partic-
ular time some strangers, who were
members of the church and distinctly
presentable, should move to town. As
a matter of fact, we resolved ourselves
into hotel runners for her and sounded
the praises of her housekeeping as as-
siduously as if we had been drawing a
salary for doing it.

In our inexperience it never occurred
to us, and assuredly it never occurred to
her, that keeping boarders is a pro-
fession that requires definite and accu-
rate technical training. To Miss
Amanda, used to dispensing a pracious
hospitality, it was nothing short of
martyrdom to take money from those she
persisted in considering her guests. If
they paid, she made it up to them as
far as possible by inviting their friends
and relatives on indefinite visits, More-
over she helped various Impecunious
boys and girls by giving them their
board. ‘‘When you have a big table,
one or two more don’t count, you know,
my dear,’’ she would say in excuse to
the rest of us, and anyway, you can’t
give $50 meals for $20 and make money,
and so at last the butcher bill and the
grocery bill added another lien on the
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failure, we bethought ourselves of get-
ting her a place to teach in the public
school, and there wasn't a married man
in Fairmount who didn’t go to bed,
and get up to a running accompaniment
of Miss Amanda's needs, until he prom-
ised to see the school board and use
force, if necessary, to get her a posi-
tion. Maria Wheat herself undertook to
see the principal.

‘““You know him,’’ she said, in detail-
ing the result of her interview to us,
‘‘the miserable little prunes-and-
prism, dry as-dust creature, with a soul
no bigger than the point of a cambric
needle. I told bim what we wanted,
and he smiled in his supercilious way
and said:

‘* “Really, Mrs Wheat, I would like
very much to oblige you, but, you
know, it is quite out of the question.
Miss Amanda is altogether behind the
times. She wouldn’t know how to teach
by diagrams or any of the modern
methods we use nowadays. Now,’ he
said patronizingly, ‘what do you sup-
pose Miss Amanda understands well
enough to teach?’

‘‘Well, it happened just at that min-
ute my Katie came scorching by on her
bicycle, chewing gum, with her skirts
flying about her knees and her cap on
one side of her head, and she saw us
and screamed out at the top of her
voice:

‘* ‘Hello, mamma; hello, professor!’
and I turned on him.

‘* “What could Miss Amanda teach?’
I cried; ‘she could teach girls to be
ladies, and I’d give a thousand dollars
right now to anybody who could make
one out of my daughter!’ ’’

Of course, the teaching project finally
fell through. We were sadly convinced,
and much against our wills, that some
more definite knowledge was required
in a school teacher than a casual ac-
quaintance with Scott and Dickens and
the ability to quote Byron in appropri-
ate places. Maria Wheat again inter-
viewed the public school principal and
brought back word that Miss Amanda
would have to stand an examination
before she could hope to get a place.

‘*And that settles it,’’ she said. ‘‘Of
course, we know Miss Amanda is the
most cultivated person in this commu-
nity, but she couldn’t begin to answer the
tomfool questions they ask in those ex-
aminations, witb all their fads and new-
fangled ideas. It’s my opinion,’’ she
added gloomily, ‘‘that if Emerson were
to come back to earth now, he couldn’t
stand an examination to teach kinder-
garten babies how to. build a block-
house.’”"

After that, in different bursts of in-
spiration, Miss Amanda tried making
preserves and pickles for rich city peo-
ple whom we had been led to believe
were hankering and pining for home-
made goodies, and were willing to pay
fabulous prices for them. If there are
any such customers, we failed to reach
them, and her jars came back from the
various exchanges fly-speckled and un-
sold.

In the meantime Miss Amanda grew
paler and thinner and more worn as
time went by. Care and anxiety laid
their heavy hands upon her and bowed
the shoulders and whitened the brown
hair as age had never done, and one
had only to notice the tremulous smile
about the brave old lips that uttered no
complaint and the dimness of the faded
old blue eyes to guess bow long and bit-
ter were the silent night vigils she kept.

At last there came a day when the in-
terest could be no longer met on the

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 7

mortgage and Miss Amanda's house and
furniture must be sold to pay the debt,
and for a week she shut her eyes, that
she might not see the bill of sale as she
walked down to the gate, for, indeed, to
her the end of all things had come.

It was growing late in the fall, and as
she made her round of the little garden,
where only a_ belated chrysanthemum
bloomed in faded splendor, it seemed to
her it was like the prototype of her own
life, where all the flowers had faded and
gone, leaving only a desolate and for-
lorn waste behind. Then she turned
and went into the house, going slowly
over it and touching every piece of fur-
niture with tender and loving hands.
What memories, what hopes, what
dreams clustered about them! They
were a part of her life and she felt the
numb, helpless pain as she imagined
one might feel who had a limb  sudden-
ly lopped off. At last her aimless wan-
dering brought her to the library and
she sank down into a chair and laid her
arm across the old mahogany table.

‘*Dear God,’’ she sobbed brokenly, ‘‘I
am not strong like many women—I am
not fitted to struggle with the world—I
am old and broken and the way is dark
and lonely before me. Thy promise—
remember, Lord—‘the broken reed thou
wilt not break—’ "’

How long she sat there she never
knew. Perhaps, worn out with misery,
she fell asleep, but the first thing she
knew was that Maria Wheat was stand-
ing over her, with the tears running down
her face and the advertisement of the
auction sale crumpled up in her hands,
while Mr. Wheat filled up the doorway.

“It’s all right, Miss Amanda,’’ Maria
was saying. ‘I didn’t tell you because
John didn’t tell me, but he’s been work-
ing on it ali the time for the last few
months, and he’s got some furniture
manufacturers from Grand Rapids to
come here, and they are going to buy the
timber, and, oh! Miss Amanda, it seems
that that old walnut thicket of yours is
worth a fortune, and that you are rich,
and there won’t have to be any more
boarders, or preserves, or anything,and,
oh! I’m the happiest woman in Fair-
mount.’”’

And so it was that the case of Miss
Amanda was settled.

‘*After all,’’ I said to Maria Wheat
once, in reviewing it, ‘it didn’t seem
to prove anything. ’ '

‘*Except,’’ said that practical wom-
an, ‘‘that the only way for an elderly
gentlewoman who needs money is to =
herit it some way.”’

And I agreed.

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THE TRADE TO CULTIVATE.
While a great many people and a
large number of newspapers are mani-
festing extraordinary interest with ref-
erence to the retention of the Philip-
fines as a field for commercial expan-
sion, more profitable fields nearer home
are attracting comparatively little pop-
ular attention. It seems to be ancther
case of overlooking opportunities within
reach and straining after something in
the dim distance.

From a commercial point of view the
Commission which is sitting at Quebec
can be made of more value to us than
the Peace Commission which is to con-
vene in Paris next month; but while we
bestow a National concern upon the lat-
ter, the business world appears to be
looking with indifference upon the for-
mer. According to a trade summary
recently issued from the Treasury De-
partment, the exports from the United
States to Canada during the fiscal year
immediately preceding the enactment
of the Dingley bill amounted to over
$80,000,000, or $16 per capita of the en-
tire population of Canada. Compared
with this volume of exports the total
purchases of the people of Porto Rico
and the Philippines in a year do not
amount to as much as one-half. If,
therefore, we would exciude from the
Porto Rican and Philippine markets
every dollar’s worth of goods for sale
by others and monopolize and double
the purchases of those islands, we should
only then send to them the amount of
goods that we were selling to the Cana-
dians a year or soago. The importance
of intelligently and industriously culti-
vating this foreign trade directly across
our border can at once be appreciated.

Among the points to be considered
by the Joint High Commission at Que-
bec is thisone: ‘‘Such readjustments
and concessions as may be deemed mu-
tually advantageous, of customs duties,
applicable in each country to the prod-
ucts of the soil or industry of the other
upon the basis of reciprocal equiva-
lents."’ In other words, it is within the
power of this Commission to frame a
reciprocity treaty that will insure us a
trade equal to that to be obtained from
all the territory we are likely to take
from Spain. And there is this additional
advantage in this American-Canadian
trade, that it can be transacted quickly
by rail and wiihovt the cost to us of
military establishments and_ naval
squadrons for its protection.

What is true in this connection of

commerce with Canada is to a large ex-
tent true, also, of commerce with Mex-
ico. We are not seliing to our neighbors
immediately to the south one-fourth the
goods annually that we ought to sell
them, or that we would sell them were
more attention, governmental and other-
wise, paid by the Americans to com-
mercial expansion in that direction.
With proper reciprocity treaties and the
right effort by our business organiza-
tions and commercial bodies, we ought
to sell to Canada and Mexico easily
$200,000,000 worth of goods a year—
more than we can hope to sell to the
Philippines and Porto Rico for a long
time to come.

Is it not singular, therefore, that our
people should be so aroused, apparently
so excited, at prospects across the seas
and yet seemingly indifferent to the pos-
sibilities right at our doors? It is to be
hoped that the business interests of this
country will not overlook the great op-
portunity they now have, through a
proper pressure upon our Commission-
ers at Quebec, to secure a larger trade
with Canada than we have ever hereto-
fore enjoyed.

 

 

 

The London Statist predicts a great
wave of prosperity for this country,
based upon the employment of large
amounts of American capital in Cuba,
Porto Rico and the Philippines, and
Wall Street is encouraged ; but it forgets
that if capital seeks advantageous op-
portunities abroad all this money will
be taken from our financial centers. If
it finds a better outlet elsewhere the
tendency will be to sell our securities
and put the money in more profitable
investments How will this help Wall
Street? The most important result of
the war, as far as the maintenance of
prices on Wall Street is concerned, is
the establishment of our finances on a
sounder basis, because of the fact that
the new revenue law puts an end to the
dread of a deficit. The revenue law
and the tariff law conjointly will bring
in more money than is required to pay
the expenses of the Government, and
there is no reason why we should not
proceed at once to wipe cut our public
debt with the surplus.

In a comparatively short time, it is
said, one of the oldest of the European
coins will cease to become legal tender,
and its only use will,be as a specimen
of obsolete coinage for the numismatist.
A few weeks ago the Austrian kreutzer
was withdrawn from commercial circu-
lation on account of the convention
making the copper currency over all
parts of the country of an equal value.
About eighteen months has been al-
lowed for the entire circulation to be
called in, and with the advent of the
twentieth century the coin will no long-
er be accepted as legal tender. The
kreutzer has, however, had a very long
life, having been in existence since the
Middle Ages, and took its name from
the cross which it bore,

 

 

There is no protocol with the insur-
gents at Manila. The only way to treat
with them is to lick them, as should
have been done with the Spaniards in
Spain. Protocols are pretty things to
frame and hang up ina diplomat's par
lor; but something like the Oregon is
best for stopping a fight.

Blanco will allow anybody but a news-
paper reporter t: land in Havana
Spain's hostility to a free press is large-
ily responsible for her present bumilia-
‘tion and decay.

 

 

OUR GOOD OFFICES RECOGNIZED
The new Chilean minister to this
country, who has just presented his cre-
dentials to Mr. McKinley, speaks witb
such warmth of the desire of his govern-
ment to enjoy closer commercial rela-
tions with the United States and to fos-
ter a better feeling that there must be
more in his utterances than the mere
formalities of diplomatic intercourse.

There is one remark attributed to him
that is significant, if he ts correctly re-
ported. He is quoted as saying that the
people of South America rec gnize the
importance of America’s protecting
wing to the maintenance of their free-
dom from foreign aggressions. It has
often been a question whether the Cen-
tral and South American Republics ap-
preciated the danger they would be
placed in were it not for the Monroe
doctrine. Frequently it has been a
question, indeed, if these weak repub-
lics were not rather disposed to suspect
our good intentions and resent our self-
constituted guardianship.

If Senor Vicuna, Chile’s new repre-
sentative, voices South American feel-
ing, the people to the south of us not
only do not fear nor distrust us, but look
to us for the continuance of their in-
dependent political existence. Whether
the late war is the cause of this now
spen confession of dependence, or
whether the conviction has been long
held, it is gratifying to note the intelli-
gence back of the opinion, and the
probable consequences of its free and
general expression.

Undoubtedly it is true that but for
the Monroe doctrine South and Central
America would to day be largely par-
celled out between the European na-
tions. Without our presence on this
continent,and with sufficient wealth and
power to make good our decrees, Eng-
land, France, Germany and Italy would
not hesitate to partition Venezuela, Ar-
gentine, Chile, Peru, Brazil, Colombia
and Central America. Let this truth but
be fully appreciated to the south and
necessarily a kindlier feeling toward the
Great Republic must prevail. Friend-
ship means closer relations, commercial
and otherwise. It will be recognized as
far as the Horn that it is to the interest
of all to promote the prosperity and
power of the United States.

 

 

THE FEAR OF LIABILITY.

The world was startled, if not shocked,
a few weeks ago, at the facts which
came out in a bankruptcy trial in Lon-
don, wherein it was shown that promi-
nent members of the English nobility
and known capitalists had accepted
large sums of money to allow their
names to appear as directors of certain
questionable commercial! concerns.

The corporations which were bolstered
up by such apparently respectable
names were really unsubstantial in their
character and fraudulent in the inten-
tion with which they were set afloat.
There was little or no capital to start
with and there was nothing in the or-
ganizations that would commend them
to experienced financiers and men of
business. On the contrary, the opera-
tions they proposed to engage in and
the extraordinary profits which they
offered to stockholders should have
warmed all but the wholly inexperienced
to beware of them. But they were not
designed to attract experienced busi-
ness people. They were only intended
to ‘take in’’ piain people who would
believe the promises of vast profits on
smail investments, while the names of
noble lords and wealthy gentlemen on

 

the boards of direction were sufficient
to gain the confidence of thousands and
tens of thousands of people who put
their money in, but never took it out.

It is said that a fool is born into the
world every second of time. Certainly
there is no lack of people who present
themselves every day to be robbed by
some smooth swindler. People who are
otherwise intelligent persist in believ-
ing that it is easy to get something for
nothing, and they are ever ready to be-
lieve that there are men who will for a
trifle assist others to make fortunes.
These are the sort of people who are
ready to be persuaded that to flood the
country with worthless or depreciated
money will enable everybody to become
immediately rich. It is simply another
form of the old game of geiting some-
thing for nothing.

It is not at ali strange that in London,
where social rank and title count for
vastly more than they do here, .the
names of noted and notable persons
should prove a powerful bait to draw
people and their money into vast swin-
dling concerns until the rascally opera-
tions absorbed vast amounts of money,
the noble lords and gentlemen who act
in the capacity of stool-pigeons for
swindlers demanding and receiving as
much as $10,000 to $50,000 for the use of
their names.

All this shameful business was brought
to light in a bankruptcy court and never
got in a criminal court at all, so that
the parties to a vast swindling operation
escaped all responsibility save the pay-
ment of some costs of court’ There are
in the United States no such gigantic
swindles as those conducted by Barnaby,
the South African ‘‘mining king,’’ and
Hooley, the London confidence operator.
This is probably because we have here
no noble lords whose names attract
money on every side and draw it from
everybody.

The American capitalist is deterred
from indorsing swindling schemes by
the fact that he may be made liable for
losses. That fear is more potential
than is conscience or any moral scruple
in many cases. Conscience is sorely in
the way of all great financial operations
in which the rule of action is: ‘*Every
one for himself, and the devil take the
hindmost,’’

 

 

MUST CHANGE THE NAME.

For the sake of securing concessions
from the railroads for future conven-
tions, the Detroit gentlemen who were
interested in the meeting of retail mer-
chants at Detroit last week effected an

‘Organization under the name of. the

Michigan Business Men's Association.

The Michigan Business Men’s Asso-
ciation was organized at Grand Rapids,
Sept. 21, 1886, and was incorporated
Sept. 15, 1887, under Act No. 190, Pub-
lic Acts of 1887, As the law piovides
that no two corporations shall bear the
same name, it will be necessary for the
Detroit gentlemen to change the name
of their organization to some other des-
ignation than that under which it is
how masquerading.

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The Klondike pilgrim is glad to re-
turn alive. The gold he did not get
could never pay for what he has suf-

fered.

 

The piping times of war have passed
and the times when the pipe of peace is

being smoked have come.
——————
Don Carios is a rich man, and may
prefer that to being a poor king of a

crazy people.

 

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OUR COMMERCIAL CUSTOMERS.

The Tradesman recently quoted cus-
tom-house statistics to show that John
Bull is the best customer for American
exports. Of the $73,699,289 of prod-
ucts sold in Europe, the United King-
dom took $540, 860, 152 ; Germany taking
but $155,039,972; France, $95, 452,692;
Holland, $64,274,622, and Belgium,
$47, 606, 311,

If we add to what Great Britain takes
the products which are taken also by
the British colonies, the figures are very
considerably enlarged. British North
America bought from us to the value of
$84,911,260; British West Indies,
$8, 383,740; British Guiana, $1,792,912;
Australia, $15,603,763; British Africa,
$12,027,142. The British nation is not
only the largest consumer of the prod-
ucts of the United States, but it is so
vastly larger than all other nations put
together that if, for any reason, it were
cut off as a customer, the United States
would be swamped by an _ enormous
overproduction of our cotton, grain,
meats, petroleum and other articles, the
growing and preparation of which en-
gross the labor of a large part of the
population of the Union.

Under these conditions we can better
afford to quarrel with any and all other
nations than with Great Britain. For
like reasons, the English can better
afford to be at enmity with any other
nation than with the United States. For
reasons growing out of this strong com-
munity of interests, the leading British
statesmen have not failed to see the im-
portance of the maintenance of ami-
cable, if notof most intimate, relations
between the two countries, and their
expressions on the subject have led to
the much-discussed possibilities of a
close alliance between the two countries
whose solid commercial interests are so
intimately and mutually connected.
Such an arrangement would not be
wholly one-sided, particularly in view
of the policy of territorial expansion up-
on which the Great Republic has
started.

Returning to the trade statistics of
the United States, some instructive in-
formation is to be gained. The under-
lying idea of the celebrated Monroe
doctrine is that the United States,
while desisting from all interference
with European nations, should not only
resist interference by them with affairs
on this hemisphere, but should bend
every energy towards gaining control of
the Western continental domain. To
this end the most intimate commercial
relations should have been cultivated
with all our Central and South Ameri-
can neighbors. This, however, has not
been done.

Our export trade to those countries is
little more than a bare pittance. They
buy from the United States only such
things as are not to be had elsewhere.
Everything else in the way of imported
goods consumed in Central and South
American countries is bought in
Europe The official statistics of prod-
ucts purchased from the United States
for the year ending June 30, 1898, are
as follows: Brazil, $13,317,056; Cuba,
$9, 561,656; Argentina, $6,429,070; Costa
Rica, $1,5787343; Peru, $1,302,695;
Uruguay, $1,214,248; Ecuador, $1,151,-
258; Mexico, $21,205,234; Colombia,
$3,277,507 ; Venezuela, $2, 746,261 ; Chili,

$2,351,727; Porto Rico, $1,505,946;
Guatemala, $1,205,280; Nicaragua,
$1,086, 680.

The fact is demonstrated by the sta-
tistics of American commerce that the
American people are greatly wanting

 

in commercial enterprise. They enact
no laws and they take no private meas-
ures that are calculated to increase their
trade. The Americans, by reason of
the extraordinary natural resources of
their country, are able to produce in ex-
cess of their own needs nearly every ar-
ticle of daily consumption. The people
of other nations want these things, and
come here to get them where they are
to be had to the greatest advantage.
They come unsolicited. We do not fill
Manchester and the other great cotton-
spinning cities of Europe with agents
displaying and vaunting the quality and
superiority of our Southern cotton. We
do not send abroad armies of commer-
cial travelers with samp!es of American
pork, bacon, flour, grain and the like.
We make no effort to sell our products
abroad ; but, on the contrary, sit down
and wait for buyers to come to us.

When foreigners buy anything grown
or made in America, we have ready no
ships to freight it away for them; but
we simply wait for them to send their
own ships, In the same way, when we
buy any merchandise in European coun-
tries, we have no ships of our own to
send for the property; but we simply
pay strangers to do the transportation
for us. These facts demonstrate that
the Americans are destitute of real com-
mercial enterprise. They area produ-
cing people; they dig the ground and
they manufacture; but when it comes
to selling and transporting their prod-
ucts abroad, they sit down, like the
Turks, and wait for customers. Fortu-
nately, they have done very well at this
sort of thing; but an enterprising peo-
ple like the English would have done
vastly better with the same advantages.

If the United States is going to be-
come the possessor of colonies in far-off
countries, a most radically different
policy must be pursued if any commer-
cial benefit is to come of it. Unless the
American people shall take measures to
occupy and seize on all the commercial
advantages and opportunities offered in
the newly-acquired tropical countries of
the East and West Indies, they will
soon be monopolized by quick-witted
and enterprising foreigners. It will be
necessary also to lay telegraph cables
and to maintain lines of ships to ply to
all the colonial ports. Unless this be
done, the American people will get lit-
tle benefit from the countries it has cost
them so much to conquer.

 

 

It is just as well for people at home
to remember that Porto Rico and most
of Cuba are settled, owned and cultiva-
ted by people whose rights of property
this Government is going to respect and
protect, and that, while there will be
fine openings for American enterprise
there, the land is not open for coloniza-
tion. It may be timely also to remind
ambitious office-seekers that there are
no places to be given out in Porto Rico
at present, nor will be until some per
manent form of administrative service
has been established by Congress. Even
then it is probabie that the openings for
carpet-baggers will not be numerous. If
we are going to give Cuba to the
Cubans, we must allow at least a show
for the Porto Ricans in Porto Rico.

 

Denmark makes a clear distinction
between the thriftless and the respect-
able poor. The former are treated like
English paupers. The latter never cross
a workhouse threshold. If destitute,
they receive a pension ranging from $14
to $84 a year; or, if too feeble to look
after themselves, they are placed in an
old-age home.

 

MORAL EFFECT OF THE WAR.

The moral effect of the victory of the
United States over Spain may, in the
course of a few years, be found to have
exerted as potent an influence over its
internal development, and the determi-
nation of its relations with the other
great powers of the world, as any or all
of the immediate material concessions
made to it by the defeated country.
It is evident that the triumph of the
American fleets and armies in the two
hemispheres has produced a profound
impression, both at home and abroad.
Certainly the people of this country
have never been fairly chargeable with
a disposition to depreciate their own
strength and prowess; but the fact that
they have been able witha few well-
directed blows to bring an ancient dis.
pute to a sudden conclusion, and at the
Same time to change the map of the
world, has given to what was before only
a vague Consciousness of power a defi
nite and palpable demonstration. The
significance of its complete and easy
victory has probably impressed the in-
telligent statesmen and scientific mil-
itary men of the Old World more sen
sibly than it has the Americans them-
selves. It is true that well-informed
Europeans have now for a long time
understood that this is a country of
prodigious strength, and of all but in-
exhaustible resources; but they have re-
garded its strength as for the most part
latent, and its resources as only very
partially developed. Moreover, they
have been inclined to place a low esti-
mate: upon the American system of
army; organization, upon the training
and discipline of the line and upon the
science of the general staff. Americans
go to Europe to complete their educa-
tion. They study art in Paris and
Rome; they spend years in German uni-
versities to prepare themselves for pro-
fessorships in their home colleges. All
that seems very proper, and even nec-
essary to European artists and scholars.
They do not understand how real matur-
ity of mind and thoroughness in learn-
ing can be acquired anywhere outside
of their ancient seats of culture. Euro-
pean military critics share this general
view of American crudity and of the
superiority of European systems of
training and instruction. They look
upon the recent war between the North
and South as a kind of terrific rough-
and-tumble encounter between two big,
burly, awkward giants, brave enough,
but hopelessly unscientific.

Now, notwithstanding some serious
mistakes, or, perhaps, it would be pet-
ter to say some displays of inexcusable
negligence on the part of the responsible
authorities, the fighting capacity of
American soldiers and sailors—the cour-
age and staying power of the men, the
perfect coolness and magnificent science
of their commanders—has been so
signally demonstrated that no intelligent
student of the war would think of ques-
tioning it. The defeat of Spain was,
of course, very generally anticipated;
but what was not so commonly expected,
perhaps, was the ease and rapidity with
which the United States accomplished
that defeat without exerting a tithe of
its strength. The call for volunteers
was so moderate that the men who were
sent to the front, or were held in camps
of instruction, were scarcely missed on
the streets, even of the smaller towns
and villages; and of the total number
of the enlisted men only a comparative-
ly small part was actually engaged. The
same thing may be said of the navy.
Some new ships were bought and put in

 

commission, but they were not needed.
As it turned out, one-half of the Amer-
ican navy was more than ample to an-
nihilate two Spanish fleets and to com-
pel a third to remain in distant waters,
innocuous and inactive.

It is not at all the purpose of this ar-
ticle to indulge in vainglorious boast-
ing. The moral effect of the American
triumph will be great in any event, but
whether it will ultimately redound to
the benefit or to the injury of this coun-
try is still an open question. Everything
depends upon the use that is made of
that victory and upon its reaction upon
American character and aspiration. If,
in the first place, there is to be a heated
and prolonged controversy between this,
that and the other section of the Union
as to the part which they severally took
in the war, and between high officers in
the army and navy as to the relative de-
gree of honor to which each is entitled,
the result has been so far disastrous. If,
again, the result is not to be treated as a
patriotic victory and is made further oc-
casion for partisan greed and bitterness,
it may well be asked whether any vic-
tory over a foreign foe can compensate
the country as a whole for the conse-
quences of a renewed and intensified
internal dissension and the loss of a
kindly sentiment of fellow-citizenship.
Finally, if the pride of victory and the
consciousness of superior strength in-
cline the people of the United States to
adopt an aggressive or offensive policy
and convert the Union into a truculent
bully among the nations of the world,
every true and wise patriot must feel
that his country has forgotten its mis-
sion and departed from the way at once
of dignity and of safety.

The negotiation.of a treaty of peace
is a task which the constitution imposes
upon the executive branch of the Gen-
eral Government. The question of ter-
ritorial expansion, or of the proper
limit of territoriat expansion under
existing circumstances, must, therefore,
be broached, first of all, by the Presi-
dent, or by his immediate representa-
tives, who will, no doubt, be guided by
his advice and instruction: but before
the treaty can go into effect, it must be
ratified by the Senate. There the whole
matter will be thoroughly discussed from
every point of view, and it is to be
hoped that the final decision will be de-
termined by considerations of interna-
tional justice and liberality. If it should
be the judgment of the Senate that an
obligation rests upon the United States
to undertake the pacification of the
Philippines and the establishment of
order in those islands, it will be their
duty to see that the work is intrusted to
men who will labor solely for the ac-
complishment of those ends and who
will not prostitute their office to the pur-
suit of personal emolument. This coun-
try can not afford to set up in that dis-
tant quarter of the globe a school for the
training of political adventurers and
sharpers such as existed in the South in
the days of reconstruction. The tempta-
tions of political life are already suffi-
ciently great, and no further means are
needed for the corruption of public men
and the degradation of parties.

Havana cigars that have not been
made at Key West will be coming in
soon, and Cubans, instead of the Span-
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Shoes and Leather

Proper Profits and How to Maintain
Them.
Dixie in Boots aud Shoes Weekly.

In the discussion of this subject I
consider the question of buying of para-
mount importance, as ‘‘goods bought
right are half sold.’’

A man who is not thoroughly posted
as to values and styles, as well as the
smaller details, should never undertake
to do the buying.

He should confer with his salesmen,
and get their ideas as to what styles sell
best.

The salesmen have the goods to sell
and being indirect touch with the trade
are in a position to know what shoes
are the most profitable.

Where the salesman is taken into this
close relation it makes him feel his re-
sponsibility more, and he will devote
more of his energies to selling some-
thing that he bas had a word in buying

In many instances, if this had been
done a lot of ‘‘stickers’’ might not have
been bought.

After the goods are bought right they
should be marked in plain figures at a
fair and reasonable profit, and I consid-
er that twenty-five per cent.

I do not mean to say that all goods
should be sold strictly on a 25 per cent.
basis, for some goods should bring much
more.

Keep it constantly before the people
that you have only one price, and that a
child can buy just as cheap as the clos-
est trader in the community.

Build up a reputation for truthfulness,
and when you set a price stick to it.

I know of one firm who started out
several years ago with the ‘‘one price to
all’’ rule, and they have made that
prominent in all of their advertisements
and in their talk, and now they have the
largest business in the country, and are
known as a one-price store, with the re-
sult that people are not deceived.

They believe in the rule of ‘‘one price
and that the lowest. ’’

The question of help bears a very
close relation to this subject, as all of
it, I might say, depends on them after
the goods are in the house.

Get the very best salesmen to be had,
and pay them as much as you can
afford.

Keep them interested in the business
by taking them into your confidence.

See that they keep posted as to the
new Styles, etc.

They should read some good trade
paper.

They should be able to explain to an
inquisitive customer the difference be
tween a McKay, a Goodyear shoe, or a
turn.

A customer likes to trade with an _ in-
telligent clerk.

Keep enough help to serve customers
promptly. You had better have too
manyethan too few salesmen.

I do not consider it a good plan to
carry so many styles.

Better carry a few good ones and keep
wel! sized up than to carry a number of
styles and not be able to keep all sizes.

If you can get a good line carry it
from year to year and the manufacturer
can help you do this by keeping it up
to its standard.

Partake very sparingly of extreme
novelties in small towns.

They are usually hard stock and have
to be sold at a discount.

I do not consider it possible to run a
specialty shoe store in a small town, as
the volume of trade is not large enough.

It is all right to carry one or two
specialties, however, Say a $2.50 shoe
for men and $1.50 or $2 for women.

——_>2.>__
Smartly Dressed Feet.
From the New Orleans Picayune.

Have you noticed how many smartly
dressed feet there are nowadays? 1
think I bave seen fewer indifferently
shod feet this summer than ever before.
A great deal has been said, you know,
about the indifference of women to the
appearance of their feet and these ‘‘ heart
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that all the shoes put forth for woman's
wearing are of goodly shape and finish.

The merits and demerits of the low
shoe have been discussed from all
points, and the woman who is careful to
preserve a pretty, slim ankle, says that
she wears high shoes summer and win-
ter, for the low shoes tend to make the
ankle grow larger. But pretty, dressy
little low shoes, with fancy tops, abound
in spite of this.

The latest news I hear from shoe
realms is that colored strings are the
proper caper. My lady’s low shoes of
black are strung with silk laces in gay
plaid or of a color to match her frock.
Outing shoes are laced with the same.
The fashion was first introduced to the
lords of creation, but if woman may
wear his neckties, why not bis shoeties,
which are so much more fetching? Thus
she argued,and, finding no opposition,
has adopted the colored shoestring.

Black and the dark chocolate tans are
liked much better for outing than the
lighter leathers, that were shown and
considerably worn last year. ‘The
plaided laces show up nicely in these,
and when at tennis, golf or croquet
(which, by the by, is enjoying a revival)
the maid of the period wears smart
shoes made very attractive by this new
way of wearing color. A shapely and
prettily dressed foot is displayed to
charming advantage when its owner is
playing croquet. When croquet is in
vogue, footgear of an attractive kind
usually holds sway. Do you remember
the dainty little satin shoe, with big
rosettes, of our mother’s day?

—_—>2>____

Pretty Feet From Ugly Ones.
From the Philadelphia Press.

Some of the latest designs in the line
of boots and shoes are built expressly
for the feminine who is unfortunate in
the shape or size of her feet.

Some of our cleverest bootmakers have
been at work on this problem. They
now offer to make a pretty foot out of
a homely one.

‘It's merely a matter of the shoe,’’
said a clever bootmaker yesterday. ‘‘Of
course, there are naturally pretty feet
which look pretty in any shoe put on;
but even the naturally homely foot can
be rendered symmetrical and stylish by
a wise choice of boot. Leather, color,
sole, vamp and fastening—all of these
should be most carefully considered be-
fore purchasing.

‘‘For example:

‘‘The prettiest brown shoes offered to-
day have darker vamps than uppers.
The vamps of these shoes are made of
varnished or enameled brown leather,
and the uppers of thinner, lustreless
skin. This helps to trim down the size
of a foot greatly, while the opening
over the instep is cut very wide, and
underneath the varnished leather tongue
a little strip of padding is laid.

This insures height to a low instep,
especially when the heel is cut out in
what is known as the military form.’’

—— a a
The New Rubber Products.

— of the new rubber substitute
made from corn are being shown on the
market. It is made from the oil derived
from corn, and by vulcanizing it in con-
nection with an equal quantity of crude
India rubber, a substitute is produced
which, for certain purposes, is equal to
the best gum rubber, ata greatly lessened
cost. The new corn rubber is claimed
to possess ail the essential qualities of
Para rubber, including resiliency. The
manufacturers claim that the fact that
corn oil does not oxidize readily makes
this product of great value; since it is
not affected by oxidization, the prod-
ucts manufactured from it will always
remain pliable and not crack as those
made from other substitutes. This sub-
stitute for rubber is very dark brown or
black and it easily rubs off in light
brown rolls,

—_3->____
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TRADESMAN

  

 

How the Drummer “Called” the Som-
nambulist.

It was during the fall of 1891. I had
had a hard day on the road—worked
three towns by doubling back—and
wound up by waiting six hours fora
midnight train. A slight accident on
the way delayed my arrival at my next
Stop, where I hoped to get a few hours’
sleep until 2a. m. There was but one
hotel in the place, and when I came to
register, the drowsy individual who per-
formed the dual duties of clerk and por-
ter gave me the cheerful information
that there was not a vacant room in the
house, but that in one rooin there were
two beds, only one of which was occu-
pied. In response to earnest solicita-
tion, I was shown up at once

The gentleman in bed appearing not
to be aroused by my entrance, I un-
dressed as quietly as possible, blew out
the light and slipped into the vacant
bed with every feeling of thankfulness,
I was hardly comfortably bestowed when
a voice from the opposite corner of the
room fixed my attention:

‘“My friend, since you are so unfor-
tunate as to occupy a room with my un-
happy self, it is due you that I should
acquaint you with a miserable infirmity
that assails me. I am the victim of
somnambulism, and am often violent
when walking in my sleep, to such an
extent that it is extremely dangerous to
encounter me in that condition. Per-
haps you may have seen an account in
the papers how, at Detroit, recently,
while sleeping in the room with a
friend, I arose and in the fury of my
slumber nearly murdered him before
assistance could arrive. The strange
part of it all is that his cries, while
arousing every one in the hotel, failed
to awaken me. Now, I have given you
this warning to relieve my conscience
in case any accident should happen to
you to night; and if I should be so un-
fortunate as to walk in my sleep, and
evil should befall you, I hope you will
hold me guiltless, and only blame your
own rashness should you fail to take ad-
vantage of the knowledge you now pos-
sess and withdraw at once.’’

Here was a pickle, indeed. [I had to
think, and think fast, or lose the few
hours’ rest I needed so much before an-
other day should call me to action. So
soon as he had finished I arose and
lighted the lamp. This took but a mo-
ment, but sufficient time had elapsed to
enable me to formulate a plan for ac-
tion. Going to my grip, I took outa
Colt’s revolver and delivered the result
of my deliberations to my neighbor, who
had pulled the bedclothes over his head:

‘Sir, [thank you for your timely con-
sideration for my welfare, and most
deeply commiserate your misfortune;
but I am constrained to say that | am
tired and that I am determined to sleep
undisturbed until morning. I have as
good a pistol here as is made in the
world, and if you get out of that bed be-
fore 7 o’clock I give youa solemn prom-
ise that your somnolent peregrinations
will hereafter be confined to the stars.’’

If so much as a mouse stirred in the
room that night I never knew it. When
I awoke next morning my neighbor still
had the bedclothes pulled over his head.

RADIX.
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Minor Shoe Notes.

Don’t let your business bag at the
knees.

It is said by an observer that the
Vici kid shoe or chrome tanned kid
shoe for men’s wear is more popular in
smaller towns than in the larger cities.

By this time your ‘‘Summer clearing

 

sale of boots and shoes’’ should be at an
end and your windows should show the
latest styles in footwear for the fall.

Barcelona, Spain, is said to have
twenty shoe factories fitted with modern
machinery, a large portion of the out-
put going to the islands we have just
won from her.

It is claimed by those who say they
know that there is no truth in the rumor
of the selling out of the Boston Rubber
Shoe Co. to the Trust, and it is still an
open question, with facts impossible to
get at, it seems.

Nothing will illustrate the value of
asking a reasonable price in return of
your commodities more than the abol-
ishing of the free shine habit among
retail shoe dealers all over the country.
Now here was a case where the cleaning
and polishing of shoes was offered free
to the public, and if there was anything
in it, it would have continued in vogue.
Yet after the experience of a couple of
years, retailers have found that the
American people do not take kindly to
the idea of something for nothing, and
hereafter when a man wants his shoes
polished he can pay for them in the
good, old fashioned way.

If you have capital when starting into
business, don’t start in to buy for cash.
This is not establishing a credit, unless
you mean to buy everything thereafter
for cash; put your capital in a good
bank and this will give you the credit,
Arrange for thirty to sixty days’ time on
your goods and make up your mind that
you are nut going to touch that capital
in the bank only under pressure to meet
your bills. Start with the determination
to make your stock pay your bills as
much as possible and consider that cash
in bank as something in the way of a
life preserver, something to fall back
upon when all other methods fail. This
is advice for the young merchant who
is just starting in business. This
method will give him time to get ex-
perience and he can then, after he is
fully started and in running order, work
slowly but surely towards a cash _ basis,
but he should establish a credit first.

—___»2.___
She Wanted Comfort.
From the New York Commercial Advertiser.

A woman who always wears dainty
little slippers and who always kicks
them off when she is not actively en-
gaged, was seated in the hammock ona
cottage piazza the other day. Her slip-
pers, as usual, were several yards away
from their owner’s feet, and stood
daintily poised, toes out and high heels
near together, as if they had been sud-
denly arrested in the act of a pirouette.
‘Why do you do it?’’ asked the precise
woman. ‘‘It is such an untidy habit.
Are they too small? Do they hurt? Why
don't you bave comfortable shoes?"’

‘‘ They’re perfectly comfortable, ’’ said

Cinderalla, with smiling mendacity.
‘‘But they are too warm I like thin,
cool Chinese shoes, made of woven

straw, or Turkish slippers, without any
heels and scarcely any soles, or gay lit-
tle moccasins, laced with colored Jeath-
er and embroidered with beads. ’’
‘“Well, why don’t you wear them?’
‘‘What would the world say? Fancy
me dancing in a ball room with the
footgear of a Pocahontas, or emulating
John Chinaman when I go to the golf
links? No, my dear, 1 can trot about
the house cool and comfortable, but
when I come out among you all I have
to be conventional,and consequently un-
comfortable. That's why—dear me,
there come the boys back from the sta-
tion; give me those slippers quick !’’
>. ____
Grand Trunk Dining Cars

Everybody who has had the good for-
tune to enjoy a meal on the Grand
Trunk Dining Cars 1s _ profuse in his
praise of the good service, excellent
cuisine and liberal table supplied. Mr.
J. Lea, Jate of Windsor Hotel, Montreal,
has been appointed to this part of the
service and the public are appreciating
the endeavors of the company to have
an unequaled service in this department
of a great system.

—_+0 +.

Kissing a fashionable young lady on

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Training School for Shoemakers.

There is a prospect of the introduc-
tion of industrial training in a new
quarter. The shoe manufacturers of
Lynn declare that they can not secure
enough competent hands. The unions
keep the trade in the families of the
members; and if the young men go
elsewhere to learn the trade they gener-
ally remain away. The manufacturers
say that they lose large sums every year
through the inefficiency of hands who
profess to understand the trade, but do
not. It is said that the state of affairs
will be brought to the attention of the
city council, which will be asked to es-
tablish a school. Whether the unions
will oppose the scheme is uncertain;
but it is presumable that they will not,
as unions have seldom tried to prevent
the establishment of such institutions.

— eee —

An Enduring Polish.

The tardy arrival in this country from
England of prepared bones from the
legs of deer is one of the new additions
to the equipment of experienced valets.
It is a polish to put the finishing touches
on the sheen which muscle and_ various
dressings impart to light-colored leather
shoes. This implement consists of a
bone taken from the lower leg of a deer,
[It is rubbed and polished until it 1s as
smooth as glass. The bone is rubbed
over the leather after it has been made
to shine by means of polish. The Lon-
don manufacturers of this curiously
elaborate device for polishing shoes
claim that it not only adds extra lustre,
but also makes the polish more endur-
ing.

We have .. -

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Winners. The most of

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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
Pricein Men’s, Boys’ and
Youths’. Lycoming and
Keystone Rubbers are the
best. See our Salesmen
or send mail orders.

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Fruits and Produce.

Experience of One Creamery with a
Cheap Buttermaker.
From the New York Produce Review.

Hiring cheap buttermakers does not
pay. Since many dealers have been re-
turning top price or more for firsts and
seconds there has been a disposition on
the part of creameries in certain sec-
tions of the country to employ cheap
help, claiming that a high salaried but-
termaker was not necessary, aS a $40 per
month man could make butter that
would bring top price or more, although
the quality of his goods would not be
such as to allow them in a grade above
a first at best. This shortsightedness
or delusion has cost a few creameries
that I know several hundred dollars in
one month. Last week a dealer told me
the following story, which will illustrate
the fallacy of hiring cheap and incom-
petent buttermakers:

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trenching at tbat end of the business.
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quality and we kicked. One week they
would show improvement and the next
run poor again. This summer, while I
was in the West I called at this cream-
ery one morning. I had been receiving
letters from my partner that the butter
manufactured there was running very
poor and that he was having difficulty in
disposing of it.

‘*T arrived at the creamery about 11
a. m. and, not finding anyone in, I
whistled and soon the buttermaker, who
lived up over the creamery, came down.
I talked with him a while about bis
work, but noticed he kept pretty close to
his churn, which was a combined one.
I thought I smelt a mousse, so I asked
him if his churn was sweet. He said
he guessed sc. ‘Well,’ said I, ‘let me
look in and smell it.’ With that I jerked
the cover off and do you believe it the
day's make of butter was in there. Just
think of it! 11 a. m. and butter not out
of churn nor packed, when it should all
have been done by 7 or 8 o'clock.

‘‘T then saw the secretary and mana-
ger and told them that I didn’t believe
the buttermaker knew how to make but-
ter or else was too lazy to do the work
- properly and | thought the best thing
for the creamery would be to let him go.
The secretary rather agreed with me and
said he would see what could be done.
After I returned home we continued to
receive the butter from the creamery,
but it showed no improvement. I wrote
the secretary again about the matter
and told him he had better ship the
goods to someone else as we could not
dispose of them to advantage. I also
wrote to the buttermaker and told him I
was afraid he was not the right man for
the place and that he had better get out
before he was discharged. His reply
was very nasty. He said that there was
a conspiracy between the secretary and
myself to get him out of the creamery.
The week following this, we received
only a part of the make, the balance go-
ing to anotber house here. As luck
would have it the butter was very good
that week, and we were able to return
top price. The other house, so the sec-
retary wrote me, returned %c above.
Well, the next week the make wes split,
our share graded seconds We, how-
ever, were able that week to place the
goods at the price of firsts and returned
that price for them. The other house
returned the price of seconds. The sec-
retary wrote me then that the butter-
maker was accusing the other house of
trying to get him out of the creamery.
They then shipped to Philadelphia and
fared no better; the house they shipped
to there wrote them that the goods were
too poor for them to handle. This made
the buttermaker furious and he said that
all three houses, together with the secre-
tary, were working to get him out of the

impressi hat | : :
oc teh bene te some time past per-
ing that a cheaper buttermaker could do | plexed the trade, it shall be decided to

york at the creamery as well as the | : : :
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creamery. This week I received a let-
ter from the secretary stating that the
manager had been endeavoring to get
the buttermaker out, but as he lived up
over the creamery he declined to get
out. The secretary told the manager
that if he was running things he would
d—d soon get him out. He said the
manager went away from his house with
blood in his eyes and he believed that
there will soon be a new buttermaker at
the creamery. Iam now anxious to hear
whether or not that will be the result of
the conference. ’’
—-__>-2->—____

Restoration of Butter Call.

From the New York Produce Review.

At a meeting of members of the New
York Mercantile Exchange last Thurs-
day it was decided by a large majority
to re-establish the public call for butter
on August 22. On two previous occasions
since the butter call was abolished efforts
by a few of the Exchange members to
bring about a vote to restore it have sig-
nally failed and it is not easy to assign
a valid reason for the change of heart
clearly manifested last
Thursday.

If, in the resolution of the problems

retain sume method of establishing a

there is no question that an open call
will tend to aid in the settlement and
determination of such a basis from day
to day. But it must be remembered that
most of the objections to the present
system of butter business are directed
against the establishment of any such
trading basis, the argument being that
without it the foundation of a pernicious
contract system would be destroyed and
a settlement of price terms compelled
on all sales by direct negotiation be-
tween buyer and seller. It is claimed
by some that under this system of nat-
ural and uninfluenced trading irregular-
ities of price resulting would tend to se-
cure to the producer of butter a greater
certainty of value for quality, and to the
receiver a greater opportunity to enjoy
the benefits appropriate to the degree
of his individual capability.

If this is to be the final system
adopted by our merchants it is difficult
to see how it is to be furthered by the
re-establishment of the public call. The
two systems would seem to be conflicting.
The call is in line with uniformity of
information, uniformity of values and
the consequent ability to create a trad-
ing basis. It may be introduced with-
out alone producing all of these effects,
but if it is desired to bring about con-
ditions which shall entirely prevent the
establishment of a trading basis the call
can hardly be of any assistance to that
end.

—__§_e 2 -___
Keeping in Style.

Brisket—What can I send you up to-
day, Mrs. Style?

Mrs. S.—Send mea leg of mutton, and
be sure it is from a black sheep.

Brisket—A black sheep!

Mrs, S.—Yes, we are in mourning,
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MICHIGAN APPLES.

Bulletin From the State Horticultural
Society.

Allegan, Aug. 27—Although the crop
of Michigan winter apples is not to be
a large one, nor in best of condition, it
will be in excess of that of any state
east of the Rocky mountains, and is al-
ready in exceedingly brisk demand in
the market. Everything of the apple
kind in Michigan this year will com-
mand a good price. Buyers are already
in the field for cider apples and drying
stock, many evaporators having been
erected within the State by men who
have been engaged in that industry
elsewhere. The early fall fruit is sell-
ing at what would be very bigh prices
in ordinary years, commanding thirty to
fifty cents per bushel.

Enquiries are made of the State Hor-
ticultural Society from every section of
the United States as to the prospect of
the Michigan apple crop, and to answer
all enquiries and give needed informa-
tion to others concerned this bulletin is
issued.

Extensive correspondence throughout
the southern one-third of the Lower
Peninsula, and the region embracing
Oceana, Grand ‘Traverse, and neigh-
boring counties, shows that the croup will
vary from 1o per cent. of winter fruit in
some counties to as high as 75 in others.
This percentage holds nearly the same
as to autumn fruit.

The reports state that comparatively

- little damage is noticeable from the

codlin moth, but there is an abundance
of scab. This is particularly the case
with orchards that were not sprayed last
year. Orchards that have been attended
to properly in respect t: both these par-
ticulars are showing excellent results of
the care given them.

The State affords few large commer-
cial apple orchards. Although the total
product is great, it is gathered in com
paratively small amounts, nearly every
farmer having an orchard of more or
less extent. I[t is therefore not possible
to make replies to many of the letters
received, and refer men to parties hav-
ing thousands of barrels. Any person
seeing this bulletin and having a large
quantity of winter fruit would do well
to communicate with the Secretary

The crop of pears will be full and of
most excellent quality.

Plums will be in abundance, and so
will peaches, although the percentage
of the crop of the latter fruit will on the
whoie in this State scarcely exceed 50
per cent. :

Grapes will be a very full crop.

Detailed reports from the counties
have been summarized as follows:

Allegan county (west): 50 per cent.
of a crop; afew orchards near the shore
will average 75 per cent.

Allegan county (east): 60 per cent.

Barry: One-fourth of a crop.

Van Buren: Half crop of fall ap-
ples; 25 per cent of winter apples.

Genesee: One-third of a normal crop.

Lenawee: One-third to one-half a
crop of winter app'es.

Muskegon: Two-thirds of acrop, ex-
cept Spy and King, which are about
one-fourth to one-third.

Clinton: 50 per cent. of an average
crop.

St. Joseph: to per cent. of a crop.

Hillsdale (west): Not enough apples
for home consumption.

Ionia: Winter apples between 80
and 99 per cent. except Spies; not over
1o per cent of Spies.

Berrien: Early apples, except Astra-
chan (which area total failure), less than
one-fourth of a crop; winter crop no
higher.

Monroe: Not over one-half of an
average crop.

Oceana: About one half of an aver-
age crop

Washtenaw: 50 per cent. of summer
apples, 25 per cent. of autumn apples,
winter I5 to 20 per cent.

Gratiot: 75 to 85 per cent. of a full
crop.

St. Clair: Some report winter apples
25, some 50 per cent.

Ottawa (east): Not more than 50 per

cent. of a full crop.

 

Kent: 25 to 60 per cent. of a full
crop.

Eaton: Less than one-half the usual
crop.

Ingham: Not more than 25 per cent.

Oakland: About 50 per cent. of full
crop.

Branch: Very light; only an occa-
sional orchard bears any fruit worth har-
vesting.

Traverse: Good apples, 40 per cent.
of crop.

Lapeer: Only 12 per cent. of full
crop; not more than 25 per cent. of av-
erage crop.

Calhour: Not more than 25 per cent.
of a crop of winter apples.

Cass: Not above so per cent.

EDWARD C. REID, Sec’y.
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The European Apple Crop Far Below
the Average.
From the New York Commercial.

Charles Forster, agent for Simons,
Jacobs & Co., Glasgow; for Simons,
Shuttleworth & Co.,.Liverpcol, and for
Garcia, Jacobs & Co., London, receiv-
ers of American apples, is well in-
formed on the apple situation. He says
that the European crop, as a whole,
will be below the average. Many im-
mature apples have dropped and blight
and insects have seriously injured what
are left. Mr. Simons writes from Glas-
gow that the prospect for American ap-
ples is good. There are very few in
Great Britain. Ireland has a lot, but
they interfere little with American fruit.
France, Belgium and Holland have
about half crops, but the quality does
not compare with Americans, as a rule,
and the latter outsell everything else,

G. H. Shuttleworth, of Liverpool,
and other representatives of the firms
have completed their annual inspection
trips. Summing up the results of their
observations, it is found that there are
probably twice as many apples as has
been supposed, but the quality, except
in a few localities, is inferior to very
poor. There is a full crop in but few
localities, but nearly everywhere there
are a few apples, varying from one-
fourth to one-half, and in some cases
three-fourths of a crop. The great area
now devoted to apple growing in Amer-
ica makes a correct crop estimate im-
possible. The danger this season lies
in probable under estimation of supplies
and in the lack of care on the pait of
packers to properly select fruit for bar-
reling purposes. Canners and evapo-
rators are preparing to utilize large
quantities of the low grade fruit, which
should simplify matters for packers and
enable them to barrel better quality than
thev might otherwise.

Mr. Forster says he considers the out-
look for American apples in Great
Britain favorable, provided price is
moderate and care is exercised in mat-
ters of detail. He says he thinks there
are ample supplies for the demand at
moderate cost.

> 2.
Canada’s Great Exposition and In-
dustrial Fair at Toronto.

The Grand Trunk Railway System
will sell tickets for the Exposition and
Industrial Fair to be held at Toronto on
August 29th to September roth, from all
stations on their lines west of the De-
troit and St. Clair Rivers, at greatly re-
duced rates. Tickets will be sold from
Michigan points from August 29th to
September 4th inclusive, valid to return
from Toronto on all trains up to and in-
cluding September 12th

This will be the greatest fair ever held
at Toronto, with new and wonderful at-
tractions from all parts of the world.
For particulars call at D. & M. city
office, Morton House, or at Depot.

C. A. osrin, ©, PL A.
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Was Not Named After Dewey.

‘“Well, Cawker, did you name your
new baby George Dewey?’’

wo.

‘“*You told me that was your inten-
tion.’’

“Vex.

‘“Then why didn’t you?”’

‘*We decided upon second thought to
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News from the Metropolis---Index to

the Market.
Special Correspondence.

New York, Aug. 27—With the com-
ing of fall all indications continue very
favorable for a large volume of busi-
ness. In fact, some jobbers have about
all they can take care of now. Prices
are generally firm and, altogether, the
outlook is very encouraging.

The coffee trade generally, both local
and from out-of-town, seem to be freer
purchasers and during the past few days
the market has shown quite an improve-
ment. Sellers and buyers are, as yet,
not quite agreed, however, and if the
latter could bave had fractionally lower
rates they would have ‘‘made things
lively.”’ Of course, something always
happens, and this time it happened that
those who had the coffee to sell would
make no concessions. Invoice trading
was not extensive, but rates paid were
well established, being 6 7-16@6%c. In
store and afloat there are 1,011,678 bags,
against 790,165 bags at the same time
last year. Mild grades of coffee are
firmer, in sympathy with Brazil sorts,
and Good Cucuta is worth 9%c.

Arbuckle’s wagons are now seen very
frequently with their big loads of stand-
ard granulated sugar and the competi-
tion has begun. Prices show no varia-
tion, as yet, from those of the Trust,
and it is unlikely that there will be any
difference immediately, if at all. The
package sugar, it is said, will not be
ready for a week orso. Orders have
come in in prodigious number for carlots
of packages and the refiners will be be-
hind in filling the same. It seems cer-
tain that the package is to be the thing
in the trade. The market is active and
encouraging.

The tea market is absolutely without
new feature. The auction takes place on
Wednesday, and until then matters seem
to be at a standstill. Quotations as
given on the street are nominal and the
whole situation is unsettled. Since Jan.
1, the appraisers have rejected 1, 149,934
pounds of tea and passed about 22,000, -
ooo pounds.

Rice is steady. The volume of trade
was not as large as at some other times,
but holders seem to be well satisfied
with the run of the market and prices
remain unchanged. Prime to choice
Southern, 53 @63<c.

The spice market is in a fairly satis-
factory condition, although there is
room for still further improvement.
There has been more enquiry for pepper
than anything. Offers of 9c for Sin-
gapore were not accepted, holders in-
sisting on an eighth more, at least.
Cloves are steady at 85éc for Zanzibar.

Molasses stocks are not large, but
seem sufficient to meet all demands.
Most of the enquiries received during
the week have been for low grades. The
supply of this sort being rather limited,
the quotations have been quite firm at
8% @l12c for common. Syrups are firm
and some fair sales have been made.
Good, 14@15c. Prime to fancy, 16@2oc.

The offerings of canned goods are
scant. There has been a growing en-
quiry for salmon and tomatoes, and
these two things are going to be very
interesting as time goes on. Every one
interested, from grower to seller, looks
for substantial advance in the near fu-
ture. And yet, and yet—tomatoes are
the most deceptive article ever was.
Maryland brands are quoted at 67 4 @7oc
there. New Jersey goods are worth ooc@
$1, as to quality. Salmon, Red Alaska,
$1.07%4@1.10. No Columbia River is
being offered for future sale.

In a jobbing way evaporated apples
are firm and the range is from 9% @ioc,
as to quality. Small fruits are quiet.
Little is doing at the moment in Pacific
Coast products.

Beans are hardly steady, as supplies
have been larger with no increase in de-
mand ; choice marrow, $1.75; choice
kidney, red, $1.90@1.95.

Butter receipts are somewhat larger
and while r9c remains the general quo-
tation for best Western creamery, it is
certainly top, and the tendency is toa
lower basis. Firsts, 17%4@18c; seconds,

 

16@17c; Western imitation creamery,
extras, 1514@i6c; firsts, 13'%4@14c;
Western factory, extra June, 14 cts;
firsts, 13@13%4c.

New York State, large size, full cream
cheese, 734@7%4c; small size, fancy, 8c.
The enquiry has not been especially ac-
tive, but has shown some improvement
over the past two or three weeks and
that is something.

The egg market is firm. Receipts
are light and the stock from Northern
Ohio and Michigan that will stand the
test is being quickly disposed of at
15%@16c. Near-by stock, 7c. With
cooler weather the loss will be much less
than during the past ten days, which
have been especially destructive to
eggs. On Friday the receipts were only
about half the average—s,661 cases.

SEE SU

Chicago Tarlatan Ordinance
Clearly Unconstitutional.

The

Chicago, Aug. 27—An attempt is be-
ing made by the authorities of Chicago
to prohibit the covering of fruit baskets
with red tarlatan. A case is now pend-
ing in the Supreme Court testing the
constitutionality of thelaw. It was also
understood by both parties that no
further prosecutions would be attempted
until the Supreme Court had decided
the case. All this bluff and bluster at
this time is mere nonsense, as there is
nothing in it whatever. The idea that
the Chicago Common Council can make
laws for the Michigan growers is ridic-
ulous. No State can make a law that in-
terferes with commerce between states.
That has been decided time and again.
Armour & Co, versus State of Minnesota
is the latest decision. The State of
Minnesota passed a_ law that no beef
could be shipped into the State except
on the hoof. It was to prohibit dressed
beef from coming into the State from
the big packers of Chicago. The but.
terine case is another. State of Texas
prohibiting drummers’ from outside
states soliciting orders is one more.
The Chicago Common Council can pro-
hibit fruit from coming to Chicago pro-
viding it is injurious to health and pub-
lic morals, but for no other reasons. The
law also reads that you can not put on
red tarlatan to deceive the public. The
commission merchant does not put it
on. It is on when he receives the fruit,
and is put on not to deceive, but to pro-
tect the peaches from flies and dust,
and to hold them in place; also from
pilfering while in transit. As a matter
of fact the general trade demands them
to be covered ; they will pay from 5 to
Io cents per basket more with the tar-
latan cover than without. Consequently
it is for your interest to cover, as the
customer demands it> If this law is in-
tended for the repacker, the fellow that
rents a basement two months in a year
and buys two kinds of fruit, rotten and
good, and places the rotten fruit down
in the bottom and a row of good on top,
we have no defense to offer for him, and
the quicker he is prohibited the better
for the peach trade of Chicago. This
same fakir sells that fruit for choice
Michigan peaches. When the buyer gets
it home and finds it spoiled down in,
he rushes to our health department with
his complaint. Prohibiting tarlatan
from being put on fruit is not going to
make those fakirs honest. They will
find a way of fastening the covers so
they can not be opened very easily.

E. C. REICHWALD & Bro.
OE

Of Interest to the Traveler.

The most fastidious epicure could not
find fault with the excellent service now
furnished the patrons of the Grand
Trunk Railway System on the Dining
Cars running on the through trains be-
tween Chicago and Eastern points.
Nothing but words of praise is heard
from those who have had the good for-
tune to sit down to a dinner or supper
on one of these comfortable and hand-
some cars. Mr. J. Lea, late of the
Windsor Hotel, Montreal, is now in
charge of one of the diners and the pas-
sengers are assured of a most liberal
table, a good service, and an excellent
cuisine,

  

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any deleterious acids or anything that is not produced from
the apple, we will forfeit

ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS

We also guarantee it to be of not less than 40 grains strength.
We will prosecute any person found using our packages for cider
or vinegar without first removing all traces of our brands therefrom.

Robinson Cider and Vinegar Co., Benton Harbor, Mich.
J. ROBINSON, Manager.

 

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Thus it 1s that we are compelled, in order to supply the demand of
our customers, to steadily seek for new consignments of the latter
articles of food from those who have not hitherto shipped us. We
very much desire YOUR consignments, and we offer these three guar-
antees to you: Highest Market Prices, Full Weights, Prompt Pay-
N ments. Let us add you to our list on this understanding. Is it not
sufficient? We think so. W. R. BRICE & CO.

  
 
 
  
    

    

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Remember the Results of Last Year’s

August Advance.
From the New York Produce Review.

Some of the egg trade have been quite
surprised that, while prices for fresh
Western eggs ruled higher this year than
last up to the early part of August, they
have since been somewhat lower than
for even dates in 1897. The reasons for
this are interesting and, if generally
considered, may result in giving usa
safer and more profitable later market.
‘‘A burnt child dreads the fire’’ and
likewise an unprofitable speculation
leads to waryness the next time. Last
year in August there was a general
hopefulness as to future business condi-
tions which induced pretty strong spec-
ulation in late August and early Sep-
tember fresh eggs. Under its influence
Western markets advanced steadily and
were able to drag Eastern markets up
with them until New York was quoted
at 17c by the close of August. Thou-
sands of cases were withdrawn from cur-
rent sale only to be sold later in the sea-
son at heavy and serious losses. These
losses were partly occasioned by the rel-
atively poor quality of the goods, but
even the finest of them were not there-
after salable at a profit excepting pos-
sibly a very few which were carried very
late and which were helped to a profit-
able sale by the fortuitous circumstances
of an unusually light December produc-
tion. On_ the whole the early fall spec-
ulations of ’97 were disastrous, and itis
most important that the causes which
made them so should now be avoided.

It is generally believed that the situa-
tion of the egg trade as to reserve spring
and summer holdings is now fully as
good as last year if not slightly better.
Accumulations which, in Eastern mar-
kets at least, were greater than last year
up to July 1 are believed to have been
since reduced to about even figures at
most of the storage centers, although
where definite figures are obtainable an
increase is still reported. But last
year’s operations were saved from gen-
eral misfortune only by rather unusual
conditions of supply late in the season,
and it would be most unfortunate to the
trade at large should a rampant early
fall speculation again drive prices so
high as to result in the disasters which
were partially incurred in the fall of
‘97, and which were averted in part only
by weather conditions which are not
often realized.

The only safety would seem to lie in
keeping every consumptive channel
filled as full as possible at prices which
will afford a very moderate profit on the
early accumulations, and by this means
to keep the price of current collections
at a safe tigure. So far the offerings in
this market have been on a conservative
basis and so free as to cause a slow re-
sponse to the indications of unsafe
stimulation of values noticeable in some
parts of the West. But the benefits of
conservatism at this time can only be se-
cured by a general appreciation of its
necessity, and operators in all sections,
especially those who are interested in
the outcome of earlier speculations,
should think twice before lending their
influence to a premature bull movement.

Your Business Will Not Run Itself.
From the Dry Goods Economist.

Business is business, be the month
April or September.

Your store and business will not run
itself now any better than it would at
the holiday season or any other time. If
you think it capable of doing so, don’t
be surprised if it runs down and comes
to a full stop.

Don't get ‘‘shiftless ;’’ keep a steady
hold on things. It costs no more to keep
the clerks well employed than it does
to let them weary themselves in doing
nothing.

Every energetic, business-bringing
effort made now will not only increase
your daily sales, but will bring days of
satisfaction later.

Every dollar’s worth of summer goods
-closed out means a dollar to reinvest in
profitable merchandise. :

Every dollar’s worth carried over is
so much capital tied up indefinitely,and

 

the longer it is tied up the more it is
likely to depreciate.

The ‘‘secret of success’’ is a quick
turnover and a clean close out.

The store that has the newest, bright-
est and freshest goods is the one that
has the most satisfied customers.

——__> 2.
New Butter Substitute.
From the New York Produce Review.

Not altogether new perhaps, for we
have before alluded to it, but few peo-
ple know to what an extent peanut but-
ter 1s being used for certain purposes for
which the product of the cow was for-
merly indispensable. We have _ been
reliably informed that a company in
Michigan is manufacturing no less than
a dozen different food products from
peanuts, argong which are the peanut
butter, made from the pressed oil. It
is stated that the sale of these peanut
products is extending quite rapidly and
that the so-called butter is being used
extensively in place of butter made
from milk in the manufacture of crack-
ers No less than twelve carloads of
shelled peanuts have been used by this
one company during the past season.

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Don’t Wash Eggs.
From the New York Produce Review.

We have lately seen some lots of eggs
which have evidently been dirty when
collected, but which the packers have
washed as clean as possible with the
hope of increasing their value. For
the most part they arrive in bad order
and largely rotten. When a dirty egg is
soaked in water sufficiently to enable
one to remove the dirt on it the gelati-
nous substance which ordinarily fills the
pores in the lime of which the shell is
mostly composed becomes dissolved,
subjecting the inside of the egg to the
destructive effect of the air. In warm
weather wet eggs soon decay and some
of these washed eggs lately received
here have been almost worthless, while
sound candled dirties are worth a good
price.

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One Way to Get Rich.

The way to get rich is to trust nobody,
befriend none, get al! you can, take all
you can get, stint yourself and every-
thing that belongs to you, be a friend
of no man, let no man bea friend of
yours, heap up interest, be mean, mi-
serly and despised for some twenty or
thirty years and riches will come to you
as sure as disease, disappointment and
death, and when pretty nearly enough
wealth has been accumulated by a dis-
regard of the charities of the buman
heart, and at the expense of every en-
joyment, death will finish the work, and
the body is buried, the heirs dance and
fight over what you have left, and the
spirit goes—where? By all means get
rich. It will pay—the devil says so.

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Knows His Business.

A party who has been continuously
advertising more than thirty years said
to me recently: ‘‘I advertise to be
known—-to keep known. I employ sales-
men to sell my goods. I do not want
my representatives to enter a factory in
California or Illinois, and on presenting
their card be met with the query: I never
heard of your house; how long have you
been in business? We recognize that
publicity is capital, and we _ spend
thousands of dollars to keep our house
before the public, and our salesmen
have a great advantage over rivals who
do not see the value in publicity.’’

Two on the Conductor.

An Irishman riding on a train one
day paid his cash fare from station to
Station as they came along. Finally the
conductor in desperation asked him why
it was that he did not purchase a through
ticket in the start. ‘‘ Not on your life,’’
said the Irishman; ‘‘this company bate
me once, and | swore they would not get
another cint of my money.’’

2.

Before marriage every map has a
theory about managing a wife; but
after marriage it’s a condition and not
a theory that confronts him.

 

POOR
ECONOMY

It is poor economy to
handle cheap flour. It
is never reliable. You
cannot guaranteeit. You
do not know whether it
will make good bread or
not. If it should not
make good bread —and
poor flour never does—

your customer will be
displeased and avoid you
afterwards. You can
guarantee...

“Lily White” Flour

We authorize you to do
so. It makes good bread
every time. One sack
sold to-day will bring
customers for two sacks
later on. Order some

NOW.

Valley City Milling Co.
Grand Rapids, Mich.
BOROROHOHOROHOROUORZCEOCHE

SOHOROR OHROTOHOHOROCHOHOROHOROROROCHONCHOHOHOHOROENORORCOROCHOROHOROHOHOHOEH
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Association Matters _

Michigan Retail Grocers’ Association

President, J. WIsLER, Mancelona; Secretary, E.
A. Stowe, Grand Rapids.

Michigan Hardware Association
President, C. G. Jawert, Howell: Secretary,
Henry C. MInntz, Eaton Rapids.

Detroit Retail Grocers’ Association
President, JoszpH KNieut; Secretary, E. MaRgKs,
221 Greenwood ave: Treasurer, C. H. FRINK.
Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association

President, FRanNK J. Dyk; Secretary, HomEeR
Kuap; Treasurer, J. Gzo. LEHMAN.

Saginaw Mercantile Association
President, P. F. TREANOR; Vice-President, JoHN
McBratniz; Secretary, W. H. Lewis.

Jackson Retail Grocers’ Association
President, Gro. E. Lewis; Secretary, W. H. Por-
TER; Treasurer, L. PELTON.
Lansing Retail Grocers’ Association

President, F. B. JoHNson; Secretary, A. M.
DARLING; Treasurer, L. A. GILKEY.

Adrian Retail Grocers’ Association
President, A. C. CLark; Secretary, E. F. CLEvE-
LAND; Treasurer, Wm. C. Korun.

Traverse City Business Men’s Association
President, THos. T. BaTss; Secretary, M. B.
Hotty; Treasurer, C. A. HammMonp.

Owosso Business Men’s Association
President, A. D. WHIPPLE; Secretary, G. T. CAMP
BELL; Treasurer, W. E. Cours.

Alpena Business Men’s Association
President, F. W. Gincurist; Seeretary, C L.
PARTRIDGE.

Grand Rapids Retail Meat Dealers’ Association
President, L. J. Katz; Secretary, Pomp HILBER;
Treasurer, S. J. HUFFORD.

St. Johns Business Men’s Association.

President, Tuos. BRomiEY; Secretary, FRANK A.

Percy; Treasurer, CLark A. Purt.

Perry Business Men’s Association

President, H. W. Wattace; Secretary, T. E.

HEDDLE,

Grand Haven Retail Merchants’ Association
President, F. D. Vos; Secretary, J. W, VERHoEKs.

 

 

Muskecon MILLING Co., MUSKEGON, MICH.

 

Manufacturers of

FLOUR,
FEED AND
MILL
STUFFS
Receivers and
Shippers of

GRAIN

Write or wire us for anything needed
in our line in any quantity.

MIXED CARLOADS
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The Value of First-Class Store Fix-

tures.
Written for the 1RADESMAN,

From the frequent enquiries made,
one is led to think the question of mod-
ern appliances in store service an un-
settled question, as many merchants
propound the query, ‘‘Are up-to-date
store fixtures a paying investment ora
useless expense?’’ Men who have tried
both extremes, as well as the happy
medium, say that it does pay to use all
the best appliances which the business
you are engaged in will justify.

It pays to be up to date in five things:
Your manners, your help, your business
Stationery, your advertisements and
your store fixtures.

It is well known that, as a class, trav-
eling salesmen know, and put into prac-
tice, good table etiquette, getting more
enjoyment from their hours at table
than any otber set of business men; and
for what else than because they observe
the little niceties of table manners? One
day, at a table adjoining that at which
were seated half a dozen salesmen, sat
an honestly hungry farmer, to whom the
finger bow] was unknown, the contents
whereof was very unsatisfactory to him
as lemonade, and yet the same fur-
nished real enjoyment to others. While
his lack of good judgment in the use of
things pre-eminently his by right of
purchase was to be regretted, one had to
admit his privilege to use what his
money paid for in manner best pleasing
to himself; and yet, when he began
to shovel his food into his mouth with
fingers, knife and spoon, the traveling
men congratulated themselves that they
‘‘were not as he was,’’ and yet he ate
according to his understanding. But
when at last he grasped his wedge of
huckleberry pie in both hands and bit
off a liberal allowance from the sharp
angle, while the exuding juices thereof
rolled down bis sunburned cheeks and
onto his raiment, the feeling of those at
the neighboring table were not ‘‘akin
to pity;’’ and yet his money paid for
that juice and he could honestly use it
as best pleased him without reference to
others.

So in relation to store fittings. The
unplaned plank laid on barrels will hold
and display the finest fabrics that hand
or brain of Genius can devise for the
demand of American women and still
be entirely out of keeping with time and
place, while the almost numberless vari-
ations of this plank-setting will uni-
formly tend to drive away good trade.

To be sure, it 1s your money that pays
for store, goods, fixtures and displays,
nor can others deuy your justification in
making such use thereof as may be
most pleasing to yourself; yet business
men will see the lack of judgment,
profitable trade will depart and ruin
eventually overtake the merchant who
adneres strictly to the traditions of past
ages as a guide to selecting his store
fixtures, instead of being influenced by
what the present day and age demand
of him.

While eating with a knife never yet
made aman less a man, stil! it does
make him less desirable for society,
which in its varying degrees is all there
is in life worth living for. Neither will
the use of old out-of-date fixtures make
a store other than a store, but it makes
it less desirable as a place wherein to
exchange the circulating for the cover-
ing or filling medium, and this ex-
change is all there is of trade worth
striving for, and to stop this circulation
is as fatal in a business sense as ina
case of Nature. Trade and the trading

 

public will go to the up-to-date store in
preference to the reverse.

The farmer had the indisputable right
of purchase to eat with fingers, knife or
spoon, and in his own way, yet he did
not seem to have as full an enjoyment
of that meal as he was clearly entitled
to, while the amusement at the other
table occasioned by the spectacle dem-
onstrated that it is not all of life to eat.

The merchant who owns store fittings
that were good enough for last century,
and uses them against the approbation
of finely-discriminating customers, him-
self thereby sets the seal of doom on
what might have been a profitable busi-
ness. It is better to have no trade than
an unprofitable one, even as it is better
to eat no food than to eat that which our
systems can not assimilate; either bas-
tens an untimely end, while things about
a store that do not indicate hustling,
up-to-date activity are unquestioned
detriments to success. That merchant
but flaunts the red flag in the face of
Fate who persists in using store fixtures
condemned by his patrons, the public,
as much as he who persists in eating
pie with his fingers locks against him-
self the doors of social preferment.
Time was when no questions were raised
as to how pie should be eaten, the only
question being how to get the pie. So
was it in time past regarding store find-
ings. Nothing was thought as to the
manner of keeping or displaying mer-
chandise, the only question being how
to get the merchandise. Then the steel-
yard was good enough for all weights,
the sandglass or sun dial for measure-
ment of time. Planks laid across bar-
rels answered for counters. Old boxes
turned broadside up made satisfactory
tables then. But not so now. The finest
computing moneyweight scales are none
too good for patrons of to-day. Time.
pieces must be accurate, even to the
fraction of a second, while only one
table or counter is recognized to-day as
being suitable for display purposes, and
that table or counter is that which
makes possible, with the least amount
of annoyance, such practical displays of
the particular things intended as not
only may but do lead to the sale of the
goods so displayed. What the shape,
name; color or style of this is matters
not so long as the end aimed at is hit—
the ready sale of displayed goods And
herein rests a bit of advice: There is
always more value in the manner of dis-
play than in the display fixture itself,
more virtue in the selection of time
and place of display than in any partic-
ular thing to act as base of the display,
more money-earning power in the brain
that plans a sales-effecting display than
in the purse that indiscriminately fur
nishes means to buy any of the valuable
inventions of the day planned by prac-
tical men for a particular purpose, more
sense (or cents) in the hand that shapes
than in the fixture that holds any dis-
play; yet, all things considered, best
results are reached from use of the best
available accessories.

The conclusion readily reached is that
the term ‘‘up-to-date store fixtures and
furniture’’ is applicable only to the
modernized use of such articles as make
practical, sales-making displays, where-
in the combination of fixture and dis-
play is such as to meet the public favor,
proven by the purchase thereof by this
same critic. The best is usually the
cheapest, returns considered, while the
most successful retailers are those who
carefully select and use the accessories
that stamp them up-to-date merchants,
even as he who pays strictest attention
to the matter of table manners gets most
enjoyment from living in public.

L. A. Eny.

 

 

 

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Stimulated by the success which has at-
tended our efforts in past years to sup-
ply the trade with the best grades of
Japan teas at conservative values and
believing that the experience of a quar-
ter of a century enables us to serve our
customers to excellent advantage, we
take pleasure in announcing that our
lines of

 

were never so satisfactory as they are
this season, both as regards quality and

price. We are always pleased to match
our grades with those of other houses,
because the result is that we usually
capture the order.

CLARK-JEWELL-WELLS CO.,
SOLE OWNERS,
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

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Commercial Travelers

Michigan Knights of the Grip.

President, JoHn A. HorrMan, Kalamazoo; Secre-
tary, J C. SauNDERs, Lansing; Treasurer, Cuas.
McNo try, Jackson.

 

 

 

 

Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Association.

President, C. C. SNEDEKER, Detroit: Secretary
and Treasurer. C. W. ALLEN Detroit.

United Commercial Travelers of Michigan.
Grand Counselor, J. J. Evans, Bay City: Grand
Secretary, GS. VALMORE, Detroit; Grand Treas-
urer, W. S. WEstT, Jackson.

Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Mutual Acci-
dent Association.

President, J. Boyp 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.

 

 

 

 

Gripsack Brigade.

A Boston boy is doing a good business
selling painted sparrows for canary
birds.

If the deadbeat can write fiction as
well as he can talk it, the publishers
will make him rich.

In steering the ship of trade into the
harbor of success don’t get scared at
every passing cloud.

We can’t see anything out of joint in
the world when we look through the
spectacles of success.

Keep talking about what you think
you know and people will soon learn
how much you don’t know.

Who wants the mill to run with the
water that has passed, when there's
plenty more water coming !

The merchant who maintains that
failure is a crime usually has all his
property in bis wife’s name.

When it comes to building a bank ac-
count an ounce of hustling is worth a
pound of political theorizing.

Did you ever notice that it gives the
merchant who keeps a dirty store the
rheumatism to wash his windows?

The salesman who does better work
because his salary was advanced proves
that he wasn't doing his best before.

By doing good you may lay up treas-
ures in heaven, but it is only by doing
business that you can increase your bank
account.

In addition to the organizations men-
tioned last week, the late James N.
Bradford was a member of the Michigan
Commercial Travelers’ Association.

Geo. Morris will hereafter represent
Bubl Sons & Co. (Detroit) in the Up-
per Peninsula, succeeding Alex. Stev-
enson, who has taken the management
of the branch store of the house at Me-
nominee,

The regular quarterly meeting of the
Board of Directors of the Michigan
Knights of the Grip will be held at
Ypsilanti Saturday, preceded by a din-
ner at the residence of Chas L. Stevens
Friday evening. It is probable that at
this meeting the location of the next
convention will be decided upon. De-
troit and Owosso are both under con-
sideration, although neither has yet ex-
tended a formal invitation to the organ-
ization,

A young lady traveling on a scalper’s
mileage book found, when she had pre-
sented the same to the conductor, that
she could not remember the name she
was supposed to assume for the occasion
to correspond with the name written on
the mileage book, and sat before the
conductor in speechless agony. Fin-
ally the conductor looked at her, and
said: ‘‘Young lady, your name is Jen-
nings, and for Heaven's sake don’t for-
get it when you meet the next conductor
on this road.’’

 

The unanimous selection of L. M.
Mills to succeed Frank M. Tyler asa
Director of the Michigan Knights of the
Grip was a worthy honor worthily be-
stowed. The first Secretary and the
second President of the organization,
and subsequently the Secretary of the
organization for nearly two years—tak-
ing up the work of the office after the
demoralization and defalcation of 1s
McCauley—Mr. Mills has been in close
touch with the aims and objects of the
organization ever since he assisted in
the formation of the Association, and a
recognition of his ability and experience
speaks well for the discrimination of
his fraters,as well as betokens the esteem
in which he is held by his associates
generally.

A Ft. Wayne traveling man took his
best girl to a picnic. There she ac-
cepted so many attentions from another
young man that the first young man _be-
came enraged and went home, leaving
the girl to get back to her own house as
best she might She hired a hack, for
which her father paid 75 cents, and then
the old man sent the bill to the sulky
young suitor. He refused to pay, and
the old man sued him in a justice court,
alleging that, having taken the girl to
the picnic, it became his duty to see
her safely home at his own expense.
Both sides have hired lawyers, and the
case will be fought to a finish. Travel-
ing men who cover Ft Wayne will bear
in mind that they can not ‘‘shell road’’
the daugbter of a Hosier and escape the
vengeance of the old man.

—— 8 ____
Meeting of Post E.

At a special meeting of Post E,
Michigan Knights of the Grip, held at
Sweet’s Hotel last Saturday evening,
Chairman Wetzel presided.

Under the head of picnic arrange-
ments Will Pipp was made chairman of
the Committee on Athletics, in place of
Byron Davenport, who asked to be ex-
cused, and Manley Jones was made
chairman of the Committee on Com-
missary, in place of the late Jas. N.
Bradford.

Will Richmond moved that the pic-
nicers rendezvous at the boat dock in
front of the pavilion at 2:30 o'clock
sharp, which was adopted.

W. F. Blake, chairman of the com-
mittee appointed at a previous meeting
to draft resolutions of respect to the
memory of the late Jas. N. Bradford, pre-
sented the following report, which was
unanimously adopted :

Whereas, The hand of death has re-
moved from our midst our esteemed and
worthy fellow member, Jas. N. Brad-
ford; and

Whereas, The intimate relation al-
ways existing between him and_ the
Grand Rapids traveling men, collective-
ly and individually, makes it fitting
that we record our appreciation of his
worth and friendship; therefore

Resolved, That in his removal from
our midst there has passed away one
who acted well his part in every relation
of life; one who, as a patriot, honorably
served his country in the dark days of
the Rebellion as a soldier; one who was
useful as a citizen; upright in all his
dealings; honest and capable in his du-
ties of life; sincere asa friend; loyal
as a husband and devoted as a father.

Resolved, That we tender our deep
sympathy to the afflicted family of our
departed friend and co-worker in the
loss they have sustained.

The nomination of candidate for the
position of Director of the Michigan
Knights of the Grip, in place of Frank
M. Tyler, who has removed to Boston,
resulted in the selection of L. M. Mills
by an unanimous vote. Mr. Mills was
taken completely by surprise, but suc-
ceeded in expressing his thanks for the
honor in a very feeling manner.

There being no further business the
Meeting adjourred, with the under-

Standing that a busiuess meeting of the
Post would be held on the boat at the
picnic.

 

Was the Meekest Man Aboard the
Boat.

Albert Antrim delights to tell a story
relative to his friend, Jack Boyd, who
covers the river towns in Tennessee and
Arkansas for a St. Louis house. On one
of his recent trips the tedium of the
river ride was relieved by all sorts of
practical jokes that a big crowd of good
fellows worked on each other. One of
the passengers was particularly resource-
ful in this sort of fun and Boyd was one
of his particular marks. He played
good and even though before the boat
landed. A dago, an organ and a regula-
tion monkey were giving light vaude-
ville on the boat for the amusement of
passengers After one of the perform-
ances, the monkey was passing the hat
and Boyd remarked to the practical
joker that the monk was the brightest
he had ever seen. ‘‘Why,’’ he contin-
ued, ‘‘that monkey will hand back
change like a bargain counter saleslady.
If you toss him a half and tell bim to
take five out, he’il give you back 45
cents every time. ’’

‘Is that possible!’’ exclaimed the
joker with interested astonishment.

‘*Fact,’? replied Jack; ‘‘I gave him a
quarter a while ago and he gave me
back 20.’’

The joker didn’t hesitate any longer,
but went down and dug up a bright new
half dollar, which he tossed over to the
monk, at the same time holding his
band out for the change. But the monk
forgot his arithmetic suddenly and, ad-
monished by a jerk from the dago, who
feared the joker might regret his sud-
den burst of generosity, he hopped away
even forgetting to raise his cap. The
howl that followed shook the boat from
stem to stern and for the rest of the voy
age that practical joker was the meek-

est man aboard.

Explosion of a Beucus Generator.

A Beucus acetylene gas generator in
the basement of the Hastings House, at
Hastings, exploded last week, seriously
injuring Fred Parker. The accident is
thus described by the Hastings Banner:

It appears that Fred went into the
basement of the hotel where the machine
is located for the purpose of ‘‘charging’’
it, just as is ordinarily done, being
caretul not to take anything in the shape
of fire with him. The machine is so
constructed that it is impossible to take
the cover from the generator until the
valves leading to the gas jets have been
closed. When Fred had everything ar-
ranged he proceeded to lift the cover to
the generator by means of a rope and
pulley which is used on account of the
weight of the cover. When he had the
cover partially raised the gas was ig-
nited in some way and the explosion
followed, knocking Fred several feet
away from the machine. When he re-
covered from the shock he noticed that
the rope by which the cover was lifted
was afire and he quickly put it out and
looked around for other evidences of
fire. Finding none he then turned his
attention to his own injuries and found
them to be quite severe. His hands and
face were blistered and badly swollen
up, his eyebrows and hair singed and
his whole appearance rather dilapidated.
He was taken to Dr. Lowry’s office,
where the burns were dressed and made
as comfortable as such injuries can be.

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Window Glass Workers to Resume
Operations.

The manufacturers and blowers of
window glass have agreed on a 5 per
cent. advance in wages for the coming
year, and the factories will open Oct. 15.
This is six weeks later than the normal
time, but earlier than the factories have
opened for several years, because of the
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The stocks in the hands of the jobbers
and manufacturers are but fair, and
prices are unchanged, but the move-
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the same report is heard from other
markets. The trade in plate glass is
also very good, and stocks are but fair.
No changes in prices are reported.
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According to Previous Arrangement.
Grand Rapids, Aug. 30—Amos S.
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of the Michigan Wholesaie Grocers’ As-
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Drugs--Chemicals

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Term expires

F. W. R. Perry, Detroit - - Dec. 31, 1898
A. C. ScHUMACHER, Ann Arbor - Dee. 31, 1899
Gro. GunprRvUM, Ionia - - Dec. 31, 1900
iL. Eg. REYNOLDS, St. Joseph | - - Dec. 31, 1901
Henry HEmm, Saginaw -— - - Dec. 31, 1902

President, GEo. GuNpRUM, Ionia.
Secretary, A. C. ScoHUMACHER, Ann Arbor.
Treasurer, HENRY HErIm, Saginaw.
Examination Sessions.
Lansing— Nov. 1 and 2.

STATE PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION.

 

President—J. J. SouRwIneE, Escanaba.
Secretary, Cuas. F. Mann, Detroit.
Treasurer JouHN D. Murr, Grand Rapids.

 

 

Some Ways of Advertising a Retail
Drug Store.

In Michigan we have 1,563 retail drug
stores, 3,135 registered pharmacists,
and 323 assistant registered pharamcists.
Deducting from this the number of reg-
istered pharmacists who are employed
in the various laboratories and wholesale
drug stores in our State, and from the
remainder trying to strike an average, I
would presume to say that the number
of registered pharmacists to each drug
store would be less than one and six-
tenths per cent. From these notes I be-
lieve that most proprietors are the men
who ‘‘run the store’’ themselves and
naturally attend to the advertising of
their respective stores. The only reason
any pharmacist advertises his store in
any way is to increase his trade, not to
increase the business of his competitors,
nor to increase his own trade and clerk
hire without making enough money out
of the system to cover the additional
expense. Advertising is always an ex-
pense. The word ‘‘advertising’’ can be
fitted to your method of doing business
just as well, and in some cases more
properly, than by spending money on
dodgers, sending almanacs and samples
of pilis and headache powders from
house to house.

The old sign you sometimes see in
stores where they do not spend a cent
advertising any other way which reads

A PLEASED CUSTOMER IS OUR

BEST ADVERTISER.

means very much, but often enough the
man who runs the store wherein this
sign hangs doesn’t half realize this im-
portant fact. He is the same person
who sometimes loses the sale and often-
times the customer by neglecting to
offer to get the desired article, which
he happens to be out of, and promptly
send it to the customer's house: or, if
the prospective customer should happen
to remark—unconsciously, of course—
“‘you are dearer here than they are at
Jones’ drug store,’’ he will at once pro-
ceed to get huffy and say, ‘‘Well, you
had better go to Jones’ and get it.’’

That, I think, is bad business. He
loses his sale and hurts his customer’s
feelings and usually finds that the
would-be buyer takes his advice at what
it is worth and purchases the desired
article at Jones’. Later, although at
heart repenting his hasty words, the
disappointed salesman endeavors to rec-
oncile himself by repeating the history
of the incident to his fellow friends or
competitors, who smile with him but
don’t say much.

Then, if we take a look at the display
windows of the leading stores of our
largest cities, you will notice that they
are very inviting—windows clean and
well lighted—signs plain and not too
many of them—the vestibules of the
front doors dustless. I have known

 

druggists to have their sidewalks and
woodwork in the entrance to their stores
swept and dusted morning, noon and
night. The druggist in the small town
or the neighborhood druggist in a city
does not need to have a large stock or
is not too poor to have the index (front)
look inviting. Sticky fly paper half full
of dead flies is no good as an advertise-
ment, neither does a tin plate filled with
poison fly-paper look inviting. I have
found that I had just as much trouble
with flies in my windows with the fly-
paper in them as I do now without. One
thing is certain, it will take a long
while to kill off all the flies, perhaps
they will never all die, so is it not just
as well to keep the window floors cov-
ered with dark cloth and dress them
with such goods as are not affected by
fly spots, or doesn’t it pay to change the
trim often enough and make more deli
cate displays? A dollar a week judi-
ciously spent in window dressing is not
extravagance—for even the smallest drug
store—if the proprietor does really care
to keep his store front tidy and invit-
ing. New and valuable trade is lurking
in every locality and there is transient
trade in every town or neighborhood.
Don’t let yourself think that it is only
on the main streets in the large places
where transient business is found. My
store is a neighborhood store. I sell
drugs, soda, cigars, stationery and
school supplies. I would also handle
bicycles and hay rakes and still insist
that my store was a drug store and ad-
vertise it as such, if I bad the room and
necessary capital. I have been in the
business for myself but a few years and
have not by any means an ideal drug
store, nor even an ideal store, but as it
is now I often shake hands with myself
when I visit the store of a grunter.
When I visit a strange store I can tell
before I talk with the proprietor that he
is a grunter (if he is one). His clerks
are not quick in getting to the front.
He himself is apt to remain in the rear
of the store at his desk. His cigar case
has empty boxes in it. I never allow
my customers to see the bottom of a
cigar box in my showcase; when down
to the last layer is taken out I replace
by a full box. The shelf bottles in the
store of a grunter are like his store front
—dusty; his soda fountain isn’t half
dressed. This kind of druggist is not
uncommon. They do not observe enough
of the world of business to keep them
out of the rut. They don’t attend a
druggists’ convention often enough.
They don't visit other more prosperous
stores often enough. Any retail druggist
who will take the time to take just a
couple of weeks’ vacation every year,
recreate himself, meet other druggists
from his town and other towns and take
in a ball game occasionally will find he
is much better pleased with himself and
the condition of his trade. He will be
able to return to his store and see it as
other people see it, and then he will
make up his mind he is going to do
business,

My most successful method of adver-
tising has been through the newspapers,
not very large advertisements, but in
first-class positions. I don’t write ad-
vertisements about my store that I don’t
believe, and usually my advertisements
are so simple—yet pertinent—that peo.
ple who read them know what I am talk-
ing about, and if the goods advertised
interest them, they investigate further
by coming into the store. I do not be-
lieve in having advertisements show
an attempt to be funny or quote
poetry. The advertisement should be

 

made to ‘‘stick out,’’ which can be
done usually by the proper use of bor-
ders and bold headlines. I don’t believe
it is always wise to push only the goods
on which you make the most money. It
is best to be firmly convinced that your
substitute is really as good or better
than the article the customer asks for.

If you are not positive about it, do not

mention it. Sell the goods with a nar-
row profit and the customer won't be

liable to give you the ‘’go by’’ next
time.
Although as advertising mediums

church and concert programs and pam-
phlets issued by local societies are prac-
tically worthless, I often allow myself
to be ‘‘held up,’’ for the sake of demon-
strating my good will and sociability.
If the enterprise is conducted by fakirs
who make a business of it, I promptly
tell them that their scheme doesn’t in-
terest me and turn them down. Every
man in business has to use his own
judgment in selecting places where it is
worth while to be ‘‘a good fellow,’’ but
there is no need of any pharmacist be-
ing an ‘‘easy mark.’’

House to house distribution of attract-
ive advertising matter is splendid ad-
vertising, even although many mer-
chants in the same city do it. Adver-
tising of this kind is invariably given
some attention by members of the house-
hold, but don’t hire boys to attend to it;
pay a fair price and have it done well.
Don't allow your pamphlets or samples
to be laid on the doorstep, the bell rung
and then left. If you must ring the bell,
wait there until some one comes and
hand that someone the advertising mat-
ter; then your advertising is given what
you expected—attention—and if it is
well printed and written in an instruc-
tive manner, it will make the desired
impression.

Cigars in the showcase should be
properly marked. Every box should
have its price card on it, for even the
most popular and staple brands are not
known by some smokers. My cards are
all white ones, about the size of a visit-
ing card and plainly printed with a pen
—it's the black and white system and
pays. The candy case is fixed the same
way, and no goods go into my show
windows without the price plainly ex-
posed. It shows no fear of competition,
even if the price of competitors happens
to range a little lower.

BEN] SCHROUDER.
>.

Medicinal Toilet Soap Taxable.

In answer to a query as to whether tar
soap, if manufactured and put on the
market and sold as an ordinary toilet
soap, it not being recommended as hav-
ing any medicinal properties, but being
simply in the category of ordinary toilet
soap, and sold as such, is taxahle or
not, Internal Revenue Commissioner
Scott says: ‘‘This office holds tar,
carbolic and sulphur soaps to be tax
able, if recommended on the label, cir-
cular or in any other manner as a_ spe-
cific for any skin affection, but if they
are simply marked ‘carbolic,’ ‘tar’ or
‘sulphur’ soap they are not held as tax-
able under Schedule B unless otherwise
advertised. ’’

—_—_+ 0-___
An Original Druggist.

A New York drug store bears the fol-

ene ae:
AUL KINDS
OF ACIDS
FOR SALE HERE
CARBOLIC
ACID
DEAD CHEAP

SHSME CO Coes Do cee SeROOR SH Soden se bLecwenbeoen se anen 6

 

The Drug Market.

There are few changes to note this
week. The volume of trade in this line
is very large, showing a very handsome
increase over previous years. Collec-
tions are also improved.

Opium—The market is dull, although
prices have not changed.

Morphine—Is unchanged.

Quinine—The demand is light at this
season and stocks are large, but prices
are well maintained.

Citric Acid—Is firm at the late ad-
vance with good demand.

Antipyrine—Dr. Knoor’s is unchanged
at the last decline, but there are other
antipyrines in market that are being
sold at much lower prices.

Cocaine—The expected advance has
not yet taken place, but the market is
very firm, on account of advanced prices
for raw material.

Glycerine—Competition has lowered
prices to about cost, although the man
ufacturers are firm in their views.

Menthol—Higher prices are looked
for, as our market is below importers’
cost.

Nitrate Silver—Has been advanced by
manufacturers Ic per oz.

Sulphur—Five refiners have formed a
combination and the schedule has been
revised, prices being reduced. It is
understood that the present prices will
be held for at least a month. An ad-
vance at that time would not surprise
any one.

Essential Oils—Anise is a fraction
lower. Cassia is firm at the recent ad-
vance. Cloves is firm in sympathy with
spice. Growers of peppermint are ask-
ing more than jobbers are willing to pay
and this oi] may be said to be very
firm.

Roots—Golden seal is scarce and the
market is very firm.

Seeds—Caraway is steadily advancing
in primary markets and ts higher here.
The stock of poppy has been concen-
trated and prices advanced. Mustard
is in good demand at this season at un-
changed prices.

Linseed Oil—Is in the same condition
as noted last week, no two crushers
quoting the same price.

From a Minnesota Standpoint.

Minneapolis, Aug. 20—I do not be-
lieve that many of the State associations
will go to the length of refusing to
handle the goods as the Iowa druggists
propose. The druggists will simply dis-
courage the sale of the patent medicines
and keep them out of sight unless there
is a positive call for them.

For instance, there is sarsaparilla,
one of the big items in the drug trade.
The tax on that is 35 cents a dozen. Of
the two best known houses putting out
sarsaparilla, one has raised the price 75
cents and the other $1 a dozen to the
druggist. We wouldn't mind it so much
if it were simply covering the tax.

Now there is nothing mysterious or
sacred in the manufacture of sarsapar-
illa. Any druggist can make it just as
pure and well mixed as the big facto-
ries, and nearly every druggist who bas
a considerable trade does bave his own
preparation of sarsaparilla. When the
big manufacutrers clap on the war tax
and twice as much more for good meas-
ure and leave the druggist to meet the
competition of the department stores
besides, the retailer is not going much
out of his way to push those brands.

CuHas. T. HELLER,
President Minnesota Pharmaceutical
Association.

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Catech a 13 | Foeniculum rate... 1 80@ 1 . ae. Germ — = ‘s °
roma eae 6 i6 2 gee os @ 10 Corks, ist, dis. pr.ct. a 200 3 20 . Z 3 be
Euphorbium 38@ ee ne 7@ 9 V— o 50 | QFofo 2
Ga ae “po. 35 @ 42| Lint, grd.... bbl. 3% 3%@ 9| Greta... bhi & eies ent ’ 2
y soa ge emma 16 | Lob bbl. 3 ie b @ 3 > P
Gamboge po... as Pharr ae 2 1% Creta, ae ra g 5 aD emen’s Pocket Book se
Se ce rer eh ae a ccln |
Kino ae Brg @ a) on ee = 4@ 4% Creta, DEA. . ee %@ a So OOKS °
aoe ea sah @ 3 00 oem Albu... 4%4@ 5 — ioaRRBBE @ 8|o% oYsto
geet oe . > pis Nigra. ng Gudbear 000 Be Se Gentl 3
40 i 12 ulph.... 2 ’
setiac: vo a 40 3 gop 4 op | Erumenti 7 Dextrine.. 56 “love ntlemen’s P 97o(0
ellac. bleached... @ 35 Frum , W. D. Co. Winer sace 10@ fo urse Fan
Tragacanth ed... 40@ 45 eoomnenas D. F. R.. 2 oe == —s al tine HQ 0 ‘o Ss oo
ne 50@ 80 Juni vlaaa 0@ 2 2% mery, mbers _ oD °
Herba das poe — 8] > ao
Absinthi Juniperis Co ie! 1 oe 40) Flake White. . @ ponte a aA
Rupawrtum oc fee seater Reg Miwa OB) See And invite your i >
pelia..... leat oe ini Galli. WE a TED 15] ° in ee 0
M .0z. pk 29 | Vi alli. S| Gambia. S
Menthe § OS. xe 25 Vint i 1 75@ 6 50 Getatin <a: @ 23/|&e pection and O 1 os
oe Pip. .oz. eo 28 ba : =O 2 oo | Gelatin, » Cooper. - = 9 NP rder. g
— 23 | ay Sponges o@ 2 00 | Glassware, flint, box so o| dee BS
TanacetumV oz. pkg 95 | Floridasheeps’ an” aa 70 | ED Ta >
Thy um V oz. pk 39 carriage... wool ue, brown x. 60 _ pay
nymus, V pkg 59 | Nass 25 Caen fore a 4
, = pkg 5 assen sheope ‘wool ae ts nan dh ge = on = 3 a
sali agnesia. oe page — oo .
eee Pee oe extra sheeps’ @ 2 00 ee: 7 20 | eo Ke
cia sa eo etic anes. ea @1% Brarasg “aes ae 35 | AS ‘
. ’ . 2? 2 7 f °.
Carbonate, Je &M.. 20@ = oes carriage... Eros Chie © ite @ %/ oR S 3
nnings 3@ 36 rass sheeps’ wo @ 100 a Ox — @ ° e 1 o
OD ices eae Hydraag Ammoniti | @ 1 1 a ne & : 3s
Absinthium. Hard, for slate —- ote aa gUnguentum ae er ale
Sarees, an te © a a eee ees  SiSse n S Ne
Amygdale, Amare: § i ate use..../.  - Ichthyobolla, Am. - gh Bl odor
ra 1 40 | Iodi —— 75| 0° A
Aurant Sian Syr alae mae 7 1 00 fo “xe
seat oe 9 250 a 20 | Acacia . yrups Todoform.es-.-. 7! 3 60@ 3 70 Favs r a
ae 40 | Auranti C es upulin wc eewe @4 °
jiputi. . 3 00@ 3 Cortes @ »50/L es 20} °
Caryophyili eae. 8U@ = Zingiber... Bees @ 3 Lycopodium ........ @ 225) Fo ‘és -
“il | 8 @ 3 Mena ne @ 50 i: ee 45 ° 9 10
(hanasu 85 | Ferri Io 50 | Liquor Arse= 6 Z
aa G , | Roe! Aroai G | drargiod oe °| GRAND RAPIDS $
wwronella. .. |... 1 ax Officinalis.. @ rPotassA rsinit 25 oto
oe. oe 1 2 Senega ... Cinalis... 50@ ° Saeein a 10@ i2\° ee? : MICH : fo
aie agnesia, S 2@ 316 ba " 2
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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 all conditions of purchase, and those below are given as representing av-

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

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

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

 

 

AXLE GREASE.
doz.

  

gross

Re ee 55 6 00

Castor Oil. . 7 00

Diamond.. 4 00

Peers ......-. 9 00

IXL Golden, tin boxes 75 9 00

Plica, tin boxes........ 7 9 00

Paragon.. tse 4.00 6 00

BAKING POWDER.
Absolute.

ee 45

i ie came doz............. 85

pean doz...... . 150
Acme.

> Cans 3S Gox,........... 45

ip cans3 Gom............ 6

: > Gams i Gos............ 100

aac 10
Arctic.

6 oz. Eng. Tumblers........ 85

El Purity.

14 lb cams per doz......... 7

. i> Cane per Gos ........ 1 20

' cans perdoz......... 2 00
Home.

iq lb cans 4 doz case...... 35

% lb cans 4 doz case...... 55

Ib cans 2 doz case ..... 90

1 JAXON

7 lb Cans, 4 doz case.....

 

\& 1b cans, 4 doz case...... S
Ib cans, 2 doz case...... 1 60
Jersey Cream.
11>. cams, per doz........_. 2 00
Dox. Cans, per doz.......... is
Gon. Cans, per dos.......... 85
Our Leader.
eam... 45
one. 7%
: poem... 150
Peerless.
CO 85
Queen Flake,
Sos, GGer, fase ........... 27
Son., (G08. Case ........... tr

9 oz., 4 doz. case...
1ib.,
5 Ib., 1 doz. case.

2 doz. case.

BATH BRICK. _

 

 

See Seek
bane Saar...
BROOMS.
Ne. ticurper.
pe eee... 8.
Maser.
+ ..-..........
ceeeer Gees...
Cemmoen Whisk. ...........
Fancy Whisk..
Warebouse. ..
CANDLES.

Mace.
CANNED GOODS.
Manitowoc Peas

Lakeside Marrowfat...

Lakeside E. J

Lakeside, Cham. of Eng..

Lakeside. Gem. Ex. Sifted.

Extra Sifted Early June..

TSUP

    
 

Columbia,
Columbia, %
CH

pinss......
ints....
ES

ee
Aeaeey ........

Buttormut...........
Carson City..........
ee
ee
ee
eS MS
iemawee............
Beverage...
Peete
or pans oe oe

Eamburper .:........

Fancapric............ 50

a ...........
Chicory.

@
@
@
@
@
@
@
@
@
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Buik

Red
CHOCOLATE.
Walter Baker & Co.'s
Germau Sweet
Premium.
Breakfast ‘Cocoa...

 
 

DO et bt et et

CLOTHES LINES.
Cotton, 40 ft, per doz.......
Cotton, 50 ft, per des...
Cotton, 60 ft, per doz.
Cotton, 70 ft, per doz...
Cotton, 80 ft, per dos......
Jute, @ fs, ee
Jute. 72 tt. per Gos..........

COCOA SHELLS.
ib bags...
Less Guantity............
Pound packages.........

CREAM TARTAR.

5 and 10 1b. wooden boxés..30-35

COFFEE.

Green.
Rio.

   

RESSERS

mm 0 DO

 

Peaberry TE met)
Mexican and Guatamala.

— ......... ...... 5
ee 16
oe cece
Maracaibo.
ee 19
ae. 20
Java.
Intersor 2... cs. 19
Private Growth.. oe
Mandchiing..................- 21
Mocha.
faewon tees 20
ropes 22

Roasted.
lark-Jewell-Wells Co. —_——
Fifth Avennue.....
Jewell’s Arabian Mocha.. “35
Wells’ Mocha and Java..... 24
Wells’ Perfection Java..... =

Seneatee .....- ee 1
Breakfast Blend........... 18
Valley City Maracaibo. ....18%
geal Biend. ................ 14
Leader Blend....... ....... 12

Package.
Below are given New York
Lprices on package coffees, to
which the wholesale dealer
adds the local freight from
New York to your shipping
point, giving you credit on the
invoice for the amount of
freight buyer pays from the
market in which he purchases
to his shipping point, including

  
 
 

weight of package, also %c a
pound. In 601b. cases the list
is 10¢c per 100 lbs. above the
price in full cases.
Aspecige ... . < ... 10 50
eee 9 50
McLeughlin’s XXXX.

McLaughlin’s XXXX sold to
retailers only. Mail all orders
direct to W. F. McLaughlin &
Co., Chicago.

Extract.
Valley City a Bross ..... 6
Pellix 4 grou... 115
Hummel’s foil % gross... 85
Hummel’s tin % gross . 1 42
CLOTHES PINS.

Seromborce....__-___.---..

CONDENSED MILK.

4dozin ~
Gail Borden Eagle oe a
Crown . is 25
Daisy ...... ..0 40
Champion .-4 50
Magnolia 425
Chationge......222---."......- 3 35
ie 3 35
COUPON BOOKS.
Tradesman Grade.

50 books, any denom.... 1 50
100 books, any denom... . 250
500 books, any denom... ‘11 50

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

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

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

50 books, any denom.... 1 50
100 books, any denom.... 2 50
500 books, any denom.. 2.11 50

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

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

_eeeens 1 00
mweers... 6. 200
sl:
Eeneeee. 62
ON es $2
1300 books...... 3 a

 

 

 

 

Gnhvannsh Grade.

50 books, any denom....
100 books, any denom....
500 books, any denom....

1,000 books, any denom....

Credit Checks.
500, any one denom’n...
1000, any one denom’n...
2000, any one denom’n...
Steel punch

DRIED —

pples
Bundrieg...
Evaporated 50 lb boxes.
California Fruits.
aoe...
Blackberries...........
Nectarines .. ee
Peaches......
Pee.
Pitted Cherries.
Prunnelies.. i
Raspberries. ee ee ee
California Prunes.
100-120 25 lb boxes.......
90-100 25 Ib boxes.......
80 - 90 25 1b boxes.......
70 - 80 25 1b boxes.......
60 - 70 25 lb boxes... ....
50 - 60 25 Ib boxes.......
40 - 50 25 lb boxes.......
30 - 40 25 lb boxes.......

  

4q cent less in 50 1b cases

Raisins.
London Layers 3 Crown.
London Layers 4 Crown.
omens
Loose Muscatels 2 Crown
Loose Muscatels 3 Crown
Loose Muscatels 4 Crown

FOREIGN.

Currants.
Pairas bbls
Vostizzas 50 lb cases.....
Cleaned, bulk .....-.....
Cleaned, packages.......

eel.
Citron American 101b bx
Lemon American 10 1b bx
Orange American 101b bx
Raisins.
Ondura 28 ib boxes.....8
Sultana 1 Crown.......
Sultana 2Crown ......
Sultana 2 Crown.......
Sultana 4 Crown.......
Snitana &Crown.......
Sultana 6 Crown.......
Sultana package

FARINACEOUS Goobs.

Farina.
Piitb. packages........-
Bulk, por 100 Ibs..... _..

Grits.
Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s Brand.

 

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50
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-- 300
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-@

-@ 8
-@ 8
@13
@12
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=

.1°50
.3 50

S43 ib. packages..........- 1 80

Ne 2

200 lb. barrels.. . 10
Hominy.

=... 2 50

Flake, 50 Ib. drums....... 1 00
Beans.

riod Tame . |... 5... 3%

Medium Hand Picked....
Maccaroni and Vermicelll.

Domestic, 10 1b. box.

Imported, 25 lb. box.. ...2 50
Pearl Barley.
ee... SC... 1 90
eer 23
Menge... 3 00
Peas.

Groen, Bi Cs. 95
Bert, seri... 2
Rolled Oats.

Rolled Avena, bbl.......4 25
Monarch, a bie eee .3 80
oan, & be...._.... 2 6
Monarch, 90 1b ee Les 185
uaker. Canes............- 3 20
Biiron, cages......-... 1%
Sago.
Corman 2 4
mat tees......-..... 3%
Tapioca.
Wieke.. 34
Peat ee 35
Anchor, 40 1 lb. pkges.... 5
Wheat.
py aie Baik 2... .. : 3%
242 1b packages. 2 50

SN RTE RR RY BN.

Seicaiceeadiennatcnatdsst nectar tieameueemenallieeetanas

 

Salt Fish.

 

Cod.
Georges cured......... @4
Georges genuine...... @5
Georges selected...... @ 5%
Strips or bricks....... 6 @9
Herring.
Holland white hoops, bbl.
Holland white hoop %bbi 2 75
Holland, 4¢ bbt........... 1 30
Holland white hoop, keg. 7
Holland white hoop mechs
ge
Round 100 ibs............. 2 75
Hound @ibs............. 1 30
poatoe 3... 13
Mackerel.
Meee 0 The... 8. 15 00
Mocs 90 ime. ........-..... 6 30
Mess 19 e....... ....... 2
ee 1 35
Mo. 1 ibs... -...... ...- 13 B
oO. 5 60
E 1 48
1 20
8 50
3 70
1 00
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0...4 00
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c ; S21.) 3
No 4T.2 40 No. 47.1 50
Northrop Brand.
Lem. Van.
2 oz. Taper Panel.. 75 1 20}
> Ox. (iver. 2. % 1 90
3 oz. Taper Panel..1 35 2 00
4 oz. Taper Panel..1 60 2 2

Souders’.
Oval bottle, with corkscrew.
Best

in the world for

      

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INDIGO.

Madras, 5 Ib boxcs....
8. F., 2,3 and 5 lb boxes

the

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GUNPOWDER.
Rifle—Dupont’s.
Mere 4 00
Staal Mees. 2 25
(Quarter Kegs... ...........- 1 2
ip. C68. 30
1, We OOMe. 8. 18
Choke Bore—Dupont’s.

eS... 4

aM Bees... .
Quarter Kegs...
2th GO05. .... 4... 4.

 

Eagie Duck—Dupont’s.

be ele ec eee 8 00
Halt Cee sc 425
Ryunreer Mees. 2... s ... - 2
176 Cans. 2... 45

JELLY.

mm pele 35
Bt ee es 65
LYE.

Condensed, 2 dos .......... 1 20
Condensed. 4 dos.........--. 2
LICORICE.

ee 30
Calabria Coee eee ee a, 5
eee 14
Bee. _ =

MINCE MEAT.
Ideal, 3 doz. in case......... 2 2

MATCHES.

Diamond Match Co.’s brands.
No. 0 sulpbur..............- 1 65

Anehor Farer............-. i 70
mo. 2 eee. 110
Expon Parior.....-..-.-..- 4 00
MOLASSES.
New Orleans.
—. ............ 11
Mae 14
eee 20
Pane 24
Oper Mettie.............<- 25@35
Half-barrels 2c extra.
MUSTARD.
Horse Radish, 1 doz......... 17
Horse Radish, 2 doz.........3 DO
Bayle’s Celery, 1 doz.. ..... 1%
PIPES.
Clay, No. 216.. ee,
Clay, T. BD. fullcount...... 65
Cob, No, 3...............-.- 85
POTASH.
48 cans in case.

Bases... 2... 4 00
Penna Salt Co.’s........... 3 00
PICKLES.

Medium. o
Barrels, 1,200 count........ 4 75
Half bbls, S00 count........ 2 90
Smail.

Barrels, 2,400 count....... 6 00
Half bbls 1,200 count...... 3 £0
RICE.

Domestic.

Carolina head......... ‘sees OOn
Caratne Not .........:. &
Carolina No. 2.. Se
renee =: 33%
secsinnele:

Japan, No.1..............- 6%
Japan, No. 2.. ..., o
Java, fancy head Ne 6
Java, mete. 5%
ae... ek

SALERATUS.

Packed 60 lbs. in box.
Pen ec 3
Oe a ee cs 3 15
eee ss... ... see 3 30
Weyiors.............. |... 8

60 Ib
J case
$3.15
SAL SODA.
Granulated, bbis.......... 7%
Granulated, 100 lb cases.. 90
Lump, bbls. -_
Lump, 1451b kegs... Seen ceed 85
SNUPP.,
Scotch, in bladders ;
Maccaboy, injars. .. cal
French Rappee, in jars..... 4

 

   
 
   

SEEDS.
Bae ee: 9
Canary, Sayre... ...... . 3%
oo 8
Cardamon, Malabar ..... 6)
re 11
Hemp, Hussian.......... 3%
Maxeo Bird...
Mustard, white.......... 56
: 10
ape Lo 4%
Cuttic Bone.......... 20

SALT.
Diamond Crystal.

Table, cases, 24 3-lb boxes..1 50
Table, barrels, 1003 1b bags.2 75
Table, barrels, 407 lb bags.2 40
Butter, barrels, 2801]b. bnlk.2 25
Butter, barrels, 20 14 lbbags.2 50
Butter, sacks, 28 lbs 25

 

Butter, Sacks, 56 1hs......... 55
Common Grades.

TOUS eaeNs. 8 1 90
OO5ib eacee ... 1 75
25 IO 1 RROES... 8... 8k. 1 60

Worcester.
a bh. Cartes. .........; 3 25
115 2%1b. sacks. . cence eS oe
5 Ib. sacks.. 3 75
Re A PD. peeks. .... ...... 358
00. tO sacks... 62... 3 50
23 lb. linen sacks............ 32
Se ib. linen sacks............ @
Bnik in barveix....-....... |. 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.

Seid Socks... ae
Common.
Granulated Pine.......-.... 7
Medium Fine..............- 4
SOAP.

Gast & Pulte’s Brands,
White Rose, 100 bars, 75 lbs.2 75
White Rose, & box iot....-. 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

t

ie... 2%
5 box lots, delivered........2 70
10 box lots, delivered....... 2 65

JAS. §. KIRK & 60.'S BRANDS.

American Family, wrp’d....2 66

za 2 tt
CAMBER 2 20
BAVGe 2 50
 eice Baeeian........._,... 2 35
White Cloud, laundry...... 6 25
White Cloud, toilet......... 3 50
Dusky Diamond, 50 6 0z....2 10
Dusky Diamond, 50 8 oz....3 00
Blue India, 100 3 Ib......... 3 00
Mareoune.......-.. 2. 5. 3 50
—.. Ce 2 50

Schulte Soap Co.’s Brand.

100 cakes, 75 lbs.

Sagie DOK... =... 8. 18 OO
Sek IO... ..... nn ee oe
bee lots 2 70
(OO 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 %-lb. bars.......... 2 50
Doll, 200 16-02. bars.......-.. 2 05
Scouring.
Sapolio, kitchen, 3 doz ..... 2 40
Sapolio, hand, 3doz........ 2 40
SODA.

Boxes .....-; ss ty
Kegs, English |

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

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SPICES.

Whole Sifted.
Alemee. 8. |. i.
Cassia, China in mats....... 12
Cassia, Batavia in bund....25
Cassia, Saigon in rolls...... 32
Cloves, Amboyna........... 14
Cloves, Zanzibar............ 12
Mace, Batayia.............. 5d
Nutmegs, fancy............ .60
Wutmessn, No. t......... ||. 50
Muuaces No. 2... .... 45

Pepper, Singapore, black...11
Pepper, Singapore, white...12

Pe renee... 12
cee Ground in Bulk.
AMispice .. .... ie
Cassia, Batavia coe
Cassia, Saigon . ....... ...40
Cloves, Zangibar ........... i4
GCineer, Aftiean ..........6
Gieeer, Cochin. ............18
Ginger, Jamaica ........... 23
Meee, Balavia............_. ¢5
MeUeGAPG 8. 12@18
NuGmegs. 8 |... 40@s0
Pepper, Sing , black........ 12
Pepper, Sing., white........ 20
Pepper, Cayonne............ 20
Sage. ... : i 15
SYRUPS
Corn.
persce.... Cd. .
Hart Bbis.......... <eoe oe

 

Kingsford’s Corn.

40 1-lb packages............. 6
we i 1b packages... ...... 2. 614
Kingsford’s Silver Gloss.

40 1-lb packages............. 6%
ro Ores 7
Diamond.

64 106 pa&ekages ........._. 5 00
128 5e packages......... .. 5 00

32 10c and 64 5c packages...5 00

Common Corn.

Glib. packages. :........ .. 5
Otlb. packages... ... 4%
Common Gloss.
tip packages... ........- 436
Sip packages... 4%
Gib packages ...........- 456
40 and 50 lb boxes........... 3%

Barrer 3

STOVE POLISH.

    

     

RUN iabn ies
No. 4, 3 doz na 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.

 

Dene se 5 88
us ter. 5. 5 88
reed 5 88
ee 5 69
Peme@ecoG 4... cc... 5 75
XXXX Powdered. - seas 0 OD
Granulated in bbls... ...... 5 44
Granulated in bags......... 5 44
Fine Granulated............ 5 44
Extra Fine Granulated..... 5 56

Extra Coarse Granulated...5
MOGI A

Diamond Confec. A........ 44
Confec. Standard A......... 31
Be 2 es 13

 

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TOBACCOs.
Cigars.
Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s brand.
New Brick... 33 00

H. & P. Drug Co.’s brand.
eincebee 35 00

G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s brand.

Cc
~
Cw... mitt ceecss oo GO
Ruhe Bros. Co.’s Brands.
Double Eag’es, 6 sizes.$45770 00
Gen. Maceo, 5sizes.... 55@7iv 00
Mr. Phomas...°.. 35 0U
Cuban Hand Made..., 35 00
Crown Wive........ |. 35 00
Sir William... 35 00
Clap Hive... 35 00
Gens. Grant and Lee.. 35 00
Ebcere Pesey ..... 35 00
eeenal Five... 35 0
Knights of Pythias.... 35 00

35
Key West Perfects,2sz 55@60 00

TABLE SAUCES.

Lea & Perrin’s, large... 4%
Lea & Perrin’s,small... 2 75
Haliord, lace. 3 75
Halfordemal ||. 22
Salad Dressing, large.....4 55
Salad Dressing. small..... 2 6

VINEGAR.

Malt White Wine, 40 grain.... 6
Malt White Wine, 80 grain.... 9

 

 

Pure Cider, Genesee.......... li
Pure Cider, Robinson......... il
WICKING.

No. @, pereress. (0000). 20
NG, Lpergroes. | 25
NO, PeretOne 35
NOS perarogs. 0 55
Crackers.

The National
quotes as follows:

Butter,

Biscuit Co.

Seyitonr XXX. 534
Seymour XXX, 3 1b. carton 614
Hoy AMM 53%
salccd AR. 534
Rew YOrR NM | tl4
Worwerme 8. 61,
Boson i%
Soda.
SOGe SN 614
Soda XXX, 31b earton.... 634
Reda, Clty
Long Island Wafers....... il
L. I. Wafers, | lb carton .. 12
Zepnyretie.... |_| a 10
yster.
Belling Wafer. 070. 53
Saltine Wafer, 1 1b carton. 634
Harina Oyster. 0. 53%
Extra Farina Oyster....... 614

SWEET GOODS—Boxes.

 

   

 

 

 

pe Ee 10%
Pentre Water | as
Cocoanut Tafiy ..._ 10
Cofee Cake, Java....... lu
Coffee Cake, Iced ..... ... 10
Crackmelis. 2) 15%
Comey 11%
Frosted Cream... |. ._
GingerGeme lg
Ginger Snaps, XXX. 7%
Graham Crackers _....__. 8
Graham Wafers......... ||| 10
Grand Ma Cakes... .......... 9
Papers 5
dumbies, Honey... 2... 11%
Marshmallow ...... |: 15
Marshmallow Creams..... 16
Marshmallow Walnuts... 16
Mich. Frosted Honey.... 124%
Molasses Cakes........ . . 8
OW Gee
mee Wan 8
Gronge Gems... | 8
Penny Assorted Cakes..... 844
Pretzels, hand made ..... 8
pears Eenen 7%
Rueat tale... 8
Sagar Squares. ........._. 9
Vanilla Wafers .......... 14
RUIDAMAR 12%
Oils.
Barrels.
PCO ooo. @i1%
XXX W.W.Mich.Hdlt @ 94
W W Michican ...... @ 8%
Diamond White....... @ 7%
oS Gee. @9
Deo. Naptha .......... @i7
Cyeaeer 2 @34
Maes 11 @2i
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Candies. Grains and Feedstufis Provisions.

Swift & Company quote as
Stick Candy. ae Wheat. “ follows:
bbls. pails Se cee fuk Barreled Pork.
Standard. ........... 64@ 7
Standard H. ii 84@ 7 Winter Wheat Flour.
a Swink... 6 @ 4 Local Brands.
eoriseceuncen nage es Gere 4 25
Jumbo, 321 @ 6% | Second Patent............. 3 75
Rutan on @ 8% Straight aS 3 55
Boston Cream...... pean eee cea : ; = Dry Salt Meats
oF Soe ae e i

Mixed Candy. ee oa ea 64
Grocer... @ 6 Subject to usual cash dis- range ae Coes 8
Competition. . Ne CO NE sa miei eia cs 5
Standard..........- =. I. Flour in bbis.,25¢ per bbl.ad-| 5 aa a
OBServVe...... 7 iti ; 1 oo oven wre
eel e oe et ! | Hams, 14 lb average : 814
Rpton @ 8% Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand Hams, 16 lb average..... 8 :
BROOME oo) | @ 5% | Diamond, 45...... 00.2... 4 00 ae he gaat tees on
Lo @ S46 | Diamond, 4a... 4 00 Sh Ide ( = oe a
parm 6 a @S [tianend ce. 400 eee ae - X. Cut). L@ay,

ndergarten....._. Laie ay ca 2 2
Porat cian ny ] Pr Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand. California hams........ fl 5%
Dandy Pan... @tG | Quaker ws. 3 45 | Boneless hams........... le
Valley Cream.. .... @i2 Quaker, Se .... 345 | Cooked ham............ 10@ 124

. eee el 3 45 L noe
Fancy—In Bulk. Q ards. In Tierces.
Lozenges, plain..... @ 8%!| . Spring Wheat Plour. a Cee se
Lozenges, printed.. @Q | Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brand. 5 Ib Tubs. .+...- advance 14
BnoOc. Drops... |. 14 ic <a ie es 7 Mee... advance 3
Choe. Monumentals , oii oo — - in 7 0 | D0lb Tins ....... advance 4%
Gum Drops......... @6 Pillsbury’s Best 5.0001). 450| 2 ib Pails... |. advance 5g
Moss Drops..:...__. @8 10 ne ee en | 101b Pails. ...._. advance
Sour Drone 9 Pillsbury’s Best 14s paper.. 4 50 | 10 Ib Pails ce
apectaie ee ah e g_ | Pillsbury’s Best 14s paper.. 4 50 3 Ib Pails eae pi nea :
EB 1 ib Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand. Sausages r
‘ ciate n 5 lb. Boxes. Belgena 0 a 5%

emon Drops... .;. . @50 Se 6%
Sour Drops... 50 Pranufore. 7
Peppermint Drops.. Goo UC 6%
Chocolate Drops.... @60 SN ig
H. M. Choe. Drops.. 73 Pemeee 9
Gum Trepe.. @30 Head eheese.. 6%
_— Prope... .. v6! Beet

- B. Licorice Drops D50 . ii
Lozenges, plain.... oe = hem La nr -
Lozenges, printed... @50 a =

Bes, NE 14 50
Eeperiais) @50 .
Mottees @55 Kits. 15 oe Feet. 9
Cream Bar..... bo @a0 a Sanat cece cess ee. a
Molasses Kar ....._. @50 24 bbIs, 40 Ibs........ 1 35
Hand Made Creams. 80 @I 00 4 be Sis 2 50
Plain Creams....... 60 @90 Tripe.

Decorated Creams.. @9# Poe 70
kas ROCK... @60 6 DDN, ibs. 13
Burnt Almonds..... 13 @ me ORs Sate 2 25
Wintergreen Berries @60 Casings.
Caramels. Pork See ete n 14
No. 1 wrapped, 2 Ib. ; ; Beet ane Ae Ra 10”
boxes @35 oe Sheep ee
No. | wrapped, 3 lb. Duluth Imperial, ¥%s....... 4 75 | PT©CP ---- +--+ +--+. - 2 sone
boxes 50 Dulutb Imperial, 4s. ... . 4 65 | _ Butterine.
No. 2 wrapped, 2 lb. Duluth Imperial, %s....... 4 55 ne dan? a .
bi a ae ’ Bee
TT Lemon & Wheeler Co.’s Brand. Rolls, creamery ......... 14
: Gold Medal %s............. 479 | Solid, creamery .......-. 13%
Fruits Gold Medal \s........ 1 66 Canned Meats.
' Gold Medal is... . 450 | Corned beef, 21b.... . 2 so
Parmesan, <a. 4 70 | Corned beef, 14 Ib....._. 18 50
Oranges. Parisian, 4s.. - 460] Roast beef, 21b....... 2 35
Medi Swicus - Parisian, 66800000000). 4 Se —— ham, \p.. - ow

SWECES @ 7 & San Se Otied ham, is... 90

Late Valencias |...” 3 25G3 50 a — —— mae go | Deviled ham, a 50
| © i PE ee sided s cue ce 8 Deviled ha , ce 90

Lemons. Ceresota, 348................ 470! Do ted Segue a a 50
Strictly choice 360s.. @5 00 Ceresota, ee 4 69} Potted tongue %s....... 90
casetiy choice 300s.. @5 00! Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand. | ——— ———
‘ancy 360s or 300s... pool laurel a. 4 8!
Ex.Fancy 300s... . 8 0 | Laurel, _ ee Fresh Meats.
Ex.Fancy 360s...... Go OF Faire: tea 60

Bananas. " Meal. Beet.

a i Z CE OO Camedan) eal 7%
Medium bunches...1 25 @! 50| Granulated ..|.111) 277." 2 10| Fore quarters... ! 348 6.
Large bunches...... 1% @2 00 Hind i

Feed and Millstuffs. rod, GUArCrS..-..... 8 @o
Foreign Dried Fruits. : pone Neg 9 @i2
St. Car Feed. screened ....16 C0 ee 8 @l2
Figs. = Soxn and Oats..... .15 50| Rounds ........./717.7 7%@
tas a : Jubolted Corn Meal....... 100) Chueks. 6 6%
a ao @ Winter Wheat Bran... 112 00| Plates ....0.12777.77, 3 g 354

boxes tt @ Winter Wheat Middlings..14 00
Fancy, 12 1b boxes. @ NerceHings a oe Pork.
lmperial Mikados, 18 Corn. a Ss a 4¥%@ 5

os... @ Cae iois a —- ................, @ 7%
Pulled, 6 lb boxes. .. @ Ln Gaon oka lots... one Shoulders...) @ 6
: cee i a. iu)
Naturals, in bags... @7 Gate. Leaf ae eee 6%@
Dates. Caz lot Mutton
Fards in 10 lb boxes @8 Carlots, clipped...... Caregss 6%@ 7%
Fards in 60 Ib cases @6 Less than ¢ar lots...... Spring Lambs... ..... 84@10
aa. ll eta 4 Veal.
Sairs, 60 1b cases.... @ 4% No 1 Trae somes, 7 10 00 Carcass eis as bl A hi as @ 9
i Bich and N.ctu.|Mides and Pelts.
Nuts. Fish and Oysters
The Cappon & Bertsch Leather
Almonds, Tarragona.. Q13 Fresh Fish. Per Ib, | £2;7100 Canal Street, quotes as |
Almonds, Ivaca....... @ Whitefish @ 3. follows:
Almonds, California, oo a. Hides.
— = Black Bass.......-.. 8 @ 10 | Green No. 1............ @ 8%

Shae Halibut... 2... ‘> | Groen NOS | | gy ate
Belberts 3. @li fence j ‘ r
Walnuts, Grenobles.- @I3 | Bineheh ne: pater tt -peernammae 7>
oe eo lhl CU Calfskins, green No.1 @3°

sinuts, soft shelle Boiled Lobster...... @ 18 | Calfskins, green No.2 @7%

Calif « ----- 220+ -o00e. @ OG ees @ 10 | Calfskins, cured No.1 @I10!
Table Nuts, faney.... G0 (Gaadsen || @ 8 | eateume casa Nas @ 9 .
Table Nuts, choice... @ 9 z eo cE is ee
Pecans, Med @ 8 No. ft Fiekerel..._.. @ 3 Pelts
Pecans, Ex. Large... @10 Snel ae | g 4
Pecans, Jumbos....... _ @ie Smoked White...._. @ 8 Folts, Gach ........... + 5S0@it 00
Hickory Nuts per bu., Red Snapper......_. @ 10

Oe new. @1 60) Col River Salmon. @ 12 Tallow.
Cocoanuts, full sacks @350| Mackerel Se ey @3

Peanuts. Oysters in Cans. IG @2
7
zy, _ = ae @7 7. Oounts.....: @ 3 Wool.

ancy, H. P., Flags CRGCGA es 28

a. hCUee | - Washed, fine ......... @18
Choice, H. P., Extras. @ 4% Shell Goods. Washed, medium...... @23
Choice, H. P., Extras, Oysters, per 100....... 1 25@1 50 | Unwashed, fine.... ...11 @13

Rosse. |... 5% | Clams, per 100 - @1 25} Unwashed, medium ..16 @Ii8

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

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AKRON STONEWARE.

Butters,
“eal. per dos. ......... 49
toc gal., pergal........ 5
eel cae... a8
Mga Gaen. 8... 50
cen Chek. | wa
15 gal. meat-tubs, each....1 10
20 gal. meat-tubs, each....1 20
25 gal. meat-tubs, each....2 25
30 gal. meat-tubs, each....2 7
Churns,
2to6 sal, per gal... 5
Churn Dashers, per doz... 8
Fruit Jars.
Pe i ah
eee. -+.. 6 OO
ee
Covers...... eee
Reovere 25

 

Milkpans.
% gal. flat or rd. bot., doz. 45
1 gal. fatorrd. bot.,each 5
Fine Glazed Milkpans.
\% gal. flat or rd. bot., doz.
1 gal. flat or rd. bot., each
Stewpans.
% gal. fireproof, bail, doz. 8
i gal. fireproof, bail, doz.1 10

Jugs.
4 UAl., per dog.) ........... 40
‘Wel. perdos. |...
At65 gal. pergal.....__. 5%
Tomato Jugs.

4 Sal, perdos.._........ 42
Peat cach. 5%
Corks for % gal., per doz.. 26

Corks for 1 gal., per doz.. 30
Preserve Jars and Covers.
Mm gal., stone cover, dog... 7%
1 gal., stone cover, doz...1 00
Sealing Wax.
5 lbs. in package, perlb... 2
LAMP BURNERS.

 

35
Nea than... 40
Ne. 2508. ..... - oo
NO Sean. 1 00
Ae 5u
pecurity. NG i... okt
Pecuray, No 2 .......,... £0
Nuitmes ..... 50

LAMP CHIMNEYS—Seconds.
Per box of 6 doz.

No. 0 San......_. =
Oia... 1 43
MO 2 S0e 218
Common
Ne. GS0m.. 1 45
Nathan... |. t 56
NO 28am 2 33
First Quality.
No. 0 Sun, crimp top,
wrapped and labeled.... 2 10
No. i Sun, erim top,
wrapped and labeled.... 2 15
No. 2 Sun, crim top,
wrapped and labeled.... 3 15
XXX Flint.
No. 0 Sun, crimp top,
wrapped and labeled.... 2 55
Ne. | Sun, crim top,

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Pp
wrapped and labeled. .. 2 7:
No. 2 Sun, crimp top,

wrapped and labeled.... 3 75
CHIMNEYS—Pear! Top.
No.1 Sun, wrapped and
ARO ee
No. 2 Sun, wrapped and
hee ee
No. 2 Hinge, wrapped and
naoiee.
No. 2 Sun, “Small Bulb,”
for Globe Lamos.........
La Bastie.
No. 1 Sun. plain bulb, per
Cen ee
No. 2 Sun, plain bulb, per
on... 15
No. 1 Crimp, per dox....... 1 35
No. 2 Crimp, per doz... ... 1 60
Rochester.
No. 1, Lime (65c doz). .... 3 50
No. 2, Lime (70e doz).. .. 4 06
No. 2, Flint (80e doz)...... 4 70
Blectric.
No. 2, Lime (70c doz) ..... 4 00
No. 2, Flint (80e doz)...... 4 40
OIL CANS, Doz.
i gal tin cans with spout.. 1 25
1 gal galv iron with spout. 1 50

2 gal galv iron with spout. 2 58
3 gal galv iron with spout. 3 45
5 gal galy iron with spout. 4
3 gal galv iron with faucet 4 75
gal galv iron with faucet 5 25
gal Tilting cans.......... 8 00
gal galv iron Nacefas.... 9 00
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Otago

Pump Cans,
al Rapid steady stream. 9 00
al Kureka non-overfiow 10 56
gal Home Ruie..... _....10 60
|S gal Home Raie.... ...... 12 00
5 gal Pirate King...... oe
LANTERNS,

No. GTabeiac ... ...... 4 20
Ne. 2B Tundiar...... ... 6 25
No, 13 TubularDash.. .... 6
1Tub., glassfount.... 7
. 12 Tubular, side lamp. 14
3 Street Lamp....... a

LANTERN GLOBES.

No. 0 Tubular, cases 1 doz.
each, box 10 cents.. ..... 45
No. 0 Tubular, cases2 doz.
each, box 15 cents.......
No. 0 Tubular, bbis 5 doz.
onen, OO a,...........,.
No. 0 Tubular, bull’s eye,
cases 1 doz. each...

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Hardware

Evolution of the Axe.

He who has martyrized himself in
early youth at that most unattractive
spot, the woodpile, knows well what an
axe may or may not be. It must be ad
mitted, however, that in early youth the
superior or inferior qualities or charac-
teristics of an axe are not fully appre-
Ciated: it is at the best but a token of
martyrdom, an emblem of long-suffering
and endurance in keeping the insatiable
woodbox filled up. The axe may be
said to participate almost as much as
the hickory in the discipline of youth.
It teaches and inculcates in a highly
commendatory manner a conscientious
diligence and an habituation to unpleas-
ant tasks which no one is above learning
and which may prove of invaluable
service in after life. It instructs in a
principle which all are ultimately com-
pelled to learn—that is, to do what we
do not like with as good grace as pos-
sible.

Therefore, it is safe to say that the
usefulness of the axe applies to a theory
of life as well as to its primary and gen-
erally accepted purpose. A career may
be carved out by this most prosaic tool
as assuredly and certainly as the pure
figure is chiseled from marble. Civili-
zation owes its vast extent and wide in-
fluence in no small degree to the. axe.
Who would ever have heard of Daniel
Boone if he and his associates had not
had axes to cleave their way through the
trackless forests, to hew down trees for
their homely dwellings and use them
mayhap for weapons of offense or de
fense, as the case might be? In some
form or other axes existed from the be-
ginning of time. They made their ap-
pearance as almost the first of all tools.
People could cook over open fires, out
of doors or inside, but axes were indis-
pensable in procuring fuel for them.
They have ngured prominently in both
domestic life and in warfare. Primarily
they were used for the latter purpose
more than the former. In the Middle
Ages they were made of hard stone and
after that of bronze and iron and finally
of steel, as we see them now in their
highly-perfected state.

It has been learned from a reliable
authority that axes were first manufac-
tured in the United States in the begin-
ning of the present century. The begin-
ning was upon a small scale, which final-
ly increased to the present annual out-
put of 300,000 dozen. More than three-
fourths of these are consumed in this
country, the rest being exported to South
America, Australia, Europe and other
parts of the world. The superior qual-
ities of American axes are gradually be-
coming known and there is every reason
to believe that their exportation will in-
crease continually. This is accounted
for by their admirable points, which
combine excellence in finish and un-
usual utility and durability.

Considerably less than half a century
ago American manufacturers of axes
used steel imported from England,
which was considered preferable for
the purpose. Gradually, it seems, the
Americans showed that they were capa-
ble of making a steel which competed
favorably with the English, in their mar-
kets as well as our own, and thus for
some time past American steel has been
used for the manufacture of axes All
the good or bad qualities which an axe
may possess depend upon the steel put
in 1t. When good steel is united to su-
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an intimate knowledge of the nature
and treatment of the metal, a good axe
will be evolved.

When ordering axes the standard
grades should always be included in the
list. People should be willing to pay
more for superior makes, which finally
are cheaper than inferior grades which
fail to keep an edge and must soon be
cast aside for another. A brand of axes
which has been tested and enjoys an en-
viable reputation after years of constant
use by intelligent workmen ought to re-
ceive the largest share of patronage. It
is said that there is a growing demand
for double bit axes, which may be ob-
tained in the popular grades. Their
usefulness is doubled and if properly
used the double bit will last as long as
two single bit axes.—Hardware Re-

porter.
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Hardware Notions.

It would be well for bardware dealers
to take a walk sometimes through dry
goods stores and observe some of their
methods in arranging and displaying
goods. Much profit might be obtained
from such visits. particularly when the
management of their notion department
is considered. There are odd lots and
the last of certain lines of goods in
hardware which could be very appro-
priately termed notions and disposed of
in a more advantageous manner if
effectively displayed on a counter lo-
cated in a conspicuous position It
often happens that these articles are
left hidden in boxes or compartments
where no one sees them and their exist-
ence is almost forgotten. Such articles
may be very useful, but people may not
always remember what they need or want
until they catch sight of the things in
the store where they are arranged on a
counter with price ticket attached, It
would also be a good plan to dispose of
certain classes of merchandise system-
aticaliy in this manner without waiting
until the stock is low. In the center of
the principal aisle is a good place to lo
cate a counter displaying small tools.
People’s attention will then be attracted
toward it upon first entering and upon
taking leave.

——_—~ 0.
The Bowie Knife.

The bowie knife, which became so
famous, was of peaceful origin, having
been made in the blacksmith’s shop of a
plantation in Louisiana from an old
scythe blade and presented by Rezen
Bowie to his brother for use in hunting.
It was nine and a quarter inches long
by one and a half wide, with a single
edge and a straight blade. James Bowie
carried it when engaged in one of the
bloodiest duels on record and it saved
bis life. Nearly three-quarters of a
century have elapsed since that encoun-
ter was fought to a finish on the historic
sandbar in the Mississippi River, near
Natchez.

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An Unequaled Dining Car Service.

Have you had dinner or supper on one
of the Dining Cars running on the
Grand Trunk Railway through trains
between Chicago and Eastern points?
If not, it would be worth your while to
make a note of this service, and take
the first opportunity you can avail your-
self of a treat. Mr. Lea, who for
years has been with the Windsor Hotel,
Montreal, is now connected with this
service, and travelers can rely on a re-
fined cuisine, excellent service, and a
liberal table.

Thustregon,
Bis COLEGE:

Young men and women admitted any week in
the year. Every graduate secures employment.
Living expenses low.’ Write for catalogue.

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Could Be Remedied by a National

Law.
From the Grocery World.

There are many strong reasons for the
passage of a National pure food law,
but in our opinion one of the. strongest
is emphasized by a communication pre-
sented at the last meeting of the Grand
Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association by
B. S. Harris. The writer thereof dwells
on the rapidly-growing method of sell-
ing groceries directly to consumers,
through children offered trumpery pre-
miums, the scheme being carried on
through magazine advertising. ‘he
present discussion is directly in line
with a description of these advertising
firms and their methods, published sev-
eral months ago,

There are two phases to the nuisance
which these children represent to the re-
tail grocer: One is that by virtue of
circumstances they divert considerable
trade from the legitimate grocer. Every
child thus engaged has sisters and cous-
ins and aunts, not to speak of friends,
who can al! be counted on as victims,
and the aggregate is considerable.

The other phase is the fact that most
of these firms handle adulterated goods,
and so long as they are shipped to
points outside of their own State no lo-
cal pure food law can reach them, espe-
cially since they are selling direct to
consumers. This places the grocer at a
grave disadvantage. Prevented by his
State pure food law from selling adul-
terated goods, and thus meeting com-
petition from that source, he sees out-
side concerns sending the most griev-
ously adulterated articles to his very cus-
tomers, for the most part at gilt edged
prices.

With a National pure food law the
hoid of these advertising concerns would
be gone. The law _jn one state would
be the law in another. Mail-order con-
cerns could not then sell adulterated
goods, no matter where they were to be
shipped.

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Can Peddle Goods of His Own Man-
ufacture.

Petoskey, Aug. 20—I wish to get some
information in regard to peddlers and
canvassers and their rights, and know-
ing you have had much to do along that
line in the past in helping frame laws
governing the same, I thought it best to
write you, as I am one of those unfortu-
nates who have been driven to doing
that kind of work.

I am selling two articles of my own
manufacture and I claim I have a right,
under the laws of this State, and nearly
all of the states, to sell from house to
house without first taking the orders.
Do you know if I am right in that
point?

I don’t wish to defy the officers and
take chances on arrest unless I am sure.
What I sell is bardly ever found ina
store. It is a pie and basin lifter and
a lamp cleaner. !

The annulment of the law of 1897 by
the Supreme Court places in force the
law of 1865, as amended in 1887. Sec-
tion 22 of the amendment is as follows:

Nothing contained in this chapter
shall be construed to prevent any man-
ufacturer, farmer, mechanic or nursery-
man from selling his work or produc-
tion, by sample or otherwise, without
license, nor shall any wholesale mer-
chant be prevented by anything herein
contained from selling to dealers, by
sample, without license, but no mer-
chant shall be allowed to peddle, or to
employ others to peddle, goods not his
own manufacture, without the license in
this chapter provided.

There can be no doubt that the excep-
tion noted expressly covers the feature
enquired about and that you have the
right to peddle your goods from house
to house in all places where the State
law is not superseded by local ordi-
nances governing peddling.

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English Foreign Trade Killed by Trades
Unionism.
From the London Times.
Trade unionism has dealt a death-
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ain. British control of foreign markets
has been diminishing for several years,
but it was not until last winter that
American and German manufacturers
discovered the golden opportunities
which British inertia and labor union
dictation had placed at their command.
It had long been a notorious fact that
the British mechanic received a wage
amounting to only 50 or 60 per cent of
the pay of the Americar skilled work-
man in the same line of employment. It
seemed hopeless, therefore, for the
American manufacturer to compete suc-
cessfully in the generalemarket with
British goods, in the production of
which labor was the chief item of ex-
pense. But it was revealed last winter
during the strike agitation that British
manufacturers had been the slaves of
their employes, or, rather, of the trades
unions. Workmen were permitted by
their unions to render only a very lim-
ited service in return for their limited
wages. This limitation was so severe
that the proportion of work done to
wages paid was very much smaller than
in American workshops. In other words,
it was the fact in many cases that the
actual product of one American me-
chanic was equal to that of four or five
of his English brethren. The cost of
production figured by results was there-
fore much greater in England than in
the United States.

———>-¢ 2 --
Missouri To Look to Michigan for
Apples and Potatoes.

St. Louis, Mo., Aug. 29—No doubt
your readers have been informed through
the columns of your paper, that the crop
of apples and potatoes is very short in
our State this season. We will look to
your State this year for both apples and
potatoes, and on account of the good
crops in the East no doubt your growers
will find this the best market for their
products.

St. Louis uses several thousand bar-
rels of apples and fifteen to twenty cars
of potatoes per day, besides supplying
a great portion ot the Southern and South-
western States with produce from Aug.
1 to the latter part of April. Under the
existing conditions it is only fair to
say that the shippers in the Northern
States should expect a prosperous trade
on these commodities in our district.

MILLER & TEASDALE Co.
Oe
Under Salary.

Hewitt—I sat at the table next to
yours at the restaurant yesterday, and I
don't see how you could laugh at the
stale stories Cruet was telling.

Jewitt—He was paying for the dinner.

 

 

The “Concave” Washboard

 

€

MANF D BY STANDARD WasHeoaRD COE"Gip, |

GLOBE CRIMP,
Per Doz., $2.

SAVES THE WASH.
SAVES THE WASHER.

 

Hardware Price Current.

 

 

AUGURS AND BITS
oo 70

  
 

 

gcnnmign. gemmine oo 25&10
Jennings’, imitation etc -. - -60&10
AXES
Pivst Quality, S. B. Beonae ...... 2.1... |... 5 00
Hirst Quality, D. B. Bronze,............ 1). 9 50
Wirst Quality. S. B.S Steel... .. .......... «5 56
Mirst Quality, DB. Steel |... 10 50
BARROWS
OR $12 00 14 00
oe net 30 00
BOLTS
a ay 60410
Carriage now Mgt 2 70 to 75
CE 50
BUCKETS
Ne ee ie sise
BUTTS, CAST
Cast Loose Pin, figured..................... 70&10
WreugnG NArOW 70&10
BLOCKS
Ordinary Tackie.... ......... . es 70
CROW BARS
Case Steen .. per lb 4

* CAPS
I per m 65
meek ae... .. «+ perm 55
ae + Der in 35
Ue perm 60

CARTRIDGES
mi Mire. oe --50& 5
Central Mize. 23& 5
CHISE
poeket Wirmer, .......... se 80
pocee: Draming. eae oo 80
pocket Comier............ Se: 80
SUeCwes Seng. 80
DRILLS
Mores BIL MOCKS 60
Taper and Straight Shank...................50& 5
Morse’s TapOE SHAH ... Sok S
ELBOWS
Com 4iicee Gin... |. doz. net 30
Cera 2%
ORR dis 40&10
EXPANSIVE BITS
Clark's small, §f4; large, $26................ 3010
Veet Onc 2 eee; Oe 25
FILES—New List
GW AMMericam 70&10
EE 70
Heller’s Horse Rasps........... .. 6610

GALVANIZED IRON

 
  
 

Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 25 and 26; 27. ..... 28
List 12 13 14 15 -— .... 17
Discount, 75 to 75-10
GAUGES
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s............... 60410
KNOBS—New List
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings.... _........ 70
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings............ 80
MATTOCKS
ORC BVO: $16 00, dis 60410
$15 U0, dis 60410
Co $18 50, dis 20&10
NAILS
Advance over base, on both Steel and Wire.
mace RIS BOR 1 355
Wie wes ee Ce 1 00
ee AEBOMICO Base
ta 16 wevence. 8. WS
Save ee. 10
cs oe 20
oe 30
ee 45
ee 70
Pine a @vance. ee 50
Casing 10 advance...... eee 15
Casing Sadvyanee................... 25
Casing CG advyance.............. 35
Finish 10 advance ...... . 25
Finish § advance....... 35
Finish 6 advance... oe . 45
Darrer 4 aGyanee. 85
MILLS
Cofec, Varters Cas. cs . 40
Coffee, P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s Malleables... 40
Coffee, Landers, Ferry & Clark’s........... 40
@omee Materiel 30
MOLASSES GATES
OnUaTe Peierls, 60&10
Stebbin’s Genuine.... . eee ee 60&10
Knterprise, self-measuring ............ .... 30
PLANES
One Todt Cos, fasity.......... 5.1... @50
Ce eS 60
Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy................. @50
meee, Seely... .... .................., @50
Stanley Ruie and Level Co.’s wood.........
PANS
ry, MOM ee 60&10&10
Common, polished............... ce sce e « W0& 5
RIVETS
ison and Tamed .:. ws 60
Copper Rivets and Bura................... 60
PATENT PLANISHED IRON
‘A? Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 10 20
“B’ Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 25 to 27 9 20
Broken packages 4c per pound extra.
HAMMERS
Mavdole & Co.’s, new list........ ...... dis 33%
Ne ee dis 25
Werkes & Pigmipa..........-...-...-.....- dis 10&10

Mason’s Solid Cast Steel:......... ..30¢ lis, 70
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steal Hand We ‘is: 40&19

 

23

HOUSB FURNISHING GOODS
Stamped Tin Ware....... .........new list 75&10
aapenned Tin Were... 20&10
Granite Iron Ware............__.. new list 40&10

HOLLOW WARE

   

ee 60&1

el 60&10

EEE 60&10
HINGES

....- is 60&10

Gate Clarks. 139... .....
Reeee 8. a per doz. net 2 50
WIRE GOODS

Brent... ie eee 80

Crew MVCN 80

MOG A 80

Gate Haeokeand Eyce 80
LEVELS

Stanley Rule and. Level Co.’s............ dis 70
ROPES '

Sisal, 44 inch and larger............... .... 108
Meee, 11%
SQUARES
et
Try and Bevels ... ... ee gees sete cee a 60
OG es i. Cl 50
SHEET IRON

com. smooth. com.
Nee igtam.. 82 70 #2 40
Nee tote... ll ae 2 40
Noe steer... 8... See 2 45
Noe Stew... 8 ee 2 55
Wee fate ee 3 10 2 65
Ce 3 20 2%

All sheets No. 18 and lighter, over 30 inches
wide not less than 2-10 extra.

SAND PAPER
es a ie ee
SASH WEIGHTS
Solid Byen per ton 20 00
TRAPS
—— oe... _ 60&10
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s....... 50
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s 70&10
Bearing, Cliomer.. . 8... per doz 15
Mouse, delusion............_.... per doz 1x
WIRE
regs MAE. vi)
mimiomice Mamet... jw... 75
Copperca Market... ee
a ties MATECE eo. 62%
Coppered Spring Steel......... bee. 50
|Barbed Wence, galvanized ............ ... 2a
Barbed Wence, painted................ .... 16
HORSE NAILS
EE dis 40&1C
Pasian 8 5
INGrUnWeetorn |... dis 10&10
WRENCHES
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.............. 30
Coes Genuing....... .........,. Sa 50
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought ....... 80
Coes Patent wislkeabie 80
MISCELLANEOUS
Bird Cagee 50
Pure CM, 80
perows, New Eine... 85
Casters, Bed and Piate............. .... S0&10&10
Panes, Aneies. .............., 50
METALS—Zinc
Cor paund CaMne 644
Ot De 6%
SOLDER

on ee 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....... Sadesacu ee @ ao
Meroe Charece) wc. 5 7
Seer OX Cisrecoat. 7 00
Each additional X on this grade, 81.25.
TIN—Aliaway Grade
Maria Ky Chareog:. 8 4 50
pemweu 10 Ciereems i, ee, 6k... 4+ 50
IORIS TS Chercea:.............. tl... 6 ee
Fier in Charcen.... .................,.. 5 5)
Each additional X on this grade, 81.50.
ROOFING PLATES
iaxet IO Charcoal, beam... ................ 458
[4xao 1X, Citarecal Deum ................... 5 50
Beses IC, Charcoal, Dean........ .......... 9 00
14x20 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade......... 4 00
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade......... 5 00
20x28 1C, Charcoal, Allaway Grade........ 8 00

20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade......... 10 90
BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE

14x56 IX, for No. 8 Boilers, )
14x56 IX, for No. 9 Boilers, ( Pet pounc... "

Pieture Gards for
COUNITY Falls.se

Nothing takes so well with
the visitors at fairs as pic-
ture cards, which are care-
fully preserved, while ordi-

€ nary cards, circulars and $
pamphlets are largely de-

8
stroyed and wasted. We
have a fine line of Picture
Cards, varying in price

 

from $3 to $6 per 1,000, in-
cluding printing on back.
Samples mailed on appli-
cation.

TRADESMAN COMPANY
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
Dobos es PowwsTse seeeCeos

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

  

OLD AND NEw.

Primitive and Modern Methods
Producing Cider.

of

The cider mills are starting up for
the fallcampaign, and to whom, raised
on the farm or in the country town, does
this not bring back fond recollections
of youthful days? The old cider mill
has been embalmed in song, sung by
poets and dealt with by great writers,
and it holds a place all its own in the
memory of those who were once young
and who then tasted the delights which
the old cider mill afforded.

The old cider mill was not a scrump-
tious affair. It was set up in a barn or
wood shed and sometimes a simple
rough cover was built in the orchard to
protect it from the storm and shine.
The old cider mill, such as our pioneer
fathers used, was often a homemade
affair. The grinding apparatus was
primitive but effective. A round hard-
wood stick was carefully smoothed off
and nails were driven into it just far
enough to leave a good sized head _ pro-
jecting. Then the stick was set into a
sort of hopper and it was so arranged
with belting and shafts that motor power

generated by a horse in a_ treadmill
would be applied as it ought. The ap-
ples would be shoveled in by hand, the

horse would be kept on a trot in the
treadmill and in the course of time the
box under the grinding machine would
be filled with pomace.

Thus far the only delight in cider-
making was in anticipation, but the
next stage brought better results. Near
the grinding machine was a platform of
plank, usually raised a foot or more
from the ground. Around the edge of
the platform was a shallow gutter cut
into the wood,and the platform tipped a
littie toward one corner. With the small
boy the lower corner had the strongest
attractions.

Upon this platform were laid four
sticks in log cabin shape, with notches
cut near the ends of the sticks to hold
them together. Then a layer of clean
straw was strewn on the bottom, with
the ends of the long straws projecting
over the edges. The pomace was shov-
eled into this ‘‘nest’’ until it was full,
and then the projecting straws were
bent inward, another row of log cabin
sticks were adjusted, more straw was
thrown in, anda second layer of pomace
was in order. Tbus the press was built
up with alternate layers of straw and
pomace until it could be built no high-
er, and then the top pieces were ad-
jasted and the screws applied. The
screws were like modern jackscrews
working upside down at each corner,
and slowly the pressure was put on by
force of muscle, first at one corner and
then at another, a half hitch at a time,
and at each turn of the screws the cider
gushed forth, through the straw, down
the sides, into the gutter and witha
gurgle into the tub placed to catch it.
As the cider was pressed out slower the
more laborious became the work at the
screws, and at last the last drop was
extracted. Then the carefully built up
‘“‘log cabin’’ was taken down, the dry
pomace and straw were thrown out and
the process was repeated.

The mechanical operations of cider-
making were, of course, always interest-
ing to the smal! boy, but the most in-
teresting, inspiring, exhilarating part
of the whole cidermaking process was
to sit near enough to the tub to reach
the rich amber contents with a long
straw, and with eyes half closed and
scarce breathing, draw upon that straw.

 

The way the cider came up through that
Straw may have afforded a philosopher
a lesson in hydrostatics, but that was a
science that did not concern the small
boy. What he wanted was not science
but cider, and it was cider that he got.
Sometimes for variety the straw would
be poked down the open bung of a filled
barrel, but the tub was liked best, be-
cause you could see the cider and knew
it was fresh. In every well-regulated
cider mill a tin cup hung near the tub,
but that was for grown folks to use. The
boy preferred the straw and one reason
for his preference was because then no-
body knew exactly how much of the ap-
ple juice he absorbed.

The modern cider mill is not built on
the same specifications as the old mill
of blessed memory, although its results
and accomplishments are thesame. The
modern mill shows the progress of in-
vention and improvement and how
genius has come to the aid of labor. In
the modern mill, the grinding apparatus
is designed on something the same plan
as a coffee mill, only larger. It is set
into the floor of the second story and the
apples to be ground are dropped into it
from little buckets attached to an end-
less belt which runs through the apple
bin below. As the machine grinds, the
pomace drops upon the press beneath,
and when a modern mill is running in
full blast a press can be filled and the
squeeze started in a very short time.
The modern mill has its platform and
gutter, but instead of straw large cloths
are used and the layers are separated
by wooden racks. The pressure to force
out the apple juice is not muscular but
mechanical, some mills being operated
by steam and others by water power. As
soon as the press is filled and ready for
the application of the power, the power
is put on, and it is put on hard. The
juice does not gush out—it spurts—and
it pours in a little torrent, not into a tub
but into a cistern built in the basement.
From the cistern the cider is pumped
out by means of an ordinary well pump
into the barrel.

The modern cider mill is a great im-
provement over the old-fashioned home-
made horse and man-power mill, but it
lacks the romance which makes tbe old
mill so dear to memory. The long clean
straw seems to be missing, the tub into
which the straw was inserted is not
there and the work is done with a busi-
nesslike rush and hurry that makes the
average small boy feel not quite at
home. The new mill will extract more
cider from a given quantity of apples,
and the cider, perhaps, is of better
quality, but the old mili had attractions
which the new mill never can have.

.The apple crop this year, while not
full, is sufficiently large to warrant the
making of a good deal of cider, and al-
though the real cider apples are not yet
available, a great deal of cider is al-
ready being made for immediate con-
sumption or for vinegar purposes. The
cider for winter consumption will not
be made for two or three months yet,
not until the autumn winds have begun
blowing sharp and strong and evenings
by the fireside are preferred. Then the
barrel will be rolled into the cellar and,
as the winter advances, the cider, once
as sweet as any dream, will gradually
grow stronger and stronger until ina
few months it will raise a riot in almost
any well-ordered neighborhood and be
more prolific of headache than any other
beverage ever invented.

—_> 2+
Always take the G. T. R. when you

can. S. S. S.—scenery, safety and
speed.

 

WANTS COLUMN

 

 

Advertisements will be inserted under this
head for two cents a word the first insertion
and one cent a word for each subsequent in-
sertion. No advertisements taken for less than
25 cents. Advance payment.

BUSINESS CHANCES.

OR SALE--A BAZAAR STOCK WHICH WILL
inventory between $1,500 and #2,000 in one
of the best towns in Michigan with population
of from 3,000 to 4,00. Address No. 696, care
Michigan Trad sman. 696
N EAT MAKKET FUR SALE—ON ACCOUNT
- of poor health. Doing a good business;
have big resort trade. Investigate. as you can
buy cheap. Joh G. Furman, Coloma, Mizh
697
eS = PAID FOR S'FOCKS OF
shocs, clothing or dry gouds. Correspond-
Address R. B.,

 

 

 

 

ence confidential.
Montague, Mich.
OR SALE—-NECKWEAR MANUFACTUR-
ing establishment, five years old: stock and
fixtures, $2,.00; terms reasonable, Address or
call room 17. 74 Monroe St.. Grand Rapids. 688
OR SALE—CLEAN GENERAL STOCK AND
s'ore bu Iding in smal] towp surrounded by
excellent farming and fruit country less than
fifty miles from Grand Rapid-. Good reasons
for selling. Inspection solicited. Terms reason-
able. Address for particulars No. 691. care
Michigan Tradesman. 69
OMPLETE JUNK BUSINESS ESTAB-
/ lished for a term of years. Sp'endid oppor-
tunity for right party: will be sold cheap for
exsh or part cash and guvod security. DuBois
Hardware C 10., Batt e Creek, Mich. 689
TL\OR SALE - #1200 GENERAL STOCK MER-
good business in good farming

Box 251,
99

 

 

 

 

 

 

chandise;

country town: terms favorable. Address No,
612, care Michigan Tradesman, or enquire 9»
Broadway, Grand R pids. oe

NOR SALE—NEW GENERAL STOCK A

splendid farming country. Notradcs. Ad-
dress Nd. 6-0, care Michigan Tradesman 680

OR SiaLE CHEAP—AN OLD ES: ABLISHED

confectionery business in Jackson, Mi h.

Wr te orcallon L C Townsend Room 18, Brink
Blo k. Jackson, Mich. ‘87

JANTEW—BANK LOCATION, OR WILL
as ist leral parties in organizing. Address
No. 682 care Michigan Trad-sman, 682

[ce CRALLY LOCATED DRUG STORE, D
ing a good business in the city, for sale.
Good reasons for selling. Address I, Frank-
ford, Fire Insurance and Reali Estate Agent,
Phone 1236, 53 West Bridge Street, Grand
Rapids. 667
Vy ANTED—A CHEE-~E FACTORY. STATE
capacity and lowest cash price. Cliff Bros.,
68 E. Randolph St., Chicago. 678

POR SALE—DRUG, BOOK AND STATION-
ery stock. invoicing 50), and fixtures
invoicing $300, whieb include show cases. shelvy-
ing and bottles. Daily cash sales in 1891, $2 ;
"92, $30; 1893. $21; 1894, $34.65: 1895, $25; 1896,
$21.20, and 1897,32413 Located in manufactur-
ing town. Nocutprices. Rent reasonable, $29
per month. Living roomsinconuection. <Ad-
dress Ne. 668, care Michigan Tradesman. _ 668
[\OR 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
VOR SALE DRUG STORE IN BEST © ITY IN
Michigan. Average daily sales, $2'; per
cent. profits, 59 per cent. Monthly ex-
penses, $0. These are facts. Investigate. Ad-
dress No. 659, care Michigan Tradesman 659
gai LOCATION IN MICHIGAN FOR A
cold storage and general produce dealer.
Write to the Secretary of tne Otsego Improve
ment Association. Otsego. Mich 631
N ERCHANTS—DO YOU WISH CASH QUICK
for your stock of merchundise, or any part
of it? Address John A. Wade, Cadillac, mee

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NO EXCHANGE—FOR CLOTHING, | aay
goods or shoes. very nice well rented Grand
Rapids property. Address No. 552, care Michi-
gen Tradesman. 542
VOR SALE—A_ #$1v,000 STO K DRY
goods; doing a gond business.
some upincumb«red real estate.
Lansing, Mich.

 

OF

Will take
Address G.,
661

 

OR RENT OR SALE—A STORE SUITABLE

for general merchandise. located in a pros
perous village in Berrien county, Mich. sSplen-
did opportunity for a live man to establi-h a
paying business For particulars address I. W.
Allen, St. Joseph, Mich. 649

O EXCHANGE— FARMS AND OTHER
property for dry goods, clothing and shovs.
Address P. Medasie, Mancelona, Mich. 553.

 

BROOMS

OR SALE--MODERN, WELL-ESTABLISHED

and equipped broom factory and good trade.
Other business commands our attention. Ad-
dress No. 554, care Michigan Tradesman. 584

COUNTRY PRODUCE

ee — FIRST-CLASS
retail trade.

 

 

 

 

 

BUTTER FOR
Cash paid. Correspond with

 

Caulkett & Co., Trave'se City, Mich. 381
\ ANTED—1,000 CASES FRESH EGGS,

daily. Write for prices. F. W. Brown,
Ithaca, Mich. 556

 

FIREPROOF SAFES.
1 EO. M. SMITH, NEW AND SECONDHAND

safes, wood and brick building mover, 157
Ottawa Set, Grand Rapids. 613

SHIRTS. aoe

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

MISCELLANEOUS,

)XPERIENCED ‘GROCERY ~ CLERK WILL
4 be open for engagem nt about Sept. 15.
Good refereuces. Will ng to take other work.
Address Grocer, care Michigan Trade-man. 700

JOSITION WANTED BY YOUNG MARRIED
man with hardware and implement hovse.
Ten years’ experenc., three as manager. Good
references. Address Hardware, care Michigan
Tradesman. 695
HARMAC ST WISHES A SITUATION IN
drug or genera' store. Address No. 698, care
Michigan Tradesman. 698
\ ANTED sITUATION AS MANAGER OF
a general store by a competent and exper
ienced man. Best of references. Address J.,
care Michigan Tradesman. 694
yt ED—SITUATION IN A ULOTHING
or general store by an A No. 1 salesman.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Address No. 685, care Michigan Tradesman. 683
DOSITION WANTED—BY DRU G, Dy
goods and groce:y clerk, Address No.

684, care Michigan Tradesman. 684

Position WANTED BY A SINGLE MAN.
Large experience in general merchandise.
Can give good references. Address No. 664. care
Michigan Tradesman. 5

 

PERRIGO'S

—————

F LAVORIN

———

EXTRAG

because they are
the best.

 

Manufactured by

L. Perrigo Company
Allegan, Mich.

 

 

NOW OPEN &

Gamival
HOISE
Umnishings

Ln the Wholesale
Showrooms of

 

BROWN & SEHLER, W. Bridge St., Grand Rapids,

Prices right.

We manufacture only “HAND MADE” Harness.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Travelers’ Time Tables.

MANISTE

& Northeastern Ry.

Best route to Manistee.

Established 1780.

HOLLAND & GHIGAGO LINE.

 

 

 

CH I C AGO and West Michigan R’y
June 19, 1898.
Chicago.

Lv. G. Rapids.. -7:30am 3:40pm * 2:15aq

Ar. Chicago.............2:10pm 9:05pm 7:30am

Ly. Chicago ease k 7:20am 4:15pm * 8:45pm

Ar. G’d Rapids......... 1:25pm 10:30pm * 2:15am

Traverse we ane and Petoskey.
Ly. @’d Rapid oS ‘15am 8:05am 2:10pm

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

*EHvery day. Others week days only.

DETROIT, °74 220% «Ye

Detroit.
Ly. Grand Rapids...... < ‘00am

 

 

 

1:35pm 5:35pm

   

Ae. Detrote... 5... 40am 5:45pm 10:05pm
Ly. Detroit........ = 00am 1:10pm 6:10pm
Ar. Grand Rapids.. 2:55pm 5:20pm 10:55pm

Saginaw, Alma and Greenville.

Ly. G R7:00am 4:20pm Ar. GR 12:20pm 9:30pm
Parlor cars on all trains to and from Detroit
and Saginaw. Trains run week days only.
Gro. DEHAVEN, General Pass. Agent.

SAND Ferien! eicctcs in

(In effect May 15, 1898 )

 

 

 

Leave. AST. Arrive.
; = 45am .Sag., Detroit, Buffalo & N Y .+ 9:55pm

0:10am... ... Detroit and East.... ..+ 5:27pm
; 3:20pm..Sag., Det., N. Y. & Boston. -t12:45pm
* 8:00pm... Detroit, Fast and Canada...* 6:35am
+10:45am...... Mixed to Durand........+ 3:15pm

WEST

* 8:35am....Gd. Haven and Int. Pts....* 7:05pm

+12:53pm. Gd. Haven and Intermediate.+ 3:12pm
+ 5:32pm..Gd. Haven and ae +10:05am
* 7:40pm...Gd. Haven and Chicago.. 8:15am
+10:00pm Gd. Haven and Mil....... 6:40am
Eastward—No. 16 has Wagner parlor car. No.
22 parlor car. Westward—No. 11 parlor car.
No. 17 Wagner parlor car.
§*Daily. +tExcept Sunday.
. H. Huewss, A.G. P. & T. A.

Bux, FLETCHER, Trav. Pass. Agt.,

. A. JUSTIN, City Pass. Agent.
97 Monroe St. Morton House.

GRAND Rapids & Indiana Railway

Northern Div.

Trav. C’y, Petoskey & Mack..
Tray. C’y, Petoskey & Mack...+ 2:15pm t 6:35am
Trav. C’y, Petoskey & Mack.. $10:50pm
Gaanie.... se wet Bs :25pm $11 :15am
Train leaving at 7:45 a. m. has parlor Car, and
train a at 2:15 p. m. has sleeping car to

 

 

 

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

 

Mackinaw.

Southern Div. Leave Arrive
MOIMOE 06. ee + 7:10am + 8:25pm
Wc. Wayne. : ss. -+ 2:10pm + 2:00pm
Cincinnati.. see -* 7:00pm * 7:25am

7:108. m. train has parlor car o Cincinnati.
2: 10 p. m. train has parlor car to Fort Wayne.
7:00 p. m. train has sleeping car to Cincinnati.

Chicago Trains.
TO CHICAGO.

Ly. Grand Rapids.. - — #2 10pm *11 35pm
Ar, CHICaSO:.... -... opm 9 10pm 6 30am
2 CHICAGO.

Pate CPACRRO oo eco 7 con *11 45pm
Ar. Grand Hapids.............- 7 2am

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

Train leaving Chicago 3.02 p. m. has buffet

arlor car to Grand Rapids. Train leaving
Chicano 11.45 p. m. has coach and Pullman
sleeping car to Grand Rapids.

Muskegon Trains.
GOING WEST.

Ly G’d Rapids......... +7:35am +1:00pm 5:40pm
Ar Muskegon........... 9:00am 2:10pm 7:05pm
GOING EAST.

Lv Muskegon....... .. +8:10am +11:45am +¢4:00pm
ArG’d Rapids... ..... 9:30am 12:55pm 5:20pm

Sunday trains leave Grand Rapids 9.00 a. m.
a - m. Leave Muskegon 8.35 a. m. and
6.35

*Daily. {Saturday only.
L. LOCKWOOD,
Gen’! Passr. _— Ticket Agent.

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Railway.
“WEST BOUND.
Ly. Grand Rapids (G. R. & L. )tiL: 10pm +7:45am
Ly. Mackinaw City............ 7:35am 4:20pm
_ St. Ignace...... peebsoceues 9: 00am 5:20pm
Ar. Sault Ste. Marie.......... 12:20pm 9:50pm
Ar. Marquette..............5.- 2:50pm 10:40pm
te MONWOEE ts 5:20pm 12:45am
Ar. Duluth........,.; can eeaeees awceds 8:30am
BAST BOUND.
Oy. PU eco See: Se ec en +6:30pm
PER ORGTIN: Sod eo oe oa ck. ti1:15am 2:45am
Ae. Marquee, ) i 1:30pm 4:30am
Ly. Sault Ste. Marie. . Spin ccs.

Ar. Mackinaw City......... rrell 8:40pm
G. W. Hisparp, Gen. Pass. Agt. Mar ‘sok:
E. C. Oviatt, Trav. Pass. Agt., Grand Rapids

 

 

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Walter Baker & Co,

  

 

 

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We Grand Hapids 2.200. .0.2 2.5. - T:oopm 9:55pm Largest Manufacturers of

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VIA

F.& P. M. R. R.

AND STEAMSHIP LINES
TO ALL POINTS IN MICHIGAN

H. F. MOELLER, a.a. Pp. a.

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Operating xr the elegant and fast steamers ‘Soo
COOOCOOO 00000008 8OOCCCCO City” and ‘‘City ‘of Hollan d’’ between Holl: oa and | oe 1
Cuicago, connecting at Holland with the C. & W. on this Continent.
M. Railway for Grand R: apids and all points east a " : .
° & No Chemicals are used in
Fall Weddings. $e» " stutter scheptte. TraieMarE. their manufactures
sth
Lv. Holland, daily (except Sunday)........ 3:00 p.m. Their Breakfast Cocoa is absolutely pure,
Are now on tap. We make | Lv. Holland, Sunday. 3:00 p.m, | delicious, nutritious, and costs less than one
: i " Lvs Holland, Saturday (special)... 6:30 a.m, | Cent a cup.
a specialty of wedding invita- Lv. Chicago, dé ay (except Fri. and S: at.). -7:00 p.m. Their Premium No. 1 Chocolate, _put up in
- . 2 . Ey. Chicaco, Friday. 2... -4:00 p.m. | Blue Wrappers and Yellow Labels, is the best
tions, both printed and en- Ly. Chicago, Saturday...... 9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m.

: TRADESMAN COMPANY

plain chocolate in the market for family use.

Their German Sweet Chocolate is good to
eat and good to drink. It is palatable, nutri-
tious, and healthful; a great favorite with
children.

Buyers should ask for and be sure that the
get the genuine goods. The above trade-mar
is on every package.

Walter Baker & Co. Ltd.

Dorchester, Mass.

Round

3
graved on copper, and cheer- FARE. Single
> ee Between Holland and Chic: igo $2.25 $3.50
Between Grand Rapids and Chie: amo 315 5-00

fully submit samples and

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quote prices on application. an.

Chicago to Holland and Resorts, F riday and Sat-

urday, leaving Chicago at 4 p. m. one w ay, $1.7

| round’ trip, $2.50. Saturday morning,

| Chicago and Holland, $1.00 each

special rates for transportation ¢ only.
ffice, No. 1 State St., Charles B. Hopper,

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The President

of the United Staies of America,

To

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way. Above

GRAND RAPIDS.

HENRY KOCH, your clerics, attorneys, ager_3
satiesmen. ard workmen, and all claiming of

holding through or under you,
REETING :

Whereas, it has been represented to us in our Circuit Court of the United States for the District of

New Jersey, in the Third Circuit, on the part of the ENOCH MORGAN’S SONS COMPANY,
it has lately exhibited its said Bill of Complaint in our said Circuit Court of the United States
of New Jersey, against you, the said HENRY KOCH, Defendant,
complained of,.and that the said

ENOCH MORGAN’S SONS COMPANY,

Complainant, is entitled to the exclusive use of the designation ‘‘SAPOLIO”

Complainant, that
for the District
to be relieved touching the matters therein

as a trade-mark for scouring soap,

Mow, Cherefore, we do strictly command and perpetually the said HENRY

XOCH, your clerks, attorneys, agents, salesmen and workmen, and all claiming or holding through or under you,
uader_ the pains and penalties which may fall upon _you_and each of you in case of disobedience, do
absolutely desist and refrain from in any manner unlawfully using the word ‘‘SAPOLIO,” or any word or words
substantially similar thereto in sound or appearance, in connection with the manufacture or sale of any scouring
soap not made or produced by or for the Complainant, and from directly, or indirectly,

enjoin you,

that you

By word of mouth or otherwise, selling or delivering as
“SAPOLIO,” or when “SAPOLIO” is asked for,

that which is not Complainant’s said manufacture, and from SAPOLIO” in any

false or misleading manner.

n any way using the word

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avitness, The honorable Metvitte W. Futter, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the
United States of America, at the City of Trenton, in said District of New
Jersey, this 16th day of December, in the year of our Lord, one thousand,
eight hundred and ninety-two,
{sear] [SIGNED]
S. D. OLIPHANT,

Cherie
ROWLAND COX,

' Complainant's Solicitor

 

 

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Our Coffees and Teas

Must excel in Flavor and Strength and be
constant Trade Winners. All our coffees
roasted on day of shipment.

129 Jefferson Avenue, Detroit, Mich.
The J. M. Bour Co., 113°115-117 Ontario St., Toledo, Ohio.

     

  
 

 

 

 

 

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