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GENERAL TRADE SITUATION.
The general volume of trade continues
unabated, the exceptions continuing as
noted last week. Wars and rumors cf
wars in the sugar and other trusts have
afforded opportunity for speculators to
bear the trust stocks, so that the falling
off of the average has been consider-
able. A factor which has helped the
bear operators is the increasing myster-
iousness on the part of corporation man-
agers not only in the industrials, but in
transportation stocks. Buyers are be-
coming tired of surprises and uncer-
tainties which are not warranted, and
so much of recent anxiety to sell is at-
tributed to the increasing spirit of mys-
tery.

While there have been sucha flurry and
reaction in many of the leading stocks,
it is significant that many of the minor
ones are coming to the front as divi-
dend-payers. For instance, the Amer-
ican Type Founding Company, known
as the type trust, had never paid a div-
idend during the five years of its exist-
ence. It has just paid its first returns
to stockholders, and that with a surplus
which warrants the promise of their
continuation. With increasing earnings
of such industries and of railways there
can be no reaction in the general stock
market of long duration.

The other exception to a prosperous
condition is found in the textile trade,
and in this the cause is more serious
and of longer standing. For- years the
overproduction of cotton has been in-
creasing until prices are carried below
all records and with this overproduction
there has been an undue increase in the
manufacture until both are far beyond
any hope of finding outlet. The cheap-
ness of this textile seems to have affect-
ed the woolen trade by sympathy until
both are almost hopelessly demoralized.
The price of wool has advanced over 60
per cent. ; but this has little significance,
as the mills are well stocked at the low-
er basis.

The strength noted in the wheat and
other grain markets last week continued
two or three days, to be followed by
decided dulness and reaction. Export
movement is only about two thirds that
of the corresponding time last year.
A feature of the situation is that farm-
ers are holding for better prices to an
unusual extent, to supply the undue
drain of last vear and because they
are financially able to carry stocks for a
better market.

Activity in the iron and steel trades
continues without abatement and most
prices are reported as strengthening,
although slowly. It is an important and
promising feature of the situation that
the scale of prices enables us to find a
market in so many parts of the world
and the greatest danger which could
threaten would be such an increase in
prices as would limit the foreign, and
local, demand. The weekly output dur-
ing the great industrial year preceding
the panic, 1%92, was 51,648 tons, while
the present is 213,043. The price of
Bessemer at Pittsburg in the former
year was $13.96, while the present is
$10. 50.

GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1898.

 

But it is important that 40 per

cent. more workmen are now employed
than during that year of the high tide
of prosperity.

MUST PAY THE PENALTY.

The four express companies associated
in the Express Trust appear to have an
unfortunate faculty of getting on the
wrong side of things generally. The
disloyal position they assumed on the
war tax enraged the moral sense of the
people, creating a sentiment which will
find expression in future sessions of
Congress and the State Legislatures.
The latest instance of wrongheaded-
ness is the arbitrary action of the com-
panies in demanding free service from
the independent telephone companies
of the country. The local company hap-
pens to be composed of about 400 prom-
inent business men—bankers, wholesale
and retail merchants and professional
men—all of whom have joined hands
in a crusade against the latest ukase of
the Trust. Among the methods adopted
to curtail the business of the compan-
ies is the circulation of several hundred
thousand circulars reading as follows:

Grand Rapids,Oct. 3—The American,
Adams, National and U. S. Express
Companies, in combination, have issued a
general peremptory order to the Citizens
Telephone Co. to furnish them free
service or remove their telephones.
This order is not only to the local tele-
phone company, but to the independent
telephone companies throughout the
country, and is thoroughly in keeping
with the unpatriotic and disloyal stand
taken by the Express Companies in re
fusing to bear their share of the war
tax.

The only way to reach these gigantic
corporations and compel them to with-
draw this unreasonable demand is
through their business, by cutting down
their revenue.

We shall, so far as possible, have all
our goods shipped by fast freight, and
have nothing come by express except
where absolutely necessary. We trust
our customers will anticipate their
wants, so far as possible, and submit to
whatever brief delay is incurred.

In filling orders for out of town cus-
tomers, we ask that the manner of ship-
ping be left to our discretion. Small
packages will be sent by U. S. mail
where possible and the Express service
used only when the urgency of the case
requires.

There can be but one outcome to the
attitude of the companies in both war
tax and telephones—and that is surren-
der. Nor will the matter stop there.
Spain is paying a severe penalty for
running counter to the moral sense of
America, and the express companies
are destined to meet defeat none the less
humiliating and pay a penalty none the
less severe. Corporations can ignore
the acts of legislative bodies and defy
the decisions of courts, but the moral
sense of the people is an element with
which corporations can not long trifle
without paying the penalty

H. J. Klose, formerly on the road for
Studley & Barclay, but more recently
in the employ of the Milwaukee branch
of the Goodyear Rubber Co. as Michi-
gan traveling representative, takes the
place of A. B. Hirth with Hirth, Krause
& Co. during the former’s absence in
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Number 785

THE VOLUNTEER SYSTEM.

The experience of the country during
and since the war with Spain with the
volunteer system of raising an army has
taught several lessons which the mili-
tary authorities should not fail to take
to heart,

Some critics have hastened to pro-
nounce the volunteer system a failure
owing to the anxiety of many regiments
to secure their discharge from the serv-
ice as soon as the war terminated. This
is a great mistake. It has always been
understood that volunteers were re-
quired for actual service in fighting the
country’s battles and not for mere garri-
son duty or for police work after the
close of hostilities. It can not be de-
nied that as long as the war lasted the
volunteers were contented and willing
to remain in the service as long asa
possible chance of seeing active work
existed. If many regiments were slow
in securing equipments to fit them for
the field, it was no fault of theirs, but
of the Government, which failed to
keep a_ stock of war material on hand.
Wherever used the volunteers did equal-
ly as good service as did the regulars,
the testimony of General Shafter and a
few others to the contrary notwithstand-
ing.

It has, therefore, been conclusively
shown that, in depending on the volun-
teers as a fighting force, the country
was wise. The mistake made was to
enlist them for a term of two years with
a view of using them for garrison duty
after the termination of the war. The
volunteers consider, and very properly,
that all expected of them was to fight.
The fighting over, they should be per-
mitted to return to their homes, and the
Regular Army recruited to a sufficient
strength to meet all requirements for
policing conquered territory.

The conquest of Cuba, Porto Rico,
the Philippines and the Ladrone Islands
will make an increase in the size of
the regular army imperatively neces-
sary, and Congress should lose no time
when it meets in providing for a larger
regular force with a view to relieving
the volunteers as soon as possible. The
old policy of maintaining no more reg-
ular troops than are actually required
is still a good one, however, as the
volunteers can always be counted on to
resist invasion and fight the country’s
battles, even in foreign countries. Vol-
unteers can not be expected, however,
to do police duty, hence when the ad-
ministration sets out to make new con-
quests, it would do well to make pro-
vision in season for armies of occupa-
tion over and above the volunteers re-
quired to fight the battles.

It would also be well to educate the
regulars up to the understanding that to
fight disease is quite as much a part of
a soldier’s duty as to fight his country’s
enemies. The British government al-
ways uses its troops to protect infected
localities, and not even the presence of
the bubonic plague in India was deemed
a sufficient reason for removing gar-
risons. The round robin of the mili-
tary commanders at Santiago was a
novelty in military ethics, which can
not be too soon forgotten.

 

 

 

 

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Dry Goods

The Dry Goods Market.

Staple Cottons—There is but little
change to note in regard to business in
bleached cottons. Prices remain as
previously quoted and stocks are easy.
Wide sheetings, cotton flannels, blan-
kets, quilts, denims, ticks, plaids and
other coarse colored cottons are without
marked change in price, and in limited
request.

 

 

Prints and Ginghams—More popular
lines of fancy ginghams are securing
fairly good business and are steady and
firm in price. Indigo blues, mourning
prints, Turkey reds, etc., are finding a
quiet, moderate business, with prices
unchanged in the majority of cases.
Reports are coming to hand of a little
irregularity here and there. Fine fan-
cies for spring are selling well in all
lines of cotton dress goods, and both
staples and fancy styles are in steady
demand, and prices firm.

Dress Goods—There is a slightly bet-
ter feeling in the dress goods market
this week than we have been able to
report previously, and while the buying
has been by no means large, there has
been more movement in the various
lines. We note the increased tendency
to add fancies to the orders, and these
fancies include neat effects in plaids,
fine checks and stripes. Jobbers say,
however, it is impossible to make any
concise statement in regard to the styles
ordered, or rather, to designate any one
or! half dozen, because the whole line
has been chosen from.

Cloaks—The uncertainty in the cloak
trade with reference to styles is the
fault of the cloak manufacturers strictly.
The majority of them have not back-
bone enough to decide for themselves
as to what styles should be the vogue,
and so they turn te their customers. In-
stead of setting the fashions, their prac-
tice has been to buy a sample piece of
goods, and cut out of each five or six
different length garments, and show
them all to the retailers. The retailer
would be nonplussed to decide which
of these five or six styles would be the
correct thing, and the result would be
that he would place an order for one
garment of each style, and await further
developments. In the meantime two or
three progressive and aggressive cloak
manufacturers have decided this season
that the 22-inch or thereabouts jacket
would be the proper thing, made of
roughfaced fabrics, and have so told
their customers with all the authority
which they could command, and the re
sult is that these firms have donea
very large business, and the confidence
which they felt in their styles was com-
municated to their customers to the ex-
tent that they placed their orders with
a degree of authoritative knowledge that
they were right; and the sooner the
cloak manufacturers realize that they
must make the styles for the retailers as
the retailers must select the styles for
the consumers, the better condition the
entire trade will be in.

Carpets—A meeting of the low grade
carpet filling yarn spinners was held
Sept. 22, at the Manufacturers’ Club
rooms, Philadelphia, and a shutdown of
the mills was decided upon. This ac-
tion is taken because of the overpro-
duction of low-grade yarn, and the con-
sequent tendency toward lower prices.
It is expected that another meeting will
soon be held, when arrangements will be
further discussed. The auction sales

 

held in May and June so thoroughly de-
moralized the carpet trade that to-day
there is an unnatural price for both yarn
and goods, and unless there is a change
soon, there will be a large number of
spinners shut down. It is claimed there
are 2,000,000 pounds of gray yarn on
the market, which is very largely in
excess of demand. This has continued
to accumulate, notwithstanding some
spinners have not run over three or four
days per week for a long period. The
ingrain mills will not start to run
on spring orders for six weeks, and be-
tween this time and the opening of next
season it is claimed by those well in-
formed that not over 25 per cent. of the
ingrain looms will run, and that even
those will be on duplicate orders. Some
mills have orders in hand that must be
executed within a given time. When
these are completed they will shut down
with the rest of the manufacturers.
Cheap straw matting is also affecting
the sale of cheap gray carpets and other
lines. Manufacturers claim that there
is not enough protection against Orien-
tal matting, and that this is one of the
causes of the present depression. It was
claimed, when the Philadelphia manu-
facturers were in Washington prior to
the passage of the present low tariff on
straw matting, that unless there was
sufficient duty placed upon this class of
goods, it would eventually shut up the
Kensington mills. The manufacturers
abroad have reduced prices on matting
since the new tariff went into effect, and
the result has been that, while the busi-
ness has been confined to a few im-
porters, they have a done a large _ busi-
ness. It is expected that 2,000 people
will be affected by the shutting down of
the filling yarn mills.

 

 

 

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of the Lamb Knitting Machine,
President and Superintendent.

The Lamb Glove & Mitten Go.,

of PERRY, MICH.,

controls a large number of the latest

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is making a very desirable line of
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Do You Know

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Decorations for Home-Coming of 32d
a Failure.
Written for the TRADESMAN.

There is no nation which puts into
practice more utilitarian theories than
the American nation. This was shown
a few days ago when the 32d regiment
returned to Grand Rapids. In the re-
cent Spanish American War more atten-
tion was devoted to their doings than to
the successes of the heroes of Manila
Bay and Santiago.

With the prospect of the boys’ home-
coming everybody’s heart beat faster
and nothing was considered too good for
them. There was much talk about their
reception, the decorations, etc. Yet
what was the result? Within an hour
of their arrival could any place look
more forlorn than Monroe street, the
most important thoroughfare through
which the troops would pass? True, one
shoe firm decorated its windows with
red, white and blue paper; and one
druggist put out a great gilded eagle to
proclaim the American motto, ‘‘E plur-
ibus unum.’’ But the decorations were
limited for the most part to numerous
small, cheap, sleazy cotton flags stuck
at all angles under the sun, and a little
faded bunting looped over doorways in
anything but graceful folds.

‘*But,’’ says some one, ‘‘it rained in
the morning and there was little pros-
pect of any procession in the after-
noon. ”’

The doubt ought to have come a little
sooner. And the public-spirited men
ought to have questioned whether it was
justice to the boys to get up such a pa-
rade. It is true the boys had not been
in a battle, nor even seen one, but

“They also serve who only stand and wait.”
And certainly the hardships of camp
life and the ravages of disease are easier
to be borne in the midst of the excite-
ment and the glory of war. After seeing
the boys one wonders whether the fathers
had anything to do with the plan of
showing them off. Certainly no mother
could have wished to have her son,
dirty, tired, half sick and starved (most
of them had had no breakfast before
leaving Island Lake), put on exhibition
in that condition before her friends, ac-
quaintances anc neighbors, or even
strangers. Home _ was the place for
them and the carriages which were so
kindly furnished by the citizens of
Grand Rapids ought to have carried
them and their belongings at once to
their homes. (But that is only an in-
dividual opinion. )

If a majority of the citizens decided
that a procession was the way to wel-
come home the troops then they ought
to have done everything in their power
to make all the arrangements, the deco-
rations—everything—a success. The
boys scarcely knew what to do with the
flowers showered upon them, and as to
free lunches, they were quite overcome
by their liberal portions. Imagine liv-
ing on hardtack and+bacon for several
months and then being confronted by
mountains of sandwiches, pies by the
score and fruit galore. Of course, boys
never get dyspepsia; but such treat-
ment was a sure way to develop the
malarial typhoid germs in the system
and bring about a siege of sickness.

Now, if the same time, money and
thought had been put on the street deco-
rations instead of the provisions, they
might have been made a delight to the
eye instead of an eyesore. Why were
not the shop windows utilized on such a
day not only for showing patriotism,
but also for advertising the wares? And
the contents of the show windows need

 

not have suffered a particle on account
of the uncertain showers.

While I was waiting for the procession
to appear, I cast my eyes up and down
Monroe street and was forcibly reminded
by contrast of an experience I had at
Malmo just a year ago.

Malmo is a fishing town in Southern
Sweden whose population is just one-
half that of Grand Rapids. I reached
there on a Sunday morning and could
not take a boat for Copenhagen before
noon. With several hours on my hands,
there was little for me to do but saunter
around the town and see what there was
to beseen. I had feared that time would
bang heavily on my hands; but the
shop windows on several of the princi-
pal streets were so full of interest, and
my attention was so fully diverted, that
the boat whistled before I took any no-
tice of the time, and I had to hurriedly
retrace my steps to the dock.

The day before, King Oscar had
visited Malmo. It was the Silver An-
niversary of his ruling his kingdom,
and so he was making triumphal entries
in the more important cities of his land.
As the Malmo celebration had taken
place the Saturday evening before and
had lasted late into the night, nothing
bad been touched early Sunday morning
when J arrived, the candles being still
in their sockets and the decorations not
disturbed.

The front windows of the hotel where
King Oscar had stopped were a blaze of
blue and orange, the national colors,
while the numerous candles on each
windowsill “took on the same _ hues
Every shop window made the national
colors the keynote of its decorations

In the flower shop was a great flag of
orange and blue stripes, with a bit of
red in the corner to show Norway’s al-
legiance to Sweden.

In the jewelers’ shops were brilliant
gems—garnets, rubies and sapphires
set in pure gold—arranged artistically
on blue plush and yellow satin.

In the shoe shops were blue and or-
ange satin evening slippers, while the
background for the black shoes was of
the national colors.

In the chemists’ were innumerable
bottles and packages wrapped in blue or
orange-colored paper.

In the dry goods shops were ready-
made dresses. I remember one window
in particular which contained two dum-
mies, one wearing a blue velvet recep-
tion dress, the other a yellow, or rather
orange-colored, evening gown. Also
there were numerous silk blouses in the
national colors. Then another window
contained nothing except ribbons of the
same colors.

The milliner shops boasted of the
same gorgeous decorations in the way
of hats, ribbons, flowers and plumes.

The book stores had less opportunity
than some of the other shops for display-
ing the blue and orange, but they used
their ingenuity and did not lag behind
the others in results.

Everywhere were the national tlags
waving their silken folds in the breeze,
there were a number of flower-bedecked
triumphal arches, and when the innu-
merable candles were lighted the city
must have presented a brilliant spec-

tacle.

This is simply a suggestion of the
beauties of Malmo that to me memora-
ble Sunday morning, but it may offer
some hints to the artistically inclined
window dresser, and set him to think-
ing of the possibilities of the even more
varied and beautiful American flag and
our national colors used in decorating
on such an occasion as the return of our
soldiers. : Quiz.

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Around the State

Movements of Merchants.

Albion—F. W. Briggs, clothier, has
removed to Colon.

Sherwood—Wm. Rider has removed
his harness stock to Athens.

Holly—A. W. Curtis has re-engaged
in the boot and shoe business.

Delton —J. F. Williams has re-en-
gaged in the furniture business.
Capac—Warren & Bailden
Warren & Bro. in general trade.

Detroit—Loree & Co. succeed Si:llers
& McRoy in the grocery business.

Detroit—W. T. McRae succeeds Mc-
Rae & Co. in the grocery business.

Reading—A. A. Dibble will shortly
remove his clothing stock to Albion.

Lake Odessa—C. G. Loase, hardware
dealer, has removed his stock to Sparta.

Central Lake—Homer & Jobnson have
opened a dry goods store at this place.

Marcellus—Russell & Nash succeed
Moon & Russeil in tthe hardware busi-
ness.

Laurium—H. S. Ingersoll has pur-
chased the grocery stock of Grimmer
Bros.

Bay City—W. V. Prybeski has pur-
chased the stock of the People’s Supply
Store.

Caro—H. S. Johnson has purchased
the dry goods and shoe stock of Jas. C.
Fuller.

Marshall—A. V.
chased the grocery
Watson

Hastings—Lake & Crowell, wood
turners, have dissolved, Bert Lake suc-
ceeding.

Fifield—Harry N. Hammond, dealer
in seeds, has removed from Decatur to
his place.

Montrose—Marks & Frank, general
dealers, have removed from Argyle to
this place.

Mancelona—The Mancelona Electric
Co., not incorporated, is succeeded by
A. Emery.

Ithaca—C. M. Brown has purchased

 

 

succeed

Watson has_ pur-
stock of Andrew

the agricultural implement stock of
Wm. Dibble.
Bay City—O. (Mrs. C.) Ueberroth

succeeds Ueberroth & Widmer in the
meat business.

Jackson—J. W. Fleming succeeds M.
M. Johnson & Co. in the confectionery
and fruit business.

Marshall—E. G. Brewer has sold his
stock of general merchandise to H. E.
Hart, of Battle Creek.

Hillman—Wm. F. Devlin is succeed-
ed by John Murphy as proprietor of the
Hillman Hardware Co.

Hillsdale—A. & D. Friedman have
opened a dry goods store, placing R.
Franks in charge thereof.

Jackson—Lewis A. Townley succeeds
Townley & Simpson in the wholesale
fruit and produce business.

West Bay City—Henry S. Ingersoll,
dealer in dry goods, groceries and
shoes, has removed to Laurium.

Edwardsburg—Sampson & Talerday
continue the meat business formerly
conducted by Wm. H. Sampson.

Kingston—W. L. Baker, of Carleton,
has purchased the furniture and under-
taking business of J. K. Thomas.

Three Rivers —-The furniture store of
Geo. Neidhardt has been closed by the
foreclosing of a chattel mortgage.

Alma—H. J. Vermulen has converted
his mercantile establishment into a de-
partment store, which will be known as
the Alma department store. His three
stores have been connected by archways,
thus making one iarge room occupying
the entire block.

 

Schoolcraft—Wm. Roberts & Son have
enlarged their furniture and hardware
stock and removed to more commodious
quarters.

Howard City— B. Danziger, of Man-
ton, has opened a branch store at this
place, carrying a line of general mer-
chandise.

Lansing—-Geo. W. Hubbard, of Ionia,
has taken charge of the dress goods and
silk department of the Simons Dry
Goods Co.

Owosso-—Stephen Dondero has retired
from the confectionery business. He
will visit his native city, Genoa, ina
few weeks.

Hopkins Station—Furber & Kidder
now occupy their new bank building,
which is a fine structure and a credit
to the town.

Cadillac—Anderson & Johnson, meat
dealers, have dissolved, Chas. G. An-
derson purchasing the interest of John
O. Anderson.

Lansing—G. A. Munyon has removed
his grocery stock from the corner of
Saginaw and Larch streets to 409 Mich-
igan avenue.

Davison—R. J. Smith has sold his
drug stock to C. S. Brouks, who clerked
for C. E. Haynes up to the time he sold
his stock to Mr. Smith.

Sherwood—Fenner Bros. have sold
their grocery and boot and shoe stock
to R. F. Watkins & Son, who will con-
tinue the business at this place.

Ludington—H. G. Hansen, who re-
cently sold his interest in the Busy Big
store to Dr. Loppenthein, has purchased
the grocery stock of A. Rasmussen.

Calumet—John Grierson and Geo. Fax
have formed a copartnership under the
style of Grierson & Fax and embarked
in the general merchandise business.

Charlotte—E. V. Abell has sold his
shoe stock to Albert Murray. The state-
ment that the stock had been purchased
by Victor Roblin & Co. was incorrect.

Battle Creek—Hobbs Bros. & Russell,
grocers at 231 West Main street, have
dissolved. The business will be contin-
ued under the style of Swank & Hobbs.

Lansing—W. E. Parmelee, of Elyria,
Ohio, has formed a partnership in the
shoe business with his brother, J. S.
Parmelee, formerly of Parmelee & Jes-
sop.

Bay City—Ewell & Harper, undertak-
ers at 502 Washington avenue, have dis-
solved partnership, Fred. A. Harper
retiring. The business will be con-
tinued by Geo. N. Ewell.

Maple Rapids—E. C. Bement, who is
retiring from the mercantile business,
has sold the remainder of his stock to
Scott Redfern and John Chalmers, who
will continue the business.

Alma—The store building vacated by
the Saginaw store has been leased for a
term of years by the New York Dry
Goods Co., which will carry a line of
dry goods, carpets and cloaks.

Holland—The -undertaking firm of
Vanderberg & Cranston has dissolved,
M. Notier purchasing the interest of
Mr. Cronston. The firm will hereafter
be known as Vanderberg & Notier.

Harbor Springs—H. H. Plank has
purchased H. H. Chamberlain’s meat
market. W. W. Pearl, who was in the
employ of Mr. Chamberlain, is now in
charge of the market of G. C. Adams.

Hartford—H. L. Gleason & Co. have
bargained to sell their general stock to F.
W. Hubbard, of the tirm of M. Wiggins
& Co., general dealers at Bloomingdale.
In the event of the sale being consum-
mated, Mr. Gleason will devote his at-
tention to the handling of live stock,
fruit and produce.

 

Traverse City—Arthur Rosenchal, who
was formerly connected with the Bos-
ton store, and afterwards removed to
South Lake Linden, will shortly open a
dry goods, clothing and shoe store here.

Sherman—Wm. F. Lount, of Grand
Rapids, bas taken a position in the drug
store of M. Rose. Mr. Lount was on
the Oregon in her trip around Cape
Horn and was afterwards transferred to
Cuba, where he took part in several en-
gagements.

Boyne City—R. A. Watson is erect-
ing a two-story building, 24x66 feet iu
dimensions, with double glass front fac-
ing both streets. He will occupy the
ground floor with his drug stock and
the upper story will be leased to the
local Masonic lodge.

Homer—The millinery firm of M. J.
Armstrong & Co. has dissolved, Mrs
Armstrong continuing the business at
the old stand. Miss Hessmer has formed
a copartnership with Mrs. G. E. Ear-
tung, and the new firm will be known
as Hartung & Hessmer.

Coldwater—The Quincy Knitting Co.
has been organized with a capital stock
of $12,500, divided among thirty-five
stockholders. The officers of the com-
pany areas follows: President, C. H.
McKay; Vice-President, W. H. Lock-
erby; Secretary, C. H. Kenyon and
Treasurer, C. H. Houghtaling.

North Lansing—The Hart milling
property has been sold to Webber &
Hughes by the receiver. A year ago the
receiver bargained to sell the property
to A. D. Hughes for $5,000, but the
deal has not been consummated until
now. The property was originally val-
ued at over $20,000, and was turned
over to the Central Michigan Savings
Bank before its failure.

Detroit—The Detrvit Malleable Co.,
successors to the Detroit Malleable Iron
Works, has filed articles of incorpora-
tion, and will continue the business up-
on a capital stock of $50,000, of which
$43,000 has been paid in. The incor-
porators are J. Preston Rice, Geo. H.
Carver, Thomas H. Simpson, George
M. Black, Will H. Moore, Benjamin F.
Ray, Douglas M. Ray, and Thomas M.
Simpson, trustee.

Saginaw—Biesterfeld Bros., who have
long been engaged in the hardware busi-
ness at 213 and 215 North Harrison
street, have filed chatte] mortgages ag-
gregating $4,500 to protect their credit-
ors. The first mortgage runs to the Com-
mercial National bank and is for $3,000,
to secure paper discounted by the bank.
The second mortgage is for $1,200 and
is given to a relative to secure money
advanced. The third is for $200 and
runs to Mrs, Harrison Kerry to secure
borrowed money. A fourth mortgage
for $108 runs to an employe. The as-
sets, it is understood, are considerably
in excess of the liabilities, and it is
believed that if the creditors are lenient
the firm will be able to meet all its ob-
ligations and continue its business.

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Burton Halladay has gone into the

grocery and dry goods business at Ash-

ton. The goods for the former depart-

ment were purchased of the Lemon &

Wheeler Co. and for the latter of P.
Steketee & Sons.

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Jobn Cahill has engaged in the gro-
cery business at Portland. He purchased
his stock of the Musselman Grocer Co.

————_>-42>_

V. C. Wolcott bas engaged in the
grocery business at Hart. The Mussel-
man Grocer Co. furnished the stock.

oe

Frank Chase has engaged to travel for
Wm. Brummeler & Sons,

 

Status of Fruits and Produce at St.
Louis.

St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 4—The market
on potatoes is very unsettled. The
weather continues warm and prices are
lower. The demand is exceedingly
light for the time of year. The condi-
tions of the market are very much more
favorable than at this time last year.
There was a heavy accumulation of
stock on track just at this time last sea-
son, with very depressed conditions.
The trade has bought more cautiously
this year and there are no heavy losses
to report. In the last two weeks pcta-
toes have declined from 5o0c per bushel
for the best white stock and 45c for the
best red, down to 33@35c for the best
white and 30@32c tor the best red.
There is no accumulation to speak of on
track,and with favorable weather, which
we will no doubt have in a day or two,
this market will need potatoes.

During the season of 1895 and 1896
this market received a great many pota-
toes from Michigan and several of your
best varieties, especially New York
Rurals, became very popular here. If
the quality of your crop this year is
good, many cars of Rurals can be sold.
The trade are now asking us: ‘‘When
do you expect to have some of those fine,
bright Rurals you had two years‘ago?’’
and we are telling them that Michigan
stock is not ready for shipment yet;
that just as soon as the potatoes in
Michigan are ready we will have them.
Those Rurals from your State will sell
now and command a premium, bripng-
ing from 3@4c per bushel more than the
stock coming from Wisconsin. You
have a potato called Empire State.
They are usually yellow and do not sell
well—Burbanks are preferred. There
seems to be a good crop of potatoes
everywhere,and you can not expect that
prices will rule very high. You had
better figure on a market of from 2oc to
25c at loading station. They may pos-
sibly sell as low as 15c to 20c, because
there is no particular locality with any
great shortage, and with even one half
to two-thirds of a crop in all of the
growing districts, it will make a big crop
to market, and every place reports a
very good crop.

We do not anticipate as low prices as
ruled in 1894 and 1895. because there
are not as many potatoes as there were
those years; but in all districts where
potatoes are grown, from present out-
look, they will have to look to markets
nearest at hand. It does not now ap-
pear that the East can take any great
portion of the Michigan crop. You
will, therefore, of necessity have tofind
a Southern outlet, and will most likely
find St. Louis a good market. You are
but two or three days’ shipment from
us here, and the railroad facilities from
Michigan to East St. Louis, where the
potatoes are unloaded, are of the best.
Several of the best roads in the country
can offer you quick transportation.

The apple market has been very dull.
The trade are waiting for winter varie-
ties. The summer fruit which has been
coming in here in such abundance, es-
pecially culls shipped in bulk, has de-
moralized the market, and the trade are
anxious to have it out of the way, and
get to handling hard winter stock. St.
Louis is ready for some fine apples as
soon as they are packed and is prepared
to pay good prices for them as compared
with this poor fruit which is now glut-
ting the market.

There seems to be a good crop of
onions everywhere, and they are selling
at low prices. We have seen but few
really good onions on this market this
season. We believe that parties having
fancy, well-matured bright stock will
find a good market for it.

Beans are selling for better prices
than they have been. We are anxious
to have reports on the crop in Michi-
gan and would appreciate letters from
parties who can give us reliable infor-
mation. MILLER & TEASDALE Co.

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The Bird Canning Co., of St. Louis,
Mo., has opened a canning factory in
one end of the old G. R. & I. freight
house. Apples only will be canned this
season.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Grand Rapids Gossip

Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Asso-
ciation.

 

 

The regular meeting of the Grand
Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association was
held at the Tradesman office Tuesday
evening, Oct. 4, at which President
Dyk read his inaugural address, as fol-
lows:

At our last meeting I was elected as
President of the Association. With
pleasure I accept the office, and appre-
ciate the confidence and good _ will
which you have shown me, realizing
that it is tendered by men of sober and
ripe judgment, and, for that reason, I
feel honored; nevertheless, I would
gladly have seen another member take
my place more able than I, but I can
only say you will have to make the best
of a poor bargain. You have made it
easy for me by your kind co-operation.

We have again entered upon another
year of our existence, consequently have
to halt at another milestone and there-
fore can but reflect upon the past. This
* year has been a fairly prosperous one
for the Association. We can not show
marked achievements, but have reason
to feel proud of the strengthening we
have made along the lines. The Asso-
ciation has taken a more prominent
place in the business community; reso-
lutions have been adopted ; able papers
have been presented full of wisdom, in-
sight and a grasp upon the needs of the
day, showing that the Association stands
for correct business principles. Right-
eousness exalteth the Nation, conse-
quently exalteth the individual; and
the humblest merchant who conducts
his affairs on this principle occupies an
exalted station. Let us continue to go
forward, not satisfied with past achieve-
ments, so that this Association may be
an educational school for the young
business man, and a bright spot for
the experienced business man, as he
who gives from his ripe experience will
find that it is more blessed to give than
to receive; and to testify to the experi-
ence, ‘‘Seest thou a man diligent in
business and he shall stand before
kings.”’

On motion, the regular order of busi-
ness was dispensed with in order that
the members might listen to an address
by Hon. Robert Grabam on the subject
of the anti-color oleo law. Mr. Graham
stated that he had received the letter of
enquiry from the Secretary, and pre-
ferred addressing the members on the
subject to writing a letter because-he
could express himself much more clear-
ly verbally. He favored the anti-color
law because he felt it to be right and
just. In the first place, the invention
of oleo was a death blow to one of the
chief industries of Michigan. Until
two years ago, cattle were growing less
in number, until butter cows became so
scarce that there were not half enough
cows to meet the requirements of local
markets. Since the enactment of the
oleo law the farmers have begun to raise
their beifer calves, and in a short time
there will be enough cows in the State
to meet the local demand for butter.
The Michigan farmer can not raise cat-
tle for beef alone, because he can not
compete with the large ranchmen of the
Western prairies He must have a bi-
product, such as butter, and, with a rea-
sonably lucrative market for that staple,
the production of butter will be in-
creased in a short time and the average
quality of the product will be improved.
The butterine manufacturers can make
oleo just as cheaply in winter as they
can in summer, yet they double the
price for it in the winter, showing con-
clusively that they are not actuated by
any ordinary motive in placing their
product on the market. Why, then,
should people favor a bogus product
which must be sold in imitation of but-
ter, in preference to the genuine article?
Is it a question of the poor man’s
pocketbook or the anxiety of the dealer
to handle an article on which a larger
margin of profit can be made?

B. S. Harris asserted that 40 per cent.
of the country butter which comes to
market is unfit for table use.

 

Mr. Graham coincided with this opin-
ion, but insisted that time, study and an
increase in the amount of stock will en-
able the farmer to make better butter.
The price of veal tells the story as to
whether the law has been a good one
for the farmer. A few years ago veal
was so cheap that it hardly paid to
bring the calves to market. Now the
farmers are raising their heifer calves
and bending all their energy to increase
the amount and improve the quality of
their dairy products.

J. Geo. Lehman stated that Mr.
Graham’s remarks had caused him to
look at the matter in a little different
light than he had done before. He spoke
of the satisfaction in handling creamery
butter, because there is no loss, where-
as the grocer who pays the farmer 17
cents per pound for butter and sends it
out to his customers quite likely gets
it back several times, as a rule, before
he makes it stick.

President Dyk enquired if it was just
to prohibit the coloring of oleo and per-
mit it in butter. Mr. Graham _ insisted
that the law was just, because butter is
a natural product, and that the coloring
of oleo is a subterfuge to permit the
product to be sold as a substitute for
butter and, in many cases, it was actual-
ly sold for butter.

The subsequent discussion brought
out a good many interesting points on
both sides and, at the conclusion of the
discussion, a vote of thanks was ten-
dered Mr. Graham for bis kindness in
attending the meeting and addressing
the members of the subject under con-
sideration.

President Dyk announced the follow-
ing committees:

Trade Interests—B. S. Harris, Fred
Fuller, H. C. Wendorf.

Executive--A. Brink, F. L. Merri
Fd. Connelly, J. F. Gaskill, L.
Dahiem.

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The Produce Market.

Apples—Buyers are paying $1@1.50
for fruit alone, which brings the selling
price up to $1.75@2.2§ per bbl.

Beets—25c per bu.

Butter— Dairy is a little more plenty,
commanding 17c for choice. Factory
creamery is in active demand at 2oc.

Cabbage—$3@4 per too heads for
home grown.

Carrots—25c per bu.

ll,
O.

Cauliflower—$1 per doz. and very
scarce.
Celery—White Plume, 12@15c per
bunch.

Crab Apples—40@6oc per bu. for Si-
berian or Transcendent.

Cranberries—Cape Cods
$2 50 per bu. or $2.25 per box.

Cucumbers— Pickling stock is in ac-
tive demand at 25@3o0c per 100

Eggs—Fresh are scarce and firm at
14c. Cold storage are in ample supply
and weak at !2c.

Egg Plant—$1 per doz.

Grapes—Pony (4-1b. ) baskets of Dela-
wares command 1o@12c. Eight pound
baskets. of Concords, Brightons_ or
Niagaras command 9@lIoc.

Green Peppers—6oc per bu.

Honey—Fine new comb commands
12@13¢.

Onions—Home grown command 4oc
per bu. for yellow or red.

Peaches—Late varieties keep coming
in, to the astonishment of all concerned.
The quality is fine, for late fruit, and
the size and appearance are unusually
good. Smocks .and Salways command
30@4o0c on the market and dealers find
no difficulty in securing an outlet on the
basis of 60@75c.

Pears—50@75c per bu.

Plums—A few Blue Damsons continue
to come in, finding ample demand on
the basis of $1@1.25 per bu.

Pop Corn—soc per bu.

Potatoes—35@4oc per bu. Indica-
tions point to a lively shipping de-
mand at 20@30c at point of shipment.
The principal demand appears to be
from the South.

Quinces—60@75c per bu.

Sweet Potatoes—Virginias fetch $1.75
@2 per bbl. Jerseys have declined to
$2. 50@2.75.

Tomatoes—soc per bu.

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The Grocery Market.

Sugar—The American Sugar Refining
Co. announced a decline of %@c last
Saturday, the principal decline being
on the softs. Tbe slump came about a
month ahead of the usual time.

Tea—Tea is believed to be good prop-
erty at present prices, even with the
possibility of the removal of the duty.
Dealers expect an active business to
develop in the course of a month or so.
While a large number of retailers are
well stocked up, others’ stucks are low
and there must be some buying sooner
or later. Jobbers’ stocks are not large.

Coffee—Reports from Brazilian coffee
points are to the effect that the cool
weather has had a damaging effect on
the growing crop near Rio and _ Saiutos.
The receipts have been ratber lighter
for the past few weeks at those two
points. As this is a blossoming period
for the coffee plants, it is said the dam-
ages may have been very serious. How-
ever, the reports have not the effect to
affect the market materially in_ this
country.

Canned Goods— Prices are unchanged,
but buyers have not taken hold for some
reason. Tomatoes are unchanged. Buy-
ers seem indifferent and prices are un-
changed. Market conditions on tomatoes
are unchanged, and the future is hard
to predict. It depends largely on pack-
ers’ necessities and the weather. Corn
is unchanged and very little is being
sold. Buyers are holding off. Nothing
is doing in peas, which rule at un-
changed prices. But very few enquiries
are heard for peaches, on which the
prices are unchanged.

Dried Fruits—The crop of West Coast
fruit will be necessarily light this sea-
son and prices are inclined to be very
firm. California prunes especially will
be short, and of small size, even 60s
being reported scarce. The raisin sit-
uation is unchanged. There will be
one of the largest, if not the largest
crop ever raised in California. The
Growers’ Association have now per-
fected their organization, and it is be-
lieved they will be able to get fair prices
for their product, although it will be un-
desirable and impossible to hold long
for high prices, in the face of so large a
crop. It is hardly to be expected that
the market will be unreasonably high.
Oid stocks of raisins on the coast are
said to be well cleaned up, as are also
old stocks of prunes. All lines of West
Coast dried fruits are inclined to be
strong, and holders more than usualiy
independent. Thecurrant market is in-
clined to be firmer, on reports of a Gre-
cian trade treaty with Russia,- which
country is a large consumer of currants
under certain conditions. California
figs have advanced 1%c. They are re-
ported unusually good this year,and are
steadily gaining in quality from year to
year.

Syrups and Molasses—There has been
a good sale of sugar syrup from refiners
to first hands during the week, but the
demand from the general trade is dull.
Prices are unchanged. There has been
a fair demand for molasses during the
week. Stocks are scarce, and there is
practically none in first hands. Prices
are unchanged, and there is no prospect
of immediate fluctuation.

Provisions—There has been practical
ly no change in the provision market
during the past week. A good, steady
demand _ has ruled, and this is likely to
continue some time. No immediate
change in the price of anything is ex-
pected, unless it be an advance in lard,
which the Western packers are talking

 

of. October and November are months
of large consumption, and it is very
probable that the advance spoken of
will be made.
4.
The Morning Market.

While the advancing season is lessen-
ing the stir about the island market
there is still enough of interest to make
it worth attention. Offerings of peaches,
while appearing smali in contrast with
those of the middle season, are still in
considerable abundance, at the last
seeming to be in excess of the buying
interest. This is no doubt owing to the
fact that the late varieties are unsuited
to distant shipping. Prices have been
fairly well maintained, as the high
prices of the earlier season seem to have
spoiled botb buyer and seller for handl-
ing fruit on the niggardly basis of re-
cent years. Notwithstanding the less-
ening of demand at the last, the season
as a whole has carried out its promise
of far exceeding any other in this mar-
ket. Plums are still offered in small
quantities, and may be said to be prac-
tically out of the wholesale market.

Pears are still in considerable quanti-
ties, and are in good demand at moder-
ate prices.

As the other fruits fall off, apples
seem to be gaining in quantity and
quality to an extent which gives prom-
ise of an abundance of fine winter fruit.
Buyers are giving this staple fair atten-
tion and prices are kept ata level which
gives abundant returns to the owners of
the well-kept orchards.

Grapes still continue a good deal of a
drug and it is noticeable that they are
receiving little attention either from
buyers or sellers. The prices and mar-
gins are so small that other means of
disposal than the open market must be
found, and so attention is given to the
utilization of what can be cared for and
the rest are rotting in the vineyards. It
is to be hoped that by another season
there will be enough accomplished in
the way of the development of the can-
ning and preserving industry to change
this condition.

The potato and vegetable market con-
tinues an even course of steady demand
at good prices. The returns from the
potato crop come into the bands of so
large a proportion of the farming com-
munity, and the producing territory
covers so muck of the State, that there
is relatively much more significance in
the maintenance of good prices and a
steady market for the tuber than any
other product. Now that the perishable
fruit season is practically over, ship-
ping attention will be turned in this di-
rection, and the changes in expedition
of shipments which were of so much
importance in the distribution of fruit
will continue to affect the situation. It
is being found that the sending out of a
single car to the uncertainties of the or-
dinary freight movement, or with a
costly agent to watch and guide its er-
ratic movements, is a primitive meth-
od of distribution. Bunching of sbip-
ments, so that the same care will suffice
for a trainload, is the coming method.
And, better than having this care given
by the shippers, the railways are find-
ing that the running of special trains
under their own care is warranted by
the quantity of the shipments, and so
they are willing to take more of the re-
sponsibility, as they ought to do.

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S. I. Harrison, dealer in notions and
fancy goods at 29 Crescent avenue, will
shortly retire from trade.

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Woman’s World

How Chicago Is Hastening the Mil-
lennium.

It has long been a settled conviction
of mine that all we lacked of the millen-
nium was knowing how to covk. Good
health, good temper, happiness and
peace have their origin in the kitchen,
and not in lofty moral pinnacles. To
bad cooking and consequent dyspepsia
we owe the pessimistic philosophers
and gloomy religions that afflict the
world. Your well-fed man, who can
enjoy a good dinner and a midnight
supper, is never an anarchist. Live and
let live is his motto. It is the lean and
hungry crank who steals upon his victim
and stabs him in the back. No one
ever heard of a husband applying to the
courts for a divorce from a wife who
was a good cook. No man whose wife
sets before him toothsome meals ever
debated the question, ‘‘Is marriage a
failure?’’ Its living refutation was sit-
ting at the head of the table pouring out
coffee whose aroma was an incense up-
on the domestic altar.

Such being the importance of the
subject, I don’t know of anything more
cheering than the fact that the cook book
is being introduced into the curriculum
of many schools and that hereafter,
when a girl graduates in the ologies and
isms, her diploma will also certify that
she is a good cook, capable of running
a kitchen. The theory, at least, of all
education is that it fits one better for the
battle of life, and whatever else a girl
may happen to need, she is dead cer-
tain to need to know how to cock. So
it seems quite as important to teach her
the cause of the rise and fall of a loaf
of bread as the rise and fall of the
Roman Empire, and a knowledge of the
different parts of a beef is likely to be
just as useful as a knowledge of the
diff-rential calculus.

In many of the public schools of the
country the cooking department—or the
department of domestic science, as it
is called—has been introduced with
great success, and the other day I had
the pleasure of seeing the scheme in
actual operation in one of the big Chi
cago public schools. Two years ago the
Chicago Kitchen Garden Association,
impressed with the importance of teach-
ing girls the rudiments of cooking, se-
cured permission to fit up a room in
the Kozminski School and start a cook-
ing class as an experiment. It proved
so successful that this year the school
board made a sufficient appropriation
to open eight other ‘‘centers,’’ where
more than 4,000 girls will have an op-
portunity of studying the art of cooking.

The cooking department at the Koz-
minski School is under the direction of
Miss G. Allen, a charming young wom-
an witha Boston accent, and who looked
Sweet enough to eat, as she sat the other
morning in a frilled apron behind her
desk and waited for her classes while
she talked to me.

**Wouldn’t you like to see what a
public school kitchen is like?’’ she
asked; and I felt free to let my eyes
roam at will. It was a big long room,
with the sun shining cheerily in at the
windows and glinting on the rows of
glistening pots and pans. At one end
were two big ranges, one a coal range
and the other gas, flanked by a sink
with hot and cold water faucets. The
walls were wainscoted for about three
feet up, and from the top were innum-
erable hooks, from which hung bright
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charts showing food values by means
of colored diagrams and pictures of
beeves and muttons, etc., with lines
and colors that showed the whereabouts
of fine ribs and roast ribs and forter-
house and tenderloin and round steaks
and other portions of the anatomy of an
animal that we never recognize until they
get on the table. On one side against
the wall stood a cabinet of spices, and
on the other a press full of blue and
white china. Down the middle of the
room were two long tables, in the cen-
ter of which was a row of gas jets, over
which much of the cooking is done.

Each pupil has one of these minia-
ture gas stoves and her own particular
place at the table. Just in front of her,
as she stands at the table, is a bread
board that pulls out like the slide of a
desk. Below that are two drawers
which contain a kitchen outfit in minia-
ture. In one division of it isa tea-
spoon, a table spoon, a salt spoon, a
paring knife, a kitchen knife, a fork, a
biscuit cutter, and a tiny gem pan. In
the next compartment is a graduated
tin measuring cup, salt, pepper and
flour boxes, a rolling pin, potato masher,
eggbeater, mixing bowl, flour sieve
and strainer, nutmeg grater, a baby-
sized granite saucepan, baking dish,
pie tin, and a dish containing soap and
sapolio, fur cleanliness and cooking
must go hand in hand. In the lower
drawer is a meat board, an asbestos
pad, an omelette pan, a chopping knife
and vegetable brush, and a plate for
serving, as each little cook is permitted
to eat her own handiwork.

Just at the entrance of the room is a
litlte room containing lockers, in which
each girl has a tiny compartment, with
her name on it, in which are stored her
white apron, her over sleeves, and a
jaunty littie cap like a French chef's.
The class passes through this room_be-
fore entering the kitchen, and when
they come filing in, rosy-cheeked and
lovely in their white aprons and caps, I
could think of nothing but the chorus
of the French chefs in a comic opera.

But there's no opera bouffe business
about this. It is serious work. The
cooking lessons begin with the eighth
grade, with girls of an average of 14
years of age, old enough to understand
the chemistry of cooking, and much of
the first year is spent in drilling them
in it. If, after that, they go away and
Starve their families on innutritious
food or ruin their digestions on badly-
cooked messes, it isn’t the fault of the
Chicago school board.

‘‘I begin,’’ said Miss Allen, ‘“by
first teaching the children how to con-
trol their fires in both the gas and coal
ranges. We have thermometers and
they make actual tests to tind out what
is meant by a ‘slow fire’ and ‘a quick
oven,’ and the other mysteries in bak
ing referred to by the cookery books.
Then we commence actual work, for I
use in these schools the direct personal
method, and every girl must do the work
herself. First, I lecture to them on
starches—the foods into which they en-
ter, their nutritive value, etc., and the
very first thing they cook is flour paste.
The next day we experiment on this
still further, and they make a corn
starch blanc. mange, and _ I show them
how it may be varied by the addition of
a little chocolate, and so on.

“*Of course, I can only sketch our plan
of work for you. Every step the pupils
take I try to make them understand is
based on a scientific principle—that
cooking is an exact art, and that it is
not luck, but knowledge, that makes

 

bread heavy or light. One of the early
lessons is on albumen, and I show them
how heat hardens the white of an egg,
and then we take in all the different
ways of cooking eggs, and we boil and
scramble and poach and shirr and make
omelettes. Another day it is meats,
and l explain to them why it is, when
one wants to extract the juice of meat
in making soup, cold water must be
used, and when one wants to broil a
steak. or cook a roast, heat must be used
to sear the outside and keep the juices
in. Of course, each pupil can’t havea
roast to cook, but I make each one take
turns in watching. the temperature of
the oven and basting the meat.

‘*So the lessons go on from day to
day. Each pupil is required to take
notes, and, in addition, I have the re-
cipes printed on slips, and every day
each girl pastes into Sher book the re-
cipe for the dish she has prepared. The
second year the course is more advanced
and includes the sauces that should be
served with different kinds of fish, game
and meat. Of course, I confine myself
to just such vegetables and meats as are
ordinarily found on the table of people
of moderate means. At Christmas I
give them a candy lesson, and just be-
fore school is out one on ice cream, but
all the rest is just what we call ‘plain’
cooking.

‘*What are the results? Well, for one
thing, the pupils are almost universally
interested and eager about it. For an-
other, I am told that the girls who have
had cooking lessons at school have in
many cases reformed the domestic me-
nage at home. It doesn’t seem to me
that the question admits of any argu-
ment on the other side. In the first
place, it gives a girl a profession that
is never overcrowded. The world may
have too many teachers, artists, musi-
cians; there may be an oversupply of
typewriters and stenographers and book-
keepers, but there is always room and
pay for what Octave Thanet calls a ‘good
free hand cook.’ If the girl marries a
poor man, it is an inestimable benefit

 

if she knows how to buy and prepare
her food. If she is a rich woman, she
has no less need to know, and for her
the servant question is robbed of its
horrors, for she is capable of training
green girls into good maids, because
she knows how things ought to be done.

‘‘The very poor are the most extrava-
gant as well as the worst fed, and this
is because their women know nothing of
cooking. Their one idea is to fry some-
thing in a pan, and they have no con-
ception of the many savory and nourish-
ing stews that can be made out of cheap
cuts of meat or of how much cheaper it
is to make bread than to buy it. We
have these in view, as many children
of the very poor are in the public
schools, and we hope through them to
send the gospel of good cooking into
the slums. ’’

‘*And what does it cost,’’ I enquired,
‘‘to run this department?’’

‘‘The room,’’ replied Miss Allen,
‘‘represents an outlay of $500 in fur-
nishing. That includes gas ranges
and plumbing and everything. The
groceries and food supplies of every
kind used in preparing the dishes cost
on an average only 1% cents for each
pupil for a lesson.’

The inexorable school bell rang for
another lesson and I had to leave, but I
went away cheered and comforted by a
vision of a new woman who would know
how to cook and who would not wait in
trembling anxiety on the moods of some
uppish Irish Norah or some stolid and
stupid Dutch Kaatje. Then, indeed,
will our tables no longer groan, as_ they
may well be excused for doing, under
loads of ill-cooked and badly-served
food. Speed the day when the Grand
Rapids public schools wheel into the
line of progress and take up the cook-
ing question. Dorotuy Drx.

Two Times of Trial.
He—There are two periods ina man’s

life when he never understands a
woman.
‘Indeed! And when are they?’’

‘Before he is married and _after-

wards. ’’

 

 

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DANGEROUS PARTNERSHIP.

As an abstract proposition it is un-
questionably desirable that there should
be the fullest to-operation in the prose-
cution of any industrial enterprise be-
tween the management in whose bands
the capital is entrusted and the work-
men upon whose labor so much of the
problem of success is dependent. While
there may be some plans for securing
such co-operation, through various
schemes of organization, profit sharing,
etc., which give more or less assurance
of permanence and success, there are
some forms of industrial co-operation
which are more than likely to result in
disaster. Among these is the  short-
sightedness of some employers in per-
mitting the control of their business to
pass into the hands of an organized body
of marplots, managed by irresponsible
and unscrupulous leaders whose delib-
erations and decisions are kept secret
from the employers. When the man-
agement of any industry invokes the aid
and influence of such an organization
for the extension of its business or the
securing of contracts, it is simply put-
ting weapons into venal hands —weapons
which are sooner or later turned against
the employer, to his demoralization and
ruin.

A forcible illustration of the truth of
this proposition is found in the story of
the recent strikes of the employes of the
State printing office at Lansing. For
years the management of that institu-
tion had been smarting under the re-
strictions and annoyances of alien man-
agement in its business, but an undue
regard for the economic and _ political
power -of the unions forced it to submit
with what grace it migbt. There is no
power which seems so formidable as
that which involves unknown elements,
as in secret organizations, and, while
the unions were sufficiently detested,
they gained in power and prestige in
the estimation of the management to
such an extent that when there was a
contest for the rescuing of the State
contracts from a communistic religious
organization, the unions were appealed
to for assistance. There was the utmost
alacrity in the response, because there
is seldom an opportunity for such an
acknowledgment of their influence. In
the contest which ensued the efforts
of the unions do not appear as a sub-
stantial factor, as the members of the
Board of Auditors testified in court that
they were actuated in their decision
solely by the question of economy.

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Impressed with
invincibility, the unions made _ publi-
cation of their decision to require a
9 hour day with 1o hours’ pay, before
the awarding of the printing contracts.
When it was found that the Adventists
were far below in their estimates, the
State printers decided that they must
ignore the demand of the unions to save
the contract and their decision received
the tacit sanction of their employes.
When work was begun on the new con-
tracts, however, the unions, acting upon
their official publication, struck for the
9 hour day and an increase in wages in
some of the departments. After a con-
test of some days, during which the
weakness of the union position became
readily apparent, the strike managers
fell back on their usual tactics when
defeat stares them in the face and _ pro-
posed an arbitration, which was very
foolishly agreed to The hearing lasted
eight evenings and ended in a compro-
mise verdict at the hands of the arbi-
trators--a verdict entirely unsatisfac-
tory to the employers, but entirely so to
the strike leaders, because they realized
that they could use the advantage gained
as a Club to extort further concessions.
The unions know no law except that of
force and intimidation, and have no
idea of the binding force of a contract
or the moral obligation of an agree-
ment; in fact, it is a common thing
for the adherents of unionism to openly
defy every law, human or divine, at the
Same time insisting that the employer
shall be held to strict accountability for
any infraction of an agreement or rule,
no matter how unjust or tyrannical.

The pretext for the next strike was the
refusal of the printing house to pay
price and a half for the half hour worked
in excess of the 9 hour limit. The man-
agement offered to refer the matter to
the same arbitrators, but the strike
leaders not only refused to entertain
this proposition but showed the cloven
hoof of unionism by ignoring the find-
ing-of the board of arbitrators and an-
nouncing that the whole controversy was
reopened on the original issue.

In the opinion of the Tradesman, the
management of the State printing office
made a serious mistake when it first ad-
mitted an alien and secret organization
to participate in the conduct of its busi-
ness. Then this error was followed by
an undue recognition of the influence of
the union in asking for its assistance.

Nothing could have given it such
prestige in its own estimation, and this,
with the obligation conferred, delivered
the company into its hands, bound hand
and foot. Then when the first contest
came, the management was not wise in
being caught by the fallacy of arbitra.
tion; in fact, the only move which can
be commended is the one which comes
so late, to conduct its own business as
it should have done all along, refusing
to admit the partnership of any who
only share in dictation and meddling
without assuming any risks or respon-
sibility. ‘

The Tradesman sincerely hopes the
State printers will even yet bring this
contest to a successful issue and that it
will succeed in demonstrating in its fu-
ture experience that independence is
the only true theory of management, ad-
mitting only such co-operation in the
regulation of the business as is actuated
by a proper recognition of the interests
of all concerned therein.

 

 

Some one says: ‘‘Don't pick a quar-
rel before it is ripe.’’ Better shake it
off while it is green and growing.

a sense of their

 

IMBECILE MANAGEMENT.

The greatest administrative ability is
that required in the conduct of the
affairs of the vast industrial organiza-
tions which are known as the great cor-
porations, such as the railways, the great
iron companies, the sugar trust, the Stand-
ard Oil Co., the telegraph, the Bell tel-
ephone, the express companies, etc. In
many cases these are led and officered
by men who have demonstrated their
ability and won success by building up
the enterprise in question and creating
the positions they occupy. Usually the
abilitv which enables a man to lead in
the organization of such an enterprise
enables him to successfully manage its
affairs until advancing years make suc:
cessors necessary. It is well for thit
enterprise if care has heen taken to
find and train the right ability for the
continuance of the work.

In some cases these great organiza-
tions are the result of circumstances
which make it necessary to look about
for the best leadership. In such cases
those are selected who have demon-
strated the greatest ability in similar
work and these are secured at almost any
cost, for economy in this matter is con-
sidered a very false economy. With
such leadership, and with boards of di:
rectors comprising the greatest obtain-
able ability, aided by the best counsel
which money and reputation can com-
mand, it is strange if such corporations
are betrayed into any very common or
foolish mistakes.

When, therefore, some years ago, in
the contest between the Bell Telephone
Co. and the’ local organization which
sought to compete with it, there was
manifested by the great corporation a
petty spite and policy of foolish resent-
ment, the observer looked for some ul-
terior object to be gained by such a
disposition. In contests of this kind it
bad always been recognized that when
the question of success rested in com-
manding the support of the public, no
pains should be spared in striving to
secure its good will. In that contest the
Bell company took the opposite policy
of antagonizing not only these who
were interested in the competing enter
prise, but a:l who manifested the slight
est disposition toward alienation of al-
legiance. When the company was noti-
fied that it should take out any instru-
ments the work was accompanied with
petty insolence and abuse which would
have cost the beads of the management
of any lesser enterprise. It seemed in-
comprebensible that it was simply a
manifestation of spite, pure and sim-
ple; and so a deeper reason was looked
for. But the years have passed and the
competing company has rapidly ad-
vanced to a position of unassailable
strength, winning every contest, gain-
ing almost undivided support of the
public, obtaining every legal verdict,
and yet the reason for the strange policy
of the great corporation does not appear.
That it was a case of silly foolishness is
hard to believe, in view of the leader.
ship its untold millions might be pre-
sumed to command.

A later manifestation of that which it
is difficult to explain by ordinary rules
is the policy of the great corporations
coming to be known as the Express
Trust. At times for many years past,
there would develop in some of the di-
visions of this branch of our distributive
service a petty foolishness of adminis-
tration which would be explained by
the accidents of succession or inherit-
ance in the administration, but this was
soon corrected and, on the whole, the

 

fact seemed to be recognized that the
success of the companies depended up-
on the support of the public. But as
the companies have come closer togeth-
er in their organization there has seemed
to develop more and more a spirit of
indifference to public sentiment. The
first glaring manifestation of it was in
the savage repudiation of the war tax
and the saddling of it on the people.
That this cost the companies many
times the business that the tax would
have amounted to can scarcely be ques-
tioned and so the action can only be
explained on the theory of downright
foolishness.

Then a later manifestation of the
same spirit comes in the demand of the
companies for free telephone service.
That this is another instance of idiocy
is so difficult to believe that all sorts of
motives and explanations are looked
for. An early one to be suggested is
that the move is a result of the close
affinity between the Express Trust and
the Bell company. In view of the bril-
liant record of the latter for imbecile
management,this explanation would not
tend to remove the cause from the same
classification. There may be some sen-
sible explanation of the present attitude
of the companies, but as the public is
becoming used to such foolishness on
the part of these companies, it is in-
clined to accept this explanation with-
out looking for anything deeper. In the
meantime, it is finding that there are
other methods of transpo'tation, and_ if
this move should be followed by the de-
velopment of some of these through the
interest of the people, as in the one of
the telephone companies, the result
would not be so very surprising.

The decreased fruit yield in Califor-
nia this year was expected to furnish an
opportunity for the fruit growers of Or-
egon and Washington to gain a foot-
hold in the Eastern markets. The green
fruit shipped to the East from those
States this season is only about one-balf
of the quantity shipped last year. The
experience of a year ago, when many
Oregon fruit growers paid in freight
charges on Eastern shipments more
than the amount they received for the
fruit, was discouraging, and this year
much good fruit was allowed to rot on
the ground. In addition, the Oregon
growers believe that there is more profit
for them in dried, evaporated and
canned products than in sending fresh
fruit to an uncertain market. Conse-
quently much more fruit is being cured
this year than heretofore.

 

It is now said that when Dewey was
first ordered to Manila he was directed
to inaugurate a pacific blockade and
await further orders. On learning this
Senator Proctor hurried to the White
House and fiercely protested against the
Commodore being hampered by orders
from those who could know nothing of
the situation in the Philippines. The
result was that Dewey was allowed to
use his own judgment, and made a record
which will place him among the fore-
most heroes of the world as long as
time lasts.

 

 

Michigan pays a bounty for dead
English sparrows. They do better than
that in Massachusetts, where sparrows
are painted and sold quick and cheap
for canary birds by peddlers, who claim
that they are choice singers disposed of
by rich owners who are going abroad.

 

. Now that we have peace, it will take
a greatly increased army and navy to
keep it.

 

 

 

  

 

 

MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

9

 

THE COMMERCIAL ERA.

Although they possess extraordinary
ingenuity in the invention and exploi-
tation of labor-saving machinery, the
Americans are behind many of the
European peoples in finding markets
for their products and the everyday
commodities which constitute the great
bulk of our exports.

The American sits down in confidence
that Europeans must buy his wheat,
corn, cotton and other products and that
he does not need to take any pains to
secure customers or to please them.
Anyone who sees the rough and care-
lessly-gotten-up packages shipped from
the United States will realize this, par-
ticularly when he has also seen the care-
fully-packed goods, usually in water-
tight envelopes, that are landed here
from European vessels.

One of the most general complaints
voiced by the United States consuls
abroad is that Americans, when they re-
ceive orders from abroad for merchan-
dise, do not take sufficient care to fill
the orders exactly. Patterns, styles, di-
mensions and other particulars are often
ignored, with the idea tbat almost any-
thing will answer, so it is in the neigh-
borhood. This is very offensive to most
foreigners. It is offensive to many of
our own people.

Not a few salesmen in this country
feel that they have accomplished a most
satisfactory feat in putting off on a cus-
tomer, almost by force, some article
entirely different from the one enquired
for, upon the assurance that it is just
as good or better. In this way a sale
is made; but a customer is sent off
offended and very probably dissatisfied.
He thinks that his own taste and judg-
ment are treated with contempt, al
though, having to pay, he is, more than
anybody else, entitled to say what he
wants, and if his judgment be at fault,
to suffer the consequences.

The indications are that, in the mat-
ters of foreign commerce, American
merchants must make extensive changes
if they are going to enter into the great
competitions that the acquirement of
large foreign possessions will enforce
Right here is opened a new field for the
activities of educated American young
men, to go abroad to European and
Asiatic countries as commercial trav-
elers.

In such cases men of the once popu-
lar hard-drinking, bard story-telling,
free and-easy sort of kidney will not
serve. In their places are wanted men
of good habits, gentlemanly manners, of
education, and ability to play a re-
spectable part anywhere. If these men
know the literature, history and art of
the countries they visit, so much the
better for them; but they must know a
great deal about the trade tin which they
are engaged. They must talk directly
to the people with whom they dea}, and
all their statements most be reliable.

In this conne tion United States Con-
sul General Goodnow, at Shanghai,
China, writes to a furniture manufac
turer in this citv:

I find there are two great ohstacles in
the wav of business with America. In
the fir-t plice. American firms do not
take care to fill the orders exactly.
There is somewhat of a feeling at
home, ‘Oh, anything will do for the
Chinese ’’ As a matter of fact, there
are no peopl- more particular than the
Chinese. Their customs and their su-
perstitions must he considered, as well
as the things which come into account
in ether countries. It isa great thing
to have a lucky trade mark.

It is above all necessary to bandle the
goods through a man on the ground in

 

 

whom the Chinese have confidence.
They do not think anything about the
firm at home; they think of the man di-
rectly with whom they deal. This man,
if he be wise, knows the demands otf
the trade and caters to it; and, however
eccentric some ot his directions may
seem in ordering, they should be fol-
lowed to the letter

In the next place. almost all English
and German firms have an arrangement
by which all c!aims for damages through
faulty packing, etc., are settled very
promptly through the arbitration of
their Consul at the place where the
goods are delivered.

Most American shipments are made
without any such agreement, and the
consequence 1s that should the goods be
damaged through faulty packing, etc.,
the parties interested are so far aport
that the local dealer here is torced to
stand the loss, rather than to go to the
expense of suit or arbitration in Amer-
ica; and the consequence is that on
even terms, or at some difference ip
price, he buys his goods from England
or Germany. He is willing to pay the
higher price fer a certainty of a speedy,
just and inex,ensive settlement of any
damage there may be.

What it is desired to impress on
American young men is that the idea, if
they are going into commercial life,
that a college education is worthless to
them is a great mistake. Here is a
place for college men who are not mere
smatterers, but who have been real
students. Let them remember that the
present is, above all, a commercial age.
To-day ail statesmanship that is worthy
of the name is employed in devising
means to increase the commerce, each
of its own country. The grand object
is to make the labor of the people as
profitable as possible by furnishing the
best markets possible for their products.
In order, then, to keep the people em-
ployed at good wages, it is necessary to
create markets for their products This
is what statesmanship is called on to do
to day, and it is all summed up in the
expression, ‘‘ promoting commerce.’

Here is a great field for American
statesmanship, and who can know it so
well as he who knows it not merely from
pripciples and theory, but also from
practical exprrience? Let the young
men of America turn to this field and
worthily serve their country while serv-
ing themselves.

 

Spain can take away her old Colum-
bus bones if she needs them. They
never had any business in Cuba. They
ought to be given rest in the country
Columbus discovered, or in the Italian
country in which he was born. His
tory has allowed Columbus to die in
poverty and neglect at Valladolid, near
Madrid Spaniards ougbt not to be
proud of that, except as an advance
punishment for having discovered the
country that has licked Spain Then
comes the awful thought that, as Colum-
hus died near Madrid, the Havana
hones are not the real thing, but only a
ho. e collection used as a sentimenta]
fake

United States Consul William, at
Menila, ssys that of the footwear for
10 000,000 inhab:tants of the Philippine
islands American manufecturers have
not furnished more than 5 per cet.
He predicts that in five years’ time
American made shoes will have sup-
planted the Snanish product altogether,
whether the Philippines shall have been
annexed or not.

 

The United States Government has
only had one little short war this year,
and the aftermath 1s three peace com-
missions and a committee to investigate
the conduct of the war.

TRANSPORTATION AT SEA

The war with Spain forced upon this
country the solution of a new problem
in the way of military preparation
which must be carefully studied for the
future, namely, the transportation of
troops across seas. The outbreak of the
war found the courtry totally without
transports. In order to move the troops
required for operations in Cuba and
Porto Rico, as well as in the Philip-
pines, it was found necessarv to charter
all manner of merchant steamers, witb
the result that many of these ships were
totally unsuited for the work to be ac-
complished.

There was a woeful lack of accommo-
dations for the troops on board these
transports, and the discomforts suffered
by the enlisted men, huddled tozether
on these ships for many days, are among
the blackest memories of the war. While
no doubt no particular blame can be at-
tached to anv one for these discomforts,
owing to the haste with which it was
necessary to improvise transports, the
country should be warned by the lesson
to be better prepared for the future.

It will not be sufficient, however, to
provide properly equipped transports,
as the ships will be of small value if
they are not properly handled Trans-
portation by sea should be in the hands
of the Navy Department, as it is in all
other countries. Merchant marine
officers, however efficient, have not the
experience in berthing and maintaining
large numbers of men on board ship
which naval officers possess. Army of-
ficers, however, competent to handle
troops ashore, are still less capable than
merchant marine officers of properly
disposing of them on shipboard and
providing for their comfort and safety.

While, therefore, a proper transport
service should he organized, it should
by ali means be pliced in the hands of
the Navy Depaitment as the department
best qualified to take charge vf the work.
The occupation of Cuba, Porto Rico, the
Philippices, the Ladrones and Hawaii
wiil make it necessary for this country
to frequently transport troops to and fro.
fo do this with proper regard for the
comfort, health and safety of the troops
there should be suitably equipped trans-
ports, with ample berthing space and
all conveniences necessary. Some of
the vessels purchased during the war
will make excellent transports 1f some-
what altered. These alterations should
be made under the direction of the
Navy Department, and not of the War
Department

 

QUEER DOINGS IN CHINA.

The rumors and reperts from China
are of a character to excite consider-
able specul.tion among people inter
ested in the affairs of the Far East,
whether from trade motives or merely
as students of passng events The
Emperor of China nas b-en reported
deposed by a faction headei by the

Dowager Empress, owing to his pro-
gressive tendencies. Other reports de-
clare the Emperor to he cead, but
whether at the hands of assassins or

through natural causes is not stated. In
China all things are possible hut prog-
ress; hence the authoritative announ e-
ment that the Emperor murdered
would surprise no one.

While the intrigues of Western powers
have no doubt had something to doavith

Is

the overturning of the Emperor, the
main motive no doutt had no connec-
tion whatever with foreign concerns,

but was entirely of a domestic nature.
According to recent reprots, the Empe-

 

 

ror has been for some time well disposed
to adopt modern progressive _ ideas,
and accordingly surrounded himself
with men disposed, like himself, to
shake off the old Chinese conservatism
and adopt modern civilized methods.
The men of the old conservative, non-
progressive caste who were displaced
to make room for men favorable to the
Emperor’s new’ ideas were naturally
deeply incensed, and they conspired
with the Dowager Empress to overturn
the Emperor and his modern innova-
tions.

While it is not probable that the
coup d’etat was attempted in the inter-
est of Russia and against England, it
is none the less true the interests of the
latter power will be damaged, and those
of the former, per contra, advanced.
I'he progressive ideas of the Emperor
naturally inclined him to the trade
methods of the British and caused him
to appreciate the fact that the integrity
of his empire was less menaced by
England than by any of the other for-
eign powers, It was, therefore, prob-
able that his influence would have been
exerted in favor of England in any con-
troversy that might arise. His de-
thronement is, therefore,a blow to Great
Britain and a direct encouragement for
Russia.

The course of events at Pekin will
now be watched more keenly by Euro-
pean statesmen than ever before. It is
generally recognized that the overturning
of the Emperor has not improved the
situation in the Far East, but, on the
contrary, has added many uncertainties
and difficulties to the problem. The
tension between Russia and England
over the course of events in China is be-
coming daily more acute, and unless
one or the other of the countries backs
down, it is difficult to understand how
a conflict can be avoi’ed.

Russia is steadily absorbing Chinese
territory, and as steadily and remorse-
lessly preparing to lop off further slices
when the time become propitious for
so doing. Every such dismemberment
induces other powers to make similar
demands, and in each case British
trade, at present paramount in China,
suffers some diminution. How long
John Bull will stand this loss of busi-
ness isa problem He has more than
once fought to preserve his trade, and

will do so again no doubt when the
provocation becomes sufficiently im-
portint.

 

 

The anarchist slayer of the Austrian
Empress has met a fate that is more
terrible than death to him. He is to be
imprisoned for life, and allowed to
speak to no one but the prison guard.
Imagine an anarchist, whose chief de-
light is to wag his chin and agitate
language, being doomed to eternal si-
lence

 

Bingor manufacturers are sending
cat oes of birch and canvas to Palestire,
Japan and China. One recently sent 10
India was made to the order of a British
officer, and the cost of transportation
was more than $75 A canoe just or-
dered is intended for atrip up the River
Jordan.

 

A good wind made a streak across
Onto, the other day, and unreofed a
brewery at Lima. It also destroyed a
schoolhouse and took the top from an
egg-case factory

 

 

The Spanish American war must ke
fought over again It is plain to be
seen that Spain has 1 ot been sufficiently
whipped, and is not satisfied.

 

  

 

 

 

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Shoes and Leather

Odds and Ends of Shoe Store Gossip.

There are a lot of retailers around the
country who never are able to see the
bright side of things. They are always
looking for signs of trouble, or fora
poor fall business, or for something to
happen in some other quarter. I wonder
sometimes how such people get along in
this world If they only knew how
much happier they would be, how much
better they would feel, and how much
more business they could do if they
went about it cheerfully, they would
never growl or grumble again. Expect
success and you will get it. Confidence
in yourself and your surroundings is
half the battle. Every retailer hopes
for success, but there 1s a hig difference
between hoping for it and baving con-
fidence enough in yourself to compel it
to come your way. It is always wise
enough to be prepared for the worst,
too, but to be continually thinking of it
is not healthy mental exercise, for to
think of trouble is to merit misfortune.

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There have been men and women who
have told your fortunes by the lines in
your hand: men who could tell you lots
of things you didn’t know about your-
self by the bumps on your head; people
who profess to be able to tell you by the
sbape and size of the different features
of your face whether you are destined
to do great things in this world, but the
newest and swellest kind of a fortune
teller is the one who tells you your past
and future by the lines running about
the bettoms of your feet. They are no
relation to the race of chiropodists, for
they have nothing at all to do with the
corns or bunions a man may have on
his feet.

Like the palmist they tse the left
member, and the lines on the bottom of
that foot tell the tale quite as plain-
ly as the lines on your hand. The life
line starts at the hase of the hig toe; if
it curves along until it terminates at
the base of the little toe it means long
life. If it is broken at the hollow it
denotes sickness at middle age, and ter-
minating there it denotes a short life.
Only those with great minds and great
brain ability have lines sharply seen on
the heel. If there is a network of smail
lines it means great versatility. A pro-
nounced cross-line on the ball of the
foot denotesa good family man or a do-
mestic woman. The small light line in
the center of the sole denotes great abil-
ity to love. The deeper it is the stronger
and more lasting the passion. Those
who could love but once and forever
have a dent here that looks like a _ line
Then the shape and general build of the
foot, the shape and position of the toes,
all mean something to the enlightened.
A long slender foot, without much in-
step, means that the owner is very emo-
tional and easily affected. Short toed
men swear easiiy. Orators have long
toes. If one’s feet are compact he has
great mental balance, and if he is an
artist he has pointed toes. A long slen-
der curving ankle on a woman denotes a
love of fun. If the big toe is longer
than the others she has a good deal of
self-will; a yood high instep means a
fair amount of capriciousness, and a
curve at the hollow of the foot expresses
aristocratic tastes such as would require
a rich man to keep. If her toes sepa-
rate and are square at the ends, the space
between the first and second toes means
great talent as well as beauty, while the
square ends mean a lack of conven-

 

 

 

tionality, and a thickening foot means
one who has lots of vim and energy to

overcome obstacles.
x * x

Leather has been used for shoes, for
belts, for trousers, and pretty much
every other articie of wearing apparel,
but not until lately has the leather neck-
tie been put on the market. Although
they are advertised as leather neckties,
to tell the truth they don’t look it at
all, for they look more like a miniature
belt than anvtbing else. They are in
fact miniature belts made in exactly
the style of the fashionable ladies’ belt
with the harness huckle and side straps
complete. The material is black patent
leather, with a biack patent leather cov-
ered buckle, or of white morocco finish
with the nickel harness buckle. They
match the waist belt in every particular
and it seems as if a ‘‘neck belt’’ would
be a more appropriate name for them.
They are as narrow as the narrowest
of string ties, and I must say they are
extremely neat in appearance. They
have one great advantage over the ordi-
nary tie, in that they never come un-
tied, and do not need to be pinned to
keep the bow straight. They always
‘*stay put ’’ They remind one a good
deal of a dog collar, and if in the future
the fad should call for wider collars
there will be a still greater likeness, and
one would have a hard time guessing
as to whether my lady bad on her own
or her pug’s collar.

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‘““Mr. H—, where are my shoes? You
promised to send them out to me yester-
day morning and I haven't seen them
yet. I'd like to know why they were
not sent,’’ she demanded She was not
angry, but very much put out. Mr.
H—, the shoe man, put on his most
pleasant smile and rubbed his hands
genially.

‘‘T am very sorry it happened, Mrs.
D—,’’ he said, ‘‘hut the fact of the
matter is that the boy went away yester-
day morning and fergot them. We all
supposed he had taken them and did
not find out differently until this morn-
ing; I will send them out right away,’’
and he turned and _ started to cal! the
delivery boy.

‘*You need not trouble yourself,’’ in-
terposed madam. ‘‘I needed the shoes
yesterday aiternoon and, when they did
not come, went out to a nearby shoe store
and got ancther pair. I do not need the
pair you have here, so you may cancel
tbe order, ‘’ and she turned and left the
store.

The retailer’s face fell for an instant
and then he got angry and for an hour
swore at his clerks, at the dcor boy and
every one around the establishment,

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best. See our Salesmen
or send mail orders.

GEO. H. REEDER & CO.,

19 S. Ionia St., Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

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Children’s |

SHOES

Our Specialty

HIRTH, KRAUSE & CO.,

16 AND 18 SOUTH IONIA ST.,
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

while his employes all stood around
and laughed at him.

“‘Tt’s no one’s fault but his own,’’
remarked one of them to me. ‘‘He
knew when he promised to deliver them
yesterday that it cou'd not be done.
That tale about the k d forgetting them
was all bosh.”’

ee ie

I wonder sometimes how dealers like
this manage to get along as well as
they do. They seem to think that it
matters not how much nor how often they
lie to their customers, nor how long they
keep them waiting. They are seldom
prompt themselves and think no one
else is. People now are too independ.
ent, and there are too many enterprising
dealers after their patronage, to stand
being disappointed and kept waiting.
Merchants who expect to keep trade
must make no promises they can not
keep. It may seem a small thing to
the merchant, but to the customers, who
probably lay their plans to fit the deal-
er’s promises, 1t counts for a great deal.
—Shoe and Leather Gazette.

——___~> 0»
How the New Rubber Deal Will Affect
Prices.
From the New York Commercial.

Recent events in the rubber boot and
shoe business have attracted attention
to the present aspect of the industry,
leading to a good deal of speculation
regarding tbe ultimate effect upon the
trade. In the first place, prices of rub-
ber footwear are somewhat in advance
of last year’s quotations, the excess av-
eraging, perbaps, 6 per cent. This is
due, in part at least, to the higher
value put upon crude rubber by reason
of the scarcity of that material. The
demand, however, does not seem to have
been affected by the prices, as the man-
ufacturers are said to have more orders
now than was the case a year ago. The
problem now !s, what the effect will be
of the new relations between the United
States Rubber Co and the Boston Rub-
ber Shoe Co.

A large handler of rubber shoes who
has kept in pretty close touch with what
has been going on in rubber circles
said: ‘’ While the Boston Rubber Shoe
Co bas been, to a certain extent, a
competitor of the United States Rubber
Co., it has been pretty generally under-
stood that for some years past there has
been an understanding between the two
concerns regarding prices.

‘*This knowledge makes the present
movement of less interest to the buyers
of rubber footwear than would have
been the case had there been that sharp
competition which follows the struggle
of two rival concerns for business.

‘“‘It will be remembered that when,
two or three years ago, the price-list of
the Boston company was issued a few
days in advance of that of the United
States Co., showing a cut from previous
lists, the trust was in readiness to con-
form to the new prices, and, since then,
the market has not been disturbed by
cuts nor rumors of cuts on the part of
either of the concerns.

‘‘Counting the United States Co. and
the Boston Rubber Shoe Co. as a unit
leaves the output of the independent
concerns about 25,000 pairs a day, or
one-fifth that of the two concerns named.
Some, at least, of the outside plants are
increasing their production and all are
reported as prospering.’’

—_——_~>-9

As Solid As a Rock.

If you expect to conquer in the battle of to-day,

You will have to blow your trumpet in a firm and
steady way.

The ae ‘that owns his acres is the man that plows
all

And the man that keeps a-humming is the man
that’s here to stay;

But = man who advertises with a sort of sudden

erk

Is the man who blames the printer because it didn’t
work,

‘The man who gets the business uses brainy print-
er’s ink,

Nota clatter nor asputter, butanad. that makes you
think

And he plans his advertisements as he plans his
well-bought stock,

And the future of his business is as solid as a rock’

 

The Blight of Politics.

‘‘A month or so ago,’’ remarked a
drummer who sells saddlery and harness
goods, ‘‘I was out in that part of West
Virginia where Grover Cleveland and
Joe Miller used to go fishing, and in the
course of a side trip I was making in a
buckboard, in order to take in some of
my customers along the edge of civiliza-
tion, I stopped one day at a hillside
tavern presided over by Aunt Susan
Mullins, who 1s as wise a philosopher as
she 1s a superior in the art of preparing
a fine mountain dinner. 1 was _ resting
after feed in the shade, smoking a
stogie, and talking to Aunt Susan on
the one subject now of interest, to-wit,
the war. ‘Any of your folks at the
front, Aunt Susan?’ I erquired. ‘None
uv my own kinfolks is, but Sarey Jack-
son’s boy is, and Sarey is most a sister
to me.’ ‘I suppose you were worried a
good deal about him during the fighting
before Santiago, weren’t you? I know
how I felt about a brother I had with
the Rough Riders. It is a terrific strain
on people at home to have to sit still
and wait, every minute expecting to
hear that they are killed or badly burt.’
‘Yes,’ she replied rather hesitatingly,
‘that’s mighty bad and oncomfortable,
but ‘twan’t that what worries me SO
much about Sarey’s boy as his comin’
bome after the war’s over.’ ‘How do
you mean?’ I asked, puzzled past un-
derstanding, for the home coming
seemed to be the most joyous part of it
‘Well, you see, Jeemes is fer all the
world like his pappy was- one uv these
here good-natered men that everybody
likes and is so all-fired popular that
they ain’t got no time to ‘tend to their
own business. Jeemes’ pappy wert into
the last war an fit like a wildcat, and
when he come home the people run him
fer the legislater an elected him, and
he never wuz wuth sbucks frum that
day till they buried him. Jeemes has
fit just like his pappy done, and a con-
stable told me t’other day that they wuz
goin’ to run Jimmy fer the legislater
shore ez shootin’ and he’d sweep the

country like a whirlwind, and that's
what skeers me fer Jeemes. Politics is
a heap sight wuss on a man_ than

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war.
—_— —~—_ 2. > --

Unlucky Friday.

Some people think Friday is an un-
lucky day. It is for those who are
hanged on Friday, and it kas been for
those who have got the worst of any
event that happened on Friday. Any
other day could be made to appear un-
lucky. Sunday has been a favorite day
for excursionists to die on. What is
lucky for one man may be unlucky for
another. Lee surrendered on Friday;
but that was a great day for Grant.
Moscow was burned on Friday Wash-
ington was born on Friday. Shakes-
peare was born on Friday. America was
discovered on Friday. Richmond was
evacuated on Friday. The Bastile was
destroyed on Friday. The Mayflower
was landed on Friday. Queen Victoria
was married on Friday. King Charles
I. was beheaded on Friday. Fort Sum-
ter was bombarded on Friday. Napo
leon Bonaparte was born on Friday.
Julius Caesar was assassinated on Fri
day The battle of Marengo was fought
on Friday. The battle of Waterloo
was fought on Friday. Joan of Arc was
burned at the stake on Friday. The
battle of New Orleans was fought on
Friday. The battle of Bunker Hill was
fought on Friday. The Declarat:on of
Independence was signed on Friday.
There are people who never go any-
where who object to starting on a_ jour-
ney on Friday; and there are those who
never do anything who would not com-
mence a job of work on Friday. These
things prove nothing. Robinson Crusoe's
Friday was lucky in being saved from
savages. Any old Friday is good enough
if people wish to make it so.

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Mrs. Watts—What is on that button?
Watts—‘‘ Remember the Maine ”’
Mrs. Watts—It would do more imme-

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with ‘‘Don’t Forget the Groceries’’
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APPLE TRADE.

 

Improvement in Handling—Peculiari-
ties of Consumers. *

There is no apple crop of any im
portance gathered before August 1, and
no part of that which is to be gathered
after this date will last or be kept until
August 1 of another year; so that from
August to August sharply defines an ap-
ple year—but while we accumulate no
surplus to be carried over from one
season to another, and two succeeding
seasons in our business are therefore
wholly unrelated, while we handle what
is classed among perishable products—
yet really the product that we handle is
the dividing line between perishable
and imperishable.

By improved methods of harvesting
in the first place, of transporting in the
second place, and of holding in the
third place, we have really taken the
apple out of the list of perishable fruits.
The only thing that is perishable new
about an apple is the element of profit
—and I hope we will get some method
of refrigeration soon that will preserve
that But much as bas been accom-
plisbed, he would greatly err who should
think that the final word had_ been
spoken, the final deed done. The
changes that have come in our business
are largely the result of the application
of modern scientific ideas to the prac
tical arts. I believe there are yet
changes to come that will surpass any-
thing we have seen. I believe that,
when the practical application of the
recent discovery of liquefied air comes
to be made, among its effects. will
be an entire revolution in accepted re-
frigerating methods—- extending the
horizon of the possible term for keeping
some fruits beyond the wildest dreams
I believe the day is not far distant when
the engine that draws the train of re-
frigerator cars will also operate an
ammonia compressor to artificially cool
the cars and ventilating apparatus to
remove mephitic gases. I believe the
day is not far distant when we can carry
from Chicago, St. Louis, Quincy, or any
other great point of storage, apples to
any great mart of the world where they
are wanted, at the same temperature
throughout the journey, and that the
temperature at which they have been
kept in the coolers. I believe that
these changes will add so much to the
area of possible demand, as well as ex-
tend the season for profitable handling,
that we may regard ourselves with al]
the stride we have made and with the
enormous volume of business attained
as still in the kindergarten stage of the
business.

What then in view of these changes
is the function of this Association?

Is it not to assist and hasten them and
prepare in every way for them, by in-
telligent discussion and by thoughtful
action, to form a body of intelligent
opinion which wil] accept these changes
intelligently and not blindly—which
will invite needed changes and supply
the necessary links to effect combina-
tions of : lready known forces of already
approved principles?

There is a popular impression abroad
that this Association meets annually for
the purpose of fixing prices for the en-
suing year. Such a thing is, of course,
neither desirable nor possible. Our only
function with regard to prices is to in-
ject some saving common sense into the
minds of operators, who are apt other-
wise to go off half-cocked—to save them
from becoming victims tu a_ hyper-sen-
sitive imagination, and that simply by
calling their attention to the largeness
of the apple world and the extreme
smaliness of the range of vision of any
one individual, even although he be the
brightest and smartest We are here
to-day to save our friends, at least those
who need salvation, from the evil con-
sequences of thinking that the apples
which they know of are pretty much all
the apples that there are, or that worst
evil of all, which consists of fancving,
namely: That any one man or set of
men can dictate tu the whole American
people what price they shall pay for any
* Address by C. H. Williamson at +nnual con-

vention National Apple Shippers’ Associa-
tion.

 

 

staple product—even the apple. We
draw the deadly parallel on them, be-
tween the utmost of what they can in-
dividually do and the vast overlapping
immensities of what is left after they
get all through.

We are a school, gentlemen, for the
propagation of sane tdeas with regard
to the apple and dealings therein, and
the first proof of our sanity is that we do
not begin to be a bureau of prices—and
the second proof of our sanity isthat we
accumulate a body of wisdom, gleaned
from the years that have been, to guide
us into the years that are to be, the
highest type of sanity being to make
use of past experience in the shape ot
reasoned deductions therefrom, instead
of casting all experience to one side
and going by guesswork as is the man-
ner of the amateur apple man, wild ot
eye and swift of foot, and this leads me
to ask what truth of experiences has the
past year brought to light to guide fu-
ture action and to be put in form of a
rough but serviceable generalization? If
the year of grace 1897-1898 has demon-
Strated any one thing, it has demon-
strated the fact that there is no longer
any such thing as ashort crop. The
railroad, the telegraph, the cold storage
plant, the extending of the area of pro-
duction largely consequent thereon,
have annihilated short crops, and the
term is now a misnomer,

We have crops lighter than others—we
have crops that seem short—but unless
a man buys his apples in such a year
much the same as in years that do net
seem short, he is apt to come out at the
very small end of the horn. Manv of
us thought we had a short crop last
year—and most buyers bought witha
view to a possible seven and eight dol-
lar market, but 70 per cent of them lost
money, and the remainder found much
scantier results than even the least
sanguine had expected.

We no longer raise any crop of apples
so small that we can expect it to go
into consumption on the tables of the
wealthy. There is no crop that has
been raised in recent years, or that will
be raised for many years to come, the
largest part of which has to he consumed
by the middle classes and the working
people, the people who live by small
salary or wages, or the profits of sinall
shopkeeping, and in the light of the
experience of the past ten years, I ven-
ture the assertion that the extreme limit
of price that they will stand is 35 cents
per peck, nor do thev buy sufficiently
freely to move a moderate priced crop
at over 25 cents per peck, and they are
likely to want a taste of apples at 15
cents to 20 ce: ts per peck before thev
are willing to come to 25 cents per peck.

In other words, there is no crop of ap-
ples grown a large part of which, per
haps the largest part, does not have to
go into consumption at a range of prices
at and below 25 cents per peck, and of
large crops 95 per cent. have to be so
consumed. The buyer, therefore, who
consults the following of prudence must
have regard to the fixed and inexorable
limits set by popular retail prices A
supply which looks very small, absolute-
ly, may loom up very large, if started
at a price which eliminates go per cent.

HARVEY P. MILLER. EVERETT P. TEASDALE.

MILLER & TEASDALE CO.

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of the buyers. That supply may loom
larger still if its quality is such as not
to please a large part of the 10 per cent.
of buyers who remain, a consideration
most important, to be borne in mind,
if, as almost invariably happens, the
small supply is accompanied by a low-
ering in quality. A light crop on the
trees may mean a great many apples,
taken in the large, but it 1s sure to
mean a poor crop in quality.

There is no crop raised that we do
not have to find every possible outlet
for in a greater or less degree.

In particular every crop year increases
the importance of the export outlet.
With this in mind, I have the following
recommendation to make, that this As-
sociation, either directly or through the
medium of the National Government,
secure the appointment cf competent
inspectors at all export points to ex-
amine and certify to the quality of ap-
ples going abroad. I believe that such
inspection and certification 1s the only
means to break up the system of indis-
criminate consignment sv ruimous to
the interests of those engaged in ex-
porting. and to render possible the only
legitimate way of handling the export
business tbat is straight saleonaf.o b.
basis.

I do not see ary reason why, if the
proper safeguards are tnrown around
the business, apples that are packed and
graded according to the rules ot the
National Apple Shippers’ Association
should not move on the same terms as
wheat or corn or oil. If it can not be
bought to be handled in this way, it 1s
a good business to stay out of I be-
lieve it can be so handled and that the
first step is the one that | now urge.

Another recommendation 1s that we
urge on the various produce exchanges
ot the country, through the medium of
our Committee on Grades, the appoint-
ment of committees who shall inspect,
when required, rejected cars of apples,
and pass upon their quality and decide
whether up to seller's recommendation
or not. ‘lbere are envugh holes that we
can not close to make it imperatively
necessary that we close all we can. I
believe a measure of this kind 1s essen-
t.al to the safety of toe seller, and if
any country grain shipper can demand
an inspection of nis grain, I do not see
why so large and important and grow-
ing an interest as ours shouid not be
entitled to similar safeguards.

I donot make more recommendations,
because I am a great believer in a little
at atime. I think we can do the things
which I have recommended tf we set
out in earnest to do them.

Ouce accomplished, we can turn our
attention to other things. In this day
and age it 1s concentration of attention
and concentration of effort that wins.

One of the points on which our As-
sociation in the past has laid most stress
was on the necessity and advantage of
the uniform barrel. At the suggestion
of ex-President Loomis, in co-operation
witb our Secretary, | called your atten-
tion to the necessity of adopting and
causing to be published a resolution
notifying the cooperage trade, and the
producers of our resolution, not to buy
fruit in irregular packages, but only in
the barrel of size recommended by this
Association. With this action on our
part we invited the co-operation of all
other buyers. The resu ts we have yet to
see, but we have every reason to feel en-
couraged. The feeling of unity and of
esprit de corps among our members has
been admirable. In’many silent ways
in the elevation of standards and _ prac-
tice our influence has been felt. Our
vear-book with its definitions has been
the means of saving manv an argument.
It has silently educated many growers
and has prepared them to see what
grades meant ard what the advantages
of grading were in a way that a million
verbal arguments could never have
effected. In other words, a voice of
authority has existed for the first time
in the truth. Before, every man was a
law and a standard unto himself,and the
difference is the difference between
light and darkness.

—_—_~> 2. —___

The girl who wishes she had been a

boy will never make a good wife—she
will want to wear the trousers.

 

Seconds the Tradesman’s Exposure
of the Columbus Gang.

Lansing, Oct 1.—I read in your is-
sue of Sept. 21 an article under the
heading of ** Two Produce Houses Which
Should Be Avoided,*’ and, with your
permission, I would like you to publish
a little experience | had with these peo-
ple while doing business as the old firm
of Hodge & Hoagland

We were anxious during the summer
to tind an outlet in the different cities
in Obio for our different kinds of fruit,
so we wrote several parties in regard to
same Among the letters we wrote w:s
one to gentlemen in Columbus who were
at one time a good house. Unknown to
us, they had gone out of business, con-
sequently our letter fell into the hands of
a house by the name of P. H Dolan &
Co., purporting to be conducting a
produce business at 187 East Chappel
street. This party gave us some very
encouraging quotations on fruit and
made us a Cash offer f o. b. for stuff
Although we thought the prices men
tioned were erroneous on account of the
party we had written to originally being
all O. K. we naturally assumed that
this party was good for one shipment
anyway. We made a shipment, amount-
ing to qu'te a considerable, and on i's
arrival we received a wire advising a
steady shipment daily of equal amount
or more, as the market would be ina
condition that they would clean up read
ily and the goods were all O. K. ; also
asking us to advise if we shipped. We
felt a little worried over the deal, there-
tore did not wire.

The next day we received a wire, also
a letter, from one Patrick Murphy, of
553 ard 555 West Town sireet, advis-
tng us that he had several stores and
markets in the city and could usea
large quantity of such goods as we could
ship at the highest possible price and
wanted shipments badly We suspi-
cioned that it was a combination work-
ing the courtry and decided, in order to
satisfy ourselves, that we would make
Mr Murphy a small shipment and _fol-
low it to Columbus, which we did. The
writer went to Columbus and, on ar-
rival, found that we were correct. It
was a combination, and a good one, too.
I tried all day to find P. H. Dolan &
Co and, on account of there being sev-
eral others there for two or three days
before hunting for him for the same
purpese, he was not to be found. On
making erquiry, J found that there were
several swindlers in the combination
and that they bad been working the deal
successfully for some time. None of
them had anything one could get hold
of, as the parties that had the wegons
were other than the ones that had their
names on letter heads as doing busi-
ness.

I found the office of Dolan & Co.,
which, true to the heading, was at the
place named. The place was in an alley
and the room was over an old stable. I
made some enquiry in regard to the _lo-
cation of Mr. Murphy and was told that
his several markets and stores were a
fake, as the only place that was known
to be his was some upstair rooms at the
number mentioned: and that he had no
place of business whatever.

On my arrival in the city | stopped
the delivery of the goods | shipped to
Murphy and, after satisfying myself
that I could get nothing out of the
parties, went home. We have repeat-
edly written Mr. Dolan and mailed
him statements of account, but bave
failed to even get a reply from him in
any way. :

We are the fish in this case and will
feel thoroughly satisfied 1f we can in any
way be directly interested in helping to
break up such an irresponsible gang
as appears to infest the Columbus mar-

t

The writer will be greatly obliged if
you will put this in the next issue of
the Tradesman and I cheerfully tender
my name to be used in connection with
it to any extent you may Care to use it

Geo. M. HODGE.
—__»>202>—___—__

The man who will not marry until he
finds a woman who thinks before she
speaks will remain a bachelor all his
days.

 

J. WILLARD LANSING,
BURGE D. CATLIN.

LANSING & GATLIN

WHOLESALE
DEALERS IN

44 W. MARKET STREET
103 MICHIG4N STREET
BUFFALO, N. Y.

EGGS

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How Shipments from America Should
Be Packed.
From the New York Commercial.

The French government is making an
effort to trace the origin of all imports
into France and give a series of ques-
tions relating to fruit. Briefly these
questions are to determine the cost of
specified varieties of fruit laid down in
France, with particulars as to quality,
methods of packing and how imports
may be preserved for winter use.

This enquiry is due to the going into
operation of the new reciprocity treaty
between this country and France. As
a rule, France is an exporter of fruits.
This year, however, practically all fruit
crops in France are short, and under
the new treaty considerable imports
from this country appear to be antici-
pated.

The first question refers to the whole-
sale price of apples, pears, prunes,
grapes, lemons and oranges.

No apples have been exported direct
to France in recent years. All Ameri-
can apples which have reached the
French market have done so through
England; but even in that case the
quantity has been smali. The wholesale
price, laid down in France, will vary.
Speaking generally, it would be the av-
erage selling price here, with ocean
freights added, which would make the
figures vary with the season, condition
of the market and quality of the fruit.
Shippers are not disposed to undertake
an estimate without knowing more about
the conditions which would surround
shipments.

Pears are a more perishable fruit than
apples, and shipment would be attended
with more difficulty. Unless the steam-
ship companies adopt cold _ storage
methods none but winter varieties could
be shipped. The earlier sorts would
decay in transit. Apples and pears
would ordinarily be packed in barrels,
although if there were prospects of suffi-
cient business, shippers would adopt any
style of packing the trade might specify
as appealing more forcibly to consum-
ers.

In the case of prunes the question
hardly seems applicable, inasmuch as
French exporters are reported to be
making a determined effort to get into
American markets this year.

Grapes could not be shipped except in
cold storage. The experiment recently
made by Canadian shippers in sending
pears, grapes and early fall apples to
England in refrigerator steamships will
answer that question better than any
amount of theory. Early apples shipped
to England from Boston arrived in good
condition and it would seem feasible to
ship pears and grapes in the same way.
_ As to packing, the grapes as put up
in America are in a variety of packages,
ranging from baskets’ holding two
pounds up to packages holding too
pounds or more. The small baskets
hold nearly a kilogram, and might suit
French consumers. Dealers think grapes
will hardly be shipped to France, which
produces as many, if not more, than al-
most any other country on the globe.

Oranges would not, in the opinion of
dealers, ever become a_ considerable
item of trade. Oranges shipped to Eng-
land have hardly ever paid expenses.
Some commission men here have tried
it. The last shipments of any im-
portance were made the year of the freeze
in Florida.

_Lemons are not yet produced in suffi-

cient quantities in this country to satisfy
dcmestic demand, and dealers think
the quantity shipped abroad would be
too small, under the most favorable con-
ditions, to be worth considering. The
packing of both oranges and lemons for
such shipment would be according to
accepted methods, in boxes, each sep-
arate piece of fruit wrapped in paper.
_ As to preserving for winter use, there
is a diversity of opinion, but the ordi-
nary precautions adopted for fruit and
vegetables would probably be sufficient.
Grapes must be left out of this part of
the consideration, because any grapes
that might be shipped from this coun-
try would not keep much beyond the
voyage.

 

The possibility of extensive exports
to France is not considered encouraging
by fruit men. They think that the aver-
age fruit product of France itself and
the relatively high cost of most varie-
ties of American fruits would prevent
rapid purchases there, and that would
render shipments unprofitable by rea-
son of loss by shrinkage and decay.
Under present circumstances it is prob-
able that no concerted attempt will be
made by New York dealers to capture
the French market.

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Germany Anxious for American Apples.
From the New York Commercial.

This is a good year to send American
fruits, especially apples, to Germany.
Europe’s fruit crop is anything but
good. If American merchants will not
repeat the folly of former years, by
sending poor fruit that decays easily,
they can command the market for years,
against all efforts to dislodge them. lf
Baldwins, Greenings, Russets and
other hardy winter apples are sent, the
results will not remain doubtful. Other
apples will not pay for transportation.
Had our apple merchants made even a
half-hearted effort to enter the German
market in 1896 they would now be beset
with orders. So serious is the situation
there, because of the dulness in grain
markets, and so decided is the down-
ward tendency of profits in the Em
pire’s wheat production, that farmers
are turning to fruit to eke out an _ exist-
ence. The General Union of Agricul-
tural Societies has set itself the task to
bring about better methods of handling
fruits. Germans, as a rule, have gone
in for quantity rather than quality,
letting their fruit trees run to wood
rather than to fruit.

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The Soldier’s Wife.

He offered himself for the land he loved,
But what shall we say of her?

He gave to his country a soldier’s life;

*Twas dearer by far to the soldier’s wife;
All honor to-day to her!

He went to the war while his blood was hot,
But what shall we say of her?
He saw for himself through the hattle’s flame
A hero’s reward on the scroll of fame;
What honor is due to her?

He offered himself, but his wife did more.
All honor to-day to her!

For dearer than life was the gift she gave

In giving the life she would die to save;
What honor is due to her?

He gave up his life at his country’s call,
But what shall we say of her?
He offered himself as a sacrifice,
But she is the one who pays the price;
All honor we owe to her!
ELLIoTT FLOWER.

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BROKERAGE,
COMMISSION
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FORT WAYNE, INDIANA.

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in our warehouse for immediate
shipment; jars packed in dozen
boxes. If you want any, wire me
for prices.

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Ship Us Your.
BUTTER, EGGS, POULTRY,
VEAL, GAME, FUR, HIDES,
BEANS, POTATOES,
GREEN AND DRIED FRUIT

Or anything you may have. We havea No. 1 lo-
cation and a large trade and are fully prepared to
place all shipments promptly at full market price
and make prompt returns. If you have any ap-
ples do not dispose of them before corresponding
with us. Thecrop is very short this season and
there will be no low prices. Please let us hear
from you on whatever you may have to ship or sell.

COYNE BROS., Commission Merchants
161 South Water St., Chicago.

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REFERENCES:
Wm. M. Hoyt Co., Wholesale Grocers, Chicago.
W. J. Quan & Co., Wholesale Grocers, Chicago.
“Chicago Produce,” Chicago.
Bradstreet’s and Dun’s Agencies.
Hibernian Banking Association, Chicago.

  

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Our brand of Vinegar to be an ABSOLUTELY PURE APPLE-
JUICE VINEGAR. To any person who will analyze it and find
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.
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‘ stantly increasing sale for high-grade Butter, Eggs and Poultry.
4 Thus it is that we are compelled, in order to supply the demand of
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r articles of food from those who have not hitherto shipped us. We 5
very much desire youR consignments, and we offer these three guar- <
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» Fourth National Bank, Grand Rapids, Mich.

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News from the Me:ropolis—Index to
the Market.
Special Correspondence.

New York, Oct. 1—We enter upon
the last quarter of the year with an ex-
cellent trade being done here by grocery
jobbers and with prospects that for the
rest of the year there will be very little
to complain of in the volume of busi-
ness. Old-time profits are not ex-
pected, but goods enough will be sold to
make good the deficiency. Prices are
firmly held and no weakness is_ percep-
tible anywhere.

Coffee jobbers generally report a quiet
market, orders from city trade as well
as from out of town being rather limited
as t) number and quantity taken. They
are not inclined, however, to make much
if any concession to effect sales, and
seem to be united in the opinion that
the situation warrants them in firmly
maintaining the present status. In-
voice lots of Rio No. 7 are quotable at
6%c spot, with few transactions. Oa
the Street there have been only limited
transactions in futures; in fact, this has
been the case for a longtime. The
stock of coffee here and afloat aggre-
gates 955,530 bags, against 854 962 bags
at the same time last year. Mild sorts
are quiet and buyers seem to be indiffer-
ent as to whether the market goes up or
down. Good Cucuta, 84 @8%c.

There may be said to bea slightly
better tone to the tea market, but the
amount of business is still small. The
sale next week will be of rather small

. proportions, so it has cut no figure in
the situation on the street this week.
An invoice of Amoys was reported sold
at 16%c, which was the only item of in-
terest.

There is room for improvement in
rice, but dealers are pretty well satis-
fied with the outlook. Would-be buy-
ers have left orders for quite liberal
supplies if they might obtain the same
at their own figure, which, however,
was too much of a concession for the
holders. In fact, the latter will not
budge from their recent position and
thus matters for the moment seem to be
in somewhat of a deadlock. Foreign
sorts are steady, with most of the call
for Japan Brades. Southern, prime to
choice, 54 @5c.

The spice market is continually gain-
ing strength and, while no great ad-
vance is made at once, the outlook is
for better rates all around before the
close of the year. Pepper and cloves
are especially interesting. Jobbers have
had a good trade and seem to think that
steady improvement will be made.

For the better sorts of open kettle and
centrifugal molasses there has been a
pretty fair enquiry. The market is very
closely sold up and full rates are paid|™
for purchases. Cheaper sorts have lan
guished and have accumulated. Good
to prime centrifugal, 16@25c; good to
prime open-kettle, 29@32c. Syrufs are
firm, although there is room for im-
provement in the condition of the mar-
ket. Sales have been of small lots for
so'ting-up purposes.

 

Jobbers have had a good enquiry all
the week for lemons and at auction
more strength was shown than for a
week previous. The range for Sicily
is from $4.75@6. Sorrentos are some-
thing of a luxury and run from $7.75@9

per box. Oranges are without any par-
ticular change. California, $3@4 per
box.

As time passes it becomes evident
that with many articles the shortage will
be very observable, and the chances of
a firm market on almost all canned
goods from now on are good. Peaches,
tomatoes, desirable grades of corn and
peas are certain to be well held and it
seems sure that there could be no more
favorable time to buy than now. New
York State corn is selling from 70@ogoc ;
Maine, 80@85c, and Maryland from 55@
85c, as to brand and quality. The
offering of tomatoes is not large, with
desirable New Jersey goods from 85c to
$1 05.

There is a constantly increasing de-
mand for raisins and prunes, the offer-
ings of which are somewhat limited.
Domestic fruits, evaporated apples,
etc., are moving slowly at low rates.

The supply of fancy Western creamery
butter is smaller than a week ago and
the demand, too, is lighter; in fact,
there is some accumulation ' notwith-
standing the smaller supply. Sales of
best grades are generally on the basés of
21c, but this seems to be top, and if
there exists the least ‘‘offness,*’ there is
a drop at once. Firsts and seconds are
in free supply and are offered at about
18@1gc for the former and Ic less for

the latter. Extra Western Junes, 2o0c.
Finest imitation creamery, 16@17c;
firsts, I4@15c; seconds, 13@13%c;

Western factory, June, extras, 14@14%c;
current make, 13@13%c.

The demand for cheese has been slow,
and as there is quite an accumulation
of stock here that holders would like to
dispose of, prices have become rather
shaky. Large size, full cream, State,
fancy cheese is worth about 8'%c; small
size, fancy, 9c. Exporters have done a
little business, but they are not inclined
to pay over 8%c for what they want.

Arrivals of eggs have not been large
enough to overcrowd the market, and,
indeed, the most desirable goods are
rather hard to find. There seems to be
considerable buying for future use and
the quantity put into cold storage is
considerable. Fresh gathered are held
at 17%c, and from this the decline is
rapid to nominal prices.

Beans are rather quiet. Choice mar-
rows, $160; medium, $1.2214@1.25;
pea, $1@1 10; red kidney, $1.80.

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rather eccentric?’’ enquired the com-

merci! travel-r.

‘*No,’’ answered one of the village’s
prominent citizens. He ain't rich
enough to be called ‘eccentric. * He’s
just a plain crank.’’

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It takes the best to make the best.

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CACIUM CARBIDE.
Process of Manufacture and Methods
of Sale.

Carbide is made from a mixture of
lime and coke (charcoal is preferable

quires but a little intuition to realize
that even at $70 per ton a vast field is
opened up to the sciences and arts and
to commercial communities as well It
is impossible at present to estimate the
value of the industries that would be

THE OWEN WEN

AGETYLENE GAS GENERATOR

Greenville, June 17, 1898.
Geo. F. Owen & Co ,

Gentlemen—In answer to yours of
the 15th, would say that the gas plant
put in our county house by youis work-
ing to ourentire satisfaction. The light
is soft and abundant. Our Keeper is
more than pleased with it. We think it
just the thing for buildings of this kind.

J. P. SHOEMAKER,
Supt. Poor.

Geo. F. Dwell i.

when it can be obtained), the propor-|created by the introduct:on of carbide
tion being too pounds of lime to an]and acetylene gas into the realm of
average of 68 pounds of coke, the lat- | commerce.

ter varying from 65 to 70 pounds, ac-| The discovery was made by a Cana-
cording to circumstances. After being|dian, Thomas L. Wilson, at Spray, N.
crushed and ground the materials are|C., in 1888, while experimenting on the
screened off in rotary screens, and] reduction of refractory metallic oxides
that which is not already reduced to] by carbon in an electric furnace. While
powder is conveyed to a set of stones|trying to obtain the metal calcium by
like those used in the old stone flour} reducing lime with pulverized charcoal
mills, where it is groundup. The lime|the temperature of the arc fused the
having been treated the same as the| mass and it sol dified into an extremely
coke, they are both carried ina rotary|bard gray crystalline rock. It was
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mixed, and then taken by convevors to
the furnace room. There the cruciai
and most interesting part of the process
of manufacture is carried on. Each fur-
nace is fed by nearly 200 electrical
horse power, which, being transformed
into heat, produces about 10,000 degree-
Fahrenheit, and, in a day of twenty four
hours, makes four pigs of carnide ot
500 pounds each. The unit of electro-
motive force used 1s 75 volts, the cur-
rent vary!ng from 1,600 to 2,000 amperes,

From the foot of each furnace runs a
track upon which the materia! is t:'ucked
awiy. [noe cardide pigs, after being
taken out of the furnace, are allowed
to cool off, and are then broken up in
lumps about tke size of furnace coal.
These lumps look like chunks of iron
ore, and are, roughly speaking, about
the same weight.

The carbide, after being broken up,
is put into airtight tanks or drums
which hold 1,000 pounds each. This is
done in order to prevent the erosion ot
the carbide that would result if it were
exposed to the air, and the saturation
of the carbide with petroleum is a
further preventive of erosion, which
is caused by the moisture in the air

The only practical question now to
dispose of is the cost of the carbide. It
is now being sold for export by the Wil-
son Co. at from $70 to $80 per ton. At
that price we can not supply one-tenth
of the demand, and while this is so we
sce no- reason for placing it upon the
market at a lower price. Each pound
of calcium carbide froduces a quantity
of acetylene gas equaling 75 feet of
coal gas 'n i/luminating power. At $80
per ton the cost «fa pound of carbide
is 4 cents; therefore, at this price
acetylene gas is equal to coal gas at 4
cents per 1,000 feet.

With improved appliances it will, no
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was an instant evolution of large quan-
tities of gas, which, when lighted,
burned with a smoky, luminous flame.
Chemical analyses showed the rock to
be carbide of calcium, containing 60
parts by weight of calcium and 40 parts
of carbon, and its gaseous offspring to
he acetylene. The gas is produced
commercially by the action of water
upon carbide, and the prospect of such
gas becoming the illuminant ot the fu-
ture is now a Certainty.

Regarding the output at present, |
can say that the works at Sault Ste.
Marie turn out two and one-half tons
per day; at St. Catharines the output 1s
25 tons and the works at Niagara Falls
have a capacity of 20 tons per day The
works at Sault Ste. Marie are being
enlarged. A contract has been closed
with the Walker-Westinghouse Electric
Co. for an electric generator of 20 000
horse-power. When this is installed the
capacity of the works will be increased
to 70 tons per day. A corresponding
increase of power and capacity is con-
templated, and there is every reason to
believe that the price will drop to $40
per ton. This, however, will depend
upon the rate of development and use of
improved machinery. At present the
high cost of electrical machinery pre-
cludes the possibility of any material
reduction in price.

The use of acetylene gas is further
advanced in Europe than it is here. We
are shipping to Germany, France and
Italy, and we have made shipments to
China, Japan and Bombay. The proc-
ess 1S covered by patents, and there is
little fear of competition since the Wil-
son Works and the Union Carbide Co.
control all the patents on this contine: t,
and no one else can produce the gas un-
less as lawful licensees of these com-
panies. There is no limit to the pro
duction so long as lime and coke hold
out, JoHN NERESHEIMER.

To introduce new brands of cigars the quality of which
will insure your continued orders we give

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Commercial Travelers

Michigan Knights of the Grip.

President, JoHN A. HOFFMAN, Kalamazoo; Secre-
ou J. C. SaunpeErs, Lansing; Treasurer, Cas.
McNotry, Jackson.

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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. Ann Arbor; Grand
Secretary, G. S. Vatmorg, Detroit; Grand Treas-
urer, W. S. WEst, Jackson.

Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Mutual Acci-
dent Association.
President, J. Boyp PanTLINp, Grand Rapids;
st and Treasurer, Geo. F. OwEN, Grand
pids.

Lake Superior Commercial Travelers’ Club.
President, F. G. Truscott, Marquette; Secretary
and Treasurer, A. F. W1xson, Marquette.

 

 

Annual Meeting of the Lake Superior
Commercial Travelers’ Ciub.

Marquette, Oct. 3—The annual meet-
ing of the Lake Superior Commercial
Travelers’ Club was held at Hotel Mar-
quette, Saturday evening, Oct. 1. The
following officers were elected for the
ensuing year:

President—F. G. Truscc tt, Marquette.

First Vice-President—W. C. Monroe,
Flint.

Second Vice-President -P. M. White,
M:lwaukee.

Third Vice-President—A. M. Baex,
De Pere, Wis.

Fourth Vice-President-H. E. Biel,
Escanaba.

Fifth Vice-President—A. H. Mont-
gomery, Grand Rapids.

Sixth Vice-President—C. V. Seeher,
Houghton.

Secretary and Treasurer—Albion F.
Wixson, Marquette

Directors—J. McCulley, Menasha,
Wis.; E. L. Griggs, Saginaw; R. G.
Quinn, Negaunee; H. C. Work, Escan-
aba.

A vote of thanks was extended to tha
Michigan Tradesman for the donation
of programs used at the party given at
Hotel Superior on Aug. 19

The membership at present is 212.

The new vestpocket directory for 1899
will contain the names and addresses of
members and the addresses of houses
represented, tilty-two pages in diary
form, one week on a_ page, and thirty
pages blank memoranda. The official
and Western merchandise classification,
in tabulated form, will be given, the
distances between all railroad stations
in the Upper Peninsula, as well as sev-
eral pages devoted to miscellaneous in-
formation. A limited amount of adver-
tising space has been sold, which helps
to pay for the books. Extra copies of
the directory may be purchased from
the Secretary at 50 cents each. Special
rates to members or for quantities.

All members should at once notify
the Secretary of the extra copies wanted.

Advance orders will have the mem-
ber’s name or any other name embossed
in gold upon the outside of front cover
at no extra expense.

2-2
The Grain Market.

Wheat has been working downward
since last week, notwithstanding the
large exports. The receipts at primary
points were large. The visible was ex-
pected to show an increase of about
1,000,000 bushels, instead of which it
showed an increase of 1,965,000—rather
large—which leaves the visible at 11,-
263,000 bushels, against 21, 404,000 bush-
els at the same time last year, 50,000, -
000 in 1896, 42,000,000 in 1895 and 73,-
000,000 in 1894. Still the price is low.

The question is, How long can the
bears keep pounding prices down, sim-
ply by claiming that we have a 750,-
000,000 bushel crop, when it seems to
us they are claiming 100,000,000 bushels
more than was actually raised? When
it is considered that the granaries were
empty, as they certainly were when the
new harvest came in, we think the short
side rather dangerous.

 

Our exports since July 1 have been
44,500,000 bushels, against 56,000,000
bushels at the same time last year.
Still we must expect large receipts and
we need them to get our visible up to
normal conditions. Report says that
Russia expects to have to come to
America for 40,000,000 bushels of seed
wheat. The English harvest falls short
of what was expected at an earlier date.
Winter wheat is used uf as fast as it 1s
marketed and stocks are not increasing
in the winter wheat belt, and stocks in
Detroit, Toledo, Indianapolis and all
points are low. Mills are not over-
stocked, nor are the elevators at the
principal railroad stations, and where
they have a good supply they are hold-
ing firm and are asking a good price.
Michigan wheat is sought after by
other states, owing to the fine quality
we have, and it looks to us that present
prices certainly will have to be ad-
vanced before iong, especially as we
may expect heavy roads very soon, when
wheat marketing will be  burden-
some at pritmary points. The Nortb-
west is sending in not more than she
did last year.

Corn has been easy. The visible also
showed an increase of 1,764,000 bushels,
but that must be expected, as farmers
are likely at present to make room for
the new crop, which is by no means as
large as was counted on earlier in the
season. The crop will show a falling
off of 300,000,000 bushels and, with all
the pounding of prices downward, the
bears are not very successful, as_ prices
remain very steady.

Oats had a fair increase, but prices
held firm.

Receipts for September in this mar-
ket were as follows: wheat, 225 cars;
corn, 50 cars; oats, 49 cars. For the
week ending Oct. 1, the receipts were
g2 cars of wheat, 11 cars of corn and 18
cars of oats. This is rather large for
wheat, but the mills use it up about as
fast as it comes along. All the mills
are running full time and _ produced
nearly 10,000 barrels of flour during the
past week, which is probably about the
banner week for Grand Rapids mills.

Mills are paying 58 cents per bushel
for wheat to day. C. G. A. Voter.

—__> 2. ___
Saginaw Squaring Herself For
Ordeal.

Saginaw, Oct. 2—Your favor of Sept
29, written to Director Smith, together
with your article in the Tradesman, was
read at the meeting of Post F last even-
ing and a vote of thanks was tendered
the Tradesman for the interest taken in
the coming annual meeting. I was in-
structed to write vou each week of the
progress we are making with the ar-
rangements. Last evening we had a
very enthusiastic meeting and arranged
for the appointment of the various com-
mittees, whose names we will furnish
you for next week’s issue. We aim to
give a good entertainment to our visit-
tors without being extravagant, as we
have been requested by the members of
the Board to keep the expenses within
such a limit that the smaller Posts will
feel able to invite the Association to
hold future conventions in their towns.

O. C. GOULD, Sec’y.
——_—_~>_6

A. S. Doak (Worden Grocer Co. ) had
the misfortune to slip on a pebble while
getting on a street car Sept. 26, sprain-
ing the ankle of his crippled leg. He
insisted on making his trip last week,
although he had to call into service a
pair of crutches. This week he is exer-
cising more discretion and taking things
easy at his home, in the expectation
that he will be able to resume his cails
to his trade next week.

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F. H. Spurrier, Representing Williams
Bros., Indianapolis.

Frank H. Spurrier was born in Shelby
county, Ind., March 23, 1855. His an-
tecedents were Irisb, his grandparents
on both sides having been natives of the
North of Ireland. Mr. Spurrier lived
on the farm on which he was born until
17 years of age, following the plow sum-
mers and walking a mile and a half to
school three months each winter, when
he went to Shelbyville and attended a
business school for a year. The family
then removed to Indianapolis, where
Mr. Spurrier found empioyment as the
driver of a delivery wagon for a grocery
store, where he received the munificent
salary of $3 per week. At the end of
one year be was promoted to aclerkship
in the same store, where he remained
one year. He then went behind the
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dianapolis, where he remained two
years. Forming a liking for the job-
bing trade, he gladly accepted a posi-
tion as shipping clerk for A. B. Gates
& Co., wholesale grocers, remaining in
that position one year, when he was
offered a position on the road for the
same house, which he retained thirteen
years, covering the same territory in
Western Indiana. In 1891 he transferred
his allegiance to Williams Bros., and
for three years covered the western
portion of Western Pennsylvania. He
was then transferred to Michigan and
given charge of the entire trade of the
State, both wholesale and retail. This
he has done so successfully that he took
up his residence here in April, 1897,
and confidently expects to make the city
his headquarters for many years to
come. In July of this year, he took a
side line in the shape of the Concave
washboard, manufactured by the Stand-
ard Washboard Co , of Eaton, Ind. He
has already built up a considerable trade
on this staple in all parts of the State.

Mr. Spurrier was married May 6,
1876, to Miss Emma Bly, of In-
dianapolis, by whom he has one daughter
11 years old and a boy 17 years of age.
His wife died April 25,1888. On Oct. 4,
1895, he married Miss Lizzie Brandon,
of Greencastle, Ind., by whom he is the
father of one boy, 2 years of age. The
family reside at 193 Buckeye street.

Mr. Spurrier isa member of Excelsior
Lodge No. 25, K of P., of Indianapolis,
the Commercial Travelers’ Association
of Indiana and the Michigan Commer-
cial Travelers’ Mutual Accident Asso-
ciation. He attributes his success to

   

 

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MICHIGAN STATE BOARD OF PHARMACY.

_—— Term expires
F. W. R. Perey, Detroit -  - Dee, 31, 1898
A. C. SCHUMACHER, — Arbor - Dec. 31, 1899

Guo. GuxpRvum, Ioni - Dec. 31, 1900
L. E. REYNOLDS, St. _ - Dec. 31, 1901
Henry HEm™, Saginaw ee - Dec. 31, 1902
President, Gro. GunpRvM, Ionia.
Secretary, A. C. ScoumMACHER, Ann Arbor.
"Treasurer, Henry HEM, Saginaw.

Examination Sessions.
Lansing— Nov. 1 and 2.
STATE PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION.
President—J. J. SouRWINE, Escanaba,

Secretary, Cuas. F. Mann, Detroit.
Treasurer—JouN D. Muir, Grand Rapids.

 

 

: The Care and Control of Prescriptions.

Should the druggist be required by
law to retain the original of every pre-
scription compounded by him, and to
furnish a copy only on request of the
patient or of the physician?

The following is a section in the Mis-
souri pharmacy law:

‘‘Every druggist, proprietor of a drug
store or pharmacist shall carefully pre-
serve all prescriptions compounded by
him or those in his employ, numbering,
dating and filing them in the order in
which they are compounded, and _ shall
produce the same in court or before any
grand jury whenever thereto lawfully
required, and on failing, neglecting or
refusing to do so_ shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor, and on con-
viction shall be punished by a fine of
not less than fifty nor more than one
hundred dollars.’’

By the enactment of this section the
lawmakers were inspired not so much
with a desire to protect the physician
and the druggist as to provide a means
of detecting the unlawful selling of in-
toxicating liquors by colluson among
the three parties primarily interested,
the consumer completing the triangular
arrangement ; but while the disreputable
doctor and druggist may be punished by
this provision of the law, others may
utilize it as a shield and a defense.
That all prescriptions should be care-
fully filed and in such manner as will
insure them from damage while render-
ing them readily accessible, druggists
generally are agreed ; but the thoughtful
care exercised in this important branch
of the business is not uniform.

It is not the purpose of this paper to
discuss methods.

By tbe wording of the section of the
Missouri pharmacy law quoted, the
druggist is directed to file the prescrip-
tion handed him to be compounded.
This means the original, not a copy, yet
the primary object of this section was
not to decide who, in the State of Mis-
souri, shall be considered the legal own-
er of this interesting scrap of paper.

The command to the druggist, in the
words of the law, leaves no doubt as to
the proper custodian of the prescrip-
tion, and, as a logical deduction, de-
cides the ownership. The model law
which this Association hopes ultimately
to frame might appropriately contain
such a section.

Druggists may be made defendants in
damage suits. For a successful defense,
if the fact to be established is the cor-
rect compounding of a_ prescription,
the presentation in evidence of the
original is quite essential. The ques-
tion as to the ownership of the prescrip-
tion is an old one, but so long as it is
an open and vital one the discussion is
in order.

A decision by one of the higher courts
would be welcome. The inferior courts,

 

in passing upon it, have contradicted
one another.

No final decision is possible until
there shall be a law for interpretation.
Each state is at the mercy of its law-
makers. For a set of men in conven-
tion assembled to agree that certain
matters should be controlled by law is
simple enough. To secure the enact-
ment of sucha law'by a state legislature
is usually a very different matter. Leg-
islation asked for by druggists is often
regarded with suspicion. It is thought
to be for the benefit of a class, the gen-
eral welfare character of it not being
usually recognized. After all of our
gratuitous service to the public, our
altruism may still be doubted.

It is a mistake to suppose that all of
the ills of which we complain can be
remedied by legislation, but this thought
need not deter us from effort in what
we conceive to be the direction of im-
provement. It ought not to be difficult
to convince physicians and _ patients
that druggists are the proper custodians
of prescriptions; but what stand shall
the druggist take if there be no law be-
hind which he can retreat? It is not
unusual for a customer to say: ‘‘ Please
return that prescription with the medi-
cine. You may make and keep a copy
of it if you wish to do so.’’

The druggist complies and takes his
chances on any future complications.
To do otherwise would be to invite a
contention, whicha politic business man
studies to avoid. The practice of re-
questing copies of prescriptions, the
originals remaining in the possession
of the druggist, is a growing one.
From his standpoint the practice of re-
filling prescriptions, unless so authorized
by the physician, must be considered in
this connection. If we concede it to be
the patient’s privilege to demand and
receive a copy of a prescription pre-
pared for him, then it is not possible
for the physician to control the matter
of its repetition, unless there be an un-
derstanding on this point at the time it
is written. The druggist, if requested
by the doctor not to give a copy of the
prescription, will certainly see his
wishes are respected. It is the duty of
the druggist, furthermore, to firmly de
cline to give a copy of a prescription
except upon the request of the physi-
cian, if it should contain morphine,
cocaine, or any other potent and danger-
ous drug. By the exercise of tact and
politeness, he can prevent the precipi-
tation of an unpleasant scene. With
these exceptions the patient is likely
to receive a copy of his prescription
when he asks for it, and he is at liberty
to carry it from store to store and get
‘*bids’’ on the cost of compounding it.
Physicians very properly object to the
frequent repetition of their prescriptions
without consultation with them, but yet
an illiberal policy on their part is apt
to estrange patients, and result in dam-
age to their practice in the end. ‘The
doctor, above all others, must be a man
of good judgment. He usually is politic,
discreet and tactful.

Evil consequences do undoubtedly
often follow indiscriminate self-medica-
tion. By a mutual understanding be-
tween the two professions, either with or
without legal enactment, physician,
pharmacist and patient would all be
benefited. J. M. Goon.

32» ___
Good Taste.

Elder Brother: Freddy, I’m surprised
to see you soak your bread in the gravy
in the dish. It's exceedingly bad form.

Freddy: Well, it’s awfully good taste.

 

The Drug Market.

There are very few changes of im-
portance to note in the drug market.

Opium—Has declined in this market,
although the primary markets are quoted
firm and speculators are buying heavily.

Morphine—Is unchanged at the de-
cline of 15c noted last week.

Quinine—Is in good demand at un-
changed prices.

Cinchonidia—The good demand, and
the fact that this article is getting
scarce, has advanced the price about 2c
per ounce.

Alcohol—Price is firm and an advance
by the Spirits Co. is expected daily.

Tonka Beans—On account of very
heavy stocks and competition, price has
declined 50 per cent.

Flowers—Belgium calomel have been
advanced, on account of damage to
crop. German are firm. Insect have
advanced abroad and the powder is like-
ly to be higher next year.

Oils—Anise has declined, owing to
competition among holders.

Roots—Jalap is in small supply and
higher. Ipecac has advanced, on ac-
count of scarcity.

Seeds—Anise is tending higher.
Canary has been advanced, on account
of short crop. Celery is unchanged. The
active season for mustard is at band
and prices are firm.

Spices—Cloves are firm and likely to
be higher. Gingers are lower.

——_a>04>_____—_
Some Queer Orders.

A Jersey City druggist is making a
collection of the queer orders he re-
ceives from people who send children to
the store for things they need. Here
are a few of them:

‘*This child is my little girl. I sent
you five cents to buy two sitless powders
for a groan up adult who is sike.’’

Another reads ‘‘Five sense worse of
Aunty Toxyn for to gargle babi’s throte
and obleage.’’

An anxious mother writes ‘‘ You will
please give the leetle boi five cents worth
of epaca for to throw up in a five-
months’-old babe N. B.—The babe
has a sore stunmick."’

This one puzzled the druggist: ‘‘I
have a cute pane in my child’s dia-
gram. Please give my son something to
release it.’’

Another anxious mother wrote: ‘‘My
little babey has eat up its father’s par-
ish plaster. Send an anecdote quick as
possible by the enclosed little girl °’

The writer of this one was evidently
in pain: ‘*I haf a hot time in my in-
sides and wich I wood like to be ex-
tinguished. What is good for to extin-

guish it?
the price of the extinguisher. Hurry,
pleas.’

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Myrica Cerifera, po. 20 | Potass oe opt... 10@ 12 Opii, camphorated. 50
Prunus Virgini...... 12} Potass Nitras........ 10@_ il i
» Opii; deodorized.... 150
Quillaia, gr’d....... 12 ore ee ~0@ 25! Qnassia 50
Sassafras...... po. 1 12} Sulphate po .. ..... 15@ 18 atany............ 50
Ulmus...po. 15, er'd 15 Radix ee 50
Extractum Aconitvm nant i 20@ ee: =
Jabra. 25 Pet ee ect 5 rpentaria + :
pei ba ls, Pe ee = 30| Anchusa............ rn 12 | Stromonium ........ 60
Heematox, 15 — 11 12| Arum po...... ...... @ 2| Tolutan.............. 60
Hematox is . 13@ 14] Calamus ....).2.. 7" - 0@ 40) Valerian ............ 50
Hematox, Beg 2 14@ «15 | Gentiana...... po 15 12@ 15} Veratrum Veride... 50
Hematox, 48....... 16@ 17] Glychrrhiza...py.15 16@ 18} Zingiber............. 20
a oe Canaden . @ 60 a Pliscellaneo
rastis Can. the: "* 300
Carbonate Precip... 15 Hallebore, Alba, gg 186 2% gather, :Spts Nit iF 4@ 33
Citrate and Quinia.. 2 2/ Inula, po............ 15@ 20/ Alum 24@ 3
a —— ey i ° mee. ‘ee Beets 2 80@ 3 = lumen, gro'd. Po.’ 7 3 4
Solut. Chloride. ..... 15 | Jalapa, pr........... 5@ 30 ‘fatinanes i 4@ 3
Sulphate, com’)..... 21] Maranta, Me. @ 3 Antimoni PotassT 40@ 50
= “gee = by a Podophyllum, po... 2@ 2%| Anti a @ 3%
ee a A tifebrit aes ce
sulphate, pure ..... 7| Rhei, cut.... 2.00227! ae i 28 r - $ 50
Flora ei, ee acl a : H@ 1 3 10o@ 12
an 2@ 14 Spigelia. ..2.27 00777 5@ 38 BQ 40
a=. 22@ 2% | Sanguinaria.. ‘Po @ 13) Bismuth &.N. 1 40@ 1 50
a eee 0@ 35 ae. - = . ae Chlor., 1s.. g .
oe) ee remem Lt alcium Chlor.,
Pollia Similex 0 officinalis H @ oe ns . : 12
ee 3@ 2 ee 25 | Cantharides, Rus. %5
pe Acutifol, Tin- Rei 35 108 12 | Capsici Fructus, af. @ 6
nevelly...... ..... 18@ 25] Symplocarpus, Fati- Capsici Fructus,po. @ 15
Cassia Acutifol,Alx. 2%@ 30| dus, po..........., @ 25|Capsici FructusB,po @ 15
Salvia officinalis, \8 Valerians ,Eng.po.30 5 Ceeeriine. 155 12@ 14
and Sa 12@ 20 Valertana, German. 1 20 | Ca a. @ 3 00
Ure Ural 8@ 10 Zine = Bedeoe oe = 16 = Alb at = [
aaa T 27| Cera Flava..........
Semen DECOR @ 40
Acacia, ist picked.. @ 6 Cassia F es
Acacia, 2d picked. @ 45|Anisum....... eS Ss Contrarian ly g 0
Acacia, 3d picked. @ 35 aha, © — —— B@ 15 ee @ 4
Acacia, sifted sorts. 28 4@ 6) Chloroform.....)|""’ 60@ 63
Ooo 80 Carul....... “Po 18 10@_ 12 aienicen, pauibbs @ 115
Aloe, Barb. po.18@20 12@ 14|Cardamon..... 1 24@ 1 7% | Chloral Hyd 1 65@ 1 90
oe, Cape .... po. 1 @ 12| Coriandrum.. 8@ 10} Chondrus. W@ 2
Aloe. Socotri po. 40 @ 30 ee Sativ: 6 a Cinchonidine. Pew 3@ 35
ian. se 9g| Chenopodium... 10 12 Ginchonidine, Gorm ae tee
Benzoinum ......... 55 | Dipterix Odorate... 1 40@ 1 50| Corks, list, dis. pr.ct. 70
Catechu, 18.......... 13 | Foeniculum ......... @ 10] Creosotum. @ 3
Catechu, %s.. ...... 14 | Foenugreek, po.. 7@ 9 a ee @ 2
Catechu, i¥s......... 16 | dim ........ 2. 3%@ 4% | Creta, prep ....._ @ 5
Camphore -.- 38@ 42] Lint, grd....bbl.3% 4@ 4% Creta, recip... 9@ 11
Euphorbium..po. 35 @ 10 a. B@ 40 —. Rabe... ee. @ 8
Gathantan fon re @ 100 Pharlaris Canarian. 4@ 4%|Crocus.. .. 18@ 20
Gamboge po........ 6@ 70 Pe. ce. 4%@ 5|Cudbear........777' @ &#
Quaiacum..... po. 3 @ _ 30| Sinapis Albu........ 9@ 10] Cupri Sulph........ 5a C6
Kino........ po. 83.u0  @ 3 00| Sinapis Nigra.. N@ 12) Dextrine....-221.7". 10@ 12
ee pee ete a 3 S Spiritus a _ eo... — = .
yirh......... 3 Frumenti, W. D. Co. 2 00@ 2 50| Emery, all numbers
Opel, PO. -GS.10 3 se 3% | Prumenti; DFR. 2 WO 2s ae. we os
Shellac, bleached... 40@ 4 Frument . - 125@ 1 50 | fraot Wikis. 2@ 15
Juniperis Co. 0. T_. 1 65@ 2 00
sosee sees 50@ 80) Suni ris Co... 1 %@ 3 50 | Gala. Q@ 2
~ Seca Gai 1B 3 8
Absinthium..oz. pkg 25 ni Galli...... @ 6 50
Suphactum on che 99 | Vini Oporto. ......7” '=92@| eee. = 8
Lobelia......oz. pkg 25 | Vini Alba. - 125@ 2 00/ “Tess than box. = 60
_ ine -0z. pkg = Sponges Glue, brown........ 9@ 12
a a = pkg 95 | Florida sheeps’ wool Glue, white... 13@ 25
Rue pg 39 | Catriage........... 2 50@ 2 75 | Glycerina........... UO 2
eee Pe a. 99 | Nassau sheeps wool Grana Paradisi . @
ae Ce os os | _Catriage........... @ 2 00| Humulus............ 3@ 55
arene, - P Velvet extra sheeps’ Hydraag Chlor Mite @ 85
maces wen: carriage Ee @13 oa a a $ =
55@ Seal cota ina x Rub’m.
Carbonate, Pai....”” a0 ge | wool carvings” = @100|Hydragammonind B10
Carbonate,K.&M.. 20Q@ 2% Grass sheep's wool, HydreagCnguontum 5@ 55
Carbonate, Jennings 35@ 36 earriage........... @10 bs ie a Sg ie ard ae @ 7
Hard, for slate use.. @ ® = aes. lla, Am 6Q 7
Oleum Yellow oneet foy = Pndigen a, %@ 1 00
Absinthium......... 3 375| slate use.......... @14 Todise, Resubi...... 3 0@ 3 70
Amygdale, Dulc.... 4 50 Iodoform....... .... : 4 20
Amygdale, T2. 8 8 5 — Lupulin. ......... 2 2
Bs ce 3 00D 2 10 Acacia .. @ 50/| Lycopodium........ oe 45
Auranti Cortex..... 2 25@ 2 40 Auranti Cortes... @ 50/Macis_ ......... %
Bee Se ke 3 3 20 | Zingiber....... ..... @ 50 ee eee ee
Cajiputi............. 85 | Ipecac. oe aes 60 ——- eit acca @ BB
Ee 85 | Ferri lIod............
ophy! 8. s aves ted sed - je mae oo 10@ =
Chenopadii...27) 27! 2 75 | Smilax Offa es 60 | Magnesia, Sulph,bbi of 1
Citronella 2.2. , io Seille .......° winnad os 2%

 

 

Morphia, S.P.& W... 2 40@ 2 65| Sinapis.............. @ 18] Linseed, pure raw.. 35 38
Morphia, S.N.Y.Q.& Sina) et One... @ 3} Linseed, boiled..... 36 39

Oe ee, 30@ 2 55 = ee Neatsfoot,winterstr 6 70
Moschus Canton.. Ga Bi Vow... 3... @ | Spirits Turpentine.. 34 40
Nux Voice 1 — = sunt scotch, DeVo’s ‘ 3 7"

ux Vomica...po. a Boras.......... 1
Seeciss “S “Seamer: 2B oe

epsin sag, a et Potass Tart. Red Venetian... ... 1% 2 @8

D Co Piss laiicteal besa, coc @ 1 00} Soda, Carb.......... 1%@ 2 Ochre, yellow Mars. in 2 @4
Picis Liq. N.N.% gal. Soda, Bi-Carb....... 3@ 5 Ochre, yellow Ber.. 1% 2 @3
Meee. @ 2 00} Soda, Ash........... 3K@ 4 Putty, commercial.. 2 2%@3
Picis Liq., quarts.. @ 1 00| Soda, Sulphas. |. 27! @ . 2! Putty’ strictly pure. 2 2%@3
Picis Liq., pints..... @ 85| Spts. Cologne........ @ 2 80| Vermilion, Prime
Pil Hydrarg.. -po. 80 @ 50/ Spts. Ether Co...... 50@ 55| American.......... 13@ 15
Em Alba.-Fo - = @ 18)Spt. Myrcia Dom.. @ ° 00! Vermilion, English. 2@ 7%
r Al @ 30| Spts. Vini Rect.bbil. @ 255 Green, Paris ........ 18%@ 22
Pite Lea @ 7| Spts. Vini Rect.%bbl @ 2 60! Green’ Peninsular... 13@ 16
Plumb po Baas 10@ 12 Spts. Vini Rect. 10gal @ 2 63 ad 5u@Q 634
Pulvis Ipecac et Opii 1 10@ 1 20| Spts. Vini Rect. 5ga1  @ 2 65 Lead, white........ 5X@ 614
Pyrethrum, boxes Less 5¢ gal. cash 10 days. Whiting, white Span @ Ww
& P. D. Co., doz. @ 1 25 | Strychnia, _—-- 1 40@ 1 45| whiting’ gilders’. @ Ww
Pyrethrum, pv...... 2@ 30) Sulphur, Subl....... 2%@_4- | white, Seis Amer.. @ 100
—— ee 8@ 10) Sulphur, Roll..... 2%@3% Whiting, Paris Eng.

Seats : G &W.. . Be = sae ee aie Bees 8@ «10/ elgg’ @14

uinia, erman. 2) Tereben emcee... 2 28) pascal Diwascs 00@
Gujnta, N ia, 29@ 34/ Theobrome....... . 4@ Universal Fropared. 1 7

ubia eecacace im i4| Vanilia............. 9 00@16 00 Varnishes
<n pv 18@ ‘ ~ Zinci Sulph......... 7@

MEERA 00@ , 8 1 20
Sanguis Draconis... 40@ 50 Oils ane 1 ioe 1 70
Sapo, W............. - Bg 14 BBL. @aL. | Coach Body......... 2 7%@ 3 00

po, M.... ......... 1 12| whale, winter....... 70 70|No.1Turp Furn.... 1 00@ 1 10
Sapo, G............. | @ 15| Lard, extra......... 50 60] Extra Turk Damar.. 1 55@ 1 60
Siedlitz Mixture.... 20 @ Nae 40 45|Jap.Dryer,No.1Turp 70@ 75

 

 

 

Imperiales

Clear Havana

$60

Lord Cardigan

Best Domestic Cigar on the Market

Regiments
Brigades

Order a Sample Box.

$60
$70

Hazeltine
& Perkins
Drug Co.,

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GROCERY PRICE CURRENT.

The
dealers.

prices quoted in this list are for the trade only,
They are prepared just before

in such quantities as are usually purchased by retail
oing 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. Subscribers are e
our aim to make this feature of the greatest poss

Cash buyers or those of strong credit usually buy closer than
-arnestly requested to point out any errors or omissions, as it is
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AXLE GREASE. CLOTHES LINES.
doz. gross | Cotton, 40 ft, per doz....... 1 00
Anrers........ --55 6 00 | Cotton, 50 ft, per doz....... 1 20
a : = : = —. —— per — neck aie 1 2
nd.. ‘otton, t, per dos....... 1
Frazer’s...............75 9 00| Cotton, 80 ft, per dox....... 1
IXL Golden, tin boxes 75 9 00 | Jute, 60 ft, ok iis clas 80
—— tin ee 4 Jute. 72 ft. ner dns... 11...
Se COCOA SHELLS.
BAKING POWDER. 20ib bape 2%
Absolute. Less quantity............ 3
0) Cane doz............. 45 | Pound packages......... 4
ip sans @oz............. 85 CREAS1 TARTAR.
becan doz...... . 150 — 10 1b. a boxes... . =
Acme. ik i SACKS.
Ib Cans 3 dos............ 4
Ib cans 3 dos............ ri — E.
i Ibeans 1 dos............ 1 00 Rio.
Bulk........ ee eee Pee re,
iC. ol <s
6 oz. Eng. Tumblers........ 85 id
El Parity. oe 12
34 lb cans per doz......... wo Peaberry 000 13
¥% lb cans per doz ........ 1 20 Santos
1 Ib cans per doz......... 2 00! weir : 12
Howe ce rr .
" Ib eee 4 dos pee 85 game ea Rema IRE: ss
cans4dozcase...... 5% | ETime..-.......... -..--------
1b cans 2 doz case ..... 99 | Peaberry ........... .......-. 15
PIT es
>.< AN ae 3
aoe 2 es 16
iq 1b cans, 4dozcase..... 45 eee 17
% 1b cans, 4 doz case...... 85 acaibo.
lb cans, 2 doz case...... 1o1ecme.. 19
Jersey Cream Mee 20
1 1b. cans, per doz.... 2 00 Java.
9 oz. Cans, per doz. 1 25] Interior...........
6 oz. cans, per doz. 85 | Private Growth... oe
ee _— Leader pe Mandohiing................... 21
ps wiviele wise cele inin 6 see Mocha.
ce v6)
——— i... 22
Bictiion. ee
[cen 85 Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brands
hia ou _, 2 70| Fifth Avenue..... ........ 29
6 0z.,4 doz. case ..........- 3 20 — er ig aC it a
9 oz., 4 doz. case........... 4 80 Se ee eee
11b..2 ie! Gane "400 roc Agia Java..... =
” a BRICKED 25
-5 lb., 1 doz. case............ 9 00! Breakfast Blend... 18
70 Valley City Maracaibo...... 18%
Heal Biend................. 14
Leader Blend....... ....... 12

 

   
  

Small, 3 doz...... 40
Large, 2 doz........ ves)
BROOSFIS
me. tarps. 1 90
Mo: 2 Carpet........ ...... 1%
No. 3 Carpet.......... i. <n
moe. 4 Carpet....,........... 1B
rarier Gem ..+.......... 0. 2 00
Common Whisk............ 70
Panty Witsk............... 80
Warehouse. ....... ....... 2 25
CANDLES.

a
__ 8
Pome 8
eee 20

CANNED GOODs.
Manitowoc Peas.
Lakeside Marrowfat....... 95
Bekosigo®. 3... -......-.. 115
Lakeside, Cham. of Eng.... 1 20
Lakeside. Gem, Ex. Sifted. 1 45
Extra Sifted Early June....1 75
CAT. °
Columbia, pints ........ 2 00
Columbia, % ERs oo. ee
CHEESE
os @ 10
a @ 10
Butternut........... @ 10
Carson City.......... @ 10
a @ 10

Be @ 10
Mew @ 10”
eee @ il
Lenawee ............ @ 8
Riverside............ @ 10
I @
Springdale..... .... @

i. ee ee @ il
ee @ 70
Pc cece @ 17
seaman: See ewice tick @ 12
Pineapple............ 50 @ 8
Sap Sago............ @ 17
Chicory.
Bmik ..... 6
Red 7
CHOCOLATE.
Walter Baker & Co.'s.

German Sweet .. ee se ee

RO oe ce ee 35
Breakfast Cocoa..... .. .... 46

 

Package.

Below are given New York
prices on package coffees, to
which the wholesale dealer
adds the local freight from
New York to your shipping
point, giving you credit on the
invoice for the amount of
freight buyer pays from the
market in which he purchases
to his shipping point, including
weight of package, also ¥c a
pound. In 60lb. cases the list
is 10c per 100 lbs. above the
price in full cases.

TMOKSe oo Sk 10 50
I i ee 10 50
Mcl_sughliin’s XXX.

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

Extract.
Valley City % gross .....

"5
Mellx 36 wrees...... ..... tf
Hummel’s foil % gross... SE
Hummel’s tin % grors 1 42

CLOTHES PINS.
5 gross boxes... i
CONDENSED MILK.

4 doz in case.
v6)

  

Gail Borden Eagle

ee 6 2
Re ee 5 %
Champion ................2. 4 50
Magnolia ......... - — oo
Cnnenee.... ..s2 3 35
Dime : Soe cite Cee oe ee

COUPON BOOKS.
Tradesman Grade.

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

1,000 books, any denom....20 00
Economic Grade. |

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

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

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

1,000 books, any denom....20 00
Coupon Pass Books,
Can be made to represent any

denomination from 810 down.
a 1

<
BO MODES. ores 2 00
Motooks <9. 3 00
ORS 6
Poe 10 00
mee hooks... -. 2s. 17 50

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SST ery
Universal Grade.
50 books, any denom....
100 books, any denom....
500 books, any denom....
1,000 books, any denom....
Credit Checks.
500, any one denom’n.....
1000, any one denom’n.....
2000, any one denom’n.....
Steel punch. ..............
DRIED FRUITS—DONMESTIC
Apples.

Sandried 2 @
Evaporated 50 lb boxes. @
California Fruits.
Asrieots.. . @8%
Blackberries...........
Nectarines ............ @ 7%
PeRCHee.. . 2c... 64D 7%
Pears. ................8 ms
Pitted Cherries........
Prunnelles.............
Raspberries............
California Prunes.
100-120 25 lb boxes

SE.
assess Sess

Daw

88383

1¢ cent less in 50 1b cases
aisins.
London Layers 3 Crown.
London Layers 4 Crown.
Denersigg
Loose Muscatels2 Crown 3%
Loose Muscatels3Crown 4%
Loose Muscatels 4 Crown

FOREIGN.
Currants.
Pateas big... @ 6%
Vostizzas 50 lb cases...... @ 6%
Cleaned, bulk ............ @ 7%
Cleaned, ae oes @ 7%

Peel.
Citron American 10lb bx @13
Lemon American 10 1b bx @12
Orange American 101b bx @12
aisins.
Ondura 28 ib boxes.....
Sultana 1 Crown.......
Sultana 2Crown .....
Sultana 2Crown.......
Sultana 4 Crown....... @
Suitana §Crown....... @
Sultana 6 Crown....... a@
Sultana package....... @
FARINACEOUS GOODS.
Parina.
2411b. packages..........1 50
Bulk, per 100 lbs..... .... 3 50

Grits.
Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s Brand.

 

242 1b. packages........... 1 80

100 Ih: Rees... Se

200 lb. barrels.. ...........5
Hominy.

Barres
Flake, 50 lb. drums.......
Dried Lima .

Medium Hand Picked....
Maccaroni and ggeaeepan

 

 

 

Domestic, 10 lb. box......
Imported, 25 lb. box.. ...2 50
Pearl Barley.
Common.... ...... Soe ae
iCmoster .. ..e.2 2 2 25
PPADS oo oo 3 00
Peas.
Green, ba is 95
Split, perth... .....-.2.-. 2
Rolled Oats. .
3
-1 88
.1 7%
-3 20
Huron, cases...... 17
Sago.

Acermaee os 4
East India........... ee
Tapioca.
re ee oe oe 3%

eee te 3

Anchor, 40 1 lb. pkges.... 5
Wheat.

Cracked, bulk............. 31¢

242 lb packages........ 1-2 50

Salt Fish.

 

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money.

 

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Cod.

Georges cured......... @4

Georges genuin @5
Georges selected @ 5%

Strips or bricks... 6 @9

Herring.
Holland white hoops, bbl. 7 75
Holland white hoop %bbi 4 25
Holland, % bbl........... 22
Holland white hoop, keg. 65
Holland white hoop mchs 70
Norwegian... a
Round 100 lbs 2 75
Round 40 lbs 1 30
Nested... .. 14
Mackerel.
Mess 100 Ibs........... .«-. 15 00
Messe 30 ibs. ............. OSD
Mess 10 lbs.. 1 6
Mess _ 8 lbs.. 135
Ne Pig0ite.......... ...- 13 3
Neo.t Mibs....... 2 5... 5 60
Newt Mite... 1 48
Net Sipe... ...).. 3. 1 20
No.5 10 ibe:.. 8 50
mMo.2 fice. .......-..... 3 70
Ne.2 ibe... ............ 1 00
No.2 GTDS.....<......... 83
Trout.
No. 1 100 lbs. . 5 25
No.1 40lbs....... 2 40
No.1 10 lbs... 68
Mot Sibe... 3... 57
Whitefish.

No.1 No.2 Fam
100 lbs........ 6 65 2 00
40 lbs ....... 3 00 110
10 lbs i 81 35
Site. ....._. 68 31

 

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: 40
co...... 3 00 es 2 00
No. 8 400 No. 8...2 40
No. 10. .6 00 No. 10...4 00
No. 2T.1 25 No. 2T. 80
No. 3T.2 00 No. 3T.1 3
No 4T.2 40 No. 4T.1 50
Northrop Brand.
Lem. Van.
20z. Taper Panel.. 7% 1 20
Zor. Oval... ..:s % 1 90
3 0z. Taper Panel..1 35 2 00
4 oz. Taper Panel..1 60 2 25

Best in the world for the

   
  

  
  

  

Souders’.
bottle, with corkscrew.

INDIGO.
ras, 5 Ib boxes......... 55
8S. F., 2,3 and 5 lb boxes.... 50

 

 

GUNPOWDER.
Rifle—Dupont’s.
ee a 4 00
Halt Hers 3 2s fk 22
Quarter Kegs................18
iD CAMB eS cele 30
SC 1 CANS) se: 18
Choke Bore—Dupont’s.
CI ees 43
Half Kegs... ..2 40
Quarter .1 35
Die CAM a ae
Eagie Duck—Dupont’s.
ee ee ee 8 00
Half ere es oes 42
Quarter Kegs.. ....... ..... 22
tie Cams: ks. 45
JELLY.
pelle |. 35
oo tp pels... ct... 65
LYE.

Condensed, 2 dos .......... 120
Condensed. 4 dos _.......... 223
LICORICE.

eT 3G
— Pees c ee ccm =
UU
MINCE MEAT.
Ideal, 3 doz. in case......... 22
MATCHES.
Diamond Match Co.’s brands.
No. 9 suiphur.........-....- 16
Anchor Parlor.............- 170
iO. 2 tieeee. cc 1 10
Export Parlor.............- 4 00
MOLASSES.
New Orleans.
Bigek. 2062. 11
Fair 14
Gout Scie ee coe ee -
BOT ooo yo te
0 a GS ea 25@35
alf-barrels 2c extra.

MUSTARD.

Horse Radish, 1! doz..
Horse Radish, 2 doz..

 

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Bayle’s Celery, 1 doz..
PIPES.
Clay, No. 216_..-.....-..-.- 1 70
Clay, T. D. full count a
oe oes... 85
POTASH.
48 cans in case.

Banvie S.-i es 4 00
Penna Salt Co.’s......... 3800
PICKLES.

Medium.

Barrels, 1,200 count........ 450
Half bbls, 600 count........ 2%5
Small.

Barrels, 2,400 count....... 5 50
Half bbis 1,200 count...... 3 25
RICE.

Domestic.

Carolina head.............. 6%

Carolina, No.1 ............ 5
Carolina No.2.........-... 4
Brake cco 3%

imported.
Japan, No.1....... 54%@ 6
oan No. 2 - 4%@5
Java, fancy head...... 5 @b%
Jars, Ne. to .. 5 @
eee @
SALERATUS.

Packed 60 lbs. in box.
SRUTCRS 26 os. ss ct Oe
Delanae 22. 3 15
APES ocak tastes cae 5 so 3 30
OO eo ei es 3 00

60 lb.
case
$3.15
SAL SODA.
Granulated, bbis..........

%
Granulated, 100 lb cases... 90
Lump, bbls. .... ......... %5
Lump, 145]b kegs.......... 85

 

  

SNUFF.
Scotch, in bladders......... 24
Maccaboy, in jars........... BE
French Rappee, in jars..... 43
SEEDS.
APN 9
Canary, Smyrna........... 3%
COraWay oe. 8k 8
Cardamon, Malabar 60
Céléry........ 11
Hemp, Russia 3%
Mixed Bir 4%
Mustard, wh 5
oppy ..... 10
me... . 4%
Cuttle Bone 20

SALT.
Diamond Crystal.

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

Table, barrels, 100 3 1b bags.2 75

Table, barrels, 407 1b bags.2 40

Butter, barrels, 280 1b. bnlk.2 25

Butter, barrels, 20 14 lbbags.2 50

Butter, sacks, 28lbs......... 25

Butter, sacks, 56 lbs......... 55

Common Grades.

100 3-1b sacks..... Soca oe oe
OO5ib eaeks 2. oe 1%
28 10-lb sacks............... 1 60

Worcester.

50 4 Ib. cartons........... 3 25
115 2b. sacks..... ....... 4 00
GO 5 Tb. snes... 6: o.oo.) 375
oe 2 1b. seeks... .3 50
5010 ib. sacks.:..-... |: 3 50
28 lb. linen sacks............ 32
56 lb. linen sacks............ 60
Bulk in barrels.............. 2 50
Warsaw.
56-Ib dairy in drill bags... .. 30
28-Ib dairy in drill bags .... 15
Ashton.
56-lb dairy iniinen sacks... &
Higgins.
56-lb dairy in linen sacks. 6
Solar Rock.

SOIb seek ee .0
Common.
Granulated Fine..... ...... 70
Medium Fine............... 70
SOAP.

Single DOK. oe 275
5 box lots. delivered........ 27
10 box lots. delivered........ 2 65

JAS. 5. KIRK & CO.’S BRANDS.

American Family, wrp’d....2
Dome...... 2

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White Cloud, toilet.....
Dusky Diamond, 50 6 oz.
Dusky Diamond, 50 8 oz.
Blue India, 100 % lb...
Kirkoline.......... ce
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SCHULIE SOAP CO.’S BRANDS
Clydesdale, 100 cakes, 75 Ibs... . . 26
No-Tax, 100 cakes, 62 1-2 Ihs....2 00
Family, 75 cakes, 75 Ibs....... 2 50
German Mottled, 60 cakes, 60 Ibs. .1 75
Cocoa Castile, 18 lhs., cut 1-4 & 1-2..1 80
Chipped Soap for Laundries.

Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands.
Old Country, 801-lb. bars ..2 75

 

  

 

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Good Cheer, 60 1-lb. bars....3 75

Uno, 100 %-lb. bars.......... 2 50

Doll, 100 10-oz. bars......... 2 05
Scouring.

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

BORee eo See 5%
Roms, Rue@tish.- <0. 2.5, 4%

 

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SPICES.

Whole Sifted.
AaMOG. 8 as
Cassia, China in mats....... 12
Cassia, Batavia in bund....25
Cassia, Saigon in rolls...... 32
Cloves, Amboyna........... 14
Cloves, Zanzibar............ 12
Mace, Batavia.............. 55
Nutmegs, fancy........... . .60
Nutmeogs, No. 1.....:......; 50
Nutmegs, No. 2............. 5

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

Pepper, #06. ...... 8... 12
Pure Ground in Bulk.
Allspice .... oe
Cassia, Batavia ..... ...... 3u
Cassia, Saigon ....... ... 40
Cloves, Zanzibar............ i4

Ginger, African

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Ginger, Cochin ............18
Ginger, Jamaica ........... 23
Mace, Batavia.............. €5
Wiastarea: 20. es: 12@18
NMEMICRH. 40@20
Pepper, Sing , biack........ 12
Pepper, Sing., white..... ..20
Pepper, Cayenne............ 20
Sage. ... us Do
SYRUPS
Corn.
Herve... 5... 8. OS
Balt bbs... OS
Pure Cane.
Fair ee 16
Ghoiée. .3...:..-. 25

 

Kingsford’s Corn.

40 1-lb packages............. 6
20 1 lb packages............. 64
Kingsford’s Silver Gloss.

40 1-lb packages............. 6%
Gib boxes. <..°. cs .s: 7
Diamond.

64 10e packages ........... 5 00

128 5c packages......... .. 5

32 10¢ and 64 5c packages...5 00

Common Corn.

2011b. packages.......... .. 5
40 11b. packages............. 4%
Common Gloss.
l-lb packages............... 4%
8-lb packages............... 4%
6-lb packages............... 45%
40 and 50 lb boxes........... 3%
Barrels ......... ! 3

STOVE POLISH.

   
  

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No. 4, 3 doz in case, gross.. 4 50
No. 6, 3 doz in case, gross.. 7 20

SUGAR.

Below are given New York
prices on sugars, to which the
wholesale dealer adds the local
freight from New York to your
shipping point, giving you
credit on the invoice for the
amount of freight buyer pays
from the market in which he

   

urchases to his shipping point,
readies 20 eau for the
weight of the barrel.
Domino.... ..5 38
Cut Loaf.. .-5 50
Crushed..... --5 50
Powdered ........ ce a oe
XXXX Powdered...........5 38
Cubes 2h. ooo ee
Granulated in bbls... ...... 5 13
Granulated in bags......... 5 13
Fine Granulated............ 5 13
Extra Fine Granulated..... 5 25
Extra Coarse Granulated... .5 25
MOWING Ae 5 38
Diamond Confec. A........ 5 13
Confec. Standard A......... 5 00
ee ee 475
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OG en eects Sa sen 4 69
Ne Se 4 63

De ee ec : =
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Ge BN 4 38
ee Be ee 4 31
Pe A ee ess 425
NO es 419
Pe a so 413
Oe ee tees 4
OS Me ec 4 0u
WO ADs fucces sc Uute. S ood 94

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TOBACCOS.
Cigars.
Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s brand.
New Brig 5.0.0.2 2. 33 00

H. & P. Drug Co.’s brand.
Qaintette 0 35 00

G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s brand.

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Ruhe Bros. Co.’s Brands.

Double Eag’es. 6 sizes.$557@70 00
Gen. Maceo, 5sizes.... 55@70 00
Mr. Thomas...) |. 35
Cuban Hand Made....
Crown Wive...........
Sir William......
Crab Five........ 0...
Gens. Grant and Lee..
Little Peggy ..........
Signal Five...........
Knights of Pythias....
Key West Perfects,2sz 55@

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TABLE SAUCES.

Lea & Perrin’s, large... 4 75
Lea & Perrin’s,small... 2 75
Halford, large........... 3%
Halford small....... ..... 2 25
Salad Dressing, large..... 4 55
Salad Dressing, small..... 2%

VINEGAR.

Malt White Wine, 40 grain... 7
Malt White Wine, 80 grain....10
Pure Cider, Genesee...

  

 

 

Pure Cider, Red Star.......... 12
Pure Cider, Robinson......... 11
WICKING.

No. 0, per gross.............. 20
No. 1, pergross.............. 25
No. 2, per gross.............. 35
No. 3, pergross.............. 55
Crackers.

The National Biscuit Co.
quotes as follows:

Butter.

 

Soda.

ROGS MAN 614

Soda XXX, 3 lb ecarton.... 6%

noan, Cie 8

Long Island Wafers....... 11

L. I. Wafers, 1 lbcarton .. 12

Zephyrette....... ......... 10
Oyster.

Saltine Wafer.............. 53%
Saltine Wafer, 11b carton. 634
Farina Oyster.............. 534

  
 
   

 

 

 

Extra Farina Oyster....... 614
SWEET GOODS—Boxes.
Animals ......
Bent’s Water.... ..........
Cocoanut Taffy ........... 10
Coffee Cake, Java.......... lu
Coffee Cake, Iced...... ... 10
OCraennelis. 3: 15%
CMOMNS fe 11%
Frosted Cream............. 9
GingerGems .. ........... 8
Ginger Snaps, XXX........ 7%
Graham Crackers ......... 38
Graham Wafers............ 10
Grand Ma Cakes............ 9
Pmbperigig ooo 8
Jumbles, Honey........... 11%
Marshmallow ............. 15
Marshmallow Creams..... 16
Marshmallow Walnuts... 16
Mich. Frosted Honey.... 12%
Molusses Cakes............
NOWIOR oo 12
Dee Nae se
Orange Gems...... Gel cece. 8
Penny Assorted Cakes..... 8%
Pretzels, hand made ..... 8
Sears’ Lunch -.. 2.22... .: Th
Sugar Cake... oo 8
Sugar Squares............ 9
Vanilla Wafers........... 14
SUIERNAS oe sc 12%
Oils.
Barrels.

Mocene: .. 6. 21... @11%
XXX W.W.Mich.Hdlt @ 9%
W W Michigan........ @ 8&
Diamond White....... @ 7%

OGRE cscs, DD
Deo. Naptha .......... @7
Cylinder . oo... i 2 @34
Meine... 11 @21
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Candies. Grains and Feedstuffs Provisions.
Stick Candy. Wheat. famt,* Company quote as
bis. pail Wheat ee 58 etinete 4 Pork
Standard............ 84@ 7 Winter Wheat Flour. '
Standard H. H...._” 6%@ ” Local Brands. mee 0 Ou
Standard Twist..... 6 @8 Peents fo 400| Back ............ -11 00@ :
Gatitoat @ 8% | Second Patent........22 12! 3 50 | Clear back.......... 11 0U@11 25
cases | Straight .................. 3 30] Shorteut.............0... 10 75
Jumbo, 321b ........ @ Ge Clea Ce 14 50
ExtrmHH |. @ ti¢|Grabam of Se 9 75
hain Cea @10 Buchwhent... | | geg | Banily 10 50
ee 3 25 Dry Salt Meats.
Mixed Candy. Subject to usual cash dis-| pejies ica SE ET 634
Bi Pg
Grocers... ........ @6 Flour in bbls., 25¢ per bbl. ad-
Competition....°"1..  @ 6% | ditional. . — a oo
Standard............ 7 , moked [leats.
nae€9.. g 7% Ball Barnhart-Putman s Brand Hams, 12 1b average .... 8%
Royal wig | Diamond, %s................ 3 50] Hams, 14 lb avera e 8
Ribbon. Se eee ae @i% Diamond, 48...... 350) 4 4 ae rc uy
ee @ 8% 1 4; s ams, 16]1b average..... 834
a. @ 8% Diamonds. . 61... 3 50 | Hams, 20 Ib average... 8
Cat teat @ 8% | Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand. | Ham dried beef... 2
English Rock....... @Ss | Quaker ys. 3 50 | Shoulders (N: Y. cut)... 6
Kindergarten....__. @ 8% | Quaker, 4s....20...00 000... 3 50| Bacon, Clear...... .....7%@8%
French Cream...... i s% | Gusher Me. 3 50 | California hams......... 5M,
Dandy Pan...... ... @10 Spring Wheat Flour. on tite stereos 9
Valley Cream.. .... @l2 | Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brana, | Cooked ham............ MGIts
Fancy—In Bulk. Pillsbury’s Best s........ 4.25 Lards. In Tierces.
Pillsbury’s Best 4s.. -- £10} Compound.......... 0. %
Lozenges, plain..... @ 8% | Pillsbury’s Best %s........ = Oy | Meee 6
Lozenges, printed.. @ 9 | Pillsbury’s Best %s paper.. 4 05|551b Tubs...._ | advance 44
a ae = Pillsbury’s Best 4s paper.. 4 05 set Tate a) advance 3%
. 5 : 5 ee advance 8
Gum Drops......... @ 6 | Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand. 20 Ib Pails...” ae =
mormeen” Soleo, eg ~ . = so Be ec advance
eee ails.......advance 1
Imperials ........... @9 3 1b Pails....... advance 144
Fancy—I le 5
Lemon =a yi re a an
Leica. VCE... 6
i, ee oe = —— 7
Tops.. 7
Chocolate paiongg ne 60 Blood s”
= _ —— Drops. . @b Easy gee eee 9
2 a@ cheese... |
Licorice Drops...... oa oe Beet. =
A. B. Licorice Drops @50 Extra Mess...” 25
Lozenges, plain. E jae dl ee ew ene 7 25
Lozenges, printed.. 30 =~ ae
ee Sega. @50 Pi Feet
OCLOCR s’ Feet.
oman waa be Min 70
Molasses Bar 1.1" ”” @50 44 bbls, 40lbs............ 1 35
Hand Made Creams. 80 @I1 00 % bbls, 80 lbs............ 2 50
Plain Creams....... 60 @90 ( Tripe.
Decorated Creams. . @90 : Le Kits 15 Ihe. 7
String Rock... ae cs oo ———" 4 Dbls, 40 Ibe... 22001222, 1 %5
monds..... % ie She | 2 25
i Duluth Imperial, %s....... 4 00
Wintergreen Berries @60 Duluth Imperial, 4s. ... . 3 90 Casings.
Caramels. Duluth Imperial, %s....... 3 80 on tetees agert ee nrencnee 13
No. 1 wrapped, 2 Ib. Lemon & Wheeler Co.’s Brand. Fite phere ea 3%
a Recapapapiinins @35 | Gold Medal %s............. Sime ee
No. 1 wrapped, 3 Ib. Gold Medal 4s............. 415 Le com tanita aaa 0
boxes ey @50 | Gold Medal %s........ 00... 4 05 Butterine.
No. 2 wrapped, 2. Ib. Parisian, tn. 4 25 | Rolls, dairy............. 10
boxes, Parisian, 4600000) 7 4 15 | Solid, dairy....... + oe
Parisian, 3680000 4 (5 ore Creamery......... 14
a Olney & Judson’s Brand. _ | "ds Creamery ......... _
Fruits Ceresota, 8................ 4% Canned Meats.
. Ceresota, 4s...... TEL 4 15 | Corned beef, 2 Ib ...... 2 95
Ceresota, %s.. ............. 4 05 | Corned beef, 14 Ib....... 14 50
Oranges. Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand. mee pena a On be
Late Valencias...... 3 50 | Heer Menno 46, | Potted ham, is..211!) 90
Sieieline. Laurel, $8.00000000000011 3 95 | Deviled na, BSc:
Strictly choice 360s.. @6 00 Meal. Potted tongue 4s....... 50
Strictly choice 300s.. DOMeG 1 90} Potted tongue Ks....... 90
— 360s or 300s... @7 00 | Granulated ................ 210
x.Fancy 300s.... . @ Feed and Millstuffs.
Ex.Fancy 360s...... @ St. Car Feed. screened ....16 00 Fresh Meats.
Bananse No. 1 Corn and Oats...... 15 59
. Unbolted Corn Meal ...... 14 50 Beet
Medium bunches...1 00 @1 25| Winter Wheat Bran... | 1. 00 :
Large bunehes...... 150 @1 7% | Winter Wheat Middlings..13 00| Carcass ............... 64@ 8
: Sercommpgy: 0 14 00} Fore quarters......... 56 @6%
Foreign Dried Fruits. Corn. Hind quarters........ 7 @
Figs. Cae lots .... 33 | Loins No. 3........... 9 @i2
Cilitinin @12% | Less than ear lots.....2°: 35 ea acs ; : Qi
Choice, 101b boxes.. @ Oats. ; Chae 2 6%
Extra choice, 10 Ib Car lite ee Phe | 34%@ 4
boxes new......... @ 15| Carlots, clipped...... ee | en ace
Fancy, 2 Ib boxes. @ 16| Less than — Heo. 2 oe Pork.
mperial Mikados, 18 ay.
ib boxes...... — @ No. 1 Timothy carlots..... 8 50 _preaigy ee. @5
Pulied, 6 i hanes” @ __ | No.1 Timothy. ton lots ‘’. 9 09 | boing -...---.. se, g i“
Naturals, in bags... ge ee ee ee ee @
Dates. Fish and Oysters Mutton
Fards in 10 lb boxes @8 Carcass 6 @7
Fards in 60 lb cases 6 Fresh Fish. ‘| Spring Lambs... 7 2
aac . : Per Ib, | SPring Lambs... ..... 7T%@ 8%
‘ » a new....... @ 6 = tel laa a Sy g : Veal.
airs, 601b cases.... 4 EEG, oie ks
oi (as [oo tm
—— aes C58.
iscoes or Herring.. @ 4
Nuts. Bluciahe rr @ 4 |Hides and Pelts.
ve Lo ee 16 ._ |...
Boiled Lobster...... g 18 | The Cappon & Bertsch Leather
Almonds, Tarragona... @15 |Cod ............... @ 10 | Co., 100 Canal Street, quotes as
Almonds, Ivaca....... @ Haddock............ @ 8 | follows:
Almonds, California, No. 1 Piekerel...... @ 8 Hides.
oe ati = 5 (Guia s......... @ 8%
Filberts ..............  @il | Smoked White..///) @ 8 | Green ere - oo
Walnuts, Grenobles.. @14 | Red Snapper........ @ 10 a No. b.---2002ee. @ %
Walnuts, Calif No. i. @12 | Col River Salmon.. @ J2 | Cured No.2..-.... a
Walnuts, soft shelled. Mackerel ........_ oe. Soe) 8
OM cs, @ Oysters in Cans. Gala. es
Table Nuts, fancy....  @l11 | F.H.Counts........ @ 35 pa a —— os @10%
Table Nuts, choice... @10 | F.J.D. Selects...... @ 28 | Calfskins, cured No. @
Pecans, Med....... jose GRU | Soleets .. @ 2% Pelts.
oe 7 vane. bo F. => Standards... @ 22
ecans, Jumbos....... @e {| Anchors .... ....... 20 | Pelts, each............ 50@1 00
Hickory Nuts per bu., Standards........... @ 18 ss —
Obfo, new... . @1 60 Bulk. gal. Tallow.
Cocoanuts, full sacks @350|Counts..................... 1% No.1 @3
me Seleeta 1 65 No, aco @2
. Peanuts. = Selects a *: ns a 1 35 > SS a
ancy, H. P., Suns. 7 ‘| Auchor Standards.,........ Wool.
Fancy, H. P. Flags Staneards 0.0 110 ”
Roasted 05.002: @7 Cia se 1 25| Washed, fine ......... @18
Choice, H. P., Extras. @4% Shell Goods. Washed, medium......
Choice. H. P.. Extras, Oysters, per 100....... 1 25@1 50 | Unwashed, fine.... ...11 @13
Roasted ...... peat gs 5% | Clams, per 100....... @1 2% | Unwashed, medium ..16 @18

 

 

 

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Glassware.
AKRON STONEWARE.
Butters,

36 Sal., per dés............ 40
1 to 6 gal., per gal........ 5
Seal caen. 40

Meal eden. 50

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15 gal. meat-tubs, each....1 10

20 gal. meat-tubs, each....1 50

25 gal. meat-tubs, each....2 25

30 gal. meat-tubs, each....2 70

Churns.
2 to 6 gal., per gal......... 5
Churn Dashers, per doz... 85

Fruit Jars.

Pine « 450
Guar 47
me ool. i ae
Covers 2 00
RURDerE 25
Milkpans.

% gal. flatorrd. bot.,doz. 45
1 gal. flatorrd. bot.,each 5
Fine Glazed Milkpans.

\% gal. flat or rd. bot., doz.
1 gal. flatorrd. bot.,each 5%

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Stewpans.
Mm gal. fireproof, bail, doz. 85
1 gal. fireproof, bail, doz.1 10

  

Jugs.
a6 cal. pecdge |. 40
44 gal.. perdoz.... . . &
1 to 5 gal., per gal.... 5%
Tomato Jugs.
54 Gal. per dom... ....... 42
Dgal, caen. ci... 5%

Corks for &% gal.,per doz.. 20
Corks for 1 gal., per doz.. 30
Preserve Jars and Covers.
% gal., stone cover, doz... 75
1 gal., stone cover, doz...1 00
Sealing Wax.
5 lbs. in package, perlb... 2
LAMP BURNERS.

 
  

NO Cie 35
NO De 40
MO 2 Son 5
NG. Sh0m. 1 00
Wailer 5U
security, Not... 60
Security. Na. 2... 80
Nee ee
LAMP CHIMNEYS—Seconds.

Per box of 6 doz.

Ne. 0 Sma... 1 32

Ne ieee 1 43

Ne. 2 San... bee uee 218
Common

Na @Sum.. 0... 1 50

No. 1 San........ 1 60

No. 260n......... eee
First Quality.
No. 0 Sun, crimp top,
wrapped and labeled....
No. 1 Sun, crimp top,
wrapped and labeled....
No. 2 Sun, crimp top,
wrapped and labeled.... 3:15
XXX Flint.
No. 0 Sun, crimp top,
= and labeled.... 2 55
No. Sun, crimp top,
wrapped and labeled. .. 2 75
No. 2 Sun, crim top,
wrapped and labeled.... 3 75
CHIMNEYS—Pearli rep

No.1 Sun, wrapped an
IaneIee. 3 70
No. 2 Sun, wrapped and
labeled. le
No. 2 Hinge, wrapped and
jahelcg 4 83
No. 2 Sun, ‘Small Bulb,”
for Globe Lamps......... 80
La Bastie.

~ 1 Sun. plain bulb, per

Oe

No. 2 Sun, plain bulb, per
aon .... 1 15

No. 1 Crimp, per doz....... 1 35
No. 2 Crimp, perdoz.. ... 1 60
Rochester.

No. 1, Lime (65¢ doz). .... 3 50
No. 2, Lime (70e doz).. .. 4 06
No. 2, Flint (80¢ doz)...... 4 70
Electric.

No. 2, Lime (70¢ a aa de 4 00
No. 2, Flint (80e doz)...... 440

OIL CANS. Doz.
1 gal tin cans with spout.. 1 25
1 gal galv iron with spout. 1 48
2 gal galv iron with spout. 2 48
3 gal galv iron with spout. 3 32
5 gal galv iron with spout. 4 28
3 gal galv iron-with faucet 4 17
5 gal pis iron with faucet 4 67
5 gal Tilting cans.......... 7 2
5 gal galv iron Nacefas.... 9 00
Pump Cans,
5 gal Rapid steady stream. 7 80
5 gal Eureka non-overflow 10 56

  
     

3 gal Home Rule..... ..... 10 50
5 gal Home Rule.... .. 12 00
5 gal Pirate King....... - 9 50
LANTERNS,
No. 0 Tubular side lift.... 4 00
No. 1B Tubwlar....., <.. 6 2
No. 13 TubularDash. .... 6 50
No. 1Tub., glassfount.... 7 00
No. 12 Tubular, side lamp.14 0C
No. 3Street Lamp....... - 38%

LANTERN GLOBES.
No. 0 Tubular, cases 1 doz.

each, box 10 cents.. ..... 45
No. 0 Tubular, cases2 dos.

each, box 15 cents....... 45
No. 0 Tubular, bbls 5 doz.

each 35 33

DTG acc os suka,
No. 0 Tubular, buil’s eye,
Cases 1 doz. each...cs.ce0 1 25

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Hardware

Making Room For Stock.
From the Stoves and Hardware Reporter.

When merchants are buying new
goods they must bear something else in
mind, and that is how to get rid of old
stock and thus make room for the new.
This is sometimes a puzzling problem
to the merchant and his clerks, for in
every stock, no matter how well se-
lected, there are always more or less ar-
ticles or lines of goods which are termed
“*stickers.’’ If these were all out of the
way there would be no difficulty what-
ever nor any necessity to discuss the
matter, but they generally are not, as it
is almost impossible to close out all old
lines before the season ends. Accord-
ingly, much necessary space in the store
is occupied when the new goods arrive.
It frequently happens that the mer-
chant’s mind is so filled with thoughts
and plans in regard to the future season
that he has neglected to push last sea-
son’s goods, and of course the clerks
would never think of it. Consequently
the old goods are relegated to the back-
ground without considering how much
money is tied up in them. Now if this
practice of forgetting and overlooking
Is continued very long there will be a
heterogeneous accumulation of new and
old goods in mixed strata which will
prove a hopeless task to straighten out.

It is a good plan to bring this old
stock to the front, that is, where pos-
sible and necessary; take last season's
broken lines, odd pieces, etc., from the
shelves and racks and substitute the
new goods for them. Then it would he
beneficial to their sale to choose some
of them for a prominent place in the
store. Take the rest of them, and put
them on a counter or fixtures by them-
selves. The price should be plainly
marked on them, so that customers may
see the figures as they pass by. If they
do not notice them, although it is ad-
visable to have them in a conspicuous
place, it should be the salesman’s duty
to call customers’ attention to them. It
frequently happens that there are cus-
tomers who are only too glad to take
advantage of some reduction in price
and who are not so fastidious that they
take exceptions to the goods being
slightly shopworn. <A bird in the hand
is worth two in the bush, and a reduced
price which still leaves a slight profit
is better than none at all.

Often, too, there are sudden changes
in the season whicb will cause a de-
mand for such goods and the merchant
and clerks should leave no stene un-
turned to sell them. What is possible
now will not beso after a while, and
the time to make hay is when the sun
is shining. The son of the soil does not
leave the fruit of his labors to rot on the
ground, but carefully garners it into a
place of shelter, Thus the merchant
may work on the same principle and
make the most of his opportunities
while there is yet time.

>. _____
Knew What He Wanted.

Customer—I want some kind of a door
spring ; one that won't get out of order.

Hardware Dealer—A door spring?

Customer—Yes. And one that won't
require the strength of an elephant to
open.

Dealer—Hem!

Customer—And yet it must be strong
enough to bring the door all the way to,
and not leave it swinging a couple of
inches.

Dealer—I see!

Customer—And when the door closes
I don’t want it to ram shut like a cat-
apult, with a jar that shakes the house
from its foundations.

Dealer—Yes. You want one that will
bring the door all the way to, and yet
do it gently.

Customer—That’s the idea. But I
don’t want any complicated arrange-
ment that requires a skilled mechanic to
attend to it.

Dealer—No, of course not. You want
something simple, yet strong and effect-
ive.

Customer—That’s the talk. Something
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something that will do its work quietly,
yet thoroughly, and won't be eternally
getting out of order.
Dealer—I see. I know exactly what
you want, sir; just exactly.
Customer—Well, show me one.
Dealer—We don’t keep door springs.
—_> 2 2.___

Good Location for a Harness Shop.
Pentwater, Oct. 1—The Pentwater
business men would be pleased to see a
notice in the Tradesman calling atten-
tion to the fact that this is a good loca-
tion for a harness shop. All of the
stores here would favor a good shop of
this kind. I have just talked the matter
over with the Sands & Maxwell Lum-
ber Co. and they speak very favorably
and state that they would cease buying
harnesses of outside manufacturers if
we would do the same.
S. E. RussELi & Co.
——_> 0. ____
When a young man is sowing his wild
oats, he hopes that something will hap-
pen to destroy the crop.

 

EID

WILLIAM

Importer and Jobber of

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VARNISHES
BRUSHES

POLISHED PLATE
WINDOW
ORNAMENTAL

PAINT

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
BGR

We have the largest and most complete stock of Glass and Paint Goods
in Western Michigan. Estimates furnished. All orders filled promptly.
Distributing agents for Michigan of Harrison Bros. & Co.’s Oil Colors,
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Old Ideals and New.

The process of evolution is a slow
one, even in these rapidly moving days
at the end of the century, and the
changes in our ideals are so gradual we
hardly realize them until we have some
contrast that shows how far we have
gone. In particular is this true of
women. We have become so used to the
modern woman, alert, capable, inde-
pendent, that it is a little surprising to
even the closest observer when one
comes to realize how completely we
have substituted a new ideal of woman-
hood for the old.

Nothing brings this more forcibly
home to us than to contrast the pictures
of to-day with the pictures of yesterday.
In the old ‘‘Albums of Beauty’’ that
were the favorite giftbooks in our
mothers’ young ladyhood, the women
are all represented as languishing be-
ings with ox-like eyes and sloping
shoulders and lily-white hands that are
never by any chance engaged in a more
fatiguing occupation than holding a
rose or straying over the strings of a
guitar. Helplessness, weakness and
delicacy are written in every line, and
even the most sanguine could never hope
that such a woman could do anything in
an emergency but swoon.

The artist of to-day pictures a woman
with head erect, with square shoulders
and upright carriage that shows health
and strength, and with eyes that look
the world squarely in the face. Most
significant of all, she is always doing
something. Short-skirted, she stands
beside her wheel, or with gun or rod or
mountain stock is ready for exercise that
would have slain her fragile grand-
mother; shirt-waisted, she sits beside
her type-writer earning her daily bread
and butter; with sleeves turned back
above her elbows and faithful caddie in
her wake, she is making the rounds of
the golf links, or wearing on her arm
the red cross of a ministering angel, she
walks the hospital wards in the wake
of battle.

The pictures tell their own interest-
ing story of changing times and man-
ners, but not the least important phase
of the subject is the fact that we seem
to have founded new standards of taste,
all along the line, by which to judge
women. Even the question of beauty
has not escaped the general evolution;
as a matter of truth, the old ideal
of feminine comeliness and the new
ideal of feminine strength and _ helpful-
ness are incompatible. The woman of
the past prided herself on an 18-inch
waist, on fairy-like feet and hands, and
kept her skin like milk and roses by
means of veils and complexion masks.
It did not take the modern woman long
to find out she couldn't have her cake
and eat it, too—that walking spread her
feet; that wheeling and golfing and ten-
nis broadened her hands, and that she
couldn’t have health and a_ spidery
waist at the same time. It was she
who established a new standard of
beauty, and so readily have we ac-
cepted it that, could the frail and lan
guishing beauty of the past visit once
more the scenes of her eartbly triumphs,
the chances are she would find herself
forsaken for some one whom she would
probably think as vulgarly robust asa
washerwoman.

The change in manners is equally
noticeable, and there are those who de-
clare that chivalry is dead. Probably no
woman is a goddess now to her lover,
and no man approaches her and pays
court to her as to some superior being,
but he meets her on a frank basis of

 

good comradeship and equal rights that
has in it a thousand-fold more promises
of real happiness, There must have
come a day when every goddess had to
climb down from her pedestal; but the
woman who makes no pretenses and is
always just franky human offers no

possibilities of disenchantment and
is safe to keep the love she wins.
It is doubtless true that the old ideal

that made a woman merely an ornament
in life was the more picturesque, but we
live in a practical world, and it was
bound sooner or later to change, to
meet new conditions. For woman has
not lagged behind. She has kept step
with progress, and after all it is nota
new womanhood she shows us, but a
new phase of the old.
2-2
Sound Talk to Young Men.

The old man scorcher who philoso-
phizes for the Boston Transcript says:
My son, almost any man can ride a
wheel on a level, and to coast down hill
iS as easy as going to destruction, but it
takes grit and energy to push your bike
up Hill Difficulty or through the Slough
of Despond. Better men than you have
gone pellmell down the slope that ends
in the gutter or the grave. When you
find yourself headed that way, put on
the brake and back-pedal for all you
are wortb. If you find you have lost
control of your wheel, swing off or tum-
ble off. Let the wheel take care of it-
self. Better it should go to smash, bet-
ter that you bark your shin or break a
leg, than you go to ruin altogether. Be
moderate. Don’t try to make a century
run every day, and end up in the un-
dertaker’s squad. Temper your zeal
with judgment. If the tires of your life-
wheels are pumped up too tight, you
will find you have a rough road to travel,
and will get shaken up tremendously; if
they are flabby, you will make poor
headway and spoil your tires. Keep
your bearings well lubricated with the
oil of diligence and perseverance, and
see that every nut is screwed home by
the wrench of determination. Always
keep to the right, and so avoid collision
with the wrong-doer and the evil-dis
posed, and keep your eyes open to see
danger and avoid it. Ring your bell
vigorously when the Prince of Darkness
appears before you, that he may flee be-
fore you and leave you a clear road toa
correct living. Keep yourself erect,
that men may see that you possess the
full stature of a man. Don’t run amuck
through temptations, with your back in
the air and your eyes between your feet,
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Hardware Price Current. = [grgnt.... ... Sis acne Sees 80
Oy ee 80
Te 80
AUGURS AND BITS Gate Hooks and Eyes....................... 80
— Sige ead uc aia tree tara nsonder teehee 70 LEVELS
OME MOUS co 25&10 | Stan]
Jennings’, imitation... .................... 60&10 ne ateat ae CT ——m
AXES
First Quality, S. B. Bronze ................. 5 00 one —_ — ee ene 108
First Quality, D. B. Bronze................. SG SQUARES =
First Quality, S. B.S. Steel...... .......... 550] Steel and lron........... i 70&10
First Quality, D. B. Steel ................... 10 50) Try and Bevels ... 2.0.0.0... cee ccc ecce cece
BARROWS Se 50
ee 812 00 14 00 SHEET IRON
eT ee aa net 3000 com. smooth. com.
BOLTS Men te te & 70 82 40
Stove... agg ee ee ae oa :2
Pe ee ee se 6s
BUCKETS ot MRR NOR REN 2 75
Wel pitta Lees weal caus 833 All sheets No. 18 and lighter, over 30 inches
BUTTS, CAST wide not less than 2-10 extra.
Cast Loose Pin, figured..................... 70&10 SAND PAPER
Wreeeht Narrow. “oeta | Viet acct 10,86... dis 650
BLOCKS asin SASH WEIGHTS
Ordinary Tackle... ........... qo | Solid Byes........... j‘“a€9 "" per ton Se
CROW BARS Sec Game 60&10
Casi Steen : per lb 4 —— ee ee Macaca 50
CAPS neida Community, Hawley & Norton’s 70&10
Ely’s 1-10...... ............. .........perm 65 | Mouse, choker............./..... per doz 15
Ms perm 55 | Mouse, delusion.......---....... —— i
ee ee perm 35 WIRE
Ge ca perm  60| Bright Market.................0.0. 0000. 02. 75
Annesiog Market. .......................0-- %
i CARTRIDGES Coppered Market.............-.------. se. 70&10
Rim Fire. ... ..............4- s+ ceeseee + +-B0& 5] Tinned Market............cccsccceececloe, . =
Contra: Wie B& 5 Coppered Spring Steel.......... ......... 50
CHISELS Bar Fence, galvanized .. _- oon
DOCUCS MAEMO 80 | Barbed Fence, painted................ 2... 1 75
Socket Framing.................... ... : 80 HORSE NAILS
ROCHCE COriCe coo OO ee ee oe.
DOCHCE Ce Co ee
DRILLS Nortwesterm. 0...
Morse’s Bit Stocks ................... - 60 . WRENCHES
Taper and Straight Shank.......__ 50& 5 | Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.............. 30
Morse’s Taper Shank............... 508 5 | Coes Patent agricultural aa Pi
ide Auleti 6th ELBOWS Coe’s Patent, malleable. . De aka 80
ae. ite 50
Adjustable.............. Pumps, Cistern ee ed aig 80
EXPANSIVE BITS Trews, New ee 85
Clark’s small, $18; large, $26................ 30410 — Bed and Plate............. .... 50&10&10
Ives’, 1, 818; 2, 824; 3, 880"... heen eee ”
FILES—New List CG pound cage 64
WCW AMMCTICR 70&10 | Per pound............ 6%
IICHIGISGT aes, gos 70 SOLDER
Heller’s Horse Rasps........... wees ee- 60810

GALVANIZED IRON

  
 
     

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The prices of the many other qualities of solder

 

  

 

 

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Lye = _ = " = — = eo according to composition. a
Discount, 75 to 75-10 oe TIN—Melyn Grade
: SGal4 IC, Charceagl..... 2... ce au ke $5 %
GAUGES 14x20 IC, Charcoal .............000s.0ese eee, 5 75
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s...............60&10 | 20x14 Pi Charecae 7 00
KNOBS—New List Each additional X on this grade, $1.25.
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings.... ......... 20 TIN—Allaway Grade
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings............ ee DO eS ee 4 50
MATTOCKS 1 ey, CRpOO 8, ww. ll
AdzeE imine a 5 50
a =o eras aks ee .--.816 00, dis 60&10 14x20 IX, Charcoal in 5 50
unt i eee es oS 815 00, dis 60&10 Each additional X on this grade, $1.50.
as... 818 50, dis 20&10 ROOFING PLATES
NAILS 14x20 IC, Charcoal, Dean.... 4 50
Advance over base, on both Steel and Wire. | 14x20 TX, Charcoal, Dean . es 5 50
Steel nails, base..... ... ees aes 1 55 | 20x28 IC, Charcoal, Dean........ ... 9 00
Wire nails, base..... a ee 1 60 | 14x20 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade. 4 00
mo te Ga advariee. <n s k Base | 14x20 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade. 5 00
te 16 2Gvenee i 05 | 20x28 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade... 8 00
MEIN 10 | 20x28 LX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade. 0 00
Gadvanee.........°..... eee ee sa. 20 BOILER SIZE TIN PLAT
eR 30 | 14x56 IX, for No. eae! Daas 9
3 ADVANCE ......... 2. eee eee eeee se eee eeeees 45] 14x56 TX. for No. 9 Boilers, { PE P nh
ie 70
Fine 3 advance.... eae 50
Casing 19 advance... ccc cue. 15
Casing 8 advance Soc 25 66 ”
Casing 6 advance 35
Finish 10 advance .. Psa
Finish 8 advance............ 35
Minish Gadvance...........2.......... : 45
Merrel (advange... 85
MILLS
Coffee, Purkors Co.'a...... 5... ss. . s 40
Coffee, P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s Malleables... 40
Coffee, Landers, Ferry & Clark’s........... 40
Coffee, Enterprise......... oo 30

MOLASSES GATES
Stebbin’s Pattern. 8 kk. 60&10
Stebbin’s Genuine.... ......................60&10
Enterprise, self-measuring ............ .... 30
PLANES
Ohio Tool Co.'s, fancy... 2... 2... ll @50
are wl 60
Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy................. @50
Beneh, firastquaiity.......................... @50
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s wood......... 60
PANS
ey Be eo ee ks 60&10&10
Common, polished............... eee. %0& 5
RIVETS
wrom ana, Timed ...: oe. es fl.
Copper Rivets and Burs.....................
PATENT PLANISHED IRON
“A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27
“B” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 25 to 27
Broken packages %c per pound extra.

60
60
10 20
9 20

HAMMERS
Maydole & Co.’s, new list........ ...... dis 235
ee eee dis
Werkes & Plumb’s:.......-...0..... 2.2... dis 0&10
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel... 30c lis, 70

Rigrkamith’s Walia Fact Gtool Wand Me 4p: 41et0

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Stam: Tin Ware....... .........new list 75&10
oeeced Tin Ware ios ule dceecet ane cleus 20&10
Granite Iron Ware................. new list 40&10
HOLLOW WARE - ‘iia

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Kettles . Salecrelcol nese Ss af ecao sn acy OO
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GRADUAL GROWTH.

How the Banking Resources Have
Been Increased.

The bank statements just rendered,
showing the condition of the banks
Sept. 20, are of more than usual inter-
est, as they disclose the progress this
city is making in getting out of the
slough of despond. The total loans and
discounts carried by the five National and
four State banks and the two trust com-
panies show a decrease of $435,591, in
comparison with the May 5 statements,
but they exceed all previous records
for this season of the year. In round
numbers the loans and discounts are
$879,600 ahead of one year ago and
$2,290,000 ahead of five years ago. The
following will show how they have

grown:

Meaitona: banks. sa #6, 369,581.23
Pe A 2,199,547-90
(rast commpames.-- 00 257,085.33

CoC ee ee ee een 8,$23,817.46
et 5 oy 719445 176.00
Oct Gb moe 7,959, 163.14
oe . 7:7875348-85
ck. 2 160g 6,343,715.72
Wes es 6,539,932-25

The stocks, bonds and mortgages show
an increase of $597,000 over a year ago,
and of this $567,000 has been in the
State banks and trust companies. As
compared with 1893, these holdings have
increased $1,728,000, or more than 100
per cent.,and this gain has been almost
entirely with the State banks. In five
years, for instance, the Kent bank has
increased its security holdings from
$290,508 and the Peoples from $109,296
to $790,518 and $692,758, respectively.
The record is as foliows:

National banks Lee «2--0 375,230.07
Seabee a em ee oe

 

 

rarst conipanies..-. =... sk ae abege
ee 3,039,286. 34
Roe S oy. 2,441,829. 24
Oe Ghee 2,054,217.83
ee ee ROS 2,006, 349.26
Ack: 3, 1,701,400.46
Ons oe 1,311,595-37

The National banks have increased
tbeir Government bond holdings $121, -
167 since the July 14 report, probably
the new 3 percent. The Old National
has added $58,883 to its holdings and
the Fourth National $62,283. The total
holdings are now $478,097.

The balances carried by the banks in
other banks show an increase of nearly
$600,000 over May 5, but the total is
less than any report except May 5 since
May 14, 1897. The increase over May
last is chiefly in the State banks. The

 

 

figures are:

Mettena) banks $1,434,670.S0

aes AON $63,640.04

Meest Gompames 5 317,720 00
ote ee 2,616,0 30.84
eG. Whey oe eee 2,085,507.50
eG rhgp 1,867,833.61
Bepe 28, 189500 0) eee as
a 2 soot 1,873,830.54
MOE aB6e 1, 191,786.54

The cash on hand, or idle funds in
the bank vaults, is less than at any time
in the last five years. There has been
a decrease of $105,000 since May and
the showing is still more favorable as
compared with July, and $60,600 as
compared with a yearago. The decrease
has-been mostly in the National banks:

 

Modssiel Danis. 8. $ 570,827.45
pees OAS 250,393.52
Mist Companies.) 27,369.87
eee ne 858,090.84
ee A a ee ae 918,714.98
eck Boe 932,486.79
Bene Pel EeeG 883,392.94
Sek 2, og ee $72,110,23
ce 39805 1,063,395-30

The surplus and undivided profits
accounts show how the hard times hit
the banks. The banks are a little bet-
ter off now than they were tive years
ago, but in that time they have written
off an immense amount in bad debts and
are now in pretty good condition for
future growth. The records show that
the National banks, particularly, suffered

 

during the depression. In October,
1893, they had a surplus of $561,186 58
and five years of toil finds them with
less now than they had then. The sur-
plus now is about $6,000 less than it was
one year ago, indicating that they are
still writing off, but it is believed they
have now struck bottom. The State
banks reached bed rock in 1896, drop-
ping from $166,722.39 in 1893 to $139.-
567.97, and since then they have been
steadily growing to the p-esent figures.

The trust companies !.ave not suffered
any setbacks and th :r surplus has
grown from $84,254 17 in 1894 to the

present figure:

piattonal banks 002 hc $8 533,449.24
Sette EABES 800 157,498.56
rast Companies 126,875.80

 

 

Rota en 817,823.60
Oct. 5, BOO 7. Pe $13,483 oS
Oct. 6, ! S06. Bie eee ie Ce 79,138.10
Sept. 23, 1895. . 2.2. -e ee eee we eee $12,757.33
WOce, S, ee 748,054.23
Oct. 2 fSo8 ee 783,751.13

Tributary banks in Western and
Northern Michigan are carrying sub
Stantially increased deposits here, as
the following comparisons of bank de-
posits will show:

   

Bee. 20, BGS $1,303,573-07
cts. egy ee os, 1,173,443.30
ct 6 rg6. 0 +  945,016.5G
Sept. 28, 95 979,337-57
ck. 2) 108) os. 7ai,oey—o
Oct 2g 410,310.01

The commercial deposits carried by
the National banks are not as high as in
May or February, while the savings banks
show an increase, but the total is high-
er than at any time in October in the
last four years, showing more than a mil-
lion increase over October 2. 1894. The
record is:

National hanks... 0 000 ol $1,S69,05 1.44
Sime Banks 1,401,804 46
Wotab eee eee eocions
ck 5 i667 0. 2,759,003.59
Oct. 6, 1896 . . --- 2,293,087 28
Sept. 28, 1895 ee tescns.> My S0,7yeas
Oct 2, oe 2,233,083.25

It has been in the savings deposits
and interest bearing certificates that the
greatest gain has been made, in spite
of the hard times and the reduction in
the interest rates. In the four savings
banks the purely savings deposits have
increased in five years from $1,034,-
196.54 to $3,268 792.11. Of this gain
$488,016.55 was made the past year.
The certificates in the National banks
have grown from $2,055,569.50 to the
present figures and in the savings banks
the certificates and savings from

$1,776, 305.20. The present figures are:
metienal bawks 002s $3,230,845.68
iate GanKs 3,022,711.76

  
 
  
 

Total... le oie me eee nines ness eee 6,862,557-44
NOE 5 EF e ce en 6,097,593-5
OCt Geog §,450,412.23
Sept 28,1805, 0 200 5:085,753-39
ck 2, how ae 45313,179.19
Oct 2. ase 3,531,874.70

The total deposits show a wonderful
growth in five years and the increase
has been in all departments—commer-
cial, savings and certificates and bank
deposits. The total deposits now are

| greater than ever before in the history

of the city. They show a gain of
$1,500,000 over one year ago, and
$5,700,000 in five years. The total de-
posits carried by the National banks
alone now are within $46,000 of the
total deposits in all the banks five years
ago. The increase has been by the
National and savings banks alike and
the trust companies have nearly
doubled. Five years ago the National
banks had $3,986,871.06 in deposits and
the savings banks and trust companies
together had $2,613, 473.37. The record
now is as follows:

mations Danks: 6.00 8 6,554,461.08
State banks. ........ . ——

iaust companses. 6S ek 732,135-43
Ot a ee 12, 318,531.92
Oct 5) toy. ees 10,790,525.08
Oct. 6, 1RO6 sa 95317,741.51
BEDE Ah iSgeg og eS 9,863,815.08
Oct. 2; Bog 73494,998.28
Oct 5, aR ee 6,600, 344.43

 

 

 

 

Hides, Pelts, Tallow.and Wool.

Hides show no change in supply or
demand. Packers control the situation.
There is not enough country take off to
cut any figure. Calf and kip are a shade
easier but are still at high values.

Pelts are sought after, but are gen-
erally scarce.

Tallow is in more demand, with a
slight advance.

Wool is firm at old prices, with more
enquiry, but sales do ‘not show up any
greater. Old stocks are well used up
and new orders come from the Govern-
ment and more are advertised. The
manufacturer who takes an order must
buy wool to fill it with. _The heavy
weight season is close at hand and the
patient waiting of holders is likely to
be rewarded in the near future, but
prices are not likely to change immedi-
ately. Large blocks of foreign are be-
ing returned to London.

Wm. T. HEss.

 

The trouble with a great many young
men is they don’t like to work between
meals.

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.

Fo SALE OR EXCHANGE—$5,000 TO $10,000
in notes and judgments Address H. G.

Cobbs, Kome City, Ind 75
OR SALE FOR CASH ON ACUCOUNT OF
Ill Heal'h—$#4,500 stock of general merchan-
dise; new stock; cash trade jast year $18,500;
will bear inspection. Address Box 231, Swaz-

zee, Ind 74
SPLENDID FARM OF 240 ACRES TO EX-
change for stock of goods. Address —

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13 , Custer, M'ch.

O RENT IN MENDON, ST. JOSEPH COUN-
ty, Mich —One or wo large brick stores in
Opera Houce Block. Write to Levi Cole. 722

ORK SALE—HALF INTERESTIN A WHOLE-
sale butter end egg business. Enquire or
write to E N. Pettet, 93 Sou‘h Division St.,
Grand Rapids. 721
RUG STORE FOR SALE AT A BARGAIN,
or will consiter good deal. Address No.
720, care Michigan T adesman. 720
T HOTEL MEN—BUY THE FURNITURE
and secure the lease of a good h:tel in North-
ern Michigan, A splendid chance; will bear
investigation. Address Baxter, care Michigan
Tradesman. 726

I HAVE SMALL STOCK OF DRUGS AND
fixtures in Ionia, taken on mortgage. Will
sell cheap for cash or trade for productive real
estate. Answer immediately. Will seil soon.
W. W. Hunt, Under National City Bank, Grand
Rapid.-. 107
OTEL FOR SALE OR RENT — THREE-
story building. For particulars address
John Lenhard. Clarksville. Mich. TZ
OR SALE UR RENT—STORE AND DWELL-
ing combined, at McCord Station, on D,. G.
R. & W. Ra'lroad: good well in house, ci tern,
new horse barn, ete. Store finished ready for
goods. An excellent point for business. Price,
$00—a bargain. Address Dr. L. E. Haskin,
McCord. Mich 714
OR SALE OR RENT -COMFORTABLE NINE
room house and barn at 44 Pleasant avenue,
oppos te beautiful zrove. Good cellar. Filter
cistern. Will sell cheap on easy terms or rent
for $10 per month until spring, 'N. G. Richards,
24 Kellogg St., Grand Rapids. 718
ORSALE—CLEAN STOCK OF DRY GOODs,
Clothing, boos and shoes. hats and caps
and men’s furnishing goods and gr ceries, well-
adapted frame store building and convenient
residence, well located in a thriving Northern
Michigan town. Sales aggregate $10,000 per
year, practically all cash traneactions. No oid
stock. No book accounts. Reasou for tel ing,
ill health. Investigation solicited. Address
No 709, care Michigan Tradesman 709

\ ANTED — SHUVES, CLOTHING. DRY
goods. Address R. B., Box 351, Montague,
Mich. 699

pees SALE—CLEAN GENERAL STOCK AND
store bu Iding in small town surrounded by
excellent farming and fruit e*%urtry less than
fifty miles from Grand Rapid.. Good reasons
for selling. Inspection soli: ited. Terms reason-
able. Address for particulars No. 691 care
Michigan Tradesman. 69

Fo SALE—NEW GENERAL STOCK. A
splendid farming country. Notrad.s. Ad-
dress No. 6-0, care Michigan Tradesman _ 680

OR SALE—A FINE SELECTED STOCK OF

shoes, rubbers, etc.; best town in the State;
stock Al; lew rent; spiendid opening. Reason
for selling, other business. Address Box 96,
Fenton Mich. 710

ENTRALLY LOCATED DRUG STORE, DO-

ing a good business in the city, for sale.
Goo? reasons for selling. Address I, Frank.
ford, Fire Insurance and Real Estate Agent,
Phone 1236, 53 West Bridge Street, Grand
Rapids, 676

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

OR SALE—DRUG, BOOK: AND STATION-
ery stock. invoicing $4.500, and fixtures
invoicing $300, which include show cases. shelv-
ing and bottles. Dailv cash sales in 1891, $2 ;
‘92. $30; 1893, $31; 1894, $34.65: 1895, $25; 1896,
$21.20, and 1897, $24.18 Located in manufactur-
ing town. Nocut prices. Rent reasonable, $29
per movth. Living rooms in connection. 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. 678, care Michigan Trades-
man, for particulars. 673

EST LOCATION IN MICHIGAN FOR A
cold storage and general produce dealer.
Write to the Secretary of the Otsego Improve-
ment Association, Otsego, Mich. 631
ERCHANTS—DO YOU WISH CASH QUICK
for your stock of merchandise, or any part
of it? Address John A. Wade, Cadillac, a

 

 

 

O EXCHANGE—FOR: CLOTHING, DRY
goods or shoes. very nice well rented Grand
Rapids property. Address No. 552, care Mi. hi-
gen Tradesman. 552
NO EXCHANGE— FARMS AND OTHER
property for dry goods, clothing and shoes.
Address P. Medaiie, Mancelona. Mich. 553

COUNTRY PRODUCE

ANTED—BUTTER, EGGS AND POUL-

try; any quantities. Write me. Orrin J.
Stone, Kalamazoo, Mich. 706

ANTED — FIRST-CLASS BUTTER FOR

retail trade. Cash paid. Correspond with
Caulkett & Co., Traverse City, Mich. 381

\ \ J ANTED—1,000 CASES FRESH EGGS,
daily. Write for prices. F. W. Brown,
Ithaca, Mich. 556

FIREPROOF SAFES

(GX; M. SMITH, NEW AND SECONDHAND
safes, wood and brick building mover, 157
Ottawa street, (:rand Rapids. 613

HAY AND OATS

OR SALE—WE WISH YOUR ORDERS AND
are in @ position to make you satisfactory
prices. Please write us. Michigan Produce Co.,
shippers and wholesale dealers, Lansing, ——

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MISCELLANEOUS.

ANTED—SITUATION IN A CLOTHING
or general store by an A No. 1 salesman.
Add-ess No. 685, care Michizan Tradesman. 685
ANTED -ITUATION AS MANAGER OF
a general store by a competent and exper
ienced man. Best of references. Address Je,
care Michigan Tradesman. 694

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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CHI C AGO and West Michigan R’y
Sept. 25, 1898.
Chicago.
Ly. G. Rapids......... 7:30am 12:00am *11:45pm

Ar. Chicago........... 2:10pm 9:15pm 7:2vam
Ly. Chicago.. 11:45am 6:50am 4:15pm *11:50pm
Ar. G@’d Rapids 5:00pm 1:25pm 10:30pm * 6:20am
Traverse City, Charlevoix and Petoskey.
Ly. G@’d Rapids..........7:30am 8:05am 5:30pm
Parlcr cars on day trains and sleeping cars on
night trains to and from Chicago

 

 

 

*Every day. Others week days only.

D EF T RO | T Grand Rapids & Western.
8 Sept. 25, 1898.
Detroit.

Lv. Grand Rapids...... 7:00am 1:35pm 5:35pr

Av. DOGFOR 000... oe. 11:40am 5:45pm 10:05pr

Lv. Detroit: : .:.-. 2. 8:00am 1:10pm 6:10pm

4r. Grand Rapids..... 12:55pm 5:20pm 10:55pm

Saginaw, Alma and Greenville.
Lv. G@ R7:00am 5:10pm Ar. GR11:45am 9:30r~
Parlor cars on all trains to and from Detroit
and Saginaw. Trains run week days only.
Gro. DEHAVEN, General Pass. Agent

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(In effect May 15, 1898 )
Leave. EAST. Arrive.
+ 6:45am Sag., Detroit, Buffalo & N Y .t 9:55pm
+10:10am... ... Detroit and East.... ..¢ 5:27pm

+ 3:20pm..Sag., Det., N. Y. & Boston..+t12:45pm
* 8:00pm... Detroit, East and Canada...* 6:35am

+10:45am...... Mixed to Durand........+ 3:15pm
WEST

* 8:35am....Gd. Haven and Int. Pts....* 7:050m

+12:53pm.Gd. Haven and Intermediate.+ 3:12pm

+ 5:32pm..Gd. Haven and Intermediate.+t10:05am

* 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.
ia*Daily. bs = Sunday.
E. H. Huenss, A.G. P. & T. A.
BEn. FLETCHER, Trav. Pass. Agt.,
C. A. Justin, City Pass. Agent.
97 Monroe St. Morton House.

 

 

Rapids & Indiana Railway
Sept. 25, 1898.

 

GRAN

Tray. C’y, Petoskey & Mack...* 7:45am + 5:15pm
Trav. C’y, Petoskey & Har. S..t 2:15pm *10:00pm
Cadillac accommodation...... + 5:25pm 10:55am
Petoskey & Mackinaw City....t1':00pm ¢ 6:25pm
7:45am and 2:15pm trains have parlor cars;

11:03pm train has sleeping car.
Southern Div. Leave Arrive

 

Cincinnati... ee + 7:10am + 9:45pm
Richmond ....... -¢ 2:10pm +t 2:00pm
Cincinnati....... 3 -*10:15pm * 7:10am

For Vicksburg and Chicago..*11:00pm * 9:10am

7:10 am train has parlor car to Cincinnati
and parlor car to Chicago; 2:10pm train has
parlor car to Richmond; 10:15pm train has
sleeping cars to Cincinnati, and on Sept. 27-29,
Oct. 2, 5, 9, 12 and 16 to Indianapolis, Louisville,
and St. Louis. 11:00pm train has sleeping car to
Chicago.

 

Chicago Trains.
TO CHICAGO.

Ly. Grand Rapids... 7 10am 2 19pm *11 00pm
Ar. Chicago......... 20pm 910pm 6 2am
FROM CHICAGO.
iy. Chieage ss oc 3 02pm #11 45pm
Ar. Grand Rapids.............. 945pm 7 10am

Train leaving Grand Rapids 7:10am has parlor
car; 11:00pm, coach and sleeping car.

Train leaving Chicago 3:02pm has parlor car;
11:45pm, — car.

uskegon Trains.
Rapids Orn Sara *1:00pm *5:40pm
Lv G’d Rapids......... 2 :
Ar Muskegon Bos cists 9:00am 2:10pm 7:05pm
Musk Somes 10810 *11:45am *4:00pm
Lv Muskegon....... ..*8: : m
ArG@’d Rapids... ..... 9:30am 12:55pm 5:20pm

Sunday trains leave Grand Rapids 9.00 a. m.
and 7.00 p.m. Leave Muskegon 8.35 a. m. and

7.15 P. m. sainnil malt
xcept Sunday. y.
= . Cc. LOCKWOOD,
Gen’! Passr. = Ticket Agent.

. C. BLAKE,
Ticket Agent Union Station.

DULUT : South — Atlantic

WEST BOUND.
Lv. Grand Rapids (G. R. & aS +7:45am
:35am

 

 

 

Lv. Mackinaw City............ 7 4:20pm
Ar. St. Igmace................. 9:00am 5:20pm
Ar. Sault Ste. Marie........... 12:20pm 9:50pm
Ar. Marquette................. 2:50pm 10:40pm
Ar. Nestoria................... 5:20pm 12:45am
et, DO as cs ec 8:30am
BAST BOUND.
Ly. Duluth.............. e008 oo seeeees +6:30pm
Ar. Nestoria...........--....- til:Ibam = 2:45am
Ar. Marquette................ 1:30pm 4:30am

Lv. Sault Ste. Marie........... 3:30pm __.......

Ar. Mackinaw City........... 8:40pm 11:00am
G. W. Hrppargp, Gen. Pass. Agt. Marquette.
E, C. Oviatt, Trav. Pass. Agt., Grand Rapids

 

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The President

of the United States of America,

FREETING ;

To

HENRY KOCH, your clerks, attorneys, ager.3,
salesmen. and workmen, and all claiming of
holding through or under you,

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

New Jersey, in the Third Circuit, on the part of the ENOCH MORGAN’S SONS COMPANY, Complainant, that
it has lately exhibited its said Bill of Complaint in our said Circuit Court of the United States for the District
of New Jersey, against you, the said HENRY KOCH, Defendant, to. be relieved touching the matters therein

complained of, and that the said

ENOCH MORGAN’S SONS COMPANY,

Complainant, is entitled to the exclusive use of the designation ‘‘SAPOLIO” as a trade-mark for scouring soap,

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

KOCH, your clerks, attorneys, agents, salesmen and workmen, and all claiming or holding through or under you,
under the pains and penalties which may fall upon you and each of you in case of disobedience, that you 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,

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 ‘n any way using the word *‘SAPOLIO” in any

false or misleading manner.

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aWituess, The honorable MELVILLE W. FuLier, 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]

ROWLAND COX,

Complainants Sokcitor.

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old pound and ounce methods.

There Must be Some Good Reasons for

This. What Are They?

Ist. Our Government’s standard
of weights and standard of money
conflict.

2nd. Our Money Weight System has
united the two systems.

3rd. They avoid mistakes in cal-
culation.

4th. They prevent overweight.

5th. They insure you a profit on
every ounce of goods retailed. from
your store.

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cess by nearly 50,000 merchants in
the United States and Canada.

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The manufacturers of Enameline, the Modern
Stove Polish, inform the retail grocers of the

United States that on and after Sept. 1, 1898,

The Keeping alist
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they will manufacture Enameline in paste,

cake and liquid.

Pnameline STOVE POLISH

PASTE: CAKE OR LIQuiD

We want ALL your Stove Polish trade. In
our new ‘‘Enameline Cake’’ and ‘‘Enameline
Liquid’”’ we give the largest quantities, best
quality and lowest prices ever offered. If
you are doing business for profit it will pay
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should commend them to the up-to-date grocer.
They never become stale, for even the very old-
est of them, by a little warming up, become as
crisp as at first. This isn’t possible in ordinary
crackers, and it’s by using none but the choicest
selected ingredients, and being mixed and baked
in the improved way, that the SEYMOUR
Cracker retains its hold upon the buyers of pure
Always FRESH, WHOLESOME,

NUTRITIVE. Has absorbing qualities far in excess

food products.
of all other crackers. Is asked for most by par-
ticular people, and hence brings the most accept-
able class of customers to whoever sells it.

Can you afford to be without it?

Made only by

National Biscuit Company

Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

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