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The Responsibilities of Victory.

Written for the TRADESMAN.

_A great deal of anxiety is finding ex-
pression throughout the United States in
regard to the future of the Republic.
What is to be its policy; what its rela-
tions with the nations of the earth?
What is to be the outcome of this war
with Spain? Hawaii is ours; Cuba and
Porto Rico belong to us; the Philip-
pines are looking towards us with ex-
pectant eyes; the Canaries are curious
as to the intentions of this Government
in respect to them; the civilized world
is watching and waiting; friends and
foes are nervous and eager, the one
fearful and the other hopeful, and in
the meantime the country is going on
in the even tenor of its way exactly as
it has been going on for more than a
hundred years, turning neither to the
right nor to the left, realizing every bigh
ideal and destined, unchecked, to spread
throughout the world the highest and
the best form of untrammelled Christian
liberty which has ever blessed man-
kind.

With this for a mission, policy will
take care of itself. It has so far. The
end in view has, indeed, made policy,
as such, unnecessary. History, espe-
cially American history, has recorded
no grander act than this—that eyery
great movement involving the fate of
human progress has been too much in
earnest to think of policy. Remember
Wickliffe, the herald of the Puritan and
the Pilgrim; recall the Boston tea party
and the Declaration of Independence;
consider any great idea that has made
this Republic a fact and it will be
found that, irrespective of consequences,
the thought was expressed, the battle
fought and the victory won regardless
of what might follow.

The contest with Spain was forced
upon us. Words had lost their power.
The cruelty which has made Spanish
dominion a disgrace to modern civiliza-
tion had reached its limit. Nothing
but a gun could utter a protest which
would be regarded or understood, and,
like that other ‘‘shot heard around the
world,’’ when it was fired, it hit. That
done, the rest will take care of itself.
This only is certain: The Nation is
ready to take what follows; Cuba is
free; the Spaniard has been driven from
the Western world; the American flag
flies above the stronghold of Manila, an
unwonted radiance in the Eastern sky,
and the responsibilities of these victo-
ries are assumed as they only can be by
that government which can best carry
out those principles upon which the
highest forms of National life and liv-
ing are based.

That is the purpose. Time and cir-
cumstance must decide the rest. Spain's
clutches are loosened from Cuba. That
does not mean, necessarily, that Cuba
is to become one of the United States.
It does mean that law and order are to
reign there, and that life, liberty and
the pursuit of happiness are to be the lot
of humanity upon that long-suffering is-
land or this country will know the rea
son why. It may bea matter of little
concern what becomes of the Philippine
Islands. The United States cares as

 

 

little for the territory as she does for the
limitless acres of Siberia; but if it
seems best for her to throw her protect-
ing arms around the inhabitants of those
islands until they can take good care of
themselves, it is a responsibility she
will not shirk, no matter how far it
reaches, a conclusion which seems to
be pretty well understood by the nations
of the earth.

Just now the opinion is abroad that
we are in great danger. It is true—
never in greater; but that is and has
been the normal condition of the Re-
public. It began away back in 1620
when the Mayflower started upon its
stormy passage. It grew and waxed
strong until long after the beginning of
the National idea. There was menacing
danger in 1776. It came agair in 1812.
Threats that blanched men’s faces flashed
under the sea during the dark days of
the rebellion. The skies are not now
clear of possible storm; but the Nation,
like its prototype, the Oregon, sails
grandly on ready for whatever may op-
pose, ready for whatever responsibility
may follow, and as eager as she is ready
for the responsibility of teaching, with-
out fear or favor, not only degenerate
Spain, but Monarchy in general, that
mankind in general are created free and
equal and that these inborn rights and
privileges are to be respected.

It is to be hoped that the country may
not be hampered in its work by needless
anxiety, and the expression of it. Spain
must be taken care of. That this coun-
try is equal to it there is no possible
doubt. That she is to repeat her ob-
ject-iesson of self-governmert to the
crowns of Europe is evident. Whether
this can be done without vigorous dis-
cipline remains to be seen; but, when
the lesson is finished, it will have been
thoroughly taught and _ thoroughly
learned, not only by the Spanish pupil
but the rest of the class as well.

R. M. STREETER.
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What May Happen.

There is a story of two thieves fight-
ing over a donkey. The altercation
originated in discussing the disposition
to be made of the animal—whether or
not it should be sold. While they were
contending together a third robber came
up and rode the donkey away. Such a
tale might apply pretty well. to hot-
headed merchants who are so bent on
keenly competing with one another that
they are oblivious to the fact that some
one else is carrying off the trade, a turn
of _ which is by no means impos-
sible

——__~>-9
Hotel Changes.

St. Louis—Chas. W. Chase, of Mish-
awaka, Ind., has secured a five year
lease of the Harrington House and will
open it to the public as soon as it can
be refurnished and fitted up.

Casnovia—l. C. Neff has sold his in-
terest in the Casnovia Hotel to J. S.
Ryan.

Onaway—H. Olmsted has begun the
erection of a hotel. 36x52 feet in dimen-
sions. The building will be two stories
high and contain twenty-five rooms.

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Hides, Pelts, Tallow and Wool.

The demand is good for Michigan
hides, although the supply is limited.
While the quality is the best of the year
and the market 4c off, tanners say that
they must go lower to meet the leather
market. The tendency is for lower
values and stocks are accumulating in
the larger markets. The recent decline
in price is reported to have been made
so that dealers can stock up, although
country holders are not free sellers at a
decline.

Pelts will remain stagnant until the
wool market is settled, unless bought at
lower values, which holders are not in-
clined to concede.

Tallow is in good demand at a slight
concession in price. Only choice is
sought after to any extert, although a
large supply of soaper’s stock is on
hana.

Wool seems to be again an article of
commerce. The past week showed the
largest sales of the year by a number of
million pounds, concessions in price
having occasioned the movement. Man-
ufacturers named a price they could use
it at and some holders weakened in or-
der to move the stuff they were tired of
looking at. So far, concessions are
made only on coarse or one-quarter
bloods of about 2c per pound. Fine
holds its own and is firm, with light
offerings. Stocks on this side are. am-
ple for the demand and the price abroad
is too high for importation. Michigan
wools do not move at the a

. 2. ERESs.
3 aes
About Attending to Details.

Don’t let the details of your business
get the upper band or you will be com-
felled to surrender like a_ poorly
equipped enemy before an army of
rough riders. It doesn’t take long to
look through your mail in the morning
and portion it out to the different de-
partments of your business—and the
waste basket. Put off doing it some
morning until other matters receive your
attention, cr neglect it altogether for a
while, and see how prodigious seems the
task.

After buying a bill of goods it takes
but a moment to secure a copy, to ar-
range terms of payment, to give proper
shipping instructions, etc.

Hurry off to something else, tell your-
self that you haven’t time to bother with
these little affairs, and see how much
more time you will have to lose later
on to straighten out tangles that some-
how seem always to follow neglect of
small duties.

Hang this card over your desk: ‘‘Do
it now,’’ and do not leave your work
until the details are well done.

A New Light.

Dean Hole tells us a story of an
American author who had inscribed on
his wife's tomb: ‘*The light has gone
from my life.’

Time went on, and he was about to be
married again. Then it was that a neigh-
bor, charged with that impertinence
which all of us are so unfortunate as_to
meet now and then, asked him if he
had forgotten his words of lamentation.

‘*So far from forgeting them,’’ he
said, ‘‘I remember them, and could re-
peat them now as really originating
and confirming the intention you are
pleased to criticise. I said that the
light was gone from my life; it is for
that reason that | propose to strike an-
other match.’’

 

 

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Dangers Before Unwary Women in
Fifth Avenue.
From the New York Sun,

‘The little Fifth avenue shops which a
few years ago could be counted on the
fingers of two hands are getting to be
thicker than blackberries. Some of
them are actually little; six by sixteen
is not magniticence even when a Frencb
woman keeps the shop. Others are only
comparatively small in contrast with the
big department stores.

fhese Fifth avenue shops are ina
class by themselves. In make-up and
Management they differ from most of
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of them are instalied in buildings which
were originaily dwelling houses and stili
retain tneir exclusiveness of appear-
ance. Nobody thinks of prowling into
and out of the Fifth avenue shops as
people do with the places having a pure
ly commercial air. The shopkeepers
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knows it.

Hence, after a woman has gone to the
point of climbing—or descending, as
the case may be—the outside steps and
entering the curtained glass door she
may be and is regardec as having seri-
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serious intentions, she receives a con-
tinental amount of unctuous bowing and
haughty coudescension subtly = inter-
mingled. If she doesn’t buy—well, it
is all she can do to get her stiffened
body out into the sunshine, where she
can thaw out.

This, be it hastily remarked, is not
the universal rule in these shops. There
are places where a genuine and _ courte-
ous welcome awaits all comers, and the
affair might be a social function so tar
as any idea of buying and selling is al-
lowed to intrude’ Two or three of the
art stores, tor instance, seem to the 1m-
pecunious but true lover of pictures to
be maintained for the gratification ot
himself and others like him. This is
true of many other places; but it would
be just as well for the outsider to know
his ground betore he ventures into the
fieid.

The Fifth avenue shops run almost
entirely to a few varieties—to millinery,
for instance. At the busiest hours of
the day there are more hats inside the
shops along the avenue, counting only
those for sale, than there are on the
heads of the women outside the shops
Why, there are more millinery shops
between Twenty-third street and Forty-
second street in Fifth avenue than there
are saloons in the same number of
blocks in Sixth avenue. At least it
seems so to a woman who has to stop
and look at the hats in the windows.

One of the chief accomplishments of
some foreign shopkeepers is their abil-
ity to make an unprontable customer
feel like 3 cents. This ability is to be
found here and there in Fifth avenue.
You go in all puffed up with pride over
a determination to be real reckless and
spend $20 on a winter hat. At the same
time you have a lingering trace ot
shrewdness, and you don’t name out-
right the princely sum which you stand
ready to expend. You have bought bats
before; and you're not going to invite
the saleswoman to charge you $20 for a
$12 hat just because she knows you have
the price.

So you are very foxy about it, and you
simply ask to seesome hats. Certainly,
madame! Wiuil madame please be
seated? Ah, pardon! Will madame
allow her hat to be removed?

Madame graciously allows it, although
sbe wilts a trifle when the unctuous
saleswoman looks inside of the old hat,
and obviously represses a sniff of scorn
at the name of the humble dealer she
finds there. But madame remembers
that she paid only $8 for tbat hat, and
she remembers the fat twenty in ber
purse and spruces up. Meanwhile the
saleswoman approaches with an abomi-
nation of floridity in the shape ofa
hat. It is ‘‘only $40, and exceedingly
becoming to madame.’’ Madame inti-
mates that she will have none of it.
More Kats are produced. They are $40,
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$25—and madame feels herself smaller
and smaller, and the fat $20 gets
thinner and thinner, and the world looks
black.

Finally madame summons her courage
and asks in an offhand way for some-
thing ‘‘more simple, just something
simple, but with plenty of chic; some-
thing about $20.’

The saleswoman raises her eyebrows
hopelessly and wrinkles her brows in an
effort to remember whether they ever
admitted anvthing so cheap into their
stock. And finally she thinks that they
have something for about that price,
and she goes off and gets two or three of
the raitiest looking millinery produc-
tions and condescendingly tells madame
that they are really quite striking—to
which madame agrees with inward
Irony.

At this puint comes up another tall
and elegant saleswoman. They are al-
ways tall and elegant, by the way, and
wear their hair in the latest fashion,
they are advanced in their ideas on
sleeves, and they rustle like $10,000 a
year. Also their hands are so well kept.
One wishes one had _ never been born
with finger nails. As for their height,
it really is of no use to go into some of
these shops unless you are s!x feet tall.
The elegant saleswomen are from five
feet eight up, and unless you are good
six feet you are not sure of being able
to get the upper eve of them. If you
can look down on them and rustle loud-
ly enough you may even buy a $20 hat
and keep your self-respect. Otherwise,
no. For, as before said, at the critical
point arrives another saleswoman.

‘*Have Mrs Millionaire’s hats gone
yet?’’ she asks of your patron sales-
woman.

"No."

‘‘Well, they must go before 4
o'clock!’ And then they scurry off and
you sit forlornly among your $20 abom-
inations of desolation and wonder
whether you'll have time to cut and run
before she can get back. You hesitate
and are lost. She comes back and tells
you how many hats Mrs. Millionaire
bought at $40 apiece, how many at $50,
and so on.

Of course you live through it, but it is
a time to try women’s souls.

On the other hand, there is the other
kind of little shop, the kind where
everybody, from the proprietor down to
the errand boy, treats you as if you were
a lordly customer from the moment you
enter the door and before you have spent
acent. After you have bought a pair
of gloves, you become one of them, a
part of the institution, a sort of patron
saint. These are the places where pro
prietor and salespeople know you by
name, remember your address, send the
goods home without putting ina bill
and otherwise endear themselves to hon-
est people with an old-fashioned fond-
ness for courtesy.

One can have a charge account at
plenty of places, but there are not so
many shops where one can have the pro-
prietor say:

‘“‘Oh, Mrs. ——, I came very near
sending for you tu see some imported
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We have lately placed on the market a line
of portrait calendars which we think supe-
rior in many respects to the colored calen-
dars so long in use, in that the customer who
hangs up a calendar with the merchant’s
portrait thereon will think of him and his
establishment every time he glances at the
calendar. This line of calendars is 7x11
inches in size, printed on heavy 8-ply coated
litho. cardboard, with portrait of merchant,
or his clerks, or his family at top of card
and large monthly calendar pads wire
stitched to lower portion of card, samples
of which will cheerfully be sent on applica-
tion. We can make calendars in any size
desired, printed either from engraved plates
or from type, with monthly pad, in one or
two colors of ink.

We also have on hand a large line of fancy
colored calendars, which we can furnish
on exceptionally favorable terms. In case
you conclude to favor us with your order
for anything in the calendar line, you can
rest assured that your order wili receive
painstaking attention by experienced work-
men from start to finish.

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of you when the things were unpacked. ’’

That’s only business shrewdness?
Generally, yes. But it is a more agree-
able form of business shrewdness than
that which makes a dealer treat his cus-
tomer like a thief and a robber, or asa
policeman treats the tramp on the park
benches.

So the Fifth avenue shops—like all
shops, for that matter—are ot two kinds
so tar as methods of dealing with cus-
tomers go. Only, their extremes of
courtesy and of snobbisbness are farther
apart. In other methods they are a good
deal alike. Few of them advertise.
They depend on their regular customers
to do that for them, either by wearing
their productions or buying them for
their houses. These shops are devoted
principally to the apparelling of men
and women. Nine-tenths of the Fifth
avenue shops are those of tailors, mil-
liners and costumers, with now and then
one for the sale of shoes, gloves or corsets.
Those make up fully nine tenths of the
number, and the great majority of the
remainder are dedicated to the dressing
of the second envelope of humanity, the
houses in which we live.

It would be a brave man or woman
who would open a Fifth avenue shop
without feeling assured of at leasta
smallclientele. The history of many of
these places is quickly written. A man
works with a well-known tailor until he
has made a sufficient circle of acquaint-
ances—in purely a business sense, of
course—and then he opens a little shop
of his own. Generally he has confided
this intention to the customers who
seemed to be most pleased with his
work, and these he generally counts up-
on to launch him, or rather keep him
afloat, in his new venture. It is the
same way with the milliners and the rest.

As for the character of the stock in
these shops, it grows more and more
Parisian. In many of the places a
French designer is employed. In one
of these shops, for instance, where hats,
corsages, parasols, furs and other arti-
cles for women's wear are sold two
French girls are employed. One of
them receives about $150 a week for her
work as a designer, while the other gets
$45 a week as a trimmer.

The little shops are often a relief to
the buyer because they keep only one
thing, the one thing, of course, which
the shopper goes there to get. It is
soothing to find a whole establishment
interested in the thing you yourself, for
the time being, find of paramount im-
portance. It is very comforting to go
into a cozy little place to have a pair of
gloves made and to find oneself an ob-
ject of solicitude to the entire force. It
1s ahout as warming as the other experi-
ence is chilling—the experience with
the Fifth avenue shop which does not
thaw out until it has seen the color of
your money. For these little shops do
be of these two kinds, and there's the
rub.

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American Apples in England.

Liverpool, Oct. 29—The arrivals of
American apples this week were 2,310
barrels, as against 23,437 barrels last
week. The arrivals to date have been
116,005 barrels, as compared with 72, 370
barrels at the same period last season.
The quality and condition of the fruit
which arrived this week are againa
great disappointment and the hoped for
improvement appears to be as far off as
ever. Canadian arrivals have been the
most unsatisfactory, and to this there
are scarcely any exceptions, the condi-
tion being wretched—notably Snows,
Holland, Pippin and Jennettings, which
were mostly mouldy, and with great
difficulty sold at 2s. 6d.@5s. From New
York some occasional lots were fairly
good, but nothing has yet arrived from
any port to induce buyers of the better
class to operate.

There were some lots of winter Bald-
wins from Boston, having color and size,
which sold up to 19s. od. ; but taken al-
together, the result of the week’s sales
is very miserable. The whole situation
is regrettable, as the markets here are
entirely cleared of home product, and
are ready to operate largely whenever
suitable fruit can be obtained.

 

The Dry Goods Market.

Staple Cottons—There has been no
marked change to report in regard to
staple cottons from our last review. The
home demand for brown cottons is mod-
erately good, while there is a little in-
crease in desire for goods for export.

Prints and Ginghams—We are able to
report improvement in the volume of
business transacted in printed calicoes
and mail orders have increased. The
primary market is in very good condi-
tion so far as fancy calicoes are con-
cerned, and with the exception of the
few odd styles which will be disposed
of at good prices, most of the stocks
have been well cleaned out. There are
quite a large number of small orders
coming forward for regular prints,
which seems to indicate that stocks in
the hands of jobbers are rather low, but
that they do not wish to buy any more
stock than is absolutely necessary.

Dress Goods—The end of the fall
dress goods business is in sight; in
fact, is already here, and the many
mills working on dress goods are feeling
somewhat discouraged in regard to the
amount of business which has been se-
cured. It is far from satisfactory, in
spite of the fact that the last week or
two has shown an improvement, which
was due largely to the cooler weather
which prevailed in the East, but more
particularly in the West. Had the whole
of the reorder season been as good as
the last two weeks, there would have
been far more satisfaction expressed
and felt. But, as conditions have been,
there has not been enough business to
keep the mills running until they put
their looms onto spring dress goods.
This has not been the case with all
mills, but with many of them.

Hosiery—The demand for staple ho-
siery continues to be fully up to the av-
erage, and a very satisfactory fall busi-
ness is already assured. Prices have
been strengthened by the existing con-
ditions in European markets, and our
latest advices show that conditions are
still strong enough to keep prices steady
in this market.

Carpets——The manufacturers have
now completed their samples, and ‘some
have shown the new lines to their cus-
tomers There has been more disposi-
tion to place orders since it has been
decided to sell the Alex. Smith Carpet
Co. goods at private sale. Until this fact
was assured, there was a great deal of
uneasiness manifested among the job-
bers and manufacturers. Trade should
from this time improve, as the disturb-
ing factors are removed. It is certainly
a cause for congratulation that there
will be a larger chance to conduct the
carpet business this next season on nat-
ural conditions, instead of on the unnat-
ural ones which prevailed last season,
which will go down in history as the
most unsatisfactory ever experienced by
the oldest merchants in the trade.

Blankets—There is a moderately good
business coming forward in the way of
supplementary orders in the blanket
trade, enough to keep the jobbers in
good humor, and to keep the business
in excellent condition. Now that the
extra Government business is practical-
ly over, several of the manufacturers are
preparing new lines of white blankets
which they had intended to get ready for
last year, but did not on account of the
extra amount of business in colored
blankets due to the Government con-
tracts. It is expected that the next sea-
son will open rather early, and agents
are preparing to show their samples in
advance of regular date.

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Around the State

Movements of Merchants.

Holland—-Price & K eis have engaged
in the meat business.

Baldwin——Hoatlin & Fisher have
opened a meat market here.

Ironwood—John Kluck succeeds Kluck
& Greisewski in the meat business.

Bad Axe—R. Neusler has embarked
in the general merchandise business.

Mount Forest—Abraham Cohen has
removed his grocery stock to Gladwin.

Ann Arbor—Parker & Schneider are
succeeded by the Moore Hardware Co.

Rockford—Volney Saker has_ pur-
chased the meat business of Wm. Grum-
mett.

Adrian—Geo. A. Betz has re-engaged
in the grocery, provision and meat busi-
ness.

Marshall—S. E. Ferguson succeeds
Geo. A. Hoyt in the restaurant busi-
ness.

Big Rapids—J. Tetzlaff has removed
his jewelry stock from Reed City to this
place.

Gaines—Geo. W. Chase, Jr., has sold
his clothing and notion stock to Moss &
Myers.

Union City—Lynn D. Johnson has
purchased the grocery stock of R. F.
Watkins.

Sturgis—Dickinson & Strunk, meat
dealers, have dissolved, Mr. Dickinson
succeeding.

Trenton—Sarah R. (Mrs. Abram)
Van Horn has sold her general stock to
Ira Vickery. i

Coopersville—W. A. Thomas has pur-
chased the harness business of E. J.
McNaughton.

Flint—Geo. E. Hunt has transferred
his drug stock to his wife for a consid-
eration of $500.

Midland—E. Anderson continues the
drug business formerly carried on by
Anderson & Orth.

Breckenridge—Zubler & Becker is
the name of a new hardware firm estab-
lished at this place.

Detroit—Frank Millard has purchased
the coal, wood and hay business of
Thos. Sherwood & Co.

Ann Arbor—Jobn Maynard is closing
out his grocery stock here and will re-
move to another location.

Sturgis—Alfred Purkiss, of Concord,
has engaged in the dry goods and gro-
cery business at this place.

Marion—E. J. Hall, who retired from
business last June, will re-engage in the
grocery business about Dec. 1.

Calumet—J. C. Vivian succeeds Rob-
erts & Vivian in the drug business at
this place and also at Laurium.

Shepherd—F. D. Hare has opened up
a stock of dry goods, groceries, boots,
shoes and rubbers at this place.

Fenton—Mrs. Lucy A. Barber, who
conducted a notion store at this place,
has sold her stock to the Fasbender
Bazaar Co., Limited.

Hudson—Wenzel & Hasbrouck have
sold their coal and lumber business to
R. F. Burch, of Sturgis, who has al-
ready taken possession.

Detroit—Johnson & Gibbons, whole-
sale and retail cigar and tobacco deal-
ers, have dissolved, Benj. J. Gibbons
continuing the business.

Kalkaska—A. E. Bowerman and Cole
Bros. have purchased the feed store of
Wm. Winters, and will conduct the
business under the style of Bowerman &
Cole Bros. It is reported that Mr. Win-
ters is considering the feasibility of
erecting a grist mill here.

 

 

 

Scottville—Albert Vogel, of Luding-
ton, has purchased a site and will erect
a double store building at this place
and embark in the mercantile business.

Marion—G. L. Thornton has _ pur-
chased the grocery stock of C. S. Chase
and will move it into a 24x25 addition
he is adding to his present store build-
ing.

Otsego—Ed. Rose has sold his grocery
stock to Herbert, Fred and Milo Mc-
Call, of Alamo, who will continue the
business under the firm name of McCall
Bros.

Barryton—The firm of Skelton &
Barry, operating a general store at this
place, has been dissolved by mutual
consent. Frank Barry will continue the
business.

Plainwell—Luther Delano and Chas.
A. Bush have purchased the lumber and
fuel business of R. Granger & Co. and
the firm name hereafter will be C. A.
Bush & Co.

Saginaw—The partnership existing
between Simon and Nathan Sheyer, deal-
ers in clothing and men’s furnishing
goods, has been dissolved, Simon Sheyer
succeeding.

Ludington—S. Slaght & Co. have sold
their crockery and bazaar stock to Vic.
Roussin, dealer in drugs and notions,
and removed to Scottville, where they
will engage in business.

Schoolcraft—Charles H. Briggs, of
the drug firm of Briggs Bros., was re-
cently married to Miss Inez Shaw. Mr.
and Mrs. Briggs will reside in School-
craft. The bride was a teacher last
year in Schoolcraft.

Jackson—A. H. Knox & Co., who
conduct 5 and Io cent stores in fourteen
cities in the country, have opened a 5
cent store in the building recently oc-
cupied by the men’s furnishing goods
stock of Markham & McDonald.

Hudson—F. G. Martin has disposed
of his interest in the firm of J. H. Cruse
& Co., lumber dealers at Hudson and
Marshall, to Blood & Cruse, who will
continue the business. Mr. Martin will
embark in agricultural pursuits near
Sturgis.

Charlotte—The clothing firm of Green-
man & Selkirk has been dissolved by
F. E. Norton, who has been employed
in the store fur the past year, purchas-
ing the interest of Mr. Greenman. The
new firm will be known as Selkirk &
Norton.

St. Joseph—Gabel & Co., who con-
ducted a grocery and meat market at
this place, have dissolved partnership,
Mr. Gabel retiring. The new firm will
be known as R. C. Strelow & Co.
Henry Wortz will have the management
ef the business.

Kalamazoo—The Cowing, Cable &
Lee shoe stock has been purchased by
Jos. L. Hudson. William Graham, man-
ager of Mr. Hudson’s shoe department
at Detroit, is in the city for a few days
making arrangements for the future of
the business. L. C. Laviolette will
manage the store.

Saginaw—The druggists’ early closing
movement was short lived. Some of
those who had signed the agreement to
close at 9 o’clock remained in their
stores and unlocked them when custom-
ers came along The compact was
poorly kept and the members to it
agreed that the undertaking was a_ fail-

u re,

Owosso—Early closing has been re-
vived among some classes of dealers
who have either never been in the habit
of closing early or else have been get-
ting out of the habit. Grocers and meat
dealers on both sides of the city are

 

now agreed in closing at 7 o'clock
every evening except Monday and Sat-
urday.

Menominee—Buhl Sons & Co. have
sold their hardware stock to the North-
ern Hardware & Supply Co., a stock
company lately organized and capital-
ized at $50,000 by well-known Menomi-
nee business men. The stock will in-
ventory about $40,000. In addition to
the above stock the $20,000 stock of
mill, mining and camp supplies carried
by the Menominee Iron Works Co. was
also purchased and will be added to
the business. The incorporators of the
new stock company are J. W. Wells,
Wm Somerville, William Holmes, M.
H. Kern, John Henes, E. L. Parmenter,
Joseph Fleshiem and Geo. L. Hastings.

 

Manufacturing Matters.

Spaulding—The Spaulding Lumber
Co.'s plant has been sold to Ross &
Co., of Manistique.

Niles—The Hamilton-Huston Co, suc-
ceeds C. A. Williams & Co. in the car-
riage manufacturing business.

Portland—W. J. Adams, formerly
with the Portland Milling Co., is now
operating a flouring mill at Brighton.

Applegate—Bond & Farriby, who
operated a foundry, blacksmith shop
and feed mill at this place, have re-
moved to Ubly.

Detroit—The Detroit Carriage Manu-
facturing Co. succeeds the Rumsey Man-
ufacturing Co. in the manufacture of
carriage bodies.

Marquette—The Dead River Milling
Co.’s mill has closed down for the sea-
son. This ends its operations in this
part of the State.

Schoolcraft—Wm. Cooper has bought
the Earl ladder factory building and
grounds and expects to engage in the
lumber business next spring.

Detroit—W. C. Barbour, who was en-
gaged in the manufacture of neckwear
under the style of W. C. Barbour &
Co., will hereafter conduct the business
in his own name.

Colfax—Johnson & Anderson are re-
building their hardwood mill, and re-
fitting it throughout with new and mod-
ern ‘machinery. They expect to have
it running in about two weeks. Its ca-
pacity will be 22,000 feet per day.

Saginaw—C. S. Bliss has added a
planing mill and band resaw to his
sawmill] outfit and is crowded with busi-
ness. He is finishing hauling 500,000
feet of logs from Gladwin to his mill
here and has two camps started and will
soon start another.

Petoskey—E. Montgomery & Son, of
Sycamore, Ills., who have had consid-
erable experience in the business, have
leased the C. S. Rouse factory and will
install a creamery with a capacity for
20,000 pounds of milk daily. They ex-
pect to be already to run by April 1.

Kalamazoo—The Kalamazoo Top Co.
is now composed of Sam G. Brink and
Charles O’Brien, for several years em-
ployes of the Michigan Buggy Co. They
have already taken possession, but will
retain their present positions for some
time. The business for the present will
be under the management of Charles
Bassett.

Gaylord—Frank Buell and Jackson,
Wylie & Co. have purchased the McGraw
tract of hardwood timber in the eastern
part of Otsego county, and also 2,v00
acres of timber adjoining, and are ar-
ranging to cut 10,000,000 feet of logs
the ensuing winter. Mr. Buell operates
a sawmill at this place, and 5,000,000
feet of the timber will be railed to this
city to be manufactured.

 

Houghton—The Mass, Ridge, Oge-
maw, Hazard and Merrimac mines, lo-
cated near Ontonagon, are to be con-
solidated. After consolidation they will
be known as the Mass Consolidated
Mining Co. At the outset the company
will be stocked at $2,500,000. Thecon-
solidation will give the company control
over about 3,000 acres of land in the
mineral belt. It is believed that 500
men will be employed within a year.

Prescott—Prescott & Sons are build-
ing a railroad from this place to Stiles
Lake, where they have timber enough
for several years’ operations. This firm
is building a saw and shingle mill at the
east end of Stiles Lake, at which they
will manufacture all of the coarse tim-
ber, while the better qualities will be
hauled to Tawas and manufactured at
the firm’s plant there. It is said also that
the Detroit & Mackinac Railroad will
extend a road through to Sage’s Lake
and from there to Lupton, for the pur-
pose of reaching a heavy tract of hard-
wood and mixed timber, it being esti-
mated there is enough of it to last sev-
eral years.

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The Boys Behind the Counter.

Cadillac— George Gow, who went to
New York several weeks ago, is now
employed as salesman in Altman Bros.’
wholesale and retail dry goods establish-
ment.

Howard City—L. G. Clapp, of Grand
Rapids, has charge of the prescription
department of S. V. Bullock’s drug
store while Sid hunts deer.

Hudson—O. C. Hutchinson, who has
been in charge of the bicycle sales de-
partment for the Bean-Chamberlin Man-
ufacturing Co., bas resigned and re-
moved to Chicago, where he has been
tendered a similar position with the
Monarch Bicycle Co.

Kalamazoo—Frank Schrier has taken
a position as salesman in the dry goods
store of John C. Stein & Co., Allegan.

St. Ignace—H. W. Kline has returned
from Traverse City to takea position in
Steinberg’s store again.

Lansing—E., S. Nivison, of Hillsdale,
has taken a position in the drug store
of Alsdorf & Son.

“Eaton Rapids—C. D. Slocum, who
has been clerking in Knapp’s hardware
store, has taken a position in Garrison's
bazaar.

Casnovia—Claud Ballard, of Sparta,
has taken a position in J. L Norris’
general store.

Niles—Chas. Timmons has resigned
his position as clerk at Gage’s grocery
and will go to Elwood, Ind., wrere he
has secured a position with the Ameri-
can Tin Plate Co.

Port Huron—L. M. Hopkins, who
has been with the White Store Com-
pany for the past year, has gone to De-
troit to take a position with Hunter,
Glenn & Hunter.

Mancelona——Richard Starling, of
Central Lake, has taken a position in
the Antrim Iron Co.'s general store.

Edwardsburg—Charles Thomas has
secured a position in a drug store at
Allegan.

Grand Ledge—Bert Courts, formerly
with Hixson & Bromley, is now clerk-
ing for A. E. Shadduck.

Traverse City—Jacob Kampenga, who
was for a long time in the employ of J.
Steinberg as trimmer and dry goods
salesman, but who went to Grand Rap-
ids, with T. J. Host, bas resigned his
position with the latter and returned to
this city to accept his former position
in the dry goods department of Stein-
berg’s store.

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Grand Rapids Gossip

The Grocery Market.

Sugar—Raws are very strong, but will
hardly advance in the face of the New
Orleans crop. There has been no change
in refined sugar during the past week,
and none is expected for the next few
days. The consumptive demand is very
fair, but will grow less from this on. It
is believed by some that the price of re-
fined sugar, which seems to have
ceased to obey the fluctuations of the
raw market, may go ic lower, or about
to the cost of the raw material.

Tea—Low grades continue in fairly
good demand, as they have for a month
past. The sale of high grade teas is
confined almost exclusively to the high-
class city stores, and the demand there
is not particularly active. New York
reports indicate that teas are growing
slightly firmer in first hands, with a
slightly increasing demand.

Coffee—Considerably more interest has
been shown by buyers, and a better de-
mand has developed generally from all
quarters. Maracaibos in fairly good
demand, especially for the better quali-
ties. Java and Mocha are unchanged.

Canned Goods—Tomatoes are very
strong, there being very few in the
hands of Western packers. Corn is sell-
ing in a small way at unchanged prices,
no large orders being forthcoming. Peas
are dull at unchanged prices. Some
trade is doing in California peaches,
chiefly the lower-price peaches in gallon
cans. Trade for the ordinary grades is
slow. California packers are at present
cleaning up their year’s pack, and are
unloading odds and ends.

Dried Fruits—All grades of loose
raisins advanced %c by the Trust on
Nov. 4. Stock is in good demand, the
trade taking 3 and 4 crown very freely.
Prunes have been selling very well at
unchanged prices and no fluctuation is
expected. Currants are without change,
although the foreign market is higher.
Apricots are in fair demand at un-
changed prices. The lower grades seem
to be most wanted. Peaches are going
out in a small way. Prices in secondary
markets are unchanged, but the Coast
reports an advance.

Nuts—The California walnut crop
proves to be a partial failure and still
higher prices are looked for. It is re-
ported that the old Virginia Peanut
Trust is to be revived and extended so
as to take in all the prominent dealers
in the South and West. Absolute con-
trol of the trade is what is aimed at, and
to accomplish it the Trust’s capitaliza-
tion will read in big figures. It is said
that ex-Governor Campbell, of Ohio, is
the active promoter of the scheme.

Provisions—Prices have been well
maintained, although the general feel-
ing is that lower prices should come.
As yet, however, no weakness has de-
veloped. The new packing season has
opened throughout the country, and the
supply of provisions should be material-
ly increased shortly. The demand will
be somewhat curtailed by the poultry
season, which begins from November
1 to 15. Lard is unchanged, and prices
have been fairly steady during the past
week.

Tobacco—Final and definite arrange-
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to be absorbed by the Continental To-
bacco Co., for the incorporation of the
same, and the selection of directors and
officers. The company will be capital-

 

ized at $60,000,000, divided equally into
common and preferred stock. This
stock will be paid for. The plants in-
cluded in the deal are those of P. J.
Sorg & Co., Daniel Scotten & Co.,
Weissinger & Co., John Finzer & Bro.,
P. H. Mayo & Bro., and the American
Tobacco Co.’s plug tobacco interests,
including the Drummond plant recently
purchased by it, but not including the
Brown plant. The latter company will
be taken in immediately after the for-
mation of the Continental Co. The pur-
chase includes the possession of $2, 500, -
ooo of working capital in addition, cash
and cash assets taken from the vendors.
The purchase also includes the $3,000, -
ooo of the common stock of the Lorillard
Co. There will be fifteen incorporators,
and these will become directors. The
usual plan of incorporating with a list
of dummy directors will not be followed,
as each incorporator and director will
be a substantial and interested person.

Fish—The mackerel market is strong
and active. Prices will probably be
maintained on the present basis for
some time. New round herring are very
scarce and firm. Cod is moving fairly
and the trade expect an improvement
as soon as cold weather comes.

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The Produce Market.

Apples—The buying season is pretty
near at an end, although cellar stock
continues to arrive. Dealers hold No.
1 stock at $2.25@2.50 and No. 2at
$2@2.25.

Beets—25c per bu.

Butter— Dairy is a little more plenti-
ful, but choice grades command 17@
18c. Factory creamery is in ample sup-
ply at 20c.

Cabbage—$#4 per 1oo heads for home
grown.

Carrots—25c per bu.

Cauliflower—75c@$1 per doz. Receipts
are small and demand is slow.

Celery—15c per doz. bunches for
White Plume.

Cranberries—The market is stronger
and higher, Cape Cods having advanced
to $6.75 per bbl. and $2.50 per bu.

Cucumbers—Soc per doz. for hot house
stock. '

Eggs—Strictly fresh fetch 17@18c.
Cold storage and pickled command 15

16c.

Evaporated Apples—Quiet and not
much moving. The little flurry caused
by people who were short on their con-
tracts did not last long into the month.
Chicago dealers have pulled in their
buyers and the evaperators ‘are holding
their stocks for better prices. :

Grapes— Michigan Concords and Ni-
agaras are so scarce that the price has
advanced to 15c for 8 Ib. baskets. New
York grapes are still too high priced to
find a sale in this market.

Green Peppers—75c per bu.

Honey—1oc for buckwheat and 12c
for white clover stock. :

Onions—Spanish have declined to
$1.50 per crate. Dealers pay 25c for
Red Globes and Red Weatherfields,
holding at 30@35c. : ee

Pears—Keefers are still coming In,
the market having advanced to $1 per
bu.

Pop Corn—soc per bu. :

Potatoes—The Michigan crop Is turn-
ing out better than was expected as to
size, appearance and yield. The danger
occasioned by the recent rainy spell
is found to be less than was expected,
except on low ground. Present indica-
tions point to a market somewhere
around 25c at buying points.

Quinces—75c per bu.

Squash—Ic per Ib. for Hubbard.

Sweet Potatoes—Virginias are steady
at $1.50 per bbl. Jerseys are firm at
$2.25.

Turnips—25c per bu.

Visner is home with a lot cf Gillies’
New York tea bargains. Phone, 800.
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Inside Information Concerning the Ex-
press Companies.

The suit recently instituted against
the Adams Express Co. by the Trades-
man Company, for the purpose of com-
pelling the express companies to bear
their just taxation and pay for the rev-
enue stamps required on receipts, was
thrown out of court on the ground that
the defendant is a joint stock affair,
instead of a corporation, as alleged.
New papers are being prepared for the
purpose of instituting a new suit, cov-
ering the same features as were em-
bodied in the former action.

In the meantime Foster, Stevens &
Co., who brought a similar action
against the American Express Co. and
withdrew it at the earnest request of the
Merchants’ Association of New York,
have been investigating the real charac-
ter of the various express companies,
resulting in the following disclosures:

Adams Express Co.: The capital
stock of this company is $12,000,000.
Dividends in the past have been at the
rate of 8 per cent. per annum, and _ oc-
casionally an extra dividend has been
declared. Last March that company is-
sued $12,000,000 of bonds under a collat-
eral trust deed. These bonds draw in-
terest at the rate of 4 per cent. per an-
num. Bords were distributed to the
stockholders, so that this bond issue was
equivalent to a bond dividend of 100 per
cent. As security for the collateral
trust deed the company deposited se-
curities known generally as ‘‘Gilt-
Edged”’ securities, the market value of
which is some thirteen or fourteen mil-
lion dollars. The company also declared
that in addition to these securities they
had a surplus of some $3,000,000. The
assets of this company consist of horses,
wagons and contracts. The directors
elect their own successors, make no
statements to the Railroad Commission-
ers of the different states ; to the Inter-
state Commerce Commission, or to the
public. They are a joint stock com-
pany, absolutely under the control of no-
body but themselves. Stock now is 107
bid, and 114 asked. When the bond is-
sue was made the dividend on the stock
was cut down to 4 per cent. per annum ;
but as the bonds were given to the stock-
holders free, and the bonds draw 4 per
cent per annum, the original stock-
holders still get 8 per cent. upon their
investment, and it is the impression
bere that the company would declare a
larger dividend on the stock were they
not in fear of public opinion.

The American Express Co: The
capital stock of this company amounts
to $18,000,000. Some years ago it ab-
sorbed the Merchants’ Union Express
Co., which operated over the same lines,
giving stock to buy up the latter corpo-
ration. Their assets consist of horses,
wagons and contracts, and we under-
stand that they hold a large amount of
securities in first-class railway bonds,
which they are very anxious to dispose
of in a way similar to that used by the
Adams Express Co. in disposing of its
surplus. This company is of the same
character as the Adams.

United States Express Co. : This com-
pany has not been as prosperous as the
two above mentioned companies. The
dividends have been small, or at the
rate of 3 per cent. per annum, although
it is conducted in the same manner as
the others. Its capital stock is $10,000, -
ooo, and the style of the corporation is
the same as that of the others.

Wells-Fargo Express Co.: This isa
new corporation, having absorbed the
Erie Express Co. We understand, from

 

those who ought to know, that formerly
the profits of the Wells-Fargo Co. went
into the Wells-Fargo Bank, but upon
making their last contracts with the Pa-
cific roads, they reorganized the express
company, separating it from the bank,
and gave a large block for the contract.

National Express Co.: This is also
a close or joint stock corporation, so far
as we are able to ascertain. The stock
is not quoted. We believe that the ma-
jority of it is controlled by the Ameri-
can Express Co., and only the laws of
New York prevent the consolidation of
those two companies.

> 2 >
The Grain Market.

Wheat bas been rather dull during
the past week. One of the main reasons
was the election for Congressmen and
also for the State offices in many states
and traders were absorbed in politics
rather than trading. While the general
drift is for no political change from the
present, still some were waiting to see
the outcome. Elections being now out
of the way, we may expect to see more
life in the grain market. As tbe war
cloud has passej, we may see a drooping
market for a few days, but we think that
this will not last long, as the demand
seems to be holding up, both foreign
as well as home demand, while stocks
are not oppressive, as our visible made
an increase of only 1,520,000 bushels
this week. This, with the enormous re-
ceipts at initial points, goes to show
that consumption and exports are large.
The present outlook is that our visible
by January 1, 1899, will not be over
30,000,000 bushels, or less than in many
years. There was a fake report of Rus-
sia having an extraordinarily large crop,
which affected the market However,
it was contradicted, as it was so out-
rageously large that it showed its falsity
at once.

Corn has been active during the week,
but prices have not changed to any great
extent and the opinion still prevails that
prices will be higher, owing to our
small crop.

Oats are holding up remarkably well,
especially as there is only 5,976,000
bushels visible, against 15,389,000
bushels at the same time last year. The
farmers have it in their power to reg-
ulate prices to suit themselves. All they
have to do is to hold aloof from rushing
their product to market and they can
dictate their own terms.

Receipts of wheat the past week were
67 cars of wheat, 14 cars of corn and
12 cars of oats.

Millers are paying 62c for wheat.

C. G. A. Vorer.
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Passed Into the Hereafter.

Middlebury, Ind., Nov. 5—On my
visit to this place, I am surprised to
learn of the death of J. F. Cooper, who
was an old-time harnessmaker and
dealer and one of the leading citizens
of the place, having held many offices
of trust and responsibility.

GRAHAM Roys.
SA

D. D. Walton has re-engaged in the
grocery business at Lake City. The
Lemon & Wheeler Co. furnished the

stock.
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Mrs. Ida Wood has opened a grocery
store at Six Lakes. The stock was fur-
nished by the Musselman Grocer Co,

—_—__»20.—___

Frank P, Carpenter has purchased the
cigar stock of H. A. Paul at 347 South
Division street.

G. A. Krause (Hirth, Krause & Co.)
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Woman’s World

Some Reminiscences of the Old Mirror.

When the old mirror was first brought
home the family mocked and jeered at
my purchase. They pointed out that the
glass was old and dim and that the
cupids on the ornate gilt frame—like so
much love in real life—had lost their
veneer and were no longer bright and
beautiful.

Then they said it was the kind of
thing you might expect to happen when
a woman went to an auction sale. She
always bought something she didn’t
need and had no place to put, and I was
ashamed to confess I had bid it in be-
cause it looked so forlornly out of
place amidst the heaped-up trumpery
of a cheap auction room,

It was an odd, oval-shaped mirror, in
a frame with drooping garlands and airy
cupids, that must once have been very
handsome, but it is now sadly old and
tarnished and time-worn. Nevertheless,
I hung it upon my wall, and in the
dusky twilight I drew a chair up under
it and questioned jit as to its history.
At first there was no answer, but by-
and-by a little wavering flash of light
passed across it, as you may have no-
ticed a sudden memory of a happy day
dawn in an old person’s eyes, and some-
how—somewhere— it found a voice.

‘*Tell you something of myself?’’ it
repeated in answer to my question.
‘*Surely, with pleasure. Pardon,
madame, mais, parlez vous Francais?
No? It is a thousand pities. It is my
native tongue. It is the language of all
mirrors. It is the language of polite-
ness, of diplomacy, of subtle compli-
ment, of— What is it you say? ‘There
are very good mirrors made in America
now?’ Bah! what do they know? Plain,
blunt, bourgeois airs, stupid enough to
tell everything they see, just as they see
it. Ma foi, madam, that is nothing.
Any fool can tell the truth!

‘“*But to know how to reflect a thing
so as to show it in its best light; to
make even a defect seem a virtue, to
be able to always tell the truth, but the
truth idealized—that is art, the art alone
of the French mirror and the lover.
For look you, to be a happiness and a
satisfaction to one, they must be much
alike. Unless the man who says he loves
you tells you that the irregularity of
your face makes all classic beauty dul)
and wearisome; unless he thinks your
temper a pretty willfulness making you
more enchanting, as the thorns give a
Piquancy to the sweetness of the rose;
unless your mirror shows the first gray
hair as nothing but a high light and
turns the incipient wrinkle into a dim-
ple, do not hesitate, madame. Discard,
if necessary smash them both. Never
surround yourself with friends who re-
mind you of your faults. We all have
enemies enough to tell us the things we
don’t want to hear.

‘‘Again—a million pardons—but have
you ever noticed the way a woman buys
a mirror? It is absurd, it is incredible,
it is imbecile. She comes into a shop
and looks about. She has so much space
on her wall or over her dressing table
to cover, and the mirror, to her, is mere-
ly a matter of glass and quicksilver,
that is desirable or not according to its
frame. She does not know that it has a
soul, and that mirrors have as different
characteristics as people. Have you
not had mirrors that always sent you
away in radiant spirits, half a beauty
in the assured air and happy conscious-
ness of looking your,best? Have you

 

 

 

not had other mirrors that almost drove
you to the verge of suicide—that showed
you pale and sallow, with dead hair and
lack-luster eyes, and that seemed to
preach a dreary homily that everything
was vanity and that life was a failure
and nothing worth while? Have you not
seen other mirrors, warped aud twisted,
that show no beautiful thing without an
ugly and sinister reflection, as a pure
thought becomes evil and bitter ina
cynic’s mind? Have you not noticed
that, shallow-hearted and_ shallow-
brained as we are esteemed, no old mir-
ror is like a new mirror, any more than
the untroubled and unknowing face of
a child is like the face of an old man?
It is not altogether that one is new and
bright and that the other is old and
dim. There is something deeper and
subtler. The mystery and the passion
and the pain of life and knowledge in
one. In the other the blanks of igno-
rance And yet people buy a mriror
because it is so many inches this way
and so many that,’’ and the old _ mirror
gave the indescribable shrug that has in
it the hopeles: and contemptuous pity
of the man of the world for the provin-
cial, who misses all the fine points in
the game of life because he is too igno-
rant and green to understand.

There was silence in the room fora
while The shadows deepened and
darkened, and when the old mirror
spoke again its voice was as low and
soft as the strains of an aeolian barp
played by the fingers of the wind.

‘‘Ab, madame,’’ it said, ‘‘you are
right when you say I must have seen
many things. I began life in the sump-
tuous apartments of a great beauty.
You bought me to-day in a cheap auc-
tion-room of second-hand things. Be-
tween the two lies a whole lifetime
What have I not seen in that? Youth
and age, wealth and poverty, laughter
and tears, bridal wreaths and_ the
sheeted dead. Little children have
come and peeped into my face and
laughed to see the world was peopied
by other spirits as bright and beautiful
as they. I have looked on grief in rich
homes, where the satin curtains were
drawn close, so that no sob might reach
the outer world, and the carpets were
piled thick and heavy that no ear might
hear how sorrow kept step with the lcne-
ly mourner the long night through.
Young girls, starting forth to their first
nalls, have stooped and kissed the radi-
ant images I showed them, and once a
young man, crazed by cards and wine,
stood in front of me and put a bullet
ibrough his desperate heart.

‘*So many things—so many things in
all the long, long years. They come
thronging back like the ghests of a pro-
cession, where one face was gay and
young and another old and careworn,
and others only turned careless and curi-
ous eyes upon the passing show. I was
young in those days, and, | fear, a sad
rogue. Human vanity was my sport and
I made merry over it. I smiled upon
the beauty until she thought herself a
goddess and scorned all who came about
her; 1 flattered the old and withered
dame into believing herself young and
fair, and so she painted false roses on
ber cheeks, and I laughed, and laughed,
and laughed to think with what baubles
men and women deceive themselves,

‘*It doesn’t matter by what chance I
was sold. The sale of household furni-
ture is always vulgarly sordid or in-
finitely pathetic, as the chance happens.
Enough to say I passed into the posses-
sion of a family in which were two
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was to be married. She was a fair and
gentle girl, and I thought her betrothed
sincerely attached to her, and I delight-
ed to reflect their pretty little love
scenes. Then the younger sister came
home. If the other girl was a thing of
sweetness and loveliness, she was a
creature of spirit and fire, all throbbing.
passionate life and joy, that made her
sister seem as cold and pulseless as a
white lily by a blood red rose. Then
Eappened one of those tragedies that
break hearts and wreck lives. Never
believe, madame, that the great sor-
rows of life come to us through the cold,
calm machinations of some villain.
They come as swift and unexpécted as
summer lightning from a cloudless sky,
when the lips we have kissed betray
us and the hand we have trusted stabs
us in the dark.

‘*People said it was fate. One ex
planation serves as well as another
where nothing explains or excuses.
From the minute of their meeting, the
younger sister and the man loved each
other. It was a story as old as the story
of forbidden fruit, as old as the story
of human love and temptation and yield
ing,on which I looked down for the next
few weeks, and then on the very day
on which the elder sister was to have
been married the guilty lovers fled.

‘That evening the young bride went
out and gathered flowers with which to
deck herself. She put on her white
wedding gown and stood a long time be-
fore me, putting the blossoms in her
hair and on her breast, and more than
once she brushed her handkerchief
across my face, hiding my dimness, not
knowing it for tears. Below, in the
drawing-room, the lights flared and the
laughter rippled and the feet of the
dancers kept time to the rhythm of the
music, and then—suddenly—a messen-
ger came, and all was known. Awe-
struck guests crept silently away from
the dishonored house, and a white-
faced woman lay unconscious on the
floor of an upper chamber, witha bridal
veil about her and orange blossoms dy-
ing on her breast.

‘‘For weary months the girl lay upon
her bed and it was thought that she
must die; but youth is strong to fight for
life and she crept slowly back to health.
But in the shock some irreparable burt
was done to the wonderful mechanism
of the brain—or else God was good to
her—and memory stopped at the hour
before the wedding, as one might stop
a clock at the most radiant hour of all
the day, never to go beyond that into
the sorrows and the darkness of the
night. Always in her fancy she was a
bride preparing for the wedding hour.
Every evening, just at twilight, she
would come with her garlands and,
standing just as she did on that night,
weave the flowers in the hair that turned
to silver and to snow as the years went
by. There was no sound, no repining.
Just the same happy love and expect-
ancy, and I showed her always a face
that was young and fair, and she never
once knew that she had grown old. Not
long ago she died. Kindly hands robed
her for her burial in her wedding gown
and the poor, crazed one’s vigil was
over at last. No one was left to mourn
her or care for the trumpery she left, so
we were all sent to the auction-room,
and there you bought me.’’

The voice trailed off into silence. I
waited and waited in the dusk, but the
old mirror’s thoughts had gone back in-
to days and memories in which I had
no part.

Doroiny Dix.

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

FOR THE FARMERS.

 

Trading Day Made Pleasant at Small
Exoerse.

Amos Brown stood at the postoffice
corner and looked up and down the four
ways diverging from his point of view.
Wheatside was a fairly busy town for its
size, for its population of not much over
a thousand people was of less value to
its business than the many prosperous
farmers who made it their market place
at all seasons. Besides, this was the
county seat, and when the court was in
session more teams than usual were
hitched at all available points and more
people of both sexes were visible on the
streets and in the stores. This wasa
busv day in Wheatside, for court was in
session, wheat was coming in from all
directions and a political meeting was
scheduled for the evening. Only in one
direction, where residences instead of
stores fronted the street, was there room
to hitch another team. Farm wagons
formed a suggestive border to the side-
walk for several complete blocks, and
the scene reminded Mr. Brown that his
customers were in town and his store
needed his attention. So he quickly
disappeared into a store on the opposite
corner and was soon busy with his
patrons.

Mr. Brown had caught an inspiration
while he stood there, and many times
that day his thoughts were busily shap
ing themselves. At the noon bcur he
noticed the country folks trying to adapt
themselves to the situation, while sup-
plying the mid-day wants of themselves
and therr beasts. All sorts of contriv-
ances were in use for feeding the
horses, some of them being unhitched
from the poles and ‘‘baited’’ behind
the wagons, while otbers were taken in-
to alleys and a few to the livery barns.
Manv of them were simply unchecked
and fed from boxes or even loose piles
of grain on the bare walk. It was the
prevailing custom of the country, and
any inconvenience experienced was
taken as a matter of course; but the
autumn wind was rather chilly that day,
and for some of the horses there was
discomfort with their feeding. The peo
ple themselves lunched in every con-
ceivable way, or not atall. They sat
down in the back part of the stores,
munched cold viands from their pockets
while watching their teams, betook
themselves to ill-kept restaurants or
contented themselves with a nickel’s
worth of crackers. Of course, the hotels
caught a few of the farmers as well as
lawyers and litigants, and some of the
women folks enjoyed a change at the
table of resident friends. And why was
not all this as it should be? Our corner
merchant was evidently sure that it was
not.

Amos Brown & Son held two lots at
the principal corner and occupied but
one for the store proper. A_ small,
one-story wooden building stood next
to the store, irregularly used for storage
of salt and sundries, or leased for a pit-
tance to temporary tenants. The rear
of both lots was not vacant by any
means, nor was the space really utilized
in a proper sense of the word. Old
sheds could just as well be removed or
replaced and boxes and barrels did not
deserve so much prominence as they
showed, even in the back yard of a
country store. When the day's work was
done the ‘‘firm’’ had a consultation, and
the whole situation was discussed,
streets, stores, available space, etc.
The result was a plan and the plan was
put into execution at once. With the
commencement of another week, work-
men were seen pulling down the neg-
lected shanty on the front, and the use-
less sheds in the rear were removed.
Lumber came from the local yards next,
and a neat story-and-a-balf building
went up beside the store, to which it was
attached, and continued back thirty feet
from the front. From there continuing
on to the rear of the lot, the structure
was extended on another plan, having
warm, convenient sheds for teams be-
neath, and plain but comfortable rooms
above. These rooms included a small
kitchen with plain wood stove and com-
mon furnishings, a waiting room for
men, another for women with toilet

room connected. Three upper rooms
were in the new building proper, a sit-
ting room and little bedroom fronting
the street and a small living room
farther back, all reached by a stairway
leading up from the street. The men’s
room over the rear sheds was reached
by an outside stairway from the yard.
When all was completed, the curious
public soon found out what Amos Brown
& Son were going to do with it.

There was little difficulty in carrying
out the rest of the plan. The new room
beside the store was rented to a compe-
tent couple as a restaurant, with the un-
derstanding that hot coffee and _ tea,
sandwiches and plain styles of fvod
would be served at fair prices at all
reasonable hours. Two of the upper
rooms were allowed them without further
charge, as a compensation for keeping
all the rest of the upper floor space in
order. The man thus provided with a
safe business was worthy and reliable,
but in such health as to make it impos-
sible to do hard work. His wife was a
good cook, and the two were anxious
to make the most of the situation and
able to make a success of the new ven-
ture. The front sitting room above was
kept for the use of women and children
wisbing to pass a part of the day com-
fortably, when in from their country
homes on business, while the rear
kitchen was always available for such
as preferred to make their own tea or
coffee, and prepare their own lunches
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many transient shoppers of all ages, and
would be a source of constant enjoy-
ment to men, women and children al-
most every week day in the year. In
cases of emergency, persons could ar-
range for a night’s lodging there, with
tolerable comfort. The sheds, together
with other available room at the rear of
the store proper, would accommodate
about a dozen teams at once, and all of
these in-door and outside accommoda-
tions were free to the patrons of Amos
Brown & Son, general merchants. while
many others accepted frequent invita-
tions to test their convenience. The re.
sult was seen in less than a month, and
before half a year had gone by, the in-
vestment of one thousand dollars bad
proved a profitable one. The cost of
maintaining the rooms was very slight,
while many customers were gained and
a thriving business was established. The
same spirit that prompted this careful
attention to the needs of others ensured
fair and equitable treatment in the store
and in all business transactions. The
remainder of the town merchants found
it necessary to take various steps for the
convenience of their patrons, and every
business and trade, even including the
blacksmiths and harness makers, felt the
good effect of the example thus set
Perhaps the reader will ask just when
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THE MASTER RACE.

The great public question which is to
come before Congress, the great issue
which may cause the foundations of this
Republic to tremble, is: ‘‘What dispo-
sition is to be made of the territory ac-
quired as the spoil of battle from
Spain?’’

If this territory is to be declared in-
dependent and the peoples that inhabit
it are to be left to their own device to
set up such sort of government, or lack
of government, as may please them, then
the United States will be bound to guar-
antee that independence created and the
liberties conferred on them by the act
of the United States.

Those peoples, heretofore under des-
potic domination, and, as is the case
with the Filipinos, more or less un-
civilized and strangers to all ideas of
self-government, would, if set free to
take care of themselves, become the
prey, first, of their own savagery, in-
experience and unfitness for such free-
dom, and, a little later, of the rapacious
nations around them. To set them up
as independent nations will place upon
the United States the obligation to
watch over and frotect them.

This obligation would exist if these
peoples were fully civilized and capable
of self-government, and all the more
forcibly is it impressed upon this coun-
try when the peoples who have come
under its control and who are completely
and absolutely subject to its disposal
are utterly helpless to protect themselves
against their own weakness, as well as
against the powerful nations that are
already eager to seize upon them.

It is plain that the United States can
not accomplish the independence of
Cuba and the Philippine Islands, and
set them up as self-governing republics,
without taking measures to guarantee
that they will maintain orderly consti-
tutional governments, besides comply-
ing with the obligation to protect them
from all foreign encroachment or inva-
sion.

This creates a problem which will be
entirely new to the statesmen of this
great republic, and it raises the preg-
nant question whether it will cost less
and be more in harmony with our dem-
ocratic institutions to exercise such pro-
tecting care over the governments that
are tu be set up or to take possession of
and absorb the territory and people.

So far as Cuba is concerned, the
United States Government is under a

 

contract to secure its independence and
launch it forth as a new nation, a re-
public among the republics. This con-
tract must be religiously complied with.

It is easy to forecast the condition of
chronic revolution, disorder, turmoil
and trouble that will constantly reign in
the island when all foreign restraints
shall be taken from its people and it is
no difficult matter to see that, in order
to put a stop to evils that will be just
as serious as were those that obtained
under Spanish tyranny, the United
States will be forced to interfere with a
strong hand to put an end to constant
internecine war. The despotism of an-
archy and chaos is even more terrible
than that of military absolutism.

Constitutional liberty and_ self-gov-
ernment are possible only to highly civ-
ilized peoples. Its blessings never were
conferred upon the American Indians,
for,although they have had two centuries
of contact with the American whites,
the red men were never fitted for the
conditions and responsibilities of citi-
zenship. The American negroes, with
two generations of freedom, have not
succeeded in elevating themselves above
their former degradation, except where
the white population is largely in ex-
cess of the black.

The American Republic was founded
by white men; the American constitu-
tion was created by white men; the free
institutions of this country were thought

out and wrought out by whites. The un-.

fitness and incapacity of the red men
and the black have been manifest from
the beginning. Are the Malays and
other Asiatic races that make up the
population of the Philippines any better
fitted to become free citizens and partic-
ipators in the control of the affairs of
this great Republic, made by white men
in such a form and character that
only white men can properly make its
laws and administer them?

These are questions to be answered
before any intelligent disposition can
be made of the territory acquired from
Spain. The matter of dealing with
people in the limits of the American
Republic who were not citizens, but yet
were subject to the laws and govern.
mental control, is not new to the Amer-
ican people, as the cases of the Indians
and the negroes cited above fully es-
tablish. For thirty years Alaska, with
its inhabitants acquired from Russia,
has been a far-off colony. Until the re-
cent discovery of the rich gold mines
there, ninety-nine hundredths of the
population were Indian aborigines, and
nobody thought they were wronged by
being deprived of citizenship.

The doctrine of universal freedom, so
far as the preservation of public order
and the protection of individual rights
will permit such freedom, is eminently
proper; but the claim of universal
equality is the most baneful notion that
was ever propagated. Every creature
has rights, but his rights are limited
by a variety of conditions, many of
which, such as his bodily strength or
weakness, his degree of intelligence and
other personal qualities, are inherent in
him, or are the result of causes over
which there is no possible human con-
trol. These and many other limitations
control the condition of every individ-
ual, and, therefore, there is no equality
in their actual rights, any more than
there is in their ability to obtain.

Every man who is born with any
physical or mental deficiency was theo-
retically entitled to have been born per-
fect, but being so congenitally disabled,
he has no right to be placed in the ex-

 

ercise of functions which he is absolute-
ly unable to perform.

If ever this great Republic shall be
wrecked politically, it will be from the
operation of the destructive, anarchic,
chaos-producing doctrine of political

equality. If every European, Asiatic
and African in the country, and to be
brought into it, is under this perni-

cious doctrine to be made a citizen,
and vested with all the political powers
and functions of citizenship,. then the
injection into the body politic of the
United States—say, of ten million
Asiatics in the Philippines, a million
negroes and mixed bloods in the West
Indies, and al] the Chinese and Japanese
who may come into those islands—will
be a most formidable affair. But they
will be but the beginning. By way of
the Philippine and Sandwich Islands,
it will be possible for unlimited num-
bers of Chinese to enter the Republic,
and, if they are all to become citizens,
then white domination will be greatly
jeopardized

England knows how to manage tbese
matters. England bas dominions on
every continent and in every zone of our
globe. Her flag floats over millions of
people of the yellow, red, brown and
black races; but the white man rules
everywhere. They all—whether black,
brown, red or yellow—have their liberty
and personal individual rights; but the
white man rules’ It is the white man
that has evolved and established con-
stitutional liberty. Through him alone
the other races are enabled to enjoy it,
and they can enjoy it only while they
remain in subjection to him.

The United States can successfully
solve the problem of annexing all the
Spanish islands for the good of the
American people and for the great good
of the islanders; but the idea of politi-
cal equality for all must be abandoned.
The complementary and supplementary
evolution of the survival of the fittest is
domination by the fittest. So far as
human liberty, civilization, enlighten-
ment and all upward progress exist,
they are the work of the whiteman All
the other races wait for his aid to free
and elevate them. His is the master
race,and he will rule all the others. The
American people are called on to do
their share of the great work. They
will not flincb from their duty.

Mme. Carnot’s generosity was as old
as it was widespread. Previous to New
Year's day she would get from the mag-
istrates a list of the deserving poor;
then, instead of buying gifts in the
stores, she would have them made up by
persons out of work, thus benefiting two
sets of needy people, to the extent of
$5.000 yearly.

After all, perhaps it is better that the
carnival should have committed suicide
than that it should ~have been killed
by the moral and decent people of the
city.

The Maria Teresa was not worth rais-
ing. Her Spanish navy’s fondness for
the bottom of the sea could not be over-
come. -

When a man has a good reputation
that does not belong to him, some one
else has been robbed.

A man with stoves to sell can easily
understand that we are to have a cold
winter,

 

with an unusually wide
mouth has the right and room to keep it
closed.

The man

 

GENERAL TRADE SITUATION.

Unquestionably the most potent factor
affecting trade in this country during
the past week has been the monopoly of
attention by the election just past.
There has been no material effect from
the issues at stake—no questions have
been fairly brought before the people
which affect the financial or business
policy of the country—but it is impos-
sible that the attention should be so
largely engrossed without business in-
terests suffering more or less. Thus, in
spite of heavy railway earnings and
conditions which would seem to make
an advange in the stock market inev-
itable, the week has been one of stag-
nation and what change is shown is in
the direction of decline. The dulness
has extended to all speculative stocks,
but the demand for investment securi-
ties has been large, showing that capital
is seeking employment to a greater ex-
tent than ever. It is an indication
of the general strength of the situation
that, while there has been so much to
distract attention, the influence has
been so small in the aggregate of busi-
ness, as indicated by clearing house re-
ports, etc. The high records of prices
of last year continue to be broken,
showing that trade distribution through-
out the country goes on with unabated
volume. The speculative dulness has
some effect in certain iron and steel
industries, and accounts for the slight
reaction in grain markets; but with
plenty of money and plenty of products
to sell for good prices, buying capacity
is what gives assurance to the situation.

While the tendency of prices of iron
and steel, especially in the  cruder
forms, has been lower, the week has
brought an unexpectedly large number
of orders for finished products for both
domestic and foreign trade.

The grain market has shown but little
variation, the slight difference for the
week showing a decline. Grain move-
ment has been very heavy, Western re-
ceipts of wheat beirg 9,490,092 bushels,
against 7,601,000 for same time last
year. Export movement is 4,699 578,
against 3,287 536 last year. Corn shows
greater strength in price and the export
movement is nearly double that of the
same time last year.

The textile situation is without ma-
terial change except that there are re-
ported increased sales of wool for
manufacturing purposes at concessions
in price. The Eastern cotton goods
combine is giving a better tone to that
market, although cotton continues to
make a low record.

 

Perhaps you can’t out-general your
competitors in goods or prices, for they
can meet you on the mutual ground of
buying, brt to you is given a chance to
win by making your customer your
friend, and by keeping his confidence
in you.

 

In these days of fierce competition,
trade must be attracted and held by
something besides goods and prices.

 

It is a wise son who will admit that
he knows less than his rich old father
knows.

 

Debs is decidedly quiet this season,
which shows there is but little money in
jaw.

 

A man should make his good resolu-
tions before he spends all of his money

NE
———

Plain faces are. fashionable and great-
ly admired when the owners are rich.

 

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

9

 

THE REASON WHY.

The European manufacturer is ina
quandary. On both sides of the English
Channel he is confronted with the mo-
mentous fact that the demand for his
best goods is onthe decline. He has
looked the ground all over again and
again with the same inevitable result—
his goods are not wanted. Fora long
time he supposed, naturally enough, that
with the rate of wages as low as it can
be put, he could, and did, make prices
so that he met his competitors without
fear or favor; but that time is over, and
he is wondering why.

It does not soothe his irritation to find
that the trouble comes entirely from the
Leading Republic of the world ; and it is
not confined to a single article ora few.
It makes no difference what the estab-
lishment turns out, the thing made is
passed by, and often at a better price
the American goods are carried home.
Nobody questioned, for instance, at one
time, where the best watches were
made. The world gave the palm to
Switzerland and a watch was worthless
which did not come from Geneva. Ger-
many has never doubted that, while
woolen goods are manufactured the
world over, only real, genuine broad-
cloth, the finest in texture and espe-
cially in dyes, can be found in the
Fatherland. France in silks and in
wines knows that nowhere beyond her
borders is there anything really good ;
and England becomes impatient when
facts stubbornly declare that the Amer-
ican manufactory is crowding her to the
wall in everything.

What traveler in England has not
laughed at the carriages, big and awk-
ward and clumsy, which go pounding
over the rough pavements of London or
along the splendid English roads?
There is in the English mind the idea
that a buggy, which has shown itself
more than equal to rough usage in rocky
New England and the wild regions of
the West, is an invitation to destruction,
so light and slight and incapable it is
for accomplishing the work intended
without danger; and who ever bought
in London or elsewhere in Great Britain
a shoe which fitted him or one he was
not ashamed of? London is the head
center of the best tailoring. It used to
be considered a shrewd thing for the
American to start for Europe with as
scanty a wardrobe as decency would al-
low and replenish it in London, A
suit that costs here fifty dollars, made
to order, can be bought there, made to
order by a London tailor—pronounced
in capitals—for twenty or, at the most,
for twenty-five dollars. It can. Such
suits are common. They are very often
seen that joyful morning when the re-
turned American traveler leaves the
steamer at New York; they are looked
upon as marvels of cheapness in mate-
rial and make-up; but in too many in-
stances they are so clumsily fitted and
made that the wearer takes no pleasure
in them and they are soon discarded.
The fact of the case is the American
manufacturer is constantly working from
an artistic standpoint; he is unsatisfied
so long as his handicraft fails to bring
out his artistic idea, and his workman-
ship shows constant improvement in
that direction.

The Tradesman has already com-
mented upon the increased exports of
shoes into Germany. The improve-
ments in American machinery and the
careful attention to style and finish have
done something to place the American
shoe high in German favor ; but the Ger-
man, after all, thinks less of the looks

 

than he does of comfort. There lies the
main secret of success and this, taken
in connection witb the wearing quality,
which the American manufacturer never
overlooks, has made the Germans turn
from the ugly, clumsy, ill-made, ill-fit-
ting and soon-worn-out footgear which
a dozen years ago was the common ar-
ticle in the capitals of the Old World.

The wheel shows the same thing. The
American bicycle is crowding out the
Europe-made machine. With the finest
highways in the world, smooth and
well-kept, a wheel of the lightest manu-
facture is all that is needed; and yet
with the old-fashioned notion that bulk is
an element of strength, the wheel found
there is not a thing of beauty.

It is the old story with the old tire-
some conclusion: They can’t do any
better because they don't know how.

The W. M. Hoyt Co. has scored an-
other back-down, having ceased to
quote its compound of acids and gypsum
as cream of tartar. The concoction is
now quoted as ‘‘cream of tartar mixture”’
and the price has been advanced from
14 to 15 cents per pound. This isa
pretty stiff price for a vile compound
which can be made for a cent or two a
pound, but it is a decided improvement
over quoting pure cream of tartar at 14
cents a pound, as the W. M. Hoyt Co.
persisted in doing before it was called
down by the Tradesman and the State
Food Commissioner.

The spread of Western ideas in Japan
has not proved an unmixed blessing.
Adulteration and fraudulent trading
have followed in the wake. As the de-
mand for European medicaments in-
creased, dishonest foreign merchants
introduced a large quantity of inferior
and adulterated drugs into Japan. Con-
sequently a law had to be enacted to the
effect that all drugs landed in Japan
must be taken to the state laboratories
before they could be sold to the public.

 

A Toronto dispatch says that the in-
surance companies doing a life business
in Canada have agreed hereafter not to
accept risks on the lives of married
women unless they happen to be the
bread-winners of the family, or in other
words, independent of their husbands.
The decision has been arrived at with a
view to lessening the crime of murder
for insurance, several cases of which
have been reported within the last two
years,

 

Gentry county, Kan., which boasted
the record of having taken more premi-
ums at the World’s Fair than any other
single county in the United States, is
again a subject for congratulations, hav-
ing captured a large number of the best
premiums at the recent big stock show
at the Omaha Exposition. It is claimed
by experts of high rank that the Omaha
exhibit of fancy stock was larger and
better than the memorable one at Chi-
cago.

 

For one man to pardon a criminal
who has been pronounced guilty by
twelve men is to rebuke justice.

A shotgun in the hards of a man who
does not know it is loaded is as dan-
gerous as dynamite.

Madrid has thirty-six daily papers.
None of them approve of the course of
the United States.

By crooked work people have been
known to get into terrible straits.

It’s easy for the man who has no credit
to keep out of debt.

THE COMMAND OF THE SEA.

Recent wars have most thoroughly
demonstrated the value of sea power. It
has been conclusively proven by the
actual test of hostilities that in interna-
tional controversies between countries
not entirely landlocked the control of
the sea insures victory to that power
fortunate enough to secure such control.
Had Napoleon been able to wrest the
control of the sea from England he
would have been able to overcome the
combinations his enemies made against
him.

In the war between China and Japan
the former country was rendered com-
pletely helpless by the victory of the
Yalu. With the defeat of the Chinese
fleet at that place Japan was able to land
troops on the Chinese coast wherever
she saw fit, and China, witth her im-
mense population and resources, was
helpless to avert the humiliation which
befell her.

In our war with Spain it was the com-
mand of the sea secured by us which
rendered Spain helpless and compelled
her to abandon Cuba, although that island
was garrisoned by more than 200,000
soldiers. It was not that the Spanish
soldiers would not fight or were not
capable of making headway against our
troops, but because Spain, having lost
her fleet, realized that it would be im-
possible to re-enforce and provision the
island, hence defeat would be merely a
matter of a little time.

And now France is learning the les-
son that no country can hope to cope
on equal terms with a maritime power
without a navy large enough to insure a
fighting chance of securing control of
the sea. Wise public men in France
realize that the French fleet, large as it
is, is entirely inadequate to cope single-
handed with that of Great Britain.
While France has barely more than
enough ships to protect the home coast
line, Great Britain has ships in all
parts of the world ready to prey upon
French commerce, prepared to attack
the colonies of France without with-
drawing the formidable squadrons
which guard home waters or police the
Mediterranean.

All this should be a powerful incen-
tive for steadily strengthening the
American fleet. The fighting force of a
fleet can not be suddenly improvised,
hence it is the part of wisdom to stead-
ily and constantly increase the number
of our ships, and keep those already in
service up to date in all respects by
providing improved guns as those in
use become obsolete, and _ installing
every improvement and device calcu-
lated to increase the efficiency of the
vessels.

 

The international bureau of weights
and measures at Paris preserves the
standards of length and mass with which
the secondary standards used by the
various national governments have been
most carefully compared. These stand-
ards are the concrete representation of
a fraction of the circumference of the
earth at a certain point, and of the
mass of a certain amount of pure water
at its maximum density. The length
of the standard meter has been deter-
mined in terms of the wave length of
light in case of the loss of the stand-
ard, but it has remained for a French
scientist to enquire what would be done
in the event of the disappearance of all
standards, and all measures of length
expressed in terms of the standard.

With what accuracy the meter could be

 

restored from memory was the object of

 

his investigation, and by experimenting
with a number of artisans, mechanics
and scientists used to making measure-
ments, he was able to publish a table of
very satisfactory results. From _ too
people of the classes described he asked
for estimates on the length of certain
distances, and also that they sHould
mark off a certain length on a board.
The smaller distances were found nearly
always under-estimated, while overesti-
mation was the rule with the greater
distances. Reducing from these obser-
vations the value of the meter, it was
found that the distance thus ascertained
showed a variation from the true meter
of only a few millimeters, or but several
thousandth parts of its own length.

A match has been invented in France
which can be transported with safety,
will strike anywhere, and which is made
without the use of the white phosphorus,
the ingredient which exerts such a del-
eterious effect upon those who work with
it. The composition used in the new
matches is a mixture of potassium chlor-
ate and phosphorus sesquisulphide. It
is stated to be practically non-poisonous.

When Admiral Schley gets home from
Porto Rico he will have swords to sell.
The State of Maryland, Boston, Phila-
delphia, and members of the Royal Ar-
canum each have splendid weapons
ready to present to him, and there are
several sections of the country yet to be
heard from which have similar schemes
under way.

If Paris is displeased with Americans,
let her shopkeepers and hotels try to
live on the money they take from Span-
ish tourists. American millionaires can
afford to spend their money in England
or Italy or Switzerland, or some place
that is not always abusing the Yankees
and taking their money at the same
time.

The Prince of Wales is a great cigar
smoker, although he rarely buysa cigar.
His stock, which is the tinest amateur
collection in England, is replenished
every year by large consignments from
the Austrian Emperor and the Czar, and
some of his most costly brands are
valued at $250 per Ioo.

The Canadian Bankers’ Association,
which recently held its annual session
in Toronto, recommends that there shall
be established a Canadian mint, where
the gold of the Klondike and other pro-
ducing sections of the great Northwest
may be minted.

Some people are never so happy as
they are when managing some great
show enterprise to raise money for any
unnecessary purpose they may happen
to think of. The itching desire to man-
age is the incentive.

 

A peace jubilee will be a good thing
to have when we have peace. A decla-
ration of peace in a contest with an un-
scrupulous enemy is like a declaration
of independence. The party who wants
it must fight for it.

A quiet sewing circle is more danger-
ous than a high tea. There is so much
chatter and noise at the tea that one can
not hear half the bad things that are
said of the handsomest woman in the
neighborhood.

 

Spain is in a position to demand
everything and fight for nothing.

A forger may utter a check if not
checked by justice.

 

anh al dep la

alice

Pe

10

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

Fruits and Produce.

 

 

 

Peculiarities of the Ohio Cheese In-
dustry.
John Gould in Hoard’s Dairyman.

Aurora may be set down as one of
the largest cheese distributing points
in this country; and in its ‘‘methods
and manners’’ is, in many respects, un-
like any other cheese mart of our knowl-
edge. Aurora is, in reality, the oldest
cheese producing town in the State, as
cheese was taken in wagonloads through
the forest tu Pittsburg, Pa., as early as
1811; and by 1819 dealers were actually
shipping their cheese down the Ohio
River to the lower ports. The third
cheese factory in the State—a curd
gathering concern—was built here, and
the second modern cheese factory in the
State was erected here by Jobn I. El-
dridge, and the first milk buying factory
in the State, if not United States, was
put in operation by the Hurd Bros. in
1865. The first cargo of cheese ever
faken to the Northwest was shipped
trom here to Milwaukee in 1834 or 735,
when that city consisted of nine log
cabins and thirty-five men over 21 years
of age, and the man, Hon. C. R. Har-
mon, who helped organize the first elec-
tion in that city, is still living in Au-
rora, aged over go years, still hale and
hearty.

The cheese trade has always been
large from this point, but annually
grows larger, last year amounting to
nearly 5,000,000 pounds. At first the
three great dealers here, Frank Hurd,
D. T. Eldredge, and Harmon & Sons,
shipped the greater part, if not all their
cheese, to commission houses and bro-
kers, but now the two firms first men-
tioned sell all of their products to the
wholesale grocers on an order trade.
The last mentioned firm now transacts
only a small business, while the others
increase their trade yearly by the thou-
sands of boxes. These two men run
something like ten or fifteen factories
each, and buy the cheese of as many
more, and besides, buy cheese by the
5,000 boxes in a general way.

They own and lease factories and
have cheese made on commission by
others, buying all of the milk ata stated
monthly price, set by Frank Hurd,
whose price bulletins are regarded by
all as ‘‘official,’’ and outside of his
buying, the others contract to pay Frank
Hurd’s prices. His foresight and fore-
cast of the market and markets seem to
be undisputed, and what he says
‘*goes.’" This Hurd is a unique char-
acter, and in all ways, business in-
cluded, is in good repute; a very small
man, keen and alert, both of which are
made most conspicuous by his great
misfortune, being almost totally deaf,
only hearing by great exertion those
who approach him. Wholly devoid of
the pictured dignity and awe of the
great business man, abounding with wit
and fun rarely found in men at 64, and
yet more rare in men whose business
interests have been so varied, farm,
stock buying, mercantile and a cheese
trade, running out the $200,000 per year.

Eldredge is his opposite in many_ re-
spects. Large in build, less quick in
observation, but nevertheless alert in
looking out for the market and the main
chance, the two men together make a
marked contrast in all save in business
extension and success, which are pretty
nearly equal. Both men manage farms
of their own, one containing I,goo acres
and the other 2,200, and are covered
with all the year round dairies, and in
other respects are most successfully
managed.

The cheese trade of these two men is
almost wholly by order. The great com-
Fetition in the cheese industry in some
quarters and sections caused these two
great firms to look up an order trade,
and it has succeeded beyond their ex-
pectations. They at first ‘‘drummed
up’’ some trade with the larger whole-
sale grocery houses of Ohio and the Ohio
River Valley, West Virginia and west
into Indiana and Illinois. This trade
last year amounted to about 90,000
boxes. The cheese are made very
largely to order and some brands have
been—for some firms—unchanged for

 

twenty-five years. The different sections
ask for different sizes, quality and the
distinguishing ‘‘ear marks.’’

These orders are usually sent in soas to
reach Aurora on Saturday, and are filled
the following Monday. Of course, or-
ders sent in later in the week are hon-
ored. This has led to a great change
in the home handling of the cheese.
The huge curing houses are now unused
and the cheese now goes boxed from
the factory and the cars. The cheese is
brought to the station on Monday and
sent to the consignees direct. This has
caused the two firms to have all cheese
brought to the Aurora station from all
factories, instead of shipping from
nearer by depots. Some of these fac-
tories haul cheese twenty-four miles to
this point, so Monday usually sees from
twenty to forty huge loads of cheese ar-
rive, coming from all directions, from
daylight to 2 p. m., when all cheese
must be loaded.

Why the cheese is all brought to one
central point is this: They secure re-
duced freight rates, express time, and
distribution en route, similar to the mail
service. At 5 p. m. the cheese cars are
all loaded, the consignments to the
different firms located in the car, soas to
be easily taken out, and at 3 a. m. the
next day the cars are at Galion and
Crestline, 150 miles away, a great dis-
tributing point. Here the ‘‘loads’’ are
broken up and put on diverging trains,
and by 6 a. m. this cheese is speeding
on towards its destination on the local
trains and by dark has reached its des-
tination, Mansfield, Columbus, Zanes-
ville, Dayton, Hamilton and_ other
points, even along the Ohio River. A
car will go through to Indianapolis, and
is there broken up for Indiana towns.
Another car goes to Marietta or Parkers-
burg and is then sent to West Virginia
towns, so by Wednesday night the
cheese, which by old methods of con-
signment would be ten days to three
weeks reaching the consignees, now is
rarely more than forty-eight to seventy-
two hours. The railroads,to secure this
trade, guarantee fast freight, and the
plan in every way is far in advance of
the old methods, and fully justifies the
long horse hauls at the start.

This growth of order trade is being
copied by some of the other large deal-
ers, and fully explains one feature and
peculiarity of Ohio dairying: All the
fine cheese goes into this channel of or-
der trade and so is not seen in com-
mission circles. When there is a mis-
take made in making cheese with bad
flavor, or the like, these cheese are con-
signed to the commission men and sola
for ‘‘ what they will bring’’ and have had
not a little to. do with the ‘‘merry
name’’ that is attached to Ohio cheese.
The fact that these men retain their
trade with these firms year after year,
and that it suits the consumer as well,
is a ‘‘straw’’ which shows that Ohio
cheese is not such a ‘‘bad lot’’ after all
and may be enquired after for some
years to come. i

True it is that some Ohio cheese are
more or less ‘‘skimmed,’’ still the fact
remains that these firms bave billed
their cheese at Little Falls’ best quota-
tions all summer and the price of milk
only fell to the sixty cent rate fora
short time. Some factories run on the
full cream plan, but the larger part of
the cheese of these two firms are
skimmed at the rate of a pound of butter
to 100 to 120 pounds of milk, and it isa
‘standing smile’’ here that the whey
oil used to grease Ohio cheese comes
from the full cream cheese factories of
New York. A great producer said the
other day that ‘‘outside of the teachers
of the Dairy Schools, he could not get
makers who could make a full cream
cheese and not run as much or more
butter fat to the whey tanks than he
skimmed off, and for his part he could
not see that there was any difference be-
tween taking a pound of butter from
120 pounds of milk with a skimmer, or
cutting it out in making.’’ At Colum-
bus, Ohio, at the branding station it
was shown that the per cent. of fat in
these order cheese ran from 30 to 32 per
cent., which is not so bad stock as it has
often been painted.

Along the lines of railways centering

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Everyone reading this advertisement—you are read-
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in Cleveland are concerns buying milk
for the city trade. Some of these con-
cerns want cream only and after this
‘tonly’’ is removed witha separator, the
skim milk is made into a skim cheese
and sent out and sold as such and is
enjoyed by the classes who come from
the ‘‘climbs’’ of Lower Mississippi
Valley and Southern Europe, and pos-
sibly ‘‘Cuby and Manilly.’’ In some
sections of Northern Ohio, and center-
ing in Aurora, the conditions here pic-
tured are not the same. Miik ts only
worked up on the co-operatie plan, in
others the patrons have their cheese
made and boxed, and other methods ob-
tain elsewhere. The milk trade along
the lines of railways in the great cities
collect the mulk so thoroughly that the
old-time creameries and factories have
disappeared and_ collecting stations
have taken their place.

In all these sections winter dairying
has taken the place of the summer in-
dustry, so that the production is now
about uniform, by the month. The de-
mand for cows was never greater than
now, or prices higher, which shows that
the farmers still have faith in the busi-
ness and expect to continue in its pur-
suit. Such are some of the points of
the dairying that centers near the home
of the writer, and are given for what
they are worth.

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Why Americans Are the Greatest
Coffee Consumers.

C. F. Blanke in Interstate Grocer.

The low prices of the low grade
coffees increase the consumption in two
ways: There is more coffee consumed
and there is more coffee wasted in pre-
paring it for consumption than there is
in ordinary times, The low prices of
coffee do not induce a larger consump-
tion of the better grades. The people
who buy the best grades of coffee are
people who will consume the same
amount whether the price is high or
low, but it is the masses whose con-
sumption is affected materially by the
price, and it is the masses who are the
consumers of this country. The con-
sumption of coffee in the United States,
per capita, is larger than any country
in the world, and the amount of pounds
consumed in total is larger than any
country in the world. The question is
naturally asked : ‘‘ Why is it that the peo-
ple of this country who only drink coffee
with their meals (and the majority of
them do not drink it with each meal)
consume more coffee than the people of
such countries as France and Germany,
where they sip coffee in the cafes at all
times of the day and night, and asa
general thing, drink stronger coffee than
the American people do?’’ This is
easily explained. The Americans con-
sume more coffee per capita, but they
do not drink more. They waste more
in preparing than they do in these other
countries. This can be accounted for
in several different ways: The people
who buy the better grades of coffee pre-
pare it by the drip method. Most of
them have the ordinarv funnel shaped
dripper to drip their coffee with. They
put their coffee in this dripper (very
often too coarsely ground); when they
pour their water on, the water does not
go through the coffee, but goes over it
and passes through, without getting the
strength out of the coffee; so when they
discard their grounds it will always be
found that what is at the bottom of the
dripper was hardly affected by the water,
consequently they throw away half the
coffee without the strength extracted.
The people that buy the low grade
coffees mostly buy the doped one-pound
package coffees, which are usually so
tough that they can not be ground prop-
erly, consequently when they boil it they
do not extract the strength, so_ it re-
quires two pounds of coffee to furnish
the liquid that one pound should fur-
nish. This is why the American peo-
ple are the greatest coffee consumers on
earth. They drink less than the other
civilized nations, but they waste more.

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New Way and Old Way of Making
Cider.

From the New York Tribune

Cider of the ‘‘new and improved’’
kind, which may be made in large
quantities regardless of the size of the
apple crop, comes to the market at all
seasons of the year, and most of it has
never been subjected to the various
processes which come under the head
of cidermaking. It comes to the dealer
in kegs, barrels and bottles, and as
‘*still’’ and ‘‘sparkling’’ cider.

The real article finds ready sale and
commands a fair price, especially this
year because of the short apple crop.
There are several cider mills within a
few miles of Newark where the bever-
age is still made in the primitive way,
where horses are employed to work the
grinders, and everything about the mill
smacks of the days of long ago.

To those people who have seen cider
made in mills where steam and gas en-
gines are used, these old mills are high-
ly interesting.

‘‘Apples is apples,’’ said the Jersey
farmer, pointing to a bin where several
hundred bushels had been dumped by
the neighbors who had brought them to
the mill. There were large and small,
green and red, sound and soft apples,
all piled up and waiting for the grinder.

The cidermaking paraphernalia stands
under a rickety shed, at one end of
which is the tub in which the grinder
revolves, by means of which the apples
are converted into pulp or pomace. The
power is derived from a shaft operated
by horses on the outside. When a batch
of cider is to be made a lot of one hun-
dred bushels is set aside and shovelled
into the grinder; when the fruit has
been properly crushed it is shovelled
and ladléd to a press which has a
platform about eight feet square. All
this is done in the modern cider mill,
except that the power in the new con-
cern is steam or gasolene.

But the press work in the old cider
mills is different from that which is
done in the new mills. In the new
mills the mass is pressed between cloth
strainers, while in the old mills the
pomace is covered with straw, upon
which another layer of pomace is put,
and so the press is filled with alternate
layers of straw and apple pulp. The
straw serves as a strainer, and gives the
mass which is to be pressed consistency,
and keeps it from running off the press.
When the press has been loaded the
screws are operated by poles, and the
apple juice is caught as it runs from the
lower platform. It takes about one hour
to convert one hundred bushels of ap-
ples into cider, and the product is about
four gallons to the bushel.

‘In good apple years,’’ said the ci-
dermaker, ‘‘it keeps us busy between
times making cider, and we have had
years when for weeks we had the yard
full of barrels and the barn full of ap-
ples. But with a short apple crop a
cider mill becomes a lonesome place.’’

Much of the cider which is made in
New Jersey is disposed of as ‘sweet,’
but the greater part becomes ‘‘hard,”’
and some is allowed to find its way to
the market as vinegar, although cider
vinegar, like cider, is not always what
it is represented to be and according to
the testimony of an old-fashioned cider-
maker, ‘‘Ali the real cider made in the
United States would not supply New
York with cider vinegar.’’

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IlInesses Due to the Bargain Counter.

‘‘Doctor, don’t you think the illnesses
of most women are caused by imagina-
tion?’’

‘Well, the cut rates on patent medi-
cines are responsible for a good many
of them.”’

2»

A Boston broker boasts of rather a
bright office boy. One of his friends
dropping in at the office dispatched the
lad for some cigars, giving him a dollar
bill to pay for them. The boy returned
with four cigars. The caller commended
him for purchasing such good ones,
and passed them around. Shortly after
the broker was left alone in the office,
when the shrewd urchin handed him six
cigars with the remark : *‘ ’Ere’s the rest
of them cigars, Mr. Margin."’

 

Ship Us Your
BUTTER, EGGS, POULTRY,

VEAL, GAME, FUR, HIDES,
BEANS, POTATOES,
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any quantity of Fresh place all shipments promptly at full market price
Eggs Would be pleased and make prompt returns. If you have any ap-

: ples do not dispose of them before corresponding
at any time to quote with us. The crop is very short this season and

there will be no low prices. Please let us hear

rices F. O. B.

_ 0 a from you on whatever you may have to ship or sell.
COYNE BROS , Commission Merchants
161 South Water St., Chicago.
REFERENCES:

Wm. M. Hoyt Co., Wholesale Grocers, Chicago.
W. J. Quan & Co., Wholesale Grocers, Chicago.

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R. HIRT, JR.. DETROIT, MICH.
384 AND 36 MARKET STREET,
435-437-439 WINDER STREET.
Cold Storage and Freezing House in connection. Capacity 75 carloads.
Correspondence solicited.

 

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Beans, Onions, etc., in car lots or less. Correspondence solicited.

 

J. WILLARD LANSING,
BURGE D. CATLIN.

LANSING & GATLIN

44 W. MARKET STREET
103 MICHIGAN STREET
Reference: TRADESMAN. BUFFALO, N. Y.

WHOLESALE
DEALERS IN
It is now at the season of the year when several commission houses who make a specialty of other
goods—and the season is over with them—are trying to work Butter and Eggs for a few months; not
having the trade, they cannot do you the justice that a house can that handles Butter and Egys exclu-
sively twelve months in the year. Fresh Eggs are scarce: we want them at 2oc.

 

Who Gets the Oyster Trade?

freshest and best flavored.

Who Loses Other Trade?

The man who sells fishy oysters
diluted with ice to disgust his
customers.

Avoid such a calamity and in-
crease your tr-de by using our
OYSTER CABINETS, made
of Ash, insulated with mineral
wool. (Seecut.) They are lined
with copper. All parts easily re-
moved for cleaning without dis-
turbingtheice. Porcelain-lined
cans. Send for circular.

Ask for our prices on Roll Top Butter Refrigera’ ors.

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

DIRTY DEAL.

Underhanded Method Adopted to Ruin
a Cheesemaker.

Twenty-eight years as a cheesemaker,
and always a close student in my work,
yet the old saying of ‘‘never too old to
learn’’ has once more been verified.

A problem has confronted me which
cost me months of study and experi-
ment and hundreds of dollars in lost
cheese, which would cure out hard as
grindstones, although made from milk
which by rennet test of vat was as sweet
as any I ever handled.

Previous to my leasing this plant only
butter had been made. Two years ago
this spring I began making a part of
the milk into cheese. The milk, while
apparently sweet, would develop acid
too rapidly and at as low a temperature
as 85 degrees. I also noticed that its
development was not retarded by the
action of common salt and its flavor
‘‘once met was not soon forgotten.”’
This did not occur every day, but often
enough so that I lost 100 boxes of cheese
in a short time. I discontinued making,
although the price of cheese was the
best, and made only butter, but in the
fall I tried cheese again, only to soon
see our old enemy bob up again and
the battle begin. Cheese were made
like sole leather while green and turned
like stone when cured. The milk was
salted before the rennet was added, all
the curd would need, all to no purpose.
Winter wore on and we had not located
this germ. Samples were set away at
go degrees of every patron’s milk, only
to keep sweet all day, while the vat
would sour in two hours and a half at
85 degrees in the coldest weather. We
finally came to the conclusion that this
germ would not develop so we could
tell it only under the action of rennet
after coagulation. We acccordingly
went to work along this line. We _ no-
ticed our cheese savored largely of vin-
egar, becoming more pronounced after
a few days from the press. As the acid
which came on these curds could not be
checked by salt, we knew the lactic
acid was neutralized by a stronger acid
under development fed by the sugar of
milk. But what was it developed with
to give it the speed of a race horse and
what acid was used for it that would not
sour milk? We found tartaric acid and
acetic acid (vinegar) would not. We
went into chemical vinegar for points
and found we could produce this germ
and its subsequent results and, on May
23, we could neutralize this germ in our
curds and our danger and losses were
over. This germ was delivered, after
being located, in the same man’s milk
for some time, as it was doing us no
harm then. Before I called his atten-
tion to it and while he disclaimed any
knowledge of it, it occurred to us as be-
ing remarkable that half of his milk go-
ing to another factory and part to me,
that the other factory received none of
it. This starter must stand over night
not below 60 degrees or it will not de-
velop enough to show on the vat before
the curd is ready for the press, for those
who use the sweet curd process, but it
may develop even then and damage the
cheese. Here are the ingredients and
the sugar of milk will furnish the miss-
ing link needed to make acid vinegar
or acid cider:

Take one or two cakes of quick-work-
ing yeast; let them stand in warm water
until the strength is out, pour off the
water, add one ounce of tartaric acid
or one ounce of acetic acid; add five or
ten gallons of new milk; leave over
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not be strong enough to coagulate par-
ticles of milk when put in without stir-
ring and can be dropped into any
patron’s can of night’s milk, as it was
in ours from June 6 to Sept. 16, when
the gang gave us up. Few of my cus-
tomers escaped a call from June to Sep-
tember. Any cheese maker who will
try one of these starters, properly de-
veloped on a vat of milk, will find his
experience is incomplete. I do not be-
lieve any vat of milk was ever so ripe
that it could not be made into good,
merchantable cheese by low heat and
the timely use of salt. I have been
asked many times what would be the
object if this were intentional; and we
can not answer, as we are strangers
here, hence have no enemies. I have
meditated a long time on giving this to
the cheesemakers, but so long as such
trickery exists, all should know, for the
possibilities of damage are not light.
One starter a week would drive any
man out of business, for only an un-
broken line of it enabled us to properly
study its characteristics. If not too cold
the whey tank will ferment like boiling
unti] the yeast has spent its force and
the sugar has turned to vinegar. This
germ has three characteristics contrary
to cheesemaking: Its growth under ac-
tion of common salt; its deception un-
der the rennet test of the vat on sweet
milk, and the speed of its growth after
coagulation. The amount of acid used
may be so small under favorable tem-
perature for its development by yeast
as to defy the efforts of careful chemical
analyses and while the microscope may
give us a favorable hint, we can not
dispute the product of practical demon-
stration.

The loss occasioned by spoiled cheese
amounted to $1,700; detective services
and analysis, $100 more. Most bills are
paid in full, but the patronage slipped
off as fast as they got their money. If J
were criminally inclined, after shoulder-
ing these losses alone, I would block out
a radius to suit me and not allow any
man to successfully make cheese within
those lines and I would not be caught.
There have been successful cheesemak-
ers come and go from here and if they
prepare a starter of this kind and use
it, either alone or add it to a vat of
milk, if live, quick-working yeast is
used, they will soon notice their old fa-
vorite curds. I would like the Dairy
School this winter to go into this starter
far enough to report the lowest possible
temperature at which live, quick yeast
will develop a tartaric acid or acetic
acid starter, so it will show on a vat of
2,000 pounds of sweet milk in from
three to four hours at 96 degrees. Use
plenty of acid and yeast for the low
temperature experiment, and perhaps I
can tell at this end who the person was
who kept his milk warm enough those
cold winter nights to develop his vine-
gar starter sufficiently to turn my cheese
to stone, while most milk came in
frozen ! F. H. STANLEY.

Adrian, Micb.

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Two Commercial Travelers Compar-
ing Notes.

‘*T have been out three weeks,’’ said
the first, ‘‘and have only got four orders. ’’

‘‘That beats me,’’ said the other; ‘‘I
have been out four weeks and have only
go one order,and that’s from the firm to
come home. ’’

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Every man is anxious to help his

rages when he doesn’t need it.
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The man who has the most to say al-
ways uses the fewest words.

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1. Dettenthaler

Jobber of

 

 

 

 

 

Anchor Brand Oysters

Leading Brand for Fifteen Years.
Once Sold, Always Called For.

If you wish to secure the sale of a brand which will always give
satisfaction, arrange to handle Anchors, which are widely known and
largely advertised. When ordering oysters through your jobber, be sure
and specify “Anchors.”

Perereteerereererererrertt

Elgin System of Creameries

It will pay you to investigate our plans and visit our factories, if you are con-
templating building a Creamery or Cheese Factory. All supplies furnished at
lowest prices. Correspondence solicited.

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A Model Creamery of the Elgin System.

R E. STURGIS & CO.,

Contractors and Builders of the
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Manufacturers and Dealers in Creamery and Dairy Supplies.
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News from the Metropolis—Index to
the Market.
Special Correspondence.

New York, Nov. 5—The week has
been full of political excitement and
this bas probably had an influence on
business of all kinds. While grocery
jobbers generally report a fair amount
of business going forward, they look
for quite a marked improvement after
Tuesday. The elections are looked for-
ward to with an unusual degree of in-
terest by business men here, not only
the local election but the general result
of the country, as it will so largely de-
termine the complexion of the next
Congress.

On the first two days of the week there
was very decided activity in the coffee
market. Orders seemed to come in from
all directions and there was almost a
‘‘boom.’’ Since then matters have be-
come comparatively quiet, although
there is certainly a better market and a
great deal of confidence is felt by deal-
ers in the outlook. This confidence
seems to be based upon nothing stronger
than the feeling that stocks in the hands
of retailers must be light. The quota-
tion for invoice lots of Rio No. 7 is from
57%@6c. In store and afloat there are
1,109,510 bags, against 939,571 bags at
the same time last year. For mild
grades of coffee there continues to be
about the usual request and the market
presents no new features.

The new Doscher retinery is begin-
ning to place its product on the market,
but the general condition of affairs is
not greatly altered from last week. The
demand for refined sugars has been
rather light and dealers apparently have
sufficient on hand for immediate wants.
The impression prevails among many
well-posted dealers that the remainder
of November will be quiet, so far as the
sugar market is concerned.

At the regular tea sale at auction on
Wednesday, the prices showed an ad-
vance of about Ic over those of a month
ago. On the street the amount of busi-
ness is gnly of the usual volume, al-
though there is a generally confident
feeling as to the future. Invoice trading
is very quiet.

Rice stocks are light and holders are
determined to make no concessions in
order to effect sales. Would-be buyers,
on the other hand, seem to take no in-
terest in the article beyond securing
sufficient for everyday needs, and
there has been nothing during the week

’ to attract especial attention. There is a

sufficient quantity of foreign sorts to
meet the demand, Java remaining firm
and unchanged at 4%@5c. Good to
prime Southern, 534@6c.

With the exception of pepper, the
market for which continues quite firm,
there is iittle doing in spices. Singa-
pore pepper is worth 9@g%c. Cloves
are quiet, although held at value.

The supply of new crop molasses con-
tinues light and the amount on the way
is also said to be small. The demand
has been pretty fair, although quotations
are too high to permit of a great volume
of business. Old crop prime to fancy
open-kettle, 31@36c. Syrups remain
without special change.

Canned goods deliveries are going
forward at a satisfactory rate and it Is
thought now that the deficiencies will
not be as large as_ were anticipated.
There is a moderate offering of tomatoes,
with No. 3 standard New Jersey offered
in New York at 80@82!4c. Some quite
large sales of gallon apples have been
made of New York brands at $2.25.
ie standard brands of corn are held at

5c.

Lemons are steady, but the demand
is naturally rather light. There have
been no changes in quotations of much
importance, 300s Sicily ranging from
$5.25@6 25 per box. Jamaica oranges
are selling from the dock at $4.50@5.75.
Almeria grapes, full weight, per bbl.,
$6@8.50. Bananas are moving slowly,
with firsts from goc@$l. Io.

There will be offered at auction next
week a large lot of dried fruits from
California, the result of which is awaited
with a good deal of interest. There will
be sold 4,000 packages of apricots, 8,000

of peaches and 25,000 of prunes. This
method of disposing of dried fruits may
lead to important results.

Butter receipts are light, so is the de-
mand. Very best grades, as usual, move
with a degree of activity sufficient to
keep the market in pretty good shape,
but lower grades drag and quotations
are unsteady. There is some little de-
mand for choice State dairy, but the sup-
ply, as a rule, will hardly bear rigid
Inspection as ‘‘choice.’’ Western
creamery choice, 23c; firsts, 20@22c;
seconds, I9c; thirds, 15%@16c; West-
ern imitation creamery, finest, 17@
17%c; firsts, 14@15'%4c; June extras, 14
14%c.

The cheese market is inactive and
both home and export demand leave
much to be desired. Full cream State
cheese, large size, 8%@85éc; small
size, fancy, 914@Ioc.

Receipts of eggs continue light and
the market is firm. Nearby fresh gath-
ered, 25c; best Western, 21@21 3c.

Apples are very firm. Fancy Kings
command per bbl., $5@6; other varie-
ties, $3 50@4.50; Greenings, $2.50@
3.25 ; Spys, $2.50@3. 25 ; Baldwins, $2@3.

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Tricks Peculiar to the Lumbering
Trade.

‘‘I used to reap a harvest when the
men were coming out of the woods,’’
remarked an old retired merchant who
was engaged in general trade at Big
Rapids thirty years ago. ‘‘They were
not up in styles, and about any old
thing would suit them provided the
color was right and the fit even passable.
But there were tricksters among them,
and I had to have my wits about me in
order to keep even with them.

‘**How much is that hat?’ asked a
strapping six-footer, who arrived from
camp one day with a pocket full of
money.

‘* “Two-fifty,’ I replied.

‘*Then he informed me that he al-
ways had the crowns of his hats punched
full of holes in order to keep his head
cool, and his hair from coming out. I
svon had this attended to, and then he
asked what the hat was worth. ‘Two-
fifty,’ I responded in surprise, but he
laughed at me for asking such a price
for damaged goods. He bad me, and

pense.
‘fiddles,’’ and after pricing one at $10,
concluded to take it.

‘* ‘Where's the bow?’ he asked, as I
was doing up the package.

‘**You only bought the fiddle,’ I
laughed. The others saw the point and
laughed, too. The giant tried to bluff
me, but I kept good humored, and got
even on the hat by charging him $1.50
for the bow. I not only got even, but
the others were so pleased with my
‘Yankee trick’ that they spent plenty of
money with me."’

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What the Department Stores Do.
From the New England Grocer.

They stab the grocer.

They knife the druggist.

They paralyze the stationer.

They squeeze the bookman.

They annihilate the hardware man.

They injure all trades.

They benefit none.

And

A good deal of the time

They fool the people.

In spite of these facts

People whose property is depreciated,

Men whose living is endangered,

Women whose husbands’ wages are
decreased,

Children whose future will be made
harder,

Buy at the department stores.
Yes!

Even grocers wives

And grocers’ clerks
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MERCANTILE ASSOCIATIONS

Michigan Business Men’s Association
President, C. L. WHitNgEy, Traverse City; Sec-
retary, E A. Stowe, Grand Rapids.

 

 

 

Michigan Retail Grocers’ Association
President, J. WIsLER, Mancelona; Secretary, E.
A. StowE, Grand Rapids.

 

Michigan Hardware Association
President, C. G. Jewett, Howell; Secretary,
Henry C. Mrnniz, Eaton Rapids.

Detroit Retail Grocers’ Association
President, Josep Knient; Secretary, E. MARKS,
221 Greenwood ave; Treasurer, C. H. FRINK.

Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association
President, Frank J. DyxK; Secretary, HomMER
Kuap; Treasurer, J. Gro. LEHMAN.

 

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

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

Adrian Retail Grocers’ Association
President, A. C. CLarkK; Secretary, E. F. CLEVE-
LAND: Treasurer, Wm. C. KoEHN.

 

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

 

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

Alpena Business Men’s Association
President, F. W. Gitcurist; Secretary, C L.
PARTRIDGE.

Grand Rapids Retail Meat Dealers’ Association

President, L. J. Katz; Secretary, PH1tip HILBER;
Treasurer, S. J. HUFFORD.

St. Johns Business Men’s Association.
President, Taos BRomMLEY; Secretary, FRANK A.
Percy; Treasurer, CLarRK A. PUTT.

Perry Business Men’s Association
President, H. W. Watutace; Secretary, T. E,
HEDDLE,

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

 

Yale Business Men’s Association
President, Cuas. Rounps; Secretary, FRANK
PUTNEY.

 

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We believe that it will
please any lover of the
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We would like to have
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Shoes and Leather

The Leather Industry in Colonial Times.

The American Indians had no use for
domestic animals. Their clothing—such
as it was—consisted of skins of wild
beasts and the many-colored plumage of
birds of the forest. For outer garments
during the winter season they wore skins
of the buffalo, deer and elk, without
removing the hair thereon. For under-
garments—-which generally consisted of
mere clouts about the loins—the squaws
prepared the skins of smaller animals
into a kind of chamois leather, remov-
ing the hair and dressing the skin with
the animal’s brains, thus rendering it
soft and pliable. An early New Eng-
land historian states that the Northern
Indians converted skins ‘‘into very good
leather, making the same plume and
soft.’” Moose skins they dressed toa
‘‘wondrous white,’’ and decorated them
about the borders with many curious
fantasies and odd conceits of the work-
men. Their mocassins and leggings
were of moose skins.

The Southern Indians excelled in this
pictorial embellishment and coloring of
their skins, a Spanish writer of the
period remarking that they gave them
‘‘what color they list, so perfect that,
if it be red, it seemeth a very fine cloth
in grain, and the black is most fine,and
the same of colors.’’ However, the In-
dians had no domestic cattle, and noth-
ing was manufactured by them which
could fairly be entitled to the name of
leather. Such skins as they preserved
were hardened by smoking, as they were
thoroughly ignorant of the astringent
barks and vegetable substances upon
which the whole process of tanning de-
pends.

On his second voyage in 1493, Colum-
bus imported the first domestic cattle to
America. They were taken to New-
foundland and Nova Scotia, where they
increased rapidly. Horses, swine, sheep
and black cattle were brought to Florida
in 1565, and neat cattle were introduced
in Canada by the French in 1608. In
1609 the English colony in Virginia
were in possession of five hundred hogs,
as many fowls, some goats, sheep and
horses. These were the first domestic
animals within the province of the
thirteen original colonies, and they were
all killed by the natives or eaten by the
starving colonists, who even gnawed the
skins of horses to reduce the pangs of
hunger. Sir Ralph Lane imported kine
from the West Indies to Virginia in
1610, in which year the killing of do-
mestic cattle was forbidden on pain of
death. The year following, Sir Thomas
Gates made a goodly accession to the live
stock by introducing 200 cows and a herd
of swine. This stock was augmented
by a raid on a French settlement in
Arcadia, and by 1620 the cattle of Vir-
ginia had increased to 500, and were
‘‘much bigger in body than the breed
from which they came; the horses also
more beautiful and fuller of courage.”’

Among the early Virginia colonists
came tanners, leather dressers and shoe-
makers. They made comfortable in-
comes by practicing their arts, but
their leather was probably imported, as
the laws protecting. the cattle were
stringent. Under this protection the
domestic stock thrived rapidly. In 1649
there were 20,000 bulls, cows and calves
in Virginia, 200 horses, 3,000 sheep and
5,000 goats. The Virginians now began
to export cattle to New England, and
restrictions on the killing of the ani-
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ple supply of skins for the home manu-
facture of leather. At this date a certain
Captain Matthews employed a large
household in raising and manufacturing
hemp, flax and linen. He also erected
a tan house, manufactured leather and
kept eight shoemakers at work constant-
ly. In 1656 Virginia possessed a large
stock of neat cattle and other domestic
animals with the exception of sheep.
The sales of beef, pork and bacon to the
shipping and West Indies was a source
of great profit, and at this period the
manufacture of leather failed to keep
pace with the supplies of hides and
skins.

But prosperity provoked carelessness
among the Virginians. The large droves
of cattle were neglected and rapidly
dwindled through accidents, starvation
and improper treatment. In six years’
time the magnificent herds had decreased
so perceptibly that laws were again
enacted for their protection. In 1662
the Legislature passed the first statutes
to encourage the manufacture of leather.
It was enacted that every county should
erect a tan house at its own expense and
offer inducements to tanners, curriers
and shoemakers. Two pounds of to-
bacco was paid for dry hides per
pound ; mares and sheep were not to
be sent out of the colony on pain of for-
feiting treble their value, and the ex-
portation of hides was forbidden under
penalty of 1,000 pounds of tobacco for
every hide exported. ‘The price of
shoes was fixed at 30 and 35 pounds of
tobacco for the six largest sizes, and
dressed buckskins, which were abun-
dant and used largely for clothing, were
fixed at 2s. 43{d. each. Dressed doe-
skins were valued at Is. od. and un-
dressed at 1s. Atthesame time induce-
ments were offered to tradesmen and
mechanics to settle in the colony, by
rendering them free from arrest for
debts previously contracted.

But the Southern colonists never be-
came expert leather manufacturers nor
shoemakers. The majority came to
America with the expectation of making
fortunes, and were incompet-nt as me-
chanics and tradesmen. Although shoes
and clothing of leather were much worn
in Virginia, notwithstanding the large
quantities of fur skins and wool in the
colony they were generally imported
from the other colonies or from Eng-
land. In support of this we have the
statement of Beverly, who says: ‘‘A
few hides are tanned with much ado
and made into servants’ shoes, but at so
careless a rate that the planters don’t
care to try them if they can get any
others. ”’

New England, on the other hand, was
settled by a less ambitious and more
painstaking race of men, who turned
eagerly to the manufacturing arts even
before they were securely settled in their
new country. Three heifers, a bull and
twelve cows comprised the first stock of
cattle introduced in the Plymouth col-
ony in 1624, but these suffered the fate
of the early Virginia live stock, and
were stolen by Indians or killed to sup-
ply the wants of the settlers. Such were
the inroads on the domestic stock of the
Massachusetts Bay Colony that milch
cows rose to a value of twenty-five to
thirty pounds per head.

With this rise in their value, greater
care was exercised with the animals,
and despite the depredations of wolves
and Indians the herds increased in great
numbers. Many men considered stock-
raising of far more value than agricul-
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1635 led a company of sixty pilgrims to
make their way to the banks of the Con-
necticut, where they settled another
colony. In 1645 one hundred oxen were
sold in Boston at £20 a head, and while
this price held, the animals were too
valuable for slaughter. The herds fur-
nished but little material for the tanner,
and leather was imported from England
in goodly quantities during this period.
But the increase in stock soon brought
down the price to five pounds per head,
and the colonists consumed and ex-
ported beef and other meats in great
quantities. From this time on, New
England became one of the greatest
leather manufacturing and shoemaking
communities in the world.

With hides plentiful, tanneries began
to spring up, and the New England
shoemakers were enabled to purchase
their materials at more favorable rates.
Boston, Charlestown, Watertown and
Lynn were among the earliest to have
tan houses within their limits, and to
encourage them; butchers, curriers and
shoemakers were forbidden ‘‘to exercise
the trade of tanners on forfeiture of 6s.
8d. for every skin he shall tan.’’ To
prevent imperfect hides being sold,
each town nominated two ‘‘respectable
men’’ to inspect the leather, and whose
fee of 2d. a hide was payable by the
tanner. In 1646 the exportation of raw
hides, felt, or unwrought leather was
forbidden, under pain of forfeiting the
goods or the value thereof, although the
exportation of raw hides and skins im-
ported from other parts, together with
beaver, moose and bear skins, was per-
mitted.

It was under the influence of such
stringent acts that leather became plen-
tiful in New England. In 1651 the
wearing of great leather boots had been
prohibited because of the scarcity of
that material in the colony. Yet in
twenty years from that date, Yankee
leather workers were already exporting
their products to the mother country.

The Dutchman was also of a thrifty
mold, and on Manhattan Island the tan-
ner early made his appearance and pros-
pered. Domestic cattle were imported
to the New Netherlands in 1625, when
Pieter Evertsen Hulst shipped one
hundred and three head of horses, hogs,
cows and sheep, for breeding purposes.
So careful was Pieter of this stock that
he provided each animal with its own
stall and a separate attendant to care
for it. The first tannery in the province
was erected by four Evertsen brothers,
about 1638, and as early as 1653 Coen-
raet Ten Eyck was making a prosper-
ous income from his tan pits in the
marshy lots on Broadway above Beaver
street. These were the forerunners of
the many who have since added much to
the prosperity of Manhattan.

But the Dutch leather manufacturer
was hampered by the political changes
which New York underwent during its
first century of European colonization,
and it fell to Pennsylvania to become
the leather manufacturing center of the
Middle and Southern colonies. Phila-
delphia, with its mixed population of
agriculturists and mechanics, early
adopted the industry, and profited by it.
William Penn himself was among the
first to establish a tannery, and in 1731
tanned leather was among the exports
of the city. Buff leather was manufac-

tured in large quantities, and buckskin
for jackets, vests and breeches formed a
part of every tailor’s outfit.

Two centuries ago leather was more
generally employed in the manufacture
of clothing than it is at present.

This

was rendered necessary by the primeval
surroundings of the colonists. The men,
who spent much of their time in the
forest, found leather coats and leggings
a valuable protection while pushing
through the dense undergrowth, and
often a safeguard in encounters with
reptiles and smaller animals. At that
period, also, the wear on garments was
excessive, and the durability of leather
was a great factor in favor of is adop-
tion.

The earliest settlers of the Massachu-
setts Bay colony wore black hats
‘‘lyned at the brow with lether.’’ Each
emigrant received one such hat from
the company, and generally wore it for
dress occasions, as on the Sabbath and
while attending funerals. Coats man-
ufactured for the less wealthy classes of
settlers were made of leather and skins.
The men on the Piscataquay plantations
had twenty-seven lined, sixteen moose
and fifteen papoose coats. Josselyn states
that moose skins made ‘‘excellent coats
for martial men,’’ and they were doubt-
less worn in that colony. Raccoon skins
were also employed in manufacturing
coats, the one owned by Thomas Fen-
ner, of Windsor, Conn., being valued
at 10s. Until quite recently in our own
century frontiersmen were clad in deer-
skin, and the Western cowboy and
bandit are pictured to the mind of every
juvenile reader in leather jacket and
leggings.

Leather breeches were much in vogue
in the colonies during the seventeenth
century, and Benjamin Franklin and
William Penn were among the many who
donned them. It is amusing to learn
that the New Englanders objected to the
introduction of smallclothes among the
Indians, although their objection is a
difficult one to conceive. Nevertheless,
King Philip owned a pair of ‘‘good
Indian briches,’’ and so did many of
his followers. A century later a runaway
Indian maid-servant was advertised as
being attired in ‘‘smoked leather
breeches,’’ from which it would appear
that the native women wore them also.
These were very full, and somewhat re-
sembled the modern bloomer. A _ supe-
rior style was the ‘‘Philadelphia
breeches,’’ which were made of deer-
skin and sold at $4 per pair.

In the list of goods furnished by the
Massachusetts Bay Company, in 1628,
appears ‘‘200 sutes dublett and hose of
leather lyned with oil’d skyn leather.”’
So stockings were made of this mate-
rial as well. ‘‘Indian stockings’’ were
leather leggings,and consideréd of suffi-
cient value to be mentioned in wills.
There were sherry-vallies, a leather leg-
ging for protection against mud-splash-

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We are still making the
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Oil Grain and Satin; also
carry Snedicor & Hatha
way’s Shoes at Factory
Pricein Men’s, Boys’ and
Youths’. Lycoming and
Keystone Rubbers are the
best. See our Salesmen
or send mail orders.

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GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

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Jobbers in
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ing, while on horseback, and _ spatter-
dashes, of the same material. William
Penn frequently encased his limbs in
leather, and many other colonists un-
doubtedly followed hisexample. Thus,
we see that the men of the seventeenth
century might clothe themselves from
head to foot in leather, and some of
them never wore garments of any other
texture.

Besides hats, coats, doublets, breeches,
stockings and shoes, there were also
leathern bandileers, gloves and barvells.
The bandileers were round, flat powder
cases, slung at the hip of the provincial
soldier and frontiersman. They were
made of metal and covered with a cas-
ing of leather. Gloves were made of a
variety of materials—cordevant, buck-
skin shammy and Irish lamb among
others. One hundred men in New Eng-
land owned ‘‘16 dussen of gloves, of
which 12 dussen were calf's leather, 2
dussen were sheep’s leather and 2 dus-
sen kyd.’’ Haling-hands were heavy
gloves lined with leather, and used on
fishing vessels for handling heavy cables
in cold weather. A curious custom
among the colonists was to present the
relatives and friends at funerals with
pairs of gloves. This sometimes became
very expensive, as at the funeral of
Peter Faneuil in Boston, for instance,
when three thousand pairs of gloves
were given away.

Among the dames and maidens leather
garments were not fashionable, as the
pretty textures and cloths on sale by the
shopkeepers were far more attractive to
the feminine eye. Nevertheless, the
New England housewife found leather
indispensable for many of her little ne-
cessities. Her girdle, mittens, muff
and points were of leather. The earliest
settlers wore leather girdles, and a lit-
tle later ‘‘buff girdles’” appear among
many inventions. Muffs were of leather,
also, and a ludicrous advertisement in
the Connecticut Courant announced
that ‘‘ladies will obtain muffs much
cheaper by bringing their own skins.’’
Men carried muffs in those days, as
well as women. Rochambeau, the
French general, visited his outposts dur-
ing the Revolution with his hands com-
fortably encased in a bushy covering of
this description. Dr. Thomas Prince,
of Boston, was among the many otbers
who carried a black bearskin and leather
muff.

But undoubtedly the prettiest handi-
work in American leather was produced
by the shoemakers, and among their
most skillful bits of workmanship ranked
gentlemen’s pumps, and the dainty slip-
pers in which the belles of Philadel-
phia, New York, Boston and Annapolis
flirted with the young officers who were
destined to make their names famous
in the impending struggle with England
for colonial independence. Of the later,
Sally McKean wrote: ‘‘They have some
odd fashioned slippers for ladies, made
of various loor’d kid and morocco, with
small silver clasps sewed in; they are
very handsome;’’ and the footgear of
the dandies, like that of Monsieur A-
la-mode, consisted of ‘‘A pair of smart
pumps made up of grained leather, So
thin he can’t venture to tread on a
feather.’’

FREDERICK W. NORCROSS.
2.
His Father Was in Society.

Mrs, Intrade—Where is your father?

Adult Son—He is in the store editing
ae edition of ‘‘Society as I Have Found
i"

"Mrs. Intrade—What! A book!
Son—Yes; a ledger, full of unpaid
and uncollectible bills.

 

Some of the Evils of Dating Ahead.

Every merchant and every manufac-
turer understands the meaning of dat-
ing abead. Few, however, recall the
adoption of the plan which of late years
has become a fixed custom. Dating
ahead within proper limits may be de-
sirable, but, as it is commonly prac-
ticed, it has become a nuisance, and is
a direct and certain cause of loss to the

retailer.

During the past twenty years the pop-
ulation of the country has immensely in-
creased. Immigration has also added
its millions. As a _ result, the {rivalry
among the workers in manufacturing
centers, where the wage has not been
lessened, has been intensified. A larger
output per hand employed than ever be-
fore has been forced. Again, the lower-
ing of freights, due to the increase in
facilities for transportation and the
creation of improved machinery and
better methods of manufacture, with the
reduction of profits to the minimum,
due to the intense competition for an
outlet, have combined to cause a con-
tinuous reduction in the price of almost
every product of skiiled labor that is
put upon the market. This has been true
in spite of protective tariffs, which
have only temporarily checked the fall.
As a consequence of this condition, the
manufacturer was long since obliged to
abandon the old system of accumulating
a stock of merchandise ahead of the
season, for, as a rule, his stock declined
in value upon his hands before it could
be distributed to those who supplied
the consumer. The remedy was to man-
ufacture only upon definite orders and
thus insure beforehand a market for the
product of the mills at a known and
agreed price.

As an inducement to the jobber or
distributing buyer, the manufacturer
said: ‘‘ You want goods for the spring
trade. If they were made and in stock
now you would not buy them before
spring. Therefore, if at present, say
in September, you will give me an or-
der for such merchandise as you will
want next spring, I will manufacture
and deliver it to you from time to time
from this date on, and date the whole
of it as if you had purchased it Febru-
ary Ist.’’

This proceeding was and is entirely
legitimate, because it enables a manu-
facturer to run his factory during a
series of months upon a certainty and
because it lessens the cost of his prod-
uct. For example, he has upon this
plan no insurance to carry upon. com-
pleted stock; it is all shipped as soon
as finished.

The abuse of the scheme came later.
The jobber or distributing buyer argued
something as follows: ‘‘Well, here I
bave these goods on hand. The in-
voices do not date until February Ist.
Therefore, I may do with my custom-
er, the retailer, what the manufacturer
has done with me. I will give him the
same date that I got, or even something
better, as an inducement for him to
buy. I will deliver as soon as he will
accept the goods, thus getting ahead of
some of my competitors and throwing
upon my customer the burden of insur-
ance.”’

Of course, at first only a few followed
this plan and perhaps they reaped an
advantage from it, but in this country
there is no monopoly of ability to grasp
a situation. Ere long the whole busi-
ness community followed the practice.
The bait to the retailer was an exten-
sion and enlargement of credit. It was
a fancied but fictitious benefit. By this

 

 

means there was established a custom
which, carried to the extent of the orig-
inal intention, was for the manufacturer
a gain, but which, carried to the extent
which now obtains, is an actual disad-
vantage, especially to the retailer.

The retailer is the one who should,
above all others, buy on short time and
carry the smallest stock necessary to the
business that he does. He should open
up at the proper season fresh iines of
each class of goods that he carries, and
these new goods should be bright and
seasonable. Too often tempted, how-
ever, by dating ahead, he makes his pur-
chases out of season and thereby cum-
bers his shelves with goods that long be-
fore the proper time for consumption
arrives have become shop-worn, unde-
sirable and, in the eyes of employes and
customers, old or past style. All tbese
disadvantages follow upon the plan of
dating ahead. In addition, the retailer,
under the offer, is very generally tempted
to overbuy in his early purchases, be-
cause the time of payment seems so far
ahead.

Look back at the history of the past
five years, which has been so disastrous
to many business interests. Let us en-
quire who are the men who have suc-
ceeded during the period? They are
those who have done business within

 

the just limits of their capital and
credit, whether large or small; who
have bought frequently, who have man-
aged to have seasonable and attractive
merchandise to offer to their trade at
the proper time, and who have not been
burdened with old and _ undesirable
stock.

It is unquestionably to the interest of
the retailer to buy as nearly as_ possible
for cash. It is to his advantage to buy
frequently and in small quantities. He
should aim to bave constant arrivals of
fresh merchandise in every department
and should never fail to remember that
the discounter is the money-maker. -

The country has undoubtedly reached
the termination of the period of depre-
ciation. A reaction is now in progress,
Manufactured and unmanufactured prod-
ucts which have been squeezed to the
very lowest mark are now rising in
value While large advances are not to
be expected, it is clear that the bottom
has been reached and that there are in
progress and will continue to be marked
advances in prices in almost all lines.
Tbe merchant who would reap all the
advantages of the new opportunities that
are opening up as a result of our
changed condition will do well to care-
fully follow those lessons which have
proved profitable during the past term
of commercial distress. He _ should
leave to the manufacturer all specula-
tive dating ahead. Eeshould be a pur-
chaser of merchandise only, and not of
dates. CHARLES BIGGS.

 

 

ILLAR’S
ANDHELING JAVA
EDAL

QGHA AND JAVA

HOST POPULAR
ROASTED COFFEES
ON THE

MARKET

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Awarded these goods
at World’s Columbian
Exposition.

Purity is ancient his-
tory with us. It is
Purity and quality to
which we call attention

Testing is proving
First-class grocers will

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our goods.

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Try MILLAR’S PEARLED PEPPER, Granulated.

E. B. Millar & Co.,

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: TO THE PURE ALL THINGS ARE PURE

URACOA
HARN JAVA
ROWN MIXED

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ARABIAN MOGHA

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Diplomas

Awarded these goods
Q at World’s Columbian
4 Exposition.

A Trade Mark
is
a Badge
of Honor

Importers and Grinders,
CHICAGO, ILL.

 

We brand our spices PURE because they are PURE.
We are so positive of this statement that we offer $100
for every ounce of adulteration found in a package of
Our guaranty as to purity also applies to our

QUEEN FLAKE BAKING POWDER S

which has come to be regarded as the standard where-
ever introduced. Manufactured and sold only by

NORTHROP, ROBERTSON & CARRIER
LANSING, MICHIGAN.

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Commercial Travelers

Michigan Knights of the Grip.

President, Joun A. Horrman, Kalamazoo; Secre-
tary, J. C. Saunpers, Lansing; Treasurer, CHas.
McNotry, Jackson.

 

 

Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Association.

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

United Commercial Travelers of Michigan.
Grand Counselor, J. J. Evans. Ann Arbor; Grand
Secretary, G S. VaLmorg, Detroit; Grand Treas-
urer, W. S. Wzst, Jackson.

Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Mutual Acci-
dent Association.
President, J. Boyp PanrTiinp, Grand Rapids;
Pale gg and Treasurer, Gro. F. OwEn, Grand
pids.

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

 

 

Gripsack Brigade.

Post A (Lansing) will hold its annual
banquet and ball at Maccabee hall on
Friday evening of this week.

A. B. Hirth ¢Hirth, Krause & Co ) is
ill with pneumonia at Pueblo, Colo He
is attended by his sister, who is a
trained nurse.

C. W. Hurd (Hazeltine & Perkins
Drug Co.), who has been laid up two
weeks with illness, has this week re-
sumed his visits to his customers.

Seldon F. White has severed his con-
nection with H. W. King & Co. (Chi-
cago) and associated himself with B.
Kappenheimer & Company, of the same
place.

Detroit Free Press: G. B. Wilson,
of this city, a traveler for T. C. Ouel-
ette, cigar manufacturer, left Greenville
last Friday for Detroit. Nothing has
been seen of him since and his friends
have become alarmed at his absence.
Telegrams have been sent all over the
State, but no trace of him has been
found.

Traverse City Record: Fred F.
Hedden and family will leave the city
Wednesday for Los Angeles, California,
where he will engage in the manufac
ture of acetylene gas generators. Mr.
Hedden has represented the Simons
Hardware Co., of St. Lovis, on the road
for six years and for some time has
been a resident of this city.

Saginaw News: Carl A Luster has
resigned his position with the firm of
Morley Bros., and with his wife will
move in a few days to Duluth, where he
will enter the service of the Marshall-
Wells Hardware Co. Mr. Luster has re-
sided in Saginaw all his life and has
gained an enviable reputation as a
young man of sterling qualities and fine
business ability.

Mark S. Brown (Hazeltine & Perkins
Drug Co.) is spending a couple of
weeks in a camp near Sioux Junction
ostensibly for the purpose of securing a
trophy in the shape of a bear. Incase he
does not succeed in capturing a wild
bear, he has arranged with a friend at
Pinconning to shoot his tame bear and
bring it to the train as he passes through,
so that he may exhibit it to his Saginaw
friends as the result of his own marks-
manship.

The Tradesman recently gave cur-
rency to a report that, since the intro-
duction of the Northern mileage book,
no case of misuse had occurred. This
proves to be slightly incorrect, yet near
enough to the truth for all practical pur-
poses. Asa matter of fact, out of over

29,000 covers rebated by the Northern
Mileage Ticket Bureau, only twenty-
six applications have been rejected be-
cause of evident use of the book by
more than one and the same individual.

 

As the proportion of rejected books is
one to every 1,115 books inspected and
passed upon, it will have to be conceded
that traveling men are not such bad fel-
lows after all.

St. Louis Railway Journal: There
seems to be a growing’ sentiment
throughout the country against the pres-
ent charges for berths in sleeping cars.
If the voice of the press is a basis to
reckon from, it is evident that the sen-
timent is strong. The recent annual re-
port of the Pullman Company, which in-
dicated a dividend of $18,000, 000 for the
stockholders, has rekindled the feeling
against excessive charges for sleeping
privileges on trains. This report has
confirmed the idea more seriously in
the minds of the traveling public, that
sleeping car service can be maintained
at a profit with much less cost to those
who patronize it. In fact, it is known
that such is the case. When the Pull-
man Palace Car Company was granted a
concession to run its rolling stock in
Mexico it was understood that the com-
pany should charge only such a rate in
Mexican money. That rate is some-
thing like $2 (silver) per night. As
silver has become worth 46 cents in
gold, the company realizes only about
g2 cents. That is in a sparsely settled
country besides. If a company can
maintain sleeping car service in Mex-
ico at the rate of 92 cents per night, the
question naturally arises, why cannot
the same service be maintained for
that price in this country? The railway
commissioners of the different states
which have been devoting so much at-
tention to forcing the railroads to reduce
rates, can find an opportunity for fixing
rates in another field, if their attention
could be directed that way.

Jerry M. Porter: If there is aman in
the world who always keeps himself in
close touch with the ‘‘signs of the
times’’ it is the drummer. If there is a
man in the world who can always look
clear through all kinds of social up-
heavals and political disturbances to a
brighter, better day, it is the drum
mer. He lives upon the bright side of
things, and always keeps his poise.
And I want to close with this: If poli-
ticians ever attempt to tell you that
social unrest, business stagnation and
hard times—and they all must come in
their turn, as time goes on—are due to
any one special political fad, don’t ac-
cept it as true until you ask your drum-
mer about it. If somebedy tells you
that the Cuban war’ was a failure and
the campaign of Santiago was a dis-
grace to any man, don’t believe it until
you ask your drummer about it. If the
problem cf the Philippines and tbe
question of territorial expansion press
themselves upon you, go tell it to your
drummers. They’!] tell you what to do
Corn and cotton are no longer king.
The drummer has declared that the time
has gone when any one thing in this
world shall be king, but that every
product of our land that can be pro-
duced by earth or air, sunshine or rain,
shall contribute its part to the wealth
of the world and the sustenance and
welfare of the people. And since it is
abundantly true that in this country you
have everything you need, and an op-
portunity now for an outlet to the mar-
kets of the world, the very best that I can
say is, turn the whole thing over to your
drummers, and let me get out of the
way, and let them work out your des-
tiny, while the civilized world shali
continue to ‘‘wonder what you are.’’
Those who have all they want shall
have more given unto them. The man

 

who acted for years as Jay Gould’s pur~
chasing agent says of Uncle Russell
Sage: ‘‘He is the only man in the world
who manages to get through the day
without spending a cent. He walks
from his house to the elevated station,
at Forty-second street, where the news-
boy on the platform makes him a pres-
ent of a morning paper. He rides free,
of course. The Western Union Com-
pany gives him a splendid luncheon.
He neither drinks nor smokes. ’’
—___» 2.
How the Joke Was Turned on the
Joker.

For the last week or soa Chicago
drummer, who is an incorrigible prac-
tical joker, has been staying at a local
hotel and putting in his time chiefly in
thinking up schemes for having fun.
He happens to have a friend at the same
house who is greatly troubled with
insomnia, and when once aroused after
retiring is in for a night of tribulation.
A few evenings ago the Chicago man
was seized by a bright idea, and, ring-
ing his bell, told the boy to leave a 2:30
call for No. 140, his friend's room.
‘*Tell ’em to be sure to knock very
loud,’’ he said. and chuckled merrily to
think of the row that would be sure to
follow the summons. He went to bed
rather early himself, and was rambling
through the happy realms of dream
land, when his door was knocked half
off its hinges by a succession of terrific
thumps from the outside. ‘‘Holy
Moses !"’ cried the Chicago man, jump-
ing up in a panic, ‘' what the dickens
is the matter?’’ Bang! bang! bang!
wert the door, like txree cannon shots.
“Get up! Get up!’" called somehody
trom the hall, and then there wsa
sound of qrickly retreating fcot t ps.
The drummer was thoroughly alarmed
‘*Good heavens!’ he said to h mself,
‘the house must be on fire, and the
porter 18 arousing the guests!’’ He
dressed in frantic haste, buttoned his
pantaloons into his vest, put on his
shirt wrong side to, omitted his socks

altogether, and sprinted down to the
office at a record-breaking gait. Every-
thing was strangely quiet. ‘‘What’s

ap?’’ he said, breathlessly, to the clerk.
‘*You seem to be, for one,’’ growled
that dignitary, waking out of a doze.
‘‘T should say so,’’ retorted the drum-
mer. ‘ Somebody nearly broke my door
down just now. What's the matter, any-
how?’’ ‘‘Why, that was your call,’’
said the clerk. ‘‘ You ordered a call at
2:30, didn’t you?’’ ‘‘Yes,’’ replied
the drummer, beginning to understand,
‘‘but, confound you, I ordered it for
140°’ ‘‘So you did,’’ said the clerk,
calmly, ‘‘but you made a mistake. Your
room is not 140, but 116. If I hadn't
noticed it on the book you wouldn’t
have been called at all.’’ The drum-
mer looked at him in silence for a mo-
ment. Then he turned, still without
speaking and slowly mounted the stairs.
At 2:30 the elevator is not running.
——_>22—__

Two Dollars’ Worth of Satisfaction.

A certain Mr. Skiles, a suburban gro-
cer, was asked to have his card inserted
in the program of a picnic to be given
by a local secret society at a popular re-
soit forty or fifty miles away.

‘*How much will it cost me?’’ he en-
quired.

“Only two dollars, ’
vertising manager.

replied the ad-

‘‘H’mph—only two dollars! How
much space do I get for that?’’
‘*One inch.”’

‘*H'mph—the whole of an inch! I
can put any kind of an advertisement I
want to in that space, I suppose?’’

‘*Certainly.’’

 

The grocer took a scrap of paper,
wrote his advertisement on it, handed it
to the manager, and in due time the
program appeared with this card in it:

“Beverly Skiles, Grocer, No. 537
Sparkland Street, pays $2 for the use of
this space. He thinks it an outrageous
price, inasmuch as all the groceries for
this picnic were bought at some other
store, ’’

Mr. Skiles has always maintained that
he got two dollars’ worth of satisfaction
out of this advertisement.

A customer kept is better than a cus-
tomer earned.

Hotel Columbia

Finest Furnished House in
TRAVERSE CITY, MICH.

Just Opened and Ready for Business.
Located on corner of Front and Park Sts.,
one-half block from G. R. & I. R. R. depot.

This house is newly furnished throughout.
All the sleeping rooms have iron and brass
beds, steam heat, electric lights, call bells
and good ventiiation. No inside rooms.
Hot and cold water in all parts of the house.
Rates $1.50 per day. Free bus to and from
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A First-class Lunch Room in connection.

W. H. FLETCHER, Prop.
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FIRST-CLASS IN EVERY RESPECT.
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RATES: $2, WITH BATH $2.50.
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Only first-class house in MASON, MicH. Every-
thing new. Every room heated. Large and well-
lighted sample rooms. Send your mail care of the
Charleston, where the boys stop. CHARI.ES A.
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Washington Ave. and Kalamazoo St., LANSING.

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

Drugs--Chemicals

 

 

MICHIGAN STATE BOARD OF PHARMACY.

 

F. W. R. Perry, Detroit -
A. C. ScoUMACcHER, Ann Arbo

Gzo. GunprRtm, Ionia -_ - - ec. 31, 1900
L. E. REYNOLDS, St. Joseph - - Dee. 31, 1901
Hewry Hem, Saginaw - - Dec. 31, 1902

President, GEo. GunDRUM, Ionia.
Secretary, A. C. ScoumacHER, Ann Arbor.
Treasurer, HENRY Herm, Saginaw.

Examination Sessions.
Lansing—Nov. 1 and 2.

STATE PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION.

 

President—J. J. SouRWINE, Escanaba.
Secretary, Cuas. F. Many, Detroit.
Treasurer JOHN D. Murr, Grand Rapids.

 

 

DEATH OF THE DRUGGIST.

 

How a Suicide Became an Imaginary
Nemesis.
M. Quad in American Druggist.

He wasn’t my family druggist—he
was too far down the street for that—but
occasionally, as I came home at a late
hour, I dropped in for something. At
first sight I took him to bea jovial
man. He was short and fat and red-
faced and of a sanguine temperament
and, according to the laws of nature, he
should have been jovial. But he wasn’t.
On the contrary, he was sullen and
sulky and resented my familiar speech.
He did not drive me away, because I
am one who meets all manner of men
and permit each one to be what God
made him. I kept calling occasionally,
and one night I happened to be late.
It was midnight, and the store was
closed, but I had a jumping tooth and,
knowing that the druggist was a
bachelor and slept in the rear of the
store, I pulled the bell. It was only
after repeated pulls that the door was
carefully opened a few inches and a pale
face looked out.

‘*Sorry to have routed you out,”’ I
said, ‘‘but I’ve got the toothache. ’’

“It is you, eh—thank God!’’ whis-
pered the man, as he almost pulled me
into the store.

‘‘Did you think it was a ghost?’’ I
laughed, as he turned up the gas.

‘‘l was afraid—afraid it was,’’ he
stammered, and I noticed that he was
shaking as if with a chill.

In my surprise I forgot my toothache,
or rather the toothache forgot me.
scented some sort of a mystery, and as
the man had to sit down with his shak-
ing knees, I stood before him and said:

‘‘Something has happened to upset
you. You seem to have expected an
enemy instead of a customer. Don’t you
want me to help you out?’’

‘*You—you can’t!’’ he half groaned,
as he shook his head in a despairing
way. ‘‘Yes, I expected an enemy—a
dead man!’’

‘‘Nonsense! You never murdered
anyone, and even if you had, the dead
don’t walk about pulling night-bells.
You've been sticking too close and got
your nerves out of whack.’’

The footsteps of some helated pedes-
trian approached and died away and,
after listening intently and nervously,
the druggist motioned me to sit down
and then whisperingly said:

‘*T’11—I'll tell you about it. One night
at midnight, long ago, a man roused me
up as you have done and bought car-
bolic acid. He lied to me as to its
purpose. I had scarcely -passed the bot-
tle over to him when he removed the
cork and swallowed the contents He
stood right over there and he cursed and
cursed and fought me off when I wanted
to save him. I ran out for help and
when I came back he lay writhing and
cursing on the floor. God! but how he
did suffer! Before they took him away
to die he turned on me. He cursed me
for having given him the poison and
he swore that he'd have revenge on me.’’

‘*But you were not to blame,’’ I said.

‘‘No, but he felt that I was. That
is the case with many suicides. He
said he’d come back from the grave to
take my life.’’

‘*Pish! He didn’t know what he was
raving about. If you wait for a dead

 

man to pull your bell you'll die a very
old man. Get yourself a brandy and
brace up.’”’

He drank a stiff dose and was the bet-
ter for it, but before I went away he
made a singular request. My trick at
the office was up at11o'clock. The
drug store always closed at that hour.
He wanted me to be with him over the
midnight hour. I tried to laugh him
out of his idea, but when I found him
earnest and even apprehensive, I fell in
with it. Every night for several weeks
I reached the store at about 11:20 and
remained for an hour. Now and then

he had a call after I got there, but it was |,

seldom that we were interrupted. We
never talked of the suicide after the first
night. I realized that it was a disagree-
able subject and one to be avoided. In
fact, we had very little to say on any
subject. My friend was nervous and
pre-occupied, and some nights he
walked the floor and hadn't a word to
say, while I sat reading a family al-
manac or brushed up on my Latin. It
was a mystery at first—a mystery and a
novelty—and your newspaper man has
more or less of the instincts and intui-
tion of a detective. As time passed,
however, it got to be a bore, and I de-
termined to draw out of it.
move was to be fifteen minutes late. I
found the druggist pale with fear that |
would not put in an appearance at all.
I made excuses about extra work at the
office, and after four or five nights I
skipped the store entirely. Dropping
in next day, I found the man so upset
that he would not trust himself to fill a
prescription.

‘‘You did not come last night,’’ he
whispered to me, ‘but hedid! Yes,
he came and rang the bell at midnight,
and had I answered it he would have
taken my life!’’

I laughed at him, and | think he felt
a bit braver when I went away. I had
to give him my solemn promise that I
would be on hand that night, however,
and I really meant to keep it. I was
about to leave the office when I was de-
tained by the nonappearance of the man
who was to relieve me, and it was half-
past twelve when I reached the drug
store. I rang the bell in a peculiar
way, as had long been understood, but
there was no answer. I rang again and
again, but with no better success. Then
| happened to notice that the store door
was slightly ajar. I pushed it open
and called. No one answered. Then I

j|felt for a match and struck a light and

stepped in and turned up a gas burner.
At my feet, lying on the floor on his
back, with his knees drawn up, his
tongue out and his eyes open, was my
friend, the druggist. After a glance
about the store to see if anyone was
lurking, I ran out for a policeman.

‘‘Dead!’" he said, as he bent over
the man on the floor.

‘*He may be in a fit,’’ I replied.

‘It’s no fit. He's been flung down
here and choked to death! Look at the
marks on his throat!’’

When the ambulance came the doctor
made a more thorough examination, but
the result was the samé.

‘*Someone rang the bell and got him
up and then attacked him. He wasn’t
hit, but the murderer clutched him by
the throat and choked the life out of
him. See the look of horror on his
face—the terror in his eyes! Why, you'd
say he was looking into the face and
feeling the clutch of a dead man!’’

‘‘At the hands of some person un-
known,'’ was the verdict of the cor-
oner’s jury, and I kept silence. Of
what use for me to say that the assassin
was the suicide who had sworn revenge ;
that he had come down the silent and
deserted street with noiseless footsteps
and pulled the bell—given my own sig-
nal, perbhaps—and as the door was
opened had flung himself upon his
victim and held his clutch until life
went out? They would have sneered
and ridiculed and jeered me.

Se

He Was Out Sounding

Sbe—Did you sound papa this after-
noon concerning our marriage?

He—Yes, I sounded him, and I’}] bet
everybody in the block heard it when I
struck the bottom,

My first |

 

How the Boy Proposed to Fool the
Cat.
From the American Druggist.

The hoy of all work in the store of
E. H. Davis & Co., Rochester, takes
great pride in keeping things about the
store looking neat, and a few weeks ago,
when he found several packages of
pressed herbs had been ripped open
and the contents strewn about the
floor, he was highly indignant and went
to the proprietor with a complaint.

‘*What sort of herbs were they?’’ asked
the latter.

‘‘Catnip.’

‘‘Well, J guess the cat must have been
at it then,’’ said Mr. Blauw. ‘‘ You
want to put it up where she can’t get at
it se

Fully determined to do so, the lad
went to the rear part of the store, and
piled the stuff up on the top shelf, and
as he climbed down he shook his fist at
the cat and exclaimed: ‘‘I've got you
beat this time, an’ if I find you near
that stuff I'll bat your head off.’’ Of
course, the cat could not say anything,
but, as the boy afterward said, ‘‘she
looked awful sly,’’ and the next morn-
ing there was more catnip on the floor.

The youngster was in despair and
once more went tothe proprietor. After
listening to his story of the precautions
he had taken to put the herb out of the
cat’s reach and expressing sympathy
with the lad, Mr. Blauw said: ‘‘Well,
Jobnny, it must be that the cat can read
the label.’’

The lad listened earnestly and Mr.
Blauw never gave the mattera moment's
further thought until a few days later,
when he went into the back part of the
store to superintend the unpacking of a
shipment of goods, including a quan-
tity of pressed herbs. There was Johnny
watching out for the catnip, and as each
bundle was handed out he seized upon
it and carried it to one side. Mr. Blauw
watched him for a few minutes and
then saw him take it to one of the
shelves and pile it up, taking the great-
est pains to invert the label. Unable
to see the idea in this performance,
Blauw said, ‘‘John, what are you doing
that for?’’

The boy looked at him in surprise
and then replied, ‘‘Why, you said that
the cat could read the label on the cat-
nip, and she’s got to stand on her head
to read this. I bet she won't monkey
with it any more. I’ve got her beat
and there won't be any more torn pack-
ages of catnip.’’

The proprietor is very careful now
about joking with his employes.

—_—___ 0s —____

Profitable Department of the Drug
Business.

The commercial side of the druggist’s
business is a subject which is being
dealt with more and more in the drug
journals. A perusal of the articles
shows considerable variety of thought
and remedy. It would, therefore, be
difficult to say anything that would be
entirely new.

There is, I believe, one line that has
not been discussed as much as others,
and one of the most profitable. That is
the sale of small articles, such as C. C.
pills, Seidlitz powders, compound lic-
orice powder, herbs, leaves, spices, etc.

The public, as a whole, is losing a
knowledge of the articles that have in
the past been one of the druggist’s
money-makers, and so the question nat
uraliy arises, ‘‘What are you going to do
about it?’’ My answer is that the drug-
gist should advertise the profitable side
of his wares by enlightening his cus-
tomers upon tbe uses of such prepara-
tions as have been cited. As an ex-
ample, I have had printed envelopes
with profitable reading thereon, in which
I enclose a sample of ground mustard,
with directions for making mustard rel-
ish and also poultice, and calling atten-
tion to the fact that I carry a full line
of spices and sell at the lowest prices,
etc. One of these envelopes I hand to
each customer,

 

Following this, I have printed a small
paper in which I give the properties
and uses of such articles as may be rea-
sonably pushed without intruding . upon
the physician’s field.

In short, it is better to sell this class
of goods with its attendant profit than
proprietary goods with their small
profits.

I believe the retail druggist must
wake up and give more effort to the ad-
vancement of his commercial interests,
and somewhat on the lines herein stated.
—J. R. Johnson in the Spatula.

23» o>_—_—_

The Drug Market.

Opium—Is very firm and higher prices
are now looked for. This is on account
of the unfavorable condition of the
present crop in Smyrna.

Morphine—Is firm, but unchanged.

Quinine—Has been in active demand
and, on account of large sales of bark
at an increased price, all brands have
advanced 2c per oz.

Quicksilver—Has advartced about 2c
per pound. Mercurials are firm, but
unchanged.

Essential Oils—Anise and cassia have
touched bottom this week, are now ad-
vancing and higher prices are looked
for.

Camphor Gum (Japan Refined)—Has
advanced and the tendency of American
refiners is upward.

Seeds—Fennel, hemp and poppy have
all advanced.

Cocaine—Is in a very firm position
and an advance is looked for.

Vanilla Beans—Are further advanced.
Whole beans have advanced from $1@2
per pound ; cuts, $1 per pound.

Linseed Oil—Has advanced, on ac-
count of higher price for seed.

———_> 2 > —___-

Chance For the Pharmacist.

The Board of Health in Philadelphia
is going to enforce the law against the
use of salicylic acid as a food preserva-
tive. A prominent physician declares
that a large percentage of his ‘‘nerv-
ous’’ cases are caused by this evil.
Herein lies a chance for the Philadel-
phia pharmacists to boom themselves.
Why not, as a contemporary suggests,
analyze some of the foods and show
them up. The public is intensely in-
terested in this thing, and the pharma-
cist would at once gain a reputation as
a chemist and as a professional man
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; 2@ 14 Sees. 33@ 38) Balm Gilead Bud | 3Q@ 40

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e trade only, in such quantities as are usu
index of the local market.

ally purchased by retail

It is im-

e below are given as representing av-

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AXLE GREASE. CLOTHES LINES.
doz. gross | Cotton, 40 ft, per doz....... 1 00
ee... 55 6 00] Cotton, 50 ft, per dos....... 12
Castor Ofl............. 60 7 00| Cotton, 60 ft, per doz....... 1 40 rer COUPON
Diamond.............. 50 4 00 | Cotton, 70 ft, per dos....... 1 60 ———r_e
rears... -% 9 00/| Cotton, 80 ft, per dos....... 1 80 Universal Grade.
[XL Golden, tin boxes? 9 00| Jute, 60 ft, per dos......... 80] 50 books, any denom.... 1 50
_— ae a Jute, 72 ft. per dos.......... 9% Lame —— 20
TAGOD... ....-.+ «+s COCOA SHELLS. oks, any denom....
BAKING POWDER. 20 1b bags..............-5 2% 1,000 books, any denom....20 00
Credit Checks.
Abselate. Less —— eee ee eee 3 500 d ; 300
- + cans dOz......-..-0 45 | Pound packages......... 4 | 19007 on voces emer gag 5 00
ip sans Gos............. 85 CREAM TARTAR. : ce
2000, any one denom’n..... 8 00
Ib can doz.. 1 50 | 5 and 10 lb. wooden boxes.....30} Steel punch. .............. 7%
Sas Acme. ns Bulk in  CORFER cco cee 29 DRIED PRUITS—DONESTIC
. ° pples.
% Green. Sundried...........-.-.- @5%
Evaporated 50 lb boxes. @8
oa —— Fruits.
OME ccs.
6 oz. Eng. ae Sec Blackberries........... °
y- Nectarines ............
lb cans per doz. Peaches.............---
4 Ib cans per doz Peer 3
1 Ib cans per dos. 12 | Pitted Cherries........
Home. Prunnelles.............
lb cans 4 dos case...... 35 Raspberries............
lb cans 4 dos case...... 55 California Pranes.
lb cans 2 doz case ..... 90 100-120 25 lb boxes....... @
iw) XO ne —- = = — pee eee g
y aN ¢ - OXOS......-
70 -80 25 lb boxes....... @
Tb cans, 4 doz case..... 5 Fancy ..... cece ee ceeececnee ocd 60 - 70 25 lb boxes. . @
1b cans, 4 doz case...... 85 Maracaibo. 50 - 60 25 Ib boxes....... @
1b cans, 2 doz case...... 1 60 | Prime .....-..-- seer ee eeeeeeers 19] 40-50 25 lb boxes....... @
Jersey Cream. Milled... .......-200-.ss0020 20] 30-40 25 lb boxes....... @
1 1b. cans, per doz.......... 200 Java. 14 cent less in 50 1b cases
9 oz. cans, per doz.......... 1 2 | Interior...........-eeeeeeee ees 19 Raisins.
6 oz. Cans, per dos.......... 8 | Private Growth.........-...-- 99 | London Layers 3Crown. 1 60
ur Leader. Mandehling.........------+++- 91 | London Layers4 Crown. 2 00
SE 45 Mocha. ee aka Sin -
——— 7 | Imitation ..........----0+ 888+ 0 | oe a es ateeee o
SSS 100) wena a2 | 7 ee eter ; oe 7
eek eee"
Lt. cams ...........--.... 85 " Nn? Roeded ..........--.--- 8 @9%
Queen Flake. ee FOREIGN.
3 oz., 6 doz. case...........- 2 70 Jewell’s Arabian Mocha “" 29 Citron.
6 oz., 4 doz. case . .- 3 20| Wells’ Mocha and Java... "94 Leghorn .........-+++++++- @12
9 o2., 4 dog. case... .. 480 Wells’ Perfection Java.....24 Corson... 2... 2.6. <2 @13
1 lb., 2 dos. case... -- 400] ganesibo as Currants.
5 lb., 1 doz. case............ 00 | Breakfast mend ok 18 — er ace @ 5%
eioPATH BRICK. Valley City Maracaibo......18% | Cieaned bulk. .-......@7
re Oe
BLUING. Pack Citron American 101b bx @13

 

Large, 2 doz..:....-........ ®
BROOMS.
Be. 1 Carpes....--.......... 1 90
No. Saerpok........ ...... 1
No. Scarpes................ 1 50
ee 1 15
Panes .................. 2 00
Common Whisk............
—, a 80
Waceoume. .......-...._.. 22%
CANDLES.
a 7
WO ee 8
cere 8
————— 20
CANNED GOODS.
flanitowoc Peas.
Lakeside Marrowfat....... 9
Lakeside E. 1

ee
Lakeside, Cham. of Eng....
Lakeside, Gem, Ex. Sifted.

Extra Sifted Early June....

CATSUP.
Columbia,
Columbia, % pints

CHEE
Acme.

Amboy

Butternut...........
Carson City..........
Emblem.............

 

   

 

kage.

Below are given New York
prices on package coffees, to
which the wholesale dealer
adds the local freight from
New York to your shipping

int, giving you credit on the
nvoice for the amount of
freight buyer pe from the
market in which he purchases
to his shipping point, including
weight of package, also %c a
pound. In 601b. cases the list
is 10c per 100 lbs. above the
price in full cases.
Axvbuekie ...... . .....--
SENET. 252 sen one
licLaughlin’s XXXX......

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

Extract.
Valley City % gross .....
Felix % gross...........-
Hummel’s foil % gross...
Hummel’s tin % gross... 1 43
CLOTHES

7%
115
8

5 gross boxes...._..........
CONDENSED MILK.

4 doz in case.
%

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....
1,000 books, any denom....
Coupon Pass Books,
Can be made to represent any
denomination from 810 down.
20 books

sz
8s

Fb in tose 1 00 | German

 

 

Lemon American 10 1b bx @12
Orange American 101b bx @12
aisins.

  
 
 

Ondura 28 ib boxes @
Sultana 1 Crown... @
Sultana 2Crown....... @
Sultana 3Crown....... @
Sultana 4 Crown....... @
Sultana § Crown....... @
Sultana 6 Crown..... - @
Sultana package....... @
FARINACEOUS GOODS.
Parina.
2411b. packages.......... 1 50
Bulk, per 100 ibs..... .... 3 50
Grits.
Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s Brand.

G7 A

Mrs

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ice Crt

 

24 2 1b. packages........... 1 80
apo Tha. ieee... 5... 270
200 lb. barrels.. . +05 10
Hominy.
Rano. 2 50
Flake, 50 lb. drums....... 100
Dried tama . ....---..---- 3%
Medium Hand Picked.... 1 10

Maccaroni and Vermicelli.
Domestic, 10 1b. box...... 60
Imported, 25 lb. box.. ... 250

  

Pear! Barley.
COMMON. ... ...-.... +--+ 2 00
COREES 2 2 scce eos ese s-s 2 2
Empire ........-.----+++++ 3 00

Peas.
ane. ~ Pe sues cose —-
por 1}.......--------
. Rolled Oats
Rolled Avena, bbl.......4 00
Monarch, bbl........... .3 50
Monarch, % bbl.......... 1 88
Monarch, 90 1b sacks...... 1 65
uaker, CAS@S.......-...-- 3 20
uron, CAseS...... 1%
4
East India......... 3%
Ta
Flake .......cecee- cess 3%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  
 

Salt Fish. GUNPOWDER.
Rifle—Dupont’s.
ie AU one ts sca cane 400
Georges cured.......... @4 | Half Kegs... 2 25
Georges genuine...... @5 Quarter Kegs es 1%
Georges selected...... @ 5% Roa a 30
Strips or bricks....... 6 @9 | 4% 1b. cans........-c0c00ee ee 18
— Choke Bore—Dupont’s.
Holland white hoops, bbl. 6& 00
Holland white hoop %bbl 4 50 wg ooo
Holland, % bbl........... 2 60 | Half Kegs.....
Holland white hoop, keg. 68 ——. enh
— white hoop mchs 70 ROD: COMB. oc. oo. cscs ssc see

Grwerian.. ......-...-.
Round 100 Tbs ee 2% Eagie Duck—Dupont's.
Round 40 Ibs........----. iii ee 8 00
BORO. 2... cvccccccesccce 14 Half Kegs..... ee 425

Mack — ol. cae =
Mess 100 Ibs. : 15 00 ‘ BO. eck | sete neem
ess :
Mees 10 lbs.. . 16 JELLY.
Mess 8 lbs.. - 135] 15 1b palls...........--- +--+ 35
No. 1 100 ibs. . . 13 3 | 30 Ib pails.... 20. 6. eee 65
No.1 401bs . 560
. : . _ gee oy ee sees : = LYB.
No.1 8 ibs... -------""" 3 59 | Condensed, 2 dos .........- 1'20
No. 2 fe De Coesea cease - Condensed. 4 dos .........-2 &
No. Wibs............-..
No.2 6 ibe............... LICORICB.
Trout: = «..—«s—iéiy mre.....---. ---------- ~~ <r -- 30
No. 1 100 Ibs Ges 5% Se oS .
an... ea
No. i 19 Ibe. ee 68 POO. oc cec cass cae cess oes 10
Si Gis... .2.....-
Whitefis E MBAT.
_ 3 pa ase 2 5
No. 1 No.2 Fem Ideal, oz. in case........-
100 the... ..-. i
nie .....- 3 00 1 30 MATCHES
10 lbs........ 81 40| Diamond Match Co.’s brands.
8 lbs......-. 68 85 | No. 9 sulphur.........------ 16
Anchor Parlor.......------- 1 70
No. 2 Home.........-----+:> 110
Export Parlor.........----- 4 00
MOLASSES.
New Orleans.
Black. ll
Ws eons eee 14
— os cece eaiiee =
AA a, tee wee ee
oO a Kettle.........-005+- 25@35
Fal f-barrels 2c extra.
MUSTARD.
Horse Radish, 1 doz.......-- 1%
i , Horse Radish, 2 doz......--. 3 50
—- Bayle’s Celery, 1 doz i
D.C. Vanilla D.C. Lemon y , cat ts
20z......1 0 aca
83 0z..----1 50 00 PIPES.
40z.. ...2 00 40 | Clay, No. 216........------- 1 70
Gox....-- 3 00 00 | Clay, T. D. full count...... 65
No. : : = = Ib, NO. 8.... 2... eee eee ee 85
No. 10. .
No. 2T.1 25 80 POTASH.
No. 37.2 00 2] 48 cans in case.
No 4T.2 40 50 | Babbitt’s........-...------- 4 00
Pure Brand. Penna Salt Co.’s.......-.-- 3
ternal 6 oe —-

oz. Taper Panel..
ae. 7% 190 Medium.
$3 oz. Taper Panel. 1 35 2 00 | Barrels, 1,200 count........ 3%
4 oz. Taper Panel..1 60 2 25 | Half bbls, 600 count........ 2 38

Souders’. Small.

Oval bottle, with corkscrew. | Barrels, 2,400 count....... 4%
Best in the world for the Half bbls 1,200 count...... 2 88
—— RICE.

Domestic.
Carolina head.............. 6%
dos Carolina No.1...........- 5
5 Carolina No. 2.......-..--- 4
Broken........-..2++-+see+- 3%
imported.
Japan, No.1......... 5%@ 6
Japan, No.2 .- - 44@5
90 | Java, fancy head...... 5 @5K
Java, No. 1........---- 5 @
mee | tee @
SALERATUS.
Packed 60 lbs. in box.
CRMTOINS ..... . ocuicw en soieceees 3 3C
Deland’s .... ......06 seceeses 3 15
Dwight’s ..........---2-+e0-+ 3
Taylor’s.........-e0++ -++---3 00
60 lb.
case
$3.15
SAL SODA.
Granulated, bbis........ . 7%
mnaees: 5 >. — cco eaan . ae 100 ib cases. . =
. F. an OXeS.... i one ecu eke
ae Lump, 145]b kegs.........- 85

 

SNUFF.
Scotch, in bladders......... 87
Maccaboy, injars. ..... ... 35
French Rappee, in jars..... 48

SBEDS.
Pe
Canary, Smyrma........... 3%
ee 8
Cardamon, Malabar ..... 60
ON osc, oes cna 11
Hemp, Russian.......... 3%
Mixed ate os os 4%
— wntie......-... 5

OR os ete eee

MOOR oc sees ee 4%
Cuttle Boné............... 20

SALT.

Diamond Crystal.

Table, cases, 24 3-lb boxes..
Table, barrels, 100 3 1b bags.
Table, barrels, 407 lb bags.
Butter, barrels, 280 1b. bnik.

 
  
 
 

Butter, barrels, 20 14 lbbags.

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

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

Common Grades.

1003 Ip aaees..... .:.-....- 1 95
O0S-tp anens...............- 1 80
23 10%) sacks. ........-.--<- 1 65

Worcester.

50 4 Ib. cartons........... 8 25
115 21h. sacks...:. .<.:..: 400
OO 5 i. ceens..:.......... 3%
2214 lb. sacks... ...-8 50
3010 lb. sacks... .-3 50
28 lb. linen sacks. =
56 lb. linen sacks. - 60
Bulk in barrels... . .2 50
Warsaw.
56-lb dairy in drill bags..... 30
28-lb dairy in drill bags..... 15
Ashton.
56-lb dairy in linen sacks... 60
Higgins.
56-lb dairy in linen sacks... 60
Solar Rock.

SG1d GAGkKsR.... 0... 2... al
Common.
Granulated Fine..... ae a 70
Medium Fine.............. 70
SOAP.

RIOGIG DON... i. 3. Ls 275
5 box lots, delivered........2 70
10 box lots, delivered........ 2 65

JAS. 8. KIRK & GO.’S BRANDS.

American Family, wrp’d....2 66

Weme. os ee 275
OE i tects seek 2 20
SUNN oo ic u cece ss 2 50
White Russian.............. 2 35
White Cloud, laundry...... 6 25
White Cloud, toilet......... 3 50
Dusky Diamond, 50 6 oz....2 10
Dusky Diamond, 50 8 0z....3 00
Blue India, 100 % 1b......... 3 00
Oe ee ee 3 50
ee 2 50
SCHULTE SOAP CO.’S BRANDS

Clydesdale, 100 cakes, 75 Ibe. ... . 2%
No-Tax, 100 cakes, 62 1-2 lbs... .2 00
Family, 75 cakes, 75 lbs....... 2 50

German Mottled, 60 cakes, 60 Ibs. .1 75
Cocoa Castile, 18 Ibs., cut 1-4&1-2..1 80
Chipped Soap for Laundries.

Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands.

30 | O14 Country, 801-Ib. bars ..2 75

Good Cheer, 60 1-lb. bars....3 7%

Uno, 100 %-lb. bars.......... 2 50
Doll, 100 10-oz. bars......... 2 06
Scouring.

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

Ns oon sens Gs cel ee 5%
Kegs, Englisb............... 4%

 

 

 

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SPICES.
Whole Sifted.

an HOG ee 13

assia, China in mats....... 122
ous Batavia in bund....25
Cassia, Saigon in rolls...... 32
Cloves, Amboyna........... 14
Cloves, Zanzibar............ 2
Mace, ‘Batavia Pe eieiee td cow c 55
Nutmegs, fancy............. 60
Nutmegs, ING fo... ce: 50
Nutmegs, No. 2..

5
Pepper Singapore, black... .11
Pepper, — white.. .12

Pepper, angs.:..............
Pure Seana in Bulk.
MTISpMOS 02. ee 15
Cassia, Batavia ............. 30
Cassia, Saigon.......... ...40
Cloves, Zanzibar............ 14
Ginger, African............ 15
Ginger, Cochin.............18
Ginger, Jamaica............ =
Mace, Batavia..............
Muntare ss ixGI8
INGORE 2... 40@50
Pepper, Sing , black ........ 13
Pepper, Sing., white.. -.20
Pepper, Cayenne............ “+120
e. a eal al ay sora
SYRUPS
Corn.

BOO sc te
Half bbis 2
¥% doz. 1 gallon cans.......1 50
1 doz. % gallon cans. Senlarc 1 7%
2 doz. 14 gallon cans ..... 1%

vure Vane.
OU i os ee ca acs 16
ee ee ee 20
CnOIee es F'-5)

STARCH.

 

Kingsford’s Corn.

40 1-lb OMe ee 6
2011b es ene pera ccrcleie 614
Kingsford’s Silver Gloss.

40 1-lb souenies Se cme ewae 6%
Glb boxed...5.............. 7
Diamond.

64 10c packages ........... 5 00
128 5c packages......... .. 5 00

g
32 10c and 64 5c packages...5 00
Common Corn.

20 11b. packages... 2
40 1 lb. packages............. 4%
Common Gloss.

Lip packages............... 4%
Sib packages............... 4%
6lb packages............... 4%
40 and 50 lb boxes........... 3%
Stee 3
STOVE POLISH.

     
    

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PEEULE

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No. 6,8 dos in case: erose.. 7 20

SUGAR.

Below are given New York
prices on sugars, to which the
wholesale dealer adds the local
ena from _ —— to your
8 ng point, ving you
credit _ the invoice for the
amount of freight buyer pays
from the market in whic!
urchases to his ship pping pol ag
necluding 20 pounds for
weight of the barrel.

PN ns cs 5
Cut Loaf cass
Crushed. .
Powdered .....

  

 
  
  

SaRsSSR

Granulated in bbls..
Granulated in bags. .
Fine Granulated.....

So

Extra Fine Granulated... ;
mon Coarse Granulated. .

nin nin extn ene ininvin

   

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TOBACCOS.
Cigars.
Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s brand.
Now Brick: 0.2.6... 33 00

H. & P. Drug Co.’s brand.

Quintette ..-... 2.0.62. oo. 35 00

G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s brand.
@

SW 35 00

Ruhe Bros. Co.’s Brands.

Double Eagles, 6 sizes. _—— 00
Gen. Maceo, 5 sizes..

Mr. Thomas...........
Cuban Hand Made....
Crown Five...........
Sir William

Gens. — and Lee..
Little Peggy ..........
Signal Five...........
Knights of Pythias..
Key West Perfects,28z 55@'

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8

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TABLE SAUCES.

Lea & Perrin’s, large... 4
Lea & Perrin’ 8, small... 2
Halford, large........... 3
Halford sm ae ay oes
Salad ee large ee 4
Salad Dressing, small 2

VINEGAR.
Malt White Wine, 40 grain.... 7

 

 

Malt White Wine, 80 grain....10
Pure Cider, Genesee bens eee 11
Pure Cider, Red Star.. --12
Pure Cider, Robinson......... 11
WICKING.
No. 0, per gross.............. 20
No. 1, pergross............°. 25
No. 2) DOESTOSS.............. 35
No. 3, PeEreross.............: 55
Crackers.

 

The National Biscuit Co.
quotes as follows:
Butter.

Seymour X05... 1... 5%
parma! — 3 1b. carton :

  

Family

Salted XXX

New York —

Wolverine

BOMO
Soda.

Soda Xxx.. 6

Soda XXX, 3ib carton.. 6%

Seda, City. ceo). a

Long Island Wafers.......

L. I. Wafers, 1 lb carton .. 12

Zephyretee.... cs 5k 10

Oyster.
Saltine Wafer..............

 

5
Saltine Wafer, 1 1b. carton. oe
Farina Oyster a %
Extra Farina Oyster....... 6
SWEET GOODS—Boxes.
ME oo ak 10%
Bent’s Water.... .... . 1b
Oocoanut Taffy. Me dst ae ee 10
Coffee Cake, Java.......... lu
Coffee Cake, Iced.. - 10
Crackers... 5. 15%
Cumin ce 11%
Frosted Cream.............
Ginger Gems............... 8
Ginger Snaps, XXX........ 7%
Graham Crackers.......... 8
Graham Wafers............ 10
Grand Ma Cakes............ 9
a eee oes 8
mobles, Honey........... 11%
Marshmallow ............. 15
Marshmallow Creams..... 16

Marshmallow Walnuts... 16

 

 

 

Mich. Frosted Honey.. 12%
Molasses Cakes............ 8
Cee 12
WOO OMG R 8
range Gems............... 8
Penny Assorted Cakes..... 8%
Pretzels, hand made ..... 8
Hear Eimen............... 7
pugar Cake. i...... 5... 5c.. 8
Sugar Squares............ 9
Vanilla Wafers........... 14
SCAMIAS oo os cc 12%
Oils.
Barrels.
Eocene... @11%
XXX W.W.Mich.Hdlt" @ 9%
W W Michigan........ @9
Diamond White....... 3 :
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Candies. (irains and Feedstuffs Provisions.
Stick Candy. Wheat. . = & Company quote as
“car Wee 62 ae
Standard............ 64@ 7 Winter Wheat Flour. Barreled Pork.
Standard H.H...... 6%@7 Local Brands. — Ses ceoee ss L. 9
oe Twist..... CG] s | Patents 425| Back ....... ....... 1 00@
Cat Loaf... .:...... @8 Second Patent Ce 37 Clear Raek....... 10 15@
Gases | Gtraight ....... 8... 350 eentews ee 10 50
Jumbo, 32 1b GOA Clear ee 14 00
Extra H. ae Gos Gahan |... S30; beam 9 75
Boston Cream...... @10 Buckwheat... ...... 400} Pamily .................. 10 50
Rye 3 00 Dry Salt i
Mixed Candy. Subject to usual cash dis-| ponies ” — 6
Grocers.............. @6 |co ee -
Competition aD @ 6% ‘i lour in bbls., 25¢ per bbl. ad- Butta shorts. 00 5%
candard............ eat
Conserve...... ..... @ 7% | Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand | yams anon Meats. ‘
Royal .. @ 7% | Diamond, ¥s................ 3 50 ’ habit an %
BIDDOM ..). .... @9 | Diamond, 4s................ 3 50 | Hams, 14 lb average ... 824
Broken ............. @ 8% | Diaiwcond, %s.. ........... 3 50 Hanes, = - oe ohn a
Cut Loaf............ @8 Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand. | Ham dried beef Si 2 ay
English Rock....... @8
Kindergarten 8 Quaker, 568...0 |... 3 45 | Shoulders (N. Y. cut). 5%
ce seeeee S 4 Quaker, 45.0000, 3 45| Bacon, clear...... ..... 74@7%
Dandy Pan.......... @io | Wuaker, '48..... ........... 3 45| California hams...) .."_,
Valley Cream.. .... @13 Spring Wheat Flour. aa. tite eeee ees
ee Clark-Jewell Wells Co.’s Brand. rr re toe aaa io@23
y - Pulsbary’ 8 Best ea = Lards. In Tierces.
Lozenges, plain..... 8 sbury’s Best 14s.. ne 43 = et 3
Lozenges, caioa. g ae Pillsbury’s Best \%s.. . £20 ettle eda se A
Choc. Drops........ @10% | Pillsbury’s Best \s paper . 4 20 ss Tb abs....... advance %
ey Monumentals @iz | Pillsbury’s Best 1s paper.. 4 20| 801b Tubs....... advance 1
Gum Drops @5 | Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand. | 501b Tins ....... advance %
Moss Drops.. @8 20 Ib Pails....... advance 56
— = @9 . = a Eee e advance %
mperials @9 2 advance 1
Seite ti ‘ “< isin 3 1b re oo advance 14
nmengee.
Lemon Drops....... @50
Sour Drops......... @50 aga ON i —
Peppermint Drops.. @60 Frankfort... ™%
Chocolate Drops. . @60 Fork ....... 6%
= se Drops. . @% Bios 6
ODS... @30
Licorice Drops...... 75 pee cacaas cn im
A. B. —— Drops 3 “a

ozenges, plain. @50 °
Lozenges, Loner @50 etre Meng 10 23
Imperials @50 Boneless 13 uO

a oe
cee aa te ola ciaeciae @55 Pi

ream Bar.......... 's’ Feet.

Molasses Bar ....... $e Kits, 15 lbs. = St aee cans 70

Hand MadeCreams. 80 @1 00 44 bbls, 40 Ibs..........., 1 35

Plain Creams....... @90 56 Dis, S0tbs. | 2 50

Decorated Creams. . @20 Tripe

String Rock......... @60 Kits, 15 Ibs. 1 70

Burnt Almonds.....125 @ 4 bbls, 40 Ibs...222 122222 1.95

od i
Snares Saraien Ge Duluth Imperial. %s....... 4 20| bbls, 80 Ibs............ 2 25
Caramels. — name 26: ....4 = ae Casings.

No. 1 wrapped, 2 lb. uluth Imperial, 4%s....... 4 i 20

boxes @35 | Lemon & Wheeler Co.’s Brand. aan middle attr e ee eens 3%
No. 1 1 wrapped, 3 Ib. Gold Medal %s............. ia _

oe co @50 | Gold Medal s............. 4 20 Sica s+ 60
No. 2 wrapped, 2 Ib. Gold Medal ¥%s............. 410 Bu itterine.
Se Parisian, ¥s................ 4.30 | Rolls, dairy............. 9%
Parisian, 4e........... ... 4 20| Solid, dairy. 22.7)". ae
Parisian, $60.00 0000 4 10| Rells, creamery . 14
Fruits Olney & Judson ’s Brand. Solid, creamery . “+ 138%
. Ceregota, 368................ 4 40 Canned Mea ts.
Cerésota, 4a. ...000 4 30 | Corned beef, 21b...... 2 25
Oranges. Ceresota, 48.. ............, 4 20 ang boat, 14 _. ne _ 00
: 0 eer, 2 ib. ...._.
Late Valencias ne @4 00 sic gg ae — s es. Potted ham, rae oe z
Mexicans Florida eg 8. a 5,,| Potted ham, %s....... 90
style box.......... “.. 419 | Deviled ham, i6.0.0... 50
ae eviledham, {%s...... 90
Lemons. Meal. Potted tongue iqs.
Strictly choice 360s.. @5 50| Bolted ..................... 1 90 | Potted po _ 90
= S00 — @5 50} Granulated ................ 210
ancy a @6 00 Feed and Millstuffs.
Ex.Fancy 300s.... . @‘ 00 | St. Car Feed. screened ....1* 00
Ex.Fancy 360s...... @6 50 ar 1 coe and Oats.. 14 59 Fresh Meats.
nbolted Corn Meal....... 14 00
Bananas. _| Winter Wheat Bran.. 00 Beet.
Medium bunches...1 00 @I1 25! Winter Wheat Middlings. ‘14 00 Careesa 2. 6
4@ 8
Large bunches...... 15U @I 7% | Sereenings................. 13 00 | Fore quarters......... 5 @6%
Foreign Dried Fruits. Corn. Hind quarters........ 64@ 9%
Figs. Our tote a — No. 3........... 9 @i2
Californias...... ... @15 Less than car lots......... 40 Sea ns Z @ 7%
Choice, 101b boxes.. @ Oats. Chiaki 6 @6 r
Extra choice, 10 1b Car lots. . tee cones Oe | Bigtee 4@
boxes new......... @18 | Carlots, clipped.......2.72 ee as
Fancy, 12 1b boxes.. @20 | Less than car lois... 82 Pork.
imperial Mikados, 18 Hay aaa
Ib boxes........... @ No. 1 Timothycariote..... 9 50| Dressed............... 4@
Pulled, 6 lb boxes... @ No. 1 Timothy. ton lots .. 10 00 | HO!DS .--.-...-.--..... @ 1%
SnOwlders. ... io... @ 6
Naturals, in bags... @7 ri Leaf Lard....... 6 @
Dates. Fish and Oysters ius
= ss - = boxes @8 Cian cone 6 @
ards in cases 6 rca teeee 7
Persians, G. M’s..... : 5K Fresh Fish. Per 1b, | SPFing Lambs...  THH@ 8%
cases, new...... @6 ee i
Sairs, 601b cases. @5 one sae oN g Cc Veal.
_— oe... 8 @ eet -1 O%
MEE ce @ 18
Nuts Ciscoesor Herring. @ 4 ;
é So eens ¢ » | Hides and Pelts.
Live Lobster....... @ 17
Almonds, Tarragona. . 215 | Boiled Lobster...... @ 18 | The Cappon & Bertsch Leather
Almonds, Ivaca....... Get Cad @ 10 | Co., 100 Canal Street, quotes as
Almonds, California, Haddock enue @ 8 follows:
— shel - Peel ee Qis Pike 1 Pickerel...... @ 29 Hides.

ASE HeW........... 86 | Pike oo. 81
Filberts ..... O11” | Pe an g “7 Green No. 1.... @8
Walnuts, Naples. @13 Sonam White...... @ 8 | Green No.2 @7
Walnuts, Calif No. i. @i2 | Red Snapper......_. @ 10 | Cured No.1 - @9
Walnuts, soft shelled Col River Salmon... @ j2 | Cured No. 2 : @8

Cant @12 | Mackerel .......... @ 18 |Calfskins, green No.1 @9
Table Nuts, fancy... @il Oysters in Cans. Calfskins, green No.2 @ 7%
Table Nuts, choice.. @10 |F.H. Counts Le @ 35 |Calfskins,cured No.1 @10%
Pecans, Med........... @7%\F.J D aa @ 28 | Calfskins,curedNo.2 @9
Pecans, Ex. Large.... @10 Selects ............. @ 2B Pelts.

— oes = @12 F. a Standards... =

c ny uts per : ARGROES |. 2. @ a So

Ohio, new. @1 60|Standards..../7"7.." @ ig | Pelts: each .
Cocoanuts, full sacks @4 00 Bulk. gal. Tallow.

Chestnuts per bu...... 4 OG Commis... tk 1 7%
Mi Selecta 1 65 | NO. 1. e- eee eee ees @3
Peanuts. ae. 125 | NO. 2..----0eee se eeeeee @2
Fancy, H. P., Suns. @7 Auchor - -amaaie ete ous 1 10
Fancy, H. P.. Flags Standards .................. 1 00 —_

Moastod.... 5.2.4... .. @7 Ce 1 25 | Washed, fine ......... @18
Choice, H. P., Extras. @ 4% Shell Goods. Washed, medium...... @23
Choice, H. P., Extras, Oysters, per a Ecce 1 Unwashed, fine.... ...11 @I13

Roasted ....... chee 5% | Clams, per 100....... is Unwashed, medium ..16 @i8

 

 

 

Crockery and
Glassware.

 

AKRON STONEWARE.
Butters,
% e. = pe Oe aca oe
0 6 ga Pee....

8 gal., a = bese sceaus
a
12 gal., each.. eae
15 gal. meat-tubs, each...
20 gal. meat-tubs, each....
25 gal. meat-tubs, each ...
30 gal. meat-tubs, each...

Churns.
2 to 6 gal., per gal.........
Churn Das sata per doz...

Fruit Jars.
es 4 oe
ee a 4 75
OE - 630
CONG ce 209
0 25

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Milkpan:

% gal. flat or rd. ony doz. 45
1 gal. fat orrd. bot.,each 5
Fine Glazed Milk a
% gal. flat or rd. bot., 60
1 gal. flat or rd. bot., ona 5%

Stewpans.
% gal. fireproof, bail, doz. 8%
1 gal. fireproof, pail, doz.1 10

Jugs.
34 gal., pordog............. 40
‘6 Gal... perdos.... ........ 4
1 to 5 gal., per gal......... 5%
Tomato near
\% gal., per dos.. io. a
igel cach _............. bY

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

No. Gian... 35
a 49
Re 2 ae 58
We Sens 1 00
PR i os se aa 5u
Seeuriy, No. t............. €0
Security, No. 2............. 80
0 50
LAMP CHIMNBYS—Seconds.
Per box of 6 ca
Me. @ Sum 1 32
no 2 See 1 43
mo. 2 Sue... 218
Common
OG OS 1 50
Oe 1 60
Ne. SSG. 2 45
_ - .
~ , top,
wrapped ‘and “abe ae - 210
—
wrapped and labe ed.. Pre 15
Sun, crim top,
wrapped and labeled.... 3 15
XXX Pliint.
No. 0 Sun, ori
wages? and labeled 2 55
No. Sun, crimp top,
wrapped and labeled. .. 2 75
No Sun, crim top,
wrapped and labeled.... 3 75

CHIMNEY S—Pear! Te
No.1 Sun, wrapped and
labeled

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No.2 Sun, ‘Small Bulb,’
for Globe Lamps.........

La Bastie.
No. 2 ee pain bulb, per

ee 15
No. a Crimp, per dos....... 1 35
No. 2 Crimp, per doz... ... 1 60
Rochester.
No. 1, Lime (oe doz). .... 3 50
No. 2, Lime ai. --. £06
No. 2, Flint (80c doz)...... 4 70
Electric.
No. 2, Lime oe a aaa 4
No. 2, Flint (80c dos)...... 4
OIL CANS.

1 gal tin cans with spout..

1 gal galv iron with spout.
2 gal galv iron with spout.
3 aa galv iron with spout. 3
5 gal galv iron with spout. 4
3 gal galv iron with faucet 4
= = iron with faucet 4

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& aASSZRS gezze gare eee $s

ilting cans.......... 7
5 gal galv iron Nacefas.... 9
Pump Cans.
5 gal Rapid steady stream. 7
5 gal Eureka non- — 10
3 gal Home Rule. --10
5 gal Home Rule.... Leica a 12
5 gal Pirate King.......... 9
NS.
No. : a side lift.... 4
No. 1B Tubular...... ... 6
No. i Tubular Dash.. .... 6
No. 1Tub., glass fount.... 7
No. 2 Tubu. ar, side lamp. 14
No. 3Street Lamp....... 8

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

each, box 10 cents.. ..
No. 0 Tubular, cases2 dos.
each, box 15 cents.......
No. 0 Tubular, pbls 5 doz.
a Os
bular, | bull’s eye,

caake 1 dos. each..

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Hardware

Games That Two Can Play At.

The conflict between the retail store
and the adjacent store is one of deep
interest to the commercial world. The
sympathies of the jobbing and manufac-
turing world, as far as we have been
able to gather same by numerous inter-
views, are decidedly with the retailer.
For many smaller manufacturers and al-
most the entire jobbing fraternity, self-
interest points out that the absorption of
retail trade by a few colossal concerns,
who buy goods in the largest quantities,
must mean their own passing away with
that of the retailer. While the com-
mercial world is manifestly partial to
the retailer ia this struggle, there is in
jobbing and manufacturing circles a
strong undercurrent of feeling that co-
ercion against manufacturers’ sales to
department stores will fail to accomplisb
as much as it should along this line.
It is too indirect a method of proced-
ure, if nothing else.

e * +

A friend of mine was talking the
other day with an Iowa hardware jobber
who is thoroughly in sympathy with re-
tail hardware dealers, but feels that
their attack: against department stores
should be more direct in its nature. The
hardware dealer should ignore these
stores in his own purchases and should
request his wife to patronize brother
tradesmen rather than the common
enemy. He should do all in his power
to keep consumers away from the de-
partment store by offering them superior
inducements to trade with him, rather
than to try to compel manufacturers to
sell to him on long time rather than
sell goods to department stores at a
profit for cash. If the department stores
can’t sell their goods in competition
with the regular trade they naturally

won't buy them.
coe

From this party we learned of a re-
tail hardware house who have met de-
partment stores on their own grounds
and gained a substantial and permanent
victory. This retail firm is that of Cur-
tin & Clark, St. Joseph, Mo., and they
have followed the policy of invariably
going the department stores one better.
Let a St. Joseph dealer in dry goods,
tobacco, harness, drugs, shoes, hard-
ware, etc., etc., etc., make a cut rate
on granite ware, say, and Curtin &
Clark would make a better one on the
same goods regardless of cost price.
They have done this so persistently that
St. Joseph citizens have come to recog-
nize the fact that they can always buy
hardware cheaper from this firm than
from the department stores there, no
matter how low prices the latter may
make.

 

 

+ + =

Another case where the same methods
pursued by this St. Joseph hardware
firm have been signally successfully
is found in the business of Mr. Gilman,
a public-spirited merchant on North
Clark street, Chicago, and the Presi-
dent, I believe, of the North Clark
Street Business Men’s Association, an
organization that has done wonders in
improving that thoroughfare as regards
lighting, paving, the removal of ob-
structing signs, etc. Mr. Gilman, not
sO Many years away, did business in a
very small way, subletting a corner of
a store. He followed the scheme of
cutting all department store advertise-
ments of jewelry out of the papers and
pasting them in his window, announc-
ing that he would give lower prices on

 

the identical goods and would guarantee
them as represented. He has kept up
his policy and his business has grown
marvelously. His corner shortly grew to
half a store and soon he was compelled
to take the entire store. He now has the
largest jewelry store on one of the most
prosperous retail thoroughfares in Chi-

cago.
+ ££ %

At the last meeting of the Wisconsin
Hardware Association a dealer from
Southern Wisconsin gave an instance of
the rather drastic method he had em-
ployed to impress his customers with the
fact that he sold cheaper than Mont-
gomery Ward & Co.: A farmer came in
when the store was full and asked to
see some agricultural implement, a hay
rake, I think it was, and on being given
the price as $5, said: ‘“‘Too high. 1
can buy it cheaper at Montgomery Ward
& Co.’s catalogue house in Chicag:.”’
The dealer, having looked up the prices
of this catalogue house, said: ‘‘Mr.
—, I will agree to sell you that rake
for just the same price that the cata-
logue house charges, minus the freight,
if you will promise to take it, no matter
whether the price is higher than mine
or not. If, as you say, you can buy :t
cheaper by mail order than from me,
you are saving the freight by this ar-
rangement.’’ The farmer promised,
and although he demurred strongly when
the Montgomery Ward catalogue was
brought out and the identical rake was
shown there listed at $6.75, the dealer
insisted on his keeping his word, thus
teaching a wholesome lesson to the
group of customers in his store.

+e

There are few games that two can not
play at and the merchant who gives the
department store a few swift twirls st
their own particular game of price de-
moralization is apt to make them pretty
well disgusted with their returns from
the department in direct competition
with his.—Sidney Arnold in American

Artisan.
—__-4.____

An Apt Answer.

Henry Ward Beecher was once ap-
proached by a young man who consid-
ered himself very clever. ‘‘Do you know,
Mr. Beecher,’’ I’ve been thitk-

ing that I would settle down, behave.

myself, and join your church. Now, I
like your preaching, but when I go to
your church and see such menas old S—
and others, grasping skinflints and
hypocrites to the core, sitting there in
full membership, why, the thing is just
a little too much for me. And really,’’
he added, ‘‘I can not join.’’

‘*Well, you're right,’’ said Mr. Beech-
er; ‘‘every church has just such men, and
I fancy Plymouth is not free from them.
And until you spoke I have always won-
dered why the good Lord permitted it.
Now I understand.’’

‘‘Ah,’’ gurgled the young fellow, ‘‘I
am glad I have thrown light on the ques-
tion. What strikes you as the reason,
Mr. Beecher?’’

‘‘Well,’’ replied the preacher, ‘‘it
is permitted in order to keep such fools
as you out of the churches. ’’

——_—___—»2 >

English Door Hinge.

In a new English door hinge the bolt
socket is only drilled part way through
the bottom flange, while a screw is
placed on the top flange to cover the end
of the bolt, thus preventing the door
— being opened by pulling out the

Olts.

——_> 0 .>___
Willing to Be Guided.

‘*Sir, I have six daughters.
one do you want?’’

‘*Sir, you overwhelm me. Which one
would you suggest?’’

—__»> 2. ___

If some men were half as big as_ they
think they are, the world would have to
be enlarged.

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Importer and Jobber of

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BRUSHES

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WINDOW
ORNAMENTAL

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The Hardware Market.

Trade in a general way keeps up re-
markably well, and if the weather re-
mains as it should for this time of the
year, it is believed that the volume of
fall business will exceed that of any
previous year for quite a long time.
There is but little change to note in
prices, as the market remains very
steady, and while in some lines it is
difficult to get orders filled with prompt-
ness, aS a general thing manufacturers
are attending to their customers’ wants
satisfactorily. The one article that the
most trouble is being had in obtaining
prompt shipment of is axes, and, upon
investigation, we find that all axe manu.
facturers are far behind their orders and
it has been impossible to get shipments
made within four to eight weeks from
time as wanted. Manufacturers are
promising, however, to be more prompt
in the future and it is hoped the retail
trade will be as lenient as they can, as
the jobber is powerless in the matter.

Wire Nails—There is no special
change to note in this article, although
the manufacturers have receded from
the recent advances they made and
prices have gone back to the original
figures. In some cases orders are be-
ing taken for spring business with
prices guaranteed to date of shipment,
and some manufacturers are claiming
that higher prices will rule after the first
of the year.

Barbed Wire—The same_ condition
affecting wire nails also governs barbed
wire. While there is but little moving
at this time of the year, there is no spe-
cial change to note in price.

Window Glass—It is understood that
the factories are soon to start up, but,
as there is a great scarcity of glass in
all parts of the country, it is not be-
lieved that this will make any difference
in the prices now ruling, as it will be
impossible for them to get any surplus
stocks for at least four months.

Cordage—There has been no change
in manufacturers’ prices for rope during
the past two weeks,

Reports from other markets are as fol-
lows :

Chicago: Increased demand is re-
ported for shelf hardware, while a much
better business has also recently been
enjoyed in tinware and sheet metal
goods.

St. Louis: There has been but little
change to note in the hardware trade of
this market during the past week.

Boston: The manufacturing interests
in this section are still depressed and
unsatisfactory, which has a depressing
effect upon the wholesale hardware
trade.

Philadelphia: General conditions of
trade continue favorabe, without any
new developments in regard to either
advances or declines in prices.

Baltimore: The month of October has
not been marked by any great rush of
trade.

Omaha: Trade is satisfactory in all
departments, although no boom is on.

Cleveland: The past fortnight has
been one of fairly good business, al-
though the weather has been very un-
favorable.

Louisville: Owing to the yellow fever
scare in the Southern States, the volume
of business has not been up to what
should be expected.

St. Paul: October trade has been
affected some by unfavorable weather
and has increased but little, if any,
over October business of 1897.

San Francisco: Building hardware is
more active than usual. The trade of

 

 

the Hawaiian Islands has increased with
us, as purchases that were formerly
made in foreign markets are now being
diverted here.

Portland: The volume of trade has
been large, with no signs of falling off.
Collections have been good.

—+_~>-0 >

Found the Railroad Hard to Beat.

The Southern Pacific is about the
worst road in the wide, wide world to
fool in the matter of transportation. The
Southern Pacific has such a_ plain
monopoly of California business that it
is not necessary for it to look for fa-
vors, so it closes down very tight. Even
the tickets which tbe scalpers succeed
in getting are so hedged about with
precautions that it is like taking a civil
service examination to beat one of them.

The favorite is a long slip which is
designed to be punched to fit the de-
scription of the purchaser, so that by
no means can it be used by another
than the rightful owner. When one of
these tickets appears in a_ scalper’s
stock, it looks like a porous plaster,
being punctured for the color of the
eyes, the hair, stature, weight, com-
plexion and other details of the physical
make-up.

Once Jim Crawford of Laramie found
himself stuck in San Francisco with $4
and a fearful hunger for home. But $4
was as nothing to the fare back over the
desert. While he was worrying his soul
with regrets he came upon a neatly
folded slip of paper which had been
lost, doubtless by some hurried tourist.
It was one of those pieces of organette
— representing a ride back to Og-

en.

Jim read it over, printed matter,
punches and all, and rushed for a drug
store. He bought dyes for his hair, a
stain for his complexion, got a pair of
blue goggles and ran a concealing
bandage over his chin. A barber took
off his mustache, and for a dollara
cheap oculist made his eyes blue, so
that the goggles were re-enforced with
corroboration. It took ali his money
but 40 cents. Then he climbed aboard
the train.

He had reached Port Costa when the
conductor came around and gave one
hurried look at the ticket.

‘‘This thing expired a month ago,’’
he said tersely.

The telegraph poles were pendulous
with blue and brimstone for two weeks
after Crawford had finished his walk
back to Oakland.

2.02 -
How the Country Press Regards the
Carnival.

Saranac Local: If the stories in re-
gard to the Grand Rapids carnival just
closed are half true, there should be no
repetition of the affair; and judging
from the tone of the Grand Rapids
papers, this year’s carnival will be the
last. There is no valid excuse for the
unbridled license which prevailed and
it is a disgrace tu a city that calls itself
enlightened and civilized that the law-
lessness that was so general should go
unpunished.

Hastings Banner: The Carnival of
Fun, so called, at Grand Rapids” last
week, was only another name for a ‘‘hot
time.’’ With no aitractions that would
dignify it with even the name of a
street fair, there was much to stamp it
as nothing more or less than a Carnival
of Disgrace. Behind masks which they
were privileged to wear, men openly in-
sulted women upon the streets and no
effort was made to stop them. If the
so-called Carnival of Fun is the best
that Grand Rapids can do, in justice to
her name she had better give up any
future attempts.

Grant Station Independent: It is the
universal opinion of all who attended
the Carnival that it was ‘‘more dis-
graceful than last year’’ instead of
**more fun than last year.’’ Even the
Grand Rapids people have come to the
conclusion that it is no honor to the
city to have a week of pandemonium
each year, and it is probable that the
sentiment against it is strong enough to

revent the recurrence of the ‘‘ Ruffians

elight.’’

 

 

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eee 8 80
= yen... 80
ee 80
vee AUGURS AND BITS ee ee 80
MGB. 70 LEVELS
Jennings’, genuine .............,........... 2%&10 | Stanl 7
Jennings’, imitation... 2.0.0... 2.0... ... ..60&10 sicmtesdeeumuauate — ena
AXES
First Quality, S. B. Bronze ................. 5 an ee a n
First Quality, D. B. Bronze................. TO aes 0
First Quality. S. B.S. Steel...... .......... 550
First Quality, D. B. Steel................... 10 50
| BARROWS.
ON 812 00 14 00
ea net 3000 com. smooth. com.
BOLTS —_ 2 a z Sa dee dca ls cao 8 = . 2
2 Os. Oo i he ea
en pee oe ee eee ae 2 45
oe an 50 1... 22
ca os. ee 5
os BUCKETS a 3 20 2 %5
Ce 832 = — _ a lighter, over 30 inches
BUTTS, CAST wide not less than extra.
Cast Loose Pin, figured......... ........... 70&10 SAND PAPER
Wrousht Narrower 70&10 | List acct. 19, be awe dis 50
Ordinary Tackle.. _— a 70 Solid Wyew........... “a ~~ per ton 20 00
! CROW BARS ROCCE ul 75&10
Cast Steel per lb 4| Oneida Community, Newhouse’s....... 5
. CAPS Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s 70&10
ya ee perm 65 | Mouse, choker................... per doz 15
_" ee Ga el perm  55| Mouse, delusion...... WikE per doz 1 2
ee ea 5
CARTRIDGES wuncuod Maches. | 75
Rim Fire. i 50d: 5 Coppered Market............................70a10
Cotta ioe ae Gores ne : wee MAE 62%
Se B& 5 Coppered Spring Steel.................... 50
: CHISELS Barbed Fence, galvanized ............ .. 26
a ne a ee = Barbed Fence, nes NALS ee 1 75
Socket Corner.-.20000 0000000000777 Ee) ee dis 40&1C
ROCHCC RCH 80 sar Bs ee = eines
DRILLS OLEH WCHCGTE... nes eonecnee ss. --.---- is
Morse’s Bit Stocks ............... 5 WRENCHES
Taper and Straight Shank................... ane Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.............. 30
Morse’s Taper Shank..........1./ 21777 a6 & | COC GCG 50
ELBOWS .— Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought ....... 80
c a nigga 64 ows _,, | Coe a Fatemt, malieauic.................... 80
— = ~~ eee doz. net 30 MISCELLANEOUS
orrugated....... Wt ett t eect eee cee ee eens i Bird Capon 50
I dis 40&10 Punips, Cistorm.................. : 90
Serews, Now Hist... ............ i. 85
a SSP enVE BEES Casters, Bed and Plate............. .... 50&10&10
Clark s small, 818; large, $26................ 30&10 Dampers, American 50
Ives’, 1, $18; 2, ee ae ee oa 25 METALS—Zinc
Bow Amationty-----eceneteonse eee eone on eee Oe
Heller's Horee Raspes... 000 20.0.0277101.7"tecatol yx... — 12%
The prices of the many other qualities of solder
Nos. 16 to 20; aoa eee gg | in the market indicated by private brands vary
List 12 13 14 15 | «16. ..... ~—«447.,| 8ecording to composition.
Discount, 75 to 75-10 cae TIN—Melyn Grade
1OntG le Charegae 857
GAUGES 14x20 IC, Ch 1 5 75
Stanley Rul ota ; x ee
niey Rule and Level Co.’s............... 60&10 | 20x14 TX, Charcoal .......0...0... eee 7 00
‘- ee os — List Each moe | = this tate, $1.25.
oor, mineral, jap. trim: ee 70 i way ie
Door, porcelain, jap. Srimestegs ET 80 a a oa settee eeeeee eee ce eeee eens : =
4 a
aa ee ee ee 5 50
eee dha) yg oot ee Pp eae ogee a =
Hata: 818 50. dis 20&10 Each additional X on this grade, 81.50.
“NAILS 14x20 IC, Ch: a ae sts 4 50
4x: A PC, PMs cc wecccccweces
Advance over base, on both Steel and Wire. | 14x20 1X, Charcoal, Dean ................... 5 50
Steel nails, base..... ... te 1 55 | 20x28 IC, Charcoal, Dean........ .......... 9 00
Wire nails, base..... . .... . 160] 14x20 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade......... 4 00
20 to'60 advance.......... . Base | 14x20 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade......... 5 00
10 to 16 advance....... 05 | 20x28 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade.........
GMvanee ks. 10 | 20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade......... 10 00
6 advance ae Co So ei aa = TIN PLATE
RU 30 | 14x: , for No. oilers,
—— Be ee 45 | 14x56 IX, for No. 9 Boilers, { per —: "
ee lead 70
WING SSCA 50
Casing advance. ..... 15
Casing Gadvanes. 25 és 99
Cuntng GAGvance 35
Mimsh (advance 6
Mies Ravatice 35
Pintsn Gadvanee..... 8... 45
Bere: Miaayvanee. 85
MILLS
Coffee, Paruers Cos... 40
Coffee, P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s Malleables... 40
Coffee, Landers, Ferry & Clark’s........... 40
Coffee, Enterprise........... ee ae: 30
eee 3 a GATES
Stonbin’s Pattern... 8... eee
Racpetn ss Genmine. 60410 -D BY STANDARD WASHBOARO
Enterprise, self-measuring ............ .... 30
Ohio Tool C f : . @50
e200! Co.'s. fanty. ol...
po 60
Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy................. @50
Beneh, firstquality. 22.0... 1... kk @50
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s wood......... 60
PANS
Pry, Acme... sae
Common, polished............... Salo & 5
RIVETS

Hron and Tinned... 0 2050s te. 60
Copper Rivets and Burs..................... 60
PATENT PLANISHED IRON
‘‘A”? Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 10 20
““B”? Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 25 to 27 9 20

Broken packages %c per pound extra.

HAMMERS
Maydole & Co.’s, new list........ ......dis 233
eae dis
eres 4c Plambeck dis

20&10
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel -80¢ list 70

Brgekemith’e Gala Mact Aina! Wan’ Me Ne «nee

HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS

  
 

Stamped Tin Ware....... . .......new list 75&10
dapanned Tin Ware. ....................0..- 20810
Granite Iron Ware. .... new list 40410
HOLLOW WARE
ee ee |
es asus ...-60&10
ede es al 60&10
HINGES
dis 60410

Gate Clack es. 12.8...
ee per dos. net 250

 

GLOBE CRIMP,
Per Doz., $2.

 

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SAVES THE WASHER.

 

 

 

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MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

 

 

Ignoring the Little Decencies of Busi:
ness.

The measure of a mer-hant’s sense of
honor is often taken from his observance
or his ignoring of the little decencies in
business,

It is not always the rzt:ng in the com-
mercial agency reports which deter-
mines a man’s standing, in the esti
mation of those who sell him. There
are ‘‘surface indications,’’ as they say
in mining communities, which go far
toward determining his desirability as
a customer and earning for him the re
spect of those whose respect counts for
dollars and cents The merchant who
uniformly observes the little proprieties
secures a measure of good will from his
creditors that will help him over many
a ‘‘lumpy’’ spot on his road to success.

An opportunity to exhibit character
in business is afforded by one of the
provisions of the new war revenue act,
relating to the stamping of checks and
notes.

A retail jeweler, in the hearing of the
writer, declared that he didn’t intend
to put stamps on the checks sent to
jobbers and manufacturers, given in
payment of bills. ‘‘What’s the use?
They will put the stamp on before they
deposit the check in the bank—they’ll
have to—and they ought to be glad
enough to get my check, and be willing
to put on the measly little stamp. They
can afford to do it,’’ etc.

Yes, they probably can afford to spend
two cents on the customer’s check; but
can the customer afford to make them
do it?

The customer does not fear that the
jobber or the manufacturer will ‘‘make
a case’’ and put the maker of the check
in jeopardy of fine and imprisonment.
He counts on the fact that the recip-
ient would have nothing to gain there-
by, except the vindication of his sense
of justice, and much to lose in ostraci-
zing a customer. So the customer saves
two cents and ‘‘soaks’’ the wholesaler.

But it is a doubtful saving. The man
who opens the letter containing the
check frowns a bit, and maybe says
‘*Pig!’’ or some more sulphurous word.
The unstamped check is an object-les-
son among the dozen or more other
checks, duly stamped, which arrive in
the same mail. The sender of the un-
stamped check has lost considerable
of the recipient’s respect, and is either
adjudged careless, which is always a
hurtful opinion, or deliberately mean,
which is worse. He is impaled on one
of the two horns of the dilemma.

The decent merchant invariably in-
closes a stamp for reply to a question
entirely outside of his line of business,
as, for instance, when he asks his job-
ber to give him the address of a dealer
in second-hand clothes. He rightly con-
siders that his correspondent has done
enough to give him the time necessary
to make reply.

The decent merchant, further, answers
every letter promptly; makes acknowl-
edgment of any special favor; in other
words, he undertakes to practice the
same politeness in business which he
observes in his social relations. The
rules of gentlemanly conduct are quite
as much to be followed in the office as
in the drawing room. Good manners
know no limitations as to their area of
display. And while the ‘‘little de-
cencies’ which we have instanced are
such as come to the merchant in his re-
lations with his fellowmen through cor-
respondence, in the vastly larger num-
ber of points of contact with his fellows
in his face-to-face relations he should

 

be equally watchful of the amenities
and decencies which make business a
pleasure and the profession of business
honorable.
—__$—~.2
Jackson Grocers to Hold a Midwinter
Entertainment.

Jackson, Nov. 5—The regular montb-
ly meeting of the Jackson Retail Gro-
cers’ Association was held at the office
Nov. 1, with a good attendance and all
of the officers present

A final report was received from the
Committees on Entertainment and Ex-
cursion, wbich showed the social and
financial conditions to be in first class
shape, with a good balance in the treas-
ury.

Ihe matter referred to in a communi-
cation from the Grand Rapids Associa-
tion was again taken up for discussion
and the Secretary was instructed to
make another call upon the candidates
for the Senate and the House and im-
press on their minds the necessity of
doing away with class legislation if they
desire the support of the grocers and
their friends in Michigan.

A letter from Menominee, asking for
by-laws and suggestions in organizing a
grocers’ association, was received, and
the Secretary was ordered to furnish the
desired information.

C. G. Hill, being in a reminiscent
mood, gave a sketch of the organization
of the Jackson grocers, their trials and
triumphs,

By the request of the Treasurer, the
bond of that officer was fixed at $500,
with two sureties, to be placed in the
hands of the trustees.

By a unanimous vote, it was decided
that the Association should hold the
usual midwinter entertainment and the
following general committee was ap-
pointed, with full power to act for the
Association: Geo. E. Lewis, chair-
man; C. G. Hull, P. W. Haefner, N
H. Branch, W. H. Porter, M. M. Whit-
ney, L. Pelton, H. C. Eddy, J. L. Pet-
ermann, J. F. Helmer and H. H. Nees-
ley.

The meeting then adjourned and the
Committee on Midwinter Entertain-
ment was called to order by the chair-
man. After plans were offered in re-
gard to the kind of entertainment, price
of admission and kind and quality of
music, the following committees were
named :

Hall and Music—P. W. Haefner, N
H. Branch, H. C. Eddy.

Invitation and Tickets—C. G. Hill,

. H. Porter, L. Pelton.

Decoration—The whole of the general
committee.

Banquet—N. H. Branch, P. W. Haef-
ner, L. Pelton, C. G. Hill, J. F. Hel-
mer.

It was decided that the entertainment
should be held in the month of January
and that everything in connection with
the event should be first-class in every

respect. W. H. PorTeEk, Sec’y.
——>2>____
Grocers in the Two Bay Cities Join
Hands.

Bay City, Nov. 5—At the regular
meeting of our Association, held on
O.t. 19, I was instructed to write you
and inform you that we had re-organized
and ask you to publish it in your paper.
We re-organized Sept. 21 and have held
three rousing meetings and hope to
make a success of it this time,

The officers are:

President—M. L_ DeBats.

Vice-President R. M. Sherwood.

Secretary—S. W. Waters.

Treasurer-C M. Baumgarten.

S. W. WATERS, Sec’y.
0

Saginaw— Miss Maggie Herman, who
has been with Wm. Barie & Son for the
past five years, has taken a_ position
with Porteous, Mitchell & Co.

2-2-2

Ludington—Chas. Bloom, salesman in
the dry goods store of Adam Drach, was
recently married to Miss Rucie Caswell.

—___~o2 2

Giving advice to a novice and throw-
ing stones at a dog have about the same
effect.

 

Twenty Out of Sixty-one.

Ann Arbor, Nov. 5—The Michigan
Board of Pharmacy held a meeting at
Lansing Nov. 1 and 2. There were
sixty-one applicants present for exami-
nation, fifty for registered pharmacist
certificate and eleven for assistant
papers. Fourteen applicants received
registered pharmacist papers and s!x as-
sistant papers, as follows:

REGISTERED PHARMACISTS.

S. C. Ball, Jonesville.
E. D. Benjamin, Ann Arbor.
N_ E. Douglass, Ann Arbor.
J. G. Faner, Detroit.
R. F. Graves, Plainwell.
B_ L. Hayden, Ann Arbor.
J. M. Lemen, Alma.
C. B. Service, Ann Arbor.
C. L. Smith, Galen.
W. N. Salsbury, Ann Arbor.
W. C. Schrouder, Grand Rapids.
H. J. Tietz, Saginaw.

. E. Turner, Clifford.
Mary Viertel, Detroit.

ASSISTANT PHARMACISTS.

C. E. Harvey, Big Rapids.

W. P. Harris, Muskegon.

J. McCormick, Grand Rapids.

J. C. Strausbaugh, Hastings.

A. F. Vickery, Chariotte.

F. Wren, Big Rapids.

It was decided to hold examination
sessions during 1899 as follows:

Detroit—Jan. to and 11.

Grand Rapids—March 7 and 8.

Star Island—June 26 and 27.

Houghton—Aug. 29 and 3o.

Lansing—Nov. 7 and 8.

A. C. SCHUMACHER, Sec’y.
——__> «.—__

Pity the poor young man who parts
his bair in the middle. He has to do
it to prevent his mind from becoming
unbalanced.

 

 

WANTS COLUMN

Advertisements will be inserted under this
head for two cents a word the first a
and one cent a word for each

 

 

I AVE SMALL GENERAL STOCK, ALSO A
stock of musical goods, sewing machines,
bicycles, notions, etc., with wagons and teams —
an established business. Steck inventories from
$2.000 to $3.500, as may be desired. Will take
free and clear farm in good location of equal
value. Address Lock Box 531, Howell, _—,,
735
Ww ED —SHUVEsS, CLOTHING. DRY
oods. Address R. B., Box 351, a

 

Mich.
JOR SALE—CLEAN GENERAL STOCK AND
s ore building in smal] town surrounded by
excellent farming and fruit country less than
fifty miles from Grand Rapids. Gord reasons
for selling. Inspection seli ited. Terms reason-
able. Address for particulurs No. 691 care
Michiga: Tradesman. 691
pe S\LE—NEW GEsSERAL sTOCK A
splendid farming country. Notrad.s. Ad-
dress No. 680, cure Michigan Tradesm»n 680
ay PRALLY wot ATED DRU« STORE, DO-
ing a good business in the city, for sale.
Good reasons for selling. Address I. Frank-
ford. Fire Insurance and Reai E-tate Agent,
Phone 1236, 53 West Bridge Street, Grand
Rapids. 667
OR SALE—DRUG, BOOK AND STATION-
ery stack invoicing 500, and fixtures
invoicing $300, whieh include show cases. shelv-
ing and bottles. Dailv cash sales in 1891, $2
#92. $30; 1893. $21; 1894, $34.65. 1895, $25; 1896,
$21.20, and 1597.#2413 Located in manufactur-
ing town. Nocut prices. Rent reasonable, $29
per month. Living rooms in connection. Ad-
dress Ne. 668, care Michigan Tradesman. 668

EST LOCATION IN MICHIGAN FOR A

cold storage aid general produce dealer.
Write to the Secretary of tue Otsego Improve-
ment Association Otsego. Mich 631

RUG STOCK FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE—
Located in best city in Michigan; no cut-
ting; invoices #2 750. Will take good :eal estate
as part payment. The more cash the more lib-
eral discount from invoice. Bus'ncss is now a
good paying investment. Address B. B., care
Michigan Tradesman. 727
— TO20 HORSE POWER PORT-
able engine and boiler, with engineer, to
furnish power during ice cutting season.
Write, «tating terms, Consumers’ Ice Co., Grand
Rapids, Mich. 743

ERCHANTS—DO YOU WISH CASH QUICK

for your stock of merch-ndise, or any part
of it? Address John A. Wade, Cadillac, _—
28

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

XO EXC ‘HANGE— FOR CLOTHING, DRY

goods or shoes, very nice well rented Graud
Rapids property. Address No. 552, care Michi-
g~n Tradesman. AZ

NO EXCHANGE—FARMS AND OTHER
property for dry goods, clothing and shors.
Address P. Meda ie. Mance!’na Mich ——— 553_

COUNTRY PRODUCE

 

 

 

sertion. No advertisements taken for less a
25 cents. Advance payment.

BUSINESS CHANCES.

SS IN DRUG BUS'NESS,
small capital -equired Address Partner,

care Michigan Tridesmam. 761
O EXCHANGE— DOUBLE FRAME HOUSE
in Sault Ste. Marie: hardwood land near the
lake, and nice farm of 160 acres four miles from
city of Fredericksburg, Va, title perfect, for
nice home, wi'h fruit, near a Methodist Episco-
palchuich. Address P, care Michigan Trades-

man. 758
HOICE FARM OF 24) ACRES TO EX-
change for small farm, village property or
merchandise. Address Box 132, Custer, =—

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O RENT IN MENDON, ST. JOSEPH CO.,

Mich.—One or two large brick stores in
Opera House block, suitable for groceries,
boots and shoes or clothing. Wriie to Levi
Cole 760)

Waste {D—A COMPETENT BUSINESS MAN
to act as financial ageiit for an established
concern. Party must have thre thousand dol
lars ($3,000) for cond: tional investment. Remu-
neration, twelve hundred dollars ($120) per
year, expenses and a commission. Address
Lock Box 753, Kal»mazoo. Mich. 759
OR SALE—GiiOCERY ~1OCK IN CENTRAL
Michigan, city of 3,09%° inhabitants. ‘111
sell at sucrifice. Address No. 745, care M.chigan
Tradesman. Tay
ANTED—TO EACHANGE 40 ACKE FARM
for drug stock. Proper'y is half improves,
with dwelling and barn. Worth $80). Address
No. 753. ca e Michigan Trade- man. Td3
YOR SALE—NEW GENERALS! 0. K. GOOD
farmiug and lumbering country around «he
village. Address 752, care m:chigan Trades
man. 72
"INO EXCHA*S GE--$1 00U CASH AND 120 ACRES
good farming land near Traverse . ity. at $10
p r acre, ‘orstock of any kind. John a.
385 West Bridge St.. Gr nd Rapids.
SPLENDID OPPORTUNITY TO BUY A
first-class market in a town of 800 popula-
ticn, fine farming country No competition,
Chance to make money. For further informa-
tion w'ite A. R Hensler, Battle Creek. Mich. 750
|. CORRESPONDENCE WI1H A
party lookine for location for a big dry
Address John
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goods or department store.
Wheeler, Lima, Ohio.

VOR SALE—A HARDWARE sTOCK WITH
residence; good town; +tocs invoices $3 (00.
Wm Davis, Rocada'e Wis. 748
OR SALE OR EXCHANGE—FOK STOCK OF
general merchandise. 50-acr- farm, three
miles from city Hmits; ten acres of fruit, all
kinds; five acres timber; good pasture; good
soil. Address No. 755, care Michigan Trad:s.
man. 755
ve SALE—AN OLD Es: ABLISHED DRUG
store in city of 30,000; good t:ade; low rent;
full prices: one-half cash, balanceon time. Ad
dress 741, care Michigan Tradesman. 1

 

 

 

 

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.. Trave se‘City. Mieh. 381

ANTED—1,000 CASES FRESH EGGS,
daily. Write for prices. F. W. Brown,
Ithaca, Mich. 5d6

FIREPROOF SAFES)

EO. M. SMITH, NEW AND ~ECONDHAND
safes, wood and bric* building mover, 157
Ottawa street, Grand Rapids. 613

MISCELLANEOUS.

ANTED—A REGISTERED PHARMACIST.
Address A. D Mills, Coopersville, Mich.
756

EGISTERED PHARMACIST WISHES SIT-
uation; fifteen years’ experience. Refer-
ence furnished. Address No. 747, care Michigan
Tradesmen. 747
ANTED—A YOUNG MAN OF GOOD AD
dress to represent unique insurance in
State. Good monry forright man. Address at
once, Knights of America, Kalamazoo, Mich
7412
ANTED— LACE, TO LEARN RETAIL
bout and shoe business. Have had ex pe-
rience ascl rk Go dreferences. Address 740,
care Michigan Tradesma ' 740

FROM $2.90 To $45.00

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We carry the largest line of EXTENSION
TABLES in Michigan. Evory one is high
grade. We Pay The Freight. Send for
our new catalogue. (Retail department.)

GRAND RAPIDS WHOLESALE
FURNITURE COMPANY
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

 

 

 

 

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Travelers’ — Tables.

MANISTEE 2225. i

 

 

CHICAGO sire a5. seo.

 

Chicago.
Lv. G. Rapids......... 7:30am 12:00am *11 45pm
Ar. Chicago. ........-- 2:10pm 9:15pm 7.2 am

Lv. Chicago... 11:45am 6°50am 4:15pm *11:50pm
Ar. G’d Rapids 5:00pm 1:25pm 10:30pm * 6:20am
eye oe: Charlevoix and Petoskey.
Lv. G@’d Rapids.......... 7:30am 8:05am 5:30pm

Parlor cars on day trains and sleeping cars on
night trains to and from Chicago

 

 

*Every day. Others week days only.
D ET ROIT. Grand Rapids & Western
Sept. 25, 1898.
aint.
Ly. Graud a Ce ue a OOam 1:25pm 5:35pr
av eer. tsa 1:40am 5:45pm 19:05pr
Ly. Detroit... .... = 00am 1:10pm 6:10pm
Ar Grand Rapids.....1255pm 5:20pm 10:55pm

Saginaw, Alma and Greenville.

Lv. G R7:09am 5:10pm Ar. G@ R11:45am 9:30pr
Parlor cars on all trains to and from Detroit
and Saginaw. Trains run week days only.
Gro. DEHAVEN, General Pass. Ageut

G R AN Trunk Railway System
Detroit and Milwaukee Diy

(In effect Oct 3, 1898 )

 

 

 

Leave. EAST. Arrive.
+ 6:45am Sag., Detroit, Buffalo & N Y .t 9:55pm
+10:10am... ... ‘Detroit and Hast.... .. t+ 5:27pm

i 3:20pm..Sag., Det., N. Y. & Boston..+12:45pm
* 8:00pm. . Detroit, Fast‘and Canada. ..* 6:35am
WEST
* 7:00am....Gd. Haven and Int. Pts....* 7:200m
+12:53pm. Gd. Haven and Intermediaie. * 3:12pm
+ 5 32pm...Gd. Haven and Chicago..
+10:00pm...... Gd. Haven and Mil....... 6:40am
Eastward—No. 16 has Wagner parlor car. No.
22 parlor car. Westward—No 11 parlor car.
No. 17 Wagner parlor car.
*Daily. t+tExcept 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.

GRAND wea

Northern Div. Leave Arrive
Trav. C’y, Petoskey & Mack...* 7:45am + 5:15pm
Trav. C’y, Petoskey & Har. S..t 2:15pm *10:00pm
Cadillac accommodation...... + 5:25pm 110.55am
Petoskey & Mackinaw City....t1':00pm + 6:25pm
7:45am and 2:15pm trains have parlor Cars;
11:0.pm train has sleeping car.
Southern Div. Leave arrive

 

 

 

Gimeinmmati..:- i222... + 7:10am ¢ 9 45pm
Wichmond. |: ...5:.--. 5.4... .. ; 2:10pm ¢ 2:00pn
Cincinnatti.. ....-¥10°15pm * 7:10ar

For Vicksburg and Chicago. .*11:00pm * 9:1:am
7:10 am train has parior car to Cincinnat
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.
= Grand Rapids... 710am 2 1%m *11 00pm
Ar. Chicago......... 20pm 910pm = 6 2am
FROM CHICAGO.
iw. Crieago.....-....-... 3 _ *11 45pm
Ar. Grand Rapids.............. 945pm 7 10am
Trai» ah Grand Rapids 7:10am has parlor
car; 11:00pm, coach and sleeping car.
Train leaving Chicago 3:02pm has parlor car;
11:45pm, sleeping car.

Muskegon Trains.
GOING WEST.

Ly @’d Rapids......... *7:35am *1:00pm *5:40pm
Ar Muskegon........... 9:00am 2:10pm 7:05pm
eames BAST.

Lv Muskegon....... .. *§:10am *11:45am *4:00pm
Ar@’d Rapids... ..... 9:30am 12:55pm 5:20pm

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

“awk Sunday. *Daily.
Cc, L. LOCKWOOD,
Gen’! Passr. and Ticket Agent.

W. C. BLAKE,
Ticket Agent Union Station.

DU LUT . South pre - Atlantic

WEST BOUND.
Lv. Grand Rapids (G. R. & a — +7:45am

 

 

 

Lv. Mackinaw City............ 4:20pm
Ar. St. Tenace. .. ......60..-6e. same 5:20pm
Ar. Sault Ste. Marie.... 12:20pm 9:50pm
Ar. Marque! aes 2:50pm 10:40pm
Ar. Nestoria...... 5:20pm 12:45am
Ar. MOMGces spc cancivsncs,  scagss 8
. Bast BOUND.
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ccs was v does 1:30pm 4:36am
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public? The manufacturers, by constant and judi-
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very presence creates a demand for other articles.

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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

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Can you afford to be without it?

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and the man who invented them will be

forgotten.

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the system of handling your goods as
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