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LP». ° ° e e e ° oa? ° O e ° oe Calendar Season Is Now Here Improve the opportunity to present your customers with a souvenir which will cause. them to think of you every day during 1899. Samples and quotations free for the asking. TRADESMAN COMPANY, Grand Rapids. “MR. The Most Ruhe Bros. Co., Makers. Factory 956, 1st Dist. Pa. SOAR WAV fl 2 Everything in the Plumbing Line Everything in the Heating Line Be it Steam, Hot Water or Hot Air. Mantels, Grates and Tiling. Galvanized Work of Every Description. Largest Concern in the State. WEATHERLY & PULTE, 99 Pearl St., Grand Rapids ee Oe Oe Ot Oe Oe Oy be On th 0 Fa Sa tn bat pba tata ta tnt taba tata tas biahahahes, baad ourdrttd > Pere eee ee See eS CCC CSCO CCC VTC CSCS ee ! WHEN YOU SEE A MAN 4 » 4 $ q > 2 $ 2 you know that he wants one $ 2 a 4 z DO THIS of the $ , > $ Y] BEST5CENTCIGARS 3 $ : EVER MADE 2 3 ... WW. Sold by all wholesale dealers 3 2 il d and the $ > 2 2 $ N CIGAR CO., Grand Rapids. RAPAPPPALS PRAAPAPPOLPPLL AI PPPPPPPPPPIPD PPP IPPPPPPIPIPPPA J. A. MURPHY, General Manager. FLOWERS, MAY & MOLONEY, Counse'. The Michigan MMercantive Agency Special Reports. Law and Collections. Represented in every city and county in the United States and Canada. Main Office: Room 1102 Majestic Building, Detroit, Mich. Personal service given all claims. Judgments obtained without expense to subscribers ee ee ee fe aan ee es i; Holiday Goods i oe if you uy irom us. FRANKE BROS., Muskegon, Michigan. Jobbers in Druggists’ and Grocers’Sundries, Fishing Tackle, Sporting Goods, Notions, Toys, Etc. ON ein a { 4 lerepeebeniioge Se ee ~~ . < - - Sr Nw V4 “ee ee awe When Sick Use THOMAS” Popular Nickel Cigar on Earth F. E. Bushman, Representative, Kalamazoo, Mich. ° e Mail Orders Solicited. ® SS PPR? ap | IF YOU ARE & DEALER k ie in LIME and do not handle PETOSKEY STANDARD you are not doing as well as you might for yourself and your customers. No other Lime is as satisfactory to dealer or user. PETOSKEY LIME CO., = Tice Bayshore, [lich. wy PO RD RDAOLOADLOADADADADADADADADAD AD ADAUDADADADAD AD A GOOD SELLER The Economy Farmer's Boiler and Feed Cooker The Kettle is of smooth, heavy cast- iron. The furnace or jacket is of heavy, cold rolled steel, and very durable. We guarantee this Feed Cooker never to buckle or warp from the heat. It is designed to set on the ground, or stone foundation, and is especially adapted for cooking feed, trying out lard, mak- ing soap, scalding hogs and poultry, and all work of this nature. Made in four sizes—4o, 60, 70 and 100 gallon. ADAMS & HART, Jobbers, Grand Rapids. SHOW CASES OF ALL STYLES Until Nov. 1 we will furnish these highly finished show cases with inlaid wood corners at the following low prices f o b Bryan: gz feet... $4.50 Siret 37-25 a $ 9.25 gfeet ... $12.25 eee. 6.25 Stet... Sirs 8 feet..... 10.50 Tereck. ...—: ‘25 Cases are 15 inches high, well finished, all double thick glass, mirror lined panel doors in rear. Guaranteed satisfactory in every respect. Cases 17 inches high 10 cents extra per foot. Write us tor circulars and catalogue of our Combination Cases THE BRYAN SHOW CASE WORKS, Bryan, Ohio. ea HEYMAN COMPANY _Biowonsiier— ae === This Showcase only $4.00 per foot. With Beveled Edge Plate Glass top $5.00 per foot. PURITY AND STRENGTH! FLEISCHMANN & GO'S COMPRESSED YEAST a As placed on the market in tin foil and under eseaMANays our yellow label and signature is See & ABSOLUTELY PURE Of greater strength than any other yeast, and convenient for handling. Neatly wrapped in tin foil. Give our silverware premium list to your patrons and increase your trade. Particu- lar attention paid to shipping trade. Address, FLEISCHMANN & CO. Detroit Agency, 118 Bates St. Grand Rapids Agency, 26 Fountain St. Facsimile Signature § Liccolu cto 4 —- Jo. ° “Se we OUR LABEL A DESK FOR YOUR OFFICE We don’t claim to sell ‘‘direct from the factory” but do claim that we can sell you at Less than the Manufacturer’s Cost and can substantiate our claim. We sell you sam- ples at about the cost of material and guarantee our goods to be better made and better finished than the stock that goes to the furniture dealers. f Our No. 61 Antique Oak Sample Desk has a combination lock and center drawer. Raised panels all around, heavy pilasters, round corners and made of thoroughly kiln dried oak. Writing bed made of 3-ply built-up stock. Desk is castered with ball-bearing casters and has a strictly dust- proof curtain. Our special price to readers of the Tradesman $20. Write for our illustrated cat- alogue and mention this paper when you do so. SAMPLE FURNITURE CO. JOBBERS OF SAMPLE FURNITURE. PEARL AND OTTAWA STS. - GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. ee OO SOOOOOOO i The Regent Manufacturing Co. 174 Wabash Avenue, Chicago, Offer as a special Holiday Inducement : The Champion assortment, consisting of 40 pieces of “Regent” Quadrupie-plated Silver- ware, our regular $1.25 goods, for $50.00, terms 2% 10 days or 30 days, net, f. o. b. Chicago, including this $1000 Graphophone as our premium to you. Our Silver- ware is the recognized brand for premium purposes — it is honestly made, showy, attractive, newest designs and brings you trade. The present is 2 particularly favorable time to inaugu- rate the premium plan, everybody is spending money and there is no reason why you should not get it instead of your competitor. The Graphophone which we present to you with the Champion as- sortment, absolute- ly free, will draw the crowds to your {J store, the hand- some _ silverware, which you are giv- ing away will make them buy, and this happy combination is bound to bring profitable business. WRITE FOR SPECIAL CIRCULAR AND FULL PARTICULARS, GOOOOOOS 00000060 90990000 00808060 00000008 HH O0OOSSSO 00000000000000000060000000000000000000000000 3 SOOO000SS0000009 0069000000 00900000 00000000 nee seeps. atoanion or Fe ee pera ane (4) cz we Ony ea a) Ve Wy NG X CR ADESMAN GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1898. Number 793 MARANA CLOSING OUT BALANCE WINTER CLOTHING >» Po neeag bargains in elegant Blue and Black Serge, Cheviot, Unfinished Worsted and Clay Worsted Suits, and greatest line of Kersey, Covert, Boucle Worsted, Worambo, Chin- chilla Overcoats and Ulsters, all = manufactured by Kolb & Son, of Rochester, N. Y , only house sell- ing realy All-Wool Kersey Over- coats at 85 50 and Boucle Worsted Overcoats at $6.50. Write to our : Michigan Representative WILLIAM CONNOR P. O. Box 346, ZUMA PREFERRED BANKERS LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN. Marshall, Mich. Commenced Business September 1, 1893. Insurance in force.............+0eee05 $2,746,000.00 Net Increase during 1897 ........ 2.000. 104,000.00 Net Assets oes oo. 05 ee uae. woe 325738-49 Losses Adjusted and Unpaid.......... one Othee: Liabilities .. .. ..0o.4 3.3... te None Total Death Losses Paid to Date...... 40,061.00 Total Guarantee Deposits Paid to Ben- ORCI Ce eee eo oa cone 812.00 Death Losses Paid During 1897........ 17,000.00 Death Hate for i807... 2... 1... 5s ce 6.31 Cost per 1,000 at age 30 during 1897.... 8.25 FRANK E. ROBSON, PRrEs. TRUMAN B. GOODSPEED, SEc’y. FIGURE NOW on improving your office system for next year. Write for sample leaf of our TIMIE BOOK and PAY ROLL. BARLOW BROS., Grand Rapids. AbD AAA bb bd bd bd bbbbd bbb bb bod VV eee ECE OSS SO Oe THE CUNO FIRE! TP afr | , 4 co. « ; 4 ; ae a ee eh he he bo hp Prompt, Conservative, Safe. J.W.CHAMPLIN, Pres. W. FRED McBary, Sec. DAbdobdahbdAa baba bab ba hp bb b 4 + 4 rVvVVVVvVvVvVvVvVvVvVvVvVvVvVvVvVVWS™ yvuvvVvVVVYY?w?*. FVVVV VV THe MERCANTILE AGENCY Established 1841. R. G. DUN & CO. Widdicomb Bld’g, Grand Rapids, Mich. Books arranged with trade classification of names. Collections made everywhere. Write for particulars. L. P. WITZLEBEN. anager. L. J. STEVENSON, Manacer and Notary, R. J. CLELAND, Atronney. ~ THE FORGOTTEN PAST Which we read about can never be forgotten by the merchant who be comes familiar with our coupon system. The past to such is always a “nightmare.” The present is an era of pleasure and profit. TRADESMAN COMPANY, GRAND RAPIDS. Letters and Answers Thereto. There is scarcely a business man rom Maine to California who has not at one time or another raised the question of the necessity of preserving every- thing in the voluminous mail which reaches him. When business was small it was a comparatively simple matter to keep a copy of everything that was sent out and also to file away everything that was received, but with the increase of business, conditions have materially changed, and at present to keep copies and files complete in many establish- ments would be a very large under- taking, indeed. Now and then in the great army of business men one is en- countered who, with the courage of his convictions regarding utility and econ- omy, does not pretend to keep all his letters, and who unhesitatingly consigns to the waste basket many of the com- munications that he receives. Men of this kind are increasing in number at the present time. The difficulty of the matter is to de- termine what is worth saving and what may be unconditionally destroyed. If some things are to be preserved and other things are not to be kept, then a decision must be reached at the time each letter is received or written, as the case may be, as to what shall be done with it. The necessity of so deciding has deterred many a man from resorting to this method of diminishing expenses and reducing the storage space required for his numerous and ever-accumulating store of documents. Occasionally, an original suggestion is encountered still further looking to the reduction of labor in copying and filing. For example, a letter has re- cently come to our attention which had printed conspicuously upon it the fol lowing: ‘‘If this letter needs a reply it will greatly facilitate our office records if you will answer on the back of this sheet.”’ Various utilities are served upon this plan: First there is the saving of sta- tionery, and next there is the saving of at least a part of what is ordinarily writ- ten in the date line. The dating is like- ly to be abbreviated to the utmost limit. Again there is the saving of the polite salutation with which letters are usually commenced, and perhaps also the clos- ing salutation. A letter answered in this manner permits of various abbre- viations, not only in the specific items above mentioned, but also in words and in style and character of composi- tion. It more nearly corresponds to what would pass in conversation were the same message to be conveyed orally. The idea is certainly a good one and the suggestion or request will undoubt- edly be acted upon by the recipient in a majority of cases. The old theory that every scrap of paper must be preserved and every letter answered is gradually becoming obsolete. This result has been hastened by the presence of type- written and lithographed imitation let- ters, the genuineness of which it is as- sumed none but an expert can question. Whenever the business man feels sure he has an imitation letter he destroys it. The habit of destroying useless papers thus commenced soon extends to various other documents. 0-2 Business Requires Experience. During the last twenty-five years there has been a very material change in al- most everything connected with our ex- istence. War, for example, is at pres- ent conducted on very different lines from what formerly prevailed and the change in business is no less conspic- uous. Any nation that engages in war or any man who enters upon business to-day without such an experience and preparation as insure the use of the best up-to-date methods is almost sure to meet disaster. Experience in war and experience in business are alike es- sential to success. It may be possible occasionally to point out a business in whicha man has succeeded without previous experience, but it is far easier to point out a very large number of cases wherein lack of experience has brought on disaster. That experience was lacking on the part of the one who failed may have escaped notice in some cases when the failure occurred, from the fact that some years had intervened between the time the business was begun and when the fail- ure occurred. Nevertheless, it was in- experience that caused the disaster, and the disaster was delayed only dur- ing the period necessary to exbaust or consume the assets of the business, Business can not be learned from books nor acquired at school. A theo retical course in business is only an in troduction to its practice. It requires thorough training to make a successful business man. Employment in a pros- perous and progressive establishment, affording as it does the opportunity for watching causes and effects, and stimu- lating a desire to excel in the duties imposed, is the only practical training school. To enumerate causes of business fail- ures would be an almost endless task. The causes are extremely numerous, but for the most part they are mixed up with one kind or another of inexperi- ence. Buying cheaply and selling at high prices is not the only condition to insure success. Good buying is an art, the practice of which requires one to know many things and to understand many conditions. Speaking in general terms, goods can be bought cheapest when bought in a manner that causes the seller the least expense to make the sale. Therefore, the buyer’s condition of solvency, his ability to pay prompt- ly, his management of the details of his business and other conditions peculiar to himself all affect the prices that he pays for his goods. But all these are things which require forethought; that demand for their proper employment an intelligent study of conditions anda thorough acquaintance with surround- ings, which are only other names for experience. G. W. WERLIN. —_~>-0>—__—___ When one woman says that another is queer, it means that she is too charitable to express her real opinion. Cash Discount Limit. Now that we are entering upon a new era of prosperity, we should not forget the lessons of the depression through which we have recently passed. In perpetuating our enforced economies lie the possibilities of future success. To sell closely and quickly, to credit carefully, to discount purchases and to collect promptly, are going to be the rules from this time forward of the ma- jority of those who have weathered the storm. In some lines of trade the dis- counts for cash will amount to enough to pay the expenses of the business. In such lines, therefore, one should never fail to take advantage of the discounts offered. Some retailers appear to think that a few days later than the terms stated will make no difference. In such conclu- sions they are greatly mistaken, ‘‘ Three per cent. 10 days’’ means just what it says, and the purcbaser ratifies the con- tract of sale of which this is an impor- tant part whenever he accepts the goods. He should, therefore, be as scrupulous to observe that part of the agreement as any other. The clause above quoted does not mean: ‘‘Send the money when you get ready and take off your discount,’’ but instead, it is: ‘‘If your remittance reaches us within ten days from date of invoice, we will give you 3 per cent. discount.’’ Does the retail merchant ever realize that anything less than this is not a pay- ment in full? The amount of the dis- count or the delay beyond the date may be trifling, but the times through which we have been passing have been of the kind to demonstrate that it is trifles which make or mar business. As a fact, the aggregate of such trifles isa considerable amount. Certainly, no fair-minded and honor- able business man would continue the practice of varying from the letter of the contract after once giving the matter careful thought. The practice of exceeding the dis- count limit on invoices is an indication of a desire to get the better of the jobber in little things that often proves a fore- runner of worse to come. Hence, in part, the attention that the jobber is likely to pay to such matters, and hence, in part, also, the reason why the merchant should refrain from such things in the sense of avoiding the appearance of evil. G. S. MANN. —_—__~>-9 > No Agreement Reached. Attempts to reach a trade agreement between the various cordage manufac- turers of New York have failed for the present. The Standard Rope and Twine Co. has withdrawn from the Manufacturers’ Association, which for more than a year has been endeavoring to maintain prices. The company, be- cause of its obligations as a member of the association, is stated to have been maintaining prices, while others were taking advantage of the situation to get business at lower rates. ee Eve is the only woman on record who never turned around to see what the other woman had on, 2 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN People Who Pay and People Who Do Not Pay. Written for the TRADESMAN. In the granting of credit, even fora small amount, the probability of getting one’s pay for that particular bill of goods is not the only thing to be taken into consideration. The real question is, Will the person asking the favor make a desirable credit customer? If he will, and a credit business is being done, then the accommodation should be granted quickly and cheerfully. But if there is the somehow feeling that the applicant is a little ‘‘shaky,’’ that he can not be classed with reliable, sure- paying patrons, that he could not be considered perfectly good for four or five times the amount asked for, then it is best to refuse—politely, of course, but firmly. For instance, a man comes into a store wanting to get a pair of shoes or a few groceries, or some little items of dry goods, as the case may be. It is a mat- ter of only two or three dollars. He hasn’t the money but promises to pay in a few days. He probably will pay that bill just as he agrees to. But it is well to remember that many a ledger is filled with the worthless accounts of people who have paid up once. Having met this bill promptly, the customer feels at liberty to ask for more extended credit. It is harder to refuse now than it would have been before, and is sure to wound the customer more deeply; so, although it is contrary to the merchant’s better judgment, the credit is again granted. Perhaps the settlements are promptly made for sev- eral successive times. Then comes a day when the customer pays only part of the account, alleging sickness or other misfortune as a reason for not be. ing able to discharge the whole. To this unpaid balance a new account is added. The dealer carries the delin- quent a month or so, fearing to cut mat- ters short lest he lose the account, yet feeling also that it is very risky to let more goods go when the pay is so un- certain. Finally, a halt bas to be called and the merchant is left with a large and worthless account on his books, re- gretting sorely that this customer did not ‘‘skip out'’ months before with only that first little bili unpaid. It is not always, perhaps not usual- ly, that such losses result from premed- itated dishonesty on the part of the buy- er. The real double-dyed villain is apt to convey an unmistakable impression of what he is and one does not have to be particularly shrewd to read his char- acter. More to be dreaded are the peo- ple of good intentions who fail to make their calculations come out. Many such live up to the full limit of their in- comes in times of prosperity; then when a rainy day comes, the dealers who carry them must bear the financial brunt of their misfortunes. It sometimes seems that there are gradations of honesty and dishonesty and that they shade into each other, there being no sharp line marking the one from the other. It is a little para- doxical to say that the same person is partly honest and partly dishonest. In theory one must either be‘‘honest as the day is long’’ or else a regular rascal ; but in reality there are plenty of people who would pay all their debts the first thing if large fortunes were left to them, but who lack the rigid self-re- straint necessary to make the sacrifices that would keep them ‘‘even with the world’’ on a limited or uncertain in- come. There are other people who are sure pay but so slow as to make them _ unde- sirable debtors. Enough such creditors would swamp a merchant as surely as those who do not pay at all. As said, there are people of thorough- ly honest intentions whom it is not de- sirable nor safe to trust. Conversely, one occasionally finds perfect knaves, gamblers, thieves and whatnot that are reliable in the matter of paying their bills. This is particularly true of a class of men who resort to all manner of what are termed ‘‘sharp practices’’ in their dealings. They may be so unscrupulous that they will take the last dollar of a widow or orphan by a process not short of actual stealing and suffer nevera qualm of conscience, but from motives of pride or policy they do not wish to be annoyed by the importunities of col- lecting butchers and grocers and so pay up. Always to know when and where not to extend credit would make the mer- chant’s pillow soft and keep the silver from his raven locks. QUILLO. 0 Banana Flour the Next Cereal. The next dietetic fad is going to be banana flour. Manufacturers are ex- perimenting in this direction, and promise soon a meal that will keep as long as wheat flour and make a much more nutritious bread. As already the demand for whole-wheat flour is giving place to some newer fad, this new al- bumen will undoubtedly meet a quick welcome when it comes. The use of the banana has developed its great value as an article of food, and the great army of banana consumers are prepared to accept eagerly its further develop- ment. > + The average woman is as proud of the trouble she has with the hired girl as she is of her new bonnet. The Lamb Glove & Mitten 6o., 1. W. LAMB, original inventor of the Lamb Knitting Machine, President and Superintendent. of PERRY, MICH., controls a large number of the latest and best inventions of Mr. Lamb. It is making a very desirable line of KNIT HAND WEAR The trade is assured that its interests will be promoted by handling these goods. We have.. ; A line of Men’s and Wo- men’s Medium Priced Shoes that are Money Winners. The most of them sold at Bill Price. We are still making the Men’s Heavy Shoes in Oil Grain and Satin; also carry Snedicor & Hatha way’s Shoes at Factory Pricein Men’s, Boys’ and Youths’. Lycoming and Keystone Rubbers are the best. See our Salesmen or send mail orders. GEO. H. REEDER & CO., 19 S. Ionia St., Grand Rapids, Mich. : : : : '939333IFI3339339993099939393939339399993999; gpemanescoeeee Twenty-Five Days more and the Holiday season of ’98 will be a matter of history. That it will be a “record breaker” is a foregone conclusion. The signs of the times point that way. Are You Prepared for It? Umbrellas. Always popular as a Christmas gift. We havea fine line both in men’s and ladies’ goods, siik with steel rods, paragon frames and nobby handles, at a good range of prices. Gloves and Mittens. Our assortment is good for either men’s or ladies’ wear. An espe- cially appropriate article for professional men is our Alaska Beaver glove, at $2.50 per pair, each palr packed in a neat pasteboard box. Suspenders. Not the everyday seller, but fine goods to retail at 50, 75 cents and $1 00 per pair. A very popular article and a popular price. Give us an idea as to what you are out of. All mail orders receive prompt attention. VOIGT, HERPOLSHEIMER & CO., Grand Rapids. Wholesale Dry Goods. eeeeeeeeceecececceccececeeceeee oe a a NO BUCKWHEAT « That is PURE is the kind we offer you at prices that SSSI SNS < are reasonable. « We sell buckwheat that < has the good old-fashioned 4 We do not adulterate it in any buckwheat taste. way, shape or manner. We believe that when people ask for buckwheat they want buckwheat, and it is for the class of people who know what they want that we make this buckwheat. We believe that it will please any lover of the , genuine article. ? We would like to have your order and shall take ? pleasure in quoting youa close price on any quantity. VALLEY CITY MILLING CO. GRAND RAPIDS. )}> * > Sole manufacturers of ‘‘LILY WHITE.”” > ) ‘‘The flour the best cooks use.’’ wines ac tl lll li tli iin, nll nen sil atlas ssi thai tl te ut nil aN For the Holiday Crades We have an elegant line of perfumes, put up 2 and 3 doz. on artistic dis- play cards, which can be profitably retailed zt 5 and to cents per bottle, Sampson’s Guns, filled with perfume, to retail at 5 cents. Half oz. triple extract, a showcase free with each 2 doz., to retail at 1o cents. A beautiful and artistic medallion, brass mountings, with each doz. half oz. triple extract, to retail at 10 cents. Better goods to sell at 15, 20, 25 and 50 cents per bottle. Dolls to retail from 1 to 75 cents. p A complete line of Mufflers, Ties, Gloves, etc., and many other useful Children’s fancy handkerchiefs to sell from 2 cents up. Ladies’ fancy handkerchiefs to sell from 5 cents up.* Ladies’ Japanese Silk handker- chiefs to sell from ro cents up. Men's fancy and plain handker- chiefs to sell from 5 cents up. Men’s imitation Japanese Silk (initial) handkerchiefs to sell at 12% and 15 cents. Men’s silk handkerchiefs to sell “OY at 25 and 50 cents. Christmas gifts too numerous to mention. JEWELRY, all the newest styles at all prices. P. Steketee § Sons, Grand Rapids, Mich. % MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 3 SECOND HAND FOOD. Leavings of Restaurants Used in Paris Market Stalls. From the New York Sun. Nothing is wasted in Paris, and even at the hotels and restaurants all of the food that is left on the table after a pa- tron has finished his meal is saved care- fully. This is true not only in the third- class places where the leavings will be utilized in ragouts and other mysteries, but even in the most famous of Parisian restaurants, and dessert, salad, fish, are preserved, as well as the meat and veg- etables, which have greater possibilities in the line of reincarnation. A visit to one of the great Paris markets will ex- plain the destination of the collections of food scraps, and although occasional weak-stomached tourists object to this particular variety of French thrift the scheme has much to commend it. Paris markets are not profitable fields for strangers of enquiring dispositions and weak stomachs. The snails squirm- ing frantically about in big pails, the live eels writhing in water tanks or on the chopping boards, the many unattract- ive but delectable delicacies that are usually encountered only in a state of apotheosis on a French table, are dis- concerting in their primitive state and take away a man's appetite. But the stalls where the hotel and restaurant food scraps are sold are really rather ap- petizing. The merchant who owns the stalls has an arrangement with certain hotels and restaurants, and each day calls for their refuse food. He pays lit tle for it, and naturally the management can not afford to have the food of differ- ent kinds collected separately. All of the fragments are put together, but they are saved in a careful and clean way. The merchant separates the food, put- ting all the pieces of fish in one dish, the meat in another, the potatoes in an- other. Then comes the test of his genius. It isn’t easy to make a plate- ful of those leavings look savory and ap- petizing, but the thing may be done more often than one would think pos- sible, and the amount of art lavished upon the arrangement of those viands would make a man famous in America. The proprietor of the stall and madame, his wife, work culinary miracles with those despised leavings, which over here would probably go to the garbage carts and be of use to no one. Madame selects all of the potatoes, arranges a pile of them on a paper or wooden plate, or sometimes upon porcelain. Beside them she lays a small piece of beef, adds a_ spoonful of peas, garnishes the dish with parsley, lays a slice of lemon on the meat, and, la voila! It is in- finitely more appetizing than the food at the American cheap restaurant. Rows and rows of plates are arranged along the stall. Some hold two or three kinds of food that go well together. Some contain only one kind. A plate- ful of rich salad has been rescued from mussiness, picked out, scrap by scrap, from the general melange, regarnished, topped by fresh slices of the egg that was its comrade in earlier and better days, and here the gourmet of the Place Maubert has a Bignon salad for four sous. Perhaps some gamin’s taste is for filet with mushrooms. It comes high at the Cafe Anglais, but at the market one can have it for a very mod- est sum. To be sure it needs warm- ing, and the mushrooms have come to- gether from many sources and have never before met the filet. Perhaps the filet itself is oddly cut, but a slight dose of melted butter and artistic taste can make the dish exceedingly presentable. There are customers who are not satis- fied to make a meal of one or two things —who demand a course dinner. M. le Proprietaire is ready for them. Ona large plate he has put a small supply of each thing that goes to make up a din- ner comme il taut. It grieves him that he must omit soup. The sociable char- acter of that item of a menu bars it from a society where each member must preserve its individuality while deign ing to come to close quarters with strangers not in its set. The menu must begin with fish—say a bit of sole that originally reposed in via blanc and still retains the flavor of good society. Then comes a slice of roast, garnished with tiny potatoes and Brussels sprouts and carrots. Next is a spoonful of beet salad, and following it a sweet and a morsel of cheese. A few coals, a stew-pan and no prejudices against the method by which the menu has been pre- pared, and one has a dinner fit for a nabob. The sweets or desserts and the green salads are the things that most sturdily refuse to assume their pristine charm under the skillful manipulation of the vendors of second-hand food. Pastry will crumble and lettuce and chicory will wilt, but even with them much may be accomplished, and they are not so much in demand as meats and vege- tables, so the supply of them need not be so large. Fastidious persons may object to the hit and miss character of these food supplies, and mankind in general has an aversion to ‘“‘leavings,”’ but evidently the prejudice isn’t uni- versal in Paris, for the stalls havea thriving trade. The business has reached great pro- portions, and is a recognized factor in Parisian life. The hotels reduce their losses in waste, the merchants make a small profit, and the customers get bet- ter food than they could afford to buy in any other way. The only objection to the system is a matter of sentiment, and that objection is weakened by the fact that the food sold to the merchants is not taken from plates, but only from side dishes in which it has been served. Food left upon plates would be too mussy to be of any use, but whenever a man is served with one order of any- thing at a good restaurant he almost invariably gets more than he can eat. He takes a part of the food upon his plate. The rest is left upon the dish in which it was served, and in Paris that part of the order goes to the stall in the market. The idea isn’t so disagreeable after all, when one gets used to it. Many a diner orders a $1.50 steak at a restaurant, and leaves half of it, for which he would gladly pay a quarter the next morning, 1f the thing were pos- sible. The customers of the second-hand food stalls are not of the poorest classes. Filet with mushrooms, even second- hand, is too rich for many poor wretches of the Paris faubourgs, but there is a fairly respectable laboring class whose wages are small, whose sous are few, who are good patrons of the second-hand stalls, and many a thrifty house-wife who could afford to market more am- bitiously carries home a plate of salad or a cut of meat whose origin she will keep secret from the family. >.> Satan As a Landlord. There is only one spot on the earth’s surface that has actually been willed, deeded and bequeathed to his satanic majesty. This spot lies four and a half miles south of Helsingfors, Finland. A few years ago Lara Huilariene died in the little town of Pielisjarvi, in the above named country, leaving consider- able property in the shape of landed estate. How he had come into posses- sion of so much land no one seemed to know, but as he was a very bad citizen it was generally admitted that he was in league with wintahausu (satan) and that they had many business deals with each other. This somewhat startling opinion was verified when old Huilariene’s son found a certified warranty deed which deeded to satan all his earthly possessions. The will was to the same effect. The family have repeatedly tried to break the will, but so far, has been unsuc- cessful. Thus the records plainly show that his sulphuric majesty has a right and title to some excellent grounds in the near vicinity of Helsingfors. The simple people of the neighbor- hood have changed the course of the road which formerly skirted the Huil- ariene homestead and declare that they would not enter the possessions of Satan & Co. for all the money that the three estates would bring. FOLDING PAPER BOXE Printed and plain for Patent Medicines, Extracts, Cereals, Crackers and Sweet Goods, Candy, Cough Drops, Tobacco Clippings, Condition Powders, Etc. Bottle and Box Labels and Cigar Box Labels_our specialties. Ask or write us for prices, GRAND RAPIDS PAPER BOX CO. PHONE 850. 81, 83 AND 85 CAMPAU ST., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. WE Mor T HE WoORLD We are manufacturing an article that will suggest itself to you as most desirable for its salable quality. Itis the Fuller Patented Eccentric Spring Lever Mop Stick It is adapted to your trade; in Neatness and Convenience it has no equal; the price is reasonable; it is being extensively ad- vertised; it has proven a phenomenal suc- cess wherever introduced. E. F. ROWE, Ludington, Michigan. Detroit Office, foot of Ist Street. e © e a Ruderold Ready Rooilng : a e a e Will last longer than any other roofing now on the market. 5 We have full faith in its merits. But if you want other @ kinds we always have them at reasonable prices. Let us ¢ quote you prices, if you need roofing of any sort. e a @ H. M. REYNOLDS & SON, & GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. § a CUOROROROHOROHOROROROROCHOROROHOHORORORORONOROROROHO NUTS and RAISINS ALMONDS BRAZILS FILBERTS PECANS WALNUTS MIXED FANCY CLUSTERS LONDON LAYERS IMPORTED SULTANAS ONDARA LAYERS LOOSE MUSCATELS SEEDED IN PACKAGES AND ALL GRADES OF FANCY CANDIES Our line of above goods is in and we are offering at very low figures. MUSSELMAN GROCER CO., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. FOR CHRISTMAS sesesesesesesesesesesese SeseseSesesesesesesese We Make Them! What? Why! : Alp-Tight. neaters f We manufacture a full line. Write tor circular and prices. Wm. Brummeter & Sons 260 S. lonia Street, Grand Rapids, Michigan. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Around the State Movements of Merchants. Marion—Wm. G. Kinney has opened a feed store here. Glen Arbor—Carl F. Walker has sold his general stock to Henry Nessen. Mason—Oscar C. Hoyt bas purchased the grocery stock of Pratt & Owen. Layton Corners—Wenz Yaklin suc- ceeds James & Yaklin in general trade. Battle Creek—W. C. Sanford has sold his shoe and notion stock to A. N. Buckner. Manchester—Gallop & Lewis, of Jack- son, have opened a branch furniture store here. Stockbridge—Hall, May & Co. suc- ceed the Stockbridge Hardware & Furniture Co. Berrien Center—Rutter & Miller, gro- cers, have added a line of men’s fur- nishing goods. Lakeville—Wilson B. Homer has sold his dry goods and boot and shoe stock to B. C. Layton. Laingsburg—E. Heisey has purchased the grocery stock and meat market of Dodge & Bixby. Alpena—Geo. Stovel has purchased the meat market and grocery stock of James C. Hayes. Cass City—J. W. Heller & Son have purchased the grocery and bazaar stock of James Tennant. Lake Odessa—-John Beadle, of Sara- nac, has embarked in the harness _busi- ness at this place. Alpena—Geo. W. Stovell has pur- chased the grocery stock and meat mar- ket of Hayes & Brown. Onondaga—L. H. Sanders has sold his stock of general merchandise to F. E. Mosher, of Banfield. Lansing—Arthur A, Cramer will short- ly open a jewelry and silverware store at 218 Washington avenue. Dexter—L. D. James has discontinued business at this place and removed his clothing stock to Ann Arbor. ; Belding—L. E. Sprague has sold his bakery business to G. E. Shaw, of Long Lake, who has taken possession. Ingolsdorf—J. E. Blomgren has put in a line of dry goods and clothing in connection with his grocery stock. Hart—Henry J. Palmeter has pur- chased the clothing and men’s furnish- ing goods stock of John F. Widoe. Homer—C. J. Henshaw, news dealer and stationer, has taken a partner. The new firm will be known as C. J. Hen- shaw & Co. Port Huron—Doe & Hastings have sold their stock of groceries to Jobn Wakeham, a former engineer on the F. & P. M. Railroad. Cedar Run—Ira H. Newman has pur- chased the hardware stocks of Daniel G. Shorter and A. C. Wynkoop and will conduct an exclusive hardware business. Grass Lake—D. L. Livingston, of De- troit, bas purchased the drug stock of Waiker & Son. He will make extensive improvements, including a new glass front. Owosso—John T. Walsh, who recently sold his grocery stock to the Johnson Grocery Co., has erected a new store building and engaged in the men’s fur- nishing goods business. Owosso—A woman from Clare recent- ly did a land office business in Owosso. She took orders for tailor made suits for ladies, also $2.50 from each lady. The suits have not yet arrived, although they were ordered some weeks ago. Letters have been sent to the house in Chicago which the woman claimed she repre- sented, but they know nothing of her. The ladies who did business with her have given up hopes of getting either their goods or the money back. The same swindler has been heard of ‘in ether cities, where she worked the same game. Otsego—W. H. Bechtel, formerly en- gaged in the grocery business at Way- land under the style of Bechtel & But- terfield, has engaged in the confection- ery business at this place. Maple Rapids—Merchants here have purchased a bell which tolls at8 o'clock every night, when all the business men close their Stores,according to an agree- ment, Saturday nights excepted. Empire—L. E. Collin and John Fry have formed a copartnership and will erect a building, 36x60 feet in dimen- sions, two stories high, in which they will put a line of farm implements. Bay City—The proposition of S. O. Fisher to compromise with his creditors at 20 cents on the dollar, not including the liabilities of Turner & Fisher, has been declined by the creditors inter- ested. Harbor Springs—W. J. Clarke is putting in the foundation walls pre- paratory to the erection of a single story building, 30x55 feet in dimensions, ad- joining his brick block, which will be equipped for a meat market. Ishpeming——The drug stock of Meloche Bros., which was seized on execution by Lord, Owen & Co., of Chicago, has been purchased by that firm. The business will be continued under its former management. Alpena—The Alpena Business Men’s Association has experts at work making tests at different points in the county for coal, oil or gas. There are plenty of indications that all these exist, and $1,000 will be spent in testing with a diamond drill. Lansing—Cahill & Wood, attorneys for thirty creditors of Mrs. E. Glic- man, to whom she is indebted in the sum of $10,000, have filed an involuntary petition for her adjudication as a bank- rupt, in the U. S. District Court for the eastern district of Michigan, at De- troit, and obtained an order from the court to take possession of her belong- ings and hold them until further orders of the court. Cheboygan (Democrat)—The young ladies of the city have taken measures toward a general early closing move ment. Inspired by the knowledge that many of their own sex have to work from early morning until very late in the evening, and believing that there is no necessity for keeping the stores open so late, they have held meetings to con- sider what could be done. A meeting was held at the New Cheboygan Tues- day afternoon and another one Friday afternoon at the same place. Clerks;and proprietors, also will have the ladies to thank for making their lives much more than a simple monotonous grind of work, eat and sleep, giving them time in the evening for relaxation from business cares, making them better na- tured next day and consequently in a better position to please customers and thus increase business, Nearly every business house in the city has signed the agreement to close five evenings a week during the winter months. Manufacturing Matters. Berville—Wm. Bailey has sold his saw and grist mill to S. B. Allen. Roscommon—J. B. Redhead has started his shingle mill and expects to run it all winter, East Tawas—Ambrose Schill suc- ceeds C. Carpenter Schill in the cigar manufacturing business. Schoolcraft—The Harris Milling Co., of Three Rivers, has established a dis- tributing depot for flour and feed at this place. Caseville—Frances E. Conley suc- ceeds Flach & Conley in the mercantile and lumber business and as_ proprietor of the Caseville Salt Co. Ludington—The Cartier sawmill shut down, as it is out of logs, but the shin- gle mill is still running and is manu- facturing for J. S. Stearns. Saginaw—Charles Silsby will start a camp in Roscommon county next week, where he will cut 300,000 feet of logs for the Palmerton Woodenware Co. St. Louis—Gale C. Brooks and Ben D. Weaver have engaged in the manu- facture of confectionery under the style of the St. Louis Confectionery Co. Ludington—Danaher & Melendy have all their shipments completed and their boats laid up, but as they have plenty of logs will continue sawing as long as the weather will permit. Munising—The H. M. Loud Sons’ Co. has purchased the mill and cedar interests of the Munising Cedar and Shingle Ca. and will continue the busi- ness on a larger scale than before. Ravenna—Smith & Starks, who have been operating the grist mill at this place, announce the dissolution of the firm on Feb. 1. Mr. Starks is con- sidering the plan of erecting a grist mill at Belding. Petoskey—D. R. Jones has retired from the firm of Bull, Bauerle & Jones, wood turners. The remaining partners, Henry Bull and Fred Bauerle, will con- tinue the business under the style of Bull & Bauerle. St. James—N. Stebbins and Charles C, Tilley have formed a copartnership under the style of Stebbins & Tilley and engaged in the manufacture of shingles. Both members of the firm hail from Northport. Jackson—E. S. Bowman, manager of the Faultless Shirt Waist Co., has leased the third floor and half of the second floor of the block on Cortland street now in process of remodeling, and will re- move the factory to that place some time in December. Oscoda—The H. M. Loud & Sons Lumber Co. at this place and also at Buffalo, N. Y., and Edward F. Loud, who was connected with the firm and conducted general stores at Au Sable and McKinley, are succeeded by the H. M. Loud’s Sons Co, Lansing—State Senator A. D. Hughes has sold his interest in the Hart Mill- ing Co. to Edward W. Webber, who re- cently came here from Philadelphia and acquired a half interest. A stock com- pany will be organized with $20,000 ad- ditional capital, and the business mate- rially extended. Detroit—Articles of association have been filed by the Riverside Chemical Mfg. Co. The capital stock is $5, 000. The stockholders are Henry L. Page, Fort Scott, Kas., 175 shares; James A, Cole, Detroit, 1 share; Harry B. Page, Detroit, 87 shares, and Louis J. Bureau, Delray, 87 shares, Saginaw—The mills at points on the lines of railroad reaching out from Sagi- naw have all had the best season’s run, financially, in several years. There will be a lot of logs of all kinds put in during the coming winter in the north- ern part of the State, the good demand for lumber and shingles being an extra inducement to owners of timber. Alpena—The Huron Handle & Lum- ber Co. expects to resume operations at its plant next week. The plant will work sixty men and will doubtless be run during the winter. Many improve- ments have been made at the plant and new machinery put in to materially in- crease its capacity. Ludington—The Flint & Pere Mar- quette Railroad has recently put ina spur of about three miles for J. S. Stearns, near Tallman, and he will get out logs there this winter. The com- pany has also put in a spur at Fountain for Manigold & Stephens, of Freesoil, who will draw the greater part of their sup- ply of hardwoods from that source the coming winter, Durand—The Durand Harrow and Manufacturing Co. has been organized with a capital stock of $20,000, of which $4,500 is paid in, for the manufacture of Brown's patent common-sense har- row and agricultural implement novelties and specialties. The stockholders and the number of shares held by each are as follows: F. E. Leonard, 225; R. C. Fair, 150; C. H. and D. B. Sayre, each 150, and J. H. Brown, 135. The re- maining 1,190 shares are to be held by the company as treasury stock, to be hereafter sold as shall be provided for by the by-laws of the company. ——_>_¢.___ The Boys Behind the Counter. Greenville--John N. Nichols, for a time a grocery clerk in Greenville, has enlisted in the regular army and be- come a member of Co. G of the Fourth U. S. infantry. Central Lake—L. E. Bockes succeeds Mr. McKee as pharmacist in Ogletree’s drug store. Traverse City—Joseph Klugman suc- ceeds Chas. Holliday as trimmer and cloak salesman at the Boston store, Mr. Holliday resigned to take a similar po- sition in Flint. Mr. Klugman hails from Detroit. Grand Ledge—Carl Tinkham, who has been behind the counter nine years for Geo. W. Campbell & Son, has re- signed to engage in business on his own account. Mason—Geo. M. Webb has taken a clerkship in the shoe store of F. W. Webb. Flint—F. A. Gillis, employed at Cole & Cole’s, and Miss Margaret Callahan, also of this city, were recently married at Windsor, Ont., by the Rev. Fr. Jos- eph Bayard. Miss Callahan has clerked for years in the store of Pierce Bros. Traverse City—Miss Mae Collins, clerk in the Boston store, was married recently to Wm. Kress, the Elk Rapids jeweler, Sc According to the opinion of United States Consul Blom, at Copenhagen, Denmark offers a good market for Amer- ican machinery and tools. Until now Germans have controlled the market. Their prices are a trifle lower, but the American goods are acknowledged to be superior. The demand is for engine lathes, drilling and boring machines, milling, planing and shaping machines, slotting machines, boring and turning mills, machines for making screws, grinding and polishing machines, and American tools of all kinds. ——__9»__ Don Carlos is a bluff. He has a little money and can not afford to waste it trying to be King of Spain. —_—__+s¢0 s__ People who take old-fashioned medi- cine are led to believe a remedy is not good unless it tastes bad. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 5 Grand Rapids Gossip The Grain Market. The past week has been a dragging market. Export shipments have been very large, but receipts in the North- west more than kept pace with ship- ments, as the visible showed up _ 1,997,- ooo bushels increase, which makes our visible 24,500,000 bushels. Speculation is only moderate in the wheat centers, owing to the unsatisfactory reports from Russia, which are very conflicting, and investment buyers seem to hold off, waiting for more definite statistics. Cables are of the same tenure, not much change. The continental granaries are at a low ebb, while wheat in passage does not show an increase to amount to much and arrivals at foreign ports are not more than requirements. The scar- city of good No. 2 red winter is still felt by local millers, which may change should our roads improve, and as tax time draws near, farmers may be freer sellers than they have been. As we near December the longs seem to let go their holdings and transfer their trades to May. While many thought the short interest would enhance prices, it seems as if the market was nearly evened up. The demand for flour holds up well, which keeps the mills busy. Mill feed likewise is very steady. The home de- mand for the dairy farms takes more than usuai. It now looks as if the de- mand will keep up, owing to corn and oats keeping up in price. Corn held its own, especially as the weather has been against new corn be- ing marketed. The corn crop in this State is much below the amount raised last year as the amount received here is very large. Oats are up and very steady. The offerings are small, as the movement is very slow and the visible is only 5,500,000 bushels against 15,000,000 bushels at the same time last year; so oats will be oats. Receipts during the week have been 35 cars of wheat, 37 cars of corn and only 2 cars of oats. The mills are paying 62c for wheat. C. G. A. Voiet’ *c* ££ * Not many years ago wheat bran for feeding purposes was considered hardly worth drawing home. The farmer took it along with the rest of the grist be cause it belonged to him, and as the cattle devoured it eagerly he concluded that small quantities would not burt his live stock. But to-day the bran and middlings produced at our flouring mills are in great request, in fact in constant demand by growers of stock of all kinds and by dairymen. The offal from nearly five million bar- rels of flour ground in Michigan mills is largely consumed in the State. The authorities of the experiment station at the Agricultural*College have shown in recent bulletins that bran and middlings not only have a great fertilizing value but are also among the most economical cattle foods that the market affords. By repeated and thorough experiments they have shown that these products are practically as well as theoretically among the very best of cow feeds. They have the right consistency, being well ground, and the proper proportion of the ash elements, the potash and _ phos- phoric elements, to supplement corn meal. It was shown also that in no other product was a pound of actual digestible nutritive matter offered so cheaply, with the sole exception of corn meal. At current prices a pound of nutritive matter in mill feed and corn meal costs about the same, but in addi- tion to the nutritious substance the former furnishes a good supply of the desired ash elements. Mill fed is easily obtainable, and in dry storage will keep perfectly for an indefinite period. That it is cheap is shown by the fact that at this time of year many farmers and stock raisers put in a supply lim- ited only by their future needs and their storage capacity. HO The Produce Market. Apples—Most of the receipts are now culls, which were left by the packers, but which the growers are bringing in and realizing 25@4oc per bu. on. Dealers hold No. 1 fruit at $2.50@3 and No. 2at $2@z2. 50. Beets—25c per bu. Butter—Dairy is about the same, choice grades commanding 17@18c. Factory creamery is in ample supply at 20c. Cabbage—$3 per too heads for home grown. Carrots—2oc per bu. Cauliflower—$1 per doz. Celery—12@15c per doz. bunches for White Plume. Cranberries—Cape Cods, bbl. ; Wisconsin Bell Jerseys, $6.50. Cucumbers—75c@$1 stock. Eggs—Strictly fresh fetch 18@2oc. Cold storage and pickled command 16 @17¢. , Evaporated Apples—The market is in a very peculiar condition, due to the amount of stock held by isolated evapo- rators. Manufacturers hold their sup- plies at 8@oc, while jobbers insist that choice stock is worth g@1oc. It will take several weeks yet to concentrate stocks in jobbers’ hands, when the price will probably settle down around Io@1Ic. Game—The market holds firm to quo- tations, with receipts light on all lines. Heavier shipments of rabbits are now anticipated. Grapes—Home grown stock is prac- tically exhausted and New York stock is too high to meet the requirements of this market. Almeria stock in fkegs is moving well and is keeping good. Honey—gc for buckwheat and !1c for white clover stcck. Lemons—The stock in sight is of very good quality and should bring the quo- tations without a question. The de- mand shows a slight increase. Lettuce—15@16c per Ib. Nuts—Hickory, $1 50@2.50, accord- ing to size. Walnuts and butternuts, 6oc per bu. Onions—Spanish are in only fair de- mand at $1.25 per crate. Dealers pay 25c for White and Red Globe stock’and 20@22c for yellow Danvers and Red Weatherfields. Oranges—The high value on apples and other fruits has had a tendency to increase the call for oranges over and above that usually the rule at this sea- son of the year. The stocks of Mexi- cans and Jamaicas seem to be ample. Parsley—25@3 oc per doz. Parsnips—8oc per bu. Pears—Dealers hold Keefers at $3 per bbl. Pop Corn—Soc per bu. Potatoes—The market is slow, on ac- count of the sluggish condition of out- side markets, which do not rebound as much as was expected with the advent of cold weather. Dealers pay 20@25c per bu. and hold at 25@3oc. Squash— %c per Ib. for Hubbard. Sweet Potatoes—Virginias are steady at $1.50 per bbl. Jerseys are firm at $3. Illinois Jerseys are in good demand at $2. Turnips—2sc per bu. ——_—_» 2» —___ C. E. Morgan has re-engaged in the grocery business at East Grand Rapids. The Ball-Barnhart-Putman Co. fur- nished the stock. $7.50 per and Cherry, $7; for hot house —_—~> 2. Peter Cool wil! shortly open a grocery store at Mendon. The Musselman Grocer Co. has the order for the stock. 0» The man who can pay his grocery bill is looked upon as one in affluent cir- cumstances. ———__> «> is home with a lot cf Gillies’ Phone, 800. Visner New York tea bargains. The Grocery Market. Sugars—Raws are strong and un- changed, with 96 deg. centrifugal firmly held at 4%4c and very little offering. It is reported that large sales of foreign beet have been made ata laid-down cost of about 43c. Notwithstanding this, refiners seem willing to buy cane at the 4¥%c basis. The New Orleans crop is now coming forward and is turning out short from previous estimates. Early estimates placed the crop at from 300, 000 to 320,000 tons, but the latest figures give the production at not over 270,000 tons, which is slightly under that of last season. The Cuban crop is now practic- ally cleaned out and nothing will come forward from there until the new crop in January. Notwithstanding the strong position of raws, the refined market, as intimated in last week’s Tradesman, declined 1-16c on Friday and further declines will probably be listed before the end of this week. Refiners seem anxious for business and favorable terms are offered buyers of large blocks. Doscher is turning out a few softs, hav- ing placed one grade on the market on Saturday and another on Monday. ‘Tea—Primary markets are steady at the high prices which have been ruling for several months. A fair demand is expected in December, and if these ex- pectations materialize, prices will like- ly advance. If the demand fails to de- velop until after the first of the year, there will be other receipts of tea, and prices may be maintained on the pres- ent basis. Coffee—Prices remain _ stationary. There have been some slight fluctua- tions in the Eastern markets, but they were purely speculative and had no in- fluence on Western conditions. Canned Goods—Apples are strong and meet with a good sale at full prices. Packers of cove oysters report difficulty in getting sufficient stock to pack, on account of the strict enforcement of the Cull law. There is, however, no change in prices. Salmon is moving very well and, although there is no spring pack Chinook in packers’ hands and, conse- quently,no market prices for this grade, it is a fact that the best known brands would bring an advance of 15@25c per dozen over early prices if the goods were obtainable. The sardine packing season ends by law on Dec. 15, but is practically over now and the pack is estimated at about 600,000 cases, which is an average pack. Prices on all kinds are unchanged. The market on all va- rieties of vegetables is strong, with some kinds, notably corn, tending high- er. As is usual at this season of the year, there are occasional lots of goods offered at a shade under the market. This is not on account of any weakness, but is caused by the desire of some can- ners to close out their odds and ends and be in shape to meet their growers’ contracts which fall due January 1. After the first of the year we predict a higher market on almost every article in the vegetable line and recommend es- pecially purchases of corn, tomatoes, peas and pumpkin. A great deal has been said by Eastern trade journals about the enormous pack of tomatoes in Indiana and the large stocks that are being carried by the packers. These papers have published estimates show- ing that the pack was nearly half a million cases. From a perfectly reliable and trustworthy source we have the fol- lowing figures, which can be relied up- on as approximately correct: The esti- mated pack early in the season was g00,000 cases. Owing to late frosts and wet weather, which necessitated re-plant- ing, the pack fel! short of this estimate about 25 per cent. and was slightly in excess of 700,000 cases. Of this pack, less than 50,000 cases remains in the packers’ hands unsold. With only 7 per cent. of the pack unsold and fully nine months before the new pack, there can be but one final result—higher prices. Dried Fruits—The raisin crop is now entirely out of the growers’ hands and is under control of the Association. While it has been intimated that the Association will advance prices again, it is hardly probable that they will do so at present. Raisins are now ata price that will net the grower a good profit and at a price tbat the consumer wil] take them. The first grade are practi- cally unobtainable from first “hands, as seeders have taken everything offered. The Pacific grade, however, are in good supply and are giving excellent satis- faction. Fancy clusters are about out of the market. Prunes are very strong and have advanced about a %c in some sections. We have repeatedly urged the purchase of prunes at present prices and still maintain that they are the best purchase in the dried fruit line. Peaches are very strong and will, undoubtedly, be higher. Currants are unchanged for the regular stock, but cleaned have ad- vanced ‘Yc, on account of the advance in bulk noted last week. The first cargo of new dates has arrived and was mostly sold to arrive. The unsold portion is moving rapidly into consumption at unchanged prices. Evaporated apples continue to advance and_ stocks are light in both evaporators’ and dealers’ hands. Cereals—There is no change to note in this line, although the grain market is very strong, with some advances. Rice—There is a good demand for both foreign and domestic grades at un- changed prices. Molasses and Syrups—The demand for molasses is reported fair at primary markets, with prices about the same as last week. Corn syrups are having a good sale at unchanged prices. * Nuts—Almonds are about 4c _ higher. Filberts are %c lower. The large pur chase of pecans, noted last week, ad- vanced the market %c and further ad- vances are probable. There is some talk of a combination among the peanut dealers. Whether this goes through or not, the fact remains that peanuts are cheap and a good purchase. Tobacco—The changes in the price of the large butts of Liggett & Myer’s plug brands have been followed by a similar announcement this week in connection with the P. J. Sorg & Co. brands. The price of the Sorg tobaccos will hereafter be uniform, whether purchased in small or large boxes, and to bring about this uniformity of price the large butts, which were formerly sold a cent lower, will be advanced. Provisions—The provision market is dull on account of the demand for holi- day poultry. Hams are especially dull, and the whole list has weakened slight- ly, with the exception of lard. Lard holds its own because the demand is in excess of the supply. Salt Fish—Mackerel is selling ina small way and the market shows some signs of weakness, which is usual at this season. The mackerel trade will be dull until the middle of January at least. Codfish is dull at ruling prices. Salmon is unchanged and very dull. If a good demand develops, prices will 9 advance Domestic sardines are ull. ce P kg ; a : Ee Nad Se RTE ARS Bigs te Sateen al I) reianeeece eler Ntaitiemene nd. tata tah apalbemlbwe 90 + | § A 6 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Woman’s World Educating Men to Become Good Hus- bands. An announcement which is of peculiar interest and importance to women has just been made that one of our leading universities is about to establish a mat- rimonial course. Very few details have as yet been made public, but it is safe to say, judging by the reputation enjoyed by the college in question, that the course of study will be thorough and complete, and it is more than ordinarily gratifying, in these days of educational fads, to hear of at least one school that is getting right down to business and teaching people something they really need to know. From whatever point of view one looks at this new experiment in domestic science, it seems full of the promise of a better era. For one thing, it is the first rational effort to solve the super- flaous woman problem. Think of those doleful tables of statistics that social economists prepare year after year, showing the constantly decreasing ratio of marriage and the consequent increas- ing ratio of old maids. No woman, not even if she is married—for nobody knows when she may become a widow and need to look out for another hus- band—can read them withott a shud- der. The case seemed utterly hopeless until this campaign of education was suggested, and then the answer to the riddle was so easy that it seemed a won- der we hadn’t all guessed it before. Train up a boy in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it, is a piece of inspired wisdom. The corollary is obvious. Educate him to marry. Put him through a thorough matrimonial course, and the _ selfishness of being a bachelor and spending his money for cigars instead of bonnets will no more occur to him than it would to use bad grammar. Then it may be possible that many men are kept out of the holy estate of matrimony through bashfulness. They would like to marry as they might like to dance the german or play golf, but their early education was neglected in these lines and they haven't the courage to make a beginning after they are grown. They hesitate, feeling them- selves unequal and inexperienced in the delicate finesse of lovemaking. How simply and happily all this will be remedied by the course in matrimony that will turn out only men who are skilled in the use of flattery, adepts at paying compliments, and artists who will even know what to say and how to say it when they propose. Men may not realize just all this means to a woman, but we know our- selves. Deep down in our hearts, every one of us feels that she has an inalien- able right to be made love to in a grace- ful and poetic way, and, no matter how much we adore our own particular Tom or John or how glad we were to say ‘“*yes,’’ if he bungled the situation of situations in a woman's life, we know we have been robbed of our birthright of romance. Just think how delightful it will be to have no more halting and ambiguous speeches at such a time, that leave a woman guessing where she is at, and uncertain whether she is en- gaged or not; no more baving a man throw himself at your head like he was slugging the umpire at a baseball game; no more self-conceited proposals, where the man acts as if he was offering you a good thing and expected you to jump at it. Instead, a lovely, poetic, graceful speech, that would excuse any kind of folly in case you made a bad match and that would be a comfort and a_ pleasure to repeat to your friends as long as you lived. Inasmuch as the professional is al- ways superior to the amateur, it seems unnecessary to speak of the advantage of marrying a man who has_ been thoroughly trained for the business. Of course, there are already many good husbands, just as there are successful self-made men in other lines, but as a general thing it takes a woman the best part of her life to educate one in the part. It is a common observation that second wives have the best of things and are generally treated with a consid- eration and tenderness not always shown their predecessors. Unthinking people say this is because the man is more in love with the new wife than he was with the old. Not atall. She issimply reaping the benefit of the education in women's ways and peculiarities that he got from his first wife, and it is this that makes a well trained widower about the most desirable husband on earth. Having graduated in the matrimonial course it iS easy to see that men will not approach matrimony with the light and frivolous spirit they now show. As a general thing they seem to think that it is to be a kind of picnic, where the woman will always have on a pretty gown and be well and beautiful and smiling and ready to entertain them. They sign for a fair weather voyage, with no provision in it for rains and storms. It is an impossible scheme of life, and it would save a lot of misery if it could be ground into men that they are not going to be any exception to the rule, but that when they marry a woman they marry her nerves and temper and unreason and silliness, just as much as they marry her beauty and grace and sweetness and goodness. It is all there in every woman tbat ever lived. You can’t pay your money and take your choice. You will have to take them all together, and no man has any right to slam the front door behind him and consider himself a successor to the martyrs every time he discovers a fault in his wife. It is to be hoped that the very first thing they will teach in a matrimonial course will be to impress on a man the importance of finding out what kind of a wife he wants before he gets married, instead of waiting until afterwards. Half the time he doesn't waste as much time on a dispassionate consideration of the question of whether she would suit him as he does in picking out a necktie. She pleases him in some way and he marries her, and then discovers that they haven't a single taste in com- mon. Why, in heaven’s name, should any rational man expect the woman who was silly before marriage to be intel- lectual afterwards, or her who was reck- lessly extravagant to suddenly become a model of economy, or the one whose sweet timidity won him to become self-reliant and capable the minute she was married? One would say that to even dream of such a transformation was nothing short of the vagary of a lunatic, except that we see sensible men committing the folly every day. If I had the decorating of a classroom in which young men were to study matri- mony, I would cover the walls with il- luminated mottoes warning them against marrying any girl under the mistaken impression that they could mold her character or make her over. Take her for what she is or leave her alone. The divorce courts are strewn with the wrecks of men who thought they could manage some baby-faced, fluffy-haired thing that looked like she couldn’t say boo to a goose. I also humbly trust, in the interest of domestic happiness, that a good, strong financial plank will be introduced into the matrimonial curriculum. When we consider people being in love we slop over with so much sentiment we don’t give the practical side of the question much consideration. The general sen- timent seéms to be that if a young couple are in love enough, they won't need anything to eat, or else it will be mysteriously provided, which, being in- terpreted, means that they go to live on their parents. There is neither justice nor independence nor happiness in it. The man who is thoroughly educated in such matters at the university will not, of course, blunder into this fatal error as so many of his brothers have. He will have been instructed that he is handicapping his own future by marry- ing until he is able to support a family and, above all, he will have been put through a course of montbly bilis from the grocer and butcher and baker and water works and gas, and so will not be under the blissful hallucination that a woman can work miracles and runa bouse without money. It is within the bounds of probability, also, that he will be taught not only to divide the pocketbook, but to play fair. He will send fewer flowers and chocolate creams before marriage and more after- wards. He will have it impressed on his mind that the woman who loves him who used to dimple under his compli- ments would still care for a word of ap- proval and go hungering without it if he witbheld it. He will remember that even the most devoted of wives and the best of mothers occasionally want to see other people and want other amusements outside of their own houses. Perhaps he may even think it worth while to keep up after marriage some of the charming little attentions, the delicate considerations and the accomplishments that he used when he won her beart. Who knows? The general man is not often consciously unkind or a bad _ bus- band. His mistakes are the mistakes of obtuseness, and it is precisely this that makes the experiment of educating him so hopeful. Dorotuy Drx. —_>-0 > How the Carnival Is Regarded in Col- orado. From the Denver Commercial Bulletin. We recognize the fact that the carni- val is a great advertisement for Denver, but it is at the expense of every small town in the State and the Denver mer- chants should discourage it in the fu- ture. People from the mountain towns save up their money, come to Denver and spend every cent witb the large department stores and business in the town they came from is practically dead for some months after the carnival. The merchants in the outside towns are lib- eral buyers in this city and should not be forced into competition with the very houses who sell them goods. The ho- tels, the railroads, the saloons and the department stores are benefited by the carnival and that is about all. The wholesale houses and other business are at a standstill during the entire carnival week. We, for one, would like to see the carnival abolished, and would be pleased to have the views of some of the merchants in the outside towns. ——> > ____ Never Talked Shop at Home. **No; I never carry my business into my home.’’ ‘*What is your business?’’ “‘I am the proprietor of an intelli- gence office.’’ Sapient Ducks, and How an Express- man Quieted Them. From the Boston Evening Transcript. In the ineffable old town of Wrentham a great business is made of raising ducks, and the exuberant fancy of the native inhabitants consequently turns itself loose nowadays on duck stories. Perhaps the most remarkable ducks in the town are those that belong to Mr. Greening, the storekeeper. Mr. Green- ing keeps his fine white Pekins ina small pasture or enclosure through which trickles—or did trickle—a _ rivulet of water. Mr. Greening, of course, erected about this enclosure a high chicken wire fence so that his ducks coud not get out. On the lower side of the pasture, where the streamlet went through, there was space enough between the wire screen and the water for the ducks to get through and escape, and so Mr. Greening drove down some stakes, side by side, into the bottom of the stream to prevent the ducks from getting out. Then the ducks arose magnificently to their opportunity. They discovered in these stakes, put there merely to restrain their liberty, the foundation of great happiness. They assembled in the riv- ulet close up against the stakes; they paddled the bottom of the stream with their webbed teet; they stirred up the mud and forced it against the stakes, and little by little they made a dam which caused the water to back up and create for them a beautiful pond. And now every day these happy and astute ducks may be seen gayly swimming on a fine, smooth expanse of water which is the result of their own engineering talent. And yet this is not the most remark- able instance of the intelligence of Wrentham ducks. There is ancther breeder out there ;whose ducks possess a nice natural swimming pond, ot which they are very proud. Last fall, when the cold weather came on, the pond began to skim over with a thin crusting of ice. Now these wise ducks had dis- covered that if the water were disturbed it would not freeze over so readily ; and in order that their pond should not freeze, they spent one entire night in going in and coming out of the water, and so incessantly troubling its surface that it could not freeze! The proud owner of the ducks, having been out at a lodge meeting, discovered them thus engaged at about midnight, and stayed up a while to watch them, After he went to bed he could not sleep, and got up and looked out of the window; the ducks were still industriously waddling in and climbing out of the water. The result was that next day, when all the other ducks’ ponds were frozen up, and their possessors wandering and quacking disconsolately on the banks, these wise ducks were complacently floating and paddling on the free and silvery bosom of their charming lakelet. The third duck story is not of the in- telligence of ducks, but of that of man as related to ducks. There was an ex- pressman who started for Boston early in the morning and reached home late at night and who consequently had to get a good deal of his sleep on the road on the way to town in the morning. He would hang up his reins and his horses would jog placidly and safely on while he curled up in the corner of the seat and slept. After the duck business was started this unfortunate express- man generally had to bring into town on his wagon a crate of live ducks, and they made such a racket with their quacking that he could not sleep. He reckoned that he would get used to the noise after awhile, but he didn’t. The ducks always spoiled his sleep. As he rode along he pondered upon means of keeping the ducks still, and one day when he was in town he bought a lot of stout and very short little elastic rubber bands. Next morning he stretched one of these rubber bands over the bill of every duck—and not a quack could one of them utter. The expressman slept the sleep of the just all the way to the city after that, but the clatter which those poor ducks made when, at their journey's end, the bands were taken off their bills is said to have been almost enough to wake the dead in the city cemeteries. D L) ) 3s U Op J) ) O L ) 0D) D p) () i) 0 () J) ) D J) J) S ing dA Vea a) A CLARK-JEWELL-WELLS CO., Grand Rapids. aon ~aud a bal ne , 5 Yo =" eh os iY} ). < ny = 1) Tt D 0 cient f Li Pr . — > lad an "dae | , Ele © 9 - a S . Zz N ee o . . "s 0D | = < . — Le sy ~— WS = men oe panne One a arenes eee Be ae hae ie svhcbuaanainaglte oi cant greme airauttn be’ sre vob étebe. ihe cat apand oy od Sa sas ent Se ORE AE TD RO TOE AR Tat eR RG RE PUNE Sid ante Aa Et ead bocbe ae eedapdenbeniamondieeaca as MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Devoted to the Best Interests of Business Men Published at the New Blodgett Building, Grand Rapids, by the TRADESMAN COMPANY ONE DOLLAR A YEAR, Payable in Advance. ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION. 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ANNEXATION AND COMPETITION It is not strange that the unexpected outcome of the Spanish contest, throw- ing upon our hands a large number of widely-separated and diverse territories, with something like a dozen millions of inhabitants, embracing some of the lowest types of the human family with varying grades of intelligence above these, should cause concern to many students of the problems of our National economic and industrial development. The thought most prominent in produc- ing the alarm is that the admission of such an untoward portion of the earth's inhabitants into a share in our National life will menace many of our most _val- uable industries and may operate to bring demoralization and ruin to our economic and political system. Thus the great agricultural and grange lead- er, Herbert Myrick, editor of the Orange Judd publications, sounds a note of warning in his address to the annual session of the National Grange against the ruinous consequences likely to fol- low in agricultural competition, and calls for a general protest on the part of the Grange membership to’ the members of Congress against the ad- mission of these countries. Then the great philanthropic capitalist, Andrew Carnegie, in his excitement proposes to spend his energy and millions to defeat the consummation of the terms of settle- ment, and publishes an elaborate pro- test, in which he assails the principle of territorial expansion as not only inim ical to our economic interest, but as unconstitutional and contrary to the principles governing our National life. And so on every hand this anxiety is being manifested until 1t would appear that swift ruin is likely to ensue unless we refuse the responsibilities thrown upon us by the fortune of war and turn these half-barbarous peoples back to their night of degradation and oppres- sion. It is amusing, in view of the history of our terriorial expansion, to note the arguments against the legality of such action. There is certainly a difference in the present extent of our domain and that of the original thirteen states which inaugurated our National life. This expansion has resulted largely from pur- chase from the various European na- tions, unattended by other than pacific incidents. The only expansion result- ing from war was that of Texas and the Western and Southwestern territories. Surely there has been enough of this policy to raise and settle effectually the question of legality. The only plausible argument which would seem to present is that the meddling in territory in the Orient would be a violation of the con- verse of the Monroe doctrine. But cir- cumstances may sometimes make mod- ifications of such doctrines necessary and right. It is a natural result of the prospect of improvement in the various annexed countries on account of their relations to us that property owners and prodvcers should look to our better markets and prices for amelioration of their condi- tion. It may even prove that in the generosity of our greatness or the heed- less or selfish carelessness of our law- makers some interests may suffer slight temporary inconvenience; but in the opinion of the Tradesman there is enough of good sense and patriotism in the Government to prevent any serious menace, Some of the uneasiness on account of the new relations seems to be occasioned by the idea that the basic principle of the Declaration of Independence com- pels us to admit the new peoples to all competition on an equal basis. It is gradually coming to be recognized by students of sociology that it is necessary to consider existing conditions in the relations of the various races with each other. The lessons of the premature en- franchisement of the negro which fol- lowed the civil war bave not been with- out effect and there is now as little dan- ger of the admission of inferior races to citizenship while remaining in their degraded condition as there is of ad- mitting the insane or idiotic of our own country. There is no question but that the new relations will bring with them much of complication and perplexity. It may prove to be necessary to modify many of our accepted ideas of National and Governmental policy. It may be neces- sary for us to devise an entirely new colonial policy, involving more of pater- nalism than has been approved in our more insular position; and it may be necessary to exercise control over the influx of products and labor, as we now do with outside nations. It is not a fore- gone conclusion that because we may exercise control over inferior races we should do other than work for their im- provement, subject to their limitations and our welfare; and while the problem will present many new elements, there is enough of intelligence and common sense in our legislators to meet the new conditions with as little danger to our industries as England finds in dealing with colonies which are even worse in racial condition and outnumber _ her several times in population. A lecturer on the wastefulness of American housekeepers estimates that 100,000 families could be fed with the food daily thrown away by hotels, res- taurants and large private establish- ments in New York alone. The cause is said to be the abundance of food and the bad cookery in America. If the figures be correct New York isa big field for domestic science mission- aries. A wealthy New Yorker, to get even with his neighbor, bas advertised his house to let. The house is in one of the swell districts of the city—Trinity Ter- race—and the advertisement reads that the house will only be let to a coiored tenant, one with a plentiful crop of pickaninnies being preferred. GENERAL TRADE SITUATION. While the severe storms on the Atlan- tic Coast have served to materially diminish the aggregate of transactions in the principal Eastern cities, the general situation is decidedly improved by the outcome of the peace negotiations and by continued favorable reports of railway earnings and improving textile conditions. As an indication of the improvement in railways and of the magnitude of general business as com- pared with the past, the eastbound ton- nage from Chicago for three weeks was 283,098, as against 145,038 for the same time last year, and 185,254 for the cor- responding period of 1892. There was a steady but slow improvement for sometime, which has finally developed into more rapid advance, carrying quo- tations to a higher average than has been known since before the panic. Sales of both stocks and bonds have been heavy, much of the buying being of an investment character, which in- dicates confidence as to future improve- ment and steadiness. The speculative industrials showed but a few cents im- provement on the average, although many of the more substantial stocks are advancing rapidly and steadily. With but little price variation, up and down, wheat and other grain activity continues beyond all expectation. West- ern receipts of wheat were over 8,000, - ooo bushels, being 2,000,000 more _ than for the same week last year, which was unprecedented for the corresponding time in previous years. Export move- ment is relatively heavy. Considering the continued enormous iron production it is a matter for aston- ishment that prices have not only been maintained, but that some lines have shown a positive advance. Bessemer pig has risen to $10.15 at Pittsburg and grey forge to $9.25. Car builders are greatly crowded with orders, making heavy de- mand for forms for their use, and plate and bar mills are behind in orders. The textile situation as a whole shows more encouragement than for a long time past. Wool is having a heavy sale in the Eastern markets, although the tendency of prices is a little easier. There has been a slow but steady im- provement in wool fabrics for several weeks and the feeling among manufac- turers is more hopeful than for some months. Cotton shows a tendency to healthy advance, the price reaching 5% cents. Curtailment of production with improved demand has brought an ad- vance in prints to 2.06 cents. THE NEW POSSESSIONS. It is reported from Washington that President McKinley, in his forthcoming message, will reconimend that the new possessions be given a colonial form of government, under civil governors, and that they be not accorded statehood. It is further reported that he will recom- mend that Cuba be governed under a protectorate for the present, and that, after a certain time, the island be al- lowed an independent government. If it be taken for granted that the ab- sorption of all the Spanish possessions is inevitable, then it certainly would be infinitely better for this country that these distant possessions be governed as colonies, and not admitted to the rights of statehood, or even considered as ter- ritories. They should have all the ad- vantages of local government; but they should have no voice in administrative affairs in this country, nor form a part of our tariff system. The colonial policy should be extended to all of our external possessions, Alaska. To give to such countries as Porto Rico, Cuba and the Philippines the right of representation in our Senate and House of Representatives would be a very dangerous thing, particularly as it is always possible under our political system that a few votes may hold the balance of power. The people of these conquered territories are largely differ- ent from our people in race, language and customs. Our laws might be found inapplicable in their case, whereas a system of local government, in which they would have full liberty where not inconsistent with our institutions, would give them infinitely more freedom and prosperity than they ever enjoyed under Spanish rule. The absorption of all this territory, with the many millions of people con- cerned, is a most serious responsibility to assume; yet there does not appear to be any clear way out of the difficulty. The formation of a system of govern- ment for these possessions will absorb much of Congress’ attention for some years to come. We are also likely to have trouble with the natives of the different islands who may be expected to rebel against the restraints which an impartial administration of the laws will place upon the more turbulent ele- ments. including Hawaii and The English meteorologists are talk- ing of making weather predictions three or four days ahead instead of, as at present, only a few hours. They be- lieve that such predictions can be made with a fair degree of accuracy. There are certain areas in or near Europe where the conditions must be carefully watched in order to deermine the char- acter of coming weather. These are in Central Europe, over Iceland and Greenland and over the Azores. Mete- orologists believe that if they can obtain accurate data from these regions they will be able to predict davs ahead. The will of the late Prof. Baron, of the University of Berlin, who died last week, stipulates that his entire fortune shall be given to the city for the pur- pose of founding a home for children, who shall be raised on a vegetarian diet. The Berlin municipality, how- ever, has consulted the medical author- ities on the subject of vegetarianism, and has decided to refuse the legacy The advocates of vegetarianism are en- raged over the action of the municipal council, and they now propose to found an institution themselves to prove the truth of their theories. Lake Superior is in danger of losing its distinction of being the largest fresh water lake in the world. African ex- plorers begin to think that Lake Vic- toria Nyanza is larger. Superior covers 31,200 square miles and -Nyanza_ has been credited with about 30,000; but re- cent explorations have discovered a hitherto unknown bay on its southern side, which so increases its known area as to make it a question whether it is not larger than Superior. Fuller ex- planations and more careful surveys must be made, however, before a de- cision can be reached. It does not pay to brag. An umbrella- maker who boasted that he had been chosen to assassinate Emperor William goes to jail for three years. He has dis- tinguished himself with bis mouth. Strength of muscle is dangerous in a man who has not strength of mind, 4 : t t 4 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 9 COMMERCE AND PROSPERITY. Those persons whose idea of prosper- ity is that every individual should be wealthy, and that this is to be accom- plished by confiscating and dividing all the accumulated riches in the country, are wild and foolish dreamers looking for something impossible without an ab- solutely radical change in human na- ture. The only prosperity practicable is found under conditions that give every individual an opportunity to do his best with the faculties he possesses, and ensures to all employment at rea- sonable rates of compensation. The greatest problems of statesman- ship are concerned with securing the welfare of the people. To keep the peo- ple engaged in fairly remunerative in- dustries is the grand object. When the people are earning good wages, and all who will work are fairly employed, then what is called prosperity is the rule in the land. In the emergenecy which now con- fronts us our lawmakers must so shape our policy as to enable us to find new and great markets for the products of the American people. The solution of this problem is found in the one word ‘‘commerce.’’ Increase the commerce of the United States; find more consum- ers for its products; then its people will enjoy a fair measure of prosperity. All the wealth of modern commerce has been gained in trade between na- tions dwelling in the temperate zones of the earth with those inhabiting the tropics. The reason of this is simple enough, since the nations in the same zones produce like articles which do not de- mand an exchange, while the products of the torrid regions are in great de- mand in the temperate latitudes, and, vice versa, those of the colder zones are needed in the tropics. The only exception to this rule is found in those cases where mineral products do not, like those of the veg- etable world and of the people’s indus- try, conform to climatic conditions. As a general fact, the products of the for- est, the field and of the sea are much the same in all countries lying in the same latitudes, and where manufactur- ers are confined to working up the raw material that originates in such coun- tries there is generally no reason for an exchange of products, because every nation in the same zone possesses the same products. England, France and Germany would have nothing to sell to the United States but for the fact that they manufacture the products of more Southern countries and sell them to us and others. The tropics alone offer scope and opportu nity for the extension of commerce so needful to the prosperity of the United States. Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, Brit- ish Colonial Secretary, in an article in the December number of Scribner’s Magazine, touching on this subject, shows that at the present time the total trade of Great Britain with the tropics is 38 per cent. of its whole trade with the remainder of the world, excluding the English-speaking peoples; and the tropical commerce of the United States is 44 per cent. of its trade with the re- mainder of the world, with the same exception. Yet the larger portion of tropical territory has not been touched at all, or only superficially, and there is practically no limit to the potential re- sults of the effective opening up of these countries to the white man’s en- ergy and enterprise. It is evident from this that the inter- est of all countries in this prospective commerce is very great, and competi- tion for its possession and control is actually threatening the peace of Europe. The statesmen of the Euro- pean countries realize that the most ur- gent duty resting upon them is to find new markets for the products of their poeple’s industry. This is the policy that has made Eng- land so rich and powerful. The little island, possessed of abundant iron and coal, and having a population full of activity and energy, imports the raw products of all other nations and man- ufactures them. The products of this manufacturing are vastly greater than England can consume, and so markets are sought for them in foreign countries. The need for opening such markets has developed the remarkable policy of territorial expansion and colonizing which has put England at the head of the commercial world. The United States has found _it- self to-day very much in the condi- tion of England at the beginning of the present century. With a population of seventy millions, whose labor is sup- plemented in every department of in- dustry with the most ingenious and powerful machinery capable of multi- plying that labor in an enormous ratio, the productive power of the American people is so vastly greater than their consuming ability that great numbers of the people are subject to be thrown out of employment and forced to suffer from their involuntary and unwilling cessation of work. The remedy—and the only remedy— is to find new markets for the constant- ly increasing excess of American prod- ucts, and this remedy can be secured only by territorial expansion, by modi- fications of our tariff laws and by build- ing up a large and powerful merchant marine. Wise men will find a way to accomplish the all-important result, or else the American people must consent to submit to incalculable evils growing out of the enforced idleness of millions of people, and the social and political agitations which such a state of affairs wili entail. The ‘‘ Keely motor’’ incident demon- strates how eager capitalists are for the possession of scientific discoveries that will enable them to multiply power or cheapen production at a small outlay. In order to satisfy these demands, hun- dreds of men are constantly searching the arcana of mechanical, chemical and electrical science for the secrets that will enable their possessors to mul- tiply wealth. Instead of appealing to magicians and enchanters, as in fairy stories, it is now only necessary to se- cure the services of the chemist, the me- chanician and the electrician, and men to-day are eager for their revelations of the secrets of nature to aid them in pil- ing up wealth; but if a mechanic can make a fortune by pretending to in- vent, instead of inventing, then there is no incentive for him.to accomplish more, unless he be a devotee of science. Then he will actually discover some- thing if it be in his power. Ex-President Benjamin Harrison has been retained by Venezuela to represent that government before the arbitration commission that sits in Paris within a short time to settle the dispute between Great Britain and Venezuela _ over boundary lines. General Harrison is said to have received a retainer fee of $100, 000. DOCTRINE OF THE DREAMER. Grand Rapids was recently visited by a Chicago gentleman who delivered several homilies on the thingness of the which, the universal brotherhood of man and other socialistic topics which are made much of by theorists and dream- ers. During his visit here, an open meeting was held at one of the opera houses under the auspices of organized labor, affording the preposterous spec- tacle of a monopoly—and the most tyrannical and infamous monopoly the world ever saw—fathering a scheme of socialistic equality! While the ulterior object of such a propaganda is the pro- motion of selfish interests, the avowed object of the crusade is the amelioria- tion of the poor by the adoption of an idealistic condition of society which shall destroy all property, class and edu cational distinctions and relegate all competition to the background. Sucha condition would, necessarily, dissipate all ambition and reduce the people to the dead level of ignorance and super- stition, thus ignoring all the advance- ment which has been made since the days of Adam and Eve. As to the poor, we are indebted to the highest authority for knowing that they will always be with us. Inequality of fortune is a necessary and inevitable result of the differences in human be- ings. If all men were from birth equal in health, strength, intelligence and moral qualities, then the conditions of universal peace, prosperity and brother- hood dreamed of by the socialistic theorists could be realized. All men would work alike, would be able physi- cally and intellectually to earn alike, and all would be honest and faithful. There would be no dissensions, no crime, no ignorance nor indolence, and probably no vices—in short, a Utopian condition. Under the conditions which exist, and have probably always existed, such an admirable social state is impossible. Men differ physically, intellectually and morally in infinite variety, and the re- sult is just as great a variety in their social and pecuniary status. Some are industrious; others are idle by prefer- ence. Some are honest and true; others are dishonest and false in every relation of life. Some are intelligent; others are dull and stupid. All have made use of their faculties either for good or evil, or have utterly neglected to improve them in any way. How much of the good and evil in mankind is due to causes inherent in individuals and beyond their control isa problem that may be left to the philos- ophers who have tried to connect in one system biology and ethics. What the statesman and the philanthropist are called to consider are the differences of human condition consequent upon the differences in the millions of individuals who go to make upa social state. These differences have to be reckoned with as they exist, and any careful consideration of the situation must convince the can- did observer that any human arrange- ment by which the entire population of a country is to be brought to an equality in the conditions of life is absolutely impossible. Therefore, under those limitations, universal prosperity in any community, however small, is entirely impracticable ; and vastly more impossible, 1f such an expression can be used, is prosperity for all the people of a great city or state. Thus it is that when the Savior of men declared that the poor would always remain as a charge upon society, it was a divine maxim which was based upon an absolute knowledge of human nature. TROPHIES OF THE WAR. The report from Admiral Dewey to the effect that he had contracted with a responsible Hong Kong wrecking firm for the raising of three of the Spanish cruisers sunk by his fleet on May Day, and the further information that the ships can be raised without difficulty, will be gratifying information to the American people. The loss of the Maria Teresa, after having been recovered from the rocks on which she had been driven by Admiral Cervera, was a se- vere disappointment, as it had been hoped that at least one of Cervera’s ships might be recovered and retained in the American naval service as a last- ing memorial of the great victory off Santiago. It will be gratifying to reflect that better fortune promises to follow attempts to secure a trophy of the battle in Manila Bay, the most memorable event of the war. The three vessels that are likely to be recovered are the sister ships Isla de Cuba and Isla de Luzon and the cruiser Don Juan de Austria. The former two ships are of a little more than 1,000 tons displacement and are modern ves- sels in every way. The latter ship is slightly larger than the others, but is somewhat older. All, when renovated, will be extremely useful vessels for service in the Far East, as they are of light draft and can be maintained in commission at small expense. These three sbips, which are capable of doing good service for years to come, will serve to perpetuate the memory of the valor of our sailors at Manila, and will always be interesting relics of a naval fight which deserves to rank among the most memorable in history. SAFE STAIRWAYS. The tragical burning of the Baldwin Hotel in San Francisco, and other great caravansaries, in the destruction of which many human lives have been lost, should emphasize the intense prac- tical wisdom and shrewdness of ‘‘Aunt Betsey Trotwood,’’ who made_ it the rule of ber life never to take quarters in a hotel which did not have a stone stairway from the various uppers floors to the ground. If all travelers would make sucha de- mand, there would be better provision of protected stairways and fire escapes in case of conflagration. It is as aston- ishing as it is shameful that in spite of all modern appliances for fire-prooting houses, or at least to retard and delay the burning of houses, it is seldom that the destruction by fire of a hotel or other building in which many people are employed or reside fails to cost manv human lives. The danger could be entirely obviated if proper attention were given to the stairways. They should be made of incombustible material and_ enclosed within brick walls, so that no fire could communicate to them. This would not be difficult, and it would go a great way to make botels and other such buildings safe for their human occupants. There will have to be special legislation in all cities to require such provisions. Man was made to mourn, but he has fixed things so that woman has taken most of the job off bis hands. The man who lives in a glass house should go away from home to throw stones. bab ordeortea tenn ianeved A wether 10 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Fruits and Produce. Refutes Current Statements Regard- ing California Fruit Industry. From the Los Angeles Fruit World. From time to time there appear in the press statistics of acreage of orchards in California, divided into trees in bear- ing and those not in bearing, and it is customary, even here in California where every one should know better, to estimate the future production of fruit by these statistics. Asa matter of fact, however, there is no source of infor- mation touching acreage fof California orchards possessing any value. Each year the assessors of the various counties compile statements purporting to show the number of trees in bearing and those not yet in bearing, the law putting in the latter category all trees under five years of age and exempting them from taxation. These statements are then sent to the State Board of Horticulture, from which source the statistics emanate. It may seem strange that the honest farmer would attempt to evade the pay- ment of taxes, such offense usually be- ing charged exclusively against corpo- rations. But it is nevertheless a fact that the statistics are ridiculously false. These show that something like 50 per cent. of all trees in the State are below the bearing age, whereas any person with any acquaintance with California horticulture must know that the great planting period was from 1887 to 1893 and that probably not 5 per cent. of the acreage has been planted since the _lat- ter date. As a matter of fact, California is not very far from the maximum of produc- tion of fruit from the present acreage The 15,000 carloads of oranges shipped last year might in time increase to 40,000 were it not for the fact that in certain sections not adapted to the fruit the trees are being uprooted to make way for other crops and there seems no reason to believe that the orange output will more than double in the next dec- ade. Lemons are a later product of the State, and, while almost, if not quite, all the acreage is in bearing, the trees are of ages which will make very rapid increase in production certain, and the output may run up from the production of 1,200 carloads last year to 10,000 car- loads a decade from now. Olives were planted heavily from four to six years ago, but the unsatisfactory results have led to the destruction of a considerable acreage of quite old trees, and the yield will vary greatly from year to year. Prune trees are the shortest lived of all fruit trees grown in Southern Califor- nia, and the tendency is away from that fruit. Apples are a coming fruit, with a certainty of vast increase of produc- tion. The apricot and peach acreage has about reached a permanent stage, old orchards passing their prime or giv- ing way to other crops about as _ rapidly as young acreage increases in produc- tion. Figs have shown a great decrease in acreage, while pears are not looked upon witb special favor except in small sections. Taken as a whole, the fruit industry of California is in a satisfactory con- dition, and there is reason to believe the total output will show an increase each year for many years to come; but the condition is a long ways from that por- trayed by statisics representing a half of the acreage of all fruits as below the bearing age. —__>2.___ Sulter and Hagar Methods Cheese Trade. From the Montreal Trade Bulletin. The failure of the cheese exporting firm of J. C. & G. D. Warrington is turning out much worse than at first ex- pected, as there appears to be no _pros- pect of the factorymen, who sold their cheese to the firm shortly before it sus- pended payment, getting anything at all, as it is feared there will be scarcely sufficient assets to pay the curator for winding up the estate, to say nothing of the salaries due tbe employes. J. C. Warrington informed a party here just before leaving for England that he had lost $70,000 on the cheese he had shipped in the to England this season, but that he was going over to the other side, where he expected to get a settlement. Mr. War- rington made considerable money last year on his short cheese contracts, but selling short in 1898 proved a losing game, to which he had to succumb. Last year he was very successful in Chicago wheat and made a considerable sum of money in the Leiter deal; in fact, he was called the Leiter of Mon- treal and proved a much cleverer oper- ator than the Chicago millionaire, as he knew when to get out of the deal. Mr. Warrington was a thorn in the side of the whole cheese trade this season, as he managed to keep up prices above an export basis from the word go, so that there was no money in the business for himself or any one else. He was short a large amount of cheese in Eng- land, when he failed, which would have increased his losses considerably had he filled his contracts. —~>-0.>—___ Illinois the Only State Now Producing Filled Cheese. Washington, Nov. 27—The annual re- port of the Collector of Internal Revenue shows that there was 1,663,067 pounds of filled cheese produced at manufacto- ries during the ten months ended June 30, 1897, andthe tax of 1 cent per pound was paid upon the entire quan- tity, and the same withdrawn from the factory. For the fiscal year ended June 30, 1898, 1,402,861 pounds was _ pro- duced and tax paid, showing a falling off in production as compared with the previous fiscal year of 260,206 pounds. The average monthly production for the ten months ended June 30, 1897, was 166,306 pounds, and for the nine production months of the fiscal year ended June 30, 1898, the average month- ly production was 155,873 pounds. There was no preduction in the months of July, August and May of the fiscal year ended June 30, 1898. Illinois is the only State producing filled cheese, with seven manufactories. Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland and New Jersey are the only States having retail estab- lishments, there being in the foura total of nineteen. The internal revenue re- ceipts on filled cheese for the year ended June 30 amounted to $14,129.23; special tax from manufacturers, $2, 233. 32, and from retailers, $156. —_~>- 02> —__ Mexican Oranges Moving Into Con- sumption. From the New York Commercial. From St. Louis comes the announce- ment that Mexican oranges are coming forward and moving rapidly into con- sumption. Prices, it is said, range up to $4.25 per box for recent arrivals, and a ready market is found at that figure. It is reported that dealers who have been over the ground this year say the prospect for orange culture in Mexico is unlimited. For some time, they say, demand will exceed supply and business will be very profitable. Friends of the Mexican orange claim for it a more sat- isfactory flavor than other varieties possess, and they say tbat it can hold the market, after it is once known, against either Floridas or Californias, while they assert that the West India product is not to be compared with Mexican fruit. Mexican oranges have met with an unsatisfactory reception in this market. Few have ever been shipped here, and money was lost on them. Dealers here do not care for them and will not take them, except at very low rates, because consumers do not take kindly to them, and will not have them when anything else is procurable. ———_>2.___ Olives the Coming Crop of Arizona. The past five years has proven by actual product that the olive is tobe the great future crop of the Salt River Val- ley of Arizona. The product is grow- ing larger every year as the orchards grow older, and the indications are that this season’s crop will establish beyond experiment the olive as one of the great products of the Salt River Valley. —>9>___ When a woman has a secret, nothing makes her so mad as the discovery that no one wants to know it. CRANBERRIES, JERSEY and VIRGINIA SWEET POTATOES, Apples, Celery, Spanish Onions, Lemons, Oranges and Bananas. Bunting & Co., Jobbers, Grand Rapids, Michigan. POTATOES, BEANS, ALL KINDS FieLD SEEDS Everyone reading this advertisement—you are read- ing it now—who trades in BEANS, POTATOES, SEEDS, APPLES, ONIONS, if in the market to buy or sell, is requested to correspond with MOSELEY BROS., and these we can always SEEDS =: ALFRED J. BROWN SEED CO. 24 and 26 North Division Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. HARVEY P. MILLER. EVERETT P. TEASDALE. MILLER & TEASDALE CO. WHOLESALE BROKERAGE AND COMMISSION. FRUITS, NUTS, PRODUCE APPLES AND POTATOES WANTED WRITE US. ST. LOUIS, 10. FREE SAMIPLE TO LIVE MERCHANTS Our new Parchment-Lined, Odorless Butter Packages. Light as paper. The only way to deliver Butter to your customers. (GiEM FIBRE PACKAGE CO., DETROIT. 9000000 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 HARRIS & FRUTCHEY Only Exclusive Wholesale BUTTER and EGG House in Detroit. Have every facility for han- dling large or small quantities. Will buy on track at your station Butter in sugar barrels, crocks or tubs. Also fresh gathered Eggs. 90000000 0O0000000000000000000000 26-28-30-32 Ottawa Street, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. The best are the cheapest 835 NORTH THIRD ST., 830 NORTH FOURTH ST., POULTRY WANTED Live Poultry wanted, car lots or less. Write us for prices. H. N. RANDALL PRODUCE CO.,Tekonsha, Mich. . We Are in the Market To buy or sell Beans, Apples, Potatoes, Onions, Honey, Old Pop Corn, Fresh Eggs, Wood. If you have any of the above to offer, write VINKEMULDER COMPANY, —7 oe ae: MiCH. 25252525e5e5e2e5 25eS5e5e5 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 11 GOTHAM GOSSIP. News from the Metropolis—Index to the Market. Special Correspondence. New York, Nov. 26—There is almost always a light trade during Thanksgiv- ing week. Buyers are conspicuous by their absence and for the last half of the week very little is to be recorded. Job- bing grocers generally are, apparently, satisfied with the November business and the year will go out with a blaze of glory in more ways than one. Coffee is steady, with demand some- what limited. Orders received from out of town dealers indicate rather light stocks on hand and there is very little haggling over rates. Jobbers are not anxious to press sales, as they might find some trouble to replace the goods now on hand without a decided advance. One sale of 2,000 bags at 6%c was re- ported of Rio No. 7, and probably as much more would have been taken, but the rate could not be duplicated. Reg- ular quotation, 64%@6%c. Mild coffees have a steady tone and sell well at re- cent rates. There will be a cargo of 12,000 bags here in a few days of Mar- acaibo and it is thought this will find a ready sale. Good Cucuta is worth 8%c. East India sorts are without special in- terest. Quotations are unchanged. The tea market is in the condition that the least said the better. Still, it is fairly firm and Pingsueys and Con- gous are especially well held. The in- voice market is steady. The rice movement is slow, although the indications are that it will soon show improvement. Advices from the South are of such a character as to show a good deal of damage to crops by wet weather, and certainly we shall feel the effects of this before long. Foreign sorts have sold pretty freely, although, as a rule, the demand has been for rather small lots. Prime to choice Southern, 5%@6%c. Patna, 5%@5(c; Japan, 5%4c; Java, 4544@5%c. European advices are strong and confident. Pepper has been the one article of in- terest in the spice market during the week. The situation in every way is strong and prices are steadily advan- cing. Singapore black pepper, January or March shipment, has sold at 10}c, and on the spot the close was firm at 9% @ogx%e. Cloves are firm, owing to light supplies, but the rest of the list is practically unchanged in any way. The molasses market closes firm, or at least the outlook is for such condi- tion. Competition led to some demor- alization during the first few days, but New Orleans reports were so decidedly firm that an influence was shown here. Syrups have been quiet. The supply is not large, although sufficient to meet ex- isting wants. The demand for lemons is rather quiet and yet there seems to be a fair jobbing trade. Arrivals of Jamaica oranges have been liberal and the quality poor, so that for the moment the market is depressed, and even for repacked bar- rels the outside seemed to be not over $6.50. California oranges are in light supply, although the demand is not very active. There seems to be more enquiry for Florida fruit, which is coming in rather moderately and sells _ readily. Quotations: Sicily lemons, 300s, $2.75 @4 50, as to quality; 360s, $2.75@4.50; oranges, Jamaicas, original barrels, $5 @6; Florida russets, $3.75@4; brights, $3.75@5. Bananas are quiet within the range of goc@$1.10 per bunch for firsts. Almeria grapes fetch full prices, $6.50@10 for full-weight bbls Apples continue very firm and in light —— Greenings are worth from $4@5; Bald- wins, $3@4.50. Cranberries are worth from $6@8 for Cape Cods, as to qual- ity, and Jerseys $5@5. 50. Dried fruits are in about the usual de- mand, although for fancy raisins and kindred lines there is a good holiday trade going forward. Evaporated ap- ples are firm at 9%@loc. The canned goods market is firm and the demand is active for leading staples. Prices are about unchanged, with more firmness for peas, corn and tomatoes. Tomatoes are“in freer receipt. The pack this year exceeds that of 1897 very much. There is a comparative scarcity of fancy creamery butter, which is held at full quotations. The quality that will bear close inspection sells for 23%c, but if the stock is not up to requirements it goes off for what it will fetch and con- siderable shading is done. Western june creamery, finest grades, 17@17%c; Extra Western factory, June make, 14@14%c. The cheese market is in better condi- tion than a week ago and can be called comparatively firm. Fancy full cream, large size, State cheese is worth 9c; small size, full cream, toc. Arrivals of eggs are light and the market is extremely strong. Best West- ern are worth 24c; fair to good, 21@23Cc. refrigerator stock, 15 '4@1634c, >.> Experience of a Canadian Farmer in the Grain Trade. From the Montreal Trade Bulletin. A dealer from west of Toronto, who was in the city a few days ago, related an instance of a farmer in his district who envied the supposed profits of grain dealers and determined to go into the business himself. Not being acquainted with the routine of running a country grain business, he engaged the services of a clerk in a neighboring grain firm, hired a store, and commenced receiving grain from the farmers in the neighbor- hood. This was last spring, when the belief and cry was that oats were going to 45c in the country and wheat to $2 sure, as Leiter then had control of the deal in Chicago. The farmer, being well-to-do, had a good sum to begin with on deposit at the local bank and quite an extended credit besides, and commenced operations under apparently the most auspicious circumstances. The farmers from the section of country around, wishing to encourage one of their own fraternity, carted their grain to the new concern, but not before they had ascertained the prices which the opposition dealers: were prepared to give. The result was that the agricul- tural grain merchant had to pay about %c per bushel more than the market value, as his confreres in agriculture managed to impress upon him that they had been offered such and such a price for their wheat and oats by the other dealers in the place, and thus they squeezed the extra price out of him as soon as they pretended to start with their loads to the other dealers. For all this, however, prices commenced to ad- vance, and as the new dealer kept on accumulating his wheat and oats, his fortune appeared to be growing bigger and bigger, while the farmers were hav- ing a good time in giving him all the grain they could spare, and he seemed perfectly satisfied, as he had made up his mind that Leiter was the only man who knew what he was about, and that ‘wheat was bound to advance to $2, and oats to 45c right here.’’ In fact, if any buyer ventured to ask what he would take for his grain, he would simply scowl and reply: ‘‘Wheat ain't up to $2, and oats ain’t up to 45c.’’ The country banker was of the same opinion as the aspiring farmer, and encouraged the latter to keep on buying, until prices bad advanced to top rates, and, although he could have got out at a splendid profit, he stubbornly refused to realize. Prices soon commenced to tumble rap- i¢ly and, although he then tried to un- load, it so happened that every time he reduced his offers to sell they were sev- eral cents above market values, until be stood to lose considerable money. It is said that wheat which cost him $1.08 to $1.10 was sold at 73c and 74c, and oats that cost him 35c and 36c realized 27c and 28c. He stood his losses, how- ever, manfully, paid-off his bank’s ad- vances, and the only real inconvenience he was put to was the mortgaging of about ninety acres of land. He had had enough of business, however, in the short space of a few months, to quit it, and now the farmers all around express their regrets, as they swear that he was the best fellow they ever dealt with. Of course, he did not doa very extensive business, but it was ample enough to check his aspirations in the grain trade, as it is estimated that he lost about $12,000. WANTED DRIED AND EVAPORATED APPLES BOTH ’97 AND ’98 STOCK. N. WOHLFELDER & CO., WHOLESALE GROCERS 399-401-403 HIGH STREET EAST, DETROIT, MICH. FFSFSTFSFTSTIS SEESESEELERSEEELESEELESESEESESSESESSESEE EN FFFSSSIISFSSSSSSSSSFTSFS seeeeseen o0e $ of all kinds, any quantity, FOR CASH. 99900000 00000000 00000006 0000000600000000000000006 Hermann C. Naumann & Co., 353 Russell Street, Detroit, Mich. Opposite Eastern Market, $ Are at all times in the market for FRESH EGGS, BUTTER Write us. 90000000 000000020 90000006 00000000 69000006 00000060 It is now at the season of the year when s oct the season is over with them—are aving the trade, they cannot do sively twelve months in the year. The man whose oysters are the WHOLE DEALERS IN E J. WILLARD LANSING, BURGE D. CATLIN. LANSING & GATLIN Reference: TRADESMAN. EGGS everal commission houses who make a specialty of other re trying to work Butter and Eggs for a few months; not ou the justice that a house can that handles Butter and Eggs exclu- resh Eggs are scarce; we want them at 2oc. SALE 44 W. MARKET STREET 103 MICHIGAN STREET BUFFALO, N. Y. Who Gets the Oyster Trade? Who Loses Other Trade? The man who sells fishy oysters diluted with ice to disgust his Ask for our prices on Roll Top Butter Refrigerators. Grand Rapids Refrigerator Co., freshest and best flavored. 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- turbing the ice. cans. Porcelain Send for circular. Grand Rapids, Mich. -lined _ - we rs — er, LF SSS > Y Greco bee ce Cold Storage and Freezing House in connection. Ship your BUTTER AND EGGS to R: HIRT. JR.. DETROIT, MICH. 384 AND 36 MARKET STREET, 435-437-439 WINDER STREET. Capacity 75 carloads. Correspondence solicited. Am in the market any quantity of Fresh Eggs. Would be pieased at any time to quote prices F. O. B. your station to merchants hav- ing Eggs to offer. Established at Alma 18385. oO. W. ROGERS ALMA, MICH pN r for Gos as as 5 oe ae eo eae oe oe 8 y, Ship Us Your BUTTER, EGGS, POULTRY, VEAL, GAME, FUR, HIDES, BEANS, POTATOES, GREEN AND DRIED FRUIT Or anything you may have. We havea No. 1 lo- cation and a large trade and are fully prepared to place all shipments promptly at full market price and make prompt returns. If you have any ap- ples do not dispose of them before corresponding with us. Thecrop is very short this season and there will be no low prices. Please let us hear from you on whatever you may have to ship or sell. COYNE BROS., Commission Merchants 161 South Water St., Chicago. REFERENCES: Wm. M. Hoyt Co., Wholesale Grocers, Chicago. W. J. Quan & Co., Wholesale Grocers, Chicago. “Chicago Produce,’’ Chicago. Bradstreet’s and Dun’s Agencies. Hibernian Banking Association, Chicago. BanKERS: Merchants’ National Bank, Chicago. — . De en Te ea 1 ith Ah ly Se hg RIG LAS ALN ARIES AA ABLE AS BI LSE te realtor Nes we ip iahl aa acs Huan ABE Rid na mL Rit ide BLT PERS My Cha riactegt Mods os dab at Br OTttee tcmas MeL ee oa 12 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN FLOWER TRADE How the Industry Has Expanded in Grand Rapids. To Louis Campau is due the honor of being the first horticulturist in Grand Rapids. His gardens extended along the river bank just below the foot of Monroe street. He made them attract- ive as early as 1834, by cultivating flowers, shrubbery and fruits. Two years later Abel Page and John Almy started gardens by the river bank, near Huron street. Mr. Page raised the first tomatoes here, at a time when they were considered poisonous and grown simply as ornamental! plants under the name of love-apples. Thomas R. Renwick first made flow. er-growing a _ business. He, how- ever, did not start out with any such in- tention. The American Florist, in no- ticing his death April 4, 1896, said: Mr. Renwick first began the culture of fruits and flowers in Grand Rapids, for the pleasure of himself and wife, and, indeed, at that time, there could have been found no customers for the latter. Among the notable achievements of his horticultural life was the dwarfing of peach trees, producing trees no more than two feet in height but bearing ten or a dozen peaches, and the fruiting of strawberries in very early spring. He saw the sale of cut flowers in this city start from a very small beginning and progress to its present proportions, and although he had other large business in- terests, the growing of plants and flow- ers was the profession he loved. His greenhouses have been in exist- ence between thirty and forty years, al- though his store on Monroe street was not opened until two or three months after J. A. Hovey’s, during the summer of 1882. The business continues under the management of Mr. Renwick’s son, L. N. Renwick. Mr. Hovey sold out his store to Henry Smith. From time to time new florists have started busi- ness, until now there are at least thirteen companies in Grand Rapids, besides the minor concerns which raise flowers in a small way and peddle them on the street. To-day there is not only an extensive demand for Grand Rapids flowers all over Michigan, but great quantities go to Chicago. They also go as far east as Boston, New York and Baltimore and west to Denver and Salt Lake City; in fact, flowers can be kept in good con- dition for any distance less than a three days’ journey and have been known to survive even longer trips. From one-half to two-thirds of the trade is wholesale, and the flowers find a ready market in Chicago, which city controls the prices. In the Valley City they are 40 to 60 per cent. cheaper and sometimes there is even a greater difference; for instance, chrysanthe- mums which here retail at $2 sell in the Windy City for $4 a dozen. One is apt to think that the principal cost of flowers lies in the great quanti- ties of fuel necessary for heating the greenhouses; for are not flowers most plentiful and cheap in mi¢summer and most scarce and expensive at Christmas? This is not altogether true. Like any other kind of business the cost of labor must be taken into account and, what is not so well known, the greenhouses have to be rebuilt every five years, for they do not last any longer. The styles of using flowers have changed much within recent years. The time is not long past when people used whatever kinds they could get, and mixed all sorts together. Now they are used much more profusely but are not funerals have been almost entirely superseded by sprays and loose flowers, and the color is no longer confined to white; even the ribbons used in the tying may be of some delicate shade. At receptions, parties, weddings, etc., either the hostess’ favorite flower is used for all the decorations or one kind of flower furnishes the keynote to the dec- orations of each room. Palms, ferns and other foliage plants grow in favor, and are rented in numbers from the flo- rist for the occasion. It is within the memory of the present generation when every home boasted of its stand of plants kept through the win- ter. But the hot-air furnaces and gas played such havoc with them that now the ladies who can not indulge in con- servatories confine their interests to a palm or two and a blossoming plant which is replaced by another when the flowers are gone. As great a change has taken place in the lawns. The ladies have neither time nor strength (?) to plant seeds and wait for them to grow. Possibly the club craze to which so many Grand Rapids ladies have succumbed has to answer for this. At any rate the decorating of the lawns is left to the florist, who is as sure of his regular customers as the milliner and the dressmaker, the butcher and the baker. Four years ago the Grand Rapids flo- rists formed themselves into a club for mutual help in developing the best methods of raising flowers and to make the prices uniform. The meetings are held the first and third Tuesdays of each month, at the Eagle Hotel. ‘The offi- cers consist of president, secretary, treasurer and custodian. For several years the florists here united for the purpose of an annual chrysanthemum exhibit in the fall. These exhibitions did not gain sufficient patronage from the people to pay for the trouble and expense and the project was finally abandoned last year. The fine plants are now sent to larger cities where important exhibitions are held. One of our firms, Crabb & Hunter, re- ceived this year four first prizes from the Florist Club of Indianapolis. This exhibition is considered so important by that State that it appropriates a cer- tain amount of money for its mainte- nance. But the greatest honors have come through the Horticultural Society of Chicago. This club belies its name. Although some florists figure conspicu- ously, it is largely composed of Chicago's Four Hundred. Such names as P. D. Armour, Marshall Field, Andrew Mc- Nally, Mr. and Mrs. Higinbotham, Mrs. Charles Henrotin, Mrs. Potter Palmer, and many other names that are equally well known, figure in the list of patrons and __patronesses. An exhibition is held during the first week of November each year and is a society event similar to the Horse Fair in New York. Although chrysanthe- mums reign supreme, prizes are awarded for the best mantel and table decora- tions, foliage plants, and, in the way of cut flowers, roses and carnations Two of our florists received first prizes this year: Henry Smith for the best display of yellow single-stemmed chry- santhemums and Crabb & Hunter for a similar display of white chrysanthe- mums. Crabb & Hunter also received second prizes for their collection of yel- low and pink chrysanthemums. Wm. N. Rudd, President of Greenwood Cem- etery in Chicago, and until recently editor of the American Florist, speak- ing of Crabb & Hunter’s exhibit, said: “‘It was the most wonderful collection of single-stemmed chrysanthemums I have ever seen."’ Truly, ‘‘A prophet is not without honor, save in his own mixed. Stiff floral pieces designed for Be a a ORE IE DOODDODODOOOOOQQDODOS© OOODOQDOODOQO@QQOOQOOO Is all it will cost you to drop a postal to MAYNARD & REED GRAND RAPIDS, IICH., and learn from them the many advan- tages and profit of handling Butter in a new way. + + rs + + + > + + + + + + + + + + + ~ + a i + + a es 2 i + ~~ + + + + SEPPEPE EEE ETT TTT TTT T sy 5. J. 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.” SPPETEE TESTE ETeTeer Tere ts 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. ohhh hhh ohhh oh hhh hh hh hh oh heh hah opepehpepepap A Model Creamery of the Elgin System. R. E. STURGIS & CO., Contractors and Builders of the Elgin System of Butter and Cheese Factories, also Canning Factories, and Manufacturers and Dealers in Creamery and Dairy Supplies. country. ’’ Address all correspondence to R. E. STURGIS & Co., Allegan, Mich. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN SUCCESSFUL SALESMEN. L. M. Patterson, Representing Nor- throp, Robertson & Carrier. Lewis M. Patterson was born ona farm in Lawrence county, Pa., March 11, 1858, his antecedents being Scotch on his father’s side and Irish on his mother’s side. When he was Io years old his parents moved to another farm, in Mercer county, Pa., where he re- mained until 26 years of age, with the exception of three years, during which he pursued a literary course in the Grove City (Pa.) College. Believing that Michigan held out inducements su- perior to those of any other state, he came among the Wolverines, and for three months taught the public school at Bandola. He then engaged as _prin- cipal of the school at Sherman, which position he acceptably filled two years. His next move was to Cadillac, where he acted as principal of the first ward school for a year, when he was given the position of instructor in the scientific department of the high school, where he remained two years. He then dipped into politics, being nominated on the Democratic ticket for county clerk and register of deeds for Wexford county. While he ran considerably ahead of his ticket, he lacked a few votes of elec- tion, but the run he made was so ex- ceptional that he was given a position in the office of Auditor General Stone, at Lansing, which position he held two years. He then taught the commercial branches in the Interlake Business Col- lege, at Lansing, which position he re- linquished to take that of book-keeper for the Lansing Confectionery Co., with which institution he remained three years. Three years ago he was offered a position on the road for J. R. & W. S. Esselstyn, wholesale confectioners of Lansing, which position he relinquished a few days ago to accept a _ better offer from Northrop, Robertson & Carrier, of the Capital City. Mr. Patterson was married March 16, 1885, to Miss Eva L. Bagnall, of Mer- cer, Pa. Three children grace the fam- ily circle, a boy and two girls. The family reside in their own home at 814 Pine street, north. Mr. Patterson is a communicant of the First Methodist Church of Lansing, being a member of the official board and a teacher in the Sunday school, which he served in the capacity of su- perintendent for several years. He is a member of the I. O. O F. fraternity, belongs to the Forresters and holds a membership certificate in the Michigan Knights of the Grip. Mr. Patterson attributes his success to persistent effort, hard work and sturdy honesty, having received no assistance from any source, being compelled to fight his way single handed, both as regards his securing an education and his commercial advancement. He nat- urally places a high estimate on the value of education, and his ambition is to so fit his children for their life work that they will be able to fill any position to which they may be called ———__~0-@__-—— What Constitutes the Good-will of a Business. The good will of a business has been defined as ‘‘the possibility that the old customers will resort to the old place.’’ Although good will is intangible and merely an incident of property, it possesses, however, many of the quali- ties of property. It may be sold, in- herited and bequeathed, and it is often the most valuable asset of a business. At first good will was confined to the premises where the business was carried on, but in the evolution of business it has outgrown this limited application and has come to mean the advantage acquired by the established business, whether connected with the premises or with the firm name, or with any other inducement to customers to deal with it. The sale of a business including its good will does not prevent the vendor from engaging in a similar business. He may, in the absence of an express stipulation to the contrary, establish such a business at the next door to the one sold, and by every fair means and even personal solicitation invite his old customers to come there and buy of him. In order therefore that the vendee may reap the full benefit of his pur- chase, it is essential that he require the vendor by express contract to abstain from carrying on the same kind of busi- ness. These contracts are defined in the legal nomenclature as contracts in restraint of trade. The courts at first declared that these contracts were opposed to public policy, in that they restained trade, enhanced prices, prevented the vendor from earn- ing his livelihood, and deprived the public of a useful member; they there- fore refused to sustain them. The ar- guments advanced by the courts against these contracts became less forcible each year by reason of the uses of steam as a motive power, which opened new fields for emigration, trade and manu- facture, and provided better means for distribution, The rule was soon modified so as to permit a contract in partial restraint as opposed to a contract in general re- straint of trade. The distinction made by the ancient courts between general and partial restraint was an incorrect criterion. They were saying in effect, what the courts of to-day say, that the question whether a contract was invalid because in restraint of trade was whether, in considering all the circum- stances, the contract was reasonable or unreasonable. Finally the courts have laid down the rule that contracts in re- straint of trade, limited as to time or space, or both, if reasonable under the circumstances and supported by a good consideration, are valid. If a retail trader in some small town, whose customérs consisted only of its inhabitants, were to enter into an agree- ment upon the sale of his business to abstain from entering into similar busi- ness anywhere in the United States east of the Mississippi River, obviously the restraint in this case would be greater than necessary for the legitimate pro- tection of the purchaser and unreason able, and therefore invalid; while this same contract might be valid if made by an old-established wholesale firm sit- uated in the city of New York having branch houses in different states and salesmen traveling in all of the states east of the Mississippi River. The validity, then, of each of these contracts must depend upon the character and extent of the business sold, for the rule of reasonableness is so general and the facts of each case will so differ from others that it is impossible to say with certainty that a particular contract has been upheld by the courts, and that therefore the contract in question is valid. ——_>2>—__ In Birmingham, England, 37,000,000 pins are produced daily, ‘while the other manufacturing places of England are responsible for about 19,000,000 a day. France furnishes the market with 20,000,000 each day, and Germany and other countries yield 10,000,000. Is Not There a Nemesis, After All? From the Ionia Standard. A. C. Hager, of Lake Odessa, was evidently born under an unlucky star. Early in the spring the colossal egg business which he had built up col- lapsed, owing to the unexpected drop in the price of hen fruit. Later in the summer his packing plant and building caught fire and were totally consumed, upon which he didn’t have enough in- surance to pay for one of the egg crates in the building. As a climax the big ice house which he purchased about two months ago went down the other day in a tangled mass of boards, sawdust and snow, caused by the great load of snow on the roof. This about cleans him out of everything, but he isn’t the least bit discouraged. —_>0.__ It isn’t worth while to reason with a woman. She can only be logical with those she hates. Old Homestead Mincemeat Co. Ot HOMES Mincemedt and Jobbers of Pearl Brand Oysters In Cans or Bulk. Consignments of Poultry and Game Solicited. 43 E. Bridge St. Grand Rapids. ILLAR’S ANDHELING JAVA EDAL QGHA AND JAVA MOST POPULAR ROASTED COFFEES ON THE MARKET sie 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 wili tell you so. Try MILLAR’S PEARLED PEPPER, Granulated. E. B. Millar & Co., URAGOA HARM JAVA ROWN MIXED REOLE JAVA AND ARABIAN KOGHA 5 Diplomas Awarded these goods 9 at World’s Columbian ¢=\ Exposition. A Trade Mark is a Badge of Honor Importers and Grinders, CHICAGO, ILL. ® coods. — ——e & — Lan Mich. 999939999999399999999009900003,, Pure We are so positive that our Spices and Queen Flake Baking Powder are pure that we offer One Hundred Dollars for every ounce of adulteration found in a package of our Manufactured and sold only by ne Mich. § : Four Kinds of Goupon Books are manufactured by us and all sold on the same basis, irrespective of size, shape or denomination. Free samples on application. TRADESMAN GOMPANY, Grand Rapids ii : Rss ANG Lm RY PTE he ti th ics 1 RRB 14 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Shoes and Leather How the Two Thompsons Hustled for Trade. Possibly our readers who are theater goers may have seem the old and now somewhat of a back-number play en- titled ‘‘Toodles.’’ Toodles is a gentle- man of rather convivial proclivities, and his wife is fond of picking up odds and ends if she can get them cheap, in other words, an ancient prototype of the modern bargain hunter. At one time she bought a second-hand door- plate, marked ‘‘Thompson,’’ and ex- plained her purchase to her lord and master as a wonderful bargain, and one which would come in so handy if any one of their daughters should happen to marry a man named Thompson, with the letter ‘‘p.’’ Mr. Toodles’ remark on this occasion was short and to the point. It was, ‘‘Damn Thompson with ap.) The competitors of these two Thomp- sons with the ‘‘p’’ may be saying the same thing to-day. We are not apprised whether they are or not, but as both these gentlemen have been endeavoring to further their own trade at the expense of their competitors, it is more than likely that some of them may feel like saying so down deep in their hearts if they do not give voice to the expression. W. A. Thompson keeps a skoe store in Concord, N. H. He is a shrewd ad- vertiser, knows how to dress a store window, and is a first-class business man. Someone advertised a_ special line of shoes in Concord, ladies’ shoes of a well-advertised make, and Mr. Thompson, of course, could not sell them because another shoe dealer had the exclusive agency. The retail price of the shoes was $3.50 a pair, and what was the astonishment of all Concord one day to read in the papers that W. A. Thompson offered that special make of shoes at $2.98 a pair. There was a row, of course, and more or less talk was created. It wasstated that Mr. Thomp- son could not have the real, bona fide shoes of that make and that the com- petitor was the only one in town who handled them. Mr. Thompson avowed that he had the genuine goods and was selling them 52 cents cheaper than the accredited agent. Of course, there was some pretty sharp correspondence. The exclusive agent and the manufacturers of the shoes claimed that the shoes could not be genuine. Mr. Thompson, however, offered to give $1,000 to any local charity provided the manufac- turers could prove his shoes were not the simon-pure, genuine and original shoes made by them, and they have not yet taken up the challenge. The fact was Mr. Thompson was able in some manner (how he does not say) to pro- cure some of these widely-advertised shoes, and, by cutting the price, has made himself the most talked of shoe dealer in the city, and he has_ benefited considerably by his bold stroke of busi- ness, Now for the other Thompson. His name is F. M. Thompson, likewise with a ‘‘p,’’ and he keeps a store in Dan- bury, Conn. Now it seems that Dan- bury had a bad case of coupon mania on hand. The coupon scheme of $3 shoes for 15 cents had invaded the town and was running its course. If it has not already died out it is not through any fault of F. M. Thompson. Shoe dealers are sufficiently familiar with the coupon scheme, where a man pays 15 cents for the privilege of buying a 75-cent book of five coupons, which he must sell to five of his friends, each of whom must do likewise, buying a 75-cent book, and then he gets his shoes. The one peculiarity of the coupon system is that, if any one of these five coupons is not returned and a 75-cent book purchased, the scheme falls flat, and the holder of the book does not get his shoes. This was the vulnerable point, and Mr. Thomp- son hit upon it by advertising in this way. He headed his advertisement, ‘‘A new scheme: $3 shoes for 15 cents,’’ and then printed the following card: It is not often considered good _ busi- ness to advertise some one else, but there are exceptions. There is a new scheme in town. It is claimed that you can get a pair of $3 shoes for 15 cents, but you must first sell the tickets in your book. Now I am going to help you out, and will buy one ticket out of each book under No. 50; or if you have bought a ticket of a friend and don’t care for it I will buy it, provided I have none from the same book. Mr. Thompson’s scheme was perhaps not apparent to the people who read it. But it was a chance to sell one of their five coupons or it was a chance to get out of buying a 75-cent book, and quite a number availed themselves of the op- portunity. After Mr. Thompson got those coupons he held onto them. He did not go to buying 75-cent books, and every series of which he had one was therefore imperfect, and as far as that book was concerned the scheme prac- tically came to naught. The next day he published another card, which read like this: THE NEW SCHEME iooks different to-day. Instead of buy- ing your $3 shoes for 15 cents, your friends are paying $4.50 for them, and vour 15 cents makes a total of $4.65. You are fortunate to have this kind of a friend. NOW THE OTHER SIDE. There are several in town buying one ticket from a book. This ticket they will hold. If you ever get your shoes you must buy this ticket and pay what the holder asks. It may be $2. The chain is broken and the game is blocked. This second advertisement gave the wbole scheme away and showed how futile would be the attempt of people who had sold him one ticket to continue their labors in selling the other coupons. It practically killed the whole scheme in two days. It seems, as soon as Mr. Thompson had a caller who wanted to sell him a coupon, he would buy a coupon ‘first and put it carefully away and then he would explain to the seller that he had blocked the sale of a pair of shoes, and then when one wanted to buy it back for their book even at a premium, he refused to sell it. This plan ied others to do the same thing and before long his plan had spread fully as far as had this coupon scheme, and thus the coupon business was practically killed at a very small expense to the originator of these de- fensive tactics. These are the deeds of the two Thompsons. Does it not prove that there is something ina name?— Boot and Shoe Recorder. ——_>2>_ He Stood on Ceremony. Boy—The grocer is down stairs and wants to know why you didn’t answer his letter about last month’s bill. Editor—Tell him he forgot to enclose a stamp. ——_+>2.___ Out of Sight. ‘“How’s business with you?"’ ‘*Out of sight.’’ a ee nn ee ‘‘Let’s see. 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Oldest Exclusive > Hubber House in Michigan and handle the best line of rubber goods that are made. Candee Rubber Boots and Shoes are the best. The second grade Federals; made by thesame Company. The third grade Bristol. Write for Price Lists. See our line of Felt and Knit Boots, Socks, Mitts, Gloves, Etc., before you bny. Dudley & Barclay, 4 fllonroe Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. . 4 ieee eee 4 3 — Fae a nhinepa sue MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 15 FIVE KINDS. Careful Classification of the Various Acetylene Generators. All acetylene generators operate by placing carbide and water in contact, and up to the present time there are five general classes. It is difficult to desig- nate these types by single words, but the following classification will answer the purpose: 1. Sprinklers, 2. Absorbers. 3. Immersers. 4. Inundaters. 5. Plungers. Sprinklers are arranged to sprinkle, drip or to pour, in fixed quantities, water upon the carbide. Absorbers are so constructed that water enters from the side or bottom, and is supplied to the carbide by means of the capillary attraction of the resid- uum of the carbide itself. This form is most common in the bicycle lamp. Immersers are those in which the level of the carbide support is varied. Inundaters change the level of the water, the carbide support being fixed. Plungers plunge the carbide directly into the water. The capacity of an acetylene gas gen- erator is its heat-absorbing capacity. It is the ignorance of or determination to ignore this law that has caused such widespread failure in generators. It is through no fault of scientists and ex- perts that incorrect methods have been followed, for they have invariably and with great care called attention to the necessity of avoiding high temperatures in the generation of acetylene gas from the very first. The sprinkler generator bas been the great favorite with inventors in the United States,and the number manufac- tured and sold is unquestionably many times that of all the other types com- bined. It is cheaper to construct, affords easier mechanical arrangement, and apparently has a greater capacity for the space occupied, and therefore has been far in the lead up to the pres- ent time. Notwithstanding these con- ditions this type of generator operates in direct opposition to the principles laid down by all of the recognized acetylene authorities. Not only is it wrong according to the authorities, but continued use is proving it radically defective. Instead of having large ca- pacity it has practically no capacity for the proper generation of acetylene, be- cause it has but very slight heat-absorb- ing capacity. The operation of the ordinary sprink- ler is as follows: A charge of fresb carbide is placed in the generator. Water is automatically dropped or sprayed upon it until the gas generated Creates a pressure that cuts off the sup- ply. The heat of generation and the great affinity which the carbide has for water rapidly absorb all the moisture that remains. The residuum rests on the carbide in the form of dry dust. When the water is again applied this dust must first be thoroughly saturated before the carbide is reached, forming a heat-retaining sludge which becomes thicker and thicker with each applica- tion of water until the carbide is ex- hausted. Thus the localized heat con- fined within this sludge becomes so _ in- tense as to be very destructive to the gas generated. Some manufacturers have obviated the difficulty somewhat by arranging the carbide on a grate to be shaken occasion- ally, thus removing the dust, but the remedy is insufficient, as is proven by the heated condition of the generating chamber when the apparatus is operated to anything like its rated capacity. In short, it is impossible to apply a small quantity of water to a comparatively large body of carbide without generating injurious heat. Any person can demon- strate this by placing the bulb of a ther- mometer between pieces of fresh car- bide in the open air and slowly drip- ping water upon it. The sprinkler gen- erator has decided advantages over other types, because the residuum can be re- moved ina dry state, like ashes. Un- fortunately, the residuum in this condi- tion, if not removed frequently, has great capacity for producing ammonia, which is one of the worst impurities acetylene has to contend with. If there is a sprigkler yet on the market which does not become heated when operated for any length of time to its rated ca- pacity, its light must still ‘‘be hid un- der a bushel. ’’ The claim that generation of gas in this class of generators ceases imme- diately when the water is cut off is fallacious, as observation will readily prove. The reason for this is that the highly-heated residuum has a great capacity for absorbing water, forming what is known as calcic hydrate, which when cooled gives off the water and continues the gas generation, accom- panied by intense heat. To such a de- gree does this condition prevail that some experts claim that a piece of carbide once wetted will continue to disintegrate until it is entirely exhausted, but this is undoubtedly an extreme view. It may be a bold act to condemn the gen- erators which have up to this time en- tirely outdistanced all rivals in the mat- ter of sales, but it requires emphatic action to correct an evil which is widely established. It is not expected that even the most positive assertions will be accepted at once as true, but they will cause investigation, which is all that is needed to demonstrate the truth. Absorbers have all the deficiencies of the sprinkler, and are liable to be even worse because of the greater mass of wet residuum. The writer has personally seen live, red hot coals in the residuum taken from a generator of this class. Immersers are generators in which the carbide is carried on a wire netting placed in the floating bell of the gas holder. When the bell sinks into the water the carbide is wet, and this gen- erates gas which forces the bell upward, lifting the netting out of the water, where it remains until gas is consumed, allowing the bell to again drop until the netting reaches the water, whén more gas is generated, and this is repeated until the carbide is consumed. This type of generator operates well so far as the gas generation is concerned, but the diffi- culty of placing the carbide inside of the bell without allowing gas to escape, and the admission of large quantities of air and inconvenience of removing the residuum, have caused it to be almost entirely abandoned, although it hada decided lead in the beginning. The inundaters have a fixed carbide support, and the water level is changed by the pressure of the gas. When water is admitted to the generating chamber it rises under the carbide support until it reaches the carbide, when gas is gen- erated. The volume of gas increases until the increased pressure drives the water below the support away from the carbide, where it remains until the gas is consumed, when the operation is _ re- peated. As with the immersers, a large body of water is presented to the car- bide, rapidly absorbing the heat and carrying away with each recession the residuum formed with each water con- tact, so that the gas is produced at the desirable low temperature. This type of generator offers facilities for recharg- ing and for removing the residuum, which gives it decided advantages. The plunger is the type most approved by acetylene experts. It is said that in plunging the carbide into the water the rising gas is cooled and purified. However, the mechanical difficulties in constructing small generators, such as are suitable for ordinary store or house lighting, have been so great that none of this class has yet appeared on the general market. To obtain a feeding mechanism for the rough material so delicate as to be operated by the move- ment of the bell of the small gas holder without interfering with the pressure on the service pipes isa most formidable undertaking. The difficulty is further increased by the necessity for absolutely gas tight joints for the working parts, and disposal of the residuum adds seri- ously to the complication of the combi- nation in this type. Cost of construction is an important factor which must al- ways remain in consideration. The inventor who can produce a plunger generator meeting all the re- quirements at a cost not in excess of the best apparatus of other types will at least have the unanimous indorsement of the recognized authorities on acety- lene gas, and ought to acquire final leadership. AUGUSTINE DAVIS. —— Cook Owned It. ‘“*Do you own Tweedles?’’ ‘““No; we've had the same cook seven years.’’ your own house, THE OWEN AUETYLENE GAS GENERATOR leo. F. nm & G0. Wolcottville, Ind., Aug. 26, 1898. Gentlemen: I am pleased to make fav- orable mention of your gas generator which your agent placed in my house. The test was necessarily incomplete, as he was crowded for time, but from what I have seen of your generator and the light produced by it I have every reason to believe that I will be more than pleased with it, and that it is the modern light. Yours very truly, F. H. BROUCHTON. Grand Rapids Michigan. a sah Sata ACETYLENE GA WHAT IT IS AND HOW TO GET IT It is the finest and best-known illumi- nant in the world to-day, and to get it buy the celebrated BUFFINGTON GAS MACHINE We do not claim to have: the cheapest machine, but we do claim that we have the best, as thousands who are using it will say of CALCIUM CARBIDE in stock and can fill all orders promptly. Write usif you want to improve your light and we will furnish you estimates. We carry a large supply MICHIGAN & OHIO ACETYLENE GAS CO., Ltd, Jackson, Mich. APPROVED BY THE NATIONAL BOARD OF UNDERWRITERS THE “KOPF” ACETYLENE GAS MACHINE HAS DOUBLE LIGHTING CAPACITY COSTS NO MORE TO GET THE BEST SEND FOR DESGRIPTIVE CATALOGUE, PRICE LIST AND DISCOUNT SHEET AND YOU WILL SEE WHY THE “KOPF” IS THE BEST MANUFACTURED BY M. B. WHEELER ELECTRIC CoO.,j 99 OTTAWA ST., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. ; ; ie gS i FPL TENTI Doeroey eld Alans enero aa Hane aA EM eM PPT aaa eee eo 1@ MICHIGAN TRADESMAN SUCCESS ASSURED. Practical Plan to Arrest Present De- generation in Boys. Dr. Allen McLane Hamilton, the fa- mous brain specialist, says the boys of to-day are far from being up to the standard of the youth of this nation a century ago. He has a unique and very interesting suggestion for arresting this degeneration and making the genera- tions to come not only equal to the boys of the Eighteenth Century, but their superior. He believes that children should not only be trained in the ways they should go, in accordance with the biblical injunction, but that their fitness for the practical things of life which nature intended them for should be early demonstrated. In a word, he would have a boy analyzed from the time he is 6 until he is 16. Nordau has dwelt on the degeneration of man. By his suggestion Dr. Hamil- ton at once places himself in the front rank of those who would not combat degeneration by argumentative methods, but instead aim at the core of the evil in a thoroughly practical way. He isa warm advocate of the theory that the mediocre ranks of the professions are filled with good farmers, good plumbers and good machinists—that is, persons the bent of whose minds would have gained them profitable success in the trades where the professions can only count them failures. Dr. Hamilton declares that our boys are not as good as the English boys. Not because nature has not endowed them as well, not because their minds are not as keen and their bodies as strong in the beginning, but because the tutelage of mind and body in Amer- ica is not as well calculated to bring out all there is in a boy as the system in England. Dr. Hamilton in no way in- tends to reflect upon our educational system, but refers to the combination of home and scholastic training. This idea of Dr. Hamilton's is not one either quickly conceived or hastily told. It is the fruit of ripe judgment, based upon long and very valuable ex- perience. It is the belief of a man who has looked upon humanity from the top and yet who knows the human mind with a knowledge that is given to few men. The closest of observers of hu- man nature, he has gained an insight which makes him in every way a critic whose opinions gain respect the world over. The doctor is very firm in his belief in the fallacy of the old maxim that the road from the ploughshare to the presi- dency lies open to every boy. It is purely a question of environment and of circumstances. These make the boy great or they leave him, like the fruit, weazened and shrunken by the frost or imperfect growth. By continuing to pursue present methods Dr. Hamilton believes that degeneracy is bound to go on and on, not so swiftly, perhaps, but much in the same way that marks the succeeding generations of children who spring from the marriage of those of northern blood, who go to_ tropical lands, with the natives of the latter. He believes all this unless some remedy is found that will uplift, stay the decay of brain and body, and make the rising generation one that will go onward and upward toward the perfect man. It was my question as to the worth of the boys of to-day and a century ago which caused Dr. Hamilton to say: ‘‘Certainly, the modern boy is not the equal of the boys of the last century. The difference lies in the bringing up. Our democracy, as it is impressed upon the boy of to-day, is an injury to him, and it is simply so because it is over- done. The father of every boy is in- clined to believe him the smartest there is, fitted to adopt that vocation in life nearest to the father’s heart. The nat- ural desires of the boy, and I mean by that the unperverted desires that nature implanted in him, are, in the majority of instances, not considered at all. We will say that the boy’s father is a doctor, and perhaps his father has been a doc- tor before him. Therefore it is consid- ered a settled fact that the boy must be a doctor, too. He is pushed forward and forced through college in some way and gets an M. D. tacked onto his name. ‘*Then, what happens to this boy, or this young man? He is launched to make a name for himself, in many in- stances, in a profession for which he is altogether unfitted, and the result is that he becomes not simply mediocre, often, but a lamentable failure. The chances are that if this boy had been tested as to bis fitness for various things it would have been demonstrated that there was a line of practical life for which he had a natural aptitude. Perhaps he might have made a good farmer and risen to prominence in that line, but, as it stands, he has no chance, and he be- comes a doctor because his father wanted him to be one, ‘*It is not always the case that a young man gets into the wrong place early in life, but it is always the case that when he gets into the wrong place it is be- cause no real substantial effort was made in the beginning to find out what he was best fitted for. I once knew of a man who became a very good house painter. He accumulated quite a little bit of money, enough so that when he determined that he would like to bea doctor he could go ahead and get a smat- tering of a medical education. Well, he managed to Sget a degree, and he be- came as great a failure as a doctor as he was a success in painting houses. There is a fact with a moral to it, and the moral is plain to anyone who wishes to look for it.’’ “*Just how would you try to make the boys of to-day and those of the next generation better fitted to cope with the world?’’ I asked. ‘*Find out what they are fitted for be- fore they really begin practical life,’’ said the doctor. ‘‘I have a plan and believe it to be a very good one. It is to have in every place a board com- posed of experts qualified to judge of the physical conditions and mental qual- ifications of a boy. I would have every boy appear once a year at least before this board from the time he was 6 years of age until he was 16. It would be the duty of the various members of such a board to test the boy’s hearing, his eye- sight, to see if he had any physical dis- ability that could in any way be de- tected; to see if he had a criminal tendency; to see if his fingers were those capable of deft manipulation or delicate operation; to see if his brain were well ordered, and if there were in- dications of unusual development in any direction. ‘‘I would have on that board men who could learn by questioning what was the boy’s natural inclination for a profession or trade. I would have the members of that board men who were in no way situated so that they would be influenced by any business relations with the fathers of the boys, and in that way their judgment must be unbiased. Then, after a boy had passed through the hands of the different board mem- bers, I would bave a report prepared for the boy’s father telling exactly what the result of the examination was, and in that way there would be from the beginning—that is, from the age of 6 years—a series of definitions of the boy, of practical analyses which would show the actual facts concerning his body, mind and natural aptitude. ‘*In the matter of the support of such a board as this, I would say make it lo- cal, state or national or by subscription, but I would so arrange it that the fathers of boys who could should pay so much a year, but that this should by no means act as a bar to the sons of persons un- able to afford such a thing as enjoying all the advantages that would ceitainly accrue. The plan would lose its value instantly were it made to depend upon the financial backing ground from the oor. ‘‘And this you believe, doctor, would stay the degeneracy you have spoken of in every way?’’ ‘There is no doubt of it. It would raise the standard of the human race in every country where it was adopted. There are some boys who are naturally inclined to crime, but I believe the ma- jority become criminal through circum- stances. You take a high-spirited boyl for instance. We will say he has natura, ambitions and gifts in a direction to which his father is opposed. He lets that. be known, and _ is laughed at and scorned for it. His pride is hurt. The natural growth of that for which nature has fitted him is checked. He is forced into something he really loathes, and he becomes careless and disgusted. He does not realize all these things, but the result is the same, and he grows up with his natural tendencies perverted, with his better instincts checked, and lapses into a mental condition that makes him dull to the evil of crime and prone to yield to temptation when it comes, as it comes to most young men. ‘*You must remember that, in the case of very many boys who are called good boys, they are not good because they try to be, but because nature has eliminated from their brains anything that would give them the slightest desire to be other than what the world calls good. Good boys are rarely brilliant. There has never been a great man without de- cided failings. It almost seems as if nature deliberately endowed a man with weaknesses just in proportion as she endowed him with great capabilities. You can look through the great names in history and you will hardly find one whose owner was not notable for some failing, some passion that is character- ized as weakness. Most great men are strongly attracted by women. Napoleon, for example. With others, there are mental eccentricities. Dante was in- sane, and so it goes.’’ ‘*How about the influence of the home on boys. doctor, and the opinions their fathers express to them?’’ “*It is the influence of the home that is the unmaking of many boys. I do not mean that home influences are to be sneered at or belitiled in any way. It is because they are not made what they should be that the boy suffers. If a boy hears vainglorious boasting at his home regarding his own country, it gives him an exaggerated idea of the facts. He naturally accepts it as true, and never thinks of investigating, because the stage of development of his mind does not suggest it. Thus his ideas regard- ing his own country are perverted and he becomes not patriotic, but vain- glorious. “*The American boy is given an ex- aggerated idea of democracy as it exists in this country. The doctrine of ‘we are the people’ is perfectly correct as far as it goes, but nothing gains by ex- aggeration or departure from the facts, and every boy in whom are not inculcated the real facts of democracy as it exists with us is injured mentally—he is given a push towards degeneration. “'It_is in this respect, that the English boy is treated according to his actual worth, that he has a distinct advantage over the boy of America. Naturally, our boys are the equals of any who live, but it is entirely a wrong principle to bring up a boy with the idea that be- cause he is born in this country there is nobody in any other country who can possibly equal him. I am aware that my belief is unpopular, but I feel that I speak the simple truth. ’’ CHARLES CULVER JOHNSON. Has CUS |e I The J. M. Bour Co., We Realize——_——_ That in competition more or less strong ¢© Our Coffees and Teas : Must excel in Flavor and Strength and be constant Trade Winners. All our coffees roasted on day of shipment. S yvVvOoVgvOoOgQggdggagad q 129 Jefferson Avenue, Detroit, Mich. 113°115=117 Ontario St., Toledo, Ohio. yUUypoYyYYoYgQgdd q j ' Jerri eReolaersven Ae” i : eee iis Sant ipeame tenes to ceten saul s MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 17 Commercial Travelers Michigan Knights of the Grip. President, Joun A. Horrman, Kalamazoo; Secre- tary, J. C. Saunpers, Lansing; Treasurer, Cuas. McNo try, Jackson. Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Association. President, C. C. SNEDEKER, Detroit; Secretary and Treasurer, C. W. ALLEN Detroit. United Commercial Travelers of Michigan. Grand Counselor, J. J. Evans. Ann Arbor; Grand Secretary, GS. VaLmorg, Detroit; Grand Treas- urer, W. S. WEsT, Jackson. Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Mutual Acci- dent Association. President, J. Boyp Panruinp, Grand Rapids; Secretary and Treasurer, Gro. F. OwEN, Grand Rapids. Lake Superior Commercial Travelers’ Club. President, F. G. Truscott, Marquette; Secretary and Treasurer, A. F. Wrxson, Marquette. Gripsack Brigade. Bert Ege, of Owosso, is traveling in Kansas for the Woolson Spice Co. Abram Fisher has engaged as _travel- ing representative for Chas. Seligman, the Grand Haven cigar manufacturer. W. E. Fletcher, of Schoolcraft, has engaged to travel for the D. M. Osborn Co., the engagement dating from Dec. 1. Gustin, Cook & Buckley, wholesale grocers at Bay City, will employ another salesman for their Northern trade about Jan. 1. Stephen T. Bowen (John T. Miller & Co.) is already out with his spring line —and_ his somewhat celebrated specific for the annihilation of Old Rheum. J. W. McKee, of Hillsdale, who has traveled for the Jackson Grocery Co. for the past four years, has engaged to rep- resent Berdan & Co. (Toledo) next year. James Salmond, a well-known Michi- gan traveling man, has removed his family from Altoona, Pa, to Lansing, and will reside at 207 Pine street south. Sturgis Democrat: A. B, Tennent will start out to travel next Monday for the wholesale clothing house of Wood- hull, Goodale & Bull, of Syracuse, N. Y. He will travel in Indiana. Sturgis Journal: Ed. Huff, who for many years has been with F. L. Burdick & Co, in the clothing department, has decided to see what virtue there is in being a traveling man and will go on the road in the interest of an Eastern wholesale clothing house in a week or two. Menominee Herald: The wholesale grocery house of Penberthy, & Cook Co. now has six menontheroad. Early next summer work will be started on a big eievator and cold storage. The company handles an immense line of produce. It has been buying all the oats that could be secured in this region. Potatoes, hay, etc., are also shipped to all parts of the United States. Even with their present large facilities they are crowded for room. Muskegon News: The oldest salesman, in point of contiuous service, who calls on Muskegon merchants, is probably H. A. Mansfield, of Waltham, Mass, He is engaged in the shoe manufactur- ing business, being interested in facto- ries at North Adams, Pittsfield and Lynn, Mass., but for the past thirty- three years has made it a part of his work tu spend about two months in the fall and spring of each year calling on the retail shoe dealers of Michigan. He began his visits to Muskegon over thirty years ago and has come here regularly since then twice each year. Owosso Press: ‘‘Old Billy,’’ for thirteen years a familiar object in whatever grocery store C. C. Duff bas been doing business, has taken up his abode in the country. Billy is a cat, the pet of every one familiar wih Duff & Dettwiler’s store. He had made the acquaintance of many commercial trav- elers at the store and with each one he was a favorite. Saginaw Courier-Herald: Willard F. King, traveling representative of D. E. Prall & Co., who recently returned from a successful business trip in the North- west, has left on a three months’ trip which will take him along the Northern States, down the Pacific Coast,and back by way of Angora and New Mexico. Mrs. King and child will remain with her parents at Cheboygan. Chairman Wetzell (Post E) has been selected by the Committee on Arrange- ments to deliver a ten-minute speech at the Saginaw banquet. The invitation is entirely appropriate in case the Com- mittee proposes to permit Mr. Wetzell to take his sardonic smile along with him. He has had it on ice ever since the annual picnic of the Grand Rapids traveling men and it is in excellent con- dition. Frequent complaints come to the Tradesman of the arbitary manner in which users of the Central Traffic Asso- ciation mileage book are treated by the gentleman who is entrusted with the work of redeeming the covers. Many cases have been reported where he has trumped up some foolish excuse for re- fusing to redeem the covers, but in every case he has receded from kis _ po- sition on being threatened with suit; in fact, threats of this kind appear to be about the only way the boys have of bringing the obstreperous individual to time. All reports are to the effect that he is invariably abusive and ungentle- manly; in fact, it is an open question which is the more unpopular—the red- tape book of the C. T. A. or the boorish individual who stands guard over the misuse of the monstrosity. Grand Rapids traveling men should not forget that the annual meeting of Post E will be held at Sweet’s Hotel on Saturday evening, Dec. 3, at which time officers will be elected for the en- suing year and preliminary arrange- ments made for attending the annual convention of the Michigan Knights of the Grip at Saginaw in December. It will also be in order to nominate a can- didate for Director in place of Frank M. Tyler, whose two-year term expires with the present fiscal year. L. M. Mills was elected to fill the vacancy caused by the removal of Mr. Tyler from the State and there will probably be no objection raised to his remaining on the Board. It is hoped that the at- tendance at the meeting will be large, as several matters of importance are to come up for consideration and action. Traveling men who are compelled to use both the Northern and _ Central Traffic Association mileage books as- sert that there is no comparison between the two books and that they show their approval of the Northern book by using it as much as possible in traveling from the East, instead of going over roads which insist on using the Central book. The only suggestion the Tradesman hears in relation to the book is that it would be a convenience to be able to buy a 5,000 mile book for $110, with the same conditions as are observed with the $30 book. This suggestion comes from traveling men who use a 1,000 mile book every two or three weeks and who find it inconvenient to purchase the books at some stations.- Perhaps it would be well for the members of the Bureau to consider the suggestion at some of their meetings. SUCCESSFUL SALESMEN. P. T. Walsh, Candidate for President of the M. K. of G. At the regular meetin of Post C (Detroit), held on the last Saturday evening of October, P. T. Walsh re- ceived the unanimous endorsement of the Fost as its candidate for the Presi- dency of the Michigan Knights of the Grip. After due deliberation, Mr. Walsh, at the Post meeting held No- vember 26, announced his acceptance. His many friends will be pleased to have a chance to vote for him at the annual meeting, to be held in Saginaw next month. Mr. Walsh will be an ex- ceptionally strong candidate, as he is admirably adapted to fill the position, both from his forensic talent and his high executive ability, which will not come amiss when he presides at the Board of Directors’ meetings, and the further fact that his interests are iden- tified with the traveling fraternity only. Mr. Walsh is a commercial traveler in the truest and fullest sense of the word, having been in the employ of the P. Lorillard Company, Jersey City, N. J., for the past fourteen years. Starting as an advertising boy, he has by sheer merit worked his way through the va- rious stages of advancement on the road, and is now, and _ has been for the past three years, general agent for the com- pany in the States of Michigan, In- diana and Kentucky. Mr. Walsh is 36 years old, lives in the city of Detroit and has a most attractive personality, is strong in his friendships and equally strong in hisdislikes, and he hasa large circle of loyal friends who, unquestion- ably, will be pleased to see him preside over the largest and most influencial commercial travelers’ association in the State of Michigan. The members of Post C will use every honorable means in their power to secure Mr. Walsh’s election, for the reason that they believe him eminently fitted for the place, that it will confer a deserved honor upon the city of Detroit and that his election will mean that the membership of the Michigan Knights of the Grip in De- troit will be vastly increased as a result of his election. Joun MCLEAN. —_—__» 6 >—___ Another in Her Mind. ‘That widow scared me away."’ oe How?’’ ‘*She has been married only once, but she always refers to the dear departed as her first husband.’’ —_—___2>02.___ John W. Califf and Frank A. Califf, father and son, will spend the next three months in the city in the interest of the Dayton Computing Scale Co. The Califfs reside in Bay City. JouN G, MILLER & G0, ALL WOOL CLOTHING CHICAGO, ILL. I am now in Michigan with my spring samples and will call on my customers as fastasI can. My line this season is superior in workmanship to any I have ever sold. Kindly hold off buying till you see my line. I will see all my friends in time to meet their requirements. Resp’y STEPHEN T. BOWEN. Sbobhbbb bbb bbb bbb bb bbb bbb bath FUG UU O OG OPO VO VV OU VU VV VV GARDINER & BAXTER yyevvvvvvwvvvvvvevyvvvvvywvw* eb hp by hp bi bp be bp bp bp by bp bn bo hi bb bn OUR EXPERIENCE enables us to give you the best in SHIRTS AND LAUNDRY WORK. Abb dbGbdbdbdGGGGb bbb bb bb bbb bbb bbb botnet ee eb be ho be be bp bp bp fp bp bp bp bp bp by by bp bp bp bp bp bp bp bp bo be 55 MONROE STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. 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Washington Ave. and Kalamazoo St., LANSING. HOTEL WHITCOMB ST. JOSEPH, MICH. A. VINCENT, Prop. RASA LASE MISES PRI DRMINT Ne AR Amt AA Ran eee teats etal oa i i 3 ~4 re ce ES 18 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Drugs--Chemicals MICHIGAN STATE BOARD OF PHARMACY. Term expires F. W. R. Perry, Detroit - - Dec. 31, 1898 A. C. ScoumacHER, Ann Arbor - Dec. 31, 1899 Gro. Gunprom, Ionia - - - Dec. 31, 1900 L. E. RuyNoups, St. Joseph - Dec. 31, 1901 Hewry Hem, Saginaw - - - Dec. 31, 1902 President, Gro. GunpRuM, Ionia. Secretary, A. C. ScouMacHER, Ann Arbor. Treasurer, HENRY HEIM, Saginaw. Examination Sessions. Detroit—Jan. 10 and 11. Grand Rapids—March 7 and 8. Star Island—June 2 and 27. Houghton—Aug. 29 and 30. Lansing—Nov. 7 and 8. STATE PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION. President—J. J. SourwiInz, Escanaba. Secretary, CHas. F. Mann, Detroit. Treasurer Joun D. Muir, Grand Rapids. Sound Policies in Buying Goods. The old-fashioned apothecary would say, ‘‘Buy cheap and sell dear.’’ Whether or not selling dear is a good business principle does not concern us at this time, but there is no doubt that buying cheap is an absolute necessity to the retail druggist. This at first seems like a simple question. Most all patented and proprietary goods are sold under contract, so he may think all he has to do is to send in his daily order, as there is but one price to all under this contract system. While this is true as far as contract goods are concerned, that is at present a small part of the retail druggist’s business. It is generally conceded that one can buy cheaper in his own store of trav- eling men than he could if in the seller’s store dealing direct with the principals. Men are out to sell, and they will sell if they possibly can; so keep in their good graces. They can serve you well if treated with the cour- tesy that their position entitles them to. A good buyer must of necessity be a man possessed of a good memory; he must be thoroughly posted ; he must be a man of pleasing address and genial temperament. You can not scowl a man’s price down; but you can often coax it down. What you want is to be on the same business footing that will allow you to compete with any class of merchants. To do this you must dis- count your bills or meet them promptly at maturity. Never make any unjust claim or attempt to deduct discounts you are not entitled to. Buy your goods in the open market from the house who gives you the lowest prices, but do not get one man’s» prices simply for the purpose of making someone else come down in price; this is poor policy. We all have our preferences in regard to buyirg from our friends and would be glad to indulge them, providing we do not have to pay for it, but the man who pays a little more for an article be- cause the seller is bis friend is unfit to be in business. Do not allow the bland- ishments of any traveling salesman, or an offer of extreme dating, to encourage you to purchase one dollar’s worth more than you may require; buy as your trade warrants, and never buy a supposed season’s supply of any article at once. Do all your trading upon sound business principles. Let honor be your watchword, and by every means in your power make your account so desirable that any wholesale merchant will be glad to sell you as cheaply as he will any one. You can’t have too high an appreciation of the importance of tak- ing cash discounts upon your purchases. On net thirty-day bills you are en- titled to a cash discount of 1 per cent. in ten days ; in other words, 18 per cent. per annum. Can you expect to make money any faster than that? Some wholesalers make it a point to try and sell goods on a basis of net ninety days; they carry a discount of 4 per cent. in sixty days, or in other words, 4 per cent. for thirty days extra time, 48 per cent. per annum. Don’t be caught on such a bait; you can’t afford to do business if you have to pay 48 per cent. per annum for the privilege of thirty day’s extra time. 24> __ Stilwell’s Copaiba Test. Arthur A. Stilwell has issued the fol- lowing self-explanatory circular: ‘‘It has come to my knowledge that the test published by myself, which I give be- low, has been privately attacked, the claim being made that 25 per cent. of ordinary window-glass rosin added to balsam copaiba, delivered by others, will make it answer that test. It is al- most unnecessary to call attention to the fact that this would make the balsam so thick that it would not require an expert to detect at once it was not pure. Also the smell would be quite different from that of pure balsam copaiba. My long experience in handling the arti- cle, of all grades and in large quanti- ties, fits me to state positively that all balsam copaiba, except Para balsam, or limpid, thin balsam corresponding in quality to Para, will answer thistest. I am prepared to admit it is possible to defeat this test, but the sophistication will.show some other way. The fact re- mains, however, if balsam copaiba, ex- cept thin, limpid balsam, does not answer this test, positively it is not pure. Ina test-tube put two and one- half parts of balsam copaiba to one part aqua ammonia 20 degrees U. S. P. Cork and shake so as to mix thoroughly. If pure, the balsam will at first become cloudy, then immediately become transparent and remain so. If impure it will remain cloudy and opaque.”’ —_—__—~»> 2. The Drug Market. Opium—Cable advices from primary market report a continuation of dry weather and unfavorable crops. Spec- ulators are buying heavily. This market has not responded as yet, but there is no question about higher prices later on. Morphine—Is_ steady at unchanged prices. Quinine—Is in good demand for this season of the year and prices are well maintained. Alcohol—The combination have ad- vanced prices 2c fer gallon. Linseed Oil—Has declined, on ac- count of lower price for seed. The Care and Control of Prescrip- tions. Should the druggist be required by law to retain the original of every pre- scription compounded by him, and‘to furnish a copy only on request of the patient or of the physician? The following is a section of the Mis- souri Pharmacy Law: ‘‘ Every druggist, proprietor of a drug store or pharma- cist shall carefully preserve all pre- scriptions compounded by him or those in his employ, numbering, dating and filing them in the order in which they are compounded, and shall produce the same in court or before any grand jury whenever thereto lawfully required, and on failing, neglecting or refusing to do so, shall be deemed guilty of a mis- demeanor, and on conviction shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty nor more than one hundred dollars. ’’ By the enactment of this section the lawmakers were inspired not so much with a desire to protect the physician and the druggist as to provide a means of detecting the unlawful selling of intoxicating liquors by collusion among the three parties primarily interested, the consumer completing the triangular arrangement ; but while the disreputable doctor and druggist may be punished by this provision of the law, others may utilize it as a shield and a defense. That all prescriptions should be care- fully filed, and in such manner as will insure them from damage while render- ing them readily accessible, druggists generally are agreed ; but the thoughtful care exercised in this important branch of the business is not uniform. But it is not the purpose of this paper to dis- cuss methods. By the wording of the section of the Missouri Pharmacy Law quoted, the druggist is directed to file the prescrip- tion handed him to be compounded. This means the original, not a copy; yet the primary object of this section was not to decide who, in tbe State of Missouri, shall be considered the legal owner. of this interesting scrap of paper. The command to the druggist, in the words of the law, leaves no doubt as to the proper custodian of the pre- scription, and as a logical deduction decides the ownership. The model law which this association hopes ultimately to frame might appropriately contain such a section. Druggists may be made defendants in damage suits. For a successfnl defense, if the fact to be established is the cor- rect compounding of a prescription, the presentation in evidence of the original is quite essential. The ques- tion as to the ownership of the prescrip- tion is an old one, but so long as it is an open and vital one the discussion is in order. A decision by one of the higher courts would be welcome. The inferior courts in passing upon it have contra- dicted one another. But no final de- cision is possible until there shall be a law for interpretation. Each state is at the mercy of its lawmakers. Fora set of men in convention assembled to agree that certain matters should be controlled by law is simple enough. To secure the enactment of such a law by a state legislature is usually a very different matter. Legislation asked for by drug- gists is often regarded with suspicion. It is thought to be for the benefit of a class, the general-welfare character of it not being usually recognized. After all of our gratuitous service to the public, our altruism may still be doubted. It is a mistake to suppose that all of the ills of which we complain can be remedied by legislation, but this thought need not deter us from effort in what we conceive to be the direction of improve- ment. It ought not to be difficult to convince physicians and patients that druggists are the proper custodians of prescriptions; but what stand shall the druggist take if there be no law behind which he can retreat? It is not unusual for a customer to say: ‘‘Please return that prescription with the medicine. You may make and keep a copy of it if you wish to do so."’ The druggist complies and takes his chances on any future complications. To do otherwise would be to invite a contention, which a politic business man studies to avoid. The practice of re- questing copies of prescriptions, the originals remaining in the possession of the druggist, isa growing one. From his standpoint the practice of refilling pre- scriptions, unless so authorized by the physician, must be considered in this connection. If we concede it to be the patient’s privilege to demand and re- ceive a copy of a prescription prepared for him, then it is not possible for the physician to control the matter of its repetition, unless there be an under- standing on this point at the time it is written. The druggist, if requested by the doctor not to give a copy of a pre- scription, will certainly see that his wishes are respected. It is the duty of the druggist, furthermore, to firmly decline to give a copy of a prescription except upon the request of the physi- cian, if it should contain morphine, cocaine, or any other potent and dan- gerous drug. By the exercise of tact and politeness, he can prevent the precipitation of an unpleasant scene. With these exceptions the patient is likely to receive a copy of his prescrip- tion when he asks for it, and he is at liberty to carry it from store to store and get ‘‘bids’’ on the cost of compounding it. Physicians very properly object to the frequent repetition of their prescrip- tions without consultation with them, but yet an illiberal policy on their part is apt to estrange patients and result in damage to their practice in the end. The doctor, above all othe’s, must be a man of good judgment. He usually is politic, discreet, and tactful. Evil consequences do undoubtedly often follow indiscriminate self-medica- tion. By a mutual understanding be- tween the two professions, either with or without legal enactments, physician, pharmacist and patient would all be benefited. J. M. Goon. A woman always wishes to be sure of the last word. That is why she looks at the end of a novel first. ALWAYS A WINNER! GR N ti SRP i $35.00 per M. H. VAN TONGEREN, Holland, Mich. ani einboatne eee MICHIGAN TRADESMAN WHOLESALE PRICE CURRENT. Advanced— Declined— Acidum — Mae. ....... ‘ oo 50 — Ce... ] = Aceticum.. 8 6@8 3| CO Ss 1 25| Tolutan......... ... Benzoicum, German 70@ 75 Cubeb Beas 90@ 1 00) Prunus virg......... @ 50 Boracic.............- @ 15| Exechthitos ........ 1 00@ 1 10 Tinctures Carbolicum ......... 20@ 41| Erigeron............ 1 00@ 1 10} Aconitum Napellis R 60 Citricum ...........- 45@ 48 | Gaultheria..... .... 1 50@ 1 60 Aconitum Napellis F 50 Hydrochlor ......... 5| Geranium, ounce... @ %5/ Aloes................ 60 Nitrocum. -........ 4 eo. oS Aloes and Myrrh. . 60 Oxalicum . a 12@ 14 Hedeoma..... ...... 1 OW@ 1 10} Arnica.............. 50 Phosphorium, dil. @ 15 Junipera. ee ee 1 50@ 2 00 Assafeotida Se 50 Salicylicum. . ) 60@ «65 | Lavendula.......... 90@ 2 00) Atrope Belladonna. 60 Sulphuricum. . 13% 5 | Limonis............. 1 30@ 1 50} Auranti Cortex..... 50 1 Mentha Piper....... 1 60@ 2 20! Benzoin. 60 Tannicum ... oe 40 Meo: s. Tartaricum ba 40 | Mentha Verid....... 150@ 1 60| Benzoin Co.......... 50 a Morrhue, gal....... 1 10@ 1 25| Barosma..... i 50 Ammonia Myrcia 4 00@ 4 50| Cantharides.. 5 Aqua, 16 deg........ 4@ G1 Give... 7@ 3 00| Capsicum .. 50 Aqua, 20 deg........ 6@ 8 Picls Liquida....... 10@ 12] Cardamon.. vis) Carbonas............ 129@_ = 14 | Picis Liquida, gal... @ 35!/ Cardamon Co 5 Chloridum .......... 12@ 14 —— en <= : = astor..... 1 00 Aniline Osmarini........... Catechu 50 a 2 00 2 25 a 2 2 3 —" eee oe | So oo a 90@ 1 00| Columba 50 ste eee cere ee eeee a 7 00 Yellow) ...c.0lcic) 2 50@ 8 00 | Sassafras. 202000000. ae elo wer 50 | Sa Bacce. ae aie ess., ounce. ‘ oe . 2 Cassia Acutifol Co. . 50 Suniperua css (6 * Thyme Sgn ag Maye a 50 Ope. Xanthoxylum.. %@ | tneobromas ..... 15@ 20 Fern! Chi —— = Balsamum : Potassium pron Cel < Bi-Carb............ - 9-0 Gaaeamaen ™ 80 i Bichromate ......... 13@ 15 Hyoscyamus 50 Tolutan.............- 50@ 55 —. Reet tence ee es = oi > die geaneepemeins 5 Cortex Chlorate..po. 17@i9e 16@ 18 Iodine, coloriess.. S Abies, Canadian.. 18 | Cyanide............. 40 Lobelia pc ew ein ee woes a Cassie ...... 2... 0065 IZ | lodide............. 2 49@ Sta 50 Cinchona Flava..... 18 | Potassa, Bitart, pure 30 Nuz oo ce cceeee = Euonymus —— = Potassa, Bitart, com 02 a. pad Myrica Cerifera, po. SS Tas, opt.. Dl Gat eanahoudcs Y Pranus Virgini...... 12| Potass Nitras........ : = d — a oe ‘ - Quillaia, gr’d....... 12 | Prussiate....... .... w@ 2 ales oe 50 Sassafras...... po. 18 12} Sulphate po... ..... 16@ 18 Gane 50 Ulmus...po. 15, gr'd 15 Radix — 50 Extractum Aconitvm...... .... 20@ 25 | Sanguinaria....... 50 Glycyrrhiza Gishes. 2@ 2] Althe.........0.00., 229@ 25 | Serpentaria......... 50 Glycyrrhiza, po..... 30 {| Anchusa ............ 10@ 12| Stromonium........ 60 Heematox, 15 ia. ti@ tj Arumpo..... ...... @ | Tolutan.............. 60 Hematox,1s........ 13@ 14] Calamus ............ 2@ 40| Valerian............ 50 Hematox, %8....... 14@ 15] Gentiana...... po 15 12@. 15| Veratrum Veride... 50 Hematox, 4{8...... 16@ 17} Glychrrhiza...py.15 16@ 18| Zimgiber............. 20 uien py grass aaaten. @ 60 e [liscellaneous rastis Can 5 the Carbonate Precip... 15 | Hellebore, Alba, Ds, Po. 19 0 Hither, opts Nit iF xO 38 Citrate and Quinia.. 2 25 | Inula, po.. 15@ 20] Alumen 24Q@ 3 Citrate Soluble.. .... % | Ipecac, po...... 1... . 2 80@ 3 0°| Alumen, gro’d.. po. 7 4 Ferrocyanidum Sol. 40 | Tris plox. ... p035@38 33@ 40| Annatto _— 50 Solut. Chloride. .... 15| Jalapa, pr........... 5@ 30 aed , po... 5 Sulphate, com’l.. 2) Maranta, \s........ @ 35| Antimoni 7 ee 4 50 Sulphate, a iby Podophyllum, po.. 2@ 2%} Antipyrin 35 bbl, per ewt.. 50| Rhel ............ —— a = Se 73@ 100| Antifebrin ........ 2 Sulphate, pure ..... 7 Rhel, ae @ 1 25| Argenti Nitras, oz - 50 Flora aeechs. Seas. %@ 1 = a ae a 12 eee alm Gilead Bu 3@ 40 Arnica ----+-------- OQ S| Sanguinaria...po. ib %@ 33| Bismuth 8 Ne”. 1 400 150 nak... wae Ss a Me 30@ 35| Calcium Chlor., 1s.. @ 9 : Sonera... 40@ 45| Calcium Chlor., %s. @ 10 Folia aa. Similox, ss H @ 4 oe Chlor., » 348. @ 12 ees a ie 2 mi Se ee 25 | Cantharides, Ru 75 Guanie Aoutitel, Tin- Seis 3... |. po.35 105 12 | Capsici Fructus. of 3 15 nevelly...... ..... 18@ 25} Symplocarpus, Feti- Capsici Fructus, po. @ 15 Cassia Acutifol,Alx. 2%@ 30 Se po... @ B Capsici FructusB,po @ 15 Salvia officinalis, 4s Valeriana, Eng. po.30 @ 2} Caryophyllus..po.15 12@ 14 12@ = Valorians, German. = 20 Se isa ie @ 3 00 ie -........ 1 era a. 50@ 55 Guat = Zingiber j. ......... 258 27 pi Flava... “= S occus . Acacia, 1st picked.. @ 6 Semen cp Acacia 24 bicked.. @ 45|Anisum....... po. @ B wae . > Acacia, 3d picked.. @ 35] Apium (graveleons) 13@ 15| Getaceum.... @ 4 Acacia, sifted sorts. 28 mea fe 4I@ 6 | Chloroform. 50@ 53 Acacia, po....... ... go | Carui.... 2.2. po.18 10@ 12) Chloroform, sibs @ 1 10 Aloe, Barb. po.18@20 12@ 14|Cardamon........... 1 2@ 1 % | Chloral Hyd Crst.... 1 65@ 1 90 ‘ape .... po. 1 @_ 12| Coriandrum......... 8@ 10) Chondrus. 0@ 2 Aloe, Socotri..po.40 _@ 30| Cannabis Sativa.... 4%@ 5 | Ginchonidine aa 3@ 3 Ammoniac.......... 55@ 60 donium........... 7%5@ 1 00| Cinchonidine, Ge 2@ 30 Assafoetida....po. 30 28 | Chenopodium ...... 10@_ 12 Cocaine ak 83 55@ 3 75 Benzoinum ......... 305 55 | Dipterix Odorate... 1 40@ 1 50] Corks, Uist, dis. pr. Ct. 70 Catechu, Is.......... @ 13} Feniculum......... @ Creoso 35 Catechu, 45......... @ 14| Fonugreek, po...... @ 9 — 3 2 Catechu, 148......... G@ 6) Ei 3%@ 4% | Greta, prep 5 Camphore .. 41@ 45 | Lini, grd....bbl.3% 4@ ‘* Creta, recip. & 11 Euphorbium. .po. 35 @ 10 —. ubra........ @ 8 Galbanum........... @ 1 00| Pharlaris — 4 Mg ply LE 18@ 20 Gamboge po........ 65@ 70} Rapa.. -- 4%@ 51! Gudbear 1.00.07" @ a QGuaiacum..... po. 25 @ 30 Sinapis Albu... .... 10| Cupri Sulph......... 5@ 6 Kino.......- po. 83.00 @300|Sinapis Nigra....... N@ 12) Dextrine....-....1111 10@ 12 — sttteeetes coas ¢ = Spiritus Ether Sul __ ae = os ee Frumenti, W. D. Co. 2 2 50 | Emery, all numbers Opti "po 6.005.403 0 8 = Frumenti, D. F. R.. > OOD 2 25 | Hmery, po..... 5 9b m3 “MiAached rumenti..... 1 1 50 white Shellac, bleached ae Suniperis 66.0, 2 BO 2 Flake White........ BQ 15 ee ee un eris ae ss i ee Herba Saacharum N eS 1 50 : = Gambier. ............ 8@ 9 Absinthium..oz. pkg 25 | Spt. Vini Galli... 1 @ 6 50 Con le Eupatorium .oz. pkg 99 | Vini O .- 1 25@ 2 00| GF atin, French..... - 35@ Lobelia...... oz. pkg 95 | Vini A = EU 120 2 00 Glassware, flint,box 75 = Majorum ....oz. pkg 28 Sponges gl oo box... 2 Mentha Pip..oz. pkg 3 : ue, brown........ 9@ Mentha Vir..oz. pkg 95, | Florida sheeps’ wool Glue, white......... 13@ 25 Rue "oz. pkg 39 | _Carriage........... 2 50@ 2 75 | Glycerina........... 4@ w TanacetumV oz. pkg 99 | Nassau sheeps wool Grana Paradisi .... @ B® Thymus, V..oz. pkg 95 | _ Carriage........... 2 00@ 2 25 | Humulus............ 23@ 55 Deana Velvet extra sheeps’ Hydraag Chlor Mite @ 8 Magnesia. wool, carriage..... @ 1 25| Hydraag Chlor Cor. @ % Calcined, Pat........ 55@ 60| Extra yellow 8 eeps’ Hydraag Ox Rub’m @ % Carbonate, Pat...... 2@ 22| wool. carriage.... @ 1 00| Hydraag Ammoniati @ 1 10 Carbonate, K.& M.. 20@ 25/} Grass sheeps’ wool, ee 455@ 55 Carbonate, Jennings 3@ 36 carriage... ....... @ 1 00| Hydrargyrum....... @ 7 Hard, for slate use.. @ Ichthyobola, Am.. 6@ 7% Oleum Yellow Reef, for Indigo) 20s 75@, 1 00 a. aor? 3 50@ 3 75 slate use.......... @14 lodine, Resubi...... 3 3 tig : = mygdalez, Dulc.... 3@ 50 odoform....... .... Amy dale, Amare . 8 8 Syrups Lupulin. ........... @ 2 25 Anis f CSTE Rie si Sallis g sg 2 10) Acacia..........:.. : @ 50 ama eebeenes ae 45 Auranti Cortex..... 2 2 40 | Auranti Cortes...... @ 50| Mac % se peoneesa ces 3 00@ 3 20} Zingiber....... ..... @ 50 Pecans Arsen et Hy Cajiputi............. 75@ 80 | Ipecac. Sa @ 60| drargiod......... @ B aaperert Senses. 7@ 80} Ferri a ee @ 50| LiquorPotassArsinit 10@ 12 Cee 65 | Rhei Arom.... ..... @ 50| Magnesia, Sulph.. 3 Chenopadii.......... 2% Smilax Officinalis.. 50@ 60/ Magnesia Sulpb, bbl 1% Cinnamonii. |...) ... 1 1 70| Senega.............. @ 50| Mannia, 8. F.. 60 Cisronella. ......... 50 | Scills...... 022. @ t0| Menthol, 3 00 Morphia, . P.& W... 2 40@ 2 65} Sinapis.............. g 18| Linseed, pure raw.. 35 38 Morphia, 8 N.Y. Q& Sina ey Ca 30 | Linseed, boiled..... 36 39 ce Ce... 2 30@ 2 55 — ae uate Neatsfoot,winterstr 65 70 mignon — ao @ Veos.............. @ | Spirits Turpentine... 42 50 Myristica, No. 1..... 6@ 80 snuff r Scotch, DeVo’s @ % Nux Vomica. .. 0.20 @ 10| Soda Boras.......... 9@ il Paints BEL. L = in Saas, &', 5@ 18 — Boras a - ui oe epsin Saac, & et Potass Tart. Red Venetian... ... 1% 2 ole cad caver clu crouse @ 1 00} Soda, Carb.......... 1%@ z Ochre, yellow Mars. 1% 2 ¢ Picis Lia. N.N.% gal. Soda, Bi-Carb....... 5 Ochre, yellow Ber.. 1% 2 @3 ee @ 2 00| Soda, Ash........... 3%@ 4 Putty, commercial.. 2% 2%@3 Picis Liq., quarts. . 2 1 00 Soda, Sulphas....... @ 2 Putty, strictly pure. 24 2%@3 Picis Liq., pints. .... 8 | Spts. ‘Cologne oo. @ 2 6 Vermilion, rime Pil Hydrarg. . = = @ 50| Spts. peer Co...... “— 55| American.......... 13@ 15 Fiver Nigra... @ 18|8pt. Myrcia Dom.. ° 00 Vauuiien. agin: 0@ % Piper A a. @ 30|Spts. Vini Rect.bbl. @ 254] Green, Paris........ 18%@ 22 Piix a eae @ 7| Spts. Vini Rect.%4bbl @ 2 59| Green’ Peninsular... 1 16 Plumbi Acet........ ag 12 | Spts. Vini Rect. 10gal @ 2 62 aaa no 634 Pulvis — et ott 11 1 20| Spts. Vini Rect. 5gal @ 2 64 Lead, white......... 5K@ 614 ——- xes Less 5¢ gal. cash 10 days. Whiting, white Span @ & P. D. Co., doz.. @ 1 25| Strychnia stal. . 14 Whiting, gilders’.. @ w Pyrethrum, pv...... 25@ 30| Sulphur, Subl....... xO 4 | white, ParisAmer.. @100 ISGRIOE oo 8@ 10/Sulphur, Roll..... 24@3% | whiting, Paris Eng. uinia, S. P&W 31a 36 Tereventh Via es 8@ a0 a @140 juinia, S. German 2| Tereben enice.. 23@ se 20@ 34| Theobroma. r 16@ Universal Prepared. 1 00@ 1 15 ubia Tinctorum... 12@ 14} Vanilla.............. a) 00@16 00 Varnishes —— pv ‘ on a = Zinci Sulph......... 7@ 8 ee i ‘u ach... 11 Sanguis Draconis... 50 Olls cog gy ee i 606 i 70 Sapo, W............. 14 BBL. @AL. | Coach Body......... 2 %@ 3 00 Sapo, M.... ......... 10@ 12/ whale, winter....... 70 70|No.1Turp Furn.... 1 00@ i 10 po, G........... .- @ 15) Lard, extra......... 50 60| Extra Turk Damar.. 1 55@ 1 60 Siediits Mixture.... 20 @ 22) Lard, No.1.......... 40 45|Jap.Dryer,No.1Turp 70@ 75 Freezable Goods Now is the Time to Stock ? ¢ Mineral Waters, Liquid Foods, Malt Extracts, Butter Colors, Toilet Waters, Hair Preparations, Inks, Etc. t+ Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co. Grand Rapids, Mich. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN ROGERY PRICE CURRENT. The prices quoted in this list are for the trade only, in such quantities as are usually purchased by retail dealers. possible to give quotations suitable for a erage prices for average conditions of purchase. those who have poor credit. our aim to make this feature of the greatest possible use to dealers. They are prepared just before going to press and are an accurate index of the local market. 1 conditions of purchase, and those below are given as representing av- Cash buyers or those of strong credit usually buy closer than Subscribers are earnestly requested to point out any errors or omissions, as it is It is im- AXLE GREASE. CLOTHES — doz. gross | Cotton, 40 ft, per doz....... 100 Aeeere ue 55 6 00| Cotton, 50 ft, per dos....... 1 20 Castor On. ..........- 6 $700) Cotton, 60 ft, per doz....... 140 nearer a 50 400) Cotton, 70 ft, per dos....... 1 60 ee 7 9% 00j Cotton, 80 ft, per dos....... 1 80 IxXL Golden, tin boxes75 900) Jute, 60 ft, per dos......... 80 Plica, tin boxes....... -% 900] Jute. 72 ft. per dos,,........ Paragon oe) eee ooo 55 6 00 COCOA SHELLS. BAKING POWDER. ib page... cl. 2% Absolute. — quantity een ce 3 "> cane dos. ........... 45 | Pound packages......... 4 iD ses Gon... ......... 85 CRBAM TARTAR. Ib cau doz...... -... 150] 5 and 10 1b. wooden boxes.... .30 Acme. Balk ineeexs... 29 Ib Cans 3 dos.......... COFFER. lb cans 8 dos............ Green Ib cans 1 dos............ 100 Rio. Bee 10 | wair r 9 aac. ~-—Tasegeneas aan 4 6 oz. Eng. Tumblers........ | ce LT 11 ieee’ % ie % Ib cans per doz ........ 1 20 Poaneny _........-.......... 13 1 Ib cans per dos......... 2 00 Home. Mam ...... ..c6) ee ee 12 lb cans 4 dos case...... 35 od Ib cans 4 dos case...... REL Preme..... 2. - ene nese 14 lb cans 2 doz case...... 90 | Peaberry ........-.. ----.-+-- 15 - Mexican and Guatamala. JAXMON Ie Good ... 1b cans, 4 doz case..... 45| Fancy - serene lb cans, 4 doz case...... 8 Maracaibo. lb cans, 2 doz case...... te oe 19 Jersey Cream. a 20 1 1b. cans, per doz.......... 2 00 Java. 9 oz. cans, per doz.......... ee ee 19 6 oz. cans, per dor... 8 | Private Growthi.........0s0.- 20 siti ur Leader. Mandebling..........-....+2- 21 1 E MAMGALIOR .... 2. nce cs-c veces —— Arabian ........ se Sorc eases 22 CO Se i Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.'s Brands 8 oz., 6 doz. Case............ 270| Fifth Avenue..... ....--. 6 oz., 4 doz. case . """"" 3 99 | Jewell’s Arabian Mocha.. “39 9 oz., 4 doz. Case...... 2.2.4. 4 80 | Wells’ Mocha and Java.....24 1 Ib., 2 doz. case............ 4 00 | Wells’ Perfection Java.....24 5 lb., 1 doz. Case........s00. 9 09 | Sancaibo ............--+----- 21 Breakfast Blend........... 18 BATH BRICK. Valley City Maracaibo. ..... 18% gegen aaaeageee 70 | Ideal Blend. ..............-. 14 Sa enhancer Leader Blend....... .- ae Sian Sac... 40 ame, 2 aon................ sROOrS. Ne. 1 Carpet. ........_... 1 90 Ne. 2 Garpet........- .....- 1% No. Sarpot................ 1 50 ie. Searee...............- 1 15 Parner oem ................ 00 Common Whisk............ 70 Fancy Whisk... 80 Warceouse. ............... 23 CANDLES. ee ee 8 Paremme 8. 8 Wiener cc 20 CANNED GOODS. Manitowoc Peas. Lakeside Marrowfat....... 9 lemoumie ©. J... .......... 1 15 Lakeside, Cham. of Eng.... 1 20 Lakeside. Gem, Ex. Sifted. 1 45 Extra Sifted Early June....1 75 CATSUP. Columbia, pints.......... 2 00 Columbie. ARES ee | CHEESE Ame... @ 10% Amboy ...... : @ 12 Butternut... @ 10% Carson City. @ 10% — he @ il Be resoiacac @ il Gold Medal.. @ il ehcp eee ee @ il Soeey ..... @ 11% eee... ce @ 10% a @ 11% So @ 12 ee eee @ 70 Leiden ........ poeee @ 17 oe Sees cece @ 13 Pineapple...........- 0 @ Sap Sago.........-.. @ 17 Chicory. Bulk eis 5 CHOCOLATE. Walter Baker & Co.’s. German Sweet................ 23 Package. Below are given New York prices on ckage coffees, to which the wholesale dealer adds the local freight from New York to your shipping point, giving you credit on the invoice for the amount of freight buyer — from the market in whic urchases to his a point, including weight : package, also ¥c a und. In 601b. cases the list is 10c per 100 lbs. above the price in full cases. — eee ie eee eke SOreee 2... oo fel aughtin® es XAxX. . McLaughlin’s XXXX sold to retailers only. Mail all orders direct to W. F. McLaughlin & Co., Chicago. — bmn City % gross . vi) Felix %& gross.. wo ££ Hummel’s foil % gross... 85 Humme!l’s tin %& gross.. 1 43 = ES PINS. 5 gross box 40 CONDENSED MILK. 4 doz in case. Gail Borden Eagle......... : v6) Challenge. . Dime COUPON BOOKS. Tradesman — 50 books, any denom.. 100 books, any denom.. 500 books, any denom.. 1,000 books, any denom.... Economic Grade. 50 books, any denom.... 100 books, any denom.... 500 books any denom.... 1,000 books. any denom.... Superior Grade. 50 books, any denom.... 100 books, any denom.... 500 books, any denom.... 1,000 books, any denom.. SSss Sess Ssss . Seton Universal Grade. 50 books, any denom.... 100 books, any denom.... 500 books, any denom.... 1,000 books, any denom.... Credit Checks. 500, any one denom’n..... 1000, any one denom’n..... 2000, any one denom’n..... Steel punch. DRIED PRUITS—DOMESTI Applies. maeried is. ...... os Rvaporated 50 lb boxes. @9 agama age Apricots........ Blackberries........... Nectarines ............ @ — Se 9 @10 Pea @ Pitted Cherries........ Prunnelies...........-- Raspberries...........- Sram oOuce Sggss ssss ns. London Layers 3 Crown. Cluster 4 Crown......... 2 Loose Muscateis2 Crown 5 Loose Muscatels 3Crown 6 Loore Muscatels 4 Crown 7 L. M., Seeded, choice..... 8 L. M , Seeded, fancy...... 9% POREION. Citron. Leghorn ........-.+eseeees @12 Corsican... .._..-.-.. -- @13 Curr Patras bbis..........-..--- @ 6% Vostizzas 50 'b cases...... @ : Cleaned, bulk Cleaned, —— oes @ uy Citron American 101lb bx @13 Lemon American 10 1b bx @12 Orange American 101b bx @12 aisins. Ondura 28 ib boxes..... @ Sultana 1 Crown....... @ Sultana 2Crown ...... Sultana 2Crown....... Sultana 4 Crown....... Suitana 5Crown. ... . Sultana 6 — 3 Sultana packag 8SSEes FARINACEOUS Godbs. — 2411b. packages.. «- sok Oe Bulk, per ae See eee 3 50 rits. Walsh-DeRon Cn.’ Brand. 242 1b. pacnageo.......---- 1 30 100 Ib. kegs................2 7 200 lb. barrels... ........-«. 5 10 Hominy. Bawels ¢)... 2 50 Flake, 50 Ib. = oli 1 00 Dried Lima . 3% Medium Hand Picked.. 110 Maccaroni and Vermicelli. Domestic, 10 lb. box...... Imported, 25 Ib. box.. ...2 50 — Barley. Common......-+- oe Chester .. ..-.--------...< Empire ...... -------++++ Peas Green, Wisconsin, bu..... Green, Scotch, bu. Split, ha ce Rolled Oats. Rolled Avena, bbl....... Monarch, bbl........--- a Monarch, bbl... .. 3... Monarch, 90 1b sacks...... 1 Quaker. cases. Huron, CasesS.......-.--+-- Sago German ....... East India........... Tapi Pearl.. aw a 40 1 1b. pkges.... Wheat. Cracked. bulk........-...- 3% 242 1b packages..... ....- Salt Fish. Cod. Georges cured......... @ Georges genuine...... g @ Georges selected...... Strips or bricks....... 6 Herring. Holland white hoops, bbl. §& 00 Holland — — % bbl Holland, 60 Holland 'w te aaa keg. = 450 | K GUNPOWDER. Rifle—Dupont’s. Holland white —- mchs Norwegian .. Ee Round 100 Ibs............. 2% Round 40 lbs............. 1 30 Be ee 14 egs Tackerel. co EE 2 25 Mess 109 Ibe. 90 fie cme kc. 5 ess ; Mees 19 Ibs. % JELLY. , ee . 15 Ib pails............---+--- No. 1 100 Ibs. 25180 lb pails... .... ......... ian. ........ Cm No.1 10 Tbs. .............- 48 LYB. Mot Sia... ........... 20 No. 3 0ies... ........... 50 | Condensed, 2 dos .......... 1 20 No.2 401 70 | Condensed. 4 dos......-.--- 22 mes Bite. ...... on MoS Sie. 83 LICORICB. Trout. > ~~ Sites... 5 25 14 No.1 @ins........... a 2 10 iNo. 1 103s. ............ | No.1 Sie. 57 MINCE MEAT ie ‘ doz. i "8 5 ss No.1 No.2 m Ideal, 3 doz. in case......... 40 Ibs......., 3 00 1 40 MATCHES. toe... ..... 83 43 Diamond Match Co.’s — Ibs........ 89 37| No. 9 sulphur............--- Anchor Parlor....... i ~ No.2 Home........-- Export Parlor....... MOLASSES. New Orleans. Mise... 11 eee. 14 Mend ee 20 Fancy ......00 sees eeeeee: 24 Open Kettle............-+- 25@35 alf-barrels 2c extra. MUSTARD. Horsee — : = re eee = i . Horse sh, 2 doz.......-. D Cc. oa” 7 Bayle’s Celery, 1 doz.. ....- 1% 2 Os.....- 1 . PIPBS. 722 00 Clay, No. 216............45+ 170 00 Clay, T. D. full count...... 65 00 ib, No. S.............-.--- 85 = POTASH. 00 48 cans in case. 40 Babbitt’s.........-..ee 000+ 4 00 Pure Brand. Penna Salt Co.’s.........-- 3 > Taper Panel = Me PICKLES. oz. r . a. % 120 Mediam. 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’. aoe. Oval bottle, with corkscrew. | Barrels, 2,400 ne. 4% Best in the world for the| Half bbls 1,200 Soounk pees 2 88 a RICE. : —— ; Domestic. Lemon. Carolina head............-. 6% dos Carolina No.1 ...........- 5 oan 7 | Carolina No. 2.........---- 4 ‘on. 150 Meaken........-........0-. OMe ; : imported. R i I. Vanilla. | Japan, No.1.......... 5%@ 6 <— Japan, No.2.... ..... 4n@5 Java, fancy head...... 5 @5K cee. NO. 1... 8s. 5 @ See cc @ SALERATUS. ee - ~ ~ oe: Church’s . x -.-B 8C Domes ...5 25... 3 15 IG. ooo con coset ce se 3 30 Agee Bs. soso es ee 3 00 60 Ib. case $3.15 SAL — INDIGO. Granulated, bbls.......... % mens ,5 Ib boxes......... 55 an 100 lb cases.. 90 8. F., 2,8 and 5 1b b boxes.... 50 %5 pam fablb kegs... eee 8&5 SNUFP. Scotch, in bladders......... 37 Maccaboy, in jars....... 2 French Rappee, in jars. 43 SEEDS. MO oie oc 9 Canary, Smyrna........... 3% Cerceety Cardamon, Malabar ..... 60 Ee ea 11 Hemp. — Season 4 Mixed Bird...... oo Mustard, ery Porey -....,--..-; Mee cs. Cuttle Bone............... 20 SALT. Diamond Crystal. Table, cases, 24 3-lb boxes. .1 50 Table, barrels, 100 3 1b bags.2 75 Table, barrels, 407 lb bags.2 40 Butter, barrels, 280 1b. bnlk.2 25 Butter, barrels, 20 14 lbbags.2 50 Butter, sacks, 28lbs......... 25 Butter, sacks, 56 lbs......... 55 Common Grades. 1003 Th eaeks..... ........- 1 95 O56 1h mons. ......... 22... 1 80 26 10-10 saeks............... 1 65 Worcester. 50 4 Ib. cartons........... 115 24lb. sneks..... ....... i SOONS. oo. 3010 Yd. sgexs............. 28 lb. linen sacks............ 56 lb. linen sacks............ Bulk in barrels.............. 2 Warsaw. 56-lb dairy in drill bags..... 28-lb dairy in drill bags .... Ashton. 56-lb dairy iniinen sacks... 60 Higgins. 56-lb dairy in linen sacks... 60 Solar Rock. SGID seCKs.... 2... LL. 21 Common. Granulated Fine............ 70 Medium Fine............... 70 SOAP. JAXON Simgie Nex ca 5 box lots, delivered........ 5 e 10 box lots, delivered........ 2 40 AS. §. KIRK & CO.’S BRANDS. —* mica wrp’d....2 66 00 02 09m Oo “S8YSSRSR a8 Dome.. 275 Cabinet. 2 20 Sav 2 White Russian... eee White Cloud, laundry... --6 25 White Cloud; tollet......... 3 50 Dusky Diamond, 50 6 0z....2 10 Dusky Diamond, . 8 oz....3 00 Blue India, 100 % Ib pee eee 3 00 Morkolne... oo. es ce 3 50 Soe 2 50 SCHULTE SOAP CO.’S BRANDS Clydesdale, 100 cakes, 75 Ibs. ... .2 75 No-Tax, 100 cakes, 62 1-2 lbs... .2 00 Family, 75 cakes, 75 Ibs....... 2 50 German Mottled, 60 cakes, 60 Ibs. .1 75 Cocoa Castile, 18 lbs., cut 1-4 & 1-2..1 80 Chipped Soap for Laundries. Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands. Old Country, 801-lb. bars . 3 % Good Cheer, 60 1-lb. bars....3 75 Uno, 100 %-lb. bars.......... 112 50 Doll, 100 10-oz. bars......... 26 Scouring. Sapolio, kitchen, 3 doz ..... 2 40 Sapolio, hand, 3 doz........ 2 40 SODA. tee oe Megs een... 4% aR ignte om | REGO EM nih MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 21 SPICES. Whole Sifted. AOS ee ec a: 13 Cassia, China in mats....... bP Cassia, Batavia in bund....25 Cassia, Saigon in rolls...... 32 Cloves, —— Je 14 Cloves, an. oooeke Mace, Batavia.. DIIIBs Nutmegs, fancy.. a 60 Nutmogs, No. 1............. = Nutmegs, No. 2............. Pepper, Singapore, black.. t Pepper, Singapore, white.. = Pepper, nds... Pure Ground in suit. PAISNOS ee 15 Cassia, Batavia ............. 30 Cassia, ROMO. bu. 40 Cloves, Meneper............ 14 Ginger, African... .........15 Ginger, Cochin............. 18 Ginger, Jamaica............ 23 Mace, Batavia.............. 65 Nanenes Sasi cet ocods o mon REGIME Pepper, aa. oe 13 Pepper, Sing., white........ 20 Pepper, Cayenne Se eo aide cine = a. Ce SYRUPS Corn. Bere... 56... Bar vem... . = ¥% doz. 1 gallon cans....... 1 50 1 doz. % gallon cans...... 1% 2 doz. 4% gallon cans ..... 1% Pure Cane. eee a cs. Coed cu. 20 CHOICES 2 & STARCH. Kingsford’s Corn. 4) 1-lb packages............. 6 2)1 1b packages.. «- Gg Kingsford’s Sliver Chen. 40 1-lb — Be ec ees 6% 6-lb boxes. . Se ee aaah: 64 10c packages ........... 5 00 (28 5¢ cae a 5 00 gi 32 10c and 64 5c packages...5 00 Common Corn. 2011b. packages.......... .. 5 40 1 lb. packages............. 4% Common Gloss. i-ib packages. ......:....... 4% a-1b packages............... 414 Gib packagos............... 5 40 and 50 lb boxes........... 3 Barrels ..........- ee. STOVE POLISH. ahi No. 4, 3 doz in case, gross.. 4 50 No. 6, 3 doz in case, gross.. 7 20 SUGAR. Below are given New York prices on sugars, to which the wholesale dealer adds the local — from nad — to your shippin: n giving you cseaie a ee invoice for the amount of freight buyer pays from the market in which he urchases = his ship pping p —_ ncluding 20 pounds for weight of the barrel. Deming =... 0. ee 5 50 CE TOME i 5 7- RU ee Powmored -.......... 2.5... XXXX Powdered........... COBO ee ee ce Granulated in bbls... ...... Granulated in bags.. 3 Fine Granulated.. Extra Fine Granulated Extra Coarse Granulated Mould A manga 3a 50 38 25 25 25 38 38 50 Diamond Confec. -5 25 — Standard A~ ’ z No 2 -4 88 No. 3 4 88 No. 4 .4 81 No. 5 46 No. 6. .4 69 No. 7 4 63 No. 8. 4 56 No. 9. -4 50 No. 10 44 No. 11 4 38 No. 12 431 No. 138 431 No. 14 425 No. 15. 425 MO. ee i ee TOBACCOS. Cigars. Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s brand. New Brick... 1... ..3, 33 00 H. & P. Drug Co.’s brand. Guintetie 0. oss 35 00 G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s brand. Cc ON Se. WwW... Sse seco 35 00 Ruhe Bros. Co.’s Brands, Double Eagles. 6 $557 70 00 Gen. Maceo, 5sizes.... 55@70 00 Mr. Thomas........... Cuban Hand Made.. Crown Five........... Sir William........... Club Five... 2... poe —— ane a: e Peggy . Soe Signal Five........... Knights of Pythias. 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 a 00 Key West Perfects,2sz 55@60 00 SRRKKKKKKKR TABLE SAUCES. Lea & Perrin’s, large... 4 Lea & Perrin’s,small... 2 Halford, large 3 Halford small... 2 Salad Dressing, large. hiea's 4 Salad Dressing, small 2 VINEGAR. Malt White Wine, 40 grain.... 7 Malt White Wine, 80 grain.. 210 Pure Cider, Red Star.......... 12 Pure Cider, Robinson......... 11 WICKING. No. 0, pergross.............. 20 No. 1, oa 25 No. 2, per gross.............. 35 No. 3, pergross............. 55 Crackers. The National Biscuit Co. quotes as follows: Butter. Seymour Xxx. 5% a — 3 1b. carton 6 Pamiiy 320 5% Salted xX ee 6 New York XXX.. —.. 6 Wolverine 6 DOMOH. 1% Soda. Beda MON 6 Soda XXX, 3 lb carton.. 6% Soda: City. 8 Long Island Wafers....... 11 L. I. Wafers, 1 lbcarton .. 12 Zephyrette....... 2.0.0... 10 Oyster. Saltine Wafer.............. 5% Saltine Wafer, 1 1b carton. 6% Farina Oyster.............. 5% Extra Farina Oyster....... 6 SWEET GOODS—Boxes. RSA 10% Bent’s Water............... 15 Cocoanut Taffy............ : Coffee Cake, Java.......... Coffee Cake, Iced.. “10 @racknelig...... 20. 1% Cubase 11% Frosted Cream............. Ginger Gems .... Solace 3 Ginger Snaps, mem 7% Graham Crackers .......... 8 Graham Wafers............ 10 Grand Ma Cakes............ 9 dmaperiaie 8 Jumbples, Honey........... 11% Marshmallow ............. 15 Marshmallow Creams..... 16 Marshmallow ronal 16 Mich. Frosted Honey.. -- 12% Molusses Cakes............ Candies. Grains and Feedstufifs Stick Candy. Wheat. bbls. flag) WHCAe eek 62 Standard............ 4@ 7 Winter Wheat Flour. Standard H. = Sore es oe 7 Local Brands, eure Twist is @ 8 AOR 4 25 Cut Boat... -...... 8 Second Patent.. peeeecec oes 3 75 cases | Straight. . ee, Jumbo, 32 1b ........ @ G4 Cae... 32 Extra H.o.......... @ 54 Grausm ........ 3 30 Boston Cream...... @10 | Buckwheat ................ 4 ca Mixed Candy. Subject to usual cash fis Grocers.............. @6 |} coun Gomes. @ 6% Flour in bbls., 25¢ per bbl. ad- Standard............ @7 | ditional. Conserve...... ..... @ 7% | Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s me oyal . @ 7% | Diamond, \s................ 37 oo @9 | Diamond, 4s................ 3 % pang ae ee ¢ 8% Diamond, ~_—. 6 3 % Oe 8 ‘0.’ English a. @8 oun o oe Co.’s —, " Kindergarten....... @ 8% cee ee 3 45 fa Come @9 aor : SRR 2 Dandy Pan.......... @10 s aie ‘Wheat Flour. voy Crom. .... @I3 | clark Jewell-Wells Co.'s Brand. Pancy—In Bulk. Sema 8 — age. ‘ = cife ( Lozenges, plain..... @ 8% Tile Hen Ty’s Best \s.. - £10 Lozenges, printed... = Pillsbury’ 8 Best 16S paper.. ‘ ie igG. Miiiiiecainlc sbury’s Best 14s paper.. aa oe ee : Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand. Moss Drops......... @8 Sour Drops.......... @9 Hmperials ........... @9 Fancy—Iin g§ Ib. Boxes. Lemon Drops....... @50 Sour Drops......... @50 Peppermint Drops. . @60 Chocolate Drops. . @60 H. M. exer Drops... @% Gum Drops......... @30 Licorice aaa i . @% A. B. Licorice gaa @50 Lozenges, plain.. @50 Lozenges, printed. @50 Imperials........... @50 Mottoes eee nieces on @55 Cream Bar.......... @50 Molasses Bar ....... @50 Hand Made Creams. 80 @ 90 Plain Creams. . 60 @90 Decorated Creams... @90 String Rock......... @60 Burnt Almonds..... 15 @ Wintergreen Berries @60 — tuperial ee 3 = Dulutb Imperial, 4s. ... z eestacee ee Duluth Imperial, is... 4 10 box atte 2 lb. @35 — . i gig Co.’s —— ae pect Gold Medal s............. 4 No. 1 wrapped, 3 Ib. @s0 | Gold Medal s4s.00000000.00, 415 a ol ea oe ee... 5 bal 2 wrapped, 2 Ib. Parisian, %8...........--... 425 es Parisian, 4e..... .... |. 42S Parisian, 66... ..... 4 05 ° Olney & Judson ’s Brand. Fr uits. Ceresota, %S......0.-...0.5. 425 — Oe el 3, ; 15 enceert SOR; 05 Oranges. Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand. Louisianas.......... @4 25 | Laurel, %s................. 4 25 Mexicans Florida Laurel, 48.......-... - 415 style box.......... @1 5 Laurel, a 4 PF Meal. Lemons. te OO a race sasebeee 1 90 Strictly choice 360s.. 4 00 | Granulated ................ Strictly choice 300s. S 25 Feed and Millstuffs. Fancy 360s wees @za 50 | St. Car Feed. screened ....1* Ex.Fancy 3008.... @4 50 | No. 1 Corn and Oats....... 14 50 Ex.Fancy 360s...... @: 50 | Unbolted Corn Meal....... 14 UU Winter Wheat Bran... . .13 00 Bananas. Winter Wheat Middlings. 11 00 Medium bunches...1 00 @1 25 | Screenings.. ---13 00 Large bunches...... 15u @1 % Gd corn caro 37 Foreign Dried Fruits. New corn, car lots. ....... 33 Figs. Less than oats. io. OO Californias Fancy.. 16 ats. Choice, 101b boxes. . = Car lots. .. cece ane Extra choice, 10 lb Carlots, clipped .. Se a tee ciate 33 boxes new......... @18 Less than car — ols. Ce Fancy, 12 lb boxes.. Im cain Mikados, 18 G2 No. 1 Timothy cariots aa 8 50 ce ee @ No. 1 Timothy. ton lots 10 00 Pulled, 6 1b boxes... @ i Naturals, in bags... @7 |Fish and Oysters Dates. Fards in 10 lb boxes @9 Fresh Fish. Fards in 60 ib cases @ 6 Per Ib. Persians, G. M’s..... @ 5% | Whitefish ......... . «@ lb cases, new...... @é6 | Trout ..... @ Sairs, 60 1b cases.... @5 Black Bass 8 @ saa = $ _ iscoes or Herring Nuts. Bluefish............. @ 10 Live Lobster. @ 17 Boiled Lobster @ 18 Almonds, Tarragona... 916 @ 10 Almonds, Ivaca....... @14 @ 8 Almonds, California, @ 9 soft shelled......... @ &% Brazils new. : @ 5 Filberts ...... - @ 8 Walnuts, Na Red Snapper........ @ 10 Walnuts, C @i2 | Col River Salmon.. @ 12 Walnuts, soft shelled Mackere! .......... @ 18 Cant @'2 Oysters in —- Table Nuts, fancy.. @i1 |F.H. — @ 3 Table Nuts, choice @10 |F.J D. Select: @ 27 Pecans, Med...... @ 2% | Selects ............. @ 23 Pecans, Ex. Large @10 |F.J. D Standards.. 20 Pecans, Jumbos....... @12 | Anchors .. - @ 18 Hickory Nuts per bu., Standards. -< @ Ohio, new........... @1 60 | Favorites............ @ 14 Cocoanuts, full sacks @4'0 Bulk. gal. Chestnuts per bu...... G4 00} Counts... 1 Oe emcees 1 60 Peanuts. Relvege en ie 1 20 Fancy, = P., Suns. @7 | 20> —_____ Sisal and Process of Preparation. Sisal, or sisal hemp, is the product of one of the numerous fibrous plants known as agaves. Nearly all the agave family bear a close resemblance, so that anyone having seen a specimen of the ‘*century plant’’ can form a good idea of the general appearance of all other varieties of the genus. All the agaves are indigenous to the American con- tinent, and nearly all can be found in the Republic of Mexico. Only a few species flourish within the boundaries of the United States. While fiber can be derived from all these plants, only the quantity and quality obtained from a limited number of the species is such as to make them worthy of commercial attention. The agave rigida, variety sisalona, is one of the most valuable and yields fibrous raw material in abundance. No other plant has attracted so much attention among the manufac- turers of cordage. The leaves of this variety are of a dark green, from four to six feet in length, with a width of from three to six inches, and are covered with spines. The full-grown plant presents a striking if not beautiful appearance, bristling all over with its long spine-tipped leaves, thickly radiating from its short cylindrical trunk, which terminates in a short cone-like bud. On arriving at maturity the plant sends up its flower stalk, called the ‘‘mast,’’ to a height of nearly thirty feet. The circumference of this mast is from eighteen to twenty inches at the base, but it gradually grows smaller between that point and its termination. One of the peculiarities of the plant is that it seldom or never sets a seed. The flowers fall, carrying the ovary with them, then the young plants develop on the ends of the branches, which, when they have at- tained a height of from three to four inches, fall to the ground and take root. The old plants reproduce themselves by means of scions. Sisal hemp is a distinct production of Yucatan. It takes its name from the town of Sisal, the second port in the province, located on the northwest side of the peninsula of Yucatan. Before the Spanish planted colonies on the American continent the natives had dis- covered its value, for when De Solis and Pizon, the Spanish navigators, landed there in 1506, they found the In- dians using crude cordage made from the agave fiber. Some years ago this particular variety of the agave family was introduced into the Bahamas, Cuba, Porto Rico, Jamaica, and even Southern Florida, but in no place has the experiment proven a success. It 1s in Yucatan only that the plant found a congenial soil and climate. Sisal grows best on barren, rocky land that is useless for other agricultural pur- poses. Drought affects it but little, if at all. The yield is continual. An acre of plants yields a little over a ton of fiber. —___>2>___ Glass Which Stops Heat. It is stated that a German inventor bas discovered a method of producing giass which will transmit light freely, but no heat. A plate of the material 4. to inches thick, containing 28 per cent. of iron in the form described as ferous chloride, allowed only 4.06 per cent. of radiant heat to pass through it, while another plate of equal thickness, and containing quite as much iron in the shape of ferric chloride, permitted 11.2 per cent. to pass. The chemical dis- tinction is very small, but the effect is said to be marked. A thinner slab of this glass allowed less than 1 per cent. of the heat from sunlight. Ordinary window glass, on the other hand, lets some 86 per cent. of the beat through. —__ 9 ___ Future Blacksmith Shop. From the Los Angeles Times. A blacksmith shop without a forge may really come to be a popular insti- tution in the near future. The idea originated in Belgium. The metal to be heated is plunged into a metal tub of water, and, apparently with little rea- son, becomes instantly white hot. Asa matter of fact, the metal tub is con- nected by wire to the pole of a dynamo. The water is acidulated, and when the metal is plunged into the water an arc seems to be established all around the submerged portion, which may then be removed and hammered on an anvil the same as any ordinary heated metal. —_—__»> 20 >—__—_ A Sure Sign. Smith: Brown is evidently financially embarrassed. Jones: Why do you think so? Smith: He is beginning to live ex- travagantly and dresses better than for- merly. 50 YEARS’ EXPERIENCE Trave MARKS DESIGNS CopyricHts &c. Anyone sending a sketch and ee may quickly ascertain our opinion free whether an invention is probably patentable. Communica- tions strictly confidential. Handbook on Patents sent free. Oldest — for securing patents. Patents taken through Munn & Co. receive notice, without charge, in the "Scientific American, A handsomely illustrated weekly. Largest cir- culation of any scientific journal. Terms, $3 a year; four months, $1. Sold byall newsdealers. MUNN & Go,2e12-oee. New York Branch Office, B.A -A-A-@ABQVa-a—=a BW, .W, .@, -@, PSDPPP2332: BDA DA AD DOA AD ' DD i . GLARK-RUTKA-JEWELL 60, 38 AND 40 S. IONIA ST. OPPOSITE UNION DEPOT GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. w FULL LINE OF KRAUT AND SLAW CUTTERS MEAT CHOPPERS BARN DOOR HANGERS BAR IRON SHELF AND HEAVY HARDWARE COMMON WIRE AND CEMENT-COATED NAILS, Orders filled promptly at bottom Mail orders solicited. Strictly wholesale. ruling prices. =. =, "7 ea Be ae aha a ae aha ae ae ee HE ae ee Ee oS 4 > ___ Peddling Ordinance Again Victorious. Clare, Nov. 26—This week the city officials were again called upon to en- force the new Dunlap ordinance, which recently became a law inthecity. From all appearances this ordinance has come to stay. A traveling doctor, who has been in the habit of making this city occasion- ally, opened an office Monday to do business for a day or two, as usual, but was promptly called upon by the author ities and informed that he must contrib- ute to the city treasury $10 for the first day and $5 for each day thereafter. The doctor retused, whereupon he was ar- rested and taken before the city justice. He sent to Alma for an attorney, who came over, carefully examined the or- dinance and went home again. The doctor then appeared before Justice Carpenter and contributed $10 and costs toward the maintenance of the Dunlap ordinance. —_~> 2. ____ Independent Telephone Exchange at Evart. Evart, Nov. 29—The Evart telephone exchange was started in 1896, with nine instruments on a grounded system anda twenty-five drop board. It was soon found that a larger board would be needed and, during the past summer, a too drop metallic circuit board was in- stalled, and the present number of in- struments connected is forty-two, with more in prospect. The Citizens M:.tual Telephone Co., of Grand Rapids, connected its lines to the Evart exchange in March, 1897, and the subscribers to the Evart exchange consequently connect with 300 different towns in Michigan over the Grand Rap- ids system. The Evart City Council recently passed au ordinance granting the Evart exchange a franchise for thirty years. A line has just been completed con- necting Sears with the Evart exchange. —__—~» 2. Avoid the Rush. She was a smart and pretty girl. She wrote the advertising for a large dry goods concern in town. Her mind used to run so much upon her business that one day, when she wrote to her lover to meet her that night at home, she uncon- sciously added as a postscript: ‘‘Come early and avoid the rush!’’ WANTS COLUMN. Advertisements will be inserted under this head for two cents a word the first insertion and one cent a word for each subsequent in- sertion. No advertisements taken for less than 2scents. Advance payment. BUSINESS CHANCES. ACANT CITY LOTS AND 80 ACRES OF good farming land, ali free and clear, to exchange for hardware or general merchandise. Address No 77x, care Michigan Tradesmen. 778 CHANCE OF A LIFETIME FORSALE FOR Cash Only—A department store; stock about $12,000; sales last year, $42,000; this year will run about $40,000, all cash, nocredit business is done; very little competition. Last year cleared $5,000 over allexpen;es. Must go west on uccount of health of family or money could not buy it Ad dress No 777, care Michigan Tradesman. ‘177 OR sALE—OLD AND WELL-ESTABLISHED bakery business ina city of 16,000 popula- tion. For particulars write to Wm. Malmborg, 215 Cleveland Ave., Ishp-mine, Mich. 776 ANTED—GOOD LOVATION FOR FIRST- class dry goods or dry goods and shve store, in town of 2,500 to 5,000 inhabitants. Will also buy stock if for sale. Address A. Z., care Michigan Tradesman. V5 EST LOCATION IN MICHIGAN FOR A cold storage and general produce dealer. Write to the Secretary of tne Otsego Improve- ment Association, Otsego, Mich. 631 OR SALE—SMALL STOCK OF DRY GOODS —staple and desirable goods. Will sell cheap for cash or trade for men’s furnishings, men’s shoes er clothing. For particulars ad- dress C. Lightstone, Ot-ego. Mich 173 GENTs “ANTED FOR OUR “DEWEY” slot machine. just out; retail for $3.00 each; double the trade for caudy and cigar stores; no gaml ling device; agents can make bg money. Address Jonas N. Bell & Co., Menufactuiers 141 So. Clinton St., Chicago. T712 O EXCHANGE—FARM FOR CITY PROP- erty; 80 acres, part improved. Adapted to general farming and peach raising. J. H. McKee & Son, Houseman Block, Grand Rapids. 77 O w. ELLARS, SALESMAN AND AUC- e tioneer, now closing out stock at Ivesdale, lil. If you wish to close out, address him for terms and particulars. 763 O EXCHANGE—FOUR HOUSES IN CITY, a’) rented, for general merchandise in good town. Address Lester & Co., 216 Ottawa Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. 765 OR SALE OR EXCHANGE—HOT SODA apparatus, silver, mammoth, up-to-date, Tufts’ pattern, $225, 85 per month, 6 per cent. interest. Also Soda Fountain, modern, eighteen syrups, two sodas, four mineral] tubes, magnifi- cent cherry top, Tufts’ pattern, $1,100, $10 per month, 6 per cent. Also Fixtures, drug and jewelry: three 8 ft., one 12-ft. wall cases, plate glass; 24 ft. drug shelving, half glass; four 8-ft. silent salesman caces, beveled plate, grand; $1,000, $10 per month, * per cent. Address 7¢6, care Michigan Trade man 766 OR SALE A MiILLINERY AND FANCY goods stock, city of 3,500 inhabitants. Will sell at a great bargain. Address Box 212, St. Johns, Mich. 767 OR SALE—STOCK DRUGS AND FIXTURES, invoicing $:,200, at 50 per cent. discount. Address No. 768, care Micnigan Tradesman. 768 UO REN? IN MENDON, ST. JOSEPH CO., Mich.—One or two large brick stores in Opera House block, suitable for groceries, — and shoes or clothing. Write to — ole. ‘6 ANTED—A COMPETENT BUSINESS MAN to act as financial agent for an established concern. Party must have three thousand dol- lars ($3,000) for conditional investment. Remu- neration, twelve hundred dollars ($1,200) per year, expenses and a commission. Address Lock Box 753, Kalamazoo, Mich. 759 AVE SMALL GENERAL sTOUCK, ALSO A stock of musical goods, sewing machines, bicycles, notions, etc., with wagons and teams— an established business. Stock inventories from #2.000 to $3,500, as muy be desired. Will take free and clear farm in good location of equal value. Address Lock Box 531, Howell, ae ANTED — SHOES, CLOTHING, DRY goods. Address R. B., Box 351, Montague, Mich. 699 VOR SALE—NEW GENERAL sTOCK. A splendi i farming country. Notradcs. Ad- dress No. 68), care Michigan Tradesman 680 OR SALH—DRLG, BOOK AND STATION- ery sto k. invoicing #4.500, and fixtures invoicing &), which include show cases. shelv- ing and bot'les. Daily cash sales in 1891, 82 ; #92. $30; 1:'3. $31; 1894, $34.65: 1895, $25; 1896, $21.20, and 1 97,$2413 Located in manufactur- ing town. Nocut prices. Rent reasonable, $29 per month. Living roomsin connection. Ad- dress Ne. 663. care Michigan Tradesman. 668 ANTED—16 TO 20 HORSE POWER PORT- able e izine and builer, with engineer, to furnish power during ice cutting season. Write, «tating terms, Consumers’ Ice Co., Grand Rapids, Mich. 743 ER: HAN‘TS—DO YOU WISH CASH QUICK for your stock of merchandise, or any part of it? Address John A. Wade, Cadillac, = iO EXCHANGE—FOR CLOTHING, DRY goods or shoes, very nice well rented Grand Rapids property. Address No. 552, care Michi- g+n Tradesman. 552 O EXCHANGE — FARMS AND OTHER property for dry goods, clothing and shoes. Address P. Medaiie, Mancelona. Mich. 553 COUNTRY PRODUCE WE PAY SPOT CASH ON TRACK FOR BUT- ter and eggs. It will pay r to get our prices and particulars. Stroup & Carmer, Per- rinton, Mich. 7 ANTED—BUTTER, EGGS AND POUL- try; any quantities. Write me. Orrin J. Stone, Kalamazoo, Mich. 706 ANTED — FIRST-CLASS BUTTER FOR retail trade. Cash paid. Correspond with Caulkett & Co., Traverse City, Mich. 381 ae CASES FRESH EGGS, daily. Write for prices. F. W. Brown, Ithaca, Mich. 556 FIREPROOF SAFES EO. M. SMITH, NEW AND sECONDHAND safes, wood and brick building mover, 157 Ottawa street, Grand Rapids. 613 MISCELLANEOUS. PECIALTY SALESMAN NOW ON THE rvad wishes to make a change for other good selling specialty. Address No. 779, care Mich- igan Tradesman. V9 ANTED—iRAVELING SALESMAN IN hardware or other lines to handle hard- ware specialty as a side line. Sells at sight. References required. State territory covered. Address F. W, Clark, Manistee, Mich. V4 ANTED—A POsITION AS TRAVELING salesman by energetic man of long busi- ness experince. Address No. 764, care Michigan Tradesman 764 ANTED—A YOUNG MAN OF GOOD AD- dress to represent unique insurance in State. Good money forright man. Address at once, Knights of America, Kalamazoo, —, % laa es SIRE Sista erating cae Aycan dicts aay a ¥ 2 sects Travelers’ Time Tables. & Northeastern Ry. Best route to Manistee. MANISTE CHI C AG “and West Michigan R’y Sept. 25, 1898. Chicage. Lv. G. Rapids......... 7°30am 12:00am *11:°45pm Ay. Crieagn. :-...... -. 2:10pm 9:15pm 72 ar P’ Lv. Chicago.. 11:45am 6 59am 4:15pm *11°50pm Ar. G’d Rapids 5:00pm 1:25pm 10:30pm * 6:20ar Traverse ah Charlevoix and Petoskey. Lv. G’d Rapi 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 “ie. D ET ROI Grand Rapids & Western. Sept. 25, 1898. Detroit. Ly. Grand Rapids...... 7:00am 1:35pm 5:35pn Ar. Detroit.... 2... =: 11:40am 5:45pm 10:05pr Ly. Detroit... 2.0.25. 2.5. 8:00am 1:10pm 6:10pr Ar. Grand Rapids..... ie 55pm 5:20pm 10:55pm Saginaw, Alma and Greenville. Lv. @ 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. Agent. GRAN (In effect Nov. 13, 1898 ) Trunk Railway System Detroit and Milwaukee Div a Leav: AST. Arriv + 6: am Sag., Detroit, Buffalo & N Y .+ 9: 35pm +10: 1 A -Detroit and East.... . ¢t 5:27pm i s ao “Saginaw, Detroit & East....+!2: 45pm * 7: 20pm... “Buffalo, N Y.¢é Boston....*10:15am WES1 *10:10am....Gd. Haven and Int. Pts....* 7:°50m +12:53pm.Gd. Haven and Intermediate.t 3:12pm + 5:30pm...Gd. Haven and Milwaukee. 5:27pm Eastward—No. 16 has Wagner parlor car. No. 22 parlor car. Westward—No 11 parlor car. No. 17 Wagner parlor car. *Daily. ——— Sunday. H. Huewes, A.G. P. &T. A. mee FLETCHER, Trav. Pass. Agt. C. A. Justin, City Pass. Agent. 97 Monroe St. Morton House. GRAND toutes Northern Div. Leave Arrive Trav. C’y, Petoskey & —- -t 7:45am t 5:15pm Trav City & Petu-Kev. ..¢ 2:1lUpm 10:45pm Cadillac a commodation...... + 5:25pm 110 554m Petoskey & Mackinaw City....t1':00pm + 6:35pm 7:45am and 2:10pm trains have parlor cars; 11:0 pm train has sleeping car. Southern Viv. Leave Arriv: Cincinnati + 7:10am + 9:45pm Ft. Wayne ..... e .-¢ 2°10pm ¢ 1:55 p< Cigeimued....:.. 2... -.--3.. 7 00pm 6:30ir For Vicksburg and Chicago..*11:3,pm_ 9:i am 1:10 am train has parior car tu Cincinns and parlor car ‘0 nicsat: 2:10pm train has parlor car to Ft. Way e; 7:(0pm train has sleeping cars to Cincinnati; 11: 30pm train has coach and sleeping car to Chicago. Chicago Trains. TO CHICAGO. Ly. Grand Rapids... 7 10am 2 10pm *11 30pm Ar. Chicago......... 20pm _ 9 10pm 6 2am FROM CHICAGO. iw @Chieage.....:..-..:.. i... 3 pt *11 32pm Ar Grand Rapids.............. 9 45pm 6 30am Trai' leaving Grand Rapids 7: 10am has parlor ear; 11:30pm, coach and sleeping car. Train leaving Chicago 3:02pm has parlor car; 11:32pm, —— car. uskegon Trains. GOING WEST Lv G’d Rapids. . “i :35am ¢1:00pm +5:40pr Ar Muakegon.. 9:00am 2:10rm 7:05rm Sunday train leaves "Gans Rapids 9:15am; arrives Muskegon 10:35am. @UING BAST. Lv Muskegon... . +8: 10am 411:45am t4 00px ArG’d Rapids... . 9:32am 12:55ym 56:20pr Sunday train leaves Muskegon 5:30pm; ar- =— ———. Rapids = xcept Sunda y- Z . Cc. L. LOCKWOOD, Gen’! Passr. = eae Agent. _ Ticket Agent Union Station. South Shore and Atlantic Railway. DULUT Lv. Grand Rapids (G. R. & Ltt: 10pm Lv. Mackinaw City 7:35am Ar. Marquette.. Ar. Nestoria......... Ar. Duluth......2.. BAST BOUND. Lv. Duluth..................+ +6 = ae gue ceeecuews cot : +11 :i5am . ir Baul ioe wane. Ar. Mace iewe Cis ies Via C. & W.M. Railway. Ly Grand Rapids. ........... 2.2... Foom .3....- ee Manietee 6. oot 72OSpe |... iw Magistee. 2 ke lo 8:30am 4:10pm Ar Grand Rapids ..-. 02.20.00 6... Troopm = 9:55pm TRAVEL VIA F. & P. M. R. R. AND STEAMSHIP LINES TO ALL POINTS IN MICHIGAN H. F. MOELLER, a.cG.P.a Dwight’s Cleaned Currants If you want nice, fresh, new stock, buy Dwight’s. If you want cheap trash, don’t look for it in our pack- ages. All Grand Rapids jobbers sell them. PCOOMOQQDOOQQOOOQOOO® Wolverine Spice Co., Grand Rapids. POOQQOQODOD F* 21S¥S 41S 41S QOOQQDOOOOE MERCANTILE ASSOCIATIONS Michigan Business Men’s Association President, C. L. WHitNEy, Traverse City: Sec- retary, E A. Stowe, Grand Rapids. Michigan Retail Grocers’ Association President, J. WisLER. Mancelona; Secretary, E. A. Stowsk, Grand Rapids. Michigan Hardware Association President, C. G. JewETT, Howell; Secretary, Henry C. MINNIE, Eaton Rapids. Detroit Retail Grocers’ Association President, JosEPH KnieHT; Secretary, E. MARKs. 221 Greenwood ave; Treasurer, U. H. FRINK. Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association President, Frank J. Dyk; Secretary, Homer Kuap; Treasurer, J. GEo. LEHMAN. Saginaw Mercantile Association President, P. F. TREANOR; Vice-President, JoHN McBRATNIE; 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. Bay Cities Retail Grocers’ Association President, M. L. DEBats; Sec’y, S. W. WaTERs. Traverse City Business Men’s Association President, THos. T. Batrs; Secretary, M. B. Houty; Treasurer, C. A. HAMMOND. Owosso Business Men’s Association President, A. D. WHIPPLE; Secretary, G. T. CamMP- 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. 2 tho aad Puruip HILBER; Treasurer, 8. J. H St. Johns Business ss Men’s Association. President, Tos. BRomLEY; Secretary, FRANK A. PERCY; ‘Treasurer, CLARK A. Purr. Perry Business Men’s Association President, H.W. Wacuiace; Sec’y, T. E. HEDDLE. Grand Haven Retail Merchants’ Association President, F. D. Vos; Secretary, J. W. VEBHOEKS. Yale Business Men’s Association President, Cuas. Rounps; Sec’y, FRANK PUTNEY. LEVEE LBL LE LO LE WEY YE RIA YB IES BUBBA VA YE YALE r te Ye YE YE HEGECE CECE CEES YE Le Yes IA Le Lea wes yA Word ¥ to the Wise ff Is Sufficient The question of how and when to advertise in order to obtain the max- imum result at the minimum outlay is one that confronts every business man. To claim that because business is dull you cannot afford to advertise, is to ad- vance as a reason for not advertising a condition that should cause you to redouble your efforts in reaching out for trade. A general improvement in all lines may be confidently looked for the Winter, advertiser will reap the benefit. and the judicious An advertisement which is seen and read during and commented upon is productive of the best results. Such results can best be obtained through the use of A Fine Calendar which attracts attention to your name and business in a manner not soon for- gotten, not once, but throughout the entire year, and is seen not only bya few, but by many. A calendar issued during the Holiday Season serves the threefold purpose of most effectively advertising your business, of compli- menting your friends and customers, and those whom you hope will become customers, and of presenting them with a useful article which will be preserved not only for its beauty but for its utility as well. A choice calendar is always given the most prominent position and is thus seen by everyone. It is for these reasons not only the most pro- ductive but the cheapest method of advertising. 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