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GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1898.

Number 794

 

Volume XVI.

We don’t claim to sell “direct from the factory”
but do claim that we can sell you at

Less than the Wanufacturer’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.

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 C

    

JOBBEYS OF SAMPLE FURNITURE.

PEARL AND OTTAWA STS.

- GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

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 scap, scalding hogs and poultry,
and all work of this nature. Made in
four sizes—4o, 60, 70 and too gallon.

HART, Jobbers, Grand Rapids.

 

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. Sampies and

quotations free for the asking.

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As placed on the market in tin foil and under
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Volume XVI.

GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1898.

 

PREFERRED BANKERS
LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY

OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

Commenced Business September 1, 1893.

Insurance in force....................- $2,746,000.00
Net Increase during 1897 .............. 104,000.00
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up, ali manufactured by
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WHOLESALE .CLOTHIERS
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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.

 

COMMERCIAL HOLD-UPS.

The frequency of the hold-up, the last
criminal development of modern civili-
zation, is causing universal alarm.
Scarcely a morning paper reaches the
breakfast table without the startling
headlines proclaiming another instance
of robber villainy. At first it was con-
fined to lonesome neighborhoods in the
early hours of the morning. Growing
bolder, it crept nearer the searchlights of
the city and carried on the nefarious
business in the dark alleys and the
early-deserted quarters of thetown. En-
couraged by its success, and safe be-
hind its masks and revolvers, it has
finally attacked the clerk on duty at the
bank, the keeper of the restaurant and
the druggist under the electric light at
the crowd-pressed corner. The citizen
is powerless, the police is powerless,
the law is powerless, and all three are
standing helpless, with hands up, for
the robber to rifle them of any valu-
ables they may possess. This condition
of things bas gone on until the citizens
have been compelled to take the law into
their own hands; and the outlook is fa-
vorable for something better.

The commercial hold-ups, as mem-
bers of a community, are following the
same lawless course. Worse than the
operator considered, they are as deter-
mined upon robbery as their brother
professionals, and bolder than they,
for they carry on their business in the
glare of noonday and in the presence of
friends. They live in fine houses. They
are clad in the costliest raiment. Their
tables groan with the choicest delicacies
in season and out of season. They
give the grandest parties. They secure
the highest-priced seats at the opera.
They kneel in purple and fine linen on
Sunday in the most fashionable pews of
the most fashionable churches ; and they
go to sleep at night under silken can-
opies upon beds of down. They borrow
of their neighbors and forget to pay;
but the trader is their richest prize.
His hands are constantly up at their
command. It makes little difference
what business he follows, so that he is
atrader; up go his hands and home
they carry his possessions, unless, in-
deed, they order him to deliver the
plunder at the earliest opportunity. It is
the grocer, however, whom they oftenest
waylay; and they give him little rest.
Morning, noon and night is he assailed
and the grass never grows in the path
between the mansion and the store.

If these hold-ups confined their oper-
ations to a single section of country
there might be some chance of getting
them under control; but they are every-
where. The Pacific Sea is ruffled by
the outraged grocer. His brother on
the Western plains appeals in vain to
the law for protection. The Mississippi
Valley is resounding with the protests of
the grocers within her borders, and in
faraway New England patience under
such suffering bas ceased to be a virtue.
There the grocers have aroused them-
selves. They have succeeded in secur
ing the passage of an act enabling them
to bring the commercial hold-up into
court and compel him to prove to the
satisfaction of the judge that he can

 

not pay his debt. In the Land of the
Hoosier the retail grocers have resolved
to put down their hands; not only that,
but to keep them down. They have se-
cured the services of one of the best
lawyers in the State to frame a biil
which they will bring before the Legis-
lature with a demand for its enactment.
And there are others.

It is to be hoped that the career of
the commercial hold-up is over. Too
long. has he been allowed to run at large
and prey upon the human life around
him. The end must come some day,
the sooner the better. If Massachusetts
has been able to drive the robber from
the old Bay State there are fair pros-
pects that Indiana will meet with the
same success, and with these two in
stances to encourage them, it is fair to
infer that the grocers, as a body, will
rise in their might and free the whole
country from the greatest evil which has
so far cursed the trading world.

— oo -2-

EDUCATION IN THE NATION.

How many people in this country
have any well-defined idea of the num-
ber of pupils in this big Nation who are
annually receiving instruction in the
elementary public and private schools,
or of the average amount of schooling
for the individual per year? And yet
these are matters of great public inter-
est.

 

The recently published report of the
United States Commissioner of Educa-
tion, the salient points of which are in-
corporated in the report of the Secre-
tary of the Interior, shows that during
the last scholastic year, the total number
in attendance upon such schools as just
mentioned, elementary public and pri-
vate, was 15,452,426, or a little more
than one fifth the entire population of
the country. This number represented
an increase over the preceding year of
about 250,000. The total average
amount of instruction or schooling per
individual, for the whole of the United
States, is found to be about 200 days in
the year, or nearly seven months. This
instruction, it is estimated, is enjoyed
on an average for five years per indi-
vidual.

The fact at least demonstrates that
the American people are not allowing
their young to grow up in illiteracy.
To give 15,000,c00 pupils over six
months’ elementary schooling a year for
a period of five years is a fact that is as
encouraging as it is creditable to the
Big Republic. This of course is in ad-
dition to the hundreds of thousands in
the colleges and universities and tech-
nical schools who are acquiring the
higher education, which can now be had
in America as easily as in the older
countries of the world.

The one great defect in our public
school systems is the too ambitious cur-
riculum which is adopted in the great
majority of the city schools. A mass of
useless instruction and variety of fancy
studies are introduced that unnecessa-
rily lengthen the school course and pre-
vent hundreds of thousands of poor
children from completing the work.

 

Number 794

The Grain Market.
Another dull week in the wheat mar-
ket. Exports were the largest for the
week on record. Stocks on the continent
are not piling up. Receipts at primary
points are large. The visible made
a gain of only 780,000 bushels, but still
prices were drooping and were seeking
a lower level. With the present abun-
dance of money it is unaccountable that
wheat remains at the low point. The
writer has seen wheat with present con-
ditions at least 30c higher; yes, near
the dollar mark. It seems as if wheat
had no friends. Still the foreign de-
mand keeps up, and it will while we
are trying to see how cheap we will give
it to them, and any weakness here is
reflected in the Liverpool market at
once. Could our exporters be brought
to a realizing sense to ask better prices,
we think with present conditions our
wheat should net us 25 to 50c more than
we are getting. However, speculation
is lacking and ere long these heavy ex-
ports will make themselves felt, prob-
ably when the most of the grain has
moved, and then we will see the mistake
we made in forcing the market down.

Corn, as was expected, holds up, es-
pecially as stocks of good merchantable
corn are decreasing very fast and the
new crop, as stated before, is very de-
ficient.

Oats are very strong, with no signs of
weakening. They are being taken as
fast as offzred.

Rye, also, is in a strong position,
with prices firm.

Stocks of flour are not opressive and
were it not that we are approaching the
holidays the demand would be very
much more. As it is, the mills here
keep going at full capacity.

Mill feed is exceptionally strong, as
the demand keeps right up. Prices are
advanced to $14 for bran and $15 for
middlings.

Receipts during the month of Novem-
ber were: Wheat 218 cars, corn gI Cars,
oats 56 cars.

During the week receipts of wheat
were 70 Cars, corn 42 Cars, oats Io Cars.

Millers are paying 62c for wheat here

to-day. C. G. A. Voter.
—_>-+>_—

Hides, Pelts, Furs and Wool.

Hides are closely sold up and are in
good demand and firm in price. The
quality will not be so good from this
time on until spring, but prices will re-
main fully as high. The country take-off
diminishes and no supply can be looked
for from that source.

Pelts are few, with g ood demand ata
decreased price.

Furs do not accumulate, although buy-
ers do; in fact, there are as many buy-
ers as pieces of fur. Quctations do not
count; it being a question of, How
much will you pay before you leave it?
The uncertain value is caused by the
wants of holiday trade, which will soon
close.

Wool has declined about tc from
prices of a month ago, and smal] lots
change hands. Some large manufac-
turers have stocked up—largely on terri-
tory—while many others are looking
around, but they find no weak spots and
little offering at the low price.

Wm. T. HEss.

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Dry Goods

The Dry Goods Market.

Staple Cottons—Bleached cottons have
quieted down to a considerable extent,
as might be expected after the amount
of business transacted for the past ten
days. Stocks of the leading makes are
in excellent shape. Heavy brown sheet-
ings and drills are quiet and easy. Wide
sheetings are quite irregular and con-
siderable cutting is done on the quiet.
Cotton flannels, blankets, etc., are
steady in priceand show moderate sales.
The demand for denims has again as-
sumed a normal tone, with prices
steady. Ticks, plaids, stripes, checks
and cheviots are in quiet demand.

Hosiery—Orders have been in fair
volume and prices maintained well.
Fancy hosiery, however, has been very
disappointing, and the demand for
this class of goods is much below what
was expected. This has not been the
case of fancy hosiery as a whole, how-
ever. The trouble seems to have been
that the cheaper grades have been piled
onto the market in such quantities as
to ruin the trade and bring prices toa
losing basis. The better grades, how-
ever, and imported goods of high qual-
ity have sold well, and the demand for
this class of hosiery will be in evidence
during the coming season. As _ regards
fancy hosiery as a whole, there is no
question but what it is on the wane, and
the cheaper grades will either be forced
off the market or else sold at a loss.
Knowledge of what will sell is re-
quired, otherwise the dealer will find
himself loaded up with a stock which
he must sell below cost in order to get
rid of.

Underwear—Ribbed has the bulk of
the business, the medium grades sell-
ing best, and some of the cheap coarse
grades doing well. The union or com-
bination suit 1s having a wide sale this
season and its popularity is constantly
increasing. There is no question but
what the field for development is large
and will be well taken care of during
the coming season. The advantages of
this underwear over the two-piece goods
are patent to nearly every one, permit-
ting, as it does, a better fit to the other
garments, fitting snugly all around. Al-
though they have been very common
among women for several years, they
are only just coming into use with
men, but from present indications they
will be a great factor in the underwear
business in the future.

Cloakings—The season is about closed,
without developing any abnormal de-
mands for anything special; it has just
been a hand-to-mouth season, and it has
been as thoroughly unsatisfactory to the
manufacturers of the fabrics and gar-
ments as can possibly be imagined.
The indications are, however, that
there will be a fair business done for
the spring season in light-weight suit-
ings, which will be used largely by the
cloaking manufacturers for ladies’ suits.

Carpets—The demand for better car-
pets, including Wiltons, Axminsters,
velvets anditapestries, has also improved.
The retailers are showing more disposi-
tion to flace orders this season, as old
stocks are largely depleted, and witb
increased trade they are obliged to carry
larger lines. This season is looked up-
on as indicating a turn in the trade to-
ward a more healthy business, as a much
larger improvement in general indus-
trial conditions is noticeable all over
the country. With this increased de-
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looking forward to more stability ip
prices, and while they do not antici-
pate much change in prices before Jan
uary I, it is then expected that the de-
mand will warrant an advance. Ingrain
carpets have been affected the most by
the previous quiet condition of busi-
ness, and the competition from cheay
tapestries and velvets. As a result some
manufacturers have endeavored to ob-
tain business this season by a further
concession of 2%c to the regular trade on

the road.
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Christmas Buying Begun.

Up to-date merchants are already dis-
playing all sorts of pretty Christmas
gifts and not a few persons of botb
sexes may be seen laboriously exploring
stores in search of suitable articles, says
an exchange. Women generally begin
the task about this time and seldom
have the job completed more than forty-
eight hours before Christmasday. Men
defer the disagreeable job until the last
possible minute. Then they make a
desperate dash into some store, only to
find that all the best things are sold. As
a result, the male shopper’s search is
not productive of satisfaction either to
himself or the persons he desires to _ re-
member. In all probability a man does
not exist who did not last year make a
solemn vow to himself to buy all his
gifts this year long before the holiday
rush came on, but it is doubtful if even
one finds himself able to keep his vow.
Something in the very air, perhaps it’s
the real Christmas spirit, makes one
want to bustle around at Christmas time
and then the best intentioned people al-
ways find that they've forgotten some-
body at the last minute. :

Wary storekeepers are taking advan-
tage of woman's foresight and are show-
ing tempting novelties in jewelry, bric-
a-brac, silver, glass and the like, as
well as more practical articles, and the
gift business will soon be in full swing.
The word ‘‘business’’ is used advisedly,
for that is what it bas become, and a
burdensome one at that. ‘‘Why, I ac-
tually look forward to Christmas with
dread instead of joy,’’ said one woman
to another who was trying to decide
whether a friend would think she'd re-
paid her for a cut glass punch bow! sent
last Christmas if she gave her a $30
lamp this year. ‘‘The time was when
friends exchanged simple little tokens
and thought much of them, but now
people who really love each other seem
to enter into a sort of competition to see
who can give the handsomest gifts. My
idea of a gift is to convey to a person
some inexpensive thing that properly
belongs to his or her character and is
associated with him or her in thought.
Then no obi gation is entailed ; and more
tender thought is required in selecting
one’s gifts than money. People never
really like us at heart for putting them
under obligations to us, and from this
feeling arises the habit of paying back
one's gifts,as it is vulgariy expressed."’

—_—_> 0. ____

It Was His Fault.

He—Why did you fail to recognize
me on the street to day?

She—I didn’t see you.

He—That’s strange I saw you twice.

She—Oh, that probably accounts for
it. I never notice a man in that con-
dition.

——_>_ 22> __

Jobn Arbuckle, the millionaire coffee
king who is fighting the sugar trust,
will not remain in a place in which the
temperature is a degree higher or lower
than his theory thinks hygienic. Every
room in his house and place of business
is furnished with a thermometer, which
he inspects hourly.

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) We have an elegant line of perfumes, put up 2 and 3 doz. on artistic dis-
A@, play cards, which can be profitably retailed zt 5 and 10 cents per bottle.
} Sampson’s Guns, filled with perfume, to retail at 5 cents.

Ae 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

d@, 15, 20, 25 and 50 cents per bottle.

Dolls to retail from 1 to 75 cents.

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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 to cents up.
Men’s fancy and plain handker-
chiefs to sell from 5 cents up.

a oN Men’s imitation Japanese Silk
WS (initial) handkerchiefs to sell

at 12% and 15 cents.
Men’s silk handkerchiefs to sell
at 25 and 50 cents.

A complete line of Mufflers, Ties, Gloves, etc., and many other useful

Christmas gifts too numerous to mention.

JEWELRY, all the newest styles at all prices.

P. Steketee § Sons, Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

 

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day trousers would be given away.

order until you see it.

Its ef-

With the one exception—the 8
shout of FIRE—it causes the greatest rush.
A few years ago, in one of our cities, a cloth-
ing firm announced that at a certain hour and

So great

was the crush that backs were broken, plate &
glass fronts demolished and the garments f
torn in hundreds of pieces.

We do not propose to give away trousers,
but will come very nearly to it—as near as is
consistent with good quality, good looks and }
good workmanship. Our spring lineis strong §
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Phone us your wants for the

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BUYING A HAT.

How Woman’s Vanity and Hurt Pride
Sometimes Figure.
From the New York Sun.

‘Some of these shop girls are diplo-
mats when it comes to making a sale,’’
said the woman with the new hat.
‘‘The other day I stopped in front of a
show window and saw a hat which
seemed to me to have been trimmed es-
pecially to suit my face. It was a dark
blue felt with a large and solemn owl on
the side. The cream color of that owl
was extremely fetching, and its vacant
look, I thought, would offset the bril-
liancy of my own expression. I went
in and tried iton. The girl gazed at
me a moment, stepped admiringly back
a foot or so and threw up her hands in
ecstasy.

‘* ‘Tt is exquisite!’ she exclaimed.
‘Now, look at the back! Isn’t it beau-
ti-ful !’

‘*She gave me a little handglass and
I looked at the back. It was beautifui
indeed. I took out my purse, paid for
it, and said to her: ‘Send my old hat
home and I will wear this.’ We are
not all of us blessed with premonitions.
How could I tell what trouble the send-
ing of that old hat home was to entail?

**I gave a pleased glance in the mirror
as I passed out. I also glanced de-
lightedly into the mirrors along the
street. Where there were no mirrors th
big plate-glass windows served almost
as well. As I went up in the elevator
to the office of the man whose opinion
counts with me above the opinion of al:
others, I snatched glimpses of myselt
in tbe elevator mirror,to the amusement
of the elevator boy.

‘*T opened the door of the man’s
office and glided swiftly in. I stooc
before him smiling, awaiting his ex-
clamations of delight at the sight of my
beautiful new hat. Imagine my utter
consternation then when he stared at the
hat open-mouthed and frowned.

‘* “Where in the world did you get
it?’ he asked.

‘*T told him, adding, ‘Don’t you like
it? My goodness! don’t you like it?’
He did not answer immediately. 1
turned slowly around like a wax figure
in a show window that he might have
the best possible view of the back of
the hat, ravishingly embellished witb
the long yellow wing of the owl. Final-
ly he spoke.

‘< ‘It is different from anything I
ever saw you wear,’ said he with delib-
eration, ‘entirely different. It makes
you—look older!’

‘* ‘Older!’ I gasped. ‘Older!’ I
reached wildly for my pocketbook and
gloves, which I had laid down on his
desk. ‘Let me go back and change it!’
I exclaimed. ‘Right now, this min-

te!’
‘© *Why not wait until to-morrow?’
said he.

‘**Older, did yousay? I'll change it
to-day if I have to break into that store
to get another hat!’ As I descended |
no longer looked into the elevator mir-
ror. As I passed along the streets noth-
ing could have tempted’me to‘glance
sidewise into mirrors or plateglass win-

 

dows for a glimpse of that hat. What
I most wished was to get it off my head.
I never wanted to see it again. Older!
And that girl bad told me it was ‘beau-
ti-ful!’ 1 rushed back into the store.

‘* ‘Here!’ I cried. ‘Take this hat; I
don’t want it. Show me another.’ She
removed the hat with a surprised air
and we went upstairs to look at a larger
selection. There was not one I really
liked; in fact, I was afraid to select
another one. I had lost faith in my
own judgment. How could I tell
whether or not he would like it? And
how could I wear a hat he did not like?
When the girl had patiently tried on
about three dozen hats I looked pathetic-
ally up at her.

“ *Can’t you return the money for the
other hat,’ I begged, ‘and let me come
another day?’

‘* ‘We never return money,’ said she.

And that’s not halt a bad plan, too,
when you come to think of it. The man-
ager of the upstairs millinery came
along about that time. I stopped him
and explained the state of my case. He
took pity on me.

‘* *Come to tbe desk,’ said he, ‘and
we will see about it.’ He succeeded in
getting back my money, handing it to
me in crisp new bills.

‘**Now my hat,’ said I; ‘my old hat.’

‘*The clerk who had me in charge
stepped up to the desk. ‘Has her old
nat been sent home?’ she asked of the
g rl behind the wires. This girl placed
ner hand on a hatbox near by and looked
back interrogatively at the questioner,
who nodded and frowned. I inadvert-
ently intercepted several glances of tel-
egraphic communication, the meaning
of which I failed to catch upon the spur
of the moment, but which came to me
with full force later on.

‘* “The hat is gone,” said the girl be-
hind the wires. Miles from home and
no hat! I turned pale.

‘**Can’t I get a hat to wear home
and return it to-morrow?’ I asked. The
girl elevated her eyebrows.

‘**We never loan hats,’ said she.

‘* ‘Let me have some little old hat of
yours,’ I entreated, ‘and I will bring it
pack to-morrow. I promise you.’ The
girl looked incredulous. She remained
inflexible.

‘« ‘T have only one hat myself,’ said
she, ‘and if I let you have that I'll have
to go home bareheaded.’

‘That clinched the matter. There
was nothing else for it but to try on
more hats. I sat meekly down before a
giant mirror and tried on one after an-
other. None suited me, but at last I
found one that looked fairly well, paid
for it and went once more to the office of
the man.

‘**How do you like it?’ I asked
defiantly.

‘* “Much better,’ he said.
look like yourself.’

‘**T am glad of that,’ said I. ‘I
was half afraid to buy it, but I had to
because my old _ hat had been sent
home.’ That is, I thought it had; but
in order to force a sale those two girls
had arranged the matter between them
in that interchange of looks and my
old hat didn’t get home for a week.”’

‘Now you

 

Trying to Please Everybody.

Undoubtedly some styles of goods
meet with greater favor than others; it
is as inevitable as that some people's
temperaments are more lovable than
others. The greater or less accumula-
tion of such goods is unavoidable in
the best regulated establishment. It is
brought about generally by a primarily
laudable desire on the part of the mer-
chant to keep goods in stock which will
please everybody and the result is that
this over-zealousness results in the ac-
quisition of stock which is not salable.
As a rule this occurs in the selection of
extreme designs in novelties which the
merchant has been persuaded into buy-
ing. In any sense extremes should be
avoided, but particularly in the pur-
chasing of goods for which no visible
demand has been created. It may be
observed here that an enterprising
merchant can create the demand by
proper advertising. This is true of cer-
tain kinds of merchandise which are
obviously desirable and attractive in
every way, but these are not often found
reposing in obscurity. It is a risky
business to attempt to put on the mar-
ket entirely new goods of which the
people know absolutely nothing. Pre-
caution and care should be exercised
in doing this or the venture will fall flat

 

and the goods will develop into ‘‘stick-
ers.’’ The latter condition is most de-
plorable and necessitates such a sac-
rifice of time and money in selling
them that they result in a dead loss to

the merchant.
—__>2.—____

If the sun had nothing else to do but
shine on the righteous, it wouldn’t have
to rise so early in the morning.

 

 

 

1. W. LAMB, original inventor
of the Lamb Knitting Machine,
President and Superintendent.

The Lamb Glove & Mitten Go.,

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.

 

 

BROWN & SEHLER

WEST BRIDGE ST..
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

Mfrs. of a full line of
HANDMADE
HARNESS
FOR THE

 

WHOLSALE
TRADE

Jobbers in
SADDLERY,
HARDWARE,
ROBES,
BLANKETS,
HORSE
COLLARS,
WHIPS, ETC.

Orders by maii given prompt
attention.

 

 

 

J. A. MURPHY, General Manager.

FLOWERS, MAY & MOLONEY, Counse!.

The Michigan Mercantile 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

 

   

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Our Coffees and Teas :

Must excel in Flavor and Strength and be
constant Trade Winners.

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

  

Around the State

 

 

Movements of Merchants.

Bellevue—E. J. Holland has opened a
harness shop at this place.

Luman—Roy B. Bliss has sold his
general stock to E. F. Gray.

Adrian—Wm. H. Gafney has re-en-
gaged in the grocery business.

Flint—Colton & Smith have em
barked in the grocery business.

Forestville—Daniel W. Snody, has re-
moved his drug stock to Onaway.

Kalamazoo—Glass & Co. succeed
Glass & Son in the drug business.

Bellaire—A. B. Large has embarked
in the jewelry business at this place.

Watervliet—Post Bros. have purchased
the general stock of Mrs. Ida J. Wigent.

Norway——Wm. Parolani succeeds
Bertolas & Co. in the grocery business.

Coldwater—H. N. Ferguson succeeds
Judson A. Ferguson in the drug busi-
ness.

Detroit—Walter H. Roesser has _ pur-
chased the drug stock of W. H. McAI-
lister.

Casnovia—Geo. Thomas, of Grand
Rapids, has opened a bazaar store at
this place.

Thompsonville—Menold Bros., of Me-
sick, have put in a_ stock of drugs at
this place.

Oscoda—J. Van Buskirk, proprietor
of the Shore meat market, has retired
from trade.

Alpena—Geo. W. Stovel has purchased
the Hayes & Brown grocery stuck and
meat market.

Bay City—Robert Russell has en-
gaged in the produce business on Gar-
field avenue.

Owosso—N. Goodyear will shortly put
in a line of groceries in connection with
his meat market.

Detroit—I. S. Scringer & Co., whole-
sale produce and fruit dealers, have re-
tired from trade.

Port Huron—Hastings & Young is the
firm name of a new commission house
established at this place.

Detroit—The Glasgow Woolen Mills
Co., engaged in the merchant tailoring
business, has removed to Chicago.

Stantun—J.. S. Holcomb, flour and
feed dealer, will enlarge his business
by the addition of a line of groceries.

Marine City—W. J. and S. L. Boyce,
Jr., succeed their father, the late Sam-
uel L. Boyce, in the hardware business.

Holly—Durgle & Adams have pur-
chased the hardware, paint, oil and im-
plement stock of N. C. Van Riper &
Co.

Mason—Oscar Hoyt, who was former-
ly engaged in the grocery business at
Lansing, has opened a grocery store at
this place.

Charlotte—S. B. Rathbun has sold a
half interest in his grocery stock, re-
cently purchased of Chas. Gibbons, to
W. B. Harmon.

Shelby—F. W. Van Wickle succeeds
Van Wickle & Lewis in the drug busi-
ness. Mr. Lewis will continue the
produce business.

Fremont—Jacob Weiss, of New Lon-
don, Wis., will engage in the clothing,
dry goods and men’s furnishing goods
business here Jan. 15.

Woodland Center—O. Z. Ide, Al. and
Herbert Wells have opened a grocery
and bazaar store here, the firm name
being Ide & Wells Bros.

Eaton Rapids—Harry Putterille has
opened a branch bazaar store at this
place. Mr. Townsend is a partner in
the business, which will be conducted
under the style of J. Townsend & Co.

 

Newaygo—S. J. Harden, baker, has
formed a copartnership with his brother
under the style of Harden Bros., the
change taking place Jan. 1.

Jackson—Jas. E. Bartlett has pur-
chased a lot, 44x132 feet, on which he
will erect a brick block, in which he
will conduct his flour and feed business.

Sault Ste. Marie—Mrs. E. Wheatley
has purchased the grocery stock of
Henry Robotham and removed it to
her store building at 903 Ashmund
street.

Sault Ste. Marie—James A. Douglas
has purchased a Zhalf interest in the
grocery stock of A. H. Eddy and after
Jan. 1 the firm name ‘will be Eddy &
Douglas.

Otsego—C. E. Drew, who has been in
the furniture business here for years,
has closed out his stock and will devote
all his attention to the undertaking
business.

Big Rapids—H. A. Granger & Co.,
flour and feed dealers, have dissolved
partnership, Chas. F. Stearns retiring.
Mr. Granger will continue the business
in his own name.

Otsego—C. E Pipp has rented the
brick store in the Union block just va-
cated by C. E. Drew, and about Jan-
uary 1 will occupy the building with
his hardware stock.

Escanaba—Charles Grunert has_pur-
chased Q. R. Hessell’s No. 3 meat
market. Mr. Grunert was a member of
Company L and endured the hardships
of the Santiago campaign.

Jackson—Gallup & Lewis, furniture
dealers at this place, have established a
branch store at Manchester. Ernest
Kummer, who has been with the firm
ten years, will take charge of the new
store.

Battle Creek—W. H. Eldred is put-
ting in an eievator and making otber
improvements in the Arnold block, re-
cently purchased by him. He will re-
move his wholesale harness business to
that location Jan. 1.

Ontonagon—Clarence H. Emmons,
who has resided in Marquette for the
past year, has returned to this place and
purchased the grocery stock of John F.
Driess, to which he will add a line of
hardware and tinware.

Benton Harbor—C. J. Brown, for
many years engaged in the grocery
business at this place, has sold out to
H. Skelly and W. E. Glew, of Rhine-
lander, Wis., who will continue the
business under the style of H. Skelly &
Co.

Edmore—F. W. Pierce has purchased
of Edson, Moore & Co. (Detroit) the
buildings known as the D. O. Long
property, the corner store of which he
will occupy after April 1 with a line of
dry goods, boots and shoes and cloth-
ing.

Hancock—Edward Gallagher, who has
been connected with Mr. Sackrider in
the Board of Trade, has withdrawn his
name from that establishment and will
embark in the grocery business in the
near future in connection with James
Byers.

Bay City—Max Grossman, the cloth-
ing merchant, has made an assignment
to Brakie J. Orr. There are fifty six
creditors whose claims run from $18 to
$2,200, the total being about $12,000.
Grossman’s relatives are the heaviest
creditors and some of the merchandise
creditors, are disposed to question the
validity of their claims. The affair
will probably end in a petition ta have
Grossman declared a bankrupt and _ the
assignment to Orr set aside. .

 

Ann Arbor—Jobn Burg, the shoe deal-
er, will retire from business. He has
occupied his present quarters for twenty-
four years. Next spring he will erect
three residences, which, with the man-
agement of his farms, will occupy his
time. With the exception of four weeks,
several years ago, when he was nursing
a broken leg, Mr. Burg has been in his
store almost daily.

 

Manufacturing Matters.
Olivet—A. H. Covey has purchased

the Oliver flouring mills of Mr.
Neesmith.
Manistee—Max Baumann has pur-

chased the F. C. Hall cigar factory and
will continue the business at 85 Maple
street.

Detroit—The R. M. Leggett Bottle &
Glass Co. is succeeded by the Can-
adian-American Glass Co., Limited, of
Ontario.

Eaton Rapids—A. D. Randolph, who
conducts cigar factories at Homer and
Bronson, has opened a cigar factory at
this place.

Lake City—Anton Iverson and Chas
L. Goll have purchased the Barrett saw-
mill property and will operate it in its
present location.

Ludington Appeal—Geo. W. Weath-
erwax has renewed his engagement with
the Chicago White Lead and Oi! Co.
for his fourth year of service. He has
now gone East and will return to Lud-
ington December 22.

East Jordan—The Barker Lumbering
Co ’s new mill is nearing completion.
It is expected to commence sawing soon
after Jan. 1. The mill will run night
and day, turning out about eight million
feet of lumber, which is only a small
part of the total that will be shipped
from East Jordan in 1899.

Holland—L. Van Putten has become
sole proprietor of the Michigan Toy
and Novelty Works, having purchased
the premises and shop on Eighth street
lately known as the Crescent Planing
M ll, of Tiemen Slagh. The factory is
running everv day, and employment is
given to thirteen hands. The product
which includes novelty goods of every
description made by automatic machine
turning, is in good demand and is being
shipped to all parts of the country.

East Jordan—The locomotive for the
East Jordan Lumber Co.’s new railroad
arrived by steam barge Pine Lake last
week and two boat loads of rails also
came later in the week. The heavy fall
of snow has delayed work to some ex-
tent, but the track is now laid for a dis-
tance of about three miles and, with the
aid of locomotive and cars, work will
be pushed faster. The lumbering cars
are being built here, the wheels and
other iron parts having been shipped in.

0 —___
Campaign Against Express Com-
panies.

From the New York Commercial.

The Merchants’ Association of New
York has begun an active campaign for
the purpose of placing the express com-
panies, which are now entirely irre-
sponsible to any authority whatsoever,
under the authority and control of the
State Railway Commission. To assist
in this work, it has secured the services
of W. W. Chandler, who comes to it
direct from the Adams Express Co.
Any members of the Association having
grievances against the express com-
panies, or in regard to freight matters,
are invited to communicate with the As-
sociation, and the matter will receive
prompt attention.

~~ 0
Truth is eternal; but Time changes it
from day to day so that it’s own mother
wouldn’t recognize it.

 

The Boys Behind the Counter.

Sault Ste. Marie—John A. Gowan
has resumed his duties with the Fergu-
son Hardware Co., Limited.

Dexter—Fred Lemon has taken a po-
sition in the hat department of L. Higer
& Sons, Grand Rapids.

Sault Ste. Marie—Fred Jamison has
resumed his duties in W. F. Ferguson
& Co.’s dry goods department.

Jackson—Henry Howard, of Man-
chester, has taken a position with Farn-
ham, the clothier.

Marshall—Jas. McDonald has resigned
bis position with the Casper Hardware
Co. to accept a position with the Deer-
ing Harvester Co.

Charlotte—A. C. Losey, formerly clerk
in Merritt's drug store has gone to Elk-
hart, Ind., where he will commence his
duties as traveling salesman for an ad-
vertising house.

Fremont—Lynn Geasler is now em-
ployed in Dr. Lever’s drug store.

Sturgis—S. M. McCallum, of Valpa-
taiso, Ind., has taken the position for-
merly occupied by Ed. Huff in the
clothing department of F. L. Burdick &
Co.

Port Huron—Roy Fuller, of Rich-
mond, has secured a position in Gould-
ing & Co.’s store as assistant jeweler. 4

Otsego—Charles A. Sams, of Petos-
key, will take charge of C. A. Barnes’
drug store, and is now familiarizing
himself with the stock.

Muskegon—John Naalkes has taken a
position as salesman in Rosenthal’s
clothing store.

Greenville——Max Lichtenauer, for-
merly in Jacobson’s dry goods store and
recently with the Ranney Refrigerator
Co., has left for St. Louis, to take
charge of a dry goods store in that place,

Coldwater—Harry Miles, who has
been identified with the Miles Supply
Store for some time past, will remove
to Jackson Jan. 1 and take the position
of assistant manager of the Jackson
Grocery Co.

Carleton—Dennis F. Strong who has
worked with his brother, Charles M., in
the cheese factory during the summer,
has accepted a position as sale-man in
the dry goods department of Edwards &
Adam’s store.

Bayshore—J. C. F. Dillon, formerly
connected with the general store of the
Antrim Iron Co., at Mancelona, has
taken the position of manager of the Pe-
toskey Lime Co.’s general store here.

Kalamazoo Telegraph: There never
was a better known fellow in Kalamazoo
than Leonard A. Burdick. For three
years he was a clerk in Colman’s drug
store and made use of his opportunities
to increase a wide circle of friends and
acquaintances made in school days and
after. His jolly ways ard boundless
good nature made him popular witb all
who came in contact with him. Before
the confinement of business took up all
his time he was known as a very speedy
pitcher and one who had all kinds of
tricks up his sleeve. Len spent about
three months in Van Allen’s drug store,
at Ionia, last summer and went the first
of October to Detroit, where he has a
fine position in the manufacturing de-
partment of Parke, Davis & Co.'s es-

tablishment.
AE

It is a severe strain on the angelic
qualities of a woman when she has to
use her wings to dust the furniture.

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It may be more blessed to give than to
receive, but we are always willing to let
the other fellow have the blessings.

—_> 2 2>__

Visner is home with a lot cf Gillies’

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Grand Rapids Gossip

Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Associa-
tion.

At the regular meeting of the Grand
Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association,
held at the office of the Michigan
Tradesman on Tuesday evening, Dec.
6, President Dyk presided.

The Committee on Banquet presented
a report, recommending tnat the annual
spread be given at Sweet’s Hotel on the
evening of Jan. 23. The report was
adopted and the Committee continued.

The Chairman then announced that
the subject presented by Mr. Wendorff
at the previous meeting—the purchase
and sale of potatoes by weight instead
of measure—was open for discussion,
whereupon the Secretary presented the
following letter from Dr. Joel C. Park-
er, the veteran dentist:

Grand Rapids, Dec. 5—Seeing an
article in the paper that it is contem-
plated at the next meeting of your As-
sociation to consider the justice of
‘‘buying pctatoes by weight,’’ it occurs
to me to suggest that you take ina much
larger field of operations, and not only
buy, but sell, all sorts of vegetables by
weight, also all kinds of fruits. A good
beginning has been made with lettuce
among the vegetables and grapes and
tomatoes among the fruits, and custom-
ers find it such a convenient and equit-
able method of doing business that it
seems as though it must at once com-
mend itself to you, as it certainly does
to consumers. One commodity certain-
ly ought to be bought and sold by
weight ; and that is eggs, for, as a friend
remarked, ‘‘a dozen eggs may mean a
handful or a hatful, all at the same
price.’’ Of course, not being a dealer,
I have no means of knowing the diffi-
culties in the way of carrying out these
ideas, but I trust they are not insur-
mountable and that the members of
your Association can find the way to
overcome them, if they really exist.

H. C. Wendorff then presented the
following resolution, which was placed
on the second reading:

Whereas—We consider it more equit-
able to Sxrower, dealer and consumer
that potatoes be sold by weight than by
measure ; therefore

Resolved—That the Grand Rapids
Reta] Grocers’ Association places itself
on record as unqualifiedly in favor of
the purchase and sale of potatoes by
weight and hereby pledges itself to use
its influence to bring about such a
change in handling the staple.

B. S. Harris stated that he purchased
a load of potatoes that day purporting
to be 54 bushels. He took them in by
weight, resulting in the disclosure that
the load contained 53 bushels and 4o
pounds, only 20 pounds less than was
claimed by the grower.

J. Geo. Lehman stated that the short-
bushel baskets are to blame for all the
trouble; that people who manufacture
short baskets ought to be prosecuted.
The grower sells his potatoes to the
commission merchant by weight and
there is no reason why he should not do
the same with the retail dealer. Too
many grocers, however, have dinkey
little scales which will not weigh over
ten bushels at a time, making it some-
what inconvenient to take in a load of
potaotes. If the grocer sends the farmer
to the hay scales, maybe he comes back
and maybe not.

Mr. Wendorff stated that he has seen
single bushels of potatoes run eight
pounds short to the bushel, especially
where the stock was large, as is fre-
quently the case. He took in a load the
other day by measure at 25% bushels,
but which actually weighed only 23%
bushels.

Mr. Lehman stated that he recently
purchased several bags of English wai-
nuts in Chicago, on which the tare was
three or four pounds to the bag, but he
could not get the jobber to stand the loss,
inasmuch as the jobber insisted that he
has sold the goods in exactly the same
condition and on the same terms as he
purchased them.

Mr. Dyk said that even when the
grocer buys by weight and sells by
weight, he suffers a loss by the sbrink-

 

 

 

age which necessarilv ensues in holding
potstoes, even for a few days.

Mr. Lehman asserted that the grocer
loses more from down weight than from
over measure, inasmuch as he always
gives all he ought and even more.

M. H. Barber stated that be found it
impossible to get four pecks out of a
bushel, no matter how he bought the
potatoes.

Homer Klap moved that the matter
be made the special subject of discus
sion at the next meeting, which was
adopted.

The meeting then took from the table
the resolution presented at the last
meeting relative to closing all day
Christmas, Fourth of July and Grocers’
Picnic Day and at noon on the other
legal holidays of the year. The matter
was discussed at some length, some fa-
voring and some opposing the adoption
of the resolution, when it was finally
made the special order of business for
the next meeting.

The flour situation came in fora _ full
and free discussion, at the conclusion
of which the Committee on Trade Inter
ests was instructed to ‘‘get a hump on’’
itself.

There being no further business the
meeting adjourned.

—__~> 0. __—__

The Produce Market.

Apples—The market is without par-
ticular change, receipts being small
and transactions confined almost wholly
to carlot shipments from storage. Deal
ers hold No. 1 fruit at $2.75@3.25 and
No. 2 at $2.25@2. 50.

Bananas—Supplies are more liberal
and considerable fancy stock is coming
from Southern points. Quotations re-
main unchanged.

Beets—25c per bu.

Butter—Dairy is about the same,
choice grades commanding 17@18c.
Factory creamery is in ample supply at
21@22¢.

Cabbage—$3 per 100 heads for home
grown.

Carrots—2oc per bu.

Cauliflower—$1 per doz.

Celery—15@18c per doz. bunches for
White Plume.

Cranberries—Cape Cods, $7.50 per
bbl. ; Wisconsin Bell and Cherry, $7;
Jerseys, $6.

Cucumbers—75c@$I
stock.

Eggs—Strictly fresh fetch 18@2oc and
are hard to get at that. Cold storage
and pickled are in plentiful supply at
16@17¢.

Honey—toc for amber and 1z2c for
white clover stock.

Lemons— Quotations range 25c lower
per box than last week, with the de-
mand considerably impaired by reason
of cold weather.

Lettuce—14@15c per Ib.

Nuts—Hickory, $1.50@2 50, accord-
ing to size. Walnuts and butternuts, 60c
per bu.

Onions—Spanish are in only fair de-
mand at $1.25 percrate. Dealers pay
25c for White and Red Globe stock and
20@22c for yellow Danvers and Red
Weatherfields.

Oranges—New stock California or-
anges are in the market and presenta
fine appearance. The first arrivals were
confined to one firm, but later in the
week were augmented by other receipts.
The demand for new stock was fairly
good at prices ranging from $4@4 50.
Most of the receipts were from Northern
California, with more southerly stock
due to arrive next week.

Parsley —25@3oc per doz.

Parsnips—soc per bu.

Pop Corn—134@2c per lb. The crop
was not large and the supply is un-
doubtedly limited.

Potatoes—No more favorable than a
week ago. Some dealers have been
storing stock, but many handlers insist
that potatoes will be lower in the spring
than they are now. It is very evident
that the railroads will be compelled to
reduce the classification from sixth to
fifth class or thousands of bushels in
Northern Michigan will rot in the pits.

Squash—75c@$1 per too lbs.

Sweet Potatoes—Virginias are steady
at $1.50 per bbl. Illinois Jerseys are
in good demand at $2.

for hot house

they enjoyed in 1892.

 

BANK NOTES.

 

Comparative Statements of the Local
National Banks.

The December statements of the Na-
tional banks are of more than usual _in-
terest. They indicate that the banks
are well over the divide, that they are
back to the old tide of prosperity which
The loans and
discounts aggregate $6, 423,959.11. This
is less than the May report by $175,000,
but it is an improvement over the re-
port of December 15, 1897, of $880,000.
The loans and discounts on Dec. 9,
1892, were $6, 107, 432.63 and the follow-
ing May they reached $6, 456,031.66—
and then came the flood, with a drop
of $1,600,000 in the loans and discounts
in six montbs.

© £ £

The Government bonds held by the
National banks aggregate $481,663 36,
which is the high water mark in the
holdings of these securities. The banks
have added $125,000 since July 14, pre-
sumably the new war bonds. The Old
National has taken on $61,000 and the
Fourth National $63,000,

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The Old National, on the strength of
the new bonds, has increased its ‘‘cir-
culation’’ to $90,000, as compared with
$45,000, and of this amount the report
shows $87,660 issued. This is the first
increase in circulation in any of the
banks for ten years or more.

ee

In stocks, bonds and other securities
the Nationals have $391,929.71 invested,
which is substantially the same as one
year ago. In December, 1892, they held
but $37, 484.80 in this class of securities,
but during the collapse there was a
steady increase. The real estate and
furniture items aggregate $292,118.57,
as compared with $200,543 in Decem-
ber, 1892, and $204,092 a year ago,

* = £

The amount carried in reserve and
correspondent banks is $1,420,946. 39,
which is about $700,000 less than a year
ago and about the same as in Decem-
ber,1892. The cash on hand and cash
items amount to $728,329 63, which is
about $90,000 more than a year ago and
about $25,000 less than in December,

1892.
9 * + *£

The surplus and undivided profits ac-
counts aggregate $573,184.28, or $9,000
less than a year ago and $63,000 less
than in December, 1892. The reports
indicate that the ‘‘writing off’’ process
has been suspended in at least three of
the National banks and that the other
two are pretty nearly through this un-
pleasant proceeding.

ee

The commercial deposits are $1,934,-
183.26, about $80,000 more than a year
ago and $30,000 more than in December,
1892. The commercial deposits reached
high water mark in September, 1892,
aggregating $2,363,155, and one year
later they were nearly $1,000,000 less.

ee ae

The banks are carrying $3,357,741.23
on certificates, the highest point they
have ever reached, exceeding the cer-
tificates of a year ago by $150,000 and

those of December, 1892, by $400,000.
© += £

The bank balances carried here ag-
gregate $1,416,711.34, and this also isa
record breaker, exceeding the balances
of a year ago by $200,000

ee

The total deposits amount to $6,759,-
486.57, which is also a high water mark.
This is $420,000 better than a_year ago

 

and $736,000 better than the old high
water mark of Sept. 30, 1892.
oe ae

The State banks were ‘‘called’’ for
the same date as the Nationals, but did
not receive their notices until Tuesday.
The story they will tell will be reviewed
next week, and in a future issue will be
related the interesting story the bank
statements reveal of the panic, when in
nine months the total deposits dropped
nearly $2,000,000—and yet did not

phase the banks.
8

The Grocery Market.

Sugars—Sales of 96 deg. test centrifu-
gals made at 4 7-16c show a decline of
1-16 c. The market, however, is very
strong, as there is very little stock
available. Refined is quiet, with very
little business doing. Although the
refiners did not reduce their Ii'st prices
as expected, they have been selling at
1-16c and '%c shade on the entire line.
These concessions are now claimed to
be withdrawn, but brokers intimate that
they are still obtainable.

Molasses and Syrups—There has been
only a moderate demand for New Or-
leans goods, as prices seem to be above
buyers’ views. The selections, also,
are very poor and desirable grades of
centrifugals are rather scarce. There is
a good demand for corn syrups, with no
indication of any lower prices; on the
contrary, it is intimated that there may
be an advance. Sugar syrups are strong
and, being so much above the parity of
corn goods, are having but a limited
sale.

Canned Goods—Gallon apples con-
tinue strong and but few are offered by
packers and higher prices would prob-
ably have to be paid to obtain desir-
able brands. Tomatoes and corn are
held very firm and the weaker holders
are getting sold out of stock. String
beans are very strong and it is claimed
that speculators have bought large blocks
and are after more.

Dried Fruits—Owing to the near ap-
proach of further arrivals of currants,
holders of spot stocks have reduced
prices &%c Cleaners have followed with
a like cut and prices are now on the
basis of two weeks ago. Raisins are
selling well at unchanged prices. The
heavy demand for the Pacine grade is
rapidly cleaning up the market and
some packers are about sold out.

Cereals—Some millers have advanced
prices on rolled oats and, if the grain
market continues strong, a general ad-
vance will probably be made. At this
season of the year millers are usually
seeking business, but at present there is
hardly a mill but what is oversold from
ten days to two weeks.

Rice—There is no change to note in
prices. Millers claim to be running
light, as they are unable to obtain sup-
plies.

Nuts—Last week we advised the pur-
chase of peanuts, as an advance was
probable. That we were correct is
proven by the advance of Xc tele-
graphed from Norfolk to-day. There
is no change in other grades, but, as _ is
usual at this season of the year, there
is a heavy demand for all kinds and we
look for no decline until after the holi-
days.

Beans—Arrivais at the pickers, are in-
creasing and, under pressure to sell,
the market for hand-picked stock has

declined about 5c.
> 0.

John Butcher has sold his meat mar-
ket at 337 East Bridge street to Emanuel
Saubengayer, formerly engaged in the
meat business in Ann Arbor.

 

  

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

Woman’s World

Lack of Genuine Good Manners Among
Giris.

‘*You may believe me or not,’’ said a
society woman, the other day, whose
painful privilege it was to chaperone
several girls through the summer cam-
paign just ended, ‘‘but, in my opinion,
there is nothing else in the whole length
and breadth of the land that so cries
aloud for reforming as our girls’ man-
ners."’

‘“‘Why, what do you mean?’’ I ex-
claimed in amazement. ‘‘Haven’t we
schools of manners? Don’t we spend
good money to teach our girls Delsarte
attitudes and impoverish ourselves try-
ing to instruct them in—’’

‘*We do,’’ she agreed, ‘‘and that’s the
pity of it. A knowledge of how to write
crossways of the paper and when to use
freak forks and spoons is so very far
from being all of good manners! A
girl may have the very best veneer of
outside manners that the most expensive
school can give her and yet be really as
hopelessly ill-mannered as the greatest
boor that ever lived. Of course, she
may make a good appearance in soci-
ety. Veneer always is showy. And it
always peels off in spots.

**The trouble is that really good man-
ners—the good manners that are genu-
ine through and through and that will
stand the wear and tear of everyday
life—have got to spring from innate
kindness of heart and consideration of
others, and we have petted and flattered
and spoiled our girls until they have
come to believe that the whole universe
is run for their individual benefit and
that the rest of the world merely exists
to give teas and dinners and balls for
them and chaperone them to the opera

“‘Of course, I know that it is the cus-
tom to speak of a young girl as being
only a kind of unfledged angel, but as
a matter of fact, for unadulterated,
unapproachable selfishness, she hasn’t
a rival on earth. She takes everything
we can possibly do for her as nothing
more than her right and walks rough-
shod over everybody else’s privileges
without so much as realizing that any-
one but herself could have a right to the
good things of life. Understand, please,
that I am not saying one word against
the way so many girls treat their moth-
ers. I consider that simply retribution.
If a woman raises a girl to think of no
one but herself and her own pleasures
and to lack consideration for everybody
else, she deserves all the ill-treatment
and suffering she gets. I have no sym-
pathy to waste on the mother who has
to perform on the cooking stove in the
kitchen while the daughter performs on
the piano in the parlor. She has in-
flicted the selfish creature on the world
and ought to have to pay for it. But
occasionally it is pretty hard on the rest
of us.

‘But leaving alone the question of
selfishness, there are plenty of ways in
which the modern girl needs to improve
her manners, and that don’t seem to be
taught in the finishing schools. Take
the matter of graciousness—that charm
of charms in a woman. How many
young girls do you know who try to cul-
tivate it? They seem to think that any
old way is good enough. They don’t
realize that there is a right way and a
wrong way of doing the simplest things
—a way that can make even an intended
kindness seem a deadly insult and that
can throw about a refusal or denial an
ineffable charm that makes it a delight

 

 

 

to be remembered. Brusqueness is the
order of the day. If they give a present
it is with the air of tossing a bone to a
dog. If they extend a courtesy, half
the time it is with about as much cor-
diality as one shows to a bill collector.
I have had girls accept invitations to
my functions in a way that made me
simply ache to withdraw and say, ‘No,
you don’t come. Not on your life. I
wouldn’t have you at any price.’ More
than likely they don’t mean it that way,
but society hasn't any time to go around
investigating people’s secret meanings.
We have to take things as they are on
the surface, and certainly we have
a right to expect that the ones for whom
we put ourselves out should respond with
some degree of cordiality. If I hada
girl to bring up I would teach her that
one-half a woman’s duty is a sweet
graciousness of manner and the other
half is to look pleasant and be pleas-
ant.

‘*Then, think of the execrable lack
of tact displayed by the average girl.
[am not demanding impossibilities. I
know that tact, like the ability to trim
your own bonnet and write poetry, is a
God-given attribute. In its finest de-
velopment it is nothing short of genius,
but there are modified degrees of it we
may all attain to and there is no earthly
excuse for the way so many girls go
blundering along without regard for
other people’s pasts or futures. It is
not alone that they recklessly venture
in on the ground of family scandals and
misfortunes where angels would not
dare to tread. They say horrible little
things. What am I to think of a girl,
except that she is ill-mannered, who
comes to see me and blurts out that her
mother has been trying to make her do
it for a month? Or of another who tells
me that somebody else has a pug nose
like mine or is beginning to show her
age like me? Is there any apology that
will take the sting out of a speech like
that or could anything but rank dis-
regard for my feelings inspire it?
Thoughtless? Of course, but no one
should be turned loose on society until
they are sufficiently civilized to learn to
think. There ought to be asylums where
the people who talk without thinking
could be safely incarcerated.

‘Another pvint in good manners
which is entirely ignored by most girls
is punctuality. Such a thing as there
being any rudeness in keeping you wait-
ing or any sacredness in an engagement
never seems to enter their heads. If
you invite a girl to stay at your house,
you know beforehand it is going to be
at the utter havoc of all your domestic
machinery. She will come down to
breakfast at stray times. She will choose
lunchtime to go off on a stroll and will
spend an hour curling her hair at din-
nertime while the soup cools on the
table and your husband says things.
She doesn’t consider it any part of good
manners to put you to as little trouble
as possible and many a girl misses on
this account an invitation she sighs for.
We all know girls whom we would like
to ask for their own sakes, or their
mothers’ sakes, to come and stay at our
houses, but we don’t simply because the
trouble of keeping the servants ina
good humor and having the rest of the
family put out by having to wait for
meals is worth more than the pleasure of
their society.

“It bas always seemed to me that no
other rudeness approaches the rudeness
of not listening to what is said toone. It
is the very first principle in good man-
ners, gyet_how,.seldom,are we honored

 

with the attention of the girl to whom we
are talking. She is looking this way and
that, scanning the room for new faces.
We make what we considered a clever
comment on the passing show and _ look
to her for a quick, responsive smile.
Instead, she asks: ‘What was it you
said?’ We tell her a little story that has
in it a touch of tenderness and tears
and we turn to her for a word of appre-
ciation. The minute we stop speaking,
she says: ‘Would you wear pink
chiffon or white tulle?’ and then we
realize with a dull cold thud that she
hasn't even heard a word wesaid. More
than that, she hasn't even thought it
worth a pretense of appearing to be in-
terested. And yet—and yet—there is
no other quality so fascinating, no ac-
complishment that will pay such enor-
mous dividends on the labor and time
invested, as merely being a good lis-
tener.

‘*Not all the girls are bad mannered.
Thank goodness, no. Now and then we
meet one who doesn’t loll around and
look bored to death when with women
and spring into instant life and anima-
tion the moment a man dawns on the
scene. She remembers that chaperons
are not simply wall fixtures like the
gas brackets, but that they are heroic-
ally enduring martyrdom for her sake,
and so she comes up and brings some
of her pleasant men friends and makes
herself agreeable. She doesn’t consider
that when you invite her to your parties,
you do it merely to give her a pictur
esque background for flirtations, but
that she has some duty in the premises
to make herself pleasant to you and
your other guests. She doesn’t consider
it necessary to keep her appreciation
down to the freezing point, but is cheer-
ful and bright and not afraid to enthuse
over a thing she likes. She is the kind
of girl that is always and invariably a
success, because every woman who en-
tertains is dying together. Other girls
look on and wonder. They can't see
what it is tbat makes us like her and
make such a fuss over her, and we can’t
explain to them that it is so simple a
thing as genuine good manners.’’

Dorotuy Drx.

 

 

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SHORTER HOURS.

 

Drug Clerks Organize a Union and
Disband.
M. Quad in American Druggist.

Being neither a drug clerk nora drug-
gist, it was no business of mine, except
In a general way. I thought the drug
clerks ought to have shorter hours, and
for that matter the druggists as well,
but I didn’t agree with some of the
boys as to how the change should be
brought about. It seemed to me the
whole matter lay between the druggists
and the clerks, just as an editor's six-
teen or twenty hours per day lie be-
tween him and his chief. Indeed, when
the boys were kind enough to invite
me to one of their preliminary meetings
and ask my advice, I gave it to them
on the lines above mentioned. In the
cause of humanity I wanted to see their
hours reduced ; as a patron of the drug
stores to the extent of $6 per week the
year ‘round I did not want to see any
druggist upset by a radical change. I
am not an orator, but I have a smooth,
soft way of putting things, and I am
satisfied that I should have carried my
point but for Timothy O’Hooley. There
was a movement on foot to bring the
druggists and drug clerks together for
a friendly canvass of the question, when
Timothy appeared with a flaming
sword in hishand. He was a little runt
of a man, with only a bandful of red
hair on his head and an uncertain wabble
in his knees, but he was great on the
gab. He could roll out 130 words of
English per minute, and at least 100 of
them were in italics or small caps. He
didn’t mind grammar or facts or fig-
ures, but was heavy on ‘‘tyrant’s heel,’’
‘‘liberty or death,’’ ‘‘the lifeblood of
the poor,’’ and so forth. Timothy was
invited to follow me in speechmaking,
and inside of three minutes he had used
me up and thrown my mangled body
over the fence among the thistles. Un-
til he burst upon the meeting likea
blazing sun out of a midnight sky no
drug clerk bad any suspicion of the
real state of affairs. After Timothy
had rolled out five hundred words every
clerk realized that the tyrant capital
had him by the neck and was _ slowly
but surely strangling him to death. The
sawed-off orator didn't believe in com-
promises or understandings. He wanted
the drug clerks to rise as one man and
tell the druggists to go to thunder or re-
duce the hours to eight per day. If they
reduced, it was all rigbt; it they didn’t
reduce, then every drug store should be
closed up as tight as a drum.

I own right up that Timothy got the
best of me. He got the crowd in the
hollow of his hand and organized it into
a union. Nobody had thought of a union
beyond the drug business, but Timothy
knew a thing or two. He made it plain
that if they stood alone they must fall,
but if they had the help of tens of
thousands they must win. The result
was that the Drug Clerks’ Union was
regularly organized and numbered, and
given over to the care of the regular dis-
trict officers. When all this had occurred
the clerks went back to their duties
with smiling faces. They felt the power
behind them and were sure of winning
their point. It was expected that the
‘‘bosses’’ would be given an ultimatum
right away, but things dragged. There
were other matters to be gotten out of
the way first. One morning every clerk
got a notice of a strike and a parade.
An attempt had been made to cut down
the wages of the bill-posters and a strike
had been ordered As a further evidence
of sympathy there would be a_ parade.
The Drug Clerks’ Union would take its
place in line between the Longshoremen
and the Slaughter House Patriots, and
they were expected to yell for liberty and
equality whenever they passed a street
car stable or a pop-corn factory. Three
days later a hundred drug stores were
lett clerkless, and something like one
hundred and fifty drug clerks took their
places in line. A few of the first-comers
seemed to think that the dawn of free-
dom was at hand, but a long time be-
fore the procession started they had
changed their minds. There ought to
be brotherly love between unions, but
there didn’t seem to be in this case.

 

The drug clerks soon began to murmur
because of being placed in rear of the
Longshoremen, and the Slaughter House
Patroits felt hurt to see ‘‘a gang of
squirts'’ leading the way for them.
There were interchanges of good fellow-
ship. ‘That is, the Longshoremen and
the Slaughter House Patriots began yell-
ing ‘‘pills,’’ ‘‘squills,’’ ‘‘porous plas-
ters’’ and other things at the Drug
Clerks. Now and then a stray man from
the Brewers’ Union came along and
wanted to know what in —— a lot of
squirts were doing in that parade, and
now and then a member of the Barbers’
or Cobblers’ Union paused to observe
that he’d be —— if things hadn’t got to
a pretty pass when the labor movement
had to take in a troop of manikins.
During the parade the small boy had a
cheer for the Tripe Makers’ Union or
the Peanut Sellers’ Federation, but when
it came to the Drug Clerks’ Union,
there were hundreds of exclamations of
‘*Hully Gee, but look at the pill-boxes
on legs!’’ As an evidence of sympathy
in favor of the down-trodden_bill-post-
ers who had struck for thicker paste
and seven hours a day the parade was
a success, but as a parade covering
eight miles of cobblestone pavements
and intimidating the bosses, it was no
good. The bosses didn’t scare. Even
when all the peanut and pop-corn ven-
ders were ordered to lay off for a week,
and not a pound of tripe could be had
for money nor a man found to beata
carpet, would the bosses give in. In
company with all other unions, even
down to the Rag Pickers’ Protective
Association, the Drug Clerks’ Union
were ordered ‘‘out.’’ I don’t think the
druggists had anything to do with what
followed. So far as I can learn they
camped out in their respective stores
and did their best to wait upon fifteen
or twenty customers at once, and they
neither coerced nor threatened. They
just bided, and they didn’t have to bide
long. It was only a matter of hours when
a stampede occurred, and the union was
run over and trampled into the earth be-
yond resurrecting. Orators from the
Mattress Makers’ Union, orators from
the Carpet Beaters’ Federation, the
Window Cleaners’ Union and the Street
Sweepers’ Combination called on the
officers of the Drug Clerks’ Union and
orated and gestured and talked of the
benefits of strikes and unions, but they
made no headway. They even offered to
give the drug clerks preference over
the Sausage Makers’ Union in the next
parade, and to forgive their good clothes
and their intelligent looks, but it was
too late. Timothy O’Hooley got twelve
of them together in a barber shop, and
increased his flow of language to I50
words per minute, some of them three
inches long, but he failed to arouse the
slightest enthusiasm. The boys wanted
something, and wanted it mighty bad,
but they objected to the trades union
way of getting it.

The Yeast Man’s Thoughts Rise Into
a Dream.

Ludwig Winternitz, formerly of this
city, but now auditor of Fleischmann &
Co, is emphatically a man of action;
but he recently suffered a slight indis-
position at Denver which laid more
time on his hands than he really knew
what to do with; so, to occupy his mind
during his enforced idleness, he took to

dreaming.

“Sober Thought pursued the theme

Till Fancy colored it and formed a dream,”
with the following result, in his own
words:

‘‘We were at a Thanksgiving after-
noon concert. Two of the local cele-
brated bands gave the entertainment for
the benefit of the little poor folks. One
was the First Regiment band and the
other the Newsboys’. I was the guest
of the Manager and had a seat of
honor in his box. Suddenly we were
interrupted by one of the First Regi-
ment musicians, who led one of the
members of the Newsboys’ band, and
carried in bis hand the broken piece of
a bow, and complained that the little
lad had stolen his violin. ‘Broke the

bow, as you see, and pawned the in-

strument across the street with Uncle
Ike!" The Manager said, ‘Call a
policeman and he shall take care of the
case.’ The musician asked to waita
moment; he would consult with his
officer, the leader, and let him decide
what to do. So we took hold of the lit-
tle mischief’s arm and awaited the
Director's arrival.

‘‘In the meantime the First Regiment
musician reported the facts of the case
to his superior officer. He was an old
soldier, knew very little about sympathy
and got a policeman, as the Newsboys’
band is a Civic organization.

‘*They proceeded toward our box,
where the bov crouched under the rail-
ing. The musician tried to get the boy
pardoned before they reached us. But
It was all in vain. ‘Let the law take
care of the little rascal,’ the leader
harshly proclaimed.’

‘‘It was one of the most heart-break-
ing scenes I ever witnessed, when the
First Regiment leader recognized in the
little wretch his own son! He pointed
to the policeman and _ said, with
trembling voice, ‘Officer, do your duty ;
and I shall try to console the poor
mother.’

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Egotism makes a man believe the

world thinks as much of him as he
thinks of himself.

 

How to Do It.

‘*I get nothing but roasts,’’ he said
bitterly. ‘‘I wish I could make some one
say something nice about me some-
time.’’

**You can.”’

‘“How?”’

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THE FRUITS OF UNIONISM.

For several years the annual report
of the Grand Rapids Board of Educa-
tion has been printed at a cost of about
go cents a page, last year’s report hav-
ing been let on a bid of 80 cents a page.

A year ago a resolution was adopted
by the Board, directing that the print-
ing done for the public schools and
library be confined to union offices ex-
clusively. The resolution was fathered
by J. A. S. Verdier, the well-known
banker, who defends his action on the
ground that he was basely deceived by
the Secretary of the Typographical
Union, who assured him that all the
printing offices of the city were domi-
nated by the union. The Secretary, on
the other hand, emphatically denies Mr.
Verdier’s statement, asserting that the
banker's action is in line with his
previous record of subserviency to trades
unionism in furtherance of his avowed
ambition to be elected Mayor of the city
in the near future.

A few days ago the Board of Educa-
tion solicited bids for the printing of
the annual report, the Secretary taking
pains that none but union offices be ac-
corded the privilege of bidding. The
monopoly created by the resolution of
Trustee Verdier naturally resulted in a
combination of ten of the union print-
ing offices of the city, all of which
handed in identical bids—$1.24 per
page—an advance of 55 per cent. over
the price paid a union office for the
same job a year ago! The Tradesman
is in possession of inside information
on the subject, the substance of which
is that ten of the union offices entered in-
to an agreement to plunder the city by
making uniform bids, the office receiv-
ing the award to ‘‘divvy’’ with the other
parties to the scheme. This disclosure
is confirmed by the public utterances of
E. P. Mills, the high priest of trades
unionism in the city, who writes as fol-
lows in the Grand Rapids Democrat:

It seems the job offices have combined
and put up the price of printing the an-
nual proceedings of the Board of Edu-
cation. This ought to have been done
long ago, for it is hardly conceivable
that there could be any profit in the
price those proceedings have been
printed for in the past. And the Board
can’t consistently object. They have
endorsed a resolution to patronize ex-
clusively union offices, which Prof. Tay-
lor, the great champion of labor, says
truly are labor trusts. This is the good
fruit already borne by Prof. Taylor's
address in the city under the auspices
of the Trades and Labor Council. He

 

advocated trusts and syndicates, the log-
ical sequence of co-operation, as one of
the solutions of the industrial situation.

Of course, the price ought to be made
high enough so that the offices that bid
and don’t get the job can get a little
rake-off sufficient to pay them for their
trouble. It is a little unreasonable that
the Board should be so prudish in this
matter while no exception is taken to
paying the Secretary his salary while
some one else does his work during his
absence. But the job office trust must
be careful and not put the price be-
yond what the traffic will bear.. There
is a danger point in trusts as well as in
whisky-selling and other evils, and this
should be carefully guarded against by
the job offices. We are pleased to hear
in this connection that Mike Powers,
of the firm of Tyson & Powers, job
printers, trustee from the Eighth, has
shown himself sufficiently conscientious
in the matter in temporarily withdraw-
ing from the firm pending the disposi-
tion of the printing of the proceedings,
thereby relieving his colleagues of any
embarrassment they might be under. It
is little self-sacrificing acts like this
that only confirm the optimistic phi-
losophy that there is more honesty and
integrity in the human breast than there
is of the other kind. It is plainly to be
seen that Mr. Powers was well brought

p; that his mental diet was of the
golden-rule and the Washington hatchet-
story kind. Whom better can we look to
for examples for the rising generation
than our public servants, especially
those who serve us without pay?

As a long-time member of the typo-
graphical and musician’s unions and as
editor of the Workman for many years,
the utterances of Mr. Mills may safely
be taken as authoritative, because he
writes from an intimate knowledge of
this particular circumstance and from
an extended experience with union men
and union methods.

When, therefore, he asserts that the
monopoly created by Mr. Verdier’s res-
olution enabled the employing printers
to band together and secure a price for
the job which would give them alla
‘little rake-off,’’ he realized that the
employers had adopted the same prin-
ciple which union workmen pursue in
forcing their wages so far above their
actual requirements that they are able
to support a system of drones in the
shape of district organizers and walking
delegates.

It is a matter of common knowledge
that union men generally regard munic-
ipalities in the same light as they re-
gard employers of labor—as something
to be plundered as long as there is any-
thing left to plunder—and the circum-
stance above described serves a useful
purpose in disclosing the natural out-
come of union methods, when carried
to their legitimate conclusion.

The Tradesman commends a careful
persual of the article on ‘‘Shorter
Hours’’ on the seventh page of this
week’s issue. The treatment of the sub-
ject is timely and the manner in which
it is presented by the gifted writer en-
ables the country reader to form a con-
clusion as to the problems which some-
times confront his city cousins.

The report that German toys and
colored goods are poisonous may be ac-
cepted by the kaiser as a notification
that the United States can retaliate be-
cause of his discrimination against
American food products.

A charity ball is a gathering of fash-
ionable dancers who wear diamonds for
the benefit of the poor.

 

It is better to be sure than sorry; but
if you are too blamed sure, you are sure
to be sorry that you are sure.

 

GENERAL TRADE SITUATION.

The only exceptions to uniformly fa-
vorable business conditions in al] prin-
cipal industries and speculative values
are those affected by unseasonably se-
vere storms cutting off communication
with the speculative centers. The ad-
vance in stock values noted last week
continued until Monday of this week,
when the bears undertook an inning,
claiming that a reaction was due. The
coincidence in the storms cutting off the
country trading seconded their attempts
and the result was a slight reaction in
a majority of the list. That this was
not owing to weakness in the situation
is sufficiently demonstrated by the
prompt and positive recovery of yes;
terday.

The summing up of reports of the
business of November maintains the fa-
vorable showing in volume, exceeding
any former corresponding period in all
prominent lines, with the single excep-
tion of boots and shoes, which are less
than the phenomenal output for Novem-
ber of last year. And not only is the
aggregate of business greater than for
the corresponding period, but it breaks
the record for any month of any pre-
ceding year. In estimating the signifi-
cance of this statement the lower basis
of values must be taken into consider-
ation. And the fact of lower values is
what has gained access to the world’s
markets and so has made the increase
possible. They also give assurance
against the wonderful activity assuming
unhealthy boom conditions.

The sensation in the steel market is
the reported placing of orders for from
500,000 to 700,000 tons of rails, equai to
a quarter of the annual production of
the country. This gives the greatest
assurance of steadiness in the steel mar-
ket, as rails are the most liable to vari-
ation. Demand for structural forms, for
car and ship-building and plates and
bars, continues without diminution.
Prices are being better maintained,
largely through combinations, which
seem to be learning that more can be
effected by the proper regulation of
prices than by efforts at undue infla-
tion.

The textile industries continue to show
improvement all along the line, al-
though price changes are small. Sales
of wool for November exceed those for
the unusually heavy month of last year
by nearly 5,000,000 pounds. There is

some improvement in manufactured
goods, although much machinery is
still idle. Cotton export movement

exceeds that of last year and prices of
the staple and its products are showing
a tendency in the right direction.

The grain market assumed a steadier
movement and there was a slow strength-
ening in prices until the effects of the
storm caused a reaction, as in other
speculative markets, on Monday. This
has been followed by recovery. Changes
in the price level are very slight. Ex-
port movement continues very heavy,
curiously following almost exactly the
unprecedented movement of last year.

While the storm has naturally tended
to check jobbing movement, the effect
is only temporary and better winter
weather will favor preparation for the
heaviest holiday trade ever known.

OBLIGATIONS OF THE WAR.

A good deal of interest attaches to the
disposition to be made of the Philip-
pines after the ratification of the treaty
by the Senate, for it is difficult to see
how that body can refuse to approve the
treaty when to reject it would cause ex-

 

treme embarrassment to this country
and immense confusion generally.

The ratification of the treaty does not
commit Congress to any particular
course as tothe islands. The treaty, so
far as any of the Spanish dominions
are concerned, simply means that Spain
has relinquisheed all control over Cuba,
Porto Rico and the Philippine Islands,
The United States accepts the surren-
der and holds the terr:t: ry, as it were, in
trust. The Government is under a pledge
to hand Cuba over to the Cubans, It can
in the same way turn over the other
territory to their respective inhabitants
to do according to their respective wills.

Such seems to be the idea of Senators
Hvar, of Massachusetts, Caffery, of
Louisiana, and others. They hold that,
after those several peoples shall have
been presented with their independence,
they may use the great boon in any
manner that may please them, and par-
ticularly in getting up civil wars. Bar-
barian peoples are incapable cf self-
government, and spend their time in
carrying on chronic internecine con-
flicts until some strong-handed and
stronger-willed man gets control and
sets up a despotic domination.

The United States engaged in a most
costly war to free those peoples, and,
having accomplished that object, there
is no further interest to be taken in
them or their fate. Such is the line of
reasoning pursued by those persons
who were stung to the quick at the spec-
tacle of unfortunate peoples crushed un-
der Spanish tyranny. Now that they
are freed from Spanish control, it might
naturally be supposed that those who
were so eager to free those peoples
would still feel interest enough to de-
sire to see them in a condition of pros-
perity and peace under free government
and institutions.

But the contrary is the fact. Having
secured the independence of the Span-
ish islands, their peoples are no longer
objects of interest, and now that they
have been rescued from the claws of
the Spanish jaguar, nobody cares
whether or not they may fall into the
clutches of a German wolf, Russian
bear or British lion. Humanity has no
claims beyond what were created by
Spanish oppression. Internecine war
or foreign conquest under, perhaps, the
most atrocious circumstances possible
is not to be considered. Humanity
has exhausted itself and cares nothing
for what may come afterwards.

Should the Senate ignore all moral
obligation in the premises—and it is
known that moral obligation weighs
lightly on the consciences of men who
legislate for political purposes chiefly—
the ratification of the treaty, as has been
said, commits the country to no par-
ticular policy. It will then devolve up-
on Congress to say what must be done
with the countries surrendered to the
United States, and Congress has full
power to turn them all adrift to shift
tor themselves. Politics will control all
action in this case, and humanity and
moral obligation will have nothing to
do with the closing of a war which al-
leged humanity and moral obligation
caused and created.

The reason most people give advice
so freely is because they are anxious ot
get rid of it.

The man who never forgets anything
never forgets to boast of it to every one
he meets.

 

A man who wants to make a speech
and has nothing to say is in a bad fix.

 

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MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

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THE COMING CRISIS.

The advent of the United States as the
possessor of large commercial interests
in the continents and islands of the Pa-
cific Ocean creates a new era in the in-
tercourse of nations. It demands that
the Great Republic shall assert itself
in proportion to its interests in that
commerce and that it shall make such
provision as may be necessary for the
protection of those interests, even to
the extent of foreign alliance.

It should be remembered that when
Washington penned to the American
people his celebrated farewell address,
in which he warned them against the
dangers to be apprehended from per-
manent alliances with any portion of
the foreign world, the Great Republic
did not own an acre of territory west of
the Mississippi River, and did not pos-
sess a foot of coast line on the Gulf of
Mexico.

Since Washignton’s day the States of
the Union have increased from thirteen
to forty-five. The Government has ac-
quired Louisiana and Alaska by pur-
chase; it has absorbed a large part of
Mexico by right of conquest; it has
annexed Hawaii, and now it is in a po-
sition to decide the destinies of Cuba,
Porto Rico and the Philippines.

Its population has increased from four
to seventy millions and its wealth in
still greater proportions. Meanwhile
the immense improvement in communi-
cation has brought the country into
close contact with all portions of the
habitable globe; and the United States
stands in the very first rank among civ-
ilized nations, in touch and active com-
petition with every one of them.

To-day it possesses two thousand
miles of coast line upon the Pacific
Ocean and has control of territories in
its waters of hundreds of thousands of
miles in extent. It has a thousand
miles and more of front upon the Gulf
of Mexico. Under these vastly altered
conditions it is indisputable that the
foreign policy of seclusion and non-
interference with affairs in the Old
World can not be safely maintained.

The present is pre-eminently an age
of commerce, and the seventy millions
and more of the American people, with
their vast and natural resources and
their labor multipiled in power and
effectiveness many times by the in-
genious machinery at their command,
have attained a productive capacity
which is far beyond their ability to
utilize. They must find new markets for
their products or many thousands of
their people will be driven to- idleness
because the markets at their command
are overstocked with the fruits of their
labor.

The tariff barrier erected by the
United States against the products of
foreign countries has set them to a great
extent against American products, and
they only buy from this country what
they can get nowhere else. The defeat
of Spain by the United States in the
recent war has arrayed the whole of
Europe, with the single exception of
England, against the United States
But for this single exception in favor of
the United States, there is much rea-
son to believe that Germany, at least,
would have interfered in favor of
Spain, and in all probability there
would have been a strong coalition to
prevent what they have styled the ‘‘de-
spoilment of Spain.’’

Fortunately, the refusal of Great
Britain to enter such a combination,
and her strong manifestations of
friendship towards the United States,

 

made the possibility of an alliance be-
tween the two English-speaking nations
too formidable to be lightly called into
being, as it would have been by a
European coalition in behalf of Spain,
and so it is that the American Republic
has been permitted to carry toa tri-
umphant conclusion its controversy with
the Spanish nation.

But hereafter, knowing that there is
a strong and deep-seated jealousy and
prejudice in continental Europe against
the United States, the American people
will find it necessary not to depend sole-
ly upon the good will of England for
aid in time of need; but, like England,
to make due and ample provision for their
own defense and for the vindication of
their policy.

The jealousy and prejudice that have
been aroused against the American peo-
ple by their war with Spain are not mere-
ly confined to kings and cabinets. It is
not alone the politicians of Europe who
dread and fear the Western colossus, but
sentiments of dislike towards the Amer-
icans also pervade the people of the
cities who most come in contact with
Americans. As for the press of con-
tinental Europe, it isalmost without ex-
ception hostile in its tone towards the
United States and its people. For-
eigners are even now, by their bitter
expressions, trying to intimidate the
United States Senate from ratifying the
treaty, so far as it requires the surren-
der by Spain of her Asiatic possessions.
[f they could accomplish such a result,
and secure a backdown to that extent
by the United States, European states-
men would feel that they had gained a
great victory, and they would see to it
that the United States, as a commercial
nation, would be driven from the Pa-
cific Ocean except so far as it might
have access to the countries under the
control of Great Britain. This is nota
pleasing prospect, but it is one that the
Senate of the United States will invite
if it should withdraw all claims to the
Asiatic islands won from Spain.

 

The Methodists have a very large
contract on hand. At their meeting in
Springfield, Mass., a suggestion was
made which the audience received first
with wonder and then with applause.
If they were startled by the magnitude
of the project they were also proud of
their ability to carry it out. It was pro-
posed toraise, between now and the be-
ginning of the Twentieth Century, the
sum of $20,000,c00 as a ‘‘thank offer-
ing.’’ They expect to have the money
in the bank by Jan. 1, I90!1, and the
chances are that they will succeed. This
enormous amount of money will be
safely invested and the interest applied
to educational institutions already con-
nected with the denomination and to
building others.

 

Kansas City grain merchants have
made many complaints of late about
shortages in the shipments of wheat to
that city, and a committee of the Kan-
sas City Grain Dealers’ Association was
appointed to investigate the matter. It
has been found that 26% per cent. of
the cars in use for the shipment of
cereals are unfit for that purpose, some
of them having leaks through which
many bushels of grain are lost between
the initial points of shipment and the
Kansas City elevators. Many cars had
also been bored into by thieves in the
freight yards and tapped.

December is called the money-spend-
ing month. Many people wish there
were more money-getting months.

GERMANY’S DRASTIC METHOD.

The German tradesman, looked at
from the American standpoint, does not
find too much to comfort him. The
‘Thou shalt not’’ of the law has too
much to do with the daily transactions
of business to please the up-to-date
American trader. The genius that
brings forward a scheme to attract and
deceive the customer encounters, over
there, the greatest discouragement.
There, as here, the happiest talent is
employed to make the windows of the
warehouse attractive. They are often
marvels of beauty. Pleasing in color
and arrangement, they urge the beholder
to come in and make himself the pos
sessor of the finest goods at the small-
est price to be found in the known
world, and the price is affixed to prove
the truth of the statement; but the
tradesman is compelled by law to fur-
nish goods in any quantity to the cus-
tomer at the price named in the win-
dow. The failure to do this is sure to
bring the shop-keeper into difficulty
with the authorities.

In that country, as in this, the ‘‘all
one price’’ label was found a good
drawing card. Shoppers on this side
have long since learned that the allur-
ing sign is capable of various interpre-
tations. The German dealer, a match
for his brother trader in stratagems and
spoils the world over, was ready to teach
the guileless customer the same lesson
in a practical way. He made the at-
tempt, but after a few instances was
shocked to find that his little game was
an infringement of the law, the penalty
of which was sufficient to convince him
that any attempt to charge more than
the price marked in the window would
result disastrously.

When the standard of American trade
was not as high as it is now unscrupu-
lous firms did not hesitate to givea
false impression of the building in
which they were housed. Like Falstaft’s
army, it increased rapidly in the tell-
ing. Many an establishment wauld not
be recognized by its owner in the il-
lustration picturing it if another name
were written beneath. The humble
one-story flat on an unpretending alley
expanded into a three-story falsehood
upon a wide well-paved avenue. The
dingy, illy-contrived interior rose from
its gloomy ugliness into scenes of
beauty and splendor; and these were
sent out into the world to deceive by
their shameless story. The German
trader, forgetful of the fact, or indiffer-
ent to it, that ‘‘Honesty is the best
policy,’’ followed the same course; but
found to his cost that the government
had something to say about his methods,
He was forced to listen and, listening,
learned that a firm printing on business
paper views of its factory or showrooms
must print factory and showrooms ex-
actly asthey are. The shop on the alley
must be that, and nothing more; and
the interior must be faithfully pictured,
if pictured at all, or the German gov-
ernment will know the reason why.

‘*At cost!’’ The public have learned
to look unmoved at the lying words.
Time was that the heart thrilled as the
eye of the shopper fell upon them. That
time is now no more and the flashing
eyes of an abused and outraged public
bear unmistakable testimony to the years
of cheating and limitless dishonesty
which have brought about the deplorable
state. This country is a great Republic
and we are republicans. Shall not we
follow the footsteps of the Fatherland
and enact that he who advertises goods

 

‘fat cost’’ shall charge customers the

 

actual price he paid for the goods or pay
the penalty?

For the last three weeks an auction
has been going on at a certain store.
The firm failed and the stock has been
selling in this way. The establishment
was not a large one and a week of or-
dinary sales would have exhausted the
merchandise; yet for three weeks a
rushing business has been going on,
and to all appearances the goods on
hand are in no degree diminished by
the three weeks’ sale. In Germany the
matter would be looked into,

The difference between the older na-
tion and the new lies not in the stricter
honesty of the people in the one country
than in the other, but in the fact that
Germany, becoming tired of the ‘‘tricks
of trade,’’ determined to put a stop to
them. The thing shall be, not seem.
The trader shall do what he says he will.
The goods shall go at the marked price.
If he claims that they are all wool and
yard wide they shall be just that or he
must suffer the consequences; in a
word, the German trade shall rest on the
truth or there is trouble, a condition of
things to which it would be weil for this
country to attain. As it is, if some of
the trade laws of Germany should be
adopted here, we shouid have, for a
time at least, a country full of law-
breaking tradesmen asking for the re-
peal of the statutes which made crimi-
nal what to-day is looked upon by the
traders as not only legitimate but in
every way commendable.

 

NEW PENSION LIST.

The Secretary of the Interior an-
nounces that a separate division has
been organized for the adjudication of
claims growing out of the war with
Spain. These soldiers will receive
their pensions under the general laws
for disabilities of a permanent charac-
ter contracted while inthe service. Less
than too claims had been filed up to
the close of the fiscal year and none had
been adjudicated.

The pension business, as it was
started, will have to be kept up on the
same lines. No politician would dare
to make any exception against the dis-
abled soldiers of the wars that may be
hereafter made by the United States.
The Civil War added from first to last
a million and a half names to the pen-
sion rolls and, although many have been
erased by death, others are being con-
stantly added, so that the existing rolls
still contain about one million names.
The Spanish war, by the rule which
governed in the creating of pensioners
from the soldiers of the Civil War, will
probably furnish in time pretty nearly
50,000 pensioners, most of them claim-
ing disability from the fever-plagued
camps in which they were assembled in
their own country, without ever having
gone beyond its limits or encountered
an enemy.

 

Apropos of the agitation of the sub-
ject of cheaper postage between this
country and Great Britain, it is pointed
out that the cost of a first-class ocean
passage between this country and
Europe averages about $100. The charge
for conveying the same weight of letters
as the passenger weighs is $187.

A fire engine in New York has been
fitted with pneumatic tires. The exper-
iment proved a success the other day,
for on running to a fire the same speed
was maintained, while the former
dreadful nois was absent.

 

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makes up enough to start a flirtation on.

 

  

  

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

Fruits and Produce.

Probability of Large Crop of Cali-
fornia Oranges.

Los Angeles, Dec. 1.—If there are no
killing frosts this winter Southern Cal-
ifornia will have almost as big a crop
of oranges this year as it produced last
winter, notwithstanding the unprece-
dented drought of the year that is now
closing. Last year, ending with Octo-
ber, the Southern counties marketed a
little more than 15,100 carloads of citrus
fruits, of which 1,166 carloads were
lemons, while 1,000 carloads, ruined by
the frost, were not marketed. This year
the total crop of both fruits will be about
16, 300 carloads, of which 3,000 carloads
will be lemons, leaving 13,300 carloads
of oranges, or only 600 carloads less
than the phenomenal crop of last year.
This estimate is based on the report of
a competent and careful observer who
made the tour of the entire orange grow
ing region in order to find out the exact
condition of the citrus crop. It is larger
by about 4,000 carloads than the esti-
mates made by the packing establish-
ments, who may possibly wish to make
the crop appear small.

In the Pomona section the orange crop
will be 20 per cent. greater than last
vear. The trees are so heavily loaded
that every one is surrounded by a circle
of props bracing up the limbs. The
quality of the fruit throughout the
Southern citrus belt is above’ the aver-
age. It is smooth, firm and solid, with
but little defective. It is from two
weeks to a month later in coloring than
it was last year, although shipments
have begun earlier than ever before.
Only a few scattering carloads have
gone East as yet, but regular shipments
will begin next week.

The packers of the Redlands region
have fixed the f. o. b. prices for oranges
for the opening of the season at $2 60
per box for navels, and $1.60 for
seedlings. This is a little below the
opening prices of last season.

The curing of lemons by the new
steam process has been begun in several
localities and lemon shipments. will
soon follow. Most of the growers and
packers have not much confidence in
the steam process, as they fear it will
lessen materially the keeping qualities
of the fruit. There are in Southern
California 1,000,000 lemon trees of five
years’ growth. These are now just
coming into bearing, and another year
will probably see a tremendous jump in
the lemon production of this region.

 

 

9-2
Fruit Under False Labels.
From the Tacoma Ledger.

In the market reports of the leading
commercial paper of the country will be
found daily quotations of California
prunes, but of no others. The sizes run
from 30s to 4os, the largest and finest
Italian prunes grown, down through
the different sizes to gos to Ioos, the
smallest, but all quoted as ‘‘California
prunes. ’’

This is a rank injustice to the State
of Washington, and one that demands a
remedy. In Clarke county, Washington,
alone, this year, 150 carloads of prunes
were grown and prepared for market,
but hardly a box of them went to the
consumer under a label showing them
to be Washington products.

A large proportion of this immense
crop, valued to the producers at nearly
$200,000, were sold to buyers from Cali-
fornia, who shipped them to San Fran-
cisco, put on a California label, and
sold them, repacking a portion of the
fruit to ‘‘grade up’’ their small-sized
prunes, the same method that is pur-
sued with Washington wheat when Cal-
ifornia has any wheat to mix it with.

Notwithstanding the fact that Califor-
nia prunes 30s to 40s are quoted in the
Eastern markets, it is a fact that not a
prune of that size or value—nor any-
where near it—is raised in California,
but they come from Washington.

A large portion of the Washington
crop is also purchased by _  Poriland
dealers, labeled ‘‘Oregon prunes’’ and
shipped to Eastern and European mar-
kets, Washington not being known as a
fruit growing State.

 

Here is a chance for practical work
for the benefit of our State, as well as
tbe fruit growers. If the Eastern mer-
chandise brokers and wholesalers can be
induced to purchase Washington prunes
at first hands from the growers, as the
hop buyers do, to be shipped under a
Washington label, as they should be, it
would be one of the best advertisements
this State could have. The quality of
the Washington product is superior to
that of any other state, and would soon
make the fame of this State as a fruit
country.

Growers in Clarke county this year
received 434 cents a_ pound for their
prunes, which were sold by San Fran
cisco dealers for 714 cents and are quoted
in New York at 12@14 cents per pound.

Here is a fine field for some of the
railway companies to do effective work
advertising the advantages of Washing-
ton as a fruit growing State, and at the
same time improving their own busi-
ness by carrying this freight to the East
in preference to having most of it sent
to San Francisco.

22
Why France Has Excluded American
Fruit.

The decree of the French government,
prohibiting the importation of Ameri-
can fruit, was not wholly unexpected,
albeit the opposition in France gave
some reason to hope that the decree
would not be promulgated ; or, if it was,
at least in a modified form.

Injury to American exporters will be
much less than it was when Germany
closed her ports. Fruit exports to France
have been small, and last year the ag-
gregate value of all varieties was about
$254,000, the largest amount ever sent
there’ For the past five years, values
have been: 1893, $69,700; 1894, $37,-
060; 1895, $41.606; 1896, $109,610; 1897,
$253,515. The figures given include
va ucs of green and dried fruits together,
but no canned fruits. Direct exports of
apples to France for the past five years
have run about as follows, in barrels:
1893, 52; 1894, 23; 1895, 11; 1896, 323;
1897, 216. Values for the same years
have been: 1893, $290; 1894, $168;
1895, $59; 1896, $1,513; 1897, $1,030
Figures for this year will be much
larger, because French fruit crops have
been short.

France, generally, is a fruit exporting
country, but this year there appeared to
be an opportunity for importers and
prominent firms made preparations to
take advantage of the opening. The
stated intention was to contine the busi-
ness chiefly to dried, pressed and pre-
served fruits, but green fruits were to be
included if circumstances favored.
French fruit growers then took alarm
at the possibility of American compe-
tition, and brought pressure to bear on
the government to exclude all, or a
larger proportion, of American fruit
products. Whether the decree provides
for inspection and the passing of con-
signments found to be free from it is
not stated, but it was hinted a few days
ago that exclusion would be absolute.

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Cranberry Culture in the Upper
Peninsula.

From the Negaunee Iron Herald.

Much surprise is being expressed in
certain quarters of the State at the re-
ported success of a cranberry farm in
Chippewa county. The possibilities of
this culture, so far as climatic condi-
tions are concerned, was demonstrated
here in Negaunee several years ago by
the late Henry N. McComber. He
planted nearly an acre near the shore of
Teal Lake east of the water works
plants, attended them fairly for the first
two or three years or until he harvested
a prolific yield, and then neglected the
patch entirely. In spite of this want of
care, the berries grew and matured for
several years thereafter and until the
bushes were finally choked out. The
result, however, conclusively demon-
strated that the fruit can be successfully
produced in the section.

22.

When you undertake to fight the devil
with fire, don’t forget to take into con-
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Lemons, Oranges and Bananas.

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11

 

ABOUT THE APPLE.

Most Extensively Used of All the Fruits.
From the New York Sun.

When the people living along the At-
lantic coast from Maine to Virginia
awoke one morning last April to see a
full inch of snow on the ground, few real-
ized how much damage had been done
by the storm. All through the farming
districts the fruit trees were either in
full bloom or the bud well advanced, so
that the snow lay like a cold, wet blan-
ket on the buds and killed nearly all of
them, thus destroying or blighting the
fruit crop. When the peaches in Dela-
ware and Maryland were reported killed
by this frost, it was still hoped that the
apple trees, which bloom mucb later,
would be all right, but, as the season
advanced, it was found the buds had
been injured and the year’s crop would
be inferior and in many places a com
plete failure.

The apple is the most used of all the
fruits grown. It is world renowned
and has figured in history and the lives
of most nations since the earliest record.
Poets and philosophers have told of
it and mythology has endowed it with
wonderful virtues. The golden fruit of
Hesperus was an apple; also the famous
Tree of Knowledge bore apples. It was
an apple which Eve ate and offered to
Adam, and the fruit in the garden
guarded by the dragon which Hercules
finally overpowered was apples. Ap-
ples were fabled in all the myths and
were believed to have many wonderful
powers, such as conferring immortal-
ity, and were reserved by the gods as a
special food for those who felt them-
selves growing old. As a relic of this
old reverence for apples, the farmers of
Devonshire, in England, still keep up
the custom of ‘‘saluting the apples’’ in
the spring to insure a full crop. This
ceremony consists of the farmers going
out under the tree and pouring part of a
wassail bow]! of cider on the roots of the
tree, hanging a bit of the toast (which
is in the bowl) on. the branches, while
the farmer and his men dance slowly
around the tree, singing the following:
Here’s to thee, old apple tree,

Whence thou may'st bud, and whence thou

may'st blow,

And whence thou may’st bear apples enow,

Hats fuil, caps full,
Bushels and sacks full!
Huzza!

The apple is a native of all temper
ate climates, and although most of the
kinds cultivated to-day 1n this country
are from seed brought from some part
of Europe, the trees have so adapted
themselves to our soil as oftentimes to
bear better in this country than in their
original home. It is a very hardy and
somewhat siow-bearing tree, but very
long lived. In many cases trees will live
and bear fora century, and when well
cared for even longer. Naturally, the
appletree bears well only every other
year. This, however, is remedied by
helps given to the fruit by the farmer,
so that the tree is able, by means of ex-
tra fertilizing and careful pruning, to
overcome the debility caused by putting
so much strength in the crop, and, un-
less climatic changes interfere, each
year is a full-bearing one in good
orchards.

Young trees are raised from seed,
the pulp of the cider mills being sent
to the nurseries for this purpose. The
seedlings grow unhindered for a year,
when they are sorted and transplanted
in the nursery. After this they are
grafted and left to grow for at least an-
other year before being put out in the
orchard. Then they are set out in rows
about forty feet apart, where they will
continue to grow slowly and bear good
crops until old age or some blight de-
stroys them. The custom of planting
appletrees in rows originated with the
ancient Romans, and has been followed
by all farmers since that time. Almost
any kind of soil will suffice for the ap-

le, but it thrives best in a strong, sandy
oam and in a moderate climate.

The growing of apples for market is
the most thoroughly carried on of all
fruit raising industries. The main part
of the crop for the New York market
comes from New York State and New
England. There are many fine apples
shipped from Ohio, Missouri and that

 

 

 

part of the country, while this year, ow-
ing to the partial failure of the crop in
all these places, fine apples have come
to our markets from Oregon, as well as
Michigan and Kansas.

The apple is popular on account of its
variety of uses and its adaptability for
use as a food, both raw and cooked, and
the kinds most in demand are those that
can be eaten in either of these ways. A
few apples ripen early in the summer
and in the early fall months, but the ma-
jority of the crop reaches maturity dur-
ing the months of October and Novem-
ber, and even later in the season.
These winter apples are picked when
full grown and colored, being allowed to
stay on the trees as long as the frosts
will permit without doing injury to
them, when they are packed and sent
to market. Many are reserved for dry-
ing, this part of the apple consumption
being larger than would appear from
the small quantities used in our mar-
kets. The dried apple is shipped all
over the world, and when cooked makes
a very palatable dish, especially in
those climates where the fresh fruit will
not keep. Many crops in whole regions
are used by the driers, and large plants
are established to carry on this industry.
South America and other Southern coun-
tries are the chief market for apples
thus prepared, although a large part of
each year’s crop is consumed in our
own Southern States. Then the cider
mills absorb a part of the crop, usually
the smaller, uneven-shaped fruit being
sent there, with the sour varieties, which
of late years do not find as ready a mar-
ket among the fruit sold for eating pur-
poses.

There are almost as many kinds of
apples as there are orchards, so numer-
ous have the new graftings become.
All, however, are descendants of two or
three families, as the Greenings, the
Pippins and the Spitzenbergs, which
were brought to this country from Ger-
many, Holland or England by the early
settlers. Many of these varieties of ap-
ples take their names from the places
where they were first grown,as the New
town Pippin, which originated in the
town of that name on Long Island;
Hubbardston Nonesuch, from Hubbards-
town, Mass. ; the little red apple known
generally as the snow is really the Fame-
use, which came from a _ town in old
England, whence the seed was first
brought to Canada. The Jonathan,
which within the last few years has_ be-
come a very well-known and much-
sought-after apple, was named after the
man on whose farm it was first grown,
near Rochester, N. Y., and the same is
true of the Ben Davis, which attains
popularity in Ohio. Besides these there
are the old standards—the Baldwin, of
the red apples; the Greening, of the
green-colored fruit, and the Spitzen-
berg, another red appie—which are
grown in great quantities along the
Hudson River and throughout the States
of New York and New Jersey.

In a year when the crop is large or of
fair size there will be thousands of bar-
rels of each of these three kinds sent
into the New York markets each week.
They are shipped in carload lots some-
times, many cars coming to one firm
alone, and they are placed by the rail-
road company on tracks or floats by the
docks along the North River front re-
served for this branch of the fruit busi-
ness. Here they are sold in smaller
quantities to the jobbers and the men
who again ship them away, and finally
find their way to the table of the con-
sumer. A large part of each year’s
apple crop finds its way to England
and the Continent during the winter,
many houses on the other side keeping
their buyers here the entire season.
This part of the business within the last
few years has assumed large propor-
tions, but dealers differ in their opinions
as to whether much, if any, money has
been made in the transporting of the ap-
ple. The fruit has to be most care-
fully packed to stand the long journey,
and unless the crop on the other side
has failed, there is likelihood of the
demand being fully met by the home
supply, so that the exporting of any-
thing but the finest stock is considered
risky.

This year throughout the Atlantic
States the apple crop is a partial fail-
ure, many regions having few apples,
and those of a most inferior quality, so
that the price for good fruit is very
high, while the poorer kinds sell low,
owing to their quality. Good apples
are in demand and range from $3 to $5 a
barrel, and in some cases, where the
fruit is extra fine, even higher. Bya
system of cold storage both here and in
the country apples can be kept much
longer than in former days, and with
the exception of a few short weeks in
the late spring they can be had all the
year around, so that they are no longer
a winter fruit strictly.

0 ——
Canadian Holiday Excursion.

On Dec. 16, 17 and 18 the Michigan
Central will sell excursion tickets to
nearly all points in Canada at one fare
for the round trip. Good to return,
leaving destination not later than Jan-
uary 7, 1899. W. C. BLAKE,

City Ticket Agent.

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News from the Metropolis—Index to
the Market.
Special Correspondence.

New York, Dec. 3—Notwithstanding
the almost complete blockade of the
streets by snow and excavations in the
grocery district, some of the larger
houses have been compelled during the
week to work far into the night to fill
the rush of orders. Much of this rush,
of course, is owing to the holiday
trade, but the volume of legitimate
trade is very large and everybody seems
to think that 1899 will usher in the big-
gest year for business ever known. Of
all staples in the grocery line, coffee
seems to attract the least attention, and
yet matters might be worse. Quite a
number of orders came to jobbers from
out-of-town dealers, but a slight ad-
vance in quotations checked free move-
ment, and quantities taken were only
sufficient to tide over present wants.
While buyers offered 634c, they found
holders unwilling to part with same
for less than 614c, and this fraction kept
them firmly apart. Little speculation
has taken place. Stock here and afloat
aggregates 1,096,608 bags, against
1,043,649 bags at the same time last
year. For mild coffees there has been
a fair demand and the market can be
called firm, but no change of importance
in quotations has taken place. Good
Cucuta is steady at 8%c.

Teas are dull and both sides seem to
be waiting for the regular monthly sale,
which comes off Wednesday next, when
a large lot of Oolongs—to,ooo pack-
ages—will be offered. In November,
at this port, 5,860,658 pounds of tea
were passed, and 212,488 pounds re-
jected. Of the latter, 87,400 pounds
were Pingsueys. Of receipts about four-
fifths were Formosa Oolongs, Congous
and Japans, Indias and Ceylons coming
in fifth, with 221,168 pounds

Changes in quotations of refined sugar
have been made with lightning quick-
ness, and ‘‘cuts and slashes’’ have been
made until the would-be buyer is _ lost.
Perhaps it is this uncertainty which
has led to rather a quiet market and
few orders. The Trust, on Thursday,
made a rate of 1-16 over list price for
granulated in 5-povnd cotton bags, or
5 3!1. Then Arbuckles quoted package
granulated at 5%c. And so it goes.
Many of the soft grades are being
shaded from the list prices—in some
cases, it is said, 4c. Raw sugars are
steady and unchanged.

Domestic grades of rice are steady
and desirable sorts move quickly and
bring full rates. The supply of such is
not at all excessive and for grades not
first-class the demand is light and pur-
chases are made sufficient only to meet
current wants. Foreign rice is in good
request and holders are very firm in
their views. Prime to choice Southern
head, 53s@6'%c; Japan, 5%c.

Holders of pepper are very firm in
their views and will make no conces-
sion from 93{c for black Singapore.
The supply here is not large and the
amount in sight is far less than last
year. For the rest of the list the market
lacks animation, and no changes have
taken place.

The molasses market is in about the
usual condition, as to quantity of busi-
ness done. Prices are quite firmly
maintained, however. Good to prime
centrifugals, old crop, 16@20c; open
kettle, new crop, 30@35c. Syrups are
wel] held and buyers do not haggle over
rates.

In canned goods, New Jersey tomatoes
are again in rather light supply and
sales have been made at 85c. Business
from first hands generally is hardly up
to expectation and yet matters might be
worse. Jobbers are doing a good trade
and are meeting with no trouble in se-
curing orders. Salmon are rather quiet.
No. 1 tall tins, $1.40 up; flats, $1.55
up. Corn is firm and a lot of Maine
sold at 80@goc.

Dried fruits are active, although sales
generally are of an everyday character,
as to size; but the frequency of orders
makes a very respectable total. Seeded
raisins have been in good demand and
are firmly held. Prunes are not espe-

 

cially active, although large sizes are
not in very plentiful supply, California,
40-50s, in 25 pound boxes, being held at
9%@io0%c. Apricots are in good de-
mand and are moving in true ‘‘holiday
style.'’ Domestic dried fruits are prac-
tically unchanged.

Lemons are quiet No sale took place
during the week and the market presents
a waiting appearance. Oranges are
firmly held and both Florida and Cali-
fornia fruit is meeting with a demand
that keeps the market pretty well
cleaned up. Holders are, of course,
waiting the full tide of holiday trade
before making any effort to dispose of
stocks and the prospects are good for
high rates.

Quietude characterizes the butter mar-
ket this week and prices have declined
somewhat. Butter that is really desir-
able can be obtained for 22c and, in
fact, this is almost the top for fancy
Western creamery, although Ic more
might be obtained in some cases.
Western creamery firsts, 20@22c; sec-
onds, 17@Igc; thirds, 15@16c; Western
June extras, 20@21c; Western imitation
creamery finest, 17@17%4c; firsts, 14%
@15%4c; seconds, 13@13%c;; finest imi-
tation creamery, 17@17%c; firsts, 14%
@15%c; Western factory, 12@15c, lat-
ter for finest. Fancy fresh rolis,15@16c.

The cheese market maintains a fair
degree of strength and full cream is
worth, for large size, 93{@1oc; small
size, full cream, 1o@10%c.

Arrivals of eggs are light and fancy
near-by stock is quotable as high as 32c.
Western fresh gathered, 25@26c. De-
sirable refrigerator stock is worth 19@
21c. While prices are high, the de-
mand, of course, must have a limit,
and it would seem as though holders at
present prices should unload at the
earliest moment.

Apples are strong and the price is
well maintained. Fancy greenings are
worth $4@5; Baldwins, $4@4.50. Cran-
berries are rapicly diminishing in sup-
ply, with fancy Cape Cod held from
$7 50@8. 50.

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The Apple Shortage at Gotham.

From the New York Commercial.

Total receipts of apples at this port
for the first eleven months of 1898 ag-
gregated 669,478 barrels, against 1,004, -
892 for the corresponding period of 1897,
a falling off of 335,414 barrels, or nearly
33 per cent. Receipts from day to day
now average slightly less than for the
same day last year, but prices are con-
siderably better.

Shipments to foreign countries are
decreasing. Holders are firm in their
views, and refuse to sell below full
prices. It is said that Canadian growers
and shippers have fully 250,000 barrels
in store awaiting an advance. The
quantity in store in this country is un-
known, but is supposed to be large.
Buyers are reported to have been doing
considerable missionary work in warn-
ing holders that prices may decline and
that they will thereby lose the best op-
portunity of recent years to dispose of
their apples. In answer to this, growers
point to the 27,000,000 barrels total
yield this year, and compare it with last
year's 49,000,000 and the 70,000,000 of
1896, and assert that loss will be impos-
sible under the circumstances.

Some Western shippers are packing in
boxes, thereby insuring a market at
high figures. The same plan is being
adopted by Eastern shippers. Best
grade apples sell at $6 per barrel,
wholesale, which equals $7.25@8 at re-
tail for No. 1. Lower grades are even
too high for brisk movement.

——_>2.__
An Indication of His Powers.

‘*They say Triggsby is one of the
smoothest talkers in the business. ’’

“‘Well, they’re right. If Triggsby
wanted to, I'll bet he could go to the
general office of the gas company and
induce them to put in electric light. '’

——_> 2. ____

Another Reason Against Expansion.

“*T hope,’’ said the cigar dealer, ‘‘we
don’t annex Manila and Cuba.’’

**Indeed?’’ quoth the customer.

‘Yes. If we do, where in thunder are
our imported cigars to come from?’’

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The Proper Weight of the Cheese.
Orr, Jackson & Co., of Nashville,
Tenn., recently wrote the New York
Commercial as follows:

Please advise through your valuable
paper if it is customary and legally
binding on purchasers of cheese for fu-
ture delivery to take the cheese at weight
when made, or is the purchaser entitled
to have the cheese reweighed, nothing
being said on this subject when con-
tract was made?

To this enquiry the Commercial re-
plied as follows:

If the cheese is bought direct from the
manufacturer it is the custom in the
cheese trade for the purchaser to have
the cheese weighed when received, take
the city weighmaster’s certificate of the
weight and pay for that weight. As the
custom is a general one, the law would
probably embody the custom as a part
of the law. It is not customary, how-
ever, in the trade to buy cheese for fu-
ture delivery from the manufacturer, so
this would not apply to the facts you
present. The cheese is always bought,
we understand, from the manufacturer
for delivery when cured. The weight
when received by the buyer would,
therefore, not be materially different
from the weight when shipped. The
practical result is that the buyer pays for
the weight of the cheese when cured,
and the weight when cured would prob-
ably be always taken as the basis of
payment when cheese is bought from
the manufacturer for future delivery. By
the general rule of law the title to goods
passes when the sale is completed.
When the sale is completed is a matter
of fact to be decided in each individual
case. The title to cheese actually bought
would be in the purchaser, even al-
though the cheese were not to be de-
livered until some future time. The
purchaser would be legally obliged to
pay, therefore, for the weight of the
cheese at the time it was bought. This
is also the custom of the trade when
cheese is bought from a jobber. If,
however, the purchaser found by re-
weighing, on receipt of the cheese, that
the difference between his figures and
those of the seller was too great for nat-
ural shrinkage, that would bea fact to
be considered in determining whether
the figures of the seller were correct.
The way to avoid any difficulty of this
sort and the safest and wisest way in
all cases is to have the seller send a city
weighmaster'’s certificate of the weight
of the cheese at the time of shipment.
Such a certificate can be obtained in all
large cities.

—_> 0. ___
Why the Serenade Met No Response.

A young man from Detroit who re-
cently went to a country village in the
interior of the State to learn the general
merchandise business tells the following
Story on himself:

“*I dote on music. Out there were some
good players and we organized a string
band. I can’t perform on anything
more difficult than a jew’'s-harp, but I
was promoter, organizer, conductor and
all that, so they named the band after
me. We never played for money, but
went to the houses of friends, where we
always had pleasant entertainment, or
took turns at serenading. We were out
on the latter errand one night when I
took the band to one of the largest and
most pretentious homes in the town It
was brilliantly lighted up, and we
played our catchiest selections, but there
was no response. We went away mad,
but finally gave the family the benefit
of the doubt, and went back later, but
with no better result. Next morning I
was busy at the store, when the village
physician, an old school gentleman,
came in smiling, lifted his hat and said,
‘Good morning, doc,’ and intimated
that I might send in a bill if I wanted
to. I was dumbfounded, for a nodding
acquaintance was all I had with the
doctor and the idea ef his being so

 

deferential was incomprehensible to
me. There appeared to be a rush of
customers that morning, and they all
wore a peculiar smile that I could not
interpret. At last I got hold of the lit-
tle daily published there. - It told of the
serenade at the big house, concluding
with the thanks of the doctor and the
family, and the assurance that ‘mother
and son were both doing well.’ The
band never met again, and they named
the boy Dewey. ’’
—_> 0 2.__
Sizes of California Oranges.

The California Fruit Grower publishes
the regulations as to sizes and variety of
oranges for shipment as a standard car
as follows:

Navel Oranges—A standard car of
navel oranges to consist of sizes 96s to
200s inclusive; not over 15 percent. 96s
and 112s. Any excess of 15 per cent.
g6s and 112s to be considered off sizes
and invoiced at a reduction of 50 cents
per box. Sizes 64s, 80s and 250s to be
considered off sizes and invoiced at a
reduction of 50 cents per box from the
price for regular sizes. Sizes 216s to
be considered off sizes and invoiced at a
reduction of 25 cents per box.

Seedlings, Mediterranean Sweets, etc.
—The standard car of other varieties
(except Valencias and paper rind St.
Michaels), to consist of sizes 126s to
250s, inclusive; not to exceed 15 per
cent. 126s, and not over 15 per cent.
250s. Any excess of 15 per cent. 126s
and 15 per cent. 250s to be considered
off sizes, and invoiced at a reduction of
25 cents per box. Sizes of seedling or-
anges larger and smaller than 126s to
250s, inclusive, to be considered off
sizes and invoiced at a reduction of 25
cents per box.

It is understood each car of oranges
May contain a reasonable quantity of off
sizes at the reductions named above.

—___2 0» —___
No More Holidays Wanted.
From Boots and Shoes Weekly,

A proposition has gone out to the
country from a high source that we
ought to have another holiday to cele-
brate our victory over Spain.

For heaven's sake, are the holidays
never to cease? Haven’t we enough of
them already?

Has anybody ever attempted to cal-
culate the number of millions of dollars
it costs this country for its holidays
every year?

A few holidays are all right. Every-
body is satisfied with the old-fashioned
holidays, but don't give us any more.
Our affair with Spain was too small a
matter to justify the infliction of an-
other holiday on the country. We can
celebrate our victory over Spain without
wasting a day every year for all time
to come over the matter.

Even estimating that there are not
over 20,000,000 actual workers in this
country, and only figuring the loss of
each holiday at $2 for each worker, we
have $40,000,000 as the result of the joss
in wages alone, to say nothing of the
loss to the business community for every
holiday in the year, and there are eight
of them already. This makes a total
loss of $320,000, 000 a year for our holi-
days on wages account alone. Are not
these figures startling,and does Congress
want to add to the burden?

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Pineapple Cheese on a Large Scale.
From the Otsego, N. Y., Farmer.

We had the pleasure last week of visit-
ing in Norwich at the home of O. A.
Weatherly, who is running a pineapple
cheese factory. It is certainly a great
sight to see about 15,000 cheeses weigh-
ing two pounds each, besides numerous
large American cheeses. Mr. Weather-
ly bas numeours orders for cheese which
he can not fill—one man alone takes
1,050 boxes, and he wanted more. It is
a great amount of work to have them ex-
actly alike, but Mr. Weatherly has the
art to perfection and they are as near
alike in form and looks as two peas,
for which the buyers give them plenty
of praise.

—_-—__~ -6-@
When a man begins to raise the devil,
he always lowers himself.

 

The Oldest Inhabitant.

The Oldest Inhabitant—there he sets
*Longside the stove at the store,

And growls and sputters and fumes and frets
And talks of the years before.

His coat is a faded butternut,
And his hat comes down to his ears,

And his scraggy whiskers ain’t been cut
For up’ards of thirty years.

Dunno what we'll do fer a tust-class guy

When the Oldest Inhabitant comes ter die.

The Oldest Inhabitant knows your folks,
From Adam and Noah down,

And tells the history, while he smokes,
Of every house in town.

Jest who was your grandpop’s uncle’s wife,
And her aunt’s third cousin’s son

And how he come ter depart this life
And what all his children done.

We'll have to guess at it by and by,

When the Oldest Inhabitant comes ter die.

The Oldest Inhabitant, he can beat
At yarnin’, the universe.
Can’t be no cold ner yet no heat
But he’s seen five times worse.
He’s seen it rain till the tallest trees
With water was a’most hid,
And seen it cold till the steam would freeze
On a hot teakettle lid.
Dunno where we'll go fer a fust-class lie
When the Oldest Inhabitant comes ter die.

The Oldest Inhabitant’s ninety-three
And goin’ on ninety-four,
’N the older he gits, it seems ter me,
He jest talks ali the more.
It kinder tires yer year by year,
And b’gosh! I pity the Jews
That had ter set in their tents and hear
Methuselah air his views.
I bet they didn’t none of ’em cry
When their Oldest Inhabitant come ter die.
Jor Lincorn.
—___~* 0. _____

She Had Her Revenge.

‘‘T used to be engaged to a young
woman artist.’’

‘Ts that so?’’

‘‘Yes, sir; and last year she visited
my wife and painted a pond lily and
Cat-tail panel for every room in the
house. *’

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Coined By the Collector.

‘*Come,’’ said the impatient collect-
or, ‘‘vesuvius without any further de-
lay !’’

‘‘What do you mean?’’ asked the
trembling delinquent.

‘‘Cough up!’’

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
placeall 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.

Old Homestead Mincemea C0.

Manufacturers of

OmeSIead MINCEMEO

and Jobbers of

 

Pearl Brand Oysters
In Cans or Bulk.

Consignments of Poultry and Game

Solicited.

43 E. Bridge St. Grand Rapids.

 

 

 

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.

 

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.

Address all correspondence to R. E. STURGIS & Co., Allegan, Mich.
Ship your BUTTER AND EGGS to
R. HIRT, JR., DETROIT, MICH.

84 AND 36 MARKET STREET,
435-437-439 WINDER STREET.

Cold Storage and Freezing House in connection.

Capacity 75 carloads.

Correspondence solicited.

HINTING FOR PRODUC

Tradesman Company
Grand Rapids.

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

Shoes and Leather

Some Problems Which Confront the
Shoe Dealer.

The two parties to the little contract
in the shoe store are usually in touch
with each other from the very nature of
the transaction, and it only remains to
get a third party to the conference—the
shoe—in touch, but not too closely, in
order to bring the compact to a success
ful termination.

The old adage, ‘‘It takes two to make
a bargain,’’ applies here, as elsewhere,
although it will be observed by the vet-
eran dealer, of long and varied experi-
ence, that the seller wields the greater
power in the deal with the average,
tractable buyer.

For, although the latter holds the bal-
ance of power in a pecuniary sense,
the former is better trained and dis-
ciplined for the conflict and better pre-
pared to meet exigencies that may arise,
for most of which he has in mind well-
established precedents.

Besides, the dealer is at home amongst
the intricacies of the trade and has
his lesson by heart, while the customer,
except in a general sort of way, does
not know shoes intimately.

Superficially he has learned to know
pretty nearly what he wants, but the oc-
cult mysteries of mechanical processes
in the construction of modern shoes, the
quality and texture of material, the con-
cealed deceptions that are possible in
soles and heels, and the innocent dis-
simulation of trimmings and ornamen-
tations, and other minor but important
matters in the construction of the shoe—
of these things the buyer knows but lit-
tle, and discovers less, by a cursory ex-
amination of the things he contemplates
purchasing.

Without getting very far outside the
pale of reason’s boundaries, it may be
said that the average customer regards
the handsome modern shoe presented
for his inspection as a wonderfully in-
genious combination of leather of differ-
ent thicknesses and finish, pieced and
joined after some pretty design, and in
tended for any foot that will fit it prop-
erly.

And, fortunately for the dealer, such
feet are coming along frequently upon
which he can place the shoes that are
waiting for them.

In this respect, too, the retailer has
an advantage over the patron, for the
latter is always seeking the shoes, while
the former waits for him, always pre-
pared.

It has been said that ‘‘He also serves
who only stands and waits.’’

The retailer waits, but not hopefully,
unless he has announced to shoe wearers
publicly that he has just what they
want.

‘*No great sculptor,’’ says an art
writer, ‘‘from the beginning of art to the
end of it, has ever carved, or ever will
carve, a deceptive drapery.’’

True, and this is why the nude in art
is so much more admirable, even to the
connoisseur who is not an artisan him-
self, than the ludicrous attempt to put
trousers on an Apollo or skirts ona
Venus.

But the nude in nature is not only un-
desirable, but unnecessary.

The creative genius of the high-art
shoemaker of our day does not stoop to
deception in fashioning coverings for the
feet; he has no inanimate work of art to
imitate.

Imitation in the fine arts or in shoe-
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or the producer of cheap, worthless
shoes.

It is done in order to give his wares a
semblance of lines and curves and su-
perficial details that belong to high art.

‘But for whom were these things
made?’’ demands the indignant custom
shoemaker, in whose mind there is nat-
urally a prejudice against ready-made
shoes for a promiscuous multitude.

Why, they are made for the great army
of progressive shoe-wearers who are
weary of the tape-line, the diagram and
size-stick ; who are impatient of delay
In getting into new shoes and intolerant
of disappointing misfits at the termina-
tion of their delay.

They are for people who will find ac-
commodation in them; not a difficult
matter either in our times, when lengths
and widths and girths are fractionally
graded to meet the needs of every nor-
mal foot on earth.

It is here, too, that the seller is well
equipped to overcome the scruples of
some wary buyer.

If time presses and patience weakens
a little and the foot and shoe do not
quite harmonize, the dealer will some-
times resort to heroic measures and
mildly protest that the fault is not in
the shoe, that the foot is just a trifle
peculiar, but that after a short compan-
ionship the foot and the shoe will get
on together; a little stretching ora little
shrinking, as the case may be.

But this is a measure of quite ques-
tionable propriety, and is not resorted
to by most dealers.

There is no doubt that much bitter-
ness has been engendered between patron
and dealer by false and oily represen-
tations on the part of unscrupulous re-
tailers, with whom prompt sales and
immediate profit are paramount to a
stable trade.

A deft smoothing of wrinkles by a
practiced hand at a point where the shoe
is too full and other little devices may
make a sale and lose a customer, and
this, too, when the shoe to match that
foot is on the shelf, but involves trouble
to produce.

Of course, the conscientious dealer
has many drawbacks to his advantage
in the power to sell goods with which he
is familiar.

It is a growing habit on the part of
buyers to expect a good deal for a small
outlay of money.

This desire has been fostered and
strengthened by the frantic efforts of
rivals in the trade to secure their patron-
age by holding out alluring and some-
times deceptive baits to them.

In no article of dress, perhaps, is
there less of true economy displayed by
some people than in the purchase of
footwear. Often money is thrown away
in order to secure a semblance of gen-
tility in outward show of finery, such as
gloss, fancy toe caps and ornate stitch-
ing.

In less than a month, probably, such
cheap things fall apart, the upper is
separated from the sole or bags at the
ankle and instep, and the retailer is
blamed for the foolish choice of the cus-
tomer.

Probably the strongest objection urged
against ready-made shoes to-day is the
fact that there are so many shoddy
foot-coverings offered for sale.

A fairly serviceable shoe at a moder-
ate price can be obtained by persons
whose means are slender, if they would
be satisfied with a little plainness, but
this class of buyers usually demand
something so nearly approaching the
higher-priced shoe in outward appear-

 

ance that durability must be sacrificed
to show and real worth to ornamentation.

A none too desirable customer is the
man who wants tentatively to go into
ready-made shoes, but whose prejudices
are strongly against them.

Some people will not buy ready-
made footwear because they do not be-
lieve they ever fit the feet as well as
those made to order.

With feet that are peculiar in their
formation and proportions this is prob-
ably true, but ninety-nine persons in
a hundred now buy their shoes from the
shelves of the dealers, and are fairly
fitted, too.

For the average normal foot there is
little excuse for paying custom prices
for shoes no better than can be bought
ready-made.

Many persons do not believe that the

 

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.

 

 

 

 

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Rindge, Kalmbach, Logie & Co.,

12, 14 and 16 Pearl Street,
Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Manufacturers and Jobbers of

Boots and Shoes

Agents Boston Rubber Shoe Company.
A full line of Felt Boots and Lumbermen’s Socks.
We have an elegant line of spring samples to show you.
Be sure and see them before placing your order.

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ready-made are of as good material or
workmanship as custom shoes.

This idea has gained strength, per-
haps, through their having at some time
purchased a cheap article that did not
wear well.

There are other persons who fancy
that shoes made expressly for their feet
invest them with a certain feeling of
self-respect and importance which can
not be had in coverings that were made
for nobody in particular.

But if we find the shoe in stock that
fits our foot perfectly we may assume
that it was made for our foot, or fora
foot just like it, and the fact that we
did not expressly order its construction
for our individual use is of as little con-
sequence as is the fact that we did not
order the making of the savory dish of
which we partake.

It tastes just as good, and the shoe
suits our taste, too.

The model buyer is tbe delight of
the shoe dealer.

By his occasional visits to the store
he salves the wounds inflicted by many
predecessors.

The model buyer is almost always a
man, and he proves the assertion that it
is not the ignorant buyer who is soonest
served in a shoe store.

There is much less trouble had with
the man who knows what he wants and
the price he intends to pay for it, than
with the uncertain patron.

He comes in and says, for instance:
‘‘] want a pair of calf congress, round
toes, No. 8 and D width.”’

He draws them on like a veteran
congress wearer, over a smooth, snug-
fitting sock,stands upon them a moment,
and the whole thing is over in about ten
minutes, and he carries away his new
shoes.

More especially is this quick method
of sale effected in special lines of some
well-known makers, as it eliminates
from the deal questions about quality
and reliability.

The more ignorant and uncertain man
is slower and more cautious; his lack
of knowledge of shoes, except in a gen-
eral way, tends to make him suspicious ;
his mind has not been fixed upon any
particular make or style of footwear; he
knows but little about the nicety of a
fit, or the requirements of the feet, and
often wants weight for his money;
hence, much time is consumed in try-
ing to heip him come to a decision.

Next to the welcome ally, the man
who knows what he wants, is the modern
shoe itself, which the retailer finds ever
attractive, reliable and ready to do its
part toward making buyer and seller
happy.

In providing ready-made shoes for
the masses, the best that can be done
in the matter of adaptation is to furnish
ideal models of lasts as nearly as_ pos-
sible the form and proportions of a per-
fect human foot.

If such should be taken from the
Venus of a Greek master for women,
and from an Apollo for men, they would
show pretty accurately what an ideal
foot is, and what our medley of feet
ought to be.

But, as our streets are not swarming
with Venuses and Apollos, the right
feet would seldom come along to fit the
shoes.

The man with the flattened-out, bun-
ion-covered foot would not take kindly
to an ideal Apollo shoe; nor would the
woman with stunted toes and warped
balls fill gracefully the ideal Venus shoe.

Now, the veteran dealer knows all
about these promiscuous feet, and he

 

blesses the inventor of promiscuous
shoes to meet them.

He knows that there is method in the
madness of varying shapes in modern
shoes, and it is this fact that makes
peace between him and the peculiar-
footed buyer.—E. A. Boyden in Boots
and Shoes Weekly.

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Buying and Overbuying.

It has been truly said that ours is a
nation of great producers and great con-
sumers. We make no mistake when we
declare that it is a nation of gigantic
enterprise. Manufacturing merchandise
of every description and in great abun-
dance as we do, no one need suffer be-
cause of lack of supply. As buyers, we
can get more than we need, with little
additional thrown in gratuitously. Big
houses and little houses, in competition
with each other for trade, fling out al-
most innumerable inducements to the
retail merchant in matters of price,
style, quality and finish,and even tempt
him with extra datings and discounts.
Occasionally rebates are offered. Able
and persistent salesmen are sent out,
whose persuasive powers are so great
that the retail merchant must possess
unusual strength of mind to avoid fall-
ing a victim to their allurements.

The picture is not in the least over-
drawn. It indicates the conditions
with which every buyer must contend,
whether he purchase for a wholesale
house, for a department store, or for a
store of any other description. The
conditions apply with equal force to
country merchants and to city mer-
chants.

Everything is made extremely pleas-
ant for the buyer. Accordingly, it is
extremely easy to overbuy.

The successful buyer is one who is
conversant with his business and who is
likewise a man of resolute character.
He is one who keeps close tab on his
stock and who can tell you in a moment
just what amount of stock he has on
hand of every grade. He is one who
studies his trade and the requirements
of his customers. Asa result, he knows
what novelties he can sell and to what
extent. He is always in position to
regulate his purchase and thereby keep
his stock in proper condition. He is
always wide awake and well informed
on what is being offered in the market.
Does he read? Yes. He carefully scans
good trade journals that are issued touch-
ing the line of goods that he buys, and
thereby he attains new ideas and very
frequently secures most valuable infor-
mation. Ina word, he is a thoroughly-

posted man. F,. C. BRUNHOUSE.
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IDEAL GENERATOR.

 

Some Features Which Should Not Be
Overlooked.

An ideal generator should possess the

following qualifications:

Automatic operation.

Absolute safety.

Cool generation.

Uniform gas pressure.

Residuum easily removable.

Rechargeable while burning.

Automatic relief pipes.

Good material. i

First-class construction. i

Entire cessation of generation with

cessation of consumption.

Automatic retention of gas when gen-
erator IS open.

Sealed condensation drains.

Limited air admission when recharg-

ing.
Visible indication of carbide supply.
The following features should be
strictly prohibited in all automatic
acetylene gas apparatus:

Automatic valves of any character.

Pet cocks or openings direct to gas
supply.

Mercury seals.

Working pressure exceeding 5 to 6
inches of water.

Admission of large percentage of air
when recharging.

The reasons why a generator should
be automatic are so obvious as to re-
quire no elaboration. A generator that
would require constant attention to keep
it operating would be more bother than
it is worth, and there would be no per-
manent demand for it. Acetylene gen
erators are operated by the gas gener-
ated, and to accomplish this without se-
rious defects is the ambition of every
generator inventor.

Absolute safety is a requirement not
only insisted upon by the insurance
authorities, but demanded by every
purchaser of generating apparatus.
There is little if any injury possible
from acetylene gas, as it is not ex-
plosive except when mixed with air.
Approximately it begins to be explosive
when mixed with 1.25 of its own volume
of air; the explosiveness increases un-
til its maximum is reached at 12 vol-
umes of air to 1 of gas, and ceases
when 20 volumes of air are mixed with
1 of gas. It would, therefore, require
50 cubic feet of acetylene gas, all at one
time, in a room Io feet square and Io
feet high, to produce a mixture in the
slightest degree explosive—a _ condition
almost impossible to occur except by
result of predetermination.

The danger is not from the escape of
gas into rooms, but from mixture of air
and gas in the generator itself. In
properly constructed generators this
mixture never occurs except in genera-
ting the initial charge of gas, which dis-
places the air which is in the apparatus.
There is no danger at this time if the
mixture is burned only through the reg-
ular acetylene burners, as the flame will
not propagate from the most explosive
mixture through an opening of less than
I-50 inch indiameter. However, if the
burner tip is removed when the mixture
is present and a spark applied, it is
probable that the flame would propagate
indefinitely with great rapidity.

The writer personally knows of one
case where the tips were removed and

the flame flashed through nearly 100
feet of 14-inch pipe and exploded the
gas holder of the generator with great
force. However, in the generating
chamber itself no explosion occurred,
although it was ruptured by the gas
holder explosion, because the air mix-
ture had then been replaced by pure
acetylene.

The prevalent idea that acetylene is

 

dangerous is due largely to the insinu-
ations of those who fear its competition
with established illuminants and to ig-
norance of the facts. There have been
several serious explosions, but they
were almost exclusively from liquefied
acetylene and during the first exploita-
tion of the gas. It requires a pressure
of about 600 pounds to the square inch
to liquefy acetylene gas. It was at first
intended to supply acetylene for illumi-
nating purposes in strong steel tubes
just as liquid carbonic acid gas is now
furnished for soda fountains. Througb
ignorance and_ carelessness __ several
fatal explosions occurred and it was
then learned that acetylene, when under
a pressure exceeding 30 pounds to the
square inch, becomes explosive when
in contact with a spark; therefore the
liquefied process has practically been
abandoned.

Although acetylene is not explosive
when generated under automatic sys-
tems, the impression remains and is
fostered by interested persons that it is
extremely dangerous. An acetylene gen-
erator which provides against the ac-
cidental ignition of the gas and air mix-
ture, excess of heat and undue compres-
sion of gas is much safer to use than the
kerosene lamp.

As has been previously stated, cocl
generation of the gas is absolutely in-
dispensable. This feature can not be
too deeply impressed upon the reader,
for it is the very foundation of success-
ful gas generation.

That these assertions may not be taken
as merely personal opinion, a few of
the many statements of noted scientists
are selected and here presented:

R. P. Pictet, Geneva, Switzerland:
Many of the impurities present in
acetylene made from calcium carbide
are due to the rise in temperature pro-
duced by the violent reaction which
takes place when the carbide comes in
contact with water, some of the acety-
lene being partially decomposed. * * *
The limits of minus 45 degrees C. and
plus 60 degrees C. must not be exceeded.

Henry Harrison Suplee: Whatever
modified details be adopted to secure
these ends, it must be admitted as a re-
sult of all these experiments thatthe
adding of small quantities of water to
comparatively large masses of carbide is
not only unadvisable but positively un-
safe. It is also found that the hydrated
lime which is formed as a result of the
decomposition of the carbide will ab-
sorb water when warm, which it again
gives out on cooling, so that while the
generation of gas may have apparently
ceased with the stoppage of the water
supply, it will recommence when the
cooling lime gives up a portion of its
moisture to the as yet undecomposed
carbide. One pound of carbide evolves
about goo British thermal units while
generating about 5% cubic feet of acety-
lene, so that it would raise the tempera-
ture of 6 pounds of water from 62 de-
grees Fahrenheit to the boiling point.

Prof. Vivian B. Lewes: In the gen-
eration of acetylene from calcic car-
bide, far too little attention is being
paid to the high temperature evolved
when any considerable quantity of it is
brought into contact with water, and
the effect which this has upon the gas.
* * * The result of this is that after
gas has once been made no automatic
arrangement will stop the slow genera-
tion of the gas from the carbide until all
in the apparatus is decomposed. When
the gas is being continuously used this
does not matter much, as the slowing
down of the evolution of the gas is suffi-
cient to allow the consumption to catch
up the make, but when the gas is turned
off, if any quantity of carbide be un-
decomposed the automatic generator
with its small holder becomes an active
danger, as it will either ‘‘blow’’ or gen-
erate dangerously high pressures, In any
form of generator where the quantity of
carbide is large the heat generated dur-

 

ing the action of the water on the ma-
terial is quite sufficient to polymerize
some of the acetylene into tar-like prod-
ucts which will sometimes cause trouble
and stoppages in the pipes, while in
any case the high temperature causes
a large amount of steam to go forward
with the gas, and unless special pre-
cautions are adopted to prevent it, such
as using a sufficiently large holder,
some of this is carried forward to the
service pipes.

Henri Moissan: If a small quan-
tity of water comes in contact witha
large quantity of carbide, the tempera-
ture rises, the acetylene polymerizes,
and one obtains a gas rich in benzine
and the polymers, which lower the can-
dle power and cause it to vary with
each instant. Thus one really lights
with benzine vapor. Such faulty experi-
iments explain how different observers
obtain such widely differing results.

Many other authorities might be
quoted, but these should certainly be
sufficient to convince the unprejudiced

that the position for cool generation is
well taken. The result of heated genera-
tion is to reduce the luminosity of the
gas, and to increase the impurities and
toxicity (poisonous qualities), forming
compounds which fill the service pipes
and clog the burners, and in extreme
cases to invite explosion. Through im-
proper generation the writer knows of
one case where even the pillars were
closed by the deposits formed. He was
reliably informed of another case where
the pipes were solidly closed with such
deposits. AUGUSTINE DAVIS.
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Coral, Mich., Aug. 18, 1808.
Gentlemen: In reply to yours of
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think it better than electric light.

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Grand Rapids
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Commercial Travelers

Michigan Knights of the Grip.

President, Joon A. Horrman, Kalamazoo; Secre-
tary, J. C. Saunpers, Lansing; Treasurer, Cas.
McNo try, Jackson.

 

 

Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Associatior.

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

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

Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Mutual Acci-
dent Association.
President, J. Boyp PanTuinp, Grand Rapids;
— and Treasurer, Geo. F. OwEN, Grand
apids.

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

 

 

Gripsack Brigade.

M. F. Rider, of Perry, has gone on
the road for the Michigan Commode
and Cabinet Co., of Portland.

W. J. Hancock, of Saugatuck, has
engaged to travel in Southern Michigan
for the Durand & Casper Co., of Chi-
cago.

Selden White, formerly Upper Penin-
sula representative for Henry W. King &
Co., now represents B. Kuppenheimer
& Co. (Chicago) in the same territory.

Coldwater Sun: Frank Shugars has
accepted a position as traveling sales
man for the bicycle firm, the Butler
Record Co., of Butler, Ind., where he
has gone for his samples for next sea-
son.

Roll. P. Bigelow, of Owasso, having
been unanimously endorsed for the po-
sition of Treasurer of the Michigan
Knights of the Grip by Post O, has
entered the list with banners flying and
bands playing.

Quincy Herald: F. J. Werner has
given up his position with the Cham-
pion Machine Co. and has taken a po-
sition as traveling salesman for Morley
Bros , of Saginaw, dealers in wholesale
hardware and harness goods.

Kalamazoo Gazette: Fred C. Mc-
Curdy, representing Jenness & McCurdy,
the wholesale crockery store of Detroit,
mounted a dray yesterday to go to the
depot. The horses started suddenly and
Mr. McCurdy lost his balance and fell
to the pavement. He was carried into
the Kalamazoo Ecuse, where Dr. Young
attended him. He was badly bruised
about his head.

Muskegon News: The_ residence
situated at 158 South Terrace street and
occupied by W. E. Hoyt and family has
been sold to C. M. Philabaum by the
Muskegon Valley Building and Loan
Association. The structure was built
by Fred Vanderwerp shortly after the
last big fire, and contains ten rooms.
Mr. Philabaum contemplates making
extensive improvements in the spring.
He will have the house repainted and
will have the unfinished parts com-
pleted, expending several hundred dol-
lars in the betterments. As soon as it is
vacated he wiil move his family into
their new home.

At the meeting of Post E (Grand
Rapids) held at Sweet's Hotel last Sat-
urday evening, the report of the Secre-
tary was accepted and adopted. The
Northern mileage book was discussed
from all possible standpoints, receiving
the cordial endorsement of all preseut.
Several complaints were registered
against the book sold by the Heald sys-
tem, because the straight edge is made
of celluloid, instead of metal, which

renders it almost impossible for the
conductor to tear the mileage off ac-
curately.

Instances were*cited where

 

the holders of Heald books lost from
five to thirteen miles by reason of this
defect in the book, which is rendered
all the more annoying by the light
weight paper used in the Heald book.
The election of officers was postponed
one week, at which time it is hoped
there will be a large attendance of trav-
eling men.

Port Huron Times: Geo. F. Law-
rence, a traveling salesman for a whole-
sale jewelry house, was in the city on
Friday and sold a bill of goods to R. S.
& Jj. D. Patterson. He carries with
him two empty six-pound shells, which
were fired in Santiago harbor on the
morning of July 3 from the turret of the
battleship Indiana at the torpedo de-
stroyer Furor, as she made the famous
rush to get out from that harbor. The
shot from one of the shells struck the
Furor exactly in the center of her
broadside at a distance of ome and
three-quarter miles. The shells were
used only for determining the range, in
order that the heavier shot might after-
wards follow from the same guns. The
shells were given Mr. Lawrence by the
gunner on board the Indiana, who fired
them. They makea very pretty souvenir
of the Santiago battle, which will be
handed down as one of the famous
events in naval warfare history.

Niles Star: H J. Link, a traveling
man from Toledo, Ohio, who comes to
Niles to sell goods some four times a
year, arrived here on a Michigan Cen-
tral way freight from the West at about
8 :30 o'clock last evening. The caboose
stopped some distance west of the via-
duct, in a dark place, for not even the
electric light that is supposed to shed
its rays from the top of the viaduct was
burning. Mr. Link had gone but a
short distance towards the depot when
suddenly he was confronted by a robber
who, in a brusk manner, said: ‘‘Give
me a chew of tobacco.’’ The answer
came, ‘‘I don’t use it.’’ ‘Well,’’ said the
thug, ‘‘give me something’’—(uttering
a vile oath), and at the same time
grabbed for Mr. Link’s gold watch and
chain, but missed it. At this juncture
Mr. Link drew a revolver from his
overcoat pocket and told the intruder to
stand back or he would shoot. The
fellow did as told, but remarked in the
touchest manner possible, ‘‘I’ll get you
yet, d— you.’’

Ishpeming correspondence: Two
more of the old-time traveling men who
used to come to the Upper Peninsula in
the early days have passed away. These
are Fred Barrett and Mr. Jacobi. All
the old-time merchants and traveling
men knew Barrett. He used to come
here as far back as twenty three years
ago. About six years ago he took a
Western territory, and it was in the
West, somewhere in Wyoming, that he
died. He traveled through this section
in the interest of Hart Bros., of Chi-
cago, the clothing concern which Will
Engle is now representing. Mr. Jacobi
died at home in Chicago about ten days
ago. No particulars of his taking-off
have been received by his friends up
bere, save that he died rather suddenly.
He was up this way a short time ago
and was feeling quite well for a man of
his age, which was about sixty-five years.
He traveled for Scrass, Hanberg & Co.,
a well-known cigar house of Chicago.
The old man had been coming up_ here
a long time and was quite well known.
J. H. Wadsworth is now about the old-
est commercial man coming to this sec-
tion. He is still holding bis own and is
good for many years yet. He wasa
traveling chum of Barrett, Telling, Mc-

 

Intyre and several of the other old trav-
elers who died within the past few
years. ‘‘Wad’’ still enjoys life as much
as any of his younger traveling friends.

Everybody knows George Owen, every-
body knows that he is fond of playing
jokes on his fellow-men and fellow-trav-
elers in particular, and many of his
victims will be delighted to learn that
for once George has fallen into a trap
himself. A few days ago a number of
traveling men were assembled at the de-
pot in Big Rapids waiting for the
southbourd train. It is rather tiresome
to wait for a train which is an hour be-
hind time, especially on a cold night,
and you must pass away time in some
way or other. Now, there was a mean
man in the crowd, a fellow who takes
advantage of the weaknesses of his
friends. This man owned a cigar anda
rubber hairpin, and thinking the two

would make a good combination, he}-

stuck the pin into the interior of the
Havana, making quite a neat job of it,
and then placed it conspicuously into
his northeast vest pocket. Well, all of
George’s friends are aware of the fact
that he can not see a Cigar sticking out
of another man’s pocket without ap
propriating it to his own use, whether or
not he receives the permission of the
owner. He did not make an exception
this time, and forthwith started to take
a smoke all to himself. It wasn’t long
when a peculiar odor became percep-
tible; even George noticed it. ‘‘ Boys,’’
he said, ‘‘I believe one of you must
have burned your overcoat or your shoes
on this hot stove. I smell something
burning.’’ The boys smiled to them-
selves, examined their ciothes, but noth-
ing could be found. George smoked on
merrily—he is a judge of a good smoke
—but somehow he could not get the
idea out of his head of something burn-
ing. At last the crowd could not hold
back their merriment any longer—and
George quit smoking for the evening.
—___~>_ 22> __

Lansing to Be Well Represented at
Saginaw.

Lansing, Dec. 5—The Ladies’ Aux-
iliary to Post A, M. K. of G., enter-
tained the members of the Post very
pleasantly at the home of C. W. Wyn-
koop Saturday night.

After an elaborate course supper had
been served, the gentlemen adjourned
to hold their regular business meeting,
at which time the following officers
were installed:

President—J. A. Weston.

Vice-President--L. A. Joselyn.

Secretary—H. L. Robson.

Treasurer—Chas. Gilkey.

The committees appointed at the pre-
vious meeting to make arrangements for
the State meeting at Saginaw reported
everything going forward nicely.

The Hustling Committee reported a
great deal of enthusiasm being shown by
the members, with a good number ex-
pecting to attend.

The Music Committee reported in fa-
vor of taking a band and steps are be-
ing taken in that direction.

A special car will be secured and the
Lansing boys and their wives expect to
fill it to overflowing.

H. L. Rosson, Sec’y.
—__> 22> ___

It is easy for a youth to paddle his
own canoe when his parents buy the
canoe and paddle for him.

——_ ses

House cleaning may bring about

cleanliness, but it doesn’t superinduce a
feeling of, godliness.

A miss is as good as a mile—and if
she happens to be about sweet 16, she is
a great deal better.

————— i

Some men are about as much benefit
to a community asa last year’s alma-
nac.

 

Final Arrangements for the Saginaw
Convention.

Saginaw, Dec. 4—Post F, M. K. of
G., held a regular meeting at K. of P.
ball last evening, at which final ar-
rangements were completed by the vari-
ous committes presenting their reports.

The Banquet Committee reported
having made a contract with the Wom-
an’s Hospital to furnish the banquet,
that society agreeing to present the
finest menu and guarantee the best serv-
ice. This society is composed of the
best ladies of the city, who will them-
selves attend to the service, which is a
sufficient guarantee of its success.

The Entertainment Committee sub-
mitted a program of the entertainment,
consisting of ten miscellaneous num-
bers, including speeches, music, sing-
ing, etc., and ending with a cake walk.
This Committee has spared no pains to
select the best talent, each participant
being an artist in his line, and will be
sure to furnish a strictly up-to-date and
high-grade entertainment.

The Michigan Central and Flint &
Pere Marquette quote a single fare for
the round trip to the convention from
any point in the State and will place
tickets on sale Dec. 27, good to return
from Dec. 27 to 29, inciusive.

The Printing Committee reported the
invitations printed, together with the
program for the day, which will be sent
to Lansing for mailing this week.

The Badge Committee has chosen a
unique design, which will be a neat and
tasty souvenir.

A communication from Post A (Lans-
ing) was received, in which it enquired
what arrangements could be made for
the entertainment of its band, and a
committee was appointed to make ar-
rangements for same.

O. C. GouLp, Sec’y.
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Canadian Holiday Excursion.

On Dec. 16, 17 and 18 the Michigan
Central will sell excursion tickets to
nearly all points in Canada at one fare
for the round trip. Good to return,
leaving destination not later than Jan-

uary 7, 1899. W. C. Bang,
‘City Ticket Agent.
l ee

People who want everything shut up
on Sunday should start the performance
by shutting up themselves.

—_—__> 2. _____

Charity often consists of a generous
impulse to give away something we
have no further use for.

> 2. —____

Faith, Hope and Charity are the three
graces—but the dis-graces are too nu-
merous to mention.

—___+ 22> ___
Some people are better when they
are sick than at any other time.

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

Drugs--Chemicals

MICHIGAN STATE BOARD OF PHARMACY.
Term expires
Dec. 31, 1898

- Dec. 31, 1899

- Dec. 31, 1900
- Dec. 31, 1901

Dec. 31, 1902

 

 

 

F. W. R. Pssry, Detroit - -
A. C. ScoumacHER, Ann Arbor
Gro. Gunprcm, Ionia - -
L. E. Ruywoups, St. Joseph -
Hewny Hem, Saginaw - - -
President, Gzo. GuxNpRvuM, Ionia.
Secretary, A. C. SCHUMACHER, Ann Arbor.
Treasurer, HENRY HEIM, Saginaw.

Examination Sessions.
Detroit—Jan. 10 and 11.
Grand Rapids—March 7 and 8.
Star Island—June 26 and 27.
Houghton—Aug. 29 and 30.
Lansing—Nov. 7 and 8.

 

STATE PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION.

President—J. J. SoURWINE, Escanaba.
Secretary, Cuas. F. Mann, Detroit.
Treasurer JoHN D. Muir, Grand Rapids.

 

 

Some Elements in Pharmaceutical
Teaching.

The teaching in medical, pharmaceu-
tical, dental, eclectic and natural
science faculties has been very largely
didactic, and, from unavoidable con-
ditions, will be for a long time to come.

After considerable experience and
much reflection, the writer has formu-
lated certain principles which he en-
deavors to keep before himself in phar-
maceutical teaching. The heads under
which I place my sections are Simplic-
ity, Illustration, Repetition, Question-
ing.

By simplicity I mean more than sim-
plification, or clearing up of difficult
points. This is a necessary duty of a
teacher, and a difficult one also, as it
requires not only a thorough knowledge
of the subject, but also mental aptitude
for taking the learner's place. I have
the idea that our teaching should be
from the bottom, that is, we must go to
the elementary facts. A teacher’s ambi-
tion to shine as a very learned man, and
the fame of the school as a fountain of
profound science, are conditions to be
placed second to the needs of the raw
students who come before us. In all our
pharmaceutical schools we are safe in
assuming that a portion of the class will
be persons of untrained minds, indi-
viduals whose capacity for grasping
scientific truths and principles is very
small. In graded schools of three or
four sessions, the work is of course
progressive, and the final classes are nec-
essarily quite advanced as compared
with the first. Nevertheless, the prin-
ciple here enunciated still holds: Let
the teaching be elementary, relatively
to the nominal grade, whatever that
may be.

My plea is for a large amount of at-
tention to the elementary facts of the
various branches of knowledge which
go to make up a pharmaceutical course.

In physics and chemistry copious il-
lustration and experimentation are man-
ifestly quite necessary. The reading of
a page referring to the facts of a phys-
ical principle or chemical reaction is
generally considered by the average
student as particularly dry. Sufficient
apparatus and materials must be on hand
to make the teaching through the eye as
well as the ear.

In materia medica it is desirable that
the drug which is being described
should be held up before the class, and
when possible a small sample furnished
to each member, sc that as the descrip-
tion goes on, the student may see for
himself the points indicated.

Constant use should be made of the
blackboard, and in the histological de-
scription of organic drugs the projection
lantern is very useful.

I consider that the first five or ten

eer NEP I CET SE EN

 

minutes of the hour may be profitably
spent in a recapitulation of the facts of
the matter gone over at the previous
lecture. This not only in the interest of
those who were absent, and we have to
count on some unavoidable absences
every time, but also as a reiteration for
the benefit of the class in general. In
the course of the lecture, also, any state-
ment which is felt to be somewhat in-
volved should be repeated without wait-
ing for a request from a member of the
class. The bright and receptive minds
in the benches must submit to the
slower progress of the instruction in the
interest of the other kind, who, gener-
ally in the majority, should have the
first thought of the altrustic instructor.

Until we have the X-rays by which
we can discover the intellectual contents
of the brain cells of our students, we
must continue to ask questions to find
out what they know. In the large and
well-equipped schools an officer is tolled
off to do the questioning on the matter
of the lectures, at stated intervals dur-
ing the course, the professor desiring
to escape so humble a duty. There is,
however, a distinct advantage to the
teacher himself in doing the ‘‘quizzing,’’
the answers given indicating the
learner’s conception and understanding
of the principles enunciated by the
teacher. The teacher thus subjects him-
self to a test, from the results of which
be may improve his pedagogical
methods.

As to the amount of time to be given
to this exercise opinions vary. Some
have adopted the plan of devoting some
time immediately after the lecture. This
method is not often prescribed. My
own preference is to give from four to
eight lectures, and then devote the
whole hour to examination by question-
ing on what has been gone over.

Judicious questions require thought in
preparation, There is an art in question-
ing, and it is not so easy as some who
have not had experience in the work
might think. It is seldom desirable to
give questions which can be answered
by ‘‘yes’’ or ‘‘no.’’ Our effort should
be to put questions which require some
reflective and constructive work in the
mind of the student to frame an answer.
For example, the question, ‘‘Has gen-
tian a bitter taste?’’ is an enquiry
which is without pedagogical benefit.
The form, What are the principal facts
in pharmacognosy — pharmacy — thera-
peutics of gentian? would be preferable.

In the case of a large class it isa
pedagogical principle to give the ques-
tion first, and select a student to be the
answerer, the idea being to get the
whole class in an expectant mood, as
any one is liable to be called upon.

Physics and chemistry give opportu-
nity for calculations, and these are
to be given as exercises quite frequent-
ly, training in accuracy being of spe-
cial benefit to pharmaceutical students.

T. D. REED, M. D.

—_——_o 6-2 ___
Poisoning from Boiled Linseed Oil.

_A man recently gave a horse a pint of
linseed oil, intending to pbysic the
horse, as it was troubled with worms.
Immediately after the oil had been
given, the horse began vomiting and
continued to do so occasionally during
the following twelve hours, until it died.

In the so-called boiling of linseed oil,
materials are added to increase the dry-
ing of the oil which are distinctly
poisonous. Several of the oxides of
lead bave been and probably still are
used for the purpose indicated; and
compounds of cobalt, manganese, etc.,
have been recommended for the same
use. On account of this the boiled oil
is manifestly unfit for internal use.

te a arta corsa ee

 

The Storage of the Label Stock.
Correspondence American Druggist.

During the past year I have done re-
lief work in different parts of the coun-
try, and in every place I have been im-
pressed by the losses that occur through
the careless storing of gummed labels.

In every place I have found the sur-
plus stock of labels piled in one box,
each kind being confined in a bundle
by an elastic band or strongly tied with
twine. This constant strain upon the
package soon solidifies it into a mass and
results in a loss amounting in many
cases to 50 per cent. of the stock or-
dered. One thousand labels can be pur-
chased for just twice what two hundred
and fifty labels cost and the druggist
who practices economy in _ buying
should see that his clerks use such care
in storing stock as to prevent deteriora-
tion in its value.

The following plan of storing the sur-
plus labels, as now followed in my
store, has many advantages that more
than repay the slight labor involved in
carrying it into effect:

In the first place I decided that the
strings, bands, etc., must be removed
from the package, and this led me at
once to the main point of my plan,
i. e., each kind must be kept in a _ box
by itself. On examining my stock of
empty pasteboard boxes I found about
four dozen that had contained single
packages of face powder. These boxes
measured 3 inches by 3 inches by 234
inches, and I found them admirably
adapted to my purpose, each box hold-
ing the surplus that remained from _ one
thousand labels after filling my label
case. After pasting a label similar to
the contents upon the blank side of the
box, I procured some small brass ring-
staples, and after passing one through
the side of each box, clinched it upon
the inside, thus furnishing a_service-
able pull for same. Lastly I made a
pigeonholed rack to accommodate the
boxes and arranged them therein in
alphabetical order. The actual outlay
involved was twenty cents for the ring-
staples. This plan of storing labels re-
quires but little more room than those
in general use, and by it labels are al-
ways kept in good share and the alpha-
betical arrangement permits any label to
be found at a glance.

—_—__2>22>—____
The Bitter Principle of Cascara Sa-
grada.

In a paper on this subject read at the
recent meeting of the A. Ph. A., Prof.
A. R. L. Dohme reported the results of
his recent investigations: The flu:d
extract of the drug was evaporated until
all of the alcohol was removed, resulting
in the precipitation of aresin. The
clear filtrate was treated with calcined
magnesia, and produced a dark brown
precipitate. This was treated, when dry,
with alcohol, whereupon it became
reddish and dissolved, with the excep-
tion of a waxiike residue. The alcoholic
solution was evaporated and the residue
treated with dilute sulphuric acid,
whereupon the greater part remained
undissolved, and the acid liquid result-
ing yielded to ether a light-brown
colored resin. It is believed that the
residue left when the magnesium salt
is treated with sulphuric acid is the bit-
ter principle, as it has an extremely bit-
ter taste of marked and increasing in-
tensity. This is an acid resin, and has
been saponified. He also obtained two
other substances, neither of which have,
however, as yet been obtained in a pure
form. The work will be continued, and
the nature of the four substances de-
scribed ascertained.

——_>-2—____
The Longest Pole Knocks the Per-
simmon.
From the Paint, Oiland Drug Review.

The National Retail Druggists’ Asso-
ciation pole bas knocked down an
other persimmon, and this time jone_ of
the largest on the proprietary tree. Dr.
R. V. Pierce’s World Dispensary ‘is
‘*it,’’ and Hood and the rest might just
as well line up with the St. Louis
$2-4-8 resolution first as last. After
stating that he had determined to com-
ply with the request of the retailers,
Dr. Pierce, in his circular to the trade,

 

 

proceeds to throw bouquets at himself
in the following choice bit of rhetoric:
‘‘In thus taking the initiative in the
matter of the request of the Retailers’
Association, it adds to our pleasure to
believe that we were in some measure
instrumental in furthering the interests
and desires of that Association in its
recent gathering at St. Louis.’’ With
all due deference to the learned doc-
tor’s deductions, we desire to say that
it adds greatly to our pleasure to wit-
ness the vigor and vim with which the
aforesaid Association handles the pole
that will eventually bring every one of
trose proprietary persimmons to the

earth.
—___~>2»—____

The Drug Market.
Opium—Is steady at prices quoted.
Morphine—Is unchanged.
Quinine—Is active for this season of

the year and prices are well maintained.

Citric Acid—The manufacturers have
reduced their price 1c per pound.

Balm Gilead Buds—On account of
light stock and good demand, price has
been advanced.

Salol—Has declined 1oc per pound.

Vanilla Beans—Are very firm at the
late advance. Theré is a large shortage
in the crop and it is believed stock on
hand will not last until new crop comes
to hand.

Oil Orange—Has declined. on ac-
count of the arrival of supplies of new
crop.

Seeds—Anise is higher abroad and
bas been advanced in this market.
Dutch caraway has been advanced for
the same reason.

Linseed Oil—Js dull and lower.
—~>- 0s

Rounding Up the Retailers.

President John J. Sourwine and Sec-
retary Chas. F, Mann, of the Michigan
State Pharmaceutical Association, have
sent to the retail druggists of Michigan
a carefully prepared letter in which co-
operation for bringing the druggists of
Michigan into the National Association
of Retail Druggists is strongly urged.
The letter calls attention to the good
work already accomplished by the newly
formed National body, and points out
that its future is likely to be productive
of immeasurable good to all retailers,
but that the advantages to be derived are
to be secured only through the building
up and strengthening of local and State
organizations.

—_—_> 0 .—___
Love Without Hope.

The young doctor and his friend, the
drug clerk, were sitting at the club
window when a richly-dressed lady
passed by.

‘‘There goes the only woman I ever
loved,’’ remarked the ycung M. D

‘*That so?’’ queried the other, ‘‘ Then
why don't you marry her?’’

‘*Can’t afford to,’’ replied the doctor.
‘*She is my best patient. ’’

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

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Aceticum............ 8 6@8 8 ‘0 eee oe e 4 OEUIeME oe le Lk.
Benzoicum, German 70@ 75 & oe Se ccs ; 9@ : . Prunus virg......... @ 530
Boracic.............. @ 15 Eriee B -.-.---. i 00@ tie Tinctures
Carbolicum ......... — 4 00@ Aconitum NapellisR 60
Gitricum 40@ 45 a@ultheria..... .... 1 50@ 1 60 Aconitum Napellis F 50
Hydrochlor ......... 3@ 5| Geranium, ounce. @ 7! Aloes................ 60
Nitrocum . «2-4... 8@ 10|Gossippii,Sem. gal. 50@ 60 — 60
Oxalicum........... 12@ 14 —— Braiial chalieie cia 1 0n@ 10) denica 50
Pieaiintionn; dil.. @ 15 — on we cce seen ee 1 50@ 2 00 i omanaia So 50
Salicylicum. ........ oo 90@ 2 00| atrope Belladonna. 60
Sulphuricum........ - a eee we 1 80@ 1 50| Auranti Cortex..... 50
Tannicum .......... 1 1 40 ee + per....... 1 60@ 2 20/ Benzoin............. 60
Tartaricum.......... 40 ra a Verid....... 150@ 1 60} Benzoin Co.......... 50

orrhuge, gal....... 1 10@ 1 25/ Barosma............ 50

Ammonia Miyreta 4 00@ 4 50| Cantharides........ 5

Aqua, 16 deg........ “a 6) Glive........ ..... 7@ 3 00) Capsicum.......... 50

a. deg... ... 6@ = 8 | Picis Liquida....... 10@ 12] Cardamon......... : "5

Carbonas............ 12@_ = 14 | Picis Liquida, gal.. @ 35] Cardamon Co... ... ®

Chloridum .......... Pe | Kicing ...... ce. 96@ 1 05| Castor............... 1 00
Rosmarini........... @ 1 00| Catechu....

Aniline Mak eae 6 50@ 8 50| Gt = ee aa. 50
Mink... ........- -ORtEineand $a Milieu ag >
Brown --.---.-_-. 80@ 100] Sabina. ........... 90@ 1 00 Columba rane 50
Red .......-.-+.++++ > oO , | Santal.... 2.2 ll.. 2 50@ 7 00! Cube La a 50
Yellow. .........-.- 2 50@ 3 00) Sassafras............ 55@ 60 pm ried 50

Bacce. —— ess., ounce @  65| Cassia Asutifol Co.. 50
Cubeme........ po. 18 138 5 = seete cence ees 1 = 1 a) = ne 60
Juniperus........... ee Tet eee a ee | SORE cine sian
Xanthoxylum.. .... 30 Ere opt......... @1 60 Fern ian 35

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eases ae 50@ 55 Potassium Gentian Co.. 60
Se - eee 80
Terabin, Canada.. = 50 laa ao 13@ = Hyoscyamus........ 50
Tolut: Gone E ae = 15 Todine, color haan =
x Chiorate..po. 17@i9e  16@ 18 | ing OS 50

=. Canadian.. is | Cyanide. .........._. De eee
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Coaches Flava..... 18 | Potassa, Bitart, pure 30 Nux Vomica ese =
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on Virgini.. 12 | Potass Nitras ee 10@ i Opti’ aon ee a
Quillaia, grd....... 12 | Prussiate.. | 20@ 25 | Opti, de = <6
Sassafras...... po. 1 12| Sulphate po . 5b@ 18 ——_ 50
Ulmus...po. 15, ed 15 Radix a. 50
Extractum Aconitvm...... .... 2@ 25/| Sanguinaria........ 50
Glycyrrhiza — 24@ 2% Althe............... 22@ 25 | Serpentaria......... 50
Glycyrrhiza, po..... 23@ 30| Anchusa............ 10@ 12) Stromonium........ 60
Heematox, 15 D box. 11@ 12| Arum po...... ...... @ %/| Tolutan.............. 60
Hematox, 1s ........ 13@ 14] Calamus ............ 20@ 40| Valerian............ 50
Hematox,%s........ 14@  15|Gentiana...... po 15 12@  15| Veratrum Veride... 50
Heematox, 148....... 16@ 17|Glychrrhiza...py.15 16@ 18| Zingiber............. 20

Perru Hydractis —— g 63 Aither spe Sina 300 35
Carbonate Precip... 15 | Hellebore, Alba, Po.. 18@ 20 Ather Spts. NinaF 3@ 33
Citrate and Quinia.. 2 25/ Inula, po............ 15@ 20] Alumen....... ... 24@ 8
Citrate Soluble...... 7% | Ipecac, po........... 2 80@ 3 00 Alumen, gro’d..po.7 3 4
Ferrocy: anidum Sol. 40 Tris plox.. .- P035@38 35@ 40| Annati ie 40@ 50
Solut. Chloride alee 15 | Jalapa, pr........... 53@ 30 hanaenl. po | as
Sulphate, com’l..... 2| Maranta, \s........ @ 35|AntimonietPotassT 40@ 50
Sulphate, com’l, by 50 | Podophyllum, po.::. 22@ 25] Antipyrin.......... @ 3

bbi, per cwt....... 7 | hel ....-- eee. %@ 100} Antifebrin. ........ @ Ww
Sulphate, pure ..... — cut @12 Argent 1 Nitras, oz . 50
Flora eb py... |! %@ 1 35| Arsenicum.......... 1 12
are 12@ 14] Spigelia............. BQ 38 Balm Gileed Len. 40
Arthemis._ | 9@ orig -po.15  @ 18} Bismuth §.N. ..... . 140@ 1 50
Matricaria .......... “S* ee 40g 45 | Calelum Chior. ‘s. @ 10
Folia Similax,officinalisH  @ 40|Calctum Chlor., 4s. @ 2
Barosma.............. 23@ 28| Smilax, M........... @ 25} Cantharides, Rus.po @
Cassis  Acutifol, Tin- Sem... 10@ = 12} Capsici Fructus, af. @ 1
nevelly...... ....- 18@ 2 a Le Pati. Capsici Fructus, po. @ 6
Cassia Acutifol, Alx. %@ 30 a @ B Capsici FructusB,po @ 1
Salvia officinalis, 4s Valeriane ,Eng.po.30 @ 25| Caryophyllus. 4 12@ 14
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Gianaaid ingiber j - B@ 27 Cera Flava.. eon >
Acacia, Ist picked. @ 6 Semen Cassia Fructus... 33
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Acacia, 3d picked.. @ 35| Apium nee i 8 15 Cetaceumn.... co 45
Acacia, sifted sorts. | 2 a Pe 18 | Chloroform... 53

cacia, po.......... 60@ 80} Carui.......... :
Aloe, Barb. po.i8@20 12@ 14|Cardamon....)...... 1 26 15 | Chior het oe 1 oie
loe, Cape ....po.15 @ 12] Coriandrum......... 10| Chondrus. .......11) 0@
Aloe, Socotri..po.40 _@ 30) Cannabis Sativa.. 140 5 | Cinchonidine,P.&W 2@ 35
Ammoniac.......... 55@ 60|Cydonium........... 75@ 1 00| Cinchonidine, Germ 2@ 30
Assafoatida....po.30 2@ 28] Chenopodium ...... 10@_ 12) Cocaine........... 3 55@ 3 75
Benzoinum ......... 50@ 55 | Dipterix Odorate... 1 40@ 1 50| Corks, list, dis. pr.ct. 70
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Vini Oport Gelatin, French..... 35@ 60
Eupatorium .oz. pkg 20 Oe. 1 B@ 2 00 1
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Majorum ....oz. pkg 28 Sponges Gina) ueawa @ 12
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Carbonate, Pat...... 20@ 22| wool. carriage.. @ 1 00} Hydraag Ammoniati @ 1 10
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Pil ——s-. = = @ 50 Spts. Ether Co...... = 55
— oe @ 18) Spt. Myrcia Dom.. 2 00
Iba... @ 3| Spts. Vin ni Rect. bbl. @ 2 54
a aaa es @ 7| Spts. Vini Rect.44bbl @ 2 59
Plumbi Aeet........ 4g 12 | Spts. Vini Rect. 10gal @ 2 62
Pulvis Ipecac et ot 11 1 20| Spts. Vini Rect. 5gal @ 2 64
Pyrethrum, boxes Less 5c sal. cash 10 days.
& P. D. Co., doz.. @ 1 25} Strychnia stal... 1 40@ 1 45
Pyrethrum, pv elec 2@ 30) Sulphur, Sub Se eae 2u@ 4
SIRI a 8@ 10/ Sulphur, Roll..... 2%@3%
uinia, 8. Pp. & W.. 31@ 36; Tamarinds.......... 8@ 10
uinia, S.German.. 22@ 32) Terebenth — . 2a
mia, NOY... ... 229@ 34 oe -- <4 &
ubia Tinctorum... 12@ 14 me... ... 9 00@16 00
SaccharumLactis py 18@ 2 Zinel Suilph......... 1@
So 3 00@ 3 10
Sanguis Draconis... 2 ° Oils
po, W.........-.4- BBL. GAL.
Sapo, : "2 = Whale, winter....... 70 70
Siedlits Mixture... 20 @ 2|[ard'No ln «4

 

 

Linseed, pure raw.. 35 38
Linseed, boiled..... 36 39
Neatsfoot,winterstr 65 70
Spirits Turpentine.. 42 50
Paints BBL. LB
Red Venetian... ... @a
Ochre, yellow Mars. iz ; @A4
Ochre, yellow Ber.. 1% 2 @3
Putty, commercial.. aS ses
Putty, strictl pe 2% 2%
es rime
American.......... 15
Vouuiien. English. ate 75
Green, Paris ........ =
Green, Peninsular... 4
aq Hed. .......... on
Lead, white........ ue 834
Whiting, white _ 7
Whiting, gilders’. @ w
White, ‘aris Amer.. @ 100
bee Fog Paris Eng.
am. @i1 420
aanveuial Prepared. 1 00@ 1 15
Varnishes
No. 1 Turp Coach... 1 10@ 1 20
xtra Turp......... 1 60@ 1 70
Coach Body......... 2 T>@ 3 00
No. 1 Turp Furn.... 1 00@ 1 10
Extra Turk Damar.. 1 55@ 1 60
Jap. Dryer,No.i1Turp 70@ 75

 

Freezable
Goods

Now is the Time to Stock

++

Mineral Waters,
Liquid Foods,

Malt Extracts,
Butter Colors,
Toilet Waters,
Hair Preparations,
Inks, Etc.

+ *

Hazeltine & Perkins

Drug Co.

Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

  

20

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

GROCERY PRICE CURRENT.

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

dealers.

oing to press and are an accurate index of the local

in such quantities as are usually purchased by retail

market. It is im-

possible to give quotations suitable for a 1 conditions of purchase, and those below are given as representing av-

erage prices for average conditions of purchase.
those who have poor credit.
our aim to make this feature o

Subscribers are earnest
f the greatest possible use to dealers.

Cash buyers or those of strong credit usually buy closer than
ly requested to point out any errors or omissions, as it 1S

 

 

AXLE GREASE.
doz.

  
  

gross
Agra. ............ > 8
Casper Gn. ......... 60 7 00
Diamond....... ce 50 4 00
erasers . ......._.. 9 00
TXL Goiden. tin boxes 75 9 00
Pica, tin boxes........ 73 9 Ov
Paragon ....... ..-& 6 00
BAKING POWDER.
Absolute.
a "0 Cans doz............. 45
i ip came Geox... 85
Bon Ga....... .... (SS
Acme.
Ib cans 3 dos. 5
4 |b cans 3 dos. 7%
} ib cans 1 dos. 1%
eek... 10
Arctic.
6 oz. Eng. Tumbiers........ 85
El Parity.
iq 1b cans per doz......... %
\¥% lb cans per dos ........ 1 26
1 Jb cans per dos......... 2 00
Home.
lb cans 4 doz case...... 35
lb cans 4 doz case...... 5d
Ib cans 2 doz case ..... 90
CJ
JAXON
lb cans, 4 doz case..... 5
lb cans, 4 doz case... .. 85
lb cans, 2 doz case...... 1 60
Jersey Cream.
1 lb. cans, per doz.......... 2 00
9 oz. cans, rer doz.......... 1 3
6 oz. Cans, per doz.......... 8
Our Leader.
ee 4
a v
[ Som... 15
Peerless.
Ce 85
Queen Flake.
3 os., 6 doz. case............ 27
6 oz., 4 doz. case <n oS oe
Sos. 1 dos. case.......-..... 4 80
i th. 2 doz. case. ........... 4 00
5 ib., 1 dos. ease............ 9 00
6ATH BRICK.
een ee
ee %
BLUING.

 

So So oee............... 40
iasge, > aGE...--.-.-..-_... %%
BROOSIS.

Ne: 1 Garvet................ 1 9
Ne. 2iarpet......... ...... 1%
No. 3 Carpet............. << 1 Oe
No. S@arpos................. 1 15
Parlier orm... 2 00
Common Whisk............ 70
Pancy Weiek............... 80
Warceomse. ....... ....... 23
CANNED GOODS.
amaeoes ............. 89% 9)

ore
a a 80
Beans, Limas.......... 70@1 30
Beane Wax........ T
Beans, “iring.......... 70
Beans, Baked......... 75@1 00

Beans, Red Kidney... 50
ee

  
   
  

Peas. 50@ 80a
Peas, French. 25
Pumpkin .... 5
Mashroom ..... 15@ 22
Peaches, Pie ... 90

Peaches, Fancy..

 

Apples, 3-lb...... 95
Apples. gallons.. 2 2
Cherries ....... — oe
Pee oo Vl
Pineapple, grated.....2 40
Pineapple, sliced...... 22
Pineapple, Farren....1 7
Strawberries .......... 110
Blackberries .......... 80
Raspberries .... &
Oysters, 1-!b. ——- &
Oysters, 2-lb.......2...14
Salmon, Warren’s ....1 4°@1 60
Salmon. Alaska....... 1 25
Salmon, Klond‘ke..... 90
Lob-ters, 1-lb, Star....3 00

Lobsters, 2-lb. Star....3 40
Mac erel,l1 lb Mustard 10
Mackerel, 1-lb. Soused.1! 75
Mackerel,1-1b Tomato 1 75
Sars .. 2 00
Sardines, 4s domestic 3%@
Sardines, mstrd, dom.5%4@ 7%
Sardines, French...... 8 @ 2

 

   
 

CANDLES.
88. Secs eee cease eos at
es 8
POVOEEED... oe. cceccccen s+» 8
a 20
CATSUP.
Jolumbia, pints .... 2 00
Jolumbia, % pints ......... 12
CHEESE
Ames ooo. ot. @ 10%
ee @ 12
Emblem............- @ il
eae @ il
Gold Medal..... .... @ il
feet @ il
Jere 2... @ 1%
LENAWEEO 2... .... cove @ 0%
Riverside............ @ 11%
Bee @ 2
———— @ 70
Leiden... .... 2. : @ 17
Lisbureer .......... @ 13
Pineapple............50 @ %
Sap Sago.......- ee. @ 17
Chicory.
sulk ee ee 5
woe 7
CHOCOLATE.
Walter Baker & Co.’s.
-erman Sweet.... -.23
Premium. ........ ne
Sreakfast Cocor .. _
CLOTHES LINES.
Sotton, 40 ft, per doz.......1 00
Cotton, 50 ft, per doz -1 20
Cotton, 60 ft, per doz -140
Cotton, 70 ft, per dos -1 60
Cotton, 80 ft, per dos -1 80
Jute, 60 ft, per dosz.. .
Jute. 72 ft. pear dns,..... 95
COCOA SHELLS.
Bib bas 2%
Less quantity............ 3
Pound packages......... 4

CRBAS TARTAR.
+ and 10 1b. wooden boxes... . .30
Bulk im sacks... .....-..- 29

 

Mexican and Guatamala.
Mir. 15

  
 
    

Soe8 2 Ge. 16
PRROF sons soos sees so sins oekt
Maracaibo.

Pree oe oe con eee e wee 19
Java.

(Core gale tt RBI Sore np pone pieparn 19

Private Growth...........-.-- 3
Mandehbling.........--...-----21
Mocha.
atsetiog _......-......-.....- 20
—_—_—_—— 22

Roasted.
Clark-Jewell- Wells Co.’s Brands
Fifth Avenue..... 29
Jewell’s Arabian Mocha....29

Wells’ Mocha and Java..... 24
Wells’ Perfection Java..... 24
TemGelee .........0-. coo. 0. 21
Breakfast Blend..........- 18
Taliey City Maracaibo. .....183%
{deal Blend............. 0. 14
Leader Blend....... ..-.... 12

Package.

Below are given New York
prices on package coffees, to
which the wholesale dealer
adds the local freight from
New York to your shipping
point, giving you credit on the
invoice for the amount of
freight buyer pays from the
market in which he purchases
to his aes point, including
weight of package, also %c a
pound. In 601b. cases the list
is 10c per 100 lbs. above the
price in full cases. ;

Aspeekio ..-... . --.
ee
“cLaughlin’s XXXX......

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

Co., Chicago.
Extract.
Valley City % gross ..... 5
Felix % gross...........- 1 15
Hummel’s foil % gross... 5
Hummel’s tin % gross... 1 48
CLOTHES PINS.

5 gross boxes....

40 | 200 lb. barrels.. .....-..-+

CONDENSED MiiL&.

4 doz in case.

Gail Borden Eaglie........ 6%
——— 6 25
Se 5 %
Champion ............---..-4 50
Magnolia .........----.- 4%
Crnailenge.......e.se0.....00- 3 35
3 35

A cee
COUPON BOOKS.
Tradesman Grade.

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

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

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

1,000 books. anv denom....20
Superior Grade.

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

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

    

denomination from 810 down.
Seuss ....-.-..--...-5 1
Se beoks........-.-__.._ 2 00
me beeks .........__- -. 30
oe peOKS.............. 6B
500 DOOKS............- 10 00
1000 books...... .. a2 30

Universal Grade.
50 books, any denom..
100 books, any denom.
500 books, any denom.
1,000 books. any denom....
Credit Checks.
500, any one denom’n.....
1000, any one denom’n.....
2000, any one denom’n
Steel punch. ..........-...
DRIED FRUITS—DONESTIC
Applies.
Sandriod................ @*
Evaporated 50 lb boxes. @9
California Fruits.

 

  

Apricots......-.-.-..--
Biackberries...........
Nectarines ............ @
Peachos..........-.---- 9 _
Pitted Cherries........
Slek..........
Raspberries..........--
Calitornia Prunes.
100-120 25 lb DOXES......- @4
90-100 25 lb boxes......- @5
80 - 90 25 1b boxes......- @ 5%
70 - 80 25 1b boxes......- @ 6%
60 - 70 25 lb boxes.. .... @ 6%
50 - 60 25 lb boxes.....-. @ &
40 - 50 25 lb boxes.....-.. @10
30 - 40 25 lb boxes...... @
\ cent less in 50 1b cases

Raisins.
London Layers 2C:own. 1
London Layers 3 Crown. 1
Cluster 4 Crown........-- 2
Luose Muscateis 2 Crow

5
Loose Muscatels3Crown 6
Lonse Museatels4Crown 7
L. M.. Seeded, choice..... 8
L. M , Seeded, fancy...... 9%
FOREIGN.
Citron.
Leghorn .........-+se+++++ @12
Corstens... @13
Currants.
Petras bbis.......-.......: @ F%
Vostizzas 50 Ib cases......@ 6
Cleaned, bulk ............ @7
Cleaned, packages.......- @7

Peel.
Citron American 101b bx @13
Lemon American 10 lb bx @12
Orange American 101b bx @12
Raisins.

Ondura 28 ib boxes.....

Sultana 1 Crown.......
Sultana 2Crown ..
Sultana 3 Crown.......
Sultana 4 Crown.......
Sultana & Crown _.....
Sultana 6 Crown
Sultana package

FARINACEOUS GOODS.

 

ASSeosee

Parina.
2411b. packages..........1 50
Bulk, per 100 Ibs..... .... 3 50

 

942 lb. packuges.......-.-- 1 80

100 Ib. kegs......-..-.-.--- 2 70

 

 

Hominy.
Barrow .........:-... ee 2 50
Flake, 50 lb. drums....... 1 00
Beans.
Dried fima - ............. 3%
Medium Hand Picked.... 1 10

Maccaroni and =,

Domestic, 10 lb. box......
Imported, 25 lb. box.. ...2 50
Pearl Barley.
Common..... ...c0... 226-00 2 2
moneer .. .....-.5 2 50
Empire ...... |... 3 00
Peas.
Green, Wisconsin, bu..... 1 00
Green, Scotch, bu. ...... 110
Split, bu..........- +. Soo
Rolled Oats.
Rolled Avena, bbl.......4 %5
Monarch, bbl........... 3 75
Monarch. % bbl.......... 2 00
Monarch, 90 lb sacks...... 1 80
Quaker. cases. ..........- 3 20
Huron, Cases..........--+- 1%
Sago.

Gomman .....0..c 3... 4
East India........... ae oe
Tapioca.

Biske ..... 252.82. 3%

Pea 35,

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

Cracked bulk.........-.-- 3%

242 1b packages..... .

2 oe
Salt Fish.

 

Cod.
Georges cured......... @4
Georges genuine...... @5
Georges selected...... @ 5%
Strips or bricks....... 6 @9
Herring.
Holland white hoops, bbl. §& 00
Holland white hoop %bbl 4 50
Holland, % bbl........... 2 60

Holiand white hoop, keg. 65
Holland white hoopmehs 75

 
 

Norwegian... ....-.-..---
Round 100 lbs............- 2%
Round 40 lbs............. 1 30
PRIS oo occ tween we 14

Mackerel.
Mess 10 lbs..........-.--- 15 00
Moss 40 ibs..........-...- 6 30
Mees 10 lbs....... -...... 1&
Mess 8 lbs........-.....- 13
No. 1100 ive.......... -..- 13 3
0.1 40 1bs . 56
Not Wibs............... 1 48
at Soe .. . 1 20
' No. 2 100 lbs.. - ¢2s
No.2 Mire... ..........- 40:
Na. 2 Hie .........--... 1(8
No. 2 S1ps........-...... 89
Trout.
Noi mie.  __- - ++ 5 26
No i aibs........ ...... 328
No. i S0ibe. ..........--3 68
Not Sibs.......,..-...- 57
Whitefish.

No.1 No.2 Fam
100 lbs 6 75 2%
40 lbs. 3 00 1 49
10 lbs. 8&3 43
Sie....._.. 37

89
FLAVORING EXTRACTS.

 

D.C. Vanilla D. C. Lemon
20£...... 120 2a........ 2
3 oz...-..1 50 3 oz......1 00
oz.. ...2 00 402...... 1 40
Gos...... 3 00 Goz...... 2 00
No. 8 400 No. 8...2 40
No. 10. .6 00 No. 16...4 00
No. 27.1 25 No. 2T. 80
No. 3T.2 00 No. 3T.1 2
No 4T.2 40 No. 47.1 50

Vv

B

wm
RSSst

Lem.
2 oz. Taper Panel.. 7
2 oz. Oval.......... %
3 0z. Taper Panel..1 35
4 oz. Taper Panel..1 60

Souders’.
Oval bottle, with corkscrew.
Best in the world for the

money. HERBS

BOBO. 2... 2. nee cennscceene 15
BOGS os 1. ss

 

 

 
 
  

INDIGO.

Madras, 5 lb boxes......... 55
8. F., 2,3 and 5 lb boxes.... 50
GUNPOWDER.
Rifle—Dupont’s.
a 400
alt Meps...........--...-.. 22
Quarter Kegs...........--...1 3
tio cams: 2.8 8s. 30
a6 1b GANS. .........--..<..-- 18
Choke Bore—Dupont’s.
Meee ce 43
alt Bees... .........--:--- 2 40
Quarter Kegs...........+..-- 1 35
Pib ens... 3... ...... 8. 34
Eagie Duck—Dupont’s.
Kegs ee ed oe sims 8 00
Halt Regs. .............-s25 425
Quarter Kegs.. ....... .-.--2 3
Pio cops. 2. toe 45
JBLLY.
1S ib patie 35
S03 patis..6) 2...
LYB.

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

30
r-3)
14
10
MINCE MBAT.
Ideal, 3 doz. in case........-. 2
MATCHES.

Diamond Match Co.’s brands.
No. 9 sulphur.........------ 16
Anchor Parlor........---+-- 1 70
No.2 Home..........---++-- 1 10
Export Parlor.........----- 400

MOLASSES.

New Orieans.
Black....... 1
Parr ....- 14
Good...... 20
Fancy ...... 24
Open Kettle.......--. ae

Half-barrels 2c extra.

MUSTARD.
Horse Radish, 1 doz........- 1%
Horse Radish, 2 doz......... 3 50
Bayle’s Celery, 1 doz.. .... 1%
PIPES.
Clay, No. 216.........--.--- 1 70
Clay, T. D. fullcount...... Ce
Cob, No. 8......-.-----+-++- 85
POTASH.

48 cans in case.
Bahbite's........-.......... £0
Penna Salt Co.’8......----- 3 00

PICKLES.
Tiedium.

Barrels, 1,200 count........ 3 75
Half bbis, 600 count........ 2 38
Small.

Barrels, 2,400 count....... 4%
Half bbls 1,200 count...... 2 88
RICE.

’ Domestic.
Carolina head.............- 6%
Carolina No.1 ...........- 5
Carolina No. 2..........--- 4
Broken. ..............---.-- 3%

Imported.
Japan, No.1.......... 5%@ 6
Japan, No.2..... ... 4n@5
Java, fancy head...... 5 @5%
a eS ee 56 @
Wee... @
SALERATUS.

Packed 60 lbs. in box.
nme. co
Deland’s .......
Dwight’s......
Wesiers: 3.025.

SAL SODA.
Granulated, bbis..........
Granulated, 100 lb cases. .
Lump, bbls. .... ...... :
Lump, 1451b kegs..........

SAUERKRAUT.
Barréie: .- ow. ce ck 3 25
iO Barren. ....5...00... 5. Eee

  

  

 

SNUFP.
Scotch, in bladders......... 37
Maccaboy, in jars....... ... 33
French Rappee, in jars.... 48

SBEDS.
MN a 9
Canary, Smyrma........... 3%
Le 8
Cardamon, Malabar ..... 60
Gelere a oo 11
Hemp, Russian.......... 4
Mixed Bird............... 4%
Mustard, white........... 5
Eom .- 10
Rare ie oo Cece cue 4%
Cuttle Bone............... 20

SALT.

Diamond Crystal.

Table, cases, 24 3-lb boxes..1 50
Table, barrels, 100 3 1b bags.2 75
Table, barrels, 407 1b bags.2 40
Butter, barrels, 2801b. bnik.2 25
Butter, barrels, 2014 lbbags.2 50

  

Butter, sacks, 281bs......... 25
Butter, sacks, 56 lbs......... 55
Common Grades.
1GOS ID eROKR.....  -......-- 1 95

005-1) sacks................ 1 80
23 0 te saGrs.... 1 65
Worcester.
50 4 Ib. cartons........... 3 25
115 2%lb. sacks.. ..-4 00
60 5 Ib. sacks.. 8 a
2214 lb. sacks ..-3 50
3010 1b. sacks ..3 50
28 lb. linen sacks 2
56 lb. linen sacks -. 60
Bulk in barrels.............: 25
Warsaw.
56-lb dairy in drill bags..... 30
28-1b dairy in drill bags..... 15
Ashton.
56-lb dairy in linen sacks... 60
Higgins.
56-lb dairy in linen sacks... 60
Solar Rock.

S61b secks.......:.......... 2
Common.
Granulated Fine............ 70
Medium Fine............... 70
SOAP.

Single BAK... 6... 2. 2 0
5 box lots, delivered........2 45
10 box lots, delivered........ 2 40

JAS. 8. KIRK & CO.’S BRANDS.

American Family, wrp’d....2 66
27

ee 75
ER ce oo ee oe 2 20
te ES oe! 2 50
White Russian.............. 2 35
White Cloud, laundry...... 6 2
White Cloud, toilet......... 3 50

Dusky Diamond. 50 6 oz....2 10
Dusky Diamond, 50 8 0z....3 00

Blue India, 100 % lb......... 3 00
Mirkenno....... 62.2... 52. <a 3 50
ON oe es 2 50
SCHULTE SOAP CO.’S BRANDS

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

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

 

 

Chipped Soap for Laundries.
Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands.
Old Country, 801-lb. bars ..2 75
Good Cheer, 60 1-lb. bars....3 75
Uno, 100 %-1b. bars.. --2 50
Doll, 100 10-oz. bars......... 2 05
Scouring.

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

WOON oct rss ccc seks 5%
Rope, Bagisn.....:.....,<.: 4%

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

21

 

SPICES.
Whole —
AUspice

ee oc
Cassia, China in mats.. eee 12
Cassia, Batavia in bund..
Cassia, Saigon in rolls.
Cloves, Amboyna..
Cloves, Zanzibar.
Mace, Batavia...
Nutmegs, fancy..
Nutmegs, No. 1..
Nutmegs, No. 2.. ua
Pepper, Singapore, plack...11
Pepper, — white...12
Pepper, shot... 12

Pure aia in Balk.

Alispice 15

  
    
  
  

Cassia, Batavia ............ 30
Cassia, Saigon ......... ... 40
Cloves, Zanzibar............ 14

Ginger, African.. .15
Ginger, Cochin... .18
Ginger, Jamaica «223
Mace, Batavia.............. 65
Mustard. ........... -12@18
Wiatmnees, ............ -40@00

28,
Pepper, Sing , black.
Pepper, Sing., white.

  

Pepper, Cayenne aa .20
Sage. a 15
SYRUPS
Corn.
Maerers. ccs oo... 17
ee ea 19
¥% doz. 1 gallon cans....... 1 50
1 doz. % gallon cans...... 17
2 doz. 4% gallon cans ..... 1%
eure Cane. “
Chores ©...:......... 6

STARCH.

 

Kingsford’s Corn.

Si
Kingsford’s Silver Gloss.
OS
Diamond.

64 10¢ wees See ee 5 00

{28 5e packages......... ..

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

20 11b. packages.......... .. 5
40 1 lb. packages............. 4%
Common Gloss.
l-lb packages..............- 44
Sip packsges............... $4

6-lb packages...............

— coos 3

Barrels 4 2
STOVE POLISH.

     
 

  

Nan <
No. 4, 3 doz im case, gross.. 4 50
No. 6, 8 doz in case, gross.. 7 20

SUGAR.

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

urchases = his ship pping Pp a
neluding 20 poun
weight of the barrel.

PROMI oe ee 5 50
as OE 3 q
Crushed. . wes Gccweacecee ao
Powdered bol Secccises oo
XXXX Powdered........... 5 50
mes 5 38
Granulated in bbls... ...... 5 25
Granulated in bags......... 5 35
Fine Granulated............ 5 25
Extra Fine Granulated..... 5 38
Extra Coarse Granulated...5 38
Mowid A... te 5 59
Diamond Confec. A........ 5 25
Confec. Standard A......... 5 13
Mo fe 4
a ee 4 88
OG, Oe es 4
OO ee eo ‘ =
me 8 ee
ie Goce 4 69
Me Fe ee ea 4 63
Oe Boe 4 56
cM ee a Ea eel any 450
me. 16 oe 444
ee ee a 4 38
No. 12. 431
ee eee Le 471
i ee ees 42
eee Oe 4 25
ee 16... ee eae 42

 

TOBACCOS.
Cigars.
Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s brand.
Wow Priek... 5.05... 2s. 33 00

H. & P. Drug Co.’s brand.
Guintetie .......-.......... 35 00.

G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s brand.

oN

me Co Wes ee ese ee 35 00

Ruhe Bros. Co.’s Brands.

Double Eag'es. 6 aoe $557.70 00
Gen. Maceo, 5sizes.... 55@7v 00
Mr. Fhomas....... 2... 35 UU
Cuban Hand Made.... 35 00
Crown Five....:...... 35 00
Sir William........... 35 00
Club Bive........ 0... 35 00
Gens. Grant and Lee.. 35 00
Little Peggy .......... 35 00
Siemal Pive........... 35 v0
Knights of Pythias.... 35 00
Key West Perfects,2sz 55@60 00
TABLE SAUCES.
Lea & Perrin’s, large... 4 75
Lea & Perrin’s,small... 2 75
Halford, large. Oe oe 3%
Halford small............ 225
Salad Dressing, large..... 4 55
Salad Dressing. smal!..... 2%
VINEGAR.

Malt White Wine, 40 grain.... 7

 

 

Malt White Wine, 80 grain.. 40
Pure Cider, Red Star.......... 12
Pure Cider, Robinson......... i
WICKING.
No.0, pergress............_. 20
INO. £ persross........ 2
NO. pereross.... 6... 35
No. 3, per gross.............. 55
Crackers.

 

The National Biscuit Co.
quotes as follows:

Butter.
Seymour Xex. ..... 5%
Seymour XXX, 31b. carton 6
Mamiy kee... 5%
pale MEN 6
New York XXX... 1... OG
WoOrverine oo. 6
Boston... ....._ Couey co cecs ™%
Soda.
sega MAN
Soda XXX, 3 1b carton
Seda, City. ...........

 

Long Island Wafers. . 4

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

Zepayrette.... oo... 10
Oyster.

Saltine Wafer.............. 5%

Saltine Wafer, 11b carton. 6%

Farina Oy-ter.............. D/_

 

5
Extra Farina Oyster....... 6
SWEET GOODS—Boxes.
Priva ek 10%
Gent's Water............... 15
Cocoanut Taffy............ 10
Coffee Cake, — Decne. lu
Coffee Cake, Iced.. - 10
te 15%
Cubans ....... 11%
Frosted Cream.... 8
Ginger Gems .. . seas |S
Ginger Snaps, Mo 7%
Graham Crackers ......... 383
Graham Wafers............ 10
Grand Ma Cakes............ 9
Pmaportais 8
Jumples, Honey........... 11%
Marshmallow ............. 15
Marshmallow Creams..... 16
Marshmallow Walnuts... 16

Mich. Frosted Honey.... -- 12%

Molusses Cakes............

 

 

 

 

con
4
Penny ‘Assorted Cakes..... 8%
Pretzels, hand made ..... 8
Sears’ Lanch.............-.
Sugar Cake. ....... 2.5. 5.:. 8
Sugar i
Vanilla Wafers........... 14
ulenias oo 12%

Oils.

Barrels.
Bocene @11%
Xxx W. W.Mich.Hdlt @ 9%
W W Michigan........ @9
Diamond White....... @8
DiS Gee. oo... @9
Deo. Naptha .......... @7
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Blank, winter....... 3 2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Candies. Girains and Feedstuffs
Stick Candy. Wheat.
bbls. pails WHene ok. 62
eas a ee oe — a
nda. as ocal Brands,
Standard Twist. ee G @S (Patents ooo... 4 25
Cut Loaf............ °* —- Patent............. : .
Cases | Stra. es
Jumbo, 82 1b . a 325
Extra HL... @ S64 | Graham 9... 8... 3 30
Boston aaa ceeees @i0 | Buckwheat ............ 1... 4 00
eo See
Mixed, Candy. Subject to usual cash dis-
Grocers... 6 | count.
Competition. ... Lo : 6% ae bbls., 25¢ per bbl. ad-
RANGAEG...... 2.2... @i7w
—— pee cou. ¢ 7% — — -Putman’s on3
oyal .. 7 a eo
Ripeen -... ..... |. @ 5” Dine. ss ee 3%
rae oes. eg Bis biabiend ta. | il) 3 7
mG Beas... ; ;
English Rock. ...... @8 Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Kindergarten @ 8% Gusiker 365... os. 3 45
French Cream... @9 Guiaikes, 4s... 3 45
Dandy Pan........_. @i0 Guakes t64 5. 2... 8S
Vall oe Spring Wheat Flour.
re = Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brand.
FPancy—Iin Bulk. a> os toe ; =
ilisbury’s Best 4s........
oe - — ? 8% | Pillsbury’s Best 4s........ 4 00
Chea, tees 2 Pillsbury’s Best %s paper.. 410
Choc. Maecuniak, @2 Pillsbury’s Best 4s paper.. 4 00
Gum Drops......... @5_ | Ball-Barnhart-Pntman’s Brand.
Moss Dro 8
Sour Drops... g 9
Imperials ...... @9
bie ae 5 sii Boxes.
Lemon Drops....... @50
Sour Drops......... @50
Peppermint Drops.. @é60
Chocolate Drops.. @60
H. M. Choe. Drops... @i5
Gum Drops......... @30
— Drops...... Qi
. B. Licorice oe @50
Semear plain.. @50
Lozenges, printed.. @50
Imperials........... @50
Mottoes............. @55
Cream Bar.......... @a0
Molasses Bar ....... @50
Hand MadeCreams. 80 @ 90
Plain Creams....... 60 @90
Decorated Creams.. @90
String Rock......... @60
Burnt Almonds..... 13 @
Wintergreen Berries @60 | Dulutu imperial, Me 4 20
Caramels. Duluth Imperial, 4s. ..... 4 20
No. 1 wrapped, 2 Ib. Duluth Imperial, %s....... 410
Bexes @35 | Lemon & Wheeler Co.’s Brand.
No. . 1 wrapped, 3 lb. = — as ; z
Ll @50 Go eae 408.....,.......
No. 2 2 wrapped, 2 Ib. Gold Medal t4s............. 4 05
| Parisian, 48.2... ......... £35
Parisian, (m1...) 8. 4.5
Periian 4a... 4 05
; Olney & Judson’s Brand.
Fruits. —- Te ‘ =
ercsgta, 366.2...
Oranges. Cereseta, 368.. ............. 4 0
Rigilintiiaees @4 00 we Grocer Co.’s 7.
Mexicans Piorida Sea <p emMaiea ¢
style box... ...... @! 25 | Laurel, 48..........0. 00... 45
Fancy Navels....... @4 25 Meal.
Lemons. a — a i -
oc | Granmminted. -.............-
Strictly choice 360s.. @3 75 Feed and Millstuffs.
Strictly choice sane @4 WW). a d 15 00
Fancy 3608 f @+ 2% | St. Car Feed. screened ....1* 0
Ex. Fancy 3008... @4 5v stb comes ae ok = =
a Pe! Jubolted Corn Meal.......
Ex. Fancy ee eek @i 2 Winter Wheat edi i 13 00
janas. Vinter eat Mi —
Medium bunches...1 00 @1 25 | Screenings. . be -13 00
Large bunches...... 15u @l % ae Corn. =
1d corn, car lots........ !
Foreign — Fruits. New = car = cere sats s
Ss. Less than ear lots......... 6
Californias Fancy.. @'6 —
Choice, 10 1b poxes.. @15 Car lots. .. oe
Extra choice, 10 lb Carlots, clipped... i . 33
boxes new......... @is | Less than car lots. . 35
Fancy, 12 Ib boxes.. @22 Hay.
——- Mikados, 18 No. 1 Timothy carlots..... 8 50
DOXCS........... @ No. 1 Timothy. ton lots 10 00
Pulled, 6 lb boxes... @ a
Ssturais, in bags. @7 |Fish and Oysters
Fards in 10 lb boxes @9 h Fish.
Fards in 60 ib cases @ 6 — . Per lb.
Persians, G. M’s..... @ 5% | Whitefish........... @
lb cases, new...... @G | troug @
Sairs, 601b cases.... @5 Black Bass.......... 8 @
ea aa) ¢ -
Ciscoes or Herring..
Nuts. Bluefish............. @ 10
— res Sra eculcia 2 =
Boi ed Lobster......
Almonds, Tarragona. . @i6 Cog eo @ 10
Almonds, Ivaca....... @i4 Haddock Sets a seals @ 8
Almonds, California, No. 1 Pickerel...... @ 9
soft shelled......... @15 a @ &%
Brazils new........... @ 8% | Perch.. ue @ 5
WaIbOree . 3... @il Smoked White...... @ 8
Walnuts, Naples...... @13 Red Snapper........ @ 10
Walnuts, Calif No. 1. @i2 | Col River Salmon.. @ 12
Walnuts, soft shelled @ —— no sas a @ 18
ee ea caee. 12 'ysters in Cans.
Table Nuts, fancy.. @i1 F. H. Counts........ @ 3
Table Nuts, choice.. @i0 |F.Jd D. Selects...... @ 27
Pecans, Med........... @ 7% | Selects ............. @ 23
Pecans, Ex. Large.... @10 F.J.D Standards... 20
Pecans, Jumhbos....... @i | Anchor .... ....... @ 18
Hickory Nuts per bu., Standards........... @ 16
Ohio, new. @1 60) Favorites............ @ 14
Cocoanuts. full sacks @4 6 ulk. gal.
Chestnuts per bu...... ms oe Coun... 17
Sidi xX = ieee eee cocesa : S
a RON eect sues es 2
Fancy, H. P., Suns. @7 <uchor Standards.......... 1 10
Fancy, H. P., Flags Stame@ards 0. 3.1... 1 Wu
a s eee ee @Q@7 Claas... 123
Choice, H. P., Extras. @ 1% Shell Goods.
Choice, H. Pp? — Oysters, per 100....... 1 B@I1 50
Mossted ........,... 5% ams, per 100....... @

 

 

Provisions.

Swift & Company quote as
follows:

 

  

Barreled Pork.
mom 9 50
Meee 2. 8... 10 59@
Clear back.......... 10 —— 5°
peereGue. 0
Eee i3 50
Bean 9 75
ee 10 5U

Dry Salt Meats.

Bellies ........ a
Briskets . fs lletdle deltas = 5%
Extra shorts............. 5%
Smoked [eats.
Hams, 12 1b average .... 8%
Hams, 141b average ... 844
Hams, 16 1b average..... 7%
Hams, 20 lb average..... 7%
Ham dried beef ......... 1
Shoulders (N. Y. cut). 5%
acenm, Clear... _.... ™H4@i%
California aS...
Boneless hams...........
Cooked ham............ iepiexs
Lards. In Tierces.
= Coe oe oe cscs 3
Nee 614
oo Ib Tubs....... advance %
80 Ib Tubs....... advance 14
Seb Ting ....... advance 3
20 ID Patis....... advance %
16) Pals... .... advance %
Sib Pails........ advance |
SIb Pails. ...... advance i
Sere.
Bologna . ose 5%
Pivee 6%
Hrankfort................ 7%
eae 6%
Pieee 6
Joo 9
Head cheese............. 6%
Beef.
Extra Mess......... 165
Boneless ...... -13:0
Cs 13 75
Pigs’ —
Miss, 5 le 70
ig bbls, a0 ihe... 1 35
% bbls, 80 Ibs...... ence 2 50
Tripe.
a 15 Ibs... TC ee ele =

 

 

 

 

 

Butterine.
Holle, dziry............. 9%
Solid, Gaim :. 9
Rolls, creamery . . =
Solid, creamery ......... 13%
Canned Meats.
Corned beef, 2 lb...... 2 2%
Corned beef, 14 Ib....... 15 00
Roast beef, 2 Ib....... 215
Potted ham, %4s....... 50
Potted ham, ‘Y%s....... 90
Deviledham, 4s....... 50
Deviled ham, a 90
Potted tongue s..... _« oO
Potted tongue %s ...... 90
Fresh Meats.
Beef.
Caréass 3 .
Fore quarters......... 5
Hind quarters........ wa on
Toms No. d........... 9 @12
Re -4 GB
Me tl ea ae
Cues. 6 @6
cee 4@
ork
Dressed ee @
el . @ 6%
Shoulders @ 5%
Leal ard............. 5%@
Mutton
Carenss ..... ...... 6 @7
Spring Lambs... ..... TA4@ 8%
Veal.
Carcass 7 QM

 

 

Hides and Pelts.

The Cappon & Bertsch Leather
Co., 100 Canal Street, quotes as
follows:

 

Crockery and
Glassware.

 

AKRON STONEWARE.

Butters,
46 gal., por doe. ...........

12 gal., each. nue
15 gal. meat- tubs, ‘each...

20 gal. meat-tubs, each....1 £0
25 gal. meat-tubs, eaeh ...2 5

30 gal. meat-tubs, each....2 7
Churns.
2 to 6 gal. pergal......... 5

Churn Dashers, per doz... 85
=_— —_

Pint... i occ, 4 Om
Quart... eee cece cole 4%
Sees... | eae
Covers........ bbe pegs ce coe 2 00
ROWER oe ol. 25

Milkpans.
\% gal. flator rd. bot.,doz. 45
1 gal. fat orrd. bot.,each 5
Fine Glazed Milkpans.

% gal. flatorrd. bot.,doz. 60
igal. flatorrd. bot.,each 5%
Stewpans.

\% gal. fireproof, bail, doz. 8
i gal. fireproof, bail, doz.1 19

Jugs.
56 wal.. per doa. ........... 40
1% gal. perdes.... ........ 42
1 to 5 gal., per gal......... 5%
Tomato Jugs.
‘4 gal, per das. ........... 42
Egat cach. ............. 5

Corks for & gal., perdos.. 2u
Corks for 1 gal., perdoz.. 30
Preserve Jars and Covers.

% gal., stone cover, doz... 75
1 gal., stone cover, doz...1 00

Sealing Wax.
5 lbs. in package, per lb.. 2
LAMP BURNERS.

Ne Gi ...  .
NG. fam... Bt
Nea 2S: 46
eG SOGn 8. LL, 1 00
Gee 50
pecumey, Naf... oo... t0
security, Né. 2. 80
Nutmeg ..... Lcao. |) Oe
LAMP CHIMNEYS— Seconds.
Per box of 6 doz.
Ne @ San... 1 2
Na 3 en... 1 43
No. 2 San... a 2 18
Common
ING: San... 1 50
ING. te 1 60
ee 2 Oe 2 45
Pirst Quality.
No. 0 Sun, crimp top,
— Ta and labeled.... 2 10
Sun, crimp to op.
go and labe oa.... 2 15
No. 2 Sun, crim top
wrapped and labeled.. is 15
XXX Piint.
No. 0 Sun, crimp top,
wrapped and labe oa 2 55
No. 1 Sun, crim top,
wrapped and labe or" <=
Ne. 2 Suan, crim

wrapped and labe <" 13%
CHIMNEYS—Pearl Top.
No.1 Sun, wrapped and
ieee 3 70
No. 2 Sun, wrapped and
labele a.
No. 2 Hinge, wrapped ‘and
i
No. 2 Sun, ‘Small —_
for —_ Lamps..

La Bastie.
> 1 Sun. plain bulb, per
"a 2 Sun, plain ‘bulb, ‘per

No. Ll Crimp, per dos....... 1 35
No. 2 Crimp, per dos... ... 1 60
Rochester.

No. 1, Lime (65c doz). .... 3 50
No. 2, Lime (70ce dos)...... 4 00
No. 2, Flint (80e doz)...... 4 70
Blectric.

No. 2, Lime (70c doz) ..... 400
No. 2, Flint (80c doz)...... 4 40

OIL CANS. Dos.

1 gal tin cans with spout.. 1 25
1 gal galv tron with spout. 1 48
2 gal galv iron with spout. 2 48

Hides. 3 gal galv iron with spout. 3 32
Green No. 1...........- @s8 | 5galgalv iron with spout. 4 28
Green No. 2.......... - @7Z_ | gal galv iron with faucet 4 17
Cane Na 1............ @ *% | 5 gal galv fron with — 4 67
Cured No. 2............ @ 7% | 5 gal Tilting cans. . 7B
Calfskins, green No.1 @it | 5 gal galv iron Nacefas.... 9 00
Calfskins, green No. 2 @ 8% Pump Cans.
Calfskins,cured No.1 @li /|5 gal Rapid inde stream. 7 80
Calfskins, cured No.2 @ 9%/5 ga) Eureka non-overflow 10 56
Pelts. 3 gal Home Rule..... ..... 0 50
Polis caeh............ 50@1 00/5 gal — oS Sees . =
llow. 5 gal Pirate ess whos 5
Neto... ™ ue @3 LANTERNS,
a @2 |No. OTubular side lift.... 4 00
Wool No. 1B Tubular...... ... 6 25
Washed, fine ......... on (26 aaa te
Washed, medium...... @23 | No. 12 Tubular, side lamp.14 0C
Unwashed, fine.. 11 @13 No. 3 Street Lamp LiL se
Unwashed. medium . .16 @18 [ LANTERN "GLOBES.
Furs. No. 0 Tubular, cases 1 doz,
Cat Wild .......... 2. 20@ 50 each, box 10 cents.. ..... 45
Cat, House .. ....... 5@ 20/| No. 0 Tubular, cases2 dos.
Deer Skins, perlb.... 12% each, box 15 cents....... 45
Pall Muskrat......... 3@ No. 0 an bbis 5 doz.
en 1@12 each. DOr Sy.............. 3
maeoen.......... 10@ %5/| No. 0 Tubular, bull’s eye,
ose. ace 15@ 100| cases 1 dos. each......... 1 25

 

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

Hardware

Push Cook Stoves and Ranges to the
Front.
From Stoves and Hardware Reporter.

If there is any time in the year when
stoves—and we jmean cooks and ranges
particularly—should be in demand it is
before the holidays. How, let us ask,
can the savory turkey be done toa
proper turn if the stove is out of condi-
tion to perform its —— function in
that most important rite? Why spoil a
Christmas or New Years’ dinner for the
sake of economizing a few paltry dol-
lars? There is no economy in such a
proceeding, for what is saved in money
1s doubly and trebly lost in vital energy
and temper on the part of the mistress
of the house, to say nothing of the heart-
rending disappointment experienced by
the expectant head of the household
when, with carving knife and_ fork
poised in the air ready to carve a beau-
tifully roasted turkey, he is confronted
with a pale, underdone, unappetizing
fowl, the product of a poor oven ina
wornout range. The hardware dealer
has a splendid opportunity now to wax
eloquent in both advertisements anc
conversations with customers, setting
forth in glowing terms the advantages
of a good cook stove or range. It is one
of the batteries which ought to be
brought into action at every possible op-
portunity, and by thus attacking cus-
tomers’ strongly fortified pocket books
make a breach in the center through
which the smaller rapid fire guns em-
bodied in holiday goods may force an
entrance and carry the patronage by
assault, so to speak. The holiday sea-
son is the period when the purchasing
tide is at the full summit of its powers.
It should be taken at the flood by all
merchants who are intensely ambitious
and desirous to increase their profits and
double the usual trade. Some arrange-
ments ought to be made for decorating
the store in keeping with the season.

Careful attention especially should be
expended upon the window displays,
for this is one of the most effective
modes of advertising. Some originality
of thought in the execution of these is
always desirable, especially where it
makes the displays very attractive and
worth the time, effort and money ex-
pended in securing them.

 

 

—_—__>-2->—__.
Competition That Pays.

There is but one form of competition
that is really remunerative and that is
the competition of novelty and variety
in goods. In contradistinction to the
rivalry which produces a reduction in
prices, the former is both laudable and
legitimate, It may be freely indulged
in by all merchants with a view of rais-
ing the standard of the store to the most
exalted position attainable. In this
way the most popular and salable goods
only are kept in stock, and displayed
in the most attractive manner possible.
Such competition makes money for
those able to succeed in it, for it is
the kind which calls forth all the latent
ability of the merchant in originating,
executing and developing the best
methods by means of which business
may be made to thrive and prosper. It
certainly requires more study and men-
tal effort of every kind to succeed in
this way than the other more common
and objectionable one of underselling.
Any one, even a child, could mark
down figures and advertise cut prices
with a great flourish in the newspapers ;
whereas it requires real talent to com-
pete in the quality, workmanship and
design which goods may possess. It
necessitates personal trips to the mar-
ket, a receptivity of mind in adopting
the new ideas which are gleaned from
observing the methods of others and a
constant desire to improve upon the
past. In short, keep the different lines
of goods vying with each other in
wholesome rivalry for the most praise
and popularity.

———_~> 2s —__
Increase of General Stores.
From the Stoves and Hardware Reporter.

There is little donbt that the special

line stores are gradually developing in-

 

to stores that carry more general lines of
goods on a larger or smaller scale, as
the case may be. It is one of the in-
stances where there is safety in num-
bers—that is to say, in being one of the
number of the competing forces and
also in having a number of lines of
goods in the store. There are so many
advantages connected with this method
of store-keeping that even the most
purblind and obstinate individuals are
beginning to see them, and are ulti-
mately forming the intention of bene-
fiting by them. By gradually acquir-
ing many lines the merchant always
has a quantity of stock which is con-
stantly in demand. Whereas with the
special line stores or those carrying but
few lines there may be periods when
none of them are in much request.

Nowadays of course the hardware
dealer is more prepared to cater to sum-
mer trade by keeping the stoves which
my be used at that period. Neverthe-
less, this is not enough. A good gaso-
line or gas stove lasts many years and
there is no chance of getting any more
business in that particular line from a
customer who has bought one; while if
there were other goods in stock which
were popular and seasonable, the same
customer would come back again and
again to make other purchases of goods
used in that period. Such, for example,
as linoleums, window shades, awnings,
rustic seats, etc. For winter of course
these goods would not receive so much
attention, although linoleum always finds
a ready sale. Leather goods might be
added to increase the trade. Particular-
ly before the holidays, a big run may be
had on them. When dividing a store
into departments in a systematic man-
ner, the clerks should be trained accord-
ingly and the interior of the store al-
tered to correspond with the changes.

—__—_92—___
Life’s Mystic Song.

Torment and bliss and Heaven and Hell,
This is the sum of life’s brief spell—
Sunshine and rain,
And hopes and fears,
And care and pain,
And smiles and tears—
And truth and error, right and wrong,
We weave into life’s mystic song.

And then the throbbing pulses cease,
And wearied spirits find release—
A vanished face,
An unknown spot,
A vacant place,
A man forgot—
This is humanity’s brief story
Of life, and all that is of glory.
—_~~»0—S>_—_

What a nice place to live in this
world would be if women were all as
good as they look, and men were as
good as they seem.

 

WILLIAM REID

Importer and Jobber of

GLASS

OIL, WHITE LEAD,
VARNISHES
BRUSHES

POLISHED PLATE
WINDOW
ORNAMENTAL

PAINT

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
aM,

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

 

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Oatman’s Handy Hoops

For Tubs,
Pails or
Barrels

Put up in neat display box,
and rivets included.

    

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tp. FOR TUBS PAILS OR BARRELS.cf
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No. to order by. Inches wide. Inches long. Box of 50. | Box of 25.

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$3.00
4.00

 

These hoops are flared, with one end punched allready to get the size and rivet tegether
by placing the tub bottom side up, and putting the hoop around with the punched end lapped
on the outside, so that you can mark for the two holes to be punched.

These hoops do away with the annoyance of pulling a bundle of hoop iron apart to get a
few cents’ worth of hooping. For sale py

FOSTER, STEVENS & CO., GRAND_RAPIDS. »

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The “Concave” Washboard

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MANF 0 BY STANDARD WASHBOARD

GLOBE CRIMP,
Per Doz., $2.

SAVES THE WASH.
SAVES THE WASHER.

 

     
  
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
  
  

CLARK-RUTKA-JEWELL Go.

38 AND 40 S- IONIA ST.
OPPOSITE UNION DEPOT

GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.
wy

FULL LINE OF

KRAUT AND SLAW CUTTERS
MEAT CHOPPERS

BARN DOOR HANGERS

BAR IRON

SHELF AND HEAVY HARDWARE
COMMON WIRE AND
CEMENT-COATED NAILS,

Strictly wholesale.
ruling prices.

Orders filled promptly at bottom
Mail orders solicited.

 

 

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

23

 

CHRISTMAS SHOPPING.

Difficulties in Suiting the Lords of
Creation.
Written for the TRADESMAN.

The hurrying days of Christmas shop-
ping are at hand and the despairing
statement, ‘‘It is so hard to get any-
thing for a man!’’ will fall upon the
ears of the dealer in holiday goods with
increasing frequency. How to meet
the case successfully when the perplex-
ities of the customer formulate them-
selves into this oft-repeated expression
is a timely problem. The skillful
handling of the vexing matter marks
the true salesman.

It is unwise to try to controvert the
statement, for it is absolutely true. It
is bard to get anything fora man. It
sometimes seems to be very hard fora
man to get anything for himself. It may
be some common article of wearing ap-
parel of which he stands in actual need ;
but there is difficulty when he attempts
to supply himself. He wants a partic-
ular kind. He must have just what he
has made up his mind to have if he
has to walk from San Francisco to New
York City to getit. If it is shoes he
wishes and he has determined upon
congress, then congress they must be
and it is a waste of persuasive elo-
quence to extol the merits of balmorals.
The case is just reversed, not changed
in nature, if he has his mind made up
for laced shoes. Perhaps he finds just
the kind of thing he is looking for.
Then the matter of size comes in. Is
there anything that a man wears, from
the hat that crowns his noble brow to the
shoes that protect the soles of his feet,
that does not come in sizes, of which
he must have his particular number and
no other? Lovely woman is not so. Who
ever heard of her rejecting a becoming
bonnet just because the crown lacked
a quarter of an inch of having the nec-
essary diameter? Bless her heart, she
doesn’t know what the size of her head
is anyway !

Another thing that makes it hard to
get anything for a man is that he bas
really no use for the knickknacks, or-
namental articles, fancy china and bric-
a brac that constitute the mass of holi-
day wares. True, there are occasional
men who have a great liking for pretty
things and for such it is easy enough
to obtain a suitable gift; but are not
these freaks rather than normal speci
mens of what Nature intends for a man?
Perhaps they are included in what some
writer generally refers to as *‘women
of both sexes.’’

Then the average man seems to lack
woefully in the grace of receiving. Give
a woman a white elephant or a bucking
broncho and she will assure you it is the
one thing in the world she most pas
sionately desired. Give her the most
airy and useless trifle imaginable, any
old thing bought at a bankrupt sale, and
she is—or pretends to be—tickled to
death with it. But who ever knewa
man to make use of an inconvenient
article or try to appear pleased witb
something he didn’t like, simply be-
cause it was a present? Some men are
worse than others. And still women
continue, year after year, to stint them-
selves for pin-money in order to buy
these same husbands presents that will
be critically received. Why they do
this is too occult a problem for the or-
dinary human mind.

Turning to history, either sacred or
profane, we find that the giving and
receiving of gifts played an important
part with the Ancients. Hiram of

 

Tyre sent timber and carpenters and
erected a house for King David; and
when the Queen of Sheba came to prove
Solomon with hard questions she gave
him precious stones and of spicesa
great store and an hundred and twenty
talents of gold. It was the common
practice, if a king sent an embassy to
another king, to send a right royal gift
as well. Did some subject people wish
to obtain the release of captives or
some coveted concession, they would
seek to appease their ruler with the
most costly presents their means would
allow them to procure. It is not to be
supposed that these gifts were received
otherwise than with royal graciousness
nor that they were without due and tell-
ing effect.

Then have men changed, or have the
presents it is customary to give changed?
Perhaps both. These same ancient
men, fierce and warlike though they
could be on occasion, did not hesitate
to break down and weep and make all
manner of theatrical display of feeling.
Being more childlike than their stoical
descendants, perhaps they had some-
thing of a child’s delight in a gift.

Then do you notice that the presents
of which the historians make record
were generally of considerable value?
It wasa large amount of gold or silver,
precious stones or costly apparel. Isn’t
this the reason that men were pleased
with them? When it comes to luxuries
a man is never backward about coming
forward with appreciation. If a thing
doesn’t count into money he doesn’t
want it at all. The fact that he is being
remembered, that a thing is given him
as a keepsake or because we love him,
doesn’t seem to cut any figure.

There are innumerable things that
would please a man—a sailing yacht, a
blooded trotting horse, a fur overcoat,
a gold watch, a bird dog, for instance.
But it is manifest absurdity to mention
these to the woman who has just seven
dollars and sixty-nine cents in her
pocketbook and must make that amount
cover the purchase of presents for all
her immediate family, fifteen relatives
and friends galore. Now, as she is not
likely to get anything that will find fa-
vor in the man’s sight anyway, why not
irop all idea of pleasing him? It won't
make an iota of difference to him
whether she gets a shaving case ora
tramed pastel, he will never use the one
nor admire the other. The result to be
aimed at is the mental satisfaction of
the lady who is making the purchase,
that is all. This simplifies matters. Of
course, it is not necessary for the wise
salesman to say anything about this to
ner, when she comes to the store to
make her selection. Let her continue
to think she is making every effort to
get just what will delight him most, and
as you see an article seems to strike her
fancy focus your energies on selling
her that. Do not let her mind wander
off upon the tastes and whims of the
man who is to be the recipient. Perhaps
she is of a literary turn and wants
Dante’s Divina Comedia or Rawlin-
son's Seven Monarchies in her collec-
tion of books. The man may not know
any difference between Paradise Lost
and Pilgrim’s Progress except a slight
difference as to sound in the titles;
but see to it that thou do not suggest
any inappropriateness in her selection.
It will satisfy his soul just as well as
that smoking set she was looking ata
little while ago and will suit her a good
deal better.

In some cases the delay in coming to
a decision is so great as to render the

 

 

 

 

 

 

customer unprofitable even if you should NAILS
eventually make a sale. Better polite on - — ip es
Wire wees Deee..... ....... 4.2... .... 2... 1 60
and suavely get her off your hands and ee ee Base
wait upon four or five others who know | 10to 16 advance................ ceeeeeeeees 06
exactly what they want but who are| §Sqvance..0 00 lI 2
likely to leave without making their| 4advance........ a 30
purchases if some one does not give pt aap Fe ese ieee eee ce eee pets cuseae se ¢
them attention soon. Time is money, | Fine 3 advance........-------+..--.-.-- --. BO
and it is more money now than at any — * —— Ce S
eo Sodwalee............ 6... 2
other time in the year. Canmg Cadvanre.................. ........ 35
It is recorded of the famous Cyrus the | Finish 10 advance. ...... .. .........000 00 %
Younger, who was wont to give presents Fiaiek § advance CS eT 35
mi 1nis. i cid ola did Gigi alclelaiehel eiucaa aie
and do all manner of favors to his ee Oe 85
friends and followers, that when he had PLANES
captured some particularly sweet-tasting | Ohio Tool Co.’s, famcy..............-.2e e008 @50
wine be would drink a part of the bottle — —_ area earaattecttoneterne 60
himself and send the remainder to a|fenen, iystquality "sc --rc ccc loss G8
friend; or, having eaten a portion of a | Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s wood......... 60
goose, ‘he would send what was left, PANS
saying that he had himself enjoyed a Acme. si 4 dle cee el gals dee a cag oe ae
these things and wished his friends to er "Po “— “RIVETS.
share in the same pleasure. This same} fron and Tinned .... ......-... sees seeee 60
Cyrus was well loved, greatly admired | Copper Rivets and Burs.................+... 60
and a wonderful manager of men. Can wn —_—, Sa? —_ ‘i inti
j j >| ‘‘A”? Wood’s patent planishe Os 0 27
not a hint be gained from the old story? “<B” Wood's patent planished, Nos. 25 to 27 9 20
Could it not be suggested to the custom- Broken packages %c per pound extra.
mer whom you are unable to bring to a HAMMERS
decision in a reasonable length ot time eee Sco" 8, new list........ ...... & “s
: : cease
that, after all, the one thing that is sure | Yerves & Piumb’s.... |... sesso dis 10410
to please a man is something to eat? | Mason’s Solid Cast Steel.......... .. 80c lis. 70
Then name some reliable dealer who at | ie*kartth?s G04 Cast Stool Band Me as 46S "@
this merry season always gives heed to HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS
Pope’s statement that Stamped Tin Ware....... ......... new list 75&10
cour: es nn Japanned Tin Ware..............-........-- 2010
Viands of various kiuds allure the taste, Granite Iron Ware................. new list 40410
and has lain in a plentiful supply of HOLLOW WARE
toothsome edibles calculated to tickle a — ee ee ede Cocaaes oa eens ve
man’s palate and make glad the sto-| spiders 11212010.000000° 77. 60.10
machical portion of his anatomy. HINGES
QUILLO. | Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2,8.............0.2-e000 dis 606:10
ae... Cl .. per dos. net 250
WIRE GOODS
Hardware Price Current. | Screw iiyess. 000.00 UII
Eas 8 ge lL, 80
Gate Hooks and Eyes peamaaecttstermmosees 80
AUGURS AN
poets. AMOUR AND BITS gg |susleyRaloand LEV COs 7
SCHEINGS ROMUIRG: 8... eke to 25&10 ROPES
Jennings’, POMSGOONE 60410 se 46 inem and leeger............... .... a
AXES a oe ge cme er cee cee
First Quality, S. B. Bronze ................. 5 00 SQUARES
First Quality, D. B. Bronze................. @ 50] Steel and Irom.......-................... 70&10
First Quality, . HS Sissel. ididiij#jL... 5.50) Tey and Bovela ... ......................... 60
First Quality, D. B. Steel ................... Os Si a ee eee oe 50
BARROWS acell —— smooth. com.
eee S12 00 14 Ol woe i640 14.0 270 § & 40
Gare met 30 Gi Was titel? ........... .......... 2 70 2 40
BOLTS Wee Mi teer............ .......... 2 80 2 45
TRE eAISSIG SAU Beroe 60610 | NOS. 22 t0 24......---- ee sree rene 5 00 2%
Carriage ew 70 to 7 a = CO 2G. ...--- ee ee enero ones z = - 2
Cee us cakes All sheets No. 18 and lighter, over 30 inches
Well, plain BUCKETS 8 3% | Wide not less than 2 2-10 extra,
Se es
BUTTS, CAST List acct. 19, ’86.. <.-.0n
Cast Loose Pin, figured......... a 70&10 SASH WEIGHTS
Wroumgut Narrow: .... .... |... toate 30500 | Solid Byes. .......................... per ton 20 00
= Steel, G — 7&0
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Ordinary Tackle.... ... fae 70 | Oneida Community, Newhouse’s.......
CROW ‘BARS Oneida Community, Hawley & _—— 8 70&10
Gass Steer .- per lb 4) Mouse ehomor................... per doz 15
CAPS Mouse, delusion...... ‘ad ae eee per doz 1 26
PAG De rm 65
Hick’s ee a m 55 Bright Wiggs. ow aad ots aia 5
Se perm 35 Annesied Market........................... 5
Mune perm  60| Coppered Meee 70&10
ca ‘ned Mareee 62%
CARTRIDGES Coppered Spring Steel.......... ........ : 50
ee ee 50& 5| Barbed Fence, galvanized ............ _.. =o
Cemtran Wives 2%& 5 | Barbed Fence, Pe ees NAILS oases) ala 175
CHISE
Socket Firmer oat 80 ee dis 40&1C
Socket Framing oe ee 80 a seed es ce ewe as Sone cane dis 5
Ce ee ee Nortiwasiers..............-...---.-......Gie Mee
Pees Cpe a 80
Socket Slicks WRENCHES
ec 80! Baxter's Adjustable, nickeled.............. 30
DRILLS Goc'a Gandini 50
Morse’s Bit StoGkw........... 88. 8. ll 60 | Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought ....... 80
Taper and Straight Shank................... 50c& 5 | Coe’s Patent, on O. -o. eee ee eee 80
Morse’s Taper Shank.. ae ISCELLANEOUS
ELBOWS | _— Cc oa ll ld hh ashy gk s
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Com. 4 piece, 6 in.. ---doz. net 30 Savauen ow Teme 85
Corrugated....... 2... cece eee es cece ee eens 1 25 | Casters, Bed and Plate............. .... 50810410
eT dis 40&10 Dampers, ee
EXPANSIVE BITS METALS—Zinc
Clark’s _— +H ee 30é10 | 600 pound caskS..............-.. eee ee ee eee 74
Ives’, 1, $18; 2 ee $5) Perpoume............ ..-.---.. 1... 1... 7
FILES New List SOLDER
Wow Amewiegm co es Co Ee 12%
Nicholson’s. tt tee eeceeeweeeee 70 | “ The prices of the many other qualities of solder
Heller’s — ae age ro aaa 66610 | in the, market indicates by private brands vary
according to composition.
Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 25 and 26; 27. ..... 28 TIN—Melyn Grade
List 12 18 14 15 16. .... 17 | 10x14 IC, Charcoal...........2.06- cece cee e ee 85 75
Discount, 7 to ee 14x20 IC, Charooal eT AA 5 %
20x eee ee elcia ad adie, é
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s............... 60&10| Each additional _— this grade, 1. 2B.
KNOBS—New List -—Allaway
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings.............. 70 | 10x14 IC, oo eee esdeue ded dugace supe ‘3
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings..... eo rece IC, ace = Pde unre acs RA RE 5 50
MATTOCKS ised EX. Chaneeel ... .....-.-.---.--.--. 500
i -_ enc ec cece cccncccccce. cece = = — Each additional X on this grade, 81.50.
ee Ge se ok ROOFING PLATES
Co ee $18 50, dis 20&10 | 14x99 IC, Charcoal, Dean...............-008. 4 50
MILLS 14x20 IX, Charcoal, a_i 5 50
Coffee, Parkers Co.'s. -.............---.------ 40 | 20x28 IC, Charcoal, Dean........ .......--- Z =
Coffee, P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s Malleables. . 40 | 14x20 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade.........
Coffee, Landers Sony & Clare's............ 40 | 14x20 Ix, Charcoal, Allaway Grade......... é oo
Coffee, Enterprise. : 30 | 20x28 1C’ Charcoal, Allaway Grade......... 8 00
MOLASSES GATES 20x28 Ix, Charcoal, Allaway Grade......... 10 00
Stebbin’s Pattern. . --60&10 BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE
Stebbin’s Genuine... -......... 0... ceee eee 60&10 | 14x56 IX, for No. 8 Boilers, t per pound 9
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Reorganizing Along New Lines.

Owosso, Dee. 6—At the last meeting
of the Business Men's Association, a
movement was inaugurated to change
the scope of the organization. The new
idea has been agitated for some time
past by several members who have felt
that the influence of the organization
was on the wane and that the benefits
derived from the Association were rather
meagre, compared to its usefulness dur-
ing the past. James Osburn is the prime
mover in the change about to take place
and was present last evening and made
a speech in favor of disbandment. It
was brought out by him that there was a

-feeling existing among the laborers of

the city that the Association was for the
purpose of biacklisting dead-beats and
as an information bureau. The farmers
also have regarded the Business Men’s
Association as a combine to scheme
against them. He further stated that it
was not necessary to refute these er-
roneous opinions. The Business Men’s
Association has done all in its power
to promote the interests of Owosso. It
has not schemed against the laboring
man nor the farmer and no blacklist
exists. The doors and books of the As-
sociation have always been open to the
inspection of any who desired to inves-
tigate. No star chamber proceedings
have ever occurred, yet prejudice exists,
to the detriment of the usetulness of the
organization, and therefore he was
thoroughly convinced that it was to the
interest of Owosso that the Business
Men’s Association give way to an or-
ganization which would admit any_per-
son—laborers, mechanics, professional,
or business men—who had the interests
of the city at heart. Mr. Osburn then
moved that a committee be appointed to
change the name and draft plans for a
new association, in which any citizen
could hold a membership should he so
desire. The motion was seconded by
most of those present. The committee
on revision which will also attend to the
other work of remodeling the Associa-
tion, appointed consists of James Os-
burn, Eugene Southworth, A. D. Whip-
ple, Harry Noble, Harry Titcomb, Oito
Sprague and Geo. T. Campbell.
0
An Oriental Legend Relating to the
Origin of Eve.

According to an Oriental legend, the
Almighty created woman not with a rib
of Adam, but with the tail of a cur.

According to this story, which ina
slightly different form is current through-
out Asia and the greater part of Africa,
Allah, while sewing up the side of
Adam, after removing the rib which
was to serve as the basis for the con-
struction of Eve, laid it down by His
side on the grass. A hungry yellow dog
happened along and, catching sight of
the rib, seized it and bolted. Allah
started in hot pursuit and would have
recovered the bone had not the tail of
the dog given away and remained in his
hand just as He managed to clutch hold
of it. Thanks to the fresh headway
which the cur thus obtained, it was able
to escape and to swallow the rib before
being once more caught. Unwilling to
deprive Adam of another bone, Allah
resolved to use the dog’s tail in lieu of
the rib for the construction of Eve; and
it is alleged that it is precisely because
there is so much of the caudal append-
age of the dog in the composition of
woman that it is just as impossible for
her to remain quiet for any length of
time as it is to keep a dog’s tail from
wagging.

8
Lower Classification Necessary to
Move Michigan Potatoes.

St. Louis, Mo., Dec. 6—It is our
opinion that our market is going to take
a great many potatoes from your State
this year. You have an abundant crop,
and from the best reports that we get
from reliable sources, there is not over
one-third of the entire crop of your State
moved yet. This makes two-thirds of
the crop to be moved between now and
June 1, and we anticipate that you will
soon have a market here for a liberal
portion of what is left. We are receiv-
ing Michigan potatoes freely now and
they are working out Minnesota and
Wisconsin.

 

If something could be done with
your freight rates, it would enable the
farmers to get more than they would
otherwise. Two years ago, the rail-
roads made a sixth class rate for po-
tatoes, which put them into East St.
Louis at 14c a hundred from Grand
Rapids points, and __ proportionately
lower rates than now existed from points
in the tiers of counties further north. In
some of these northern counties, it is
almost impossible to bring any potatoes
by rail to East St. Louis unless they
make considerable concessions in the
price. The rates are from 5 to 8c per
hundred more in these northern coun-
ties, which almost prohibits them from
selling. Grand Rapids takes an 18c
rate now, when two years ago it took a
14c rate.

We think this matter should be agi-
tated with the railroads when you have
a considerable crop to be moved under
unfavorable conditions. Can not you see
the railroads and write an article for
publication, with this as a skeleton?

MILLER & TEASDALE Co.
—_—_>2>_

Flour and Feed.

For the past few days there has been
but little activity to the flour market,
everybody appearing to be waiting with-
out knowing just why. At this season of
the year the trade is usually of a holi-
day character, merchants buying for
active needs only, which accounts, in a
measure, for the lethargy of the market.
Beyond this there seems to be a bearish
feeling, and the fear of lower prices is
hardly justifiable with the actual con-
dition of stocks. Since July 1 the con-
sumption of the new crop in this country
has been enormous, which, taken to-
gether with the large actual export of
wheat and flour, amounting to about
100,000,000 bushels, has kept stocks
from accumulating anywhere to any ex-
tent; and the fact is, Europe, as well as
ourselves, is living on a hand-to-mouth
policy. In the country among farmers,
as well as at grain centers, wheat is
now in strong hands. The farmers who
are obliged to sell every year soon after
harvest have sold, and their offerings
have all been readily absorbed without
preceptibly increasing stocks. Indica-
tions now point very strongly to a rise
in values within a short time for both
wheat and flour, which seem to be the
cheapest things on the list.

The city mills are running steadily
and have some good orders booked for
December shipment. Miillstuffs are in
good demand and prices $1 per ton
higher than last week. Feed and meal
are moving freely and prices are well

sustained. Wa. N. Rowe.
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Canadian Excursion via Grand Trunk
Railway.

The Grand Trunk Railway System
will on Dec. 16, 17 and 18 sell tickets
to nearly all points in Canada, includ-
ing points on the main line, Intercolo-
nial Railway between Montreal and St.
Johns, New Brunswick, at single fare for
the round trip. They wil! be valid to
return up to and including Jan. 7, 1899.
For particulars call at Grand Trunk city
ticket office, 97 Monroe street, Morton
House, or at depot. C. A. JUSTIN,

City Pass. Agt.
—__> 2» ___

M. C. Goossen, who recently made
the nastiest failure Grand Rapids has
witnessed for many a day, is removing
the remnants of his grocery stock from
the McMullen building, on South
Division street, to one of the little stores
in the Herpolsheimer wooden row, on
East Fulton street.

Alva Riblet, formerly engaged in the
grocery business at Lake Odessa, has
re-engaged in the same business at the
same place. The Worden Grocer Co.
furnished the stock.

 

WANTS COLUMN.

BUSINESS CHANCES.

OR SALE—DRUG STORE, NO. 1 LOCATION
in Grand Rapids; present owner not a reg-
istered pharmacist. Address Drugs, care Mich-
igan Tradesman. 781
ANTED—LOCAiION FOR A PRIVATE
bank by gent eman of ample means. good
character and excellent business qualifications.
Location must be a good business point sur-
rounded by prosperous farming commuvity.
Address No 780, care Michigan Tradesman. 7&0
ACANT CITY LOTS AND sv ACKES OF
good farming land, al! 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 $50,600, all cash, nocredit business is done;
very little competition. Last year cleared $5,000
over allexpen-es. Must go west on account of
health of family or money could not buy it Ad
dress No 777, care Michigan Tradesman. ‘77

OR SALE—OLD AND WELL-ESTABLISHED
bakery businessina city of 16,000 »opula-
tion. For particulars write to Wm. Malmborg,
215 Cleveland Ave..Ishp ming, Mich. V6
JANTED—GOUD LOVATION FUR 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 the Otsego Improve
ment Association. Otsego, Mich. 631
O EX VCHANGE—FOK CLOTHING, DRY
goods or shoes, very nice well rented Grand
Rapids property. Address No. 552, care Michi-
g-n Tradesman. 552
O EXCHANGE—FARM FOR CITY PROP-
erty: 80 acres, part improved. Adapted to
general farming and peach raising. J. H. McKee
& Son, Houseman Blo: k, 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

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, 81,10, $10 per
month, 6 per cent. Also Fixtures, drug and
jewelry: three 8 ft., one 12-ft. wall cases, plate
glass; 24 ft. d:ug shelving, half glass; four 8-ft.
sient salesman cases, bevrled plate, grand;
$1,000, $10 per month. * per cent. Address 76,
care Michigan [rade man 766
ANTED— SHOES, CLOTHING, DRY
goods. Address R. B., Box 351, Montague,
Mich. 699

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

AVE SMALL GENERAL STOCK, ALSO A

stock of musical goods, sewing machines,
bicycles, notions, ete., 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, wo

 

YOR SALE—NEW GENERAL STOCK. A

splendid farming country. Notradcs. Ad-
dress No. 680, care Michigan Tradesman _ 680

ERUHAN'IS—DO YOU WISH CASH QUICK

4¥i for your stock of merchandise, or any part
of it? Address John A. Wade, Cadillac, =“.

 

GENTS WANTED FOR OUR “DEWEY”
slot machine. just out; retail for $3.00 each;
double the trade for caudy and cigar stores; no
gamtling device; agents can make b g money.
Address Jonas N. Bell & Co., Manufactuiers 141
So. Clinton St., Chicago. V2
YO 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-
terand eggs. It will pay you to get our
prices and particulars. Stroup & Carmer, Per-
rinton, Mich. TT
V 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
ANTED—1,000 CASES FRESH EGGS,
daily. Write for prices. F. W. Brown,
Ithaca, Mich. 556

FIREPROOF SAFES

EO. M. SMITH, NEW AND sECONDHAND
ssfes, wood and brick building mover, 157
Ottawa street, Grand Rapids. 613

MISCELLANEOUS.

PECIALTY SALESMAN NOW ON THE

r.ad wishes to make a change for other good
selli:.g specialty. Address Nu 779, care Mich-
igan Tradesman. V9

ANTED—iI RAVELING SALESMAN IN
hardware or other lines to bandle hard-
ware specialty as a side line. Sells at sight.
References required. St»te territory covered.
Address F. W.¢ lark, Manistee, Mich. 74
V ANTED—A POSITION AS TRiVELING
sal-sman by energetic man of long busi-
ness experince. Address No. 764, care Michigan
Tradesmxn : 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, Mich.
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> Lawrence & Matheson :

a Packers of s

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P. & B.
OYSTERS

S Jobbers of zi
Foreign Fruits,
Nuts, Dates, etc.

'

= For Christmas we shall have a
: car of fancy Navel Oranges--- zs
, “Liberty Bell” brand---and we =
are assured that the fruit will be :
“ finely colored and first class. =
z We guarantee our prices and :
: solicit your orders.

> 127 Louis Street,

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Best route to Manistee.
Via C. & W. M, Rail Everything in the Plumbing Li
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CHIC AG and West Michigan R’y Ly Grand Hapids..............:... Qrooama .. 5... y g g ine
Sept. 25, 1898. ~*~ = eee ee eee cee a oo q ‘i i i
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penne Ay Geand Rapids --..005......... T.ocopm 9:55pm veryt ing in the eating ne
rn oe 5 saa oo —Ss B
c SCREO. +... 2... 2:10pm 9:15pm a it S J < < "
v.Chieago.. 11:48am 6 59am 4:15pm *11-50or TRAVEL aa —. Hot - ps “i ca Aur. Eas ls, Grates and
Ar. Gd Rapids 5:00pm 1:25pm 10:30pm * 6:20am VIA pio aa ork of Every Description. Largest
Traverse City, Charlevoix and Petoskey. 2 aC ae
Lv. @’d Rapids.......... 7:30am 8:05am 5:39pm F. & . MI. R. R. W .
Parlor cars on day trains and sleeping cars on < 1
afarlor cars on day trains and sleeping a aa cade EATHERLY & PULTE, 99 Pearl St., Grand Rapids
*Every day. Others week days only. TO ALL POINTS IN MICHIGAN RAARARARARARAAARARRRARARAARAR
@ H. F. MOELLER, a.aG.P.A. AAAAN
DETROIT — — + GOOGOQOQOGOOOGOOGOE Ge0:01019OGD | 9000-00-000000-:00000000-000-00 2000000 000000 0000000000000
9 ept. 25, 1898.
Fall Weddings.# C,
ae g WHEN YOU SEE A MAN
Ly. Grand Rapids...... 7:00am 1:35pm 5:35pz2 7
Ar. Detroit... ....00-- 11:40am 5:45pm 19:05pn Are now on tap. We make 6 you know that he wants one
Ly, Dettatbe 6. 8:00am 1:10pm 6:10px aspecialty of wedding invita- 3
ar. Grand Rapids..... 12:55pm 5:20pm 10:55pm : : of the
tions, both printed and en-
Saginaw, Alma and Greenville. : Pp <
uw, GR 7:00am 5:10pm Ar.G@ 11:45am 9:30pr graved on copper, and cheer- BEST 5 CENT CIGARS
arlor cars on all trains to and from Detroit i > >
and Saginaw. Trains run week days only. fully submit samples and ‘y EVER MADE
Gro. DEHavEN, General Pass. Agent. quote prices on application. ; W. Sold by all wholesale dealers
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nines ee TRADESMAN COMPANY Ys 4 and the
runk Railway System GRAND RAPIDS. °
GRAND Detroit and Milwaukee Div. | & ON CIGAR CcO., Grand Rapids.
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(In effect Nov. 13, 1898 )
Leave. EAST. Arrive.
: + 6:45am Sag., Detroit, Buffalo & N Y .t 9:55pm
& +10:10am... ... Detroit aud East.... ..+ 5:27pm .
+ 3:-2upm....Saginaw, Detroit & East....+12:45pm
* 7:20pm.... Buffalo, N Y. & Boston....*10:15am e
WEST
*19:10am....Gd. Haven and Int. Pts....* 7:'59m
+12:53pm.Gd. Haven and Intermediate.t 3:12pm
+ 5:30pm...Gd. Haven and Milwaukee. 5:27pm
Eastward—No. 15 has Wagner parlor car. No.
92 parlor car. W:stward— yo. Il parlor car.
No. 17 Wagner par: r car.
*)aily. +Except > uday. . a e
KH. Goeuss.A <.° &F. A.
Eee of the United States of Amertca
Cc. A. Justin, City Pass. Agent. ’ |
97 Monroe St. Morton House.
GR AND ™ "yana Re!.way To
Nov. 13, 1898. HENRY B OCH, your clerk, attorneys, ager.5
° ys, agi a»
salesmen and workmen, and all claiming of
Northern Div. Leave Arrive holding through or under you,
Tray. C’y, Petoskey & Mack...t 7:45am + 5:15pm SREETING
Trav. City & Petonkey.........¢ 2:1Upm +10:45pm
Cadillac a: commodation...... + 5:24pm +10 55am
Petoskey & Mackinaw City....t1':00pm + 6:35pm
BS peng os = parlor cars; ereas ads . ; es
:0 pm n : as m represented t i i i
aT aaueuocd viv. | Leave amv ) p ed to us in our Circuit Court of the United States for the District of
Cincinnati —E_...-.-.. --.-- ---- 10am + 9:45pm : - : :
¢ Ft. Wayne ...... --- ce + 2:10pm t 1:55. New Jersey, in the Third Circuit, on the part of the ENOCH MORGAN’S SONS COMPANY, Complainant, that
a ee 7 00pm = 6:30~ : eps : : : a : ne 4 Le
Seta sk and Chieago:.o11:3 pm oa a : — agi exhibited its said aga = oe es = said Circuit Court of the United States for the District
"10 am traiu has parior car to Cincinn» ° ew Jersey, against you, the sai OC Def i i i
and parlor car ‘o Chicago; 2:10pm train has tier = g ae , endant, to be relieved touching the matters therein
. parlor car to Ft. Wayuve; 7:¢Opm train has complained of, and that the said
; sleeping cars to Cincinnati; 11:30pm train has :
! ~  eoach and sleeping car to Cnicago.
Chicago Trains. 9
TO CHICAGO.
Ly. Grand Rapids... : ae : — *i1 —_ 9
Ar. Chicago.......-- pm 10pm =s 6 am
FROM CHICAGO. ! 4 : : : 0 mM
Ey. CRONE... nce scnn ees 3 02pm *11 32pm Complainar:, is entitled to the exclusive use of the designation ‘‘SAPOLIO” as a trade-mark for scouring soap,
Ar Grand Rapids..........--.- 9 45pm 6 30am :
Trai: leaving Grand Rapids 7:10am has parlor
car; 11:30pm, coach and sleeping car.
iene Se wae Seeder eee: OW, ere Ore, we do strictly command and perpetually enjoi th id HENRY
:32pm, sleepi : y in you, the sai
Muskegon Trains.
GOING WEST. a :
Ly @’d Rapids... ..... 7:35am. +1:00pm +3:40pm KOCH, your clerks, ss agents, salesmen and workmen, and all claiming or holding through or under you,
Ar Muskegon..... .. 9:00am 2:100m 7:05nm .ader the pains and_ penalties which may fall upon you and each of you in case of disobedience, that you de
Sunday train leaves Grand Rapids 9:15am; . . . . ’
arrives Muskegon 10:33am. absolutely desist and refrain from in any manner unlawfully using the word ‘‘SAPOLIO,” or any word or words
ING EAST. . . . . . . .
aber . “48 0am —— +4 cps substantially similar thereto in sound or appearance, in connection with the manufacture or sale of any scouring
; rG’d Rapids .. . 9:20am 12:5'pm 5: Qnw , : . * as
i Saas rirain leaves Muskegon 5:30pm: ar- soap not made or produced by or for the Complainant, and from directly, or indirectly,
rives Grand Rapids 6:50pm
q +Except Sunday. we . LOCKWOOD a Ht i a
cen Poor taTereee | By word of mouth or otherwise, selling or delivering as
Ticket Agent Union Station. :
“SAPOLIO,” or when “SAPOLIO” is asked f
» or en IS aSKe or,
DU LUTH South Shore and Atlantic
9 Railway. es that which is not Complainant’s said manufacture, and from ‘n any way using the word “SAPOLIO” in any
ialse or misleading manner.
WEST BOUKD.
3g oat —_ (G. R. & aa bo sce avit
v. Mackinaw City.......----- 7:35am :20pm 5 i "
; Ar. St aa eeu ie 9:00am 3:20pm i nes 9 The honorable MELVILLE W. FULLER, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the
Ar. Sault Ste. Marie.........- 12:20pm 9:50pm * + : : : : 1 4
Ar. Marquette. ........--.-.55- 2:50pm 10:40pm United Sta es of America, at the City of Trenton, in said District of New
ee 5:20pma — Jersey, this 16th day ot December, in the year of our Lord, one thousand
Ar. Duluth..........- einaceteny (  eseas. :30am eight hundred and ninety-two.
peers BAST BOUND. ‘a a [sea] [SIGNED]
ey PEER on. ae cence: :30pm
Ar. Nessoria.. .e..-.- f1l:ibam =. 2:45am i S. D. OLIPHANT,
y ae >. pass rset: —— 4:30am Clert
f v. Sault Ste. Marie......-..- PoOPIR - .- <a: << ¢
Ar. Mackinaw City.........-- 8:40pm 11:00am ROWLAND COX, : ee
' G. W. Hissarp, Gen. Pass. Agt. Marquette. Complainant's Solicitor

 

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