ee WRC g NERA RSID: Dy SPIRITS AERO CG BOIS RAS OAD re Ss AEG We (HO) I aS AON RF oe : ee G S VEQrYYS Zo WSN Seo SS ee \ CE ( ~ 2 ae St aan >)\ ; , yo 2 Py zi pA warm A, Od ey Sa SS & eed Aes CA Be Ae ROA AAT IA/e oe Pe CCN ee OV ALULN a ata a PEACE NC Ee) TOME BE HED OR | KOE OK ee EIR (GES eC Odo ed BAY 7 SEO! Eee Ce eee SOS EN Chae ILS WLLL Leo GONE AA SN NAS, PUBLISHED WEEKLY (eee Se TRADESMAN COMPANY, PUBLISHERS Seo $1 PER YEAR & SESS ea SE NSS SCR ORAS EDV COE Volume XVI. GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1898. Number 795 BROWN & SEHLESS WEST BRIDGE ST.. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Mfrs. ot a full line of HANDMADE HARNESS FOR THE WHOLSALE TRADE Jobbers in SADDLERY, HARDWARE, ROBES, BL4NKETS, HORSE COLLARS, WHIPS, ETC. Orders by maii given prompt attention. NUTS and RAISINS 00-0-0-0-0-00-0-0-0-0-0 0-0-0-0-0-00-0-0-0-0-0 0-0-0-0-0-0000000000000-00000000 WHEN YOU SEE A MAN ; DO THIS NG and the : G. J. JOHNSON CIGAR CO., Grand Rapids. 060-0-00-0-00-0000-0000-00-0000000000000000000000000600 0-00-0000 you know that he wants one of the BEST 5 CENT CIGARS ial EVER MADE : W. Sold by all wholesale dealers Everything in the Plumbing Line Everything in the Heating Line Be it Steam, Hot Water or Hot Air. Mantels, Grates and Tiling. Galvanized Work of Every Description. Largest Concern in the State. WALNUTS MIXED ALMONDS FANCY CLUSTERS BRAZILS LONDON LAYERS FILBERTS IMPORTED SULTANAS PECANS ONDARA LAYERS LOOSE MUSCATELS SEEDED IN PACKAGES WEATHERLY & PULTE, 99 Pearl St., Grand Rapids (AABAARARAAAAARAAARARARARAR AAR AR, Seeee Terese elesecelenecs AND ALL-GRADES OF FANCY CANDIES Our line of above goods is in and we are offering at very low figures. MUSSELMAN GROCER CO., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. FOR CHRISTMAS Calendar Season Is Now Here Improve the opportunity to present your customers with a souvenir which will cause them to think of you every day during 1899. Samples and quotations free for the asking. TRADESMAN COMPANY, Grand Rapids. “MR. The Most Johnson Paper & Supply Co., @ ° 6 Kalamazoo, Mich., @ Wholesale Dealers in e Wrapping Paper, Stationery, Willow and Wooden Ware, @ Snow Shovels, Oyster Pails, Paper Bags, Pine and e@ Cedar Tubs and Pails. o——.—_-_- @ SPECIAL—Try our $5.00 Job, assorted 5 and 1o cent Writing Tablets. Our new assortment of 25 cent Briar Pipes are very attractive; one dozen on @ astand. You will be pleased with them. e Mail orders promptly attended to and satisfaction guaranteed. Remember the Name When You Buy Again THOMAS” Popular Nickel Cigar on Earth F. E. Bushman, Representative, Kalamazoo, Mich. ° ® o Mail Orders Solicited. 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 100 gallon. ADAMS & HART. Jobbers, Grand Rapids. PURITY AND STRENGTH! FLEISCHMANN & GO.'3 COMPRESSED YEAST ary 9m 1g As placed on the market in tin foil and under 49 : : oSicnman — ve, our yellow label and signature is ve Mp roar EF Sime Si ABSOLUTELY PURE 5 e —— 3 Of greater strength than any other yeast, and ¥, COMPRESSED oF convenient for handling. Neatly wrapped in ay 6 YEAST gis ee tin foil. Give our silverware premium list to Pe sagsr® * oy your patrons and increase your trade. Particu- OUR LABEL lar attention paid to shipping trade. Address, FLEISCHMANN & CO. Detroit Agency, 118 Bates St. Grand Rapids Agency, 26 Fountain St. ~~ BVQ_VB VA Q®BW -VA-A-V- A.A. A - QA .@Q .@Q.a.a.- OOO EOD BOE OD 9B 'O DOA OAS AIA ‘oan «STANDARD O1L G0. DEALERS IN ILLUMINATING AND LUBRICATING NAPHTHA AND GASOLINES Office and Works, BUTTERWORTH AVE., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Bulk works at Grand Rapids, Muskegon, Manistee, Cadillac, Big Kap- ids, Grand Haven, Traverse City, Ludington, Allegan, Howard City, Petoskey, Reed City, Fremont, Hart, Whitehali, Holland and Fennville Highest Price Paid for Empty Carbon and Gasoline Barrels. Nisuussiaaies See ”, eeeeceeececeeceecececes® ° ™,° a,” a’ Ma’ Maa’ Ma’ Ca: Lae ee ee ee ee ee Sree cee ee eeeeesesesssscesesen SESSOSSSS PSESESSESESESSELELE® This Is 2 The Time oe of the year when merchants oe present their customers with FFTIIFSSISSIVIVIVSSITTS PRELIESLOSSEESLOS SSO DSS OSES SD OSD oe CALENDARS. Have you any oe to give to your customers ? Pi We are calendar makers and ss Shh FITISIITFISS oe can get you up something Foy eh & ts new on short notice at a price . that is as low as is consistent es with first-class work. FISTT ** TRADESMAN COMPANY, ae : GRAND RAPI DS. ; Ssseees FFSSSITFTS Reeessereeesssesssssesssseessece TTT Soo Tes A DESK FOR YOUR OFFICE) 2 We don’t claim to sell “direct from ‘thet factory” but do claim that we can sell you at Less than the Manufacturer’s Cost and can substantiate our claim. We sell you sam- ples at about the cost of material and guarantee our goods to be better made and better finished than the stock that goes to the furniture dealers. Our No. 61 Antique Oak Sample Desk has a combination lock and center drawer. Raised panels all around, heavy filasters, 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 astrictly dust- . proof curtain. Our special price to readers of the Tradesman $20. Write for our illustrated cat- alogue and mention this paper when you do so. SAMPLE FURNITURE co. JOBBE®S OF SAMPLE FURNITURE. PEARL AND OTTAWA STS. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. A poe 19 F YOU ARE Ht DEALER # in LIME and os do not handle . PETOSKEY STANDARD 8 you are not doing as well as you might for yourself and your customers. No other Lime is as satisfactory to dealer or user. PETOSKEY LIME CO., -- Bayshore, Nich. een aaa i * Se ee ee ad ee Sd = — Sereeitetenmssnnalidn, seminal aiinmniadameaeammentiiiiiell Jiao oo ae se aT ae roan aeaaaeennc «ae \ 2 ‘e. yy 867 | ee, , aes: ) wy c \ ase A s) Bs Volume XVI. GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1898. Number 795 000000000006 0060000000 SPRING LINE 1899 NOW READY : Herringbones and every style pattern in market Largest line of Clay and Fancy > Worsted Spring Overcoats and Suits, $3.50 up, all manufactured by ; 3 KOLB & SON WHOLESALE -CLOTHIERS i Rechester, N. Y. Write our traveler, Wm. Connor, Box 346, Marshall, Mich., to call, or meet him at @ Sweet’s Hotel, Grand Rapids, Dec. 19-20. 3 Winter Overcoats and Ulsters still on hand. 3 FIGURE NOW on improving your office system for next year. Write for sample leaf of our TIME BOOK and PAY ROLL. BARLOW BROS., Grand Rapids. PREFERRED BANKERS LIFE ASSURANCE COMPAN’ OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN. Commenced Business September 1, 1893. Insurance in force... ...:.....--...-<- $2,746,000.0¢ Net Increase during 1897 ...... 104,000.0« Net Assets”... ..-....... .. 32,738.4¢ Losses Adjusted and Unpaid. None Other Liabilities................ . None Total Death Losses Paid to Date...... 40,061 .0« Total Guarantee Deposits Paid to Ben- CMCIAMCS 86. ne een 812.00 Death Losses Paid During 1897........ 17,000.0 Death Hate for 1897. .....>-..---... -... 6.3 Cost per 1,000 at age 30 during 1897.... 8.2 FRANK E. ROBSON, PREs. TRUMAN B. GOODSPEED, Sec’y. A ADAAA AAA hdd bbb && fn tlle lil ii ali iinet iii li iit inl ili THE , FIRE< v INS. , > ) é 3 CO. ¢ @ 4 > dbo ho bo bh bn bhn la no lr WwvVvVvVvVvVvVv VV Prompt, Conservative, Safe. J.W.CHAMPLIN, Pres. W. FRED McBary, Sec. yvewvvrvvrvwvrvwrvwrevwevwrevwevvwvvrrevwvwevweewwrewr* Ce ee ee Se ee ee eee ee THe MERCANTILE AGENCY Established 1841. R. G. DUN & CO. Widdicomb Bid’g, Grand Rapids, Mich. Books arranged with trade classification of names. Collections made everywhere. Write for particulars. L. P. WITZLEBEN. [anager. L. J. STEVENSON, Manacer and Notary, R. J. CLELAND, Atroaney. ~ THE FORGOTTEN PAST e Which we read about can never be . forgotten by the merchant who be § comes familiar with our coupon e system. The past to such is always B a ‘nightmare.’ The present is an e era of pleasure and profit. B e a TRADESMAN COMPANY, GRAND RAPIDS. ° = HIGHER STATESMANSHIP. The new responsibilities devolving upon the Government of the United States by the readjustment of its rela- tions with the government of Spain can be met only by the exercise of the high- est order of statesmansbip. Hitherto the people of this country have had to consider only familiar and, for the most part, inherited questions of public pol- icy, and, without disparagement to dis- tinguished party leaders, it must be con- fessed that, at least since the war of secession, those questions have settled themselves. This dark sentence means merely that events have been stronger than men. The great national parties, now divid- ing the suffrage of the people of the United States, were not formed to deal with the supremely important questions to which the end of the Spanish war nas given birth. Hitherto they have aad to deal with strictly domestic ques- tions. There is nothing in their plat- torms to separate the Republican and Democratic parties in the work of gov ering, either temporarily or fer- manently, the new dependencies of the United States. That duty is purely na- iional, and should be approached in the oroadest national spirit. Any member of either house of the Federal Congress who takes it up with a feeling that he must watch and work for a chance to nake party capital out of the complica- c1ions and embarrassments that inevi- tably attend it is unfitted by that very tact to do his fair share of the work which is now laid upon his shoulders. The whole situation is so entirely 1ovel that the oldest head may well de- mand time for a careful review of all the conditions which must be taken into consideration. Throughout the whole aistory of this country the Federal Gov- ernment has been warring or negotiating with a few small Indian tribes within its own proper domain. It has now to ieal with unknown millions. who lie three thousand miles beyond its limits. The American people, almost without a single exception, are unfamiliar with the language, the laws, the traditions, the habits, the aspirations, of the in- habitants of the Philippine Islands. To conquer those islands with ships and men is in itself a prodigious military andertaking. It may be that that terrible exigency will not arise. It may be that the freedom-loving people of the United States, devoted to the principle of lucal self-government, may not have to compel the allegiance of those distant strangers by force of arms. It may be— it is probably true—that the Filipinos are not yet prepared to pass upon the question of their own compentency for self-government. It may be that the people of those islands, despite the un- toward ambitions of some of their own accustomed leaders, may be brought to recognize this fact. Still, the task be fore the Government of the United States is one of overwhelming propor- tions. Take a single item out of many: When Great Britain was called upon to undertake the government of the vast region now known as British India it soon became apparent that that body of law. which had been developed with} GENERAL TRADE SITUATION. and by the growth of Anglo-Saxon civ- ilization was not adapted to the demands of Indian civilization. There, too, was an ancient body of laws which had grown with the growth of the people through uncounted centuries. The oc- cidental and the oriental points of view indicated very different conclusions very often in the determination of questions of justice. What was to be done? The colonizing genius of Great Britain was never more signally displayed than in the decision of that question. The Brit- ish government decided that questions of personal and property right should be settled in-India by the immemorial laws of the land, not by the common law and the statutory law of Great Brit- ain. How, if called upon, would Eng- land deal with the people of the Philip- pine Islands in that particular? Would it undertake to impose its own laws upon them? Would it enact a special system of law adapted to their peculiar requirements? Or would it adopt such laws as are already in force in that country? This question suggests simply one, not the least, of many difficult problems which American statesmanship must now undertake to solve. Only one thing is evident, and that is that an imper- ative demand has arisen for a higher order of statesmanship than has pre- vailed in this country under the hap- hazard regime of partisan rivalry. Receipts to be used by bank custom- ers in lieu of checks, when drawing money for themselves, area dismal fail- ure in Wabash, Ind. Last week, after an opinion had been obtained from the Commissioner of Internal Revenue that a depositor might use a non-negotiable receipt in drawing funds for his own use from a bank, and thus save the 2 cent stamp tax, the local banks had huge stocks of blank receipts printed and placed on the desks. It was supposed there would be a popular demand for them by the economically inclined, but the customers, with very few excep- tions, decline to use them, explaining that they are not tax-dodgers. A Christmas entertainment is annually given to nearly 2,000 poor persons in Berlin with the proceeds of the contri- butions of cigar stubs and tip cuttings by charitable smokers who are consid- erate enough to save these seemingly worthless scraps. The annual call for the turning in of the accumulation of the past year has just been issued. Bunches of bananas made of papier mache have been introduced as signs on the wharves of New York, where the depredations of hoodlums are frequent. It is proposed to add wooden peanuts for the benefit of policemen and other friendly samplers of the stock in trade. A Boston fruit company is making an effort to revive the decayed banana in dustry in Cuba. It has just purchased « large quantity of the trees in Jamaica, which will be planted in the ‘‘new pos- sessions. "’ Complete statistics for the month of November prove it to have broken all records for any month in the volume of business transacted, and so far the cur- rent month shows a material increase over the preceding. The promise of the greatest retail holiday trade ever known is being realized, and on ac- count of pressure of orders there is_ less of suspension of operations in the great industries on account of the approach- ing end of the year, for stock taking, etc., than usual. The slow but steady increase in the prices of most leading stocks which has been in evidence for a month past is accelerated in the last few days and the amount of trading is so great that it would be considered a boom were prices not so conservative. Thereason for the increase in price is sufficiently indi- cated in the continued favorable earn- ings of both railways and_ industrials, and the activity is the greater on ac- count of the pressure of unemployed money for investment. The continued foreign credit is beginning to be felt in making money plenty and the sale of Western products, with the wage pay- ments in the industrial centers and the distribution of profits to shareholders, is keeping it in circulation and increas- ing the urgency for investment, so that there is abundant reason for the activ- ity in the share market and in invest- ment in other securities. While the price of wheat has yielded slightly during the week, there is no lessening of activity in movement. Last week’s exports exceeded the very heavy outgo of last year and the movement of corn showed a corresponding increase of about 25 per cent. The price of the latter was firmly held. i The cotton situation is more encour- aging than for a long time. The price of the raw staple has increased to 5.81 cents and the export movement has in- creased about 20 per cent. over that for the corresponding time last year. There is also a slight increase in the price of cotton prints, with improved demand. And there is a more hopeful feeling in the woolen goods trade, increased or- ders leading to greater activity in wool- buying by the mills. In the iron trade the placing of heavy orders for steel rails, mentioned last week, is naturally followed by heavy sales of Bessemer pig, Pittsburg works taking 150,c00 tons. Orders for other forms of the metal have been unex- pectedly heavy and the outlook for an indefinite extension of the pericd of activity 1s greatly improved. The volume of payments through the principal clearing houses last week was 22 4 per cent. larger than last year and 14 8 per cent. larger than in 1892. For December thus far the daily average has been 18.4 per cent. larger than last year and 14.5 per cent. larger than in 1892. Such a strong and continued iucrease can in no way be explained as a result of mere speculative activity, nor is it sufficiently explained by the rush of nusiness in one or two branches of in- dustry. It shows a widespread and gen- eral expansion, decidedly beyond the largest volume of business ever at- tained in the most prosperous of past years. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Dry Goods The Dry Goods Market. Staple Cottons—The average advance upon both heavy and light brown sheet- ings, shirtings and drills since the in- auguration of the upward movement has been 4c; some lines are up %c and some 3-16c. A further advance can not fail to follow a further active de- mand. The duck market is fully 5 per cent. firmer than it was two weeks ago, both upon ounce and heavier goods Large Government orders have greatly helped the position of these goods. There has been a fair movement of bleached goods during the week, but it has not been sufficiently large to absorb stocks of such medium-grade goods as are selling between 4@5c, and until an advance is made upon these other goods will be neglected. Fine and low-grade goods are firm at advances of 24@4 per cent. from lowest values, and an ad- vance in medium grades will bea signal for a further advance on these. The market upon bleached goods is very un- even, but another week’s business will correct this. Prints and Ginghams—A very large business was accomplished last week upon all varieties of printed fabrics and especially upon new lines of low and high-grade fancies. The boom in print cloths and allied goods has impressed buyers with the extreme cheapness of prints at present prices, and the ad- vances that have already been made upon leading lines and the warnings of agents that a general upward movement is pending have stimulated demand con- siderably. The market is now %@%c below prices of last year, while cloths are fully %c higher than then. Mani- festly this disproportionate position can not be continued if demand is any- where near nominal size. There is every reason, however, to believe that it will far exceed the business of the same period of the last few years. Agents expect to maintain full standard fancies at last year’s prices after a certain moderate position of their production is under contract. They expect to recover at least 4c of the decline in low-grade fancies, shirtings and other regular prints. They must secure more than this if cloths are to be held upon their present basis. These advances are likely to be made at any time, and it behooves buyers to book their orders quickly. It is a buyers’ market at pres- ent and one in which they never had a better chance to coin money. Underwear—The advent of severe cold weather has had the effect of stimulat- ing late buying of heavy winter under- wear, and the snowstorms of the past week have augmented this necessity of keeping up stock in heavyweights. It is too late now, however, to expect any- thing more in this line, and all atten- tion at present is directed to spring busi- ness. Mills, as a rule, are fairly well sold up, more orders being acceptable, however. An encouraging fact in con- nection with spring orders is that the bulk of them lean in the direction of better goods, the cheaper grades being to some extent repudiated by dealers. Medium priced goods are the best in demand, and medium to_ high-priced goods are gradually taking quite a share of the market. One manufacturer ex pressed the opinion that medium to high priced goods would be in greater de- mand next year than has ever been known, not even excepting the unprece- dented year of 1892. This is a perfectly reasonable view, and is warranted by general business prosperity. It will certainly afford a larger margin of profit to the manufacturer, which is not the least desired object of business gener- ally. The popularity of the union suit continues to grow with each season and it is expected that the spring trade in underwear will show a larger proportion of combination suits disposed of than ever before. It is peculiarly advan- tageous as a summer article of apparel, that time of the year when anything which does not fit well irritates and enervates the wearer. The union suit adapts itself so consistently to the form as to leave practically no opportunity for irritation in any way. We are not advocating this underwear to the ex clusion of the regular two-piece goods, neither are we giving it any free adver- tising, but we do believe in the merits of the combination suit, and believe that it will become almost as universal as the two-piece underwear is now. Hosiery—The demand for hosiery is confined to staple lines almost entirely and there can be said to be _ practically no business in fancies whatever, com- paratively speaking. Golf hose have run out for the present, although the de- mand will probably be in evidence again as spring approaches. A curious fact in connection with this season’s business in hosiery is that large sizes have had nearly all the business: ros and 10%s have been the usual selling sizes, but this year 10%s, 11s and 11%s have absorbed the trade, and the manufactur- ers are at a loss to understand it. Pos- sibly the idea that a larger size will wear longer, especially in the cheap grades, is responsible to some extent for this condition ; however, such is the de- mand now existing, and the manufac- turers claim that if this continues they will be obliged to raise prices to meet the increased cost of manufacture, and the importers also for this reason, and to cover duties. Blankets—The blanket manufacturers are busy now getting their lines ready for the opening of the next season, and several new lines will be shown; espe- cially will this be noticeable in white goods. The blanket mills this year are in a far better condition than for many years. past, as we have written to some length in past issues. If the business is now carried on in a conservative way there is no reason why it shouid again lapse. The manufacturers should. take warning from past experience, and keep stocks down to a condition where they can be easily handled. ———_>42>___ Encourage the Clerks. Much of the increased profits and trade which will soon be brought to the store depends largely upon the efforts of the clerks to realize to the fullest ex- tent all the possibilities in them. If the clerks are dilatory in waiting upon cus- tomers and allow them to stand around for an indefinite length of time before they are attended to, or even go so far as to allow them to leave, as often hap- pens, without noticing them, much val- uable trade is lost. It would be better to prepare previously for this augmen- tation of custom by having a sufficient number of new clerks hired temporarily. The writer has visited stores during the holiday season when no provision of this kind had been made, and was of course compelled to leave the store without finding any opportunity whatever to get waited upon. This was in a large city store which considered itself progressive and up-to-date, alhough it was very far from being so. Now where a point is made to have enough help some _ incen- tive ought to be given the clerks to in- duce them to work conscientiously and with a will. Clerks are only human and they are just as capable of feeling fa- tigue and discouragement as any one else. They should therefore be remun- erated in proportion to the additional work which is required of them. In- dustry needs stimulation when it is in an anaemic state. The form of spirits which will do this most effectually is some additional filthy lucre. That is to say, give them some percentage of sales they make above a certain amount. [heir zeal will be doubled by this in- ducement and the merchant will be as- tonished to find how much Jatent ability and energy they have kept hidden away far out of sight. They will begin to work in emulation of one anohr ad display a zealousness which will do much to build up trade. : cy 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 desirabie line of KNIT HAND WEAR The trade is assured that its interests will be promoted by handling these goods. CTSSSS For Years CSSCTS We have had a hobby, and that has been a choice line of prints. We justly feel proud of the many compliments be- stowed upon us by the trade for the good judgment dis- played in our selections. We believe it to be the very foun- dation of a successful spring and summer’s business. The styles for 1899 will actually surprise you. Never have such beautiful colorings and designs been shown as the makers offer this season; never have we bought so liberally as this Herpolsheimer & Co., Wholesale Dry Goods, time. Our salesmen will show entire line on their first trip. Do not miss the opportunity of seeing it. Voigt, Eo Grand Rapids, Mich. For the Holiday Crade We have an elegant line of perfumes, put up 2 and 3 doz. on artistic dis- play cards, which can be profitably retailed < t 5 and 10 cents per bottle. Sampson’s Guns, filled with perfume, to retail at 5 cents. Half oz. triple extract, a showcase free with each 2 doz., to retail at 1o cents. A beautiful and artistic medallion, brass mountings, with each doz. half oz. triple extract, to retail at 10 cents. 15, 20, 25 and So cents per bottle. Better goods to sell at Dolls to retail from 1 to 75 cents. Children’s fancy handkerchiefs to sell from 2 cents up. Ladies’ to sell from 5 cents up. fancy handkerchiefs Ladies’ Japanese Silk handker- chiefs to sell from to cents up. Men’s fancy and plain handker- chiefs to sell from 5 cents up. Men’s imitation Japanese Silk (initial) handkerchiefs to sell at 12% and 15 cents. Men’s silk handkerchiefs to sell 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. Sieketee § Sons, Grand Rapids, Mich. | | MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 3 PARISIAN WAYS. Not At All Like American Business Methods. The last two decades have marked the growth of not a few large commercial undertakings in France. Some of these employ thousands of men and have agencies throughout all the provinces of the country and are even represented in every large foreign city in Christen- dom; but it is a curious fact that the larger any establishment grows here, the more leisure has everybody connected with it. The young Freych clerk or book-keeper would throw up his posi- tion, even although such an act meant bread and water for years to come, if his employer dared to import what are be- coming known on the Continent as ‘‘American methods.’’ He wants to come down to his work certainly not earlier than g o'clock—it is oftener 10 that finds him before his desk—and it his two hours at noon are abridged by the smallest quarter hour, sulkiness and surliness are the sequel. In positions just a grade above his the incumbents stroli in at 10, lunch from noon to any hour they please aud never stay later than 5 o'clock at their offices. This accounts for what is so often observed with astonishment by Americans so journing abroad: They wonder that the cafes are full, at all hours of the day, with prosperous men whose con- versation shows them to be engaged in what even the blue-blooded Frenchman is beginning to mention respectfully as ‘‘la commerce.’’ The explanation is now evident; these merchants ruminate over their affairs in the shade of a cafe awning instead of behind the forbidding railing of a private office. Every one of them might be a literary lounger as far as his appearance is concerned. Im- maculate boots, spotless linen and high- ly polished top hat—all proclaim that they do not by any means give all their time to business, and that if all 1s hurry and industrial fervor at their offices, they at least will not stoop to become a part of it for more than four or five hours a day. As for the proprietor himself, he is oftener than nota true rara avis at the es tablishment. His head clerks and con- fidential men come to him in his pleas- ant country villa or city palace when he desires information. He pays wages of superintendence and has forgotten, if he ever knew, the name of his book -keeper. I have so many large Paris establish ments in my mind while writing this that menticning one or two would be of no use. But in one of the largest soap and perfumery houses in the world, that fairyland of color and fragrance that looks out upon the Place de ls Madeleine, one of the severe reminders to the employes consists of a sign hang- ing near the door, ‘‘ Messieurs the clerks are prayed to recall that not more than two hours can be allowed during the summer for dejeuner.’’ And even in the large department stores, which the French believe to be unequaled for size and convenience by any others in the world, such a thing as a clerk working overtime or curtailing his midday meal for any furpose whatsoever has never, I am assured, been heard of. In the store clerks and accountants are obliged to attend to their monotonous but never-hurried duties. The moment a certain gong strikes they don _ their glossy high hats, change their short coats for the courtly length required on the boulevards, and immediately seek their favorite restaurant or cafe, where they become gentlemen of leisure, ‘‘rentiers,’’ and talk of political affairs or the last Salon, with highly judicial air and critical eye, as if there were no yards of ribbon and silk waiting for their hands during the afternoon. All this is very fine, and nobody would wish it replaced by a different system, perhaps. But it is not what we Americans call ‘‘business.’’ Jt is not in accord with the persuasion that time is money, and these polite loungers, swaying and idling in their chairs while the sun on high is attending strictly to his daily work,do not belp to give Paris the atmosphere of a beehive. The new- comer’s first impression is that every class of Parisians rest and recuperate and talk ‘‘affairs’’ at least two-thirds of the day. For what is true of large business houses is equally so of the small trades- people. If you are coming to Paris to live for some months, be warned and do not try to have the affairs of your me- mage progress between the hours of 11 and 2. The charbonnier will not bring your coal, the grocer and butcher will not deliver orders, and the concierge, paid to attend to your wants, will not bring up letters, papers or packages be- tween the limits mentioned. That in- terval almost universally and quite in- exorably belongs to each person, how- ever humble be his state, born in the free and lazy air of France. The sun, as before hinted, is the only cosmo- logical adjunct which agrees to con- tmue business. The household ser- vants are perhaps the only exception, and they get indemnity by going off every afternoon the moment the work !s done to take a‘' petite promenade au soleil." Unless you allow your servants this ‘‘right,’’ as they consider it, you will get but poor service and little faithfulness from them. The very omnibuses go slower and are greatly reduced in number; the great depots are deserted, and the resting locomotives snore soitly under the great iron arches, the long freight trains be- hind them packed to bursting for those who are out yonder in the green coun- try waiting for the goods they have or- dered. But the freight trains, too, are waiting, waiting, waiting, and it will be 2 or 3 o'clock before the warning whistle blows once more. The facto- ries of the Gobelins and those at Sevres, the Ministerial offices and the telegraph bureau—all are wrapped ina siesta as deep as ever clasped in its dreamy em- brace a little Spanish town nestling aear the shadow of the Alhambra. The bicyclist, fearful of the rush of carriages on the Avenue de 1’Opera during the morning, when thousands of energetic -trangers are going a-sightseeing, finds no spice of danger now; he has all the highway to himself. The winding Boul- evard des Capucines is given up to sparrows and buzzing flies. One almost expects to find weeds growing up in the cracks of the pavement. > 2. ____- Points for Retailers. Spend at least one-tenth of your net. profits in judicious advertising It will most certainly come back again. Let your stock be wisely proportionate to your capital. Use caution in buying and in selling, and require more cash and less credit. In taking an invoice of your stock, do not figure the goods at what they cost you some time ago, but figure on the cur- rent quotations of the day, as many goods have declined or advanced. Every retail merchant in the country should know just how he stands on the opening of the new year, in order to en- able him to ascertain, at the end of six or twelve months following, how much money his business is making or losing for him. Credit is a necessity in our methods of carrying on trade. It is upon the credit system that the business of the country 1s based and built up, and con- sequently, it is of vital importance that any abuse of that system should be rig- orously avoided. The following is a good resolution for the retailer to take for the new year: ‘*T will pay my bills at the time when and place where due, or, if unable to do that, and if my creditor is obliged to make drafts on me, I will meet his drafts as soon as possible, paying all legitimate bank charges.’’ —____»0.—____ The Other Way. ‘‘Now,’’ said the American officer, after he got well settled on Cuban soil, ‘I want to try one of your good Havana cigars.’ “*Certainly,’’ replied the host, pro- ducing a box. ‘‘ Here are some I import- ed from the United States just before the war.’’ The milk of human kindness is not very heavily enameled with cream. Sober Reflection. Tagleigh—Did vou ever notice, when a man has been drinking heavily the night before, how long and earnestly he will look at himself in the, glass the next morning? Wagleigh—Certainly. time for sober reflection. That is the —___~»0.___ We never know what we can do_ until we try, and then we frequently find that we can't. Dwight’s Cleaned Currants If you want nice, fresh, new stock, buy Dwight’s. If you want cheap trash, don’t look for it in our pack- ages. All Grand Rapids jobbers sell them. CHOOMODOOOO®D QOQQOOEO OOOO CO COMO OOOO OO Grand Rapids. POHOOQOOOOHPHODSGSEOHGQODOGQOOQOO © © Wolverine Spice Co., S @ oe A fine line of op- Spectacles tical goods and a skillful optic- A. Preusser. UBEROID EADY OOFING All ready to lay. Needs no painting for two years. lan to test your eyes at Is odorless, absolutely waterproof, will resist fire and the action of acids. Can be used over shingles of steep roofs, or is suitable for flat roofs. Will outlast tin or iron and is very much cheaper. Try our pure ASPHALT PAINT For coating tin, iron or ready roofs. Write for prices. H. M. REYNOLDS & SON, Grand Rapids Office, Louis and Campau Sts. Detroit Office Foot of First St. We are manufacturing an article that will suggest itself to you as most desirable for its salable quality. Itis the WE MoP THE WORLD Fuller Patented Eccentric Spring Lever Mop Stick It is adapted to your trade; in Neatness and Convenience it has no equal; the price is reasonable; it is being extensively ad- vertised; it has proven a phenomenal suc- cess wherever introduced. eo — but be careful 7 | for good printi ora Grand | Perhapsee | >| you want some unique style « —————|__ in printing---something differ- —]) eit from others. you With thousands of other « —— >| Satisfied patrons. i —— | of good printing must bees pT —_————| higher if you count qualityee = |—— Cradesman Company, ———-—— Let us place The price | ————— where you go | --— ng---get quality. § | ——-—_—— Rapids. ~ a 2) USE CPD Same 2 Nn ANAL DERE HN 4 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Around the State Movements of Merchants. Zeeland—Languis Bros. have opened a meat market. Springport—N. Dean has purchased the general stock of J. S. Geiger. Charlevoix—Lee Clark, of Cheboy- gan, has opened a meat market here. Quincy—Marvin W. Porter has pur- chased the grocery stock of Will Knapp. Emmett—W. C. Martin has _ pur- chased the drug business of W. J. Toal. Traverse City—C. V. Fisher succeeds Claude Owen in the confectionery busi- ness. Ann Arbor—Geo. Donahue has em- barked in the grocery business at this place. Owosso—J. Barry has put in a stock of groceries in connection with his meat market. Thompsonville—Geo. J. Menold has removed his drug stock from Yuma to this place. Big Rapids—Mrs. A. Stone, of Grand Rapids, has re-opened a bakery on the North side. Buchanan—Corey & Winchester suc- ceed Corey Bros. in the grocery and meat business. Battle Creek—Eugene Reynolds has re-engaged in the grocery business in the Ward block. Springport—S. J. Hammond will shortly engage in the boot and shoe and crockery business. South Haven—W. M. Loomis and C. Hollister have opened a feed store in the Merson building. Springport—Frank E. Powers suc- ceeds Powers & Bean in the agricultural implement business. Hillsdale—The millinery firm of Weber & Co. has been dissolved, Miss Ella Laning retiring. Vermontville—Andrew Alderman has sold his meat business and grocery stock to Edgar E. Campbell. Dollar Bay—Wm. Mercier, manager of the Pearce hardware store, is visiting at his old home in Indiana. Maple Grove—R. A. Brooks has pur- chased an interest in a meat market at Nashville and removed to that place. Howell—Frederick P. Schroeder con- tinues the hardware and implement business of Schroeder & Elliott. Homer—Geo. Dunbar has sold his bakery and restaurant business here and at Litchfield to S M. Adams, of Allen. Jackson—Thos. Wall and Clarence Conklin, under the firm name of Wall & Conklin, have opened a fish market here. Coldwater—W. W. Bishop has pur- chased the grocery stock of J. W. Som- merlott, to which he will add a fresh stock. Howell—Frederick P. Schroeder con- tinues the hardware and agricultural implement business of Schroeder & Elliott. Sand Lake—N. N. Pringle succeeds Moody & Pringle in the hardware, har- ness, Carriage and farming Implement business. Imlay City—J. L. Bartlett has sold his hardware stock to Benj. Sperry, of Port Huron, who will conduct stores at both places. Mason—H. W. Brown, of Leslie, has removed to this place and engaged in the cold storage business in company with A. J. Hall. Maple Rapids—The new store_build- ing of J. M. Roberts is nearly com- pleted and will soon be occupied by his grocery stock. Ithaca—John Botroff has purchased a half interest in the grocery stock of Charles Frost. The new firm will be known as Frost & Botroff. West Branch—C, F. Stewart has sold his drug stock and fixtures to Dr. T. S. Glenn, of Rose City, who will continue the business at the same location. Remus—Del. Mansfield has purchased the half interest of Conrad C. Murphy in the general stock of D. Mansfield & Co. and will continue the business in his own name. Otsego—C. A. Barnes has sold his drug stock to J. D. Woodbeck, who has consolidated his book, news and musi- cal merchandise stock with the drug stock in the Edsell block. Otsego—Chas. W. Edsell and Wm. Sebright have purchased the interest of Jas. Stout in the firm of Wm. Sebright & Co., lumber and wood dealers. The firm name will remain the same. Jonesville—Geo, N. Smith, hardware dealer at Hillsdale, and F. A. Fuller, of Detroit, have purchased the stock of the Hix Hardware Co. Mr. Smith will continue his business at Hillsdale. Dutton—Daniel McQueen has sold his general stock to E. C. Saxton, who will continue the business at the same location. Mr. Saxton was formerly en- gaged in trade at Lakeview. Houghton—The Portage Lake Hard- ware Co., Ltd., is making several changes in the interior arrangement of its store. Under Mr. Zealand’s man- agement a fine showing has been made for 1898. Ovtonagon—C. H. Emmons is again located in business here, after being away for a few years. Mr. Emmons was born here and his father was ore of the pioneer hardware men on Lake Superior. Ludington—Eugene Tangley, former ly with the Busy Big store, has leased Vic Roussin’s old stand in the Fourth ward and will open a clothing store as soon as he can get his stock of goods from Chicago. St. Johns—D. R. Salisbury has closed out his retail stock of boots and shoes and rented his store and fixtures to Frisbee & Thome, of St. Johns. He will devote his entire attention to his manufacturing business. Port Huron—An important decision has been reached by the Grocers and Butchers’ Association in the adoption of a resolution by which the members of the Association are asked to refuse all applications for advertisements on pro- grams in the city. Edmore—It is A. M. Pierce & Co, instead of F. W. Pierce, who purchased of Edson, Moore & Co. (Detroit) the block known as the D. O Long prop erty. They will make extensive im- provements, occupying a portion of the block with their dry goods stock and renting the remainder. Port Huron—The Sarnia grocers have already begun the work of preparation for securing the annual outing of the Saginaw Grocers’ Association next sum- mer, which they are confident can be secured for that city. If Sarnia is named as the place at which the outing is held the grocers will see to it that nothing is lacking in the way of hand- some entertainment for their guests. Manufacturing Matters. Adrian—Rufus Baker, the pioneer cheese manufacturer of Michigan, died recently. Chippewa Lake—Jas. T. Moore, who operates a shingle mill at this place, will shortly remove to Wooley, Wash. Thompson—The White & _ Friant Lumber Co., Ltd., purcbaser of the Delta Lumber Co.’s plant, has sold the merchandise stock to John Patterson, who will continue business at the old stand. Detroit—The Silver Yeast Co. has been incorporated with a capital of $25,090, of which $10,000 is paid in. The incorporators are Ludewick E. Wagoner, 600 shares; James X. Yeon, 50 shares; Charles N. Brown, 50 shares; Delbert C. Morris, 300 shares. Detroit—The Edwin Armitage Man- ufacturing Co. has been incorporated with $60,000 capital, of which $35,000 is paid in, to manufacture floor . and table oil-cloths, window-shade cloth, etc. The incorporators are Edwin Arm- itage, 860 shares; John R. Clarke and George B. Clarke, 660 shares each; S. D. Maddin, 860 shares; George E. Kingsley, 460 shares. ——___ ~» 0 -~< -— The Boys Behind the Counter. Cheboygan— Phil. St. Amour, who left last spring for Detroit and engaged in the grocery business, has sold out bis stock, returned to Cheboygan and taken a fosition in DeGowin Bros.’ grocery, where he was employed prior to going to Detroit. Owosso— One of the dry goods clerks of the city, Julian Mosher, is getting ready a house which will be the home of Mr. and Mrs. Mosher after the holi- days. The wedding takes place in Lowell. Saugatuck—P. M. Grice is now en- gaged as clerk for Russell Taylor, and Chas. E. Bird 1s in charge of Heath's drug store. Sault Ste. Marie—Bert Goodrich has taken a position with W. C. Brown, ot Marquette, and will shortly take his de- parture for that city. Coldwater—Fred Bixler, book-keeper and teller in the Coldwater National Bank, will take a pos.tion with the ‘Flint Wagon Works Co. January 1. Mr. Bixler is a young man of good business ‘qualifications and will, no doubt, be successful in his new field of work Harry Simons will take the place made vacant by Mr. Bixler’s resignation. Charlotte—Roy Collins, formerly of this city, has been promoted to the posi- tion of assistant book-keeper by the De- troit wholesale hardware firm for which he has been working for the past five months. Owosso—Bert Gristock, clerk in Hoakway & Son’s grocery store, and Miss Edith Goodell, trimmer in Krob’s millinery store, were recently married at the home of the bride’s parents at Durand. Flint—Geo, A. Ryman will on Jan- uary 1 take charge of a branch store of J. B. Speny & Co., of Port Huron, at Imlay City. He has been for the last five years with G. W. Hubbard and is a practical hardware man. Albion—Miss Mary J. Heaney died of hemorrhage of the brain last Monday at her home on East Michigan avenue. Miss Heaney had been a popular clerk in Albion’s dry goods stores for several years and had gained a very wide circle of friends by her faithfulness to her employers and her habitual courtesy to patrons. At the time of her death she was employed at Austin & Tucker’s. Quincy—After four years’ faithful service in the employ of E. B. Church, J. D. Blauvelt resigned last week, and Ermest Bailey has taken his place in Mr. Church's employ. Mr. Blauvelt ex- pects to go to farming on his own ac- count, Ionia—E. C. Barber, for many years watchmaker for Rolshoven & Co. and Wright, Kay & Co., of Detroit, has taken a position with Bedford, the jeweler. Bronson—C, J. Keyes is clerking in the new store of J. Coykendall. Ludington--Dave Betka, recently of the firm of Betka & Turgeon, is now at Scottville working in Fred Reader’s hardware store. He tried to find a lo. cation for a meat market at that place, but every suitable building was occu- pied and so he is biding his time await- ting a favorable opportunity to embark in the meat business. Sault Ste. Marie—Nelson A. Hall has resumed his old position as pharmacist in Rudell & Conway's drug store. Owosso—Crowe & Payne have en- gaged W. D. Royce to assist in their implement business. They except to be in their new store by January 1. Homer—Elbert Henshaw is clerking in Bangham’s drug store. Charlotte—Dorr Moyer is the new clerk at Selkirk & Norton’s. Coldwater—Paul Barnhart has re- turned from Grand Rapids and is again clerking at J. B. Foote’s book store. Elk Rapids—Henry Hogan succeeds Thomas Graham as clerk in Slater's fur- niture store. ——__>2<.___ Telephone Topics. Alma—The United States Electric Telephone Co. has sold its long distance ‘ine from this place to Sumner—a dis- tance of 21 miles—to the Montcalm County Telephone Co., which now owns and operates nearly 200 miles of long distance lines. It is thought that the purchaser will exend the line from this place to Saginaw, which will connect the Furniture City and the City of Salt and Sawdust. Manton—The poles are set and the wires are being strung on the Citizens telephone line to this place, the office being located in the Wiliiams Bros. Co.’s store. This will give Manton connection with the Swaverly line from Petoskey and intervening points and the Citizens line from Lake City and Cadillac, and it is expected to connect at the latter piace with the Citizens line to Grand Rapids, thus giving Manton two telephone iines—the Bel! and Citizens. Lansing—The Lansing Telephone Co. is improving its service every day and it is now possible to secure tele phone connections over its lines with nearly every city and town of any im- portance south of and including the Saginaw valley and reaching across the State. Connections can be had with Ann Arbor by way of Detroit, but a short cut line is now being built be- tween Howell and Byron, which will give better service to Ann Arbor and more direct connections with the Sagi- naw valley than are ubtainable under the present arrangement. Cheboygan Tribune: The Michigan Telephone Co. (the Bell) is evidently anxious to run out the Cheboygan Tele- phone Co. and at the Council meeting Tuesday night submitted a proposition to furnish the city telephone service for $15 per year for each phone and give a discount of 50 per cent., yet before the Bell had opposition it clamed it could not afford to furnish the service for less than then charged. We do not believe the citizens want the Cheboygan Co. run out. —_> 42 ____ If tombstones were reliable the devil would soon be wearing mourning. — ee is = ee is Tr MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 5 Grand Rapids Gossip The Grocery Market. Sugars—The raw sugar market has maintained its strength and closes at $4.44 bid for 96 deg. and none obtain- able under $4.50. It is said that the refiners have made large purchases of new crop Cuban sugars at a basis of $4.50, delivered for January shipment. The refined market has been a seesaw. Although there has been no change in list prices the concessions have been alternately withdrawn and offered. At the close these concessions are %c on granulated and %@3-16c on softs, the outside figure being for the independent sugars. It is given out from head- quarters that the two Howell refineries (the Mollenhauer and National) will close down on Saturday for two weeks, but this is nothing unusual for this sea- son of the year. The 5 pound cotton bag is now more easily obtained and refiners are giving a larger percentage of this style package to the car than a few weeks ago. Later—Since writing the above the list on sugars has been reduced %c. Tea—lIt is impossible to buy anything at a concession, and low grades have again advanced. It is probable that on most grades the full effect of the duty has now been felt. Canned Goods—There is a great deal of trading between tomato packers and Strictly first-class Western packed goods are getting cleaned up. There is, how- ever, quite a quantity of so-called stand- ards offered which are watery or slack- filled and prices are kept down by offer- ings of this class of goods. When these goods are picked up, as they are sure to be, look out for a sharp, quick advance on tomatoes. There is more enquiry for corn but no advance in price. The same can be said of everything in the vegetable line. Packers’ assortments are badly broken but it has been some years since they have cleaned up as well as they have this year. New packing will find many packers with compara- tively empty warehouses. As an in- stance of how their assortments are broken, we will say that in a single car received in this market this week from Baltimore there were shipments from four different packers. Ordinarily one packer could have supplied the whole line. Cereals—There is no change to note. While a general advance did not take effect the advances made by some mill- ers—as noted last week—are still main- tained. The demand is very good. Molasses and Svrups—The trade in molasses is disappointing to the hold- ers. The selections for this season of the year are exceptionally poor and buyers seem inclined to wait for better offerings. Dried Fruits—There is no change to note in anything except currants. Ow- ing to increased arrivals holders have further reduced prices 4c. No further decline is anticipated as prices have gotten down to a very low basis. Nuts—Heavy arrivals and the desire of holders to realize have resulted in a decline of %c on new Grenoble wal- nuts. There is no other change in this line. Provisions—There has been no ad- vance in prices to speak of, but the feeling is much firmer, and it is harder to obtain provisions at the old prices. The exceedingly low prices at which provisions have been selling have un- questionably stimulated the demand in spite of the competition of poultry and game. Jobbing prices on lard are un- changed, but the market is decidedly firmer. Brooms—All grades have been ad- vanced 10@25c per dozen by the manu- facturers and jobbers’ prices will be correspondingly advanced next week. —__» 22 -—_ The Produce Market. Apples—There is little movement in fruit at present, on account of the un- favorable weather, receipts being con- fined mainly to cellar and storage goods, which are not first-class in quality Dealers hold No. 1 fruit at $2.75@3.25 and No, 2 at $2 25@2 50. Bananas—Supplies are hardly up to the demand and the market has been cleared up of much of the best stock. A firmer tone is noticed for fancy bunches. More liberal receipts are ex- pected next week. Beets—25c per bu. Butter— Factory creamery is in ample supply at 20@21c. The dairies average 2c lower, in sympathy with creameries. Supplies are increasing, witb a better average demand than for creameries A prediction as to the future market would be out of the question at this time in the present unsetiled condition of things. Cabbage —$3 per 100 heads for home grown. Carrots—2oc per bu. Celery—15@18c per doz. bunches for White Plume. Cranberries—Cape Cods, $7.50 per bbl. ; Wisconsin Bell and Cherry, $7; Jerseys, $6. Cucumbers—75c@$t for hot house stock. Eggs—Strictly fresh are scarce at 20 @z2Ic, but storage supplies are in am- ple supply at 16@18c, according to quality. The demand of the past week has been limited, but is expected to in- crease toward the holidays, when the demand for baking purposes is very heavy. Honey—toc for amber and 12@12'4c for white clover stock. Lettuce—14@15c per pound. 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 per crate. Dealers pay 28c for White and Red Globe stock and 22@25c for yellow Danvers and Red Weatherfields. Oranges—There are ample supplies of Mexicans and California navels and seedlings, with a fair demand for holi day purposes, which will be increased on a nearer approach to Christmas. Receipts of both the California varieties have been liberal the past week and the fruit shows good color and flavor. Mex- icans are moving easily and are in good demand yet. Quotations on California stock are a trifle weaker, ranging 25c a box lower than last week, due to much heavier receipts and a better supply to draw upon. 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—The market is featureless and will probably remain so until the railroads promulgate the announcement that they have temporarily reduced the classification from fifth to sixth class. This concession is absolutely necessary in order to move the crop of Northern Michigan in competition with the lower rates obtained by growers in other states. Squash— 75c@31 per too lbs. Sweet Potatoes—lIllinois Jerseys are in good demand at $2. —_—__—~> 2. ___ Jacob Vanderberg, of this city, has gone to Grayling to close out the Claggett general stock, recently turned over to Edson, Moore & Co. and C, Elliott & Co. (Detroit) and Rindge, Kalmbach & Co. on a trust mortgage. —_+__» ¢ 2. Frank Edmonson, baker at Coopers- ville,has added a line of groceries. The stock was furnished by the Olney & Judson Grocer Co. GRADUAL GAIN. Savings Banks Resuming Their Con- dition in 1892. The National banks, as shown by their st tements of December 1, are in a healthy condition, with a material in- crease in most of the items it is desir- able to have increased, in comparison with one year ago, and with a satisfac- tory reduction in those accounts bankers and stockholders like to see kept with- in bounds. The condition of the Stite banks is as satisfactory as of the Na- tional banks and, like the National banks, the statements indicate that the Savings institutions are again on the right track, with the ground lost during the long depression regained. The ag- gregate loans and discounts carried by the four savings banks are $2, 212, 112.29. This is $143,000 less than in May last, but it is an improvement of nearly $200,000 aS compared with one year ago, and about $40,000 better than in December, 1892. The savings banks reached high water in loans and dis- counts in May, 1893, at $2,391,749 o9g— just before the collapse. They will, in all probability, pass the old high water mark the coming year, and a _ pleasant thing about the new record will be that it will be on a solid foundation and safe, which is, perhaps, more than can be said of the conditions that prevailed in 1893. ee In stocks, bonds and mortgages the savings banks show holdings that sur- pass all previous records. The total is $2,301,182 95. This is $610,000 more than a year ago, and the total in Decem- ber, 1892, was $982,928.13. During the years since the panic the records show that there has been a steady growth in this class of investments and that all the banks have been taking to them. The Kent in 1892, for instance, had but $333,593 and the Peoples $121, 397, while these banks to-day carry $847,934 and $762,036, respectively. The Grand Rap- ids shows a slight increase and the pres- ent holdings of the State, $117,436, are all gain, for in 1892 it had none. ee The savings banks have $669, 131.12 on deposit in reserve and correspondent banks, the smallest deposit since May, 1897, but an increase of about $75,000 as compared with 1892 The cash on hand is $328,427.23, which isa larger amount than ever before carried. The total deposit account and cash on hand is $997,558 35 as compared’ with $1,004,276 08 one year ago. The avail- able resources now are about Ig per cent. of the total deposits, and a year ago the cash in sight was nearly 25 per cent. of the deposits. The condition as marked by percentage shows a very encouraging improvement. +. « On the liability side of the banks the consolidated statement shows a tctal of $173,746.97 as compared with $163,- 145.95 a year ago. The Grand Rapids shows an improvement of $2,500, the Kent $7, 300, the Peoples $2,000 and the State a slight falling off. As compared with 1892, the surplus account shows an improvement of about $5,000, but since then there has been a lot of *‘ writ- ing off’’ of bad debts In December, 1893, the surplus and undivided profits were figured at $201,951.33 and, with the State bank as the single exception, none of the banks have so much to the good as they thought they had five years ago, and that the State is an exception is due to the reduction in its capital. The writing-off process seems to be pretty well over with now, however, and a steady increase in surplus, besides regular dividends, may be looked for in the future. x x The Savings commercial deposits ag- gregate $1,616,671 02, which is slight- ly less than in September, but $200,000 better than a year ago. The commercial deposits have nct yet reached the old high water mark, which was made in May, 1893, when they reached §$2,216,- 197.61, but they are headed that way. The savings deposits, aggregating $3,414,888 54, exceed any previous record. They are $600,000 more than a year ago and nearly three times as much as in December, 1892. The Kent’s sav- ings deposits have more than doubled, the Peoples have increased eight fold, the State nine fold and the Grand Rap- ids more than fifty per cent. ee The total deposits are $5.034, 459.78, which is another record breaker, ex- ceeding the total deposits of a year ago by $800,000. In December, 1893, they were $3,286,297.19, the May following they showed an increase and then dropped off more than a million. Since the drop there has been a very steady increase, and the total now is larger than ever before. ne The two trust companies show a fall- ing off in loans and discounts and a slight increase in security holdings as compared with a year ago. They are carrying larger balances in correspond- ents’ banks and have substantially the same cash on hand. The total deposits show an increase of $226,000 over one year ago. —____@¢<@_ Hides, Pelts, Furs, Tallow and Wool. Hides are firm in price, from a good demand while the quality has depre- ciated. The present outtlook indicates that the poorer stock of the year will bring the full value of the best. Pelts are in good demand without change of price. Furs are in good demand at high and uncertain values, caused by local com- petition. Tallow remains low in value, with fair demand. There are so many seed oils on the market for soapers’ use that tal- low must necessarily remain low. Wools do not move from the State to any extent. What go out do so at a loss to the purchaser. There are a few Eastern buyers in the State looking for soft spots, which they occasionally find in some small lots. There is little or no enquiry here, with fair sales at sea- board. Wma. T. HEss. ——__> 2. _____ The Michigan and Ohio Acetylene Gas Co., Ltd., of Jackson, has secured the sale of the Bruce generator for this State. It is claimed for this generator that it is the best and most perfect ma- chine on the market; the carbide can is so arranged that there is a complete generation of all the carbide without the waste usually found in other machines, and, in addition to this, the machine has a purifier attached that takes all the residuum from the gas, and the claim is made that this machine will not smoke, or throw off dust and svot, which has caused so much trouble in the use of this gas in the past. The Company is, indeed, fortunate in having secured the agency for this celebrated machine, and the large number of the machines already sold indicates a large business for this machine in Michigan. —_—__»02—___ E. B Brooks has opened a grocery store at Hoxeyville. The Ball-Barn- hart-Putman Co. furnished the stock. —_—___+02>—____ Visner is home with a lot cf Gillies’ New York tea bargains. Phone, 800, yi rib kner 2 hei is opi alpanaah lenin Sata ; ; i i : 6 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Woman’s World Unnecessary Burdens Assumed by the New Woman. ‘“‘Seems to me that things aren't much like what they used to be when I was young,’’ remarked a silver-haired old lady the other day as she rolled up ber knitting and prepared for a good talk. ‘‘Of course, it's just wonderful what women are doing nowadays and | never get over being surprised at the things I hear about them, but sometimes I wonder how much of it is gain and if they are really any better off than we were. Now, my daughter Mary is very ‘progressive.’ She is always writing papers for clubs, like her friends who come here, and they rush off to com- mittee meetings and lie awake at night feeling like they are running the uni- verse and are worrying for fear there’l] be a hitch in the schedule, until I should think they would be so tired they would want to drop it all and go back to the time when just to bea wife and mother was considered career enough and work enough for any woman. ‘*My, but how hard they work. Of course, we used to have to take care of our houses and children, too, but that was just dead easy compared to the way they manage things now. Why, raising a child then wasn’t a circumstance to what it is now. We used to think that if we kept our children reasonably clean and gave them wholesome food and lis- tened to their prayers at night, kissed them when they were good and spanked them when they were bad, we had done our full duty in the sphere of life to which it had pleased God to callus. We hadn't ever heard of the germ theory and mothers’ conventions and hadn't the slightest idea of how many things physical, mental and moral ought to be sterilized. We had a comfortable idea that children were little animals that should be kept healthy and happy and in the background, and I raised a big family with one-tenth of the worrying and fretting and anxiety that Mary spends on her one boy, and he’s a weazened little creature at that. Why, sometimes I think she'll starve the child to death on health foods, she’s so afraid she won’t be hygienic, and I’m morally certain he'll be grown and voting before she decides which one of the many theories for raising children by to adopt. Needless to say, Mary doesn't approve my views about children. ‘“ “I’m afraid, mother,’ she says mournfully and pitifully, ‘that you took a very superficial view of the subject. It’s an awful responsibility to be a mother. ’ ** “Maybe it is,’ says I, ‘but if I had spent all the time worrying over my re- sponsibility that you do, I wouldn't have had the leisure tu spank seven boys and girls into the path of right- eousness and bring them up to be God- fearing and respectable men and women.’ ‘Then, take the housekeeping. When I was married we bought good, heavy, substantial furniture, that with any rea- sonable care was good to last a lifetime and stand the wear and tear of everyday living. Now the idea of the best way to make a home happy and comfortable seems to be to buy a lot of brocade empire chairs that the family are warned not to use except when company comes, and to clutter up the rooms with little tables that topple over if you look at them, and to weigh everything down with a lot of useless ornaments that work you to earth if you keep them clean and disgrace you if you don't. I will say, Mary isa good housekeeper. She keeps an eye on the meat and gro- cery bills, sees that the housemaid sweeps under the beds, the cook doesn’t spoil the broth, the clothes are mended, and still goes into society and to teas and whist parties, and the theater, and the opera, and yet finds time to write papers for clubs and serve on com- mittees and belong to study circles and art leagues. In my day we would have thought any one of them sufficient oc- cupation for a woman. If she wrote papers and studied things we called her literary, and nobody expected her house to be decent or her children to have their faces washed. If she kept her home in good order we said she was domestic and didn't expect her to have ‘views.’ It seems very shiftless now to the women who do them all, but we didn’t have to go to rest cures so often and were not so well acquainted with all the symptoms of nervous prostration. ‘‘In those days it was pretty much a matter of choice if we knew anything. Of coursey brightness and cleverness and the ability to converse agreeably nave always been considered desirable attributes, but they were by no means necessary, and it wasn’t any reflection on a woman not to know a blessed thing. Men were willing to enlighten her. They expected to entertain her and do the talking, and a married woman looked to her busband to furnish her with her opinions just as much as she expected him to supply her with her frocks. But, deary me, how things have changed! Not long ago I saw one woman who was brave enough to get right up in open meeting and say, John says so and so, and all the other women turned around and looked at her like they thought she was a poor, meaching kind of a creature with not enough spunk to have an idea of her own. I must say this, though, and that is that the men have changed, too. I guess, first and last, when we women do things it is because some man wants us to, and, maybe, one reason women are always reading and studying things now is because men want to be enter- tained and to be talked to, instead of doing the entertaining. They don't con- sider ignorance interesting any more. Why, the other day I heard Mary's hus- band asking a young girl something about a political question no girl would have been expected to understand when I was young, and because she didn’t know he called her a stupid idiot when she was gone. It’s all progress, I dare say, and all right for women to study up subjects for themselves, but I can tell you one thing, that the woman wo has never had a husband who was will- ing and capable of doing her thinking for her has never known what genuine, downright comfort is. ‘‘Another way the women burden themselves now is in their fear of grow- ing old. We didn't want to grow old, either, but we accepted the fact with resignation. You see, then nobody had hit on the brilliant idea that a man was such a worshiper of beauty that he would grow tired of the wife who bad been his trusted friend and adviser, who had toiled and suffered and wept and rejoiced with him, and who was knit to him by a thousand tender ties of companionship and memories, be- cause her cheek lost its fairness and the hair began to silver. We may not have known in those days all the mod- ern woman does, but we weren’t idiots enough to believe that theory or to worry ourselves into the grave trying to pre- vent wrinkles. You should see all Mary goes through. She went to some woman who charged her $50 for ironing out her wrinkles with a patent roller and sold her enough creams and salves to start a drug store, and she massages her face down one way for one wrinkle and up for another, until she is ready to drop with fatigue. ‘* ‘What on earth are you doing?’ I asked her the first time I saw the per- formance. ‘* “T am trying to avoid growing old,’ she replied. ‘It’s a woman’s duty to preserve her good looks so that she may retain the affections of her husband.’ ‘* ‘Look here, Mary,’ I said, ‘do you care any less for Tom because he has grown stout and middle-aged and bald?’ ‘* “Of course I don't,’ she returned indignantly. ‘* “Well, then,’ said I, ‘for pity’s sake give him credit for having as much sense as you have, and wash that stuff off your face and go to sleep.’ ‘*But she didn't, and she’s still wear- ing herself to skin and bones trying to become a Venus for a man who is just as domesticated as a pair of andirons and is so near-sighted he can't see be yond his own nose. ‘‘One of the favorite theories with Mary and her friends is teaching every girl a trade—some way to make a liv- ing. It sounds very well to talk about, but did you ever notice, my dear, that the people who know how to do things always have to do them, and the ones that don’t kncw how never do—some- body does them for them? Last year two girls came to see us. One of them was one of the independent kind. She knew how to buy her ticket and check her trunk and cash a check and take care of herself generally, and 1 couldn't help noticing that the men of the fam- ily let her do it. The other one just stood around and looked helpless and every man in the house was breaking his neck to wait on her and to see that she was taken care of in every possible way. I may be wrong, and I don't claim to be up to modern ideas, but it’s my opinion that the girls who learn how to support themselves will always have to do it. ‘It’s a great age for women, my dear,’ said the old lady, gathering up her shaw! and her knitting, ‘‘but there was a good deal to say about the days when we hadn’t assumed the burdens of the rest of the world in addition to our own in exchange for a few more liber- ties. There are times when I[ doubt but what men got the best of the bargain. But Mary doesn’t agree with me.’’ Dorotay Drx. TRADESMAN ITEMIZED | EDGERS S'ZE—S8 1-2 x 14. THREE COLUMNS. 2 Quires, 160 pages........ $2 co 3 Quires, 240 pages.. 2 So 4 Quires, 320 pages ....... 3 00 5 Quires, 400 pages........ 3 50 6 Quires, 480 pages........ 4 00 £ INVOICE RECORD OR BILL BOOK 80 double pages, registers 2,880 mriVesCeS os oes $2 00 £ Tradesman Company Grand Rapids, Mich. 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A local merchant recently stated that, in his opinion, beauty is not only not desirable in women who have to work for a living, but is a positive drawback in many cases to their securing and re- taining employment, and although it is hardly probable that the average woman would not prefer beauty to anything else, the merchant makes out a strong case. Here is what he says: ‘‘It's no joke, and there’s no senti- ment about it. It’s just a cold-drawn matter of business. I don’t care how competent a strikingly handsome woman may be, or bow discreet and quiet and industrious she is—all the same she’s bound to demoralize the force. She makes the women jealous and the men absent-minded, and it tells on their work. Of course, she can’t help it, but that’s no affair of mine. “‘I’ve made a study of the subject,’’ he continued, ‘‘and I know what I'm talking about. A real beauty in a store will reduce the working capacity of its employes about 20 per cent. If she bappens to be a very unusual type —a blonde, for instance, with dark eyes—the reduction will be fully 25 per cent. Suppose the pay roll is $150a week ; you'd have to make an entry every Saturday like this: To deprecia- tion on account of blonde (dark eyes), $37.50. That's enough to break Van- derbilt. ‘‘I’m talking from experience. We had 2 young lady clerk here once who had everything in the world to recom- mend her except homeliness. She was beautiful, poor child, and what made it worse she had that hopeless, ineradicable kind of beauty that one doesn’t out grow, like warts or freckles, and is al- ways the same no matter what happens, I believe that girl could have failen into a hogshead of black molasses and still come out radiantly lovely. ‘*Well, she went to work, and I never had a better or more faithful employe, but the deadly demoralization began to spread the minute she stepped behind the counter. Everybody felt it. The book-keeper was a surly Scotchman and about as emotional as a fried oyster. In less than a week he was raising a moustache and making at least forty er- rors a day on his ledger. The corres- pondence clerk started half his letters ‘Dear Annie,’ instead of ‘Dear Sir,’ and the cashier was short every night through trying to make change with one eye on the girl. And that wasn't all: The fluor-walker and head salesman be came rivals—in their minds, because she never so much as looked at either of them—and bad it out while the store was full of customers. They spattered gore ail over the ribbon department and finally rolled through an open hatch- way and both were laid up for a month. And now, by George, they are threaten- ing me with a damage suit. ‘‘I am mentioning only a few of the worst cases. I thought the porter would escape because he was such a disagree- able old rascal, and besides he had a family as big as a kindergarten—but he didn’t. He primped himself up until he looked like a shaved ape, and when he realized that he wasn't in the run- ning he got even by beating his wife. She had him arrested,and meanwhile the elevator man nearly murdered several of our best patrons by stopping between floors to feast his eyes on the charmer. By that time I thought the thing had gone far enough and I let the girl go. I advised her to get a job in the tele- phone exchange, where folks couldn't see her.’’ ‘‘But I thought handsome clerks were considered valuable for drawing cus- tomers?’’ said the reporter. ‘*That used to be the theory, but it’s exploded. Years ago a big Chicago confectionery shop became famous all over the country for its beautiful sales- ladies. ‘The result of the experiment was this: The place lost all its women customers and the trade of the men proved worthless. A young chappie would drop in, buy a stick of gum fora cent and talk for three hours at a stretch. At last the proprietor dis- charged the whole force and engaged a lot of the homeliest women in_ Illinois, cross-eyed preferred. After that he made a fortune. And so it goes. I could cite you a hundred cases, but you can say confidently that pretty women—very pretty women, I mean—are at a great disadvantage in business. It’s next to impossible for one to geta job. The homely girls have the call.’’ —_—__»> 6. _____ Combats the Theory of Woman's Ex- travagance. It is not surprising that women should hotly resent the statement recently made by Dr. Shrady, a celebrated Eastern physician, that the bligbting curse of American men—the thing that brought on More nervous prostration and insan- ity than all other causes combined, and hurried more men to their graves—was the extravagance of their wives and the strain of trying to support their famil- ies in the luxury they demanded. The charge is as old as the first man who ever found it necessary to excuse him- self, and we should have grown weary of combating it long ago, except that its injustice is so peculiarly offensive. One might well enough bring a coun- ter charge and say that men spend just as much money for base ball tickets as they spend for opera tickets, and that just as much good coin goes for cigars and drinks as ever finds its way into the milliner’s coffers, but that is beside the question. If aman makes his money he has a good right to spend it as he pleases, but he hasn’t a right to plead that it is the extravagance of his fam- ily that is ruining him. No one would deny that there are in- dividual cases of women who are reck- lessly extravagant. No doubt here and there is a wife who is to blame for her husband’s financial downfall, but that this is true of the great majority of women is too absurd to be believed by any honest person. The truth is that about nothing else are men so unreason- able to women as about money, and this without reference to what they give us. Not one woman in a hundred in a well- to-do family is ever taught the first principles of financiering. She seldom has any money of her own as a right, but as a gift. Not one woman in fifty has an allowance. Her biils are paid with more or less grumbling, according to the nature of the man to whom she is married. Not one woman in ten knows a single thing about her husband’s busi- ness or has the remotest idea what his income is. Yet, in the face of all this colossal ignorance and inexperience she is expected to know how to manage, and blamed if she wastes money and runs into heedless extravagance. The average woman loves her husband and is solicitous of his welfare. She is, moreover, as a general thing, deatbly afraid of debt, and if she knew just exactly where she stood; if the husband would say to her frankly, My income is just so much, and out of that we can afford to spend just a certain amount, he would find that she would conform the family expenses to it. Many a woman who has been criticised and blamed for ruining her husband has been perfectly innocent in the matter, and would glad ly have done without things she spent money for had she even dreamed that she was causing him trouble. The most incomprehensible thing in the world is the inveterate prejudice men have against giving their wives and daughters an allowance. Leaving out of the discussion the added self-respect and independence a woman has who does not have to ask some man for every penny, but has it given to her as her right, it is the greatest safeguard against extravagance that any man can throw about his womankind. Asa matter of fact American men are generally gener- ous to women, but they are very seldom just, and as long as they persist in treat- ing their wives like irresponsible chil- dren about money théy bave no right to complain of their extravagance. Cora STOWELL. SISSIES one: ci ncahiecs ita aes Knew His Business. *“You say Mrs. Weeks was here during my absence?’’ said the superintendent of the lunatic asylum to the attendant. ‘‘Yes, sir,’’ was the reply; ‘‘she called to see about taking her husband home, but he positively refused to go— said he would rather stay here.’’ ‘‘T thought there was something sus- picious about that man,’’ said the superintendent. ‘‘He isn’t crazy atall.’’ ——____> 24. ___ Death is about the only sure cure for lying that has ever been discovered. ALWAYS A WIN NER! = = = HTT 7 ¢ Ne 2: vi GREEN vey LSe55 ee Ak WAT eles NEGF TTT I | $35.00 per M. H. VAN TONGEREN, Holland, Mich. 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PORTRAIT CALENDARS We have lately placed on the market a line of portrait calendars which we think supe- rior in many respects to the colored calen- dars so long in use, in that the customer who hangs up a calendar with the merchant’s portrait thereon will think of him and his establishment every time he glances at the This line of calendars is 7x11 inches in size, printed on heavy 8- ply coated litho. cardboard, with portrait of merchant, or his clerks, or his family at top of card and large monthly calendar pads wire stitched to lower portion of card, samples of which will cheerfuliy be sent on applica- We can make calendars in any size desired, printed either from engraved plates or from type, with monthly pad, in one or We also have on hand a large line of fancy colored calendars, which we can furnish In case TRADESMAN COMPANY, GRAND RAPIDS, Mdbdbdbdsdbasdsadad —» —_=w> —» —_<=g —» —_ —» —_<> —» —_<=g —p — | 7 —_<=g> ——» —_—<=g NS AMAA aaa aaa a 8 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN MICHIGANTRADESMAN Devoted to the Best Interests of Business Men Published at the New Blodgett Building, Grand Rapids, by the TRADESMAN COMPANY QNE DOLLAR A YEAR, Payable in Advance. ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION. Communications invited from practical business men. Correspondents must give their full names and addresses, not necessarily for pub- lication, but as a guarantee of good faith. Subscribers may have the mailing address of their papers changed as often as desired. No paper discontinued. except at the option of the proprietor. until ali arrearages are paid. Sample copies sent free to any address. Entered at the Grand Rapids Post Office as Second Class mail matter. When writing to any of our Advertisers, please say that a saw the advertisement in the Michigan Tradesman. E. A. STOWE, Epitor. WEDNESDAY, - - - DECEMBER 14, 1898. LET THE DEAD STAY DEAD. The recent decision of the Supreme Court of Michigan in the case of the People vs. Frank J. Dettenthaler, hold- ing the so-called anti-color butterine law to be unconstitutional because it was not lawfully passed, brings up again for serious consideration the question whether such laws are neces- sary for the best interests of the peo- ple of this State. When butterine—-or oleomargarine, as it was first called—was invented by Mouries, the French chemist, thirty-one years ago, the article was regarded by some as unclean, unwholesome and per- nicious to health,and by many as an in- terloper in the dairy market. The Com- missioner of Internal Revenue of the United States, in his report for the year 1893, ON page 179 Says: The most reliable writers in this country on food products and those who have given the subject careful study state that oleomagarine carefully and properly prepared is a healthy article of diet and a healthful substitute for but- ter and can be furnished at iess cost. Many of the most renowned chem- ists, both in this country and in Europe, have been called as expert witnesses in butterine cases and their testimony, without exception, has been that, as usually made by manufacturers of good standing, it is cleaner, more wholesome and more nutritious than or- dinary butter. The charge of unwhole- someness, therefore, has now been thorough’y exploded. It must be admitted that the article is yet regarded by some as an interloper in the dairy market. This is due large- ly to the active opposition of the indi- viduals and corporations who own creameries for the making of butter, and the equally active but often mis taken opposition of farmers. The motive of the creamery companies is clear. They are working in their own interest. They are working to get rid of a disagreeable competitor and to get a better price for the article they manufacture. With the farmer, however, the case is different. Many farmers are stock raisers as_ well as buttermakers. Some are neither the one nor the other. It is only the farmers who are engaged exclusively in butter- making who have any interest in ex- cluding butterine. A prominent stock buyer recently said that he could not understand why those farmers who were largely engaged in stock raising should not bitterly oppose anti-butterine laws. ‘‘Why,’’ said he, ‘‘were it not for those laws every fat steer which is sold in the market would be worth from $10 to $15 more than it is to-day. The oleo oil produced fom the fat of a sin- gle animal suitable for making butterine weighs from 100 to 200 pounds. Before most of the butterine factories in I]li- nois shut down, this oleo was worth from 15 to 20 cents per pound. Now it is worth but 5. Anyone who can add two and two can see where the interest of the farmer who raises stock lies.’’ The interest of our entire State and its people, as a whole, should, however, have far more weight than the interest of any one particular class. Butter is a luxury. During such bard times as we have been passing through, with many people out of employment, we see more clearly than ever before that it is not every one who can afford to have butter made from cream on the table. Farm- ers who do not make butter themselves, factory employes and other laborers, and, in fact, many of the people of moderate means who live in cities and villages and even in the country and who find it necessary to cut the corners in order to make both ends meet, like to save a few cents per day, a few dimes per week and a few dollars per year by using butterine instead of but- ter. They know it is clean and whole- some; they know its taste and appear- ance are such that even the State Chem- ist of Michigan testifies that he could not distinguish it from butter without a chemical analysis. They know that the harmless coloring matter which is used to give it a rich yellow tint is pre- cisely the same as is used in butter for the same purpose and they know that all legislation against this article of food diminishes the amount manufactured, increases its price and isa tax upon their own pocket-books ; that this means smaller payments upon their contracts and mortgages, poorer clothes for their children, harder work for themselves and less of the conveniences and enjoy- ments of life. All tbe people of our State who are so situated, and all who have kindly feelings for those who are so situated, should heartily join in op- posing any further laws of this kind in Michigan. Judge Dillon, in his cele- brated work on Municipal Corporations, in a note in Sec. 141, Fourth Edition, referring to the case of People vs. Powell in the Supreme Court of United States, said: The record of the conviction of Powell for selling without any decep- tion a nutritious article of food makes one’s blood tingle. The law which was recently declared unconstitutional by our own Supreme Court pretended to be directed only to preventing deception in the manufac- ture and sale of butterine. Every one knows that this is mere pretense; that under the Federal laws butterine is _re- quired to be and is carefully marked; that prominent notices are placed inthe store where it is sold; that people ask for butterine, buy it and use it know- ing it is butterine and not butter. If the members of our State Legislature are so fearful lest somebody should be deceived, why do they not pass a law against silver plated spoons and forks lest someone should imagine they are solid silver and buy them as such? Why is such a law more necessary in regard to butter than in the case of cloth? Cheap grades of cloth often have the same external finish as high grades. Some grades are so woven as to look like wool when they are largely made of cotton. Why not prohibit imitation leather? It is well known that paper or pasteboard may be made to closely re- semble leather and it is quite possible somebody might be deceived by the imitation. The same is true of brass jewelry which looks like gold or paste which looks like diamonds. In_ this case the resemblance is not a fraud. There is an established market for such articles; thousands of people can not afford anything better. Even people of considerable means prefer plated spoons and forks; responsible merchants sell these articles for what they are and at a comparatively low price and the resemblance to a high-priced article is a source of satisfaction to the purchas- er. Where the law should interfere is in punishing the merchant or dealer who palms off a cheaper article for something else. The same rule prevails in the case of butterine. If a dealer sells it when butter is asked for and re- ceives the price of butter for it, he commits a fraud for which he should be prosecuted. We have all heard of the English corr laws. They were passed in the interest of the wealthy and titled land owner. Then, as now, England did not raise enough grain to supply her own people. The corn law prohibited the importa- tion of foreign grain. The effect, as anticipated and desired, was to greatly raise the price of grain. This was a benefit to the land owner, because it en- abled him to get higher rent from his tenants, but it drove the laborers in the cities and poor people generally almost to the point of starvation. Terrible bread riots, as they were called, oc- curred in all the large cities before the laws were finally abolished. The only difference between the English corn laws and the anti-butterine law is that the former robbed the poor man of his bread while the latter robs him of his butter. The fact is, this kind of legislation is getting to be a back number, When new discoveries are made, someone is always hurt. Kerosene oil destroyed the business of the tallow candle manufac- turer; gas and electricity have cut down the demand for kerosene oil; sewing machines threw seamstresses out of em- ployment; reapers and mowing ma- chines did the same for farm labor; steam and electric power have made havoc with the canal boat, the stage- coach, the demand for horses; and a thousand other things which existed in the early part of this century. Certain individuals have been temporarily in- jured by these inventions, but, in course of time, matters have satisfactorily ad- justed themselves upon the new basis. New avenues of employment have been opened up. Things that were regarded as luxuries have now become common conveniences and almost necessities. It no longer takes a month to go back to ‘‘York State’’ to the bedside of a sick parent. And yet the people who have been temporarily injured by these inventions have always raised a howl of protest. Of all inventions those which tend to cheapen the necessities of life, which add to the comfort of the very poor, which extend toa larger number of people the benefits of good living, are the most valuable to the human race. The discovery that a good, whole- some, nutritious and palatable article of food could be produced directly from beef fat at materially less cost than a similar article had been produced by the tedious process of milking, skim- ming and churning belongs peculiarly to this highly beneficial class of inven- tions. It is not an imitation. It is the same thing produced by a cheaper and more scientific process. The law should not discriminate against it, but, if dis- criminations are to be made, they should be in its favor. It is often termed ‘‘the poor man's butter.’ It ought not to be required to pay an in- ternal revenue tax, which merely in- creases its price to the poor man who uses it. Upon this question England, with her corn laws and a hundred other similar experiences behind her, stands to-day upon a higher plane than the United States. With her smaller pop- ulation she consumes about 225,000,000 pounds of butterine annually, while the annual consumption in our own country is less than 70,000,000 pounds. The general productiveness of our own coun- try is so great that we have not been obliged to give particular attention to the production of cheaper food, but with our immense cattle ranges and facilities for manufacturing butterine if unham- pered by adverse laws, a great field lies before us not only in the better living of the poor in our midst, but also in the acquisition of an export trade in this article which will be of great value to our people. As the time has long since passed when it was necessary to defend butterine against the charge of un- wholesomeness, so in the onward prog- ress of public opinion it is now becom- ing a badge of ignorance or of corrup- tion for a member of the Legislature to favor schemes, either direct or indirect, which aim at striking butterine from the list of the valuable food products of the world. In England, a provident merchant, on leaving Manchester for a holiday with his family, placed a placard just inside the hall door couched in the following language: ‘‘To burglars or those in- tending to burgle: All my _ plated jewelry and other valuables are in the Safe Deposit Company's vaults. The trunks, cupboards, etc., contain nothing but second-hand clothing and similar matter too bulky to remove, on which you would realize comparatively little. The keys are in the left-hand top drawer of the sideboard—if you doubt my word. You will also find there a check to bearer for £20, which will remunerate you for the loss of time and disappoint- ment. Please wipe your feet on the mat, and don’t spill any candle-grease on the carpets.’' In London there is a woman, Miss Penman, who has control cover more than 500 conductors in the employ of the London Tramways Company. Miss Penman is the only woman in England who occupies the very unique position of superintendent of street railway con- ductors. She engages all the conductors— 500 all told—and the inspectors, receives their reports from day to day, and su- perintends the numerous details apper- taining to the distribution of tickets, the checking of the men’s daily returns and the dismissal of men when oc- casion arises. It is estimated by Wisconsin lumber- men that this winter's cut will exceed former years by anywhere from 100,000, - 000 to 150,000,000 feet. The wages that will be paid this winter for chopping are placed at about $215,000 per month, and from 2,000 ta 3,000 more men will in all probability be employed this year in the woods about the head of the lakes than last year. The boy who hangs up his stocking for Santa Claus is an advocate of expan- sion. somata MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 9 THE ERA OF ORGANIZATION. It has not been long since the country was entertained by a discussion of the charge that the United States Senate has undergone a decadence. There are probably not many students of the polit- ical history of this Republic who would seriously hesitate to award the palm of intellectual superiority to the Senate of the time of Clay, Calhoun and Webster over the Senate as it is today; but quite as great a majority would, no doubt, claim the highest rank of all for the statesmen who made the Federal constitution and secured its adoption. Mr. Gladstone, it is said, held that the minds of men generally were more capa- able some two or three hundred years ago than in his own day. Greene, the eminent English historian, found the Tudors abler rulers than the Stuarts, and the Plantagenets abler than the Tudors. It is doubtful whether recent science, with all its wonderful advance, can find anywhere on the long roll of its representatives a name so illustrious as that of Newton. By universal admis- sion Shakespeare stands pre-eminent among men of letters. Coming now to the realm of philosophy, what more can be said of the greatness of any thinker than this which Emerson says of an an- cient Athenian? Among books, Plato only is entitled to Omar’s fanatical compliment to the Koran, when he said: ‘‘Burn the libraries; for their value is in this book.’’ These sentences contain the culture of nations; these are the corner- stone of schools; these are the fountain- head of literatures. A discipline it is in logic, arithmetic, taste, symmetry, poetry, language, rhetoric, ontology, morals, or practical wisdom. There was never such range of speculation. Out of Plato came all things that are still written and debated among men otf thought. Great havoc makes he among our originalities. We have reached the mountain from which all these drift bowlders were detached. * * * Plat is philosophy, and philosophy Plato—ai once the glory and the shame of man kind, since neither Saxon nor Roman have availed to add any idea to bis cat- egories. No wife, no children, had he, and the thinkers of all civilized nations are his posterity, and are tinged with his mind. On the other hand, the spectacle of modern civilization presents so many splendid and beautiful illustrations of the power of mind over matter and seemingly untoward circumstance that one can hardly wonder if a comfortable, well-to-do citizen, in his own beauti- fully-furnished house, taking a meal composed of edibles which commerce has brought to his door from the four quarters of the earth, and reading the while in his morning paper the news of yesterday and of the greater part of last night, should smile with an air of more or less polite incredulity at the suggestion that he was born some twenty three centuries too late to see the world at its best, or too late, at all events, to enjoy the most intellectual society the world has ever known. But can this comfortable and complacent citizen of the Nineteenth Century meet and refute the distinguished opinions just cited in this article in support of the superiority, in some important re- spects, of several different eras of the past to the present by a mere reference to the material triumphs, the un- paralleled fruitfulness of the application of physical science to the practical arts, in his own time? Certainly the present has its own points of superiority. To the superficial observer these are most evident in its labor-saving and time- saving machinery and in its organiza- tion both of public and private busi- ness. If the critic objects that all these things belong especially toa civilization devoted to physical comfort and mate- rial wealth, and that they afford no proof of a higher culture, it may be very properly replied that no previous age was ever more occupied with phil- anthropic enterprises, and that that genius which has been so unmistakably exhibited in the organization of busi- ness in the latter half of this century bas been at the same time as conspic- uously illustrated in the organization of charity. If it be added, in the same behalf, that different ages, like different indi- viduals, have their special talents and develop in different directions, to an- cient Greece may be awarded the first place, perhaps, in philosophy, in cer- tain forms of literature, in sculpture and in architecture. Italy in the renaissance witnessed a new development in those arts and an advance in painting which probably went far beyond anything ever achieved anywhere in the ancient world. Under a nearly simultaneous impulse dramatic composition reached its high- est mark in England. Music, par ex- cellence the art of the modern world, aas been furnished with a capital, suc- cessively, by Italy, France and Ger- many; but its domain is as wide as the whole expanse of modern civilization, and it is equally at home in the stately mansions of the rich and in the simple cottages of the poor. Again, in the pur- suit of the physical sciences the most highly-cultivated nations of the ancient world had hardly advanced a step be- yond a narrow field of unconnected ob- servation and vague conjecture. Europe, even in those later centuries which Mr. Gladstone regarded as_ intellectually superior to the present, had advanced nut little further, and the distance from Aristotle to Bacon—measured by any standard of actual scientific attainment— is not so great as the distance from Ba- con to any representative scientist of the present day. Moreover, this modern science is not exclusively devoted to utilitarian purposes, and does not nec- essarily inspire a heartless, hopeless, materialistic philosophy, but it has so brought to light the unity of nature and the universality of law that now, more clearly than ever before, all creation is seen to be one consistent whole—some- thing with no unrelated parts. At this point, however, the argument shifts again. The opinions quoted at the outset in this article may be re- garded as tending to support the view of those who hold that modern condi- tions are not favorable to the develop- ment of individual genius of the highest order, rather than any contention that the total intellectual power of tbe civ- ilized world is less to-day than it was in any other century, or bygone era of whatever length. Indeed, the criticism thus modified is not unusual. It is often said that, while, in respect to learning and ability, ‘‘the general level’’ is high in the present age, the number of those who attain a command- ing eminence is comparatively small. Various explanations might be offered for this fact, if one may call it a fact, and the real reason is not, perhaps, the same in every department of intellectual endeavor. It is easy enough, for ex- ample, to indicate the causes which have established the reigu of mediocrity in politics. But there is, perhaps, some more prevalent cause, some explanation that is susceptible of a wider applica- tion than that which accounts for the suppression of genius and learning in the sphere of government. It has been already remarked that the present age has developed an unparalleled capacity for organization—political, industrial and commercial organization. In no other age have men so highly appreciated the power of associated effort. Two men working together can accomplish more than twice as much as one. Associated effort is attended not only by an in- crease of power, but also by a relatively diminished expenditure. Three or four small companies united in one need only one general staff, and the cost of advertising is no greater for the combi- nation than it formerly was for one of the single companies which have gone into it. Individual capitalists have dis- covered in this expedient an escape from the risk and confusion incident to competition. The plan works so well, indeed, that legislation of the most stringent sort has been so far unable to check the formation of combinations ‘in restraint of trade.’’ But individual. ism pays for all this saving and in- crease. The small trader is driven out of the market, and he becomes a part of a machine. And this is the general tendency. Let it be granted that these giant combinations pay fair wages; for the sake of argument, let it be admitted that no more men are thrown out of em- ployment under the new system than were thrown out in the old; still the common effect is to crush out individ- uality and independence. Extend the operation of this rule to other spheres of life, note its reaction upon character everywhere, and you will have, per- haps, at least a partial explanation for the comparatively infrequent appear- ance of great men in the present age. Recently an eminent physician gave utterance to the opinion tbat append icitis is more common in this country than in others because of the Yankee custom that men have—and men ae more frequently sufferers from the dis ease than women—of habitually sittirg with one leg thrown over the other. This habit, the physician was quoted as saying, restricts the action of the digestive apparatus, and especially of the lower intestine, and causes stagna- tion of the contents and the stretching open of the vermiform appendix, mak- ing it possible for obstructions to reach the latter, and thus giving rise to ap- pendicitis. There is no other disease, if we may judge from the attention given to it by current publications, in which the general public takes so much in- terest in as this one, which is compar- atively new to medical practice. Prob- ably much of the popular interest is due to the fact that only within a few years what may be called the literature of ap- pendicitis has reached the reading com- munity. As long ago as the Harrison adminis- tration the Board of Geographic Names decided that ‘‘Puerto Rico’’ was the proper spelling of the name of the is- land, but the Government printing office never learned of the decision, or disregarded it, and always printed it ‘*Porto Rico’ General Miles made it Puerto in his report, and when it came back Porto in the proofs’ he changed it to Puerto. Again it came back Porto in the revised proofs, but the General insisted on Puerto. The Postoffice Department spells it Porto, as do most of the newspapers of the coun- try. The Board of Geographic Names makes the name of the Cuban capital ‘* Habana.’’ COPPER SPECULATION. There are about twenty copper com- panies whose shares form the basis for speculation, these having a capital in the aggregate of less than $18,000,000. The market value of these shares, judg- ing by stock quotations, is not far from $175,000,000. This last sum represents enormous gains that have been made within the last twelve months—gains amounting in the aggregate to $30,000, - 000 or $40, 000, 000. To go back a few years, the market value of the copper stocks in 1891 was about $50,000,000, hence it may be said that in the last seven years these values have advanced by more than 200 per cent. This advance has been made in spite of the fact that for the last three years only about eight have paid any dividends. It is hoped that the rest will thus pleasingly recompense their share- holders, but there is as yet no positive assurance that such will be the case. The price of copper is tolerably high, say 13 cents a pound, and its tendency appears to be rather upward than down- ward. But its price has been higher within the last few years than it is at the present time, and yet with this ad- vanced price a good many copper com- panies that are now selling as future dividend payers did not earn enough money to meet their expenses and leave a surplus over for division among their shareholders. There is a hope, however, that they will do so in the future, and upon this the speculative value of the stock rests, a hope which has this much of fact to base upon, that the expenses of mining are possibly relatively less than they were years ago, and, furthermore, in view of the enormous use found for cop- per, it does not seem to be now pos- sible, as it once was, to easily depress the market by throwing upon it a con- siderable extra quantity of metal. Still, an advance such as that which has taken place in copper shares is not one of sufficient firmness to be confidently de- pended upon, and hence those who in- dulge in copper share speculations should constantly bear in mind that they are, in many instances, skating over ex- ceedingly thin ice. The American merchaut flag as well as the war flag promises to ride supreme in the Pacific. Before the war began, and before we gained a foothold in the Philippines, our mercantile marine in the great Western sea was stronger, rel atively, than in the Atlantic. It is to be increased now by the two largest steam- ships which have ‘ever floated on Pa- cific waters. They are to be built for the Pacific Mail Line, several of whose vessels are now in the service of the Government. American commerce will soon justify this outlay, and Admiral Dewey’s guns and men will provide all the protection that is needed. It is said that if the Canadian author- ities oblige the power company to de- velop power on that side of the falls, and there is no call for it there, it will be cabled across to this side. As this form of energy has been declared to be ‘‘raw material’’ it can be brought to the United States free of duty. The progressive citizen is a force that pushes things along. The mossback is a brake that is applied to the wagon wheels when progress is trying to roll the carriage up a hill. A man loaded with worthless opinions feels that he is called upon to give them to the public. Sage eee CPR ARy Wek ein ye ie CONES AEE at Ne a age os RELA AAR Spay Nn Hye ERE Meaege E 10 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Fruits and Produce. How Sugar Beets are Grown, Har- vested and Turned Into Sugar. In growing ~— beets to supply a sugar factory the farmer strives to raise beets containing as few impurities and as large a percentage of sugar as pos- sible. These qualities depend largely on the physical properties of the soil, moisture and temperature during the growing season, which is confined prin- cipally to the months of June, July and August. As to temperature for raising beets, 70 degrees F. is the standard. The sugar beet requires less moisture than do other farm products, for it sends its tap-root down as far as twelve or thirteen feet into the soil. Owing to this peculiarity sugar beets can be raised successfully in some parts of the country without rain or irrigation; this is the case witb nearly all beets grown in California, where the soil is moist. The roots can also be grown by irriga- tion in the arid regions of Colorado, Utab, Montana and other states. Rents paid for land devoted to raising sugar beets vary according to locality. Some owners receive from $5 to $7 cash per acre. In California and New Mex- ico the price ranges from $8 to $20, and sometimes an agreement is made to pay a portion of the crop as rent, say one- fifth or one quarter of the crop. The presence of a sugar beet factory ina district enhances the value of the land, and as a rule higher rent is paid for land devoted to sugar beet culture than if the same acreage were to be used for ordinary farming purposes. W. C. Wat- ers, manager of the Watsonville factory, in Santa Cruz county, Cal., says that rents there vary from $8 to $20 per acre, and that the factory at Watsonville bas 10,000 acres, averaging $10. 50. Mr Waters further states that ‘‘sugar beets double the price of rents.’ Special implements or drills are used for sowing sugar beet seed. The plant- ing, cultivating and harvesting imple- ments are known as a ‘‘full set of tools,’’ and marked improvements have been made in these in the last few years over the old styles used in Europe. Some of the implements have special arrangements for sowing seeds in ridges, and others for planting them on level ground—the latter being the usual cus- tom in the United States. From fifteen to twenty pounds of seed is planted to the acre, in rows fourteen to eighteen inches apart, and the plants stand six to eight inches apart in the rows. Some soils require closer planting. At the proper time, before tbe plants are too far advanced, the process of ‘“bunching’’ takes place, which consists in cutting out superfluous plants, leav ing bunches at intervals of six to ten inches. Then comes the thinning proc- ess, which is the most laborious task in raising sugar beets. All but the most thrifty plant in each bunch are by this process pulled out, in order that the re- maining root may receive the full strength of the soil. The utmost care has to be exercised in cultivating sugar beets. The time of harvesting is governed by the time of the ripening of the beets, which is in- dicated by the leaves turning yellow. If at this stage there is danger of ex- cessive rain, the beets have to be har- vested and placed in ‘‘silos’’ to prevent their putting forth new leaves and growing larger. Without this precaution whole crops have been rendered unfit for the factory. In rainy localities beets are hauled immediately to the factory, but if this can not be done, they are placed in long piles, about three feet wide and three or four feet high, tapering at the top. The piles are then covered with dirt six inches deep, occasional open- ings being left in the top of the piles for ventilation, to prevent fermentation. This process is called | _‘siloing”’ and the piles are known as ‘‘silos.’’ Beets preserved in this way keep in good con- dition for several months, thus enabling the factories to be run long after the harvest season in September or October. In barvesting sugar beets a special plow is used that breaks the beet from the tap-root The beet is then lifted from its bed by hand and subjected to the ‘‘topping’’ process, which consists in cutting off the top where it has pro- jected above ground. Most factories have arrangements for quickly handling the beets. The process of extracting sugar from the beets is quite complicated. The roots are thrown into hoppers, through the bottom of which they are fed into flumes, and there thoroughly cleansed with water. A big wheel scoops the beets from the flume into a washer, and then shredding machines cut the roots into shreds, known as ‘‘cassettes,’’ about the size of the old-fashioned noodle. The shreds are weighed, and tben placed in a juice extractor; the juice is mixed with lime, to precipitate impurities, boiled and strained. The evaporators, the ‘‘strike pan’’ (where the syrup is again boiled), whirling copper pans to turn the thick mass into crystal sugar and the dryer complete the process. After the juice is extracted from the beet there remains a pulp which is use ful as food for animals. It is used ex- tensively for this purpose in Europe and is becoming more and more popu- lar in this country. It is said to be good for cattle, sheep and dairy feeding, and a number of dairies have been started in connection with the beet sugar industry in the United States. This pulp has remarkable keeping properties. In a single instance a quan- tity left in an open field was found to be good at the end of three years. The pulp brings from to to $0 cents a ton, according to the demand. Some facto- ries have given it away to introduce its good qualities. Ancther by product of the sugar beet is molasses. The amount of this de- pends on the purity of the beet and the process employed to extract the sugar. It is not ft for domestic use, since it contains many impurities. Experi- ments are being made to reduce the res- idue of molasses, or to turn it to ac- count, and thus lessen the cost of pro- duction by recovering instead of wasting sugar contained in this molasses. It is claimed that a process in which alcohol is used would largely eliminate the loss, but to make this metbod profitable the alcohol would have to be recovered by distillation, so as to be used repeat- edly. But the internal revenue laws prevent this distillation, and factories could not afford to become distillers and pay the required license. ————o-2-.—____ Growing Fancy Pineapples in Florida. From the New York Commercial. While Florida is not the natural home of the pineapple its culture there has been brought to the greatest develop- ment. It is one of the few fruits which have been improved by intense cultiva- tion, a process which usually increases size at the expense of flavor. The only certain method of producing pineapples 1s to shed the fields, that is, convert the pineries into immense green- houses, which prevent the temperature falling below a given point. Large corporations are doing this successfully and producing fancy fruit which sells at extremely high prices. The pineries at Orlando are the best known to North- ern markets, and from them comes the finest fruit grown. There are some plan- tations in the Bahamas which produce nearly as satisfactory pines, but they are not as large and the flavor is hardly as good. The principal varieties are the red, the Abbaka and the smocth Cayenne. All are excellent fruit, but the latter is the best representative of the genus grown. Specimens have been sent to this city fifteen to sixteen inches high, not counting the tuft of leaves at the top, and fully six inches in diameter. The nnest and ripest bring as high as $1.50 each sometimes, and 75c@$1 by the case of eleven or twelve. They are a firm and very higbly flavored fruit. 8 Where the wages of sin is death, there is no striking for an increase. ——__0<.____ The good die young; the bad always omen their usefulness. SEEDS The best are the cheapest and these we can always supply. ALFRED J. BROWN SEED CO. 24 and 26 North Division Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. HARVEY P. MILLER. MILLER & TEASDALE CO. WHOLESALE BROKERAGE AND COMMISSION. FRUITS, NUTS, PRODUCE APPLES AND POTATOES WANTED WRITE US. 835 NORTH THIRD ST., 830 NORTH FOURTH ST., EVERETT P. TEASDALE. ST. LOUIS, [10. FREE SAMPLE TO LIVE MERCHANTS Our new Parchment-Lined, Odorless Butter Packages. The only way to deliver Butter to your customers. GEM FIBRE PACKAGE C0., DETROIT. Light as paper. GOOO000O9000000000000000 00060000 0000000000000000 HARRIS & FRUTCHEY Only Exclusive Wholesale BUTTER and EGG House in Detroit. Have every facility for han- dling large or small quantities. Will buy on track at your station Butter in sugar barrels, crocks or tubs. Also fresh gathered Eggs. 9OOO00000000000000006000000000000000000000000000 ?-POULTRY WANTED Live Poultry wanted, car lots or less. Write us for prices. H. N. RANDALL PRODUCE CO.,Tekonsha, Mich. ONOROTOTONC ROROROHOTORORORORORCHOEOHOBOZONOHOROHOE . eSer ac ne ee We Are in the Market To buy or sell Beans, Apples, Potatoes, Onions, Honey, Fresh Eggs, Wood. If you have any of the above to offer, write VINKEMULDER COMPANY, 14-16 OTTAWA S GRAND en PIDs, MiCH. as os CRANBERRIES, JERSEY and , VIRGINIA SWEET POTATOES, \ Apples, Celery, Spanish Onions, Lemons, Oranges and Bananas. Bunting & Co., Jobbers, Grand Rapids, Michigan. POTATOES, BEANS, ALL KINDS FiELD SEEDS ‘ Everyone reading this advertisement—you are read- ing it now—who trades in BEANS, POTATOES, SEEDS, APPLES, ONIONS, if in the market to buy or sell, is requested to correspond with MOSELEY BROS., 26-28-30-32 Ottawa Street, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 11 Inattention an Inexcusable Fault in a Salesperson. Written for the TRADESMAN. A gentleman suffering from a serious malady was induced by a friend to con- sult an eminent specialist, Dr. H. On meeting him afterward the friend en- quired as to his health and the success of the treatment and added, ‘‘ What did you think of Dr. H.?’’ The patient replied that the treatment seemed very beneficial. ‘‘What im- pressed me in Dr. H.,’’ he continued, ‘‘as superior to most physicians I have known was the perfect attention he gave me. It was a busy day with him when I first went to his office—I had to wait my turn and there were others waiting when I came away—but he did not hurry me. If he had been recently graduated and I had been his anxiously- expected first patient he could not have seemed more interested in my case. He listened to all I had to say and enquired carefully about every symptom—there was no air of ‘] wish you'd get through so I can atiend to those other people.’ And the next time I went he remem- bered all I had told him. This was, to say the least, very pleasant. It seems to me that one secret of Dr. H.’s suc- cess is the careful, unhurried attention he gives his patients.’’ In the business of selling goods it pays to give the customer undivided attention. Not only should there be no haste in bringing the buyer to a deci- sion, but he should not be allowed to get the impression that the salesman would a little prefer doing something else just then to showing him goods. On the contrary, let him be made to feel that there is nothing in the world so satisfactory as attending to his par- ticular wants. Indifference is a sad shortcoming in any Salesperson. It is the besetting sin of boy clerks, girls working for low wages, and the inefficient and incapable generally. But there is also a failing to which the capable and responsible are especially liable: It is a sort of abstraction of mind, a little lack of per- fect attention to the customer. The proprietor himself is perhaps as apt as anyone to fall into this habit. He has a great many things on his mind. Some important question must be decided in a few hours, perhaps in a few moments. But it is best to put all such things aside for the time being, otherwise the merchant’s mind will wander off to these matters and now and then a re- mark of the customer will! fall upon un- heeding ears. The purchases are then likely to be completed rather hastily and some of the less important articles omitted. The customer leaves. There has been no real rudeness and perhaps he does not feel that he has any cause for complaint, yet he does not carry away the pleasant feeling that he would if the merchant's wits had not been woolgathering. It is highly desirable to be able to greet the customer by name when he enters; also if his tastes and peculiar- ities as manifested in previous pur- chases are remembered it shows that some interest has been taken in his in- dividual case. Then if attention is only given to what he says! There is no more subtle flattery than appreciative listening, where no remark or tone or gesture passes unnoticed; yet it is so delicate that it never offends, as do the more fulsome forms of adulation. It is really a compliment to a store whenever a customer enters. It is vir- tually saying that the stock is in some way superior to that offered by compet- ing establishments, or the service better, or the prices are lower. It is only fair to return the compliment by giving the customer the best possible treatment. QUILLO. a Growing Oranges in Louisiana. From the New Orleans Picayune. A branch of agriculture which is claiming much attention from the farm- ers and ctbers in St. Bernard, and which promises to reach a state of high development in the next few years, is orange culture. Heretofore orange grow- ing was scarcely prosecuted by the till- ers of the soil, whose time was entirely taken up with the cultivation of other farm products, but some of the large planters and property holders, while at- tending to their business occupations, raised orange orchards, mostly for their private use. Here and there an orange grower would be found who would dis- pose of his crop to the wholesale or re- tail deaier, when the market price tempted him. But the snowstorm of February, 1895, sounded the death knell of the orange trees, which represented years of care- ful nursing and unsparing labor. Only one orchard survived the severe weather of that year, but not without damage, and this year it preserts one of the most beautiful scenes cne could wish to see. Since the storm and up to a few months ago, orange growing in the par- ish was on the wane, everybody regard- ing it asan uncertain and bazardous un- dertaking, whose fate would be again settled by the first severe cold weather like that of ’95. Yet, several farmers, learning of new budding stock, ventured to raise orange trees immediately after that memorable storm, and to-day they boast of small orchards, although in their primitive state. It is evident that the success acbieved by these venturesome farmers is responsible for the renewed interest now shown in orange raising throughout the parish, and the fact that many are preparing to lay out young trees by the thousands is proof sufficient that the in- dustry is being revived and is destined to become an important factor in the agricultural resources of St. Bernard. The established merit of the trifoliate as a budding stock is being recognized by the orange growers, for those who have experimented with it pronounce it a success and superior to other stocks, in that it can endure cold more readily and without evil effects. This virtue of the trifoliate is a most valuable one, and will encourage farmers to raise or- ange orchards in conjunction with other crops. Expert growers say that trees budded on trifoliate stock do not grow as tall or as large as those budded on other stock, but what is lost in height and width is gained in the number of trees that can be planted in one acre. Then the picking is facilitated by the small size of the trees. Farmers have learned the importance and necessity of diversifying their crops in recent years, and now that they find they can plant orange trees without great risk, it is not surprising to see them branch out in orange growing, which will bring them sure and good revenues after very few years. ——__> ¢.____ A Wide Acquaintance. ‘That old pagan precept, ‘Know thy- self,’ ’’ said the shoe clerk boarder, ‘‘1s not half bad, as a bit of advice.’’ ‘*Especially for a fat man,’’ said the Cheerful Idiot. ‘*And why for a fat man any more than a thin?’’ ‘It gives him a wide acquaintance. ’’ ——__—_» 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. 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Write us. pbhbbbhbhibbbbtobhooee GROG VV GG ST VUVVUVUVY : : : ILLAR’S ANDHELING JAVA EDAL OGHA AND JAVA HOST POPULAR ROASTED COFFEES ON ThE MARKET 5 Medals URAGOA HARK JAVA ROWN MIXED REOLE JAVA AND ARABIAN HOGHA 5 Diplomas Awarded these goods Awarded these goods at World’s Columbian at World’s Columbian Exposition. Exposition. Purity is ancient his- tory with us. It is Purity and quality to A Trade Mark which we call attention is Testing is proving a Badge First-class grocers will of Honor tell you so. Try MILLAR’S PEARLED PEPPER, Granulated. Importers and Grinders, E. B. Millar & Co., a We are so positive that our ¥ v Spices and Queen Flake Baking Powder 4 pure that we offer One Hundred Dollars for every ounce of adulteration found in a package of our ® soods Manufactured and sold only by eaten meeeteon & Carrier, — Mich. 393933399939923>3 =FSeSSee ‘ ; } MICHIGAN TRADESMAN GOTHAM GOSSIP. News from the Metropolis—Index to the Market. Special Correspondence. New York, Dec. 10o—The markets here afe all active in a retaii way, and to see the struggle to get near the bar- gain counter is enough to strike terror to the stoutest heart. Jobbers in some cases report that they are working over- time almost every night and the demand comes from all sections. In the coffee market about the only words which describe the situation are quiet, but with steady prices. The con- dition of affairs is not especially grati- fying to distributors, nor do they see that the future offers any relief. Orders, both from city and out-of-town dealers, are of a character indicating that only sufficient purchases are being made to tide the buyers over from day to day. Holders, however, display no special anxiety to make sales and positively re fuse to make any concession. Invoice trading, as weil as that on the street, has been quiet. Rio No. 7 is worth 63%%c. In store and afloat there are 1,006,027 bags, against 1,027,910 bags at the same time last year. For mild grades the enquiry is of the most limited character, all hands seemingly having agreed to wait until the turn of the year before doing any business. Good Cucuta coffee is worth8%c. East India growths are dull. Padang, 244@ 261%4@28@32c, the latter for fancy. Mocha, 17%@z2ICc. At the moment the tea market has been galvanized into some semblance of activity. Some very good orders have come to hand and values have been fairly well maintained. No single sale of large quantity was reported, but they came with satisfactory frequency. In- voice trading is dull; in fact, nothing is doing. The week has passed with hardly a ripple of excitement relating to the sugar war. The demand has been slow for refined, both with refiners and job- bers. The latter are striving to reduce stocks as much as may be and there seems no immediate prospect of anv advance; in fact, nearly all soft grades have been shaded at least 1-16c. Gran- ulated is listed at 5c. The rice market is firm. Fancy grades have been mostly sought for and are closely sold up, full values being re- ported all around. Grades other than choice are not moving with the same degree of freedom and there is room for improvement, but the situation is not at all discouraging for the holders. Stocks are not large. Foreign rice is in fair request at full figures. It is a good time to buy, if signs count-for anything. Prime to choice domestic rice is worth 538@6'%c; head rice, 6%@7c; Japan, 5¥%c; Patna, 54@53c. Save tor pepper the spice market bas been very quiet and even this article has ceased to be as much in evidence as it was last week or for the month previously. No changes have taken place in prevailing quotations. Molasses grades that are desirable are moving freely and, as receipts have been light, prices have been shoved up to about top notch, some open kettle bringing as high as 32c and even more; varieties not up to standard are not so much sought after, but the market, up- on the whole, exhibits a good degree of strength. Syrups are steady and are fetching full value. Canned goods jobbers have been do- ing an excellent business in all sorts of canned goods and the year promises to close showing the market in better con- dition than for years. New York State corn has attracted much attention late- ly and, although the pack was large, the market here is well in band, and in the State packers generally have disposed of their stocks very closely. Corn, to matoes and string beans are the three staples which attract most attention and higher prices seem inevitable, with many months to elapse before new goods come. Dried fruits are very active and, when the holiday trade is over, the market will show a big reduction in stocks on hand. Jobbers have been very busy filling orders and prices are firm all long the line for both foreign and acific coast goods, as well as_ the ‘‘homlier’’ domestic apples, berries, etc. Evaporated apples of desirable grades are very firmly held at 9%@loc. Apples are in light receipt, but the demand is not especially active, as quo- titions are too high to admit of free consumption. Greenings range from $4@4.50; Baldwins, $3.25@4.50. Cran- berries, Cape Cod, $5.50@7 50. Grapes are quiet, with supplies not very large. Lemons have been little sought for and prices sag. The range for Sicily lemons 1s from $2 60@3 75, as to size and qual- ity. Oranges are firm and selling from $3 25@4 for Florida russets, as to size; brights, $3.50@5; California navels, $3@4 25. : Fancy fresh creamery butter is quot- able at about 20c as top price. The feeling is a firm one and yet there is no special activity observable. For firsts, 18@1gc; seconds, 16@17c; thirds, 14% @15'4c; June extras, 18%@igc; finest imitation creamery, Western, 164%@ 1734c; firsts, 1444@15'4c. Western tac- tory meets with light enquiry and fetches from 13@15c, as to quality. Western fresh gathered eggs are worth 24@25c. Desirable stock is eager- ly sought tor, but off grades not in spe- cial demand. Little change has taken place in the cheese market and the demand 1s only of an every-day character. Large size, full cream is worth toc for fancy and small size a half-cent more. ++» 2+ Will Arbuckle Go to the Retail Trade? It seems to be the opinion of conserv- ative members of the grocery trade that Arbuckle Bros.’ methods of selling package sugar in New England are likely to result in the Arbuckles selling retailers almost exclusively all over the country. As was recently told, the wholesale grocers of New England re- fused to handle the Arbuckle package sugar, and the packers promptly started to sell the retail trade direct, which they are still doing in that territory. Several years ago, when Arbuckle Bros. introduced their package coffee, they did it through the retailer, thus forcing tbe jobber to handle the coffee also. As soon as the demand was well in hand, the Arbuckles stopped selling ~ retailer and dealt with the jobber only. it is believed that unless the jobbers keep in line on package sugar pretty well, Arbuckie Bros. will follow the same course with that. They have had relations with nearly all the best retail- ers in the country, and could easily re- sume them. It isa very difficult thing to operate one scheme in one part of the country and another exactly the op posite in other sections. For this reason it is scarcely believed that Arbuckle Bros. will long be able to sell retailers exclusively in the New England States and wholesalers exclusively in the bal- ance of the country. If the Arbuckles decide to sell the re- tail trade, they will probably give the retail grocer 1 16 of the 3 16 rebate now allowed the jobber. —_© 9 __ Gambler and Dealer in Phenacetine. According to the Toronto Star, Geo. F. Foster, a young man well known around that town, who ran a gambling room in a downtown business block, has disappeared, leaving the firm of Jones & Co out of pocket some $200 for a draft which thev cashed and also leav- ing a number of small debts among his acquaintances about town. It is stated that Foster was in the habit of pur- chasing phenacetine and running it across the line at Detroit by aid of the Pullman car porters and finally dispos- ing of it in New York City. He thus escaped the payment of the duty and of the royalty as well and was enabled to sell it at 50 per cent. profit. Some six months since, one of these porters was arrested and incarcerated on the charge of smuggling He believed that Foster was responsible for his detection and swore revenge, and it is hinted that Fos- ter's sudden disappearance was due to fear of this negro, who has just been re- leased from prison. Old Homestead Mincemedt Co. Manufacturers of omestead MINCE and Jobbers of Pearl Brand Oysters In Cans or Bulk. Consignments of Poultry and Game Solicited. 43 E. Bridge St. Grand Rapids. iS EGGS WANTED Am in the market for any quantity of Fresh Eggs. Would be pleased prices F. O. B. your station to merchants hav- ing Eggs to offer. Established at Alma 1885. Oo. W. ROGERS ALMA, MICH. aw at at a a By a Sy at any time to quote a at a a at at a Sle Sle Sie Sie Sle Sie Sie Sle Sie Sle Sle Sle Sie Ste Stes eS SESE ESSE SEES ESTE TT Tt . 1. 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Grand Rapids Refrigerator Co., Grand Rapids, Mich. a a MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 13 STORE FREAKS. Customers Which the Grocer Can Dispense With. Stroller in Grocery World. ‘“‘A grocer runs up against some queer people in the course of his experience,’’ said an old retailer to me the other day. This retailer, by the way, is a very entertaining old character. He is 68 years old, and has been in the grocery business for forty-five years. Heisa man whose eyes are always open, and he has a good many interesting reminis- cences tucked away under his old bald head. But it isn’t very often that I can get him to unlimber. ‘*T used to sell to an old maid we called ‘“Short-weight Maria,’ ’’ began the old grocer. ‘‘She had a crazy idea that everybody she bought goods of was watching their chance to give her short weight or measure. Everything she got of me she took home and religiously weighed it on her own scales. She said so to herself. And if it was a hair un- der weight, she’d bring it back and give the clerk that sold it to her such a laying out as you never heard. ‘Wanted to cheat a poor old woman out of her money’s worth,’ and all that sort of talk. ‘“‘We got the best of her once, though,’’ he went on. ‘‘She used to buy lots of dried beef of me. She was very fond of it and almost lived on it. One day she came in and bought a quar- ter of a pound, taking it home with her. One of the clerks waited on her. About half an hour after she came running back in great excitement and demanded that the beef be weighed. I weighed it myself and found it was half an ounce short. Old Maria pointed out the clerk who sold it, and I called him over and showed him the short weight, while the old lady stood back with a triumphant smirk on ber face. ‘*While I was telling him, I noticed the clerk smiling, and I wondered why. When I had gotten’ through—and I hauled him over pretty well, for I was vexed that the old woman seemed to have it on us at last—the clerk said: ‘’ ‘That beef is short weight because Miss Jackson eat a lot of it after I weighed it, before I wrapped it up.’ ‘*The old lady got very red in the face, but she didn’t say a word. That was the last time she ever bought any- thing of me and I was glad of it, be- cause she was a nuisance. Why, I’ve known her to come back with a pound of crackers that took the scales down just so they were evenly poised. You know what I mean—yjust on the balance. She thought the scale ought to drop all the way down, and I had to give her one more cracker to get her out of the store. ‘*Another nuisance I used to sell was a preacher. He was a clever fellow, but I’ve always said he wasa thief, and I say so yet. This tellow would alwavs insist on one of the younger clerks waiting on him, and I couldn't under- stand it, except on the ground that he liked the boy and thought he’d make him feel good by showing preference for him. ‘But one day I saw why this old snoozer had a boy wait on him. I hap- pened to see the boy measure outa quart of lima beans one day, while the preacher stood over him. ‘*The boy piled the quart measure up as high as he could, and emptied the beans in a basket. The preacher leaned down, grabbed up a big handful of beans and added them to the quart al- ready in his basket. ‘* *The Lord loveth a cheerful giver, my boy,’ he said ina fatherly tone to the boy, who didn’t pay any attention. | learned afterward that he was used to it and was afraid to say anything. ‘I didn’t interfere just then, because I didn’t know but what it might be an isolated case. It was a small matter, anyhow. But the next time the preacher came in the store I went up to him myself. ‘* ‘What can I get you, Dominie?’ I asked. ‘* ‘Why, thank you,’ said the preach- er, politely, ‘I'll wait until James is through, I guess. He usually attends to me very nicely.’ ‘* *Darned nicely,’ I thought to my- self. James was the boy who always waited on him. ‘'I didn’t say anything, but laid out to see how things turned out this trip. The boy got through witb his other cus- tomer pretty soon and I heard the preacher ask for half a peck of sweet potatoes. Fortunately, the basket was where I could see it from the end of the counter. ‘The half peck was measured out and the boy gave heaped up measure. After the measure was emptied in the basket, the preacher leaned over, just as he had done before, picked up three great big potatoes and tossed them in his basket. ‘* *The Lord loveth a cheer—’ he got just about that far when I stopped him. I was hot. ‘**But be doesn’t love a thief!’ I said. I oughtn’t to have said it, but I hadn't much use for the fellow, anyhow, for some other things he'd done. And it was thieving, all the same. ‘‘The preacher got very hot and threatened to have me arrested. He put on a brassy front and walked out, but he never did anything. I'd have made it too warm for him. And _ he never came in my store again, either. The boy told me afterward that he'd done that trick every time, and every time he did it he used that gag about the Lord loving a cheerful giver. I calculate I lost lots of money through that fellow.’’ The old grocer looked at bis watch. ‘*Don't stop!’’ I said. ‘‘It does you good to let your wheels run on like this once in a while.”’ He smiled and went on. ‘Well, there was one more freak I re- member,’’ he said. ‘‘He was a fellow who hadn't much education, but he prided himself on baving picked up all be knew himself. I gave him credit for it, too. He got sort of crazy over the microscope. Poured over books about it at nigbt,and he got to know lots about examining bugs and things, people said. “‘This fellow got a funny idea that the food he ate was impure. I don’t| Higa ‘MAKE BUSINESS | The J. M. Bour Co., know whether he thought the grocer was knowingly giving him adulterated things or not, but he acted as if he did. He dealt with me, and he used to take little bits of everything he bought and look at them under his microscope. He found something to kick over in almost all of them. He came down one day and swore that the vinegar I’d sold him was swarming with little bugs. I got quite worried over it, until I found out that they ought to be in there—were really part of the vinegar. ‘*And that’s the way he worried me. Almost every day he used to come down to the store and kick. This was im- pure, or that was, or the other. I was trving to seli good stuff and it sort of made me hot under the collar. Sol told him one day to clear out—I didn't want anything more to do with him and never wanted to sell him another dollar’s worth. He left me, and the next gro- cer he went to took him by the scruff of the neck and shot him out the door when he went there one day to tell him some cheese was bad. | believe that ended the microscope business. ‘‘Yes,’’ finished the old grocer, ‘‘in cases like that I believe in getting rid of these freaks as soon as you Can. They're a nuisance, and they worry you. They ain't worth the sleep they cost you.’’ And, right on the whole, I believe he’s Ship your BUTTER AND EGGS to R. HIRT, IJR.. DETROIT. MICH. 34 AND 386 MARKET STREET, 435-437-439 WINDER STREET. Cold Storage and Freezing House in connection. Capacity 75 carloads. Correspondence solicited. Lawrence & Matheson Packers of P, & B. OYSTERS Jobbers of Foreign Fruits, Nuts, Dates, etc. For Christmas we shall have a car of fancy Navel. Oranges--- “Liberty Bell” brand---and we are assured that the fruit will be finely colored We guarantee and first class. our prices and solicit your orders. 127 Louis Street, We Realize——-—_: Grand Rapids. That in competition more or less strong © Our Coffees and Teas : Must excel in Flavor and Strength and be constant Trade Winners. All our coffees roasted on day of shipment. S 129 Jefferson Avenue, Detroit, Mich. 113-115-117 Ontario St., Toledo, Ohio. 14 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Shoes and Leather Women’s Neglecttulness of the Ap- pearance of Their Feet. I recently clipped the following arti- cle from the Buffalo Express: A shoe was sent to the cobbler’s the other day to have the heel straightened. It was a woman's shoe, and as the cob- bler turned it over a customer looking on laughed and said, ‘‘Just like all the rest of its class, run down and _ uncared for,’’ then shrugged his shoulders and walked away. The customer’s manner and words aroused the curiosity of a woman who was standing near, and also rather irritated her, so she asked their meaning. ‘‘ Why, there is nothing strange about it,’’ he said. *‘It is an open secret that women’s shoes never look as if they had any attention. Two weeks after they leave the shoe store they look halt worn out. Now, see this one; it doesn’t look as if it had seen a brush or polish for six weeks and I would not be sur- prised if it had not; women rarely pol- ish their boots—it cracks the leather, thev will tell you if you mention it. See how the heel is worn down on one side, and the point of the toe is bent and wrinkled, and the shoe from end to end looks as if it hadn’t a friend in the world, although it has not seen much wear, for the stamp is not worn off the sole yet. It’s a fact women are more careless about their footwear than any other part of their apparel. Some day when you think of it, watch the women on the street to see if it is not a fact Their gowns will be stylish and in per fect repair; their bonnets, gloves, veils and all the other details will be fault- less, but when they lift their skirts to cross a dirty pavement you will see their shoes are lusterless and present a neglected appearance, if they are not positively shabby. ‘‘It is hard to find a reason for it, for generally women are particular enough when they buy their shoes, and you gen erally hear them say how much they like to see new shoes. The way they walk back and forth before the mirror in the store admiring the shapely ap- pearance of their neatly shod foot proves that, but why they don't take a little pains to preserve that neat ap- pearance no one has vet found out. A man wants his boots polished every morning. A woman does not seem to care if hers never see a brush fora month atatime. It’s my opinion the majoritv of them do not.’’ And the man left the shop before the woman had time to defend her sex, or to de- cide whether defense were possible. I read it to Mr. Laster and he wasn’t three seconds in sizing up that thing. ‘‘Why,’’ he s:id,‘‘that’s easy enough. I’ve always said that if women wore pants they would be a good deal more particular about their shoes than they are now. You see, the fact is, a woman can’t see her feet more than once or twice a day and then she only seesa pair of toes peeping out when she sits down and crosses her feet as mast wom- en do. The toe of a woman’s shoe al- ways looks the best anyway and she doesn’t realize how they look to other people. Then, again, most women are naturally economical = spendthrifts. What I mean by that is, they like to economize and brag about it, but really whatever they want in the way of dress they must have in some shape. If they can’t have sealskin they will compro- mise on seal plush. If they need a bon- net or a nice warm hood, but can’t afford both, they will buy the bonnet. But that isn’t what I mean to lead up to. Women economize on shoes on the principle of the ostrich who hid his head and thought that nobody could see him. They wear shabby shoes and de- pend on their skirts to hide them from the unfeeling world. The skirts do the best that they can, but it is just as the Buffalo Express lady has said, most women take less care of their shoes than of any other article of wear.’’ ‘‘But they buy more shoes, in propor- tion, than men do,’’ I remarked. ‘*Of course they do,'’ replied Mr. Last- er, and why shouldn’t they? Look at the material that women's shoes are made of and compare it with the stock that goes into men's shoes. Of course, men are mostly of heavier weight and have larger feet, and their work is supposed to be of a nature that demands the hardest sort of service, but it doesn’t always follow. Take a big, solid girl, working as a saleswoman in a store, and take a light-weight young fellow, working in the samestore. Their weight is about the same. The wear that they give their shoes is practically of the same sort, and yet the man wears a solid piece of calf, with several ounces of heel and a sole quarter of an inch thick, while the girl wears kid, almost as thin as that which is in her gloves, a tiny heel, and a sole about as thick as an average piece of pasteboard. ‘*It is no wonder that that sort of stuff won't keep the new on very long, and if there is one thing more than another that most women hate in connection with their footwear, it is the superficial, un- even, self-evident polish which an amateur application of liquid shoe pol- ish gives to a half-worn shoe. As I heard a little lady say the other day, right here in the store, ‘I do hate to begin using polish, When one begins one is obliged to keep it up every day, or the shoes look worse than ever, so I get along without putting anything on my shoes, unti] they are so shabby that { am actually ashamed of them.’ That’s a big part of the secret, and the petti- coats are the key to the rest of it. ‘*But to continue,’’ said the old gen- tleman to me, ‘‘I just long once ina while to see a good, sensible woman with a sensible pair of shoes on her feet. It was only yesterday that a woman al- most six feet tall, and weighing 175 pounds if she weighed anything, came in with a foot on her fully No. 6 and better than EE wide, and she wouldn't have anytbing but a kid shoe witha turn sole. Not a hand-sewed welt, you understand, but a light turn. Said that heavy shoes made her feet so tired that she couldn’t stand it. Of course, I couldn’t tell her that what she said was all rot, that wouldn't do, and so I took off her old 5% pointed-toed kid, all run over on tbe heel and bulging out on both sides of the ball, and put on an- other just like it. Had to do it, be- cause I'm in this business to makea living selling shoes, and not to be martyred in the cause of a reform. ‘‘She said that she came to me be- cause she had heard that we sold good wearing shoes. Said that the ones I took off hadn’t worn a bit good. It was no wonder. ‘‘It is a good deal worse than it used to be. When I went into business there were a good many fine calf and pebble goat shoes worn. They were nice and shapely, too. I always liked pebble goat. The fine ones and some of the calf goods seemed perfect, particularly in the laced shoes. Now you won't find a calf or pebble goat shoe for women in a single store that has been going less than ten years. Some of the old-timers may have a few pairs acting as_ stock- keepers, but there are none nowadays. I mean the sort that were made for good people to wear and cost from $2.50 to $3.50. The cheap processes of mak- ing soft kid are responsible for the change, I think. ‘‘Sometimes English women come in here with shoes made on the other side, and I tell you they are the sort that our women ought to wear. Solid soles, wide and easy, good insoles, broad toes, and with stock in the uppers that will al- most turn water. A good many of them are hand-made and are as handsome as any woman need to wear. Laced shoes for the most part are just the sort that our women ought to wear, but they won't, and I guess women are about the same the world over, for I have noticed that these same English ladies, when they have been over here a little while, stop asking for solid shoes and are just as much victims to the light-weight shoe habit as any that we have on this side of the water. It seems to go with the climate. ‘‘I don’t suppose you ever made a study of the number of women who have chilblains in the North during the win- ter months? Well, it is astonishing. I took pains last winter to ask twenty women, young and old, whom I knew familiarly enougb to ask such a ques- tion (and then a shoe dealer is a sort of Father Confessor, anyway, of foot troubles) and do you know, out of the twenty that I asked thirteen were troubled more or less with chilblains. They were not poor women either, with their feet half out of their shoes and obliged to suffer, but well-to-do people, who wore silk stockings and turned soles, and always asked for the lightest weight of rubbers or overshoes. And that is the whcle story—rich women with feet poorly protected from the cold. ‘‘How many men, young or old, do you find nowadays who are even decent- ly well off who know what chilblains are? You'll very seldom find one, but if you investigate you will be surprised to find the number of women who suffer in that way. ‘‘Incidentally I might mention that the best cure for chilblains that I know of is to soak the feet in the water in which potatoes have been boiled. We shoe dealers, you know, have to have a lot of such remedies at our command, for it is nice to bave relief to offer for the afflicted, whether the suffering comes from corns, callouses, ingrowing tue- nails, chilblains or interfering. ’’ As the oid gentleman seems to have had enough to say for one ‘‘Glimpse,’’ I won't add any comment of my own at all, except that ‘‘Them’s my sentiments, too.’’—I. Fitem in Boots and Shoes Weekly. ——_—_~>-0 > —___—_ How It Happened. ‘‘What time is it?’’ ‘*Haven't you got a watch?’’ ‘*Yes, but I don’t wear it any more.’’ ‘Why not?’’ ‘‘People kept bothering me asking me what time it was.’’ ——__—_» 0. 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Be sure and see them before placing your order: r Peers OT N* —— SSDS SN wy a wa, Lamb’s Wool Soles Women’s extra fine, per doz....$2.00 Misses’ extra fine, per doz...... 1.70 Child’s extra fine, per doz....... 1.50 Men’s extra fine, per doz........ 2.75 Retail at 25c Retaii at 20c Retail at 20c Retail at 35c Women’s No. 1, per doz........ 1.75 Retail at 20c Misses’ No. 1, per doz.......... 1.50 Retail at 18c Child’s No. 1, per doz........... 1.35 Retaii at 18c Men's No. 1, per doz............ 2.50 Retail at 30c Above are long, fine Fleece. Women’s old style binding, short wool, per doz .$1.25 Misses’ old style binding, short wool, per doz. 1.10 Child’s old style binding, short wool, per doz.. 1.00 Men’s old style binding, short wool, per doz... 2.00 HIRTH, KRAUSE GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 4Over Gaiters Leggings Women's 10 button, Felt, per doz.............. $2.50 Women’s 10 button, Trilby, per doz........... 3-00 Women’s 10 t'utton, Empress, per doz......... 4-50 Women’s 10 button, Victoria, per doz.... .... 6.00 Women’s 7 button, Josephine, per doz........ 4.00 Men’s 10 button, Storm King, per doz......... 6,00 Men’s 10 button, Blizzard, per doz............. 8.00 Women’s all wool Leggings, above knee..... Per G60. 2000550500 oe $10.50 Women’s mixed wool Leggings, above knee Pet dot. .5... 2. 9.00 Sox for Rubber Boots, per doz................. $1.25 & CO., a i ‘ 3 ee aS id aie RG oe. Retain it oRRKS, ee a MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 15 THE DOUBLE INVENTORY. Its Importance As an Element of Suc- cess. Written for the TRADESMAN. In matters of personal bravery, in times of battle, it has been said, and most truly too, that ‘‘He who fights and runs away will live to fight another day;’’ but coupled with the evident truth in such an assertion 1s the charge against that man’s heroism, and yet we might almost say, with a former dip- lomat in times of secession, ‘‘A live coward is worth twenty dead heroes—to himself,’’ and still not justify turning back on a foe, for the dead hero counts more than many live cowards in the hearts of his countrymen and eyes of his adversaries. When we turn this assertion to a man in the retail business we can readily see wherein he who puts up a good fight for a time, then turns and flees from his adversary, must again fight on other days, and fight harder than at first, to regain lost prestige, while he who fights intending to stay will be in at the close to enjoy the victor’s spoils. Many of our fallen business men put up a noble fight for a time, but just as things seem to be coming their way, when one more well delivered shoulder blow would win them a well-deserved victory, they get discouraged, ‘‘about face’’ and run away, instead of falling in their tracks if worst comes to worst. To fly from seeming trouble? Never! We can all laud the business man who boldly meets the adversities that beset his path, who by the mere force of stick-to-it-iveness wins out where a less vigorous stand had resulted in a not too-glorious compromise, perhaps flat failure. We praise his tenacity and truly of him it may be said, ‘‘he lives to fight another -day.’’ But the fight will be some other way, not on the same lines as the first, for seldom will the same enemy have to be defeated a second time on the ground of battle where defeat was once sustained. To those of our friends who seem to think themselves in hard luck we would say: No matter what obstacles appear to be against your success; no matter what manner of competition opposes you, no matter what discouragements may have beset your pathway, no mat- ter if things look black at present and the future without hope, brace yourself to the fight; face the foe, and say in the words of the Scottish chieftain made immortal in Scott’s Lady of the Lake, *“ 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 tor the round trip. They will 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. “Biscuit” or ‘Cracker?’ Some say ‘‘biscuit’’ and some say ‘‘cracker,’’ with perhaps some doubts in either case as to which is correct. This interesting point is explained in Depew’s ‘‘One Hundred Years of Amer- ican Commerce,’’ by Frank A. Kennedy, in a chapter entitled ‘‘The Biscuit In- dustry,’’ as follows: ‘*The name ‘biscuit’, derived through the French from the Latin, means ‘twice baked,’ and had, according to Gibbon, its origin in the fact that the military bread of the Romans was twice pre- pared in the oven. As applied to the product of bakeries, this term was brought from England to America and came into general use here probably not much earlier than the middle of the century. In Europe all articles of food in the shape of small cakes made from flour, with sweetening or flavoring added, have always been, and still are, called ‘biscuits.’ Goods of this variety, however, were at first unknown in the United States, and the term generally applied to the first crude productions made of plain and unsweetened dough was ‘cracker.’ The latter name_ has ever since retained its significance in this country in connection with the plain, usually crisp, unflavored grades of goods, which last, however, when in- troduced later into Europe, were there ail absorbed into the generic title ‘bis- cuit’, the name cracker falling into dis- use. We have gradually adopted in America this more sweeping classifica- tion, but the distinction between the specific name ‘cracker’ and the general term ‘biscuit’ it is well to bear in mind.”’ —__> 2. ___— Opposed to a Reciprocity Treaty. From the New York Commercial. In President McKinley's message to Congress last week there was an allusion to negotiations for a reciprocity treaty with Greece. Under the McKinley law a duty of 1%c per pound was imposed on Greek currants and this was increased in the Dingley law to 2c, fully 100 per cent of the value in Greece. They cost laid down here, including the duty, around 5@6c, according to quality, and fully one-half of the product of Greece comes to this country. This year an attempt was made to secure abrogation of the excluding Russian treaty, but so far nothing has been accomplished. The Russian demand would be confined principally to wine grades. Germany takes large quantities, but the chief consumers are 1n this country. Under the McKinley and Dingley laws the cultivation of currants has been be- gun in California. The total Greek pro- duction this year was 135,000 tons. Cal- ifornia’s delegation in Congress has al- ready entered a strong protest against removing the duty, on the ground that it will ruin an important and growing industry. So far as the trade of this city is con- cerned, there is little interest in the matter. The cost now is low, and prob- ably distribution would not materially increase were foreign currants admitted free of duty. 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. DAAC DAA ny aw AS A Bronze: m Premiums are given with an ob- ject in view. We recommend to mer- chants to give away premiums to their customers to INCREASE THEIR CASH and general trade. We offer the above premiums to intro- duce our line of premium sil- verware. We claim for our quadruple plated silverware that it is of better quality than other makes =< offered at similar(\ prices, every piece @& being accompanied ayy by a ten year guar- anty certificate. As an_ induce- ment to test the merit of our quad- LARD AAS AAR IRA AB AA On O80 oo Including the culars and full particulars. WUC VU CVC CU CCC CVC CCU U CUCU UU NVUCU WCU UMUMCIVOUNWnauy Absolutely A Ten Dollar Graphophone + ounted Hand-decorated Lamp A Large Bronzed Parlor Clock ruple plated silverware and to interest you in the the above premiums absolutely free, as follows: Our regular price of silverware is invariably $1.25 each. ing thi for the purpose of interesting you in our line. Drop usa postal for descriptive illustrated cir- THE REGENT MANUFACTURING CO., ph URAC R ERA AE ae hee ne fe en A ag 8 0 8 8 Free premium plan we offer The Champion Assortment, 40 pieces silverware, for........ $50 00 Including a ten dollar graphophone. Assortment No. 115, 20 pieces silverware, for............-+-- 25 00 Including the decorated lamp. Assortment No. 110, 20 pieces silverware, for.....-....--..-- 25 00 parlor clock. We are making this special offer 174 WABASH AVE., CHICAGO, ILL. Selene e eeadea tee ser plate Teves H i 1e@ MICHIGAN TRADESMAN IDEAL GENERATOR. Some Features Which Should Not Be Overlooked. Uniform pressure is even more desir- able and necessary for acetylene than for other gases, but is maintained in but few of the automatic generators yet placed on the market. If the pressure is irregular the gas is apt to blow and smoke and to be generally unsatisfactory. This gas does not smoke under ordinary conditions, but it is so rich in carbon that when it does smoke it deposits soot at an alarming rate, From the user’s standpoint the easy removal of residuum is most important, and, except in the objectionable sprinkler generator, it is one of the hardest problems for the generator builder to solve. Wet residuum is about as dirty and disagreeable to handle as anything that can be found, and any generator which does not provide for its easy removal without soiling the hands or clothing will not be satisfac- tory to the user. No generator is desirable which does not continue the supply of gas while being recharged, and this with entire absence of danger. Every génerator should be provided with automatic relief pipes, which should infallibly permit the gas to es- Cape into the outer atmosphere wher the pressure exceeds the slight limit it should be allowed to attain. These pipes on reaching the outside of the building should be carried to a height that woula prevent escaping gas from being lighteo either by design or accident. Condensation traps should be arranged on all generators so that they will act constantly and automatically. Pet cock: to allow the direct escape of gas art dangerous and are also unsatisfactory, as they are liable to be neglected. Generators should be made of good material only. They are generally con- structed of galvanized steel, and if it is poor quality it is liable to crack in bending and the coating to flake off, causing leaks, which are, of course, not permissible under any circumstances. Only the best mechanics should be employed in the manufacture of gener- ators. It is important that they should be made tight and stay tight. The tit- tings should be carefully examined and put together with a suitable compound. A preparation of oil and graphite proves most satisfactory fur this purpose, as it lubricates the threads and make the joints tight, while permitting them to be easily unscrewed. An _ indifferent workman will not give satisfaction in generator construction. An obstacle which has proven almost insurmountable is the continuation of gas generation after consumption has been discontinued. The reason for this in sprinkler and absorber generators has already been explained. Inthe im- mersers and inundaters the dampness from the considerable surface of the water causes slow generation, which is increased by warm temperatures. This has been overcome largely by making the gas holder of sufficient capacity to retain the excess of gas generated, where the generator is in daily use, but there are few if any generators that will not waste gas if no gas is consumed for sev- eral days in succession. The plunger type is expected to overcome this diffi culty by having a gas holder of capacity large enough to contain the gas from each separate charge of carbide, but the mechanical difficulties have so far pre vented any conspicuous success in this direction. The return to and escape of gas from the generator when it is open for recharging should be automat- ically prevented in case the operator should forget to turn the stop cock. Generating apparatus should be so constructed that but a relatively small proportion of air can be admitted while recharging. A large percentage seri- ously diminishes the luminosity of the gas and may be sufficient to create a very dangerous mixture. Some visible indication of the supply of carbide unconsumed in the genera- tor is very desirable so that the user may not unexpectedly be left in dark- ness. The condition of water supply also should be easily ascertainable. Automatic valves should not be per- mitted. If used with acetylene gas they will stick sooner or later, and if with water they are liable to leak. Pet cocks or other openings directly to the gas are dangerous and should not be used to drain condensation nor to al- low air, or air and gas mixed, to escape. Mercury seals are entirely unreliable for acetylene. Gas pressure in excess of 6 inches of water should be avoided. Pressure re- ducers are cumbersome, expensive and usually unreliable when more than a slight pressure is to be regulated. Considerable mixtures of air and gas should be avoided at all times, and should under no circumstances be burned, except through the regular acety- lene tips. It is much better to convey such mixtures to the outer atmosphere unconsumed. Gas fitting for acetylene is no differ- ent from that for coal or water gas any further than that it is even more impor- tant to have tight joints. This is not hecause it is any more liable to escape, for it will not issue from an opening as rapidly as ordinary gas because of its greater density. However, it is of nuch greater value per cubic foot; ‘herefore leaks would be more expen- sive. Fortunately acetylene has a verv penetrating odor and diffuses rari‘ly; therefore a leak could not long remain undetected. Smaller service pipes can he used because of the much smaller volume of gas consumed. However, ow- ing to the small difference in cost of the smaller sizes of gas pipe, it is well to use regulation sizes. The piping running directly to the generator should have a good fall, so that any possible condensation will drain out rapidly, and all piping should ‘cline slightly to the riser when prac- ticable, for the same cause. Frost does not affect acetvlene, but unless the generator is properly constructed, or if it is overcrowded, some steam might go forward into the pipes and form traps, if there were depressions in the pipes. Piping and fixtures already in place are perfectly adaptable for acetylene, but they should always be tested for leaks previous to use for this purpose The burners for acetylene are an im- portant factor. The Bray oooo and oooo were most commonly used at first. Thev give the most satisfactory flame, but become quite hot and are more apt to clog than the other types. However, with good generation they do good service and are preferred by some he- cause of the shape of their flame. The Naphey burner is composed of ‘two metal arms with lava tips rlaced to di- rect the gas jets, so that they impinge upon each other at an upward angle of about 45 degrees. The result is a dense flame, apparently suspended above the burner. This arrangement permits air to be drawn through small apertures in the lava tips, facilitating combustion, and also prevents the carbon deposits which slowly accumulate in the Bray tips. The objection to these burners is that the metal arms are easily twisted or warped out of alignment, in which case an imperfect flame results. There is an instinctive inclination to turn these burners into place by use of these arms, which is quite certain to destroy their alignment. The burner which appears to give the best satisfaction thus far is the Starr of Chattanooga. This burner is made on the same principle as the Naphey, but instead of arms it has a broad lava top with two slight hollow projections which cause the jets to impinge, and at the same time serve to draw in air toaid in the consumption. These burners keep , much cooler than the others and give good results. Burners are all made to fit the standard gas fixtures. The largest successfui burner to come into general use will consume only about 1 cubic foot of gas per hour, but as little as % foot is burned very successfully. Even the best burners are liable to accumulate carbon when turned low, and therefore it is the practice to put on a small burn- er where a small light is desired regu- larly. Burners should not be grasped by the pliers near their tips, as they are liable to be cracked or broken by the pressure applied. It is always well to use some- thing to make tight joints when screw- ing on the burners, and while white or red lead, litharge, mixed with glycerine or even soap will do, the graphite com- position has proved most satisfactory. While any kind of shade may be used for acetylene gas, the most effective is the plain, beveled’ white porcelain shade, which deflects the light down- ward at a most desirable angle. It serves at the same time to protect the flame from horizontal drafts, and the draft upward through the shade steadies the flame and assists in overcoming atmospheric disturbances. For orna- mental as well as illuminating purposes holophanes can be used with great effect. Do not lose sight of the fact that the chief factor in the successful use of acetylene gas is proper gas generation. Obtain good gas and no difficulty will be found in making it give entire satis- faction. No one sbould be deterred from the use of this most beautiful of illu- minants because failures have followed the numerous attempts of ignorant per- sons to construct generators. Cool gen- eration is imperative. Follow this with the other requirements named, avoiding apparatus with any of the prohibited appliances, insiston minimum care and effort in operation, and you can readily and independently contro] a light that will be a thing of beauty and a joy for- ever. AUGUSTINE DAVIs. THE OWEN ACETYLENE GAS GENERATOR Geo. F. Owen & G0. “wien? LeRoy, Mich , Aug. 17, 1808. Gentlemen: I am very free and g'ad to give you a testimonial for the “Owen Gen- erator” I bought of you, because it has worked faultlessly and given as a fine light, at an average of 13% cents per night, of four- teen burners in use, for the past three months. I consider it cheaper than kerosene and superior to coal gas and electric hght, all three of which I have used. Very respectfully GODFREY GUNDRUM. EARNER ENN EN GNGGN NON ON GN ORONO ee eee prejudiced in favor of ; 1. The generating chamber is large, and a full charge of carbide is only two inches deep, thus avoiding heating while generating. 2. The spiral spray distributes the water evenly over the carbide, giving it quick action, quick action avoids exces- sive water feed and over production. | 3. There are no valves to be opened or closed by forks, il ratchets or levers. It is extremely simple and is sure. i 4. Our Gasometer has no labor to perform, thus insuring at all times the same even pressure. : 5. All pipes are self-draining to the condens- ing chamber. 6. Our Gasometers for same rated capacity are the largest on the market, and will hold a large supply. It saves. 7. The Bruce Generator, when left to do its |}!/// Hi own work, will not blow off or waste the gas. 8. Not least, but greatest. Our Purifier takes out all moisture and impurities from the gas, making it impossible for pipes to clog up or the burners to choke up and smoke. Hl} iH | MICHIGAN AND OHIO ACETYLENE GAS CO., Ltd, 5's 42,2.) wich. APPROVED BY THE NATIONAL BOARD OF UNDERWRITERS THE “KOPF” AND YOU WILL SEE WHY THE “KOPF” IS THE BEST MANUFACTURED BY M. B. WHEELER ELECTRIC CO., 99 OTTAWA ST., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. ACETYLENE GAS MACHINE HAS DOUBLE LIGHTING CAPACITY COSTS NO MORE TO GET THE BEST SEND FOR DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE, PRICE LIST AND DISCOUNT SHEET ee sospeegmrert Usneene a RR MRE): sae A ARI a hey MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 17 Commercial Travelers Michigan Knights of the Grip. President, Joun A. Horrman, Kalamazoo; Secre- tary, J C. Saunpers, Lansing; Treasurer, Caas. 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. VaLmorg, Detroit; Grand Treas- urer, W. S. Wzgst, Jackson. Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Mutual Acci- dent Association. President, J. Boyp PanTLinp, Grand Rapids; Secretary and Treasurer, Gzo. F. OWEN, Grand Rapids. Lake Superior Commercial Travelers’ Club. President, F. G. Truscott, Marquette; Secretary and Treasurer, A. F. Wixson, Marquette. Gripsack Brigade. Wm. Harman, of Fremont, has taken the State agency of the Monmouth Pot- tery Co. Lewis Cass Bradford has signed with E. B. Millar & Co., of Chicago, for another year. Charles L. Cooper, of Muskegon, is now engaged as traveling salesman for the Genesee Pure Food Co., of LeRoy, NY. Geo. G. Cathrin, of Detroit, has en- gaged to travel for the curtain pole de- partment of Wm. Beitner, of Traverse City. Fred Read and Fred Potter, of Lud- ington, are traveling togetber for a jewelry house and for the Ludington Novelty Works. Frank Jackson, of Marinette, who has been the trimmer and head salesman for M. J. Culnan, has accepted a_ posi- tion as traveling salesman for Pen- berthy, Cook & Co., of Menominee. Manton Tribune: R. C. Smith, trav- eling salesman for Burgunders Bros. & Co., Columbus, Ohio, fell into a cistern at the rear of the Commercial House, one day this week, and was obliged to give up work a few days by reason of injuries sustained. Allen Hilborn, of Benton Harbor, has engaged to travel for the F. J. Schwan- kovsky music house, Detroit. He was with this house from 1890 to 1896. Since then he has put in a year in the South- ern States, but he thinks Michigan is good enough for him. The members of Post A (Lansing) have raised enough money to defray the expenses of a band to the State con- vention at Saginaw. The Lansing del- egation will establish headquarters at the Hotel Vincent, where they hope to meet all their friends. Merchants’ and_ Travelers’ inter- changeable mileage conventions will be held in New York City on Decem- ber Ig, and in Boston on the 21, for the purpose of demonstrating that commer- cial travelers and their employers are unquestionably in favor of interchange- able mileage, and to meet the railroad officials and the salesmen in charge of the affairs ot the passenger associations for deliberation of matters pertaining to the subject of interchangeable mile- age, and discussion thereon. C. H. Sheldon, formerly Western Michigan traveling representative for the Michigan Shoe Co., recently passed away at his home in Hillsdale. In sum- ming up the life work of the deceased, the Hillsdale Leader remarked: ‘'He came to Michigan in 1859, when a young man, before he was twenty-one, and his whole business life was spent in Hillsdale. Few men have ever gained and held the respect and entire good will of a whole community to the extent he did. Upright in thought, he lived an open, honest life; and in busi- ness and social circles it was evera pleasure to meet him. His bappy, cor- dial greeting made the sunshine of your own life a little brighter and warmer, and you would cross the street next time to meet him and get within its influ- ence, rather than as too often the case you feel like crossing over to avoid coming in contact with so many whose greetings mean nothing and leave with you no feeling of good-will or belpful- ness. His was a busy, active life, and with that happy, kindly disposition, if clouds there were in his sky they were never allowed to chill, oppress or dark- en your way. For a quarter of a cen- tury he was in the boot and shoe _ busi- ness here, and for ten or twelve years was on the road in the same line. Near- lv all his life he was a member of the Presbyterian church, and the church was honored and better because of his membership. For a year or more he had been in failing health and was com- pelled to give up business. In 1861 be was married to Miss Cora F. Stevens, who, with two children, Charles, and Mrs. C. W. McKee survives him, all residents of this city.’’ ——___—~> 2 <.__—_ Movements of Lake Superior Travelers T. J. Gregory has transferred his services from Steele, Wedels & Co. to Sprague, Warner & Co. E M. Smith will represent the North- ern Hardware & Supply Co., of Menom- inee. M. A. Dunning (Morley Bros.) will quit the road Jan. 1 and enter the house of the Marshall-Wells Hardware Co., Duluth, as manager of the stove and house furnishing goods department. Mr. Dunning will be missed. He was well liked and successful. W. H. James (C. M. Henderson & Co.) is doing the copper country. T. H. Hilton, ‘‘the little man with a big voice,’’ is calling on copper coun- try customers and a few friends. L. H. Richardson (Steele, Wedels & Co ), the newlv elected clerk of Houghton county, is calling on his trade for the pon time. He begins his official duties an. I. Thomas Long, a D., 5S. S. & A. ex- conductor, will represent the Upper Peninsula Brewing Co., of Marquette, at Sault Ste. Marie. Will C. Brown, who for twenty years has been a commercial traveler in the Upper Peninsula, has been appointed to a lucrative position by Paine, Web- ber & Co., the Boston bankers and brokers. Mr. Brown has opened a suite of effices at Marquette and will circulate around the Upper Peninsula, looking after the interests of the concern he represents. Few travelers have ever covered a certain territory as long as Mr. Brown has and fewer travelers have as many friends as he has or would be more missed. Push, pluck and persist- ency are in him to such an extent that the results of his new enterprise are sure to be on the right side of the ledger. —_—___—~<»-2<___ Call for Mass Meeting of Travelers The following appeal has been mailed to every member of the Michigan Knights of the Grip in Grand Rapids: When the annual convention of the Michigan Knights of the Grip was held in Grand Rapids, four years ago, the Saginaw boys came over by special train and contributed greatly to the suc- cess of the occasion. Grand Rapids traveling men now have an opportunity to show their ap- preciation of this visit by going to Sagi- naw in sufficient numbers to make a respectable showing in the City of Salt and Sawdust. Will you, therefore, kindly show your interest in such a project by attending a meeting of Post E at Sweet’s Hotel Saturday evening, Dec. 17? — ves —_ When a tramp asks for bread do not give him a stone; set the dog on him. The Grain Market. The usual dulness in the wheat mar- ket prevailed during the week and prices went below the previous week. The Chicago crowd were bearish. Large lots of long wheat were dumped and the shorts took their profits. All together made the market heavy. The visible increased 2,623,000 bushels, more than double what was anticipated, which made the few friends that wheat had rather lukewarm and caused them to halt and await further developments. Why these low prices is a conundrum because the receipts in the winter wheat belt are only normal from first hands, while in the spring wheat section receipts are only moderate, while ex ports are as much as ever and foreigners accept our offers as fast as made, while in 1892 with a larger crop harvested than we had this year prices averaged $1 per bushel. The flour output is as large as ever and is taken right along and nothing is being stored up. Mill feed likewise is in good demand at full prices and we will surely see an advance before long, especially as the farmers are holding back in the hopes that another Leiter will turn up. Corn is strong, especially as the vis- ible showed a decrease of 2,516,000 bushels where a small increase was expected. As usual, the market went contrary to what most traders expected. The new crop does not turn out nearly as good as was expected, as it is too soft yet to grade, owing to the soft weather. We certainly look for better prices yet in this cereal. Oats, as was expected, remain on top and climb little by little, and we would not be surprised to see 4@5c per bushel added in the near future. Rye remains on an even tenor, as there is not much stock on hand. Wheat receipts were again moderate this week, being 69 cars of wheat, while receipts of corn and oats were extremely large, being, 20 cars of corn and 22 cars of oats. I hope we can report a more active market in all the cereals in our next. The mills are paying 60c for wheat. Cc. G. A. Vorer. —_—__+ 0»>—__—_ The Eighth Attempt in Sixteen Years. Detroit, Dec. 12—As a result of the meeting held in this city Nov. 25, a movement has been started looking to the passage of certain measures by the incoming Legislature. These meas- ures are not a new thing to you, having —as you stated in your letter of Nov. 24—participated in no less than seven campaigns to secure relief for Michigan merchants from dead-beatism. The ex- perience and knowledge gathered from these campaigns make you especially fit to act on the Legislative Committee, to which you have been appointed a member. We have taken it for granted that you always stand ready to assist in a movement of this kind,and will greatly appreciate any suggestions you make in regard to the drafting of measures to be introduced and the organization work of the Committee. The Detroit mem bers of the Committee will meet together in a few days to outline some plan, when I would be pleased to be in receipt of your views on the work before us. E. MaRKS, Sec’y. —» > Fiour and Feed. Since the recent decline in wheat dur- ing the past few days buyers have be gun to exhibit more confidence in values and seem inclined to make purchases for delivery early in the new year. In doing this, in a moderate way, for the needs of the spring trade, on the basis of present values, there can certainly be but little, if anything, to, lose, for the probabilities all seem to point to a higher range of prices within a few weeks. The export demand still continues to be very heavy and, taken together with an unusually large home consumption, makes a weekly demand and use of the last crop, under which it is very rapidly melting away. We predict that the ag- gressive bear speculators who persist from this on in-selling May wheat short will have a lively time later on in find- ing the wheat to settle their trades without heavy loss. Locally, there is not very much wheat moving, but the city mills have been able to produce a sufficient quantity to run steadily, and have some good orders booked for Jan- uary. Millstuff is in excellent demand; in fact, the mills are sold ahead at ad- vanced prices of from 5oc to $1 per ton. Feed and meal are in good demand, with prices nominal and unchanged for the week. Wm. N. Rowe. —___~» 0. Addressed to Dorothy Dix. Marquette, Dec. 12—Your late article relative to the education of men for matrimony is, indeed, a good one; and as an amendment, I would suggest a like institution for the education of women to become’ mothers-in-law. There also might be a little one for the education of giris, but the largest of the three should be for mothers-in-law, with a compulsory-education law passed and enforced making capital punishment the penalty. OurIx. —__~> 2. —____ Poetic Clerk at Coldwater. E. R. Clark & Co., druggists and grocers at Coldwater, exhibit samples of cancelled revenue stamps in their window, accompanied by the following rhythmic explanation: There’s one consoling thought That helps to ease the pain, In licking these big stamps We’ ve helped to lick old Spain. ih The first entertainment given by Grand Rapids Council, No. 131, U. C. T., which will occur Saturday evening, promises to be a very enjoyable affair, a pleasing literary and musical program having been arranged for the occasion. ———__»>¢->—_—_ 2 It is seldom difficult to appear natural when you have no ax to grind. Presentation Watches, Diamonds and Fine Jewelry. A. PREUSSER. REMODELED HOTEL BUTLER Rates, $1. I. M. BROWN, PROP. Washington Ave. and Kalamazoo St., LANSING. HOTEL WHITCOMB ST. JOSEPH, MICH. A. VINCENT, Prop. $2 PER DAY. FREE BUS. THE CHARLESTON Only first-class house in MASON, MICH. Every- thing new. Every room heated. Large and well- lighted sampie rooms. Send your mail care of the Charleston, where the boys stop. CHARI-ES A. CALDWELL, former!y of Donnelly House, Prop. Hotel Columbia Finest Furnished House in TRAVERSE CITY. MICH. Just Opened and Ready for Business. Located on corner of Front and Park 5Sts., one-half block from G. R. & I. R. R. depot. This house is newly furnished throughout. All the sleeping rooms have iron and brass beds, steam heat, electric lights, call bells and good ventilation. No inside rooms. Hot and cold water in all parts of the house. Rates $1.50 per day. Free bus to and from all boats and trains. A First class Lunch Room in connection. W. H. FLETCHER, Prop. FORMERLY OF COLUMBIAN RESTAURANT. . 18 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Drugs--Chemicals MICHIGAN STATE BOARD OF PHARMACY. Term expires F. W. R. Perry, Detroit - - Dec. 31, 1895 A. C. SCHUMACHER, Ann Arbor - Dec. 31, 1899 Gro. GunpreM, lonia ec. 31, 1900 L. E. REYNOLDs, St. Joseph - Dec. 31, 1901 Henry HEIM. Saginaw - - Dec. 31, 1902 President, GEo. GunpRvUM, Ionia. Secretary, A. C. ScHUMACHER, Ann Arbor. Treasurer, HENRY HEiIM, Saginaw. Examination Sessions. Det roit—Jan. 19 and 11. Grand Rapi 1s—March 7 and 8. Star Island—June 26 and 27 Houghton—Aug 29 and 3u. Lun-ing—Nov. 7 aud 8. STATE PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION. President—J. J. Sourwing. Escanaba. Secretary, Coas F. Mann, Detroit Treasurer Jon D. Muir, Grand Rapids. The Kind of Advertising that Pays. The most profitable advertising a drug store can do is generally done _ in- side the store. Newspaper and other printed advertising can bring customers to your store once, but it can’t make them come again; and customers who never come back might just about as well have stayed away altogether. The most successful druggist is not neces- sarily the man who does the best news- paper advertising, but he is necessarils the man who does the best inside ad- vertising. The man whose store makes the right sort of impression is the man who succeeds. The man who makes the customer want to come again is the mar who wins. Too many druggists seem to think they have done their duty by their show windows if they give them the usual number of the traditional red and green headlights. But that is a mistake. A druggist’s windows should always be tastefully trimmed, and the trim should be changed often. This tikes a good deal of time and thought, but it is well worth it. Trusses and hot-water bottles do not possess that ornamental value which some druggists seem to give them credit for, but in every drug stock there are many things that may he ad- vantageously used as window decora- tions. Soaps, perfumeries, cosmetics, and similar toilet articles make ex- tremely attractive displays, if well handled. Care should be taken net to have too many different kinds of articles in the same window. Indeed, it is far better to have but one. Above ail, the windows should be kept scrupulously clean, inside and out. There must never be a particle of dust nor a solitary fly. The same religious cleanliness must always obtain all through the store. Everything must be kept shining and sparkling. Screen doors and windows must be provided to keep out the flies. The showcases must be equally clean, of course, inside and out. Their con- tents must be tastefully arranged. Keep them clear of litter. Don’t cover them with sample cards of remedies for tooth- ache and corns. There’s no more reason for thrusting such things at the public than there is for urging them by impli- cation to buy rubber nipples or blue ointment. Don’t be afraid to spend a little more money than poor things cost. Get the best ; the difference in cost is slight. I mean such things as bottles, corks, caps, envelopes, and cartons. Every package that goes out of your store should be a model of neatness and good taste, not to say elegance. These so- considered trifles are among the very best advertisements your business can have. The packages that come from some drug stores I know of have an®air scenester sen anenstnaatnannerstaninsninn tatiana nnn of aristocratic exclusiveness, of unmis- takable top-notchness, that can not fail to impress the most critical and callous man in town. Make no mistake about it, people note such things and remem- ber them. The impression your store makes upon the public depends very largely upon the way you treat people. Of course, loaf- ers should be discouraged—insulted if necessary. But serious-minded people who come in on business must be treated with a judicious mixture of def- erence and cordiality. The familiar, shoulder-slapping man isa nuisance and an ass, but the frozen automaton who stands and glares at you without speak- ing until you meekly stammer forth your wants would never sell so much as a single quinine pill if I had my way. You can be pleasant without be- ing unduly familiar, You can unbend and come down to earth without sacri- ficing a jot of your manly dignity. Treat everybody alike. The child who wants a stick of licorice, the girl who wants a postage-stamp, and the old lady who wants to know what time the 4.30 train leaves are entitled to the same courteous treatment accorded to the mayor of the town. Children all have money to spend—or will have when they grow up. You want that money. In fact, you’ve got to have it. They don't have to have your goods; they can go elsewhere. But you have to have their money. Hence your constant effort and study must be to send everybody away from your store feeling that they want to come again. You must make them feel that you deserve their trade, that you'll always be glad to see them and always beon hand to welcome them. Another thing: Let it be clearly un- derstood that you stand behind every- thing that goes out of your store—that what you say goes. Let it be known by everybody within reach that yours is a thoroughly dependable store. Make everybody feel that when they buy any- thing of you it will turn out precisely as you told them it would; and if there 's anything wrong with it they can get ‘heir money back in a minute. This is the way solid substantial busi nesses are built up.—Charles Austin Bates in Printer’s Ink. ee The Drug Market. Opium—The market is dull and spec ulators are not operating in a large way at present. Prices are steady, although reports from primary market would war- rant an advance, Morphine—Is unchanged. Quinine—On account of higher prices for bark, has been advanced tc per ounce, with the exception of P. & W. Cocaine—The market is very firm, with prospects of another advance in the near future. Iodides—Are in a very firm position, on account of higher prices abroad, with prospects of an early advance. Gum Camphor—Has again been ad- vanced by refiners 1'4c per pound. —_>2 2>__ Wanted Magnesia Powders. Last week a Cincinnati druggist re- ceived a note which read as follows: ‘*Mr. —, are Macknisha powders good for a sick stomach fer a person that throws up gall I think — has coughte colde if they are good give sister 10 cents worth and talk loud to sister.’’ —_——__>22.___ The man who is willing to do as he would be done by always wants to be done by first. How the Country Doctor Creates a Vacuum. ‘‘Altogether the most interesting as well as amusing victim we have before us is the country doctor who has de- cided that he wants to add the patent medicine business to his other accom- plishments, and longs for official permis- sion to doso,’’ says W. W. Kerr, a mem- ber of the Arkansas Board of Pharmacy. ‘‘Usually he has already written to the Secretary asking to be licensed by vir- tue of his profession as a physician, and having been informed that the Board did not do business that way, he comes before it with an aggrieved feel- ing, and at the same time with an air of superior dignity, as if it were some- thing of a condescension upon his part to submit to an examination by an in- ferior order of beings professionally, out has determined to make a virtue of necessity and accept the inevitable. He receives his paper on pharmacy without looking at it, or indeed at anything else; goes to his seat and begins to write, at first with considerable rapidity and confidence, but gradually getting slower and slower. He begins to pon- jer, and his eyes are more opened to things around him, in fact, wistful zlances begin to rest upon the members f the board, the desks, the pictures on the wall, the other boys, upon every- thing except his paper, and although nis estimate of the ability of his exam- tners May not increase, his conscious- ness that they know how to ask fool questions and he does nct know how tv arswer seems to grow into a positive onviction. After some sort of fashion he finishes his paper on pharmacy and turns to chemistry. What was before nerely astonishment now becomes ac taal despair, and after looking over it for about fifteen minutes he lays it aside and calls for materia medica. Here he feels himself at home—and would be glad if he were. He launches out on an essay upon this subject, which is at once ‘exhaustive’ as he regards it,and is ‘ex- hausting’ as the Board looks at it after- wards. When he comes to the ident fica- tion of specimens he looks wise, tastes wiser, and smells wisest; but he idexti- fies all the same, tikes his hat, and {ter bidding the members good-bye with considerable less condescension than he said good morning, he creates a vacuum in the circle without further ado.’’ Window Display for the Christmas Season. When a Christmas window is to be prepared about two weeks before, try this plan: Upon the bottom of the window place two pasteboard boxes about eight inches long, four wide, and three higher, about eight inches apart, and at an acute angle with the front glass. In the center of the window, between these two, put a third about four inches square. Around this group arrange about half a dozen others, about 6x4x3, at convenient distances from each other, and suitable to the form of the window. Over the whole loosely lay cheese-cloth or bunting of some such light color as sky-blue, lav- ender, sea-green, or canary with black trimmings and deeply plaited. This will compose the ground work. As aids for trimming, provide about two dozen Japanese napkins of shades to contrast delicately with the bunting selected. Grasp these one at a time by their cen- tral points, fold opposite corners upon each other, draw gently through the partly closed hand, and place the apex of these funnel-shaped napkins upon one. corner of each elevation formed by the boxes. Set toilet atomizers or other fancy articles upon them, being careful not to get too many of a kind too close together. Between the elevations, and partly covered by the plaited bunting, lay flat a few vinaigrettes, small bottles of col- ogne, nail polishers, and other season- able fancy goods. Upon the central elevation should be placed the prettiest article in stock, and upon each side of it the most gaudily decorated. To fin- ish this window, arrange two bouquets of freshly cut flowers immediately be- hind the first placed boxes and twine ivy promiscuously over the cloth, around the fancy articles, and among the eleva- tions. At night have the window bril- liantly illuminated, using a _ colored globe or shade arranged to reflect the light in a way to harmonize with the bunting used. This can be done easily with tissue paper. Such a display makes a most excellent and attractive window exhibit, costs only about 65 cents and two hours’ work, while the realization, financially, will be astonishing. H. LIONEL MEREDITH. > >. Dispensing by an Unregistered Clerk. A New York druggist is being held in $300 bail for examination, charged with allowing an unregistered clerk to compound a prescription during his ab- sence. The prescripion was handed by an inspector of tbe board to the clerk while the proprietor was out, and it was promptly filled. The druggist says in defense that he had repeatedly warned the clerk not to dispense a prescription under such circumstances; but that the boy put up this simple one of zinc sulphate and water because the custom- er said he could not wait for the pro- prietor to return. The boy is a student in the New York College of Pharmacy, and was undoubtedly equal to this _par- ticular task, but the board holds that the law was nevertheless violated This is one case growing out of the investigation which the board is mak- ing of the stores in certain parts of the city. 29.» How to Examine Absorbent Cotton. R. B. King is surprised at the per- centage of absorbent cotton which con- tains the undesirable short hairs. When such cotton is used on wounds or sores the short fibers must certainly adhere and cause irritation. O:ttimes he had found the outside of a carton of cotton to be good, but the inside, ‘‘like a bad pie,’’ was very different. He thinks pharmacists ought to exercise discrimi- nation in purchasing cotton, and sug- gests the following method of examina- tion: Take a piece of it between the thumb and forefinger of each band and pull it apart, put together again, and repeat the pulling until the fibers stand separate like hairs; then measure on a rule the length of fiber. If the fibers are less than one-half inch in length the cotton should be rejected. Ee Removing Ink Spots From Carpets. If the ink is freshly spilled, says M. Billen, first take it up with a teaspoon, if in considerable quantity, or with a blotting-pad if in less, using the blotter in either instance to finish absorption. Then pour cold sweet milk over the spot, and, after letting remain a mo- ment, take up as before, repeating the process until the milk comes away only slightly stained with black. Finish by using cold water into which some lemon-juice has been strained. Finally, rinse with pure water and dry off with a soft cloth, rubbing the surface slight- ly as the water is absorbed. Old ink spots may be removed by moistening a crystal of citric acid and rubbing the spot gently, repeating the operation un- til the spot vanishes. a Some preachers are very deep—and the most of them are rather long. s oe. a cece oH MICHIGAN TRADESMAN WHOLESALE PRICE CURRENT. Advanced— Declined— Acidum Conium Mac........ 35@ 50] ScilleCo............ @ 50 nee gj} Copaiba...... ...... Sis a ao @ 50 feumioasn. German 70@ 7%5/|Cubebm.............. 1 00} Prunus virg.. @ 50 Boracic.............. @ 15| Exechthitos ........ 1 1 10 Tinctures Carbolicum ......... 20@ 41| Erigeron............ 1 00@ 1 10} Aconitum Napellis 60 pam 40@ 45|Gaultheria..... .... 1 1 60 Aconitum Napellis F 50 Hydrochlor ......... 3@ 5| Geranium, ounce... @ 75! Aloes............... 60 Nitrocum. ......... 8@ 10 er — -_ 50@ 60 Aloes and Myrrh.... 60 Oxalicum........... 122@ 14| Hedeom -- 10@ 110) armica.....500.. 102. 50 Phosphoriuim dil.. @ 5 Junipera. pene nn we 1 50@ 2 00 Assafentida Ce 50 Salicylicum. . Ps 60@ 65 Lavendula.......... 90@ 2 00 Atrope Belladonna 60 Sulphuricum.. coclces 1%@ 5 Eamemig............. 1 30@ 1 50 Auranti Cortex... : 50 Tannicum .......... 1 5@ 1 40 Mentha Piper Se eialeaes 1 60@ 2 20 Benzoin............. 60 Tartaricum.. .. 38@ 40 Mentha Verid....... 1 50@ 1 60 Benzoin Co en 50 scan nar Morrhue, gal....... 1 10@ 1 25] Barosma............ 50 Ammonia Myrela, Ce 4 00@ 450] Cantharides.... |. ® Aqua, 16 deg........ 4@ ioe... ..... %@ 3 00 Capsicum ....... i 50 Aqua, 20 deg........ 6@ =e 8: || Pics Liquida....... 10@ 12] Cardamon... : 5 Carbonas............ 129@ 14] Picis Liquida, gal... @ 35|Cardamon Co... ... % Chloridum .......... 122@ 14| Ricina 96@ 105 | Castor............... 1 00 Aniline Rosmarini........... @ 100] Catechu...........2. 50 lack 2 00@ 2 2% Rose, ounce........ 50@ 8 50| Cinchona............ 50 Black. 1 00 | succini 40@ 45! Cinchona Uo........ 60 — rigid) dgislw ew owe 80@ —- Ex 1 90 Columba 50 De cool h ciicledna 45@ a Yellow. ............ 2 1@ 3 00 | sassarras 55@ 60 So Re a - Bacce. Tel ess., ounce @_ 6 | Cassia A satifol Co . 50 Cubewe........ po.18 13@ 15| Tiglil....... ........ 1 70@ 1 8 — EB .. 50 Juniperus........... 6@ Thyme. 50| Ergot ........ 50 Xanthoxylum.. .... B@ 3 oe opt... - = Fern Chioridtm 5 or a aie mntian..... 3 50 Copaiba og 55 Potassium Gentian C Cos 60 ete 75 | Bi-Carb............. 156@ 19} Quisca Seine aa @ 3 00 No.1 Turp Furn.... 1 0u@ i 10 Extra Turk Damar.. 1 55@ 1 60 Jap. Dryer,No.i1Turp 70@ 75 eae Freezable Goods Now is the Time to Stock 7 4 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, in such quantities as are usually purchased by retail dealers. They are prepared just before — to press and are an accurate index of the local market. It is im- possible to give quotations suitable for all conditions of purchase, and those below are given as representing av- erage prices for average conditions of purchase. those who have poor credit. our aim to make this feature of the greatest possible use to dealers. Cash buyers or those of strong credit usually buy closer than Subscribers are earnestly requested to point out any errors or omissions, as it is AXLE GREASE. d Oz. gross Aurora . .....-...... 35 6 00 Gasser Ol... 60 7 00 Diamont............ 0 4 00 Frazer's 7 9 00 [XL Golden tin boxes 75 9 00 flica, tin boxes. ae 9 Ov Paragon co a) 6 00 BAKING POWDER. Absolute. = CO Cans Gox............. 45 ‘i same Gos... 85 bean Goe ... .... © Acme. 4 i Cane 3 dos. -......... 5 i Ghee SGon. .......... r } cans iGoes.. ......... 1a cack. Ce lu Arctic. 6 oz. Eng. Tumbiers........ 85 El Purity. ig Ib cans per doz......... vi) % Ibc-ans per dog ........ 1 20 t cane per dos......... 2 00 Home. if Ib Cans 4 duz case...... 35 \% ib Cans 4 doz case...... 5A lb Caus 2 doz case ..... 90 ¥q lb cans, 4 doz case. . 45 % lbcans.4dozcase...... 85 lb cans, 2 doz case. . Jersey cen. a Te. Ooms, per Gos.......... 2 00 9 oz. C&a18, rer doz.......... 1% 6 oz. Cans, per doz.......... 85 Our Leader. Sib eam... .... 45 — oe oee................. % a 1 5 Peerless. ilb.cans .. sce 85 Queen Plake. 3 os.,6 doz. case............ 2 70 6 oz., 4 doz. case c+ —o- sab oD Soxz., 4 doz. case............ 4 80 Lib. den ense............ 400 5 ip., (Gee Gnee............ SATH BRICK. io een ae EO 7 ee 30 BLUING. Dement, SGe8........ 8. 49 Rarce, 2don................ % BROOMS. Me: $ Carpet... 1 90 No. 2 Carpet.. ip No. 3 Carpet.. . io No. 4 Carpet.. _ oo Parlor Gem .. .. 200 Common Whisk - - Fancy Whisx.. . 80 Warehouse. . 2% CANNED Goops. ometees.......-..... 81% 99 aa 80@1 00 Eantay 8) Beans, Limas.......... 70@1 30 Bears, Wex........... vie) eens Siriee.......... 70 Beans, Baked......... 7>@1 00 Beans, Red err 50 Succutash.. -- 861 2 Peas... -- 3@ Bea Peas, French -.2 2 Pumpkin .. ~~ oO Mushroom... - ae 22 Peaches, Pie . _. Peaches, Fancy -.1 40 Apples, 3-lb.... . = Apples. gallons.......2 25 (Chetries ......... -. 2 Pee qe Pineapple, grated..... 2 40 Pineapple, sliced...... 2 25 Pineapple. Farrep....1 7 Strawberries .......... 110 Blackberries .......... 80 Raspoerries ........... 8&5 Oysters, 1-Ib........... 8 Oysters, 716......... 145 Salmon, Warren’s ....1 4 @1 60 Salmon. Alaska....... 1 25 Salmon, Klond ke..... 90 Lob-ters, 1-lb. Star....3 00 Lobsters, 2-Ib. Star....3 49 Mac erel.1lb Mustard 10 Mackerel, 1-lb. Soused.! 75 Mackerei,1-lb Tomato 1 75 Sirweee... cs 2 00 Sardines, 4%< domestic 3%” Sardines, mstrd. dom. 54@ a" Sardines, French...... @ 22 CA DLS. CATSLP. olumbia, pints 2 00 Jolumbia % pints 1 25 CHEESE Ate oo @ 10% Te @ i2 — bse eles ieee @ 1% eee @ i Gold Medal.. @ il oe @ .1\% soe... @ ii% PMWOD .. 03 oc ote @ 0% Riwersigso............. @ 11% Brick oe ee @ i Edam.... . “ @ 70 Leiden .... _ @ 17 Limburger oo. @ 13 Pineapole.... am @& Sap Sago............ @ 17 Chicory sulk ee 5 Red 7 CHOCOLATE. Walter Baker & Co.’s. +erman Sweet .. a ..23 Premium Sue oe cs oe Breakfast ‘Coaroa -. «Ae CLOTHES LINES. Cotton, 40 ft, per doz....... 100 Cotton, 50 ft, per dos. -1 20 Cotton, 60 ft, per doz. .1 40 Cotton, 70 ft, per dos. -1 60 Cotton, 80 ft, per dos .1 80 Jute, 60 ft. per dos. . 80 Jace. 72 ft ver ing... a - COCOA SHELLS. 20th bape 2% Less quantity............ 3 Pound packages......... CREAS TARTAR. 5 and 10 1b. wooden boxes.... = Bulk in sacks........... ee COFFEE. Green. Rie. Santos. ie ee 12 eee 2... 13 Preme Peanerm .-.:...-..5 -.......- 15 ere — a a eo 2S Ee 16 PROF no oie, vs one sews 17 Maracaibo. PEPIN on os nonce oss sce wisn 19 Mite Ww Java. Dele... ee 19 Private Growth..........-...- 20 Mandehling...............--.- 21 Mocha. Hentiation ....0. 2.6: 20 Aeon 2... 22 Roasted. Clark-Jewell-WellsCo.’s — Fifth Avenue..... Jewell’s Arabian Mocha.. 5 Wells’ Mocha and Java..... 24 Wells’ Perfection Java..... 24 SRARCAING ...... .. 0. 2202.0 21 Breakfast Blend.. so. oo Vailey City Maracaibo. .- 18% idpal Blend. oc 14 Leader Biend.......°....... 12 Package. Below are given New York prices on ae 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 Yr from the market in whic urchases to his pa point, including weight of package, also %c a pound. In 601b. cases the list is 10¢c per 100 lbs. above the price in full cases. —— ceeeee bee cece ‘Icl-sughlia’ s XXXX.. McLaughlin’s XXXX sold to retailers only. Mail all orders direct to W. F. McLaughlin & Co., Chicago. pone v — City % gross . % elix % gross........... i lb Rommel toll \% gross.. 8 Hummel’s tin % gross.. 1 43 CLOTHES PINS. 5S gross boxes.... ............ 40 CONDENSED MIL&. 4 doz in case. Gail eee Eagle........ 6% Crome 6 2 aoa See ies c es ae eee 5 % Cuseegeon ..-....... 1... 4 Be Mewes ccs 4 25 — ios ee See seed = oe 2 oe COUPON BOOKS. Tradesman Grade. 50 books, any denom.... 100 books, any denom.... 500 books, any denom.... 1,000 books, any denom.... Economic Grade. 50 books, any denom.... 100 books, any denom.... 500 books any yr ee 1,000 books anv denom.. Superior Grade. 50 books, any denom.. 100 books, any denom.. 500 pooks, any denom.... 1,000 bouks, any denom.... Coupon Pass Books, Can be made to represent any denomination from 810 down. OBOGES .. 2... 2.25 o. ees. ......... 2 Bee eee 2... se ase 3 00 gi ER ST SEIS TIS 6 Sop BOOKS...............25- 0 1000 bookes...... wale Universal Grade. 50 books, any denom.... 100 books, any denom.... 500 books, any denom.... 1,000 books. any denom.... Credit Unecks. 500, any one denoin’n. 1000, any one denom’n.... 2000, —s —_ denom’n..... Steel pun DRIED PRUITS_bOrBsTI Applies. suudried.. " @% Evaporated 50 Ib “poxes. @9 a Fruits. Apricots... ee Blackberries........... Nectarines ............ — eee eee ee Pea oon Fined Cherries. Ee owes Prunnelles............. Raspberries..........-- California Prunes. SSS SSSs Ssss Bien 8s Ss id wom Smee 2% 00 50 50 50 50 00 00 00 00 7% ic @ 9 @10 @ a RU RER coo 3 g lb boxes i ‘ent less in 50 1b cases VPaicine. London Layers 2C-own. London Lay: rs 3 Crown. Cluster 4 Crown......... Luuse Mustaceis 2 Crown Loose Muscatels 3 Crown Loose Mnseatels 4 Crown L. M.. Seeded, choice..... L. M , Seeded. fancy...... POREIUN. Citron. Leghorm ..........---++++ @ai2 Serseeagt cd @13 a Patras bbls. . in me 6 Vostizzas 50 Yb cases. --@ 6% Cleaned, bulk ............ @7 Cleaned, pack pase @ 7% Citron American 101b bx @i3 Lemon American 10 lb bx @i2 Orange American 10!b bx @12 Raisins. Ondursa 28 ib boxes..... @ Sultana 1 Crown....... @ Sultana 2Crown...... @ Sultana 3 Crown....... Sultana 4Crown....... @ Quitans }Crawn . .. @ Sultana 6 — SA @ Sultana package @ FARINACEOUS ‘GOODS. — 2411b. packages.. .-1 50 Bulk, per 100 Ibs..... .... 3 50 rits. Walsh-NeRoo Cn.’s Brand. 24 2 1b. PaChagec.....-.+06- 1 30 00 Ib. Kegs..... se dcnenenes 270 200 1b. barveis. < ce cesdscueee —_ Hominy. 2 50 INDIGO. SNUFP. 1) daims ..... Madras, 5 Ib boxes......... 55] Scotch, in bladders......... 37 Make, 6 ib — 100 |§.F.,2,3and5 Ib boxes... 50| Maccaboy, injars........... 35 Dried Lima... 3% GUNPOWDER French Rappee, in jars..... 43 Medium Hand Picked... 110 . Maccaroni and Vermicelli. Rifle—Dupont’s. SEEDS. Domestic, 10 1b. box...-.- 6 | Kags i 9 a Half Kegs... 2. s.scces.0-2 25 | Gamary, Smyrna... 00... 3% Common............. 2 25 | Quarter Kegs...... ae iS) Mee 8 hea Ce 39 | Cardamon, Malabar ..... 60 Chester .. -» 250 1b. eo renee 18 Celery las eA er eg ins app ebiosiintias 11 Empire ee fa os 3 00 % Li sinc widen a elcid ein « Hemp Russian. 4 Green, Wisconsin, bu.....1 00 Choke Bore—Dupont’s. | Mixed Bird iia: $4 Green, Scotch, bu. ...... 1 10 ee cs 42 oppy ( 10 Split, ee ‘3 50 Half Kegs ee = Pe aac eees 4% 0! ats. MAECCT HCRS.......-. 2.0... o«~—: «1% oa ee - Monarch, bbl........... .3 75 SALT. Monarch, % bbl......... 2 00 Eagie ————— : ee 90 1b sacks...... : . Kegs Diamond Crystal. MaAKer. CABES. .........-. : Half Table, cases, 24 3-lb boxes..1 50 Huron, cases...... saoaees 1% Quarter Kegs.. ...--. Table, saepes: 100 3 1b bags.2 75 i ce aed q | Plbcams. ..... ........-- Table, barrels, 407 Ib bags.2 40 East India. ......... 3% Butter, barrels, 280 1b. bnlk.2 25 Taploca. JELLY. Butter, barrels, 2014 lbbags.2 50 ai es. 3% 15 Ib pails Sale oro blcnalile wie mieiele et 35 Butter, sacks, 28lbs......... 25 Pea 35, | 30 1b pails.... .... --------- 65 | Butter, sacks, 56 lbs.-....... 55 b on Anchor, - ‘ae , e ' LYE. Common Grades. Cracked bulk...........+- 314 | Condensed, 2 dos .......... 1 20 242 lb packages..... .....250 | Condensed. 4 dos........... = See. . Salt Fish. LICORICE. 28 10-lb sacks............... 1 65 Cod. a Worcester. Georges cured... @4 Ls es Georges genuine. si a ee es +o Georges selected...... @5%}; °°" 60 5 Ib. aia sttee sv eeee es 3% Strips or bricks....... 6 @9 eee ae ara MINCE MBAT. 2 a4 1b gacke.... 52. 3 50 Herring. 3010 Ib. packs............- 3 50 Holland white hoops, bbl. § * Ideal, 3 doz. in case......... 2% 23 >. nen Backs... PL 2 Holland white hoo bbl 4 nen sacks La oe — MATCHES. Bulk in barrels............. 25 Holland white hoop, keg. 65] Diamond Match Co.’s beande. aoe hoopmchs 7%5| No.9 sulphur..........-.--- ; 1% Warsaw. BM... +e esse eee Anchor Parlor............-- 56-lb dairy in drill b 30 Round 100 lbs............. 3 50| No.2 Home............-.06 1 10 Ty in AZS..... Round 40 Ibs.........---. 1% ie gE 4 00 | 2S-Ib dairy in drill bags..... 15 scaled. . — — MOLASSES. iin: Mess 190 Ibs..........- ee. 15 00 New Orleans. 56-lb dairy in linen sacks... 60 Mess 40 Ibs............... 6 30 Mees 10 lbs....... ....... 1 6 — st aeceeeenecenac cee = Higgins. Mess 8 toes onsen gh | Good soae_ccoececceircctt! 99] 604b datry im nen sacks... 60 No.1 401bs SS ee No. 1 10 ihe: ...-..2.2.-.. 1 48 | Open Kettle.............-- 25@35 Solar Rock. No.1 SIbs... .....-.+--+ 199| Half-verrels $e extra. 56-Ib sackS.................. 21 eS ee ee... ww cw css 9 25 MUSTARD. No.2 # BS ccceowceg es 40) Common. No.2 101bs.............;. 1 (8 | Forse Radish, 1 doz......... 1% No.2 §iis.. 3.3 89 | Horse Radish, 2 doz......... 3 50 | Granulated Fine............ 70 rout. Bayle’s Celery, 1 doz.. .... 1 7% | Medium Fine............... 70 1 5 2 No = ik :3 PIPES. SOAP. 68 | Clay, No. 216.........-.---+ 1 70 5 57 | Clay, TD. fullcount.... e > < ann 85 wJ A © | POTASH. Single box... 2. 0 48 cans in case. 5 box lots. delivered........ 3 45 Babies... ..-- .: 022.622 <- 4 00 | 10 box lots, delivered........ 2 40 87, Penna Salt Co.’s.....-. . 800 PICKLES. JAS. §. KIRK & CO.’S BRANDS. Medium. — Family, wrp’d....2 66 Barrels. 1, 200 count........ 3 7% Rises icine os wires pees oes bias 275 e AOE oa ce ee cee 2 20 Half bbis, 600 count Segue. 2 38 Savon. spsdonsesnnnsssoee 2 50 te Russian... .2 35 Small. White Cloud, laundry... ..6 25 Barrels, 2,400 count....... 4%] white Cloud, toilet......... 3 50 Half bbls 1,200 count..... 2 88 Dusky Diamond. 50 6 oz. "2 10 Dusky Diamond, 50 8 oz +..3 00 RICE. Blue India, 100 % lb.........3 00 Domestic. — Pec... ..3 50 AO cicwc escte ones Caroling head... 6 —— arolina No.1 ............ Jennings’. Garolina No. 2..0..000000. ‘ SCHULTE SOAP 09 S BRANDS 2 vet Se ponerse Clydesdale, 100 cakes, 75 lbs... ..2 75 3 o2.. = 50 8 oz. 00 aes No-Tax, 100 cakes, 62 1-2 Ibs... .2 00 oz. ‘ 6 =a ee 3 00 6 oz......2 00 Family, 75 cakes, 75 Ibs....... 2 50 a. 36 oe a German Mottled, 60 cakes, 60 Ibs. .1 75 No. 27.1 2 No. 27. 80 Cocoa Castile, 18 Ibs., cut 1-4 &1-2..1 80 No. 3T.2 00 No. 3T.1 3 : z No 47.2 40 No. 4.1 50 SALERATUS. Chipped Soap for Laundries. Pure Brand. Packed 60 lbs. in box. Lem. Van. Church's Cy a re 3 % eu B. Wrisley’s Brands. 2o0z. Taper Panel.. 7 1 20 BUG'B .. 0. eee cece cece eens Old Country, 80 1-lb. = 2% a... 7% 190 | Dwight’s ...0.00.00000000000) 3 30 | Good Cheer, 60 1-lb. bars....3 75 3 0z. Taper Panel..1 35 2 00| Taylor’s.............. -...-- 3 00 | Uno, 100 %-lb. bars.......... 2 50 4 oz. Taper Panel..1 60 2 SAL SODA. Doll, 100 10-oz. bars......... 2 05 Oo ig ee corkscrew Sat - 1b cases... > ee - } G presmege ey cases.. 9) | Sapolio, kitchen, 3 doz .....2 40 Best in the world for the jump, a - 7 | Sapolio, hand, 8 a 2 40 nant. , 1451b kegs.......... HERBS. SAUERKRAUT. sane. 06 | ORTON eS as Dt OMOR ona cee scit ties oe a5 1 46 -Derrels. ........-.05 5 .. I 7% | Kegs, English............... 4% in anearmgiee Zs a s ee eee AR” MICHI GAN TRADESMAN 21 SPICES. Whole — Alispice ... ee Cassia, China in mats....... = Cassia, Batavia in bund.. Cassia, Saigon in rolls...... a Cloves, Amboyna........... 14 Cloves, Zanzibar............ 12 Mace, Batavia.........2.... 55 Nutmegs, fancy.../......... 60 Nutmegs, No: 1... .... 60s... 50 Nutmegs, No. 2............. a Pepper, Singapore, black.. Pepper, Singapore, white.. a Pepper: shot... ... 1... Pure Grourd in Bulk. Adispiee. 16 Cassia, Batavia ............. 3u Cassia, Saigon.......... ...40 Cioves, Zauzibar............ 14 Ginger, African.. ......... 15 Ginger, Cochin............. = Ginger, Jamaica............ Mace, Batavia.............. S Muster... s,s 12@18 Waters, -......-..<.... 40@.0 sae Sing , Diack .....-.. 15 Pepper, Sing., white..... -20 Hap — Sedeekiece cents 20 Sage. Sook eek ee 15 SYRUPS Corn. a) ee 17 Bart Wile 1a ¥% doz. 1 gallon cans....... 1 5A 1 doz. % gallon cans...... 1 7A 2 doz. % gallen cans ..... 1 75 Pure wane. Kingsford’s Corn. 40 1-Ib packages............. 6 20 1 Ib packages............. 614 Kingsford’s Silver Gloss. 40 1-Ib eachenee Sool deus cco 6% Clb boxes -<: 2... oc. 7 Diamond. 6410c packages ........... 5 00 128 5e¢ packages......... .. 5 00 g' 32 10c and 64 5c packages...5 00 Common Corn. 201 1b. packages.......... .. 5 40 1 lb. packages............. 4% Common Gloss. l-lb packages..............- 4% a-Ib packages.............. 41% 6-lb packages.............. 5 40 and 50 lb boxes.......... 3 Barrels 3 STOVE POLISH. ear) J.-L PRESCOTTE Co DIS s eae SS Ss Ce ar eee g No. 4, 3 doz in case, gross.. 4 50 No. 6, 3 doz in case, gross.. 7 20 SUGAR. Below are given New York prices on sugars, to which the wholesale dealer adds the local freight from New York to your shipping point, iving you credit on the invoice for the amount of freight buyer pays from the market in whic urchases to his shipping point, fneluding 20 20 pounds for the weight of the barrel. DREN eo 5 38 Cut Loaf.. .-5 63 Crushed........ ..5 65 Powdered ........ so as XXXX Powdered. ..5 38 Ces ee ..5 25 Granulated in bbls. . ..5 13 Granulated in bags... ee Fine Granulated............ 5 13 Extra Fine Granulated..... 5 25 Extra Coarse Granulated...5 24 Ne Ree. viva cee ss 38 Diamond Confec. A........ 5 13 Confec. Standard A........ -5 Ou ee Be se ee ee ee a 4% We Be ee ee 4% ee ec 4 69 No. 5 4 63 BS Oc aca 4 56 ieee eens 4 Bt 2, SESS Sn ese ee eee 444 ee ek 4 38 a 43! Me hea cs ales 425 ee ee et 419 ee es ae 419 ee ee 4 13 PAM Oe ec e os cas one: 413 pe | ee oa sie ocick: 41s TOBACCOS. Cigars. Tlark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s brand. New Brick. 3... c00 0c. 33 00 H. & P. Drug Co.’s brand. (aintette . 2.0. oe 35 00 G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s brand. og «i oN S.C. W........ . 35 00 Ruhe Bros. Co.’s Brands, Double Eag'es. 6 sizes.8557 70 00 Gen. Maceo, 5 sizes. 55@70 00 Mr. Thomas....... ol 35 UU Cuban Hand Made... 35 00 Crown Five. : 35 00 Sir William. cous 35 00 Cinb Vive... :...- 35 00 Gens. Grant and Lee.. 35 00 Little Peggy .......... 35 00 signal Fiye........... 35 10 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........... 3 75 Halford'small..........., 2 25 Salad Dressing, large.....4 55 Salad Dressing, small..... 2% VINEGAR. Malt White Wine, 40 grain.... 7 Malt White Wine, 80 aaanan oe Pure Cider, Red Star.. «aie Pure Cider, Robinson......... i WICKING. No. 0, per gross.............. 20 No. 1, pergross.............. 5) No. 2) orice... 35 No. 3, Per eroms.............. 55 Crackers. The National Biscuit Co. quotes as follows: Butter. Seymour XXX. ........... 5% Seymour _— 3b. carton 6 Wamiy XX e oc. 5% Salted XEX eee cL. 6 New York 04600. . o 6 Wotverine .. 2.6; .-.. 3. 6 Boston.......... cee ue caese T% Soda. Seda Xm ................ 6 Soda XXX, 3 1b carton.. 6% Soda, Cit; neue Long Island Wafers....... ll L. I. Wafers, a 21s Zephyrette. . -. 10 Oys ee. Saltine Wafer....:. ....... 5% Saliine Wafer, 1 lb carton. 6% Farina Oy: ter.............. 5s Extra Farina Oyster....... 6 SWEET GOODS—Boxes. ABWUAIS ©... lc... 2. 10M Bent’s Water:............... 15 Cocoanut Taffy ........... 10 Coffee Cake, Java.......... lu Cu ffee Cake, Ived.. - 10 WRGCINGiee oe es. 1% Onba@es 3. 11% Frosted Cream.....:....... 8 GingerGems .............. 8 Ginger Snaps, ome LT 7% Graham Crackers ......... 8 Graham Wafers............ 10 Grand Ma Cakes............ 9 bmperiais......2........... 8 Jumples, Honey........... 11% Marshmallow ............. 15 Marshmallow Creams..... 16 Marshmallow Walnuts... 16 Mich. Frosted ei - Molasses Cakes.. ie OCW ee ose ees : ie eae el os Orange GemS............... 3 cou Assorted Cakes..... 8% Pretzels, hand made ..... 8 Sears’ Lunch.......... -_ 2 Sugar Cake.. 8 Sugar Squares. . 9 Vanilla Wafers wae Ae SOCAMAR Co. ie se el 12% Oils. Barrels. Bee oe es @i1% ee W. W.Mich.Hdlt @ 9% W W Michigan........ @9 Diamond White....... @8 Be Gate cul ¢ 9 a - be cccaeeubela ~ 7 IIOE 5. occ ee ces @34 ngine.. 11 3 Black, winter......... 8 Candies. (irains and Feedstuffs Stick Candy. Wheat. bbls. pails ee 60 Standard............ 6%@ 7 Winter Wheat Flour. Standard H. H...... 6%@ 7 Local Brands. Standard Twist..... 6 @8 Pesemee 40 Cut Loaf............ @8 Second Patent ae 3 FO Gases | Siraight................... 3 25 Jumbo, 321b . G4 Clear 3 00 Extra H.H Seats caine @e4 | Grahan ._.... 3 FO Boston coal clei @:0 Buckwheat ............ ... ‘ 25 25 Mixed Candy. Subject to usual cash ‘tis ao SG, Flour in bbls.,25¢ per bbl. ad- Standard............ @7 | dition Comserve...... ..... @ 7% | Ball- oy Putman’s Brand Rowe @ 6 Dat ee 3 40 a @9 a 3 4 ae Seay cae a. e 6% PIAS Oe 3 40 mt Lest... English Rock. ...... ms tecg a ee Kindergarten....... @ 8% Quaker, ee 3 45 Breneh Cream...... @ 9 | Quaker, $45.00 000 88 Val moe Spring Wheat Flour. ————— @13 | ciark-Jewell-Wells Co.'s Brand, Fancy—In Bulk. Pillsbury’s Best %s........ ‘ Lozenges, plain..... @ 8% cee a _ La ‘ ff oan ee ac Pillsbury’ 's Best %s paper 3 99 Choe. Monumeniais @2 Pillsbury’s Best 4s paper.. 3 9) Gum Drops......... @5 Ball-Barnhart-Pntman’s Brand. Moss Drops......... @8 Sour Drops.......... @9 Imperials ........... @9 Fancy—in 5 Ib Boxes. Lemon Drops....... @50 Sour Drops......... @50 Peppermint Drops.. @60 Chocolate Drops. . @60 H. M. Choc. Drops... Qs Gum Drops......... @30 Licorice Drops...... Qa A. B. os @50 Lozenges, plain.. @50 Lozenges, printed.. @50 Imperials........... @50 Mottoes ............. @55 Cream Bar.......... @50 Molasses Bar ....... @50 Hand Made Creams. 80 @ 90 Plain Creams....... 60 Decorated Creams. . @90 String Rock......... @60 Burnt Almonds..... 153 @ Wintergreen Berries @60 Caramels. No. 1 wrapped, 2 Ib. DOXCS @35 No. "1 wrapped, 3 Ib. Ba iG @50 No. "2 wrapped, 2 Ib. Fruits. Oranges. Louisianas.. @4 00 Mexicans Florida Stvie Dox... 2.1... @4 2% Fancy Navels....... @A 2 Lemons. Strictly choice 360s.. @3 75 Strictly choice — @4 vw Fancy 360s ... @i 2% Ex.Fancy 3008... : @4 5: Ex.Fancy 360s...... @:i 2 Bananas. Medium bunches...1 00 @I1 %5 Large bunches...... 15u @I°7 Foreign Dried Fruits. Figs. Californias Fancy.. @‘6 Choice, 101b voxes.. @i5 Extra chuice, 10 lb boxes new......... @18 Fancy, 12 1b boxes.. @2z im apm Mikados, 18 UOMCS... 2... @ Pulled, 6 lb boxes... @ Naturals, in bags... @7% Dates. _ Fards in 10 lb boxes @9 Fards in 60 ib cases @ 6 Persiaus, G. M’s..... @5% lb cases, new...... @6 Sairs. 601b cases... @5 Nuts. Almonds, Tarragona. . a6 Almonds, Ivaca....... @\4 Almonds, a soft shelled......... @15 Brazils new... @ 8% Filberts .... pi @il Walnuts, Na les.. 222! @13 Walnuts, Calif No. i. @i2 Walnuts, soft — Cale... @'2 Table Nuts, fancy.... @ll Table Nuts, choice.. @10 Pecans, Med....... Re @ 7% Pecans, Ex. Large.... @10 Pecans, Jumbos....... @i2 Hickory Nuts per bu., hio, new. @1 60 Cocoanuts. full sacks @4 0 Chestnuts per bu...... @4 00 Peanuts. Fancy, H. P., Suns. @7 Fancy, H. P., Flags Roassted............. @7 Choice, H. P., Extras. @ 4% Choice, H. P., =, Roasted . 5% Dulutu maak 56s. 410 Dulutb Imperial, 4s. ..... 40: Duluth Imperial, %s....... 2 90 Lemon & Wheeler Co.’s Brand. Gold Medal %s............. 4 25 Gold Medal ¥s.. 1. £ Gold Medal %s . 4 05 Parisian, }s... 42» Parisian, 4s... _4 3 Parisian, 368.:...-...... 4 00 Olney & Judson ’s —_—, Cevesgen, 568....-........... Cereseta, 3¢8................ 4 ‘0 Ceresota. $68.. ............ 39 Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand. Ere ES. 4% Louse! 4¢5 ..... ss 4 00 Eimenel S68. ls 3 20 Meal. BONG 190 Granulated ............... Feed and Millstuffs. St. Car Feed. screened ....16 (0 No. 1 Corn and Oats..... - wD Unbolted Corn Meal ......15 Wu Winter Wheat Bran... . 13 00 Winter Wheat Middlings. 14 00 Screenings.. .13 00 ‘Corn. Old corn, car lots........ 38 New corn, Car lots. ....... 34 Less than car lots....... 36 ats. am Mee ol: 31 Carlots, clipped............ 33 Less than Car lots......... 35 ay. No. 1 Timothycarlots.... 9 00 Ne. 1 Timothy tor lots 11 00 Fish and Oysters Fresh Fish. Per Ib Whitefish ........... @ 1) a @ 9 @ @ 18 @4 @ 10 @ 20 @ 22 @ Ww @ 8 @ 9 @ &% @ 5 @ 8 ppe @ 10 Col River Salmon.. @ 12 Mackerel: .........- @ 18 Oysters in a F. H. Bae arte @ 35 F.J D. Selects. @ 27 SeleGie co. @ 2> F.J. si Standards.. 20 Anemos .... ....... @ 18 Standards........... @ '6 Pavyoriies.....-...... @ 14 Bulk. gal. CO i ee nce 1% i SepOGtR. 1 60 BCE ce. c 1 20 Th Hides and Pelts. The Cappon & Bertsch Leather Co., 100 Canal Street, quotes as follows: Hides. Green No. 1...... @8 Green No. 2 @?7 Cured No. 1.. @9 Cured No. 2...... @B8 Calfskins, green No. @it Calfskins, green No. 3 @ 8% Calfskins, cured No. 1 @li Calfskins, cured No. 2 @ 9% Pelts. Pelts, each. 0. ____ JOHN BULL, DEBTOR. The time has come, in the year’s cal endar, to look over accounts. The book: are showing a thrifty condition of things. Trade has been lively the work over; and this is especially true of ou relations with Great Britain. So fa our merchants have been satisfied t nave the balance of trade even and m special effort has been made to disturt that balance. Left almost wholly to it self, the yearly returns are gratifying. The amount of sales is small, but the record is much in our favor. The an- nual report of the Bureau of Statistics, lately issued, makes it possible to make some comparisons which are by no means odious. They show that our brothers over there are yearning after us physically as well as mentally and morally; and they suggest that the Anglo Saxon’s liking for the same good things is as strong now as it was when the little island held us all and we were fighting tooth and nail against the en- croachments of the well-hated William the Conqueror. From that standpoint the following figures are edifying: During the year ending in October, 1898, $537,680 worth of bacon was consumed in England in excess of any preceding year; and the excess in ham is $530,435, a statement which Germany may ponder with profit. In flour the increase was $592,860 in our favor; in oats $275,425, a fact which strengthens the statement of Mr. Cham- berlain to the effect that, as time goes by, the stomachs of the two nations will hold a common food while the hearts will beat as one. With the appetite thus satisfied, let us turn to other things: During the year, from October to October, we sold Great Britain $278,730 worth more of copper ; $805,875 more of tallow; sawed, split, planed or dressed wood, a gain of $203,940, and of leather a yearly gain of $494,800—an array of figures which is comforting to consider at the be- ginning of the holidays. There is another feature of this report which is full of encouragement, because it shows that in other departments of industry we have not been idle. The hard times have been teaching their lesson and we have been profiting by it. We have been trying to get along with- out so much dependence on the foreign markets by using more of our home- made products. The list of imports is consequently diminished, with a cor- respondingly wholesome increase to the home exchequer. During the year there was less wool imported by $59,185—a statement to please the American sheep- raiser. There was a decrease of 105, - 500 yards of cotton piece goods, and in woolens for two years a decrease of 467, - ooo yards. Who says that the American does not appreciate the efforts of the wool manufacturer in his own country? The imports ot worsted goods for 1896 were 1,355,400 yards and in 1898 693 600 yards, a difference in our favor of 661,- 300 yards. We bought less hardware by 321,160; fewer tin plates in two years dy $393,605. In 1896 we paid $8,395 for black plates for tinning; during the vear $375, a gain for us of $8,020. It may or may not be tiresome to ex- tend the list. The above by no mears exhausts it. The only article which stands out in marked contrast with the items mentioned is jute, which stands 11,654,500 yards for 1898, to 5,363,300 yards for 1897. It is, as it has been said efore, a Capital showing. It marks not only a turn in the financial tide, but, what is far better, it is convincing proof that the prosperity long looked for has ‘ome at last, and come to stay. Witb the war over and the new responsibili- ties assumed which the contest brought with it, and with the general recogni- tion of those responsibilities and rights oy the nations of the earth, the United States of America has every reason to nelieve that in trade and in other. con- cerns of the world it is to be recognized is an important factor and leader—a conclusion suggested and strengthened oy contemplating the debtor side of Jobn Bull’s accourt. —_—__>2.>____ The Honors of War. Little Harry: Pa, what is {meant by marching out with the honors of war? Pa: Well, for instance, if Tommy Brown were to knock you down and pummel you until you yelled ‘‘enough,’’ and then let you up and told you to go home and never step into his back yard again, you would march off with the honors of war. But if, instead of letting you up when you confessed you were licked, he kept on pounding you until somebody stopped him, then you wouldn't get off with the honors of war. ‘‘But I wouldn't march off with the honors of war anyway, if that’s how it’s done.”’ ‘*Why not?’’ ‘* "Cause when he let me up and told me to never step in his back yard again, I’d git a rock and swat him."’ WANTS COLUMN. Advertisements will be inserted under this head for two cents a word the first insertion and one cent a word for each es in- sertion. No advertisements taken for less than 25cents. Advance payment. re SALE—CLEAN SHOE STOCK IN GROW- ine manufacturing town of 5,000, county se t, surrounded by good farming trade. Will sell ata bargain 48 owner has o her business which demands his attention. Address No. 7381, care Michigan Tradesman. 784 WOR sALE—AN ESTABLISHED BAKERY in the greatest hustling town in Michigan; good location. reasonable rent. Satisfactor reason for selling. Address A. E. Randall, Otsego, Mich. 786 a SALE—DRUG STORE, NO. 1 LOCATION in Grand Rapids; present owner not a reg- istered pharmecist. Address Drugs, care Mich- igun Tradesms 1. 781 ANTED—LOCA'fON FOR A PRIVATE bank by gent eman of amp’e means good character and excellent bus'nm ss qualifications. Location must be a good business point sur- rounded by prosperous farming commu ity. Address No 780, care Mich'gan Tradesman. 780 ACANT CITY LOTS AND 8&) ACKES OF good farming land, al free and clesr, to exchange for hardware or general merchandise. Address No %7=, care Michigan Tradesmen. 778 A CHANCE OF A LIFETIME FORSALE FOR Cash Only—A department store ; stock about $.2,u00: sales last year, $42.000; this year will run about $50.(.00, ail cash, noc’edi' busin: ssis doue; very little competition. Last year cleared $5.000 over all«xpen es. Must go west on account of health of fa:.ily or mon:y could not buy it Ad dress No 777, care Mi: higan Tradesman aed AOR SALE—OLD AND WELL- ESTABLISHED bakery business ina city of 16,000 1opuia- tion. For pa’ticulars write to Wm. Malmborg, 215 Cleveland Ave..Ishp minyv, Mich. 776 oS , LOCATION FUR FIRST- class dry goods or dry goods and shve store, in town of 2,580 to 5,000 inhabitants. Will «lso 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 tue Otsego Improve- ment Association. Otsego. Mich 631 fe EX: HANGE—FOK CLOTHING, DRY goods or shoes, very nice well rented Graud Rapids property. Address No. 552, care Mi. hi- gn Tradesman. 5b2 O EXCHANGE—FARM FOR CITY PHrOP- eity: 80 acres, part improved. Adapted to general farming and peach raising. J.H. McKee & Son, Houseman Blo. k, Grand Rapids. — 77 JOR SALE OR EXCHANGE—HOT SODA apparatus, silver, mammoth, u,-to-date, tufts’ patiern, $225, 85 per month, 6 per cent. interest Also Soda Fountain modern, izhteen syrups, two sodas, fou mineral tubes. magnifi- cent cherry top, Tufts’ pa'tern, $11. $10 per . month, 6 per cent. Also Fixtures. drug and jewelry: three 8 ft.. one 12 ft. wall cases, plate vlass; 21 ft. d ug shelving, half glass; four 8-ft. sient salesman ca:es, bev: 1d plate. grand; $1,000, $10 per month. * per cent. Address 7:6, care Michigan rade man 766 Vy ANTED — SHUES, CLOTHING. DRY goods. Address R. B., Box 351, —— Mich AVE SMALL GENEKAL sTO K, ALSO A stock of musical go: ds, sewing machines, bicycles, notions, ete., with wagons and teams— an established business. Stock inventories from $2.000 to $3.500, as may be desired. Will take free and clear farm in good location of equal value. Address Lock Box 531, Howell, a, 7 NOR SALE—NEW GEsERAL sTUOCK. A splendid farming country. Notrad.s. Ad- dress No. 680, cxre Michigan Tradesmen &80 ERt HANTS—DO YOU WISH CASH QUICK 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 $8.00 each; double the trade fo ca.dy and cigar stores; no gamt ling device; agents can make b g money. Address Jonas N. Bell & Co., M nufactucers 141 So. Clinton St., Chicago. V2 YO EXCHANGE— FARMS AND OTHER property for dry goods, clothing and shoes. Address P. Medaiie, Mancelona. Mich 3 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. vue | ANTED—BUTTER, EGGS AND POUL- try; any quantities. Write me. Orrin J. Stone, Kalamazoo, Mich. 706 ANTED — FIRST-CLASS BUTTER FOR retail trade. Cash paid. Correspond with Caulkett & Co.. Trave'se City, 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 safes, wood and brick building mover, 157 Ottawa street, Grand Rapids. 613 BUSINESS CHANCES. OR SALE—A FINE WINTER HOME AT MeMeekin, Florida, 26 miles w:st of Pal- atka; five acres of land, 1 0 orange trees to bear nest spring, also pears, plums, figs, g apes an berries; ten minutes’ wa'k from depo: and post- office; two-story, seven-room house, with ver- andas; good well of water and good neighbors, land slopes down to Mirror Lake; two other lakes in sigh.; small barn, buegy house and sheds; price, $ ,500. A. H. McClellan, Bis- coyne, Florida. 785 J ANTED—TO BUY A GOOD IC BUSINESS in a town o 2,000 population and vo oppo sition. Address No 72, care Michigan Trades- man 782 PAY SPOT CASH FOR STOCKS OF M: R- chan:tise of any kind and size. Communica tions he:d strictly confidential. Address A. E. Poulsen, Laurange, Ind. 783 MISCELLANEOUS. PECIALTY SALESMAN NOW ON THE r.ad wishes to make a change for other good selli:.g specialty. Address No 779, care Mich- igan Tradesman. 79 ANTED—1RAVELING SALESMAN IN hardware or other lines to handle hard- ware specialty as a side line. Sells at sight. References required. State territory covercd. Address F. W,¢ lark, Manistee. Mich. 74 ANTED—A POSITION AS TRiVELING salesman by energetic man of long busi- ness experiuce. Address No. 764, care Michigan Tradesm»n 704 _ YOUNG MAN OF GOOD AD- dress to represent unique insurance in State. Good money forright man. Address at once, Knights of America, Kalamazoo, “ 1 Hap sta ~ gale ey he neh tanmavaneieeed 6 aang — FR ea RRO eh MAAN RELL i H6) mide Travelers’ Time Tables. & Northeastern Ry. Best route to Manistee. MANISTE CHIC AG and West Michigan R’y Sept. 25, 1898. Chicago. Ly. G. Rapids......... 7 30am 12°(0am #11 45pa Ar Chicago.......i... 2:10pm 9 15pm 72 «9 Ly Chieago.. 11:15am 6 59am 4:14pm *1! 4Oor Ar. G’d Rapids 5:00pm 1:25pm 10:30pm * 6:20an Traverse City, Charlevoix and Petoskey. Lv @’d Rapids......... 7:30am 8:05am 5:3)pm Par'or cars on dar tra'ns and sleeping cars on night trains to and from Chicago *Every day. Others week days only. DETROIT speas. 1808. Detroit. Ly. Grand Rapids...... 7:00am 1:35pm 5:35px Ar Detroit... 0. 5 11:40am 5:45pm 19:05 Ev. Detrait..:..--- ..... 8:00am 1:10pm 6:10pr Ar. Grand Rapids..... 12 55pm 5:20pm 10:55pyr Saginaw, Alma and Greenville. Lv. G R7:0)am 5:10pm Ar. GR il:45am 9:30nr Parlor cars on all trains to and from Detroit and Saginaw. Trains run week days ouly. Gro. DeHaven, General Pass. Agent. GRAN (In effect Nov. 13, 1898 ) Trunk Railway System Detroit and Milwaukee Div Leave. EAST. Arrive. + 6:45am Sag., Detroit, buffalo & N Y .t+ 9:55pm +10. 10am... ...Detroit and East.... . + 5:27pm + 3 2'pm....Saginaw, Detroit & Fast....¢12:45)m * 7:20pm....Buffaio, N Y. & Boston....*10: 15am WEs1 #19:10am....Gd. Haven and Int. Pts....* 7:°5 m ¢12.52pm.Gd. Haven and Inte:mediate.t 3°12pm + 5 80pm...Gd. Haven and Milwaukee. 5:.7pm ha-tward—No. lu has Wague: parior car. Nu 22 parlor car Westward—No. 11 parlor car. No. 17 Wagner pari.:r car. *Daily. tExcept Sunday. E. H. Hrepes, A G.P &T. A. Ben. FustcoHer. Trav. Pass. Agt. C. A. Justix, City Pass. Agent. 97 Monroe St. _Morton House. Rapids & ‘adiana Railway Nov. 13, 1898. Northern Div. Leave Arriv: Trav. C’y, Petoskey & Mack...t 7:45am t 5:!4pm Trav City & Peto-Key -..t 2 lupm 110:45pm Cadillac a commodation..... + 5:24pm +10 55am Petoskey & Mackinaw City.. +1°:00pm + 6:35pm T:tham and 2:10pm tiains have parlor cars; 11:0 pm train has sieeping car. atherm Uiv. Leave Arr’: Cincinnati «. - 2-30... .- + 7:10am + 9 45pm Ht. wayne 23... + 2°'%pm Ft 1 55 GCiacis whh. - oy sl Oe me. 6 a8 For Vicksburg and Chicago..*11:3 pm 9:1 am 10 wm tre. ha~ psor ew «© Cine and parlor car ‘o Chicago; 2:10pm trein has parlor car to Ft. Way e; 7: Opm train has sleeping cars to Cincinnati; 11:30pm train has coach and sleeping car to Cuicago. Chicago Trains. TU CHICAGO. Lv. Grand Rapids... 7 10«m 21%m #11 30pm Ar. Chicago......... 20pm = 9 10pm 6 2am FROM CHICAGO. Ly. Chicago. .<..-...:.-...... 3 02pm *11 320m Ar Grand Rapids.............. 945pm =: 6 50am Trai leaving Grand Rapids 7:10am has parlor ear; 11:30pm, coxeh and sleeping car. Train leaving Chicago 3:02pm has parlor car; 11:32pm, sleeping car. - Muskegon Trains. GOING WEST. Lv G'd Rapids........ t7:35am t1:00pm +3:40pr Ar Muskegon..... ©. 9:00am 2:108mm 7:95 wm Sunday train leaves Grand Rapids 9:15am; arrives Muskegon 10:35am. tulne KAST, Lv Muskegon....... .. +8:10am 11:45am +4 00pr ArQ@'d Rapids .. . ... 9:23am 12:55pm 9» 2)pr Sunday train leaves Muskegon 5:30pm; ar- rives Grand Rapids 6:50pm tExcept Sunday. *Vally. Cc. L. LOCKWOOD, Gen’! Passr. and Ticket Agent. W. C. BLAKE, Ticket Agent Union Station. DULUT i, — eae. Atlantic WEST BOUND. Lv. Grand Rapids (G. R. & L.)¢11:10pm = +7:45am Lv. Mackinaw City.. 35am 4:20pm Ar. St Ignace................. 9:00am 5:20pm Ar. Sault Ste. Marie.......... 12:20pm 9:50pm Ar. Marquette ................ 2:50pm 10:40pm Ar. Nestoria. .................. 5:20pm 12:45am ee DU oso cewoesceess® cee ss 8:30am Bast BOUND. _ Lv. Duluth............0.-c0c0s veeeesee- 16:30pm Ar Nestoria. <.0..5.. 0005... : i1:15am 2:45am Ar. Marquette................ 1:30pm = 4:30am Lv. Sault Ste. Marie........... 3:30pm Ar, Mackinaw City. .......... 8:40pm 11:00am G. W. Hipsarp, Gen. Pass. Agt. a E. C. Oviatt, Trav. Pass. Agt., Grand Rapids Via C. & W. M. Railway. Ds Grand Rapids... .. 65... 22... 00am (2.555. ee Mae agua. Wy Nismmistee. . 2 oe co 8:30am 4:10pm Ax torand Hapids (000050. 5. 5... Iccopm 9:55pm VIA F. & P. M. R. R. AND STEAMSHIP LINES TO ALL POINTS IN MICHIGAN H. F. MOELLER, a.G.P.a. se le . est Panu BUCKWHEAT That is PURE is the kind \ 4 we offer you at prices that « a , — ‘ are reasonable. We sell buckwheat that has the good old-fashioned / We do ? not adulterate it in any buckwheat taste. way, shape or manner. We believe that when people P ask fur buckwheat they want buckwheat, and it is for the class of people who know what they want that we make this buckwheat. We believe that it will please any lover of the Amn genuine article. We would like to have YY 4 your order and shall take pleasure in quoting youa close price on any quantity. VALLEY CITY MILLING CO. GRAND RAPIDS. Cd Sole manufacturers of ‘‘LILY WHITE.”’ ‘*The flour the best cooks use ’’ ————~_ SF a Y ee %\ Serre a ue i th i Cc ——_—_ / This Showcase only $4 00 per foot. With Beveled Edge Plate Glass top $5.00 per foot. SHOW CASES OF ALL STYLES Until Nov. 1 we will furnish these highly finished show cases with inlaid wood i corners at the following low prices f o b Bryan: 9 feet... $4.50 § feet... £7.25 7 feet......8 9 25 gfeet ....$12.25 4feet...... 6.25 Givet...:.. 8.15 5 feet... . 10.50 1u feet...... 13 25 Cases are 15 inches high, well finished, all double thick glass, mirror lined panel doors in rear. Guaranteed satisfactory in every respect. Cases 17 inches high to cents extra per foot. Write us tor circulars and catalogue of our Combination Cases ' THE BRYAN SHOW CASE WORKS, Bryan, Ohio. ’ NN OE ON oN fle ON ON FON LN GN foo NA aN aa aN ca ©DSSOOOSOOOODOOOOOOOOOOOOO® ¢ THE ONLY WAY... : e To learn the real value of a trade or class paper e is to find out how the men in whose interest it is e published value it. Ask the merchants of Mich- @ @ e @ igan what they think of the. . 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