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With Beveled Edge Plate Glass top $5.00 per foot. BRYAN SHOW CASE WORKS Manufacturers of all styles of Show Cases and Store Fixtures. Writezus for*illus- trated catalogue and discounts. BRYAN SHOW CASE WORKS, Bryan, Ohio. WORLD’S BEST S.C.W: 5C. CIGAR. ALL JOBBERS AND G.J. JOHNSON CIGAR CO. GRAND RAPIDS. MICH. DO YOU RUN A STORE If so, you can avoid all the losses and annoyances incident to the pass book or any other old-fash- ioned charging system by adopting one of our coupon systems. Wecarry in stock four regular coupon books and manufacture special coupons to order for hundreds of merchants in all parts of the country. We solicit correspondence and will furnish full line of samples on application. TRADESMAN COMPANY, Grand Rapids, Mich. WEST SrerboGcEere st .. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Mfrs. of a full line of HANDMADE HARNESS FOR THE WHOLSALE TRADE Jobbers in SADDLERY, HARDWARE, ROBES, BLANKETS, HORSE COLLARS, WHIPS, ETC. Orders by mall given prompt attention. PICTURE CARDS We have a large line of new goods in fancy colors and unique designs, which we are offering at right prices. Samples cheerfully sent on application. TRADESMAN COMPANY, Gramd Rapide. Crackers and Sweet Goods. Candy, Cough Drops, Tobacco Clippings, Condition Powders, Etc. Bottle and Box Labels and Cigar Box Labels our specialties. Ask or write us for prices. GRAND RAPIDS PAPER BOX CO. PHONE 850. 81,83 ano 85 CAMPAU ST., GRAND RAPIDS, MICK SESSEESSESESESELESEERESESELELESEEESEEELELESLELSE EEN Awnings ««< Tents Best goods and lowest prices in the State. All work guar- anteed. Send for prices. Mw CHAS. A. COYE, : 11 PEARL STREET. seevessssesesssseseeesessevesssesesesssseeesseseees FSSISISVSSTISS Sample Incident Recently a merchant was sampling our-cinnamon. As he poured some of it into his hand the superb pungency and aroma inspired the admiration of a couple of ladies standing near by. “O!? exclaimed one, ‘‘I must have some of that.’ “‘But,’’ said the merchant, “I have not ordered it yet. Will you take some if I do?” “Most decidedly,”’ answered the lady. said the other. That merchant is now one of our best customers, having discarded all other lines of spices except the Northrop brand. “And so will I,” NORTHROP, ROBERTSON & CARRIER, LANSING, MICHIGAN. FOLDING PAPER BOXES Ssc:cnac coer WPAPIPILPS Chocolate Creams: Our Specialty w Put up in Pails and Boxes (PPPPL SD Quality Guaranteed Ww Be sure and specify our goods in ordering through your jobber. GRAND RAPIDS CANDY CO., GRAND RAPIDS aawraeennnnenn APPPAA A DESK FOR YOUR OFFICE We don’t claim to sell “direct from the factory” but do claim that we can sell you at TE ——————— Voauw = owt Peay ey Se me taeda a a = be t 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 pilasters, round corners and made of thoroughly kiln dried oak. Writing bed made of 3-ply built-up stock. Desk is castered with ball-bearing casters and has a strictly dust- proof curtain. Our special price to readers of the Tradesman $20. Write for our illustrated cat- alogue and mention this paper when you do so. SAMPLE FURNITURE Co. JOBBE®S OF SAMPLE FURNITURE. PEARL AND OTTAWA STS. - GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. nif I Th SSS oo \ Vy ANSE See eae as onan es eae eee tke — ee Saeco ea Bebeebeebeened ie SENSES Cine se ia eae eine eet oe ze Ne a + eaaaan OS Sooaee szecheedeeh Boao Seen Bele seh Beageaee AEA SE Oe at at Oat Oat al gal SN Sat esoo a 44a ; ; 2 Bursa . 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FTSTFISF LTTFSSSSS FIGURE NOW on improving your office system for next year. Write for sample leaf of our TITIE BOOK and PAY ROLL. BARLOW BROS., Grand Rapids. The Preferred Bankers Life Assurance Company of Detroit, Mich. Annual Statement, Dec. 31, 1898. Commenced Business Sept. !, 1893. Insurance in Force........ .........+«+$3)299,000 00 edger Wasets oe ee 45,734 79 Ledger Liabilities |... .....:-......-. 21 68 Losses Adjusted and Unpaid..... eee None ‘Total Death Losses Paid to Date...... 51,061 00 Total Guarantee Deposits Paid to Ben- eficiaries ue ce Mei eae co 1,030 00 Death Losses Paid During the Year... 11,000 CO Death Rate for the Year............... 3 64 FRANK E. ROBSON, President. TRUMAN B. GOODSPEED, Secretary. Y CUNO 3 G, ” INS. ; 7? co. ; ’ 4 Prompt, Conservative, Safe. J.W.CHAMPLIN, Pres. W. FRED McBarn, Sec. SARTORI L UO THE MERCANTILE AGENCY Established 1841. R. G. DUN & CO. Widdicomb Bld’g, Grand Rapids, Mich. Books arranged with trade classification of names. Collections made everywhere. Write for particulars. L. P. WITZLEBEN [llanager. Save Trouble. Save Money. Save Time. TTOdeSIDON GUpON OLD-TIME TALE. Pioneer Experience of a Drummer Forty Years Ago. ‘‘Well,’’ said an ex-drummer to a group of his succeeding juniors, who were swapping -yarns in an interval of business, ‘‘you fellows have a pleasant time generally in these days of modern improvement in trade and travel, but according to your stories, this rushing through the country on fast trains, tak- ing possible orders from retail mer- chants who take no stock in you per- sonally and don’t care a cent for the man behind the samples, is nct in it with such a life as I remember, when it was possible, and also profitable, to combine business and sociality. When I traveled South for X & Co. in the Sos, it was as a gentleman tourist, taking no orders and soliciting none. My little game was to extend the scope of my personal acquaintance, making new friends and keeping solid with old ones. Western North Carolina had no rail- roads, and, of course, no freight or ex- press lines. ‘The transit of mails and passengers was by stagecoaches, and a trip to or from tidewater was more of an undertaking than a present passage to Europe. It was not easy to go often to market or procure goods, except in quantities, consequently stocks were rarely renewed oftener than semi-yearly, being shipped to the nearest port and hauled thence by long cartage in the wagons of the country. These limited business facilities compelled the in- terior merchants to make large pur- chases at their somewhat rare visits to Northern cities. Such trading trips also afforded opportunity for enjoying in moderation the pleasures of the me- tropolis, and this was assisted by the company of residents, who were capa- ble pilots among the city’s nocturnal sights and sounds. Here was where the previously acquainted salesman got in his influence and harvested the fruit of bis Southern itinerancy, securing custom ers as much by politeness as prices. But I am getting off the track of original intention, which was to tell about old-time methods of going after trade by the indirect way of cultivating social relations. For reasons I have mentioned, interior travel by public conveyance was limited and precarious, schedule time being subject to the cas- ualties of corduroy roads, weary horses and overladen coaches. It was better for the drummer, on arrival at some Northern connected port, to invest in an equestrian outfit, consisting usually of a horse, saddle, bridle, blanket, and in place of trunk or grip, a pair of saddle bags. With these he was independent of time-tables, and a go-as-you- please cavalier of the road, sure to find a hos- pitable reception, with free entertain- ment, at private houses, hotels being few. It was a good deal of a picnic, with some business flavor, and pledges of friendship over ‘‘old peach and honey’’ were followed by ‘‘hope to meet you later in New York.’’ I always car- ried weapons, more because it was the custom of the country than on account of confidence in their protection. Never but once was I inclined to use them defensively. It was in a wild border country that night overtook me on an unknown road on the way to the country town where I intended to relieve myself of the care of a considerable sum of collected money, by depositing it in a bank. As it grew dark and cloudy I doubted my ability to make it; therefore I looked somewhat anxiously for some inhabited stopping place. It seemed a long way between houses, and the hour was late when I pulled up within hailing dis tance of a light. ‘‘Halloo the house,’’ said I, and a man came out with a blaz- ing pin knot. He greeted me witk ‘‘How d’ye, stranger,’’ and answering my enquiry for shelter, said, ‘‘Well, we ain’t keepin’ no hotel an’ the *commo- dations is rather poor. Still, if yer a min’ to light down an’ come in, you'll at least keep dry, for I reckon there’s a storm comin’.’’ Following the torch- bearer into a clearing where stumps and girdled trees were prominent, we came to a small log cabin, through whose un- curtained windows the blaze of a fire gleamed brightly. After telling me to hitch my ‘‘criter’’ in the lee of a fod- der stack, my guide pulled the latch string and invited me in. I found there three other men of the mountaineer type, and dressed alike in homespun. Each one of the quartet carried a bunt- ing knife at his side, and there were four long rifles leaning against the wall of the single room, which was entirely without furniture and only lighted by pine knots burning in the wide fireplace. They were not effusive in their greet- ings, but proffered some fresh-made sandwiches of dried venison and corn bread, also saying, as a bottle was passed tome, ‘Help yourself to the corn juice, stranger; if you don’t like it straight,there’s water in that gourd.’’ My thanks for the lunch were received without response, and it seemed to me that I was considered an_ intruder. While I ate, my thoughts were busy and my curiosity was alert. What were they there for? Was I in danger of robbery, or worse? My first mental question was answered as they seated themselves on the puncheon floor and resumed a game of cards, which I now learned my ar- rival had interrupted. The second was not easy to settle; so far there had been little cordiality, yet less cause for ap- prehension. My enforced visit could not have been anticipated, or the fact of my temporary flush of money known to them. Still, the time, the place, their occupation, and especially their looks were suspicious, and I wished I was well out of their company, repenting that I had invited myself into it. With the remark that I would like to see to my horse, I went out and debated in thought whether to mount and ‘‘light out of there,'’ as the local vernacular would put it, or remain and risk the possibilities. Reflecting that if their intentions were hostile my ignorance of the road gave them an advantage, I concluded it was better to make as much defensive preparation as possible and face the chances inside. So I went in again, carrying my horse furnishings, also a small pistol in each side pocket of my riding coat, and taking a position near the wall to prevent an attack in rear. I spread the blanket, fixed the saddle for a back rest, and sat down to watch the card players, with each hand in a pocket grasping a concealed pis- tol. No attention was paid to me and all talk was about the game, at which considerable money was lost and won, while I wondered who had been robbed to furnish it, and when a demand, em- phasized by the blade of a knife or the muzzle of a rifle. would be made on me to contribute to the stakes. The scene grew monotonous and the strain of ex- pectancy wearisome, until I slept, in spite of my fears, nor waked until the morning sun showed that I was alone, with my person and property intact, besides enough bread, meat and drink left for my breakfast. Well, my first thought was to mentally kick myself, the next that men may not always be taken for what they appear, and finally to remember that gambling was pro- hibited by statute in any dwelling- house, store, shop or other permanently inhabited building. The lone cabin was neither of these, and I had only briefly interrupted a quiet quartet of card play- ers for keeps.—Uncle Joe in the Spring- field Republican. —_—_-.>__ Will S. Jones, the bright and shining light of the Minneapolis Commercial Bulletin, is a man of many parts. Not content with publishing one of the best trade papers in the world, of achieving international distinction as an expert whist player and of receiving the com- mendation of the general manager of a great railroad system for his distin- guished services in heading a gang of snow shovelers and releasing the pas- sengers of a stalled train from impend- ing starvation, he has now added to his laurels by becoming an after dinner speaker and association advocate, which is likely to make fresh demands on his time hereafter. Mr. Jones does not yet aspire to take rank with Chauncey M. Depew or Sapolio Stevens, but expects, in the course of time, to eclipse both gentlemen in the roles they have so long and so successfully played in their re- spective fields of usefulness. It is re- ported—but on authority which the Tradesman deems hardly worthy of con- sideration—that Mr. Jones formerly paid for the privilege of making post pran- dial and association speeches, because he realized that he ought not to practice on people without giving them adequate compensation for the privilege; but, now that he has become an expert and bas attained something more than a lo- cal reputation in both capacities, he is considering the matter of making a fixed charge for his services, except where the occasion is a charitable one and the proceeds are devoted to elemosenary purposes. ~~ 0 -e The quality of the stock counts, and the quantity of the stock counts, and the price counts, and the fundamentals couut, but the little things, both collect- ively and individualy, count, and count much more than most folks think that they count. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Dry Goods The Dry Goods Market. Prints—The rapid advance ,in print cloths, a steady supplementary demand, and smal! available supplies of printed goods are forcing a steady upward movement in the latter which promises to Carry prices 5@Io per cent. above their present average level before the supplementary demand _ reaches its height. Almost the entire market, with the exception of some of the more staple lines of prints, are 214@5 per cent. higher than they were a week ago. Goods in stock are small and in most instances can still be had at old prices, but goods to come from machines that have not been openly advanced are held ‘at value.’’ QOaly a few printers are willing to part with the more staple lines at old prices; the majority can not afford to do it, and are out of the market for the present. Ginghams—Staple ginghams are in several cases advanced c, although no change has been made in open prices: These and dress styles are very hard to find at any price in any quantities. Linings—Linings in special finishes for dresses, with silk effects, are par- ticularly prominent now. Kid finished cambrics have been rather slow; plain and fancy silesias have shared a more general demand, and orders for future delivery are not generally wanted by jobbers. The clothing trade is taking somewhat larger quantities than last week of both cotton and cotton warp linings. Blankets—Cotton blankets are nearly all open, and show advances cf 24%4@7 per cent. over iast year. The early business has been good, and one or two houses report that they are nearly sold up. The report that some lines opened at a reduction of about Io per cent. was a blow at the beginning, but it proved tu be stock goods that it was best to dis- pose of early. These are out of the way, and nothing stands in the way of busi- ness now. Dress Goods —Some very fair reorders are going forward on_ spring-weight dress goods, although there is nothing unusual in the present situation; serges are, of course, figuring well in the re- ordering; suiting goods have moved particularly well, and promise to holo a prominent place in the fall business. Broadcloths, Venetians, neat fancy checks, etc., are all going well; plaids, mohair weaves, crepons, stripes, etc., are also holding their own in buyers’ favor, although there is no let up to the ordering in plain goods in black. The foreign dress goods people are doing little, and do not anticipate much busi- ness for two or three weeks or until they get their lines open; they are at pres- ent between ‘‘hay and pgrass,’’ but think the prospects are favorable for an ex tensive business on fall lines. They talk confidently of the prospects of cre pon goods, fine serges, mohair effects, poplin weaves, neat checks, plaids ano dctted goods; the Eastern trade is ex- pected to run principally to plain goods, although fancies are expected to receive consideration ; the Western buyers will probably include a considerable range of fancies in their operations; as re- gards fabrics there will probably be few departures from the previous season’s styles. Hosiery—The importers are full of life and business is constantly increas- ing. True, there is not yet as much as was hoped for, but nevertheless, it is full of promise, and great hopes are entertained. Low grade, seamless ho- siery is still in the depths, and but lit- tle demand is found. In the finer grades business is satisfactory. Carpets—The carpet manufacturers in many instances are well employed on the cheaper grades of ingrain carpets, and occasionally mils running on stand- ard all-wool, extra super ingrains re port business improving on tne latter class. One mill, at least, bas had the courage recently to advance prices 2%c per yard, as most of the goods sold av- erage 42%c per yard or under, when 45c is asked. It has had the effect of nar- rowing the business in standard grades down to a moderate amount. However, the manufacturers feel more encouraged regarding future conditions and feel quite confident that the unusual conces- sions made this season will be the last, as the outlook for next season already bids fair to be more favorable to all the carpet manufacturers in general. The advance in prices of the leading mills engaged on tapestries has tended to re- store confidence. The latest notice re- ceived by the trade referred to the fact that the Roxbury (Mass.) Carpet Co. will advance its tapestry carpets 2%c per yard from March 1. All orders re- ceived prior to that time will be filled at old prices. With the marked im- provement in many lines of general business, the carpet trade has for some time anticipated a change for the bet- ter. It is true that the mills are filling orders generally at old prices, but this season marks the change in the tide, when the manufacturer will look forward with more confidence and find easier sailing. Tapestry and velvet carpets are selling fairly well, and while there is not the activity some would like to see, the enquiry is along the line of bet- ter goods, including Wiltons. There is no doubt that some mills are perfectly satisfied to continue to accept only mod- erate orders during the remainder of this season, as prices this season are too low to permit of more than a very small margin of profit. \pholstery—The jobbers continue to report a moderate business on medium grades of velours and corduroys. The up-to-date manufacturers are constantly bringing out some new effects in this class of goods, which gives a needed variety, and while it is true that there is a growing enquiry for better grades of goods, the velours bid fair to con- tinue in popularity for a long t:me to come. > +> The Average Man. When it comes to a question of trusting Yourself to the risks of the road, When the thing is the sharing of burdens, The lifting the heft of a load, Ir, the hour of peril or trial, In the hour you meet as you can, You may safely depend on the wisdom And skill of the average man. *Tis the average man and no other Who does his plain duty each day, The small thing his wage is for doing, On the commonplace bit of the way. *Tis the average man, may God biess him, W ho pilots us, still in the van, Over land, over sea, as we travel, Just the plain, hardy average man. So on through the days of existence, All mingling in shadow and shine, We may count on the everyday hero, Whom haply the gods may divine, But who wears the swarth grime of his calling, And labors and earns as he can, And stands at the last with the noblest, The commonplace average man. MARGARET E, SAaNnGSTER. —_>2>—___ A Priceless Souvenir. ‘‘I presume you carry a memento of some sort in that locket of you7s?"’ **Precisely; it is a lock of my bus- band’s hair.’ ‘*But your husband is still alive.’’ **Yes; but bis hair is all gone.’’ W ANTED==" merchant in every town where we are not already repre- ~~ sented, to sell our popular brand of clothing. THE WHITE CITY BRAND THE WHITE HORSE BRAND READY TO WEAR CUSTOM TAILOR MADE We furnish samples, order blanks, etc., free, and deliver same. You can fit and please all sizes and classes of men and boys with the best fitting and best made clothing at very reasonable prices. Liberal commission. Write for Prospectus (C} WHITE CITY TAILORS, 222 to 226 Adams Street, Chicago, Ill. @2/LefaLaLetelLaLeaLeLeLe?® CORSETS Summer Corsets from $2 25 to $4.50 per doz., Waists $4.50 to $9 per doz., and all the leading makes of Corsets at lowest prices. If inter- ested, write for samples. = We Pride Ourselves On the line of Muslin and Silk Caps we are able to show this season. Big values at goc per dozen. VOIGT, HERPOLSHEIMER & CO. | WHOLESALE DRY GOODS, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH, Ci MeNeneREREN SC RCNEnGMeneR AL x TRADESMAN ITEMIZED | EDGERS SIZE—8 1-2 x 14. THREE COLUMNS. LOWY Agape Register Insure systematic accounting of all money received for sale of goods, a record of all money paid cut, a check against all usiness transactions. Issue at one writing: 1 Printed check bearing itemized bill. 1 Car- bon copy of same on blank paper; 1 Carbon copy securely rolled up and locked up, or a summarized record thereof. In fact, the 2 Quires, 160 pages........ $2 00 ‘ > 3 Quires, 240 pages........ 2 50 4 Quires, 320 pages ....... 3 00 qty | I [ 5 Quires, 400 pages ....... 3 50 : 6 Quires, 480 pages........ 4 00 Insures that system in business necessary to S its success. Prices of Registers: $7.50, $15, $20, $25, $30, INVOICE RECORD OR BILL BOOK 80 double pages, registers 2,880 SNVONCES 60. 8200 oe a $2 00 £ Tradesman Company Grand Rapids, Mich. Supplies cheaper than same results can be obtained by any other method. Write for full particulars to L. A. ELY, Soles Agent. Alma, Mich. Factory: DAYTON, OHIO. The Egry Autographic Register Co. fk ee : er ree raonacee : or | —~ Zibe ons S ‘MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 3 STOREKEEPING AN ART. Necessity of Apprenticeship in a Mer- cantile Career. The impression seems to prevail that any one can keep a country or village store--that all that is necessary isto get a suitable room or building and put in a stock of goods and go to selling to the natives, and in a few years retire from business with a fortune. There never was a greater mistike, as thousands of men have learned to their sorrow, after a few years of trial. An experienced business man, start- ing under such conditions in a fairly good place, even if his capital is small, would probably succeed, where a dozen others, with larger capital but no ex- perience and /ittle adaptation or natural aptitiade for tne business, would fail They would nct buy judiciously, and so would soon be overstocked with unsal- able goods. They would extend credit too liberally and indiscriminately, and by-and-by find themselves embarrassed financially, and unable to collect what is due them. Perhaps they would go to the otber extreme and not credit any body, and so not do enough business to More than pay expenses. Let me tell you that keeping store is an art—a t ade that must be learned just as any other at or trade is learned— that is, by serving an apprenticeship or in some way becoming acquainted with it. Some men gain their experience after embarking in business and ata heavy cost, but still succeed. In no branch of business, perhaps, is compe tition so sharp and uncompromising a- in merchandising in all of its various branches. Sometimes a retail merchant bas fora time a sort of monopoly of the t:ade in his neighborhood, and so manages to make money in spite of his lack of ex- perience and aptitude for business Often he has an efficient and popular clerk who wins and holds trade that the proprietor himself would not be able to get, and thus by virtue of favorable cir- cumstances he succeeds, where with nothing but his own capacity and capi tal to depend upon he would fail. Where success in business depends upon the man rather than his environments—and it generally does—he must possess not only ordinary capacity, but those ele- ments and characteristics that make for success in most callings, namely, suav- ity, equability of temper, magnetism, firmness, courage, sufficient dignity, and last, but not least, a reputation for truth and honesty. He should be a good judge of human nature, a man who commands respect, attends to his own business and doesn't take sides in his neighbors’ quarrels. Possessing the qualities named and _ be- ing the kind of man here described, in nine cases out of ten he will succeed, even if he starts with limited capital and on a smal! scale. It is not possible to give an infallible rule for the guidance of inexperienced persons going into business. So much depends upon the location, the custom- ers, the environments, etc., of the busi ness, as also upon the person who is to run it, that only a few general direc- tions and principles are applicable. First, then, the young merchant, in buying his initia] stock, should not buy too much of any one class of goods, nor too much in the aggregate, just enough to make a beginning (not a show) witb, and then he can add to it as the trade demands. He should not exhaust bis capital or credit, or both, atthe outset, but reserve a part of them for the pur- chase of a supplementary bill. If he undertakes to do a cash business, let it be a cash business and not a misnomer This is what it should be at first, any- way until] the merchant learns his trade and the responsibility of his customers. If he extends credit let it be to those who are in the habit of paying their bills, regulating the amount by the ability of the customer to pay, but let it be known that he does not credit anyone for a very large amount, or which, if not paid when due, would cause him some embarrassment in meeting his own bills. Have uniform prices; that is, so much per pound, yard, gallon or unit of com- modity, but a discount may be made on larger quantities, the rule being,‘ Like prices to all for like quantities.’’ Treat all customers with due courtesy and con- sideration, so that each may feel that his or her patronage is appreciated. Sell at the very lowest prices con- sistent with reasonable profit. To meet competition, expect to be obliged to sell some articles without profit, but do not sell staple goods at less than cost. Shelf worn, out of style, remnants, or other unsalable or slow moving stuff may be sold at a loss, rather than be held on hand in the hope of getting more for them. If possible, put all these odds and ends of stocks on a bargain counter and mark them way down, and thus gain in advertising what you lose in price. Study the difficult art of refusing a request that you can not grant, with out making an enemy—to refuse credit and still retain the cash patronage of tbe person asking for credit. Be ac- commodating in all things not in- volving loss of money, sacrifice of prin- ciple or extending credit where it is not sate to do so. Remember that business and charity are two different things and should not be mixed. , Maintain your own commercial stand ing by paying your bills promptly Don’t write sharp and discourteous let- ters to people from whom you buy zoods, when they make mistakes in tilling your orders or in bills or state- ments. Write a polite letter, calling at- tention to the error, saying what you desire done about it and await reply, which will come in a few days, and in nine cases out of ten be satisfactory. Learn all you can about the resources, character, employment, etc., of the peo- ple you credit, and collect closely. In- sist upon pavment according to agree ment, but extend time if the circum- stances warrant it, as a matter of busi- aess courtesy. Keep your business affairs to yourseif Seem to be prospering; it brings more trade, but whether you are or not is vour own business. I. C. WATKINS. Joun G. MiLter & Co, CHICAGO. Manufacturers of ALL WOOL CLOTHING I shall be at Sweet’s Hotel February 24th to 28th inclusive, with full lines of Men’s Wear and a fine special line of Boys’ and Children’s Suits and Pants. All expenses allowed. S. T. Bowen. a a a 4 ~—S BUCKWHEAT That is PURE is the kind we offer you at prices that a eS SOS SS 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 ask for buckwheat they want buckwheat, and it is for the class of people who d know what they want that we make this buckwheat. We believe that it will please any lover of the 4 genuine article. We would like to have your order and shall take 4 pleasure in quoting youa close price on any quantity. VALLEY CITY MILLING CO. GRAND RAPIDS. + Sole manufacturers of ‘‘LILY WHITE.”’ ‘*The flour the best cooks use ”’ — + + fim, il Tm a Y — repared house here to handle your or them, and we also have ample Michigan Tradesman. OOS SS SSS SCOOSSCSCSOSNSSSCSS SST SS STS TSE LANSING & CATLIN WHOLESALE DEALERS IN BUTTER AND EGGS BUFFALO, N. Y. We are an exclusive Butter_and Egg house, therefore are the best best experienced salesmen there are tobe had in this line of business. We have had twelve years’ training, therefore ask for your shipments, as we can do you good. For any further information write us, or ask the Butter and Eggs, as we have the trade capital of our own to run it, and with gaonoronnnren00099 WP Qonennnnongnonennrornanrnnananonaonanonenrnng200 NNPTPee rede eee nen n nara nneveree nan re eet y arent. | __ q oo oo o oo o oo = > oo oo oo oo oo = oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo o ss — = oo their experiments. They all say ¥ “It’s as good as Sapolio,” when they try to sell you Your own good sense will tell you that they are only trying to get you to aid their mame 6 5 Uf Uf : Who urges you to keep Sapolio? public? The manufacturers, by constant and judi- ciousadvertising, bring customers to your stores whose very presence creates a demand for other articles. PUTICTTTO TOC UECETEe LY Is it not the TANUAMMAAAAA dha tUatatdadddd ata MICHIGAN TRADESMAN | Around the State Movements of Merchants. Marine City—-The Colwell Mercantile Co. will remove to Flint March 1. Almont—Hugh H. Mair succeeds Mair & Cathcart in general trade. Saginaw—Charles Foster & Co. have discontinued the furniture business. Hillsdale—Henry C. Langdon has sold his hardware stock to F. B. French. St. Joseph—Henry Wertz & Co. have sold their grocery stock to Ed. King. Crystal Falls—The John Tufts Co. succeeds John Tufts in general trade. Bellevue—The Bellevue Produce Co. has engaged in business at this place. Tecumseh—Wm. Witherell continues the vehicle business of Witherell & Jones. Daggett—Dunham & Collette are suc- ceeded by John Dunham & Co. in general trade. Hillsdale—C. H. & E. D. Sales have engaged in the grocery business at this place. Wyandotte—Mace, Martin & Craig succeed James Mace in the hardware business. Shepherd—M. .C. Lathrop has pur- chased the grocery and bazaar stock of Squire Wessels. Owosso—E. G. Westlake, of Chicago, will open a grocery store here within the next two weeks. Detroit—C. F. Pennewell & Co. suc- ceed Pennewell, Cowan & Co, in the dry goods business. Stanton—J. W. Stearns succeeds Strouse & Stearns in the agricultural implement business. Chelsea—Geo. Harper has retired from the general merchandise firm of Trim, McGregor & Harper. Port Huron—The J. C. Botsford Co. succeeds J. E. Botsford & Co. in the wholesale grain business. Marcellus—L, & C. Munger & Co. have sold their agricultural implement stock to C. E. Carpenter. Lansing—Convis & Hayt have pur- chased the grocery stock of Leo Ebrlich, at 214 Washington avenue. Manistique—Norval & Anderson is the name of the new grocery firm which succeeds Falk & Anderson. Manistique—C. B. Mersereau & Co., proprietors of the Schoolcraft County Bank, have discontinued business. Jackson—Meade & Durrant succeed Andrew J. Meade in the men’s furnish- ing goods and hat and cap business. Crystal Falls—The John Trifts Co. has purchased the dry goods and gro- cery stock of A. L. (Mrs. Martin) Bach. Jackson—Martin Batt succeeds Lay- man Bros. & Batt in the dry goods, clothing and furnishing goods business. Declray——Connor & Murdoch have opened a men’s furnishing goods store here under the name of the New Em- porium. Port Huron—Chas. Robinson, of this city, and Albert Lunger, of Mt. Clem- ens, have opened a grocery store on Huron avenue. Hillsdale—Geo. J. Kline has _ pur- chased the interest of his partner, Frank B. Gage, in the dry goods firm of Geo. J. Kline & Co. Tecumseh—Karner Bros. have sold their shoe stock to J. J. Belcher, of Les- lie, who will continue the business at the same location. Hillsdale—The sboe stock of the J. C. Joiner estate was bid in at auction sale by Bert E. Hinkle, who bas been man- ager of the business since the purchase of the stock some months ago. Ann Arbor—Mack & Schmid, dry goods and carpet dealers, will shortly erect two brick store buildings, 20x70 feet in dimensions. Henderson—Wm. Johnston, of Rush, has purchased the meat market of Henry Huber and wili continue the business at the same location. Winn—G. O. Adams, general dealer at this place, has admitted his son, Bert M., to partnership, the style of the firm being Adams & Son. Coldwater—The stock of bazaar goods belonging to Mrs. Mary E. Morgan has been placed in the bands of H. C. Lov- eridge as trustee for the creditors. Escanaba—L. N. Schemmel and Carl Johnson have formed a copartnership under the style of Schemmel & Johnson and engaged in the hardware business. Durand—H. W. Mann, dealer in wall paper, books and _ sstationery at this place, has opened a branch store at Durand, placing E. B. Shultz in charge thereof. Hastings—H. M. Erb has sold his in- terest in the grocery and crockery firm of Phillips & Erb to his partner, who will continue the business under the style of S. E. Phillips. Lansing—The loss by fire to Birney & Walters’ grocery stock has been ad- justed and they have again opened up for business at the old stand, corner Washington avenue and Kalamazoo street. Manistee—J. A. Johnson, who has conducted a mercantile business in this city for the past thirty years, has de- parted for the Alaska gold fields. He says he will be absent two or three years. Marion—C. M. Kilmer has sold his grocery stock to J. H. Game and his stock of dry goods and furnishings to A. H. Corwin and C, L. Arndt. Mr. Kil- mer will devote his time to buying and selling stock. Port Huron—The shoe dealers of this city now breathe easier. They feared that B. C. Farrand would inaugurate a fire sale, but were reassured on learning that the insurance company took the stock and will ship it to Chicago. Holland—ND. J. Sluyter has associated himself with John Meeboer, merchant tailor at this place, and will opena men’s furnishing goods and hat store about March 1. Mr. Meeboer will have charge of the tailoring department. Manistee—Miss Edith Smith, who has been in the employ of P. N. Car- dozo for several years, will embark in the millinery business this spring. Miss Smith has secured the store formerly occupied by Miss Klaiber and her Easter opening will occur the latter part of March. Escanaba—City Clerk Henry Wilke, for many years connected with the gro cery firm of F. H. Atkins & Co., has purchased the grocery stock of Mashek & Arnold, and will continue the busi- ness at the old stand. Masbek & Arnold will devote their entire attention to their lumbering interests. Saginaw—The millinery stock of Mrs. S. L. Warford, on South Washington avenue, is being moved to Buffalo. Mrs. Warford came to Saginaw in 1853 and has been in business continuously since. There is not another person in business now on the Saginaw River who was in business forty-five years ago. Mrs. Warford’s only son, Clarence W. Ham- mond, Cashier of the People’s Bank of Buffalo, is here superintending the re- moval of his mother to that city. He has purchased a residence for his mother at Springville, thirty-one miles from Buffalo, where she will take up her residence about May 1, and where she will spend the evening of her years in peaceful! content after a long and ac- tive business career. Sault Ste. Marie—Fred W. Roach has purchased the interest of his father in the boot and shoe and men’s furnishing goods firm of F. W. Roach & Co. and will continue the business under the same style. A. B. Roach withdraws from the firm in order to devote his at- te1.tion to other interests. Owosso—Will H. Payne, of the firm of Crowe & Payne, and Miss Emma Hicks, of Corunna, were married at the home of the bride’s parents in Corunna. The wedding was a quiet one, but few besides the immediate family being present. The bride is well known in Corunna and also in Durand, where she assisted her sister for some time ina millinery store. Saginaw—Wyman Paxson, teller at the Commercial National Bank, and Arthur G. Shoenberg, book-keeper at the First National Bank, have pur- chased the hardware stock of Biester- feld Bros , at 213 North Hamilton street, the style of the new firm being Paxson & Schoenberg. Mr. Paxson will retain his position at the bank, Mr. Schoen- berg assuming the active management of the business. Muskegon—Charles Schoenberg, the well-known meat dealer, will erect a two-story brick veneered building at the corner of McKinney avenue and Jeffer- son street, Muskegon Heights. The block will be 35x70 feet in dimensions and will be occupied by E. C. Bramble of that village with a stuck of boots and shoes, dry goods and groceries. He at present occupies the corner store in the Schoenberg block at the Heights. Manufacturing Matters. Plymouth—Eddy & Betty succeed Chas. A. Frisbee in the lumber busi- ness. Hardwood—J. E. Reinger has en- gaged in the cedar post and shingle business. Horr—B. J. Shourds has been suc- ceeded by Shourds & Denslow in the lumber business. Clayton Center—The Clayton Cheese & Butter Co. will sell its factory at public auction Feb. 28. Clare—The Valentine-Clark Company bas engaged in the lumber business here and at Pinconning. Otsego—The William Sebright Co. has been succeeded by Sebright, Hale & Co, in the lumber business. Albion—Lewis Hunt has leased the creamery at this place and will shortly begin the manufacture of butter. Ravenna—The Ravenna Creamery Co. bas secured the services of Fred Barge- well as buttermaker for the coming sea- son. Hopkins—Frank P. Mankin, of Kent City, bas purchased the C. D Carpen- ter cheese factory, and will begin man- ufacturing for the season April 1. Greenbush—J. Van Buskirk, who has operated a sawmill near this placea number of years, is putting in a stock of hemlock and cedar this winter. Detroit—The Detroit Timber & Lum- ber Co. has been incorporated with cap- ital stock of $40,000 by Uriel L. Clark, Jobn G. Ferguson and Ward B. Clark. Menominee—The Lindsley Bros. Co. has been incorporated with capital stock of $25,000 by G. L. Lindsley, Edward A. Lindsley and A. L. Lindsley. The corporation will deal in cedar exclu- sively. Pontiac—M. Halfpenny & Co., man- ufacturers of sulkies, have merged their business into a corporation under the style of The Martin Halfpenny Vehicle Co. Bellevue—J. W. French & Sons, rail- road contractors and manufacturers of and wholesale dealers in hardwood lum- ber, have engaged in business at this place. Sault Ste. Marie—The Sault Ste. Marie Cigar Co. has been organized witha capital stock of $10,000, James Cohen has been secured as manager of the en- terprise. Saginaw—The Berst Manufacturing Co., which manufactures toothpicks and dowels, is getting 3,000,000 feet of hardwood logs from the Mackinaw divi- sion of the Michigan Central. Flusbing—The milling firm of Call & Packard has been dissolved, Fred Whit- ley purchasing the interest of Mr. Call. The business will be continued under the style of C. L. Packard & Co. Wayland—Hicks & Clark, planing mill operators and lumber dealers, have sold out to Arthur J. Lincoln and Fred D. Quinlan, who will continue the busi- ness under the style of Lincoln & Quin- lan. Manistee—The situation in the lum- ber line grows more embarrassing for the buyer. It bas reached a point now where he has to have the stock and does not know where it is to come from; and all that the possessor of lumber in pile has to do is to sit quietly in his office and receive and turn down offers for his stock, which is so much more val- uable than it was last fall. Manistee—Repairs at the sawmills will be in full blast by the first of the month, and all are sure to be ready by April 1 should conditions be favorable for sawing at that time, but it does not, at this writing, look as though we could have a very early spring, as there is more ice in Lake Michigan than has been known for years, and that is bound to have an effect for some time to come. +0 The Boys Behind the Counter. Eaton Rapids—Henry Hogan has sev- ered his connection with J. W. Slater & Bro.’s furniture store. He is succeeded by Amaziah Hubbell. Lowell—Earl Hunter, who has been employed in the Winegar shoe store for the past six years, left Lowell Feb. 22 for a trip to Atlanta, Georgia, with a view to locating where the weather clerk does not try to knock the bottom out of the thermometer for three weeks in suc- cession. Kalkaska—Adolph Anspauch succeeds Max Glazer as clerk in L. Glazer’s dry goods store. Max goes to Mancelona where he has secured a position in the general store of P. Medalie. Belding—Frank Hicks has returned from Asheville, N. C., and resumed his former position with Kingsley & Co. Flushing—H. B. Freeman, who for some time has been in the employ of Herriman & Fox, has secured a position in the mercantile house of Smith, Bridg- man & Co, at Flint. Ontonagon—Miss Bell Robinson has taken a clerkship in the dry goods store of Ada L. Coombe. Owosso—Carl Beuter has resigned bis position with Lyon & Pond to accept a much better position with Edson, Moore & Co., of Detroit. He will at first have charge of the shirt waist department. He is succeeded by Jobn Collins, who - has been identified with H. L. Kend- rick, - of St. Johns. SSRIS waren neem eae one anand } | : Hi Reece — oer eens ee eee en ae Pr ’ j SSRIS waren neem eae one anand } | : Hi Reece giant smite eae etn maeea ere ee aes Pr sivas Specrgaaatins MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 5 Grand Rapids Gossip Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Associa- tion. At the regular meeting of the Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association, held at the office of the Michigan Tradesman, Tuesday evening, Feb. 21, Julius J. Wagner presided. Five new members were elected, as follows: Simmer & Ryan, Butterworth ave- nue and Straight street. Rademacker & Mantie, 141 West Bridge street. D. S. Gray. 57 West Leonard street. Bloom & Turnvall, 137 West Bridge street. Michael Tansey, 356 Second street. The Committee on Trade Interests made a somewhat lengthy report on the flour matter, deta'ling the work it had done since the last meeting and the sub- stance of an interview it bad had with the city millers, who have agreed to use moral suasion to influence the cutters to get into line. The report was adopted. The following communication was re- ceived from the Secretary of the jack son Association : At a meeting of the Association held Feb. 7, the following resolution was}! unanimously adopted : Resolved—That the hearty thanks of the Jackson Retail Grocers’ Association are due and are hereby tendered to the members of the Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association for their couteous and gentlemanly treatment of Messrs. Helmer, Lewis, Branch and Hill on the occasion of the banquet held at Grand Rapids Jan. 23. The Secretary reported that $99 bad been collected for the legislative fund, of which $50 had been forwarded to the Detroit headquarters of the propaganda. The Secretary read letters from a half dozen soap manufacturers who were written to in regard to the adoption of the rebate method or some other good system to secure for the retailer a rea- sonable profit on soap. The substance of the letters was that the writers would cheerfully co-operate with the Associa- tion in any movement which appealed to their good judgment and which re- ceived the sanction of a majority of the best part of the trade. A member complained that the local representative of Lautz Bros. & Co. had loaded up the trade with Acme soap on the basis of $4 per box and then sold the Morse department store a quantity of the same brand at a price that enabled him to sell it for $3.80 and $3.90 per box. The offense seemed so flagrant and the affront to the retail trade was so manifest that the Secretary was in- structed to write Lautz Bros. & Co., in the name of the Association, expressing the indignation of the members over the transaction. Will S. Jones, editor of the Minne- apolis Commercial Bulletin, who was present by invitation, addressed the As- sociation at some length on the subject of the card price method, by means of which the Minneapolis grocers have been able to secure uniform prices and protits on flour, sugar, oil and package coffee. He described at some length the methods pursued in his home city and cited as an example of the benefits of the card method the fact that there were but three failures among the gro- cery trade of Minneapolis during 1898, four failures in 1897 and but five failures in 1896. Even during the panic year of 1893 there were only eighteen fail- ures. He stated that the millers entered into the flour agreement with due cau- tion and much trepidation, but were so well pleased with the results of the ar- rangement at the end of the first year that their local organization sent the Retail Grocers’ Association a check for $1,000 as a token of their esteem for the method inaugurated by the grocers to secure uniform profits. Mr. Jones also described the way in which the sugar, oil and package coffee cards were in- augurated and maintained and made some suggestions along the lines of the soap pee which his audience ap- peared to appreciate. At the conclusion of bis remarks, which were well re- ceived, he was thanked by Chairman Wagner, who also asked him, in behalf of the Association, to accept the thanks of the members for his courtesy in at- tending the meeting and giving the members the benefit of his experience and advice. There being no further business, the meeting adjourned. —_—__»20»>___ The Produce Market. Apples—The market continues strong and satisfactory. Good solid cold stor age stock commands $3 for Tallman Sweets and Pippins, $4 25 for Baldwins and Greenings and $4.50 for Spys and Kings Bananas—The movement of bananas, both locally and at Southern points, has been almost at a standstill, owing to the cold weather. Unloading at New Orleans and Mobile was impossibie, because of the chill. The market will rule firm and probably advance during the com- ing week. Beans—Handlers pay 50@75c for un- picked, holding city picked mediums at 85@goc. Beets—25c per bu. Butter—Factory creamery is strong at 20c. Dairy grades continue strong and scarce, fancy rolls easily fetching Cc. Cabbage— Higher and very scarce, on account of amount of stock frozen. The market has moved up to $20 per ton and is likely to go still higher in the very near future. Carrots—2oc per bu. Celery—15@18c per doz. bunches for White Plume. Cranberries—The market is without charge. Cape Cods command $7 per bbl., Wisconsins fetch $6 and Jerseys are slow sale at $5. 50. Cucumbers—Hothouse stock has ad- vanced to $1 per doz. Eggs—Stock is scarce and all receipts are picked up as soon as they arrive on the basis of 18@2oc. The cold wave appears to have had a peculiar effect on the hens, in that it suspended the lay- ing of eggs. Game—Rabbits are grabbed up as fast as they arrive at 80c per doz. Honey—Amber has declined to 8c and white to toc. The demand is small. Lemons——The market rules firm. While the supplies have been very liberal the demand has also been large, thus offsetting a possible chance for a decline. Californias are in moderate receipt. Lettuce—14@15c per pound. Nots--Hickory, $1.50@2, according to size. Walnuts and butternuts, 6oc. Onions—Dealers meet no difficulty in getting 5oc for red and 6oc for yellow. Oranges— The supply of naval oranges in California is nearly exbausted, as about 90 per cent of the entire crop bas been shipped from the State. Of other varieties there is also a very light sup- ply, many of the Eastern markets draw- ing upon California because of the re- cent frosts in Florida which practically destroyed the entire crop. The crop of late Valencias will also be short and when marketed will command good prices. The local movement of two weeks past has been curtailed by the cold weather, but will probably be re- vived with the coming of warmer weather. Parsley—Chicago dealers are taking all they can get at 40@5oc per doz, in consequence of which local dealers have been compelled to advance their quota- tions accordingly. Parsnips—soc per bu. Pop Corn—13 @2c per lb. i Potatoes—The market is in a waiting condition, due to lack of knowledge as to the amount of stock actually injured by frost. Local dealers are paying 30c per bu. at outside buying points and holding at 4oc here. Poultry—Scarce. Chickens, 11@12c; fowls, 9@1oc; ducks 11@!2c; geese, loc; turkeys, 12@13c. i Sweet Potatoes— Illinois Jerseys are in fair demand at $3.50. —_—__—_»>2»—___ Thos. H. Hart has sold his grocery stock at 254 South Division street to Arthur L. Smith. The Grocery Market. Sugar—The raw sugar market is very strong at 1I-16c advance, a large block of 96 deg. test centrifugal having been sold yesterday at 43c. Refined is much stronger and it is announced that all guarantees have been withdrawn. Coffee—All grades have been rather quiet, with a steady tone to the market. Medium grades of bulk roasted are quoted nominally higher in this market, but the advance has not been pronounced and the situation practically remains unchanged. Canned Goods—The buving of futures continues and the future market for corn, tomatoes and peas is strong, with most of the favorite brands of toma- toes entirely sold out. Spot peaches are from 5@!Ioc per dozen higher, on account of the extra demand occasioned by the recent reports as to damage done to the coming crop by the late cold snap. There is a good enquiry for gallon ap- ples, but none are for sale by packers and those jobbers who have any surplus stock are holding for higher prices. Sardines are again higher. Reports from Baltimore say that the Bay is still frozen over and that no oysters are be- ing canned and will not be for several weeks. Stocks in packers’ hands are light and prices are very firm. Dried Fruits—Currants are again low- er. Prunes are in better demand and the market is very strong. Peaches are about %c higher. Dates are unchanged. Apricots are about out of market. Ad- vices from the Coast say that Pacific un- graded raisins are controlled by specu- lators, who have advanced the price \c, but this advance has not yet affected the Eastern market. Nuts—Advices from California say that walnuts are entirely cleaned up, the last car having been shipped about two weeks ago. There are a few still being offered by the Eastern trade, but it is only a question of a few weeks hefore the market will be bare of this article. Grenobles are firmly held, as the im- porters are aware of the California sit- uation and intend to get their own price for what few goods they have. The crop was a failure and the imports were not heavy. Peanuts are %c higher. The crop is reported to be much less than early estimates. Tobacco—Values remain the same as last week, with no change likely to be made for the present. The situation is practically featureless. Salt Fish—The market is rather quiet, compared with a year ago. This is probably due to the higher prices which prevail for all the better grades of salt fish due to the short catch the past sea- son and the relatively lower value of fresh water fish. It is believed that more activity in this line will be notice- able during the coming week. Soap—Several advances have been made during the past week, and the an- nouncement has been publisbed in the daily papers that a combination of the principal soap manufacturers of the country is now assured. —___»02—____ The Grain Market. Dulness appears to prevail in all cere- als, owing particularly to the extreme- ly cold weather, which has restricted the movement from first hands, and to the apathy of buyers. Some traders have gone over to bonds and stocks where the speculative field seems to yield better results than in grains. It makes little difference what the speculation touches ; let it be railroad bonds or stocks, indus- trial stocks or bonds, corporation bonds or even copper stocks—all have a boom, and large ones at that; consequently grain is neglected. There were little spurts upward, but it lacked staying quality and prices sagged off as quick as they advanced. All we can say is that wheat is at the same point in wheat centers where it was one week ago. One change we can note that ought to have given the market some strength—we had a decrease of 543,000 bushels, where another increase was expected. There is also more or less damage talk. How- ever, this is all talk and it has been the same talk of winter wheat generally at this time. In this locality wheat is all right yet. Corn has slumped more than wheat, which is just the opposite from what traders looked for, and, as the market weakened, a large Ict of long corn was sold out, which caused a weakness all around. Oats shared the same fate and this is the first week in a long time that this cereal showed a weakness. However, we must expect variation in prices now until spring opens. Rye is the only grain that has not shared in the weakness but remained firm. Receipts are very moderate, being 46 cars of wheat, 34 cars of corn and 12 cars of oats. Millers are paying 68c, being Ic ad- vance, as we want to see if farmers will sell. C. G. A. Vorer. a Hides, Pelts, Furs, Tallow and Wool. Hides are poor in quality and high in price. The market 1s a little lower and there is a demand for all offerings. A syndicate is in prospect among the tanners of uppers, which, like all other syndicates, will pay more for hides and sell leather at a less price than regular dealers. Pelts are in no supply and are selling at nominal figures. Furs are in good demand at fair prices, which are not likely to change before the March to sales. Wool is firm at old prices, with small sales. There is considerable enquiry, although not of much consequence. Wy. T. HEss. > 0 > The Tradesman appears to have been a little premature in announcing, last week, that the Jas. Stewart Co. had consolidated with the Phipps, Penoyer Co. and that James Stewart bad retired from the wholesale grocery business. Such an anncuncement was apparently justified by the fact that negotiations were in progress and that it was confi- dently expected that the deal would go through without any hitch, It appears, however, that Mr. Stewart succeeded in blocking the game by securing an op- tion on the stock of the corporation held by Col. A. T. Bliss and the Tradesman is authorized by Mr. Stewart to state that he expects to be able to se- cure a controlling interest in the corpo- ration in due time and maintain his position as manager of the business indefinitely. : —_—___s 22 —__ Geo. M. Brown has purchased the in- terest of his partner, Wm. W. Eaton, in the grocery firm of Brown & Eaton at 701 South Division street. G. W. Paul, general dealer at Thomp- sonville, has added a line of hardware. The Clark-Rutka-Jewell Co. furnished the stock. —_—_—_>202>___ For Gillies N. Y. tea, all kinds, grades and prices, phone Visner, 800. + : + PS 4 ; aa e + 4 6 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Woman’s World Some of the Drawbacks of the Wom- anish Man. Every now and then we meet with one of those freaks of the times—the manish woman. She always proclaims her aspirations after the unattainable from afar, by the way she wears short hair and bobby skirts and stiff shirts and collars and discusses with freedom topics that other women only handle with the tongs. She is absurd enough, heaven knows, but when it comes to be- ing a misfit in creation, she doesn’t challenge comparison with the woman- ish man. He is simply the funniest thing that ever happened. And he isn’t such a rarity, either. Of course, he isn’t so conspicuous as the manish woman and he doesn’t borrow anybody else’s_ clothes. Nobody is idiotic enough who wasn’t born that way to want voluntarily to assume dresses that hook invisibly on the shoulder and take a contortion act to get into, but there are plenty of other ways in which his feminine proclivities display them- selves. As a young man, he is one of those mode! youths who are the stay and prop of all the beauless girls in his neigh- borhood. Just let a girl of his acquaint- ance want to go anywhere and she feels as free to ask him to take her as if he were 80 years old and her grandmother to boot. He it is that we see meekly escorting crowds of girls to the theater or conveying them to the balls, where they meet other men and ignore his ex- istence until it is time to go home. He fetches and carries and mails letters and packs bundles and goes to pink teas and church sociables and nobody accounts it unto him for righteousness, any more than if he were a woman and was expected to do what he didn't like and didn’t want to. At parties he is tolled off to talk to the dull girls and dance with ugly girls whom no one wants, but who have to be invited be- cause of their families. People wouldn't dream of asking Tom, Dick or Harry to make such martvrs of themselves, but there is some subtile feminine quality of self-sacrifice about the womanish man that makes his acquaintances always offer him up as a victim on the altar of friendship. But it is no more the admirable wom- anly virtues that the womanish man copies than it is the best manly quali- ties that the manish woman imitates. It is woman's faults and weaknesses, and when a man gives his mind to de- veloping and exhibiting these, he can so far excel any woman that ever lived that it makes her want to shut up shop and go out of business. Just take the matter of coddling one’s self, for instance, and imagining one is ill. Women are bad enough at that, but they don’t know the rudiments of the game compared toa man. Just let one fancy he is sick and he makes a walk- ing apothecary shop of himself and goes around with a thermometer taking his temperature every two minutes of the day. Nothing short of the patience of Job would suffice to those who must live with him. Let the conversation waver a moment from his symptoms and he looks injured and hurt. Try to cheer him up by saying you have seen sicker people and you make an enemy for life. He is morally certain that no other human being ever suffered like he does and that it is nothing on earth but his heroic fortitude tbat enables him to eat three good meals a day. Sometimes it takes the form of being particular about his personal belongings, and then the womanish man can give any old maid points on fussing. Let a coat come home from the tailor and he squirms and wriggles before the mir- ror trying to see imaginary wrinkles in the back. A crease in the wrong place almost sends him into hysterics, and a bag at the knees of his trousers would cause him to shed tears if he wasn't ashamed To change his chair from one side of the fire to another is to bring a storm about the household that leaves them limp and frightened. I once heard a man like this gravely com- plaining of bis son. ‘‘Tom is a good boy,’’ be said, ‘‘but he is a great trouble to me. For twenty years my brushes on my dressing table have stood precisely in the same way, with their handles pointing in just exactly the same direction, and notwithstand- ing he knows how excessively it worries me, he will come into the room and move them. I have had to lock the door to keep him out, and forbid him the room, as, of course, I can not en- dure such an annoyance.’’ Now and then—and it is really the most aggravated form of the trouble— the womanish man has the shopping mania and thinks he understands the art. He is strong on knowing linen and things all wool and a yard wide, and you meet him in the department stores under signs reading ‘‘marked down from,'’ clawing over socks and unlaundered shirts, and salesmen tell you that a sale of reduced neckwear at- tended by the bargain hunting man is enough to drive anybody crazy. Of course, so long as he confines himself to his own clothes, it is all right, but he won't stop there, and the first thing you know he comes up with something in the way of a dress or a hat that you wouldn't be seen dead in and you have to decide right then and there be- tween wounding the heart that loves you and making a Mardi Gras out of your- self. And you can think of about seven million things you wanted you could have bought with that same money. As a general thing the womanish man is the kind of man that other women who are not married to him hold up as an example to their own husbands. ‘‘Mr. Blank is such a nice man,"’ they say. ‘‘He takes so much interest in his home. He always dresses the salad at the table,’’ or ‘‘Mr. Blank helps his wife with the children. He always puts them to bed,’’ or. perhaps, ‘‘It is no wonder Mrs. Blank looks so nice when Mr. Blank takes so much interest in ber clothes, etc.'’ A close observer may no- tice that Mrs. Blank never seems as en- thusiastically appreciative of the treas- ure of a husband fate has given her as she might, and one might guess that there were even times when she would be glad to swap off some of the bless- ings other women envy for just a plain, everyday sort of man who took things as they came without knowing too much about them. ‘*Tt’s all very well to talk about what a help that kind of a man is,’’ said a woman who was married to a womanish man, ‘‘but I can tell you there is an- other side of the story, too. Just let a man get.an idea that he knows anything about cooking and he eats his dinner with the expression of a professional wine tester trying to find faults in the vintage he is sampling. John takes a mouthful, and rolls his eyes up to the ceiling, and I wait for criticisms. ‘Mary, I believe there is a grain too much salt in this soup.’ ‘Mary, will you never learn that the proper salad to be served with game is so and so?’ Iam a patient woman, but I declare there are times when I wish I belonged to the class of society that can throw soup plates at each other without getting in the papers. And worse than all, every now and then he undertakes to regulate the servants, and the invariable result is that the cook goes into the sulks and the housemaid has hysterics and the ourse puts on her bonnet and quits. Then about the children. Of course, I want their father to help bring them up and all that, but I do wish I could give them a dose of medicine or buy them a pair of shoes or send them to the danc. ing class without a long argument over the way his mother used to do in Podunk Corners fifty years ago. And as for my clcthes! It's nice of John, of course, to want me always to look nice, but think of the wearing agony of having a critic on your hearthstone who is always won- dering why you don’t do your hair like Mrs. Smith and who sees and calls your attention to every wrinkle in your bod- ice and has a fit every time you come to breakfast in a wrapper. Not long ago, after John had been particularly aggra- vating, I turned to himand said: ‘ Look here, I don’t interfere with your busi- ness and I want you to quit interfering with mine. I’m going to run this house without any more suggestions. You are as bad as a woman, and if I'd wanted to live in the house with another woman, I'd have married her to start with!’ And that settled him. I don’t know what people want to get out of their class for,’’ added the woman witha sigh; ‘*it takes so much thought and effort and determination to be a real first-rate woman, it looks to me like it is work enough to satisfy any woman, while any man who attends to his own business bas his hands full without bothering with a woman’s privileges and per- quisites. ’’ Dorotay Dix. ——_»s22>_ American Extravagance. In contrast with other countries there is a prevailing tendency in the United States to allow expenses to run ahead of the income. This disproportion in the expenditure and acquisition of money is by no means confined to people in one walk of life, but to almost every- one. The average merchant himself is not exempt from this deplorable and un- fortunate delinquency, but joins the vast procession which shares in the universal difficulty of making both ends meet. No one can entirely escape the influences of his environment. Goethe has said: ‘‘As if goaded on by invis- ible spirits, the sun horse of time rushes on with the light vehicle of our destiny, and nothing remains for us but to reso- lutely hold the reins and guide the wheels sometimes to the right, some- times to the left, from a stone here or a precipice there. Whither it is going who knows? It can hardly be remem- bered whence it came.'’ It is an age of artificial wants—no one can deny that— and in addition it might be said that it is also a period of emulation. This spirit, which in moderation is very laudable, can work great injury when carried to an excess. The love of dis- play, of pretended wealth, where the reality does not exist, can extend into mercantile as well as social circles and do much harm. Merchants frequently labor under the delusion that a great show of goods is impressive, and leads peorfle to think that the resources of the store are inexhaustible and therefore most desirable as a center of trade. This lavish display, however awe-in- spiring it may be in itself, is not alto- gether satisfactory in its results to the merchant who finds himself confronted with a large share of the surplus stock left over at the end of a season when it should have been, in large part at leact, disposed of. At such a rate as this, no matter what the business of the store may be, the result is the same at the end of the year. There are little ac- counts to pay or to be put off at a dozen p'aces about town as well as asking ex- tension of time by jobbers. Nothing is held in reserve for the rainy day. In- stead, much is done to precipitate the approach of that dark period. In every business, as well as by every man, there should be laid aside a reserve fund both of financial and mental strength which will be of use when the crisis come. The improvident method of using and managing by which the future is left unprovided for or disregarded entirely can not be too severely denounced. ‘*Waste not, want not’’ should be the motto. —___» 02. New Uses for Corn Pith. One result of our recent war promises to be a new impetus to an industry of great value to the agriculturists of our country. It has been discovered, as an outcome of our naval battles. that cellu- lose is an immensely valuable factor in the construction of warships. This, as is well known, is the product of the corn- stalk This product is already an ar- ticle of commerce, and those who con- trol the patents assert that there is practically no limit to the demand for it. The pure pith of the stalk is worth several hundred dollars a ton. After a series of experiments extend- ing over two years, the United States Government has found in this new dis- covery a method of making our war- sbips practically unsinkable. It is by placing over the inside of the bulla packing of this corn pith along the water line. The simple device is more than a match for the most powerful shell from an enemy's gun. It does nct stop the projectile. It simply allows it to go Clear through both sides of the ship if it can, while the holes made in the ship’s side close up as if the shell had gone through a sponge. Strange as this May seem, it is accounted for by the fact that this corn pith lining swells up as soon as the water enters the hole mace by the projectile. Before the in- rush of water has penetrated halfway through this three-foot belt the corn pith has swelled and completely closed the hole, so that not a drop of water enters the ship. This removes one of the most danger- ous features of steel warships—that is, their tendency to sink almost instantly on being pierced by a projectile below the water line. The old wooden war vessels in previous times could be fair- ly riddled with holes and yet keep afloat The swelling of the wood and the ease with which they could be plugged made it hard to sink them. The new battleships which were launched during the past year, the JIli- nois, the Kentucky, the Alabama, the Kearsarge and the Wisconsin, have all been provided witb this lining of corn pith. On these big battleships, designed to be the finest ships of their class in the world, the corn pith is packed in cofferdams three feet thick. They are not placed behind the heavy armor, but extend from the ends of the armor, which pao the middle portions or vitals of the ship, clear around the bow and stern. This thick lining is four feet above and three feet below the water line. The corn pith is packed to a density of six pounds to the foot. Another new industry has recently de- veloped from the product of corn stalks. This is a process that has been discov- ered for making paper of corn busks and corn stalks. The process is a very cheap one, and as a good staple grade of paper can be manufactured from this —— the success of the patent is cer- ain, - se ctaeen i amen a ee 4 se ctaeen i amen ee eel em meee MICHIGAN TRADESMAN a ee OLD HAND STILL AT THE HELM James Stewart Maintains that He Is Still Manager of The James Stewart Co., Limited, and that No Consoli- Saginaw, Mich., Feb. 20—James Stewart s earnest desire is to live and die a credit to the memory of his grand old father, of whom it was said, ‘‘He never betrayed friend or foe; a man who feared God only; a man who was true as steel to his friends, who never forgave an insult and was feared by his enemies until his dying day.’’ Your obituary of myself in the last issue of the Tradesman contains kind words, for which the writer thanks you; at the same time it contains words that will bear correction. Writer has not re- tired from the role of a wholes le gro- cer. He is, in fact, the liveliest corpse in Michigan to-day and will prove this assertion before this century goes out. As to competency, writer has an easy $100,000 stored up in his head and will gradually convey it to his pocket. As to his not having received a proper remuneration for his eighteen years’ services with this company, that isa truth applicable, not only to writer, but to many others in the same line of busi- ness. The disasters that have overtaken a number of old firms prove this. The disasters that are impending over others only go to show that you are right ina general sense. What has caused all this? Betrayal of confidence and want f faith in one an- other! The allowing of travelers to cut prices until it bas forced a fight for commercial supremacy all over the United States. Three years ago writer cut loose from the old-established credit system of doing business and attempted to convert his customers to the cash method. His company has always been a cash institution and be saw the grand results that could be achieved in this manner. The cash system meant lower prices, closer prices, naturally, than credit. The first attempt was made in the city of Saginaw. When The Stewart Co. declined to sell goods only to such retailers aS were in a position to dis- count their bills, it raised a howl, not so much from the retailers themselves as from our competitors. The placing in business of a young man whom the writer had brought up from a boy and who had been in his service sixteen years brought matters to a head. Our competitors joined bands and started out on a crusade against The Stewart Co. Their committees visited every retail grocery, and every grocery even within the limits of the Saginaws, urging them to declare war upon The Stewart Co. It resulted in a general boycott, but a few of writer’s friends refused to enter into the nefari- ous plan. They are still doing business to-day. whereas over forty of the other side have ‘‘gone where the woodbine twineth,’’ The young man who caused ail this trouble conveyed his homestead to The Stewart Co. in order to establish his credit firmly and buy his goods at cash prices. He was compelled under writ- ten agreement, to sell for cash and cash only and to turn over the proceeds of his sales at least twice a week. The boy- cott placed upon The Stewart Co. by the retailers, at the instigation of the whole- sale trade, now compelled the company dation Has Taken Place. to repeat the cash svstem upon the East Side of the city. What was the final re- sult of three years’ warfare? The Stew- art Co. has increased its city sales 300 per cent., is still in the neld happy and prosperous, able to discount its bills and defy all competition. Turn from the situation in the city to the country. Defeated in their nefarious work at home, new tactics were employed by our competitors, their travelers were in- structed t» lose no opportunity to ma- lign, to slur, to bring into contempt The James Stewart Co. Bare-faced lies were concocted every week and spread broad- cast, both by employer and employe. It had its effect on men who did not know James Stewart. Small retailers in the country who took it as a compliment to be called into the confidence of the great firms of the Saginaws ceased buy- ing goods from The Stewart Co., but, thank God, the old friends of the writer did not fail him and never believed nor took any stock in the lies On the con- trary they sent in larger orders and de- spised these men for their hellish pur- pose. Ask such men as Baker, of Mid- land; Rogers, of Alma; Adams, of Dushville; Liken, of Sebewaing; Fields, of St. Louis; Crawford, of Reese; Harper, of Edenville; Dolph, of Temple; Martini, of Akron; Secre- tary of State, Justus S. Stearns; David Ward, of Detroit; Charles Hackley, of Muskegon, and scores of other upright, honorable men, what they think of James Stewart and his methods of doing busi- ness. Their answers would hold up the men who have attacked the honor of writer and his firm to the derisive scorn and utter contempt of every right- minded man in the United States. Writer will say right here that the traveler who informed his firm that he considered himself engaged to sell gro- ceries and not for mud-slinging against an honorable firm redeemed the craft of which he was a member in the eyes of writer, and this company will engage him at a handsome salary whenever he desires to better himself. One _ honor- able traveler is the leaven that leaveneth the whole lump. The James Stewart Co. has done an honorable business for the past eighteen years. It has failed to declare a divi- dend in only one year during this period. The last dividend was 6 per cent per annum, the highest one 80 percent, which was declared at the close of the first year’s business. Upon a capital of $30000 the business showed net earnings of $27,000. The outcome of all this talk for the past three weeks as to the consolidation or absorption of The James Stewart Co , by a certain West Side firm, is an utter failure. It was found impracticable. It has since been made an impossibility. It took $100,000 cold cash to buy the firm’s business. It is much easier to buy a peanut stand. The firm that started in to buy The Stewart Co. wound up by buying the peanut stand. James Stewart 1s to-day in supreme control of The Stewart Co ’s business inter- ests. His management is covered by a strongly-worded contract during the lim:t.tion of the company. James ‘ tew- art holds to-day an option upon nearly every dollar of the stock of the com- pany, and before that option expires bis friends have assured him that he will be placed in position to purchase all the stock. The policy of James Stewart has not been a failure. The management of James Stewart has not been a failure. The directors of the company ascer- tained from the books of the company that the losses of the company during the past five years and bad debts had been $2,638 on sales of upwards of one and one-half million dollars Only cne customer failed during 1898 and that firm only owed the company $319 The directors also found that the accounts receivable were worth 93 per ceut., after a close scrutiny. The inventory of the firm was brought seriously into ques- tion, as to its face value, by the would- be purchasers. The story was circulated that it was a shop-worn stock of odds and ends, that Stewart’s art department ran away up into the thousands. This report was thoroughly exploded when Col. A. T. Bliss was offered by reliable parties 100 cents on the dollar for every dollar of goods in the company’s possession and a check for $10,000 put up as a forfeit to show that the offer was made in good faith. James Stewart wishes to announce to his many friends that the business will be carried on at the old stand in the usual aggressive and honorable man- ner. The present officers are Dr. L. W. Bliss, President; Hon. A. T. Bliss, Treasurer; James B. Peter, Secretary. The latter is a prominent attorney in this city and a son-in-law of the Hon. Wm. L. Weber. James Stewart is the man who presses the button, and a score of old and trusty employes stand ready to do the rest to do their duty ina faithful manner, and push the irterests of the old firm to the best of their ability. The oldest employe with Mr. Stewart has been with him twenty-seven years; others - have been twenty, fourteen, twelve, eleven, nine, eight and seven years respectively. The remainder of the force have been only a short time with the house. James Stewart was de- scribed a few days ago as a man who is highly aggressive, arbitrary and egotistical. No firm can bope in these days to succeed unless it is aggressive. Every self-reliant man is arbitrary. As to the last charge, any man aware that he possesses brains must be more or less egctistical. The secret, under- handed work carried on against Mr. Stewart will not be discussed in this communication. It may be brought to the surface at some future time and made public; on the other hand, it may never be disclosed. Time alone will tell. Mr. Stewart takes this opportunity to thank his friends and customers for the kind messages he has so freely received ; also those noble friends who tendered him munificent financial aid when they thought he so sorely needed it. The business of The Stewart Co. will hum from this time on and, when the time comes, if ever it does come, that the name goes down, rest assured, friend Stowe, that, when the battle is over and the dead are ready for burial, your humble servant will not be the only corpse. JAMES STEWART. 8 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN MicticaNSpapEsMAN Be SS Devoted to the Best Interests of Business Men Published at the New Blodgett Building, Grand Rapids, by the TRADESMAN COMPANY ONE DOLLAR A YEAR, Payable in Advance. ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION. 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 — changed as often as desired. No paper discontinued, except at the option of the proprietor, until all 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 you saw the advertisement in the Michigan radesman. E. A. STOWE, EpiTor. WEDNESDAY, - - - FEBRUARY 22, 1899. AS TO BEET SUGAR. The growth of the beet sugar industry in the United States indicates that the day is not far distant when we will pro- duce our own sugar. The production in 1898 is estimated at 43,000 tons, an increase since 1890 of about 40,000 tons. This is largely due to the system of bounties offered by the principal sugar beet growing states New York pays a bounty of I centa pound on beet sugar grown in the State and made into sugar at a factory witb- in the State. The appropriation for 1897 and 1898 was $75,000 The Amer- ican Agriculturist estimates that $100,000 will be required for 1899 Michigan pays I cent per pound for go per cent. crystallized sugar produced from beets grown in the State for which not less than $4 per ton has been paid. One factory at Bay City made in 1898 some 7,500,000 pounds of sugar. Wisconsin offers exemption from taxation for all sugar beet factories for five years from 1897, except local asses:ments. Wyo- ming exempts from all taxation for ten years; Minnesota offered a bounty of 1 cent per pound, but the law is now prac- tically a dead letter; Washington offers I cent per pound on go per cent. crys- talized sugar from beets realizing to the farmer not Jess than $4 per ton. Utah and Nebraska paid a bounty of I cent per pound on beet sugar tor sev- eral years, with the proviso that farmers should be paid at least $5 per ton for beets. The factory near Eddy, N. M., is said to have had a prosperous year and will increase its output this year. California is expected to largely in- crease her production this year. The Spreckles factory at Salinos will con- sume 3,000 tons of the beets daily. Four other factories will consume about 3, 200 tons daily. When it is considered that the enor- mous crop of sugar of the world’s pro- duction, say about 8,000,000 tons, meets an active demand, it will be seen that the beet sugar production affords a good field for diversified farming in all re- gions of the country adapted to sugar beet culture. Michigan certainly has a large extent of territory as well suited for this production as New York or Cal- ifornia. The elevation, climatic condi- tions, ciass of soil and fertility are har- monious with the necessities for the production of a strong sugar percentage. The world’s production of beet sugar is about 4 500,000 tons, Germany being the leading producer and marketing a large part of her crop in this country. Austria ranks next to Germany. France, Russia, Belgium and Holland together about equal the Austrian output. The indications point to an increased pro- duction in 1899. It is stated that dur- ing the next season twenty-two new factories will start in Russia. The bounty system will likely continue in the great sugar growing countries of Europe until modified by some mutual agreement, the effort to secure which seems thus far to have been unavailing. The total imports of sugar into the United States in the year 1898 were 2 689 920,851 pounds. This enormous import certainly leaves great scope for home production of both beet and cane sugar. The manufacture of calcium carbide from sawdust has been successfully un- dertaken by the Ottawa, Ont., Lumber Company. The experiment was entered upon some weeks ago, shorly after the plant was established at New Edinburg. It had long been a problem with this company how to dispose of its sawdust. Some time ago a law was enacted for- bidding the dumping of sawdust in rivers. Then a genius devised a plan to get rid of the stuff. The new process occupies the same position in the con- version of the cellulose tissue of wood into carbon that the Bessemer process does in eliminating carbon in the man- ufacture of steel. The Emerson method, which is used, aims to first produce the carbon from the sawdust and then to electrically smelt this with lime to form calcium carbide. It is claimed that by this process carbon can be produced in a better state of purity than by other means, and more cheaply than coal can be mined. Coke and charcoal have more or less sulpbur, slate, silica, etc, which are objectionable in the manu- facture of iron and steel as well as _cal- cium carbide. Nearly 1,000,000,000 yards of ribbon of all shades and colors is consumed by the fair sex in general of the con- tinent of Europe every year. Of this huge amount France alone takes one- third, it being a well-established fact that French women are particularly prone to anything of a showy color. Britain comes next, but a very long way behind, with 30,000,000 yards, and the rest is divided principally between Spain, Italy, Germany and Belgium and smaller principalities. Blue and the higher pinks and scarlet are the favorite shades. The warm-hearted man is quick to put his hands in his pockets when an appeal for charity is made to him. The cold-hearted man hears the appeal and puts his hands in his pockets and keeps them there until the appeal has passed by. Foreign subjects in this country have no more rights than American citizens: but some of them may think they have, especially those who come from despot- ruled countries where personal liberty is at a discount. A German paper contains the follow- ing unique advertisement: ‘‘Any per- son who can prove that my tapioca con- tains anything injurious to health will have three boxes of it set to him free of charge. *’ The election ot President in France came and passed so quickly that the po- litical wire workers did not have time to arrange their batteries. Now they are kicking themselves. DEWEY TO BE AN ADMIRAL. During last week the Naval Affairs Committee of the Senate presented a bill, which was promptly passed, pro- viding for the revival of the grade of Admiral of the Navy. The officer nom- inated to this office is not to be retired, except at his own request, and the office is to terminate with the death of the person upon whom it is conferred. It is, of course, understood that the grade of Admiral of the Navy is to be revived for the purpose of rewarding Rear Admiral Dewey. Admiral Dewey is now the ranking officer of the Navy, but in the ordinary process of law he would be retired for age in another year. Should the bill pass creating the grade of Admiral he will! not have to re- tire at all, but may remain in active service as long as he lives. There is no difference of opinion, either among the people or among pub lic men, as to the value of Admiral Dewey's services. All accord him the palm as the hero of the war with Spain, and the conferring of high honor pro- posed will meet with unanimous ap- proval. It was Dewey's victory at Manila on May Day, soon after the out- break of war, that made it apparent from the very start that Spain's cause was hopeless, The courage and dash with which Dewey sailed into the Bay of Manila and destroyed the Spanish fleet set an example for the other naval commanders, and the overwhelming suc- cess of the Navy at all points was un- doubtedly greatly helped by the model set up at Manila. The motto of the Navy, after Dewey's victory, was to at tack and destroy the enemy's vessels wherever found. The American people believe that Admirai Dewey has well earned the dis- tinction it is proposed to confer upon him, and that for years to come he will set a shining example to the other offi- cers of the Naval service. It is generally felt that to retire such a man at the usual age of 62 would be to deprive the country of valuable aid from an officer who has demonstrated his ability to meet a great crisis with conspicuous skill and daring. But few officers of the Navy have held the rank of Admiral; in fact, the only ones were Admirals Farragut and Por- ter. The rank was created specially for these two officers and lapsed at the death of Admiral Porter. One officer only bas so far held the rank of Vice Admiral, namely, Admiral Rowan, and, as in the case of the higher rank, the position died with him. There has been some talk of reviving the grade of Vice Admiral, but owing to the unfortunate controversy as to the relative merits of Admirals Schley and Sampson, it is not probable that Con- gress will take any action in that direc- tion, for the present at least. GENERAL TRADE SITUATION. While it is impossible that such a long and widely-extended wave of frigidity, culminating in severe blizzards, cutting off communication with the Eastern trade centers, should be without effect on the volume of business, it is a com- mentary on the general strer zth of the situation that its passing has been fol- lowed with almost instantaneous recov- ery. The reactive tendency in the stock market, which had held the average with a variation of but a few cents for three weeks, ended with the storm and a substantial gain has been scored since, although the upward movement is slow, with a more critical attitude on the part of buyers, which has caused a consid- erable sagging in the less reliable se- curities. The general strength is mani- fest in that transportation stocks, not- withstanding the interference with earn- ings caused by lessened traffic and cost of keeping lines clear, take the lead in the advance. The iron industries easily hold their place in the substantial’'advance. With production far exceeding all records, stocks are not gaining and orders are booked in many cases as far as the pro- ducers care to enter them. It is esti- mated that the actual consumption for January exceeded by 4,000 tons that of any corresponding period. Orders are especially heavy for rails for delivery in the last half of the year and for plates for car and railway works. The wheat movement continues un- expectedly heavy, considering the in- terference with supplies, exports ex- ceeding those of last year by about 50 per cent. for the first three weeks of February. The outzo for the seven months ending with January was over 149,000 000 bushels, against 136,000,000 bushels for the corresponding period of the previous year. The price has shown little variation for some time past, gaining in the last ten days about 2c. In the textile world there is generally a better feeling, on account of the in- creased demand of the cold weather for heavy weight woolens and the general improvement in the cotton goods trade, although there are still hesitation and uncertainty as to the future in wool, with exception of the grades used in worsteds and cheviots. There is also a better feeling in the boot and shoe trade, although the movement is still less than last year or '95. In spite of the interference of storms the export movement of general mer- chandise continues very heavy and the growing balances in our favor are caus- ing a considerable inflow of the yellow metal, nearly a million having come from Europe and another million being reported on its way from Svdney. On accouut of the scarc tv of raw ma- terial for the paper m lls of Hclland they now use the stalks of the potato +lant, which can be bought of the farm. ers for four sh:ll:ngs per ton. The man who means well is always making trouble. He may do the best he knows; but when he doesn’t know any- thing he carries a narrow margin for re- liable friendship. It costs $25 to call a mana liar in Nebraska, according to a recent court decision in that State. Time has been when such pleasantries in Nebraska cost lives. The tongue of a young giraffe is con- sidered a great delicacy by African epicures. The meat of the animal is said to taste somewhat like veal. The women of Manila have no oc- casion to go shopping ; but as they must eat they go to market, without any dry goods on to speak of. There is not much encouragement in trying to find a job for a man who does net want to work. He is too particular. Strangers who are nobody in particu- lar at home seem most anxious to im- press you with their greatness. If one cannot forgive his enemies he had best forget them; for they are not worth remembering. Cerrar seer aft nag ete toa eet eetaemaee eee ne eset ae aa Cerrar seer aft nag ete toa eet eetaemaee ae eee eae aa MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 9 FLOCKING TO THE CITIES. The tendency of population in this wonderful age of machinery and elec tricity is towards the gathering of peo- ple in towns and cities. It is true of all new countries settled by the civilized races, as of those of the Old World, where centers of population have existed for thousands of years. The first census of the United States was made in 1790. There were thena little less than 4,000,000 people in the country, and there were six towns con- taining 8,000 inhabitants and upwards. Those towns held 3.35 per cent. of the total population of the Union. The last census, in 1890, showed that in 100 years the total population had grown to over 62,000 009, while the towns and cities of 8,000 population and upwards numbered 448, and they contained 29 20 per cent. of all the people. Dr. E. L. James, of the University of Chicago, who has been making a study of urban populations, thinks that towns containing 1,000 persons or more ougbt to be taken as the standard of social ag- gregation, where people live under con- ditions wholly different from those that prevail in country life, and if his view be taken as the basis of observation, it will appear that there are 3,715 such places in the United States, and that they contain 41.69 per cent. of the total population of the Union. Towns and cities of 8,000 and up- wards were taken as the starting points of urban population, because such towns usually have public arrangements for water, lighting, police protection and municipal government, which are or ganized agencies that are not commonly enjoyed in country life or smaller towns. The very existence of such accommoda- tions and conveniences are among tne causes which draw people to towns. Then the social or gregarious instinct has a good deal to do with it. The idea prevails that people flock to cities because it is easy to get employ ment there; but there is always more need of help on farms in the summer than there is in towns, and during the agricultural season of the year there is commonly a scarcity of laborers in the country. People who have to work fora living do not, as a rule, like the drudg ery and long hours of farm life and they seek urban conditions because they sup- pose they can secure clerkships and other situations with the work light- er and the surroundings more agreeable. Once in the city, they are frequentlv exposed to hardships and privations of which they never dreamed, and they for- bear, for many reasons, to return to country life, although it would be far better for them to doso. There isa fascination in the bustle and stir of a crowd and there is always hope of some- thing better. Then the city is the only place where criminals can hide and ply their nefarious trades with any sort of success. Farm life is dreary in the winter, where the roads are more or less im- passable and the population is scattered so that facilities for social gatherings are meager. Thus is explained the growth of cities in the more sparsely- settled states. The appearance of such urban agglomerations as Minneapoiis and St. Paul, Omaha, Kansas City, etc., in what are chiefly agricultural states, is one of the most striking facts of our social life. The three Pacific States, with a remarkably sparse population on the whole, showed in 1890 a_popula- tion of 901,644 in cities of 8,000 or more inhabitants, while the remainder of the population, rural and village together, only amounted to 969643 A similar state of things exists in Australia, where a still larger percentage of the population than in the United States live in towns and cities. The drifting of population from the country to the c ties will continue in the same rapid proportion as in the past, and the movement will be promoted, as it has been, by the use of improved machinery in agriculture, enabling a smaller number of persons to produce the articles of necessity which are con- sumed by the population. One of the inevitable developments of this-extraordinary urban growth will oe a necessity for the establishment in the country of state and municipal farms, to which the excess of city pop- ulation made up of those classes that are unable to secure employment, and those who are physically able to work, out will not, must be transported and forced to earn a support in the produc- tion of agricultural food and forage crops. The number of persons in cities who pretend to be seeking employment, but who never intend to do a stroke of hon- est work, and who prey upon society in one way or another, is very much great- er than is imagined. There are in this city many able-bodied men pretending that they can get no employment and begging for money with which to buy food. They will not accept gifts of food, but only want money to spend on their depraved appetites. Not unfre- quently, when such fellows have been taken to public houses to be fed, they have begged the proprietor to give them in money half the value of the proffered meal, as they did not want to eat. Nine times out of ten, the able-bodied loafer who pretends that he can not get em- ployment will refuse work offered to him, and when he begs for a dime or nickel with which to buy a loaf of bread, he would be greatly disgusted if bread were offered him. Of course, in times of great financial panics and _ public calamity, from droughts, extraordinary visitations of cold, floods or storms, or of strikes and lockouts, there will always be great numbers of worthy and _ industrious workers out of employment; but they are so only temporarily. However, the remedy in all such cases is state and municipal farms, where work can al- ways be had at wages that will at least sustain life until better times can be realized. As to the const tutional loafers and able-bedied. beggars and tramps, they should be gathered up and forced to work under guard and under a rule that they who do not earn by labor shall not eat. In this way there will in time be a counterflow of population from the over- crowded cities to the country. Provi- sion should also be made for the sale of small farms to those who desire to become landowners, upon some system of installment or partial payments. Many a man who is in virtual slavery to poverty in cities could become inde- pendent if he could get the opportunity to work in the country on such a basis. Wheat is now grown farther north than ever before. At Fort Providence, on the Mackenzie River, 200 miles farther north than Sitka, Alaska, a splendid wheat crop was grown last season in the fields belonging to the Roman Catholic mis- sion. The man who is generous to a faul should be good to his own faults. OUR MERCHANT MARINE. In the early years of this century the British shipbuilder, unable to resist his prejudices, refused to follow the models of the American marine archi- tects. The old British shipbuilder and the old British seadog shivered their timbers and refused to surrender to the blooming beggars of Yankees. Steadily and surely the superior American craft took the carrying trade, until, in 1850, they had one half. Would you believe that, in the period from Howe to Nel- son, the French built better ships than the British? In these good old days stout British ships of the line had **hogged’’ bottoms; that is to say, their structure sagged down at the stern and bow. Collingwood complained bitterly of the behavior of his ships. The fa- mous India merchantmen were unwield- ly tubs. The ambitious American build- ers were urged to greater endeavors to produce fine lines in sbips, being filled witb just pride for their famous vessels. Then came the civil war and, about the same time, the change from wood to iron. Various good reasons are assigned for the dispersing of the merchant ma- rine of the United States, but, among other facts, the American shipbuild- ers clung to their wooden triumphs, and, with prejudice in their hearts looked with disfavor upon the new ma- rine designs which were driving the oaken hulis from the sea. They refused to turn their ship yards into iron mills, and now, except in the coastwise trade, there is practically no American mer chant marine. EDUCATING THE MASSES. There is quite an active controversy going on in Chicago over the public school and particularly the courses of education taught there. The Chicago Chronicle says the con- troversy is based on the fact that in the public schools a great many departments of advanced science, fancy and orna- mental branches, mere accomplishments, ‘*fads’’ and freak studies, not forming a part of a good common school educa- tion, are maintained at great expense and to the exclusion from full school privileges of large numbers of children, especially of the poor, who seek instruc- tion only in the common branches of learning. This is the trouble in many public school systems, which, instead of in- suring to all the children instruction in the necessary branches, squander the money of the people in the teaching of matters that are of no practical use to the majority of the people. Ambitious school boards are often carried away with the notion of multiplying the num- ber of high schools, and as appropria- tions for schools are never as great as are needed, the result is that many chil- dren are denied the simple rudiments of an education in order that a few may mdulge in the higher branches of learn- ing. The object of the State should be to fit its sons to be honest and useful citizens. To perform such functions they need absolutely the essentials of reading, writing and arithmetic. Fancy studies and higher branches are not requisites, nor can they he given to more than a limited number, who are thereby made the subjects of a sort of favoritism at the expense of the great Majority. William A. Clark, United States Sen- ator-elect from Montana, will be an in- teresting personal'ty even among that collection of most interesting personal- ities that makes up the distinguished body of rulers to whicb he will go as the accredited representative of the State of Montana. This is not sol. ly because he is enormously wealthy, but also because of the qualities which have enabled him to amass his riches, he having won his vast fortune by purely personal « ffort and by seizure of opportunity. Ata fair estimate, Mr. Clark’s wealth may be stated to be about $30,000,000, and his daily income about $5,000. Its ac- cumulation began when he was a mere boy at labor. Now his capitalistic oper- ations reach from one tidewater to the other. In old Mexico is the impulse of his resources felt. In Europe painters and sculptors know his name and re- spect his judgment. He owns mines of guld and silver; he extracts sugar from beets; he operates coal mines and railroads; he owns a factory for the manufacture of copper wire; he is be- ginning to grow coffee, sugar cane and rubber, and may become a grower of tea; he is a broker and a stock grower. His one ambition since Montana was admitted to the Union has _ been to rep- resent the State in the United States Senate. He was elected by the first Legislature, but the Senate seated his Republican contestant. Again, in 1892, be made the race, but his unrelenting enemy, Marcus Daly, forced a dead- lock, and Mr. Clark failed to win by two votes, after a fight of sixty days. This time he has beaten his cld enemy, although he had to go outside of his own party for help to do it. A very great many persons in this country have come to accept ‘‘Anglo- Saxons’’ as meaning white persons who speak the English language, and as em- bracing all such persons. A gentleman connected with the Bureau of Ethnology in Washington points out that the word bas no such meaning, and that there would be just as much reason in in- cluding among the ‘‘Anglo-Saxons’’ of the United States the negroes who are born here,and who know no other tongue than English, as there is for including indiscriminately all English-speaking white persons. The writer asserts, in- deed, that the Anglo-Saxons in the United States make up less than to per cent. of the total population. It is stated that there are now 73,800 postoffices in this country, or one office for every 1,019 inhabitants, while in 1861 there was only one office to every 54,000 inhabitants. This seems almost incredible, but, if true, argues an in- crease not only in population, but in the average intelligence of the country. The figures, if correct, argue the existence of immense ignorant and_ non letter writing areas of country in 1861 that do not exist now. There are few better in- dications of the civilization and en- lightenment of a country than the num- ber of postage stamps it uses. A German doctor who has been col- lecting information about the habits of long-lived persons finds that the major- ity of those who attained old age in- dulzed in lite hours. Eight out of ten persons over 80 never went to bed until well into the sm:ll hours, and did not get up again unt’! late in the day. It is a rule at the well-known banking house of Coutts & Co, London, that none of the bank clerks wear mustaches. It bas long been considered a point of business etiquette that all the gentle- men employed at the bank should wear frock coats during business hours. t i { eres eee scans yw y ; i 4 3 10 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Fruits and Produce. Growing Oranges in More Northern Latitudes. Man is seeking to improve nature’s work upon the orange and it is likely that he will be able to doit. If success crowns experiments now in progress the orange will become a hardy fruit, able to grow and bear even as far north as Canada, with skin that will peel off as easily as a tangerine'’s and perhaps de- void of the seeds that now threaten the perils of appendicitis. Such a re-creation of this luscious fruit—for that is what it would amount to—would deserve to rank with the greatest marvels of the end of the cen- tury. It would revolutionize and expand the orange growing industry almost be- yond the limit of the imagination and remove all danger from the frosts and freezes that now from year to year either blight in large degree or entireiy destroy the trees and their fruit in the states where they are grown. The freeze in the Southern States in 1894 and 1895 destroyed every orange tree, causing a loss upon the crop ex- pected of nearly $5,000,000, and a dam- age to the industry in general that has been computed at the extraordinary fig- ure of $75,000,000. It will be five years vet before orange growing is on a pay- ing basis and ten to fifteen years before the orange crop is as large as it was at the time of the disastrous weather. Since that time the Agricultural De partment has been experimenting in the cross fertilization of oranges in the hope of producing one or more varieties that will resist the attacks of frost and that will possess the other qualities not found in the fruit of to-day. The practical past of the work is_ be- ing conducted in a greenhouse back otf the Department building, in the mall, under the constant direction and super- vision of H. J. Webber and W. T. Swingle, special agents of the Division of Vegetable Physiclogy and Pathology. Up to the present the experimental processes have been productive of the results expected, but the most _ interest- ing and delicate stages are yet to come. In the greenhouse there are at least 1,000 hybrid growths from the seeds that have been crossed, and next spring many of these will be taken to the Southern States and grafted on the orange trees growing there. Then at least three years must elapse before the grafted trees will begin to bear the fruit that is to be hardy, sweet, loose skinned and perbaps seedless. The history of the experiments is of rare interest In 1892 Messrs. Webber and Swingle were in the South studying the diseases that affect oranges, and there the need of a hardier orange than the usual varieties was brought to their attention. This was emphasized by the disastrous frosts of 1894 and 1895. The growers had sought to overcome their foe by selecting for planting and devel- opment seeds from only the hardiest of the trees growing in their fields, but even these succumbed to the severe at- tacks of the invading cold. In the meantime experiments con- ducted by Mr. Webber turned out unfa- vorably, through no fault of his own. Therefore, it was not until 1897 that he succeeded in hybridizing the orange in a way to insure the favorable result of planting or grafting. He had found, prior to the hybridizing, that the Japan- ese trifoliate orange, although its fruit is small and of iittle value except for preserves, is deciduous, and so hardy that it can be grown without protection so far north as Philadelphia. A num ber of these trees had been planted in the Department grounds and in spite of cold had borne fruit, which, however, was so small and bitter as to be good only for preserving. It occurred to him to cross the Japanese variety with the different kinds that flourish in the South to get the hardy quality. The practical work of hybridizing then commenced, and the mature buds of the trifoliate and of the other kinds were.selected when they were nearly ready to open. The tips of the corolla were carefully pried apart until the stamens were ex- posed. In these flowers the anthers, or male element, are attached to the fila- ments by very slender threads, which are easily broken, and the simplest method of removing the stamens was to pull them off with fine pointed forceps. This process is termed emasculation, and during it great care had to be exer- cised not to open the stamens and acci- dentally pollinate tbe flower. Afier emasculsting the flower a bag of paper was passed over the twig bearing the flower and tied around the stem in such a way as to effectually exclude all insects and foreign pollen. In a few days, when the pistils had time to ma- ture, the sacks were removed and the pistils pollinated by rubbing the stamens over them. Then the sacks were re placed and allowed to remain until fecundation took place and all danger from the action of foreign pollen was over. The seeds of the fruit resulting were taken and properly labeled, after which they were planted in the green- house, where in less than two years they have grown and thrived in temperate temperature. In many cases the perfect crossing of the varieties can be observed by examining the leaves. The trifoliate bas a leaf that is small and pear shaped, while the ordinary orange leaf is longer and larger. The hybrid that wholly unites the two has a leaf that is larger than the trifoliate, but has the latter’s chief characteristic. If the seedlings that are grafted on the Southern trees develop a fruit that can not be killed in blossom or maturity by the winters in that section the scientists will feel that they have been sufficiently repaid for all their efforts. Orange growing tben would not be attended by the great risks that now encompass it. In addition, if a hardy orange can be produced that will live in the North and yet have the sweetness and juiciness of the Southern fruit, then the work of na- ture will have been wholly improved by the hand and intelligence of man. —_>2»___ Citrus Fruits in Chicago. According to late reports Chicago handled 40 per cent. more citrus fruits in the year just closed than during the preceding twelve months. There was little or no increase in deciduous fruits handled, and the increase in California fruits was estimated at 10 to 15 per cent. The great increase in the quan- tity of California citrus fruits handled was owing to the enormous crop of or- anges in that State. For the first time in the history of the trade there was no line of demarcation between the old crop and the new. It appears that the total for the month now closing is fully equal to, if not in excess of, the same period last year. A good deal of the fruit which was expected to come to this market has been kept in the West, and Chicago has taken the bulk of it. ———_>0.__ The darkest hour is always when you can’t find the matches, FIELD SEEDS POTATOES-BEANS-ONIONS ETC. SEND SAMPLE BEANS WHEN ANY TO SELL MOSELEY BROS. 26-28-30-32 OTTAWA ST., GRAND RAPIDS e We are in the market ; every day in the year : for beans; car loads ¥ ; or less, good or poor. ¥ ; Wri'e us for prices, your track. The best equipped elevators ¥ v wv in Michigan. C. E. BURNS, Howell, Mich. €ESEECECE Mecececececcececceceeeceee The best are the cheapes) and these we can always E E D S supply. ALFRED J. BROWN SEED CO. 24 and 26 North Division Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. Extra Fancy Navel Oranges Car lots or less. Prices lowest. Maynard & Reed, 54 South Ionia Street, Grand Rapids, Michigan. HARVEY P. MILLER. EVERETT P. TEASDALE. MILLER & TEASDALE CO. WHOLESALE BROKERAGE AND COMMISSION. FRUITS, NUTS, PRODUCE APPLES AND POTATOES WANTED WRITE US. ST. 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Special Correspondence. New York, Feb. 18—Perhaps the less said about the markets here the better, if strict accuracy is to be maintained. Of course, there have been some buying and some selling, but the volume of de- liveries must be mightily curtailed. Never has the city been in worse con- dition as to its streets. The snow is piled from one to five feet deep through- out the wholesale district, topped with mud, or ashes or matter not so cleanly, wito rivers of slush like pea soup at the base. To take a step is likely to land one ankle deep in—nvt clear, clean ice water, but the aforesaid soup. And to ee the vain endeavors of drivers to get through or over or around the snow banks and to avoid other wagons is com- ical. Rivers are so full of ice that it is almost impossible for lighters to land and the fog hangs low and thick. Al- together, New York is in a condition of serious trouble and, if the doctors do not reap a harvest it will be a wonder. While deliveries have necessarily been retarded, the. tone of the coffee market has not been especially encoura- ging in other directions Buyers seem to be taking only what they need for current wants and sellers are in a some- what passive mood. Rio No. 7 re- mains at 6%c and the quotation is firm- ly beld at that. Invoice trading is dull, as might be expected. Receipts con- tinue to be large at primary points, amounting on Thursday to 23,000 bags at Santos and Rio. The amount in store and afloat of Rio on the 17tb aggregated 1,377,720 bags, against 1,151,772 bags at the same time last year. West India growths are dull and the market is un- interesting. Fancy sorts move with some freedom; but they are somewhat limited in supply and fetch full quota- tions. The market is steady for East India growths, with not very much busi- ness going forward. The tea market is quiet Orders from out-of-town dealers have been of the tewest in number and for the smallest quantities—just enough to tide over the blizzard with. Sales generally have been of tea for price, and the market for invoices has been quiet Prices show no weakness and dealers generaliy feel that the future has some ‘‘plums’’ in store, so they are taking matters quietly. The American Sugar Refining Co. an- nounces that it will guarantee prices for 30 to 60 days on orders for 500 barrels and upward. This has been about the only item in the sugar market of note during the week. The announcement causes a little better feeling in the mar- ket, but the volume of business going forward is very small and jobbers are not taking stocks ahead to any great ex- tent. It was impossible to make ship- ments with any degree of celerity until Thursday. Conditions are steadily im- proving in this direction and there are few orders unfilled. Supplies of realiy desirable domestic grades of rice are not large, but still seem sufficient to meet present wants. Full values are insisted upon by the holders of the best sorts. Lower grades are steady and the market 1s quite firm all around, although the demand is not at all overwhelming, nor is it exepected to be at this time of the year. Prime to choice Southern, 5%@6%c; Japan, 424@5 Ke. Sinagpore black pepper is worth 103{c and is very firmly held. Aside from this article the whole line shows no spe- cial change, nor does the situation war- rant any further comment. Molasses and syrups have been in only evervday request. The very best grades have sold with some freedom, but there is still room for improvement. The weather conditions have doubtless made themselves felt in the molasses market. Contract sales of canned goods so far exceed in 1899 any former season. Most all packers have sold their ’99 pack and this is especially true of the packers of fancy peas Tomatoes are steady and quiet, with Jerseys, spot goods, held at 824%4@8s5c. Futures are firm at 80c. In- diana cans of 3s, it seems, are not as large as the Jersey cans and the Hoosier State can send 3s here for 75c. They have sold over a million cases for next season's delivery. Future delivery of peas has been large and the prices vary from 65c up to $1.40 Best Western creamery commands 25c and is hard to get It is impossible to give any fair statement as to the status of the market, as the whole situation is so demoralized. Shipments are deiayed and next week will, it is hoped, bring order again. The. cheese market is about un- changed. A little has been done in an export way in the fancy grades, but de- lays have occurred tu such an extent up the State that deliveries are very un- certain. The egg market has advanced for the best grades and this stock will fetch at present about 30c. A few days of warmer weather will bring in such sup- plies as will materially make a lower rate all around. ——_> 2. __ Florida Orange Growers Changing to Hay and Tobacco. From the New York Sun. Three years after the memorable frost that killed three-fourths of her orange trees down to the rcots a cold wave has again invaded Florida, her orange in- dustry is once more prostrated, and the damage can not be repaired for several years Last season was a poor orange year, but fruit from the trees that sprang from the old roots was coming into the mar- ket and the crop was about half as great as that yielded the year before the dis- aster. About 40 per cent of the orange growers, disheartened by their former misfortune, had abandoned the business. Those who hopefully kept on find all hopes of profit blasted again for years to come. in the large orange district of Deland, about 100 miles south of Jack- sonville, all the trees have been killed, and in tbe more southern districts the groves are said to have been badly hurt. Orange growers said last year that the Florida crop would not reach its former proportions for ten years, and many be- lieved that the crop would never again reach its old magnitude The result of this new misfortune will be to increase the present tendency in Florida to sub- stitute other crops for oranges. Many orange growers have already turned their attention to other products and have prospered) They are growing to- bacco and hay, and not a few have gone into stock raising. More attention is now given to pineapples, and although the pinneries were damaged by this cold wave, the loss will not be very great, for the plant 15 grown partly under cover to protect it from the tierce Fiorida sun. Of course there will now be a fresh¢ boom in California orange culture. The present tariff on all citrus fruits has practically stopped orange importations, but even if Florida goes out of the busi- ness we may still grow all the oranges we can consume. California's crop last year, about 6,000,000 boxes, was larger than the world’s output not many years ago. -——____-0-e A Wall Paper Trick. ‘An old fellow came along the other day,’’ says a Philadelphia restaurant keeper, ‘‘who gave me a pointer | had never dreamed of. He came in and offered to patch up all the bad places in my wall paper, and so skillfully that I couldn’t find a place after it was done. Well, I hadn’t any patching to do, but I bet the old chap a quarter and his dinner that he couldn’t do what he said. I tore a patch out of the wall paper, and when he was through eating he went to work. ‘‘The first thing he did was to cuta piece of blank wall paper big enough to cover the hole and paste it over. Next he took a brush and painted a ground the same as the other paper. Then, kick me if be didn’t take other brushes and colors and paint in the design of the paper. I willingly yielded up a quar- ter with the dinner and was satisfied when I saw the alacrity and ease with which the fellow did his work.’’ Paying creameries promote prosperity. We build the kind that pay. If you Creameries ©" a good creamery in your community write to us for particulars. A MODEL CREAMERY. Our Creamery buildings are erected after the most approved Elgin model. We equip them with new machinery of the very latest and best type. Creamery Package M’f'g Co., 1-3-5 W. Washington St., CHICAGO, ILL. ARM ETAAARAY Aah AMERAHNINNAL SSAAGAMN ry ddA N Tee BEANS, HONEY AND POPCORN POULTRY, VEAL AND GAME Consignments Solicited. Quotations on Application. 98 South Division St., Grand Rapids ~~ The Neatest, Most Attractive and SS Best Way 7) SSS to handle butter is to put it in our ARAFFINED ARGHMENT-LINED AGKAGES fi & i Tl : ‘ . Creare i 7 : ar ii i mn a MICHIGAN PACKAGE CO., Owosso, Mich. Write for prices. We are Headquarters for Onions If you have any stock, we will buy it. If you want any stock, we can supply it. Vinkemulder Company, Grand Rapids, Mich. JOBBERS OF FRUITS AND PRODUCE. SOROKS TORORE BOROROTOROROEOEOHOCHORONC HOROHOROROROHO Ship your BUTTER AND EGGS to R. HIRT. JR... DETROIT, MICH. 34 AND 36 MARKET STREET. 435-437-439 WINDER STREET. : Cold Storage and Freezing House in connection. Capacity 75 carloads. Correspondence solicited. ; i : ; i : % - 12 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN MEN OF MARK W. L. Freeman, President of the Wor- den Grocer Co It is comparatively easy to write an extended sketch of a man who has trav- eled the country from one end to the other, a globe trotter who has scaled the Alps, penetrated into the regions of the midnigkt sun, explored darkest Africa, or a man who has been prominently identified with numerous enterprises in the course of a lifetime, but the man who has lived in but two places in his life and has been connected witb but one house, although with several changes of names and administrations, during a period of twenty-six years, can hardly be expected to prove a rich field for the biographer; and this uneventful career will naturally compel bis biographer to exercise greater brevity in the narration of the important events of his life than he would wish. William Leslie Freeman was born in Halton county, Ontario, May 12, 1853. The place of his birth is now known as the village of Freeman and was given the name in honor of his father, who was a Nova Scotian of English descent and moved westward, settling near the shores of Lake Ontario on a farm. His mother was descended from good Welsh stock and be appears to have combined in his make-up the sturdy qualities of persistence, steadfastness and tireless energy which the annals of history tell us have enabled these two races to plav so importart a part in the world’s civi- lization. He was the eleventh child of a family of twelve children—six girls and six boys—of which three girls and three boys survived the vicissitudes of childhood and passed into the world of manhood and womanhood, taking an active part in their respective spheres of life. William Leslie passed his youth on his father’s farm, performing such work as might be expected of a country boy and obtaining such educa- tion as he could from the district school, which he attended regularly until August, 1873, when he made a visit to his brother, Thomas S. Freeman, who was at that time engaged in the whole- sale grocery business, under the firm name of L. H. Randall & Co., the pio- neer grocery house of Grand Rapids. The Great Republic, offering more bril- liant prospects for an ambitious young man to succeed in life than the Cana- dian Dominion at that time, allured him. He liked the town and the peo ple, the enterprise and push of the young Furniture City, and quickly made his choice. Within a week he was in- stalled in a minor position in the estab- lishment in which his brother was then connected as manager and buyer. A year later he was promoted to the posi- tion of billing clerk, and filled the post most satisfactorily until March, 1878, when he reluctantly accepted a tempo rary assignment as traveling salesman for the house, covering a territory ex tending from Reed City to Little Trav- erse, now known as Harbor Springs. He was so successful in th t capacity that the firm induced him to cor tinue traveling for three years, when he was again called irto the cffice, as assi:tint book-keeper and house salesman. Any old. traveling man whv visited the Northern Michigan retail trade in the early ‘‘seventies,’’ when railroads were few and far between, can testify to the _ fact that the life of the ‘‘drummer’’ was no picnic and traveling in the early days was considered more of a privation than a pleasure. The subject of our sketch was no exception. He found that there were but four places on his route where he could get a decent meal or find a comfortable place to sleep and the necessities of his vocation compelled 5im to take many long and tedious drives which at the present time can hardly be imagined. Where now are good hotels, good ‘roads and sunlight then were crooked trails through sunless forests of pine, and he has many vivid recollections of exhausting trips, one in particular which he made to Vogel Cen- ter in the face of a blinding snowstorm. He started from Cadillac in the morn ing bebind a pair of Indian ponies in the expectation that he would make Falmouth and get to Lake City for the night, but the storm so increased in severity that he did not reach Falmouth until 10 o'clock at night, having spent fiitteen hours in an open sleigh without food or shelter, except that afforded by the centinuing stretch of pine forest carries with it the general management of the business, Mr. Freeman was married Dec. 7, 1877, to Miss Evelyn Graham, of Grand Rapids, and is the father of four charm- ing daughters, the eidest of whom is pursuing a musical education in Brook lyn under tbe direction of the Misses Peck. An only son died about ten years ago as the result of bursting a bload vessel. The family reside in their own pieasant home at 17 South Prospect street. Mr. Freeman was a meniber of the Methodist church in Canada, but after bis removal to this city he became an Episcopalian and is an adherent of St. Mark's Church. He is a member of De Molai Commandery, Knights Templar, and has taken all the Masonic orders up to the 32d degree. He is not much of a club man and seldom per- mits outside attractions to take him from his own hearthstone. Mr. Freeman is inclined to be modest through which the trip was made Mr. Freeman remained in continuous active work with the five houses respec- tively succeeding the original firm of L. H. Randall & Co—Freeman & Hawkins, Freeman, Hawkins & Co., Hawkins & Perry, Hawkins, Perry & Co. and Hawkins & Co.—he being the company of the last two firms, Hawkins, Perry & Co. having been organized in 1887 and Hawkins & Co in 1890. On the organization of the Worden Grocer Co., in January, 1895. he was elected Treasurer and had charge of the buying as well as the pricing of the goods, and largely to his thorough knowledge of the business in the minute details of the office work, as well as practical experience on the road, can the success of the Worden Grocer Co. be at- tributed. On the death of Mr. Worden, the hate President of the company, he was unanimously elected to the presi- dency of the corporation, which office in attributing his success to any par ticular quality of bis own, unless it be to hard work. -He likes.to be busy and says he never feels better than when his desk _is piled full of work, but those who know him best and realize the faithful service he has given the estab- lishment~ with which he has been con- nected for so many years appreciate the fact that not alone to his love for work, but to his mental and physical capacity, bis social disposition and congenial qualities should be attributed what suc- cess he has met in the commercial world, and bis many friends rejoice that, as the reward of twenty-six years of continuous service with one house, he has reached a position where he will be able to demonstrate that his experience has not been for naught; that he is qu:te as able to direct the destiny of a large jobbing bouse as he was to carry forward the-work of ‘a subordinate posi- tion, and his many friends among the trade, both wholesale and retail, will join the Tradesman in the hope that his relations witb all concerned may be as pleasant and profitable in the future as they have been in the past. “Lactoputt’ What is ‘‘Lactobutu’’? It is purely a vegetable compound, con- taining nothing injurious. A child can eat any quantity of it without the least harm. What will ‘‘Lactobutu’’ du? It will purify and sweeten old rancid butter and, with our process of treat- ment, make good butter out of it with uniform color, and also increase the uantity one-third. INCREASING THE UANTITY ONE-THIRD may seem ab- surd, but this is How it is done: Take, for example, to pounds of butter; add 5 pounds of fresh milk, then add a small amount of ‘‘Lactobutu’’ and with our process of treatment, the milk will all turn to butter and you will then have, by adding a little more salt, 15 pounds of good butter ready for sale. The question is sometimes asked, “Is not the milk worked into the butter, and can be worked out again?” No, such is not the case. The milk turns to butter, and will always be butter until consumed. Every merchant knows that when he sells his poor butter for 4 and 5 cents per pound it is purchased by some process firm who make good salable butter out of it. WHY DON’T YOU? Our process does not adulterate; it purifies, and does not conflict with State laws. Increasing the quantity with only pure sweet milk has been known here- tofore by only a very few most success- ful process butter workers. The great advantage To the merchant is—say he has 200 pounds of mixed grades of butter which is undesirable; some dull or rainy day his clerks can in one hour’s time treat the entire lot and make 300 pounds of butter, all one color, and improve the quality so that it will bring a miuch higher price at home or in tke market. Note the profit! Butter treated. by our process will keep sweet twice as long as ordinary butter. Our terms: On receipt of $5.00 we will send you the secret of how to treat the butter, in- cluding a p»ckage ‘*Lactobutu’’ suffi- cient to treat 500 pounds. After you buy the s cret we will supply the ‘*Lacto=- butu’”’ sufficient to treat 500 pounds at $2.00 per package. Our process for treating butter is so simple that a boy to years old can operate it. The only thing you need besides what we furnish 1s a simple, home-made box or vat, or tub, in which to treat the butter. It requires only a few minutes to treat the butter by our process There is no excuse for any merchant's selling bad butter in his store. The merchant who uses our process for treating butter can pay more for butter. He can sell butter cheaper, and can always have a better quality of butter, and make more money out of it than his competitors. For testimonials write us. When you order, men- tion this paper. THE LACTO BUTTER CO. 145 La Salle Street, | CHICAGO, III. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 13 HAD THEIR PAPERS. Adventure of a Salesman in a Country Town. Written for the TRaDEsMAN. “I never make light of a poor cigar, not even when my wife purchases for me a box of them solely to match the tint or hue of my smoking jacket. You may discredit it, gentlemen, but it’s no chimerical pipeedream. It’s no extem- porary effusion when I remark that if it had not been fora lot of poorly-made cigars your humble servant would be wearing a Jawn tennis suit in the IIli- nois penitentiary this very small par- ticle of time that hangs so wearily over our heads.’’ The man with the Maduro-colored hirsute appendages dextrously lighted a match on the edge of his steam- laundried cuff. The gentleman with the Claro-tinted filaments unconsciously manicured his finger nails by rubbing them over the many bumps of self-esteem that jagged his otherwise symmetrical head. Turn- ing to the speaker he said: ‘I might say the same thing myself. I happened to be smoking one of those weeds once and the young lady I was talking with suddenly thrust her finger through one of the rings of smoke and considered herself engaged; and she came near suing me for a breach of promise.’’ The owner of the Maduro whiskers laughed so heartily that the ashes of his cigar tumbled and slid down the polished surface of his shirt front. ‘*What I was speaking of, gentlemen, is no joke, but on the contrary came near proving a very serious thing for me,’ ‘‘As it wants an hour of train time what's the matter of you giving it to us?’’ spoke the Claro-whiskered man. ‘*Yes, by all means let's hear it,’’ chimed in the Maduro-bearded man. ‘*Well, gentlemen, you see I had just started out for a Chicago house and it was on my maiden trip for the firm. It was all new territory for me, and it was for the house for that matter. I called on town after town without the least possible success when finally one morn ing I stopped off at a little town in Iili- nois of perhaps three or four hundred inhabitants. As I got out at the tumble- down looking depot I observed that my watch had stopped, so, putting down my grip, I went in and set my time- piece with the railroad clock. On com- ing out I thought my grip had been moved, but gave it no further concern and enquired the way to the hotel. ‘*As I went into the caravansary they appeared to be holding some kind of an indignation meeting. A crowd was col- lected around an old-fashioned iron safe. The man who was doing the most talking was a granger-looking person- age and he was swinging his arms like a brakeman making a running switch. ‘It didn’t take me long to catch onto the fact that he of the red face was a stock buyer, that the night previous he had given his host $700 for safe keep- ing and during the night some one had gone through the old iron box and ab- stracted it. Just then the drover caught sight of me ‘* *Well, Cap’, we've been wonderin’ where ye went so d—m suddin. It *pears ter me ye made yerself mighty scerce this mornin’. Ain't goin’ ’way, air ye?’ ‘‘Evidently I was mistaken for some- one else and I blushed to the roots of my hair. ‘* ‘Mr. Whatever-your name is, I’ve just come in on the morning train. You undoubtedly take me for someone else.’ ‘** Ther’ hain't so many folks stop here but what it’s dead easy ter remember ‘em all. I'll admit ye gota pretty good-sized jag onto me last night, but I’m all here this mornin’. P’r’aps ye know suthin’ ‘bout this here robbery?’ ‘‘It was getting interesting. It was im- possible to convince the enraged stock buyer that I was not the person who had been buying the drinks the night pre- vious. Even the bar-keeper got on his ear and said when I got the whisky out of me 1 probably could recollect all about it. This made me hot and I punched him one, whereupon the crowd jumped onto me. In the scuffle my grip was opened and—would you believe it—in it was not only the missing money, but the finest kit of burglar tools you ever laid eyes on!'’ At this the Claro-whiskered man sighed, ‘‘Oh, I don’t know.”’ ‘‘Well, gentlemen, it appeared to be ail up with me, and I was about to be placed in the village bastile when the landlord of the hotel, who went away the night previous on business, returned. They told him what was up. He came closer to me, smiled and turning to the crowd said: ‘Gentlemen, you have the wrong man. Although this fellow is capable of the crime, and even of worse things, yet his story is undoubtedly cor- rect. The villain who has been stopping here for the past two days probably left on the same train that this man came in on and, as he says, in his hurry changed grips while he was regulating his watch.’ ‘Did they capture the rogue?’’ asked the Maduro whiskered man. ‘‘That’s what they did; and it would have puzzled my own mother to have picked me out. He was the perfect counterpart of myself. You see, when I set my grip down and went into the depot he came out of the other door with his grip and had the agent check it. The agent checked the wrong va- lise. They were exactly the same kind of grip. Yes, the crook got ten years, which would have certainly been dealt out to me if the landlord hadn’t known me.’’ ‘*How was he so dead sure it was you when you say it would have puzzled your own mother to have picked you out?’’ asked the Claro-whiskered man. ‘*Well, that’s where the funny part of it comes in. About eight years before thet time I was running a small cigar factory in Kutztown, Pennsylvania. I discharged one of my men, but of course gave him two weeks’ nctice. During that two weeks he worked on a_ brand of handmade cigars which I called ‘Charlie’s Best,’ named after myself. Instead of having a lithograph label 1 bad the photographer strike me off some phctographs, which I pasted on the covers of the boxes. They were first-rate likenesses. This same hotel man ran a hotel ina small town near Kutztown. I sold him a thousand of this brand and saw no moreofhim. But whet had that cigarmaker done for those last two weeks he was with me but twisted the fillers of every one _ of ‘Charlie’s Best’ he made; and _ that landlord got hold of ‘em in those I sold him. He moved from Pennsylvania to Ohio; from Ohio to Indiana,and from there to the town in Illinois. Every where he went he took those cigars; and he had a box of them in the case when I struck the town. He said he would have known me if he had seen me in sheol !’’ ‘Yes, I believe I would have known you if I had seen you there,’’ observed the Maduro-whiskered man. ‘*What's that?’’ ‘*You don't know me, eh? Why, I am the landlord that ran the hotel! I’ve been to the Klondike and am now Pres- ident of a mining company. Look here!’’ and the Maduro-whiskered man took from his pocket a green litho- graphed looking paper which bore his name and the amount of stock he held. ‘*Well, I am glad to hear of your suc- cess. I myself have since become a member of the firm I travel for and here is the amount of stock I hold.’’ The Claro-whiskered gentleman had also brought out a paper. ‘I, gentlemen,’’ he quietly said, ‘‘am not any stockholder, but, as I see it is necessary for a man to produce his papers for what he says, please glance over this pardon from Governor Alt- geld. I am the burglar! But I have reformed and am now traveling for a safe company.”’ CLYDE W. FRANCIS. —___> 0. —__—_ Justifiable Homicide. Magistrate: Why did you commit this unprovoked assault? Prisoner: I wanted to get my picture in the papers. Magistrate: Well, will you be good if I let you go? Prisoner: I am afraid not. I now want to kill the artist who made the pictures. WARVEY P. MILLER GVERETT P TEASOALE MiLteR & TEASDALE CO Wholesale Brokerage and Commission, FRUITS, NUTS. PRODUCE. 680 N Pourrn STaser Me. B. As Stowe, Editor yo Tradesman, Grand Rapids, Miche, Dear Sir—wWe have been using your business for the past two years, attest to the very satisfactory results passes but that we receive some commnication from Michigan, stat higan Tradesman and desired writer saw our advertisement in the Mic SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA FRUIT EXCHANGE. { EXCHANGE | UNITED STATRS, | INTER-STATE, USK { CALIFORNIA ARMSBY ECONONY | BAKER'S POTATO District Agents \coprs St. Louis, Mo., Fet. 20, 1899. paper as a medium for advertis our and must say that it gives us pleasure to which we have received. Hardly a day o correspond with us, and we have. secured many valuable shippers in this way. fhe writer, B. P. Teasdale, traveled thro our shippers in that State during the summer of 1897. Miohigan Tradesman in every store and business house where he went. our r and fall of 1696, makes the same report. h Michigan, visiting He found @ copy of the One of resentatives, who traveled through Michigan in our interest the surmer We are doing a large businese as shippers’ agents, speseeneey the largest shippers in all parts of the country, ling It 48 our business to market what they grow and ship, and we have We are advertisers in all of the fruit and roduce. yeen successful in this line. fruits, nuts an produce publications in this country and; while we cannot always figure direct results from all of them, we are pleased to state that the Michigan Tradesman is an exception in this respect, inasruch as we can trace many pleasant and profitable business relations to correspondence which resulted from our advertisement in your publication. unsolicited statement in your wan ours Dio. E.P.Te COFFEES US The J. M. We Realize——-— That in competition more or less strong Our Coffees a Must excel in Flavor and Strength and be constant Trade Winners. roasted on day of shipment. Bour Co., 129 Jefferson Avenue, Detroit, Mich. |! 113-115-117 Ontario St., Toledo, Ohio. We are glad to make this voluntary and truly, Miller & Teasdale Coe nd Teas All our coffees 14 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Shoes and Leather Shoe Polishes and Dressings. There are a great many different kinds of shoe polishes on the market, both good and inferior. Competition has driven many firms to making a cheap article; for low-priced goods must be poor in quality to compare with the prices, and, like everything else, will have their run, while standard goods will always have their market value. Men of sound judgment are fast be- coming aware of the fact that it is to their advantage to keep only standard polishes, which they can recommend as beneficial to their goods. In buying or using a polish for one’s shoes, the first thing is to enquire for a polish which will be beneficial to the leather—one which will soften, preserve and give a genteel polish, and will also keep the shoe as waterproof as possible. Polishes, to do this, must be free from acids and all injurious substances that would antagonize and depreciate the quality of the shoes. Such a polish should be a soft and flexible solution which when applied will lubricate the pores and, acting as_ rubber, resist moisture, and keep the shoe from be- coming hard and cracking. This hap- pens in the use of the old-style paste blacking ; but when the paste washes off the pores of the leather absorb the moisture, driving out the oil, and when dry we find the leather hard and ready to crack. Paste blackings are a thing of the past. To-day. liquid polishes of the non-acid stamp, applied with a sponge or brush-dauber and polished with a brush, are the correct thing. There are other so-called waterproof polishes on the market. These are liquids applied with a sponge and dry themselves, and act more like a varnish when applied to one’s calf shoes than anything else. Stop and reason! Is anything that will dry and harden ben- eficial to the leather just because it gives a shine? In a few instances there are polishes, commonly called dressings, which give a dry shine after having been applied with a sponge. In the quality of these there has been a great improvement of late, the dressing leaving the leather soft and glossy. These dressings are designed only for ladies’ and children’s bright or glaze shoes, commouly called French kid, which are almost free from absorbing pores, and leave a thin coat of polish which readily dries and leaves the shoe soft and bright. Dull leathers should never have a dry-shine dressing applied to them. The liquid, friction polish is the only correct one for use on ladies’ and gentlemen’s calf shoes.— Geo. H. Pike in Boots and Shoes Weekly. ——__—-» 2-2 Early Inventions for Shoe Manufacture. In 1809 David Meade Randolph ob- tained a patent for fastening the soles and heels to the innersole by means of little nails. The lasts he used were covered at the bottom with plates of metal, and nails that were driven through the innersoles were turned and clinched by coming against the metal plates. To fix the soles to the lasts dur- ing the operation the metal plates were each perforated with three holes, in which wooden plugs were inserted, and to these the insoles were nailed. In the following year (1810) the in- ventor, M. I. Brunel, patented a range of machinery for fastening soles and uppers by means of metallic pins or nails; and the use of screws and staples was patented by Richard Woodman in same year. The various sewing machines by which uppers are closed and their im- portant modifications for uniting soles and uppers are principally of American origin. The patent secured by Thomas Saint, in the English Patent Office, in 1790, while it foreshadowed the most important feature of the modern sew- ing machine, indicated more particular- ly the device now adopted in sewing leather. After the introduction of the sewing machine for cloth work its adoption for stitching leather, both with plain thread and heated wax thread, was a comparatively simple task. The first important step in the more diffi- cult problem of sewing together soles and uppers by machine was taken in the United States by Lyman R. Blake in 1858. Blake’s machine was ultimate- ly perfected as the McKay sole sewing machine, one of the most successful and lucrative inventions of modern times. Blake secured his first English patent in 1859, and the original machine was very imperfect and was incapable of sewing around the toe of a shoe; but a principal interest in it coming into the hands of Gordon McKay, he, in conjunction with Blake, effected most important improvements in the mechan- ism, and they jointly, in 1860, procured United States patents, which secured to them the monopoly of wholly machine- made boots and shoes for twenty-one years. On the outbreak of Civil War in America a great demand arose for boots, and there being simultaneously much labor withdrawn from the markets, a profitable field was opened for the use of the machine, which was now capable of sewing a sole rigbt around. Machines were leased out to manufacturers by the McKay Company at a royalty of one- half to three cents on every pair of soles sewed, the machines themselves regis- tering the work done. The income of the association from royalties in the United States alone increased from $38,746 in 1863 to $589,973 in 1873, and continued to rise until the main patents expired in 1881, when there were used in the United States about 1,800 Blake- McKay machines, sewing 50,000,000 pairs of shoes yearly. The monopoly secured by the McKay Company barred for the time the prog- ress of the invention, nowithstanding which many other sole sewing machines were patented. Among the most im- portant of these is the Goodyear-McKay machine for welted shoes, the first mechanism adopted for sewing soles on lasted boots and shoes. These machines originated in a patent obtained in United States by August Destroy for a curved-needle machine for sewing out- soles to welts; but the mechanism was not successful until taken in hand by Charles Goodyear, son of the well- known inventor in India-rubber fabrics. —__>22>—__ Is Every Inch a Man. He went up the pathway singing; I saw the woman s eyes Grow bright with a wordless welcome, As sunshine warms the skies. “ Back again, sweetheart mother!” He cried and bent to kiss The loving face that was lifted For what some mothers miss. That boy will do to depend on. I hold that this is true— Frow lads in love with their mothers Our bravest heroes grew. Earth’s grandest hearts have been loving hearts, Since time and earth began! And the boy who kissed his mother Is every inch a man! ————>-0>—____ Some old-fashioned folks, like ballet girls, keep their fortunes in their stockings. Making New Shoes Second Hand. ‘Il knew a man once,’’ said a man who was getting his shoes blacked to his neighbor in the next chair, ‘‘that had a new pair of shoes every week for a year, and they never cost him a cent.’’ ‘‘Why, how was that?’’ the other man asked. ‘‘He used to wear new shoes fora second-hand shoe dealer.’’ ‘‘What did he do that for?’’ ‘‘So as to put some signs of wear on em and make ‘em second-hand bar- gains. It left ’em literally as good as new, and the dealer could truthfully say that there was a pair of sboes that had never been worn half a dozen times in the world, and anybody could see that that was a fact. Blacked up in good sbape they’d look slick as could be, and sell asa bargain in fine second-hand shoes, and bring about what such shoes would sell for new.’’ Geo. H. Reeder & Co., 19 South Ionia Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. Agents for LYCOMING and KEYSTONE RUBBERS. Our stock is complete so we can fill Also a line of U. S. RUBBER Co. COMBINA- TIONS. and get the best goods made. your orders at once. Send us your orders Our line of Spring Shoes are now on the road with our travelers. Be sure and see them before placing your orders as we have some “hot stuff” in them. 7 00° 00° 00° be: 6@°0: “Soe eet cers E oe ee ee e Pry **win’’ with us.— When in the for Wales Goodyear Rubbers. byte yer Aa aad 20° LJ e e LJ e D ee ar ty e or ry e Pe e Cy Py ) td a YY e +. e LJ +e e e a Y e HEROLD-BERTSCH SHOE CO. 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Men’s Knit Boots 12 prs each. With 2 bk]. Gum Perfections.$25 oo With Duck Perfections...... 24 00 With Gum Perfections....... 22 00 With Gum Hurons, Heel..... 21 00 Boys’ Knit Boots With Gum Perfections....... 20 00 Youths’ Knit Boots With Gum Hurons, no Heel.. 14 50 Terms, Nov. 1, 30 days, net. 1899 Net Price List on Combinations Combination «A”’ ({st quality Rubbers and Ist quality Felt Boots) Net per case. Men’s White Felt Boots 12 prs each. With Duck Perfections...... $23 00 With Gum Perfections....... 22 00 Men’s Gray Felt Boots With 2 bkl. Gum Perfections. 23 00 With Duck Perfections...... 22 00 With Gum Perfections. ...... 20 50 With Gum Hurons, Heel..... 20 00 — Grey Felt Boots ‘ With Gum Perfections....... 18 50 With Gum Hurons, Heel..... 17 50 Youths’ Gray Felt Boots With Hurons, no Heels...... 13 00 HIRTH, KRAUSE & CO., Grand Rapids, Mich. “pi Se a MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 15 Features of a Successful Generator. * Used, as I have been, to chemical actions of all kinds, more especially in the development and use of gases, I shall never forget the impression made upon my mind when, in the autumn of 1894, I first generated acetylene by the action of water upon calcic carbide, ob tamed from Mr. Willson in America. There was something almost ‘‘uncanny’’ in the development of this wonderful gas from the simple contact of the car- bide with water, and I was the more impressed by it as I had spent several years in researches necessitating the making of considerable volumes of acetylene, and had realized to the full the laborious and unsatisfactory nature of ail the earlier methods for its pro- duction. It was with this carbide that I then made the experiments detailed by me in a paper read to the Society in January, 1895, when I showed, for the first time in this country, the reactions which had caused me such keen de- light, and also showed, for the first time in any country, how the gas _ could be consumed so as to develop to the full its marvelous illuminating power. There are manifestly two methods by which the carbide and the water can be brought together—either by adding water to carbide, or carbide to water; while a light amount of novelty can be introduced by allowing the water to rise in contact with the carbide from below, by bringing the water to the bottom of the carbide instead of to the top. I showed these three methods of pro- cedure when I first described acetylene, and at the time thought that the ques- t on of generators was practically done with; but within a few months the idea arose of making automatic generators, so that the space necessary for a small holder should be saved by making the apparatus only generate the gas as it was needed, and a multitude of devices for stopping the generation of the gas when the consumption ceased were de signed and placed upon the market. Unfortunately, the designers of these machines, although gifted with much ingenuity and mechanical skill, had but little idea of the properties of the body with which they were dealing; and as a result many of the generators, if not actually dangerous, are so arranged as to generate the gas in anything but its purest form, while some give a far smaller yield of gas per unit weight of carbide decomposed than others con- structed on more rational principles. The different forms of apparatus sbown at the exhibition at the Imperial Institute, held this summer under the auspices of the Society, may be taken as representing the best types on the mar- ket, and when, in a few weeks hence, the report of the committee is pub- lished, much interesting matter will be found in it, as, a uniform quality of carbide being used throughout the exhi- bition for over a month’s continuous working, direct comparison between the performances of the various generators becomes possible. In considering the various forms of apparatus it will be weil to divide them, in the first place, into two classes: 1, The automatic, in which the storage capacity for acetylene is less than the total volume of gas the charge of car bide is capable of generating, and which depends upon some special ar- rangement for stopping the action of water on the carbide when the consump- tion ceases; 2, the non-automatic, with which there is a holder of sufficient size to contain the whole of the gas gener- ated from the charge of carbide which is used. Each of these classes may be subdi vided under three heads: a. Those in which water is, by va- rious devices, allowed to drip or flow in a thin stream onto a mass of carbide, the evolution of the gas being regulated by the stopping of the water feed. b. Those in which water in volume is allowed to rise in contact with the carbide, the evolution of the gas being regulated by the water being driven Essential *Lecture by Prof. V. B. Lewes, before British Society of Arts. back from the carbide, by the increase of pressure in the generating chamber, or by the rising bell of the gas holder drawing the carbide up out of the water. c. Those in which the carbide is dropped or plunged into an excess of water. The points to be attained in a good generator are: 1. Low temperature of generation. 2. Complete decomposition of the carbide. 3. Maximum evolution of the gas. 4. Low pressure in every part of the apparatus. Ease in charging and in removal of the residues. 6. Removal of all air from the ap paratus before generation of the gas. An important point was noticed in these experiments—the large excess of water required to insure complete de- composition of the carbide over and above the theoretical quantity; and the excess of water needed was largely de- pendent upon the form of generator em- ployed. According to theory, 64 parts by weight of carbide require only 36 parts by weight of water to completely decompose them and convert the lime into calcic hydrate. This would mean that each pound of carbide needs a lit tle under % pint of water to complete the action. In practice, however, ow- ing to the evaporation due to the heat of the action, half the added water is driven off as steam with the acetylene or left mechanically adhering to the lime, and the smallest quantity likely to complete the action would be one pint to one pound of carbide, while in reality the only safe way is to add suffiicent water to drown the residue. If this is not done, the lime forms so protectivea coating to the carbide that small quan- tities often remain undecomposed, and if the residues are thrown into a drain or cesspool, the evolution of acetylene would give an explosive mixture, which, on account of its low point of ignition, would be a serious danger. The second subdivision of generators (b, ) in which water rises to the carbide, is very popular, and overheating can be avoided in these, provided they are so arranged that the water is never driven back from the carbide, and that the charge of carbide used 1s not too great. Under these conditions, the slowly rising water is always in excess at the point where it decomposes the carbide, so that the evaporation, by rendering heat latent, keeps down the tempera- ture, and although the steam so formed partly decomposes the carbide in the upper portion of the charge, the action is never sufficiently rapid to give any very great rise of temperature. In or der to fulfill these conditions it is nec- essary that there should be a holder of considerable capacity, and that the leading tube conducting the gas from the generator to the holder should be of sufficient diameter to freely take away the gas, the water being allowed, at the same time, to rise in the generator so slowly as to do away with any risk of overgeneration. In the best generators of this class these conditions are more or less approached, and it is usual to find that the melting point of tin—228 degrees C.—has been reached in the charge of carbide during decomposi- tion. Where apparatus of this class is auto- matic and has no rising holder to take the gas, it is found that it works satis- factorily when supplying the number of lights for which it is designed ; but if it is overdriven and the action becomes too violent, excessive heating takes place, while tbe turning off of the gas and consequent driving back of the water from the carbide also has a tend- ency to cause it. If, however, the water has risen sufficiently slowly, the carbide below the surface has been practica!ly all decomposed, so that the heating only takes piace over a limited zone. The generators of the third class are those in which carbide is allowed to fall into an excess of water, and these have many advantages. In such generators, as long as there is water present, it Is impossible to get above a temperature of 100 degrees C., unless lime sludge is allowed to collect at the bottom, when the carbide will get hot enough to some- times melt zinc, while with a properly arranged tank the temperature never ex- ceeds the air temperature by more than a few degrees. Under these conditions the absence of polymerization and the washing of the nascent and finely di- vided bubbles of gas by the lime water in the generator yield acetylene of a degree of purity unapproached in any other form of apparatus. The one thing that has militated against it is that it is not easy to design such a generator which shall be automatic, and as this seems to be the craze from which all generator makers are at present suffer- ing, its advantages have been apparent- ly overlooked by them, although fully recognized by ali scientific men. This form of generator, however, al- though exhibiting the great advantages enumerated above, has the drawback of being one of the least economical in the output of acetylene per pound of car- bide used, as the gas, having to bubble through the water, is rapidly dissolved by it, while in an apparatus in which only the surface of the water touches the gas the amount dissolved is compar- atively small. The result of this is that with generators of this class the gener- ation rarely exceeds 4.2 cubic feet of acetylene per pound of carbide, instead of over 5 cubic feet per pound. [CONTINUED NEXT WEEK] 2-9 -~e-- —— Handicapped by His Trousers. Husband—My dear, these trousers are frayed at the bottom. Wife—They are the best you've got, John, except your dress trousers. Husband—Well, give those to me. I have an important interview to-day in which I expect to be at different times proud, haughty, indifferent, dignified and perhaps a trifle disdainful. 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Truscotr, Marquette; Secretary and Treasurer, A. F. Wrxson, Marquette. Gripsack Brigade. A. J. Brummeler (Wm Brummeler & Sons) has returned from Chicago, where he made a number of contracts for goods. Thomas Quinlan, of Petoskey, has en- gaged to cover the retail trade of North- ern Michigan for J. H. Prout & Co., the Howard City flour millers. Wm. Brummeler & Sons have a new traveling representative in the person of Henry Stodt, of Zeeland, who will con- fine his attention to the city and suburban trade. David Lichtenstein has sold his inter- est in the New York Cap Manufactur- ing Co., in the Kortlander Building, to his partner, Oscar J. Levy, who will continue the business. Port Huron Times: J. F. Bourke, who for the past twelve years has been identified with the Singer Manufactur- ing Co. in this city, has been tendered and has accepted a position as traveling representative for the company from its general office in Jackson. Mr. Bourke bas many friends in the city who wish him well in his new position. Marquette Mining Journal: P. C. Hetzell, the traveling man who is usu- ally designated ‘‘the mackintosh man,’’ had quite an experience with a big dog here the early part of the week. It was the first warm day of the present spell and Mr. Hetzell was feeling so good be- cause it had finally warmed up that to relieve his feelings he attempted to fon- dle a large dog that he met in his trav- els. The animal turned on him and bit bim in the hand, inflicting quite a pain- ful wound. Greenville Call: Even the traveling men don’t always have what some peo- ple appear to think a soft snap. The following gives one an idea of what W. B. Burris, the hustling salesman of the Bradley Cigar Co., did one day last week: He left Marion at 5:30 a. m. on a drive, the mercury 33 degrees below ; at 6:30 a. m. Park Lake, 33 degrees below; 8 a. m. McBain, 26 degrees be- low; 9 a. m. Lucas, 15 degrees below; 10 :30 a. m. Jennings, 1o degrees below; 12 m. Lake City, just zero. A drive of 38 miles, made six towns, took orders for 6,550 cigars, and ready to go it 50 miles across the next day if necessary! ——_>2>__ Don’ts for the Man Who Sells the Goods. Don’t allow drummers to smoke in your store. Don’t give out an order for merchan- dise without first entering it in your own book with every detail of price and terms. Don’t treat the traveling men with discourtesy. Don’t allow your clerks to clean their finger nails in the presence of custom- ers. . Don’t allow dirty labels on your boxes. Don’t wear your hat while in the store. Don't allow anything to interfere with the work of keeping your show cases clean and bright. Finger marks on show cases cheapen the goods displayed in them. Don't have a set day to wash windows and allow them to become a ‘‘sight’’ between times. Have them washed every day if necessary. Don’t have a clerk come into your employ without first giving him or her full instructions as to your policy and methods. Don’t allow your clerks to give out samples in a manner that indicates that the clerk thinks the customer a sample fiend. Don’t toss any article toward a cus- tomer. Don’t remind customers of the great mistakes they are making in not having suv and so. Let the customer give the opportunity for you to express your idea by asking for your opinion. Don’t persuade a customer that what she asks for is not what she wants. She 1S apt to think you haven't what she wants, and she is likely to think right. Don’t get it into your head that you are invaluable to your employer. He might thing otherwise. It’s better to think that you need him as much as or even more than he needs you. Don’t do bad work. Samuel Smiles says bad work is lying. It 1s thoroughly dishonest. Do well every task you un- dertake. Don’t defraud yourself of opportuni- ties to study. ‘‘The first and worst ot all frauds 1s to cheat oneself. ’’ Don’t spend all your salary, if you get only $5 a week. Save somethirg each week, if it is only 25 cents. The habit will avail you much profit in a lifetime. Don’t talk store secrets with anybody but your employer. Learn in this way to keep all advantages trom competitors. Don’t get into an argument with any customer if you can possibly avoid It. it is much more pleasant and much more sensible to agree with your cus- tomers on little matters. Don’t be afraid to miss a meal occa- sionally for the sake of making a sale. You'll have a heartier appetite than if you had missed the sale. Perhaps you owe your proprietor an hour or two any- way. —__—_ 2. Pay Your Small Bills. Merchants who would never think of allowing a note or a large account to stand open are too frequently careless in regard to small accounts. After all, we are judged by small things, and what good is it if a man meets his bank obligations promptly and he causes a number of people to whom he owes petty accounts to go about talking of how hard it 1s to get himto pay up. Be as particular about the little accounts as the larger ones. Have a special file for these matters, and rather send around and pay them yourself than have people run after you. Do not snuba collector because he calls for a small account when it is due. It is your fault that he has to call. Some people are funny in this respect that they resent either being drawn upon or called upon tor a small bill. They forget it is the other fellow who ought to do the kick- ing, as he has to stand the expense and trouble of collecting. Beas prompt in collecting your own accounts as in pay- ing others. If the losses made each year by small debts neglected because they are small could be recevered, there would be handsome dividends in most businesses. Department Store Methods in Dentistry ‘*T noticed an attractive advertisement in the paper this morning,’’ said Mr. McBride to bis wife. ‘‘Was it a millinery opening?’’ ‘*No, it was a dentist’s advertise- ment; and what particularly struck me was the announcement that under no circumstances wouid he furnish more than one set of teeth to a customer at the reduced figure, ’* DRUMMERS’ MASCOTS. How Disaster Invariably Followed Their Use. ‘*No, sir, I don’t believe in mas- cots,’’ remarked the dry goods drummer, as he got settled down for a iong and steady pull ata good cigar. ‘‘I know that most of the boys have a leaning that way, but I got over it two years ago. I know a chap traveling out of Boston who would no more start out without his rabbit’s foot than he would without his hat, and yesterday I was with a Chicago drummer who had the wishbone of a chicken in a morocco case. I have jogged about with men who believed that a horse chestnut would keep off rheumatism, and I have met fellows who were carrying all sorts of coins as lucky pieces. It’s all right if they think so, but I have quite lost my faith in talismans. ‘No, I don’t mind relating a few of my experiences,’’ continued the drum- mer, as several of us looked at him in an encouraging way. ‘‘My first mas- cot was a bullet which had cut a_ lock of hair off a baby’s head and buried it self in the wall. It had been fired by accident. No photograph of the baby accompanied the bullet, but I thought it cheap at $2. That bullet went with me on my first trip in this line, and I started out feeling perfectly guarded from all kinds of accident. I had to exbibit my trophy and brag about it, of course, and I found several persons who offered me double price for it. I had carried it two weeks, and luck had come my way in everything, when I got off the train at a small town in Indiana one night. There was a long platform with one end up in theair, and I walked off that end and got a fall which sent me to the hospital with a broken leg. So much for the bullet. It got lost in the shuffle, and when I was able to take to the road again I found an old darkey who was willing to sell mea rabbit’s foot for $10 in cash. Of course the rabbit had been killed in a graveyard in the full of the moon and all that, and with that foot in my pocket I did not see how I could get smashed up on the railroad or burned out in a hotel. A rabbit’s foot is soft and silky and pleas- ing to the touch and the eye, and it's wonderful how much faith you come to have in its protection after carrying it around for a month. One day, after I had had it about six weeks, I sat down and figured out that it had saved my life at least four times, and that the drummer who didn’t carry one in his vest pocket deserved any fate which might overtake him. I had that mascot in my hand when I started downstairs to play a game of billiards. At the head of the stairs I tripped in a hole in the carpet, and when they picked me up at the bottom I was booked for an- other two months in the hospital. ‘That rabbit's foot ought to have warned me of the hole in the carpet, or shifted the stairs down the hall a few feet, but as it rather led me on to destruction I threw it aside and in- vested in a Kentucky goose-bone. Of course you have seen them? The gen- uine talisman is a piece of the breast- bone shaped like a heart. To be gen- uine it must come from a perfectly white goose, and the darkey who fash- ions it must do his work at midnight with a jack-knife found on the highway in the second quarter of the harvest moon. A St. Louis drummer who had never had anything but good luck put me onto the goose-bone racket, but I had to do a lot of bunting around and pay out $15 to get one. I didn’t give that talisman my confidence all at once. I remembered how the baby bullet and the rabbit's foot had served me, and I paid out rope as I went along and watched to see what would happen. It was only after I had taken three or four old customers away from a Philadelphia drummer and just missed two railroad wrecks and a hotel tire that I gave that goose-bone due credit as a mascot. I had a dozen good offers to part with it, but I would as soon have sold my grand- mother's tombstone. I had just figured out that my luck would make mea junior partner in the firm in about two years more, when down came my house of cards. The train on which I was whizzing over the soil of Ohio missed {a rear-end collision by less than ten feet and landed me safely at Bucyrus, but I hadn’t been in that town two hours when I was run over by a 25-cent ex- press wagon driven by an old negro, and had four ribs broken and my shoulder dislocated. The talisman was broken into fine fragments, but I didn’t mourn for it. The goose-bone adherents have tried to excuse and explain, but they have failed to convince me. ‘‘Just once more. I wanted to give the mascot business a fair trial, and so I invested in the claw of acrow. I don’t know who originated the idea or belief that a crow’s claw would bring luck to the possessor. The man who put me onto it was a Baltimore drummer. He wouldn’t part with the one he carried, because it had saved his life on numer- ous occasions, but he knew of a man who might be induced to sell his, and in due time I had a crow’s claw in my pocket. No written guarantee accom- panied it, but I had the word of several possessors that its virtues were known 2,000 years B. C. Nothing out of the routine happened for a month or so, and 1 was standing neutral and waiting for developments when the claw gave me the dull thud. I got up one morning to find that I had been robebd of $250 in cash, and while I was raising a row about it there came a_ telegram an- nouncing that my firm had failed and I was left stranded on acold world. I haven't fully recovered from that shock yet, but I am not hunting for mascots to help me. I don’t say that a rabbit’s foot won’t help certain men to reach the top of the ladder, or that the goose- bone or the crow’s foct won't chase away the shadow of death, but there are men who have to depend on their own exertions, and I am one of them. If any of you are carrying a button from the vest of Jack the Ripper, or have pinned your faith to a pebble picked up in the Garden of Eden, I'll look at them as curiosities, but don’t ask me to in- vest. 1’ve got through.— Boston Herald. 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. 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Murr, Grand Rapids. Superstitious Remedies Still Used toa Surprising Extent. When one hears this subject mentioned he almost unconsciously thinks of some ‘‘dark age’’ in the history of our pro- fession ; he perbaps thinks of centuries ago, and it does not occur to him that superstition may even now be playing a part in our daily life. It is a fact, however, that superstition, credulity, and skepticism have had their molding influences and are not now altogether blotted out from our profession. People have always seemed to have an unac- countable propensity for believing the improbable or supernatural. ‘‘In the opinion of the multitude,’’ says Bacon, ‘twitches and impostors have always held a competition with physicians.’’ Diseases, the cause of which were not immediatey understood, were usually at- tributed by the ignorant to the wrath of heaven, a displeased deity, or an offended god; hence we had wearing of charms and amulets, and various forms of sacrificing. When one hears of these superstitious remedies and sees them in use, wit- nessing the firm belief people have in their efficacy, the question naturally sug- gests itself, ‘‘Where did they get that notion?’’ and ‘‘Has experience proved its usefulness?’’ Now people who use these remedies do not admit their fail ure from inefficiency of the remedies themselves, but hedge the failure in with various excuses, so that repeated failures do not seem to lessen belief. A great many of these remedies can be traced to very remote times, and those in use now may be but modifica- tions of these older ones. When we know that precious stones were intro- duced into the materia medica as a dwelling-place for good spirits because of their purity and splendor, and were even administered internally, shall we wonder at the practice of negroes who wear coral as a charm for preventing diseases, believing that its color indi- cates the health of the wearer, being red or rosy when he is healthy and pale when he is sick? It was the common custom of the Druids of Gaul and Britain, who were priests and physicians, to gather the mistletoe with a golden knife, only when the moon was six days old, to wrap it in white napkins, and then with certain rites to consecrate it. It was then used as an antidote to poisons and a prevent- ive of sterility. The Vervain (ver- bena), after libations of honey, was to be gatbered with the left hand only and at the rising of the dog-star, when neither sun nor moon shone; when thus prepared it was said to vanquish fevers and other distempers, to be an antidote to serpent bites, and a charm for retain- ing friendship. Although superstition flourished better among the ignorant it is not confined to them, however. Lord Bacon with all his learning showed an inclination to believe in charms and amulets, and we read that Boyle actually recommended the thigh bone of an executed criminal as a powerful remedy. Wealso read that Sir Theodore Mayerne, physician to three English sovereigns and known to com- mentators as the Dr. Caius of Shakes- peare, used the secundines of a woman in labor with her first male child, the bowels of a male cut open alive, and mummy made of the iungs of a man who had died a violent death! Let it not be thought that all of these superstitions were without some good results; the use of the Sympathetic Powder of Sir Kenelm Digby, Knight of Montpelier, shows that tbey were sometimes beneficial. The treatment of a wound inflicted by a weapon was as follows: This powder was applied to the weapon, which was then covered with an ointment and afterward dressed three or four times daily. The wound was meanwhile washed thoroughly, its edges brought together, bound in clean linen rags and allowed to remain un- disturbed during the treatment of the weapon, which usually lasted seven days. If the weapon was properly treated, the wound would heal. This might have been the first suggestion of healing by first intention! The old practice of using scorched linen was really an advanced idea of antiseptic dressings, although of course not understood as such. The rust of the spear of one of Homer’s warriors was said to be a cure for the wounds made by that spear, but as copper was one of the metals so largely used for weapons in that time it bas been sug- gested that it was the impure copper acetate that was effective. People at one time thought that the drug and _ its antidotes always grew in close prox- imity, frequently side by side. This is illustrated in the bel ef that the heads, legs, and wings of cantharides were an antidote to its body; we have even now a saying that ‘‘The hair of the dog is good for the bite.’’ Ancients also be- lieved that poisons attracted and ab- sorbed other poisons, and when sus- pended from the body prevented dis- ease. In the celebrated plague of Lon- don, arsenic was worn to prevent infec- tious diseases. Asafetida is now worn largely in this State by both high and low with the notion perhaps that foul odors cause disease, and that therefore asafetida will absorb these kindred odors and so prevent disease. A great many false ideas arose from the notion that new substances gave certain outward indications of their usefulness in their shape, color, or taste. This notion, known as the doc- trine of signatures, was an early sug- gestion,and at the end of the Fourteenth Century had assumed the importance of a theory. People thought, and even now think, that green, yellow, etc., are indications that substances are ‘‘pisen,’’ and also that bitter and disagreeable tastes indicate special efficiency. Some illustrations of this belief are as fol- lows: Turmeric was used for jaundice be- cause of its yellow color. Poppies were thought to be good for the diseases of the head. Eyebright was used for dimness of vision. Nettle tea for nettle-like eruptions of children. Rose petals for blood diseases. Rhubarb and effects. Pomegranate seed, from their resem- blance to teeth, were used in toothache. Lungwort, from its spongy’appearance, was used in lung trouble. Mention has already been made that the age of superstition 1s by no means a past age. There is much of it even to- day. Beside the instances of this may be mentioned the superstitions which are now practiced in this country. An iron ring is used for rheumatism, as is also a leather band around the wrist for cramps. A dirty sock is worn around the neck for sore throat. For consumption dog grease is used. For ‘‘foot asleep’’ the tip of the finger is wet with saliva and a cross mark made on the shoe. To produce bravery gunpowder and whisky are used. For sprains clay and vinegar are used. For jaundice nine live head lice are made into a pill with crumb of bread and swallowed. The forefinger is poisonous, hence never scratch a sore witb it. For nausea lie flat on the back and balance an egg in the depression of the neck. Rabbit brains rubbed on the gums in sures easy teething. For the cure of thrush some one who bas never seen the baby’s father is to blow in its mouth. Eel skin placed around the leg is a sure preventive of cramps. Always rub a painful limb down, never up. For rheumatism carry a ‘‘buckeye’’ or an Irish potato in the pocket; or use buzzard grease, snake oil, fishingworm oil, or frog grease, the last of which is made by digesting live frogs in a cup of lard. For ‘‘shingles’’ blood from the tip of a black cat’s tail is used. ‘‘To talk fire out of burns’ is a gift possessed by a few. One man can not impart it to another, but has to tell it to a member of the opposite sex ! Sore eyes can be caught by looking into the eyes of some one having them. For frost-bite apply bot turnip or pine tops. For toothache a person touches the tooth with the hand with which he has smothered a mole. For snake bit cut open a chicken and place the warm flesh against the wound ; the poison will be extracted and the chicken will turn green. For permanent cure of hernia in babies split open a small tree, wedge it apart, pass the baby through it from father to mother, allow the tree to come together, and if it unites the baby will recover. For chills, count the number of chills had, take small pebbles equal to this number, and tie them ina bag to the hind foot of a toad; the toad will have the chills and the patient will recover. Another remedy is to mark with a poker the number of chills on the back of the fireplace. saffron for bilious When a nail is stuck in the foot with- draw it, grease it carefully, wrap it up in a cloth, and it will prevent inflam- mation of the wound. For splinter wounds, pick out the splinter, rub it in hair until it is lost, and the soreness will be prevented. Urine of the patient is good for coughs. A pan of water under the bed pre- vents night sweats. Bee-tea is used as a diuretic; made by pouring one pint of hot water over three honey bees. For measles ‘‘nanny-berry tea’’ is used. It is terrible luck to take ashes out of the room of a puerperal woman. For the relief of ‘‘after-pains’’ place some cutting instrument under the woman's bed, such as knife, axe, scis- sors, etc. Left hind foot of a graveyard rabbit is a sure ‘‘hoo doo’’ when properly used. In conclusion I may say that although the majority of these remedies seem so absurd, and the superstitions so ridicu- lous, yet they are really practiced to-day in this State, and great dependence is placed upon them, not alone by our negro population either. A large part of them have been encountered and noted by a prominent physician; the remainder I have observed myself.—E. V. Howell in Bulletin of Pharmacy. 2 The Drug Market Opium—Is quiet but firm in primary markets. Morphine—Is unchanged. Codeine—Is in large demand, on ac- count of la grippe, and firm at the ad- vance noted last week. Quinine—Manufacturers would not accept orders the first of the week, awaiting news from the bark sale at Amsterdam. Prices paid at that sale were a large advance over previous pur- chases and manufacturers immediately advanced prices 4c per ounce. Stocks are low and the article is very firm. Epsom Salts—Are in light supply and the price is advanced. Gum Camphor—Has again advanced Ic per pound. Glycerine—Has pound. Cocaine—Is very firm at the late ad- vance and, on account of higher prices for cocoa leaves, another advance of 25c is probable. Goldenseal Root—Is very scarce and has advanced. Linseed Oil—Is steady at unchanged prices. advanced Ic_ per —_-> 4s The Triumphs of Medical Science. They sawed off his arms and his legs, They took out his jugular vein; They put fancy frills on his lungs, And thev deftly extracted his brain. *T was a triumph of surgical skill Such as never was heard of till then; *Twas the subject of lectures before Conventions of medical men. The news of this wonderful thing Was heralded far and wide. But as for the patient there’s nothing to say— Excepting, of course, that he died. —___~> 2. Dying in poverty is easy enough. It’s living in poverty that comes hard on a fellow. 00-00-0-0-0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 No Confectioner’s Stock Is Complete without a line of Hanselman’s Famous Chocolates. Souvenir, %, 1 and 2 pound packages; Sweet Violets, % and 1 pound packages; Favorites, 4 — packages. Also full line packed in 5 poun HANSELMAN CANDY CO., Kalamazoo, Mich. 020000-000000-000000000000000000000000000000000 Put up in boxes. : ue 2 457) Shania... 5: 18 | Linseed, pure raw.. 43 46 WHOLESALE PRICE CURRENT. oe ia 8 Slicer: £ S a = Ba o> 2 = 2 nut, IES a fae teas 9 z anced— oschusCanton.... @ 40] Voes............... ae Sectnen Myristica, No. 1... 6@ . sau Seoieb, ,DeVo’s A g = Nux —- Se DOFAS.......... Os Sepia... ieee 150 18 | Soda Boras, Bat 9 8 u Paints BEL. LB es os 50 | Pe i aioe, & P. oda et Potass Tar 26 28| Red Venetian... ... 1% 2 @a — Gopal. snes <2" 1 150 138 oo Sodus 3 a @ 1 00| Soda, Carb...... 8) Genes, peliow thane. ine = Aceticum............ 8 ne a eee ioe 1 00| Prunus virg.. @ 50| Picis Liq. a, a, Bi-Carb....... 3@ 5| Ochre. yellow Ber.. 1% 2 @3 ——— 18 Exechiniios oer 1 1 10 ‘Wanehiciin doz.. @ 2 00| Soda, Ash........... 3%@ 4! Putty, commercial.. 2% 2%@3 B fc. 5 oe Brigeron ............ 1 1 10 Aconitum Napellis 60 Picis Liq., ; quarts... @100 Soda, Sulphas....... @ Z Putty, strictly pure. 2% 2%@3 48@ Gaultheria tees 1 1 6 Aconitum Napellis F 50 | Picis Liq., pints. .... @ 85 | Spts. Cologne........ _ @ 2 8 | Vermilion, Prime 3@ Geranium, ounce.. 1 hog 60 Pil Hydrarg. ..po. 80 @ 50} Spts. = — eee 50@ ‘ = American.......... 13@ 15 8@ Gossippii, Sem. gal.. 60 ‘Aloes and Myrrh.. 60 he a 35 g = a. Vini Rect. boi. g 254 png saa 2 oO 17 -+++D0. =| ener a0 reen, Paris ........ 2 Femamee ooo POOR YAS) Amiga acs > op aon 10g 13| Spr Vint Rect eel = 2 62 | Cre, Peninsular. 18 16 esa mbi Acet........ i a ae 1 40@ 1 80 ae S Pulvis Ipecac et Opii 1 10@ 1 20| Spts. Vini Rect. 5gal _ @ 2 64 a seo Os Mentha Piper....... 1 2 20] Benzoin............. 60 | Pyrethrum, boxes H. sanae Ce al. - _ days. a Whiting, white Span @ Ww Mentha Verid....... 1 1 60] Benzoin Co.......... 50 | , & P. D. Co., doz... @ 1 25 | Strychnia, Crystal... 1 40@ 1 45| whiting, gilders’. @ w Morrhue, gal....... 110@ 1 25] Barosma............ 50 ——, py. = ee Suni veseees ass Ww Thite, ~~ s Amer. @ 1 00 16 d 6 PS - co ’ @ : = ee ae = minis, &. PEW... 37 42 Tamarinds. ol Ne ll &8@ "; - ae: oe sh @ 1 40 gue! 20 der co oS 8 | Picis § Liaiiida. 17 10g wae pa pinta, & German. 7 * eT — 30 Universal Prepared. 1 00@ 1 15 coceceee GOD 5) FiCis Liquida....... 10@ 12] Cardamon........ uinia. el . pce oa 23 | Cardamon Co | Rubia Tinctorum... 12@ 14| Vanilla............. 9 dop16 00 jaca as “Sia eae 100) SaccharumLactis py 18@ _ 20| Zinei Sulph...2)/... 7 8 Rose Bee 50@ ne Relate 3 00@ 3 10 No. 1 Turp Coach... 1 10@ 1 20 CC 40@ 3 cena Poo 3) | Sanguis Draconis... 40@ 50 Olis Extra Turp........ 1 60@ 1 70 Sabina. ..... 90@ 100! Columba... 50 Ww. 10 7 BBL. GAL. Conch Boay Se 2 7@ 3 00 BOHEME... 2 50@ 700] Cubeba. ........... 50 “| Whale, winter....... 70 70) No.1 Tarp Furn.... 1 00@ Sassafras............ 55@ 60| Cassia Acutifol..___ 50 | Sapo, G @ = Lard, extra......... 55 60 | Extra Turk Damar.. 1 55@ 1 60 eines, ess., onnee. no if Cansts, Aontifol Co 50 Siediitz Mixture" 20 @ Lard, No. 1.......... 40 45|Jap.Dryer,No.1Turp 70@ 75 Hn 18 83@ 15 ween cee ores eeee inn vleniaiai renenee Suniperas..--+----- 6@ 8 Tyme opi “B16 Fer Ghiovidom 33 Xanthoxylum..::.: %@ 30) TRIMe, OPE-...---.. 18@ | 90 50 ee Sere we ares Balsamum Potassium Gentian Co.. a S Copaiba. ............ i RG os Pe Y ee @2% i teteees : — 2 Guiacaammon...... 60 Terabin, Canada. . 145@ 50 — 3@ Hyoscyamus ae 50 Tolutan.........--.-- 50@ 55 — a oo “ Iodin 6 Cortex Chlorate..po. i7@i9e 16@ 18 lodine, coloriess. -. a Abies, Canadian... 18 | Cyanide............. 35@ _ 40| Tobelia.. 2.222222. 50 Cages ..........-... = Iodide. ‘Bitart, puze 2 40@ 2 . Myrrh. ............ 50 ‘inchona Flava. .... re 2 ss cece atropurp 30 Potassa, Bitart, com : 15 Nix ro... vee . 9 Myrica —— po. 20 | Potass Nitras, opt.. 1 12 Opli, cam pee’ = Prunus Virgini...... 12 | Potass Nitras........ 1 ul ii; deodorized. 1 50 Quillaia, gr’d....... 12| Prussiate....... .. We a i 50 Sassafras...... po. 18 12| Sulphate po... ..... 15@ 18 50 Ulmus...po. 15, gr’d 15 50 Extractum % quamin ceon. 28 5A : Hematox,15lbbox. 11 12 = ee Soe ccs i = 5 50 MGs os : Geeonen. Sf... 16@ 17 Glychrrhiza . pv. 15 20 ee ydrastis Canaden . [liscellaneous Carbonate Preci 15 Hollebore Aiba, bo.. 20 tne’ Sots, Nit i f ae 3 k of B h f th son r, 8. = > Ss S Crate and ui . 2 %| Inula, po... 10... Alumen a 4@ 3 Our stock of Brushes for the seaso rate Soluble...... ume . us Ferrocyanidum Sol. 40 40 | Annatto aro “Po. i 50 of 1899 is complete and we invite Solut. Chloride..... 15 30 pevcemaed ne 5 " i Sulphate, com’l..... . 35 Antimoni PotassT 40@ 50 your orders. The line includes Sulphate, com’l, by 50 25 | Antipyrin.......... 35 suipliate, pure... 7 00 Ant eon eed 2) ulphate, pure ..... gen TAS, OZ . 35| Arsenicum.......... 1 12 | 1 d neu Sg &) Baim Gleed ud BB Flat Wall bound in rubber, @ 30@ 35|CaleiumChlor, is. @ 9 b d | h 0@ eee 40@ 45| Calcium Chior, %s. @ 10! rass an eather pe Simile ax, _— H @ 40 — Chior. 4s. $ = i Pp e t Barosma. 23@ milax, @ 2/ Cantharides, Rus. 1 P R d Cassia Acutifol, Tin- Sete... pois 10@ 12| Capsici Fructus. of, @ b Ova aint oun al n nevelly == =e = = —— ti- oa Gabetal ae 2 15 | h Cass ti olAlx,. 2@ WH; _ Gus, po............ 8. | Chi | V Sanaa omicinalis, 148 Valeriana. »Eng.po.30 = 25 oT . &. tS R@ 14! Ova 1se arn is a ee 12@ . Valorians, Ge German. 15 » — a. No. 40..... @3 -| 1 Ss h a r ra Alba........... 50@ eS ae %@ 27 | Cera ees 0g 8 Oval Chise as Oeedw \ Acacia, 1st picked... @ 6 - Cassia Fructus... _.. 33 | R S h Acacia, 2d Picked. @ 45) Anisum....... ites @ 12) Centraria........ 91.) 3 10° ound as q Acacia, 8d picked... @ 3% plum. ( = eons) 18@ 15| Cetaceum... 21.21! @ % D Acacia, sifted sorts. a 28 ‘ 4@ 6) Chloroform... |||.” 50@ 53 Whi t Wa sh Head Ss Acacia, po....... ... 80 Gan ste ee eeee Chloroform, squiths @ 110 1 e — Barb. ee “— = Cardamom... : 2 10 >a Hyd Crat. 1 =o 1 ~ oe, Cape ....po.15 @ 12) Corlandrum......... ondrus. .......... | Aloe, Socotri..po. 40 _@ 30 | Cannabis Sativa. : Hg 5 | Cinchonidine,P.& W 35 Ka somine eae = . ee teteeee 1 00 tp | Ginchonidine, Germ , eo ; = ° one 530 2 | Chenopodium... — V h nsoinum ......... 50@ 55 | Dipterix Odorate... 1 se 1 50 Corks, list, dis. pr.ct. 70 Flat arnis Catechu, Is.......... @ 13 Fosniculum sate sees Creosotum...... ... g 35 ° Catechu, 4s @ 14| Fonugreek, po....... reta.......... bbl. % 2 S uare and Chi sel Catechu, 3¢8...0..2.: . 2S 4 1% | Grom prep BB q Camph : 53@ 59 a or -bbl. 334 “4@ ‘4 Creta, precip @ 11 a ote Pherlaria Gina. 4 4% | Grocis 16 20 “43 ‘of enn. .u-..: rocus.. ... : J Ss. Gamboge po.....-.. 65@ 70 | Rapa . oc an Cudbear @ 2-4 All qualities at satisfactory prices Guaiacum..... po. @ 3 inapis Albu........ 10 Cupri Sulp! 64%4@s8 Kino. aT. po. 83.v0 2g 8 _ Sinapis a ese N@ 12 —— — 109, 8 i " BBEIS . ccc cece cces iritus ther Su i h Oppo. wide 9 sof 2 | Broment, WD. Co. 2 wap 2 a? numbers“ S 8 Camel Hair Varnis sO en Frumenti, D. F. R.. 2 00@ 2 25| Emery, oy - ere ec 2@ 35 anes. 1 1 50 | Ergota......... po. 40 30@ 35 I Fl Shellac, Biesched:<: 40@ 45 | Tintperls Go. 0... 1 eo 2 Flake @ White 2@ 15 Mottlers owing gacanth ......... Juniperis Co........ 1 %@ 3 50 pei te Herba Saacharum N. E.... 1 90@ 2 10 Gambier totes 3 B Color Absinthium..oz. pkg 25 | Spt. Vini Galli...... 1 %@ 6 50| Gelatin’ F aon tees 35@ 60 Eupatorium .oz. pkg ai 1 35@ 2 00 | Glassware flint, box % & 10 Lobelia... ..0z. pkg 95 | Vini Alba... 25@ 2 00 | Glassware, fint, box = Bad er Flowing onthe Pin on a = Sponges Glue, brown.. - @ 12) ’ Pro Florida sheeps’ woo! Glue, white......... 13@ 25 | d bl ee pre = carriage........... 2 50@ 2 7% | Glycerina..... e CE 4W@ 0 sing e or adou e Fannabuan oz. pkg 2 —s — Woo: wa “<< — ee = @ = Thymus, V..oz. pkg 2 | velvet extra memes” Hydraag Chior — @ 8 C.. H ‘ Pencils, etc. — — carl age..... @123 ease hos Sor. : % ined, Pat... 55@ 60| Extra yellows a ydraag Ox Rub’ eae. Pat... 2@ 22| wool. carriage.. @ 1 00 | Hydraag Ammoniati @ 1 10 Carbonate, K. & M.. 20@ % — —— wool, os c Hydrargyr ee = INE & PERKIN S Jennin 3@ 36| carriage........... @100| Hydrargyrum....... ee Hard, for slate use.. @ Ie ae 6Q 7% H AZEL I Oleam Yellow Reef, for Indige; 2 7@ 1 00 Absinthium......... 3 75@ 400} slate use.......... @140 Iodine, Resubi...... 3 60@ 3 70 Amygdale, Dulc.. 50 Suet Iodoform....... .... @ 4 20 D U le eee Ss ” Anis ---. LW@ 2 00} Acacia............. @ 50} Lycopodium........ Auranti Cortex. soe 24 2 50| Auranti Cortes. @ 50 ae eas oe 6 S MICH Be s 3 = —_— = = Liguor Arse n et Hy- @ 2% GRAN ; ° 7 fare 10G@.....5.... Gee pa 4 90 @ 0 LiquosPotassAzsinit 10o@ 12 % 508 oo Macnesia Sul bb 3 ng Ghenopadi 2% aqnesie, Gulp asa C «r nella. 5Q@ 50 *& §&0| Manthol "32 20 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN GROCERY PRICE CURRENT. The prices quoted in this list are for the trade onl dealers. ons of purchase. Subscribers are earnestly requeste f the greatest possible use to dealers. hey are prepared just before going to press and possible to give quotations suitable for a erage prices for average conditi those who have poor credit. our aim to make this feature o Cash buyers or y, in such are an accurate quantities as are usually purchased by retail index of the local market. It is im- 1 conditions of purchase, and those below are given as representing av- those of strong credit usually buy closer than d to point out any errors or omissions, as it is AXLE GREASE. CANDLES. doz. gross| 88................- oe 6 00 | 168 ..... : os 7 00} Paraffine a aon 0 ‘ = Winking 0 20 TXLGolden, tin boxes75 9 00 CATSUP. Tica, tin boxes....... ‘% 9 00| Columbia, pints.......... 2 00 Paragon... ....... ... 6 00 | Columbia, % pints.......... 1% BAKING POWDER. CHEESE Absolute. IRMES nid cee @ 12 "> cans dOz......-..-.-- 45 boy .. @ 12% Ip 3ans dos............. 95 | Emblem. @ Ib dos...... 1 50 | Gold Medal e — a wean 8 doecvcis $e] Rivard 3 a Sek ) Ib cans 1 dos............ 1 = Edam. @ 70 wocccccccce ceccecece core Leiden @ 17 Arctic. Limbu: @ 13 6 oz. Eng. Tumblers........ 85 | Pineapple. @ B BI Parity. Sap Sago. Ql” bh lb cans per dos....... - lb cans per dos...... --. 120] Bulk 6 1 Ibcans per dos......... 2 00| Red 7 Home. OCOLA lb Cans 4 doz case...... 35 alter Baker = lb cans 4 dos case...... 55 Walter &Ce.’s- Ib cans 2 doz case...... 90 su oa ee os eee wine . = Breakfast Cocos..... .. .....46 BVO ol 1b cans, 4 doz case...... 45 1b cans, 4 doz case...... 85 1b cans, 2 doz case...... 1 60 Jersey Cream. 1 1b. cans, per doz.......... 2 00 9 oz. cans, per doz.......... 123 6 oz. cans, per dos.......... 85 3 oz., 6 doz. Case...........- 2 6 oz., 4 doz. case ecu 4 11 = 5 lb., 1 dos. Case............ 9 BATH BRICK. ae 70 CLOTHES LINES. Sotton, 40 ft, per dosz....... Cotton, 50 ft, per dos....... 1 00 1 20 Cotton, 60 ft, per dos.......1 40 1 60 180 Cotton, 80 ft, per dos....... Jute, eo ft, per dos......... Jute. 72 ft. per dos.......... CREAM TARTAR. 5 and 10 1b. wooden boxes..... Bulk in sacks 30 29 CONDENSED MILK. 4 doz in case. Gail Borden Eagle......... 6% LT 6 2 Challenge... ......ccce..eeeeee = oe wece cect ee cces ceeees Tradesman Grade. 50 books, any denom.... 100 books, any denom.... 500 books, any denom.... 1,000 books, any denom.... 50 books, any denom.... 100 books, any denom.... 500 books any denom.... 1,080 books. any denom.... Su or e 50 books, any denom.... 100 books, any denom.... 500 books, any denom....11 50 Boon SS BSSs Sess 1,000 books, any denom....20 00 Cou Books, Can be made to oe any denomination from $10 down. 30 HOOKS ........-.- 0020. 100 SeGke. oc. 200 100 books .......-..2----- 8 00 OOKS. ... . ence 6 500 DOOKS.......----+--+++ 10 00 1000 booker. ....- — --. he oe Universal Grade. 50 books, any oo FEO 100 books, any .. 250 500 books, any --.13 1,000 books, any --20 00 hecks. 500, any one denom’n..... 3 00 1000, any one denom’n..... 5 00 2000, any one denom’n..... 8 00 Steel uni ese senels 6 DRIED a Sundried...........---- @7™%* Evaporated 50 lb boxes. @9% California Fruits. 30 - 40 25 1b boxes. .....- 1¢ cent less in 50 1b cases Raisins Small, Sdos................ i Se 19 | London Layers 2Crown. Large, 2 doz.......... c 7% | Milled ce ..20 | London Layers3 Crown. Bi ris. Java. Cluster 4 Crown.....----- No. 1 Carpet... ............ 2 10 | Interior ..........--..0-e++s--- 19 | Loose Muscatels2 Crown 5 No. 2 Carpet......... ...... 1 95 | Private Growth.............-- 99 | Loose Muscatels 3Crown = 6 No. 8 Carpet................ 1 63 | Mandehling..............---+- 21 | Loose Museatels 4Crown 7 SE 1 Mocha. L. M., Seeded, choice..... 8 Parior Gem ................ 2 23 | rmitation ° 20 L. M , Seeded, fancy...... 9% Common Whisk............ ae 3 FOREIGN. Fan ae Ct ee Citron. Warehouse. ..... 2 50 Roasted. Leghorn .......---+++ .----@12 CANNED GOODS. Clark-Jewell-WellsCo.’s Brands | Corsican..-...------------ @13 Tomatoes ............. 80@ 90 Fifth Avenue..... --...--- 29 Cu . @6 =e oe 80@1 00 | Jewell’s Arabian Mocha....29 | Patras bbis........-------- : Hominy ............... 80 bo — — > ava.. —— eS ee CABES.....- 3 ot ells ection Java..... , DUIK ....--+----- — — 30 | Sancaibo....... qc 21 Cleaned, packages eeseeeee @7 Beans, String.......... 7 Breakfast Blend........... . Beans, —_— 301 00 | Valley City Maracaibo. ..... 18% | Citron American _— = = Beans, Red Kidney... 75@ 85 | Ideal Blend..............--- 14 | Lemon American 101P Dx Q10% Succotash............. 95@1 20 | Leader Blend....... .- "*"!Tig% | Orange American 101b bx @ i = 50@ Package. ° Peas, French..... .... 225 Below are given New York —- = ——- g mpkin ............. v5) prices on package coffees, to! gnitana 2Crown......- @ Mushroom ...... ....- 15@ 22| which the wholesale dealer | cyitena 3 Crown. @ Peaches, Pie .......... 109 adds the local freight from} gyitana 4 Crown ee @ Peaches, Fancy....... 1 40 New York to your shipping | guitana 5 aa... ae Apples, 3-1b 90 point, giving you credit on the | cuitana 6 Crown..... Apples. gallons 2 75@2 80|invoice for the amount of | cuitana packag (om ears... oe pe Pineapple, grated..... 2 40 Pineapple, sliced...... 22 ee Farren....1 7 Strawberries .......... 110 Blackberries .......... 80 Raspberries ........... 8 Oysters, 1-Ib........... 85 Oysters, 2-lb........... 14 Salmon, Warren’s 1 49@1 60 Salmon, Alaska.......1 25 Salmon, Klondike..... 90 Lobsters, 1-Ib. Star....3 20 Lobsters, 2-Ib. Star....3 90 Macxerel,1 lb Mustard 10 Mackerel, 1-Ilb. Soused.1 75 Mackerel,1-ib Tomato.1 75 ee 00 Sardines, 44s domestic 3%@ Sardines, mstrd, dom.5: 7% Sardines, French...... 8 22 freight buyer pe s from the c. market in whi e purchases to his shipping point, including weight 0: package, also ¥c a -— In 60 1b. cases the list s 10c per 100 lbs. above the price in full cases. Arbuckle ...... ........ 4 @ gross Hummel’s foil % gross... Hummel’s tin c 5 gross DOXGS..... ....--+++++- Sul Be i o FARINACEOUS GOODS. 2411b. packages.......... 1 50 =a... 3 50 «+ ee0d 10 Herring. Holland white hoop, keg. 8lbs.......- FLAVORING Lem. 2oz. Taper Panel.. 7% 2 oz. Oval.......... % a EXTRACT Holland white hoop m Z. 3 oz. Taper Panel..1 35 4 oz. Taper Panel..1 60 HERBS. a ewoveccs ecccccccessssrere Hominy. merce .....- 2 50 Flake, 50 lb. drums....... 1 00 Dried Lima . ..... ee 4% Medium Hand Picked.... 1 10 Maccaroni and Vermicelli. Domestic, 10 lb. box...... 60 Imported, 25 Ib. box.. ... 2 50 Pearl Barley. Se 20 eer 2B Empire ...........2----00 2% Peas. Green, Wisconsin, bu..... 100 Green, Scotch, bu. ...... 1 10 Split, bu............ 0. Soe Rolled Oats. Rolled Avena, bbl.......4 % Monarch, bbl........... .4 00 Monarch, % bbl.......... 2 13 Monarch, 90 lb sacks...... 1 90 maker, cases. ...........3 20 UTON, CBBES......-.0- 200 2 00 German ............ Cowes 4 East India........... cc ae Tapioca Piake .......- _ Seca cess 5 BRT oc ce ew ce 4% Anchor, 40 1 lb. pkges.... 5% Wheat. Cracked, bulk.........-..- 3% 242 1b packages..... .....2 50 Salt Fish. Cod. Georges cured......... 4 Georges genuine...... 5 Georges selected...... 5% Strips or bricks.....-.. 6 @9 Holland white hoops, bbl. 9 25 Holland white hoop %bbl 5 25 70 80 no 7% 40 43 37 Ss. Van. 1 20 1 20 2 00 SAL SODA. 2 25) Granulated, bbis.......... % Granulated, 100 lb cases.. 90 .. 15| Lump, bbls. .... ......... %5 .. 15] Lump, 145]b kegs.......... 8 SAUERKRAUT. Madras, 5 a. 55 Barreig. 475 8. F., 2,3 ‘and 5 Ib Basee! mea iC Baerrelg..... 2.0... 2 60 GUNPOWDER. SNUFP. Rifle—Dupont’s. Scotch, in bladders......... 87 Maccaboy, in jars........... 85 Pete cccccccs coves cccesss = French ppee, in ‘ars... 43 ee 1. 30 9 3% 8 4B 60 2 40 11 135 4 En es ses eae 34| Mixed Bird............... 4% Mustard, white.......... 5 Bagie Dack—Dupont’ ‘Ss. Poppy Sqns bcee cic beecescecie 10 ee ‘eee 2” Half Kogs..........-.-+. eee er uarter Kegs... ....60+ soos De SALT. JELLY. Diamond Crystal. 15 Ib pails...........eee eee 35 | Table, cases, 24 3-lb boxes. .1 50 80 Ib pails... .... ..-.----. 65 Table, barrels, 100 3 1b bags.2 7% Table, barrels, 407 1b —- 40 LYB. Butter, perce ab id tbbage.2 30 tT r, 8, ~ Condensed, 2 aoe .......--- 120 Butter, sacks, eihe. cs. 25 Condensed. 4 dos.....------ 22 Butter, sacks, 56 lbs......... 55 a eee 30 Common Grades. - s alpepeesaee arenes ere %5 | 1003-Ibsacks..... 0 ........- 195 OLY... ee eeee cence eee es 14 | "0 5-lb sacks... 2.000000. 190 Pee 28 10-lb sacks...............1 65 MIN AT. . me 2 Worcester. Ideal, 3 dos. in case........- so 4 1b cartons it : o [aR Solo lcs MATCHES. 5 Ib. sacks.........-... 3% Diamond Match Co.’s brands. ; 2214 lb. sacks..... ....... 3 50 No. 9 sulphur........----+-- 165| 3010 lb. sacks............. 50 Anchor Parlor.....-..------- 1 70 | 28 lb. linen sacks............ 32 No. 2 Home......-..--++-+:> 1 10 | 56 1b. linen sacks........... . 60 Export Parlor......-.------ 4 00 | Bulk in barrels.............- 2 50 MOLASSES. Warsaw. How cae. 56-Ib dairy in drill bags..... 20 Black cece il 28-Ib dairy in drill bags..... 15 Good .......--- ae Fancy ......-- 24 Ashton. Open Kettle.........----+- 56-lb dairy in linen sacks... 60 alf-barrels 2c extra. MUSTARD. Higgins. Horse Radish, 1 doz......-.- 1 7% | 56-lb dairy in linen sacks... 60 Horse Radish, 2 doz.....---. 3 50 Bayle’s Celery, 1 doz.. ....- 1% Solar Rock. PIPES. SOib sacks...:....5........ 2 Clay, No. 216......-..------ 170 Clay, T. D. full count...... = Common. ee Granulated Fine............ 85 POTASH. Medium Fine............... 7% 48 cans in case. wabhiiis...........------- 408 SOAP. Penna Salt Co.’s......----- 3 00 PICKLES. JA > Ce) | ae Single bo 2 °5 ec eet 5 Barrels, 1,200 count........ 3 7% | 5 box lots, delivered........ 20 Half bbls, 600 count........ 2 38 | 10 box lots. delivered........ 2 75 Small. : Barrels, 2,400 count....... 4% Half bbis’ 1,200 count... .. 2 88 dAS. 8. KIRK & CO.’3 BRANDS. American Family, wrp’d....2 66 LSS iene 275 Cabinet........ piso sues ce 2 20 BOGOR oo. icc ocecssc secs vse 2 50 White Russian.............- 2 35 White Cloud, laundry......6 25 White Cloud, toilet......... 3 50 Dusky Diamond, 50 6 oz....2 10 Dusky Diamond, 50 8 oz....3 00 Blue India, 100 % Ib........- 3 00 Kirkoline.........:.ccccecess 3 50 NR oo oe eect ase oe ne 2 50 Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands. Old Country, 80 1-Ib. bars ..2 % Cheer, 60 1-1b. bars....3 7% Uno; 100 %-lb. bars.......... 2 50 Doll, 100 1 MIB Ss 4-0 2 0 Scouring. Sapolio, kitchen, 3 doz ..... 2 40 Sapolio, hand, 3 doz .......- 2 40 SODA. Kegs, English............... 4% ] j MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 21 SPICES. Pe r, ne Pepper, — white... Pepper, slios................ Pure Ground - —_ Allspice ... .... -.ke Cassia, Batavia Cassia, Saigon. Cloves, Zanzibar. Ginger, African. oe Ginger, Cochin............. 18 Ginger, Jamaica............23 ace, Batavia.............. Siagterd.--. cl : 12@18 oe. Pepper, Sing , black ........ 5 Pepper, Sing., white........ 22 Pepper, Cayenne............ . SYRUPS Corn. Leuiecssee secs cmen. 17 Half Dbis Nees ewes 19 1 doz. 1 gallon cans. --2 90 1 doz. % gallon cans...... 1 70 2 doz. 4% gallon cans ..... 1% Pure Cane. Kingsford’s Corn. 40 1-lb mares 2 6 201 1b aa ee a 614 Kingsford’s Silver Gloss. 40 1-lb —- <. Oe 6-lb bo . 2 miciiei = packages ..... --5 00 So. -5 00 Fs 10c and 64 packages. -5 00 Common Corn. 20 1 1b. packages.......... .. 5 40 1 lb. packages............. 4% Common Gloss. i-lb packages..............- 44 3-lb packages............... 4% 6lb peckages............... 5 40 and 50 lb boxes........... 3 Bama oe 3 STOVE POLISH. Sen = ~ = ; N Pea SerLeAt S4 aes No. 4, 3 doz in case, gross.. 4 50 No. 6, 3 doz in case, gross.. 7 20 SUGAR. _ Below are given New York prices on sugars, to which the wholesale dealer adds the local —_ from —_ —_ to your 8 ng poin ving you aionlt a the invoice for the amount of freight buyer pays from the market in which he ——- to his ship pping point, nelu — or the weight o the barrel. ee 5 25 .-5 50 5 50 5 13 5 25 5 13 5 00 5 Ou 5 CO .-5 13 Extra ee Granulated... .5 13 Moeuid Ao. 5 25 Diamond Confec. A........ 5 00 —. Standard A......... - = No 3 Seco se cee deci 4 63 We Soo 4 63 Oe 6 ss os 4 56 No. 5 ...4 50 Me Oo 444 Nee Foc 4 38 MG Be 431 Ne. 9... 3. 5. 45 Ne: 302.30... -. 419 ee Te ee 419 No. 122... . 419 5. ne eS A Ae 419 No. - ...4 19 Dee te 419 We 6... ...., A. oe TOBACCOS. Cigars. Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s brand. New Hriek......... 5. os. 33 00 H. & P. Drug Co.’s brand. Gumietie .. 2:26. oo: 35 00 G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s brand. c iN Se Ww... ---35 00 Ruhe Bros. Co.’s Brands. Double Eagles. 6 — $55@70 00 Gen. Maceo, 5sizes.... 55@70 Mr. Thomas........... 35 00 Cuban Hand Made.. Crown Five........... 3 gnal Fiv Knights of Pythias. Key West Perfects, 282 55@ Q e so 2 3 GRR RRR ssssessss 8 TABLE SAUCES. Lea & Perrin’s, large... 4 Lea & Perrin’ 8, small... 2 Halford, large........... Halford sm iL Bose eae Salad Dressing, large..... Salad Dressing, small..... VINEGAR. Malt White Wine, 40 grain.... § Malt White Wine, 80 grain.. <= et RARAAT Pure Cider, Red Star.......... Pure Cider, Robinson......... ii WICKING. Ne. @; porgross............ 20 ONG: 1 pergrogs. oo... 8. 25 No. 2, POreroes....-... 35 No. 3, PCPSrOes 6c 55 Crackers. The National Biscuit Co. quotes as follows: a Seymour 22x . 5... Seymour 22x, ‘3 1b. carton - Momily MAA... ol... 5% Salte ted ae ae 6 New York XXx............ 6 WOlvering ....... 22. ....:_. 6 OGG ee ae Soda. a Xxx. 6 Soda eS 3 ib carton. 6% Bods, Clty ec Long Inland Wafers....... 11 L. I. Wafers, 1 lb carton .. 12 Zephyrette....... ......... 0 Oyster. Saltine Wafer.............. 5% Saltine Wafer, 1lb. carton. 6% Farina Oyster.............. 5% Extra Farina Oyster....... 6 - SWEET GOODS—Boxes. MPO oe oS 10% iBents Water.....:......... 15 Cocoanut Taffy............ 10 Coffee Cake, Java.......... lu Coffee Cake, Iced...... ... 10 Crachmerin...... 6. ke 15% Chinas 22: oc 11% Frosted Cream cee. Se Ginger Gems....... 8 Ginger Snaps, XXX 1% Graham Crackers 8 Graham Wafers. . - 10 Grand Ma Cakes .9 Imperials ...... 8 Jumbples, Hone: 11% Marshmallow ......... 15 Marshmallow Creams..... 16 Marshmallow — 16 Mich. Frosted Honey.. 12% Molasses — ie Soca c ees Newton . Lipeceoecas ie Me Noo ecg caw ee 8 Orange Gems............... 8 Penny Assorted Cakes..... 8% Pretzels, hand made ..... 1% Sears tunel. ........<..... 7 Sugars Cake... ..........:. 8 Sugar Squares............ 9 Vanilla Wafers ........... 14 SHIGRAS .... |... 28.3... 12% Oils. Barrels. @11% Exe W. W.Mich.Halt = W W Michigan........ 9% Diamond Bac ese. . @ &% BR Ae 12% Deo. Naptha .......... 124% NEE ccc coc ss . B'sack, winter........ 8 Candies. Grains and Feedstuffs Provisions. Stick Candy. Wheat Pos « Company quote as bbis, a Wheat........ 00-2000 seer 68 Barreled Pork Standard............ 6%@ 7 Winter Wheat Flour. Mess * 10 00 en eee S4Q 7 Local Brands. ae a T4@ 8 | Patents.... ...... 4 00| Clear back.......... @10 00 Pe @ 8 | Second Patent..... 3 50 | Short cut............-00++ 10 seaee | StemigMt. ............. ht ee ccs sueas 13 75 Jumbo, 32 1b ........ @ 6% | Clear........ccccsscceeeeess 0 9 50 Extra H.H.......... @ 8% CMM 3 50 Family 11 Ou Boston Cream...... @10 Buckwheat . ; 4 10 i seats Set eere- Subject to usual cash dis- es tetecce sreceeeee Sie Grocers........ @6é | cou os = Competition @ 6% Flour in bbls., 25¢ per bbl. ad- | “*% SHOTIS...-.-------- ——- @7 | ditional. a A a “- onserve 7 " 9 ene yal .. ¢ a aoa Pn. ae Hams, 14 1b average ... 814 Ribbon... @ 8% Daisy, ee ae ua 3 40 Hams, 16 1b average..... 7% a. 7 “ @ 7% | Daisy, 4s... 1. ls cscse cee 3 40 — ieee steee = Ptbeat ll BS ee ee | a erica pect... English Rock....... g § | Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand. | Shoulders (N. Y. cut). 5% Kindergarten....... @ 8% — WBS. --e seers eee eens 3 59 | Bacon, clear............ @7% French Crean...... @9 ee 3 50 | California hams......... 4 Dandy Pan.......... @io | Quaker, = ee 3 50 | Boneless hams........... Hand Made Creammxd @I13 Spri Wheat Flo Cooked ham............ iogi2it Clark- Sewell- Wells Co.’s Brand. Lards. In Tierces. a ae Pillsbury’s Best 48........ 4 6¢ | Compound............0.- 4 Lozenges, plain..... Sbury’s Best }4s........ Ce. 634 Lozenges, a. @ = Pillsbury’s Best %s........ 4 40/55 1b Tubs....... advance Choc. Drops........ 10% | Pillsbury’s Best %s paper. 4 40 | 80 lb Tubs....... advance Choc. Monumentals @i2 | Pillsbury’s Best 44s paper. 4 40 | 501b Tins ....... advance % Gum Drops......... @ 5 | Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand. | 20 lb Pails....... advance 56 Moss Drops......... @s8 Olb Pails....... advance % Sour Drops.......... @ 8% 5 lb Pails....... advance 1 Tmnperials ........... @9 31b Pails Sate o advance 1% Fancy—In gs Ib. Boxes. Bologna Heies main a a Lemon Drops....... @50 Liver.... 6% Sour Drops. Sc ccaie @50 Brankfort....:........... 7% Peppermint Drops.. @e0 ee. 6% Choeolate Drops.. @60 GG 6 H. M. Choe. Drops... @b Wemgne . ... 9 H. M. Choe. Lt. and Head cheese............. 6% Dia Co @90 Beef. Gum Drops......... @30 Extra Mess.............. 10 25 Licorice Drops...... 75 DOMCMIN oo... 12 75 A. B. Licorice a ee oe 12 50 Lozenges, plain.. @50 Pigs’ Feet Lozenges, printed.. @50 Kits, 15 lbs : 70 Imperi rials @50 4 bbls 40 Ibs a 13 Mottoes...... @55 % b bbls, 801 a 2 50 Cream Bar @50 Ceeooers.eooe Molasses Bar . @50 Tripe. Hand Made Creams. 80 @ 90 ——————— Cream Buttons, Pep. ag bbls, 40 Ibe...... 2.2... 1% Pe — peed. @e ce aoa. a ring CK......... | @60 | Duluth Imperial. \s....... ings. Burnt Almonds...--1 25 =" Duluth ee a lee oe ae ntergreen Berries @50 | Duluth Imperial, %s....... 4 20 —— rounds. ee 3 Caramels. Lemon & Wheeler Co.’s ; Brand. aa —_ Tn sg No. 1 wrapped, 2 Ib. Gold Medal }s............. 4 40 Ba itterine. bexes @35 | Gold Medal ¥s............. 30 | Rolls dairy............. 10% No.1 a 3 Ib. a ee a, ‘ = Solid; dairy........... 10 des ee ra @50 arisian, 48.. Site ccccs am ee , No. 0, 2 wrapped, 2 ib. Parisian, 48........... -.. 4 30 Rolls, a CU ee (Paria, 3600202... 4 20 Cann eats. Olney & Judson ’s Brand. Corned beef, 2 lb...... 215 F Ceresota, 78 Sul citesa sera satel oe 40 | Corned beef, 14 lb....... 14 75 ruits. Ceresota, qa...... ae 4 30| Roast beef, 21b....... 2 15 Caress, 4a. ............. 20| Potted ham, ‘4s....... 50 Oranges. Worden es Go.*s Brand. | Potted Hom, 4a....... @ Bannon %68. ...............- 4 40] Deviledham, ‘s....... 50 yence Navels....... @3 % | Laurel, 4s................. 430|Deviledham, \s....... 90 Choteg. @s (0 | Lamrel, $68.................. 3 20! Potted tongue ¥¥s.. 50 a eal. Potted tongue s....... 90 Stxtethy chad = sine Bolted soa vest au 1 90 oice Passe 200. Strictly choice 300s.. @3 50 Feed and Millstufts. F resh Meats. — «e+e + @3 75] gt, Car Feed. screened ....16 50 — et 3008. . @4 00 | No. 1 Corn and Oats....... 16 00 Beef. — @+ 00 | Unbolted Corn Meal....... 15 F0 Carcass ............... 64@ 8 Bananas. Winter Wheat Bran.. 4 00 La —- Sea a aicele 5 @ 6% Medium bunches. . = = @1 2% ae Middlings. 8 3 Loins No. 22.____ The Hardware Market. General trade is very fair, although the extreme cold weather of the last few weeks has had a very serious effect upon the retail trade in the various towns tributary to Grand Rapids. In _ the Eastern markets, and among manufac turers generally, everything is running at full blast and prices are advancing faster than the ordinary merchant can keep track of them. On many goods it is not believed that there will be any further decline, as prices made pre- viously were considered far below the cost of production. Barbed and Plain Wire—The many advances that have taken place on these articles have now brought it up so that jobbers are quoting painted barbed wire at $2, galvanized at $2.40 from stock, and price from mill is generally 20 cents less. The advance on galvanized wire has been made 4oc, instead of 35c, as formerly, and this applies to all kinds of plain wire, the same as barbed. Wire Nails—In sympathy with the general advance in wire and steel, the presert price on wire nails, shipped from stock, is from $1.85@1.90, depend- ing on quantity, and from mill at $1.70. Miscel aneous—All kinds of sleigh shoe and cutter steels have advanced in the neighborhood of 20c per cwt. Gal- vanized tubs and pails have advanced from 25c@$1 per dozen. Poultry netting is firm at 85 per cent. off. Wire cloth has advanced $1 per hundred square feet. Galvanized iron has advanced so the bottom price now obtainable is 75 per cent. discount from list. Copper rivets are held firmly at 45 per cent. discount. All kinds of tinware, both pieced and pressed, are 15@2o per cent. higher. There has been no advance as yet on steel goods, but one is looked for early in the season. Wrought single- tree iron and wagon hardware have ad- vanced 20 per cent. Deep well and cistern pumps of ail kinds, as well as cast sinks, are 15 per cent. higher than formerly. A general advance of $1 per dozen has been made on all kinds of wheelbarrows, which now makes the cheapest kind with wood wheel at $12 per dozen, and $1 extra for steel wheels. In fact, there is hardly a thing in the hardware business to-day which is not feeling the effects of advances that have taken place in all lines of steel and many other products. —_—__—_.>9<——————_ Behind the Times. ‘*Who is that?’’ asked the school- boy’s father as he glanced through the textbook, ‘“‘Why, that’s Atlas. He was sup- posed to hold the whole world on his shoulders.’’ If he ‘‘H’m He wasn’t up to date. had lived in history he would have or- ganized a few corporations and tried to put it in his pocket.’’ +O - No oe cal suppose, ' said Uncle Jerry Peebles, ‘‘the hcttest place on earth is the stoke-hole of an iron battleship in action.’’ ‘*There is one hotter,’’ remarked Un- cle Allen Sparks. ‘‘It’s the place where a young husband sits when he carves his tirst turkey for company. DODODOQOODO DOOQOOQOODO SF QDOQOOQOOGE © | Wall Paper Dealers Attention Have you bought your Spring Stock? Do you need any Wall Paper to sort up your stock? Remember that we are the only jobbers in Michigan. The line of Wall Papers we show this spring can not beequaled. We represent fifteen of the leading factories in the United States. Our prices, terms and discounts we guarantee to be identically the same as fac- tory we represent. Correspondence Invited. Heystek & Canfield Co., The Wall Paper Jobbers. Grand Rapids, Mich. Hardware Price Current. AUGURS AND BITS ee Jenning —_ Se eee det atedce ccc gas : e810 Jennings imitation . Sete ceeen sen 5 OURO AXES First Quality, S. B. Bronze ................. 5 00 First Quality, D. B. Bronze................. 9 50 First Quality, S. B.S. Steel...... .......... 550 First Quality, D. B. Steel ................ ... 10 50 BARROWS EO ee 812 00 14 00 Garden....... a net 30 00 BOLTS Pn i 60&10 Carriage HOW MM i o. 70 to 75 Sede es sca es Soeueee eau cael co. 50 BUCKETS Well, plain..... .. oe bead $33 BUTTS, ‘CAST Cast Loose Pin, figured......... ........... 70&10 Wrouget Narrow. --...... . 1... LL... 70&10 BLOCKS Ordinary Tackle.... ......... oe ee 70 CROW BARS Cast Steck --per lb 4 Ely’s 1-10.. —_ y’s oe se: eooee-DOPM 66 Rekee eo oa m es ee se perm 45 Musket -....perm 75 CARTRIDGES ae Pie ee 40&10 Corer Pe CHISELS Socket Firmer............... 45 Socket Framing............ % Socket Corner........ 7% Socket Slicks............... 75 DRILLS Morse’s Bit Stocks ............. be 60 Taper and Straight Shank................... 50& 5 Morse’s Taper Shank...... ......... 2.2... .. 50& 5 ELBOWS Com. 4 pices, Gin...... .. 2.2... doz. net 30 COmGAG i l. 1 25 Aasnetae dis 40&10 EXPANSIVE BITS Clark’s small, 818; large, eee 30&10 Ives’, 1, $18; 2, $24; 3 oe. 25 PILES—New = New American . . . 70&10 Nicholson’s.. eee ce oot Heller’s Horse "Rasps. . 5 -66&10 GALVANIZED IRON Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; = oe 28 List 12 13 14 is. ee 17 Discount, 70-10 to 7% GAUGES Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s............... 60&10 KNOBS—New List Door, mineral, jap. trimmings.... ......... 70 Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings............ 80 MATTOCKS (ee TPO i cl 816 00, dis 60&10 Home Bye $15 00, dis 60&10 PE. 818 50, dis 20&10 MILLS Cofioc, Parkers Cov’s..................:..... 40 Coffee, P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s ee 40 Coffee, Landers sone & oe <. : 40 Coffee, Enterprise. 30 MOLASSES GATES" Stebbin’s Pattern........ Stebbin’s Genuine.... . Enterprise, self-measuring ee eg NAILS Advance over base, on both Steel and — Steel nails, base..... ... 1 89 Wire nails, base. . eke cl Os 20 to 60 advance............s.c.sceseee cee Base ite te aucvenee. «oe 05 SSA a wag 10 6 advance 20 MR 30 3 advance. 45 2 advance. 70 Fine 3 advance.. 50 Casing 10 advance. 15 Casing 8 advance... 25 Casing 6 advance. 35 Finish 10 advance. 25 Finish 8 advance. 35 Finish 6 advance... co. 45 Barrel % ad@vamee.... 85 PLANES Ohio Tool Co.’s, faney...................... @50 Sciota Bench a 60 Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fanc @50 Honeh, firstquality.......................... @50 Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s wood......... 60 PANS Fry, Acm: ee Oto Common, ain. Les co eee — T0& 5 RIVETS dronmand Tiined ... wk. 60 Copper Rivets and Burs..................... 45 PATENT PLANISHED IRON “A” Wood’s patent —— Nos. 24 to 27 10 20 -*B” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 25 to 27 9 20 Broken packages %c per pound extra. HAMMERS Mavdole & Co.’s, new list........ ...... dis 233 ee dis 2 Woermes G Plumbs...:.................... dis 0&10 Maenn’s SaliA Cact Staal Me tI Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel Hand 30c list 50810 HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS Stamped Tin Ware ...... ....-.... new list —_ japesnod Tin Ware...:.....-....-.......... 20&10 HOLLOW WARB EE MONON oc. Lede ceeeae on 60&10 ea cane on -.. 60&10 HINGES =. oe 1, 2, . Dee aes wane ece dis 60&10 Sta! .. per doz. net 2 58 ROPES Sisal \ inch and larger . foe. 8% Mantes... Ha 9% WIRE GOODS eee oe 80 Screw —_ Bee case dee a ace gs 80 Oe i ou 80 Gate Hooks and we ee 80 \ PVELS Stanley Rule and Level “o.’s............ dis 70 SQUARES ee eS ee i 70&10 Wee ane eve i... ot. tl... 60 ee oo. 50 SHPET IRON com. smooth. com. mom Mtert.. $2 70 40 OE eee 2 40 EE 2 80 2 45 OE EE 2 55 Nos. % to 2....... a 3 10 2 6 ie, ee ee, 2% 3 20 All sheets No. 18 and lighter, over 30 inches wide not less bea 2-10 extra. ND PAPER List acct. 19, 6° Ee eee eed ed ae oa dis 50 SASH WEIGHTS ene Bee per ton 20 00 TRAPS Steel Gaines... vue 75&10 Oneida Community, Newhouse’s....... Oneida Community, Hawley & — 70&10 Mmoung, Gomer... ....... 22... per doz 15 Mouse, delusion................. per doz 1 26 WIRE ees Wee... ty. S (Amposses Wares. .......... 2.5.1... a... Commer Maree 70810 es We i. 62% Coppered Spring Steel.. Oh heecesae @ Barbed Fence, galvanized _ Ls ee ee .. 2oe Barbed Fence, pane Sedona ORSE NAILS» ee... dis 40&1C Oe 5 Caper. .- 18d... --...-.., BES RE WRENCHES Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.............. 30 OO —— 40 Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought ....... 7 Coe’s Patent, malleable. .................... 75 MISCELLANEOUS me Coe... Ce 4) Pumps, Cistern............ beet gee a ues 7 Sevows, New Tim... .................... 35 Casters, Bed and Piaie.. - 50&10&10 Dampers, American........... ......... 50 METALS—Zinc Gee pound casket 8 ee 8% SHOT 1 45 1 70 @% 17 The prices of the many other qualities of so:der in the market indicated by private brands vary according to composition. TIN—Melyn Grade Mute 1, Chiareees... $5 7% 14x20 IC, ee 5 75 20x14 Ix, Ciereea: ............... _. Fe Each additional X on this grade, $1.25. TIN—Allaway Grade — me, Chameems dc . ... 450 Piece Ciareen!...... ..... ......-...... 43@ 10x14 IX, Chareea).... ee 14x20 1x, Charcoal . - Soe Each additional X on this grade. 81.50. ROOFING PLATES 14x20 IC, Charcoal, Dean..................2. 4 50 14x20 IX, Charcoal, Dean ........ .......... 5 50 20x28 IC, Charcoal, Dean........ ..., 2a 14x20 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade......... 4 00 14x20 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade......... 5 00 20x28 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade......... 00 8 20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade......... 10 00 14x56 IX fn. = TIN PLATE x , for No. ers, 14x56 IX. for No 9 Boilers. { per pound... 10 The “Concave” Washboard GLOBE CRIMP, Per Doz., $2. SAVES THE WASH. SAVES THE WASHER. 24 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN The Cost of Labor. From the New York Sun. We have not as a people begun to realize until recently the full truth and meaning of the economic axiom that the cost of labor is to be measured not by the wages paid but by the value of the product. We may pay much higher wages than any country of Europe, but the labor cost of our manufactures is less than that of Europe, because by superior machinery and more highly trained skill in managing it one of our workmen can turn out a better product and a good deal more of it in a day. Last year, when a Philadelphia iron firm underbid British manufacturers for the supply of 1,000 tons of iron piping to the city of Glasgow, it was surmised by Glasgow’s astounded City Council that the Philadelphia firm was paying smaller wages to its workmen. It was found that higher wages were paid to the American workmen, who, however, produced, per man, in the same time, over 25 per cent. more piping than the British. The Americans could sell their product in Glasgow, 3,000 miles away, at the smaller price. Mr. Jeans, Secretary of the British Iron Trade Association, said recently that the labor cost of making a ton of billets and rails in America is now from 25 to 35 per cent. less than in Great Britain. Operatives making a certain grade of shoes in Massachusetts receive three times the wages of German operatives, but our shoemaking machinery has re- duced the cost of the American product to 40 cents a pair, while the same grade of shoes made in Germany costs 58 cents a pair. This country is competing successfully with the rest of the world, not by de- manding from its workmen twelve hours’ labor at meagre wages, but by using well-paid labor and the best ma- chinery to improve the quality and in- crease the quantity of its products. We are increasing the economy of labor without reducing the wages of the arti- san. 0 Orange Industry of Louisiana Ruined. New Orleans, Feb. 1g—It is now pos- sible to form some estimate of the amount of damage done by the late cold wave and it proves to be far greater than was at first imagined. The investiga- tion conducted has shown that the orange industry of Louisiana is completely at an end. Both old trees and young have been absolutely killed by the freeze and will never bear again. The orange groves of Plaquemine parish, which produced about $750,000 worth of oranges a year ago, represent an investment otf $4,000,000 to $5,000,000. A very large number of young trees had been planted this year. Whether the planters wili piant again is doubtful. The crop, which was cultivated without loss for a hundred years, has met with two heavy blows in the past nine years, and is to- day totally annihilated. The report as to sugar cane is bad, but not quite as serious. Investigations conducted by Prof. Stubbs at the United States sugar experiment farm at Audu- bon Park, a specially well-protected lo- cality, where the cane is safer than at almost any other place in Louisiana, showed that the ground was completely frozen to a depth of eight inches. The stubble cane, that which was cut down and which sends out a second, third and even fourth year’s growth, was destroyed. The plant cane held over for planting, which was to begin this month, is frozen, and at least half the eyes, or sprouts, have been killed by the cold. This means a loss of 150,000 tons of sugar as ;compared with an average year. The actual loss from this source will not be less than $5,000, 000. —_ -- ~~ 8 Status of the St. Louis Potato Market. St. Louis, Mo., Feb. 20—The market is active here. The movement in every kind of fryit and produce has been heavy since the weather moderated. The late cold spell and blizzards have been the most severe ever known here, doing much damage and causing heavy losses. Owing to the intensely cold weather, no shipping could be done; in fact, not a whee: turned, and it has made a rush for stuff temporarily. The market is now assuming normal pro- portions. During the cold weather, the thermometer ranged close to zero and down to 24 degrees below constantly, with no let-up. The market on potatoes is very un- settled. Holders of stock bardly know what price to ask. It all depends on bow anxious a buyer is and how badly he needs stock. Stock free from frost is sought after, but most of the stock carried on track through the severe cold spell is more or less frosted and sucb has to be sold according to condition and quality. Stock carried so long on track under heavy fire does not look as well as fresh loaded potatoes. Since the weather moderated last week, the local demand has been good. Varieties made but little difference. There has been a wide range of prices and the market has not settled to a safe basis, and it is too soon after the cold weather to pre- dict what the market is going to do, but the general impression seems to be that after the market settles, oid prices be- fore the freeze will again prevail. We hear some reports of damage to potatoes in ‘‘cellars and pits.’’ mostly from Central Michigan, but from what we hear from reliable sources, we do not believe much stock is destroyed— not enough to cut any figure in the mar- ket. Reports say the movement at loading stations has commenced, and i a few days all markets will again be well supplied and old prices prevail. MILLER & TEASDALE Co. ++» 0-.____ Remarkable Record for a Banker. From the Marshall Statesman. Gen. Gorham’s record as a_ banker is an enviable one, indeed. The General relates with just pride, although witb- out boasting, that he opened up a small banking institution in Marshall in 1840. In 1865, by special request of the Bank- ing Department at Washington, he as- sociated with him twelve representative citizens and organized the First Na- tional Bank, with a capital of $100,000. Notwithstanding the hoodoo numeral the institution was lucky from its very in- ception. Gen. Gorham was its first President, and for thirty-two years he held down the job, having been suc- ceeded by his son, S. H. Gorbam, about a year ago. During the sixty-five years Gen. Gorham was connected with the bank it never had a piece of paper dishonored or discounted and never bor- rowed any money. This is a claim few banks of so long standing can make. —____>-6 >. The James Stewart Co. to Continue . in Business. From the Saginaw Courier Herald, Feb. 16. The Courier-Herald stated some days ago that negotiations were pending for the sale a the stock of the wholesale grocery house of the James Stewart Co., which was true, but these negotiations have fallen through. Yesterday Col. A. T. Bliss received an offer in cash for the entire stock of the Stewart Co, as per inventory,at Ioo cents on the dollar, with a lease of the building at a renta! of $2,500 per annum, but this was declined, and the business will be continued at the old stand, as heretofore. a A doctor recently hurried into a Mon roe street drug store. ‘‘I’ve just been called to attend the Croesus baby,’’ he said,s'‘and I've given a prescription that cails for nothing but paregoric. When they send %it over here you must tell them it will take at least an hour to put it up, and the cost will be $3.50. That’s the only way to make them think I’m any good, the medicine’s any good and you’re any good, and I want to keep their business. ’’ —__-_-> 4-2 G. E. DeGolia has purchased the in- terest of bis partner, Chas. A. Payne, in the grocery firm of Payne & DeGolia at 3 Robinson avenue Mr. Payne has formed a copartaership with Jessie A. Merrill and opened a grocery store at 38 South Division street under the style of J. A. Merrill & Co. The Arm as a Trade Emblem. From the New York Sun. The brawny arm of man, holding an uplifted hammer, is often seen in one place and another, painted or in sculp- tured form, and as a trade emblem. There is at least one instance in the city of the use of the more graceful feminine arm for this purpose. In this case the arm holds an uplifted flatiron, and it appears painted upon the side of a laundry wagon. >_> —_ Grand Rapids—Rufus Boer, for many years salesman and floor walker for the dry goods firm of Voigt, Herpolsheimer & Co, bas taken a position as salesman in the wholesale department of the mil- linery establishment of Corl, Knott & Co. > 2-2. ___ Shelby—J. Mikesell & Co., proprie- tors of the canning factory at Charlotte, offer to remove their factory to this place, providing a bonus of $3,000 is forthcoming. —__—o 4-2 A man in poor circumstances is out lecturing on ‘‘The Money of the Fu- ture.’’ He expects to get it. ——_> 4s In Russia you must marry before 80 or not at all, and you may marry only five times. —— —> 2. — The man who plays slot machines for a living will find himself financially in a hole. There are many poor families who can keep fat dogs. WANTS COLUMN. Advertisements will be inserted under this head for two cents a word the first insertion and one cent a word for each su uent in- sertion. No advertisements taken for than ascents. Advance payment. BUSINESS CHANCES. OR SALE—HALF INTEREST IN OLD Es tablished m+ at market, located in excellent residence district of Grand Kapids. Investiga- tion solicited. Address-No. 86>, care Michigan Tradesman. 866 OR SALE- BEST GROCERY BU*INESS in Grand Rapids. Stock clean and active. Trade well established. Right man can easily clear $3,000 per year Terms easy. Rent low. Address No. 864. care Michigan Tradesman. 86, OR SALE—DRUG STOCK AND FIXTURES, including a fine soda fountain, which will invoice ahout $2,500. Will be sold at great re duction if taken at once. Located in one of the finest corner blocksin a town of 4,070 inhabit- ants. For information address H. F. Marsh, 861 Allegan, Mich. ALESWAN— ENTLEMAN OR FIRM OF undoubted ——— for sole patent- ees and manufacturers of folding baby car- riages and go-carts; commission basis; must carry stock. Full particulars, Patent Folding Carriage (‘o., 13° Broadway, New York. 82 OR SALE— CLEAN HARDWARE STOCK located at one of the best trading pointe in Michigan. Stock will inventory about $5, 00. Store a: d warehouse will be rented for 830 per month. Will sell on easy terms. Address No. 868, care Mich gan Tradesman. 868 OR SALE—DRUG STORE. 10-YEAR-OLD stand. with a good business in a live city of 4,00 inhabit«nts and 10° miles east of Chicago; must sellon account of death of marager; a good opening for some mau who wishes to in vest about $1.200. Address Lock Box £61, Dowagiac, Mich. 867 ALAMAZOO S.STERN, WHO HaS OPEN- «da wholesale paper house at 217 East Main street, will conduct the business under style of the Star Paper Co. PUR SA! E—'1 HREE LOTS AND DEsIRABLE residence property at 37 Arthur avenue, Grand Rapids. Properiy cost $3,500 at low valuation. Will sell cheap forcash or exchange for clean stock of merchandise. B.N. Pickard, Leland, Mich. 860 ANTED—ENERGETIC SALESMAN FOR our lubricating oil» and boiler compound; experience easi y acquired ; liberal inducements; position permanent. Mvuhawk Refining Co., Cleveland, Ohio. 859 VOR SALE—A KARE OPPORTUNITY —A flourishing business; clean stock of shoes and furnishing goods; established cash trade; best store and location in cits located amon: the best iron mines in the country; prospect o: @ boom and guod times a certainty; rent free from January 1 to July 1, °99; no trade con- sidered : will sell for cash only; failing health reason for selling. dress P. O. Box 204, Negaunee, Mich OR SALE GENERAL sTOCK LOCATED at good trading point convenient to market; fine farming country; place na urally tributary to large trade in butter and eggs. Address for particulars J.C. McLaughlin & Co., Montgom- ery, Mich. 864 R SALE—STOCK OF DRUGS AND GRO- ceries, about $2,00u. Will sell drugs or gro- ceries or both; good trade: reason for selliug, ill health. Address S. & D., B:anchard, _— LERKS WANTED TO SELL A LINE OF merchants’ spe: ialties; easy work; big com- missions; work after business hours. Address W. R. Adams & Cu., 35 Congress St., W., Detroit, Mich. 856 ‘OR SALE—ONLY STOCK OF GEN: RAL merchandise in small town in Central Mich- igan; on railruad; doing strictly cash business; staple goods as good as new; wil: invuice about $2,000. Owners desire to devote entire attention to butter and egg business. Perrinton, Mich. ANTED, HAY—ONE HUNDRED CAR- loads No. 2 Timothy hay per month de- livered here. Name lowest price, quantity and when can make delivery. Richmond City Mills o , Richmond, Va. 850 HE LION BREWERY FOR SALE. REA- son for selling, poor health. Address Mrs. Augustin Leins, 1227 Chisholm St., Alpena, Mich. 849 AFE INVESTMALNT—IN THE WAY OF A very large fire proof safe, with burglar proof chest, at one-quarter the original cost. Forde scription and price, write E. King & Sons, Lis- bon, Mich. 857 )UR SALE—A SHINGLE AND sAW MILL Stroup & Carmer, 853 with 30 horse power engine and boiler, all in good order. ould trade for general mer- chandise. For particulars, address Box 7, Mt. Pleasant, Mich. 839 )}OR SALE—MY TINNING AND PLUMBING works; also my variety store; located in one of the best towns in Michigan. This will pay you to investigate. Best of reasons for selling. Address W G Andrus, Otsego, Mich. 4 EAS—WANTsD, 5 CARLUADS OF SMALL Wh.te Canada Field Peas, and 2 carlo-ds of Black Eye Marrowfat Peas. Mail -amples and state lowest price for prompt cash. Addvess Jerome B. Ric- & Co., Cambridge, N. Y. 813 YOR SALE—TUFT’S SODA FUUNTAIN, complete, in good order, with three draught tubes and ten syrup tubes and 5x8 foot marble slabs. Address Haseltine & Perkins Drug Co., Grand Rapids. 827 1 EXCHANGE—DESIRABLE AND CEN- trally located residence property in Kala- mazoo for general or grocery stock in good town in Central Michigan. Will sell same on long time. Address Box 357. Kalamazoo. Mich. &11 NO EXLHANGE—9 LOTs UN INCUMBERED on Highland avenue, near Madison, for merchandise. Will Holuomb, Plymouth. 814 OR HAY, STRAW AND OATS IN CAR lots at lowest prices, address Wade Bros., Cadillac or Traverse Citv. Mich. R17 RUG STORE FOR SALE OR TRADE IN A town of 8.0 inhabitants on South Haven & Eastern Railroad in VanBuren county. Stock will invoice about 31,00); has been run only about four years; new fixtures; low rent. Ad- dress No. 812, care Michigan Tradesman. &42 OR SALE—GROCERY AND BAKERY stock, best in city; cash business of $18,000 to 820,000 yearly; good location, cheap rent. Poor health reason for selling. Address Comb. Lock Box 836, Eaton Rapids, Mich. 5 803 ‘OR SALE— WELL-ESTABLISHED AND good-paying implement and harness busi- ness, loca in small town surrounded with good farming country. Store has no competi- tion within radius of eight miles. Address No. 806, care Michigan Tradesman. 806 )OR PUTATOES IN CAR LOTS, ADDKESS Wade Bros., Cadillac or Traverse =: Mich. WANTED — SHOES, CLOTHING, DRY bl goods. Address R. B., box 351, Montague, ch. 12 ACRE FARM. VALUEvp aT &,0u00, FREE and clear from encumbrance, to trade for merchandise; also $10,000 worth of Grand Rap- ids property, free and clear, to exchange for merchandise. Address Wade Bros., Cadillac or Traverse City. Mich. 792 OR SALE—NEW GENERAL sTOCK. A splendid farming country. Notrad.s. Ad- dress No. 680, care Michigan Tradesman. 680 ERCHANTS—DO YOU WISH CASH QUICK for your stock of merchandise, or = - es of it? Address John A. Wade, Cadillac COUNTRY PRODUCE VW ANTED—BUTTER, EGGS AND POUL- try; any quantities Write me. Orrin J. Stone, Kalamazoo, Mich. 8.0 WE PAY SPOT CASH ON TRAUK FOR BUT- terand eggs. It will pay you to get our prices and particulars. Stroup & Carmer, Per- rinton, Mich. Ta So CASES FRESH EGGS, daily. Write for prices. F. W. Brown, Ithaca, Mich. 556 FIREPROOF SAFES \ Ev. M. SMITH, NEW AND sECONUHAND safes, wood and brick building mover, 157 Ottawa street, Grand Rapids. 613 MISCELLANEOUS. AN !tED — FIRST-CLASS GROCERYMAN, one capable of managing business. Ad- dress No 86. care Michigan Tradesman. 865 ANTED — POSI1\ ION IN GROCERY OR general store. country preferred. Have had long experience. Address Box 174, Man- celona, Mich. 863 ANTED—POSITION BY A KEGISTERED pharmacist, with a view to buying the stock; married; nine year~’ experieuce with country and city trade. Address No. 841, care Michigan Tradesman. 8al ANTED—SITUATION IN DRUG STORE Registered by examination; fourteen years’ experience; widower. Address No. 840, care Michigan Tradesman. 840 vey 7 } Travelers’ Time Tables. cticago™e | = Ly. G. a . 7:30am 12:00nn *11 4p Ar. Chicago........... 2:10pm 5:15pm 7 20. Ly. Chicago. 11:45am 6:50am 4:15pm *11 50 or Ar. G’d Rapid> 5:00pm 1:25pm 10:159m * 6:20. Traverse City, —_—— and Petoskey. Lv. G’d Rapids. <:S00m ..:-.... 5:39pm Parlor cars on day trains and sleeping cars on night trains to and from Chicago *Every day. Others week days only DET ROIT Grand Rapids & Western. 9 Nov. 13 1898. on roit. Ly. —— eee: a 00am 1:35pm 5:25pn Ay: Detrors. <<. 5... .... “11:40am 5: 45pm 10:05pp Lv. Detro Beers (coed 8:00am 1:10pm 6:10pr Ar. pier Rapids.....12:55pm 5:20pm 10:55py Saginaw, Alma and Greenville. Lv. G R7:00am 5:10pm Ar. G R11:45am 9:30pr Parlor cars on all trains to and from Detroit end Saginaw. Trains run week days only. Gso. DEHavEN. Genera] Pass. Agent GRAN Trunk Railway System Detroit and Milwaukee D:\ (in effect Feb. 5, 1899.) Leave Arrive Saginaw, Detroit & No Y.. ne 6:45am + 9:55pm Detroit and East.. ..+10-16am + 5 07pm — Detroit & East...... + 3:27pm 12:50pm Buffalo, N Y, Toronto, Mon- treal & Boston, L’t’'d Ex ..* 7:20pm *10:16am GOING WEST Gd. Haven Express........... ¥*10:2lam * 7:15pm Gd. Haven and Int Pts....... +12:58pm + 3:19pm Q@d. Haven and Milwaukee...t 5 12pm +10:llom Eastbound 6:45am train has Wagner parlor car to Detroit, eastbound 3:20pm train has parlor car to Detroit. a +Except Sunday. . A. Justi, City Pass. Ticket Agent, 97 Monroe St., Morton House. GRAND ™** = Northern Div. Leave Arrive Trav. C’y, Petoskey & Mack...¢ 7:45am t¢ 5:15pm Trav. City & Petoskey......... ¢ 1:50pm 110:45pm Cadillac accommodation...... + 5:25pm +10 55am Petoskey & Mackinaw City....ti':00pm + 6:35am 7:45am train, parlor Car; il :00pm train, sleep- ing car. Southern Div. Leave Arriv: Cinelammaat:. <2... :.. 7. -t 7:10am ¢ 9 45pm WE Wegeo 3. 22s... +2:0)pm + 1 30. ; Cincinnati. . .-. * 7 00pm * 6:30. Vicksburg and Chicago. Te: 3upm * 9:0 am 1:10 am train hae parlor ca: tw Cinciiw: and. parlor car to Chicago; 2:00pm train has parlor car to Ft. Wayne; 7:(0pm train has sleeping car to Cincinnati; 11:30pm train has coach and sleeping car to Chicago. Chicago Trains. TO CHICAGO. Ly. Grand anette. 7 10am 20.%pm *11 30pm Ar. Chicago......... 23pm 8 45pm = 6 2am FROM CHICAGO. Ly. Chicago....-.......-.20--s- 3 - = = Ar Grand Rapids.............. 9 45: Trai leaving Grand Beene <=: core aes sain car; 11:00pm, coach and sleeping car. Train leaving Chicago 3:02pm has Pullman parlor car; 11: — sleeping car. ——" — GOIN Lv @’d Rapids......... ue 35ers +1:00pm +5:40pr Ar Muskegon.. 9:00am 2:10nm 7:1%:m Sunday train — Sonne Rapids 9:15am; arrives Muskegon 10:4! Go. ae aie Lv Muskegon....... .. +8:10am 11:45am +4:00pn ArG’d Rapids .. 9:30am 12:54pm 5-20pr: Sunday train leaves Muskegon 5:30pm; ar- rives Grand Rapids 6:50pm t+tExcept Sunday. i Cc. L. LOCKWOOD Gen’! Passr. and ne Agent. Cc Ticket Agent Union Station. DULUT : South a ha Atlantic Lv. Grand Rapids (6. - R at) L)tit: — +7:45am Lv. Mackinaw City.. 4 Ar. St Ignace.. egabeaeen seem _— Ar. Sault Ste. Marie. 12:20pm :50pm ar. —- on 2:50pm 10:40pm Ar. Nestoria. . 5:20pm 12:45am ie: Dt es :30am BAST BOUND. es Pc occ, aia ten Ar. Nestoria. ... ieee . til:15am =. 2:45am Ar. Marquette................ 1 m 4:30am Lv. Sault Ste. Marie.......... Spm ee: Ar. Mackinaw Cit 8: 11:00am a. W W Hisaagp, Gen. Pass. Agt. Marquette. E. C. Oviatt. Trav. Pass Agt.. Grand Rapids MANISTEE fatttoncto nena . Via C. & W.M. Railway. Lv ons —— bee iaee at oe seus POOR oo. 5. os 6 AS Mipniaee ere eee 12:0§pm . Lv Manis erg asda eee Se caren 8:30am ‘: opm Ar Grand "Rapids See ey all twopm 9:5spm LABELS FOR GASOLINE DEALERS The Law of 1889. Every druggist, grocer or other person who shall sell and deliver at retail any gasoline, benzine or naphtha without having the true name thereof and the words “explo- sive when mixed with air” printed upon a label securely at- tached to the can, bottle or other vessel containing the same shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars. We are prepared to furnish labels which enable dealers to com ply with this law, on the follow- ing basis: Ce 75¢ SOM a 50c per M FO Me, 40c per M 20M.... .....35¢ per M SO Mee 30c per M Tradesman Company, Grand Rapids, Mich. plainly ESESEEEREEESEESSESEESESEEESE ESEECEEEEEEESE S25e5e5e A ON ON OO NO ONO ON ‘“A Good Snap” The accompanying cut shows you our latest and best “SNAP” in small barrels. We guarantee them the very best ginger snap. American Beauty Snaps A small delicate ginger snap in small barrels at $2.40 per doz. which is an extremely low price. Manufactured by NATIONAL BISCUIT CO., Grand Rapids, [lich. CCK KCKE EEC EEK EEE EE EEE EEE EESESESEESES WO WWW OO ALWAYS A WINNER! : The Tradesman Com- pany has long been of : GREEN _ Jk ONS [AL E SWS S ue TREATS? $35.00 per M. H. VAN TONGEREN, Holland, Mich. 500 the opinion that the ideal method of keeping small accounts has never yet been invented, and it therefore makes a standing offer of $500 to the person who can Cleaned Currants If you want nice, fresh, new stock, buy Dwight’s. you want cheap trash, don’t look for it in our pack- ages. All Grand Rapids jobbers sell them. Wolverine Spice Co.; Grand —_— devise a satisfactory system that shall be simple, economical and practicable. It must occupy small space and be so easily handled that inexperienced people may use it with safety. It isa condition of the office that the article be patentable and that the pat- ent be sufficiently broad to be valuable. Forsuch a device, no matter by whom invented and patented, the Tradesman Company will cheerfully pay $500. TRADESMAN COMPANY. GRAND RAPIDS. ° icycle Dealers a = who want a good seliing line of Bicycles for coming e season of ’99 should write us for net prices on e World Wheels to retail at............ $40 and $50 Soudan Wheels to retail at...... 2. .......... 35 Soudan Wheels (30 in. wheels) to retail at... .. 40 Admiral Wheels to retail at.................. 30 Pyramid or Ibex Wheels to retail at.......... 25 We are Selling Agents in Michigan for four different factories and we have the wheels and prices that will surely interest you. Write for particulars. ADAMS & HART, Wholesale Bicycles and Sundries, Grand Rapids, Mich. | SMOKE Banquet Hall Little Gigars These goods are packed very tastefully in decorated tin boxes which can be carried in the vest pocket. 10 cigars in a box retail at 10 cents. They are a winner and we are sole agents. MUSSELMAN GROGER 6O.. Grand Rapids, Mich. : ECEEECEECEEEEEECEECEECEEEEERECE PURITY AND STRENGTH! & GOS COMPRESSED YEAST As placed on the market in tin foil and under our yellow label and signature is ABSOLUTELY PURE Of greater strength than any other yeast, and convenient for handling. Neatly wrapped in tin foil. Give our silverware premium list to your patrons and increase your trade. Particu- Jar attention paid to shipping trade. Address, FLEISCHMANN & CO. Detroit Agency, 118 Bates St. Grand Rapids Agency, 26 Fountain St. WILLIAM REID Importer and Jobber of GLASS OIL, WHITE LEAD, VARNISHES BRUSHES : 18>» 4 ase Gen, Co’ 4 ky without © Oe e our ms FacsimileSignature & e > 4 COMPRESSED dy hag FEAST hes mse WS” POLISHED PLATE WINDOW ORNAMENTAL PAINT GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. | We have the largest and most complete stock of Glass and Paint Goods in Western Michigan. Estimates furnished. All orders filled promptly. Distributing agents for Michigan of Harrison Bros. & Co.’s Oil Colors, Dry Colors, Mixed Paints, Etc. ey on wen Sau NK Tees a Sa 6 Opened and closed his store at will. The laziest man in Slumberville Ke ere) ‘‘No system in mine,”’ he always said, ‘Just give.me my good old comfortable bed.’’ He knowed his business an’ knowed it well, Needn’t no Agent attempt to tell Him how to run a grocery store Cause he’d been in this business afore. “I’m makin’ a livin’,’’ he’d always say, ‘An’ ef folks don’t like my easy way Of gettin’ along an’ runnin’ a shop, They can deal somewhere else ef they want ter stop.’’ BASSO BONeSs SSeS But it wasn’t long until right next door A fellow he dubbed ‘‘A Dude from Lenore’’ BOSS ES SESE J) Had opened a shop with goods bright and new With the Money Weight System right in view. It’s needless to tell what became of the man Who tried to get on without any plan. He’s perhaps sleeping yet in some desolate place, For he hadn’t a System to help him keep pace. Write to THE COMPUTING SCALE CO., Dayton, Ohio, for full particulars about the Money Weight System, easy payments, etc.