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DISMEMBERMENT OF CHINA.

The dismemberment of China is ap-
parently going merrily on and there is
every indication that before very long
the great powers will quarrel over the
division of the spoils. Italy has de-
manded from China the lease of San
Moon Bay on the same terms that Kiao-
Chau is leased to Germany. It is re-
ported that the Pekin government has
refused Italy’s request, and that power
has landed marines and taken forcible
possession of the coveted bay, which it
is proposed to use as a naval base and
coaling station. A report from the
Chinese capital says that the British
Minister has informed the Tsungli-
yamen, or Chinese Foreign office, that
Great Britain favors Italy’s request.

San Moon Bay is situated on the coast
of Che-Kiang province and is about 150
miles south of Shanghai. The place is
favorably situated for the purposes of a
naval station, assuming that Italy plays
the role of an ally, active or passive, of
Great Britain. It has already been an-
nounced that, in the event of any serious
attempt at the dismemberment of
China, Great Britain will consider the
whole length of the Yang-tse-Kiang val-
ley as her sphere of influence, with
Shanghai, of course, as her center of

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Italy having secured a foothold. Japan
may be expected te at once assert her
right to a share of the Chinese main-
land, and it is expected that she will
select that portion of the coast opposite
her Island of Formosa. This would
place another supposed ally of Great
Britain to the south of the Italian sphere
of influence, and thus the long gap be
tween Hong Kong and Shanghai will be
oridged, to the exclusion of Russia and
France. Between Shanghai and Wei
Hai-Wei, on the north, there is the Ger
man sphere at Kiao-Chau. It has been
strongly hinted for some time past that
an understanding exists between Ger-
many and Great Britain.

Owing to the great extent of the cov-
eted territory and the vast trade possi-
bilities involved in the exploiting of a
country with such a teeming fopulation,
the rivalry between the European na-
tions is likely to be extremely keen,and
it will be but a lucky chance which will
prevent a serious clash as a result of the
scramble which must ensue. The most
serious consideration, from an American
standpoint, is the fact that the dismem-
berment of China means an actual joss
of trade for us, except in those portions
of the crumbling empire in which
British influence remains paramount.

It is not likely that our Government
will find it expedient to take any part
in the dismemberment of China, but
our interests in the trade of that part of
the world are too extensive to permit of
our remaining an uninterested spectator.
Since we may not absorb a portion of
China ourselves, we are interested in
those powers securing the largest share
whose policy will allow us the greatest
freedom of trade. We can hope for
nothing from Russia, France or Ger-
many, and little probably from Italy;
but there is reasonable assurance that
within the territory dominated by Eng-

 

land we will have ample trade facilities.
Such being the case, we can not be
blamed if we favor British claims and
hope that the British may secure the
lion’s share of the spoils when the
dividing up comes.
—__~> 2. ___

Status of the St. Louis Potato Market.

St Louis, Mo., March 6—Notwith-
standing the sharp advance in nearly all
lines of produce last week,nearly every-
thing has continued to advance, espe-
Clally potatoes and cabbage. The mar-
ket seems to be in stronger shape than
at any time this season. It was expected
that the receipts would be heavier, ow-
ing to the advance in price, but the
farmers, realizing the true conditions of
the market, have held prices high and
refused to sell unless they could get
their figures. Cars have been scarce in
all of the districts where potatoes are
shipped ; the roads have been reported
bad, and we _ hear additional reports of
the amount of stock destroyed by freez-
ing.

There seems to be little doubt enter-
tained now that there were more _ pota-
toes frozen in pits, cellars and ware-
houses than was at first anticipated;
bowever, some are of the opinion that
there were not as many destroyed as the
farmers report and that they are using
this to ‘‘boost’’ prices. Be thet as it
may, potatoes are very scarce; a heavy
demand exists in this market, not alone
on shipping, but also for local consump
tion. Wedo not believe that buyers are
taking hold of potatoes with quite as
much enthusiasm as_ they were earlier
in the week, but offerings continue
light. Very few shippers are willing to
name prices, claiming that they have
nothing to ship.

These conditions seem to exist at
loading stations in every section where
pct toes are grown. A strong demand
bas developed, lately, for Ohios, and
there is considerably more _ interest
taken in Triumphs. They are selling
now, although they were very slow sale
before the freeze. We are of the im-
pression that, as soon as conditions are
normal at loading stations, present
prices can not be mairtained, and yet
with the good demand existing and the
shortage of stock in all large markets,
and which are now extending to the
smaller country points, we anticipate a
firm market and may see higher prices.

March 7—The weather turned severely
cold over Sunday, the thermometer reg-
istering 5 deg. above zero this morning.
It has been cold all day and but few po-
tatoes could be unioaded or handled.
Receipts are increasing, but holders of
spot stock in warehouse or on track are
holding for higher prices and the mar-
ket is strong. Seed potatoes are selling
much better and seem very scarce. The
higher prices are being asked and ob-
tained. The cold weather will, no doubt,
damage some potatoes in transit. Prices
to-day rule as follows: Burbanks,
choice, 60@62c; fancy 64@65c; Rurals,
62@64c; some fancy, Michigan, more;
Peerless, 60@51c; Ohios, 65@7oc;
Triumphs, 50@60c; Rose, 62@65c.
Anything sells at 60c or more. These
prices are for spot stock ontrack. Stock
to arrive is offered for less. Offerings
more numerous and from a wider extent
of country. This is significant. All
shippers seem anxious to sell when they
have anything.

MILLER & TEASDALE Co.
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take a bit of new work for immediate
construction, for the simple reason that
there is nove with an inch of room for

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Number 397

Manufacturing Matters.

Borculo—The Borculo Creamery Co.
has declared a dividend of 10 per cent.

Detroit—The Sykes-Vickery Co. suc-
ceeds J. W. Sykes in the manufacture
of carpet sweepers.

Tecumseh—Heesen Bros. & Co., man-
ufacturers of hollow ware,are erecting a
brick addition to their factory.

Kalamazoo—The Williams Manufac-
turing Co. has increased its capital
stock from $100,000 to $140,000.

Houghton—Markham & Jones, candy
manufacturers, will shortly erect a two-
story building, 30x4o feet in dimensions.

Ovid—The Ovid Carriage Works will
shoitly erect an extensive addition to
their plant, 4ox100 feet in dimensions,
to be used as a sample room.

Pontiac—The Wolverine Carriage Co.
has been incorporated with a capital
stock of $12,000, all paid in, to embark
in the manufacture and sale of vehicles,

Bay City—The Beaver Cheese Co. has
been incorporated by twenty-six farmers
for the purpose of engaging in the man-
ufacture of cheese. The capital stock
1S $1, 160.

Manton—J. W. Bailey and H. A,

Holmes have finally succeeded in get-

ting their acetylene gas generator ap-.

proved by the Bureau of Fire Protection
Engineering.

Paw Paw—The Paw Paw Cereal Co.
has leased the Morgan building and has
moved into it. J. Henry Myers, of
Bat le Creek, has become financially
interested in the company and will as-
sume the management of the business.

Saginaw—The Cook Shingle Co.,
which had a mill at Luman and an
cffice in this city, has gone out of busi-
ness, having no more shingle bolts and
being unable to purchase a supply. The
stockholders of the company were A,
F. Cook, A. T. Bliss and L. A. Bliss.

Holiand—Jos. Warnock, of Detroit,
and S. B Ardis, Secretary and Treas-
urer of the American Mirror & Glass
Beveling Co., at Grand Haven, have
purchased the clothing and men’s fur-
nishing goods stock of Jonkman &
Dykema and will add a iine of dry
goods and shoes.

—_—_—__+2.__

Kansas City has adopted a trademark.
Hereafter it will appear on all manu-
factured goods sent out from that city.
It consists of a map of the United
States, with Kansas City represented by
a star in the exact center. Above the
star hovers an eagle with outspread

wings.
—__> 0.

If Speaker Reed should slip on an
administration banana peel during the
next race for Speaker nobody need be
surprised—he has driven the thorn into
the administration side during the past
few months in a manner to makea stoic
squeal.

—_~<>-8—<__
Perhaps Aguinaldo will compromise
and take some sort of an office from the
pie counter. Justice of the peace would
be about his caliber if be knew anything
about peace.

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recognition thereof one George Dewey
can now trot in any naval class on the
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Dry Goods

The Dry Goods Market.

Staple Cottons—The scarcity of sup-
plies of both brown and bleached cctton
is putting the buyer in a hard position,
for the market is very clean in beth
lines. Some of the best known ticket:
of brown cottons are reported as sold up
to the middle of September, and very
few of them will accept orders for de-
livery earlier than June 15. It is nowa
question with the buyers of finding
goods that will ‘‘do just as well’’ ana
no longer a question of price. The
agents are able to congratulate them-
selves on the great contrast between this
season and a year ago at this time, when
the market was one of the bluest and
poorest of all the textile trades. The
dealer has only to look over tbe list of
advances for the past week to convince
himself tbat there is no fictitious
strength in the market, or if he st_ll
feels that there is some doubt, let him
try to get an eighth of a cent concession
on any line, particulirly goods that are
well known, or even | t him try to get a
little more favoratle discount, and he
will be quickly convinced that we are
right in our statement.

Prints and Ginghams—Printed goods
share in the general advance and
strength of the market, both in stapl
and fancy lines, although they are not
yet on a price basis to compare with
print cloths. For this reason further
advances may be expected daily. I:
addition to the scarcity of gray cl ths,
the market is very bare of desirat]
printed lines, especially light goods.
The printers are about to stop work on
light printed cloths and turn their at-
tention to fall lines, except possibly
where the order is so urgent and genuine
as to leave no doubt about its being
taken. Store trade, on account of short
supplies, has been of a limited nature,
and for same reason ; zlthough many or-
ders have been received by mail, com-
paratively few could be accepted.
Ginghams show no particular change in
price during the week. Although
stocks are very limited and supplies
are low, the market is well cleaned up
on dress goods.

Carpets—The past week has shown a
decided improvement, and more busi-
ness is reported on all lines, especiall.
tapestry and velvet carpets. The mills
are quite well employed on early orders,
which were taken at the low prices prior
to January 1, and while a few duplicates
are anticipated at the advance figures,
this season’s business is about complete
so far as new orders are concerned. The
ingrain manufacturers are also quite
well employed, and .are anticipating a
steady, gradual improvement in their
business from this time forward, unless
there is some disturbing factor to con-
front them before the opening of the next
nextseason. The average carpet manu-
facturer has passed through a very severe
experience during the past two years,
which will be long remembered as the
most unsatisfactory of any previous
time in the history of the trade.

Lace Curtains—The trade report a
good demand for lace curtains, with a
decided improvement in_ bobbinets.
Nottinghams are also selling well, as
the price is very moderate, and witha
larger improvement in general busi-
ness, the trade anticipate a steady in-

 

 

crease in the demand for all lines of
lace curtains.
Knit Goods—Fleeced lined goods

have had their innings, and are now

 

practically out of the market, and other
grades, particularly ribbed goods, are
securing considerable business. Com-
bination suits, especially, appear to
interest buyers more than ever before,
and as more mills are manufacturing
these goods there is the greatest variety
of samples to select from. There is
quite a bit of competition found in
lower grades, but the percentage of sales
on high-grade goods has increased won-
derfully, and every order contains far
more than usual.

There is in addition to the above
business for fall a very satisfactory
amount of trading in the line of reor-
ders for spring. Nearly all lines are
said to be well sold ahead, and no ac-
cumulations of stocks of any kind are
to be found. Balbriggansare in partic-
ularly good condition, but this is notice-
able fully as much 1n the lower grades
as in the better goods, although the lat-
‘er have by no means been neglected.

The Worsted Trust—Perhaps a sub-
ject which is receiving as much atten-
tion at the hands of the wool trade as
any other at this time is that of the
rumored worsted trust. The statements
regarding this are of a mo:t contradic-
tory nature. Parties alleged to be in-
terested in the scheme say that nothing
is likely to come of it, but, on the other
hand, it is confidently asserted that the
measure is nearing perfection. Certai1
well-known parities have been men
tioned in connection with the presidency
and treasuryship of the trust, and it is
even alleged thet it bas at last reached
the stage where the bankers have taken
hold of it. It is reported that the trust
will have a capital zetion of $17 000,0c0
of preferred stock and $17,000,000 of
common stock. One report is that the
trust will not include the dress goods
mills, but will take in only the men's
wear class. Finally we may add that the
ztest rumor is that official information
regarding the trust may be given out
any day. Considerable quiet discussion
is going on in the private offices of the
wo | trade regarding the consequences
t» the trade of such a combination.

——-_> 2. ____
Caught Nothing...

She had not been married so long
that she had broken herself of the habit
of occasionaily fishing for compliments,
and she liked above all things to hear
him say how he prized her. Bvt tois
time he was taken off guard and spoke
tooughbtlessly.

‘‘It was a $20 gold piece you gave the
minister who married us, wasn’t it?’’
she asked.

‘*Yep,’’ he answered, without looking
up from his paper.

‘‘That’s a good deal of money,
George,’’ she suggested, and waited for
him to throw down his paper and say.
‘‘Nct for such a treasure, ’’ or something
1 ke thi t, but he didn't. Instead he re-
plied with a depth of feeling that was
unusual:

‘‘Well, you can just everlastingly bet
that it is.’’

She hasn’t been much of an angler

since.
—__—>——______

Extreme Unction.

Young Lawyer—How do you like the
new minister, Deacon?

Oid Deacon—I hardly know. He isa
finely educated man, but he doesn’t
seem to have much unction.

Young Lawyer—Well, you wouldn't
want him to have extreme unction,
would you?

—_—_>2.—___
Exactly As Recommended.

Customer—Them peas I bought o’
you, my woman biled ‘em all day, an’
then they wuz so hard we couldn't eat
‘em. I thought you said they’d cook
jest like an egg.

Storekeeper—So they will. The longer
you boil ’em, the harder they’! be.

 

Variety in the Store.

The greatest variety which the store
may have is the new goods which come
in at the beginning of each season and
intermittently throughout those periods.
Brightness and newness as well as fresh-
ness are secured by their presence.
When skillfully arranged they may be-
come the things of beauty which prove
joys forever to those who are so fortu-
nate as to purchase them. This of
course only refers to decorative hard-
ware like lamps, differert kinds of table
ware, kitchen ware, etc. Let the clerks
be made conversant with the special
features which the new goods possess, so
that they may descant upon them _intei-
ligently to customers. There are many
new points which must be brought out
effectively; for example, methods ot
manufacture which change, and designs

re altered as well as material. Conse-

 

quently new ideas must be developed
for the description of the new goods. If
the goods are what they should be they
will arouse enthusiasm in both clerk and
patron.
—_> 22. —__
Perfectly Happy.

‘*How's your wife this morning?’’

‘‘She’s very bappy, indeed.’’

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CATALOGUE COMPETITION.

 

Unanimous Belief That It Must Be
Curtailed.

The Tradesman is in receipt of nu-
merous letters from merchants in differ-
ent parts of the State, commending the
communication from Mr. E. A. Hill,
of Coloma, and the editorial comment
thereon, published in the last issue of
the Tradesman. Some of the letters in-
sist that action should be taken at once
to devise some means to meet and com-
bat the inroads of the illegitimate com-
petition of the catalogue houses. Mr.
Hill kindly throws additional light on
the subject by sending the Tradesman a
copy of a letter he recently received
from E, C. Atkins & Co., giving their
reasons for refusing to sell the catalogue
houses, as follows:

We are pleased to know that our posi-
tion in regard to catalogue houses has
been called to your attention. You are
certainly correct in the information you
have received. We positively refuse to
stll our saws to anv catalogue houses,
as we believe they are a great menace
to the legitimate trade

We can not understand why the retai'
bardware dealers will handle any brand
of goods which the cataiogue houses ca |
buy from the manufactirers. We believe
that where a man invests his money in
stock and carries a full line for the ben-
efit of the consumer in his vicinity, be
1s entitled to a fair profit on the same
and we will not consert t» help to in
jure his trade by selling our goods t»
catalogue houses, who will retail every-
thing that they get hold of at almost
cost price.

We are glad to see that you are ccn-
sistent in wanting to trade witb a fac-
tory trat will not s: 11 to catal »gue houses
and we do not see how any hardware
merchant can be opposed to catalogue
houses and st Il purchase goods from a
factory that will sell them and continue
to hancle goods made by that factory.

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A Northern Michigan mercbart, who
asks that his name be witbheld from
publication, writes the Tradesman as
fcllows:

I heartily endorse the sentiment of
E. A. Hill regarding the cztalogue
house, as set forth in his l-tter in the
last issue of the Michigan Tradesman.
I wish to say that I firmly bel eve tbat
the country mercha't 1s greatly men-
aced. In this locality, the majority of
our customers are as well versed on
Sears, Roebuck & Co.'s and Montgom-
ery Ward & Co ’s catalogues as the or
dinary student is in bis text books, and
the greatest evil is the fact that too
large a proportion of the cash is sent
to these houses, while the farmers’
produce and the long-time accounts go
to the home market. ‘This must he
overcome or it will drive the home deal-
er out of business, or he must, of ne-
cessity, adopt the cash system. This
becomes a grave question. I firmly be-

 

lieve in the organization of the retailers
of the Srate, and only through this
means can we meet these great evils
which confront us on every side. I
firmly believe that by united effort we
can remove at least a good portion of
them in time. We should arouse our-
selves and take up the burdens that we
are compelled to meet and make a firm
resistance and convince the whole op-
posing force that the retailer has come
to stay and that our rights should and
must be respected. I fully appreciate
your efforts in behalf of the legitimate
retailer,
* * *

Another merchant who requests that
his name be withheld from publication
writes:

I am aware that ‘‘comparisons are
odious,’’ but it strikes me that if the
merchants of Michigan were to expend
the same amount of energy and cash in
combating the encroachments of the
catalogue houses that they are devoting
to toe attempt to amend the exemption
laws, they would be doing them-elves
infinitely more good. So far as the ex-
emption matter is concerned, the mer-
chart is master of the -ituation, because
be need not trust out his goods to peo-
ple who are unworthy of cred:t, and so
long as he confines his credit transactions
to responsible people, it 1s a matter ot
utter indifference to him what the ex-
emption laws are, because he does not
have to resort to legal process to enforce
the collection of accourts which owe
tneir existence entirely to bis weakness
and lack of judgmert. Catalogue house
competition, however, is someting
that is beyond the control of the mer-
chant, so far as his own will and deter-
mination are concerned, yet I can not
belp feeling that there must be some
remedy for the abuse somewhere and
that the Tradesman and its corps of
co.tributors and its army of readers
are equal to the occasion and will ulti-
mately be able to formulate a policy
which will enable the legitimate dealer
to triumph over the mushroom concerns
in Chicago and elsewhere which are
sapping the vitality of the count -y mer-
cnant just as surely as the department
store is paralyzing the patronage and
aissipating the profits of the city mer-
chant. As between the two, J] am un
able to determine which is suffering the
more from these gigantic octopi of
trade, but in my opinion it is time that
bc th classes ot merchants looked the
question squarely 1n the face and began
devising means to controvert the com
petition before the octopi have grown so
strong and waxed so fat that the legiti-
mate merchant has been strangled by the
tentacles of the monsters.

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The Tradesman is also in receipt of a
letter from a valued friend and patron,
as follows:

Please inform me what you mean by
your reference to the manner in which
paternal governments, like Germany,
cortrol the competition of the depart-
ment store. I have read the Tradesman
for fifteen years and this is the first time
that I can recall vour having said anv-

 

thing derogatory to the United States.
as compared to another country. If I
read your reference right, you think
that Germany is ahead of this country
in its ability and disposition to deal
with the department store problem.
Please inform me—and perhaps cther
readers of the Tradesman would be as
much interested in the explanation as |
am—whbat you mean by your reference
to Germany.

It is a fact that Germany has solved
the department store problem, because
the government is a paternal one, as
distinguished from a republican form of
government like ours, in which every
man is supposed to be his own master
and to know what is best for him and
for his country. Some years ago a de
partment store was established at Ham-
burg and, w:thin a short time, it created
a panic among the small merchants and
store-keepers of the city. The clamor
was so pronounced that the matter was
brought to the attention of the Reichs-
tag, which appointed a committee to
investigate the situation and report to
that body. The investigation was con-
ducted in the thorough and systematic
manner characteristic of the German
people, resulting in the report to the
parent body that the departmert store
business, if permitted to expand, would
ultimzet-ly revolutionize the trade meth-
ods of Germany, because it would, nat-
urally, impel the small traders to shut
up shop and abandon business. The
committee estimated that three large
department st»res could supply the de-
mand for goods in a city like Hamburg,
and argued that it would be infinitely
more to the advair. tige of Hamburg that
600 or 800 small mercharts;, with the
usual complemert of clerks, should be
employed in meeting the consumptive
demands of the city than that three

 

large department stores, with the com-
plement of cheap female help, should
occupy the field. Acting on this report,
the Reichstag enacted a law prohibiting
any merchant from handling more than
three lines of goods, which naturally
dealt a death blow to the depaitment
store and prevented its expansion any-
where in the empire. Such a course
would not be permissible in this coun-
try, because it is contrary t» the genius
and spirit of our const tation, which
assumes that all men are free and equal
and that any attempt to restrain com-
pet tion or prctect the weak from the
encroachments of the strong is class”

legislation,
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The Future of the Orange Bus'ness.

This season has demonstrated that a
lot of the country in the United States
that has always been considered all right
for the orange business 1s liable to be
ruined by freezes. In the last ten years
the orange crop in the northern half of
Florida has been killed twice by frost
and this year it looks as it the crop of
the whole Stat2 is gone The orange
growers will begin to lock for new loca-
tions and Cuba will furnish the loca-
tion. Under the infernal Spanish rule
the industry has not been developed in
Cuba, bat the tree grows wild, and some
of the natural fruit is said to be among
the most delicious in the worl1; there is
no telling whet may be done witb proper
cultivation. When things get settled
down in the island and a stable govern-
ment is established a lot of American
orange gr wers will settle in the island
and make their fortune.

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Around the State

Movements of Merchants.

Owosso—-E. G. Westlake has engaged
in the notion business.

Negaunee—Geo. Haut has embarked
in the grocery business.

Sherwood--John Gross, of Athens, has
opened a meat market here.

Pearl—J. T. Hollis has purchased the
grocery stock of J. M. Barmore.

Menominee—H. C. Bertholct has em-
barked in the hardware business.

Corunna—Geo. Setzer has purchased
the meat market of Derham Bros.

Fabius—H. C. Hayman has purchased
the grocery stock of Wm. Roenig.

Moore Park—J. G. Fisher has sold
his grocery stock to F. A. Ripey.

Holland—Beit Slagh bas embarked in
the wall paper and paint business.

Detroit—The Columbia Pharmacy is
succeeded by C. W. Maynard & Co.

Holland—B. Van Anrooy has pur-
chased the meat market of H. Knol.

Potterville—A. W. Nisbet has engaged
in the bazaar and millinery business.

Sebewaing—J. M. Bittner has scold
his tinware stock to A. Muellerweiss.

Grand Haven—John VanDyk has en-
gaged in the shoe business at this place

Detroit— Herbert H. Bridge, boot and
shoe dealer, has removed to Coldwater.

Grand Ledge—M. D. Wheaton, of
Carmel, has opened a grocery store
here.

Mt. Pleasant—Morrison & Dains bave
scold their grocery stock to John Butcher
& Co.

Minden City—Darley Leach, hardware
dealer, has sold out to Wixon & Bost-
wick.

Chelsea—Trim &-McGregor have re-
moved their cl thing stock to Stock-
bridge.

Lyons—F. T. Gleason has scold his
general merchandise stock to Edward
H. Allen.

Fremont—V. Vallier has opened a
bakery in connection with his grocery
business.

Port Huron—J. W. Sheldon succeeds
Sheldon Bros. in the marble and granite
business.

Detroit—A_ receiver has been ap
pointed for the Imperial Cap Manufac
turing Co.

Fremont—Jacob Weiss, of New Lon-
don, Wis., has engaged in general trade
at this place.

Cheboygan—D. H. Moloney is closing
out his shoe stock and will engage in
other business,

Detroit—Tbe Mack Grocery Co. suc-
ceeds Mack & Doty in the grocery and
meat business.

Holland—Price & Kleis, meat deal-
ers, have dissolved paitoership, Mr.
Price succeeding.

South Lyon—H. Kalmbach has re-
moved his dry goods stock from Union
City to this place.

Flint—Goodes & Hall succeed Goodes,
Hali & Co. in the hardware, implement
and vehicle business.

Howell—James H. Miner will here
after conduct the grocery and shoe busi-
ness of Miner & Johnson.

Sault Ste. Marie—Harrison & Co.
continue the jeweiry and _ stationery
business of H. A. Harrison.

Petoskey—A. D. Cook & Co. have
purchased the wholesale novelty and
jewelry stock of J. M. Wells.

Petoskey—Oluf Nordrum and A. G.
Cook have purchased Jas. Wells’ stock
of books and stationery and will con-
tinue the business under the style of
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Lansing—F. C. Brisbin has sold his
stock of groceries at 116 Washington
avenue, south, to H. S. Russeler.

Burr Oak—J. B. Keeslar & Sons are
now located in their own store on the
corner of Third and Holmes streets.

Ionia—John A. Sessions has leased 2
store building and will shortly engage
in the agricultural implement business.

St. Louis—Chas. Lee is the proprie-
tor of the new dry goods, boot and shoe
and clothing store opened at this place.

Cassopolis—J. F. Dunbar has sold his
interest in the meat market of Dunbar
& Tourje to his partoer, O. S. Tourje.

Jackson—F. D. Hamilton has scld his
crockery stock to W. H. Hamilton, of
Battle Creek, who will remove it to that
city.

Detroit——Chas. Schwarz succeeds
Schwarz & Samuels in the wholesale no-
tion and men’s furnishing goods busi-
ness.

Mt. Pleasant—Morrison & Dains, deal-
ers in lumber, shves and bicycles, have
sold their grocery stock to J. F. Butcher
& Co.

Eaton Rapids—Edwin H. Mendell
and Clarence Knapp have removed to
Mason and opened a bazaar store at that
place.

Scottville—G. C. Wagar, of Manistee,
bas purchased the harness stock and
shoe repairing business of his brother,
W. M. Wagar.

Woodland—H. P. French has pur-
chased the drug stock of C. S. McIntyre
and will continue the business at the
same location.

Owosso—Cyrus Reimer has sold his
hardware stock to Mr. Jackson, of Cas-
novia, who will continue the business at
the same location.

California—Brainard & Speer have
sold their general stock to V. U. Hun-
gerford, who will continue the business
at the same location.

Homer—Frank M. Parks has retired
from the clothing firm of Linn & Co.,
and taken a position with Marshall
Field & Co., of Chicago.

Benton Harbor—W. D. Downey has
sold his interest in the wholesale gro-
cery establishment of the Kidd, Dater
& Price Co. to his partners.

Jackson—McQuilian & Harrison suc-
ceed Scratchley & McQuillan in the
clothing business, having purchased the
interest of Mrs. A. O. Scratchley.

Quincy—O. F. Crego has opened a
harness and vehicle establishment in
the store formerly occupied by C. N.
Wilcox. Mr. Crego hails trom Liberty
Mills,

Bronson—Wm. Blass, who has been
conducting a general store at Constan-
tine for some time, will remove his
stock to this place and re-engage in
trade.

St. Louis—G. W. Stanbaugh, of Ith-
aca, and Fred Newton, of this place,
have formed a copartnership and en-
gaged in the agricultural implement
business.

Traverse City—J. W. Jackson, of
Richmond, Ind., bas purchased the con-
fectionery stock in the E. E. Miller
drug store, formerly conducted by C. A.
Hendricks,

Sault Ste. Marie—J. L. Sandelman,
formerly connected with the Leader,
has embarked in the bazaar business on
his own account, his store being known
as the Racket.

Ann Arbor—Doty & Feiner have sold
their stock of boots and shoes to D. E.
Glass, of Detroit. Mr. Glass has repre-
sented an Eastern shoe firm on the road
for twelve years and has had four years
experience in the retail business,

Ann Arbor—Staebler & Co., grocers
and crockery dealers, will remove t»>
larger and more commodious quaiters
about May 1. They are closing out their
crockery department.

Kalamazoo—B. Desenberg & Co. have
soid new grocery stocks during the past
week to F. B. Ross & Co. and L.
Leeuwenhoek, both of whom have
opened stores in this city.

Charlotte—Prindle & Co., Limited,
succeed A. J. Prindle in the clothing
and men’s furnishing goods business.
A. W. Prindle will continue the’ man-
agement of the business.

Bellevue—R. C. Needham has sold
his bakery to Wm. Donal1, of Battle
Creek, who will continue the business
at the same place. Mr. Needham has
engaged in the restaurant business.

Houghton—E. F. S lier, the Shelden
block grocer, who has to leave his pres-
ent location while a new block is going
up there, has secured the Riopelie
stand at the east end of Shelden street.

Otsego—Marcia V. Hall, dealer in
boots and shoes and furnishing goods,
and A. W. Hartman, dry goods dealer,
have merged their stocks and _ will con-
tinue under the style of Hartman &
Hall.

Sault Ste. Marie—The farm imple-
ment establishment of J. L. Lipseit wil:
hereafter conduct its business under the
style of Lipsett & Douglas, a half in-
terest having been purchased by J. A.
Douglas

Trout Lake—Wm. A. Warrick, of this
place, and N. L. Field, of Rudyard,
have formed a copartnership and en-
gaged in the mercantile business. Mr.
Field also conducts a general store zt
Rudyard.

Kalamazoo—O E. Price, who it will
be remembered ran a cluthing store on
North Burdick street and afterward
went to Detroit, has returned to this
city and will engage in the merchant
tail ring business.

Hillsdate—Stanton & Bates, clothiers
are already getting some of their goods
moved into their new store, corner of
Howell and Bacon streets. F. B French
has rented the store they vacate for his
hardware business.

Allegan——Koblenstein Bros., who
opened a dry goods store here about a
year ago, have decided to discontinue
business at this place and remove to
Otsego, where they conducted a similar
store a number of years.

Charlotte—The dry goods firm of Geo.
J. Barney & Co has dissolved, F, H.
Loveland retiring. Mr. Barney has
formed a partnership with his son,
Fred, and will continue the business
under the style of Geo. Barney & Son.

Owosso—Edward N. Thome, who has
been book-keeper in the State Bank of
St. Johns for the past four years, has
formed a copartnership with W. L.
Frisbie, clerk for Clark & Hulse Bros.,
and engaged in the boct and shoe _ busi-
ness here,

Jackson——The Tray Hardware Co.
stock has been purchased from Free-
man, Delamater & Co., of Detroit, by
G. W. and W. T. Bloodgood, of Wyan-
dotte, and R. B. Bloodgood, of Marine
City, who will continue the business
under the style of G. W. Bloodgood &
Sons.

Jonesville—Frank B, Gage and A. W.
Lewis have entered into partnership and
will open a new dry goods store at
Jonesville. Mr. Gage will have the ac-
tive management of the store and will
move from Hilisdale here in the course
of a couple of weeks. Mr. Lewis will

 

continue his work as traveling salesman.

Allegan—W. J. Pollard and F. L,
Kent have formed a partnership and en
gaged in the produce business here un-
der the firm name of F. L. Kent & Co.
They have begun business in the build-
ing formerly occupied by J. M. Mendel
as a feed store, and have also a potato
house at Tustin, where they have
bandled several thousand bushels of po-
tatoes this winter.

Saginaw—A movement is on foot to
organize the retai!! meat dealers of the
city into an organization, with the ob-
ject in view of having the new associa-
tion work in conjunction with the Board
of Trade. The movement to make the
Retail Merchants’ Association auxiliary
to the Board and work in conjunction
with it is meeting with some favor and
some opposition, but will no doubt be
brought about.

Hillsdale—Aaron Worthing and J. M.
Cummins have formed a copartnership
under the style of Worthing & Cummins
for the purpose of engaging in the pur-
chase and sale of furs, hides, wool and
tallow. The firm has purchased a lot
on the line of the Lake Shore road and
will erect a two-story warehouse, 30x50
feet in dimensions. Mr. Cummins has
traveled the past eleven years for J. W.
Richardson & Co., of Norwalk, Ohio.

Munising—Sam Marks, the clothing
and dry goods dealer, has purchased the
lot on the corner of Elm avenue and
Superior street and will erect thereon a
fine brownstone block 25x1oo feet, three
stories high, with a basement the full
size of the building. The block will
cost something like $8,000 and will be
ntted up with all modern conveniences.
Mr. Marks will occupy the first two
floors and the third floor will be for rent.

Traverse City—E. P. Wilhelm, who
has been identified with the dry goods
and clothing department of the Hannah
& Lay Mercantile Co. for the past
twenty-eight years, has retired to enjoy
the competence which he has accumu-
lated by thrift and economy. Mr.
Wilbelm entered the employ of the Mer-
cantile Co. thirty-five years ago and
during the past seven years has served
the corporation in the capacity of Treas-
urer,

Sturgis—At a meeting of the business
men of Sturgis at the office of Theo.
Jacobs last Wednesday evening, prelim-
inary steps were taken for the formation
of an association for the advancement
of the business and moral interests of
our city and for mutual protection
against persons who are unworthy of
credit. There will be an adjourned
meeting held at same place this evening
for the purpose of completing the organ-
ization.

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As Viewed by a Monroe Merchant.

Monroe, March 6—I enclose you $1
with renewal slip for the Tradesman. I
must acknowledge tbat the Tradesman
is the best of its kind I ever saw. It is
as much thought of in my family as any
of the six magazines we take. Even
the baby wants to get at it It isas good
as any, so far as its reading matter
goes. May you and the Michigan
Tradesman live long and prosper. I
am confident you will work out your own
salvation, providing your readers will
send you the dollar. CaRL DICE.

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W. D. Reynolds & Co., dealers in
groceries and clothing at Coopersville,
have added a line of dry goods. P.
Steketee & Sons furnished the stock.

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S. D. Young will open a grocery store
at Hart. The Musselman Grocer Co.
furnishes the stock. i

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Grand Rapids Gossip

Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Associa-
tion.

At the regular meeting of the Grand
Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association,
held at tbe office of the Michigan
Tradesman, Tuesday evening, March 7,
President Dyk presided.

Five new members were elected, as
follows:

A. J. Lane, 598 South Division street.

Jas. T. Hughes, 450 South Division
street.

Stickney Grocery Co., 227S. Division
street.

J. A. Merrill & Co., 38 South Divi-
sion street.

Chas. H. Sach, 47 Coit avenue.

Homer Klap presented the following
paper:

As a Retail Grocers’ Association, it
is our desire to promote good fellowship
among all legitimate dealers, to use our
influence to maintain the proper rela-
tionship toward the wholesaler and to
patronize home jobbers as much as pos-
sible. In return, we should not only re-
quest, but demand, that they sell the re-
tailer only, that the consumer should not
have the privilege of buying direct, as
is now too often the case.

One of the greatest evils with which
we have to contend is the competition
of some of the jobbers, who, not being
satisfied with the patronage of the re-
tailers, are soliciting the trade of the
consumers and offering hotels, restaur-
ants and boarding houses goods at prices
which defy the competition of the re-
tailers, to whom this class of trade
rightfully belongs.

Some years ago this matter was
brought before the Retail Grocers’ As-
sociation and the wholesalers were re-

uested to sell goods only to the retailer.

his request was granted, but during
the last year or two the wholesalers, as
well as some of the manufacturers, have
not only been selling hotels, restaurants
and boarding houses, but have instructed
their agents to call and solicit their or-
ders, offering them terms and prices
corresponding to those given the retail
merchants. I have personally observed
during the last few weeks agents from
some of the local wholesale grocery
houses, from some of the coffee and tea
houses, and from some of the manufac-
turers that sell direct to the retail
trade, calling upon such trade as the
three cent restaurants on Canal street,
the small bakeries in various parts ot
the city, and all of the hotels, selling
them goods which were in many 1n-
stances not collected for on delivery,
showing they are giving the consumers
a regular line of credit.

This is harmful in many ways. It not
only robs us of trade we should have,
but oftentimes forces goods to be sold
at cost in order to meet this unfair com-
petition. Would the wholesaler or the
manufacturer lose any trade by refusing
to sell others than retailers? Would not
the retailer secure this trade and be
able to buy an equal amount in return?
Is it right that the jobbers should load
the retailers with merchandise, expect-
ing their pay in a reasonable time in
return,and then by selling the consumer
fill the only avenue of trade known to
the retailer at prices which leave no
room for competition?

As members of this Association we
must protest against this unfair treat-
ment and take such action as will pre-
vent its continuance.

It was stated that positive proof had
been secured to sustain the above
charges, in the shape of receipted in-
voices, whereupon the following resolu-
tion was unanimously adopted :

Whereas—It bas come to our attention
that certain wholesale grocery houses
are selling goods to restaurants and
boarding houses; and

Whereas—Such a policy is detrimental
to the interests of the retail trade and
not in keeping with the professions otf
the wholesale trade; therefore

Resolved—That we hereby express our
disapproval of such a policy and take
this means of warning the wholesale
trade that a continuance of the practice

 

 

 

will not be tolerated by this Association
without pritest;

Resolved—That unless the above is
corrected, the names of the offenders
will be communicated to every member
of the Association.

B. S. Harris presented a statement
showing the growth and expansion of
the beet sugar industry, as follows:

The growth of the beet sugar indus-
try in this country has been quite rapid
within the past two years, and the out-
look promises a further expansion in
the industry. The following factories
were in operation in 1898, with a state-
ment of their daily capacity in tons:

Alameda Sugar Co., Alvarado, Cal............ Soo
Binghamton B. S. Co., Binghamton, N. Y.... 350
Cal. Beet Sugar & Ref. Co , Crockett, Cal. .. 500

Chino Valley Beet Sugar Co., Chino, Cal...... 1,000
First New York Beet Sugar Co., Rome, N. Y. 200
Los Alamitos Sugar Co., Los Alamitos, Cal.. 700

Michigan Sugar Co., Bay City, Mich.......... 350
Minnesota Sugar Co , St. Louis Park, Minn... 350
Norfolk Beet sugar Co., Norfolk, Neb........ 35
Ogden Suyar Co., Ogden, Utah...... ........ 350
Oregon Suyar Co, La Grande, Oregon........ 350

Oxnard Beet Sugar Co., Grand Island, Neb.... 350
Pecos Valley Beet Sugar Co., Eddy, N. M.... 200
Utah Sugar Co., Lehi Utah... -- otk. 350
Wisconsin B. S. Co., Menominee Falls, Wis... 200

Co 6,400
Factories building--nearly completed.
Spreckles Sugar Co., Spreckles, (Salinas) Cal..3,000

Pacific Beet Sugar Co, Oxnard, Cal.... ...... 1,000

Union Sugar Co., Santa Maria, Cal............ 500

OT eee cae! Ll 4,500

Besides the above there are three
more that will be in operation this year.
situated at Grand Junction, Colo
rado, Bay City, Mich., and Pekin, Il
Beside these, six other companies, the
organization of whicb is well advanced
are expected to be located at Rochester,
Cairo, Benton Harbor, West Bay City,
Monroe and Alma, Mich. Factories
are also planned for Lyons and Dun-
kirk, N. Y., Grand Haven, Port Huror
and Kalamazoo, Mich., and Spring-
ville, Utah. Rumors are also afloat of
plants to be built at Penn Yan, N. Y..
Toledo and Sandusky, Obio, Corunna,
Alpena, Mt Clemens and Tawas City,
Mich , Hamlet, Ind., Omaha, Neb.,
Sioux Falls, S. D., and Fresno, Cal.
Regarding bounties the Washingtor
Legislature bas a bill before it giving
bounties to the industry confined withir
its borders; that in Indiana bas beer
defeated, while in Illinois the Legisla
ture has a bill in both houses giving
bounty. In Michigan the new bourty
has caused a large expansion of the
industry. In Nebraska the industry is
reported thriving, but the bounty exper-
iment is not a success. In Minnesot?
the bounty will probably be continued
two years longer. In lowa the State 1s
making experiments to determine
whether sugar beet growing can be car-
ried on with profit. -Kansas has been
found to lie outside the beet belt.

There being no further business, the
meeting adjourned.

—_—_~-0—.—___
Hides, Pelts, Furs, Tallow and Wool

Hides are some weaker in price,
while sales have been fully up on good
stock. As hides get poorer, the percent-
age of seconds is greater. No. Is are
not what tanners desire for best stock
and they are trying hard to shade
prices.

Pelts are few in number.
nominal, but full value.

Furs are rather slow of sale and few
in number and poor in quality. March
sales in London, beginning on March
10, will establish prices for the balance
of the season.

Tallow is in good demand, both for
edible and soaper’s use. Prices area
shade stronger, although no material
advance is expected.

Wool is stronger, with light sales,
while prices East are fully 1c per pound
higher. The demand is for coarser
grades. Fine is low in stock. Sales of
heavy-weight goods were disappointing.
Wools in London are 6@8c above the

importing point. Ws. T. HEss.
—__+>+>—_____

For Gillies N. Y. tea, all kinds,
grades and prices, phone Visner, 800.

Prices are

 

The Grocery Market.

Sugars—Tne raw sugar market is very
strong at the basis of previous quota-
tions, which are 43c for 96 deg. test
centrifugals. The refined sugar market
took an unexpected turn on Monday and
the American Sugar Refining Co. ad-
vanced packages and 5 Ib. bags 1-16c
and all other grades %c. Arbuckle fol-
lowed with the same advance on bar-
rels, but advanced his packages ‘c.
Tbe market is very strong at the ad-
vance and a fair business is being done.
The foreign market on both cane and
beet sugars is higher and this adds
strength to the refined situation.

Canned Goods—There is a moderate
demand for futures in both corn and
tomatoes. Packers of corn are holding
very firm at opening prices, but there
are very few tomato packers that are
willing to sell even at an advance of 2%
@5c from opening prices. Three pound
second yellow peaches are in a very
strong position and prices have ad
vanced fully 15c. Gallon apples are
scarce and very few are being offered.
Owing to the continued cold weather,
there has been no packing of oysters for
three or four weeks. Stocks in packers’
hands are getting low and prices have
advanced 5c. Sardines continue to ad-
vance and prices will undoubtedly go
higher still, as stocks are light and well
under control.

Dried Fruits—Raisins are firmer and
tocks of Pacific ungraded are entirely

leared from first hands. The Raisin
Growers’ Association report but thirty-
five cars of Pacific 2 crowns and stand-
ard ungraded in their hands and these
comprise the entire stock of low grades
on the Coast. Pacific ungraded in sec-
ond hands are being held at an advance
of %@%c. On account of the increased
jemand, prunes have advanced about
Yc, Peaches continue to advance and
there is nothing of fair quality now ob-
tainable from first hands under 9c in
sacks. Dates are in good demand at
an advance of %c. Currants are the only
thing in the dried fruit line that show
any weakness and prices have declined
during the past week '%c on bulk goods.

Rice—The foreign grades of domes-
tics are scarce and higher; low to me
dium grades are in fair supply, w:th no
change in prices. The trade is turning
to the imported Japan as showing bet-
ter value than any domestic sorts.

Molasses and Syrups—Owing to the
heavy demand for corn syrup, prices
have been advanced 1 4c per gallon and
gc per case. Manufacturers report that
they are oversold from two to three
weeks. The demand during January
and February was larger than it has ever
been in the history of corn syrup and,
although factories have been running
to their fullest capacity, manufacturers
have been oversold continuously.

Cereals—Although the oatmeal com-
bine fell through, there has been no
change in prices of rolled oats.

Chewing Gum—lIt was announced last
Saturday that the proposed combination
of leading chewing gum manufacturers,
which has been under way since last
November, had received another set-
back. Whether the negotiations will be
resumed and the combine completed is
an open question.

Provisions—The demand during the
cold spell was very heavy, with difficul-
ties of shipment so great that jobbers
refused to shade their prices during that
time. Since the resumption of busi
ness, however, the demand is not so
active and jobbers are making conces-
sions to stimulate trade. Generally,

 

prices are unchanged and the prospects
are for a steady market for some time.
Fish—Mackerel has been especially
active, although prices have not ad-
vanced. There will likely be higher
prices, however, as stocks are getting
reduced, and fresh tish has also ad-
vanced. Cod ts higher in priceand the
demand is fair. Salmon is unchanged
and is booked to advance as soon as the
season gets older. Domestic sardines
are advancing all the time and are like-
ly to advance stiil further, as a syndi-
cate is said to be in control.
—__~>_2 >.
The Grain Market.

The very large amount of wheat on
passage——g, 200,000 bushels——and the
large receipts in the Northwest have
bad a weakening effect on that cereal,
and the longs sold out and the bears
took courage and put out new lines; all
this in spite of crop damage reports all
over the winter wheat belt While in
our opinion the extremely cold weather
did not hurt wheat, we think the freez-
ing and thawing of the last week cer-
tainly has injured the growing crop
very materially; in fact, more so than
many think. Russia and Argentine are
making freer offerings, which also de-
pressed the market. We consider the
present as a weather market. It will,
however, be only a shoit time when the
status of the coming crop will be set-
tled.

Corn is also weak, owing to the large
increase of 1,511,c00 bushels. However,
stocks in first hands are not nearly as
large as they were at the corresponding
time one year ago. Should there be
much foreign demand, prices will en-
hance.

Rye has also fallen 1c in price since
our last report. That cereal depends
entirely upon what exporters will pay.

Oats are of an even tenor. They re-
main remarkably steady, with a strong-
er tendency.

Receipts during the week were 42
cars of wheat, 26 cars of corn and 18
cars of oats.

Mills are st:ll paying 68c for wheat.

C. G. A. Vorer.
8

The Tradesman regrets to learn that
the equality plan for the sale of sugar is
in jeopardy, and that if it is abandoned
at this time it will probably be a long
time before it will ever be restored.
The Tradesman has frequertly bad oc-
casion to commend this plan, because
of the good results it has brought the
retail trade, inasmuch as it has enabled
the retailer to buy understandingly and
dissipate the demoralization which ex-
isted prior to the adoption of the plan,
when the retailer had no means of
knowing whether he was getting bottom
prices on sugar or not. The abandon-
ment of the plan at this time would not
only be a serious loss to the jobber, be-
cause it would precipitate an era of
strife and price cutting, but it would be
even more serious for the retail grocer,
because it would place him more fully
at the mercy of the department stores
in the cities and of the catalogue houses
in the country. It is understood that
the American Sugar Refining Co. would
prefer to keep the plan in operation and
will do so as long as the jobbers stay
by the trust and handle trust sugars ex-
clusively. Whenever they break away
from the trust and begin handling the
output of the independent refineries to
any extent, the American Sugar Refin-
ing Co. will be compelled to abandon
equality for self-preservation.

 

  

  

6

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

Woman’s World

One View of the Marriage Question.

Ever now and then some one of thos+
amiable people whose mania in life is
ccliecting statistics sets up a wail over
the decline of matrimony. Among tbe
last of these is a worthy and distin.
guished clergyman, in charge of a par
ish of well-to-do people in Jersey City,
who says that al:hough his congregatior
increases in numbers yearly and the
collections grow bigger, still there is
a continuai falling off in the number of
Marriages. This condition of affairs he
attributes solely to the women being
too fond of style and luxury to be will
ing to begin life in the humble way in
which their parents did. Girls expect to
be supported in the way to which they
are accustomed, and as this requires
more than the average young man can
afford, they drift into a_ state of ir-
remediabie celibacy; and to prevent
this catastrophe the good brother advises
young people not to wait until they get
too well off before marrying.

Inasmuch as woman's part in court
ship is merely passive, and the most
she can do, under any circumstances, is
to put herself in an attitude to receive
the blessing, as they used to say at old-
fashioned Methodist love feasts, and,
furthermore, as all of us can court uf
on the fingers of one hand—and have
fingers to spare, too—all the women we
have personally known who remained
spinsters of their own free will and ac
cord, it seems a bit unfair to lay the
whole of the decline and fall off of mat-
rimony on women. To an unprejudiced
wbserver it looks like the men might be
at least a little lacking in entbusiasm
on the subject themselves. Women are
proverbial for taking leaps in the dark
without counting the cost, and nothing
short of actually seeing it ourselves
would convince most of us that a woman
won't marry if sufficiently urged.

In reality there is nothing more pa
thetic than that the world should be
banded together to view matrimony al
together and solely from a sentiment]
standpoint, when it is the one thing in
the whole course of our existence to
whose consideration we need to bring
the most good, hard, common sense. To
such an extent has the romantic fallacy
been carried that if a couple of callow
young creatures imagine they are in
love, public sentiment actually backs
them up in getting married, although
they may have never a cent with which
to pay the butcher and baker and can-
dlestickmaker. It is precisely as if we
thought thst life ended, as a novel does.
with the wedding, and the happy couple
would not be hungry for beefsteak and
onions by the next mealtime.

No one would undervalue the beautv
and the sacredness of love, but it is a
cold fact th-t it is not sufficient capital
on which to marry, and those who start
out w'th no cther resource soon find
themselves bankrupt in sentiment as
well as purse. No man is in a proper
frame of mind to be a lover when he is
hungry, and the affection that has got
to stand the wear and tear of shabby
clothes and the harassment of unpaid
bills is pretty apt to soon show signs of
wearing out and frazzling around the
edges. This may not sound soulful, but
it is the straight truth. Anybody who
would advise young people to get mar-
ried without a settled and definite way
of making a good living, on the theory
that they would get along somehow,
would recommend a man who couldn’t

 

 

 

swim to jump overboard at sea because
there have been people who didn't
drown.

So far from there being anything dis
couraging i: young people pausing and
consider'ng before they pluuge into mat-
rimony, it is a cheerful and hopeful
sight. It is a sign tozt they are begin-
ning to look at the subject with some
sense, that fewer fo. lish and ill-advised
marriages will be made, and that the
divorce court will have far less work to
do than it has now.

In theory and poetry love is enough.
Practically it is very far from being
enough. In the first flush of iove a man
thinks that there is nothing on earth that
he would not sacrifice for a girl. Some-
times, while he is still of that opinion,
he marries her, and then he finds out
that the income that made one person
very comfortable can make a family
very uncomfostable. He is a gentleman,
and has a ge:tleman’s tastes. He has
heen accustomed to dressing well; to
tre luxury of his cigars; t» taking a
trip off every summer that brougtt him
into contact with charming and _ inter-
esting people that brightened and fresh
ened him up. In a word, he lived well.
Now, with a family to support, he is
unmistakabiy shabby; he must live in a
poor little cottage, where the ugliness
and cheapness of everything outrage a
taste that is educated up to Turkish
rugs and old blue china; he is forever
dodging bill collectors, and his knowl-
edge of the plays and operas in which
he delighted dwindles to a hungry scan-
ning of the billboards and pictures on
the walls.

Is it any wonder that a sensible man,
confronting this condition, pauses on
the safe side of matrimony and asks
himself if love is going to make up to
him for the sacrifice of ali the tastes
ind habits of a lifetime? Indeed, he
might weli go farther, and ask himself
if he will even love the woman who is
now so dainty and pretty in her beau-
‘iful clothes and artistic environment
when she is careworn and workworn and
shabby and presents a sorry contrast to
wonen more fortunately situated. 1
have seen, and you have seen, men drag
women down to poverty, and then turn
from the hard-worked drudge to some
ovely creature in shimmering silks and
filmy laces who answered the dream
of softness and beauty that is every
man’s ideal of the eternally feminine.
It is a tragedy of tragedies, with per-
haps no one to blame. It is the crav-
ing, gnawing desire for what appeals to
our souls that will not be denied.

With a woman, although she seldom
does consider the wisdom of marrying,
the need is even more urgent of using
some common sense. Under heaven
there is no other woman so badly off as
the woman of refined and educated tastes
who is married to a very poor man, and
who must combine in ber own person
wife, mother, cook, housemaid, seam-
stress and nurse. The lot of the so-
called working woman, in comparison,
is one of idyllic ease and luxury, for
she, at least, has some hours out of the
twenty-four when she can rest and sleep
in peace, with no fear of any calls _be-
ing made upon her, and has, however
scanty her earnings, some money to de-
vote to her own personal needs. Of
course there are women strong of body
and strong of purpose who do not find
marriage, under such conditions, a fail-
ure, but such instances are not common,
and many a girl has felt after the honey
moon waned like singing the refrain of
the old song, ‘‘I Had a Good Home

 

and I Left It."’ Any woman contem
plating such a venture sbould think of
it long and carefully before she takes
the fatal step.

But, say the advocates of indiscrim-
inate matrimony, these young people
could get married if they were willing
to go back and begin life like their
parents did. It is a nonsensical argu-
ment. Nobody can go back to tallow
dips after using electric lights or the
stage coach after the automob.le. It 1s
true thet we demand more luxuries than
our parents had, but we are used to
more and have grester needs. It is not
convincing to say we ought to be happy
in a log cabin in the forest because our
forefathers lived that way. We know
very well we should be miserable with-
out beauty and comfort in our surround-
ings. Rightly or wrongly, there is the
cultivated taste to be dealt with, and soa
we are left with a condition that the
theory doesn’t fit.

I do not say that only the rich should
marry. Far from it. I believe that the
very happiest and most congenial mar-
riages in the world are those where
young people with moderate means
bave married and worked their way up
together by thrift and industry; bu
unless there is sufficient income to
maintain them in comfort, in the way
of life to which they have been accus
tomed to live, it is a hazardous experi-
ment to try. It is better to be laughed
at because you are not married than it
is not to be able to laugh because yov
are. Dorotnay Drx,

——___> 2. ____

‘You can’t tell me there is ncthing
in the theory of reincarnation,’’ re-
marked a traveling man, ‘‘for I know
there is. I was down in Florida re-
cently, and in St. Augustine I saw a
snob dog, an out-and-out snob. His
name is Towser, and he is ju:t a com-
mon yellow dog—lives in the street and
belongs to noone. In the summer, when
no wealthy Northern people are in tne
town, he plays with all the middle-class
children and dogs and will greet patron-
izingly the middle-class men and
women who know him. But in the win-
ter, as soon as the season begins, he at-
taches himself to some rich New York
family—loafs in their yard, tags their
footsteps or carriages all about the city,
attends them to church and home again,
and, so far as he is able, makes himself
one of them For his meals he has been
forced to resort to the back yard of a
plain, good woman who pities him and
feeds him regularly ; he is friendly with
her at his eating hours, but never so
far forgets himself as to wag his tail at
her on the street or when he is with
more pretentious people. When society
functions take place in St Augustine
there is Towser; golf matches, after-
noon teas, picnics or boating parties,
all are attended by him with most con-
ventional regularity. He never greets
ahy ordinary acquaintance when thus
socially engaged, and has even been
known aot to eat for several days when
a fashionable wedding was on his mind
With the swell dogs of St. Augustine
Towser never has any rows, having, no
doubt, studied the politic art of being
agreeable; but with commoner curs he
is irritable and defensive. That dog
has been human in his time, and I'd
give a penny to know who he was."’

—_—_> 20 2__

Never marry a girl who thinks she
may learn to love you. A little learning
is a dangerous thing.

——_2s»e>__

There is always room at the bottom—

of the early strawberry box.

 

The Charm of Repose.

Among the most attractive qualities
ihat any woman can possess is the charm
of repose. The reverse of this is so
generally true—-women are nearly always
so fidgety, so nervous, so hurried—that
to find one who moves about quietly and
assuredly, without excitement, and with
a tranquility unshaken by the little
events of life, is as refreshing as the
quiet of the dusk after the turmoil of the
day, and gives to us something of the
same restful feeling.

So many women, in their desire to
gain admiration, fee] that they must be
continually doing something to attract
attention to themselves. They laugh
and giggle until we feel like crying out
with the harassed hero of Tennyson’s
poem, ‘‘Prithee, weep, May Lillian;’’
they flutter about a room, they talk
ceaselessly and exclaim and ejaculate
over every trivial happening; they
fidget with a fan or their ornaments
until they have exbausted their own
nervous ferce as well as ours with mean-
ingless movements.

Nothing could bea greater fallacy
than to imagine this wins admiration,
especially from men. Pettish, fussy and
erratic ways are amusing enough when
a girl is under 20 and the man very
little more, but after that the grown
man wants peace of mind and body,
and he turns to the woman who can
rise above the petty annoyances of life,
and who does not demand too much of
his enthusiasm. There is a great pas-
sage in one of Tolstoi’s novels where
the young wife of ancld man goes to
ber busband with all the pent-up story
of her struggles and temptations and
emotions. He listens to it, and then
gives her only the smile of a man anx-
ious not to be disturbed.

There are many times when every
woman feels the same thing. We get,
in time, to dread those of our friends
who are intense, who are always either
in absurdly high spirits or preternatur-
ally blue. They make too great drafts
on our sympathy, for they demand that
we shall feel as they do about every-
thing, and it is a relief t> turn to the
placid woman who gives us ncthing but
the sense of rest and peace.

Another argument, if it were needed,
in favor of cultivating repose is that it
does more to keep one young than all
the cosmetics ever invented. Irritability
makes wrinkles, worrying is the sure
forerunner of gray hairs, excitement
shortens life. It is the quiet woman of
reposeful manners that the years piss
by without leaving a mark. Another
thing is that the woman who can keep
caln is always the one who succeeds.
Sne is always master of herself and any
situation, and she never knows those
awful hours with which most of us are
too sadly familiar when one has to re-
pent in sackcloth and ashes the thing
one did and said in the moment of ex-
citement In nature and human nature
it is the great silent forces that are ir-
resistible. Cora STOWELL.

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He Probably Told the Truth.

A minister who was preaching an old-
fashioned New England funeral sermon,
and winding up witb the usual harrow-
ing address to the mourners, turned to
the busband of the deceased and asked,
‘*Do you wish her back, Jobn?"’

‘*No,’’ was the response, in a tone of
deep resignation. i

The neighbors, speaking of it after-
wards, said they guessed Jobn told the
truth, for within a month he was mar-
ried to another woman.

 

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7

 

RANOOM REFLECTIONS.

I continue to hear significant stories
from Lake Odessa concerning the finan-
cial investments which are occasionally
made by A. C. Hager, the butter and
egg dealer who made such a fiasco last
spring. I am told that within a few
months after he ‘‘failed’’ he paid spct
cash for one of the finest residences in
town, the title being held in his wife's
name, and that since that time he has
made occasional investments which show
that he did not ‘‘fail poor.’’

ee

I had a pleasant talk the other even-
ing with John C, Wenham, who was a
merchant in this city for about ten years
back in the ’60s. He began as a hat
and cap dealer and later on added furs
to his line. He not only bought the furs
from the Indians and trappers here-
abouts, but had them tanned by New
York experts and manufactured them
here under his own supervision. As il-
lustrating the margins which obtained
forty years ago, he stated that a set of
furs which cost him $25 he found no
difficulty in selling at $125, while the
same class of goods were selling in Chi-
cago and New York for $200. Later on
he added the manufacture of buckskin
gloves and calfskin mittens, which cost
him about $9 a dozen and found ready
sale at wholesale for $24 a dozen. Later
on he decided that a line of millinery
would be about the right thing to add to
his stock, and he accordingly purchased
an assortment of hats on the occasion
of his next trip to New York, at an aver
age of $21 a dozen. The hats fell fist
the country women turning up their
noses at them witb the remarks, ‘'We
never saw anything ‘like that before,’’
and ‘‘We never saw anyone wear a hat
like that.’’ Mr. Wenham thereupon saw
that he had made a mistake; that he
was one year ahead of the times; that,
instead of wanting hats which were in
the height of style, the women wanted
something a year old, and he according-
ly decided that he would undertake to
give his customers what they wanted.
The next time be went to New York
he looked up a house which was retiring
from business and opened negotiations
for their entire stock of antiquated
headgear. They offered him the outfi
at $2 per dozen, although it was the
same class of goods which he paid $21 a
dozen for the year before, and finall\
struck a bargain for the entire assort-
ment at 75 cents a dozen, which he
shipped to Grand ‘Rapids and closed out
within three months at from $9 to $24
per dozen. Mr. Wenham succeeded in
cleaning up about $40,000 during the
ten years he was in the mercantile busi-
ness, and sold out to a man named Wood-
bury, who failed inside of a year. The
purchaser bid in the stock at 45 cents
on the dollar, and he, in turn, failed
inside of a year, showing that the re-
markable success of Mr. Wenbam was
due to those inherent qualities whicb
have rendered him successful in every
undertaking in which he has embarked
and not altogether tothe remarkable op-
portunities for making money for which
Grand Rapids was then noted.

* * *

‘‘The sample furniture business -has
undoubtedly reached the zenith of its
glory,’’ remarked a leading retail furni-
ture dealer, ‘‘and from now on there
will be a steady decadence to the _busi-
ness. A few years ago there was a craze
to buy sample pieces of furniture, due
to the fact that the people generally
thought they were securing genuine bar-
gains. } TheZadvertising7of sample fur-

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niture the year around and a realization
of the fact that more sample furniture
was being sold in the city at retail than
was brought into the city, ten times
over, naturally caused the consumer to
open his eyes to the fact that in most
cases he had permitted his cupidity to
bias his judgment. Where the purchaser
was a mechanic, he soon discovered that
sample furniture is anything but per-
fect; that while the pattern and finish
are all that can be desired, the article
has frequently been put together and
taken apart so many times that it pos-
sesses less strength than regular goods
These facts are causing a decided re-
action in the craze for sample furniture,
and as dealers have learned that it is
more satisfactory to handle staple lines
than sample odds and ends, it is quite
likely that the sample furniture business

in time will disappear entirely.’’
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The Hardware Market.

During the past month the market bas
heen in an excited condition and a
number of important changes have been
announced. There has also been a dis-
position, on the part of the manufactur
ers, to withdraw prices, even when
higher quotations are not made. Some
yf the advances, as for example in nails
ind wire, are somewhat startling in
their extent. The new arrangement on
steel goods was consummated so quietly
tbat very few, even of the largest trade,
were aware that negotiations to this end
were in progress. A great many goods
are held more firmly, as extreme dis-
counts, special terms, etc., are with
drawn by manufacturers, in which case
jobbers are following suit, even where
there has been no intimation to the
trade of such hardening of prices. Sev-
eral new lists have been adopted and it

/is understood that cthers are under re-

vision, The vclume of business con
tinues to be heavy, the retail trade
sticking up freely, encouraged by the
apward tone of the market and the an-
ticipation of increased business for the
coming year.

Wire and Nails—The recent advance
of 25 cents per cwt. on both wire and
nails came as a surprise to the trade, as
it was not expected such a large ad-
vance would be made all at once. Job-
hers, as a rule, are taking advantage of
the present advance and, while none of
them have any large contracts unfilled,
their selling price is based on the ad-
vance recently made. There is no in-
dication that any lower price will be
made during the coming season, and it
is expected by some that a still further
advance will soon take place, until the
price of nails reaches $2 f. o. b. mills.

Steel Goods—Owing to the low prices
that have been prevailing on these goods
for the last two or three years, and the
increased cost of material used in mak-
ing them which has taken place during
the last four months, a recent advance
of from 15 to 20 per cent. has bren
made, which covers the entire line of
steel goods. As noted in our former
remarks, this advance was not antici-
pated just at present and jobbers, as a
ruie, had no large contracts unfilled.

Wrought Iron Pipe—The manufactur-
ers of wrought iron pipe have adopted a
revised price list, with one discount to
cover the same. New lists will soon be
in the hands of jobbers, when they will
be mailed to retailers. The present dis-
count, as quoted by the jobbing trade,
is 60, 10 and Io per cent to 60, Io, Io,
Io and Io per cent.

Rules—The market on boxwood rules

 

has for a long time been in a demoral-

ized condition, very low prices prevail-
ing. Owing to the increased cost of
material, the manufacturers finally
agreed among themselves to make an
advance, which at the present time
amounts to 20 per cent., and it is be-
lieved that still further advances will be
made.

Picks and Mattocks—At a recent
meeting of manufacturers, a revised list
was adopted and the discount advanced,
which in some cases equals 25 per cent.
over the former prices.

Pumps—The majority of the leading
pump concerns have revised their lists
and discounts. The advance ranges
from Io to 30 per cent., depending upon
articles purchased.

Rope—Owing to the continued hos-
tilities in the Philippine Islands,
Manila fiber has advanced, which al-o
affects the sisal. The consequence is,
there has been an advance over the
prices ruling early in January of 2c per
pound on both Manila and sisal. This
advance also extends to binder twine.

Miscellaneous—Advances have taken
place on the following goods, but just at
the present time we are not able to give
the prices ruling, but dealers can se-
cure them by corresponding with their
jobber. Augers and bits, about 20 per
cent ; lawn mowers, Io per cent. ; steel-
yards and scale beams, 20 per cent ;
castiron butts, 10 per cent. ; poultry
netting, from io to 15 per cent. On
poultry netting jobbers are quoting 80
and Io per cent. to 85 per cent. off list,
the price depending somewhat on quan-
t ty wanted. Both plain and coppered
market wire have been advanced about
$5 per ton; coil chain bas been ad-
vanced ‘%c per lb. ; bright wire goods,
20 per cent ; porcelain kettles, 20 per
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quoted by the jobbing trade at $1.25,
but in some instances this price is
shaded. It is to the interest of the re-
tail trade to pay pretty close attention
to the market, as there is hardly any-
thing in the hardware line that it will
not be necessary to advance from Io to
30 per cent. Owing to the advanced cost
of raw material, this applies to all
classes of tinware and anything which
contains brass, copper, tin, iron or
steel. By those conversant with the sit-
uations now prevailing in the market
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THE REPROACH OF POLITICS.

A few days ago, in a conversation
witb a citizen who is to a certain extent
a professional politician, but who is
fairly honest and patriotic, and who has
a very considerable regard for the pub-
lic good, and who is also a person of
more than usual breadth of mind and
culture—q'1ilities not common ina poli-
tician—something was said concerning
the neglect of what are called the best
citizens, of their political duties, and of
the fact that pol tical contrc] has toa
large extent fallen into the hands of
selfish and reckless adventurers and
their mercenaries, and the fact was de-

plored.

That the American people are crimi-
nally neglectful of the highest obliga-
tions that their constitutional liberty and
free institutions impose upon them is
patent to every observer, and it is the
cause of all their serious troubles aris-
ing from misgovernment and _ political
dishonesty. Many writers from our own,
as well as foreign, countries have com-
mented on the fact, and have offered
explanations of the state of affairs. Of
course, no great evil that infests our
political system is due to any single
cause, but is rather the product of
many. Nevertheless, it may generalls
and properly be attributed to one that
is more potential than the others.

If there is one duty which, above all
others, is imposed upon the American
people, it is that of preserving in all
their original force and purity the lib-
erty and institutions which they in-
herited from their fatbers, and yet, in
the comparatively brief period of a sin-
gle century the term ‘‘politics’’ has
become one of reproach; the putlic
service of the country, from that of the
National t> the various subdivisions of
municipal government, has come to be
regarded as a prey to be seized on by
any who can lay hands upon it. Of the
political managers generally, the less
said the better. They are self-seekers,
surrounded by clans of supporters, who
ate so strictly for plunder.

It is plain that if what are called the
best citizens abandon their public du-
ties, from their unwillingness to do
duty, the public service will be seized
on by a lot of political brigands who
have only advantage and self-advance-.
ment in view, and who, in order to
carry out their designs, assemble as
many followers as they can be_ promis-
ing them plunder. These mercenaries
are often as desperate and as character-

 

less as the Condcttieri of the Middle
Ages or those lurkish auxiliaries known
as Bashi Bazouks.

Under such influences government is
carried on; policies are shaped; legis-
lation is consummated, and the public
business is administered for the benefit
of a few. The neglect by the alleged
best citizens of their public duties is,
to a large extent, attributable to extreme
selfishness. Not only is it claimed that
they are unwilling to give up the time
which would be consumed in the per-
formance of those public duties, but it
is charged that they can get more bene
fits in the way of contracts, concessions
and the like when the brigands are in
control of affairs than when different
conditions obtain. The Condcttieri are
willing to pay Jiberally if their domina-
tion is unquestioned and undisturbed,
and, since it is only the people who are
to be robbed, the administrators of the
plunder can well afford to be liberal in
handing out favors to those from whom
aid is desired or opposition feared.
Thus it becomes to the interest of so
large a number of influential persons
to assist in maintaining in office gangs
of self-seeking and unscrupulous politi-
cians that even the alleged best citizens
will not, save in extreme cases, rise up
against them.

It is getting to be so that political
campaigns are no longer run on prin-
ciple; but the enquiry of those who are
called on to support competing politi-
cians is: What is to be made out of it?
It is wonderful, under the circumstances,
that public affairs are not worse con-
ducted than they are, or that there are
so few office-holders who are actual
thieves.

If the primary elections were pro-
tected by laws, as are the general elec-
tions, and if the people would turn out
to the primaries and take a proper part
in making nominations for public office
it would be possible to defe-t the politi-
cal brigands and put better men ip
office; but so long as the nominations
are made in packed conventions and
those who ought to control the nomina
tions take no part in them, politics in
the United States will continue to be
what it is. Theoretically, politics is
the science most conducive to human
good. It is the science of ameliorating
the social! and moral condition of man-
kind, just as all physical science tends
to the improving of the bodily comfort
and convenience.

The purpose of the science of govern-
ment, of political science, in a country
where popular government and free in
stitutions preva], is to discover and
apply to the best advantage the methods
that may enable all citizens, rich and
poor, to share alike in the inestimable
privileges of making their own laws,
of choosing their own public servants,
and in bearing in proportion to their
means the burdens that their participa-
tion in the government entails. Such
is the theory. The practice is vastly
different. It means benefits for some
and burdens for all the halance.

 

The St. Joseph (Mo. ) Journal of Com-
merce is carrying three separate adver-
tisements of Sears, Roebuck & Co,
which the Tradesman would construe as
an affront to the retail trade, because
the advertiser is one of the most merci-
less of the catalogue houses.

 

That this is the day of little things,
Edward Atkinson does us a favor in
showing that the egg trade of this coun-
try is nearly a million dollars a week
and growing fast.

 

GENERAL TRADE SITUATION.

It is encouraging to note, as an_indi-
cation of the strength of the situation,
tnat there is developing a decided up-
ward tendency in price movement not
only in manufactures but in wage
schedules. Many concerns are volun-
tarily restoring the rates before the
great decline in prices and others are
meeting the demands of employes with
great readiness. Considering how slight
an advance has been made in the prices
of manufactured products since tke era
of greatest depression ever known, it is
a matter of wonder and reassurance
that conditions warrant such an early
and substantial advance in this direc-
tion.

It is a hea'thy indication that the
period of unprecedented activity on the
stock market should be followed by once
of greater quiet. This, however, is in
no sense a reaction, aS prices are main-
tained in most lines, and the changes to
higher levels of the more standard se-
curities nearly offset the declines of the
more speculative holdings. In lookirg
for the explanation of the lessened
movement it is well to note that the
previous demand was the consequence
of the great pressure of capital for em
ployment. This was partially met by
the investment in stock securities for
permanent holdings, but more largely in
the tremendous increase in the creation
of new stocks attending the organization
of countless combinations in almost all
lines of industry. Indeed, the record
of such organizations almost transcends
belief, no less than $1, 106,300,000 in-
dustrial stocks and bonds having been
created in two months. The Financia
Chronicle, in giving a table showing th.s
aggregate, only $57,500,000 being of
bonds, states that combinations are
omitted which have not yet definitely
matured, such as the whisky combina-
uuon, with $128,000,0c00; the copper,
with $100,000 000; the smelting and re-
fining, with $50,000,000; the bridge-
hu lding, with $50,000,000, and the
writing-paper, with $40,000,co0o. Be-
tore the ink was fairly dry this account
was supplemented by the woolen com-
bination, for which it is asserted that
$10,000,000 was subscribed in ten min-

tes, the proposed capital being $50,-
000,000, while another is under way in
heavy-weight goods. It 1s not easy, in
these times, to keep up with events, but
the crop of new industrial stocks would
seem to be nearer $1 525,000,000 already
in 1899, instead of about $916,000,000 ir
the whcle year 1898.

While the decreased activity in the
market of old stocks would naturally
affect the aggreate of bank clearings,
this is more than offset by the demand
in the format'on of so many great cor-
porations. Business of all kinds is
heavy, and the payments amourting to
$6, 980, 000, 000 in the twer ty-eigt t days of
February—25.6 per cert. larger than last
vear and 33.5 per cert larger than in
1892— indicate a relat v-ly greater busi-
ness tian payments of $8, 492,000,000 in
the thirty-one days of January, for an-
nual disbursements of interest and div-
idends account for a large difference
The daily average of payments through
the principal clearing houses was 54.2
per cent. larger in February than in the
same month of 1892, and in January was
52.2 per cent. larger. Over half the in-
crease naturally appeared at New York,
but at all points outside that city the
gain over February 1892 was 22.1 per
cent.

While wheat demand and prices have
been good, there bas been a tendency

 

to decline in the | tt:r, although the
change for ten - ays past is but slight.

The iron situation still shows the ut-
most strength, prices of most lines hav-
ing advanced simply on account of the
inabil ty of the works to handle the
business offered. Of course, this move-
ment can nct co.t:nue much farther
without serving as a check upon the de-
mand.

The reported combination of some
great woolen mills is a new departure
for that industry, in which individual
enterprise, skill and character have
counted for so much in the past, but it
is not yet known how far it may be ex-
tended nor by whom it wi'l be practical-
ly handled. The business has been
somewhat bett-r of | te, although by no
means satisfactory. Cotton goods have
nct ceased to advance, while bocts and
shoes show no imnert nt change.

 

The controversy over the days of grace
on sight drafts having resolved itself
into a discussion between the banks and
lawyers on cne side and the business men
on the other, it ought not to take the
Massachusetts Legislature long to decide
which of these classes is the more com-
petent to judge as to the needs of those
most concerned and directly affected.
The banks act merely in the capacity of
the collectors for the drawers of the
drafts, the lawyers standing ever ready
to defend either party in a suit at law
growing out of the transaction, while the
merchant, by honoring the draft, takes
serious chances of paying for something
that he has not bargained for or that is
not according to agreement, to say
nothing of the other annoyance and pos-
sibility of loss and business standing
which have been enumerated.

 

The governments of the world will
hortly receive nctice from the Prussian
government announcing the meeting of
a tuberculosis congress, which will take
place in Berlin from May 24 to 27 next.
All scientists in the world who are in-
terested in the subject are invited to be
present, It will be the aim of the con-
gress to see if something can not be
done to search out all cases of the dis-
ease in large cities, and isolate them in
special places for treatment. It will
also be suggested at the congress that
diseases of the lungs receive more at-
tention in the medical universities, and
that special pains be taken to give the
student every opportunity for observing
the patients under treatment. The
subject of special hospitals for diseases
of the lungs wil! also he discuss-d.

 

The growing consumption of alcohol
by certain classes in France is causing
a certain amount of anxiety to the mili-
tary authorities. This anxiety is evi-
denced by a series of pusters which have
just been placed in all the barracks of
the garrison of Paris, which clearly ex-
pose to the eyes of the soldier the rav-
ages procuced by alcohol on the buman
system. These bills, which have been
freely exhibited in the dormitories,
lavatories and dining-rooms, show the
internal organs of a person addicted to
drink and those of a sober, healthy
man. These diagrams are accompanied
by a notice which enumerates the effects
of alcohol from a pzthological point of
view and the consequences of alcoholism
from a moral standpoirt

If the Filipinos will only be patient
and good for a few weeks longer, Gen-
eral Otis will probably be in a position
to arrange for them to enjoy a quiet
and restful summer in the distant re-
treats of the mountains of Luzon.

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E. M. Sly, Secretary and Treasurer
Petoskey Lime Co.

In tracing a life we like to go back of
it to see what its sources were, what
characteristics it inberited and what its
environments did for it. In the case
of the subject of this sketch it is inter-
esting to note that the grandfather,
Seneca Sly, was one of the early pio-
neers in Illinois when Illinois was a
vast unbroken wilderness and Chicago a
mere name.

Those were the times that bred sturdy
independence and sterling worth. In
these days when we have everything
ready at band we have no appreciation
of the difficulties and hardships of break-
ing Nature to one’s will and of depend-
ing upon one's own hands for food,
clothing and shelter. But whatever the
difficulties, they trained men to splen-
did habits of painstaking thrift and
economy, and such men left to their
descendants something more valuable
than broad green fields or bank stock as
a heritage. They bequeathed to them
their sturdy common sense and their
capacity for hard work.

We see the advantages of this heritage
in the next generation, when Eugene R.
Sly, father of Elliott M. Sly, found him
self, after many years of hard work—
three of which was spent in the service
of his country—with his honor and in
tegrity assailed and in dire straits finan-
cially. Coming to Northern Michigan
in 1885, he embarked in a new business,
that of lime burning, having previously
invested in a _ tract of limestone seven
miles west of Petoskey on Little Trav-
erse Bay. He organized the Petoskey
Lime Co., but owing t) lack of good
shipping facilities the business did not
flourish. One disaster fo.l»wed anct e:
in rapid succession and Mr. Sly soon
found himself with a lot of dissatisfied
stockholders on his hands demanding
dividends and refusing to pay further
assessments.

Then followed severe! years of the
hardest kind of work, with everything
apparently against him, although gain-
ing gradually. He struggled on persist-
ently. His reputation and honor were
at stake, and he was determined to
win. He met each new difficulty cour-
ageously and conquered it and finally
had the satisfaction of seeing his busi-
ness established on a firm basis.

During all these years of struggle his
son E.liott worked for the company dur-
ing vacations and at such other times as
he could spare from his school, work-
ing first as lime-packer, then cooper,
then foreman and last book-keeper, thus
gaining a thorough knowledge of the
business from the foundation up and
learning lessons of industry and thrift.

He spent the winter and spring of
1889 in the Ferris Business College at
Big Rapids. The next winter he was
offered, and accepted, a position as
teacher of book-keeping and arithmetic
in the Business College at Muskegon.
The following two winters he taught in
the commercial department of the
Whitehall public schools, being very
successful as a teacher of commercial
methods.

He greatly enjoyed this work and _ in-
tended to continue it, but he had made
himself so valuable in the lime business
during the previous seasons that upon
his return home in the spring of 1892 he
was elected Secretary and Treasurer of
the Petoskey Lime Co. and given entire
charge of its office business. It was
about this time that the Chicago & West

 

Michigan Railroad was extended from
Traverse City to Petoskey, establishing
a station near the kilns, which was
named Bayshore. A postoffice was soon
opened, as well as telegraph and tele-
phone offices. From this time there was
a steady growth in the business, and
Ellictt M. Sly proved that he had in
him the energy and thrift of his hard-
working forebears. From early until
late he worked, discharging the posi-
tions of book-keeper, ccrrespondent,
shipping clerk and traveling man, and
when the new 24x60 foot store building
was completed in June of that year, he
ordered the stock, marked and placed it
and for four months was the only clerk,
sleeping in the store and eating his
meals from a lunch basket. The trade
in the store, as well as the lime busi-
ness, grew rapidly and _ in the fall the
first clerk was hired. Since then the
store has been enlarged to 44x!100 feet
with a large warehouse in connection,

 

 

and the trade now requires regularly the
services of six or more clerks.

Mr. Sly has conclusively demonstrated
his abitity as a merchant, being a
shrewd and careful buyer and a good
advertiser. He has accomplished what
very few others have ever succeeded in
doing, the gaining practically all of the
trade of his own employes, as well as
that of the farmers from the surround-
ing country. No one except one who
has tried it knows what it means to suc
ceed with a store without previous ex-
perience. Mr. Sly has not only suc-
ceeded, but we venture the statement
that not anotber country store in the
State carries a better stock, or has better
fixtures or a larger trade.

Although the mercantile business was
growing rapidly during these years, the
lime trade was making still more rapid
gains, every year showing a good in-
crease, the sales for 1898 being five times
greater than those for 1891, and now
nearly equaling the combined output of
all the other kilns in the State. Mr. Sly
attributes this remarkable growth to the
many unequaled merits of ‘‘ Petoskey
Standard’’ lime, but his friends, al-
though admitting the many good quali-
ties of the lime, insist that his constant
efforts to keep the quality up to grade,
his prompt shipments and thorough
business methods, especially in keep-
ing the merits of the lime before the
dealers, have had as much to do with its
success as anything else. He wins
many new customers and rarely loses an
old one. The financial condition of the

 

 

company is now ona solid and profitable
basis. The stock is entirely in the
hands of E. R. and E. M. Sly, they
having bought it up whenever offered
for sale.

In addition to the store and lime
trade the company operates a large mill,
in which are manufactured lumber,
broom handles, staves and heading. It
has also worked up a good jobbing trade
in cement, plaster and hair in connec-
tion with the lime.

Bayshore now has a population of 250,
mostly employes of the Petoskey Lime
Co., and is growing rapidly. During
the coming summer a Presbyterian
Church and a hotel will be built and a
complete system of waterworks estab-
lished.

Mr. Sly enjoys a popularity in the
suryounding country. Last spring he
was nominated by the Republicans for
Township Treasurer, but was unable to
go on the ticket as he already filled the
office of postmaster at Bayshore. He is
a member of the local Maccabee lodge,
bit this is the only order to which he
belongs. Attends the Presbyterian
Church, and is Republican in pol.t:cs.
He was married in June, 1896, to Miss
Ethelynn Seegmiller, of Cadillac, and
they have a g months oid boy, which
Mr. Sly insists is ‘‘the finest boy in
Michigan. ’’

In September, 1895, Mr. Sly was
caugkt beneath a quant ty of falling
tone at the kilns and badly hut. The
Grand Rapids and cther papers pub-
lished the statement that he was killed.
Only bis strong con:t tution saved his
life. At toe prese:t time he has almost
e.tirely recovered from the injuries he
then sustained.

Mr. Sly makes frequent trips in the
terest of his business and is weil
known throughout the western part of
tie State. He has many warm friends
m Grand Rapids.

We venture tre asse tion thet very few
men of 30 have accomplished half what
Mr. Sly has, a taough he himself says,
‘*If I have been successful it is not be
cause I have any special abil ty, for I
haven't, «ther tian an inherited capac-
ity for hard work. I have never used
a penny’s worth of liquor or tobacco,
and tbat has always enabled me to keep
a Clear head.’’ He also says, ‘‘When I
see the great numbers of young men
who drink and smoke, and who leave
their work or business for everything
that comes along, who spend al! their
income, are forever changing their po-
sitions and not working very hard any-
where, and never give their employer
the use of their brains, | am _ convinced
that almost any young man who will
work hard with his hands and brains,
and moreover be economical, can be
successful. I have many appl cations
for positions in our office and store and
yet find great difficulty in securing
competent help.’’

Another thing, and perhaps the most
important, to which Mr. Sly attributes
his success in his chosen line of work
is the circumstance that he is a ‘‘full-

blooded Yankee.’’
—_—_—_>0.—___

Great Britain’s imports from the
United States in 1898 were two and a
half times as large as its imports from
any other country. Next in order of
importance came France, then India,
then Australasia, with Germany and
Holland nearly equal for the fifth place.

— ses

When he recovers and reads all the
beautiful things that have been said
about him, Mr. Kipling will not regret
the pneumonia.

 

The Kansas Legislature appears to
have solved the problem of employing
convicts in the penitentiaries of that
State without cff«nding persons engaged
in local industries. The law providing
for the manufacture of binding twine by
the prisoners will work no hardship to
Kansas mechanics, and it will certainly
relieve the farmers of the Sunflower
State of the tyranny of the binding
twine trust The latter institution will
be unable to adopt its customary mode
of dealing with competition. The con-
victs can neither be bought off nor bull-
dozed and the ups and downs of the
stock market are wholly without influ-
ence upon them. Neither can the trust
undersell the prison factories, which
will get their labor practically free and
which will enjoy an assured market al-
most at their front doors. The Kansas
idea is suggestive of possibilities for
other legislatures. The twine trust is
not the only monopoly which might be
seriously inconvenienced by the compe-

tition of convict labor.
——

It is said by some that the Dutch
colonial system yields the largest riches,
and it isa fact of interest that a great
deal of wealth comes from the Dutch
East Indies. ‘‘In Java of the present
day,’’ says Benjamin Kidd, the noted
expert, ‘‘the greater part of the land is
claimed by the government, and has
been largeiy worked under what is
known as the ‘culture system, ’ instituted
in 1832. A leading feature of the sys-
tem has been forced native labor, em-
ployed in the raising for the govern-
ment of produce tu be sold in the Neth-
erlands and in tbe colonial markets.”’
But while not actually slavery, that sys-
t-m approaches so nearly to it that this
country could not think ot touching it,
says the Baltimore American. Our new
colonies must work out their own des-
tiny under free government, and with
the aid of American capital.

—_—__2> 22> —___

No law ought to be necessary to insure
proper respect for the stars and stripes,
among Americans, but since there is a
disposition among a certain class of
tradesmen to use the flag for advertising
purposes there is no doubt that the leg-
islation which the Daugtters of the
American Revolution have requested
should be forthcoming. The flag is not
an advertisement. It is an emblem,
standing for something higher than
soap, beer, shoe polish and stove black-
mg. The man who makes use of the
flag to further the sale of his goods not
only drags it down from its high level
and prostitutes his own patriotism, but
barters the sentiment of the flag, which
is a petty form of treason. The people
have had enough of :t, and a law ought
to be passed strictly limiting the use of
the flag to its legitimate purposes,

————_~>0.___

After years of experimental work a
machine was put in successful opera-
tion a few days ago at Upland, Ind.,
which will blow tumblers, jelly glasses
and other glassware. It is capable of a
speed of 1,200 articles an hour. The
inventor is Frank McNeal and he is at
the head of a company which will have
a monopoly. This will bring many new
complications in the glass industry.
The introduction of machinery in blow-
ing fruit jars has made it impossible to
manufacture by hand any longer and
has placed the trade in the hands of four
companies, which have a monopoly on
the patents. Bottle blowing and other
lines of the glass industry have thus
been caught up by machinery and hun-
dreds of men are being thrown out of
work,

 

 

    

10

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

Shoes and Leather

Some Suggestions to the Retail Shoe
Dealer.

It is a matter of common knowledge
that the past four or five years has
borne particularly hard upon both job
bers and retailers in the boot and shoe
line. The present indications are that
better times are here, yet the returns
upon capital invested in stocks of boots
and shoes are not as satisfatcory as
could be wished. The retail shoe store
dealer has naturally directed his atten-
tion to an investigation of the causes
which have brought about this condition
of business in hopes of finding a rem-
edy. Generally the question of low
prices is an object of attack. There is
good reason for this, for in most locali
ties visited by the writer this season the
leading retailers have complained of
the close margins of profits on nearly all
footwear. None of the merchants ap-
peared to think that the general average
of prices would rule higher in the near
future. Other means than higher values
must evidently be depended upon to
improve the condition of the retailer
Several suggestions toward a remedy
may be outlined. For instance, econ-
omy in management, the question of dis-
tribution, advertising, strong salesmen,
etc., are matters which are managed
with varying results in shoe stores. A
change for the beiter in the method of
management alone may so increase the
returns on the sales as to give the pro-
prietor the necessary returns on his in-
vestment. In fact, there are a number
of directions in which to look for bring-
ing about an improvement in the profits
aside from the question of prices. If
the prices are put up, trade is likely to
fall off. But if the store is more skill-
fully managed, little wast:ges stopped
here and there, goods bought to better
advantage and the distribution of the
stock accomplished more economically,
the patronage of the store is just as well
satisfied and the margins on the sales
are increased.

In order to arrive at the resulis above
suggested, the merchant must know just
what his business is doing for him each
day. The writer bas conversed witb
many dealers who jolly themselves along
from day to day with the belief th. t
they are making money. They do mt
know what the earnings of the store
have been uatil stock-tiking at the end
of the year. On the other hand I have
had dealings with men who were hav-
ing sleepless nigbts because of laboring
under the delusion that they were losing
money every day and would eventually
bankrupt, who, in real ty, were making
money right along. There is no need
for this st te of affairs in a shoe store
when, by a |.ttl- figuring each day, the
merchant can tell what his sales ought
to be to bring in a substantial profit. It
may be hard for many to believe how
sbift'essly some of the shoe stores in the
smaller cit:es and towns are run in this
respect. This is especially the case
where the partners have full confidence
in each cther. They do nct take the
trouble to maintain accurate account;
of all transactions and at the end of tae
year divide up what profit there hap-
pens to be and let it go at that. Often,
however, there are losses to account for
instead of profits, and then the situa-
tion is more serious.

If the amourt of business that mu:t
be done each day to make the business
profitable is known, the question of
profits and losses is greatly simplified.

 

 

 

A good way to do is to estimate the cap-
ital inve:ted in the stock and store fix-
tures and count them in with the run-
ning expenses after the plan suggested
below. Thecapital tied up in the stack
of a shoe store of moderate size ina
city of about 20,000 population, for ex-
ample, need not be very large, for the
reason that much of the stock can be
obtained on thirty to ninety days’ time
and the money can be turned over be-
fore the bills are due. Besides, there
1s always a lot of spoiting and bicycling
footwear, and miscellaneous sundry shoe
stock which is carried on commission.
Even if but $1,000 is tied up in the
stock, under these conditions, the stock
wiil be of good proportions. Suppose
that the fixtures represent an invest-d
capit:l of $600 and we figure at the rate
of 5 percent. The interest will be $80.
Next we figure up the running expenses
of the store:

 

Rent of store per year....... . .. .....8500
Heating store per year.................. 40
Liphtine ~tore per yeat ... .......... 65
Head clerk ($18 per week).......-...... 930
Clerk ($c per week)... 520
Boy ($4 per week).......-. ee. oe
Advertising for one year............-.. 200
Insurance for one year -............. 6
Store supplies for one year............- 100
PAiSCeII@cCOMS -2. 22. | ok 25
Interest on money invested............. 80

toe ee $2 80

The services of the proprietor must
be included, and these he may calcu-
iate as being woth say, $1,200 per year.
Then there are some bad detts, usualiy
from 3 to 4 per cernt., which must go
into thet tal. This gives us an even
figure of $4,000 per year, which, based
on three hundred days in the year, gives
us $13.30 per day. Therefore, the store
has got to do enough business ts make
a profit of $13.30 per day in order to
pay for the money invested, toe run-
ning expenses and give tbe owner an
income equal t) what he might make
working «st wages for some one else.
Any profit above this figure is, of course,
clear gain.

Accounts of this character may be
kept in the shoe store witb a record
book, showing all cash payments each
day and another for cash sales of sun-
dries. Another book should be provided
and lined for a debt and credit side, all
cash payments being recorded on the
former and money paid out on the cther
and the book balanced each night after
close of business.

By thus keeping strict accounts of
daily standing, the owner knows just
what he is doing. He does not have
to guess at profits and losses, but knows
definitely whether he is making or los-
ing money by selling at the prices he
had marked his goods.

There may have been times in the
past when a shoe store would practically
run itself when once set going. Even
in this present aze of close competition
your correspondert has the acquaintance
of certain retail shoe store dealers who
have a habit of confining themselves to
their desk or back office instead of look-
ing more actively after the management
of the front of the store. I do not be-
lieve tbat the average clerk needs

watching, but it has been my experience

that most clerks take more interest in
the business when the proprietor him-
self sets the example. If the proprie-
tor is satisfied with a passing glance at
the front of the store it may be assumed
tbat the clerks are not going to do much
better. The most successful retailers
have informed me that the details of the
office work can be conducted more
cheaply and accurately by hired help
than can be that of the sales depart-
ment. There can bea certain amount
of neglect in the counting room, as mis-

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Rindge, Kalmbach, Logie & Co.,

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

Manufacturers and Jobbers of

Boots and Shoes

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

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Combination “Uncle Sam”

(1st quality Rubbers and Ist quality
Knit Boots)

: Net per case.
Men’s Knit Boots 12 prs each.

With 2 bk]. Gum Perfections.$25 00

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”’

(fst 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 bk]. Gum Perfections. 23 oo
With Duck Perfections ..... 22 00
With Gum Perfections....... 20 50
With Gum Hurons, Heel..... 20 00
Boys’ 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.

 

 

 

 

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HEROLD-BERTSCH SHOE CO.

MANUFACTURERS AND JOBBERS
OF

RELIABLE FOOTWEAR

Our Spring line is a Winner; wait for our travelers and
‘‘win’’ with us.—When in the city see our spread.—Agents
for Wales Goodyear Rubbers.

SESLELESESEE
5 anpD 7 PEARL ST., GRAND RAPIDS.

 

 

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. Send us your orders
and get the best goods made.
Our line of Spring Shoes are now

your orders at once.

on the road with our travelers.
Be sure and see them before
placing your orders as we have
some “hot stuff” in them.

 

 

TRADESMAN
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SIZE—S8 1-2 x 14.
THREE COLUMNS.

 

2 Quires, 160 pages........ $2 oo

3 Quires, 240 pages........ 2 50

4 Quires, 320 pages........ 3 00

5 Quires, 400 pages........ 3 50

6 Quires, 480 pages........ 4 00
2

INVOICE RECORD OR BILL BOOK

80 double pages, registers 2,880
THVONOES. oe boosie d cceiewaidicn $2 Oo

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Grand Rapids, Mich.

  

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takes can be rectified and miscalcula-
tions accounted for by working over
time. But if anything goes wrong in
the front store patrons are likely to be
offended, resulting often in permanent
injury to the business.

There are several ways for the boot
and shoe retailer to purchase his stock,
and I know of no better way than for
him to personally attend to it. Syndi-
cate buying has its advantages, but the
writer has in mind an instance where it
did not succeed. A _ successful retail
shoe business was left by a father to his
son. The son was provided with a
price-book and secured his stock through
a syndicate buyer, but at only such
prices as this buyer could obtain. The
frequent change of prices made the
price-book practically worthless, and
about all the son knew definitely was
that he got the goods and the bill for
them. There was no way for him to get
further details. The syndicate buyer
may have bought the goods at 2 per cent
less than a competitor, but if the latt-r
purchased the goods direct, he had the
advantage of knowing how to advertise
them to his customers. The merchant
has to know more about the goods _ than
the mere cost. This the son above
mentioned could not do under the cir-
cumstances, with the result that he is
now out of business.

The merchant is necessarily handi-
capped if he gets a special bargain and
is under obligations to divulge the de-
tails to a buyer who will place the same
at the disposal of all others in the syn-
dicate. Freedom of action is essential
to the success of the retail shoe store
dealer. I have known dealers to go to
extremes with this syndicate buying
business, sinking their own personality
out of sight. One merchant in particu-
lar always had his price-book at his
elbow whenever I called. This book
was his hobby, and he had a method of
his own for dating the quotations. He
encouraged the calls of all drummers for
the sake of getting their prices. He
would make note of the lowest prices
thus obtained in his book, but very sel-
dom placed an order. I now understand
that most of the salesmen are passing
by his door, and he is, of course, get-
ting from the few who call only such
general prices as they give to all.

Advertising supplementary to the
newspaper and trade journal will help
the retail boot and shoe business, as well
as any other line of business. The lo-
cal newspapers and the trade journals|
take the lead. It will be noticed that
there is an assignment of money in the
above table of expenditures for adver-
tising purposes. A large part of the
amount should go towards newspaper
and journal advertising. There are
many classes of people who are offended
at receiving circular stuff through the
mails or tucked under their door. But
no one is ever offended at persistent ad-
vertising in papers. In fact, many peo-
ple delight in a perusal of advertising
matter in newspaper or magazine form.
All cierks can testify to the many peo-
ple who have made a clipping of new
goods and prices from a boot and shoe
advertisement and brought it with them
to the store and asked for the goods
mentioned in the advertisement. I
never heard of anyone bringing a cheap
handbil] to the store with them for this
purpose. But I have known people to
enter complaints about their front door-
steps being littered with the cheap liter-
ature of certain local dealers

Retail shoe store dealers who are sit-
uated in flourishing centers have  sev-

 

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eral lines of roads leading to town which
may be posted with permanent signs
giving distances and name of firm, etc.
No one takes exception to this method
of advertising, and if the boards are
neatly printed the signs serve their pur-
pose well. The boy can put in a day
knocking the boxes in the basement to
pieces. He can saw out a few dozen
20x8 inch pieces, plane the edges even
and then paint the pieces white. Let
them dry a day or two, and set the boy
to work stenciling whatever reading
matter you want on the signs. Then
after another day’s drying hire a team
and you and the boy ride out about five
miles in different directions, and nail
up the signs along the roadside.

The local shoe merchant is a little pe-
culiarly situated as regards the program
advertising evil. He is usually ap-
proached by a representative of the so-
ciety, and is given to understand that
unless he places his advertisement in
the program the members of the society
will not be so likely to patronize his
store. For this reason many shoe deal-
ers make up their minds at once thai
they must give a card to the solicitor
and they do so, and pay for it at once
<o as to get the matter off their hands.
These merchants do this so as to keep
in with the society and not because they
want the space in the program. There
is no money in program advertising, as
all retailers know. Therefore the fol-
lowing suggestion for getting out of
paying $5 for a card in the program
may be useful: Establish a rule not to
advertise in printed matter of this sort
Explain the rule to the solicitor and say
that you can not advertise in the pro-
gram, much as you would like, without
offending others who have been refused.
Ask the date of the entertainment and
buy and pay cash for aticket. The
ticket will not cost more than 50 cents,
and you will have saved $4.50, besides
keeping in with the society.

There are certain retailers of boots
and shoes who claim that they never ad-
vertise. They do not believe in it, etc.
Yet they are advertising right along by
means of showing goods in their win-
dows, sending men to solicit orders,
talking their goods, etc. I have in
mind a merchant who started in a small
way about three years ago. He handled
a cheap class of footwear, but he did
well with it. He claimed that he never

advertised, yet his show windows were
always liberally placarded with price
cards, neatly written and up to date
He has recently taken a new and larger
store and is doing well. This is strange
for a man who did not advertise. But
he did advertise, only hefdid not know it.

These maxims will be useful for the
retail shoe dealer:

Keep accurate accounts and know the
exact condition of your affairs.

Be cheerful and show proper civility
to ali with whom you transact business.

Enjoin upon all you associates, by
your integrity, punctuality, pol teness
and knowledge of and strict attention to
your own business, that you are indeed
a first-class business man.

Give your entire attention to the busi-
ness before you, as no man can do or
think thoroughly two things at one time.

Avoid loud talking or cursing in your
office or store, no matter what the prov-
ocation may be.

Never speak unkindly to an employe
or treat him unjustly.

Do not be continually scowling ; keep
your forehead unruffled. Let old age
bring the wrinkles, do not force them.

Be punctual and always keep an en-
gagement, no matter how trivial.

Be honest, never misrepresent.

During business hours attend to noth-
ing but business.

Quality is the true test of cheapness.

Of two investments choose that which
will better promote your regular business.

Goods in store are better than bad
debts.

First understand every detail of your
business, then go ahead.

Enter your place of business witk
punctuality and a kindly good morning
or good day to your employes.

Treat every one who calls to see you
upon business with politeness and con-
sideration. Do not speak or act ina
manner which will be regretted sooner
or later.

Do not be discourteous to the drum-
mers.

Learn to treat a shabbily dressed cus-
tomer with as much civility as you man-
ifest toward the richest of your patrons ;
the dollar you get from each is of the
same value.

Prefer short credit to long, cash to
credit, either in buying or selling, and
small profits with little risk to the
chance of better gains with more hazards.

 

 

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Keep your plans and business to your-
self, yet be candid with all.

Be clear and explicit in bargains, and
put everything in writing.

Always be at the head of your own
business. The secret of success is con-
stancy of purpose.

Employ nobody to do what you can
easily do yourself.

Be cautious how you become the se-
curity for any person.

Have a place for
everything in its place.

Make your advertisements absolute
truths ; they will reap gold dollars.

Keep the best stock, the cleanest stock
and turn it often.

Watch the leaks—they grow to well
holes.

Let the other man sell at a loss, you
at a profit.

Buy advertising as you buy goods—
never overstock.

Pay promptly, and collect as promptly
as you pay.

Do not wait for trade; hustle—go after
it. Push in busy seasons, and in dull
seasons still push.

Have enough system to aid your
business, not to cripple it.

Frequent inventories detect
Double entry book-keeping
e rors.

Watch expenses and you'll be on the
right side of profit and loss.—B. F.
Fells in Boot and Shoe Recorder.

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Fruits and Produce.

Rapid Growth of the Southwestern
Egg Industry.
From the St. Louis Globe-Dispatch.

The egg market of Springfield has
become the most important factor in
the commercial growth of thecity. But
for the constant industry of the South
west Missour! and North Arkansas hen
the business interests of the metropolis
of the Ozarks would suffer far greater
loss than if every bushel of corn and
wheat were withheld from this market.

The territory covered by the Spring-
field egg dealers is very large, extend-
ing southward far beyond White River
into the second and third tiers of coun-
ties in Arkansas. This extensive region,
lying beyond the reach of railway trans-
portation, uses Springfield as a shipping
point, and the egg hauler is more famil-
lar with the rough highways leading
up the southern slopes of the Ozarks
than any other teamster. He makes
his regular; trips the year around, baul
ing from 1,000 to 1,200 dozen eggs at
a load. From the extreme southern
limit of the Springfield egg territory it
takes about ten days to make the round
trip in the winter time, the distance be-
ing divided into four or five sections,
each one having its well-established
camping place.

The egg hauler has a way of trans-
porting his fragile freight that would
astonish many city people. He does
not handle his eggs with great care,
putting each one into a snug little paper
box as they are shipped on the cars
He first covers the bottom of his wagon
bed with a layer of hay or straw, and
then begins to load the eggs for the
long haul over the roughest roads in
Missouri. Theeggs are laid in straight
rows the long way of the wagon bed
unt:! the whole bottom is covered. In
order that the load may be safely hauled
it is necessary that the eggs touch one
another. When the first layer of eggs
has been placed ancther covering of
hay is put in the wagon, and then more
of the tender freight. After three or
four layers of eggs have been put in
the wagon the freighters become appar-
ently reckless in their work and proceed
with more speed. They walk about on
the eggs as though they were potatoes.
The protection of the bay and the even-
ness of the pressure save the eggs from
the heavy shoes of the teamsters. Not
an egg crushes under the weight of the
biggest Ozark freighter. After the wagon
has been fn led in this way and a layer
of straw put on top of the load, a weight
having a pressure of about 500 pounds
is used to hold the eggs in position.
Then the freighter is ready for his trip
to the egg market at Springfield. The
teamster drives up and down the steep
and rocky hills between the Boston
Mountains and Springfield with no more
care than he would if hauling a load of
lumber. A few eggs around the edge
of the wagon will sometimes be bruken
on the trip, but the loss is surprisingly
small. In a load of 1,200 dozen eggs
not more than a dozen will be found
cracked when the freighter reaches
Springteld.

Some idea of the extent of the Spring-
field egg trade may be had from the fact
that one firm here ships sometimes 125 -
ooo dozen a week Most of these eggs
come from the country south of Spring-
field and are bauied in wagons. Every
household throughout the White River
region contributes to the Springfield
egg market. Hundreds of families have
for months in the year no other means
of buying sugar and coffee and a few
other necessaries of life which they get
of the local merchant. During the
spring and early summer, when the
small farmer of the Ozarks has nothing
else to sell, his wife and daughters
watch the hens’ nests and make semi-
weekly visits to the neighborhood store,
bringing home with them the family
supplies thus procured.

The egg market is a very fickle one,
and the country merchant of North Ar-
kansas must give himself a considerable
margin in buying to avoid as much as
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Sometimes a freighter will leave Jasper
county with a load of eggs when the
price is 20 cents a dozen, and before be
reaches Springfield the market price has
dropped nearly one-half Again, the
slaw progress of the egg wagon may be
the means of making the | cal dealer a
good profit. During the late cold weatb-
er, when the price of eggs wert up to
30 cents, some teamsters took back home
with them twice as much money as they
expected to get for their loads.

After the weather gets warm the egg
bauler's freight is exposed to a new
risk His load may spoil in transit. A
slightly spoiled egg, in traveling 100
miles in a wagon, will reach Springfield
badly spoiled.

——_—_» 2.___
New Rival for Cow Butter.
From theSt Joseph Journal of Commerce.

A new factory has just been put into
operation here for the manufacture of
butter from peanuts, Fora year or more
Lane Bros., of this city, bave been
working on a process of making butter
from the peanut, to compete with the
product of the cow, and have succeeded
in producing the desired article. At
the present price of the nuts the butter
can be sold at 15 cents per pound.

The process of manufacture is no
secret. The nuts, after the hulls are re-
moved, are carefully bandpicked and
faulty kernels removed. They are then
roasted in a large rotary oven. Again
they are gone over by hand for the re-
moval of scorched grains. The nuts are
then put through a mill and ground as
fine as the finest flour, the natural oi] in
the grains giving it the appearance and
consistency of putty as it leaves the
mill, except that it is more of an orange
color. By the addition of filtrated
water, to reduce to a more pliable state,
the butter is complete, no other ingre-
dient except salt being used. It never
grows rancid and keeps in any climate.
It is put up in 1, 2, 5, 10, 25 and 100
pound tin cans and sealed. The new
butter is already in great demand at
sanitariums and heelth resorts. It is
used for all purposes ordinary butter 1s
used, including shcrtening and frying

Physicians pronounce it more health-
ful than cow butter and it is much less
expensive. By the addition of more
water a delicious cream is made, and.
if desired, it can in the same way be
reduced to the consistency of milk The
new butter factory is located but a few
rods from a large dairy barn and is run-
ning in opposition to it.

—>2>—___
Cocoanut by Mail.
From the Portland Argus.

One of the strangest packages which
has ever been handled by the clerks in
the Watervill- Post Office was delivered
to S. S. Light»tody the other afternoon
The package was a ccc:anvt in the
same form in which it was taken from
the tree. There was no tag attached to
the cocoanut Instead the address was
written on the husk. -One of the three
sides of the husk was taken up bv the
address, which used up nearly all the
space allotted for it. Another side con-
tamed the postage stamps. Of these
there was one I5 cent stamp, two
2-cert stamps, and, in spite of the fact
that the remaining stamp of I-cert de
nomination was one of the stamps is-
sued in commemoret:on of the Maine,
there was plerty of room for many more
stamps of the same size, so large was
the surface. The cocoanut was sent by
Fred Gonyer, who s+veral morths ago
was emyloyed at Mr Lightbody’s store
Mr. Gonyer is now in P:1lm Beach, Fla

—_——_»2~—___
Proof Positive.

The counsel for the oppos tion bad
been bullying the witness for an hour or
more, when he finally asked:

‘Is it true that there are traces of in-
sanity in your family?’’

“*It would be folly to deny it,’' replied
the witness. ‘‘My great-grandfather,
who was studying for the ministry,
gave it up to become a lawyer.”’

—>0 > —___

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Produce
Commission
Merchants

Pottstown, Pa.

Branch House, LAKE ODESSA, MICH.

On or about the first of April we shall take
charge of the egg business at Lake Odessa, Mich-
igan, formerly operated by Hager & Co. Business
of egg shippers solicited. Special announcement
by letter.

REFERENCES:

H. R. Wager, Ionia, Mich.
Bradstreet and Dun Agencies.
Pottstown National Bank
The Citizens National Bank, Pottstown, Pa.
The National Iron Bank, Pottstown, Pa.
Lake Odessa Savings Bank.

 

 

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IN THE NORTHWEST.

 

Status of the Potato Situation in Min-

nesota.
From the Minneapolis Commercial Bulletin.

Much interest at present attaches to
the potato situation on account of the
conditions which prevail The ship-
ping demand is very good, especially
from the Southern and Middle St tes,
where many potatoes were frozen in
the past few weeks. Potatoes have
rapidly advanced during the past fort-
night and the sentimert is almost as
much divided as there are shippers and
buyers.

Some of the commission men who are
a trifle short, with many spring orders
to fill, are rather inclined to view the
subject of potetoes from a pessimistic
standpoint. They forcibly express the
opinion thet present values are as high
as they should be and to carry the con-
viction that they are sincere in their
views, they predict a reaction and lower
prices later on.

Local conservative shippers who are
well supplied, and who were anticipat-
ing a higher range in prices, are inclined
to take a more liberal view of the situ-
ation, and while they are not predicting
much higher prices, they are inclined
to admit that the presert situation is
fairly well typified in the quotations
now prevailing and that the latter will
be well maintained until the new crop
is on the market.

The Bulletin, in order to clear up the
matter, has secured information from a
number of sources. So far as_ possitle
this has been gained from the largest
Northwestern buyers and shippers, com-
mission men who are thoroughly identi-
fied with the subject to the exclusion of
other produce lines.

The crop estimate last fall was a total
of 16,000,000 bushels from the North-
western potato states. This would have
been adequate for all the demands and
if the whole suppy had been available
to draw upon, or that portion of it re-
maining unsold was still available in
first hands, the recent advance would
scarcely have been justified; but the
severe weather, the three coldest weeks
in February, resulted in considerable
loss through freezing. The extent of
this loss at the present time is a matter
of considerable speculation. In Min-
nesota and Wisconsin it will amount to
a very small percentage, if all the reports
received so far are true. In lowa, how-
ever, where the farmers do not make as
careful preparation for cold weather
and where 30 below zero is an exception
rather than the rule, !t is reported that
the loss will be very heavy.

S. H Hall, of S. H. Hall & Co., of
this city, one of the largest of North
western shippers, reviews the situation
as fc lows:

‘*T think the est mate of 16,000,cco
bush+ls made les f. ll bas been sub-
stant ated by the buying and the move-
ment during the winter and fall months
and :t about represented the actual
Northwestern crop.

‘Of this. I should say that about 70
per cent. had been marketed from first
bands previous to and during the cold
sptli in February. About 5,000,000
bushels of this was exported.

‘‘It is very difficult at presert to se-
cure anvthing | ke autoentic inturmation
regarding the qiantity of petatoes fro
zen. I am not inclined to think it will
be very large in Minnescta and the
principal pot to producing _ stites.
However, in mv judgment, the loss on
account of freezing was suffic'ert t
give the market a tirmer tone and | be
lieve when all the present conditions are
considered—the demand from _ outside
points for consumption and for seed
purposes—that the present quotations are
tully justified and that they will be
maintained through the remainder of
the season. I donot look for any ad-
vance over present figures, but I am in-
clined to look upon values as about at
the point where they will be maintained
on a firm basis. ’’

Among local commission men George
E. Bryant, of McLean, Bryant & Co.,
is one of the iargest handlers of carlots.
He reviews the situation as follows:

** That which will apply to the condi-

 

tion of almost anv commodity w'! apply
with regard to potatoes at this t me. As
soon as there is a change of any kind,
and especially as soon as there is an
advance to a point above what usual
conditions will warrant and an effort is
made to hold it there, supplies come
from wholly unexpected sources and
farmers immediately rush that commod-
ity onto the market in an effort to se-
cure the highest price. That was iil 1s-
trated last week in the matter of quota-
tions on eggs. When the quctations
here reached 30 cents and it seemed as
if there were no more eggs in the mar-
ket, as soon as the news got out to the
farmers they rushed eggs into the mar
ket in liberal quantities—so liberal, in
fact, that a decline immediately fol-
lowed. There were plenty of eggs in
farmers’ hands all of this time, but they
were holding them, waiting unt:! the
price should reach the highest point.
When they concluded it had got to the
top they released their supplies, and the
consequence was that within 24 hours
after the news was received in the coun-
try shippers were sending anywhere
from one to five cases to this market.
‘‘The same thing is true with regard
to potatoes. I remember, and you will
undoubtedly remember, that last year in
April and March the market went up to
about 60 cents. Just as soon as tke
country merchants got the information
that this market was excited and that
potatoes were bringing a high price
they began shipping them in. by,

places that had never shipped a carlot-.

of potatoes before to our knowledge sent
in three and four carloads within a few
days after they bad received the news.
They came from every quarter of the
Northwest and the consequence was that
the market was overloaded within a
short time and we had more than we
could handle.

‘‘It is my belief that values this
spring will be from 40 to 50 cents for
the best fancy white stock yet left in the
country. When potatoes reach 50 cents,
the consumption falls off to a marked
extent, I should say from 4o to 50 per
cent. in many cases, and this must also
be taken into consideration in sjudying
the present situation.’’

A. E. Nash, of A. W. Griswold &
Co., has recently returned from a trip
through Iowa. He says of the potato
situation there:

‘Farmers were not prepared for the
severe cold weather in lowa, and the
result was tbat the loss on potatoes was
very heavy. I heard reports from all
over the State of losses through freezing,
and I think that the damage in that
State was possibly heavier than in any
other Northwestern stite I do not be-
1 eve that farmers will have very many
potatoes to ship out this spring. Most
of the supplies they now have will be
required for seeding purposes, and they
will hold them very hrm and at a high
figure ”’

From Anoka the Bu'letin and Trade
has secured some data regarding the
available supply. T. J. Sharley, repre-
sentative of the Northern Pacific Ratl-
road, is thoroughly identified with the
potato interests at that point and bas
made a study of the conditions there.
He says of the situation:

‘*The 1897 shipments from this point
aggreg ted 700 carlots or abort 35,000
bushels trom this point. This repre-
sents the shipments over b th lines of
road,

‘*So far, the shipments this year have
heen onlv . bout 340 cars from this point
aad I should say tbat the t' tal will not
be over 400 cars. There was a shertige
in the crop over a year ago, hit nt
quite to such an extent as would ap-
pear from these figures. Some of the
potatoes that should rightfully have
been shipped out at this point were sold
at North Branch and Harris this year,
and that curtailed the totai movement
from here. :

‘‘I am inclined to believe, however,
that prices will be well maintained and
that potatoes are a desirable commodity
to have. Our reports from Chicago
show that Minnesota Burbanks are sell-
ing from 4 to 5 cents a bushel over the
same variety trom other states. Min-
nesota potatoes are of better quality and

The best are the cheapes
and these we can always

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

are bringing a better price, so that
there is considerable in the situation to
afford encouragement to the farmers.

**T think the loss from freezing at this
point has been comparatively light.
Farmers protected their crops well, and
there was no movement during the se-
vere cold weather to speak of, so that
the loss should be small.’’

R. Betts, also at Anoka, repre-
senting a large St. Paul firm, said that
he believed that present values (they
were quoted then 5 to 6 cents lower)
about represented the true sentiment,
and that an advance would not be
Maintained. He believed that it was
well to quote a few cents under the city
commission price, for the reason that
many farmers brought in potatoes nct
quite up to A! standards, and that they
expected to get top notch prices for
them. Therefore, he was in favor of
conservative quot ‘tions until later in the
season, when it was possible to estimate
the spring movement.

While the value of this year’s North-
western potato crop does not directly
interest the commission men as_ having
a direct effect on their business, from a
commercial standpoint it is one of the
greatest importance. No accurate fig-
ures are at hand, but under general con-
ditions they can be closely arrived at.
Of the total crop about 70 per cent has
been marketed, so far as can be learned
from the most reliable sources. This
means a total of over 11,000,000 bushels
out of first hands at the present time.
The prices received by the farmers av-
eraged about 22 to 25 cents, the range
through the season being from 15 cents
to 30 cents. In all probability 22 cents
would be about the right average. The
total paid for 11,000,000 bushels at 22
cents can be easily secured by the
mathematician. To be conservative the
Bulletin and Trade places the average
price paid to the farmer at 20 cents.
The amount received by the farmers at
this figure was $2,200,000, representing
the total actual value of this year’s po-
tato crop already marketed. In all like-
lihood the figures will come nearer to
two and one-half millions.

With 30 per cent still in farmers’
hands, there is a total of 4,000,000
bushels in round figures yet unmarketed.
Present prices to farmers are from 30 to
40 cents, the average being somewhere
in the neighborhood of 31 or 32 cents a
bushel. This represents another million
dollars which 1s yet to flow into the
coffers of Northwestern farmers and
which will be a considerable item in
promoting their general prosperity and
In increasing spring trade.

Conservative estimates, it can be
seen, have therefore placed a money
valuation of about $4,000,000 on the
Northwestern potato crop, the bulk of
which was distributed in Minnesota,
Western and Northern Wisconsin, Iowa
and a small proportion of Eastern Da-
kota.

The commercial importance of the
potato crop is growing with each year.
This is especially true of Minnesota.
Five years ago it did not begin to come
up to the above figures, but the rapid
opening and development of the north-
ern sections of the State have served to
increase the potato acreage until to day
Minnesota ranks as one of the foremost
potato producing states in the country.

——_>_2 +. ____
Bald-Headed Justice in Battle Creek.
From the Marshall Statesman.

Snatching a creditor bald headed is
the latest sensation at Battle Creek.
Mrs. Geo. Scott extended credit to Miss
Sadie Carver for a switch. Sadie paid
part of the debt, but refused to liqui-
date the full amount, claiming the
switch to be worthless, Like a Com-
anche chief Mrs. Scott swooped down
upon the fair Sadie on the public streets
the other day and proceeded to raise her
hair. There was a whiz, a whir, sev-
eral blue streaks, a scream and then
Mrs. Scott triumphantly flaunted the
disputed hair in the face of her amazed
debtor. But it happened to be another
switch than the one made by Mrs. Scott
and Miss Carver got good and even in
the justice court, where her traducer
was not only fined but compelled to pay
her $5 in cash as a balm to her feelings.

 

GOTHAM GOSSIP.

 

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

New York, March 4—One can not help
wondering how long it will be before
every line of trade will be in some sort
of a combination. The list is monoto-
nously long every day, and it does seem
as though the end must be reached
soon, for want of material. Among the
latest is the milk combine. This was
undertaken once before and failed. It
is not a success now, but the promoters
say they are ‘‘making progress.’’ The
salmon trust is no longer a fishy narra-
tive, but an accomplished fact.

Business in the grocery line during
the week has been good and in almost
all the large stores the ‘‘rush orders” have
been making the helpers hustle after
hours nearly every day. Prices all
around are firm, with a few exceptions.

Coffee is one of the exceptions. Job-
bers are doing very little and, as foreign
dispatches all indicate a weaker feeling
abroad, no surprise will be felt if we
see lower quotations at any time. No.
7 Rio is held at 6%c. Stock in store
and afloat aggregates 1,379,524 bags,
against I,7!19.160 bags at the same time
last year. Prices of mild coffees show
no change, but there is less activity,
buvers appearing to think that their best
policy is to hold off. Fair to good
Cucuta, 8@8%c. There is little en-
quiry for East India sorts and prices
remain without change.

Most of the orders for teas have been
for small lots, but the aggregate has
made a very satisfactory showing.
There were no parcels of tea rejected by
the examiners on Thursday, although
nearly a quarter of a million of pounds
was passed.

Spices are unchanged for every sort.
Ginger seems to be rather shaky,
however. Singapore black pepper, 11
@11%%c, and hardly as firm as previous-
ly. The distributing trade keeps quite
active, as jobbers as well as grinders
have both been buyers.

Rice dealers appear to have rather
small supplies of medium and fancy
sorts. The market, however, shows lit-
tle animation. Prices bave been, and
are yet, so extreme that buyers will take
only what they must have. Lower sorts
are in larger supply, but values are
firm even in those kinds. Prime to
choice Southern, 5%@6%c; head, 6%
@7%c; Japan, firm at 43, @5c.

The molasses situation is practically
unchanged. Good to prime centrifugals,
16@26c; open kettle, 32@38c. Syrups
are firm. Refiners want 23c for cane of
a grade approaching fancy. Good,
16@18c.

A satisfactory trade has been done in
canned goods, but the market presents
no special features. Prices are firm
and no weakness is shown anywhere.

Dried fruits are firm and the jobbing
trade is active. Prices are practically
unchanged. The best demand has pre-
vailed for California prunes, and a large
deal is reported under way. Raisins
have been rather quiet. Evaporated
apples, fancy, toc, and offerings light.
Raspberries, 9@toc.

Butter steady. Receipts have been
rather light. This is especially true of
really desirable grades. A good deal
of the stock will not bear close inspec-

tion. Extra Western creamerv, 2Ic:
firsts, 20@20%c; seconds, 18@I!9c;
fancy imitation creamery, 18c; tirsts,
15@16c; seconds, 13%@14c; Western
dairy, finest, 16c; factory, 14@14%c;

rolls, choice, 14@14%c.

There is a fair demand for cheese
both from out of town and local dealers.
Large size full cream, 103 @11c; small,
II4Z@i1X%c.

The expected slump in eggs occurred
and best Western tumbled to a price
that stimulated large buying. Stocks
are closely cleaned up. Fresh gathered
Western, 30c. The situation is rather
uncertain.

The bean market is satisfactorily
brisk. Choice marrows, $1.50@1.52% ;
medium, $1.35; pea, $1.30@1. 3234.

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Business Without the Middleman.
Written for the TRADEs* AN

Once upon a time, in the fierce age of
competition and forced economy, a
plausible gentleman known as Mr. S.
Alick (a family now quite extinct), who
was always long on theory and corres-
pondingly short on practice, conceived
the idea of building and operating a
hotel on model lines that should entirely
eliminate the distributers or waiters
He argued that these people were ex-
pensive, that their perquisites might
just as well go to the consumer, that
they were entirely unnecessary ; in other
words, that they were a species of hotel
parasite and could just as well be dis-
pensed with, permitting the guest or
consumer to deal directly with the
kitchen or manufacturing department,
saving to themselves the cost of sup-
porting a lot of useless machinery.

Being short on capital himself, he in-
duced several capitalists to take stock
in the venture and a fine hotel was
erected according to the plans devised
by Mr. S. Alick. The kitchen or man-
ufacturing center was divided into de-
partments, each representing and pro-
ducing a separate article of cuisine, so
that orders might be filled promptly and
expeditiously without danger of getting
them mixed or cross-flavored. A sepa-
rate cook or specialist was to preside
over edch department or kitchen and
electric carriers were provided to trans-
fer the various orders to their proper
destinations. The bills of fare were ar-
ranged like a keyboard of electric con-
nections to facilitate the placing of or-
ders and a corresponding index or
switchboard was placed in each kitchen
to interpret the orders and to indicate
their destinations. The other appoint-
ments were similar to ordinary hotel-
except where automatic contrivances
could be applied.

When all was completed the opening
was widely advertised something after
this style:

THE HOTEL AUTO-WAITER,
Cor. of Easy and Economy Sts.
Bustle City, Nev.

GRAND OPENING.

This elegant hotel will be open to guests
on the First of September.

There is Nothing Like It inthe
WIDE WORLD.

It is the culmination of modern per-
fection in ali of its appointments; an
elaborate realization of the brilliant
idea inspired by the genius of our
prominent fellow townsman, Mr. S.
Alick, whose rare and up-to-date talents
have been mainly instrumental in bring-
ing the wonderful scheme to a practical
reality. Mr. S. Alick will personally
manage this magnificent and peerless
hostelry.

Guests will be automatically served
in every possible way, insuring tbat
privacy and promptness so delightful to
sensitive and retiring temperaments
A long-suffering traveling public will
find in this feature a refreshing oasis in
the h therto almost barren desert of hotel
service. This is made possible by a
novel and intricate system of electric
communication and transfer. Guests
have only to press the button and the
system does the rest, and presto! their
minutest want is instantly supplied. In
dispensing with manual service to an
almost exclusive extent, we save the
expense of bired help, which enables the
Management not only to give better
service, but to save to our patrons fuily
5 to Io per cent. on their hotel bills as
well as afford absolute relief from that
most annoying of all systems of black-
mail, known as ‘‘t ps,’’ which means a
saving of 10 to 25 per cent. additional.
The management prides itself upon its
improved and_ exclusive method of
cuisine and table service—it is the cli-

 

max of ingenuity and perfection. Each
particular branch of the culinary art is
conducted by an expert specialist in
each particular dish, which is separate-
ly prepared in a kitchen devoted to that
exclusive purpose, and the guest orders
and receives directly from each depart-
ment without the intervention of a
waiter, saving to himself the expense of
that functionary. In short, patrons will
find everything to meet their tastes and
convenience in a manner leaving noth-
ing to be desired ; and we are confident
that our guests will unanimously adopt
the motto, ‘‘Once a patron always a
patron.’’ Respectfully,
THE HOTEL AUTO-WAITER Co.

The hotel was opened on the date
fixed and no expense was spared to
make it a grand and impressive affair
and, as openings go, it was a success
and all that its promoters expected. The
traveling public at first thronged its
portals for the same reason that the
geese in the fable drew near to view the
tox which was supposed to be dead—out
of curiosity. Some were attracted by
the mechanical novelties advertised ;
others by the prospect of satisfying their
fastidious culinary tastes, promised in
the separate preparation in exclusive
kitchens— these were ‘‘specialist’’
cranks; some had a burning desire to
see the wonderful genius who planned
such a novel combination; a few retir-
ing dispositions came hoping to secure
perfect exclusiveness and find relief
from the annoyance of manual service
and consequent contact with inferior
beings; probably the fewest number of
all came with the purpose of economiz-
ing on their hotel bills.

The house was unpopular with the
commercial travelers from the first;
while they wished to encourage enter-
prise and progress they disliked the
severing of old ties. A number of them
paid complimentary visits to the new
ho:telry to keep up the reputation of the
fraternity for liberality and fair play,
but the cold mechanical reception which
met them chilled their good intentions
in a large measure. No nimble bellboy
met them at the door to take charge of
their grips, but instead printed instruc-
tions stared at them in the entry en-
joining them to place those necessary
adjuncts to commercial itineracy upon
the carriers provided for that purpose,
which automatically registered the check
number, transferred the baggage to the
check-room and returned the check to
the office by the time the guest had reg-
istered. Instead of the immaculate in-
dividual attached to the expansive shirt
front and blazing solitaire who was wont
to present the big register with a smile
of welcome and betimes a warm grasp
of the ‘‘glad hand,’’ the guest was con-
fronted with an immense switchboard
studded with electric buttons and sur-
mounted with printed instructions to the
guest to spell out his name and resi-
dence, typewriter fashion, which auto-
matically registered the same and as-
signed him a room number such as he
chose to select for the rate he wished to
pay. The guest secured the key to his
room by depositing the correct amount
in coin in a slot provided for that pur-
pose and when the key was returned to
its proper place the apparatus pushed
out a card bearing a receipt in full for
the price of the room. The elevator
made regular trips automatically every
five minutes, stopping at each floor to
take on and discharge passengers.

But the diningrooms were the climax
of automatic perfection! The guest,

having selected his location by a chart
on entering, had only to press an elec-
tric button bearing his number and a

 

corresponding signal was displayed at
the place he was to occupy. Being
seated, he found in front of him an
automatic bill of fare, provided with
slots opposite the name and price of
each article of diet. He could transpose
the courses to suit his own tastes—if he
wished to eat pie first and soup last he
had only to place his orders in that ro-
tation by pushing the proper coin into
the corresponding slot and they would
be delivered by automatic carriers in
regular form; the empty plates were re-
turned by the same means. But this
arrangement, so perfect in every other
detail, possessed one remarkably weak
feature—the utter inability of the guest
to communicate with the cook to bring
any influence to bear for the purpose of
hurrying orders or securing choice selec-
tions.

But most of all the commercial travel-
ers missed the white aproned guardian
angels of the diningroom, with whose
solicitous attentions they had been wont
to enliven the stereotyped and monoto-
nous menu. Solitude hath no charms for
tne knight of the grip. While his dis-
position is ever polite and courteous,
his presence never stands abashed be-
fore youth or beauty—nor anything else
so far as authentically reported. Em-
barrassment is not one of his cardinal
traits, but tbe cold, calculating silence
ot the mechanical waiter chilled his so-
cial nature to the marrow and he very
soon sought the more congenial warmth
of his accustomed haunts. The auto-
matical, economical features of the new
hostelry found no echo of approval in
bis frugal practice; the social sacrifices
were far too great to be counterbalanced
by a reduced expense account.

Although a well-padded ‘‘kicking-
room’’ was provided tor the accommoda-
tion of disgruntled guests where they
might freely exercise their propensities
in that direction without danger of do-
ing themselves or anybody else any
harm, and which was so contrived that
each kick, with the reason therefor, was
automatically registered in the office,
physical exhaustion seemed to be the
only relief that soothed the irritated
kicker, for there was ieft a lingering
sense of dissatisfaction after the per-
formance was over that no amount of
economic saving could compensate.

Altogether, it was as if a lot of stran-
gers had taken possession of an unin-
habited house haunted by ghostly min-
istrants. Nervously-inclined people be-
came more so under the system; they
would frequently make mistakes in or-
dering, and the exasperating thing
about it was the fact that nobody could
be blamed for it but themselves, and it
cost them double to rectify a mistake of
their own making. The system was
perfect, mechanically, and every one got
just what he ordered ; but if it did not
happen to be just what he wanted after
he got it, he had to be satisfied or put
some more coin in another slot and try
again. The menu was, as usual, elabo-
rated with those time-honored classical
French terms so tenaciously inseparable
from hotel bills of fare and guests un-
accustomed to guessing at the particu-
lar concoction they were designed to
represent were obliged to gamble on the
result at their own risk and expense. A
few random and unsatisfactory punches
at Io to 25 cents a slot usually sent the
guest to his guide-book to locate the
“‘kicking-room.”’

The accidental foresight of its pro-
moters made the hotel a safe investment
in a physical sense, because the system
placed them automatically beyond the
reach of physical vengeance, but as a
popular caterer it was nota tinanical
success. After its  well-adveitised
museum features and boasted econom-
ical attractions had satisfied public cu-
riosity its patronage began to dwindle
and in six months from the date of
opening it was closed to the public and
aavertised for sale.

But, in the meantime, Mr. S. Alick
was halfway into another big scheme.

J. M. BANKER.

 

Are You
One of Them?

Thousands of merchants are occupy-
ing the same little store they did twenty
years ago, and their steck of merchan-
dise is no larger than it was when they
started. They have only madea bare
living during all this time. Why is it?
It is because they are not enterprising
and up-to-date. They do not take up
with new ideas that will increase their
business and profits ; when the sugar bar-
tel is empty, or the vinegar runs low,
they get a new barrel because the other
sold. They are doing then what they
call a safe business. This same routine
is followed year after year until the old
store building becomes decayed—as well
as the proprietor. One of the great
causes for many merchants not making
any money in merchandising is the bad
and unsalable butter they are compelled
to take from their customers. It has

been estimated that the loss to the mer-
chants of the United States on bad but-
ter alone amounts each year to over Ten
Million Dollars.

The merchants now have a chance to
overcome this evil since the discovery
of ‘‘Lactobutu,

>

when used in connec-

 

tion with the process of the LACTO
BUTTER CO., Chicago. Thousands of
dollars have been made by merchants
during the past year who have used this
process.

The Lacto Butter Company’s books
show that their sales have all been made
to the leading and enterprising mer-
chants of each town.

The merchant who is no better off
than he was ten to twenty years ago is
afraid and says it’s another ‘‘fake’’ and
that it can’t be done. But he keeps
right on selling his bad and unsalable
butter at a great loss to some process
firm or enterprising merchant who does
just what he might do—treat it and
make good butter out of it. Many en-
terprising merchants are buying butter
from their competitors and neighboring
towns, treating it with ‘‘Lactobutu’’ and
making 33% per cent. profit, and clear-
ing enough each month to pay all store
expenses. This class of merchants are
the ones who soon make their little
stores grow to large department stores.

On receipt of $5 the LACTO BUTTER
CO., 145 La Salle St., Chicago, will
send you a box of ‘‘Lactobutu’’ suffi-
cient to treat 500 pounds, including
their secret process. After you purchase
the process, ‘‘Lactobutu’’ will be fur-
nished at $2 per box, containing enough
to treat 500 pounds.

 

 

 

  

16

MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

 

Acetylene Lighting

Essential

 

 

Features of a Successful
Generator.*
[CONCLUDED FROM LAST WEEK]

Abroad a good deai of work has been
done on the purification of acetylene
Purification is desirable with the small-
est installation, but it becomes impera-
tive when small towns or villages are to
be supplied with acetylene instead of
coal gas. As was pointed out in the
last lecture, the purity of acetyléne gas
primarily depends upon the purity ot
the carbide trom which it is formed,
and so long as it is commercially im-
possible to use absolutely pure calcic
oxide and carbon so long will there be
always present in this material calcic
phosphide, aluminum sulphide and
magnesium nitride, which, in the de-
composition of the mass by water, wili
yicld a gaseous and unwelcome addition
to the acetylene of phosphoreted hydro-
gen, sul phureted hydrogen and ammonia.

Phosphoreted hydrogen, when it burns
in the acetylene flame, gives rise to
phosphorous pentoxide, which escapes
into the atmosphere in the form of white
fumes, and al hough the quantity is so
minute that it is invisible as it leaves
the flame, still, when mingled in quan-
tity with the air of an illy vent.1 tec
room, it is the primary cause ot the
production of the light haze which, ever
since the introduction of acety lene for
illuminating purposes, has been recog-
nized as a serious inconvenience in con-
nection with it.

The sulphureted hydrogen, formed by
the action of water on the aliminun
sulphide in the gas, is objectionable,
not so much because it renders the smell
of the acetylene offensive—an effec:
which I look upon as a_safeguard—but
because, in its combustion in the acety-
lene flame. it forms sulphur dioxide
which in 1llv ventilated apartments w 1]
absorb oxygen and moisture from the
air, and will in this way become coan-
verted into munute traces of sulpburic
acid, which, concentrating themselves
upon any ccli surface in the room n
the form of impalpatle moisture, give
rise to corrosion of metal:, and, in
time, destruction of the binding of
books, although the effect is but smell
upon such fabrics as have not the powe:
of absorbing moisture or condensing i
from the atmosphere.

The chief objection to the third im-
purity presert in tne acetylene ga-
(ammonia) is tnat it leads to rapid ac-
tion upon the brass gas fittings, and is
also an important factor in producing
explosive compounds of acetylene witt
metals, zlthough the experiments of Mr.
Gerdes have shown that this is nota
very real danger.

It is quite clear, however, that if
acetylene is to be used on a large scale
as a domestic illuminant it must under
go such process of purification as will
render it harmless and innocuous to
health and property; and the sooner it
is recognized as absolutely essential to
purify it before consuming it the sooner
will the gas acquire its deserted meed of
popularity.

The only impurity which offers any
difficulty in removing is the phospho-
reted hydrogen. There are three sub-
stances which can be relied on to re-
move thiscompound. The three methods
are to pass the gas to be purified either
through acid copper salts, through
bleaching powder or through chromic
acid. In experiments with these vari-
ous bodies it is found that they are all
of them effective in also riddling the
acetylene of ammonia and _ sulphureted
hydrogen, provided that the surface area
presented to the gas is sufficiently large.

—____-o-9-e
Unmeaning Superlatives in General
Advertising.

Written for the TRADESMAN.

It is characteristic of the least en-
lightened of the peoples of the earth
that all matters of exchange are attended
by a disposition to exaggeration which
manifests itself in the vociferous bar-
gaining which is described by all trav-

 

elers in the least progressive countries.
Not only among savage nations, such as
those of Africa, and the semi-civilized
Arabs and the surrounding peoples ot
Asia and Europe, but among the more
enlightened, especially of the Latin na-
tions of Europe and their represent-
atives on this continent, the operations
of trade seem the occasion of manifest-
ing the most violent passions. And not
only in the matter of coming to an un-
derstanding as to the correct basis ot
exchange—the effort on the.one hand to
keep the price up to the highest pos

sible point and on the other to reduce
1t from that which both know to he ex-
tortionate—but in the terms describing
the goods the capabilities of the lan-
guage are usually exhausted. Listening
to the vociferations of Italian or Span-
ish traders, one is impressed by the
ridiculousness of making asservations
which both parties know to be false anc

then carrying on a_ long contest until
the well-defined and understood basis
of value is reached. Some try to ex

plain this curious manifestation of bu-
man nature on the theory that the vola-
ule temperaments seek the excitement
of bargaining from a natural tendency
to effervescence; but this theory js
hardly tenable for the reason that it not
only rouses the energies of the lethargic
Mexican and other degenerate Latins,
out the more phlegmatic Slavonic na-
tons of Central and Northern Asia are
equally affected by trade excitement

A more probable explanation may be
tound in the instinct for gain whicb
sverrides a weak intelligence and leads
io such superlative extravagance of ex-
pression.

The spirit of bargaining is not en-
tirely confined to the unenlightened na-
tions. It is not necessary to specify as
to its existence even in the most refined
communities, but those who are watch-
ing the modern tendencies in trade ob
serve a lessening of the bargain spirit
with the progress of intelligence, which
indicates that it is not an essential prin-
ciple of exchange.

Kut with the improvement in the mat-
ter of using only one, and the correct,
price, there 1s still the cther manifesta-
tion of the bargaining principle, the
jescription of wares in the most extrav-
agant and ridiculous terms in advertis-
ing, with little indication of improve-
ment except in comparatively few in-
stances. In some of the metropolitan
dailies, especially in Eastern cities,
there are firms like Wanamaker, Rog-
ers, Peet & Co. and a few others who
advertise in more moderate, candid
terms ; but where there is one such there
are a dozen others whose demand for
superlatives exhausts the resources of
the English language. It is not that
the advertising is addressed to an igno-
rant clientage, for much of the most
extravagant in phraseology is of firms
seeking the best and most intelligent
trade.

There is to be noted that the use of
this extravagance is greatest in com-
munities where the general spirit of ex-
travagance in everything is most mani-
fest. Thus the extreme in this direc-
tion would be naturally looked for, and
is found, in Chicago. Few will claim
that the general average of intelligence
in that city is inferior to that in New
York or other Eastern cities, and so the
explanation must be sought in other
conditions. As indicating that such ex-
pression is simply a yielding to the gen-
eral spirit of extravagance in the case
of Chicago it will be found that the pro-
portion seems to be in direct ratio to

 

AAA AAIREN IT AOTNI NS

ACETYLENE BAS

By the

extent of space occupied. Thus many es
of the leading houses use whole pages

or even double pages, with such exag- 3
geration of statements that they wculd
only excite laughter and ridicule were

it not that the public mind is perverted
to a fictitious meaning in the terms and
expressions used. ‘‘ Tremendous bar- :
gains,’’ ‘‘unparalled,’’ ‘‘such prices as
America has never known,’’ and each
claiming to be lower than any of its
competitors—few really believe that toe |
public is focled by such declarations.
It is simply that they must make a big
noise, try to see who can yell the loud-
est; and so they take as large a space
as possible and fill it with unmeaning
terms. That such advertising has an
effect is proved by the persistence with
which it is kept up by _ successful
aouses ; but the effect is an indirect one
and is attained at an undue cost of both
dignity and money.

Referring to Cnicago as the most
prominent exponent of this mode ot |’
publicity, it should not be inferred that | 3
smaller communities are exempt ‘The =
aewspapers of Grand Rapids contain 1n
almost every issue some of the most
stupendous assertions, which no one _ is
expected to believe, and so with most
large towns of the State and country.
lhe extent of this perversion of language
nas given an advertising vocabulary, in
which the words have not so much
changed their meaning as lost it.

Then are advertisers who use terms
and phraseology in a way to appeal to
the common sense of their customers.
Such back their statements by actuai
performance. These build up a cl ent-
age which is a valuable factor in their
business. The number of such adver
tisers will increase and the Tradesman
predicts that the time is not far distant
when the great dealers wiil find that
meaningless extravagance in words is
also an unwarranted extravagance in
financial outlay. W. N FULLER

 

 

Send to the manufacturers
for booklet and prices.

M. B. WHEELER
ELECTRIC v0.,

99 Ottawa Street,
Grand Rapids, Mich.

FUN NAAN RSA AAA

The Bruce Generator 1S the Machine of all Machines 10 Buy

No more smoke nor dust to destroy your goods.
No ratchets nor levers attached to the water sup-
ply to get out of order and your lights going
out. No b.owing off of gas as in other ma- |
chines. Its capacity is such that it is impos- |
sible for the machine to waste gas. It is the _ |jjj|! ||
highest priced machine on the market, because
it is made of the best material and constructed

Kopf Double Generate :

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

in a factory that makes gas machines for a busi-

ly cared for. Look into the merits of eT |

the Bruce before buying. We sell |

Carbide to users of all machines, giv-

promptly filled, as we carry a large ;

stock on hand constantly. For infor- i

mation and prices, address,

ness, and will last a lifetime if proper- Si
ing manufacturers’ prices. All orders
THE MIGHIGAN AND OHIO ACETYLENE GAS GO.. Ld, JOCKSON, Mich. 4. v. puaKe, Secretary.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Owen feetwlene Gas Generator

THE MOST SIMPLE AND
COMPLETE DEVICE FOR GENERATING
ACETYLENE GAS IN THE MARKET.
ABSOLUTELY AUTOMATIC.

To get! Pure Gas you must have a Perfect
Cooler and a Perfect Purifying Apparatus. We
The Owen
Over 200 in

have them both and the best made.

does perfect work all the time.

active operation in Michigan.
Write for Catalogue and particulars to

GEO. F. OWEN & CO.,

COR. LOUIS ano CAMPAU 8TS.,
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

Also Jobbers of Carbide, Gas Fixtures, Pipe and Fittings.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

17

 

 

 

Commercial Travelers

Michigan Knights of the Grip.

President, Caas. S. STEVENS, Ypsilanti; Secre-
tary, J C. Saunpgers, Lansing; Treasurer, O. C.
GouLp. Saginaw,

 

 

Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Association.

President, James E Day, Detroit; Secretary
and Treasurer, C. W. ALLEN Detroit.

 

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

 

Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Mutual Acci-
dent Association.
President, J. Boyp PanTLIND, Grand Rapids;

Secretary and Treasurer, GEo. F. OwEN, Grand
Rapids.

 

Lake Superior Commercial Travelers’ Club.

President, F. G. Truscott, Marquette; Secretary
and Treasurer, A. F. Wixson, Marquette.

 

 

Gripsack Brigade.

E. E. Green, of Bad Axe, will travel
for tae Po:it Huron Engine & Thresher
Co.

Owosso Press: Charles Sackrider is
on the road selling cluthing manufac-
tured by Dreyer Bros., of Chicago.

Quincy Herald: M. M. Dickerson
expects to go on the road soon for the
Quincy Knitting Co. as traveling sales-
man.

Cheisea Herald: E. G. Hoag left
Tuesday night on a business trip for tbe
Glazier Stove Co. in tae West and
Nortowest.

Wm. A. McWilliams (Clark-Jewell-
Wells Co.) is confined to bis house by
an cttack of gastritis. His route is be-
ing covered in the meantime by j. A.
High.

Saginaw Courier-Herald: Louis J.
Carpenter has resigned his position with
Phipps, Penoyer & Co, and accepted a
position as local salesman for Brand &
Hardin.

Saginaw News: A. L. Lloyd, repre-
senting the N. K. Fairbanks Co., of
Chicago, bas been appointed district
agent for this section of the State, witb
headquarters at Saginaw.

Coldwater Republican: Howard
Broadhead, who is traveling in the East
and South in the interest of the Toledo
Milling Co., is spending a fortaight
witb his family on Pierce street.

Schoolcraft Express: Wm. Fanck-
boner is spending a few days here re-
covering from a few days’ sickness. He
will soon resume his position as_travel-
ing salesman for the Michigan Broom
Co., of B ttle Creek.

Frederick Bennett, for the past six
years connected with the grocery de-
partment of Sellwood & Co., at Ishpem-
ing, has engaged to travel in the Upper
Peninsula for the Pfligradt Co., manu-
facturing confectioners of Milwaukee.

Battle Creek Journal: W. H. Sprague,
represer ting the Advance ibresher Co.
at Spokane, Washington, is in the city
for a few days. Mr. Sprague has been

_ in the employ of the company since it-

organization and has been looking after
its interests in his present field for some
years. This is his first visit to Battle
Creek since 1884.

Port Huron Times: C. W. Bruce,
traveling salesman of a D-troit whole-
sale house, was registered at the Union
hotel on Tuesday. Thirty years ago Mr.
Bruce was a clerk in the store of J. W.
& J. M. Sanborn and afterwards was
employed in the store of E. R. Sweet-
ser. He has been making monthly trips
to Port Huron for the past fifteen years.

—_——-9 -
Three Death Claims Audited—Assess-
ment Ordered.

Lansing, March 7—The regular quar-
terly meeting of the Board of Directors

 

of the Michigan Knights of the Grip
was held at Owosso Saturday, March 4.
The meeting was called to order by
President Stevens and the minutes of
the last meeting were read and ap-
proved. The invitation from Post D
(Bay City) to hold the next annuai
meeting of the Association in Bay City
was received and the invitation was ac-
cepted unanimously.

A communication was received from
Post C (Detroit), inviting the Board of
Directors to hold the next meeting of
the Board in Detroit. The invitation
was accepted.

Secretary Saunders’ report of receipts
since the last Board meeting was as fol-
lows:

General fund........ .....+- - aeons PETS 00

Death fund... eee as nn 106 u?
Dlepostt 0g eee. 15 00

 

OS $236 oo
The Treasurer’s report of receipts and
disbursements was as follows:
GENERAL FUND.
Balance on hand Jan. 28............c+e..0. $1,218 94

 

 

Received from Secretary.............--++- 115 00

$1,333 94
Disbursements... ...002-seccce eres wore coe 645 33
Balanceon hand. ... 2... 6)... st -8 688 61

DEATH FUND.

Balance on hand Jan. 28.......0.0...0. +e. $1,159 50
Received from Secretary .......... -.2. eg 106 00

$1,265 59
Disbursemenis....-....--..--. 1. sk 500 Oo
Balance on Hand 2.0070... .. $ 765 59

The Finance Committee reported that
it had examined the reports of the
Treasurer and Secretary and found
them correct.

The following bills were allowed and
warrants ordered drawn for same:

  

Tradesman Company, printing............... $11 50
J. C. Saunders, postage and supplies......... 5 46
J. ©. Saunders, salary .--...5 2.5... «- 3405
Gc Gud... ........ 4 42
C. E. Stevens ........ cae _- (5 EF
© Saunders 3 96
Ge © Goad. .. 3 98
Geo tf Mandal... 2.6 4 50
©has Ef suai... se 398
©. MeNolty ..-..-... ee fe 4 50
7. W. Sehxaer.--. .--- 5 66

Proofs of deaths of the late Chas.
Warshauer, Detroit; Jos. M. Lenhoff,
Saginaw, and A. C. Wetzel, Grand
Rapids, were presented and allowed and
the claims ordered paid.

E. Starbuck having resigned as Vice-
President of the Third District to ac-
cept the chairmanship of the Employ-
ment and Relief Committee, the Presi-
dent nominated Sig. Folz, of Kalama-
zoo, to fill the vacancy. The appoint-
ment was confirmed by the Board.

On mction of Director Schram, assess
ment No. 1 for 1899 was ordered to be
issued April 1 and expire on May 1.

Chairman Fox, of the Railroad Com-
mittee, was present et the meeting and
reported good work being done by his
committee.

There being no further business to
transact, the Board adjourned to meet
in Detroit the first Saturday in June.

J. C SAUNDERS, Sec’y
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The Boys Behind the Counter.

Hudson—Joseph E. McKenna, for ten
years behind the counter in S_ E,. Law-
rence’s grocery store, but for the past
year employed in the grocery store of J
E. Walker, has ergaged to take a: lerk
sbip in the Milnes Supply Co, at Cold-
water, the engagement to date from
April 3. The Tradesman is assured by
R D. Howell that Mr. McKenna is all
right—which is equivalent to saying
that he will make his mark in his new
connection.

California—John Kelso bas taken a
clerkship in the hardware store of Ayres
& Son.

Zutphen—William Beck has a new
clerk in the person of John L. Sterken.

Holland—Miss Jobanna Ten Houten,
formerly with C. L. Streng & Co., has
taken a position as clerk with DuMez
Bros., the dry goods dealers.

Grand Haven—Miss Amelia Baker
has taken a position as cashier with the
Fankboner department store, at Kala-
mazoo.

Benton Harbor—Horace Correll suc-
ceeds Sterne Brunson as clerk in the
Burridge sboe store. Mr. Brunson has
purchased a half interest in the New
Process laundry.

Charlctte—Alex Gaffeny is now head
clerk at Chapin & Rue’s,

Kalamazoo—E. A. Carpenter, of De-
troit, has taken a position with the
Brownson & Rankin Co. as clerk.

Sturgis—A. B. Tennent and Percy
Sibley are now in charge of F. L. Bur-
dick & Co.’s shoe store.

Flint—Miss Hattie M. Johnson has
gone to Detroit, where she has taken a
position with Newcomb, Endicott &
Co. as forelady in the dressmaking de-
partment.

Hillsdale—Albert Armstrong has en-
gaged to sell shoes for Hinkle & Co.

Escanaba—W. L. Godley has gone to
Gladstone to take a position in the drug
store of A. H. Powell.

Big Rapids—Thomas Henderson has
taken a position as salesman in the dry
goods store of J. C. Jensen & Co.

Kalamazoo— Miss
signed her position
Co.’s store.

Charlotte—Mr. Chas. Nichols is a new
clerk in R. C. Jones & Co.’s dry gocds
store.

Sturgis—Fd Huff kas taken a posit'on
in Meyer Livingston & Sons’ clothing
store at South Bend, Indiana.

Saginaw—Henry W. Lindemann, |ate-
ly connected with John Sclmelzer’s
Genesee avenue store, tas taken a posi-
tion with Foster, Charles & Co,

Lawton—Miss Mamie Bitely has beer
engaged as saleslady at L Stern & Co.'s
dry goods store, to fill the vacancy
caused by the resignation of B. K.
Durkee.

Sault Ste. Marie-—R Gillespie, for-
merly with Pratt, the Canadian Soo dry
goods man, now has a position in the
dry goods department of the Leader.

Port Huron—J. H. Kerrehan, from
the Elgin watch factory, bas taken the
superintendence of J. W. Goulding &
Co.’s jewelry department. Mr. Miller,
who has held the position for some time,
has gone to Salt Lake City.

Belding —Will Smith, who has been
prescription clerk at the Belding Phar-
macy for the past six months, has se-
cured a position in a drug store at Kal-
amazoo.

Traverse City--E Rogers, for seven
years employed in the retail dry goods
store of Carson, Pirie, Scott & Co., at
Chicago, but late of the Boston store,
bas been engaged to tike charge of the
dry goods department of the Mercantile
Co.’s store.

Port Huron—Miss Maggie Osmer has
taken a pos't'on in the wholesale de
partment of J. W. Goulding & Co.’s
‘tore.

Petoskey—H. B. Cook & Co. have a
new clerk in their hardware store in the
person of C. M. Pepperman, of Man-
istre.

Clara Low has re-
in Foster, Post &

Hillsdale—Chas. Chappell has trans-
ferred his allegiance from Geo. E. Wal-
worth to G. J. Kline.

Quincy—Lyon & Pierce have a new
clerk in the person of Louis G. Green,
formerly emploved in the dry gcods
store of Boyle & Brown, at Hillsdale.

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Drugs--Chemicals

MICHIGAN STATE BOARD OF PHARMACY.

 

 

F. W. R. Perry, Detroit - - . 31, 1898
A. C. ScoUMacHER, Ann Arbor - Dec. 31, 1899
Gro. GunprRum, Ionia -_ - - ec. 31, 1900
L. E. Rgynoups, St. Joseph - ~- Dec. 31, 1901
Henry Hem, Saginaw- - - Dec. 31, 1902

President, Gzo. GunpDRuM, Ionia.
Secretary, A. C. ScoUMACHER, Ann Arbor.
Treasurer, HENRY HErM, Saginaw.

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

 

STATE PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION.

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

 

 

College Course Not a Sufficient Edu-
cation.

The average young man graduating
from college is apt to speak of his edu-
cation as being finished. And as he
speaks, so he feels. Then he closes his
books and allows ‘‘dry rot’’ to rob him
of what has cost him many months of
hard study and considerable hard cash.

But he is badly mistaken. A college
course is called an ‘‘education’’—
through courtesy, I suppose. A college

course is not an education—it is only
the beginning of an education. It is
the foundation, and it should be a good
one, but it is for the student to buila
the superstructure during the rest of his
life, by his own efforts. The building is
never finished. Some men rear most
magnificent structures of wisdom and
learning—perfect and complete so far
as we can see—and yet we know that
they work steadily on, day by day, as
though their task were but begun. Sucb
men never consider their education
‘*finished,’’ although the world calls
them masters.

It is a fact, which the student can not
too soon learn, that college training does
not and can not teach much more than
the rudiments of a science or an art
Pharmacy would be a poor thing indeed
if we could learn ali about it in a year
or two. Chemistry would not be wortb
knowing if we could become expert
chemists in that length of time. And
the same is true of materia medica,
pharmacognosy and botany. All the
professor of chemistry hopes for from a
student is that he will master the rudi-
mentary truths sufficiently to enable him
to go ahead and study on his own ac-
count without the guidance of a master
after his college course is over. And so
with all the other branches. How evi-
dent it is that, instead of educating a
man, a college course merely prepares
him to study intelligently. And a di-
ploma does not stand for a great deal of
learning after all—it is only a certificate
that the owner has taken the stipulated
courses of study in the college which
gave it. In view of these facts, why
not accept at once their truth and try to
make the most of it?

If it be true that the student who
looks forward to the possession of a di-
ploma as the aim of his college work
has a wrong conception of education, it
must be even more apparent that the
one who studies merely that he may
pass the State board is equally far astray
in his ideas. The State board is an in-
cident—not an end. The fact that one
has succeeded in memorizing a suffi-
ciently large assortment of stray and is-
olated facts to enable him to pass the
examination of a State board is not good
evidence that he is a competent phar-
macist, although I suppose this state-

 

ment will seem rather heretical at first
thought to some. But, be that as it
may, certainly it is a most deplorable
mistake to study narrowly for a board
examination. To a thoroughly qualified
pharmacist the State board has no terrors
whatever. Then why not study to bea
first-class pharmacist instead of merely
trying to be a licentiate?

It is this broad idea that I would im-
press on every student: Do not study
merely to get diplomas or State-board
certificates; study to make yourself a
thoroughly competent pharmacist. Try
to be such a good student that your col-
lege will feel that it is itself being hon-
ored in giving you its diploma. And
after the diploma is won, be a credit to
it, rather than depend on it to bea
credit to you. Adiploma may be a good
thing, but a good education is a much
better thing. And, as has already been
said, a diploma does not stand for an
education, but for a beginning of an ed-
ucation—a beginning that may never
be anything more.

The thorough pharmacist is a broader
mau than the college alone could make
him ; he has learned much since leaving
college that it could not have taught
him. He is daily adding to his store of
knowledge by a process of intelligent
selection, carefully sifting what he sees
and hears and reads, retaining the good
and rejecting the worthless, applying
at every opportunity rudimentary truths
taught by his college instructors and
deducing new facts from them. Phar-
maceutical education, like all other ed-
ucation, is too broad a thing to be con-
fined in college walls. It may and
should begin there, but it must be de-
veloped in the drug store by daily use
of facts already learned and acquisition
of new truths. Diploma and certificate
hunters do not do this. So long asa
pharmacist (?) seeks merely to know as
little as the law will let him, pharmacy
will suffer because of it When, if ever,
will he appreciate that there is some-
thing beyond commencement day and
higher than the State board? When he
realizes that there is a great and lasting
satisfaction in knowing a thing for its
own sake, pharmacy will be benefited. —
J. W. T. Knox in American Druggist.

9

The Drug Market.
Opium—lIs dull and weak and pros-

pects now are for a large crop.
Quinine—At the bark sales in London

10 per cert higher prices were realized |

for all that was cffered. Immediately
on receipt of this news Powers &
Weightman advanced their price 2c per
ounce.

Morphine—Is as yet unchanged, but
manufacturers’ agents are not offering
except in a small way.

Cinchonidia—Has advanced 2c per
ounce, in sympathy with the quinine
market.

Calomel, Corrosive Sublimate and
Red Precipitate—Have been advanced
2c per pound, on account of higher
prices for quicksilver.

Essential Oils—Are steady and there
are no changes to note.

Citronella, Camphor and Wormwood—
Are firm.

Buchu Leaves—Scarce, both here and
in foreign markets. The price has
been advanced 2@3c per pound.

Seeds— Russian hemp is a trifle lower.
Blue poppy has advanced and higher
prices are looked for.

—_—__> 2-2.

Railway corporations are not alto-

gether soulless when they only allow ten

minutes for refreshments at a railway
luncb counter,

 

RUN THE STORE.

One of the Perquisites of the Drug-
gist’s Advisers.
M. Quad in American Druggist.

I have never had the least trouble in
making friends with a lawyer, doctor or
professor, but have somehow always
been a little too late to get into the little
coterie invariably surrounding a drug-
gist. My family druggist is a case in
point. I freely admit that I should like
to hang around his store far a couple of
hours every evening in the week and
that I sometimes ache to give him
pointers on how to run his business, but
I have never had the cheek to go further
than to call him ‘‘Doc’’ and discuss the
weather with him. I simply remain on
the outside and watch his confidential
friends and envy their good fortune.
There is the real estate man, four doors
below the drug store. He constituted
himself a sort of guardian of the drug-
gist several years ago, and his familiar-
ity is due to his personal interest
About six times a day he leaves his
office and saunters into the drug store to
note how trade is going on and to drop
valuable pointers. He calls the drug
gist by his first name and he helps him-
self to a cigar or a box of cough-drops
or looks ever the prescription book in a
way which is more than fatherly. Once
or twice the thought has occurred to me
that if the real estate man were to drop
dead of heart failure the druggist would
heave a sigh of relief, but the thought
was suppressed almust as soon as_ born.
When the plumber across the way isn’t
plumbing he is comfortably sezted in
the drug store. He never discusses
traps and sinks and bath-tubs. His in-
terest is in drugs. He also calls the
druggist by his first name and it’s a cold
day when he doesn’t offer advice as to
bow to run a drug store. If he had the
store he’d change this or that—mark up
sponges or mark down chloride of lime
—buy sticky fly-paper by the ton and
go short on borax. The druggist ough
to love him for bis unselfish interest and
devction, and perhaps he does. If the
nlumber were to go to the grocer or
hardware man or the blacksmith and
proffer advice he might be turned
down, but I don’t believe the druggist
bas ever gone as far as to ask him why
he didn’t devcte two or three hours per
day to his own business On several
occasions when the druggist has beer
busy the plumber has. offered to fil!
prescriptions for me, and my refusal
has appeared to injure his feelings and

rouse his resentment. I think he talks
against me to the druggist, probably
calling me a crank and a kicker.

Another self-constituted guardian is
the coal man on the next block. It was
he who years agone advised the drug-
gist to take the store. I believe he got
a divvy with a real estate man for his
advice, but that is a matter I have kept
to myself. At brief intervals for the last
six or seven years he has given his ideas
as to how a drug store should be con-
ducted. I have happened to overhear
two or three of his ‘‘strictly confiden-
tial’’ talks, which invariably begin as
follows:

‘‘Now, Homer, I have your interests
at heart, and there’s nothing selfish
about me. I want to see you do well
here, and so I remind you that a drug
store is not a ccal mine. In a coal mine
all you have to do is to blast out the
coal, get it to market and sell severteen
hundred pounds fora ton. It’s differ-
ent with a drug store. You have got to
keep alum and borax and all that, and
if a man comes in and asks for a porous
plaster you want to have it forhim. You
don’t smile enough. You don’t seem
glad to see customers; you let an old
woman go out of here yesterday after
buying five cents’ worth of sulphur and
never said thank you. Why, man, if
you would only meet the public halfwav
it would take a dry-goods box to hold
vour weekly receipts! I'm not criticis-
ing or fault finding. I’m just telling
you, as your oldest and dearest friend,
how your trade can be doubled. ’’

I expect the druggist has listened to
those words a hundred times without
giving any back talk, and that be will
listen a hundred times more. He must

 

 

realize that they come from the heart
and are meant for his betterment.

Another one going to make up the
coterie is tbe laundry man around the
corner. Years and years ago he may
bave starched a shirt or a couple of col-
lars for the druggist and thereby secured
the privilege of advising and directing.
It may have been that or it may have
been only an over-supply of the milk of
human kindness. At any rate, the
druggist had not been in business over
three months when the laundryman_ be-
gan dropping in with his suggestions.
The fact that he was running a one-horse
laundry was no sign that be didn’t know
how to run a first-class drug store.
From the very first day he felt at home
in the store. If he wanted a glass of
port wine or a cigar he helped himself
and was solicitous as to the number of
prescriptions which had been filled and
the bills payable on the desk. As time
went on he got the feeling that he owned
the store. To-day he is firmly assured
that he owns the druggist as well, and
that but for his personal influence trade
would drop off one half in a week. Now
and then I have chanced to hear some
of bis suggestions as guardian angel,
and have jotted down the following :

That the druggist dress in Llue uni-
form, witb a gold-lace cap.

That be run a creamery in connection
with the store.

That he hire an ocean steamer to sail
around the world to advertise his cough
syrup.

That he get himself arrested for mur-
der in order to attract custom to his
store.

That he hire a brass band to play in
front of his store six times a day, and
that every musician should bear a sign
reading: ‘‘Tooth brushes at nine
cents. *’

That be buy the old family coach of
George Washington and use it with six
white horses attached to deliver all pur-
chases.

That he offer a bushel of pctatoes or
a hundred pounds of coal with every
five-cent purchase.

The druggist bas not adopted any of
the above up to the present time, but
nevertheless I am sure he must feel
grateful for the interest which prompted
them. I was looking over the ground
again the other day witb a view of get-
ting inside the lines, but I had to give
it up. It’s a close corporation, and one
jealous of newcomers, and there is no
show of my being let in. If I were inside
I could give the druggist a dozen good
pointers a day, but as it is the best I
can do is to gaze upon him from afar
and trust that his guardians and con-
fidential friends will pull him safely
through.

—_—___>-2-2—__
Insects Injurious to Drugs.

There are a number of insects’ of the
beetle family which prey upon drugs,
some even attacking such unlikely arti-
cles as bone combs. The best way to
preserve drugs from their attacks is to
keep the drug in an atmosphere satu-
rated with either chloroform or carbon
disulphide. While the former is more
expensive than the latter, it is much
less dangerous, as it is not inflammable,
and is therefore much to be_ preferred.
This object is best accomplished by
suspending from the stopper of the jar
containing the drug a small vial in
which a supply of chloroform is put
from time to time. If drawers are used,
the bottle containing the chloroform may
be attached to the side of the drawer.
The receptacle containing the drug
should be kept tightly shut, as otherwise
the effect of the chloroform will be lost.

—_____*o-¢-2___
Moral Influence Is Good.

Mrs. Greene—Do you always give
your little boy castor oil for a cold?

Mrs. Gray—Yes, I give it for its
moral effect exclusively.

Mrs. Greene—For its moral effect?

Mrs. Gray—Yes, it will bave an in-
fluence upon him not to catch another
cold. :

    

 

 

 

 

 

   
   

 

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wine, opt......... 1 60} Ferri Ch
Xanthoxylum.. .... BO | Tp OPE 1 ' | Hern Chidridum 50 Ww area |S aT»
Balsamum
Potassium Gentian Co.. ae 60
Copaiba. ............ 50@ 55] ., Gainea 50
Per 2 a ceca . Be = Guiacaammon...... 60
So soo 55 Bromide............. 4 57 | Tod —— os =
Cortex 5 Chiorai 90. it@ibe 16 18 Iodine, coloriess.. =
anadian.. yanide "gee = gg, | Kimo......----. oe.
a 12 Todide. 2 40g 2 5n Lobelia re =
Cinehona Flava..... otassa, Bitart, pure 28@ 30] Nux Vomica
Euonymus atropurp 30 | Potassa, Bitart,; com @ 15 Opit Vomica........ = 9
Myrica Cerifera, po. 20 | Potass Nitras, opt.. 10@_ 12 Opii cam] horated. 50
Prunus Virgini...... 12| Potass Nitras....._.. 100@ il Opii, deodorized. _ 50
Quillaia, gr’d....... 12| Prussiate....... .... ~@ 2! Quassia eis 50
Sassafras...... po. 18 12) Sulphate po... ..... 15@ 18 ae 50
Ulmus...po. i, gr'd 15 Radix — 50
Extractum Aconitvm ee 0@ ee - oe 0
cyrr! Glabra. M@ 2% ee. erpen ee. :
pie hi ma Less 23@ 30| Anchusa........... 0 = Stromonium ........ 60
Hematox,15lbbox. 11@ 12|Arumpo...... ...... @ | Tolutan.............. 60
Hematox, is ........ 13@ 14| Calamus ....2.2727 20@ 40| Valerian............ 50
Hmematox, %s....... 14@ 15|Gentiana...... po 15 12@ 15| Veratrum Veride... 50
Heematox, 148....... 16@ 17%] Glychrrhiza...pv.15 16@ 18| Zimgiber............. 20
Panam Hydrastis Canaden . @ 55 [liscellaneous
Carbonate Precip 15 | BZqrestis Can, po.. | @ 90 | Ather, spts., Nit 3F 30@ 35 .
Citrate and Quinia.. i See 2 oe Our stock of Brushes for the season
Citrate Soluble...... % | Ipecac, po........... 3 90@ 4 00| Alumen ,sr0'd. -po.7 3@ 4 i a
Scat Chloride. {| Iris lox... po8s@38 35@ 40 Annatio . 0@ 50 of 1899 is complete and we invite
ea alapa, pr........... 2@ 30|Antimoni, po....... 4@ 5 : :
— hate, com’l..... 2| Maranta, \s...
ulphate, com’l, by Podophyiitim, a Aiton! ePBois ~— 2. your orders. The line includes
bbl per cwt....... ee 7@ 1 00 cam @ w»
Sulphate, ae ae 7 hel, ene i @125 Argenti Nitras,oz.. @ 50 p
oe eer ... %@ 135| Arsenicum.......... 10@ 12 | b d bb
" "6 4 o. %@ 38|BalmGilead Bud 38@ 40 Flat Wal ound in rudber,
Anthemis........... ®@ 2 Serpeniari Po.15 5 @ 13) Bismuth 8.N. ...- 1 - 1 40g 50 b t
Matricaria .......... 30@ 35/ coe mtaria ......... 30@ 35 | Calcium Chlor., ts.. d | h r
ee 5 | Calcium Chl 10
Polia ze Similax, ne -— o Gaeaien Chior. a 3 12 Fass an ca e i
SN 5@ milax,M............. @  25| Cantharides, Rus. @ 6 d Pp t
Cassie Acuitil, Tin- Seille.” 227). 10@ 12| Capsici Fructus. af. @ 15 Oval Paint Roun ain
ve ki = = Sy etocexpen, cati- — Fructus, po. @ = . :
Cassia Acutifol, Alx. pO cs 25 | Capsici FructusB,
Salvia oficinalla, 46 Valerians, ting po.3) @ 3|Carvophyllus pos 12 14 Oval Chisel Varnish
a i ae 12@ = Valeriana, Ge — b@ 2 pong _ ib... @ 3 . Z
oacclesclecics ng: 1 era Alba..
ee Game |ineber cn | See Blea BBR Oval Chisel Sash
OccuUs .
Acacia, Ist picked... @ 65 Semen En ib
Acacia, 24 picked). @ 45|Anisum....... po. @ 12|cenwana $ io Rou nd Sash
Acacia, 3d picked.. @ 3 pions ( —— Folens 13@ = 15 | Cetaceum.. @ 4 D " q
Acacia, sifted sorts. @ x a 6 | Chloroform. "  50@ 53 e
Acacia, po. 60@ 80 | Carui...2 02.11 - po. 18 12 | Chloroform, s uilbbe @ 110 White as eads
Aloe, Barb. po.18@20 12@ 14|Cardamon...-:°..... 1 20 1 % | Chloral Hyd oa ' 1 65@ 1 90
Aloe, Cape ....po. 15 @ 12) Coriandrum......... 8@ 10] Chondrus. 0@ ®
loe, Socotri.-po. 40 @ 3) | Cannabis Sativa.  4@ 8 ese 3@ 35 Kalsomine
OMMIAG . 2.02. 2000 55@ Wisi sisal ous ac i: Cinchoni 2F 5
Assafostida....po.30 3@ % Chenap podium ...... 1 12 | Cocaine as — 3 806 £00 '
Bensoinum ......... 50@ §5| Dipterix Odoraie... 1405 1 50 | Corks list; dis-pr.ct 70 at Varnis
eo ms 3 a cee a = Creosotum oe ct @ 3
atechu, %8......... po...... Creta......... bbl
Gateoht, e000. [co oi8 42 [See dL GF Square and Chisel
amphors 53@ 59} Lini, we SS 4% | Creta, precip... 9@ 11
Buphorbiom. —, Pheriris Gi, So |... BS
Gamboge po........ 65@ 70| Rapa ae tame “as All qualities at satisfactory prices.
Guaiacum. ....po. @ _ 30 | Sinapis Albu...” 9@ 10] CupriSulph....).7! 64@ 8
—------ Po. 83.u0 @ 3 . Sinapis Nigra....... N@ 12] Dextrine.....2...71"1 10@ wR
I nieces Spiritus Ether Sulph........_ @ 90 | H e V ° h
Onli “po. 66:105.20 3 4G 3 5. | Frumenti, W. D. Co. 2 00@ 2 50 aoe = = * Came air Varnis
—— on Frumenti, D. F.R.. 2 00@ 2 25| Bmery, Po... ae .
ee a sae I Fl
Sot 8S Stowe Goo. #1 | GO 2 On| Hake White... 2@ Mottlers owing
uniperis Co........
Herba Sanehieen 1 GO 3 30 obi oreatedecn Oe | o
mN.E.... 1 90@ 2 10 Gelatin, C 60 oior
Absinthium..oz. pkg 25 | Spt. Vini Galli...... 1 %@ 6 50 Coctaaie’ ion sees =a @
Eupatorium .oz. pkg 20 | Vini Oporto......... 1 25@ 2 00| Gy wig er . i
Lobelia...... oz. pkg 95 | Vini — ise) oe | «(6S B d Fl win
Majorum ....oz. pkg 28 Ss et BOE... . a ger O g,
Mentha Pip..oz. pkg 23 roa Glue, brown........ 9@ 12
Mentha Vir. .oz. pkg 95, | Florida sheeps’ wool Glue, white......... B@ 2 ° | d bl
or gna pe page 39| _carriage........... 2 50@ 2 75 | Glycerina 1) 4@ singie or aqoubie
TanacetumV oz. pkg 99 | Nassau ged wool Grana Paradisi .... ae)
Thymus, V..oz. pkg 95 | _Carriage........... 2 00@ 2 25| Humulus............ 3@ 55 il t
ee me Be . H. Pencils, etc.
= wool, Carriage..... y' or Cor. f
Calcined, Pat..... .. 55@ 60] Extra yellows eeps’ Hydraag Ox Rub’m @ 100
Carbonate, Pat...... 20@ 22 wool. carriage.... @ 1 00 | Hydraag Ammoniati @ 115
Carbonate, K.&M.. 20@ 25/| Grass sheeps’ wool, BresceUugeentinn 45@ 55
Carbonate, Jennings 35@ 36] carriage........... @ 1 00| Hydrargyrum....... @ Pp KINS
Hard, for slate use.. @ %%/\|Ie thyobolla, Am... 6@ %
Oleum Yellow Reef, for MO 75@ 1 00
Absinthium......... 3 75@ 400! slate use.......... @ 1 40| Iodine, Resubi...... 3 60@ 3 70
Amygdale, Duic...:  30@ 50 Iodoform...... 1" @ 40 CO
Amygdale, Amare . _— 8 25 mee — au i : @2 % e9
Neiendiem as aac wm cacia . “ yCco) um
Auranti Cortex..... 2 40@ 2 50| Auranti Cortes...... @ 50| Macis Oe 6
ey cee ate se 3 00@ 3 20 | Zingiber. @ 50} Liquor Arsen et Hy- GRAND RAPIDS M .
75@ 80 | Ipecac. ee @ 60|_ drarg Iod.. @ B 9
8&@ 92] Ferrilod............ @ 50 LiqnorPotassdzainit 10@ 12
5 . 6% Bhet Arom.... fig so8 50 spans, Sulph.b os = —-
milax cinalis. .. agnesia, Pp ;
60D 1 70 | Seog... 0| Manni, $F... s0@ 6 acacia
450 80 Scilla see 2B fO| Mentnal. 0335

 

 

 

  

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

  

   

 

 

 

  

 

   
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

   

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

GROCERY PRICE CURRENT.

The prices quoted in this list are for the trade only,
dealers. They are prepared just before going to press and
possible to give quotations suitable for a
erage prices for average conditions of purchase.
those who have poor credit.

Subscribers are earnes

our aim to make this feature of the greatest possible use to dealers.

in such quantities as are usually purchased by retail
are an accurate index of the local market.
1 conditions of purchase, and those below are given as representing av-
Cash buyers or those of strong credit usually buy closer than
tly requested to point out any errors or omissions, as it is

It is im-

 

 

AXLE GREASE.
doz.

  
    
  
  

gross

aes 55 600

Castor On... .......... 60 7 00

Diamond... ........... 50 064.00

tasers... .. 7% 900

[XL Golden, tin boxes75 900

Plica, tin boxes........7% 900

ee 55 6 00

BAKING POWDER.
Absolute.

; *) Cane Gos............. 45

ip see OO8............. 8

Ib can dos...... > 2

Ib Canz 8 dos.......... . 5

Ib Cans 8 dos............ %

cans 1 dos............ 100

ee een cs eens 10

Arctic.
6 oz. Eng. Tumblers........ 85
El Parity.

—

Ib cans per dos......... 1 20

1 lb cans per dos...... ~<. 2 OO

Home.

lb cans 4 dos case...... 35

Ib cans 4 dos case...... 55

Tb cans 2 doz Case ..... 90

ig lb cans, 4 doz case.....- 45

\% 1b cans, 4 doz case...... 85

lb cans, 2 doz case...... 160

Jersey Cream.

1 1b. cans, per doz. ... 200

9 oz. cans, per doz... =

6 oz. Cans, per doz... -

45

%

50

85

3 oz., 6 doz. case.......
6 oz., 4 doz. case
9 os., 4 doz. case.
1 lb., 2 dos. case.... :
5 lb., 1 dos. Case.......00. ‘

BATH BRICK.
ORT wees . ---- cee

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CANDLSS.
8s.. oe ee esece esos
Me
iL... 8
Wacksee...... 23 20
CATSUP.
Columbia, pints.......... 2 00
Columbia, % pints.......... 125
CHEESE
oe .....-......... @ 12
BNO. ... 00. .200 @
Gold Medal..... .... @
oe... @
a @ 12%
Riverside............ S@
Beek @
@ 70
@ 17
@ 13
@
@ 17
5
pee 7
CHOCOLATE.

Walter Baker & Co.’s
German Sweet............ ..%
ee
Breakfast Cocor..... .. ..... 46

CLOTHES LINES.
Cotton, 40 ft, per dosz....... 1 00
Cotton, 50 ft, per dos....... 120
Cotton, 60 ft, per doz....... 1 40
Cotton, 70 ft, per dos....... 1 60
Cotton, 80 ft, per dos....... 1 80
Jute, 60 ft, per dos.........
Jute, 72 ft. per dos,......... 9

COCOA SHELLS.

2% bape... 2%
Less quantity............ 3
Pound packages......... 4

CREAM TARTAR.

5 and 10 lb. wooden boxes.....30
Bulk in seeks... 29

COFFEE.

ee %
BROOMS.
Oe i ee 2 10| Private Growth..........--.-- 20
No : — i : - Mandebling.........-..--+++-- 21
WON 3
No. 4 Carpet................ ea 20
arcadia . isk ae oe oom wie 2 Meten 22
Whi gy | Arabia «..-------20ereree cee
Fancy Whisk............... 80 Roasted.
Warehouse. ..... 2 50

CANNED GOODS.

 

Beans, Baked......... 75@1 00
Beans, Red Kidney... 75@ %5
— eee cee 95@1 20
eee 50@ 8
Peas, French.....-.... 23
Pumpkin .......-...+- %
Mushroom ...... ....- 15@ 22
Peaches, Pie .......... 109
Peaches, Fancy....... 1 40
Apples. gallons....... @2 90
Sere 90
....... 70
Pineapple, grated..... 2 40
Pineapple, sliced...... 2 25
Pineapple, Farren....1 70
Strawberries ..........1 10
Blackberries .......... 80
Raspberries ........... 85
Oysters, 1-Ib........... 85
Oysters, 2-lb........... 145
Salmon, Warren’s ....1 4°@1 60
Saimon, Alaska....... 125
Salmon, Klondike..... 90
Lobsters, 1-lb. Star....3 20
Lobsters, 2-Ib. Star....3 90
Mac erel,ilb Mustard 10
Mackerel, 1-lb. Soused.1 75
Mackerel,1-lb Tomato.1 75
ee 2 00
Sardines, 4s domestic 3%@
Sardines, mstrd,dom.54@ 7%
Sardines, French...... 8 @ 22

Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brands
Fifth Avenue..... 29
Jewell’s Arabian Mocha....29
Wells’ Mocha and Java..... 24

Wells’ Perfection Java..... 24
Sancaibo ........... io eeicees 21
Breakfast Blend........... 18

Valley City Maracaibo. .....18%
Ideal Blend.............---. 14
Leader Blend....... -- = sce okie
Package.
Below are given New York
prices on kage coffees, to
which the wholesale dealer
adds the local freight from
New York to your shipping
int, giving you credit on the
nvoice for the amount of

 

 

CONDENSED MILK.
4 doz in case.
Gail Borden Eagle....,....6 75

a. 625
See 5%
Champion .............--..- 450
eeeons .......:.......- 45
Chailenge...... a. 3 =

Tracesman Grade.

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

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

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

1,000 books. any denom....
Superior Grade.

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

1,000 books, any denom....
upon Books,

Can be made to represent any

denomination from 810 —

Brie SEwe BE
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99 boeks ._._......----.- 00
SO books. ...........--..-- 2 00
100 books .........2..--+0- 3 00
250 books -68
500 DOOKS........--2----+6- 10 00
1000 books.....-. _...17 SO
Universal Grade.

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

1,000 books, any denom....20 00
Credit Checks.

500, any one denom’n..... 3 00

1000, any one denom’n..... 5 00

2000, any one denom’n..... 8 =

Sees ee cece eemmiem
DRIED FRUITS—DONESTIC
Apples.
Sundried.....-.....---:- Sik.
Evaporated 50 lb boxes. @9%
California Fruits.
Apricots......-
Blackberries.

 
 

PORTS... ...-...--+-- sere
Pitted Cherries.......-
Prunnolles........-----
Raspberries.........---
California Pranes.

London Layers 2 Crown.
London Layers 3 Crown.
Cluster 4 Crown.....----

Loose Muscateis2 Crown 5
Loose Muscatels 3Crown 6
Loose Museatels4Crown 7
L. M., Seeded, choice..... 8
L. M , Seeded, fancy...... 9%
FOREIGN.
Citron. —
Leghorn .......-+-++ee+++"
Corsican........--2--se+- @13
Currants.
Patras bbis......---------- @ 5%
Cleaned, bulk .....------- 6
Cleaned, eg eee @ 6%

eel.
Citron American 10]b bx @13

Lemon American 10 lb bx @10%
Orange American 101b bx @10%

Raisins.
Ondursa 28 ib boxes.....
Sultana 1 Crown......-.
Sultana 2Crown ....--
Sultana 3 Crown......-
Sultana 4 CrownD.....--
Sultana 5 Crown... .-.
Sultana 6 Crown..... -
Sultana package... .---

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Hominy.
Bares 2 2 50
Flake, 50 lb. drums.......1 00
Dried Lima . ............. 4%
Medium Hand Picked 1 2°@1 2
Maccaroni and Vermicelli.
Domestic, 10 Ib. box...... 60

Imported, 25 Ib. box.. ... 2 50

 

 
  

eas.
Green, Wisconsin, bu..... 1 00
Green, Scotch, bu. ...... 110
Son bu............ bee 250
Rolled Oats.
Rolled Avena, bbl.......4 2%
Monarch, bbl........... .4 00
Monarch, % bbl..... -e-2 13
Monarch, 90 1b sacks......1 90
uaker, cases. ---3 20
uron, Cases... --2 00
Sago.
Se 4
East India........... 3%
Tapioca
Flake . ee 5
Pean........ ee 4%
Anchor, 40 1 1b. pkges.... 5%
Wheat.
Cracked. bulk.........---- 34
242 1b packages..... .....2 50
SALT FISH.
Cod.
Georges cured......... @4
Georges genuine...... @5
Georges selected...... @ 5%
Strips or bricks.......6 @9
Herring.

Holland white hoops, bbl. 9 25
Holland white hoop %bbl 5 25

 

Holland white hoop, keg. 70
Holland white hoop mchs 80
Norwegian... ----

Round 100 lbs... 3 10
Round 40 lbs... 1 40
Scaled 14

 

100 lbs.......- 700 600 2%
401bs........310 270 140
10 lbs........ % 7% 48

8lbs......-. 1 242663—Cté«éi8T?”
FLAVORING EXTRACTS.

 

freight buyer pays from the | FARINACEOUS GOODS. Jennings’.
to his shipping point, including Parina. D.C. Vanilla D. C. Lemon
weight of package, also %c a/| 241 1b. packages........-- 1 50 oz......1 20 2oz...... 7%
pound. In 60 1b. cases the list | Bulk, per 100 Ibs..... .... 350 |80z......1 50 30z...... 1 00
is 10c per 100 lbs. above the Grits. | oz.. ...2 00 40z......1 40
price in full cases. Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s Brand. 6 os... : 8 00 6 a. . =
ESS 0. o. 8...
— oe No. 10, 600 No. 10,.-4 00
licLaughiin’s XXXX...... No. 27.12 No. 2T. 80
McLaughlin’s XXXX sold to No. 3T.2 = a ep =
retailers only. Mail all orders No 4T.2 o. 4T.
direct to W. F. McLaughlin & Pure Brand.
Co., Chicago. Lem. Van.
Extract. - er Panel.. = : =
ox. Oval.........-
Fells) —* — ea 1 3 3 oz. Taper Panel..1 35 2 00
Hummel’sfoil % gross... 85 ; 4oz. Taper Panel..160 225
Hummel’s tin % gross... 1 43 | 242 1b. packages........... 1 80 HERBS.
CLOTHES e 100 Ib. kews................ 2 | GaMS...... nee eeceecceccererss 15
6 gross boxes..... .....---...- 40 | 200.1b. barrels.. ........-+ 5.10 8 | Hops ......-..----e ee eeescces 15

 

 

INDIGO.

Madras, 5 lb boxes.........
S. F., 2, 3 and 5 lb boxes....

SR

GUNPOWDER.
Rifle—Dupont’s.

 

PE os ee cee 43
net ee : 2

marter Kege........-.-0.0s-
Tis. cams.... 2... <2... Suess 34

Eagie Duck—Dupont’s.
— ee eee ee 8 00
Half Kegs...............ceee 42
Quarter Kegs.. ....... --+-- 22
fib cane. ow... 45
15 Ib pail — 35

Bo
Ib pails... .... --eeeeee- 65
LYB.

Condensed, 2 dos ......-.--- 120
Condensed. 4 dos.....--.--- 2
LICORICE.

i 30
— eee eee =
a ic ces we =

MINCE MBAT.
Ideal, 3 doz. in case.......-- 2 2
MATCHES.

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

MOLASSES.

New Orleans.
(adc eteie sees 11
— ae 14
— Bok seed ence cela =

ANGCY ..ccccceseeseeceees:

O sy Kettle. ......------+ 25@35
alf-barrels 2c extra.
MUSTARD.

e Radish, 1 doz.......-- 1%
oe Radish, 2 doz......... 3 50
Bayle’s Celery, 1 doz.. ...-- 1%

PIPES.
Clay, No. 216.......---+++- 1 70
Clay, T. D. full count...... 65
Cob, No. 8.....----2e e008 2 85
POTASH.

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

PICKLES.
Medium.

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

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

Domestic.

Csrolina head...........-+- 6%

Carolina No.1 ........--+- 5
Carolina No.2.....--..---- 4
Broken.......------+-+-+-+- 3%
Imported.
Japan, No.1.........- 5%@ 6
io 2... 44@ 5
Java, fancy head...... 5 @5%
Java, No.1.....-...--- 5 @
Sa @
SALERATUS.

Packed 60 lbs. in box.
Church’s... Loo. Claes ae
POOR 6505s 55 ees coe 3 15

eo ccs wo el 3 30
Taylor’s........--2200 corer 3 00
SAL SODA.

Granulated, bbis.........-. v6)
Granulated, 100 lb cases.. 90
Lump, bbls. .... .--.-.--. 7%
Lump, 145]b kegs.......... 8&5

 

SAUERKRAUT.
Barres. sc. 4%
ie eeeers. es Le 2 60

SNUFF.

Scotch, in bladders......... 3%

Maccaboy, injars........... 38

French Rappee, in jars.... 48

SEEDS.

I ee 9

Canary, Smyrna........... 3%

eo 8

Cardamon, Malabar ..... 60

ter ee se sce 11

Hemp, Russian........... 4%

Mired Hird..............- 4%

Mustard, white........... 5

ey es 10

MeO 4%

Cuttie Bone............... 20

SALT.

Diamond Crystal.
Table, cases, 24 3-lb boxes..1 50
Table, barrels, 100 3 1b bags.2 75
Table, barrels, 407 1b -2 40
Butter, barrels, 280 lb. bnIk.2 25
Butter, barrels, 2014 lbbags.2 50
Butter, sacks, 28lbs......... 25
Butter, sacks, 56 lbs......... 55

Common Grades.

100 S-ibeseks..... ........- 1 95
OOS5-lbseseks................ 1 80
28 10-lb sacks...............1 65

Worcester.
4 Ib. cartons...........3 25

115 236). saeks..... ....... 400

Gb. sare... 6... 3%
2214 Th sacks... 2.2... 3 50
3010 tb. sacks............. 3 50
28 lb. linen sacks............ 32
56 lb. linen sacks........... - 60
Bulk in barrels.............. 2 50
Warsaw.

56-lb dairy in drill bags..... 30

28-lb dairy in drill bags..... 15
Ashton.

56-lb dairy in linen sacks... 60
Higgins.

56-lb dairy in linen sacks... 60

Solar Rock.

561b secks................:. 21
Common.

Granulated Fine............ 63

Medium Fine............... %

SOAP.

Simpie box... co. 8: 2%
5 box lots, delivered.. --2 50

10 box lots, delivered.. 27%

  

JAS. 8. KIRK & GO.’S BRANDS.

American Family, wrp’d....2 66
D 275

Cabinet... .... 2.2: 2 20
RVR ne occ ee cme ce ose 2 50
White Russian.............. 2 33
White Cloud, laundry...... 6 2
White Cloud, toilet......... 3 50

Dusky Diamond, 50 6 oz....2 10
Dusky Diamond, 50 8 oz....3 00
Blue India, 100 % 1b..... ----3 00
Rirkoline..- 20. .... 6.3... .-. 3 50

MEO oe eas copeca tons 2 50

Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands.
Old Country, 80 1-lb. bars ..2 %

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

Uno, 100 %-lb. bars.......... 2 50

Doll, 100 1 . BARB... 2 65
Scouring.

Sspolio, kitchen, 3 doz ..... 2 40
Sapolio, hand, 3 doz........ 240
SODA.

Mates oo. oe
Kegs, English.............. 4%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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SPICES.
Whole Sifted.
OBIOS. oe ee oo 14
Cassia, China in mats..
Cassia, Batavia in bund
Cassia, Saigon in rolls..

   

Cloves, Amboyna..... ..14
Cloves, Zansibar............ 1?
Mace, Batavia..............55
Nutmegs, fancy............. 60
Nutmegs, _ : Sec euecee. 50
Nutmegs, No. 2.............
Pepper, Rees black... 18
Pepper, Singapore, white. .
Pepper, shot
PO, cg - in uit. os
Sane a. Detevs ....... <2... 5 30
Cassia, Saigon.. sos oe
Cloves, Zansibar............ 14
Ginger, African... ... 15
Ginger, Cochin............. 18
— SSMSIGS.... 2... =
, Batavi Wie cl:
ee Lis cuca nee dee igs
INutmegs. .....
Pepper, Sing , binek ...-.. 5 15
Pepper, Sing., white........ 22
Pepper, Cayenne pees emesiecle 20
Rigs. 15
SYRUPS
Corn.

a 17
Coa a 19
1 doz 1 gallon cans......... 299

doz. % gallon cans...... 1 70
2 doz. 4% gallon cans ..... 1%

Pure Cane.

 

Kingsford’s Corn.

40 1-lb EE SE 6
2011b nt ees Sci aces 614
Kingsford’s Silver Gloss.

40 1-Ib —-- oie cures oem 6%
6-lb bo a
Diamond.

64 10c packages ........... : 00
128 5¢ packa; ges. 5 00
32 10c and 64 packages... 5 00
Common Corn.

20 11b. packages. . 5
40 1 lb. packages............. 4%
Common Gloss.
1-lb mages... 4%
3-lb ales Bh Sicieecic oie ais = 414
Clb packagwos..............-. 5
40 and 50 lb boxes........... 3
Barres 2... 3

STOVE POLISH.

Enametine \s

JL PREsSCOITac
Sie a erent

 

No. 4, 3 doz in case, gross.. 4 50
No. 6, 3 doz in case, gross.. 7 20

SUGAR.

Below are given New York
prices on sugars, to which the
wholesale dealer adds the local
freight from New York to your
a ing int, iving you

t ee a for the
aanet of fre uyer pa
from the market in Shick

urchases - his ship) pping poll post,
ncluding poun
weight of the barrel.
Demme oo. 5
Cot Leet 5 20
Crushed. 5
Pomgeroe ... 2.5... oso. 5 13
XXXX Powdered.. ..D 25
CE eee cee 5 18
Granulated in bbls... ...... 5 00
Granulated in bags......... 5 Ou
Fine Granulated............
Extra Fine Granulated..... 5 13
— — Granulated...5 13
oan Confec. A.......- 5 Ou
Confec. Stan ee poate 4 88

ce oe 4 63
ee oo 4 63
MRO eee ec 4 63
Me fe 4 56
ee 4 50
MG Oo 444
eee 4
ee toca 431
Me oo 42
MO. 10.2.5 5... je ..419
No. 11... 419
No. 12. o< 4199
We ees ens ee oes 19
_ (So a clare is 419

So. poco s 419

Ne: Men, cs doce cicmeemcans cag IO

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

oe: Candies. Grains and Feedstuffs
Cigars.
Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s brand. Stick Candy. Wheat.
bis, paile | Wheat...........- 2... .... 68
Mow Grice oo. 33 00 6
Standard............ 4D 7 Winter Wheat Flozr.
H.&P.D a Standard H. H...... 6%@ 7 Local Brands.
GP. DrugCo.’sbrand —_| Standard Twist... T4@S | patents... .0.......0.--- 4 00
Quintettie ..................35 00 | Cut Loaf... ...... @8s Second Patent. ae 3 50
Jumbo, 32 Ib . @ 6% Straight ceo Se
G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s brand. | Extra H.H.......... @ 8% Clear... eee se ese. 3 —
Boston Cacia ea @10 | Buckwheat ................ er 10
Can ye 32
a — seca a Subject to usual cash ais,
MOCO. ool... count,
Competition......... @ 6% Flour in bbls., 25¢ per bbl. ad-
oN Standard............ @7 ditional.
Conserve...... ..... g 7% | Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand
yal .. 7) Dato, see 3 50
Hibbew.............. @ &% | Daisy, 4s..........
pee pes et esivie ses @ i% Daisy, 4s.
SC We --35 0) & = ack @8 Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
nglish Rock....... @8 Quak 359
: Kindergarten ae @ 8% a cen 4s fe cial oie) lgiel ah at pico 3 20
Ruhe Bros. Co.’s Brands. French Cream...... @?9 > aes Oe ip
; Dandy Pan...... q@io | Quaker, %s................. 5
Double Eag'es, — $5770 00 | Hand Made Cream mxd @13 Spring Wheat Flour
Gen. Maceo, Saizes.... S02 0 Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brand.
pAlb ge ame aa oo oles = = Fancy —In Bulk. Pillsbury’s Best %s........ 44
Crown Five........... 35 00 | Lozenges, plain..... @ 9% | Ellisucys pent far ; 20
= — Ce 35 : a. printed.. @ 8 eee uae a
u he eeee sc. o. 35 oe core ’
Gens. Grant and Lee. 35 00 | Choc. }Monumentals @2 Pillsbury’s Best 4s paper.. 4 20
Little Peggy .......... 35 00; Gum Drops......... @5 Ball-Barnhart-Pntman’s Brand.
Signal Five........... 35 00 | Moss Drops......... @8
Knights of Pythias.. 35 00 | Sour Drops.......... @ 8%
Key West Perfects, 2 sz 55@60 00 Imperials ........... @9
TABLE SAUCES. Fancy—In 5 Ib. Boxes.
Lemon Drops....... @50
Lea & Perrin’s, large... 4 75 Sour Drops......... @50
Lea & Perrin’s, small 275 Pespeniaiat Drops. . @60
Halford, large....... 3% Chocolate Drops.. @60
Halford small............ 225 | H.M. Choc. Drops... @i
Salad Dressing, large..... 4 55 H. M. Choe. Lt.and
Salad Dressing, small..... 2% DE. No Fs . @90
Gum Drops......... @30
VINEGAR. — aa een @%
Malt White Wine, 40 grain... § al
Malt White Wine, 80 grain....11 | fozenecs’ Plain. -..  @s0
Pure Cider, Red Star.......... 12| tm vale Lmmien @50
Pure Cider. Robinson......... 11 Mottoes vey
Pure Cider, Silver........ .... ll Cream Bar. ee @50
olasses Bar ....... 5
WICKING. Hand MadeCreams. 80 om
No. 0, per gross.............. 20 | Cream Buttons, Pep.
0. 1, pergross.............. 25| and Want......... @65 7
No. 2, per Zrogss.............. 35 | String Rock......... @60 | puiuth Imperial, %s 440
———— - Wints =. 7 / aluth iasperial, 340. ..... 438
— @50 Duluth Imperial. ae. 4 20
No.1 — Lemon & Wheeler Co.’s Brand.
Crackers ee Gold Medal ¥s............. 4 40
' eo ee a ae @35 | Gold Medal 4s............. 4 30
pve 1 wrapped, 3 Ib. @s0 | Gold Medal igs. -- 00-00, 4 20
The National Biscuit Co. | No. (2 wrapped, 3 Ib. raee aah aa
Se tt—t—sY:Cid Parisian, %8..........0..... 4 20
Butter. F its és Olney & Judson ’s nae.
Seymour Xxx . 5% ruil CrOROtR, 565...-.-.. 8. 4 49
aoa Xxx, e lb. carton 6 t Soe 29 +
Salted’ SEX ray —— ‘Worden Grocer
New York Xxx .. 6 | Fancy Navels....... @3 55 | Laurel, %s.........
Wolverine ................. 6 |Chetee @3 25 | Laurel, 4s.
Beene 7% | Seediings............ 2 50@z 7 | Laurel, %s. mM
Soda. Lemons. ee eee 1 90
Soda XXX.. 6 Strictly choice 360s.. @3 50 Granmiaieg .-. 2 10
Soda XXX, 3 lb carton... 6% ria — _— = = ae pee = —-. ia
ncy -° 4 0)| St. Car Feed. screene “
Lone L aomaaie a Ex.Fancy 300s.... . @4 v0 | No. 1 Corn and Oats.......16 00
—— St © | Winter Wheat Bran... 216 00
er et ” Bananas. Winter Wheat Middlings.. 15 00
Oyster. Medium bunches...1 00 @I 25 | Screenings. . 3 00
Saltine Wafer.............. 5% | Large bunches...... 150 @i % aan
Saltine Wafer, 1lb carton. 6% xX aa ear late. 33%
Farina Oyster.............. 5% Foreign Dried Fruits. co an oar lot See one 3744
Extra Farina Oyster....... 6 Figs. S55 bang a a eas
SWEET GOODS—Boxes. Californias Fancy.. @14 | Car lots. .... — 88
Choice, 101b boxes.. @13 Carlots, clipped.. es
I 10% | Extra choice, 10 1b Less than car lots.. 36
st SS as Se eee = . boxes eo es @18 ay
ocoanut Laffy............ ancy, 12 xe No. acua. 9 00
Coffee Cake, Java. ee 10 = rial Mikados,. . ; silage
Coffee Cak e, Iced. 1D, ao : e No.1 Timothy. tonlots 1° 05
TACKNGLIS................. Pulle, 6 lb boxes. . @ a
Te 11% Naturals, in bags.. @7 Fish and Oysters
Ponce oan mal a te 7 ine
nger Gems .............. ates.
Ginger Snape, i. peas 7% | Fards in 10 tb boxes gi0 er we
ere ards in 60 ib cases
Graham Wafers............ 40 Persians, PH V..... @é6 — settee eens : re
Grand Ma Cakes............ 9 lb cases, new...... @ 6 Black Bass stew ewes 8 @ i’
oe Sa tix, | Saizs. 601d cases... = @5 | Halibut...) BB
Jumbles, Honey........... % Glassen. @ 3
Marshmallow ............. 15 Blnefish al @ li
— Creams..... 16 Nuts. Hosa Sagan 6 2
rshmallow Wailnuts.... 16 ‘led Lobste @ 26
Mich. Frosted Honey.... “12% — Obster...... = =
Molasses Cakes............ 8 |Almonds,Tarragona.. 16 = 2 AES See =
Te 12 | Almonds, Ivaca....... @i4 ay 1 PA ge tt @ 8
Nic Nees. 8 |Almonds, California, No. ckerel...... :
Orange GemS............0+. 8 soft shelled......... @u | Fike................ @ ts
Penny Assorted Cakes..... 8% | Brazils new........... @8 Ss ae cies g ¢
Pretzels, hand made ..... ‘7iq | Hilperts .............. @10 ae ec. a3
Sears’ Lunch............... 7 | Walnuts, Se: @i3 ose ee 3 33
Sugar Cake 060... 8 | Walnuts, Calif @li = z ny 23
Sugar Squares.. Jes Walnuts, soft shelled ac me ae or ae
Vanilla Wafers . ote oo aas 14 be ee SER @ll aa a r ‘e ‘i.
Sultanas . wala . 12% | Table Nuts, —--- @il . 2. Counts....-... -
Table Nuts, choice.. = B. Selects...... : -
: Pecans’ Ex-Large.... 9°" |¥-J.D. Siandards... ° 3
; Jun ers @ 20
Oils. Pecans, Jumbos....... @i2 — A o 3
Hickory Nuts per bu., Stan - oe =f
Barrels HO, HOW... ........ @1 60 | Favorites...... oe ;
. Cocoanuts, full sacks @4 ‘0 Bulk. gal.
Mecene ............... @11% | Chestnuts per bu...... @4 — "aaa : .
EXK W.W ich. .Hdlt. a Sisinsiaies. aa ee ee
chigan........ @9%| | Fe@mUtSs. = —_—=§ | Selects... ......scee eens eee
Diamond White....... @ &% vance, H. P., Suns. @7 Auchor ee Sd cae ; 10
D., 8. Gas. 12% | Fancy, H. P., Flags ona - eee ons eae :
Deo. Naptha .......... 12% | Roasted............. @7 @mS... eas
Cynder .........- 2... 34 Choice, H. P., Extras. @ 4% ae 1 1
ee Ae 21 ‘hoice, H. P., — sters, per ._ —
Black, winter... 8 ee ee 5% ams, per 3

 

 

 

 

 

Provisions.

Swift & Company guote as
follows:

 

Barreled Pork.

  

   
 
 
  
  

 

 

 

ee 0 00
a
Cleae back .......... @!0 25
mmGreGut................. 10 00
SE ae 14 00
Beam gc. 9 50
eee og. 11 OU
Dry Salt Meats.
Bee 5%
oo 5%
Extra shorts............. 514
Smoked [ieats.
Hams, 12 1b average .... 8%
Hams, 14 1b average 834
Hams, 16 1b average..... 7%
Hams, 20 lb average..... 7%
Ham dried beef ......... 11
Shoulders (N. Y. cut). 5%
Bacon, clear............ 7 @i7%
California hams......... 54
Boneless hams........... 8%
Cooked ham............ io@22
Lards. in Tierces.
Compound................ 4%
Kettle..... . 634
55 lb Tubs. advance 56
80 lb Tubs. advance Mg
50 1b Tins . advance 5
20 Ib Pails. advance 56
10 Ib Pails. advance %
5 lb Pails. .- advance 1
3 lb Pails....... advance 1%
eg.
a bes ee 5%
See cae oe ease ee 6%
Frankfori Bee ec 7%
Pome... i... 6%
eee 6
ee 9
Head cheese............. 6%
Beef.
Mxtea Moss.............. 10 25
—— oS 12 73
Rump.. doa oe 12 50
'p gs’ Feet.
Mites (3 lhe... 70
q bbls, 40 Ibs............ 1 35
% bbls, 80 lbs.. 2 50
Tei ks
Kits, 15 lbs.. pe. Scuuee | ae
lq bbls, 7 13
% bbls, ie... 2 2
Casings.
Fen. 20
Beef rounds.. 3
Beef middles... 10
BUIOGR a 60
Butterin
Rolls, dairy........ 11
Solid, dairy . 10 4
Rolls, creamery 15%
Solid, creamery 145
anned Mea
Corned beef, 2 1b 215
Corned beef, 14 lb. 14 75
Roast beef, 2 lb. 215
Potted ham, 148. 50
Potted ham, ‘Xs. 90
Deviled ham, = 50
Deviled ham, : 90
Potted tongue og 50
Potted tongue %s...... 90
Fresh Meats.
Beef.
Careass ............... 64@ §
Fore quarters......... 5 @6%
Hind quarters........ 64G@ ¥%
Loins No. S........... 9 @i2
es. .¢ 2
as... 7@m™
ee 6 @é6
Vg | EE @
Pork.

Pressed ............... 4@
ae. @7
Showlders............. @ 5%

Rear bara... 8... 6%@
Mutton
Caraga 6 @7
Spring Lambs... ..... 7%@ 8%
Veal.
Carcass - 142 8

 

 

Hides and Pelts.

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

Hides.

 

Green No. 1

Cured No. 2.. a
Calfskins, green No. 1
Calfskins, green No. 2
Calfskins, cured No. 1
Calfskins, cured No. 2
Pelts.
Pelte, cach............
Tallow.
No. 1

No. 2.. iayee
Wool.
Washed, fine .........

 

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O®HOHOESOSS

50@1 00

 

 
 
  

Unwashed, fine.. .
Unwashed, + medi a

 

urs.

Cat Wile ............ 20@ 50

Cat, House .... -

Deer Skins, per - 12%
s@_
25@ 1 25
Ca
20@ | 90 | N
2@ 1 2

 

 

Crockery and
Glassware.
AKRON STONEWARE.
Butters,
4p. oon dos ai bole a 45
0 6 gal. wees. ....... 5
8 gal., eagh... = 52”
10 gal., each... aces Oe
12 gal., CeGe 8... 78
15 gal. meat-tubs, each....1 05
20 gal. meat-tubs, each....1 40
25 gal. meat- tubs, each ...2 00
30 gal. meat-tubs, each....2 40
Churns.
2 to 6 gal., _ .......... 6
Churn Das ers, per doz... 85
Milkpans.

\% gal. flat or rd. bot., doz. 45
1 gal. flatorrd. bot.,each 5%
Fine Glazed te 0

% gal. flat or rd. bot., doz

1 gal. flat or rd. bot., each Ox
Stewpans.

% gal. fireproof, bail, doz. 98

1 gal. fireproof, bail, dos.i 10

Ju
‘4 Bal, per doz.. 4 =
¥ gal.. perdoz.... ........ 50
1to5 gal. ay POF Wal......... 6%
Tomato Jugs.

1 eal, per Gos... .)......

a
Corks for & gal., perdos.. 20
Corks for 1 gal., perdos.. 30

Preserve Jars and Covers.
% gal., stone cover, doz... 75
1 gal., stone cover, doz.. "1 00

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

—_ BURNERS.

No. 0 Sun .
No. 1 —.
No. 2 Sun.
No. 3 Sun.
‘Fubular.......

Security, Wa. f.............

  

 

Becurtty, No. f............. 80
PU 50
LAMP CHIMNEYS—Seconds.
Per box of 6 doz.
No. 1
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
First Quality.
No. 0 Sun, crimp top,
= and labeled.... 2 10
No. Sun, crim P,
= ~~ = led.... 2 15
No. Sun,
wrapped ond Tabe ed.... 815
Plint.
No. 0 Sun, crim Pp
wrapped and labeled 2 55
No. Sun, crimp top,
wrapped and labeled. .. 2 75
No. Sun, crim top,
wrapped and labeled.... 3 75

CHIMNEYS—Pearl To
No. 1 ee wrapped end
e

Ne. 2 . ‘Small Bulb,”
for Globe Lamps.........

La Bastie.
nog 1 Sun. plain bulb, per

eee

No “ Crimp, per dos. <
No. 2 Crimp, per dos... ...

Rochester.
1, Lime (65c doz). ....
2, Lime (70c doz
2, Flint (80c doz

 

No.
No.
No.

Blectric
2, Lime (70c doz) Medio
2) Flint (80c dos)......

OIL CANS.
1 gal tin cans with spout.. 1
1 gal galv iron with spout. 1
: gal galv iron with spout. 2
3 gal galv iron with spout.
4
4

No.
No.

Dos.

5 gal galv iron with spout.
3 gal galv iron with faucet
5 gal ga aly iron with faucet
5 = iting Cae... cs
5 gal galy iron Nacefas..

Pump Cans.
5 gal Rapid steady stream.
5 gal Eureka non-overilow 1
3 gal Home Rule..... .....
5 gal Home Rule...........
5 gal Pirate King.. aes

cox on
ASSSRS SSSSS SRAIVKKSER!

LANTERNS.
= side lift..
B Tuabaiae...... ....
43 Tubular Desh.. ..
. 1 Tub., giassfount..
212 Tube ar, side lamp. 1
. 3Street Lamp........

LANTERN GLOBES.
No. 0 Tubular, cases 1 doz,
each, box 10 cents.
No. 0 Tubular, cases2 dos.
each, box 15 cents.......
No. 0 en bbls 5 dos.
each, bbl 35}
No. o tubular, bull’s eye,
cases 1 dos. each......... 1 35

No.
No.

Om os

COIR

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

Hardware

Science of Advertising a Successful
Hardware Store.

I wonder if I will bring down upon
my head the wrath of my fellow hard-
ware men when I make the assertion
that, generally speaking, hardware men
are the poorest advertisers of any class
of merchants.

I don’t know why this is so, but out
of twenty-five newspapers that I ex.
amined in our local newspaper office |
found twenty of the hardware men ad-
vertised something after the following
fashion :

‘‘John Smith, dealer in
stoves and tinware.
lowest prices. ’”’

In one paper I found a firm advertising
base ball goods in January.

Some merchants do not change their
advertisement until the printer finds om
that the face of his type is being ruinea
with constant use and demands new
copy. Others leave the composition o!
their advertisement to the good or bad
judgment of the editor.

Their excuse for so doing is that they
can not write a good advertisement. |
take exceptions to any successful sales
man making that statement.

Show me a man that is a good sales
man and I'll show you one who cai
write a good advertisement.

I notice merchants make statement-
in their advertisements that anybody
knows are not true—in fact, some of the
assert.ons border on the impossible—anc
these merchants are of the first to ex-
claim thet advertising does not pay.

The great trouble with most busines:
men is that their lives are so void of
poetry that they can nct produce clas
sic2zl copy, and they think none other
will do.

A good advertisement does nct nec-
essarily need to be a literary gem.

One does not need to indulge in a lot
of flowery language to write an adver
tisement that will bring business to his
door.

But what is a good advertisement?
you will say. A _ plain statement forci-
bly told, void of all technical expres-
sions and terms, truthful to a line and
pointed enough so that anybody can see
the meat of your advertisement ata
glance.

Don’t set your ideal of a good adver-
tisement too high to start with, and if
you Can not realize your ideal, idealize
your real,

Don’t use sensational headlines.
Leave that field to the patent medicine
man, and never make a statement in
your headlines that does not explain it-
self.

I recently dropped into a friend’s
place of business and he showed me a
copy of an advertisement of a new
washing machine he was about to send
to the printer. The headline ran some-
thing like this:

“‘T love to see my poor old mother
wasb,’’ and then he went on to say that
the man who made that remark had very
little principle about him and it would
have shown far more consideration for
his mother’s welfare if he had purchased
for her a Bonanza Washer; that wash-
ing became a positive pleasure with one
of these machines.

He asked my opinion of the copy. I
remarked that if it would increase the
sale of machines it was nct written in
vain, but that I thought it could be im-
proved so that it would make a more
favorable impression, and still use the

 

 

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same words that were present in the
copy.

I suggested to him that he use the
words, ‘‘Washing becomes a positive
pleasure,’’ for his heading, and I'll tell
you why I made the suggestion. W.th
his heading he conveyed an impression
that he did not mean, and he used a
quaiter of his space in explaining to
the readers what he did mean. Then
why not say what you mean at once, and
oe done with it, and use the space you
have occupied in explaining your open-
ing remarks in teliing the advantages
of your washer over al] cthers?

If a man came into your store to buy
a stove you would nct start in by mak-
ing some statement exactly the opposite
of what you mean and then spend ten
minutes in trying to remove the unta
vorable impression your opening remark
made. You would show him the taking
points of your stove and call his atten
tion to its advai tages over other makes.
Why would you tell him this? Because
taey are st:tements that bear directly
upon the possibility of your making toe
sele.

If you are successful it will be a fair
indication toct your tilk interested him
ind taat he believed your st temer ts.

Then go rigtt back to your desk, and
write your next week's advertisement
ind let the meat of it be just what you
old your last customer and I promise
you that that advertisement will bear
truit.

Desultory advertising never has paid
and never will pay. Keeping everlast-
ingly at it brings success. Advertise
during the busy sesaon because you are
yusy and during the dull season because
you want to be busy.

Contract for a certain space in your
local paper, be it big or little, and
shange your advertisement as often as
the paper is published.

Use cuts whenever you can. There is
aothing that gives more tone to an ad-
vertisement than a good, clean cut.
Most manufacturers will gladly supply
tnem, and all it will cost you is a po:-t |
card.

The publication of prices in adver-
tisements has always cailed foitha great
jeal of discussion in trade papers wher-
-ver it has been mentioned. I am total-
lv committed to the using of prices in
advertisements.

Some merchants argue that by quot-
ing prices they give their competitors
tips. That is so, you do. But you are
first on the field, and the people know
that you are selling a steel trap for
fifteen cents, because you have adver-
tised that price, and they don’t know
that the other fellow is doing likewise,
because he has not said so.

If you would satisfy yourself that the
advertisement that contains prices is
the more interesting, just pick up a
newspaper and notice which advertise-
ment first attracts your attention, and if
the one with prices does you are safe in
presuming that you are like other peo-
ple and that they would also be more
interested in the priced advertisement.

No matter how large the space, or
how well the advertisement is prepared,
if you fail to carry out every promise
made, the advertisement will do you
more harm than good.

You must teach the people to have
absolute confidence in every statement.
Don’t generalize. Be specific. Don't
try to advertise a dozen articles ina
space 4x4 The stitement that your line
of stoves is the best on earth is a mere
assertion—anybody can make it. If you
say that they are the best, don’t neglect

SATA Pe
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to tell why. The purchasing public of
to-day is a reasoning public and soon
learns to discredit every statement of
the man who continually makes startling
asseitions without showing he has a just
right to do so.

I believe it is good advertising to
make a leader out of some popular arti-
cle. I know that plan is discouraged
by the old school, but in Rome one
must do asthe Romans do. The plan
is popular with the people, and they
are the ones whose favor you want to
gain. We advertised egg beaters re-
cently at a low price. Many people
came for egg beaters that we had never
met before in our store, and it gave us
an opportunity to do some good mis-
sionary work. Some came for egg beat-
ers and would buy nothing else, while
others were glad to look our stock over
and often we made sales that we never
would have made had our egg beaters
not brought those people to our store.

If you would have your special saies
the subject of conversation over the tea-
cups, you must give your patrons real
bargains.

We have experienced difficulty in
getting stove manufacturers to send us
cuts of their stoves. They prefer that
we should use their trade mark instead
and point out to us that all stoves, like
the coons, look alike in print and that
by using one of their trade marks we
connect ourselves with the national ad-
vertising they are doing in the maga
zines, etc. I don’t blame the manufac-
tures for wanting to have their trade
marks published as often as possible,
at no expense to them—that’s human
nature ; but the manufacturers won't be
on hand to give us a loaf of bread when
we need one, and acquisition of bread
is one of the things we are in business
for.

If you want to test the relative value
of an advertisement that contains a cut
of a stove and one that contains a trade
mark, I would ask you to again turn to
a page in a paper that has both adver-
tisements upon it. You are about to
purchase a stove, and are naturally in-
terested in stove advertisements. Which
will first catch your eye? Will the trade
mark? Hardly. The cut of the stove
will, and if an entertaining description
follows and an interesting price is at-
tached, you will look no further, bu
will seek out the firm whose’ name ap-
pears at the bottom; and ten chances tu
one he will sell you your stove.

Suppose you have been continually
advertising a manufacturer’s trade mark.
There comes a day when you and he
have some differences of opinion. You
throw up the agency or he takes it away
from you. Who gets the benefit of your
trade mark advertising?

Demand cuts of stoves to be used in
your advertisements, and if the manu-
facturer wants his trade mark in your
local paper, let him pay for it.

Next to newspaper advertising I con-
sider signs painted on fences and sides
of buildings to be the most effective.
Every box that comes into our store is
taken apart with a nail puller and the
boards are made into sign boards. The
roustabout gives them a coat of white
paint, and when we have a dull day in
the store I put in my time painting ad-
vertisements upon them. When spring
comes we have from Ioo to 200 substan-
tial sign boards to tack upon all roads
leading into the city.

If a farmer is coming to town to buy
a stove, and just before he reaches the
outskirts of the city he is confrontec
with a sign advising him to go to So-

 

and-so’s and see their thirty-five dollar
steel ranges, and he has seen similar
Signs the past two miles he has trav-
eled, the merchant so advertised is
pretty sure to receive a call from that
farmer.

I do not believe in program or hotel
register adveitisements. People do not
go to places of amusement to read ad-
vertisements, and the traveling public
care very little about your new stock of
ice cream freezers.

Don't expect an advertisement to
actually sell your goods. If it brings
people to your store, that is all you have
4 right to expect of it. Once they are
inside, the advertisement has done its
work and done it well. Your stock ana
your salesmen should be held respon-
sible if you fail to satisfy the caller.

The show window in a great many
nardware stores is the dumping ground
tor odds and ends of all kinds, when it
ought to be given more attention than
any other part of the store. I say more

ttention, because I believe in every
Man putting his best foot forward.

You would not think of presenting a
person with one of your business cards
that was dirty and soiled, and yet that
is just what you do if you do not keep
your show window attractively decoratea
and the glass free from dust and fly
specks.

You pay for the space in your window
when you pay your rent and it will be a
bus:ness-getting advertisement if you
use it properly,

To prove the correctness of this state-
ment, if you have not already found it,
dress one of your windows. Make adis
play of richer goods by covering some
ooards, arranged as shelves, with black
-ctton flannel, put tastefully printea
»rice cards along the side of each aarti-
cle displayed, then stand where you can
watch the passers-by, and you will be
surprised and pleased to see how many
will stop for a second to look and some
wll come in and buy who would other-
wise have passed on.

In closing, I want to ask you to re
member that your advertising, like the
wood in the grate, will not give forth a
cheerful light unless it is fanned by
your own cordial greetings. Learn to
judge human nature and to know how to
appeal to people ; and advertise—always.

G. M. Evenson.
——_+> 2. —___
Increase in the Use of Bent Glass.

Bent glass was at one time more com-
monly used for showcase fronts tnan for
anything else, but 1t has come to be em
ployed for a variety of purposes and it
1S now used far more extensively than
ever before. Its use in store fronts is
asecoming more and more familiar,
very large plates being bent for this
purpose. It is now used more than ever
before in the construction of buildings
tor dwelling purposes, in windows cn
rounded corners and in towers; it is
ased in coach fronts; it is used in the
rounded front china closets and in mak-
ing glass cabinets. Ej:ther plain glass
or bevelled glass may be bent, and to
any curve,

For one use and another glass in
Many sizes is now bent in many forms.
[he number of moulds required for cur-
rent use in a glass-bending establish-
ment is large, and the accumulated
moulds nurnber thousands.

Glass is bent ina kiln. Glass melts
at 2,300 deg. ; the heat employed iu
bending is 1,800 deg. No pyrometer
would stand long in that heat; it might
last an hour, but it would not last a day,
and so the heat of the kiln is judged

 

from the color of the flame and other
indications. By long experience and
observation the expert glass bender is
enabled to estimate the heat in this
manner with accuracy. Smaller pieces
of glass are put into the moulds in the
kilns with forks made for the purpose.
The great moulds used for bending
large sheets of glass are mounted on
Cars, so that they can be rolled in and
out of the kilns. The glass is laid upon
the top of the mould over the cavity
and it is bent by its own weight. As it
is softened by the heat it sinks into the
mould and so is bent into forms. It
may take an hour or two to bend the
glass, which is then left in the kiln
from twenty-four to thirty-six hours to
anneal and cool. Glass to be bent, of
whatever kind or size it may be, is put
into the kilns in its finished state; the
great heat to which it is subjected does
not disturb the polished surface. De-
spite the exercise of every precaution
more or less glass is broken in bending
it, Bent glass costs about 50 per cent.
more than the flat.

While the use of bent glass has in-
creased very greatly in recent years, and
is still increasing, and the amount used
is in the aggregate considerable, yet as
compared with the enormous amount of
glass used in ordinary forms, the amount
of bent glass used is, of course, very
small. There are four or tive glass-
oending establishments in the United
States, of which one is in the East.

 

Hardware Price Current.

 

 

AUGURS AND BITS

 

 

 
    

 

 
 

  

NAILS
Advance over base, on — a and _.

Pech nal bees 05
Wie mans, Ose. ll, 1.) Se ae
ee Base
10 to 16 _—_ Deca eeec eee sceulc caus,

 
  
  
 

8 advance..
6 advance.
4 advance. ue
Samvanes..............
Co
Mine 5 sdyanee..................
Casing 10 advance...............0 oes
Caan Sadeanee
Came Gadvante. 8... ll.
Pumien WOadvanee....... 2.8...
Prien Gavenee
Pease @a@yaree.. 8...
Darrel % Advance, ...... 5.31... oo...

PLANES
Ohio Tool Co.'s, fancy .............. 2... 206.
Sciota Bench
Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy.......
Benen, Gratqua@lity.
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s wood.........

PANS

  

efhee KFKKKRKRSSKSSSRS

Pay, Ae ——
Common, polished............... sdeeu 70& 5
RIVETS
ron and Binned 2.0 wk... 88... 60
Copper Rivets and Burs..................... 45

PATENT PLANISHED IRON
‘‘A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 10 20
**B”? Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 25 to 27 9 20

Broken pac — = per pound extra.
MMERS
Maydole & Co.’s, nae a dis 33%,
eee dis 2
Yerkes oo dis 10&10

Magnn’s Solid Cast Stael BNe Vist vii)
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel Hand a list 50&10
MNOUSE FURNISNING GOOD

Stamped Tin Ware ...... ......... new rat 75&10
dapanned Tin Ware......................... 20&10
HOLLOW WARB
. o 60&1
cs 60&10
ieee ees coe aL 60&10
HINGES
-. Caem, 2, Ss dis 60&10
ee -- per dos. net 258

ROPES"

Sisal, 44 Ineh and larger............... .... 8%
Re 9%
WIRB GOODS
ee el 80
decom OO 80

EE 80
Gate Hoske ome Eves... 8... 80
LEV

Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s............
SQUARES

Gecel and tem 8...
Try and Bevels ... ...

 

    

 

60
ee )| Mitre....... ...... ... : 50
fenning genuine............. -25&10 SHEET IRON
Jennings imitation . eens oe --6O&16 Nos. 10 to 14 com. ae. =.
AXES es ls aa wei ae
First Quality, S. B. Bronze ................. 5 00 — =. ........... .......... 2 70 2 40
Virst Quality, D. B. Bronze......... 1. _ Sie ee 2 ia
First Quality, S. B.S. Steel.....2° 1721 = ee 3 10 3 6
First Quality, D. B. Steel ............0.1270 ee ren 3 20 3%
BARROWS All sheets No. 18 and lighter, over 30 inches
aOR $12 00 14 00| wide not less “= 2-10 extra.
Se AND PAPER
BOLTS List acct. 19, 6. Se eae ee tu dis 50
Seam SASH WEIGHTS
—_ How list. ) Solid Eyes........... aie . per ton 20 00
BU Steel Game... 75&10
Well, plain............ —_— = $3 25 | Oneida Community, Newhouse’s.....
i Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s 70&10
Cast Loose Pin jon CAST 70610 Mouno, Choker... 2... . 8. per doz 15
Wrought CN 70810 Mouse, delusion....-. WIRE oo a
BLOCKS erage PEAeNee =
Ordinary Tackle.... ........... oo 70 | Annealed — Ee =
CROW BA Coppered Market................ 200. cce0e. 70&
ae. ST ok Tinned Market 7200000000000 62%
mod Sprig SGeer.......... 2.2.2... 4 50
i CAPS Berbed Fence, galvanized............. . 26
Bly’s 1-10.00... 2... eee oes ---perm 65 Barbed Fence, painted Te 2 25
BickaG Fo... --.-perm 655 HORSE NAILS
G. D......... ee eee ee Peres) Sy amisabie ee dis sonic
Musket.......................... oe oe dis
ee Ce ny net list
mere Bre. : 40&10 WRENCHES
CONROE 20 | Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.............. 30
CHISELS _ [Cog aGenuine oi --+ 40
Secmes Parmer 8. 75 | Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought ....... 93
Socket Framing.................000 cee... 7 | Coe’s Patent, —_ i vet
NOG COMM % ISCBLLANEOUS
Becncs GHeMEN oe Bird Cageg 4)
DRILLS Pumps, Cisterm......... ccc ccccceccceecee 70
Morse's Bit Stocks... |... 60 | Screws, New List... ................ 0005 85
Taper and Straight Shank................... 50& 5 | Casters, Bed and Plate............. 0... 50&10&10
Morse’s Taper Shank.......... 2.2.2... 50& 5 Dampers, Aion 50
ELBOWS METALS—Zinc
Com. 4 piece, 6in...... ... oz. net " CO pound came rs 8%
Corrugated................. see 1 25| Per pound............ Ce
Adj ustable ee -. dis 40&10 SHOT
EXPANSIVE BITS EE 145
Clark’s small, 818; large, 826................ Seid) Band Buel 1 70
Tves’, 1, $18; 2 Cee 25 SOLDER
” FILES—New List TN 17
Now Smerican 70&10} The prices of the many other qualities of solder
UNG 8 in the market indicated by private brands vary
Heller’s Horse Rasps........................ 6C&10 | according to composition:

GALVANIZED IRON

Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 25 and 26; 27. ..... 28
List 12 13 14 15 ma .... 17
Discount, 70-10 to %5
GAUGES
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s............... 60&10
KNOBS—New List
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings.............. 70
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings............ 80
MATTOCKS
OR ee $16 00, dis 60&10
REUES OG $15 00, dis 60&10
es SeSe ee ne eae $18 50, dis 20410
MILLS
Coffee, ——— Ce
Coffee, P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s Malleables.. 40
Coffee, Landers Ferry & Clark’s...........
Coffee, Enterprise. a ae
MOLASSES GATES
Stebbin’s Pattern. . 3 . -60&10
Stebbin’s Genuine............0s- cece cece cee —
Enterprise, self-measuring .. aco ees

40 | 20x28 IC, Charcoal, Dean..

40 | 14x20 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade.........
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade.. gaa
20x28 Ix, mee Allaway Grade.........
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x! or No. ers.
30 | 14x56 IX; for No 9 Boilers, { per pound...

 

TIN—Melyn Grade

init It, Charceme... we $5 7%
Po OE ee eae 5 75
Sexte@ ra. Charme. 7 00
Each additional X on this grade, $1.25.
T Allaway Grade
a 450
14x20 IC, Cee, ee 4 50
10x14 Ix, eee 5 50
14x20 1x, Ceeee oo 5 50
Each additional X on this grade, $1.50.
ROOFING PLATES

14x20 IC, Charcoal, socal a aao
14x20 Ix, Charcoal, Dean. ae

  

14x20 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade

Sammons
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MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

 

The Produce Market.

Apples—There is an upward tendency
to the market. Good solid cold storage
stock commands $3.25 for Tallman
Sweets aid Pippins, $4 25 for Baldwins
and Greenings and $4.75 for Spys ana
Kings.

Bananas—There are good supplies in
sight, with values ruling firm. Orders
are filled as soon as received The stock
coming in is on the whole of good gual
ity.

Beans—The advance appears to be
fairly well maintained and the general
belief is that prices will not go lower
soon. Handlers are offering 85@goc
for unpicked, holding city picked
mediums at $1.12 in carlots and $1.20
@1.25 in small quantities.

Beets—25c per bu.

Butter— Factory creamery is strongly
held at 20c for fancy and Igc for choice.
Fancy dairies are a little easier, having
declined about 1c during the past week.
Present quotations are 14@15c.

Cabbage— Michigan stock 1s so scarce
that it is hardly quotable. Louisiana is
beginning to arrive, being held at $3.50
per bbl. of 3 dozen heads.

Carrots—25c per bu.

Celery—i8@2oc per doz. bunches for
White Plume.

Cranberries—The market is without
change. Cape Cods command $7 per
bbl., Wisconsins fetch $6 and Jerseys
are slow sale at $5. 50.

Cucumbers——Hothouse stock com-
mands $2 per doz., in consequence ot
which al] the stock which Grand Rapids
growers can produce is shipped to Ch:-
cago.

Eggs—The market is demoralized,
due to the high prices which have pre-
vailed. This unsettled condition will
probably prevail until after Easter, wher
the receipts will be heavier than the
demand, and nothing but storage buvers
will maintain prices. The prospects fo:
the season seem to indicate that the av-
erage price will be higher than list
year. Local handlers pay 12@14c, which
is harcly on a parity with Chicago and
Eastern markets

Game—Rabbits are grabbed up as fast
as they arrive at 80c per doz.

Honey—So scarce as to be hardly
quotable.

Lemons—The market rules firm, with
the demand liberal for this season of
the year, and receipts still considerably
lessened by the severe weather prevail-
ing at Eastern receiving points.

Nuts—H:ckory, $1.50@2, according
to size. Walnuts and butterputs, 6oc.

Onions—Both red and yellow stcck
has advanced to 75c, the demand being
greatly in excess of the supply.

Oranges—Under the ¢cffect of news
from the Coast that tnree quarters of the
navels were out of first hands and other
discouraging reports, oranges teok an
other advance yesterday, amounting to
about 25c a bex. The present fecling is
one of frmness, and it is believed that
this advance was fully warranted by
crop conditions.

Parsley—Chicago dealers are taking
all that Grand Rapids growers can pro-
duce at $2 per dozen—an unheard of
price.

Parsnips—soc per bu.

Pop Corn—soc per bu.

Potatoes—The market has sustained a
decided advance and is gradually work-
ing toward a higher level. Buyers along
the G. R. & I. Ratlroad are paying 50c
as far north as Cadillac, and 45$c at
Traverse City. Buyers on the Oceana
branch of the C. & W. M. are paying
from 44@46c. The upward turn is due
to a number of causes, chief among
which its the dearth of stock at consum-
ing and distributing markets, in conse-
quence of the six weeks of cold weather
which tbe courtry has recently under-
gone. During this time shipments have
been practically suspended, so that the
large markets have had to depend upon
their own resources and reserve stocks.
Another reason for the advance is that
the stock which has been saved in the
South for seed is mostly frozen, result-
ing in clamorous appeals for seeding
stock from that portion of the country.
As planting should ail be done in the
South in the next ten days, it is taking
a large amount of stock to meet this re-

 

quirement. Local handlers are of the
opinion that the price will go to Soc,
but not much above that, unless it
turns out that Wisconsin and Minnesota
tarmers have lost a larger percentage
of their stocks from freezing than has
been reported. Unless the railroads
fail to respond to tbe call for cars, the
Movement from now on will be rapid,
providing the market comes to a stand-
still long enough to impel the growers
to bring in stock. Of course, so loxg
as the market is advancing, the farmer
will withhold his supplies from market,
but a little weakening in the markei
would precipitate receipts at all buying
points.

Poultry—Scarce. Chickens, 12@13¢;
fowls, ro@1ic; ducks, 11@1!2c; yeese,
ioc; turkeys, I2@14c.

Sweet Pctitoes—Illinois Jerseys are
in fair demand at $3.50

The action of the Alabama Legisia-
ture in exempting new manufacturing
enterprises from taxation for a period
of ten years is followed by an announce-
ment that a Massachuseits cotton spin-
ng corporation proposes to erect at
Huntsville a miil that will give empioy-
ment to 5,000 hands. Of course, the pcl-
icy ot the Alabama Jawmakers is prac-
tically equivalent to giving a bounty to
manufacturers, and in tais regard it is
theoretically vulnerable. Yet the mate
rial results promise to be of high value
to the State, and it would nct be _ sur-
prising if other Southern commonwealths
desirous of attracting Nortbern capital
should eventually take tke same course.

a ee

Buttermaking is an industry of grow-
ing importance in Australia. The min-
ister of agriculture has approved of a
scheme for hclding dairy shows in the
colony every four months. One steamer
recently took 1,080 boxes of buiter tu
England, and another 560 boxes to

PSouth Africa.

—__>-2.—___

Vanzant & Co. have engaged in the
grocery business at Muskegon. The
Clark-Jewell-Wells Co. furnished the

stock.
i

Contented people keep young locking
because they are nct hunting for new
wrinkles and trouble.

—___> 2.
A professional promoter of enterprises

is one who endeavors to promote himself.
—___—_>».__

If forgetfulness could be cultivated,
as memory is, it would be useful.

 

If a man is hungry during lent it does
nt follow that he is good.

WANTS COLUMN.

Advertisements will be inserted under this
head for two cents a word the first insertion
and one cent a word for each subsequent in-
sertion. No advertisements taken for less than
ascents. Advance payment.

 

 

 

 

 

BUSINESS CHANCES.

AVE FOUR OR FIVE HUNDRED DOL-
lars o invest in some good enterprising
bu iness where services would be required Am
practical business man and good book-keeper.
Can furni-h best of references. Central or
Southern Michivan preferred. Address No 878,
care Michigan Tradesman. 878
OR SALE—HARDWARE STOCK IN ONE
J 6of the best towns in Barry county. Stock is
in good c’een condition. Best of reasons for
selling. Traders need not apply. For particu-
lars address Frank D Pratt, Middleville, Mich
876

 

 

OR S:LE OR EXCHANGE FOR MER-
. Chandise—Splendid all improved..gf0 acre
farm; rich soil, zood 4decation, .Mason county,
Mich. Address Box 71, Custer, Mich. 875
ANTED—A BUTCHER'S SECOND HAND
refrigerator in first-class co dition. State
lowest spot cash price f. 0. b cars. Give full
description. Address Lock Box 33. McBride’s,
Mich. 874
OR SALE OR TRADE—80 ACRES + HOICE
farming land; good bui!dings; 39 acres
clearei; rest heavy timber. Address Box 13,
Epsi'on. Emmet C»., Mich 873
POR ALE—GROCERY STO K IN CENTRAL
Michigan in city of 3,,0Uinhabitants Sales
last year. $1°,000; stock invoices about $1,200.
Address No. 879, care Michigan Tradesman. 879

 

ANTED — SHOES, CLOTHING, DRY
goods. Address R. B., Muskegon, —T

OR HAY, STRAW AND OATS IN CAR
lots at lowest prices, address Wade Bros.,
Cadillac or Traverse C:tv. Mich R17

 

OR SALE—CLEAN STOCK SHOES. OWN-
ers wish to discontinue shoe department.
Competition light. Address No. 869, care Mich-
igan T adesman. 869
 . SALE—PATENT ON A GOOD, PRAC-
tical Cash Recorder. Has money drawer
attached. Keeps record of each cierk’s sales
separate. Will sell outright or part cash with
we: Wagner Manufacturing Co., ates,
oO. £7

 

 

ANTED—LOCATION FOR DRUG STOKE

in town of from 600 to 1,500 inhabitants;
or will buy stock of ¢rugs. Address No. #71,
eare Michizan Trade-m in. 871

NUR SALE—HALF INTEtiEsT IN OLD Es
tublished meat market. located in excelleut
residence district of Grand Kapids. Investiga-
tion solicited. Address No. 863, care Mich gan
Tradesman. 866

OR SALE BEST GROCERY BU~INESS
in Grand Rapids. Stock clean and active.
Trade well establi-hed. Right man can easily
clear $3,000 per year Terms easy. Rent low.
Address No. 864. care Michigan Tradesman. 86.

ALE» »AN —. ENTLEMAN OR FIRM OF

uudoubted So for sole patent-
ees and manufacturers of folding baby cur-
riages and go-carts; c mmission basis; must
carry stock. Full particulars, Patent Folding
Carria:e Co.. 13° Broadway. New York. 8.2
FS% SALE — CLEAN HARDWARE STOCK

located at one of the best trading points in
Michigan. Stock will inventory about $, 00.
Store a: d warehouse will be rented for $30 per
wonth. Wil! sell on easy terms. Address No.
868. c re Mich gan Tradesman. 8&8

OR SALE—DRUG STOCK AND FIXTURtS,
includiig a fine soda fountain, which will
invoice about $2,500. Will be sold at great re
duction if taken at once. Located in one of the
finest corner blocks in a town of 4.0 0 inhabit-
ants. For information address H. F. Marsh,
Allegan. Mich. 861
ge SALE—ONLY sTOCK OF GEN RAL
merchandise in small town in Central Wich
‘gan; on railruad; doing str ctly cash busines~;
-taple goods as good as new: wil invvice about
$2.000. Owners desire to devote entire attention
'o butter and egg business. Stroup & Carmer,
Perriuton, Mich. 85s
HE tION BREWERY FOR SALE. REA-
son for-+elling, poor health. Address Mrs.
Augustin Leins, 1227 Chisholm St., Alpen ,
Mich. 849

JEAS—WANToD, 5 CARLUADS OF SMALL
Wh te Canada Field P.as, and 2 carlo-ds of
Biack Eye Marrowfat Peas. Vail -amples and
state lowest price for prompt cash. Add ess
Jerore B. Ric & Co, Cambridge. N. Y 813
NOR SALE—TUFT’S SODA FUUNTAIN.
complete. in good order, with three draught
tubes and ten syrup tubes and 5x8 foot marble
slabs. Address Hazeltine & Perkins Drug “o.,
Grand Rapids. 827

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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 $1,00'; has been run only
about four years; new fixtures; low rent. Ad-
dress No. 812, care Michigan Tradesman. 842

NOR SALE — WELL-EsSTABLISHED AND
good-paying implement and harness busi-
ness, lucated 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 POTATOES IN CAR LOTS, ADDRESS
Wade Bros., Cadillac or Traverse City,
Mich 793

12 ACRE FARM. VALUED AT #&,000, 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
ERCHANTS—DO YOU WISH CASH QUICK
aVi for your stock of merchandise, or any part
of it? Address John A. Wade, Cadillac, a

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

COUNTRY PRODUCE

ANTED—BUTTER, EGGS AND POUL-
try; any quantities Write me. Orrin J.
stone, Ka amazoo, Mich. 80

\ YE PAY SPOT CASH ON TRACK FOR BUT-
ter and eggs. It will pay re to get our

prices and particulars. Stroup & Carmer, Per-

rinton, Mich. 7

V ANTED—1.000 CASES FRESH EGGS,
daily. Write for prices. F. W. Brown,
Ithaca, Mich. 556

MISCELLANEOUS.

N Al GROCERY MAN WITH FOUK AND

» half a experience as clerk and two
and one half years as manager wou d like to
correspond with some merchant desiring a
strictly first-class man for a position of trust.
Now employed and can furnish gilt edge refer-
ences. Address No. 877, care Mich'gan ——"
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Taggart, Knappen & Denison,
PATENT ATTORNEYS
811-817 Mich. Trust Bidg., = Grand Rapids,
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Patents Obtained. Patent Litigation
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W. R. BRICE.

Gentlemen:

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Established 1852.

W. R. Brice & Co.,

Produce —
Commission
Merchants

Butter, Eggs and Poultry
Philadelphia, Pa.

With the near approach of spring everyone looks
forward to country life and a change
continually changing, and a live, wide-awake house must keep in the
procession by constantly watching the markets and keeping in the swim.
Those who think all this studying is done in the schoolroom are greatly
mistaken; it is done day in and day out in an establishment like ours.

We ask for your shipments of Butter, Eggs and Poultry because we

.are prepared to give you the best service to be had in this market—

prompt returns, full weights and top market prices.

REFERENCES:

Corn Exchange National Bank, Philadelphia.

W. D. Hayes, Cashier Hastings National Bank, Hastings, Mich.
Fourth National Bank, Grand Rapids, Mich.

D. C. Oakes, Coopersville, Mich.

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The Commission business keeps

Will that suit you?
W. R. BRICE & CO.

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CHICAGO ** Mistiean ey

 

 

 

Chi icago.
Ly. G. Rapids.. - 7 30am 12:00nn *11 45pa
Ar. Citeage, 2. 2:10pm 5:15pm 7 20.0
Ly. Chicago.. 11:45am 6 5dam 4:15pm *11 50on

Ar@ d Rapids 5 5:00pm 1:25pm 10:159m * 6:20ar
Traverse oe. Charlevoix and Petoskey.
iv G'd Ranpids......... 4 -SUaM 6c... ..4 5:39pm

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

*Every day. Others week days only.

D ET ROIT Grand Rapids & Western.
9 Nov. 13 1898.
Detroit.
Lv Grand Rapids...... as 00am 1:35pm 5:25pn
At Debra... cc. 1:40am 5:45pm 19:05pa
oe Detroit... oo: = 00am 1:10pm 6:10pm
Ar. Grand Rapids.....12:55pm 5:20pm 10:55pr
Saginaw, Alma and Greenville.
Ly @R7:00am 5:10pm Ar. G R11:45am 9:30pr
Parlor cars on all trains to and from Detrwit
and Saginaw. Trains run week days only.
Geo. DEHAVEN, General Pass. Agent.

Trunk Rail S
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ueave Arrive

GOING EAST
Saginaw, Detroit & N Y....... + 6:45am + 9:55pm
Detroit aud East.. ot ifam + 5:07pm
Saginaw, Detroit & East...... + 3:27pm +12:50pm

Buffalo. N Y, Toronto, Mon-

treal & Boston, Lit'd Ex....* 7:20pm *10:16am
GOING WEST

Gd. Haven Express........... *10:21lam * 7:15 «m

Gd, Haven and Int Prs...... +12: 8pm + 3:19pm

Gd. Haven and M lwaukee...t 5 12pm +10:11 m

Eastbound 6:45am train has W agner parlor car

to Det oit, eastbound 3:20pm train has parlor car
to Detroit.

*Duily. +tExcept sunday. ‘

C. A. Justin, City Pass. Ticket Agent,

97 Monroe St., Morton House.

Northern Div. Leave Arrive

Trav. Cy, Petoskey & Mack...+ 7:45am + 5:15pm

Vrav City & Petongey......... t 1.50pm +10:45pm

Cadillac a‘ commodation...... + 5:24pm +10 55am

Petoskey & Mackinaw City.. .t1':00pm * 6:35a.n
7:45am train, parior Car; 11:00pm train, sleep-

 

 

Rapids & ‘ndiana Railway
Feb. 8, 1899.

 

ing car.

Southern Div. Leave 4rriv
Cinciunatl..... oie ees t 7:10am + 9 45pm
We WONG cess pete tee es Sto ee
CU QPIEROP Sols *7 000. * 630
Vicksburg and Chicago -- F1L:3 pm * 9:0 am

© 10 am tran Dar oarlor cn vl

and parlor car ‘o Chicago; 2 00pm train has
parlor car to Ft. Way e; 7:'Upm train has
sleeping car to Cincinnati; 11:30pm train has
coach and sleeping car to Cuicago.
Chicago Trains.
TU CHICAGU.

Ly. Grand Rapids... 7 am 20'pm *11 30pm
Ar. Chleuge.:.....-. 23 pm 6 2am
FROM CHICAGO.
iy. Chieaee. 5.4. 2c. 3 02pm *11 32pm
Ar Goan BADIGS 00. oo . 9 45pm 6 40am

Trai leaving Grand Rapids 7:10am has parlor
car; 11:00pm, coach and sleeping car.
Train leaving Chicago 3:02pm has Pullman

parior car; 11:32pm sleeping car,
Muskegon I rains.
QUING WEST.
Lv G’d Rapids......... 7:35am +1:00pm t>:40p
Ar Muskegon.. 9:00am 2:10 7°65 m

Snnday train leaves Grand Rapids 9:15am;

arrives Muskegon 19:40am.
GOING BAST.

Lv Muskegon....... .. 48:10am til:45am +4 0);
ArQ’d Rapids... ..... 9:20am = 12:54nr 2

Sunday train leaves Muskegon 5:30pm; ar-
rives Grand Rapids 6:50pm

t+tExcept Sunday. *Daliy

c. L. LOCKWOOD,
Gen’) Passr. ard Ticket Agent.
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DULUT

Lv. Grand Rapids a R.&L eld: 10pm = +7:45am

Lv. Mackinaw City... --... 7:35am 4:20pm
ArOSt temsee eck 9: Oam 5:20pm
Ar. Sault Ste. Marie. 12:20pm 9:50pm
Ar. Marquette ..... 2:50pm 10:10pm
Ap Nesta os 5:20pm 12:45am
a eee. ee 8:30am
EAPT BOUND.

bey. Pelee aa es +6 :30pm
Ar Nestoria. : $i: ‘15am 2:45am
Ar. Marquette ... ... ....... 1:30pm = 4:3bam
Lv. Sault Ste. Marie... 3-30pm

Ar Mackinaw City. 8:40pm 11 :0%am

G. W HisBarp. Pass. Agt. Marquette.
kK C Oviatt Trav Pass Agt) Grand Rapids

MANISTE

Via C. & W. M. Railway.
Joy Grand Hapidse cs oe 7:00am
Fok Mig aistee. foes os eo 12:05pm
Dy Pea OItee ee eS . 8:30am 4.10pm
Ar Grand Rapids ....... 2G I.copm 9:54pm

 

 

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Feed

Corn and Qats 6

Our feed is all made at
one mill. It is all ground
by the same man. He
thinks he knows how to
do it right because he
has been doing it for a
dozen years. Webelieve
he does it right or we
would get another man.
Our customers evidently
think he does it right be-
cause they keep on or-
dering, and our feed trade
has been enormous this
winter and doesn’t seem
to let up. We don’t
want it to ‘‘Jet up,’’ and
your order willhelp along.
Send it in. We’ll give
you good feed at close
prices.

9 Valley City

Milling Co.,
Grand Rapids, Mich.

Sole Manufacturers of “LILY WHITE,”
“The flour the best cooks use.”

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NAPHTHA AND GASOLINES

Office and Works, BUTTERWORTH AVE.,
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

Bulk works at Grand Rapids, Muskegon, Manistee, Cadillac, Big Rap-
ids, Grand Haven, Traverse City, Ludington, Allegan,
Howard: City, Petoskey, Reed City, Fremont, Hart,
Whitehall, Holland and Fennville

Highest Price Paid for Empty Carbon and Gasoline Barrels.

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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” plainly
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.

to furnish
labels which enable dealers to com
ply with this law, on the follow-
ing basis:

We are prepared

a SU A 75¢

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Tradesman _a
Grand Rapids, Mich.

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economical and practicable.
people may use it with safety.

ent be sufficiently broad to be valuable.
device, no matter by whom invented and patented,

the Tradesman Company will cheerfully pay $500.

TRADESMAN
COMPANY.

GRAND RAPIDS.
AIAALIID AI IAAP A GA HHA

The Tradesman Com-
pany has long been of
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

devise a satisfactory system that shall be simple,

It must occupy small

space and be so easily handled that inexperienced

It isa condition of the

office that the article be patentable and that the pat-

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one pound cartons. Send us a trial order.

table, and especially re led . aa .
x) able, and especially recommende National Biscuit Company,

Grand Rapids, Mich.
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MN Ter necessitee knowed somethin’ ’sides the wagin’ of his
“AN chin.

AN And we who's been in business for these furty years or more

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AN But I’ve noticed, Jim, old feller, if yer try ter keep in line,
AN Hit takes a brush and scrubbin’ ter keep things lookin’ fine.
AN Peers these new inventions, called the Money Weight an’

AN sech,

MN Is about our sole salvation, ef we want ter keep in tech.

 

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AN comes round,

 

AN Fer even ef we're floatin’ now we might git run aground.
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AN scales,

AN An’ ther feller says no wonder thet so many of us fails.

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AN doin’,

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Ns An’ I've kinder been a thinkin’ sence I’m talkin’ here ter you,
Ns: Thet I'll try this Money System an’ see what it'll do.
There aint a grocer livin’, ef he’ll stop ter calculate,
A Can make an honest profit a pilin’ on down weight.

 

 

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But it’s better late than never for improvement, it seems
Scales sold on monthly payments, without interest.

THE ntaesoneada ort SCALE CO. DAYTON. OHIO.

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