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GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 1899.

IMPORTANT FEATURES.

 

2. The Dry Goods Market.

3- One Way to Combat the Cata-
logue Houses.

4- Around the State.

5. Grand Rapids Gossip.
6. Woman’s World.

8. Editorial.

9. Editorial.
Men of Mark—C. U. Clark.

10. Good Results From the Use of
Water Glass.

11, New York Egg Market Uncertain.
12. Gotham Gossip.

13. Rocky Mountain Storekeeping.
14. Shoes and Leather.

15. One business Man’s View of the
Golden Rule.

16. Clerks’ Corner.

17. Commercial Travelers.

18. Drugs and Chemicals.

19. Drug Price Current.

20. Grocery Price Current.

21. Grocery Price Current.

22. Banks and Banking.

23. The Hardware Market.
Hardware Price Current.

24. America’s Relation to England.
Wants Column.

 

 

OUR COMMERCIAL CONQUESTS.

There is one article of American man-
afacture which is forcing its way into
all other countries with the most aston-
ishing success and against all rivalry
of the home manufactories and the
prejudices of custom. That article is
the American railway locomctive.

We were told the other day that the
Russian government had made a con-
tract with the Baldwin Locomotive
Works for eighty-nine engines for the
[rans-Siberian railway, all of them to
be delivered within the next two years.
The same company has contracts to fur-
nish ten locomotives for France, ten for
one railway in England, fifteen for
Egypt and twenty for Sweden—or 144 in

ll. It appears that in 1896 we exported
312 locomotives, the next year 348, last
year 580, while this latter number is al-
ready exceeded in the contracts for this
year.

Aside from the mere fact of the rapid
growth of the export trade in this par-
ticular line is the significant adoption
of American progressive methods abroad
as indicated in this marked preference
for American locomotives. It indicates
a triumph of American ideas in Europe
—the steady development of the revolu-
tion in thought and customs which the
New World is inciting in the Old. Our
best appliances for progress can nct be
utilized in Europe witbout causing
something like the same results, socially
and politically,that have been witnessed
here, The more we feed the world and

furnish it with American instruments
for changing old industrial systems and
for breaking down ancient customs, the
more will the leaven of Americanism
work to the accomplishment of startling
revolutions in Old World thought.

Candy rabbits and sugar eggs get
along very sweetly together in confec-
tioners’ windows, waiting for Easter.

 

Japan is making a bold push for at
least a share of the carrying trade of the
Pacific. Although she now has but
about 500,000 tons of modern steam ton-
nage, the significant fact is that this is
nearly all new and up to date. The ves-
sels constituting the new steamer lines
under the Japanese flag were mainly
built in British or German yards, but
their owners are far too shrewd to de-
pend entirely on foreigners. Last year
a Japanese ship-building company at
Nagasaki launched a 6,000-ton steamer.
The materials for this vessel were, it is
true, imported, but the labor was en-
tirely performed by Japanese, and from
putting together a steamer to planning
and building one will be an easy step
for this quick-witted and industrious
people. Nor is it likely that Japan will
continue many years longer to depend
as she does now on foreign yards for her
warships. Heretofore all the Japanese
warships have been built abroad.

 

Should the Legislature of New York
take favorable action upon a bill re-
cently introduced by Assemblyman
Samuel Scott Slater, incorporating the
Industrial and Commercial Exhibition
Company of New York, and should the
plans of many of the leading business
men of New York materialize, New
York, in the spring of 1902, will bave
an exposition which will cost $30,000,000
and will cover one-third more floor
space than that of the World's Fair in
Chicago. The object of this exposition
will be to attract to New York the buy-
ers and merchants of the country by
having the output of the world’s factories
and mills under one roof, thereby giv-
ing prospective purchasers a chance to
examine and compare goods made in
distant localities without traveling to
those sections, and to attract European
trade to this country by a concentrated
display of our manufacturing interests.

The new law in Kansas which pro-
vides that uncollectible judgments ob-
tained against firms, corporations or in-
dividuals on behalf of the State shall be
sold at public auction has not proved
very successful in its operations. In
Cowley county, the other day, such a
sale brought $200, and the bill for ad-
vertising was $1,450, leaving the taxpay-
ers out of pocket just $1,250

Boston’s aldermen are to be curbed in
their extravagant use of carriages at
the city’s expense. A bill has been in-
troduced in the Massachusetts Legisla-
ture to provide that the city fathers shall
use Carriages at public expense only for
public funerals and at the entertainment
of distinguished guests, and then only
upon the written order of the mayor.

Two rival companies are fighting for
the privilege of operating automobile
vehicles for public use on the streets of
Boston. The omnibuses which they
wish to use would carry fifteen people
each, and as they would be equipped
with rubber tires they would make prac-
tically no noise.

The crust of society becomes tough
and hard in the course of time.

Number 810

ONLY ELEVEN HOLIDAYS.

The Clerks’ Nationa! Protective Asso-
Ciation, which is the trades union under
whose banner retail clerks are enrolled,
proposes to establish eleven arbitrary
bolidays during the year, as follows:

New Year's day, full day; Washing-
ton’s birthday, close at 1 o’clock ; Good
Friday, full day; Spring election day,
close at 1 o'clock; Decoration Day,
full day; Midsummer day, close at 1
o'clock ; Independence day, July 4, full
day; July 5, close at 1 o'clock; Labor
Day, Sept. 4, full day; Thanksgiving
day, full day, and Christmas day, full
day.

This arrangement has already been
carried into effect in a few towns, de-
spite the active opposition of the mer-
chants, who assert that the number of
holidays is too great, working unneces-
sary hardship to the customer who is so
unfortunate as to be compelled to buy
his supplies from day to day. In some
cases the merchant is permitted to open
his store on the holidays named and
wait on customers whose necessities are
urgent; in other cases, a watch is estab-
lished by the union and the opening of
the store by the owner is prohibited un-
der penalty of the boycott.

And yet it is asserted that we live in
a free country, where all men are en-
titled to an equal chance in the pursuit
of life, liberty and happiness!

The lamp chimney tactories in the
Indiana gas belt have closed down in-
definitely, many of them discharging
all workers and advising them to seek
employment in other channels. The
reason given for the shut down is the
sluggish markets, but the real cause is
the introduction of chimney-blowing
machines by three companies, which
enable them to produce better goods at
one-fourth the hand-made labor cost.
The hand manufacturers can not com-
pete with them, and it 1s predicted that
many of the factories will never be
put into operation again.

 

Proposed legislation in Maine regard-
ing the issue of mileage books by rail-
road companies has been abandoned on
promises by the companies to extend
the use of such books to the wives of
the purchasers, and to remedy alleged
inequalities in freight and passenger
tariffs. It bas been discovered by the
Legislature that the Board of Agricul-
ture employs counsel to press the bills
it conceives to be for the benefit of the
State and charges the expense to the
State.

 

France has now a law by which mar-
riage may be dissolved without cost to
the applicants. The Paris divorce court
devctes Thursdays to gratuitous de-
crees. On one day recently 294 couples
were divorced during a session of four
hours, an average of more than one di-
vorce a minute. The applicants be-
longed to the working class; in which
divorces were infrequent before the
passage of the law,

 

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about his rights to bis own opinions
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Dry Goods

The Dry Goods Market.

Staple Cottons—-There are no decided
changes in the market for staple cot-
tons. There is a quieter demand for the
various lines, but this was expected in
view of the quantities that have been
contracted for, and the existing condi-
tions in the market Stocks of all de-
scriptions are at a minimum and the
product of the mills is well sold ahead.
Prices for brown and bleached goods
are well maintained. All grades of
bleached sbirtings and cambrics are
firm, with moderate sales. Wide sbirt-
ings, woich are advanced in many lice-,
show good sales. Canton flannels and
cotton and cotton warp blankets are well
soli up, and very firm Coarse colored
cottons are well conditioned, and plaids
are advancing.

Prints and Ginghams—The market on
printed fabrics is retner quiet, with the
exception of business which has come
to hand through the marls, which has
raised the sum total to very respectable
proportions. There are no changes t
report in regard to ginghams. For the
new fall season, there bas been a good
business found for domets and other
napped woven fabrics, and the prices
have an upward tendency.

Knit Goods —The market for flat and
ribbed goods has improved decidedly
during the past week, much more than
was evident during the two weeks pre-
vious. There has also been an excelleit
demand for the finer grades of fleecea
goods. Ali three of these lines have se-
cured excellent business so far and the
prospects are bright. On the cther
hand, the low grade, fleeced underweai
has become a bugbear to the trade.
Prices are too low and the quality toc
poor to give satisfaction to either the
selier cr buyer, and besides this, those
who have placed orders for the cheap
goods do not feel any security in re-
gard to the deliveries. In the medium
and higher grades, however, there seems
to be every assurance that the season
will be successful Flat and ribbed
goods are in an excellent position anc
buyers now have every confidence in the
market. In light-weight goods the sit-
uation bas improved very materially
and good reorders are coming to hand.
It looks now as though it might bea
hard matter to make the arrangements
for a ‘‘knit goods trust,’’ which was
recently proposed. While the news-
paper reports seein to show that there
was a large attendance of prominent
manufacturers, the actual facts of the
case are that there was quite a sma!l
attendance, and but one or two of the
prominent mills were represented. Un-
less the larger concerns take hold of this
affair, it does not seem likely that it car
be a success, and what the larger con-
cerns would beneht by such an arrange
ment is not quite clear. They are do-
ing a good business at fairly satisfac-
tory prices and the combination woulc
merely serve to help a large number of
smaller and less responsible milis int»
a position which would enable them to
compete with these other houses in the
same lines. This or similar scheme
have been tried nearly every year for
some time past, and in every case the:
have falien through immediately. No
mater what agreement was made, i!
would be broken time and time again,
and it seemed to be impossible to de-
pend upon the written agreements of
some of those interested.

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which has been in the market, has in-
terfered with the business in woolen
hosiery this season, but the latter is now
showing improved conditions and will
undoubtedly be in a very satisfactory
position before the end of the season.
Prices are being well maintained,on ac-
count of the improved demand. Travel-
ing salesmen who have arrived from
their Western trips report quite a satis
factory business throughout that section.

“Their customers expect to find a good

fail business and have prepared with
this end in view. There are no very
large stocks to be found in the West and
when the duplicate orders begin to ar-
rive, the books will show exceilent busi-
ness. There is but | ttle to say in regard
to spring business for cotton hosiery, for
it drags along in an uneventful chan-
ael,althcugh something is being accom-
plished each week. There is not as
nuch interest taken in the fancy lines
as in previous weeks, but such styles as
the jobbers have found ready sale for
are stili wanted,

Carpets—The large mills report a de-
cided improvement in the carpet situa-
tion. Agents are feeling more encour
aged over the outiook. The large job-
ders, as well as retailers, are doing more
business, and while it is mainiy on the
nedium priced goods. there is alsoa
gradual improvement in the demand for
the better grades, including Brusseis,
axminsters, wiltons, velvets and tapes-
tries, and while there is no chance for
a further advance this season, after May
t prices are expected to be higher all
around. Some in the trade claim that
there have been too many orders for
carpets taken at old prices. Arumor 1s
goiug the rounds of the trade that an
effort 1s being made by the Smith mill,
S. Sanford & Sonsand E S. Higgins
Co. to combine together for the purpose
of overcoming competition, which has
veen very sharp, and of curtailing pro-
duction until the demand shall be more
in keeping with the supply. It is now
quite generally admitted that the manu-
facturers are now on a more equal foot
ing than they have been at the com-
mencement of a new season since the
new tariff went into effect. Astheanti-
tariff wool is now practically used up,
both spinners and manufacturers of
carpets must obtain more money, and it
will only require an increasing demand
for material to advance prices, as stocks
are comparatively light.

Rugs—Smyrna rugs are active, and
some m lls cont: ue to run ove time to
supply the increased demand. The fine
grades of wilton, axmister, Brussels
and tapestry rugs are<!lo in demand,
and art squares are also sharing in the

improvement.
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Cause of the Trouble.

There was a disagreement and the
mother undertsok to straighten things
out.

‘Why can't you play nicely?’ she
asked.

‘* "Cause he wants to boss things,
answered the younger. ‘‘He wants me
to play I’m President of the United
States. ’’

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‘* "Cause it’s my turn ta he Dewev.
He can't be Dewev all the time "’

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One Fare for the Round Trip.

On accout of the Mohawk Cl ib Ban
quet, the Michigan Central Railway
will sell excursion tick: ts to Detroit and
return at one fare, on March 29 and
morning train of March 30. Return
limit, March 31. Phone 6c6

W. C. BLAKE,
City Ticket Agent.

 

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Stouts, Slims a Specialty. Mail orders at-
tended to, or write our traveler, Wm.
Connor, Box 346, Marshatl, Mich, to call,
or meet hiin at Sweet’s Hotel, Grand Rap-
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INVESTMENTS

No class of securities has been more high-
ly esteemed in the past than stock in banks
and trust companies. The people are now
temporarily insane on the subj-ct of so-
called industria} stocks, but they will ulti-
mately turn to something more solid and
substantial, when financial stocks of ali
kinds will undoubtedly sustain a higher
range of values. Those who have idle
money awaiting investment in perfectly
sate Channels are invited to correspond with
the undersigned. who is in a position to
give reliable advice on investments of this
character. “ VINDEX, care Michigan Trades-
man, Grand Rapids.

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One Way to Combat the Catalogue
Houses.
Written for the TRADESMAN.

In commercial life, under free compe-
tition, as in animal and vegetable exist-
ence in a state of nature, there is sur-
vival of the fittest. In the struggle be-
tween the retai] dealer and the catalogue
house, if either is to crush out the other,
the survivor will be the one that proves
to be in the long run the better able to
supply the wants of the public ina
cheap and satisfactory manner. For, let
it be remembered that a store, whether
it be an immense catalogue house or a
little crossroads grocery, exists for the
people, not the people for the store, and
when any establishment, large or small,
fails of being a good and useful sup-
plier of people’s wants it forfeits its
commercial right to live.

The local retail store, properly con-
Gucted, is so admirable an institution
in itself, so great a convenience to the
community, its proprietor so valuable as
a citizen and a taxpayer, that it would
seem its right to live requires no new
demonstration; yet the menace offered
to its very existence by the catalogue
houses has not been overdrawn. The
compet tion they offer is the most seri-
ous with which the local merchant in
many s#ctions has to contend. Such be-
ing the case, the struggle against them
should enlist the earnest co-operation of
all those whose means of livelihood is
thus endangered.

The contest sbould be waged along
two lines, one object being to cripple
the adversary wherever practicable, the
other to better in every possible manner
the local store as a place of supply. In
reality these narrow to one object, for
whatever makes the local store a more
attractive, economical and desirable
place in which to purchase goods in so
much weakens the grasp of the cata-
logue houses. As has been stated, legal
remedy, being out of harmony with the
spirit of our institutions, is not to be
thought of. It may seem hard to the
retailer that he can not be protected by
a tariff from those who would undersell
him, as is the manufacturer. and that
the benefits of bounties, subsidies and
the like are not for him. But the fact
remains that he is not likely to secure
any legal enactment that will convert
his business into a healthy and success-
ful ‘‘infant’’—it isn’t that kind of an
industry.

This being the case, it is best to dis-
card ‘‘baby’’ methods entirely. By
this we mean stop trying to convince
people that they ought to patronize you.
A small and very slow boy can attend
to all the business that will come to any
ordinary establishment from a sense of
duty on the part of patrons. Yet there
is a deepseated instinct in the breast of
almost every citizen, and the specious
arguments of the catalogues have failed
to eradicate it, that the local dealers
have a rightful claim upon him; and
this will prove a most powerful ally to
any merchant who can show that the
same amount of mouey spent with him
will bring as great a return in the
necessaries and comforts of life as if
sent away. The burden of proof always
rests with the catalogue houses. They
must nct only seem to sell as cheap, but
cheaper, otherwise people will prefer-
ably patronize the home dealers.

Put yourself for a moment in the place
of the laboring man who works for low
wages, or the farmer who with poor
crops and low prices is trying to pay
the mortgage on his place and support
Under like circumstances

his family.

 

the only argument that would appeal to
you would be the price-argument—the
getting of the most for the least money ;
and this is precisely the argument the
catalogue houses are using ‘‘for all there
is in it.’’

Let the local dealer meet this with an
effectual price-argument of his own.
Let him make low cash prices on goods
in quantity. He can afford to sell mus-
lins and czlicoes by the bolt, hosiery
and other articles by the dozen, crack-
ers and sugar by the barrel, soap by the
box and canned goods by the case, at
very low margins, since in so doing
there is no waste, with but little labor in
handling. This manner of selling
should be advertised and pushed to the
fullest extent. We are convinced that
this method alone, properly employed,
would accomplish wonders.

The local dealer may reason, and
very naturaliy, that his business is, of
necessity, small and that bis only safety
lies in adhering rigidly to what he con-
siders his rightful margins of profit;
but it will be much better for him to sell
goods in quantity with only a little
profit than to let his customers send
away for their goods If thought bet-
ter, it may be made a rule to give re-
duced prices on a certain number of
dollars’ worth of goods bought at one
time for cash; but for obvious reasons
the method first mentioned has many
advantages.

A study of those bulky volumes which
the catalogue houses put out—at no
small expense, by the way—will be of
value, showing the retailer not only
whet he has to contend against, but also
giving him an insight into the meth-
ods employed so shrewdly and effective-
ly. This study will convince him that
the advantages they offer to buyers are
at least in part imaginary. A good
share of their talk about ‘‘selling at
wholesale,’’ ‘‘saving the buyer all the
margins of retailing,’’ ‘‘giving him
goods at mill prices,’’ and the like, is
pure moonshine, for there are many
prices named in these books that are
not low as retail prices. They give all
the profits any merchant need to ask.
We have indicated how the real advan-
tages which they offer, largely in the
shape of ‘‘cut’’ or leading prices on
staple articles, may be met by low
prices on goods in quantitv. Now, by
argument, by comparison, by showing
strikingly and_ persistently what ke
himself is doing in the way of prices
and qualities, the local dealer should
prick their bubble, in so far as they are
relying upon mere force of bold asser-
tion oft and emphatically repeated.

The average local merchant does not
talk enough, does not advertise enough,
does not get the full force and benefit
of the really low prices he often makes.
He must show up his side of the ques-
tion: the high freights and express
charges that the catalogue buyers must
pay; the disadvantages of not seeing
goods before purchasing and of waiting
for days for needed articles; the expense
of returning unsatisfactory yoods, and,
not least, the market he affords for cer-
tain kinds of farm produce.

The powerful leverage that can he
brought to bear upon manufacturers bv
demanding that they shall not sell their
goods to the catalogue houses has been
well brought out in the Tradesman.
They, the manufacturers particularly of
well-known and widely-advertised
brands of goods, should be given a per-
emptory ‘‘Choose ye this day whom ye
will serve.’’ They would not be long
in making up their minds. If the cat-

  

   

 

 

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The merchant who hopes to survive in
the fight must employ only up-to-date
business methods, discarding careless
buying, long time accounts and extrav-
agance in running expenses. Let him
remember that no soldier carries to-day
the flintlock musket of Revolutionary
times, however well such weapon served
some honored forefather or however
much he may treasure it as a relic.

QUILLO.

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Review of the St. Louis Potato Market.

St. Louis, Mo., Apr:l 28 - Reviewing
the market since our last, will say tbat
prices reached the top nct.h Thursday,
March 16, and since then prices have
steadily declined—no sharp decline, no
slumps, but a cent to two cents a day,
Prices have declined from top 10@12:,
some say nct so much. Top prices bere
were 75c on best eating potatoes. ‘Lo-
day the top is 75c on best eating stock,
possibly not over 63c, and buyers are
holding, although stili lower prices are
expected before the end of the week.

Reports from most loading stations
say farmers are bringing them to mar-!
ket. Lower prices always co this.
Shippers are cffering tore freely. Re-
ceipts, while not heavy bere, are suffi
cient for all needs, aud shovl! they in
crease, the market must go lower—-no
market can stand heavy receipts at this
time of year. Farmers are bound i
move their potatoes soon. They have
more back than they want to admit
There is not as much stock damaged as
reports led us to believe. Present de
velopments prove that cc nclusively

Seed stock, that is Rose and Ohios,
have held up in price and gone higher,
but in our opinion they are at the top,
and as receipts increase of each, we can |
not hope to hold prices up so_ high.
Ohios have sold, that 1s, best Red River |
stock, at $1@1.10; Minnesota, 9c@g5¢;
Rose, 75@8oc. hese prices are too
high. Flanting is very late; boih cold |
weather and rain have interfered. Of-
ten farmers plant freely late in Febru-
ary and early in March, and are through
in the American Bottoms east of the
city bere by this t me for early crop, |
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Around the State

Movements of Merchants.

 

 

Saginaw—John T. Rose, meat dealer
has sold out to Jas. Lester.

Verne-—John Fredette has sold his
general stock to Henry Hufahl.

Orangeville—Timothy Ellsworth has
engaged in the grocery business.

Wheeler’s Corners—Roy Davis has
sold his grocery stock to James Hart.

Caro—J. H. Beckton succeeds J. H.
Beckton & Co. in the drug business.

Saint Charles—Crandall & Co. have
sold their drug stock to Dolson & Moore.

Sickels—Seth J. Curtis has purchased
the general stack of Andrus D. Lassen.

Portland—H. F. Caswell has sold his
general stock to H. C. Langdon, of Port-
land.

Girard—Jas. E. Perry has purchased
the drug and grocery stock of A. A.
Perry.

Morenci—Hallett Walker has _ pur-
chased the meat business of E. B.
Prentiss.

Galesburg—Little & Mack succeed
James Little in the grocery and meat
business.

Port Huron—Dorland & Cullen, gro-
cers, have dissolved, Herbert Dorland
succeeding.

Jasper—DeLand & Burt will move
their general stock into their new brick
block April 1.

Prescott—Eymer & Roland succeed
Geo. Eymer in the agricultural imple-
ment business.

Ironwood—Bay & Nordling have pur-
chased the drug and stationery stock of
John R. Moore.

Bellevue—Wm. Donald, of Battle
Creek, succeeds R. C. Needham in the
bakery business.

Springville-—Chas. Desermia, of
Onsted, has purchased the general stock
of Chas. Jessup.

West Bay City—W. D. Lennon & Co.
succeed Lennon & Co. in the bazaar and
grocery business.

Mayvilie—Weinberg Bros. have pur-
chased the genera! stock of Maud (Mrs.
John W.) Buffum.

Montague—Louis Ro-e has opened a
clothing and men’s furnishing goods
store at this place.

Rapid City—Adolph Hirshman, of
Central Lake, has engaged in the dry
goods business here.

St. Joseph—R. C. Strelow & Co.,
grocers and meat dealers, have sold out
to Edward J. King.

Laurium——The Laurium Hardware
Co., not incorporated, succeeds the
Burgan Hardware Co.

Belding—E. R. Spencer and T. A.
Welch have purchased a general mer-
chandise stock at Gaines.

Cheboygan—David H. Moloney is
closing out his stock of boots and shoes
and will retire from trade.

Menominee—Heslin & Brown have
engaged in the fruit and vegetable
business in the Paalzow block.

Battle Creek—W. H. Holcomb has
sold his interest in the clothing firm of
Stevens, Holcomb & Gordon.

Ovid—Anthony Lorae has purchased
the grocery stock of Gardner Stanton
and will continue the business.

Barrytun— Mrs. Blanche Jarvis has
purchased the confectionery and bakery
business of Mrs. Wm. Hayward.

Hilliards—Adam Adomshbich has pur-
chased the grocery stock of Frank Kam-
inski and will continue the business.

Detroit—Hunter & Hunter succeed
Hunter, Glenn & Hunter in the dry
goods, cloak and millinery business.

 

Marshall—The furniture and under-
taking firm of Deuel & Hughes has been
dissolved, Earl B. Hughes succeeding.

Williamston—J. B. Young has pur-
chased the boot and shoe shop which is
located in the clothing store of Watkins
Bros.

Springport—W. H. West, who repre-
sents a large Eastern firm, has opened
a butter and egg establishment at this
place.

Springport—The implement firm of
Well :ngton & Doak have dissolved part-
nership. Mr. Doak will continue the
business.

Kalamazoo—The drug stock of Hall
Bros. & Co. has been purchased by F.
H. Crooks & Co., who will continue the
business.

Hillsdale—H. L. Lawrence & Co. is
the name of the new firm which suc-
ceeds Oscar Hanccck in the grocery
business.

Escanaba—Schemmel & Johnson have
received their hardware stock and are
getting it into shape in their location at
819 Ludington street.

Owosso—S. B. Pitts did not purchase
a stock of groceries when in East Thet
ford a few days ago, as reported. He
will remain in Owosso.

Edwardsburg—C. M. Dennis has sold
his hardware stock to R. D. May and
D. W. Ray, who will continue the busi-
ness at the same location.

Martin—Dr. J. A. Heasley has de-
cided to open a new drug store here
under the personal supervision of Mr.
Dunrwell, formerly of Plainwell.

Grand Marais—Hargrave & Hill have
added hardware to their general line of
merchandise, A. F. Wixson (Fletcher
Hardware Co.) selling the stock.

Mackinaw—A. D. Carr has sold his
interest in the meat firm of Carr & An-
drews to Charles Dagwell, the new firm
being known as Dagwell & Andrews.

Alsion—Geo. E. Dean has pur-
chased an interest in the wood, coal
and feed business of T. J. Mack, the
new firm name being T. J. Mack
& Co.

Flint—C, A. Hutton has sold his gro-
cery stock to Harry Morrish, who for
several years has been engaged in the
grocery department of O. M. Smith
& Co.

Decatur—Criffield & Dewey, cloth-
iers, have dissolved partnership.
Charles E. Criffield, the former owner,
will continue the business in his own
name.

Genesee—E. B. Woodin has sold his
general stock t> Frank Rogers, the
youngest of the firm of Roger Bros.,
who operate a flouring mill at this
place.

Stockbridge—Emil Milner has pur.
chased Ch. |+s Brook's interest in the
undertaking nusiness of Brooks & Mil-
ner and hereafter the firm will be Mil-
ner Bros.

Coldwater—C. T. Yapp has sold a
half interest in his grocery stock to B.
B. Gorman.
tinue the business under the style of
Yapp & Gorman.

Manton—W. H. Campbell has sold his
stock of furniture to Jerry Williams,
who has removed it to his jewelry store
building. Mr. Campbell will retain the
undertaking department.

Copemish—G. H. Marzolf, who has
been engaged in general trade here for
several years, bas concluded to retire
from active business on account of poor
health. He has sold his stock to Orcutt
& Moeller, who have removed it to
Crystal City and consolidated it with
their stock there,

The new firm will con-,

Bellaire—M. J. Flanelly, of the hard-
ware firm of Meyer & Flanelly, who
now resides at Ludington, will settle
his affairs at that place and make this
bis permanent home.

Cadillac—Nelson R. Torrey has pur-
chased the interest of his father in the
marble and granite business of Geo S.
Torrey & Sons. The new firm will be
known as Torrey Bros.

St. Johns—O. P. DeWitt purchased
the jewelry stock of Krepps, DeWitt &
Co. at auction sale, the consideration
being $2,500. The business will be con-
tinued by Mr. DeWitt.

Marquette— Phelps, Brace & Co. have
discontinued their branch wholesale
grocery house at this place,shipping the
stock to Detroit, where it will be con-
solidated with the parent stock.

Newberry—C. D. Danaher has pur-
chased the dry goods and clothing stock
of A. J. Noble and will add to the stock.
He has also purchased the shingle mill
lately operated by the Noble estate.

East Jordan—A. B. Steele, who pur-
chased the Gardner property a year ago
and opened a store here, returned last
week to his former home in Advance,
taking his stock of groceries with him.

Jasper-- Janes Jenkins has sold his
grocery stock to Mr. Blain and will
Start a cheese factory at Rome Center,
having purchased the boiler, vats,
presses, hoops, etc., of James A. Dun-
bar.

Laurium—August Hietala and J. H.
Jylha have formed a copartnership un-
der the style of Hietala & Jylba and
engaged in the grocery and provision
business. The firm has a cash capital
of $1,800, each partner contributing
$900.

Lowell—Chas. McCarthy has sold a
third interest in his grocery stock to
Chas. H. Alexander and another third
interest to Frank Taylor and the busi-
ness will hereafter be conducted under
the style of Chas. McCarthy & Co. The
new partners are old-time clerks in the
establishment who have justly earned
the promotion thus accorded them.

Negaunee—The Lake Superior Prod
uce & Cold Storage Co. has recently
been organized with a capital stock of
$65,000. The officers of the company
are as follows: A. J. Ruhl, President:
J. P. Petermann, Vice President; John
W. Ruhl, Secretary and Treasurer, and
J. H. Rice, H. L. Baer and Johnson
Vivian, Jr., directors. The company
will absorb the interests of A. J. Ruhl
& Co. April 1, and it is the intention to
erect a large cold storage plant at
Houghton the coming summer, the site
being already secured.

 

Manufacturing Matters.

Caseviille—John R. Poss is the new
proprietor of the Caseviile roller mills,
be buying the same from W. R. Stafford,
of Port Hope.

Mason—The Mason Buggy Co. suc-
ceeds the Mason Carriage Co.,the mem.
bers of the new firm being I. J. Kellogg
and Chas. McBride.

Otsego—The lumber, wood and bi-
cycle firm of Sebright, Hale & Co. has
been dissolved, Messrs. Sebright and
Edsell having purchased the interest of
Lewis H. Hale and the Hale estate.

Cass City—The Wettliwfer & Portz
Manufacturing Co. has been organized
to engage in the agricultural implement
business, with a capital stock of
$10,000, of which $1,900 is paid in.
The members of the corporation are
George Wetilawfer, Stratford, Ont. ;
W. E. Portz, Tavistook, O t.; Henry
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Cass City.

Riverdale—This is an excellent loca-
tion for a grain elevator and produce
buyer and the business men of the place
will undertake to assist in a liberal
manner in the establishment of such a
business here.

Detroit—T. D. Buhl, L. B. Bell and
Alexander McPherson have organized
the Sprocket Chain Manufacturing Co,
for the manufacture of malleable iron
castings. The capital stock is $75,000,
with $15,000 paid in.

Lansing—The Novelty Knitting Co.
has been organized witb a capital stock
of $15,000, of which $12,000 1s paid in.
The incorporators are W. J. Owen, C.
C. Pierce, E. H. Humphrey, F. F,
Humphrey, H. E. Bodman and E., J.
Davis, all of Detroit.

Portland—A movement is on foot to
operate the Portland creamery, which
has been idle for a number of years. It
is proposed to organize a company, se-
cure subscriptions to the amount of
$1,000 and equip the plant with modern
appliances. John A. Webber, who prac-
tically owns the plant, offers to turn the
property over to the new company for a
nominal price and take stock for the
amount.

Manistique—Ross Bros. are erecting
a sawmill at Spalding and expect to be-
gin operations by May 1. The com-
pany has purchased 68,000 acres of tim-
ver land of the Spalding Lumber Co.,
and on May | the latter company will
relinquish all claims to the store and
mill property at Cedar River. The new
mill will be one of the best in the coun-
try, costing, when completed, over
$40,000. The daily capacity will be
30,000 feet of lumber, 4,000 ties, 250,000
shingles and 4,000 posts. The com-
pany has logged extensively this winter
and about 10,000,coo feet of logs is
banked along the river,

——_+> 0.—_____
Commends Mr. Banker’s Combination
Plan.

Kalamazoo, March 27—I take a num-
ber of trade papers, and undertake to
read them all carefully because of the
valuable information I derive therefrom
and the suggestions I am able to utilize
to advantage. In all my experience
with trade papers, however, I have
never noted a more thoughtful contri-
bution than J. M. Banker's excellent
article in the last Tradesman on ‘‘Safe
Anchorage for the Retailer.’’ It hits
the mark squarely between the eyes and
offers tbe most feasible plan I have ever
had brought to my attention for the
amelioration of the retail dealer. It is
a pity that every retailer in the country
could not have the privilege of reading
the article, so as to give the subject the
enlightened thought that comes to every
man of sense after perusing so pertinent
and suggestive a treatment on the sub-
ject. It seems to me that no more profit-
able matter could be discussed at the
coming convention of the Michigan
Retail Grocers’ Association than tbis,
because some remedy must be adopted
for the present congested condition of
the retail trade—menaced on one side
by the department store and on the other
side by the catalogue house—or the ruin
which Mr. Banker so graphicaliy de-
scribes will surely ensue.

‘ CELERY City.

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Didn’t Work.

‘‘We persuaded our married daughter
to move back from the country.’’

‘*Didn’t she like it out there?"’

‘*Yes; but she was always coming in-
to town just when we wanted to go out
to visit her.’’

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Amount Not Limited.

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Grand Rapids Gossip

Allger & Co. succeed Irwin & Allger
in the grocery business at 113 South
Division street.

 

 

Ward Buzzell has opened a grocery
store at Twin Lake. The Bail-Barn-
hart-Putman Co. furnished the stock.

A. Hirschman has engaged in the
grocery business at Rapid City. The
Ball-Barnhart-Putman Co. furnished the
stock.

Fleischmann & Co, have removed
their office and salesroom from 26 Foun-

-tain street to 29 Crescent avenue, where

they have larger and better quarters than
before.

C. M. Drake and W. J. Kane, who
have handled the Grand Rapids end of
W. R. Brice & Co. for the past two sea-
sons, are on the ground again, ready
for business as soon as the price of eggs
gets down to the coid storage basis.
They occupy the same location they had
last year.

The grocery firm of Ailgier & Van
Heulen, at 160 Clancy street, has been
dissolved, John Allgier succeeding. L.
M. Van Heulen has leased a store build-
ing at the corner of Jefferson avenue
and Pleasant street and will put ina
line of groceries and provisions. The
Olney & Judson Grocer Co. furnished
the stock.

The Thompson & Bunnell Lumber Co.
has est blisbed a branch office and yard
at Evansville, Ind., placing the new
business under the management of Karl
Fries, who has been in the employ of
the company for the past three years as
Southern buyer. The Evansville branch
will be utilized principally asa pur-
chasing point for oak and poplar lum-
ber.

—____~6-.___
The Produce Market.

Apples—The market is firm and the
demand is active. Tallman Sweets com-
mand $3, Baldwins and Greenings fetch
$4.25 and Kings and Spys are quoted
at $4 50.

Beans—The market is still in a nor-
mal condition, awaiting the return of
another spurt in demand or price or
both. Some years ago it was very gen-
erally believed that the condtiion of the
bean market depended, to a great ex-
tent, on the condition of the potato mar-
ket and the price of that staple. Of late
years, however, tbis theory has been
thoroughly exploded, frequently to tay
disappointment and loss of dealers .
still cherished the belief that there was
any connection between the two.

Butter—The market continues strong,
due to the lack of receipts. Fancy dairy
in crocks and rolls readily fetches 15@
16c. Factory creamery is stationary at
20C.

Cabbage—Home grown is held at $1
per doz. for fair stock.

Celery—2oc per doz.
White Plume.

Cranberries——Wisconsin Bell and
Bugle, $6; Cape Cod, $7.

Cucumbers— Declined to $1 per doz.

Eggs—Local dealers are paying about
12c, with the possibility of a little high-
er market the latter part of the week, in
case the present stormy weather con-
tinues. After Easter, it is expected
that there will be an immediate slump
in the market, when the Eastern buyers
who are already in the field will prob-
ably begin operations.

Honey—Light amber finds ready de-
mand on the basis of Ioc.

Lemons—The active demand con-
tinues, with values ruling firm.

Nuts—Hickory, $1 50@2 according to
size. Walnuts and butternuts, 6oc.

Onions—Botb red and yellow stock is
in fair demand at 50@6oc.

Parsley—$1 per doz. bunches.
Parsnips—Declined to 25c per bu.
Pop Corn—soc per bu.

bunches for

 

 

Poultry—Scarce. Chickens, 12@13c;
fowls, 1to@11c; ducks, 11@12c; geese,
loc; turkeys, 12@14c.

Sweet Potatoes—lIllinois Jerseys are in
fair demand at $3.50.

Potatoes—The market is a little
weaker than it was a_ week ago, but
there is not very much shrinkage in the
price, although there is not the same
anxiety to secure stock. Accumulations
are small, both in the hands of dealers
and shippers, and in case the breakup
in the roads should continue any con-
siderable length of time, the Trades-
man confidently expects to see the price
at buying points advance to 65@7oc,
because there will surely be a scarcity
of stock before the farmers will have
time and opportunity to meet the de-
mand. Local buyers are laying in
heavily, in anticipation of the demand
which is pretty sure to arise.

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Flour and Feed.

During the past ten days quite a rad-
ical change in sentiment regarding the
value of breadstuffs has taken place.
According to the Government crop re-
port, farmers have, without doubt, quite
a quantity of wheat in their hands, but
from this time on they are naturally
slow sellers every year, on account of
the necessity of making preparation for
spring crops. This year will be no ex-
ception, because the winter weather has
already continued so long that spring
work is coming all in a bunch and there
will be a grand rush to hustle in spring
crops aS soon as warm weather comes.
Then, again, the reports of crop dam-
age from various sections of the country
are of an alarming nature and farmers
who have any wheat for sale prefer to
wait until they can know more about
the real extent of damage done by the
severe winter.

Stocks of both wheat and flour in deal-
ers’ hands are light, and with a light
movement of wheat from farmers for the
next two months, it is but reasonable to
expect that values will be sustained and,
in all probability, somewhat advanced.

The city mills are all running stead-
ily and have a good volume of orders
booked for April.

Mill stuff is in excellent demand,
with prices well sustained. Feed and
meal have been moving quite freely at
fair prices, based on cost of grain, as
they are relatively somewhat cheaper
than millstuff. Wo. N. ROWE.

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Hides, Pelts, Furs, Tallow and Wool

Light hides have declined in all mar-
kets. They are poor in quality and high
in price and the tanner is, therefore, out
of pocket. Packer’s hides have ad-
vanced and are closely sold up. There
is no accumulation of any grades.

Pelts are inactive, without any quan-
tity being offered. Values are nominal.
Pullers have quantities of wool on hand,
with no enquiries for pulled.

Furs are in fair demand for most
kinds of the winter catch, while spring
skins are not wanted, except at a low
value.

Tallow is in good demand at quite an
advance on all grades, with a short sup-
ply. Prices are too high for soapers,
but they must have a certain amount for
use with other oils.

Wool is still firm, with no advance
and with light sales. Michigan wools
have moved to quite an extent during
the past month, with some little enquiry
coming. Values are not up to the cost
of present holdings. The new clip is
near at hand, with local buyers ready to
pay last year's prices, in the face of a
loss. They still have faith in higher
values, which are now down to free
trade prices. Ws. T. HEss.

 

The Grocery Market.

Sugars —Raw sugars are practically
unchanged. There is a very strong un-
dertone, with sales made at a basis of
43%%c for 97 deg. test. All refiners re-
port an increased business in refined.
Arbuckle has reduced package sugars
1-16c, bringing them down to the basis
of the American Sugar Refining Co.
Some concessions are being made on
softs, but hards are ‘unchanged. The
National Sugar Refinery will start up
about the first of April.

Molasses and Syrups—The molasses
market is firm. Receipts at New Or-
leans are practically nothing. Corn
syrups are meeting with a good sale and
prices are unchanged.

Canned Goods—There has been a fair
demand locally ‘for spot corn, tomatoes
and peas. Prices have been made on
new pineapple for future delivery and
quotations range about toc higher than
last year. At the advanced quotations
there has been a good business done.
A well known Baltimore authority has
the following to say regarding the Bal-
timore market on canned goods:
‘*Briefly, the canned goods market here
during the past week was dull, but
strong. There is not a weak spot in the
entire list; on the contrary, those ar-
ticles which have been quiet and neg-
lected heretofore are beginning to show
more life. Outside of the regular every-
day jobbing orders, however, there was
very little doing, comparatively, both
buyers and sellers seeming content to
await developments. The outlook for
the canned goods business during the
next tbree or four months is good, very
good, all along the line and the packers
feel encouraged to anticipate a higher
range of values excepting in those arti-
cles which have already had large ad-
vances. As to the coming peach crop,
the college professors call it a ‘gone’
peach crop, but some of the hardheaded
practical men who grow the fruit fora
living refuse to believe there won’t be
any peaches at all. The opening of rail
and lake navigation next month is ex-
expected to cause further activity in the
market; already buying has commenced
for shipment then. Tomatoes for both
spot and future delivery are attracting
the most attention.’’

Dried Fruits—Prunes are steady at
full prices under greatly reduced stocks.
The general situation is unchanged.
Holders believe the prospect is more
encouraging than usual and refuse con-
cessions on what may be termed large
lots. On the Coast the situation shows
improvement, with advancing prices
on about all sizes. Raisins are in large
demand and recent sales have reduced
spot goods materially. The J. K. Arms-
by Co. has the following to say about
raisins: ‘'We want to call your atten-
tion to the present condition of the
raisin market. Eastern stocks are get-
ting pretty well cleaned up; there is
now a good deal of enquiry for raisins
and purchases are being made for ship-
ment from the Coast. The trade are tak-
ing the cheapest grade they can get,
which is now 2 crown Pacific brand.
Next to these come the 3 crown Pacifics.
About twenty-three carloads of the 2
crowns have been sold during the last
few days, leaving practically about ten
to twelve cars unsold. There is a steady
trade for raisins and they are being
gradually eaten up. The stock that is
left in the hands of the Association will
positively not be sold at anything less
than Association full prices, and we
believe they have no more raisins there
than will be absolutely needed during

 

the balance of the season. Buyers here
are strongly advised to purchase now,
as higher prices are iooked for very
soon ; that is, after the 2 crown Pacifics
are gone they will have to buy the 3
crown Pacifics, and when these are gone
they will have to take the standards,
and, as we have said above, they will
not be sold at any reduction from Asso-
ciation full prices.’’ Stocks of Per-
sian dates have been increased by the
European cargo of 5,300 boxes, con-
signed to a number of importers. Busi-
ness continues good, however, and
prices remain at previous figures.
Cocoanut —Manufacturers of desicca-
ted cocoanut admit that a plan is ma-
turing to form a combination in their
branch of trade, with a capitalization
of $6,000,000 or $7,000,000. The lead-
ing spirits in this organization are to be
Leopold Schepp, of New York, the
Dunham Manufacturing Co., of St.
Louis, and the Wetmore & Pride Man-
ufacturing Co, of Philadelphia.

0
The Grain Market.

As_ was predicted last week, this isa
weather market, owing to the seemingly
unseasonable weather and bad crop re-
ports. Wheat has had a steady advance
during the week of 5c on active futures
between extreme prices and 3c on spot
cash wheat. The market is in a very
unsatisfactory condition for both buyer
and seller. This will continue for sev-
eral weeks yet. The visible, as usual
this year, made another 75,000 bushel
increase, so now we have as much in
the visible on hand as last year. We
might also state here that, while the
Government crop report gave us the
invisible amount on hand at 198,000,000
bushels, it omitted to state that this
was measured bushels, while the aver-
age weight this year is 59 pounds,
which would cut down the figures to
140,000,000 bushels. Taking all things
into consideration, we think wheat is
about low enough.

Corn has been very strong and shows
an advance of 1%c. Of course, the
weather has something to do with the
price of corn. This cereal is probably
as low as it will be.

Oats remained steady, which is about
all that can be said.

Rye advanced 3c since last writing
and is very firm. Farmers in this section
are very firm in their opinion as to crop
damage and are holding onto all grains,
expecting higher prices, especially on
account of the lateness of the season.

Receipts of wheat by rail have been
exceedingly small, being only 22 cars of
wheat, 24 cars of corn and 8 cars of oats.

The millers are paying 68c for wheat.

C. G. A. Vorer.
Gradually Gaining Ground.

The Commercial Credit Co. is grad-
ually gaining ground, its list of sub-
scribers now numbering over 500. The
growth of the business is due to the
good service given, particularly in the
matter of collections, in which depart-
ment the company is especially strong.
Hardly a day passes that Manager Ste-
venson does not receive a_ letter from
some subscriber, complimenting him
on the collection of the account which
was deemed hopeless by the owner, hav-
ing long ago been passed to profit ana
loss.

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lamp posts for a living.
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Woman’s World

Buying An Easter Bonnet.

 

 

Oae of the strange misapprehensions
of life under which men labor is that
women enjoy buying their Easter bon-
net By common consent they seem to
regard it as a festive occasion and to
view the trip to the milliner’s as some-
thing in the nature of a picnic. So far
from this being the truth, it is a season
of. harassment and tribulation, from
which we generally emerge with nervous
prostration and a hat we don’t I:ke, and
one of the principal reasons Easter Sun-
day always seems the gladdest time of
all the glad new year is because we
realize then that, for weal or woe, be-
coming or unbecoming, tbe bonnet ques-
tion is settled. There can be no more
sending back to the store and exchang-
ing feathers for flowers, or tolle for rib-
bon. As diplomats say, ‘‘The incident
is closed,’’ and we have to reconcile
ourselves to what we have bought.

Of course, every mother’s daughter of
us, in the privacy of our own home,
knows exactly what we ought to get
and how much it ought tocost us. Above
all we know a'l the ‘‘don’ts.’’ We
know that the woman with the long thin
face shouldn't emphasize it by getting
a hat that flares high up and is sur-
mounted with towering feathers. We
know that the woman with a turned-up
nose who buys a turned-up bonnet is
simply flying in the face of Providence
We are perfectly aware that she with a
knobby face with irregular features, who
gets a hard, unvielding, uncompromis-
ing sort of headgear looks ‘‘rockv,’’ and
that nobody short of an angel from
heaven is pretty enough to stand a so-
called plain walking hat We know,
on general principles, that a honnet
should never he an accident, but an or-
nament, and that we should avoid those
that look like an inappropriate after-
thought, an injudicinus indulgence or
an ill-directed ambition. It might be
thought that with all this knowledge it
would be the simplest thing inthe world
to go down and buy just exactly what
we want and what suits us and wear it
in joyfulness and peace. Alas, how lit-
tle do the inexperienced who think thus
know of the ways of milliners! The
bonnet that comes up to our ideal of
what we ought to have is never the one
that fires our fancy, and so it is that
whereas we went in determined to buy a
useful plain straw with durable ribbon
we come out with a confection of violets
and tulle and a bill that makes cold
chills run up and down our backs when
we think of it

And this reminds me of Elise. The
other dav I met her wearing sucha
st inning new creation I felt myse’f jus-
tified in remarking upon it

‘*Jack bought it,’’ she said

‘Tt’s a dream.’’ I murmured

“*Tt cost $31,’’ she went on.

**Goodness!'’ I exclaimed.

‘‘And he _ gct the lesson of his life,’’
she smiled.

‘*How was that?’’ T enquired.

‘*Well,’’ she said, ‘‘you krow, lack
thinks, and he really isn’t different from
other men, that he has a_heaven-or-
dained genius for shopping. He has
likewise a correspondingly poor opinion
of my abilities in that line. especially
as exemplified by my _ purchases in
millinery. In fact, it’s abovt the only
thing that we ever get irto an argument
about and yon might say that the onlv
cloud that ever comes up on our matti-
monial horizon is the size and shape of

 

a hat. Every year when the time comes
for buying my summer and winter
headgear we go over the same ground,
It doesn’t make the slightest difference
what I buy; I’vetried him on little hats
and big hats and medium sized hats,
but it’s a case of al! coons look alike to
him, and all kats are open to the same
criticism.

‘‘Suppose, for instance, I’ve bought
a little bonnet. I wait until after dinner,
when he ought to be mollified and in a
good humor if heisn't. Then I take
out the box—which I have hidden un
der the stairs in the hall—and produce
my triumph of millinery. I know he is
going to make fun of it, but I assume a
nonchalant and insinuating air and try
to say casually, ‘How do you like my
new bonnet?’ He takes it up, holds it
on one finger and turns it around and
says: ‘You call this a bonnet! Three
bunches of violets, a wisp of lace and a
buckle? By George! it’s no wonder
that the asylums and sanitariums are
crowded with women when you see how
they dress and that there isn’t a one in
the whole bloomin’ sex who has enough
sense to buy so simple a thing as a bon-
net. Going to wear that at night, I sup-
pose, with no other protection on your
head, and the next day you'll be groan-
ing with the neuralgia and sending for
the doctor. Look at me! Did you ever
see me with a thing like that on my
head? Never! 1 have ertirely too
much regard for my health and too
deep a sense of the sacredness of my
duty to my family, if you haven’t, to
expose myself that way. What did you
pay for it, anyway?’ ‘Fifteen dollars,’
[ try to say defiantly. ‘Fifteen dollars!’
be howls. ‘Fifteen—suffering Moses!
Fifteen dollars for three bunches of
v olets, a string of laceand that buckle!
It’s an outrage! It’s a confidence game!
It’s highway robbery and ought to be
punishable by law. Here,’ and he takes
out a pencil and begins figuring on the
back of an envelope, ‘how much lice is
there in that bow?’ ‘About half a yard,’
I say on the guess. ‘And what is it
worth?’ ‘Perhaps a dollar.’ ‘And how
much are those dinky little purple
flowers worth?’ ‘’Bout two bits a
bunch.’ ‘And _ this huckle?’ ‘Oh, I
don’t know.’ ‘Well, it’s nothing but
glass and brass and ought not to be
worth more than 1o cents at the out
side." I groan, remembering the mil-
liner called it ‘real.’ ‘And this straw
frame?’ ‘I don’t know,’ I say again.
‘I never ran a millinery store.’ Jack
surveys it contemptuously. ‘Well,’ be
says at last, ‘it’s no bigger than a sau-
cer, and you can buya ioad of straw for
a dollar or so, but I want to be fair, so
I'l] put it in at 35 cents, although that’s
an outrageous price.’ Then he adds it
up ‘There!’ he says, triumphantly;
‘that gives you a grand total of $2.20—
the real cost of the hat. And you see,
my dear, you have just simply been
done to the tune of $12 80.’ ‘But it was
‘‘imported,’’ ’ I urge. ‘Imported from
Division street,’ he sniffs. ‘But they
wouldn't sell it for any less, and |
warted it,’ I cry at last, in conclusion.
‘That's just it.’ be answers. ‘That’s
just the way you women let yourselves
be imposed on. You never know what
anything is really worth. You should
just say distinctly and conclusively that
the bonnet is worth about $3 and you'll
give them that, and no more. I venture
to say I can go down there and buy any-
thing they have for $5. There's nothing
like a person really knowing what they
are about.’

‘‘That was last year. This spring I

 

determined to give him his chance, and
so the other day I told him I wanted a
new hat and invited him to go with me
and help me pick it ovt,as I wanted to
get something to please his taste this
time. We made an appointment and !
went to his office and got him and
steered him for the millinery store.

‘**Now, Jack,’ ’' I said, ‘‘ ‘I want you
to manage this affair. I’m not going to
say a word. You do all the talking.’

‘* “All right,’ he confidently replied,
‘and I'll see that you don’t get taken in
by any of their skin games, and when
we get through you's] admit what I
have told you all along, that beauty and
economy are not incompatible in mil-
linery if you only assume a firm attitude
and know how to manage. You'll have
the hat of your life, madame, and it
won't cost over $5.’

‘Well, we went in, and one of those
tall, haughty, silk lined creatures who
always make you feel as humbly con-
scious of every inferiority of your
toilette as if a searchlight Lad been
turned on you came uot» wait on us
Jack has been about the world a bit, but
all his experiences had ne-er fitted him
to deal with a head milliner, and I saw
him begin to wilt. He had come in-
tending to take a high and mighty air
with some dowdy little girl, and here he
was being patronized from the top of
his head to the sole of bis foot by an
autocrat who never even lets a woman
so much as venture a suggestion. Pres-
ently I heard Jack saying in his best so
ciety way and in precisely the tone of
voice he would use if he weré asking
Mrs. Croesus to let him bring her an
ice, ‘I—we—my wife—would you be
kind enough to show us some new bon-
nets?’ i

‘The first thing she brought out was
a monstrosity that I wouldn't have been
caught dead in and the price was $18.

‘* “Oh, I began, deprecatingly, ‘we
don’t care for anything so expensive.
Let us see something cheaper’’

‘* “Cheaper,’ began the woman, a
scorn of economy thrilling every word,
‘this is really very inexpensive. M'sieur
would not like to see madame wearing
a thing that was coarse and dowdy.’

‘* ‘Certainly not,’ said Jack, ‘I al-
ways buy the best ; cheapest in the long
run, you know.’

‘‘Well, at that I dropped out of the
game and I never enjoyed anything
more in my life than wetching that
woman work him. We tried on hats,
and tried ‘em on, and in the course of
it she told Jack that he had the taste of
an artist, and that it was a pleasure
and a privilege to receive his sugges-
tions, and that we looked so young no
one would have believed we were mar-
ried, and what happiness it must be to
madame to have always the benefit of
the advice of a man so sympatique and
with such knowledge of dress, and so
on, and soon’ And in the end she sold
him this hat, which he regarded as a
bargain at $31.

‘*When we got out on the street again,
I turned to him. ‘Jack,’ I said, ‘I am
converted. It does take the strong and
unwavering masculine intellect to deal
with a milliner. I°ll never buy another
bat for myself as long asI live. I'l

always get you to go with me and se
lect it.’

“**No, vou won’t,’ he answered, ‘not
much! You’ll never get me inside a
millinery store again. It’s a pleasure,
but it comes too high for me.’

“*Yet,’’ added Elise, craning her head
around to get a back view of her hat
‘*T think this hat was cheap enough—all
things considered.’’

Dorotny Drx.

 

Grandmothers—Old and New.

No one can read the papers nowadays
without being led to the conclusion that
the subject of paramount interest to
women is how to keep young. The
advertising columns teem with the lau-
dations of creams and Ictions, each of
which is guaranteed to be a perenniai
fountain of perpetual youth, and the
womens page is loaded to the guards
with advice about massage to ward off
wrinkles and physical culture exercises
to keep down fat or promote plumpness,
until one wonders if this kind of thing
goes on what we are going to do for
grandmothers in the future—for women
who are frankly and avowedly and _ con-
tentedly old,

Of course, everybody is glad of the
lengthening span of youth that modern
ideas give women. It is good for them
and good for the world that they should
keep their bodies strong and supple
with outdoor exercise and their hearts
and minds young with new thoughts
and new interests, but when one sees an
elderly woman pinning false frizzes on
over her honest gray hair before she
puts on a sailor hat and starts out on
her wheel, one can but sigh for the good
old days when a woman was content,
when age had come to her, to wear caps
and sit quietly at home in her corner.

Many of us cherish among our most
hallowed memories such a picture.
Other people might come and go. Do-
mestic events might raise cyclones that
swept over other pa ts of the house, but
grandmother's corner was like a shrine
up to which the troubled waters might
indeed creep, but from which they rolled
back, calmed and _ still-d. She was
never too busv to hear the story of child-
ish woes, or to mend a broken toy or a
broken heart. Grandmother, in all ber
life, had never prayed in public and
would have died of fright at the sound
of her own voice in a woman's meeting,
but long after the. words of the most
eloquent preachers turned to dust, the
sermons she preached in the quiet dusks
to the children at her knee came back
to shape their lives forthem. Grandma
knew nothing of logic, but, before the
saintly light on the old face that had
been turned so long towards the new
Jerusalem it had caught some of its
radiance, all the poor arguments of in-
fidelity and agnosticism slunk back
abashed.

It is hard to believe that the new
grandmother is going to be any im-
provement on the cld, and we can but
feel a thrill of pity for the little people
who will have no such gracious and ten-
der memories, but instead will, in after
years, recall a painted and powdered
and frizzed old woman making cesperate
efforts to hold onto a vanished youtb,
and who even taught their baby lips to
call her some silly name instead of
grandmother, ashamed of the very title

that time had brought her. Of course, _

the new grandmother is a far more
learned woman than her predecessor,
and knows things of which she never
dreamed. She is progressive and up to-
date and perfectly capable of entering
into the details of her grandsons’ foot-
ball game or her granddaughters’ flirta-
tions, but it may be even doubted if in
this hail-fellow-well-met companion-
ship the influence for good is as strong
as in the old days when there were
things one could not have told grand-
mother any more than one could have
violated a sanctuary. Modern times

have brought about many improvements,
but the cld-fashioned grandmother was
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RIMS— piece. V shape. the strongest rim preduced.

BARS—% inch upturned, downturned or ramshorn, with expander.

GRIPS—Cork, fancy tip.

SADDI.E—Brown pattern.

PEDALS—Hercules rat trap.

CITALN—Crown B Block, straw pattern, blued side plated, polished top.

TJRES--Oxford single tube, 28x15,, made by Kokomo Rubber Co., Kokomo, Ind.

Tool Bag with Complete Outfit.

Price Complete, $18.75

Furnished with Morgan & Wright Single or Double Tube Tires at an

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SPOKES 32 front and 36 rear, Excelsior.

SEAT POST—T pattern.

BALL RETAINERS- In hubs and hangers.

RIMS—V shape, 1 piece, plain finish.

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GRIPS— Cork.

SADDLE—Brown pattern.

PEDALS—Hercules rubber.

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WHAT IS THE OUTCOME?

The Tradesman is in receipt of a
number of letters from its readers, com-
mending and commenting on the com-
bination plan of merchandising sug-
gested by a valued contributor in last
week's issue. The plan is evidently
suggested in the belief that the com-
petitive system has proven a failure, so
far as the retail trade is concerned, and
that there are but two alternatives—co-
operation on the one hand and combina-
tion on the other.

To the statement that the competitive
system is a failure, the Tradesman is
not inclined to dissent. As a matter of
fact, competition has been carried to
that extent in this country that it has
practically ceased to be competition, in
the best sense of the term, and has de
generated into strife, in which the ele-
ment of honorable rivalry is almost
wholly eliminated. The average dealer
acts on the assumption that he has no
competition wortby of his consideration ;
that his goods are better and his prices
lower than those of his neighbor in
trade. His sole ambition is to win the
patronage and secure the dollars of his
competitors’ customers, no matter what
means he employs or what deceit and
chicanery he utilizes to bring about this
result. This demoralization is due to
the introduction of the department store
and the questionable methods resorted
to by that class of traders to attract and
hold customers. The demoralization
has crept into localities remote from
department stores, just as the deadly
miasma of the valley is sometimes
Swept up the mountain, poisoning the
blood and paralyzing the ambition of
those who inhabit the higher levels.
There are, of course, honorable excep-
tions to the general rule. Every com-
munity of any consequence contains
merchants who scorn the methods of the
byena in trade and refuse to comform
to the new order of things. Unfortunate-
ly, their number is gradually lessening
and their influence is-gradually waning.

What, then, is the logic 1 outcome?
There are but two alternatives—co-oper-
ative distribution or communism on the
one side or combination and consoli-
dation on the other. The retail trade is
gradually coming to a point where it
must face the issue, just as the manu-
facturing interests of the country have
already met that dilemma. Experience
bas demonstrated that it is just as nec-
essary that the expense of retail distri-
bution should be curtailed as it is that

 

the expense of manufacturing should be
lessened. The people are demanding
that the necessities of life shall be de-
livered at their doors at the smallest
possible margin of expense and profit.
The department store apparently meets
this demand by buying staple goods in
such quantities as to secure the most
favorable terms and distributing them
at a low ratio of expense by means of
cheap help and the most approved mod-
ern business methods, which involve no

element of loss through the giving of
credit. Unable to buy goods as cheaply
as the department store, or to turn them
over at as low a ratio of expense by rea-
son of the employment of male clerks
instead of cheap girls, and seriously
handicapped in the race by the disposi-
tion to still cling to the credit business,
the average retail dealer finds himself
unable to compete with the department
store on an even basis and make any-
thing more than a bare living.

In view of these facts and in consid-
eration of the experience of the whole-
sale trade, which finds it necessary to
create and maintain iron-clad agree-
ments on sugar, coffee, soap, tobacco
and a score of other staple articles, in
order to avoid doing business at a loss,
is it any wonder that the retail dealer
turns in disgust from the competitive
system and yearns for some plan which
will yield him the returns incident to
combination or bring him the peace of
mind consequent upon co-operation?

 

FOLLOWING SMITH’S FOOTSTEPS

George Clapperton has announced
himself as a candidate for congressional
honors—not in so many words, but by
an action which plainly foreshadows his
intentions. When an aspiring politician
goes before a meeting of trades union-
ists and voluntarily announces that he
has ‘‘made a study of unionism’’ and
is prepared to commend its tenets and
tendencies, it can safely be set down as
a fact that the compliant gentleman has
one eye firmly fixed on the dome of the
Capitol at Washington and that he has
entered upon a poiicy of conciliation
and stultification to satisfy this ambi-
tion. Of course, a lawyer has excep-
tional facilities for carrying on the study
of trades unionism from his lofty loca-
tion on the top floor of the Trust buiid-
ing, but an hour’s actual experience with
unionism on the ground floor of a fac-
tory or one short interview with a
boorish and arbitrary walking delegate
or strike manager will speedily convince
the candid searcher after truth that there
is a vast difference between preaching
and practice—between the 2ims and
objects of unionism as set forth in the
text books of the movement and the
hunger and disappointment and defeat
of the men who blindly follow the lead-
ership of venal and unscrupulous mana-
gers. The Scriptures declare that a man
shall be judged by his fruits and not by
his pretensions. The fruits of union.
ism,in the perverted operation prevalent
to day, are drunkenness, disorder, dis-
loyalty and anarchy, and the lawyer
with political ambitions and the preach-
er with good intentions who countenance
such an element by attending the meet-
ings of the marplots and uttering
honeyed words to men whose abiding
place is the slums and saloons will have
something to answer for in after years
when the results of their actions are
brought home to them.

 

If Rudyard Kipling is permitted to
read all the poetry that has been written
about him it may make him sick again.

 

GENERAL TRADE SITUATION.

There is enough of variety in both
movement and prices to make the in-
dustrial situation interesting and to show
that the advance, which on the whole is
very general, is subject to the checks
and stimulus of varying conditions,
which would not be the case in a boom
movement. During the past week there
has been a diminution in the activity
of the more speculative stocks, but this
has been more than overbalanced by
the increase in standard railway shares.
These have appreciated in value on an
average $1.76 per share. The manipu-
lated stocks, led by sugar which had
been so unduly boomed the preceding
week, met with sufficient reaction to
carry the average of trusts downward 63
cents per share.

The movement of all principal prod-
ucts except cctton continues without
abatement The exports of wheat, in-
cluding flour, have been in three weeks
12,259,628 bushels, against 12,060,135
last year, and of corn 11,647,541, against
11,723,187 last year. Of the two grains
together the exports since July 1 have
been about 313,000,000 bushels, against
305,000,000 last year. Copious rains
have rejoiced California with prospects
of a great yield, and while news of in-
jury by the weather comes from some
districts at the West, as always happens
at this season, the single fact that West-
ern receipts of wheat have been 10, 180, -
957 bushels in three weeks, against
7,893,606 last year, shows clearly that
no shortage of supplies is generally ap-
prebended. Influenced partly by such
reports, but probably more by foreign
advices, especially ot famine in Russia
prices steadily advanced during last
week, in all 4% cents, with corn also
1% cents stronger. This week main-
tains the upward tendency, witha slight
slackening at the last on account of fa-
vorable crop reports.

Cotton exports have remarkably de-
creased, since March 1 having been
only 276,251 bales, against 678,446 last
year, and the price has shown weakness,
although closing without change. The
heavy exports earlier and great stocks
carried abroad make the shrinkage nat-
ural, but it means an important reduc-
tion in merchandise exports. Although
factories are busy and goo/s are strong
in price in spite of the weakening of
the material, the takings of spinners,
North and South, have been in March
thus far 7,000 bales less than last year,
while receipts from plantations last
week were larger than a year ago. The
woolen manufacture has been buying a
little more freely of wool, with consid-
erable concessions in prices by Eastern
dealers and also in sales by Western
bolders, The machinery is not all fully
employed, and the prospect of various
consolidations appears to retard busi-
ness to some extent. In boots and shoes
shipments during March have been con-
siderably smaller than last year, but
larger than in any other year, and not
withstanding recent advances in leather
there seems to be more business, al-
though jobbers are still conservative.

The iron situation continues the same
intensity of activity, with advances in
manufactured products which threaten
to check foreign demand if continued.
It seems as though the opening of the
world’s markets which resulted from the
Spanish war has stimulated demand un-
til it has forced prices far above the
normal, It remains to be seen to what
extent the prestige may be maintained.
It is probable that slackening demand
will bring a return toa nearer parity

 

with the rest of the world. Prices have
advanced 24 per cent. for products taken
together since February 1, and 38 per
cent. for pig iron, and although Bess-
emer has yielded some during the last
week, anthracite at Newark, Grey Forge
at Pittsburg and Southern pig at Chi-
cago are all higher,

At the principal clearing houses, in
twenty working days of March, pay-
ments have averaged $304,995,000,
which is 445 per cent. more than last
year and 57.8 per cent. more than in
1892. Less speculative stock excitement
may have rendered returns deceptive;
the payments at the thirteen . largest
cities outside New York may be separ-
ately compared, but they show an in-
crease over last year of 39 per cent. for
the week and 26 per cent. for the month,
and an increase over 1892 of 44 per
cent. for the week and 38 per cent. for
the month. It can not be denied that
in volume business is far surpassing all
records,

When the hour came for the Kansas
Legislature to close, the other day, the
executive council took the somewhat
remarkable precaution of stationing
detectives at every exit of the state-
house, with instructions to see that no
public property was carried away. It
bas been the custom in the past, it
seems, for a vast number of articles,
ranging from typewriters down to ink-
stands in value, and from desks and
chairs to bunches of envelopes in size,
to disappear at the end of every session,
and the authorities decided that for
once at least this sort of stealing should
be discouraged. The detectives found
plenty to do, and dozens of would-be
thieves were forced to disgorge. The
depredators were chiefly legislative em-
ployes. It would be interesting to know
whether the Kansans are peculiar in
looting their Capitol or in taking action
to prevent the dirty business. There
are other states in which legislative
‘“souvenirs’’ are not quite unknown.

The purpose of the United States to
exercise control in Cuba only until such
time as the people of that island shall
be able to establish a stable government
is reaffirmed in the decision of Attor-
ney General Griggs denying the appli-

cation of the Commercial Cable Co. to.

land a cable in Cuba. By the act of
March 3, 1899, Congress directed that
‘“‘no property franchise or concessions
shall be granted in the island of Cuba
during the occupancy thereof by the
United States.'’ This precludes the
granting of the cable company’s re-
quest,and is a wise inhibition. A power
jess scrupulous might farm out all that
is worth while in the island while in
temporary possession, so that when the
Cubans came into power they would find
nothing to administer upon. The good
faith of the United States is to be pre-
served.

 

There will be no marrying in haste
and repenting at leisure in Wisconsin
henceforth. The new marriage law, as
passed by the Assembly, provides that
five days must elapse between the taking
out of the license and the marriage cer-
emony, and that during the time the
license must be kept on file and recorded

-by the Register of Deeds of the county

where the parties or the bride resides,
or, in case the parties are not residents
of the State, in the county where the
ceremony is to take place.

 

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keep the magazines supplied with bat-
tle matter for a couple of years,

 

 

 

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AGITATION AGAINST BOUNTIES.

In writing about the injury done
sugar-producing countries by the bounty-
fed beet sugar of Europe, newspapers
and other publications have not com-
monly taken India into account as
among the countries injured by this
Competition. It now develops, how-
ever, that India is seriously injured
by the cheap European beet sugar and
has actually been forced to follow the
example of the United States and im-
pose countervailing duties upon bounty-
fed sugar in self-protection.

It must not be supposed, however,
that the situation in India is the same
as that prevailing in the cane-producing
countries of the West Indies. It is true
that the bounty-fed sugar has mate-
rially injured the West India sugar-
producing islands; but it has done so,
not by competing with their sugar in
their own home markets, but by forcing
down the price of cane sugar in the mar
kets of Great Britain. The West Indies
export large amounts of sugar, whereas
India exports but little, nearly all her
production being consumed at home.

The action of India in imposing coun-
tervailing duties will, without doubt,
stimulate the British West India colonies
to renew their demand for protectior
from bounty-fed sugar. They themselves
can do no good by imposing duties.
What they demand is that Englano
should place a tax on bounty-fed beet
sugar sufficient to drive it out of Eng-
lish markets, thus giving colonial sugars
preferential treatment. Thus Great
Britain is asked to tax the millions of
her population for the benefit of a num-
ber of small colonies. This is a very
different proposition from that which
confronted India.

In British India sugar is produced on
a large scale and is one of the leading
industries of the people, but the prod-
uct is nearly all consumed at home. The
imported beet sugar, by materially low-
ering the price of sugar to consumers,
has greatly damaged the sugar-cane in-
terests of the natives, impaired the
value of their lands and curtailed their
incomes. The countervailing duty has,
therefore, been imposed as a protection
to the home industry.

The situation in India is very similar
to that prevailing in the United States.
The competition of bounty-fed beet
sugar was becoming a serious menace
to the domestic sugar industry before
Congress decided to put a countervail-
ing duty equivalent to the bounty paid.
The duty bas been successful in check-
ing the competition of beet sugar, and
this success has no doubt been instru-
mental in inducing the Indian govern-
ment to adopt the countervailing duty.

The action of India is another blow
at the bounty system of continental
Europe, and wil! aid the agitation which
is constantly growing against the con-
tinuance of the bounties.

 

 

A FRIENDLY RIVALRY.

It was a joyful occasion for host and
guest when Ambassador Choate re-
marked, among other things, at the ban-
quet in his honor, that the two nations,
while standing side by side in carrying
out the high ideals of National upright-
ness and honor, would still continue a
friendly rivalry in regard to the world’s
commerce.

The time has been when a statement
of that character would have met with a
complacent ‘‘Well!’’ from the country
of the ‘‘Woolsack ;’’ but there is little
doubt in commercial circles that the in

considerable sober thinking. There is
such a thing as a too friendly rivalry
and it is barely possible that such a
condition of things may be now ap-
proaching between Jobn and Johnathan,
Not that anything like strained relations
exists. So long as the rivals are head
to head in the commercial race it is ex-
citing and enjoyable for both, but the
moment one forges ahead the friendli-
ness will take to itself wings. A few
figures will furnish a moral and adorn
the tale:

The exports of domestic merchandise
from the United States, in the eight
months ending with February, amount
to $89,335,141; those from the United
Kingdom amount to $789,960,427. The
domestic exports from the United
States, during the calendar year 1808,
were $1,233,564,828, while those of the
United Kingdom were $1, 131,944,331, a
difference of over $100,000, 000.

That year was the first in which the
United States came out ahead in domes-
tic exports. Twice before the domestic
exports of this country have been over
a billion dollars, while for the last
twenty years the United Kingdom has
constantly gone beyond that amount In
1879, the latest year in which ber ex-
ports of domestic merchandise fell be-
low a billion dollars, they amounted to
$928, 929,026; that same year our figures
for the same merchandise were $754,-
656,755, so that, during the double dec-
ide, Great Britain scores a gain of 22
per cent. and the United States finds 63
per cent. for her record of gain, during
the same period.

In the exchange of commodities dur-
ing the last twenty years the advantage
is in favor of this country. In 1879 our
exports to the United Kingdom were
$346, 485,881; in 1898, $584,398, 302, a
gain of 54 per cent.—ours for the same
time being 63 per cent.—a statement
the more remarkable from the fact that
our imports from the United Kingdom
have not increased at the rate her pur-
chases from us have grown. The im-
ports into the United States from Great
Britain in 1898 are no greater than they
were twenty years ago, the imports from
that country in 1879 being $108,538, 812
and in 1898 $108,945, 185.

There is no doubt that Great Britain
would enjoy the progress of the United
States, as it is here recorded, if it were
the result of rivalry between this and
any other country in Europe. It re-
mains to be seen whether, if this con-
dition of things continues, the rivalry
will remain so friendly as it was re-
ported to be at the time of the banquet.
Blood is thicker than water: but there
are limits even to that, and even mem-
bers of the same family have been
known to disagree. The Yankee’s love
for the Almighty Dollar, pronounced as
it 1s, has been inherited, and it is safe
to predict a lively time if each of these
two branches of the Saxon family ever
makes up its mind to gain the entire
possession of the same thing.

 

The Mayor of Atchison has officially
notified the citizens that he wants every-
body to take a course of the cider-vine-
gar treatment for the prevention of
smallpox. This treatment extends over
a week, and the patient is expected to
take a tablespoonfui of vinegar three
times a day. The Mayor is backed by
the city physician, who declares that it
is the best preventive known,

 

By the time a man has dropped all
his burdens, he has become so old and

 

cidental remark has been the cause of

worn out that he is a burden himself,

  

MEN OF MARK

 

C. U. Clark, President Michigan Bark
& Lumber Co.

It is not often that a person is priv-
ileged to do business or be associated in
a business way with three generations of
the same family, but the editor of the
Tradesman has had the privilege and
pleasure of doing business with three
generations of Clarks—Nathaniel Clark,
who is spending the evening of his life
in Reed City, N. B. Clark, whose
tragic death a couple of years ago
shocked the business world with which
he was identified, and Clarence U.
Clark, who succeeded his father as
President of the Michigan Bark & Lum-
ber Co. The first business experience
the writer had was in the general store
of Clark & Simpson, at Reed City. in
the spring of 1872. Nathaniel Clark,
the senior partner, devoted his entire
attention to the mercantile business,
while his partner dabbled in timber and
lumber. Mr. Clark was diligent in
business and soon secured for the firm

 

 

 

the confidence and patronage of the
people. He is a man of strong convic-
tions, intensely religious and eminently
fair in his dealings. Although the rela-
tionship of employer and clerk was of
only a few months’ duration, the exam-
ple of Mr. Clark and the precepts he in-
culeated in his clerk have been of last-
ing value to the latter in his life work.
Clarence U. Clark was born on a
prairie farm in Mower county, Minne-
sota, Nov. 27, 1868. When he was 3
years old, his parents removed to Reed
City, where they remained two years.
Their next abiding place was at Chase,
where for two years the father was asso-
ciated with the construction depart-
ment of the F. & P. M. Railroad.
The family then removed to Fremont,
where the elder Clark was connected
with the C. & W, M. Railway, subse-
quently establishing himself in the hem-
lock bark business, which afterwards
grew to such large proportions under his
own and his son’s direction. Mr. Clark
attended school at Fremont during the
eleven years he resided at that place
and, on the removal of the family to
Cadillac, went on the road purchasing
and inspecting bark, covering the buy-
ing points between Cadillac and Reed
City, including tbe Luther and Osceola
branches. Sept. 1, 1886, the family re-
moved to Grand Rapids, where Clarence
attended Swensberg’s business college
during the winter. In the spring of

 

office of his father, which position he
retained with the subsequent firm of
N. B. Clark & Co. In 1892, when the
business was merged into a corporation
under the style of the Michigan Bark &
Lumber Co., Mr. Clark became a stock-
holder, and two years later he was made
a director and elected to the respon-
sible position of Secretary and Treas-
urer. On tie death of his father, May
15, 1897, he was elected President of
the company, which position he has
filled with great credit to himself and
with profit to the stockholders.

Mr. Clark was married Oct. 15, 1891,
to Miss Cora E. Sees, of Grand Rapids,
and has had two children—a daughter
now nearly 214 years old and a son who
died at the age of 6 months. Hes an
attendant of the Congregational church,
of which his wife is a member, and is
a devoted adherent of the Masonic fra-
ternity up to the 33d degree. He is also
a member of the Michigan Knights of
the Grip.

Mr. Clark attributes his success in
business to his intimate knowledge of
details, due to the fact that he has un-
dertaken to master every part of the
business. He has been kept very busy
since his boyhood in acquiring this
knowledge, so that he has had no time
for foolishness, having devoted every
moment to the study of hemlock bark
from the time it is peeled from the tree
until it produces the finisbed product at
the hands of the tanner. The fact that
he was able to take up the work of bis
father, when the latter was suddenly
summoned from the scene of his activ-
ity, and carry it forward to a successful
issue Clearly demonstrates that during
the years of his tulelage he made the
best of his opportunities and om:tted
learning no poimt which would con-
tribute to his success,

>.>

There is something peculiar and al-
most ominous in the frequency with
which the State Department officials are
giving out foreign commendations of
our consular service, and the informa-
tion supplied by it to American mer-
chants and manufacturers. Of course,
these praises from English, German
and French authorities make very pleas-
ant reading, but if they are to serve as
arguments for leaving unchanged the
present method of selecting and remov-
ing our foreign representatives, then
they are open to a good deal of suspi-
cion, That all of our consuls are dis-
reputable or incompetent politicians is
a claim that no sane man would make,
but that more than a few of them are
one or the other, or both, is beyond
question, and equally certain is it that
the system of appointment now in
vogue, if perpetuated, will prevent the
formation of a service as creditable
throughout as it now is in spots. The
foreigners envy us the best, most intel-
ligent and most industrious of our con-
suls, and well they may, but no Ameri-
can citizen has traveled to the more out-
of-the-way parts of the world without
finding himself forced to listen in angry
silence to tales that were inspired not
by envy, but by well-warranted con-

tempt.
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No trust has angered the anarchists
and trades unionists so much as the
proposed soap trust. They never use
soap; but it is the principle of the
thing they stick at, and resolve to do
the combine dirt.
——_~>4.___

There are some people who make it
necessary to lie about them when any-

 

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Fruits and Produce.

Good Results From the Use of Water
Glass.

Some months ago the Tradesman de-
voted considerable space to the report
of experiments which had been made in
Germany with various methods of pre-
serving eggs, from which it appeared
that of all the methods tried a solution
of water glass afforded the most satis-
factory results. The North Dakota ex-
periment Station at Fargo has recently
issued a bulletin containing an interest-
ing report of further experiments made
by E. F. Ladd with a solution of water
glass, from which we take the following:

During the past summer a statement
was made in one of the agricultural
journals that water glass was a preserva
tive for eggs. From the nature of this
product the method seemed promising,
and it was decided to make some ex-
periments to determine whether it had
any real value for this purpose. The
shell of an egg has a very thin coating
of mucilagenous, albuminous matter
upon its surface that seems to protect
the eggs for a considerable time from
atmospheric action or the introduction
of the germs of decomposition. If this
Coating be removed immediately afte:
the egg is deposited while still warm
the keeping quality seems to be much
reduced, or if eggs that become soiled
in the nest are washed, this albuminous
coating is softened and the life of the
egg shortened thereby. This would sug
gest that a method for preserving eggs
should be one based upon experiments
that would tend to more thcroughly pro-
tect this natural cosdit on of the eggs,
and at the same time keep the air as
far as possible from the eggs. For
this purpose lime has not proved wholly
successful, neither has sait nor brine,
for while each of them aid in protecting
against air, the albumincus coating ot
the egg has been destroyed and the shell
much weakened. These adverse condi-
tious seem to be more largely overcome
by the use of water glass than in either
of the other methods. After experiments
witb solutions of various strengths, and
under varying conditions, we found a
10 per cent. sclution of water glass
would preserve eggs very effectually, so
that at the end of three and one-balt
months eggs that were preserved the
first part of August still appear to be
perfectly fresh. In most packed eggs,
after a little time, the yolk settles to
one side, and the egg is then inferior
in quality. In boiling eggs preserved
for three and one-half months in water
glass the yolk retained its normal posi-
tion in the egg, and in taste they were
not to be distinguished from fresh un-
packed store eggs. Again, most packed
eggs will not beat up well for cakemak-
ing or frosting, while eggs from solution
in water glass seemed quite equal to the
average fresh eggs of the market. It
should be borne in mind that in these
experiments only fresh eggs were used
for preserving; no egg was more than
four days oli. Eggs that have already
become stale can not be successfully
preserved by this or any other known
method so as to come out fresh.

Water glass isa very cheap product
that can usually be procured at not to
exceed Soc per gallon, and one gallon
would make enough solution to preserve
fifty dozen of eggs, so that the cost of
material for this method would only be
about Ic per dozen. Water glass is so-
dium and potassium silicate, sodium
Silicate being usually the cheaper. If
wooden kegs or barrels are to be used in
which to pack the eggs they should first
be thoroughly scalded with boiling
water to sweeten and purify them. For
those who may desire to try this method
I give the following directions:

Use pure water that has been
thoroughly boiled and then cocled. To
each ten quarts of water add one quart
of water glass. Pack the eggs in the
Jar and pour solution over them, cover-
Ing well.

Keep the eggs in a cool dark place.
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If the eggs are kept™in too warm’a
place the silicate is deposited and the
eggs are not properiy protected. Do not
wash the eggs before packing for, by so
doing, you injure their keeping quality
probably by dissolving the mucilagenous
coating on the outside of the shell.

For packing use only perfectly fresh
eggs, for stale eggs will not be saved
and may prove harmful to the others.

—-> > ___
Regulating the Sale of Process Butter.

Albany, March 23—Gov. Roosevelt
gave a hearing this noon on Senator
Ambler’s bill regulating the manufac-
ture, sale and branding of process but
ter, a compound of various grades of
butter worked over and manipulated by
the use of preservatives. The hearing
developed the fact that the State De-
partment of Agriculture can not prohibit
the sale of butter of an inferior grade,
and although this bad no direct bearing
on the measure under discussion it pro-
voked from the Governor an expression
to the effect that he hoped a bill aimed
against such butter would be speedily
passed.

The oppositicn to the process butter
bill was represented by a number of
wholesale commission merchants, who
were heard through Attorney J. S.
Frost, of this city. Mr. Frost admitted
that they were opposed merely to the
branding of the butter as such.

Gov. Roosevelt thought, under the cir-
cumstances, that it was unnecessary for
any of the advocates of the bill to pre
sent any arguments, thus practically an-
nouncing that he would sign the bill.

Since the hearing above described the
Measure bas passed both houses of the
Legislature ia toe following form:

No person by himself, his agents or
employes, shall manufacture, sell, offer
or expose for sale, butter that 1s pro-
duced by taking origina! packing stock
or cther butter or both and melting the
same, so that the butter fat can be
drawn off, then mixing the said butter
fat with skimmed milk or milk or
cream or ctner milk product and re-
churning the said mixture, or that is
produced by any similar process and is
commonly known as boiled or process
butter, unless he shali plainly brand or
mark the package or tub or wrapper in
which the same is put up in a conspic-
uous place with the words ‘‘ Renovated
Butter.’ If the same shall be put up,
sold, offered or exposed for sale in
prints or rclis, then the said prints or
rolls shall be labeled plainly with
printed labels in a conspicuous place
on the wrapper with the words ‘‘ Reno-
vated Butter.’’ If the same is packed in
tubs or boxes or pails or other kind of
case or package, the words ‘‘ Renovated
Butter’’ shall be pri ted on the top and
side of the same in letters at least one
inch in length so as to be plainly seen
by the purchasers. If such butter is
exposed for sale uncovered, not in a
package or case, a placard containing
the label so printed shall be attached to
the mass of butter in such manner as to
eas:ly be seen and read by the purchas-
er. No person shail sell, offer or expose
for sale any butter or other dairy prod-
uct containing a preservative, but this
shail not be construed to prohibit the
use of salt in butter or cheese.

——_>22.___
Reason for Doubt.

‘‘Did you sever your connection with
the firm or were you discharged?’’ asked
the friend.

The man out of a job gave a few min-
utes to thought before answering.

‘I'm a little uncertain about that,’’
he said at last.

**Uncertain?’’

‘‘Yes. Of course, I know that office
boys aredischarged and general man-
agers sever their connections, but I
can't be sure tbat I was high enough up
to sever my connection, and I don’t like
to think I was low enough down to be
discharged. Perhaps you'd better make
it that the firm and I disagreed.’’

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New York Egg Dealers Unable to
Fathom the Future.

I have heard a good deal of talk on
the street during the past week in re-
gard to the prospect for prices of eggs
during the height of the approaching
Storage season. There is a fear that the
competition for April eggs will be too
strong to afford a supply to those who
would govern their paying prices by the
considerations then set forth. This
seems to be rather unfortunate and it is
to be hoped that conservatism may still
prevail. There are some further consid-
erations in regard to the conditions
which bear upon the profits of spring
holdings which add materially to the
uncertainties of the outcome and which
throw the results of spring storage even
more wholly upon chance if prices are
maintained above average rates. I refer
to the effect of summer weather upon
the quantity of summer and fall fresh
production. During the heated period
of July, August and September the
spoilage of eggs is more or less accord-
ing to the degree of heat and there is
little doubt that the effect of summer
weather upon the general condition of
the fowls makes considerable difference
in the extent of fall production also.
Moderate weather through the summer
has a material influence upon the early
unloading of spring eggs because it re-
duces the waste, makes a larger quan-
tity of the production available for con-
sumption, and tends to prolong the
period of free laying later in the fall.
The reverse is also true. I suggest this
evident fact simply to show that the im
portant elements which affect the
chances of spring holding are largely
unknowable and that even if general
circumstances should seem to warrant
fuli prices in April and May the later
conditions are about as likely to be un-
favorable as the reverse.

* * *

At this season of year, before the de-
mand for storage goods appears, there
is rather a peculiar situation as to the
discrimination of qualities of eggs.
There are always some fastidious buy-
ers who examine quality critically and
who naturally give preference for those
goods which show superior size and
cleanness; but we have also a very large
outlet with less critical customers, and
the difference in selling value between
fancy grades and those which are of av-
erage serviceable quality depends large
ly upon the general condition of the
market. Sometimes it amounts to Kc
or %c and sometimes it disappears al-
together. When, by reason of a sudden
change in values which is not generally
anticipated, the ideas of holders are at
variance and the offers to sell become
irregular, differences in quality gener-
ally receive some recognition in the
price paid. But when conditions are
such that eggs are very freely offered at
a time when demand is also tree, it
often results that the most fastidious
dealers can take their pjck of the marks
offering, while the cheaper ciass of
trade is obliged to pay the same price
for qualities which would be unsatisfac-
tory to the more critic] buyers. It is for
this reason that the quotations for West-
ern eggs are sometimes uniform, while
at other times they show a range of Yc
to %c as to quality.

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I had an enquiry from Pennsylvania a
few days ago asking why it is that the
market quotation for State and Pennsyl-
vania eggs has of late years been nearer

 

to the price of Western than formerly.
Others may be interested in the ques-
tion. The fact is that in general there
has been some improvement in the aver-
age quality of Western eggs and atsome
seasons of year the best of them are now
as good and as valuable as any of the
nearby receipts which come upon the
wholesale market. At all seasons there
are small lots of Jersey and nearby eggs
arriving from henneries where special
pains are taken and which find special
outlets at a premium above general
wholesale rates. There is no means of
establishing any regular basis of value
for such, for it depends upon the charac-
ter of the outlet as much as upon the
quality of the stock. At this season
nearby eggs which come on the whole-
sale market in the usual course of trade
are no better and bring no more than
the best Western. Later in the season,
when hot weather is affecting the qual-
ity of the stock, the nearby goods bring
a little more, but the difference of late
years has rarely been more than %c per
doz. and scarcely ever more than Ic.
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To get the advantage of full market
prices for eggs nothing is more im-
portant than the style of the cases and
packing. Of course size and cleanness
are very important considerations, but
the first thing that strikes the eye of a
purchaser is the exterior quality. I no-
tice many lots of eggs, especially from
the South, which come into the stores
in all sorts of cases—scarcely two alike,
and none of them neatandtrim. These
goods are generally condemned before
they are looked at and can oniy be sold
at a concession, no matter how good the
eggs may be. Shippers may accept it
as a fact that while all eggs in first-class
packages may not sell at top price, no
eggs in second or third-class packages
will do so.

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The matter of fillers is also a most
important one in assuring the sale of
eggs at full value. In spite of ail that
bas been said or written on this subject,
I find a good many lots of eggs arriv-
ing in poor condition, owing to the
weak and flimsy character of the filler,
If the fillers are so thin and weak as to
afford no proper resistence to the weight
of the eggs, they do nct give proper pro-
tection and lead to breakage and a gen-
erally mussy condition. Moreover the
fillers should fit the cases snugly, othber-
wice they will shift and any lateral mo-
tion is likely to cause breakage:

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I had a letter from a well-known
Philadelphia egg man last week. He
had just returned from the egg field of
Ohio and Indiana and reported that
there was a general impression our there
that production would be moderate this
spring and prices higher than last year.
Speaking of the recent effort to inter-
fere with the correct compilation of re-
ceipts at New York, he says: ‘‘Any
member of the Mercantile Exchange
acting as one of them does now over
there should be fired’’—a homely ex-
pression but one which is certainly ap-
propriate to the occasion. This Phila-
delphia man also reports some _interest-
ing things going on out in the egg field;
for instance, he tells about a New York
egg man who proposes to compel a cer-
tain shipper to sell him his April and
May goods; the threat is that if he de-
clines, this enterprising New Yorker
will put men out in the country and buy
up the goods first hand. It’s getting to
be a great game, this egg business. —
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W. R. BRICE. Established 1852. C, M. DRAKE.

W. R. Brice & Co.,
WHOLESALE
EGGS .% .¢

Grand Rapids, Mich.

To our many friends and shippers throughout Michigan:

We shall open our branch house in Grand Rapids on or
about March 25, when we shall be in the market for an unlimited quan-
tity of Fine Fresh Eggs suitable for cold storage purposes.

We are not new to you, as we have bought eggs of you for several
years. We shall stand on the same platform we have used in our busi-
ness for the last fifty years, viz., prompt remittances, fair, square deal-
ing, and you can always depend on getting a hundred cents to the dollar
when selling or shipping us. We will buy your eggs on track and pay
you all we can afford to pay consistent with Eastern markets. Write us
for prices. Yours for business,

W. R. BRICE & CO.

REFERENCES:

Corn Exchange National Bank, Philadelphia.

W. D. Hayes, Cashier Hasiings National Bank, Hastings, Mich.
Fourth National Bank, Grand Rapids, Mich.

D. C. Oakes, Coopersville, Mich.

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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:

Bradstreet and Dun Agencies.

Pottstown National Bank.

The Citizens National Bank, Pottstown, Pa.

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

New York, March 25—The volume of
business being transacted here grows
apace, and few there are who can recall
more activity in general merchandising.
Prices are very firm and on all sides
are heard expressions of satisfaction.

With continued very large receipts at
Rio and Santos and weaker advices
from Europe, the invoice market for
coffees has not the animation that had
been looked for. Quiet and steady is a
phrase that fairly characterizes the situ-
ation. There has been no anxiety shown
to dispose of holdings and, on the other
hand, buyers seem willing to let mat-
ters go on as they are, taking only
enough for current wants. The statis-
tical position is one that does not sug-
gest much change, one way or the other.
In store and afloat the stock of Rio ag-
gregates 1,312,285 bags, against 1,147, -
601 bags at the same time last year. On
the spot Rio No. 7 is held at 6 1-16c
and No. 4 at 6c. For mild grades
there is a pretty fair demand for the
very best qualities, with good Cucuta
held at 8%@oc. East India sorts of
choice growth are well held, but with
nothing doing for the lower varieties.

A thousand packages of teas have
been sold in this market for London of
India and Ceylon and 2.000 of Congous
—the former at 14c, the latter at about
12%c. At the moment the London mar.
ket is higher than this. Conditions,
however, are practically unchanged on
the street and little tea is changing
hands in the way of invoice lots. Low
grade Chinas and Japans appear to be
enjoying as good demand as any and are
selling ahead of the choice varieties.
Quotations for superior to fine teas are
about as follows: Foochow, 25%4@28c;
Formosas, 28@34c; new crop Japans
28% @3I1c; Congous, 28@35c.

Dealers appear to be pretty well sup-
plied with sugar for the present and
transactions are for immediate wants to
complete broken stocks The range ot
prices remains about the same, although
Arbuckle and Doscher have made 1 16c
shading on the soft grades. ‘There is
still talk of a settlement of all war, and
yet the war goes on—on paper, at least.

The rice situation remains practically
unchanged Few transactions of large
amounts are reported, btt there has
been a fairly satisfactory aggregate of
small orders from out-of-town dealers.
Japan has had most of the call. Prime
to choice Southern, 544@6%c. Domes-
tics generally are well beld for the bet-
ter sorts, the supply of which is not
large.

The whole spice line is moving slow-
ly, and yet matters have been worse and
might be again. Pepper is not meeting
with the active demand which charac-
terized it a few weeks ago, but rates
are well held as supplies are very light.

Grocery grades of molasses are in
rather light demand, the orders coming
being mostly for stocks to replenish
broken assortments. Prices are firm,
good to prime centrifugal being held at
16@26c; open kettle, 32@38c. In the
svrup market there is little to report
Prices are firm and supplies are not
over abundant

Canned goods stocks are light and
there is some let-up to the rush of or-
ders which has been going on for so
long. The business of forming the trade
into a trust seems to be going forward
merrily and it is now announced that
this combination will be totaily unlike
any other trust. Corn is in fair demand,
with New York State from 75@8oc for
future delivery and 65@zoc for spot.
Maine corn is very scarce for spot de-
livery. For futures the rate is from 80
@85c f. o. b. Portland. Tomatoes are
very firm, with No. 3 New Jerseys on
the spot quotable at 80@goc or more.
Futures, 80@85c. There 1s a moderate
jobbing demand here for peas, with
Early Junes at 70@85c.

The demand for lemons is rather
light. Sicilys are worth from $2.25@
3.25, witb almost every figure between.
Oranges are selling with rather more

 

freedom. Jamaicas are about exhausted
for the season. California navels. $2.75
@4.25; Florida  russets, $3@4 25;
brights, $3.25@5. Bananas are firm,
with quotations from goc@$1.15 for
firsts per bunch.

The demand for California dried
fruits bas been quite active for a fort-
night, some Western buyers seeking to
replenish, especially stocks of dried
peaches, from here. Their offers have
hardly been attractive enough to produce
any large transactions, however. Prices
are steady and no change in quotations
is shown for either raisins or prunes.
For domestic fruits there is a steady
feeling, but with hardly any apprecia-
tion in quotations. Fancy evaporated
apples are steady at 93(@t1oc. Rasp
berries, 1o@10%c.

Quite a large quantity of butter which
was delayed in transit reached here Fri-
day, and the market is easier. Out-of-
town dealers have gone rather slowly in
making purchases ahead of current re-
quiremerts, as rates have been too high
for them to do much. Extra Western
creamery is worth 22c; firsts, 21@21%c;
seconds, Ig@zoc. Fancy _ imitation
creamery is steady within a range of 18
@18%c for fancy stock. Western dairy
of the better grades 1s closely sold up.
Quotations are from 16@17c for finest
Western factory is quiet, but quot:itions
are pretty firmly adhered to—14@14%c
for extras; roll butter, choice stock, 14
@14 kc.

There is a fair demand for cheese and
the general tone of the market is a
healthy one. Large size State, colored,
is worth 12c if fancy. Small size, fancy,
12@12Xc.

The egg market has taken ancther
tumble and for fancy Western stock the
top seems to be about 13c—possibly
13%c. There is no great accumulation
ot stock here, however, and the rate
will perhaps go no lower for some time.

The bean market is unsettled. Choice
Marrows, $1.50; choice mediums,
$1 37%@1.40; choice pea, $1.35; red
ki iney, $1 75@1.80.

The demand for potatoes is active and
the supply is not excessive, the market
being fairly strong. State and Western
stock, per bbl. (10 Ibs. ), $2@z. 25.

——__s2.>__
An Interesting Experiment.
From the Philadelphia Record.

The customs authorities are watching
an interesting experiment now being
made in the United States bonded stores
to restore the commercial value of 146
cases of champagne which was frozen
during the blizzard in railroad cars
while being transported in bond from
New York to Philadelphia. The wine
came on the French steamship La
Bretagne from Havre to New York, and
was consigned to a well-known club in
this city. Asa rule, experts state that
frozen champagne should be consumed
at once or it is valueless. Asthis could
not be done in this case, the wine was
stored in the warm cellars of the bonded
stores, which are below the surface of
the earth, and where there is always a
uniform temperature. It was noticed
that there was a deposit of cream of tar-
tar in the bottles, which, the Govern-
ment officials think, 1f gradually dis-
solved in the warm temperature of the
bonded stores, will restore the wine to
its former value.

——_~>_2____
A Practical Agriculturist.

‘**I,’’ said the orator, ‘‘am an Amer-
ican of the good old stock, rooted deep
in the soil—’’

‘*The only stock I ever heard of that
rooted deep in the soil,’’ said the farm-
er in the audience, ‘‘was hogs.”’

—__o2.—__
Next Trouble.

Harris—Walters has been looking
pretty sad since his daughter got mar-
ried, hasn't he?

Correl—Yes; you see, he had no soon-
er got his daughter off his hands than
he found he would have to put her bus-
band on bis feet.

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POTATOES

CARLOTS ONLY. ST. LOUIS, MO.

The Seeds offered by us are
f; ilk FEDS largely our own production and
all carefully tested before sent
out. PRICES AS LOW AS

ANY RESPONSIBLE HOUSE IN THE TRADE.
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We are Headquarters for Onions

If you have any stock, we will buy it.
If you want any stock, we can supply it.

Vinkemulder Company, Grand Rapids, Mich.

JOBBERS OF FRUITS AND PRODUCE.
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BUTTER & EGGS

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April 1. Write us.

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34 and 36 Market Street,
435-437-439 Winder Street.

Cold Storage and Freezing House in connection, Capacity
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

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Rocky Mountain Storekeeping.
Written for the TrapEsMAN.

Given a convenient, roomy storeroom,
an efficient corps of clerks and a busy
community, the problem of success wili
depend upon the man at the head of the
concern. There’s’ where ‘‘old man
Means’’ shines. His mark is on every-
thing in and around that establishment.
It begins with the broad platform at the
door and is seen in every nook and cor-
ner throughout the ample interior.

**Do you scrub your floor, old man?’’
I asked after I bad been there long
enough to get acquainted. ‘‘The store
floors of my youth, as they rise from the
dim and misty past, are not so clean
and white. My Denver grocer does not
often indulge in the cleansing properties
of soap and water. Is neatness the first
law here, as order is in heaven?’

**Is not your knowledge of the estab-
lishment overhead pretended rather than
real; and wouldn’t it be a little more in
accerdance with all ideas of a becoming
modesty if you should assume less of
such knowledge when you know you
have it not?’’

That, so far east as Michigan, would
be called ‘‘sass.’’ Out here in the Cen-
tennial State, from the President of a
duly incorporated company, it is con-
sidered wit; and, while the President
was busy laughing at it, I gave my at-
tention to other matters and things
which I had come to see.

The white floor suggested the clean
window and I found it. The Colorado
sunshine, brighter than that which bz thes
in ‘‘placid Leman,’’ was not shut out
from that store among the Rockies by
dirt-stained glass. It poured down
from the blue sky-arches upon the snow-
creste] mountain-tops and their steep
sides white witb glittering splendor,
and flooded the store with its radiance
yellow as the gold hidden everywhere in
the mighty storehouses of the moun-
tains.

I have seen trading places in New
England where the man behind the
counter could not readily find the mer-
chandise called for. That is not a
failing here; and so I might go on in
detail with the peculiar virtues of the
store, wherever located. I will not do
this; I will simply say tbat the store is
a model of its kind, and so is a fair
reflex of its manager, as all stores are.

In a certain sense a trading place isa
fair sample of the community in which
it stands. Like seeks like in commerce,
as in the social worl1; and I don’t be-
lieve that the tradesman has any busi-
ness to neglect the moral advancement
of his patrons, so far as he can do this
without interfering with what does not
concern him. This can be done better
in the country than in the town. There
is nct a country store in Michigan, nor
anywhere else, managed by a man
worthy of the name, who does not stand
for the best element in his neighbor-
hood, and who does not directly and in-
directly lift his patrons into the higher
plane he is almost sure to stand upon.
His opinion obtains in all questions of
public concern. He is the representa-
tive man, or one of that class, and as he
frowns or favors so the little world
around him is banned or blessed. In
the city this is true in a less degree. In
this particular mountain town, filled
with the mining class, this same whole-
some influence is noticeable.

The mining element is not hopelessly
pious. The morals, like the means of
subsistence, are decidedly underground.
Refinement is not a characteristic of the
thought, and face and tongue bear pain-

 

ful evidence of the lack of it. So from
that point of view I studied this store,
and I can see why Heaven wanted old
man Means to take it in hand. He had
to be out and in and | made the most
of my opportunity to ask questions.

‘*You have a rather rough element
here to deal with.’’

‘*Rough’s the devil.’’

‘*How does the boss get over the bad
places?’’

*‘Don’t have any. Hecleans ’em up.
Ought to be’n here t'’other day:
Damn skunk planted himself behind
the stove and opened up. Told two or
three rank ones and the old man told
him to shet up orclear out. He wouldn't
do neither. Wimin folks come in; but
that didn’t make no odds and I’ll be
damned—I wouldn’t said that ef he'd
be'n here—ef he didn’t take him by the
nap o’ the neck and seat uv his pants
and land him into the middle of the
street. Did for fact.’’

That kind of man, when his tongue
gets under way, finds it hard to stop.
This one did I looked interested and
he, encouraged, went on.

‘*Used to think the boss got holt the
wrong shop; 'tis, for him. High toned,
ye know. Can't bear speck o’ dirt.
Allus looks ’s ef he stepped out band-
box. Never says nothin’; but I says ter
Jim, ‘He'll have fit ef ye don’t keep
swep’ up.’ You'd ougktt to see wimin
folks. Some mighty fly. One two
cabbaged to him and I thought he was
a goner sure; but somehow they got
the’r toes on a line and dassen't git
over. It’s all right fer us, and 'tain’t
bad fer him ef he can git ust ter it. Ye
see, he’s pullin’ us all up ter his level.
Here he comes—don’t tell him I’ve
squealed.’’

I didn’t; and I use what he said now
only to show what I have always be-
lieved, that the minister and the store-
keeper are co-workers in the community,
with the advantage in many respects on
the store keeper's side.

With this for an inkling of what was
going on in the establishment, I con-
cluded to see and hear for myself some-
thing of the customers who patronize
that store. Comfort is a leading feature
of all humanity; so I accepted the glass
of sweet cider and cigar, stationed my-
selt behind a barricade of boxes where
I covli see and hear and not be seen,
and waited developments.

Alas and alas! Human nature is the
same the world over, only in Central
City I think it is a little moreso. -There
is the same woman up here who comes
in and picks over and eats. Her sister
by the way of Eve lives just across the
way and comes regularly to quarrel over
the small eggs sold her and complain
about the nasty butter, the adjective ap-
plying better to her own slatternly rai-
ment MacAllan's ‘‘old hen’’ which
made his Mondays a torment was large-
ly on hand to sample and not to buy,
and while my study went on every
phase of trading humanity came in,
made the usual display of itself and
passed out.

I do not like Central City, I should
not like to keep store there; and, while
I was then nearer Heaven than I may
ever be again, I shall not repine if I
do not see again the city clutching the
rugged mountains with its grimy hands
to keep itself from rolling to the base.
I left it early one morning with the
fingers of the wind pointing at some
figures below zero on the thermometer,
hoping and praying that old man Means
might soon be found again in the more
congenial circles of the Queen City of
the Plains.

RICHARD MALCOLM STRONG.

 

Yellow-Fleshed and Yellow-Legged
Poultry a Yankee Fad.

From the Inland Poultry.

_ It is an odd fact that the great Amer-
ican poultry consuming public is great-
ly prejudiced in favor of the yellow-
legged, yellow-fleshed fowl. That it is
merely a matter of fashion, or fad, is
amply proven by the fact that in all
other countries the preference is given
to the white-meated birds. France is
recognized as authority upon the edible
qualities of all the foods devoted to the
use of man, and in that sunny land the
Houdan stands pre-eminent. They have
been bred for generations for the ex-
press purpose of use as a table delicacy.
They are a bird of medium weight and
large breast predominance; being small
boned and fine fleshed, with a small
amount of offal, they are a profitable
carcass for the consumer to purchase.
In the great Paris markets, huge piles
of dressed Houdan and La Fleche fowls
can be seen at the numerous stalls.
These are reared in small flocks by the
villagers adjacent to the city, and sold
to professional dealers, who make the
daily or weekly tours. They are not
bought up by bucksters, then sold to
commission houses and put in cold stor-
age,to be palmed off on a confiding pub-
lic as fresh poultry. England is an-
other country where the gastronomic
quality of fowls is greatly appreciated.
No attention is given to the color, but
all efforts are directed to the production
of a fowl of size combined with edible
qualities. The Dorking has long been
the favorite of the English bon-vivant.
These fowls, while being of the differ-
ent surface colors accorded to the differ-
ent varieties, all have the same charac-
teristic shape that reveals a member of
the Dorking tribe: long, deep bodies,
heavy in breast and dressing, a plump,
neat. medium size carcass. The Eng-
lish Dorking and French Houdan are of
the same general type, both having the

fine bones and surplus of meat. They
also both exhibit the five toes. It is
claimed that the Hovdan is a made

bird. with Dorking bleod predominant
The Langshan fowl! bas ett acted much
attention in England as a talle fowl,
many of their gastronomic experts
claiming that, as roasters, they are un-
excelled by any other variety. This
variety bas met with great favor in this
country, more for their beauty, hardi-
ness, and laying qualities than their fit-
ness for food. Those who are fortunate
enough to be able to add _Langshans to
their bill of fare will coincide with the
English view of their superiority over
many otbers. After all, the question of
color of flesh is rank nonsense, as it has
nothing to do with the flavor or grain of
the flesh. The only objection to be
quoted against a white or dark skinned
bird is that of appearance when dressed,
as, unless carefully cleaned, the pin
feathers exhibit themselves to a greater
extent. There will be but little prefer-
ence given in a few years, as the Amer-
ican people are rapidly becoming a
poultry consuming people and will learn
to choose quality regardless of color.
> «>

Popular Education and Agitation.
Geo. C. Smithe in Detroit Journal.

If there is no remedy in law or in
legislation for the recognized evil of the
department store, as your editorial of
Wednesady concluded, there should be
a remedy in patriotic sentiment. If
that institution is a menace to business
conditions that are important to the gen-
eral welfare, as familiar facts cited in
your article make evident, then the sen-
timent of patriotic citizens should refuse
to give to the department store the
patronage without which it would cease
to exist, and give that patronage in-
stead to the numerous and diversified
businesses which the business health of
the community needs, but which the de-
partment store is crowding out of exist-
ence. Popular education and agit tion
along the line ought to accomplish
enough to check and reverse the present
tendency, and lead a great many people
to resolve that they will no more patron-
ize nor visit the department store, as the
writer did some time ago resolve from
just this consideration.

 

 

“Lactoputu”

What is ‘‘Lactobutu’’?

It is purely a vegetable compound, con-
taining nothing injurious. A child can
eat any quantity of it without the least
harm.

What will ‘‘Lactobutu’’ do?

It will purify and sweeten old rancid
butter and, with our process of treat-
ment, make good butter out of it, with
uniform color, and also increase the
uantity one-third. INCREASING THE
UANTITY ONE-THIRD may seem ab-
surd, but this is

How it is done:

Take, for example, 10 pounds of butter;
add 5 pounds of fresh milk, then adda
small amount of ‘‘Lactobutu’’ and
with our process of treatment, the milk
will all turn to butter and you will then
have, by adding a little more salt, 15
pounds of good butter ready for sale.
The question is sometimes asked, “Is
not the milk worked into the butter,
and can be worked out again?” No,
such is not the case. Th- milk turns
to butter, and will always be butter
until consumed.

Every merchant knows that when he
sells his poor butter for 4 and 5 cents
per pound it is purchased by some
process firm who make good salable
butter out of it, WHY DON’T YOU?

Our process does not adulterate; it
purifies, and does not conflict with State
laws. Increasing the quantity with only
pure sweet milk has been known here-
tofore by only a very few most success-
ful process butter workers.

 

The great advantage

To the merchant is—say he has 200
pounds of mixed grades of butter which
is undesirable; some dull or rainy day
his clerks can in one hour’s time treat
the entire lot and make 300 pounds of
butter, all one color, and improve the
quality so that it will bring a much
higher price at home or in the market.
Note the profit! Butter treated by our
process will keep sweet twice as long
as ordinary butter.

Our terms:

On receipt of $5.00 we will send you
the secret of how to treat the butter, in-
cluding a package ‘‘Lactobutu’’ suffi-
cient to treat 500 pounds. After you buy
the secret we will supply the ‘*Lacto-
butu’’ sufficient to treat 500 pounds at
$2.00 per package.

Our process for treating butter is so
simple that a boy 1o years old can
operate it.

The only thing you need besides what
we furnish is a simple, home-made
box or vat, or tub, in which to treat the
butter.

It requires only a few minutes to treat
the butter by our process

There is no excuse for any merchant's
selling bad butter in his store.

The merchant who uses our process for
treating butter can pay more for butter.
He can sell butter cheaper, and can
always have a better quality of butter,
and make more money out of it than
his competitors. For testimonials
write us. When you order, men-
tion this paper.

THE LACTO BUTTER CO.

145 La Salle Street, CHICAGO, Ill.

 

  

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

Shoes and Leather

Patronizing Manufacturers Who Run
Retail Stores.

Beyond any question of doubt there
should be co operation on the part of re-
tailers throughout this entire country,
devising some methods whereby a pro-
tection can be instituted against the
effects on trade being produced by the
manufacturing retailer.

No manufacturer can conscientiously
serve the interests of the retail trade
and at the same time conduct stores of
his own, retailing his own production.

There have been brought to my mind
the names of several manufacturers who
send representatives and samples to the
retail trade and at the same time con-
duct and operate their own individual
retail stores. These representatives
undertake to impress upon the trade the
fact that the goods they carry are of a
world-wide standard, both in quality and
price, and at the same time the retail
end of the firm's business is disposing
of goods in their stores at prices less
than that price which they undertake to
force the retailer to obtain. These
same manufacturing retailers push the
retail portion of their business with
more zeal than they do that which they
Propose to elevate the outside retailer
with. Many advertise and herald it to
the world that it is unnecessary to pay
two profits. ‘‘ Buy of Us;’’ ‘‘From Fac-
tory to Consumer;’’ ‘‘One Profit,’’ are
some of the catch phrases used.

Suppose you are buying your fine line
of men’s footwear of this firm. Your
store is up on ‘‘Hustle street.’’ You
have built up quite a large business on
Goodworkman & Co.’s line of shoes at $5
and $6. You impress the fact of their
intrinsic value upon your customers.
You are compelled to retail them at the
above-named prices owing to the cost of
them. One of your best customers calls,
you fit him with a pair. Price is asked ;
be confronts you with a clipping from a
leading daily paper, stating: ‘‘We will
this week sell our entire line of Box
Calf and patent leathers at $4. All sizes
and widths. Pay one profit. Factory to
your feet. Price the world over for
these same goods, $5 and $6. Good-
workman & Co.”’

Your customer asks you how it is he
has always paid you the $5 and $6 for
these same goods. What is your answer?

He at that very moment thinks that
you have been imposing on him, that it
is to his interest to visit Goodworkman
& Co.’s city store in the future.

Who loses by this?

Many, many retailers handling manu-
facturing retailer’s lines have experi-
enced this very kind of trouble.

Now, permit us to go away from
home a few miles and see some other
forms of evil of the purchasing of man
ufacturing retailers, Many traveling
salesmen carry their samples into the
retailers’ and submit them. They are
asked, ‘‘Is this shoe the cheapest your
people are manufacturing?"

"* Wes, sir.”’

““Well, how is it that my friend Bings
was in Shoedomville last week, and he
says he saw your firm's retail store ad-
vertising a fine line of your patent
leathers, etc., at $4, and inasmuch as
he has always worn your make, pur-
chased a pair. I saw them, and they
are the same grade as you charge me
$3.75 for. You know you said they could
not be sold for less than $5 the world
over. My customer laughed at me, and
says he is awful sorry, but he will al-

 

 

 

ways order his shoes of your retail
store!’’ Who is injured in this?

Again, any manufacturing retailer
catering to the outside retail trade to a
great extent becomes careless as to the
wants of that class of trade. If his line
is not favorably received by the retail-
ers, what cares he? He reasons it that
his stores dispose of about as many
goods as he can make, and that retail
trade is a trouble, anyway. They are al-
ways asking for new lasts, patterns and
some new ideas, and if it was not for
some of his customers down in Texas or
California whom he has been selling for
sO Many years, he would quit the road
entirely. Isthis not a serious condition
or atmosphere for a manufacturer to
permit himself to fall into? is he un-
dertaking to be progressive in his ideas,
styles of his goods; is he constantly on
the alert, undertaking to supply his cus-
tomers with the best and latest creations
In styles?

What has caused him to fall into this
lethargy? Is it not the fact of being in
a position of fancied independence,
occasioned by the fact of possessing
his own means of distribution to con-
sumers?

There is not a salesman to-day carry-
ing a manufacturing retailer’s line on
the road who would not be glad if his
house would discontinue their retail
stores and give time, brains and capital
towards producing for the retailer.

Business of our present day is con-
ducted on modern principles. Success
can be obtained only by keeping abreast
the progressiveness of the hour. Goods
must possess the intrinsic value, style,
fit, and they can’t have embodied in
their construction these essentials un-
less their producers utilize the methods
that are modern and at their command.

There are many factories to-day de-
voting time, capital and brains towards
the benefiting of the retailer. Their
everyday thoughts and actions are taken
up devising methods of increasing the
retailer’s business and supplying him
with the best.

Too many of our retailers are asleep.
They are perfectly oblivious to their
surroundings. They sleep, sleep, all
the year through, and when that end is
reached they wonder why business has
been dull and why some certain neigh-
bor has made such a success when he
is a newcomer and they are old in the
business. They never remain sufficient-
ly awake to learn that ingenuity, pro-
gressiveness and brains are producing
and offering as the reward of their la-
bors probabilities heretofore unknown.

We ask ourselves, is there any cure for
our patient? Every manufacturer has
the prerogative of disposing of bis
products as may please him best. There
is only one method to pursue in order to
overcome the effects of manofacturing
retailers upon the individual retailer.
That is, buy your lines from manufac-
turers who make a specialty of catering
for your business. This will only please
the manufacturing retailer in such a
class. Encourage the produrtion of the
best. Know what you are buying. Let
quality, style and fit be the fundamental
features of your business. Be investi
gative. Examine every line of samples
that opportunity permits. You will soon
obtain an education. It is the fool who
—— changes his mind, and oft-times

ine.

Never be wedded to any line of man-
ufacture. This age is too progressive
for such nonsense. Factories are start-
ing up every day, making bids for your
business, utilizing modern methods, etc.
At the present day the prizes of busi-
ness Can only be plucked by calling in-
to requisition perseverance, industry,
attentiveness and executive ability. —
Boots and Shoes Weekly.

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One Business Man’s View of the
Golden Rule.
Written forthe TRapEsMAN.

From the time I was knee-high to
a grasshopper I have had the Golden
Rule dinged in my ears. My mother
taught it at ber knee and the minister
preached it from the pulpit; and yet I
am nota convert. After repeated ex-
periments I have come to the conclusion
that the theory is pretty but does not
work worth a cent.

When I was a little shaver I remem-
ber my aunt was sick for a couple of
weeks. Now I, too, had been sick in
my life, going through the usual cate-
gory of children’s diseases. It was al-
ways my greatest happiness, sick or
well, to have company, and I felt like
a king when people came to the door to
enquire about my condition. So I
thought I would show the same consid
eration for my aunt. Fora day or two
the girl was polite, but then she told
me not to come any more for I dis-
turbed my aunt.

In college I was no blockhead at
mathematics and Latin. Many of the
students were in the habit of coming to
me for help, but when I wished a favor
—well, I might whistle.

In business it is the same old story.
There is no time to stand on ceremony.
A fellow who stops to heip a lagging
brother is apt not to make much prog-
ress himself and so earns the reputation
of being goodhearted, but without push.
Push is the only means to success. It
means going through heaven and hell to
get tothe goal, which requires, often-
times, the destruction of everybody and
everything along the way. A _ young
man may have enough brass to start a
foundry and ignore the existence of
every other individual in the universe,
yet if he ‘‘gets there’’ people laud him
to the skies. You know there is nothing
that succeeds like success.

People call me clever and shrewd and
admire my business ability; but I know
that I have had to pay the price, and
would rather not reflect over my meth-
ods. Being sharp means getting ahead
of the other fellow. One must know lots
of tricks in trade and be able to steal a
march on the more credulous and less
versatile. It means grinding down to
the last penny in buying, and making
as large a profit as possible. It means
making other people pay for your mis-
takes. It means not to trust any one,
not even one’s best friends, for there
are sure to be some black sheep.

But enough of this; I have other ex-
periences to relate:

One day when my wife was having
one of her nervous headaches I took it
into my head to give her a nice sur-
prise. She had spoken of needing a
wrapper, so unbeknown to her, I made
my way into the best dry goods store in
town and, guessing at the amount re-
quired for such a gown, bougbt nine
yards of red stuff—they called it cash-
mere—and had it sent up to the house.
I could scarcely wait for evening. When
I did reach home my wife's usually
cheery face was astudy. She showed
me the goods and asked me if I knew
anything about it. Just to prolong the
pleasure of the surprise I looked mys-
tified and said ‘‘No.’’ She gave a sigh
ot relief and remarked that some good-
hearted creature must have taken pity
on her wrapperless condition, but she
was in a quandary as to what to do. In
the first place, red was horribly unbe-
coming to her complexion, and then
there was almost enough cloth to make
two dresses. She was wondering if the

 

wisest plan would not be to have it dyed
and made into a dress; but then, that
would not be particularly satisfactory,
as rough things were the style. It is safe
to say I made no disclosures that day—
nor has the time yet arrived when I wish
to assume the role of a ‘‘goodhearted
creature’’ with a soft place in his head.
Yet goodness knows I was innocent
enough. Red is mv favorite color, and
hadn't that clerk declared it was the
height of fashion? As he laid the soft
goods in folds I was reminded of my
favorite sister Catherine, who generally
chose something in that style. What
greater honor could I confer on my wife
Bertha?

I was scarcely more fortunate’ in
choosing a chair as a birthday present
for my Aunt Sallie. Bertha was busy
and so could not accompany me on the
quest, but had declared that oak was
‘‘the thing.’’ I bearded the lion in his
den and entered one of the best furni-
ture stores in town. When I asked for
oak rockers the clerk led me through a
maze of chairs of every description to
a dark corner where there were a few
dusty specimens of the kind I had men-
tioned. They were a sorry lot. The
clerk volunteered the information that
oak was going out, so they did not keep
much of an assortment on hand; still,
it was a cheap wood, so there was a
little demand for servants’ rooms.
Then he showed me some beautiful ma-
hogany chairs which he said were ‘‘all
the rage and truly elegant.’’ They
certainly were fine, and took the shine
off of anything we had at home. I chose
a chair with a green silk seat, paying a
pretty penny for it, and wished that
some one cared enough tor me to make
me such a present. A_ few days later |
received a note from my aunt expressing
profuse thanks. When we went to visit
her the next summer my wife was _hor-
rified over the chair. The carpet was
a bright blue, and every other piece of
furniture in the room was oak !

One day a friend of mine was in town
and I invited him to supper. We _ had
not seen each other in ten or fifteen
years, but had always remained friends,
and I considered nothing too good for
him. It was the time when Dutch
lunches were all the go, and they were
the greatest treat | could have. Bertha
suggested that my friend might nct be
such an enthusiast as I, and thought it
would be wise to be prepared so tbat he
need not go hungry. But I poohed at
the idea and said that ‘‘Charley had
good taste and knew a good thing.’’
Imagine my dismay when he refused
everything except the rye bread! Said
**he was a victim of dyspepsia and did
not dare eat the sausage, herring-salad
or cheese, and would I excuse him from
the beer, too?’’

These are a few experiments along
the Golden Rule theory. When J look
around me I am of the opinion that
other people fare much the same. Take
for instance, the giving of presents. At
Christmas, for a wedding, a birthday,
or any other anniversary, people plan
and scheme in order to give their
friends what they themselves most want,
yet never feel they can afford. On the
other hand, they are liable to get what
is of no earthly use to them. I am re-
minded of the experience of a young
couple who were to be married. They
had plenty of love, but had to confine it
to a bare little nest of three rooms. The
groom had a rich uncle, so they were
alloting much on bis present. It proved
to be a massive silver punch bowl,
which would have been the suitable

 

thing in his magnificent bachelor quar-

ters, but for them—why, they had Geo. H. Reeder & Co.,

scarcely dishes to set their table; yet °

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pelled to keep it deposited in a vault at
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one of the trust companies.
How many daughters have lost moth-
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ers and been left to care for the father.
They have been models of devotion and
sacrificed their dearest wishes, yet in a
few years the fathers have married again
and left them homeless to shift for
themselves. Or, they have been mothers
to the children, who grew up demand-
ing everything and giving nothing in
return, and finally left the long-suffer-
ing ones to solitary existences un-
cheered by love or sympathy.

How many clerks, book-keepers and
teachers have exhausted mind and body
in devotion to their work. They have
given liberally and helped others less
fortunate than themselves; yet when
they became a litile superanuated or
sickness befell them they were shoved
aside and left to surmount their difficul-
ties as best they might.

No;I have come to the conclusion
that selfishness is a virtue, and I would
advocate, strongly, a ‘‘self-theory.’’
Use plenty of common sense and look

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

e
Clerks’ Corner
How To Train and Manage Clerks.

One gooé clerk is worth a dozen poor
ones. The one is an aid to business,
the others only obstacles. ‘The former
relieves the proprietor by his care and
attention to such of the details of the
business as are entrusted to him; the
latter, by their carelessness and mis-
takes, cause increased labor in the ne-
cessity of not only looking after them,
but also after every detail of the work
entrusted to them, to see that it is prop-
erly done.

One of the greatest difficulties of find-
ing good clerks arises from the unwill-
ingness of men in the trade to teach
them. The immediate necessity for a
clerk to sell, fold, tie up goods and
keep the store clean or in order is all
that is sought to be supplied on the
side of the employer, and a weekly sal-
ary to be received, with, perhaps, the
opportunity to steal a knowledge of the
business, is all that is expected by the
clerk,

In hiring a young man or boy for your
business, be careful to select a youth
you think has a natural adaptation and
ability for the business, and then make
an engagement for a certain period, of
from three to five years, ona specified
compensation for each year, part of the
compensation being a thorough tuition
in the business.

Consider it your duty to impart to
bim in the daily routine all you know
yourself concerning the management of
the business. The learner, seeing that
you take an interest in him, feels a
reciprocal interest in your business,
and you both soon come to view the re-
lation between yourselves as of higher
consideration than a mere mercenary
engagement.

A faise notion prevails with many
merchants; that is, in their training up
a youth they are entitling themselves to
a continuance of his services after the
first engagement expires. Nearly the
only objection advanced against this
method of training up clerks has been
what was falsely called their ingratitude
for what had been done for them.

Instances of this kind are known
where all the kindly affection which had
grown up between the parties for years
of mutual confidence was embittered at
the end of the term by some ill-natured
display of this disposition on the part
of the employer, who, had he reflected,
would have overlooked the indiscreet or
trifling remarks which he too readily
construed into signs of ingratitude.

Some dealers have a principle of
never keeping clerks long in their em-
ploy on the ground, mainly, that while
they are new in the place they are more
zealous and make greater efforts, while
after they bave been some time in the
cone employment they become careless,
feeling that they are settled permanent-
ly. Such employers are generally not
well served, as the short term of service
of each clerk is soon noticeable.

All things considered, it is better to
make as few changes as possible. We
know the failings of those we have and
how far we may depend on them.

A stranger has to be watched at all
points until we learn where he may be
trusted. However, when a clerk shows
that he has no anxiety longer to obey
his employer's reasonable requirements
it is time he was away from his service.

Clerks are human; they have their
failings. They require sometimes to be
plainly spoken to for neglect or inatten-

 

 

tion to the duties incumbent on them,
and the employer who fails to speak at
the proper time neglects an important
duty and will have insubordination
among the clerks in his business. But
it must not be forgotten that when they
do well they like to be praised for it,
or at least have the service acknowl-
edged by a kindly recognition.

The employer who has plenty of cen-
sure for his clerks and no praise is in a
fair way to be very poorly served.

Nor are clerks machines, that, having
been used for this day, can be thrown
aside when night comes without a care
or a thought about them until they are
wanted again,

Although an employer may think
there is no moral obligation resting on
him to care for his clerks’ behavior
when away from his place of business,
his pecuniary interest, which will often
be imperiled by a clerk’s misconduct,
should induce him to see to it that the
hours of leisure of those in his employ-
ment are not spent in evil courses,
which will bring discredit on them, and
subsequently on him, for employing
them.

Sometimes clerks have evil habits of
various kinds which cause them to be
a continual source of annoyance, and
although at times efficient, they are so
unreliable as to be of but little real value
to their employer. While, on the one
side, the retailer should not expect per-
fection in his clerks, he ought not, on
the other hand, to put up with confirmed
deficiencies which can not, with rea-
sonable efforts on his part, be amended.
It is a good policy to get rid of such
incompetents at once, and not waste
valuable time in trying tu reform them.

Probably one-half of the aduit male
population in these United States con-
sider themselves well qualified and fully
competent to sell goods, thinking they
have a salesman’s ability to the great
est extent; yet there is not one in overa
hund-:ed who possesses such qualities of
mind and person that he can, even un-
der very favorable circumstances, be-
come a good salesman.

Almost everybody can speak in pub-
lic, and so almost everybody can sell
goods, yet we have few orators and not
many more salesmen.

A good salesman should have a com-
prehensive knowledge of the goods he
sells, their origin, peculiarities and ad-
vantages over goods of similar charac-
ter, so as to be able to properly recom-
mend them.

Often salesmen think the art of sell-
ing goods lies wholly in talking, and
sometimes acquire a habit of talking
too much.

A salesman should learn to study the
disposition of his customers, and in all
cases be polite and act the gentleman.

The clerk of to-day will be the mer-
chant of the future, and his future suc-
cess as a business man will depend up-
on the way you bandle him while he is
your clerk, T. ScHMID.

——_>20.—___
Gradually Gaining Ground.

The Commercial Credit Co. is grad-
ually gaining ground, its list of sub-
scribers now numbering over 500. The
growth of the business is due to the
good service given, particularly in the
matter of collections, in which depart-
ment the company is especially strong.
Hardly a day passes that Manager Ste-
venson does not receive a letter from
some_ subscriber, complimenting him
on the collection of the account which
was deemed hopeless by the owner, hav-

ing long ago been passed to profit anc
loss.

 

 

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17

 

Commercial Travelers

Michigan Knights of the Grip.

President, Caas. S. StevENs, Ypsilanti; Secre-
tary, J C. Saunpers, Lansing; Treasurer, O. C.
GouLD. 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. VaLmorE, Detroit; Grand Treas-
urer, W. S. WEst, Jackson.

 

Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Mutual Acci-

dent Association.
President, J. Borp Panriinp, Grand Rapids;
—— and Treasurer, Gro. F. Owen, Grand
pids.

Lake Superior Commercial Travelers’ Club.

President, F. G. Truscort, Marquette; Secretary
and Treasurer, A. F. Wrxson, Marquette.

 

 

Gripsack Brigade.

J. K. Littleton is now on the road for
Burckhardt & Co., manufacturers of
lard and lard oils at Cincinnati,

Coldwater Republican: Carl Yaple
left Tuesday for a trip through Iowa in
the interest of the Tappan Shoe Manu-
facturing Co.

D. R. Hazen has resigned his position
as principal of the Nottawa public
schools and gone on the road for the
Quincy Knitting Co.

Kalamazoo News: Louis J. Marsh
has resigned his position as traveling
salesman with Raynor & Co. and has
taken a similar position with tbe Star
Paper Co.

Kalamazoo News: C. J. Laughlin,
who travels for the dry goods firm of
Wm. Hengere & Co., of Buffalo, N. Y.,
will soon remove here with his family,
taking up his residence on South West
Street,

Quincy Herald: The Quincy Knit-
ting Co. has engaged several men to go
on the road with samples of its work
to solicit orders. M. M. Dickerson,
H. A. Graves, C. D. Babcock and
Fred Herworth, of this place, are among
the number.

Alfred D. Otis, Jr., has engaged to
cover Southern Michigan and Northern
Indiana for the Cappon & Bertsch
Leather Co., of which corporation his
father is manager of the Grand Rapids
branch. Mr. Otis is a chip of the old
block, judging by the progress he made
the first week out.

Kalamazoo Gazette: E. H. Stein has
accepted a position as traveling sales-
man for a furniture factory in Omaha.
His brother-in-law is general manager
of the firm, which manufactures dining
room furniture. Mr. Stein will be
greatly missed in Kalamazoo. He was
a prominent singer and was the bass in
the quartet composed of Messrs. Mc-
Hugh, Taylor, Cornell and Stein.

Prominent traveling men of Indiana
and Illinois are negotiating for the pur-
chase of the White Sulphur Springs at
Montezuma, Ind., for the purpose of es-
tablishing a home for the fraternity.
The springs consist of an artesian well
having a flow of 17,000 barrels per day
and 1,760 feet deep and a bathing pool
holding 14,000 barrels of water. There
are nine acres of ground with the
springs, and a hotel of forty rooms and
a bathhouse. The first step towards the
purchase has been taken. The travel-
ing men of the two States number about

C. F. Marsh, formerly buyer in the
general store of Horning & Sons, at Mt.
Pleasant, succeeds Manley Jones as
traveling representative for the Lemon
& Wheeler Co., Mr. Jones having en-
gaged to travel for the Waggoner’s
Watchman Clock Co., of Muskegon.

 

120,000, and it is the intention to pro-
vide a place where they can go with
their families to spend the summer or
for their health. Probably $100,000 will
be expended on improvements.

R. N. Hull in Ohio Merchant: Now
and then a commercial traveler, un-
mindful of the Nemesis that overtakes
the evil doer, wanders from the path of
rectitude and falls into the clutches of
avenging justice. Fortunately these
cases are few and far between, which is
a credit to the large army of young men
through whose hands passes a_ large
share of the money used in the channels
of mercantile life; when it is considered
that but little check can be put on the
individual entrusted with selling and
collecting on the road for his firm—that
no cash register can be fastened to him
to produce an unfailing report—that he
is beset with temptations on every hand,
the integrity of the craft is well sus-
tained, with only an occasional lapse.
The young man of Cleveland reported
in the daily papers this week as _ refus-
ing to give himself up as a fugitive, a
defaulter, is a repetition of the old
story. Trusted with the business of his
employer, he listened to the siren song
of that most subtle tempter, and fell.
‘*Lost at poker’’ has sounded the death
knell of most of them who turn not a
deaf ear to the wiles of Satan, and the
poor, weak employe goes to the bastile
dishonored and disgraced. Could the
salesman but foresee this dreadful con-
clusion in all the hideous results, this
first step turned wrong would not be
taken, and a good character would ever
be sustained.

—___<9-__
Movements of Lake Superior Travelers.

Marquette, March 27—M. F. Stell-
wagen is seriously ill at the Cliffton
House, Marquette.

E. B. Clark (Banner Tobacco Co.)
is out on his last trip, his house having
been absorbed by the American To-
bacco Co.

E. B. Baldwin (Marshall-Wells Hard-
ware Co.) did business east of Mar-
quette last week.

M. Smear Brown ‘Hazeltine & Per-
kins Drug Co.) was with us last week.

A. T. Emmons (Carlton Hardware
Co.) will make his home at Rockland,
where he will be able to closely watch
the running trade in Ontonagon county.
Mr. E. spent part of his boyhood days
there, when his father used to runa
hardware store at Rockland. The town
then had 5,000 or more inhabitants and
about a year ago less than 300. With the
opening up of the old mines, near by,
it is catching its second wind and will
boom the next year.

Albion F. Wixson has purchased the
hardware stock of the Burgan Hardware
Co. (Laurium) and will resign his po-
sition with the Fletcher Hardware Co,
to take effect April 15. He has spent
thirteen years on the road—five years
with the Fletcher Hardware Co. and
eight with Standart Bros.—twelve of
which has been spent in the Lake Su-
perior territory. The new firm will be
known as the Laurium Hardware Co.

! a
Port Huron Grocers Favor a Canal.

Port Huron, March 28—At the last
meeting of the Port Huron Grocers and
Butchers’ Association, the proposed
canal from Lake Huron to Black River
received considerable attention and a
vote disclosed the fact that all but A.
H. Nern and Henry McJennett favored
its construction.

Six of the local bakers were present,
with a view of satisfying the grocers re-
garding the weight of bread. The bak-
ers were unable to agree upon a uniform
weight and the matter was not dis-
posed of. i

The committee appointed to visit the
Marlette cheese factory reported favor-
ably and it is probable that a number
of Port Huron people will engage in the
manufacture of cheese at that place.

 

The Boys Behind the Counter.

Muskegon—Sibley & Co. have a new
prescription clerk in the person of Ed.
M. Gay, formerly engaged in the drug
business at Allegan.

Laurium—C, W. Ryckman is_ behind
the counter for the new grocery firm of
Hietala & Jylha.

Muir—Howard Seabrook
in the Terrill drug store.

Charlotte—Harry White, of Nashville,
has taken a position with Selkirk &
Norton.

is clerking

Port Huron—Homer Dutton is now
employed at the International Tea
store.

Lansing—C. K. Esler has quit the
printing business and taken a position
with Philo Daniels, druggist.

Dowagiac—E. R. Randall, formerly
of the Fox Brothers’ dry goods store of
Niles, has succeeded Warren Hackstadt
at Lee Brothers & Co.'s.

Charlotte—Henry Lupert, of Lansing,
will assist Greenman & Levy, the new
clothing firm.

Ypsilanti—Fred Babcock, formerly of
the fire department, has taken a clerk-
ship with Clayton & Lambert.

Kalamazoo—Clarence J. Moore has
taken a position in the hardware store
of J. F. Duncan, at St. Joseph.

Howard City—Chas. Cookingham has
resigned his position in Nagler’s drug
store and is preparing to re-engage in
the manufacture of brick with Chas.
Edbergh.

Cedar Springs—Ned Wheeler has re-
signed his position as traveling sales-
man for the Wheeler & Fuller Medicine
Co., and has returned to his former po-
sition with Peck Bros., Grand Rapids.
E. A. Marvin succeeds him with the
Medicine Co.

Athens—L. B. Thompson has ac-
cepted a position in his father’s store
at Marshall and will move there with
his family.

St. Johns—Milo Pray has severed his
connection with John Hicks and is now
in the employ of the King-Richard-
son Co.

Wolverine—S. Simon’s lumbering
operations having let up somewhat at
Indian River, T. Wright bas resumed
his old position at this place, and
A. L. Hess has severed his connection
bere with S. Simon, leaving for his
home in Indian River, where he will
re enter the employ of F. E. Martin in
the course of a few weeks.

California—Lewis Wilson has entered
the employ of V. U. Hungerford as
clerk.

Newberry—Miss Vosburg, of Detroit,
has taken a position as cashier in C.
D. Danaher’s new store.

Mendon—Fred Woodworth has secured
a position in the grocery store of L. J.
Lowe.

Springport—G. W. Landis, of Ann
Arbor, is employed as pharmacist at
Doak & Orrison’s, succeeding Mark
Homes, who has taken a similar posi-
tion in Webb’s drug store, at Jackson.

 

St. Johns—Harry McQuistion, of
Elsie, is working in the store of Porter
& Emmons.

Sherwood—Elgin Fulton has taken a
position in the A. R. Klose grocery
store.

Decatur—Hugo Stern, who has been
in the employ of Fred Stern for the past
few months, has gone to Fargo, N. D.,
where he will clerk in the clothing store
of his cousin, Max Stern. Milton Cohn
succeeds to his position here.

Bath correspondence: McGrath’s
clerk is quite a young looking man,
sleek and quite good looking. The drug
store soon became the emporium for
chewing gum with the young ladies.
Just imagine, if you can, their aston-
ishment when one day he happened to
remark, ‘‘I got a letter this morning
from my son who ts in the 31st Mich-
igan. He says the weather is just love-
ly in Cuba.’’ The front door opened,
exit of the fair ones and the mercury
in the thermometer that hung on the
door casing dropped to zero. Tell &
Davis have sale for chewing gum now.

—__+_~»-2.
Commends Mr. Montague’s Contribu-
tion.

Laurium, March 27—I desire to com-
mend the article in the Tradesman of
March 15, entitled ‘‘Success in Life,’’
by Mr. H. Montague. Boys behind the
counter, have you all read it? If not,
turn back and read it carefully. You
will get new impulses therefrom which
will be helpful to you.

This compliment is not intended to
minify any of the articles or editorials
which have appeared in the Tradesman.
They have all been excellent and a
great stimulus to me, and should be to
all who are so fortunate as to receive
the paper. My prayer, Mr. Tradesman,
is that you may live long and continue
as progressive in the future as I have
always found you in the past.

C. W. RYCKMAN.
> 2.

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Drugs--Chemicals

 

 

 

MICHIGAN STATE BOARD OF PHARMACY.

Term expires
A: C. ScHUMACHER, Ann Arbor - Dec. 31, 1899
Gro. Gunprum, Ionia - - Dec. 31, 1900
L. E. REYNoups, St. Joseph Dec. 31, 1901
Henry Herm. Saginaw --~ - Dec. 31, 1902
Wirt P. Doty wvetroit Dec, 31, it03

President, GEo. GunprvUM, Ionia.
Secretary, A. C. SCHUMACHER, Ann Arbor.
Treasurer, HENRY HEIM, Saginaw.

Examination Sessions.

Star Island—June 26 and 27.
Houghton—Aug. 29 and 30.
Lansing—Nov. 7 and 8.

 

STATE PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION.

 

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

 

 

The Pharmacist as a Veterinarian.

The English apothecary in rural dis-
tricts has always had more or less op-
portunity to prescribe for sick horses,
and, where he has taken the trouble to
read up on the subject and has been an
observant and intelligent man, has been
able to develop a valuable adjunct to
his business. In America this depart-
ment of the pharmacist’s business is
not yet of general adoption. Where
pharmacists have come into possession
of a lucrative veterinary-remedy busi-
ness, it has usually been a case of the
office seeking the man. The public at
large is inclined to run to the drug store
for advice and assistance, where some
pet animal is stricken with an acute
attack, the cause and nature of which
are alike mysterious. The symptoms
are described, and the pharmacist, ap-
plying his knowledge of materia med-
ica, gives a remedy which, providen-
tially, proves to be an adequate cure.
From that point his reputation begins
to grow, and presently he finds he has
added another profitable feature to his
business. If the American pharmacist
would seriously set to work to create for
himself a department of this kind, and
do it in a systematic and conscientious
way, he would fare in this regard quite
as well as his English brother.

The love of horseflesh seems inherent
in mankind. Despite the general adop-
tion of the bicycle as a means of rapid
transit and of recreation, the use of the
carriage and saddle-hor-e continues to
increase. As a rule, a man keeps a
horse for the deligbt of himself and
family just so soon as he can possibly
afford it. And to possess a horse means
to add to the family another unit which
is rather more liable to illness and ac-
cident than any of the other units. He
needs constant care and attention.
Eternal vigilance seems to be the price
of a sound and bealthy horse. The fam
ily man may, as a last resort, call in the
veterinary surgeon, but nine times out
of ten he will depend upon his apcth-
ecary, and be guided by his advice.
And what is here said of the family
man may with equal truth be said of the
farmer, the carter, the stablekeeper,
the stockraiser—in fact, of all men who
use or keep horses for any purpose
whatever,

Ii bas been said that a veterinary
surgeon gets half his living belowa
horse’s knees and hocks. It certainly
is true beyond all question that the most
serious of a horse’s ailments are those
of the leg bones and of the hoofs. A
pharmacist may much more safely. pre
scribe for colic, flatulence, constipation,
diarrhoea, jaundice, gastritis, enteritis,
cold or catarrh, bronchitis, pneumonia,
pleurisy, congestion of the lungs, fever,
Strangles, staggers, worms, glanders,
farcy, or anything indeed which lies in

 

the trunk or the head of the animal,
than attempt the treatment of ring-bone,
spavin, side-bone, corns, sand-crack,
overreach, canker, thoroughpin, curb,
sprain, thrush, windgall, soft-funch,
capped-hock, splint, etc. All the dis-
eases of the trunk and head are so close-
ly analogous to those common to man
that the pharmacist has a groundwork
of knowledge upon which to base his
treatment of them. But when it comes
to diseases of the bones of the legs, and
the soft and hard parts of the hoofs,
there the resemblance of the horse to
man entirely ceases When a case of
disease of the legs or hoofs is presented
to him, there are only two courses which
the pharmacist can follow if he have
any regard for his own reputation: He
must either turn the case over to a qual.
ified veterinary surgeon, or recommend
the use of some well-known and reliable
ready-made preparation. In either case
be will bave followed a safe course.

It has generally been found that the
readiest method by which the pharma-
cist may develop the veterinary-remedy
department of his business is by issuing
to all the owners of horses in his vicin-
ity a booklet on the diseases of the
horse. This booklet must be so written
that it will afford no specific instruction
by whichehe horse-owner may proceed
on his own account, but rather it should
describe symptoms of disease, the
causes which have probably operated in
producing it and howto prevent a future
recurrence of it, with general sug-
gestions as to the care of the animal the
year around. Such a booklet is calcu-
iated to stimulate the interest and de-
velop the intelligence of the owner, and
make him more watchful of the be-
havior of his beast. It will, moreover,
naturally draw him to the pharmacist
from whom it emanates when occasion
for treatment arises. I personally know
of at least one such booklet that has
proved successful in this way. Where
the pharmacist prefers to issue matter
bearing his own particular ear-marks,
and from his local press, he can very
readily obtain the necessary technical
information from any of the well-known
veterinary text books. It is, however,
of little real importance whether he ob-
tain the booklet ready-made or write
and print it himself. Whichever course
he may adopt he is certain of interest-
ing the people to whom he sends it, and
of bringing them to his store when any-
thing goes wrong.—W. F. Young in

American Druggist.
—_>_0____
The Waiter’s Dilemma.

It was in one of the downtown restau
rants that the short 1:ttle woman and her
tall husband went for dinner one night
last week,

“Will you have oysters?’’ asked the
man, glancing over the bill of fare.

‘*Yes,’’ said the short little woman, as

she tried in vain to touch her toes to
the floor. ‘‘And, John, I want a has-
sock.’’

John nodded, and, as he handed his
order to the waiter, he said: ‘‘Yes,
and bring a hassock for the ladv.’’

**One bassock?’’ asked the waiter with
what John thought more than ordinary
interest,as he nodded in the affirmative,
Still the waiter did not go, but brushed
the tablecloth with a towel and rear-
ranged the articles on it several times,
while his face got very red. Then he
came around to John's side, and, speak-
ing sotto voce, said: ‘‘Say, mister, I
haven't been here long, and I’m not
onto all these things. Will the lady

have the hassock broiled or fried?’’
—_> 02> ___

Kansas papers are now claiming that
the freeze which killed the fruit in that
section was the best thing that has hap-
pened to the trees for years. :

 

The Evil of Substituting.

Pharmacists frequently ask themselves
as to how more congenial relations
might be established between the physi-
cians and themselves. It is therefore
an acknowledged fact that such relations
do not exist to the extent they should,
else the subject would not be broached.

The writer, having been born and
bred among drugs, and done service in
a retail store and as representative for a
manufacturer of pharmaceutical prepa-
rations, thus interviewing both physi-
cians and druggists, feels that he can at
least depict the sentiment expressed by
both former and latter. Naturally each
defends his own case, but let us con-
sider the matter from the standpoint of
each.

In the first place, many physicians
carry their own remedies to a large ex-
tent, and, as they express it, inconven-
ience themselves thereby, and, as we
know, injure the druggist financially.
This practice is constantly increasing
among the medical profession, to the
detriment of the retail pharmacist; and
the physician appears to be slowly draw-
ing away from the latter, both socially
and commercially.

Now let us. see why this state of
affairs exists. The medical fraternity
lays stress on sever.] matters which may
to a large extent be responsible: Sub-
stitution, the low figure at which patent
medicines are sold, and the practice of
some disreputable druggists of using
prescriptions to their own advantage.

As to accusation No. 1, substitution,
it is true that this evil exists to an ap-
preciable extent among a certain class
of druggists. That the conscientious
pharmacist should be made to suffer for
the misdoings of his less reputable
brethren is a pity; but how to remedy
this iniquity? It might be partially ac-
complished by proclaiming the wrongs
of the evil-doer to both physician and
public. Certain manufacturers do this
very thing among the doctors, and it is
a pity the public can not by some judi-
cious means, be mide acquainted with
those who seek to impose upon them.
He that will trifle with a prescription
intended for treatment in a case about
which he knows nothing will not hesi-
tate to defraud his patrons if given the
opportunity; and these patrons should
be made conscious of whom they are
dealing with. I can really see no plau
sible reason why any druggist should
stoop to such a practice. He may be
the gainer by a few cents on the article
substituted, or be saved the trouble of
procuring what possibly he does nct
have in stock ; but is be not the loser in
the end? Argument is unnecessary. —
Proceedings Connecticut Pharmaceut'-
cal Association.

—_>2.__
The Drug Market.

Opium—Is dull and weak, but it is
believed that prices have now reached
bottom.

Morphine—Is unchanged.

Quinine—Further advances have taken
place during the week on all brands.
All foreign manufacturers advanced on
the 24th and are now all at the same
price as New York and Powers &
Weightman. Fifty cent quinine is st ll
talked of.

Cinchonidia—Has advanced about 50
per cent. in the last thirty days and now
costs the same as quinine did before the
advances.

Citrate Iron, Quinine and _ Citrate
Iron, Quinine and Strychnine—Have
all advanced 15c per lb.

Roots—Arrow has advanced and is

 

tending higher. Golden seal continues
scarce and high.

Cod Liver Oi1l—Is weak and lower.

Glycerine—The market is very firm
and an advance is talked of by the re-
finers.

Balsams—There are no changes to
note. Peru is firm. Fir is scarce, but
prices have not advanced materially.

Essential Oils—Anise is slightly low-
er. Lemon, bergamot and orange are
in a firm position, but there is no
change in price. Citronella is weak and
lower. Wintergreen, natural, is scarce,
and has been advanced. Wormwood is
in small supply and prices rule firm.

Spices—Cloves are weak and slightly
lower. Black pepper is easier.

a
Evils of Misrepresentation.

Falsehood and misrepresentation may
be compared to balls which roijl in
every direction. They are easy to pro-
pel and they are equally difficult to stop
when they once get started. Thus the
habit of prevaricating and juggling and
shuffling with truth is readily con-
tracted, but it is not by any means read-
ily broken off. Houses which desire to
pose as first-class unhesitatingly resort
to such practices, misrepresenting their
wares in a_conscienceless manner.
There appears to exist a well-nigh in-
eradicable aversion to the statement of
honest facts without exaggeration.
Merchants too often think that such as-
sertions are flat, commonplace and
lacking in interest. It is, we know,
impossible to make a great sensation
with the plain truth and without any
enhancing of the real state of the case,
yet it is better to produce a less bril-
liant but more permanent and _satisfac-
tory effect. It is also preferable to re-
tain contidence won, instead of indul-
ging in an unfortunate predilection for
florid utterances which can not be borne
out by facts. Describing goods in an
ambiguous way which leaves much
doubt about their real quality and sug-
gesting that they are superior to whet
they really are is wrong. Falsehood,
like murder, will out, and it can not be
kept hidden for any great length of
time. The clear-minded person who
may nct bave enough conscience to re-
strain him from performing such ac-
tions should at least see the expediency
of it. Ifa temporary gain is made by
misrepresentation a permenent future
loss is also incurred by it. Every mer-
chant who expects and desires to retain
that unblemished integrity which alone
will keep the customer’s confidence in
the store unshaken will represent goods
as they really are.

 

 

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— < — 0@ 5 ees 90@ 1 00 Prunus virg. oa esas @ 5”
Boracic. . @ 16 eeeiod aay oes 1 00@ 1 10 Tinctures
Carbolicum ......... 20@ 41|Erigeron.......... -- 100@ 1 10) Aconitum NapellisR 60
Citricum ............ 48@ 50| Gaultheria..... .... 1 50@ 1 60} Aconitum Napellis F 50
Hydrochlor ........ 3@ 5 | Geranium, ounce... @ 1%! Aloes.... 60
Nitrocum. ......... 8@  10| Gossippii, Sem. gal. 50@ 60] Aloes and Myrrh... 60
Geatenm (00S 2@ 14 Hedeoma..... ...... 100@ 110} Arnica.............. 50
Phosphorium, dil... @ 15|Junipera............ 150@ 2 00| assafetida 1.1” 50
Salicylicum. ........ 60 | Lavendula . - _ 9@ 2 00! Atrope Belladonna 60
Sulphuricum. ...... 1%@  5| Limonis.. - 1 30@ 1 40| Auranti Cortex..... 50
Tannicum .......... 1 25@ 1 40| Mentha Piper. - 1 6€@ 2 20] Benzoin....... 60
Tartaricum 33q@  40| Mentha Verid. - 150@ 1 60] Benzoin Co...... |.” 50

cae ane ae Morrhue, gal....... 1 10@ 1 25| Barosma........... 50

Ammonia Myrela,.......... - 4 00@ 4 50 | Cantharides. .. 2.217 re

Aqua, 16 deg........ ™ 6) Olive... .. : 7%@ 3 00} Capsicum ..... 50
Aqua, 20 deg........ 8 | Picis Liquida. ..... 10@ 12] Cardamon........ 5
Carbonas...... ---- 19@ = 14| Picis Liquida, gal... @ 35|Cardamon Co... ... "5
Chloridum .......... n@ 4) icing 92@ 1 00] Castor............. 1 00
Aniline Rosmarini........... @ 100/ Catechu............. 50

2 9, | Rose, ounce........ 6 50@ 8 50| Ginchona... ......_. 50

Black... ... ........ 2 0@ Sueem 00001001) 40@ 45] Cinchona Uo. |). ”” 80
Brown ..., 56. os 1 00 Siting) 00a 9@ 1 00| Columba . ee =
a 2 50@ 3 00 Sema 250@ 7 00|Cubeba. ......... 50
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. s Potassium Gentian Co....... 60

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Comes oes 12| Iodide...... 01.1 10077 [24260 50
Cinchona Flava..... 18 | Potassa, Bitart, pure 30 Nux Vomic oo 50
Euonymus atropurp - 30 Potassa, Bitart, com @ pb Bee. ee. 50
Myrica Cerifera, po. 20 | Potass Nitras, opt.. 10@ 12/6 iL ec oer %
Prunus Virgini...... 12} Potass Nitras 0@ u pb = —_ ; 50
Quillaia, gr’d....... 12) Erussiate =... 8. 23@ 2 cases orized. -- po
Sassafras...... 12} Sulphate po . 1b@ 18 Hise 50
Ulmus...po. 15, Perd 15 Rhel ee =

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Heematox,1s........ 13@ 14 Calamus 2@ 419| Valerian...... : 50
Heematox,%S....... 14@ 15) Gentiana po is) «612@~=«Oo15 | Veratrum Veride ... 50 |
Heematox, 48...... 16@ 17) Glychrrhiza...pv.15 16@ 18| Zimgiber............. 20 |
Ferru Hydrastis Canaden . @ Miscellaneous
Hydrastis Can., po.. @ 90) Ather, Spts. Nit.3F 35
Carbonate Precip. . 15 | Hellebore, Alba, po.. 18@ 20} #ther, Spts. Nit.4F %@ 38
Citrate and Quinia.. 22 | Inula, po...... 22... 15@ 20| Alumen 24@ 3
Citrate Soluble...... % | Ipecac, po. 3 90@ 4 00| Alumen, gro” a eee ge 7
Ferrocyanidum Sol. 40 | Tris plox.. . . P035@38 353@ 40| Annatto = 40@ 50
Solut. Chloride. .... 5 Jalapa, pr........... 23@ 30| Antimoni, po...__| 4I@ 5
Sulphate, com’l..... < Maranta, —s....... _@ 35| Antimoni et PotassT 40@ 50
Sulphate, com’l, by Podophyllum, po.. 2@ | Antipyrin. @ 35
bbl, per cwt....... Wi Rhea Gs jate| onan _ =
Suiphate, pure ..... 7 Enel, Se @ 1 2/| Argenti Nitras, oz -. @ +50
Flora hei, pv......., 7%@ 1 35| Arsenicum. . 10@ 12
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Ronen 2 Sanguinaria. po.i5 @ 13| Bismuth §.N. . 1 40@ 1 50
wa... 30@ 35| S€rpentaria......... 30@ 35 | Calcium Chlor., @ 9
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Folia = apitnni H @ 40} Calcium Chior., ys. @ 2
Barosma............- BQ Smilax, M. @ 2%/| Cantharides, Rus. @ %
Cassia Acutifol, Tin- Seille ces ‘po 0.35 10@ =: 12 | Capsici Fructus, af. @ 6
Hevelly. 40.5 +... 18@ 25 Ey Feeti- Capsici Fructus, @
Cassia Acutifol, Alx. S@ 30) _ Pe @ 2%| Capsici FructusB spo @ 15
Salvia officinalis, 4s Valeriana, Eng. po.30 @ 2%} Caryophyllus. ‘po. 15 2@ 14
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Ure Ural. | 8 Zingiber a ea 12@ 16| Cera Alba.. 50@ 35
Geant Zingiber j. 23@ 27 — aa. 0@ 42
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Acacia, po.. 60@ 80 Gari. weet ee eees 18 10@ 12 Chloroform squtbbs @ 1 10;
Aloe, Barb. po. 18@20 12@ 14| Cardamon........... 1 25@ 1%} Chioral Hyd Crst.... 1 65@ 1 90)
Aloe, Cape .... po. 15 @ 12} Coriandrum......... 8@ 10] Chondrus. 20@ 2
Aloe, Socotri. - po. 40 @ 30| Cannabis Sativa.. 44%@ 5 Cinchonidine vie RO a
Ammoniac.......... 55@ 60) Cydonium......... 75@ 1 00 | Cinehonidine, Germ ,2e 3a |
Assafotida....po.30 25@ 28/ Chenopodium ...... 10@__12| Cocaine 3 30@ 4 (0
Berzoinum ......... 50@ 55} Dipterix Odorate... 1 40@ 1 50| Corks, list, dis.p 70 |
Catechu, Is......... @ 13|Feniculum......._. @ | 10| GOUks; list, dis.pr.et. @ 5|
Catechu, }s......... @ i4 a Po...... 7@ 9|Crets...... bbl & @ 2!
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58@ 59 Lini, grd... bbl. 3% 4@ 4% | Greta, recip %@ 11}
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Galeauain eer @ 1 00 — Canarian. 4@ 4%|Crocus........ 18S@ 20!
65@ 70) Rapa ............ 4%@ 5| Cudbear ..2.272.11 1) @ 2 |
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Herba Saacharum N.E.... 1 90@ 2 10 | Gambier ens -s. se 9
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Majorum ....oz. pkg 28 Sponges eae = box... -
Mentha Pip..oz. pkg 23 | PrOWH........ 9@
Mentha Vir..oz. pkg 95 | Florida sheeps’ wool Glue, white......... 13@ 25
Rue ‘oz. pkg 39 | _ carriage.. 2 50@ 2 75 | Glycerina........... @ 2
Tanacetim Voz pkg 99 | Nassau sheeps “wool Grana Paradisi .... @ B
Thymus, V..oz. pkg om |. Carriage........... 2 00@ 2 25 | Humulus............ 3@ 55
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Ponies wool, carriage. .... @ 1 25| Hydraag Chlor Cor. @ 380
Calcined, Pat..... .. 55@ 60 | Extra yellow sheeps’ Hydraag Ox Rub’m @ 1 00
Carbonate, Pat...... 2@ 22| wool. carriage.... @ 1 00 | Hydraag Ammoniati @1 15
Carbonate, K.& M.. 20@ 25] Grass sheeps’ wool, HydraagUnguentum 15@ 55
Carbonate, Jennings 35@ 36] Carriage........... @ 1 00} Hydrargyrum....... @ %&
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Oleum Yellow Reef, for Thedige, 75@ 1 00
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Amygdale, Dulc.. 30@ = «50 s Iodoform....... .... @ 4 20
Amygdale, Amare . 8 00@ 8 25 yrups Lipuln) ce. @ 2%
AAR 1 8@ 2 00 | Acacia ............ : @ 50} Lycopodium........ soe 45 |
Auranti Cortex..... 2 40@ 2 50| Auranti peonten ee @ 50| Macis : 6 vi)
Bergamii............ 2 80@ 2 90 | Zingiber....... ..... @ 50} Liquor Arsen et Hy-
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apo, W........-.... R@ 14 BBL. @AL. | Coach Body........ 2 7>@ 3 00
Sapo, M.... ......... 10@ 12 Whale, winter....... 70 7 No. 1 Turp Farn.... 1 06@ 1 id
eee a @ 15) Lard, extra......... 55 60| Extra Turk Damar.. 1 55@ 1 60
Siedlitz Mixture 20 @ 22|vard)No.1.......... 40 45| Jap. Dryer,No.1Turp 70@ 75

 

 

PAINT AND
eo spun

Our stock of Brushes for the season
of 1899 is complete and we invite
your orders. The line includes

7
Flat Wall bound in rubber,
brass and leather
Oval Paint Round Paint
Oval Chisel Varnish 4
Oval Chisel Sash
Round Sash
White Wash Heads
Kalsomine
: Flat Varnish
Square and Chisel |
al

All qualities at satisfactory prices.

Camel Hair Varnish
Mottlers Flowing
Color
Badger Flowing,

single or double

C. H. Pencils, etc.

HAZELTINE & PERKINS

DRUG CO.,
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

  

20

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

GROCERY PRICE CURREN*.

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

I in such quantities as are usually purchased by retail
oing to press and are an accurate index of the local market.
all conditions of

It is im-

purchase, and those below are given as representing av-

} Cash buyers or those of strong credit usually buy closer than
Subscribers are earnestly requested to point out any errors or omissions, as it is
the greatest possible use to dealers.

 

AXLE GREASE.
doz.

 

 
 

TOSS
Baers 55 866 00
GCamterGH... 2.2... 6 700
Diamond... ..........: 50 400
ee 27D 9 00
[XL Golden, tin boxes7% 900
Plica, tin boxes....... -% 900
Paragon... ....... ..: 55 6 00
BAKING POWDER.
Absolute.
,*b cans doz..
lp 2ans doz..
Ib can dos......
Acme.
Ib Cans 8 dos........... . =
lb Cans 8 dos............ %
Tb cans i dos............ 100
Cee 10
Arctic.
6 oz. Eng. Tumblers........ 85
El Parity.
4 lb cans per dos......... v6)
Tb cans per dos ........ 1 20
1 Ib cans per dos......... 2 00
Home.
lb Cans 4 dos case. 35
Ib cans 4 doz case. - =
Ib cans 2 doz case ..... 90

1¢ 1b cans, 4 doz case.....
% lb cans, 4 doz case......
1b cans, 2 doz case......
Jersey Cream.
1 1b. cans, per doz..........
9 oz. cans, per doz..........
6 oz. cans, per doz..........

Our Leader.

tO -_
RRS SRK

 

-—

Queen Flake.

8 oz., 6 doz. case............
6 oz., 4 doz. case
9 os., 4 doz. case...
1 1b.,
5lb.,14

 

oan cor
S8S83 8 Sas

 

Saale SGee. 40
fares, Sao... 6

BROOTIS.

DO wt 9 00

  
   

a :
Warehouse. ....
CANNED GOODS.
Tomatoes ............. 89@ 99
Cc ook 00

Pumpkin ....... - 2
Mushroom ...... ..... 15@ 22
Peaches, Pie .......... 10:
_— — oe. 1 40
pp'es gallons....... 3
Ceerien ae
Pears Vl

Pineapple, grated. ....2 40
Pineapple, sliced...... 23
Pineapple, Farren....1 7

Strawberries ..........1 10
Blackberries .......... 80
Raspberries ........... 85
Oysters, t-ib........... 85
Oysters, 2-1b...... 22... 145
Salmon, Warren’s ....1 4.@1 60
Salmon. Alaska....... 125
Salmon, Klond‘ke..... 90

Lobsters, 1-lb. Star....3 20
Lobsters, 2-Ib. Star....3 90
Mac erel,l ib Mustard 10
Mackerel, 1-lb. Soused.1 75
Mackerel,1-lb Tomato 1 75
Sars... 00
Sardines. %< domestic 3/@
Sardines, mstrd,dom.5%@ 7%
Sardines, French....., &§ @ 2

 

  

CANDLES.
8s. Sees ose eteis cece
ee 8
ree 8
Wieking. 20
CATSUP.
Columbia, pints.......... 2 00
Columbia, % pints.......... 1 2
- CHEESE
a @ 12
ee @ og
Emblem............. @
Gold Medal..... .... @
ee @
eT @ i3
Riverside............ @
= a ST @ 2
a @ 70
fee @ 17
— eo ee @ 13
Pineapple............ 0 @
p Sane... @ 17
Chicory
Bulk DSS eas 5
ec 7
CHOCOLATE.

Walter Baker & Co.’s.
Ferman Sweet............ ..8
Premium. ........ oie soe
Sreakfaat Cocos... oe 46

CLOTHES LINES.
Cotton, 40 ft, per dos....... 100
Cotton, 50 ft, per dos....... 120
Cotton, 60 ft, per dos....... 1 40
Cotton, 70 ft, per dos....... 160
Cotton, 80 ft, per dos....... 1 80
Jute, 60 ft, per dos......... 80
Jute, 72 ft. per dos,,........ 95

COCOA SHELLS.
=o i> bape. 2%
Less quantity.... — 3
Pound packages......... 4

CREAM TARTAR.
5 and 10 1b. wooden boxes... . .30

Balk in seeks... 29
COFFFE,
Roasted.
9
10
12
13
14
14
15
: 16
Heaeerry 6. 18
Maracaibo.
Pema 15
ee 17
Java.
eres 26
Private Growth.............. 33
Mendonling......-. ss 35
Mocha.
Seatiation 2. 22
Ree 28
Roasted.

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

 
  
 

Breakfast Blend........ 18
Valley City Maracaibo. ...18%
Ideal Blend................. 14
Leader Blend....... .. .... 12%

Package.

Below are given New York
prices on package coffees, to
which the wholesale dealer
adds the local freight from
New York to your shipping
point, giving you credit on the
invoice for the amount of
freight buyer peye from the
market in which he purchases
to his — point, including
weight of package, also ¥c a
pound. In 60lb. cases the list
is 10c per 100 lbs. above the
price in full cases.

Avemente <3... SS 10 50
CON oc 10 50
‘cl aughlin’s XX YY.

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

Extract.
Valiey City % gross ..... 7
Felix % gross...... cee 1 15
Hummel’s foil % gross... &
Humme!’s tin % gross... 1 43
CLOTHES PINS.
Sorombenes-.  .. ...

 

40 | 200:1b. barrels... .........

CONDENSED MILK.

4 doz in case.

Gail Borden Eagle......... 6%
Creme 6

Tradesman Grade.

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

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

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

Boron

Sr.
SSS SFSS Ssss

See
8

upon Pass Books,

Can be made to ee any

denomination from 810 down.

~epeees 1 00
ee eee... 2 00
Mebeeme ............ 3 00

Poo eens... 623

500 DOGES............-~.... 10 00
1000 bookr...... ..-17 50

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 00
Steel soi bee ecains %

DRIED FRUITS—DOMESTIC

Apples.
Raneried..... @7*%
Evaporated 50 lb boxes. @9%

California Fruits.

— ee ec eee @15
Blackberries...........
Nectarines ...........- @
Peewee. .... 21.2... 9 Ql
Pitted Cherries........
ae a
oe.
. California Pranes.
100-120 25 lb boxes....... @4
90-100 25 lb boxes....... @5
80 - 90 25 lb boxes....... @ 5%
70 - 80 25 1b boxes......- @ 6%
60 - 70 25 lb boxes. @ 6%
50 - 60 25 Ib boxes. .....- @8
40 - 50 25 lb boxes....... @10
30 - 40 25 lb boxes....... @
iq cent less in 50 1b cases
Raisins.
London Layers 2 Crown. 1 50
London Layers 3 Crown. 1 65
Cluster 4 Crown......... 2 00
Loose Muscateis2 Crown 5
Loose Muscatels3Crown 6
Loose Museatels 4Crown 7
L. M., See@ed, choice..... 8
L. M , Seeded, fancy...... 9%
FOREIGN.
Citron. on
Leghorn .........-sseseee-
Corcsiean.:.......-...---- @13
Currants.
Patras bbls... .........- @ 5%
Cleaned, bulk .....- ----@6
Cleaned, packages......-- @ 6%

Peel.
Citron American 101b bx @13
Lemon American 10 lb bx @:0%
Orange American 101b bx @10%

Raisins.
Ondura 28 ib boxes.....
Sultana 1 Crown.......
Sultana 2Crown ...... @
Sultana 3Crown....... @
Sultana 4 Crown....... @
Snitana &Crown....... @

  

Sultana6Crown...... @
Sultana package....... @
FARINACEOUS GOODS.
EE gag 1 50

: paekepes...........8%
Bulk, per 100 Oe 3 50

Grits.
Walsh-DeR o Co.’s Brand.

  

242 Ib. packages... 2. ...: 1 80
200 tha. Seren : = y

Coeem teen me
Citic

 

Hominy.
eee 2 50
Flake, 50 lb. drums....... 100

Beans.

Dried Lima - ............. 514
Medium Hand Pickeé 1 2°@1 25
Maccaroni and Vermiceill.
Domestic, 10 lb. box...... 60
Imported, 25 Ib. box.. ...2 50
Pearl Barley.
Common... ooo... 20
reer oo 223
Pe 2%
Peas.

Green, Wisconsin, bu..... 100
Green, Scotch, bu. ...... 1 10
Spit, bu... ........ eee 2 50
Rolled Oats.
Rolled Avena, bbl.......4 00
Monarch, bbl........... 3 5
Monarch, % bbl.......... 2 00
Monarch, 90 1b sacks...... 1 80
mIgKer, CANS. ...........- 3 20
Mren, CABCS.............. 2 00
Sago.
Cnn se 4
East India........... 3%

Tapioca
Piske........ el See cas 5
oo a a ee 4%
Anchor, 40 1 1b. pkges.... bye

Wheat.

Cracked. bul. ............ 3%
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
Holland white hoop, keg.

5 25
70

Holland white hoopmchs &

Norweren... .....-......

Round 100 lbs............. 3 10
Round 40 lbs............. 1 40
ORI oc ec aces 14

Mackerel.
Mons 100 the... 15 00
Micas °40 thes so .. 6 30
een obs. 1 6
Mem 6 ibs............... 1 3
ING. § pans... ss 13 B
No.1 40 lbs. 5 6
mo.) Biiee... 1... 1 48
No: 4 Sipe... 120
No. S200 ihe... ..... 222... 11 50
mo. ie... ..........2 49)
a2 ie... 2.052... 1 30
Ne.S Sipe... 10

Trout.

No. 1 100 ibs. 5 25
No.1 Mibs....... 2 40
mo.e ie. 68
No.1 8 Ibs... 57

Whi ih.
- No.t No.2 Fam
100 ihe... 7CO 650 275
im...) 310 290 140
oie... :. 85 80 43
| 66 37
FLAVORING EXTRACTS.

 

: em. Van.
2o0z. Taper Panel.. 7% 1 20
Son. Oval... os. .: vi) 1 90
3 oz. Taper Panel. 1 35 2 00
4 oz. Taper Panel..1 60 2 2

FLY PAPER.
Tanglefoot, per box........ 36
Tanglefoct. per case ....... 3 20
Holders, per box of £0...... 75

AbKBS.
(ob eu dee dew occu n 15
Bee 15

 

  
 
 

 

  

 

INDIGO. SAUERKRAUT.
Madras, 5 Ib boxes......... i. ]
8. F., 2,3 and 51lb boxes.... 50 ce on
GUNPOWDER. SNUFF.
Rifle—Dupont’s. Scotch, in bladders......... 37
ie 400 Maccaboy, in jars........... 35
Half Kegs... 9 | SO ees. & eee..... -
Quarter Kegs............-...1 8
1 i ee oe = SEEDS.
peel: Secs
——— We
Choke Bore—Dupont’s. | Caraway ome: Be
CR geese ees 4 25| Cardamon, Malabar ..... 60
Half Kegs...............-..+ 2 40 Gélerg 2 11
Quarter Kegs................ 1 35| Hemp, Russian.......... 4%
OO COM of | Mitoed Bird... 2... .. 4%
Mustard, white....... ... 5
Eagie Duck—Dupont’s. a 10
K oe i _.8 00 MOOR 4%
Half Kegs. . 435 Cuttle Bone............... 20
Quarter Kegs... 2 2
SUS Gama 45 SALT.
JELLY. Diamond Crystal.
Se pete. 35 | Table, cases, 24 3-lb boxes. .1 50
6 palig.... .2.. ......... 65 | Table, barreis, 100 3 lb bags.2 75
Table, barrels, 407 lb bags.2 40
Lye. Ber bares ats ibbare
utter Tels, :
Condensed, 2 dos .......... 1 = Butter, aacks, 38 lbs.... _— >
Condensed. 4 dos.......--- 2 2 | Butter, sacks, 56 lbs.-....... 55
aye Common Grades.
Calabria .........----++--++- 100 3-Ibsacks.....  ......... 195
NN = e cece anne ono 14 | a 5-1b eacks.... 18D
Lh) 28 10-lb sacks............... 1 65
— MBAT. a Wor. =
ideal, S des. in cne...------ 152 1 cartons ae 8 a
. Sacks... ows
MATCHES. 60 5 Ib. sacks.. 3%
Diamond Match Co.’s brands. |; 2214 lb. sacks .8 50
No. 9 sulphur.........------ 165) 3010 1b. sacks.. .-3 50
Anchor Parlor...........--- 1 70 | 28 Ib. linen sacks... aac ee
No. 2 Home..... ois 1 10 | 56 1b. linen sacks........... - 60
Export Parlor.........----- 4 00) Bulk in barrels.............. 2 50
MOLASSES. Wacuae:
New Orleans. 56-Ib dairy in drill bags..... 30
28-lb dairy in drill bags..... 15
Ashton.

 

alf-barrels 2c extra.

 

 

 

MUSTARD.
Horse Radish, 1 doz........-. 1%
Horse Radish, 2 doz......... 3 50
Bayle’s Celery, 1 doz.. ..... 1%
PIPES.
Clay, No. 216.........--..-- 1 70
Clay, T. D. full coun 65
Cob, No. 3 85
48 cans in case.
Babiites.....-.:..........- 400
Penna Salt Co.’8......----- 8 00
PICKLES.
Medium.

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

Barrels, 2,400 count....... 4%5
Half bbls’ 1,200 count...... 2 88
RICE.

Domestic.

Carolina head.............. 6%

Carolina No.1 ..... .
Carolina No. 2...... 4
ireken
Imported.
Ja Mot... 54@ 6
a 1s. es
Java, fancy head...... 5 @5%
CS 5 @
Tave. .....-.. aoe ae
SALERATUS.

Packed 60 Ibs tn box.
Church’s Arm and Hammer.} 15
Deland’s 3 00

Dwight’s Cow.. ....... .....8 15
Meroe... ls 3 50
a 3 15
Wyandotte, 1(0 %s.......... 3.00
SAL SUDA.
Granulated, bblis.......... v6)
Granulated, 100 lb cases.. 90
inmnp, bbls. .... :........' 9
Lump, 145]b kegs.......... 8

 

56-lb dairy in linen sacks... 60

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

SGib ancks .........:.:.....° 22
Common.
Granulated Fine............ 65
Medium Fine............... %5
SOAP.

SEIO DOE os oS 2%
5 box lots, delivered........ 2°0
10 box lots, delivered........ 2%

dAS. 8. KIRK & CO.’S BRANDS.

NE sia ee eet ee tae 2
White Russian..............
White Cloud, laundry......
White Cloud, toilet.........
Dusky Diamond. 50 6 oz....
Dusky Diamond, 50 8 oz....
Blue India, 100 %& lb..
Kirkoline... oe
OR cece ee

  

20 09 bo 9 d0 C9 & d9 290900
SSSSSSRRKSE

Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands.
Old Country, 801-lb. bars ..2 7%

Good Cheer, 60 1-lb. bars....3 75

Uno, 100 3%-lb. bars.......... 2 50

Doll, 100 10-oz. bars......... 26
Scouring.

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

Domes. 2. ee 5%
Kegs, English... .......... 4%

 

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

21

 

 

SPICES.
Whole Sifted.
Allspice .... ue
Cassia, China in mats....... 12
Cassia, Batavia in bund....25
Cassia, Saigon in rolls...... 32
Cloves, Amboyna........... 14
Cloves, oe’ Badass sce 12
Mace, Batavia.. en
Nutmegs, fancy.. See 60
Nutmegs, No. : Deca e ead =
Nutmegs, No.

Pepper ammeess: black..
Pepper, — white.. 6

Pepper, shot... 2... :.
Pure said in Bulk.

PBN oe a: 17
Cassia, Batavia ............. 30
Cassia, Saigon..............40
Cloves, Zanzibar............ 14
Ginger, African.. ......... 15
Ginger, Cochin............. 18
Ginger, Jamaica............ 23
Mace, Batavia.............. 65
MEICAP i oc 12@18
a oe: a =

epper, Sing , black........ 5
Popper Sing., white........ 2
Pepper, Cayenne............ 20
Oe: 3 es

SYRUPS.
rn.

Becrcow.  : 18
Hert bbls...... ... <6 @

1 doz. 1 gallon cans......... 2 99
1 doz. % gallon cans...... 170
2 doz. 4 gallon cans ..... 1%

Pure Cane.

ee 16
Gooe ow: ea 20
Cotes P- 9)

STARCH.

 

Kingsford’s Corn.

40 1-lb packages............. 6
20 1 lb packages............. 64
Kingsford’s Silver Gloss.

40 1-lb ee Elect laeiieteleicre 6%
Gib boxes... 7
Diamond.

64 10¢ packages ........... 5 00
128 5e mae a 5 00

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

20 1 lb. packages.......... .. 5
40 1 1b. a pe uecece cae 4%
Common Gloss.
i-lb packages............... 4%
3-lb packages.......... Lo ae
6-lb packages. . oa oe
40 and 50 lb boxes........... 3
Merve 3
STOVE POLISH.

Enamenne \

ro mREsc one ce?
ry

 

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

SUGAR.

Below are given New York
prices on sugars, to which the
wholesale dealer adds the local
freight from New York to your
shipping point, giving you
credit on the eee for the
amount of freight buyer ag
from the market in whic

urchases to his shipping point,
fnelading 20 pounds for the
weight of the barrel.

o
5
8
5
3
in
8

   
 
    

Granulated in bbls.
Granulated in bags..
Fine Granulated..... so:
Extra Fine Granulated.....
Extra Coarse —o-
Mould A <G
aimed ‘Confec. A
oT Standard A..
No.

  

® cuMeBsaaaseesSs RessoRaRreg

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8358

 

TOBACCOS.
Cigars.
Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s brand.
Now Brigg. 33 00

H. & P. Drug Co.’s brand.
@Qutubotie ........ 0.0.20... 35 00

G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s brand.

we fal

S.C. Wo. Se ol 35 00

Ruhe Bros. Co.’s Brands.

Double Eag'es. 6 a $57 70
Gen. Maceo, 5 sizes. - 5@iv
Mr. Thomas...........
Cuban Hand Made..

Crown Five...........

Sar Wiliiam...........
Ctab Five... 6.
Gens. Grant and Lee..

Little Peggy ..........
Signal Five...........
Knights of Pythias..

Key West Perfects, 2.8z 55@6

TABLE SAUCES.

Lea & Perrin’s, large... 4
Lea & Perrin’s,small... 2
Halford, large. ee eed cae 3%
Halford small....... |) 1". 2 25
4 55
2%

RKKKKHKHR
SSSS8SSSSSE ss

&

Salad Dressing, large

  

Salad Dressing, small.....
VINEGAR.

Malt White Wine, 40 grain.... §

Malt White Wine, 80 grain....11

Pure Cider, Red Star.......... 12

Pure Cider. Robinson.........12

Pure Cider, Silver........ .... li
WICKING.

No. 0, pergross.............. 20

No. 1, pergross......... 25

No. 2 per gross....... 35

No. 3 per gross..

 

 

Crackers.

 

The National Biscuit Co.
quotes as follows:
Butter.

Seymour 22k. 2...
Seymour Xxx, 3 Ib. carton -

Famny X50 0... 5%

Salod SAR 6

New York XXX.. 6

Wotverine fo 6
Se. 7%

Seda.
Sega MXN.
Soda =. 3 lb carton

 

 

as,
Saltine Wafer... 1... ...... 5
Saltine Wafer, 1 1b carton. 6%
Darna Oyster... 5x»
Extra Farina Oyster....... 6
SWEET GOODS—Boxes.

AO 10%
Bent’s Water.... ... . 16
Cocoanut Taffy. eee cee cee :
Coffee Cake, Java..........
Coffee Cake, Iced... =
(rAecunelig. 15%
Cubans 0 11%
Frosted Cream............. 8
GingerGems .. .. 8
Ginger Snaps, XXX.. 7%
Graham Crackers ... oe
Graham Wafers...... -. 10
Grand Ma Cakes............ ?
ae
Jumples, Honey........... 11%
Marshmallow ............. 15
Marshmallow Creams..... 16

Marshmallow Walnuts... 16
Mich. Frosted Honey.... 12%

 

 

  
  
  
 

 

 

 

  

Molasses Cakes........ os
PIOWO ec: 12
Wie Ges oo
Orange GemsS............... 8
Penny Assorted Cakes..... 8%
Pretzels, hand made . 1%
Sears’ Lunch........... q
Sugar Cake.......... 8
Sugar Squares..... 9
Vanilla Wafers. 14
Sultanas ........... 12%
Oils.
Barrels.

Oo ae 11%
XXX W. = — Hdlt @10
W W Michigan........ 9%
Sean ea @ 8%

eGR... @1i2%

. Naptha . @i2%

Cylinder .... --.29
Engine..... <a 1
Black, winter........ 8

 

 

Candies. Grains and Feedstuffs
Stick Candy. Wheat.
mua ~— 2 WGN 68
MEMEOROE, oi... ec cs Winter Wheat Plour.
Standard H. H...... one 7 Local Heaade.
Standard Twist..... 7%@ 8 Pataia 0 400
Cut Loaf............ @8 aeound Patent............. 3 50
acon Stra 325
Jumbo, 321b ........ ae 3 00
Extra H.H.......... @ 8% | Graham |... .22.2222220227 350
Boston Cream...... @10 | Buckwheat ./2..2212222°27) 410
ye 3 25
Mined Condy. — to usual cash dis-
GTOCETS. 8... @6 count.
Competition......... @ 6% Flour in bbls., 25¢ per bbl. ad-
Standard............ @7 ditional.
Conserve...... ..... @ 7% | Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand
Royal ........... ... oe | tee ee... ss... 3 75
Ribbon.............. © 2 | Daley, 48................-... 3 75
on eee [7 ee. 3 75
English Rock... $ 8 Worden Grocer Co.’s —_,
emerge a @ 8% aoe Da See ee ceh econ ea : =
Dende a a <; Quaker %e.. .. 3 50

Hand Made Creammxd @I13

Ital. Cream Bubns, 35lb ps 11
Molas es Chews, 15 ib. pails 13
‘Alla Samee,”’ 5 1b. pails 12

FPancy—In Bulk.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lozenges, plain..... @ 8%
Lozenges, printed.. @ 8%
Choe. Drops........ @l0%
Choc. oe @'2
Gum Drops.... @5
Moss Drops. @ 8
Sour Drops. . @ 8%
Imperiais ..... @9
Pancy—In 5 Ib. Boxes.

Lemon Drops....... @50
Sour Drops......... @50
Peppermint Drops.. @60
ge ge Drops.. @60

M. Choc. Drops. @
r M. rap Lt.and

DE. Noe... @90
Gum ‘Somes a, @30
Licorice Drops...... Qi
A. B. Licorice — @50
Lozenges, plain.. @50
Lozenges, printed.. @50
Imperials See occ. @50
MOStOCH @55
Cream Bar.......... @50
Molasses Bar @50
Hand Made Creams. 80 @ 9
Cream Buttons, Pep.

and Want......... @6
String Rock Bese ce. @60
Burnt Almonds.....1 25 @
Wintergreen Berries @50

Caramels.
No.1 wrapped, 2 Ib.

bexes @35
= i 1 wrapped, 3 Ib.

No. "2 wrapped, 2 |b.
Fruits.
Oranges.

Fancy Navels....... @? 7
Choice.... So @3 50
Seediings............ 2 50@2
Lemons.
Strictly choice 360s.. @3 01
Strictly — — @3 25
Fancy . @3 30
Ex.Fancy “3008... . @3 7
Ex.Fancy 360s...... @
Bananas. :
Medium bunches...1 00 @I1 25
Large bunches...... 15u @2 Ou
Foreign Dried Fruits.
Figs.
Californias Fancy.. @i4
Choice, 101b boxes... @13
Extra choice, 10 Ib

boxes new......... @15
Fancy, 12 lb boxes.. @22
——— Mikados, 18

Os awe @
Pulled, 6 1b boxes... @
Naturals, in bags... @7

Dates.

Fards in 10 lb boxes @10
Fards in 60 ib cases @é6
Persians, PH V..... @6

1b cases, new...... @é6
Sairs, 601b cases.... @5

Nuts.

Almonds, Tarragona... @i6é
Almonds, Tvaca....... @14
Almonds, oo

soft shelled......... @15

Brazils ae See cose wae @8

Pe oo @10
Walnuts, Granobles.. @i3
Walnuts, Calif No. 1. @li
Walnuts, soft shelled

Care @i1
Table Nuts, fancy.. @ll
Table N uts, choice... @10
Pecans, Med........... @7%K%
Pecans, Ex. Large.. @9
Pecans, Jumbos.. @i2
Hickory Nuts per bu.,

Ohio, new........... @1 60
Cocoanuts, full sacks @4 U0
Chestnuts per bu...... @

Peanuts.
Fancy, H. P., Suns. @7
Fancy, H. P., Flags

Roasted.. @7
Choice, H. P., “Extras. @ 1%
Choice, H. P., Extras,

Reasted 5%

 

Spring Wheat Flour.
Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s me.

Pillsbury’s Best %s........ 44
Pillsbury’s Best 4s........ 4 3.
Pillsbury’s Best \s........ 425

Pillsbury’s Best 4s paper.. 4 25
Pillsbury’s Best ‘4s paper.. 4 x5

Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand.

 

Duluto seni a. 4 35
Dulutb Imperial, 4s. ..... 4 25
Duluth Imperial, %s....... 445
Lemon & Wheeler Co.’s Brand.
Gold Medal s............. 425
Gold Medal s............. 4.5
Gold Medal 4s............. 45
oe 4 25
Parisian, ee 4 15
Parisian, %5....... elo so ace 405
Olney & Judson’s Brand.
Cescsotm, 4a... . 6.) 435
Ceresota, 44e................ 4 2
Ceresota, ee 4 45
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand
Eamarol S66. 4 35
Laurel, eee. 4 25
Laurel, ee ce: 4.5
Meal.
BO 1 90
Granulated ................ 2 10

Feed and Millstuffs.

 

 

 

St. Car Feed. screened ....16 50
No. 1 Corn and Oats....... 16 00
Unbolted Corn Meal....... 15 *O
Winter Wheat Bran.. .14 90
Winter Wheat Middlings. -15 00
Screenings.. .-13 00
‘Gore.
New Corn, car lots. ....... 36%
Less than car lots......... 38
—
Car lots. .. +.
Carlots, clipped. fees ee ee ec 34%
Less than oo 36
No. 1 Thusthecaciate eal 9 00
No. 1 Timothy ton lots 1° 05
Fish and Oysters
Fresh Fish.
Per lb.
a eee ae @ 10
Bee ee ae es @ ww
Black ees... 8 @ ll
pe ee @ bb
Ciscoes _ Herring.. @ 5
Bimenen. cs... @ it
Live Lobster....... @
Boiled Lobster...... @
ee... @ 10
Haddock... @ 8
No. 1 Pickerel...... @ 8
Eeee @ %™%
Perch.. @ 6
Smoked White. eee @ 8
Red Snapper........ @ 8
Col River Sey @ 12
Mackerel .......... @ 16
Oysters in Cans.
FF. H. — Sec en us @ 38
F.J D. Selects...... @ ‘0
Relcete @ 27
¥. J. D Standards.. 22
mMeuets 86... @ 20
Standards........... @ 18
Favorites............ @
Bulk. gal.
CN, z 00
SC 1 65
Selette eo.
Auchor Standards.,........ 1 10
SeGreearge tl.
CRM 1 25
ssi anede
sters, = aoe
ams, per 100...... 1 et OD

 

Provisions.

Swift & Company quote as
follows:

 

 

  

 

 

  
  

 

 

 

 

Barreled Pork.
—_ ele go ecclesia aed 4 10 00
Clear back.......... @i0 00
a 10 00
a 14 00
Bee 9.0
Pam 11 Ou
Dry Salt ee
Bellies... 2... : 5%
Briskets . a coe soca 5%
Extra shorts...........2. 534
Smoked [eats.
Hams, 12 1b average .... 8%
Hams, 141b average ... 8%
Hams, 16 1b average..... 7%
Hams, 20 lb average..... 7%
Ham dried ieee ..... ll
Shoulders (N. Y. cut). 5%
Bacon, clear............ 7 @7%
California hams. a
Boneless hams......
Cooked ham............ “opie
a In Tierces.
Com ee a. 4%
aes 63g
55 lb Tubs advance 5%
80 lb Tubs.. advance 4
50 1b Tins .. advance 36
20 1b Pails.. advance 5%
10 lb Pails.. - advance %
5 lb Pails.......advance 1
3 lb Pails....... advance 1%
Sausages.
Helens 5%
6%
7%
6%
6
9
6%
Beef.
Extra Mess....
Boneless ....
Ca 12 2
mite 2 the...

% bbls, 40 Ibs.......2 227. 1 35
% bbls, 80 lbs.. oon
Tri E
Kits, 15 lbs... ine. cee 70
%¢ bbls, lbe............ 1 25
34 bbls, SO ibe... 2 25
Casings.
eee. 20
Beef rounds............. 3
Beef middles............ 10
Se 60
Butterine.
ells, dairg. ..... 11
Solid, dairy ..... ‘ 10 ¢
Rolls, ane” 15%
Solid, creamery . l4n
Canned Meats.
Corned beef, 2 1b ...... 2 15
Corned beef, 5 ie 7a
Roast beef, Ib. - 215
Potted ham, eo 50
Potted ham, Ys. 90
Deviled ham, 14s. 50
Deviledham, ‘Ks. 90
Potted tongue 4s....... 50
Potted tongue Ks....... 90
Fresh Meats.
Beef.

Careaeg oo... 64@ 8
Fore quarters......... 5%@ 6%
Hind quarters........ 64@ v&
Eemms No. Z........... 9 @i2
ee -7 @l2
Mounes 7 @m™
Cheer. 6 @6&

Peeeee 4@

Dressed - 44@5

Loins . . @7

Shoulders... a. @ 5%

Leat Yard............. 64@
—

Carcass . ous 2 Gl ae

Spring Lambs.. -8 @Y

Veal.
Carcass - TD 8

 

 

Hides and Pelts.

 

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

Hides.
Green No. f............ @7%
Green No. 2.......... -§ @b6%
Bale... @ 6
Cored Ne. 2........... @ -%
Cured Noe. 2............ @™%
Calfskins, green No. 1 Sit
Calfskins, green No. 2 @ 8%
Calfskins,cured No.1 @ll
Calfskins,cured No.2 @ 9%
Pelts. iL
Pelts, each............ 50@1 00
Tallow. i
ie Bg. @ 3%
Nef. @ 2n
Wool.
Washed, fine ......... @18
Washed, medium...... @23
Unwashed, fine.. ll 13

00 | Unwashed, medium ..16 @18

 

 

Crockery and
Glassware.
AKRON STONEWARE.
Butters,

% gal., per dos ........... 45
1to6 'gal., ~~ -. Bede a 5%
8 gal., each.. tddcceaser Ge

10 gal., each.. <ctcc,

12 gal., Ceee........ . ..,. 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., = ee a... 6
Churn Das ers, per doz... 85

Milkpans.
% gal. flat or < bot., doz. 45
1 gal. flat orrd. bot.,each 5%

Fine Glazed Milk
% gal. flat or rd. bot., 9g * 60
1 gal. flat orrd. bot.,each 5%
Stewpans.
% gal. fireproof’ bail, dos. 85
1 gal. fireproof, bail, dosz.1 10

Jugs.
4g @al., per dos............. 40
Gel. pordes. ... ........ Se
1 to 5 gal., pergal......... 6%

Tomato peat
% gal., per dos.. nee

Dee Caen. 8%
Corks for % gal., per dos.. 20
Corks for 1 gal., per dos.. 30

Preserve Jars and Covers.
% gal., stone cover, doz... %5
1 gal., stone cover, doz.. i 00

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

LAMP BURNERS.
EE
No. 1 rs dele eed uae =
— a

Seman No. 2, 80
Nutmeg . a

LAMP CHIMNEY S— Seconds.
Per box of 6 oa
Ne: O Sam 1 32
No. 5
No.

 

— en
- crimp
rapped ‘and lebaea
No.

No. 2 Sun, crim

XXX Plint.
No. 0 Sun, crim

No. Sun, crim
wrapped and labeled..
CHIMNEYS—Pear! ri
" 1 Sun, wrapped an
labeled.

No. 2 rt “Small Bulb,”
for Globe Lamps.........

La Bastie.
dog 1 Sun. plain bulb, per

oz
No. 1 Crimp, per dos.
No. 2 Crimp, per dos.

 

Rochester.
No. 1, Lime og dost. oes SOO
No. 2) Lime (70¢ doz)...... 4 00
No. 2) Flint tee — eve es 470
No, 2, Lime oy ee Sodas 400
No, 2; Flint (80c dos)...... 4 40
L CANS. Oz.

Oo D
1 gal tin cans with spout.. 1
1 gal galv iron with spout. 1
2 gal galv iron with spout. 2
3 gal galv iron with spout. 3
5 gal galv iron with spout. 4
3 gal galv iron with faucet 4
5 gal galv iron with faucet 4

5 gal Tilting cans.......... 7
5 gal galy iron Nacefas.... 9
Pump Cans.
5 gsl Rapid steady stream. 7
5 gal Eureka non-overflow 10
3 gal Home Rule..... ..... 10
5 gal Home Rule........... 12
5 gal Pirate King.......... 9

LANTERNS.
_ oe side lift..
No. 13 Tubular Dash. ‘eae ©
No. 1Tub., glass fount... 7
No. 12 Tubu ar, side lamp. 14
No. 3Street Lamp........ 3

LANTERN GLOBES.
No. 0 Tubular, cases 1 doz,

Qa
ASSSRS SSSSS SRAITKKSER

each, box 10 ‘cents... ..... 45
No. 0 Tubular, cases 2 dos.

each, box 15 cents....... 45
No. = anaen bbls 5 dos.

eneh, bE St.............. 3

No. 0 Tubular bull’s eye
cases 1 dos. each......... 1 1%

 

 

 

22

MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

BANKS AND BANKING.

 

Pertinent Observations by a Practical
Banker.

A very small percentage of men, in-
cluding business men, could give off-
hand, a correct statement of the real
purposes of a bank, or any adequate
reason for the important position banks
hold in our intricate commercial system.
Besides this, superficial observers, to
whom banking operations are as mys-
terious as Egyptian Sorcerers, often-
times charge the banks with being the
source of selfishly-conceived designs on
our monetary system, causing industrial
paralysis, low wages, hard times, pov-
erty and crime. A terrible accusation.
Let us see if it be a true one. It is not
to be wondered at that the American
people should have so little knowledge
of our banking system, for since the
days of the elimination of the ‘‘ Wild
Cat’’ and ‘‘Red Dog’’ banks which
were so numerous and unsafe at the
close of the rebellion, we have devised
and brought into operation a remarkably
effizient, well-guard-d system, which no
longer compels the constant scrutiny
and attention of the public to prevent
evils. It is a business too complex to
be comprehended at a glance.

But, what are the functions of a4 bank?
What service does it render a commu
nity or nation? Does it contribute alike
to the prosperity of the rich and_ poor,
employer and employed? Can banks be
dispensed with? Are they a burden up-
on industrial operations, making a tax
upon labor and capital for their main-
tenance through monetary manipulations
as is sometimes charged? There are
five kinds of service rendered the public
by these institutions and the perform-
ance of any one of them will merit the
title of bank.

First, banks provide safe places for
the reception and custody of money and
other evidences of value and facilitate
exchanges of credit. The original func-
tion of a bank was to receive, safely
guard and deliver when called for, all
kinds of bullion, currency and evi
dences of property, returning to the
owner the same bullion or other prop-
erty which he had deposited, being
nearly the same in effect as the safety
deposit vaults of to-day and a tax upon
its patrons for the expense of mainte-
nance. While this was an improvement
on the cust»m of keeping money in pri-
vate coffers, still it was unprofitable and
worked ill results on the public, for it
hoarded and withdrew from circulation
a vast amount of capital which ought to
have been in use. Then toere began to
be shown the convenience of paying an
obligation by an order, or check, on the
bank. Such checks were often placed
to the credit of the payee; thus a sim-
ple chauge in the books of the bank
took the place of drawing money witb
which to pay the debt, and time was
saved and risk reduced. Thus developed
the check system of exchanges and that
resulted in the bank having constantly
on hand money which it could profitably
loan. It then proposed to accept de-
posits w:thout charge and compensated
itself for the service rendered by loan-
ing such portion of the depositors’ funds
as could safely be spared. Thus the
expense of maintenance of the bank was
transferred from the depositor to the
user of the depositor's funds, Sharp
competition has driven the banks of to-
day into the unwarrantable and unsafe
practice of paying excessive interest on
deposits and it is a burden that has
been the indirect cause of many failures

 

and rendered many banks unprofitable
and forced them into liquidation.

With the growth of the credit system,
exchanges between different parts of the
country and internationally were ex-
pedited and simplified, the expense of
and time required for the transportation
of money were saved and consequently
industrial operations quickened and were
rendered more efficient To illustrate:
A few days since an Elk Rapids gentle-
man desired to send $30 toa friend on
the Pacific coast for immediate use. He
at first thought of the old-time way of
shipping the money by express. On
enquiry found it would cost $4 and con-
sume a week in transit. In his extrem.
ity he bethought himself of the bank
and found that he could by the use of
the bank check system furnish his
friend the money as quickly as by ex-
press and for the small charge of 15
cents. But, greater dispatch being de-
sired, the bank by use of the telegraph
and check system combined was able ta
receive the money over its counter in
Elk Rapids and in an hour’s time trans-
fer the credit to a bank on the Western
coast for the use of the friend, for half
the cost of an express shipment.

No one can compute the great amount
of time and expense saved to the com-
mercial world and the extra volume of
5usiness it is enabled to transact be-
cause of the banks, and if they rendered
no other service this would be sufficient
reason for their existence.

Second, banks, by the discounting of
husiness paper and the loaning of money,
greatly stimulate manufacturing, trade
and commerce. The Elk Rapids Iron
Co., for example, invests its working
capital in manufacturing iron, Inmber
ind flour, which are seldom sold for
cash, but to be paid for at some future
time. Now, it is apparent that if the
time granted for payment be long
enough, the company would have its
money expended and the representation
of that capital, the iron. etc., soid and
in possession of other parties, while the
company would have to borrow more
capital or close its furnace and mills
antil they might receive pay for their
products sold

If it were not for banking capital,
which comes forward at this time and
relieves the situation, business would be
crippled, men thrown out of employ-
ment and general stagnation would re-
sult,

The bank now offers to loan the man-
ufacturer money, taking for security bis
manufactured wares, or to buy the notes
or acceptances he may have received
for goods sold, deducting his interest in
advance, called the discount.

Thus the manager or the creditor gets
possession: of his capital three or four
months sooner than he would without
the intervention of the bank, and al-
though he does not get the full face
value of his paper, yet in a paying busi-
ness he will make more by discounting
his paper and using his capital than by
waiting.

Thus industries are bui!t up, capital
increased in activity, the demand for
labor strengthened, and general pros-
perity increased.

Third. National banks supply the
country with a part of its circulating
medium,thereby making what is termed
an ‘‘eiastic currency,’’ from the fact
that it can be issued or retired as oc-
casion may demand. The demand for
money is like the demand forcoal We
need more coal at certain seasons than
we do at others. So with money, we
need it to settle balances in trade and

 

 

the amount to be needed depends upon
the amount of business and that varies
with season. Having a great many
places of issue and these scattered all
over the country, any local demand can
be readily met, and when capital is
needed in the South to move the cotton,
Sugar and rice crops, or in the We-t to
pay for harvesting the fruit and grain,
or in the East for manufacturing, it
can be quickly supplied and just as
quickly retired when it has served its
purpose.

Fourth. Depces't banks render a valu-
able service in capital building The
savings bank is of benefit to the de-
positor by furnishing him a conveniert
place for storing small amounts of value.
We must realize that most ‘men must
live off from what they produce and
ncthing that they produce can remain in
existence for a very long time. Houses
decay, clothes are easily ruined, stock
dies and the fruits of the field are per-
ishable.

The problem presents itself to a pro-
ducer, how can | preserve what I pro-
duce or its value until I shall need it?

The answer comes, turn it into money
and depos t it in the bank, and it will
be careful y preserved against the time
of need. There may be safer things
than a bank, for a bank may become in-

 

 

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Bicycle Dealers

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Who have not secured the “WORLD”
agency will be almost sorry they didn’t
speak for it—after it is too late. “WORLD”
wheels are easy sellers—stay soid and every
“WORLD” seils another “WORLD.” We
can take care of a few more good agencies.
Write for catalogue and wholesale prices.
We are Michigan selling agents.

Adams & Hart,
Wholesa!e & Retail Bicycles & Sundries,
12 West Bridge Street,
Grand Rapids, Mich.
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Agents for the Novelty Mfg. Co.
Write us for Circular and Prices.

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

solvent. But land may deteriorate, and
jewels be lost, so as a depository of
value there is risk in everything. This
was the verdict of the old lady who de-
posited $1,700 in her stove for safe
keeping over night and the next morn-
ing, not thinking of her treasure, put a
fire in the stove and cremated her hoard.
Besides, when stored in a bank, the
value may be readily withdrawn, while
if in land and other property may not
be thus at command. But besides this
direct benefit there is an indirect ben
efit arising from savings banks. The
small deposits of many men combined
form a control over capital large enough
to promote the business enterprises,
strengthen old industries and establish
new ones. The more capital the more
enterprise.

Fifth, There is one cther service ren-
dered by banks which, while not as
important and essential as the four
functions previously mentioned, is quite
as generally employed by the mercan
tile world and is a great saving and
convenience [ speak now of the collec-
tion department. This department en
ables the creditor to draw his draft or
make his written demand on bis debtor,
who may be many thousands of miles
distant from him, and through the
agency of bis bank and its agents col-
lect the debt for a nominal considera
tion.

This system proves mutually advan-
tageous to both debtor and creditor. For
instance, a Cealer in Chicago desires to
purchase of an Elk Rapids merchant a
carload of potatoes. The merchants are
strangers to each other and ne ther cares
to trust the other with the value repre
sented by the potatoes, or perhaps the
local merchant can not afford to be out
the use of his money during the time the
consignment would be in transit,or dur-
ing any delay that might occur in the
receiving and selling of the same and
the remitting therefor.

In this case the local merchart would
purchase the potatoes with his own cap-
ital, if able; if not, he would perhaps
borrow of his bank, on the strength of
the tra-saction, and load and _ ship his
car cons'gned to himself at Chicago. He
would t:ke the railroad company’s re-
ceipt therefor, or bill of lading, as it is
called, to his banker and deposit it with
him,togetber w th a draft on the Chicago
merchant for collection. This, the
banker would forward to his corres-
ponde:t bank at Chicago and the mer-
chant weull there pay the draft on him
for the price of the potatoes, receive the
bill of lading and claim his property of
the ra lroad company.

Do you not think the five important
functions peculiar to banks, which |]
have briefly spoken of, prove that banks
have a legitimate existence, that they
can nct be dispensed with, that rightly
managed they are a blessing, directly or
ind rectly, to everybody and ‘that they
are just as necessary to the business
activities of a nation as the railroad,
telegraph and telephone?

Thus we have considered the place
banks occupy in the business worid, the
reason for their existence and the differ-
ent forms of institst'ons known by the
name of hank Wool: the method or
plin of banking is easy to understand,
yet to manage a bink successfully re-
quires the utmost shrewdness, keenness,
good sound sense and honesty beyond
repro2ch on the part of its directors and
officers. Conservatism and _ liberality
must be tempered with good judgment,
for management which is too corserva-
tive will render a bank powerless to do

business and unprofitable to its stock-
holders, and, on the cther hand, too
much liberality brings the same result,
probably more disastrously by losses
from bad loans and a loss of public con-
nderce. F. B. Moore,

Cashier Elk Rapids Savings Bank.

4-2
The Hardware Market.

The general features of the hardware
market remain as in our last report.
General advances are taking place in
almost everything’ connected with the
hardware trade. The demand from the
retail trade continues large and prob-
ably growing and in several lines it is
probable that a shortage will be the re-
sult, so that merchants who have not
covered their requirements may be put
to some inconvenience, on account of
not being able to obtain the goods.

Wire and Nails—Wire and nails still
remain at the fcllowing prices: nails
$2.25; pointed barbed wire, $2.40; gal-
vanized, $2.80. Whether any advance
will shortly be made is something that
we are unable to prophesy at this time.

Sheet Zinc—The manufacturers have
again advanced their price %c per Ib.,
making the price at the present time by
the sheet gc, or in 600 Ibs. casks, 8%c.

Dripping Pans—These goods have
been advanced %c per l|b., owing to the
advance in sheet iron.

Tacks—Advances are being made
gradually by tack manufacturers and,
in view of an excellent demand and
general tone of the market, prices are
decidecly firm. The advance up to the
present time on this line of goods aver-
ages about 20 per cent.

Balances and Scale Beams—In con-
sequence of repeated advances in ma-
terial, this line of goods tas been ad-
vanced about 18 per cent.

Tinware—All classes of tinware, both
pieced and stamped, on account of the
increased cost of tin plates, have been
advanced 20 per cent.

Galvanized Ware—Everything in this
line, including pails, coal hods, etc.,
owing to the advance on galvanized
iron, has been marked up about 18 per
cent.

Wire Cloth—This article is very
strong in price and is very scarce and
in a!l probability further advances will
be made. The price at the present time
in full rolls is $1.25 per hundred square
feet.

Screen Doors and Windows—Owing to
the advance in wire cloth, manufactur-
ers have withdrawn all prices and job-
bers have advanced their prices from
soc@$i per dozen

Miscellaneous—The following goods
have been advanced in price as fol-
lows: Picks and mattocks, § per cent. ;
truckee wedges, %c per lb ; wire ox
muzzles, toc per doz.; barpoon hay
forks, 1oc apiece; horse shoes, 25¢ a
keg; R. R. milk cans, $3 per doz. :
toe calks, %c per lb.; shovels and
spades, common strap to $6 go per doz.
and socket strap to $7.50 per doz. ; bar
iron, 2c per lb. ; sleigh shoe steel, 2'c;
gas pipe, new list with 60, 10, 1o and
to per cent. off We might add to this
tbat almost everything on the shelves of
hardware jobhers bas been advanced in
price by manufacturers from 5 to 30 per
cent.

a
No Evidence of an Inheritance
‘“*They say Jobson has _ inherited
$10,000. ”’

‘*That must be a mistake,”’
‘What makes you think so?’’
‘*T saw him less than an hour ago and

 

he was perfectly sober.’’

Hardware Price Current.

 

 

AUGURS AND BITS
Snell’s. q

ee eee esc 70
Jenning @entiine............ Pe ea 25&10
sennimen Willation =... 60&10
AXES
First Quality, S. B. Bronze ................. 5 50
First Quality, D. B. Bronze................. 9 50
First Quality, BS. eesti, oe
First Quality, D. B. Steel................... 10 50
BARROWS
Bote 14 00
Sateen. net 30 00
BOLTS
ee ee oe Co. 60&10
Carriage mew Mme i) 8 70 to 75
i ee 50
a
Wel pan. |. 8 3 50

BUTTS, CAST
Cast Loose Pin, figsured......... ............ 7O&10
Wrought Narrow... |...

 

   

BLOCKS
Ordinary Packie ss 70
CROW BARS
oS .. per lb 5
El 1-10 _—
ie re ee 68
eelGees Ce on = 5B
ee per m 45
oe a perm 75
: es
i cosa es |» Qnee
COmeran Pie 20
CHISELS
noanes Winer... |... eee. 70
BOGCECE HEAMIMe a
Socket Corner... 7
Becker Sica. 70
DRILLS
Morse’s Bi Sideks 6... 8. , 60
Taper and Straight Shank................... 50& 5
Morse’s Taper Shank... se 50& 5
ELBOWS
Com. 4picee, Gin... ...... kL. doz. net 69
Cormugated....... ...... he ie)
CRG “dis 4010
EXPANSIVE BITS
Clark’s small, $18; large, $26...... 30&10
Ives’, 1, $18; 2 , 824; Sete 25

FILES—New List
New Bmieriean 8. 8. FO&10
Nicholson’s. . : ee 70
Heller’s Horse “Rasps. ee
GALVANIZED IRON
Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 25 and 26; 27. .... 28
List 12 13 14 15 . ... 17
Discount, 70

- 60410

GAUGES
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s............... 60&10

KNOBS—New List

 

Door, mineral, jap. trimmings  _.......... 7m
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings............ 80
MATTOCKS
OS ee ee 816 00, dis 60&10
Hume Eve. 815 00; dis 60&10
eee sis 50, dis 20&10
MILLS
Cottee, ParkomCas =... 40
Coffee, P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s Malleables. 40
Coffee, Landers, Ferry & Clark’s........... 40
Coffee, Enterprise Be eee Sees 30
MOLASSES GATES:

Stebbin’s Pattern............ . 60&10
Stebbin’s Genuine.... . Se tee - 60&10
Enterprise, self-measuring . — _ 30

NAILS
Advance over base, on both Steel and Wire
Steel nails, base..... ... 2%

 
 
 
    

 

Wire nails, base..... Se 2 30
ato Ge advance ll. Base
Ota advance 8, 06
Save 10
Ceaveeee 20
Ce eee 30

= Mevenee.............. Co ae. 45

2 advance . ee 760
Fine 3 advance. . ee ow
Casing 10 advance........... Se ees 15
Cate Sadvuanee 25
Coeine Gadyanee..... i 35
ibis I Geauanee. 5
Wintel) S ativaree. 8.5... 35
Pinte Gadvance........ ....,...... 45
Barrel % advance...... il RA

PLANES
Okie Tool Co.'s, faney.................. @a"
Sciota Bench 60
Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fane @50
Bench, firstquality......... -_-. @ae
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s wood....... 60
PANS
may Acme : kk of. 801010
Common, polished................... be + 70& 5
RIVETS

fron and Tinned .... ......... os ae. 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 2¢
Broken packages %c per pound extra.

ray gg
Mavdole & Co.’s. new list.. es
er dis 25
Yerkes & Plumb’ s. tees aettcnte tts .... dis W&l
Facnnitc Sa! Nolae Cuncl one 8. ~

Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel Hand 30c list 50&10
HOUSB FURNISHING GUODS
Stamped Tin Were .... . ... new list 75&1
Japanned Tin Ware -+--- Sool

HOLLOW WARE

 

ae...
ee 60&10
a 6O&10
——
os. mane mdi * =. : dis 6051!
‘per dns. ist =F
RO ee
Sica) +6 tuck and larger.... .........- .. 9%
ee ee 10%

 

= —
Bright. .... — ' 80
Screw Eyes.. 80
H A. 80
Gate Hooks and Byes 80
FVELS
Stanley Rule an¢e tons lte. ..... ....dis 70
SQUARES
Soak Se
ada Dove... es 6
Mit : 50
' SHEET IRON

com. smooth. com,

Rae tie... 82 70 2 5)
moe fete... C8... 2 70 259
es. 4810 c8............ ceoece. oe 2 €0
Nee Stoe5...... oe 2 70
ee ate ee. 8s. 2 80
No. 2. 3 20 2 90
All sheets No. 18 and lighter, over 36 inches

wide not less than 2-10 extra

D PAPER

List acct. 19, ’86.. none Oe 50
SASH WEIGHTS
Sele hoe per ton 20 00

TRAPS
Steel, Game. T&k10
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s....... 50
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s 70&10
ioe Coemer.................. per doz 15
Mouse, delusion........... per doz i 25

WIRB
gee ee “0
Ampossen MEMGE...... f
@opperca Market........................... @hate
va Ea L6
Coppered Spring Steel......... awe) 6 59
Barbed Fence, galvanized 289
Barbed Fence, a 240

—— NAILS —

Au Sable....... ... dis 40&1C
Poser... ... .......... ee 5
Capwell......... See, en Se

WRENCHES
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled...... a“ 20
Coes Genamc....... ............ \ 4)
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrough Ti
Coe’s Patent, mialieable................. 75

MISCELLANEOUS
Bird Cages ........ : 4}
Puree Goeces......................... 70
Screws, New List... .. sa
Casters, Bed and Plate. 5O&10&10
Dampers, American...
METALS—Z Zine

600 pound ee 8%
Perro .......... .. ........-

SHOT
De 1 45
B Band Buck | . 1

“SOLDER

%
The prices of the many other qualities of soi ids Tr

in the market indicated by private brands v

according to composition.
=e Grade

10x14 IC, Charcoal.. 1.

14x20 IC, Charcoal .

20x14 Ix, Charcoal .

Each additional X on this grade, 81.25.

ne Grade

10x14 IC, Charcoal ......

14x20 IC, Charcoal .

10x14 Ix, Charcoal .

14x20 IX, Charcoal . Loe

Each additional X on this grade, $1.50.

ROOFING eee

14x20 IC, Charcoal, Dean.. a

14x20 IX, Charcoal, Dean ........

20x28 Ic, Charcoal, Dean....

14x20 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade

14x20 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade .....

20x28 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade..

20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade i.

14256 IX, ou. —, TIN PLATE

4x or No oilers, |

14x56 IX. for No 9 Botlers, ( Pet Pound...

vary

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24

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

America’s Relations With England.
Written for the TRapESMAN.

It was a notable event, attended by a
notable gathering. The annual banquet
of the Associated Chambers of Com-
merce of Great Britain had assembled,
with the Ambassador of the United
States as the principal guest. Beside
him sat Lord Chief Justice Russell and
Rear Admiral Lord Charles Beresford
and at the feast, beside these, were
Lord Salisbury, the Premier of Eng-
land, Hon. Sir Henry Stafford North-
cote, the President of the Association,
the Right Hon. C. T. Ritchie, Presi-
dent of the Board of Trade, James R.
Carter, Second Secretary of the United
States Embassy, and many members of
Parliament. It was England's best,
drawn by a common impulse to extend
the right hand of fellowship and good
will toa kinsman from across the sea
with a different surname. A long line
of American diplomats had preceded the
newly-appointed Ambassador. Events
of momentous importance between the
nations there represented in his and
their relations with the rest of the world
centered upon the guest of the English
people the keenest interest. The Rear
Admiral shortened his speech that the
company might listen to ‘‘the new Am-
bassador of the United States, whom
every man of the fore and aft in Eng-
land is delighted to see,’’ and Vice-
President Harper, in submitting the
toast, ‘Our Guests, ’’expressed his pleas
ure at the coming of the American Am-
bassador‘*‘ when there is every disposition
to tighten the bonds of the Anglo-Saxon
race, whose only objects are peace, pros-
perity, freedom of trade and progress. ’’

Then the English heart and the hos-
pitality of the English Isles showed its
unmistakable presence. It sprang to its
feet and cheered lustily for the man
from over the sea and the hour had
come for America to respond to this
royal welcome. In a silence brightened
by the manifest expectation beaming
upon every face the representative of
the Great Republic arose. He was at
his best—only those who have seen Mr.
Choate under similar circumstances
know what that best is—and with pre-
tended embarrassment he stood fora
moment the center of that tremendous
presence.

His theme was ‘‘ America’s Relations
with England.’’ He was the representa-
tive of that America in the highest
sense of the term, and theme and repre-
sentative were worthy of each other.
The eagle and the lion sat down to-
getner and both were benefited. So the
“‘proud bird of the mountain’’ plumed
himself to his heart’s content ; and when
he fain would have talked of other
things the British lion, who has so often
growled disapproval at America’s ‘‘My
Country, ‘tis of thee,’’ urged him with
cries of ‘Go on!’’ to continue the pleas-
ing story. Truly, the times have
changed, and as truly have the English
people changed with them.

There may be something in the might
of the American monitor which has
produced this change; but it is nearer
the truth to believe that after a century
of misunderstanding Saxon honesty and
Saxon will and Saxon manhood again
stand hand to hand and heart to heart
as they stood together in the olden time
on the English downs against the invad-
ing Danes and the conquering Normans.
That century of misunderstanding has
led the Englishman to believe the Yan-
kee to be a most degenerate Saxon, a
craven to make up in brag what he
lacks in courage—in the Saxon heart

 

there is nothing so contemptible as
that—but when he finds, as he has
found, the brain and brawn on this side
of the sea in no respect inferior to his
own, pride and admiration take the
place of contempt and the Saxon broth-
ers with a common joy watch the de-
parture of the Spanish hosts from Cuba
as their ancestors centuries ago on the
coast of Kent saw the Danes, beaten
and humiliated, driven from the shores
of England.

What the outcome of this renewed
friendship is to be no man can now
foretell. If the Saxon past is an earnest
of the Saxon future on both sides of the
Atlantic, the two nations can fulfill no
grander prophecy than that which feli
from the lips of the American Ambas-
sador when he said, ‘‘Let our voices al-
ways be lifted together for the cause
of human progress and the advance-
ment of civilization, and law, order,
peace and freedom, which are the
nurses of commerce the world over, will
prevail and the cause of humanity will
be advanced!’’ That is the ideal of the
nations and the Saxon alone can attain
unto it. R. M. STREETER.

——_>2.__
Another Plan to Mitigate Catalogue
Competition.

Owosso, March 28—In the Tradesman
of March 1 I noticed your liberal offer
for the best method of meeting the com-
petition of catalogue stores, which, as
your headlines suggest, have become so
dangerous a menace to the retail trade.
In the Tradesman of the 8th I find some
Communications upon the growing evil,
but no suggestions of a remedial char-
acter. To my mind, the solution seems
so plain and easily accomplished that |
have wondered why it has not been sug-
gested by a dozen of your contributors.
Individual efforts are hopeless to meet
and remedy the evil. Well organized
mercantile effort will succeed, and right
here your persistent zeal and activity in
organizing mercantile associations
throughout the State, and the encourage-
ment you have given them through the
columns of the Tradesman, come to the
rescue of the retail dealers in their ex-
tremity. My plan is this:

In the name of the local Business
Men’s Association, wherever there is
one formed, let every individual mem-
ber sign an conractt in the shape of a
Stand ing advertisement, to be inserted
in each of the newspapers published in
any place where such associations have
been formed, agreeing to sell to their
customers any article of merchandise of
the same value as those advertised in
the catalogues at the same prices men-
tioned in said catalogues, adding there-
to only the actual expenses to the buyer
in getting his goods from the catalogue
Stores to their own towns, such as post-
age, express or freight charges, money
orders, etc. This plan would give each
individual merchant the benefit of a
general and permanent notice by the
press at a very small cost to each. or, in
case it was thought best, the cost of
publication might be paid out of funds
belonging to the Association. In vil-
lages where there are no organizations
the dealers might combine in the same
general way for mutual protection.
This plan seems to me very simple,
easy to carry out, and I believe would
mitigate the evil and, perhaps, wipe it
out altogether. This advertising notice
would represent all the lines of trade
and guarantee catalogue prices to the
customer and, probably, better goods.

W. S. H. WELTON.
——__-2s>0t>___
Dangerous For the Women.

Wickwire—This prominence of wom.
en is going to cause trouble thirty or
forty years hence.

Mrs. Wickwire—I'd like to know who
will be troubled?

Wickwire—The girl babies who are
being named after eminent women. It
will be impossible for them to keep
people from guessing their ages,

 

Urge the Establishment of a Public
Market.

Saginaw, March 27—The Retail Mer-
chants’ Association had a meeting last
evening, and prepared to boom the
market project in view of the expres-
sion to be made pro and con by the tax-
payers at the approaching spring elec-
tion. It appeared to be the consensus
of opinion that, now that the people
were to express themselves on the sub-
ject, it would be well to have a few
public meetings to urge public senti-
ment in favor of the market.

In the absence of President Tanner,
T. A. Downs acted as chairman of the
meeting. Mr. Downs reported that the
solicitation committee on the east side,
of which he was a member, had secured
between $350 and $400 as a fund for
pressing the good roads and market
projects; the west side committee, he
understood, had secured between $150
and $200 for the same purpose.

Archie Robertson, chairman of the
Market Committee, reported that the
market question, as the Association
knew, had been voted by the Counc! to
be submitted to the people. He thought
it would be a very proper plan to have
some public meetings, to be addressed
in favor of bonding the city for the
market. There were some things that
the new condition of affairs with refer-
ence to the market made necessary,
and he thought there should be a re-
organization of the Market Committee.
There would be ordinances, site for the
east side, and forms and usages govern-
ing markets that would have to be de-
cided upon. It was thought wise to de-
fer the re-organization of the Committee
until after election, as it was not known
for sure that these details would become
necessary.

——_- 2st >___
Short in His Accounts.

Riverdale, March 28—T, Tallon,
Township Treasurer of Seville town.
ship, attended the silver caucus on
Thursday last and was unfortunate
enough to lose from his pocket a roll
Containing about $800 of the township
funds; at least, this is the explanation
he gives for the shortage.

——_-2s>___

People who think they can make hay
when the sun shines have never tried to
do it when there was snow on the
ground, sparkling and shining in the
beautiful sunlight.

seo a____

Business combines stop at nothing. A
fertilizer trust has been formed in New
Jersey, the home of trusts,

WANTS COLUMN.

Advertisements will be inserted under this
head for two cents a word the first insertion
and one cent a word for each su uent in-
sertion. No advertisements taken for less than
2s cents. Advance payment.

BUSINESS CHANCES.

ose YOU ARE A MILL MAN, HERE
is a chance for both you and me. My shin-
gie and lumber mill for sale for cash; about
400,000.00) feet logs in yard; about 2,000,000
shingle stock ready to cut, all on cash contract.
Mill ready to start April3. Future contracts in
sight for three years. J. J. Robbins, Boyne
906

 

 

 

 

 

 

Falls. Mich.

WANTED—a CAPABLE MAN WITH 82,000
Cash to carry stock of goods and manage
branch business; $150 per month and expenses;
also extra percentage; permanent position; ref-
erences required. Henry Vernon, Boyce Build-
ing, Chicago, Ill. 903

he AND RESTAURANT FOR SALE.
Good business. Address Postoffice Box 32,
Eaton Rapids, Mich. 9u2

rs SALE—NEW, CLEAN STOCK OF «-EN-
eral merchandise in small town in Southern
Michigan on Michigan Central Railroad; ele-
gant farming country; no competition within a
radius of twelve miles; stock invoices about
$3,000. This isa good business and good loca-
tion and must be sold for cash; no trades. Ad-
dress F. N., care Michigan Tradesman. 904

pes SALE—RESIDENCE PROPERTY AND
store building, the latter adjoining Stein-
berg’s Opera House, Traverse City. Will sell
cheap and accept merchantable goods in part
P‘yment. S Cohen. Mu-kegon. 95
COMPARATIVELY NEW %.5u0 STOCK Dn Y¥
goods for sale in Coldwater. J. H. Mon-
agne, Coldwater, Mich. seo
Pek SaLE—HOUSE AND LOT IN TRAV.
erse City; also store building adjoinin;
Steinber; th
cheap.

 

*s opera house. Will sell either or bo
. Cohen, Muskegon, Mich. 900

 

ANTED—GENERAL STOCK IN THRIV-

ing town in exchange for 50-acre fruit
and vegetable farm, tnree miles from city limits
of Grand Rapids. Good buildings and excel-
lent soil. Address No. 891, care Michigan
Trade-man. » 891

iD STORE FOR SALE OR TRADEIN A
town of 800 inhabitants on South Haven &
Eastern Railroad in Van Buren county. Stock
will invoice about $1,000; has been run on!
about four vears; new fixtures; low rent. Ad.-
dress No. 497, care Michigan Tradesman. 897

—. FOR RENT AND FIXTURES FOR

Sale—One of the best locations in Allegan.

= — Kohlenstein Bros., dry goods, —
ch. 5

 

 

RUG STOCK FOR SALE—WILL INVEN-

tory $1,5°0; daily sales from $15 to $20. Kea-

son for selling. wish to quit the business. Ad-
dress No. 893, care Michigan Tradesman.

ONEY TO PATENT YOUR 1DEAS MAY BE
obtained through ouraid. Patent Record,
Biltimore. Md. 885

paige MILL FUR SALE, WITH OR WITH-
out 120 acres of land, situated in cedar tim-
ber section.
and stabling horses.

man, Petoskey,. Mich.

{OR SALE—IMPROVED FARM; GOODGEN-

eral cropping. gardening and fruit raising ;

near market. Address Albert Baxter, Muske-
gon. Mich. 887

| gree CHANCE—HALF INTEREST IN NICE
grocery business, in one of the best Ieca-
tions in Grand Rapids.
must leave city. Address
igan Tradesman.

IG STORE FOR RENT—ONE OR THREE

brick stores, 22x75 feet each, with base-
ments and 10 foot arches. Wculd make a bi
department store. F. L. Burdick & Co.’s ol
stand. The mest central and best location in
Southern Michigan. Write to Levi Cole, Men-
don. Mich. 8x8

1 (0 WILL BUY A GOUD JEWELRY
0 stock, including fixtures. Located
iu good town in Northern Michigan. No oppo-
sition. Address No. 889, care Mi higan Trades-
man. 889

OR SALE—HARDWARE STOCK IN ONE
of the best towns in Barry county. Stock is

in good clean condition. Best of reasons for
selling. Traders need not apply. For particu-
lars address Frank D. Pratt, Mi dleville, Mich.

876

Wes BUTCHER'S SECOND HAND
refr'gerator in first-class co dition. State
lowest spot cash price f. 0. b cars. Give full
oe Address Lock Box 33. —*
ich, ‘

 

Conveniences for boarding men
Address N. & D. C. or

 

Reason for selling,
No. 886 care 7

 

 

 

ze ALE—GROCERY STOCK 1N 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 — SHUES, CLOTHING, DRY
goods. Address R. B., Muskegon, M —

 

 

rt SALE — CLEAN HARDWARE STOCK
located at one of the best trading points in
Michigan. Stock will inventory about $5, 00.
Store ad warehouse will be rented for $30 per
month. Willi sell on easy terms. Address No.
868, care Mich gan Tradesman.
7 SALE—CLEAN STOCK SHOES. OWN-
ers wish to discontinue shoe department.
Competition light. Address No. 869, care Mich-
igan T adesman. 869
(YR SALE—HALF INTEREST IN OLD Es-
tablished m+at market, located in excellent
residence district of Grand Rapids. Investiga-
tion solicited. Address No. 86), care Mich‘gan
Tradesman. 866
NOR SALE — WELL-ESTABLISHED AND
good-paying implement and harness busi-
ness, located in smal] town surrounded with
good farming country. Store has no competi-
tion within radius of eight miles. Address No.
806, care Michigan Tradesman. 806
pok SALE—NEW GENERAL sTOCK. A
splendid farming country. No trad:s. Ad-
dress No. 680, care Michigan Tradesman. _ 680

COUNTRY PRODUCE

ANTED—BUTTER, EGGS AND POUL-
try; any quantities. Write me. Orrin J.
Stone, Kalamazoo, Mich. 8.0
WE PAY SPOT CASH ON TRACK FOR BUT-
ter and eggs. It will pay you to get our
prices and particulars. Stroup & Carmer, Per-
rinton, Mich. 7
W ANTED- 1,000 CASES FRESH EGGS,
daily. Write for prices. F. W. Brown,
Ithaca, Mich. 556

MISCELLANEOUS.

ANTED -POSITION BY YOUNG MAN, A

registered oan. Guod references.

a 45 North Valley Ave., Grand -—
ch.

LERK WANTED— EXPERIENCED MAN
for dry goods and shoe d.partment. Must
speak German. Permanent ge for right
man. Good references required. S. Maudlin
& Co., Bridgman. Mich. 898
W ANTED—POSITION AS MANAGER OR
head clerk in country store. Have had
valuable experience as manager of a lumber
store having annual sales of $50,000. Salary,
moderate. Address No. 890, care —_—S
Tradesman.
AN: ED AT ONCE A GOOD SPECIALTY
salesman for the grocery and drug trade.
Must have A No. 1 references, and only first-
class men need apply. The Dunkley Celery &
Preserving Co., Kelamazoo, Mich 896
ANTED—BRIGHT, ACLIVE YUUNG MAN
as dry goods and shoe salesman and stock-
keeper in town of 2,500 population. New, up-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

to date stores. Only experienced, reliable man
wanted. Address No. 892, care Michigan oeee
man.

 

 

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Travelers’ Time Tables.

MERCANTILE ASSOCIATIONS

 

 

CHICAGO "sme

 

Chicago.
Ly. G. Rapids.. . 7:30am 12:00nn *11:45pm
Ar. Chicago........... 2:10pm 5:15pm 7:20am
Lv. Chienao 11:45am 6: 50am 4:15pm *11:50pm

Ar. Q’d Rapids 5 5:00pm 1:25pm 10:15pm * 6:20am
Traverse —o Charlevoix and ~~:
Lv. G@’d Rapids... oa 0 SOURED (0.252. 5:30pm
Parlor cars on day trains and sleeping cars on

night trains to and from Chicago

 

 

 

*Every day. Others week days only.
DETROIT Grand Rapids & Western.
9 Nov. 13 1898.
Detroit.
Ly. Grand ~~ 1:35pm 5:25pm
Ay Detroit: =... 1:40am 5:45pm 19:05pm
Lv. Detroit.. = 00am 1:10pm 6:10pm

Ar. Grand Rapids.. oe 112: 55pm 5:20pm 10:55pm
Saginaw, Alma and Greenville.
Lv. G R7:00am 5:10pm Ar. G@R11:45am 9:30pm
Parlor cars on all trains to and from Detroit
and Saginaw. Trains run week days only.
Gro. DEHAVEN, General Pass. Agent.

GRAN

(In effect Feb. 5, _—

 

 

Trunk Railway System
Detroit and Milwaukee Div

 

Leave Arrive

GOING EAST
Saginaw, Detroit & N Y oc + 6:45am + 9:55pm
Detroit and East...... ...... +10:16am + 5:07pm

Saginaw, Detroit & East...... + 3:27pm +12:50pm
Buffalo, N Y, Toronto, Mon-
treal & Boston, L’t’d Ex....* 7:20pm *10:16am
GOING WEST
Gd. Haven Express........... *10:2lam * 7:15pm
Gd. Haven and Int Pts....... +12:58pm + 3:19pm
Gd. Haven and Milwaukee...t 5:12pm t+10:1lam
Eastbound 6:45am train has Wagner parlor car
to Detroit, eastbound 3:20pm train has parlor car
to Detroit.
*Daily. +tExcept Sunday.
C. A. Justin, City Pass. Ticket Agent,
97 Monroe St., Morton House.
Northern Div. Leave Arrive
Trav. C’y, Petoskey & Mack...t 7:45am +t 5:15pm
Trav. City & Petoskey......... + 1:50pm +10:45pm
Cadillac accommodation...... + 5:25pm 10:55am
Petoskey & Mackinaw City....t1!:00pm + 6:35am

7:45am train, parlor car; re :00pm train, sleep-
ing car.

 

 

Rapids & indiana Railway
Feb. 8, 1899.

 

Southern Div. Leave Arrive
Cimeinnatt .... 8... + 7:10am + 9:45pm
Re Wayne .......... 230,00: + 2:00pm + 1:30.m
Cincinnati..... --. * 7:00pm * 6:30am
Vicksburg and Chicago.. eee *1l: 30pm * 9:00am

7:10 am train has parlor car to Cincinnati
and parlor car to Chicago; 2:00pm train has
parlor car to Ft. Wayne; 7:00pm train has
sleeping car to Cincinnati; 11:30pm train has
coach and sleeping car to Chicago.

Chicago Trains.
TO CHICAGO.

Ly. Grand Rapids... 7 10am 20)pm *11 30pm
Ar. Chicago......... 230pm 8 45pm 6 2am
FROM CHICAGO.
by. Cniecage:...3 2.2.5... : e *11 32pm
Ar. Grand Rapids.............. 6 30am

Train ovine Grand pe aban e pg has parlor
ear; 11:00pm, coach and sleeping car.

Train leaving Chicago 3:02pm has Pullman
parlor car; 11: on gicopins car.

Muskegon Trains.
GOING WEST.
Lv G@’d —— eee 7:35am +1:00pm 5:40pm
Ar Muskeg ..-. 9:00am *: 10pm 7:05pm

Sanday oa leaves se Rapids 9:15am;
arrives Muskegon 10:

Gone ‘maer.
v Muskegon....... ..+8:10am ti1:45am +4:00pm
ArG@’d Rapids... ..... 9:30am 12:55pm 5:20pm

Pp
Sunday train leaves Muskegon 5:30pm; ar-
rives Grand Rapids 6:50pm
+Except Sunday. “Daily.
L. LOCKWOOD,

Gen’) Passe. = re Agent.
Ticket Agent Union Station.

 

 

South Shore and Atlantic
Railway.

DULUT

 

WEST BOUND.

  

Lv. Grand Rapids i = & Ee ee 10pm +7:45am
Lv. Mackinaw City... . 7:35am 4:20pm
Ar. St. Ignace -- 9:00am 5:20pm
Ar. Sault Ste. Marie. 12:20pm 9:50pm
Ar. Marquette ... 2:50pm 10:40pm
Ar. Nestoria........ 5:20pm 12:45am
At. PN ooo aes 8:30am
Lv.

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BARD, Gen Pass. Agt. e aan,
E. C. Oviatt, Trav. Pass. Agt., Grand Rapids

MANISTE

Via C. & W. M. Railway.

 

 

 

& Northeastern Ry.

Best route to Manistee.

 

Lv Grand Rapids........:......... 7:00am
Per Mitmigbee ooo Se ae oe Eeocom | 6 2...
Diy EAE O ele clu ye 8:30am 4.10pm

Ar Grand Rapids ................ Tcoopm 9:55pm

 

 

Michigan Business Men’s Association

President, C. L. Wairney, Traverse City; Sec-
retary, E A. STOWE, Grand Rapids.

 

Michigan Retail Grocers’ Association

President, J. WisLER, Mancelona; Secretary, E
A. Stowe, Grand Rapids.

 

Michigan Hardware Association

President, C. G. Jewett, Howell; Secretary
Henry C. Minniz, Eaton Rapids.

 

Detroit Retail Grocers’ Association

President, JosepH KNIGHT; Secretary, E. Marks,
221 Greenwood ave: Treasurer, C. H. FRINK.

Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association

President, FRanK J. Dyk; Secretary, Homer
Kap; Treasurer, J. Geo. LEHMAN.

 

Saginaw Mercantile Association

President, P. F. TREANOR; Vice-President, Joun
McBratnie; Secretary, W. H. Lewis.

 

Jackson Retail Grocers’ Association

President, J. FRANK HELMER; Secretary, W. H.
PorTER; Treasurer, L. PELTON.

 

Adrian Retail Grocers’ Association

President, A. C. CLark; Secretary, E. F. CLEvE-
LAND; Treasurer, WM. C. KOEHN.

 

Bay Cities Retail Grocers’ Association
President, M. L. DEBats; Sec’y, S. W. WATERs.

 

Traverse City Business Men’s Association

President, THos. T. Bates; Secretary, M. B.
HOLLy; "Treasurer, C. A. HAMMOND.

Owosso Business Men’s Association

President, A. D. WHIPPLE; Secretary, G. T. Camp.

BELL; Treasurer, W. E. Coxzins.

 

Alpena Business Men’s Association
President, F. W. Grucurist; Secretary, C. L.
PARTRIDGE.

Grand Rapids Retaii Meat Dealers’ Association
President, L. J. Karz; Secretary, Partie HinBER:
Treasurer. S. J. HuFForp.

St. Johns Business Men’s Association.
President, Tuos. BRomLEY; Secretary, FRANK A.
PERCY; Treasurer, Cuark A. Port.

Perry Business Men's Association
President, H.W. Wacuace; Sec’y, T. E, HEDDLE.

 

Grand Haven Retail Merchants’ Association
President, F. D. Vos; Secretary, J. W. VERHOEKs.

Yale Bnsiuess Men’s Association
President, Cuas. Rounps; Sec’y, FRANK PUTNEY.

 

 

Established 1780.

Walter Baker & Co, £70.

Dorchester, Mass.
The Oldest and
Largest Manufacturers of

& PURE, HIGH GRADE

GOCOAS
| CHOCOLATES

on this Continent.
No Chemicals are used in
their manufactures.
Their Breakfast Cocoa is absolutely pure,
delicious, nutritious, and costs less than one
cent a cup.

Their Premium No. 1 Chocolate, put up in
Blue Wrappers and Yellow Labels, is the best
plain cueotlats in the market for family use.

Their German Sweet Chocolate is good to
eat and good to drink. It is palatable, nutri-
pe and healthful; a great favorite with
children.

Buyers should ask for and be sure that the
eon the genuine goods. The above trade-mar'!
'S on every package.

Walter Baker & Co. Ltd.
Dorchester, Mass.

TRAVEL
VIA

F.& P M.R.R.

AND STEAMSHIP LINES
TO ALL POINTS.IN MICHIGAN

H. F. MOELLER, a.G.P.a.

   
   

 

 

BABA SBACACASACAGAESR.

We make a specialty of

Store Awnings
Roller Awnings
Window Awnings
Tents, Flags

and Covers

Drop us a card and we will quote
you prices.

 

Chas. A. Coye,
11 Pearl Street,
Grand Rapids.

BAPSA CAPBASA SA SCAGASEASBASCA SA
COS PEPE PEO OUP SOE LOUD

 

Dwight’s
Cleaned
Currants

If you want nice, fresh, new
stock, buy Dwight’s. If
you want cheap trash, don’t
look for it in our pack-
ages. All Grand Rapids
jobbers sell them.

 

   

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Wolverine Spice Co.,
Grand Rapids.

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Feed ;

Corn and Oats

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
dozenyears. 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 ‘‘let up,’’ and
your order willhelp along.
Send it in. We'll give
you good feed at close
prices.

Valley City
Milling Co.,

Grand,Rapids, Mich.

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Sole Manufacturers of “LILY WHITE,”
“The flour the best cooks use.”

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PLUM PUDDING

 

New Confection in Pudding Shape.
proves with Age.

Delicious.
Made in %, f, 2, 3 pound sizes and also in cakes.
15 cents per pound.

Always Ready for Use.” Im-

GRAND RAPIDS CANDY CO.

 

 

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No Confectioner’s Stock Is Complete

without a line of Hanselman’s Famous Chocolates.
Souvenir, 2, 1 and 2 pound packages; Sweet Violets, % and 1
pound packages; Favorites, { pound packages.

Also full line packed in 5 pound boxes.

HANSELMAN CANDY CO., Kalamazoo, Mich.

 

  
    
  

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THE EGRY AUTOGRAPHIG REGISTER

By insuring System and Confidence earns money.

Let us talk SYSTEM with you, introducing

MONEY SAVING AND MONEY MAKING MEANS

OUR SYSTEM REGISTERS AUTOMATICAI

change, Produce, etc. etc.

LY all Business Transactions, Cash, Credit, Ex-

Address

L. A. ELY, SALES AGENT, ALMA, MICH.
Grand Rapids Salesman, S. K. BOLLES, 3rd Floor, 39 Monroe Street.

 

 

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Highest Price Paid for Empty Carbon and Gasoline Barrels.

 

 

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