Ee © (eee oN a ZB Zs) Y, SA) Tous YA GFE) WA SS55n a OD f } — eee Fe X "oF < or 7) ee a @ Ya xl O(a I Ww. 7 _“— aN SO) Ko te (Ge oy) CS WS RCS) wa MICHIE K DA NG KE a ES SAS) , 9 7 c g om 7 fa ER NR vis F a) YY cH ones Hie ie (a CoS) hey RL Ri ee eae a * ton Lis a yo SING . Zs f Y & es & po (Glos WEEKLY SMS REZ ss RAS TRADESMAN COMPANY, PUBLISHERS® LLIN 2S $1 PER YEAR SISSON (Gas SSHie OR Ce eS SS SST OE Volume XVI. GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 1899. Number 816 F eaaaaanaaasaannnnaanagaaammneamaaammmmaneeaaaane SSSSFITS FPFSSSSSSSSFSS STFS SS SFSS FSIS SSSS seeeESeeTEN LL. Perrigo Co. osu GARDEN SEED: BULK L. F. Brand Soda. The Seeds « ffered by us are largely our own pro- Perrigo’s Headache Pwds. Manufacturing Chemists, Mandmaie Bitters” duction and all carefully tested before sent out. Quality the Best, Prices the Lowest. Perrizo’s Quinine Cathartic SUGAR BEE We are direct importers and can sup- ply on short notice the popular varieties Tabiets. Allegan, Mich. Perrigo’s Dyspepsia Tblts. for sugar making; such as Klein Wauzleben, Vilmorines Improved, as well as the best varieties for stock feeding. Perrigo’s Catarrh Cure. a= All orders filled and shipped the day received. “x9 \ e Perrigo’s Cough Cure. * They are Trade Winners — 7: Bsc Brie ALFRED J. BROWN SEED CO., GROWERS, MERCHANTS AND IMPORTERS, : hina ~ a Ej ee Our Mandrake Bitters, 9 Pojgo8 ®* of Blackberry GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. SCLSELESEELSEEHAELELESELELEELEELELAELELAEAAESOHEHDLODD | Perrigo's Insect Powder. Headache Powders, Perrigo’ s Poison Fly Paper. | Perrige’s Poultry Powder. Catarrh Cure, etc ei Perrigo’ s Stock Powder. Perrigo’s Hog Powd 4 and they merit the floods of praise we are receiving by users | Mecsbesiies Cocan @ everywhere, they are put up om honor and sold undera guaran- | Bartram’s Liver Pills, 4 tee. Have you written us about prices on our specialties and | Bartram’s Veterin: ary Elixir , erage: s sundries? If you haven’t, a postat card is all thatis | Sénnara for Children. @ ueeded to getthem. Our VETERINARY ELIxiR, (a liquid) isa Porous Plasters. , fast seller and a good medicine; ask about it also. Cough Drops. Flavoring Extracts. ® L. PERRIGO CO., Manufacturing Chemists, Allegan, Mich. | Drugyists’ Sundries. FFSSFSSFFSFSFSFSSSSFSSSSSFSSSISFFSSS SREERELEELALALEREOELLESADHAAE SH eS : Hanselman’s Gandiés Are Always Sellers always fresh, made from the best material by experts, put up in neat packages and are for sale by all dealers. » W: may © QW" X wy HANSELMAN GANDY GO.. Kalamazoo, Michigan 5C. CIGAR. ALL JOBBERS AND > ODOO0OOS 90000000 90000006 90600006 60000000004 60000 G.J.JOHNSON CIGAR CO. goo GRAND RAPIDS. MICH. WORLD’S BEST SOO 06 00000000 OO @ DEDOOODODOOQOGQOGQOGDQOQOOODOOOSGOOOOOOODOGQOOOOOQOOCOGQOOQOOOOO@ ong ? For the Groceryman: I @ © To meet the demands of the people, raisins, currants, mincemeat, starch, crackers one G . E OO ope © and cereals must be put up in neat packages. , We make a specialty of this class of > work. We also make cartons for bottles, cans and powders. Mailing tubes to order © on short notice. Work guaranteed. Write for prices. @ STICKY FLY PAPER Grand Rapids Paper Box Co. ASK YOUR JOBBER FOR IT 300000006 DOOQOODOOOQOOE™E OODOOOOODDOOOOOOOODOOOOOOOOE DO ease sae ee Sia sea Sie Se Se Sie aa Sea Se Se ae an Sas Sat Sal Sal ad Gal Sal Sal Gad al Gal Sal Gal Gal Gal Gal Ba ad Bal Oak Gad Wal Wad Wad UL EN Wal Wal Wad Wa Wal Wal Vad Bal Bad Bal Gal Val Bal Wad Bal Gal Gal Bad Bal Bad Sek gE a Ww & ESTABLISHED 1836. . INCORPORATED 1896. % a PHELPS, BRACE & CO., ts & e ms ee th & sh Co Eo) & . % ts % a IN THE MIDDLE WEST > Po ‘ % P DETROIT, MICH., U.S. A. > ss $h $s 2% WE ARE DISTRIBUTORS FOR $e we i a th VINCENTE PORTUONDO, Philadelphia, Pa BROWN BROBS., Detroit, Mich. THE FULTON CIGAR CO., Lancaster, Pa, th 4% RUHE BROS CO., Allentown, Pa. THE BANNER CIGAR CO.,, Detroit, Mich. A. B. BAL.LARD & CO., Tampa, Florida, ] 3 THE HILSON CO., New York. BERNARD STAHL CO., New York. E. M. SCHWARZ & CO., New York. oh T. J. DUNN & CO, Philadelphia, Pa. BANNER CIGAR CO , Lancaster, Pa. WHITE BEAUTY CIGAR CO, Detroit, Mich. 2h & McCOY & CO., New York. SEIDENBERG & CO, New York. THE HAVANA CIGAR CO., Coshocton, Ohio. % & THE COLLINS CIGAR CO., Pittsburg, Pa. G. P. SPRAGUE CIGAR CO., Columbus, O. And several other well known manufacturers. F. E. BUSHMAN, — Cigar Department. oe BeBe eee eee ee eee eae eee eae aD Manufacturers of all styles of Show Cases and Store Fixtures. Write us for illustrated catalogue and discounts. = = 3 = = = 3 3 3 3 = 2 3 ; 3 3 3 = 3 N . Important Notice! We have changed our corporate name « i from the Petoskey Lime Company to A 5 7S = % the Bay Shore Lime Company, and the name of our lime from Petoskey Standard to Bay Shore Standard. No other change in any way. Bay Shore Lime Co., By E. M. Sly, Secretary. PVIPNEA YT NNT NEP NP TANT TEP NE NTP RR TLS Bay Shore, Mich., April 1, 1899. PUMA JAMA AAA AULA JJ AAJA AU TUNA AAA AAA AA ANh UA Ubk dk bd dbd db dd Jd ddd | i ce i hth This Showcase only $4.00 per foot. With Beveled Edge Plate Glass top $5.00 per foot. TTS TS TSS SSCS STS O OOOO OUND WeE GUARANTEE Our brand of Vinegar to be an ABSOLUTELY PURE APPLE- JUICE VINEGAR. To any person who will analyze it and find any deleterious acids or anything that is not produced from the apple, we will forfeit ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS We also guarantee it to be of not less than 40 grains strength. We will prosecute any person found using our package: for cider or vinegar without first removing all traces of our brands therefrom. Robinson Cider and Vinegar Co., Benton Harbor, Mich. : J ROBINSON, [anager. CESTSCSC CSTs graer02) This is the guarantee we give with every barrel of our vinegar. Do you know of any other manufacturer who has sufficient confidence in his output to stand back of his product with a similar guarantee? ROBINSON CIDER AND VINEGAR CO. AQQLLRLD POOODOOOQOQODODOODOE OODOSOQOOOOODOOOOD EC QOOQODOQOOQOOOOOOOGO ore @) <= ee, POHODDODODODOODOODOS HGOXOGO.DOO) He HE HOHE HE HI IE EE EE I IEE EH I a | COOOCTTS TOTS OCT TCS STSCI Granin, Tore ued § © We Pay HIGHEST MARKET PRICES in SPOT CASH and Measure Bark When Loaded. © Correspondence Solicited. S DODOOQQODQDOQOOQOOQQQDOOC QGOEQODDOS OQDODODODOE© DOODOODOOSDODOGDDOOOOOODE) sy z fo HEMLOCK BARK We measure and pay cash for Bark as fast as it is loaded. Now is the time to call on or write us. mA MICHIGAN BARK & LUMBER CO., 527 #94528 Widdicomb Bldg; Michigan. 4 IEE FETE IE IE IE AIO AI AE OE FOIE Ob6aM FIXGUPCS TOF OUIINGEP PP6SSBS At Less Than Half the Gost of New. © Having equipped its presses with . direct connected motors, the Tradesman Company offers the Shafting, Pulleys, Hangers and Belting formerly used at a merely Publishers and other users of machinery requir- nominal price. ing cone pulleys for variable speeds will do well to investi- gate before making additions or changes. Tradesman GOMPANY, Grand Rapids, Mich. HEAR TEI KI FEA IE FEA ION FERIA FO ION IO FOR IOK 4€ * 3 * * * 3 x € * * x 3 x * * 4 x 3 x 3 x € x * x 4 * so x 3 ® a x * x #€ * ** x * * 3 x aE * i 4 ' i q J a ee - terial Sccisieet ont Suiconmmeeee== hoch asa iat ines om (4) ies #7 ae aan A DESMAN Volume XVI. GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 1899. Number 816 The Preferred Bankers Life Assurance Company of Detroit, Mich. Annual Statement, Dec. 31, 1898. Commenced Business Sept. !, 1893. Engurance tu Force... 006.6 fo... 6035: $3,299,000 00 Cree Pe eee 45,734 79 Ledger Liabifities...............0.025. 21 68 Losses Adjusted and Unpaid..... cas None ‘Totai Death Losses Paid to Date.... : 51,061 00 Total Guarantee Deposits Paid to Ben- Cheerios co 1,030 00 Death Losses Paid During the Year... 11,000 0O Death Rate for the Year............... 3 64 FRANK E. ROBSON, President. TRUMAN B. GOODSPEED, Secretary. IF You Hire Over 60 Hands Don’t write to BARLOW BROS. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN ‘TY te er @ @ @ for sample sheet of their ““PERFECTION TIME BOOK AND PAY ROLL,” Their WAGE TABLE, however, fits (and pleases) firms who hire from one to a million hands. So do their PAT. MANI- oa SHIPPING BLANKS. 00000000000 A REPORTING ASSOCIATION THAT GIVES INSIDE FACTS —A COLLECTION AGENCY THAT COLLECTS. Abb b Abb bbb bd bo bobo bn bn br bn bl by tr, GOGVVGVVUGO GGG FU VU UV OO VOI OG SPRING SUITS AND OVERCOATS > > > > > : Herringbones, Serges,‘Clays, Fancy Worst- > eds, Cassimeres. argest Lines; no_ bet- > ter made; — fits; prices guaranteed; » 33.50 up. anufacturers, > > > > > > > » a > KOLB & SON OLDEST FIRM, ROCHESTER, N.Y. Stouts, Slims a Specialty. Mail orders at- tended to, or write our traveler, Wm. Connor, Box 346, Marshall, Mich., to call, or meet him at Sweet’s Hotel, Grand Rap- ids, May 6th to oth. Full line winter goods. Customers’ expenses allowed. ryvvvvvvvvvvvvVvVvVVVT? Db hb bbb bb ttn br bn bn bn bn brn bn hh bh he bp bh bo bo bb hn be ll yvvuvuvvvvvvuvuvvvvvvvvvvvwvw*" eh te tp fp he hp fp bf ho bb bp bp bh hd THE MERCANTILE AGENCY Established 1841. R. G. DUN & CO. Widdicomb Bld’g, Grand Rapids, Mich. Books arranged with trade classification of names. Collections made everywhere. Write for particulars. L. P. WITZLEBEN, lanager. rvvvvVvvrvvuvvvvvvwvvvvwyvv ww TTT eT CTC CT eT CCT 4 be FIRE: r INS. ; 7¥ co. Prompt, Conservative, Safe. J.W.CHAMPLIN, Pres. W. FRED McBatn, Sec. ¢ he he, Lh Li ho he hi ho hi hi Li hi hi hi hi Li hi he hi he ha tn Ln FVVVVVVwVvVTVvVvVvVvVvVvVvweVuueueVuUwY a > a a> vrVwyTVweVwewwTwTY?S hb bbb io o> FV VV VV OVS a Save Trouble. TUGSID GOUDONS s == IMPORTANT FEATURES. 2. The Dry Goods Market. 3. Book-keeping for a Retail Store. 4. Around the State. 5. Grand Rapids Gossip. 6. Woman’s World. 8. Editorial. 9. Editorial. 10, Observations by a Gotham Egg Man. 11. Gotham Gossip. 12. Bluff and Bluster. 14. Shoes and Leather. 15. Clerks’ Corner. 16. Cheap Men. 17. Commercial Travelers. 18. Drugs and Chemicals. 19. Drug Price Current, 20. Grocery Price Current. 21. Grocery Price Current. 2%. Regarding the Benkruptcy Law. 23. Hardware Price Current. 24. Ideal Manager. Business Wants. The Heathenism of Lying. Lying is a thing so palpably gross and evil that no exhortation against it ought to be necessary in this Christian and enlightened land. Nevertheless it grows and thrives in the soil of our country as pusley thrives ina strawberry bed. It is a most universal weed, for no land on the face of the earth does not present a fertile soil and a fair cli- mate for its growing. The more de- based the nation the more general the lying. The Chinese people lie most commonly and freely as a_ business proposition. A Chinese merchant when asked what he gets for his fish, for in- stance, will say in a matter-of-fact way : ‘When I lie I get twenty cash; when I tell the truth I get five casb.’’ Other heathen and half heathen nations, like the Spanish and Spanish-American countries, make the lie an essential ele- ment of the warp and woof of trade. To lie does not necessarily make these heathen think less of each other, which shows how little they think of each other in the first place; their children lie without much chiding from their par- ents, and to say they lie artistically when very young is to tell a fact of very common knowledge among them. Emerson, who has said many things better than many others have said them, bas said this: ‘‘The world is upheld by the veracity of good men; they make the earth wholesome. They who live with them find life glad and nutritious. Life is tolerable and sweet only in our belief in such society.’’ The lie and the lying spirit, then, if we would believe Emerson, bring wreck and disease to the world. They make life intolerable, poisonous, bitter. The average American merchant wiil ad- mit the truth of Emerson’s proposition, and the truth of my corollary, and still harbor a sneaking notion that a little trade lie now and then helps things along in a business way. This is an age of trade combinations, Our trade has its secrets. Our compet- itors have their trade secrets. Our cus- tomers must not know our secrets; neither must our competitors, else we lose trade and so lose our fortunes. To keep these secrets it seems necessary that we lie, at least it isan easy thing to cover our secrets with a lie. To satisfy our conscience we reason that strategy is necessary in warfare and therefore permissible. Modern trade is commercial warfare; therefore trade lies are strategy and consequently per- missible. Such a syllogism, although fair to view casually, is fairly reeking with the rottenness of error. It isa passage from the devil’s own gospel. It 1s an argument fit only for the mind of a Spaniard or a Chinaman, I know merchants of high standing in this city who speak with the utmost complacency of trade lying as a neces- sity. They do not seem to know that this America of ours is fitter and safer and more wholesome to live in than China or Hindoostan or South America, because our civilization has been domi- nated by generations of men and women who have dared to tell the truth, have had the fortitude to live the truth, to suffer the truth and if necessary to face destitution and death for the truth. Lying, whether trade lying or wilful, malicious lying is a vicious, self-indul- gent frittering away of the heritage left us by a race of better men than we. It is a retrograding of America to China, a return of civilization to heathendom. —Deacon in Furniture News, Flour and Feed. During the past two weeks the flour market has been quiet, with prices well maintained. Holders are very firm in their views, while many buyers are hold- ing off, expecting to buy for less money as we approach another harvest. As a rule, this may be said to be good policy, but a careful study of the situation would seem to indicate that this year is more than likely to be an exception. Evidence is fast accumulating to prove conclusively that the out-turn of winter wheat this year will be from 75,000,000 to 100,000,000 bushels less than last year and, without doubt, a large amount of the grain harvested will be badly shrunk and of poor quality, on account of the enfeebled condition of the plant, which will further reduce the yield of flour to be obtained from it. When the exact conditions become well known, flour buyers will be more acitve, and those who are keen enough to realize the situ- ation soon and purchase a supply of choice old wheat flour for July and August business, will be most likely to secure a good margin of profit and, be- sides, avoid the risk of using new wheat flour. The city mills are running steadily, with sufficient orders booked for May business. Feed and meal are selling fairly well, with prices unchanged. Millstuffs are in good demand and prices are main- tained at a higher level than is usual at this season of the year. Wm. N. Rowe. 0 Adrian Brink has sold a third interest in his grocery stock at 34 Grandville avenue to his son, John A., and another third to his son, Henry, and the _ busi- ness will hereafter be conducted under the style of A.Brink & Sons. John A. Brink will remain in the store, the same as heretofore, but Henry will continue in the employ of the Worden Grocer Co, The Grain Market. Wheat has remained very steady, not much fluctuation, although the general news pointed to better prices, as reports from the growing crop certainly are not as encouraging as they were one week ago, as the general cry is that wheat is going back, owing to the dry and hot weather, also that the wheat is very weedy. At the present outlook we will not get two-thirds of a crop, probably not over 22,000,coo bushels, against 34,000,000 bushels in the harvest of 1898. The fact is wheat in this State has been damaged more than anyone thought of. Exports are of good size, but the way things look we can not spare much more or else we shail sell ourselves short. The visible made only a fair de- crease. However, this can not be taken into account, as the strike at Buffalo interfered with wheat shipments East. As soon as that is settled wheat will go out of the State at a faster rate than now. Corn is being badly raided, owing to the large acreage being put in, and fine corn weather has caused a decline of fully 2c per bushel, and the large de- crease of 3,768,000 bushels could not stop the decline. Oats also made a decrease of 1,622,000 bushels, but price fullowed corn on the down grade; we note a decline of %c per bushel. The only thing strong on the list was rye. Owing to wheat remaining so steady, flour received a strong tone. Outside orders are coming in and quotations are asked for more liberally. Mill feed is very much enquired for yet, mostly from dairies. The mills are all behind on their orders. Receipts for the week were: 57 cars of wheat, 12 cars of corn, 11 cars of cats, 30 cars of hay. We may also mention that hay has ad- vanced to $12 and $13 per ton. Millers are paying 68c per bushel for wheat. C. G. A. Voier. 2»—__ Altogether Too Slow. President of the Company—lI guess you'd better discharge that boy. Manager—Why? He seems to bea quiet kind of a boy, and I haven’t no- ticed that he has neglected his work. President—That’s all very true, but I don’t think he has the making ofa financial genius in him. He’s been around here for more than three weeks $252525257e62525e25252525e25e25e25e25e5e25e25e52 “ROOFING As manufacturers we can supply goods in our line at extremely low prices. We make Roofing Pitch, Tarred Felt, Tarred Board, 2 and 3 ply Roofing, Gravel Roofing, Asphalt Paints. H. [1. REYNOLDS & SON, DETROIT, MICH. Established 1868. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Office: 82 Campau St. 25°5°e5°Se5e5e25er esesesesese5e5e5 (Please mention where you saw this advt.) Factory: 1st Av. and M. C. Ry. Py oe Seo Sess Ses eSeSeSeSeseSeseSeSe5eSe5e525e5 & ¥€ AEC SS krill clecibci ik AMERICAN BEAUTY : GINGER SNAPS RIOR EE HE FE HEHE TE Put up in 3-lb. barrels, 12 and 24 to the case, $2.40 per doz. A whole barrel of fine Ginger Snaps to the con- sumer for 25c. Made only by NATIONAL BISCUIT CO. Sears Branch, Grand Rapids. HEIR OFF IE IF KF FEA TE IERIE IE IRIE IERIE EK SEK HO FO FE FO FEO a | Z- { i SUPTHHNVHNNNNN TTT y TTT TTT ATTY WUMALUALLbAbLbAdbbsadbbLdababasabssbdsadasddadddsceddd DOPYNNNNDDDITTTHTHTET DNDN NTT TNT TANT NTN TTL They all say = “It's as good as Sapolio,” when they try to sell you their experiments. you that they are only new article. - 2 88 Who urges you to keep Sapolio? public? The manufacturers, by constant and judi- cious advertising, bring customers to your stores whose very presence creates a demand for other articles. Your own good sense will tell trying to get you to aid their Is it not the Mae kkts sss ssakbkbbbbdG willl ae 4 - Around the State Movements of Merchants. Holland—Con DePree has opened his new drug store. Wyandotte—Benj. Loranger, grocer, has removed to Detroit. : Brant—Geo. Ward has purchased the general stock of E. P. Whaley. Brice—Fockler & Manning have pur- chased the general stock of P. Sowers. Detroit—Anthony T. Asam succeeds Asam & Martin in the grocery business. Brighton—Chas. H. Newman, meat dealer, has sold out to Parks & Wesley. Cedarville—Alvin U. Abbott is clos- ing out his stock of general merchan- dise. Meridian—C. M. Hallett has en- gaged in the grocery business at this place. Carleton—C. F. Thaver has sold his grocery and notion stock to W. H. Maurer. Negaunee—Baraba & Sorensen, gro- cers, have dissolved, Joseph Baraba suc- ceeding. Iron Mountain—Edward Eaton & Co. succeed Edward Eaton in the meat business, Breckenridge—L. Waggoner has pur- chased the general stock of Aldrich & Manning. i Galesburg—Norman J. Elsey has closed out his grocery stock and retired from trade. Kalkaska—W. J. Hubble has pur- chased the meat market of Nelson Cummings. Kalamazoo—C. Meisterheim has em- barked in the grocery business at 113 Portage street. Benton Harbor—Rapp & Prideau suc- ceed Ferry & Rapp in the dry goods and grocery business. Dundee—Drs. J. B. Haynes and A. R. Lusty have opened a drug store and office at this place. Milford—Burch & Skinner have pur- chased the crockery and grocery stock of Babcock & Son. Greenville—B. Haskel has sold his dry goods, clothing and boot and shoe stock to M. Lightstone. Allegan—The B. B. Sutphin Co. suc- ceeds B. B. Sutphin & Co. in the grain, seed and wool business. Port Huron—S. B. Shaw has opened a drug store at the corner of Lapeer avenue and Tenth street. Ionia--Lauster Bros., (Fred G. and Charles F.), succeed to the grocery business of Lauster & Son. Perry—R. S. Olcott & Son, who con- duct hardware stores here and at Wil- liamston, have discontinued business at the latter place. Ithaca—John Botroff has purchased the interest of Chas. Frost in the gro- cer business and will hereafter conduct the business alone. Downington—A. R. Conrad, who has conducted a general store in connection with his hotel, has discontinued the mercantile business. Coleman—R. M. Swigart, formerly engaged in the grocer business at Du- rand, has embarked in the agricultural implement business at this place. Sault Ste. Marie—Pare Bros. have sold their grocery stock to Alex C. Perigard, of Muskegon. They will con- tinue the flour and feed business as heretofore. Evart—Davy & Co have opened a branch general store at Leota, Clare county, under the management of Eugene Boughton, who has long been identified with the store at this place. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Boon—N. D. Palmeter and P. Fess- enden have formed a copartnership un- der the style of Palmeter & Fessenden and purchased the general stock of Wm. Haskin. They will also buy hay and grain and manufacture all kinds of lumber. Bay Mills—Sam Sarasohn, who has managed the branch general store of D. K. Moses & Co. at this place for the past three years, has been taken into partnership in this branch of the firm's business. The firm name will remain unchanged. Detroit—The Enterprise Stove Co. has been incorporated, with a capital stock of $25,000, all paid in. The in- corporators are Alonzo Auscomb, John G. Hasking, both of Detroit; T. G. Rakestraw, Hamilton, Ont.; Frank Smith, Detroit. Sturgis—C. B. Munger has leased the store in Union Hall block, formerly oc- cupied by Rehm Bros., where he will open his shoe store as soon as he can get his stock in. The goods saved from the fire inventoried $744 and he receives the full amount of his insurance, amounting to $2,000. Middleville—The Nelson Abbott. drug stock, which was recently appraised at about $1,800, was sold under the bank- ruptcy act Monday for $825, being bid in by Cornelius Crawford, traveling rep- resentative of the Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co., who has leased the store building for four years from June 1 aad will continue the business as soon as he can get possession of the building. The sale was devoid of sensational features, although the matter was held open an hour and a half before the sale was closed. The amount realized from the sale of the stock will liquidate the two mortgages on the stock, amounting to $650, and pay the court fees, leaving the merchandise creditors without a div- idend. Manufacturing Matters. Ewen—John McRae continues the lumber and shingle mill business of John McRae & Co. Owosso—M. C. Darling succeeds Darling & Reynolds as proprietor of the Owosso shoe factory. Detroit—John H. Harrington suc- ceeds J. H. Harrington & Co. in the cigar manufacturing business. Saginaw—C. L. Buckheit succeeds Buchheit & Grohmann in the office fur- niture manufacturing business, Lansing—Wallace S. Olds and D. M. Hough have purchased a machine shop at St. Louis, and will do general ma- chinists’ work and manufacture gasoline engines. Lowell— The administrators of the es- tate of A. P. Hunter have sold the drug stock formerly conducted by the de- ceased to Lyman A. Taft, who formerly clerked in the drug store of W. S, Winegar. Grand Ledge—The Monitor flouring mills have been sold by Hoffer & Hoover to W. S, Perkins, of Saginaw. The present managers, W. J. Hoffer & Co., will remain for a time witb the new proprietor. Ludington—Three well-known busi- ness men of this city have formed a co- partnership, the firm name being Meyer, Beach & Flannelly. The members are G. A. Meyer, S. H. Beach and M. J. Flannelly. The firm has already entered the aardware business in Antrim county. One store at Bellaire has been under the management of Mr. Meyer for about two years. Another store has just been opened at Elk Rapids. Onaway—Gardner & Peterman have begun the erection of a stave mill. Saginaw—James H. Malcolm, of the firm of Green, Ring & Co., has pur- chased the interest of two of his part- ners and will probably secure the con- trol of the plant. The Green, Ring & Co. sawmill] was built some thirty years ago and was run until the supply of logs here was exhausted. The mill has never been dismantled and the salt blocks are in good condition and have been oper- ated to some extent, using coal as fuel. Saginaw—The Welsh & Kerry Manu- facturing Co. will nct rebuild its plant in this city which was burned some weeks ago’ The site, t gether with the large store house, boiler and engine house, blacksmith shop and the remains of the big main building with all of its machinery, has been purchased by Wickes Bros. The foundation of the burned structure has been found to be in good condition for the erection of an- other building, and with the other build- ings and fine site it is hoped that the property will again be used for manu facturing purposes. The machinery was much of it badly damaged so that it can not be used, but there are some ma- chines which can probably be saved. The business of the firm is at present being handled as best it can be by its Reed City factory, until a desirable lo- cation can be found by purchase, the company preferring to buy rather than to build. Houghton—The Calumet & Hecla is now running twenty of the twenty-two steam stamps Contained in its two stamp mills, as compared with sixteen stamps one year ago, an increase of 25 per cent. in production and calling for the mining and stamping of 5,500 tons of rock daily and yielding fully 175 tons refined copper every working day. This is practically the same rate of produc- tion as that of Anaconda last year. As the Calumet & Hecla is sold ahead for some months at 18 cents, and the cost of production is rather under than over seven cents per pound, the actual net profits of the mine on the present basis of production exceed $1,000,000 per month. With the exception of the com- bined mines of the Comstock lode in the middle seventies, no such profit has ever been earned by any mine in the world. ——_¢<—_.____ Builders’ Hardware Prices. An advance of about Io per cent. in builders’ hardware was announced last week. This was the result of a confer- ence held in the East recently between representatives of the various manufac- turing concerns in the country and is the second advance made since the be ginning of the year. At the same time the report was deuied that a combina tion of the hardware manufacturers was contemplated. Cutting of prices, it is said, bas been going on for some time and goods have necessarily been sold on a small margin of proft, especially since Copper values have ruled so high. There is, however, a disposition now to make prices more in keeping with general business conditions and a hope- ful sign is that the list agreed on last February has been maintained. ——__>2+>____ Mutual Insurance for Hardware Deal- ers. A meeting of the executive committee of the Minnesota Retail Hardware Dealers’ Association was held at Min- neapolis last week for the purpose of perfecting arrangements to organize a mutual insurance company. The asso- Clation paved the way for this organiza- tion by getting a bill through the Legis- lature, during the last session, allowing the organization of mutual hardware dealers’ insurance companies with a Capital stock of $500, 000, Kalamazoo Grocers Join Hands For Mutual Protection. Kalamazoo, May 8—Fifty-four of the {00 grocers doing business in this city have organized under the name of the Kalamazoo Retail Grocers’ Association, which will be officered as follows: , President—W. H. Johnson. 3, Secretary—Charles Hyman: > Treasurer—E, L. Harris. -.Executive Committee—Sam Hoekstra, D. Allen, M. S. Scoville. While the regular time of meeting has not yet been decided upon, it is thought that once a month will be as often as will be necessary after the organization is perfected and moving along in good shape. The next meeting will be on next Thursday evening, at the Chamber of Commerce rooms, A number of questions were brougtt up and discussed with interest. The matter of membership was touched on, and it was decided that grocers and those who handle goods in that line will alone be admitted to membership. As one member expressed it, ‘‘If dry goods men want an association, they can torm one. There are over a hundred grocers in the city, and that’s enough to form a strong association. We will have all we want to do to look after our own in- terests, and our inspector will be kept busy looking after our business. ’’ The matter of a city market, where farmers and produce raisers can be centered for the convenience of the gro- cers, was brought up. The idea seemed to meet with general favor, although there were some objections. The ma- jority tavored the idea, however, and the chair was authorized to appoint a committee of three, which committee is to see the Chamber of Commerce and urge the work of that body witb the Council for the establishment of a market place. The chairman appointed J. B. Balch, Frank Toonder and Charles H. Ashby. The question arose as to when the or- dinance against peddlers and hawkers is to take effect, and it was stated that the peddlers have until the 15th of this month in which to procure licenses. Each peddler is numbered, and if he drives a wagon his number must ap- pear on each side of his wagon. The dues of members in the Associa- tion was fixed at $1, as an entrance fee, and if there are additional expenses which the first assessment does not cover, the Executive Committee has power to assess. An inspector will be employed whose duty it will be to scour the streets in the early morning hours to see that no peddlers are operating with- out a license and to report any such cases promptly. He will be expected to be out in the summer at an early hour, and report at the Chamber of Commerce at 11 o'clock each day, where he may be found until 12 o’clock. He will also be in the office from 5 to 6 o’clock in the evening. A daily report will be made to the Secretary, who has power to call the Executive Committee to- gether at any time he may deem it nec- essary. —> 0+ ______ Cuba’s Reason for Thankfulness. From the Lewiston Evening Journal. Cuba has reason to thank Sampson as the Philippines will have reason to thank Dewey. Business appears to be picking up throughout Cuba, the custom revenue alone reaching an aggregate of more than $3,000,000 In the first quarter of the year. The great point of differ- ence between our regime and the Span- ish is that the revenue of Cuba is turned over to the Island's treasury without be- ing tapped in transit. With the revival of business will come a revival of op- portunity for work for such Cubans as care to labor. —_>-2>—__ Large Apple Crop in Kansas. Fred Wellhouse, the ‘‘apple king of Kansas,’’ says his orchard will yield 10,000 bushels of apples this year. He lately made a tour of the apple belt, and gives it as his opinion that the crop this year will be the largest in the State’s history, ——>-0—____ For Gillies N. Y. tea, all kinds, gtades and prices, phone Visner, 800, ana . 8 iin sc aennnt ot aaa — eres 08 a - aia . os oR eet Se MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 5 Grand Rapids Gossip The Grocery Market. Sugars—The market for raw sugars is very strong and has advanced again, sales of 96 deg. test centrifugals having been made at 43c and 8g deg. test muscovadoes at 4c. Prices on ?ll grades of refined have advanced Kc. Some concessions of %c on: large lots of softs are still being made. The out- look for this year’s Philippine Islands sugar crop is said to be even worse than has been reported and it is now ex- pected that the production will not amount to more than 50,000 or 60,000 tons. The crop under normal condi- tions, it is said, should show 240,000 tons. Willett & Gray’s latest estimates of the sugar crops of the world show only 38,601 tons increase over last year, so that no provision is made for the normal increase of consumption. Canned Goods—There is little change in the market for any variety of canned goods. A small but steady consuming demand for most descriptions prevails, but no large orders are being placed and trade in the main is quiet. Peasare steady at previous prices. There is only a comparatively small demand from outside dealers, but holders con- sider the outlook for sustained prices good and the impression prevails that the old pack will be practically cleaned up before the new ones come in. There is a fair demand for corn and prices are firm at quotations. Conditions are practically the same as heretofore and there is little probability of a change at present. Packers are well sold up and little is doing in futures. Tomatoes have developed an additional weakness the past week. The weakness, which has been referred to previously, is due to the desire of holders to dispose of their stocks. The outlook for the com- ing pack undoubtedly has had much to do with it. Sales are reported small, even at present low figures. New Jersey growers are making preparations for an enlarged crop of tomatoes this year. The impression prevails that the demand for canned tomatoes will be larger than even future sales indicate and growers are planning to take advantage of the opportunity offered. Pineapples attract attention, because the new packing sea- son is just beginning. So far the pros- pects favor a short crop and the prob- ability is that packers will have to pay a good sum for their green supplies. Spot gouds are steady at quotations, however, and there is little possibility of any important change at present. Sales of salmon -have been very heavy during the past few days and some packers are virtually cleaned up. Deal- ers say they can’t remember a time when futures sold so rapidly as this season. Not for some years has there been an opening season without a heavy carry-over from the previous year's pack, but the extraordinary demand last year, caused by the addition of salmon to the list of army and navy rations of three different nations, consumed about everything obtainable, and packers and dealers enter upon the new season with practically bare shelves. Prices are well maintained at opening figures and the market continues firm. Preparations are being made for a large run and heavy pack of salmon. It is said that the expected run promises to be larger than in 1898, owing to higher water, which invariably draws in large-sized fish. Reports from Eastport, Me., state that there is every prospect of a big run of sardines in the water along the Maine coast, and preparations have been made to begin packing promptly on the open- ing of the season, May 10. Twenty- eight out of the forty-seven factories in the combine will start as soon as the fish begin to run. Stocks in the hands of dealers and commission men are said to be small and, while there is no dis- position to advance quotations, there is little prospect of a reduction in price before new fish arrive. While it is not positively asserted, it is believed that the prices on new sardines issued by the combine will be lower than those at the opening of last year. Dried Fruits—There is little change in the general situation. Trade is mak- ing progress slowly. Orders are small, apparently being placed to cover only immediate requirements. Prunes are nearly gone from first hands and the disquieting reports regarding the heavy drop caused a firmer feeling in the mar- ket. How serious the drop will be re- mains to be determined, but it is cer- tain that it is large. The reports have a strengthening influence on the mar- ket and it is thought may cause an ad- vance. A_ general belief that supplies will be exhausted before new crop comes tends to make the market firmer and prevent reductions. It is said that some holders have refused large orders at a slight reduction, believing that supplies are so small that prices will advance and stocks move into consumption. Some further export demand from Ger- many is expected, supplies in that country being very low and the embargo on American dried fruits removed. Peaches have been gone from first hands for some time. The gloomy outlook for the coming crop increases the firmness, All dried peaches must come from Cal- ifornia this year, but the demand for the green fruit will be so strong that few are likely to be left to dry. With the reassuring news regarding the com- pletion of the California Raisin Grow- ers’ Association’s deal to secure the re- quired acreage to maintain the Associa- tion another year, the market on raisins has become firmer and may advance. The Association has secured over 90 per cent. of the crop and will undertake to distribute same. This estimate is based on an acreage of 46,315 acres of vine- yard, The statistical position of raisins is stronger than is usual at this sea- son. It is said that the entire available supply on the coast will scarcely reach 700 cars, of which the bulk are graded. Currants appear to be firm. The mar- ket shows comparatively little change from day to day, but there is an upward tendency to the movement which will probably develop into better prices. Figs are easy at quotations. There is a small consuming trade, but no large orders are placed. Advices from grow- ing sections are to the effect that the crop will be much better than last year. Dates are unchanged. Nuts—It is reported from Tarragona that all old almonds have been with- drawn from the market, on account of the poor prospects for this season’s crop. It is also stated that the entire crop of Princess paper shells has been lost. The movement to consolidate the peanut interests of the country is prac- tically completed. A single company, capitalized at $5,000,000, will control the entire business. The peanut crop of the United States is raised almost en- tirely in Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee and _ hereafter shipments made by the new combine will be from Norfolk, Va., where the warehouses and offices will be located. The peanut market is considerably stronger this week and prices have advanced Yc. Molasses—The molasses market is quiet, but steady. Mail reports from Loutsiana say that favorable weather continues and that the crop is develop- ing in a very satisfactory manner. The crop growth is from three to four weeks later than usual. Rice—The rice market is weak. Rice is not moving out as briskly as was ex- pected and dealers can nut account for the falling off in the demand, as usually at this time of the year there is a large demand for all kinds of cereals. ——>_2~<—____ The Produce Market. Asparagus—The market on home grown stock has advanced Sc per doz, bunches, owing to the cool weather, and dealers have marked their prices up to 25c. Bananas—The trust is beginning to show its hand bv curtailing the supply for the purpose of advancing the price. Beans— Wax, $1.75@2 per 24 bu. box. Cabbage—California stock 1s arriving in limited quantities and finds ready sale on the basis of $7@8 per crate. Home grown stock is entirely exhausted and Soutbern will not begin to arrive in any considerable amount for a week or ten days yet. : Cucumbers--—Home grown, 60@75c per doz. ; Southern, 50@6oc. Honey— Dark is in fair demand at 8c. Light amber is active at toc. White is practically out of market. Green Onions—Common command 8 @gc per doz. bunches. Silver Skins are beginning to come jin, commanding 12@15c. Lettuce—Growers of forcing lettuce report that their stocks are nearly de- pleted, in consequence of which the price has advanced to 12@14c. Head lettuce is beginning to come in, com- manding 15c, but will go lower before the end of the week. Maple Sugar—11@12c per Ib. Maple Syrup—goc per gal. Onions—Home grown are practically out of market. Bermudas have advanced to $1.85 per crate. Egyptians are now in market, commanding $3 per sack. Pieplant—In large supply and active demand at tc per ib. Pineapples—Bahamas and Havanas bave advanced to $1.75@2 per doz. Floridas are also higher, having been marked up to $5 per crate of atout 4o. Potatoes—Home grown are lower, and the market is unsetlted and unsatisfac- tory, owing to the uncertzinty which ap- pears to have taken possession of every- one identified with the business. A de- moralizing feature of the situation is the knowledge that Southern stock will be in market earlier than was expected. Locally, dealers pay 30@35c and _ hold at 4oc, but carload lot are freely offered at 35c. New Triumphs from Texas are now in market, commanding $6 per bbl, or $2 per bu. and Bermudas have de- clined to $2 per bu. box. Radisbes—Round, 15c; long, 2oc. Spinach—Has advanced to 7oc per bu. Strawberries—The best stock received thus far is from Arkansas, which comes in bright and firm and finds reacy sale at $2@2 50 per 24 qt. case, Sweet Potatoes—Jerseys are in mod- erate request at $3.75 per bbl. or $1.40 per bu. Bu'ter—Receipts of grass butter are heavy, but none tco heavy to meet the consumpitve requirements of the mar- ket, which is kept closely cleaned up. Dairy grades command 12@13¢c and fac- torv creamery is in good demand at 1614c. Eggs—Local dealers pay toc for all receipts of stricrly fresh stock, but country and cold storage buyers else- where are paying 11@t2c, in order to secure shipments. Conds:dering the narrow margin on which some buyers are undertaking to do business, it would not be at all surprising if some one was burt before the end of the season. Peas—Green, $1.50@1.75 per bu. The price will be lower soon. Increase of the Peddling License. Ata meeting of the Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association, held April 18, the following resolution was unani- mously adopted : Whereas, The general improvement in business warrants a return to the license fees tormerly exacted of peddlers and hucksters ; therefore Resolved, That we place ourselves on record as advocating an increase in the license fee to $30 per year; also Resolved, That we use our best en- deavors to secure such an increase in the license fee and support our Special Committee on Licenses in every pos- sible manner in the work entrusted to it. Acting on the advice of those who have made a study of the peddling ques- tion, it was decided not to print the resolution in the official report of the meeting and to keep the matter out of the newspapers, to the end that the peddlers might not be alarmed in time to organize an opposing campaign. A committee was appointed to carry out the spirit of the resolution, composed of the following: H. Klap, A. Brink, John Witters, Chas. Payne, J. J. Wag- ner, D. S. Gray, Richard Rademacher, J. Geo. Lehman, B. S. Harris, F. L. Merrill, E. C. Jenkins, H. C. Wendorf, M. H. Barber. This Committee met with the License Committee of the Common Council last Thursday evening and, as the result of such action, the Common Council on Monday evening adopted a resolution increasing the license fee for peddlers and hucksters from $25 to $30 a year. The outcome of the matter shows how much can be accomplished where the work is undertaken quietly and carried forward secretly, instead of being pur- sued in bandwagon fashion. If it had gone out in the public prints that the grocers were advocating an advance in the schedule, the peddlers would have taken the alarm and the result would have been several stormy sessions of the License Committee, probably ending in a compromise or possibly a defeat for the grocers. Instead of defeat, victory is perched on their banners, and the manner in which that victory was se- cured gives ground for the belief that further concessions along the same line may be secured later on. ey The sale of the Nelson Abbott drug stock at Middleville Monday satisfied every creditor of Mr. Abbott that the new bankruptcy law is not adapted to meet the requirements of merchandise creditors, inasmuch as_ the amount realized from the stock was only enough to pay the two secured claims, amount- ing to $650, leaving $2,600 in merchan- dise claims totally unprotected. Re- ports were current at an early stage of the proceedings that a considerable portion of the drug stock bad been spirited away from the store, but the evidence presented at the hearing was not of a character to justify the creditors in insisting on the other stock being in- cluded in the bankruptcy proceedings. Criminal proceedings are hinted at and may be resorted to later on to enforce the rights of the creditors, but in the light of present information, based on the facts as they were brought out by the bankruptcy proceedings, the operations of the present Federal law are anything but satisfactory to the creditor class. Ira O. Johnson, who has made his headquarters at the grocery store of E. J. Herrick for several years past, has leased the store at 240 East Fulton street and will occupy it as a milk depot, carrying a_ line of domestic cheeses as well as milk, cream and buttermilk. 6 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Woman’s World Parisian Custom Not Adapted to This Country. For the past forty years there has been a crying demand for the emanci- pation of woman. As a result the doors of the college and university have been opened to her,numerous trades and pro- fessions count her in the list of active members, the laws in the various states have been amended to accommodate her needs, and yet to-day when the whole world seems hers she is a willing martyr to dress. Moreover, her physical im- provement has kept pace with her men- tal development. She shares with her brother the pleasures of the gymnasium, tennis, golf and the bicycle. She knows what comfort and ease mean and yet the short sensible bicycle skirt, fit for all sorts of weather, has been supplanted in popular favor by the trained skirt of the tailor-made suit. And what a sight is ever before our eyes! The woman—or shall we call her the lady?—of 1899 is too independent to be bothered with holding up her skirts, so she kindly brushes up the dirt and takes it home with her. She must have mixed herself with munici- pal politics and gotten the contract away from the street-sweepers. Then, too, she wishes to be a consistent crea- ture, so she will have to drop the microbe fad now—what are a few more or less bacteria in the city water when she is fairly enveloped in them? Recently we made a trip to Chicago, and registered at the Great Northern. Sitting in the famous picture gallery, we spent a little time gazing upon the scene in the lobby. And such a vision! Members of the sterner sex were there galore, sitting or standing or walking around. Cigars were in every mouth. The beautiful tiled floor was too nasty an affair to contemplate, or even men- tion, yet grace, beauty and trained skirts of material rich enough for a duchess swept through all the slime and other filth, the ladies seemingly entirely oblivious of the condition of affairs at their pedal extremities. But then what does that matter? The ladies, no doubt, were glad of an excuse to buy other gowns, and their pocket books would not be materially affected by their pur- chases. They had their carriages, they had their maids, they brought work to many a needy soul, but it looked as if the scrubmen would be minus their jobs. If the foolish sigile stopped at the feet of the rich dames little harm might be done; but the United States is a Re- public and all are free and equal, so the cheap office girl and the $3 clerk ape Mrs. Millionaire and have a tawdry imi- tation of her gowns. They have no maids, they have no carriages, their purses are generally in a wilted condi- tion; but they have just as splendid an opportunity to sweep the streets and _ clean the floors of the stores. Either they must spend their few precious hours of leisure in keeping their long skirts in order or else the task devolves on some other overtaxed member of the family. And when the skirt, overloaded with foulness, becomes too shabby what happens? There is no money to buy another, and so the scavenger may in- troduce a physician to the family. But there are other evils under which the feminine world is groaning, not the least of which is the high collar or ‘‘choker.’" The collars have crept up and ‘up until a woman no longer has a neck or even a throat. Her head is in a vise, and looks like tke wired flowers on a funeral emblem. She is as_help- less as a horse with blinders and too tight check-rein; but then she is in style. And now come the white dresses and white shirt waists. This is a season of white. There is something so simple and modest about white, and then it is so sure not to fade, so everybody can indulge. One lady declared that she should wear white from April to Octo- ber. As she is a person of wealth who does just as she pleases, she has made a sensible resolution; and we trust that she will keep it, for she can be a real benefactor to many of her sex. Think of the rich harvest her dressmaker and laundress_ will reap. But then she hasn’t a cinch on white—everybody else is going to wear it, too. The poor girls and the jaded women will have to spend many weary hours at the washtub and the ironing board; but they will have their days of looking as pure and white as a lily, so what matters it if they sac- rifice their leisure for higher thoughts and nobler deeds? Not far from us 1s a lady who is not rich in the world’s goods. True, her husband has a good start, but he has his way to make. Of course Mrs. Conven- tional wishes to do the proper thing, so she dresses her children in white ‘‘from morn till dewy eve,’’ just as the rich people do. She spends weeks and weeks making the innumerable little dresses and waists. She is always tired and is wrinkled beyond her age. She has no time to read or develop any interest outside of tucks, ruffles and gathers, and her mind seems to be getting all puck- ered up, too. Until recently her one pair of hands had to do everything in the household, but now she has a maid of all work. The girl irons until mid- night time after time until she is tired and disgusted and she leaves. She is succeeded by some one else, who under- goes the ordeal a longer ora shorter time when she, too, gives notice. And so the rotation of servants continues. And that brings us to mourning, for black and white have a close affinity for each other this season. Our customs with relation to death are barbarous in the extreme. The most autocratic rules as to the wearing of mourning have been laid down. A newly-made widow must encase herself in the blackest of inky robes whether or not black is be- coming to her ccmplexion or accen- tuates the ravages of Time. At heart she may wish soon to be freed from her gloomy habiliments and would like to devote herself to having a good time: bnt it is her duty(?) to ‘‘sbow respect to her dead husband.’’ After a certain length of time bas elapsed, Fashion says she may “‘go into second mourning.’’ And what could be more conspicuous than this same ‘‘mourning?’’ A person is singled out at once and is stared at by the thoughtless or ignorant passer- by, so at first there is always the veil to conceal the signs of grief or looks of embarrassment. For the rich the cus- tom is well enough, perhaps, but when Sarah Jane earning $2 a week and Mrs. O’Flaherty almost on the town are com- pelled to starve themselves in order to publish their woe it is time there was a change in public sentiment. After all, people are trying to be more sensible on the subject of mourning. They begin to realize that the deepest sorrows are often the most hidden, and that a smile often hides a broken heart. There are just as sacred duties to the living, and most people realize the cheering effect of color. And the reaction has set in. The long dark cold winter has been followed by a few bright spring days. Never has Grand Rapids seen such a bewilder- ment of color. The hats are too gor- geous to describe. They show that peo- ple’s spirits are rising. Color is always associated with sunshine. Note how much more color the Southern ladies wear than the Northern and, as a rule, they have happier dispositions and wear care more lightly. But it is in Paris that the color combinations reach their highest development. The rain- bow tints are ever present, and the spirits of the people are high-pitched and composite to match. And Paris originates the styles. They are designed especially for the demi- monde, who form such an important class in France. Yet the virtuous, sen- sible, brainy women all over the world eagerly adopt these same outrageous styles. But then the only alternative is the styles of the dress-reformers, which are tasteless and ugly. To-day there is a grand field for American designers to originate styles suitable to the needs and tastes of the American women; but beauty and artistic effect must be sus- tained or else their attempts will be dead failures. 8 Lacked Judgment. ‘‘T had to call my son off,’’ sighed a wealthy wholesaler, who believes that young men should strike out for them- selves in order to gain experience and confidence. ‘‘Hasn’t he a business head?’’ ‘*Possibly, if his judgment can be straightened out. I discovered just in time that he was going to ship a cargo of horse blankets and sealskin sacques to Manila.’ —___ 6 -~<@ _- When the Custom Is Reversed. ‘*They say marriage is a failure.’’ ‘*There’s a great difference. ’’ ‘*Why?’’ ‘‘In marriage the wife take the hus- band’s name, and in a failure the bus- band takes the wife’s name.”’ 10,000 Sweets For Grocers Who want convenience and big profits in their Candy De- partment. Drop postal for particulars. Established 1845. The Darby Manufacturing Co. Baltimore, Md. 8 ; ; ; ; ; ty ;M $ ; COPE EPL LOSES ae 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 dozen years. Webelieve he does it right or we would get another man. Our customers evidently think he does it right be- cause they keep on or- dering, and our feed trade has been enormous this winter and doesn’t seem to let up. We don’t want it to ‘‘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. Sole Manufacturers of “LILY WHITE,” “The flour the best cooks use.” NN PN NE YE PD PEPE DPE PEPE DEPECHE UP EOE HED Ww Walter Baker & Co, Established 1280. LTD, Dorchester, Mass. The Oldest and Largest Manufacturers of yPURE, HIGH GRADE 1) 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 u - Blue Wrap ppers and Yellow Labels, is the plain choc ate in the market for family use. Their German Sweet Chocolate is good to eat and good to drink. It is palatable, nutri. tious, and healthful; a great favorite with children. Buyers should ask for and be sure that the: i t the pee goods. The above trade-mar $ on every package. Walter Baker & Co. Ltd. Dorchester, Mass. 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Although it is generally accepted as certain that the disarmament congress, to be assembled shortly at The Hague, Holland, on the invitation of the Czar of Russia, will not lead to any general movement in favor of disarmament, it is, nevertheless, hoped that some prac- tical agreements may be reached upon the subject of international arbitration of certain classes of disputes and the better protection of private property in time of war. The practical abandonment of priva- teering has in a measure diminished the loss of private property at sea during war; but the still existing practice of permitting national ships to capture the enemy's merchantmen and cripple his resources by destroying the ships and cargoes of private citizens is tremen- dously damaging to commerce anda great loss to private persons, generally non-combatants. It has been proposed that the peace conference favor a gen- eral agreement not to capture or destroy merchant ships, nor to confiscate private property on the high seas when not contraband of war. Private property “ has been protected from destruction on land for many years by the custom of civilized nations and there is no good reason why it should not be equally pro- tected at sea. The immunity of private property from seizure would, of course, imply no right to disregard blockades, nor the right of a belligerent to prevent the shipping of supplies into an enemy's ports. Blockades are essential to a speedy termination of a state of war, and, as long as war is acknowledged as a necessary iast resort in international disputes, it would be foolish to talk of the abolition of the right of blockade. There is no good reason why hostili- ties at sea, as well as on land, should not be limited to ships actually belong- ing to the armed forces of the belliger- ents and used as ships of war, colliers, navy supply vessels or transports. The United States has already inserted the entering wedge by abolishing prize money in the navy, thus cutting off all especial inducement on the part of the naval forces to strive to capture mer- chantmen. The destruction of an enemy's commerce involved in the cap- ture of merchant ships on the high seas means the ruin of private individuals, and probably does not inflict any actual loss upon the enemy’s government nor cripple his resources. A general agree- ment to respect private property at sea would be perfectly fair to all nations alike. If the peace conference accomplishes nothing more than an agreement to protect private property at sea in time of war, the gathering wiil not have been without practical result. Up to the present writing Brigadier General Funston, the new hero of the Philippine campaign, bas been nomi- nated for Governor of Kansas, United States Senator and President of the United States, but the returns are not yet all in. Funston embarked for the Philippines as an ordinary colonel, but if the pace does not slacken he is liable to come back wearing as many shoulder- straps as the military regulations, in- dorsed by his admiring countrymen, will permit. The Funston star blinks re- fulgently for the time being, and if the Kansas hero is as modest as his ad- mirers claim he will not allow his friends to nominate him for more than a dozen high offices at once. Incidentally, he might as well sharpen his pencil for the inevitable onslaught of magazine editors and sign a contract with his photographer for delivery by the gross. The rapidity with which Havana is becoming Americanized was shown on a recent Sunday, when there was a base ball game in place of the customary bull fight. As there came near being a riot in the eighth inning, owing toa close decision by the umpire, necessi- tating the interference of a detachment of cavalry to prevent bloodshed, there is marked evidence that the transplanting of American customs is accompanied with all the realistic accessories of the original. Of course, it is our duty, in the work of evangelizing the Cubans, to abolish such heathen sports as bull fights. We must give them something much milder and more in touch with modern humane sentiments. It is bet- ter for the bull, and the umpire can take his chances. The question of a woman’s right to improve her appearance by artificial aid bas been officially settled. In Cincin- nati, Judge Jelka recently granted a di- vorce and alimony to Catherine Kraus from Charles Kraus. When Mrs. Kraus sued for divorce her husband’s attorney filed an answer, setting forth that his wife had a glass eye, and had deceived him, as he did not know of the glass eye until after their marriage. Judge Jelka held that facial or other physical blem- ishes can not be cited as proof of fraud in marriage contracts. One of the humors of industrial incor- porations appeared in the recent annual meeting of the shareholders in a milli- nery establishment well known botb in London and in New York. The directors have had to raise a loan, and the chair- man complained to the meeting that of the 2,500 stockholders not 5 per cent. did any business with the concern. If, he said, each shareholder would spend 410 a year there, the stock would be four times as valuable as it now is. Ten yéars ago Charlotte, N. C., had a population of about 10,000 and one cot- ton mill. To-day its population is more than 28,000 and its twelve cotton mills are running day and night in the manu- facturing of cotton yarns, gray cloths, ginghams, towelingsp webbing, sash cord, hosiery, batting and wadding, and its five clothing factories are utiliz- ing every hour of daylight to keep up with orders, THE NEW PATERNALISM. The present tendency to concentrate public attention upon the growing power of the combinations known in business as ‘‘trusts’’ is not exclusively due to local causes. It has not as yet got into practical politics in Europe—that is to say, it has not so far been made a party question even in those European coun- tries in which government is most near- ly representative; but the establishment of trusts to avoid certain consequences of unhindered competition is by no means a new expedient in the Old World. Discussing this subject, ‘‘ Trusts in Europe,’’ Wilhelm Berdrow remarks, in the May Forum, that there is some- thing so natural in the attempt and so clearly suggested by inevitable business developments that ‘‘its early adoption in matters of industry,commerce and trans- portation can be readily understood.’’ ‘‘A hundred years ago,’’ he reminds us, “there existed in England penal ordi- nances against unions which, like our modern trusts, sought to fix prices or to secure the monopoly of certain branches of industry. In Austria, the penal code of 1852 (some of the provi- sions of which are still in operation) declared industrial combinations equal- ly punishable with labor unions. If, therefore, such legal measures were so early instituted against trusts, we must assume that the latter were not only actually in existence, but had already begun to exercise an unfavorable influ- ence.’’ On the other hand, the extent of this evil is not so great in Europe as it is in America to-day. Asa rule, over there, commercial combinations in restraint of trade are comparatively small and powerless. But it is in Ger- many—not, as might have been ex- pected, in England—‘‘of all European countries, that trusts have spread most extensively and have been most suc- cessful.’ Mr. Berdrow attributes the more rapid advance of the German sstates in this direction to the fact that, in several im- portant respects, they bear the most striking resemblance to the United States and furnish the most fruitful soil for the development of industrial com- binations. In the last analysis, the es- sential conditions, or true ground, are found to be overproduction and ruinous competition. The total number of trusts in Germany, according to the enumera- tion of the technig¢al journals, was one hundred and eighty only two years ago; but few of these would correspond with American ideas. This number is dimin- ishing ; but it would be a mistake to in- fer that this is due to the failure of the system, judged from the financial point of view. It is the consequence rather of the continued application of the one central idea, ‘‘smaller combinations uniting to form large units, in order to increase their financial power and to extend their sphere of influence.’’ The successful development of the trust sys- tem involves, first of all, the elimina- tion of small individual capitalists, in- vestors or speculators, then of the weaker companies and corporations, unt:! at last the whole world of business has fallen under the absolute control of a very small number of monster commer- cial organizations. But the most obvious and most important suggestion of the history of the origin and growth of the trust system in Europe is that its inspi- ration, its motive, is precisely there what it is here in the United States, The trust system recommended itself, in the first place, as a means of escape from the confusion, uncertainty and des- perate warfare of excessive competition. Then experience soon made it evident that the new system of enforced combi- nation or surrender in business is supe- rior to the old system of absolute free- dom in trade at home, and a free fight all around, in point of economy. So much must be admitted; but the great question to be considered by the people here and everywhere is whether any ad- vantage that can be claimed for the “‘trust’’ can be accepted by them as a fair equivalent for the personal liberty and the opportunities of individual en- terprise and advancement of which it bas deprived them. It is true that com- petition is frequently a source of loss and sometimes of overwhelming dis- aster; but a mere loss of money, or of any form of material wealth, is not the most serious loss that men may suffer, Considering the history of this country, reckoning. up the sacrifices made and the ills endured by the founders of its Government that their posterity might remain forever free, one would say that there is really no comparison, no con- ceivable scale of comparison, between the value of personal liberty and_ indi- vidual right on the one hand, and the value of the security and peace of trade without competition on _ the other. Nevertheless the question has been raised, and able men are openly con- tending in the pages of great and influ- ential periodicals, that the people would do well to accept a system which would utterly divest them and their children after them of the right of individual initiative and private enterprise in business. 5 The small manufacturer and the in- dependent artisan are gone, and some- times it seems hardly too much to say that the small merchant is going. ‘‘Let him go,’’ say the exponents of the latest school of political economy. ‘‘Here- after he will work for otbers; but be will be well paid and will have no_oc- casion to suffer from that worry over business complications and that feeling of uncertainty and anxiety which have made him prematurely old.’’ At the bottom it is the old plea for paternalism over again. The paternal monarchy is an abandoned ideal, and men are asked to accept in lieu thereof a paternal com- mercial organization, or set of commer- cial organizations, which shall do their thinking for them and deprive them of the chance to feel themselvesalive, But if it comes to that, why not go a step further? Why not have the title to these vast estates made out in the name of the people? Certainly that is the logical goal of the whole tendency, of the whole movement, that begins with the denial of personal liberty and the right of pri- vate individual enterprise. The value of a laborer’s backbone bas been fixed by the superior court of Mas- sachusetts at $10,000. This sum has just been awarded to Antonio Barto- lomeo, who won his snit on the ground that through the negligence of a con- tractor a cave-in had occurred while be was at work in a trench, resulting in an injury to the laborer’s spine. Spain ought to invest her $20,000,000 in United States bonds, instead of risk- ing the amount in French securities or wasting it in building warships. It is a dull day in the Philippines when the United States troops do not take a capital or two from the insur- gents. The oyster is off on its summer vaca- tion, MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 9 CONTAGION OF PROSPERITY. Not many moons ago, when the world was laughing at the jester who could not understand why health is not as catch- ing as disease, it was not thought pos- sible that such a condition could exist outside of a joke. To-day that idea has passed from the realm of the impossible into actual fact and the country has broken out like the measles with unmis- takable prosperity. No part of the country has escaped the contagion. No industry, however insignificant, has failed to be infected. It is everywhere, and discounts the infection in this, that it has come to stay. With this established as a fact, the Treasury bureau of statistics kindly fur- nishes the needed proof. The manufac- tures fairly show the rapid spread of in- creasing industry. March exported 25 per cent. more manufactured gvuods than any preceding month and 50 per cent. more than February. Before 1897 the exports of manufactures averaged $1,000,000 for each business day. In March, this year, they averaged $1, 400, - ooo for each business day, a sure sign that the manufactures are ‘‘having it good.’’ One form of manufacture which tells a pleasing condition of things to the man behind the machine is the agricul- tural implement. Too long has the country been obliged to listen to the complaint of the farmer and when it is seen that during the past year $909,347 marks the excess of exports in the man- ufacture of agricultural impiements it is easy to infer that the spread of the pros- perity germ has reached the rural dis- tricts in the most pronounced form. With that for a foundation fact the in- fecting of other industries and localities follows as a matter of course. The cot- ton mill exports 15,236,562 more yards of cloth this year than it did last, China alone taking 8,685,722 more yards than formerly, a showing all the more re- markable from the fact that the United States is looked upon as holding a sec- ondary place in the foreign trade going on in China. As a swift specific for recovery from recent financial depression, it may be well enough to state that during the past year from March to March the exports of instruments for scientific purposes show an increase of more than too per cent., a fact not to be lightly passed over. It has been asserted, and as read- ily admitted, that the accuracy needed in the scientific instrument could not be found in America. France, with ber expressive shrug, has put down the American attempt at the impossible and turned with pride to her own instru- ments of acknowledged excellence, Ger- many, the land of plodding, painstak- ing accuracy, with the same impatient ‘‘ungeschickt, ’’ has anathematized alike the American instrument and the Amer- ican hog; and Switzerland, from the foundation of the world, has pointed with an exultant ‘‘See there !’’ to the only watch worth carrying, and yet the Amer- ican instrument is exported to-day at an annual increase of 100 per cent. ! In other directions there is the same gratifying showing. Builders’ hard- ware has increased its export 33 per cent. ; sewing machines almost 30 per cent. ; typewriters, 50 per cent. ; leather and vegetable oils nearly 40 per cent. ; naval stores, 60 per cent., and boots and shoes 80 per cent. Think of footwear going to Europe at all, where it was once supposed that only perfection had been reached in quality and fit. It is in the United States that the ‘‘know how’’ bas been attained and the buman foot, the world over, is testifying to that fact at the increased rate of 80 per cent. ! During the nine months ending with March the exports of manufactures amounted to $242,883,645, against $208, - 788,036 last year, forming more than 26 per cent. of the total exports, against 23 per cent. during the corresponding months of the preceding fiscal year. In this connection it would be at once pleasant and pertinent to give other sta- tistics to show taat prosperity is catch- ing. A single additional one will suffice: Domestic exports for last year reached the enormous sum of $1,210,291,913, exceeding the record-breaking figures of the year before by $178,284,310, an amount carrying with it convincing proof that the joker’s joke has lost its point. The business that was dead is alive again. Sorrow verily has turned to joy and the Golden Age has again returned. FIGHT AGAINST THE TRUSTS. The great crop of combinations and trusts which has grown up during the past few months has so startled the country that anti-trust legislation is now on everybody’s programme. Undis- mayed by some legal setbacks and some real injustice in the Arkansas anti- 9-2 The Usual Way. ‘There are sermons in stones.’”’ ‘Yes, a widow generally gives her second husband a bigger monument than she does her first.’’ WE WILL PAY YOU MARKET PRICES FOR ALL THE FRESH EGGS YOU CAN FURNISH. CASH ON DELIVERY. EGGS veut FIELD Shee. MOSELEY BROS.,°"48>, FFFFSSFFFSFFFSFFFSSFFSSFFFSFFFSSSFSFFFSSSSSITSST ST BUTTER WANTED % Sa Cash F. O. B. cars, packed in barrels, car : lots or less. s % : & 2B, H. N. RANDALL PRODUCE CO., 2 TEKONSHA, MICH. SEEEEEELEELELEEEE ERE EEEEELELEDES SEES EEESESELELE SES aati diiatadact SSTSS TSS TTT TSS SSS SSO UC UUUUUUUUSOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUY J. W. LANSING, BUTTER AND EGGS _ BUFFALO, N. Y. The time of the year for storing eggs is now at hand. I have orders for several thou- sand cases of eggs from people who store them so I can use an unlimited amount of eggs for the next sixty days. Small or large shipments matter not, but the larger the better. I will give 12%c, delivered in Buffalo, for all you can send me on commission. REFERENCES: Buffalo Cold Storage Co., Buffalo, N, Y.. Peoples Bank, Buffalo, N. Y. Dun or Bradstreet. Michigan Tradesman. i dcsiapinieennaille ee ee ne asasesess In r. R. BRICE ESTABLISHED IN Cc. M. DRAKE PHILADELPHIA 1852 W. R. Brice & Co. | Produce Commission Merchants : Butter, Eggs and Poultry 200 We are in the market for five hundred Cars of Fine Fresh Eggs Wanted (500) cars of fine eggs suitable for cold storage. Write for prices either w to our branch house in Grand Rapids, Mich., or Manchester, Mich. We will take your eggs f. o. b. cars your sta- tion, and pay you all we can afford consistent with Eastern markets. 7 Our Main House in Philadelphia wants all the Creamery and Dairy Butter you can ship. We have an unlimited outlet, can realize you outside prices and make you prompt satisfactory sales. come freely. Let your shipments Yours very truly, W. R. BRICE & CO. fi Se Special Blanks for Produce Dealers We make a specialty of this class of work and solicit correspondence with those who need anything in this line. Grand Rapids, Mich. Oa TRADESMAN COMPANY, - L ; i een a - MICHIGAN TRADESMAN —_ — GOTHAM GOSSIP. News from the Metropolis—Index to the Market. Special Correspondence. New York, May 6—The grocery trade here during the week has been one of activity. Numbers of buyers have been here, some from far-off points, and they all bring good tidings of general pros- perity. Prospects, they tell us, are fa- vorable for good crops, and they buy as if they had the utmost confidence in the future. Prices are generally well held and refined sugar on Wednesday took a turn upward. While the amount of coffee changing hands is not large, and there is still room for improvement in the general condition, matters, however, are in a more satisfactory condition than a fort- night ago and dealers generally express themselves as pretty well satistied with the outlook. Rio No.7 is steady at 63£c. In store and afloat the stock aggregates 1,201,752 bags, against 1,050,852 bags at the same time last year. Little was done at any time in the way of future busi- ness and dealers seem disposed to let to-morrow take care of itself. Muld coffees have sold moderately well at prices showing no practical change. Good Cucuta has been most in request, with a rate of 8%c pretty well estab- lished. As stated above, granulated advanced Wednesday to 534c. The demand has been fairly active and last quotations seem to be substantial. Refiners have again undertaken to guarantee prices and altogether it is not likely we shall have a lower rate unless the trust war again breaks out. _ Raw sugars are very firm. The auction sale of teas showed a de- cline in general lines and this has been reflected on the street market since Wednesday. Trading has been only of an everyday character and for lots to fill out broken stocks. Those well informed seem to think it a favorable time to make purchases, although just why it is any better time now than it is likely to be later is not stated. Little invoice trading has been done during the week. Hardly as much life in the rice mar- ket as last week and, while matters might be worse, there is not much to brag of in the way of new business. Prices show some irregularity. Prime to choice Southern rice is worth 54@ 6c for prime to choice. Japan, 4%@ 5c, showing little if any change. **Four hundred bales of Zanzibar cloves have been sold during the week ata price said to be 6%c. This is certainly the bottom rate and even 8c is probably nearer a correct figure. With the ex ception of this sale there has been hard- ly anything doing, although prices show no particular weakness anywhere. Sing- apore black pepper is worth toc and is firm at this figure. Grocery grades of molasses are firmly held. The demand has been quite sat- isfactory and the situation encouraging. Sales are not large in any one instance, but they are numerous and foot a good aggregate. Offerings are not excessive and it is probably a favorable time to purchase. Foreign grades are firm. Good to prime domestic grades are worth 16@26c. Open kettle, 32@33c. Syrups are firm. There seems to be a real scarcity of desirable goods and the de- mand is better than for some time. Prime to fancy sugar in round lots is quotable from 20@23c. Talk of a combination of the New York State canners is heard again and it seems to be the general opinion that such a combine will be formed for the economies there are in it. As to the general market, most interest is dis- played for salmon, the sales of which have been very large for future deliver- ies. It is said that several of the lead- ing packers—outside the trust—have sold out their stocks completely. There is a good demand for corn. Lima beans are quiet. Peas are rather dull and standard marrowfats and Early Junes can be bought from 80@85c. Tomatoes are weak and prices nominal. Lemons and oranges are fairly active and lemons show quite an improvement, owing, probably, to the warmer, ‘weather. Sicily fruit is quotable from $2. 25 @3.75. California oranges sell well from $3.25@4.75, the latter for fancy stock. Bananas are quiet, within a range of goc to $1.15 per bunch for firsts. Dried fruits are quiet. Evaporated apples are dull and sell from 8% @roc, as to quality. Raisins are firm, but the remainder of the line moves only ina listless sort of way In beans, there is some little improve- ment in the general market. Choice marrow are worth $1.50@1.52%. Choice medium, $1. 37%. The offerings of fancy Western cream- ery butter are light and, as the demand has been fairly active, the price has been firmly maintained. Seventeen cents seems to be readily enough ob- tained for goods which will stand in- spection. Firsts, 16@16%c; seconds, 15@15%4c; imitation creamery, 13@I5¢, as to quality, with rather light demand; Western dairy, 12%4@13%c; Western factory, 12@13Cc. New cheese has been in pretty active demand from exporters. Large size choice, full cream cheese is worth 97% @toc; old, 12¢c. The egg market is firm, with quota- tions for Western stock ranging from 13@14c. Old potatoes are worth $2@2.25 per 180 Ibs. New stock is in good demand and selling from $3@6 per bbl.—more for No. 1 Bermudas. —> +> ___ Increase in Shipments of Texas Vege- tables. Corpus Christi, Tex., May 5—Never in the past few years have the shipments of vegetables from this immediate sec- tion compared with the enormous con- signments that are being transported out of Corpus Christi daily now. A ship- ment of two cars, consisting exclusively of beans and potatoes, has just been made from here by express to Fort Worth, Sherman and other North Texas markets, and two cars, crowded to their utmost capacity with beans, potatoes, cabbage and other produce, were shipped from here to Kansas City, Denver, Minneapolis, St. Louis and points in Central and Northern Texas. The present facilities for express transportation are inadequate for the de- mand, and more cars are needed. Prod- uce buyers are shipping exclusively by express, as the transportation af- forded by freight is practically too low for these perishable goods. Gardeners are receiving exceedingly high prices for their produce at present, especiclly cabbage, which is purchased by the buy- ers at $2.50 per 100 pounds. Although the country is in excellent condition and the yield will bean abun- dant one, the demand for the diversified crops just now exceeds the supply. The gardeners of this section realize that high prices prevail only temporarily, and in consequence are rushing their produce to market, and the result will be that the success of this season’s yield will be especially remunerative. + 8 Competition From New Zealand Apple Growers. American apple growers and shippers bave a formidable rival for trade in some parts of Europe in New Zealand, which has shipped considerable quanti- ties of apples this year, and will ship more during coming seasons. The qual- ity of New Zealand apples is said to be beyond criticism, and the capacity of the production unlimited. Shipment was made in cold storage, and it is reported that the fruit arrived in the best possible condition and brought full prices. The danger to American shippers lies in the fact that the price is lower, reported better ship- ping facilities making a considerable difference. Apples can be grown cheap- er in New Zealand than here, which is an important consideration with Euro- pean buyers. —__> 4» Chance For Dewey. When the moon is brought within forty miles of the earth by that Paris telescope we may send Dewey over to annex her. BSSESESSESSSESESLELELLE SELES ESEELESESESELELESSEESSER : If you ship t : Butter and Eggs : ‘ to Detroit : 3 Write for prices at your station to . & e : HARRIS & FRUTCHEY, ¢2,Weoabriage st... § LEFF FFFSSSSFSSSFSSSSFSSSFFSSSTTSFSSTTTTSSSTTTTSSTFFFA b q Ship your BUTTER AND EGGS to 4 , , R. HIRT, Jr., Detroit, Mich. 34 and 36 Market Street, 435-437-439 Winder Street. Cold Storage and Freezing House in connection. Capacity } q 75 carloads. Correspondence solicited. p awe Ne Oe ee vy Se ee Ne ee ee i BEANS, HONEY AND POPCORN POULTRY, VEAL AND GAME Consignments Solicited. Quotations on Application. 98 South Division St., Grand Rapids ~ | Hercules Ventilated Barrels The very best barrel in which to ship Apples, Po- tatoes, Pears and all kinds of Produce, Because the contents will be properly ventilated, which prevents over-heating and consequent de- cay and loss. The ‘‘Hercules’? can be shipped knock down in bundles, thus making a saving in freight. To set up the ‘‘Hercules’’ no skillis required. You can be your own cooper and save money. 300 “Hercules” barrels can be hauled on a farm wagon. The ‘Hercules’ is strong in the bilge and has no inside lining hoops. For catalogue and prices write Hercules Woodenware Co., 290 W. 20th Place, Chicago, Ill. yyevvvvvvvvvvvvvvrvvvVvVvVYVYYVYYVYYVvvVVVYYVYYV. GRUPO VV GG GF VVU GOV OO EUV UV VU VV VU UU yyevuvvvvvvvvvvrvvvvvvvvve’s ywwe* ypYwvvvvevvvvyvvVvWVW?N" ee hh ho bo hp bb ha ho hi hh ho hi ha ba bh hi hi a hn ht a OOOO 699000 90S 00000000 STOO OOO Ready for Business We take pleasure in announcing to the shippers and retail merchants of Michigan that our new cold storage warehouse is now fully completed and ready for business. We espe- cially call attention to our facilities for storing EGGS, BUTTER AND POULTRY which are unsurpassed by any cold storage establishment in the country. We also store seeds, beans and all kinds of produce in dry storage. Warehouse receipts furnished. Correspondence solicited. Inspection invited. = (irand Rapids Cold Storage Co. D59.@.°0.0 50.8 20.050.0°0.0°0.8°0.0 50.4 p°@, 4 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN BLUFF AND BLUSTER. Able Opinion on the Cash Carrier Situation. The Dry Goods Economist has done the retail merchants of America a great service by obtaining from Albert H. Walker an opinion as to how to deal with the demands and threats of the Consolidated Store Service Co. Mr. Walker is the author of ‘‘Walker on Patents,’’ which is generally recognized among lawyers as the standard authority on American patent law, and he is, moreover, an active practicing lawyer, unusually successful in winning cases. While, therefore, no one’s views save those of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals are absolutely conclusive on patent questions, it is safe to say that Mr. Walker’s judgment on matters of patentability and infringement ranks next in authority to that of that tribu- nal. With the following opinion before them retailers who are in receipt of de- mands for money or threats of suits from the owners of the patents here dis- cussed can form their own judgment as to whether they should yield to such de- mands or resist them: The Consolidated Store Service Com- pany, of Boston, Mass., claims to own three cash-carrier patents, under which it is seeking to levy tribute upon mer- chants throughout the United States who are using any cash-carrier apparatus consisting of a wire stretched between fixed supports at each end, in combina- tion with a freely moving car, supported by one or two wheels running on the wire, if the moving structure is adapted to be impeiled as a solid body from one end of the wire to the other in either direction by the momentum imparted by a single impulse or push. The claims upon which these demands for tribute are based are the following, stated in the order of their dates in the cash-carrier art: Ciaim 1, of letters patent of the United States, No. 357,851, granted to Edwin P. Osgood, February 15, 1887, upon an application filed June 7, 1883, for an invention claimed to have been produced by Mr. Osgood in August, 1881. Claim 2, of letters patent of the United States, No. 293,192, granted to B. A. & E. P. Osgood, February 5, 1884, on an application filed May 7, 1883, for an invention claimed to have been made by the patentees in the fall of 1881. Letters patent No. 560,344, granted May Io9, 1806, to James W. Clark, upon an application hied September 25, 1895. The first claim of patent No. 357,851 reads as follows: In a _ cash-car apparatus, a wire stretched horizontally between fixed sup- ports at each end, and in the described relation to the cashier's desk; in com- bination with a freely moving car held below the wire on wheels-hangers, to which it js rigidly connected, the wheels thereof being fitted to run one behind the other on the wire, whereby the car is held rigidly against oscillation longi- tudinally of the way; the whole moving structure being thus adapted to be im- pelled as a solid body from one end of the way to the other, in either direc- tion, by the momentum imparted by a single impulse or push, substantially as described. In my judgment this claim is clearly void tor want of invention, in view of the following prior patents: Letters patent No. 3,428, granted to William Forsyth, February 12, 1844; letters patent No. 221,488, granted to Joseph C. White, November 11, 1870, and letters patent No. 241,008, granted to Harris H. Hayden, May 3. 1881. The Forsyth patent describes a sus- pended door, moving from one end to the other in either direction undera horizontal rail, from which it is sus- pended and upon which it moves by means of two wheels running on the top of the rail. It istevident on examining the Forsyth patent, that the door is adapted to be impelled as solid body from one end of the rail to the other, in either direction, by the momentum imparted by a single impulse or push, and it is well known, and has been proved, that such doors were thus im- pelled long before 1881, There is no difference between the contrivance of the Forsyth patent of 1844 and the con- trivance of the first claim of the Osgood patent of 1887, except that the Forsyth door runs upon a horizontal rail, while the Osgood cash car runs upon a hori- zontal wire, and except that the ‘‘solid body’’ impelled from one end of the way to the other in the case of Forsyth was a rectangular door, while the solid body impelled from one end of the way to the other in the case of Osgood was a rectangular box. But the substitution by Osgood of a bor- izontal wire for tbe horizontal rail of Forsyth was not invention, because it was only the substitution of one me- chanical equivalent for another, and the use by Osgood of the plan and mode of operation of Forsyth for impelling a box, instead of a door, from one end of the way to the other, in either direc- tion, was not invention, because it was, at most, the use of the Forsyth contriv- ance for a new purpose. Indeed, the claim of the Forsyth patent was not limited to a door, but expressly in- cluded ‘‘doors, etc.,’’ and was, there- fore, broad enough to include the rec- tangular cash box of claim 1 of the Os- good patent No, 357,851. It is our iaw that an inventor is en- titled to the exclusive use of his inven- tion for all purposes, whether he sets them forth in his specification or not. Roberts vs. Ryer, 91 U. S., 157, 1875. According to that point of law the com- bination specified in Claim 1 of tbe Os- good patent No. 357,851 would have in- fringed the Forsyth patent at any time before February 12, 1858, which was the day upon which that patent expired. Ever since February 12, 1858, that Forsyth contrivance has been free to all the people of the United States, whether it was embodied in an apparatus for impelling a door, from one end ofa horizontal way to the other, in either di- rection, by the momentum imparted by a single impulse or push, or was em- bodied in an apparatus for impelling a box from one end of a horizontal way to the other in either direction, by such a push. For these reasons it seems to be plain enough that the first claim of the Osgood patent 357,851 was simply an attempt by Osgood to patent in 1887 an invention that had been patented to Forsyth in 1844, and that had hecome free to all the people of the United States in 1858. So, also, quite independent of the prior Forsyth patent, the first claim of the Osgood patent No. 357,851 is void for want of invention, on account of the prior patent of 221,488, of November 11, 1879, to Joseph C. White, on a cash- Carrier apparatus. For the only essen- tial difference between the White ap paratus and the Osgood apparatus is the fact that the ‘‘way’’ of the White apparatus is a rail, inclined 3%4 degrees from the horizontal, instead ot Keing a horizontal wire, for the two wheels above the wavy and the car below it are substantially alike in both paterts. Of course, to substitute a wire for a sail was only to substitute one mechanical equivalent for another. And to make the wire horizontal, instead of making it deviate 34 degrees from the horizontal, did not constitute invention, because a deviation of 314 degrees is not even ap- proximately sufficient to prevent the car from being impelled as a solid body from one end of the way to the cther, in either direction, by the momertum im- parted by a single impulse or push. In- deed, it is necessary to give the wire, or way, some inclination downward from the cashier's station to the clerk’s Station, in order to make sure that the car shall never stop between the two stations, and in order to enable the cashier to despatch promptly and witb- out excessive effort the numerous cars in every direction from ber station which she must despatch to the separate The Vinkemulder Gompanu, Jobbers and shippers of the best of everything in new southern and Home Grown Vegetables and all Tropical Fruits 14 Ottawa Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. 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In this view of the case, all that Osgood did, as compared with White, was to introduce a fault into White’ system, by making the way horizontal, instead of leaving it somewhat inclined. = Moreover, quite independent of both Forsyth and White, the first claim of the Osgood patent No. 357,851 is void on account of the prior patent of Harris H. Hayden, 241,008, of May 3, 1881, ona store-service apparatus. For the only difference between what is particularly pointed out in that Osgood claim and what is plainly described and shown in the specification and drawings of that Hayden patent consists in the fact that Hayden shows a horizontal rail instead of a horizontal wire, and shows a basket instead of a box for acarrier. It is plain, on the face of the Hayden patent, that his basket frame and its two wheels are to be impelled as a solid body from one end of tbe way to the other, in either direction, by the momentum im- parted by a single impulse or push, because Fig. 1 of the Hayden drawings shows a convenient knob at each end of the bar E, which composes a part of that frame, which knobs were evidently made to alternatelv receive such a sin- gle push or impulse, and have no other unction. In the cases in which the first claim of the Osgood patent No. 357,851 has heretofore been sustained, it does not appear that the Forsyth patent was ever before the court rendering eitber of those decisions; and it does appear that the White patent and the Hayden patent were not fully understood by either of the judges who decided those cases, That is to say, those judges were ap- parently not informed that an_ inclina- tion of 3% degrees, like that of White, for a single rail or wire, is not enough to prevent it from being easily trav- ersed, in either direction, by a cash car impelled by the momentum imparted by a single impulse or push. And those judges were somehow misled into sup- posing that the Hayden patent contem- plates a car running down an _ inclined rail by gravity, and never running in tbe other direction along that rail, al- though the drawings show the rail to be horizontal, and show knobs at opposite ends of the basket frame for impelling we car in either direction along tbat rail, The second claim of the Osgood pat- ent No. 293,192 is as follows: In combination with the wires and sup- porting bar or ring, of a cash-car sys- tem, an arresting-stop or a spring- buffer, adapted to receive and hold the car. This claim is void because of want of invention, because it is confined to a U-shaped spring, fixed at each end of the wire or rail of a cash-car system, for the purpose of receiving the car be- tween its sides, so as to gradually stop the car by the tension thereof, and to hold it in place until it isdespatched in the opposite direction by the cashier or clerk ; and because a substantially iden- tical U shaped spring is shown in letters patent No. 169,995, granted to S. T. Hurd, Nov. 16, 1875, on a loom shuttle check and binder, the function of the Hurd U-shaped spring being to receive a shuttle between its sides and to grad- ually stop the shuttle and then hold it in place until it is despatched in the opposite direction. The analogy be- tween the cash car of Osgood and the shuttle of a loom is very close; and the mode of operation of the U-shaped spring of Hurd in buffing and holding his shuttie is identical with the mode of operation of the U-shaped spring of the Osgoods in buffing and holding their cash car. This second claim of the Osgood pat- ent No. 293,192 thus presents nothing but a case of a slightly new but essen- tially unchanged use of the old U-shaped spring of Hurd; and therefore the in- validity of the second claim of this Osgood patent No. 293,192 is entirely undeniable. It does not appear that this Hurd pat- ent was ever before either of the courts which have heretofore sustained the sec- ond claim of this Osgood patent, or was known to either of the lawyers for tbe defendant in either of those cases. In- deed, I suppose it was never known to any one connected witb the defendants in any of the cash carrier litigations un- til it was discovered by myself during a personal search in the Patent Office since the beginning of the present year. The claims of the Clark patent No. 560, 344 are as follows: 1. In a store-service apparatus, the combination of a wheeled carrier, with a dash-pot secured to said carrier, so as to be adjustable to the inclination of the wire, on which the carrier travels, substantially as described. 2. In a store-service apparatus, the combination with a carrier having a single wheel, of a dash-pot adjustably secured to said carrier and provided with means to prevent oscillation as the carrier travels on the way, substantially as described. The distinguishing characteristic of this patent is not the fact that it bas only one wheel, instead of having two wheels, like the Osgood patent No. 357,- 851, for letters patent of the United States, No. 84,951, granted to J. H. Kuttner, December 15, 1868, show a one-wheeled carrier running on a hori- zontal wire. The distinguishing char- acteristic of the Clark patent is a dash- pot, which is intended to be a buffer to stop the car when it reaches its destina- tion at either end of the wire. I have not particularly investigated the question whether this Clark patent is void or valid; and it is probably void. But even if it is valid it is not valuable, for it is an invariable rule of patent law that omission of any one in- gredient, of a combination covered by any claim of a patent, averts any charge of infringement of that claim. AndI do not understand that anybody uses or will ever want to use any dash-pct or any equivalent thereof in any cash-carrier system. All these reasons conduct to the clear conclusion that the claims of the Con- solidated Store Service Company that the merchants of the United States ought to pay them tribute under the Os- good patents and the Clark patent are claims which are without any bottom foundation, and which can never again be sustained in any court, as against the facts which are now known, and the rules of law which are now established. ALBERT H. WALKER. Fain. cline ae, 8 oC Year’s Savings in Discounts. In a contemporary devoted to the grocery trade a convert to the cash dis- count plan of business-doing tells his experience in the past year. The les- son taught is just as applicable to the shoe dealers as to his brother grocers. He says: How few retailers realize the signifi- cance of this word—discount. Men who are bright on any subject seem not to realize what I per cent., 2 per cent., 4, 5 and 6 per cent. means. These go to make up the allowed ten-day discounts in a general store business. I am only a one-year-old convert, and wili give you my own experience to go by. If you are doing a business of, say, $2,000 per month, and you find about the 1oth of the month, after the best days are in (this applies where pays are monthly and made about the first ten days of the month), that you are about $800 short of having enough to pay your jobber up to within three or four days, by all means borrow $1,000, pay 6 per cent. interest, and you have lifted a great load off your mind. Immediately after getting the loan pay all bills in full up to such a time of the month as you can make average ten days. Then pay those who will come in the ten-day average and take off your discounts. Now, tbe next thing to do is to start a separate bank account for your dis- counts. Pay your bills punctually ; keep strict account of your discounts, and make a separate deposit of them. When- ever you buy some special line ask what discount they will allow for cash. Very often I’ve been allowed 5 per cent., where I was only entitled tor. You will, by following this up closely, by and by change in your mind the old saying of the almighty dollar, and pay more attention to the almighty cent. In six months, if you work the business properly, your discounts ought to reach $150. By that time you will become known as a man who discounts his bills. Then you should also carefully put down the extra cash concessions you get, ex- clusive of your discounts. I am not putting it at the top notch when I say it will reach $400 per year on a business of $2,000 per month. Nor am I telling an untruth when I say that in three years you can pay back your thousand, interest and all. Don’t say it isn’t true, because it is. I’ve tried it. I know it’s just as I say. You will say, I don’t like to borrow the money. To this I say, what's the difference whether you owe it to one man or to a dozen? You won't feel that note of $1,000 hanging over you when you see the rivalry there will be be- tween the jobbers to sell you at 5 per cent. or Io per cent. margin, where for- merly when you paid in thirty, sixty, or ninety days they required (and justly, too) twice and thrice that margin. You who pay bills in sixty days or ninety days, when you should have paid them in thirty days, and think you are the proper thing, and that jobbers are glad to sell you, and that you are get- ting inside prices, undeceive yourself at once. There are but two grades be- low you. One of these pays about once or twice a year, and the other never. And if you should get up a few steps higher and pay promptly in thirty days, just study the old motto of ‘‘ Untarnished credit is good, but gold is hbetter,’’ and then practice what I preach. ao Oa Brought a Claim Against the Railway Company. Not long ago a freight train was de- railed in a certain Kansas town and the cars caught fire. A large portion of the population made energetic efforts to ex- tinguish the flames and protect the prop- erty, but another class gave themselves up to plunder, and worked quite as hard to get anything and as much of it as possible from the burning cars. One well-known citizen, who likes to talk better than to work, an active politician of the populist variety, familiarly known as ‘‘Windy Wilson,’’ came upon the scene too late to get any booty of value, but managed to sneak away with one of the leather-covered cushions of the caboose. He hid it under the straw of his wagon, and as soon as the excite ment was over drove home. That night his barn and all its contents, including his horses and the wagon in which he had driven home from the fire, were burned, and in seeking for the cause of the conflagration he accurately deter- mined that a fire had been smoldering in the stuffing of the cushion he bad stolen, and had broken out after he had taken it into his barn. The next morn- ing he went to town to lament his losses, and actually brought a claim against the railroad company for the value of the property destroyed. FREE SAMPLE TO LIVE MERCHANTS Our new Parchment-Lined, Odorless Butter Packages. The only way to deliver Butter to your customers. (JEM FIBRE PACKAGE C0., DETROIT. Light as paper. WPS) COFFEES We Realize——— That in competition more or less strong Our Coffees and Teas Must excel in Flavor and Strength and be constant Trade Winners. roasted on day of shipment. All our coffees 129 Jefferson Avenue, Detroit, Mich. | | | | . M. B C °9 113°115-117 Ontario St., Toledo, Ohio. POV CMTS SGM, Tis. Bowe consimressa | ee — es 14 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Shoes and Leather Why the Shoe Dealer Was Mad. The Friendly Young Rival from down the street opened the door wide enough to stick his head inside, and called out, ‘“‘Why don’t you go home, it’s late enough?’’ The Old Established Dealer slapped a cover on a box and sent it sliding along down the ledge, and without turn- ing around answered sharply, ‘‘Come in and shut that door. It’s cold enough here now. I’m mad.’”’ The Friendly Young Rival smiled and stepped inside. He had seen his old friend mad before and knew that something was coming that would be worth listening to. ‘‘Jiminy,’’ he said, as he looked at the stock spread along the ledge, ‘‘but you must ‘have been having a rush this afternoon. Where are the boys?’’ ‘‘Oh, I told the boys to get out. They’re going to a party, or something. I was a young fellow once, and I know it takes a pile of fixing. Just as I got ready to close a chronic kicker came in to look at shoes. He made me mad.’’ ‘*Didn’t he buy?’’ asked the Friendly Young Rival. ‘*Yes, I sold him a pair after a while. That was easy enough. But that ain’t what I’m mad at.’’ He slapped the covers on a couple more boxes and gave them a shove that sent them clear back to the wall. The Friendiy Young Rival kept quiet and waited for his old friend to get started. Nothing was offered until the last box was on the shelf. ‘*Why don’ t you sit down? I want to talk to you,’’ said the Old Established Dealer, as he swung a fitting-stool around and sat down himself. ‘*These chronic kickers make me tired. They’re like Maine lumbermen, if you don’t watch out their spiked shoes are pricking your ankles. What’s the use of a man being so confounded pes- simistic, never satisfied with existing conditions, always looking for trouble and seeing the awful destruction of so- ciety in every innovation that appears? If a man doesn't like a thing why not go at it with all his might to have it changed instead of making everybody miserable, like himself, with his fault- finding? If there’s anything on earth that will make a man disgusted it’s the fellow who can’t see any good in any- thing, and always howls because he wants the other thing. When it rains he wants sunshine; when it’s summer he wants winter; when it’s cold he wants it warmer; when there’s peace he wants war, but when war comes, mind you, he has vrgent business at home. He always sees the shady side of every- thing, and instead of moving around into the sunshine he wants eyerybody to come into the shadow with him. ‘Now, this fellow who was just in here was a mighty nice-looking man, and seemed to have an average supply of brains, but he was carrying a whole basket of chips on his shoulder. He wanted to fight, but I'l] be durned if I'll scrap with a customer. I just said, ‘Yes’ to everything, and that’s what roiled me so. ’Twas as good asa lie to do it, but I wanted to get rid of him before I boiled over. Trusts are bor- ing him now, and he fears the devil is going to walk off with the whole bunch of common folks and leave toe rich ones in possession of the earth. If he was the only man who thought so I’d laugh at him, but he’s a part of a crowd that look for trouble and always find it. ‘*T’ve been on this earth pretty nearly sixty years,-and more than forty of them have been spent rubbing against the rough edges of business. In my day there has never been a scheme, big or little, which didn’t have, in the minds of some people, tbe destruction of hu- man society at its end. But somehow I’ve noticed we’re all better off than when I learned to peg boots, and if we all just keep pegging at our end of the bench we won’t miss much in the long run. ‘*Trusts! Why, just tell me when there wasn’t one. There was Mr. Adam and Mrs. Eve, the biggest combination that was ever made. They formed a trust and had a monopoly of the whole earth —a bigger scheme tban Cecil Rhodes ever thought out. Then there was Moses. He formed a trust and beat out Pharaoh. And Alexander the Great and Caesar and Napoleon. Maybe you don’t think it, but George Washington was chief promoter in a trust of thirteen partners that beat old England out of the best thing on earth. ‘‘Thomas Jefferson promoted another trust and bought out Napoleon. There was Andrew Jackson and Abe Lincoln— just simply put on the thumbscrews and made the other fellows come around. ‘*Kicks! Why, I suppose Pharaoh and his crowd raised merry Ned, but they had to come to terms, and it turned out a pretty good thing after all. ‘‘It was a pretty tough time that Lin- coln had, and he had to stand the kicks from his own side as well as the other. Maybe we’re not all of us mighty glad that he won out. ‘‘Now they’re kicking McKinley be- cause he’s forcing his big combination of colonies. ‘*Mind what I tell you, the very fel- lows who are howling loudest now will be the ones to make the most noise when any kind of proposition is made to dispose of any of those _ islands. They'll always kick. ‘*This fellow that made me so hot was kicking hardest on industrial trusts. ‘Curses of the rich,’ he called ’em. Well, maybe so. But I’d just like to know when the human race ever bought sugar cheaper, or kerosene, or nails, or rope, or wallpaper, or any other of the numerous articles of common consump- tion? And as for quality, now I say that altogether the manufactured mer- chandise is better and grows better every day. ‘*Forces the middleman and the small manufacturer out, does it? Well, those fellows who have got spunk and _ back- bone don’t stay out very long. They find something to do every time, and they don’t worse themselves, either. You know what Horace Greeley said: ‘Throw a man overboard, and if he is worth saving he'll come tothe surface.’ “Ruin ’em? Well, not if they’re rea- sonable. You know the story of the old woman who attempted to sweep back the sea with her broom. She was an old fool. So is the smal] man who attempts to figbt a trust. When a man acknowl- edges the superiority of another he is on the way to a superiority of his own. I remember the days when the sewing machine was going to send all the tail- ors and tailoresses to the poorhouse ; and the days that the mowing machine made paupers of the farm laborers; and the days when the shoe factory, with its ma- chines, sent the cobblers begging for bread ; and now I have come to the day when the trusts are going toruin the so- cial fabric and punch it full of holes. ‘*You just bear this in mind—the problems that we have to contend with In our social and economic existence are only the outcome of what we are searching for. We get them simply be- cause we have been reaching for them. The trusts are results of business con- ditions and business necessities to which all mankind has contributed. By and by when they are balanced and set- tled down to the workings where experi- ence will bring them you’ll hear these kickers wondering why such things didn’t come before. It’s all fashion, too, do you know? Just like everything else, from steamships to stone side- walks, ‘*Two years ago you couldn’t sell any- thing but razor-toes, and now you— ‘“Great Scott, do you know what time itis? Half-past seven. You can’t get anything to eat at that boarding house, so come along with me and help pacify my wife—she’s been waiting an hour. I want to finish that game of chess with you, too.’ The Old Established Dealer hurried on his coat and left the Friendly Young Rival to lock the door while he bought three papers of a newsboy, because it was all the boy had, ‘‘and it’s time he went home.’’—Boots and Shoes Weekly. Sr ere = OUR DISCOUNT from Gross Price List on Rubber Boots and Shoes for 99 will be as follows: Until October 31st: Federal Brand, 25, 10 and 5 per cent. Woonsocket Brand, 25, 5 and 5 per cent. Candee Brand, 25 and 5 per cent. After October 31st: Federal Brand, 25 and Io per cent. Woonsocket Brand, 25 and 5 per cent. Candee Brand, 25 per cent. Terms November Ist, net 30 days If paid prior to November roth 7 percent. per annum and | per cent. extra discount allowed Goods shipped and billed after November Ist are net 30 days. Our stock of Tennis Shoes is very complete. We solicit correspondence. STUDLEY & BARCLAY, Grand Rapids. GL GMM AML AML AAA ANA JUL bb db AAA ANA AMA Uhh db chk ddA Jhb Jhb Jb bd chk dd Jd ddd NV IVPTVTIPTUPUYIUY PLEO AUTIPTEPTEPNOP ND TEP NNTP HET NTE NEN TTT TY NTP AU FEN a AIS * Herold-Bertsch 3 Shoe Co. -%6--%- Grand Rapids, Mich. LS Dee Manufacturers and Jobbers We are selling Agents for Boston and Bay State Rubbers. Discounts for This Season. From May ist to October 3Ist, 1899, in- clusive, Boston Rubber Shoe Co.’s goods, 25 and 5 percent. Bay State Rubber Co.'s goods, 25, lo and 5 per cent. November Ist, 1899, to March ‘and Bay State 31st, 1900, Boston Rubber Shoe Co.’s goods, 25 per cent., goods, 25 and Io per cent. Terms. Bills to date November 1st, due December Ist. 1 per cent. off cash in todays. For prepayment, 7 per cent. per annum to Novem- ber 1oth, and above mentioned 1 per cent. will be allowed. Freight. Actual railroad and steamboat freight will be allowed. On account of advance in crude gum and lining fabrics it has become necessary to advance the price list. |New lists will be mailed you on application. We hope to receive your valuable orders for the best line of Rubber Goods made. Yours respectfully, RINDGE, KALMBACH, LOGIE & CO, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. Syn retreat GET THE BEST GOODYEAR GLOVE RUBBERS can be purchased at 25 and 5 off from Write HIRTH, KRAUSE & CO., Grand Rapids PY ITVIVYTVITUTUPLIVIUVTUVITVTUPUIVITVTUVITVIVVTVITVTUPITVTT YIN) new price list. NVTUVUVTTTTIVTTETUYTUTIVTUY TUPI YT VOY TTA NEY NTE NTNTE NEP NPP HOT NED SEP Nn etD . Zi 9 Clerks’ Corner. How the Dry Goods Clerk Lost His Position. Written for the TRADESMAN. The friendly interest which Redney Howard had shown in Alex Craig's welfare had not been without results. From the moment that Redney had said, ‘‘Alex, if you will only keep straight everything wiil come out all right,’’ a new courage came to Alex Craig. His manhood asserted itself and in the solitude of his own room he re- solved that he would do his best to prove himself worthy of the friendship. It was not an easy thing to keep straight. The appetite for liquor was strong within him and was not to be downed without a struggle. More than once he found himself at the bar of a saloon, without the power to resist, when Redney’s words would come back to him, giving him strength to come away and leave the deadly stuff un- touched. Day after day he walked the city over seeking employment and finding none. Wherever he applied the same questions were asked: Where were you last em- ployed? Why did you leave? No one wanted to employ a man who had been discharged. The $10 which Redney had given him was dwindling fast and starvation would soon stare him in the face. Was it worth the fight? A craving demon within him to struggle against day and night. No man willing to give him work or even a word of encourage- ment or sympathy. Why not drown his misery for atime at least? Then the words of his friend would come back to him to comfort and to save. After a day spent in fruitless search for work Craig, discouraged and de- spondent, was making his way homeward when the voicé that had been his one support sounded in his ears with a hearty, ‘‘Hello, Alex!’’ and his hand was seized in a friendly grasp. ‘‘ You’re just the fellow I’m looking for,’’ con- tinued Redney. ‘‘I’ve been up to your boarding house and they told me you had gone out early in the morning and that they couldn’t say when you would be back. I left a note for you as I didn’t have time to wait. This is great luck to run across you here, for I wanted to tell you myself. Now listen, Alex— you are to be my head dress goods salesman, at a salary of twenty-five dol- lars a week.”’ Redney Howard had thought that Alex might hurrah or throw his hat up in the air or do some other lively, joyous thing at this announcement. He was surprised, therefore, but none the less gratified, as he looked into Craig’s face, to see his lips tremble and the tears gather in his eyes. For a moment Craig's feelings got the better of him and his tongue refused to speak ; but he grasped Redney’s hand, and the handclasp told its own story. ‘““Never mind, old fellow,’’ said Red- ney, as he placed his hand on Craig's shoulder. ‘‘It has been a hard fight for you, I know, but it will come out all right, just as I said.’’ The young men walked together until they reached Mr. Judkins’ house, where they separated, Redney to dine with his employer and Craig to hasten to his lodgings and pack his trunk for the move upon the morrow. Craig was a first-class salesman and department manager and with his effi- cient supervision of the dress goods de- MICHIGAN TRADESMAN partment it required little of Howard's attention. He was thus enabled to de- vote more of his time to the other de- partments and with his aggressive busi- ness methods the Pittston store scon be- gan to outrival its competitors. Redney exerted himself in every pos- sible way to help Craig in his fight against the liquor babit. Together they rented a suite of three rooms, which, with their combined ideas and tastes, they converted into as handsome a bachelor den asany masculine heart could wish. Redney believed that if things at home were comfortable and cosy Craig would be less apt to fall back into his old ways. He took Craig to church and he introduced him among the best people in the town. Alex re- sponded nobly to these efforts in his be- half until at last he reached the point where -he could stand alone. Redney had kept Mr. Jay and Mr. Judkins in- formed as to Craig’s improved conduct and upon their visits to the branch store they would take occasion to show him that they were interested in his success. Three years went by and during that time the Pittston store had more than doubled its business. It had come to be regarded as the foremost dry goods store in the town. Just about this time the firm of Jay & Judkins decided upon a change. They never had had a manager in the main store, but had shared that labor between them. Both men now be- gan to feel that it would be a good plan to lighten their own labors by placing the management of the store upon other shoulders. This they did by recalling Redney Howard and placing him in charge of the main store and giving to Craig the vacant place at Pittston. By this move all parties interested were greatly benefited: the two members of the firm by having more leisure and lib- erty, Redney by being in charge of a larger establishment at an _ increased salary and Craig by being advanced from salesman to manager with the greater remuneration that attended the change. The main store was especially ‘benefited. The bolder and more pro- gressive ideas of the younger man, backed by the years of experience of the two older ones, made a combination hard to beat, as many of their competi- tors can testify. Redney, who had for some time been an occasional visitor at Mr. Judkins’ home, was now to be found there upon more than one evening of the week. The clerks in the store declared that the new manager was engaged to Mr. Judkins’ daughter, for she wore a very beautiful diamond ring. The clerks must have been right, for the last time I saw Redney he took me home to din- ner with him, where I had the pleasure of meeting Mrs. Howard. Their boy, then a bright little chap of 5 years, told me, as he sat upon my knee, that his name was Jay Judkins Howard and that his Grandpa Judkins was the dearest Grandpa a little boy ever had, because he always gave him candy and nickels. The firm name of Jay & Judkins had undergone a curious transformation: Howard, Craig & Co. was the statement upon the big brass plates at the sides of the door. It doesn’t read as smoothly as the old firm name, perhaps, but it tells its own story, and that Redney Howard’s plan was most surely a wise one. Mac ALLAN. —__~ 0 -»-____ Why She Smiles. ‘‘What a happy, good-natured, jolly girl Maud is. She’s always smiling and laughing. ’’ ‘“Yes; she has pretty teeth and dim- ples. ’’ Names and Faces of Customers. A well-known merchant once re- marked that his early success in trade was largely due to making it a point to remember the names and faces of his customers. ‘‘I was aiways at my front door during the busy season,’’ said he, ‘“‘and whenever a customer entered whom I had met before, I was quick to recognize and greet him by name. It always had a good effect and placed him at his ease. No matter how sen- sible we may consider ourselves to be, we are always a trifle chagrined when we meet those who should remember us but do not, and say to us, ‘Beg par- don, sir, but I have forgotten your name,’ or, ‘I can not remember you.’ I have found that it makes a very agree- able impression upon those who have seen us but once or twice to be met at the door and be called by name. In that manner you touch the chord of mutual sympathy and show him that he has oc- cupied a niche in your thoughts, and my experience is that he does not read- ily forget it. It may seem a small mat- ter, but life and trade are made up of small things; and it is the little streams that make the great rivers. It pays to know your trade. The average person remembers the merchant who has given evidence of having remembered him.”’ The best salesmen understand the value of remembering names and faces, and they in turn are pleased when the customers whose acquaintance they have formed are met, recognized and welcomed by their employers. The re- tailer should appreciate the truth of this matter, especially the young man who has a permanent trade yet to establish, a Gives One Day’s Proceeds. A Boston grocer has hit on a second sensible way of increasing trade. He donates the cash proceeds of one day’s business to his patrons, Every buyer receives a check with each purchase every day, numbered and dated, with amount of purchase. At the end of the month the grocer names the date, and 15 every check bearing that date, no mat- ter for what amount, is redeemed in cash, This is something on the line of a re- tail shoe dealer in St, Louis, who has a bargain day at frequent intervals and advertises that the money paid for shoes will be refunded on every tenth pur- chase on that particular day. It seems to be a trade bringer, but the purchasers who fail to get in on the tenth pur- chase are sometimes inclined to believe that the thing is not fairly conducted and in that way to become prejudiced against the store. There are objections, however, to any such plan that can be devised and it is probable that either one of the above ideas, consistently and honestly carried out, will more than make up for the apparent loss by the largely increased trade. ——<--_-._ Times are hard for a walking delegate when a working man takes his wages home, instead of treating an agitator in a saloon, Gieo. H. Reeder & Co., 19 South Ionia Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. Agents for LYCOMING and KEYSTONE RUBBERS. Our stock is complete so we can fill Also a line of U. S. RuBBER Co. CoMBINA- TIONS. your orders at once. Send us your orders and get the best goods made. Our line of Spring Shoes are now on the road with our travelers. Be sure and see them before placing your orders as we have some “hot stuff” in them. goods. No Arve You Satisfied snap and sparkle which pleases the eye and opens the purse? Does it produce results ? it may be that a redressing of it will cross the border line of fait- ure into pastures of sui CESS. You (Veed W Something A show card, for example, to hang in your store window, with a bright, catchy design in colors —a bright, eye-arresting scheme which will leave an impression upon those who see tt and cause them to think of you and your matter what you want in the advertising line, it wtll pay you to havea little talk, either by matl or in person, with Tradesman Company Grand Rapids. with the advertising matter you are now using? Does it have \] that boldness of character, that WW Lf not, ae 16 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN CHEAP MEN. Why They Are the Dearest in the End. Strollerin Grocery World. Cheap men! They are the curse of the world! They are the greatest de- pressors of the labor market on earth. They rattle around in positions that could be and ought to be filled by com- petent men, while the competent men starve. And the most of the bad breaks on the part of merchants that vex and exasperate consumers can be laid di- rectly at their door—indirectly at the door of the merchants who employ them. About three weeks ago I visited a grocer who at the time I got there was in a white heat. He stood at the desk beside a girl about I9 years old, who looked half-scared to death. It seemed that she was the book-keeper and had made some bad break. The grocer was laying her out in great shape, and the girl looked ready to cry. ‘‘T thought Mrs. Jones had bought more goods than that in a month!’’ he said, sharply. ‘‘Here you’ve gone and sent her a bill for $26.25, when she got $38.05 worth of goods! There’s no ex- cuse for such carelessness as that, and it’s got to be stopped !’" Just then a lady entered. ‘*Oh, there's Mrs. Jones now,'’ said the grocer, doing his best to speak affably. ‘‘Mrs. Jones, we've found a mistake in your bill of about $12. In- stead of $26.25 it ought to have been $38.05. The book-keeper made the mistake, ’’ ‘‘Indeed,’’ said the lady, acidly. ‘*And why do you have a_book-keeper that makes such mistakes? For your own information, I will tell you that several times lately your bills have been less than | thought they ought to be, but it isn’t my business to correct your mistakes.’’ Then she paid the $38.05 bill and went out. The grocer was so mad at the thought that his book-keeper’s bad breaks had been robbing him mozath after month that be couldn’t speak. The girl shrunk into herself, but her employer said noth- ing more to her. I know the man pretty well, so I said to him privately: ‘*Why do you have a book-keeper like thate’’ ‘*Oh, because I don't have to pay her much money,’’ he said. ‘‘I only give her $5, where I’d have to give a regular book-keeper $8 or $1o0.”’ And do you know that that grocer actually regained his amiability as he discussed the big bargain he had in that book-keeper—how much money he saved on her, and soon? And that be- fore the Mrs. Jones incident was half an hour old! He got her because she was cheap, but she did expensive work. A clerk in a store where I buy some of my groceries, when I have the money, wrapped up five pounds of sugar that I went to get the other day, and when he got through with it it looked as if he'd wrapped it with his feet. I’m not han- kering to carry any package through the streets, but if anything makes me hot it’s to carry a toot-wrapped package, so I kicked. “‘Can’t you do that bag up any better than that?’’ I asked the clerk ; ‘‘it looks like cold victuals, ’’ ‘*Ain’t that good enough?’’ snarled the clerk. ‘*Haven'’t I just said it wasn’t?’’ I asked, with some asperity. Just then the proprietor came around, and with perfect equanimity took the bag out of the clerk’s hands and tied it himself. The clerk went down the cellar for something. ‘*Jim is a good boy,’’ said the gro- cer, ‘‘but I don’t expect everything of him. I don’t pay him very much,’’ And there it is again. Here is a gro- cer saving $2 or $3 a week in the wages of his clerk, but wasting $5 worth of his own time every week in doing over the clerk’s work. Cheap men! Cheap men! I knew a grocer once who actually employed a half-witted fellow to do chores around the store because he would work for a few cakes or crackers. The poor idiot upset things and mixed goods up, but he was kept because he cost noth- ing. I’d be willing to wager that he cost the other employes of the place, in- cluding the proprietor, at least $3 worth of bother every week, but still I’ve no doubt he was considered a bargain. Merchants with cheap help are a good deal like women with the bargains they pick up around the department stores. Even although you can show a woman that her bargain wasn’t needed and is no manner of use, she’ll still cling to it and love it because she got it cheap. It is the same way with the grocer. Let him get some chump in his employ at a somewhat less salary than he has been paying, and he’ll think he has a bargain, regardless of the fellow’s qual- ity, and regardless of the fact that his bad work is actually costing every week more than the difference between his salary and a decent clerk’s salary. _ I had a personal experience with cheap help that I don’t want again. One day my wife said to me that we were paying too much for a_ servant, consid- ering our smal! family—we only have five children—and added that she had decided to get a gir! for less. We were then paying $3.50 a week, and my wife thought she could get one for $2.50, and she did, worse luck to her! The $2.50 individual which my wife imported into our previously happy home ought to have been put in jail and kept there until she died, She wasn’t fit to hang around and get in people’s way. Her name was Miranda—Mirandy to her friends—and she was without excep- tion the sloppiest cat I ever saw—one of these pimply, untidy, matted-hair women. When she brought a dish of stewed tomatoes, her old worm-eaten thumb would be tucked comfortably way down in the very bottom. One night my wife was sick, and this slave ‘‘cooked’* me achop. One side was burned to a ccrisp and the other side ran blood. One day I overheard my wife telling some friends about the ‘‘ perfect jewel’’ of a girl we had—‘‘and we only pay her $2.50 a week !"’ All the same, the perfect jewel got out, bag and baggage, the next week, and by your uncle’s orders, too. I pick the thumbs I allow in my _ stewed tomats. That was my experience with cheap help, and I’m done. I'll go without aes before I'll do it again. Give me a clerk who is really worth something, and who realizes it well enough to put a fair wage on his serv- ices. 0. —___ True to Life. From the New York Sun. We heard a pretty good story of a woman who spent nearly all of last Sun- day in reading the department store ad- vertisements and on Monday went in to see what bargains she could get. She hired a gril to come in and tend her baby, and started off for down town. She spent all the forenoon looking ‘round, and when she was quite tired out went home. She found the baby had been about choked during her ab- sence and that the cat had eaten up her valuable canary. But she brought home her bargain, a two-cent bunch of en- velopes! This is a fair sample of what the women frequently accomplish when they start out bargain hunting. AMERICAN CARBIDE CO, LI Successors to the Michigan & Ohio Acetylene Gas Co.’s Carbide Business. Jobbers of Calcium Carbide and all kinds of Acetylene Gas Burners Orders promptly filled. JACKSON, MICH. Qwven Aeetulene Gas Generator THE MOST SIMPLE AND COMPLETE DEVICE FOR GENERATING ACETYLENE GAS IN THE MARKET. ABSOLUTELY AUTOMATIC. 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Senior Counselor, D. E. Kryes; Secretary-Treas- urer, L. F. Baker. Regular meetings—First Saturday of each month in Council Chamber in MeMullen block. Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Mutual Acci- dent Association. President, J. Boryp PanTLIND, Grand Rapids; Secretary and Treasurer, Gro. F. OwEN, Grand pids. Lake Superior Commercial Travelers’ Club. President, F. G@. Truscott, Marquette; Secretary and Treasurer, A. F. Wrxson, Marquette. The School of Travel the Best Edu- cator. = When we speak of an educated man to-day we refer usually to a man who has had the benefits of a thorough scholastic training ; who has spent some of the best years of his life at some one or more of the numerous seats of higher learning. And this is well. We are in no mood to decry this higher education, which year by year is getting nearer to the masses. But there are schools, other than the colleges and universities, whose teachings are just as finisbed and cul- tured and beneficial as are theirs. Some of these we must pass by to write briefly of one whicb we think has a place in our columns—the school of travel. After all is said and done the book- worm of the college is only a bookworm. Place him in a community, and be that community ever so ignorant, they will soon discover there is something lack- ing in that man of letters. He may dis- course learnedly, both from the forum and with the pen, on the sciences and the classics, but usually his discourse, as his themes, lacks vitality and life. Both he and his subject seem to need the dynamic force of a galvanic battery turned into them. Give to this book scholar one year's travel and then the same subject for his dissertations and you will find that the electricity has been supplied. In other words, travel is the electricity. If the choice is given a young man to-day between a four-year college course or four years in the school of travel, without hesitation we advise, select the latter. The question of to-day is, ‘‘ What is the best preparation to meet the forces that are active in the world at the present time?’’ We answer the question in a single word, ‘‘Rub.’’ Rubagainst locality; rub against nationality; rub against humanity in all its phases. You can do this only in the school of travel. The school of classics is too seclusive; the school of church is too bigoted ; the school of business is too limited. But where find such a teacher as humanity, as you rub. against it on the railway trains, in the hotels and on the streets of a great city? Where find such teache's as localities, as you rub against them in the rural districts, in the Western fron- tier camps, or on tbe boweries and levees of a crowded metropolis? Where find such teachers of nationalities as you rub against them in Paris, Berlin and Rome? The traveling salesman, whose scope of travel is necessarily limited by his business, shows the effects of the school he is educated in. No class of men is better trained to meet the requirements of the world to-day than he. No class of men exerts a greater influence in the world to-day than he. Ask him why and he will tell you that he has been educated in the school of travel, where he has had to rub and rub hard. It takes rubbing to polish a diamond. The school of travel turns you out a polished man only in the ratio that you rub hard against its teachers. It is like every other school: Drones in it will derive little value, but given a man witb a de- sire for learning and willing to work to learn, and the school of travel will do more for him in the way of practical education and polish than all the other schools combined. Such teachers as we have mentioned will do more to bring out all that is best in a man than all other influences combined. ee Gripsack Brigade. S. T. Bowen (John G. Miller & Co.) started out Monday on his fall and win- ter campaign. The Vinkemulder Co. has placed two salesmen in the teld—H. T. Wight in the city and Geo. Craw outside. Some are born to fail, no matter what they undertake, and some men are cer- tain to succeed no matter what obstacles they encounter.—Wm. E. Curtis. F. D. Green, who formerly made the city trade for the Grand Rapids Candy Co., has bought out F. E. Bangs & Co., brokers and manufacturers’ agents at Toledo, Ohio. N. A. Goodwin, Michigan represent- ative for Eli Lilly & Co., of Indian- apolis, recently brought down the house at a Greenville hotel by pouring vine- gar on his cakes under the supposition that he was applying maple syrup. E. P Deming, formerly on the road for the lumber firm of A. R. Colburn & Co., of Michigan City, has engaged to cover the yard trade of Indiana for the Kelley Shingle Co. Mr. Deming will make his headquarters at Indianapolis. F. E. Bushman, manager of the cigar department of Phelps, Brace & Co., Detroit, was in town Monday on busi- ness connected with the Nelson Abbott bankruptcy matter at Middleville. He is highly elated over the success of his department, having increased the saies nearly fifteen fold since he took charge, and expects to score a still further in- crease as his salesmen become more fa- miliar with their lines and territory. 9 - 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 minutes to thought before answering. ‘*I’m a little uncertain about that,’’ he said at last. ‘*Uncertain?’’ ‘Yes. Of course, I know that office boys are discharged and general man- agers sever their connections, but I can’t be sure that 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. <> - Taxing It Out In Trad:>. ‘Why don’t you discharge your pres- ent doctor and see if somebody elst can't help you? Here he’s had you in bed for three weeks now, and you seem- to be getting worse all the time.’’ ‘*I would make a change, but this fellow owes me $60, and his bill foots up only $49 to date. I’ve got to work it out of him somehow.’’ —___» +. The physician is the man who recom- mends a change—and then takes all you have. The Boys Behind the Counter. Cheboygan—H. Chambers, formerly a leading merchant of this city, has taken a clerkship in the dry goods store of Geo. E. Frost. Mr. Chambers has been employed in the office of the Sec- retary of State at Lansing for several years, Whitehall—Ray Osborne has taken a position in George Moog’s furniture store. Edmore—N. B. Johnston, who was seven years in a general store at Gowen and one year with C. H. Laflamboy, at McBride's, has severed his connection with the latter and taken a position with Frank Dreese here. Charlotte—Ernest Krebs has resumed his former position in the drug store of H. H. Gage. Sherman—G. A. Johnson, who has had charge of the M. Rose drug _ stock, has secured a clerkship in the drug store of F. L. Thompson, at Traverse City, and will take up his residence at that place. Sault Ste. Marie—Chris. Raaen, for- merly with A. H. Eddy, has taken a position in J. F. Moloney’s grocery store. Saginaw—J. Major Lemen has re- signed his clerkship in Alsdorf’s branch drug store, at Lansing, to take a more lucrative position in the Tower drug store here. Clio—Thomas E, Tagett, druggist in Jobn K. Frost’s store, met with a seri- ous accident last Thursday. He went to step on the elevator, which he thought was up, but which was at the bottom. He fell to the bottom and was picked up unconscious with a large cut in his head and otherwise hurt. Zeeland—J. Bouwens, Jr., has takena position in the furniture store of Van Hees & Son. Three Oaks—Corydon McKee, who has been pursuing studies in pharmacy during the past year, has resumed his former position in the drug store of D. H. Beeson. Albion—John Reidy, of Jackson, has taken a clerkship in the dry goods store of Austin & Tucker, Charlotte—Joy McCormack is now be- hind the counter in the confectionery establishment of Frank D. Marple. Flint—Harry Phelps, of West Bay City, has taken charge of the drug store of Clement F. Teeporten, pending the recovery of the latter from injuries re- ceived by the explosion of a soda foun- tain. Sparta—C. H. Loomis has a new clerk in his hardware store in the person of Wm. Empy. Saginaw—Frank Stewart has taken a position with the Saginaw Hardware Co. Benzonia—J. E. Koon has been en- .gaged to clerk in the general store of the Case Mercantile Co. Scottville—Ed. Morris has gone to Custer to take the management of Wm. Fisher & Caplin’s branch general store at that place. Grand Ledge—Fred Wareham has re- sumed his former position in the gro- cery store of Hixson & Bromley. Plainwell—A. Flaitz has taken a posi- tion in the hardware store of F. M. Storms, succeeding Frank DeClark, who resigns after seven years’ service to be- come district deputy of the Modern Woodmen. —_—__>_-2 > Transaction Between Guest and Clerk. The night clerk at the Eagle Hotel was a party to a deal the other night which made him $3 richer and which he is stili studying about. It was getting along toward the theatre hour when one of the guests of the hotel came down stairs with his valise, and, after paying his bill, requested that the clerk keep his valise until he came back from the show, as he was going out ona late train. He also pulled a $5 bill out of his pocket and asked the clerk to change it. The clerk looked in his cash drawer, but found he did not have it. ‘*Well,’’ said the guest, ‘‘just keep the $5 for security and lend mea dol- lar. *’ The clerk did so and the guest de- parted. He came back about 11 o’clock, and, being in a hurry to catch the train, rushed up to the desk. He threw down four silver dollars and the clerk gave him the $5. It appeared all right. When the guest had gone the clerk looked over his cash and found himself $3 ahead. ‘‘Well,’’ said the clerk, after he had puzzled his head for a while to see how it had happened, ‘‘that man needs a book-keeper. It was lucky for me he didn’t make a mistake the other way.’’ ——__ -0-@...-- Valuable Drug Clerk. ‘*T am looking for something real nice | for a young man,’’ said the young and pretty shopper. ‘*Why don’t you look in the mirror?’’ asked the gallant drug clerk, and she was so flustered that he managed to sell her four different things that she did not want before she knew what she was do- ing. REMODELED HOTEL BUTLER Rates, $1. I..M. BROWN, PROP. Washington Ave. and Kalamazoo St., LANSING. HOTEL WHITCOMB ST. JOSEPH, MICH. A. VINCENT, Prop. $2 PER DAY. FREE BUS THE CHARLESTON Only first-class house in MASON, MicH. Every thing new. Every room heated. Large and well- lighted sample rooms. Send your mail care of the Charleston, where the boys stop. CHARLES A. CALDWELL, formerly of Donnelly House, Prop. Taggart, Knappen & Denison, PATENT ATTORNEYS 811-817 Mich. Trust Bldg., - Grand Rapids . Patents Obtained. Patent Litigation Attended To in Any American Court. SWEET; RICH. AARON B. GATES, Cc. MICHIGAN AGE LARGE BIR® EIGHT BY SIXTEEN FEET. HAVE YOU SEEN IT IN THE CITY? $35 PER M. SEND MAIL ORDER. THURLOW WEED CIGAR. $70.00 per M. TEN CENTS STRAIGHT. ¢ STANDARD CIGAR CO., “StEVEFANDU Lo, 18 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Drugs--Chemicals MICHIGAN STATE BOARD OF PHARMACY. Term expires A. C. ScHUMACHER, Ann Arbor - Dec. 31, 1899 Gro. GunDRouM, Ionia - - - Dec. 31, 1900 L. E. REYNOLDS, St. Joseph - Dee. 31, 1901 Henry Herm, Saginaw - Dec. 31, 1902 Wirt P. Dory, Detroit Dec. 31, 1803 President, GzEo. GuNDRUM, 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. SouRWINE, Escanaba. Secretary, Cuas. F. Mann, Detroit. Treasurer—JoHN D. Murr, Grand Rapids. How to Increase Your Prescription Trade. It isn't every pharmacy that can in- crease its prescription business percep- tibly unless radical changes are made in its management. It would be absurd to expect worn, ill-adjusted, and imperfect machinery to turn out as accurate, as fine, as satis- factory work as machinery that is kept in perfect repair, is finely adjusted, and in charge of a person who thoroughly understands how to run it. You see the point. Poor service and inaccurate work won't increase the prescription business of any pharmacy. Merit and honest service will win every time. Be sure that the prescription work that you do is good and right—just right—then go ahead and tell the public about it and tell the physicians about it. Confidence is the basis of a good pre- scription business. Your pharmacy must be conducted along such lines as will inspire confidence on the part of the public and the physicians. If you haven’t already this confidence you must make such changes in your busi- ness and in the conduct of it as will secure this. Be frank about these changes, announce them in the news- papers, and if you are really in earnest about it your business will show it, the people will find it cut, and—you’ll have their confidence. It is only in the larger cities that the physicians can send their prescriptions to any drug store that they wish. Inthe towns and smaller cities every one has his druggist, and it matters not where the prescriber directs, the patient goes to his druggist. So in these cases it is necessary to get the public on your side as well as the physicians. The lesson to be learned then is, in whatever manner you make an appeal to the public for business, emphasize your prescription superiorities. Suppose that you start a prescription advertising campaign. It seems to me that this would be the best way to get quick, certain and direct re- sults. Concentrate your advertising efforts, then, on getting more prescrip- tion work. Use your newspaper space for this purpose. Concerning the nature of the announcements, it may be said that they must be governed by the local trade conditions. Make these announce- ments terse and to the point, convincing and interesting, and have them speak well of your prescription work. In them state: Your prescription facilities. The purity of your drugs. Your knowledge of compounding. Your prescription clerks and their fitness. Your prescription system. The impossibility of your making an error. Here is material sufficient to thorough- ly popularize your prescription depart- ment. Make a separate advertisement of every one of these points. Make the headings as indicative as possible of the matter which follows. In the descrip- tive matter go into details. Take care to avoid too much technicality, but, rather, make them interesting and in- structive of prescription matters. While you are using your newspaper space to its utmost capacity, remind the public, further, of your prescription business by getting out a booklet telling more fully of its features. The points enumerated above will answer as a groundwork for a booklet of this kind. Go into the subject in a more finished and connected manner than is possible in your newspaper advertising. Clear up every point which seems to be a rea- son why your store hasn’t had a good prescription business in the past. Make the booklet as interesting as you can; make it finished and complete, but don’t forget that you are talking business. Make the reading matter forceful, com- prehensive, and bright. Mail the book- let in a sealed envelope to every family and to every physician in town, and wrap a copy up with every parcel that goes out of your store. All this may sound expensive, but it isn’t, because you’ll be doing just what you set out to do—increasing your pre- scription trade. You can’t do this any cheaper, because you couldn’t accom- plish your object adequately in any less expensive manner. I believe that the cost is small in proportion to the re- sults likely to be secured. While you are informing the public of the activity in your prescription de- partment, you might be arousing the physicians at thesametime. You’d then stir up the cause and effect of the pre- scription business, and the climax would be what you are striving for, viz., to turn the attention of every one inter- ested in having the best prescription work to your store. The best way to make an impression on the physicians is to send them every week a circular letter, telling of the im- provements in your prescription depart- ment and the reason why any prescrip- tions they may send to your store will be properly compounded. Keep this up for six or seven successive weeks. The effort you are making will cause the physicians to give you a call perhaps. That’s your opportunity. Tell the phy- sician who calls frankly what you are endeavoring to do. He'll listen to you, anyway. Follow up the acquaintance thus made, be a diplomat, and you’! get prescription business. Any druggist who sets out to try this plan wants to have his whole heart and soul in it and follow out,as nearly as the local conditions will allow, the lines laid down above.—Harry M. Graves in Bulletin of Pharmacy. —_> 0. _____ To Remove Vaseline Spots from Cloth- ing. The Pharmaceutische Post says thi? may be accompl shed by the application of a liquid prepared from one part each of aniline oil and powdered soap, and ten parts of distilled water. The spots are moistened with the liquid, and the cloth is then folded together. After five to ten minutes the cloth is washed with clear water. If the spots do not disap- pear after one treatment, it must be re- peated. 9 Never judge by appearances; the girl with a sailor hat probably never saw a row-boat. The Drug Market. Opium—Continues to decline, both in the United States and foreign markets, on account of favorable crop prospects. Morphine—Is as yet unchanged, but a reduction by manufacturers is looked for daily. Codeine—Is firm at the advance noted last week. Quinine—Is fairly steady and manu- facturers have not yet reduced prices, although bark is cheaper. Cinchonidia—Is firm at the advanced price. Ergot—Is excited abroad and has been advanced by holders in this coun- try. There is a strong upward tendency. Quicksilver—Has been advanced Ic per pound. Napthaline or Moth Balls—Manufac- turers are oversold and prices have been advanced and the article is very firm. Essential Oils—Anise bas declined. Cloves are firm, on account of the ad- vance in spice, and higher prices are looked for. Peppermint is firm, but unchanged. Wintergreen is scarce and firm. Roots—Goldenseal is very scarce and high. The best information we can get is that this article will rule high during the coming year. Powdered hellebore bas advanced and very little is offering at the advanced price. Cloves—Are very firm and advancing. Linseed Oil—The market seems de- moralized, on account of competition of outside mills, and the price has de- clined. Extracts—Jobbers have frequent or- ders for flavoring extracts of pineap-. ple, strawberry and raspberry, but, as these are manufactured from synthetic ether, they are not salable under our pure food laws. —_—__~—0-~@—_—____ Putting the Label in Place. In much of the labeling the pharma- cist is called on to do, there is no fixed relationship between the size of the la- bel and the surface to which it is to be applied—that is to say, he may be called on to use a label of a given size on three or four different sizes of bot- tles, of as many different shapes. In this a certain amount of skill is re- quired; either from innate perception or continued usage, the eye is best sat- isfied when the label which is distinctly smaller than the surface appears in cer- tain definite positions on that surface. Given a round bottle six inches tall and a label two inches deep, one would scarcely think it correct to place the label either at the extreme top or bot- tom, nor yet exactly in the middle of the space; a certain point somewhat above the middle is generally selected as the proper one. Position then is one artistic point. In placing the label in the position determined, rectangularity (if we may use an uncommon yet here suitable word) must be thought of. A label that is not on ‘‘straigtt’’ must be an ‘‘eye- sore’’ to every observer possessed of normal eyes. The labei may be well and squarely located and yet the effect be marred in the pasting. If the Slabel, after being coated with paste and laid on the sur- face to which it is to be affixed, be firmly pressed down, some of the ad- hesive liquid is apt to be squeezed out at the edges. When this pressing is properly done, a piece of clean paper is interposed between the fingers and the label to avoid soiling the latter, and if larger than the label, as it should be, it will take up the superfluous paste, and the label besides will be firmly fixed. Some, perhaps many, operators take the shorter way of simply applying the label and then rolling or folding the bottle in the paper in which it is to be sent out. As the dispenser does not usually open packages after he does them up, he is not so likely to find out as are his customers that labels this treated often go awry, and that the wrap- per adheres alongside, leaving little portions of itself as disfigurements when its removal is attempted. These may seem small matters to those who have not thought much of them; but it must be remembered that the difference between being ill or well dressed depends, with bottles, as with men, on comparatively slight conditions of negligence or care. —__> 20> —____ To Preserve Drugs From Insects. Professor Wulling reported to the Min- nesota Pharmaceutical Association that he had for some time past used metallic mercury aS a means to prevent the at- tack of insects upon drugs. A few drops of mercury is introduced into the bottle containing the drug. It does not work satisfactorily in all cases, but does in most. Of course the mercury must not be put into vessels made of metal. A few drops of chloroform or ether, or pure carbon disulphide, poured into the drug container quickly kills the insects. Where camphor is not objectionable it will be found useful in preserving drugs from the attacks of insects. The odor of camphor may be overcome by ex- posing the drug to the air for a time, or heating it gently in an oven or in any suitable manner. ———_>02—___ Simple Method for Making Camphor Water. At a recent meeting of the Philadel- phia College of Pharmacy, F. W. E. Stedem gave a new process for the preparation of this water. Weigh sev- eral pieces of camphor with fragments of glass rod or selected clean stones, and immerse them in a suitable quantity of distilled water. The process is that of circulatory displacement,and after a few days the water will be found to be satu- rated with the camphor. A constant supply may be kept by adding fresh portions of distilled water as the prepa- ration is used. Does YOur Stook 01 Wall Paper Need Sorting Up? Perhaps with the opening of spring trade you have discov- ered that you are short on If so send for our line of samples; some grades or colors. we will send them express Grand Rapids, Mich BOROROHOROROHOROROHOROHO : : e prepaid. Our prices we guar- @ : : @ antee to be identically the . same as manufacturers’. a i We guarantee prompt ship- = ment. Write us. _ The Wall Paper Jobbers. 5 : a Heystek & Canfield, e @ a e a MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 19 WHOLESALE PRICE CURRENT. Advanced— Declined— Acidum Conium Mac........ 35@ 50/| ScilleCo.... @ 50 Aceticum.. 8 6@8 3| Copaiba...... .. 115@ 1 25| Tolutan..... se @ 50 Benzoicum, German 0@ 6 Cubebee....... -- 90@ 1 00| Prunus virg......... @ 50 Boracic.............. @ 16| Exechthitos . -- 1 0@ 1 10 Tinctures Carbolicum ......... 20@ 41| Erigeron..... - 1 00@ 1 10} Aconitum Napellis R 60 Citricum ............ 48@ 50| Gaultheria..... -- 150@ 1 60| Aconitum Napellis F 50 Hydrochlor ......... 3@ 5| Geranium, ounce... @ 15! Aloes................ 60 Nitrocum. ......... 32 10 oer. ‘Sem. gal. : 50@ ; 6) A ‘Aloes and Myrrh.. 60 cn ai “aR | sunipers, .-.-...--. 1 ob 8 00| Seer 50 Salicylicum. c oe 50@ 60 Lavendula.......... 90@ 2 00 Atrope Belladonna. 60 Sulphuricum. ...... 1%@_ 5 Limonia...... .. 1 2°@ 1 35] Auranti Cortex..... 50 Tannicum .......... 1 25@ 1 40 | Mentha Piper....... 1 60@ 2 20| Benzoin..... ii 60 Tartaricum.......... 49 | Mentha Verid....... 1 50@ 1 60} Benzoin Co 50 pian Morrhue, gal....... 1 00@ 1 15] Barosma... 50 ania dee — ES. See dee, 4 Se : = Cantharides. ® as... &€ tein «a 2h = = ann ae ie ’ —. a ; eal... wn ‘ . Cardamon Cc 5 eee oe a... RACOT. 00 Aniline Rosmarini........... @ 1 00| Catechu......... i 50 Black 2 00@ 2 25 Rose, ounce........ 6 50@ 8 50| Cinchona............ 50 eae oe tees ceceeecs 80@ 1 00 ee ee te 40@ 45] Cinchona Co........ 60 eo OE 90@ 100] Columba. ......... 50 wacen teers w erence > 2@ Santal............... 250@ 700|Cubeba. ........... 50 Mellow. .......-..-. 2 50@ 3 00 | Sassafras a 55@ 60| Cassia Acutifol..... 50 Bacce. tele ess., ounce @ _ 65 | Cassia a Co... 50 Cubeme........ po. 18 138 5 a ee 170@ 1 = piste - is . 50 dumencrus.........:. OM Sb eter” si2°°°-* --<- 40@ 50/ Ergot......... 50 Xanthoxylum...... 2%@ 30 oe Opes. @ 1 60 Fer Chioridum 35 Sitinauiiees eobromas ........ 15@ 20] Gentian......... 50 Potassium Gentian Ca... 60 cae. ee oie coe a - & BLCarb. s@ 1g | Guiaea.... 2. 50 ee Bichromate........ 15 cease. 60 Terabin, Canada... on Bromide.....0000.0. 5aq 57 | Hyoseyamus 00°. 50 olutan........------ BOQ 3) gary rr 2@ 15 Todine % PES acd ‘ Chlorais. ‘po. 17@ige 16@ 18) fp bupeommmant 5 Cassi ...........04. 12 — 2 40@ 2 50 Lobelia meer ena core 50 Cinchona Flava. .... 18 | Potassa, Bitart, pure 28@ 30|y ax V tiaase oo 50 Euonymus atropurp a0 Potassa, Bitart, cm @ 15/6 pit omica........ ° Myrica Cerifera otass Nitras, opt... 10@ 12| OPil------ -------.. Paes Virgini.. sed 12 | Potass N — 10S it Op i doodortaed 50 Quillaie, gr’d....... 12 ee ne wW@ orized. .. 50 Sassafras...... po. 1 12 | Sulphate po ........ 15b@ 18 uaisia EC i aaah = Uimus..-po. ib er 5 Radix — 50 Extractum Aconitvm........... 20@ 25| Sanguinaria....... 50 Glycyrrhiza Glabra. 4@ 25|Althe.......002 002. 20@ 25 | Serpentaria .-...°.1| 50 Glycyrrhiza, po..... 23@ 30 a. 10@ 12] Stromonium ........ 60 Hematox,15lb box. H@ 12 ee @ | Tolutan.............. 60 Heematox, 1s........ 13@ 14] Calamus............ 40 | Valerian ............ 50 Hematox, 48....... 14@ = 15] Gentiana...... po. 15 12@ 15| Veratrum Veride... 50 Heematox, 148....... 16@ 17] Glychrrhiza...pv.15 16@ 18| Zingiber............. 20 Perru oe Canaden . 85 a [liscellaneous 8 Can., po.. @ 29 ther, Spts. Nit.3F 30@ 35 te Precip... 15 SS oan. 25 a _—. po.. 18@ = ——! Spts. Nit.4F 34@ 38 Citrate Soluble...... % | Ipecac, po...... 1.277 6 Alumen, gro. ee “= 3 Ferrocyanidum Sol. 40 | Tris plox.. ol hee 8 —_ 7 4 aoe | atin a ulpha m’)..... Mataiialize | |) (Ge. ox | Abt eee signe, om by | Bodom joa ie $y gibbl Ber owt en 50) R Ce an 75@ 1 00 Antena oe @ 2 ulphate, pure ..... Rel, ent... |. @ 1 25| Argenti Nitras, oz @ 50 Flora Bhel, py.. fey cialial i. eae ze 1 ] a SS eisios oe 10@ 12 pee oe ease aes 1 14 alm Gilead Bud . 40 Anthemis 00.2... og | Senguinatis. po. 15° 18 Bismuth § NN 1 * 1 40g 1 50 Matricaria .......... = +” alcium Chlor., 1s.. @ 9 TIO 40@ 45 | Calcium Chlor., %s. 10 Folia - . ae ax, co @ 4 —— Chlor., = g 42 Barosma.........-.-. ®@ 30] Smuax, M........... @ 2%/ Cantharides Rus. %5 Cassia Acutifol, Tin- Scilla EY 10@ 12| Capsici Fructus, at. $ 15 cuevelly diaiiae! = = ——o oti. — eon Seaent De. ¢ 15 assia Acutifol,Alx. 2@ 30| Gus, po............ aera ci FructusB, 15 Salvia officinalis, 4s Valeriana “Eng.po.30 @ 2% ophyllus..pols 12@ 14 and 48... oo 2» Valerians, German. 15 20 Cara ne, No. Be “O30 ee... oo... ee. 1 era Alba.. 50@ on Gummi Zingiber j. 3 z= Cera Flava. 1. 40@ 3 acia, ist picked.. 65 Semen enter we = 2 aa 2d vieked.. 6 45 | Anisum....... po. 1 b @ B — Le ¢ = Acacia, = ved nor @ 5 —. (grave cone = 15|Cetaceum............ 3 @ 45 cacia, § sorts. @ 28} Bird, Is.............. 6| Chloroform....... |” ; veces, 60@ 80 | Carul..220.0001 po.i8 10@ 12| Chloroform, squibbs "e 110 12@ 14]| Cardamon........... 1 = 1 % | Chloral Hyd Crs 1 65@ 1 90 @_ 12| Coriandrum......... 10 | Chondrus. 20@ @ 30 peer a Sativa.. ane 5 55@ 60 mr ae @ 1-00 Cinchonidine, \P. ‘&W 2@ «3 25@ 28 | Chenopodium see, ma fauee sakie 50@ 55 | Dipterix Odorate... 1 40@ 1 50| Corks lst, dis pr.c 70 @ 2B Foniculum @ 10 ; sa 4 | Vom rE Creosotum.......... Q@ 3 @ = “eam po @ — ee. bbl. 75 @ 2 sag 58| Lint, grd Greta, precip...) QO @ 1 00| Pharlarts’ Gansrian’ OCS 18D 66@ 70|Rapa............ 22. %@ 5\Cudbear....l) | 6 @ @ _ 30| Sinapis Albu.... 9@ 10| Cupri Sulph 6%@s8 @ 3 00| Sinapis Nigra....... 11@ 12] Dextrine...../2..11.. 10@ 12 Mastic . a @ = Spiritus Ether Sulph......... T@ 9 Opi. .po. 4 60@84.80 3 “0G 3 20 ee cee tae —a Oe CG Shellac.............. — + 00@ 2 25 | preote eo B6 46 a he 1 50 -.....-..p0.40 30@ 35 spolng, gba.” $9 | Suntverts Goo. 8. |p 2 69| Finke Walle eee Juniperis Co........ 1 %5@ 3 50| Garbo. . = er Saacharum N. 2 10| Gelatin G 8@ Absinthium..oz. pkg 2 | Spt. Vini Galll...-~ “1 75@ 6 50| Gelatin’ Foren... 355 um.oz.pkg § 20| Vini Oporto......... See os a ae 2 aaa 2 op | Glassware, flint,box 7 & 10 Majorum ....oz. pkg 28 aaa ieee ris. on coe = Sponges Glue, brown... @ 12 Mentha Vir..oz. pkg 25 nemo wool poset = = Gareiage........... 2 50@ 2% ycering.... % eee — = Nassau sheeps wool Grana Paradisi .... % Thymus, V..oz. pkg 5 Carriage. -§........ 2 00@ 2 25| Humulus............ 55 , n i Velvet extra sheeps’ Hydraag Chlor Mite 90 jagnesia. wool, carriage. .... @ 1 2 | Hydraag Chlor Cor. 80 Calcined, Pat..... .. 55@ 60| Extra yellow s eeps’ Hydraag Ox Rub’m 00 Carbonate, Pat...... 20@ 22) wool. carriage.. @ 1 00 | Hydraag Ammoniati 15 Carbonate, K.&M.. 20@ 25| Grass oe wool, HydraagUnguentum 55 Carbonate, Jennings 35@ 36 ar lage Seen @ 100 a ce S a or slate use.. % | ichthyobolia, Oleum Yellow Reef, for _ Indigo. ..... ceil 00 Absinthium......... 450@475| slate use.......... @ 140 Iodine, Resubi..:::: 3 70 oe — ‘ 30@ ‘ 50 Ssinie = oform ee cece = 2, mare . 00@ 8 2 upu Ani Ante oa 1 85@ 2 00| Acacia............ : @ 50 — teal 50 See ee cooes : a : = —* Cortes...... @ 50 Le is ea a 65) ess seucee cs 2 MitOOE 0... cus. 50 quor en e : Cejtputl, peceictcteaer 7@ 80|Ipecac........ g 60| drargIod........ sd 5 Garyophyili cee 70@ 980|Ferrilod............ @ 50| LiquorPotassArsinit 12 ee eee “3 65|Rhei Arom.... ..... @ 50| Magnesia, Sulph.. 3 Chamapadi TS: 275 ao Officinalis. . 50@ 60| Magnesia, Sulph,bbi 1% Cinnamonii. ........ 1 40@ 1 50| Senega...........°.. @ 50| Mannia, §, F....... “ 60 Curenells. 45@ 50 af -. 2 8 oa... 3 Morphia, S.P.& W... 2 20@ 2 45/| Sinapis.............. @ 18] Linseed, pure raw.. 47 50 —— S.N.Y.Q.& — nu lg @ _ 30| Linseed, boiled..... 48 51 CG €e... so. 2 10@ 2 35 erent De Neatsfoot,winterstr 65 70 eeelees Canton. . S| Veee..,........... @ 34| Spirits Turpentine.. 48 55 Myristica, No. 1..... 6@ 80 sna Beaten, DeVo’s @ 34 Nux Vomica...po @ 10} Soda Boras.......... ¢$@iun Paints Pepsi Saad, ice,“ "| Sogn evFotats tari: ang Se n , aet Potass Tart. 26@ 28) Red Venetian... ... 1% 2 eee eee @ 1 00| Soda, Carb.......... 1%@ 2 Ochre, yellow Mars. in 2 = Picis Liq. N.N.% gal. Soda, Bi-Carb....... 3@ 5] Ochre, yellow Ber.. 1% 2 @3 CO @ 2 00| Soda, Ash........... 3%K@ 4 Putty, commercial.. 2% 24@3 Picis Liq., quarts.... @ 1 00} Soda, Sulphas....... @ 2 Putty, strictly pure. 2% 2%@3 Picis Liq., pints..... @ 8 | Spts. Cologne........ @ 2 60| Vermilion, Prime Pil Hydrarg...po. 80 @ 450| Spts. Ether Co...... 50@ 55] American.. 13@ 15 oe 22 @ 18|Spt. Myrcia Dom... @ ° 00| Vermilion, English. 70@ 7 Piper Alba....po. 35 @ 30| Spts. Vini Rect. bbl. @ Green, Paris | 18%@ 17% Piix hey ae @ 7 | Spts. Vini Rect.4bbl @ Green, Peninsular. 13@ 16 Plumbi Acet........ 10@_ 12 Spts. Vini Rect. 10gal @ Lead Red | 5%@ 6% Pulvis on et of 1 10@ 1 20} Spts. Vini Rect. 5gal @ Lead, white......... 5%@ 614 a a boxes H. Whiting, white Span @ 7 & P. D. Co., doz... @ 1 25| Strychnia stal... 1 20@1 35 Whiting, gilders’. @ w Pyrethrum, pv...... 25@ 30} Sulphur, Sub cows 24%@ 4 White, Paris Amer. @ 100 WAGE see 8@ 10} Sulphur, Roll.... . 2%4@3% Whiting Paris Eng. oi . = &W.. . 86 a Terebenth Venice oe 8@ 10| ej i @1 40 uinia erman. 4 ereben enice.. 23@ = nal Decarcd Quinia’ N.Y.. 43@ 48| Theobroma... : a Universal Prepared. 1 00@ 1 15 Rubia Tinctorum.. 1 «0 14| Vaniilia.............. 9 00@16 00 Vv ote SsecharumLactis pV 18@ ‘ 20 Zinci Sulph......... ™]@ 8 i aAimnaaRR MIgGH ls, 00@ Sanguis Draconis... 40@ 50 Olls ioe tae — a weeeeeeceeees R@ 14 BBL. @AL. | Coach Body......... 2 7%@ 3 00 a os . = Whale, winter Le 70 70 No. 1 Turp Furn.... 1 00@ 1 10 Poeoceeae ard, Oxtra......... 5 xtra Turk Damar.. 1 55@ 1 60 Siediitz Mixture.... 20 @ 22) Lard, No. 1.......... 40 45|Jap.Dryer,No.1Turp 70@ 75 —- PAINT AND ARTIST’S BRUSHES Our stock of Brushes for the season of 1899 is complete and we invite your orders. The line includes Flat Wall bound in rubber, brass and leather Oval Paint Round Paint Oval Chisel Varnish Oval Chisel Sash Round Sash White Wash Heads Kalsomine Flat Varnish Square and Chisel 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. tie ee ei ae = MICHIGAN TRADESMAN ROCERY PRICE CURRENT. The prices quoted in this list are for the trade only, in such quantities as are usually purchased by retail dealers. They are prepared just before 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 the greatest possible use to dealers. going to press and are an accurate index of the local market. 1 conditions of purchase, and those below are given as representing av- Cash buyers or those of strong credit usually buy closer than Subscribers are earnestly requested to point out any errors or omissions, as it is It is im- AXLE GRBASBE. doz. gross Aurora.... 0d 600 Castor Oil --60 700 Diamond. - 50 4 00 ee 75 9 00 TXLGolden,tinboxes75 900 Tlica, tin boxes........ % 9 00 Paragon... 3 5 06 «6: 00 BAKING POWDER. Absolute. DGanme dox............. 45 Ib Jans doz.......... 85 Ibcan dos...... . 150 Acme. Ib Can 8 dos............ 45 Ib Cane 5 dos............ 7 tb cans ! dos............ 10 es 10 Arctic. 6 oz. Eng. Tumblers........ 85 6 oz. cans, 4 doz case....... 9 oz. cans, 4 doz Case....... 1 20 1 Ib. cans, 2 doz case..... 2 00 2% lb. cans, 1 doz case..... 4% 5 Ib. cans, 1 doz case..... 9 00 BI Parity. 4 lb cans per dos......... B lb Cans per _ eS 1 2c i lb cans per dos......... 2 00 a lb Cans 4 dos case...... 35 Tb cans 4 doz case...... 55 Tb Gans 2 doz case ..... 90 S78 4A. lb cans, 4 doz case..... 45 lb cans, 4dozcase...... 85 lb cans, 3 doz case...... 160 Jersey Cream. 1 1b. cans, per a eee 2 00 9 oz. Gans, per doz.......... 123 6 oz. cans, per doz.......... 8 Our Leader. ee 5 ae % eee. 1 50 Peerless. io em 85 jueen Flake. 3 oz., 6 doz. case............ 270 60z.,4doz.case......... 3 20 9 ox., 4 doz. Case............ 4 80 1 Tb., 2 dos. case............ 400 5 Ib., 1 doz. cape............ 9 00 BATH aapee American ...... % Snglish....... 80 CANNED GOODS. — eee 80@ 90 anes 80@1 00 Hominy ce oe cee 80 Beans, Limas.. 70@1 30 Beans, Wex........... 90 Beans, String.......... 85 Beans, Baked......... 75@1 00 Beans, Red ws. 7@ 8 a 95@1 20 Pees. 85 Peas, French Pumpkin Mushroom ..... iPenehos, Pic .......... 100 Peaches, Fancy....... 40 Cherries gallons ee @3 00 ae . eee ee ql Pea: emai. grated..... 2 40 Pineapple, sliced...... 225 Pineapple, Farren....1 70 Strawberries .......... 110 Blackberries .......... 80 Raspberries ........... 85 Oysters, 1-lb......6.... 85 Oysters, 2-lb........... 150 Salmon, Warren’s Salmon, Alaska.. 25 Salmon, Klondike..... 90 Lobsters, 1-lb. Star....3 20 Lobsters, 2-Ib. Star....3 90 Santtncs. 1448 domestic Ke Sardines, mstrd, dom.5%@ a” Sardines, French......80@ 22 CLOTHES LINES. Cotton, 40 ft, per dosz....... 100 Cotton, 50 ft, per dos. -120 Cotton, 60 ft, per dos. 140 Cotton, 70 ft, per dos. -1 60 Cotton, 80 ft, per dos. -1 80 Jute, 60 ft. per dos... . a Jute. 72 ft. per dos.... —- = COCOA. James Epps & Co.’s. exes, 7 ibs... oe 40 Gases, 16 boxes... ...........- 38 Large, ——......... ..... % COCOA SHELLS. BROOTrIS. Obi bao [o, i Carpe... 2 3)| Less paar Oe 3 No.2 GSrpek....... -...-. 2 15| Pound packages......... 4 = poem Sicle eects -tsisice : = CREAM TARTAR. rie en 5 and 10 lb. wooden boxes.... .30 oe 2 50 | Bulk in sacks..........0..+-+. 29 Fancy Whisk............... %| CONDENSED MILK. Warehouse. ae aoc oe Oe 4 doz in case. _ CANDLES. => Borden Eagle......... 6% 8s & eee +62 en 8 5% Paraffine....... ..... TE 8 --4 50 Wicking 0000 0 20 : = bi oe 2 00 - ‘clumbia, pints......... Jolumbia, % pints _.......1 25 COUPON BOOKS. Tradesman —- Aine CHEESE @ 12 50 books, any denom.... 1 50 Reais | a. @ 12 100 books, any denom.... 2 50 Elsie. @ 12 |. 500 books, any denom....11 50 Beene wwe ete wees 1, 000 books, any denom....20 00 — Los kein + amiole @ 11K Economic Grade. 6 old Medal... a es @ 12% 50 books, any denom.... 1 50 a @ 114 | 100 books, any denom.... 2 50 : set coee sent ca+s @ ws 500 books any denom....11 50 ersey @ 1,000 books. any denom....20 00 Riverside.. com cies. sees @ 12 Superior Grade. eS @ 2 | s0books, any denom.... 1 50 Leider se @ 17 100 books, any denom.... 2 50 ae 2: 500 books, any denom. ...11 50 eee @ 13 | 1.000 books, any denom. ...20 00 Pineapple... @ % Universal Grade. Sap Sago............ @ 17 50 books, any denom.... 1 50 100 books, any - 250 Bulk 5 500 books, any Lll11 50 Red 7 | 1,000 books, any ..20 00 an. Credit 500, any one denom’n..... 8 00 23 | 1000, any one ——-.. ns 5 00 2000, any one denom’n . 8 00 6 | Steel pone (o.. 6 Coupon Pass Books, Can be made to represent any denomination from 810 down. 20 book: 1 00 Peepers . 18 Maracaibo. SS 35 Mocha. sworn... 22 Aeaee ooo 28 coasted. Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brands Fifth Avenue..... .-....... 29 Jewell’s Arabian Mocha. ...29 Wells’ Mocha and Java..... 24 bane? Perfection Javs..... 24 Senne 2. 21 Breakfast ose... 18 Valley City Maracaibo. ...18% eek’ Wiond .... 14 Leader Blend....... .. .... 12% — = tee New York prices ——- coffees, to which “the wholesale dealer adds the local freight from New York to your shipping point, giving you credit on the invoice for the amount of freight buyer pays s from the market in whic urchases to his shipping caieh, ncluding weight of package, also ¥c a pound. In 601b. cases the list is 10c per 100 lbs. above the price in full cases. — eee peucns 10 50 Jerse: 0 50 McLenghiin’s XxXXxX. McLaughlin’s XXXX sold to retailers only. Mail all orders direct to W. F. McLaughlin & Co., Chicago. Valley City % 088. TOSS ..... Felix % an gr Hummel’s foil 4 gross. . Hummel’s tin CLOTH 5 gross boxes.... etme a ce rome DRIED PRUITS_DOMESTIC Seoul pace: oo ra’ six California Fruits. Apricots.........-..++- * @15 b boxes. ig cent less in 30 lb cases Raisins. London Layers 2 Crown. 150 London Layers3 Crown. 1 65 Cluster 4 Crown.. 2 00 Loose Muscatels 2Crown 5 Loose Muscatels 3Crown 6 Loose Muscatels 4 Crown 7 L. M., Seeded, choice..... : M., Seeded, fancy...... ie FOREIGN. Citron. Leghorm ..........-s-+0+ @i11 CASICAM o.oo @12 Currants. Patras bbis..........-..... @ 5% Cleaned, bulk ............ @ 6 Cleaned; packages........ @ 6% Peel. Citron Americana 101lb bx @13 Lemon American 10 lb bx @10% Orange American 101b bx @10% Raisins. — 28 lb boxes..... @ Sultana 6 Crown....... Sultana package.......j @ FARINACEOUS GOODS. Perrigo’s. — Parina. Yan. Lem. | Japan, No. 1.........-.54@ 6 2411b. packages..........1 50 be os Coe | Sapa, No.2... 4%@ 5 Bulk, per 100 Ibs... .... 350 |XXX,20z.obert....125 1% Jaya, fancy head......5 @ 5% Gri EX Son Obert 100 || Sava, No. 1. 5 Walsh-DeRoo ‘Co. s Brand. aia. = coos oe, — “ = — : 0z : = SALERATUS. ptehr, 4 oz Packed 60 lbs. in box. K. P. pitcher, 6 oz... 22 — Arm and Hammer.3 15 BAGS 00 —_ — Van. | Dwight’s Cow.. ..38 15 2oz.TaperPanel.. 7 120) Emblem -3 50 Boz. Oval.........._ 7% 1 20 a rg —— oz. Taper Panel.. cone aa 7 402. Taper Panel..160 2.25| Wyandotte, 100 %s... -3 00 FLY PAPER. SAL SODA. _..41 80% | Tanglefoot, per box........ 36 | Granulated, bbls.......... % 100 Ib. “kegs ey 270 | Tanglefoot, per case........ 3 20 Granulated, 100 ~e cases.. 90 200 ib. barrels... ........... 5210 | Holders, per box of 50...... 7%} Lump, bbls. eae oe Hominy. Here s Lightning, gro. ...2 50 | Lump, 1451b kegs.. ele clase 85 Barrels ...............-..-2 50 | Petrolatum, per doz......... v6) SALT Flake, 50 lb. drums....... 100 HERBS. : Dried Lima Beans. 51g | SAC. ----- eee eee eens eeseees 15 Diamond Crystal. Madina Hand Picked 125@170| Hops |. see teen eee 15 ae. — = ae. 2 = ni and Vermicelli. INDIGO. Table; barrels’ 407 Ib beee:3 40 eT eae 50 | Madras, 5 Tb, boxes 85 | Butter, barrels, 2801, pale: 2 Imported. 25 Ib. box.. ... 2 50 re ee eee oy camer earl Barley. co |S 23 and Sib b boxes... 50 | Butter, barrels, 20 14 lbbags.2 50 Common. 0020002001... : GUNPOWDER — —— o— seeeeeeee 25 eee 225 : T, Sacks, 56 lbs......... 55 Empire ue p eee aces 2% Rifle—Dupont’s. Common Grades. eas. Green, —— oe 1 00 Kegs ---.....--- 200 --4 00 a ee ‘= Green, Scotch, bu. ...... 110 | Half Ke pag RA 2 25 23 10:1b ae Seat ce aise ie Spiit, bu.. oe DOO Quarter Kegs...... poesc oo ae 195] 210-1bsacks............... Rolled Oats. Pao Cabs. 2. 23 cc ll. 30 Worcester. —_— ~— bbl. ..... : = a6 Ip. CRBS... ce. : 18 50 4 Ib. cartons... BOE onarch, bbl........... .- . BACKS..... a Monarch, % bbl.......... 2 00 Choke Bore—Dupont’s. pg ga <> Monarch, 90 1b sacks...... 1 80 Bore ee 425! 99144 Jb. sacks..... "3 50 Quaker, cases. ........... 320 | Half Kegs...............-... 2 40] 3010 Ib. sacks............. 8 50 Huron, Cases.............- 200 | Quarter Kegs................ 1 35 | 98 jb. linen sacks............ 32 * ‘ oe oe... 34 56 1b. linen sacks........... . 60 om ae aaa : _ ah ees 3% Ea gie Duck—Dupont’s. Bulk fn barreis.............. 2 50 ‘aploca. Kegs ee 8 00 Warsaw. a Be cece we ccos sictee 56 | Half Kegs..... . -4 25 | 56-lb dairy in drill bags..... 30 BN ec ec cee ccs 4% | Quarter Kegs.. ..... --2 25 | 28-Ib dairy in drill bags..... 15 Pearl, 24 11b. ———— coe 6% | 1 1b. cans....... — = Ashton. apa | 3% JELLY. 56-lb dairy in linen sacks... 60 24 2 Ib packages ES 1 = Higgins. T FISH. pa — a Lets 56-lb dairy in linen sacks... 60 Bass 5 Solar Rock. oe ae g 5% Condensed, 2 dos .......... 1 20/ 56.1b sacks.. 21 Georges selected...... @6 Condensed, 4 dosz........... 23 Gia Strips or bricks. -..... or LICORICE. Granulated Fine...... oa He: rring. TN ee apis einige ele eweia iu 80 Medium Fine.. i 6 Holland white hoops, bbl. 9 25 ee aga 25 re Holland whitehoop bbl 5 2 | siglty......--.....--+0+see0es 14 SAUERKRAUT. Holland white hoop, k 70 Be eee Se 10 Barrels 4 7h Holland white hoop me gp | BOOt..----+-----+-e--ceeeeees MO] Barrels. ............ esses. 5 Se eeeaeeet. os ec 2 60 MINCE MBAT. SCALES 40 | Ideal, 3 dos. in case......... 225 * Per doz. Pelouze Household........ 12 0 MATCHES. Weighs 24 lbs by ounces. Diamond Match Co.’s ae 30] No. 9 sulphur............... SEEDS. Anchor Parlor.............. i 7 No. 2 Home................- 1 10] Can 1 40 Export Parlor.............. 4 00| Caraway Se M No.1 10 tbe..00000000.000 148 MOLASSES. a alabar ot See 2c. Hi Russian........... No. 2.100 Ibs... -.20.00-... 11 50 New Orleans. eo = vee seen eeeees Mustard, white........... 5 No.2 101bs............... 1 30 : — alee 10 10% op epee 4% 5 25 a 94 | Cuttle Bone............... on ee 25@35 SNUFP. " ae — parrele 26 extra Scotch, in bladders......... 87 No.1 § los oe Maccaboy, in jars........... 85 Whitelish. MUSTARD. French aa in jars..... 43 ices No.1 No.2 Fai | Horse Radish, 1 doz......... 1% ani ae 310 290 140 aoe ee — ee : = : ie es gp ee oe ee ee >< SIbs........ 7 866687 JIA ON A eeaa Gies, Mo. 76... i Wi Single box... 2 & Clay, T. D. fait —- eee 6& | 5 box lots, delivered........ 2 £0 Cob, No. 3.. ---.-- 85] 10 box lots, delivered........ 2% POTASH. ’ ascansincess. _| OAS. 8. KIRK & G0.’S BRANDS. Babbitt’s.. + eeeeeee & 0 | American Family, wrp’d....2 66 Penna Salt Co.’s........... $0) pred i ES ENCE : > abinet oo ut PICKLES. a - steers : 2 . Medi te Russian. aaa _— White Cloud, laundry... ..6 25 Barrels, 1,200 count........ 4 10 | White Cloud, toilet......... 3 50 Half bbls, 600 count........ 2 50| Dusky Diamond, 50 6 oz....2 10 Small Dusky Diamond, = 8 oz....3 00 : Blue India, 100 % Ib oo eee 3 00 Barrels, 2,400 count....... & G0} Kirkolime. ..... si ccs 3 50 Half bbis 1,200 count...... OO MON oe 2 50 esas Sapolio, kitch 2 2 a polio, kitchen, 3 doz ..... 40 ine cai 6x Sapolio, hand, 3 on 2 40 olina head.............. Carolina No.1............. 5 SODA. Carolina No. 2............. 4 Oe ee i coo ce ceed compe 3% | Kegs, English............... 4% MICHIGAN TRADESMAN SPICES Allepice * 20! Sitted- TABLE SAUCES. nan ear Liste — x —— 8, large... 3 75 Candies : 21 Cassia’ China in mats. fo + ae eee ee . : Grains and Feedstuff Cassia, S6igon in rolls... Halford small... -... 3 3 Stick Candy uffs;_ Provisions To Cl ’ YOA........... ressing, large..... i ° ‘omato Ju Mace, ‘Be ansibar <0 Salad Dressing’ emall....2 7% | Standard ee Wheat... fat. * Compan 2 eS: = 4 Nutmegs, fangy 22020020027. 55 TOBACCOS. _ Standard H. Ht ...., Winter Wheat Flour —" ¥ quote as| Corks tor % gai., per — = Rutmoss, No. Oa 60 a Cigars. Standard Twist... 40 i a p pelt nar an as gues Pork. Corks for toa” : ao =. 20 Pepper ae ark-Jewell-Well: eee ea @s meer, ae eee 1 Preserv Pepper, mene black..113. | New Brick....... a Co.'s brand. Jumbo 321b . cases | Straight Patent in = Clear back........ |. 0 50@ 0 00) % gal., one rer eee, ——_ =e chica | 33 09 | Extra H.H....- : = . 3.25 | Shortcut....2- 00002, @10 c0| 1 88l-, Stone cover, ts aac TO 5 |p P. Drug Co.’s brands Boston Cream.... @ 8% | Graham ...... eC 10 25 Sut , doz...1 00 . ure Ground in Bulk. Fortune Teller. a Mixed Cand @10 | Buckwheat ......* | 113.50] Beam... FN 14 00 | 5 Ibs. in packs ng Wax. sees Ge ANC ae 17 “aa 2 Grocers... y- ubjeet 16 wit oe ye 4 vo ie age, perlb... 2 Cassia, padi ooo ab Se 32 op | Competition... Si“ to “usual “cash dis. | Bellies? Meats. neo —— Zanzibar. PEDROS UE = nson Cuan Co.’s brand. — @ o% a lou tn bbls. ,25¢ per bbl. ad. Briskets cocecce . 5% ae : — i i j na 33 ~ a Bate mI @7 - | Extra shorts.....__ 5% =A NE NN 34 Ginger, Cochin es 15 Ribbon. 4 orts....... aes Desseeesees est | OWS MAA MANS | Broken Bal -_ So es 46 ee se 3 s Broken eas 3 aig Daley, igs--- -Putman’s Brand | Hams, sip arene cats. : Security, N wpm "50 , fea | QS RS | ret i BBY, 148... es eee eee veces ge... "Vp Names Bes a i “saan oN English Hock eeccece @ oy Daley? — Peet eres ceeees coe 3 85 Hams, 16 > prs af aaa. No. 2. ee | an a 2 ea : in ergarte Maal 8 Se eee bees ccacee ams, teens ne ++ see Pepper, Stag Diack -40@50 French oa — @ 8% ene Grocer Co.’s B 85 | Ham ee — Cease oa LAMP CHIMNEY 50 Pepper, Cayen _ i Dandy Pan... .* Gastar WS... 2 ssa rand. | Shoulders (N. Y. cut). Y Pe $_Seconds. — S.C. W and Made Cream mxd oi3 Guaker: BSc. ee ped fro lhe ng as eon i — oe A OE ai een 15 oo Pancy—1 en ornia hams. d i P n Bulk. .. 350] Bonele ais — Latin Mette + cnn ane @u Clark Sewell Wane Conn: Cooked haw... ...“iegiea ine Corn. Ruhe Bros. crtnondo. .35@ 70 00 Lozenges, printed @ 8%, | Pillsbury’s chin Co.’s Brand. C Lards. In Tier -- L0@12% aS 16 | Zhe Hilson Co... — ce ODs...... © 2 | be. Best oo ri "gga soe-cogger {oz geiion eats. -.".3'9 mene Choc. Monumenials i” Piisbury's Bost ta...... 4 15 | IP Bubs....---advan Oy - 1 doz. 4 gallon cené:.:::"1 70] Brg Goaline Cigar G8. tap 9 | Sour Drops... Giz” | Pilsbusys Bont As eber” § 18] 8010 Tine “tavancs | No. 0 Sune Quay, cans ..... 1 75 | Brown Bros. 35 00 Sour Drops.. ear @8 IL T.. 4 15 ie 4 crimp Fair ___, Pure Cane. Banner a “aoe Imperials a ae aoa te io ——- acon -e No. “ne ae Gs * 8 10 0 ama ake 16 Ba nard Stahl Co..... 5@ 00 a ream Bnbns, 35 1b =* Gold Medal 4s....... -. 430| db Pails.....|| advance % wrapped and lab Se nner Ciga 90 00 ses Che G9, | Gold Medal sgs..0.0000°0.0. 4 20] 8b Pails. ...-.. ad No abeled.. 00d oases vee eee BO Seidenberg = &o..... aw Jelly Date Squares.” "Quo aaa gl oe a (lf Sune tes al 8 15 Seie ciel Soe cco. a. G.P. fe caus 5S Me aoe ng in 5 and | STARCH. The ae Cigar Co. og . Pancy—In g Ib. wee 0 Fariaien, oo “7! 4 30 | Bologna Sausages. 6 aa aheled. 818 .* poncnating aa aoe . ein. a ai arisian. 48................ a i sy | No. 0 Sun, Flint. M. Sch 175 00 TOPS......... Olne eM 6 wrapped San i Go @U10 00 oe erg Drops... eo amt s Brand. a No. pPed snd ane. ms 55 avana Cigar "ee 0) | H. M. Ch Drops.. @e0 Ceresota, {8.........-...... 4 40 6% no™ ped and label Vv 188 35 00| HM. Choe. Drops. QE | Ceresota, 68. oe... 4 30 6 Sun, crim ea - 2% Malt White o. ot No. 12.. . — 1 women Grocer Co. oe N wrapped and labeled.. oP, "3% Malt White Wine, = grain.... & saueeeee Le i bo Laurel, 4s ee 4 40| Extra Mes Seef. No. CHIMNEY S— Pearl ‘i —— Cider, Red — 2 * B. Tacawiee Sean Qi aU . — Se 10 25 labele . wrapped an La. nae 2): .mUlUlmlhlU 3 — oo 1250 | No.2 Sun, wrapped ‘and Pure Cider, Silver.. ie a. ah Lozenges, aa 30 aoe cal | — zs” R her ae ~ Su wrbpps a and Kingsford’s Corn No. 0, per WICKING. — S30 ae... fine ee 70 No. 2 Hinge, wrapped and 20 {Ib packages. 220202 a | Nob bereross wo| Gemma gab |S a | Bab ape coc 1B | Nab a sa aaa 1S i eee : aa | lc lh! oO Kingsford’s Silver Gites —— 3, per en. = Hand Made reais 80 oo Tabolted ¢ oo Gate oa 45 50 Kits, 15 lbs... — i : L ye eyes 40 1-lb packages. oss. WOODENWAR . cad — Pep. Winter Wheat — ie 145 is bbls, a 70 _ ot Sun. plain z. G-lb boxes..........00 co $% — String Rock......._” gos | Minter Wheat Midalings "15 00 Is, 80 Ibs. 222... "228 No 2 erates ana 7 —- Siandard Le 135 Bamt Almonds. . 11125 -" nee pe 00 Pork . a Sun, plain bulb, per 64 100 packages : Shoop Standard ............1 50 n Berries @50 | New corn, car lots. Beef rounds.../0000001)° x °t Grimp; per dos. 1” aakiges. Wits Cabin ie. mi 128 5¢ packages...... 5 00 | 3-wi ’ Caramels. L , car lots. Beef — 3 o. 2 Crimp - 135 82 10c and 64 eg pack sess ee 00 Cedar. aot ic ; aC - mae 1 wrapped, 2 lb. ess than car lots sees am Sheep. es 10 ) DOE dos... ... 1 80 age ’ red, b — ££ hc. Ls ai — Common oe eras or, Eureka = bound.1 = No. "1 wrapped, 3 ib. @35 | Car lots. = Rolls, dai Batterine. = i Lime a — 201 1 1b. packages. ome ieee ames 2 25 | No. ve wr a a @50 a clipped... ... 82% | Solid, pr eteeeeens nu | No. 2) Flint oar dos)... aos packages............. 4% Tubs. Pped, 2 Ib. an car lots......... = Rolls, creamery... 1)" 10% Ox)...... 4 70 aa Common Gloss. coe Standard <<. ae — 6 | Solid, creamery ..../."! 154 No. 2, Lime eet kk: and eo Lewes ont ™®%:se 1 <0 | Cornea SAURO4 Meats. ce pe meee a (ne eee © 48 |—— os ee ee cae ae SS _- : 18-inch, soem No.1. 238 = --12 50 Corned b beef, 14 Wb. 215 | OIL CANS B 50 1b boxes...... * 3 ‘| 16-inch, —— No. 2.......5 25 Fish , ast beef? 2 1b... 14 7 gal tin cans with sp Dos. wa. 8 Pe 1 Fibre owell, No. 3....... 4 25 | Seedlings Oranges. and Oysters pean hams, — co 2 Z 3 eal saiv iron with er = STOVE. No. 2 Fibre. ean 9 00 | Medt Sweet........., 3 Devil am, \s....... 3 galvy iron with s naam. No. 3 Fibre..... an i : aes 4 50 a teenies 3 %5 es = Fresh Fish. Deviled ham: ss teeeeee = 5 = ae oes a eat’ : = coe | strtetly a Whitefish .......... 3} er Ib. | ponteg fongue 48 > = 3 gal galy iron with fenest 4 Crack Btrictiy choice soos @3 25 | rout gases 9 tongue %3.... 1. gal galy iron with fa 7. ers. eenes oice 300s.. e350 Black Bags 8 @ 8% v1. 90 1/2 gal Tilting cans. ucet 4 67 a a Fancy S00. --— QB 7 Halibut a ae E aay aes ea” 3 quotes as follows: seuit Co, | Ex.Fancy 360s... @4 00 | Bluefish... Herring.. @ 8 resh Meats 5 Pump Cans . oP eeeereecccam ss ] le Seymour X Butter. Bananas. ™ _— Lobster....... @ il ‘ious alee paste minds Ges. ¢ 0 mae Ex, See cisto a aie 5% — bunches...1 25 i Lobster...... 2 18 | Carcass .. si 3 gal eens — overtiow 10 56 Family XX ‘hau rto 1% oe 3 an @ io as quarters......... 7 @g |>8al Home Rule VO Re 10 50 Salted — oo 5%| Porelgn Dried Fruits 5 | No. 1 Pickerel 2.2. @ 10 | Hind quarters........ a0 Bing... 90 No. 4, 3d —. ." Figs. ' aoe AL 3 : oe 10 @i4 | N LANTERNS. No. 4, $dox in ense, gross... 4 60 eo g | Californias Fanc @ 5% | Rounds ............. To Gis | RS Cebeiee cee tint . 6, 3 doz in case, gross.. 7 20 eo 7%, | Choice, 101b bo ae @13 Gace. @8 o. 1B Tubular woes 4 00 — as Extra choice -_ @ 8 | Plates 000000000 6 oS Ko. 14 Pubular Desh. 6 30 . . india EX, Sib conten... oxe: 2 cd ee a 5 inom. en’ Now, Yon | E94 sate 2 heli, Se Pabis: 3 |oen te © | Ref Mobile aid nab. 9 ars, to which ong Island Wafers... 8 erial Mikad ell Good ae @5 i et Lamp..... nae adds the local | #5 Wafers, 1 Ib carioa” i |p Tb boxes....-. ae oa store, per 100..... "1 25@1 Shoulders.-0222222.27. @ 75 | wo. ONO RN "GLOBES. shipping — York to your Zephyrette m... 12 Fulled, “6 1b boxes... @ s, ver100..... @l = Leaf Lard............. @ 5%! ec: 0 Tubular, cases 1do credit on t¢ 2 inveles for the ‘Oyster. Be —— @ 7 Oi : Mutton —_ No. 0 tubules ee: “4 amount of freight ce for the | Saltine Wafer... : Dates. ils. Carcass eS semiarel ae anne Gen, purchases to folisship which he Porins Over ication. 6 [ee ee tae §6869n |i els. g Lamba... 1.9 G10" woah Tubular, bbls 6 dos, neluding 20 pou: g point, | Extra ee 5% | Persian _— @6 | XXX W.W.Mich.Hait. 114 | Carcas — No. 0 pa lar, bull re weight of the ‘Pounds for the vn Oyster. .... o” ol? cases new cig os |W Wich ai on” cell reais 7 om%| om! tae, lait's Ope, ee GooDs— airs, 60 lb cases... @6é iamond @9 , Cut Loaf .2.0.0 oats _- Animals . : Boxes. jonpeuge @5 .o. @ 8% Crockery and Ss. a re Cle aa 75 | Bent’s Water...... .. - = Had Menthe 12 n Powdered rae treere : = Commant Tally. Nuts Cylinder ee Be Glas XXKX Powdered .02111.12015 50 Coffee Cake, apo i : Hngine sn 02000 Bat sware. COO sa gnacas testes: 5 38 | Cracknell ‘49 =| Almonds, Tar ntar ee AKRON Gr a 5 ella a Almo —. 1 STONEWA pap nan. 2in ag a 5 = ue Gisgeg’ sae ie Atmonds“¢ California, Sis Hides and % gal., per do - Extra éone eae 5 25 Ginger — 8 an — led........ / @15 Pelts. : to gal. aa 5 loarse Granulated... nger Snaps. Xxx acc esos me gal.,each............... 5% Mould ated...5 38| Graham Crackers........ 7 berts - @7 | The Ca tal aa ; Dae ene 3 ack _. ee eee se hiss dese ppon & Bert: gal.,each...... 52 Diamond Confec. A...... - = yore Waters... ee z wae es b 4 Soon: Canal ck entero 1 = ei tetas = oS A "8 13 Scapestale akes...... wees 9 Walnuts, soft aa - @lli H 20 gal. en -tubs, each. 1 05 of a a ahaa Calif... aes Gre —_ 25 at-tubs,each....1 4( 1. ee. - 48,, | Table Nuts, fancy... an (ons oi |\ne oeemon. in 46 8. ane *% Table N , Lancy... @il1 2... gi meat- — each ing 00 43 Gee Greams..... 16 | Becans Me; choice... @10 BUNS aces ene * Oo" huros. ee V “4 63 | Mich. a Walnuts... 16 Pecans, Ex. Laree.... @ 7% | Cured No. Beaverant eee @ 8% + Sotho er gal '£56| Motnsos Cakes... s---jg18 | Pecans, Jumbos...-. iz Galfekins, grou Noi 93 Churn Dashers, per doz... §5 oes emia 3 ory Nuts = bu. alfskins, gree 9% Milkpans. 4 44| Ni cece Ohio, new. u., Calfskins, nNo2 @ % gal. flat 438 fone Ga” 8 Cocoatts, full sacks Qi 20 Caaiten con as Bey | 1 gal. flat a bot, doz. 45 "435 Pretnls seoriad Cakes... a estnuts per bu...... @ 50 | pelts, each — sl % aa Miilic i ie ae ll a (9418 | soars Liineh.Teeec. 7 | Paney, He H.'P. Suns oe cred botroucs. Ne. 4 13) Sugar - 22a eae 7 | Fancy, H. P., Flags os... @ 3% | gal. srepreor nan ™” iO. $8, es = Vanilla Waters... a ee oe Gholce, HB. extras, @7 | wash a @ 2% | t Ear. —e afl, dos. 85 sees ul Pe aa 14 | Choice, H. P., xtras. @ 4%|W ed, fine ....... @ “ee bail, dox.1 10 bees . 122% Roasted +: Extras, Washed, medium...... oe i, lugs. eecccosccee 5% Un » une 9 1 wan washed, medium ..13 $5 i gal: per dos... 21. 50 gal., per gal......... 8% 22 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN PRO AND CON. : Advantages and Disadvantages of the Bankruptcy Law. MORALLY CONSIDERED. With the moral features of this law we are doubtless all agreed, that it does not improve men morally. Those who take it once do not seem to fear ita second or even a third time, should they live long enough to take its advan- tages. It is a sort of disease that may be taken, like the grip, every time it comes around, and I am told that the oftener you take it, the better you are off, financially, but I do not think it is so, morally. It is my humble judgment that bankruptcy lessens one’s appreci- ation for the payment of his honest debts, and that, after one has taken the benefits of this law, he does not there- after feel the high moral sense of honor about the payment of his debts that he did before. I do not mean that this is an invari- able rule. ‘There are honorable excep- tions to it. Much, of course, depends upon the man. The man who goes through bankruptcy more than once does not need to apolo- gize to his creditors for doing so, for, with the perfect system of checks and balances which they have existing to- day, and of the means of knowing who a man is, and what he has been, only his creditors are to blame if he fails with their money. Therefore, the wise exercise of your privilege will better not only the morals of men, but finance of the country as well. WHO IS A BANKRUPT. The bankrupt law defines who a bank- rupt is. The general idea, however, is that a bankrupt is a person who is un- able to pay his debts, as they mature in the usual and ordinary course of his business, as persons in trade usually do. Those who are familiar with the bank- rupt act of 1867 know that that law de- fined such a person to be a bankrupt. The present law, however, is not so liberal in its construction; it is, in fact, more liberal to the bankrupt. 3 The present law, Section | (Clause 15), declares that a person shall be deemed ‘‘insolvent,’’ within the pro- visions of the act, when the aggregate of his property (excluding such as he may have fraudulently conveyed or trans- ferred or concealed or removed) shall not be sufficient, at a fair valuation, to pay his debts. The failure to pay a single debt when due is not, therefore, sufficient to estab- lisb the fact of insolvency. Under the old law the creditor ran no risk in pla- cing his debtor in bankruptcy, if he could not pay his debts as they matured in the usual and ordinary course of trade, but now the creditor must first decide whether the debtor’s property, all taken together (exclusive of his ex- emptions under the laws of the state in which the debtor resides), will, at its actual cash value, pay all his debts; if it will, he can not be adjudged a bank- rupt; if it will not, he can be adjudged a bankrupt. These points must be de- cided by the creditor at his peril. The few bankrupt cases which have found their way into the bankrupt courts since the act went into effect July last may be accounted for by the fact that responsible creditors hesitate about as- suming the responsibility of moving to place debtors in bankruptcy when they are not certain that there remains no question as to their insolvency. This feature may, however, ultimately prove a blessing in disguise to both debtor and creditor, for, with prosperous times, those who have been and are upon the danger line may be given the benefit of the doubt, and thus pull through and pay their debts in full. The honest creditor will certainly pront by it; the dishonest one may also. The method adopted by many of these bankrupts in going into bank- ruptcy and taking their exemptions and ciaiming everything in sight and out of sight, and praying the court to be dis- charged from all liability for their debts, reminds me very much of the story of a colored preacher of the South who fer- vently prayed to the Lord for the ben- efits of a good turkey dinner, but hadn’t a turkey upon his own roost, and while he was praying most fervently to the Lord for a good turkey dinner, he said, ‘I jus’ done quietly stole down to de roost of my neighbor Jones, and while in da on my knees prayin’to de Lord for the benefits of a good turkey dinner, I stole de last turkey dat Jones had left.”’ So with many of these bankrupts, who claim their exemptions and everything else in sight, even to diamonds and gold shirt buttons, as a fellow did in New York the other day, who claimed that they were necessary for his wearing ap- parel, and all paid for with the money of his creditors, and prayed to the court to be discharged from all of his debts; certainly this is very like taking the last turkey that Jones had left. WHAT ACTS MAKE ONE BANKRUPT. The acts which legally constitute one a bankrupt are: 1. Having conveyed, transferred, concealed, removed, or permitted to be concealed or removed, any part of his property, with intent to hinder, delay, or defraud his creditors, or any of them ; or, 2. Transferred while insolvent any portion of his property to one or more of his creditors, with intent to prefer such creditors over his other creditors; or, 3. Suffered or permitted, while insol- vent, any creditor to obtain a preference through legal proceedings, and not hav- ing at least five days before a sale or final disposal of any property affected by such preference, vacated or dis- charged such preference; or, 4. Made a general assignment for the benefit of his creditors; or, 5. Admitted in writing his inability to pay his debts, and his willingness i be adjudged a bankrupt on that ground. At any time within four months fron the recording of the instrument convey- ing the property by the bankrupt (if re- cording is required by law), or within four months from the time the benefi- ciary takes open and notorious posses- sion of the property (except such as are exempt by law), including that illegally transferred, the property may be brought into the possession of the law for the benefit of all of his creditors. PRACTICAL IN COURTS. Any natural person, except a wage- earner getting less than $1,500 per year GHAINLESS Bicycles are rapidly coming into popular favor. We are selling agents in Michigan for the “Ariel” line of Chainless and Chain wheels and are having no difficulty in placing Agencies wherever we show these handsome wheels. Write for Catalogue and prices to dealers. ADAMS & HART, GRAND RAPIDS. SPRAYERS ae a 1) N We make the best Sprayers on earth. Get our circular and prices before buying elsewhere. Patentees and Manufacturers Wim. Brummeler & Sons, 260 S. Ionia St., Grand Rapids. ee ee ee - e ~ KN ml a i I le — ———— 4. 4~ {4 jY.~_ ~~ 2 3 $j ~_ {~~ 444 REFRIGERATORS YUKON AND CHILKOOT Se ee ee ee fh ney = i —_—" Soro The verdict of those who have used them: ‘That they are the best ever offered in this market.’? Write for Price List. FOSTER, STEVENS & CO., “Gasp Risios: mice. ? GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. i i ee ee YES PELOUZE Household” Scale 24 LBS. BY OZS. Acknowledged to be the BEST on the market PRICE $1.50 ONLY $12.00 PER DOZ. Net to the trade. sopseesee ot a Made of cold rolled steel throughout. Beautifully japanned and striped. Large white enameled dial, very ser- viceable and distinct. Enameled steel top plate, absolutely unbreakable. Occupies less space than other scales. Can be instantly adjusted for scoop. Weight, boxed, only 4% lbs. EVERY SCALE WARRANTED. m PELOUZE SCALE & MFG. CO., CHICAGO, ILL., Mfrs. Reliable Postal, Counter, Confectionery, Ice and Market Scales, Spring Balances, etc. Four Kinds of Goupon Books are manufactured by us and all sold on the same basis, irrespective of size, shape or denomination. samples on application. TRADESMAN Free MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 23 or ayperson engaged chiefly in farming or the tillage of the soil, any unincor- porated company, and any corporation engaged principally in manufacturing, trading, printing, publishing, or mer- cantile pursuits, owing debts to the amount of one thousand dollars or over, may be adjudged an involuntary bankrupt, upon default or an impartial trial, and shall be subject to the pro- visions and entitled to the benefits of this act. Private bankers (but not Na- tional banks) or banks incorporated un- der state or territorial laws may be ad- judged involuntary bankrupts. The debtor must owe $1,000 or more to be adjudged an involuntary bankrupt, and must owe $500 or over to three creditors who are unsecured, to be ad- judged a bankrupt upon his own peti- tion, The majority in amount of all creditors selects a trustee, who takes the title to the assets. All real and personal estate must be sold for not less than 75 per cent. of its appraised value. A bankrupt may make composition with his creditors if a majority of his credit- ors agree. After one month and within twelve months a bankrupt may apply for and be discharged ; eighteen months may be given him, however, if, for good reasons, he has been prevented from applying within twelve months. He may be discharged if he has fully and honestly complied with the law; if fraud is shown and the discharge is op posed, it will be denied by the court. Appeals may be taken to the Appelate Court from: 1. The adjudging or refusing to ad- judge one a bankrupt. 2. To granting or denying discharge. 3. Allowing or rejecting a claim amounting to $500. Appeals to the United States Supreme Court may be taken where the amount in controversy exceeds $2,000. . SPONSORS FOR THE LAW. It may safely be said that the trade of the East and West is responsible for the passage of the bankrupt act. The East vigorously urged its passage, and por- tions of the West at first opposed it, but later all united for it. The inordinate ambition of the East to compete in the West and get the lion’s share of the trade may be the cause for the finan- cial condition of some of the bankrupts of to-day. Certain it is that the East has been less fortunate than the West in its selection of those to whom to ex- tend credit. ITS MATERIAL BENEFITS. This law is withal not without its ma- terial benefits regardless of what may be said in favor of or against the policy of it. The incentive of the mercantile trade to take undue advantage of each other, if such existed, is entirely re- moved, for, in misfortune, they will now all share alike. The debtor is like- wise without incentive to prefer one creditor to another, for, if done, invol- untary bankruptcy, with its long train of evils and expense, is sure to result. The benefits of this act will be to un- deceive creditors who are carrying on their books as live assets claims against those who are in fact legally insolvent; the insolvent is also afforded an oppor- tunity to take the benefits of the act, and thus undeceive his creditors, and wipe his slate clean and start anew. Locally, I believe we are realizing a direct benefit from this law. In many instances now, the person who is ripe for bankruptcy, either at his own in- stance or that of his creditors, makes a transfer of ali of his property to a par- ticular person as trustee for the benefit of all of his creditors, to share pro rata in his estate. The property is thus at once placed in the hands of persons who are particularly well qualified to handle it with the smallest expense, in the shortest period, and to the best advan- tage of all of his creditors, and of the debtor as well. The debtor’s business reputation is thus saved to him, and he is thereafter, if an honest man, able to obtain a line of credit and continue in business as before. RECOMMENDATIONS, If permitted to recommend, it would be my judgment that, after a period of a few years at farthest, the present bankrupt law should be repealed. The assignment laws of the various states should be made as nearly uniform in their provisions and operations as it is possible to have them made, to the end that the decisions of the courts when made upon questions arising in one State would serve as guide to the con- struction that should and probably would be placed upon the assignment law of another state. This uniformity in the assignment laws would obviate much of the difficulty that now obtains in regard to being able to teil from the adjudi- cations of the courts (being so conflict- ing) what the weight of authority is, touching a question arising under the assignment laws of a particular state. A. H. Brown. —_>0.»—___ Remind Customers of Needs. {t is observed that many hardware stores are making it a point to send out catalogues and circulars advertising many of the things which are commonly used in the spring and summer season. This isa good idea, for it brings to people’s minds more forcibly the things they ought to have—if it were possible for any one to need a reminder of what he needs. Most of us find our wants so boldly insistent that we do not need anything to remind us of what we ought to have. These circulars, however, give prospective purchasers an inkling of what they can get, how much they have to pay for it, etc. Many of the charac- teristics of such articles can be graphic- ally described so as to draw attention to special makes and styles. For instance, in lawn mowers—machines which every one should have at this time of year, and keep them in active use, too— action, construction, price, lightness of draft, widths of grass which they will cut, number of knives, etc., can all be accurately and satisfactorily set forth in circulars, Let the descriptions be terse, brief and to the point, without waste of words or unnecessary verbiage. Besides this, there are sharpeners, oils, lawn roll- ers, grass hooks, grass shears, scythe stones, garden hose, reels, sprinklers, wheelbarrows, rakes and pruning shears which are indispensable. Almost every one is annoyed by having his yard torn up by moles; they are pests on the face of the earth and can spoil any yard in a very short time. All hardware mer- chants should keep mole traps and ex- ploit them energetically at this time of the year. Screening and screens should also be prominently shown. Rather Close. ‘*The stingiest man I ever knew was a fellow who in going upstairs always skipped a step in order to save his shoe leather.’’ ‘‘That’s nothing! Ionce knew a man who was so stingy that he wouldn't trim his finger nails except when he could borrow a jack-knife, because he didn’t want to wear out his own.’’ 7 PATENT PLANISHED IRON Hardware Price Current. ‘*A”? Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 10 20 ‘“B” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 25 to 27 9 20 Broken packages \c per pound extra. ren AUGURS AND BITS ms HAMMERS a ak Nae a ah ga a gh il ol aie aula oil ce Jéenning gonning. 125410 — _ a oo a “ae Ss Jennings’ imitation ... ................. ..60610| Yerkes &Plumb’s...0 21/2200 dis 10410 AXES | Mason’s Solid Cast Steel. 30e list 70 First Quality, S. B. Bronze ................. 5 50 | Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel ‘Hand 30c list 50&10 First Quality, D. B. Bronze................. 9 50 HOUSE FURNISH DS — uality, ee eee 6 25 Stamped Tin - — i _ a list 70 First Quality, D. aa tt tete teens --- 10 50) Japanned Tin Ware.....-...-.--............ Re 14 00 Pot —— 60&1 a mew onncsnns sete nn anne ee ee ai BOLTS Sa 60&10 a 60&10 HINGES Carriage new list al eletvee ees oe eae aa = Gate, Clarke £28 0. 5 ... dis 6010 sin nse at ee eT, ||P a la per dos. net 25 BUCKETS eee as Oe ROPES ‘ Cast Loose Pin, BUTTS: CAST a ee oose Pin, 10 Wrought Narrow... - 200 010 WIRE GOODS Poo eee 80 a Screw , 80 Ordinary Tackle... SE een ee Te 80 an CROW ‘BARS Gate Hooks and Eyes. leagaaars+<~-~- bee 80 Se ee ee, -- «-perlb 5 CAPS " Stanley Rule and veou oe Bd ace dis 7 meee Bie ste eR RT wane nnnn nw oneness = Ne eae Pee SHEET IRON Rim Fire.... .. ——— . 40&10 com. smooth. com. Ciel Pee se ta Nae: Gta... 82 70 8 50 entr SECIS ER 20 Nos. 15 to 17 2 70 2 50 site wa. 2 80 2 60 ee . Slaeeee : ca pecmet Comer... ool... a 70| No. ee 2 90 ROCESS SC 70} All sheets No. 18 and lighter, over 30 inches ini iikeitas DRILLS “i wide not less than 2-10 extra. Taper and Straight Shank... 50& 5 19g SAND PAPER to De ee dis 50 More's VaperShank.. 31... 50& 5 ELBOWS SASH WEIGHTS Com. 4 piece, 6in...... ............ dos.net 6 Solte Byee per ton 20 00 Carmurisece 1 2 TRAPS me... SeGn CHM 75&10 UCI dis 40&10 Oneida, Community, Newhouse’s 50 Clark’s small, an” a BITS 30d:10 eae Community, Hawley & moe 8 70&10 * sas ouse, choker................... per doz Ives’, 1, 818; 2, goa apa oo 25 | Mouse, delusion............ |. per doz 1 QE s New American .... 0.0.0... cecccescce cee. «106210 WIRE ; ————_————— (0 Nicholson’s.. eel cece. 70 Annealed Market 70 Heller’s Horse Rasps.................. ~ 60810 nee. 60&10 GALVANIZED _ ‘Tyne MaweE €0 Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 25 and 26; 27. ..... 28 - ered Spring Steel..... 50 List 12 13 14 15 PM aks, 17 ead Fence, eaivantood ' 3 (0 Discount, ‘5—10 Barbed Fence, painted... 2 50 GAUGES HORSE NAILS Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s............... GRaIG | An Goalie 8 a — KNOBS—New List Pe. nl ees Door, mineral, jap. trimmings.... .......... MP CQUMCM oo net list Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings. . ee ee ac 80 WRENCHES idae MATTOCKS 617 00, ais cna: ow an Hreweled.............. > Se 8 | Coes Gemiinme. Hunt Eye era cin oalcle Siecle ioe Cune ocae $15 00, dis 60&10 | Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought ....... 73 EMG 818 50, dis 20&10 | Coe’s Patent, malleable..................... 7 MILLS ne Coffee, Parkers Co.’s........................ 40 | Bird Cages.. vs Le 40 Coffee, P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s Malleables. . 40 | Pumps, Cistern........ 00... cecccccevecee 70 Coffee, Landers, Ferry & Clark’s........... 40) Serows, New ling... .................... 85 Coffee, Enterprise........... ....ccccsseee 30 Casters, Bed and Plate....0..000000 0. 50810810 MOLASSES ‘GATES ampers, ee Stebbin’s Pattern.. «oso cic «, « ONE METALS—Zinc Stebbin’s Genuine... ee ee eee oe eae Lo 60&10 | 600 pound casks..................2. 60 essen 9 Enterprise, self-measuring ............ .... NEO 9% NAILS SHOT Advance over base, on both Steel and — eee ey 1 45 Steel nails, base..... ... 0.2.2... wees S28 Bd Bee 1 70 Wire nails, base... Se ee SOLDER Met OPGGVAHOG ee. 1 . Base ee . — advance. a ¢ The prices of the many other qualities of i Scarce at ola el lo lili ol win ay a Wg) 6) 6s Wisi ol eel elm gs a Gi & 20 in the market indicate by private brands Vary ype sip ees cae es strc: 20) according to composition. re a ‘~ oa Grade “ae PEVEMIOO ce oo. veee 70. | LUKIS LU, CDAPCOAL....... 6. eee eee cee eee ee an Sacoees Sea ca eee ede cic ag cca. 50 | 14x20 IC, Ce le 7 £0 Casing 10 advanee......... ot 15 | 20x14 TX, ee ee 8 50 Cemne Sadvanee..... kl... 25| Each additional X on this grade, $1.25. Cumin Gadvenee...0. 8... 1.88... 35 TIN—Allaway Grade Finish 10 advance....... ..............2-65 % | 10x14 IC, Charcos ee 6 25 Binieh Sadvarec........................... 35 | 14x20 IC, Charcoal ...... ..... ..... a 6 23 Binion Gadvanee........................... 45 | 10x14 IX, Charcoal STS 7 50 Barrel & Advance... .................-....... 85 14x20 IX, Chare: dcciuecccccktecsane (OO PLANES Each cdditional X on this grade, $1.50. Ohio Tool Co.'s, fancy...................... @50 FING PLATES UCR SOI 60 | 14x20 IC, este Gee Ce. 50 an ile fancy................. oO —_ i a a a = weer cece cers cece escceccces arcoa. Ri ad ae Qs all ai Stanley Rule and Level Co.'s wood. .--. 2.1! 60 | 14x90 IC’ Charcoal; Allaway Grade......... 5 00 PANS 14x20 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade......... 6 00 WEY AGG oe 60&10&10 | 20x28 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade......... 10 00 Gone, ied. ce eteaea.: 70& 5 | 20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade......... 12 00 RIVETS ieeiin on, = TIN PLATE a, i 60 x! ; for No. oilers, taneen micene mae Burs.. 45 | 14x56 1X, for No 9 Boilers, { per yen. ” Jass, 4 oat... 1... <... 3c each Pans, black, % gal......3%c each Jars, 1 to6 gal.... Jars, 15 and 20 ga Churns, 2 to 6 gal ul Jugs, % gal. Jugs, 1 to5 gal.. advertisement. a specialty. Jars, 8, 10 and -* F. O. B. factory at Akron. -5c ga Pans, black, % gal...... 4%c each . 6c gal Pans, black, 1 to 2 gal...... §c gal 7c gal Pans, Peoria or white, -5%c gal 36 eal... 4c each .4c each Pans, P’a or w., % gal..q¥%c each 6c gal Pans, P’a-w., I "to 2gal..sic gal No charge for crates if you enclose this Car loads to one or more merchants in one town CHICAGO POTTERY CO., Clark and Thelin Sis., Chicago, yy, 24 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN IDEAL MANAGER. Must Have Character, Brains and Am- bition. H. M. Mays in Dry Goods Economist. The ideal manager, as I view him, must have the following qualifications: Character, brains, ambition. He will answer my purpose better if he be a re- ligious man, because it has been my observation through life that of two men with equal talents the one who is a be- liever in some one religion is the one who commands the most respect from employe, customer and the public at large. Being of high character, his employer will not have to apologize for him at any time to any person. His influence will be always for good and will be far reaching. He will be a man among men, identifying himself with move- ments promoting public welfare. When Mrs. Westside is out driving with a friend and meets my manager, she will bow very politely and say, ‘‘There goes Mr. C—, the manager for H. M. & Co. at the ‘safety’ corner for ‘merchandising?’ I want you to meet him, as he is one of our popular citi- zens.’’ Later, as he turns down a side street, the workmen on the new public library salute him, and he returns the greeting with a hearty ‘*‘Good-day!’’ When he arrives at tne store, all eyes are on him, and as he passes into his office he nods a pleasant ‘‘Good morn- ing’’ to all. On looking over his mail he finds a complaint about the delivery of a parcel, of ‘*cool treatment’’ on the part of a clerk, an application for a po- sition by a mother for her boy, and other details. Prompt attention is given to all, each answer being dictated in diplomatic terms. (What emphasis should be put on the matter of letter- writing! The loss of thousands of dol- lars each year can be attributed to this failing. ) After consulting the firm about the contents of the mail the ideal manager will immediately send to each depart- ment head the mail intended for him. Then he will start in at the basement, giving careful inspection to the receiv- ing and delivery departments. He is interested in watching the start-off of the ‘‘semi-annual sale of domestics.’’ He meets Mr. Cotton, the buyer, and in a diplomatic way drops a few compli- mentary remarks which end with a sug- gestion. This method is pursued throughout the entire store. When on his tour of inspection he has made severai memorandums for the im- provement of stocks, etc. Returning to his office, he sends for Miss Ribbon, who hears with shame her reprimand for laughing and talking across the aisle when serving a customer. Several others from the cash boys to the silk buyer (the highest-salaried man) then have their instructions from him; but, please notice, it is always done in his office and not on the floor. This man is the arbiter of all differ- ences between employes and between customers and the firm. the advertisement for the evening paper is laid on his desk for careful inspec- tion. The advertisement is seldom cor- rected if the firm has a first-class adver- tising man who tells the public in a straightforward and entertaining way the store news. In the afternoon the manager calls a meeting of the buyers and heads of de- partments. He tells them in an inter- esting manner of his observations when on his tour of three or four of the larger cities, also how the store is progressing and whose department is in the lead for the prize to be given to the one showing the largest percentage of increase, Collections have been good and the balance in bank is growing too large; a sale is planned and each man is al- lotted his amount to go and invest. The early closing movement is up for dis- cussion and the manager opens with a ringing speech in favor of it, competi- tors’ opposition to the contrary notwith- standing. The balance of the afternoon is spent on the main floor, where the manager meets all with a cordial bow and de- votes his time to making new friends. The copy of| At five he returns to his office, signs his correspondence and _ receives a few in- structions from the firm. A bulletin posted up in the lavatcries announces a ten-minute meeting of all employes in the carpet hall immediately after six. Here a general talk on rules is given. Some actual experiences are related showing how a careless clerk lost a sale and, what was worse, offended a customer. The manager tells of the good things he hears about the employes of the store, and in almost ,the same breath says that when an employe has ar- rived at that point where he believes himself to be indispensabie he has out- lived his usefulness. The talk closes with an amusing story that has a moral. It is understood, of course, that from the manager emanate all store systems, rules, etc. No need to go into detail, suffice it to say he believes in just enough of such things to protect custom- er, salesperson and firm alike. This is one day’s experience of my ideal manager; it would be the same if I told of a dozer days. Briefly,the duty of a manager is to serve the interest of firm and public. In doing this he can not follow any set of rules, but must adapt himself to the conditions of the ever changing demand. Status of the St. Louis Potato Market. St. Louis, May 8—St. Louis dealers are just closing the most successful sea- son they have had in handling old pota- toes and are turning their attention South. They expect to handle large quantities of new potatoes this season. Early reports led us to believe that the crop of potatoes in the South was very late. However, all reports say that the crop is heavy and that it is maturing more rapidly than was expected; in fact, Texas offers carlots for shipment next week, Early Bliss Triumph vari- ety. We understand the prices being mentioned are 85c per bu., f. o. b. Texas common points, and that the rate of freight to St. Louis is 35c per hun- dred. These prices are all on a specu- lative basis, as no one can tell what the market will be when the potatoes are ready to ship. One thing is certain: New potatoes are going to be more plentiful and come in earlier than usual. There will be a great many more new potatoes throughout the entire South than ever before, as the acreage and planting is much increased and every- thing has been very favorable ever since planting. For this reason we say, sell your old potatoes and sell them at once. Our advice is to move what old _ pota- toes you have on hand and move them quickly. We will have a good outlet here for old potatoes for three weeks or more in St. Louis. We do not look for heavy shipments of new potatoes until after May 15. The shipments will be rather light from May 15 to June |, after which time they will be heavy. MILLER & TEASDALE Co. ee New America. Her eyes are full of noble hope, A quiet strength is in her hands; She sees the years of splendid scope That brighten in the morning lands; The seas are shadowed with her sails, Through wider fields her plow is sped; Her cup of plenty never fails, She feeds the nations with her bread. She throws o’er many an alien race The shield of equai posing law; The weak are sheltered in her grace, She keeps the violent in awe; Around the world her eagle flies, The people gather at her knees; Her peaceful empire arches rise Above strange lands in far-off seas. a Suspicious Circumstances. ‘‘It looks kinder queer, Malindy,’’ said the new millionaire to his wife after the guest had departed, ‘‘that the count would not take his coat off at din- ner like the rest of us, don’t it?’’ ‘*Maybe he didn’t have no shirt,’’ sug- gested the lady. ‘‘I’ve seen fellers fixed up that way in the shows.’’ ————_~>2>—___ A stranger in Chicago strayed into a shoe store the other day enquiring for hosiery. ‘‘We handle stockings right along, but haven’t any in stock just at present,’’ replied the jolly shoe clerk, “‘but we can sell you the next thing to them.’’ Equality in Jeopardy in Ohio. While Ohio is said to have the best organized wholesale grocers’ association in the United States, there has been trouble in the State recertly. Price cutting has been rampant to such an extent that the equality system of sell- ing sugar has been entirely wiped out, and most wholesalers are repoited as losing from 50 cents to 60 cents per bar rel, instead of making that amount, as was possible under the conditions exist- ing before cutting, offensive and de- fensive, altered the conditions. Secretary Thacker, in a letter ad- dressed to the trade, requests all whole- salers not now members to join the or- ganization and assist in maintaining prices, and he calls upon those inside the association who have seen fit to meet cutters on their own ground to re- store the limited price on miscellaneous groceries and the equality plan of sell- ing sugar. He points out strongly the demoralizing effect of the present situa- tion, and asserts that, if it continues much longer, manufacturers will sell di- rectly to retailers, thus eliminating job- bers entirely. Mr. Thacker says that manufacturers prefer jobbers and the equality plan of selling, and points to an instance where retailers called upon wholesalers and asked for a restoration of limited prices in certain territory where price cutting bad demoralized the business and cut off practically ail the jobbers’ legitimate profits. The letter strongly urges that demoral- ization means disintegration and a chaotic condition which would probably result in the substantial ruin of every wholesale grocer who undertakes to do business on the ‘‘hit-or-miss’’ principle. The national organization will take a hand in the effort to adjust matters, be- cause it is feared that all of the whole- sale grocery associations will go to pieces if the Ohio organization is al- lowed to fall. ee George Huff, of Portland, Indiana, claims to have discovered a new gas which is suitable for use as fuel or for illuminating purposes, and which costs very little to manufacture. He says that water and air are the only ingredients used, and that the results are obtained by compressing the air and forcing it through water. 2 Senator Carter, of Montana, says tha in ten years Montana will be producing annually more wheat and flour than any two states in the union. It will be shipped, he adds, to Asiatic markets. ED If some clergymen practiced what they preach they would be kept so busy they would bave but little time to preach. ——_-->-8-—____ Burns & Co., meat dealers at 253 Jefferson a.enue, are succeeded by Clement & Jackson. WS CARS EACH TIMOTHY HAY and graded white corn. Richard J. Biggs Co., Baltimore, Md. 936 OR SALE—A SELF-ADDING NATIONAL cash regi-ter. good as new. Cost3:25. Will sell less than half cost On easy terms. Jas. A. Campbell, 252 Wovdward Ave., Detroit. 945 ANTED—BY OWNER OF A CLOTHING stock, one side of dry goods or grocery store in town near Grand Rapids. Address No. 942, care Michigan Tradesman. 942 fp tcc aay GROCERY, JEW- elry and bazaar trade. > -™, ., “A, .a, a, -, -, ., .B . -B FIO IO OO OOO IOI ea Cocoa AN GRATEFUL COMFORTING Distinguished Everywhere for Delicacy of Flavor, Superior Quality and Nutritive Properties. Specially Grateful and Comforting to the Nervous and Dyspeptic. Sold in Half-Pound Tins Only. Prepared by JAMES EPPS & CO., Ltd., Homeopathic Chemists, London, England. BREAKFAST SUPPER | Epps | Cocoa | bed RL ane anneal een Be THE COMPUTING SCALE CO., Dayton, Ohio. GENTLEMEN: It took a good agent to sell me one of your scales It would take a better one to purchase it from me. It ig not for sale. I kept a memorandum of the actual saving made by its use, and in a special money box I found at the end of the first month, $7.03; the second month, $8.30, and the:third, $8.04. i ie You ean see that it paid for itself. My customers do not complain of paying for actual value received, and I think in my Marietta, Ohio, April 19, 1897. te sie : RUBE RT . 2 purchase from you I did better than that. st Respectfully yours, C CHAS. W. RIFE. SMOKE Banquet rall Little Gigars: | These goods are packed very tastefully in decorated tin boxes which can be carried in the vest pocket. 10 cigars in a box retail at 10 cents. They are a winner and we are sole agents. MUSSELMAN GROGER GO., Grand Rapids, Mich. Strerretteeeere reer rer Tety + Your Store Is Judged by your leaders—not by your staples. What do you give the people who want the best spices and baking powder for their money? If you give them mediocre brands you get the rep- utation of running a poor store—a place to shun. If you give them NORTHROP SPICES and QUEEN FLAKE BAKING POWDER you give them the best and most widely known brands on the market. If you want the best trade sell the best goods. Manufactured and sold only by NORTHROP, ROBERTSON & CARRIER, Lansing, Mich. ‘© SePeTeTTererereere+erereet b> h>>>>4 hob} heh hh 4-444} handle only goods of VALUE. If you are satisfied to remain at the tail end, buy cheap unreliable i le You Would Bea Leader | Good Yeast Is Indispensable. Unver THerR YELLOW LABEL OFFER THE BEST! Grand Rapids Agency, 29 Crescent Ave. 5 Detroit Agency, 118 Bates St. ee fh . FLEISCHMANN & CO. AFF FSFSFSSSFSFFSFSFSFFSSSSSSFSTTTFSTISTSSSSTFFTSSFTSSTISTTIT SD “Eelipse” Hard Wall Plaster BEATS THEM ALL. Can be floated or darbeyed without applying water to the surface—same as lime mortar. Makes a wall as hard as cement and ‘grows harder with age. Send for catalogue. Gypsum Products Manufacturing Co., Manufacturers and Dealers in all the various products of Gypsum, including “Eclipse” Wall Plaster, Calcined Plaster, Land Plaster and the best Bug Compound made. FFFSFSFFFFTSSSSSSFSSFSISTISFS Mill and Works, 200 South Front Street at G. R. & 1 R. R. Crossing. Mail Address, Room 20 Powers’ Opera House Block. Grand Rapids, Michigan. SEEELHLEELESEESELELE SESE SEE SEEESENES Peeeeseeneeeeeeseessensseesseees ASSSTSSS | ei erecti emanate