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“PAGE

2. The Dry Goods Market.

4. Around the State.

5. Grand Rapids Gossip.

6. Woman’s World.

8. Editorial.

9. Editorial.
10. Shoes and Leather.
11. Clerks’ Corner.
12. Double-Yolked Eggs.
13. Fresno Raisins.
14. Egg Items from Various Sources.
15. Getting the People.

16, Sad Story of Ikey Brown, the Grocer.
17. Commercial Travelers.

18. Drugs and Chemicals.
19. Drug Price Current,
20. Grocery Price Current.
21. Grocery Price Current.
22, To Combat Catalogue Houses.
23. Hardware Market.

Hardware Price Current.
24. Gotham Gossip.
Business Wants.

 

 

The Grocery Market.

Sugars—Raw sugars have not been
very active during the past week, only
a small number of sales having been
made at the basis of 45éc for 96 deg.
centrifugals and 4%c for 89 deg. test
muscovadoes. The consumptive de-
mand is very heavy and some grades
are oversold a week to ten days. The
lower grades from No. to down were re-
duced Wednesday 1-16@ %c.

Canned Goods—Advices frum Balti-
more state that everything in the canned
goeds line is on the boom, with ad-
vances so rapid that it is difficult to
keep pace with the market. On the
other hand, it is said that trade in fu-
tures is rather quiet just at present.
Packers are fearful of making contracts
which they may be unable to fill and
buyers are rather cautious about taking
further supplies until they see what the
probable output of the various crops
will be. Baltimore packers are said to
be searching for peas in New York State
to help fill contracts booked before they
knew what the crop would be. Owing
to the short pack of peas, there is an
unprecedented demand for string beans
and higher prices are expected. The
demand for pineapples is larger than
the supply and canners have scoured the
markets to find fresh fruit to fill orders
already booked, but have found it al-
most impossible to get sufficient quanti-
ties and prices have advanced 15c per
dozen. There is much uneasiness among
tomato packers, because of the unfavor-
able prospects of the growing crop.
The Middlle West, according io present
reports, promises abundant yield; but,
so far as known, the Eastern part of the
country is likely to yield comparatively
small, even with the most favorable
weather conditions from now on. The
sry weather of the past five weeks
stopped all growth on newly set vines,
and those which were growing have
been so retarded that the fruit will not
mature for two or three weeks later
than usual. Packers are refusing or-
ders, and say that they are most prob-
ably sold short already, and some have
advanced their prices on futures 2%c
per dozen. Meanwhile spot trading is
small. As a rule, quotations are firm
and holders refuse to make any conces-
sions. Reports from the corn growing

 

sections are so far distinctly favorable.
Corn appears to be about the only prod-
uct for canning which has escaped the
effects of the hot weather, the ravages
of insects or early injury from the cold.
It seems that a large crop has been
planted and that the pack promises to
be larger than that of any previous year
for some time. Stocks are very small
and prices on spot goods are firm and
the tendency is upward. The Balti-
more market for gallon apples is very
strong and packers there have advanced
their price for futures 25c per dozen.
It is stated that there have not been
enough fish taken in the weirs on the
Maine coast this season to keep five out
of the fifty sardine factories in opera-
tion, but the run is improving a little
now. The demand for spot goods is ex-
cellent at unchanged prices. Stocks of
oysters are very light. The prices,
however, are high enough to keep them
from going into consumption too rap-
idly. They will all be sold out, how-
ever, before the fall packing and there
may be a further advance over to-day’s
prices. The salmon market remains
firm, with a good demand. Latest ad-
vices from the Columbia River confirm
the previous reports of the small run of
fish, but no anxiety is expressed rega:d-
ing supplies as yet, for a better run is
expected a little later.

Dried Fruits—The demand for all va-
rieties of dried fruits at this season is
naturally limited, but, so far as can be
learned, is up to the average of previous
years. According to the California Fruit
Grower, old stocks were never so close-
ly cleaned up as at present. There are
only about 475 carloads of raisins on
band in California, as against in all
probability about 1,200 last season.
There is no doubt but what these goods
will all be cleaned up before the arrival
on the market of the new crop, and
new crop goods will have a cleaner
market to enter upon than at any period
since California has become a factor in
the raisin producing industry. At the
present time, as is generally the case,
there are not many raisins being sold,
but a brisk tiade is expected during the
latter part of July and the month of
August, as markets throughout the
United States are then almost bare and
in good position to take the balance of
last year’s crop, to furnish the early fall
trade. Just at present trade is quiet
and orders for every variety are limited.
A firm feeling continues, however, and
there is no disposition to shade prices.
It is estimated that the total crop of
apricots this year will be about 700
cars, twice what it was last year, but not
more than half what it was the previous
year. Drying has already begun in
California and the new crop will be in
the market inside of two weeks, unless
something unforeseen prevents. This
year’s prune crop in France will be
comparatively light. The shortage, ap-
pears by late advices to be more serious
than was anticipated earlier in the sea-
son. The effect is already seen in
stronger enquiry for prunes from the
other side and unquestionably the re-
sult will be a better demand for export
than for several years, There is very

 

little demand for prunes at present and
prices are the same as_ previously
quoted. In sympathy with the Grecian
market, currants are stronger and prices
have advanced %c. Figs and dates
move out slowly at unchanged prices, It
is reported that the quality of the
Smyrna figs this year will be better than
usual.

Molasses and Syrups—The molasses
market is firm but quiet, with only
small sales. Owing to the starting up
of the can factory at Maywood, Ill., and
the conseguent increase in the supply
of tin cans, a slight reduction on corn
syrup in cans has been made, which
brings them more in proportion with the
price of barrels, upon which there is
no change.

Tea—The tea market isa little firmer,
with a slightly improved demand.

Fish—-Late advices from Gloucester
state that, contrary to the report given
last week regarding the mackerel catch,
it bas proved almost a failure and that
prices have advanced considerably and
will undoubtedly go still higher. The
demand for codfish is very good. Stocks
in first hands in Gloucester are from 50
@75 per cent. smaller than at the cor-
responding date in 1898, and it is con-
sidered highly probable that there will
be a rapid advance in quotations on all
descriptions of cured cod, hake and
haddock before the fall buying season
opens in August.

Green Fruits—Bananas are dull and
the market inclines to weakness, al-
though there has been no change in
prices. Receipts have been very lib-
eral for some time past and it is very
likely that they will continue so. Large
sales of lemons have been made during
the past week in anticipation of the
large Fourth of July trade. There is no
quotable change in prices, although the
market is slightly easier.

Nuts—Peanuts are easier, with a re-
ductiou of %c in price.

Rice—Trade in rice is small, but
prices remain firm and stocks are be-
ing well cleaned up.

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Bank Notes.

.Alpena Pioneer: George J. Robinson,
of this city, and C. H. Osgood, of Rog-
ers City, are arranging to establish a
banking business at Onaway. There is
only one bank in Presque Isle county,
at Rogers City, of which Mr. Osgood is
at the head, but the rapid development
of business at Onaway demands im-
mediate banking facilities, and the
above named gentlemen will supply
them as soon as the necessary arrange-
ments can be made.

Noble & Benedict, who conducted the
banking business at Brown City, under
the style of the Brown City Bank, are
succeeded by the Brown City Savings
Bank.

The matter of establishing a bank at
Marion is being considered by E. Bar-
ber and E. I. VanLuan, of Mt. Pleas-
ant, who visited Marion last week to
look up the prospects for a profitable

business in that line there.
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Dry Goods

The Dry Goods Market.

Prints and Ginghams—There has
been a good business during the past
week in printed calicoes, covering al-
most the entire field. Spot business
has been supplemented by good sized
mail and wire orders, and orders by the
last named mediums have been in
greater volume than during previous
weeks, but it is now thought that the
first ordering has been finished by the
largest buyers, and they will do no more
until deliveries are made and they re-
assort their stocks. There is a little
business still coming to hand in the way
of orders for light fancies to piece out
the season, but the volume is too small
to be considered of much importance,
and furthermore there is very little in
the way of stocks at first hands to draw
from. There were a few new styles put
on the market late, in the light goods,
that have found good business. These
we have described in earlier issues.
They were designed and put on the
market to meet a demand for a large
assortment of styles aud, coming ata
time when the original offerings were
pretty well sold up, were very welcome
to the trade. Indigo blues, turkey reds
and such lines are securing a moderate
business at previously reported prices.
Staples and dress styles of ginghams are
in moderate demand.

Underwear—This is the jobbers’ sea-
son, and the jobbers are in full swing
in the trade, furnishing lots to make up
depleted lines. Gauze, lisle and meri-
nos are in the greatest demand. Bal-
briggans are very scarce, and are sold
up for some time to come, both in
staples and fancies. It remains for the
knit goods people to keep the upper
hand in the trade now that they have
got it, and not allow it to fall back into
its old rut. The demand has caught up
to the supply, and the business is in a
good condition. Naturally, with this
the case, we shall see new mills start
up, and perhaps assist in demoralizing
the trade again, but this can be over-
come if all will work to some extent
together, and not try to cut each other’s
throats.

Hosiery—The end of the _ season’s
hosiery business is here, and with one
or two exceptions the only business be-
ing done is in clearing out odds and
ends. This has been going on for about
a week, but, as a matter of fact, there
is really very little of this ‘‘odds and
ends’’ business to do. Stocks both with
the importers ard domestic agents have
been reduced to a very smail compass,
and this business is correspondingly
small. There are some moderate stocks
of certain staple lines that are to be
found, but these are barely large enough
to take care of the ‘‘sizing up’’ trade
throughout the season; not, in fact, as
much as have been seen almost every
other year. Fine grades of half hose
for fall have excited considerable in-
terest, particularly some of the cash-
mere lines. The fancies that are shown
are superb, if such a term can be used
for them. The colors and patterns are
handsome and neat; very little that is
over flashy is to be found. In the do-
mestic lines of these goods the same
nice taste is displayed, but the variety
is not as large. There is still a good
business doing in both domestic and
imported golf hosiery. Desirable styles
are light in stock, and advices from the
foreign mills show that supplies are

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number of styles that were placed on
this market as ‘‘bargain sales’’ have
been withdrawn, and regular or even
slightly advanced prices put on them.
Carpets—The carpet mills are now
beginning to assume their old-time ac-
tivity. As the season more fully de-
velops, with the prospect of higher
prices, buyers have been quick to avail
themselves of present opportunities to
place orders before the more general ad-
vance on tapestries, velvets and other
lines Julv 1. From this fact it will be
seen that many mills will be quite well
supplied with orders before the advance
takes effect, and it will be mainly on
any duplicates later on that the ad-
vance will benefit the manufacturer.
Ingrains, while active, have been forced
one side by velvets and tapestries, and
if any advance is obtained this season
on extra supers, it will have to come
after the buyers have taken all the tap-
estries and velvets they want, and when
the full advance on the goods is in
force. With the price of wool yarn
firmer, the spinners are not so willing to
make concessions this season, although
they realize that the increased demand
from the goods market is the best help
towards higher prices they can have,
and later on anticipate such a large de-
mand for yarn that they can then afford
to refuse low offers, discriminating in
favor of the weavers who will pay higher

prices.
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The Dry Goods Clerk.
Written for the TRADESMAN.
I chanced to read in a trade paper the
other day an article entitled, ‘La Con-
versation,’’ in which was given a de-

-tailed account of a conversation carried

on by a couple of salespeople while the
writer of ‘‘La Conversation’’ was kept
waiting. It may have been provoking
enough to the writer of the article to be
obliged to wait and at the same time to
listen to talk in which he was not in-
terested ; yet in his article he makes the
broad statement that these two people
are a fair sample of dry goods clerks in
general.

I have no fault to find with him for
being provoked nor yet with his account
of the conversation ; but I take strenuous
exception to his statement that these
people are a fair sample of the dry
goods clerk. He depicts their speech
as that of ignorant, uneducated vulgar
‘people. These two persons may have
been such ; but that dry goods people in
general are ignorant, uneducated, and
vulgar is not true. I have the good for-
tune to have many friends and acquaint-
ances who earn their living by selling
dry goods, and, if the writer of ‘‘La
Conversation’’ could meet some of
them, I have not the least doubt he
would find them equally cultured and
refined as himself.

Such articles as ‘‘La Conversation’’
should not be passed by without a pro-
test. They are read by the public in
general and they create an entirely
erroneous impression. Life to the peo-
behind the counter is by no means a

ed of roses, and such statements as are
contained in ‘‘La Conversation’’
only added thorns.

That there are many people behind
the counter who are in no way qualified
to be there I do not deny; but there are
thousands upon thousands
men and young women all over the
country who work in stores who are an
honor to their chosen calling. Many of
them are high school graduates and not
a few have had the advantage of a col-
legiate education. They come from
Christian homes where they have been
taught to fear God and keep his com-
mandments; where christian love and
purity of life have been their daily ex-
ample. That these people should be
represented to tbe public in the light of
the ‘‘La Conversation’’ idea is not only
wrong, it is unjust. MacDonaLp.

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A Few Simple Recipes.

The Small Boy—Take equal parts of
noise, dirt, and four-horse power steam-
engine; mix with bread and butter to
the taste (the boy’s taste), and set the
mixture to cool in the middle of a Io-
acre lot. If you find you have put in
too much noise (which you undoubtedly
have) turn over and knead with the hand
or split shingle.

The Saleslady—This is a very easy
dish. All that is required is a little
giggle, brass to season, and a garnish-
ing of frizzes, bangs and cheap jewelry.
Mix in an empty skull and serve.

The Politician—Tact, one part; two
eyes for the main chance; one tongue,
well oiled, and as much cheek as _ pos-
sible. If you have a little brain handy,
it may be added sparingly; but it does
not matter much, and most housekeepers
consider any use of brain in this con-
nection as extravagant. Bake in a slow
oven, so that it need not be done brown.
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The Poet—To make a poet, take
liberally of shimmering sunshine, strain
through a rhyming dictionary, and add
equal parts of love-sick adjectives,
archaic adverbs, and such other words
as you may never have heard of. Set
in a warm place, where the whole ma
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Around the State

Movements of Merchants.

 

 

Maple City—Johnson & Young have
opened a new meat market.

Gilford—John W. Cragg has sold his
general stock to Edwin Parrish.

East LeRoy—Henry Knox, general
dealer, has sold out to Hall & Co.

Bay City—Mrs. L. A. Wood has sold
her jewelry stock to C. S. Graves.

Girard—Myron Bidwell has engaged
in the drug business at this place.

Falmouth—Lucas Smith has engaged
in the grocery business at this place.

West Bay City—-Amedee J. Jean suc-
ceeds V. Jean in the jewelry business,

Luther—F. G. Swanson has purchased
the Crandall & Gregg dry goods stock.

Alpena—Jos. L. Reinke succeeds
Reinke & Lyon in the grocery business,

Kalamizoo—Hosea Henika succeeds
Carder & Henika in the undertaking
business.

Ann Arbor—C. Homer Cady has pur-
chased the grocery stock of John H.
Maynard.

Algodon—Milton Lambert has engaged
in the general merchandise business at
this place.

Ann Arbor—Blaitch & Gates continue
the grocery and crockery business of
Geo. Blaitch.

Galesburg—Little & Mack, grocers
and meat dealers, have dissolved, Jas.
Little succeeding.

Bay City—F. B. Phillips & Co. have
purchased the hardware and paint stock
of D. B. Martin & Co.

Quincy—Frank H. VanDorsten, of
Litchfield, will opea a department store
at this place on Sept. 1.

Escanaba—J. T. Wixon, dealer in
photographers’ supplies and _ picture
frames, has removed to Petoskey.

Barryton—Samuel Rosenberg, of Cas-
novia, has opened a dry goods and
men’s furnishing goods store here.

Millbrook—T. W. Preston has shipped
his drug and grocery stock to Elk Rap-
ids, where be will re-engage in business,

Shelby—L. D. Allen has sold his stock
of shoes to L. P. Hyde, who has re-
moved the same to his Hart establish-
ment.

Hemlock—C. F. Shulte has purchased
the interest of his partner, Wm. Pohl,
in the drug and grocery business at this
place.

Hastings—Frank Kurtz has sold bis
meat market to Andrews & Besemer,
who will continue the business at the
same location.

LeRoy—Frank Smith has discontinued
the general merchandise business at
Manton and shipped the remainder of
the stock to this place.

Owosso—Goodspeed Bros., of Grand
Rapids, wi!l shortly open a_ boot and
shoe store here, with Fred Conklin and
Roy Oldfield in charge.

Cassopolis—The grocery firm former-
_ ly known as Thomas & Nysewander
bas been reorganized under the style of
J. L. Thomas & Co., Mr. Nysewander
retiring.

Port Huron—The machinery supply
depot of Carleton & Cole was closed
Monday, and the stock taken charge of
by H. G. Barnum and F. D. Carleton,
mortgage trustees. The firm has been
unable to meet its obligations, and the
business will likely be closed out at
once. April 28 last the firm executed a
chattel mortgage in favor of Messrs.
Barnum and Carleton in trust for their
creditors. The liabilities are placed at
$5,000, while the assets inventory at a
higher figure.

 

St. Joseph—B. Josephs, representing
a Chicago concern, has leased a store
builjing and will open a general mer-
chandise and clothing store July 4.

Manton—R. C. Ballard, the hardware
merchant, who has been ill for a iong
time, is again able to give his business
personal attention, having nearly re-
covered,

Manton—Lambert DeVries, the for-
mer manager of the Smith store, has se-
cured the Ballard warehouse and will
put in a stock of feed, hay, and grain
this fall.

Union City—Will Snyder has_ pur-
chased the stock of dry goods sold last
week to his former partner, M. J. Row-
ley, and will continue the business in
his own name.

East Jordan—A. Poustie has leased
the store building recently occupied by
the -dry goods stock of Mrs. S. Cohen,
and will fill the building with a stock
of general merchandise.

Bauer—L. Cook, who has been en-
gaged in general trade here for fourteen
years, has sold his stock to his son,
Chas. W. Cook, who will continue the
business at the same location.

Ithaca—The general merchandise firm
of A. S. Barber & Co. has been dis-
solved. Mr. Barber will continue the
mercantile business under the same
style, and Wilbur Nelson will continue
the elevator business under the style of
the Nelson Grain Co,

Menominee--Ramsey & Jones will
build a $15,000 business block for the
Northern Hardware and Supply Co.
The block will be erected opposite the
big Leisen & Henes building near the
National Hotel. The store is expected
to be ready for occupancy by winter,

Dollarville——C. D. Danaher has
merged his general store business into
a stock company under the style of the
Dollarville Grocery Co. The corpora-
tion has a capital stock of $6,000. The
incorporators are Cornelius D. Dan-
aber, Wm. H. Krempel and Bert Bell.

Sylvester—J. H. Loucks, who has
conducted a general store here for fif-
teen years, has sold his stock to John
Streeter and Henry Winter, who will
continue the business under the style of
Streeter & Winter. Mr. Loucks will
remove to Mecosta, where he will re-
engage in general trade.

Cadillac—Stone & Nilsen have leased
a new store building now in process of
erection and will engage in the dry
goods business Sept. 1. Both gentle-
men have had years of experience in
the dry goods business, Mr. Stone com-
ing from Bay City and Mr. Nilsen be-
ing a resident of Big Rapids,

Kalamazoo—E. A. Welch, of the gro-
cery firm of Welch & Russell, has about
decided, upon advice of his family
physician, to remove to California for
the benefit of Mrs. Welch’s health. It
is expected that his interest in the gro-
cery store will be purchased by Mr.
Russell, Mrs. Welch is at present in
Minneapolis and late reports regarding
her health were more encouraging. The
family will probably start West in about
a month.

Stanton—Jobn Hansen, proprietor of
the Stanton House and a member of the
grocery firm of Hansen & Jorgensen in
this city, and Miss Emma Ek were mar-
ried at the home of the bride’s parents,
Mr. and Mrs, Nels Ek, in Sidney town-
ship Wednesday afternoon. The cere-
mony was performed by Rev. Ole Amble,
of Gowen, in the presence of about fifty
relatives and friends. A reception was
given the young couple in the evening
by a large company of friends.

 

Kalamazoo—J. Fisher has severed his
connection with the Kalamazoo Retail
Grocers’ Association. He states that at
present there are no hucksters doing
business without a license, with one ex-
ception, and in that case the man is an
invalid and Mr. Fisher declines to press
the case against him. The license has
done its work thoroughly, says Mr.
Fisher, in keeping out peddlers from
out of town, who formerly proved such
an annoyance to the regular traders.

Dowagiac——Business circles are
wrought up over the adoption of a reéso-
lution by the Common Council author-
izing the City Attorney to draft an ordi-
nance enforcing the closing of all
places of business in the city on Sun-
day. The proposition went through the
Council unanimously and is the outcome
of a recent organization of a clerks’
society for the purpose of getting the
business men to sign a petition to close
on Sundays. The petition provided that
drug stores and soda fountains might
remain open, but the city legislators
went even further and decreed that all
places of business should remain closed
on the Lord’s Day. City Attorney C.
W. Hendryx states that he will enforce
the new ordinance to the letter and im-
pose the extent of the penalty. The
business men do not propose to be
forced and many of them declare that
their Stores will remain open on Sunday
hereafter and that if molested they will
require that livery stables and other in-
stitutions of the kind shall be taken into
account under a State provision regu-
lating the keeping cpen of the same.

Manufacturing Matters.

Big Rapids—The Big Rapids Furni-
ture Co. has sold its retail furniture
stock to Joseph Falardeau.

Thompsonville—J. B. Trowbridge has
removed to Breedsville, where he will
take charge of the flouring mill recently
purchased by Geo. Hawley.

St. Clair—The St. Clair Creamery Co.
has been organized by J. F. Ruff, C.
H. Otter, A. M. Ruff and T. S. Otter
with a capital stock of $10,000.

Battie Creek—The Knox Chemical
Co, has beer organized with a capital
stock of $30,000, to engage in the man-
ufacture and sale of drugs and chemic-
als,

Onaway—The Barry & Finan Lumber
Co. has begun the erection of a store
building at Tower, 22x60 feet in dimen-
sions, which will serve as the base of
supplies for its mill and camps on
Ocqueoc River, as well as its timber

camps in Forest township.
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Hides, Pelts, Tallow and Wool.

The hide market does not change
values, but has settled down to a solid
basis, with little strife to disturb it.
The supply is not what is wanted, yet
it answers the demand. There is no
inducement from any point to advance
prices to obtain more goods.

More pelts are wanted than are
offered. Prices remain strong, with a
siight advance.

Tallow is a weak commodity. Water
is plenty at resorts now and peopie do
not require much soap.

Wool seems to catch the push, as it
is so far behind in value of other arti-
cles of commerce that money seeks it
for investment. Quite a speculative
feeling has developed East and West,
which creates a new value, and handlers
are ready to push it higher, where they
know it must go. It is a good purchase
that was made during the past month,
as grades that sold at 18c are now bring-
ing 20c, with 21c or above asked.

Wm. T. Hess.

 

The Boys Behind the Counter.

Allegan— Frank B. Mix, of Marcellus,
has been engaged to take C. B. Thomas’
place as pharmacist in the drug store of
L. L. Thompson & Co. He is a grad-
uate of the Chicago school of pharmacy
and has had thirteen years’ experience
as a pharmacist and manufacturing
chemist.

Manton—W. Elivier has a new clerk
in his general store in the person of
Lissie Truman.

Reading—Chas, Stone has transferred
himself from Cook’s shoe store to
Branch’s drug store, where he was for-
merly employed.

Montague——Melvin Chapman, of
Whitehall, bas taken a position as clerk
in the general store of Walter Nelson
& Co.

Sterlinz—This place can boast of the
oldest clerk in a store in the world.
Mrs. Russle, who is 104 years old, looks
after her house and still has time to sell
goods in her son’s store.

Ypsilanti—Arthur Cluff has entered
the employment of H. G. H. Gilmore &
Co. for the summer. Clarence Knisley
has taken the place of Cleveland Ste-
venson with C. W. Rogers & Co.

Sault Ste. Marie—Arthur Bailey, pre-
scription clerk in F. R. Price's drug
store, has resigned his position in that
pharmacy to accept a similar one in the
Hall & Munson drug store at Bay Mills.
His place will be taken by Joseph
Maltas, of Pickford, a former clerk for
Mr. Price.

Owosso—Charles Graham, for five
years a clerk for H. W. Mann, has re-
signed his position and will leave in a
few days for a trip West for his health.

Nashville—Fred White has entered
the employ of J. C. Furniss at the Cen-
tral drug store.

Bronson—W. H. McKinney has taken
a position as clerk in A. J. Ashbreck’s
drug store.

Petoskey— David H. Tennent, of Oli-
vet, will clerk in the Central drug store
this summer.

Sault Ste. Marie—John E. Krafft has
taken a position with Burnham, Stoepel
& Co., wholesale dry goods dealers of
Detroit.

Hancock —The early closing move-
ment has reached Portage Lake’s places
of business and after July 4 clerks will
have some time for recreation or to
spend with their families in the even-
ings. The move in favor of the earlier
closing of stores meets with what might
be said to be the unanimous endorse-
ment of the business element. The pe-
tition was signed by all the merchants
but one at Houghton and his sympathy
has always been in favor of the new
movement, as is evidenced by the fact
that no store is closed at an eariier hour
than his and that he wili conform with
the new custom even to closing every
evening at 6 o'clock should the rule be-
come general. After July 4 the stores
of Hancock and Houghton will be closed
Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at
6 o’clock. Tuesdaysand Thursdays the
closing hour will be 8 o’clock and Sat-
urday evening each merchant will close
whenever he may see fil. The change
will work no bardship on customers,
once the arrangement becomes familiar,
and that the clerks will appreciate the
change and show it by giving better
service goes without saying.

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grades and prices. phore Visner, 800.
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Grand Rapids Gossip

The Produce Market.

Apples—Southern stock in % bu.
crates commands 50@75c according to
quality.

Beans—Mediums are firm
market is strong,

Beet Greens—35c per bu.

Beets—15c per doz.

Butter—The receipts are decreasing
and the quality is running much poorer
than was the case a couple of weeks
ago. The lessening of receipts is due
to the curtailment of the milk supply
and the fact that many farmers have
ceased making butter and are now send-
ing their milk to the cheese factory.
Dealers find no difficulty in obtaining
13¢ for fancy dairy and creamery has
begun to move more freely on the basis
of 17¢.

Cabbage—4o0@6oc per doz., according
to size.

Carrots—15c per doz.

Celery—z2oc per doz.

Cherries—Sour fruit commands $1.50
@1.60, The high price is due primarily
to the action of the canners in entering
the market. It was supposed that can-
ners had to have their supplies at low
values, without much regard to quality,
but the experience of the past two
weeks has demonstrated that the canners
want quality, price being a secondary
consideration.

Cucumbers—25@35c per doz.

Currants—6oc for 16 qt. crate.

Eggs—Dealers still pay 11c on track,
case count, but are compelled to candle
all receipts, finding no difficulty in
marketing the stock on the basis of
12%c, The proportion of loss has in-
creased to a dozen and a half per case.

Gooseberries—It is the unexpected
that is always happening, and such has
proved to be the case this year with
gooseberries, which have been a drug
on the market for several years—so
much so that many growers have pulled
up their bushes altogether. This year
the canners are entering into active
competition for the berry, paying $1@
1.20 per bu. in bulk, which price affords
the grower a handsome margin of profit,
especially in a year like this when the
size of the berry is large. The action of
the canners is likely to stimulate the
replanting of gooseberry bushes to a
considerable extent in this part of the
country.

Green Onions—1o@15c for
Skins,

Honey—Amber stock is in fair sup-
ply and demand at toc. Dark honey is
in rather limited demand at 8c.

Lettuce—35@4oc per bu.

Musk Melons—$1.25 per doz. for Lit-
tle Gems.

Onions—Californias, $2.50 per sack.
Louisiana, $2 per sack. Bermudas,
$1.25 per crate.

Peas—Marrowfats command 75c per
je The crop is large and the quality

ne.

Pieplant—¢1 per roo lbs.

Pineapples—On their last legs. There
are a few Floridas still in market, com-
manding $1.50@1.75 per doz.

Potatoes—Triumphs from Arkansas
command 6oc and are fairly firm at that
figure. Home grown are beginning to
come in, but Southern stock is generally
preferred, on ‘account of being larger
and riper. Early Ohios are expected
in next week.

Poultry—The resort demand for broil-
ers is now at hand and local dealers are
unable to secure enough stock to fill all
their orders, although they offer 16@18c
per lb, Chickens are in good demand
at 8c and fowls are in fair demand at
7c. Spring ducks are active at 8@!oc.
Old ducks are dull and slow sale at
5@6c. Geese are not wanted at any
price. Turkeys are scarce and are
grabbed up as fast as they arrive at 10
@12c. Squabs are in good demand at
$1.25 per doz. Pigeons are in fair de-
mand at 50@6oc per doz.

*Radishes—7@toc per doz. bunches.

Raspberries--Black are coming in
freely, commanding about $1 per 16 qt.
case. Red are also coming in rapidly
and finding a market on the basis of
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extra lots command fancy prices, while
arrivals which are off in quality are
compelled to seek a lower level. All
reports indicate a large crop, but not so
large as last year.
Spinach—4oc per bu.
Squash—goc per bu. box.
Tomatoes—$1@1.25 per
crate,
Watermelons—Georgia continue to de-
cline, 22s and 24s commanding 20@25c
when shipped in packages. Dealers
are quoting lower prices where the
melons are shipped loose, but in such
cases the transportation companies
charge 1% first class rate, instead of
first class.
Wax Beans—$1.25@1.50 per bu. The
crop is large and the quality is fine.
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The Grain Market.

Wheat has been somewhat depressed
during the past week. Receipts have
been enormous in the Northwest, while
shipments have been of only ordinary
amount, but with the large amount re-
ceived the visible only showed an in-
crease of 920,000 bushels, where 2,000, -
ooo bushels was expected. Cash as
well as futures suffered a sharp decline
in wheat centers, while at initial points
in the winter wheat belt this decline has
not followed, because the farmers are
not selling their wheat and elevator
men, getting no fresh receipts, are
holding for higher prices, which they
expect to get, and the outlook seems to
favor them. There is no use in reiter-
ating at this time that the bull news
which is received daily at the great
wheat mart of the world—Chicago—is
the controlling factor in prices and that
the bears control the market. Were it
not for them, prices would not have
slumped, but we presume they would
rather have the farmer receive toc less
and give it to the foreign grain buyer
than have the difference in price remain
at home, which fact can not be gain-
said, as Liverpool follows Chicago.

In corn things seem changed, as the
price is stronger than last report. It
looks now as if, with the large acreage
of over 82,000,000 acres, the crop will
only reach, according to present esti-
mates, about 200,000,000 bushels, which
seems a very small amount.

Oats have been very strong, as the
visible showed a decrease of 1,344,000
bushels and prices will remain about
stationary, especially as the wet weather
is hurting oats where most are raised.

No change in cash rye yet. How-
ever, as the rye crop is fine all over the
rye growing districts, except in Russia,
prices will drop as soon as new rye
moves.

The first car of new wheat was re-
ceived in Chicago June 27, which only
graded No. 3 red soft.

Receipts during the week were 60
cars of wheat, 6 cars of corn, 9 cars of
oats and 3 cars of hay. Rather small
receipt of corn.

Millers are paying 7oc for wheat.

_C. G. A. Vorer.

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Jobn W. Simmons, who recently sold
his interest in the Globe Knitting Co.
to his partners in the business, has un-
dertaken the organization of another
corporation to embark in the same line
of business.

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L. A. Scoville has arranged to open
a drug store in the building at Clarks-
ville recently vacated by R. C. French.
The Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co. has

the order for the stock.
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J. A. Goldman has opened a grocery
store at 59 East Leonard street. The
Musselman Grocer Co, furnished the
stock.

 

Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Associa-
tion.

At the regular meeting of the Grand
Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association,
held at the office of the Michigan
Tradesman Tuesday evening, June 27,
President Dyk presided.

Noorman & Huizenga, grocers at 36
Grandville avenue, applied for mem-
bership in the Association and were ac-
cepted.

Chairman Dyk announced the follow-
ing Picnic Committees:

General Arrangement and Finance—
Homer Klap, Peter Braun, Chas, W.
Payne.

Programme—B_  S, Harris, F. W.
Fuller, John Witters.

Badges—John Smyth, Jas. E. Camp-
bell, C. W. Mulholland.

Sports—Fred W. Fuller, Peter Braun,
Jobn Witters, F. L. Merrill, Chas, W.
Payne, Homer Klap.

Judges—Julius J. Wagner, E. C. Jen-
kins, H. C. Wendorff, D. S Gray, Jobn
Braun, J. Frank Gaskill.

Reception—Carl Voigt, Arthur Plum,
Louis Kusterer, S. P. Cooper, Floyd
Payne, Peter Lankester, J. Geo. Leb-
man, M. H. Barber, L. D. Blackford,
J. C. Coade, Wm. Pettit, Richard Rin-
evelt, John Roessink, Richard Rade-
macker, Chas. H. Sack, David E.
Keyes, M. C. Viergever, L. M. Van
Heulen, Cornelius Seven, C. C. Shay,
Richard Warner, Jr.

The Vice-Presidents for the various
outside towns will be announced laier,

The Secretary reported that the senti-
ment in favor of closing all day July 4
was very general, the only objection be-
ing from those grocers who keep open
Sundays and evenings.

President Dyk gave his reasons why
he would like to see the half holiday
movement adopted, at least during the
summer months. He preferred closing
his store on Saturday afternoons, but
would be willing to join in any action
looking toward the curtailment of the
hours of labor at any time of the week.

J. Geo. Lehman thought the subject
under discussion a very interesting one,
but the question in his mind was
whether unanimous support could be
secured. The dry goods dealers were
successful in closing their stores last
year, but he thought it would be more
difficult to get tne grocers in line, on
account of the larger number. He
would like to see it adopted, and
thought it would be more apt tobe
brovght about in the middle of the
week, but it would be difficult to ac-
complish such a result unless the butch-
ers would close at the sume time, 2s a
great many grocers hardle meats in
connection with groceries.

Peter Braun stated that the butchers
were also agitating the matter of a half
holiday on Thursday afternoon.

Mr. Lehman stated that changes
would have to be made and sacrifices
undertaken, al! of which he thought
could be overcome. In his opinion,
there is not a city anywhere the size of
Grand Rapids which has so good a class
of dry goods merchants, but, of course,
their attempts in the matter of closing
are more successful on account of the
smaller number as compared with gro-
cery merchants.

Mr. Wendorff thought the only trouble
would be that the grocers would not all
fall in line. He was more in favor of
closing early Saturday evening than half
a day during the week. He advocated
closing at 8 o’clock on Saturday even-
ing, instead of at midnight. He voiced
the sentiment of Mr. Lehman that the
grocers and meat dealers should co-
operate in this movement. It should
also be remembered that many poor
people have no refrigerators and that
meat purchased Saturday morning will
not always keep fresh until Sunday dur-
ing the warm weather.

Mr. Fuller preferred Thursday after-
noon. Some of the stores now keep
open until 9 o'clock Wednesday even-
ing, on account of Wednesdav being
pay day with a great many factories.
He thought the butchers would fall in
line on Thursday afternoons, and would
like to make a test of the matter for two

‘months, during July and August, the

same as is done by the dry goods

 

stores. He thougbt closing at 8 o'clock
Saturday p. m. would prove a fizzle. If
a grocer has a case of berries on hand
Saturday there is a strong temptation
to keep open a few minutes longer in
order to dispose of it. In his opinion,
the grocery clerks would strongly advo-
cate the Thursday closing scheme.

Mr. Lehman was of the opinion that
if the stores were to close, those who
remained open would get so little trace
that they would soon fall into line.

Mr. Klap suggested that it be tried
for one month, during August, and, if
it proved a success, increase the closing
period next season.

Mr. Wendorff thought four weeks too
short a trial.

Mr. Lehman was of the opinion that
four weeks was sufficient iime to test
the matter,

Mr. Fuller suggested that, in his
opinion, three Thursdays to experiment
on was quite time enough io demon-
strate the success or failure of the move-
ment.

Mr. Witters approved Thursday, in-
stead of Saturday, and suggested the
idea of closing at 12 o’clock. He
moved that a committee of three be ap-
pointed by the chairman to attend the
next meeting of the Retail Meat Deal-
ers’ Association and solicit their co-
operation. The motion was adopted
and Messrs, Witters, Klap and Lehman
were appointed as such committee.

Mr. Wendorff moved that, inasmuch
as the next meeting of the Association
falls on the evening of Juiy 4 and the
following meeting would therefore occur
on July 18, a special meeting be held
on July 11, which was adopted.

There being no further business, the
meeting adjourned.

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Grand Rapids Retail Meat Dealers
Association.

At a meeting of the Grand Rapids
Meat Dealers’ Association, held June 22,
President Wilson presided. All of the
officers were present and there was a
large attendance.

Applications for membership were
ihe first order of business, and John
Snyder and L. Veyer & Son were ac-
cepied, making a total membership
of 67.

The Committee on Wholesale Meat
Boxes reported the result of an inter-
view with the local representatives of
Swift & Company and Nelson Morris &
Co., terminating in a proposition from
the wholesalers to cut off all consumers
except the Morton, Livingston, Eagle
apd Kent hotels, Peninsular Club and
Chapin’s restaurant. The report was
discussed at some length, culminating
in its adoption and the Secretary was
instructed to notify the wholesalers that
the proposition was accepted and that a
voie of thanks was tendered them for
their courtesy to the Committee.

The next in order was to suspend
Rule 4, Sec. 11, of the by-iaws, so that
drinks and cigars might be ordered.
The Sargeant ordered the beverages
and the members did the rest.

A bill was presented for $5 to settle
for incorporation fees, which was or-
dered paid.

A motion was made that the Secretary
be instructed to inviie the Bay City
butchers to our picnic, which was
adopted.

The President appointed the follow-
ing picnic committees:

Arrangements—F. J. Dettentualer,
Phil. Hilber, C. B. Dressler, John
Rottier, P. D. Mohrhard, G. Waltz, S.
J. Hufford, John Rauser, John Elbe, A.
Schuchardt.

Programme—L. J. Katz, S. J. Huf-
ford, H. Schlichtig, W. Thomasma, F.
J. Dettenthaler.

The Secretary was instructed to in-
sert in the city papers during the week
notice of closing all day July 4.

A motion was made by S. J. Hufford
that the Treasurer give bonds. The
motion was adopted and the amount was
fixed at $1,000.

The Treasurer reported $6787 on
hand. HILBER, Sec’y.

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Wanted—Cigarmakers, rollers, bunch
breakers, strippers and lady packers.
G, J. Johnson Cigar Co., Grand Rapids.

  

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Woman’s World

Sensible Suggestions to the Summer
Girl.

Your graduating day is happily over,
my dear little girl, You have coaxed
the last of your organdies and pineap-
ple tissues into your overfull trunk, and
you are about to start forth on your first
summer campaign. To the ordinary
observer, it seems a matter of no conse-
quence at all that another girl is off for
Charlevoix or Mackinac Island, but to
you it is one of the important events
of life. In a way you are to try your
strength in a placid pool before you
venture into the swim of society, and
you are wondering whether you will bea
success or failure—whether you will re-
turn laden with hat bands, and walking
sticks, and stick pins, and photographs,
and other summer-girl spoils, or whether
you will have nothing but a lot of limp
and bedraggled finery to show for your
trouble.

Now, just what makes a girl popular
is one of the Dundreary things that no
fellow has found out, and if any wom-
an knows she takes precious good
care to keep it to herself. It isn’t a
question of money, for we have all ob-
served the daughter of wealth sitting
disconsolate against the walls of a sum-
mer hotel ball-room, while her im-
pecunious sister danced the soles off her
slippers. It is not expensive clothes,
for we have known girls with cartloads
of finery from Worth passed over for a
country maiden in a to-cent muslin.
Neither is it altogether a matter of good
looks, for the commonest observation is
that it is seldom the beauty who mar-
ries the best or even gets the most invi-
tations to the fish fry. It is some girl
who, so far as you can see, isn’t re-
markable in any way, but who possesses
that mysterious, subtile, potent charm
that draws people to her.

No one can teach you this. Popular-
ity is a thing where every girl must
work out her own salvation with fear
and trembling, but I would, at least,
like to call your attention to a few car-
dinal points in the game.

In the first place, and the second, and
the third, don’t be selfish. On this
hang all the law and the propkets. |
know that it is the custom to consider
women as holding a monopoly of the
virtue of unselfishness. Later on you
will find out that for absolute, utter dis-
regard for everybody’s rights but ber
own, lovely woman takes the cake in
the world’s competition. A woman will
do with impunity things that a man
would be pounded into a jelly for con-
templating. Why, I have seen a gen-
tle, angel-faced woman monopolize the
dressing-room on a sleeping car for an
hour and a half at a stretch, while a
corridor full of dishevelled sisters in
dressing sacks and curl papers pounded
on the door and besought her to let them
in-because they were only ten minutes
from the breakfast station. But did she
do it? Not much. She put all the clean
car towels down on the floor and stood
on them while she shampooed her head
and curled each individual hair, and
then when she was good and ready she
opened the door and not before. Ifa
man should treat other men that way,
when the offender came out he would be
received in the open arms of a lynch-
ing party and there would be riot and
bloodshed. It is only women who dare
defy and trample on public rights.

Somehow summer resorts seem to be
a place where we see human nature

 

 

 

with the veneer rubbed off, and you will
have plenty of opportunity of observing
this endearing trait of your sex. There
is always the girl who pre-empts the
best chair on the shady end of the gal-
lery for herself and her beau and who
glares at everyone who approaches her
as if she had struck a gold mine and
they were trying to, jump her claim.
Then there is the girl who hates chil-
dren and snubs old ladies who try to talk
to her. There is the girl who doesn’t
hesitate to wake up all the nervous peo-
ple and all the sick people by pounding
on the piano after midnight and shriek-
ing out that her love is a high-born
lady, and there is she who, having met
the agreeable new man, would die rather
than introduce him to another girl.

Be not like one of these. No other
fault is so repulsive in a woman as
selfishness. No other virtue shines so
refulgently as unselfishness. We may
grow tired of the wit and the beauty,
but we never get half enough of the
sunny-tempered girl who is willing to
share her chocolate and her beaux, who
is interested in old ladies and whom the
children buzz about like bees above the
clover. That’s the kind of girl we think
of when we make up special parties and
whom we want our brothers and sons to
marry.

Another point to which I would call
your attention is the burning subject of
progressive euchre. As it is played at
the general summer botel subscription
game it is progressive iniquity in the
way of false scores, revokes, acrimo-
nious recriminations and accusations. I
have seen fair, young, innocent-looking
girls lie and cheat for the sake of get-
ting an imitation cut glass pomade jar
and get red-faced and shrewish when
they lost. It is a spectacle to make
angels weep and men look elsewhere
for a wife. Unless you are absolutely
sure that you can play an honest game,
that you can see your partner trump
your aces without a quiver, and that
you can bear defeat with good grace,
for pity’s sake never touch a card. In
every game emulate the virtues of a
sport, which an eminent authority has
declared to be ‘‘to brag little, to show
well, to crow gently if in luck, to pay
up, Own up and shut up if beaten.’’

One thing that I would impress upon
every girl beyond everything else is
the difference between the bright giri
and the smart girl. The bright girl is
the cheery, good-natured girl whose
smile is like sunshine in a shady place.
The smart girl is she whose tongue is
like forked summer lightning, blasting
everything it touches, No friend is safe
from her gibes. No affection is too ten-
der for her ridicule. No affliction is so
piteous it escapes her mocking. Peo-
ple laugh at her and repeat ber sharp
speeches, and you think it must bea
fine thing to be that clever Believe
me, my dear, wit is the greatest curse a
woman ever falls heir to, unless, as only
happens about once in a million times,
she has sense enough and heart enough
to balance it. We may laugh at her, but
we fear her. We call her a wit to her
face and a cat behind her back. A
laugh is a high price to pay for a lost
friend. If people on the hotel gallery
suggest humorous remarks to you, go
out and strangle yourself before you ut-
ter them, so shall you escape heart-
burnings and regrets when you find out
that the shabby woman in the ill-fitting
gown, about whom you were so excru-
Ciatingly funny, is the Mrs. Croesus
whose parties you are dying to be in-
vited to. Things are seldom what they

 

seem. Ata summer resort they never
are, and you never know to whom you
are talking. Another point I would
emphasize is the folly that so many girls
indulge in of making cutting remarks
to men, under the impression that they
are being witty. As long as we have a
code of gentlemanliness that no man
can traverse in his speech, surely we
are in honor bound to maintain an equal
code of ladylikeness.

Avoid tbe amateur photographer as
you would the plague. My dear child,
I have been all along there, and I know
all about it. I know how free and easy
one gets at summer resorts and how you
didn’t mean a single thing when you iet
Tom get a snapshot of you in a senti-
mental pose with Billy, and that the
other view where Freddy appears to be
kissing you was only a make-believe.
Stop and think how these pictures are
going to look in cold blood next winter
when they are tacked up in Tom’s
room, without any explanation, and
Tom’s friends come in and sav, ‘‘Gee
whiz, but that summer girl was a
daisy.’’ Of course, you think that Tom
will rush in with an indignant denial,
but he won’t. He will light another
Cigarette and smile and look as if he
could say more if he would. The man
who doesn’t boast of a woman’s favors
doesn’t live. Remember that. After
all, the pleasure of making a fool of
ourselves is so momentary we ought to
be able to resist it.

With men let ‘‘Welcome the coming,
speed the parting guest’’ be your motto,
and this holds good whether he be son,
husband, father or sweetheart. Let a
man be free and welcome to go, and he
wiil stay. Try to hold him, make him
feel he has got to stay, and he will go
if he perishes in the attempt. Don't run
aftera man. It is vulgar, undignified,
and unladylike, and besides, it will do
you no good. Women were not equipped,
mentally or physically, for running.

Do you remember that enigmatical
sentence in the poem where the man is
conjured to ‘‘be bold, be bold, be not
too bold?’’ That is a good motto for the
girl of to-day, and let me tell you, my
dear, that it is no small achievement,
and the very quintessence of tact to be
able to strike the happy mean between
prudery and boldness, Don’t be finicky,
but don’t be too knowing, or too much
of a good fellow. The old-fashioned
code of womanly reserve has never been
improved upon for a platform for girls,
and if you take your stand on that you
will not be far wrong. Men are incon-
sistent creatures, and in nothing more
than this, that they amuse themselves
with one type of girls and marry an-
other. The jolly good fellow who knows
all the slang, who doesn’t mind laugh-
ing at an off-color story, and smokes
Cigarettes with the boys, has the most
beaux, but it is the demure damsel who
gets the engagement ring.

To the giving of advice there is no
end, and after all the sum of the whole
thing can be put in one word: Don’t
think yourself the center of the uni-
verse. Remember other people’s whims,
respect their prejudices. Do as you
would be done by. Soshall your neigh-
bors rise up and bless you.

Dorotny Drx.

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The Modern Method.

“It’s an awful thing not to know
where one’s next meal is coming from.’’

““Yes, and a good many of us married
men are experiencing it since the gro-
cery stores got to advertising bargain
sales, °’

 

The Aggressive Woman.

No woman can make a greater mis-
take in life than to adopt an aggressive
attitude towards the world. The man
who goes about with a chip on his
shoulder is bad enough and disagree-
able enough, heaven knows, but he is
as nothing compared to the woman who
is always on the lookout for causes of
offense and who makes a kind of hu-
man porcupine of herself.

Unhappily for the peace and comfort
of the rest of us, the aggressive woman
is only too numerous and too familiar a
figure. We meet her in the clubs, where
she makes a personal question of every-
thing, and grows vindictive and spite-
ful towards all who dare oppose her.
She is the bane of churches, where her
determination to run thfmgs has fomented
more quarrels and broken up more con-
gregations and been the cause of more
hard feelings and malice and genera!
uncharitableness than all other causes
combined. Asa friend, she is a ran-
kling affliction, and as a wife and mother
she is scarcely beiter, for she possesses
above all other creatures that peculiar
talent for creating discord that we call
‘“setting a house by the ears.”’

Naturally the aggressive woman. is
strong on what she czlls her rights, and
imagines that nothing but her determi-
nation not to give way to anybody or
anything keeps her from being trodden
under foot. Never was there a greater
fallacy. The world is a good-humored
giant that can be cajoled out of almost
anything, but it can never be bulldozed
into anything. The very reason that so
meny of the causes championed by
women have failed is because they have
had the misfortune to have as their
leaders and exponents the rabid and ag-
gressive type of women—women the
very tones of whose ‘harsh voices, the
very cock of whose bonnets, converted
you into an iastinctive opponent before
you had heard a single word they had
to say.

There is a curious quality in human
nature that prompis us to refuse the
thing demanded of us as a right that we
are glad to bestow as a gift. Those
who insist on having what they call
their dues, even down to the smallest
fraction, may appear at first 10 succeed,
but there soon rises up a spirit of revolt
that finds a rare sport in circumventing
them. Many an aggressive woman,
so sure that she gets what she wants by
fighting for it and demanding it, would

be amazed to find how often she is out-

done by her seivants and tradespeople,
to say nothirg of her family.

There is a homely old provert that
sets forth that vinegar never catches
flies, and just from a worldly and selfish
standpoint it is worth while to be
amiable and to cultivate the gentle vii-
tues of kindness and consideration for
others. Life is nothing but a mirror
that gives back our own face to us. If
we smile upon it, it comes back to us
in warmth and sunshine. But if we turn
a dark and sullen face upon it, be sure
we get back nothing but coid avoidance
and bitter dislike. The world is will-
ing to laugh with us, and dance with
us, and make merry with us; but, like
an Irishman at a fair, it is also equally
willing to fight with us. If we put the
chip on our shoulder and dare it to the
conflict, we must take the consequences ;
and to a woman they are invariably
disastrous. Women were not meant to
fight. They were iatended for some-
thing sweeter and better than that, and
the aggressive woman is a libel on her
sex, Cora STOWELL.

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rine Granulated Sugar
94.98

With the purchase of two one-half chests Japan Teas at 34, 35, 36, 37 or
38c purchaser is entitled to five barrels H. & E. Fine Granulated Sugar at
$4.98 f.0. b. Saginaw. Teas are guaranteed equal to any sold, at prices
quoted, in Michigan. Samples mailed if desired, and offer will remain
good until July 30th. Do we cail our Tea deal a sly one? No, decidedly
not. It will prove a Sampson in drawing trade, and is made open and
above board in good faith.

We have had scores of letters inquiring after our “drop” shipment on
Plug Tobacco; it comprises:

One 15 pound butt Ice Cream.

One 28 pound butt Three Black Crows.
One 24 pound butt Out of Sight.
Standard Navy,
One 12 pound butt either; American Eagle or
a Battle Ax.
79 pounds at 25c per pound—$19.75.
Option expires June 30th, as all Continental Tobacco Co.’s goods take full
list after that date. This means 25 per cent. advance on brands quoted.
New Potatoes, Early Triumphs, fine stock, 55c per bushel.
Lemons, Extra Choice 300’s, $4 per box.
Strictly Fancy 300’s, $4.50 per box; elegant Messina stock and very
desirable for Fourth of July trade.
Rolled Oats, American Cereal Co. and Yankee brands, $3.25 per bri.
We are headquarters on Candies:
Grocers’ Mixed, pails, 47c per pound.
Golden Diadem, small fine mixture, 7c per pound.
Peerless Mixture, 6c per pound.
Cream Mixture, 7%c per pound.
Penny Goods, 10 box lots, 45c per box.
Penny Goods, 25-box lots, 42%c per box.
Fine Georgia \Watermelons $14.00 per 100; 16c in less quantities.
Our terms are strictly cash with orders in current exchange. Parties
remitting local checks will please add 15c for exchange.

The James Stewart Co., Limited,

Saginaw, Michigan, June 28th.

    
   
 
 
 
 
  
  
    
 
     
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
    
      
    

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BUSINESS CONDITIONS.

As indicated by the volume of bank
clearings for the country and reports of
railway tonnage, the tide of domestic
exchange and industrial activity is still
on the rise. Clearings for the month
averaged 36.3 per cent. more than
those of the same period last year,
which were considered very heavy and
over 50 per cent. more than the banner
ante-panic year, 1892. Railway earn-
ings have continued the upward move-
ment of the average of transportation
stocks in spite of speculative manipula-
tions, which carried the average of in-
dustrials siightly downwards. It is com-
ing to be realized that the introduction
of secret methods in trust management
and the opportunities for speculative
manipulation are factors of increasing
importance in some of the leading in-
dustries. Conversely, those which are
conducted by frank, open’ methods
steadily advance in unison with the gen-
eral conditions.

The movement of wheat has been
characterized by much greater activity
in primary markets than was expected.
It has been generally supposed that
supplies were pretty well depleted and
that the idea of a short crop would
make farmers conservative in selling,
but movement has been so active that
it has caused a decline in cash wheat.
Exports for the year exceed those of
last, which were considered phenome-
nal, by over a million bushels, with a
week still lacking in the report.

The reported contract of Russia with
the Carnegie Company for 180,000 tons
of rails, to be delivered in two and a
half years, if officially confirmed would
mean steady occupation of 6,000 tons’
monthly capacity at terms probably sat-
isfactory in the future, although it may
be doubted whether any such contract
has been made at prices now current.
Prices of Bessemer pig held last week,
but Grey Forge slightly weakened,
while at Chicago and Philadelphia quo-
tations were stronger. The demand for
manufactured products lifted the aver-
age slightly further last week, but with
so great a share of the capacity tied up
for months by previous contracts that
the quotations represent in part pre-
miums for early delivery of small quan-
tities. The scarcity of Bessemer pig
and of steel is not relieved, nor is it
clear that furnaces to relieve it can soon
be added, but production of otber iron
is more rapidly increased. The coming
month will prove somewhat critical,
however, as part of the wage settle-

 

ments for the next year have to be
made, and it is not yet known how
many of the works will be able to avoid
the shutdown customary in summer for
repairs. In the present state of the
markets it is probable that few which
can avoid it will stop production at all.

The textile situation continues the
favorable features of last week except
that the price of cotton shows a sharp
decline of %c. This is owing to more
favorable crop conditions and to the fact
that the current receipts from planta-
tions are much in excess of expecta-
tions. Demand for manufactured goods
coutinues good and while the tendency
df cotton retards the advance the gen-
eral feeling is encouraging. Wool sales
have been heavy, with an advance in
prices, largely speculative, however.
Demand for fabrics continues the im-
provement reported last week. The
shipments of boots and shoes last week,
106,734 cases, have rarely been equalled
at any season, and in three weeks ship-
ments were the largest ever known in
June except in 1895, when they were
not 2,000 cases more. The demand
covers production for some months
ahead.

According to Brassey’s Naval Annual
for the current year the relative posi-
tion of the great naval powers towards
each other has not materially changed,
except in the case of Spain, which has
really dropped out of the list of im-
portant naval powers, and her place has
been supplied by Japan, which country
for the first time is classed among the
first-class naval powers. The list now
stands in the following order, according
to the strength of the various fleets:
First, Great Britain; second, France;
third, Russia; fourth, Italy; fifth, Ger-
many; sixth, the United States; sev-
enth, Japan.

 

C. A. Dewey, a Kenosha hardware
merchant, recently ordered a_ ladder
from a Chicago house, and, after wait-
ing a reasonable length of time, he
wrote to enquire why he had not re-
ceived it. He was informed that the
ladder had beer shipped by mistake to
Admiral Dewey, at Manila. A tracer
was sent after it, and it was overtaken
just as it was about to be placed on
board a steamer at San Francisco.
When that order was given, Chicago
merchants were thinking of a subscrip-
tion dinner with ‘‘Cousin George,’’ the
admiral, and they could think of no one
else.

 

 

The man who pretends to be a phi-
lanthropist without exhibiting some
tangible evidence of philanthropy is a
good man to avoid. Arguing along the
same lines, a corporation which claims
to be organized solely for doing good in
the world,and which disclaims that it is
actuated by mercenary motives, is a
good corporation to let alone. These re-
marks are suggested by the letter re-
produced elsewhere in this week’s
paper, soliciting $10 memberships in
the Retail Merchants’ Syndicate.

Whenever New York wants to boom
herself and a distinguished man, she
gives him adinner. She sets herself
up as the stomach of the universe,
Other cities may elect to be the head or
the legs or the strong arms of the world:
but they can not live and get on with-
out the stomach.

 

A nutmeg grater has been named for
Dewey. The Government, nor the
bouse-and-lot buyers, nor the dinner
subscribers, can do him grater honor.

 

THE WORLD’S SUGAR EATERS.
Although beet sugar, of which im-
mense quantities are produced in Ger-
many, is so cheap when exported that
it is sent to all countries in competition
with the cane sugar of the East and
West Indies, it is so high-priced in
Germany that the people there consume
comparatively little of it.

The reason for the cheapness of Ger-
man sugar to foreigners and its high
price to the German people is that a
heavy tax is paid on the sugar con-
sumed at home, while that which is ex-
ported is relieved of the tax. The ob-
ject of this measure is to encourage the
exportation of the product; but it has
to be done at the expense of the home
consumption.

Statistics show that the English are
the leading sugar eaters of the world,
consuming to each head of population
in a year about 9! pounds. The peo-
ple of the United States come next,
with a consumption of 59 pounds. Swit-
zerland shows up with 52, Denmark
with 49, Sweden and Norway with 41,
Holland with 34, France with 31 and
Germany with 30 pounds per head, about
half of that of the people of the United
States, and one-third that of England.

It is proposed to increase the home
consumption, and that can only be done
by taking off the tax. That would be a
great thing for the German people at
large, for it would greatly reduce the
price paid by them.

The consumption of sugar seems to
be a sort of test of the wealth of the
people of a country, the English and
Americans being at the head of the list,
and the Turks and Greeks at the bot-
tom, with a yearly consumption to each
person of 6 or 7 pounds.

 

A new law which goes into effect in
Nebraska on July 1 not only regulates
and limits the hours of employment of
women in manufacturing and mercan-
tile establishments, but requires every
employer to provide suitable seats for
them to occupy during working hours.
Heavy penalties are provided for viola-
tion of the law. The new statute was
doubtless intended to afford relief to
overworked factory and store girls, and
in this respect is commendable enough.
But, like many other laws of a similar
character, its operation is not likely to
be what was expected. Proprietors of
big mercantile establishments in Ne-
braska declare their inability to comply
with its provisions, and that therefore
they will be obliged to displace their
women employes with men. Even al-
though the women protest their indiffer-
ence to the law and their willingness to
work under former conditions, the em-
ployers can not afford to take the risk
of being continually arrested and sub-
jected to heavy fines. There is danger,
therefore, that the law, instead of im-
proving the conditions of female labor,
will throw thousands of women out of
employment.

Proof accumulates daily that com-
bines, organized to destroy competition
in the field of tiansportation, production
or manufacture, are as surely placing
their tools in the seats of legislative
and judiciary power as they are using
the leverage of vast wealth to crush
trade rivals and competitors. When-
ever an election occurs whose outcome
may affect the interests of these com-
bines their instruments and theif money
are in evidence, working to place in
power men iriendly to their plans and
purposes, Herein lies the menace of
trusts and their assistant corporations.

 

A year ago last May Miss Nathalia
Schenck, of Babylon, L. I., hit upon
the endless chain scheme in order to
raise $4,000 for an ice plant for the
American soldiers who had gone to
Cuba to fight the Spaniards. On May
18 she sent four letters to four friends,
asking each to send her a dime and to
write to four friends to send dimes and
write similar letters. Ina few days let-
ters came pouring into Babylon in such
numbers that the postmaster had to get
extra help. Soon Miss Schenck’s mail
was going to her house by the wagon
load. On one day in July 12,000 letters
were received by her. The $4,000 was
raised, the soldiers got their ice plant,
they whipped the Spaniards, the war
ended and peace was declared. But the
endless chain continued to move on
Babylon. Efforts to break it were made
a few weeks after it was started, but
they were unavailing. Miss Schenck
made appeals through the papers to
people to cease sending dimes, but they
were useless. By November last there
was a falling off in remittances; since
then the number of letters has stead-
ily diminished. Many of the more re-
cent replies came from distant states.
Last Friday not a single letter was re-
ceived, and it is thought that the end-
less chain has finally been broken. The
total received by Miss Schenck was
$25,000, all of which has been turned
over to the Ice Plant Auxiliary of the
Red Cross Society. All the expenses
have been paid by selling the addresses
of the letter writers to publication
houses.

 

‘*Money is not the only thing in the
world,’’ is the explanation of Brigadier
General Leonard Wood of his declining
an offer of $30,000 a year to become
president of a Washington street rail-
way company. He retains his com-
mission as Brigadier General of Vol-
unteers and Military Governor of the
Province of Santiago. More people will
understand his explanation and applaud
his decision than would do as he has
done. Money is not everything! Pa-
triotism, love of the flag, the service of
one’s country, the opportunity to do
good for one’s fellow men and win
honor in the present and a secure place
in history, are more. General Wood is
not a rich man, save in those qualities
that are above purchase. In these he
is a multi-millionaire. All honor to
him! He prefers the place which he
has proved himself fitted for. He will
return to Santiago and its severe duties,
keeping his face firmly to the future
that awaits him.

Considering the rapid strides Muske-
gon has made in a material way during
the past dozen years, it is unfortunate
that her banking interests should seek
to throw stumbling blocks in the path-
way of progress by combining to charge
exchange on the checks of their custom-
ers. Such a position is possibly justified
in the case of a country bank doing
business in an impoverished commu-
nity, but it is not in harmony with the
progressive spirit which has_ character-
ized the manufacturing and mercantile
interests of Muskegon. If persisted in
it will bring discredit on the city, be-
cause the checks issued by her business
men will come to be regarded as_ worth
less than their par value. For the sake

of Muskegon’s reputation, which ought
to be jealously guarded by every bank-
ing house in the city, the Tradesman
hopes to see the Muskegon banks re-
cede from the arbitrary position they
have agreed to assume on July 1.

 

 

 

 

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TRADESMAN

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WAR WITH THE MICROBES.

The development and elaboration of
the microscope have resulted in reveal-
ing to human vision the existence of
countless myriads of living creatures
which are entirely invisible to the un-
assisted eye and have been hitherto
utterly unknown.

These creatures are in some cases
vegetables and in others animals, and
they are in the air, the water, the soil
and in the bodies of all larger living
creatures. Some are held to be malev-
olent and harmful to human _ health,
and e¥en destructive of human life,
while others, and by far the greatest
numbers, are either harmless or posi-
tively beneficial, for they seize on the
malevolent microbes, or bacteria, and
devour them. From this it is seen that
the same practices pursued among the
larger living creatures of slaughtering
and feeding, the one on the other, are
carried on in the microscopic world as
well,

The increase of information concern-
ing bacterial life has been valuable in
the devising of new remedies in dis-
eases that are caused by malevolent mi-
crobes. The remedy consists in provid-
ing specially cultured microbes to neu-
tralize or destroy the bad fellows. This
is the principle adopted in various
forms of serum treatment in which the
bacteria of special diseases are met
and overcome by those introduced in
the serum.

The statement that the food we eat,
the air we breathe, and all the surround-
ings in which human beings live, are
swarming with bacteria, some of which
at least are of the wicked and danger-
ous sort, is very disquieting, not to say
alarming, and is well calculated to dis-
gust and horrify nervous people. All
such should carefully refrain from look-
ing through microscopes, so that, not
seeing the little monsters that feed on
us, they will not know how ugly and re-
pulsive they all are.

Most of the malevolent and dangerous
bacteria thrive in decaying and dead
matter and filth, and thorough cleanli-
ness does more than anything else to
kill them off. Cleanliness is the best
sort of sanitation, and while microbes
can be killed by treating filth with cer-
tain sorts of chemicals or by fire, the
most perfect system of disinfection is to
remove all filth before it can breed the
enemies of health. This isthe meaning
of sewerage for a city. It carries off
promptly all refuse that can harbor and
propagate injurious bacteria. This
done, and the streets and all public and
private premises kept clean, there is
nothing left to breed dangerous bacteria
and to promote their diffusion into the
air, water and food which the people of
a city are compelled to use.

Fevers, leprosy, diphtheria, tubercu-
losis, cholera and many of the most
dangerous diseases are the work of
microbes bred and fostered in filth, and
if the filth be thoroughly removed, and
kept so, by the use of sanitary appli-
ances, then there will be no opportuni-
ty or means for the survival of these
deadly little foes to human health.

 

AMERICAN SHIPBUILDING.

Without any Government bounty or
subsidy to American shipbuilders and
ship owners, the construction of iron
and steel ships in the United States is
going on with great activity.

According to the Cleveland (Qhio)
Marine Review, there are now in proc-
ess of construction in American ship-
yards, for the United States and foreign

 

countries, more than 50 naval vessels,
valued at upward of $40,000,000, exclu-
sive of armor and armament, and more
than 200 merchant vessels, no small
craft of any kind included, the aggre-
gate value of which exceeds $30, 000, 000.

The same authority states that there
has been turned out in this single year
an Atlantic coast fleet of respectable
size, in which the Cromwell, Morgan,
Ward, Merchants and Miners, Old Do-
minion, Plant, Old Bay and almost all
other principal coast lines have been
represented. For Pacific coast service
there are building more modern steel
freight and passenger steamers than
have been constructed in any three
previous years together.

On the Western rivers steel hulls have
made their appearance, with promise
of the river fleet being gradually rebuilt
along steel lines. Shipyards of the en-
tire country have, in fact, orders suffi-
cient on hand to keep them in opera-
tion for periods ranging from one to
three years.

The largest merchant vessels and ves-
sels of war ever constructed on this
side of the Atlantic are now on the
stocks in American yards. The princi-
pal steamship company of the country
has been compelled to place orders
abroad by reason of inability to secure
from any American builder a promise
of delivery in anything like the time
required.

The Spanish war and the commercial
and other transportational requirements
that have followed it have been the
chief stimulant to the domestic ship-
building industry, and the necessity for
an adequate naval establishment for the
United States, and for American ships
to carry the trade between home ports
and the colonies, will continue to main-
tain a great deal of activity for some
time to come in the shipbuilding indus-
try. All the shipyards and construction
plants on the Great Lakes, in the Atlan-
tic ports of the Northern States and in
California are filled up with work, and
witb orders ahead.

 

The remark that ‘‘there are no good
Indians but dead Indians,’’ attributed
to General Sheridan, was denied by him.
Anyway, it seems applicable to the
Tagalogs of Luzon. Their conduct in
the attacks on Major Bubb’s reconnoi-
tering party in Cavite province con-
firms all that has been said of their
treacherous nature. The amigos, na-
tives professing friendship, clothed in
white and bearing white flags in token
of peaceful ways and friendly intent,
no sooner see an opportunity to strike
than they are ready, with gun and
knife, to war upon the Americans who
spared them. The experiences of the
kind told of in the desperate fight of
Major Bubb’s command emphasize the
view that General Otis should have
troops enough to garrison the places
taken. In the Soudan the British were
charged with ordering no quarter, be-
cause ‘‘Fuzzywuzzy’’ was like the Tag-
alogs. Wounded and dying, he would
stab the trooper who held a cup of
water to his parched lips. The United
States would pacify Luzon without ex-
terminating the insurgents, and to that
end it must have men enough in the is-
land to hold every point of vantage
gained.

 

The thousands of lives that have been
lost in Alaska—where dupes hoped to
become rich instead of freezing and
starving—are, not charged against the
United States Government.

 

AMERICANIZING THE COLONIES.

The Insular Commission is a com-
mittee appointed by the President to
visit Puerto Rico and, after investi-
gating, report upon the best means of
Americanizing the island.

It is stated, in advance of the Com-
mission’s formal report, that it will
recommend radical measures to change
all the existing public institutions to
conform to those common in the States
of the Union.

A complete code for the government
of the island has been prepared by the
Commissioners, and it involves tearing
up the Spanish governmental system,
root and branch. The Commissioners
proposed to extend the Federal laws en-
tire to the island, make the common law
of the United States immediately ap-
plicable and supplement these with a
criminal and civil code borrowed from
some state.

It is given out that it is proposed to
make English the language of the coun-
try and to send out teachers to the pub-
lic schools to instruct the children.

Commercial necessity, it is said, will
force English upon the adults. It is
proposed to establish an American
public school ssytem absolutely unsec-
tarian, and then enforce compulsory
education, either in public or church
schools, with English as the language.
Church and state are to be divorced at
once and the antiquated judicial system
will be completely wiped out.

Spanish will be the language of the
lower courts temporarily, but all courts
of appeal will do business in English,
with interpreters for those who can not
understand. All this is to be done un-
der the military control, and it is be-
lieved the President will approve the
code prepared by the Commission, so
that it may be put in operation before
Congress can take up the matter.

All this shows that the purpose is to
sei up the new possessions under terri-
torial government, the only system
known to the American people. It is
not the rule with nations that own and
control colonies. In such cases the in-
stitutions and language of the people
are maintained as much as possible
consistent with the change of national
ownership. Recently a great outcry was
made because Russia has commenced
to make changes in the public institu-
tioas of Finland, and although Finland
has been a Russian province for a long
time, the proposed changes were de-
clared to be despotic aad tyrannous.
But it is all right when the Great Re-
public undertakes violent and radical
changes in the institutions of the Span-
ish-speaking people that have come un-
der its control, because these acts are
done in the name of liberty.

It is curious how different things ap-
pear when the American people perpe-
trate acts which they condemn in otbers.

A Pennsylvania woman who left con-
siderable sums of money to charitable
institutions is having her will attacked
by dear relatives. They will endeavor
to show she was insane; that she thought
witches were in her house and went to
bed with rubber boots on. She would
have been all right if she had left her
money to dear relatives.

The next call for soldiers should be a
call for men to enter the regiments of
the regular army. Raising regiments
of green men to give inexperienced
officers a chance to wear shoulder straps
is not the thing to do at this stage of
the game.

 

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do it right because he
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to fet up. We don't

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your order willhelp along.

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Sole Manufacturers of “LILY WHITE,”
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

Shoes and Leather

An Old Dealer’s Ideas Regarding Fake
Sales.
Written for the TRADESMAN.

I sat down in a country shoe store, the
other day, to wait for atrain. It was
a little bit of a place, with a few shelves
of ready-made goods on one side and a
cobbler’s outtit on the other. I was
quite well acquainted with the dealer,
who was also the cobbler, and had al-
ways admired him, not only for his
sturdy independence, but for his sharp
tongue.

**How's trade?’’ I asked, by way of
opening the conversation.

‘* Rotten, ’’ was the quick rejoinder.

‘*Little demand for shoes, eh?’’ 1
asked.

‘*Oh, they want shoes,’’ was the re-
ply, ‘‘but they don’t want to pay decent
prices for them. When they get a little
money they go off on some cheap ex-
cursion and come back here, big as life,
fitted out with pasteboard shoes. | think
I’ll buy a few boxes of composition
leather, a lot of pasteboard, and some
glue and blacking and go into the man-
ufacturing business. ’’

‘‘Is there much of that style of stuff
on the market?’’ I asked.

‘‘Lots of it,’’ was the reply. ‘‘I
won't sell it, but fake dealers do, and
make money, too, by selling about a
month in a town and then jumping
out.’’
‘*Well,’’ I said, ‘‘that ought to make
business good in the cobbling line.
Such shoes must be in constant need of
repair."’

‘‘That’s just where you are mis-
taken,’’ was the reply. ‘‘Such shoes
are not worth repairing. When they be-
gin to give out they give out all over,
and the day of their collapse is not far
from the day of their purchase. The
first wetting fixes a good many of them.
If the makers would use waterproof
paste, it would be a little better, but I
guess that is too expensive.’’

The old fellow grumbled a few mo-
ments over a shoe he was repairing, and
then cast his eyes in my direction.

‘And people go on buying such goods
year after year,’’ he said. ‘‘Ii is not
only shoes, it is everything, clothing,
furniture, and even jewelry. You can
buy a $30 suit of clothes ‘marked down’
to $3.27, a solid gold watch worth $45
‘marked down’ to eighty-eight cents.
Oh, the sharks are reaping a harvest
and the suckers are biting in fine shape!
If I should advertise genuine silver dol-
lars marked down to twenty-seven cents,
people would believe I had the real
thing until some United States official
came along and locked me up for deal-
ing in counterfeit coin,’’

Just then a country youth, awkward,
homely and poorly dressed, but with a
laughable air of impudent self-assertion
about him, entered the little store and
threw a pair of shoes on the counter.

‘‘I want some patches put on,’’ he
said. ‘‘Hurry up, old man, for I want
to see my best gir! to-night.’’

The dealer, beyond one quick glance,
paid no attention to the presence of his
rather fresh customer.

‘Understand?’ said the youth, rolling
a Cigarette,

The merchant kept at his work, but
as the youth was about to apply a
lighted match to the roll of tobacco(?)
he had fashioned, he looked up angrily
and half arose from his work bench.

‘‘If you light that thing in here,’’ he
said, “*I'll empty the shop pail over
you.

‘‘Oh, don’t allow it, eh?’’ asked the
unabashed youth. ‘‘I'll smoke outside
while you fix my shoes. And look
sharp, too,’’

The youth passed out, holding the
lighted match in his hand. The dealer
did not even look at the shoes, still ly-
ing on the counter.

““There’s a fresh product for you,’
he said. ‘‘I think he needs a lesson in
manners. And he’s been up against
some fake store.’’

After five minutes the youth looked in
at the store door and saw that his shoes
remained untouched.

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asked, advancing toward the work
bench.
‘*Fix what?’’

‘*My shoes. Left ’em here half an
hour ago.’’

‘*Left them where?’’ asked the dealer.

‘‘Rigbt there on the counter. Said I
wanted ’em in a hurry, too.’’

‘‘Hand them here, please.’’

With a stare of surprise the youth
complied and the old man slowly ex-
amined them.

‘*Where did you get these?’’ he asked.

‘‘Oh,*’ said the youth, with a toss of
the head, ‘‘I bought ’em in Chicago on
my last trip.’”’

You would have thought from the airs
the cheap youth assumed that he had <
winter residence in Chicago, and that
he hadn’t worked hard for a month
shoveling fertilizer to earn the money
for a cheap excursion ticket. The deal-
er laid the shoes down and went on with
his work.

**Did they give you a gold watch and
chain as a premium with the shoes?’’
he asked.

The youth stared for a moment with
open mouth.

‘‘What do you want for five cents?’’
he finally snickered. ‘‘They were
marked down to $1.39 from $5. It was
a fire sale, you see,’’ he finally deigned
to explain.

‘‘Yes,’’ said the merchant, ‘‘I see.
A fire sale on State street, south of Van
Buren. Did the merchant invite you
out to his summer cottage to pass a few
days with him?’’

‘*What’re you givin’ me?’’ grinned
the youth.

‘“*T didn’t know but he might,’’ said
the merchant, with a sly wink in my
direction. ‘‘Did he say anything about
not getting the shoes wet and not wear-
ing them except on Sundays?’’

**No, he didn’t.’’

The youth was becoming embarrassed.
He shuffled his feet uneasily and looked
as if he would rather be out of doors than
in the store.

‘*Because,’’ continued the merchant,
“‘these shoes were not made to wear
near the water or on week days. I can
see by the kind of paste the brown
pasteboard and the composition leather
are glued together with that they were
designed to be treated as pets. Do they
ever stick to your feet when you get
near the tire?’’

The youth made no reply.

‘*Because if they do,’’ resumed the
merchant, ‘‘that’s the glue pining tor
the rich atmosphere of the stockyards.
They don’t usually go to the expense of
using glue on these five dollar shoes,
but they perhaps made an exception in
your favor. The cows don't act tn-
friendly to you when you wear these
shoes, do they?’’

‘*If you ain’t goin’ to mend ’em, you
just give ‘em back,’’ said the youth.

‘‘T should think,’’ continued the mer-
chant, ‘‘that the cows and steers would
hail you as a friend. Don’t they smile
encouragingly at you? No? Well, you
see, there’s no leather in these shoes,
not enough leather to choke an ant tc
death, and I thought perhaps the cattle
would appreciate your consideration for
their feelings in not thrusting relics of
their departed friends under their
noses, ’’

‘*You give them shoes here,’’ de-
manded the youth.

‘‘I’m afraid I'll have to,’’ was the
reply, ‘‘because the only way they can
be fixed is to grind them over again and
mould them anew. They weren’t made
to wear, but to sit in a show window
and look pretty. When you go to Chi-
cago again you might call on the man
who sold them to you and ask him about
them. You probably won't find him at
the old store, but he’s there somewhere,
running a fire sale, or a water sale, or
a sheriff's sale, or a closing out sale.’’

The. youth grabbed the shoes and
made for the door.

‘*If he had bought those shoes of any
regular dealer,’’ said the merchant,
after the fellow had disappeared, ‘‘the
loss would have been made good, but
be went to a fake concern, and he must
abide the result.’’

I went away glad to have met the
merchant and the country youth.

ALFRED B. Tozer.

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Parte

Clerks’ Corner.

One of the Clerks Who Went to the
Front.

Tom Delaney had the war fever. The
Maine had been blown up and the na-
tion was waiting with bated breath for
the report of the Investigating Com-
mission. War was the principal topic
of conversation. The national guards-
men, all over the country, were drilling
every night in their armories. Tom was
a member of the Chaffee Light Artil-
lery; but he was not satisfied. He came
down to the store the morning after war
had been declared and announced to the
boys that he was going to enlist in the
Seventh Regiment of the regular army,
then stationed at Fort Logan, a few
miles out of the city. Several of the
boys who were members of the State
militia tried to dissuade him; but his
mind was made up and that afternoon
he took the train for Fort Logan, and
passed the physical examination and
was regularly enlisted as a soldier in the
gallant Seventh.

As Tom emphatically declared, to all
arguments against his going, ‘‘There’s
not a thing to prevent my going. I’m
physically perfect, I’m 5 feet 10 inches
in my socks, I weigh 165 pounds and I
was 21 on my last birthday. What more
do you want, I'd like to know? Oh,
yes, father’l] kick, I know; but he went
in ’61, and fought for four years, and
I guess I can win him over all right
enough. Have I thought about my
mother? What do you want to bring
that up for? Of course I have. Mother’ll
—well—oh, pshaw! let's talk about
something else,’’

Tom came into the store to see us a
few days after he had enlisted. His
new uniform set off his handsome figure
to perfection and he looked every inch
a soldier. He was quieter, though, and
I thought from the gentle expression
in his eyes that he had just been talk-
ing with his folks. Mr. Jarvis, our em-
ployer, came along while Tom was talk-
ing with us and in a hearty, cordial
way shook hands with him and told
him again that his place would be open
for him when he came back.

**I suppose,’’ said Tom, after Mr.
Jarvis had gone, ‘‘you’ve heard that
the Seventh has been ordered to the
front. We leave to-morrow morning.
I'll say good-bye now, for I sha’n’t get
a chance again. You'll see us to-mor-
row as we march down Sixteenth street.
Give us a yell as we go by.”’

The sidewalks on Sixteenth street
were alive with people, upon the follow-
ing day, as the Seventh Regiment of
the regular army marched down on its
way to tne depot. Tom Delaney was at
the end of the second rank and beside
him walked an old man in a Grand
Army uniform with his hand on Tom’s
shoulder. It wasn’t much, except that
it was one of those tender, pathetic in-
cidents that speak at once to the heart.
At sight of those two, women sobbed and
strong men found tears in their eyes.

The Seventh went to one of the big
camps in the South, and then followed
the period of waiting when the army
for the invasion of Cuba was mobilizing.
We heard from Tom every week or two.
He was in great spirits and anxious to
get a crack at the ‘‘greasy Spaniards,’”’
as he called them. Then we heard that
the Seventh, among others, was embark-
ing for Cuba, of its landing and of the
hot work that soon foliowed at El
Caney, where so many of our brave boys
gave up their lives.

 

 

 

 

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A few months ago all that was mortal
of twenty of the Seventh’s gallant lads
was brought back to Denver and laid
away to rest. There was military pomp,
there were flags at half-mast and the
usual salute was fired above the graves.
There are twenty brass plates on the
flagpole in the center of the State House
grounds. On one of them is inscribed
* name, ‘*Thomas Delaney;’’ and
eVery evening as the sunset gun is fired
at Fort Logan and its boom reverberates
across the plains an old man in Grand
Army uniform and hat in hand may be
seen standing in front of the flagpole
with his eyes fixed on this brass tablet.

Mac ALLAN.
——__»0.___
Experience of a Man Who Tried To
Sell a Safe.
From the New York Sun.

‘‘When I fitted up my office in the |

Blank building,’’ said the man on one
of the end seats of the car, ‘‘I bought
everything new and of the best. This
included desk, chairs, letter press, a
rug, a clock, a stand or two and a few
other articles. One of the newest things
I had was a fire and burglar proof safe.
It had a landscape on the door and my
name in gilt letters, and although I
hadn’t much to put into the box it had
a look of prosperity to make me smile.
It wasn’t a bargain, but I had to come
down with a good lot of cash, and it
was a week before I got it just where it
would show off to the best advantage.

‘*T had the office five months and then
changed my business and wanted to sell
the furniture. It was as good as new,
and I fondly believed that it would be
snapped up at a loss of about 15 per
cent. I trotted cut to a second-hand
dealer, and he took his time about com-
ing up. When he finally appeared he
offered me about one-fifth of what I had
paid, and he wasn’t anxious at that. I
tried four or five others, but the first
figures were the best. I was knocked
out, but I made the sale, all except the
safe. I went toa safe man to dispose
of that. He came and looked it over,
found fault with the make, and offered
me just one-fourth of its cost. I bounced
him out and brought in another, but he
offered less. I had every dealer up be-
fore I got through, and each and every
one found fault and insulted me with
his low price. I finally got mad and
determined to beat the gang. I went
all through the building, but no one
wanted a safe, or the two or three who
did had no cash to pay for it. Then I
spent $10 in advertising, and had two
dozen callers. No one would offer mea
third of what I had paid, although there
wasn’t a scratch or mar on the safe.

‘*You_ see,’’ continued the man as he
gritted his teeth and scowled, ‘‘I had
to keep the office and pay rent as long
as that safe remained. In trying to get
a decent figure for it I paid out $60
rent. The $10 for advertising made $70,
and telegrams and postage amounted to
two or three more. [ hung on like a dog
to a root, bound to see the thing through,
and at last a customer came. He was
from Virginia, and after talking for two
hours he offered me one-fourth of first
cost. Realizing that it was the best I
could do, I closed with the offer and
walked off. In moving the safe it broke
through the floor and cost him $10, and
in lowering it from the window it fell
and busted the sidewalk and the door
was broken off. By the time be got it
home it bad cost him mere than a new
one, while I was out over $200. If he
hadn't turned up I should probably be
paying rent on that office yet. It was a
lesson [ sha’n’t soon forget. I feel sure
that I could work off a second-hand
piano, bike, sewing machine or coal
stove, but when it comes to selling off
a safe I throw up my hands. They give
an air of business and opulence to an
office and are good things to hold bills
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Doubie-Yolked Eggs.

‘‘A French scientist has been making
observations recently upon  double-
yolked eggs, a number of which were
incubated for a certain time and then
examined,’’ says Knowledge. ‘‘In 20
per cent. neither of the yolks developed,
but were found to be joined to one an-
other by a considerable surface. In the
rest, the yolks were free or but slightly
joined. Ina third of the eggs one yo.k
only developed, and it was sometimes
thet at the ‘big end,’ sometimes that
at the ‘little end,’ which failed; but
the most remarakble feature was that
one of the yolks had produced a double
monstrosity. The remainder of the
specimens showed more or less develop-
ment in both yolks, and in a case where
both embryos were normal, although the
former were joined, the cicatriculae
were in their proper position at the
north pole, 2s it were, of the yolk.
Other examples showed one normal
chick and one incompletely grown;
while in one cese, and this in an egg
laid by the same fowl as in the previous
case of a similar character, there were
one normal chick and a double mon-
strosity. The usual idea is that the
chickens we occasionally see preserved
in spirits with four wings, and as many
legs, and perbaps two heads, are formed
from two yolks in a single egg, which
have produced a double monstrosity,
owing to pressure. But pressure wouid
hardly account for such merging of two
component chicks as often takes place.
The researches referred to show thet in
two cases it was a single yolk or cell
which, irrespective of the second, pro-
duced the doubie embryo. These par-
ticular eggs, then, show in one and the
same example two kinds of twins, two
young ones produced together, and one
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Word from Tacoma brings the intel
ligence that apples are selling at
twenty-five cents apiece and eggs at
$1.50 a dozen at Lake Le Barge, on the
Dawson trail, and oranges and lemons
bring much more. That is the word
sent out by Frank Killen, zn enterpris-
ing Dawsonite, who had nerve enough
to risk the taking of twenty tons of fruit
and vegetables into the heart of the
frozen North in midwinter. Killen is
now located at the foot of Lake Le
Barge, and has a regular bonanza in the
form of fruit, vegetables, eggs, etc.

The big shipment left tbe coast in
February and reached the foot of Le
Barge with the thermometer more than
twenty degrees below zero, yet with the
loss of only a few potatoes, which got
nipped on the long sled journey over
the ice and snow from Skagway to the
lake. The success attending the en-
terprise was wholly dependent upon the
extraordinary care exercised by Killen
in packing and handling his highly per-
ishable freight. Every apple, egg, or-
ange, etc., was carefully wrapped, first
in cotton batting and then in alternate
layers of paper and woolen cloth. This
method proved wholly successful The
potatoes were not quite so well pro-
tected, which accounts for their freez-
ing.

8
The “Egg Service.”

The ‘‘Egg Service’’ was instituted in
1894 by the Rev. S. Alired Johnston, of
St. John’s, Streatham. It was thought
that one of the most beautiful ways of
observing hospital Sunday would be io
send a consignment of eggs to some of
the patients in the great London hos-
pitals, and accordingly the congrega-
tion was requested to make their offer-
ings of eggs on the day when the vari-
ous churches unite in rendering finan-
cial aid to the institutions in question.

The ‘‘Egg Service,’’ like most other
things, had a small beginning, for only
220 eggs were contributed the first year.
In 1895 the number of eggs rose to 446,
while the year following no less than
1,618 eggs were given. It was felt, how-
ever, that in jubilee year a special effort
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assistance then being offered to the hos-
pitals by the scheme of the Prince of
Wales, and so a jubilee offering was ar-
ranged. The service succeeded beyond
all anticipations. Over five thousand
eggs were to be seen in St. John's
church on hospital Sunday, and the ar-
rival of the various members of the con-
gregation, carrying baskets of new-laid
eggs, excited a great deal of local in-
terest. By some means Her Royal
Highness, the Duchess of York, heard
of the service that year and sent a sov-
ereign to be spent on eggs. For this
sum two hundred were obtained, the
difficulties of transit also preventing
the Duchess from personally sending the
eggs. It is only right to add that the
giving of delicacies referred to in no
way interferes with the financial! offer-
tory at the service, which is forwarded
to the hospital Sunday fund.
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Chauncey Depew’s Eggs.

Nothing is more incomprehensible to
European writers than the American
custom of breaking eggs in a glass.
Chauncey M. Depew likes to follow the
American custom, and one day the
waiter at the Hotei de Russie, in Paris,
told him he mustn’t do it. There was
a dispute, and the head waiter was
called. ‘*The glasses can not be prop-
erly wasbed afterward,’’ it was ex-
plained. ‘They are ruined.’’

‘*Nonsense,’’ said Mr. Depew, ‘‘my
servants at home do it every day in the
vear. Use a little more elbow grease.’’

Then Mr. Depew broke his eggs into
the glass, as usual, and the waiter
watched him. When the glass was set
aside, he came with a dust pan, cracked
the glass on his boot heel, and disap-
peared with the fragments. The charge
for the glass was on Mr. Depew’s bill
and he refused to pav it. He was too
good a customer to make angry, so the
hotel people smiled. They knew that
Mrs. Depew was going to remain 2
week longer. A broken egg glass was
ingeniously woiked into her bill and she
paid for it, but Mr. Depew didn’t know
it for many montbs afterward, when he
was telling the story as an instance of
his success in counteracting the extor-
tions of European hotel-keepeis.

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A Hen That’s Gone Daft.

Sioux City, Iowa, June 26—A rathei
unique affection of fowls for animals is
to be seen in Sioux City. ‘
Giebm, of this city, has a number of
fancy breeds of poultry. He recently
purchased a setting of eggs and placed
them under an old hen in his hen house.
In the hen house !ives a bull terrier.
A few days ago the animal gave birth
to eight white puppies, and thev were
placed in a box in the corner. To the
astonishment of the owner, his hen left
her thiiteen eggs and placed herself in
full charge of the puppies. For three
days she has been cuddling the tiny
pups under her wings, and will allow
no one to take them away without a
great fight. The motber of the pups is
on friendly relations with the hen, it
would seem, for she lies on the floor
and seems to have no objection to the
foster mother. In the meantime the
expensive setting of eggs spoiled.

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Recognized the Resemblance.

He was the son of a worthy citizen
and had just returned from college. His
father was a brusque, matter-of-fact
man who had no liking for anything
pronounced, and he noticed with sorrow

that his son returned with the latest
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surveyed him critically when he ap-
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out:

‘*Young man, you look like an idiot!’’

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young man had time to make a fitting
reply, a friend walked in.

‘*Why, hello, Billy! Have you re-
turned?’’ he asked. ‘‘Dear me, how
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‘*So he has been telling me,’’ replied
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FRESNO RAISINS.

 

How They Are Grown and Prepared
for Market.
Chas. E. Jenney in New England Grocer.

Fresno, Calif., June 10—Through
June, July and August orders begin to
come into Fresno thick and fast for
new crop raisins, and this year they
started early in May, to be filled in
September or October, when the crop is
ready, at prices to be made just before
the crop is ready. It may be of interest
to many, both handlers and consumers
of raisins, to know something about
their production, curing, and marketing.

The bulk of the American raisins are
raised in the Valley of the San Joaquin,
in California, and this limited territory
supplies not only the whole United
States (with the exception of the very
few imported from Spain), but also ex-
ports to foreign countries, Germany,
England, China and Australia, large
quantities.

The vines, which are pruned back to
a stump each January, begin in April
to put out leaves and to blossom the lat-
ter part of the month. A frost the last
of April this year did considerable dam-
age to the tender vines, and, it is esti-
mated, destroyed from an eighth toa
quarter of the anticipated crop. A frost
so late as this is very unusual in this
section, and it had the more effect from
coming after some very warm weather
which had hurried the vines forward.

Through the hot days of June and
July the grapes grow, and in late
August begin to ripen. At this time of
the year the thermometer here goes up
around !1o degrees in the shade, and
even higher, and the ordinary ther-
mometers burst if left in the sun, for it
ranges from 130 to 140 at times. The
grapes used for making raisins are the
white Muscat grapes, or sometimes
Malagas, aithough the latter are not in
very large quantities. There are also
the small suitana grapes and Thomp-
son’s seedless, both of the latter seed-
less grapes and also white, or rather
amber, when ripe.

The picking begins about the first of
August, although some years it is later.
Chinamen and whites do the picking in
about equal proportions. The bunches
of grapes are cut off and spread on 2 by
3 feet board trays and left right there
on the vineyard where they are picked
to dry. Under the fierce heat of the sun
they begin to wrinkle and turn brown
and at the end of seven or eight days
are turned, by placing a tray over the
full one and reversing it by a quick mo-
tion. About 20 pounds of the grapes
are placed on a tray, and these make
about five pounds of raisins when dry.
At the end of twelve or fourteen days
the grapes are thoroughly cured and
have become raisins. During all this
time they have not been stacked at
nights, for there is no dew, unless an
early rain should come up, which is not
every year. The raisins are now slid
off from the trays into boxes of the same
dimensions as the trays and ten inches
deep, holding about 130 pounds of _rai-
sins, and are hauled to the packing-
houses to be packed for the market.

Through Fresno, the county seat of
Fresno county, the great bulk of the
raisins go to the market. All along the
railroad are large packing-houses and
raisin seeding plarts which handle the
enormous output with a rush in the fall.
The raisins have been sorted into two
grades on the vineyards, the layers or
large full bunches being put in one box
and the loose raisins or broken buncbes
into arother. Ac the packing-houses
they are unloaded and the layers taken
to the packing tables, where women and
girls pack them nimbly into five pound
forms, which are transferred into 5-Ib.,
1o-lb., or 20-lb. boxes. The larger and
nicer ‘unches are neatly ribboned, and
fancy labels and trade marks are placed
in the boxes. The very best clusters
are known as Imperial Clusters, then
come Dehesa clusters, 4-crown fancy
clusters, 3-crown layers and 2-crown
layers, the latter being the very lowest
grade of layers and the smallest raisins.
The terms used in the raisin trade have
been mostly adopted from the English

 

trade, and the number of crowns denote
the size oi the raisins. Layer raisins
run from two to six crowns, which is
the largest size, and the loose raisins
run from two to four crowns. The loose
raisins are dumped from the sweat-
boxes into the hopper of a great ma-
chine known as the stemmer. They are
shoveled or pitch-forked against a rap-
idly revolving cylinder, passing be-
tween two meshed wire surfaces, which
effectually takes off all the stems, then
they pass upward and fall through a
current of air which blows out ali the
stems and dirt and the raisins fall onto
sloping screens with graded holés over
which they roll and issue from the ma-
chine directly into the boxes in which
they are shipped, al! separated into four
grades, 2-crown, 3-crown, 4-crown, and
the little ones known as seedless mus-
catels, They are shipped in boxes hold-
ing fifty pounds net. These boxes are
trucked from the stemmer right onto
the cars, which are run upon spur
tracks to the packing-houses. The seed-
less raisins, being of equai sizes, of
course are not graded, simply stemmed.
From 20 to 30 tons of raisins per day
are run through each one of these big
stemmers and placed on the cars ready
for shipment. In the days before ship-
ping in boxes became the custom, the
raisins were dumped into great heaps
on the floors of the packing-house and
shoveled with coal-scoops into sacks.
The present method 1s vastly improved
in every particular and the raisins carry
and keep so much better in boxes.

The raisins are sold to commission
merchants and brokers in the East and
elsewhere, acting for wholesale houses.
In former years they sold for almost any
price the East would offer, and the
vineyardist who received a cent and a
half a pound for his raisins felt himself
more fortunate than the average. Last
year (1898) was established the Califor-
nia Raisin Growers’ Association, which
held control over 90 per cent. or more
of the raisins produced, and which gov-
erned the prices, methods of packing
and selling. The same Association is
in force this year, and will be for the
next two years, so that it is assured that
prices will be maintained, and grades
also. It is this firm establishment of the
industry which has led to an unprece-
dented number of very early advance
orders coming in. Prices will probably
not be made on the new crop until July
or August, just before it is ready for the
market, and when it can be determined
just what the output will be. Over go
per cent. of the raisin acreage is under
the control of the Raisin Asscciation.
They fix the prices to be paid the pack-
ers for packing, and the prices at which
the raisins may be sold. The packers
act as the selling agents of the Associa-
tion, and are paid a commission there-
for. Before the raisins are shipped,
the packer buys them of the Associa-
tion at their price and pays the Asso-
ciation for them, but even although the
packer thus purchases the goods, he
can only re-sell them at the prices the
Association dictate. The Association
keep the accounts with the different
growers and _ prorate the _ proceeds
among them. The prices for the com-
ing season, it is thought, will not be
far different from what they were last
season. The old crop (1808) is getting
pretty well sold out, for :t was an un-
usually sbort one. Perhaps the price
of sulianas will be lower, but there is
no reason why the other grades should
be any lower.

Many people who use raisins have
noticed the sugar that collects on them
when they get cold and have supposed
that sugar is used in the curing. This
is not so, and as stated above, the
grapes are simply dried in the sun with
out any manipulation whatever, When
the raisins get old, say a year or more
old, they begin to ‘‘sugar,’’ that is, the
juice exudes and crystallizes on the out-
side. Raisins in this condition neces-
sarily have a less market value.

The growing and handling of raisins
is an eminently healthy one, with
scarcely any drawbacks as long as the
grower receives a living price for bis
product. Out here raisins are eaten like
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to the turkeys, and even dogs will some-
times eat them. They are as healthy as
any other kind of dried fruit, and more
so than any artificially dried or evapo-
rated fruits.

——_+> #2. _____
Egg Items Gleaned From Various
Sources.

They say a New Jersey man has _ suc-
ceeded in producing a_ four-legged
chicken from a double-yolked egg. If
he can now propagate the breed bis for-
tune is made, for New Jersey has a
trust on everything but four-legged
chickens, and that little matter can be
easily arranged.

A hungry traveler, a stranger in Red
Bank, N. J., entered a restaurant in
that town and ordered ham and eggs,
as that seemed to be the only available
dish. After he had waited a half-hour,
staring impatiently at the veidigris-
covered bottles in the caster, he sum-
moned the proprietor and questioned
him regarding the delay. ‘‘’The ham is
all--cooked,’’ was the reply, ‘‘but my
little girl is still out in the yard wait-
ing for the hen to lay another egg.’’

Canadian picklers are resiing on their
oars. Foreign advices state that there
will be no profit-paying market for
pickled eggs at the price at which they
are being put down, and most operators
are waiting until eggs can be bought for
nine cents or less, the highest price at
which they can be put down with assur-
ance of a profit from sales in foreign
markets, the only probable outlet for
the goods.

A man with a valise and tin pail has
been traveling afoot through a certain
Iowa locality, stopping at every house
and begging a few eggs. He tells the
good farmers’ wives thai he has an oil
stove and a few potatoes and he wants
the eggs to make out a meal. Of course,
the requests for a few eggs are not re-
fused. The man stores them away in
his valise until he gets a load and by
that time he generally reaches some
town, where the fruit of the hen is dis-
posed of at market price.

A Nebraska authority is responsible
for the statement that the chicken and
egg crop of the present year in that
State will be at least 40 per cent. short
of the average twelve months’ produc-
tion. If a few more of the states can
be induced to figure out a like shortage
and then see that their figures do not
lie, the men who are holding high-
priced storage eggs may not be as _ sick
this fall as some of the prophets had or-
dained they should be.

The buying of eggs for storage, a
business which has assumed enormous
proportions with recent years, has had a
tendency to give to the market the year
through more of evenness and stability
than was before maintained. The de-
mand for eggs for storage during the
warm producing season has restrained
the price from becoming ridiculously
low, while the supply of storage stock
in cold weather and in the season of
light production has prevented the mar-
ket from going extremely high—bar-
ring, of course, the effect of very se-
vere weather.

 

Methods of Utilizing Eggs.

All waste, heated and spotted eggs
can and should be made into salted egg
yolk for tanning purposes. Very large
quantities of this are used by the tan-
ners of soft and glove leather in this
country and abroad. To make this
preparation, break everything but black
rotten eggs into.a churn and revolve
rapidly for twenty minutes, allow it to
settle, and skim off the foam, which in
reality is the albumen. This is worth-
less. After skimming add 30 per cent.
by weight of salt and 1 per cent. of
powdered boracic acid. Churn again
until salt is thoroughly mixed, skim
again and put in a barrel that has been
used for any oil except coaloil. Store
in a cool place. It is not absolutely
necessary to place in cold storage, but
still it is better to hold at about thirty-
six degrees Fahrenheit. This product
has a marketable value of from five to
six cents per pound. Skim very
thoroughly after each churning. This is
important, as it gets rid of the white.

At times through the hot weather, if
you find it impossible to get rid of your
cracked and leaky eggs, stock good
enough to use for food purposes, it
would be well to freeze them if you are
in the vicinity of a modern cold storage
plant. A low temperature is absolutely
required for this purpose, and while it
cau be accomplished at twenty degrees,
it is much better to store them at ten
degrees or lower. Break your eggs into
a small churn and revolve long enough
to break the yolk and _ incorporate it
with the white in a liquid about the
consistency of sweet cream. Don’t re-
move the foam. If eggs are not churned,
the yolk becomes hard and will remain
so when thawed out, and can not be
used to advantage by bakers. To each
fifty pounds of eggs add one pint of
water; this will aid in the freezing. A
desirable package to store in is the
jacketed tin butter tub. Fill only to
within two or three inches of the top.
When eggs begin to thicken from the
frost, let the gas escape by running a
small stick through the eggs to the bot-
tom of the can. Some large packers
use an extractor or separator to break
the shells and mix the albumen and
yolk. These are of doubtful value, as
more or less dirt gets mixed in with the
liquid.

There is quite a demand for the al-
bumen separated from the yolk. This
can be quickly done in the following
manner: Procure a strip of tin eighteen
inches long by five wide, bend the
sides up one inch, making a_ long
trough three inches wide. Make a
straight cut across the center of the
bottom to the sides, and press sides of
the cut apart. Now place this machine
on a slight angle and break an egg and
drop it in at the top without breaking
the yolk—the egg will slide down the
channel until it strikes the cut, then the
yolk will roll over the obstruction,
while the white will drop through the
cut.

Another measure of economy which
will probably be introduced more ex-
tensively than at present is the crystal-

 

lization of eggs. This method of pre-
serving eggs demands considerable out-
lay for fixtures and machinery. The
following method is used: Eggs are
broken and churned, thoroughly mixing
whites and yolks. The liquid is dropped
on slowly revolving stone cylinders from
which arms of the same material ex-
tend. Over these cylinders is passed a
strong current of warm, dry air, evap-
orating the moisture from the eggs.
When thoroughly dry 2 stone table, fit-
ting close to the cylinders, with chan-
nels cut for the arms to pass through, is
pushed against the cylinder, scraping
off the eggs and depositing them in
crystals on the table. They are then
packed in air-tight, moisture-proof
packages, and are know?2 as crystallized
eggs. They are in demand principally
for use on ships, but bakers ave using
them quite freely. To prepare them

 

for use they are soaked in enough water
to correspoud with the egg in its orig-
inal state. Quite a few shipmeats have
gone into the Klondike country.

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Rev. Dr. Collyer said the other day,
in an address to the Horace Mann grad-
uating class: ‘‘When you rise from
your seats you will have your whole
lives before you. No matter what you
do, whether blacksmithing for many
years as I did, or something finer, give
your whole selves to it. Now you young
men and women have a lot of work to
do; just let me tell you one thing: Be
sure of the rivets. Keep right down to
your work, and see that your day's work
1s well done by sundown, and don’t try
to get rich at a stroke.”’

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Getting the People

Some More Samples of Advertising
Gone Wrong.

One of the most irresistibly funny ad-
vertisements I have seen lately is the
one reproduced below. The genius of
the inept must have possessed the writer
of it. Think of ‘‘starting the day
right’’ wita a breakfast of coffee, gin-
ger snaps and pineapple! And the ad-
vertisemert has been running for two
weeks to my own personal knowledge,
and goodness knows how much longer.
Tne opening sentence, ‘‘Start the day
right, etc.,’’ is well worded, but it
should be followed by a description of
one brand of coffee, naming a price,
and then some breakfast food or other
sbould be spoken of. These changes
would redeem the advertisement from
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Day Right

and everything will go
smoothly.
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a steaming cup of our coffee,
which cannot be equalled in the
city. Then try our

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Pineapple

I have it in 2 pound cans
for tocents per can Did you
ever hear the like of these bar-
gains?

D. S. SEAMAN.
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The effective advertisement talks
business first, last and all the time. It
does not waste space by talking about
some foreign subject first. The head-
ing should tell the story contained in
the advertisement. It has no other
purpose. {t occupies the place of the
heading of a newspaper article and
should be used in the same way.

It is for these reasons that I quarrel
with the advertisement of the Manistee
Building and Loan Association, which
runs as follows:

The Day of Rest

Strict people won’t talk business
on Sunday—say it’s a day of rest.
So it is; ought to be a day of rest,
home comfort and improving con-
versation or reading. :
Now men have no opportunity to
get acquainted with wife or children
during the week. Sunday’s the
only home day. What are you
going to do with it? ;
Look about your home? Is it
yours or the landlord’s? Is it the
kind of home that is good? Why
not have it? It’s very simple.
Stop paying rent. There’s a leak
in your pocket and the landlord’s
hat is under it. Be your own land-
lord. Let us tell you how.

Nanisiee Buliding and Loan Association,

LOUIS E. MORRIS, Secretary.

 

 

You have to wade halfway through
this advertisement before you get to the
point. Every word in it up to the
sentence, ‘‘Look about your home,’’ is
superfluous. After that point, the ad-

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

veitisement talks business and talks it
weil. It sets a man thinking—and that
is all that an advertisement of such a
business can be expected to do. If the
upper half had been left out and the ad-
vertisement headed with the words,
‘‘Own your home,’’ the advertisement
would have been several times stronger.

There 1s a big field for the advertising
of building and loan associations. A
series of practical talks on the subject,
covering one advantageous point ata
t.me, could be used in the newspapers,
while a booklet going into details and
clinching, so to speak, all the argu-
ments, should be sent out to every
nouseholder who is not already a mem-
ber of the association. This plan has
been tried with remarkabie success in
Eastern cities and there is no reason
why it could not be duplicated in every
town in the country with a correspond-
ing measure of success.

* * *

There seems to be a superstition—I
scarcely know what else to call it—that
advertising does not pay in the summer
season. The merchant who believes
this, and reduces his advertising ac-
cordingly, is making a grave mistake.
People keep right on eating and drink-
ing in summer time. They wear clothes
—not so many, perhaps, but more
changes—in summer; in fact, except
for necessary changes owing to the
higher temperature, they do practically
the same things in summer that they do
in winter, They also buy goods. The
merchant who will keep his advertise-
ments as interesting and readable as he
possibly can—who will advertise sea-
sonable goods at right prices—finds his
trade holding on remarkably well. If
every advertiser would impress on his
mind the fact that his advertising space
is for the purpose of telling the public
the news of his store, he would realize
the absurdity of allowing his summer
advertising to lapse. Suppose the news-
papers were to cease publication in
summer on the ground that nobody reads
in bhct weather—wouldn’t there be a
bowl! Human nature is the same the
year around—its needs are just as great
at one time as another, and the mer-
chant who is shrewd enough to appre-
ciate this fact is the one who will ad-
vertise steadily and persistently, wher-
ever the mercury may be.

 

The writer of the advertisement repro-
duced below has, apparently, made as
Many mistakes as could possibly be
crowded into the space at his command.
It is a significant illustration of the
kind of advertising that could not pos-
sibly be made to pay. It does not tell
what kind of goods Spencer & Lloyd
sell, It does not quote a single price
nor describe a single article.

The Heated Term
Is Here

And we propose that the peo-
ple shall have an opportunity
to purchase seasonable goods.
Our stock will be kept well
assorted with the right stuffs
at the right prices. Resp’y,

SPENCER & LLOYD

 

 

‘‘We propose that the people shall
have an opportunity to purchase sea-
sonable goods.’’ Of course you do!
You don’t expect them to buy buffalo
robes and fur mittens, do you? ‘‘Our
stock will be kept weil assorted with
the right stuffs at the right prices.’’
Naturally. That’s what you are in busi-
ness for. But what stuffs? And what
prices? How do we know that either of
them are right, unless we know what
they are? Do Spencer & Lloyd expect
the people to rush right off to their store
to find out? As an effort to say very
little in lots of space, this production is
a success. As an advertisement, it is

a failure of the most decided kind.
x * Ox

The local advertiser who allows his
advertisement to run without change is
making a grave mistake. An advertise-

 

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ment in a local newspaper is seldom
read more than once. If it pulls, it
will do so on the first insertion. If it
does not pull on the first insertion, its
chances grow steadily less. Change
your advertisements every issue of the
paper; keep them bright, newsy and in-
teresting. Quote prices on some definite
article in every advertisement—there’s
nothing so interesting to the majority
of people as prices. Treat your adver-
tising space as an investment and it
will pay you—treat it as an expense and
it will prove an expense. The man who
says that advertising doesn’t pay is the
one who uses advertising matter that
could not possibiy sell any goods under
the most favorable circumstances and
who leaves the same advertisement in
the same old place until it becomes
mouldy with age.
W. S. HAMBURGER.

[Readers of the Michigan Tradesman
are invited to send to this department
samples of their advertising matter, de-
tails of their plans for advertising, and
enquiries regarding same, for criticism
and comment. Names and places will
be omitted when desired. Criticism
and advice will be given without fear or
favor and entirely free of charge. The
expense is borne by the Tradesman.
Address ail communications to W. S.
Hamburger, care of the Michigan
Tradesman, Grand Rapids. ]

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‘“Ain’t you worried about the trusts?’’
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to stand their share of it. I’ve done my
duty. I wrote and published a card call-
ing attention to whither they are drift-
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so, and now, if they persist, it’s their
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Sad Story of Ikey Brown, Grocer and
Philanthropist.
Strollerin Grocery World.

I am going to tell you a story this
week that will seem like a made-up
one. It sounds almost too much like
the conventional ready-made _fiction—
where retribution follows wrong-doing,
where the heroine marries the hero, and
where the villain goes out and hangs
himself—to be true, but it is true,
nevertheless. At least it was told to me
as true by a man in whom I have per
fect confidence.

There is an old theory that the man
who frankly trusts even thieves and
pickpockets will never be betrayed by
them. According to this theory, the
trouble is that the average man shows
the thief too plainly that he distrusts
him. It is only human nature for the
thief in consequence to revenge himself
and to do his suspicious friend to the
Queen’s taste.

The story I am beginning to unwind
shows that this theory is all wrong. It
proves that he of the frankly trusting
disposition will be pushed along asa
good thing every time.

The other day, on one of my periodi-
cal trips into the country, I visited an
old county poorhouse, whose steward [|
have known for years. He offered to
show me over the place, and I accepted,
for to me the desolate old age that peo-
ples the almshouses is a very pitiful
thing.

‘*See here,’’ I said, as we walked
through the long corridor, ‘‘as a mat-
ter of curiosity, have you got any oid
grocers here? I occasionally do some
work for a grocer’s paper, and I'd be
interested in knowing.’’

‘“We've got one,’’ said the steward,
‘‘old Ikey Brown. Bright old chap,
too.’’

‘*Let me see Ikey,
asked.

In the course of the tour we came
upon Ikey. He was one of the quick,
bright-eyed little old fellows who re-
mind you of a chirping little sparrow.
He was as clean and neat as a pin, and
had snowy hair and smooth-shaven face.
He responded with old-school courtesy
to the salutations of the steward, and to
mine when I was introduced. But when
I tried to get him to talk of himself he
shrewdly refused.

‘‘I guess I ain’t so unpolite as to
force my _ private concerns onto a
stranger,’’ he said, with ungrammatical
politeness.

And that was all I could get out of
him. When we were back in the stew-
ard’s office, however, and that function-
ary had lighted one of those clear
Sumatra cigars that I keep for mv
friends—I smoke something different
myself—he told me about old Ikey.

‘“‘T’ve known old Ikey Brown,’’ he

will you?’’ I

said, ‘‘man and boy, for fifty-five
years. He’s a clean-hearted, good old
fellow. I suppose he’s about 68 years

old now, and he had only one chance
all his life. When that came, he
smashed it all te flinders. Up to the
time he was 55 years old he did odd
jobs around the town—worked in stores,
did a little carpentering, and a lot more
of such chores. When Ikey was a little
past 55, an old aunt died and left him
$2,000 in cash. I don’t suppose the old
fellow had ever earned more than $3 or
$4 a week, and to a man like that a
couple of thousand dollars seems a iot
of money.

‘“Well, Ikey had always had a lean-
ing for the grocery business, and after
spending about $5 in ‘seeing the world,’
as he called going up to the city a
couple of times, he made up his mind
to open a grocery store. I’m a sort of
forty-second cousin to Ikey, and he
talked it over with me. I remember
how excited he was. Ikey’s no fool;
he’s pretty well read, and he’s a good
deal of a country philosopher.

‘* “I’m a-going to run my store ona
leetle different plan from the rest of
these stores,’ he said. ‘All these other
grocers call a man a thief till he’s
proved himself honest. They think
everybody is waiting his chance to
cheat ’em. Why, lots of people that I
believe are honest enough can’t get any
goods at any grocery store in tbis town

 

without the cash. And that just makes
‘em dishonest out of spite.

‘* “I’m a-going to believe everybody
honest till they prove that they ain't,’
he said. ‘I’m a-going to sell goods to
everybody. I’m a-going to trust ’em,
and I’m a-going to tell *em that I con
sider they're just as honest as I am
myself. I’ll bet not one of ‘em goes
back on Ikey.’

**Ikey opened his store,’’ went on the
steward. ‘‘It was a pretty nice store,
and he spent pretty near all his money
on it. Had everything of the best, and
lots of it. His funny ideas had got
pretty well known around by the time
he opened, and every professional sucker
in the town was simply laying low with
a broad grin on. Ikey carried out bis
ideas just as be said he would. Every-
body who wanted goods gct ‘em, with-
out monev and without price. Ikey,
poor honest old devil, told ’em that he
thought they were honest, and that he
depended on ‘em to do the right thing.
That’il go all right with some that
aren’t too thick-skinned, you know, but
great Scott! there was a class of loafers
in this place that had hides as thick as
elephants. When Ikey got off his little
story, they’d stare him straight in the
eye and look as honest as a baby, but
they had no more _ idea of paying the
old man than they bad of flying to the
moon. And they didn't pay him either.

‘‘Ikey did a big trade rigkt from the
start. His stock melted right away.
There were a few good people who
bought tbere because they liked the
cld fellow and wanted to see him suc-
ceed. Tke most of his trade, though,
was with the shady people—the people
that the other grocers didn’t want.’’

The steward paused. I was exceed-
ingly interested. Aftera moment I said:

‘*Well, bow did the scheme work?’’

‘Poor old Ikey’s in the po rhouse,’’
be answered ;‘‘that shows pretty well
how it worked, doesn’t it?’’

Then after anotber pause he said, ‘‘Jt
didn’t work at all. They pushed the
poor old manto death. Simply cheated
him out of his eyes! He wasn’t fit to
deal with ’em—why he was likea child!
He believed every lie they told. They
milked him again and again. The poor
old fellow got lower and lower, and
finally had to shut up. He was sorry to
lose his $2,000, of course, but not half
as sorry as he was to bave that pet idea
proven bad. The poor old fellow got so
melancholy over it that he soon got on
the town. He hasn't got any family,
and so he came here. He’s a little
touched in the head sometimes, but as
a rule he’s just as you saw him to-day—
bright and chipper. He doesn’t like to
talk much about his experience,
though, ’’

This is the story of one man who
started out to do business on the basis
that his fellow-men were honest. He
sought to reform base human nature,
and as a result the town poorhouse is
his home.

—___o-¢._______
Had Everything for Supper.

The two voung men were living at
rival boarding houses.

‘‘What did you have for supper?’’ en-
quired one.

‘‘Oh, everything,’’ replied the other.

**That so? We had hash at our place,
too.’’

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lemonade will buy two beers.

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17

 

Commercial Travelers

Michigan Knights of the Grip.

President, Cuas. S. STEVENS, Ypsilanti; Secre-
tary, J. C. SaunpErs, Lansing; Treasurer, O. C.
GouLD. Saginaw,

Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Association.

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

United Commercial Travelers of Michigan.

Grand Counselor, J. J. Evans, Ann Arbor; Grand
Secretary, G. S. VaLmMorg, Detroit; Grand Treas-
urer, W. S. West, Jackson.

Grand Rapids Council No. 131.
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. Boyp PaNTLIND, Grand Rapids;
= and Treasurer, GEo. F. OwEN, Grand
pids.

 

Lake Superior Commercial Travelers’ Clab.

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

 

 

Gripsack Brigade.
Frank H. Grier has taken a position
as salesman with the Dolson Implement
Co., Charlotte.

Allan D, Grant is again among his
Michigan friends, having recently re-
turned from his California trip, and
reports business good all along the line.
‘*Allan’’ expects to visit the Far West
again this fall.

E. C. Tubbs registered at the Bancroft
at Saginaw last week. Mr. Tubbs is
now a malt salesman, representing a
Southern corporation and covers the
Eastern States. He is now a blushing
youth weighing nearly 300 pounds.

Hillsdale Council, No. 116, United
Commercial Travelers, will givea dance
for themselves and friends at Baw Beese
park Friday evening, June 30. Boos’
full orchestra will be in attendance and
the pleasantest kind of a time is an as-
sured fact.

Marquette Mining Journal: Fred
Sears has gone on the road selling
men’s furnishings. He is traveling for
Akeley, Kline & Craig, of Chicago,and
will make the entire Upper Peninsula,
At the same time he will continue to
take orders for shirts.

Manley Jones is ‘‘home again,’’ hav-
ing returned the sample cases of W. J.
Quan & Co. and grabbed the old grips
he carried so long for the Lemon &
Wheeler Company. Manley insists that
he is ‘‘home to stay’’ this time and that
nothing will ever again be permitted to
interfere with his present pleasant re-
lations.

John M. Marz, formerly engaged in
the grocery business at Saginaw, but
more recently employed by tbe Ball-
Barnhbart-Putman Co. as traveling sales-
man, has disgraced himself and the
fraternity of which he was a member by
leaving for parts unknown, 2ccompanied
by a Kalamazoo woman, leaving his
family in straitened circumstances.

Arthur B. Clark, traveling represent-
ative for the Tappan Shoe Manufactur-

ing Co. (Coldwater), is spending a
well-earned month’s vacation’ with
friends at Lawton. Mr. Clark has

made an enviable record during the
past year—in more ways than one—and
the Tradesman joins with his many
friends in congratulating him over his
success,

’ W. H. Drehmer, who has covered
Northern Michigan for the past three
years for the L. Perrigo Co. (Allegan),
has been compelled to retire on account
of ill health, He is succeeded by Chas.
H. Adams, formerly of the firm of Sher-
wood, & Adams.= Mr, Adams is a cour-

 

 

teous gentleman and genial companion
and will undoubtedly achieve a large
measure of success in his new ccnnec-
tion.

Will Pipp has undertaken to accept
the challenge recently published in the
Tradesman, inviting the Grand Rap-
ids boys to cross bats with their Kala-
mazoo fraters, and the first game of the
series will occur at Alger Park (Reed's
Lake) next Saturday afternoon. The
Kalamazoo boys will arrive in a special
Car attached to the regular train which
reaches here at 1:30 o'clock. They wi!l
be met at the depot by a brass band and
tallyho coaches and driven through the
principal business streets and out to the
ball ground at Alger Park, where the
conflict will occur. On the completion
of the same, the entire party will board
one of the palatial steamers plying the
Lake, where a seven course dinner, in-
cluding champagne and creme de
menthe, will be served. At the con-
clusion of the repast all will adjourn to
Ramona theater, where private boxes
will be in readiness. A special electric
car will convey the entire party fo the
city, reaching the union depot in time
to enable the victorious visitors—or
crestfallen, whichever the case may be
—to leave for their homes on the 11:15
train. P. S,—All Grand Rapids travel-
ing men are expected to grace the oc-
casion, accompanied by a double dose
of refreshments—enough for himself
and family and also enough for the
family of one of the visitors.

—____ ¢-._____-
From a Celery City Standpoint.

Kalamazoo, June 26—The Kalamazoo
aggregation of base ball cranks and
otherwise expect to arrive in Grand
Rapids Saturday, July 1, at 1:30 p. m.,
to do battle with the Grand Rapids
hustlers and, with the assistance of the
umpire, we expect to win. Grand Rap-
ids people should turn out in force and

I don’t doubt but that they will when

they know that John Hoffman and Sig.
Folz will both wear bloomers. That fact
alone ought to draw acrowd. To see
Lawrence Verdon catching flys in cen-
ter field is also worth twice the price of
admission. We feel very thankful that
no Grand Rapids people saw the work
of our nine in practice Saturday. They
certainly would have conceded the game
to us. It was simply perfect. The
efforts of the men in trying to throw
from one base to the next was more than
any manager could expect, and if the
ball is not too small we expect a few
runs. E. F. ZANDER.
~~

There is nothing like standing up un-
successful men as orators and loading
school graduates down with advice.
The graduates are given an impression
that the duties to be met are away off
and great and carry honor and fame
with them. The duties which will face
the bunch of white-dressed girls and
trembling young men are dishwashing
and mowing the lawn and bringing in
wood. No orator can grow eloquent in
talking of the glory in wiping dishes
clean and keeping the lawn mowed,
2nd for that reason they talk of a Paul
Revere sort of future, which is the worst
kind of silliness. History will show
that the men who have come to their
country’s aid in an hour of peril were
never graduated at all and received no
inspiration regarding their duty from

a man who addressed the graduates.
—_—_>0>___

‘Spain has had thirty-one wars in the
last 100 years. She should join a peace
congress and permanently retire from

the war business. -
—____ _@-6 6 ___

Russia can disarm herself for peace
by selling her guns at cost to nations
that do not believe in the scheme.

 

SOUNDS FISHY.

 

Chicago Company Organized Solely
To Benefit Others.
Michigan merchants are being flooded
with the following invitation to join an
eleemosynary institution:
Recognizing the fact that the country

retail merchant is losing his local trade.

through the enticing mail-order houses
of the larger cities on one side and _un-
reliable and large profit-demanding job-
bing houses on the other side, a few
merchants have established the Retail
Merchants’ Syndicate, with the one ob-
ject in view—to further the interests of
the out-of-the-market dealer. The many
large combinations and trusts formed
daily are no sign of improvement of the
situation and the country merchant has
to rely solely on himself, his own re-
sources, and is fighting the battle sin-
gle-handed. Every mail from the coun-
try is laden with mail orders and every
day is bringing more of the country
trade (your business) into the great
mail-order houses. Stop this great
influx that is gradually but surely leav-
ing you—keep it at home. Our object
will be to assist, you and if you are not
quite satisfied as to the integrity of our
assertion, we shall be pleased to have
you give us a chance to demonstrate
our ability to beck up our statement.
Our annual fee is $10—less than $1 per
month. This amount will assure you a
local representation in this market. Con-
sider the service you are abie to derive
from this association for the small out-
lay of money. One transaction may
more than repay you.

If you will give us your co-operation
we will assist you in protecting yourself
against the retail mail-order houses and
large profit-demanding jobbers who con-
sider the country merchant their milk-
cow.

You ask, How can we do it? We will
try to explain. The great drawback
with the out-of-the-market retailer is
that he can not afford to carry in stock
the same extensive assortments of the
different lines of merchandise that are
catalogued by the large mail-order
houses, and that he is not as well posted
as to prices and the right sources where
to obtain the goods. Our method will
overcome these defects and will place
the country merchant on an equal foot-
ing with any mail-order house. The
plan is very simple: You secure a cat-
alogue from any retail mail-order house
(which will be sent to you for the ask-
ing), place same on your counter, where
your customer can see it, and if he
wants any articles listed therein, no
matter what it is, furniture, crockery,
glassware, dry goods, shoes and _ boots,
hardware or machinery, etc., that you
can not supply out of your own stock
take his order and forward same to us.
We will secure any and all articles you
may order at the regular wholesale
price, which wili leave you from 20 to
50 per cent. profit, and forward same to
you for you to deliver to your customer.
In this way you will retain your home
trade and cut off this stampede of busi-
ness which rightfully belongs to you,
but which is now going as mail orders
to the large cities.

The managers of this organizatien are
experierced business men and have for
years held responsible positions with
large retail mail-order houses; know
their methods of doing business, and
know what service they can render to
you. It is the energy and knowledge oi
such men that made these houses, and
these are the men you are associating
yourself with by joining this syndicate.

We submit the foregoing as a plain,
simple business proposition, the merits
of which any business man can see for,
himself without argument. It is pro-
posed not as a method of making money,
but as a practical, common-sense plan
of joining together to checkmate the
mail order houses, who are supplying
your customers from a distant city with
the many things you ought to supply
over your own counter, by establishing
a buying and supplying center, and in
this capacity we wili act for you.

It is barely possible that this com-

 

pany, which claims to have a capital of
$50,000, was organized solely in the in-
terest of humanity and that the promot-
ers are not actuated by a desire to
make money, but if this is the case, it
will be the first time that such senti-
ments have found lodgment in a Chi-
cago corporation. This feature is so
entirely foreign to the atmosphere of
Chicago and environs that the Trades-
man feels no hesitation in advising its
readers to hang onto their $10 until they
receive a more plausible prospectus

than the one herewith reproduced.
—_—_2.___

No Longer a Par Point.

The four banks in Muskegon have
entered into an agreement to charge for
the collection of their customers’ checks
unless they are cleared through the reg-
ular correspondence of the banks. This
agreement goes into effect fuly 1.

Muskegon aims to be a jobbing mar-
ket and a manufacturing center and has
made rapid strides in both directions
during the past half dozen years. The
action of her banks, in thus discrimi-
nating against the checks of their own
customers, tends to take Muskegon out
of the list of par points and relegate ber
to the rank of villages like Fre-
mont, Howard City and Newaygo,
where the local banks insist they are
compelled to charge exchange on the
checks of their customers in order to
make both ends meet.

One result of this attitude of the banks
will be to compel the large institutions
of the city to keep additional bank ac-
counts at Grand Rapids, Detroit, Chi-
cago or some other par point, in order
to be able to pay their outside bills at
par with their own checks, while small
merchants will pay their bills in cur-
rency direct to the traveling men, in-
stead of depositing their cash and re-
mitting by check direct to the house.

From the standpoint of good business
and modern methods, the action of the
Muskegon banks is to be deplored, be-
cause it will tend to make the sawdust
city a laughing stock and byword in the
banking and mercantile world.

+ 8 -

On account of the Fourth of July com-
ing on Tuesday, it has been thought
best to defer the publication of the
Tradesman next week until Thursday,
instead of Wednesday, the usual publi-

cation day.
+ 0

Frank B. Spurrier succeeds Visner
Bros. in the meat business at 694 Cherry

street.
> 0. —____

Many statesmen look upon a morning
cocktail as a constitutional amendment.

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

Drugs--Chemicals

MICHIGAN STATE BOARD OF PHARMACY.

 

 

 

Term expires

A. C. ScHUMACHER, Ann Arbo - Dec. 31, 1899
Gso.Guxprum, Ionia - - - Dec. 31,1900
- Dee. 31, 1901

L. E. REYNOLDS, St. Joseph -
Henny Hem, aw- -
Wrat P. Dory, Detroit :
President, Gzo. GunpRrum, Ionia.
Secretary, A. C. ScoUMACHER, Ann Arbor.
Treasurer, HENRY HEm™, Saginaw.
Examination Sessions.
Houghton—Aug. 29 and 30.
Lansing—Nov. 7 and 8.

- Dec. 31, 1902
- Dee. 31, 1

 

STATE PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION.

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

 

 

Rely Upon Purity of Goods Rather
Than Cheapness.

From practical experience I answer
this important question positively in
the affirmative. Quality with the phar-
macist should at all times be of first
consideration. The cost of pure drugs
and chemicals is a little greater than of
those of inferior quality, but, when re-
sults are considered, the difference in
the outlay seems to me to be the best
investment, from an advertising stand-
point alone, that a pharmacist can
make.

To be sure the returns may seem
slow and your competitor, whom you
have reason to believe is not practicing
your policy, may seem to prosper even
better than you; but returns from legiti-
mate advertising and from honest deal-
ing are, as a rule, slow, yet when once
gained are permanent. In the end the
man who keeps nothing but the purest
and best goods, the man whose motto is
honesty everywhere and with everybody
—that man will win, and the other will
begin to lose. Water will find its true
level !

In purchasing goods, buy from houses
of unquestionable reputation, for they
have earned their reputation in the
manner in which you should earn yours;
but if you purchase in the open mar-
ket, do not then fail to apply the tests
requisite to establish the purity of your
purchases. Many products, especially
pharmaceuticals, are quite beyond the
successful application of any tests other
than physiological action, and thus with
these the only safeguard is either to
manufacture your own products, or buy
them from reputable houses. Your
prices should be moderate, of course,
but such as will afford a good profit;
prices should also be as nearly uniform
as possible. Uniformity can be easily
regulated by means of proper system.
Your customers will occasionally com-
plain that your prices are high, but you
should advance the argument of quality ;
you should say that the best in medicine
is none too good, and that quality,
coupled with the necessary skill and
knowledge in compounding, is cer-
tainly commensurate with the price
charged. This will not always satisfy
the customer, and your cheap or cut-
rate competitor will secure a portion of
such trade; but stand firm to your con-
victions, never losing an opportunity to
clinch your argument, and you will
eventually succeed, even while your
competitor, for the opposite reason,
will fail.

Every day we see people demanding
the services of well-paid physicians
when there are others glad to serve the
public for half price. Surely, to the
patient this is a question of superior
service, or greater confidence, which
amounts to the same thing. Why can
not the pharmacist emulate this exam-

s03|ing gained his confidence,

 

ple, and not only secure the confidence
of the laity but of the physicians as well?
It seems to me that the pharmacist has
an easier task than the physician, for,
being in close touch with the medical
man, he can very easily convince him
of the truth of his statements, and, hav-
he has
gained the assistance of one who will
heip him materially in securing the
patronage of the observing and suspi-
cious laity.

In this connection a few remarks
might be appropriate concerning sub-
stitution. No one can deny that sub-
stitution leads not infrequently to the
use of inferior goods—at least it is dan-
gerous ground upon which to tread. It
is absolutely necessary, in order to gain
the confidence of the physician, and the
laity as well, to permit no such prac-
tice in your store. For certainly if you
are a substitutor you could hardly ex-
pect the physician and your customers
to believe you are honest in other
methods. True, substitution is unques-
tionably to be condemned ov the double
ground of honesty and policy. True, a
substitution may answer in many in-
stances equally as well, but this is no
business of the pharmacist; it is his
business to dispense what is prescribed.
If you have not the article, communi-
cate with the physician, as he is in this
case the only person of authority. With
a little diplomacy you can easily ex-
plain to the customer, and even should
he know the circumstances it will serve
to elevate you in his confidence. At any
rate, do not substitute.

In observing these principles many
obstacles may arise, your cheap compet-
itor may seem to prosper, but you will
also prosper; for each customer he may
turn from you, you will, in the end, re-
ceive two from him. Did you ever think
that people ofttimes divide their trade,
that they buy their ‘‘patent’’ medicines
and similar articles of the cut-rate
dealer, but come to you with their pre-
scriptions, thus giving you their more
profitable and the really pharmaceutical
business? Quality and honesty inspire
confidence, and confidence paves the way
to better prices. Thus it is commer-
cially advantageous to rely upon stand-
ard of quality rather than upon price!
The pharmacist who places his depend-
ence upon quality, upon honesty, upon
skilled service, will find his business
toa securely anchored to be swept away
by such opposing forces as cheap goods,
cheap prices, and poor service !—C. L.
Thusler in Bulletin of Pharmacy.

—_—_2-e>___

Blackmailing Game Nipped in the
Bud.

A pair of shrewd rogues have been
playing a bold blackmailing game with
considerable success upon the druggists
of New York City. They would present
a prescription calling for ammonium
chloride, sodium bicarbonate, and cal-
omel, When this was duly dispensed
and handed forth the dispenser would
be told that he had violated the law by
preparing a deadly powder which would

é€ converted into corrosive sublimate
in the stomach. The rogues would then
declare themselves inspectors of the
Board of Pharmacy and threaten prose-
cution. When they had produced a
scared feeling of the proper intensity
they would suggest that, for a considera-
tion, ranging anywhere from five to
twenty-five dollars, they would not press
the charge. One druggist, however,
was not deceived by so transparent a
sham. He immediately reported the
rogues to the Board of Pharmacy. In
default of bail they are now in the
Tombs awaiting trial in the Court of
General Sessions.

 

Opportunity for Profit Had by Every
Pharmacist.

It was not so very many years ago
that every druggist manufactured all
the galenical preparations he dispensed,
but now I think I may safely say that
less than one-half are of his own manu-
facture. Indeed, in many stores at the
present time, evaporating dishes, infu-
sion jars, and such useful utensils are
total strangers to the back-room shelves.
It would not be surprising if, in this
march of progress(?), even our much-
loved mortar and pestle should become
alienated from our affections and be
obliged to fall behind the procession,
being preserved only as relics of antig-
uity or symbols of an obsolete profes-
sion.

And who are responsible for this state
of affairs?

As in all such cases, we who are most
directly concerned are the ones upon
whom the principal share of the bur-
den of responsibility rests. When I was
purchasing my first stock of goods a
few years ago, preparatory to embark-
ing in business, one of the members of
the firm with whom I was dealing was
very much surprised to see me ordering
metallic mercury, lard oil, and nitric
acid, with which to make citrine oint-
ment, instead of purchasing the oint-
ment ready made.

**Why,’’ said he, ‘‘you are not going
to give our chemist, to whom we are
paying a large salary, an opportunity to
earn anything for us.’’

‘*And why should I pay him for do-
ing that which I have learned to do my-
self at an expense of four years’ time
and several hundred dollars?’’ I an-
swered.

This is just the question: Are we go-
ing to allow our profession to decline to
the level of ordinary mercantile pur-
suits, or are we, by the application of
our knowledge and training, to elevate
and maintain it at the level its im-
portance demands? If the former, then
let us do away with our colleges of
pharmacy, burn our dispensatories, and
prepare to deal only in sundries, ‘‘pat-
ents,’’ and medicines put up by large
manufacturers in packages ready for
dispensing in their original containers.

To the manufacture of one class of
preparations in particular we should de-
vote our greatest energies, talents, and
ingenuity: I refer to that very necessary
adjunct to every well-equipped and
paying pharmacy—the line of domestic
specialties. These are a source of good
profit, are something within our re-
sources, and something the public ex-
pect us to provide. The manufacturers
are in evidence even more in this class
of goods than in the pharmacopoeial
products, much to our discredit. While
they can perhaps make a neater and
more attractive package than we, yet it
does not follow that we should divide
profits with them merely on that ac-
count. We can provide the same kind
of containers and the same style of la-
bels and wrappers that they use, and a
little practice will develop the same
deftness in ourselves and our clerks that
their employes possess.

I plead guilty to the charge of allow-
ing well-known and reliable manufac-
turers to make my pills and plaster,
but my sarsaparilla, cough syrup, corn
cure, tooth powder, cholera cure, tooth-
ache drops, headache powders and other
similar preparations are the product of
my own hands, I take great pride and
exercise particular care in the prepara-
tion of these goods, and endeavor to
make every article as perfect as my

 

 

ability and facilities will enable me to,
and thus give my customers ‘‘value re-
ceived’’ in every instance.

From the experience gathered at col-
lege and in the different stores where I
have been employed, I have deduced
the following rules as essential to the
proper and profitable management of a
retail drug store:

Purchase small quantities of the best
drugs and chemicals obtainable; avoid
cheap and inferior grades; if in doubt
as to quality, resort to tests.

Set apart a certain portion of each
day, or of as many days in the week as
necessary, selecting that portion of the
day in which there is least business, for
the replenishing of depleted stocks of
galenicals,

Exercise great care and precision in
your processes, that your finished prod-
ucts may be fully up to the standard.

Employ your ingevity constantly that
waste of material and unnecessary ex-
penitures may be avoided ; and, last but
not least, purchase nothing that you
can make yourself.

SAMUEL R. CRABTREE.
—___»> 2. ____
The Drug Market.

Opium—Has advanced, on account of
higher prices in the primary market.
America is at present the lowest mar-
ket in the world.

Morphine—Is firm but without change.

Quinine—Manufacturers’ prices are
unchanged. Outside holders seil 2@3c
below.

Cinchonidia—Is the most important
article in the drug market and has ad-
vanced three times during the past
week. Is now nearly up to the price of
quinine.

Essential Oils—Cassia is very low and
is being sold at less than cost of im-
portation. Citronella is lower. Cloves
is lower, on account of reduced price
for spice. Lemon and orange have
been advanced 5@1oc per lb., on ac-
count of higher prices in primary mar-
ket. Peppermint is firm, on account of
light crop. ;

Roots—Ipecac continues scarce and is
again advanced. Spring dug golden-
seal is quoted lower than the old crop
fall dug, but is not as good quality.

Spices—Are all dull and lower.

Naphthaline Balls—Are in better sup-
ply and have declined.

Seeds—Smyrna canary continues to
advance, on account of poorcrop. Cori-
ander and hemp are also slightly
higher,

Linseed Oil—Is firm at the advance
noted last week.

 

 

YARNALL [NSTITUTE

NORTHVILLE, MICH.

FOR THE
CURE OP

Alcoholism or Drunkenness

Established over seven years.
Permanent and reliable. em-
edies positively harmless. Cures
positive and permanent. Send
for pamphlet and terms to

DR. W. H. YARNALL, Manager
NORTHVILLE, MICH.

Aluminum Money

Will Increase Your Business.

 

 

  

  

Cheap and Effective.
Send for samples and prices.

C. H. HANSON,
44 S. Clark St., Chicago, Ill.

 

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

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WHOLESALE PRICE CURRENT.

 

 

 

 

 

Advanced—
Declined—
Acidum —— Mac... .... 35@ 50/ ScilleCo............ @ 50
a ce 8 as 8 — so Ge ea ‘= iS fers de doe Uae @ 50
oicum, German 70@ 7%5/ VU0eDe.............. unus
Boracte.... sees 2 16 ee wees cece 1 0G 1 10 a -s
Carbolicum ......... 41} @Teeron ............ Abiniitiineis seas cenres 60
eae 50 | Gaultheria.......|" 4 1 45 P
Gdroohlor Se Wicee - = 5 Gossippil,Sem ai. . v6) ae os
ne 3 asd Cee
a 13 14 | Hedeoma. ’ 1 38 1 $8 > gpa =
Phosphorium, dil.. @ jauern. a a 1 50@ 2 00 adie 1h eh ata 50
Salicylicum. ........ 50@ Lavendula.......... 90@ 2 00] Atrope Belladonna. 60
Sulphuricum........ 1%@ Limonis............. 1 35@ 1 45) Auranti Cortex..... 50
Tannicum .......... 1 25@ 1 40| Mentha Piper....... 1 60@ 2 20/ Benzoin............. 60
Tartaricum.......... 38@ 40 fae pre teteees 150@ 1 60| Benzoin Co...... 12.” 50
Ammonia sein ee ga SITE ~ 4 1 a Barosma............ 50
Aqua, 16 deg... ‘oie Reel =
Aqua, 20 deg. 8 | Picis Liquida.._.._ ... 50
Carbonas..... 14 35 Gas sami — 6
Chloridum ...... 14 1 00 oa amen 2
Aniline 1 00 — 50
Binet 2 0@ 2 3% 8 50| Cinchona............ 50
BrowN ...........6-+ 80@ 1 a ———= Ca 60
-_~- SEaanamS eE 18808 700| Gubeba. 2.177707" 20
ese 60 | Cassia Acutifol..... 50
@ 6 — — Co 50
Cubeme........ po.18 13@ 15 - 170@ 1 80 50
Juniperus........... a «C8 40@ 50/ Ergot......... 50
Xanthoxylum.. .... 53@ 3 @ 1 60 Fern, Chloridum 35
” chee 50
aia — Potassium Gentian Go... 60
Pera ec ccccess 2 | BCR. nn. 15 1g| Gulsee nn 50
bin, Canada.. 4 50 chromate ......... Ee 612...
= 50055 | Bromide,..22.000..1 5g 57 | Hyoseyamus........ 50
Cortex Chlorate..po. 17@i9e ian 13 | Iodine, coloriess.. ®
Abies, Canadian.. 18 | Cyanide............. BO Kino. .....-.......... 50
Cassia .......... 0000 12| Iodide....... 1117.7 2 40@ 2 50 Lobelia hette eee ee 50
Cinchona Flava..... 18 | Potassa, Bitart, pure 28@ 30 Nix V weet eres eee e es 50
Euonymus atropurp 30 | Potassa, Bitart, com @ 15| Nux Vomica........ 50
Myrica Cerifera, po. 20 | Potass Nitras, opt... 10@ 12 Oni, tactee accesses bd
Prunus Virgini...... 12 Potass Nitras........ 10@ il Opi om horated . 50
Quillaia, gr’d....... 12 | Prussiate. . ». 20@ = 25] oP “9 orized. .. 1 50
Sassafras...... po. 18 12 | Sulphate po . b@ 18 ie 50
Ulmus...po. 15, gr’d 15 Radix "ade
Extractum Aconitym ..... 0@ 2 uacciieaia 50
oor Glabra. 24@ 25| Althe..... 22@ 25 | Serpentaria ... 50
Glycyrrhiza, po..... 28q@ 30] Anchusa. 10@ 12| Stromonium .. 60
ex 8 pbox. 11@ 12} Arum po... @ 2/| Tolutan........ 60
Hematox, Is........ 13@ 14} Calamus. 2@ 40| Valerian...... ne 50
Heematox, 4s8....... 4@ 15 Gentiana..... 12@ 15| Veratrum Veride... 50
Heematox, 348....... 16@ 17] Glychrrhiza...py.15 16@ 18| Zingiber............. 20
Perru a Canaden . @ & Tliscellaneo
8 Ca
Carbonate Precip. 15| Hellebore,Alba, po.. 18 20|_Bther Spe NEE BO Ss
Citrateand Qui 225] Inula, po......’... 15@ 20| Alumen.. 24@ 3
Citrate Soluble...... ro) Ipecac, pe 5 00@ 5 25| Alumen, a. 43 4
Ferrocyanidum Sol. 40| Tris plox....p035@38 35@ 40] Annatto gr0"d..po.7 40@ 50
Solut. Chloride..... 15| Jalapa, pr........ 5@ 30 ‘altel, eee ee. =
Sulphate, com’l..... 2|Maranta, ¥s.....11) “@  35| Antimoni’et PotassT 40@ 50
ee —. by 50 Fodophyllum, po 2@ pyrin ee @ 3
co a 75@ 1 00| Antifebrin . @ wv
sulphate, ge ae 7 Rel = ce = 7 a Nitras, oz . @ 50
fe wq@ 14| Spleclia 2.20.7 BQ | 38| Balm lemme Bo
Anthemis........... 2@ | Sanguinaria...po.is @ 18| Bismuth SN. ..... 1 40@ 1 50
Matricaria .......... 30@ 35 | Serpentaria ......... 409 45 | Calelum Gien., is. @ 9
eee alcium 10
Folia “a - Similex. 0 officinalis H @ 4 — Chior. is. 3 =
J Se So, Raa Be thari
Cassia Aciutifol, Tin- Seille.... 2.20! 103 2 Cantharides, Fis'po $ i
velly...... -...: 18@ 2 Symplocarpus, oti. Capsici Fructus, po. @ 15
Cassia Acutifol,Alx. 2@ 30 = PO... @ 2B Garett FruetusB spo @ 15
Salvia officinalis, 48 Valerian ,Eng.po.30 @ 2% ophyllus..po. 15 12@ 14
nadie 122@ 2 Valeriana, German. 1 20 Gare ne. _ ibe.
and % 5@ 5 No. 40... . @ 300
Ure Urs... ... 8@ 10|Zingibera........... 12@ 16| Cera Alba.. 50@ 55
G 1 Zingiber j. ......... 5@ 27 — Flava... 2.0.7! 0@ 42
os 65 —— Oca |. @ 4
Soe = she a $ Die po. 1 @ an oe! g =
Acacia, 3d picked.. @ 3 Bhan ts (grave pao 13@ 15 cornet ua @ 454.
Acacia, sifted sorts. @ 28} Bird, is.............. 4@ 6)/Chloroform......” 50@ 53
Acacia, po....... 60@ 80 Wo . po.i8 10@ 12 Chloroform squibbs @ 1 10
Aloe, Barb. po.18@20 12@ 14|Cardamon........... 1 4@ 1 75 | Chloral Hyd Crs 1 65@ 1 90
oe, Cape .... po @ 12| Coriandrum......... s@ 10 leas’ NY@ Ww
Aloe, Socotri po40 @ = pm Sativa.. — 19 Chon ap 3-@ 43
aaron 53) BB $0| Chenopodiam "(ag 199) Simehontdine, Germ 5 . 45
Benzoinum ......... 50@ 55/| Dipterix Odorate... 1 40@ 1 50 Corks, Uist, dis. re 70
Catechu, is.......... @ i3|Foniculum.... |. @ Creoso — 35
Catechu, %s......... @ 14| Fonugreek, po... : 70 a ee 3 2
Catecht,, 48......... @ 16/Linl............... 3%@ 4% | Creta, prep...... : @ 5
Camph: 55@ 60| Lini, grd....bbl. 3% 4@ 4% | Creta, precip... .."" @ 11
Euphorbium..po. 3 @ 10|Lobelia ....... |.“ 35@ 40| Creta; Rubra.....___ @ 8
albanum Ee ae @ 100 Pharlaris Canarian. 34@ 4 a 18@ 20
Gamboge po........ 6@ 70 ak 5|Cudbear ....... 7 °"" @ w#
Quaiacum.....po.25. @  30/|Sinapis Albu........ 10| CupriSulph.......1) 6%@ 8
ee . 83.00  @ 3 00| Sinapis Nigra....... MN@ 12) Dextrine....0225.77. 10@ 12
waatic seeeeees ge . 2 Spiritus Ether Sulph.......2! m@ 90
eee pe Frumenti, W. D. Co. 2 00@ 2 50| Emery, all numbers @ 8
Opi. Py BO Frumenti, D. F.R.. 2 00@ 2 25 | Emewy, Po......... oe
Shellac, bleached... 40@ 4 | ¥Tument!..... - 125@ 1 50| Fiske White.” 2@ 15
canth 50@ 80 Juniperis Co. O. pT! [oe 2a... =
vesee sees : Juni eris Co... 1 %5@ 3 50| Galla................ @ 2
Herba Saacharum N. E.... 1 90@ 2 10 Captor. ............ 8@ 9
Absinthium..oz. pkg 25 | Spt. Vini Galll...-.. 1 75@ 6 50 | Gelatin wooPer. ---- = <
Eupatorium .oz. pkg 20 | Vini EtO......... 25@ 2 00 — ms raiat, Ps = 60
Lobelia...... oz. pkg 95 | Vini ba 1 25@ 2 00 | Speswere, t = —_ % =
aa be om = Sponges Glue, brown........ 9@ 12
aa — 2 pr 95, | Florida sheeps’ wool Glue, white... 11"! 1B@ 25
Rue — sae 39 |. carriage.. 2 7% | Glycerina .. 4@
mecaieseawae. ae 39 | Nassau sheeps wool Grana Paradisi . @ B
Thymus, V. py pkg 5 carriage........... 2 00@ 2 2 | Humulus............ 3@ 55
’ : Velvet extra sheeps’ Hydraag Chlor Mite @ 9%
Magnesia. wool, carriage. .... @ 1 50| Hydraag Chlor Cor. @ 380
Calcined, Pat..... .. 55@ 60] Extra yellow § eeps’ _—— Ox Rub’m @ 1 00
Carbonate, Pat N@ 2 wool. carriage. @ 1 25 | Hydraag Ammoniati @ 1 15
Carbonate, K. & M 0@ 22% Grass sheeps’ wool, ee Hiydrargyram...-- = =
Carbonate, Jennin; 36 Garriage........... rargyrum.......
= hong _ Herd, for ae. @ lehthyobolls, ia as ” =
euow Reef, for  .—s— | Indigo.
Absinthium,........ 50@ 475| slate use.......... @ 140 Todine, Resubi...... 3 “= 3 70
Amygdale, Dulc.... 30@ 50 Todoform....... .... 4 20
Amygdale Te - 8 25 Syrups Lupulin. wee GIB
Anis : ; BO 2 00 @ 50| Lycopodium - 5@ 50
ea tie tae olieeioda £ wim ee
- eee cae 2 80@ 2 90} Zingiber....... ..... @ 50} Liquor Arsen et Hy-
Caja... %@ 80|Ipecac.... ........ @ 60|_ drargiod.......... a B
Cc pny . 2@ 80} Ferrilod............ @ 50| LiquorPotassArsinit 10@ 12
Cedar. ....-. 35@  65|Rhei Arom.... ..... @ 50} Magnesia, Sulph.. @ 8
Chenopadii...... 1... @2% aes Oficinalis.. 50@ 60 | Magnesia, Sulph, bbl 509 1%
Cinnamonii. ........ 1 25@ 1 35 | Senega.............. @ 50| Mannia,S.F...,..., 60
Cywronella. ......... 35 40 ate @ 50|Menthol,..., .....  @300

 

   

  

 

      

 

 

 

Morphia, S.P.& W... 2 20@ 2 45| Sinapis.............. @ _ 18j Linseed, pure raw.. 40 43
Morphia, S.N.Y.Q.& Sina; apis Ope......... @ 3| Linseed, boiled..... 4l 44
C Ce... 2 10@ 2 35 = nny, De Neatsfeot,winterstr 65 70
Moschus Canton CG Si Vees.............. @ Spirits Turpentine.. 44 50
Myristica, No. 1..... 6 8 soars Scotch,DeVo’s @ #
Nux Vomica. ..po.20 @ 10/ Soda Boras.......... 9 @ Paints
Os Sepia............ 18@ 20| Soda Boras, po...... 9@ ll —
Pepsin oe H.&P Soda et Potass Tart. 26@ 28) Rea Venetian... ... 1% 2 @8
eel ee cc wee @ 1 00} Soda, Carb.......... 1%@ 2 Ochre, yextow Mars. 1% 2
Picis Lig. NN. gal. Soda, Bi-Carb....... = Siguecter ae it
eae @ 2 00| Soda, Ash........... B34@ «4 Putty, commercial.. 2% 2K@3
cis Lig. quaris.. @ 1 00| Soda, Sulphas....... @ _ 2| putty strletly pure. 20 Bees
Picis Liq., pints..... @ 85 | Spts. Cologne........ @ 2 60} Vermilion rime
Pil Hydrarg.. -po. @ 50} Spts. Ether Co...... 50@ 55/ American. 13@ 15
Piper Nigra... po. 2 @ 18|Spt. Myrcia Dom... @2°00| vermilion, Engilsh. 700
Piper Alba....po.35 @ 30|Spts. ViniRect.bbl. @ Green, Paris 13%@ 17%
Piix Burgun........ @ 7| Spts. Vini Rect.%bbl @ Green. pase dee egg 13@ 16
Plumbi Acet........ 10@ 12] Spts. Vini Rect. 10gal @ Lead, R 5K@ 64
Pulvis Ipecac sen 1 10@ 1 20} Spts. Vini Rect. 5gal @ Lead, white......... 5%@ 6
Pyrethrum, boxes Whiting, white Span 3 4
& P. D. Co., doz.. @ 1 25| Strychnia, stal... 1 S@BD1 35 Whiting, gilders i)
Pyrethrim, pv... %@  30| Sulphur, Sub 2a : 24Q. i | White, Baris Amer $10
Ee ulphur, Ro
uinia, SB. & W.. 3g 48 Temarinds 2.1. ea 8@ 10 Waiting, en @14
juinia, S.German.. erebenth Venice... 28@ 30] tpiversal Prenared
inlay NAY. 32 $8| Theobrome....... 5 180 8 ee eee Fee
ubia Tinctorum. 4) Varia... ........ oe
Saladin pV ’ 18@ ‘ ” Zincei Sulph......... 8 Varnishes
Sider 00@
Sanguls Draconis.:’ © 40@ 50 Olls Bxira Turp. 2. 1 600 1 7
a settee reece = = BBL. @aL. | Coach Body......... 2 %@ 3 00
ane a stat eeees 7. = Whale, winter. i 70 70 No. 1 Turp Farn.. at $F]
seessecccce oc ard, extra......... xtra Turk Damar.. 1 55@
Siedlitz Mixture.... 20 @ 22] Lard’ No.1.......... 35  40|Jap.Dryer,No.1Turp 70@ 75

 

 

 

 

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Sefelelalaetetstaeted

Nehet

WAIT
FOR
THE
WINNER

We take pleasure in in-
forming the Michigan
trade that our Mr. McKay
has started out with our
full and complete line of
druggists’ sundries and

holiday goods.

chants are respectfully
requested to defer making
their purchases until they
have inspected our line,
which is the finest we
have ever displayed.

HAZELTINE
& PERKINS
DRUG CO,

Mer-

GRAND
RAPIDS,
MICH.

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GROCERY PRICE CURRENT.

The prices quoted in this list are for the trade only, in such quantities as are usually purchased by retail

dealers.

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

They are prepared just before going to press and are an accurate index of the local market.
possible to give quotations suitable for a
erage prices for average conditions of purchase.
those who have poor credit.

It is im-

1 conditions of purchase, and those below are given as representing av-
Cash buyers or those of strong credit usually buy closer than
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AXLE GREASE. BLUING. CLOTHES —. —————— GooDs. FLAVORING EXTRACTS.
doz. gross Cotton, 40 ft, per doz....... i 00
a b> 600 Cotton, 50 ft, per dos ERD 1 20} 941 1b. mare
ee | Sa SS ee dak kg [Bae rao
oe ceccccecces é < wecse-e
Ta GU 9 00 Cotton, 60 ft. per doz.......1 80 i ;
IXL Golden, tin boxes7 9 00 eae gp] Walsh Deine Co. ameeem
. ee ee 9 00 Jnte. 7rt per 4en,......... B
wee we weet see 6 00 COCOA.
BAKING POWDER. ST UIN James Epps & Co.’s.
Absolute. Boxes, 7 1D8......0scecc secs eces 40
% = cans — bee sek al . — — eee eee eee L - Cases, 16 boxesS.. ...........- 38
¥ lb cans dos............. rge OE... 5, .-.... 7 i
1” bean dos....... a ’" BROOMS. ae
No. 1 Carpet..........--.... si ; Sonatas.
S| Ha. 2Gepet-. 21>] Pound packages... 4 D.C. Vantila” D.C. Lemon
1 0 | No.4 Carpet... 202.2.. 145 CREAM TARTAR. o i‘. ta se
10} Parlor Gem ................ 2 50 | 5 and 10 1b. wooden —— --30 | 942 1b. packages...... .. «1 80 "2 00 ia. te
Common Whisk. ...... ....  95| Bulk in sacks.. --29] 100 Ib. kegs.....-+..2......2 70 "3 00 6oz......2 00
85 i, re 1(0 CONDENSED ‘MILK. 200 Ib. —_ gc 10 400 No. 8...2 40
wae CANDLES _.-.. oe doz in case. joes a - a oie _ .6 00 No. 10,4 00
Be. ee Bangle 6 7 | Iriake, 50 1b. drams.-./°--1 00 = No 31S
a 8 ~  maS ata Ss Ss No 47.2 40 No 47.1 50
< Dried Lima . 5g
— ap | Gbampion { 32 | Medium Hand Picked 1 20@1 % FLY PAPER.
—_— Magnolia 335 Maccaroni and Vermiceiii. Tangiefoot, per box........ 36
Columbia, — pints.. so] sesseresss""> 9 3s | Domestic, 101b. box...... 60 | Tanglefoot. per case ......3 20
Columbia. % pints ee Imported. 25 Ib. box.. ...250 | Holders. per box of £0 ....._ 75
CHEESE COUPON BOOKS. Pearl Barley. Perrigo’s Lightning. gro. ...2 50
Acme @ 2a Tradesman Grade. Common.... .. -- 1%} Petrolatum, per dvz......... 5
Ambo ee ag 50 books, any denom.... 1 50| Chester .. ................ 20 HERBS.
Butternvt........... @ 8 100 books. any denom.... 2 50} Empire te Sage. Lune
Carson City.... @ 8 500 books, any denom....11 50 Peas. aoe ee 15
Elsie AaEAS @ 9 | 1,000 books, any denom. :..20 00 | Green. —, Be. 1 00 ee :
ee a oe @ 9 Economic Grade. Green, Scotch, bu. ...... 110 INDIGO.
ee @ % 50 books, any denom.... 1 50] Split, bu...... 2 50 Madras, 5 lb boxes.... ... 55
Gold Medal... oe @ 100 books, any denom.... 2 50 Rolled Onts. -F.. 2. 8and& lh boxer 50
Ideal . @ 9 500 books any denom....11 50| Rolled Avena, sere 00 GUNPOWDER.
6 oz. Cans, 4 doz Case....... 80] Jersey ..........00.- @ 2 | 1,000 = —— ---20 00 — bbl. veces 3 ve Rifle—Dupont’s
. cans, 4 doz case....... 1 20] Riverside............ lo : ; i
i th cons 2 dios case tenes 2 00 Riverside. ee 3 2 50 books, any denom.... 1 50} Monarch, 90 1b sacks..... = BO ieee 400
2% Ib. cana, 1 doz case..... 4 75 | Edam.... ........... @ 70 | 100 books, any denom.... 2 50| Quaker. cases. ........ 3 20 Heit ie ce 2 25
b. cans, 1 doz case..... 900] Leiden .............. @ 17 500 books, any denom. = Huron. cases... 2 00 —a opie bene i
: ver 1,000 8, any denom.... . PU Cahe oo el
1 = aae- 5 ee a e = Universal Grade. Merman... <2 e. -. ce ic it GANS... 18
4 — Sap Sago...........- @ 7 50 books, any denom.... 1 50} Fast thats ~ Choke Bore—Dupont’s.
i a i = oe 2 r* eitiggs "Chicory: 100 books, any denom. : = Eesley’s Self — Floars. Kegs 1%
eoccccces 5 500 books, any denom....1 Pastr wee ce cee wcccerces cece
ib _. % Bed. i ¥ Se age -20 00 | 2 1p. cartons, 2 ds. , ey 1 80 — ag Steer ‘2
cans OZ CA&se...... ioco ecks. 6 1b. sacks z. in case.... 2 40 | Quarter Kegs...........-..-.
Tb cans 4 dos case...... 55 “ue Baker & Co.’ s. 500, any one denom’n..... 3 00/1 9 Ib. sacks, 1 dz. in jute.. | = Bee ee = 34
1 Id cans 2 doz case...... 90 i 1000, any one denom’n..... 5 00 Entire Wheat. Eagie Dack—Dupont’s
— Sweet . . --2 , any a
nnn) Promitim.......- -... --..- 35 ok on = denom’n..... 8 = 2 1b. — 2dz.in case.. 180] xope 8... ce cev ence 8 00
' ia 46 | Steel punch. ..........-.- ae tC, eet Bees... - 8... 3 eee 4
) a XO N Beata OFFEE Coupon Pass Books, 21b. cartons, 2 4z. in case.. 1 80 eae Kegs ea 2 35
Ib cans, 4 doz case..... 45 a Can be made to represent any Tapioca. Tb. cans is
lb cans, 4 doz case... ... 85 — ' denomination from 810 down. 5 JELLY
Tb cans, 2 doz case...... 1 60 sa g| books ..........--..+. 1 00 4% i ss
a. in ee 2 a eee eee ee a ‘ 6% ao. :
1 Ib. cans, per doz.......... (is... 12 Bere ee ae °
=<... [ae S| ee ee 1 op | Cracked. bulk.........-- og ne LYE.
6 di 85 2 aoe ss . Cundensed,2doz_......1 20
Oz. Cans, per doz.......... Peaberry ...... pate 1000 books...... ee. SALT FISH. ees: ae 2
“ea << .... icavtrneae 14| DRIED PRUITS—DONESTIC - : a
ae 5) ee «io cured... os BBs LICORICE. a
Oe eae 1 er igs 18] Bvaporated 6016 bakes, 810K | Georges selected... 5 @
ies eee ecrless. “ M mea PE cs oa Strips or a ~ S @ _
oo a aracall nee ee ee erring.
Queen Plake, a 15 an Holland white eae: bbl. 9 25
3 oz., 6 doz. case............ 2 70 | Milled... Sega 17 | Biackborsies........-.-- @ | Holland whitehoop %bbl 5 35 MATCHES.
6 0z.,4doz.case ........ 3 20 Sate — 96 | Peaches... -.10 @11 | Holland white hoop, k 70| Diamond Match Co.’s brands.
9 ox., 4 doz. case............ 4 80 Put oho dunes ee 30 | Pears...... ue @ Holland white hoop mechs 80| No.9 sulphur........-...... 16
(a 4 00! swandehling..................35 | Pitted Gherries........ - 7% | Norwegian. oe Anchor Parlor.............. 170
a 1 — Prunnelles.. Round 100 Ibe............. 8 10] No.2 Home-..............-1 10
° re berries..........-. und 40 lbs............. xno MPIOF.... 24.4 -<+ 5:
Amerioa 2.0... eres ones. 7 entiation -...~---1-----+--0-~- 2 inser ‘ — ase 14] Wolvering....-1...--0 0-2 1 05
inglish....... ene ce ag Roasted. 100-120 25 lb boxes....... @4 gee O Brand........cceee-.----
Tomaten NED GOODS. 00 | Clark-Jewell-WellsCo.’sBrands | 90-100 25 Ib boxes... .. ccliean e MOLASSES.
OTN.........---secee+- 980@1 00| Fifth Avenue..... ........ 29 | 80-9025 Ib boxes....... a ‘> Seder iin.
Homing ............... 80 Jewell’s Arabian Mocha. ...29 70 - 80 25 » ee. une ot game eae aac “a
Beans, Limas.......... 70@1 30 | Wells’ Mocha and Java.....24 | 60-7035 tp boxes... ---- R~ | No.1100lbs.......... 2... Wie
Beans, Wax........... 90 Wells’ Perfection Java... * oe = — “UD gio. «| No.1 40lbs.... ..... 2... S Ol Goed 2 20
Beans, Baked. 777. Tap o0| Bresktest Bioid.</ 00010218 | 90-4025 1D oxee ee no a iio’ as
Beans, Red Kidney... 73@ 85 | Valley City Maracaibo. ...18%| 4 cent less in No.21001bs... 12...00202) 1150| Walf-barrels 2c extra.
Succotash 95@1 20 | Ideal Blend................. 14 Raisins. a. 49)
Peas......... 50@ Leader Blend....... .. .... 12% a james Headey : - Ma? ithe... 1 30 MUSTARD.
: ackage. ondon Layers : Be Radish, 1 doz......... 1%
Pumpkin. °e Below are given ‘New York |Cluster4Crown......... 200|No® SIDS, * [nome neauna ane. 3 50
Mushroom 15@ 22| Prices on package coffees, to| Loose Muscatels2Crown 5 | wo 4 100 Us... ese. 5 25| Bayle’s Celery, 1 doz.. .....1 75
Ponte et | ERO ember, dal | ome Meeetsm sarees /Ret wie 8 mes.
s the local freig tom | Loose Muscate '
joe a : 25 | New York to your shipping | L. M., Seeded, choice..... 8 —t : iG i Sl = in? aaa 1%
aeracan i a giving = credit — = L. M , Seeded, fancy...... 9% Whitofiso. Clay, Tp fallooul 65
CAIs... a nye oe IGN. Poy oo
Pineapple, grated.....1 73 2 40|frelght buyer pa s from the ‘oaee- | 100 ibs........ No “60° 2 a5| OO .
Pineapple, sliced......135 295 | market in whic urchases | Leghorn ...........e++ +++ @i1 | aibs...|... 310 299 10 POTASH.
Pineapple, Farren....1 70 to his shipping point, neluding | Corsican...........-+--+-- @12 | 10lbs.. §5 80 4 48 cans in case.

Strawberries -..---.... 110 eS a Currants. 8 Iba Babbitt’s................... 4 00
neo ong . y ae ber ee cows oe Patras BIB ooo ooo oo @ 3% FLAVORING EXTRACTS." Penna Sait Co.’s....... £0
as ies in full cases. ean ee coe s PICKLES.

Oysters, ss Arbuckle Sika Gee no | Comes eee o% = ediam.
Sel flats, key..... 170 °#£«;+| dersey......... .......... Peel. XX, 2 oz. obert.....1 25
Salmon’ %4 Ib: fists... 90 TeLeugiiin’s XXXX. Citron American 101b bx @13_ | XXX 7 0% ia ek se Dorms, 1a copes... -
Salmon, Red Alaska..1 25 McLaughlin’s XXXX sold to | Lemon American 10 1b bx @:0% | ¥x' 3 oz. obert..... 100 8, 600 connt........
Salmon, Pink Alaska.. 90 retailers only. Mail all orders | Orange American 101b bx @10% | No’o 962. obert ..... Small.
Lobsters, 1 Wb. Star....3 20 direct to W. F. McLaughlin & Raisins. XXX D D ptehr, 6 oz 2 25 | Barrels, 2,400 count....... 5 00

bsters, 2-Ib. Star....3 90 Co., Chicago. Ondura 28 Ib boxes..... @ XXX D D ptehr, 4 oz 1 75| Half bbis 1,200count |" |. 3 00
Mackerel, lb Mustard. 10 Extract. Sultana 1 Crown....... @ | K.P. pitcher, 6 oz... 2 25 RICE.
Mincatinecame: §  |yuumoweere [Sune seere. § eg a

erel,1-Ib Toma e SPOOR. ss. peace m. ; °

Sirieems.......5.55.... Hummel’s foil % gross.. 85 | Sultana 4 Crown....... @ 2o0z. Taper Panel.. 7% 1 20 | Carolina —. Sa tana oil t%
Sardines, 148 ee 3%@ _ | Hummel’s tin % gross . 1 43 | Sultana 5 Crown....... @ 2 oz. Oval.......... 1 20} Carolina No.1 ............ 5
Sardines, ms ot d, dom. By 1% CLOTH HES on. Sultana6Crown....... @ 3 oz. Taper Panel..1 35 2 00} Carolina No.2............. 4
Sardines, French...... 5 gross boxes.. a 40 | Sultana package....... @ 4 oz. Taper Panel..1 60 SG RreMOR. oe ee 3%

 

 

 

 

Imported.
japan, No. . ea eee a.
apan, No. -. 4%
Java, fancy head...... 5 @5K
eave. NO, foo. oc. cc 5 @
ee @
SALERATUS.

Packed 60 lbs fn box.
Church’s Arm and eeenee 315
Deland’s 3 00

 

Dwight’s Cow... 8 15
i 3 50
L. Se ...3 00
-..3 15
Wyandoite, HO Sis. oss 3 00
SA —
Granulated, bbls. 0
Granulated, 100 lb cases.. 8:
Lump, bbls .. 70
Lump. 1451b kegs pees. £0

SALT
Diamond Crystal.
Table, cascs, 24 3-lb boxes. .1 50
Table, barrels. 100 31b bags.2 75
Tabie, barrels. 407 1b bags.2 40
Butter. barrels, 280 1b. bnlk 2 25
Butter, barrels. 20 14 —— 2 50

 

Butter, sacks, 28ibs... ..... 25
Butter, sacks, 56 Tbe. 55
Common Grades.

{00 3 1b sacks i 95
60 5-lb sacks . Be Sis ..1 80
28 10-lb sacks.......... . 165
Worcester.

50 4 Ib. cartoms......... 8 25
115 ar. RRCR os sole. 400
60 Ib. sacks 3 7%
22 “4 lb. sacks 3 50
3010 Ib. sacks. ..3 50
28 Ib. linen sacks. J. oe
56 1b. linen —- coe Oo
Bulk in barrels.............. 2 50

War
56-lb dairy in Grill D bags ae 30
28-Ib dairy in drill bags..... 15
Ashton.
56-lb dairy in linen sacks... %
Higgins.
56-lb dairy in linen sacks. 60
Rock.
56-lb sacks 21
Commen.
Granulated Fine............ €0
Medium Fine.............. Ww
SCALES.
Per doz.

Pelouze Household... 12 00

Weighs 24 lbs. by ounces.

 

SEEDS.
3%
way 8
eeu. er 60
Celery.. asieis 11
Hemp. Russian. Dice ciate =. ar
Mised Bind... 5... s.. 47,
—: mane... .:.,... a
ee
— piace faeces focus cscs. 4%
Cuttle Bone...............
SNUFP.
Scotch, in bladders......... 3?
Maccaboy, in jars........... 3-
French appeée. in jars.. 43
SOAP.
Single hex. 3... 2%
5 box lots, delivered.. ee
10 box lots, delivered....... 2%

dAS. 8. KIRK & 60.'S ARID

American Family, wrp’d....
MN
meine
Savon.. ales

White Russian... co
White Cloud, laundry.. oe
White Cloud, toilet.........
Dusky Diamond, 50 6 oz...
Dusky Diamond, 50 8 oz....
Blue India, 100 % PD a
—
Eos...

we
aS

20 09 09 Cd] CO dD BI’

5 SSSSssuRres

' Scourin ing.
Sapolio, kitchen, 3 doz .....
Sapolio, hand, 3 doz........
_—

cow
PY
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Boxes

an
ex

BARTON. ce es
Heart ile. oo Use.
1 doz. 1 gallon cans......... 2%
1 doz. % gallon cans...... 1 65
2 doz. 4 gallon cans ..... 1 6
Pure Cane

ONE ce
Good

TMOG ooo. ee

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SPICES.

W note Sifted.
Al eps oe
Copsit, ik ue ili dais....... 1s
Cassia, Butavia is: bund. ...23
Cassia, Saigon in rolis...... 8:
Cloves, Amooyna........... 14
Cloves, Zaugivar............ 12
Mace, Batavia ............. 55
Nutmegs, fancy........... -60
Nucmegs, No: t............. 50
Nutmegs, No. 2....... ..... 5
Pepper, Singapore, biack...:3
Pepper, Singapore, white...16
Popper, shot... .. 8... 15
Pure Ground in Bulk.
Alispice.

Cassia, Batav.a .
Cassia, Saigou.. ....... ...
Cloves, Zauzibar .

Ginger, African .
Ginger, Coczin
Ginger, Jamaica
Mace, —
Mustard .
Nutmegs,
Pepper, Sing , black

  
   
 
 
 
 

Pepper, Sing., white.
copper, Cayenne ..... =
STARCH.

 

Sets slain
40 1-lb packages.. 2 6
20 1 lb packages............. 644
eee sere Gloss
40 1-Ib packag .
6-lb boxes...

Diamond.
64 10c packages ........... 5 00
128 5c packages......... .. 5 00
32 10e and 64 5c packages...5 00
Common Corn.
201 lb. packages.........
40 1 lb. packages
Common —_
l-lb packages......
3-lb packages.. :
6-lb packages . Sale sie ale
40 and 50 lb boxes........... 3
Barrels 3

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

SUGAR.

Below are given New York
prices on sugars, to which the
wholesale dealer adds the local
freight from eg — to your
shippin: nt, giving you
ane a the invoice for the
amount of freight peor pays
from the market in whic

urchases to his shipping —
fh cluding 20 pounds for the
weight of the barrel.

 

PI 5 7%
Gat beat... 5 88
Crushed. . Sedo eccccceccaes Om
Powdere Se In Rs 5 63
= Powdered........... 5 =
CRINGE oe le cs 6
Granulated mm DIB... ... 52. 5 59
Granulated in bags......... 5 50
Fine Granuiated............ 5 50
Extra Fine Granulated ....5 63
Extra Coarse Granulated... 5 63
Mowe foo. %%
Diamond Confec. A.. ..... 5 50
Confec. ements A oo oes . _
ee ee
No 2 5 00
Be 5 =
. « ..4
No. eo cee 4 88
OG. Bei 4 81
Mee ee cle 48
me: Bo 4t9
Me ee 4 63
ae ee 450
Pe AL. 2... 4 38
No. 12. 4 31
Oo ia soe 4 31
me 06 4 25
No. 15 * 23
Wy-:4 ay
TABLE SAUCES.
PERRINS’

The Original and

Genuine

Worcestershire.
Lea & Perrin’s, large... 3 75
Lea & es small... 2£
Halford, la vec s Oe
Halford sm i. Be eth cele 22

Salad Dressi large..... 4 55
ad rowing ia small.....2 7%

 

Cigars.
Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s brand.
NOW Bee 33 00

H. & P. Drug Co.’s prands
Fortune Teller............. 35 03
Our Manager.............. 35 00
uinteite 6. 35 UU

G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s brand.

(

Cc
»

S.C. Wo . 35 00

Phelps, Brace & Co.'s Brands.
Vincente Portuondo. = 70)

Ruhe Bros. Co ...... 25@ “0 00
The HilsonCo......... 335@U'0 00
T. J. Dunn & Co...... 35a a
MeCoy &€e.-. ... |. 35@ 70 CO
The Collins Cigar Co..10@ 35 00
Brown Bros..... ..... 1

3
ss

70
Banner Cigar Co...... 30@
Bernard Stahl Co. 7 90 00
1@

Banner Cigar Co...... 35 00
Seidenberg & Co... ..55@125 00
G.P. Sprague Cigar Co. 10@ 35 0)
The Fulton Cigar Co. .10@ 35 00
A.B Ballard & Co....35@1°5 00
E. M. schwarz & Co .@110 00
San Tebmo..... .c.. 35@ 70 0)
Havaua Cigar Co...... 18@ 35 00
VINEGAR.

Malt White Wine, 40 grain.. §
Milt White Wine, 80 Rem ll

Pure Cider, Red Star.. --Ae
Pure Cider, Kobinson... bce. 13
Pure Cider, Silver.. 1%
WICKING.
No.0, pergross.............. 20
No. I. pergross... 2
No. 2; per eeem.............. 35
No. 3, pergrogs.:...... 8... 55
WOODENWARE.
Pails.
2-hoop Standard ............ 1 35
3-hoop Standard ............ 150
= Wire, CADIO.. |... 13
& wire, Cable,........ ..: 1 6)
Cedar, all red, brass bound.1 25
a Bureka 0000000000, 2 25
a 2 2
Tubs.

2’-inch, Standard, No.1..
winks Standaid, No. 2..
16-inch, Standard, No. 3..
20-inch, Dowell, No. 1.
18-inch, Dowel:, No. 2.
16-inch, Dowell. No. 3.
No. \ Fib Rte 2
No.2 Fibre...
NG. 3 Mince.)

PIAOH ROR
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Crackers.

 

The National Biscuit Co.
quotes as follows:

Batter.

Seymour Xxx . 5%
Seymour XXX, 31b. carton 6
Wamily 2Ae 5%
Salted SN. 5%
New York XXX..... ... .. 5%
Wolverine... <oocc e
ORG 1%

Soda.
Seda Sew 6
Soda XXX, 3 lb carton.. 6%
Seda, Cry
Long Island Wafers....... 11

L. I. Wafers, — carton .. 12
Zephyrette.. .- 10
a

Saltine Wafer.............. 5%
Saltine Wafer, 1 lb. carton. oa
Farina Oyster..............

  

Extra Farina Oyster....... .
SWEET GOODS—Boxes.
Animals ...... 10%

Bent’s Water... .
Cocoanut Taffy............ 10
Coffee Cake, Java.......... lu
Coffee Cake, Iced...... ... 10
Cracknelig.....) 8... 15%
CO 11%
Frosted Cream............. 8
Ginger Gems... ........... 8
Ginger Snaps, XXX........ os
Graham Crackers .........
Graham Wafers............ 0
Grand Ma Cakes............ ;
Demperiags 3... ec.
Jumoples, Honey ee eee “By
Marshmallow Morse
Marshmallow Creams..... 16
Marshmallow Wainuts...
Mich. Frosted Honey.... 124
Molusses — ee cualctaces
Newton . See nes eecees 3
an. 8
Orange GemS............... 8
Penny Assorted Cakes..... 8%
Pretzels, hand made ..... 7%
Sears’ Luneh............... 7
Sugar Cakes... i... ...... 8
Sugar Squares............ a
Vanilla Wafers .

URROS os 18%

 

 

  

  
 
 
 

 

 

 

 

  
  

 

 

 

 

Candies. Grains and Feedstuffs
Stick Candy. in Wheat. '
bbls. pails WOO i is ee lL 7
standard............ @ i% Winter Wheat Pour.
Standard H. “+ 7 Oi] nents. Local Brands. ne
Standard Twist. 7*@ *, | Second Patent: Se cviemeti 3 50
an = a - 8 ee : =
umbo, 32 1b ........ %
Extra . Be @ 8% Graham . aa wih dee ee aac 3 50
Boston Cream...... @10 oC Ue ee
m Mixed Candy. J. subject io ‘usual cash dis-
POCGES oo.
ee eee ee ¢ os aio in bbls., 25¢ per bbl. ad-
tandard............
= : - Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand
Ribbon! 20-2.21) Bak | Date Mens
Broken ............. 2% | Dates, Me 385
Cut Loaf... 2222.1. @ 8% : ‘
English Rock....... @ 8% | . Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Kindergarten  .. @ 8% a 4s ae ee alg ac 3 65
French Crean...... @9 ee, Si 3 65
Dandy Pan...... ___ @io | Quaker, %s................. 3 65
Hand 1 ‘gees Cream mxd @13 Spring Wheat Fiou
NGbbg. oS @ 8% Clark-Sewell-W ells Co.’s eer"
ee Bulk. sbury’s Best %s........ 5
San Blas Goodies.... @ll1 Pillsburye a a 2 =
Lozenges, plain..... @ 8% | Pillsbury’s Best ay 425
a ee @ 8% Pillsbury’s Best 14s paper.. 4 25
Shoe. Monumentais @i2% | Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand.
Gum Drops. bes @5 Duluth Imperial, \s....... 4 50
Moss Drops.. @ 8 | Duluth Imperial, 4s. ..... 4 40
ase ee eee 3 oo Duluth Imperial, %s....... 4 30
ee oe le
imperiat Bnobns, 35 1b pls 11 oad wane ae Go's _—
Moles. Chews 18 Ib. pals 18 | Go\d MoMA Meo nn 4 3
Jelly Date Squares.. @10 | Gold Medal %s._... .. 4.20
Fancy—in 5 Ib. Boxes. —— es: 4 50
Lemon Drops....... arisian, = teteee 7 40
Sour Drops.. b Parisian, %s........ 4 30
Peppermint Drops... @ev Olney & 5 udson ’s Brand.
—— Drops.. @65 Cerenots, 46... 4 50
H. M. Choe. Drops.. @7% | Ceresota, tys........
H. M —_ is. and resota, 4s.. eee
Dk. No. @90 —— Grocer Co.’s
Gum Pig @30 ee a...
Licorice Drops @75 | Laurel, 4s......
A. B. Licorice Drops @50 Laurel, Sg8 2.2
Lozenges, plain.. @55 =.
Lozenges, printed... : @55 Bolted . 1 90
— Bis. @55 Granulated ..............! 210
ottoes . tO
Cream Bar. el Pe
Molasses Bar ....... @55__—| No. 1 Corn and Oats "145 50
Hand MadeCreams. 80 @ 9 | Unbolted Corn Meal....... 14 FO
Cream Buttons, P = Winter Wheat Bran... _ . 14 00
— os @é> | Winter Wheat Middlings..15 00
String Rock.. . @60 | Screenings...  2o
oa Almonds WS pee 13 @ ere ae
w Garam, | NN gm gare nS
=e wrapped, 2 Ib. i -
ee ee @35
No.Lwrapped, 8 ib. | Carions, clipped ../77<: Be
No. "2 wrapped, 2 ib. Less than car — Sateen Oe
ea No.1 Ttegerdine,. 16 00
a No. 1 Timothy, ton lots. 4S 05
Fruits. E
ish and Oysters
Oranges.
Seedlings............ @4 15 ar. Per lb
Medt Sweet.. G5 (0! whitefish ........... @ &%
Lense. oe tie . ¢ =
Strictly choice 360s.. @ 00) Back Bass.......... 0
Strictly choice 300s.. @4 25 | Halibut............. @ 16
Fancy ae @5 0) | Ciscoesor Herring. @ 4
Ex.Fancy 3008.... @5 5v a aa Peteeeee g .
ne aso @ | Boiled Lobster... @ 20
Bananas. con 10
Medium bunches.. i 00 @I 25| Haddock............ 7
Large bunches...... 1% @2 3 oa 1 Pickerel...... :
Heneige Sates Petts. a 4%

Figs.

 

 

 

 

 

Californias Fancy.. @13
Choice, 101b boxes. . @i2
Extra choice, 10 1b

boxes new......... @16
Fancy, 12 lb boxe @22
— Mikados. 18
Pulled, 6 1b boxes... g
Naturals, in bags. . @7z

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

Ib cases, new...... @é&

Sairs, 601b cases.... @5
Nuts.
Almonds, ——.. @16
Almo nds, syaes....... @l4
Almonds, California,

soft shel ag @i5
Brazils new. @7
Filberts : @i0
Walnuts, Gronobies.. @13
Walnuts, Calif No. 1. @li
Walnuts, soft shelled

Cee @ll
Table Nuts, fancy.. @ll
Table Nuts, choice.. @10
Pecans, Med.. @7%
Pecans, Ex. L is @ 9
Pecans, Jumbos..... @i2
Hickory Nuts per bu.,

Ohio, new........... @i1 60
Cocoanuts, full sacks @2 50
Chestnuts perbu...... @

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

Roasted............. @7
Choice, H. P., Extras @5
Choice, H. Pe, =

Roasted 6

 

 

Smoked White......
Red Snapper.....*..
Col River Salmon

Mackerel

8 OHOHEGO9SO
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Shell Goods.
Oysters, per 100....... 1 1 50
Memes near 190 179
Oils.
Barrels.
a @11%
XXX W.W.Mich.Hdlt @10
W W Michigan. @ 9%
Diamond ite @ &&%
. Gas... @i3

Deo. ‘Naptha -  @l2%
Cylinder .. ....29 @34
ane ad Secs ns anncokh Get
‘enh «A a- oa 2

 

 

Hides and Pelts.

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

 

Hides.
Groen No. ............ @im%
Green No. 2.......... . @ 6%
ME ec @6
Cured No. t........... @ 8%
Cured No: 2.........., @ 7%
pa are green No. 1 @9
Calfskins, nm No. 2 @7%
Calfskins, cured No. 1 @i0
Calfskins, — No.2 @8%
elts.
Poelts, each............ 50@1 00
Tallow.

TRO Be cs @ 3%
PO @ 2%
Wool.

Washed, fine ......... @16
Washed, medium...... @20

Unwashed, fine........ 9 @I2
Unwashed, medium ..14

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 
 

 

 

 

Provisions.
Swift & Company quote as
follows:
Barreled Pork.
—_ a ose 00
oe
Clear back.......... @l0 2°
ReereGGe. i... 9 75
Te , 14 00
ee 91.0
em 11 OJ
Dry Salt Meats.
Bete 5%
Briskets ..... 5%
Extra shorts.... 54
Smoked Meats.
Hams, 12 lb average .... 1044
Hams, 14 1b average 10
Hams, 16 1b average..... 934
Hams, 20 lb average..... 9%
Ham dried beef ......... 14
Shoulders (N. Y. —. 5X
Bacon, clear... . |... 7 @i%
California name |, 6
Boneless hams........... 8%
Cooked ham............ 10@i2%
Lards. In Tierces.
ee ee 4%
ee 6
55 lb Tubs....... advance 5
80 lb Tubs....... advance %
501b Tins ....... advance 3%
20 Ib Pails....... advance 5
IO 1D Pails. .... |. advance %
5 Ib Pails..... :. advance I
sib Pails... |. advance 14g
Sausages.
Bolseng 5%
eT 6%
at bee oeas 7%
a. 6%
Blend en 6
TOnSHO .. 8... 9
Head cheese.... 6%
Beef.
xtra Mees... 10 25
Boneless 12 50
Ma 12 06
igs’ Feet
Hite Hibs ... 70
1 bbls, 40 Ibs... |, 135
% bbls, Selb... 2 50
Tripe.
Kits, 15 lbs.. — 70
%q bbls, 40 lbs... 22272717 1 35
+ bhis, Sis. 2 2
Casings.
a 20
Beef rounds........_.... 3
Beef middles............ 10
a ee 60
Butterine.
Ree Gary 11
Solid, ae 10%
Rolls, Creamery ......... 15%
Solid, creamery ......... 14%
Canned Meats.
Corned beef, 21b...... 215
Corned beef, a e....... 14 7%
Roast beef, a 215
Potted ham, —... 50
Potted ham, ps....... 90
Deviled ham, = occas 50
Deviledham, s....... 90
Potted tongue Fe Reece 50
Potted tongue Ks....... 90
Fresh Meats.
Beef.
COTGSHR 60. 7 @s&%
Fore quarters......... 6 @6%
Hind 7 feeaeu T4@ 9
Loins om a ee
Ribs. .9 @l4
Beans 7 @ 8
a 6 @ 6%
fg 4@5
Pork.
Pressed 0... ll... 1%@ 5
Pere @7
Shoulders. eeedes auc @ 5%
Rear Lard... 64@
Mutton
Cems 2. 8%4@10
Spring Lambs... .....14 @16
oe 74@ 8
Crockery and
Glassware.
AKRON STONEWARE.
Batters,
“gal. perdes............ 4
1toé Aon pergal........ 5
8 gal., eae 48
10 gal., each.. 60
12 gal., each. cue om
15 gal. meat-tubs, each....1 05
20 gal. meat-tubs, each....1 40
25 gal. meat-tubs, each ...2 00
30 gal. meat-tubs, each....2 40
Somme.
2to6 gal. per gal......... 5
Churn Das ers, per doz... 84
Milkpans.
\% gal. flat or rd. bot., doz. 40
1 gal. flat or rd. bot., ‘each 43
Fine Glazed Milk
\% gal. flat or rd. bot., »* 60

1 gal. flat or rd. bot., ‘onan 5%

Stewpans.
% gal. fireproof ‘ail, dos. 85
1 gal. fireproor, bail, doz.1 10

i a

per dog... ...

1 to 5 gal., per gal........

Jugs.
1 POT Gea...

40
+ 50
« §€

 

Tomato —
% gal., per dos.. a
1 gal., een... 6%
Corks for % gal., per dos.. 20
Corks for 1 gal., perdos.. 30

Preserve Jars and Covers.

% gal., stone cover, doz... %5

1 gal., stone cover, doz.. 1 00
Sealing Wax.

5 lbs. in package, per lb.. 2

— amet

 

Pints .... . 400
Quarts... 4 25
Half Gallons... 8
Cevere............ 2 00
Renpeie. 2
LAMP eae
ne. Chan... :
No. 1 ie a
No. 3 Sum.........
No. SSan..........
ote
Security, No. 1 60
Natmes Me 2. 80
LAMP. CHIMNEY S—Seconds.
Per box of 6 re
Ne Chae 1 28
Me thee a
Ne than... 212
Common
Pe Oe 1 50
ieee 1 60
Me 2h 2 45
— Qualit =
ee crim r
wrapped and labe ea. 2 10
Sun, crim
“rapped and rt # ag 15
Sun, crim top,
wrapped and labeled. . 815
XXX Flint.
No. 0 Sun, crimp top,
wrapped and labeled 2 55
No. 1 Sun, crim top,
wrapped and labeled. .. 2 75
No. 2 Sun, crimp top,
wrapped and labeled.... 8 75
CH EYS—Pearl Le
No.1 Sun, wrapped an
a ee a —. ind
No. 2 = = an
“ee

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

La Bastie.
"dog 1 Sun. plain bulb, per
No. "Giimiaaes
No. 2 ee per dos... ... 1
este

hi: fr.
No. 1, Lime re do).

SRE SSSSS aren icaies sss Sha

No. 2) Lime (70¢ doz
. 2, Flint gr doz

lect
No. 2, Lime pn di
No. 2, Flint
OIL Cc .

1 gal tin cans with spout..
1 gal galv fron with spout.
2 gal galv iron with spout.
3 gal galv iron with spout.
5 gal galv iron with spout.
3 gal galv iron with faucet
5 gal galv iron with faucet
5 gal Tilting cans..........
5 gal galy fron Nacefas..
Pump

Cans.
5 gal Rapid steady stream.
5 gal Eureka non- nee
3 gal Home Rule.. oe
5 gal Home Rule...........
5 gal Pirate King..........

LANT Ss.
No. — side lift...

one 4
see 4

ee
gaat

0)
1
1
2
3
4
4
4

oBES4 on

ass

. 0 Tubular, cases 1 dos.
each, box 10 cents.. .....

No. 0 Tubular, — dos.
each, box 15 cents.......

No. 0 Tubular, ‘ln 5 dos.
each, per bbl, bbl. 00..

No. 0 Tubular, bull’s eye,
frases t dng aach

‘fh
al

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45
1 78
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One Way to Combat the Catalogue’

Houses.
Written for the TRADESMAN.

Catalogue competition seems to be a
vexed and vexing question, and the
one of all others most worthy of atten-
tion, not only of the small retailers of
our country towns, but of the people
themselves, who must sooner or later
awaken to the fact that it is their own
life-blood this gigantic octopus lives
on.

Why do the catalogue houses menace
the people? Because they build up one
at the expense of many, a theory false
as it is flattering and a business propo-
sition never yet verified. Were there
even the qualifying clause of ‘‘greatest
good to greatest number’’ attachable to
this theme in any manner there would
be reason for its long-continued exist-
ence; but it is the opinion of the ma-
jority that no one receives any benefit,
direct or indirect, from catalogue houses
except the promoters thereof, and
whether this accumulated wealth bene-
fits the offspring of the originators of
this leeching system remains to be seen,
but probably, as in many other matters
of wealth secured by unfair means, it
will become dispersed by the second
generation, usually more speedily than
accumulated by this.

But this condition is now with us to
solve: Shall the few catalogue houses
succeed while thousands of respectable
merchants perish in more than a physi-
cal sense, or shall the men who consti-
tute the highest civilization of our coun-
try, its merchants, prosper while these
enemies to general prosperity come
down to the level of ordinary business
men, receiving no more than an equit-
able share of the oil which moves the
business universe, local trade?

I am inclined to believe the time will
come, and that speedily, when catalogue
houses will have become dreams of the
past, and may they be of such a _ night-
mare nature as to preclude the desire
from any one that they be repeated.

But is this time coming? If so, when
and whence? I answer, yes, soon and
from the action of the people. Its ap-
proach may be invisible to our eyes,
owing to its slow movement our way,
but I believe it is coming as surely as
time moves. I recall a little girl hav-
ing permission to go and play with
some neighboring children as soon as
the hour hand reached 1. She stood and
eagerly watched this hand for some min-
utes, then said, ‘‘It will never get there,
for I can't see it move.’’ But it was
moving, moving by an unseen yet
known force, which would in due sea-
son produce certain results. The child
could not see the hour hand move, yet
beyond question every effort of the
mechanism within was aiding towards
the result watched for.

Even so may it be with this question.
Its solution may now be silently, stead-
ily, but surely, approaching. We,
through the eyes of the child, may thiuk
it will never get here, we can’t see it
move, yet time will tell, and then we
will wonder why the obstacle even so
much as gained our attention.

But how will the people have a hand
in this moving, the desired result? They
are the moving force, the wheels that
make the hands go round; the main-
spring their personal interests, the key

to wind this and make its force effective.

their purses, the power that turns this
key the local merchants. In this com-
bination lies the similitude we would
draw. Before the hands of a clock can
move the key must wind the mainspring,

 

 

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which again requires the human hand.
Therefore must the local merchants
grasp the situation and with the proper
turns in a proper way give force to the
mainspring of business, the personal in-
terests of the people, through the lever-
age of the proper key, the people’s
purse.

But how shall this key be found and
properly applied? Ah, my friend, the
answer to that question would be of
worth equal to the entire combined
wealth of business represented by the
merchants scattered all over the face of
our national home, because on the solv-
ing of this problem undoubtedly rests
their future. I have a plan and, while
I can not assure you that it is the per-
fect one, or even among the best, to
reach this desired end, I am honest in
the belief that it would accomplish the
result hoped for, viz., the betterment of
small local lines of business at the ex-
pense of the catalogue houses.

And what is this plan? Simply com-
bination of local dealers for the best in-
terests of themselves and their patrons.
This combination calls for the sinking
of self out of sight for the general good
of all, and yet the individual self would
be of greater worth there than in its at-
tempt to stand alone, for here it shines
with reflected light as well as its own,
but the lines on which this combine
would be formed would govern the re-
sult, therefore must they be right, and
laid in the right direction, with the
right spirit. Those lines are best shown
by the old axiom, ‘‘ Fight fire with fire.’’
Tssue a local catalogue in competition
with the foreign ones. Study their
make-up, style, terms and prices, then
go them one better. Get up the best
thing your local printer can turn out,
then get it into the hands of the people.
And keep getting it there. Right

-bere is where combination will show the

most strength. I said, ‘‘a local cata-
logue’’—not several, not one for each,
but one for all. In this list your most
tempting wares; and make them an ir-
resistible temptation. Let each local
dealer furnish some special thing, then
have two or more offer a combination
and divide the profits, Say your furni-
ture dealer makes offer of a tufted sofa
in combination witb a list of indispen-
sable spices and table supplies by a gro-
cer. Have your milliner offer a partic-
ular retail value of hat in combination
with shoes and flavoring,extracts. Your

‘implement dealer could combine with

the editor in furnishing neatly engraved
or printed stationery. Your harness-
maker might get up a strong combina-
tion with the clothier, your meat market
man with any or all of the others, while
your local stationer might furnish good
premiums in books or magazine sub-
scriptions for a general sweepstake
combination-offer from every dealer in
town. Besides these, and dozens of
other combinations, one especially to
newly-marired couples might include a
whole ‘‘setting out. ’’

But enough have been suggested for
guidance. Then comes the delivery of
these. Hire men with horses to deliver
direct into the hands of the people, and
of all the people in the territory tribu-
tary to your town. At the same time
have him advertise your town by signs
wherever they can be shown. Talk to
the people from  housetops, trees,
fences, posts, and occasionally give
them the entire broadside of a barn;
but give it artistically even if in large
doses. And keep everlastingly at it.
Don’t allow a day to pass without giv-
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The verdict of those who have used them: ‘That they are the best
Write for Price List.

FOSTER, STEVENS & c i EXCLUSIVE AGENTS

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. !
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LONDON

PHILLIPS IDEAL
CREAM
== SEPARATOR

Dilution Process.
Patented August 23, 1898.

 

For the thoroughly perfect, rapid separation of cream it has
no equal. Saves time, cream and money. The milk goes
directly from the cow and 1s completely diluted and sepa-
rated in three hours. Its simplicity, entire labor saving,
low price, thoroughness and quality of work will commend
itself for use to every one making butter. Write for circu-
lar and prices. Manufactured by

Wm. Brumme}ler & Sons.

 

 

 

 

 

260 South Ionia St.,
Grand Rapids, Mich.

ROOFIN

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. Ml. REYNOLDS & SON,

DETROIT, MICH. Established 1868. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

Pi Office: 82 Campau St.

 

(Please mention where you saw this advt.) Factory: rst Av. and M. C. Ry.

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R BROWN & SEHLER

WEST BRIDGE ST.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
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Manufacture a full line of
LIGHT AND HEAVY HARNESS
FOR THE TRADE.
Jobbers in
SADDLERY HARDWARE, ROBES,
BLANKETS, COLLARS, WHIPS, ETC.
Also a full line of
CARRIAGES AND FARM IMPLEMENTS.

 

 

 

MAIL ORDERS GIVEN
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tising, in all possible ways; but com-
bine in this for the good of your town.
Then each will receive more than his
anticipated share and the people, the
only ones who can regulate these mat-
ters, will see to it that money is left
with the home merchants whenever
their best interests are made paramount
in the arguments used to change pres-
ent conditions to better.

Thus we find the similitude has worked
itself out. The local merchant grasps
the key to the situation (and he would
have a much more secure hold thereon,
and oftener than he now has were this
line of action adopted) and, with his
hand on the people's purse, would give
such an impetus to the mainspring of
business, the people's interests, as
would force the hands to move. Yes,
these indicators would surely move to-
wards the wished-for point, denoting
that now we can go and with our neigb-
bors spend hours of pleasure; and even
although we can not see the hands move
they are moving, and I believe all too
fast to suit the grasping monopolistic
catalogue houses. Applied as outlined
in this paper, that unseen force would
bring about the desired result with the
irresistible power of fate.

Will the merchants grasp this key to
the situation? I believe they will, and,
if it be universally handled in the right
spirit, the people will forsake their now
pernicious habit of purchasing away
from home and, hand in hand with those
who would save them from themselves,
push this question to a speedy solution.

L. A. Ety.
—__> 0. ____
Industrial Stocks Less Favored.

Trusts have not been as much favored
of late, for the public has not shown the
haste to subscribe for their stocks that
was expected, and there isa general dis-
position to insist on a publication of all
the facts connected with these various
corporations before they should be con-
sidered desirable investments. On the
other hand, the officers seem to think
that the knowledge of the actual work-
ings and conditions of the corporations
which they control is a perquisite of
their own, which they are not disposed
to share with the general public. Of
course, the mere fact that a concern
does business under a high-sounding
name, and is capitalized fora sum far
in excess of its visible assets, does not
necessarily mean that an investment in
its securities would be a bad one; but
at the same time the general public
will do well to fight shy of any corpora-
tion which does not inform its stock-
holders as to the exact condition of its
affairs and give this information in such
shape that there can be no question as
to its veracity.

>_> _____
Misnomers.

Mrs. Brown—Our language is full of
misnomers. For instance, I met a man
once who was a perfect bear, and they
called him a ‘‘civil engineer.’”

Mrs. Smith—Yes, but that’s not so
ridiculous as the man they call ‘‘teller’’
in a bank. He won't tell you anything.
I asked one the other day how much
money my husband had on deposit and
he just laughed at me.

—__>02>___

A Scheme Worth Trying.

**Yes,’’ said the florid lady, ‘‘I made
my will several years ago, and it was
one of the wisest things I ever did.’’

‘“Why?’’ the meek-looking woman
asked. ‘‘Do you expect to drop off sud-
denly?’’

‘‘No, but it’s such a satisfaction to
go and change it whenever I get mad
at any of my beirs,’’

—_2> 20 >.—___

The business connections of a family
in Kirwin, Kan., are rather suggestive.
One son is a doctor, another is an un-
dertaker, a third makes tombstones and
the wife of the latter is a druggist.

 

The Hardware Market.

At the present time, owing to the be-
ginning of the warm season, trade is
falling off a little, but in staple goods
and articles that are needed for imme-
diate consumption, there is an active
demand and jobbers are finding great
difficulty in getting their orders filled
with any degree of promptness. In
steel goods, scythes and snaths, it is al-
most impossible to find: goods anywhere
in the country, as manufacturers are far
behind their orders and jobbers’ stocks
are almost depleted.

Wire and Nails—There has been no
change in the price of wire and nails
since June 1, although it is believed by
those who are conversant with the mar-
ket that another advance will be made
on or about July 1, to conform to the re-
cent advance in raw material as well as
increased wages which have been made
to all workmen.

Tin Plate—The prospects of an ad-
vance of wages among tin plate work-
men, as well as a probability that a dis-
agreement may occur, causing a stop-
page of all tin plate mills, have resulted
in a much firmer tone in the market, as
well as the prospect of an immediate
advance in all grades of tin plate.

Sheet [ron—While this is not the time
of the year that much sheet iron is used,
a heavy demand already exists and
prices are very strong. Sheet mills are
crowded with orders and very few are
entering any additional orders, even for
shipment during the latter part of the
year. Galvanized iron is firm at 65 per
cent. off,

Miscellaneous—Recent advances have
been made in the following goods and
we note a few of the prices now ruling,
which are asked quite generally by job-
bers: Stove pipe dampers, 50 to 50 and
10 per cent. ; Gautier toe calks, 534 to
6c per lb. ; Star apple parers, $4.50 per
dozen; rocking table, $5.50 per doz. ;
bar iron, $2.15; gas pipe, 50 and Io per
cent. ; well points, 70 and Io per cent. ;
scythe snaths, 50 per cent.; Manila
rope, 12C; Sisal rope, 9c.

——_>2.___
Exploiting Seasonable Goods During
Warm Weather.

Every zealous and enterprising mer-
chant is desirous of making all he pos-
sibly can during the summer, as well
as other months. And while it is in-
evitable that business should decrease
in volume during the heated term, it
must also be remembered that a great
deal of business is made necessary sim-
ply by the hot weather. Goods which
are to be specially used at that time
find a demand then, and do not sell at
other periods. Thus it must be taken
into consideration that hot weather
makes some trade which will take the
place of what it destroys. No especial
line of procedure can be mapped out
which each merchant can follow and
which will bring the most satisfactory
resuits, but it is enough to say that
energy and perseverance should be
Maintained in hot as well as_ cold
weather, although it is but natural that
some desire should be felt to relax
strenuous efforts when the mercury be-
gins to creep up toward a hundred de-
grees in the shade, But this is where a
great mistake is made, for the merchant
who allows his store to deteriorate at
this time develops habits of slothful-
ness and negligence in his clerks, and
himself, too, for that matter, which will
be very hard to break away from when
the busier season does come on. The
writer has often seen stores in the sum-
mer months where the windows were
covered with fly specks, the window
displays dusty and begrimed, as if they
had. net been changed for an indefinite
length of time, and altogether there
was a general air of desolation and neg-
lect abuut the store. People naturally
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seeing these evidences of shiftlessness BARROWS
. 0 14
and they are not likely to change their Meee. net 3000
opinion very soon. You know the old oo CARTRIDGES
saying about giving a dog a bad name, m ee 40&10
It would be advisable for the store to Central Fire.......... P ANS cake hs ca 20
assume as neat and spruce an appear- | Fry, Acme.............. «ee. -eee eee 60&10&10
ance during the duller as during the | Common, a A ! W& 5
busier season. The next step is to ion and Siamese 60
divine as nearly as possible the needs | Copper Rivets and Burs ee 45
of the people and to supply those needs
at the most popular prices. Each mer- | steel nails, base.” 7 "On Steel and Wire.
chant knows best himself what these are | Wire nails, base..... | ....0 0.10077 295
and how the disposal of them can best Boonen sites Sth teeta ee ee eeeee ceeee “=
be managed. Methods differ in indi- Sasa a nat 10
vidual cases, because customers in va-| 6advance...._. 20
rious Communities have different needs — see cece ce oe =
and peculiarities. However, it wotld| 9 Sqvance ee oe
be well for the merchant who has seen Fine 3 advance Se in 50
fit to introduce a line of leather goods asing Ce ee cece,
into his regular stock of seasonable| Casing Sadvance... 00000
goods to exploit them as much as _ pos- Finish _ advance Ty %
i nis. i
sible for the next few weeks, because “ua dance EHUB WTR s
this line of goods Is In great demand Werrel % advande. 85
during the exodus which takes place in : PLANES
the summer. There are trunks, valises, Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy a aoa lo celia cl oy hag dca @50
x . Seto Benen 60
traveling bags and outfits which are ab- Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy................. @50
solutely indispensable to travelers or Beneh, firstquali se oceans qo @50
others who are going upon even a short | Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s wood... a
‘ : PATENT PLANISHED IRON
trip. Trunks and valises wear out, get | «4» wood’s patent planished, Nos. o 10 27 10 20
shabby or are inadequate in size for the | “B” Wood's — planished, Nos. 25 to27 9 20
things which they are intended to hold, | 8roken pac aa ey extra.
It would be. a good plan to have some Maydole & Co.’s, new list........ ......dis 33%
such goods in a window display, with| Kips... a
price tickets prominently shown upon | Yerkes & Plumb’s........ 4 .. dis 40610
: : Mason’s Solid Cast Steel.............30¢ list 70
them. Many things will thus be sug- | Mason's Solid Cast Steel Steel Hand 30c list 50&10
gested to people which they had not HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS
thought betore of purchasing. People | Stamped Tin Ware....... ......... new list 70
are thus gotten into the store in order | J®panned Tin ae i dlelcie ieee cies ge 20&10
to make more thorough investigation HOLLOW WARE
: i Te 60&1
and inspection of the stock in the in-| Ketties .....222.002 00020 60410
terior, The latter should be arranged | Spiders 2.20.00. 60&10
in an inviting manner so that the sug- HINGES
: : B~ | Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2,8..............0.000c00 dis 60610
— made by the window may be | §gtate..............---. ee. per dos. net 258
orne out within. OPES
Sisal, % inch and larger............... .... 9%
7 © © Manilla Dead ears a oie ye eee eee na eee. 2
Liquor has a peculiar way of getting | pignt...... ... piscine sich Aan 80
the best of a fellow after he gets it | screw Byes.......00. Un
down. I ee ues 80
Gate Hooks and Eyes. = is oc ea oas oe 80
e %
Hardware Price Current. Stanley Rule and SHEET IRON Se cceuucce dis 70
com. smooth. com.
: AUGURS AND BITS ie Wem... #320 6° «83:00
Nmeles.: oe, eS ey 70 Nae tiate 3 20 3 00
Jenning. genuine............ a eee.........., 1... 3 30 3 20
Jennings’ imitation... ...... — Co 3 40 3 30
AXES wea Siee.... 3 50 3 40
First Quality, S. B. Bronze ................. Se 3 60 3 50
First Quality, D. B. Bronze................. 10 00 All sheets No. 18 and lighter, over 30 inches
First Quality, S. B. 8. Steel...... .......... 650 wide not less than 2-10 extra.
First Quality, D. B. Steel ................... 11 50 AND PAPER
BOLTS .
Bist acet oe... 8... dis 50
ee. cokes 60&10 : SASH WBIGHTS
Carriage new list..................... iain per ton 20 00
ee. oe 50 TRAPS
BUCKETS i 75&10
eS Oneida Community, Newhouse’s.......
BUTTS, CAST Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s 70&10
Cast Loose Pin, oo 70&10 Mouse, Ghoker..... per doz 15
Wrought Narrow.. —_ 70&10 | Mouse, delusion...... wine per dos 1 2
Ordinary Tackle................ .. fe ec 70 | Bright Market.............0ccc cece ccecec eee 65
CROW BARS Annealed Market... es
ee ee a ) | 5 | Coppered Market.... .. . 6010
: CAPS nice MAREN 60
Ely 5 ee i perm 651 Coppered Spring Steel.................. : 45
Hick’s C. F. sees 55 Barbed Fence, galvanized............. ae
G. D........ .: 45 | Barbed Fence, painted................ .... 2 80
Musket......... as % HORSE NAILS
SQUARES OO a aS dis 40&1¢
Steel and Lf tea Le Oe Tse 70&10 Putnam le oddsleea ceuGuiacesedes alee asa, dis 5
and Bevels ... ........... i a net list
Ne ee 50 WRENCHES
CHISELS Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.............. 30
Nee eee ole 70 | Coe’s Genuine....... .......0000 ee ee ee. 40
ROGMOS Trams 70 | Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought ....... %
PGMS CPEB 70 | Coe’s Patent, malleable..................... v6
BOGMGE DEC 70 MISCELLANEOUS
RILLS Bd) CR 40
Morse’s Bit Stocks ..- 6 oes... ..... 60 Temane, Gane ee aah 70
Taper and Straight Shank................... 50& 5 Setewd: New bist. 85
Morse’s Taper Shank........................ 50& 5 sors, Bed ad Plafe............. .... 50&10&10
ELBOWS Dampers, American..................... 50
Com. 4 piece, 6in...... Baiceiee a sealed doz. net 65 METALS—Zinc
Corrugated......... 2.2.2... eee eee ee eee 1 25 | 600 pound casks.................068 ceeeee ee 9
(PIR dis 40&10 em ON 9%
mall Sis: = a es — 30&10 | D — 145
. Qo _ ee
ne 1, 818; 2, 824; 3, 890. na 1 70
FILES—New List Ko% SOLDER -
Nicholson's I OM | ithe prices of thie many other qualities of solder
Heller's Horse Rasps.........-..--..--.. +s. 60410 | in the market indicated by private brands vary
according to composition.
GALVANIZED IRO TIN—Melyn Grade
Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 25 and 26; 27. ... 28 | 10x14 IC, Charcoal... Lee cdg wus 87 55
List 12 13 14 15 16. .... 17) 44x90 1G, Charcoal .............20- 7 £0
Discount, 65 S0xI4 EX Clarede 8 50
GAUGES Each additional X on this grade, $1.25.
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s............... 60&10 TIN—Allaway Grade
KNOBS—New List nn 6 25
Door, eT ti as -+- 3 poe st'y — dads sles cede e es cule 6 a
Doo: rcela ap. trimmings............ MN ss co,
a  MATTOCKS ee
eee Bee 8
Hunt Eye v sere se-815 00, dis 60&10
Me $18 50, dis 20&10
MILLS
Catlee, Parkers 00.6... 12... soc ecc cess ces 40 | 20x28 IC
Coffee, P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s Malleables... 40
Coffee, Landers, Ferry & Clark’s......... : 40 Ras
Coffee, Ente: ee 30 Ee
MOLASSES GATES eo.
Stebbin’s Pattern............. . . .........-60&10 BOILER SIZB PLATE
Stebbin’s Genuine ................seeceee sees 60&10 | 14x56 IX, for No. 8 Boilers, | per pound... 10
Enterprise. self-measuring ................. 80 | 14x56 IX, for No. 9 Boilers, sue

 

 

    

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

GOTHAM GOSSIP.

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

New York, June 24—The coffee mar-
ket during the past three days has
gained considerable strength and job-
bers report quite a good deal of invoice
trading. Reports from abroad have;

been to the effect that a good deal of}

loss has been occasioned to the growing
crops in Brazil by frosts. Orders from
country buvers have come in in satisfac-’
tory manner and altogether the situation
is one rather more favorable than for
some litile time. In store and afloat
the amount aggregates 1,190,978 bags,
against 866,806 bags at the same time
last year. The market closes firm with
No. 7 quotable at 6@6'%c. Good Cucuta
coffee is woith 8c 2nd the market gen-
erally for the mild grades is in better
condition than for a month past. On the
27th 15 ooo bags of Maracaibo are due,
whicb are taken care of. There seems to
be quite a general impression that a
retaliatory duty will be placed by this
Government on Brazilian coffee if the
latter nation continues its present
course. Perhaps this feeling may have
something to do with the recent increase
in orders from out-of town parties.

H. O. Havemever’s remarks regard-
ing the tariff as the Father and Mother
of Trusts have excited a good deal of
interest; and Oxnard, the great beet
sugar man, has come to the rescue of
the tariff. Perhaps this straw needs
threshing out again. The raw sugar
market is quiet and during the latter
half of the week a somewhat weaker
feeling has set in. Kefined sugars are
quiet, but there has been a fairly steady
run of orders and, while prices remain
unchanged, the feeling is one of
strength rather than of weakness.

The movement in teas is only for sup-
plies sufficient to sort up. The market
as a whole is exceedingly duil and
everybody is waiting to see what the
auction sale will have in store. Quota-
tions are nominal.

Most of the existing demand for rice
is for Japan grades, the enquiry for
which has been steady, although no
large amounts have changed hands.
Domestic grades languish and prices re-
main without change. Primeto choice,
5 14@6%%c.

Singapore pepper is firm at 11@11\c.
The genera! line of spices is exceeding-
ly quiet, although not duller than usual
at this season. Amboyna cloves, 10%
@i0%c.

Molasses is dull and dragging for
grocery grades. Orders are for only the
smallest amounts and there seems to be
no relief in sight far some time to come.
Hoiders do not seem especially anxious
to make sales and the situation isa
waiting one. Syrups are so quiet as to
call for no comment and prices are un-
changed.

New canned goods will find this mar-
ket more closely sold up than at any
time {for twenty-two years it is said by
those who know what they are talking
about. The demand has covered every-
think and the outlook for the coming
year is very satisfactory so far as the
canned goods man is concerned. Your
correspondent has examined some pea
pods showing the work of the newest
Insect in the great pea-growing districts
of Maryland. A little hole at each end
marks the entrance and exit of the
“‘critter’’ but as it works its way
through the ped it consumes every ves-
tige of the growing peas and leaves only
the empty pod. It is must dishearten-
ing. Orders for thousands of cases of
New York fruits must be turned down.
Tomatoes, peas, corn—everything, in
fact—are wanted and will be in still
greater request as the season advances.

Lemons and oranges are fairly active
and jobbers report quite a good trade.
Sicily oranges are worth $4.50@4.75 per
box; Rodis from $5.50@6; California
navels, $4@5.50 for extra fancy. Bana-
nas are quiet within the range of $1.10
@1.20 per bunch for firsts. Light re-
ceipts of pines have caused the market
to take on additional strength and quo-
tations are higher. Extra Havanas are
worth $15@16 per hundred.

Dried fruits are well sustained and,
while perhaps the demand is not espe-
cially active, the situation is rather en-
couraging. Apricots are held too high for
buyers to be interested, but the supply
is not overabundant as yet, if indeed,
it is likely to be so at all, so the seller
seems to be in no hurry to make a dis-
position of stock on band. Domestic
dried are steady. Evaporated apples
are selling at full rates.

Butter jobbers generally seem to be
taking only sufficient for present needs,
but others are making some extensive
purchases for storage, hoping to seea
market in a ‘‘happier frame of mind’’
later on. It is hard to buy extra West-
ern creamery for less than 183(c. Thirds
to firsts, 15@18%c. Imitation cream-
ery will sell well if it will stand close
inspection within the range of 15@16c.
Western factory, 12@14c.

Cheese is dull. Exporters have taken
a few lots, but as a rule the market
lacks animation and 8c seems to be
the very top rate for desirable stock of
large size, Small size 4c more.

Eggs—Steady. Best Western, 14@
15c. Possibly repacked stock will bring
slightly more. Arriving stock shows
the effects of summer weather and prices
descend very suddenly.

Marrow beans show an _ increasing
strength and with comparatively light
stocks the outlook is encouraging.
Choice, $1.45@1.4714. Choice medium,
$1.30, and the same for choice pea.

Potatoes are plentiful and market is
lower. Best quality Rose, Southern,
per bbl., $2@2.50. Old stock selling
with some freedom at $1@1.75 per bbl.

———__e- 6.
Old Scheme in a New Form.
From the Benton Harbor Palladium,

Benton Harbor merchants in various
lines are much wrought up over a new
project in the way of premiums that
threatens our community and can oniy
do harm to those who go into it as_ well
as those who stay out. Every little while
one of the class who are continually
stvdying up new schemes to get some-
thing for nothing, or to make money
without labor, comes along with a
brand-new plan and the merchant has
to be very shrewd and watchful if he
escapes the clutches of all these travel-
ing gentry.

The latest plan is to form a trust com-
posed of one dealer each of several lines
who will give stamps or coupons to
patrons redeemable at a general store
containing nothing but premiums and
everything under the sun that one could
wish for. These goods are not to be
sold to the general public (that is, the
Managers say the goods are not to be
sold), but delivered in exchange for
coupons which show tbat the holder has
traded out so much at some store in the
trust. For instance, the buyer may go
around making such purchases as he
needs until he gets a sufficient number
of coupons at a certain fixed percentage
to entitle him to a clock, or a rocking
chair, or a dollar’s worth of sugar, ora
ccat, which he secures free at the pre-
mium store. It looks like a shrewd plan
to have our merchants help sell off a
stranger’s goods,

The proposition may look tempting at
first glance, but those who bite would
doubtless soon find to their sorrow that
it is only a scheme after all. Like all
premiums, somebody must pay for
them, and the purchasers must give
more for their goods than if they bought
straight for cash. The dealers outside
the trust would not submit tamely to
lose custom and would adopt retaliatory
tactics and the fad would soon degener-
ate into a bitter and unprofitable con-
test. It would only add a general store
o our already well filled mercantile

Ines.

If the merchants of Benton Harbor
would band themselves together to resist
all coupon, trading stamp and premium
schemes they would save lots of expense
and ill feeling and be better off in the
long run.

— > 0 >
ust as Good.

Visitor—Did you go to the circus kast
summer, Bobby?

Bobby—Nope, but I watched pop
paper the parlor ceilin’,

 

 

No Hope For Sulter’s Unsecured
Creditors.

Cleveland, Ohio, June 26—The state-
meat of Sulter’s assignee, filed some
time ago, shows assets of $97,098.92 and
liabilities of $137,363. Since then the
assets have shrunk and it is said that
the liabilities now reach over $160,000.
A suit was commenced about six months
ago to remove the assignee and appoint
a receiver, but the case has been post-
poned from time to time and its final
hearing is a matter of uncertainty.
Litigation continues and the prospects
for a speedy settlement are not very
bright. Unsecured creditors will get
very little in any event.

No more encouraging reports reach
the Tradesman regarding the Noonday
Yeast Co., which was organized last
March by Sulter’s sons and their attor-
ney—apparently for the purpose of pick-
ing up the claims against the Sulter
estate in exchange for yeast. Consider-
ing the uareliable character of the men

and the unsatisfactory information
which reaches the Tradesman regard-
ing their methods, dealers who have
claims against the Sulter estate might
as well permit them to lie dormant for a
time as to accept one-third of the
amount in yeast on which no demand
has been created.
—__~>2._____
Are Coming to Grand Rapids.

From Grand Haven Tribune.

The merchants of Grand Haver have
accepted the invitation of the Grand
Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association to
hold their picnic at Reed’s Lake on
Aug. 3 this year, in connection with the
merchants of Grand Rapids and Mus-
kegon. The following committee was
appointed last night to look after the
transpo:tation: Jurrien Ball, John Cook,
Peter VanLopik.

——__>0»>—___

The Tables Turned.

Mrs. Amsterdam—How Willie has

grown !

Mrs. Columbus—Yes; isn’t it wonder-
ful?

Mrs. Amsterdam—Why,
than his father.

Mrs, Columbus—Yes, indeed; I have
to make over Willie’s clothes for his

father now.
——___~>-2~.__

When liquor goes to a man’s head it
usually finds itself in a lonesome place.

Business Nant

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

BUSINESS CHANCES.

OR SALE—SAW AND GRIST MILL IN
Rose City; ideal water power; no ice, no
floods; both mills working full capacity; must
be sold on account of health of owner; price,
$6,000; 10 per cent. off for cash. Address Ray
Beach, Rose City. Ogemaw Co., Mich. 1
ANTED—BY A PRACTICAL MILLMAN,A
good location for a small sawmill to do cus-
tom sawing, and where logs can be bought by
the thousand, or would renta small mill in
good location. Address E. J. Gordon, Green-
ville, Mich. P. O. box 417. 2
O PHYSICIAN OR DRUGGIST—IF YOU
desire a good location and residence, cor-
respond immediately with Dr. Lynch, of Man-
chester, Mich. 999

7 SALE—CLEAN STOCK OF HEAVY
aud shelf hardware and groceries. B. Han-
cock. Cedar Springs, Mich. 998
ARGAIN — NEW 835 SPRING-BALANCE,
automatic, self-computing butcher’s scale
and two show cases. S. M. Vinton, 1163 S. Divi-
sion St., Grand Rapids, Mich. 998
OR SALE—PAYING DRUG STORE; GOOD
location. Invoices 1,500. Address No.
995, care Michigan Tradesman. 995
USINESS VUHANCE—ON ACCOUNT OF
advanced age I offer my bean elevator, ma-
chinery and fixtures, grain and produce busi-
ness cheap; one of the best plants in the State
and small investment; time granted if desired.
Address I. N. Reynolds, Eaton Rapids, Mich. 994
O RENT—STORE 34 WEST BRIDGE, BE-
tween Front and Court; steam heat; hand-
somely decorated; counters and shelving. Wes-
ley W. Hyde, 617 Michigan Trust Bldg., Grand
Rapids. 990

OR SALE—GOOD BAZAAR STOCK. EN-
quire of Hollon & Hungerford, Albion,
Mich. 925

he’s larger

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

OR SALE—DEPARTMENT STORE DOING

nice cash business. Must sell at once; have
other business; town of 4,500. Address Box M,
Three Rivers, Mich. 985

Wa Se - STOCK IN THRIV-
ing town ia exchange for 50 acre farm,
with crops, three miles from city of Grand Rap-
ids. Good buildings. Good soil for fruit and
gardening. Write for particulars to 986, care
Michigan Tradesman. 986

ODERN CITY RESIDENCE AND LARGE
lot, with barn, for sale cheap on easy terms,
or will exchange for tract of hardwood timber.
Big bargain for some one. Possession given
any time. Investigation solicited. E. A. Stowe,
24 Kellogg street, Grand Rapids. 993
ANTED—LUMBER YARD. LARGE PAT-
ronage here and around us. Good open-
ing for somebody. Address President of Law-
rence, Mich. 979
VOR SALE—NATIONAL CASH REGISTER,
very latest style with all improvements, at
less than half price; terms to suit. Address
Albert E. Docherty, 34 Sibley St., Detroit, M —"

 

 

 

 

 

VOR SALE—THE GRANDEST, MUST PIC-
turesque, and greatest money-making sum-
mer resort in Michigan. Owing to failing health
the owner has been obliged to place the famous
Seven Islands resort on the market, including
furniture, 75 new row boats, fine steamer carrying
150 passengers and making a 3-mile a
the most lovely scenery beautifully shaded by
forest trees growing upon the ledges of rocks
70 and 80 feet above the water. Must be seen to
be appreciated. The grounds are well lighted
by electricity; hotel and all buildings are of
modern style; bowling alley 20 by 116 feet; ar-
tesian weils, city water, and everything nice.
For particulars, address Townsend & Johnson
or J. D. Derby, Lansing, Mich. 981

VOR SALE—LUMBER AND COAL YARD,
desirably located on State street, Marshall,
Mich. Well! established business and good,
clean stock that will invoice (yard and material)
at about $5,000. Reasons for selling given on
application to C. S. Hamilton, Marshall, —

 

 

HE SHAFTING, HANGERS AND PULLEYS
formerly used to drive the Presses of the
Tradesman are for sale at a nominal price.
Power users making additions or changes will
do well to investigate. Tradesman Company,
Grand Rapids, Mich. 983
VOR SALE OR EXCHANGE FOR CLEAN
Stock of Groceries or General Merchan-
dise—58 acres best land in Emmet county; part
timber, part improved. Address Box 28, Good
Hart, Mich. 976
CASH; 10 ACRES, $1,000; FIVE
$2,000 lots, $600 each; modern home,
$2,800, for stock of merchandise. Address No.
975, care Michigan Tradesman. 975
OR SALE OR EXCHANGE—A 50 BARREL
full roller mill with sawmill attached.
Best water power in Southern Michigan. Ad-
dress Miller, care Michigan Tradesman. 961
ANTED—YOUR ORDER FOR A RUBBER
stamp. Best stamps on earth at prices
that are right. Will J. Weller, Muskegon,
Mich. 958

 

 

 

 

 

NY ONE WISHING TO ENGAGE IN THE
grain and produce and other lines of busi-
ness can learn of good locstions by communi-
cating with H. H. Howe, Land and Industrial
Agent C. & W. M. and D., G. R. & W. Railways,
Grand Rapids, Mich. 919
OR SALE—A RARE OPPORTUNITY —A
flourishing business; clean stock of shoes
and furnishing goods; established cash trade;
best store and location in city; located among
the best iron mines inthecountry. The coming
spring will open up with a boom for this city
and prosperous times for years to come a cer-
tainty. Rent free for six months, also a dis-
count on stock; use of fixtures free. Store and
location admirably sdapted for any line of
business and conducted at small expense. Get
in line before too late. Failing health reason
for selling. Address P. O. Box 204, Negau-
nee, Mich. 913
VOR SALE— CLEAN HARDWARE STOCK
located at one of the best trading points in
Michigan. Stock will inventory about %,(00.
Store and warehouse will be rented for 830 per
month. Will sell on easy terms. Address No.
868, care Michigan Tradesman. 868

OR SALE—NEW GENERAL STOCK. A
splendid farming country. Notrades. Ad-
dress No. 680, care Michigan Tradesman. 680

COUNTRY PRODUCE

ANTED—BUTTER, EGGS AND POUL-
try: any quantities. Write me. Orrin J.
Stone, Kalamazoo, Mich. 810

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MISCELLANEOUS.

ANTED—SITUATION AS TRAVELING
salesman, commission or salary, clothing,
boots and shoes, men’s furnishing goods or gro-
ceries. Good references given. Address 998,
care Michigan Tradesman. 998
ANTED—POSITION IN A GENERAL
store; twenty years’ experience; good ref-
erences. Address No, 997, care Michigan
Tradesman. 997

\ @ ee FIRST-CLASS TINSMITH.
Must be capable of clerking in store.
Single man preferred. Must give good refer-
ences. No drinkers need apply. Address No.
992, care Michigan Tradesman. 992

ANTED — CIGARMAKERS, ROLLERS,
bunch breakers, strippers and lady pack-
ers. G. J, Johnson Cigar Co., Grand Rapids. 989

ANTED—POSITION BY COMPETENT
grocery clerk. Al references. Corres-
pondence solicited. A. T. Cooper, Hart, —

 

 

 

 

ANTED — REGISTERED PHARMACIST

who is familiar with lines carried in a
general store. State wages. KE. E. Lessiter,
Grattan, Mich. 980

 

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Travelers’ Time Tables.
CHICAGO 24 ext Michizen By

Chicago.

Ly. G. Rapids..7:10am 12:00nn 5:05pm *2:15am
Ar. Chicago....1:30pm 5:00pm 11:15pm *7:25am
Ly. Chicago... 7:15am 12:00nn 4:15pm *8:45pm
Ar. G’d Rapids 1:25pm 5:05pm 10:15pm = *1:50am

Traverse City, Charlevoix and Petoskey.
Lv. G’d Rapids. 7:30am 2:15am 1:45pm 5:30pm
Ar. Trav City..12:40pm 6:10am 5:35pm 10:55pm
Ar. Charlevoix.. 3:15pm 7:53am COOP co...
Ar. Petoskey.... 3:45pm 8:15am 8:15pm..........
Ar. Bay View... 3:55pm 8:20am 8:20pm..........

Ottawa Beach.

Lv. G. Rapids..9:(Oam 12:00nn 5:39pm..........
Ar. G. Rapids..8:C0am 1:25pm 5:05pm 10:15pm

Extra train on Saturday leaves at 2:15pm for
Ottawa Beach.

Sunday train leaves Bridge street 8:40am,
an depot 9:00am; leaves Ottawa Beach

:00pm.

Trains arrive from north at 2:00am, 11:15am,
4:45pm, and 10:05pm.

Parlor cars on day trains and sleeping cars on
night trains to and from Chicago.

Parlor cars for Bay View.

*Every day.

 

 

Others week days only.

DETROIT, “et

Detroit.
Ly. Grand Rapids...... 7:00am 12 05pm 5:25pm
Ar. Detroit............. 11:40am 4:05pm 19:05pm
Ly. Detroit........ --.8:40am 1:10pm 6:10pm
Ar. Grand Rapids..... 1:30pm 5:19pm 10:55pm
Saginaw, Alma and Greenville.

Ly. G R7:00am 5:10pm Ar. @R11:45am 9:40pm

Parlor cars on all trains to and from Detroit
and Saginaw. Trains run week days only.

Gro. DEHAVEN. General Pass. Agent.

GR A ND Trunk Railway System
Detroit and Milwaukee Div
(in effect May 1, 1899.)
Leave Arrive

 

 

 

 

GOING EAST
Saginaw, Detroit & N Y.......+ 6:45am + 9:55pm
Detroit and East.............¢10:16am + 5:07pm
Saginaw, Detroit & East...... + 3:27pm 12:50pm
Buffalo, N Y, Toronto, Mon-
treal & Boston, L’t’d Ex....* 7:20pm *10:16am
GOING WEST :
Gd. Haven and Int Pts.... . * 8:30am *10:00pm

 

 

 

Gd. Haven Express........... *10:21am * 7:15pm
Gd. Haven and Int Pts....... +12:58pm + 3:19pm
Gd. Haven and Milwaukee...t 5:12pm +10:1lam
Gd. Haven and Milwaukee...+10:00pm + 6:40am
Gd. Haven and Chicago......* 7:30pm * 8:05am
Eastbound 6:45am train has Wagner parlor car
to Detroit, eastbound 3:20pm train has parlor car
to Detroit.
*Daily. tExcept Sunday.
C. A. Justin, City Pass. Ticket Agent,
97 Monroe St., Morton House.
G A N Rapids & indiana Railway
June 18, 1899.
Northern Div. Leave Arrive
Trav. C’y, Petoskey & Mack...* 4;10am *10:(0pm
Tray. C’y, Petoskey & Mack...¢ 7:45am t 5:15pm
Trav. City & Petoskey.... + 1:40pm ¢ 1:10pm
Cadillac accommodation. -t 5:25pm 10:55am
Petoskey & Mackinaw City....t11:00pm + 6:30am
4:10am train, The Northland Express, sleeping
and dining cars; 7:45am and 1:40pm trains,
parlor cars; 11:00pm train sleeping car.
Southern Div. Leave Arrive
Ginemnate. ..:.: os. + 7:10am + 9:45pm
Re Wagne -.:.. . (2... + 2:00pm + 1:309m
Kalamazoo and Vicksburg... * 7:00pm * 7:20am
Chicago and Cincinnati....... *10:15pm * 3:55am
+7:10 am train has parlor car to Cincinnat)
and parlor car to Chicago; 2:00pm train has
parlor car to Ft. Wayne; 10:15pm train has
sleeping cars to Chicago, Cincinnati, Indian-
apolis, Louisville and St. Louis.

Chicago Trains.
TO CHICAGO.

Ly. Grand Rapids... 7 10am 20)%pm *10 15pm
Ar. Chicago......... 230pm 8 45pm = 6 %am
FROM CHICAGO.

Ly. Chicago......... 3 02pm * 8.15pm *11 32pm

Ar. Grand Rapids... 9 45pm 3:55pm
Train leaving Grand Rapids 7:10am has parlor
car; 10:15pm, coach and sleeping car.
Train leaving Chicago 3:02pm has Pullman
parlor car; 8:15pm sleeping car; 11:32pm sleep-
ing car for Grand Rapids.

Muskegon Trains.
GOING WEST.
Lv @’d Rapids......... 7:35am +1:15pm +5:40px.
Ar Muskegon........... 9:00am 2:25pm 7:05pm
Sunday train leaves Grand Rapids 9:15am;
arrives Muskegon 10:40am.
GOING EAST.
Lv Muskegon.......... +8:10am +11:45am +t4:00pm
ArG’d Rapids... ..... 9:30am 12:55pm 5:20pm

Sunday train leaves Muskegon 7:15pm; ar-
rives Grand Rapids 8:40pm.
+Except Sunday. *Daily.
Cc. L. LOCKWOOD,
Gen’! Passr. and Ticket Agent.

W. C. BLAKE,
Ticket Agent Union Station.
DU LUT South Shore and Atlantic
9 Railway.

WEST BOUND.
Lv. Grand Rapids (G. R. & a —— +7:45am

 

 

  
  

Ly. Mackinaw City....... am 4:20pm
Ar. St. Ignace..... ssecccessee. 9:00am 5:20pm
Ar. Sault Ste. Marie........... 12:20pm 9:50pm
Ar. Marquette................. 2:50pm 10:40pm
Ar. Nestoria..................; 5:20pm : 12:45am
Be. De, a es ee 30am
EAST BOUND
Ly. Duluth.... «se» 6:30pm
Ar. Nestoria.. 11:15am 2:45am
Ar. Marquette.. " m 4:30am
Ly. Sault Ste. Marie ue SOOPER = slo csae
Ar. Mackinaw City........... 8:40pm 11:00am
G. W. Hreparp, Gen. Pass. Agt. Marquette.

E.C. Oviatt, Trav. Pass. Agt., Grand Rapids

 

& Northeastern Ry.

MAN I ST E Best route to Manistee.

 

Via C. & W.M. Railway.

Lv Grand Rapids . 7:00am
Ar Manistee..... Fziogpm ..*s....
Lv Manistee....... 8:30am 4:10pm
Ar Grand Rapids ....... .... - I:oopm 9:55pm

   
 
 

 

 

MERCANTILE ASSOCIATIONS

Michigan Business Men’s Association

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

 

 

 

Michigan Retail Grocers’ Association

President, J. WIisLER, Mancelona; Secretary, E.
A. StowE, Grand Rapids.

 

Michigan Hardware Association

President, C. G. Jewett, Howell; Secretary
HEnrRy C. Mrnniz, Eaton Rapids.

 

Detroit Retail Grocers’ Association

President, JosepH Knieut; Secretary, E. MARKS,
221 Greenwood ave; Treasurer, U. H. FRInK.
Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association

President, Frank J. Dyk; Secretary, HomER
Kuap; Treasurer, J. GEo. LEHMAN.

 

Saginaw Mercantile Association

President, P. F. TREANOR; Vice-President, JoHN
McBRatnIi£; Secretary, W. H. Lewis.

 

Jackson Retail Grocers’ Association

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

 

Adrian Retail Grocers’ Association

President, A. C. CLark; Secretary, E. F. CLevz-
LAND; Treasurer, WM. C. KoEHn.

 

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

 

Traverse City Business Men’s Association

President, THos. T. Batses; Secretary, M. B.
Hotty; Treasurer, C. A. HAMMOND.

Owosso Business Men’s Association

President, A. D. WHIPPLE; Secretary, G. T. CAMP-
BELL; Treasurer, W. E. CoLLIns.

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

 

Grand Rapids Reta Meat Dealers’ Association
President, L. J. Katz; Secretary, Parurp HILBER;
Treasurer, S. J. HUFFORD.

St. Johns Business Men’s Association.
President, THos. BRoMLEY; Secretary, FRANK A.
PERcy; Treasurer, CLARK A. Putt.

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

 

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

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

 

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