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Must Be the Concentration of Strength.

There can be to-day, in my opinion,
no large business successfully conducted
without the assistance, the mangetic
power and influence of the salesman,
who is a power in the land to-day; he
is a different power from what he was
twenty-five years go; different element ;
he is a representative man as well as a
salesman; he is required to practice di-
plomacy, as well as have ability in the
sale of goods; he always has had the
reputation of being one who thought well
of himself and it is well it is so, as my
experience is that a salesman who does
not think well of himself and does not
have full belief in his house or what he
can do for them, is not a success. In
these days, when life is not one ‘‘grand,
sweet song,’’ but rather a life of earnest
work instead, if we succeed, it might be
well to pause a moment and think if we
can not make out of this earnest life
one which will be as sweet as the one
we hear spoken of as the sweet song of
idleness. We have all learned that in
the round of human activity there is a
law of compensation and equilibrium,
and that it works with equal force and
certainty in money making enterprises
as in the solar system. Those who.live
and strive with only a sordid and selfish
aim, and without principle or other
aim, end their career in miserable fail-
ure. The Golden Rule has just as much
a place in business as in the carrying
out of the precepts laid down by our
Saviour in the decalogue, and is the mo-
tive power in the field of human en-

deavor.
It is estimated that there are now fully

half a million traveling salesmen em-
ployed in the United States, distribu-
ting in expenses annualy five hundred
million, with an equal sum earned as
salaries. The salesman’s occupation has
assumed the dignity of a profession.
The successful salesman must be the
concentration of strength. He must
know when to strike and how to get his
material in position to strike, and
should be never relaxing in his vigi-
lance. The salesman, as a rule, is in-
terested in maximum sales. The credit
man is interested, as well, in maximum
sales, but also in minimum losses.
There are very many salesmen whose
judgment and advice are worth accepting
in conjunction with any credit man’s
judgment in granting of credits.

 

 

 

There was a time when it used to be
said that a salesman had no more use
for truth than the tom cat had fora mar-
riage license. This is a wide and sweep-
ing statement, and to-day can not be
maintained.

1 believe the majority of salesmen are
honest ; that their integrity is unques-
tioned ; that they are anxious to promote
the interest of the house that employs
them; I believe, however, that their
enthusiasm sometimes gets the better
of their judgment, and in a case of this
kind the credit man is obliged to decide
according to his best lights in the case ;
sometimes, no doubt, he decides accord-
ing to a bad liver.

1 believe that criticism of a house on
the part of salesmen }s io be invited,
and that a meeting of salesmen, not only
of this kind, but meetings weekly or
monthly at place of business where they
can criticise methods, goods, or point
out where, in their judgment. improve-
ment can be made to the satisfaction of
the trade and benefit of the business,
are very desirable. T. M. Brown.

—_—_—~>-2 > —__—_
Special Features of the Morning Market.

The unusually high levels of values
maintained through the season for most
products, with the steady demand, keep
the attendance nearer the largest than is
usual so late in the season. This con-
dition may be also influenced by the
fact that there is naturally a rush both
in selling and buying when the first
frosts appear. Whatever the cause there
has been an exceptionally long season of
the most active business.

The most marked contrast of values is
in the prices obtained for peaches. Of
these larger quantities are making their
appearance than seemed probable earlier
in the season, yet there are not enough
to bring the price below fancy figures,
ranging from $2.50 to $3. The varietie¢
represented are most of the leading
ones, locality having more to do wih
the survival of the fruit than hardiness
of the different kinds. Thus many of
the largest growers in the less favored
localities have scarcely a peach, but the
few favored ones, while the yield is
small, get enough for them to make
their returns compare favorably with
other years.

Offerings of the hardier fruits continue
in considerable abundance, but the ex-
treme variation in qualities shows that
everything is being marketed. Prices
vary as to quality, but, on the whole,
both are good. The extreme scarcity of
peaches engages the attention from the
actual scarcity of the other large fruits,
which are less in yield than for many
years past. This condition will, doubt-
less, make a scarcity in the cider yield.

Grapes are in sufficient abundance to
supply all demand, but not so as to sur-
feit the market to the extent of former
years; indeed, there is no fruit that can
now be accounted a drug.

All the conditions of a healthy vege-
table market seem to be in steady oper-
ation. Supplies are plentiful and are
met by a strong demand; indeed, this
promises to be an exceptional year for
the market gardeners, so largely repre-
sented by the Holland element.

 

Number 835

Colored Oleomargarine May Now Be Sold
in this State.

The Supreme Court has. knocked out
the principal portion of the law of 1897
which purported to be a law ‘‘to prevent
adulteration, fraud and deception in the
manufacture and sale of articles of food
and drink,’’ but which in reality made
it a criminal offense for a dealer to sell
oleomargarine colored to resemble but-
ter. The Court held that the title to the
act was not broad enough to comply
with the constitution provision that an
act shall have but one object, which shal]
be expressed in its title.

The case was one commenced by Food
Commissioner Grosvenor against Casper
Rinsey, a grocer at Ann Arbor, for sell-
ing colored oleomargarine. — Justice
Duffy refused to entertain the complaint,
and the Circuit Court declined to issue
a mandamus to compel him to do so.
The case came to the Supreme Court by
certiorari, and the position of the jus-
tice of the peace and circuit judge is
sustained.

It was shown that there was no fraud
in the sale of the oleomargarine or any
deception, the oleomargarine being sold

for oleomargarine. It was not urged
that the offense comes within the words

fraud or deceit or that the coloring mat-
ter was deleterious.

The Court says the question to be de-
termined is whether the title of the act
is broad enough to include the sale com-
plained of. The Court says: ‘‘Would
any person reading the title to the bill
in the legislative journals or elsewhere
suppose that the bill would make crim-
inal an act which in itself was entirely
harmless, honest, innocent, and con-
tained no element of wrong-doing? Or
that it would change the well-known
definition of a word (the word adultera-
tion) so as to include within it things
which were in no sense akin to it, and
which could be included only by the
most arbitrary legislative enactments?
Would a manufacturer or dealer in but-
ter or oleomargarine be notified by the
title that the harmless coloring of butter
was not only to be prohibited, but to be
punished by fine or imprisonment or
both? There can be but one answer to
these questions. When the Legislature
attempts to change definitions and to
make acts criminal which per se are
innocent there must be something in the
title to show such purpose or object. It

follows that this part of the act is
void.’’
The Court says that it is unnecessary

to discuss the other questions raised as
to the constitutionality of the law.
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Calamity? There is no such word in
the bright lexicon of Kansas this year.
From the Missouri to the Colorado line
everybody is talking corn and feeling
good. The discordant notes are so few
and far between that they pass for jokes.
One lonesome calamity howler recently
stood silent in a crowd of enthusiastic
corn talkers until the time came when
he must say something, and then he
commented thus: ‘‘Yes, boys, it is a
whaling big crop and no mistake. But
I tell you it is going to be hell on the
ground.’’

 

 

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TRADESMAN

 

 

Dry Goods

The Dry Goods Market.

Staple Cottons —Ducks show a fair de-
mand, and prices are firm. Wide sheet-
ings are extremely firm, and advances
have been made on some lines during
the past week. Denims are hard to
find, and consequently firm, while ticks
show an average request without chang-
ing the price.

 

Prints The situation in printed cali-
coes has not been changed to any extent
during the past week. They are not in
as good condition as other lines of cot-
tons, and the demand is very uneven.
Jobbers are inclined to express dissatis-
faction in regard to these lines. Five-
cent grades are as a rule only in fair
condition; the lower grades are wanted
more generally, and higher grades are
quiet. The more staple prints show a
fairly good demand, and blacks and
whites and gray are good sellers, while
a moderate business is also coming to
hand for turkey reds, indigo blues,
chocolates, etc. Shirting prints are
quiet. Percales are in very good re-
quest, and wide sheetings are selling
well.
Ginghams—Good dark dress ging-
hams are very scarce in the market, and
fine grades in light colors have sold
well. Napped fabrics, both printed and
woven, are well sold up in dark work
and prices are easily maintained.

Dress Goods—The dress goods market
is in such a lively condition at the pres-
ent time that jobbers hardly know where
they stand. Prices have been advanc-
ing so rapidly that when a piece of
goods which is in popular favor is
shown to a_ buyer, the price quoted is
higher than for the same fabric at the
last time it was shown. ‘The great de-
mand is for rough face fabrics, and the
buyers can not find enough of them.
Fancy backed goods are also in enor-
mous request, but the mills are not
anxious to take orders for these lines
except where they have to, the reason
being that they are practically double
pieces of cloth, but the prices on them
are far from double that for a single
fabric. Nevertheless, these goods must
be had, and the mills must make them.
So large a business is being accom-
plished in fall dress goods that agents
have given very little attention to spring
lines. The jobbers report an excellent
business for fall, which continues with-
out change up to the present time.
Crepons, homespuns, fancy backs, plaids
and venetians, cheviots, as well as the
staple lines of serges and broadcloths,
have found excellent business. There is
considerable question as to what will be
popular for spring, but taking past years
into consideration, it is safe to predict
that the same thing will be wanted to
the first of the spring season that is
wanted in the last of the fall season, at
least goods of the same nature.

Hosiery—Embroidered clocks in all
colors and many fanciful effects promise
to be sold in large quantities. The do-
mestic manufacturers are doing splen-
didly with the lower grades of hosiery,
and some fancies that are sold at a price
which will allow them to be retailed at
25c a pair are very sightly and in ex-
cellent taste. Seamless hosiery is tak-
ing a most enviable position in the
knit goods industry, and is showing
strong competition with foreign makes.
The demand for better grades is becom-
ing more prominent each season.

Carpets—The carpet manufacturers
continue to experience a season of un-

 

precedented activity. They realize that
this is a good time to demand higher
prices, and with this in view another
advance of 2%c per yard on all wool
extra super and C. C. ingrains has been
announced, to take effect October 1.
There is a very large amount of old
business to be cleared up by the aver-
age ingrain manufacturer before he will
be in a position to receive duplicate or-
ders or commence the preparation of his
samples for next season. In the mean-
time the large jobbers who placed or-
ders early have sold out to the retailers
much earlier than expected, and are
now eager to place more orders at old
prices. It is true that some ingrain
manufacturers have not previously ad-
vanced prices, and during this month
will no doubt accept a limited number
of orders previous to advances next
month, while others who have advanced
prices previously are determined not to
take any duplicates unless they obtain
the 2%c advance this month, with the
prospect of a still further increase in
prices later on before the close of this
season.

Straw Mattings—The trade has been
large and very satisfactory to the aver-
age dealer, much more than last year,
as the surplus mattings imported free
under the Wilson bill were affecting the
market, and forced prices to a lower
level. With the market free of these
cheap goods, the demand will come
on the goods which will net them a
larger profit.

———s_ 2.» ___ —
The Old Folks at Home.

One of the little tragedies of life
whose pathos we never realize until it
grips our own heartstrings is the flight
of the boys and girls from the home
nest, and the breaking up of the family
circle. Of course, one knows from the
beginning that such an end is inevit-
able. The time is bound to come when
the little children about ‘one’s knees
cease to be children, and become men
and women, with all of men’s and wo-
men’s needs and desires—-when they
must go out into the world and do their
allotted work, and make new ties and
homes for themselves. It is best for
them and happiest for them that they
should, but, oh! the old home is_ lone-
some when they are gone, when there is
no more rollicking laughter, no strum-
ming on the old piano, no more com-
ing and going of young people. _

The girls are all married and live far
away, and the boys are in business in
this city and that. The table that used
to reach almost the whole length of the
dining-room has been drawn up, and
drawn up, until now it is only long
enough for the two old people, and
mother never looks across it at father
without a quick rush of tears to her eyes
and a little choking of the throat, think-
ing of the empty chairs that are ranged
so stiff against the wall, with nobody to
use them now. It is almost like when
she and father were married and first
went to housekeeping, only they were
young then, too, and life was all before
them, and the world was rosy with
hope, and every day was filled brimful
of fresh interests. It is different now.
They have lived so long for their chil-
dren that they have ceased to have any
other pleasure, and are too old to make
new interests, and now the children
have gone and left them.

But what of the children?
seldom realize how it is with the old
folks at home. . They are so busy with
their own affairs they have scarcely time
to send even a vagrant thought after the

Ah, they

 

patient old people waiting, waiting for
a message from the ones in whom all
the interest and happiness of their lives
are bound up. Mary is absorbed in her
children, Julia is taken up with society
and clubs. John and Tom are in the
thick of the fight for money and posi-
tion. Their own lives are so crowded
with events that they forget how long
and how lonely the days may be for the
old parents left behind in the little vil-
lage or the old farmhouse.

Women cling more closely to family
ties than men do, and it is seldom that
a woman becomes so alienated from her
people as not to write occasionally, but
it is a melancholy fact that there are

thousands of men who practically never |

write home at all. It always seems to a
man that he has offered a satisfactory
excuse for any kind of negligence when
he says he is busy, but he never stops
to think when he makes that apology for
not writing to his mother that in all his
life she was never too busy or too tired
to wait upon him, and love him, and
serve him. Sometimes he compromises
with his conscience by having his wife
write, or the children write. It is a
pitiful subterfuge, and only God can
know how the old mother’s heart aches
for a sight of the face she has_pillowed
on her bosom, but that is so indifferent
and negligent now, or how she wearies
looking for the letter that never. comes.
Alas, for the black ingratitude of life,
he has forgotten the old folks at home.
Cora Stowell.
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Quite Contented.

‘‘Don’t it make you feel a little blue
to find yourself getting old?’’ enquired
the strictly fresh egg of the somewhat
doubtful one.

‘‘No, it doesn’t,’’ replied the latter;
‘‘when I get a little older I’m going on
the stage.’’

 

 

 

G. Miller & Co.,

Clothing Manufacturers,
Chicago, Ill.

Iam now at my desk in Chicago, to remain until
State Fair week, held in Grand Rapids, Sept. 25-29,
at which time I shall be at Sweet’s Hotel w'th all

my fall and winter samples. Will take good care
of customers who can meet me in Chicago between
now and Sept. 15, and ailow all expenses to trade
who will give me all or part of their fall purchases
while in Chicago. Any who cannot leave home
kindly let me know and I will send full line of
samples or visit them personally. It will be a
great pleasure to meet your demands, and rest as-
sured all favors will be appreciated.
Respectfully,

S. T. Bowen,
276 Franklin Street.

 

 

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So great is the demand
for them that a leading authority claims that the
makers of collars will be unable to fill orders
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THEN AND NOW.

No Use for the Clothier Fifty Years Ago.
Written for the Tradesman.

In a former communication I told how
the family used to be shod in the olden
days, of the coarse and durable shoes
they used to wear and the curious cus-
tom of having them made up by the _lo-
cal shoemaker in the homes of the coun-
try people. This reminded me of the
more serious and important—because
more expensive—matter of clothing the
whole family for the rigors of winter,
which became of deep solicitude to the
frugal housewife, and the methods were
as laborious and quaint as in the fur-
nishing of the footwear.

The process of preparing the yarn and
knitting the socks and stockings for the
family was first in importance. Com-
paratively few stockings of any kind for
young or old were bought at the stores;
they were knit at home with knitting
needles, the click of which through
memory’s charm still lingers in my
ears. Men’s and boys’ socks were made
of a mixture of black and white sheep's
wool in about equal proportions, pulled
together and carded by hand into flat-
tened rolls ready for the old-fashioned
spinning wheel, whose droning buzz was
the lullaby of many a future statesman.
Women's and girls’ stockings were
madz2 of finer wool spun into finer yarn
and, if desired, dyed at home either
black, blue or red. Tints or shades of
coloring were beyond the family art. To
be an expert with the use of knitting
needles, in those days, was regarded a
polite accomplishment for a young lady,
as well as an indispensable requisite to
her future usefulness as wife and moth-
er. The mother who neglected to teach
her daughter the art of knitting would
be thought lacking in an important duty.
Alas that knitting should so soon be
numbered among the lost arts.

The stocking yarn all spun and
twisted into skeins, was ready for the
lenthening fall evenings, when click of
the knitting needles kept time to the
droning of Some member of the family
who read the weekly newspaper, the
solitary literary visitor to the country
home.

The yarn prepared for stockings, the
thrifty housewife’s labors were but just
begun. Then came cleansing of the
wool that was to be sent to the carding
machine and made into rolls and then
spun on the same spinning wheel, with
its everlasting grind into yarn for flan-
nel undergarments, and always a piece
a full yard wide for fulling and making
into cloth for men’s and boys’ clothing.
This was sometimes mixed and spun
the same as the yarn for socks. Al-
though woven a yard in width, when
fulled and dressed it measured about
three-fourths of a yard. It was called
sheep's grey cloth, but was oftener
woven plain white and colored a butter-
nut brown or indigo blue by the cloth
dresser. Napped, sheared and pressed,
it. made a very handsome and durable
fabric—I wish I had a suit of it now.

Then came the. making up of men’s
and boys’ clothing. All housewives
were not tailoresses, any more than the
men were shoemakers, and outside help
must be called into requisition to cut
and make up the needed winter supply
of garments. Occasionally a wandering

tailor would come along with his tape

measure and shears and cut the cloth in-
to garments to be made up in the fam-
ily; but usually there was a tailoress
employed to do the work or boss the
job, and she became one of the family

as long as she was needed. This was!

a time of considerable excitement
among the boys, as each had his choice
between a ‘‘roundabout,’’ a short. frock
coat or a cutaway coat very short
waisted and with narrow skirt, also
quite short. I leave the reader to im-
agine the figure they cut, always re-
membering that many of the fashions of
the present time will appear equally ab-
surd when recalled a few generations

hence. These itinerant — tailoresses
carried their patterns with them, and
one pattern often had to be used for

many shapes, which at times led to
shocking misfits. Asa rule they were
a jolly lot, making lots of fun for boys
and girls wherever they went. I call to
mind one of them, who did the sewing
for our family for several years. She
was no imaginary line. On the contrary,
she was made up of length, breath and
thickness, with a jovial disposition to
match. Her hair was black and_ glossy
as a raven’s wing, her cheeks were like
two immense peonies and her motto
was Laugh and grow fat. She was an
expert at her trade and of course was
seldom out of a job. Poor Aunt Betsy,
as we called her. The storms of sorrow
and adversity early overtook her and
her two hundred and _ fifty pounds of
avoirdupois was laid to rest.

About the only article of men’s and
boys’ attire that gave the housewife
no concern was their hats. The manu-
facture of felt hats from wool or fur was
a trade almost as common as the black-
smith’s and every village of four or
five hundred inhabitants had its hatter,
who exchanged his hats for the farmers’
wool which had been shorn from early
lambs in September. These hats were
either black, brown or drab and, being
felted and all wool, were very durable.

W. S. H. Welton.
How the Sweater Ousted the Cardigan
Jacket.
From the New York Tribune.

‘I had a customer for cardigan jackets
to-day,’’ said a dry goods jobber to a
friend with whom he was taking lunch-
eon, “‘and it seemed like reading a
chapter from an old forgotten book.”’

“‘It’s no worse than receiving an or-
der for hoopskirts,’’ said another mer-
chant, ‘‘and that happened to us re-
cently.’’

The customer who ordered the hoop-
skirts probably wanted them for stage
or fancy dress purposes, but the cardi-
gan jackets were ordered for wear, and
it shows that there are still places where
the sweater is unknown.

And then the merchants told stories of
the time when one of the leading arti-
cles in the sample trunks of men who
sold fall and winter goods for men’s
wear ‘‘on the road’’ was cardigan jack-
ets. Some houses carried as many as a
hundred styles, ranging in price from $9
to $100 a dozen, and the bulky nature of
the goods made it necessary to devote
much space to the line. The jackets
were worn by all classes, and the article
was considered one of the staples of the
men’s furnishing goods line. But the
sweater has crowded the cardigan jacket
out, and according to the opinions of
those who sell the goods it has gone
never to return, except as an article of
small demand.

‘Ten years ago all the sweaters sold
by us,’’ said a large dealer in athletic
goods, ‘‘were made by hand at a Shaker
village in New Hampshire.’ They were
worn then by oarsmen and by men who
were in training for the prize ring, and
a man wearing a sweater attracted about
as much attention as one in kilts. But
soon the baseball and football players
began wearing them, and within a short
time the sweater became a necessary
part of every gymnasium outfit. The
demand became so great that nearly all
the mills that had made cardigan jack-
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favor the old one fell away, and the de-
mand is now so great that. the original
manufacturers—-the Shakers— could not
supply us for the slowest week in the
year.”’

The tourist and the man going on his
summer vacation were not slow © rec-
ognize the advantage of the sweater over
the old-time blue flannel shirt, and these
consumers became large purchasers of
the more comfortable and better looking
garment.

Although the athletic and the outing
trades make heavy drafts on the product
of the sweater manufacturers, there are
other and larger consumers. These are
men who work in the street, lumbermen,
longshoremen, railroad men, sailors and
drivers of teams.

The article which is used by these
people is not so good as the one made
for athletes, and sells as low as 75 cents,
and from that price to $1.50, while the
better article brings from $2.50 to $6.

‘The jersey,’’ said a manufacturer of
woven goods, ‘‘was the forerunner of the
sweater, and a curious point about these
two articles is this: The jersey was
brought on the market as an article of
women’s. wear, and it enjoyed great
popularity for several seasons. It was
not an outing garment, but one of dress,
but, like all articles of women’s dress
that can be produced at a low figure,
the jersey soon found its way into the
lower circles, and then became unknown
as an article of dress in places where
fashions are made. But with the bicycle
it became popular once more: it was
adopted by men, and is now worn by
riders all over the country. But. the
women got even with the men for. tak-
ing the jersey away from them by going
in for sweaters. There are large quan-
tities of sweaters made now for women,
who wear them at golf, in the moun-
tains, in the gymnasium, and for outing
generally. The goods made for the use
of women are usually of a superior
grade, although they are made also in
the middle and low grades. ”’

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Around the Stat

Movements of Merchants.

Detroit--Wm. Thompson has sold his
grocery stock to Colwell Bros.

West Bay City—R. Des Jardins has
purchased the grocery stock of J. E.
Owen.

Bay City—-Edmund Schooley has pur-
chased the grocery stock of Samuel W.
Waters.

Lawrence—A. H. Wiggins will re-
move his drug stock to Benton Harbor
A2ct.. f.

Adrian—Robins, Holloway & Robins
have embarked in the grocery business
at this place.

Sunfield- rc. Martin, of Lake
Odessa, has engaged in the bazaar bus!-
ness at this place.

Quincy—D. G. Babcock has removed
his jewelry and optical instrument stock
to another location.

Saginaw—-Kline
will open a dry goods store at
Genesee avenue about Oct. 1.

Benton Harbor—Geo. B. Warren suc-
ceeds Fred G. Warren as proprietor of
the Enterprise Mercantile Co.

Sunfield—O. W. Canouts, furniture
dealer and undertaker at Palo, has en-
gaged in business at this place.

Negaunee-—Harris & Matthews are
closing out their stock of general mer-
chandise and will retire from trade.

Paris—W. D. Hopkinson has sold his
general stock to P. J. O’Hara, formerly
engaged in general trade at Summerton.

Lansing-—Geo. E. Harrison, produce
dealer at Flushing, has engaged in the
butter and egg business at 115 Franklin
street.

Maple Rapids—A. T. Hewitt & Co.,
meat dealers at this place, have retired
from trade, leaving the town without a
market.

Carson. City—Geo. F. Mosher, — of
Owosso, has leased a store building at
this place and engaged in the bazaar
business.

Kalamazoo—Carl Davis and Lew Fer-
guson have opened a grocery store at
the corner of Kalamazoo avenue and
Rose street.

Clinton—A. F. Kishpaugh has sold
his interest in the hardware stock of
Lindsey & Kishpaugh to his partner,
G. C. Lindsley.

Alma——Wm. Milleman, of Grand
Haven, and Fred Hammer, of this
place, have purchased the meat business
of Huff & Beach.

Onaway--J. M. Clark has sold his
general stock to Steel & Fox, of Lans-
ing, who will continue the business at
the same location.

Clarksville—Chas. E. Nash has sold
his Otis Richards grocery stock to H.
S. Young, who will continue the busi-
ness at the same location.

Quincy—Clinton Joseph has sold his
interest in the drug and grocery stock
of Greening & Joseph to his partner and
will remain in the store as clerk.

Maple Rapids—A. N. Howe, former-
ly engaged in general trade under the
style of A. N. Howe & Co., has en-
gaged in the butter and egg business
here.

Ypsilanti—A. A. Bedel has been ap-
pointed to take charge of the boot and
shoe stock of his late father until a gen-
eral administrator of the estate is ap-
pointed.

Albion—Kendrick & Co. have closed
out their stock of millinery goods and
purchased the stock of millinery and
ladies’ furnishing goods of Hollon &
Hungerford.

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Charlotte—-H. M. Putterille has re-
moved her bazaar stock to Grand Ledge,
where she has re-engaged in business
in the Peterson block.

Muskegon—-Fred Brundage has_ sold
the John A. Tinholt drug stock to W.
P. Harris, formerly in the employ of A.
Eckerman, who will continue the busi-
ness at the same location.

Adrian—The Roe Clothing Co., Lim-
ited, is the name of a new firm estab-
lished at this place, of which T. A.
Hilton is President and H. S. Roe
Treasurer and Manager.

Dowagiac———The grocery firm of
Haines & Savage has been dissolved,
Mr. Haines succeeding. Mr. Savage
has resumed work at his old trade with
the Dowagiac Manufacturing Co.

Jackson—-Gordon D. Cliff has sold his
meat market at 317 Wildwood avenue to
Martin S. Smith and John Lethbridge,
who will continue the business under
the style of Smith & Lethbridge.

Dowagiac—Ray Burlingame has_ pur-
chased an interest in the drug stock of
his employer, C. L. Sherwood, and _ the
business will be continued under the
style of Sherwood & Burlingame.

Port Huron—Edward Bromley, the
bankrupt druggist who left the city
clandestinely about three weeks ago,
has been located in Canada. He has
written his wife to join him there.

Hancock—-G. Rohrer will shortly re-
move his jewelry stock into his new
store building in the Prince block. Miss
Lynch will occupy one-half of the
building with a stock of millinery goods.

Quincy—-Pearce &- Lyon have pur-
chased the boot and shoe stock of M. J.
Condra and will remove their carpet
stock to that location, placing Mr.
Condra in charge of the shoe depart-
ment.

Alma—W. E. Medler has removed his
stock of general merchandise from Car-
son City into the building recently oc-
cupied by the furniture stock of Frank
Herron. H. P. Bogart will remain in
the store with his jewelry stock.

Elsie—N. G. Pearce has purchased
the other half of the corner brick store
building and will soon occupy it with a
complete stock of drugs. E. V. Chase,
proprietor of the building for several
years, will remove his drug stock to an-
other location.

Chelsea —The Staffan-Shell Furniture
Co. has been dissolved by the retire-
ment of D. Shell. His interest has
been purchased by Frank and George
P. Staffan, who will continue the busi-
ness under the style of the Staffan Fur-
niture and Undertaking Co.

Coopersville—Charles F. and Sherman
E. Hosmer have gone to Hammond,
Ind., where they will open a grocery
store. They were among the fire suffer-
ers in this place a little over a year
ago, when they conducted a grocery
store under the style of Hosmer Bros.

Sherman—-Gilbert & Sturtevant, who
have been engaged in the mercantile
business here for a quarter of a century,
have dissolved partnership. The busi-
ness will be continued by E. Gilbert,
while H. B. Sturtevant will devote his
entire attention to his lumbering opera-
tions.

Nashville—Frank McDerby is making
arrangements to put up two handsome
brick stores, which he will occupy as
soon as they are completed. The - new
buildings will have a frontage of 48 feet
and will be 80 feet deep, and two stories
in height. The Odd Fellows expect to
build the second story over one of these
stores, to be occupied by them as lodge
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building will be fitted up for offices.
Work is to be begun immediately, and
Mr. McDerby expects to have the build-
ings ready for occupancy this fall.

Menominee—Ramsay & Jones have
leased the lower floor and basement of
their new block to the Northern Hard-
ware & Supply Co., and will immedi-
ately begin work on another store build-
ing, 22x100 feet in dimensions, to be
occupied by the musical instrument
house of G. A. Woodford.

Cassopolis—Grant C. Underhill, who
has made a heroic struggle to redeem
his grocery stock from the $3,200 chattel
mortgage held by the First National
Bank of Cassopolis, has been compelled
to yield to the inevitable, having volun-
tarily surrendered the property to the
mortgagee. Mr. Underhill is broken in
health and strength by reason of the load
he has been carrying.

Clarksville--M. T. LaMont and Er-
nest Nash have formed a copartnership
under the style of M. T. LaMont & Co.
and engaged in the clothing, furnishing
goods and shoe business. The shoe stock
was furnished by the Herold-Bertsch
Shoe Co. The business will have the
personal supervision of Mr. LaMont,
Mr. Nash retaining his position as
cashier of the banking house of Edwin
Nash & Son.

Laurium—A. F. Wixson, of the Laur-
ium Hardware Co., places the loss by
the recent destruction of his store and
stock by fire at $8,000, the insurance
being $4,000. Fortunately his heavy
goods were in a separate warehouse
and escaped the fate of the remainder of
the stock, enabling him to continue busi-
ness without interruption by filling a
part of his orders through the courtesy
of other hardware concerns until his
new stock arrives.

Manufacturing Matters.

Boyne—Wigle & White succeed the
Guerin-White Lumber Co.

Bad Axe—John H. Cole, of Detroit,
has established a trunk and valise fac-
tory at this place.

Clarksville—T. G. Mercer has_ closed
his cheese factory for the present, on
account of the scarcity of milk.

Battle Creek—The style of the Battle
Creek Steam .Pump Co. has _ been
changed to the American Steam
Pump Co.

Belding—The Belding Shoe Co. has
shipped new shoe stocks this week to
Wm. Vermeulen, of Beaver Dam, and
Ketchum & Mulholland, at Rodney.

Gagetown—The Flgin Butter Co. has
leased its creamery here to Finkle &
Currey, of North Branch, for a term of
years. The new proprietors take pos-
session immediately. Mr. Currey will
be local manager.

Alma—Lafayette Stevens, formerly
manager of the lumbering business of
W. B. Lathrop & Co.,and Mr. Kimball,
of Elm Hall, have purchased a new
stock of furniture and will open up same
in the Pollasky block.

Sutton’s Bay—The mill and docks
owned by Greilick Bros. at this place
have been sold to E. R. Dailey, of the
Empire Lumber Co., and C. D. Stan-
ley, manager of Mr. Dailey’s Sutton’s
Bay store. The new firm will continue
to operate the plant on an extensive

scale.
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Scarcely any German soap comes to
this country. England is Germany’s
best soap customer, and last year bought
2,225,000 pounds out of a total export of
less than $5,000,000. In 1898 Germany’s
exports of perfume amounted to $2, 250, -
000, a gain of almost $500,000 over 1897.

 

The Boys Behind the Counter.

Saginaw—C. E. Sheely, of Bad Axe,

has taken a position with L. J. Richter,
the Gratiot street druggist.

Keeler—Vern Rosevelt is clerking in
Austin’s dry goods store.

Menominee—Fred Dubrucq is’ em-
ployed as clerk in the Northern Hard-
ware & Supply Co.’s store.

Charlotte—Geo. C. Walker has re-
signed his position at R. C. Jones &
Co.’s to take a similar position with the
Kramer dry goods house at Cadillac.
His family will join him later. Mr.
Walker has taken the position left va-
cant by Mr. Coy.

Jackson—H. B. Stevens will have
charge of the boot and shoe department
of E. C. Greene.

Luther—Will Reed, who has been
clerking in the dry goods store of Sam-
uel Buckner for the past five years, and
who has been village clerk and town-
ship treasurer, and quite prominent in
social and fraternal circles, has taken a
similar position in the general store of
Justus S. Stearns, at Ludington.

Kalamazoo—A. W. Rogers, of jack-
son, has taken a _ position in Gilmore
Bros.’ store as head of the dress goods
department. He will take the place
made vacant by Charles Russell, who
will go to Battle Creek, Oct. 1, to take
charge with L. E. Srackangast of their
own store at that place.

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Calumet Clerks Organize a Social Club.

Calumet, Sept. 15—The clerks of the
various mercantile establishments met
at Dunstan’s hall last evening and_ took
preliminary steps toward the organiza-
tion of a social club. The object of
this club will be the promotion of social
intercourse between the employes of the
stores of the city and bring them into
closer touch with each other.

Upwards of too clerks were present
at this gathering, and officers were
elected as follows:

President—J. D. Kilty.

Vice-President—-Miss Knectghes.

Secretary—M. J. Tobianski.

Assistant Secretary—Miss MacNabb.

Treasurer—George Q. Lewis.

Guard—Mose Miller.

Committee on constitution and by-
laws—Joseph Foster, Joseph Gallipeay,
L. Nelson, John Rowe, Louis Gra-
bowsky.

The new organization starts out with
97 members, and at the next meeting, to
be held on Oct. 12, it is expected that
this membership will be increased to
nearly 400.

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New York and Return Via. Grand Trunk
Railway.

Tickets on sale Sept. 26, 27 and 28
for $23.75 for the round trip. Return
limit Oct. 4,1899. Train leaving Grand
Rapids daily at 7:20 p. m. makes im-
mediate connection at Durand with the
New York flyer, which is a solid vesti-
bule train. This is the fastest evening
service between Grand*Rapids and New
York. Phone 576 or 646-3 rings for
particulars or call at Grand Trunk City
Ticket office, Morton House Block.

C. A. Justin, C. P. & T. A.

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Charged to the Sheriff.

A man charged with a minor offense
escaped from Georgia and. fled to North
Carolina. When notified of his arrest in
the latter State, a rural sheriff wired:

‘*Don’t bring him back—just-tar and
feather him.”’

The following reply was received by
the Georgia sheriff shortly afterward :

‘“We gave him the tar free; but you’ll
have to foot the bill for the feathers, $2.
Please remit.’

—_o 2-2.
Dewey Day in New York.

Sept. 26, 27 and 28 the Michigan Cen-
tral will sell round trip tickets to New
York at $23.75, good to return until
Oct. 4. Stop over granted at he in
Falls in each direction. Phone for
full particulars.

W. C. Blake, Ticket Agent.

  

 

   

 

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Grand Rapids Gossip

John Barrett has opened a grocery
store at Plainfield. The Olney & Jud-
son Grocer Co. furnished the stock.

 

 

 

Hart, Livingston & Co. have opened
a grocery store at Vestaburg. The Wor-
den Grocer Co. furnished the stock.

 

Mrs. M. Shepard has engaged in the
grocery business at Otsego. The stock
was furnished by the Worden Grocer Co.

S. B. Gauweiler will shortly open a
grocery store at Newaygo. The Lemon
& Wheeler Company has the order fo
the stock.

Seward Birmingham has embarked in
the grocery business at Cedar Lake, the
stock being furnished by the Lemon &
Wheeler Company.

The firm of Joslin & Marks succeeds
to the dry goods business of Mertie A.
Joslin, Dr. W. L. Marks having pur-
chased a half interest in the stock.

Noble & Croll will open a grocery
store at 354 West Bridge street on Sat-
urday of this week. The Musselman
Grocer Co. has the order for the stock.

 

W. R. Boynton, formerly engaged in
the hardware business at Coopersville,
has embarked in the grocery business at
Onaway. The Worden Grocer Co. fur-
nished the stock.

Theron Forbes, the North Coit ave-
nue druggist, has formed a copartner-
ship with Moses Rosenberg, of Middle-
ville, and engaged in the lumbering and
builders’ supply business at Mulliken,
under the style of M. Rosenberg & Co.
The firm has purchased the lumber
stock of H. K. Boldersom, at Portland,
and removed it to Mulliken.

Richard H. Hunter, formerly with
Howard Leach, at South Boardman, and
Mark S. Johnson, formerly with Lewis
Way & Son, at Rapid City, have formed
a copartnership under the style of John-
son & Hunter and engaged in general
trade at Spencer, a new town about ten
miles southeast of Kalkaska. The Clark-
Jewell-Wells Co. furnished the grocer-
ies, the Clark-Rutka-Weaver Co. sup-
plied the hardware and the Belding Shoe
Co. furnished the shoes.

Lewis FE. Hawkins and Wm. P.
Granger have formed a copartnership
under the style of the United States
Packing Co. and will engage in the pur-
chase and sale of fresh and salt meats,
poultry, eggs and butter at 7 North
Ionia street. One side of the Brown &
Clark building is being partitioned off
and an office and refrigerator will be
constructed on the ground floor. The
new house expects to be ready to begin
business in about two weeks.

—_—__—_~>-0-2—— ——_
The Produce Market.

Apples—Winter fruit is strong and
higher, standard varieties commanding
$2@2.50 per bbl.

Beets—$1 per 3 bu. bbl. _

Butter—Factory creamery is strong at

22c. Dairy grades are very scarce and
‘ard to get. Fancy readily commands
17c, but the receipts are small, the local
trade being largely dependent on cold
storage supplies.

Cabbage—30@35c per doz.

Carrots—$1 per 3 bu. bbl.

Cauliflower—$1@1.25 per doz.

Celery—-12@15c per doz. bunches.

Crab Apples—The market is stronger
and higher, choice varieties command-
ing $1.50 per bu. and $4 per bbl.

Cranberries——-$2@2.25 per bu. for
Michigan. Cape Cods fetch $6 per bbl.

Cucumbers—-Pickling stock is in ac-

 

tive demand at 20@25c per hundred.
Large stock commands Soc per bu.

Eggs—-The market has taken a sharp
upward turn, local dealers having ad-
vanced their paying prices to 14@14'4c
on track. Choice candled stock readily
commands 16c. The quality of receipts
is improving rapidly since the advent
of cold weather. .

Game—Although the duck season
opened Sept. 1, receipts have been so
small up to this time that dealers have
been unable to formulate a_ scale of
ae They now offer $4.50 per doz.
or Mallard, $2.50 for Teal and $1.50@2
for common ducks.

Grapes—Wordens and Concords com-
mand 8@oc for 4 lb. baskets and 10o@
12c for 8 lb. baskets. Niagaras are held
at 1oc for 4 lb. baskets. Delawares are
so scarce that they readily command 22
@25c per 4 lb. baskets.

Honey—-White clover is held at 15c.
Dark amber commands 1o@12c.

Live Poultry—Dressed stock is be-
ginning to interfere with the sale of live
poultry to some extent. Spring chickens
are active at 8@o, while fowls are in
good demand at 7c. Spring ducks are
in fair demand at 6c, while old ducks
are not wanted at any price. Hen tur-
keys find ready sale at 9c. Large tur-
keys are in good demand at 8c. Spring
turkeys meet with ready sale at toc.
Squabs are inactive demand at $1.20 per
doz. Pigeons are in fair demand at 5oc
per doz.

Muskmelons—Osage are still in fair
demand at 75c per doz. Rockyfords
command 75c per bu.

Onions—5o0@55c per bu. for dry stock.

Parsnips—$1.50 per 3 bu. bbl.

Peaches—Chilis are coming in freely
and much more plentifully than was
expected, meeting ready sale at $2@3
per bu. !

Pears—-Choice varieties are held at
$1.75@2.25 per bu.

Peppers—-75c per bu.

Plums—All varieties still in market
have advanced, Green Gage, Lombard
and German Prune finding ready sale
at $1.60@2.25 per bu.

Potatoes—Local dealers pay 30@35c,
holding at 35@4oc. The Government
crop report for Sept. is as follows: The
average condition of potatoes on Sep-
tember I was 86.3. This shows a de-
cline of 6.7 points during August, but
the condition Is still 8.6 points higher
than on September 1, 1898, 19.6 points
higher than at the corresponding date
in 1897, and 9.3 points above the mean
of the September averages for the last
ten years. The decline during August
extended to all the principal potato-
growing states, being 10 points in New
York and Ohio, 8 in Pennsylvania, 20 in
Michigan, 5 in Illinois, 3 in lowa, 9 in
Wisconsin, and 4 in Minnesota and
Nebraska, these being the States hav-
ing 100,000 acres or upward in pota-
toes.

Squash —Home grown command 1%c

me

Sweet Corn*-7c per doz. for Ever-
green.

Sweet Potatoes—$2@2.25 per bbl. for
Virginia.

Turnips—g1 per bbl.

Tomatoes—Receipts will be curtailed
by the frost to that extent that the price
has moved up to 60c per bu.

Watermelons—Home grown command
10@I2c.

0 -—
The Best Shooting.

The shooting in Iowa, Minnesota and
South Dakota this year promises to be
very good, as the rainfall in all these
States was abundant. The best localities
for chicken and duck shooting are on
and tributary to the lines of the Chicago,
Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway. A
copy of a recent publication issued by
the passenger department of that road
can be had on application to Harry
Mercer, Michigan Passenger Agent, 7
Fort street, W. Detroit, Mich., and en-
closing three cents in stamps for post-
age.

——_>02>___

A test case is one that is brought to
- how much the lawyers can make out
of it.

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

 

HIGH WATER MARK.

Most Favorable Bank Statements

Made in the City.

Ever

The bank statements made last week,
showing the condition at the close of
business September 7, are the most fa-
vorable ever issued by the local banks.
All the desirable totals show a large
increase over all previous totals, far sur-
passing the very best in those glad days
before the hard times. The total of the
loans and discounts was $9,837,776. 40,
which is, approximately, an increase of
$200,000, as compared with the state-
ments of June 30, and an increase of
something over a million, as compared
with one yearago. The nearest approach
to it in the ante-panic days was the
showing made in the statement of May
4, 1893, when the loans and discounts
were $9,109,082.20. It may be added
that six months after that old high water
mark had been reached the loans and
discounts had shrunk to $6, 539,932.04,
the lowest point reached during the hard
times. Since the statement of October
3, 1893, the statements show a slow but
steady growth through the years, and
now the loans and discounts are beyond
all former figures, and, if the bankers
are to be believed, aré steadily growing
to still larger figures. One of the inter-
esting féatures about the loans and_ dis-
counts is the almost total disappearance
of the Peoples Savings Bank from. this
class of business. Its loans and dis-
counts are shown to be but $78,023. 30,
as compared with $258, 126.70 in the June
report. The Peoples has for some time
past been withdrawing from commercial
business, and it now seems _ practically
out of it.

The stocks, bonds and mortgage ac-
counts show a total of $3, 483,225.53,
which is about $400,000 more than in
June and about the same amount in ex-
cess of a year ago. In May, 1893, when
the loans and discounts were so high,
the stocks held aggregated but $1, 376, -
499.32. The savings banks then held
$1,059,825.61, the National — banks
$40,183.90 and the trust companies
$276,489.81. The holdings now, — re-
spectively, are as follows: State, $2,537, -
747-85; National, $453,950.87; trust,
$491,526.81. The largest holder of this
class of securities is the Peoples, with
a total of $1, 128,646.83. The quick re-
sources are $2, 388,445.45 in bank and
reserve deposits and $981, 599.67 in cash

items, a total of $3,370,036.12. This
total is so far different from that of a
year ago, the main difference being

$130,000 more in cash items. The total
on May 4, 1893, was $1,955,755.46, a
total that was materially increased as
rapidly as the times would permit as the
panic became more severe.

For surplus and undivided profits ac-
count the banks show a total of $856, -
951.13, as compared with $817,823.60 a
year ago. ‘This increase of nearly $40, -
000 indicates that the banks have at last
fairly passed over the divide and, with
most of their old and bad accounts
written off, are in a_ position now to
prosper. Only three of the banks show
a decrease in the surplus, as compared
with a year ago, and in two of these the
decrease is nominal rather than real.
A comparison with the surplus accounts
of October, 1893, will show how hard
hit some of the banks were by the hard
times. One bank has a surplus account
of $55,000 less than six years ago, an-
other is still $5,000 behind and a third
is about $32,000 short. The return of
good times and the conversion of real

estate and other securities held into cash :

 

will make evening up easier and more
rapid in the future.

The total deposits in the banks now are
$13,637,866.30. This is more than a
million more than in June, $1, 300,000
more than a year ago and just about‘
double what they were in October, 1893.
The October, 1893, statement showed
the deposits at the lowest ebb, however,
as the deposits dropped from $o, 222, -
641.92 in May to $6, 590, 804.67, the low-
est. point The total deposits
now are more than $4,000,000 better than
at any time before the panic, and the
largest

reached.

increase is in the savings de-
posits. The total of the savings deposits
and certificates now is $7, 320,728.66, an
increase of $800,000 in a year, and com-
paring with $3,050,271.01 in October,
1893. The highest point reached by the
savings deposits before the hard times
was $4, 222,243.88, in December, 1892.
Then came the slump of a million with-
ina year, but after that the statements
show a until now the
are way beyond all previous

steady increase
savings
records. The commercial deposits show
a total of $4,117,802.65, which is the
highest point they ever reached
with a single exception. September 30,
1892, showed a_ total of $4, 196,922.86.
The lowest point the deposits reached
during the hard times was December
17, 1896, when they were $2,633, 326.21.
One year ago the commercial deposits
were $500,000 less than now.

have

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Grand Rapids Retail Grocery Clerks’ As-
sociation,

At the regular meeting of the Grand
Rapids Retail Grocery Clerks’ Associa-
tion, held at the office of the Michigan
Tradesman Monday evening, President
Beardslee presided.

The Committee on Membership re-
ported progress and was given until the
next meeting to complete the work of
securing and compiling a complete list
of the grocery clerks in the city.

Two applications for membership were
received and accepted-—Ed. Whitney
and J. D. Chilvers.

In accordance with the notice made at
a previous meeting, Jos. Terrill moved
that Article III of the constitution be
amended so as to make the membership
fee 25 cents and the annual dues $2,
payable quarterly in advance. The
amendment was adopted.

Harry Stowitts moved that a commit-
tee be appointed to attend the next
meeting of the Grand Rapids Retail
Grocers’ Association and present the
matter of leasing a hall and club room
in conjunction with that organization.

The motion was adopted and_ the
chairman appointed as such committee
Harry Stowitts, L. E. Bass and Ernest
Bratt.

An informal discussion followed as to
the advisability of maintaining a per-
manent club room for the use of the
members. In case such a decision is
reached, Geo. Leichner offered the As-
sociation the free use of his piano, Fred
Beardslee offered the use of a cornet and
other members volunteered to do their
part.

The meeting then adjourned
Monday, Oct. 2, when the
officers will take place.

.-0eo-
Marvels of Comfort and Beauty.

The Grand Trunk Railway’System has
lately placed in service between Detroit
and Toronto Pullman Sleeping Cars
that can not be excelled anywhere for
beauty and comfort. These cars have
wide vestibules and are finished inside
with mahogany. The smoking compart-
ments are provided with sofa pillows.
The ventilation is perfect. The up-
holstery is done in maroon velvet. The
finishings are of brass. The cars run
daily, Sunday included, between Detroit
and Toronto, leaving Detroit at 1:40 p.
m., and passengers from Detroit and
Michigan to Toronto and Eastern Can-
ada can not do better than patronize
them if they wish to enjoy everything
that the highest car building art can
produce.

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Store Lighting —

Other Uses of Acetylene Lime or Carbide.

Foreign journals are recording the
fact that the new electrical product, cal-
cium carbide, is proving of much value
to grape growers ina way not at first
thought of. It is to the effect that car-
bide possesses unequalled worth asa
germicide in preventing not only the
destructive black rot of the grape, but
likewise as an insecticide in destroying
that even greater plague to the horticul-
turist,the Phylloxera or grape root louse.

This last named insect is one of the
destructive known to the fruit
grower. In Europe and Northern Africa
especially it has brought
many grape sections by sweeping away
time was

most
despair to

vineyards until a
reached when more than one govern-
ment offered a large reward for a com-
plete Phylloxera remedy. The same ter-
rible insect has found its to Cali-
fornia and Australia where it works on
the European species of grapevine. In
applying carbide to this insect which
works at the root, the is placed
beneath the soil, the moisture of which
decomposes it, forming acetylene, which
kills the louse. The fact that the lime
costs so little per pound is much in_ its
favor as an insecticide. It
that further experiment will demonstrate
its great usefulness in destroying other
insects.

Another use of carbide in its slacked
state is as a land fertilizer, taking the
place of common slacked lime. For
this purpose it should be spread some-
what thinly, in its benefits
are very marked upon crops, especially

miles of

way

lime

is probable

which case

those growing on heavy or mucky soil
possessing elements of acidity —sour
soil the farmers say. The favorable ex-
perience in Europe with the lime, as
stated above, makes it almost certain
that its value as a general germicide
and insecticide wholly apart from its
fertilizing value is far from duly recog-
nized. It is well known that some land

fertilizers invite and breed insects; if it
be the case that carbide, besides fertiliz-
ing the plants, repels and even kills
plant insects, it may yet prove a decided
boon to the land tiller. It is pleasant

to contemplate that this useful lime,
after supplying a home with lights,

finds the refuse of value to the fields in
enriching them, and in destroying nox-
ious pests at the same time. Truly this
is killing three birds with one stone!
Another use of the slacked carbide,
especially such as is produced by the
moist process of acetylene generation,

is that of mortar stock. Mixed with
sand, after the manner of using. ordi-
nary slacked lime, it may be used

for laying up walls; add to it hair as in
mortar making for plastering and a
good putty or first coat mortar is the re-
sult. It likewise makes an excellent
wash for coating fences, buildings and
so forth, being of the character of com-
mon whitewash but darker in color.

Carbide has been found also to pos-
sess remarkable value in the manufac-
ture of carbonized steel. It is found
that by heating soft steel and iron with
carbide instead of charcoal or coal dust,
it takes up carbon with greater readi-
ness. Some steel works have adopted
this use of carbide with gratifying re-
sults. W. G. Haven.

—_—_—_e0—.___
Cause of the Acetylene Gas Explosion at
Wabash.

Wabash, Sept. 15—In reply to your
enquiry as to a. cause of the recent ex-
plosion of acetylene gas at this place, I

 

 

take pleasure in handing you the follow-
ing facts:

In the first place the accident was not
serious and was of comparatively small
moment, as compared to what would be
supposed from the newspaper reports.
The facts are that the supply of acety-
lene gas to the city of Wabash was not
interrupted fora moment. The genera-
tor, valves, gas holder, etc.—in fact, the
entire plant essential for the generation
of acetylene and its distribution—were
in no manner damaged.

The generator was located in a small
brick building, which was blown over by
the force of the explosion inside of it.
The explosion occurred as the result of
a leak of gas at one or more of the
joints in the generator protected by gas-
kets, and thus considerable gas ac-
cumulated in this small generator house,
which ignited from a flame burning
there and caused the explosion. Had
there been a leak from the generator of
ordinary city gas, under the same_ con-
ditions, exactly the same thing would
have occurred.

Acetylene gas leaked from the genera-
tor as above described from the fact
that a much larger pressure of the gas
accumulated in the machine than was
anticipated. This excessive pressure
was caused by the use of finely granu-
lated carbide, which we were attempting
to use temporarily, which caused a very
rapid generation of acetylene gas, and
as the pipe from the generator to the
holder was not of sufficient size to carry
off this large volume as quickly as it
was generated, the considerable accum-
ulation and pressure occurred in the
generator which caused the leak above
described. S. T. Murdock.

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Acetylene as a Power Agent.

 

Acetylene pushes itself to the front at
any number of meetings of scientific
men throughout the world. The last an-
nual meeting of the German Society of
Gas and Water E xperts at Nuremberg
was in this respect no exception. The
new gas was not only placed on exhibi-
tion, but its application to various uses
received able consideration.

The current issue of Dingler’s Poly-
technisches Journal, in referring to the
application of this product to the gas
engine as a power generator, has the fol-
lowing comments that will be read with
interest by Americans, most of whom
have given little attention to the gas be-
yond its use for illumination.

The principal difficulty hitherto en-
countered in applying acetylene asa
motive power lay in obtaining a non-
luminous flame—the evidence of com-
plete combustion. This difficulty, it
has developed, has been overcome by
the devices constructed by one of the
Berlin acetylene companies.

Acetylene, according to the same au-
thority,is now applied in power genera-
tors (gas-engines) in the same manner
as ordinary coal gas and water gas. In
order to obtain the full output of the
energy of the gas, it must be mixed
with air in the right proportion to pro-
duce perfect combustion, a State that is
indicated by a non-luminous flame. The
power developed by the acetylene com-
pletely burned in the cylinder is said to
be greater than that obtainable with or-
dinary gas.

eS ne

There is danger even in temperance
drinks. Samuel Kissler, a Philadelphia
lad, aged 14, bought a bottle of root beer
and put it in his hip pocket as he
walked home. As he was crossing a car
track there was a loud report and per-
sons passing by were amazed to see_ the
boy lifted about three feet from the
ground. A horse that was not accus-
tomed to artillery also forgot himself,
and, pulling the lines out of his sleepy
driver's hands, galloped up the street.
Before he had gone a square he ran into
a trolley car, throwing the driver into
the street. It was found that the boy
who had the bottle was bleeding and
he was carried to the Pennsylvania hos-
pital. The bottle had exploded and torn
the back of his trousers off. Several
pieces of the glass had entered the flesh,
inflicting cuts which it required eleven
stitches to mend.

 

Brakeman and Drummer.
From the Commercial Traveler.

The brakeman opened the door with a
bang; then he opened his mouth, and
this is what the passengers heard:

* “Aw wow wah ugh!”’

“‘T beg your pardon,’’ said the fat
drummer timidly, ‘‘but would you mind
repeating that? I didn’t quite catch it.
Very stupid of me, of course, but the
fact is I was thinking of something
else.”’

The brakeman glared at the drummer
for a moment, and then roared out
again:

‘*Aw wow wah ugh!"’

“Thank you,’’ said the drummer. ‘‘I
was not quite sure the first time whether
you said, ‘Aw wow wah ugh’ or ‘Um rah
rah whoop!’ Now I understand you
perfectly. ’

 

Freeport Herald: The Michigan
Tradesman was sixteen years old last
week and to mark the beginning of its
seventeenth year it got out a special
edition of 64 pages. The paper was also
neatly dressed in new body type and
presented a very nice appearance.

AMERICAN GARBIDE CO, Ut

Jobbers of
Calcium
Carbide

and al! kinds of
_Acetylene Gas Burners

Distributing agents. for The Electro Lamp Co.’s
especia.ly prepared Carbide for bicycle and por-
table lamps, in 2and 5 pound cans.

Orders promptly filled.
Jackson, Michigan.

 

 

 

 

ret Reems econ THE BRUOE AERATOR

prejudiced in faver of : :

1. The generating capacity is larger than any other Gen-
erator on the market, holding 1 lb. carbide to %4 foot burner.

2. Our carbide container is a compartment pan, with
pockets holding from 1 to 3 Ibs. each, the water acting on
but one at a time, thus no heating or wasting of gas.

3- There are no valves to be opened or closed by forks,
It is extremely simple and is sure.
4- Our Gasometer has no labor to perform, thus insuring

ratchets or levers.

at all times the same even pressure.

5. All pipes are self- draining to the condens-
ing chamber.

6. Our Gasometers for same rated capacity
are the largest on the market, and will hold a
large supply. It saves. :

7. The Bruce Generator, when left to do its
own work, will not blow off or waste the gas.

8. Not least, but greatest. Our Purifier takes
out all moisture and impurities from the gas,
making it impossible for pipes taclog up or the
burners to choke up and smoke.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The Insurance Underwriters say that it is
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your winter lighting before writing to us.
Owing to excessive orders we have been unable to keep in stock;
but we have lately increased our facilities so as to enable us to fill all future

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If you need light, when you need light, you need
light that will light you up

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The Sunlight Be
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Stores, Churches, Residences,

Lodges, Halls, Hotels, Offices
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Moneymaking terms to local agents.

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4 monononsucnononenon sacnone there is to know about the shoes in}and only one set of prices. The ad-| 1, gal., stone cover, per doz. 75
= ss Sh AtC f h @| question. You know what they look | vertisement is nicely set and its word-| ! 8#l., stone cover, per doz. hg
> . oes At Cost for the 5 like, how they are made, what they are]ing is good, in the main, but the ab- Sealing Wax
’ c @ Next Sixty Days @ | made of and the price. You are nearly |sence of prices lessens its value as a ee See re ee .
{ . © as wise as if you had the shoes in your]seller of goods. Let Mr. Smith add a " eT
. . To Close out. For Cash. e hand or on your feet. This is good ad- ee to ue item and he will have a oa $28
b ee te : oe ar stronger adve rtisement, and one that | Half Gallons. 6 00
' ~ a Twenty pairs Women’s Shoes, broken @| vertising. That it sells goods the local will be a paying investment. Covers ‘ 2 00
@ sizes. “Twentv pairs Women’s Waiking M@] shoe dealer knows only too well. W.s i Rubbers 25
. @ Shoes and slippers—broken sizes. Nice @ : é 5S. Hamburger. i
4 - > @ line of W omen’s, Misses’ and Children’s @ C0CCSCCS 8OSSCCCO — LAMP BURNERS
4 : Shoes. Come in, we know we can please = Mixture of Man, Red Paint and Hana- | No.0 Sun 37
you. saw No. 1 Sun 38
. S. E. Albright. @ nar SE cen No. 2 Sun 60
e oe gut. a Cpal men ore From the Adrian Telegram. No.3 Sun ca 1 00
- rosby. is . ; , | .epular....... 4
- @u@nOnOnOnOReZOZORORCROEEE 7 eee & te tang Or. ie bs
08088880 00000800 SSSSSSSS8 | cls merchant at Clayton, He is a | security! No. 2 ee 80
ae . great advertiser, and in all directions | Nutmeg FT
eeccceeeoooooces Fashion’s Latest Creations from his place of business may be see
signee ; “ : ao lire meee ae hie LAMP CHIMNEYS- Seconds
» s what you can get now in our Dress signs numerous, directing people to his > a
y : 5 * - : F Per box of 6 doz.
a_ Our New oS oe store. He is a liberal man in all public | No.o Sun i 1 2s
Fall Line of Shoes of all, enterprises and an all around good fel- Ls jbo 142
2 vere You May Want low, but when it comes to riding a bi- | *°° 7° +> 21
igraubgt open rebate Peat ol gh cycle and at the same time carrying a Common
pared to show evervthing that is new : i : Ca ’ , oo “ATTYING ¢ ' i
~~ ted stylish in fall and "sai foot- a La. bucket of paint in one hand and a saw a co : on
SS oe ce ao ou will get your share of it if you in the “ other, Horace has come to the eee... 2 45
Shooe! fit ee the bese Hine we hase is here. conclusion that he is not a success. This ii lias
. ever shown, and every lady that is Our Millinery Department he tried to do on Wednesday of this i iuiseueed ein Fins Quality me ba
desirous of obtaining the best foot- y Pp week. When in the residence portion of No. 1 Sun. ent an top, Ww caabed & tah, 2 15
27 wear the market affords should in- Is beginning to come along for our the village he encountered some chick- | No.2 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab 315
‘ k before b We p toy PI
i spect our stock before buying. . fall and winter stock; we will have all ‘ et . t
’ bought before the recent rise in new goods and the balance will go to oo in the street He is not exactly XXX Flint
_: >= leather, giving you the low price the grabbag, as usual. chicken hearted, but of a sympathetic No. 0 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab.
{ benefit. Sak Moateed nature, so he tried to turn out. With-]No.1Sun, erimp top, wrapped & lab
a W. D. Reynolds & Co ust Arrive out a moment's notice he capsized, and | No.3 Sun, erimp top, wrapped & lab
To i Another Sa of Drew, Shelby in accordance with every man’s luck in CHIMNEYS~— Pearl Top
eoccccce seoceoooosoooocs pleased with them we would not have @{ 2 Case of that kind the bucket, well | No.1 Sun, wrapped and labeled 3 70
ty ie ae to buy so many; but the fit, style, ease, filled with paint of the red variety, 2 eee ee ; »
N I oe oe eae sf shee se and oe qualities tell the spilled all over him, from head to foot, co sean sd ] Bulb, ” for Gioke q
ll ow, | want to ask my readers 1 they alance louder than we can. filling his eyes, ears and mingling Lamps...... 80
A think that any one of these advertise- On the Way thoroughly with his hair. Hereafter La Bestio
i ments would induce the purchase of a Our fourth shipment of Whang Leath- Horace will not attempt to carry more No. 1 Sun, plain bulb, per doz..... 9
single pair of shoes. What do they tell er Shoes for men and boys. Hard than a barrel of sugar and kerosene oil No. 2 Sun, plain bulb, per doz... 115
“es : \ wear, cheap in price. at the same time No. 1 Crimp, per doz. : 1 ©
- the reader? ‘‘Best line we have ever ‘ i No. 2 Crimp, per doz 1 60
: a 0-2 - ae ’ sy
shown’’ means nothing unless it ‘is Remember F Sa chester
all of Business. Rochester
c backed up with a description and a We have about 200 yards in cloth . 2 . " nT No. 1 Lime (65e doz).... 3 50
So E _ tis coated’ | aS bought of the Russeli stock, suitable Jones Lact just entering a restaurant No. 2 Lime (70e doz) 4 00
price. our Imspection hel i Is for men’s and boys’ clothes, we will sell when he met his old friend Brown com- No. 2 Flint (s0e doz)*"*" 4 70
- weak and tame alongside of an illustra- at about Soc on the dollar; at the pres- ing out. It was the first time they had a,
. tt : ent market it is cheap at full price; the seen each other for several weeks. Electric
tion of a new style andea_ thorough de- oods are suitable for men’s pants and seen eacn i ip! helene has No. 2 Lime (70e doz). 4 00
8 os 9
1— > — seription of its good: qualities. ‘‘Shoes boys’ suits. Hello, old __ fellow,’ exclaimed | No. 2 Flint (80e doz)...0 0000 o.oo. 4 40
i t cost,’’ without a reason for the sacri Oleite of I Jones, *"how’s business?’ OIL CANS
tw : ies 1 7" ' oo oe I ay i th ee ‘Good,’’ replied Brown. ** Never was 1 gal. tin cans with spout, per doz
ice, and with no prices to back up the Prevents leather from becoming hard bette cee »in< sh all > time ad hye Ele audi en
_ : g yetter. Keeps me ina rush all the time. al. gt ‘ >
assertion, will only tend to inspire dis- and dry; prevents cracks and breaks; No. time te sleep and am even behind 2 gal oa iron with spout, per dee.
_ : ae: / z ° el mikes the leather water-proof and wear : eee |e - 3 gal. galv. iron with spout, per doz...
trust. The trouble with these three $ much longer. in my meals. That was day before yes- | 5 Sar Say. iron with spout, per doz.
advertisements is that they talk a whole B terday’s lunch I just finished. So long, | 3 gal. galy. iron with faucet, per doz. .
> ; a oys I must hurry back.’ 5 gal. galy. iron with faucet, pel rdoz..
lot, but don’t say anything—at least, ¥ have x1 anits, age 5,6, 7 andS, worth a 5 gal. Tilting cans.. i i
~ . they don’t tell the reader what he wants from $1.75 to $4.50. I will close them Two Dollar Week-End-Excursion to De- | > ®4!- 8alv. Iron Naeefas...0.0.0.0.,
i a : c out at 5oc on the doliar. Knee pants tonne Pump Cans
to know-—the kind of shoes sold and 2sc and 4s¢. roit. 5 ice ied cn 5
: : } : i Ag .<. | 5 gal. Rapid steady stream............ 8 50
4 their Sete See Our Another of these popular €XCUFSIONS | 5 gal. Eureka, non-overflow........... 10 50
Prices are all-powerful. Backed up|@ : will be run by the Michigan Central, | 3 gal. Home fle 10 50
: : S : Remnant pile for girls’ and children’s saving Union Station on a special train | 5 gal. Home Rule. 12 00
rv by a good, forcible, interesting descrip- dresses; yon will save one- half or more. le : ing l — =, ee | ai 5 gal. Pirate King.. 9 50
: s a at 6:30 a. m., Saturday, Sept. 23. Good
tion, they are almost irresistible. An We Do Not to return in coaches on regular trains to LANTERNS
” advertisement without prices and de- : ee a ~ leavine De-| No. 0 Tubular, side lift.. 4 50
es : I : = Lack yet for underwear for summer or and including a No. 3 leav Ing De No. 1B Tubular. 7 00
scriptions is as useless as a bicycle with winter wear, you will save money by troit Monday morning, Sept. 25. Par-| No: 13 Tubular, dash... 6 75
“-3" a punctured tire—it is a drawback to seeing us. lor car attached at the usual seat rate. | No. 1 Tubular, glass fountain.. 7 00
< aera id Phone 606 No. 12 Tubular, side lamp.. a 14 00
yrogress, instead of an aid. 0OOOOO0O0000OOO0 COOOOCCO t - ae No. 3Street lamp, each.............. 3 75
i a prea ae ae W. C. Blake, Ticket Agent. . r
= Just by way of contrast, look at this zt i cS f LANTERN GLOBES
i” clipping from the catalogue of one of Phin Smith. Politics is now a trade, and all who 39 : pup. porn oe. ora rs
the much-reviled ‘‘catalogue houses, have learned the business appear to be] No.0 Tub., bbls 5 doz. each, per bbl. 17
No. 0 Tub,, bull’s eye, cases 1 doz. each 1 25

and ask yourself why they sell shoes.

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TRANSATLANTIC TRAVEL.

The arrival in New York of the mam-
moth new White Star Line steamship
Oceanic, on her maiden trip, serves to
call attention to the vast development
which has taken place in marine archi-
tecture in recent years. The Oceanic
is not only the largest of existing ships,
but she is the largest vessel ever built,
not only in actual tonnage but in length
and beam, exceeding in these respects
even the Great Eastern, which for many
years was the world’s show ship. Ow-
ing to the failure of the Great Eastern
as a financial enterprise and her general
unwieldiness, it was commonly thought
for very many years that no attempt
would ever again be made to duplicate
her proportions. How fallacious this
opinion was is shown by the construction
of the Oceanic, which is larger in all
respects than the Great Eastern.

In the construction of the Oceanic,
the White Star Line aimed at securing
both the greatest passenger capacity, as
well as large cargo space. The ship was
not destined as a record-breaker, but
her builders did propose that she should
be so very large that she should be
practically superior to the vicissitudes
of wind and wave, and, consequently be
able to run on schedule time, irrespec-

tive of the weather. Although not a
record-breaker, the initial performance

of the great ship proves that she is but
little slower than the great record-break-
ers.

The transatlantic lines have come to
consider that the tremendous efforts to
secure an additional knot of speed no
longer pay. An hour or two more or
less on an ocean voyage counts for but
little, and does not warrant the enormous
extra expenditure in coal and wear and
tear on crew and machinery. Unless,
therefore, the owners of the Kaiser
Wilhelm-Der-Grosse attempt to beat the
record established by their own vessel,
it is probable that the world has seen an
end of the efforts to reduce the time be-
tween New York and British ports.
This does not mean that the speed of
ships will not increase in the future,
but it does mean that attempts to secure
speed at the sacrifice of carrying ‘ca-
pacity and economy will be no longer
attempted.

The great

increase in the size of

 

ocean-going ships during the last few
years has been due to two very distinct
causes; The first is the requirement for
carrying the world’s productions at
lower cost, which necessitates the great-
est economy in the running expenses of
ships, and the second is the increased
power of machinery compared to its
weight and improvements in marine
architecture which have made the con-
struction of very large ships both ex-
pedient and practicable.
AVAILABLE FORCES.

Now that war between Great Britain
and the Transvaal appears to be inevi-
table, a study of the comparative
strength of the forces which each of the
prospective combatants can bring into
the field will be interesting.

The Transvaal maintains no standing
army, except a small force of horse ar-
tillery, numbering less than 400 men.
The entire male population capable of
bearing arms is called out in case of
war. The country is divided into dis-

tricts, commanded by field cornets, who

enroll the men of military,age and con-
duct such military organization and drill
as may be deemed advisable. All who
are liable to military duty are kept well
armed and plentifully supplied with
ammunition.

Although having no efficient organiza-
tion, the Boer forces can make a splen-
did fight when acting on the defensive.
Their thorough familiarity with the
country and their method of fighting in
extended order, each man looking out
for himself, gives them an advantage
when operating against a Euorpean
force. It is believed that the Boers of
the Transvaal can master about 25,000
effective men, all told. With the addi-
tion of 15,000 men which the Orange
Free State could furnish, the British
would find themselves, in case of war,
confronted with about 40,000 well-armed
men, whose courage and skill in the use
of their weapons will do much to make
up for the lack of discipline.

It would be, of course, misleading to
compare the entire military forces of
Great Britain with those of the Trans-
vaal, as it would be impossible for the
British government to use more than a
small portion of its troops in South Af-
rica. At the present moment, excluding
re-enforcements enroute, there are about
7,000 British regulars in Cape Colony
and 5,000 in Natal. To these must be
added about 3,500 colonial troops and
mounted police in Cape Colony and
about 1,000 in Natal. There are, there-
fore, available for instant service, of
regular forces 15,500 men, exclusive of
all volunteers and auxiliary troops.
There are en route from Europe 10,000
British troops, and about 15,000 troops
are under orders to sail from India to
South Africa. This would furnish an
available force of something over 40,000
regular troops. This force should prove
sufficient, if constantly re-enforced, to
cope with the Boers.

Although it is commonly supposed
that Great Britain has an insignificant
military establishment, the contrary is
the case. Including the European
troops serving in India and the colonies,
the British standing army number 221, -
ooo men. Tothis must be added the
140,000 men of the native Indian army.
There are, besides, something like
15,000 colonial troops, which must be
added to the regular forces. When to
these are added the militia and volun-
teers, the total organized military forces
will be found to be fully one million
men. The naval establishment includes

 

 

110,000 men in the active navy, and
about 30,000 in reserve. This is, of
course, an overwhelming force in com-
parison with that possessed by the
Transvaal; but the latter country places
all its hopes on the fact that it will be
difficult for Great Britain to spare more
than a moderate force for service in
South Africa. This difficulty is not
nearly so great now, however, as it was
twenty years ago, when the last Boer
war was fought. It is estimated that it
will take fully 50,000 British troops to
effectually subdue the Transvaal.

 

PREMIUM PUT ON ESTRAYS.

George M. Pullman, son of one of the
most famous of America’s millionaires,
is the central figure in an intensely in-
teresting problem of human nature. He
is to have an opportunity of choosing
once and for all between the benefits of
wealth and social position and the life
of a drunkard. He is now at White
Plains, taking the Keeley cure. If it
cures him and he remains sober and _re-
spectable for a reasonable period after
coming out he will share in his late
father’s millions as far as it is possible
for his mother to enable him to do so.
If he returns to his old ways again his
mother will not help him with money,
and he will become a loafer, relapsing
into periodical poverty after he has
spent his modest allowance for drink.

The parable of the lost sheep has been
much drawn upon, and it has been de-
clared that there is more joy in heaven
over the gathering in of one sinner than
is shown over the gathering in of ninety-
and-nine just persons. It can scarcely
be imagined why such a premium should
be put on estrays from the fold, as_peo-
ple are quite apt enough to go astray;
but it does seem that there is more sym-
pathy wasted over a hopeless drunkard
in a week than a perfectly good young
man can secure in years of attention to
duty. Kind-hearted people look at a sot
and say what a brilliant fellow he would
be if he did not drink. It does not fol-
low. If he kept sober and attended to
business he might remain unknown.
Women have been known to’ marry
drunkards for the purpose of reforming
them. It is a dangerous experiment.
If a young man will not keep sober for
the love of a woman before she is his
wife, she can safely calculate that he
will keep drunk for her when they are
married. If the lost sheep does not want
to be found he is likely to jump the fold
and go to the dogs when he has a
chance. There are hundreds of young
men of splendid fathers who have no
desire or ambition to be anything but
drunken young fellows, who think they
are having great fun, while they are
gradually becoming outcasts of good so-
ciety and are losing their manhood,
health and all chances to honor their
fathers and mothers.

 

A New York restaurant recently un-
dertook to cater exclusively for obese
people. Nothing of a fattening charac-
ter was served. The establishment was
hailed with delight by a large crowd of

heavyweights. Its history was about as
follows: The first day too ate there,

the second ninety, the third eighty, and
so on down until the proprietor found
himself without a single patron, when
the sheriff came and took everything in
sight.

 

In the National Museum is a*woman
who is an authority on mammals, and
one of the most skillful entomological
artists in the world is a woman em-
ployed by the bureau of entomology.

 

BUSINESS CONDITIONS.

That a probability of war between
Great Britain and so insignificant and
remote a country as the Transvaal
should have a serious effect on Ameri-
can securities would seem strange were
it not taken into consideration that
South Africa is one of the greatest cen-
ters of British speculation. A war with
the Boers would mean the sudden de-
struction of tremendous speculative in-
terests in that center and would engage
the attention of capitalists to the unload-
ing of our securities to an extent which
might have serious effects. This fear,
with the uneasiness attending the feel-
ing caused by the Dreyfus trial and _ its
result, coming with the money strin-
gency which has prevailed in Eastern
cities for a couple of weeks, has oper-
ated to depress stocks to a greater de-
gree than for months past, although the
change has not been great. Later ad-
vices of better feeling in Africa, with
the conciliatory effect of the Dreyfus
pardon, seem to have stopped the down-
ward movement and unless other unex-
pected causes intervene the rapid re
covery warranted by the generally fa-
vorable conditions prevailing in all

lines of domestic and foreign trade
seems inevitable.
Notwithstanding the adverse  influ-

ences noted there is no slackening in
the volume of business, last week’s
payments through the principal clearing
houses having been 29.2 per cent. larger
than last year and 58.9 per cent. larger
than in 1892. The railroads have es-
pecial reason for encouragement in the
earlier September returns considering
the serious curtailment of traffic by want
of cars at many points, and on half the
mileage of the country the earnings in
August were $52,861,300 within. the
United States alone—13.7 per cent. more
than last year and 18.5 per cent. more
than in 1892. Eastbound tonnage from
Chicago for the first week of September
was 92 per cent. larger than last year
and 57 per cent. larger than in 1892.

The iron manufacture did not increase
output in August, although thirteen small
furnaces were added, the stoppage of
two for repairs and general decrease of
effectiveness in hot weather surpassing
the gain. The unsold stocks were re-
duced 22, 347 tons, and the apparent con-
sumption in August was 1,209,012 tons.
Heavy sales of Bessemer—6,000 tons,
half for next year, at $23.25, and for
cast pipe works 20,000 tons—with much
activity at Chicago, again indicate that
orders for finished products do not so
diminish as to promise relief; and in
plates the pressure is pronounced greater
than ever, with advance of $1 at the
East and more at Pittsburg. Western
bars are also $1 higher, and wire nails
have again been advanced 15 cents a
keg. No change of consequence appears
in minor metals except that tin is high-
er, at 33 cents.

The textile situation continues to
show remarkable strength in all branches
except that there is a slight yielding in
the price of raw cotton. Cotton mills
are unusually active and demand seems
on the increase. Wool sales have been
very heavy and the price has advanced
to a figure which makes manufacturers
complain, but the mills are stocked with
orders, some of them to the extent of re-
fusing business, and demand shows no
signs of diminishing. There is a slack-
ening of the long-continued heavy de-
mand for leather, which seems to be only
a natural pause. Demand for boots and

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DISTRUST IN LATIN AMERICA.

According to advices -from_ Washing-
ton, the officials of the Department of
State and the Navy Department are be-
ginning to feel some concern at the
many evidences of ill-will and distrust
towards this country reported from
South and Central America. It was re-
ported, some time ago, that a coalition
of the countries of South America, os-
tensibly for business reasons, but really
as a protection against the grasping
policy of the United States, had been
formed, but the State Department at
Washington gave the report no cred-
ence, and it was denied from South
America. In spite of denials, however,
rumors of movements against this coun-
try persisted, and now even the State
Department is beginning to be con-
cerned.

Several things have combined to
prejudice Latin Americans against us.

Firstly, there has been the constant
interference of this country in Central
American affairs. These acts of inter-
ference, although justified in every way,
have rankled in the minds of the Cen-
tral American officials. Again, there
was a decision unfavorable to Columbia
in a case submitted to American arbi-
tration, President Cleveland being the
arbitrator. Again, the result of the war
with Spain leading to the annexation of
Peurto Rico and the Philippines, and
the possible absorption of Cuba, alarmed
all the Latin-American nations, as they
commenced to fear possible aggressions
on our part against their territory.

It is probable that a decision will
soon be rendered by the Venezuelan
Boundary Commisison, which has been
sitting in Paris for some time. Should
the arbitrators decide against Venezuela,
and in favor of Great Britain, this coun-
try will be blamed for the result, and
considerable ill-feeling will result in
consequence. Even the trip of the gun-
boat Wilmington up the Orinoco and
Amazon rivers excited distrust and
enmity, and led to some diplomatic
representations.

This distrust felt towards us by the
Latin-American countries is most unfor-
tunate, because it is calculated to hurt
our trade interests in that part of the
world. Some way of restoring confidence
among them ought to be devised. The
annexation of Cuba would strongly con-
firm them in their suspicions, whereas
the granting of full independence to the
island would, or at least should, con-
vince them that we are not seeking new
territory nor do we desire to acquire the
domain of any other power. The an-
nexation of Cuba would be offensive to
all Latin America, and would no doubt
cause the coalition against us to grow
in strength and become more patent, as
well as active.

 

THE rRICE OF SUCCESS.

It is a matter of much wonder and
comment that certain individuals are
especially favored in finding the most
exceptional opportunities in the busi-
ness world. There are certain factors
in the securing of these enviable oppor-
tunities and positions which are over-
looked in our estimate of the situation.
When we see a man who has built up a
remarkable trade and is reaping abund-
ant harvests from his efforts, we
Straightway begin to look for the excep-
tionally favorable surroundings to his
business. He was ‘‘lucky’’ in finding
the right location to secure the most
profitable custom; he was fortunate in
securing exceptionally trustworthy and
efficient assistants; he made exception-

ally favorable buying acquaintances and
connections; in fact, he was ““lucky"’
all around. Such critics fail to dis-
cover that there is something besides
luck in all this.

Finding gold mines in business is the
discovery and recognition of the best
powers of one’s own personality and
cultivating the willingness to pay the
cost of success. What to the observer
seems a happy and accidental combina-
tion of circumstances is, in fact, the re-
sult of the most determined effort. It is
a case in which there has been a long
and consistent determination to succeed,
first manifested in making the requisite
personal preparation to undertake the
task. This preparation may have been
as a subordinate in the employ of others
or in the slow and careful beginning of
one’s own enterprise, in which is se-
cured the training and experience that
will bring out the personal qualities
which must lie behind success. It is a
constant stumbling block in the way of
the multitude which is scrambling for
this goal that the necessity for personal
preparation is overlooked. As well at-
tempt to compete with the most. skilled
artisan in the production of his wares
as to expect success in the business
world without training.

There is no question but that there
are variations in the degrees of oppor-
tunity in different surroundings. It may
even prove that there are places where
gold mines can not be found, even by
the exercise of the most careful and de-
termined energy. It may be that this
fact can be ascertained by careful judg-
ment and a change be made to a loca-
tion of greater possibilities. If so, this
change will be a necessary part of the
preparation for success. Gold mines
may not be everywhere, sometimes the
prospector must search for them, but the
places where they can not be found are
not aS numerous as many think. We
are too often prone to look for them with
the telescope when a nearer glass would
be more suitable.

This failure to recognize the person-
ality of the successful business man robs
him of the credit of his success and
often leads to ill-considered attempts at
competition in his field. That which is
attributed to his luck in finding a good
thing—in miner’s parlance ‘‘in striking
it rich’’—is, in fact, the employment of
exceptional effort. While all things are
not possible with some, there are vastly
more who might achieve success than is
generally thought, if they were only
willing to pay the price.

ee

 

The Corean government is not strictly
democratic, but it has a way of dispens-
ing justice which seems ideal to anyone
who has been following the Dreyfus
case. Some high officials were found to
be connected with a lottery fraud,
whereupon the government gave back
the $20,000 which the promoters had
paid for a license, compelled the re-
turn of all money which had been paid
for tickets and banished for three years
the officials who were implicated.

 

The Boers are an intelligent, earnest,
religious people, and England will have
great difficulty in killing all of them.
Their spirit is shown by a little girl of
the Boers, who said: ‘“‘If we fight,
we shall win, because we pray to God.’’

 

There are politicians who are always
disgruntled. Nothing can please them
that does not bring them an office.

 

Things which factions wish to forget

 

they put in their platforms.

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

The steady movement of the people of
the United States from the farms to the
cities has been repeatedly remarked on.
It is seen in the rapid growth of the
population of towns and cities, and it is
one of the most striking characteristics
of modern life.

Many reasons have been offered to ac-
count for this movement. The enormous
and constantly growing use of machinery
in farming is one of them. Another is
the realization by country people,
through reading and the readiness of
communication by the multiplication of
railroads, that life in the country is
cheerless and lonely compared to that of
the city. The crowds of people on the
streets, the gay shop windows, the pass-
ing vehicles, the movement and_ bustle
of the city, are wonderfully arousing
and exciting to one accustomed to the
comparative dulness and monotony of
country life, and are apt to stir up in
the bosom of the visitor a strong desire
to enjoy all the delights that the city
seems to offer the superficial but
charmed observation of the country boy
or girl making a first visit to town.

Then there is the mistaken notion
that it is far easier to make a fortune in
the city than on atarm. Everybody
hears of the occasional farmer's boy
who became a great lawyer or million-
aire merchant, but who ever hears of
the thousands who spend their lives in
toiling under the most discouraging cir-
cumstances or of the girls who find only
misery and ruin in the city?

It is true, however, that the country
boy, and particularly one brought up in
a country store, often makes his way to
success and prosperity. He is often in-
dustrious and has some acquaintance
with practical business. The boy from
the country general store has some in-
formation as to various sorts of mer-
chandise and he also understands the
manners of country buyers, and he is
often, through the possession of these
advantages, able to make his way in
city business. A man who has learned
his trade in a village foundry or black-
smith shop has a knowledge of all
branches of the business, whereas, if he
had been brought up in a city establish-
ment, he would have only learned spe-
cialties.

Such are some of the reasons why
country boys who are honest and _indus-
trious have succeeded in cities. But
the fact remains that they are the excep-
tions. No failure seems to check the
movement of the people from the farms
to the cities, and the fact is cited that
few or none ever emigrate from the
cities to country places. The gregarious
instinct is strong in human _ beings.
They love to gather in crowds and com-
munities. They assemble in numbers
for all purposes of rejoicing and of
mourning. Whether pleasure or politics,
public business or public worship be
the object in view, they all never fail
to bring together throngs of people.
This sort of tendency to herd together
is one of the chief causes why the cities
are constantly growing at the expense of
the farming districts.

Mr. Hezekiah Butterworth, in the Re-
view of Reviews for September, has
something to say on the abandonment of
New England farms. He cites that for
some time back there has been a seri-
ous condition in the farming com-
munities of New England. Many fam-
ilies who had inherited farms from their
fathers, grandfathers and greatgrand-
fathers were not able to keep them ; they

 

mortgaged them and finally sold them

to Canadians, Portuguese and Italians.
These farmers commonly said: ‘‘We
can no longer compete with the West.
Overproduction has stopped the mills,
and the mills make our markets. ’’

But the Canadians, Portuguese and
Italians who purchased these farms
were able to pay for them and obtain a
living from them, as- did the grand-
fathers and great-grandfathers of those
who sold them. These people, as a
rule, had large families, and the larger
the families the more prosperous they
seemed to become. The West and the
alleged overproduction of mills had not
robbed them of their opportunities of
prosperity. As a rule they were tem-
perate, virtuous, sent their children to
school and to the church; they were peo-
ple too intent on a purpose to have
vices; they were absorbed in ‘‘getting
along.’’ Their lives in the controlling
purpose of life were like those of the
people of New England two generations
ago.

This state of facts demonstrates to
Mr. Butterworth that the excuses given
for mortgaging and abandoning their
ancestral farms are not true. He at-
tributes the situation to the extravagance
of the present generation of New Eng-
land farmers. They are not willing to
work and save as did their fathers, and
they have been spending beyond their
incomes. This is very much the case
in all parts of the country. It is scarcely
oftener than once ina lifetime that the
prices of farm products are raised to
such high rates as that farmers can al-
most get rich in a single season.

The farmer produces food crops which
are necessaries of life. Fortunately for
the masses of the people, who must eat,
the ordinary prices of such necessaries
are low, so as to put them in the reach
of all. For this reason the farmer’s_ re-
wards are small, but if he will use them
with wisdom and economy, they will
make him comfortably independent if
not rich. But the New England Amer-
icans are not willing to live in that way,
therefore they abandon the farms and
let foreigners take them,

Foreigners who were accustomed in
the old countries to the extremes of
hardship and grinding poverty, recog-
nize in this extraordinary opportunities
for industry, economy and_ enterprise.
The result is that they can make money
where the native finds only starvation,
and the thrifty and industrious foreign-
ers are slowly becoming the capitalists
and masters of the country. In the
cities they are getting prominent in
business, and are coming into possession
of all the bar-rooms, which to them are
often mines of wealth, as well as great
centers of political influence.

Fortunately, the foreigners who come
to this country and prosper remain here,
and their children are born citizens;
but the fact remains that Americans
with foreign names are marching to the
highest places in business and_ politics,
and they are rooting out the descendants
of the men who conquered the wilder-
ness and built this grand “American
empire. The survival of the fittest is
an inexorable law. If foreigners can
come here and by their superior indus-
try, energy and economy =~ and
take the places of the sons of the origi-
nal settlers, they will do it, for such an
opportunity is too tempting to be neg-
lected.

The men who own the land are, after
all, the only independent class. The
dwellers in cities are the creatures of
many conditions which reduce them to
a sort of slavery. It speaks most un-
favorably for the sons of the Pilgrims
that they are abandoning the land of

 

their fathers to foreigners.

    

  

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

 

 

Fruits and Produce.

 

Aims and Objects of the* Michigan Prod-
uce Shippers’ Association.*

The Michigan Produce Shippers’
Association was organized in Detroit,
December 30, 1898, with a membership
of forty. The present membership is
seventy-five.

This is the first general meeting the
Association has held since its organiza-
tion. The Executive, Transportation
and Grievance Committees have met
several times at the office of the Secre-
tary, R. R. Bane, of Detroit, and trans-
acted such business as properly came
before these Committees, which will be
reported to you at this meeting by our
Secretary.

The object of this Association, as
stated in the constitution and bylaws,
is for social and mutual protection and
benefit, to the end that the shippers may
become better acquainted ; that discus-
sions may be had at its meetings as to
the best manner of handling farm  prod-
uce.

The object of this Association, when
fully understood and carried out, will
be fully as much benefit to all legitimate
and honorable receivers as it will to the
shippers. The co-operation of both is
expected.

It is a well-known fact that in every
market of importance there are more or
less dealers who order goods, who, if
the market is weak when the goods ar-
rive, refuse to receive or pay draft ; con-
sequently the goods are often sold at a
forced sale and lower prices, which is a
great damage many times to the dealer
who pays for his goods as ordered, as
well as a loss to the shipper.

When potatoes are properly loaded, if
refused by a dishonorable dealer, the
car can readily be placed with some
honorable house and thus money be
saved to the shipper, as well as to the
receiver, who pays for his goods as_ or-
dered, thus affording a protection to
both parties, leaving the dishonorable
dealer without any stock to work on.

If this rule is carrted out, the dishon-
orable dealer will soon find that he must
pay for goods as ordered if he expects
to do business with members of this
Association. If this can be accom-
plished we will soon have the outside
dealers looking for members of the
Michigan Produce Shippers’ Associa-
tion from whom to buy their potatoes.

Undoubtedly the shipper is not al-
ways the one to blame for goods being
refused. When goods are loaded in
strictly No. 1 shape the chance for re-
fusal will be greatly reduced.

We recommend that this Association
work along the line of hauling potatoes
better assorted at loading stations and
that a special committee be appointed
to that end.

Among the items for consideration at
this meeting are the following:

1. That this Association urge the
transportation companies to be more
prompt in refunding excess freight
charges.

2. That this Association urge and
request that railroads at principal re-
ceiving stations appoint one of their
employes to take full charge of a car of
potatoes from the time the receiver
commences to unload and see that every
pound of potatoes in the car is properly
accounted for. y

3. That a special committee be ap-
pointed to look after the assorting and
grading of potatoes.

4. That sales be made on the basis
of weights at loading station, guaranteed
to hold out within 2 per cent.

5. That drafts be drawn for full
amount of invoice, instructing the bank
to receive the paid freight expense bill
as part payment on the draft.

According to statistics, the number of
bushels of potatoes raised in the United
States for the past five years will average
215, 316, 310 bushels annually, amounting
in round numbers to $82, 382, 373. ‘

The average yield per acre for the
past five years for the United States was
79 bushels; average per bushel, 38c;
average per acre, $30. 40.
*Address of E. A. Moseley, President, at the re-

cent meeting at Lansing.

 

The largest number of acres planted
and the largest production of potatoes
on record in the United States were for
the year 1895. le

In 1895 in the State of Michigan
there were planted 280,805 acres, yield-
ing 27,400,613 bushels.

In 1806, 245,954 acres, yielding
24,831,041 bushels. oe
In 1897, 206,790 acres, yielding Io, -

085,580 bushels.

We call your attention to this fact to
show that this is a very large industry
and that it should be carried on with
more strict business principles than has
been done in the past.
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Cannot Be Tampered With.

A Missouri authority, discussing the
poultry question, says:

Poultry raisers need not worry about
overproduction of poultry products. It
will never come in this nation, and we
have no reason to believe that it has
ever come in any nation.
poultry products are a great boon to the
people in this age of adulteration of
food products. The packers are even
rubbing our beef, mutton and pork with
preservatives. Even our fish are under
suspicion, and it is asserted that all
oysters eaten away from the seaboard
have been saturated with the chemical
preservatives. Verily, our stomachs are
put to a severe test, whether with meat
or canned goods. But the egg and the
live fowl can not be tampered with.
The people more and more are turning
against food products that are suspected
of being embalmed. They will more
and more depend on things that are
absolutely beyond suspicion. ‘There is
great room for development in the busi-
ness of poultry rising. Every item of
information on how to get our poultry
and eggs to the consumer in a_ perfectly
pure state is of immense value; for if
the consumer can know that his egg is
fresh the demand will increase. The
people will before long find themselves
shut up to eggs, poultry, fresh fruits
and vegetables, unless we have some
radical legislation in the interest of pure
foods.

 

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Packed in Plaster Paris.

An advice from Seattle, Washington,
Says:

A novel style of packing eggs has
been put into practice by Frank Jobst,
a produce jobber here. He has just re-
ceived a large order for eggs to be
shipped by one of the vessels sailing for
the Cape Nome district, and with the
order came instructions to pack the eggs
in plaster paris. This Mr. Jobst fol-
lowed out and put up a large number of
cases, placing the plaster paris around
the eggs in‘the filler. Each compart-
ment that contained the egg was filled
level with the white powder. Mr. Jobst
is wondering what the man will do if
the plaster paris should get a soaking.
It possesses the merit of excluding the
air.

Some one has suggested that eggs
might thus be packed in flour, which
would keep out the air and be service-
able after the eggs reach their destina-
tion. A large order of fifty cases or
more has been packed in salt for Alaska
shipment.

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Canning Eggs.

A Nebraska egg dealer writes that the
egg packers of Kansas and Nebraska
are canning a good many eggs. He
says:

They use their cracked eggs for this
purpose. The process is as follows:
They turn these eggs out into a barrel
churn and mix them thoroughly before
packing in a Record package, using
boracic acid,or some other preservative,
to aid in preserving same. Then they
are placed in cold storage and frozen
solid. A little water added assists in
freezing quickly. These eggs are most-
ly sold, in fact altogether, to bakers.

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A Possible Reason.

‘*1 don’t see why a woman is always
holding up her skirt with one hand,’’
growled Bickett.

‘1 suppose,’’ replied Mrs. B., ‘‘it’s
because she has no trousers pocket to

 

 

carry her hand around in.’’

 

 

Poultry and }-

 

Are you looking for a good market to place your

Apples, Peaches, Pears and Plums
If so ship to
R. HIRT, Jr., Detroit, Mich.
34 and 36 Market Street and 435-437-439 Winder Street.

We have every facility for handling your fruits to best advantage. Cold Storage and Freez-
A ing Rooms in connection. Seventy-five carload capacity. Correspondence solicited.

 

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COMMISSION MERCHANTS

IN FRUITS OF ALL DESCRIPTION

‘Also POTATOES, CABBAGE, ONIONS AND APPLES
In Carload Lots.

Our motto: Quick sales and prompt remittance.

LAFAYETTE, IND. FT. WAYNE, IND.
OROROEROROCHOUOEOHOROROKOROROROHOHOROEOCHOEOHOROHORE

 

Butter and Eggs--Do you have any to Ship?

For the past five years we have shipped Butter to the resort towns
of Northern Michigan, and Eggs to the New England States.

In addition to those markets we have a growing local demand for
extra goods at extra prices. We want to arrange with a few more
customers for regular shipments of fine, fresh stock at a stated
price on track. It will cost you only a cent to tell us what you are
shipping, and get prices and references.

STROUP & CARMER, 38 South Division St., Grand Rapids, Mich.

TIMOTHY

We are direct receivers and recleaners of Western grown Timothy. If you do not receive our regular
quotations write to-day. Best grades and iowest prices.

ALFRED J. BROWN SEED Co..,

24 AND 26 N. DIV. ST., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

Samples sent on application without charge.

 

 

WANTED —

FANGY YELLOW PEACHES

STRANGE & NOKES,

WHOLESALE FRUITS. CLEVELAND, OHIO.

 

 

MAKE A NOTE OF IT.

POTATOES APPLES GABBAGE OMIONS

CABBAGE now wanteb. quote us.

MILLER & TEASDALE Co.
ST. LOUIS, mo.

WE HANDLE

RECEIVERS AND DISTRIBUTORS.

 

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is not excelled by any vinegar on the market. A trial will convince.
A GUARANTEE BOND goes to every purchaser, warranting its purity
and protecting him in its sale. Let us quote you prices.

THE LEROUX CIDER AND VINEGAR CO., Toledo, Ohio. ;

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GOTHAM GOSSIP.

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

New York, Sept. 16—The city is full
of visitors and every big store, whole-
sale or retail, is thronged to the doors.
The theaters are booming and everybody
seems to have plenty of money to spend.
If the crowd keeps growing, what will it
be by the time Dewey gets here?

The coffee market is the dullest mar-
ket of all grocery products. With huge
supplies cabled as arriving every day
at Rio and Santos—ranging from 50,000
to 65,000 bags—it would seem miracu-
lous if any advance should be made in
quotations. Buyers are taking only suffi-
cient to keep them going and are letting
others pay the cost of carrying stocks.
Fair Rio coffee is worth in an invoice
way, 5%c. In store here and afloat the
stock aggregates I, 320,809 bags, against
1,061,729 bags at the same time last
year. In mild grades of coffee tliere is
hardly more than the usual business do-
ing and quotations are practically un-
changed. East India coffees are quiet
and rates are practically as they have
been for many weeks.

The business going forward in sugars
has been mostly of withdrawals under
old contracts and relatively little that is
new has developed. Arbuckles qoute
granulated at 4.88% and the trust at
4.946. A few soft grades have been
shaded 1I-16c.

The tea market continues to improve.
The improvement, however, is slow, al-
though, perhaps, it is better so than to
boom. The situation is one to inspire
confidence among holders, and, while
nothing sensational is to be expected, it
is something to say that the ‘‘tea mar-
ket is alive.’’ Some 2,500 packages ° of
different kinds changed hands within a
very short time and at full values on
Thursday. _

Inasmuch as full prices seem to pre-
vail in the South the rice market here
remains firm. Jobbers, both local and
out of town, have been doing a pretty
good business and hoiders are full of
hopefulnéss. *

The tone of the spice market is firm.
On Wednesday about 75 tons of Singa-
pore pepper changed hands at a price
said to be 11%c. Jobbers generally re-
port a good business and the outlook is
quite full of cheer. :

Grocery grades of New Orleans mo-
lasses have been in demand and the
market is steady. Stocks of open-kettle
are in light supply and holders show no
disposition whatever to make any con-
cessions, nor do they appear anxious to
make sales on present basis. Centrifu-
gals show no change. Low grades are
quiet. Good to prime centrifugals, 16
@28c. Syrups are moving in a quiet
manner. Stocks are light and quota-
tions show no change. Prime to fancy
sugar, 18@22c.

If the canned goods market is rather
quiet it is because there is more a lack
of goods than a falling off in demand.
Packers are still in the dark as to de-
liveries, but are likely to have the matter
pretty well settled before another week,
as frost and drouth have effectually put
an end to canning operations in New
York State as well as Maine. Prices are
very firm on everything and are as_cer-
tain to advance as anything. Gallon
apples, New York State, $2.25@2.40 for
future delivery. Corn, Maine, 85@95c,
as to grade, delivered here. “Tomatoes
are said to be selling freely in Balti-
more to Western concerns, which would
indicate that the pack there is not large
enough to go around. Maryland prom-
ises to have a pretty full pack. It is
said that many samples do not come_up
to the mark in point of quality. Re-
liable No. 3 Maryland tomatoes are
worth 65c ; Jerseys are up to 85c.

The dried fruits market presents no
new features. The demand is of an
ordinary character, although the tide
seems to be turning in a favorable di-
rection. Prices made by the California
Raisin Growers’ Association are so high
as to cause considerable adverse com-
ment. Prunes are selling steadily.

Colder weather is making itself felt in
the lemon market and prices sag. The

 

demand is lighter and, as supplies on
the way here are large, we are likely to
see still further decline. Oranges are
practically without change. California
seedlings, per box, $6@6.50. Rodis,
$7@7.50. Bananas are quiet. Firsts,
per bunch, 90c@$1.

The butter market is very firm, and
23c is the prevailing rate for best West-
erm creamery ; thirds to firsts, 17'14@22c ;
Western imitation creamery, 18c, the
latter for extra goods. The market for
factory butter is rather quiet, but quota-
tions are well held and the situation is
‘‘comfortable’’ for holders. June pack,
15@16c; current pack, 14%@15 %e.

Supplies of cheese are not large, but
the market is ‘‘off’’ and it is difficult to
make sales at prevailing quotations.
Small fancy, 11@11%c; large size,
lic.

Western eggs are worth from 15@18 %c,
the latter for fancy goods that will come
up to the ‘‘scratch.”’ Fair to good, 14
@isc.. The market is very firm for the
better grades and the call shows im-
provement all around. Arrivals show
better quality, as a rule, than a week
ago.

Domestic dried fruits are quiet. Ap-
ples are worth, for fancy evaporated,
9}4@loc; raspberries, 11%@I12c.

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Carries Him Back Half a Century.

Owosso, Sept. 15--The sixteenth an-
niversary number of the Tradesman is
at hand and, to use a slang phrase, it is
a dandy in all its departments, from
the voluntary contributions to the regu-
lar correspondence.

The face of my old-time friend, Wm.
T. Hess, is as pleasing and natural as
when I saw him operating the _ first
Buckeye mowing machine in use in
Kent county on his farm on the bank of
Reed’s Lake, nearly fifty years ago. It
was a clumsy and imperfect machine,
compared with the up-to-date, all-steel
implements now manufactured by the
Buckeye Co. | recall some very ex-
pressive language used by my friend
because of the difficulty in urging his
team to a speed that would keep up a
motion that would do good work, be-
cause the gearing was imperfect. I think
he would recollect that when that old
cutting bar struck a hidden stake which
marked the corner where his land and
mine joined and_ nearly threw him off
his seat, the atmosphere became a little
sulphurous. His long-continued market
reports in the Tradesman of all mer-
chandise coming within his line of busi-
ness are always remarkable for their
scope and brevity—the ‘‘multum in
parvo’’ so desirable in all newspaper re-
ports of the market. Long may he live
and continue his business relations with
the Tradesman and in the enjoyment of
his successful business career!

The familiar face of Albert Baxter
carried me back to Grand Rapids in the
fifties when the Grand Rapids Eagle
and the Grand Rapids Enquirer occu-
pied the newspaper field. The Eagle,
under the management of A. B. Turner,
with Albert Baxter as assistant editor,
represented the old Whig party, and the
Enquirer, under the management of
Chas. H. Taylor and Jacob Barnes,
fought the battles of the democracy. It
is many years since I have seen Mr.
Baxter, and I am glad to know that he
is enjoying a green old age in the full
possession of all his faculties. The his-
tory of the Grand Rapids newspapers
from 1850 to 1899 would make an_ inter-
esting paper and | know of no one more
capable of writing up such a history
than Albert Baxter.

W.S. H. Welton.
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First Northern Potatoes in St. Louis.
From the St. Louis Republic, Sept. 15.

The first car of Northern potatoes of
the season were received yesterday by
Miller & Teasdale from Michigan, and
were sold to Albert E. Meyer & Co.
They were fine stock and brought a
good price. ‘The early potato crop was
the largest on record, but the crop of
late potatoes is expected to be short,
and higher prices are likely to prevail.

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Shoes and Leather

Superstitions About Shoes Which Pre-
vailed in Ancient Times.

Ancient Aryan fairy tales are prob-
ably responsible for the introduction to
the world of superstitions of the shoe.
If they had been carried out on such
commendable. theories as were adhered
to closely in those innocent tales for
childhood there would be nothing in
their composition to censure, for the
Aryan stories that have always delighted
our children are pure, too preposterous
to be thought true by any but the infant
kind, and always carry with them a
moral that hedges about the tale, pro-
tecting it from misconception of the in-
tent of the inventor.

Particularly relating to the shoe, we
have in the Aryan fiction such never-to-
be-forgotten tales as the immortal Cin-
derella and the Glass Slipper and the
Seven-League Boots. These two seem
to have taken the strongest hold upon
the children of the world, and where is
the grown person, where even the old
man or woman whose memory does not
cherish these fanciful tales of childhood?

The quaint mythology of the icy
North is filled with superstitions con-
cerning footgear, the shoes being always
most conspicuous. One of the fictions
is that about Loki, the Norse evil spirit,
who is said to have escaped from hell
by the assistance of a wicked conniving
pair of shoes of marvelous power, in
which the evil one could fly over land
and sea and he worked great harm while
in the possession of them. In the tale
of ‘* Jack the Giant Killer’’ shoes of as-
tonishing swiftness were given to Jack
which, like the fabled sandals _ of
Hermes, swished him through the earth
or over the ground with breathless swift-
ness, leaving the reader to wonder how
such rapid traveling could be done and
little Jack’s blouse and trousers not be
blown away, to say nothing of his Lord
Fauntleroy hair, as seen in the modern
pictures. The sagas arg responsible for
the superstition that the road to the do-
main of the Goddess Hel was a journey
of nine days and nights, over morass
and mountain, and, in consequence, a
pair of shoes were placed in the grave
to aid the departed one on the long
journey. These shoes were called
“‘helskoe,’’ and are the same as the
‘“todtenschuhe,’’ even to this date used
in remote towns of Germany for the
Same purpose. Sir Walter Scott is re-
sponsible for the statement that they
were used in Yorkshire in the beginning
of the Nineteenth Century, and others
declare that they are among the ancient
superstitions that still prevail in remote
parts of England.

 

 

Probably it was this venerable fiction
that prompted an old writer about queer
beliefs, to say, ‘‘There is beliefe that
once in their lives it is good to give a
pair of shoes to a poor man, forasmuch
as after this life they are bound to pass
bare foote through a great launde, full
of thorns and frozen, except by the
merit of the alms aforesaid they have
redeemed the forte; for at the end of the
launde an old man shall meet them with
the same shoes that were given by the
partie when he was lyving, and after he
had shod them warrenteth them to go
through thick and thin without scratch
or scathe.’’

In Hamburg, the last shoes worn by a
person before death are called ‘‘todten-
schuhe.’’ In support of the old super-
stition that one should give away a
pair of shoes at least once in a lifetime,

 

a quaint old verse has been written and
borne in mind wherever the belief is
known that shoes must be given toa
poor person to reach safely the better
land, and it runs thus:
If ever thou gave either hosen or shoen,
Every night and awle,

Sit thee down and put them on,
And Christ receive thy saule.

But if hosen nor shoen thou never gave wean,
Every night and awle,

The whinnies shall prod thee to the ban beane,
And Christ rece‘ve thy saule.

Not only is the shoe a prominent and
favorite subject for divination, but in
ancient times it was used above’ all
things for the expression of renuncia-
tion. This will readily be acknowleged
by all Bible readers, who surely have
wondered at the putting off of the shoe
in so many instances and failing to ex-
press veneration or respect by the re:
moval of the hat, as is our expression
in modern times. Nobody can repress
a smile at the idea of an up-to-date gen-
tleman taking off his shoes upon the oc-
casion of his visit to the house of a girl
and sitting in her presence shoeless. No
surer way to gather a hooting crowd on
our public thoroughfares could be de-
vised than that of a man taking off his
shoe in the street upon meeting a per-
son to whom he desired to show great
respect. Imagine, for instance, that, by
the way of expressing their renunciation
of the sinful world, the members of a
congregation, upon entering a church,
should each get a shoe or two checked at
the door by an attendant!

Yet these things were done in the an-
cient days, in token of renunciation and
reverence. The Biblical instances are
not only beautiful, they are expressive,
and while they may not, technically, be
called superstitions, they have suggested
many of those in existence. In the
twenty-fifth chapter of Deuteronomy we
are told of a ceremony in court where
the brother of a childless man, who, by
law, was bound to marry his widow,
unless he publicly renounced her, cast
her off when ‘‘she loosed his shoe from
off his foot and spat before his face.”’
The removal of his shoe by her own
hands was a symbol of the widow’s re-
nunciation. When Boaz called upon
Ruth’s nearest kinsman to marry her,
the latter refused, and ‘‘as it was the
custom in Israel concerning changing,
that a man plucked off his shoe and de-
livered it to his neighbor, ’’ this recreant
kinsman took his off and gave it to Boaz
as a symbol of his renunciation of Ruth.
In the Fortieth Psalm is this singular
expression: ‘‘Moab is my washpot,
over Edom have I cast out my shoe ;’’
signifying thorough renunciation — of
Edom.

In Hebrew, the selfish prodigal is in-
dicated by the expression, ‘‘One cast
off.’" It may be said truthfully that the
shoe was the Jewish pipe of peace, by
the use of which bargains were consum-
mated. Probably no more familiar
verse of the Bible is quoted than that
from Exodus, ‘‘ Put off thy shoes from
off thy feet, for the place whereon thou
standest is holy ground.’’

In the Orient the shoe may be said to
take the place of the hat in the Occi-
dent, for the’ turbaned man recognizes
the shoe as a mark of dignity and the
removal of it a token of servitude. When
the Mahometan is about to enter the
mosque he invariably removes his shoes
or slippers,and no matter in what street,
open place or within the house he may
place his praying rug, his shoes must be
removed before he may kneel, for it is
a universal saying, observed by all asa
law, that the unclean leather shall not
be allowed to defile the sacred floor.

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stretching forth your feet to have your
sandals put on first extend your right
foot, but when about to step into bath
let your left foot enter first.’’ From this
expression of the ancient it will be seen
that superstitions concerning the putting
on of the shoe are of great antiquity,
although. there have been so many of
them coined that those who have be-
come well read upon this subject know
that many of the old superstitions run
counter to each other.

It is told of the Emperor Augustus
that he was much disturbed if he, by
chance, exchanged the right shoe for the
left. He declared that he came near
losing his life by mutiny one day be-
cause he put on his left shoe first. It is
well known that the most ancient super-
stition concerning the dressing of the
body declares that the left side should
always be dressed first to insure luck
during the day or for the future, and
that the act of putting on the right shoe
before the left is sure to bring misfor-
tune. The Jews in Germany, however,
adhered to the ancient custom of put-
ting on the right stocking, then the
right shoe without- tying it; then the
same with the left foot, returning to tie
the right shoe and finishing with the
left.

We can imagine what a fine dash a
man would cut if he were seen on a
public place with his shirt inside out,
or walking along the street as though
the pain from his corns were excruciat-
ing, because he had inadvertently put
his left shoe upon his right foot and the
right on his left. But the old supersti-
tion says that these must not be changed
before the following day, under penalty
of misfortune.

That old encourager of superstition,
Reginald Scott, in his ** Discovery of
Witchcraft,’’ says: ‘*He that receiveth
a mischance will consider whether he
put not on his shirt the wrong side out-
ward or his left shoe onto his right
foot.’’ Still another old writer, Gaule,
says of unlucky things, ‘‘ There are such
as putting on the hose uneven or across
and the shoe upon the wrong foot,’’ and
yet another writer says it ‘* fore-
deeming of evil luck by putting on the
shoes awry.'’ Gross says that if the
wrong shoe or stocking was put on the
luck was changed by turning or shifting
it, but all others seem to agree that
when such a mischance occurs terrible
calamities must follow the act of chang-
ing.

In North Germany are many supersti-
tions relating to the shoe. If, after re-
tiring, the shoes are not arranged in
proper order a witch will enter at mid-
night and betray herself by placing them
right. In Sweden, if the shoes be placed
with the toes turned toward the bed, the
nightmare is sure to come. In Germany
is a superstition that if one will throw
his shoes over his head he will see the
place where he will stay longest. In
the north of England girls use them on
St. Agnes’ day to divine who their
lovers will be. Gay says that when the
notes of the cuckoo are first heard in
the spring lovers look into their shoes
for a hair.

There are numerous rhythmical say-
ings about casting an old shoe after a
departing bride, and the observance has
been. almost universal throughout the
world, but this ridiculous and some-
times unhealthful habit is rapidly go-
ing out of date, and even rice-throwing
has become unfashionable. An old shoe
was always chosen for this purpose be-
cause the ancient superstition concern-
ing ‘‘the shoe that pinches’ signifies a

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bad wife. Sandals were simple foot
coverings and easily removed from the
feet; the high, laced boots of modern
times would stand much in the way of a
continuance of the ancient cutsom of re-
moving the shoes before entering the
house of some honored man, and either
the custom or the boot would have to go.
Fortunately for the shoemaker, times
and the customs have changed and
perstitions are not all they were in
cient times.
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Vermontville Echo: The Michig
Tradesman has just finished its siatcesah
year of publication and_ starts on its
seventeenth with a superb extra edition
of 64 pages exclusive of covers. This
number contains many contributions
from the leading men of the Valley City
treating upon the specialties with which
they are perfectly familiar. First and
foremost is a valuable article from Hon.
Charles W. Garfield upon ‘' Michigan
Fruits.’’ The page is handsomely em-
bellished with a double column half-
tone of our genial horticulturist, so fa-
miliar to those who have met and lis-
tened to him in our farmers’ institutes.
Next come many fine portraits of
leading business men, each giving use-
ful and interesting papers in their sev-
eral lines of trade. The entire issue is
handsomely illustrated and printed with
an entire new face of type, giving the
mechanical part the same bright, clear
appearance as _ the articles themselves.
The Tradesman is one of the most

valued periodicals which comes to our
table and should be upon the desk of
every business man in Michigan.

Manistee Daily News: The Michi-
gan Tradesman is a publication which
has for the past sixteen years been de-
voting its energies to the best interests
of business men and most ably has it
succeeded in its purpose. Its last issue
was made an anniversary number, and
in addition it came out in a handsome
new dress of type throughout. The suc-
cess of the Tradesman is due in great
part to the progressiveness and up-to-
nowness of its editor, E. A. Stowe,
who, with the aid of capable assistants,
has made the publication one of in-
estimable value to Wolverine merchants.
The aforementioned number is profusely
illustrated and a credit to the publish-
ers.

Pittsburg Mercantile Journal: The
Michigan Tradesman last week celebra-
ted its sixteenth birthday with a special
edition, which is, as might have been

Su-
an-

expected, a highly creditable publica-
tion to Mr. Stowe, the editor.
Merchants’ Review: The Michigan

Tradesman has gotten out an extra large
issue with special articles, in honor of
its sixteenth birthday. Like good wine,
the Tradesman grows better as it grows
older.

Saranac Local: The Michigan
Tradesman issued its sixteenth anniver-
sary number last week. It contains a
very large amount of matter pertaining
to the business interests of the State and
is in every way a creditable number,
even for an anniversary.

American Grocer: We tender con-
gratulations to our esteemed contempo-
rary, the Michigan Tradesman, upon
the completion of sixteen years of suc-
cessful work. Its influence has always
been for the best good of the trade; the
eradication or modification of evils; for
associated effort. It has always aimed
to make a journal of real value to its
subscribers, and has succeeded. Its an-
niversary edition is a 64 page issue in
colored cover, and reflects the high es-
teem in which the paper is held by the
merchants of Michigan.

Elk Rapids Progress: The Michigan
Tradesman is not only one of, but the
best, all around trade paper published,
and should be in the hands of all en-
terprising business men. Mr. Stowe,
its editor, sprung a surprise on his read-
ers last week by having the Tradesman
appear in a neat new dress of type, well
illustrated, and  typographically, as
usual, as near perfect as the ingenuity
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A Mississippi editor makes this ap-
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Fish down into your pocket and dig
up dust, the editor is hungry and the
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for several months, and did it witha
smile, so just return the compliment
and trust us for awhile. Our wife she
needs some stockings and baby needs a
dress ; Jimmy needs some breéches, and
so do Kate and Bess. Pud is on the
hog train and Peggy sick with grief,
and good gosh almighty, can’t you give
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and turn loose the dimes, turn 'em loose
and whistle and we'll have better times ;
there will be fewer patches on the bosom
of our pants, and we'd make the paper
better if we had half a chance.
give us that old story, long gone to seed,
‘bout taking more family papers than
the family want to read; but help to
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NO CARNIVAL FOR HIM.
A Merchant Who Had Been Through the
Mill.
Written for the Tradesman.

When I entered a grocery down in
Central Michigan, the other day, I
found a local committee, consisting of
a fat saloon keeper and a lean livery-
man who smelt of the stabl:, laboring
with the merchant in the interest of a
street fair.

‘It will help business, ’
man.

‘It will help the town,’’ said the
liveryman.

‘“You may be right,’’ replied the gro-
cer, ‘‘but I can’t see it as you do. I
know it won’t increase my trade, and I
am afraid it will advertise the town in
a way we don’t want it advertised.
Come, now,’’ he added, turning to the
fat man, ‘‘be fair and answer a ques-
tion. Do you honestly believe there
would be any street fair here this year
if it wasn’t for the liquor interest?’’

‘I’m sure I can’t say,’’ was the hesi-
tating reply.

‘*Understand,’’ said the merchant,
‘‘T’m not talking against your business,
for I have some good customers in your
line, but, to tell you the truth, this
street fair business looks all one-sided
to me.”’

‘‘Oh, don’t get old-maidish,’’ re-
monstrated the fat man. ‘‘Put down
your name for a liberal donation and
we'll fill the town so full of strangers
that they'll have to sleep in the streets.
You'll have just as much fun as anyone,
once you get started.’’

‘You bet you will,’’ echoed the lean
man.

‘‘T don’t know about that,’’ said the
merchant, with a smile. ‘‘I got all
tangled up in a street fair once and I'll
have to take to-the woods if you get one
going here.’’

‘‘We’ll risk your taking to the
woods,’’ said the fat man. ‘‘You’ll be
parading down the center of the street
with a tin horn and a red flag about the

’

urged the fat

’

second night.’’

‘‘That’s what,’’ echoed the lean man.

“Yes,’’ said the grocer, ‘‘and I may
be down under the bridge on Main
street trying to hook robins and blue
birds out of the deep pools with a cork-
screw for bait, but I rather think not. I
got run over by a street fair once, and
now I get off the track when I see any-
thing dangerous coming my way. You
see, a street fair was once invited to
visit our town before we knew what
species of animal life the brute belonged
to and we had to do the best we could
to make things pleasant while it re-
mained, so we decided to turn ourselves
loose.’’

   

 

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‘*That’s the stuff,’’ remarked the fat
man.

‘*And that’s no dream,’
lean man.

‘*So we got a lot of fancy dress suits,
a choice collection of tin horns, a bunch
of torches and a bushel or two of fire-
works and sailed in,’’ continued the
grocer. ‘‘We had somehow taken into
our heads the fool notions that it was
our night, that the town was built for
us and that the street fair wouldn’t be
so awfully much if it wasn’t for us.
When any member of our party got so
tired he couldn't yell or sing or dance,
wé prescribed beer, and it is astonish-
ing how many invalids we had in our
crowd that night and how eagerly they
took their medicine. We knocked folks
off the walks, tipped over street booths
and broke store windows until we pretty
nearly had the whole town to_ our-
selves.’’

‘“*You’re the stuff,’’ shouted the fat
man. ‘‘We’ll make you master of cere-
monies the week of the fair.’’

‘‘Yes, indeed,’’ assented the
man.

‘‘We pranced up and down and _ took
our medicine and made _ nuisances of

’

observed the

lean

ourselves until the telephone poles be-”

gan to stagger and the tall buildings
began to sway back and forth in the red
light. During the latter part of the even-
ing I noticed a good many people with
two heads and only one leg, and some
of them were so wide of body that I
found it difficult to pass them ina six
rod street.’’

‘“You tell it just like a man who’s
been there,’’ said the fat man.

‘“You bet he does,’’ snickered the
other.

‘* Along towards midnight, ’’ continued
the merchant, ‘‘we arrivéd at the con-
clusion that we weren’t having fun
enough, so we put what fireworks we
had left in an old flour barrel, threw a
lot of burning shavings in with them
and kicked the concern down the street.
It made a great hit, I can tell you, but
about halfway down the street the barrel
went popping into an alley and rolled
under a warehouse filled with hay and
grain. Then the giant crackers went off
and the barrel flew into a thousand
pieces. I heard a man saying something
about that being his building, and then
the steeple of the Methodist church, or
something equally hard and massive hit
me a clip on the nose and the town,
buildings and _ all, immediately turned
upside down. ’’

‘

‘S-a-y,’’ interrupted the fat man, ‘I
guess you must ’a’ got hit.”’

‘‘I got up once or twice,’’ resumed
the merchant, ‘‘and found the church

  

  

 

 

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steeple, or whatever it was, still doing
business at the old stand and immedi-
ately went to grass again. I saw stars
and horses trying to get out of chimney
tops and cows walking off on their hind
feet in blue topped boots, and then the
fire engine came and ran over me and
broke both legs, and laid the foundation
for this scar on my chin. Oh, we had
a great time.’’

“‘T should say,’
man.

‘“Tough enough,’’ assisted the lean
man.

‘‘When the world turned right side
up again,’’ added the grocer, ‘‘I learned
that we had burned down about half the
town and that most of my chums were
in jail, charged with setting fire to in-
habited dwellings in the nighttime, for
which offense the penalty in this State
is the same as for murder in the first
degree. Only for being all broken up in
little pieces by the fists of the owner of
the warehouse and the heavy wheels of

ejaculated the fat

 

the fire engine, I would have been in
jail with the rest of the fools.’’

The committee began to edge toward
the door.

‘‘We got out of the scrape by paying
heavy fines and making the _ losses
good,’’ said the merchant, ‘‘and since
that time I have never gone into any
scheme for public improvement which
provides for allowing a lot of toughs
and drunkards and fools to run the
town for one night or for one week.
There are a lot of people in every town
who live on the under side of society
who ache to become prominent once in
a while, and these are the folks who
show up strong at street fairs. No, sir,

‘I’ve been up against it once, and you

don’t catch me again. If the officers
had done their duty that night they
would have arrested us before the final
act, and we would have been saved a
heap of trouble. No contribution from
me.

And the committee filed sadly out of
the store. Alfred B. Tozer.

 

 

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terpiece.

Munising, Sept. 14—I send you here-
with a photograph of a bicycle show
window which I made some time ago.
It has attracted so much attention from
the general public and also from the
gripsack brigade that I thought it might
possibly prove of interest to some of the
readers of your paper. It is very sim-
ple of construction and any clerk with
ordinary mechanical ability can easily
make one. In order to facilitate matters
a brief description may not be out of
place. The rims of the wheels are
made of hoops from coffee drums, using
the full size for the outer rim and_ cut-
ting the hoop and lapping the ends _ for
the inner rim and _ springing it in so
that it will hold the cans in place. I
used cans of cream between the rims,
because they are just the proper size.
Inside of the rims I nailed four spokes
and covered them with a‘ piece of red
cardboard, cut round and with strips

 

cut out to represent spokes. Around the

spent an hour or more in looking over
the books. Finally he seemed to settle
upon one, and asked the clerk the price.

‘*One dollar,’’ the clerk answered.

‘*One dollar,’’ echoed the lounger;
**can’t you take less than that?’’

‘‘One dollar is the price,’’ the clerk
answered.

The would-be purchaser looked over
he books awhile longer and then en-
quired, ‘‘Is Mr. Franklin in?’’

‘"Yes, he’s busy in the
office,’’ the clerk replied.

‘“Well, I want to see him,’’
man,

The clerk told Mr. Franklin that a
gentleman was in the store waiting to
see him. Franklin soon appeared and
the stranger said:

‘‘What is the lowest, Mr. Franklin,
that you can take for that book?’’

“‘One dollar and a quarter,’’ was the
prompt answer.

‘““One dollar and a quarter! Why,
your clerk asked me only a dollar just
now.”’ '

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outside of the rim I pasted labels from
spice cans and my _ wheels were com-
plete. The diamond frame I made from
strips of wood, 2x1. I then covered it
with packages of soap, which | tacked on.
The sprocket wheel was made from a
round piece of wood, covered with red
cardboard, painted to represent spokes
and cogs. The chain I made by string-
ing prunes on a piece of wire. The
pedals were made of cakes of soap _at-
tached to a wooden crank. For a saddle
I used two packages of figs, tacked on
a board made the same shape. The han-
dle bars were made by fastening two
bottles of catsup on two pieces of wood,

- nailed onto the head of the frame.

Glennie Deans.

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Made the Buyer Pay for Lost Time.

Benjamin Franklin kept a book store
in Philadelphia, and printed a news-
paper in connection therewith. :

One morning, when he was busy in
the press room on his newspaper, a
lounger stepped into the book store and

‘*True,’’ replied Franklin, ‘‘and I
could have better afforded to take a dol-
lar than to leave my work.’’

The man seemed surprised, and wish-
ing to end a parley of his own seeking,
said: ‘‘Well, come now, tell me your
lowest price for the book.’’

‘*One dollar and a half.’’

‘*A dollar and a half! Why, you
offered it yourself for a dollar anda
quarter. ’’

‘*Yes,’’ said Franklin, coolly, ‘‘and I
had better have taken that price then,
than a dollar and a half now.’’

This was a way of trade which took
the man quite by surprise. Without a
word he laid the money on the counter,
took his book and left the store.

We fancy that the average shopper of
to-day would have turned on his heel
indignantly, on being charged for time,
and told his friends where not to buy
books ; but there was only one Benjamin
Franklin, and ‘‘genius is a rule unto

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Woman’s World

More in Need of Gumption Than Grace.

Every one interested in ‘the blessed
estate of matrimony—and we all are
presently, prospectively or reminiscently
—must have read with keen satisfaction
of the recent decision of a Kentucky
judge in a divorce case. A gentleman
of that State, it seems, sued for divorce
from his wife on the grounds that she
was an habitual and incurable drunk-
ard, but the judge refused to grant the
decree, arguing that the husband had
only been a widower four months when
he married the defendant, and_ that
‘such precipitancy in marriage implied
a want of ordinary care in making a se-
lection of a wife.’’

To every thoughtful person it will
seem that a second Daniel has come to
judgment and that he has put his finger
on one of the corroding cankers of life.
It is not unfaithfulness, nor drink, nor
cruelty, nor clubs, nor any of the un-
usually assigned causes that account for
so much domestic unhappiness. It is
simply and solely the want of ‘‘ ordinary
care in making a selection’’ of a hus-
band or wife. Women marry on the
grab bag system of taking the first thing
the get their hands on, and men—having
originated the theory that marriage is a
lottery—act upon the principle that it is
all luck, and there is no use in using
any judgment in picking out a wife.
Any one who ever takes the trouble to
observe anybody else’s courtship can
but have this impressed upon them.
There is a lack of common sense about
it, a kind of hallucination, a persistent
substitution of fancy for fact, and a gen-
eral obtuseness and blindness and deter-
mination to rush on their fate that is a
forcible and sorrowful illustration — of
how lightly people decide the most im-
portant question of life.

 

 

One of the wonders of the world, that
no amount of repetition ever makes one
whit less remarkable, is the fact that
people give less real thought to marry-
ing than they do to any other binding
trade. If John Brown, for instance, is
thinking of making a limited liability
partnership for five years with Tom
Smith, to carry on the grocery business,
he makes an exhaustive investigation
into Smith’s character and habits. He
finds out if he is honest, if he is extrav-
agant and is liable to swamp the firm
by reckless and senseless expenditures,
and whether he is industrious and cap-
able, and will do his part towards mak-
ing the venture a success. With Sally
Smith, with whom he is going to sign
a life contract, and of whom he can _ not
rid himself in five years, or five and
twenty years, without scandal and dis-
grace, no matter how unhappy he is, he
takes no such precaution. She may
have the temper of a termagant, she
may be idle and lazy and shiftless and
extravagant, but he does not even take
the trouble to enquire into the matter
at all. He marries her, and if it turns
out badly he shoulders the blame off on
providence if he is pious, and lays it
on general bad luck if he isn’t, and it
positively never even occurs to him to
attribute it to his own lack of taking
the ‘‘proper ordinary care in selecting
a wife,’’ as the Kentucky judge puts it.

Judging by the standards of common
sense and reasonable prudence that ob-
tain in everyday life, we should say
that a man was crazy if,when he wanted
a horse to pull a heavy larry, he went
into the market and bought a thorough-
bred race horse. We should say he was

 

imbecile if, being poor, he took all of
his money and invested it in a piece of
costly bric-a-brac that would be out of
place in his dingy three-story back
room. We think him silly who pins a
fine diamond in a faded and shabby
shirt front. Yet that is just as much
reason as the average man shows in
picking out a wife. He takes something
that pleases his eye and never stops to
consider whether she is going to suit
him in any other way or not. The poor
man falls in love with the petted
daughter of fashion, and marries her if
she is willing, and then he feels himself
cruelly ill-used because she doesn’t
know a thing on earth about economy or
work and pines for the luxuries to which
she has been accustomed all her life.
‘It is this kind of thing,’’ he cries,
‘‘that makes marriage a failure.’’ My
dear sir, not at all, She knows now all
she ever did. It was simply your lack
of the ordinary proper care in making a
suitable selection. ‘There were plenty.
scores and scores of industrious. capable
girls, any one of whom would have
made the helpmeet you needed, but you
passed them all—a regular kitchen gar-
den full of substantials—to pick the one
rose that flaunted on the garden wall,
and now that you have got her you have
no right to whine and cry because she
isn’t a cabbage.

If a man is going todo as simple a
thing as buy a book he gives some _ se-
rious thought to trying to find the class
of literature in which he is most inter-
ested. If his taste is cultivated he
passes by with a shudder the sensa-
tional story, with its cheap and flashy
sentiment and blatant vulgarity. He
knows there wouldn't be a single page
in the whole volume that wouldn't
offend his susceptibilities. If he has a
romantic nature, full of the deeps of
sentiment and passion, he would never
dream of selecting a cook book with
which to while away the long hours of
a tedious journey. If he is intensely
practical he doesn’t choose a volume of
poetry that always seems to him silly
and hysterical. Yet we are daily treated
to the spectacle of men picking out a
wife with less regard to congeniality of
sentiment and taste and opinions than if
she was a book that they could toss aside
when she begun to bore them. Gracious
heavens, look about you! Don’t you
see stately scholars married to stupid
little women, whose narrowness and
pettiness of vision must be continual ir-
ritation ; don’t you see men whose great
hearts cry out for love and comprehen-
sion married to women whose shallow
nature contents itself in the ordinary
rounds of domestic duties and can not
even understand any deeper need of the
soul? Don’t we see common-place men
married to women who are like finely-
tuned instruments, capable of producing
the most exquisite melody, yet who be-
come, in bungling and ignorant hands,
only sources of terrible discord? It is
all such a lot of terrible blundering, of
the wrong people getting hold of the
wrong books. If only the man who
liked yellow-back novels had _ gotten
‘‘Red Mike, the Terror of the Plains,’
if the practical man had gotten the
patent office reports, and the poet had
found the Omar Khayam in the great
heap of books on the stall, what a
pleasant and profitable journey everyone
might have had, instead of yawning in
each other’s face the whole way
through. :

In reality in all the wide world there
is nothing else so pitiful as the lack of
congeniality—of really having anything

 

 

in common-that we see between so
many married people. They live their
days out side by side, and yet they are
farther apart than if oceans and _ conti-
nents rolled between. One in name and
interest, they have no more understand-
ing or appreciation of what is best and
highest in each other than if they were
creatures from different spheres, speak-
ing different tongues. There are doors
in each soul that lead to rooms to which
the other never finds the key. All that
is best and sweet in life—the compre-
hension that has no need of words, the
subtle sympathy that divines the un

spoken thought that trembles on the lip,
the glory and the splendor of that love
that makes two really one in heart—they
miss. For missing that, there is no
compensation. One may have glory and
honor and riches, but the heart that has
missed perfect comprehension goes a
hungry beggar to the grave. That so
many miss it is to be set down not to
the fantastic cruelty of fate, but to  stu-

pidity and to the man’s lack of ordinary
care and prudence in seeking what he
wants, and his willingness to put up
with a substitute. Asa matter of fact,
most men go courting like they go shop-
ping. They may go into the store de-
termined on buying a sky-blue necktie,
but anybody with the slightest powers of
persuasion can sell them a pair of pat-
ent leather shoes instead of it.

Of the reckless folly of those who get
married on short engagements nothing
need be said. Heaven knows those
who, in homely phrase, ‘‘keep com-
pany’’ for a long time have little enough
chance to get really acquainted. The
girl sees the man only in his company
clothes and company manners. She is
primped and crimped, and really too
sweet and ethereal for this world. She
is sure that life will be nothing but a
bed of roses with a man so frantically
anxious for her, to do as she pleases,
and he thinks he will have no trouble
on earth in bending such a pliant little
creature, who agrees with him in every-
thing, to his will. Under this-courtship
veneer in both cases is the real woman
and the real man, with all of the natural
and acquired and inherited temper,
traditions and prejudices that it never
seems to occur to anyone to investigate
before marriage, while there is still time
to flee from the wrath to come. In all
good truth a whole lifetime is inadequate
for a thorough study of any one woman’s
peculiarities, and young men contem-
plating rushing into matrimony, on the
strength of a thirty-day promissory note,
would do well to recall the Kentucky
judge’s dictum that a four months’ ac-
quaintance with a woman shows a pre-

 

cipitancy and want of ordinary and
proper care in making a selection of a
wife that is liable to lead to trouble.

A great many remedies are continually
suggested for the amelioration of domes-
tic life, but it seems to me that we stand
more in need of gumption than grace in
dealing with it. The man who uses as
much judgment, discretion and common
sense in picking out a wife as he would
in dealing with any other important
affair seldom has reason to regret his

choice. Dorothy Dix.
—___» 0+.
Sometimes Happens So.

‘*What broke him up in business?’’

* Slow collections. ’’

‘‘I thought he sold goods for cash
only.’’

‘He did. It was the firms he owed
that had the trouble in making collec-
tions, and they closed him out.’’

 

 

 

 

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doing business with us for
years have probably noticed
that we fill your orders a
great deal more promptly
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are new _ customers are
pleased to find that we are
so prompt.

This is not because we are
doing less business than
formerly- we are doing more
and more every year—but
because we realize that when
People order goods they
want them and want them
quickly. .

Therefore we are making

a special effort to ‘give every
order, small or large, imme-
diate attention and prompt
shipment.

Let us have yours.

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Grand Rapids, Mich.

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_ Commercial Travelers

Wichigan Koights of the trp

STEVENS, Ypsilanti; Sec-
retary, J.C. SAUNDERS, Lansing; Treasurer,
0. C. GOULD, Saginaw.

Michigan Commercial ‘Travelers’ Association

President, JAMES E. DAy, Detroit; Secretary
and Treasurer, C. W. AL™.EN, Detroit.

 

United Commercial Travelers of Michigan

Grand Counselor, JNo. A. MURRAY, Detroit;
Grand Secretary, G. S. VALMORE, Detroit;
Grand Treasurer, W. 8S. MEst, Jackson.

Grand Rapids Council No. 131
Senior Counselor, D. E. KEYEs;
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President, J. BoyD PANTLIND, Grand Rapids;
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Gripsack Brigade.

Never complain of the dulness of busi-
ness. Nothing succeeds like success.

If you gain the confidence of others
you must first have full confidence in
yourself.

You must be on the lookout for the
misrepresentations and falsities of your
competitors.

Never abuse competing firms. Leave
slow buyers until the last and let them
know the limit of your time in town.

State the truth, but never brag about
your large orders. The business man
will discount your extravagant stories.

The best and most successful mer-
chant seems generally to have the most
leisure. It is your little fussy man who
is always in a hurry.

Your associates should be pure and
good and your own personal habits cor-
rect. You must be governed by sound
principles of morality, without which
no true success can be attained.

Never drink. It may embarrass you

‘a little with strangers, but you must do

your best to overcome this by being all
the more agreeable. In the end it will
raise you in the estimation of others.

The many friends and acquaintances
of Fred J. Ephlin will be glad to know
that his wife is improving rapidly at
Colorado Springs. Fred will spend a
month soon with his family in the West.

Be very careful of your personal ap-
pearance. Manly, gentlemanly bearing
always produces a favorable impression.
The buyer will judge of the charac-
ter of the house by the appearance of the
salesman, as well as by the character of
his goods.

It isn’t the flippant or glib talker, but
the man who shows in his every word
and gesture, as force of character, a
soundness, a sincerity of motive, and a
desire to consider the buyer’s interest,
as well as his own, who wins the day
with the large orders.

Some of them you will find to be

_ thoroughly honest men; others are the

agents of houses that are carrying on
business in a reckless way, and others
are temporarily in the employ of good
houses, and are ready to do anything to
make a good showing.

Buyers should remember that the
salesman who enters their stores desires
to do all in his power to please them,
but at the same time he expects to be
regarded as an essential link between
wholesale and retail and to be treated
courteously and with respect.

Covington correspondence Cincinnati
Times-Star: A quiet home wedding
was solemnized at the residence of Rev.
and Mrs. J. H. Horst, of 1708 Greenup
street, at 8 o'clock Thursday evening,
when their charming and accomplished
daughter, Miss Clara Louise, was wedded
to Fred. W. Oesterle, of Grand Rapids.

 

The ceremony was preceded by the
‘‘Lohengrin’’ wedding march, rendered
~|by Prof. Edwin W. Schroetter. The
bride looked beautiful in white Persian
lawn and carried a bouquet of white
roses. The ceremony was performed by
the bride’s father, Rev. J. H. Horst.
Miss Emma, sister of the bride, acted
as maid of honor. She was attired in
pink Swiss mulle and carried pink
roses. Albert B. Kalmbach, of Youngs-
town, Ohio, cousin of the groom, was
best man. Master Walter, the five-year-
old brother of the bride, was ringbearer,
and John S. Horst was master of cere-
monies. After the ceremony about
thirty invited guests partook of a sump-
tuous repast. After a wedding tour
through the East the happy couple will
reside in Grand Rapids, Mich., where
the bride will be welcomed by a host of
friends, it having been her former home.
On September 26 they will be tendered
a reception by Mr. and Mrs. J. F.
Mueller, of Grand Rapids, for which too
invitations have been issued. Mr.
Oesterle is traveling representative for a
large wholesale shoe house in Grand
Rapids. The following out-of-town
guests were present: Miss Minnie
Oesterle and Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Mueller,

Grand Rapids; Mr. Tieke and family,
of Cincinnati; Prof. Andrew Horst and
family and Mr. and Mrs. Engelhardt,
of Norwood, Ohio,

—_—_—->0o____
Annual Picnic of the Grand Rapids Travel-
ing Men.
The effort made to bring about an ex-

change of baseball games between the

Saginaw and Grand Rapids traveling
men has fallen through for this year,

owing to the lateness of the season and
the expense involved in taking a large
number of men across the State. In-
stead of carrying out this plan, it has
been decided to invite the Kalamazoo
traveling men to attend the picnic in-
formally in company with their wives
and sweethearts and, in order that the
two clubs may not get entirely out of
practice, a scrub game will be played,
made up of selections from representa-
tives of both cities. The picnic will
be an afternoon affair and, besides the
ball game, numerous other athletic
sports will be indulged in. The picnic
dinner will be served in the cabin of the
Major Watson about 6 p. m., and every
Grand Rapids traveling man _ will be
expected to bring along enough eatables
for his Own family and as much more
for the Kalamazoo visitors.

Fred Ephlin, of the Committee on
Athletic Sports, requests the Trades-
man to say that the Committee will
meet at the Morton House at. 11 o'clock
Saturday morning to decide on _ the
premiums to be given and to make
such other arrangements as have not yet
been completed. The outside traveling
men and visiting salesmen are invited
to attend the picnic and to participate
in the features of the day.

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Why He Couldn’t Eat the Soup.

Guest (to waiter)—-I can’t eat this
soup.

Waiter takes it away and brings an-
other kind of soup.

Guest—1 can’t eat this soup.

Waiter, angrily, but silently, for the
third time brings another kind.

Guest (again—) | can’t eat this soup!

Waiter, furious, calls the hotel pro-
prietor.

Proprietor (to guest)—Why can’t you
eat this soup?

Guest (quietly)—
spoon.

Because I have no

ciate

Every singer in a quartet can point
out three good reasons why the organi-
zation isn’t absolutely perfect.

SUCCESSFUL SALESMEN.

Ed. J. Goulding, Representing Bradley &
Metealf Co.

Ed. J. Goulding was born in Toronto,
Ont., May 11, 1867, his antecedents be-
ing Irish on his father’s side, while his
mother was of English descent. He at-
tended the public schools of Toronto
until 16 years of age, when he entered
the shoe store of his father, where he
remained four years. Believing that
this side of the line afforded better op-
portunities for advancement, he removed
to Bay City, where he went to work for
Richard Scheurman, with whom he re-
mained two years. He then removed to
Sault Ste. Marie, where he identified
himself with the house of Prenzlauer
Bros., taking charge of their shoe de-
partment. Being offered a position on
the road by the McAlpine Shoe Co., of
Highland Park, he entered into an ar-
rangement with that house to cover

 

E astern Michigan, which engagement
lasted three years. He was then offered
a position in the shoe department of C.
H. Michell, at Detroit, where he re-
mained a year, when he went back to
the McAlpine Shoe Co. for a_ year.
About a year ago he was offered a_posi-
tion as traveling representative for the
Bradley & Metcalf Co., of Milwaukee,
taking Western Michigan from the
Straits of Mackinaw to the Indiana line
as his territory. He sees his trade every
sixty days and has already made many
friends among his customers, who have
come to look forward with pleasure to
his visits.

Mr. Goulding was married Feb. 13,
1895, to Miss Etta Brooks, of Standish,
since which time Detroit has claimed
him asa resident. During the summer
he made his headquarters at Petoskey,
but for the next year at least he will
spend his Sundays in Grand Rapids,
having taken rooms in the new Plaza
Hotel.

Mr. Goulding is not much of a
‘‘jiner,’’ his experience in that line be-
ing confined to membership in a single
order—Red Cross Lodge (Sault Ste.
Marie) No. 151, Knights of Pythias.

Genial in disposition, energetic in
manner, courteous in his dealings with
others, Mr. Goulding has every reason
to feel flattered over the success he has
achieved and to regard his future pros-

pects with the utmost complacency.
—__»4+s——__——
How the Honest Drummer Reaped His
Reward.

G. E. Stiefel, of the concern that
bears his name, and which is one of the
biggest in Wheeling, W. Va., is a quiet
kind of a wit. A good story is going
the rounds, and Mr. Stiefel and Boggs
& Buhl, of Pittsburg, are the principal
characters. It is the wont of most sales-
men covering Wheeling to visit Pitts-
burg first. Assoonas they get into town
they go to Mr. Stiefel. Nearly everyone
that called on him last fall had wonder-

 

ful stories to tell of the success they had

 

in Pittsburg. Many of the salesmen, in
showing their goods to Mr. Stiefel,
would tell him th: it Boggs & Buhl bought
so much of this thing and that thing.
Mr. Stiefel got kind of tired of it. So
he decided to keep tabs. Every time a
salesman told him that Boggs & Buhl
had bought, Mr. Stiefel would ask how
much of it they took. Then he put the
figures down. In six months he had
Bogg & Buhl down for about $09,000,000
worth of goods. One day a salesman
came in, and, after greetine Mr. Stiefel,
comme need to tell of his great sales.

‘Did you sell Boggs & Buhl?’’ asked
Mr. Stiefel.
“Yes. Thirty odd hundred.’

‘Ll wouldn’t ship the goods, if I were

you,’’ said Mr. Stiefel.

‘*Why?’’ asked the astonished sales-
man.

‘*Well,’’ said Mr. Stiefel, ‘‘according

to you fellows, they are overbuying, and

wlll fail, sure.’

A few weeks after this conversation
took place, Mr. Stiefel met Mr Boggs
in New York.

‘*Hello! Boggs,’’ he said. *‘Are you
in business yet?’

‘*Why, certainly,’’ said Mr. Boggs.

‘‘Well, according to all 1 hear, you

must be ready to bust. What are you
going to do with that $9,000,000 worth
of stuff?’’

‘Why,
said Mr.

1 don’t know what you mean, ”’
Boggs.

‘Don't? Well, the salesmen who call
on me always have a yarn about what
you buy. | kept tabs on them, and have
you down for about $9,000, 000, "’

Finally, Mr. Stiefel got tired of hear-

ing the salesmen yarn; so he decided
that he would not buy another dollar’s

worth from any man that talked
& Buhl to him?
One day a ‘‘greener’’ came in.
Mr. Stiefel greeted him pleasantly,
and found out after a while that he was

Boggs

a new man on the road.
‘*Where were you last?’’ asked Mr.
Stiefel

said the drummer.
* asked Mr. Stiefel.
for a new man, |

"Ip Pittsburg,”
‘*Did you do well?’
**Oh, fairly well
think.
‘Did you sell everybody -
‘Oh, no! | missed a few.

‘Did you sell Boggs & Buhl?’’

NO: [ could not get them’’

Then said Mr. Stiefel: ‘‘Open your
samples. You are about the first  sales-
man that ever came from _ Pittsburg
that didn’t lie faster than a horse could
trot. Open your samples. You're hon-
est, I'll buy from you.”’

ee
The Way of the World.

Drink and the gang will drink with you;
Swear off and you'll go it alone;

For the jo.ly bum who drinks your rum
Has a quenchless thirst of his own.

Feast, and your friends are many;
Fast, and they cut you dead;

They ‘Hi not g tmad if you use "them bad,
So long as their stomachs are fed.

Steal, if you gobble a million;
For then vou can furnish b: Ail;
It’s the genteel thief who gets out on leave .
While the needy one goes to jail.
ee i
Smallpox spread in Altoona, Pa., the

other day, and the local board of health

ordered the killing of all dogs and cats
in infected houses, that they might not
distribute the germs of the disease. The

bodies of the animals were burned.
A manufacturing establishment to locate in the
village of Newberry, a flouring mill preferred,
for which liberal inducements will be offered. For
further particulars apply to the undersigned.

FRANK SEYMOUR,
Village Clerk, Newberry, Mich.

 

 

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PATENT ATTORNEYS
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Attended To in Any American Court.

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

Drugs--Chemicals

 

Michigan State Board of Pharmacy
Term expires
A.C. SCHUMACHER, Ann Arbor - Dec. 31, 1899
GEO. GUNDRUM, Ionia - - Dec. 31, 1900
L. E. REYNOLDs, St. Joseph - Dee. 31, 1901
HENRY HEIM, Saginaw -— - Dee. 31, 1902
WirT P. Dory, Detroit - - - Dee. 31, 1903
President, Gro. GUNDRUM, Ionia.
Secretary, A. C. SCHUMACHER, Ann Arbor.
Treasurer, HENRY HEIM, Saginaw.

QO

Examination Sessions
Lansing—Nov. 7 and 8.

 

 

 

State Pharmaceutical Association
President—O. EBERBACH, Ann Arbor.
Secretary—CHAS. F. MANN, Detroit.
Treasurer—J. S. BENNETT,

 

uansing.

 

 

The Pharmacist and the Tablet.

Five years ago the writer made an
exhaustive investigation of the subject
of tablet medication, which resulted in
the collection of interesting data rela-
tive to the manufacture and distribution
of this then comparatively new line of
products. The future was problematical,
but the prophecy of that day has been
verified to a degree far beyond the ex-
pectation of the strongest advocates of
tablet medication. The popularity of
tablets with the medical profession is
attested to in the phenomenally in-
creased consumption, as well as in the
increased number of manufacturers en-
gaged in their production. In reply to
a recent letter, addressed to perhaps the
largest manufacturers of tablets in this
country, the following facts were stated :

In 1894 a single operative manufac-
tured 25,000 tablet triturates daily. With
improved apparatus, the present daily
output per operative is, Oh an average,
100,000, or four times as great. In 1894,
the compressing machines then in use
yielded a daily output of about 35,000
tablets; with new rotary machines many
times that number can be manufactured
by each machine per day. With the
improvements in machinery there has
also been a marked improvement in the
products in physical appearance, ele-
gance of finish, ready solubility and
disintegration, and the retention of the
characteristic color of the drug, all of
which has tended to dispel from the
minds of the physician opposed to tab-
lets much of the prejudice held against
these products five ago. ‘The
growing demand for chocolate-coated
tablets proves their popularity. Many
of the bitter medicaments, such as qui-
nine, strychnine, aloes, etc., are masked
by this saccharine coating, which at
the same time adds to their appearance.
The adoption of coated tablets is a prac-
tical return to the coated pill in a new
form. The coated tablet possesses all
the advantages of triturates and com-
pressed tablets, and is rarely open to
the criticisms that can be urged against
either. The question of solubility has
received the attention of the manufac-
turers not only with tablets containing
insoluble medicaments, but also in con-
nection with those containing vegetable
extracts; it is along this line indeed
that the greatest improvement has been
effected.

After years of observation the writer
is still of the opinion that tablets have
come to stay. Numerous reasons might
be advanced for this belief. The coun-
try practitioner finds them convenient,
pre-eminently more so than carrying
about many pounds of bottles which
contain liquids and which are easily
broken in making the rounds over stony
country roads. The city practitioner of
the regular school has adopted them,
ostensibly, it is said, to compete with
the homeopathic physician, who large-
ly and almost exclusively employs tab-

years

 

 

lets. The former also contends that he
can the better hold his patients by con-
stituting himself the source of supply.
Tablet medication has also been quite
generally adopted by the various hos-
pitals of the country, and by the medi-
cal department of the Army and Navy.
However detrimental to the prescription
business, there appears to be no escape.
It is unfortunate, most unfortunate in-
deed, but it is folly to complain. You
might as well attempt to turn back Ni-
agara as to attempt to uproot the use of
tablets. The pharmacist should meet
this new condition squarely, lose no
time in reconciling himself to existing
circumstances, and endeavor to profit
thereby. The physician is determined
to have these tablets, and the pharma-
cist should seek to control and secure
this business by making his store a phy-
sicians’ supply depot. It will bring the
physician into the pharmacist’s place of
business more frequently, and, conse-
quently, will bring pharmacist and phy-
sician into closer touch with each other.
Every moment wasted in -resisting a
successful innovation is so much aid
and comfort to manufacturers who seek
the patronage of the physician and who
will sell him every blessed thing he asks
for. The result is bitterness, estrange-
ment, reciprocal injury between physi-
cian and pharmacist, and lessened __pat-
ronage. There are many wide-awake
pharmacists who are working out their
salvation along the lines of striving to
make up for the falling off in prescrip-
tions by securing the trade of the physi-
cian, and they are achieving a gratify-
ing measure of success. It is indis-
putably the business of the up-to-date
pharmacist to supply the demands made
upon him by physicians for antitoxin,
vaccine, bandages, gauzes, and various
other things; why should he not also
supply every demand, even to the *‘de-
spised’’ tablet, and realize not only a
reasonable margin of profit, but also
build up a lasting friendship which
will be of inestimable value in many
directions? D. J. Thomas.
——___» 0.
Victims of Our Own Fancies.

In a case of stomach derangement of
recent date, a lady patient returned to
me unexpectedly to say that by mistake
she had taken an overdose of medicine,
which had greatly alarmed her, and had
produced, she said, a similar effect to
that of too much morphine. She had
been instructed to take one tablet at
each dose, which contained nothing but
one grain of sugar of milk, whereas the
overdose which had so alarmed her con-
sisted of two of these sugar of milk
tablets. It was hard to keep my equa-
nimity under this amusing circumstance,
but the patient was sent away with the
remark that she must be more careful in
the future not to mistake or exceed the
directions. ;

In another case a mother whose _ child
was under treatment complained that
the last medicine given her for her use
was not entirely satisfactory. Her ob-
servation as to the effect of the objec-
tionable remedy was duly received,
and tablets of sugar of milk, but of a
different color, were substituted for
those which had been unsatisfactory.
The mother at the time of her next visit
to me spoke in the highest praise of my
skill in meeting the requirements of her
daughter’s case, which had “‘ baffled the
efforts of the professors at the college.’’
—Dr. Lee in the New York Medical
Times. ,

: ~~»

The men who care for themselves best
know when and where to take a rest.

 

 

Some Things I Have Noticed.

It is a fact that the average druggist
is not just as sharp to grasp money-mak-
ing opportunities as members of other
trades. 1 don’t know why it is; pos-
sibly it is a relic from the old days,
when there were few druggists; when
full prices were obtained ; when there
was money in the business and no great
need of hustling. But now things are
changed, and if money is to be made,
one has to get up and hustle. 1 find
that druggsits don’t advertise enough,
and when they do advertise, in the ma-
jority of cases, it is in such a careless
way that no possible benefit can be de-
rived from it. For instance, they ad-
vertise patent medicines, or tell the
public that ‘‘John Smith keeps a_ full
stock of Pure Drugs, Chemicals, and
Patent Medicines.’’ Well, everybody
knows that if John Smith is a druggist
he keeps ‘* Pure Drugs, etc.,’’ it is only
waste of money telling folks so. You
want to get out something striking,
something that will catch the eye of the
reader; if you can’t do it yourself it
will be cheaper to get your advertise-
ments written by a professional adver-
tisement writer.

About advertising, there is one point
I want to draw attention to. It is about
the advertisement for nerve pills or
beans, or cures for gonorrhea, to which
druggists sometimes allow their names
to be put as selling agents. I think,
and the majority of druggists think
with me, that this is disgraceful and
tends to lower the whole profession in
the eyes of the public. The whole of
these remedies are fakes of the worst
kind, and should be left seriously
alone, because they don’t pay, no mat-
ter what the profit.

Another druggist will insert advertise-
ments for cough mixtures, etc., during
the winter; and away along in the mid-
dle of the summer you will still see
Peter Jones’ advertisement extolling his
cough syrup, or emulsion, or new stock
of chest protectors smiling blandly at
you as you open your evening paper.

About windows. 1 don’t think they
are utilized as they ought to be, al-
though I must say that there has been a
great improvement in the last ten years ;
but still there is room for improve-
ment. Window displays should be
changed at least once a week. Don’t fill
the window with a heterogeneous mess
of all kinds of truck, and don’t use it to
display some one else’s stuff. Put in a
solid show of one article, and that a
seasonable one—-your own cough syrup,
emulsion, or sarsaparilla during the win-
ter and spring months, for instance.
Put in handsome, plain cards extolling
the virtues of each, with the prices—a
few words will do-—so that he who runs

 

may read. Vindex.
—
Examination of Some Commercial Phar-
maceuticals.

In a paper read before the Illinois
Pharmaceutical Association Professor
Davoll, of the Northwestern School of
Pharmacy of Chicago, reported the re-
sults of examinations into several phar-
maceutical products purchased in open
market. Of three samples of magnesia
examined, one conformed to all the re-
quirements of the U. S. P. Two gave
such pronounced effervescence that they

 

were subjected to ignition at a low red
heat in a porcelain crucible, losing
thereby 19.07 and 20.32 per cent., re-
spectively. This loss will be seen to be
much in excess of the U. 5S. P. re-
quirements. Imperfect calcination or
subsequent exposure would account for
this. Of five samples of olive oil four
were found to be cottonseed oil ; the fifth
was composed of about equal parts of
green olive oil and cottonseed oil! Two
samples of honey purchased from phar-
macists were found to be pure, while a
third, from a grocer, was nearly all
glucose. Of seven samples of spirits of
nitrous ether, examined by the gaso-
metric method of the U. S. P., not one
was found that could be said to ap-
proach the official strength. Three sam-
ples were absolutely lacking in ethyl
nitrite, and the remaining four gave re-
sults as follows: 2.60, 2.45, 2.03 and
I.go percent. ‘‘There is no valid ex-
cuse for this,’’ says Professor Davoll,
‘‘as we have been told many times how
this important pharmaceutical may be
prepared so as to keep a reasonable
length of time. It should be made often,
in small amount, and properly pre-
served. Occasional testing may be per-
formed with practically no expense.
The U. S. P. method of assay is easy
of -execution.’’ Some cochineal bugs
examined yielded 68 per cent. of ash,
whereas the Pharmacopoeia allows but
5 per cent; most of this was found to be
barium sulphite !
a
The Drug Market.

Opium—The market is advancing and

is firm.

 

Morphine—lIs unchanged.

Quinine—Is unsettled. P. & W. have
reduced their price 3c per ounce. Ger-
man and New York are as yet un-
chan ged.

Acetanilid—-Continues to decline, on
account of competition between manu-
facturers.

Castor Oil—Has advanced 4c per gal-
lon and is tending higher.

Cocaine--Is very firm at the advance.
It is reported from Lima that the price
of leaves is advancing and higher prices
are looked for.

Cocoa Butter—Has again advanced.
The market is very firm.

Cuttle Fish Bone—lIs steadily advanc-
ing.

Ergot—On account of small crop, is
advancing.

Essential Oils—Cloves have advanced.
Peppermint is firmer. Pennyroyal is
scarce and very firm. Sassafras is very
firm and advancing. Wormwood has
advanced $2 per pound in the last ten
days. There is very little to be had.

Gum Camphor—Is in a very firm po-
sition, on account of the monopoly of
the Japanese government. Japanese has
advanced and American refiners are
very firm in their views.

Linseed Oil—Is weak and lower prices

are looked for.
——_—_—_~ -0

Good Cheer.

Have you had a kindness shown?
Pass it on.

’Twas not given for you alone—
Pass it on.

Let it travel down the years,

Let it wipe another’s tears,

Till in heaven the deed appears—
Pass it on.

 

 

L. PERRIGO CO.,

Mfg. Chemists,
ALLEGAN, MICH.

Perrigo’s Headache Powders, Perrigo’s Mandrake Bitters, Perrigo’s
Dyspepsia Tablets and Perrigo’s Quinine Cathartic Tablets are
gaining new friends every day. If you haven’t already a good sup-
ply on, write us for prices.

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15 Jalapa, pr. oe | Amnatto.............. 460 50

2) Maranta, 44s........ a | Antimoni, po. . 4a 5
ie a po.. 22 Antimoniet Potass T 40@ 50
80 Rhei. .. Co Ta | Antipyrin .. @

7! Rhei, cut... @ 1 25) Antifebrin Lol @ 2

Rhei, pv. ..s..ee. 75@ 1 35| Argenti Nitra Oz... @ 650

14 Spigelia - 1. Seg «638 | AWsemicum.... . ma

25 Sanguinaria -po. 15 @ 1s | Balm Gilead Buds.. 389@ 40

35 | Serpentaria......... 400, 45 ——— a. N. .. 1 40@ 1 50
Sene ga. 40@, 45| Caleium C hlor., 18... @ 9
Smilax, officinalis HH. @ 49} Caleium Chior., %s.. @ 10

25 | Smilax, } @ 25} Caleium Chlor., Ws... @ &
Seille . “po. 3 10@ 2 Cantharides, Rus. po @ 7%

25 | Symplocarpus, Foeti- Capsici Fructus, af. @ Ww

30 das, po... |. @ 2% | Capsiei Fruetus, po. @ 15
Valeriana, Eng. po. 30 @, 25 | Capsici Fructus B, po @ 1

20| Valeriana, German. 15@ 20) Caryaphyllus..po.15 9 12@ 14

10} Zingibera........... 12@ 16) Carmine, No. 40..... @ 3 00
Zingiber j.. 2a, 27 pias a Cee = =

Cera Flava. a 2

65 / ‘Semen Coeceus .... @ #0

45} Anisum . -po. 15 @ 12) Cassia Fructus.. @ 35

35 rye (grav veleons). 137 = Centraria. . : @ 10

28 | Bird, 4a | Cetaceum. @ 4

65 2 arui. “PO. 10@ > | Chloroform ..... 50M «B83.

14] Cardamon........ ' 25a 17 75 | Chloroform, squibbs @ 110

2 | Coriandrum.. sa 4 Chloral Hyd Crst.... 1 65@ 1 90

30 | Cannabis Sativa. ia | Chondrus .. 20@ 2

60} Cydonium........... 75@ 1 00 | Cine honidine, PY. & ‘WwW 38@ 48

30} Chenopodium ....... 10@ = 12 Cinchonidine, Germ. 38@ 48

55 | Dipterix Odorate.... 1 40@ 1 50) Coenine .. 4 80@ 5 00

13 | Foeniculum.......... @ 10! Corks, list, dis. pr. ct. a

14} Foe ee po.. Ta 9} Creosotum.. @ 35

ee a 344@ 44! Creta. bbl. 75 @ 3

52| Lini, grd.....bbl. 314 4@, 4% | Creta, prep. aa @ 5

40 | Lobelia .... 35@ 40] Creta, precip........ @ 11

00 | Pharlaris Canarian.. 444 5 | Creta, open ee a 8

70 | Rapa . 44Q@ 5| Crocus ..............+.1b@ 18

30 Sinapis ‘Alba. 3 10} Cudbear,............ @ w

00 | Sinapis Nigra. 1@ 12) Cupri Sulph.......-. 64a 8

. Sipdatoun | Dextrine . Ce 7@ 10

. ae 0 Tha

59 | Frumenti, W. D. Co. 2 00@ 2 50 . “cc Sulph.. , - _

pal : a = ~ | Emery, all numbers. a 38

35 | Frumenti, D. F. R.. 2 00@ 2 25 Emery, po.. @® 6

45 | Frumenti.. 1 25 1 50 | Frgota po.70 50@ 60

g0 | Juniperis Co. O. 1 65@ 2 00 Flake wi L@ 15
Juniperis Co........175@350| Gana 1177” “@ 8
Saacharum N.E.... 1 90@ 2 10 a eee ee

25 | Spt. Vini Galli....... 1 75@ 6 50| ao a D

6 ee . 3 latin, Cooper Loe @ 60

20} Vini Oporto. ........ 1 25@ 2 00 latin, French 35@ 60

s\¥miAba....... rag2e| toe. OR &

28 : : = Glassware, flint, box 75 & 10

33 Sponges Less than box..... 70

35 | Florida sheeps’ wool Glue, brown. .......- 11@ 13

39 earriage.. 2 50@ 2 75 Glue, white. D, 28

gg | Nassau sheeps’ wool Glycerina..... 22

o5|  carriage............ 2 50@ 2 75) Grana Paradi Q 2B
<0

Velvet extra sheeps’ | Humulus..... » 55
wool, carriage. @ 150| Hydrarg Chior Mite @ 9

60 | Extra yellow sheeps’ Hydrarg Chior Cor. @ 80

20| wool, carriage. @, 1 25 | Hydrarg Ox Rub’m. @100

20 | Grass sheeps’ wool, Hydrarg Ammoniati @ 115

20/  earriage . ' @,100| HydrargUnguentum 45@ 55
Hard, for slate use. @ 7\|Hydrargyrum....... @

_.| Yellow Reef, for Ichthyobolla, Am... 65@ 75

75 slate use.. @ 1 49 | Indigo. 75Q, 1 00

50 Po : lodine, Resubi...... 3 60@ 3 70

25 OL Todoform............ @ 375

OG! Acadia 2... 3. @ 00) Lupaia........... Q@ 580

50 | Auranti Cortex.. @ BO ‘ copodium. .. 450, 50

90 = Ee sae @ =. acis ... 65@ 75

85 a @ 60! Liquor Arsen et’ Hy-

80 | Ferri fod . @ 50 rarg Iod.. @ 6
Rhei Arom.......... @ 50) | LiquorPotass Arsinit 10@ 12
Smilae “Officinalis 50@ = Magnesia, Sulph.. 2@ 3
Senega .......... 0... @ Magnesia, Sulph, bbl @ 1%

AR SOU oo sce @ Mannia, 8. F........ @ 60

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Menthol.. @ 3 00 | Setaittz pnee.. cca 20@ 22) Linseed, pure raw... 45 48
Morphia, S., P. & W. 2 20@ 2 45 | Sinapis .. @ 18) Linseed, boiled neous 46 49
Mornay § ie N.Y _ | Sinapis, opt i @ 30 Neatsfoot, winter str 54 60
Co. 2 10@ 2 35) Snu . Maecaboy, ‘De Spirits Turpentine... 52 60
Moschus Canton... @ 4 "oes . @ Al
Myristica, No. 1. 650, 80) Snuff, Seoteh, DeVo's oa «a Paints BBL. LB.
Nux Vomica.. .po. ‘5 @ 10) Soda, Boras.......... @ iI
Os Sepia... 25@ 30| Soda; Boras, po om 11/| Red Venetian....... 1% 2 @8
ae Saac, H. & P. Soda'et Potass Tart. 26@ 28 Ochre, yellow Mars. 15 2 @4
D . @ 100} Soda, Carb... 2.0... 146@  2/| Ochre, yellow Ber... 1% 2 @3
Piels Liq. N 2 gal. Soda, Bi-Carb.. 3@ 5 Putty, commercial... 2% 24@3
doz. @ 2 00 | Soda, Ash.. i. ae 4| Putty, strictly pure. 2% 24%@3
Picis Liq., quarts... @ 1 00! Soda, Sulphas..... .. @ 2) Vermilion, Prime
Picis Liq., pints. . @ 8 Spts. Cologne.. . @ 260) American : 13 15
Pil Hydrarg. .. po. @ 950) Spts. Ether Co......  50@ ° 55/ Vermilion, English.. 70@ 75
Piper Nigra.. > 22 @ 18) Spts. Myreia Dom.. @ 2 00| Green, Paris........ 134@ 17%
Piper Alba.. -_ 35 @ 30) Spts. Vini Reet. bbl. @ Green, Peninsular... 13@ 16
Piix Burgun.. . @ 7 | Spts. Vini Rect. 4bbl @ Lee, red,........... Sam 6%
Plumbi Acet......... 10@ =12) Spts. Vini Reet. 10gal @ Lead, white... 54@ 64
Pulvis Ipecae et Opii 1 30@ 1 50) Spts. Vini Reet. 5 gal @ Whiting, white Span a =
Pyrethrum, boxes H. Stryehnia, Crystal... 1 00@ 1 20 Whiting, gilders’... @ §
D. Co., doz.. @ 75)| Sulphur, Subl....... 2%@ + White, Paris, Amer @ 100
Pyrethrum, py ae 25, 30 | Sulphur, Roll........ 24@, 314) Whiting, Paris, Eng.
Quassiz . 8@ 10| Tamarinds.......... Ee @ 1 40
Quinia, S. P. & W. 34 39 | Terebenth Venice. 28@, 30) Universal Prepared. 1 00@ 1 15
Quinia, S. German...  28@, 38 Theobrome.. \ 48@ 50
Quinia, N. Y. 3@ 39/ Vanilla .............. 9 00@16 00 Varnishes
Rubia Tinctorum.. 1214 Zinei Sulph. ee es 7a 8
Saccharum Lactis pv 18s@ 20 Oil No.1 Turp Coach... 1 10@ 1 2
Salacin . 3 50@ 3 60 7 Extra Turp... .. oat
Sanguis Draconis... HQ 50. BBL. GAL. | Coach a .. 270 S@
Sapo, W. he 12@ 14| Whale, winter....... 79 70 | No.1 Turp Furn..... 1 00@ 1 10
Sapo M. ae, Moan SZ Rare extra. ........ we 60 | Extra Turk Damar.. 1 55@ 1 60
Dare G3... @ 15) Lard, No.1 35 40 Jap.Dryer,No.iTurp 70@ 75

 

 

 

 

Druggists’ 2% 2%

 

 

Sundry
Department

 

 

 

 

We Call

Special Attention

to the

Following Lines

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Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co.,
Grand Rapids, Mich.

RUBBER GOODS have advanced and will be still higher
about Sept 15th.

PIPES. We havea full line ranging from 75c to $12.00 per doz.
TABLETS. Penand pencil at attractive prices.

ATOMIZERS. Anelegant assortment of fancy perfume up
to $18.00 per dozen.

PERFUMES.

POCKET BOOKS.

COMBS, TOOTH BRUSHES, HAIR BRUSHES,
CLOTHES BRUSHES, LATHER BRUSHES,

TOILET SOAP, RAZORS,

 

 

All the leading odors from the leading manu-
facturers,

We have a full stock of -

asasasasasasasasasas as as as as 28 3 2 a3 23 8 33 3 28 33

New fall styles at attractive prices

NAIL FILES, ETC.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

ROCERY PRICE CURRENT’.

The
dealers.

possible to give quotations suitable for all conditions of

rices quoted in this list are for the trade only, in such quantities as are usually purchased by retail
They are prepared just before going to press and are an accurate index of the local market.

It is im-

purchase, and those below are given as representing av-
erage prices for average conditions of purchase. Cash buyers or those of strong credit usually buy closer than
those who have poor credit. Subscribers are earnestly requested to point out any errors or omissions, as it is
our aim to make this feature of the greatest possible use to dealers.

 

 

 

 

    

  

  

  

   

  

 

     
 
  

  

  

 

iG. P. Sprague Cigar Co.10@ 35 60 | denomination from $10 down.

1
AXLE GREASE CANNED GOODS | _ CIGARS | |
| Apples | Columbian Cigar Co’s brand. |
gross | ae | Oolmmbian of. -, 2 3868}
ON a ae 6 00} 31b, Standards...... > | Columbian Special........ 65 00 |
Castor Oil.............60 7 00) Gallons, standards. . 210) oH. & P. Drug Co.’s brands. |
Pmamond .............. 4 00 | Beans a , Tell on = oo |
Pee Se 9 00} ,,. oe ag | Fortune eller............ 35
<L Golden, tin boxes 7 9 09 | Baked ............... 75@1 30! Our Manager.............. 35 00 |
IXL Golden, tin boxes IR 7a $5 | OW 35
ica, ti 28 9 09} Red Kidney......... ( © | Ommieite ..... ...... 36 88 |
Mica, tin boxes....... rere 85 |
Paragon............ ..55 6 00 | a” Ce ae 90 | G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s brand.
BAKING POWDER | Blackberries (( |
See 75 | |
Absolute Standards a oo oo C |
%4 Ib. eans doz 45 | =e mace
Me Ib. cans doz...... {0 85 Stantaris 90 | >
. Mm ecamsaor.. 50 | Core
Acme _ ess Does - J)
44 Ib. cans 3 doz............ 45 | ZOOG.--------------- ot
“A ‘ane 9Big 7
% Ib. Cans 3 doz............ = | ae ee nae WS OW. - 35 00 |
a 61>. cans doz............1 00] Hominy | Phelps, Brace & Co.’s Brands. |
Bulk vette eee 10) Standard............. 85 | Vineente Portuondo ..357. 70 00
lp e Pr ‘ ay 7
aa ee
60z. Eng. Tumblers......... 85 Star, %Ib............ 185 |r J. Dunn & Co... 35, 70 00 |
| Star, 1 Wb... 3 asi McCoy & Co...........35@ 70 00
| Picnic Talls.......... ce The Collins Cigar Co..10@, 35 00
| Mackerel | Brown Bros....... ..-.15@ 70 00
| Mustard, 11b........ 1 75 | Banner Cigar Co. - 3800 7
eres 21b : 2 80 | Bernard Stahl Co......35@ 90 00
| Soused, 1 Ib... 1 75} Banner Cigar Co... ..10@ 35 00
| Soused? 2 Ib. 2» so | Seidenberg & Co......55@125 00 |
| Tomato, 1 Ib. 175] % 2 :
eee eo 2 $0 | Fulton Cigar Co......10@ 35 00
cw i “| A.B. Ballard & Co....357@175 00
Mushrooms | E. M. Sehwarz & Co...357110 00
Peemas. | 14@16 | San Telmo........... » 70 00
| Buttons... : 20@29 | Havana Cigar Co......18@ 35 00
Oysters | CLOTHES LINES
ic | Cotton, 40 ft. per doz........1 00 |
» ee 90 | 2 0T
ti 3 ID Co 1 55 | Cotton, 50 ft. per — ee 1 20
| ee ae | Cotton, 60 ft. per doz........1 40
; i Peaches Cotton, 70 ft. per doz.... 2... 1 60
2. CANS, ee eo RP 1 25 | Cotton, 80 ft. per doz........1 80
Ao ee oe io 20 MOM 1 65@1 90 | Jute, 60 - per — eee 80
i th. > 00 Ress Jute, 72 ft. per doz.......... 95
2" Ib. cans, 1 doz. case... .. 15 | Standard ............ 70 COFFEE
5 Ib. cans, 1 doz. case......9 | Mae 80 | oastod
El Purity Peas ak Rio
14 Ib. cans per doz........... 75 | Marrowfat .......... 1 00 ved Ose ae eee tesa a
1% Ib. cans per doz.......... 1 20) Early June.......... 1 00 Prin Sar a stiine aay acieei se a
1 Ib. cans per doz..........2 00} Early June Sifted .. 1 60 Golden eee oe .
Home Pineapple Rape
14 Ib. cans, 4 doz. ease...... a, | Gated 6. 1 25@2 75 Santos
4 ' . Tey a +) 4) 0 a 2
16 Ib. cans, 4 doz. case. .... = beeing con ttt oe SOs 2D age ae
1 Ib. cans, 2 doz. case...... 90} Pumpkin LO a es
Se By eee as
Chad oe be | PCAvenEy. as
JAXO > Se baney 85 Maracaibo
4 Ib. cans, 4 doz. case... ... 45 Raspberries Paeene as
14 Ib. cans, 4 doz. ease...... ‘>| Standard............. 6) Need ae
ee aol , a
1 Ib. cans, 2 — case.. ....1 60 Rakion Java
Jersey Cream Red Alaska.......... 436) abermor. ts
1 Ib. eans, per doz )! Pink Alaska... ; g5 | Private Growth............. 30
9 OZ. cans, per doz...........1 25 Ree oe Mandehling.......... 35
6 0z. cans, per doz........... 85 cara a eg agte pes Moch:
io i One AS). |, 3314 ci i
“Ib cigs —— “ Domestic, Mustard. 64@6% oe ea aaa dag =
ee ee >! Frene ass) SRAMOMPEREER Cs ee ee sales ve eel ee
aoe. a. — Package
1 Ib. cans 150 Strawberries oe
ca | Standard 125! Below are given New York
Peerless rane 175 | Prices on package coffees, to
Ce Cees 8 i foe ‘| which the.wholesale dealer adds
a eee Fair....... wslte sen deems ae
3 02., 6 doz. case........... --2 70) Good .......0..... u 1 00 | you credit on the invoice for the
i" : — eee : = Paneye 1 20 — of — buyer pays
OZ., 4 GOZ. Case.............4 8 : . from the market in whieh he
1Ib., 2 doz. Mage 4 00 ace Tomatoes is purchases to his shipping point,
“ ee... eee... ‘ including weight of package
OO 90 | also 3e: . a
‘K ee | also 4e a pound. In66 1b. eases
ee | We 115 the list is 10¢ per 100 Ibs. above
eee ll! 8 | CATSUP | the price in full eases.
ee sey a c | Arbuekle........ _..-.. oe
emcee | Columbia, pints. ............2 00 | Jerseys ae e
BLUING | Columbia, 's pin 125 | MeLaughlin’s XXXX

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BROOMS
No. 1 Carpet... ..............2.30|
mo. 2tare. 5|
me. sCarpe.. 1 85 |
No ACarpet.. a 45 |
feror Gem... 8 BT
Common Whisk............. 95 |
Pomey Which. | 1 00}
Warehouse...) 70 |
CANDLES
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McLaughlin’s XXXX sold to

CHEESE | retailers only. Mail all orders

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

BORG oa @12%% | direet to W. F 2Li in &
ADOY os @12% | Co. Chicaes: —-
Butternut... @l1_ | Per iaes
Carson City.......... @il |. Po moencs
ie (1214 | Valley City 44 gross. .... =.
fmbiem. A114 | Welix % eross... 1 15
Cem @12'!, | Hummel’s foil '5 gross.) 31.) 35
Gold Medal...... |. @11', | Hummel’s tin '3 gross .. 27774 43
PO circ i oe @114 CONDENSED MILK
Jersey. ee @13 : 4 doz in ease.
MIVersidG: 6k @12 ‘| Gail Borden Magic 6
Bre ie | Crown. 0 6 25
ake @70 [aI 5 U5
Pee @1\7_ | Champion ......_ 4 50
Limburger........... @13_ | Magnolia ...)1 | 4 OB
dineapple ... 2... | 50 @75 Challenge .... 1.3 35
Sap Saco... @17 ame = ee aie
CHICORY COCOA
Be 5 | James Epps & Co.’s
LC, | oe ee rece nee ln Gaetan 7 Boxes 7 bs. 40
CHOCOLATE Cases, 16 boxes....00 07177" 3
Walter Baker & Co.’s. | COCOA SHELLS
German Sweet.............. 23 OED BAGS 21
Premium .. pce reese | SO ess Gmantity i) 3
Breakfast Cocoa........... | 46 | Pound packages 0007)

 

| 5 and 10 lb. wooden boxes....

COUPON BOOKS

Tradesman Grade

50 books, any denom... 1 50
100 books, any denom... 2 50
500 books, any denom... 11 50
1,000 books, any denom... 20 00
Economic Grade
50 books, any denom... 1 50
100 books, any denom... 2 50
500 books, any denom... 11 50

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

Superior Grade

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

1,000 books, any denom... 20

Universal Grade

50 books, any denom. ..

100 books, any denom... 2

500 books, any denom...

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

 

500, any one denom...... 2 00
1,000, any one denom...... 3 00
2,000, any one denom...... 5 00

pleel pancho 75
Coupon Pass Books
Can be made to represent any

2 DOOkS 2... ee

DO DOOKS...../.... 2. 2 80
100 books......... 3 00
200 DOOKS................ 6 25
500 books................ 16 60

1,000 books........ . 17 50
CREAM TARTAR
.30
3ulk in sacks...... ae
DRIED FRUITS—Domestic
Apples

Semdried 200) a ate,
Evaporated, 59 Ib. boxes. @ 7'5

California Fruits
Apricots ......... .
Blackberries ..........
Nectarines ............
Feaenes... 3... 10 @it

@15

 

Grits
Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s Brand.

 

 

24 2 lb. packages ............1 80
100 ®. Kees (2 a8
200 tb. barrels ...............5 10
Hominy
Bares 22 Be
Flake, 50 Ib. drums.......... 1 00
Maccearoni and Vermicelli
Domestic, 10 Ib. box......... 60
Imported, 25 Ib. box......... 2 50

Pearl Barley

Common... ...
pester: eos
PRPS... es 6
+ Peas
Green, Wisconsin, bu.......1 00
Green, Seoteh, bu. ..........1 10
SPHE bn... ee
Rolled Oats
tolled Avena, bbl...........4 25
Monareh, bbl................3 90
Monarch, 's bbl.............2 13
Monarch, 90 Ib. saeks....... 185
Quaker, cases... 3 20
Huron, cases... .... --. 2 66
Sago
German
Mast India 3%
Tapioca
Hiake 0. oS
PCAN 41%
Pearl, 241 1b. packages .... 63;
Wheat
Cracked, bulk... ....:..:. 0) au
242 tb. packages ............2 50

 

PEAS

Pitted Cherries. ...... 7
Pronnelles ....-.
Raspberries ...........

California Prunes

100-120 25 Ib. boxes ...... @4
90-100 25 Ib. boxes ...... @5
80-90 £5 Ib. boxes ...... @ 5%
70 - 80 <5 Ib. boxes ...... @ 614
60 - 70 25 Ib. boxes ...... @ 63;
50-60 25 Ib. boxes ...... @8
40-5025 Ib. boxes ...... @10

30-40 25 Ib. boxes .. 2...
14 cent less in 50 Ib. eases
Raisins
London Layers 2 Crown.
London Layers 3 Crown.
Cluster 4 Crown......... 1 75
Loose Muscatels 2 Crown

 

Loose Museatels 3 Crown 6%
Loose Museatels 4 Crown 7%
L. M., Seeded, choice .. . 8
L. M., Seeded, faney .... 814
DRIED FRUITS —Foreign
Citron
behom ae
Wersicag 6 a
Currants
Pacrss, HIS 614
Cleaned, bulk ...... a
Cleaned, packages.......... 7
Peel
Citron American 19 Ib. bx...13

Lemon American 10 Ib. bx..10'4
Orange American 10 Ib. Dx .. 10! 3
Raisins

Sultana 1 Crown.............
Sultana 2 Crown ............
Sultana 3 Crown
Sultana 4 Crown.............
Sultana 5 Crown....... .
Sultana 6 Crown...... .
Sultana package ............
FARINACEOUS GOODS
Beans
Dred lima: 514
Medium Hand Picked 1 20@1 25
Brown Holland..............
Cereals
Cream of Cereal.............

 

 

  
 

Grain-O, small ..........01 |. 1 35
Grain-O, large. . 2
Grape Nuts... 0... | 35
Postum Cereal, small. ...._. 1 35
Postum Cereal, large......_ 2 25
Farina
241 1b. packages ............1 95
Bulk, per 100 Ibs........... 13 00

 

 

 

FLAVORING EXTRACTS

 

  

D. C. Vanilla D. C.'{Lemon
a 1 20 2o2...... i
3 0Z ..1 50 3 0Z 1 60
402....,.20 402 1 40
6 OZ. ..3 00 6 OZ 2 00
No. 8....4 00 No -2 40
No. 10....6 00 No. 10....4 00
No. 2 T..1 25 No. 2 T 80
No.3 T..2 00 No.3 T..1 25
No.4 T..2 40 No. 4 T..1 50
Northrop Brand

Lem. Van.
20z. Taper Panel.... 75 1 20
202, ONAL 0. ee 1 20
3 0z. Taper Panel....135 2.00

 

40z. Taper Panel....1 60 2 25
Perrigo’s
Van. Lem.
doz. doz.
XXX, 2 0z. obert....1 25 75
XXX, 402. taper....2 25 1 2
XX, 2 0z. obert......1 00
No. 2,202. obert .... 75
XXX D D ptehr, 6 0z 2 25.
XXX D D ptehr, 40z 1 75
K. P. pitcher, 6 oz... 2 25

FLY PAPER

Perrigo’s Lightning, gro.. ..2 50
Petrolatum, per doz......... 7
GUNPOWDER
Rifle—Dupont’s

eee oe
Half Kegs.......

Quarter Kegs ae 25
Pp Cams oo 30
% i. Cane... ... 18

Choke Bore—Dupont’s
MOPS ee
Half Rees... 2 22.
Quarter KRégs ....... 00.
£ 3D. CAMS.

Eagle Duck—Dupont’s

Meee eee
Halt Kees... 2 oS
Quarter Kegs .............-. 2 2
$A CANS ee

  

 

 

   

  

 

 

 

HERBS
Oe
HORS 15

INDIGO
Madras, 5 Ib. boxes ........... 55
S. F., 2, 3 and 5 Ib. boxes... ...50

JELLY
oe
oot. Pas 62

LICORICE
ee ee a 8p
Oateoria ge 95
PRCMY sce use
OGG ae
LYE
Condensed, 2 doz............ 1 20
Condensed, 4 doz............2 25
MATCHES
Diamond Match Co.’s brands.
No. 9 siphur. 7 1 65
Anchor Parlor ..............1 70
No. 2 Home... st 0
Export Parlor...............4 00
Wolverine. 00... 5. lr 35
MOLASSES
New Orleans
Bigen ll
Hoar = 14
eeg 20
ancy... ... Ss 24
Open Kettle...............25@35
Half-barrels 2¢ extra
MUSTARD
Horse Radish, 1 doz......... 1 75
Horse Radish, 2 doz......... 3 50
Bayle’s Celery, 1 doz........ 175
PICKLES

Medium
Barrels, 1,200 count ......... 5 25
Half bbls, 600 count......... 313

Small
Barrels, 2,400 count ......... 6 25
Half bbls, 1,200 count .......3 63

PIPES
Clay, Noo 26s 170
Clay, T. D., full ecount....... 65
Cop, NOS. 85

POTASH
48 cans in case.
DAVOMG Re 4 00
Penna Salt Co.’s............. 3 00
" RICE
Domestic
Carolina head... .. 6%
Carolina No.1.... 5
Catoima No.2. 4
BrOKGH se
Imported.
Japan, No. 1............5%@6
Japan, No. 2............4%@5
Java, fancy head........5 @5%
Java, NO.1..............5 @
SIO oe

SALERATUS
Packed 60 Ibs. in box.

 

    

Chureh’s Arm and Hammer.3 15
Delian so ee
Dwight’s Cow. ee es
Paabiem ke 3 50
oe 3 00
Segoe. ee 3 15
Wyandotte, 100 348.......... 3 00
SAL SODA
Granulated, bbis............ 80
Granulated, 100 lb. cases.... 80
Lamp, BOIS...
Lump, 145 Ib. kegs... 80

SALT
Diamond Crystal
Table, cases, 24 3 Ib. boxes..1 50
Table, barrels, 1003 Ib. bags.2 75
Table, barrels, 407 Ib. bags.2 40

   

Butter, barrels, 280 Ib. bulk.2 25

Butter, barrels, 20 141b.bags.2 50

Butter, sacks, 28 Ibs......... 25

Butter, sacks, 56 Ibs......... 55

Common Grades

100 3 Ib. sacks................1 95

GOS i). sacks: 2. es 1 80

2810 ID SSOKS.. 25s 1 65
Warsaw

56 Ib. dairy in drill bags. .... 30

28 Ib. dairy in drill bags..... 15

Ashton

56 Ib. dairy in linen sabks... 60
Higgins

56 Ib. dairy in linen sacks... 60

Solar Rock

SG TO. SACHS oo a 21
Common

Granulated Fine............ 60

| Medium Fine................ 70

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AS. 8. KIRK & 60.’ BRAND

American eo. — -2 66
Dome... ie oe 9o
Cabinet. .2 20
Savon..... 2 50
White Russian 2 35
White Cloud, laundry. -6 25
White Cloud, toilet.. 1213 50
Dusky Diamond, 50 6 02... ..2 10
Dusky Diamond, 50 8 oz..... 3 00
Blue — 100 % Ib.........3 00
Kirkoline. : ..3 50
Eos. ..2 50
Scouring

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

Boxes...

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SALT FISH
Cod
Georges cured......... @5
Georges genuine...... @ 5%
Georges selected... .. @6
Strips or bricks....... 6 @9
Herring
Holland white hoops, bbl. 9 25
Holland white hoops'sbbl. 5 25
Holland white hoop, keg.. 70
Holland white — — 85
Norwegian .. :
Round 100 Ibs.. 3 10
Round 40 Ibs... 1 40
OR oe, ae 15
Mackerel
Mess 100 Ths. .............: 15 00
Mess 401bs. ol 6 Se
Mess 10 Ibs. 1 65
Mess 8 lbs. > 235
No. 1 100 Ibs. - 13
NO. 1 40 1ps. 3... 5 68
Net 16M Ss ae
NOD GIbSo ee oe ee
NO. 21007bs. .............. 1
NO. 2 406020 .. 490
INO. 2 TOTS: 2 238
NO.2 SIPS on ee
Trout
NG. TIO0 Ts...
me.2 a0 iia
NOs) IR tis
MO. 0 Sips.
Whitefish
No.1 No.2 Fam
160 ths... 700 650 2 25
40 10s. ..:.... 310 290 1 20
a0 fe...) 85 80 38
8 10s...... .. 71 66 33
SEEDS
Anise . oe
Canary, Smy: eae eae 4
Caraway ... Sa
Cardamon, Malabar... ....... 60
Celery.. oe
Hemp, Russian. . 4%
Mixed Bir. tees de
Mustard, white.. a
Poppy...... 10
Te ee 414 |
Cuttle Bone.. ee ee |
SNUFF
Scotch, in bladders.. 37 |
Maceaboy, in jars... : =
French Rappée, in jars... Fy
SOAP |

TITS J

Single box.. oe oo
5 box lots, delivered . fe 80
10 box lots, delivered .. 2 75

 
 

Kegs, English. _
SPICES

Whole Sifted
PENPOe ee
Cassia, China in mats.....
Cassia, Batavia, in bund..
Cassia, Salgon, in rolls
Cloves, Amboyna.

Cloves, Zanzibar......... : 12
Mace, Batavia............. 55
Nutmegs, gs 60
Nutmegs, No. 1. 50
Nutmegs, No. 2 45
Pepper, Singapore, black. 13
Pepper, Singagore, white. 16
Pepper, shot. 2.5.3... 15
Pure Ground in Bulk
Allspice... 14
Cassia, Batavia. seid 30
Cassia, Saigon............. 40
Cloves, Zanzibar........_.. 14
Ginger, Afriean.. Sates 15
Ginger, Cochin............ 18
Ginger, Jamaica.......... 23
Mace, Batavia............. 65
ee 18
WPMORS ke 50
Pepper, Singapore, black. 15
Pepper, Singapore, white. 22
Pepper, Cayenne.......... 20
BOS6 15

      
 

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

 

 

 

 

a Corn

40 1-Ib. packages. . ie.

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

40 1-Ib. packages...........

6 Ib-boxes.. |

Diamond

64 10e packages.

128 5¢ packages... .

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Common Corn
20 1-Ib. packages. . 5
= 1-lb. packages. . oe
Common Gloss
“Lb. packages... 414
3-lb. packages... 414
6-lb. packages... 5
40 and 50-Ib. boxes.. 3
Barrels. . s a
“sy RUPS
Corn
Barrels.. 17
Half bbls... ee 2
1 doz. 1 gallon cans. 290
1 doz. % yallon Cans. ........1 70
2°doz. 14 galloneans.........1 70
Pure Cane
Pa ee
COOE i ae
Chere a 25
SUGAR
Below are given New York

| prices on sugars, to which the |

wholesale dealer adds the local
_ freight from New York to your

| | ship ding point, giving youc redit

on the invoice for the amount
of freight buyer pays from the
market in which he purchases
to his shipping point, including
20 pounds for the weight of the
barrel.

  

Domino.. 5 53
Cc ut Loaf.. 5 66
| Crushed.. 5 69
P ‘owdered . 5 25
| XX XX Powdered. 5 31
Cubes.. ue oe
Standard Granulated. |). 5 19
Standard Fine Granulated 5 19
Above ee in 5
Ib. ba 8 2a
Above Granulated jn 2

Ib. bags. 5 25
Extra Fine Granulated... 5 31
Extra 2 oarse Granulated. 5 31
Mould . 544
se moanna Confee. A. . &19
Confee. — SA. . 494
No. 1... _.. £2
No. 2... 4 69
No. 3... 4 69
No. 4... 4 63
Be. &... 4 56
No. 6... 4 50
No. 7..; 444
me. So 4 38
No. ‘9... 4 31
No. 10... 419
No. 11... 4 06
No. 12... 4 00
No. 13... 4 00
No. 14... 3 94
No. 15... 3 94
No. 16.: 3 94

TABLE SAUCES
LEA &
PERRINS’
SAUCE

The Original and
Genuine
Worcestershire.

Lea & Perrin’s, large...... 3 75
Lea & Perrin’s, small..... 2 50
Halford, large. -... -. 3... SZ
Halford, small............. 2 25
Salad Dressing, large..... 4 55
Salad Dressing, small. .... 2 75

VINEGAR
Malt White Wine, 40 grain.. 714

Malt White Wine, 80 —. 11

 

 

 

Pure Cider, Red Star.. -12
Pure Cider, Robinson..... ..12
Pure Cider, Silver........... 134
WASHING eam et
Birks Fos...
wre 3 7
Roseine.. ein iatoc aye Se oe
Nine O’clock.............. 3 50
Babbitt’s 1876.............. 2 50
Sole nse. 4 25
Johnson’s . a.
Swift’s .... | 2
Rub-No-More.............. 3 50
Pearline, 100 6s............ 3 30
Pearline, 361s............. 2 85
Snow _ ae 2 35
Liberty . “11S oe
WICKING.
«25
200
Ww OODEN WARE
Baskets

Bushels eonsice ee
Bushels, “wide band... 1.211) 110
Market .. er
Willow Clothes, large. ......6 25
Willow Clothes, medium... 5 50
Willow Clothes, small.......5 00

 

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Candies

f
No. 1 Oval, 250 in crate...... 1 aa | I resh Me: Als
eg 2 Oval, in erate......: 00 | — ee <3
No. 3 Oval, in crate......§ i “Beef | Stick Candy
No. 5 Oval, 250 in crate... ._..2 60 | Wheat Carcass. ea aie hia, pe uils
Clothes Pins . 66 | Forequarters ....... 6 @ 6%| Standard... _.. 7 @7 4
Boxes, gross boxes... ew settee ees . 64 ee FS ....... 8%@10'4 | Standard H. H ._ © ete
Mop Stic eo Winter Wheat Flour Loins No. 3. 12 @l4 | Standard Twist..... 74@8
Trojan spring . 9 00) Local Brands SO ial 14 | Cut Loaf... .. “@ 8%
Eclipse patent spring ..9 00} ce ee Rounds. foster escent aS cases
No 1 common. ‘g 09 | Patents .. 4 00 | Chucks ............. 6 @ 6% | Jumbo, 32 Ib.... @ 6%
No. 2 patent brush holder __9 00 | Second | Ri So wees ee eG Extra H.H @ 8%
12 tb. cotton mop heads..... 125 6 —: 3 a Pork Boston Cream. @10
Pails eae | 3 59 | Dressed . @6 Mixe nd c andy
2-hoop Standard... La Pee eee a | ieneera c @ 6
Buckwheat . : bl ;
3-hoop Standard.. -.--1 50] Rye. Soe ounces... @ 7 | Competition. - @ 6%
2 wire, a: tererseeees s+. 35] Subject to usual cash dis-| Leaf Lard.......... @ 6% | Standard.. @7
3-wire, Cable. 1 count. Mutton | Conserve... @ 7%
Cedar, all red, brass bound 1 Flour in bbls., 25¢ per Dbl. ad- | Careass 4 ok | Owen os... @ 7%
Paper, Eureka. ---2.25) ditional. Spring Lambs.....1. 8 @10 | oe et @ 8%
a Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand Weal ee ~ poo Loca a 8%
20-inch, Standard, No.1.....5 so | Daisy ys betes cere ees : 3 60 | Carecass...... 8144@ 9 | English Rock. @ 8%
18-inch. Standard. No oe ae | ey ee ee . Kindergarten ....... @ 8%
16-inch, Standard, No.3. ....3 8 Daisy les. oe 3 60 a ; | French Cream....... @ 9
20-inch, Dowell, No. 1.......3 2 Worden Groce re 0s Brand | C1 a ket > a art vtec @ 8!
ae ach, Dowell, No.2. ......5 25| Quaker 4s:................ 3} —_—_—— : aaa on
1-inech, Dowell, No. 3.......4 25| Quaker 14s 360) The National Biseuit Co. | yonpy Za ah
—oe . Quaker ‘4s. 3 60 quotes as follows: | I i = a - She
ore ao | ancy n Bu
No. 3 Fibre. . 6 Spring Wheat Flour Butter | San Blas Go dies >
Seymour XXX 5M | ; Sviringa @n
Wash ‘Boards Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brand S —— ae XXX, ‘Sib earto ‘ 2 | Lozenges, plain .... @9
Bronze Globe....... 2 Pillsbury’s Best tgs... 35 as ily XXX carton | Lozenges, printed. @9
Dewey ... ee >) Pusbary S Best %es....... 425} SaltedXXX_— aie | Choe. Drops. .. vs @N
Double Acme.. oe Pillsbury’s Best “s....... 4.15) 2! '" giz | Eclipse C hocolates, @12%
Single Aeme.................2 Pillsbury’s Best ‘gs paper. 4 15 to York XXX.. - 51] Choe. Monumentals. @12"%
Double Peerless.............3 Pillsbury’s Best 44s paper. 4 15 i _- . o | Gum Drops.... @ 5
Single Peerless.. ..275| Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand | ee ones ' Moss Drops @ 8%
Northern aocee - 2 25 | Soda Sour Drops.... @ 84
Double — ..3 00} oe 6 | Epering............ @ 9%
Good Luek . 2% Soda XXX, 3 Ib. carton 644 | Ital. Cream Bonbons
Universal. . of. oe Soda, City. 8 | eee pails. .. @i
Wood Bow te u sland Wafers....... 11 | Molasses C hews, 15
11 in. Butter... ee L. I. Wafers, 1 Ib. carton.. 12 |. Ib. pails... @13
13 in. Butter. "1 00 | Zephyrette .... 10 Jelly Date Squares @10'4
15 in. Butter... | : : 1 oa ee Oyster | Teed Marshmeliows. M4
2 in. ee ree eens ee es 2 BO Saltine Wafer. . Fancy-In 5 Ib. Boxes
i Mi ueeer. de Saltine Wafer, 1 1b. carton | Lemon Drops @50
21 in. Butter... ~+-oe OO Farina Oyster... |. 644 | Sour Dropa,.... @50
‘ oe CAKE Extra Farina Oyster...... 6 | Feppermint Drops.. @60
east Foam, 1'4 doz - BB » | {nocolate Drops G65
Yeast Foam, 3 doz...... .1 00 wees Geeke—Bonce Ht. M. Choe. Drops. . @75
Yeast Cream. 3 doz... 1 00 Animals . .. . 10'2 | H. M. Choe. Lt. and
Magie Yeast 5e. 3 doz. "1 00 Bent’s Water . 15 Dk. No. 12 aoe aw
Sunlight Yeast.3doz.... ||], 1 00 | Cocoanut Tatty -«- 10 | Gum Drops. @30
Warnef’s Safe, 3 doz...) 1 00 | Cofiee Cake, Java. ........ 10 | acorn Drops... .. 75
Coffee Cake, Leed 10 | A.B. Licoriee Drops 50
= “; © oo ae | Lozenges, plain add
Cubans,..... 11's | Lozenges, printed 5D
7 ° oh
I ov isions Frosted Cream - ' 8 | Impe rials. : — db
ona oe Ginger Gems..... = Mottoes ... 60
Swift & emisain quote as | Ginger Snaps, XXX.. - 72| Cream Bar.. (55
follows | (raha = ore. ........ 8 | Molasses Bar........ abd
i tee iva 1am Waters. 10 Hi: ind Made C reams. 80 @90
none. arreled Fork yg) Duluth tmperet Se" $38 | Granda Cakes: "9. | Grama Pe
ak s0@ | Duluth Imperial 48.01.) 4.05 Imperial. 8 | and Wink... @b5
de 050@ oe » | Jumbles, Hone 1246 | String Rock... ||| «60
Cie i bag @10 75| Lemon & Wheeler CC o.’s Brand | Marshmallow .. . = Burnt Almonds.....125 @
— cut.. @10 50 | Gold Medal \%s...... 4 25) Marshmallow Creams..... 16 | Wintergreen Berries (55
iB @14 00 | Gold Medal 4s. 415 Marshmallow Walnuts.... 16 | Peumian
oe _ pe 2 Gold Medal 48 . os 405| Mich. Frosted Honey.... 12! [N r Lan ”
@ Parisian 4s. . 4 25 | Molasses Cakes ee, ov. SW ee 3 Ib.
ay Pa 415} New _. 12 boxes... @50
ne sora G | Partin Ms 4 05 rae acs 8 |-
riskets . 54 ‘ range ( ems. a et
Extra shorts. By | Olney & ‘tadieont s Brand __ Penny Assorted Cakes... 8h | k r uits
Smoked Meats eresota '@S............... 435} Pretzels, hand made.. ‘ a
r . Ceresota 4s... ... S20) Seu DMNOR. ll. OT | re
Hams, 121b. average. @t | Gecsote ua A is) | Spec pees ‘ a Oranges:
Hams, 14]b. average. ieee a any "| re — cae ena sal 8 | Faney Rodi’s. @6 00
_— — average, @, 11 Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand | — ee eas - | Sorrentos .. @5 50
ams, average. 0s | Pawnee ee | oe se a
Ham dried beef. . @ 16% | Laurel is. | gas | Seen. 12%) Le mons
Shoulders (N.Y. eut) @ 7 Laurel 148 igi on Strictly choice 360s.. @b5 00
acon. clear. ........ 7@ 7% 7 ey : | Strictly choice 300s.. @sd 00
California hams. .... @ 6% Meal I ily an 1 Oyst sters | Fancy 300s...... (a5 50
Boneless hams... .. @ 34 | Botlet tse i™ x. Baney 300s. (@5 50
Cooked ham......... 10 @ 15 Granelated.-.. 0... 0-02... 210 Fresh Fish Sineinenne
Lards—In Tierces Ne Mi i Per Ib. | Medium bunches. 1 0O@1 25
Compound.. 4% |. » oe and Millstuffs White fish. . @ 10 | Large bunches. 1 50@1 75
Kettle.. 2 6 | St. Car Feed, screened .... 16 00 Trout.. a @ io | Bacud nee OE
55 Ib. Tubs. advance a, | No. 1 Corn and Oats...... 15 50) Black Bass. 8@ 10 | oreign Dried Fruits
80 Ib. Tubs..advanee 1, | Unbolted Corn Meal...... 14 50 | Halibut ...... ee Figs
59 Ib. Tins... .advance a, | Winter Wheat Bran... 14 00 | Ciscoes or Herring. @ 4 | Californias, Faney.. (13
20 Ib. Pails. advance s, | Winter Wheat Middlings. 15.00, Bluefish. --- @ iW | Choiee, 10 Ib. boxes. @12
10 Ib. Pai advanee | eRCCIMEPS 8,00, 14.00) Live Lobster @ 20 | Extra Choice, 10 Ib.

5 1b. Pails..advance 1 Coun Boiled Lobster. @ 2 |. bexet tee. (16
3 1b. Pails..advance 14 | New corn, car lot art pane os ttsseeeese @ 10 | Faney, 12 Ib. boxes.. (a2
Sz | ew CC i S..+...+. 35% A Ta | Imperial Mikados, 18

Bologna spunlasuiia eta Less than ear lots. ... 36% | No. 1 Pickerel......... @ 10 | Met boxes. rl @
Liver . ei nee 7 | Oats 2 mod cence eee @ 8 | | Pulled, 6 Ib. boxes. (a
Pre | 26 verch. poeta Bo | Naturals, in bags @7
. rankfort « . iw lots.. aictc tas terete ss 26 Smoked White. @ 8 4
ee cee ces 3% | Car lots, Clipped. . Peak oe . | Dates
Blood 6% | Less than ear lots. 3z | Red Snapper. oF |
Tome gt ee stoests | Col River Salmon. . @ 13 1 “ards in 10 Ib. boxes (410
ony ea uh ; | Hay Mackerel . @ 20 | Fards in 60 Ib. cases. @ 6
Beef | No. 1 Timothy car lots.... 10 00 Oysters in Cans. eo ee co i os
Extra Mess.......... 10 2s No. Scared ton lots.... 12 00 E. H. Counts... 40 | Sairs, 60 Ib. cases... @5
soneless. . 12 a — F. J. D. Selects. .. 35 til
Rump ...... a 12 00 | Sele = : o— — a
JF ilec < ) F. J. D. Standards 26 | N
Pigs’ Feet | a » ve Stand: 2 | Nuts
Kits.15 pe | Hides an p elts ¥.35.D. | m = as
4 dbis., 40 Ibs... 1 35 | ————— | cs, : 20 Almonds, Tarragona @16
% bbls., 80 Ibs.. 250; The ‘appon & Bertsch Leather Bulk. gal. | a Pheer wea (@l4
- ‘a Tripe | ie 100 Canal Street, quotes as! F. H. Counts...... 200 aaa an
its, 15 Tps.......... 70 | follows: : | Extra Selects. 1 75 | : <9
4 bblis., 40 Ibs... .. 1 25 | Hides | Selects......... cons vee OP me eno =
¥% bbls., 80 Ibs. . 2 25! Green No.1......... @ 8 | Anchor Standards.......... 1 25 | Walitite, Granobies. (ais,
Casings Green No.2... ...... @7 | ae ee 1 | W ahsuts! ¢ Calif No. 1. @ll ’
Pork . ie 20) PA @é6 | Shell Goods. iW jalnuts, soft shelled
Beef rounds......... 3 | | Cured No. 1... a @ 9 | clams, per 100......... 00; California . @i1
ae 6 C neane ance en No.1 @ : | es per 100.....-. 1 25@1 50 | Bore — fancy... (@
: d . bl | Table Nuts, choice.. @
Butterine | Calfskins,gr a. 2 @ as es | Pecans, Med.. @ 7%
Rolls, dairy.. . 11 | Serene e-3 @I \% Oils — Pecans, Ex. Large.. @9
Solid, dairy. 10% | Calfskins,cured No.2 ee amc a en __ | Peeans, Jumbos. .... @12
Rolls, creamery. 154% | Pelts hoon | Hic kory Nuts per bu.
Solid, creamery. . ae 14% ilies eam aos “a ne # arrels og Ghia dew. a 60
Canned Meats | y CACN........-. ocene “A | Coeoanuts, full sac ‘KS @3 50
Corned beef, 2 1b 2 2 | Tallow Perfection. @11 | Chestnuts, per bu. @
Corned beef, 14 Ib... 16 00 | No.1 @ 3% XXXW.W. Mich. Hdit = @i1_ | iii. :
ast beef, 21D... Si wae @ 2% | W. W. Michigan ...... @104 | : §
Roast beef, 2 1b...... NO. See ee ee eee ee eee nee omens White. . @ 9% | Faney, H. P., Suns.. 7
on a ? = Wool | D., S. Gas. @11%; | Fancy, H. P., Flags
eo ; lachod fine... @1e | Deo. Naphtha... @i1% | Roasted . @7
Deviled he if oo Washed, dices. i @20 ee E. ie 1.29 @34 | cee = re Esta @5
“\s_. JInwashed, fine. .... @i2 | Engine .......: on Qt loice xtras
Sere tongue, ol 0 | Unwashed, medium. 14 @16 | Black, winter... @9 | Roasted. @6
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_Hardware _

A pieniliiin: in Stoves.

Any method of store arrangement that
will enlarge the possibilities of business
without adding too much to the expense
account is a matter worthy the attention
of the merchant. Here is a suggestion
for the stove trade.

Stoves and ranges are generally ar-
ranged in a more or less definite way
either on the floor or a raised platform.
They are on exhibition as well as on
sale and the dealer naturally desires to
have them at all times ina position
where their best points can be seen and
examined. This end, however, is not
best attained by following the present
method of arrangement. If, for in-
stance, the goods are arranged in two
lines with but a narrow space between
the lines, it is difficult to get at even all
the exterior points without moving the

goods out into a more open space. A
customer very seldom cares to purchase
without examining all the working

parts, and this can not be done under
the system now in vogue without causing
unnecessary trouble and delay, with the
possibility of missing a sale.

The stove truck, commonly used in
moving and shipping goods of this
class, can be given a wider and a profit-
able employment in stove arrangement.
Supposing that a dozen samples are
kept on exhibition. As many trucks
may be purchased and used as movable
platforms. The stoves can then be
easily moved out into the aisle for pur-
poses of examination, or, what is better
still, a clear space can be left at one
end of the store and the stoves wheeled

out into a position where all their best
talking points can be demonstrated to

the greatest advantage. This will add
to the convenience of the purchaser and
have a more practical utility in enabling
him to see the whole and not merely a
part of his contemplated purchase.

The truck system as here suggested
has an equally desirable use in another
direction: It frequently happens that
the dealer keeps all of his exhibition
stock in one position throughout the
selling season, never making any changes
and permitting regular visitors to see

the same old uniformity every time they
call. They see nothing new in arrange-

ment or display and pay no attention to
the goods because they see nothing to
attract it. Stove positions should be
regularly changed. Once a week is not
too often and twice a week is much
better. This can be easily and quickly
done by using the trucks, whereas it
would require much time and _ consider-
able trouble when the stoves are not so
mounted. Any system of regular changes
by an easy method has a great deal to
commend it. The cost of the trucks is
but little as compared with the advan-
tages they present, and this is more
than compensated for by the greater
facilities for making sales and the in-
creased attractiveness of the store.—
Stoves and Hardware Reporter.
2. __
The Hardware Market.

There is little change in the character
of demand for hardware and related
goods, there being a good business do-
ing, nearly all houses in the manufac-
turing and jobbing lines finding their
ability taxed to take care of current
trade. The strength of the market con-
tinues to hold and upward movements
in prices are being made on nearly all

lines. The greatest difficulty at the
present time is on the part of manufac-
urers in obtaining raw material with

 

 

which to manufacture goods, thus caus-
ing great disappointment to the jobber,
who is also obliged to disappoint the
retailer. The recent advances are in
nearly all cases fully maintained by all
jobbers except occasionally by some
one who may have an overstock on
some particular line who desires to
realize rather than carry it any length
of time.

Wire Nails and Wire—Another ad-
vance of 15c per cwt. has been made by
the American Steel & Wire Co., which
makes the second advance to take place
since September 1, and prices are as

follows: f. 0. b. Pittsburg, 30 days net,
carlots, $2.95; in less than  carlots,
$3.05. Jobbers from stock are getting
at present time $3.20. In barbed wire
quotations are as_ follows: painted
barbed in carloads, $3.40; less than
carloads, 3.50 f. 0. b. mill, or from

Galvanized wire
I5c per cwt. be-

jobbers’ stocks, $3.70.
takes an advance of
yond these prices.

Shovels and Spades —The manufac-
turers of shovels and spades at a recent
meeting advanced prices on everything
in that line Soc per dozen

Coil Chain—The market in coil chain
has been characterized by a steady and
strong tone and prices have been ad-
vanced during the last week 25c per
cwt.

Poultry Netting-—-While this is not the
time of year at which poultfy netting is
sold, the price has materially advanced,
making the bottom quotation as now
given out by jobbers at 80 per cent.,
and this price is only for shipment prior
to October 1, 1899.

Axes—The axe market is firm and
great difficulty is experienced in getting
orders filled, as the manufacturers are
bothered in getting steel in sufficient
quantities to take care of their current
wants.

Registers—At a recent meeting of
manufacturers an advance of about 14
per cent. was made and jobbers are now
quoting japanned registers at 30 yer
cent. off and white registers at 25 per
cent. off. The advance has been ren-
dered necessary by the high price of
iron,

Mrs. Potts’ sadirons
vance has been made
sadirons, which are now quoted as _ fol-
lows: No. 50 at $1 per set and No. 55
at 95c per set.

Miscellaneous—We would call atten-
tion to the following prices which are
now quite generally being quoted by
the jobbing trade: Long trace chain,
50c pair; tool steel, toc per pound;
sleigh shoe steel, 4%c; toe calk steel,
4%c; doors, 50 per cent. discount ;
opened and glazed sash, 60 and 5 per

A. radical ad-
in Mrs. Potts’

cent.; socket firmer chisels, 70 per
cent. ; American horse nails, 12c per
pound.

—__tes_____
Pushing the Range Peddlers.

Peddlers of steel ranges will not have
an easy time of it in South Dakota if
the Retail Merchants’ Association of
that State continues its present warfare
against them. Through prosecution in-
tended to enforce the payment of a fee
for a license in each county, they have
compelled the peddlers to keep con-
stantly on the move, and_ have also
made the selling of their goods a more
expensive matter than was calculated
upon. The methods used by the Asso-
ciation are thus described by the Mitch-
ell Republican:

When the steel range stove peddlers

came into Davison county to sell their
stoves they conformed with the peddlers’

license law and took out a license, and!

 

they did the same thing in Douglas
county. After finishing their work in
this county the peddlers traveled West
into Brule county and attempted to sell
their goods on the license procured in
this county. They were successful for the
time being and made several sales, but
they were finally apprehended and two
of the peddlers were placed under arrest
at the instance of hardware dealers at
Kimball. One of the peddlers was fined
and paid $50 and costs, while the other
was held to the Circuit Court for trial
at the December term. The hardware-
men out that way are determined to
make a case against them for every
stove they have sold unless they comply
with the law.
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

23

 

TRUST TALK.
Plea for Less Condemnation and More
Toleration.
Written for the Tradesman.

The recent convention of ‘‘men of
wisdom’’ held in Chicago to discuss
this thing they call an ‘‘octupus,’’
named by others trust, suggests many
and new thoughts to us who are less
wise perhaps, but who are no less inter-
ested. in the welfare of our country.
What seems especially odd is that few
of those who spoke on this occasion
offered even a suggestion of remedy for
this great evil against which they went
all the way to Chicago to warn us, and
the few who did offer remedies did so
in so halting and unsure a way that one
would be inclined to submit to the evil
rather than undertake a remedy which
might be worse. Trusts may be very,
very bad for some of us, and they are,
no doubt, equally very, very good for
others; hence we have the usual ‘‘two
sides to the question.’’ Just now the
popular side seems to be anti-trust, and
from that side we will view the ques-
tion.

Viewing the trust and all the condi-
tions it creates from a strictly imper-
sonal standpoint, it seems very simple
and very tractable, if managed. No less
a man than Solomon says Wisdom is
better than strength,’’ and it was Dio-
genes who said, ‘‘It is better to be wise
and manage well than to be innocent
and mean well.’’ No doubt the mem-
bers of Chicago’s Civic Federation and
those who spoke on this question ‘‘mean
well,’’ but are they wise? Is it ever
wise to agitate any question? Why do
we not carry into public life the homely
rule we use in private life, ‘*The least
said the soonest mended?’’ lf talking
of, thinking of, and writing about a
thing—either in favor of or against it-
does not nurture and develop that thing,
why do we as Americans so quickly
squelch those who undertake to discuss
socialism and its kindred ideas? Noth-
ing can thrive which is ignored. lf Mr.
Head, as chairman, had exacted from
every man present at the meetings of
that convention an oath which would
have bound him not to utter the word
‘‘trust’’ for six months, every trust now
in existence would have died a natural
death before then. The Good Book tells
us that as a man thinketh so he is, and
our Nineteenth Century man is so very
prone to speak as well as think that he
not only makes himself, but likewise
his neighbor. Three or four years ago
some hot-headed fellow said, quite ear-
nestly,no doubt,‘‘I think we ought to go
down to Cuba and lick those Span-
iards.’’ Good idea,’’ responds  an-
other. ‘‘Blest if 1 don’t think so, too,’’
and so from the expressed thought of
one the war fever spread, and the end
is not yet. Over the whole globe it still
surges and we have ‘‘wars and rumors
of wars.’’

Business was bad-——prices all cut to
pieces—the traveling men, in order to
meet competition, were just giving away
stuff—Jones met Brown—they compared
notes—things looked pretty bad—Jones
said, ‘‘If your salesman wouldn't cut
prices below cost mark | might pull
through—’’ Brown retorts, ‘‘ You let ,up
and so will I.’’ ‘‘Good! Shake!’’ and
a combination, an embryo trust, was
formed.

Jones and Brown at once begin to
show evidences of prosperity. Together
they can buy better and together they
can sell better. They draw about them
other manufacturers in the same line.
Still others, noting the advantage of

 

combination, follow their example. The
plan grows, always with increasing
rapidity, until now we have combina-
tions of capital, combinations of every
known and many unknown branches of
labor and, if the Chicago papers are to
be believed, a combination of idleness
a‘’ Tramp Trust.’’ And really what’s
the odds? The men composing and
managing the affairs of these great trusts
are just men—common everyday men
with souls and hearts and kindliness of
feeling, just like you and me. They
wouldn't crush an angle-worm, much
less you and me. Even admitting their
greed and heartlessness and power, are
we wise, are we ‘‘managing well’’
when we confess our own weakness and
exaggerate to them their strength? I
have heard an expression that, homely
as it is, seems apt to define our attitude
toward these conditions which we have
ourselves created. We have ‘‘talked too
much with our mouths.’’ When we have
learned that silence is indeed golden,
we will of ourselves have solved this
problem, and many others beside. To
give voice to a thought is a mighty re-
sponsibility, which should not be as-
sumed lightly. Would the man who
said, ‘‘Let’s lick Spain,’’ be willing to
answer for all the bloodshed, and the
tears which his thought has cost? Are
we who are now crying,‘** Down with the
trusts!’’ willing to face the results, what-
ever they may be? When we _ have
downed the trust—a condition we have
established—what then? No one _ has
yet answered. What is to be gained by
constantly tearing down? Why _ not
build? Why constantly place the ‘‘to
have’’ higher than the ‘‘to be’’ or con-
fide more in the power of mammon than
mind? According to the present Amer-
ican notion a man is nothing if he have
nothing, but does having a few dollars
in one’s pocket mean all of life? Is the
air any more the President's to breathe
than it is mine? Is the grass more green
or do the trees afford a cooler shade | in
Rockefellow’s front yard than in ours?
Do the birds sing more sweetly to Hav-
emeyer than to us? In fact, what has
any man that is worth having that we
have not alse? When we have considered
the value of our own possessions, learned
the wisdom of silence and the effect our
thoughts may produce, and then remem-
ber that all men are our brothers, we
will have arrived at a point where trusts
will be the tiny fly and we the full
armoured giants. Suppose we try it.

iL. AL
+» 2.

Suggestions for Show Cards.

Our buyer is in the market purchas-
ing fall goods. Next week will be our
‘*shelf clearing sale.’’

Prosperity in reality is here. You are
now able to be economical and buy good
merchandise.

We bought ata bargain some snaps in
shoes. Lay in your fall supply while
this bargain opportunity lasts.

All the year around goods at special
time prices.

It will pay you to anticipate your
wants. We mean to encourage early
buying.

You can see the reason. If we sell
these goods now we can reinvest our
money before the season is over. The
prices prove this is a rare opportunity.

‘Use them for house wear or save them
until next summer. They are at half

price.
———_—<.-2 <<

Life is short, and a fool with the best
of intentions can do more mischief in a
minute than he can pay for ina life-
time.

 

_ Hardware Price Current

hie and Bits
Snell’s . eee Cela ec, 70

 

Je nnings* ge nuine. 25&10
Jennings’ imitation.. aa 60&10
Axes
First Quality, 8. B. Bronze... .......... 6 00
First Quality, D. B. PEONZO.. 22... 10 00
First Quality, 8. B.S. Steel... 01... 6 50
First Quality, D. B. “Steel. Boe 11 50
Barrows
en Sam sn 14 00
Ge eee Be en
Bolts
Stove ...... a 60
Carriage, new | list. peace cs 50
Plo en oe a 50
Mucets
Well, plain .. $3 50
Butts, Cast
Cast Loose Pin, figured . TO&10
Wrought Narrow ....... fe alsa TO0&10
Cavtridges
Bim Pie a. 40&10
Central Fire . ieee a ctuc ey ee eyo cu 20
Chain

14 in. 5-16 in. 36 in. % in.
Com. . oe .. oe... € &... xe.
BB. cose Om ++ foe 2 G86 64
BBB.. we (os oe
Crowbars
Oase Steel, perl: oe... 5
Caps
Ely’s 1-10, per m. a 65
Hick’s C. , perm.. es 55
G. D., per eT Ren Mn 45
MRIGROR, PEt ME 75
Chisels
BOCK IMO ls 70
Socket Framing.... .. coe 70
Beceen QUEner.. wl. 70
CRORMOG MORAG 70
Elbows
Com. 4 piece, 6 in., ee GOn co. net 65
Corrugated, an doz.. esa 1 25
Adjustable. . : . dis 40&10
Mapeies Bits”

Clark’s small, $18; re 2. 30&10
Fvés’ 1,918; 2.995 3 30... .........; 25
Files New List
New American . foes ee eu. 70&10
Nicholson’s.. Leyes te ee 70
Heller's Horse Rasps... a 60&10
Gabxanined remrinsy
Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 25 and 26; 27, 28
List 12 13 14 15 16. 17

Discount, 65
Gas Pipe
Black or Galvanized. . We 40&10
Ges
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s.......... 60&10
Glass
Single Strength, by box...............dis 80&10
Double Strength, by box..............dis 80&10
By the Light.. Sue te ce + ee
iene
Maydole & Co.’s, new list.............. dis 3344
Yerkes & Plumb’s. aa wale dis  40&10
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel. . ..30€ list 70
Hinges
Gate, Clark’s 1, 2, 3. ....is  60&10
Hollow W: are
OR ee 60
TOON ess 60
OR 60
Horse Nails
 ............................,22 ae
Putnam.. . 1. a 5
Sense ‘Fur nhiines Sande
Stamped Tinware, new list............ 70
Japanned Tinware.. eee. 20&10

BS 3 crates
ee ae 3'%e rates
Knobs—New List

Door, mineral, jap. trimmings........ 85
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings....... 1 00
Lanterns
Regular 0 Tubular, Doz................ 4 50
Warren, Galvanized Fount........... 5 50
Levels
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s..........dis 70
Mattocks
Adze Eye...... .. $17 00..dis 60

Mee Zine

 

6p) pound CARES... .. 2... s.. 9
Wer pee oe. 9%
Miscelianeous
Bird Cages . ese a cee ie as 40
Pumps, Cistern.. Peete lau. 70
Screws, New ree a 80
Casters, Bed and Plate................ 50&10&10
Dampers, AMOR. 8, 50
Molasses Gates
Stebbins’ Pattern. . 60&10
Enterprise, self-measuring.. 30
Pans
Fry, Acme. 608&10&10

Common, polished |! Cea ERNE 70&5
Patent Planished Iron
“A”? Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27. 10 20
“B”? Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 25 to 27 9 20
Broken packages 4c per pound extra.
Planes
Ohio Tool Co.’s, faney.................
Sciota Bench.. etoile cues
Sandusky Tool Co.’ S, taney.
Bench, first quality..

  

 

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Nails
Advance over base, on both Steel and W 7“
Steel nails, base..... ‘ 3 10
Wrote Wee 3 20
20 to 60 advance... Base
10 to 16 advance... ee 05
a 10
We ie 2
Beer ce 30
3 advance...... : Oe leew, os 45
2 advance. Ae toe eee lala, a
Pet aaa 5
Casing 10 advance... on ee 15
Casi Sad vance................. : 25
Comes Cava... el, 35
Finish 10 advance ...... el eee 25
iene VOC 35
Pon G MOVANOS ac ae 45
barre, 4 AGvanied................. ..+- 85
Rivets
[ron and Tinned.... he uauae 50
Copper Rivets and Burs..... 2.0.02... 45
Rooting Plates
14x20 IC, Charcoal, Dean.............. 6 50
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Dean............ 7 50
20x28 1C, Chareoal, Dean. 13 00
4x20 IC, Charcoal, Alaway Grade. .. 5 50
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade. .. 6 50
20x28 IC, Chareoal, Allaway Grade. .. 11 00
20x28 IX, Chareoal, Allaway Grade... 13 00
Ropes
Sisal, ' inch and — - aaa 12
Manilla : i ' 14
Sand sean r
East sect. 10, R6...... dis 50
Sash We chee
Solid Eyes, per ton.. 20 00

Sheet Iron
com. smooth. com.

  

oe ................,.... 2 oo $3 00
moe weee..................,. . 32 3 00
De . 20 3 20
ee Seo. 3 30
Nos Pee a, 3 40
no e..........., 3 60 35

All ‘Sheets No. 18 and. lighter, ‘over 30 inches
wide, not less than 2-10 extra.

Shells—Loaded
Loaded with Black Powder...........dis  40& 5
Loaded with Nitro Powder........... dis 40&10
Shot
Drop.. ee eid eta e ee us 1 45
De 1 70
Shovels and Spades
Wirat Grade, DOs... 6... oes cece 8 60
pecond Grade, Dog..................., 8 00
Solder

1 24 20
The pric es of the many ‘other qualities of solder
in the market indicated by private brands vary
according to composition.

 

Squares
Steel and Iron. io 70&10
Tin pails n Grade

meee 30), Crareond, ow... i... fee $ 8 50
aro BC, Crave... ........ 1... one 8 50
20x14 IX) Charcoal. 9 75

Each additional X on this grade, ‘$i. 25.

Tin—Allaway Grade

M4 1, Chareoa)...... 5... 5.2... s ee 7 00
Bixee 10, COATCOAL. 2... cece eens cece 7 00
era Ee, Charcoal... ............ ees 8 50
14x20 IX, Charcoal. . 8 50

Each additional X on this ‘grade, $1. 50

Boiler Size Tin Plate
14x56 IX, for No.8 Boilers, / |,
14x56 1X; for No.9 Boilers, 5 Pe? pound... 10
Traps

Steel, Game... .. ae, 75&10
Oneida C ommunity, ‘Newhouse’s 50
Oneida Community, Hawley & ‘Nor-

ton’s. \ 70&10
Mouse, choker, “per a 15
Mouse, de lusion, per doz..... Lc. 1 2

Wire
Bright Market... Lee eee es 60
Annealed Market.. led bedlbes 60
Coppered Market.. 50&10
Tinned Market.. 50&10
( ee: Spring Steel. ct et 40
Barbed Fence, Galvanized............ 3 85
Barbed Fence, ea a 3 70
Wire Goods
Ee 75
Screw Eyes.. ou oe ecules 75
1ooks.. Coe ee cea ee 75
Gate Hooks and Eyes.. a 75
Wrenc hen

Baxter’ s Adjustable, Nickeled.. ! oo
Coe’s Genuine. 30&10

Coe’s Patent Agricultural, Ww rought.. ‘70810

 

 

MUSKEGON

AND RETURN
Every Sunday

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Bridge Street 9.22 a. m.
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24

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

The Grocery Market.

Sugars—-There is nothing of note in
the sugar market. Raws are still on
the basis of 43%c for 96 deg. test cen-
trifugals and 3%c for 89 deg. test mus-
covadoes, with very few being offered.
The list prices of refined are just the
same as at previous reports. There is a
fair demand for refined, but not so
large a business as a few weeks ago as
the season of heaviest buying is now
past.

Later—All grades of refined declined
Yc this morning.
Canned Goods——Without material

change in the situation, the outlook for
canned goods remains encouraging, so
far as probable sales go. The probability
of packers filling their contracts is less
encouraging ; in fact, according to pres-
ent indications, it will be practically
impossible to do that on any variety.
California fruit packers will deliver only
a certain proportion of their contracts
because of the scarcity of cans, and
thousands of buslrels of fruit will rot on
the ground, which might otherwise have
been preserved. There has been less
demand for corn for the past few days,

owing to the uncertainty of the pack
and the firmness of prices. Reports are
no more encouraging than they have

been and the probability of a reduction
of the pack to one-half the average in
New York State, with even smaller
packs in some other parts of the coun-
try, has created a discouraged feeling
in the market. In the South the yield
will be as large as the average and
larger than last year. New York pack-
ers are already seeking supplies in the
South to cover their contracts and some
are paying a premium on present quota-
tions to do it. Canning has begun in
Maine, but nothing definite is known
about the output. Prices on tomatoes
are low, but a slightly firmer feeling
has been caused by the fact that West-
erm packers are buying freely in East-
ern market, to cover their contracts. It
is clear from present appearances that
the sale of Eastern goods to Western
packers will be larger than ever before.
Peas continue firm and prices promise
to advance. String beans are unchanged,
but the tendency is upward. Other va-
rieties of vegetables are steady, but
with movement rather slow. California
fruit packers will be compelled to shade
their contracts an average of perhaps
one-fourth, because they could not se-
cure cans. Prices on all these goods
must go up, for, while the crops were
never any shorter, comparatively speak-
ing, the probabilities are very strong for
greatly increased consumption. There
has been heavy buying of canned fruits
this week, particularly of the small
fruits such as strawberries, cherries,
raspberries, etc. According to mai] ad-
vices from the Pacific Coast the spring
pack of salmon is now placed about as
follows: Columbia River, 273,000 cases ;
Puget Sound, 640,000; British Colum-
bia, 679,600; Alaska, 1,050,000; other
points, 20,000; total, 2,662,600. -The
fall pack is expected to increase this
very materially. This pack exceeds the
early estimates on account of the heavy
run during the last few days of packing
in the Puget Sound and British Colum-
pia districts. The market is very firm
with a good demand at _ unchanged
prices. The sardine market is_ still
rather unsettled and prices have de-
clined 10@2oc on the different grades.
Dried Fruits—The dried fruit market
is in much the same condition asa week
ago. The trade is waiting for prices on
new raisins, but none have been made

 

as yet. A number of orders have been
placed for raisins at the %c per pound
premium for early shipment. There is
a more active enquiry for prunes and a
decidedly firmer feeling prevails in the
market. From the best information ob-
tainable, the prune crop in California
will be very large, although possibly
shorter than that of last year. There
will be, however, a scarcity of small
sizes, like 80s, 90s and 100s, but an
abundance of 50s, 60s and 7os. The
quality of the Santa Clara Valley prunes
will be exceptionally fine and the crop
is estimated at 60,000,000 to 65,000,000

pounds. Some say the total output will
be nearly, if not quite, 100,000,000
pounds. Peaches continue dull, the

large crop and weak demand creating a
very unsatisfactory condition. There
will be a world of dried peaches and
prices are likely to rule low. Later
some improvement is expected, but for
the present the market is entirely de-
void of interest. Apricots continue firm
at about previous range of prices, with
trade limited to small orders. The first
shipments of new crop Smyma figs are
expected this week. The quality is
said to be good for first arrivals and
prices are expected to rule high at the
opening. Estimates on the new crop
place the total at 11,000 cases. The
quantity imported last year was 2,130
cases; I,400 boxes and 4,800 bags. In
addition to these there were 113,800
tapnets, equal to 11,090 cases, imported
from Portugal. There is a better de-
mand for both Persian and Fard_ dates.
Spot stocks will probably be cleaned up
before the arrival of new goods. The
bulk of the demand is for package goods
this season. Currants are steady and
trade shows some slight improvement.
The evaporated apple market is much
stronger and prices have advanced
%@%C

Rice—There is a_ good demand for
both foreign and domestic rice. With
the increased demand due to purchases
of foreign rice for relief supplies for
Puerto Rico, the Eastern market con-
tinues firm with stocks well cleaned up.

Molasses and Syrups--Stocks of mo-
lasses are light and sales are made at
full quoted prices. The demand for corn
syrup is very good and refiners are
heavily oversold. With the advent of
cooler weather, a largely increased de-
mand for syrup is expected and it is
very probable that about Oct. 1, if not
sooner, an advance will take place.

Tea—There is an active demand for
teas, especially for the low grades, and
prices are steady. Stocks of old crop
are about cleaned up.

Fish—Mackerel is still very firm with
a fairly active demarid.

Green Fruits—The lemon situation
remains discouraging. The demand
has been chceked, by the cool weather
and the visible supply has increased by
about 30,000 boxes. The tendency of
the market is downward and sales are
small. No quotable change in price has
occurred, but a weak feeling prevails.
The new crop is being pushed forward
as fast as possible, but the prospect is
that first arrivals will be later than last
season. Bananas continue steady at an
advance. Trade is improving, due
partly to the decline in receipts of
domestic fruits, which are the worst
competitors of bananas. Arrivals are
not as liberal, but there are ample com-
ing forward to supply the demand.
There is also a probability of a further
advance on some grades.

Rolled Oats—The rolled oats market
continues very firm and prices have

 

advanced 15c per bbl. and toc per case,
with a good demand at the advance.

Nuts--Peanuts remain steady with re-
ceipts liberal, but the demand is amply
sufficient to carry out all supplies avail-
able.
ually improving prices. The quality
appears to be better than usual this
year. The crop of Sicily almonds pro-
gresses satisfactorily, and the impres-
sion is that more reasonable prices will
rule during the coming season.

+ ~ 2
The Grain Market.

Wheat has been easy, with depressing
influence in wheat centers, owing to the
large increase in the visible, being 3,-
172,000 bushels, which makes the visi-
ble 3y,288,000 bushels, against 10, 188, -
000 bushels last vear and_ 17,140,000
bushels in 1897, also the report that
3,000,000 bushels of long wheat was sold
out for the account of the late Mr. C. A.
Pillsbury ; it may have been for his es-
tate or some other large holder of long
wheat, but with this large addition to
the visible and the immense amount of
long wheat dumped the price only re-
ceded %c per bushel, and it only affected
the price in wheat centers. We find
that Liverpool did not follow us in lower-
ing her prices. We also find that in the
interior or initial points for winter wheat
prices remain very firm and that farmers
are not selling their wheat, conse-
quently elevator men are not offering
any to millers, preferring to hold onto
what they have until farmers are willing
to sell so that they can replace their
holdings. Otherwise the situation is not
changed, as the fact remains that our
wheat crop, both winter and spring, is
not above the estimate made by the last
Government report, as stated last week.

Corn was traded in largely, which
tended to advance prices on September
14%cand December 3c per bushel. Why
this strength with so large a crop as is
promised is one of the mysteries of the
trade. It runs counter to wheat, as
where conditions favor strength in
wheat easy prices are the rule, while
where the corn promise of over. 2, 100, -
000,000 bushels would naturally depress
prices the reverse is the case.

Oats are very firm and, while buyers
are looking for lower prices, sellers are
firm and thus far have had the best of
the market.

Rye is firm and the enquiry for it is
large and it is picked up very fast. If
this demand keeps up as at present,
prices will tend upward. The flour
trade has been quite good for local and
domestic account, while foreign enquiry
has been fair, but owing to low offers no
sales have been made. Mill feed is very
strong and an advance of 50c per ton
has been established.

Receipts of wheat at this station were
39 cars of wheat, 8 cars of corn, cg cars
of oats and 5 cars of rye, against 34 cars
of wheat, ro cars of corn and Ig cars of
oats the corresponding week last year.

Millers are paying 64c for new and
66c for old wheat. C. G. A. Voigt.

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After a man has had occasion to em-

ploy a first-class lawyer, it is useless to
tell him that talk is cheap.

Businas Hails

Advertisements will be inserted under
this head for two cents a word the first
insertion and one cent a word for each
subsequent insertion. No advertisements
taken for less than 25 cents. Advance
payments.

BUSINESS CHANCES.
ye = TO $6,000 STOCK OF GEN-

eral merchandise, with good country trade.
Address No. 75, care Michigan Tradesman. 75

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

HOICE FARM FOR SALE
Address Box 33, Epsilon, Mich.
NOR 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 in the country; good trade

OR TRADE,
74

 

a : , and good times the year around ; terms the most
Brazils are selling freely at grad-

liberal that could be offered (must be a
Want to retire from business. Address <
Box 204, Negaunee, Mich. ms”

Fok SALE—CLEAN STOCK OF GENERAL
merchandise in Central Michigan town.
Must be sold at onee. Big bargain for some one.
Failing health reason for selling. Address No.
79, eare Michigan Tradesman. 79

pork RENT—FINE WASHINGTON AVENUE
store. three doors from center of business.
New plate glass front. Best location in eity for
boots and shoes. J. W. Bailey, Real Estate, In-
surance and Loans, Lansing, Mich 78

es SALE OR EXCHANGE FoR OTHER
Property—One good brick and tile machine;
used two seasons, good as new; with moulds an
cut off table, ete., ete., with other tools used in a
brick and tile Yard. The owner, having no
further use for them, will dispose of the outfit
very low. Address John George, Hudson, Mich.
76
\\ ANTED — GOOD LOCATION IN CEN-
tral Michigan for opening a bakery. Ad-
dress No. 71, care Michigan Tradesman. 71
W ANTED — EXPERIENCED SALESMAN

for dry goods store. References required.
Address I. Jay Cummings, Paw Paw, Mich. 70

ror SALE—STORE BUILDING, 80x 24,
_two stories and basement; second story a
residence, and, with smail expense, could be
made into an elegant hotel, which the town
needs. Also $3,000 clean stock of general mer-
chandise. Good farming community and town
of 600 inhabitants. Cause for selling, ill —
Address Box 66, Wayland, Mich.

ALE—SMALL MANUFAC es
-ern, holding patent on an article that
has proved a success, desires to interest party
with $1,500 to $2,000. Reasons for selling, ill
health of ge menge Seas and lack of working
capital. Address Keyes, Davis & Co., Battle
Creek, Mich. 73
O RENT—ONE OR TWO BRICK STOKES
with deep cellars, 22x75 feet, on Main street,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

 

 

in Opera House block, Mendon, Mich. Write to
Levi Cole. | 54

VOR SALE—MEAT MARKET; ONE OF

the best locations in the city; customers

all good pay; doing a good paying business.
Address No. 53, care Michigan Tradesman. 53

XOOD OPENING FOR DRY GOODS OR
department store at Centerville, Mich. Ad
55

dress Box 135.

Kok SALE—THE CRANE MANUFACTUR-
ing mill at South Frankfort, fully equipped
for the manufacture of hardw ood lumber. Im-
mediate possession. Inquire of Ann ‘Arbor
Savings Bank, Ann Arbor, Mich. 58

DRUG STOCK FOR SALE VERY CHEAP
on account of the death of the proprietor.
For particulars write to Mrs. Anna Tomlin,
Bear Lake, Mich. 41
\O RENT—TWO STORES IN NEW CORNER
block in city of Belding—one of the best
towns in Michigan. Has eight factories, all
running, comprising the following: Two silk
mills, two refrigerator factories, basket factory,
shoe factory, furniture factory, box factory;
planing mill and flouring mill. Stores are lo-
eated on Main street in good location. Size of
corner store, 25x85 feet. Good basement, run
ning water, electric lights. Rent to good. par-
ties reasonable. Address Belding Land & Im-
provement Co., Belding, Mich. 45
W ANTED—YOUR ORDER FOR A RUBBER
stamp. Best se on earth at prices
that are right. Will J. Weller, Muskegon,
Mich. 958
POR SALE OR EXCHANGE FOR GENERAL
Stock of Merchandise—60 acre farm, part
clear, architect house and barn; well watered.
I also have two 40 acre farms and one 80 acre
farm to exchange. Address No. 12, care Michi-
gan Tradesman. 12
Si SHAFTING, HANGERS AND PUL-
leys 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, Michigan. 983
YOR SALE—GOOD BAZAAR STOCK. —EN-
quire of Hollon & Hungerford, —_—
Mich.
for SALE—NEW GENERAL STOCK. eS
splendid farming conntry. No trades. Ad-
dress No. 680, care Michigan Tradesman. 680
TODERN CITY RESIDENCE AND LARGE
iVi. 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
NY ONE WISHING TO ENGAGE IN THE
grain and produce and other lines of busi-
ness can learn of good locations by communi-
cating with H. H. Howe, —— and Industrial
Agent C.& W. M.and D., G. R. & W. Baller
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

MISCELLANEOUS.

VY ANTED POSITION As
head clerk in general store. Have had
valuable experience as manager and buyer for
ten years. Annual sales, $50,000. Address nye
77, care Michigan Tradesman. 77

ANTED — REGISTERED ASSISTANT
pharmacist. Address Solon, care Mich-
Tadesman. 61

ANTED—POSITION AS CLERK. NINE
years’ experience in dry goods and general

trade. Address No, 43, care Michigan ——

man.
ANTED—POSITION BY DEUGGIET— 14
years’ experience. Address No. 40, care

Michigan Tradesman. 40

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Travelers’ Time Tables.

 

MERCANTILE ASSOCIATIONS SUE SESE 30 303030620 SOE S0E OE 3G E308 3k 330820 I EE SEH SE EE

 

 

 

CHICAGO ese iz. 1299.

Chicago.
Ly. G. Rapids..7:10am 12: 00nn 4:35pm *2:15am
Ar. Chicago....1:30pm 5:00pm 10:45pm *7:25am
Lv. Chicago... 7:15am 12:00nn 5:00pm11*:50pm
Ar. @’d Rapids 1:25pm 5:05pm 10:55pm 6*:20am
Traverse City, Charlevoix and Petoskey.
Gv. G@’d Ravids. 7:30am 1:45pm 4:30pm.. ....
Ar. Trav City..12:40pm 5:35pm 9:40pm.......
Ar. — 3:10pm 7:38pm 12:00nn.. ..
Ar. Petoskey.... 3:40pm 8:15pm 12:30am.......
Ottawa Beach.
Lv. G. Rapids..9:06am 12:00nn 5:39pm..........
Ar. G. Rapids..8:00am 1:25pm 5:05pm 10:15pm
Trains arrive from north at 2:00am, 4:20pm,
and 10:45pm.
Parlor cars on day trains and sleeping cars on
night trains to and from Chicago
*Every day. Others ok days only.

DETROIT, ser ne

Detroit.
Ly. Grand Rapids...... 7 00am 12:05pm 5:25pm
Ar. Detroit... .... 2... 11:40am 4:05pm 19:05pm
Lv. Detroit........ ...-8:40am 1:10pm 6:10pm
Ar. Grand Rapids..... 1:30pm 5:10pm 10:55pm
Saginaw, Alma and Greenville.

Lv. G R7: deam 3: 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.

GRAND vivir ana utrvenne iv

(In effect June 19, 1899.)
Leave Arrive
ING EAST
Saginaw, ——_, & N Moc cc: t : 40am + 9:55pm
Detroit and Eas -.. 10:16am t+ 5:07pm
Saginaw, Detroit ‘é East. eee + 3:27pm t12 50pm
Buffalo, N Y, Toro Mon-
treal & Boston, ea. EXx....* 7: 20pm *10:16am
GOING WEST
Gd. Haven and Int Pts.... . * 8:30am *10:00pm
Gd. Haven Express..... -*10:2lam * 7:15pm
Gd. Haven and Int Pts +12:58pm + 3:19pm
Gd. Haven and Milwaukee...¢ 5:12pm +10:llam
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.

GRAND iss

Northern Div. Leave Arrive
Trav. C’y, Petoskey & Mack...* 4;10am *10:00pm
Tray. C’y, Petoskey & Mack...t 7:45am +t 5:15pm
Trav. City & Petoskey.. + 1:40pm ¢ 1:10pm
Cadillac accommodation...... + 5:25pm +10:55am
Petoskey & Mackinaw City....t1(:00pm ¢ 6:3Cam

4:10am train, The North and Express, sleeping
and dining cars; 7:45am and 1:40pm trains,
parlor cars; 11: 00pm train sleeping car.

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Cincinnatl................ 7:10am + 9:45pm
Ft. Wayne . .-¢ 2:00pm ¢ 1:30pm
Kalamazoo and Vicksburg... * 7:00pm * 7:20am
Chicago and Cincinnati....... *10:15pm * 3:55am

7:10 am train has parlor car to Cincinnati
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 2 00pm *10 15pm
Ar. Chicago......... 230pm 845pm 6 2am
FROM CHICAGO.

Lv. Chicago......... 3 02pm * 8.15pm = 32pm

Ar. Grand Rapids... 9 45pm 3:55pm 7 20am
Train leaving Grand = a: loam 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 Rapi

Muskegon Trains.

GOINe WEST.
Lv G@’d Rapids......... 7 ‘35am 1:35pm 5:40pm
Ar Musxegon.. 9:00am 2:45pm 7:05pm

Sanne train leaves Grand Rapids 9:15am;

arrives Muskegon 10:40am.

GOING EAST.
Lv Muskegon....... .. +8:10am er on - 00pm
ArQ@’d Rapids... ..... 5:20pm

9:30am
Sunday train ‘ccaear Deeain = :30pm; ar-
rives Grand Rapids 7:55pm.
+Except Sunday. *Daily.
LOCKWOOD,

Cc. L.
Gen’! Passr. and Ticket ‘Agent.
W. C. BLAKE
Ticket Agent Union Station.

 

 

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Via C. & W.M. Railway.

 

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Michigan Business Men’s Association

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

Wet Weather
“My Won't
Harm

Uneeda Biscuit—
the only biscuit of which
this can be truly said.
It’s the package, a new
5 cent air tight, dust
proof, moisture proof
package,that keeps these
wonderful new biscuit up
| to the highest grade
through all weathers.

Uneeda
Biscuit

Are made from the best wheat flour, so
they’re body building food. They're
skillfully baked so as to. be palatable.

They’re never heavy or soggy, so they

are never indigestible. Order them
from your grocer.

  
 
 
  
 
 
  
  
    
  
 
 
 

Michigan Retail Grocers’ Association
President, J. WisLER, Mancelona; Secretary, E.
. STOWE, Grand Rapids. ds.
Michigan Hardware Association
President, C. G. Jewett, Howell; Secretary
Henry C. MINNIE, Eaton laton Rapids.
Detroit Retail Grocers’ Association

President, JoszPH KNieut; Secretary, E. MARKS
221 Greenwood ave: Treasurer, C. H. FRmK.

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Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association

President, Frank J. DyK; Secretary, Homer
KuaP; Treasurer, J. Gro. LEHMAN.

Saginaw Mercantile Association
President, P. F. TREANOR; Vice-President, Joun
McBRatnIE; Secretary, ' W. H. Lewis.
Jackson Retail Grocers’ Association
President, J. FRANK HELMER; Secretary, W. H.
Porter; Treasurer, L. PELTON.
Adrian Retail Grocers’ Association
President, A. C. CLarK; Secretary, E. F. CLeve
LAND; Treasurer, Wm. C. KoEugn.
Bay Cities Retail Groc Grocers’ Association
President, M. L. DEBarts; Sec’y, S. W. WaTERs.

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Kalamazoo Retail Grocers’ Association
President, W. H. JoHnson; Secretary, Cuas.
HyMANn.
Traverse City Business Men’s Association
President, THos. T. Bares; Secretary, M. B.
HOLuy; Treasurer, C. A. Hammonp.
Owosso Business Me Men’s Association

President, A. D. WHIPPLE; So T. Camp.
BELL; ‘Treasurer, W. E. - B. Count

Alpena Business Men’s Association SOOCET SCION OTN CIRCE OCOD

President, F. W. Gincurist; Secretary, C. L.
PARTRIDGE.

 
     
     
 

 

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DON’T buy Plated Silverware,

Clocks or Holiday Goods,

Grand Rapids Retaii Meat Dealers’ Association
President, L. M. Witson; Secretary, Pamip Hit-
BER; Treasurer, S. J. HuFForp.
St. Johns Business M Men’s Association.
President, THos. BRomLEY; Secretary, FRANK A.
Percy: Treasurer, CLARK A. Purr.

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President, H. W. WALLACE; Sec’y, T. E. HEDDLE. until you have aeveraienn cel our 1899
Grand Haven Retail Merchants’ Association ~
President, F. D. Vos; Secretary, J. W. VERHOEKS. Fa | | Ca 1 21 l O g Oto
Yale Basiuess Men’s Association The most complete Book out.

President, Cuas. Rounps; Sec’y, FRANK PUTNEY.

 

 

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Sold in Half-Pound Tins Only.

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