VA Ad ANE: LLLAG ii WK AK (Nate Se PUBLISHED WEEKLY 23 SSSI Oe ewe ot M3 ‘a \S ey De) YS 3 +] DA: Ey ESM Ki 5 i\ p oes Re - a ss my AG AD RAY VA wt C cn OS = : ay at ce ee ieee a w r WR NY ve s cee PAS J ETRADESMAN COMPANY, PUBLISHERSS——— EDUSSSI KAT RS SKE EES EU, UP 2 A, ‘4 ‘ JELTR (aS N iN Volume XVII. GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1899. Number 837 Fandy GOOLS = -=amyade eg China Novelties = = vag i an Lamps —S) 4 Briva-bra0 When you ( mn WE Wait for Visit this | ge ae Oe Our Traveling Market a Bowe <6 ON ae Men. be sure hoa Wee,” A re Ve Their sample to look . Slew cial lines are over our oe . > sea a full of Large Display. Reta Fm _— etme Ce ay Good Things. Burley ad = CAAA Lae Shy Tyrrell Ghicago Th Ak | 2¢ Delays Are Dangerous i While you are waiting to send in that order for some of the popular brands of cigars—the kinds your customers want, the kinds that are advertised—some- body may get in ahead of you and take away your trade, never to go back to you. Don’t Take Any Chances We have all of the leading brands. Send in an order for some of them RIGHT AWAY. Phelps, Brace & Co., Largest Cigar Dealers in the Middle West. F. E. BUSHMAN, Manager. Detroit, Mich. ae A RL LR TE EGE MICA AXLE GREASE has become known on account of its good qualities. Merchants handle Mica because their customers want the best axle grease they can get for their money. Mica is the best because it is made especially to reduce friction, and friction is the greatest destroyer of axles and axle boxes. It is becoming a common saying that “Only one-half as much Mica is required for satisfactory lubrication as of any other axle grease,” so that Mica is not only the best axle grease on the market but the most eco- nomical as well. Ask your dealer to show you Mica in the new white and blue tin packages. ILLUMINATING AND LUBRICATING OILS WATER WHITE HEADLIGHT OIL IS THE STANDARD THE WORLD OVER HIGHEST PRICE PAID FOR EMPTY CARBON AND GASOLINE BARRELS STANDARD OIL CO. SS If You Would Bea Leader} : handle only goods of VALUE. ee Soo, If you are satisfied to remain at : F 9 G hh ki Scent 4 the tail end, buy cheap unreliable : COMPRESSED £s goods. toe weg ) G Good Yeast Is Indispensable. OUR LABEL UnpEer THerrR YELLOW LABEL Orrer tHe BEST! Grand Rapids Agency, 29 Crescent Ave. a FLEISCHMANN & CO. 2 Detroit Agency, 111 West Larned St. i? 5 252S52eS2e5SeSeSeSee2sSeseSeSeSeoeSese5e5ese5eoe5e5 ee 3 ON THE RAGCED EDCE OF THE LAW? No, the law does not trouble us; neither will it trouble you, Mr. ro pa TAR MCVER BRE ©@ @ @ @ © © © © @ GQQOOQOOOE Grocer, if you buy Silver Brand _ Cider Vinegar. There are no better goods made than these. Sweet cider, prepared to kzep sweet, furnished October to March inclusive. A strictly first-class article; no trouble from fermentation,burst- ing of barrels or loss by becom- ing sour. GENESEE FRUIT CO. LANSING, MICH. 200000000000000020000000000000000900000008 @OO a © ®ODODOOOO D® See vWWAPOONUWW AWW NAW NPN CANON VI GONNA UNO NNN NN CZ TO SEE A NEW FACE COME IN PLEASES THE GROCER Wi But what of the old faces? It isn’t the new faces alone that build up a business. It’s keeping the old as well as gaining the new. When new trade keeps coming in, and the old trade keeps drop- : ping off, the business doesn’t increase very rapidly. Keeping the goods that satisfy everybody holds the old and wins the new. Satisfy everybody. They are business builders, because they keep those who have tried them coming back for more. The grocer who has them aiso has fortune with him. There’s nothing like having the goods that draw the people to vou. NORTHROP, ROBERTSON & CARRIER, LANSING, MICH. AAAAARRAAAAAARAAAAAAAAAAAA AAA AAA VES VVIVPPUV DUNS VVVUTVUP VU PUN UPY VUES VEvUNEYE NVUVVVPY QOLQLLLLLLLILLLLILLLLL LLL (@) WE GUARANTEE Our brand of Vinegar to be an ABSOLUTELY PURE APPLE- UCU A nO Nala aalalaivie'l Wiluluhile Wiluletu'a'uld widlaiife’e! JUICE VINEGAR. To any person who will analyze it and find any deleterious acids or anything that is not produced from the apple, we will forfeit ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS We also guarantee it to be of not less than 40 grains strength. We will prosecute any person found using our packages for cider or vinegar without first removing all traces of our brands therefrom. Robinson Cider and Vinegar Co., Beaton Harbor, Mich. J. ROBINSON, Manager. This is the guarantee we give with every barrel of our vinegar. Do you know of any other roduct with a GAR CO. manufacturer who has sufficient confidence in his output to stand back of his ROBINS N CIDER AND VIN similar guarantee? © ict Tawa alae aa lela salar wlvia awl UP'S Blended Goneés y Hay gC Se THE J. M. BOUR 60., Beat the world in the two greatest essentials to the retailer—QUALITY and PROFIT. Grocers who use them say that with our brands it’s once bought—always used. And we can sell them to pay you a handsome profit. It will pay you to get our samples and prices— that is, if you are in the business to make money. Some exceptional bargains in Teas just now. Write or ask salesman when he calls. 129 Jefferson Avenue, Detroit, Mich. 113-115-117 Ontario St., Toledo, Ohio. — eee, aw ~~ ceed laid a Fe eels eel ee en ecaal , es al —_ ja fe tm, a 4 } ~ 4 LEM, & . Pe | Wesesseee GesesesesesSeSeSe25e25n, yy 1 DQVA|SSSSSSSSS } © OOOOOOOOD a ee CD AVE \ m2 R Dm ao a & SES OQaY ee a‘ ‘ 2 i S FS)! 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U Insurance in Force.......+ «+-+++++e09° $3,249,000 00 Ledger Assets.....----seseeeeeereeceee 459734 7Y Ledger Liabilities ..........+--++-+++> 21 08 Losses Adjusted and Unpaid..... coe None ‘Totai Death Losses Paid to Date...... 51,061 00 Total Guarantee Deposits Paid to Ben- eficiaries .......... cose----+-- 1,030 00 Death Losses Paid During the Year... 11,000 00 Death Rate for the Year............+++ 3 64 FRANK E. ROBSON, President. TRUMAN B. GOODSPEED, Secretary. o q ; THE 3 G FIRE$ a > > > > v Prompt, Cunservative, Safe. J.W.CuamPuin, Pres. W. FRED McBatn, Sec. 0O00000000000000000004< THe MERCANTILE AGENCY Established 1841. R. G. DUN & CO. Widdicomb Bid’g, Grand Rapids, Mich. Books arranged with trade classification of names. Collections made everywhere. Write for particulars. L. P. WITZLEBEN. Manager. Save Trouble. Save Money Save Time. radesinan Coup0d IMPORTANT FEATURES. Page. 2. Dry Goods. 3. Color Crazes. 4. Around the State. Grand Rapids Gossip. Woman’s World. Editorial. Story of an Ad. Window Trimming. Crockery and Glassware Quotations. Shoes and Leather. Store Lighting. Observations by a Gotham Egg Man. Summer Storage. Gotham Gossip. Commercial Travelers. Drugs and Chemicals. Drug Price Current. Grocery Price Current. Grocery Price Current. Getting the People. Hardware Price Current. The Produce Market. Business Wants. BUSINESS CONDITIONS. - The matter engaging attention to the overshadowing of all others ‘during the week has been the reception accorded to Admiral Dewey and his subordinates. That a nation should pause for several days to give such a greeting to its heroes does not argue well for the even course of business, for the general dis- traction of attention can not fail to be reflected in increased dulness, and in- creased disturbance in the present case when financial stringency in money cen- ters is a factor. The course of the stock market during the week showed but lit- tle change beyond increasing dulness and what change was made was in the wrong direction. The fact that banks had for a long time been loaning beyond their limits on account of the tremen- dous absorption of funds by business expansion and unusual expenditures in all directions and that they found them- selves under the necessity of coming back to a proper basis is a sufficient rea- son for the stringency which has con- trolled the situation for some time. That this stringency is a natural outcome of rthe unusually prosperous conditions re- moves it from the causes which should occasion uneasiness. As a matter of fact there is no change in the general activity prevailing in all lines throughout the country except such interruption as is occasioned by the turning of the attention of the Nation to the New York celebrations. Pressure of demand is constantly the ruling fac- tor, many lines being oversold. The general question in receiving orders - for almost any line of production is, When must you have it? As a consequence of this condition there is a tremendous rush to increase facilities, which in turn operates to increase the general pressure of demaed. It is an interesting ques- tion as to how long this condition will continue and how it will end. Iron manufacture reports undimin- ished pressure of demand, with conse- quent higher quotations in any changes made. Many contracts are still in process of filling at prices little more than one-half those now ruling, and of course others varying from this basis up to the present quotations. The month of September closed with a sufficient decline in wheat and other cereals to_assure continued activity in 4, 1899. export movement, although prices for the month closed at a slight advance over its opening. Export movement about equals that of the same month last year, while for the first three months of the crop year the outgo considerably ex- ceeds that of the corresponding months of last year, which was so heavy as to create a new record. The greatest relative activity outside of iron is found in the textile ‘situation. Prices of both wool and cotton have ad- vanced sharply and the mills are putting up prices on most products. This stimulated trade until mills are largely sold ahead. The boot and manufacture closed September with nine months’ shipments for the first time ex- ceeding 3,500,000 Cases, those of the month being 30,000 cases larger than last year and 24,000 more than in the month of any other year, and without change for the week in prices, which average only about half of 1 per cent. higher for the month. —___<9-o—__—_ The Grain Market. Wheat the past week has shown re- markable strength. Even the large vis- ible increase of 2,415,000 bushels had no effect on the upturn in prices. To be sure, the war cloud in the Transvaal added strength, but the natural position namely, the short crop in all wheat producing sections—had_ the effect of keeping the market where it was, about Ic per bu. over last week for cash as well as futures. Spring wheat receipts, while large, are not up to last year’s by any means, while winter wheat receipts are hardly up to one-half of what they were, and our exports since July have been nearly 9,000,000 bushels more than during the corresponding time last year. However, the future will show how the shortage will affect prices. We are still of the opinion that prices for all cereals are at the bottom. has very shoe same Sentiment in corn seems to lean to- wards lower prices. The fine weather also helped the weakness. I think it is only temporary. Oats are strong and prices are up Ic and will stay there. Rye seems to be the strongest of all and prices will remain up while the de- mand keeps up where it is at present. Receipts here during the week were 53 cars of wheat, 4 cars of corn, 7 Cars of oats and 4 cars of rye. During the month of September they were 188 Cars of wheat, 37 cars of corn, 35 cars of oats and 20 cars of rye. Millers are paying 67¢ for wheat. Cc. G. A. Voigt. ; —_____-- 22. That the Japanese consider salted whale meat a delicacy would appear by the quantities purchased. The whales are caught off the coast of Corea, the flesh and blubber cut up, salted and sent to Japan for sale as food. Over 2,000, - ooo pounds of the whale meat was im- ported into Nagasaki alone last year. eee The poor boy always bas the consola- tion of knowing that the rich boy can not buy brains with money. handsomest collar The dog with the the strongest fight. doesn’t always put up a i fl a ee eee GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER oe ’ » . - ‘ Number 837 The Hardware Market. The conditions of trade existing at the present time in the hardware market all indicate that everybody is busy, as the demand for seasonable goods is far beyond the ability of the jobber to sup- ply, as his difficulty is in getting many goods which at this time of the year are especially in great demand. Advances are taking place on all lines and_ there hardly one thing in the hardware business that remains the same in_ price from week to week. Wire and Wire Nails- No further ad- vance has taken place on wire and wire nails during the past week and prices at the present time are held firm, governed by the following market prices: Wire nails from stock, $3.20; from mill, $3.05 ; painted barbed wire, from stock, is $3.70; from mill, $3.50; galvanized barbed from stock, $3.85; from mill, $3.65. It was thought there would be an advance on Oct. 1, but at the time this market report was written no such advance had been made, although it is liable to take place before another issue of this paper. The question of high prices is something that all are givinga great deal of thought, and when the re- action from the extreme prices now rul- ing will set in is something we are all trying to solve. While there is a wide diversity of opinion as to the date of the decline or break, whichever it may there is general confidence — that business for the remainder of the year will be of large volume at fully sus- tained, if not further advanced prices. Carriage and Machine Bolts—-An ad- vance on this line of goods has been made and the present discount is 50 per cent. from list. Tacks ~The tack market continues to characterized by strong tone and prices continue to advance. Sept. I9 the manufacturers issued a new discount sheet, making an advance of about 20 per cent. on the entire line. Horse Shoes—There has been an ad- vance of 15c per keg on all makes. Miscellaneous--Tire and stove bolts have been advanced to per cent. The rope market continues firm and during the last week an advance of Yc per pound was made on Manila rope, no change being made on sisal. A new list made on extra finished hollow ware, the discount remaining the same, but the net being an advance of about 10 per cent. Zinc and brass oil- ers have been advanced about 25 per cent. Manufacturers of wood pumps, at a recent meeting, owing to the scarcity and high price of material used in their manufacture, advanced the price 20 per cent. Jobbers are now selling at 50 per cent. discount from list. Screws of all kinds have been advanced, the first dis- count on flat head iron now being 80 per cent. On common hand saws an ad- vance of 50c a dozen has been made. Harness snaps of all kinds have been advanced 10 per cent., the discount now quoted on German snaps being 4o and io per cent. Lightning hay knives have been advanced $1 per dozen, job- bers quoting at the present time $6. 50. Socket. firmer chisels and drawing knives are Io per cent. higher than for- merly quoted. be, be has been Se MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Dry Goods _ The Dry Goods Market. | Staple Cottons—Brown cottons - perhaps, better situated than any other one line. Wherever anything can .be found for sale, buyers payeless attention to the price than to securing the goods. The demand for heavy brown cottons for this country has averaged well, but for export has been light. Bleached cottons remain without change in the demand, although the prices show de- cided hardening tendencies. All coarse colored cottons, cotton flannels, blan- kets, etc., are in good demand, but asa rule short in supply. Prints and Ginghams—Low grade prints are showing better conditions than the higher lines. Indigo blues have been moved in larger quantities during the week, on account of a slight con- cession in price. Other staples show a business averaging about the same as for about two or three weeks previous. Percales show a good business _ for spring, and manufacturing trades have taken hold in a good way. The market is exceptionally firm, and advances have os been demanded in many cases up to 5 per cent. Woven shirtings and _ fine ginghams have also secured a_ good spring business, and the market is in an excellent condition. There are very few staple ginghams to be found and the market is very firm. Dress Goods—The brisk demand for fall goods has tended to delay operations in the spring dress goods market, al- though buyers are not at all backward in giving spring styles proper considera- tion when placed before their inspec- tion. The true facts of the case are that the orders have been coming in in such volume for fall goods, such as fancy backs, broadcloths, lady’s cloths, venetians, homespuns, camels’ hair plaids, crepons, piece dye worsteds, etc., that sellers have not given as much attention to the spring season as they would have done otherwise. Prices all through the market are exceedingly firm and here and there slight advances are being steadily made. The close of the fall season will find the market cleaner of desirable fabrics than for years. The spring dress goods season promises to be a brisk one. On some lines that have been opened, prices are 5@10 per cent. higher, while on others, advances are practically nil; on some of the finer lines, the percentage of advance will probably be larger than the figures above mentioned. At present it looks as though the spring season was not to rep- resent much of a departure from the fall season in the character of the fabrics upon which the stamp of popularity is affixed. The crepon used as a skirting material, worn in connection with the natty shirt waist, promises to hold a prominent ‘place in the preferences of the fair sex. The rough, hairy faced goods, homespuns, piece dye worsteds, etc., will be found to be good business getters. In cloakings, thefancy backs stand head and shoulders over other fabrics in point of interest and orders at the pres- ent time. In fact, cloak makers are more enthusiastic over plaid back ma- terials than over anything else fora long time. How long will this last? is a question which is being frequently asked by manufacturers, and knowing as they do the quick change liable to take place in the cloaking market, they are in doubt. Some characterize it as a fleeting fancy which is likely at any time to drop out of sight and leave somebody are, mourning his lot and saying unpleasant things regarding the variable character of the cloaking trade. Others, how- ever, have: more confidence and believe the piaid back has conié to stay. There is an apparent awakening of interest in high colored, kersey éloakings, such as royal, blues, « military: blues, ttans, cas- tors, etc., and some very fair business has been done thereon. Hosiery—All staple hosiery is firm without material change in prices. Do- mestic hosiery this season has shown a considerable increase from the business of last year for fancy goods. The man- ufacturers are turning out better styles, and of’ better finish each season. Full fashion hosiery continues to be well sold up, and in an exceptionally fine condi- tion. Seamless goods are in a little less satisfactory condition, and there seems to be a strong tendency on the part of the manufacturers to sell at little or no profit. Carpets—The manufacturers of all kinds of carpets continue busy and_ re- port that, notwithstanding the previous advance on duplicate business, orders continue to come in freely, as the aver- age buyer realizes that this increase in price is but the beginning of even high- er prices on all lines of carpets. The demand for goods has been unprece- dented for several years and has delayed many of the manufacturers in getting out their lines of samples by Oct. 1 for the inspection of the large jobbers who go East at that time to look over the new goods and make selections prepar- atory to the travelers starting out on the road. Some will not be ready with the new samples before October 15. “The demand has not been confined to any one line of carpets. All lines seem to have shared in the increased business. Even body Brussels, which, owing to their price being above other attractive lines, were depressed, have received so much attention that makers of this line are- beginning to feel encouraged over the future outlook. The buyer who se- lects five frame body Brussels carpet ob- tains a fabric that for wearing qualities is unsurpassed, and it certainly shows a very healthy condition of trade when buyers begin to call for the best floor coverings again, as in former yeais. The average buyer realizes that it will not pay in the present active condition of business to delay his orders, as he is not likely to get his goods in time for his customers. As a result the question of deliveries is a very important one at this time, and there is no need of the manufacturers troubling their minds re- garding any cancellations. Some are inclined to refuse a portion of the orders offered rather than run the risk of not delivering goods in time. Smyrna Rugs—Continue active and the manufacturers have enough orders booked to keep them fully employed for some time. Rugs will not hurt the sale of ingrains so much as the better class of carpets. = ‘ . $ : : > = . Q © am & Co., Jobbers of Millinery, 20-22 North Division St., Grand Rapids, Mich. SPECIALTIES Trimmed Hats, Ribbons, Vel- vets, Laces, Veilings, Ostrich and Fancy Feathers, of every variety. FFFSSSSSSSSSSTTITFSSSSTSTFSTISSS SELLE ELELELELOELELELEDELELELEL ESD Yo ee Beas i yg] SN : : u MSA waa ew aS Putnam’s Cloth Chart Will measure piece goods and ribbons much more quickly than any other measuring machine in the market and leave the pieces in the or- iginal roll as they come from the factory. It is five times as rapid as hand measurement, twice as rapid as winding machines, 50 per cent. more rapid than any other chart and three times as durable as the best of its competitors. ‘Satisfaction guaranteed or money refunded. Write the manufacturers or any of the jobbers for booklet, “All About It.” No exaggeration. Get one and try it. Price $4.00 each. Kee Sold in the West by the Following Jobbers CHICAGO—Jno. V. Farwell Co. Carson, Pirie, Scott & Co. Marshall Field & Co Sherer Bros Lederer Bros. & Co. ST. LOUIS—Hargadine-McKittrick Dry Goods Co. A ST JOSEPH—Hundley-Frazer Dry Goods Co. et KANSAS CITY—Burnham, Hanna, Munger & Co. Swofford Bros, Dry Goods Co. KG OMAHA—M E Smith & Co. ST. PAUL—Lindeke, Warner & Schurmeier. Powers Dry Goods Co. A Finch, VanSlyck, Young & Co. A MINNEAPOLIS—Wyman Partridge & Co. p DETROIT—Strong, Lee & Co. Burnham, Stoepel & Co. TOLEDO—Davis Bros. Shaw & Sassaman Co. A ner & Co. CINCINNATI—The Jno H. Hibben Dry Goods Co. INDIANAPOLIS—D. P. Erwin & Co. A. E. PUTNAM, Mir., Milan, Mich. L. S. Baumgard- ( i Sent by express ch’ges prepaid on receipt of price by the mfr. | assess Sears What you want for fall business is a good, clean line of Floor Oil Cloth. tasty patterns. We have them in bright, The yard goods are 1-2 3-A and 4 quality and in widths 4-4, 6-4 and 8-4, from 16c a yard up. The Rugs we have in 2-3-A and 4 quality, and 4-4, 5-5, 6-6, 88 squares as cheap as 20c for 4-4 Rugs. P. STEKETEE & SONS, Grand Rapids, Mich. le hl i in hi hi ha hn ha hn hi hi ha ha ha thn th ha dr th he he hn bt dp de tb bp te SOSH DOSOSOOOSS S OO/pbrtrnbrtntn br bn drbr brn tnd tp b tb. nino POS O00000O0 000000000000 00000000000000000000 C00 CCCS : : : : : ! To retail at socents. It is so made as to prevent breaking of the steels over the hips. With- out a doubt the only corset on the market having this feature at so low a price. In drabs only. Price, $4.50 per dozen. : . VOIGT, HERPOLSHEIMER & CoO., Wholesale Dry Goods, Grand Rapids, Mich. inst nscinrilinm ees nal tiat Ds 5 ae ee eis 2 OF we \ Ae a ‘anon Ae ee — TRADESMAN MICHIGAN 3 COLOR CRAZES. Problems Which Confront the Dry Goods Merchant. Written for the Tradesman. I sauntered into the private room of a dry goods merchant the other day and found him studying colors. Laid out on his desk and over the length of a long table which occupied the center of the apartment were rib- bons, pieces of woolen goods, pieces of cotton goods, pieces of silk goods—all arranged in regular order with regard to color. Not only the seven colors, but all the hues and tints possible to be produced by their combination were there -violet and blue, indigo and green, yellow and orange, and red. It seemed to me that 1 had never before seen half the shades and tints. The merchant looked up with a smile as | entered. “You are just in time,’’ he said. ‘‘Come in and tell me something about next year.’’ ‘‘The present year keeps me guess- ing,’’ I said. ‘‘What do you want to know about next year, anyway? Have you any idea that I am the seventh son of a seventh son?”’ ‘‘T want to know something about next year’s colors,’’ replied the merchant. ‘If I only knew what colors and tints would be the rage next spring, | could sell out my stock before my competitors got started.”’ ‘‘Well,’’ said the insurance agent, who had followed me into the room, ‘‘! ‘am quite a guesser myself and | predict that sixteen to one will—’’ ‘*No politics, ’’ shouted the merchant. ‘*Colors—next year’s colors—have the floor.’’ ‘‘That’s easy,’’ said the insurance agent. ‘‘Black will be worn—at funer- als; and white will also be popular— at weddings. Ask me something hard.’’ ‘Go on,’’ said the merchant. ‘‘] give it up,’’ said the insurance agent. ‘‘Red is the only color I know anything about; fire red; and it’s ex- pensive, too.’’ ‘*Come,’’ said the merchant, ‘‘I want to order my goods soon and I want to buy a whole storeful of the colors that will be most in demand next spring. Now, how am I going to do it?”’ ‘‘Why,’’ said the insurance agent, ‘*you merchants decide the point of popularity in colors. You select your own goods, don’t you? Well, then, the people have to buy what you have in stock, don’t they? You run out of the colors that make a hit and order more, while the unpopular shades go to the bargain counter. And there you are.”’ ‘‘T think,’’ said the merchant, ‘‘that I need an insurance man in my busi- ness. How would you like to be my business manager? You seem to know about as much regarding dry goods as a cow knows about single entry. If I car- ried on my business according to the ideas just expressed, you’d soon see me around town looking for a cord of wood to split.’’ ““Who does decide this color question, then?’? demanded the insurance agent. ‘‘That’s what I’d like to know,’’ was the reply. ‘‘Colors and shades which won’t be looked at one season are all the rage the next, and just how the craze gets started is more than any fellow can find out, as Dundreary used to say.’’ “‘T’ll tell you what to do,’’ said the insurance agent, ‘‘you wait until you know what people want, then buy. Eh? why didn’t you think of that before?’’ ‘*You’re a genius,’’ laughed the mer- chant. ‘‘The spring trade would be supplied before I could get my goods here, and I would have a lot of dead stuff on my hands. No, I must keep on guessing.’’ ‘*But if you guess wrong?”’ ‘*All a lottery, my boy,’’ replied the merchant. ‘‘Anyway, I'll probably get a little of the right sort. What will it spryer if he’s ben broke to it as a_ colt. It ain’t a bad idee, in the hoss biz’nis anyway, to be willin’ to let the other | feller make a dollar once ‘na while. Boys, whenever you git holt of a ten- dollar note you want to git it into ye or | onto ye jest’s quik ‘’s you kin. We're | here to-day, an’ gone to-morrer, an the’ ain’t no pocket in a shroud. "TY any rate,’s | look back, it ain’t the money ’t I've spent fer the good times | be next year?’’ he continued. “‘Green|*t |'ve had ‘t | regret; it’s the good | or blue? times ‘t I might as well 've had, an ‘*Red,’’ said the insurance agent. didn't. se The merchant turned to me with an enquiring look on his face. ‘*Vou’ll have to excuse me,’’ I said. ‘I'm not in the dry goods _ trade, and | begin to see that the business has its peculiarities, just like the newspaper business. ”’ ‘*Ves,’’ was the reply, ‘‘there some puzzling features connected with the dry goods trade.”’ As he spoke, he laid a piece of rib- Such is Lord Kitchener’s reputation | as a woman hater that the Queen herself | felt called upon to ask him, during a re- cent audience, if what she had heard of him was true —that he did not care for any woman. He replied that it was | true with one exception. The Queen | asked him to tell the name of the ex- | ception, and the gallant warrior replied, ‘‘Your majesty.” The Queen was amused, but she was also pleased. are How Do You Know That alltthe money goods sell for gets into your till? You can know this if you will. How do your customers know that mistaken credits and charges don’t affect the amount of their bills? They can know this, if you will. How do your clerks know that suspicion can not w rongfully be heli ayainst them by you or your customers? ‘They can know, if you wi'l. =, How can creditors know their extension of credit is not abused? They can know if you will. How can your competitors know that you are on vour feet solid " and to stay? They can know if you will. How can the world at large know that you are pros- perous and progressive? They can know if you will. . Will what? If you wil! put in the Egry Auto- graphic Kegister System, adapted to your needs. 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Kalamazoo, Mich. red tail.”’ The merchant laughed. ‘*You’re partially color blind,’’ he said. The insurance agent took green goggles from his pocket. ‘*I presume these are blue, said. ‘*Match them with the ribbon.”’ He did so, and discovered that the merchant was right. The tint under " a pair of too,’’ he m|(eeley ec>( ure > o~i> 0 ¢ EE 00 <> 0 0 00 6a 6 0 0-00 00 00a 00 2 <> Gems From David Harum. A reasonable amount of fleas is good Y & i Ly i M * él) SIMI, o Lor rR + oe MICHIGAN’ oS Ca TSS MOST FAMOUS C MANUFACTURED BY COLUMBIAN CIGAR COMPANY, BENTON HARBOR, MICH. Cssxs5 fF Sos, <=>. —s 3 = Oy ee GAR for a dog—they keep him f’m_broodin’ on bein’ a dog. My experience is that most men’s hearts are located ruther closter to their britchis pockets than they are to their breast pockets. In a horse trade, ‘‘Do unto the other feller the way he’d like to do unto you——an’ do it fust.’’ There’s as much some folks as th’ is more. It’s curious, but it don’t seem as if the’ was ever yit a man so mean but he c’d find some woman was fool enough to marry him. human nature in in others, if not 5C. CIGAR. Ev’ry hoss c’n doa thing better 'n’ WORLD’S BEST Ss. @® “ALL JOBBERS AND S.J. JOHNSON CIGAR CO. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. SE a 4 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Around the State Movements of Merchants. Flushing—Geo. E. Herriman, produce dealer, has removed to Lansing. Bay City-——-I.aCroix & Carey succeed er Carey & Co. in the drug business. Chapin—Geo. W. Clarke has sold his stock of general merchandise to C. M. Lyons. Charlotte—P. A. Hultz has sold his meat market to Andrews Bros., of Eaton Rapids. Barryton-—M. C. Preysz, of Big Rap- ids, has purchased the drug stock of Ir- win Bros. Big Rapids—Harris Wilenski will re- move his dry goods, clothing and shoe stock to St. Charles. Twining—R. J. Entrekin succeeds Entrekin & Fox in the hardware and implement business. Lake Linden—The new co-operation store has received its grocery stock and engaged in business. Port Huron—W. A. Beach, of Bay City, has leased a store building and put in a stock of groceries. Newaygo—-Wesley W. Pearson, the Fremont clothier, has opened a branch clothing store at this place. East Jordan—Walsh & grocers and meat dealers, solved, P. Walsh succeeding. Elsie —Craven & Eddy have disposed of their stock of millinery to Mrs. Ar- dell Finch and Miss Nora Chase. Hartford—Clarence D. Olds continues the grocery business formerly conducted under the style of Smeed & Olds. Litchfield—-Jud Shepard has opened a grocery store in the room formerly oc- cupied by the grocery stock of J. Nor- cutt. Seney—John I. Bellaire has purchased the general merchandise stock of Morse & Schneider and will continue business at the same location. ; Sherwood—C. G. Powers, who has con- ducted clothing stores at Coldwater, Quincy and Adrian, has opened a cloth- ing store at this place. Lisbon—J. R. Harrison & Co. have sold their general stock to Stinson Bros., of Hadley, who will continue th: busi- ness at the same location. Escanaba—Chas. Ehnerd has leased the meat market of Q. R. Hessel and will remove his fixtures from his pres- ent market to the new location. ‘Lowell—A. D. Oliver has recently moved his jewelry stock into the store building known as the White Front, which has been remodeled for his use. Ann Arbor—L. C. Goodrich, Adolph Walker and Whalen Murphy have opened a clothing and shoe store under the style of Goodrich, Walker & Mur- phy. Port Huron-—-The Bromley drug stock has passed into the hands of Wilson Bros., who held a second mortgage on the stock and purchased the first mort- Williams, have dis- gage. Reading—John Stanfield, who has been conducting D. McNaughton’s branch boot and shoe store at this place for several months, has purchased the stock. Springport—Charles M. Powers, for- merly engaged in trade at Charlotte, but more recently at Brookfield, has en- gaged in the general merchandise _busi- ness at this place. Decatur—Frank Potts, proprietor of the Star grocery, has sold out to I. B. Bagley and M. P. Cady, who will con- tinue the business under the firm name of Bagley & Cady. Walton—Hon. D. C. Leach harvested 330 bushels of cranberries from his marsh, about a quarter of what his crop would have amounted to if the frost had held off a few weeks longer. Saginaw--P. P. Heller, for the past seventeen years engaged in the grocery business at this place, is succeeded by his brother, A. A. Heller, of South Bend, Ind., and his son, Adolph G. Heller. Sault Ste. Marie—Thos. J. Graham, of Rosedale, has purchased the grocery stock and fixtures of the Stevens Gro- cery Co., and embarked in the grocery and provision business at the corner of Ashmun and Spruce streets. Mt. Pleasant--F. G. Thiers has stored the fixtures and drug stock recently pur- chased at St. Johns in the basement of his store building. He intended putting up the stock in Elsie, but was unable to make the necessary arrangements. Reading—F. D. Culver has purchased Z. G. Culver’s business lot in the burned district and will at once begin the erection of a two-story brick block which he will occupy wth a new stock of furniture. He expects to have the building enclosed before cold weather sets in. Wexford—D. W. Connine, the veteran general dealer, has taken his son, Ed- win F., into partnership, the firm name being D. W. Connine & Son. A line of dry goods, clothing and_ boots and shoes has been added to the stock and the store building has been materially enlarged. Port Huron—At the last meeting of the Merchants and Manufacturers’ As- sociation, it was voted to ask the Com- mon Council to pass an ordinance pro- hibiting peddlers from canvassing from house to house without a license. Mer- chants who solicit orders will expect to pay the license fee. Trent-—-Chas. North, junior member of the firm of Carrington & North, gen- eral merchants at this place, has been compelled to leave the country by rea- son of strongly-marked symptoms of tuberculosis and has disposed of his in- terest in the stock and store building to his partner, who will continue the busi- ness under the style of Geo. Carrington. Manufacturing Matters. Sault Ste. Marie—Jos. McLachlan has opened a feed store in the Greenley block, next door south of the grocery store of A. H. Eddy. Standish—The Michigan Manufactur- ing & Mercantile Co. will shortly add to the manufacture of staves and _ head- ing a factory for the manufacture of chamber furniture. Detroit—The E. W. Leech Hardwood Lumber Co. has filed notice with the County Clerk that it has disposed of its property at private sale and abandoned its franchises and business. Detroit—The Thornburg Coupler At- tachment Co. has filed amended articles of incorporation, increasing the capital stock from $25,000 to $100,000. The stockholders are Thomas H. Simpson, of Detroit; William N. Thornburg; Chi- cago, and William Thornburg, Cleve- land. Detroit—The Detroit Glass Co. has been incorporated to manufacture bot- tles and all kinds of glassware. The capital is $20,000, of which $6,000 is paid in. The shareholders are: David H. Burrell and Edward J. Burrell, Lit- tle Falls, N. Y., 250 shares each; Wil- liam J. Moffatt, Tilbury, Ont., 500 shares ; Newell F. Fairchild and Robert B. Burrell, Wyandotte, 500 shares. Bay City—Chas. F. Kerry, of the Kerry Manufactyring Co., has com- pleted arrangements for the establish- ment of a new industry at this place. He has leased the plant of the Hard- wood Manufacturing Co. for a term of five years and equipped it with modern machinery for the manufacture of maple flooring and other hardwood specialties. Onaway--A company composed of W. C. Sterling & Bro., of Monroe, Merritt Chandler and J. R. Snody, of this place, has been organized, to be known as the Chandler Shingle & Tie Manufacturing Co. The necessary buildings will be erected at once on the site of the Ster- ling mill, lately destroyed by fire. The new plant will have a daily capacity of 50,000 shingles and 1,000 ties. Detroit—Articles of incorporation of the American Brewing Co. have been filed with the County Clerk. The capital stock is $100,000, of which $35,000 is paid in. The stockholders are: James D. Burns, Charles Fey and N. B. Sharpe, fifty shares each; F. W. Marschner, 100 shares; John E. Mo- loney, 3,250 shares. This is the con- cern that will fight the trust recently organized. Petoskey—Forman & Curtis, manufac- turers of maple flooring, have merged their business into a stock company un- der the style of the Thomas Forman Co., Limited. Thomas Forman. will be President and General Manager of the new company, Morgan Curtis will be Treasurer and B. H. Cook will act as Secretary. In addition to the offic- ers, the stockholders will be C. F. Han- key, A. M. Daggett, of this place, L. L. Forman, of Ithaca, and E. S. Rice, of Logansport, Ind. > 2-2 The Boys Behind the Counter. Jackson—Nicholas Schweinfurth, for twenty years in charge of the men’s furnishing goods department at L. H. Field’s dry goods store, has resigned to assume charge of the men’s furnishing goods stock at Cook, Smith & Feldher’s dry goods establishment. Kalamazoo— Howard Fisher has taken a position with Davis & Ferguson, gro- cers at 318 North Rose street. Petoskey—-F. M. Short, for several years with Alick Rosenthal, and for the last two years with M. I. Fryman, has gone to the Soo to manage the shoe de- partment of the D. K. Moses Co. Charlotte—Fred H. Loveland has _re- turned to Charlotte from Greenville and entered the employ of R. C. Jones & Co. Twenty-four years ago Mr. Love- land, while still a boy, began his dry goods career with R. C.. Jones, ina store standing on the site of the present one. He remained with Mr. Jones un- til the business was sold to Reynolds Bros. and continued working for them at the old stand until he went into busi- ness with Geo. Barney about six years ago. About seven months ago, he was offered a position in Greenville, which he filled until last week. Dowagiac—l. C. Scattergood has taken a clerkship with the White Front dry goods store. Kalamazoo—J. H. Scherer, cashier of the Standard Wheel Works, has severed his connection with that concern, in whose employ he has been for the past eight years, and gone to Jackson, where he has taken a position with the Imper- ial Wheel Co. lonia—Frank Williams, for some time a clerk in Gundrum’s drug store, has gone to Ann Arbor to take a University course in pharmacy. Ovid—F, J. Storrer has a new hard- ware clerk in the person of C. E. Brewster, formerly employed in the hardware store of J. T. Thompson, at Owosso. Charlotte——Claude Pope succeeds Ralph Walker as clerk in the grocery store of F. H. McGrath. Quincy—Chas. Skinner, Nettie Cold- well and Mabel Globensky are clerking in Van Dorsten’s new dry goods store. Grass Lake—Frank J. Wheaton, who has been head pharmacist at D. W. Clark’s drug store for the past four years, has arranged to enter the service of a druggist at Wayne. Bellaire—George Albee, of Chicago, has taken a _ position in P. Medalie’s dry goods and clothing store, and will be its manager on the retirement of W. A. Gerrison, who retires to engage in general trade at Cross Village. Charlotte—Harry Camp is for G. V. Collins & Son. Albion—Marvin J. Rowley, formerly engaged in the dry goods business at Homer, is manager of the new dry goods store of V. S. Wolcott here. Holland—Theodore Van der Veen, of Grand Rapids, has taken a position in J. A. Van der Veen’s hardware store. Marshall—-Thomas Sinnig has ac- cepted a position as clerk in Mr. Esch’s new grocery. Sault Ste. Marie —Albert Van Wyck has taken a position with the Soo Hard- ware Co. Saginaw—C. A. Butterfield,clerk at J. W. Ippel’s dry goods house, has just concluded sixteen years’ work in prac- tically the same locality. He entered the employ of J. Bauman sixteen years ago, and remained for a time with Porteous, Mitchell & Co. when they succeeded Mr. Bauman, and engaged with Mr. Ippel when that gentleman opened business. He has not been out of employment a single day, and has not lost one day’s time from sickness during this period. Hillsdale—Fred Fitzpatrick is now clerking in Kline’s dry goods store. Charlotte—Lee Mellinger has taken a position in the hardware store of Chapin & Rue. Elk Rapids—Archie L. Crinn, for- merly in charge of the J. H. Steinberg clothing department, at St. Ignace, has taken the management of the N. Hirsh- berh Co. department store. Manchester—Ed. S. Nisle, formerly with Robinson & Koebbe, is now as- sociated with the May Shoe & Clothing Co., at Denver, Colo. Bert M. Teeter, formerly with J. Wurthner, has a posi- tion with a large clothing house in Spokane, Wash. Henry Jackman, for- merly with Arthur Jaeger, can be found with a wholesale grocer house in San Francisco, Cal., after Oct. 15. Ee Counterfeit American Brands. Prof. Stiles, the scientific attache of the United States Embassy here, recent- ly discovered evidence that several large Antwerp firms did an immense business in inferior or diseased pork and beef, which was put in American packages illegally obtained, thus giving them an American brand. The Professor is now traveling in Switzerland, Germany and Denmark in order to complete the chain of evidence needed for the purpose of prosecuting these firms, ——__9___ clerking Men claim that they indulge in the bow! to drown their sorrows. They only add to their troubles by becoming drunk. A man hurt by wearing tight shoes does not help matters by getting tight himself. ————_>+2—____ A man in a hole wants.to pull others in after him, 3 (da ir at ds of in rs th ey ed an ut as SS TS Wn (da ae cee ee ET eraicaneenstaidensndnianainaiteistaiaiadaiaeataiatintl MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 5 Grand Rapids Gossip Geo. W. Hart has opened a grocery store at Hart Siding. The stock was furnished by the Ball-Barnhart-Put- man Co. The John Girard Co. has opened a grocery store at Alma. The Ball- Barnhart-Putman Co. furnished the stock. A. Gardiner & Co. have embarked in the grocery business at Mill Grove. The Lemon & Wheeler Company fur- nished the stock. A. J. Gardner, whose grocery stock at Arcadia was recently destroyed by fire, has re-engaged in business there. The Musselman Grocer Co. furnished the stock. A Grand Haven gentleman has en- gaged in the grocery business at 933 Wealthy avenue under the style of Baker’s Grocery. The Ball-Barnhart- Putman Co. furnished the stock. Albert Supp has engaged in general trade at Vickeryville. P. Steketee & Sons furnished the dry goods, Rindge, Kalmbach, Logie & Co. supplied the shoes and the Ball-Barnhart-Putman Co. captured the grocery order. The local exchange of the Michigan (Bell) Telephone Co. lost a considerable number of telephone connections Oct. 1, including the Berkey & Gay Furniture Co., which has thrown out the Bell phone on the ground that the service is so poor that the connection is of no pos- sible benefit to the corporation. A. H. Welles, Manager of the Michi- gan Manufacturing & Mercantile Co., at Standish, was in the city several days last week looking over the furniture in- dustries here for the purpose of seeking information and pointers in regard to the manufacture of a line of chamber furniture which the company will shortly engage in in conjunction with the man- ufacture of staves and heading. Ee The Grocery Market. Sugars -The raw sugar market is dull, with almost no business being done. Quotations are still on the basis of 5 5-16c for 96 deg. test centrifugals, but practically no sales were made, as there was nothing offered. The tendency of the market is toward some further re- duction, although no very great change is expected. The demand for refined continues about the same at unchanged prices. The total stock of sugar in the United States is 188,702 tons, against 193,738 tons at the same time last year. Canned, Goods—In looking over the canned goods situation for this season it will be seen that the packers have had to contend with short crops of canning articles and high prices for cans. Next to the shortage of canning products the worst feature of the business has been the ripening of the entire crop at one time, as has been the case with some crops, and the consequent impossibil ity of caring for receipts in time to save the raw material from loss. Prominent packers say that the result of these diffi- culties has been to create an unfavor- able condition, and will eventually cause higher prices. Seldom have prices, as a rule, been higher than they are now at this season and the tendency is upward, with some uncertainty ex- pressed as to the outlook for future busi- ness.’ It is certain that trade will in- crease later, but what will result in the The prospects for the tomato pack point to about an average output. Con- servative estimates indicate that it may not be up to last year's, although the acreage has been variously estimated up to 25 per cent. larger. The cause of the reduction in expected output is as- signed to unfavorable weather condi- tions throughout the season. Prices tend upward and present indications are that the close of the packing season, with its shortage accurately determined, will lead toa considerable increase in prices. From Baltimore comes the re- port that Western buyers are still tak- ing all the tomatoes they can get in that market, but the advance in price of 5c per dozen on cans has had considerable influence in hardening the market, and the prospect of higher prices is daily more encouraging to holders. There is a scarcity of cans also, and it is now said that quite as many tomatoes will rot on the vines as will be put up this year. If the West continues buying, the outlook favors higher prices within a short time. More tomatoes will be packed in Maine this season than ever before. The Northern fruit is firmer in texture and makes a more satisfactory pack than the Southern fruit, which grows faster and has less time to acquire solidity. Corn is stiffer and some pack- ers have advanced their prices 24%c per dozen. New York is still canning, but the probable output is so much below what was expected that so far the crop is not much of a factor in the situation. The output in Maine will be below the average, but the quality will be much better than usual and some packers claim that it will all grade fancy. Peas are quiet and_ prices are unchanged. The demand is fair. The demand for string beans is quite an important fea- ture. Some Western packers are short on their contracts for this article, also, and have been buying in the East to cover them, consequently creating a stronger market. The price is gradual- ly but surely advancing and we think that string beans at present prices are a good purchase. The shortage in cans in California is reported as ended and such goods as are still to be packed will feel less of the influence than those which have been packed before. Apri- cots are about the only California prod- uct canned thus far which had not been affected by the stringency. The peach situation is unchanged. Stocks are light and prices high and demand is restricted somewhat by the high prices. Gallon apples are firm, with a good de- mand. The demand for salmon is very good, with no change in prices, but with a firm market prevailing. Sardines have advanced 30c per case on some grades. It is stated that the previous low prices have been below the cost of production and that there is a possibil- ity of a consolidation of the two oppos- ing interests, as the fight between them has developed such low prices and the fresh fish have been so high this season that there is no money in the business. Dried Fruits—The chief point of in- terest in the dried fruit market is the fact that the California Raisin Growers’ Association has named prices on new crop raisins. The trade has been ex- pecting them for some time and has de- layed purchasing until the prices for this year were known. These prices are from 13,@2%c higher than the opening prices of last year and are decidedly higher than the trade expected they would be. About a month ago, it is claimed, the crop condition changed for ditions continuing, high prices were necessary. The crop will be a short one—only about 2,500 cars, as against 3,500 last year—but the quality will be very good. As the market is now bare of raisins, while at this time last year over 1,000 cars were on hand undistrib- uted, it is clear that there will be a ma- terial shortage. No change in the situa- tion is expected during the season and prices will be no lower. The high prices, however, do not seem to prevent business and a number of cars have been sold the past week. As a matter of fact, consumers must have and no matter what the price is, sales are bound to be large for the next few weeks. There is an excellent demand for seeded raisins, the consumption of which has increased wonderfully within the last year Prunes are about the only thing in the dried fruit line that will turn out larger than originally estimated. The activity is somewhat hampered by the continued reports that the California crop will be 100,000,000 pounds, or 23,000,000 pounds larger than last year. The in Oregon will have very little effect, ex- cept possibly on the supply of large sizes, owing to the fact that the new orchards which have come into bearing in California will more than make up the deficiency. In previous years there have been large sales for future deliv- ery, but not nearly so much this year and the market is inclined to be quite dull. Apricots proved to be a larger crop than last year, but compared with some previous years the yield is small and prices are relatively high. Exporters are the only ones who are showing any interest. Trade promises to be active later, but at present it very dull. Peaches are slightly firmer and held a fraction higher on the Coast. Currants continue in good demand at previously quoted prices. The new crop figs are moving into consumption rapidly at full prices. There is a good demand from all sections and trade promises well. Prices are firm at present quotations, and there is a slight tendency to in- raisins or so. Was shortage Is crease. Dates are moving steadily at about previous prices. There will be no new crop here for nearly four weeks, and present demand will nearly clear out what there is in hand before the ar- rival of the first shipments. Rice The rice crop this year is the largest ever known and the yield exceeds the record-breaking year of 1892 by 20 per cent. There was an unusual amount of the old crop carried over and grocers may be expected to work off this stock before taking hold of the new rice. So far prices have been fairly good, but when the bulk of the crop comes in the market prices will undoubtedly go lower. Molasses and Syrups tinued improving demand for molasses. As the fall demand is beginning to in- crease, jobbers are purchasing more freely. It is estimated that this year’s molasses crop will average about 65 per cent. of a normal ‘crop, consequently there is no fear that the market will be glutted at any time during the year. Corn syrup is in a very strong position, with an excellent demand, and _ refiners are badly oversold. The sugar syrup market is very strong and will probably advance shortly. Tea—The demand for tea is steadily increasing as the season approaches. The market is firm with no quotable change in prices. Fish—Light supplies of herring and mackerel continue to restrict the con- There is a con- suming demand, although considering the high prices, stocks are moved about as fast as received. The active demand for salt codfish still prevails. Rolled Oats The rolled oats market is very firm and prices have made a sudden advance of 50c per bbl. and 20c per case, with millers heavily oversold. that the been more Green Fruits--Dealers foreign fruit industry disappointing this season than usual. Prices have been unsatisfactory all the with only occasional spurts, when dealings have been fairly good. Chere no activity of importance in any variety and trade, as a whole, has been generally dull and The trade been weak and dull all the season. tunes been lost and but few im- porters made any money. There was a short time during July when fair- ly reasonable prices were paid, but in the main the range has been low. Cool weather is partially responsible, lessen- say has season, has been almost has For- discouraging. lemon have have ing the demand, and_ there has been further complaint of quality. There has been no change in prices since last week. Receipts are small and quality unusually poor. price and movement is a trifle more active. Cargoes are smaller and fewer, but the quality of recent arrivals is bet- ter. The of the fall apple and grape season causes an enlarged de- mand for bananas also. Bananas are steady in close Nuts--The market for nuts shows con- siderable activity and varieties tend upward. prices on some The supply of different varieties varies, but as a whole, foreign nuts are short and do- mestic sorts will give about an yield. about exhausted and the crop is short, but the quality is rather better than The of about all French varieties is to fair, and the quality good enough to satisfy most of the trade. The market for Sicily filberts The new crop is average Spot supplies of Grenobles are usual. crop said be is excited and higher. estimated at 51,000 bags, against 82,900 bags last year. Tarragona almonds are in fair demand and _ prices tend up- The near as can be determined, is a failure. Ivicas "are reported short, and opening prices like- ly tobe high. Foreign walnuts will not be up to the average in quantity, al- though the quality is said to be fair. An exception is made in Marbots, which are reported in good supply. Almonds are firm. The California crop is in the hands of a combine, and while there are some goods outside, the control of the market is in the hands of the combine. Foreign goods will hardly be in as good ward. new crop, as supply as was expected, and prices rule high. Pecans are and firm at present high range. Peanuts are weak and the tendency of prices is down- ward. scarce —___-_~>-<.___——— Highest Price Paid in Fifteen Years. The highest price paid for live cattle on the Kansas City, Mo., market in fifteen years was paid on Wednesday last. This was for two. cars of steers averaging 1,456 pounds. The price paid was $6.50. In June, 1882, $7.40 was paid for one load of fancy exporters, which is the highest ever paid on the Kansas City market. When it is consid- ered that good beef cattle bring better prices than at any time since 1884, the high price of dressed beef is explained. > «> The men who were behind the guns at Manila were in front at the New York parade. —_>+2>—_— For Gillies’ N. Y. tea, all kinds, grades and priees, phone Visner, 800. way of prices remains to be determined. the worse and, these unfavorable con- 6 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Woman’s World The Woman Who Always Told the Truth. ‘‘Yes,’’ said pretty little Mrs. Blank, settling her frills and thoughtfully drop- ping another lump of sugar in her tea, ‘tyes, I’ve known Mary Harris all her life and she always has been queer. In what way was she peculiar? Oh, I don’t know exactly. She was one of those un- comfortable people who are always doing things you weren't looking for them to do and saying things you weren't ex- pecting to hear and that nobody was prepared for. Why, she didn’t have any more hesitation in coming right plump out with the naked truth than you and I have in telling a tarradiddle. In- decent, I call it. Nobody has any right to introduce the truth into society until it is properly dressed up so as to be presentable. You know how sometimes a person will say to us ‘I’m afraid I’m putting you to some trouble,’ or ‘1 hope I’m not inconveniencing you in the least.’ Very likely it’s putting us to all sorts of bother and we are wishing them at the bottom of the sea with all our hearts, but we smile seraphically and say, ‘Oh, not at all. So glad to see you.’ But Mary Brown didn’t. She would say, ‘Certainly, it is very inconvenient just now, but I’m _ willing to sacrifice myself for your pleasure,’ and then they would go off and hate her all the rest of their lives for telling them the truth. But it was one of her queer ways to do it. ‘*She was always odd, even as a girl. When she went to school her father wanted her to study accomplishments like the other girls, but Mary wouldn't do it. She said she didn’t have any ear for music and wasn’t going to tor- ture herself and other people and waste money trying to learn to play the piano when the town was full of hand organs that could grind out better music, with more expression in it, than nine-tenths of the amateur performers. She declared her talents lay in the direction of the cooking stove and she meant to study that until it would not only be an ac- complishment, but a profession in case she ever had to support herself. ‘You see, Mrs. Blank,’ she said to me, ‘it is sure to be an accomplishment that will stay by me. I may not marry a man with a soul for music or an eye for art, but he’s certain to have a stomach to which I can appeal.’ Did you ever hear of anything so queer as a girl picking out cooking for a career? Why, all the other girls I have ever known who wanted to make a living were expecting to play Juliet or be prima donnas or write poetry or illustrate books. There wasn’t a single solitary one of them who ever dreamed of doing any ordinary, commonplace thing for which there was a good steady demand. ‘*Being so peculiar we thought that Mary would never marry, but she did. More than that, she had several good offers and she was queer about them, too. She actuaily broke off her engage- ment with that handsome young Thomp- son because she saw him kick a little dog. She said any man who would be that brutal to a helpless animal would abuse and bully his wife once she was in his power. Nobody could see any- thing especial in Tom Brown, who was a poor young fellow on a salary, and we thought she was silly enough to pass by Jack Bullion for him, but of course no- body could know then that Tom Brown was going to develop into a financier and old Bullion was going to smash and leave Jack without a penny or knowing how to do anything. The wedding was the funniest affair. Mary took the money her father gave her for her trousseau and furnished up a little cot- tage with it, and then one morning she put on her hat and she and Tom stepped around to the church and were married. Not an inch of white satin or veil or wedding breakfast or ushers or brides- maids or anything. Of course people talked, but Mary didn’t care. She said she didn’t see that a poor clerk’s wife had any pressing need of white satin gowns, while she did have for chairs and tables. People have always given Tom Brown all the credit for getting along so well, but there have been times when I’ve had my misgivings and won- dered if Mary wasn’t atthe bottom of it. She was queer enough for anything. ‘*Then she had the queerest views about things. She used to let her hus- band smoke all over the house and clut- ter up things with his fads, and as far as I could see she never objected to his going to his club or tried to interfere with anything he had been in the way of enjoying before they were married. She said she didn’t believe a man mar- ried to acquire a boss, but a companion. Did you ever hear of a woman having such a peculiar idea? People used to wonder how it was that she never had any trouble about servants, while all the rest of us spent half our lives on a still hunt for a decent cook and a housemaid who would sweep under the bed. One day a woman asked her what was the secret of her success and why there were so many incompetent servants now. ‘Because of the incompetent mistresses, ’ said Mary. ‘Put a man in a business he doesn’t understand in any one of its de- tails. Give him ignorant and lazy clerks, and let him divide his time between bargain sales of marked down neckties in the morning and a two hours’ wait at the tailor’s, go to a pink tea and a club meeting in the afternoon, with a few calls sandwiched in between, and a dash now and then into his store to change his clothes and scold a clerk for not do- ing something right, and what would happen? He would go into bankruptcy inside of six months. Yet that’s the principle on which the majority of women keep house. We are not so much smarter than men as we think we are and we'll never make a success of housekeeping until we realize it isa business that requires to be understood, just as much as banking or merchan- dising. The trifling mistress is the rea- son of the trifling maid the country over.’ Did you ever hear anything so absurd as thinking a woman needed to know how to do things in order to keep house? ‘*She was just impossible in clubs and societies. We would never have one of those lovely soulful meetings, where somebody reads a paper about vague aspirations and yearnings after the in- finite and things like that, that Mary wouldn’t get up and ask, in effect, where were we at? And nobody ever knew. She was just like a dash of cold water, and when she sat down everybody shivered and felt uncomfort- able. She never went in for movements and I never saw her name ona subscrip- tion list in my life. Actually, when the Rev. Mr. Saintly went to her about contributing to the fund for buying fans for the Eskimos she refused and told him she didn’t know whether the Lord was going to hold her responsible for the heathen or not, but she knew he was looking to her to feed and clothe the poor widow and orphans that lived at her back gate. Scandalous, wasn’t it? but she had all sorts of queer notions like that. ‘*One summer | was at Frankfort with her. It is a quiet place, not a_ bit swell, you know, but comfortable and cheap, where everybody feels called upon to explain why they are there, in- stead of being at Mackinac Island or Charlevoix. One woman had been or- dered perfect rest after the gayety of last season, another had come for the sake of the children, another found that peculiar air just the thing for her nerves, and didn’t know but what she would go on to Petoskey a little later on. You know how women fib to one another about such things. Well, they all had their say, and when they fin- ished, Mary remarked, as simply as if she didn’t know she was throwing a bomb into the camp: ‘Well, I-came be- cause it was cheap, and the best I could afford.’ You could have heard a pin drop, and it took quite a while to get the conversation going naturally again. Oh, but she was queer for certain. She never even pretended to know every- body who was rich and fashionable, and when women would ask her about the Bondclippers or the Croesuses, she would just say right out that she didn’t know them; thatthey were fashionable and rich and she wasn’t either. Women used to look at her like she was a freak just escaped from the side show. ‘‘The time came when Tom Brown made a lot of money and fashionable society would gladly have welcomed her to its fold. And perhaps her queerness came out strongest in her not accepting its gilt-edged invitations. She said Mrs. Soandso was vulgar and Mrs. Some- bodyelse stupid and Mrs. Someotherone a bully. Fancy saying such things about people with bank accounts and carriages and opera boxes! It was like flying in the face of Providence and seemed actually sacrilegious when one thought of how other people kow-towed to them to get invited to their parties and balls. Her old friends were good enough for her and she never even made an effort to float herself into society on champagne or break down the barriers by bombarding them with receptions and dinners. Queer, though, wasn’t it, the woman who could and didn’t? ‘*And now she is dead. That was strange, too. Seemed sudden at the last, but we were told that two years ago she went to a great specialist and he told her she had an incurable malady. She never told her husband or her chil- dren, or any one. Said there would be time enough for heavy hearts and grief when she was gone; so she went smiling and gay, loving and careful and tender about her daily task as usual, until al- most the very end, bearing her heavy secret alone. Well, we called her queer, but perhaps truth and good sense and loyalty and lack of pretense are not common virtues and we should be _ bet- ter if more of us were like queer Mary Brown,’’ and Mrs. Blank sighed and poured herself out another cup of tea. Dorothy Dix. The Woman Who Wrote. A woman there was and she wrote for the press (As you or I might do), She told how to cut and fit a dress, And how to stew many a sa. ory mess, But she never had done it herself, | guess (Which none of her readers knew). Oh, the hour we spent, and the flour we spent, And the sugar we wasted like sand, At the nest of a woman who nev: r had cooked (And now we know that she never cou:d cook), And did not understand. A woman there was, and she wrote right fair (As vou or I might do), How out of a barrel to make a chair, To be covered with chintz and stuffed with hair, ? f would adorn any parlor, and yive it an air! (And we thought the tale was true). Oh. the days we worked, and the ways we worked, To hammer, and saw, and tack, In making a chair in which no one would sit, A chair in which no one could possibly sit Without a crick in his back. A woman there was and she had her fun (Better than you and 1); She wrote recip~s, and she never tried one, She wrote about children—of course she had none-- She told us to do what she never had done (And never intended to try). And it isn’t to toil, and it isn’t to spoil, That brims the cup of disgrace— It’s to foliow a woman who didn’t know beans (A woman who never had cooked any beans), But wrote, and was paid to fill space. ——__~>242>___ Saving Her From Exertion. ‘You asked me to bring you some pin money this morning,’’ said the young husband. ‘*Ves,’’ she replied with an air of expectancy. ‘*Well,’’ said he, ‘‘I thought I might as well save you a trip down town, so I bought you a paper of pins instead.’’ Those of you who have been doing business with us for years have probably noticed that we fill your orders a great deal more promptly than we used to. Those who are new | : customers are - pleased to find that we are 3 so prompt. 2 This is not because we are 3 doing less business than 2 formerly- -we are doing more z | | 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. Valley City Milling Co., Grand Rapids, Mich. Sole Manufacturers of “LILY WHITE,” “The flour the best cooks use.” OAARAAAR EEN EVE SUV VY SEYS RED STAR BRAND CIDER VINEGAR & 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. 4 cas a) biti | MICHIGAN TRADESMAN __ 7 | LYON BROTHERS _|/ \(SPECIAL IN HIGH GRADE’: SPI RADE -\ 1: )) LOW PRICEDCOLLARETTES | " 1 fe Special Lot 590. ¥ q ‘ Astrakhan skins, length } 4 ~ 10 inches, full 64-inch s 4 sweep, 6-inch storm a 3 collar, lined with fast ing color sateen. of ght } so z Each, $2.00 Special Lot SOT. Length 10 inches, full 60-inch sweep, black sheared coney fur with 5- iz Uf Wi inch chinchilla fur storm = - ‘yy collar and high color rha= ) SPECIAL \ dame serge lining. : UE 5 Z f |Z . __ There Was An Exception. On the sleeper on a Texas railroad train recently a traveling man_ noticed an old white-bearded gentleman trying to get on a linen duster. The young and spry traveler rushed to his assist- ance, and in helping him with his _ gar- ment he noticed a good sized bottle of whisky protruding from one of the in- side pockets of his coat. Being ofa waggish nature he appropriated the bot- tle, got the coat on the stranger and then pulling out the flask said: “*Will you take a drink, sir?’’ The old man did not recognize the bottle, and drawing himself up, _re- marked rather severely: ‘‘No, sir, I never drink !’’ ‘‘It won’t hurt you, ’’ insisted the wag ; **it’s the best.’’ ‘“Young man,’’ said the old gentle- man, in a tone intended for the whole car, ‘‘if you insist on drinking whisky you will be a ruined man at 4o. It is the curse of the land. When I was a boy my mother died, and the last thing that sainted mother did was to call me to her dying bedside and say: ‘John, swear to me that you will never touch a drop of liquor.’ ’’ Here the old man clapped his hand to his side pocket and found it empty, and recognizing the bottle in the hands of the traveler, he continued : ** “Except, my dear boy, an occasional snifter while traveling,’ ’’ and reaching for the flask he pressed it to his lips amid a howl of laughter which shook the car. ———_02>—___ Good Customers. Horse. Dealer—Yes, sir; we sells most of our horses through the matrimonial advertisements ! Friend—How is that? Horse Dealer—Why, when we sees a feller advertising for a wife we knows he’s a good thing to stick on a horse! Crockery and Glassware AKRON STONEWARE. ' Butters te Sea, POPANOS is ee 2106 CAL por Gal. 8 gal. 10 gal. 12 gal. 15 gal. 20 gal. 25 gal. 39 gal. 2to6 Chur gal gal i 7 \% gal 1 gal. \% gal 1 gal %4 gal 14 gal 1to5 each.... pee ce es a OM ge oie a edn eh ae meat-tubs, eaeh................ meat-tubs, each................ meat-tubs, each................ meat-tubs, each................ Churns GMs, OU aE os 1 Dashers, per doz............... Milkpans . flat or rd. bot., per doz......... . flat or rd. bot.,each............ Fine Glazed Milkpans . flat or rd. bot., per doz......... flat or rd. bot.,each...... 2.2... Stewpans . fireproof, bail, per doz......... . fireproof, bail, per doz......... Jugs reDOP GOGr c.f oe es - per doz.. gal., per gal... Tomato Jugs Real MEP GOS) ss ROA. ORC Corks for % gal., per doz.............. Corks for 1 gal., per doz.............. Ye gal 1 gal 5 Ibs. Preserve Jars and Covers -, Stone cover, per doz........... ., Stone cover, per doz.......... Sealing Wax in package, per Ib............... FRUIT JARS PMR Se Quarts. ..... Half Gallo Covers...... Rubbers. .... No. 0 No. 1 No.2 8S Tubular... Seeur Seeur Nutm No. 0 No. 1 No. 2 No. 0 No. 1 No. 2 No. 0 No. 1 No. 2 No. 0 No.1 No. 3 No. 1 No. 2 No. 2 No. 2 No.1 No. 2 No.1 ° 9 No. 1 No. 2 No. 2 No. 2 No. 2 1 gal. 1 gal. 2 gal. 3 gal. 5 gal. 3 gal. 5 gal. 5 gal. 5 gal. 5 gal. 5 gal. 3 gal. 5 gal. 5 gal. No. No. No. No. No. No. 0 No. 0 No. 0 No. 0 LAMP BURNERS ROR as ity, No. 1. ee BGVe INOS ee ee ee Ceo see Be a oer ace cee LAMP CHIMNEYS—Seconds Per box of IN ce ce eee wee Common SUE a a PS es a. First Quality Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. XXX Flint Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. CHIMNEYS—Pearl Top Sun, wrapped and labeled...... Sun, wrapped and labeled...... Hinge, wrapped and labeled... . Sun, “Small Bulb,” for Globe BRS ee ee La Bastie Sun, plain bulb, per doz......... 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Tub,, bull’s eye, cases 1 doz. each wee 5 ree O wrens win x _ ¢ a te he OO 3 i SRaS > phe KKFRARAS ss ass TOU om OS Go et NOPRNts = S . * a r 7 eo i < ’ < I > a a At) _ ‘ ¥ s i f° ati v —- ~ i eM rataereshosrense fe ' | | $= aon oe 4 q re heme — a = ~e 4 — et 4 a ~ — » ~ oa $ 4 Ee v ro ee ' “ t L te -. £-—- 4 ental ee ~~ 5 ¥ Caen eee eee eee eee ee A SS eS SSeseees CIs Agents “9 LOGIE & CO THE NAME . BOSTON RUBBER MICHIGAN TRADESMAN SHOE CO Nie KALMBACH 9 BACKED BY THE - QUALITY OF THE GOODS. 9 GRAND RAPIDS, MICH RINDGE : " : : ' : ( u : iB PCI SI | . = a “_ ‘ ; tt ’ pra os r \ me ¥ = ‘ . ——— ae. ee eo eee 5 eae” | denen * \ ; ‘ = ‘ ‘ : - i t } : a ¢ | ieee ee ee t eras pope ne Se ~ ee roe HE ape —— te: 2 4 —*« —@— ~ : : 12 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Shoes and Leather Annoying Express Charges Incurred by Jobbers. Correspondence Shoe and Leather Gazette. It frequently occurred to me, since I am in business where we are selling men’s wear from head to feet, that the shoe department is the only department where a question of freight and express ever comes up. It is a small item and it is a custom of every line to pay freight and expressage. I can’t understand why with the shoe men they can not do the same. If the manufacturers have been so nearsighted as to lose sight of this, they should be reminded, as the inconvenience of petty cash slip and question of freight and express is quite a nuisance to a business house, and they could easily add to the profit sufficient to justify them paying the express. No buyer for a difference of 15c on a 24- pair case of shoes would ever walk away and not buy, considering that he knows that the price is 15 cents ad- vance. Now take the case as if he did not know the advance. How many buy- ers are so well posted as to be able to figure a difference of 15 cents in 24 pairs of shoes? I think that job- bers who have size orders of less than twelve pairs are perfectly justified in sending shoes collect, but more than twelve pairs they should pay it; it will often make a retailer send for sizes which he would not order, for he knows that he has got to pay the express. Every business, in order to do busi- ness, must figure on expense, and in the end you will not make any less, and count among the accommodating peo- ple. Show me another branch of busi - ness where a wholesaler or jobbing house has no trucks or delivery of their own. I ordered two cases of shoes on a Friday morning to be delivered three hundred yards from the jobber, and had to wait until the following Tuesday for the pleasure of the express man, and then pay 30 cents. These two cases were a part of a $400 order, and as_ the jobber almost cried when I asked him to pay the expressage, | simply let it go through. If he had agreed to pay ex- pressage on the entire order, the whole expense would have been $2.40. Now can any fair-minded man tell me why a jobber can not pay $2.40 expense, when a buyer comes to his place of business without being drummed and buys, say only a$2o00 bill? These little things often cause a buyer to get out of the city to buy, and take business away from them. I am_ not kicking at any- one in particular, but merely at the cus- tom. a Don’ts Applicable to the Shoe Business. Don’t dry your shoes on the radiator. Don't put your feet on the heater on trains. Don't use vaseline or any oily sub- stance on your patent leather shoes; it cuts off the polish. Don’t use lemon on your Russia calf shoes. Don’t keep your patent leather shoes in a cold place. Don’t fail to let us know if your shoes are not satisfactory. Don’t buy your shoes too short. Don’t wear your shoes laced too loose- ly ; if you do, they will get out of shape. oO The Golden Rule in Trade. The golden rule of business is always ‘*Mind your own business.’’ Live up to that, and you will do good to yourself and those you deal with, both in buy- ing and selling. Don't worry if an opponent spends his time in watching you in order to try to checkmate your best moves. He can not do it if you are wide awake, because at best he is but an imitator, and an imitator rarely equals the original and never excels it. it he can not excel he may as well give up. Don’t give him the satisfaction of allowing him to see that you resent such “methods by meeting his prices nor cut- ting below them, unless you are pre- pared to give him such a crack as will scare him into silence or set him howling like a whipped cur. A merchant ‘who spends his time in watching his neighbors can not have much business of his own to attend __to, and should be easily vanquished. —_—+_$~» 0.» _____ Getting Ready for the Fray. When the baseball -eavon’s waning And the heroes of the bat Are preparing for their exit, While the rooters sadly chat, It is then the football kickers, Who from public view had slid, Reappear and start their driliing For the battles on the ‘ grid.” Crops of hair they’re culti. ating So that craniums won t break; Combs and brushes are discarded, And the barner vets the shake. Padded suits are resurrected And the playing shoe, and hose, And there's t- ying on of ear-guards And the ugly rubber nose. ‘Every town and cross-roads village Gets excited o'er the zame, Each ts forming an eleven With the hope of winning fame. There 1s uh for «ld players Who are up to all the tricks, And a grab for husky feliows Who are handy in a mix. They are practicing the passes, Kus' es, tackles and the punts, And ali other evolutions That are known 1n‘fvotball stunts. ‘Teams are worki g on new signals ‘They alone can understand, And they’re contident ot winning On the systems they have planned. Yes; the football season’s coming, As is plainly now revealed, And another class cf heroes soon will pose upon the field. Hospitals are getting ready For the calls o’cr telephones, And the surgeons are preparing To bind up the broken bones. —~>2.__ Advertising should be governed the same as an infant. It should be tender- ly nurtured and watched while it is growing. Neither an advertisement nor an infant is profitable in the beginning. About the only satisfaction or comfort you can get in the early stage is the anticipation of what it will be when it is fully grown. Advertising and an in- fant can easily get into bad ways and bad company unless carefully watched. eine _ Don’t tell a four-inch story in a two- inch space. Some one has said that although a woman may forget the low price that she paid, she will never forget the store at which she bought un- satisfactory shoes. Tappan Shoes | arenever unsatisfactory’ They wear well, look well and feel well. Han- dled by all progressive dealers. These goods should find a place in your store. Write for price list. The Tappan Shoe Mfg. Co., Coldwater, Michigan. UINP rer erVerererverervnrververververververserververver erver vert GE FHE BEST G % VAP TNT NENT LOT HTE NTN VET NTT TOT NTP TTT NTT TT new price list. HIRTH, KRAUSE & CO., Grand Rapids ih =), MF'G. CO. & — SY GOODYEAR GLOVE RUBBERS can be purchased at 25 and 5 off from Write R MUA AAAAUAJAL ANA UMA ANA bk JUb dA Jb4 Jhb bk ddd ddd UMMA ANASAA ANA J4A UA AUAJUA ADA JOA AMA Abd J44 24h Jb JOA Abd 464 bh Jd 24h ddd JAA ALAIN ee} ooh ohoh heheh hhh pee Sererrrrrt+ HOES that will fit. HOES that will wear. HOES that bring comfort. HOES that give satisfaction. HOES that bring trade. HOES that make money. WE MAKE THEM HEROLD-BERTSCH SHOE CO., MAKERS OF SHOES, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. SEEETESE ETE TEST PEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEETETT TTT YOU NEED THEM hhh hhh h hod 44 : Shoes That Sell We know what the Michi- demands have gan trade shoes—and we Not an undesirable line in i es our fal] offerings—not a style but what you can sell easily Our travelers will be in to see you soon. you defer ordering until they come, we'll get your fall order. GEO. H. REEDER & CO., 19 SOUTH IONIA STREET, W. W. WALLIS, Western Manager. 3 BUY RUBBERS made. Send for price list to GOODYEAR RUBBER CO., 382-384 EAST WATER STREET, MILWAUKEE, WIS. GOLD SEAL They are Pure Gum and the best If GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. i; Bnet \ e » ¥ ap he MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 13 Store Lighting About Piping For Acetylene Gas Lighting The person who ail his life has been accustomed to the use of only portable lights, kerosene for instance, may at first be somewhat strangely impressed by an illuminant that is delivered in pipes. He quickly gets over this, and presently is ‘almost sure to become en- thusiastic over stationary lighting equip- ments, that in use need not be touched, and the light from which is ‘‘on tap’’ at all desired points. However, the fact that the piping subject is some- what new to thousands of prospective acetylene users leads the writer to think that some additional notes on the subject might be acceptable in your columns. There is no mystery about installing pipes for acetylene; simple principles everywhere in vogue in the case of com- mon gas apply equally well here. If there is one point to be specially in- sisted upon it is that of making a good tight job of fitting. Leakage is far from necessary; it indicates careless work. But this may be said, that where ordinary gas might escape from bad unions to an extent injurious to health without being noticeable, this could not occur in the case of acetylene, for the reason that its pungent odor is its own detector against leakage ; it tells instantly of any leaking gas—a great advantage. . As regards size of pipes it is generally known, I suppose, that for a given light but a fraction as much acetylene is re- quired as of common gas. This indi- cates that the pipes may be smaller than for the latter. In practice, how- ever, it is the custom to introduce only about one size smaller of pipes for acetylene, in any given case, than for the other. There is no disadvantage in the larger pipes, while the difference in cost is very slight. Pipes with rough interior finish are found to reduce the delivery over such as are smooth. Gas pipes may be made to last longer by being coated with one or two layers of hot tar or good oxide paint. Where pipes are carried across exposed places, as in the open air, they should be cov- ered with felt or other non-conducting substance. In the case of large pipes a composition of burgundy pitch, rosin, oil and coal tar, heated to about 142 deg. Fahrenheit, is used as a coat both inside and out, by leaving the pipes in the hot composition and afterwards al- lowing them to drain by tilting up one end. In case gas pipes are laid from one building to another under ground, clay forms an excellent soil in which to lay them. This is much better than to lay them in clinkers or ashes, material that seems to suggest itself first to most minds. In the latter the pipes suffer from exterior decay as they will not do in clay. Under all circumstances _hori- zontal gas pipes should havea slight fall, to be not less than an inch in fifty feet, and a little more than this is bet- ter. If a leak is suspected in a pipe, its location may be determined by the smell. As above intimated it is much to the advantage of acetylene that it is strongly odorous, as it at once gives warning of the slightest leak. Never use a light in detecting any kind of gas leakage. Do your searching in the day- time, carefully following along the pipes. If the pipes are buried in soil thrust an iron bar down near the joints. Should it ever happen that a pipe be- comes broken’ it may be temporarily closed with a bandage of. stout cloth— factory will answer—well coated with white and red lead, until a new pipe can be laid. A. A. Leightner. ee —_-o<—>—_ —— _— With lights. From the Reading, Pa., Telegram. e The intense brilliant light from acety- lene and its powerful penetrating rays in dispelling darkness have attracted the attention of railroad officials as to its feasibility for locomotive headlights. The P. & R. company is in the van- guard of these experiments and freight engine No. 16, northbound, passed up the road last night with one of these headlights. It attracted general atten- tion. The highly polished radiator in which the light is set shot the rays of the acetylene into the darkness for hun- dreds of yards in advance of the en- gine. Its lighting qualities were not dissimilar to those of a miniature search- light and as compared to the ordinary locomotive illuminator, the latter paled into sickly insignificance when it shed its rays beside it. If the light meets all requirements the company will use it on all their engines. ——--__ ~ © &— a ae Acetylene For Motor Power. From the New York Independent. We have already explained, and need not repeat, the characteristics of calcic carbide, and have pointed out the sim- ple conditions of safety with it. The material is too valuable to be kept out of service by any alarm cry. For one sign, there were three or four makes of gas lamys for bicycles on the market in 1898 ; there are now probably ten times that number, and their proportion in lamps in use is largely increased al- ready. The market price of carbide has declined, and the lessened cost of production will lower that still further. While not yet sanguine that acetylene will become important as a source of power, the motor is still the most seri- ous part of the automobile, and for that purpose there are possibilities in this gas. So the world must add acetylene to the list of servitors. —_—__s 2 >_ —__ A Leader Among Leaders. From the Grand Haven Press. That leader among the trade publica- tion of the country, the Michigan Tradesman, has recently issued a s}len- did 64 page anniversary number, which is a credit to the lively institution from which it issues. Most special editions of newspapers are begun months before the date upon which they are issued, but the Trades- man’s big paper is the product of six days of labor. This is a severe test of any printing office, but the modern ma- chinery and capable employes of this company are equal to almost anything. The wholesale trade of Grand Rapids will, perhaps, never realize what this great paper has done for it. That the Valley City is a strong competitor with Chicago and Milwaukee in this field is largely due to the prominence which the Tradesman has given its dealers. _—___-_$__—»- 0 —— The Light in a Bottle. An old farmer who had been to New York was describing to his friends the splendor of the hotel he stayed at. ‘‘Everything was perfect,’’ said he, ‘‘with the exception of one thing—they kept the light burning all night in my bedroom-—a thing I ain’t used to.’’ ~ ‘*Well,’’ said one of them, ‘‘why didn’t you blow it out?’’ ‘‘Blow it out!’’ said the farmer, ‘‘how could I? The blamed thing was inside a bottle.’’ ——~0>_-—_- A Safe Light. From the El Paso, Texas, Herald. There have been hundreds of people killed by the explosion of lamps as well as by being suffocated in their bed- rooms filling with escaping coal gas, either from a coal stove or from a burn- er tip. Where acetylene gas in a given eriod has destroyed one victim, gaso- ine, coal oil and coal gas have de- stroyed hundreds. Experimenting Acetylene Head- enn hak hh AAA AAA gatage Ott tn tn be ttt ta tanta tntadr er rere Here It Is! The Holmes Generator Just what you have been looking for. The latest, the best, the safest, the most durable and most sav- ing of carbide on the market. It has the improve- ments long sought tor by all generator manu- facturers. No more wasted gas, no over heating, no smoke, no coals on burners. Only one-tenth as much gas escapes when charging as in former machines and you cannot b'ow it up. It’s safe, it’s simple. It is sold under a guarantee. You put the carbide in and the machine does the rest. It is perfectly automatic, A_ perfect and steady light at all times No flickering or going out when charged. Do not buy a Generator until you have seen this. You want a good one and we have it. It’s made for business. Fully approved by Board of Underwriters. Catalogue and prices cheerfully sent on application. Experienced acety- lene gas agents w anted. 1 imited territory for sale. Also dealers in Carbide, Fixtures, Fittings, Pipe. 2b bb bb bb bb 4 hf nbn bn bn br PUEVVUVTVTVTVUVe vu Y — rary AU Ee aN ACETYLENE ae MANTON MICH Holmes-Bailey Acetylene Gas Co. Manton, Micibgan. so ae eet AMAA AAAAAARARAMAAA SUV ~~ F PPLE F DFS revrn oe oe tn th te Gp On bn bt ta bn bn bn Oa baa ta taas purge IPP PPI AD EOPPIE DGS DOPDSTPDTSCSCCOCOT SE FS Abhi hb hb hb hb phpbb tatagr FEV Y i i eh le ia i i i °PABPPPKPPEAOF SEED SOOO If you need light, when you need light, you need light that will light you up Cheaply, Brilliantly, Quickly The Sunlight Gasoline Lamp : is cheaper than kerosene. More brilliant than electricity. perfectly safe by writing policies on it with- out one cent of extra premiums. Money Stores, Churches, Residences, Lodges, Halls, Hotels, Offices and Shops cannot afford to be talks. ; | : Cc without it. You will be sorry if you fix 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 orders promptly. Michigan Light Co., 23 Pearl Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. leo SeseseSeseseSesee cageseseseseseseseseseseseuse a oocsimcmrer™ =" THE BRUGE GENERATOR erator on the market, ho ding 1 lb. carbide to % foot burner. E mci 2. Our carbide container is a compartment pan, with . pockets holding from 1 to 3 ibs. each, the water acting on put one ata time, thus no heating or wasting of gas. 3. There are no valves to be opened or closed by forks, ir ’ * your winter lighting before writing to us. Moneymaking terms to local agents. n The Best of Reasons why you should be prejudiced in faver of ratchets or levers. It is extremely simple and is sure. 4. Our Gasometer has no labor to perform, thus insuring at all times the same even pressure. s. All pipes are self draining to the condens- ing chamber. 6. Our Gasometers for same rat d capacity are the largest on the market, and will hold a large supply. It saves. 4. 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 to clog up or the burners to choke up and smoke. a Ba BRUGE GENERATOR GO.. MIS. 183-187 W. 30S, 81. Paul, Minn. | agents tor Mich. Jackson. 14 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Fruits and Produce. Observations by a Gotham Egg Man. My attention was called to a lot of re- frigerator eggs the other day which should have been seen by every packer for storage—not that he might emulate, but that he might see the importance of defect which is al] avoiding a_ serious too common. The quality of these eggs was fine and the loss in all respects ex- cept breakage was very light—only about But the no less than 30 4 doz. on ten cases taken out. breakage was serious doz. on the 10 cases—and all for lack of a firm packing. The cork shavings on top and bottom of the cases could have been held in one hand; the covers con- sequently failed to hold the contents of the cases firmly in place and the result was a breakage, mostly in the top and bottom layers, of no less than Io per cent. Of course, this is not con- fined to the number of eggs broken; everybody knows the effect of broken eggs upon the quality of the others with which they are mixed when the goods are held for months in store. This packer occasioned a loss of fully 60@75c¢ per case by a parsimony which saved him only a cent or two per case, be- sides injuring the reputation of brand materially. loss his * kK * What is the use of paying freight on rotten eggs? The question is prompted by the fact that hundreds of cases are received here every week—mixed in with the others of course—involving just so much loss of freight and packages, less the labor of taking them out before shipment. Of when shippers send to market all the eggs they collect without assortment a certain proportion of rots is to be expected; the only way to save the freight on worthless eggs is to determine their quality when pack- ing and some prefer to ship goods just as they run. But I have seen a good many lots of assorted goods lately arriv- ing in the seconds of which are a large proportion of rotten and worthless eggs ; and as the fact that these eggs were shipped in two grades shows that they were assorted it seemed strange that rot- ten eggs should have been allowed to go into the cases at all. Some of these seconds have contained as many as 7 to 1o doz. rotten eggs to the case—a_ waste of expense which certainlly ought to be avoided. There are various ways of grading eggs, some shippers making an assortment merely by casual examina- tion, others before the candle; one is about as much trouble as the other and even where a shipper prefers not to make so close a grading as to furnish *‘extras’’ it should at least be sufficient to eliminate the rotten eggs even from the second grade. The rots not only bring nothing themselves but their pres- ence in any quantity depreciates the value of the eggs with which they are mixed. I have also noticed some lots of ungraded eggs arriving from the South- west recently in which there was a loss of 7@10 doz. to the case in actually rot- ten eggs; of course it would not be pos- sible to grade such stock before ship- ment with any reasonable expectation of producing a high grade of candled eggs, but when stock runs as poor as this a rapid candling—sufficient to throw out the rots—would certainly be profitable by reason of the saving in freight and packages alone; and the passable eggs would certainly bring as much or more course, by themselves as the whole quantity shipped together.—N. Y. Produce Re- view. —_—_>2 > __ —_ Law Probably a Dead Letter. Boston Correspondence N. Y. Produce Review. ‘*What effect has the rise in the prices of creamery butter on what is called process or renovated butter?’’ we asked of the salesman who controls the bulk of the process article in this market. ‘‘It has, of course, increased its sale, and now I have orders for all I can get here,’’ he answered. ‘‘How about the law requiring it to be labeled ‘reno- vated?’ ’’ ‘‘Oh, I pay no attention to that, because the butter | sell is the pure article, and I defy any man to tell what process it goes through, ’’ he confidently answered. Dealers who handle this process butter sell it for good, pure but- ter, and they hear no complaint about it. They don’t see why it should be branded, as nobody can say it is any- thing else than what it purports to be— a second grade of real butter. ‘‘If it is made over from common dairy and inferior butter that should not cause it to be classed with oleomargarine or any other substitute, ’’ they say, ‘‘and it cer- tainly is better than an ordinary ladle and as good as any imitation butter.”’ — >.> To Distinguish the Genuine Bogus. The Illinois Dairy Union has under consideration a plan to distribute a reg- istered label to manufacturers of butter in order to defeat the aims of makers of butterine and olcomargarine. No_ par- ticular brand of butter will be adver- tised and each creameryman or butter dealer will be charged about 25 cents per 1,000 for the labels, which will be made familiar to the public by adver- tisements. If the plan is adopted the labels will be furnished free to all retail- ers who will put one on each pound of butter sold. It is intended that the ab- sence of a label may be considered evi- dence that the article is spurious. The label is to be a guarantee that the butter is pure. From the nn i 2 Agree Not to Sell Deer Meat. Bangor, Me., marketmen are pre- paring to continue the war which they have inaugurated against certain game laws with all the strength which they can rally, and they are now making ar- rangements for enlisting dealers in other Maine cities in the movement; the cause of the difficulty, as is known, is those sections of the State fish and game laws which restrict the meat deal- ers to such an extent that it is now practically impossible, according to the leaders of the movement, to handle ven- ison without financial loss, As a result of various informal meetings a resolu- tion was made and signed by some forty marketmen to the effect that they will refrain from selling any wild game pro- tected by thé game laws of the State. > «> ____ Honey, Scarce and Firm. She went to town with egys and butter And st the buyer’s heart aflutter, In dainty hat and skirt; She knows the thoughts he dare net utter ‘Lhe while he buys her egys and butter, The little farmer flirt. And whi e he fumles with the eggs The silly fellow trembling begs To know if she will sell, Besides her butier and her eggs, A little kiss as well. Smiling the maid walked away with her money, Saying, * You’ve bought butter and eggs— I don’t sell honey.” ——> +9 <> : The old English mercantile houses re- tain the names not unfrequently of the founders of the firm, who may have been dead a hundred years. The following is amusing: A solicitor of subscriptions calling at the store enquired, ‘‘Is Smith in?’’ “No, sir, ’* said the gentleman who received him. ‘‘Will he be in be- fore long?’’ ‘‘I don’t think he will.’ How long has he been out?’’ ‘‘ About a hundred years.”’ aT ga Maple leaves in the country turn red when summer girls are taking leave of summer young men, and saying things that only the sighing winds should hear. Oysters Will be a specialty with me for a few months and I will care for all orders in a careful manner. The Best Stock and Lowest Prices. Handsome Signs with all first orders. Bananas all the time. F. T. LAWRENCE 5 N. lonia St. Grand Rapids Sunes s POTTLITZER BROS. FRUIT CO.,& e COMMISSION MERCHANTS s s IN FRUITS OF ALL DESCRIPTION = s Also POTATOES, CABBAGE, ONIONS AND APPLES $ a In Carload Lots. e S Our motto: Quick sales and prompt remittance. . e LAFAYETTE, IND. FT. WAYNE, IND. = COROEORSOUCROTOSOROTOTOUC SOTOEOCTONOCHOC TOEOCEOCEOCEOECEOS Butter and Eggs--Do you have any to Ship? For the past five years we have shipped Butter to the resort towns of Nerthern 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 yeu only a cent to tell us what you are shipping, and get prices and references. STROUP & CARMER, 38 South Division St., Grand Rapids, Mich. Clover, Timothy, Alsyke, Beans, Peas. Popcorn, Buckwheat If you wish to buy or sell correspond with us. ALFRED J. BROWN SEED CO, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH GROWERS. MERCHANTS. IMPORTERS. MAKE A NOTE O= IT. WE HANDLE POTATOES APPLES CABBAGE O)IOXS CABBAGE now WANTED. QUOTE US. MILLER & TEASDALE CoO. ST. LOUIS, mo. RECEIVERS AND DISTRIBUTORS. ... WE BUY... BUTTER “= EGGS CARLOTS ORLESS. WRITE FOR PRICES F. O. B. 215 ; T. B, TRUESDELL & C0., -s= New York s Us ‘9 ST. a SS ae ae = A tess tual A ait, 4 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- } ing Rooms in connection. Seventy-five carload capacity. Correspondence solicited. FF FO OY NNN tJ tJ MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 15 SUMMER STORAGE. Advisability of Storing Old or Heated Eggs. We have put away eggs in cold storage during the summer months on several different occasions, and one summer we put eggs in storage all summer. Our experience is that eggs which are old, stale or heated, even if they are good, useful stock for current consumption, will not keep nearly as well as eggs which are produced and put in cold storage during the cool weather of spring. The loss in bad or worthless eggs when they are removed from cold storage is much greater, and the quality of those which are salable does not aver- age nearly as good as the early stored stock. Where the loss in early stock runs from two to four eggs per case (practically nothing) the loss on the warm weather stock will run as high as three dozen per case, and will probably average a dozen and one-half or two dozen to the case. Then, too, the sal- able eggs are usually more or less evap- orated before being put into storage, have a watery, thin albumen, and the yellow often has a disagreeable taste, resulting from the exposure to heat. The size of warm-weather eggs is usually inferior to those produced earlier in the season. For above, and perhaps other reasons not stated, it has generally been conceded by the best egg handlers that eggs should be put into cold storage during April and May, and during the balance of the year current receipts should be sold on the open market for what they will bring. In a genetal way, then, it is much better to put away eggs during the spring months when they are of full size, flavor and strength, but there can be no rule laid down for the handling of eggs, and with slightly improving conditions as to handling the stock by producers and country ship- pers it is becoming quite common to put eggs in cold storage during the summer, even during the hot weather of July and August. It is at times advisable and profitable to store eggs during warm weather be- cause the stock does not have to be car- ried as long, and it can frequently be put away then for less money than can be done earlier in the season. Further, it sometimes saves a_ positive loss at certain stages of the market to be able to store eggs for a few weeks during the extreme heated term. As before stated, it is usually better to store eggs during the egg season (April and May), but if the eggs are carefully selected, it is safe to put away eggs from current receipts during hot weather. Such selections will not constitute at times more than one-third, and will scarcely ever exceed two-thirds of the total receipts during the warm months of June, July, August and September, probably not averaging more than half and half during the months mentioned. The seconds from this method of sorting can be sold for nearly as much as the straight receipts, especially if the eggs are not graded so that all the good eggs are taken out of the seconds. It is better to leave a few of the good eggs in the seconds than to make the mistake of having nothing but the very poorest constitute this grade. The seconds will be improved and_ will sell enough better to make it pay, and the selected grade will be kept well up, which is important. Shippers of eggs in the country are becoming better posted as to the, neces- sity of rapid handling of eggs in order to have them bring the best returns. In fact, they are beginning to appreciate’ the extremely perishable nature of eggs more than ever before. The direct re- sult of this is that the farmer who brings in rotten eggs which he found in a stolen nest in the haymow, or which he had laid away in the cellar on a specu- lation, is obliged to take them home again. This sets Mr. Farmer to think- ing that eggs are not always eggs, and that in order to get pay for every egg he produces he must put them on the mar- ket as fresh as possible. The net result of this sort of education is an improved grade of eggs comprising the current receipts during the summer months. Some years ago it was quite the fash- ion for egg men to store September eggs, but it was much more dangerous than to store in July and August, be- cause of the salted, limed and packed eggs of various kinds which were held back by the farmers and placed upon the market on a_ slight advance or as they might need funds. With our im- mense cold storage facilities and their ever increasing capacity, it is folly for the producer to speculate by putting away his few dozen of eggs for a high fall or winter market. We do get this occasionally, but it is not a safe thing to bank on. Eggs now _ invariably bring a good price during the heavy producing season, and the advance dur- ing the fall or winter does not average more than two or three cents—not enough to pay the producer for his trouble and the material used in pack- ing the eggs, to say nothing of the loss of quality which must eventually fall on the one who puts eggs away by any of the primitive methods of our fathers. Temperature is of even greater im- portance to the successful refrigeration of warm-weather eggs than those which are stored during cool weather. The warm-weather eggs have already started to deteriorate, and this tendency must be checked and held there. To this end as low a temperature as_ is safe should be employed-—29 to 30 deg. Fah- renheit is about the lowest safe temper- ature, and this may prove dangerous if using direct expansion with pipes in the rooms. Brine circulation, with a forced circulation of air, is the best method. The loss ‘off from summer-stored eggs held at a temperature of 34 to 38 deg. Fahrenheit will be very much greater than if held at 29 to 30 deg. Fahrenheit, for the reason that the eggs have begun to go down, and the lower temperature they are held at the less they will de- teriorate. ' The above talk about storing warm weather eggs is especially to the point this season, as we have seen more eggs go into cold storage during June, July and August this year than ever before, and our pessimistic friends find therein statistics for grave prognostications of calamity later in the season. Every man can do his own guessing, but that we are just fairly launched on an era of prosperity no one can doubt. Prices of food products are high and advanc- ing. Meat, which competes with eggs more directly than does any other staple, is very high. This is a prosper- ous year, but, just the same, | advise all holders to take their profit of any- thing above fifty cents per case before December 1 so that the other fellow can make his profit afterwards. Madison Cooper. ees ee Old Days No Attraction For Him. ‘‘Don’t you often long for the return of the good old days?’’ ‘*Good old days! Not much. I used to clerk in a grocery store and had seventeen pairs of solid board shutters to put up every night.’’ BEANS If you can offer Beans in small lots or car lots send us sample and price. Always in the market. MOSELEY BROS. 26-28-30-32 OTTAWA ST., GRAND RAPIDS Seeds, Beans, Potatoes, Onions, Apples. To Suit Your Taste Stop fermentation in cider aoe : at just the stage where it best tickles your palate and keep it constantly uniform for any length of time. Contains no Salicylic Acid. Affords dealers good profit selling at 25 cents. : J. L. CONGDON & CO., Pentwater, Mich. SAOMPNIrevareernestrer vars ran vr rv ester eee vtvTPL2 The Vinkemulder Company Jobbers and Shippers of Fruits and Vegetables We buy Butter, Eggs, Wood, Popcorn, Honey, Apples and Onions. a aerate If you have any of the above to offer write us. QUA ADA ODA ADA DA OA OU Ab Abb Ab Ab Ob Ob Ab Ab 0b bd bd Ob Jb bd dd JAAS Bete ee AAA UMAAUASAA S44 dbAbA Abb JUA ANA dd 244 dd Jd AUN NIT NET NONE NT NTE NEPAD NET HEPAT —e This Will e Benefit YOU This book teaches farmers to make better butter. Every pound ® of butter that is better made because of its teaching, benefits the grocer who buys it or takes it in trade. The book is not an adver- tisement, but a practical treatise, written by a high authority on butter making. It is stoutly bound in oiled linen and is mailed free to any farmer who sends us one of the coupons which are packed in every bag of Diamond Crystal Butter Salt Sell the salt that’s all salt and give your customers the means by which they can learn to make gilt-edge butter and furnish them with the finest and most profitable salt to put in it. DIAMOND CRYSTAL SALT CO., St Clair, Mich. Beee 6660660996660660606606666600660666 % DIGI Ia IIIA aI IIS GOTHAM GOSSIP. News From the Metropolis—Index to the Market. Special Correspondence. New York, Sept. 30--With two whole holidays the market generally has been upset, but with the crowds of buyers that have been here it can not be said that nothing has been done. Jobbers simply humped night and day to meet the demands and altogether the amount of money which has poured into New York must be very great in the whole- sale grocery line. There has been a pretty firm coffee market all the week; in fact, so strong has the tendency been that prices even show a slight advance. Orders from the country trade have come to hand in quite a satisfactory manner and alto- gether the outlook for the immediate present is encouraging. Rio No. 7 is quotable at 534c. The amount in store and afloat aggregates 1,262,288 bags, against 957,271 bags at the same time last year. For mild coffees the market has been at least steady and the better sorts of West India coffee sold quite freely, although no advance has been made, Good Cucuta remaining at 8c. East India coffee has remained quiet, although prices are guite firmly held. Most of the transactions in refined sugar have been of an everyday charac- ter and, upon the whole, the week gen- erally has ruled rather quiet. The trust made a few sales, it was reported, guar- anteeing prices to Jan. 1, but this was not generally the case. Quotations have been practically unchanged. While the volume of tea trade has not been so large as to excite comment there has been a fair business, especially for the better sorts, and quotations are very successfully maintained. Buyers have been doing a_ good deal of **shopping around,’’ but begin to realize that real bargains in teas are only to be had by paying the present rates without mur- muring. Advices received yesterday (Friday) from abroad indicate harden- ing markets all around. Offerings of rice are not large and fairly good rates have been obtained all the week, although orders have not been abundant. Out-of-town buyers have taken some, but there is room for im- provement. Choice to head, 55;@6c. The spice market has shown as little animation as any in the list. Jobbers have been doing a little something and the most encouraging feature of all is the fact that quotations show no weak- ness and pepper continues especially firm. Singapore, 114%@113c. Molasses is firm. While the volume of business has not been very large, the undertone is strong and dealers con- fidently anticipate a very good trade later in the season. Centrifugal molasses of desirable grade sells from 20@28c; open kettle, 32@38c, and possibly a cent or two more for fancy _ stock. Syrups are firm. Sellers are not seem- ingly anxious to part with goods on present terms and rates are firmly main- tained. Prime to choice sugar syrup, 18@22c. In canned goods light stocks have been the main cry and before another year rolls around canned goods of some kinds at least are going to be one of the best things for the grocery trade. Cans have advanced in price until packing has become almost prohibitory in some things. Of tomatoes a glut 1s reported from some sections and raw stock is selling for a nickel a basket. Aftera while even tomatoes will be ‘* much in evidence.’’ Salmon are very hard to find among brokers in the kind sought for in Columbia River fish. California raisin prices, as made by Californians, are, to put it mildly, sur- prising. The advance seems to figure out from 60 to 100 per cent. over the prices of last year. The result has been that the cable companies have been do- ing a good business sending messages to Malaga, etc., enquiring about the situ- ation there. Old crop raisins, of course, have been pretty closely gathered in few hands and the price has already been advanced. Lemons meet with very little call. Prices are practically without change. Oranges from Jamaica were sold during the week, but the quantity was not large. Owing to the scarcity of oranges of all kinds, the offering brought very satisfactory rates. The butter market remains about un- changed, but there is certainly no weak- ness on the better grades, and, if any- thing, the quotations are slightly above those of a week ago, fancy Western creamery bringing 23c readily. Low grades are dull. Exporters have done a little business in cheese, but, as a rule, the market was rather quiet. Quotations are firmly adhered to. A very firm egg market prevails and, as supplies are rather light, it would seem to be a sellers’ market, although not until next week can _ we tell how matters will terminate. Reports of an ‘‘ego famine’’ reached here Wednesday from Chicago, but it is not likely to spread. —___»2.—___ An Arkansas printer, making up the forms in a hurry the other day, gota marriage notice and a grocers’ adver- tisement mixed up so that it read as fol- lows: ‘‘John Brown and Ida Grey were united in the holy sauerkraut by the quart or barrel. Mr. Brown is a well- known young codfish at 10 cents per pound, while the bride, Miss Grey, has some nice pig's feet which will be sold cheaper than at any other Store in town.’’ Highest Market Prices Paid. Regular Shipments Solicited. 98 South Division Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. .. ©9OO000S0000000000000000 0000000000000 00000000000* Factory, tstav. and M. C. Ry. > 3 @ H. M. Reynolds & Son, : e Manufacturers of 3 : @ Asphalt Paints, Tarred Felt, Roofing Pitch. 2 and 3 @ ply and Torpedo Gravel Ready Roofing. Galvanized z Iron Cornice. Sky Lights. Sheet Metal Workers e and Contracting Roofers. 3 Grand Rapids, Mich. ESTABLISHED 1868 Detroit, Mich. 2 Office, 82 Campau st. Foot ist St. © @ eg ® t. 00000000008 9000000000000 00000000 The President of the United States of America, SREETING ; To HENRY KOCH, your clerkai, attorneys, agers sealesmen. end workmen, and all claiming o1 holding through or under you, Whereas, it has been represented to us in our Circuit Court of the United States for the District of New Jersey, in the Third Circuit, on the part of the ENOCH MORGAN’S SONS COMPANY, Complainant, thai it has lately exhibited its said Bill of Complaint in our said Circuit Court of the United States for the District of New Jersey, against you, the said HENRY KOCH, Defendant, to be relieved touching the matters therein complained of, and that the said ENOCH MORGAN'S SONS COMPANY, Complainart, is entitled to the exclusive use of the designation *“*“SAPOLIO” as a trade-mark for scouring soap. Mow, Cherefore, we do strictly command and perpetually enjoin you, the said HENRY KOCH, your clerks, attorneys, agents, salesmen and workmen, and all claiming or holding through or under you uader the pains and penalties which may fall upon you and each of you in case of disobedience, that you dc absolutely desist and refrain from in any manner unlawfully using the word ‘‘SAPOLIO,” or any word or words substantially similar thereto in sound or appearance, in connection with the manufacture or sale of any scouring soap not made or produced by or for the Complainant, and from directly, or indirectly, By word of mouth or otherwise, selling or delivering as “SAPOLIO,” or when “SAPOLIO” is asked for, that which is not Complainant’s said manufacture, and from in any way using the word “‘SAPOLIO” in any false or misleading manner. °o avituess, The honorable MELVILLE W. FULLER, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States of America, at the City of Trenton, in said District of New Jersey, this 16th day of December, in the year of our Lord, one thousand, eight hundred and ninety-two. [sear] ROWLAND COX, [sicnzp} s. D. OLIPHANT, Corl Comblainant’s Solicitor. y= <> % n> 2 , . @ —s ; 2 7 as ia 4 2 sj * ? + Ve e A MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 17 Commercial Travelers Michigan Knights of the Grip President, CHAS. L. STEVENS, Ypsilanti; Sec- retary, J.C. SAUNDERS, Lansing; Treasurer, O. C. GOULD, Saginaw. Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Association President, JAMES E. Day, Detroit; Secretary and Treasurer, C. W. ALLEN, Detroit. United Commercial Travelers of Michigan Grand Counselor, JNo. A. MURRAY, Detroit; Grand Seeretary, G. S. VALMORE, Detroit; Grand Treasurer, W. S. MEst, Jackson. Grand Rapids Council No. 131 Senior Counselor, D. E. KryYrs; Secretary- Treasurer, L. F. Baker. Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Mutual Accident Association President, J. Boyp PANTLIND, Grand Rapids; Secretary and Treasurer, GEO. F. OWEN, Grand Rapids. Gripsack Brigade. Will S. Canfield, formerly on the road for the Worden Grocer Co., will shortly take up his residence in Beld- ing, in order to give his personal atten- tion to the grocery business of Vincent & Co., in which he is a partner. Negaunee Iron Herald: T. H. Har- ris, who has been in business here as a member of the firm of Harris & Mat- thews, expects to go on the road as soon as the affairs of the old partnership are wound up. Mr. Harris has had ex- perience in the commercial business before. He will handle produce lines. Wm. Warren, whose diamond flashes ‘welcome to the traveling men at the Lake View House, at St. Joseph, has developed into a somnambulist to such an extent that his guests are compelled to take their shoes to bed with them or lock them up in their trunks to prevent their being assembled in the landlord’s room. It is not thought that this hal- lucination will last long. Apropos of the Sunday school story related in the Tradesman last week, E. E. Wooley recently regaled his friends at Hartford with the particulars attend- ing a recent wager on a horse race—a wager, by the way, which proved to be disastrous, because it was based on the wrong horse. It is not to be inferred from this circumstance that Mr. Wooley is equally at home on a race course or in a Sunday school, but that he is so versatile that he can accommodate him- self to either extreme. Kalamazoo traveling men may not be able to play ball worth a cent, but they have a pull on politicians and_ states- men which enables them to secure the presence of President McKinley in Kalamazoo on Traveling Men’s day of the Street Fair. The event occurs on Tuesday, Oct. 17, and that there will be a large crowd in the Celery City on that occasion does not admit of debate. Of course, the Kalamazoo boys will do all they can to care for the crowds who visit the city at that time, and it is under- stood that the hotels have ordered a large supply of hooks on which to hang the guests who can not be accommodated with beds and cots. Of course, the Kalamazoo traveling men, being large hearted, will open their homes and hearts and larders and best bedrooms to the visiting traveling men, so that it will not be necessary for a single visit- ing salesman to apply for a hook at one of the hotels. R. N. Hull in Ohio Merchant: When a merchant reads the doleful tales in the public press of the great number of tourists that have been withdrawn from the road through the machinations of so-called trusts, he smiles in derision and simply says he ‘‘doesn’t believe it,’’ They are thicker or more numer- ous than ever. The corporations that have made the experiment of dispensing with this necessary auxiliary of trade soon discover the mistake and hasten to install the usual number and move to regain lost ground that has been cap- tured by the enemy. Any commercial traveler who can sell goods and does not desire to pose as a moving ornament for the house is in demand and ever will be. It is useless to waste any talk or sentiment over this plain proposition. Business is not, and never was, carried on for the benefit of the knight of the grip or to philanthropically furnish him a job to keep him employed, any more than people conveniently cultivate sick- ness for the purpose of extending the fees of doctors. The citizens do not en- gage in litigation that the lawyers may wax fat at their expense. All these men are simply needed to fill a place that society demands. Hence in the field of commerce no firm was ever so generous as to suggest the calling of selling goods on the road for the express purpose of supplying a class with some- thing to do. But the occupation has grown out of the intense desire of the American people to become the greatest traders of the world, and if this could be accomplished in any other possible way without the services of the man _ of samples, it would have prevailed from the beginning. For every one of the craft relegated to the rear by any cir- cumstances beyond his control the way opens up for a hundred others, not only to push the sale of multiplied products in this country, but around the globe. The dawning of a new era that sees the coming demand for our staples in all climes is bright and radiant with prom- ise. Therefore, I adjure the faint- hearted ones to take courage and press on to victory. New Orleans Times-Democrat: ‘‘The qualities that go to make a successful salesman are very hard to enumerate in so many words,’’ said an old-time merchant of New Orleans. ‘‘It is easy enough to say that he must have good address, intelligence, industry and a thorough knowledge of the article he is handling, but those are attributes we take for granted. They are necessary, of course, but a man may possess them all and still not be able to sell goods, and when we shift about for a term by which to de- scribe the real secret we have to fall back on the old phrase, personal magne- tism. It is the indefinable something that immediately wins confidence and makes any statement a statement of fact. I know a very remarkable salesman who undoubtedly owes his success to the way he says ‘Yes, sir.’ For example, he will be describing the merits of some article to a prospective customer. ‘This is the very best thing of its kind pro- duced in the world,’ he will say, and then add, ‘Yes, sir! Yes, sir!’ Each time he says, ‘Yes, sir,’ he givesa sidelong nod of his head and it is like driving home a nail with a sledge ham- mer. If he told me that 2 and 2 made 7 and clinched it with his ‘Yes, sir! Yes, sir!’ I greatly fear I would believe him. But he happens to be strictly honest, and unquestionably a man must have confidence in a statement himself before he can inspire strong confidence in others. I remember, years ago, when I was clerking in a furnishing store, our star salesman became dissatisfied witha certain make of shirt we were using as a leader. ‘We will have to use some other’ brand,’ he said to the proprietor, ‘these shirts aren’t good enough.’ The boss pulled out his watch, ‘I will give you until 3 o’clock this afternoon,’ he | Morning Market Nearing the End of the said, ‘to think that Blank & Co.'s shirts are the best on earth.’ The salesman was a sensible chap and saw the point. ‘I think so now,’ he replied, and after that there was notrouble. I ought to add that when I speak of good salesmen I mean salesmen of honest wares. A fellow who his talents to foist worthless merchandise on confiding cus- tomers is not a salesman. fidence man.’’ uses He is a con- a se Rules for the Guidance of Retail Buyers. When a traveling salesman approaches you, do not under any circumstances look pleasant. Give him the © stony glare. This makes him glad he was born. Ignore his outstretched hand and em- phasize it by placing both of yours be- hind your back. When he tells you his name and that of the house he repre- sents pretend not to hear and after he has repeated it, smile somewhat con- temptuously. This gives you an air of great importance. Should he observe that it is a fine day and call your attention to it, maintain absolute silence. These little pleasan- tries should be discouraged. consume valuable time. If you are not busy, pretend to be so. Anyhow, turn abruptly from him and go to some other part of the store, being careful never to excuse yourself or state how soon you will probably return. Do not ask him to be seated until you return. He has been sitting in the cars all the morning, perhaps, and can stand just as well as not. Besides, it may give him an idea you are truckling to him. If he is still there when you come back, pretend at first that you thought it was some one else. Then appear surprised that he is still waiting. When he begins to state his business, encourage him with more con- temptuous smiles. Make them espe- cially contemptuous when h¢ dwells up- ona certain article that think is a world-beater. Of course, he’s lying, and you want to let him see that you know it. Should he have a ple, model or cut of something absolute- ly new, don’t display your ignorance by expressing surprise or offering any re- marks. Pretend that it’s an old idea, or one of your own, if you choose. By this time he will think you are one of the weighty men of the times. Do not ask any questions or agree with anything he says. There is noth- ing so impressive as absolute silence, the silence that holds its very breath. Let him do the talking and learn that it is bad form to ask one’s opinion about this or that. When he is through talking and asks for an order, it is permissible to say, ‘‘No,’’ but the better way is to merely shake the head in the negative, never They he seems to sam- forgetting to smile contemptuously again. Then turn away abruptly as be- fore. If he should presume to follow and attempt to persuade you, turn half way around and, with a cold stare that will freeze him, say: ‘‘Didn’t I say ‘no?’”’ After he has departed, write direct to the house and order some of the goods he tried to sell you. By living up faithfully to these rules the dealer will command the admira- tion and respect of the entire traveling fraternity. ——__—~>-2>—___—_ There are people who become im- pudent if you are kind to them. ——_ wes Some people manage to talk a great deal and say very little, Season. Notwithstanding the unseasonable cold weather of the past week,the morn- ing market attendance has kept up to an unusual extent, considering the late- the fall. When the farmer has anything ready for market and has a good prospect of sale, considerations of weather have little influence with him. During the week the island has not been an ideal place of resort in the early morning. Located on the lowest land in the city, there seems to be a pe- culiarly penetrating quality to the cold and, while it looks a little more since the-vista to the south is cut off by ness of cosy the picturesque monuments to munici- pal folly under erection there, the proximity of the river and its sour lagoon gives strong rheumatic and neu- ralgic suggestions to the loiterer. The fruit market for the past few days has been very largely monopolized by apples. While it is yet early for the winter crop, the demand for something to take the place of the shortage in other fruits brings sale for every qual- ity. Late plums held on well, being matured slowly and_ preserved by the unusual cold, but these finally disap- peared last week. Pears are still in considerable quantity and ready sale is found for all offerings. are not generally quoted and cut little figure there is occasionally a_ load brought in, but more frequently this fruit is represented by a few small bas- kets, carefully packed and covered with netting and handled as carefully as pos- While peaches sible. abundance, but the season is considered about on account of the severe frost, and the fruit now offered is very perisha ble. Grapes are still in considerable over In vegetables the potato occupies about the same place as the apple among fruits. Offerings are fully as plentiful as is desirable for producers or dealers, prices tending closely to a which is not profitable for Other vegetables are in sea- plenty and most prices are fairly well sustained. basis handling. sonable It is to be noted that there is less of standing on the market since the cold weather, both buyers and sellers hasten- ing to get their work over, and at an earlier hour than usual the streets in the produce house districts are crowded. This indicates a magnitude of business greater than would be inferred from the number on the market at any one time. —___>-0—___ Although as a general rule quiet and moderate of tongue, Admiral Dewey can on occasion show intimate acquaintance with the sultry language often heard on board ship. Then, again, he has been known to restrain himself under great provocation. While cruising in the Mediterranean some fourteen years ago on the Pensacola, of which he was then captain, a white squall struck the vessel. Some sailors bungled their work in such a way as nearly to cause the loss of a spar. They expected to hear some- thing sulphurous when they reached the deck, but Captain Dewey only said to his next in command: ‘‘ Will you kindly tell me what was the matter just now with the agricultural population on the main topsail yard?’’ Needless to say the sailors would have much preferred the most vigorous cussing to being thus delicately classed as farmers. REMODELED HOTEL BUT-ER Rates, $1. 1..M. BROWN, PROP. Washington Ave. and Kalamazoo St., LANSING, 18 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Drugs--Chemicals Michigan State Board of Pharmacy Term expires A. C. SCHUMACHER, AnnArbor - Dec. 31, 1899 GEO. GUNDRUM, Ionia - - Dee. 31, 1900 L. E. REYNOLDs, St. Joseph - Dee. 31, 1901 HENRY HEIM, Saginaw - - Dec. 31, 1902 WIkT P. Dory, Detroit- - - Dec. 31, 1903 President, GEO. GUNDRUM, Ionia. Secretary, A. C. SCHUMACHER, Ann Arbor. Treasurer, HENRY HEIM, Saginaw. Examination Sessions Lansing—Nov. 7 and 8. State Pharmaceutical Association President—O. EBERBACH, Ann Arbor. Secretary—CHaAs. F. MANN, Detroit. Treasurer—J. S. BENNETT, Lansing. How to Treat Children in the Drug Store. A sentiment voiced by many writers, and on which are expended considerable ink and energy, is, ‘‘Be good to the kids.’’ Show them civility and grant them favors, and they will reciprocate to their full value and over, say the advo- cates of this doctrine. One author has said that every one who enters the store should be treated with deference—‘* from the ragged newsboy who asks for a drink of water with ice in it to the most dignified lady customer you have.’’ He says, further, what echoes the utterances of many, that to thus show respect to the youngster will directly or indirectly bring you new patronage. Now, theoretically and in a measure this is right, but will it fully work well in practice? Does the mechanism of this tenet, ‘‘ Be good to the kids,’’ taken broadly as it is, run smoothly, without friction or binding? Can one cater to the whims of all the children, always and everywhere? The palpable detri- ment to trade effected in a number of instances by an overobservance of this rule prompts the penning of this letter. We concede it a most expedient exam- ple to follow as far as it goes, but some- times—often—it leads us not far. There may be gentle, ideal newsboys and _lo- calities they frequent, and if there be drug stores in the midst of these regions it might, possibly, pay their proprietors to furnish them gratuitous drinks with ice and to show them every courtesy, but what of the purveyors of papers as we know them? The ragged newsboy of the city street is not the one of which the poets sing. Customarily he doesn’t ply his vocation independently and alone, but prefers to mingle with ‘‘birds of a feather.’’ And usually he is not a very tranquil youth. Now, what of the pharmacist mid-situated in his haunts? Will it pay him to offer inducements to one who might, from the druggist’s standpoint, be termed an agent ofa speculating scheme? And can he hope successfully to win the good-will of the newsboys and other boys and _ preserve decorum in the store? While he is draw- ing cooling draughts for noisy news- boys, what of the ‘‘dignified lady cus- tomer?’’ Or is she supposed not to be present on this occasion? We remarked that this type of the coming man reveled in the society of his colleagues, and now we wish to sug- gest the possibilities arising from an act of benevolence bestowed upon a unit of this class. Did the reader ever, in biting weather, have his door opened by a couple of youngsters who, apprised of his generous donations to another, had come to beg a quota of the gifts, but through timidity stood in the open door, letting in a chilling blast, while they called out, ‘‘Mister, give me some candy; you gave Sally Burns some!’’ Hardly had the echo of your slightly nettled voice died away before the act would be repeated by a second anda ‘ third contingent of the ‘‘crowd,’’ who hoped for better success. Or in torrid weather, when busily engaged, have you ever been assailed by a_ half-dozen romping, heated children all begging you to ‘‘Please give mea drink?’’ If you have been so approached and the occurrences repeated often, you are aware of one effect of being good to the kids. Many are the men who have rel- egated this maxim to the myths after a number of like experiences. Possibly we have too much in mind the ways of the city boys, and maybe those of the smaller towns differ in a generic way, but judging from what we have seen and heard, ‘‘boys will be boys.’’ The plan of showing kindness to juvenile society in general, taken literally and without some amendments, seems but a virtual game of “‘hazard ;’’ in fact, from personal tests and observa- tions we should say that it might be vastly bettered by subjoining the word ‘‘sometimes,’’ for sometimes it pays and in some localities it pays, but like to every rule there are exceptions. When the pharmacist has almanacs and picture cards to give away let him remember that the hearts of the little ones who, because of sickness, must stay at home, would be gladdened by these simple offerings. Send a few of those numerous pictorial advertisements with the next prescription. Let the pharmacist treat the youngsters well and often, but adequate to his surround- ings. And let him remember that while the boy in the unit may be unobtrusive and meek, he is often wild and unre- strained when among a number of com- panions, and then is when he forgets what little he may know of the essential dignity and decorum of a pharmacy. Let the pharmacist watch the actions of the patrons present when he is being ‘*go0d to the kids;’’ if he keeps open his observing eye for a time perhaps he will say that things are not always what they seem. The writer referred to above, and those of his opinion, would doubt- less modify the rule they herald did they appeal more to the individual as we now do, and less to the mass.—Joseph F. Hostelley in Bulletin of Pharmacy. —— 2 -e The Drug Market. Opium—lIs easier, but not quotably changed. The primary markets are firm and it is not believed that lower prices will rule for some time. Morphine—Is unchanged. Codeine—Is firm and higher prices are looked for a little later in the sea- son. Quinine—On account of the lower prices for bark at the last sale, quinine has declined twice within the last week. Present prices will probably rule for some time. Boracic Acid—Is in small supply and the demand is active. Prices have been advanced. Cantharides— Are in a firm position and higher prices are looked for. Chloral Hydrate——On account of large demand, has been advanced 5c per pound. Cocaine—Stocks are very small and price continues very firm. Another ad- vance would not surprise anyone. Ergot—Continues to advance, on ac- count of the small crop. Higher prices are looked for. Glycerine—On account of the better demand at this season of the year and the continued high price of the crude, glycerine has been marked up Ic per pound. Balsam Fir—Stocks are much reduced and has been advanced isc per gallon or about 2c per pound. Sassafras Bark—Is scarce and higher. Oil Sassafras—Is tending higher, on account of scarcity. It has been ad- vanced 4c in the past ten days and an- other advance of 4@5c is looked for. Arnica Flowers—Are scarce, both here and in the primary market, and have been again advanced. Ipecac Root—On account of better stocks, is weak and tending lower. Golden Seal Root—Has_ been ad- vanced, although large amounts are coming into market. Nearly all is be- ing taken by manufacturers. Higher prices are looked for. Seneca Root—The corner is well maintained and prices have advanced 15c per pound in the last thirty days. Linseed Oil—Has declined, although the condition in the seed market is such that there seems to be no reason for re- ducing the price of oil. Some of the lower quotations sent out are for the purpose of demoralizing the market more than for making sales. ie Rather Pay the Druggist Than the Doctor. Mr. Hufkins went home one night last week with a big book under his arm. ‘There, I reckon there’ll be an end of doctors’ bills in this family after this,’’ he said. ‘‘When the Hufkinses get sick after this we’ll do the only sen- sible thing—diagnose the disease our- selves, take some simple remedy, and save one hundred dollars a year in use- less doctors’ bills.’’ Aftér dinner Mr. Hufkins spent two hours in reading about rheumatism, gout, consumption, whooping cough, and insanity. The next morning he got up with a crick in his back. ‘*Louis,’’ he said briskly to his oldest boy, ‘‘go over to the drug store and get me half a_ pound of citrate of sal-soda and twelve four-grain tablets of _phean- igamia.’’ Louis came back in half an hour with a bottle of citrate of magnesia and a dozen phenacetin pills, and said the druggist thought they would fill the bill. ‘*That’s what I said; that’s what 1 sent you for,’’ remarked Mr. Hufkins loftily as he swallowed six of the tab- lets, and took a teaspoonful of the mag- nesia. By night Mr. Hufkins said the symptoms had changed and he recog- nized himself a victim of gout. ‘‘No,thank you, Mary; no pie for me this evening ; no more sweet stuffs, no more wine, no more cigars. This gout is settling around my heart, and even with the»strictest precautions I may be a dead man in twenty-four hours.’’ He put on a flaxseed poultice and sat up in bed and read some more in his doctor book. ‘*Hum-m—dqueer, queer,’’ he mused after reading about three hours. thought this was the most extraordinary case of gout I ever heard of. By jingo! I see now; it’s lung trouble in the fifth stage.’”’ : He waked the servant girl up and sent her post haste for a bottle of cod_ liver oil. When the girl came back she walked on tiptoe, ran into a looking- glass and forgot to wind the clock. Mr. Hufkins informed her, as he gulped down the cod liver oil, that she had paresis in an advanced stage, and that he would prescribe some simple remedy in the morning. In two days Mr. Huf- kins was not able to go down to his office. On the third day, sitting up in an easy-chair, he perused the doctor book from Io o’clock in the morning un- ti] 11 o’clock at night. Before the week was over both the Hufkins children had stopped going to school to take treat- ment for whooping cough, scarlet fever, measles, and mumps. Mrs. Hufkins is living in hope that the list of diseases in the doctor book will soon be exhausted. ’ Adopt Drastic Measures to Punish a De- ceiver. Ann Arbor, Oct. 2—1 wish to call your attention to a case of violation of the pharmacy law and if you see fit to use it in your columns you can do so. We have had a druggist by the name of Frank Lisenski arrested in Detroit. He has a certificate exposed in his place of business held by a certain M. D. of that place. The claim is that Lisenski is dispensing drugs in a general way and has no registered man in charge. The M. D. claims to have charge of the store, but is very seldom there and sometimes he is not there for days at a time. The M. D. has been requested to remove his certificate, as it is mislead- ing the public, but he insists on having it where it is. As this practice of ex- posing certificates when not in charge of the place has given the Board consid- erable trouble, we think it about time to see that we make a test case of the mat- ter by revoking a certificate when found exposed in a place of business for the purpose of deceiving and misleading the public. Lisenski’s trial will, no doubt, come off about Oct. 11 and I will ac- quaint you with the result. In the mean- time, you can refer to’ the matter in such a way as to inform the public that we are after certificates which are ex- posed as shams. We have it from the best legal authority that we have power to remove a certificate if so exposed as to mislead the public, although the mat- ter is not mentioned in our law where a person shall keep his certificate when he is not employed in the profession. This M. D. that I refer to attends to his practice at the same time he claims to have charge of the Lisenski store. It will, no doubt, make an_ interesting case. Another matter that will be of interest to most of the druggists and clerks in the State is just what schools of phar- macy are recognized by the Board. We are constantly being asked what college or school training is required in order to obtain credit for practical experience, and it occurs to me that the publication of the enclosed ruling adopted by the Board would be of interest along these lines: The time spent ina recognized college of pharmacy shall be counted the same as time spent in a retail drug store, but not more than two years of such college work shall be counted as actual experi- ence for a registered pharmacist, nor more than one year for a registered as- sistant pharmacist; provided, that the registered pharmacist must have had at least two full college years’ study, and the registered assistant pharmacist at least one full college year’s study, to be entitled to such credit for actual experi- ence. The college year shall consist of not less than ten hours’ class work and fifteen hours’ laboratory work a week, and of nine calendar months. A graduate of a recognized college of medicine, who has practiced medicine three years, writing prescriptions, or putting up his own medicines, or both, shall be considered qualified to take the examination for registered pharmacist ; and one who has practiced medicine as before mentioned two years shall be considered qualified to take the exami- nation for registered assistant pharma- cist. A. C. Schumacher, Sec’y State Board of Pharmacy, ——— se A prevalent sickness in Paris is at- tributed by the doctors to the presence in bakers’ bread of salts of lead de- posited on the walls of ovens by the old wood which is frequently used as fuel in Paris—paving blocks, railway sleep- ers and beams from old houses. 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AIR B Z Berga nti Cortex...... 1 or 8 25 e@ use... for Q@ Hye rang ngtentum @ : 00 USHE RUS a ei: Sates aoe 2 We 2 00 | Acacia — @ 140 =" ntum son > TOILET SOA S, LATHER HES, v UE aeons dig A . , SS ea sone a oo aes a p, RAZORS BRUSHES no coe tee : a, dof ’ subi. eee 75@), o Chenopadil oes Saige 80 @ 50 a ga ec 3 60@ 1 00 25s 2s r NAIL F Cit can aa 45 501 I in one D 3 as ILE mnamonil «2... @ @ 50| Macis MB 3 2 , S ee: 27 i Aro @ y odes ae 375 " ET ed “ai 7 | Sono B Lguor ae oo ee BBB ” ; ene cin ; or A ei | se | Equant cnet g BBA oe LiquorFotass At @ a 1 2622 vee 50 | M esia, S sinit 25 @ 53 agnesia, ulph.. 10@ BA one. a % a628 ee bh erki +» K@ 6 G ins Dru rand . g Co Rapids Mi e9 , Mich. 20 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN ROCERY PRICE CURRENT. The prices quoted in this list are for the trade only They are prepared just before oing to press a dealers. possible to give quotations suitable for a erage prices for average conditi those who have poor credit. our aim to make this ons of purchase. in such quantities as are usually purchased by retail are an accurate index of the local market. 1 conditions of purchase, and those below are given as representing av- Cash buyers or those of strong credit usually buy closer than Subscribers are earnestly requested to point out any errors or omissions, as it is feature of the greatest possible use to dealers. It is im- AXLE GREASE doz. gfross | Aurora . Sie eon ee 6 ( Castor Oil. ..60 7 00 Diamond a ..50 4 00 | Frazer's . 75 69 00 IXL ¢ Golden, tin boxes 75 9 00 | Mica, tin boxes.......75 9 00 Paragon .. speaee «D0 ©6-6 OO BAKING POWDER Absolute i, ID. Cane doz.............. 4 ¥ Ib. cans doz...... a 0h cans Goz.............. 1 50 Acme y, lb. cans 3 doz.. ,.-5 SO ¥ Ib. cans 3 doz.. ite 1 eee s See. ep Ree... oo Arctic 6 oz. Eng. Tumblers......... 85 6 Oz. cans, 4do0z. case........ 80 0z. Cans, 4d0Z. case... ..1 20 1 Ib. cans, 2 doz. ea -2 00 2% Ib. cans, 1 doz. cas ot 5 lb. cans, 1 doz. case...... 9 00 El Purity \4 Ib. cans per doz........... 75 lg Ib. cans per doz 20 1 Ib. cans per doz.......... 2 Home 14 Ib. cans, 4 doz. ease...... 35 6 lb. cans, 4 doz. case.. 55 1 Ib. eans, 2 doz. case...... 90 44 lb. eans, 4 doz. ease...... 45 ¥% |b. cans, 4 doz. ease... .... 85 1 Ib. cans, 2 doz. case......1 60 Jersey Cream 1 Ib. cans, per doz...........2 00 9 0z. cans, per doz...........1 25 6 Oz. Cans, per doz........... 85 Our Leader oo 45 4 1b. cans. Lie) oe 1 Ib.eans. oe Peechess 1 1b. cans. 8B Sesee Flake 3 0z., 6 doz. case. 2 9 6 02., 4 doz. case... 3 20 © 0z., 4 doz. case.............4 80 11b., 2doz.case.............4 0 5 Ib "1 doz. case... ....9 00 BATH BRICK American.. ll. English. . 80 “BLU ING Small 3 doz.. Sec ee cea. ae Large, 2 doz.. eet ceee es aD BROOMS pee. 2 Carpet. 2 30 Mie. 2 Carper... ..2 9 mo. > Carpet... ............1 85 No. 4 Carpet ..1 45 Parlor Gem ..2 50 Common Whisk... 95 Faney Whisk.. 1 00 Warehouse. . cote CANDLES Electric Light, 8s............ 9% Electric Light, 16s...........10 Paramne, 6S................. 9% Paraffine, 12s................10 eee ee CANNED GOODS Apples Ib. Standards...... 75 | Gallons, standards. . Beans i Baked ..........:..- : 75@1 30 Red Kidney.......-.. 75@ %d coe ee 5 oe... ........ .2.. 90 Blackberries Standards .......-..- 75 Cherries Standards ...........-. 90 Corn Patel 7 Good .........-:__.- 85 Pa 95 Hominy Scamdara............. 85 Lobster Star, 44 10.....-.....- 1 85 Stari... ... 3 10 Pienie Talis _........ 2 25 Mackerel Mustard, 11b........ 75 Mustard, 21b........ 80 Soused, 11lb..... . Soused, 2 Ib... Tomato, 11b.... Tomato, 2 |b.. bo mS tt 5 aaa ow Mushrooms Seems... .....- 14@16 Buttons......... - 20025 | Oysters Gove, 4m.... 5... 90 Cove, 2... 3... 1 55 Peaches — 1 25 Neloy .....-.....-.- 1 65@1 90 Pears Seangard .....-...... 70 a ......... 80 Peas Marrowfat .........- i 00 Early Jume.......... 1 00 Early June Sifted. . 1 60 Pineapple Genced .-... 5. 1 25@2 75 ——....... 1 35@2 25 Pumpkin Baie 55 S000... 65 Haney =) 85 Raspberries Standard........._... 90 Salmon Red Alaska......,... 1 35 Pink Alaska......... 95 Sardines Domestic, 4s.. 3@3% Domestic, Mustard. 646% ———........ 8@22 Strawberries | Standard ...........- 1 25 Ramey... 1 75 Succotash Cat 90 ASOOG 0c 1 00 Pane... 1 20 Tomatoes lr 80 Good. 3. : 90 Maney... 115 CATSUP Columbia, pints.............2 00 Columbia, '% pints...........1 25 CHEESE OO. ec Amboy Butternut . Carson City. Esto ....- Emblem. te em Gold Medal.......... Ideal . oe Jer sey. .... Riverside. ........... a PCA Leiden ee ; Limburger........... a —— . 50 @ibd Sap Sago.. acca @i7 CHICORY Bulk.. 5 Red .. 7 ‘CHOCOLATE. Walter Baker & Co.’s. German Sweet.. ce es Prem se Breakfast Cocoa.. <3 Kot i CIGARS Columbian Cigar Co’s brand. Columbian... 35 Columbian Special.. . 65 00 H. & P. Drug Co.'s ‘brands. Fortune Teller............ 35 00 Our Manager. ... 3d 00 Quintette. . . 35 00 G. J. Johnson Cigar Co. s brand. C os S.C. W. og . 35 00 Phelps, Brace & C 0. *s. : Brands, Vineente I — 357, 70 00 Ruhe Bros. Co.. es “5m 70 00 Hilson Co. ....85@110 00 T. J. Dunn & Co.......35@ 70 00 McCoy & Co. ..35@ 70 00 The Collins C igar Co..10@ 35 00 Brown Bros.. : .. B® 70 00 Banner Cigar Gol 30@, 70 00 35@, 90 00 10@, 35 00 Bernard Stahl Co.. .... Banner Cigar Co...... Seidenberg & Co...... 55@125 00 G. P. Sprague Cigar Co.10@ 35 00 -.10@ 35 00 5 00 Fulton Cigar Co... A. = Ballard & Co.. E. . Schwarz & Co. 00 Sie ae 00 Havana igar Co. 00 CLOTHES L INES Cotton, 40 ft. per doz.. ..1 00 Cotton, 50 ft. per doz...... 12.1 20 Cotton, 60 ft. per doz. ..1 40 Cotton, 70 ft. per doz. -1 60 Cotton, 80 ft. per doz..... ce Jute, 60 ft. per doz.......... 80 Jute, 72 ft. per doz......... 95 COFFEE Roasted Rio el ee Gone 10 eo. ...................... Golden . 13 Peaberry . i 14 ‘ie —— ................... En | Pree es Pease... 2. 18 Maracaibo Pewee os Miged ae | Java Interior... oe Oe Private Growth. toe ae Mandehling . Sec ee Mocha Imitation . Sea ee Arabian.. . oe os “Package Below are given New York prices on package coffees, to which the wholesale dealer adds the local freight from New York to your shipping point, giving you credit on the invoice for the amount of fre ight buyer pays from the market in which he yurchases to his shipping point, including weight o package, also %e a pound. In601b. cases the list is 10¢ per 100 lbs. above the price in full cases. Avbuckie 10 59 Jersey...... -10 50 Me Laughlin’ sXXXxX_ MecLaughlin’s XXXX_-sold to Mail all orders McLanghlin & retailers ‘only. direct to W. F. Co., Chicago. Extract Valley City % gross......... 75 Felix '% gross.. i aS Hummel’s foil vA gross. tee. Hummel’s tin 45 gross ......1 48 CONDENSED MILK 4 doz in case. Gail Borden ara. 6 75 Crown.. iE ig ss Daisy.. eee cece em Champion ee eS 4 50 Maemo 4 25 (Chationge ............;.... 3.3 36 DENG a a COCOA James Epps & Co.’s IBOkOS 7 POG Cases, 16 boxes... COCOA SHELLS 23 | 20 Ib. bags... 2% 35 | Less quantity .. 8 packages . oe 4 COUPON BOOKS Tradesman Grade 50 books, any denom... 100 books, any denom... 500 books, any denom... 1,000 books, any denom... Economic Grade 50 books, any denom... any denom. .. 500 books, any denom... 1,000 books, any denom... 100 books Superior Grade 50 books, any denom... 100 books, any denom... 500 books, any denom... 1,000 books, any denon. .. Universal Grade 50 books, any denom... 100 books, any denom... 500 books, any denom... 1,000 books, any denom... 4 Credit Checks 500, any one denom...... 1,000, any one denom...... 2,000, any one denom..... Steel punceh.. Coupon Pons Books Can be made to represent any denomination from $10 down. 1 20 books.... 50 books................ 2.00 100 DOOKS................ 3 6 250 DOORS... ...:.... -.. G2 500 DOOKS................ 10 0 1,000 books.... . 17 50 CREAM TARTAR 5 and 10 lb. wooden boxes... ..30 Bulk in saeks.. —— DRIED FRUITS—Domestic Apples Sundried . @ 4% Evaporated, 50 Ib. boxes. ‘7@ 7% California Fruits Apricots . Blackberries . Nectarines . Peaches .......... oS Pears. Cees Pitted Cherries. Prannelies ............ Raspberries ........... California Prunes 100-120 25 Ib. 90-100 25 Ib. 80 - 90 <5 Ib. 70 - 80 25 Ib. 60-70 25 Ib. 50 - 60 25 Ib. 40 - 50 25 Ib. 30 - 10: “5 Ib. boxes ...... boxes ...... DOxeS ...... boxes ...... boxes ...... boxes ...... boxes ...... boxes . 14 cent less in 50 Ibs cases Raisins London Layers 2 Crown. London Layers 3 Crown. Cluster 4 Crown. Loose Museatels 2 Crown Loose Muscatels 3 Crown Loose Muscatels 4 Crown L. M., Seeded, choice .. . L. M., Seeded; fancy . @15 @11 DRIED FRUITS—Foreign Citron Leghorn. . 0 Corsican . ‘Cu urr nies PaLTAS. DIS... 8.3... Cleaned, bulk .... . Cleaned, packages... Ce Peel Citron American 19 Ib. bx.. Lemon American 10 Ib. bx..10! Orange American 10 1b. bx..10! Raisins Sultana 1 Crown.......... 13 2 2 Sultana 2 Crown ............ Sultana 3 Crown Sultana 4 Crown. Sultana 5 Crown. Sultana 6 Crown... coe vs ; Sultana package FARINACEOUS GOODS Beans Dried Lima... 2... .. 54 Medium Hand Picked 1 20@1 25 Brown Holland Cereals Cream of Cereal.......... Grain-O, small ....... Grain-O, large.. Grape Nuts... Postum Cereal, ‘smail | Postum Cereal, large.. Farina 2411b. packages .. Bulk, per 100 Ibs... bo et et BO nN 09 Sk | Grits too Co.’s Brand. Walsh-DeR 249 1b. packages ......-...... sie... 200 ib: barrels ......-.:...... Hominy Bammer ee 2 50 Flake, 50 lb. drums..... Macecaroni and Weiwiie elli Domestie, 10 Ib. box.. .. 60 Imported, 25 Ib. box... 2 50 Pearl caer Common. eo... 1 75 eestor oe Pyapire..... -.....-......).2 90 Peas Green, ha gy a.......4 © Green, Seotch, bu. ._.-. 2 Split, bu.. : 2 58 Rolled ‘Oats Rolled Avena, bbl.. i Monarch, Opi... 6... 4 40 Monarch, ! 6 Obl... 2 2 : Monarch, 90 Ib. Ee eet ese Quaker, cases..... oo Huron, cases. Sago. o —... Bast india 3000 3% Salus Breakfast Food 35 two pound packages .... 3 60 18 two pound packages .... 1 85 F. A. McKenzie, Quiney, Mich. Tapioca oo: eee ee Pea eae a 241 1b. packages ..... 634 Wheat Cracked, bulk.. . 3% 24 2 tb. packages .. -2 50 FLAVORING EXTRACTS Jennings’ Dz C. Vanilla D. C. ‘Lemon 20 7 a 50 -2 00 3 00 00 00 25 2 00 .2 40 Northrop Brand Lem. an. 2 0z. Taper Panel.. 75 1 20 2 oz. Oval.. = 9o 1 20 3 02. Taper Panel.. ..1 35 2 00 40z. Taper Panel....1 60 2 25 eecticet: Jan. Lem. doz. doz. XXX, 2 02. obert....1 25 75 XXX, 4 0z. taper....2 25 1 25 XX, 20z. obert...... 1 00 No. 2,20z. obert .... 75 XXX D D ptehr, 6 0z 2 2D XXX D D ptehr, 40z 1 75 K. P. pitcher, 6 02... 2 25 FLY PAPER Perrigo’s Lightning, gro....2 Petrolatum, per doz......... GUNPOWDER or s Keg: Halt Ke gs Quarter Kegs .. 1 Tb. CaS oe 30 4 Ib. cans. oS — Bor e—Dupont’s Keg: . 4 25 Halt Kegs . ag Quarter Kegs ....... <...:¢. 1 35 PUB CARS oe 34 ot Duck—Dupont’s Be Sei ee oes oe 8 00 Hale =. See veo tell 2 Quarter eBs . es ee 2 25 1 1b. cans . SS HERBS Sage.. Hops .. “IN DIGO | Madras, 5 lb. boxes . S. F., 2, 3 and 5 Ib. boxes.. «4-0 5D AS 35 62 30 25 14 10 JELLY 15 Ib. pails.............- Jo 1b. pals... |... LICORICE Pure . Calabria... i Root .. . eee LYE re ondensed, 2 doz.. Condensed, 4 doz... MATCHES 1 20 2 2 Diamond Match Co.’s nets SALT No. 9 sulphur... 65 Anchor Parlor . ..1 50 No.2 Home........... -.1 30 Export Parlor................. 400 WWORVGTING oe cs 1 50 MOLASSES New Orleans Bide. il BA 14 GOOG 20 Pamey ce 24 Open Kettle... ....25@35 Half-barrels 2e extra MUSTARD Horse Radish, 1 doz......... 1 75 Horse Radish, 2 doz.........3 50 Bayle’s Celery, 1 d0z........ 1 75 PICKLES Medium Barrels, 1,200 count ......... 5 75 Half bbls, 600 count......... 3 38 Small Barrels, 2,400 count ......... 6 75 Half bbls, 1,200 count .......3 88 Peau Clay: Ne. 216. 1 70 Clay, T. . "full count....... 65 Cob, No. 3...... ie 85 POTASH 48 cans in case. Bapbitt's -... 2... 400 | Penna Salt Co.’s.............3 00 RICE Domestic Carolina head................ 6% Carolina No. 1. eae Carolina No. 2 Li —— ae . paniiiactiadl, Japan, No. 1 .. --544@6 Japan, No. a Java, fancy aa ...5 @5% = :. : 5 @ Table.. eee @ SALERATUS Packed 60 lbs. in box. Chureh’s Arm and Hammer.3 15 Deland’s. ..3 00 Dwight’s Cow. LoS Pablo oe 50 De 3 00 Sodio pce cce cae ciel a ee cage 3 15 Wyandotte, 160 Xs... Ss 88 SAL SODA Granulated, bbis............ 80 Granulated, 100 Ib. eases. 85 Lump, bbls. . -- Lump, 145 Ib. Kegs... 80 Diamond Crystal Table, cases, 24 3 Ib. boxes..1 Table, barrels, 1003 Ib. bags.2 Table, barrels, 407 Ib. bags.2 Butter, barrels, 280 Ib. bulk.2 2 Butter, barrels, 20 141b.bags.2 50 Butter, sacks, 28 Ibs......... 25 Butter, sacks, 56 Ibs......... 55 Common Grades 100 S'Ib. sacks... .............1 93 60.510. saeKs.:-:.. 20... co 1 80 28 10 1D. SAERR... 1 65 Warsaw 56 Ib. dairy in drill bags..... 30 28 Ib. dairy in drill bags..... 15 Ashton 56 lb. dairy in linen sabks... 60 Higgins 56 Ib. dairy in linen sacks... 60 Solar Rock S61). SACKS. osu ss. 21 Common Granulated Fine............ 70 Medium Fine................ 80 < nas aap a w 4 e aE giants me 4 ae a ana: » oun RRs 1 x » a Spe eae “ aise + MIC AN a DES MA N 21 4 LT _ ev se _— a l Sales se enuine ce 4 S or elected... Do @ | secon - ‘ tees OD, 7 @ ees gs CH ol He i. a 6 ae Het © Herring 65 | 2 a Hofiand bd 5 omen bt No. 1¢ But , < No land ¥ nite } ops'st 1. 9! No. 2 val tter P =x * rwe! white h 100p, sbbl. 9 No 2 Oval, 250 in late 5 : eae hoo keg. 5 25 | No. 3 Ove , 250 i era s Sez e al, 25 a see ae: ee : > Boxe cl ~ in erate.. ee 4 ‘Grain iil ‘ - a -- 310 . 2 aaa rate 2 7 sand Feeds fe Mess aa oS 49 | 40 K rc » xes as ae fi Me a 100 Ibs acke : ~ | 4 1-1 in Ei »jan s To le as { : shesa 40 oi a rel 15 20 1- = a ea pas pring Stic ks oe | Wheat. . wt tl ffs 15 q M s 101 ee K pack ges Co N > 1 cc atent spril : reat 15 4 wat 8 aaa oi 40 1- ingsf ages i 0.2 pmMmMor sprit | w a re j - + 100 Ibs. one ee 6 ge packs ‘Ps Sil Tg 12 tb. patent bri ig. 9 00 inter W ‘ | sh Me t ~ A | ee a 1s < e ae . 7 Hea A 35 q No. 2 aaa ae nd 64 5e oe wire, able... Gral ee wk ae. eo ioe — cles : % 7 2 % es Oe a ”) 1- Cc 5 5 eds ¢ ie 1a ue a @ ” Ss. 3. aa ¢ , 3 ile 62 3 No. 2 Olbs..... - oe 40 —% Comman Co ai 5 00 | PB. — ia oe L 1 35 | } | Buekwhe a 3 50 Rounds | nn, ian 8! @ 6% 1S Stick Cand ’ 8 lbs ie i Ib. packs. C — ee = Fibre re ved. 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SURE Mh | pounds surat tee in: Butter eee wee “a 75 enema i bi | Loz ms es. utk 2 : ein ladders unds for it : : tter. re | S ves verse Bia |‘ nba ; h a jars. orn the -~ — Yeast YEA ae J en | | Soe =< ae be iy Chee 1) s mt ce pee, in j aie reer — ae Yeast Foam, ST ‘CA 2 00 | | Soa XX -_— 7 “Felipe Choe nted. .. @u i ars. 35 cri oats the Teas oa AKE 212 50 | soda x. ¢ | oe hoco @? 75 3 SOAP 511 ished.. oe re oe Cr m.3 % doz.. , | | Lon , City... 3 Tb. | Gut Mor solates i @ 9 : | XX a | Sanit Yeast oz... | on carto — | Moss oor -- gi 2 y »\ XX red. oe 5 ee uni ree do: 50 Z 1.W ind W n. 6% lg ys | »ps ntals. " 1 Sir xX | Cut .s Brand | bnperials pen ay “ ay imeeels y pl » Drops o = ee a 2 ‘ UH aa a ee ‘ ‘Ju — pe Yo | en pr ; 75 5 hand, n, 3 vo. 11 vee 44 | He Ss 6% siar al “ umbl wa a o lot ials inte ah 5 3d doz... No. 12.. 4&3 ams, 1 mok oc: | es oe - sete es, I ed a in toes a oes 5 0 Yo. 12 3g | He 2 e 51, | Pe 2 rst Jone ve ) reg . . t 5b 5% Boxes SC e 2 40 No. ki =a 431 as 1 Ib. avi d Mez 5Y, | oan isial : 4 25 | Manat iu, nn Q | ‘aaa ea . @ 5B ' Kegs, DDA 2 40 No. a 419 cea’ iiib. average -_ iN a As a ee we Hand Ms os icy (15 aa No. 15. 4 06 Sahar on iesenees on nee 1 25 | Mola ie Cains ene Hand Made ¢ : et [= - No. 16 oe ) Sho ried avers e. @ 11% | Cer sota } JuUasor a re N asses sted alnut tees | and sutte ream g. 5b : acim -.. BY en 400 | Ba ulders ca @1 Ce esota Vs Br se | oie ee s Cak aeey... ; i “a — 55 i Alls Wh — 43, TA eco 3 94 | Ce con s(N.Y.cu : @ . | reso: is. and ic on. es. Bee, 16 | Bu ig Rock. . ep. » ao , B weet 3 ¢ alif . clez .Y.cut) 10% | W. Ms... a me) Nae a a irnt me 0 15 % Cass pice.. ole Sif LE S as 3 94 Bo ee ut) @1 4 Vord sree oo a ip range s. +++ 12% | Wint Rock... --. 00 4 SS Cc hit — LEA AUCE 3 94 Co neless han rea : @ 5M% Lat en G C er ciea 35 | enn Ger i a ergr ionds..... (65 j cs ‘ 00k ss he ne 7 7 L irel } 1TOC! 4 25 | Pre yA ns. . 12 een B 5 15 ‘ 1 Cassia, — int Pp & ' Sia vs a ed sce’ er C aia etzel ssort 2 1s Ba” ow 50 : ——* avia, mats... am... PS ai el 4s..... 0.’s B 15 | ears’ Li ha ed ¢ a ee Ca i” 2 pe = —_— lem. nce eal aa 10 ERR Comp Lard “is a a pe, | rel MS. ona a rand Sugar — sa 3 | boxes rapp ‘a (@55 15 - Mace, | Amboyna... rolls. = SAU S’ Kettle et ig Pgs es _.. +2 “Sturn Square cuca . 8% | eee es . _ —* boyd... => 25 5 lb." ierces . is cues aa ead 35 | 4 rite a 7% | ii rm 00 : cee 32 CE 80 = Tubs . a ces aes Meal one ; 25 | * | Satanas quares . a | o” na Z Nutmegs. faney: ean a Th s Ib. ii 5} anulated . .. 15 | = sa ere. Hea | ——— Fr a0 = ? Pepper, § No.2 cestes 55 | Le Gen Cnginnt: OID. eee 7, | St Feed OTE i. oa | F a Fruits : 2 Pepper. a aie a&P Ww oes and| 51} i a 36 | No Car and 1 990 | Fisl " 12% | Seana y Oranges 75 Z ep oes ao yea & errin’ orc 5 Ib. advance ie | Uni Fee Mil 21 Sn < <= 2% | cuunae. il 80 * pper Sigur black = Halfo Porritt s, lar estershi 31b nvane %, Unbe Corn d, sere Istufl bil an O i : — icans r 7 5 Allst Pure = eee eee - — 13 ee ee peck Stee zu B ails. advance 55 | 2 — “oo — i e | EF ysters Str oe eo G a Cassia round in Bu S| eer eee = 275 Liver sausages rig pease ao 50 4 ‘assia, Bata ulk 5 Dressing. tai us a oS a Fra - ges 1% | -enings 1eat Mudd sees 14 rly out sh sn ‘ane yeh 2e 360s @5 50 ; , : a : ae Lis 50 | sla |E y at vice Ss 75 a Clove \, — M sing, —— 3 2” P pranktort ... oe 8 iddlin " 44.0 H ck B Pe x. F WS 3008 40 ; Ginger Zamiias als a -“ pee | Fen | Ne eupaal | cee Se a Pag aa er @® ( ‘ j G ger a cea. 4| Malt ite EG sees 5D Gad. 6% ew ¢ c 5 00 Cis it a , 10 300 @d ” ) + singe , Afri ea 30 Pu Wh Win AR ' 2%6 aan. ee v2 Less corn orn - $4 | BI coes 4 @ M Ss. wd 00 50 sn Ging r, Coe Bbars 0h re C — Wi e, 40 5| H BEUO .... tees : ss tha ,car | 0 | uefi or He ... &@ 10 {1 ediu Bar (a5 6 ; M er Hoan...) ) | Pure er ine, grai aaachoea He 8 n car ots Liv sh rri 10 | war mt man (ab 50 25 ace + Cochin... 14| Pu Cide . Red so gre in.. 7 cheese... i, oe ar lots... Koil Lol ng @ ae thos sn BS 50 55 ; Musta: gent 15 a oe oe %|E oo Bs | oot - wack bebe + es aaa cor. : ) 11 *xtre woes 61% kc ; 36! Li ; orei 1es . € Nutmeg ee ae ae 18 es 12 Homeless Beet. 9 2 Ppa i . Oats , Bri, ; path oe oo @ i | i sreign Dri ; — ye . ‘ Pepper Sineapors os = ae POWDE oo AR gump aan cin 7 s than lipped. — Pike ce . = California mere ia 75 Pepper, . Sin = ak 1 dom «eo. ee a ea 10 < 7 ar lots. ...... o | P ee . erel. ean Lee | E lice as, Bi r r 65 Sage. r Singapore, black. = a re ee = i 151 Pigs’ a : 25 88, 1 Ti Ha on a 30 te h.. a 10 — io ib. ae os ne. shite 15 Babbit i lock og 00 | 1 bbls.. bs.. ‘s ‘Fe 12 50 0.1 moth y . a 1 noked a 7 IE YOXES wice yxeS. @i: : : 10) t's 1876. 3 iv 40 et 2 00 Ti y Red 1 W 10 | ar new. i 13 30 ‘aad ws a 22 jon Dust sores = ¢ bbls., 80 Ibs... a oe ee Col ee cas Imperi ib. oe @l 15 <‘encin = Swift son’s . ae nc 3 BO Kits lbs... nm = 10 00 a er Sal oo G 5 2 | Ib. — Mico see ISH 5 paca s i lovee % ts. “tw sah , 100 sea 50 80 ea. an ) - Co sin - @ int Sho ine 6S eg a Tr el at unts Ca 20 F ag “ (@ , Ww 3618... P ae 7 ne D Sele ). Se s.. ns. ar S... 1 . — a oe Reef Casi 1 33 foi oe ere ’ sir Selects... P rards in oD ae s @ ‘ ac < settee Beef round ings 2 2 —- & Bertsch ee Fhe he ‘Sta 40 ersiana se ' 2 4 | . No. 0 w at S... é reet Lea jumaana andards. | 35 Sa Tae. 1 = F N 1c ee dles.._ ( .q ther andards ds. Sai Cases. 1 H Ss. @ = ee No. 1, per gr KING ze aaa 20 oe Hi notes a5 ards ....- 30 sien. 0 V. — : ; FE se S No.2. —e-- G as 2 i = Green No. + des as| F ea 05 cl 1b. a @ 6 ] ee N e Ss 4 ils No cE - ae = ao “~ASeS eos a 6 = ay A 4 0. 3, gon en 6 Solid, sai 10 _ o . E. H. Cour Bulk 2 oo a. @ 6 Z No ah ion 4 es ae Rolls dairy .. — ed Cured No. i... 2% Select Selects... f : N eee N . 4, 3 3 7 tf ooD ..3D aona: exes Cal d No.2 ree @7 Al —— ee ccs gal. | | Ali ea u === =* 3 doe inca Bushes Bask (WARE 55 : amet: iC ” prac er TN @ 6 Senne Sisivisnas 2 00 ——_ T: is an a cae shels, Wi — ay... 10% ins reen N @9 sol ng ag 17 Al ae tan Gas , ZTO Ma aes Ss Co Cc icc. My Calfski gree . @ 4, ia ee 75 mor Iv gon mac e, aa aw Wil rket ide re co —* 1514 Calkins eed No. A a 84 Cle SS 1 50 — Cc — | a — ss. 7 Ww low C mo. R rned eef, 2 i Me 14% ins ed N 2 D9 ams nell G me cae Bra. shel ifornia, @16 20 | Willow Clothes 1 i peri Leet, 181 sag : jeured No.? @ 7% Goma pars Goods. it fibert — ei a4 oO ae --1 10 , ef, 2 : > 2 cera. . rate “gue low Clothes, coed Hee 30 Potted ham 5 Ve 2s Pelts, eack Pelts G84 —— 100.....-. | Ww alnuts reccpio @15 " medi 8 - Deviled han Ma... 6 00) N a ’ ame 25a 00 Walnuts, Grenobies. 2; ae . ¢ . | . 6 } hal oi DL 5 1 ail 28 7 as 5 | Pot viled —_ ae = No. i Tallow 50G Oi = 00 Califor! soft No. on 25 a a Ga. oe Ww 1 00 . Table ornia shelled @13! ted t ngue 90 ee tate Eoe I able uts @u ongue, “ys. 50 | W ee Peiees ae oa a fancy 1% 90 ash Wool @ 3% | erfec So pasuae S, ct ye. @ s. W ed, fi ‘ool G XX) tio ecans, Me wice.. vil Sees 2 ge SER Fee Chae au Un ashe iedium... | Dia 7. M lich. @12 ickor3 Jur aarge... @10 ——— —.- aun | D.. ee Halt oF i a Jumbos. @ 7% medium. @20 Nea. Gas a @Al Cocoan new. per a @ 9 ee Deo. Rephths.. =" | - 4 ind cae to nt ull @16 EI er. ha . @ 9% its sae ~—— . wesevees se Oe iia » per sacks ar vias a "9g @11% ine Far cy, H. Pean @3 50 te ie 1¢€ P. ut: @ -.. -s @34 ney, HP. S s : ae 0% i. ul ’ dz ar is. ae @21 Choie sted Fla @9 pF seernamg H. rileiee 7 ee P. Extras @ ed . extras D7 a ‘as @ 5b 6 22 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Getting the People of Really Good Adver- tising. I have come across a good grocery advertisement this time. Here it is: Two Examples ie VVUVUVUOCVOUCUEUCUCUCUCUVVUVV TY 20 cents will buy one pound of the best Mocha and Java Coffee _ever offered for the money. Beau- tiful color, excellent flavor and good strength. One trial will convince you and if you are not satisfied your money will be cheerfully refunded. Pure Spices a specialty. 3 Will Botsford & Co., 19 West Eighth Street, Holland. RA AAAAAAAAARAARARADADAAA Peruvvvwcvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv™" This is a good advertisement because it tells its story plainly and without ver- bal frills; because it says just enough to convince, and because it closes with a money-back offer. This last is the strongest addition that can be made to any advertisement. It is the cheapest offer a merchant ever made and yet it does a wonderful lot of good. It shows that the merchant has confidence in the goods he sells. It inspires a corres- ponding confidence in the reader. And tn ————— ————— offer carefully and exactly. Ifhe returns the money grudgingly, his offer will only hurt him, instead of help him. lf he gives the money back cheerfully, he may be imposed upon occasionally, but the goodwill he derives from the offer will more than make up for his losses. 1 have two stores in mind while writing this. In one, if an article pur- chased is returned, even if an interval of two weeks or a month has elapsed since its purchase, the money is re- funded without a question, all the for- mality required being the production of the original sales slip, or, in its ab- sence, a statement as to the date of the sale. This store has the biggest trade in its community. The other store makes the same offer, but when an ar- ticle is returned, the purchaser must go through a lot of tiresome red-tapeism and usually receives most disagreeable treatment. I have known ladies to wait in this store for an hour or more until the complicated processes attending the return of their money were completed. A store like this will never grow, be- cause it lives up to its promises in such a perfunctory way as to show the pub- lic that its only object is to sell goods, and the element of satisfaction is en- tirely foreign to its purposes; conse- quently, its customers, after one or two such experiences, go elsewhere. ‘It is only an example of the truth of the saying that advertising will only bring customers to the store—after that Bright Beautiful Days and coid evenings mean only one thing, a fur collar or a new cape. Nota day passes but you need them. No trouble to show them in our newly fitted Cloak Parlors. The greatest as- sortment to choose from to suit all ideas. A Underwear Sale An enormous new line just placed on sale, in autumn and winter weights. Wool, merino and fleeced lined, in plain and ribbed texture. These start at th- remarkably low price of 20c. Can please those who want better, up to 82.50. Union suits make cold weather seem like sum- Yes, blankets are what we are talking about. Great big nice warm wool blankets. The “wooly” kind that keep out the cold. Come in grey, white, scarlet and plaids. $2.75 the pair up to $10.00. Got some cotton blankets at Soc. They are good for the money. good collarette for $2.50 to the finest at $45.00. mer. Begin at soc. Blanket--y Suitings Blank--ets That Suit Those double faced suitings are all the rage “Homespun” Grey, just the thing for skirtings. New patterns in coverts, venetians, plaids. (Have a good plaid at 15c.) Something new in black crepons and in golf plaids. All the popular and novel fabrics. Most attractive black goods shown. Dollars Doing Double Duty Deposited With Us especially if you want a hat. The “worn all summer” hat won’t do now. Buy a soft felt “Longley” for $1.50. Want a dandy stiff hat? Buy the “Longley” at $3.00. The greatest stock shown. Fall Suits . $8.50 That’s quickly written, brief and to the point, but it’s only part of the story. To learn the balance you must see the suits. We’re not looking for medals, but if superior workman- ship, linings and fits count for anything we’ll take first prize. HANNAH & LAY MERCANTILE CO. while there are but few people who would return a pound of 20 cent coffee and ask for their money, there is no doubt that the offer of their money back influences many people to try the coffee who otherwise would not be induced to make the purchase. i The merchant who offers money back on unsatisfactory purchases, everything else being equal, will get the bulk of the trade, provided he lives up to his it is the store’s business to please them and make permanent buyers of them. + - Another of the Hannah & Lay Mer- cantile Co.’s advertisements is repro- duced this week, not only as an exam- ple of good advertising, but as proof of the fact that good display depends upon simplicity of arrangement and few styles of type. There is not a country paper in the State which could not du- If in need of Air Tight Heaters, Car Stoves, Stove Pipe or other fall goods, we would be pleased to hear from you and can make you right prices. Wm. Brummeler & Sons, 260 South Ionia Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. AUVIPNEPUNTT STD ner enrNer veer veer ver Neer eter etre NPL Write for Price List. FOSTER, STEVENS, & CO., GRAND RAPIDS. AUAGUA AMA ADA ADL Abb Jb JMAAb ANA ODA JAA AbA.JUA LA 4A dbd 2b4 Jb bd ddd ddd dbh 4 AUIITI UT NUNE NOT NNT NNT NR eNT TNT MEPTO NNT EP ereT NEP TEP tr eT NTT Tt Our harnesses were the best at the State Fair—many told us the exhibit was the best part of the whole Fair. Anyway, we did an enormous business. It shows what others think of our own make of harnesses —you can know all about them by sending for our descriptive catalogue. Brown & Sehler, Grand Rapids, Mich. Harness The Grand Rapids Paper Box Co. Manufacture Solid Boxes for Shoes, Gloves, Shirts and Caps, Pigeon Hole Files for Desks, plain and fancy Candy Boxes, and Shelf Boxes of every de- scription, We also make Folding Boxes for Patent Medicine, Cigar Clippings, Powders, etc., etc. Gold and Silver Leaf work and Special Die Cutting done to suit. Write for prices. Work guaranteed. GRAND RAPIDS PAPER BOX CO., Grand Rapids, Mich. ela gs eo a tatiana Hct w - Es 25 ae ae s ans : BRINN ai" MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 23 plicate the type style of this advertise - ment, yet the majority look as if the compositor had tried to see how many kinds of type he could crowd into each advertisement. Look closely at the headings in this advertisement. With but two exceptions they tell exactly what the matter about. It is these points, together with the general brightness and businesslike tone of the reading-matter, that make the advertising of this house so readable and place it upon a plane far higher than the general average of local Mich- igan advertising. There is no good reason why every retailer in Michigan should not do just as good advertising as the Hannah & Lay Mercantile Co. The fact remains, however, that they don’t, as a rule. ee I have not received any samples for review for several weeks. If this de- partment is to be of direct benefit to my readers and to each reader in particu- lar, it must be through criticism and suggestions regarding the improvement of their advertising. My criticisms may prove harsh sometimes, but I believe they will always be just. I am not here to pat anyone on the back, unless they deserve it, and while I might make more friends by giving a favorable crit- icism in every instance, 1 would not be helping anyone in particular to do_bet- ter advertising. I have no axes to grind in this column. 1 do not run down a man’s advertising ability in order to make him think that he needs my serv- ices. There are ten hours in my work- ing day and they are fully occupied. So, if you send in matter for criticism, you can be sure of getting an absolutely fair and unbiased opinion of its merits, and the best suggestions which my ex- perience can offer for its improvement. W. S. Hamburger. —__~> 2. ____- The Fool Who Believes Wisdom. is in Proverbial I’ve had a lot of trouble, said the man who learns by experience, the other day, that I attribute to nothing else on earth than trying to guide my life by the proverbial foolishness that is handed down from one generation to an- other. I started out with a liberal equip- ment of these mendacious old chestnuts, and long after I was old enough to know better whenever I was in doubt, I fell back upon them as an infallible guide to conduct, and they always gave me the wrong tip. There was, for instance, the old proverb, ‘‘If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.’’ The immortal wisdom of that kept me hanging onto hopeless enterprises, sending good money after bad, and playing a losing game long after it had really gone by the board, and it took me twenty years to find out that it is just as important to know when to let go as it is when to hold on. Then there was that other one about ‘‘Nothing venture, nothing have,’’ with which I stultified myself whenever I played the races or bought futures on a panicky market. That nug- get of wisdom has cost me, first and last, more good, hard dollars than | like to remember, and learning the fallacy of that as a sure guide to wealth is about as expensive a course of study as a man wants to pursue. 1| stayed for years ina little village where the op- portunities of doing business were cir- cumscribed by local demand simply be- cause ‘‘A_ rolling stone gathers no moss,’’ and I might have been there yet, afraid to break away, if 1 hadn’t gathered courage from a kind of cross- cut saw that says, ‘‘A setting hen gains no feathers.’’ I tried to live up to ‘‘A soft answer turns away wrath,’’ until I got the reputation of not having any more backbone than a_ jellyfish, and everybody who came along took me for a soft thing and tried to sell me gold bricks. I brought on nervous prostra- tion trying to emulate the little busy bee and improve each shining hour un- til | broke down from overwork. ‘‘ The early bird catches the worm’’ sent me into all sorts of wild-cat mining com- panies, and patent right schemes, where I went in on the ground floor and had the whole structure collapse on me, as a general thing. Now I let other people do the experimenting, and | find out that the worms that come out later in the day are just as fat, and a deal healthier for the digestion. ‘‘ Never put off until to-morrow what you can do _to- day,’’ and like a_hot-headed fool, took offense where none was intended, jumped at conclusions, was in too big a hurry to wait for explanations, and threw up situations and broke up_part- nerships that I spent years trying to patch up again.~ Even in my courtship 1 was guided by the same infallible or- acle, ‘‘ Faint heart never won fair lady,’’ and so I sailed in with an assured air that said as_ plainly as words, ‘‘Oh, | know I’m a good thing, and you’ll drop on my neck as soon as | give the word. Just wait until I’m ready to throw the handkerchief to you.’’ Well, she was a girl of spirit, and she gave me _ the worst throw-down of my life, although | heard afterwards that she said she _real- ly liked me, and would have had me, if I hadn’t seemed so cock sure that she was willing. Oh, proverbial wisdom is a great guide. It is about as ‘‘plainas the nose on his face,’’ which no man can by any possibility see, and ‘‘there’s no tool like an old fool,’’ except the young fool who believes in it. ~ —-—~»> 2. — An advertisement in a Western paper reads: ‘‘Wanted—Small boy to deliver oysters that can ride a bicycle.”’ New PrIG6S } ; | on Bicycle ) r sundries Dealers of Michigan are requested to drop us a card asking for our July 1st discount sheet on Bicycle Sundries, Supplies, etc. Right Goods, Low Prices and Prompt Shipments will continue to be our motto. Dealers who are not next to us on wheels and sundries are invited to correspond. ADAMS & HART, 12 W. Bridge St., Grand Rapids, Mich. Wholesale Bicycles and Sundries. Aluminum Money Will Increase Your Business. roeeey cs aa Su Sie “gs ‘KS c ~ bee ron ‘= ane by $ oe a NY Sy cheap and Effective. Send for samples and prices. C. H. HANSON, 44 S. Clark St., Chicago, Ill. Hardware Price Current Augurs and Bits Snell’s . Jennings’ ‘genuine. . Jennings’ imitation.. es xes First Quality, S. B. Bronze... .......... First Gusiity, D. B. Bromze........... First Guaity, 5. B.S. Steel........... Piast Guar, 0: &. Siee............- Barrows MO a eae ae Garden... Co ou ae .. net Bolts Stove Carr lage, new list. POW 2... a ee ete. 70 25810 60 6 50 10 00 wo 14 00 30 00 60 50 50 UGH: PIM oo ey $3 50 Butts, Cast Cast Loose Pin, figured ............... 70&10 Wrought Narrow . oe 70&10 Curtetdiges we 40&10 oe ee | ee Ee ne 20 Chain Yin. 616 in. 3 in. % in. -_........, ae... xe... © Cc. ... 54¢. We a . Se i ee 6% . 64 ae... ...... oe. «2 2 74 = Crowbars Cast Steel, per Ib.. De ea ucieaes 6 Cape NG EO, OE Oe cc coe oe 65 mens C.F: perm... c 2... 5... 55 es CEN osc ne wk caine ts 45 Minsket, Perm... ss... 7 Chisels Socket Firmer bes ees des can 65 MOCKGG DEAMMNO. ee. oo face, eee 65 BOGKCG COMMOE ooo ce oe een eu ee 65 DOGHGE SIRS ce ee sae 65 Elbows Com. 4 piece, 6 in., a doz.... -- het 65 Corrugated, ed doz... 1 25 Adjustable. . i dis 40&10 ‘Expansive Bits Clark’s small, $18; large, $26 .......... 30&10 Ives’ 1, $18; 2, $24; 3, $30.............. 25 Files—New List TOW MOTION oe ooo cs csie sb ceteve 70&10 Nicholson’s. 70 Heller’s Horse Rasps... 60&10 Cidtenaiead a 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 ................665 40&10 Gauges Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s.......... 60&10 Glass Single Strength, by box. ..dis 8s0&10 Double Strength, by box. ..dis 80&10 By tie Pa0e) es. dis 380 Hammers Maydole & Co.’s, new list.............. dis 33% Yerkes & P lumb’s . po dis 40&10 Mason’s Solid Cast Steet 30 list 70 Hinges Gate, Clark’s 1, 2,3....... .dis 60&10 Hollow Ware MO i ss wee oes oe se 50&10 ON ee onic cn ce 50&10 RICE ce elas seo 50&10 Horse Nails Au Sable . ..dis 40&10 Putnam.. .. dis 5 House ‘Pernteking ‘Goods Stamped Tinware, new list............ 70 Japanned Tinware................0..-- 20&10 Iron ae OPO 3 crates NG BUEN os ok San ce cae e Knobs—New List ue rates Door, mineral, jap. trimmings.. 85 Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings. . ee 1 00 Lanterns Regular 0 Tubular, Doz................ 450 Warren, Galvanized Fount. . 5 50 Levels Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s.......... dis 70 Mattocks PO TGC ooo deine one sass $17 00..dis 60 Metals—Zinc 600 pound nes oc eue ses caciciag ee 9 Per pound.. coe 9% inion Bird Cages :. 40 Pumps, Cistern... Cups ees ck os aus 70 Screws, New Lis aa 30 Casters, Bed and Plate...............- 50&10&10 Dampers, American............-.+-.-- 50 Molasses Gates Stebbins’ Pattern.. 60&10 Enterprise, self-measuring.. 30 Pans Fry, Acme. ot cee cae 60&10&10 Sees polished . He perenne ne pees 7085 Patent Planished Iron “A” Wood's patent planished, Nos. 24 to 2? 10 20 “B” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 25to2z7 9 20 Broken packages 4c per pound extra. Planes Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy. . 50 Sciota Bench 60 Sandusky Tool Co.’ 8. faney.. 50 Bench, first quality..... 5 Nails Advance over — on both Steel and Wire. Steel nails, base..... 3 10 CO ee 3 20 20 to 60 advance. Base 10 te 16 Advanee................... 05 eee 10 MMOMMN y ca eas 20 4 advance... ee 30 pO EEE 45 tans. ee ie elas 7 Fine 3 advance... te ee 50 . asing 10 advance. Cy ee ae 15 ee z Casing 6 advance.......... Lee 35 Pimtem WO anvanee..............-., 00. 2 Pe UI gs on eck es ccna ce 35 Finish 6 advance .. 45 Barrel % advance.. Dees eu 85 Rivets Iron and Tinned. 50 Copper Rivets and Burs.. 2. _____ Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association. At the regular meeting of the Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association held at the office of the Michigan Tradesman on Tuesday evening, Oct. 3, President Dyk presided. The first thing in order was the in- augural address of President Dyk, who referred at some length to the events of the past year, as related to the work of the Association. He spoke of the ban- quet and picnic and of the beneficial re- sults which naturally ensued: He spoke of the seal of disapproval which the As- sociation set on a repetition of the car- nival and commended the work of the Secretary, Treasurer and standing com- mittees. He deplored the fact that there was not more interest shown in the work of the Association, but denied that numbers indicate strength, as shown by the results which have been secured dur- ing the past year with a membership of about Ioo and an average attendance of less than twenty. In his opinion, it should be the endeavor of the grocer to encourage a healthy rivalry in the sale of the best goods and educate the con- sumer in asking for high grade goods only. At the conclusion of the address, Mr. Dyk was greeted with applause. Letters were read from Robert M. Floyd and others, calling attention to the fact that the Association had been assessed $10 to meet the expenses of a delegate to the international conference of retail grocers to be held at Paris next year. Mr. Lehman laughingly asserted that if the Association would send him as a delegate he would cheerfully pay the $10 out of his own pocket and, after an informal discussion, it was evident that the assessment did not meet the approval of a single member of the As- sociation. On motion of Mr. Lehman, the communications referring to the matter were all laid on the table in- definitely. The oil situation was discussed at considerable length, when it was de- cided to refer the matter to the Com- mittee on Trade Interests, with instruc- tions to carry out the wishes of the As- sociation. President Dyk then announced the standing committees for the ensuing year as follows: Trade Interests—B. S. Harris, L. J. Witters, H. C. Wendorff. Executive——Adrian Brink, F. L. Merrill, E. C. Connelley, Charles Sach, J. F. Gaskill. A committee from the Retail Clerks’ Association called upon the grocers and stated that they had been commissioned to act in conjunction with the Grocers’ Association in securing quarters for both organizations. A committee was appointed by the President to confer with them and take suitable action. —_~> 22> ___ Some members of the lately dissolved co-operative colony at Ruskin, Tenn., have just founded a new commonwealth at Duke, Ga. A hundred and twenty persons have joined the new colony, which will be conducted on similar lines to the Tennessee experiment, all prop- erty being held in common and mem- bers receiving pay for their labor in goods. ——_>22>—__ _It is a wise man who never puts a gift cigar in his mouth, ———_»>4>_____ Heat travels faster than cold. Any- body can catch cold. The Produce Market. Apples—Winter fruit is meeting with ready sale on the basis of $2.25 per bbl. | for choice, $2.50 for fancy and $2.75 for extra fancy. Beets—$1 per 3 bu. bbl. Butter—Factory creamery is in strong demand at 22c. Dairy is coming ina little more freely, commanding 20c for extra fancy, 18c for fancy and 16c for choice. Cabbage—35@4oc per doz. Carrots—$1 per 3 bu. bbl. Cauliflower—$1@1.25 per doz. Celery—12@15c per doz. bunches. Crab Apples--Choice stock is firm and active at $1.50@1.75 per bu. Cranberries—Cape Cod stock is meet- ing with ready sale on the basis of $6 @6.25 per bbl. Dressed Poultry—Spring chickens are in good demand at 10@12c. Fowls are in fair demand at roc. Ducks com- mand toc for spring and 8c for old. Geese will not be wanted until the weather is cooler. Turkeys are in good —— at 12%c for spring or 1oc for old. Eggs—Dealers are paying 15@16c for fresh stock, case count, holding candled at 17¢ and cold storage at 16c. The pro- portion of bad eggs is large, owing to farmers holding summer eggs for the usual fall advance. Game-—-Mallard ducks are in fair de- mand and ample supply at $4.50 per doz. Teal ducks are higher, readily commanding $2.50@2.75 per doz. Com- mon ducks fetch $1.75@2. The deadlock between the county and State authorities on the subject of snipe continues, the Prosecuting Attorney insisting that it is legal to kill snipe at this time, while the Game Warden asserts that the sea- son is still closed, in consequence of which dealers are at sea on the question of handling the article and keep on the safe side by having nothing to do with snipe. Both dealers and sportsmen unite in condemning the _ vacillating policy of the present Warden, who ap- pears to have secured the appointment solely on the basis of political expedi- ency, without regard for his fitness for the position. Grapes--Wordens and Concords are practically out of market. Niagaras are still coming in freely, but have ad- vanced to 12c for 4 lb. baskets and 16c for 8 lb. baskets. Honey —White clover is held at 15c. Dark amber commands 12@13¢c. Live Poultry—Squabs are in active demand at $1.20 per doz. Pigeons are in strong demand at 50@6oc per doz. Onions—The crop of home grown is large and the quality good. Stock is beginning to move freely on the basis of 40@45c per bu. Parsnips—$1.50 per 3 bu. bbl. Peaches—Smocks command $2@3 per bu. according to quality. Pears—Keefers are coming in freely and find ready sale at $1.60 per bu. or $4.50 per bbl. Potatoes—Receipts are small, dealers paying 25@30c and holding at 30@35c. Quinces—$1.75@2 per bu. Squash—Home grown command 2c ork. Sweet Potatoes—Jerseys are in good demand at $2.75 per bbl. Virginias are active on the basis of $1.75 per bbl. Turnips—$1 per bbl. Tomatoes—Ripe stock fetches 65c per bu. Green is billed out at 5o0c per bu. —> 2. ____ The real philanthropist is the person who attends to his own business, and al- lows other people to attend to theirs. a ee The automobile can be managed with one hand. It will be a great thing for buggy riding on moonlight nights. —__> 4. ~.A crank is often a man who refuses to loan money to a deadbeat who has no expectation of paying back. It takes years to tell the whole truth; but a slanderer can quit lying in a sec- ond’s time. ————_>>+>_____ Some men are like dice—easily rat- tled, but hard to shake. 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. Re SALE—40-ACRE FARM, IMPROVED. Would exchange for small stock of goods, groceries preferred. Mich. K1 500 CASH BUYS NEW SUBURBAN e grocery in best city in Southern Michigan of 20,000 population; nice store; chance for hustler. Object, other business. Address “Sam,” care Michigan Tradesman. 89 aes SALE—ONE PRICE, CASH CLOTHING ‘ stock, established ten years on best corner in a thriving town of 2,500 population in Eastern Michigan. Store has made good money ‘every year. Best of reasons for selling. Address “Quick,” care Michigan Tradesman. 87 y= STORE WILL BE SOLD VERY cheap. City of 3,000. Address No. 86, —" Address Box E, Ashley, 90 Michigan Tradesman. 6 SPLENDID OPPORTUNITY TO BUY out a paying meat market, doing one-half the business in town of 4,000 inhabitants; only two competitors; tools rent with building. Hl health the cause for wishing to retire. For further information write A. R. Hensler, Battle Creek. 88 VOR SALE—A FIRST-CLASS SHINGLE mill complete. Capacity, 40,000 per day. Just closed, having finished the cut in that see- tion. Address Lock Box 738, Belding, Mich. 80 == FARM FOR SALE OR TRADE. Address Box 33, Epsilon, Mich. 74 YOR 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 and good times the year around; terms the most liberal that could be offered (must be cash). Want to retire from business. Address P. O. Box 204, Negaunee, Mich. 913 VOR SALE—CLEAN STOCK OF GENERAL merchandise in Central Michigan town. Must be sold at once. Big bargain for some one. Failing health reason for selling. Address No. 79, care 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 O RENT—ONE OR TWO BRICK STORES With deep cellars, 22x75 feet, on Main street, in Opera House block, Mendon, Mich. Write to 54 Levi Cole. NOOD OPENING FOR DRY GOODS OR department store at Centerville, Mich. Ad dress Box 135. 55 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 W ANTED—YOUR ORDER FOR A RUBBER stamp. Best —s on earth at prices that are right. Will J. Weller, Muskegon, Mich. 958 For SALE OR EXCHANGE FOR GENERAL Stock of Merchandise—so 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 rPHE 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 "OR SALE—NEW GENERAL STOCK. A splendid farming conntry. No trades. Ad- dress No. 680, care Michigan Trad n. 680 ODERN CITY RESIDENCE AND LARGE lot, with barn, for sale cheap on easy terms, or will exchange for tract of hardwood timber. Big —— for some one. Possession given any time. Investigation solicited. E. A. Beene. 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, Land and Industrial Agent C. & W. M.and D., G. R. & W. Railways, 919 Grand Rapids, Mich. MISCELLANEOUS. GITCATION WANTED BY EXPERIENCED lady clerk, bazaar preferred. References furnished. A.M. Enos, Albion, Mich. 91 ANTED—BY MIDDLE AGED MAN OF long experience in the drug business, po- sition as manageror dispenser. Good refer- ences. Will be at liberty about Oct.15. Address Druggist, care Michigan Tradesman. 82 7 ANTED—POSITION AS TRAVELER FOR pharmaceutical house, perfumery or sun- dries. Have had 12 years’ experience. Ac- uainted with drug trade of Michigan. Address raveler, care Michigan Tradesman. 83 y ANTED—POSITION AS MANAGER OR head clerk in general store. Have had valuable experience as manager and buyer for ten years. Annual sales, $50,000. Address No. 77, care Michigan Tradesman. 77 W ANTED— POSITION AS CLERK. NINE years’ experience in dry goods and general trade. Address No. 43, care Michigan man. ANTED—POSITION BY DRUGGIST, 14 years’ experience. Address No. 40, care Michigan Tradesman. 40 rades- 43 a4 ait ty ws Nise staal * ~ . we ‘alncatbieaig 2 _ a en ae a a 4 3B t iB j ; ‘4 4 a : ww « Be = » si! hig Travelers’ Time Tables. MERCANTILE ASSOCIATIONS and West Michigan R'y Sept. 24, 1899. CHICAG Chicago. 10am 12:00m 4:35pm = *2:15am 7:30pm =5:00pm 10:45pm = *7:25am Lv. Chicago, 15am 12:00m 5:00pm *11:50pm Ar. G. Rapids, 1:25pm 5:05pm 10:55pm = *6:20am Traverse City, Charlevoix and retoskey. Ly. G. Rapids, 7:30am 1:45pm 4:30pm Ar. Tray City, 12:40pm 5: 35pm 9:40pm Ar. Charlev’x, 3:10pm 7:38pm 12:00m Ar. Petoskey, 3:40pm 8:15pm 12:30am Traing arrive from north at 2:00am, and 10:45pm. Parlor ears on day trains and sleeping cars on night trains to and from Chicago. *Every day. Others week days only. DETROI Ly. G. Rapids, 7 Ar. Chicago, “le 4:20pm, Grand Rapids & Western June 26, 1899. Detroit. Lv. Grand Rapids.... 7:00am 12:05pm 5:25pm a Detroib. 25.2... <.- 11:40am 4:05pm 10:05pm Lv. Detroit.. .... 8:40am 1:10pm 6:10pm Ar. Grand Rapids.. 1:30pm 5:10pm 10:55pm Saginaw, Alma and Greenville. Ly. G. R.7:00am 5:10pm"Ar. G, R. 11:45am 9:40pm Parlor Cars on all trains to and from Detroit and ma Trains run week days only. GEO. DEHAVEN, General Pass. Agent. GRAN (In effect June 19, 1899.) Going East. Trunk Railway System Detroit and Milwaukee Div Leave Arrive Saginaw, Detroit & N.Y...... + 6:40am + 9:55pm Detroit and East . ......-t10:16am + 5:07pm a Detroit & East......+ 3:27pm +12:50pm Butialo, N. Y., Toronto, Mon- treal & Boston, Ltd Ex..* 7:20pm *10:16am Going West. Gd. Haven and Int. Pts.......* 8:30am *10:00pm Gd. Haven oe Puce ye *10:2lam * 7:15pm Gd. Haven and Int. Pts.......412:58pm + 3:19pm Gd. Haven and Milwaukee... .+ 5:12pm +10:1lam Gd. Haven and Milwaukee.. ..+10:00pm + 6:40am }d. 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. eG +Except Sunday. C. A. JUSTIN, City Pass. Ticket Agent, 97 Monroe St., Morton House. Rapids & indiana Railway October 1, 1899. GRAN Northern Division. Going From : North North Trav. City, Petoskey, Mack. + 7:45am t+ 5:10pm Traverse City & Petoskey... + 2:25pm _ +10:15pm Cadillac Accommodation... + 5:25pm +10:55am Petoskey & Mackinaw C ity +11:00pm_ + 6:20am 7:45am and 2:25pm trains, parlor cars; 11:00pm train, sleeping car. Southern Division Going From South South Kalamazoo, Ft. Wayne Cin. + 7:10am +t 9:45pm Kalamazoo and Ft. Wayne. + 2:00pm +t 2:00pm Kalamazoo, Ft. Wayne Cin. * 7:00pm * 6:45am Kalamazoo and Vicksburg. *11:30pm * 9:10am 7:10am train has parlor ear to Cincinnati, coach to Chicago; 2:00pm train has parlor car to Fort Wayne; 7:00pm train has sleeper to Cincin- nati; 11: 30pm train, sleeping car and coach to Chicago, Chicago Trains. TO F HICAGO. Ly. Grand ee. +7 10am +2 00pm *11 30pm Ar. Chicago. . 2 30pm = =8 45pm 6 25am ‘FROM CHICAGO Ly. Chicago. . oo te ‘02pm *11 32pm Ar. Grand Ray pas 9 45pm 6 45am Train lone Grand Rapids 7: 10am has coach; 11:30pm train has coach and sleeping car; trains leaving Chicago 3:02pm has coach; 11: 32pm has — ear for Grand Rapids. Muskegon Trains. - GOING WEST. Lv. Grand Rapids....t7 35am _ tl 35pm +5 40pm Ar. Muskegon. . 900am 245pm 7 05pm Sunday train leaves Grand “Rapids 9:15am; arrives Muskegon at 10:40am. Returning leaves Muskegon 5:30pm; arrives Grand Rapids, 6:50pm. GOING EAST. Lv. Muskegon......t8 10am +12 15pm +4 00pm Ar. Grand Rapids.. 9 30am 125pm_= 5 20pm +Except Sunday. ‘*Daily. Cc. L. LOCKWOOD, Gen’l oe ‘ a Ticket Agent. Ticket Agent Union Station. MANISTE Via C. & W.M. Railway. & Northeastern Ry. Best route to Manistee. ae ... 700am_s...... Ar. Manistee. . 12 05pm... Lv. Manistee... scipiachantteet 78 30am .4 10pm Ar. Grand Rapids. Oe oboe: 100pm 9 55pm Michigan Business Men’s Association President, C. L. WHITNEY, Traverse City: See- retary, E. A. STOWE, Grand Rapids. Michigan Retail Grocers’ Association President, J. WISLER, Mancelona; Secretary, E. A. STOWE, Grand Rapids Detroit Retail Grocers’ Association JOSEPH KNIGHT; Secretary, E. Treasurer, C. H. FRINK. President, MARKS; (rand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association President, FRANK J. DyK; Secretary, HOMER KLAP; Treasurer, J. GEORGE LEHMAN. Saginaw Mercantile Association President, P. F. TREANOR; Vice-President, JOHN MCBRATNIE; Secretary, W. H. LEWIs. Jackson Retail Grocers’ Association President, J. FRANK HELMER; Secretary, W. H. PORTER; Treasurer, L. PELTON. Adrian Retail Grocers’ Assoriation President, A. C. CLARK; Secretary, E. F. CLEVELAND; Treasurer, WM. C. KOEHN. Muskegon Retail Grocers’ Association President, ALBERT TOWL; Secretary, D. A. BOELKINS; , Treasurer, J. W. CASKADON. Bay Cities Retail Grocera’ Association President, M. L. DEBATS; Secretary, WATERS. Ss. W. Kalamazco Reta:l Grocers’ Association President, W. H. JOHNSON; Secretary, CHAS. HYMAN. Traverse City Business Men’s Association Pr esident, THos T. BAT rag Secretary, M. B. Hou.y; Treasurer, C. A. HAMMOND. (wo-.so Business Wen’s Association President, A. D. WHIPPLE; Secretary, G. T. CAMPBELL; Treasurer, W. E. COLLINS. Alpena Business Men’s Association President, F. W. GILCHRIST; Secretary, C. L. PARTRIDGE. Grand ee Retail Meat Dealers’ Association President, L. WILSON; Secretary, PHILIP HILBER; ioreaueen, Sy, Hu FFORD. St. Johns Business Men’s Association President, THOS. BROMLEY; Secretary, FRANK A. PERCY; Treasurer, CLARK A. PUTT. Perry Business Men’s Association President, H. W. WALLACE; Secretary, HEDDLE. rT. E. Grand Haven Retail Merchants’ Association President, F. D. Vos; Secretary, J. W. VER- HOEKS. Yale Business wea's Association ———: CHAS. RouNbs; Secretary, FRANK -UTNEY. TRAVEL VIA F.& P.M. R. R. AND STEAMSHIP LINES TO ALL POINTS IN MICHIGAN H. F. MOELLER. a.aG. P. a. Gp) We - 4 keeps fresh and deliciously crisp and Its high quality is assured by the fact that it comes from the & tender Why VG The new wafer is just right (just crisp enough, just sweet enough, just g7m- gery enough) and the sealed, air tight package keeps it just right until eaten. Ordinary cookies, sold in the usual way, get moist and soggy in damp weather and hard and tough in dry weather. Uneeda Jinjer { Wayfer 7 ginger cakes and oe —— which bake Uneeda Biscuit. Made by NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY, aia which owns the registered trade mark Yneeda. DON T buy Plated > Silverware, Clocks or Holiday Goods, until you have consulted our 1899 Fall Catalogue. The most complete Book out. WRITE FOR IT OAS The Regent Mfg. Oy Jackson and Market. CHICAGO. $4444440404040004040444 Not how cheap but how good. THE BELKNAP WAGON CO., Grand Rapids, Mich. SLEEP EE EESEEEELEEELELEEEPE TEE EET TTT NO. 113 Write for catalogue and prices. a eT ST SR ee ns ehh hhh hhh hh 4 FF 4 +++ 4 “. GRATEFUL COMFORTING , a Ditneiitiod Hecaialec It pays any dealer to have the reputation of 7 AN for keeping pure goods. It pays any dealer to keep _— : : AA Delicacy of Flavor the Seymour Cracker. AN . ‘ - Superior Quality There’s a large and growing section of the i and public who will have the best, and with whom the \ AN ——— matter of acent or so a pound makes no impression. | AN er ee eet It’s not “How cheap” with them; it’s “How good.” rn \ Comforting to the ; a : ag AN For this class of people the Seymour Cracker is AN Nervous and Dyspeptic. 2 Dj cca h : t ar Sold in Half-Pound Tins Only. ma E iscrimina ing ousewives recognize - AN Paed by superior Flavor, Purity, Deliciousness, and will MN h i wv AMES EPPS & CO., Ltd. ave it. WA J heres a Homeeopathic Chemists, London, If you, Mr. Dealer, want the trade of particu- 7 A England. lar people, keep the Seymour Cracker. Made by AN BREAKFAST SUPPER M 3 ‘ a oe : NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY, 5 Epps reer Se Epps GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. C O c O 2 fe a ss =r. a VaTae—= VV ( ~. O Cc O 2 SS 3S SS SSS SS SS SS SSS SSS 33333333333 3S S333 333332 3232222: } LF DEED DOOD OI OI OI ST DS Pw a: Se . OOOO OP OI BD OB — BOM OA A OAD AOA AA A DP SOP ORE PCE OI OOOO OO OO IIIA J i , : H Ww ¢ [he Money Weight System Is Sky High in Public Favor ¥ —A Remember our scales are sold on easy monthly payments. The Compal, ae Co., oe, Ohio