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PAPAL LP LPP A POMAD, Tradesman Cun0ns Save Trouble. Save Money Save Time. IMPORTANT FEATURES. -age. 2. Dry Goods. 3. The Other Side. 4. Around the State. The Produce Market. 5. Grand Rapids Gossip. 6. Woman’s World. Crockery and Glassware Quotations. 8. Editorial. 9. Editorial. 10. Among the Ribbons. 2. Shoes and Leather. 13. People Who Sell Goods at Wholesale. 14. The Meat Market. 15. Observations by a N. Y. Egg Man. 16. Gotham Gossip. 17. Commercial Travelers. 18. Drugs and Chemicals. 19. Drug Price Current. 20. Grocery Price Current. 21. Grocery Price Current. 22. Getting the People. 23. The Hardware Market. Hardware Price Current. G. R. Grocery Clerk’s Association. Business Wants. ww hl WHY, CERTAINLY. The pessimist is jubilant. There isa cloud in the east, no bigger than a man’s hand, but full of menace. The policy of the ‘‘open door’’ which tickled the tympanums of American traders is not proving the unqualified blessing which it was supposed to_ be. It is turning out a boomerang with a hitting power as harmful as it is un- desirable and sudden. It is all very well to have the ‘‘open door’’ theory and practice, when China is_ talked about, the basis of commercial activity ; but when the European powers make this the means of driving a_ sharp_ bar- gain it is hardly the good thing it is cracked up to be. Those schemers are already at work. With our commercial sky fairly aglow with the golden gain of early promised profits in China, there comes the far-reaching question wheth- er, should the open door policy be granted in China, there will be an open door policy in the Philippines? If the answer is affirmative, well and good; if not, well and good; but—! That last word has upset things and the optimist, with shivers of delight and exultant I- told-you-sos, sees the smiles a the faces of the powers and our Uncle Sam- uel perplexedly biting his thumb. Nothing is farther from the fact. Shortsightedness, the prominent defect of the optimist, has not taken posses- sion of the American eyesight. It can see clearly and the manhood behind it can state distinctly the reasonableness and the justice of the question: ‘‘It is a poor rule which does not work both ways;’’ and the Great Republic has no desire even to infringe upon the broadest application of the maxim. ‘‘A fair field and no favor’’ is emblazoned all over the shield of the United States and its glory is not dimmed by any attempt to make a one-sided applica- tion. When, then, there comes the fair question, fairly put, ‘‘Will there also be an open door in the Philippines?’’ without a thought of thumb biting comes the hearty answer: ‘‘Why, certainly.’’ There is asomething in the American make-up which other peoples can not understand. Russia makes up her mind that a neighboring nation must give her a part of her possessions and the big nation goes caine to work to entrap and inveigle her into surren- der. England thinks best to increase her domain by a gold mine—no matter where it is or to whom jit belongs—and steathily works up to it. It is the Old World idea. Not so with the New. Everything is aboveboard. Is China going to pieces? All right. We'll prop open the commercial door, sound the preconcerted signal and go for it. Each one for himself and the devil take the hindermost. The Philippines have gone under. Before the end came the United States bought the right to settle the is- lands as it should deem best. The ers know that, but, with the breeding of pow- the Middle Ages clinging to them, and with a ‘‘cheek’’ as amusing as it is ex- asperating, they want to know if there is to be the same open door as in China and are tipping winks to one another at the corner into which they have at last forced the nation with the liberal pol- icy. Judge of their surprise when with the question already settled this country, blind to its own interest—well, appar- ently so—throws open the door with a ‘‘Why, certainly,’’ throws away the key and becomes a_ scrambler for the very things she has thrown away. That, however, is the American idea. We want the scramble and we are. will- ing to contribute our share to make it interesting. Money-getting forthe sake of the money is barbarous and There is no fun in a walk-over even to prosperity. That is where poverty has the better of riches ten to one, and the Yankee tradesman, to make things lively, throws the money he has made into the commercial arena and ‘‘stumps’’ his trading brethren to keep it away from him if they can. beastly. This is the key to the situation, the earth over. In China, the Philippines, Africa, South or North, France, Ger- many—everywhere—closed door, or open door, the battle of trade is to be fought and that, too, under the standard of * A fair field and no favor.’’ It must be remembered, however, that the Yankee knows what he is about. In these days of arbitration the sword has lost its power. ‘‘The bloodiest battle of the century’? may be subject matter for the historian, but it will be little else. It is doubtful if the fought-for gold mines will be found worth the having; and while the battle is going on, there and in every other part of the world, the trade strife is strenuously pushed by the predestined victor. With doors open or closed or on the swing, the best will be sure to find its way tothe front. Half- civilized China knows the difference between chalk and cheese; and has al- ready found out that this country fur- nishes the best of both. What kind of a fight will that be in Siberia over rail- roads and bridges when the American workshop is already supplying that mar- ket with the best goods at the lowest prices? What sort of figure is England going to cut in the shoe trade, for in- stance, when the footwear she turns out is as ugly to the sight as it is clumsy and painful to the foot, civilized or un- civilized? Name a machine in a Euro- Number 846 pean market of European manufacture which is not losing favor, because the American-made article on every point worth naming is by far the best. Geneva for decades bragged about her watches. She brags no more; and the silence of her shops is broken by the tick of the American watch. France had a great deal to say about her wines and her silks and her leadership in civiliza- tion; but the vineyards of California and the silk mills of New Jersey have changed that and we shall hear no more of French civilization for years to come. If the has we can feed it with 600,000,000 bushels of wheat, 2,000, 000,000 bushels of corn, 32,000,000 of beef cattle and 40,000,000 of sheep, with countless millions of poultry. If it is give it to drink 1,000,000,000 gallons of beer - let Germany make a note of it!—1,000,000 gallons of alcoholic liquors and 30,000,000 gal- We can warm, clothe and world gets hungry, thirsty, we can lons of wine. light our. sister nations without lessen- ing our own personal comfort and we can do it more cheaply than they can do it themselves. With this condition of things, backed as it is by the National reputation won at Manila, it is not strange that the United States should be generous. — Past the struggling period of existence, in which she has been overwhelmingly suc- cessful, and recognized as she is as an equal, with the conviction of su- perjority under the recognition, it is not that should give to others the liberty of action which she has_ her- self insisted on. Having gained a com- petency in a century which Europe has failed to secure in a decade of them, it is no wonder that she tacit strange she should insist on open doors and, while laughing over the absurdity of the pretended right of her envious neighbors, should, just for the fun of scrambling for what is hers al- ready, heartily reply to their brazen question: ‘‘Will there also be an open door in the Philippines?’’ ‘‘Why, cer- tainly.’ One of the results of the Spanish- American war has been a remarkable stimulus to certain departments of Span- ish industry. Although many merchants have suffered by the loss of Cuba and have had their operations severely ham- pered thereby, other houses have taken to manufacturing on the spot products which used to be got from that colony. Sugar is one of the chief articles im- ported, but there were formerly few re- fineries in Spain. During the last few months, however, a number of refineries have been established. A single Ger- man house is reported to have orders at present for more than $1,000, 000 worth of machinery for these refineries alone. So far, the Ger- mans who have profited most by the sit- uation. The German houses have their agents on the spot and so succeed in booking a big share of the orders. In other departments, too, it is very much the same. Barcelona, Madrid and other large towns have recently adopted the electric light, but although the field is open to everybody, most of the tenders were German. it seems to have been See eee ees Hasek ANG LEED MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Dry Goods The Dry Goods Market. Staple Cottons. -There has been no change whatever in the strength of the staple cotton division. There has been but little difficulty in securing the ad- vances named onall the cotton goods up to the present writing, and these ad- vances still continue to be named on other tickets. If there is any difference to point out in regard to the demand for various goods it may be said that heavy brown sheetings, drills and ticks are enquired for rather less than other goods. Nevertheless, the demand_ is large enough to take care of the produc- tion and there is, therefore, no weaken- ing of any kind. This slight difference is partially due to the fact that no pos- itive given as to the date of delivery of these goods. 3uyers not like to orders without knowing whether they can get the goods or not. Many lines of goods, although advanced in price, are held strictly ‘‘at for distant delivery, and the prices quoted to-day apply only to such can delivered at once, which are very few, or in a very short promises can be do place value"’ goods as be time. The situation in gray goods is very hard for the trade. Buyers can secure nothing for this side of January delivery unless it be from second hands, and they are obliged to pay full prices. Wide shectings are somewhat quieter, and show no change of importance. Coarse colored cottons, denims, plaids, ticks, stripes and checks are in good demand, and consequently very strongly situated. Linings—All grades of cotton linings have stiffened during the past week, and advances in many cases have been named. Naturally this has been brought about to a considerable extent by the advances in gray cloths, but the continued steady demand has had con- siderable to do with it. Among the cloths which have been advanced are kid finished cambrics, silesias and printed sleeve linings. High finished cotton goods in the various new styles, mercerized, etc., shown a fair although nothing above the have business, average. Knit Goods--There has been consid- erable activity in the knit goods market for the past week or ten days, in spite of the fact that it is usually a decidedly off season of the year, and everything looks bright for the opening of the new . heavyweights. Satisfactory goods are scarce. Of everyone looks to higher prices tor next fall’s goods, but how much of an advance will be made is as yet problematical. Those orders which have already been taken are at only a small advance over last season, and, in fact, it is pretty safe to say that some of them were taken at last year’s prices. The policy of such an action is too evident to need comment here. The season is really in the hands of the mills and agents, and satisfactory prices might easily be secured if the business were handled in the right way. Why the agents will persist in hurrying the season, and losing their profits when so much business is floating around, is one of the puzzles which no man can solve. There is no possible reason why they should take orders so far ahead of the season, for it is morally sure that there will be plenty of business to go around and from all the evidence which can now be gathered, it seems as though there will not be enough goods to supply the demand. There is every prospect course, of a further advance in wool before long, and should this take place it will make it absolutely necessary to make a very strong advance. In looking over prices of woolens since the last heavyweight season, Some grades have advanced over 50 per cent. already. Comment is un- necessary. Considering the above and the fact that there are no stocks of yarn in the market, it will be a wise buyer who places his order at the earliest op- portunity for as much as he thinks he can use, for it is almost absolutely cer- tain that many will get badly left before the end. Hosiery—-Importers of hosiery have had an unusually successful season, so far as it has gone, and they report that the sales have exceeded those for the past spring and summer. Of course, staple blacks had a steady uninterrupted business, but fancies and_ solid colors have been unexpectedly popular. Prob- ably the most prominent lines of hosiery are the extracted patterns in neat de- signs, either stripes or polka dots. In the higher grade goods there has been an excellent business in some of the fine lines of silk embroidered hosiery, and the prospects for these goods are excellent. Carpets —The carpet situation is bet- ter this year than it has been for several years past. Buyers realize that they must pay the advanced prices for car- pets, and as the times are very much improved they are willing to do this. Trade holds on very well. The ad- vanced prices are now in effect, and the prospect of a still further advance is stimulating the buyers to place orders early. There is a probability of a gen- eral advance the first of the year, with some advances December 1. Jobbing houses continue to place good orders for carpets, and feel very well satisfied with the outlook for the new season. Some large Smyrna rug manufacturers an- nounced an advance in their rugs, which took place Dec. 2. Retailers who have sold up their stock of Smyrna rugs find it very difficult to have their orders filled for a new supply. The unusually ac- tive fall season in carpets and rugs bids fair to continue prosperous through the spring season. The medium priced goods, such as tapestry, Brussels and axminsters at about $1 per yard, are very popular, and gratifying sales are made of these goods, as well as the higher priced velvets. Some large mills have taken enough orders direct to last them up to January 1, and will not send their salesmen out until after that period. Manufacturers of art squares report that the demand is so large they are unable to supply all the goods which the jobbers could sell. i i Kira JAS es ROSSI ay 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. S y Sold in the West by the Following Jobbers CHICAGO—Jno. V. Farwell Co. Carson, Pirie, Scott *& Co. Field & Co. Sherer Bros Lederer Bros. & Co. ST. LOUIS—Hargadine-McKittrick Dry Goods Co. ST JOSEPH—Hundley-Frazer Dry Goods Co. KANSAS CITY—Burnham, Hanna, Munger & Co. Dry Goods Co. OMAHA—M. E. Smith & Co. ST. PAUL—Lindeke, Warner & Schurmeier. Finch, VanSlyck, Young & Co. MINNEA POLIS—Wyman. Partridge & Co. DETROIT—Strong, Lee & Co. Burnham, Stoepel & Co. Moore & Co. TOLEDO—Davis Bros. ner & Co. CINCINNATI—The Jno. H. Hibben Dry Goods Co. INDIANAPOLIS—D. P. Erwin & Co. A. E. PUTNAM, Mfr., Milan, Mich. g Marshall Swofford Bros. Powers Dry Goods Co. Edson, Shaw & Sassaman Co. L. S, Baumgard- Sent by express ch’ges prepaid on receipt of price by the mfr. THE WHOLESALE DRY GOODS, - Soe “STAND BY” CORSET HOW IT IS MADE: with twelve heavy flexible steels especially tempered, Each Corset is constructed six on each side, grouped in sets of three, one over the other in such a manner as to form an _indestruct.- able side and still conform -t) every movement of the wearer. / | | | Ht lf Women troubled with the break- | HII ing down of the corset on the sides__ will appreciate | “STAND BY” PRICE, Le (Pat. Oct. 28, 1898.) VOIGT. HERPOLSHEIMER & CoO., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. $4.50 PER. DOZ. Sipe SECTION Corl, Knott & Co., Importers and Jobbers of Millinery Our Specialties: Trimmed and Untrimmed Hats, Ostrich and Fancy Feathers. Ribbons, Velvets, ASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSTSTSTTSSTISSSTSSSSES SSITTI ISS Iss 55 FFFSSSSSSSSSTSTTISTFTFSSSSSIITSIS ® « Christmas Presents Remember we carry a good line of useful articles for Christ- mas Presents, such as Handkerchiefs, Neckties, Cuffs, Collars, Suspenders, Hair Ornaments, Jewelry, Perfumes, Umbrellas, etc. Don't wait too long this season in buying as you might find the lines broken later in the season. Our line is complete, having a larger assortment this year than ever. ag |: Steketee & Sons, Grand Rapids, Mich. SESEEEEEEEEEEEELELAELEDAEDOSODS 4 4 tw 4 ‘ é y a a. » i 4 ’ mo; aa ‘ i 4 4 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 3 THE OTHER SIDE. Landlord Sweet’s Version of the Baggage Liability Controversy. Grand Rapids, Dec. 4—In your issue of Nov. 209, you do me a serious injus- tice in connection with certain matters which you say occurred at the Living- ston Hotel. I am unwilling to believe that this is malicious or even intentional on your part, and yet I must insist that you should have known from your own experience that there are two sides to every question and that the reputation for fairness which I| believe the Trades- man has fairly earned clearly demanded that you should take the trouble to hear both sides of the matter referred to be- fore making it the subject of editorial comment. From the fact that you have on several occasions communicated with me by telephone and that it is only a short distance from the Tradesman office to the Michigan Trust building, where my own office is located, you must have known that it would be very easy for you to learn the other side of this matter. Your desire for a legal opinion on the subject renders your failure to obtain a correct knowledge of the facts all the more surprising. Your criticism is twofold: First, that although I recompensed Mr. Lamberton for the loss of his hat, I stated that there was no legal liability. Second, that | refused to recompense Mr. Rogers for the loss of his traveling bag. Your first criticism seems to be no more nor less than that I gave an_ erro- neous opinion or at least one in which Judge Hatch does not concur. My answer is: First, that I never gave any opinion in the matter one way or the other; second, that, so far as | know or have been able to learn from the manager in charge of the Livingston Hotel, Mr. Lamberton never lost a hat at the Livingston, and I never paid him anything for the loss of a hat; third, that on one occasion Mr. Lamberton and another guest of the hotel accident- ally exchanged hats, but that the mis- take was soon discovered and corrected. In regard to the complaint of Mr. Rogers, | have no personal knowledge, but I learn from the manager of the hotel, whose integrity I consider beyond question, that the facts assumed by your attorneys are incorrect. They assume that the valise of Mr. Rogers was checked at the check room of the hotel with the knowledge of the clerk. In reality this was not the case. They as- sume that Mr. Rogers informed the clerk that he intended to return again in about three weeks. He gave the clerk no such information. They assume that ‘*at the expiration of that time he did return and on calling for his valise it was missing and could not be found and that its loss was unexplained.’’ As a matter of fact, instead of calling for his valise at the end of three weeks, the length of time which elapsed was not far from six months. Yet in spite of all these false assumptions against the in- terest of the hotel, your attorneys con- clude this portion of their opinion with these words: ‘‘After settling his bill and departing from the hotel until he returned, he was not a guest. In order to charge the proprietor of the Living- ston Hotel with the liability of an inn- keeper, the owner of the valise must have been a guest of the hotel at the time of its loss.’’ In your editorial on the subject, not- withstanding this legal opinion, you say that Mr. Rogers ‘‘has béeh a patron of the Livingston Hotel for several years, but will transfer his patronage to the Morton because of the refusal of Edwin F. Sweet to recompense him for his loss.’’ Why you take the trouble to in- form your readers that Mr. Rogers is about to transfer his patronage from the Livingston to the Morton because | was unwilling to recognize a claim which your own attorneys say was not lawful, it is difficult for me to understand. Peo- ple are so prone to look at such ques- tions only from their own standpoint that I can see how Mr. Rogers might en- tertain some ili feeling, but surely it is not a matter of such public interest as to merit your editorial notice. It is not worthy of you, and is not in harmony with the policy by which you have made the Michigan Tradesman the leading trade paper of the State. At the ut- most, the charge against me is that | would not recognize any moral obliga- tion to recompense Mr. Rogers under the peculiar circumstances of the case ; that | was—in his opinion and, possibly, in yours also—somewhat ungenerous. In the Livingston, as in most first-class hotels, the check room is merely a tem- porary convenience. It is not intended to be used for storage extending over a period of six months or even six weeks. Guests who are disposed to be reason- able understand this and if they have baggage or clothing which they wish stored for a long time, they place it un- der the special charge of the manager or one of the clerks and it is securely kept in a locked room which the Liv- ingston has for that purpose. It is un- fair to ask a hotel to assume any greater risk than this. In any-case of loss by accident or theft a guest should give prompt notice so that the hotel proprietor may imme- diately take ste})s to recover the property and thus protect himself as well as. the guest. Such protection is impossible when the owner of the property lost is not even a guest of the hotel at the time and, as in Mr. Rogers’ case, does not know of the loss himself until perhaps several months after it occurred. There is in your editorial at least an implication that the Morton is more lib- eral in such matters than the Living- ston. This | positively deny. I do not believe that Mr. Pantlind, of the Mor- ton House, would make such a claim. He is built on too broad a plan to seek such cheap advertising or to even desire, in the course of honorable competition for business, to obtain an advantage by such methods. I am not aware that I have ever per- sonally had a word with Mr. Rogers on this subject and | can see no reason, from the facts of this case as I have as- certained them, why he can justly have any ill feeling either against the Liv- ingston or myself. If, however, he has such ill feeling, | now challenge him, and if it will make it any stronger, | challenge you, to show that the Morton or any other hotel in Grand Rapids has treated its guests with any more liberal- ity in any respect than has_ the Living- ston during the period it has been under my charge. In the interest of fair play I trust you will publish this in the next issue of the Tradesman. Edwin F. Sweet. Cn Information for Certain Hearers. ‘‘T have noticed,’’ said the Rev. Dr. Goodman, pausing in his discourse, ‘*that two or three of the brethren have looked at their watches several times in the last few minutes. For fear their timepieces may not agree I will say that the correct time is 11:45. I set my watch by the regulator at the jeweler’s last night. The sermon will be over at 12:01. It would have closed promptly at 12 but tor this digression. Let us proceed to consider now what the apostle meant when he said, press toward the mark.’ ”’ a Sensible Suggestion. From the Boston Herald. The most sensible of all the sugges- tions yet made before the Senate Com- mittee that is investigating the adulter- ation of food products has come from Prof. Chittenden, of Yale, who insists that oleomargarine and other like prod- ucts should be labeled and sold for what they are, and a law should be enacted forbidding their sale under any other condition. Why wouldn't this solve the whole difficulty? —+$—~> 0» —.---- To Prevent Windows From Steaming. The most effective remedy for this an- noying condition is the boring of holes along the top of the window frame to provide free ventilation. If this can not be done owing to any peculiarity in the construction of the window frame, a light application of glycerin to the glass after it has been thoroughly polished will usually prevent the condensation of moisture, which gives rise to the steamy condition. Little Robert’s Lesson. Robert is being told by his mamma how to conduct himself in company. ‘If you are asked to have a cake a second time,’’ says mamma, ‘‘answer, ‘No, thank you. I’ve had _ plenty.’ And don’t you forget it !’’ ; What mother could do child? But when the time comes, and Robert is asked to have cake a second time, he answers merely : more for her ‘No, thank you. I’ve had plenty, and don’t you forget it!’’ —_—_—~> 0 ~e—--— —— Never borrow trouble; *Tis a drug at which men scoff, And when you try to pay it back, You cannot work it off. 2. The bunco man has funny ways; He lies in wait for foolish J’s; He takes their X’s and their V’s With gentile grace and greatest ease. ——————— — \ The man who can make other people put up with his eccentricities is called a philosopher. SE a EE. a oo. eR. SE Michigan Fire and Marine Insurance Co. Organized 1881. Detroit, Michigan. Cash Capital, $400,000. Net Surplus, $200,000. Cash Assets, $800,000. D, Witney, Jr., Pres. D. M. Ferry, Vice Pres. F. H. WHITNEY, Secretary. M. W. O’Brikn, Treas. E. J. Boorn, Asst. Sec’y. DIRECTORS. D. Whitney, Jr., D. M. Ferry, F. J. Hecker, M. W. O’Brien, Hoyt Post, Christian Mack, Allan Sheldon, Simon J. Murphy, Wm. L. Smith, A. H. Wilkinson, James Edgar, H. Kirke White, H. FP. Baldwin, Nuvo Scherer, F. A. Schulte, Wm. Vv. Brace, James McMillan, F. E. Drigys, Henry Collins B. 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J REYNOLDS Grand Rapids. market for twenty-five years Although the the quality B.D... LO. LO. LO - L. L. L a. VV VV VSS <_2>__ The Produce Market. Apples—Selected cold storage fruit is meeting with active demand and_ ready sale on the basis of $3.50 per bbl. for Spys and Baldwins and $4 per bbl. for Jonathans and Snows. Beans—Aside from a decline of 2c on the Detroit Board of Trade Tuesday, there has been no particular change during the past week. Beets—-$1 per 3 bu. bbl. Butter—Factory creamery is strong at 25c. Receipts of dairy are liberal and the price is about the same as it was a week ago. Extra fancy readily com- mands 20c, fancy fetching 18c and choice bringing 16c. Cabbage—6oc per doz. Carrots—$1 per 3 bu. bbl. Celery—15c per doz. bunches. Cranberries—Jerseys are in fair de- mand at $6.25@6.50 per bbl. Wiscon- sin Bell and Bugle command ¢7 for standard and $7.50 for fancy. Dressed Poultry—Spring chickens are in strong demand at 8@oc. Fowls are in good demand at 8c. Ducks command o@toc for spring and 8c for old. Geese find a market on the basis of 8@oc_ for young. Old are not wanted at any price. Turkeys are in good demand at 8c for No. 2 and toc for No. 1. Eggs—Receipts are liberal, but the proportion of salted and pickled eggs which the farmers are working into the fresh stock is so large that dealers are compelled to candle all receipts. Candled stock commands 18@Igc. Cold storage stock is finding an outlet on the basis of 17@18c. Game—Rabbits are in fair demand at $1.20 per doz. Squirrels are in strong demand at $1@1.25 per doz. Mallard ducks are in active demand at $4.50@5 per doz. Teal ducks command $2.50@ 2.75 per doz. Common ducks fetch $1.50. Sand snipes bring 75c per doz. and yellow-legged $1.50 per doz. Honey—White clover is scarce at 15@16c., Dark amber and mixed com- mand 13@14c. Nuts—Ohio hickory command $1.25 for large and $1.50 for small. Onions—Spanish are steady at $1.50 per crate and home grown are active and moving at 35c for Red Weatherfields, Yellow Danvers and Yellow Globes and 4oc for Red Globes. Parsnips—$1.25 for 3 bu. bbl. Potatoes—The market is easier, due to the holiday and the warm weather which has prevailed up to the present week. Prices are about the same, based on a_ 30c market at central points like Grand Rapids. Squash—Hubbard commands 1c per pound. Sweet Potatoes—Kiln dried Jerseys are in good demand at $4@4.50 per bbl. Turnips—$1 per bbl. —__>9.>__ Rufus Reynolds has purchased the grocery stock of Julius J. Wagner, at 207 East Bridge street, and will close it out as rapidly as possible. The Boys Behind the Counter. Kalamazoo—W. E. Agnew has _re- signed his position with the Agnew- Mygatt Co. and taken a position with A. C. Wortley, in charge of the cut glass and art pottery department. Mr. Agnew has been with the Agnew-Mygatt Co. for the past ten years. Saginaw—A. E. Wellington has taken a position with the Saginaw Dry Goods Co. Owosso—Morris Southard, for many years clerk for several firms in the hard- ware business, and lastly with Jackson & Son, has taken a position with the Chittenden Hardware Co., of Ashley. Ann Arbor—Fred Knapp, of Owosso, who has been employed as salesman in John Koch's furniture store, has returned home, having taken a position in the furniture store of Knapp & Smith. Benton. Harbor—Harry Pierce, of Charlotte, has taken a position with Enders & Young in their shoe depart- ment. Elsie—George Duncan is clerking for Lusk & Co. Central Lake—Clarence Wells has taken a position in McFarlan’s variety store as clerk. Belding—Will Gregg has taken a po- sition in Holmes Bros.’ clothing store. St. Joseph—Roy H. Force, who for many months past has been the pharma- cist at Ricaby’s drug store, has returned to his home at Rockford. —_——_> > ___ Solid Trains to Northern Michigan, The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway is now running solid trains of palace sleeping cars, dining cars (serv- ing meals a la carte) and first-class day coaches, through from Chicago, to Cai- umet, Houghton, Hancock and other points in the Copper Country without change of cars, with direct connection for Marquette, Negaunee, Ishpeming, etc., and passengers from the East, South and Southwest will find this a most desirable route. All coupon ticket agents sell tickets via the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway. 2 eo Annual Canadian Excursion Via Grand Trunk Railway. For the above excursion the Grand Trunk Railway System will on Dec. 14, 15,16 and 17 seil tickets to points in On- tario, Quebec and New Brunswick at one fare for the round trip, good to re- turn until Jan. 6, 1900. The Grand Trunk Railway System offers first-class train service and the fastest time to most important stations in Canada. Full particulars may be had at Grand Trunk City Ticket Office, Morton House, or at depot. C. A. Justin, C. P. & T. A. —> 20> _-___ Have Had Trouble Enough. From the Jackson Patriot. Jackson merchants have had serious enough experience with advertising fakirs and trading stamp schemes to take warning of the gang headed this way. When they strike Jackson, as they surely will sooner or later, they should be given to understand at once that Jackson merchants are not gullible. No merchant should give the scheme en- couragement. —_—_»0»—___ Burrell Tripp, the Allegan druggist, has been tendered the position of man- ager of the Paris exhibit of the Miama Cycle & Manufacturing Co. He has not yet decided whether he will accept the offer, but is inclined to think he can make more money behind the counter in Allegan than in charge of a bicycle ex- hibit in Paris. ———_>2.___ O. C. Bowker has engaged in the grocery businesss. at Beaverton. The stock was furnished by the Lemon & Wheeler Co. : —_-2.e>__ Hale & Stage have opened a grocery store at Woodville, purchasing their stock of the Musselman Grocer Co. am? 4 < 4 - € * < < < ry _— * ‘ a 4 a Sicteeedaneiet keastenenniioemauhes —» —=_> —» —_ —» —_ NS % 4 -4 \> 2 fos q Oe Fs % MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 13 The People Who Sell Goods at Wholesale Prices. Written for the Tradesman. ‘*] ran into a scheme, the other day, that I admire,’’ said the fat drummer as he located himself on the high stool at the grocer’s desk and lighted a cigar. ‘‘Something new?’’ asked the mer- chant. ‘‘No, I guess it isn’t new,’’ was the reply, ‘‘but this was the first time I ever saw it worked in all its purity. The men who were running the snap were beauts, I want you to know.”’ ‘‘Understood their business, they?’’ ‘*Did they?’’ echoed the drummer, ‘‘I should say so. Say, if the men claim- ing to do up-and-up business worked as hard and exercised their brains as constantly as the people engaged in shady schemes do, there wouldn’t be so many failures. Well, the people I refer to as past grand masters of this lovely scheme were selling groceries at whole- sale prices.’’ ‘*The grocer always does that,’’ said the merchant, with a smile that caused his cheerful face to resemble a Thanks- giving pumpkin. ‘Of course,’’ said the drummer. ‘*Well, these people go through the land and take orders from folks in small vil- lages and in the open country. They represent a Chicago house, and have a long story to tell about cutting out the middle man. That always takes with the farmer, you know, for the honest tiller of the soil has secreted somewhere about his person the notion that the merchants who handle his crops and trust him for goods have no right to exist.’’ ‘*And so they »” own, ’ did start stores of their suggested the grocer. ‘‘And that makes business for the sheriff,’’ added the drummer. ‘‘‘Oh, yes, I have sold goods to two or three hayseed corporations. Well, these sharks offer one or two things mighty cheap, or at figures which would be cheap if the stuff was full weight and wasn’t adulterated. When the staple articles are down they begin on the hundred and one little things which are used in very small quantities in every house, and on which there is an enormous profit.”’ ‘“*My son,’’ said the merchant, with another bland smile, ‘‘there are no lines on which the grocer makes an enormous profit. You have been dream- ing that you were selling hats.’’ ‘“*And when they get to these little things,’’ continued the drummer, ‘‘they simply unload. Yes, indeed. Why, I saw a stack of baking powder in a farm house last week that rivaled the bull in the pasture for size. The purchaser said that he had inside information that bak- ing powder was going up, and that he might sell a little of his supply when it reached the top notch. Half a mile down the road I found the parlor bedroom stuffed full of baking powder. The farmer said that he had inside informa- tion that baking powder was going up out of sight in a few days, and he might sell a little when it got up to the clouds. Over on the other half section I went into a_ house to get a drink of water and found the farmer’s wife pack- ing baking powder away under the hired girl’s bed. She informed me that her husband had received inside informa- tion that baking powder was running short in the country, and that it would soon be beyond the reach of all save the fabulously wealthy. She admitted that they would dispose of a part of their stock when the right time came. A mile nearer the village I met a man witha wagon load of baking powder. He whispered to me that he had received inside information that baking powder was bound to come up, and that he might—’’ The merchant caught hold of the desk to save himself a fall. ‘*Look here,’’ he said, ‘‘ you ought to go into the subscription book business. They learn their lessons by rote, and repeat them just in that way. How many acts are there in this, anyway, and how many years are supposed to elapse between each act?’’ ‘‘T found just nineteen farmers who had bought baking powder for specula- tive purposes,’’ resumed the drummer, with a smile, ‘‘and pepper! And_ gin- ger! And bluing! Say, you ought to see some of the farm houses down in that section. They hold pepper, and ginger, and, bluing, and cheap coffee, and indigo, and condensed lye, and potash, and_ sal soda, and cream tartar, and stove polish enough to last an army a hundred years. And | want to express my admiration for those Chicago chaps right here. They are too good for this earth, and ought to be assisted out of it. I claim to be an average salesman, but I can’t work in the same degree with those fellows. Ill bet the devil my head that they sold a ton of pepper in that one township.”’ ‘‘How do they deliver the goods?"’ asked the merchant. ‘“When they get a carload they send it down and put the car on a side track somewhere. Then the farmers come and get their goods. And here’s the beauty spot in the scheme. The sharks collect cash for their goods and receive the produce of. their customers to sell on commission. Oh, the scheme is worked from the ground up.*‘ ‘‘Well, how much can they make handling farm produce?’’ asked the merchant. There is little enough profit in that.’’ ‘“How much can they make?’’ re- peated the drummer. Why, they make all they receive.’’ ‘* But the farmer—’’ ‘*Oh, the farmer gets his lesson—that’s all he gets.’’ ““You don’t mean to say that the farmer pays cash for his goods and then hands his crops over to these swindlers to sell for him without knowing any- thing about their commercial standing?’’ ‘*That’s just what he does, my dear.’’ The grocer gave a low whistle of amazement. ‘*And the farmer never hears from the swindlers, of course?’’ he finally said. ** Never.’’ “‘And don’t the farmers complain to the Chicago house?’’ ‘“Certainly, but the wholesale dealers have nothing to do with the affair further than to sell the slick men the goods for cash and ship them in car- load lots.’’ ‘I beileve,’’ said the grocer, slowly, like one deep in meditation, ‘‘that I'll go into that business myself. An hon- est man stands no show in this rotten old world at this late date.’’ ‘‘When you get ready,’’ said the drummer, climbing off the stool, ‘‘let me know, and I'll put a little capital in- to the business. ’’ Alfred B. Tozer. —_—_+>2._____ Not Come to Stay. We hear of horseless carriages, Propelled by unseen wing— Also of loveless marriages, Which are not quite the thing. We hear of wireless telegrams, A wonder of our day, But we don’t think armless courtships Will ever come to stay. eee anata SaaS SREP ease asererenn Pisses te reeasonar errr Kangaroo Drivers Veal Cal Men's Veal Calf Shoes The above are all made of very best Write for prices. State. which means a guarantee. GEO. H. REE We carry a full line manufactured by Snedicor & Hathaway Co. Boys’ Oil Grain Creedmors Boys’ Oil Grain Bals We want an agent for this line in every town in the Every pair has their name and trade mark stamped on_ bottom, We are also agents for the Lycoming Rubbers. 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I should like to have had such a one as a companion Monday dur- ing a jaunt through Brooklyn. He would have found himself in a quiet little market, where I awaited an op- portunity to speak to the proprietor—a confidential appearing little chap—-who was bargaining with an old Irishwoman about the price of corned beef. He had told her his price was six cents a pound, ‘Go away wid ye,’’ she ejaculated, ‘*shure you’re only foolin’. Six cents! Be the hivins I can get it anyphware on the avenue fur foive cints'!’’ The butcher looked around him mysteriously. He went to the door and gazed up and down the street, as if to learn if any one was in sight who was likely to enter his market. Evidently satisfied that such was not the case he tiptoed back to the corned-beef box, and putting a finger to his lips, simply said: ‘‘Nota word!’’ Then he stooped down, came up with a piece of meat, placed it on the scale, and coming close to the woman, whispered: ‘‘Don’t tell a soul, Remember it goes no further. You can have this five pounds for 30 cents. | don’t want to argue with a good custom- er about price.’’ ‘‘Not a word,’ re- plied the woman, and laying down 30 cents, she picked up the meat, placed it under her shawl and stole away into the gloaming. oe ae | ae Two blocks further up the same ave- nue I got into an interesting debate with another butcher, and when our discus- sion was at its height, a butcher from across the street entered. ‘‘Ike,’’ he said, ‘‘I want a turkey. Got an order for one and can't go to market yet. Got one for me?’’ ‘‘Shure,’’ said Ike, “take your pick."’ There were three hanging in the window. One was white and plump. The others were not what a fastidious person would desire, so of course the best one was selected and placed on the scale. While the purchas- ing butcher went to the cashier’s desk to pay, Ike put the turkey back on the hook, and quickly dropped one of the inferior birds in a bag, which he handed to his neighbor. When he had gone Ike laughed so loudly that a plate of livers appeared to be doing ragtime. ‘‘He’s the slickest man in the business, you know,’’ explained Ike, ‘‘and brags that the man who can do him is not yet born.’’ My last week's essay on the art of doing tricks with cleavers has brought trouble upon my innocent head. Read this and sympathize with me: _ My Dear Stroller—I have read with Interest your piece about theatrical ma- terial lying loose in meat markets, and wish to say my place is more like a cir- cus just now than anything else. Cleav- ers are flying through the air, not only to the risk of life, but to the risk of damaging everything in sight, and every order for chopped meat almost produces a riot. The clerks fight for the privilege of doing the chopping, and the one who wins gives weird and nerve-testing bangs and clangs with the tools. You, dear sir, are responsible for this, be- cause of your description of a perform- ance with the cleavers by an old man. We already have enough trouble in this business without dodging flying cleav- ers. If this thing continues we will all have to take out accident _ policies. While the article is interesting, it doesn’t—well, you know. Don’t do it again, and oblige. Dollars to doughnuts this man _ is practicing cleaver tricks on the quiet. Suppose his clerks do become experts at clever imitations, what then? Why, his will be the most popular shop in his neighborhood, and his chopped-beef trade (a profitable article, by the way), will boom with a mighty boom. Let them cleave the air to their hearts’ con- tent. If he is afraid let him crawl into his safe.—Stroller in Butchers’ Advo- cate. EE i Woman in Horse Meat Business. Chicago horse meat dealers report that there is a big demand for that article at this time. The most extensive dealer there is a woman, who says of the busi- ness: ‘'I have been dealing in broken- down horses for the last five years and always find a ready sale for them, Per- sons notify me that they have a horse which they want to dispose of and I call upon them. Sometimes | pay them $1, sometimes $2 and sometimes as high as $5 for an animal. But the $5 ones I do not sell to the slaughter-house man, be- cause | Can generally fatten them up and dispose of them for as high as $10 and $20. The cheaper animals I| drive fifteen miles into the country and sell them to the slaughterer for $3 a head. It makes no difference whether the animal is old or young, plug or thoroughbred, that’s all the slaughter-house man_ will pay me. And they doa big business, too. Sometimes I have seen as many as 125 horses driven in there in a day.’’ Most of the meat, she Says, iS exported. Bay City, Dec. 4—The Retail Meat Dealers’ Association has unanimously adopted the following resolution : Resolved—That inasmuch as the wholesale houses have served us with a notice that we must pay for all meats vurchased from them on the Monday following sale: that unless we do so no longer credit will be given us; this we heartily approve of, but go thou and do likewise ; therefore be it further Resolved—That in order for us to meet the demands asked of us it will become necessary for us to ask all our customers to promptly pay their bills on the first of each month, as we. think 30 days’ credit is all you should ask of us after we are compelled to pay cash for our purchases. Any neglect on the part of customers to pay their bills promptly will meet with a prompt refusal to give further credit. a Steer Fattened on Wire. When dressing a steer at the IC: Cross slaughter house southeast of Salem, Ore,,the butchers were consider- ably astonished to find imbedded in the wall of the animal’s heart a piece of wire, presumably baling wire, about three inches in length, which had prob- ably been taken with the food and passed through the animal’s digestive organs, finally lodging against the heart, where it became attached, and, when found, was almost covered by a fatty growth. : Old Enough to Be Good. “Don’t you want the water of your well analyzed?’’ asked the traveling agent of the chemical company. ‘‘What fur?’’ enquired the hale old farmer sitting on the front porch. ‘“To know whether it is pure and wholesome or not.’’ ‘IT reckon not. If there’s anything the matter of it, mister, I’d ruther not know it.”’ ' How long have you been using it?’’ ‘* Eighty-seven years. ’’ The traveling agent passed on, RICE % MATHESON Wholesale dealers in OYSTERS, FRUITS, NUTS, ETC. 20 AND We are headquarters in Western Michigan for California Oranges. 22 OTTAWA ST., GRAND RAPIDS IF $OOSOOSNS) }$ OOO44444 64444445454 Nw YOO PIGGOD 9 GOOG OOOS BG OOOO OOOO QOoOGAL444 et OOO 24444444 ESTABLISHED 22 YEARS, : YOU ARE SHIPPING | POULTRY to Buffalo, N. Y., why not ship to headquarters, where you are sure of prompt sales at highest prices and prompt remittances always. That means us. POTTER & WILLIAMS 144, 146, 148 MICHIGAN ST., BUFFALO, N. Y. .OYSTERS.. IN CANS AND BULK. F. J. DETTENTHALER, Grand Rapids, Mich. BUTTER EGGS BEANS Wanted on commission. sent p fer we tations. Returns If you pre- Write for quo- Refer, by permission, to Shipments sold on arrival. romptly. Full market values guaranteed. will name you price f. o. b. your station. We want your business, Grand Rapids National Bank. 38 S. DIVISION ST., STROUP & CARMER, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. PEPELELELELEEELELELEEEEEEEEEEEEEE$$6446666660000608 WA NTED ? 36 Market RS BUTTER AND EGGS Street. We are always in the market for Fresh : R. HIRT, JR., Detroit, Mich. . a FSTT FSTSVSSSST SST ITSsITTTs FFTFTSSSTSSITI TIS Highest Market Prices Paid. Regular Shipments Solicited. 98 South Division Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. La ae Rw s ! O99 90000000 $0000000000000000000000000000000003 | ee es ae La ay MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 1 On Fruits and Produce. Observations by a Gotham Egg Man. The fruits of excessive cold storage operations in eggs last spring and sum- mer are now being reaped, and a.large part of the harvest is found to be “‘gall and wormwood,’’ | have never seen so irregular a market for refrigerator eggs as we have lately experienced. There is of course a wide range in the quality of the stock, and the proportion of or- dinary and inferior grades is larger than usual owing to the fact that so many were put away during warm weather; this naturally causes a wide range in selling prices, but there appears also to be a wide variation in prices for equal qualities also, depending on the whim of the buyer and the nerve of the seller. oe) ek Dealers who have a good class of trade and who get full prices for their eggs based on the value of fresh gathered can make pretty big profits by working refrigerators out for fresh; but when they do this they want the very fanciest of stock they can get and some of them have not hesitated to pay pretty full prices for occasional lots of especially fine April packings. Several marks of such have been taken at 17c, and in rare instances even a shade higher. But the possibility of selling any refrigera- tors at that price has been limited by the wants of comparatively few dealers ; some holders of fancy goods have been willing to hold their price steady on such, and be satisfied with moving such quantities as these fastidious buyers would take; others have had so many as to feel compelled to force a faster move- ment and have cut prices right and left. It is probable that some of the spring goods obtained at I6c or even 15 4c are very nearly if not quite as goo@ as any stock coming out in original pack- ages. On a very large part of the re- frigerator holdings the market has had almost a demoralized appearance, many of the largest holders, both here and in the West, showing a disposition to ac cept any reasonable bid. Ge oe ee The outlook, especially for the mass of summer packings, is gloomy. We are approaching the season when the natural tendency is toward increased produc- tion. The maturing of the ’99 pullets makes a great increase in the egg laying machinery of the country, which can only be debarred from activity by real winter weather. The low prices at which stock can now be bought are_ re- sulting in a very large movement and some holders of really fine goods are expressing confidence that all such will be wanted at fair prices, but every week that winter holds off now adds a deeper shade of blue to the prospect for the held goods in general. It is of course within the range of possibility that weather conditions might yet become bad enough to help out on the wind up, but the chances of this are not very en- couraging. One thing which has added _ seriously to the demoralization of our market for average qualities is the presence of a number of Western egg holders who have been drumming the trade in per- son. Nothing could have a more unfa- vorable effect than the efforts of these strangers to force their goods upon the local jobbing trade direct. It certainly reacts unfavorably upon the welfare of the owners themselves. A little thought will convince anyone of the justice of this criticism; there is no way to make ‘*a silk purse out of a sow’s ear,’’ but a bad matter may easily be made worse, and there is no surer way than to have the buyers constantly drummed to buy goods from cutside and unusual sources. If the goods were forced out through customary channels the effect would not be so demoralizing.—-N. Y. Produce Review. > es Proposed Lobster Combine. It is reported that a combination has been formed by the wholesale lobster dealers of Portland for the purpose of controlling the live and boiled lobster trade, and for a uniform price. A meet- ing of nearly all the large dealers has been held, and it was agreed to pay smackmen who buy them from the fish- ermen, I! cents apiece for the lobsters. The dealers believe that their stand will have a good effect on the market in other cities, besides giving the fish- ermen a uniform price of about nine cents apiece for their catch. a Calls the Criticism Caustic. From the Topeka Merehants’ Journal. The premium stamp epidemic is now prevalent in most of the cities of Mich- igan. Grand Rapids is the latest town to be moved upon by the ‘‘enemy’’ and its arrival has stirred up Editor Stowe of the Tradesman. He goes after the stamp men and the merchants who have signed contracts, in an article in the last issue of his journal, entitled ‘*Co- operation or Demoralization?’’ It is so good, caustic and truthful that we re- produce it in another column. hich tn denis Goods Area daily necessity, and used by all business firms and ought to be made out in “‘duplic ate, the copy retained on file, to ** cheek off” invoice re- ceived. We make the Self Copying kind, _ ard Size, 6x8 inehes, copy attached, $3 per Remittance Bianks hiust be used where discounts are taken, or other deductions made for freight, express, ete. We make the Self Copying kind, Standard Size, 5'ox sinehes, copy attached. $3 per M. You attach ‘copy ” to invoices paid until receipt is returned. Self Copving Note neads About 6x9 in., copying sheet attached, $3 per M. Inked Sheets for copying, 25 cents per dozen. New (patent) Rauholders, furnished free of charge, to hold paper and secure copy while using our print. Order the regular assortment of 5,000 and have them all printed to your order, as follows: 1,000 Order Bl: —_ copy attached.. 2,000 Remittance Blanks, copy attached .. 2,000 Note Heads, copy attached ........... 4 doz. sheets copying ink paper for copies. Three Rauholders (loaned) free of charge, which insures the Eligraph Copies. Send a printed card if wanted * to order,” and order at once (as 1900 is near by) only of L. A. ELY, Alma, Mich. Manufacturers, Attention! FOR SALE: U.S. Playing Card Co.’s Factory, Cincinnati, Ohio. 219 feet front by 70 feet deep on Eggleston Ave., Sixth and Lock Sts., on Pennsylvania R.R. tracks, with splendid Six-story Brick and Stone Build- ing. The largest and most completely equipped Manufacturing Property now offered in Cinecin- nati. For Plats, Description and Full Details address Wm. V. Ebersole & Co., Agents, 240 East Fourth St., Cincinnati, 0. EALS. TAMPS, TENCILS. IGN MARKERS Enameled Letters, Rubber Type, etc. THORPE MANUFACTURING CO. 50 Woodward Ave., Detroit. Please mention Tradesman, Delve adalat ehlutvalublvaldidela elated a leave widulalvleWdu'uve luv Witella'e Wiehe ualiyle Redemeyer=Hollister Commission Co., ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, General Commission Merchants. We have secured the United States contract to furnish Government sup- plies for Cuba for one year and must have 100,000 bushels of apples, onions and potatoes. Shipments and correspondence solicited. AAARAAARAAARAAAARAARAAAR, 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. wre Le SpA EARLE 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 of It. We Handle Mexican Oranges We are now receiving fruit daily from SONORA, Mexico. This fruit is fine quality and strictly sound, is packed in California boxes, sizes good. We quote $3.25 delive red in ear lots. Write for size lists. Cars always rolling. MILLER & TEASDALE CO., - ST. LOUIS, MO. Receivers and Distributers of Fruits and Produce in ear lots. Beans and Potatoes Wanted Wire, ’phone or write us what you have to offer. Mail us your orders for Oranges, Nuts, Figs, Dates, Apples. Cider, Onions, etc. The best of every- thing for your Christmas trade at close prices. The Vinkemulder Company, Grand Rapids, Mich. Hanselman’s Fine Chocolates Name stamped on each piece of the genuine. dealer can afford to be without them. No up-to-date Hanselman Candy Co. Kalamazoo, Mich. SE SE A I. AI A RN NaN ON NON IN OTN NU NN ueen ake It pays every grocer to handle only goods of merit. QureN FiLake BAKING Powber is pure and wholesome, is the on the quality considered, | | | | | cheapest, he and is not manufactured or | controlled by a trust. Send your order direct to the man- | ufacturers. NORTHROP, aking ROBERTSON owder | & CARRIER, | | LANSING, MICH. BO SS S HRS SS SoS Sew SE aR ee. a TE . quotations. 16 MICHIGAN. TRADESMAN GOTHAM GOSSIP. News From the Metropolis—Index to the Market. Special Correspondence. New York, Dec. 2—With Thanksgiv- ing coming on Thursday, we can really count on about three days of business, as Saturday anyway is a half holiday. The first three days of the week were busy ones and the holiday was a good one for sugar and spice and all that’s nice. Jobbers have had an excellent trade all the season and December sees them working like beavers to keep up with the orders which are literally pouring in from every direction. The coffee market shows an easier tone, and some falling off, both in spot coffee and the speculative article, has taken place. Advices from Europe have not been specially encouraging and, while the price may again go up and up and up, it is certainly more reasonable to expect it to remain about where it is now. Neither jobbers nor roasters manifest much anxiety over the situa- tion and the demand generally has been of an everyday character. In store and afloat the stock aggregates 1, 177, 823 bags, against 1,010,440 bags at the same time last year. Mild grades, while not especially active, are strongly held and dealers will make no concéssion from Good Cucuta is worth gsc. East India sorts are steady. A fairy story reached here from Chi- cago to the effect that the Arbuckle fac- tory was to be taken in by the trust and the whole yarn was bristling with figures to show just what the deal meant. No stock was taken in the narrative here and a broker who is well in touch with the Arbuckles said it was a ridiculous canard. No possible benefit, he said, could come to Arbuckle by such a deal and, as Arbuckle is worth at least $20,000,000, he will try to keep the wolf from the door and even the Lion. New orders during the week have been few and the market remains practically un- changed. Orders are mostly for sorting upon broken stocks. Some soft grades are shaded 1-16c. The volume of tea business going for- ward is fairly satisfactory. While more might be done, it could hardly be ex- pected at this time when the holiday trade occupies so much attention, Quo- tations are well sustained and the out- look is favorable for the future. Quietude prevails in the rice trade, yet matters might be worse. It is owing to the holiday trade, of course, which is looking after everything but staples and devoting itself to the fancy articles. The fancy qualities of ricé are well held, and for that matter prices on the general run of goods are firm. All that is wanted is more buyers. Spices are firm. The pepper market adds greater strength every week and the situation generally is full of encour- agement. The demand is good for gin- ger and nutmegs, although no advance is shown. New crop. molasses _ is developing great strength and the market generally is in good shape. Supplies are not over- abundant and the prospects for the im- mediate future are very gratifying to holders. Best quality of molasses, new, will bring up to 4s¢ for open-kettle. Syrups are in light supply, with a good enquiry, and the market closes very firm. Quotations are unchanged. No canned goods are in first hands and few are to be found anywhere. The market is more closely sold up than at any time in the history of the trade. Brokers and commission men both state this to be true, and it seems to be a well-established fact. Next year one item worthy of the packer’s attention will be the increased cost of labels, and this will be no small matter if we may judge from present appearances, Cans are higher, and labor has been advanced, so the packer who is selling futures on present prices is taking mighty big chances. Such lots of New York corn as can be picked up are taken at 8o0c and even up to $1, the latter for fancy stock. The dried fruit market is generally firm and the demand is becoming better with every day. Raisins are closely sold up and prices are very firmly adhered to, quite plentiful. has been made as to the quality of fruit arriving and the market is in hardly as satisfactory condition as last week. Re- packed are worth $6.50@8.50 per barrel. Florida oranges are steady, but there is not the vim to trade that might be ex- pected. ly and at the rate they are going the supply will soon be greater than the market can take care of. lighter than expected, but the market, nevertheless, seems to be quite well sup- plied, and, as the demand is moderate, the quotations of last week have not been advanced in an appreciable man- ner, although the tone is rather stronger. about top notch. Oranges from Jamaica are becoming Considerable complaint Lemons are moving very slow- Arrivals of butter have been rather plein datianreeNnte iN | THE DEMANDS For everything in the line of Feed will be very We will be fully prices. large during fall and winter. prepared to fill all orders promptly and at right Write us. MUSKEGON MILLING Co. NAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIAAAAAAAARARAAARAARAAAAAAARAAARAAAAAAAR MUSKEGON, MICH. AAAAARARAAAAAAAR AAARARARARARARAAARAAAR | t ‘6 99 ita LIKE MOTHER USED 10 MAKE Cheese is much firmer and, with stronger cables, the market this week shows decided improvement. flow of eggs almost greater than can be taken care of, especially as a good share of arrivals is not all they should be. For really desirable goods, fresh gathered Western will fetch 23@24c. For fairly good about 20c seems to be top. ; small stocks and few on the way, hold- ers insist on full quotations. Pea beans, $2@2.05 ; medium, steady, $2.05@2. 10. The warm weather has caused an in- Trading in beans is quiet, but, with ? *y , Ceeeecececececcecececcee’” Pure Apple Jelly Put up in glasses by VALLEY GITY SYRUP GO., Grand Rapids, Mich. ood Pancakes : are made from : v Puré Buckwheat Flour manufactured by : JH. Prout & Co.. Howard Clly, Mich. ¥ Write them also for special prices on z Feed and Millstuffs in car lots. I. GEO. E. ELLIS 98 MONROE ST., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. _COMMISSION BROKERAGE TELEPHONE 432 STOCKS, BONDS AND CRAIN Persons desiring to invest in stocks or grain should consider these four facts: Customers are furnished free the privilege of tele wires for any information about stocks, bonds, cotton, grain or provisions. for less than 15 days. No charge is made for revenue stamps. Interest on stocks and bonds carried on m Commission on grain is $1 per thousand bushels. phoning or telegraphing over my private argin is 5 per cent., but no interest charge is made Nutty We have been unable to de- tect any nutty flavor in our buckwheat, but we DO de- tect that genuine old-fash- ioned buckwheat taste we were all familiar with as boys. That same delicious, indescribable flavor which made us want to eat a dozen more after we knew we had enough, is in our buckwheat this winter. If your customers like GENUINE PURE BUCK- WHEAT FLOUR without any frills or other things mixed with it, you can get it of us. We guarantee it. Valley City Milling Co. Grand Rapids, Mich. GRATEFUL Sold in Half-Pound Tins Only. JAMES EPPS & CO., Ltd., Homeopathic Chemists, London, BREAKFAST COI EI’ I'Ia a COMFORTING Distinguished Everywhere for Delicacy of Flavor, Superior Quality and Nutritive Properties. Specially Grateful and Comforting to the Nervous and Dyspeptic. Prepared by England. SUPPER Epps’ oe... ’e LIL. LOL. LL.M. LM. Pps ee cnn | Se Cocoa | be Sta PUI as ee ih saggy th ngs ~ BORAT) gy cs wakes A AG Ee calito: wr - a sea pi | = |} FANAAAAAAAN AAA | d ad set ee ih saggy SREB mS th ngs - A OE a ee - ~ ee, pi 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 Secretary, G. S. VALMORE, Detroit; Grand Treasurer, W. S. MEstT, Jackson. Grand Rapids Council No. 131 Senior Counselor, E. KEYEs; Secretary- Treasurer, L. F. Baker. Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Mutual Accident Association President, J. BOYD PANTLIND, Grand Rapids; Secretary and Treasurer, GEO. F. OWEN, Grand Rapids. Gripsack Brigade. Henry Ghysels, assistant city sales- man for the Ball-Barnhart-Putman Co. has taken the same position for the Worden Grocer Co. Three members of the Michigan Knights of the Grip have announced themselves as candidates for Secretary, subject to the approval of the Bay City convention—J. W. Schram, of Detroit, and R. S. Richards and M. A. Sheay, of Bay City. It is reported that A. C. Windt, of Jackson, will also go before the convention as a candidate for the same office, but the Tradesman has re- ceived no authentic information on this point. Geo. Rysdale, formerly with B. J. Reynolds, has engaged to travel for the cigar department of Phelps, Brace & Co., covering the Grand Rapids trade, the Grand Trunk from Lowell to Grand Haven, the Muskegon branch of the G. R. & I. and the C. & W. M. from Grand Rapids to Holland, terminals in- cluded. George is a base ball crank of the first water and has about as much in- formation concerning base ball affairs stowed away in his cranium as any man in the State. The two proposed amendments to the constitution of the Michigan Knights of the Grip are certainly entitled to the consideration of the members. One is offered by J. W. Schram, providing for the admission of traveling men as members who travel in Michigan, as well as those who actually reside in the State. It is Mr. Schram’s experience that many traveling men who reside in Ohio and Indiana but travel in Michi- gan would like to identify themselves with the organization, and it is to reach this class that he proposed the amend- ment stated. Geo. F. Owen suggests that death claims be passed upon by the President, Secretary and Treasurer, in- stead of by the full Board, as at pres- ent. This would facilitate the payment of claims very materially, instead of holding them up for the quarterly meet- ings of the Board. Inasmuch as the passing on the claims is a mere matter of form, where there is no contest and no question as to the responsibility of the Association, the amendment would appear to be along the line of simplify- ing the work of the Association and in- creasing its usefulness. —__>_2 >. ____ Mileage Book Decision Based on Equity. The traveling public will be interested in a suit recently decided in Milwaukee in which a man’s mileage book was taken up and in which plaintiff sued the company for damages. The plain- tiff, H. A. Poggenberg, brought suit for $5,000 damages because Conductor J. J. Leahy took up his mileage book and threatened to put him off the train. After hearing the testimony Judge Lud- wig,of Milwaukee, directed a verdict for the defendant. The plaintiff is a traveling man, He stepped aboard the train at West Bend to go to Fond du Lac. He had a mile- age book which he signed before the conductor reached him. The conductor asked him to sign again and he refused, whereupon the conductor took up the book and the plaintiff left the train at Fond du Lac and brought the suit. It was shown by the defense that the plaintiff in signing the book entered in- to an agreement with the company of which the following was a part. ‘‘ This ticket is good for the passage of the original purchaser only, whose name and description appears on cover thereof and whose signature hereto has been affixed in ink in presence of the issuing agent and whose identity must be estab- lished by signature in the presence of conductor on back of mileage strip close to the top and by other means if re- quired before detachment is made.’’ The railroad held that when the plain- tiff failed to comply with the contract the mileage book became void. Cis Second Candidate for Secretary From Bay City. Bay City, Dec. 5—M. A. Sheay, of Post D, has entered the race for State Secretary of the order. He is one of the boys well known throughout the Val- ley and State as a man of sterling worth and integrity, well qualified for the position and whose character and good qualities will insure a support sufficient to give Bay City and to Mr. Sheay the State Secretaryship. Mr. Sheay is a native of Ohio and served his country in the war of the Re- bellion. He is a member of the G. A. R. in this city and an old and tried knight of the grip. He has been em- ployed as traveling salesman for the Whitney-Plum. Baking Co. and its suc- cessors for the past eighteen years. The position of State Secretary is a very important one and Mr. Sheay is a man who has often been tried and never denied, and if elected to the office will serve with credit to himself and honor to the fraternity. Mr. Sheay will undoubt- edly receive the unanimous support of the Saginaw Valley. D. U. Morton. a Making Sure of Him. ‘‘If you were going to propose toa girl,’’ she said, as the conversation lagged somewhat, ‘‘how would you go about it?’’ ‘‘T haven't given the matter much thought,’’ he replied, ‘‘but I am in- clined to think that I would get down on one knee, like this.’’ Tessa: ‘‘And then I would take her hand, like this.’”’ 1 Nes. ‘*And then I would say: will you be mine?’ ”’ ‘*Oh, George,’’ she exclaimed, ‘‘this is so sudden, but—but—yes, I will.’’ And all the way home that evening he kept wondering how it happened and whether he was quite as smart as he sometimes thought he was. ——_ —e 2-2. Let There Be a Hearty Response. Grand Rapids, Dec. 5—Please give notice in the Tradesman that there will be a meeting of the Michigan Knights of the Grip at Sweet’s Hotel, Saturday ‘Darling, evening, December 9, for the purpose. of making arrangements to attend the annual convention to be held at Bay City. Manley Jones, Chairman Post E. —_—--_~>-0 2 Seventy-Six Women Pharmacists in Mich- igan. Ann Arbor, Dec. 4—In making out a new list of all of the registered pharma- cists on record in the State of Michigan at the present date, I find there are sev- enty-six women on the register as phar- macists. A. C. Schumacher, Sec’y. =e A great many dentists grow rich, like Millionaire Evans, in Paris; but many of them lead a regular hand-to-mouth existence. 2-2-2 When presents are made to a man be- cause he is great, a man who has honor in his own country is not without profit. SUCCESSFUL SALESMEN. Detroit’s Candidate Secretary. J. W. Schram, For J. W. Schram was born at Grimsby, Ont., in 1851, and sold agricultural im- plements for Nichols & Walker, of Streetsville, Ont., for five years, from 1872 to 1877. He then accepted a po- sition as traveling salesman for James Popham & Co., boot and shoe dealers of Montreal, covering Ontario, remaining with that house until 1886, when he came to Detroit and engaged with Sned- icor & Hathaway, representing them in Southern Michigan until 1892. He then severed his connection with that house and took a position with the C. E. Smith Shoe Co., which he still holds, traveling in Ohio and Southern Michi- gan. Mr. Schram has been a member of the Knights of the Grip since 1890. He was Secretary of Post C for four years, and when the Post found itself $275 in debt, he was one of the few who put his shoulder to the wheel and stayed by the organization until the indebtedness was liquidated. Two years ago he was elected a Director of the State organiza- tion, and during his term of office he has not omitted attending a _ single meeting. Such a_ record seems to demonstrate the fidelity with which he serves any organization with which he is identified in an official capacity. Mr. Schram owns a cozy home at 609 West Boulevard and has an_ interesting family, consisting of a wife, four sons and three daughters. He enjoys a wide circle of warm and loyal friends, both among the trade and among the boys on the road, and the number is constantly increasing. In response to an enquiry as to wheth- er he proposed to enter the field as a candidate for the Secretaryship, Mr. Schram recently replied as follows: At the request of over one hundred members in good standing of the Mich- igan Knights of the Grip in Detroit and vicinity, and signing requisition advo- cating my candidacy, | have concluded to run for the Secretaryship for the year 1900, at the Bay City convention. My record in local and State affairs is open for inspection. If my efforts have been of any benefit to the organiza- tion in the past I can promise all mem- bers that the future, if elected, will not be of less benefit. The object of my taking the Secretary- ship at this time is to try and ee new life in the Association among the trav- eling men of Detroit, where the loss of members has been the greatest the last four years of any place in the State. My efforts will also be to try and harmonize with all parties and get as many new, as well as delinquent, members into the Association. Detroit, with nearly three thousand traveling men, should have at least five hundred members. I shall try to bring that harmony and enthusiasm back into the Association that prevailed before there were any thoughts of dis- sension between the State and Detroit. Both should be as one and my wide ac- quaintance and experience both in State and local affairs should help to accom- plish this end. —_—_-_> 0. Now He Knows His Coftin Will Fit. J. W. Boyer, of Rock Hall, Md., who recently died at the age of 80, had dis- pelled all possible doubt as to whether his coffin would suit and fit him. An- ticipating an early taking-off, he went several years ago to J. E. Leary & Son’s factory and_ selected heavy timber and had it sawed to make his coffin. When the burial case was finished Mr. Boyer carefully stretched himself out in it to make sure that its dimensions would be all right, and, getting out and yawning with evident satisfaction, he exclaimed: ‘* Ves, that'll do first rate !’’ ee The man who aims to sell to people whom he can not reach personally is the man whose advertising must be the most carefully planned and the most thoroughly executed. He must have a perfect system of following up enquiries. He must never let a man forget him after that man has once shown an inter- est in his proposition. Orders rarely come with the introduction. They are the result of frequent visits. The more frequent the visit the more likelihood of the reception of an order. It works the same way in advertising as it works in selling through salesmen. 2. —_—___ When in Grand Rapids stop at the new Hotel Plaza. First class. Rates, $2. —__+>0 2. There’s one trade combination that is sure to be sat upon—the chair trust. The new WHOLESALE HAT, CAP AND STRAW GOODS HOUSE of G. H. GATES & CO., Detroit, Mich. NOW READY FOR BUSINESS. We havea very large and complete line of all the New Styles, also staple shapes in Fur, Stiff and Wool. Cheapest to the best. Our goods are all new and oright—direct from the factory; we own them right and shall sell them at the right price to you. PRICES GUARANTEED. Send us a trial order. If goods are not satisfactory and price right—return at our « xpense. Have one of our travelers call on you. Give him a chance to show you one of the finest lines you have ever seen. We make « specialty of mail orders. Our acquaintance will be profitable to you we trust. Sincerely yours, G. H. GATES & CO., 143 Jefferson Ave., Detroit, Mich. 18 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Drugs--Chemicals Michigan State Board of Pharmacy Term expires Dec. 31, 1899 Dec. 31, 1900 Dec. 31, 1901 A.C. SCHUMACHER, Ann Arbor - GEO. GUNDRUM, [onia - - L. E. REYNOLDs, St. Joseph - HENRY HEIM, Saginaw - - Dec. 31, 1902 Wirt P. Dory, Detroit - - - Dee. 31, 1903 President, GEO. GUNDRUM, Ionia. Secretary, A. C. SCHUMACHER, Ann Arbor. Treasurer, HENRY HEIM, Saginaw. Examination Sessions Detroit—Jan. 9 and 10. Grand Rapids—Mar. 6 and 7. Star Island—June 25 and 26. Sault Ste. Marie—Aug. 28 and 29. Lansing—Nov. 7 and 8. State Pharmaceutical Association President—O. EBERBACH, Ann Arbor. Secretary—CHAS. F. MANN, Detroit. Treasurer—J. S. BENNETT, Lansing. What Changes Should Be Made in the Coming Pharmacopoeia? That the Pharmacopoeia is not the popular book it should be among phar- macists and physicians is due far more to rapidly changing conditions than to any fault in the book itself, or on the part of those for whom it is intended. To be popular it should be a book of ready reference. If from 1903 to 1913 the pharmacist is likely to have much use for an official formulary, methods of preparation should retain prominence and be elabo- rated to meet, in so far as possible, the growing demand for articles of definite and uniform strength. But it is doubt- ful if, by the time the next revision of the Pharmacopoeia leaves the press, there wili be any appreciable demand, on the part of physicians, for prepara- tions which are not nearly as perfect as the superior facilities of the great labo- ratories of the world can make them. Formulas which do not provide for the greatest possible excellence and uni- formity should not occupy space which might better be devoted to processes for the valuation of manufactured products. Just how the Pharmacopoeia is going to enable the retail druggist to produce physiologically standardized _prepara- tions equal to those offered by the large manufacturer, or certain of the chemic- ally standardized galenicals as cheaply as they can be bought, is a difficult problem to solve. The prescriber will certainly insist on the best. Judging from the relative use to the pharmacist of formulas on the one hand and meth- ods for valuation on the other, it would seem a waste of space to use type for the former, which occupies 50 per cent. more room than that employed for the latter. If we merely consider the prop- ositions involving processes for stand- ardization and assay which have been advanced by the A. Ph. A. Committee of Revision during the last few years, we realize that any space saved can be utilized to the best possible advantage. Standards may well be adopted for certain powdered drugs so that they can be mixed by drug millers to approach a definite content of active principles. This will help toward uniformity, in the case of fluid preparations, but can never afford an alternative for standard- ization as applied to solid extracts, when variation in the yield of extractive largely influences the strength of the finished product. It would seem well, in dealing with drugs for which no standard can be adopted, to recommend that the powder, as marketed, represent a reasonably large quantity of the crude drug, for which a lower limit might be suggested, thus providing for a possibly fair average strength. Whether it. wiil pay the pharmacist even then to make many of his own preparations wil! be for him to determine. Be this as it may, he will still occupy a position of highest responsibility in answering for the qual- ity of what he dispenses. He will be either an expert in making pharmaceu- tical preparations or an adept in assay- ing as seems to him best—perhaps_ both -and always a skilled compounder of prescriptions. The adoption of definite standards upon which manufacturers can unite, whether or not the processes of standard- ization involved are within the scope of the retail druggist’s time and facilities, is, in the writer’s opinion, of greatest importance. No one will benefit more than the dispensing pharmacist from the introduction of such standards. Physi- cians should feel that specification of a particular make is unnecessary in order to secure uniformity in essentials. Medical men may _ naturally refer to the Pharmacopoeia to see what a certain amount of a preparation represents, as based upon active principle or the drug from which the article is made. Meet- ing this requirement alone should in- sure the book a place on every doctor's table. The Pharmacopoeia should be an authoritative guide to the gatherer of medicinal plants, and to the manufac- turing pharmacist, as well as to the dis- penser. The word ‘‘official’’ should mean much all along the line. Concern- ing the introduction of doses into the Pharmacopoeia, we have weighty prec- edents to guide us. The British Pharma- copoeia in response to an ‘‘expressed wish’’ introduced doses in 1867, mak- ing it clear that the quantities given were not binding upon physicians by a statement that they were not ‘‘authori- tatively enjoined by the Council.’’ The same course has been followed in the B. P. revisions of '85 and ’98, with every evidence that both professions were satisfied. In the German Pharma- copoeia the largest single dose and the largest daily dose appear in heavy type throughout the book, the simple provision being made that, when the prescriber wishes to exceed the official dose or when the remedy is to be used as an injection or suppositorv, he is to place an exclamation point after the quantity prescribed. The English cus- tom, supplemented, perhaps, by the German ‘* !’’ (or, better still, by under- scoring, since a hastily written ‘‘!’’ might be mistaken for something else) would seem well adapted to conditions in this country, if the medical men of the committee can agree upon what the official doses shall be. The arrangement of the index of the B. P., ’98, in three columns—(1) name of drug or preparation, (2) dose, and (3) amount of active ingredient repre- sented—-suggests an easy way of meeting in part the ready reference requirement, Anent the introduction of patented synthetics, we again find precedents es- tablished in those strongholds of conser- vatism,. Germany and Great Britain. The word ‘‘patent’’ (open, uncon- cealed) should signify eligibility to pharmacopoeial recognition, providing the article is deserving, upon its merits. Such drugs as_phenacetine, sulphonal, etc., are now important members of the materia medica. If the pharmacist wishes to look up certain characters or tests or refer to the dose, and doesn’t find the information in the Pharmaco- poeia, he is likely to conclude that if the Dispensatory must be constantly at hand he has little use for the Pharmaco- poeia. As well might we try to stay the rising fide as to bar articles of estab- lished value which are daily prescribed by the best physicians. Unquestioned merit and the widest medical indorse- ment should warrant official recogni- tion. It would seem that a short chapter on poisons and antidotes, printed, perhaps, in two colors, would add to the popular- ity of the Pharmacopoeia as a hook of ready reference. Now that we are attaining such ex- cellence and uniformity in galenicals, would it not be well if the Pharmaco- poeia adopted a set of official measuring glasses and a standard medicine drop- per, which would insure the least pos- sible variation when the doctor’s direc- tions call for teaspoon, tablespoon, wine- glass, or so many drops? The unoffi- cial measures, now in general use, are too indefinite to harmonize well with Twentieth Century chemically and phys- iologically standardized ~—_— medicinal fluids. At least let us have the greatest practical extension of the standardiza- tion idea, the admission of doses and the official recognition of such synthetics as have won a probably permanent place in the materia medica.—Seward W. Williams in Bulletin of Pharmacy. —_——_>_2.__ How the Adapter Supplants the Origi- nator. There is something partly pathetic and partly exasperating in the reflection that the vast majority of mankind, on nearly every important subject, get their facts and their opinions wholly at sec- ond hand. Close to the heart of each great problem, whether it be theological or political or scientific or philosophical, a few powerful and unwearied minds are always laboring and watching, for- getful of self, single-minded, devoted to one sublime ideal—the discovery of truth, ¢ost what it may and _ point whither it will. They have no thought of gain, no love of popular applause, no motive save the scholar’s motive, which is, at its highest, so pure and so disinterested as almost to deserve the name of sacred. Whatever knowledge men have gleaned as yet in each respec- tive field is known to them, and they live in serene contentment, and die with a smile of happiness, if they can but feel that by their labor and self- denial the sum of human knowledge has been perceptibly augmented, _ that through their effort a single ray of light has stolen out a little further into the dusk of the Unknown. They seek ab- solutely nothing for themselves, and what they learn is free to all who care to take it from them. There stands about these men a sec- ond class—shrewd, clever, quick-witted and ingenious—having much of the scholar’s knowledge and very little of the scholar’s spirit, with eyes that are turned towards the world at large, which is, in fact, their oyster. What- ever stream of knowledge flows forth from the little sanctuary where the giants of learning smite the rocks of difficulty, these brilliant persons rapid- ly scoop it up into their own shallow vessels and, diluting it with the water of the first roadside puddle, run abroad throughout the world, selling the draught to’ any one who may seek to buy. To drop the figure, it is, in general, only the adapter, the popularizer, the actual dispenser, whom the world at large en- counters ; and it is, therefore, to him that the glory and the praise of the discov- ery are given. Harry Thurston Peck. —_—___»-2+ 2. ____ Too much talk and too little work is responsible for the non-success of many a man. The Drug Market. Opium—Has advanced, on account of higher primary markets. Morphine—Is unchanged. Quinine—The market is steady and manufacturers are firm in their prices and are not offering large parcels. Acetanilid—Is weak and lower, on account of competition. Carbolic Acid—Is very firm at the ad- vance noted last week, on account of very firm markets abroad. Large quan- tities are being used in England for ex- plosives. Cocoa Butter—Is very firm and another advance is expected the latter part of the week. Cod Liver Oil—Is very firm and stead- ily increasing in price. Ergot—Has again advanced and there is very little to be had. Fluid extract manufacturers have advanced _ their price. Manna—Has advanced, on account of small stocks and higher prices abroad. Menthol—Has again advanced and is very firm, with an upward tendency. Sassafras Bark—Continues to harden in price and stocks are very small. Arnica Flowers—Have been advanced and, as stocks are small, higher prices are predicted. Anise Seed-—Is scarce and has been advanced. Russian Hemp Seed—Has declined. Linseed Oil—Further advanced on December 4, on account of higher ‘price for seed. cs Na Wished She Had Let Him Talk. ‘Don’t you dare speak to me, John Henry !’’ she exclaimed as he came _ to the breakfast table. ‘‘You didn’t get back from the club until long after mid- night, and it’s simply disgraceful.”’ He shoved something back into his pocket and held his peace. ‘‘What’s that you’re putting back in your pocket?’’ she demanded. He shook his head. ‘*What is it?’’ she insisted. He took a piece of paper from his pocket and wrote on it: ‘‘f was about to give you $20 for a new bonnet, but money talks, and you say I mustn’t speak to you.’’ And he didn’t. SE E.G a ae. Wall Paper Facts Are you aware that Grand Rapids has one of the fore- most wholesale wall paper houses in the United States? Our trade extends throughout several states. Our assort- ment of wall paper cannot be equalled. We show the cream of 26 different factories. Prices and terms are guaranteed. 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Advanced— i Declined— Acidum Conium Mae......... 35@ 40 — MOO side). @ 50 ae g | Copaiba ............. = in@ 1 25| Tolatam..........-... @ 5 -Aceticum ie — 2 we | Ceeee . ............ 90@ 1 00} Prunus virg......... @ Benzoicum, German. 7 m 75 | | Boracic ns 16 | ee sossece sO E10} Tinctures ee re ‘ 32 | Erigeron soe TOO TOT i ‘ ci Cee a ae jg | Gaultheria - "2 p0@ 2 60 | — NabellsF 6 ia... ee Geranium, ounce... @ 7% — apellis = aa... sw 10} Gossippii, Sem. - . 5o@ 60} ae teers pod Oxdlicam.... 1... 1... 12@ 14| Hedeoma............ 1 70@ 1 75 | oes ant yrrh. pet oe a : = 2 rar > ee; | ARBICA -.0.5. 20.22... 50 Phosphorium, dil... (@ 15 | Junipera «... a a. 50 Sulphuricum -. eens ae vin te ee poet ty “ee mega = —— ee * "90@ 1.00 | Mentha Piper. 1 2H 2 00 a ortex...... = Tartaricum 38@ 40| Mentha Verid.....-. 1 50@ 1 60 | Benzoin 60.2 oe Be ae ' Morrhue, gal. . SRG ta ere ree scala D Ammonia Barosma.. “ 50 a ‘ Reyes 4 = 4 50 | Gantharides .. 75 Aqua, 16 deg......... @ Olive . .... tas. ia 20 deg... oo 6@ 8 | Picis Liquida........ 10m 12/| Capsicum.,........... 50 Carbonas .. ji... «13@~—sO15 | Pieis a, -. : @ 35 . ar Se gai = Chioridum........... 1z@ 14} Rieina. .. 96@ 105| Lardamon Co........ 5 : | CASON. ce. 1 00 Aniline Rosmarini. . ee @ 1 00 Catech 50 : » on | Rosa, ounce......... 6 50@ 8 50 | alec w. oe eae 2 00@ 2 25 Cinechona 50 a a Succini . age as a 7 66. i. = Brown. . See = = Sabing 0 90@ 1 00 — =" eis os. [ ted wo... ee seer eee : aoom Sine ee 2 50@ 7 00 oe a = Souow.._..._........ 2 Sassafras. aa | BB = e oe Basar ts = Baceze Sinaghs, 4 ess., ounce. @ 65 | Cassia Acutifol.... .. Cubeb: po,15 12@ 14 Tiglii .. 1 50@. 1 60 Digitaisen = Subebe......-- yd a r ae Oboes ee Juniperus..........-- 6@ 8| Thy Po. a, 40@ 50 Xanthoxyiam eves W@ 2 Tyme, i a aa . - Fear ¢ Chioridum . 39 Balsamum : siieccaiilaci : “™ | Gentian . grec: = 55@ 60 canes Gentian Co.......... a: a "e 2 10 =f can ie 15@ 18 — Deca tes = in. Canada.. ( 45| Bichromate ....../1) 13@ 15 | Guiaca ammon...... Foretan’ — : Be 45 = amide 10... Ra wy ee _ eee ead. ‘ Carb ..... 12@ ~=©15 | Iodine ae 5 Cortex - Chlorate... “Po. 17719 16@ 18 | Iodine, colorless... S Abies, Canadian..... Cyanide ... so) 4) OD Cassiz.. . 12 | Iodide. : 2 40@ 2 50 | Lobelia .............. 50 Cinehona “Flava. .... 18 | Potassa, Bitart, pure 2m Oe ee es 50 Euonymus atropurp. 30 | Potassa, Bitart, com. @, 15} Nux Vomica.. 50 Myrica Cerifera, po. - ~ ear eee opt... = 10 yo om poet be Prunus V irgini oc 2| Potass Nitras....... 6@ 8 | Opii, comp ore Quillaia, gr’d........ 12 | Prussiate............ 23@ 26} Opii, deodorized..... 1 50 Sassafras ..... po. = . Sulphate po......... 15@ $18 —. Dee leeds = Ulmus...po. 15, gr’ 5 Radix atany. . oe : Rhei. 50 Extractum Aconitum........ nial 20@ 25 Sanguinaria . . 50 Glycyrrhiza Glabra. an = peck : oe 2210 = Serpentaria . . 2 50 Glycyrrhiza, po..... 23@ ANENDSS .-........-. 10@ 2/Stromonium......... 60 eelans. 15 lb. box UW@ 12; Arum ge @ Mi Totean |. 60 Hematox, 1S......-. 3@ 14| Calamus... 20@ 40) Valerian ............ 50 Hiematox, 14S......-. 14@ 15 Gentiana . _ po. 15 12@ =15! Veratrum Veride... 50 Heematox, 4s.....-.. 16@ Glyehrrhiza.. -PV. 15 16@ 18) Zingiber............. 20 Ferru Hydrastis Canaden. o 2 Milcocllaneouk . eg a 15 | Hydrastis Can., po.. @ 7 aay ; Jarbonate Precip... » 42| Hellebore, Alba, PO. 12@ 15| Ether, Spts.Nit.3F 30@ 35 Citrate and Quinia.. 2 z Inula, po.. 1 20 ‘ther, Spts. Nit.4F 3@ 38 Citrate Soluble...... ‘> | Tpeeac, po.. .. 42@ 4 35| Alumen ............. 24@ 3 Ferrocyanidum Sol.. 40 | Tris plox.. “pO. 38 3x 40| Alumen, gro’d..po.7 3@ 4 1 Solut. Chloride. ..... >| Jalapa, pr. lo. 8@ | 30) Ammattow: 01... 0@ 50 Sulphate, com’l..... 2) Maranta, \s........ @ 35 Antimoni, 4@ 5 = go =" - 80 en po... 2@ 2% —_ Poti ss T oa _ Sree ee 75@ 1 00| Antipyrin........... Sulphate, pure...... ©) Bnet eub. 2 " @ 1 2% Antifebrin Lee eas cot @ 2 Flora Rhei, 2PV-. ae THQ, 1 35 — Nitras, 02. ‘ a a AS > ;| Spigelia 3x@ 38} Arsenicum . a coma iecees ha IE S24 = aes uinaria...po. 15 @ 1s | Balm Gilead | Buds.. 38@ 40 Anthemis 2@ 2% g cay ! Matricaria ° 30@ 35 | Serpentaria ......... 40@ 45 — Lae vay ". 1 : : mene iis Senega . 60@ 65 clu Folia : Smilax, officinalis H. @ 40} Calcium Chlor., Ys... Q@ ee —_@ 85! Ferrilod............ @ Bw rarg I @ 6 Cedar -seeeee-- 35@ 45} Bhei Arom.......... @ 50|LiquorPotassArsinit 10@ 12 Cheno ee @ 2 75| Smilax Officinalis... 50@ 60)| Magnesia, Sulph.. 4 3 p oa - Pee ised ou 1 40@ 1 50} Senega .............. @ 050| Magnesia, Sulph, bbl 1% Citronella . . ee, SOG S60; Sete... cL @ 8| Mannia,S. F........ H@ Menthel............. @ 3 40 | Seidlitz Mixture..... Morphia, S., P.& W. 2 20@ 2 45 | Sinapis . Sea eae eS ox St. &. ©. | Sinapis, ‘opt. a aa ad -+. 210@ 2 35) Snuf oe De Moschus Canton... @ 40| Myristica, No. 1..... 65@ = 80 Snuff, Scotch, De Vo's Nux Vomica...po. 15 @ 10 Soda, meres.......,.. Os Sepia... 24@ 30) Soda, Boras, po.. —- Saae, H. & P. | Soda’et Potass Tart. eae @ 1 00| Soda, Carb.......... Pics’ L sy N.N.% gal. Soda, Bi-Carb....... @ 20 | Soda, Ash.........-. Pieis Liq., ,quarts.... @ 1 00 | Soda, Sulphas. Picis Liq., pints. . @ 85} Spts. Cologne........ Pil Hydrarg. .. po. ‘80 @ 0) Spts. Ether Co...... taal Nigra... po. 22 @ 18} Spts. Myrcia Dom.. ag Alba.. oe 35 @ 30) Spts. Vini Rect. bbl. iix Burgun. . @ 7) Spts. Vini Rect. 4bbl Plumbt Acet.. 10@ = 12 | Spts. Vini Rect. 10gal Pulvis Ipecac et Opii 1 30@ 1 50 | Spts. Vini Rect. 5 gal Pyrethrum, boxes H. | eoiek. Crystal... & P. D. Co., doz.. @ 75) Sulphur, Subl....... Pyrethrum, pv...... 24 30) Sulphur, Roll........ eee... ..s... .. fi teers .......... Quinia, 8S. P.& W.. 37@ 42)| Terebenth Venice... Quinia, = German.. 290 39| Theobrome.......... Quins, N. ¥......... |) «Oo Vee .........-.... Rubia Tinctorum.. 12@ ©614| Zinci Sulph......... Saccharum Lactis py 18@ 20 | Oils on | ea 3 50@ 3 60 | Sanguis Draconis.. 40@ 50) Sapo, W.... -- 12@ 14| Whale, winter....... Sapo M.. acouee, Me FD) Dee, ones.......... Sapo Sa @ | terd, No.1.......... 20@ 22) Linseed, pure raw... 51 53 @ 18) Linseed, boiled...... 52 55 @ 30) Neatsfoot, winter str 54 60 | Spirits Turpentine... 56 iy 4 @ Al @ 41 Paints BBL. LB. @ 1 9m, 11. Red Venetian.. 1% 2 @8 2», 28) Ochre, yellow Mars. 1% 2 @ 14%@ 9 Ochre. yellow Ber. 1% 2 @38 3a 5| Putty, commercial... 2% 24@3 34 4} Putty, strictly pure. 2% 24%@3 @ 2 Vermilion, Prime @, 2 60 American . 130 «(5 50@ 55) Vermilion, English. . 70@ 75 @ 200) Green, Paris.. 3%@ 17% @ | Green, Peninsular... 13@ «16 @ i1oo8 e..........-.. 6 @ 6% @ Lees. weite......... 6 @ 3% @ Whiting, white Span @ 7 1 00@ 1 20) W white gilders’.... @ 9 24@Q@ 4 White, Paris, Amer. @100 2%@ 3% | Whiting, Paris, Eng. 8@ 10 cliff .. @ 1 40 2@ 30)U0 niversal P’ repared. 1 00@ 1 15 O@ 52 9 00@16 00 Varnishes T@ 8 No.1 Turp Coach... 1 10@ 1 20 | Extva Tiry.........; 1 60@ 1 70 BBL. GAL.| Coach Body......... 2 75@ 3 00 70 70 | No. 1 Turp Furn..... 1 00@ 1 10 55 65 | Extra Turk Damar.. 1 55@ 1 60 35 40 Jap.Dryer,No.iTurp 70@ 75 + —- ~ + + + + + + + Be 2 Mineral Waters, Liquid Foods, Malt Extracts, Butter Colors, Toilet Waters, Hair Preparations, Inks, Etc. ‘+r t+ + it + lt + + Freezable Goods Grand Rapids, Mich. ele le oo] ee we el ee et +o + +h re + * + ++ + eS © § 4 * § |. §| + + + 4 + me ae ' wees Hazeltine & Perkins a Co. + _ = 4 «| 2. ¢ + a +> + > + 2&2 FF © ¢ Ff + + + * > MICHIGAN TRADESMAN The dealers. those who have our aim to make t “hed credit. rices quoted in this list They are prepared just bef possible to give quotations suitable for a erage prices for average conditions of purchase. Subscribers are e is feature of the greatest poss ore Cash -arnestly request ible use to dealers. are for the trade only, in such quantities as are usuall oing to press and are an accurate index of the lo 1 conditions of purchase, buyers or ROCERY PRICE CURRENT’. y purchased by retail cal market. and those below are given as representing av- those of strong credit usually buy closer than ed to point out any errors or omissions, as it is It is im- AXLE GREASE doz. gross | AMPORS ................55 600} Castor Oil.............60 7 00 | Diamond .............2 50. 4 00 | Frazer’s..... ee oe 75 9 00 | IXL Golden, tin boxes 75 9 00 Mica, tin boxes. ......75 9 00 POAeOR. lt. eS 6 00 BAKING POWDER Absolute % Ib. cans doz.............. 45] i‘, ib. Cams doz... .. 85 | . cams doz.-............ 1 50 | Acme %4 Ib. cans 3 doz... 45 ¥% Tb. cans 3 doz.. 75 1 Ib. cans 1 doz 1 00 a 10 Arctic 6 oz. Eng. Tumblers......... 85 El Purity 4 Ib. cans per doz.......... 75 Y% Ib. cans per doz.......... 1 20 1 Ib. cans per doz.......... 2 00 Home 4 Ib. cans, 4 doz. ecase...... 35 % Ib. cans, 4 doz. cas 55 1 Ib. cans, 2 doz. ease...... 90 \% Ib. cams, 4 doz. case...... 45 % Ib. cans, 4 doz. case...... 85 1 Ib. cans, 2 doz. case...:..1 60 Jersey Cream 1 Ib. cans, per doz... ........ 2 00 9 Oz. Cans, per doz.. 1 25 6 OZ. cans, per doz........... 85 Our Leade ican as A ems 1 50 Peerless Ce ane 85 Queen Flake 3 02Z., 6 dOz. case.............2 70 G@Z.,4dez.case............ 39 9 02., 4 doz. case.............4 80 11b., 2 doz. case.............4 00 57D: ider.ease 9 00 BATH BRICK American......... 7 English........ . Small 3 doz.................. 40 Large, 2 doz...... BROOMS No. 1 Carpet.. 2 aD No. 2 Carpet. 2 No. 3 Carpe oy NO. 2 Carpet... a es Parlor Gem.................2 7 Common Whisk........... 95 Fancy Whisk................1 20 Warehouse................./3 15 . CANDLES Electric Light, 8s..... . 9% Electric Light, 16s. . Paraffine, 6s...... Paraffine, 12s... ieee ae CANNED -GOODS Apples 3 Ib. Standards...... 75 Gallons, standards. . Beans a \ 75@1 30 Red Kidney....... 75@ 85d a 80 ee 85 Blackberries Standards ........... 75 | Blueberries | Standard .............. 85 | Cherries Red Standards........ 85 | eee 115} Corn en ash 75 | Se ees 85 ee 95 | Hominy Standard............. 85 | Lobster tar, 69D... 1 85 Ae ee 3 10 Pienic Talls........ ie 2 25 Mackerel Mustard, 1Ib........ 1 75 Mustard, 21b........ 2 80 Soused, 1 1b......... 1 75 Soused, 2 Ib......... 2 80 Tomato, 1Ib......... 1 75 Tomato, 2Ib......... 2 80 Mushrooms Somes 14@16 Buttons...) 2-0 ss 20@25 Oysters OCeve,tib... 85 ove; 21 Peaches 1 25 @1 65 70 80 Marrowfat .......... 1 00 Early June.......... 1 00 Early June Sifted. . 1 60 Pineapple ore 1 25@2 75 peeed - 1 35@2 25 Pumpkin ae ee 65 Good ..... : 75 Haney... 85 Raspberries Standard............. 90 Salmon : Red Alaska.......... 1 35 Pink Alaska... ., a 95 Sardines Domestic, 4s........ @A Domestic, Mustard. @8 French. 8@22 Strawberries Standard ............ 85 Mame 1B Succotash Pe 90 OGG 1 00 wamey 1 20 Tomatoes ae 80 O08 ee 90 Raney. 115 Galions......: |... 2 3 CATSUP Columbia, pints.............2 00 Columbia, % pints..... 2.2.1.1 95 CHEESE Bee @14 Amboy @13% Elsie ... @15 Smblem. @14 eet @15 Gold Medal.......... @14 eat eee @14 i @13% Riverside... |. @14% Back @12 Edam.......... @70 Leiden ........ @17 Limburger..... @13 Pineapple... 50 @75 Sap Sago..... @17 CHICORY Bek 5 ed ee - CHOCOLATE Walter Baker & Co.'s. German SwWeCb es Preminm 9 oe Breakfast Cocoa..... 211.227! 46 CIGARS | The Bradley Cigar Co.’s Brands mMiwanes --$35 00 meragtey) 0 ee ae Clear Havana Pufis..... |) 99 00 eS a eae 00 ieee ee 00 Columbian Cigar Co’s brand. Columbian ................. 35 Columbian Special... || 7" 65 00 Detroit Cigar Mfg. Co.’s Brands Groen Seat. $55 00 Green Seal Boquet..... | 60 00 Green Seal Regalia..._ 117" @5 00 Maceo’s Dream.........7) 35 00 mispacen 33 00 DO Name 2 00 Medal de Reina....... 117" 28 00 H. & P. Drug Co.’s brands. Fortune Teller............ 35 00 Our Manager....._ - 35 00 Quintette...... 05007 - 35 00 G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s brand. Cc DS BOs Wee ein Phelps, Brace & Co.’s Brands. Royal Tigers. . 55@ 80 00 Royal Tigerettes.... ..35 Vincente Portuondo ..35@ 70 00 Ruhe Bros. Co......... 25@ 70 00 Hilson Co.............35@110 00 T. J. Dunn & Co....... 35@ 70 00 McCoy & Co...........35@ 70 00 The Collins Cigar Co..10@ 35 00 Brown Bros...........15@ 70 00 Bernard Stahl Co...... 35@ 90 00 Banner Cigar Co...... 10@ 35 00 Seidenberg & Co...... 55@125 00 Fulton Cigar Co......10@ 35 00 A. B. Ballard & Co....35@175 00 E. M. Schwarz & Co. ..35@110 00 San Telmo.............35@ 70 00 Havana Cigar Co...... 18@ 35 00 C. Costello & Co....... 35@ 70 00 LaGora-Fee Co....... 35@ 70 00 S. I. Davis & Co. .... ..35@185 00 Hene & Co... .... -.-. 35@ 90 00 Benedict & Co... ...7.50@ 70 00 Hemmeter Cigar Co .357 70 00 G.J. Johnson Cigar Co.35@ 70 00 Maurice Sanborn .... 50a Bock & Co.............65@300 00 Manuel Garcia........ 80@375 00 Neuva Mundo......... 85@175 00 Henry Clay... 2... 850 550 00 La Carolina ........... CLOTHES LINES Cotton, 40 ft. per doz........1 Cotton, 50 ft. per doz........ 1 Cotton, 60 ft. per doz........1 Cotton, 70 ft. per doz........1 Cotton, 80 ft. per doz........ 1 Jute, 60 ft. per doz.......... 80 Jute, 72 ft. per doz......... 95 COFFEE Roasted te HIGH GRADE. FEES Special Combination........ 20 French Breakfast........._. 25 Lenox ....... Rege 200 ib. barrels ............... Peas Green, Wisconsin, bu.......1 35 xreen, Scotch, bu........... 1 40 aR 3 Rolled Oats Rolled Avena, bbl.......... Steel Cut, % bbls............2 7 Monareh, bbl... 4 60 Monarch, '% bbl............. 2 = 9) Monarch, 90 Ib. sacks....... 2 Quaker, cases...............3 20 Huron, cases............... 2 00 Sago German... ..... 0... _ « Bust Mdgia 3% Salus Breakfast Food F. A. MeKenzie, Quincy, Mich. 36 two pound packages .... 3 60 18 two pound packages .... 1 85 Battle Creek Crackers. Gem Oatmeal Biscuit.. 74@ 8 Lemon Biscuit ........ T%@ 8 New Era Butters. .,... 6% Whole Wheat... ...... 6% Cereola, 48 1-Ib. pkgs.. 4 00 Tapioca PA ee eA ee Pearl, 241 1b. packages... 6% heat Cracked, bulk............... 3% 24 2 tb. packages ............2 50 FLAVORING EXTRACTS DeBoe’s 2 02. 402. Vanilla D. C........ 110 1 80 Lemon D.C ...... 70 1 35 Vanilla Tonka...... 75 1 45 Jennings’ D. C. Vanilla D. C. Lemon 2 OZ. 1 20 20S 3. 2 75 3 OZ...... 1 50 30Z......1 00 207... 2 00 40Z......1 40 G oz... .. 3 00 6 0z.. 2 00 No. 8....4 00 No. 8....2 40 No. 10....6 00 No. 10....4 00 No. 2 T..1 25 No.2T.. 80 No.3 T..2 00 No. 3 T..1 25 No. 4 T..2 40 No. 4 T..1 50 Northrop Brand Lem. Van. 20z. Taper Panel.... 7 12 202, Ova. 75 1 20 3 0z. Taper Panel... ..1 35 2 00 40z. Taper Panel....160 2 5 Perrigo’s Van. Lem. doz. doz XXX, 2 oz. obert....1 25 a XXX, 4 02. taper....2 25 1 2 XX, 2 0z. obert...... 1 00 No. 2,202. obert .... 75 XXX D D ptehr, 6 0z 2 25 XXX D D ptehr, 40z 1 75 K. P. pitcher, 6 02... 2 25 FLY PAPER Perrigo’s Lightning, gro... Petrolatum, per doz.......... 75 GUNPOWDER Rifle—Dupont’s ‘ Bere Malt Megs 2 Quarter Kegs ...... oe 21D. cans .- 3.5: late oe). Cans oo Choke Bore—Dupont’s Mere eg on Eialt Megs 2 40 Quarter Kegs ....... .......1 35 MID CANS icc 34 Eagle Duck—Dupont’s Mer 8 00 Half Kegs....... 20 oy Quarter Kegs ... 2 25 Lib. cans’... || 45 -4 85 2 7 HERBS 2 eT Hepes 2... 6.00, Sedisc ses cira auc ie INDIGO Madras, 5 Ib. boxes ........... 55 S. F., 2, 3and 5 Ib. boxes...... 50 JELLY 157). patie as a a 62 V.C. Brand. ioib pals. 35 30D pais. ee Pure pple, per doz......... &5 LICORICE eee 30 Calabria 25 DION Y ss 14 Hest eae LYE Condensed, 2 doz............ 1 20 Condensed, 4 doz............ 2 25 MATCHES Diamond Match Co.’s brands. No. 9 sulphur............... 1 65 Anchor Parlor ..............1 50 No. 2 Home.................130 Export Parlor...............4 00 Wolverine... a Bo MOLASSES New Orleans Black. 1 Fair .. 14 pOOG ee 20 er a reece os@as Ce RCUI. talf-barrels 2c extra MUSTARD Horse Radish, 1 doz.........1 75 Horse Radish, 2 doz.......__ 3 50 Bayle’s Celery, 1doz......__ 1 75 PICKLES Medium Barrels, 1,200 count ......... 5 7E Half bbls, 600 count....../ 3 38 Small Barrels, 2,400 count ......... 6 75 Half bbls, 1,200 count .... |) 13 8g PIPES Clay, No. 260 170 Clay, T. D., full count..... 65 Gon Nei ses 85 POTASH 48 cans in case. Babbitt’s ........ ee oe es 4 00 Penna Salt Co.’s......... 0.1! 3 00 CE Domestic Carolina head................ 6% Carolina No.1.........../77! 5 Carolina No.2............... 4 BECK CM es 3% Imported. Japan, No. 1.......... --5%@6 Japan, No. 2.... sete ee 4AU@B Java, fancy head........5 @5% Java, NOE @ Pape SALERATUS Packed 60 Ibs. in box. Church’s Arm and Hammer.3 15 ’s SOMO ee 3 15 Wyandotte, 100 %s......177'3 00 SAL SODA Granulated, bbis............ 80 Granulated, 100 Ib. cases_.’ 35 Lump, bbls...............2! 75 Lump, 145 Ib. kegs....... |. 80 SALT Diamond Crystal Table, cases, 24 3 Ib. boxes..1 50 Table, barrels, 100 3 Ib. bags.2 75 Table, barrels, 407 Ib. bags.2 40 Butter, barrels, 280 Ib. bulix.2 25 Butter, barrels, 20 14 Ib.bags.2 50 Butter, sacks, 28 Ibs......... 25 Butter, sacks, 56 Ibs...... |! Common Grades 100 3 Ib. sacks................1 80 60 5 Ib. sacks... ........0. 0027 1 75 28 10 Ib. sacks............... 1 50 Warsaw 56 Ib. dairy in drill bags..... 30 28 Ib. dairy in drill bags... 15 Ashton 56 Ib. dairy in linen sabks... 60 iggins 56 Ib. dairy in linen sacks. .. s c 60 lar Rock SID sacks. 22 Common Granulated ine. ss Medium Fine....... ||"! 95 SALT FISH od Georges cured......... @5 Georges genuine.... |. @ 5% Georges selected . @6 a bricks....... @9 ——.. @ 3% Halibut. 4 a Chae 02s sess es aap a 3 a i 4 acct a lads lt al ~ eas Vv 4 ~ ella Seen ee aS So as SSSSERF GRSRe WS 1 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 21 Herrin Holland white hoops, bbl. Holland white hoops'bbl. 6 50 Holland white hoop, Keg.. 85 Holland white _——* mechs. 95 Norwegian .. Round 100 Ibs. Round 40 Ibs............... oe as 15 Mackerel Mess 100 Ibs. Mess 40 Ibs. Mess 10 lbs. . Mess 8lbs...... No. 1100 Ibs. ..... NO: 2 OO TES: os 1 No.2 40is. .- s. .. Ne.2 Wis... .-...:..... No.2 SBS. 2.00... Trout No. 1100s. .............. Rot 40s Rot Mis... s,s. Not Sis... Whitefish No.2 Fam 6 50 2 50 2 90 1 30 80 40 2 66 35 ‘SEEDS AS 9 Canary, Smyrna.. _ Caraway .. oe Cardamon, Malabar... . 2) 1160 Cer 10 Hemp, Russian.............. 4% Mixed Bird. seed oe Sluis ol ee Mustard, ‘white. eS Scotch, in wiekices, ee ced Oe Maceaboy, Me Jars... 6.2. Se French Rappee, in ‘jars ics 43 SOAP Single box.. .-2 85 5 box lots, delivered...) 1.1 2 80 10 box lots, delivered........ 2 75 AS. 8. KIRK & 60. 8 BRANDS. American ee = Dome 3 e Cabinet... 11.2 20 Savon.. ~ oe Oe White Russian.. «ao White Cloud, laundry... .-6 25 White Cloud, toilet..........3 50 Dusky Diamond, 50 6 02... .2 10 Dusk Diamond, 50 8 0z.....3 00 Blue —* 100 0% 1 1. .... 3) Kirkoline .. se Eos .. .-2 50 eine Sapolio, kitchen, 3 doz...... 2 40 Sapolio, hand, 3 doz......... 2 40 SODA BOmes Yy Kegs, English. .. a4 SPICES Whole Sifted MSC 10 Cassia, China in mats..... 12 Cassia, Batavia, in bund... 25 Cassia, Salgon, in rolls.... 32 Cloves, Amboyna.......... 14 Cloves, Zanzibar........... 12 Mace, Batavia....... i 55 Nutmegs, fancy..... 60 Nutmegs, No.1............ Nutmegs, No.2............ 45 Pepper, Singapore, black. 15 Pepper, Singagore, white. 22 Pepper, shot... ............ 15 Pure Ground in Bulk Allspice.. : 14 Cassia, Batavia. a 30 Cassia, Rae 40 Cloves, Zanzibar....... i 16 Ginger, African........... 15 Ginger, Cochin...... 18 Ginger, Jamaica.. 23 Mace, Batavia... s 65 Mustard... 2... eos 18 DUTIGEBOPR 2 50 Pepper, Singapore, black. 16 Pepper, Singapore, white. 22 — Cayenne.......... 20 age No. 4, 3 doz. in case, gross. 4 50 No. 6, 3 doz. incase, gross. 7 20 SYRUPS Corn Barre es as all pols... 20 1 doz. 1 gallon cans. . 1 doz. % gallon cans. ........1 80 2 doz. 4 gallon cans......... 1 80 Pure Cane Fair . Siecle cde cies leipacoe | oat otieg sole eclecegcs (ae Choice . sible aecSicces os ae xed Vv. C. ao Co. ’s Brands. Valley City: -....... 2s. 1 V. C., fancy flavored..... oli STARCH Kingsford’s Corn 40 1-lb. packages........... 20 1-Ib. packages.... ...... J Kingsford’s Silver Gloss 40 1- Ib. packages,.......... 6 6 lb. boxes... Diamond 64 10¢ packages. . 128 5¢ packages. . 30 10¢ and 64 5¢ packages. : Common Corn 20 1-lb. packages... 40 1-lb. packages. . Common Gloss _ 1-Ib. packages............. 3-lb. packages... 6-lb. packages. . 40 and 50-Ib. boxes......._. POEPONG ce SUGAR Below are given New York prices on sugars, to which the wholesale dealer adds the local freight from New York to your —_—< point, giving y ou credit e amount of freight er pays from the ich he purchases to his shipping point, including 20 pounds for the weight of the on the invoice for market in w barrel. Domino. Cut Loaf Crushed . Cubes... Powdered . Coarse Powdered. 1). ..: XXXX Powdered......... Standard Granulated. .... Fine Granulated..... ..... Coarse Granulated... ... Extra Fine Granulated.... Conf. Granulated.. 2 lb. cartons Fine ( Gran _ 21b. bags Fine Gran... 5 Ib. cartons Fine Gran... 5 1b. bags Fine Gran...... Mould A... Diamond A Confectioner’s A.......... No. 1, Columbia A........ No. 2, Windsor A......... No. 3, Ridgewood A. : No. 4, Fivenix A......... No. 5, Empire A.......... TABLE SAUCES LEA & SAUCE Genuine Halford, large. ........ Halford, small............. Salad Dressing, large..... Salad — small. .... vE AR ¥ Malt White Wine, 40 grain.. Malt White Wine, 80 — Pure Cider, Red Star.. Pure Cider, Robinson. Pure Cider, SUVOR.. 0.0.5. atl WASHING POWDER Berks Bes... ss... Wisdom . Roseine.... . Nine O’clock.............. Babbitt’s 1776.............. Gorm Dust: JOBRSON'’S 0.22... 8. Swift’s Rub-No-More....22 2.2007. Pearline, 100 Gs. Pearline, 36 18..0.0...0.2., Snow Boy.. Liberty .......... a WICKING No. 0, per gross.. No. 1, per gross.. No. 2, per gross.. No. 3, per gross.. WOODENWARE Baskets BONS 1 Bushels, wide band......... Mark Willow Clothes, large. Willow Clothes, me jum... Willow Clothes. small....... Butter Plates No. 1 Oval, 250 in crate...... No. 2 Oval, 250 in erate...... No. 3 Oval, 250 in crate...... No. 5 Oval, 250 in crate...... Clothes Pins Boxes, a pores... .-:. Mop Sticks Trojan spring . Eclipse patent | spring .. Nolcommon................ No. 2 patent brush holder . 12 . cotton mop heads..... Cedar, all ne brass s bound. ie 20-inch, Standard, No. 1 18-inch, Standard, No. 2 16-inch, Standard, No. 3 20-inch, Dowell, No. 1. 18-inch, Dowell, No.2...... a — Be ica ao ba Doubie Acme... Ce i] Single Acme... |... ; 00d Taek «oo. ooo cocce 2 PRON te Yeast Foam, 1% GOn.... Yeast Foam, 3 doz.. : Yeast Cream, 3 doz Magic Yeast 5e, 3 doz... .... Sunlight Yeast,3doz........ Warner’s Safe, 3 doz Pamiily......-... = Salt Meats Pri ot = Hams, 121b. average. Hams, 14]b. average. Hams, 16lb.average. Hams, 201b. average. Shoulders (N.Y. cut) e @PPDH9OHASSO California a: pee Lards—In Tierces 9 9 G9 oie si hm oR oe oe ee ae 2S2S PERRINS’ The Original and oe ee te, Worcestershire. Lea & Perrin’ S, large...... gue Lea & Perrin’s, small..... Headcheese... ea Extra i Pe cee Trip Kits, 15 Ibs.......... Beef rounds......... Beef middles........ SHEOR cs Solid: pol Wee ey cic Rolls, creamery..... Solid, creamery..... G2 BD ND Gob Oo RO G9 OO BO SRECESE RENTS Corned beef, 141b.. “as Potted ham, \s.. ines Potted ham, .- Slee Potted jaan Ys.. Potted tongue, \%s.. Xx W. Ww. Mich. -Hdit - Michig 7aS ie sri Seseinne @ Bee aia. SGN Grains and Feedstuffs. Wheat Wheat. . aes 64 Winter Wheat Flour Local Brands Patents .. ee od Second Patent.. See 3 70 | Straight... oo ee 3 00 | Graham . Sestcesces OO Buckwheat .. dosages Ge ye Subject to usual eash dis- count. Flour in bbis., 25¢ per bbl. ad- ditional. Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand Diamond %s............... 3 60 Diamond 44s............... 3 60 Diamond %s............... 3 60} Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand Wrmieer 40S.) kk... 3 60 (faamer 4s... 2... 3 60 Citgher%a................. 360 Spring Wheat Flour Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s a Pillsbury’s Best %s emma al s Best ys. . ea 4 3s Pillsbury’s Best \s.. . >:> SS. Vp iN Send for These: \ \ Illustrated catalogue 06 pages—carriages and farm implements. AN Descriptive catalogue of harness, strap work and collars; 60 pages. “as Le Descriptive catalogue of robes and blankets. \ AN = Catalogue of cutters and sleighs. W \ Will be sent anywhere on request. \ BROWN & SEHLER, Grand Rapids, Michigan. < 2... .... MI. LI LO. Le. LM. DS. L.L. LP. L. LS. LI. LO. LP. LO. LP. eP. A z= oa? =a ~~’ SVS we ~— .~wea Man a’ Ta ws GS we Ta g°treeeooee roeccooocosooooooosooosoosooosooooooloes H. M. Reynolds & Son, Manufacturers of 00000000 oe ©@ Asphalt Paints, Tarred Felt, Roofing Pitch. 2 and 3 @ ply and Torpedo Gravel Ready Roofing. Galvanized : Iron Cornice. Sky Lights. Sheet Metal Workers e and Contracting Roofers. Grand Rapids, Mich. ESTABLISHED 1868 Detroit, Mich. Office, Sz Campau st. Foot ist St. ; Factory, 1st av. and M. C. Ry. 0000000 OCE OOOO OOOO CCC SC COCCCCCS 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. MBS a li ac » a anaialysioa Reece, | SU MOW OWN COD EON EOE CORES CONCEP COR COR CUD COR CONCERN GOR GODGURGOLGROGORGOLGRRGOOL YD || Adis Sri ye am, ae i 2 Seas ie ene MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 23 warm in zero weather’’ is stronger and easier to understand, and better in every way. ae When you start to write an advertise- men, don’t imagine that you must say something clever or something that is not ordinarily said. The nearer an ad- vertisement comes to a reproduction of actual talk, the more forcible it is likely to be. The man who ‘‘poses’’ in his advertising becomes just as great a bore as the one who “‘ poses’’ in his conver- sation. ee * Fleming & Straub, of Lakeview, send the following : WORTH WORKS WONDERS Our aim jis to give everyone their money’s worth when they buy Groceries, Crockery and Glassware of Fleming & Straub, Lakeview, Mich. Give us a trial. The great trouble with this advertise- ment is that, as the boy says, ‘‘It talks, but it don’t say nuthin’.’’ It is a gen- eral kind of a statement that could be adapted to any business, and it would be equally unconvincing wherever it was used. Let Fleming & Straub select one ar- ticle from their stock—something timely and seasonable—-I don’t care what. Let them describe it and use a cut, if pos- sible, and give a good, reasonable price on it, and their advertising will produce some results. As it is, they can not tell anything about it. That's the beauty, after all, of adver- tising something definite. If an adver- tiser announces that he gives everyone their money’s worth, he doesn’t know at the end of a year whether he has had his money’s worth for his advertising. But if he advertises 25 cent coffee, and his sales jump up a little, he knows that his advertising pays and he can figure out pretty closely to what extent it pays. If more merchants regarded adver- tising as an investment, instead ofa necessary evil, and set themselves to work to advertise in a way that would enable them to realize a profit on it, there would be more money made every year—and the merchants would make the big end of it. ee) a Sid Lane, of Davison, whose adver- tisement is reproduced herewith, suffers The Best Town in Genesee County is DAVISON (Streets Paved and No Mud.) We offer you gents, wool lined Underwear, the best garment in the market, at 50c. A complete line of Dress Goods. Gloves and Mittens, from 10e up. Gents, all-wool fulled Coats at $2.00. Ready-made Clothing, also Tailor-made Suits guaranteed to fit. WE SELL GROCERIES. Self-rising pancake Flour, 2 pound package, 10e. Pillsbury’s Best, Atlas and Gold Thread Flour. Rogers Brothers’ Buckwheat Flour, 75¢ for 25 pounds. Salt, fine, by barrel 80c. Lambertville Snag Proof Rubbers. A nice stock of Shoes, Felts and Socks. SID LANE, Davison, Mich. from lack of system and from trying to do too many things at once. In the Space occuyried (five inches double), he might have advertised groceries and underwear strongly. As it is, his adver- tisement is weak from a too frequent change of subject. In this space he has advertised underwear, dress goods, gloves, coats, clothing, groceries and rubbers—seven distinct lines. I don’t quite understand the heading. Is Mr. Lane offering Davison for sale? W. S. Hamburger. —___»> 20. The Hardware Market. The demand for seasonable and holi- day goods, which are in active request, coupled with what is doing in other lines, makes a large volume of business between the wholesaler and_ retailer. The policy of buying at the present time only goods that are actually needed is being pursued quite largely by both the retail and wholesale trade, the policy being rather to dispose of stock on hand before placing other orders. The wis- dom of this course is generally recog- nized. The near approach of the first of the year, with its usual task of stock tak- ing, also has its effect upon trade. ‘The changes in the market this week are not many or important, but there still continues an upward movement in many goods which have not heretofore ad- vanced to any great extent. In wire and nails there has been no change and it is hoped for the present no other advances will be made. In Manila and sisal rope during the past week there has been no change in price, although it is not be- lieved any lower price will rule during the coming year. Window glass still remains as quoted in our last report. Wire clothes lines have been advanced 25@50c a dozen, and there has also been a material advance in wooden hay rakes for the coming year, which will be in the neighborhood of 25¢ a dozen. Prices on screen doors and windows have been established by the Continental Screen Co. and orders for spring shipment are being solicited by the jobbing trade. On the % in. common 4 in. stile door the price as asked is $7.50 per dozen, while on the No. 75 fancy door the rul- ing price is $12 per dozen, with an ad- vance of soc a dozen for doors 1% in. thick. Where dealers are not particular and want a door with narrower stile, these prices are shaded in certain lo- calities. There has also been an ad- vance on window screens of about 25 per cent. é Without an Equal CIGARS For 5 cents Long Havana Filled THE BRADLEY CIGAR CO., Greenville, Mich. Also Manufacturers of the Improved Hand “W. H. B.” Made Recognized Best 10c, 3 for 25c, Brand on the Market. Hardware Price Current Augurs and Bits Ce Jemmings senuine........... Jennings’ imitation.................... Axes First Quality, S. B. Bronze............ First Quality, D. B. Bronze. .......... First Quality, S. B.S. Steel........... First Quality, D. B. Steel............. Barrows ae ee ee Bolts Camrose mew Hat... c.. 5... Buckets Wel vee Butts, Cast Cast Loose Pin, figured .............. Wrought Narrow ............... Cartridges Ree... Ccmitalite Chain y in. 5-16 in. % in. ——........ 828.. Fe@2...€ « ees... 9 7% 634 BBB 9% 84 . os Crowbars Cast Steel. peri)... ...,.......... Caps Elyse perm... Mick s C. F.. perm................ 2... G. ae ee eee WAUSHEE Pere Chisels Socket Firmer Pe eee eee ce as NOCKes ErMiIniNe 8... m@ecmwes COrmer .. |... ......... MOGHCE OMENS. 8... Elbows Com. 4 piece, 6 in., per doz......:.....net Corrugated, per doz................... ' Adjustable........... Lae OS Expansive Bits _ Clark’s small, $18; large, $26 .......... nvee 1,903: = Se: 5 See ..........-.. Files—New List Now American ..................._.. OOO Helier’s Horse Rasps................. Galvanized Iron Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 25 and 26; 27, List 12 13 14 15 16. Discount, 70 aR Gas Pipe Black or Galvanized........... Gauges Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s.......... Glass Single Strength, by box............. ..dis Double Strength, by box..............dis By the Tigmt... is Hammers Maydole & Co.’s, new list.............. dis VYorkes & Plumb’s.......... .dis Mason’s Solid Cast Steel. de list i Hinges Gate, Clark’s 1, 2, 3...... nos 8 Hollow Ware Kettle Spiders......... Horse Nails SN Ge ieee atte ge es lS PI cee cea e tu csce be eg oe peed oe Ql House Furnishing Goods Stamped Tinware, new list............ Japemned Tisware..................... Tron Pa ee ee Knobs—New List 60 25&10 5O&10 6 50 10 00 ae 11 50 14 00 30 00 60 50 50 $3 50 65 60 40&10 20 % in. & 6 614 7% on 1 40&10 30&10 25 70&10 70 60810 28 17 40&10 60&10 80&20 80&20 80 33% 40&10 70 60810 50&10 5UK1O 50X10 40&10 ‘ 70 20&10 c rates 3c rates Door, mineral, jap. trimmings........ 85 Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings....... 1 00 Lanterns Regular 0 Tubular, Doz................ 5 25 Warren, Galvanized Fount........... 6 00 Levels Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s.......... dis 70 Mattocks INOS TVG, 2.0. ooo wens ee ce «Ghd O0..GI8 60 Metals—Zine 600 pound casks........................ 9 Per peune 9% Miscellaneous Pere Cates 40 Puss, Cisterm 3... 8 t... 70 werews New fi6....... lk... 80 Casters, Bed and Plate................ SOK &10 Dampors, American................... 50 Molasses Gates Stebbins’ Pattern...................... GO&10 Enterprise, self-measuring............ 30 Pans NOM el. 60&10&10 Common, polished.................... TO&5 Patent Planished Iron “A”? Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to z7 10 20 “B”? Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 25 to 27 9-20 Broken packages %c per pound extra. Planes Ohio Tool Co.'s, faney................. 50 CN COO sn we wes 60 Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy........... 50 Bench, first quality.........0..c.cce0es 50 Nails Advance over base, on both Steel and Wire peeer MS, DONO... . ws... sls... 3 25 Midbichiléiome. th, a 3 40 eee Base oe ee ll. 05 ore i... 10 Cree a, 20 4advance...... Se pea We ede cs eens 30 Sadvance....... ae 45 2 advance a 70 te 5 Casing 10 advance.......... Lie 15 Roeewee eeveeee: .:................ 25 Casing 6 udvance........... a, 35 Pinen advance ............... aS 2 Ee 35 ce 45 Perro! A AGVaiiee...,............... 85 Rivets Iron and Tinned... le 50 Copper Rivets and Burs.............. 45 Roofing Plates 14x20 IC, Charcoal, Dean.............. 6 50 14x20 IX, Chareoal, Dean. . 7 50 20x28 IC, Chareoal, Dean. : 13 00 14x20 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade. .. 5 50 14x20 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade. . 6 50 20x28 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade... 11 00 20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade. .. 13 00 Ropes Pinal, +4 inch and larger............... 11% Manilla ea 16 Sand Paper Bast OCC. 19, SO........... .. dis 50 Sash Weights Soda Eyes, perton................ 22 50 Sheet Tron com. smooth. com. Nos. 10 to 14. ae $3 20 $3 00 Nos. 15 to 17 3 20 3 00 Nos 3 30 3 20 Ce 3 40 3 30 Nos 3 50 3 40 eee Se All Sheets No. 18 and lighter, over wide, not less than 2-10 extra. 3 50 30 inches Shells—Loaded Loaded with Black Powder......... . dis 40 Loaded with Nitro Powder...........dis 40810 Shot Drop. Sa Se Sl 1 45 Pea Baek .......... ........... 17 Shovels and Spades Piret Grace, oe... .................- 8 60 mecoma Grade fon... ....... 8 10 Solder Co a 20 The prices of the many other qualities of solder in the market indicated by private brands vary according to composition. Squares pecer ane Irom... s,s... 65 Tin—Melyn Grade Ones 70, Chaeeal 4... .s... .... $8 50 Panay 10), ONareonl..................... 8 50 Teer4 in. Charcog)..................... 9 75 Each additional X on this grade, $1.25. Tin—Allaway Grade meres WC), COarcog).§... ...............- 7 00 tax Wh, Coareoal..................... 7 00 Merde i, Chareoa..................... 8 50 14x20 IX, Charcoal..... eee eta, 8 5 Each additional X on this grade, $1.50 Boiler Size Tin Plate 14x56 IX, for No.8 Boilers, 14x56 IX. for No.9 Boilers, § Pe? pound... ” Traps meee) Coe: 75&10 Oneida Community, Newhouse’s — 50 Oneida Community, Hawley & Nor- a ade luus 70&10 Mouse, choker, per doz............... 15 Mouse, delusion, per doz..... 1 2% Wire i a ee 60 Annealed Market ele a. 60 Copperea Miarhet...................... 50&10 Meeed Warhet............-....+-...- 50&10 Coppered Spring Steel............... 40 sarbed Fence, Galvanized............ 4 05 Barted Voence, Painted................ 3 90 Wire Goods Co, ee 75 cwtite:, <0 75 ere ee 75 Gate Hooks and Myes................. 75 Wrenches Baxter’s Adjustable, Niekeled........ Coes Gomme... .............,..,,... 30&10 Coe’s Patent Agricultural. Wrought. .70&10 BOOK~KEEPING way 7”. ACCURACY 2 eeeaiad ee ; jorienbe: ae Si, II Nc > a Ws egiaadivonet © Travelers’ Time Tables. MERCANTILE ASSOCIATIONS and West Michigan R’y » Nov. 10, 1899. : CHICAGO Chicago. Ly. G. Rapids, 7:10am 12:00m 4:35pm *11:50am Ar. Chicago, 1:30pm 5:00pm 10:50pm *7:05am Ly. Chicago, 7:15am 12:00m 5:00pm *11:50pm Ar. G. Rapids, 1:25pm 5:05pm 10:55pm *6:20am Traverse City, Charlevoix and retoskey. Lv. G. Rapids, 7:30am 4:00pm Ar. Trav City, 12:40pm 9:10pm Ar. Charlev’x, 3:10pm 12:25am Ar. Petoskey, 3:40pm 12:55am Trains arrive from north at 2:40pm, and and 10:45pm. Parlor cars on day trains and sleeping cars on night trains to and from Chicago. *Every day. Others week days only. DETROIT siness,. 1859. Detroit. Ly. Grand Rapids.... 7:00am 12:05pm 5:25pm Am. Detroit... 0... 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 Saginaw. Trains run week days only. GEO. DEHAVEN, General Pass. Agent. GR AN Trunk Railway System Detroit and Milwaukee Div (In effect Oct 19, 1899.) Going East. Leave Arrive Saginaw, Detroit & N. Y...... + 6:50am + 9:55pm Detroit and East ..............+10:16am + 5:07pm Saginaw, Detroit & East......+ 3:27pm 12:50pm Buffalo, N. Y., Toronto, Mon- treal & Boston, Ltd Ex..* Going West. Gd. Haven Express............ *10:2lam * 7:15pm Gd. Haven and Int. Pts.......412:58pm + 3:19pm Gd. Haven and Milwaukee ...+ 5:12pm +10:1lam Eastbound 6:50am train has new Buffet parlor car to Detroit, eastbound 3:27pm train has new Buffet parlor ear to Detroit. *Daily. t+tExcept Sunday. C. A. JUSTIN, City Pass. Ticket Agent, 7 Monroe St., Morton House. ~~ :20pm *10:16am o Rapids & Indiana Railway October 22, 1899. GRAN Northern Division. Going From North North Trav. City, Petoskey, Mack, + 7:45am + 5:15pm Traverse City & Petoskey... +.2:10pm +10:15pm Cadillac Accommodation... + 5:25pm +10:45am Petoskey & Mackinaw City +11:00pm + 6:20am 7:45am and 2:10pm trains, parlor cars; 11:00pm train, sleeping car. Southern Division Going From South South + 7:10am + 9:45pm + 2:00pm + 2:00pm Kalamazoo, Ft. Wayne Cin. Kalamazoo and Ft. Wayne. Kalamazoo, Ft. Wayne Cin. * 7:00pm * 6:45am Kalamazoo and Vicksburg. *11:30pm_ * 9:10am 7:10am train has parlor car 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 CHICAGO. Ly. Grand Rapids...+7 10am +2 00pm Ar. Chicago......... 2 30pm 8 45pm FROM CHICAGO Ly. Chicago...................13 02pm *11 32pm Ar. Grand Rapids............. 9 45pm 6 45am Train leaving Grand Rapids 7:10am has coach; 11:30pm train has coach and sleeping car; trains leaving Chicago 3:02pm _has coach; 11:32pm has sleeping car for Grand Rapids. Muskegon Trains. *11 30pm 7 00am GOING WEST. Ly. Grand Rapids....+7 35am +1 35pm +5 40pm Ar. Muskegon........ 9 00am 2 50pm 7 00pm Sunday train leaves Grand Rapids 9:15am; arrives Muskegon at 10:40am. Returning leaves Muskegon 5:30pm; arrives Grand Rapids, 6:50pm. GOING EAST. Ly. Muskegon...... +8 10am +12 15pm _ +4 00pm Ar. Grand Rapids... 9 30am 1 30pm 5 20pm +Except Sunday. *Daily. Cc. L. LOCKWOOD, Gen’l Pass’r and Ticket Agent Ticket Agent Union Station. MANISTE Via C. & W. M. Railway. & Northeastern Ry. Best route to Manistee. Michigan Business Men’s Association President, C. L. WHITNEY, Traverse City; Sec- ‘retary, E. A. Srowk, Grand Rapids. Michigan Retail Grocers’ Association President, J. WISsLER, Mancelona; Secretary, E. A. STOWE, Grand Rapids Detroit Retail Grocers’ Association President, JOSEPH KNIGHT; Secretary, E. MARKs; Treasurer, © H. FRINK. Graud 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. LEwIis. Jackson Retail Grocers’ Association President, J. FRANK HELMER; Secretary, W. H. PORTER; Treasurer, L. PELTON.2 Adrian Retail Grocers’ Association President, A. C. CLARK; Secretary, E. F. CLEVELAND; Treasurer, WM. C. KOEHN Muskegon Retail Grocers’ Association President, H. B. SmirH; Secretary, D. A. BOELKINS; Treasurer, J. W. CASKADON. Bay Cities Retail Grocers’ Association President, M. L. WATERS. DEBATs; Secretary, S..,W. Kalamazoo Retail Grocers’ Association President, W. H. JOHNSON; Secretary, CHAS. HYMAN. i Traverse City Business Men’s Association President, THos T. Bares; Secretary, M. B. HOLuy; Treasurer, C. A. HAMMOND. Owosso Business Men’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. a Grand Rapids Retail Meat Dealers’ Association President, L. M. WILSON; Secretary, PHILIP HILBER; Treasurer, S. J. HUFFORD. St. Johns Business Men’s Association President, THOS. BROMLEY; Secretary, FRANK A. PERCY; Treasurer, CLARK A. PUTT. Perry Business Men’s Association President, H. W. WALLACE; Secretary, T. E. HEDDLE. Grand Haven Retail Merchants’ Association President, F. D. Vos; Secretary, J. W. VER- HOEKS. Yale Business Men’s Association President, CHAS. RouNDs; Secretary, FRANK PUTNEY. TRAVEL VIA F.& P.M. R. R. AND STEAMSHIP LINES TO ALL POINTS IN MICHIGAN H. F. MOELLER. a.aG. P.a. Aluminum Money Will Increase Your Business. Cheap and Effective. Send for samples and prices. C. H. HANSON, 44 S. Clark St., Chicago, Hl. specialty of wedding invitations, both printed and engraved on cheerfully submit copper, and samples and quote prices on ap- plication. - - - - - - - - - GO0000OS 00000000 00000000 Tradesman Company, | Winter Weddings | @ eo : Grand Rapids, Mich. : 2 Established 1780. Walter Baker & Co, Dorchester, Mass. The Oldest and Largest Manufacturers or Our line of WORLD Bicycles for 1900 LTD. on this Continent. ney No Chemicals are used in Trade-Mark. their manufactures. Their Breakfast ©scoa is absolutely pure, delicious, nutritious, and costs less than one cent a cup. Their Premium No. 1 Chocolate, put up in Blue Wrappers and Yellow Labels, is the best plain chocolate in the market for family use. Their German Sweet Chocolate is good tc eat and good to drink. It is palatable, nutri tious, and healthful; a great favorite with children. Buyers should ask for and be sure that tie et the genuine goods. The above trede-mar' 8 on every package. Walter Baker & Co. Ltd. Dorchester, Mass. Is more complete and attractive than ever be- fore. Weare not in the Trust. We want good agents everywhere. ARNOLD, SCHWINN & CO., Makers, Chicago, II. Adams & Hart, Michigan Sales Agents, Grand Rapids, Mich. Dv Vj SESS Ci, ea TITLLEE LEELA ty CS naan 4 CLM ha ee serre SRS 4 1) Set STRAY beg tthy fs. y, MME Lea TIGL eas EELS itor: Manufacturers of all styles of Show Cases and Store Fixtures. Write us tor illustrated catalogue and discounts. Biscuit Right from the oven as fresh as to- day’s bread and just as wholesome. Daintily served in a dainty package— the like of which you never saw before. Dust proof, moisture proof, odor proof. A lunch done up in tempting style for just Five Cents Sold everywhere. Ask the Grocer. Ly. Grand Rapids............... 7 00am Ar. Manistee. . 26pm... Ly. Manistee...... 8 30am 4 10pm Ar. Grand Rapids.............. 100pm 9 55pm Are now on tap. We make a ue ace You need not go beyond the confines of your own store; there’s money in your business if you only know how to get : it out. If you will use The Money Weight a _ System of weighing your merchandise you can make money in business; if you stick to the old pound and ounce method you can’t. Remember our scales are sold on easy monthly payments. The Computing Scale Co., Dayton, Ohio. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAARARARARARARARARARRASAR RRR a AN Ne ee a ~~ 4 4 a NR a NI Ne ee A—->—-z- z>-A>~— >_> % - oe (4 >) e e | {Christmas Souvenirs for Your Customers} — - Cnirs Pock No. 1998 Timor Salad Dish No. “A” Nut Picks » \ _The practice of giving presents to customers at Christ- s mas time is pretty and profitable. Here are six hints— » 5 hundreds more in our Holiday Catalogue (No. 150) and ‘ 1, An exact reproduction cou | Regular Catalogue (No. 151)—they will bring their “Ie Mae stn, wth ehasea 4 Decorated with Chineseseenes; green | COSt In trade many times over. — lined with eolored paper. 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