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Page.
2 Dry Goods.
3. Justice Courts Spectables.
Crockery and Glassware Quotations.
4. Around the State.
The Produce Market.
5. Grand Rapids Gossip.
6. Getting the People.
7. Is Epidemic Hallucination the Cause ?
8. Editorial.
9. Editorial.
10. Woman’s World.
Shoes and Leather.
Requirements of a Sadesman.
The Meat Market.
Michigan Leads in Beet Sugar.
Gotham Gossip.
Commercial Travelers.
18. Drugs and Chemicals.
19. Drug Price Current.
20. Grocery Price Current.
21. Grocery Price Current.
22. Hardware.
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Hardware Price Current.
Emerging from Darkness.
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THE HOUR OF TRIUMPH.

The great-hearted worker does not
think to measure the stress and burden
of his undertaking by any standard so
illusive as time. The busiest days are
the shortest and the hardest worker is
the least likely to despair. It is a grand
thing that a year’s work begins with the
spring, when everything else is begin-
ning, when the year has turned and the
great glass of Time has been filled again
with glittering grains of sand; when
reviving Nature, having shaken off her
coverlet of snow and broken the seals
of all her spell-bound rivers and rivu-
lets, stirs with new life and thrills all
her hidden seeds with the power of
strong and subtle forces, and the birds
set about building, and, while they are
building, sing a song of perennial hope.
Then, perhaps, the worker thinks what
a wonderful thing, indeed, is this strange
invincible life of Nature. The feathered
songster is the latest descendant of a
race older than any human family, more
ancient than any tribe or nation of men,
and when one thinks in what a frail
form its life has been embodied and re-
members how necessarily fatal is a shat-
tered ankle, or a_ broken wing, to any
one of its representatives, he is amazed
when he_ is reminded how many storms
and perils of every sort it must have en-
countered and escaped. And the same
story has been repeated, substantially,
in the history of every living thing,
and nowhere is there any feeling of dis-
may, unless it be, now and then, in the
human consciousness.

Meanwhile, the old earth moves on its
appointed course, and soon again it is
summertime. The summer days are
long and sultry, but now the husbandman
beholds his crop standing high in the
fields. It is immature as yet, but its
beautiful verdure shows that it is sound
to the root and growing. The day of
his reward is approaching and he knows
that he can afford to wait, although he
must exercise constant care to guard it
against invasive weeds and all the
enemies that menace the farmer’s pros-
perity. It may be that he has to live
somewhat frugally still, but already in
his mind he has begun to estimate
and invest his earnings. Summertime
has its own peculiar landscape, its

 

abundant lien its checkered hights
and shades, its glaring but brilliant
noonday, its long delightful twilights.
Then, how refreshing is the draught
from the wayside spring or the deep
cool well. Then is rest sweet at the long
day’s end. And so time day
after day, and then it is autumn again,
and once more the harvest has been
gathered and stored away; ‘‘the end
crowns the work.’’ Perhaps it is this
suggestion of the end that imparts a de-
gree of melancholy to the hour of
triumph. It may happen, but it is not
often, that men achieve wealth and fame
in early manhood. Usually the spring-
time and summer of life pass away be-
fore the seed sown in labor, and it may
be in hardship, can come to fruition.
As a rule, the reward is reaped before
the worker has become infirm and in-
capable of enjoyment. The late middle
age should be the happiest of man’s
earthly life. Then the mind is most
fully stored with knowledge and most
deeply imbued with the wisdom of ex-
perience. Judgment is soundest, the
will has become the calm servant of a
great and unalterable purpose and the
charms and graces of a varied culture
render him who has become a_ sure
guide also a delightful companion. Men
of eager, restless ambitions seldom die
satisfied. Their career ends in disap-
pointment, because, if there be no other
reason, ambition is itself a consuming
and unquenchable thirst. How much
better to labor for victories in one’s self
and over one’s self, rejoicing in
strength, not seeking place, but pre-
pared to take it in any good cause, not
in one’s own.

>>
Status of the St. Louis Potato Market.

St. Louis, Mo., Dec. 11—Since writ-
ing our last letter to you our market on

passes,

potatoes has remained steady up to
to-day, when prices eased off and closed
weaker. Dealers are paying their at-

tention to fruits for the holiday trade
and we do not look for much potato
business until after the first of the year.
Our market to-day is as follows: Red
Rose and Triumphs, scarce and in de-
mand, but Early Ohios are in excessive
offering and are dull and weak. The
offerings of the latter are more or less
mixed with other varieties. Receivers
have difficulty in disposing of their
goods, even at the low prices ruling.
We quote Northern in bulk on track:
Burbanks at from 43@44c for common
to fair and 44@45c for choice to fancy;
Rurals at 4o@42c for common to fair
and 43@44c for choice to fancy; fancy
bright smooth Michigan Rurals at 45@
47c; Peerless at 38@4o0c; Hebrons, 37@
39c ; white mixed 37@4oc, according to
quality ; red and white mixed, 35@38c;
Early Rose, 40@5oc, the latter for red
cut. Miller & Teasdale Co.
Ce
_ Should Turn a Deaf Ear to Schemes.
Port Huron, Dec. 12——-The Port Huron
merchants feel that they have suffered
enough from the panic of the trading
stamp system and should now reap the
reward of their labors in the shape of a
period of good will. It is hoped that
they will turn a deaf ear to parties who
offer any kind of a stamp or card and
who care nothing for the prosperity of
the trade in general. The system is
demoralizing and arrays merchant
against merchant and is denounced by
the Port Huron Merchants and Manu-
facturers’ Association. A, H. Nern.

 

Number 847

The Grain Market.

The wheat situation more
interesting daily. While receipts in the
winter wheat belt are of a very diminu-
tive character and the spring wheat re-
ceipts are only from one-third to one-
half what they were last year—although
the cry is, no export demand, etc., (but
we find July 1, 1899,
to the present time have been g7, 000, 000

becomes

our exports since

bushels, against 103,000,000 bushels dur-
ing the corresponding time last year)—
still for some unaccountable manipula-

tion our visible is about 209,000,000
bushels larger than last year. Prices,
however, remained fairly steady and

there is no change to report as to futures
or cash. As our visible showed only
about 500,000 bushels increase, against
2,300,000 bushels at the same time last
year, we think when the decrease sets
in, which will be in the near future, the
visible will melt away very fast, espe-
cially as all the mills will have to go to
the wheat centers for supplies, as they
are not holding much wheat, still
look for better prices.

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is nothing new in either corn,
rye. They
Neither changed
week.

The flour trade remained very
steady, both local and domestic. For-
eigners begin to bid nearer values than
before.

Mill feed is in demand at full prices,
probably quite a number of
mills running only part of the time for
the want of wheat.

all held their own.
even 4c during the

has

owing to

Receipts during the week were quite
large, being 81 cars of wheat, 9 cars of
corn, Io cars of oats, I car of rye and 4
cars of beans.

Millers are paying - for wheat.

c. A. Voigt.
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Hides, Pelts, Furs, Tallow and Wool.

The hide still holds at the
higher price and is very firm. ‘There is
no accumulation of stock, although there
is a good demand as the stocks are
lected.
ure.

Pelts are sold even higher than at any
previous price, with no. large
offered. They are fully up to the
ent outlook for yielding a profit to
puller.

Furs are a little dormant, on account
of the mild weather which is general
over the states, causing
manufactured goods
kets. Lining skins are not in much de-
mand. ‘The present supply is large and
new collections are light.

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Price, seemingly, cuts no fig-

lots
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slow. sales of

in our home mar-

Tallow is higher for prime and_ edi-

ble, while soaper’s stock follows the
boom. All grades are in good demand

and the market is excited.
_ Wools are firm and_ held
values, while sales the past
comparatively small.

at higher
week were
Dealers were not
anxious sellers, as they wished to ship
out and clean up, in order that they
might see what they had left to offer.
3uyers are not plentiful in the State, as
there are not wools enough left for sale
to bring them here.

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The Dry Goods Market.

 

Staple Cottons--Show perhaps _ the
quieter situation more strongly than
other lines. Of course, visiting buyers
have been comparatively few, but the
market is beginning to show more activ-
ity, and the effect of what was _practi-
cally three holidays is about over.
Wherever spot goods can be found they
are bought up immediately. Heavy
brown sheetings and drills are very firm,
and in several cases forward contracts
are accepted ‘‘at value only.’’ Fine
brown goods, gray goods, and four-yard
sheetings are ail strongly situated
against the buyers. Wide sheetings,
although in only moderate demand, are
firm, and cotton flannels, blankets, etc.,
show no change in the situation. Ticks,
stripes, checks, etc., show an upward
tendency, and are excellently situated,
while other coarse colored cottons are in
small supply, and very strong.

Prints and Ginghams—There has been
a good demand for printed calicoes this
week, in both staple lines and_ fancies,
and the market is firm in all direc-
tions. But little change has come over
the situation in regard to prices for
spring, although in lower grades there

have been a few advances of from 2%
to 5 per cent. Some other lines accept

contracts ‘‘at value only’’ now for for-
ward deliveries. All goods in stock are
held firmly at quoted prices, but these
stocks are very small. Advances have
been named on some lines of ginghams,
and notice has been given to the effect
that Everett Classics will go up to six
cents. Ginghams are very scarce, and
nearly all makes are sold well ahead.
Printed and woven patterned napped
goods are strong in all reputable makes.

Dress Goods—There are conditions
existing in the dress goods market. that
are entirely out of the ordinary. In
fact, the current season, or rather the
past two seasons have put aside many
of the governing rules of the dress goods
market that have been lived up to for
years, It is certainly a new condition
when not a few of the mills are deliver-
ing fall fabrics up into December; that
is what is being done now, however,
and buyers are glad to get the goods,
too. At the same time, not a few of the
spring lines are sold ahead away into
February and March, and orders are
now being placed by the jobbing frater-
nity, which can not be woven out be-
fore March. This is certainly a strong
indication for the dress goods market.
It indicates a demand more than com-
mensurate with the supply. It indi-
cates that the retailing and the jobbing
interests are short of goods, both in fall
and spring weights. The mill that is
not well sold up on spring goods is the
exception. Higher prices must be the
natural outcome of the situation, and
supplementary business must be figured
at a good advance. Manufacturers of
cashmeres, both of the all wool and cot-
ton warp varieties, are very well sold
ahead, and have advanced prices ma-
terially. Cheviots, plaids, plaid backs,
homespuns and soft faced woolens in
general have been the market feature;
serges, venetians and coverts have also
done well.

Knit Goods—The jobbing trades have
had another busy week and the demand
for heavyweight underwear continues
very active. This is particularly note-
worthy when we consider the fact that
the weather has been warm and unfa-
vorable for this time of the year. The

 

retailers apparently realize that the mar-
ket is in very short supply and that it is
for their best interest to lay in as large
a stock as~ possible, even if their own
business would not seem to warrant it
at the present time. It is hard to find
to-day desirable lines of fine underwear.
There has been a stronger demand for
these goods than for many seasons past,
and this accounts for the low supply.
The importers of underwear say that
they have had the best season in the his-
tory of their trade, beginning early and
continuing to a very late date. They
have got orders for spring all ready,
which includes many lines never before
shown in this market. They look for-
ward to an early opening of the new fall
goods, and say that they will probably
have their lines of samples complete by
the middle of January.

Hosiery—There is considerable more
business with the importers than usual
during the first weeks in December, and
it looks now as though there were two or
three weeks of good business still to
come. The stocks in the hands of the
importers are very small, and on ac-
count of the prices in Europe, the im-
porters here are making very slight
efforts only to push their goods. Fancies
of nearly all kinds seem to be in as
strong demand as ever.

Carpets--The demand for all grades
of carpet continues large, even beyond
the ability of the average manufactur-
ers to meet, as they prefer to accept or-
ders in smaller amounts, rather than
cover themselves for the whole season
with large initial orders, as they are not
covered with yarn to last longer than
January except in occasional instances.
All anticipate further advances in goods
after the dates named, and any advance
prior to that time (outside of the ad-
vance at the opening) has been mainly
as an effort to ward off the buyer until
the general market advances and old
orders at less prices are completed,
and manufacturers are in a position to
accept new orders at prices commen-
Surate with the advance in raw material
and yarn, and other constantly increas-
ing expenses attending the general im-
provement in trade. As was stated in
this report previously, the carpet manu-
facturers are now beginning to feel the
effects of the prosperity attending other
lines of textiles. We might say this has
been one of the last to feel the improve-
ment, which even now is far from the
full realization of its proportionate ad-
vance in price. The reason for this has
been the extremely low level of prices
to which this branch had fallen within
two years, when the slaughter sales
forced down prices of goods; hence they
have been longer in recovering. This
was mainly due to the efforts of one
large concern when there was a dead
market to force sales. rather than shut
down a portion of their mill, and thus
curtail production as others had done,
and obviate the necessity of forcing
prices to such a low level that, in some
lines, even now at the advances asked,
the price has barely reached the level of
values prevailing before the auction
sales of May and June, 1808. To-day
the business is represented more by the
increase in the volume of business than
in the profits derived, as buyers were
educated to pay lower prices so long
that it has been a very slow process to
convince them that the manufacturers
who could sell before at such low
prices should need to ask so much now.

——_e 2 2. ___

A word to the wise is not sufficient
when it gives no fact, reason or infor-
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Justice Courts Spectacles For the Gods to
Weep Over.

Written for the Tradesman.

One day last week I walked intoa
prosperous drug store in Southern Mich-
igan and found the junior proprietor en-
gaged in the work of sorting and de-
stroying a mass of neatly made-out bills
and statements.

‘*What’s up?’’ I asked, with the free-
dom of long acquaintance. ‘‘ You must
be doing a whacking business if all
those accounts have been settled since
the bills were made out.”’

‘*Settled nothing,’’ exclaimed the
druggist. ‘‘ About a thousand dollars in
goods and profits settled on the wrong
side of the ledger. That is the way
they're settled.’’

‘*Bad debts, eh?’’

‘*Bad, very bad, under present con-
ditions,’’ replied the merchant. ‘‘A
majority of the people represented in
these bills are legally responsible, but’
I’ve got done trying to enforce payment.
We sued a man the other day and I got
quite enough of that sort of thing.’’

‘‘Can't you use a collection agency?’’

**Never tried. No agency could col-
lect these bills in this town. I think
I’m hoodoed.’’

The merchant pulled thoughtfully at
his cigar for a moment and then began
again.

‘‘T got a little indignant about three
months ago and sued a customer who
not only wouldn’t pay, but who fre-
quently indulged in the pastime of kick-
ing our collector out of the store and
down the street for a couple of rods. Of
course, no well regulated business house
ought to stand that sort of thing. The
debtor kicked, the collector was kicked,
and we were forced to make a kick
against the kicker! See?’’

The painters and paper hangers who
were smoking bad cigars and worse
pipes about the stove emitted a succes-
sion of haws-haws, not having heard the
joke over and above a thousand times
before, and the senior proprietor got up
and went and looked out of the front
door, his hat on the back of his head
and a patient smile on his face.

“So I sued the fellow,’’ resumed the
druggist, ‘‘and, after about a dozen ad-
journments, which were attended to by
our attorney, the case came on for trial.
The minute I got into that justice court
I was ready to abandon the suit, and I’m
not much of a quitter, as you know.
The justice had the rheumatism or the
gout or the kissing bug complaint, im-
ported from the Orient, I guess, and
had used boiled vinegar to relieve his
aches and pains. The windows were all
shut tight and the place smelled like
the cellar of an incompetent grocer on a
foggy day. How that boiled vinegar
did loom up! And the crowd there was

bout the stove! Worse than the audi-
ences we have here!”’

The druggist got up and opened a
back window and walked up and down
in the fresh air.

“Tl can smell that room now,’’ he said.
‘I never saw or smelled, rather, any-
thing like it before or since. Judging
from the appearance of the chair warm-
ers, soap had gone out of existence and
bathing was a lost art. They were liter-
ally surrounded by an atmosphere all
their own.

“‘The justice called the case and the
debtor demanded a jury, or my attorney
did, or some one did; anyway, a rum-
nosed constable went to work to get up
a jury. He wrote down a lot of names,
the names of business men he knew he
couldn’t-find, went out for half an hour,

 

and came back and made up a jury out
of the rag-tag-and-bob-tail about the
stove. Oh, that was a jury to make the
wings of the goddess of liberty drop off,
to make the American eagle take to the
woods! There were two saloon helpers— |!
the chaps that empty cuspidors and
sweep out—-an expressman who owned
a rig with a mule and a rope harness
worth abcut five dollars, a man whose
wife takes in washing to support her
children, a bartender out of a job and
an ex-constable, partially intoxicated.

‘*That was a jury for your whiskers,
as my attorney observed, but he said
there wouldn’t be any use in trying to
change it. The constable had quite a
tank on and he would be sure to go to
the saloons for some one to take the
place of every man thrown off, and this
batch was partly sober, at all events.’’

‘*Fine courts you have here,’’ I sug-
gested.

‘*Fine is no name for it,’’ said the
druggist. ‘‘And so that bum jury, not
a member of which had any more no-
tion of business honor and equity than
has a hog of the South African problem,
went on to try that case, in that dreary,
stinking old room, with the plastering
crumbling off the filthy walls, and the
spiders in their webs on the dust-dark-
ened windows looking infinitely more
respectable and decidedly cleaner than
the ragged human spiders’ smirking
about the odoriferous old justice.

‘*But I discovered there that the jus-
tice was high mogul in that pest house
of a place. The court room was his
castle and no mistake. He held things
down with an iron hand. He was the
whole thing, from the torn copy of
Howell’s statutes on the table to the
question of the adhesiveness of paint.

‘You see, the suit was brought to re-
cover on a bill for house paint and serv-
ice, which, by the way, the defendant
did not deny having received. He, how-
ever, set up the plea that the paint was
not of good quality and that it actually
did harm to the innocent and unoffend-
ing exterior of his house, to which it
had been applied harshly, and with
much claimed profanity on the part of
the painters and a brush.

‘*He had witnesses there to show that
he ought to have pay for the use of the
outside of his house while the paint oc-
cupied it. He had a pair of hopeless
imbeciles—-neighbors, 1 understand—
who swore that the paint cracked off at
such a rate that the noise kept them
awake at night. Oh, he had a choice lot
of Ae daarae I can tell you.

“He had experts who didn’t know a
pail of paint from the brush of a_ dog’s
tail and all our proof was fired out on
some technical grounds. A man to win
in that court has got to have a red nose
and a breath like a basement kitchen in
fly time. And the jurors sat there and
begged chewing tobacco and rolled cig-
arettes from ten until half-past eleven,
and from two until three, and from nine
until ten, and made a day and a half of
it, and I had to foot the bills!’’

‘*Beat you, did he?’’

**] should say he did! Hands down!
I expect he’ll sue me now for the rent of
the land around the house while the
men were putting on the paint. He’ll
win if he does. I won’t have any more
lawsuits. When I am sued I’m going
to buy up the justice, and if I can’t do
that I'll get some man with a good
strong stomach to take him out and mur-
der him. When I can’t collect my own
bills, I’ll burn them. No, sir, you
don’t see me mixed up with law any
more.

1 don’t know but the merchant was
right. Perhaps he exaggerated his case,
putting it a little strongly, but there is
no doubt that some of our justice courts
are spectacles for the gods to weep over.

Alfred B. Tozer.

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CHICAGO—
Fiel

no. V. Farwell Co.
& Co. Sherer Bros.

ST. JOSEPH—
KANSAS CITY—
Dry Goods Co.
OMAHA—M. E. Smith & Co.

ST. PAUL—Lindeke, Warner & Schurmeier.

Finch, VanSlyck, Young & Co.

MINNEAPOLIS— —Wyman, Partridge & Co.
Burnham, Stoepel & Co.

DETROIT—Strong, Lee & Co.
Moore & Co.
TOLEDO—Davis Bros.
ner & Co.
CINCINNATI—The Jno.
INDIANAPOLIS—D. P. Erwin & Co.

Sent by express ch’ges prepaid
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Carson, Pirie, Scott & Co.
Lederer Bros. & Co.
ST. LOUIS—Hargadine-McKittrick Dry Goods Co.
Hundley-Frazer Dry Goods Co.
Burnham, Hanna, Munger & Co.

Shaw & Sassaman Co,

H. Hibben Dry Goods Co.

Marshall

Swofford Bros.
Powers Dry Goods Co.

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_ Around the State _

 

 

Movements of Merchants.
Fennville—W. A. Swartz has opened
a meat market.

Ovid—A. N. Putman has embarked in
the furniture business.

Rockford—R. B. Squires has engaged
in the meat business at this place.

Lilly—Alfred Ellis has purchased the
general stock of Mrs. A. G. Runnels.

St. Charles—Dr. John A. Griffin has
sold his drug stock to J. R. Standard.

Locke—F. R. Dakin has purchased
the general stock of G. H. Price & Co.

Stanley—Owen Bros. are succeeded
by Nelson Toland in the grocery busi-
ness.

Charlotte—Emanuel Levy, of the
clothing firm of Greenman & Levy, is
dead.

Clio—Wm. Giberson, general dealer
at this place, has sold out to Weinberg
Bros.

Marshall—B. A. Kelleher succeeds
Van Dusen & Co. in the boot and shoe
business.

Otsego—The H. E. Earle drug stock
has been bid in by the mortgagee, F.
E. Bushman.

Menominee—John Peterson & Co.,
dealers in men’s furnishing goods, have
sold out to Paul Ostholm.

Menominee—Bernard Simansky has
sold his stock of clothing and men’s
furnishing goods to Isaac Simansky.

Lowell—Dwight Henry, of Grand
Rapids, and C. W. Klump_ have pur-
chased the meat market of J. E. Lee.

Port Huron—Wm. Canham expects to
move his wholesale business into his
new store on River street about Jan. 1.

Manistee—A. J. Kreuger has opened
a grocery store in the building recently
occupied by the grocery stock of J. A.
Johnson, Jr.

Ann Arbor—-The flour and feed firm
of Heinzmann & Laubengayer has dis-
solved partnership, John Heinzmann
succeeding.

Battle Creek—Robert Binder meat
dealer, will shortly erect a six-story
stone building at the rear of his present
business location.

Sault Ste. Marie—John J. Gardner has
purchased the grocery stock of Tate
Bros., and will continue the business at
the same location.

Slocum’s Grove—Passage & Avery
have engaged in the drug business at
this placed, placing C. L. Gold in
charge of the store.

Allegan—L. L. Thompson has sold an
interest in his drug stock to P. M.
Grice. The new firm will be known as
Thompson & Grice.

Wayland—J. C. Yeakey and D. A.
Stockdale have formed a copartnership
and will engage in the agricultural and
vehicle business Jan. 1.

Hastings—Burr Warner, who has been
employed in the grocery store of S. E.
Phillips, has decided to engage in the
grocery business on his own account.

Bellaire—F. D. Flye, the new pro-
prietor of the Phelps hardware stock,
has purchased the hardware stock of Ira
A. Adams and will consolidate it with
his own stock.

Houghton—The furniture for the drug

_Store of B. T. Barry is being rapidly
gotten into place. The new store is ex-
pected to be a model of its kind, all the
fixtures being of mahogany.

Cassopolis—G. M. Kingsbury is ar-
ranging for the disposal of his dry
goods stock in order that he may devote
his entire attention to the business of
the Cassopolis Manufacturing Co.

 

Coldwater—F. E. Merrick, of Bluff-
ton, Ind., has leased the south half of
the building recently vacated by the
American Cigar Co., and will occupy it
Jan. 1 with a miscellaneous stock of
goods.

Mt. Pleasant—Morris E. Graves has
opened a bazaar stock in one store of
the building on North Main street re-
cently erected by I. A. Fancher. Pat-
rick Leahy occupies the other part with
a stock of groceries.

Buchanan—J. Hershenow, who _ has
been employed as cutter for G. H.
Parkinson, has purchased the stock of
cloth and trimmings owned by the late
Wm. Trenbeth and will engage in the
merchant tailoring business.

Owosso—The Foster Furniture Co.
has purchased the hardware stock of
Blackwood Bros. and placed Morris
Southard in charge. The hardware
business will be conducted apart from
the furniture business, being carried on
at the present location of the stock.

Detroit—Selling & May have filed ar-
ticles of association for the purpose of
conducting clothing stores in various
Michigan cities. The capital stock is
$25,000, 10 per cent. of which is paid
in. The incorporators are Abraham and
Bernard S. May and Bernard B. and
Joseph L. Selling.

Holland—Wm. G. Van Dyke and
Luke Sprietsema will open a hardware
store in the Van Dyke block on River
and Ninth streets, as soon as_ the pres-
ent stock of groceries can be disposed
of by Mr. Van Dyke. Mr. Sprietsema
has for some time been engaged as clerk
in the store of J. A. Van der Veen.

L’Anse——The general mercantile
business heretofore conducted by John
Campbell has been taken hold of by
Mrs. E. L. Mason and others as mort-
gagees. The store was closed for a few
days to allow of an inventory of the
stock being taken, and was opened on
Wednesday under the name of Mrs. E.
L. Mason & Co., with Philip Voetsch
aS manager.

Detroit—The directors of the Wayne
County Savings Bank will hold a meet-
ing January 11 to vote on raising the
capital of the bank from $150,000 to
$400,000 and decide on the manner in
which new stock shall be issued. This
meeting will be held in obeyance of the
law passed by the last session of the
Legislature that every bank with de-
posits exceeding $5,000,000 must be
capitalized at not less than $400,000.

Detroit—On December 8 it was de-
cided by the Continental Tobacco Co.
to change the base of management of
the sales department of the Scotten
branch from Detroit to New York. This
takes the active management of that de-
partment out of the hands of Oren Scot-
ten and Jno. A. Gerow. Mr. Scotten
continues as resident director and Mr.
Gerow as cashier of the Scotten branch.
The decision was heard with regret by
the salesmen, some of whom have been
with the Scottens over a quarter of a
century, and to express their feelings
they drew up resolutions showing their
appreciation of Messrs. Scotten and
Gerow.

 

Manufacturing Matters.

Bellaire—At a meeting of the directors
of the Bellaire Woodenware Co., W. G.
Phelps was elected to the offices of
Vice-President and Superintendent, va-
cated by F. D. Flye.

Battle Creek—Two more important
manufacturing enterprises will locate
in this city. Both are companies for the
manufacture of health foods and cereal
coffee. One concern has a capital of

 

$100,000 and the other of $80,000. Both
enterprises are backed by Chicago cap-
ital. The new factories will employ
about 400 men and women.

Saginaw—The Davis Lumber Co. has
filed articles of incorporation. The cap-
ital stock is $25,000, of which Charles
H. Davis subscribes $12, 500; Arnold
Boutell, $6,250, and H. J. Gilbert the
Same amount.

Charlotte—The Pope Co. has been or-
ganized with a capital stock of $25,000
to engage in the manufacture and _ sale
of patent medicines. The incorpora-
tors are H. J. Jennings, Van J. Tears,
M. Pohe and A. B. Collins, all of this
place.

Detroit—The W. F. Stimpson Co. has
been organized with a capital stock of
$100, 000 to engage in the manufacture of
scales on patents owned by W. F.
Stimpson. The incorporators are W.
F. Stimpson, S. R. Miller, G. H. Paine
and J. W. Leggett.

Portland—Frank Mowers is superin-
tending the erection of a creamery
building at Tremayne’s Corners in
Orange. The building is the same size
as the Portland creamery; and where
the one here cost $5,900 the one in Or-
ange will cost but $3, 800.

- Paw Paw—Negotiations are now in
progress whereby a basket factory will
probably be located at this place. There
is a fine water power here which could
be developed, besides which the loca-
tion would be of the best, on account of
being right in the midst of the peach
belt.

Ogden Center—Some time agoa prop-
osition was submitted to the citizens
and farmers in the vicinity of this place
by Brown Bros., of Seward, Ohio, to
raise a bonus of $380 to build and oper-
ate a cheese factory. There have been
several meetings held during the sum-
mer and fall and recently the money
was raised. It is not learned just where
the factory will be situated, but the ma-
terial will be put on the ground at once,
and the institution will be in opera-
tion by spring.”

The Boys Behind the Counter.
Ludington—Frank Loppenthien, who
has been employed in Fred Paquette’s

| drug store, is now clerk in John Mag-

nusen’s store in the Fourth ward. Char-
lie Hansen, who worked for Mr. Mag-
nusen, is now filling a similar position
in a Manistee drug store.

Long Rapids—H. Marsden has a new
clerk in his general store in the person
of Charles Reed, of Coopersville.

West Bay City--Beach W. Cook, who
has been clerk for Brown’ & Tupper,
the druggists, for nearly a year, has
taken a similar position in the drug
store of C. H. Wilber at St. Ignace. He
will leave for there Dec. 15.

Homer—John Adams, of Adrian, a reg-
istered pharmacist, is clerking at Bang-
ham’s drug store.

Port Huron—Eugene Carey is now
employed at the store of the Ballentine
company.

Saranac—E. A. Anderson has secured
a situation in the jewelry store of R. E.
Van Houten at Ionia.

St. Ignace—Ben. Alpert, late with J.
H. Steinberg, has taken a clerkship in
Winkelman’s store.

Cheboygan—John A. Perry, who iss
behind the counter in M. A. Randall’s
hardware store, was married Thanks-
giving eve to Mrs. Almira Provancha.

Elsie—Geo. Duncan, who was former-
ly in the employ of H. G. Pearce &
Son, has accepted a position in the gro-
cery store of W. S. Lusk.

 

The Produce Market.

Apples—Selected cold storage fruit is
meeting with active demand and ready
sale on the basis of $3.50@3.75 per bbl.
for Spys and Baldwins and $4 per bbl.
for Jonathans and Snows.

Beets—$1 per 3 bu. bbl.

Butter—Factory creamery is scarce
and strong, local dealers being unable
to secure sufficient supplies to meet
their requirements. The price hovers
around 25c, because any eee figure
would tend to curtail consumption. Re-
ceipts of dairy are liberal and the price
is about the same as it was a week ago.
Extra fancy readily commands  20c,
fancy fetching 18c and choice bringing
6

16c.

Cabbage—60@75c 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. Wisconsin
Bell and Bugle command $7 for stand-
ard and $7.50 for fancy. The price will
probably go higher before Christmas.

Dressed Poultry—Spring chickens are
in strong demand at 9c. Fowls are in
good demand at 8c. Ducks command
1oc for spring and 8c for old. Geese
find a market on the basis of 8@1oc 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—Dealers are unable to secure
over 18c for candled stock, on account
of cold storage supplies being pushed
out on the basis of 16@17c. Receipts
are not large and the average quality of
receipts is below par. An 18c price for
candled stock means about 16c to the
country shipper. A local house is flood-
ing the trade with cards, offering 19c on
track, but the financial condition of the
house is not such as to justify the con-
fidence of the trade. For further infor-
mation on this point, communicate with
this office.

Game—Rabbits are in fair demand at
$1.20 per doz. Squirrels are in strong
demand at $1.20 per doz. Mallard ducks

are in active demand at $4.50@5 per
doz. Teal ducks command $2.50@3 per
doz. Common ducks fetch $1.50. Sand

snipes bring $1 per doz. and yellow-
legged $1.75 per doz.
Honey—White clover is scarce at 15

@16c. Dark amber and mixed com-
mand 13@14c.

Live Poultry—Squabs, 1.20 per
dozen. Chickens, 6@7c. Fowls, 5%4@
6%c. Ducks, 6%c for young and 6c for

old. Turkeys, 8c for young. Geese, 8c.
Nuts—Ohio hickory command $1.25
for large and $1.50 for small.
Onions—Spanish are steady at $1.60
per crate and home grown are active
and moving at 3sc for Red Weather-
fields, Yellow Danvers and Yellow
Globes and 4oc for Red Globes. The
cold weather has caused an improve-
ment in the demand, but movement is
slow.
Parsnips—$1.25 for 3 bu. bbl.
Potatoes—The market is stronger at
some points, notably Pittsburg, to which
shipments are being rushed by some
shippers. Outside buying points are
taking in stock as fast as it can be
handled on the basis of 3oc.
Squash—Hubbard commands 1 %c per
pound.
Sweet Potatoes—Kiln dried Jerseys
are in good demand at $4@4.25 per bbl.
Turnips—¢gr per bbl.

 

Too Near the Truth.

The coal merchant looked at himself
uneasily in the glass:

‘I am getting too stout,’’ said he, ‘‘I
must reduce my weight.’’

‘‘I think you have reduced it too much
already,’’ said the man who bought
half a ton from him the day before.

During the next few minutes the coal
merchant was burning with indignation,
and the customer displayed considerable
warmth.

——_-- co __
Holiday Excursion Rates For Christmas
and New Years.

Tickets will be sold Dec. 23, 24, 25,
30 and 31, 1899, and Jan. 1, 1900, to all
local points and to points on connecting
lines at one and one-third fare for the
round trip. Return nee De. 2, 1900.

W. C. Blake, Ticket Agent.

 

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Grand Rapids Gossip

The Grocery Market.

Sugar—There is no change in the raw
sugar market, 96 test centrifugals being
still 44%/c. Refiners were not anxious
buyers, although at present prices some
business would result if there was any-
thing offered, but in the absence of
offerings very few sales were made. Re-
garding the Louisiana cane crop, it is
now estimated that it is 175,000 tons this
year, as against 224,000 last year and
310,447 the year before. Refined sugar
remains unchanged with fair demand.
Most of the sugar purchased just now is
coming from the beet sugar factories,
which are turning out an excellent grade
of sugar. The total stock of sugar in
the United States is 200,068 tons, against
90,731 tons a year ago.

 

 

Canned Goods—There is almost noth-
ing new in the market for canned goods.
Offerings are limited to very small
quantities and prices are advancing.
There is almost nothing left of some
sorts, and holders do not care to dis-
pose of what they have in hand. There
is strong probability that prices will ad-
vance sharply when spring buying be-
gins and even now buyers are wonder-
ing where they are going to get stocks
to supply their customers. All dealers
unite in the assertion that they were
never so short of offerings as at present.
The shortage of crops and the increas-
ing demand combine to create an ex-
ceptionally strong situation, and trade
is slow because of this condition. From
all quarters come reports of a better
feeling in tomatoes, but no quotable
change in price has occurred yet. There
is an impression that the increased buy-
ing which begins early in the year will
cause an advance in prices and put to-
matoes on a better basis. Unquestion-
ably, the outlook for tomatoes is good,
because fruits are short and consumers
will take tomatoes as a substitute wher-
ever they can be made to serve. Corn
would sell freely at present prices if it
were obtainable, but the supply is short.
Holders are firm in their views as to
prices and movement is slow. There are
no supplies of New York State corn ob-
tainable. Maine sorts are all sold out
and there is very little left of Maryland
brands. Prices are firm and _ buyers
have difficulty in securing even small
quantities. Of all the articles in the list
of canned goods, peas are relatively the
shortest pack. It will be remembered
that aside from a few localities the
quantity put up didn’t average one-half
the usual amount and, as a whole, one-
third would probably include the pack.
The greatest shortage is in the poorer
grades and buyers will find when they
undertake to replenish stocks that they
must pay a good round price for what
they want. Peas have been steadily
growing in favor among consumers un-
til now scarcely any vegetable has as
many friends. The consumption of
peas is not as large as that of tomatoes
and corn, but this is largely due to the
fact that they can not be used for a va-
riety of purposes, while the other two
can. Formerly all peas were packed
by hand, as the selected grades are now,
but the introduction of modern machin-
ery has cheapened production to such an
extent that the industry has grown great-
ly in the past few years. Knowing
these facts, buyers were early in the field
last season purchasing futures and ar-
rangements for distribution on a large
scale were made. Future sales far ex-
ceeded anything previously known, and

 

all those interested felt positive of the
best year ever known. Numerous un-
favorable causes combined to reduce the
yield, the result being that nearly all or-
ders had to be scaled and in rare in-
stances only did buyers receive the full
quantity purchased. The outcome has
been constantly advancing prices and
restrictions of business. Consumers
have demanded supplies, but buyers
have been unable to find them and now
prices are higher than they ever were
before at this season, while trade is at
a low ebb because practically ’ nothing
is procurable. Buyers are beginning to
place orders for future delivery already
and prices range 10o@15c per dozen
higher. Beans are steady and supplies
are more or less reduced. Very few
will be left by spring, and the indica-
tions are that the entire output will be
consumed before the new crop is ready
for market. California fruits are scarce,
firmly held and prices’ tend upward.
The feeling in the trade warrants the
conclusion that trade will be better, or
at least, that there will be more demand
shortly. A better demand is reported
for best quality canned pineapples.
Seldom have stocks been so light.
There is an advance of 25@s5oc per case
on practically everything in this line.
The demand for salmon of all grades
continues very good, with the market
very firm and the probability of an ad-
vance in the near future, as most grades
are scarce. Sardiness show no change
in price, but the market is firm with
very light stocks on hand.

Tea—No great activity is expected in
tea until after the holidays. The visi-
ble supply in the United States on Dec.
I was 60,000,000 pounds. Six months’
consumption to June 1, 1g00—estimated
at 7,000,000 pounds per month, a total of
42,00,000 pounds—will leave an esti-
mated stock June 1, of 18,000,000
pounds. It is generally believed that
in view of this estimate, a stronger tend-
ency in prices, with increased activity,
will set in at the beginning of the year.

Dried Fruits—The business in dried
fruits during the last week has been ex-
ceedingly small. Dealers do not look
for much improvement, either in de-
mand or prices, before February or
March. Prunes are steady, but trade is
slow and movement limited to small
quantities. If the sizes wanted were
obtainable there would be a brisk trade
for a time, but buyers can not find what
they want and refuse to stock up heav-
ily with anything else. The result is a
quiet condition of the market and some
slight weakness in prices. Raisins
are quiet, but prices are firm and trade
is limited to small consumptive orders.
There is a firmer feeling in California
loose Muscatels, owing to the apprecia-
tion among the trade that the crop is
short and there is some indication of an
advance on 4 crowns. Seeded raisins
are in good demand and have advanced
3c. Foreign goods are selling more
freely because of the relatively high
prices of domestic varieties, but there
is no change in quotations on any sort.
Peaches are quiet but firm and trade is
relatively limited. The bulk of the sup-
ply has gone into consumption, but
there are ample qunatities obtainable,
provided buyers want to pay the price.
Apricots are quiet, but there would be
a ready sale for any supplies available.
Enquiry has increased of late, but it has
failed to bring out any offerings. Dates
are in demand from all quarters and
prices have advanced a fraction. About
100,000 boxes have come forward this
year, the largest receipts of any year

recently. There has never been a better
market for dates than exists now. The
supply, according to present indica-
tions, will fall short of the demand.
Currants are weaker and show a decline
of 4c. The situation in evaporated ap-
ples appears to be improving and, while
no change in price is noted, there is a
better feeling and a substantial advance
is expected. Cold, wintry weather will
put the market in good shape, as that is
what is needed for good trade in dried
fruit of any description.

Fish—The market on salt mackerel
continues quiet, with light arrivals,
Some grades of salt codfish are easier,
owing to large offerings, some of the
holders being anxious to clean up, as is
the case at this season of the year.

Molasses—The molasses market is
very firm and prices seem to continue to
advance instead of declining as some
buyers were led to believe. Advices
from New Orleans report an advance of
2c per gallon on medium and low grade
kettles. Centrifugals are also 2c per
gallon higher for the prime grades.
Buyers are beginning to come in the
market more freely and are paying full
quoted prices.

Rice—There has been quite heavy
buying of domestic rice during the past
week at about previous range of prices.
It is reported that the domestic Japan
crop is fairly large, but about one-half
of the crop is inferior and a shortage is
expected on the choice grades.

Green Fruits—Lemons are not very
active just at present but there is the
usual number of small orders every day
which keeps the market in fairly good
condition. Prices area trifle firmer on
300s and about the same on 360s. Ban-
anas continue to show weakness because
of lack of demand, rather than because
of increased supplies. The cold weather
prevents safe shipment to any great
distance and supplies are accumulating.

Nuts— Trade in nuts continues about
the same at previous prices. Advices
from the Norfolk peanut section confirm
previous reports regarding the poor con-
dition of a large portion of the crop.
Late rains caught large quantities of the
drying peanuts exposed to the weather,
and the result has been that a large pro-
portion has become mildewed. This
will cause something of a shortage in
the crop, but it is not yet known to what
extent.

Rolled Oats—The rolled oats market
is weak and prices show a further de-
cline of 25c per barrel and toc per case.

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Hit Hard.
From the N. Y. Butchers’ Advocate.

The trading stamp is again showing
its head in the West. If you can geta

whack at it, hit hard.
Ne 8

Geo. H. Cobb, the pioneer grocer
south of Hall street, located’ at 825
South Division street, has sold his stock
to Henry Clark, ex-postmaster of South
Grand Rapids, and will take a much
needed rest before deciding upon his
future course. Mr. Cobb has been a
devoted slave to his store ever since the
business was established and richly de-
serves a respite from business cares and

responsibilities.
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Fred B. McKay, for the past six

years connected with the Commercial
Credit Co. in the capacity of solicitor
and reporting clerk, has purchased a
half interest in the hardware and imple-
ment stock of Wm. R. McMurray, at

Lowell.
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For Gillies’ N. Y. tea, all kinds,

 

grades and prices, phone Visner, 800

 

Re-organization of the Worden Grocer
Co.
The arrest of Wm. M. Butts ona

charge of embezzling $38,000 from the
Worden Grocer Co., with which corpo-
ration he was identified in the capacity
of Secretary, was a genuine surprise to
all but the stockholders of the company
and a few friends who had been in-
formed of the condition of things. Mr.
Butts apparently does not realize the
situation in which he has placed him-
self and will probably receive his sen-
tence before he comes to a full realiza-
tion of the enormity of his offense. That
he is a criminal and now faces a charge
which is one of the most reprehensible
in the criminal calendar appears never
to have entered his head. He insists
that he has no money and is absolutely
unable to account for fully $18,000 of the
amount he has embezzled. Nor are his
friends or acquaintances able to throw
any light on the subject. He claims to
have sent $4,000 or $5,000 to Cleveland
to contribute to the support of his  par-
ents and has invested $2,000 or $3,000 in
local enterprises.

The stockholders of the company faced
the situation in man fashion and
promptly voted to subordinate — their
holdings to the position of common
stock, authorizing the issue of $75,000
preferred stock, which was voluntarily
taken at par by the creditors to the
amount of $49,000, the remainder being
placed among local capitalists, includ-
ing Chas. B. Judd and C. Van Cleve
Ganson, of whom subscribed for
$5,000. This arrangement was effected
in order that the credit of the company
might not be jeopardized by the report
of the shortage and the embarrassment
which would necessarily follow in case
the impairment of the capital was not
made good. At the annual meeting to-
morrow three new directors will be
elected—Geo. B. Daniels, C. Van Cleve
Ganson and Guy Rouse—and after the
annual meeting the official staff of the
company will probably be as follows:

each

President—W. L. Freeman.
“Vice-President—A. J. Daniels.
Secretary—Guy Rouse.

Treasurer—W. F. Blake.

A. J. Daniels has assumed the duties
of credit man and Guy Rouse has taken
charge of the book-keeping and_finan-
cial department. A few changes have
also been made in the office and travel-
ing forces and an energetic effort will
be made by all interested in the house
to retrieve the fearful losses sustained
through the dishonesty of a trusted em-
ploye and associate.

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Holiday Excursions to Canada,

Dates of sale: Dec. 14, 15, 16 and
17. Return limit January 6, Igoo, in-
clusive. Rate: One fare for the round
trip. Phone 606 for full particulars.

W. C. Blake, Ticket Agent.
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E. C. Dinkel & Co. have engaged in
the grocery business at Delton, purchas-
ing their stock of the Musselman Gro-
cer Co.

 

 

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Martin & Green have opened a gro-
cery store at Eureka. The Musselman

Grocer Co. furnished the stock.
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Morford & Evans have opened a _ gro-
cery store at Olivet. The Ball-Barnhart-
Putman Co. furnished the stock.

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The stitch in time is all right; but it
can not mend a rent that has not been
made.

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Life is a grind to a man who isa
crank with a mind turning on one sub-
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Getting the People

Some Really Excellent Specimens? of Ad-
vertising.

Owen Raymo, druggist at Wayne,
sends me the best collection of adver-
tising matter that has yet been sub-
mitted to this department. It is smooth-
ly worded, nicely displayed, and in
every way worthy of praise. One of the
newspaper advertisements is reproduced
herewith :

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You (an't

get something for nothing any easier
than you can whistle while drinking,
but we have bought our Christmas
stock so that you may buy yours OF
US at prices that will not make you
much poorer. We have a large as-
sortment of useful articles that sell at
25e, finer goods at 50c, 75¢, $1 and
more. Photo Albums from 50e to $4.
A good Album at $1 and $2, or $2.50
buys a fine one. Albums protect pic-
tures best. Toilet sets for ladies from
$1 to $4: the young men ought to see
these goods. Shaving cases, collar
and cuff sets at prices from 50t to $2.50.
Come to our store to see what we can
only tell you of here.

OWEN RAYMO, parte sr
yo WAYNE, MICH.
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A folder which Mr. Raymo submits is
also worthy of special commendation.

If Mr. Raymo’s drug advertising is
on a par with the specimens shown
here, he should be able to build upa
splendid business. So few druggists
advertise—and so very few advertise
well—that the man who does is bound to
make his mark.

* Ok Ox

When you advertise an article, be
sure that you make a display of it in
your windows. An attractive window
display, with an attractive window card,
is a great help to an advertisement, as
well as a means of inducing trade on its
own hook. It is a good plan, too, to
have a neat glass-covered frame in a
prominent part of your window, in
which to display the current newspaper
advertisement. Have a frame of some
dark-colored wood, with the words,
‘*Read This’’ or ‘‘This Week’s Adver-
tisement’’ painted on it in big, bold
white letters. If the advertisement is
of an unvarying size, have a white mat
inside the frame with an opening of
the proper size—otherwise paste the ad-
vertisement neatly ona piece of white
cardboard.

If you advertise goods at a special

“price, be sure that your salespeople

know about it. Make it part of their
duty to know what is being advertised.
Lots of sales are lost because clerks do
not know of the special prices on adver-
tised goods, and customers will go away
and declare the advertiser a fraud.

Read ‘‘the other fellow’s’’ advertise-
ment as carefully as you do your own.
Find out what he is selling, and how
much he gets for it. The business man
who doesn’t know what his competitors
are doing had better retire.

+ x* *

E. A. Bowman, of Howell, submits
two circulars—reproductions of his
newspaper advertisements—one of which
I take pleasrue in presenting herewith.
They are both well worded and should
bring business. My sole criticism is that
they contain too many display. lines.
This is a mistake which is often made

 

in the effort to make several features
prominent—and the result is that it
makes nothing prominent. By singling

 

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Surprise Store
* We have made ee purchase of

SOAP
‘ and will put same on sale
Friday Morning at 9 O’clock

Lenox Soap for 2c
Ivory Soap for 4c

Quantity limited 25 bars to each
purchaser

Saturday, December 2, we will open our
branch store at Pinckney. This in-
creases our selling capacity and by our
ability to use quantities of goods we can
quote lower prices than ever.

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Up-to-date Bazaar. Moon Building, next
to Postoffice, Howell, Mich. Pinckney
Branch in charge of B. Wellman.

“ Match us if you can.”
E. A. BOWMAN

 

out the most important point of an ad-
vertisement and displaying it alone,
effectiveness is given to the advertise-
ment from the contrast. When every
other line is displayed, contrast is lost,
and the display becomes _ ineffective
again.
de ae ok

The advertisement of Parker Bros., of

Traverse City, could be improved by a

 

* 119 Babies!

a That’s a lot of babies, but if
there were that many in our
store at once we could fit them
all with shoes If your baby
needs shoes it will pay you to

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come and see our line. ;
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Babies’ soft sole shoes, button ...... 25¢
Babies’ kid Moccasins, assorted colors 25¢
Babies’ fleece lined Moccasins, assor’d
COTS
Babies’ soft sole shoes, lace, kid and
silk vesting top... .....0.......... 50e
A well made all kid shoe with hand
turned sole: (2) sae

PARKER BROS.,
Front Street, Traverse City.
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different heading and_ introduction.
Typographically, it is good, and it
quotes an attractive line of prices, but
the heading is merely catchy and not
instructive. This form would be prefer-
able, it seems to me:

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Shoes for the Tots

Dainty coverings for their tiny feet, from
the first moccasins to the hard-soled
shoes for the little one who is just begin-
ning to toddle. All of them rightly shaped,
too, so as not to cramp or confine the ten-
der little feet—and priced most moder-
ately: :
(List of prices. )

W. S. Hamburger.

Is Epidemic Hallucination the Cause ?
Written for the Tradesman.

Is it a mild type of epidemic insanity?

This pertinent query is suggested by
reading the newspaper reports of the
collapse of two infamous swindling
combinations whose business was rob-
bing the people by fraud and misrepre-
sentation, to wit, the Investors’ Trust of
Philadelphia, the Franklin Syndicate of

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For Store Lighting
and Family Use

Or any place where good light is needed.
There are several other gasoline lamps
on the market that burn sometimes and
sometimes they don’t. If you want one
that is always reliable get the

Brilliant Safety
Gas Lamp

100 candle power. One quart gasoline
burns 18 hours. Gaslight [5c a month.
Over 10,000 now in use. A _ desirable
Christmas present. Every fixture makes
its own gas Anybody can operate it.
It is portable and can be hung anywhere.
One burner equal to five electric bulbs,
two Rochester lamps or the best Wels-
bach gas burner. Absolutely safe and
approved by the leading insurance com-
panies and boards of underwriters. Write
for illustrated circular and particulars
Do not let your neighbors outshine you.

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Dales
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Brilliant Gas Lamp Co.,

46 and 48 Clark Street,
Chicago, Ill.
George Bohner, Agent.

 

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Do You Want to
Increase Your Trade?

Then give your customers the old reliable

reen Seal Cigars

Made in three sizes:

 

 

 

 

Green Seal, 10 cents, 3 for 25 cents
Green Seal Boquet, 10 cents, 3 for 25 cents
Green Seal Regalia, 10 cents straight

These goods have been on the market for twenty-five years
and have never been prostituted in quality. Although the
Cuban war doubled the price of Havana tobacco, the quality
of the Green Seal was maintained. Why not give the best
and draw trade?

If you want to give your customer the greatest value for his
nickel hand him a

Maceo’s Dream Cigar

A long filled, hand made, Regalia size and shape cigar of the
highest quality for a nickel.

Send us an order for either or both brands and we will guar-
antee you Satisfaction.

B. J REYNOLDS, Grand Rapids.

 

 

 

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Brooklyn, with ‘the certain prospect of
other kindred confidence schemes fol-
lowing suit in the near future. Develop-
ments already prove a far-reaching con-
spiracy to rob the confiding people of
all conditions, whose -weakness is in
looking for something in return for noth-
ing at the same time, in every state in
the Union; and their scheme seems to
have been successful, for a wail of dis-
appointment and_ mortification arises
from all points of the compass. Their
specious literature has been sown broad-
cast among the people throughout the
entire country, and the illusive pictures
drawn by their oily-tongued local agents
of fabulous returns of interest upon in-
vestments have carried weeping and
wailing into thousands of happy homes.
The fact that every inducement offered,
and every argument used to prove their
ability to perform what they promised
their investors, was in conflict with
every principle of legitimate business
should have been sufficient warning to
the most confiding of their patrons to
avoid all businses relations with them.
That all these self-evident facts were
ignored by their victims can be ac-
counted for only upon the theory of
monomania or mild insanity. Unfor-
tunately, their victims are recruited
from the class of citizens least able to
bear the losses. That the legitimate
business of the country must suffer to a
great extent is inevitable, because the
debtor classes are the heaviest losers in
proportion to their means. Farmers and
farmers’ wives, working men and do-
mestics of all kinds, small tradesmen
and their clerks, some of whom have
left their debts unpaid and some are
known to have borrowed the money to
invest, have drawn their hard-earned
savings deposits and for months poured
them in a steady stream into the capa-
cious maw of these octopi, in pursuit of
sudden wealth, which, like a_ will-o’-
the-wisp recedes as they follow, until it
has landed its victims in the slough of
disappointment with loss of the savings
of years of toil. Even the teachers in
our public schools have ignored every
fundamental principle of finance and
trade and are weeping in silence over
their losses and relearning the first prin-
ciples of legitimate trade they were sup-
posed to be teaching their pupils.

Upon what other theory except mental
aberration can we account for all this?
The real extent of this public calamity
will never be known, as thousands of the
small investors, from feelings of pride
or mortification, will grieve over their
folly in silence. The disease seems to
be out of the reach of remedy, but might
perhaps be mitigated by making every
local agent of the swindlers, who are
usually men of intelligence, judging
from those in Shiawassee county, meet
the criminal consequences of their share
in the conspiracy to deceive and de-
moralize the public. From a_ moral
point of view the duped victims them-
selves are not altogether blameless.
Their example and influence have de-
ceived others and urged them on, thus
spreading the poisonous miasm of mono-
mania. At present it is impossible to
approximate the extent of these gigantic
swindles in figures, but when we reflect
that it is estimated that Shiawassee
county alone has contributed $60,000 to
the robbers’ funds of the Franklin Syn-
dicate of Brooklyn the full extent of the
operations of these gangs of swindlers
can be realized. And fancy the bene-
ficiaries of these nefarious schemes con-
templating from their hiding places of

safety with fiendish glee the ruin they
have wrought. W. S. H. Welton.

 

THE NEW YORK TRIBUNE.

 

The Tribune Starts a Handsome Tri-
Weekly Edition.

1900.

The New York Tribune is loyally Re-
publican on all public questions, al-
though it never distorts the news for
party purposes and never screens mis-
conduct in public affairs because dis-
covered among party friends. The
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STATE OF -Sonnmgl ss.
County of Kent

John DeBoer, being duly sworn, de-
poses and says as follows:

I am pressman in, the office of the
Tradesman Company and have charge of
the presses and folding machine in that
establishment. I printed and folded
7,000 copies of the issue of Dec. 6, 1899,
and saw the edition mailed in the usual
manner. And further deponent saith
not. John DeBoer.

Sworn and subscribed before me, a
notary public in and for said county,
this ninth day of December, 1899.

Henry B. Fairchild,
Notary Public in and for Kent County,
Mich.

 

 

GREATER VIGILANCE NECESSARY.

The ease with which the Secretary of
the Worden Grocer Co. was able to em-
bezzle nearly $40,000, which loss would
have wrecked the institution but for the
heroic manner in which the moneyed
stockholders of the corporation promptly
came to the rescue by furnishing ample
capital to make up the shortage and other
losses resulting from lax credits and
loose business methods, naturally sug-
gests that similar conditions may exist
in other business _ institutions where
such implicit confidence is placed in a
business associate that no attempt is
ever made to check up his work or re-
view his accounts.

Notwithstanding the rigid examina-
tion given both National and State
banks at irregular intervals by represent-
atives of the Federal and State banking
departments, it is customary for a com-
mittee of directors to make a careful
and detailed investigation of the affairs
of the bank at least twice a year. Be-
sides, it is customary to place all em-
ployes who handle any considerable
amount of money under bonds.

None of these safeguards are often
employed in the case of mercantile and
manufacturing corporations—excepting
with large institutions like the Standard
Oil Co., which has a checking system
which surpasses in exactness and sever-
ity that of the general Government—yet
it not unfrequently happens that the
stockholders of a corporation of this
character are as numerous as the _stock-
holders of a bank and are naturally en-
titled tothe same measure of protection.
While an arrangement of this kind sug-
gests paternalism in its most offensive
form—and paternalism has never been
and never will be a popular thing in this
country—yet the experience of the Wor-
den Grocer Co. naturally suggests that
the interests of both creditors and stock-
holders demand greater vigilance on
the part of officers, in default of which

 

the state must step in and verify the
work of accountants, at either regular or
irregular intervals, in the interest of
those whose holdings are so small that
they have no part in the active manage-
ment of the business and are expected
to take everything for granted until a
crisis confronts them and they are called
together for the purpose of assisting in
contributing fresh capital to replace the
losses sustained through lack of proper
safeguards.

 

It is not generally known that hun-
dreds of thousands of yards of cotton
flannel are used each year in Kansas in
the manufacture of gloves for corn husk-
ers. A pair of gloves made of this ma-
terial lasts only a few days, but the flan-
nel is the only material that conforms
to the hands and at the same time gives
comfort and ease to the husker. Wesley
Seip, a champion cornhusker in Repub-
lic county, has been figuring on the
amount of this material used this sea-
son in that county. He says enough
money was spent there for huskers’ mit-
tens to pay for a good farm. There are
144 quarter sections of !and in a town-
ship. Two huskers to the quarter would
make 288 huskers in a township, or a
total in the county of 5,760. Each husk-
er will use four yards of cotton flannel,
making a total for the county of 23,040
yards. This, at 18 cents a yard, amounts
to $4,147.20. There are fifty counties
in Kansas which this year produced on
an average as much corn as Republic
county. If all the men and women who
are now engaged in saving the State’s
phenomenal corn crop wear husking
gloves made of cotton flannel the sum
paid out for this fabric alone will aggre-
gate $200,000,

 

Retail merchants must make concerted
effort to defeat the parcels postage law
now before Congress or the manufac-
turers, department stores and catalogue
houses of the country will succeed in se-
curing its enactment. Resolutions are
all -very well in their way, but one
strong letter from a retail merchant to
his congressman will do more good and
have more effect in controverting legis-
lation of this character than a set of res-
olutions as long as a lead pencil. The
parcels postage system in European
countries has nearly annihilated the
trade of the country merchant, and un-
less the retail merchants of the United
States take prompt action in this matter
they will find themselves in the same
predicament as their European brothers
in trade.

 

The Traverse City Record demon-
strated its right to rank as a_metropoli-
tan daily last Sunday by issuing a 28-
page paper, including a dozen pages of
historical matter, prepared by men and
women who wrote from actual experi-
ence and embellished by beautiful half-
tone engravings which enable the reader
to form a vivid idea of early days in
Traverse City and the Grand Traverse
region. The edition reflects much credit
on both editors and contributors, while
the typographical appearance of the
paper is superb.

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It is easy enough to give the poor
good advice; but that never quite takes
the place of a Christmas turkey.

 

 

A green Christmas is probable. Much
of the long green will be needed to

make Christmas presents.
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It does not follow that a man in the
habit of lying will tell the truth when
talking in his sleep.

 

THE REIGN OF COMMON SENSE.

One of the most uncommon things in
the world is what we call common
sense. Any day of the week you can
go out and throw a brick and hit fifty
men of genius, where you can strike one
who has real good hard common sense.
Yet it is by long odds the most precious
gift that can be vouchsafed a human be-
ing. To possess it is to possess a sweet
reasonableness that enables one to look
life squarely in the face, instead of
through the long or short end of an
opera glass, as our prejudices happen to
present it tous. The man of common
sense is never carried away by ex-
tremes, but steers a middle course be-
tween the heights of exhilaration and
the slough of despond. It is the bal-
last that keeps his boat steady, no mat-
ter whether it is fanned by the winds of
prosperity or blown about by the tem-
pests of adversity. In success it merci-
fully preserves him from making a fool
of himself and getting kissed into ob-
scurity; and in misfortune it keeps
him from the coward’s device of sui-
cide. He knows there is always a
change of luck and a new deal in the
game. The man of common sense is
never unduly puffed up with pride or
overconceited. He never forgets there
are others. He takes the good things of
life in reason, and neither gets on a jag
or joins the ranks of the fanatics. Hum-
bugs do not humbug him nor gold brick
people sell him their wares, because he
knows we never get something for noth-
ing. Solemn airs do not impose on
him. He never slops over himself with
sentimental gush. He never runs after
the fads of the moment. Prejudice does
not warp his judgment. He _ never
poses for the benefit of the world. If
sorrows come to him he does not pic-
turesquely bemoan himself and repine
at the inevitable. In the day of pros-
perity he goes slowly and discreetly, for
he knows riches have wings that are
chiefly used in flying away from us. To
every difficulty of life he brings com-
mon sense and finds it offers a solution.
In business affairs it keeps him from
worrying overmuch. It prevents him
from wasting tears and time over the
spilt milk that can never be recalled.
In short, it is the quality which en-
ables a man to line up and accept the
situation, whatever it is, without kick-
ing. In only one thing in life has it ever
been felt that it was impossible to ap-
ply common sense with advantage, and
that was in affairs of the heart. Noone
who ever fell in love, or out of love,
even thought of such a thing as using
any reason about it, and the results have
often been tragedies that have caused
death and tears and life-long sorrow. It
is, therefore, extremely gratifying to
learn a new order of things is being in-
augurated, and that common sense is
being introduced into lovemaking, with
the most gratifying results to all con-
cerned. According to a dispatch ina
Washington paper a young man of that
city, about a year ago, met a beautiful
and clever young woman, with whom he
fell in love. They became engaged
and when she returned to her home in
the West the young man bombarded hér
with letters and on one occasion made
her a visit. After a time, however, the
young woman found that she had mis-
taken the state of her affections and she
bestowed her hand upon another. In-
stead of using reproaches and hysterics
and tears, this up-to-date young couple

dealt with the subject on a purely prac- |"

tical and common-sense basis. The
girl figured out that the Washington

 

sweetheart’s letters were worth $300,
and the time and expense of his trip
to see her $500, while she assessed the
damage to his heart, and the wear and
tear of his affections at $200 more. She
thereupon drew her check for $1,000
and sent it to him and he sent her a re-
ceipt in full to date, and, as the diplo-
mats say, the incident was closed. What
an improvement over a duel, even a
French one, and over vulgar suicide!
Blessed be the reign of common sense!

GENERAL TRADE REVIEW.

The week shows the most decided de-
cline in stocks recorded since the finan-
cial stringency in New York banks set
in some months ago. As the stringency
is less in evidence now, the cause for
the stock depression must be looked for
elsewhere. Naturally the first place to
look is the English situation; but while
the reverses in Natal must materially
affect both the buying and selling in
London, the influence, considering our
lessening dependence on that market,
is not sufficient to account for any great
part of the decline.. The true explana-
tion is suggested by an analysis of the
changes in the market, which show that
the decline in prices is the result of
over anticipation of the future in com-
bination and capitalization. In the
changes those stocks have suffered most
which have pushed their products be-
yond the warrant of legitimate trade
conditions, thus giving a stimulus to
competition, which is now becoming
manifest to an extent to show the de-
gree of presumption on the part of such
corporations. It is possible that the
adverse decision of the courts in the
pipe case may have influenced the mar-
ket a little, but the fact that the pipe
combine was only a trust, and therefore
on an entirely different basis from the
regular industrials, prevents any real
significance in the decision. The de-
cline in stocks comes with no slacken-
ing in the general volume of business.
On the contrary the undue stimulus in
competition, which is the real cause of
the reaction, serves to swell the vast ag-
gregate. As yet prices are generally
maintained or advancing.

Some conception of the progress in
textile industries comes with the an-
nouncement that the American Woolen
Company advances wages of 26,000
hands Io per cent. Probably this sets
the pace for others, as the advance of
10 per cent. in the Borden cotton mills
is now being followed by employers of
150,000 hands or more. The rise in
woolens suggests competition, for, even
although just marked up in order to pre-
pare for the next season, prices of wool-
en goods have risen only 19.2 per cent.
from their lowest, but one hundred quo-
tations of wool by Coates Brothers, of
Philadelphia, have risen 37.1 per cent.
from the lowest and average about 24.7
cents. Cotton goods have advanced 28.70
per cent. and are constantly rising, al-
though raw cotton at the highest had ad-
vanced only 33.04 per cent., and is now
only 24.01 per cent. higher. The de-
mand for goods in both branches is
strong, and in cotton appears little
affected by speculation in the material.

The grain market maintains nearly a
parity with that for the same season last
year, the less movement of wheat being
balanced by a greater one of corn.
Prices have tended downward on ac-
count of favorable crop reports both in
American and foreign fields.

The man who laughs last laughs best.
The man who laughs most should have
the best teeth,

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TRADESMAN

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HONEST MEN WANTED.

Diogenes is out again with his lan-
tern. A dozen American cities, more or
less, are hunting high and low fora
mayor. All over the country are cities
wailing over depleted treasuries. The
country is tired and sick of listening to
the political nonsense of party crimina-
tion and recrimination and, with Diog-
enes at the head, is out on a general
hunt for that rarest of human beings—an
honest man. There is no lack of candi-
dates. The woods are full of them. So
are the avenues, the byways and the
back alleys, and they are alike in this,
that they all want the public office for
the purpose of forwarding some private
gain. It was once thought that the man
who had been successful in the man-
agement of his own affairs was the only
one who could safely control public con-
cerns; but from that wise way of our
fathers we have drifted through indiffer-
ence and want of public spirit and in-
competency has sneaked into municipal
responsibility and depleted the public
treasury.

If the condition of things were Iess
appalling, it would be amusing to listen
to the outraged citizens as they look into
the empty money bags of city and
county and town. The English tongue,
copious and flexible as it is, has no
words strong enough to express the gen-
eral execration. The superlative has
lost its force and glaring eye demands
from glaring eye an explanation. There
is but one and _ self-accusation alone
prevents its expression. ‘These thieves
and robbers are men chosen by the
community in which they live—repre-
sentative men—to do the public work.
They are a part of the whole and have
been doing what any other set of men
would do had fate favored their elec-
tion. In the ‘‘bum’’ wards of the city
nothing else can be expected, but what
else can be expected in the rest where
the same element is allowed to come in
and have control? The river can not
rise higher than its source, the water is
the same be it clear or roily and, dread-
ful as the statement is, the thieving ele-
ment is a faithful representative of the
citizens who submit to such elections.
When the portending ruin comes the
victimized town rises in its strength,
cleanses the city of its impurity and
after a search with the lantern places an
honest man in the executive chair with
a satisfied, ‘‘ Now, then!’’ and starts in
on the same old circuit.

If there is any one fact which ought
to be admitted by this time, it is that
the politician, as he is now understood,
is the last man to be seated in the pub-
lic chair. He strives for the place and
gets it for one purpose and the empty
treasury tells exactly what that purpose
was. If he finds the public cow gentle,
he is glad to relieve her of every dro»
of milk and, remembering that the strip-
pings are the richest part of the milking,
he gets the very last and he does it
kindly. If she proves restive and is in-
clined for any reason to hold back her
milk, by methods well khown to him
she is forced to stand and deliver and
the contents of the milk pail are taken
good care of in his own private milk
house. The result in either case is the
same. Public office is a public trust
just so long as private interest can con-
trol it, and that is plenty long enough.

The Tradesman submits that the time
has come for these professional milkers
to be discharged and a hired hand en-
gaged who understands this part of the
business. The man should bring his
credentials with him and the chief of

 

these should be from those men who have
known him long and well. Has he
managed his own affairs skillfully? Is
he at the head of important interests?
Is he honest to the core? Does the greater
part of the best business men endorse
him? A goodly number of similar
questions might be added; but it is the
business man from first to last and all
the time who is to select this all-wool-
and-yard-wide candidate for public
office. Into the business quarter of the
town with his lantern must the old Cynic
be directed, for there, if anywhere, will
be found the man whom the world is
suffering for to-day.

It will be said—it has been said—that
men at the head of a prosperous busi-
ness can not afford to fill these offices.
How would it do for the public who has
been robbed until nothing is left worth
stealing to pay these men enough so
that they can afford to fillthem? It isa
question settled many times a day. The
man who can manage large interests
commands a large salary in private cor-
porations. Is the welfare of the city of
less concern and shall the man at its
head be less generously treated? Asa
question of dollars and cents, will it
cost the city more to pay a salary of
$25,000 to a man who earns it than it
will to pay him with honor and have
him plunder $100,000, a sum which
sinks into insignificance when compared
with amounts which have been stolen
from the treasuries of the complaining
cities? That is the condition of things
to-day and it remains to be seen how
long it will take them to look matters
squarely in the face and be governed by
them.

The Tradesman by no means asserts
that all business men are honest. It does
mean to assert that the business man in
every community who is well known
there and is known to be honest and has
won for himself a competency by his
honesty and business ability is the best
man to take care of the public business
of that town; and it asserts, too, that that
community will find itself more pros-
perous by paying its best man a liberal
salary for such management than by
practicing the methods too often now in
vogue. Finally it believes that, in nine
cases out of ten, when the searching
lantern has found its man, that man, the
best for the place, will be in the ranks
of trade.

 

A new headlight for locomotives will,
in the opinion of experts, prove of great
value in certain districts. It is a power-
ful electric lamp, with a reflector so ar-
ranged that the rays will be thrown ver-
tically into the air to a considerable
height. The exact position and direc-
tion of a train will thus be made known
even in hilly districts.

 

General Grobler, of Orange Free State,
is rather versatile in the matter of his
peaceful occupations. He is a grain
grower, an ostrich farmer, a stock raiser
and a diamond mine owner. Although
only 36 years old, he has for some time
past been an influential member of the
volksraad, representing Philopolis.

 

A recent police order in Chicago pro-
hibits freak advertising in the streets.
To one man arrested, dressed as an Irish
knight of olden times and bearing a tin
shield with an advertisement upon it, a
police captain said: ‘‘Why, that rig
would make an automobile balk. It
shall not be permitted.’’

 

 

A man who is short when borrowing
can even up by being long in paying.

 

THE INSIDE TRACK.

Far too much worry is finding expres-
sion in regard to China. If the same
anxious souls who are borrowing all this
trouble would remember that ‘‘ getting
left’’ is not a prominent feature of the
American make-up life would be all the
merrier and far more worth living than
it is now. It is true that other nation-
alities have secured a strong foothold
in the markets of the world. It is also
true that they have controlled these so
long that they seem theirs by predesti-
nation and any approach to these same
markets by another is looked upon as
an invasion and resented accordingly.
Take Great Britain as an example. It
is surprising how many leaves must be
turned back to find the trade beginning
in her commercial history. As a trades-
man she stands at the head of such en-
terprise, a position she has enjoyed for
centuries. Wherever there has been
found a_ people and a place for barter,
not far off will be found the British Jack
with the British cargo. The two are
omnipresent. Like the Phoenician of
the olden time, there are no sands her
keels have not grated, no skies her flag
has not flaunted. China has long been
acquainted with her merchandise. Not
a want has been expressed which Great
Britain has not satisfied. Ever on the
alert, her agents have kept tab with the
Chinaman’s’ growing needs and_ the
goods have come in time to supply
them. To all intents and purposes there
was no possible chance for other coun-
tries to get even the promise of trade
with the Celestials, and behind Great
Britain crowded other countries quarrel-
ing and fighting over the shadow of a
chance which sometimes fell upon them.

That has been the condition for years.
It is so no longer. Without a word of
complaint the United States has watched
and worked and waited. Holding her
soul with patience, sure of herself and
making the most of that that has come
to her, she has not found the China wall
unscalable nor the gates impassable.
Whether the guns at Manila have so
jarred those gates that they have swung
more easily to the American trader
may be a question ; but there is no doubt
about the traffic which has passed
through them from this country. For
the reason which the Tradesman has
often assigned to the American product

its inherent excellence—our exports
are increasing more rapidly in China
than those of any other nation, the an-
nual report showing a gain of almost 4o
per cent. In 1898 our trade was $339,012
larger than in the year before, while the
Great Britain record was less by $82,814,
a sum more portentous in meaning than
important in amount. So much for
Great Britain. When, however, the
same authority states that all the im-
ports into China from Hong Kong and
Macao, supposing them to be from
Europe, included with the imports of
Great Britain and the whole of Europe,
show a gain in European products im-
ported into China of less than 1 per
cent. it does make that 4o per cent. of
gain from this country a_ pleasing state-
ment for American eyes, and it does
strengthen the thought that American
trade in China is getting the inside
track,

The chief imports from this country
into that are cotton goods, kerosene oil,
flour, provisions, railway material and
machines, manufactures of iron and
steel and of wood, and manufactured to-
bacco. The trade in cotton goods shows
little, if any, change, but during the
last three years Dutch sheetings, unable

 

 

to compete in price and quality with the
American goods, have disappeared.
Japan sheetings, on account of inequal-
ity of texture, are doing the same thing.
Manchester, the English head center of
drills, jeans and sheetings, can not
compete with us in price for this class
of goods. Sugar, refined and white,
from this country and American flour
are in increasing demand.
not only holds its own, but is outstrip-
ping the article. In a word,
where American goods are brought into
competition with goods from the long-
established manufacturing houses of all
parts of the world, they invariably take
the lead in popular favor and, to carry
out the figure, not only get the inside
track, but are sure to win the race.

Kerosene

Russian

 

LACK OF THOROUGHNESS.

Director Merriam, of the Census
Bureau, speaking of the percentage of
failures among the applicants for places
under him, says:

They can not spell and they can not
do ordinary arithmetic. Fifty per cent.
fail, and they fail because they can not
divide 100,000 by 40.28; that is, they
can not get a correct result. It is sim-
ply marvelous, the lack of education in
these rudimentary branches. Something
must be radically wrong with our system
of education. Our public schools teach
botany and psychology and sewing and
molding ; but apparently they do not
teach simple arithmetic and spelling.

The same complaint can be made. in
almost every department of business and
professional life. Menare too often in-
competent lack of thoroughness.
They do not understand what they pro-
fess, and want to begin at the top in-
stead of at the bottom. It isa fact which
reflects most seriously upon the schools
of the country, public and private, that
so few of the scholars turned out by
them can write the English language
correctly and quite as few can handle
with arithmetic.
There who graduate in the
classics who can not write a dozen lines
of decent English, and there are others
who passed through the intricacies of
the higher mathematics who can not
work the problems that occur in the
transactions of daily business.

Schools that will turn out young men
who can write their own mother tongue
with correctness, and know
thoroughly the details of business arith-
metic, and who are willing to learn
some useful trade or profession by be-
ginning at the bottom and working their
way up on their merits, can not only
gain high reputations for thoroughness,
but will prove that they are doing most
beneficent work for the public. Their
graduates would at least be able to mect
the demands of competence for appoint-
ment in the Census Bureau, and they
would be fit for any honest business.

from

exactness business

are men

who

The single working girls of Boston
are organizing against married women
who work in restaurants and big stores
for pin money. ‘The girls think that
women who have husbands to support
them ought to stay at home and not in-
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to work for their living.

 

If men do not spend their money for
the things they are expected to spend
for by people who set rules for the con-
duct of others, the simple way is to hold
them up and scare them with the ghost
of public opinion, and rob them.

to be a little hamlet in France named
Aumone. There are only forty inhabi-
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Woman’s World

Comfort Which Comes From Cherishing
Paste Jewels.

There were only we three-—Elise and
myself and she with the touch of silver
in her hair and the wise, kind, far-see-
ing eyes whom we call the woman of
the world. For a while she lay back
content and silent in her long, low
chair, shading her eyes with a hand on
which the jewels gleamed and sparkled,
and then, because it was the time when
the gentle ghosts of memory walk, she
began speaking :

‘IT have been thinking,’’ she said,
‘‘of a little incident, half pathetic, half
humorous, that came under my notice
last summer when I spent some time in
a quiet little country village, still un-
discovered by the general summer va-
grant. My hostess was a thin, wiry lit-
tle woman, with her wisp of hair done
up in a tight knob on the top of her
head, and with her bony hands _ rough-
ened and knotted by years of unremit-
ting drudgery, who eked out a scanty
living by taking boarders. She was one
of those unconscious heroines you find
so often in backwoods places who spend
their lives in bearing other people’s
burdens and doing other people's work
and who go to their graves unappreci-
ated and unrewarded.

‘That was the way with this poor
creature. Heaven knows for what rea-
son, but she had married a great, long,
gangling, good-for-nothing fellow who
was a widower with half a dozen chil-
dren, and who calmly-sat down and _ let
her support the whole lot. Her life
was of the hardest. I don’t suppose
she ever even so much as thought of in-
dulging herself in any pleasure from
year’s end to year’s end. The little
money above the actual daily necessi-
ties went for the girls’ clothes or the
boys’ schooling. As for ‘Ma,’ as even
her husband called her, ever having so
much as a hankering after a_ pretty
dress or a gay ribbon or any little nat-
ural feminine desire for a bit of finery,
nobody ever dreamed of such a thing.
It was the same with the simple _pleas-
ures that came their way. The man had
unending leisure for loafing about the
village store and postoffice. ‘Ma’ was
up early and late, always hard at work.
The girls had time to gossip with the
neighbors. ‘Ma’s’ busy hands were
never idle for an instant. The others
trooped off to picnics. Nobody ever
expected ‘Ma’ to go. She had to stay
at home and cook for the boarders. It
was a life of infinite pathos—all the
more touching that nobody seemed to
have the slightest idea of how fine and
noble was the spirit that could thus sac-
rifice itself without hope of reward in
love or appreciation.

‘*It was one day when the others had
gone off on a junket that ‘Ma’ and |
were sitting out on the vine-covered
back porch when she told me a bit of a
story. Suddenly she leaned towards me
and whispered, ‘What would you say if
I told you I was wearing a diamond
worth more than a thousand dollars?’
I looked at her shabby, faded gown, at
the work-knotted hands, and my face
must have shown my surprise, for she
touched her breast significantly. ‘Here,’
she said, laconically, ‘ina bag around
my neck; I have it where I can always
touch it; it comforts me. When I am
tired out I touch it and it seems to say
that I could rest if 1 wanted to and sit
in a chair rocking myself all day long,
like Mrs. Winn, the judge’s wife.
When I look down at this shabby old

 

 

 

dress and see how ugly and worn it is
and think that I would like something
new and pretty, | touch my diamond
and it says to me that I could buy a silk
frock and a bonnet with feathers in it,
like Mrs. Samson; the storekeeper’s. It
isn’t what we don’t have,’ she contin-
ued shrewdly, ‘that makes us so discon-
tented and miserable as it is the
thought that we can’t have them; and
that’s the way my diamond comforts
me.’

‘* ‘Where did you get it?’ I asked
with curiosity.

‘* *Ma’ looked across the blooming
flower beds, across the dusty street to
where the blue hills rose on the far hori-
zon, and her keen, sharp eyes grew dim
with memories. ‘A long time ago,’ she
said, ‘when I was first married and
come here to live, and--and—when |
wasn't used to things like I am now,
and—and—they seemed harder, there
was a poor, sickly fellow come here one
day and asked to stav all night. He had
nothing but a little bundle of clothes,
and ‘‘they’’—' Ma’ referred to her hus-
band by this euphonious term-—‘‘they’’
told me that I better not take him, but I
dunno how ’twas—something in his eyes
that was kind of lonesome and home-
sick and forlorn, and I was lonesome
and homesick, too, made me open the
door and give him the best I had. That
night he was taken sick and he lingered
on and lingered on and I nursed him
all the summer and way into the fall be-
fore he died. Of course, I didn’t ex-
pect no kind of pay, but just before he
died he called me to him and give me a
diamond that he said was worth more
than a thousand dollars. He made me
first promise that | wouldn’t never tell
anybody, not even ‘‘they’’ and the chil-
dren, and that I wouldn’t never part
with it unless I had got to the very bot-
tom. And I’ve kept my word. Many
and many’s the day I| have been tempted
to sell it. Times have been hard with
us and sometimes I haven’t known
where to find the money to pay on the
mortgage or to buy things to eat, but
I've clung to my diamond and always,
just at the last, something happened,
and we got over the hard place, and |
still had it. Nobody has ever seen it
but me, but if you want to I'll let you
look at it.’

‘* *Ma’ arose, and went into the dark-
ened parlor. She carefully examined
the windows and locked the door, to be
secure against robbers, and then, with
hands that actually trembled with ex-
citement, she drew out her treasure. I
took it in my palm and knew not
whether to laugh or cry, for one glance
was enough to show it to be nothing but
a bit of glass, without lustre or sparkle,
the clumsiest, cheapest possible imita-
tion, not worth a single, solitary sou. I
smothered the exclamation that rushed
to my lips, and ‘Ma’ took it for an in-
articulate expression of wonder and
babbled happily on about it. ‘Isn’t it
wonderful!’ she said, and I regained
presence of mind enough to say, ‘Won-
derful, indeed,’ and she hid it once
more in the front of her gown and went
back to her work.

‘‘After that we had many conversa-
tions about the diamond, but I could
never make out from what she told me
about the man who had given it to. her,
whether he was deceived about it, too,
or whether, even in his death, he had
perpetrated this grim jest upon the ig-
norant and unsophisticated woman who
had befriended him. One thing at least
was sure, and that was, as long as she
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as good to her as if it were. Before |
left her I added my earnest entreaties to
his, begging her under no circumstances
to part with it, and the last I saw of
her she was standing in the doorway, a
shabby, pathetic figure, with her hand
laid significantly upon the place where
her diamond was concealed.”’

‘*But didn’t you tell her it was no ac-
count?’’ demanded Elise. ‘‘Did you
come away leaving her still believing
that bauble of value? Why didn’t you
tell her the truth?’’

‘My dear girl,’’ said the woman of
the world, ‘‘the truth in the mouth of a
fool is like a loaded weapon in the
hands of a child. It is always liable to
go off and mortally wound somebody.
No one should be permitted to handle it
until they arrive at years of discretion.
As for me, heaven defend me from
telling unpleasant truths, except upon
compulsion! If I had convinced that
poor woman that her diamond was noth-
ing but worthless glass, I should have
robbed her of an illusion that makes
her rich and happy and left her poor,
indeed. For that matter she does not
alone. All of us are cherishing
paste jewels—faiths and hopes and_ be-
liefs that our neighbors know for the
worthless things they are, but that to
our ignorant eyes shine with all the
splendor of Golconda. Should we be
happier for being wiser and knowing
them base imitations?

‘‘Il often go to see my friend, Mrs.
A., for example, and am charmed and
delighted at the spectacle of domestic
bliss 1 am permitted to contemplate.
Everything is so exactly as it should
be. Mrs. A. believes Mr. A. to be an
oracle, and never makes an assertion
without backing it up with ‘John says
so and so,’ as if that settled the ques-
tion. She esteems him as a wit and is
firmly convinced that he could pose as
an understudy for Apollo—in short, she
is happy cherishing the fond fancy that
she has become possessed of a jewel
that any other woman would — snatch
from her if she could. Do you suppose,
for an instant, that I would be guilty of
the cruelty of telling her that to me he
looks about the cheapest pinchbeck  or-
nament in the shop; that | think his
opinions narrow and stupid, his wit a
bore, and see nothing in his looks but a
cgmmonplace, midlde-aged man begin-
ning to geta little bald? Not Il! Let
her enjoy her paste jewel, and heaven
defend her from ever finding out it
isn’t worth cherishing.

‘‘It is the same way with one’s chil-
dren. There isn’t a day in the week |
am not called on to burn incense before
some budding Paderewski or listen to
some coming Booth or admire a_ purple
cow in a pink pasture of some embryo
Millais or marvel at the bon mots of fu-
ture wits and humorists. Not for worlds
would I disturb the simple and artless
faith of these doting parents in their
paste jewels. On the contrary, it has
always seemed to me a merciful dispen-
sation of Providence that fathers and
mothers are not connoisseurs in gems,
so that the dulest and ugliest child that
is ever born is just as liable to be
adored and admired and mistaken for a
genius as any other. What a blessing
that the Smiths can’t see how we writhe
under their little Alexander’s tin-pan
piano playing ; that the Robinsons don’t
know that we think their Susie’s- draw-
ings the veriest daubs ever perpetrated
and that the Browns can’t realize we
would go miles to avoid hearing the
parrot-like recitations of their gifted
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course, and worn with an ostentatious
pride that would be ludicrous if it were
not also pathetic.

‘*But do any of us escape?’’ asked the
woman of the world, and her voice
dropped to almost a whisper in the
dusk. ‘‘] think not. |! know that |
have worn the jewel of a love above my
heart that [ found in time to be but a
pretense and a base imitation. I have
cherished friendships that under the
test proved false and valueless. I have
believed in hopes and faiths whose
false glitter faded and left nothing but
a worthless thing in my hand. Yet we
know that somewhere in the world there
is love that is true and steadfast ; friend-
ships that do not falter; faiths and hopes
to keep the heart sweet—real jewels—
and perhaps it is in the fullness of
God’s mercy that we each believe that
we possess the priceless gem, and only
our neighbor, poor fool, is cherishing
the paste jewel.’’ Dorothy Dix.

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Must Pass Through the Period of Blight.
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Pertinent Suggestions for Christmas Show
Windows,

Window display for Christmas may
be crowded too much for the eye to take
in every shoe in the window ata glance.
Simplicity in window dressing being
that which makes some one shoe stand
out strongly, the window should be
trimmed so that people will know all
about one simple shoe and not have just
a suspicion of what it is like, as they
surely will if the window is a jumbling

mass.
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It is not difficult to point out a great
common fault among retailers at this
time of the year in the dressing of their
shoe windows. The indiscriminate
use of mirrors is referred to. Many
good displays are now spoiled on ac-
count of bad judgment in placing mir-
rors. For what will throw a display into
confusion more surely than an injudi-
cious arrangement of mirrors? Nor is
there any rule which can govern the
placing of these. It depends on the re-
tailer’s judgment. Certain it is that
after his mirrors are piaced in the win-
dow the retailer should step outside and
see for himself whether or not they will
spoil the display.

~~ * *

Eighth and Chestnut ( Philadelphia)
seems to be a rendezvous for ingenious
dressers of shoe windows. One of the
most attractive to be seen there now has
a background of dressed Russian calf-
skins, which line the’ back of the win-
dow solidly from top to bottom. On the
bottom of the window, alternate strips
of orange and white cheese cloth,
plaited and pinched into puffs, are con-
spicuous. Orange colored crepe tissue
paper is cut into strips about three
inches wide and six feet long, each
Strip twisted six or eight times until it
assumes the shape of a corkscrew, and
then it is tacked at top and bottom, the
strips being in a perpendicular posi-
tion and placed close together at the
sides of the window.

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On Market street, near Twelfth street,
may be seen a display of white and yel-
low hoops, used as auxiliaries in draw-
ing attention of passersby to the very
neat display of shoes in the window.
The hoops are about a dozen in number
and each is about twelve inches in
diameter, made of heavy wire, covered
with crepe paper, half in oran ge, half
in white, the paper being tied around
the hoops in puffs. The hoops are sus-
pended from the ceiling at various
heights by means of white cords. A
shoe is fastened by the strap to the top
of the hoop, thus allowing the shoe to
swing to the center. Each shoe has an
illustrated price card—a picture of some
hero of Manila or Santiago, cut from
the newspaper, on the left, and large
type printed matter in the center.

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Not an unattractive display is that of
a retailer who has infants’ shoes around
the edge of his window, mirrors three
feet square on the right and left sides
of the windows, and between them, at
the rear, a third mirror, 3 feet wide and
4% feet high. On either side of the
large mirror stand two pillars, 434 and
334 feet high, respectively ; from the top
of each side mirror light frame-work
runs to the top of the large mirror, and
over this frame is hung white cheese-
cloth in heavy puffs, trimmed with smi-
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rors.
* * *

Mark every pair of shoes you have in
your window this month in plain
numerals and have but one price. The
plan of penny change is a good one.
For instance, you buy a pair of shoes
for $2.25 that should retail at $3, but in-
stead of marking it $3, you mark it
$2.98 and give the purchaser the exact
change. This is an excellent idea, for
to the average purchaser $2.98 sounds
much cheaper than $3, and your profits
are lessened insignificantly.

* *+ +£

Is it ‘*faking’’ to mark $3 shoes $2. 98?
Hardly. Department stores, reliable
ones at that, do it, and while they thrive
on a profiton which the regular shoe
dealer would starve, it does not alter the
fact. Take a retailer doing $10,000
worth of business a year. His profits
will hardly exceed 10 per cent., which
is less than he would receive as a man-
ager in a big shoe department. Take
the department store next. It gets at
the outset a trade discount for cash of
from 4 to 7 percent. Wanamaker is
doing a retail business of $11, 000, 000
Or $12,000,000 a year. See what 5 per
cent. on that would be, and yet 5 per
cent. would not allow a regular shoe

dealer to live.
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On Ridge avenue, Philadelphia, last
week, a good idea was observed in a re-
tailer’s store where it is presumed there
are many young customers. It was a
platform raised about six inches, in
front of a counter where goods were
wrapped up and where the candy show
case was kept. Children with pennies
to invest in confectionery wanted every
time to look over the whole stock before
making a choice, and their mammas
were pleased rather than otherwise at
the children’s curiosity. The platform
scheme must be popular with -the
youngsters in that neighborhood, be-
cause they are not obliged to ‘‘rubber
neck’’ when selecting what they want to
buy. —Shoe and Leather Facts.

>.> _____

The Man Who Never Was a Boy.
Of all the men the world has seen

Since Time his rounds began,
There’s one I pity every day—

Earth’s first and foremost man;
Just think of all the fun he missed

By failing to enjoy

The dear delights of youthtime,
For—he never was a boy.

He never stubbed his naked toe
Against a root or stone,

He never with a pin-hook fished
For minnows all alone.

He never sought the bumblebee,
Among the daisies coy,

Nor felt its business end,
Because—he never was a boy.

He never hookey played, nor tied
A bright and shining pail,
Down in the alley all alone,
To a trusting poodle’s tail.
And when he home from swimmin’ came,
His pleasure to destroy,
No slipper interfered,
Because—he never was a boy.

He might remember splendid times
In Eden’s bowers—yet

He never acted Romeo
To a Six-year Juliet.

He never sent a valentine
Intended to annoy

His good but maiden aunt,
Because—he never was a boy.

He never cut a kite string, no,
Nor hid an Easter egg;

He never spoiled his pantaloons
A playin’ mumbley-peg.

He never from the attie stole
A coon hunt to enjoy,

Nor found the “old man” waitin’,
For—he never was a boy.

I pity him. why should I not?
I even drop a tear;

He never knew how much he missed—
He never will, I fear.

And always when those dear old days
My memories employ,

I ad him, Earth’s only man

yho—never was a boy.

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Some of the Requirements of a Successful
Salesman.

To my mind there are five require-
ments which the successful salesman
must possess, as follows:

1. Thorough knowledge of the article
to be sold.

2. Discretion or judgment.

3. Application and adaptability.

Fair treatment in all things and
to all people.

5. Confidence between the house and
the salesman.

Under these headings I would discuss
the subject as follows:

1. A thorough knowledge of the
article sold requires that the salesman
should know what the article should do
to fulfill its duties to aid or benefit man-
kind; he should be able to tell its origin
or of what it is composed, or how it is
constructed, ina clear and intelligent
manner.

2. Discretion or judgment enables
him to compare with those of his com-
petitors the articles he has for sale, and
show their superior points of merit. He
should be able to judge whether a_ mer-
chant could use his wares to advantage,
and also to decide if the merchant whom
he hopes to sell would be of an advan-
tage or benefit to his goods; for it is a
fact that men whom we say are ‘‘wide
awake’’ or ‘‘hustlers’’ will take an article
of little or no merit and make a_ success
of it, while others without energy or
push will make no progress with an ar-
ticle of decided merit, but, in many
cases, a failure of it.

3. By application and adaptability is
meant that the salesman should apply
his efforts steadily, daily and hourly.
In no walk of life is the man successful
who works part of the time and _loiters
the remainder, or who works one day
and neglects his business the next.

Then, also, he must adapt himself to
circumstances and conditions. Some-
times he finds the merchant has given a
competitor an order, and, therefore,
needs nothing in his line at that time.

‘Then a salesman gets angry and tries to

make the merchant ‘‘sorry of his  bar-
gain’’ by traducing his ccmpetitor or
his house, or by quoting him prices as
baits that are below market price or
value, and such as his house would not
authorize or accept; this is bad practice
and bad policy. When such an emer-
gency arises he should make the best of
the situation gracefully and hope for
better results next time.

4. Fair treatment in all things and
to all people implies that a salesman
should fairly and honestly represent his
line and his house at all times and in
all places. Too many men fail to real-
ize, from their appearance or actions,
what value or reliance the merchant or
public places in them or their houses.
If a man is found untruthful, deceitful,
negligent or careless in business, peo-
ple are very apt to say, ‘‘Well, that
house is not reliable, or they would not
employ such a man.’’

A salesman should not promise a mer-
chant an extra price, extra terms, or an
inducement of any kind, no matter how
small, without intending to fulfillit. If
a merchant, friend or brother traveler is
promised anything, the agreement
should be carried out to the letter; or,
if any change is made, it should ex-
ceed, but in no case prove less than was
promised.

A salesman should be honest with
himself and his house. I remember
meeting a new man, a competitor of

 

mine, particularly. He was selling goods
manufactured in a town in lowa, Iti

was his second season out, and he was
a successful salesman, and his house ex-
ceedingly prosperous, because where he
had sold the merchant an article the
previous year he was this year selling
him two, three, or even ten of the ar-
ticles. From this point of view he was
a success, but from other points he was
a failure. First, because he was selling
an article, claimed to be equaled by
none, at a cut price. Second, when he
was selling these merchants two, three
and ten times as many goods as the
previous year, he was only selling them
from 25 to 50 per cent. of the goods they
needed of like kinds to supply their
trade. Third, his factory made eight
different kinds of machines, and this
self-supposed successful man was only
selling two, or not to exceed three, of
the kinds of goods manufactured by his
house. A man who is a success as a
salesman for a house must sell all of the
different goods handled by that house,
and must be able to supply the mer-
chant with all, or the larger per cent. of
them needed in his trade.

5. Confidence between the house and
salesman. A house should employ no
man whom they can not trust, and feel
that he is working for them as well
when he is out of sight (so to speak) as
if he was in sight all of the time in their
office. Also, a traveler should never be
out of sight of his house, or, in other
words, the house should know where he
is each day. He should communicate
with the house often and freely, and if
to secure an order it becomes necessary
to exceed instructions from the house,
they should be told all of the reasons;
and the house should grant them, if
there is any profit in the order, for often
small orders taken under adverse cir-
cumstances lead to good and profitable
trade.

Then the salesman who looks after the
small order with care and attention, as
well as the large one, is generally the
man who, at the end of the year, will
foot up his sales in large numbers, and
will also find a goodly per cent. of profit
in his work—both for himself and the
house.

Along this line of thought might also
be placed the individuality of the house,
the credit man and the salesman. Often-
times you will find a salesman who
thinks that he, and he alone, is respon-
sible for big trade and good results.
Then the credit man throws himself a
bouquet, and says it is all his work that
has made the house a success. And
then sometimes the house or manager
says, ‘‘We sell the goods, and we can
send any salesman out and get our usual
business.’’ Success depends on the con-
fidence each one has in the other, and
all should work together as though mem-
bers of one family and put the earnings
in the iarge *‘ Jack Pot,’’ and in the end
all are justly proud and can say, We are
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: The Meat Market —

 

How the Department Stores Cut Into the
Butcher.

The butchers tell me that the trade in
turkeys, the Thanksgiving just passed,
was not up to what it has been in pre-
vious years, but offer no explanation to
account for the falling off in the de-
mand. The papers and business men
generally tell us that the country is ex-
ceedingly prosperous ; that everyone has
money now and is spending it. Peo-
ple who have money to spend would not
fail to invest a portion of it in a good
Thanksgiving day meal, and turkey be-
ing the principal article of food on that
day, the statement of the butchers and
the statement of the big business men
seem to be at variance. Either the
prosperity cry is a hoax or the butchers
are not telling the truth. Such is the
conclusion one would naturally come to,
did he not know differently ; but I know
differently. I know that the prosperity
of which we hear is real, that the con-
sumption of turkey in New York last
Thursday was as great as, if not greater
than it ever was, and that the butchers
did not receive their usual share of this
trade. The big department stores did
the bulk of the business.

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No other result could have been ex-
pected. Every day fora full week be-
fore Thanksgiving Day the department
Stores used pages of advertising space
in the newspapers to boom their turkey
orders. One store would sell only one
turkey to each customer. Another
offered an eight-pound turkey free to
every purchaser of $5 worth of groceries.
Another firm gave one to every person
who bought an overcoat. And the public
that heretofore went to the regular
butcher flocked to the department and
clothing stores. In the City of New
York not less than 500,000 turkeys were
eaten last Thursday and, of this num-
ber, stores other than regular meat mar-
kets sold and gave away 125,000. Had
the 2,500 retail butchers of New York
City sold all of the 500,000 turkeys, it
would have meant an average of 200 tur-
keys for each, at an average profit on
each of 30 cents, or $60 profit on the 200.
Instead of which their profit amounted
to only $45, and that of the department
Stores to $50,000 or more, because they
charged 14c per pound instead of 12c.

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f don’t know that the above is of very
great interest to the butchers, many of
whom pooh at talk against department
stores and declare they don’t do the re-
tail butchers ten cents’ worth of harm.
But I should like to convince those who
have that opinion that they are far from
right. The department stores took away
$15 from every butcher in New York
City last week. That isa good many
times more than ten cents. There may
be some butchers who are accumulating
wealth so rapidly that the loss of $15
does not count for anything ; but there
are hundreds who can not afford to lose
that amount, and who had counted on a
larger profit from the Thanksgiving Day
trade than they realized. To those
butchers I am now talking. They are
the ones who must, some day, Start a
gigantic movement against department
stores. The rich butchers, who don’t
mind a $15 loss, will not awaken to the
department store danger until their
losses go into the hundreds. That day
will come, too, unless more interest is
taken than is now manifest.

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department store bill hearing in the City
Hall about a year ago, expecting that a
numerous delegation of butchers would
be present to speak—or have a repre-
sentative to do it for them—in favor of
the anti bill. I was surprised to find
only half a dozen butchers there and
they were all from one association, the
west side one. The other associations
did not consider the matter of enough
importance to send a single delegate.
That hearing was a big fizzle. To three
who spoke for the department stores one
spoke against them. The gentleman
who had been led to believe that the
retail merchants of the city were op-
posed to the big stores and on that
ground had introduced the bill was dis-
gusted at the showing made, and for
aught I know, tore his bill up. At any
rate nothing has been heard about it
since. Those butchers who made $45
on turkeys where they expected $60
last week will probably attend the next
anti-department store bill hearing, if
one is ever held.
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The flocking of the dear public to the
department stores for its turkey is an-
other big chunk of proof that the people
like to be humbugged. Take as an in-
stance the big place on Third avenue
that advertised: ‘‘Only one turkey to
a person, Our price 14 cents per
pound.’’ People came from Jersey City
and the suburban towns to take advan-
tage of this ‘‘bargain,’’ and carried
home with them the burden. They could
have gone to their nearest butcher and
bought just as good a bird for 12 cents
a pound and had it sent home.

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While on the subject of Thanksgiving
and turkeys | wiil take advantage of the
opportunity to say something of adver-
tising the same. The department stores
were not alone in going after the pub-
lic in the newspapers. In one paper |
find this:

What a pleasant reminder of a day
when joy and good fellowship abound.
Visions of the table loaded down with
tempting viands and the noble turkey as
‘Jord of the feast.’’ To procure a fine,
juicy turkey, come and sce us, as we
have purchased five carloads of live
poultry from the neighborhood country
farms which we will dispose of at a
very small profit. Come early and take
your choice. Fancy turkeys, toc;
geese, ducks, chickens, 8c to Ioc.

Not so bad for a butcher’s advertise-
ment, is it? But imagine picking up
5,000 turkeys from ‘‘the neighboring
country farms!’-——Stroller in Butchers’
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Organized 1881.
Detroit, Michigan.

Cash Capital, $400,000. Net Surplus, $200,000.
Cash Assets, $800,000.
D. WHITNEY, Jr., Pres.
D. M. Ferry, Vice Pr-s.
F. H. Wurrney, Secretary.
M. W. O’BrIeN, Treas.
E. J. Boorn, Asst. Sec’y.
DIRECTORS. f
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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. P, Baldwin, Hugo
Scherer, F. A. Schulte, Wm. V. Brace,
James McMillan, F. E. Driggs, Henry
Hayden, Collins B. Hubbard, James D.
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Alex. Chapoton, Jr., Geo. H. Barbour, S.
G. Gaskey, Chas. Stinchfield, Francis F.
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BUTTER EGGS BEANS

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sent promptly. Full market values guaranteed
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Gentlemen: We got your oysters again this morning with the usual
promptness and quality as fine as ever. I must say that in all my experience, cov-
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uniform in size as the oysters we have been getting from you this year. We trust
that we will be able to handle even larger lots from now on than in the past. No
doubt, judging from the recommendations of the goods, we will be able to break
the record of ourtown. —_‘Yours respt’y, Stirling, Crawford & Co., per Smith.

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Fruits and Produce.

Why Michigan Leads in Sugar Beet Cul-
ture.
From the Sugar Beet.

As has_ been previously pointed out,
the laboratory for the sugar elaboration
of the beet is in the leaves ; the quantity
of sugar the beet contains is almost in
direct ratio to the area of the leaf de-
velopment. So that the requisite trans-
formation may occur, which is the utili-
zation of the carbonic acid of the air,
and its series of subsequent transforma-
tions, there must be ample sunshine.
Evidently the further north one goes the
longer the days; the reverse is true when
moving south. When we consider that
at the center of the sugar beet cultiva-
tion of Germany (we refer to Magde-
burg) the duration of sunshine is nearly
two hours greater than at Richmond,
Va., for example, do what we may, of
the beets cultivated in the vicinity of
the two cities, the German beet will
contain the more sugar for the reason
that the longer period of light in that
country allows greater changes during
the physiological plant processes. Years
ago, during the agitation for sugar beet
cultivation in Canada, we urged that
the subject receive serious attention, for
the days there are in length more like
those found in Continental Europe than
exist in most parts of the United States.

If one examines the map of this coun-
try it will be readily seen that Michi-
gan, from its northern geographical
position, can claim advantages for hours
of sunshine or daylight that few other
states where the sugar beet is cultivated
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American sugar beet industry, we
should always take into consideration
the disadvantages of latitude we labor
under as compared with Europe; our
beets may, for the time being, show
sugar percentages equal if not greater
than those of Germany, France or
Austro-Hungary, but will such condi-
tions continue? Ifone takes an average
of the hours of daylight for any area
they may select in the United States
they can, for themselves, make a com-
parison with those of Northern Germany
and Russia and realize what the true
conditions are.
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How a Country Bank Is Formed.

The man who begins his career carry-
ing around drafts for a bank in a big
city and becomes gray-headed or bald-
headed at forty from working ten or
twelve hours a day as cashier knows lit-
tle about the life of a country banker.
Nowadays many of the banks in the
larger villages have ‘‘put on airs’’ and
put up buildings of brick and stone,
with plate-glass windows, steam heat,
and gorgeously decorated railings and
counters, while the president and _ cash-
ier sit in their leather-seated, swing-
back chairs. But the company which
has such a home constructed out of the
surplus may not be half as solid finan-
cially as the little one-story affair across
the way, where a part of a store has
been fitted up with an old-fashioned
safe and cast-iron railings, and where
one man acts as cashier and book-keeper
and runs about town at the noon hour to
collect drafts.

One can find the old-fashioned banks
in many of the smaller towns yet, and
some of them are a study to the city
people accustomed to stand in rows be-
fore the teller’s window and to draw out
money or have their accounts credited at
the rate of a thousand dollars a minute.
A great many of the — banks are
formed in this way: Half a dozen mer-
chants happen to get together, perhaps
down at the village hotel, with a lawyer
or so, possibly a doctor and occasionally
some of the factory people, if the town
has any such industry. The talk turns
from politics, the weather and the crops
to business, then some one says the town
is big enough to have a bank ; that there
is no reason for going ten miles over to
Smithtown and giving all the business
into that place, and some one else asks
the lawyer to explain the legal proceed-
ings necessary to get up an account.
They figure on how much stock Peter

 

Jones will take, how much stock John
Smith will take, and some one says that
he believes Old Man Brown, who does
most of the ‘‘note shaving,’’ can be in-
duced to put a little money into the con-
cern if he sees Io per cent. profit in it.
A committee goes to see Brown, who
is generally the closest and richest man
in town, while the lawyer draws up for-
mation papers, with the understanding
that he is to be the bank attorney. Ina
day or two the bank is one of the topics
of conversation around the stove of every
store in the town, and at all the cross-
roads for a dozen miles around. Old
Man Brown puts his name down for a
dozen shares and everybody says it must
be a good thing. In this way the bank
is formed. Part of one of the stores is
rented, fenced around with an iron rail-
ing with a hole for receiving and paying
out money, and business begins, usually
with one man. It is a rare thing if the
bank does not earn a dividend of 6 per
cent. at least during the first year, but
the shrewd farmers and_ tradespeople
save this up for a ‘‘rainy day’’ when
money is scarce and a surplus fund may
come in handy in case of a‘‘run.’’ The
new building may come a little later,
but there is no hurry about it just yet.

The agents for burglar-proof vaults
and safes and a hundred other contriv-
ances swarm into the town and leave
without getting an order, and things go
on smoothly until after a few years it is
announced at the annual meeting that
the capital stock had better be doubled,
as business has increased so that it is
necessary. The books often show a sur-
plus as large as the capital. And so it
goes until the little group of merchants
and farmers, the manufacturer, and the
lawyer, possibly the town doctor, find
their shares can be sold at double what
they paid for them. When the cashier
goes to the city he is surprised at the
deference with which the president of
the corresponding bank addresses him.
He may not be aware that this institu-
tion, with all its elegance and massive-
ness as far as the offices and building
are concerned, has really less money on
its surplus account than his own modest
concern.

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Important Decision About Oleo in New
York.

The Supreme Court of the State of
New York, Appellate Division, Second
Department, in the case of the People
vs. Meyer, has just decided that a seller
of oleomargarine is liable to the statu-
tory penalties whether he knows that it
is oleomargarine or not. Meyer isa
Brooklyn grocer who sold the butter
substance as butter. He escaped the
consequence of the law because it was
not shown that he had in any way
changed the appearance or the body of
the original substance. On this particu-
lar point the court, in handing down its
decision, said:

It is settled that the Legislature can
not constitutionally prohibit the sale of
oleomargarine, except so far as the prod-
uce is made to simulate some other
substance, and. thereby deceive the peo-
ple. In order, therefore, that the ex-
press prohibition against the manufac-
ture and sale of oleomargarine * *
shall be deemed constitutional it is es-
sential to construe that prohibition with
the remainder of the section, as for-
bidding only the manufacture and _ sale
of oleomargarine when it is manufac-
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Canned Shrimp a Coming Specialty.

Canned shrimp is said to be growing
in popular favor, partly because of- the
great scarcity of lobster, tor which they
have been largely substituted in salads,
thus bringing them to the notice of peo-
ple who had never before used them.
The demand of late has been large and
has caused a_ considerable advance in
prices, while the tendency is still up-
ward.

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the public wants, but it requires genius
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WHOLESALE DEALER IN

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cents, according to quality. Send me your shipments, for I can sell your goods.
REFERENCES:

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Peoples Bank, Buffalo, N. Y.

Dun or Bradstreet.
Michigan Tradesman.

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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
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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.

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We are now receiving fruit daily from SONORA, Mexico. 1
strictly sound, is packed in California boxes, sizes good. We quote $3.25 delivered in
car lots. W rite 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.

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GOTHAM GOSSIP.

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

New York, Dec. g—The cargoes of
‘plague’’ coffee are still a disturbing
feature of the market, but it seems like-
ly that in the end the Health Board will
yield to the many petitions and let the
coffee be landed if everything is done
‘“‘decently and in order.’’ The idea of
all this coffee going to some other port
is not at all pleasant and, if sucha
precedent is established, lots of other
coffee will likely be taken to other ports.
Meantime, as developments are awaited
in the matter, the market is unsettled;
not perceptibly stronger—possibly a lit-
tle weaker than on last Saturday. For-
eign advices have not been of a charac-
ter to strengthen this market and the
immediate outlook is for a_ slightly
lower range. In store and afloat the
stock aggregates 1,225,174 bags, against
1,066,027 bags at the same time last
year. At the close Rio No. 7 is about
steady at 67%c. For mild sorts there is
a steady trade and the general condition
shows almost daily improvement. Good
Cucuta has advanced to g%c, a higher
quotation than has been made for some
time. East India growths have been in
about the usual demand and _ quotations
remain practically unchanged.

For a long time there have been
rumors of dissension within the Sugar
Trust, but nothing definite came to light
until Friday, when it developed that F.
O. Matthiessen would withdraw) from
the Board of Directors. It is said that
others may follow suit, but the disturb-
ance seems to be beyond control and
everybody waits to see what the next
move will be. Matthiessen himself
gives no idea of what he will do in the
future. His resignation created great
astonishment, as he is credited with be-
ing the largest inside holder of common
stock and_ his relations with the Have-
meyer family appear to have been. very
friendly. Rumor has it that he will now
become the head of another huge sugar
manufactory, but, of course, such re-
ports can not be confirmed. Mr. Mat-
thiessen has had a wide experience in
sugar refining and probably knows more
about it than any other man save Have-
meyer. Sugar stock took a tumble from
152 to 147.

During the latter part of the week a
fairly firm tone has developed and
quite a fair volume of business in re-
fined has been transacted. A good share
of the business is still in withdrawing
under old contracts, but new orders have
come at quite a satisfactory rate from all
parts. List prices are still maintained.

While tea buyers show no anxiety to
take more than everyday supplies, the
sellers show no anxiety to part with
their holdings save at quotations which
they firmly believe will be held from
now on, if, indeed, there be no ad-
vance. Invoice trading is dull.

While the rice market has ruled quiet
during the week, the indications are
very favorable, it is said, for a very
good trade a little later, as it is thought
dealers generally have light supplies on
hand. Foreign grades are generally in
light supply and the market is decided-
ly firm all around. Prime to choice do-
mestic is worth 5'%@53éc. Japan is
worth 476@s5c. Domestic Japan is in
light supply.

Im spices little of importance has
taken place during the week. The gen-
eral condition rather favors sellers and
they seem disinclined to make any con-
cession. Pepper is especially well held
and quotations on Singapore of 12@12%c
are about correct.

Stocks of desirable grades of molasses
are light, but the demand is very mod-
erate and the situation during the week
has been dull and featureless. Good to
prime centrifugals are quotable at 18
@25c; open kettle, 4o@s5oc. Syrups are
meeting with rather better enquiry from
exporters and the home trade, too, is
showing greater interest. Prime to
fancy sugar syrup is quotable at 19@25c.

The canned goods market is irregular,
with practically all stock in second
hands. Offerings are liberal one day
and seemingly very restricted the next.
Prices are firm and concessions are not

 

made except as a ‘‘matter of neces-
sity,’’ the general tendency being to
higher quotations. The most uncertain
thing on the list is the tomato. Neither
buyer nor seller seems to care much
about it and it is hard to tell whether
the future will see lower or higher rates.
Just now they are selling from 77% to
80c_ for No. 3 Jersey packing. Mary-
land, 7oc here.

= the dried fruit market appears to
have gone to pieces. Hardly a spark
of interest is shown by buyers save for
some little call for nice stock for the
holidays. The one exception is dates.
For some reason there is a great demand
for them and the market has made_ sev-
eral advances and stock of any kind is
hard to find.

Lemons are firmer and the bidding at
auction has been very spirited. Fancy
oranges are selling at good figures, but
ordinary stock lacks animation and
quite a good deal of rot shows in arriv-
als of Floridas.

The butter market closes with the sup-
ply of fancy creamery at a very low
ebb. The demand is not especially ac-
tive, but the undertone of the market re-
mains firm and the outlook favors  sell-
ers. For best grades 27c seems to be
readily obtained; thirds to firsts, 23@
26c ; imitation creamery, 18@22c; fac-
tory, Junes, 16@18c.

-heese is in moderate movement, but
the demand is not one large enough to
cause higher quotations. Small fancy
full cream of September make will
bring 123(@13¢, with large size 4c less.

Western fresh gathered eggs are worth
from 23@24c. The market is active for
goods that will stand the test and_ there
is a decided scarcity of really desirable
stock.

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The widow of the late Governor At-
kinson, of Georgia, who, owing to her
Sstraitened circumstances, recently be-
came state agent for certain fire and life
insurance companies, is reported thus
far to have proven the most capable and
successful person to hold that position.

 

 

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 wh ch
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-
ie 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.

 

 

 

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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.

[iene Commission Co.,
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Shipments and correspondence solicited.

 

Hanselman’s Fine Chocolates

Name stamped on each piece of the genuine. No up-to-date
dealer can afford to be without them.

Hanselman Candy Co.
Kalamazoo, Mich.

 

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2. Run your business on strictly business principles.

3- Purchase only such goods as you would be satisfied to have
served in your own household.

4. Buy as nearly for cash as practical and make this apply to
your selling as well.

5. Pay your bills when due; this is quite essential.

6. Sell only the “N. R. & C.” brand spices; this is most
important to you.

NORTHROP, ROBERTSON & CARRIER,
LANSING, MICH.

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Guitars, Banjos,
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Boxes, Cornets, Clarinets, Accordeons, Harmonicas,
Piano Scarfs, Piano Stools, etc.
If you intend purchasing anything in the music line
call on or write to

prices. We keep an
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of Pianos,
Paniolas,
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Commercial Travelers

Michigan Knights of the Grip
President, CHAS. L. STEVENS, ae Sec-
Sa J.C. SAUNDERS, Lansing; Treasurer,
wis GouLp, Saginaw.

 

 

Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Association
President, JAMES E. Day, Detroit; ee
and Treasurer, Cc. WW. ALLEN, Detroit.

 

United Commercial Travelers of Michigan
Grand Counselor, JNO. A. MURRAY, Detroit;
Grand Secretary, G. S. VALMORE, Detroit;
Grand Treasurer, W. S. Mest, Jackson

Grand Rapids Council No. 131
Senior Counselor, D. E. KEYES;
Treasurer, L. F. Baker.

 

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Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Mutual Accident Association

President, J. BoyD PANTLIND, Grand Rapids;
Secretary and Treasurer, Gro. F. OWEN,
Grand Rapids.

 

 

Gripsack Brigade.

E. Stebbins, furniture dealer at
Mears, has purchased the Mears Hotel
and refitted and refurnished the same.

Dr. D. S. Hatfield has signed for the
fourth year to represent Hecht & Zum-
mach, paint and glass manufacturers of
Milwaukee.

R. M. Dively, formerly with the
Proctor & Gamble Co., succeeds Peter
Fox as traveling representative for the
Musselman Grocer Co.

Owosso Times: Fletcher Connor,
salesman for the Acme White Lead
Works, of Detroit, is in the city to re-
main until after the holidays.

W. D. Downey, who has covered
Southwestern Michigan for several years
for E. B. Millar & Co., of Chicago, has
engaged in the tea, coffee and spice
business at Benton Harbor under the
style of the Michigan Tea and Coffee
Co.

Buchanan Record: Landlord J. M.
Doty, of Hotel Lee has disposed of his
interests to Mr. Geo. F. Noble, of Bat-
tle Creek, who assumed charge of the
hotel on Monday morning. Mr. and
Mrs. Doty, who have made many
friends here during their residence in
Buchanan will go to Buffalo, N. Y.,
where he will engage in business.

Shoe and Leather Facts: It is the
consensus of opinion among shoe sales-
men that the retailers of the country
have, because of the rise in leather,
bought more goods than they want and
while they are having a good trade, they
will be very apt to pick flaws in goods
which would not be essential if they
were not overloaded. There will un-
doubtedly be many goods returned.

L’Anse Sentinel: Harry Work, the
popular salesman for Woodward & Stone
of Watertown, Wis., will be a Benedict
the next time he calls on his customers
here, so he has quietly informed a few
of his intimate friends. The bride-to-
be is a young lady of Illinois. Owing
to family affairs the wedding is to be
very quiet. Harry has many friends in
this section, who will wish him and his
bride a happy and prosperous wedded
life.

Owosso Times: H. L. Kendrick, of
St. Johns, who had charge of the Black
& Son stock of dry goods for several
weeks, has accepted a position with
Wilson, Larrabee & Co., of Boston,
wholesale dealers in dry goods, and will
go on the road for them in January.
His territory will be in this State. Mr.
Kendrick added to the number of his
Owosso friends while here looking after
the Black stock, and all of his friends
unite in wishing him success in his
new position.

Detroit Tribune: Commercial travel-
ers of Detroit, at a meeting held at the
Hotel Cadillac Saturday evening, Dec.
2, arranged preliminaries for the organ-

 

ization of a new fraternai benefit asso-
ciation. Samuel Rosenfield was chair-
man and W. J. Booth secretary. A com-
mittee consisting of J. W. Dean, Wil-
liam Baier, John McLean and E. R.
Wills, appointed to investigate the plan
of insurance to be adopted, reported in
favor of what is known as the Ben Hur
system. Policies will be issued for
$2,000 and $1,000, payable to beneficiary
at death. A. S. Degolia is the first
honorary member. The society will be
known as the Detroit Traveling Men’s
Association and will hold its next meet-
ing Dec. 16.

The most agreeable personage to be
found onthe road is an intelligent and
obliging hotel clerk. A clerk that is
successful is the one that can answer
accurately and with full knowledge of
the correctness of the statement, whether
the northbound train leaves at 9:30
o’clock or at a later or earlier hour;
whether the bus comes twenty or thirty
minutes before train time; whether the
street car runs by the depot and at what
intervals the cars run; whethera certain
competitor has been in town within the
last ten days; whether baggage can be
checked from the hotel; whether any
one has called up over the telephone
or any telegrams have been received ;
whether a negro minstrel performance
or an opera holds the boards at the
theater; whether the mail is delivered
within two hours after arrival of train
in the city, and 10,000 other questions
which help to make him agreeable if he
has such a desire. It certainly ought to
be a clerk’s most earnest desire to be
able to impart all information possible
to the guest, and at the same time be
sure of giving correct replies to every
piece of information sought. Not long
ago a prominent traveling man who
was stopping at a hotel in Central
Texas enquired whether there was a
night train to a certain town and the
clerk replied that there was and that it
left at 9:30. Thetraveling man did not
take the train, thinking he would have
sufficient time by going at night. When
time for departure of night train came
it was discovered that this train had
been discontinued for ten days. Now
the clerk was solely responsible for this
man losing a day and the hotel should
have paid his expenses for the day lost
at least—but instead the clerk claimed
that it was not his business to give in-
formation about trains and that the trav-
eling man _ should have secured the in-
formation direct from the railroad, and,
strange to say, the hotel proprietor
when appealed to sustained the clerk in
his stand. A_ hotel proprietor or clerk
who deliberately misinforms a traveler
in regard to the departure of trains
ought not only to pay his expenses but
damages besides, as it is the duty of
clerks to secure such information for the

benefit of the guests.
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Make No Prices on Future Tomatoes,

At a meeting of the Indiana Packers’
Association in Indianapolis recently,
the price which the Western packers
should name on futures was discussed.
The general opinion was that about 874
cents delivered was about the proper
minimum figure for next season’s three-
pound standard tomatoes, and some of
the prominent packers leaned to the
opinion that a minimum price should
be named and offered a resolution set-
ting forth that the advance in the cost
of materials necessitated a price on to-
matoes of not less than 85 cents per
dozen. The majority of the packers
thought it safer, however, to make no
future prices, and adopted_a resolution
to that effect.

Beginning of the Twentieth Century.
From the New York Sun.

The Sun has received so many evi-
dences of confused minds regarding the
beginning of the Twentieth Century that
it will present a proof that the Twenti-
eth Century begins after the year 1Goo is
ended, in the shape of a little conversa-
tion :

Question—What is a year?

Answer—Three hundred and sixty-five
days.

What is a century?

One hundred years.

When did the year No. 1 end?

December 31 of the year 1.

When did the year No, 2 begin?

January 1, of the year 2

When did the year 99

December 31, A. D.

Did that complete a mee

No.

When was the century completed?

At the close of the year following 99,
or at the close of the year 100.

When did the second century begin?

January 1 of the year 1 of the second
century, that is, January 1, A. D. tor.

When did the 19th century end?

At the close of the nineteen hundredth
year, or at the close of 1900.

Q. When does the 2oth century be-
gin?

A. It begins on day No. 1 of year
No. 1 of the 2oth hundred years-—that
is, on Jan. 1, A. D. Igot.

We must still see two Christmases be-
fore the twentieth century dawns.

Se
The Man Milliner.

The success of Mr. Worth and other
more recent noted men dressmakers and
milliners has stimulated masculine in-
terests in the desires and tastes of the
world feminine.

In New York City alone there are
three men who have deserted the ordi-
nary vocations of their sex to make _ be-
witching millinery and are doing so well
that they threaten to outrival all their
feminine competitors. One of these
men is a house-to-house milliner—that
is he takes engagements to trim hats by
the day in his patrons’ homes, and _ his
start in life was made as a book-keeper.
Finding only poor pay and unhealthy
confinement in this profession, and feel-
ing an innate decorator’s talent, he
worked all day at his books and prac-
ticed alone in his room every evening,
with the aid of a dummy head and a
few plumes, scarfs and felt frames, at
hatmaking.

When he felt himself proficient in his
art he solicited patronage and proved | 4?
so satisfactory to the women who gave
him a chance that he now possesses as
large a clientele as he can handle. His
charges are $4 a day and his special
achievement is the clever renovation of
hats. In.a small satchel he carries his
sewing materials and in a sewing-room
or a quiet corner he snips, fits, ties
bows, poises plumes, refaces, steams,
presses and generally does over, to the
complete satisfaction of those who em-
ploy him.

Another man milliner, but with wert
ideals, opened a tiny shop near Sixth
avenue, displayed his models in the

 

 

in Fur, Stiff and Wool.

Send us a trial order.
at our : xpense.

We make a specialty of mail orders.

 

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
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.
If goods are not satisfactory and price right—return
Have one of our travelers call on you.
show you one of the finest lines you have ever seen.

Our acquaintance will be profitable to you we trust.
G. H, GATES & CO., 143 Jefferson Ave., Detroit, Mich.

window, raised a : sign and signified his
readiness to take orders. Apparently
there was a back workroom to the shop,
where assistants sat and toiled, but in
reality the proprietor of the establish-
ment was his own shopper, trimmer,
finisher and salesman. A little custom
drifted his way and, finding his hats
modest in price and of excellent qual-
ity, brought in a larger patronage, and
the clever proprietor has now a large
corps of assistants and his prices are as
high as anybody's. For all that, the
women acknowledge in him a true ex-
ponent of the highest in his art, because
he is an almost infallible judge of the
becomingness of a hat and because he
will put a difficult customer before a
mirror and in a trice design the hat over
a dozen times right on her own head.
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Mr. Nixon Gracefully Retires.

Kalamazoo, Dec. 11—-Two weeks ago
to-day I called at the Tradesman _ office
and informed you that, under certain
conditions, | might be inclined to enter
the field as a candidate for Secretary of
the Michigan Knights of the Grip, sub-
ject to the approval of the Bay City con-
vention. Since that time, | have learned
that John W. Schram, of Detroit, pro-
poses to stand as a candidate and, in
view of the fact that Mr. Schram has
had more experience in the duties per-
taining to the work of Secretary than I
have, and also considering that Detroit
has not been represented in the capacity
of Secretary for ten or twelve years, I
am disposed to smother my ambition
and take off my hat to Mr. Schram, be-
cause I believe that his election as Sec-
retary will be for the best interests of
the association and that, as a_ loyal
member of the organization, I can do it
no more yeoman service than to give
way to a man who is so well qualified in
every way to discharge the difficult
duties devolving upon the office.

F. L. Nixon,
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When in Grand Rapids _ stop at the
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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, Ionia — =
L. E. REYNOLDs, St. Joseph -
HENRY HEIM, Saginaw -~ - Dec. 31, 1902
WIRT P. Dory, Detroit - — - - Dee. 31, 1903
President, GkEo. 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.

 

 

How To Build Up a Trade in Perfumes.

With the powerful competition to
which the pharmacist is now exposed he
finds it necessary to take advantage of
every opportunity for making evena
small profit. Many lines that in former
times we could afford to neglect we are
now obliged to foster. There are many
such lines, but in this article perfumes
only wil] receive attention.

Just why the pharmacist does not give
more of his attention to his perfumery
department it is very difficult to under-
stand. It is almost the only department
in which the old prices obtain, and
which promise a continuance at the
same favorable figures. More than this,
the perfumery business is constantly
growing. The demand for the perfum-
er’s products to-day far exceeds that of
a few years ago.

By way of furnishing a reason for the
smail sales which generally obtain in
this department, it may be stated that
it is probably -due to one or more of
three causes: The line may be undesir-
able—too poor, too cheap, too expen-
Sive, unattractive, etc. ; or it may be too
small; or, being satisfactory in these
particulars, the stock may be in a posi -
tion unfavorable for display purposes.
Any one of these faults would diminish
the sales.

One of the first requirements in build-
ing up a trade on perfumery is a stock
adapted to the particular class of trade
for which it is intended. People who
are accustomed to have the best of
everything will not care to purchase an
inferior line of goods, nor will poor peo-
ple care to buy high-priced, imported
perfumes. Of course, the ideal method
is to carry a line to meet the demands
of each class---usually three in number.
But in some cases it will be found de-
sirable to try to strike a medium—thus
in some measure pleasing all; and in
other cases it will be necessary to de-
cide which class is the most profitable
to cater to.

The class that wants the best at any
price, together with those who might be
termed fastidious, will call for imported
perfumes. That some French products
are superior to any marketed by Ameri-
can houses no one will deny; but
French perfumes as produced by some
houses are just as poor as the poorest
American product. If the pharmacist
intends to deal in imported perfumes
let him be guided by the motto, ‘‘ The
best is none too good.’’

Many—I think, most—will find the
most profitable class of trade to be what
may be described as the middle class.
These people want a good article, and
they are usually willing to pay a fair
price. The best domestic perfumes will
meet the needs here. In domestic per-
fumes we find the highest quality com-
patible with their extremely reasonable

 

price. The French may make better
perfumes than we do in America, but if
they do, then their prices are more than
proportionately higher.

For the poorer class, such as may be
found in factory towns and cities, a
grade of perfumes combining a fairly
good quality with a reasonably low
price may be easily obtained.

When the quality or qualities have
been decided upon, a little experiment
must be made to determine the most
popular odors. This is always some-
what uncertain, as it is influenced by
the seasons and by certain fads or fash-

‘lions. Every one, however, will find that

some odors seem to retain the popular
favor for a longer time than others. In
this matter the most that one can do is
to carry a stock that will"nearly—if not
quite--supply the demand for variety.
Of course, the larger the assortment the
better; but this must of necessity be
limited both by the space to be given
and the amount of money to be invested.

As bulk perfumes offer a larger mar-
gin than package goods, the pharmacist
will always endeavor to sell more of the
first. But for gifts and other purposes
a pretty package is often called for,
and to meet this demand a certain stock
of package goods must be carried. In
this, too, the French can do better work
than American manufacturers; but re-
cently many American houses have _is-
sued packages that are excelled but lit-
tle, if any, by those of their foreign
competitors.

Having now decided upon the qual-
ity and quantity of your stock, the next
step is to effectively display it. Per-
fumes deserve a prominent position,
not alone for the large profits to be ob-
tained from their sale, but because of
the attractiveness of an intelligently
displayed line of perfumes.

In choosing a position suitable for the
effective display of his goods, the phar-
macist must have a mind for more than
mere appearance. Perfumes are suscep-
tible to the influences of light and heat,
and for this reason care should be taken
in the position given them that it be
favorable to the goods in this respect.
Bright, direct sunlight causes the color
to fade and changes or destroys the odor
of perfumes. The change in odor is
produced by its effect upon the resinous
substances in the perfumes. Heat causes
the odoriferous principles to volatilize,
allowing them to escape if the stopper
be removed while the perfume is yet
warm. Extreme cold, on the other hand,
causes in some perfumes, notably rose
and heliotrope, the precipitation of cer-
tain of the ingredients rendered insol-
uble by the cold. Perfumes should
never be exposed to the direct rays of
the sun, but as to the temperature, no
concern need be felt if that is kept be-
tween 50 and 80 deg. Fahrenheit.

Within the limits of this article it
will be impossible to treat of window
displays of perfumery, but I may say
in passing, if the pharmacist has a
closed window, from which he can ex-
clude dust and dirt, that a window
dressed with perfumes makes an exceed-
ingly attractive display, and is usually
very gratifying in the trade that it
draws.

For ease of access and purposes of
display it will usually be found most
satisfactory to place the package per-
fumes, toilet waters, etc., in a tall com-
bination display case, with the bulk
perfumes immediately behind in a wall
show-case. In this way the goods most
affected by dust are protected from it,
and goods to which access is most often

 

desired can be reached with the mini-
mum amount of trouble. The fancy
bottles of perfumes can be attractively
arranged in the lower compartment of
the show-case, while the larger bottles of
cologne, Florida, and other toilet waters
mav be displayed in the upper part.
With care and an effort at tasteful ar-
rangement the display can be made to
have a very pretty effect.

When the pharmacist has a line of
perfumes suited to the needs of his cus-
tomers, including the odors for which
there is most demand, and with the
whole tastefully displayed, he has done
nearly all in his power to make the de-
partment a success. Aside from this,
the sales may be helped by the sampling
cases supplied by many manufacturers
with their goods. Another method of
interesting customers is by mixing spe-
cial odors for them. By practice a con-
siderable expertness may be acquired
in combining perfumes to make new
and delightful odors.

The perfumery department is worthy
the pharmacist’s best efforts. The line
is clean and dainty, and it does much
to elevate the tone of the store. But,
more than all else in their favor, per-
fumes pay a large profit.—-Geo, L. Kelly
in American Druggist.

aa
Need For An Official Medicine Dropper.

Mr. Seward W. Williams thinks that
the uniformity of strength which we are
gradually gaining in galenical prepara-
tions, through the application of stand-
ardization processes of manufacture,
warrants, if indeed it does not demand,
some practical provision for more ac-
curate dosage than that secured when a
certain number of ‘‘drops’’ of a pre-
gcription are ordered taken at each dose.
He cites an article by Dr. Payne, in
which it was declared that, ‘‘it is easy
to obtain drops of water, under ordinary
circumstances, varying from 33 to 120
to the fluidrachm.’’ Mr. Williams sug-
gests (Druggists Circular), by way of
Overcoming this source of error, that an
official medicine dropper of definite in-
ternal and external diameter and stand-
ard size and shape at the point of de-
livery, if held vertically, could be made
to overcome the present marked varia-
tion in the size of drops or at least con-
fine variation to such narrow limits as to
secure practical uniformity. On heing
asked for his opinion, Dr. Payne ap-
proved of the notion, and suggested that
the dropper take the form of a graduated
pipette, thus admitting of measuring in
minims, drachms, or cubic centimeters,
and tenths thereof. Mr. Williams thinks
that other standard measures somewhat
similar to those now in use might also
well be adopted, which would do away
with present variation in doses, due to
lack of uniformity in the size of tea-
spoons, tablespoons, and _ wine-glasses.
Moreover, if these standard measuring
glasses were graduated on one side in
the old system and on the other in
metric measures, they would afford an
easy method of familiarizing the user
with metric equivalents and help to
popularize the latter,

——— ee
Too Many Missing Articles.
From the Michigan School Moderator.

A janitor in a Northern Michigan
school threw up his job the other day.
When asked what was the trouble he
answered : I’m honest and I won’t stand
being slurred. If I find a pencil or
handkerchief about the school, I hang it
up. Every little while the teachers or
someone that is too cowardly to face me
gives me a slur. Why, a little while
ago I saw written on the board, ‘‘ Find
the common multiple.’ Well, I looked
from cellar to garret and I would not
know the thing if I met it on the street.
What made me quit the job? Last night
in big writin’ on the blackboard it said,
‘‘Find the greatest common divisor.’’
Well, I says to myself, both them darned
things are gone now, and I'll be blamed
for swipin’ ’em, so I’ll quit.

 

The Drug Market.

Opium—On account of higher primary
markets, opium has advanced and is
tending higher.

Morphine—Is unchanged.

Quinine—Has been advanced by all
manufacturers and is very firm. The
advance in German brands is 3c and in
Powers & Weightman 2c. ;

Carbolic Acid—Has again advanced
abroad, but is as yet unchanged here,
but higher prices will rule later on.

Cocoa Butter—Has again advanced,
on account of scarcity.

Lycopodium—Is active and has again
advanced. As large quantities will be
consumed during the coming presiden-
a3 year, much higher prices are looked
or.

Mercury and Mercurial Preparations—
Have been advanced.

Strychnine—Has been advanced by
the manufacturers 5c per ounce.

Rochelle Salts—Has declined tc per
pound.

Balsam Peru—Has again declined, on
account of large stocks.

Balsam Tolu~-Has also declined.

Linseed Oil—Is very firm at the ad-

vance noted last week.
: >.> __
Origin of a Term Now Frequently Used.

Henry Clews asserts that Daniel Drew
invented the significant term ‘‘ watering
stock.’’ Before coming to the Street to
make and lose thirteen million dollars,
Uncle Daniel had been a drover, and
fed his cattle an unusual amount of salt
in order to create in them an abnormal
thirst that would cause them to drink
great quantities of water, thus making
them appear bigger and fatter when
taken to market. After ‘watering
stock’’ in this way, it was natural that
he would make use of a trick or two of
his own in disposing of stock of a differ-
ent kind in Wall Street.

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Paid $13 and Promised to Do Better.

Ann Arbor, Dec. 11—Charles Mc-
Carger, druggist at Mulliken, pleaded
guilty last week to a charge of failing
to keep a registered clerk in charge of
his store and was fined $10 and $3 costs,
which he paid. This was the second
offense. McCarger promised to employ
a registered pharmacist at once.

A. C. Schumacher, Sec’y.

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Aceticum ... 6@$ 8 | Copaiba............. 1 15@ 1
Benzoicum, German. 70@ 75|Cubebe ............. 9@ 1
Boracic...... @ 16) Exechthitos......... 1 00@ 1
Carbolicum .. ... %9@ 32) Erigeron............ 1 00@ 1
Citricum. ............ 43@ 46 | Gaultheria .......... 2 10@ 2
Hydrochlor.. ee aa 3@ ~=—*#6 | Geranium, ounce.... @
Nitrocum .. se s@ 10 no Sem. gal. i 50@
‘Oxalicum 1@ 14 edeoma . 170@1
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licylicum ......... 40@ 50/ Mavendula .. a D 1
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Tannicum . ‘....  90@ 1 00 | Mentha Piper.. 1 25@ 2
Tartaricum ......... 38@ 40| Mentha Verid.. 1 50@ 1
A i . Morrhue, .gal. . 115@ 1
_nonkS Mercian 4 00@ 4
Aanen, Soe ee so : oe io Oe
qua, 20deg......... cis Liquida........ 10@
Carbonas..........-- 1@ 15] Picis — -_ : @
Chioridum........... 127@ = =§=14} Rieina.. .. 9@1
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Cubebee........ po,15 12@ 14| Tiglil..... .150@ 1
Juniperus............ 6 g | Thyme...... 40@
Xanthoxylum....... 20@ 25 Thyme, op pt.......... @1
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Copsihs es . Se 60 i obasehom ‘las
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Tolutan. 0/5000... 40@ 45 a Hees ... 52@
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Cortex Chlorate...po.17@19 16@
Abies, Canadian..... 18 | Cyanide .. I ee. 35Q,
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Euonymus atropurp. 30 Potassa, Bitart, com. @
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Glycyrrhiza Glabra. 24@ 25) Althe........0.0.0..  2@
Giyeyrrhiza, . ee aa 30} Anchusa ............ 10@
Heematox, 1 box 11 12| Ayam po... .......- @
Heematox, is Sie 13@ 14) Calamus............. 20@
Hzematox, %4S.....-. M@ 15} Gentiana...... po.15 1@
Hzematox, 4S.....-. 16@ 17 oe Le 15 16@
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Ferrocyanidum Sol.. 40 specae, BO. po. 3538 / 3 ‘
Solut. Chloride. ..... 15| Jalapa, pr. oeck
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Cinechona ........ 50
Cinchona -. ee 60
Columba . 50
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Cassia Acutifol...... 50
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Dias... 50
Ergot.. 50
Ferri Chloridum.. 35
GCeonuan ............ 50
Gentian Co.......... 60
Guiaca. . eas 50
Guiaca ammon...... 60
Hyoscyamus......... 50
Todine . 75
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Lobetis i . 50
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Nux Vomica.. nee 50
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Serpentaria ......... 50
Stromonium......... 60
Tolutan ..... . 60
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A‘ther, Spts. Nit.4F 34@ 38
Avormen ............. 24@ 3
Alumen, gro’d..po.7 3@ 4
Annatto...... 0@ 50
Antimoni, Cn)
Antimoniet Po 40@ 50
Antipyrin ..... 2... @ BD
Antieprm .......... @ 2
Argenti Nitras, oz... @ 4
Arsenicum . . a
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Bismuth S. N.. .. 1 40@ 1 50
Caleium Chlor., Is... @ 9
Calcium Chlor., %s.. @ 10
Caleium Chlor., 4s.. @ WB
Cantharides, Rus. po @ 75
Capsici Fructus, a @ wb
Capsici Fructus, po. @
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Carmine, No. 40..... @ 3 00
Cera — 50@ 55
Cera Flava. W@ 42
Cocems .....-........ @ 40
Cassia Fructus...... @ 35
Centraria............ @ 10
Cetaceum.. re @ 4
Chloroform ..... 50@ 53
Chloroform, squibbs | @ 110
Chloral Hyd Crst.. @ 1 90
Chonarus ...........- * 25
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Cinchonidine, Germ. 38@ 48
Cocaine . 6 55@ 6 75
Corks, list, dis. pr. et. 7
Creosotum.. @ 3
Creta . bl. 75 @ 2
Creta, prep. ee aeeuce @ 5
Creta, fr eae @ i
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Cudbear.. @ 24
Cupri Sulph. . 64@ 8
Dextrine . 10
Ether Sulph.. . He 90
Emery, al numbers. @ 8
HMery, BG: .......... @ 6
Ergota . ..po.90 85Q
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Gala ...... @ 2
Gambler ..... 8@ 9
Gelatin, Gooper ‘ @ 60
Gelatin, French..... 60
Glassware, flint, box 75 & 10
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Glue, brown......... 1@ 13
Glue, white. . . ee =
Giycerina............ 16@ 24
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Hydrarg Chlor Cor.. @ 8
Hydrarg Ox Rub’m @ 1 05
Hydrarg Ammoniati @11%
HydrargUnguentum soe 60
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Pil Hydrarg. .. po. 80 @ 50/Spts. Ether Co...... 50@ 55) Vermilion, English. . 70@ 7
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Plumbi Acet. 10@ 12) Spts. Vini Rect. 10gal @ | Lead, white......... @ 6%
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| conditions of purchase, 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

y purchased by retail
cal market.

It is im-

 

 

AXLE GREASE

doz:
cones i 55
Castor Oil.............60
Diamond... 50
Peerers.. 75

IXL Golden, tin boxes 75

 

Mica, tin boxes.......75
Paragon........ 55

BAKING POWDER

Absolute
\4 Ib. cams doz.........

% Ib. cans doz.......... ...
- i cansdor....- 1

Acme

4% Ib. cans 3 doz............
% Ib. cans 3 doz............
a 6b. cansi doz... ..
ee

Arctic

6 oz. Eng. Tumblers... ......

EI Purity

44 Ib. cans per doz..........
¥% Ib. cans per doz.......... 1
1 Ib. cans per doz.......... 2

Home

4 Ib. cans, 4 doz. case......
% Ib. cans, 4 doz. case......

¥4 Ib. cans, 4 doz. case......
¥% Ib. cans, 4 doz. case......
1 Ib. cans, 2 doz. ease......1

1 Ib. cans, 2 doz. case

Jersey Cream

1 1b. cans, per doz...........
9 OZ. Cans, per doz...........
6 OZ. Cans, per doz...........

ur Leader

ne
re eee
. ica.

Peerless
1b. cans...

3 02., 6 doz. case. .
6 0Z., 4 doz. case........

9 0z., 4 doz. case.............
ai. 2doz.case.............
Sip., 1doz.case....

BATH BRICK

aren

English... .....

co

BLUING

 

Large, 2 doz...........

BROOMS
MO. Carpe.

No. 2 Carpet...

| Mustard, 2Ib........
| Soused,i1Ib..........

_ | Seused.2ib ts
| Tomato, 1lb.........

 

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Queen Flake

 

 

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LUIN(

Small 3 doz........... eo ies

Neth

 

Hominy
Standard............. 85
Lobster
peeam, *63p. 2... 1 85
peat, 3 10
Pienic Talis... .._._.. 2 25
Mackerel

Mustard, 1lb........

Nee pe
a
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| Tomato, 2 Ib... : 80
Mushrooms
ems 14@16
Battems.......:....., 20@25
Oysters
Cove, ith... 85
Cove, 2Ib....... cure 1 55
Peaches
ee en 1 2
Senow. 3. @1 65
Pears
Standard ............ 70
Raney 80
Peas
Marrowfat .......... 1 00
Early June.......... 1 00
Early June Sifted.. 1 60
Pineapple
Grated eee 1 25@2 75
pace. oT 1 35@2 25
Pumpkin
Fair ... 65
Geen 75
Bancy. 85
Raspberries
Standard............ : 90
Salmon
Red Alaska.......... 1 35
Pink Alaska......... 95
Sardines

Domestic, 4s........ @A4
Domestic, Mustard. @8
Present 8@22
Strawberries
Standard... §.. |... 85
ay 1 25
Succotash
hain 90
Goud 2 1 00
Maney 1 20
Tomatoes
Pa 80
coon 90
Raney 1 15
oo ee 2 35
CATSUP
Columbia, pints.............2 00
| Columbia, % pints i 2
heme @14
Amboy @13%
Elsie ... @15
Emblem... @\4
ee @14%
Gold Medal.......... @13'%
a @l14
Sermsey ok @13%
Riverside............ @I\A4
a @12
eda @70
wegen @17
Limburger........... @13
Pineapple ........... 50 @75
Sap Sago........ @17

CHICORY

 

No. 3 Carpet........... : Bulk....
ae — ee BC ;
ot et .
Common Whisk........... | : CHOCOLATE
Fancy Whisk........ 0000717” Walter Baker & Co.’s.
Warehouse.....0 0. 7 German Sweet.............. 23
CANDLES co a 35
Electric Light, 8s.......... Breakfast Cocoa..... 1101/7 46
ee PenG 168... | CIGARS
Parafine, ws. °°00200027.7 $4 | The Bradiey Cigar Co.'s Brands
ea ee oe Pitre ee ee ee ee «$35 00
2 Sey oe es ae
aoe Clear Havana Puffs... .... 22 00
Ib. Standards? 0] Ws Bo eT) 5 00
Gallons, standards. . ie a io ty Ger ag en Oe
ee Beans Columbian Cigar Co’s brand.
Rc > 75@1 30 | Columbian... 35 00
— Kidney......... 7%5@ 85 | Columbian Special........ 65 00
Wane 2 Saapeeag Detroit Cigar Mfg. Co.’s Brands
Blackberries | Green Seat $55 00
Standards........... 75 | Green Seal Boquet...) 7." 60 00
Blueberries Green Seal Regalia. |_|" 65 00
Standard .............. 85 | Maceo’s Dream....... 177 35 00
Cherries aspateny a 33 00
Red Standards........ 85 | No ee ee i 32 00
White........ ee 1 15; Medal de Reina. .... 1777" 28 00
Corn H. & P. Drug Co.’s brands.
i 75 | Fortune Teller"... sece-. 35 00
eS 85; Our Manager....._ “-ssces~ OOOO
ee 95 | Quintette.....0 00002077107) 35 00

 

 

 

 

 

 

G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s brand.

C
oN

S.C ees
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 & C --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 .35

  

G. J. Johnson Cigar C
Maurice Sanborn .... :

Bock & Co.............65@300 00
Manuel Garcia........ 80@375 00
Neuva Mundo......... 85175 00
aenry Olay... 857.550 00

La Carolina. .......... .96@200 00
CLOTHES LINES
Cotton, 40 ft. per doz........1

00
Cotton, 50 ft. per doz........ 1 20
Cotton, 60 ft. per doz....... 1 40
Cotton, 70 ft. per doz........1 60
Cotton, 80 ft. per doz........1 80
Jute, 60 ft. per doz.......... 80
Jute, 72 ft. perdoz......... 95
COFFEE
Roasted

Alc-

CoFFEES

      

    

 

 

Special Combination........ 20
French Breakfast... .... 25
henen 30
Neenna 35
Private Estate. .......... 38
SUpEeMe -~ 40
Less 3314 per cent. delivered.
Rio
EE 9
GOCE ae 10
Prmme.._.... 12
Golden .... 13
BCADOERY 00 ae
Santos
Rae 14
Good .. en ue
Reames e 16
Peapertye 18
Maracaibo
a 15
ates a ae
Java
anterior 26
Private Growth....... 0.1.1] 30
Mandehling.......... 35
Mocha
maitason 22
Arabian... 2-0... Ske 28
Package
APDUCKIC.. 11 00
Jersey. 1 00

McLaughlin’s XXXx
McLaughlin’s XXxx sold to
retailers only. Mail all orders
direct to W. F. McLanghlin &
Co., Chicago.
Extract
Valley City % gross... ‘ec a
Felix % gross......._ net calcu de ae
Hummel’s foil 14 gross) |” 85
Hummel’s tin % STOss.. a
‘ =>

ames Epps & Co.’s
a
Cases, 16 boxes....... 0007777

COCOA SHELLS
20 Ib. bags...... 00 2%
3

40
38

Less mantity
Pound packages ...1 77°"
CONDENSED MILK
4 doz in case.
Gail Borden Eagle ...... 6 75
Rr eee

  

Daisy......

Champion ......00007 07’ -.4 50
Magnolia ........ 22077" ft 25
Challenge .....0 70707777" 425
Ne tere eed OD

 

 

 

 

 

COUPON BOOKS
Tradesman Grade

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

1,000 books, any denom... 20
Economic Grade

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

1,000 books, any denom... 20
Superior Grade

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

1,000 books, any denom... 20

Universal Grade
50 books, any denom...
100 books, any denom...
500 books, any denom...
1,000 books, any denom...
Credit Checks
500, any one denom......
1,000, any one denom.... ..
2,000, any one denom......
Steel punch...............
Coupon Pass Books

Seon
1888 8333 SSS sygy syzg

ore to

Can be made to represent any

denomination from $10 down.
20 books

eee 1 00

50 books. 2 00

0 DOORS 3 00
250 books................ 6B
500 books................ 10 00
1,000 books. . 17 50

CREAM TARTAR

5 and 10 Ib. wooden boxes..... 30
Bulk in sacks....... -......1. 1199

DRIED FRUITS—Domestic

Apples
Sundried .... 000.2... @ 6%
Evaporated, 50 Ib. boxes .s@ 8%

California Fruits
Apmces. @15
Blackberries ..........
Nectarines ..........

 

 

eaches ...... ---10 @N1
bears
Pitted Cherries. . : 7%
Prunnelles ....... :
Raspberries ...... al
California Prunes

100-120 25 Ib. boxes ...... 4
90-100 25 Ib. boxes ...... @ 4%
80-90 25 Ib. boxes ...... @ 5
70 - 80 25 Ib. boxes ...... @ 5%
60 - 70 25 Ib. boxes ...... @6
50 - 60 25 Ib. boxes ...... @ 7%
40 -50 25 Ib. boxes ...... @8

30 - 40 25 Ib. boxes ......
¥ cent less in 50 Ib. eases
Raisins
London Layers2 Crown. 17
London Layers 3 Crown. 2 00

Cluster 4 Crown......... 2 25

Loose Muscatels 2 Crown 74
Loose Muscatels 3 Crown 84
Loose Muscatels 4 Crown 834

 

L. M., Seeded, choice .. . 10

L. M., Seeded, fancy .... 10%
DRIED FRUITS—Foreign

Citron
eer ge
Corsican gs
Currants
Patras, cases....:.. . 64%
Cleaned, bulk ... z

    

Cleaned, packages

Pee
Citron American 19 Ib. bx...13
Lemon American 10 Ib. bx. 10%
Orange American 10 1b. bx..10%
@isins
Sultana 1 Crown.............
Sultana 2 Crown .........._:
Sultana 3 Crown...........
Sultana 4 Crown......... 1.1
Sultana 5 Crown........... 1!
Sultana 6 Crown...... ....
Sultana package .........1 7!
FARINACEOUS GOODS
Beans
Dried Lima

6
Medium Hand Picked 1 65@1 75

Brown Holland..............
Cereals
Cream of Cereal.............
Grain-O, small ........ 11277 1
Grain-O, large......... 2.007 2
rape Nets oe) 1
Postum Cereal, small...” ok
Postum Cereal, large...... 2
Farina
241 1b. packages ............1
Bulk, per 100 Ibs....... 1.12! 3
Haskell’s Wheat Flakes
36 21b. packages... .... Zs
Hominy
Barrels Stee ee
Flake, 50 1b. drums... ..._1 7’
Maccaroni and Vermicell

“SS S$ 88

  

Domestic, 10 Ib. box.. 60
Imported, 25 Ib. box...) 1.” 2 50
earl Barley "
Commence
Chester ........ 2 50
ORES a ae 3

 

KES

RS

 

 

Grit

   

24 2 Ib. packages ............
1

Ib. Kegs.

200 B. barrels 2220002222122

Peas
Green, Wisconsin, bu. .
Green, Scotch, bu....

Spins, OG i

Rolled Oats

Rolled Avena, bbl...........
Steel Cut, % bbls............
Monarch, bbl..:.............
Monarch, % bbl............. ‘
Monarch, 90 Ib. sacks.......

Quaker, cases...... .

STUrOn, Cases...)

Sago ;

Geman
ast India...
Salus Breakfast Food
F. A. MeKenzie, Quincy, Mich.
36 two pound packages .... 3 60
18 two pound packages ....
Battle Creek Crackers.
Gem Oatmeal Biscuit.. 74@ 8
Lemon Biscuit ........ 7T%@ 8

New Era Butters..,...
Whole Wheat... ...

Cereola, 48 1-Ib. pkgs. i

Tapioca
Make
Pearl .

Pearl, 24 1 Ib. packages 6%

heat

Cracked, bulk...............
24 2 th. packages ............

FLAVORING EXTRACTS

DeBoe’s
2 02.
Vanilla D. C........ 110
Lemon D. © <..... Z
Vanilla Tonka...... 75

 

Jennings’

D. C. Vanilla D. C. Lem
ra AM 1 20 -o....
3 OZ...) 1 50

OF. 2 00
a... 3 oc...
No. 8....4 00 No. 8
No. 10....6 00 No. 10
No. 2 T..1 25 No.2 T
No. 3 T..2 00 No.3 T
No. 4 T..2 40 No. 4 T

Northrop Brand

20z. Taper Panel.... 75
202. Oval... 75
3 0z. Taper Panel.. ..1 35
402. Taper Panel.. ..1 60

Perrigo’s
Van.
doz.
XXX, 2 0z. obert....1 25
XXX, 4 oz. taper. ...2 25
XX, 2 02. obert...... 1 00

No. 2,20z. obert .... 75
XXX D D ptehr, 6 0z
XXX D D ptehr, 40z
K. P. piteher, 6 oz...
FLY PAPER

Perrigo’s Lightning, gro....2
Petrolatum, per doz......__.

GUNPOWDER

Rifle—Dupont’s

K

CSN
Half Kegs .............
Quarter Kegs .......
1 Ib. cans

Eagle Duck—Dupont’s

eS ee 8 00
atalt Mees 4
Quarter Kegs ........00077 7
aap Cans

S$
Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s Brand.

 

 

 

 

Cea ee es
Halt Mees
Quarter Kegs ......2 202.111 95
PUR CARS oo 30
ID Cans
Choke Bore—Dupont?

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Sage..... 15
Hops...... Sega oe
INDIGO
Madras, 5 lb. boxes ........... 55
S. F., 2,3and 5 Ib. boxes....__ 50
JELLY
V. C. Brand.

15 Ib. pails. . 35
OTD, Pals. 62
Pure spple, per doz......... 85
LICORICE
ee ae
COOIADR i 6k 25
2 en r=
Oe 10

LYE
Condensed, 2 doz............1 20

  

Condensed, 4 doz............ 2 25

MATCHES
Diamond Match Co.’s brands.
Neo. 9 suiphar 000 2 1 65
Anchor Parlor ..............1 50
No. 2 Home................1 30
Export Parlor...............4 00
Wolverine. 2 1 50

MOLASSES

New Orleans
eer es 11

  

  

Mage oe 14
GOOG 20
aoe as esate el 24
en Kettle... 25@35
Malf-barreis 2e extra
MUSTARD
Horse Radish, 1 doz......... 1 7%
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 .... |) 73 88
PIPES
Clay, No. 216... -1 70
Clay, T. D., full count 65
Cob, Ne. 3: 0 85
POTASH
48 cans in case.

Bappites ee 4 00
Penna Salt Co.’s......... 007! 3 00
RICE
Domestic
Carolina head................ 6%

Carolina No.1 ...........007) 5
Carolina No.2.......-...../14
Broken eee ae
Imported.
Japan, No. 1.......... -.5%@6
Japan, No. 2.......... --4146@5
Java, fancy head......_ 5 @5%
dave, NOU @
Me
SALERATUS

Packed 60 Ibs. in box.
Church’s Arm and Hammer.3 15
Delana sO --..3 00
Dwight’s Cow... Se aicee ooab eb

  

Haiem 2 10
fe ee 3 00
Ode 3 15
Wyandotte, 100 %s.... 11717! 3 00
SAL SODA
Granulated, bbls............ 80

Granulated, 100 Ib. cases_7’ 35
Lump, bbis. 0
Lump, 145 Ib. kegs........ |. 80
SALT .
Diamond Crystal
Table, cases, 24 3 Ib. boxes..1 50
Table, barrels, 1003 Ib. bags.2 75
Table, barrels, 407 Ib. ba: S.2 40
Butter, barrels, 280 Ib. bulk.2 25
Butter, barrels, 20 141b.bags.2 50
Butter, sacks, 28 Ibs......... 25
Butter, sacks, 56 Ibs..... 1). 55
Common Grades
100 3 Ib. sacks... 2.2.2 ......1 80
60 5 Ib. sacks... .... 2.02022. 271-75
1

28 10 Ib. sacks.......... ee 50
Warsaw

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

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

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

Higgins
oo | 56 Ib. dairy in linen sacks... 60
Solar Rock
S61b. sacks. 22
Common
Granulated Fine............ 95
Medium Fine...... 0/0070" 1 00
SALT FISH
Cod
Georges cured......... @5
Georges genuine... |! @ 5%
Georges selected... |! @6
Strips or bricks. ../" 7 6 @9g
OHCs @ 3%

Halibut.
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Holland white hoopsbbl. 6 50
Holland white hoop, keg.. 85
Holland white hoop mechs. 95
NOrWOGIae oc... cs.
Round 100 Ibs.............. 3 60
sound 401s... .... 2.0.20... 1
ema 15
Mackert®l
Mess 100 Ibs. . ~o-ee. Ep OO
Mess 40 Ibs. .............. 6 30
Moss 261s... 1 65
Moss: “Sibs.....-...-..0.. 135
No. 1 100 IDS. .... 2222. 4 3. 13 25
No.1 40 Ibs. 5 60
ee We 1 48
No.1 8 Ibs. 1 20
No. 2 100 Ibs. 11 50
No. 2 40 lbs. 490
No. 2 10 Ibs. 1 30
Me? Se 1 07
Trout
No. 1 100 Ibs. .....
Ne.d S0lee
No.1 10 Ibs.
Net Sis...
Whitefish
No.1 No.2 Fam
100 Ibs... .-.. 7 50 6 50 2 60
a9 TS... 3 30 ; 90 ¢
10 lbs... 80
8 Ibs. 66
Anise
Canary, Smyrna............. 4
Caraway .. Sane se
. Malabar......... 60
COM 10
Hemp, TOURSIAN. ooo ss a 4%
Merson Bird... 4%
Mustard, white.. <a e
Poppy...... eae
roo
Cuttle Bone
SNUFF
Seotch, in bladders.......... 37
Maccaboy, in jars........... 35
French Rappee, in jars..... 43
SOAP .
Single box.. cutee OO
5 box lots, delivered ........ 2 80
10 box lots, delivered........ 2 75

AS, 8. KIRK & CO.’S BRANDS. |

American Family, wrp’d....2 66
CRON 2 75
Cabinet ss slecioe ox lam
Savon.. Ss ciate come Oe

White Russian... “200

  

White Cloud, laundry. .-6 2
White Cloud, toilet..........3 50
Dusky Diamond, 50 6 0z.....2 10
Dusky Diamond, 50 8 0z.....3 00
Blue —* 100 0 7 ....38 00
—— Se ae
Eos. a

Secanneiies
Sapolio, kitchen, 3 doz...... 2 40
Sapolio, hand, 3 doz......... 2 40

SODA

Bees
‘Regs, Enatisn.....w......

SPICES

Whole Sifted

ISTAOe oe ss...

Cassia, China in mats.....
Cassia, Batavia, inbund...
Cassia, Salgon, in rolls....
Cloves, Amboyna..........
Cloves, Zanzibar...........
Mace, Batavia.............
Nutmegs, faney...........
Nutmeégs, No.1............
Nutmegs, No, 2............ 45

  

Pepper, Singapore, black. 14
Pepper, Singagore, white. 22
Fepper, shot... 15
Pure Ground in Bulk
Allspice... cas 14
Cassia, Batavia. . - 30
Cassia, Saigon............. 40
Cloves, Zanzibar....... 16
Ginger, African. oc 15
Ginger, Cochin............ 18
Ginger, Jamaica.......... 23
Mace, Batavia............. 65
ISO os 18
INWEGES oo ts 50
Pepper, Singapore, black. 16
Pepper, Singapore, white. 22

saeee Cayenne..........

 

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

Barrels... ...

  
  

Faget DPS os
1 doz. 1 gallon cans. .
1 doz. % gallon cans.
2doz. 4 gallon cans.........

Pure Cane
Fair . Sale ia cece a

Choice eee

 

¥. Cc. syndy oon a
Valley City... 25.0...
Voc, Sanu flavored. .....18@24

  

 

 

STARCH
Kingsford’s Corn
40 1-lb. packages...........
20 1-lb. packages.... ...... 6%
Kingsford’s Silver Gloss
40 1-Ib. packages........... 6%
6 lb. boxes. . ee
Diamond
64 10¢e packages. .

128 5c packages.
30 10e and 64 5e packages..
Common Corn

 
 

20 1-lb. packages... 5
40 1-lb. packages. . 434
Common Glo:

Lib. packages........2.... 414
3-lb. packages. . a!
6-Ib. packages... “oe
40 and 50-lb. boxes......... 3
PSOEPOIR eos 3

SUGAR

Below are given New York
prices on sugars, to which the
wholesale dealer adds the local
freight from New York to your
a point, giving you credit
on the invoice for the amount
of freight —— pays from the
market in which he purchases
to his shipping point, including
— or the weight of the
arre

Domino.. —
Cut ae ee 5 56
Comer oo 5 56
Cubes... tee cies ki sc laie) scien
Powdered . eee ck, ae
Coarse Powdered... .... 5 25
XXXX Powdered. 5 31

 

Standard Granulated. |... 5 18
Fine Granulated..... ..... 518
Coarse Granulated. . : 31
Extra Fine Granulated.... 5 31
Conf. Granulated.. a oa
2 Tb. eartons Fine Gran. 5 25
2 Ib. bags Fine — So 5 ae
5 lb. cartons Fine Gran. 5 25
5 1b. bags Fine Gran...... 5 25
Mould A Seued occ sae ae
Diamond A 518
Confectioner’s A.. 4 94
No. 1, Columbia AL . 469
No. 2 Windsor A... .. 4 69
No. 3, Ridgewood A...... 4 69
No. 4, Phoenix A. -.. £6
No. 5, Empire A.......... 4 56
NG: 6 ee
No. 444
No. 4 38
No. 9 4 31
No. 418
Nest ee
NG. 12...°... 4 00
No. le 4 00
No. 3 94
3 94

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“SERS SE
_ TABLE SAUCES

PERRINS’
SAUCE

The Original and

Genuine

Worcestershire.
Lea & Perrin’ S, large...... 3 75
Lea & Perrin’s, small. . 2 50
Halford, large. . ey
Halford, small............. 2 25
Salad Dressing, large..... 4 55
Salad Dressing, small..... 2 75

INEGAR

Malt White Wine, 40 grain.. 7%
Malt White Wine, 80 =. Al
Pure Cider, Red Star.. 2
Pure Cider, Robinson. . 12

Pure Cider, Silver...........
WASHING Powbi
Mirk Hos. os i:
Wisdom . eee
Roseine..
Nine 0” clock ..
Babbitt’s 177
Gold — ool.
Johnson’s . ve
Swift’s i
Rub-No-More..............
Pearime, 728 0Z.... ......
Pearline, SO TS ee
MEOW DOV. . oc. oe.
RADOEEY... 5...
wi

No. 0, per gross.
~ 1, per gross.

  

 

Bushels .. ase
Bushels, wide ‘pand.........
Market .. a
Willow Clothes, large
Willow Clothes, me a
Willow Clothes. small.......

Butter Plates
No. 1 Oval, 250 in crate......
No. 2 Oval, 250 in crate......:
No. 3 Oval, 250 in crate......
No. 5 Oval, 250 in crate......

Clothes Pins
Boxes, srose botes.......

Mop Sticks

Trojan spring .
Eclipse a spring ..
No 1 commo

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No. 2 patent | brush holder ..
12 tb. cotton mop heads....

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Pails
2-hoop Standard............. 1 50
3-hoop Standard... «oe
2-wire, Cable... -.1 60
—— Cable. . -1 85
Cedar, all red, brass bound.1 25
Paper, | Eureka... 2
Fibre. aS oS
Tubs

20-inch, Standard, No.1. ....7 00
18-inch, Standard, No. 2.....6 00
16-inch, Standard, No. 3..... 5 00
20-inch, Dowell, No.1....... 3 25
18-inch, Dowell, No. 2.......5 25
16-inch, Dowell, No. s 4 25
No. 1 Fibre.. ee ..9 00
No. 2 Fibre.. 7 50
No. 3 Fibre.. -+ 6 20

Wash Duititn
Bronze Globe.. -2 530
Dewey ... 1 75
Double Acme... .2 95
Single Acme.. 2 2
Double Peerless.. ..3 00
Single Peerless.. 2 OO
Northern Queen . Se eee 2 50
Double Duplex..............3 00
COG EMCH 8 .. 6... 6... 2
OUNVOROME 2 25

Wood Bowls
tc o Putter...
13 im. Bulter.................1 OO
Si. Buber. ws... 8... 1 60
a7 seer... 8... 2.2 OO
ot Buller... 2 50

YEAST CAKE
Yeast Foam, 1% doz....

Yeast Foam, 3 doz..........

Yeast Cream, 3 doz......
Magic Yeast 5e, 3 doz.
Sunlight Yeast, 3 doz
Warner’s

Provisions

Barreled Pork
Mes.
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Bellies. .....
Briskets .... tout
Extra shorts.........

Smoked Meats
Hams, 121b. average.
Hams, 141b. average.
Hams, 161b. average.
Hams, 20lb. average.
Ham dried beef...
Shoulders (N. Y. cut)

  

   

 

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D i Salt Meats

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Bacon, clear. ........ 4 8%
C: ‘alifornia hams a. 6%
Boneless hams...... @ 9
Cooked ham......... 10 @
Lards—In Tetons
Compound... 54
Kettle...... 6%
55 Ib. Tubs... adv nee a
80 lb. Tubs..advance Mm
50 Ib. Tins...advance 36
20 lb. Pails. .advance 56
10 Ib. Pails..advance %
5 lb. Pails..advanee 1
3 1b. Pails..advance 1%
Sausages
—— Wee ed osec coc. 5Y%
6
7%
7%
6%
See ee 9
eenaaaeas. ee eee ia 6
Beef
Extra ee 10 00
Boneless. . 11 75
Rump .. 11 50
Pigs’ Feet
Kits, 15 Ibs.. i 75
4 bbls., 40 Ibs... 1 50
- bbls., 80 Ths... .... 2 70
Tripe
Mite, 15 Ibe... .. 70
\% bbls., 40 Ibs....... 1 25
% bbls., 80 Ibs... 2 25
Casings
Pork . ns 20
Beef rounds. ...._... 3
Beef — pre a aieia 10
Sheep.. 60
‘Pietiedins
Rolls, dairy. . 13%
Solid, dairy........... 13
Rolls, creamery..... 19
Solid, creamery..... 18%
Canned Meats
Corned beef, 2 Ib.... 2 35
Corned beef, 14 Ib... 16 00
Roast beef, 2 Ib...... 2
Potted ham, \s..... 50
Potted ham, %s..... 90
Deviled ham, \4s.... 50
Deviled ham, %s.... 90
Potted tongue, \4s.. 50
Pot ted tongue, MYs.. 90
Oils
Barrels
Eocene . @13
Perfection @I12
XXX W.W. Mich. Hdit  @12
W. W. ae ae @11%
ee White.. @10%
Dey oe GAR. ec e @1214
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Grains and Feedstuffs |

Wheat
Wheat. . ‘ 65 |
Winter “Wheat ‘Flour
Local Brands

Patents ..

Second Patent.. ve ee 70
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Clear . 00 |

   

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count.

Flour in bbls., 25¢ per bbl. ad-
ditional.

Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand

Diamond ‘gs.. 60 |
Diamond \4s.. 3 60}
Diamond s.. 3 60

Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand

  

Quaker ‘4s. . 3 60
(Quaker 4s 3 60
Quaker \s.. 3 60

Spring Wheat Flour
Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brand |
Pillsbury’s Best 4s. > |
Pillsbury’s Best is.

 

Pillsbury’s Best ¥ 4 is
Pillsbury’s Best oe paper. 415
Pillsbury’s Best 4s paper. 4 15 |

Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand

Duluth Imperial !4s....... 4 35
Duluth Imperial - _.. £28
Duluth Imperial 4% 4 15)

Lemon & — 7 0.’S mend
Gold Medal } eetiae 4 30
Gold Medal ong Dee eele ec ec
Gold Medal s............
Fareoan 46... .........
Parisiam 18...............
OtIsta TER... -.........
Olney & Judson’s Brand

4 20

 

 

Ceresota 1S... . ae 4 25 |
Ceresota ks. . £3
COnrenarn 566... >. <2... 2c. 4 05

Worden Grocer Co.’s wet
Laurel \%s.. 30

Oe 4 20
Laurel 4s . 410
Meal
Bolted . Cec cee, Oe
Granulated 0200 210
Feed and Millstuffs
St. Car Feed, screened .... 16 00
No.1 Corn and Oats...... 15 50
Unbolted Corn Meal...... 14 50
Winter Wheat Bran....... 14 00
Winter Wheat Middlings. 15 00
MOTOS ee es. 14 00
Corn

New corn, car lots........ 33
Old Corn, car lots... ...... 36
Less than car lots....... . 37%
Oats
rd lots.. Dodds, | Oe
Car lots, clipped. i... 28%
Less than car lots. ..... |. 30
Hay
No. 1 Timothy car lots.... 11 00
No. 1 Timothy ton lots.... 12 50

 
 
  

    

 

  

 

        

 

 

Cinnamon Bar..

Cottee Cake, leed.

Coffee Cake, Java. '
| Cocoanut Taffy............
| Cracknells ....
| Creams, leed.
| Cream © risp..
| Crystal C reams..

Cubans .

Currant F ruit. os
Frosted Honey. a
Frosted Cream.

  

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Ginger Gems, ig. or, sm..
Ginger Snaps, XX i 7%
Gladiator ........ 10
Grandma Cakes. . ae ol
Graham Crackers. ........ 8
Graham Wafers........... 10
Honey Fingers............ 123
Imperials .. ao 8
Jumbles, Hone 12%
| Eeay Piieers.............. 1144
Lemon Wafers............ 14
Marshmallow . —
ine ger Walnuts.... 16
ee i cot ee cess 11%
Milk Biscuit” elie ee en a
Molasses ewes. 8
SSeS 9
Moss omy Wer... .....,... 12%
Newton.. Dae .
Oatmeal Crackers. ....... 8
Oatmeal Waters........... 10
Orange 2 ae 9
Orange Gem. ‘ 8
Penny Cake.. Less. oe
Pilot Bread, a EA 7
Pretzels, hand made...... 7%
Sears’ Lunch. as wn
Gomes Clee. |... .......... 8
Sugar Cream, XXX....... 8
Sugar aaa Eee pone ous 9
Sultanas. . Lice
Tutti Frutti.. 1614
Vanilla Wafers... 14
Vi ie enna C Timp. . 8

Fish and Oy sters

. Per Ib
~ Hides and Pelts White fish. . @ 9
Se  ens.. secceeee: Je SAG
The Cappon & Bertsch Leather Black Bass.... 2.220... ot 11
Co., 100 Canal Street, quotes as | Halibut................ @ 15
follows: Ciscoes or Herring. . @ 5
Hides | Oeeeram 12
Green No. 1......... @ 8% | Eive Lobster.......... @ 18
Green No.2......... @ 7% pg “Lobaster........ @ 2
Bulls.. od A @ 10
Cured No. 1 @10 Haddock eee tee rece a @ 9
Cured No. e @g | No.1 Pickerel......... @ 9
Calfskins,green No. 1 g10 are ike eset @ 2
Calfskins,green No.2 D, 8% rereree @
Calfskins;cured No.1 @l1 smoked Whit @ 8
Ye : : J, ‘ L ,
Calfskins,cured No.2 @ % | Col River Salmon... @ 13
Pelts, each.......... 50@1 00 | Mackerel.............. Q@ 20
Tallow Oysters in Cans.
NOs oe @a4 : H. Counts........ 35
Oe @3 |F.J. = Selects...... 27
Wool a ee 23
Washed, fine........ @16 | F.J. D. Standards. . 20
Washed, medium... @20 OONE. 6 cl... 19
Unwashed, fine..... 9 @I12 Stanagards........,.. 17
Unwashed, medium. 14 @I16 avorte. ...5 os. 14
vars Bulk. al.
Cat, wild............ 10@ 75/ ¥. H. Counts......2.u...--. P75
Cat, house. .. 5@ | 25 | Extra Selects............... 1 60
Fox, red.... 50@2 50 | Selects........-..--------+ ». 135
Fox, gray 10@_ 75) Anchor Standards.......... 1 15
Lynx......-..- . 1... @5 00! Standards .................. 1 10
Muskrat, fall........ 3@ 9 | Shell Good
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Raccoon............. 10@1 00 | Clams, per 100......... 1 00
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| Careass.. sae 6 @ 8% |
Forequarters ay b4e@ 6% | Standard ............ z 7%
i, Se @9 | Standard H. H..... 7 @ 7%
— No. 3. rie 10 @14 | Standard Twist..... 7%@ 8
tibs na. ee ce Coee............. @ 8%
Pe a | cases
Chueks. ows 8 BOK eae e....... @ 6%
oe @ 8%
Pork | Boston Cream....... @10
Dressed . a @5 Mixed Candy
a @7_ | Grocers.. @ 6
mowers ........... @¢ i¢ ompetition. - @ 6%
| L eaf Lard. @ 7% | Special @7
M Hibbs eeere Rs ee, @ 8
Carcass... 6 @7 | Rippon I @ 8m
| Spring Lambs...) | 8 @10 | Broken. @B8
Veal Cut Loaf. . 2 @ 8%
Caveass.. 714@ st, | English Rock. @ 8%
oe “te | f8@ 8 | Kindergarten |||.” |” @ 8%
C k French Cream....... @9
Oo > Cvrk Danity Pan......... @ 8%
Packers | Hand Made Cream
aH i wa mined ...... @14
The National Biseuit Co. Nobby. oo
quotes as follows: | Crystal Cream mix.. @12
Butter Fancy—In Bulk
Seymour . ee ee ae 5% San Blas Goodies.. @l1
| ees es Lonenges, pial. .... @9
| Family .. 5% Lozenges. printed. .. @9
Salted. 5% | Choe yrops. . @\1
|W olverine. . vee 6 | Eclipse Chocolates. @13
be Choc. Monumentals. @12%
nie | Cts Drops... .... @5
| Soda —— i - Moss aoe ee @ 8%
| Long Island Wafers. 11‘ | Lemon Sours... @9
| Zephyrette “222 a9 | Amperials.. @ %
a als Ital. Cream Bonbons
| Oyster 35 Ib. pails. a 11
ee 7 oe Chews, "15
PO cee. ge ee 6 Ib. pails. @13
| Extra Farina 64 | Jelly Date Squares. @10%
|$ Saltine Wafer 6 | Ieed Marshmellows. 14
Sweet Goods- penis Golden Wattles . @u
| Animals. Hele tices | Ce
| Assorted Cake...... 1.2... 10
| Bolle Hose... .......... 8
jmemee Yater....,........
| Buttercups.. ‘
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| Peppermint Drops.. @60
| Chocolate Drops. @65
| H. M. Choe. > @75
| H. M. . . and
| we. No.l @90
| Gum Drops. @30
a TOPS... @i5
| B. Licorice Drops @50
amma plain. @Db5
Lozenges, printed . @55
| Imperials.. a @55
Mottoes . @60
/Cream Bar.. 1 (@55
| Molasses Bar. . @5
Hand Made Creams. 80 @9
Cream se a oe
and Wint.... @65
String Rock......... @60
Burnt Almonds. .... 12 @
Wintergreen Berries (@55
Caramels
| No. 1 wrapped, 3 Ib.
Domes. sy... @50
Fruits
Oranges
| Fancy Mexicans .... @A 25
| Jamaieas .. i @A 00
lemena
Strictly choice 360s... @A 00
| Strictly choice 300s.. @A 50
| Fancy 300s... Ca. (@5 00
Ex. Fancy 3008... @5 50
Extra Fancy 3608. @4 5)
Bananas
Medium bunches.... 1 00@1 2E
Large bunches...... 1 50@1 75

 

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Figs
Californias, Faney.. @13
Cal. pkg, 10 lb. boxes @12
Extra Choice, 10 Ib.

boxes, new Smprna (13
Fancy, 12 1b. boxes new (@i4
Imperial “apeeasiae 18

Ib. boxes. . @
Pulled, 6 Ib. boxes. . @
Naturals, in bags... @ 5%

Dates
Fards in 10 Ib. boxes @10
Fards in 60 Ib. cases. @
Persians, P. H. V. 6

Ib. cases, new..... @6

Sairs, 60 Ib. cases.. @ 5
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Almonds, ‘Tarragona — @17

Almonds, Ivica..... @

Almonds, Cc —

soft shelled...... @
Brazils, new......... @7
F ilberts . @12%
Walnuts, Grenobles. @15
Walnuts, soft shelled

California No. 1... @12%
Table Nuts, fancy... 12%
Table Nuts, choice.. 11
Pecans, Moed........ 9
Pecans, Ex. Large... @10
Pecans, Jumbos..... @12
Hickory Nuts per bu.

Ohio, new. @\1 75
Cocoanuts, full sacks = 50
Chestnuts, per bu. a5 00

Peasants
Fancy, H. P.,Suns.. 5%@6
Fancy, H. P., Flags

Roasted . g 7
Choice, H. P., ‘Extras 5
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How to Attract Trade to a Store.

Did it ever seem to you, Mr. Dealer,
that other people may not always agree
with your ideas about store manage-
ment? You think that your ideas are all
right simply because they are your own
and you may even incline to the opin-
ion that if people don’t like your way
of managing things they can go else-
where with their objections and leave
you to yourself and possibly with your
loneliness as company. That'’sall right
in one sense. It’s independent and
shows that you are a free-born American
citizen who has the inalienable privilege
of doing things in his own way and not
being subject to what you may be
pleased to call the whims and fancies
of a lot of cranks.

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All that kind of spirit is good enough,
for its kind, but right here comes up a
very pointed question: Does it pay?
You may possibly be in business for the
benefit of your health or your complex-
ion, but I take it for granted that you’ re
there for what’s in it, for the profit, the
success and the gradual building up of
your store and the establishing of a
name and reputation for yourself. This
being so, do you think you can ignore
the peculiarities of your neighbors or
let them know more or less directly
that you intend to do things just as you
please and that you care not a little bit
for their opinions about the way they
look at your store and what is there for

sale?
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_. You have bought your goods with the
“one idea of selling them.

They are not
merely on exhibition, but on sale. Their
arrangement about the store may please
you, but does it please those who come
in to buy? You may think that you
know just how to treat your customers
and that no one can improve on your
methods. But it’s a very important
matter to find out if your customers
have the same ideas as yourself, to
know whether or not they are pleased
with you and with your goods and to
be assured that if there is any fault it is
not of your making. If you can hon-
estly assure me that you are perfect in
all these respects, please send me your
name and address and I'l] take the first
train and make a personal call at your
store. I. might learn enough in an
hour’s time to keep me talking a month
for the benefit of those other dealers
who don’t know as much as you do.
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The store makes either a favorable or
unfavorable impression on the visitor.
If he has seen better stores than yours,
he will be very apt to determine that
your goods are very much like their ar-
rangement and your reception of him,
or rather indifferent. He may not even
stop to look at the goods, but turns away
because he has seen enough or too
much. If he has not seen better stores
and doesn't know the difference between
a poor and a good one, then he’s like-
ly to be a rather poor customer whose
opinions and trade are not worth any-
thing as compared with the other fel-
low’s. It pays to care for the best trade,
although not slighting the others, sim-
ply because that's the kind that has the

most money.
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But to get back to the impression
part of my talk. People like to be
pleased with their surroundings. Even
a tramp has his own ideas about the soft
side of a plank. First ideas generally

 

govern and in most cases they are cor-
rect. They may not be your ideas and
there may be so many kinds that you
can’t meet every one of them, but you
can at least make an effort to harmonize
them all and by the use of tact—one of
the rarest and yet most valuable accom-
plishments on earth—can make most
people believe that you are really trying
to please them individually. That isn’t
so much a matter of store arrangement
as it is of personal treatment of your
customers, yet I have noticed almost
invariably that courteous treatment
and good arrangement go together and
that where one is lacking the other
won't be found. Make your store speak
for yourself and you won’t have such
very hard work in personally pleasing

your customers.
* *

There are plenty of people who will
not go into certain stores because the
proprietors or their clerks have not
treated them right on some previous oc-
casion. I know of one case in this town
where a merchant was driven out of
business because he played a shabby
and undeserved trick on a good custom-
er. The latter had numerous friends to
whom he told the story—and they stayed
away from the store on his account.
Such tricks never pay. You wouldn’t
be guilty of such a thing, I know, but
if you were you might find out how
much injury a dealer can inflict on him-
self through his own indiscretion.

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Many a merchant has laid the founda-
tion of a good business by being talked
about. Well pleased customers are
walking advertisements. They talk of
a purchase and how nicely they have
been treated. Such talk spreads and
bears fruit. Other people go to the
Same store, are well pleased with the
result and do some more talking. The
news spreads—it’s curious, but good
news does travel sometimes—and the
merchant finds himself advertised in a
satisfactory way without having spent a
penny. But let him get talked about in
the wrong way, let people tell each other
that his store is ill-conditioned, that he
himself is too well pleased with him-
self to care about pleasing others, and
he’ll find the boot on the other foot and
pinching his corns like the mischief.
I believe in treating everybody with
equal courtesy, but I have a special
fondness for old customers. They are
almost a part of one’s stock in trade.
Still, it doesn’t pay to treat them too
much like friends. Let the friendship
go to the social side of life, for fear
that familiarity may lead to business
breach and that the breach will widen
and take in the others. For people
will talk, and it’s vastly better and just
as easy to have this talk of the right
kind. —Hustler in Stoves and Hardware
Reporter.

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An Electric Horsewhip.

One of the latest inventions is an
electrical horsewhip, which is con-
structed so as to give a slight electric
shock to the animal. As described by
an - electrical exchange, the handle,
which is made of celluloid, contains a
small induction coil and battery, the

circuit being closed by means of a push:

button. The extremity of the whip con-
sists of two small copper plates insulated
from each other, each of which is pro-
vided with a tiny point. The plates are
connected to the induction coil by
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GRAND RAPIDS.

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Want Anythbine Quick?

This is the place to get it. Telegraph, telephone or write. If we
have the goods they will go on the first train; if we have not, we

Write for our Carriage, Harness, Sleigh, Robes and Blankets

BROWN & SEHLER, Grand Rapids, Michigan.

 

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.

 

 

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Is more complete and attractive than ever be-
fore. Weare not in the Trust. We want good
agents everywhere.

ARNOLD, SCHWINN & CO.,
Makers, Chicago, Ill.

Adams & Hart, Michigan Sales Agents,
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Rare Chance

The old established business
of J. Lowenthal & Co., Mo-
bile, Ala., consisting of a
stock of Dry Goods, No-
tions, Crockery and Glass-
ware, with lease of build-
ing, is offered for sale at a
low figure for CASH.

Intending purchasers address

LOUIS LOWENTHAL, Mobile, Ala.

 

Take a Receipt for t
Everything

It may save you a thousand dol-
lars, or a lawsuit, or a customer.

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ones in stock. Send for samples.

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Some Things To Avoid.

A man of the world wound up some
good advice he was giving a young girl
by the final admonition—Don’t be a cat.
You needn't look offended,’’ he went
on, it is the besetting sin of your sex.
Nature seems to have dowered old moth-
er Eve with some of the feline instincts
and characteristics, and every daughter
of her since, from Eden down to the
present time, has come in for a share of
the inheritance. ~

‘*Begin by avoiding the temptation to
be kittenish,.which appears to be a _un-
iversal mania among women. Neither
age nor avoirdupois is a bar to their
yearning to act cute, and assume little
babyish ways and attitudes. To do
this successfully requires the physique
of a fairy, big eyes, fluffy hair, and an
expression of artless innocence that
amounts to positive genius. In all my
life I have known only one woman who
was effective in the kittenish role. All
the others looked like performing ele-
phants. Never attempt anything, my
dear, where the percentage of failure is
so enormously against you.

‘‘Don’t scratch. No other quality is
so treacherous and so detestable. If
you must fight, fight in the open. Don’t
give little sly scratches when you think
no one is looking. I have heard a wom-
an say to another: What a lovely brooch
you have. I always think those little
inexpensive diamonds almost as’ pretty
as the fine ones. Every day I heara
girl say: ‘Oh, yes, Lulu Brown is one
of my dearest friends. She’s very
pretty, but her complexion is artificial.’
There are girls who qualify every com-
pliment about another girl with one of
those little back-handed _ scratches.
Don’t do it; and never imagine for a
moment that men don’t understand it,
when you do. They comprehend it per-
fectly, and set you down for a spiteful
little cat every time. Even when others
say rude and unkind things to you,
let it pass. Don’t scratch back. Inthe
code of honor among men a gentleman
can only fight with a gentleman. Those
beneath him he ignores. A woman who
insults you is not in your class. You
can not fight her with even a woman’s
weapon—the tongue—without lowering
yourself to her level.

‘‘Don’t get your back up every time
somebody rubs the fur the wrong way.
Life isn’t going to be all compliments
and chocolate creams for you. Don't be
too quick to take offense, or get angry
every time anybody crosses your plans
and desires. Others have an equal
right to their opinions and preferences.
It is easy enough to be amiable when

“every one agrees with you, and admires

you. The test of character is in keep-
ing your temper sweet and reasonable
when people differ with you and criti-
cise you. You will have many oppor-
tunities of observing that the amiability
of your sex bears a strong family like-
ness to that of the cat. In both cases it
is hung on a hair trigger, and is likely
to go off at any moment, if there is a
change in the attitude of the hand that
is stroking them. Rub puss the right
way, and she is all that is complaisant
amiability. Agree with madame in all
that she thinks and does, and she has
the temper of an angel. Reverse the
process, and both are liable to-put their
backs up and spit fire at you.

‘‘Don’t be given to too much purring.
In human beings that trait is gushing,
and it is a pitfall into which many girls
stumble. They want to be thought
cordial, and so they assure every chance
acquaintance that they are simply en-

 

chanted to meet them and that life is a
howling wilderness without them. It is
as insincere and meaningless as the
purr that a cat gives under any hand,
and that only comes from the throat and
never touches the heart at all. Above
all, my child, don’t purr over men. Ac-
cept and enjoy their attentions, for that
is your right, but don’t make the fatal
mistake of looking too pleased because
some man happened to notice you. The
purring girl is always held cheap. Don’t
scratch; don’t purr, don’t be a cat.’’
Cora Stowell.
oo
Louisiana’s Meanest Man.
From the New Orleans Times-Democrat.

‘| think I have discoVered the cham- | ¢
pion meanest man of New Orleans,’’
said a lawyer who always has an eye for
human curiosities. ‘‘I located him ina
restaurant the other day, but must con-
fess that I would never had done so at
first glance. The truth is, he concealed
his accomplishments under a_ rather
bland and benevolent exterior and
looked like an ordinary, good-natured,
middle-aged person in some minor line
of business, with nothing especially to
distinguish him from thousands of
others.

‘“While he was leisurely eating his
dinner and | was leisurely ordering
mine, a newsboy came in with a bundle
of papers. The benevolent-looking gent
beckoned him over, took a paper and
began to peruse it. ‘He went about the
reading with care and deliberation and
occasionally he laid down the sheet and
took a few mouthfuls of dinner. Mean-
while the newsboy was fidgeting from
one leg to another and shooting anxious
glances at possible customers around the
room, but the bland gentleman read on
regardless. I was watching the pair
out of the tail of my eye and kept track
of the time by a clock that hung  over-
head. Five minutes elapsed, then ten,
then fifteen, and the newsboy, who had
collapsed wretchedly into a chair, be-
gan to drum the floor with his feet.
“What’s the matter with you?’ said the
bland man, looking up, ‘you’re the most
nervous child I ever saw in my life.
But I’ve found what I wanted,’ he
added, ‘and 1’ll just cut it out; it won't
hurt your paper, for it’s down here in
one corner where nobody will notice.’
With that he produced a penknife, cut
out a paragraph, folded the paper and

handed it back. ‘Here you are,’ he
said; ‘take it and run along!’

‘*The newsboy made a sort of inartic-
ulate noise, took the sheet and shuffled
out. He seemed to be stupefied by the
man’s transcendental gall, and the fact
is, I felt a little that way myself. When
I last saw him he was putting the clip-
ping in his pocketbook. 1 am _ willing
to back him at even money against any
other man in Louisiana.’

9
Hardware for the Holidays.

The hardware holiday trade has as-
sumed very large proportions this year
and ample preparations have been made
by retailers to provide for it. The va-
riety of goods now handled by hard-
waremen is much greater than has been
customary hitherto. In fact, the up-to-
date store would hardly be recognized
by the dealer of ten or even five years
ago, so great has been the improvement
in the carried lines, and this applies
not only to the holiday stock but to the
regular run of goods.

> -@ <> --—
The Spirit of Change.
‘“‘Well,’’ said the Kansas _ farmer,
jovially, ‘I hear that you paid off your

mortgage yesterday.
to be congratulated.’’
‘‘Oh, 1 don’t know,’’ replied
other Kansas farmer with a sigh;
old place’ll
more. ”’

1 tell you, you are

the
“*the
never seem like home any

SA ge
Settling a Score.
‘*Goodness! Where did the Joneses
get that big silver loving cup that is in
their parlor window?’
‘‘Why, it was given to them by the
neighbors that used their lawn mower
and telephone all summer,’

 

Hardware Price Current

 

Snell’s
Jennings’ genuine
Jennings’ imitation.................

Axes

First Quality, 8. B. Bronze... ..........
First Quality, D. B. Bronze. ..........
First Quality, S. B.S. Steel. ..........
First Quality, D. B. Steel. ............
Barrows

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Bolts

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Buckets
WOH, OH
Butts, Cast
Cast Loose Pin, figured .. ee
Wrought ee
Cartridges
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Cantral Wire 20
Chain
yy in. 6-16 in.
s ¢, 2
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BBB. 9%

Crowbars
Cast Stock por i
Caps

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Hick’s

G. D., permis Deel oe tke Leyes se

Muske peta Ci
Chisels

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Socket Firmer ee ee
MOCKEL Framing... .. 2.2... een ce coe
Beemec Corner... ol... te.
ROGCKOC SIONS. see ee
Elbows

Com. 4 piece, 6 in., ~~ Oh. cc.
Corrugated, oe doz..
Adjustable. .

net

.... dis
betes Bits

Clark’s small, $18; 74 We eee eee

Ives’ 1, $18; 2, $24; 3, $00...............
ol ean List

INOW BINCUICRN ooo oo. col...

Nicholson’s......
Heller’s Horse Rasps...

Gabeentand ‘on
Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 25 and 26; 27.
List 12 13 14 15 16.
Discount, 70

  

Gas Pipe
Black or Galvanized...................
Gauges
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s..........
Glass
Single Strength, by box...............dis
Double Strength, by box.............. dis
By Gio Tiga... .... ws ee dis
Hammers
Maydole & Co.’s, new list.............. dis
Yerkes & Plumb’s oe dis
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel........... .30¢ list
Hinges
Gate, Clark’s 1, 2, 3. i dis
Hollow ase
GROG oe
ee
Horse Nails
..dis
.. dis
House 'Fernishing ‘Goods
Stamped Tinware, new list............
Jgapanned Tinware.....................
Iron
eo
Ree PO es.
Knobs—New List
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings.*......
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings.......
Lanterns

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Putnam..

 

Regular 0 Tubular, Doz................ 5 25
Warren, Galvanized Fount........... 6
Levels
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s..........dis 70
Mattocks
Adze Eye....... ..$17 00..dis 60
Metals—Zine
G00 pound CAGKS..... .. 2.6.1. emcee ve 7%
Go ee 8
Miscellaneous
Bird Cages . 40
Pumps, Ciste rm. 70 |
Screws, New List 80
Casters, Bed and Plate. . _. &10810
Dampers, American................ .. 50
Molasses Gates
Stebbins’ Pattern. . eae 60810
Enterprise, self-measuring.. 30
Pans
Fry, Acme.. ee de ae alla 60&10&10
Common, polished 70&5
Patent Planished Iron
“A? Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 10 20
“B” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 25toz7 9 2
Broken packages %e per pound extra.
Planes

Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy. . 50
Sciota Bench. 60
Sandusky Tool Co.’ *s, ‘fancy... 50
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25&10
50810

6 50
10 00
7 7

11 50

14 00
30 00

65
40&10
20

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1 25
40&10

30&10
25
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28
17

40810
60&10
80&20

80&20
80

33%
40&10
70

60&10

50&10
50X10
50&10

40810

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20&10

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Nails
Advance over base, on both Steel and Wire.
Steel nails, base... .... 3 25
ere eee ae 3 40

  

  

20 to 60 advance... ... Base
10 to 16 advance. . 05
Sadvance... .. 10
Seer... ........ 3, 20
4advance...... 30
3 advance...... . 45
2 advance...... 70
Fine 3 advance eee ee
Casing ee 15
Casing 8 advance. ee se, 25
Casing 6 advance..... ee el 35
Finish 10 advance........ eee 25
bi ea ae 35
ren 6 MO VANCG,.... 8... cs ese 45
PET Ot OVI ok cess cst 85
Rivets
Iron and Tinned. 50
Copper Rivets and ‘Burs. a 45
cide | Plates
14x20 IC, Charcoal, Dean............ 6 50
14x20 LX, Charcoal, Dean............. 7 50°
20x28 IC, Charcoal, 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
Sisal, ty inch and eer a 11%
Manilla. ek 16
Sand sins r
we 50
Sash Weights
molld Byes, per tom... -.............. 22 50
Sheet Iron

com. smooth. com.
ee a 20 $3 00
NOs. 1600 17....... es 3 00
POO BO Eek eee st es ee 3 20
be i 3 30
— —-—...............,...... oo 3 40

3 60 4
‘All ‘Sheets No. 18 and lighter, ‘over 30 inches
wide, not less than 2-10 extra.

Shells— Loaded

Loaded with Black Powder...........dis 40
Loaded with Nitro Powder........... dis 40&10
Shot
Drop.. eee 1 45
RB ane Bae 17
Shovels and Spades
ee 8 60
Seeond Grade, Doz.. a 8 10

Solder ii

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The p prices ‘of the many ‘other qualities of oben
in the market indicated by private brands vary
according to composition.

  

  
 
  
 

Squares
Steel and Tron. es 65
Tin_Me ies Grade

O_O Eee $ 8 50
Re Ook he eee pee ee ee 8 50
OE o_o 9 75

Each additional X on this grade, $1.25.

Tin—Allaway Grade

ponte 10, Chareoal..............5...-+. 7 00
PA WUT, CUATCORL. 8... ok kine cues 7 00
Were 0m, Coercoe..................,.. 85
14x20 [X, Chareoal.. 8 50

Each additional X on this grade, $1.50

Boiler Size Tin Plate
14x56 IX, for No.8 Boilers, "
14x56 LX; for No. 9 Boilers, f Per pound.. 10
Traps

Steel, Game. : 75
Oneida C ommunity, ‘Newhouse’s 40&10
Oneida Community, vane & ‘Nor-

ton’s... isi 65810
Mouse, choker, per ‘do; gees 15
Mouse, delusion, per doz..... — ..... 1 25

Wire
ee 60
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Coppered Maruet.........:......2..... 50&10
Tinned Market.. Be ee eee 50&10
Coppered Spring Steel. a 40
Barbed Fence, Galvanized..........-. 4 05
Barbed Fence, Painted................ 3 90
Wire Goods

EE Eee 75
EO eee 75
i ieee al on pee 75
Gate Hooks and Eyes.. .. 75

Wrene ne
Baxter’s Adjustable, Nickeled..
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Is Emerging From Darkness Into Light.

Standish, Dec. 11—I write you in re-
gard to my new plan of business, think-
ing it might be beneficial to your read-
ers. I am doing a strictly cash busi-
ness and find it to be more satisfactory
than I thought it would be when 1
started. I have done a credit business
ever since I started, about seven years
ago, and each year since that time |
found the credit business more unsatis-
factory. I had several times decided to
start the cash system, but, being afraid
of the result each time, backed down
until Nov. 1 of this year, when | made
up my mind that I would either run a
cash store or none; and with a firm be-
lief that I could and would master all
difficulties arising from the change, |
launched out,and I can assure you that I
have not met with as many difficulties
since I started this system as I did un-
der the old credit system; in fact, all
the trouble I have had has been in the
settlement of some business transacted
under the old system. Nothing could
induce me to go back and transact busi-
ness as I formerly did, and 1 would ad-
vise any merchant reading this article
who finds the credit system annoying,
as most merchants do, to stop at once
and take the step that is sure to bring
success. It is like stepping from dark-
ness into light and I can definitely say
from my own experience that you will
find yourself relieved of a burden un-
necessarily borne. I enclose a circular
such as I sent to all my customers and,
in fact, to every one far and near, be-
fore making the change so all were
aware of the change, before it was
adopted. In this way I avoided having
to refuse credit in the store. I have had
to refuse perhaps six or eight customers
since Nov. 1. The next step I took was
to cut the price on all articles through
the store so as to make just a fair living
profit. I make a profit on everything I
sell, but do not sell for or below cost.
My intention is to keep this policy
right through. If my neighbor mer-
chants cut prices to cost or below, it
makes no difference to me. I will not
drop from my standard price. If they
get below me, they are not making any
profits. They will have to sell so cheap
that they will soon see that it is only
folly to do this. It is not my intention
to put up any fight on prices or to kick
up any Irritations with other merchants.
I intend to do just as I state in my cir-
cular on this point—try to buy and sell
so as to meet the appreciation and
patronage of all.

The effect on my business has been an
increase in trade and my bank account
runs higher than it ever did last month,
so I can say, in conclusion, that the
cash business has proved itself to me to
be the only way whereby a merchant
can get on a safe footing and stay there.
I will write again in the future and let
my fellow merchants know how | pro-
gress as time passes. W. N. Honey.

———_> 22. ___
Fell in the Trap Set by the Bell Company.
From Elkhart Daily Truth. :

The sale of the South Bend independ-
ent telephone line to the Central Union
(Bell) Company was a most disastrous
thing for that city and telephone users
will soon realize the practical workings
of an absolute monopoly. The South
Bend dailies have taken occasion, since
the transfer, to assure telephone patrons
that the consolidation would mean more
satisfactory service, but as yet they have
had not a word to say about the probable
cost of that service.

Truth to-day is ina position to en-
lighten them on that subject and de-
sires also to felicitate the people of Elk-
hart upon their peculiar good fortune in
that there is no danger of a similar con-
solidation in this city.

Before the South Bend independent
system sold out to the Central Union the
rates of both companies were $15 a year
for residence 'phones and $30 a year for
business houses. These rates are con-
siderably in excess of those charged by
either of the competing lines in this city,
but South Benders considered them
moderate.

Since the consolidation the rates in
South Bend have been advanced to $30
for residences and $48 for stores and

 

business places. These figures have not
yet been made public in that city, but
Truth has received them from a reliable
source, and it will be but a few days
before the company notifies its patrons
of the advance in rates.

Twice within the past three years has
the Central Union Company made an
offer to buy the independent line in
this city, but the management of the
Home company would sell only on con-
dition that no increase should ever be
made in present rates, and to this con-
dition the Bell company would not
agree. In this transaction the inde-
pendent company acted honorably with
its patrons and its course is to be highly
commended.

Elkhart people are fortunate and the
helplessness of the South Bend public is
truly pitiable.

—_—_>0.___
Manistee Merchants at Variance on Early
Closing.

Manistee, Dec. o9—The Business
Men’s Association held their regular bi-
monthly meeting at the Council Rooms
Wednesday night. There were about
thirty present, and the topic of the even-
ing was the early closing movement in-
augurated by the clerks. The sentiment
of the members present was not in favor
of the early closing movement, except
during January and February and _per-
haps March. A vote was taken and it
was Carried by a big majority. Still it
is hard to determine the true status of
the business men, as many representa-
tives of the business firms were ab-
sent. The prevailing opinion is that
the business men generally are willing
to close at 6 or 7 o’clock during the win-
ter months, except Saturday nights, but
are bitterly opposed to the early closing
during the remainder of the year. Quite
a few who have signed the clerks’ list
claim that the matter had been misrep-
resented to them. That is, they claim
they signed it with the understanding
that their business places should be
closed at 6 o’clock only during the win-
ter months, whereas in reality it means
for all time to come. It appears that
those who have signed the list signed
it with the proviso to keep closed if their
neighbors did.

Geo. H. Davis, J. E. McEvoy and L.
Wellman were appointed a committee
to wait upon the business men with a
view of ascertaining whether they are in
favor of the early closing movement or
not, with the exception of January and
February and perhaps March.

The closing matter was thoroughly
discussed, pro and con, but no action
was taken on account of the business
firms not heing better represented, only
to get the sense of those present.

The resignation of Secretary C. W.
Lee was accepted and J. S. Madison
was elected to fill the vacancy. Jacobsen
& Hansen became members of the asso-
Ciation.

——_>2.>___
Kalamazoo Shoe Dealers Touch Elbows.

Kalamazoo, Dec. g—The boot and
shoe merchants of Kalamazoo met at the
Chamber of Commerce Wednesday
evening and completed an_ organization
to be called the Kalamazoo Retail Boot
and Shoe Dealers’ Social Association,
for the purpose of inducing a more fra-
ternal feeling among the representatives
of this line of business. They will hold
a banquet at the Burdick in a few
weeks,

Another meeting will be held next
Wednesday night and committees ap-
pointed on organization, by-laws and
social events. The officers elected are
as follows:

President—William Ware.

Vice-President—J. F. Mufiley.

Secretary—L. T. Bennett.

Treasurer—P. B. Appeldoorn.

There has been talk among some of
the shoe dealers of making a uniform
price on rubber goods, doing away with
‘free shine’’ stands in their stores and
charging 5 cents for every pair of shoe
strings that is disposed of, but the prop-
osition has not met with the approval
of all the dealers.

———>_0>__
All the world loves a lover; but not
one of the Roberts kind:

 

Port Huron Merchants Chafe Under the
Piano Scheme.

Port Huron, Dec. 11—There was a
large attendance at the meeting of the
Merchants and Manufacturers’ Associa-
tion last Friday night.

The Secretary reported that the mer-
chants who went into the ‘‘piano
scheme’’ are anxious to get out of it,
if they can do so honorably. The Sec-
retary said it was a violation of the
rules of the Association for members to
enter into such schemes. He advised
all members to withdraw.

E. C. Boice, John Schwickert, W. B.
Biddlecomb, Jacob Jacobi and others
who had contracts with the Piano Ad-
vertising Co. made short speeches. All
expressed regret at having entered into
the agreement. John Schwickert stated
that he had purchased tickets to the
amount of $16, while Jacob Jacobi and
others said that they had paid $28.

A short adjournment was taken to al-
low those having contracts to discuss
the matter together.

On reassembling the statement was
made that the ‘‘victims’’ had arrived at
a conclusion, but did not want to make
it public until after all who signed the
agreement had been interviewed.

The Asgociation voted to keep all
stores open evenings during the week
of December 18.

Speeches were made by A. S. Martin,
Chas. Baer, W. R. Austin, A. G. Smith
and others. Referring to gift enter-
prises Mr, Martin said if the gold brick
men of New York should hear of the
Port Huron Merchants and Manufactur-
ers’ Association, they would certainly
have a snap.

——_>+.____
Injurious Effect of Warm Weather on
Upper Peninsular Trade.

Ishpeming, Dec. 11—Our business
was not only set back a full month, but
we sustained losses from the slackness
in trading which we will never make
up. The fall weather was unprece-
dentedly warm and people were able to
wear clothing meant for early fall up to
the first of this month without the slight-
est discomfort.

This killed the November business.
While the weather permitted light cloth-
ing was worn, and there were only a few
calls for heavy fall and winter goods in
a month which generally is marked by
a tremendous rush of business. Dealers
in wearing apparel and footwear suffered
most from the slow business, although
the slackness in trading was so_notice-
able that business generally was not up
to the usual standard.

It is hard to estimate the amount of
money loss which’the warm weather is
responsible for. It does not follow that
all will this month purchase articles
which would have been bought in No-
vember had it been cold. Christmas is
rapidly approaching and the necessity
for unusual expenditures will cause a
wave of economy which will be more or
less general. We clothing and footwear
men got a black eye in November and
there is no denying it.

ee Aaa
A Ready Answer.

‘*I am so ambitious,’’ said the ego-
tistical man, ‘‘that some day you may
see me bringing the earth home.’’

“If you bring it on your feet,’’ cau-
tioned his meek wife, ‘‘don't forget that
the door mat stands in the vestibule,
and that the last time these halls were
scrubbed | did it myself.’’

Busines Lenls

Advertisements will be inserted under
this head for two cents a word the first
insertion and one cent a word for each
subsequent insertion. No advertisements
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_ BUSINESS CHANCES.

ve SALE—STOCK OF SHOES AND FIX-
tures invoicing $2,000; good location in town
of 6,000 inhabitants; will accept 50 cents on the
dollar if taken quick. _ Address 118 South Michi-
gan Ave., Big Rapids, Mich. 148
_ SALE — ONE CARLOAD 25 FEET
- cedar poles, four inch top. Address J. J.
Robbins, Boyne Falls, Mich. 149

 

 

 

| pes SALE—BAKERY AND LUNCH ROOM;
cheap for cash. Sickness reason for selling.
L. K. Koehlinger, Durand, Mich. 1
RUG STOCK FOR SALE—RENT VERY
cheap; good location in city of 9,000 inhabi-
tants; resort town. Stock invoices $2,000. Ad-
dress No. 152, care Michigan Tradesman. 152
ok SALE—MEAT MARKET, WITH FIX-
tures, span of horses, wagons, sleighs and
everything necessary for a first-class market,
Good living rooms in upper story; terms easy;
one market in operation; town of 1,800 popula-
tion. Reason for selling, poor health. Address
Levi S. Smith, Nashville, Mich. 151
a SALE—ALMOST NEW CALIGRAPH
(No. 3) Typewriter at one-half price; terms
$5 cash with order, balance of $45 C. O. D.; full
examination privileges; first-class condition
guaranteed. L.A. Ely, Alma, Mich. 150
por SALE—DRUG STOCK IN WESTERN
Michigan. Invoices about $2,000. Reason
for selling, death of proprietor.
145, care Michigan Tradesman.

SOR RENT JANUARY 1, 1900, ONE OF OUR
immense block of stores and basement at 34
Canal street, next to Friedrich Bros.’ music
store. Address all communications to I. C. Levi,
34-42 Canal St. 146

OR SALE, AT A SACRIFICE—STOCK OF

Ladies’ furnishing goods. Also store and

basement for rent at 34 Canal street. I. C. Levi,
34-42 Canal street. 147

I OUSEHOLD GOODS SHIPPED TO CALI-

fornia and all points West at reduced rates.

freight Co., 38 Market St.,
143

 

 

 

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Trans-Continental
Chicago, Il.

O EXCHANGE FOR STOCK OF GEN-

eral Merchandise—160 acre farm near Jeddo,
Mich., with good barn and orchard and farm
house; 120 acres improved; living spring; first-
class stock farm; title perfect; taxes paid. Ad-
dress Box 145, Upton Works, Mich. 140

OR SALE AT A DISCOUNT IF TAKEN

at once—A drug and bazaar stock in a thriv-

ing village of 1,573 people (last census) at the

junction of two trunk lines of railroad. Owner

as other business; splendid opportunity. Ad-
dress 139, care Michigan Tradesman. 139

pS ROLLS FOR DESK CASH REGIS-
ters, price $1.50 per dozen; all widths. Send
sample. E. L. Maybee, 1162 Slater St., Cleve
land, Ohio. 144
VOR SALE — FIRST-CLASS, UP-TO-DATE
meat market; best location in city of 20,000;
excellent trade. Poor health reason for sélling.
Address 138, care Michigan Tradesman. 138
OR SALE—FINE HOTEL AND SMALL
livery barn; doing good business; terms to
Address No. 135, care Michigan er
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man D

— CASH PAID FOR STOCK OF DRY

foots. groceries or boots and shoes. Must

be cheap. Address A. D., care Michigan Trades-
130

 

 

ee GOOD HOUSES, FREE
and clear, good location, for a stock of dry
ages or clothing, either in or out of city. Reed
Osgood, 32 Weston building, Grand oe

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‘OR SALE—GENERAL STOCK IN GOOD

= ak trading point. Terms to suit pur-

chaser. ill rent or sell store building. Ad-
dress No. 116, care Michigan Tradesman. 116

Co BRICK STORE AT OVID, MICH.,
to exchange for timbered land or improved
farm or stock of goods. Address L. C. Town-
send, Jackson, Mich. 114
POT CASH DOWN, WITILOUT ANY DE-
lay, will be paid for stocks of dry goods,
shoes or general merchandise, at a discount.
Correspondence positively held confidential.
Large stocks preferred. Address A. P., care
Michigan Tradesman. 107
7s SALE OR TRADE—A FIRST-CLASS
three hundred twenty acre farm in Southern
Address Box
106

 

 

Michigan. Terms reasonable.

720, Dowagiae, Mich.

W ANTED—YOUR ORDER FOR A RUBBER
stamp. Best ao on earth at prices

that are right. Will J. Weller, Muskegon,

Mich. 958

 

OR SALE OR EXCHANGE FOR GENERAL

Stock of Merchandise—60 acre farm, part
clear, architect house and barn; well watered.
I also have two 40 acre farms and one 80 acre
farm to exchange. Address No. 12, care Michi-
gan Tradesman. 12

Fok SALE—NEW GENERAL STOCK. A
splendid farming conntry. No trades. Ad-

dress No. 680, care Michigan Tradesman. 680

A ONE WISHING TO ENGAGE IN THE
grain and produce and other lines of busi-
ness can learn of good locations by communi-
cating with H. H. Howe, Land and Industrial
Agent C. & W. M.and D., G. R. & W. Railways,
Grand Rapids, Mich. 919
HE SHAFTING, HANGERS“ AND PUL-
leys formerly used to drive the Presses of
the Tradesman are for sale at a nominal price.
Power users making additions or changes will
do well to investigate. Tradesman Company,
Grand Rapids, Michigan. 983
ODERN CITY RESIDENCE AND LARGE
lot, with barn, for sale cheap on easy terms,
or will exchange for tract of hardwood timber.
Big bargain for some one. Possession given any
time. Investigation solicited. E. A. Stowe, 100
N. Prospect street, Grand Rapids. 993

MISCELLANEOUS.
4 TO $6 A DAY SURE ABOVE EXPENSES
and a steady job to good agents selling our
gasoline lamp. Everybody wants them. Brilliant
Gas Lamp Co., M48 Clark St., Chicago. 153

ANTED—POSITION BY REGISTERED
pharmacist; 10 years’ experience: best of
references. Address 332 West 10th St., Traverse
City, Mich. 155
ANTED—REGISTERED PHARMACIST.
State age, experience, references and sal-
ary expected. Address No. 156, care Michigan
esman. 156

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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MERCANTILE ASSOCIATIONS

 

 

 

and West Michigan R’y
Nov. 19, 1899.

CHICAG

 

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.

Ly. G. Rapids, 7:30am 4:00pm
Ar. Trav ity, 12:40pm 9:10pm
Ar. Charlev’x, 3:10pm 12:25am
Ar. Petoskey, 3:40pm 12:55am

Trains arrive from north at
and 10:45pm.

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

*Every day. Others week days only.

DETROI

2:40pm, and

 

 

Grand Rapids & Western.
June 26, 1899.

 

Detroit.
Ly. Grand Rapids.... 7:00am 12:05pm 5:25pm
Ar. Detroit... 2.5... 11:40am 4:05pm = 10:05pm
Ly. 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.

GRAN

(In effect Oct 19, 1899.)
Going East.

 

 

Trunk Railway System
Detroit and Milwaukee Diy

 

Leave Arrive
Saginaw, Detroit & N. Y......+ 6:50am + 9:55pm
Detroit and East .............. +10:16am + 5:07pm
oe e Detroit & East...... + 3:27pm +12:50pm
Buffalo, N. Y., Toronto, Mon-

treal & Boston, Ltd Ex..*
Going West.

cot

:20pm *10:16am

3d. Haven Express............ *10:21am * 7:15pm
Gd. Haven and Int. Pts.......+12: ‘58pm + 3:19pm
Gd. Haven and Milwaukee... .+ 5:12pm +10:11am

Eastbound 6:50am train has new Buffet parlor
car to Detroit, eastbound 3:27pm train has new
Buftet parlor car to Detroit.

*Daily. +Except Sunday.

C. A. JUSTIN, City Pass. Ticket Agent,
97 Monroe St., Morton House.

 

 

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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 From
South
+ 9:45pm
+ 2:00pm

Going
South
Kalamazoo, Ft. WayneCin. + 7:10am
Kalamazoo and Ft. Wayne. + 2:00pm
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.

Lv. Grand a. -t7 10am +2 00pm *11 30pm
Ar. Chicago... . 2 30pm ~=8 45pm 7 00am
FROM CHICAGO
Lv. Chica: cS -.....13 02pm *11 32pm
Ar. cme Eapids. ees oes eae 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.
GOING WEST.

Ly. Grand Rapids....+7 35am +1 35pm +5 40pm
Ar. Muskegon. . 900am 250pm 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. get

. LOCKWOOD,
Gen’l Tass! and Ticket ‘Agent

BLAKE
Ticket Ase Union Station.

MANISTE

Via C. & W. M. Railway.

 

 

& Northeastern Ry.

Best route to Manistee.

 

Ly. amet Ones: 700am_.......
AE. EATS oe ree es “12 Opm _ .......
Ly. woe. Siace eres srevesss S Oe 4 30pm
Ar. Grand Rapids. See ies 100pm 9 55pm

 

Michigan Business Men’s Association

— ve L. WHITNEY, Traverse City; Sec-
retary, E. A. SrowRk, Grand Rapids.

Michigan Retail Grocers’ Association

President, J. WISLER, Mancelons; ” Secretary,
E. A. Srowk, Grand Rapids

Detroit Retail Grocers’ Association

President, JOSEPH KNIGHT; eae E.
MARKS; Treasurer, C H. FRIN

Graud Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association

President, FRANK J. DyK; Secretary, HOMER
KLApP; Treasurer, J. GEORGE LEHMAN

Saginaw Mercantile Association

President, P. F. TREANOR; Vice-President,
JOHN MCBRATNIE; Secretary, W. H. Lewis.

Jackson Retail Grocers’ Association
President, J. FRANK HELMER;
H. PoRTER; Treasurer,

Secretary, W.
L. PELTON.
Adrian Retail Grocers’ Association

President, A. ©. CLARK; Secretary,
CLEVELAND; Treasurer, WM. Cc.

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Muskegon Retail Grocers’ Association

President, H. B. SmirH; Secretary, D. A.
BOELKINS; Treasurer, J. W. CASKADON.

 

Bay Cities Retail Grocers’ Association
President, M. L. DEBATs; Secretary, S. W.
WATERS. a
Kalantazoo Retail Grocers’ Association
President, W. H. JOHNSON; Secretary, UHAS.
HYMAN.
Traverse City Business Men’s Association

President, THOS T. BATES; Secretary, M. B.
HOLLy; Treasurer, C. AL HAMMOND.

 

Owosso Business Men’s 8 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.
Girand Rapids Retail Meat Dealers’ Association
President, L. M. WILsoNn; Secretary, PHILIP
HILBER; Treasurer, S. J. HUFFORD.
St. Johns Business Men’s Association
President, THOS. BROMLEY; Secretary, a
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-
HOFKs.
Yale Business Men’s Association

President, CHAS. RoUNDs; Secretary, FRANK
PUTNEY.

 

 

Uneeda
Vinjer Wayfer

 

Wayfer box.

they came from the oven.

where you can try them often.

Uneeda
Jinjer Wayfer

is the sweet sister of Uneeda Biscuit, Ask your grocer for them.

Made only by NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY,
Proprietors of the registered trade mark—**‘ Uneeda.”’

 

The cracker jar has been supplanted by the Uneeda Jinjer
The box that keeps its contents as fresh as the day
When your appetite craves a fresh, sweet,
delicate morsel trya Uneeda Jinjer Wayfer. Keepthe box
Where the children can get them as

 

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their experiments. Your own good sense will tell
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No. 2591 Freight Train—Engine, tender and steel flat car, Length 23in. Nicely painted. %doz.in box. Per doz... $1 85

 
 

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If you need anything, and need it quickly, send us your
order. We will fill it promptly from the largest and best-assorted
stock we have ever carried at this season. We planned our buy-
ing so carefully that even at this late date our unusually heavy

   

 

 

     

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Crewe ene Our Catalogues, No. 150 (Holiday Goods) and No. I5I
‘No. 2756 Southern or Plantation Cart, with mule (Staples), are crowded to the fullest extent of their 256 pages

and negro driver, Handsomely painted in bright appropri-

ate — Entire length 11 inches. One-sixth dozen in ~ os with goods that YOU should have in stock.
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our leaders in Iron Toys alone. The prices are interestingly low.

H. Leonard & Sons

 

 

 

 

Importers
Jobbers
No, 2752 Iron Steamboat. Very nicely Manufacturers
vainted in attractive colors with gilt ornamenta- i: i <
a. Length 5%; inches. % doz. inbox .......... $O 75 Fulton and Commerce Streets Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

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use our System Scales. Remember “

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