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Per set Per doz
36 sets Teas, handled a $19 80
‘ sd me i ae cos Uaabe ues 64 52
2 doz. Plates, 8-ineh.... ees eee eee ead 1 03 2 06
Wo G02) Pemees, FGCn. 4.5... 20s --. 52. cee so 13 36
4 doz. Plates, 6-inch  .. 76 3 04
6 doz. Plates, 5 inch.... ae ve eaala eee eee 62 a2
iN sv 80
10. d0z. Pratt Saucers,4inmch.... .... ..<- 41 410
6 Moz. Imaividial Buliers........... ....... a ws 1 65
DNR MI Re ee ty _1 22
2 1, doz. Sugars, 30s... Cea ulec ie cas anaes ae eed 3 30 1 65
Ne, 5 gs cg cote gabe eee ee 1 65 83
} doz, Oatreedls......... . .... a 83 83
é Ldoz Bowls, 0s... 2... .... ae hee eee a 1 10
rege 73
1, doz. Dishes, *-inch. ee cae 1 3 34
14 doz. Dishes, Sinch............ 1 65 id
¥4 doz. Dishes, 10-inch. |. _— 2 48 1 24
ie OOc, Bienes, 171M... 6... ek cao ae 40 2 07
saab ; z Meg, Drees, PEON... sw ci ees ea ones 4 5 78 144
a aay ae Ee POOL POROUS FMC ey cc ek asec reteset y bce eo oe 1 92
e aenneaaneanaall F . . = +4 doz. Bakers, 7-inch............. eat , 1 66 i
2 = ae CRETE % doz. Bakers, @-Mich................. 2 48 1 24
a ; = ; — 144 doz. Bakers, 9-inch 320 &3
ee cone 1, doz. Scollops, 5-inch ....... oleae ene 1H 37
Mt @Oz. SEOMOpS, GOON ... 2... 2. nee cee oe aa 416
44 doz. Scollops, 7-Inch.:.. ....... a a &3
I \ Di Oe, ERIN EM Ce ee cg ee ee ve cw Oe ee 1 24
‘dg, he Meteor Pattern Pi I. tee eee. 3 30 110
? i 14 doz. Sauce Boats......+..... Be cider ess > ee cee eees on Om 1 10
DG Ges, Cire wen PU OR, CCN ke ewe cnc scence OOO 3 30
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e a 'e doz. Covered Butters, 5-ineh... ....... .. . 495 247
x The Swellest White Semi-Porcelain ever put on the market ao on 330 14
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i . EO eee 1 65 82
" _ This beautifully modeled ware is the latest production of those famous ee iu ier asus greasees 1 38 69
English potters—W. H. Grindley & Co. The shape is not only exceedingly Pa ; $88 31
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of White French China. You get equally as good an effect for one-fourth the $81 98
money. Buy in original packages and
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It is becoming a common saying that “Only one-half as much Mica is
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IMPORTANT FEATU RES

2. Dry Goods.

. Birds Should Be Dispensed
Around the State.

5. Grand Rapids Gossip.

The Produce Market.
Woman’s World.

7. Among the Quakers.
Editorial.

Editorial.

Clerks’ Corner.

Crockery and Glassware Quotations.
Shoes and Leather.

The Boom Town of Walker's Station.
The Meat Market.
Why Brown Fggs
Gotham Gossip.
Commercial Travelers.

Drugs and Chemicals.

Drug Price Current.

Grocery Price Current.

Grocery Price Current.

Hardware.

23. Getting the People.

Hardware Price Current.
Independent Telephone Movements.
Business Wants.

With.

Are

Preferred.

 

ARTISTIC LYING.

The of the old adage that
‘*What is worth doing at all is worth do-
ing well’’ never has a more forcible il-
lustration than in the matter of lying.
It is more than strange, considering the
universality of this practice, that so lit-
tle thought should be given to doing the
thing artistically and in a_ way that
would reflect credit upon the performer.
All of us number among our acquaint-
ances dozens of people who are habitu-
ally untruthful, but who are so careless
and slouchy in their methods and so
bungling in the way they seek to palm
off false statements that they do not de-
ceive even a baby and had iust as_ well
speak the truth at once. Of course, the
true liar, like the genuine poet, is born,
not made. With a natural bent in that
direction, coupled with careful cultiva-
tion and constant practice, so much may
be done that no one need despair. One
point that the amateur liar should al-
ways bear in mind is that realism counts
for as much ina lie as it does on the
stage. Your art must be convincing if
it has any heart interest. The one vital
fact may be a falsehood, but it must
have a background of unimpeachable
truths—real trees and running water, so
to speak. Another important point is
to concentrate, not scatter. The fluent
liar, who has a lie always on tap—who
has done everything and seen everything
and been everywhere—is never believed,

wisdom

even when he speaks the truth. He has
drawn out his reserve and exhausted
his forces. The umiversal liar, like the

universal genius, is always a failure.
In contrast to him is the great silent
liar, who simply poses and who is always
believed. Often he is a dullard; but
he is esteemed profound and deep be-
cause he says nothing. He maintains
the reputation of being a philanthropist
on the strength of a generous smile and
an unctious handshake, without ever
giving a penny. Ask him if he has
heard the scandal about So-and-so. He
may not have heard a word, but he looks
unutterable things and shakes his head
knowingly, as if he might say volumes
if he would. The silent liar can never
be contradicted, because he has said
nothing, and he is immensely effective.

 

The artistic liar is one who lies only
occasionally, and then for a purpose.
Sometimes he only touches up the truth
a little to make it the color he desires.
Again he inserts a lie into the whole
fabric of truth, but always so deftly it
can only be detected with the greatest
difficulty. It takes genius, memory,
seif-possession and a knowledge of
man nature to do this. It is beyond the
ability of most of us; and so we go on,
floundering in the ruck of mediocrity,
neither telling the whole truth nor lying
with any success. An interesting point,
in this connection, has been established
in the recent trial of a contested election
case in the Senate, in which it was
sought to establish the fact that a lie is
not always a lie. ‘A lie,’ said the
witness, who ought to have known what
he was talking about,
state a falsehood to a man who
right to know the truth;
right to know the truth, it is not a lie.
This is a cheering view of the subject,
and not only considerably cuts down the
number of liars, but removes the

hu-

‘is when you
the

if he has no

ry

has

stigma

from the reputation of gentlemen ad-
dicted to telling fishing and hunting
stories and ladies who are wont to

brag about imaginary possessions. When
you come to think about it, we haven't
the slightest right to know these partic-

ulars or to resent being misinformed on
them. These are fine distinctions, how-

ever, that are hardly
about, and it really seems easiest and
best to either make up your mind to tell
the truth, or else to devote the necessary
time to acquiring the knack of lying
gracefully and artistically.

worth bothering

 

 

BETTER RAILWAY CONDITIONS.

There is no interest in the country
more promptly affected by trade condi-
tions than the railroads. With good
crops and _ active trading, the railroads
prosper, and when the crops are poor
and business languishes the railroads
are the first to feel the pinch of adver-
sity. The fact that very few roads went
into the hands of receivers last year is
a most excellent indication of the pros-
perity which has prevailed in general
trade. According to the Railway Age,
an accepted authority on the subject,
there have been only two years since
1875 when the number of railway re-
ceiverships has been so few, and in
only three years were the mileage and
capital involved so small.

According to the Railway Age, the
record of receiverships in 1899 is almost
insignificant. ‘Only one road of im-
portance is found in the list, the new
Kansas City, Pittsburg and Gulf, which
defaulted in its obligations before it had
time to demonstrate its earning capacity,
and was placed in the charge of receiv-
ers early in the year. Of the nine others
in the list, two are short logging roads,
belonging to private companies and not
properly to be enumerated among com-
mon carriers; one is an old narrow-
gauge road that has never been profit-

 

able, and is owned by a great railway
company which now _ proposes to
straighten out its title by foreclosure,

and the others are short local lines, most-
ly in the experimental stage. The to-

 

Number 853

tals, covering all these conditions, rep-
resent ten companies, with 1,019 miles
of road and a capitalization of a little

over $52,000, 000. ’’

The showing of 1899 is a promising
change from the dark era of railroad

bankruptcies and disasters which cul-
minated
companies, with nearly
track, handed
The enormous losses and shameful waste
rail-
road bankruptcies during the past quar-
ter of a century will be readily appre-
ciated by the perusal of a few figures
furnished by the Railway Age. During
the period mentioned, 618 roads, repre-
senting extent of 112,110 miles and

in 1893, when seventy-four
30,000 miles of
were over to receivers.

of the people's money involved in

an
securities aggregating
became bankrupt, and, as a result of the
costly procedure of the
courts, the great mass of the
volved was lost to the
‘There nothing shameful in
the history of American financial affairs
than this record of railroad waste. No
other country in the world could have
the shock and resultant financial
loss as this country has; not
speak well for our financial methods that
such plundering
possible. The railroad
more than any other cause,
for the
securities

$6, 310, 500, 000

bankruptcy
money
investors.

in-

is more

stood

but it does

has been
bankruptcies,
were respor
sible loss of confidence in Amer-
ican abroad which had
much to do with the financial panic of
1893 and the depression of the years im-
mediately following.

The record of foreclosure sales
1896, furnished by the Railway Age, is
not flattering ; but it should be re-
membered that foreclosure sales repre-
sent conditions, and not
influences. The foreclosure
the clearing away of the wreckage, and
hence are part of the curative process
which has produced present satisfactory
conditions. ‘The sales for
the year included thirty-two roads, with
1,294 miles of track, representing $267, -
000,000 of invested capital. While this
is not small as could be desired,
represents a great improvement over the
years immediately preceding, thus in-
dicating that the process of clearing
away the wreckage progressing to-
wards the end.

scandalous

so

for

so

past present

sales are

foreclosure

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all-around city Boston does

For an
pretty well. She set up the biggest
organ in the country once ona time

and now she is pluming herself over a
mammoth machine for furnishing power
for her elevated railway now in progress,
Its maximum efficiency is 4,000, capa-
ble of being varied 12 to 15 per cent.
either way. The engine shaft is of hol-

low forged steel, 27 feet 1o inches in
length, 32 inches diameter in the bear-
ings and 37 inches in the bedy witha
17%4-inch hole through its length. The
weight of the engine shaft is 65,410
pounds; of the crank disc, 58,004
pounds.

 

So long a: as Great ‘Britain pays liberal-
ly for goods seized at Delegoa Bay, other
nations than Germany and the United
States may want to have vessels seized
there.

MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

 

 

Dry Goods

The Dry Goods Market.

Staple Cottons—This market shows
no particular change from the generally
quiet conditions which have prevailed
for several weeks. The demand is on a
moderate scale, although aggregating a
fair amount. Brown sheetings and drills
have moved moderately and stocks in
all leading brands are low. Prices re-
main unchanged. All four-yard sheetings
are quiet at prices which we have pre-
viously quoted.

 

 

Prints and Ginghams—A prediction
was made some little time ago by the
jobbers that the wash goods business for
spring of 1900 would be the biggest in
the history of the business. This is be-
ing daily verified and the past week has
been an enormous one, so far as_ orders
are concerned. The conditions are all
such as to demand a large output from
the mills, and those mills making a spe-
cialty of cotton dress goods are enjoying
a season of the utmost activity. Domes-
tic manufacturers are meeting with diffi-
culty in making deliveries as promptly
as required by their customers. The in-
creased business in all parts of the coun-
try has filled them up with orders, and
the buyers are calling for especially
early delivery. Cotton crepons are one
of the most prominent lines of cotton
goods for the summer, and promise to
be a big feature.

Dress Goods—The situaiton in the
dress goods market is much the same as
it was a week ago. The mills are mak-
ing deliveries of spring goods as rapidly
as possible, but not as quickly as buy-
ers would like, and there is a succession
of kicks being made in consequence.
Supplementary business is offering in a
considerable volume and agents have
been obliged to turn down several orders,
owing to the large volume of orders yet
facing the looms. This difficulty will
be further enhanced when jobbers begin
to send in duplicate spring orders. The
fall dress goods season is drawing near.
In fact, on staple lines some business
has already been done, the buyers in
some instances having shown an anxiety
to get some orders placed. On fancy
lines no business has yet been done,
agents not yet being ready. There
seems to be a growing impression that
the fancy goods season will open some-
what earlier than usual, Feb. 15 being
ixed by some as the probable date
when fancies will begin to be opened.
Rough wool goods of the homespun and
cheviot variety are expected to make
another good showing in heavyweights,
and the fancy back has many champions.

Underwear—The fall underwear busi-
ness is rapidly drawing towards a close.
It will be but a week or two now before
most of the lines are sold up for the sea-
son. The advances in prices have had
the effect of making buyers anxious to
place their orders early, especially for
fleeces. There is complaint on the part
of buyers in regard to the sharp ad
vances on fleeced lines, but there seems
to be no good reason for this. The
trouble is that they were educated to
low prices and no profits for the manu-
facturers, and it is a little difficult for
them to understand that conditions have
entirely changed now, but the market is
no longer at the mercy of the buyers and
agents fighting among themselves, but
it has been raised to nearer the proper
standard, and prices are much nearer a
basis of equality. Huyers must under-
stand that it is possible for them to re-
ceive the right qualities and deliveries

 

 

on time only when their part of the bar-
gain is comparatively fair and just. If
they are getting the goods at what it cost
to make them or less, as was often the
case a year ago, they have little reason
to grumble if, when deliveries are
made, the qualities fall below the sam-
ples or the deliveries are much behind
time.

Hosiery—Both foreign and domestic
makes have had a large sale, and most
of the mills are behind in their deliver-
ies. The fine effects which are obtained
have appealed strongly to the better
class of trade, and the added durability
has appealed to all consumers. Half
hose in neat designs and high colors
have already found an active demand,
and retailers are encouraged to carry full
stocks. Domestic seamless hosiery con-
tinues to be active, and the yarns are
high in price, and limited in quantity.
There is every reason for believing that
advances will be made on these goods
before long.

Carpets—Several of the largest in-
grain carpet manufacturers in Philadel-
phia have notified the trade of a further
advance of 2%c per yard on ingrains,
which took effect Jan. 10. As the initial
orders have already been placed to last
for several weeks, the advance will
affect dupiicate orders mainly. Some of
the carpet manufacturers realize the fact

that for the past six months the help |’

employed in the mills have been
obliged to pay a large increase for the
necessaries of life, and that their wages
will not go as far as formerly, thus little
being left for comforts, including car-
pets and other furnishings, and they are
anxious to see the advance on goods
made sufficient to permit the employers
of labor to pay wages in proportion to
the changed conditions.

Smyrna Rugs—These goods show by
their sales that they are becoming - more
popular. A great number of rugs in car-
pet sizes are being sold. Wool and jute,
of which these rugs are made, are
scarce, and it is only a question of time
before they will be almost beyond
reach, and prices will naturally become
higher. Carpet salesmen have returned
from their first trip, and report business
good all over the country. They have
taken larger orders than usual at this
season. They will start on their second
trip for duplicate orders about the mid-
dle of February. Manufacturers com-
plain that they can not pay any more
for yarn while selling goods at old fig-

ures.
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Progress in Early Closing.

Hillsdale—The grocery stores of the
city have joined in the early closing
movement and close each evening ex-
cept Saturday at 8 o’clock, while the dry
goods, clothing and hardware stores
close at 6 o’clock.

Houghton—The druggists of this city
have entered into an agreement to close
their places of business during the re-
mainder of the winter months at 9
o'clock each evening.

Harbor Springs—-The early closing
scheme for Harbor Springs seems to
be a failure. Most of the business places
were closed at first, but some did not
see fit to close, and of course in a_ deal
of that kind it must be all or none, be-
cause it would be unfair for part to re-
main open and part closed.

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When the founder of the Anti-Poverty
Society died recently it was found: that
he owed sums amounting to about
$10,000. His friends will endeavor to
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a prospective customer in a bake shop.
‘*Yes’m,’’ replied the new boy, ‘‘we
have some nice pound loaves that weigh
only Io ounces.’’
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Three Reasons Why Birds Should Be Dis-
pensed With.
Written for the Tradesman.

I stepped into a dry goods store yes-
terday to call ona business acquaint-
ance and found him standing by the
front door, his hands behind his _ back,
looking out on the crowd of shoppers
which thronged the pavement.

It was a bright, sunny day, although
rather cool, and the crowd consisted
principally of ladies, young and old,
invariably well dressed and_ looking
bright and happy. As I stopped to
shake hands with my friend | saw that
his eyes were fixed intently on the pass-
ing crowd and observed with amazement,
not unmixed with a tinge of anger, that
he coolly motioned me away with his
hand.

Just as I was about to move away,
however, he caught me by the arm and,
lifting up one hand, began, with ex-
tended finger, to count, ducking his
finger like a well-sweep at every num-
ber. I wondered if the fellow was go-
ing crazy, at first, then saw with relief
that he was ‘‘keeping cases,’’ as he
afterwards called it, on something going
on in the street.

‘“Twenty-one, twenty-two,  twenty-
three and two are twenty-five,’’ he pres-
ently said, turning to me. ‘‘What do
you think of that? Out of a total of fifty-
four ladies who passed this store just
now twenty-five wore bird ornaments on
their hats. Absurd, isn’t it?’’

‘*T think they look very tasty,’’ I re-
marked, not knowing what else to say,
and following the advice of Mark
Twain, who says that when in doubt the
better way is to tell the truth.

‘*Tasty,’’ echoed the merchant, tak-
ing me by the arm and leading the way
back to the office, ‘‘I think it ridicu-
lous, not to call the custom by a harsher
name. The idea of a lady sticking a
dead bird on her hat seems to me to be
repulsive enough to stop the practice,
even if it did not bring to mind other
and more serious objections. ”’

‘*Doesn’t your wife wear them?’’ I
asked.

‘*Not much,’’ was the reply, ‘‘and |
am indebted to her for the ideas I have
on the subject, or most of them, at
least.’’

‘For instance?’’ I asked:

‘‘For instance,’’ said the merchant,
‘‘the custom is not becoming, nor is it
calculated to increase the respect with
which: ladies are held in all civilized
communities. The word lady brings to
my mind, and to the mind of every in-
telligent man, the thought of a sweet
and kindly nature, of a warm heart

- throbbing with love and sympathy, and

of a tender conscience and a delicate
feminine protective quality whfch I’can
hardly express in words. Now, how
does this image compare with the
woman striding through the streets with
dead birds perched on her hat? Doesn’t
the bird lower the woman in your esti-
mation? Don’t you think she might
patronize cruelty and endorse crime a
little less openly? Don’t you think this
bird-craze has much to do in destroying
the refining influences of the sex?’’

‘‘T have never thought of the matter
in that light,’’ was my reply, ‘‘but I
think that your notions of women are
too exalted. You idealize them.’’

‘*They ought to be all imagine them
to be,’’ wasthe reply. ‘‘The world out-
side of home is harsh enough and _ cruel
enough to wreck and kill and maim, in
the struggle for supremacy, without re-
ceiving assistance from the fireside.
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hats—some do now. That is in keep
ing with masculine ideas of the purity
and sweetness of the sex and should be
encouraged. But now it is birds, and,
who knows, it may be rabbits and pet
poodles next! What a fine thing it
would be for Samantha to have her dear
Dido stuffed and placed on the crown
of her hat! He might hold up one side
of the rim with one paw and the flap-
ping front with the other! His tail
might be useful as a stickpin! If birds,
why not poodles?’’

“You always were inclined to carry
things to extremes,’’ I said.

‘*But there is another reason why the
custom should cease,’’ continued the
merchant. ‘‘Who catches these birds?
Children, of course. Who teaches them
to kill and torture them? The men who
make money in the traffic, of course.
Now, do you suppose for an instant that
you can teach a child to be cruel in one
instance and not in another? Decidedly
not. A child who will capture a bird
for a hat ornament or who will shoot
one for a county reward of two cents—or
is it three?—will tie two cats together
by the tails and throw them over a
clothes line to torture each other to
death. Oh, the law is doing a fine thing
in paying for the heads of sparrows!
That system and the bird craze will
breed a fine lot of murderers for use in
the rope industry by-and-by. The world
is growing wickeder, is it? Do you
wonder at it? Now, I do not know
enough about this bird matter to know
whether the birds worn are foreign or
domestic, but that is immaterial. If
the urchins of our own land are not
catching them, the urchins of some other
lands are, and some day these foreign
youngsters wili be coming over here,
with little gold rings in their ears, and
two-edged stilettos up their sleeves, and
be holding secret meetings in the back
rooms of saloons and conspiring to orna-
ment the gate-posts of the parks with the
head of our rulers. You don’t believe
it? Well, you may not live to see it,
but your children will.’’

‘*You don’t mean to assert that catch-
ing birds for hats will bring about a
revolution in this country?’’ I asked,
with a laugh.

‘*Of course not, but every little helps.
Now, here’s another point of view,’’
continued the merchant. ‘‘I read in a
newspaper the other day that human life
would cease on the earth as soon as bird
life became extinct, and I do not doubt
ita bit. Why, drive away the birds,
and all the sprays and the patent insect-
icides and the poisons and the adver-
tised remedies for worms and bugs and
insects of every grade and size would
not be sufficient to protect our grains,
our fruits and our vegetables from de-
struction. It is estimated that about
nine years would do the business for us.
Then we should grandly and smilingly
lie down and die from want of food—
victims to bird-bounties and_ bird-
trimmed hats and fool hunters. It is
enough to cause a man to take to the tall
timber and _ hide himself from his
kind!’

‘*You ought to be a great admirer cf
birds,’’ I said; ‘*do you arise in the
dewy morning and go forth to hear them
sing?’”’

“*Scarcely,’’ was the reply. ‘‘Some-
how, I do not admire the alleged music
of birds. Never found any music in it,
and if one comes screeching at my win-
dow in the morning, I just arise and
throw stones at it until it goes and sings
under some one else’s window. "’

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the little birds? You must have little
gold rings in your ears.’’

‘You see,’’ said the merchant with a
smile, ‘‘I was taught to do such things
in my younger days. My mother wore
dead birds on her best hat and my father
permitted me to murder sparrows for the
bounty !”’ Alfred B.

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Effect of Cookery on Morals,

When a man does not get the stimula-
ting nourishment which his nature
craves, he resorts to liquor to supply the
want. With this fact staring one in the
face, is it not wise to teach that unfail-
ingly good food, with all the elements
that stimulate and nourish the body and
the brain, has its moral as well as its
physical benefits?

There are cases on record proving the
benefits of public school cooking, where
the domestic sky has been pe erfec tly
cleared of clouds because good ia was
offered where before it had been badly
cooked, and consequently did not ‘prop-
erly nourish. In one home the substitu-
tion of a well cooked cup of cocoa for
the sloppy,.herby tea that had become
a component part of every morning
meal, and a nice Indian cake or a plate
of muffins for the baker's dry loaf, be-
gan a work of reform. The father was
proud of the daughter’s skill as a cook;
the mother, who had grown careless and
shiftless and indifferent, was shamed by
it. The consequence was better pro-
vision on the part of one and more care in
preparation on the part of the other.

The mother was by no means above
turning to account some of the practical
knowledge the daughter had acquired
under such competent training, and she
began also to brush up her own knowl-
edge that she had carelessly allowed to
fall into disuse. The result is a hi appy
home, a united family, a cheerful, con-
tented, busy wife, and a man who puts

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How Counterfeit Shoes Have Played Havoc
Correspondence Boot and Shoe Recorder.

I am surprised to learn, on the author-
ity of an expert shoe man, that Massa-
chusetts has lost 4o per cent. of its shoe
trade during the past twenty years be-
cause unscrupulous manufacturers have
foisted spurious goods upon the public.
That is, they have put out footwear pur-
porting to represent certain well known
and widely advertised lines. My in-
formant says that manufacturers whose
goods have thus been counterfeited
have suffered severely by this misrepre-
sentation.

He claims that many of the shoes now
made in New England are counterfeits
of some iine of footwear which has an
established reputation. He recommends
that a law be passed compelling shoe
manufacturers to stamp their shoes, and
thus prevent the counterfeiting of foot-
wear. This seems to be a pretty serious
charge, and one which, if true, is well
worth looking into. I never have heard
any serious complaint from manufactur-
ers in regard to the counterfeiting of
their goods, but if this is carried on to
any extent the whole trade ought to be
up in arms against it immediately.

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Movements of Merchants.
mpire—-Rich & Kohr have engaged
in the meat business.

Marshall—John J. DeShane, tailor, is
succeeded by A. L. Kieff.

Augusta—Fred Black, meat dealer,
has sold out to Wm. Greer.

Owosso—-M. R. Trumble has opened
a house furnishing goods store.

Bear Lake—Mrs. D. V. Fish has sold
her general stock to Geo. A. Barstow.

Petoskey—C. W. Fallas succeeds Co-
burn, Harner & Fallas in the drug busi-
ness.

Holland—-Mrs. John Espie has opened
a confectionery store at 84 East Eighth
street.

Hart—Jesse Crowner succeeds Geo,
Gilpin in the produce, grocery and oil
business.

New Haven Center—W. H. & A. M.
Everest succeed W. H. Everest in gen-
eral trade.

Mulliken—C. H. McCarger has sold
his drug and grocery stock to Douglas
McCarger.

Cassopolis—G. L. Smith has _ pur-
chased the general stock of Geo. M.
Kingsbury.

Detroit—John Glynn continues the
meat business formerly conducted by
Glynn Bros.

Newaygo Chas. A. Anderson & Co.
succeed Chas. A. Anderson in the gro-
cery business.

North Adams—Geo. W. Morehouse,
hardware dealer, has sold his stock to
Payne & Dean.

Metamora--Mathias Caley has pur-
chased the lumber and grain business
of J. H. Johnson.

Homer—Chas. A. Buck and D. J.
Roberts have purchased the clothing
stock of F. W. Hill. @

Fowlerville—Spencer & Son is the
name of the new drug firm which suc-
ceeds J. P. Spencer.

Ovid—Quayle & Kay, of Corunna,
have engaged in the grocery business in
the Swarthout building.

Bay City—Fred H. Woolson continues
the furniture business of See, Woolson
& Co, in his own name.

Marshall--Henry M. Ziegler has put
in a stock of pianos, organs and musical
merchandise at this place.

Lucas—Ketchum Bros. have opened
a grocery store at this place. J. Cornwell
& Sons furnished the stock.

Coldwater—Chas. S. Wolcott, of Hills-
dale, has opened a music store and
piano warerooms at this place.

Ann Arbor—Wahr & Miller, shoe
dealers at this place, have dissolved
partnership, John Wahr succeeding.

Whitehall—Mrs. F. D. Hollis has
purchased the dry goods and millinery
stock of E. M..& F. May Chapman.

Muskegon—Callan & Dratz, clothiers,
have dissolved partnership. The busi-
ness will be continued by T. B. Callan.

Clarksville—S. E. Bevier has soid his
interest in the implement business at
this place to Volney Strong, of Saranac.

Houghton —V. V. Tuckey & Co., of
Milford, will engage in the clothing and
furnishing goods business at this place
about Feb. 1.

St. Joseph—E. J. King has purchased
a site on Main street and will at once
erect a building in which he will engage
in the grocery business.

Traverse City—Wm. Watson, who has
been conducting a shoe store in the
Beadle block, has sold his stock to
Arthur Rosenthal, of the New York
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Manistique—--Lindsley & Mosher,
dealers in groceries, flour and feed and
meats, have dissolved partnership,
Frank O. Lindsley succeeding.

Traverse City—-D. Shanahan has _ sold
his grocery stock to Elgin Lewis and
Wm. Davis, who will continue the busi-
ness under the style of Lewis & Davis.

Lowell—The meat firm of James Mur-
phy & Son has been dissolved, James
Murphy retiring. Tom Murphy will
continue the business at the old_ stand.

Laurium—Wm. Roberts, formerly con-
nected with the general merchandise
firm of J. Vivian, Jr., & Co., will short-
iy embark in the drug business at this
place.

Spring Lake—The dry goods and shoe
firm of S. Falls & Co. has been dis-
solved, Samuel Falls purchasing the in-
terest of his partner, Barbara Brong-
ersma.

Muskegon—-J. O. Jeannot & Co., pro-
prietors of the New York Tea Co., have
added an extensive line of wail paper.
John Hilt is in charge of the new de-
partment. :

Battle Creek—E. F. Barber has_ sold
his interest in the Maple street grocery
to W. J. Henson and _ has accepted a
position with the Home Life Publishing
Co., of this place.

Port Huron—-E. J. Hardy has pur-
chased the Chas. Thompson bankrupt
stock of furniture for $730. The stock
inventoried $1,600. Mr. Hardy will
add to the stock and reopen the store.

Hastings—-S. I. Phillips, who has
long been identified with the grocery
interests of this city, has disposed of his
grocery stock to Frank Horton, who
will continue the business at the same
location.

Edmore—It is A. P. Curtis who has
sold his meat market to W. A. Court-
wright, of Greenville, instead of Alfred
E. Curtis, dealer in hardware, boots
and shoes, as stated in the Tradesman
of last week.

South Haven—Chas. E. Abell, the
druggist, has purchased the property in
which he is now located. He will make
extensive improvements in the build-
ing, including the fitting of the second
story for office purposes.

Alma—O. W. Rogers has purchased
the grocery stock of B. C. Button,
renovated the interior of the store and
added to the stock. Mr. Button has en-
gaged as traveling solicitor for the Port
Huron Building and Loan Association.

Charlotte—Chas. Bennett, administra-
tor of the estate of George W. Foote has
sold the Foote drug stock to Dr. L. F.
Weaver, of Detroit, late of Nashville,
and Peter Shute, of Charlotte, who will
continue the business at the same_loca-
ton.

Edmore—Skarritt & Sack have formed
a copartnership and opened a wholesale
and retail meat market and packing
rooms in the building lately occupied
by J. Snyder. Both gentlemen have had
extensive experience in the meat busi-
ness.

Sault Ste. Marie—Al. Branigan, meat
dealer at this place, and C. J. Brooks,
formerly engaged in the grocery busi-
ness at Thompson, have formed a co-
partnership and opened a grocery and
meat market under the style of Branigan
& Brooks.

Albion—F. C. Headington & Co., of
Portland, Ind., have purchased the dry
goods, cloak and carpet stock of F. H.
Goadby, the business being under the
personal supervision of F. C. Heading-
ton. This firm is a veteran in the dry
goods business, having at present three
stores in Indiana.

 

Jackson—Chas. E. Barnard has retired
from the hardware firm of Barnard,
Smith & Co. The business will here-
after be conducted by Hugh L. Smith,
S. W. Winchester and R. W. Smith un-
der the style of the Smith & Winchester
Hardware Co.

Detroit—-A_ special partnership has
been formed between Edwin S. George
and Oren Scotten to carry on a fur busi-
ness under the name of Edwin S.
George, Oren Scotten being a special
partner and contributing $20,000 to the
capital of the concern. The partnership
is to last five years.

Cass City—-The business men of Cass
City held a meeting last Tuesday night
and decided that after March 1, 1900,
they will discontinue the giving or offer-
ing of any and all kinds of premiums
for trade. This agreement is supported
by every business man in Cass City and
will be strictly lived up to.

South Haven—-Wm. Jacobs has sold
his meat market and all of his property
in South Haven to J. E. Westfall, of
Bangor, for about $9,000 in cash. The
sale includes the meat market on Phoenix
street, the two-story brick building in
which the market is located, a lot next
to David Reid’s livery stable, 5% acres
of land northeast of town and_ the
slaughter house. John Hunt, who has
been employed by Mr. Jacobs, will re-
main with him and he will also employ
another butcher.

Ishpeming—Blumentahl & Ruttenberg,
proprietors of the State Savings Bank
and dealers in clothing and men’s fur-
nishing goods, have been closed by
their creditors, who are represented by
the D. W. Ferguson Adjusting Co., of
Chicago. The stock will be closed out
at once and converted into cash, with
the voluntary consent of the proprietors.
Slack business and a desire to wind up
the affairs of the concern is the reason
stated for this method of settling the big
claims against the stock. '

Manufacturing Matters.

Detroit—Fisk & Olde succeed Wm.
T. Fisk inthe manufacture of shoes and
uppers.

Alpena—Kenneth C. McLean succeeds
McLean & Mills as proprietor of the
Alpena Mattress Works.

Dowagiac—Farmers residing in the
vicinity of Cushing’s Corners will build
a cheese factory in the spring. The
company has been organized with a
paid-up capital of $1,000.

Pontiac—The Pontiac Sheet Metal
Manufacturing Co. has been organized
for the manufacture and sale of the
Sherman dish cleaner. The new corpo-
ration has a capital stock of $40,000.

Vernon—The large box factory here,
which has been idle for some time past,
will be converted into a cooperage plant
and go into operation as soon as the
alterations are completed. About
seventy-five men will be employed.

Detroit—The Detroit Barrel Co. has
filed articles of incorporation. The cap-
ital is $10,000, fully paid in, and the
stockholders are David Stott, Robert
Henkel, George Beck, Henry Haendle
and S. T. Douglas, trustee, 200 shares
each.

Detroit—Carl E. Schmidt has found a
new system of staining leather and has
purchased an interest in the tannery of
C. Kaiser & Son at 311 Riopelle street.
He proposes to experiment with the new
system there and will manufacture
stained leather extensively if it is a suc-
cess. He says that there is no plan on
to consolidate the tannery with his other
one.

 

Niles—Niles is assured of a factory
that will in a few days remove from a
neighboring town and employ twentv-
five hands. This is said to be only a
small beginning for Niles in the factory
line, as several big concerns are ex-
pected to locate here this year.

Detroit—The interest of Chas. H.
Greene in the Michigan Chemical Co.
has been acquired by A. R. Thayer, the
other partner, and the office of the com-
pany has been removed from Bates
Street to 587 Michigan avenue. D. L.
Greene is local manager of the business.

Detroit—-C. T. Rogers & Sons have
been incorporated to manufacture and
sell condensed milk, butter and other
dairy products. The capital stock is
$100,000, fully paid in, and the share-
holders are: C. T. Rogers, 3, 334 shares ;
J. W. and R. R. Rogers, 3,333 shares

each.

Benton Harbor—The Board of Trade
has decided to accept the proposition of
J. V. Farwell & Co. to locate their
overall, shirt and coat factory in this
city. The city is to furnish a suitable
building for five years. .The factory
will employ 500 women and will start in
two weeks with Io machines.

Millington—The annual meeting of
the Millington Cheese Manufacturing
Co. was held at the Bank of Millington
last week and the following directors
were elected: C. B. Clough, J. L. Ward,
Squire Curtis, M. L. Baker, C. A. Valen-
tine. The report showed that there
had been manufactured during the run-
ning season 34,200 pounds of cheese,
and that the company had paid to pat-
rons $2, 120.31.

Ravenna—The report of the Ravenna
Creamery shows that the total receipts
last year were $7,114.44; expenditures,
$6,969.01; balance on hand, $145.43:
The new officers elected are S. L. Al-
berts, President; J. A. Thompson, Sec-
retary; E. E. Bartholomew, Treasurer;
directors, John Price, Arthur Scholes,
E. Young, Jr., James Thompson, John
Young and E. Balcom. The directors
have engaged Fred Bargwell as_butter-

maker.
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The Boys Behind the Counter.

Menominee—Walter Gander has been
promoted to the position of city sales-
man for Penberthy, Cook & Co. Chas.
Anderson is filling Mr. Gander’s place
as shipping clerk.

Kalamazoo—W. S. McKnight has
taken a_ position with the Brownson &
Rankin Dry Goods Co. He is spend-
ing a few days at his old home in Ver-
non before taking up his new duties.

Bath—-George McGonigal has been
engaged by D. McGrath to clerk in his
drug store.

Harbor Springs—Chas. Goodrich, of
Fennville, is the new clerk in Wm.
J. Clark & Son’s grocery department.

Central Lake—Frank Poquette is no
longer in the employ of J. Hirshman,
having severed his connection as clerk
last week. Mr. Hirshman expects Ed
Carroll, who served McFarlan for so
long, to be here in a short time to take
Poquette’s place.

Owosso—Roy Rose is clerking in the
grocery store of W. S. Hunt.

Saginaw—Miss Agnes’ Roberts, of
Porteous, Mitchell & Co.'s . millinery
department, has resigned her position
to take the managenfent of a millinery
department for the Martin Dry Goods
Co., Cedar Rapids, la. Miss Roberts
has been in the employ of Porteous,
Mitchell & Co. for the past six years.

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Grand Rapids Gossip

The Grocery Market.

Sugars—The market for both raw and
refined sugar is very strong, there hav-
ing been an advance of 1-16c on raws,
making the price of 96 deg. test cen-
trifugals now 43c. On the 19th an ad-
vance of toc on all grades of refined oc-
curred. This advance on raws’ was
caused by a large cargo of Hawaiian
sugar being held up at San Francisco
because of the bubonic plague in Hon-
olulu. There is every reason to believe
that there will be some interruption in
the receipts of Hawaiian sugars on ac-
count of the plague. The first shipments
have iust been made from Honolulu to
this country and among them was the
cargo held in quarantine. The United
States imports over 250,000 tons of sugar
annually from Hawaii and any interrup-
tion in the receipts from that country
must have an effect on the local raw
sugar market. With the plague in
Brazil, Australia, Manila and_ the
Hawaiian Islands, there is every reason
to believe that the raw sugar market
will be very strong for some time to
come. Trade in Michigan beet sugar
has been very good this season and _ the
business is now well established. Most
of the factories have closed for the sea-
son and the remainder will do so with-
in a week or two.

 

 

Canned Goods—Prices on all Futures
are firmer than a week ago and the tend-
ency is upward. Packers are indisposed
to accept anything below the figures
named and most of them are inclined
to force prices up more or less. Spot
trading is light, partly because stocks
are small, but probably more because
buyers do not feel like paying the price
asked by the average holder. Practical-
ly everything is gone from first hands
and second hands are not heavy hold-
ers. The market remains firm at full
prices, with the tendency upward on
about every variety offered. Corn has
sold more briskly in the East than any
other sort of canned goods and some
packers report sales of their full pros-
pective pack. New York canners have
not done as well as some of the - Maine
men, but there have been active sales in
all states where corn canning has
reached any considerable proportions.
The outlook is very encouraging, in-
deed, at present and packers are under
the impression that prices will increase
rather than decline. Tomatoes are un-
changed, although the firmness of spot
goods continues and there are indica-
tions of an advance in prices later.
There is considerable buying to take the
place of futures. There are indications
that futures will rule higher, relatively,
than spot goods, and buyers are anxious
to secure supplies at low figures, hence
the increased sale of spot goods. There
appears to be a somewhat stronger con-
sumptive demand, too, although so far
it is too slight to exert much influence
on the market. Futures are advancing.
The sharp advances in canmakers’ ma-
terials have made it absolutely neces-
sary to hold all goods higher. There
has been an advance of 2!4c in some
markets and, with the advancing tend-
ency as pronounced as it is now, a
further increase is likely this week. Peas
have sold freely and some of the largest
New York State packers are entirely
cleaned up. This is also true of other
canning sections and the market is in a
very satisfactory position. Little is
said about beans, but there has been a
good business in this article and prices

 

have ruled higher than last season. In
other lines there is no change. Fruits
are held firm because of their scarcity
and buyers are reluctant to pay the
prices asked. On the other hand, hold-
ers are indifferent, knowing that the
consuming demand will be heavy enough
to compel purchases later in the season,
and that, too, at higher prices than are
asked now. The minor vegetables are
unchanged, but are held firmly up to
quotations and there is no probability
of a decrease in price until the new
pack is ready for distribution. Salmon
and sardines are in good demand at un-
changed prices.

Dried Fruits—There is little change
in the dried fruit situation. Trade in
all lines is quiet, but prices are firm and
holders are confident that there will be
better business a little later. Sales of
prunes have not been heavy of late, but
there has been a fair average of busi-
ness. Sizes from 7o-80s down are most
wanted, particularly by exporters, but
the last few days have developed some
trade in 4o-sos. Holders will be glad
to see that, because so far this season
large sizes have been poor property.
Stocks in first hands are light and there
is no question about the ultimate clean-
ing up of the entire yield, an unprece-
dented condition in the history of the
California dried fruit business. Raisins
are steady, but liberal buying would
lead to higher prices. There are no sup-
plies in first hands and second hands are

not urgent sellers atany figure. In Cal-
ifornia loose muscatels trade is limited

to small lots required for immediate con-
sumption or wanted by seeders. All
dealers appear to be well stocked.
Peaches continue quiet, with trade con-
fined to small quantities. Prices are
held firm, partly because of scarcity and
partly because there is promise of heavy
buying in the near future. Apricots are
unchanged, with movement slow because
holders are so stiff in their views. Dates
are firmer, but no actual change has
taken place. Stocks are heavy, but,
considering quality and probable de-
mand, they are not thought excessive.
Figs are easy and sales comparatively
small, and prices are unchanged and
trade is barely steady. Although there
is no increase in price, the evaporated
apple market is very firm, with some-
what improved demand. If this demand
continues, it will undoubtedly cause an
increase in prices sooner Other lines are
unchanged but, notwithstanding the
comparative quiet of the market, there
is a firm feeling in all departments and
dealers express full confidence in the fu-
ture.

Molasses—Stocks of molasses in first
hands are rapidly decreasing, with the
undertone strong for all grades. Ad-
vices from New Orleans report the crops
practically closed, with no receipts of
importance. Prices show no change,
but continue firm with an upward tend-
ency.

Rice—The demand for rice continues
moderate, with small sales at full
prices. There seems to be a little better
demand for domestic Japan than for
anything else in the line. Supplies are
limited and an improvement in prices is
looked for in the near future.

Green Fruits—Trade in green fruits
is not as good as could be expected at
this time of the year. The price of
lemons is unusually low and _ the de-
mand is very light, trade being chiefly
of a hand-to-mouth character, Bananas
are firmer and trade is somewhat im-
proved, Some grades have: advanced

 

and there is a better feeling, which will |
probably lead to an advance on all |
grades if good shipping weather lasts |
a few days.

Nuts—The supply of Grenoble wal-
nuts is light and, notwithstanding the
holiday trade is over, there is a fairly
active demand. Prices, owing to the
scarcity, are firm. Jordan shelled al-
monds have moved freely under an_ un-
usually heavy demand, and there are
prospects of a further advance. Other
varieties are in fair demand at previous
prices.

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The Produce Market.

Apples—Selected cold storage fruit is
meeting with fair sale on the basis of
$3.501@3.75 per bbl. for Spys and Bald-
wins and $4 per bbl. for Jonathans.

Beets—-$1 per 3 bushel bbl.

Butter—Factory creamery is weak at
25c and will probably go lower unless a
cold wave comes along. Dairy grades
command 16@2oc, but most of the re-
ceipts are inferior in quality.

Cabbage—-75@goc per doz.

Carrots—$1 per 3 bushel bbl.

Celery——-25c¢ per doz. bunches.

Cranberries—-Jerseys are in
mand at $6.75@7 per bbl.

Dressed Poultry—The market is about

fair de-

the same as a week ago. Spring chick-
ens are in moderate demand at ogc.
Fowls are in demand at 8c. Ducks

command tic for spring and toc for old.
Geese are not coming in at all, but
would find a market on the basis of 8c
for young. Old are not wanted at any
price. Turkeys are in good demand
at 9c for No. 2 and toc for No. 1.

Eggs Fresh stock readily brings 18c.
Local storage stock—there are only
about 500 cases remaining in the local
warehouse—commands 16c, while Chi-
cago storage eggs are offreed at 11@1I2c.

Game—Rabbits have been something
of a drug on the market, due to the
warm weather which has prevailed for
the past two weeks, during which time
the paying price has receded to goc per
doz. Squirrels are in fair demand at $1
per doz.

Honey—-White clover is scarce at 15@

16c. Dark amber and mixed command
13@I14c.

Live Poultry--Squabs, $1.20 per doz.
Chickens, 6@7c. Fowls, 5%@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. Butternuts
and walnuts are in small demand at 60c
per bu.

Onions— Spanish are steady at $1.75
per crate. Home grown are higher and
stronger, having advanced to 45c for
Red Weatherfields, Yellow Danvers and
Yellow Globes and 50c for Red Globes,

Parsnips—-$1.25 for 3 bu. bbl.

Potatoes—The market is __ slightly
weaker, but local handlers pay 35c¢ in
carlots and find an outlet for stock

around 4oc.

Squash—Hubbard command 1%c per
pound.

Sweet Potatoes—Kiln dried Jerseys are
slow sale at $4.50@4.75 per bbl.

Turnips—$1 per bbl.

Lee eI

The Battle Creek Health Cigar Co.
has placed in the factory of the G. J.
Johnson Cigar Co. at Grand Rapids,
Mich., anelectric machine which elimi-
nates the nicotine from the tobacco, so
far as it is possible to do so and still
retain the cigar flavor. This company
has already contracted with the Johnson
Cigar Co. to manufacture one million
Paz de Oro 5 cent cigars, which will be
made from tobacco which has been
treated in this manner. By this method
of manufacture all of the aroma is_ pre-
served, while the wholesomeness of the
cigar is maintained. With each cigar
go full directions as to when cigars
can be smoked with the least injury.
The Battle Creek Health Cigar Co. has
placed this machine—which is kept un-
der lock and key—in charge of W. J.
Mickel, who will devote his attention to
the production of this brand. It remains
to be seen whether the experiment will

 

be a success,

The Grain Market.
Wheat seems to be gaining strength
for various good reasons. Damage to
the French crop has caused an advance

of about 6c per bu. on the Paris Ex-
change, while India, where the crop

was a failure, will have to import wheat
to keep the large population from starv-

ing. Also on account of the South Afri-
can war, the Boers and the states ad-
joining will have to import flour, Our

own winter wheat section is getting bare
of wheat, as the small amount received

here will show how scarce it is. The
same may be said of Indiana, Illinois,
Ohio, Missouri and Nebraska, while

Kansas has some wheat, but her surplus
goes South at better prices than can be
realized by shipping to Chicago. The
outlook for a fair crop in Michigan,
Indiana and Ohio is also very dubious.
The visible showed an increase of only
3,000 bushels, which
cant, taking the small export into ac-
count. To sum the whole thing up, we
can only come to one conclusion—that
prices must go higher. While we do not
think that they will jump, we think
there will be a gradual advance from
now on. The export shipments from all
sections have been nearly 2,000,000
bushels below the usual amount and that
will have to be made up in the near fu-
ture, and from where is the leading
question. We have about 58,000,000
bushels in sight, but with the small re-
ceipts this amount will melt away be-
fore we begin to realize it. Many mills
are running only half time in this and
neighboring states, while some are. ly-
ing still for want of wheat to grind.

Corn is fairly active. While no ad-
vance can be recorded the supply is not
growing, aS was expected, as bad roads
have curtailed receipts, and farmers are
putting more corn into pork, as better
prices are obtainable for feeding pur-
poses than to sell the corn—all of which
will tend to enhance prices from present
low level.

is very insignifi-

Oats are strong and are being picked
up as fast as offered. Fully tc ad-
vance can be recorded. Receipts will

the de-
present

have to increase in order to fill
mand, so there is no chance at
for a reduction in price.

In rye there is no change. What lit-
tle is offered is taken at old
prices. We see nothing to enhance the
price, but look for a gradual lowering.
are the only article that is
booming. ‘They are sought after and
prices are well sustained at $2.08 for
handpicked and $2 for machine screened
beans.

The flour trade has picked up consid-
erably in the last few days, owing to the
advance in‘wheat. The trade begins to
realize the situation of the shortness of
the winter wheat crop. Local and do-
mestic enquiry has been very good and
the millers have booked fair orders.
Foreigners are also making bids at an
advance. Millfeed is in good demand;
in fact, the mills are sold ahead for the
present.

Receipts for the week were: 25 cars
of wheat, 1o cars of corn, no oats, 2 cars
of rye and 1 car of beans—rather a slim
showing.

Millers are paying 65c for wheat—2c
up from the low point.

Cc. G. A. Voigt.
+» 2.

A woman painting the face of herself
in front of a hand mirror is not holding
the mirror up to nature. Nature is truth;
the painted woman is a fraud.

—___-» 20.

Wm. Judson, Treasurer of the Olney
& Judson Grocer Co., is in New York
this week He is accompanied by his
family.

being

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

Woman’s World

How Professional Jealousy Impairs Do-
mestic Happiness.

When the woman of the world went to
see little Mrs. Newlywed, the other day,
she found that young person in a
crumpled heap on the couch bedewing
her best sofa cushion with her tears, and
surrounded by a wreck of newspapers.

‘Goodness. gracious,’’ cried the
woman of the world, ‘‘what on earth is
the matter? Has the cook left?) Or was
the steak burned at breakfast?’’

“It’s wo-wow-orse than that,’’ sobbed
the little bride. ‘‘I’ve been trying to
study up the market, so that I could talk
to Jack about the things he is interested
in, and I can’t make heads or tails out
of it, although I used to be considered
good at working out puzzles and things
like that. I don’t believe it’s true,
either, for it goes on and talks about
things which I can not get through my
head, and I don’t know what I’m going
to do about it.’’

‘“Do nothing,’’ suggested the older
woman comfortingly.

‘“Why, what do you mean?’’ asked
the little bride, sitting up and wiping
her eyes.

‘‘ Just what | say,’’ returned the wom-
an of the world. ‘‘Don’t try to meddle
with Jack’s specialty. The woman who
tries to know as much about her hus-
band’s specialty as he does is playing
with a loaded bomb that may go off and
blow her up any moment. My dear
child, the very foundation-stone of do-

 

 

mestic bliss rests upon a man’s belief
that he knows it all. Shake this and
the whole edifice is liable to come

tumbling down about your ears. Never
undeceive him on this important point.
It is far better for your married happi-
ness to believe that the moon is made of
green cheese than it would be for you to
be able to engineer a corner in futures. ”’

‘But I thought a wife should always
study up on things her husband knows,’’
put in the bride, ‘‘so that she can be
able to talk to him about them. I’m
sure that’s what all the books of advice
to brides say, and—’’

‘'Fudge!’’ cried the woman of the
world scornfully.  ‘‘The people who
write them are old maids, who never

had a chance to know a real man, much
less any experience in managing one. A
man doesn’t want to listen to what you
think about his business or his hobby.
He wants to discourse to you about
them, and the more you listen and the
less you say, the better pleased he is.
That’s nothing but human nature, either.
Who are the most entertaining people
we know? The people who tell us. sto-
ries, who inform us of the wonderful
things they have done and the adven-
tures they have met with; the people
who describe their travels to us? Not
atall. It is those delightful creatures
who sit and listen interestedly while we
meander on and on and who think it
was just perfectly wonderful that we
should have been able to manage so
beautifully in every way, and just always
do the right thing at the right time.
Personally I have only met with one or
two of these kind of people, but I. have
never let them get away from me. They
are the kind of individuals that you
grapple to your soul with hooks of steel.

‘Now, just apply this theory to your
husband. I know the idea is that a
man and his wife, to be thoroughly con-
genial, ought to have identically the
Same interests and know identically the
same things. Never was a greater mis-
take made. When Jack comes home

 

and tells you that he has engineered a
big deal through, and talks learnedly
and familiarly about points and puts
and calls and things that are Greek to
you, you are naturally overwhelmed
with the cleverness of it all. You think
him a regular Napoleon of finance ; and
don’t hesitate to say so and give him
the little subtle flattery that is dear to us
all. But, suppose you met him on an-
other ground. Suppose, instead of hav-
ing to count up your change on your fin-
gers, you were a shrewd financier and
had the whole game at your finger ends.
You would see where he had blundered.
You would perceive moves that he
missed and, instead of being a Napoleon,
he would be a Jonah in your eyes.
Criticism would take the place of praise
and your superior financial knowledge
would bring neither of you any happi-
ness.

‘‘Every now and then we hear about
some woman who has studied a_profes-
sion marrying some man who is engaged
in the same profession. Everybody says,
‘How nice -for them to be able to work
together!’ Nonsense. My word for it,
those kind of people are going to keep
the road to the divorce court hot. It’s
going to add professional jealousy to all
the other kinds of jealousy with which
human nature is afflicted, and that’s go-
ing to be the worst of the lot. Plain
Dr. John Smith may be delighted and
flattered when his wife, Dr. Mary
Smith, wins a reputation as the finest
diagnostician in the city and gets the
biggest and most fashionable practice.
But when patients begin to say that they
‘will wait and see Dr. Mary, she is so
clever about such operations, and has
been so successful,’ and Dr. Mary gets
called into consultations where he is ig-
nored, Dr. John Smith begins to feel
that it was all a mistake to open the
profession of medicine to women any-
way. Suppose Dr. John and Dr. Mary
differ, too, about the proper treatment
of a case? Dr. Mary would say, if he
were not her husband, that ‘the rival
physician was a mossback, who ought
not to be licensed to doctor a sick cat.’
Dr. John would call the other mana
chump and no particular harm would be
done, but when two married people get
to entertaining this sort of opinion of
each other’s intellect there’s trouble
coming, and don’t you forget it.

‘“You can see how it would work all
along the line. If a man and his wife
were preachers or lawyers or writers, or
anything of the kind where they were
both appealing to the public for support
and patronage and popularity for the
same work it’s just bound to drag in
a rivalry. No man can ever see his
wife exceed him in success or money-
making without feeling that every one
must be saying that she is the better
man of the two, and the angel wings
will have begun to sprout on him before
he rises to the generosity of accepting
that state of affairs gracefully and re-
joicing in her triumph. So far as
women are concerned we are so used _ to
giving away to men and deferring be-
fore them and seeing them surpass us
that a woman is much less apt to be
jealous of her husband professionally
than he is of her, but still a woman
never studies a profession unless she
feels some especial fitness for the work
and has a grim determination to suc-
ceed that makes her take it very serious-
ly. The married woman who is in the
same profession as her husband is very
much in the same position you are in
in a game of cards, when you are mad
with him if he beats you, and furious

 

with him if he lets you beat him.

‘‘This isn’t saying that married people
should not have the same interests and
tastes. It is only suggesting one of the
dangers that may come froma too literal
adherence to the affinity-of-taste-and-oc-
cupation theory. The woman who can
enter into the story of her husband’s
business without knowing enough _ to
criticise his mistakes and the man who
can admire his wife’s talents without
putting his own into competition with
them are ona much safer ground than
those who follow the same calling and
are brought into daily rivalry.’

‘‘But I wasn’t thinking of going into
business, ’’ interrupted the little bride,
a trifle wonderingly.

‘Oh, that’s all right,’’ put in the
woman of the world with a genial laugh.
‘‘T only wanted to impress on you that
the best way to keep the peace was for
each one to keep to his own trade. Lis-
ten and believe, when Jack tells you
what a financier he is, but don’t think
for a moment that it would add to your
happiness to be able to give him points
about the state of the market. Remem-
ber, also, that this rule works both ways.
There may be worse husbands, but
there are no more aggravating and _ try-
ing ones than those who think they know
more about how to keep house and
spank a baby and cook a dinner than
you do. What I call a good, satisfac-
tory, comfortable husband is the man
who follows the Bible admonition and
eats what is set before him, asking no
questions for conscience’s sake, and who
doesn’t meddle with the household ma-
chinery any further than paying the
bills.

‘For my part I am always astonished
at the lack of wisdom of those women
who encourage their husbands in learn-
ing to cook on the chafing dish. It’s
just a fatal mistake. I know, for I have
been all along there. My dear old Tom
and I have been married for twenty
years, you know, and all that time we
have lived in the greatest peace. I’ve
admired him and _ secretly wondered
why on earth the Government hadn’t
called on him to be Secretary of the
Treasury or settle the currency question
or some of the other muddles they seem
to get into at Washington, and he’s
thought I was the best housekeeper in
town and praised my pies and said |
cooked better than his mother. Then,
about two years ago the chafing dish
mania struck him. It hit him hard and
he went about with his pockets stuffed
full of clippings about how to make
things a la John Chamberlain and a la
Newberg, and he compounded unspeak-
able things that he called ‘golden
bucks’ and Welsh rarebits that were like
saddle skirts. I could have stood all of
that, dyspepsia included, but he got to
wearing a coldy critical air at the
table that was simply maddening. He
would take a mouthful of anything,
assume the air and expression of an ex-
pert taster and remark, ‘I think, Maria,
that a dash of tobasco would have im-
proved this,’ or ‘I always use a little
paprika,’ or ‘when I make a salad I al-
ways do so and so.’ At first I didn’t
know what it was that provoked me so
much. Then I bethought me that it
was professional jealousy. He was as-
suming to know more about my busi-
ness that I knew myself—to be a_pro-
fessional and regard me asa bungling
amateur—and it was too much. I pre-
sented that chafing dish to my deadliest
enemies, the Blanks—’’

‘‘The Blanks who were divorced last

 

spring?’’ cried the wondering little

bride.

‘“The same,’’ replied the woman of
the world impressively. ‘'Mind, | don’t
say the chafing dish did it, although I
have my suspicions. There’s nothing
so dangerous to*%domestic happiness as
professional jealousy.’

‘Oh,’ cried the little bride, picking
up the financial journals with the tongs,
‘I'll never read another money article.
Just think what an escape | have had.’’

Dorothy Dix.
se >___
The Capable Woman,

If a monument is ever reared to com-
memorate the virtues of the woman who
has done the most for the world it will
not be erected to the woman genius—the
poet, painter, writer or reformer, valu-
able as their services have been. It will
be built in honor of the capable woman,
the woman who possesses what our New
England cousins call ‘‘faculty,’’ the
woman of ability, adaptability and
capability, who has met every situation
in life and filled it with credit to herself
and comfort to others. The capable
woman springs from no’ peculiar social
conditions, and is the result of no es-
pecial environment. She may be the
daughter of luxury or the child’ of pov-
erty. You may find her taking degrees
in college halls, or uneducated and un-
cultivated, living her lowly lot in the
backwoods, but wherever. she is, she is
distinct from the women about her and
is making her influence felt.

If she is rich she is a leader in fash-
ions and society. Her dinners are the
most talked of, her parties are recherche,
her gowns are the most distinctive. She
may not spend a penny more than her
sister who bungles everything and never
achieves anything but mediocrity, but
her affairs are always the successes of
the season, simply because she is a Cap-
able manager. If she is a poor woman
her talents shine even more refulgently.
She knows all the byways of thrift. Give
her the barest attic and the scantiest
means, and yet she manages to make
some sort of a habitable abiding place
and breathes into it the spirit of home.
She gets her children educated somehow
and started out in life, and if the records
of our self-made men could be made
known, nine times out of ten we would
find that every one who raised himself
from a district messenger or bootblack
to some place of credit and honor had a
mother who was a capable woman and
who gave him his first push upward.

The capable woman is a good, all-
around worker. There is no department
of woman’s work that she can not do
without fuss and worry. She is the envy
of her neighbors, because she always
has good servants, and her servants are
good because they have a clear head to
direct them and capable hands to teach
them the proper way of performing their
duties. She knows how to shop and
neither stints herself or fritters her
money away on senseless bargains. She
can direct a dressmaker, or if need be
make herself a gown that does not bear
the stamp of the amateur seamstress so
that she who runs may read it from
afar. Better still, she is past mistress
of the art of patching and darning.

It is the capable woman to whom we
turn in time of need. She never faints
just when her services are most in de-
mand or goes off into hysterics in an
emergency. On the other hand, she
quietly and calmly takes command and
everything straightens itself out as if
by magic. She is always mistress of the
situation, and knows just what to do,
whether it is repairing the suddenly torn
ball gown of a young girl, making coffee
and washing the dishes and cooking the
supper in the same pot over a camp fie,
or doing just the right thing for the baby
who has devoured half a box of matches.

The list of her virtues is as infinite as
our needs. She is a tower of refuge to
which we fly in trouble and secure help
and counsel which is not only wise
but practicable. Blessings on the capa-
ble woman, May her tribe increase.

Cora Stowell,

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AMONG THE QUAKERS.

Reminiscences of a Sabbath
‘With Friends.

Written for the Tradesman.

In a former contribution to the
Tradesman I gave a little history of my
acquaintance with the members of a
Quaker settlement situated a few miles
from the village of Canandaigua, New
York, the place where | learned the
rudiments of an old-fashioned mercan-
tile education, from store sweeping and
cleaning oil lamps all the way up to
first place behind the counter as_ confi-
dential clerk whose advice was often so-
licited by my_ generous employer,
Nathaniel Gorham. It was while I was
in his employ that I laid a plan to con-
centrate and control for my employer’s
benefit the patronage of this rich Quaker
community. The means I used would
be considered entirely legitimate in
these days of business hustle, but at that
time (1840) were considered an innova-
tion and subjected the writer to some
harsh criticism from the other merchants
of the village. My plan succeeded and
our store secured a monopoly of the
Quaker trade.

Among this community, or Friends
Society as they called themselves, there
lived a family by the name of Heren-
deen. They were our best customers,
because they were the wealthiest, and
it was in a great measure through their
influence that we were able to get and
hold the bulk of the Quaker trade of the
entire community. The interest the
writer had manifested in keeping in
stock a full line of women’s wear of
suitable shades and quality for the
Quaker trade had given me the name
among my fellow clerks of ‘‘the Quaker
saleseman’’ and either Mr. Gorham or
myself always waited on them when
they came to purchase. They always
addressed us the same as they would one
of their own people. They called me,
‘*Friend William,’’ and Mr. Gorham,
‘Friend Nathaniel,’’ always using the
Quaker ‘‘thee’’ and ‘‘thou’’ in conver-
sation with us, and they were always
pleased when we addressed them in
their own dialect.

They had frequently given me earnest
invitations during the four years of our
acquaintance to make them a visit on
some Sunday. They would say, ‘‘We
can’t expect thee to leave thy business
to visit us, but thee can come on the
Sabbath. We Friends do not regard it
sinful to visit on Lord’s Day, although
we always attend meeting a part of the
day when in good health.’”’

One Saturday the last of June, 1843,
we had enjoyed a very profitable trade
with the Quakers. They had come to
town in unusual numbers and we had
been kept busy all day. Friend Heren-
deen, his wife and two lovely grown-up
daughters had been liberal purchasers.
On leaving the store for home after
making their purchases, it was their
custom to indulge in handshaking with
us. I had noticed the family in consul-
tation before their departure and when
Friend Herendeen took my hand he said
to me, ‘‘Friend William, we have often
asked thee to visit us on Lord’s Dav
and we should be particularly pleased
if thee could come out to-morrow. A
Friend from Philadelphia is staying in
our community for a few days and if
the spirit moves she will speak to us
and we are sure that thee will be pleased
and instructed at what thee hears. She
is what the world’s people call a sort
of missionary and on her return home
she will report upon the spiritual condi-
tion and needs of all the Friends Soci-

Pleasant

 

eties in the West. She is very learned
and earnest. We think thee will be
greatly moved to hear her.’’ I had
often wanted to accept their friendly in-
vitations, but something had always in-
tervened to prevent, but this time, when
the kindly-worded invitation was sec-
onded by the stately Quaker lady by his
side and the smiles of their two beauti-
ful daughters, I accepted their invitation
for the following day. Then Friend
Herendeen added, ‘‘It will be very
warm; thee must come early. If thee is
an early riser come out and take break-
fast with us; the day won’t seem too
long. Thee can look over the farm
and the domestic animals with me in the
morning and we will go to the meeting
in the afternoon;’’ and so it was ar-
ranged.

Before the sun had risen the following
day I was on my way to the house of
my Quaker friends. I will not
describe the charm of that long-ago
delightful summer morning. It is said
that in youth everything in Nature is,
or should be, beautiful. Nor will I at-
tempt a pen picture of my _ friends’
plain substantial Quaker home. ‘They
were at the gate to welcome me and as
I entered that abode of plenty the aroma
of ham and eggs and coffee that greeted
me was very pleasant to an appetite
sharpened by a seven-mile ride in the
bracing morning air. Seated at the
table, the mute blessing over, in which
all were supposed to be in thankful si-
lent communion with the Bountiful
Giver of all good gifts, the substantial
breakfast was begun. Then, in com-
pany with my genial host, I set out for
my promised view of the farm and its
cherished domestic animals. Every-
thing seemed in harmony with the quiet
repose that characterized the customs
and habits of these peculiar people.
Even the domestic animals, so sleek and
fat, lowed a friendly welcome as we
passed and the geese, in their separate
pasture, cackled their morning greeting.
I asked my companion how it was _ that
these cattle and other animals, old or
young, seemed to exhibit no fear at our
approach. Stranger as I was, they ac-
cepted my caresses, seeming in no more
fear of me than of him. His character-
istic reply was, ‘‘We govern them all
from their infancy by love and kindness.
We sometimes have one that shows a
vicious disposition, but nearly always our
friendly treatment subdues them at last.
If they prove incapable of being sub-
dued by kindness they are removed
from the herd and sold at any sacrifice ;
for,’’ continued he, ‘‘animals are as
susceptible to example as are men. We
never use a cross or angry word to them
nor beat them; so you see they have
really nothing to make them afraid.’’

stop to

In this way we spent the morning and
after an early lunch of bread and cheese
and milk we started for the meeting
house, | in company with my _ portly
host, the ladies following in silence.
Not a word was spoken and I realized
that the hush of the Quakers’ holy Sab-
bath was over all. A short walk brought
us to the meeting house, a large square
building without ornament of any kind,
with only one door in the center and
small windows high up on the sides.
Everything was severely plain and
cheerless inside and I marveled at the
marked contrast between the Friends’
house of worship and their cheerful
homes. One broad aisle in the center
led to the rear, on each side of which

were seats, one raised slightly above an-
other as they receded towards the sides.

platform, with a plain bench along the
wall and a small table in front. On the
right, as we passed in, were seated all
the men, in their broad-brimmed Quaker
hats; on the left the women took their
seats, without rustle or noise, and the still-
ness of death pervaded the place. No
hum or moving of the feet. It was awe-
inspiring silence that could be almost
felt. The time for admitting any one to
this their Holy of Holies passed for the
day and the door was closed. Knowing
my own temperament, | expected to feel
nervous, but the holy calm that sur-
rounded me seemed to quiet instead of
excite me. Every one assumed the at-
titude of thoughtful meditation. This
lasted for half an hour or more, when
my ear caught a faint rustling and,
glancing towards the raised platform, I
beheld the stately form of a Quakeress

gowned in the plainest and softest of
Quaker raiment. She was tall, ap-
parently past the middle age, as_ the
white hair that showed under her close
Quaker bonnet attested. With eyes
closed and hands crossed upon her
breast, she resembled an exquisitely

draped and moulded statue. How long
she remained in that attitude before
opening her lips I can not tell. The
first sound I heard came in a clear musi-
cal voice these words, ‘‘God is love.’’
My first emotion was that of venera-
tion, but as she portrayed, in simple
eloquence, God’s boundless love to all
mankind she seemed inspired. Her
theme was, ‘‘ Brotherly Love and Love
Divine.’’ She repeated, with wonderful
pathos, the Savior’s prayer at the cross
for his enemies, ‘‘ Father, forgive them
for they know not what they do,’’ and
portrayed, in language that brought the
whole tragic scene in panoramic view
before us, the scene at the tomb of
Lazarus when ‘‘Jesus wept’’ and his
disciples, standing around about, said
to one another, ‘‘ Behold how he loved
him.’’ Fora full hour she poured into
the ears of that silent listening band of
Friends what seemed to me the simple
language of inspiration. Through all
this long discourse not a sound had
broken the stillness except the deep
respiration of the audience that attested
to the presence of the Spirit she invoked.
Her voice seemed gently to die away
like an expiring echo and she left the
platform as quietly as she came upon it.
Gradually the silent emotion subsided,
when all arose and left the house in the
same order as they came. Outside the
scene was changed to kindly greetings
and friendly words of love and solici-
tude for each other. This ended, all
pursued their homeward way.

On reaching the home of my_ hospi-

table friends, | was surprised to find
how late it was and intimated my in-
tention to start homeward at once ; but I
found that I was expected to partake of
the substantial supper already in course
of preparation. At the table my hostess
said to me, ‘‘Friend William, how did
thee like the meeting? I thought thee
seemed quite interested. the
world’s people who visit us get nervous
and uneasy, others whisper or laugh at

Some. of

our mode of worship, but thee behaved
like one of us, and | thought thee
seemed to feel the Spirit.’’ I did not
say so to her, but if to be entranced with
what I saw and heard was to ‘‘feel the
Spirit,’’ I ‘felt the Spirit.’’ One thing
I knew and felt-—-that | had exchanged
my faith from the old-fashioned theo-
logical God of vengeance and anger, and
the dogmas of everlasting torment in
hell I had been taught in my childhood
to revere, for a Redeemer, a God of
love, mercy and forgiveness.

The supper ended, with hearty hand-
shakings and the benediction, ‘* The Lord
speed thee on thy way,’’ | set out on
my twilight homeward ride, conscious
of being wiser and better for that Lord’s
Day visit to my Quaker friends.

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STATE OF MICHIGAN ( gg.
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Mich.

GENERAL TRADE REVIEW.

While there is no diminution in the
general volume of business of the coun-
try, which is greater than ever known,
there are indications that the highest
level has been reached in some indus-
tries. Thus iron production has in-
creased through the stimulus of the long
pressure of demand until the output of
recent weeks is greater than was ever
consumed during a corresponding time.
This, of course, can only mean that
competition for business must call a
halt ; and it is well that the advance be
stopped before the prices are so far
above the parity with those of the world
as to unduly affect our position in for-
eign markets.

The situation in Wall Street indicates
that manipulation—refunding, recapi-
talizing, etc.—-has so far anticipated the
Situation as to prevent any material ad-
vance. The week has been reported as
one of a strong undertone, with assur-
ance of a speedy move upward, but with
a little pressure of outside selling on ac-
count of the African situation there is at
the last a decided decline again. Spec-
ulators figure that with a volume of rail-
way business never before recorded and
with all other industries at the highest
pressure of activity there must be anad-
vance. These conditions give assurance
of the maintenance of values, or of lit-
tle injury from such a reaction as that
of December, but the doubling up of
stock issues in so many of the great
combinations is an element which must
require considerable time to be elimi-
nated by the natural increase of busi-
ness.

Iron and steel production is now at the
highest ever known. Sales of 10, 000
tons of anthracite pig at lower prices
are reported in New York, with quota-
tions for No. 1 Lehigh $1 lower than in
December, although Bessemer and Grey
Forge at Pittsburg are not selling. The
certainty that the weekly output now ex-

ceeds the greatest quantity ever used in
a week, while part of the consuming
works formerly employed to the utmost
are now seeking more business and low-
ering prices in order to get it, seems to
be producing a readjustment of prices
to the needs of the industry. The steadi-
ness of copper after an output of 262,206
tons last year, greater by 53% per cent.
than in 1895, is also encouraging.

The textile industries were the slow-
est to respond to the return of prosper-
ous conditions, and are the slowest to
reach the culmination of activity and
high prices. The opening of the heavy-
weight season has brought general satis-
faction. Sales have been liberal in spite
of a considerable rise in prices, which
has not been excessive. Not only the
great corporations but the smaller mills
are getting a goad business. Foreign
competition amounts to little, all im-
ports of woolen goods at New York in
three weeks having been only $868, 859
in value, against $708, 270 last year, and
for illustration $2,189,677. in the same
weeks of 1893. Sales of wool at some
concessions indicate that speculators be-
gin to realize that the mills are on the
whole better supplied than many had
supposed. A few Irage sales at prices 1
to 3 cents below those asked early in De-
cember show that demands then were
based rather upon expectations of further
advance abroad than upon sober calcu-
lation as to American supplies remain-
ing, and the decline at the opening of
London sales has brought many orders
to sell consignments previously held off
the Eastern markets by Western opera-
tors. No estimate of consumption last
year is large enough to clear away the
supply remaining in mill and trading
stocks, and after only three months an-
other and larger clip will begin to come
forward. Thus the apprehension of
prices so high as to cripple the manu-
facture is appreciably diminished.

Boot and shoe shipments, 280, 258 cases
in three weeks, have been larger than
in any previous year, but many works
are almost or quite out of orders and
buying is greatly hindered by belief that
last year’s advance of 19 per cent. in
leather can not be sustained. Hides still
slowly yield at Chicago, although as yet
only 3.1 per cent. from their highest
point December 13.

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Boston has shown to the envious world
that she knows beans and she is now
showing unmistakable signs of an inter-
est in wheat. From 1893, when she ex-
ported 3,934,125 bushels, to 1899, when
the number of bushels was 11,567,847,
she has so far shown her interest in that
cereal that her business in this line has
been constantly gaining, while New
York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and New
Orleans in the same line show a de-
cline. Surprise is called for at the re-
turns from Baltimore and New Orleans,
but the condition of things in the other
two cities was to have been expected.
Boston has figured before as a place of
export and it may be that her old su-
premacy in matters maritime is to re-
turn. It looks as if it might, for any-

thing that New York can do about it.
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The New Jersey bureau of labor finds
that there are fifteen company stores in
that State where the person obliged to
deal at them pays 13 per cent. more
than if he could buy where he wishes—
a pleasing fact for the company store.

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grain elevator that can discharge 44,000
pounds an hour and deliver two kinds

 

of grain at the same time.

THE SAME OLD BASIS.

During the past year different sections
of the country have been shocked by
instances of financial embarrassment
and failure. Washington is the field of
contention, in which a United States
Senator has been shut out of the Senate
Chamber for certain well-defined rea-
sons ; and a man elected by his State as
member of the National House of Rep-
resentatives has been refused a seat in
that body for a certain other notorious
reason. The Tradesman has nothing to
do with the details in any of these in-
stances, except to refer them all to one
common cause and to remark that, while
they serve as instances in business, pol-
itics and religion, they all stand on the
same old basis of honesty and can be
dealt with accordingly.

In the everlasting fight for the Al-
mighty Dollar, where in the intensity
of the struggle there is not only ‘‘ Fair
field and no favor,’’ but finally ‘‘ Each
for himself and the Devil take the hind-
ermost,’’ it is not surprising that men
forget everything but self and resort to
every subterfuge for coming out ahead.
The old humdrum way of doing business
is too slow and backwoodsy in these
days of steam and electricity. Hustle
and push ande jam are now the only
agents amounting to anything, especial-
ly in the business world. Courtesy has
long been relegated to the rear and
means once strongly condemned is now
winked at if not contemplated with
composure. This point reached, the
rest is easy. The cares of the world and
the deceitfulness of riches and the de-
termination to have them at all hazards
assume control and by and by the com-
munity is startled to learn that a bullet
has ended what was found to be one of
the most dishonest careers on record.
True, business is business; but a busi-
ness founded upon anything other than
the eternal rock of uprightness and hon-
esty is sure to fall, and great is the fall
thereof.

The same truth underlies ail govern-
ment and whatever pertains to it. Po-
litical unsoundness travels the same
road to the same graveyard. Just as sor-
did as the dishonest tradesman and just
as selfish, the unprincipled politician is
worse than he, and far more dangerous
because the evil he practices and fos-
ters saps not only his own life but that
of the nation. It is more appalling be-
cause it shows the distemper to be
widespread. Chosen for public office, in
the worst sense of the term he is‘‘a rep-
resentative man.’’ He stands for the
element that has elected him; and
where the majority elects, the election
has a far-reaching significance. It means
rottenness, and rottenness in government
means overthrow. For a good many
years one of the Middle States has been
politically rotten-specked. There have
been crimination and recrimination,
and the specks not only grew larger but
increased in number. There was
trouble with the ballots and there was
trouble behind the ballots. There were
pulls and counterpulls, but, with the
certainty of existence when the election
clouds rolled by, the same unsavory
candidate with smiling face read the
returns and at the appointed time
walked down the aisle to his seat in the
highest council of the Nation, a peer
among peers. In the meantime the
country at large has been having some-
thing to say about it. It began to look
as if all the people were being fooled
all the time and that the rottenness in
Denmark would never come to an end.

 

But it has. Far down below the surface

 

the same old basis—the basis of com-
mon honesty—has again been found, the
Senate door has been shut in the face of
the offensive member and the country is
breathing freely again.

Politics, in the garments of religion,
bold and determined, with credentials
from Utah, asked for a seat in the
House of Representatives at the bar of
that branch of the General Government.
There is little need of painting the scene
or relating the circumstances. From
one end of the country to the other has
thundered the determined No! Vice
may skulk in the darkness. In purple
and fine linen, but in decency, it may
enjoy the sunshine common to the just
and the unjust. It may hide its head in
the alleys and dens of wickedness, but
public opinion has declared and _ insists
that he who wears the honors of the state
and sits in her council halls shall be
worthy of the honor so far as in her
lies. On the same old basis of upright-
ness and honesty must the morality of
this country rest if it is to hold its place
among the nations of the earth and
prove itself, as it claims to be, the
worthiest leader of them all.

As the world goes, there are times
when it seems as if everything were go-
ing to pieces. lIago’s ‘‘Put money in
thy purse. Go make money’’ has be-
come the motto and motive of humanity.
In the pursuit of that every nerve is
strained, every energy bent. The mer-
chant must get it—honestly, if he can,
by cheating if he must. The statesman
must not be above his business if he is
to take some day the high place his am-
bition covets, and have it he must even
if the honor be somewhat smirched in
the getting. So with other hopes and
aims. The Almighty Dollar is what
pays for all of them. With that, no
matter how obtained, the rest is sure to
follow. It often seems so; and yet un-
der the surface, far down where men so
often forget to look, there lies the same
old rockbed of honesty and goodness and
truth. Cheating may flourish for a time ;
but, as sure as the world stands to-day,
they who build upon any other founda-
tion will find that they have built upon
the sand and when the structure which
cheat and its brotherhood have built
falls, it ‘‘falls, like Lucifer, never to
rise again.’’

——————_———

The people of Dawson City have got
tired of stone-breaking for the criminal
and have adopted that terror of boy-
hood, the woodpile. A man convicted
of an offense is forced to saw wood.
Ten hours a day until his sentence ex-
pires is the decree. The
not allowed to interfere. Like taking
whisky, he saws wood in the intensest
cold to keep warm and in the _ hottest
weather to keep cool. Drenching rain
is not allowed to discourage him. If
the short days of winter are not light
enough, a lantern furnishes the needfu]
light. The result is all that could be
desired: There are no wife-beaters in
Dawson City, there are no tramps.

. ————

An exchange says that Denver is
growing as a place for hogs. People
who have been there say that the idea
is all right, but that the grammar is
wrong. Not ‘‘is growing,’’ but ‘‘is’’
and ‘‘always has been’’ are the correct
verbal forms—especially when speaking
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CARRYING COALS TO NEWCASTLE.

It begins to look as if another of the
world’s wise sayings had lost its force,
to be tossed as worthless rubbish upon
the waste heap of the past. Time out of
mind ‘‘carrying coals to Newcastle’’
has been the acknowledged apothegm,
expressing best the folly of a foolish
action. A few facts in the coal trade
are suggestive that the figure has lost its
force and that, if conditions remain un-
changed, there will be a literal carry-
ing of coal to that English town
on the banks of the Tyne, to the great
comfort of its inhabitants.

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Great Britain has been the greatest
coal producer of the world. That state-
ment stood unchallenged until the clos-
ing year of the Nineteenth Century.
Then the United States took the lead in
that industry and asserts her claim by
figures which can not be rightfully ques-
tioned. Here are some of them: In
1898, this country produced 195,000, 000
tons of coal; in 1899, 245,000,000 tons,
that being a gain of 50,000,000 greater
than during the preceding year and _ the
largest output of any other nation on
the globe, in a single year.

With the United States in the lead as
a coal producer, England stands second,
Germany third and France fourth. In
1899, this country produced three times
more coal than in 1870 and all the others
have increased theirs since that period,
Germany taking the lead with a much
less increase proportionately than that
of this country. The outlook indicates
a further increase in 1g00 and from that
standpoint it may be well to state that
while in this country the coal deposits
are to all intents and purposes limit-
less, the same is not the fact in regard
to the Newcastle mines. Those mines
like the country are not exhaustless and
it is not unreasonable to suppose that the
time will come when coal from the
American mine will be one of the Eng-
lish imports at the docks of Newcastle.

That, so far as this country is con-
cerned, is not the most important fea-
ture of the coal question. Closely con-
nected with it, and the real reason for
its phenomenal increase, is the fact that
the amount of pig iron produced in 1899
was 13,650,000 tons, an amount greater
by 1,900,000 tons than the production of
1898. It does not require much reflection
to conclude that, with practically limit-
less deposits of coal and iron, the basis
of any country’s prosperity, and the
acknowledged ability to turn to prac-
tical account this desirable condition of
things, this country is sure to keep the
lead in the production and the manu-
facture of both these natural products.
For more than twenty years the United
States has surpassed Great Britain in
the extent and the excellence of its man-
ufactures, and within the last decade
that country has yielded the palm of
supremacy to this in the amount of iron
produced. Ahead in these leading lines
of industry and the distance between her
and her competitors increasing every
day, there will be a constant repetition
of what has taken place during the past
few years. The American machine will
continue to supersede the European. It
will find its way into corners of the
world before unknown. It will bring
us into closer relations with peoples now
strangers to us and it will lead the way
for that greater influence which the
stronger is sure to exert over the weaker,
so that the carrying of coals to New-
castle, when it becomes a fact, will be
only repeating in another form what is
going on to-day outside of the coal busi-
ness. England, once the world’s engine

maker, is importing the American en-

gine. France, the home of siik indus-
try, has been invaded by American
silks. Germany, whose woolens are

known everywhere, and favorably known,
is buying American woolens; and so
one after another the countries of the
Old World, their best outdone and de-
feat acknowledged, have made a virtue
of necessity and are receiving from the
United States goods the importing
of which would once have been as ab-
surd as is to-day the carrying of coals to
Newcastle.

THE ERA OF LARGE BANKS.¢®

 

The fashion changes in banking, as
well as in all other things. There was
a time, not so long ago, when it was
thought advisable to encourage the or-
ganization of a large number of banks
of small capital, and it was also deemed
wise policy to equip banks with moder-
ate capital and seek to build up a_ large
surplus, thereby greatly enhancing the
value of the stock and adding a great
degree of visible strength to the corpo-
ration. This was the fashion for a long
time, but the fashion is now changing.

Within the past year or two the tend-
ency has been towards banks with large
capital and correspondingly large re-
sources. Such banks are being organ-
ized not by new incorporations, but by
a process of consolidation of institutions
already well established that find it more
profitable to join their forces and oper-
ate on a_ larger scale than to maintain
separate careers. It has been found that
in this era of acute competition and
large financial transactions those banks
which have the largest resources are in
better position for earning good profits.
The financing of great enterprises, which
is now such a common thing in the
financial world, can be accomplished
only by financial institutions of very
large resources.

A. very large bank is in a position to
earn larger profits, because its running
expenses proportioned to its capital and
resources are smaller than the expenses
of minor banks. Again,there are many
classes of transactions which small
banks are in no position to handle, but
which the large banks are able to manip-
ulate at a profit.

A recent consolidation in New York
of two prominent banks has served to
draw general attention to this growing
tendency in banking. This consolida-
tion will give the new bank a capital
and surplus several times larger than
anything yet known in the way of bank-
ing in this country. Should our new
colonial possessions be developed as they
ought, there will be needs for large
banks, as colonial trading requires much
banking capital.

Although it is not to be supposed that
many consolidations among the banks
will take place, the tendency to banks of
larger capital and resources is unmis-
takably strong, and the consolidations
will go on from time to time until there
are a number of large banks where now
there are but few.

 

Swell society in New York is finding
excellent cause to regret the Metropoli-
tan Opera House there was recently the
scene of a pet dog show. When the
dogs were taken away they left behind
in the hangings of the boxes and in the
cushioned seats a large and exceedingly
active army of fleas. Many of these
have since found resting places in the
decollete gowns of fair ones who at-
tended the opera, and asa _ result there

THE RISING TIDE,

In the lumber regions advantage is
taken of the swollen springtime streams
to float the logs to market. It not un-
frequently happens that a stick of tim-
ber is caught by some obstruction and
log is piled upon log until the accumu-
lated timber is as high as the surround-
ing hills. When the first obstructing log
is loosened and the whole mighty mass
rushes roaring downstream, a
is on and every man is on the alert to
take advantage of it to see that every
piece of timber possible is forced into
the descending flood,
over, the place is dead until another
comes.

boom

Once the boom is

Krom time to time the press of the
country is pleased to speak of the pros-
perity which has come to us as a boom.
At last the log of business which has
blocked everything behind it has been
loosened and the treMendous energy so
long pent up has started on its way to
prosperity. Old manufacturing places on
the mountain side, left high and dry by
a preceding boom, have been reached
and are rushing on with the rest, rejoic-
ing over the good times returned. New
industries are started and the booming
men mak-
ing the most of the unparalleled oppor-
tunity to better their condition.

water courses are alive with

This is all very well; but if the boom
is the figure which best represents the
business condition of the country, it is
very important that the country should
understand this, that it may govern it-
self accordingly. Once the rush is over,
desolation comes, and of all desolate
places the path of the spent boom is the
most despairing. The best logs in the
lot are often left beyond the reach of
help and the hot sun of many a summer
and the soaking snow of as many win-
ters will make them worthless; so that
the boom, a benefit so far as it goes, in
the long run is not the blessing it is
often thought to be.

, from certain indications it is becom-
ing more and more evident that the
boom does not represent the general
condition of things to-day. The
provement in been
gradual and too sure. Unlike the boom,
its continued rise can be depended upon,
as well as its duration, and when the
decline comes, as come it must, that, too,
can be calculated and so prepared for.
The boom is a condition of things due
to an accident and accident is never the
basis of calculation. It is local and
limited. Born in’ the lumberman’s
camp, it is restricted in its application
and can not fitly represent an outside
idea, the one idea that is finding ex-
pression in mountain and plain the
country over. New England is hum-
ming it with her whirring spindles. The
Middle States are proclaiming it by
their resounding trip hammers. The
South from her plantations, white with
cotton, is offering her convincing testi-
mony. The prairies upon whose limit-
less stretches are beating the stupendous
billows of wheat and corn are murmur-
ing it; and the miners from the coal
fields in the East to the mountain fast-
nesses of the precious metals in the
West. are clamorous with their noisy
assent. It is the rising tide of prosper-
ity, not the descending boom of chance,
that represents the real condition of
things and the country is proving this
in numberless ways.

The prosperity of the railroads, by
their rapid increase of traffic and travel,
has been noted as an unerring sign of
wholesome financial’ success, that has

im-

business has too

SO

of this is the report of the comptroller
of the currency on the business of the
Savings banks last year. There are 942
of these banks; only 287 of them are
stock the remainder are
operated without capital stock by the
trustees exclusively for the mutual bene-

concerns, and

fit of depositors. In the latter class
there is deposited $1,960, 709, 131, the av-
erage deposit being $386. The total

amount of savings deposits of the 942
banks
belongs to 5,523,602 depositors, the av-

is $2,179,468,299, which amount

eraging savings of each depositor thus
being $395. This $395 in the bank is net
profit. on the owner's labor, not coming
from interest or money loaned, or from
capital invested in business; and when
the wage of the country save
nearly $2, 180,000,000 in cash, as the sav-
ings banks alone show that they have
done, it is an unmistakable proof that
the existing to no
boom; that it is widespread among the
that high tide not been
reached, for the rising is still going on,
that high tide, when it comes, will
bring a prosperity never before attained ;
and that when the ebbing begins it will
not be attended by the desolation which
is sure to follow in the path of the de-
ceptive boom.

earners

prosperity is due

masses ; has

 

Egg producers ought to be grateful to
the department of agriculture for com-
piling in its official literature the vari-
ous and the best ways of treating eggs
that are put away during the summer
months, when they are plentiful and
cheap. Of twenty
preserving eggs the three which proved
the most effective are coating the eggs
with vaseline, preserving them in lime

German methods of

water and preserving them in water
glass. There isa drawback to the water

glass method: the shell easily bursts in
boiling water. This, however, may be
prevented by piercing the shell with a
strong needle. This objection having
been conceded, the water glass method
heads the list, as varnishing the eggs
with vaseline takes a great deal of time
and treating them with lime water is apt
to give them a odor. In
most packed eggs the yolk, sooner or
later, begins to settle on one side and
the egg at once begins to depreciate.
This does not happen when water glass
is used and the eggs retain a surprising
freshness. In test it was found
that a to per cent. solution of water
glass preserved the eggs so effectually
that at the end of three. and a half
months eggs that were packed on Aug.
1 appeared perfectly fresh. A gallon of
water glass, which will cost 50 cents,
will make enough solution to preserve
fifty dozen eggs.

disayreeable

one

 

Isidore Cohen, of New York City, has
introduced a bill in the New York Leg-
islature requiring all hacks, cabs and
automobiles licensed for hire by the
public to be equipped with a cyclometer
or other automatic device for measuring
and recording the distance traveled, the
machine to be placed in such a way as
to be in plain sight of the passenger.
The purpose of the bill is to prevent
hackmen from overcharging patrons.

 

The merchant who always sells at cost
and yet grows wealthy must either steal
his goods or his statements.

 

To judge by orders for steel rails,
prosperity has railroaded itself miles
ahead of the new year.

 

Something for nothing is nothing for

 

 

has been much commotion.

 

come to stay; but a far better indicator

something in wildcat parlance.

10

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

Clerks’ Corner.

 

Close Companionship Between
ment and Employes.
Written for the Tradesman.

It was my good fortune recently to be
in a large general store, centrally lo-
cated in the State, where the fellow
feeling of close companionship among
employes was fostered by thé manage-
ment seeking to keep in sympathy with
the associates in store life by setting one
evening each week apart for what was
termed ‘‘a meeting for mutual improve-
ment of our business and selves.’’ That
evening in particular was to be devoted
to hearing from a traveling man some
ideas gathered by him in his travels
among sitnilar establishments and was

Manage-

looked forward to by the manager and
employes as an opportunity to spend a
profitably pleasant evening. To this
meeting I was invited, as a special fa-
vor from the manager, whose school
companion I had chanced to be in ‘‘the
days gone by,’’ when we had often dis-
cussed the relation an employer should
hold towards his help, in the dual role
as manager and man, both of us_ natur-
ally leaning toward the theory that
‘‘man’s humanity to man_ best estab-
lishes his claim to human sympathy and
Support,’’ always maintaining — that
should Fate or Fortune ever place us in
position to demonstrate our views we
would maintain as close a semblance to
true comradeship among ourselves and
associates in business as the environ-
ments of that position allowed, and |
must confess that on leaving the store
after this meeting I was impressed with
the wisdom of my friend’s attitude to-
ward those over whose business actions
and time he nominally held control.

The store closed at 6 p. m. and at 7:30
we were all assembled in an upstairs
room, the carpet department, where com-
fortable seating arrangements were pro-
vided for all. The manager quietly se-
cured order by simply ascending the
single step to the improvised rostrum,
where in a few well-chosen words he re-
called previous similar gatherings,
speaking particularly of the personal
pleasure to be derived from the present
meeting together of friends, on whose
material welfare a mutual interest was
staked. Then, after prophetically add-
ing, ‘* The future good to us singly and
collectively must depend on ourselves,
and knowing that interdependence tends
to strengthen human sympathy, I feel
no fears for our business weliare.’’ He
then pleasantly introduced the speaker
to his good natured audience.

It is not my purpose to tell this travel-
ing man’s name nor the place where the
meeting occurred, therefore I will re-
produce his words only, and submit it
all without comment.

On taking his stand before us, genial
good will beamed from his face and we
felt that he was in sympathy with his
audience, therefore we were in a recep-
tive mood when he began to address us
as follows:

‘Friends and fellow workers. It is
with feelings of deepest pleasure to
think that I am thus accorded the hon-
ored privilege of aiding your manager
to maintain towards you the feelings of
good will, and I trust to further his
efforts of making this goodly assembly
more Closely united in sympathy through
the few remarks I shall make this even-
ing; and looking upon these animated
faces, I can conceive of nothing more
appropriate than the title I have chosen
for my address, ‘Sunshine and Nature
in Store Life.’

‘There is in Nature nothing more
universal than light, and light is, in all

  

 

its senses, a direct product of the sun,
a reflex therefrom or an imitation. Sun-
shine means life, darkness death, and
only in the constant conflict between
these great forces lies our chance to
gather the fragments and become the
power in business circles each one has
heirship to. But what is sunlight ina
store? Not that effulgence of the direct
rays from the sun, from which we must
protect our wares or see them deteriorate
in value, but the sunlight of the soul
shining from the faces of cheerful em-
ployes serving the public. The man or
woman, boy or girl, in a store who is
always pleasant about the everyday
duties, with a smile of welcome to the
customer, sheds sunshine about the es-
tablishment to such a degree that life is
possible and growth assured in that par-
ticular department, while its reflex ac-
tion will be felt in all departments of
the store. But shall we call this the di-
rect or the reflex light? Some would
call it the direct light, but I would pre-
fer to call it a reflex light, one reflecting
the pure light from a_ satisfied inner
self, the true self, diffusing pleasantly
without a painful glare.

‘*My general advice to you as personal
friends woyld be as follows: Be pleas-
ant; be cheerful; be friendly among
yourselves and towards your employer's
patrons, but never chummy. Smile, but
do not simper. Let sunshine diffuse
from a happy face with radiance that
may be felt as well as seen, Laugh
when occasion requires, but refrain
from giggling. Let these occasions be
well timed and have the appearance of
spontaneity, but never forced. Talk,
but don’t lecture; let what you Say ap-
pear in harmony with the atmosphere of
self and surroundings ; let your language
emphasize the sunlight of your presence.
Strive to enter into the sympathy of
your customer, even as the sunlight of
Nature enters into the life and growth
of the flower, unobtrusively yet with a
life-giving force which can not be de-
nied.

“‘Can anyone among you doubt the
results on trade should this feeling per-
meate at all times the working force?
Most assuredly it would be for good.
But storms must at times dash over the
face of Nature, even as matters of a mo-
mentarily disagreeable nature will cross
all our lives; yet did you never note
that after the storm the first rays of suh-
light are seemingly the brightest and
are the most welcome? You ask, What
are these necessary business storms? and
I answer that the most frequent are dis-
agreeable customers; but smiles and
pleasant manners will dissipate the
worst of these storms and after these
have sped by our horizon we all welcome
a genial ray of store sunlight. Yes, all
the proprietor, the manager, the cus-
tomer even; our associates In work and
we ourselves feel the benign influence
of sunshine, even though from ourselves
it emanates. Why should I call this a
necessary part of store life? Because
no trait of character is developed with-
out use, any more than a muscle without
work ; and no one thing is better fitted
to create store sunshine than patience,
which this ‘storm’ particularly calls into
being and develops. All sunshine with
no rain causes destroying droughts, but
when rightly proportioned to Nature’s
needs the best results obtain; so I hold
the opinion that a well-developed bump
of patience is one of the most valuable
possessions a clerk can have, and the
higher degree of patience developed the
greater value attaches to that clerk’s
work. Again, a storm may be raised
by your manager, who on going his
round of inspection finds, as I suppose
he does sometimes, some place where
his rules of business have not been lived
up to. But again I ask, Do you not
note how much sooner this storm passes
when a ray of sunlight is struggling in
that particular department to equalize
the forces of nature? It may be a quiet
smile of assenting approval to the nec-
essary and justified criticism of the
manager; but the result is a calm after
the storm, more pleasant from the mere
fact of comparison than it would be had
there been sunshine all the time. But
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their destructive tendency is caused by
two storms meeting and both trying to
prove title to right of way through
strength of blowing. Thus we would
compare an open resistance or noisy
explanation of an employe to the man-
ager during the storms. It often re-
quires a long time and much sunshine
to patch up the face of Nature in the
case of a whirlwind, and the same may
well be said of store-storm, where opin-
ions clash; and yet these same _ whirl-
winds sometimes aid Nature in remov-
ing some obstruction necessary to a
more perfect view of surrounding coun-
try, eventually improving the face of
Nature, even as these conflicting storms
ofttimes clear out opaque or nondevelop-
ing light characters from the working
force, to the apparent betterment of all
concerned.

‘‘Again, in Nature, were there neither
wind nor storms the pollution of the air
would cause death to all forms of life,
because the unstirred air would thus be-
come dead, even as store life, in alto-
gether too many instances, would flag,
falter and die save for these tours of in-
spection by the manager, and a happily
valuable acquisition to a store's force
is he who can be found fauit with and
still smile and strive with good natured
effort to learn what is wanted, correct
the error and all the time, through
cheerfulness, diffuse store sunshine on
the work, the business, the manager
and himself. Still further would I draw
this storm comparison by noting a fierce
storm at sea which, with the regular
tides, agitates the waters of the sea to
its very depths, without which its stag-
nation would be death to every form of
life beneath, on, or even immediately
over its surface; so what at times ap-
pears to be a cruel fate proves to be a
benefit, perhaps not to the individual,
but to the world at large.

‘‘Let us liken the regular tides to the
annual inventory and spring and fall
store-cleaning. These are necessary,
but what is wanted is the occasional
general stirring-up of everybody and
everything, for the universal good—when
a general overhauling occurs which
changes the entire topography of the
store. Some will object to this on ac-
count of disarranging the calculations of
customers; but it is my opinion that
patrons enjoy the novelty of changes of
stocks as well as changes of the items
that goto make up the stocks ; therefore,
do not shut out of your lives the sun-
shine of store life through objections to
carrying out any changes suggested by
your manager, but cheerfully bend every
energy towards carrying out the will of
the powers that be, and do this without
even a frown on your face. Thus life
for each individual helper will broaden
out, the store life will. take a deeper
hold on the public and all be given a
stronger hold on the environments which
go so far in our business to make life
worth living.

‘‘Some storms assume the form of
dews, and oh how gently yet persistently
they fall. What invigorating life fol-
lows these pleasant storms of Nature
and how aptly they apply to your d-u-e-s
to your store: First, due respect to
constituted authority; second, due re-
gard for the feelings of associate work-
ers; third, due appreciation of the right
of your employers to receive everything
due them from you-—your time, your
strength, your mind, and of course what
is due them from sales of merchandise
in your care. Only on the systematic
falling of these dues can long-continued
(store) life be assured, on which rest
your chances of employment; and re-
member, these dews of Nature are paid
the day they fall due, not next day. It
is said that plenty of dew and regular
sunshine would keep all Nature dressed
in summer green; and how truly [| may
add, if your employers receive the above
dues, and store sunshine permeates their
business, thoroughly lighting up all dark
corners, its continuity is dependent only
on the will of those who rule, because
such a store will have the confidence and
trade of the public, insuring long life
and continued prosperity.

‘And now, my friends, in conclusion
I would say to each one, don’t place your

have it cast its shadow on your sur-
roundings; but rather as a polished sur-
face of solid sterling silver reflect onto
your associates and surroundings what-
ever sunlight there may possibly be.
You know that Nature's sunshine is
divisible into rays, each one bearing a
separate, distinct color and name; so
may storeshine (if we may be allowed
to coin a word) be divided into rays —in
this case spelled r-a-y-s, not, as some
might think, r-a-i-s-e, prefixed to the
phrase, ‘‘of salary’’—which rays are
known and named: cheerfulness, timely
laughter, agreeable pleasantness, smiles,
good will, patience and the suffering of
self-sacrifice, if need be, all well min-
gled with hard work, deep thought and
thorough honesty of purpose. And if
you, my young friends, will stand firmly
by these colors neither you, your em-
ployer, your manager, your associates,
the store, nor your friends will ever turn
from or forsake you, but call you
blessed, even as Nature’s sunlight is
called blessed in all lands.’’

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Liability of Restaurateur For Loss of Coat.

A case which has just been decided
by the appellate term of the Supreme
Court of New York has been the cause
of much interest in the metropolis,
chiefly among that large class of men
who take their meals in restaurants.

A New Yorker named Marcus M.
Montgomery, who had taken his dinner
at a restaurant kept by one John Lading,
tound when he had eaten and paid_ for
his dinner that his overcoat, which he
had hung up with his own hands on a
peg close to his table, had disappeared.
The proprietor, on being appealed to,
disclaimed all responsibility for the loss
of the coat, on the ground that neither
he nor his waiters had been intrusted
with the custody of it. Mr. Montgomery
demanded a return, or the value of the
garment from the restaurateur ; and, on
Boniface’s refusal to comply with the
demand, he brought suit against Lading
in a municipal court for the amount.

The judge in the municipal court
found for the plaintiff in the amount
claimed, but the restaurateur was ad-
vised not to pay, and he declined to
pay, and appealed.

The appellate term of the Supreme
Court has just decided the case, revers-
ing the judgment of the lower court and
holding the original plaintiff liable for
costs. The appellate court, after pass-
ing in review many cases of a somewhat
similar nature, says in its decision:

The rule to be adduced from all these
cases is that, before a restaurant-keeper
will be held liable for the loss of an
overcoat of a customer while such cus-
tomer takes a meal or refreshments, it
must appear either that the overcoat
was placed in the physical custody of
the keeper of the restaurant or his serv-
ants, or that the overcoat was necessari-
ly laid aside under circumstances show-
ing at least notice of the fact and of such
necessity to the keeper of the restaurant
or his servants, in which there is an im-
plied bailment or constructive custody ;
or that the loss occurred by reason of the
insufficiency of the general supervision
exercised by the keeper of the restaurant
for the protection of customers’ overcoats
temporarily laid aside. After all, each
case must largely depend upon its own
particular facts and circumstances, for it
is well known that there are all kinds
of restaurants. In some of them good
taste and etiquette require that a cus-
tomer should remove his hat and _ over-
coat while eating a meal of refresh-
ments, while in others, especially in so-
called quick lunch establishments, cus-
tomers remove neither hat nor coat.

There is a great deal of good common
sense in this decision; and restaura-
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GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.

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Michigan Fire and Marine
Insurance Co.

Organized 1881.
Detroit, Michigan.
Cash Capital, $400,000. Net Surplus, $200,000.
Cash Assets, $800,000.
D. WHITNEY, JR., Pres.
D. M. Ferry, Vice Pres.
F. H. WuHitney, Secretary.
M. W. O’Brien, Treas.
E. J. Boorn, Asst. Sec’y.
Di RECTORS,

D. Whitney, Jr., D. M. Ferry, F.J. Hecker,
M. W. O’Brien, Hoyt Post, Christian Mack,
Allan Sheldon, Simon J. Murphy, Wm. ) te
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.
Standish, Theodore D. Buhl, M. B. Mills,
Alex. Chapoton, Jr., Geo. Hi. Barbour, S.
G. Gaskey, Chas. Stinchfield, Francis F.
Palms, Wm. C. Yawkey, David C. Whit
ney, Dr. J. B. Book, Eugene Harbeck, Chas.
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

Shoes and Leather

 

 

Under What Circumstances a Shoe Clerk
Should Marry.

He should be sure, of course, that the
woman of his choice has some idea of
the cost of living and of the everyday
duties of a housekeeper. In the cost
of living and the regular weekly ex-
pense there enters largely a personal
element. A woman who has been reared
in luxury, accustomed to have every
wish gratified, will naturally hesitate a
long time before accepting froma young
man of meager means (unless she loves
him very dearly) attentions which might
result seriously. There are, however,
brave, true-hearted young women, both
rich and poor, who would readily con-
form to conditions resulting from the
new relation and her husband’s income,
be it great or small. The niggardly cus-
tom of doling out stated sums to the
wife for household expenses should
never be practiced. If the dollars have
to be husbanded lay aside regularly
every week a proportionate sum for
rent, fuel and light; if any surplus is
left from the preceding week it might
wisely be used for purchase of neces-
sary clothing, articles for beautifying
the home and the like. Although at
first glance the expense of housekeeping
might appear greater than boarding, the
young clerk should. not marry until he
has his house (even although it may be
a rented one) comfortably furnished,
suitable for habitation. The house need
not be elaborately or elegantly furnished
in order to insure a cozy, happy home.
After laying aside the weekly amount
for regular monthly or quarterly charges
for rent, light and heat, the balance of
money for current expense might be
placed in a box, accessible for both
husband and wife. From this general
fund each could extract from day to day
the sum necessary for their separate ex-
penses. If either one could not trust
the other to that extent they had better
not marry.

This procedure obviates the necessity
of the wife appealing to her husband re-
peatedly for money when he thinks she
should already be possessed of some, or
of the husband requesting a loan from
his wife to enable him to reach his piace
of business after spending more than he
should have spent and running short of
funds.

The necessity of either asking the
other for money is embarrassing and
humiliating and often is the forerunner
of open rupture and may cause for some
time to come strained relations between
those who should each extend to the
other the most cordial, frank and sim-
ple confidence. The young clerk should
never deceive his wife as to the amount
of his income or the status of his. busi-
ness affairs. It is astonishing how little
expenditure, for a man, is really neces-
sary. The average man rides to his
work, even although the distance is not
great; he buys one or two newspapers,
which he often leaves in the car or tosses
into the waste basket, which his wife
would appreciate if taken home at
night, even although the news were a
few hours old. After reaching the store
or office, if smoking is permitted, a
cigar or two is consumed, with the
addition of a little fruit or sweetmeats,
or possibly a social glass or two. This
is often repeated during the afternoon.
At noon the hour is passed with kindred
spirits and often an elaborate luncheon
is taken, frequently one man settling
the entire bill. Such expenses should

 

be carefully watched by the ambitious
clerk who desires to amass something
for the future and unnecessary extrava-
gance carefully guarded against. He
might easily entrench himself safely
against the wiles of extravagant com-
panions, careless of their expenditure,
by reviewing each night the proceedings
of the day in this connection and resolv-
ing that the next day should see an
absolute curtailing of unnecessary ex-
pense. Above all have the moral force
and conscientious courage to cut loose
from companions who would drag you
down to penury and poverty in your en-
deavor to keep abreast of them and their
expensive habits.—Shoe and _ Leather
Facts.
2. __
Bidding For a Cash Business.

A Nashville, Tenn., shoe dealer pre-
sents the following arguments why cash
should supersede credit in his establish-
ment:

The credit system, with its dangerous
whirlpool of debt for the buyer, has
swamped thousands of people, who be-
come hopelessly involved through pay-
ing enormous profits to the merchant
simply because credit is offered. Extra
profits are added by the merchant, who,
spider like, weaves the web tighter and
tighter around the credit customer (who
is the fly). As the customer remains in
debt to the merchant the next shoes he
buys, and the next, he thinks the price
too high, but he owes the merchant a
bill already and he hasn’t the ‘‘gall’’ to
try to ‘‘jew him down’’ on the price
when he is getting credit. The credit
merchant, on the other hand, instructs
the clerks to charge high for the goods
as the customer owes a bill already and
is going to buy on credit, no matter
what the shoes cost. These are undis-
puted facts. If you buy on credit it

“‘hits’’ you; you know it; you’re sick
of being ‘‘worked’’ by the credit mer-
chant. Break away now. Let the credit

merchant who has been so kind to accom-
modate you with credit by selling you $3
shoes for $4 wait a while and take your
next pay day’s money, look around—
you're a free man--cash works wonders;
puts you on a level with the merchant
you're dealing with; keeps you from
feeling like a slave: be a man. Quit
letting people work, you; look around,
use your reasoning powers. Here’s some
prices from a cash house —cash, cash,
cash house; 120 pairs of men’s $2 tan
shoes, plain toe, light weight, sizes 6,
6%, for $1.25 a pair cash; 216 pairs fine
tan vici shoes, regular $2.75 quality,
sizes 5, 514 and 6, in lace or gaiters,
$1.60 a pair cash; light weight, plain
toe, every pair are warranted ; 210 pairs
men’s fine Russia, heavy winter weight,
lace, shop-made, calf-lined $4 goods, for
$2.50; all sizes; 261 pairs men’s $5 shoes
for $3.25 cash; every style imaginable.
See our show window for cash values.
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Mutual Envy.
The office boy who sweeps the floor
And doth the baskets toss
Envies the owner of the store
And longs to be the boss.
The boss who hears the youngster’s songs
And laughs of youthful joy :
Thinks of his own great cares and longs
To be the office boy.
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An Unpleasant Feature.
‘‘T couldn't stand her father; he was
everlastingly talking shop.’’
‘Telling you about his prosperity in
business. ’’
‘‘No; talking about the business he
thought I ought to get into.’’
——_—_»9.__
Taking No Risks.
Customer—Have you the same razor
you shaved me with two days ago?
Barber (flattered )—Yes, sir: the same
identical one.
Customer—Then chloroform me first,
please.

 

 

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Not Forgotten.

‘“Did your grandmother remember

you in her will?’’
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loans she had made me.”’

‘Lycomings fire the Best Fists
‘Neystones Are the Best Seconds

We are now prepared to fill all orders
promptly. The sizes and toes which manu-
facturers could not furnish prior to Nov. 1
are now in stock.

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The Boom Town of Walker's Station.
Written for the Tradesman.

Walker’s Station was not an elaborate
affair. It was not in reason to expect
that it would be. It was young, it was
also ugly, but those who lived there
hoped that it would some day outgrow
these taults. So far as its youth was
concerned it would, in the nature of
things, leave that behind; but, as to its
ugliness, that was problematical. The
natives, as they passed each other on
the road, spoke of ‘*goin’ to town to git
the mail,’’ or, “‘to do a little tradin’,’’
while the Sentinel, published  semi-
monthly in the county town fourteen
miles away, referred to Walker’s Station
as ‘‘the sister city on the plains.’’ On
the plains’’ did very well, for the town
site was composed of one entire section
of railroad land laid out in blocks and
streets; each street had a name of its
own. A city one mile square might
surely be spoken of as a ’’sister city.”’
As a matter of fact the ‘‘city’’ consisted
of a store, a blacksmith shop and two
dwelling houses.

How so few buildings could give such
an appearance of ugliness to an_ other-
wise lean, lonely prairie is a mystery.
They had the air not of having been
built upon this solitary vastness, but of
having squatted upon it. They wore a
sort of wind-blown, twisted look, as if
they were afraid to stand up squarely
and face, with undaunted mein, the
dreariness around them.

Another curious thing was calling the
place Walker’s Station. ‘True, the rail-
road ran for one straight mile along the
southern end of the town site; but the
railroad company had never had a sta-
tion there. It is said that a train had
never been known to stop there until the
town site was laid out and the streets
were named. Si Clay, the man who
owned the buildings, as well as the town
site, could never give a satisfactory ex-
planation as to why he called the place
Walker’s Station, and the reason was the
cause of as much speculation to the na-
tives and settlers in that locality as was
‘*Pudd’nhead Wilson’s’’ wish that he
‘‘owned half of that dog’’ to the natives
of Dawson’s Landing. Walker’s Station
it was, and so it remained as it pursued
the even tenor of its way. One conver-
sant with the various events which made
up the history of that little settlement
would be of the opinion, however, that
the tenor of its way and been uneven
rather than even.

Si Clay believed that there was a
great future in store for the town. He
saw mills, grain elevators, factories,

stores, paved streets, electric lights and
a thousand other things that were to
grow up on his town site. This was
not strange, after all, for Si Clay had
tried for five years without success to
grow corn and wheat and a dozen other
farm products upon this same town site.
Nobody but a man who has come
through five such years of earnest en-
deavor in just such a country could ever
have seen what Si Clay saw. It was a
country without a hill or a tree. Look
in whatever direction you would, you
saw only a great circle where the earth
and sky met.

Before he migrated to Kansas Si Clay
had been a well to do farmer in a coun-
try where it rained once in a while. He
had been persuaded, by a man with an

ax to grind, to locate just where he did.

The man with the ax got Si’s little

Michigan farm and Si got 640 acres of

land without a stone or a hill or a bit of
brush upon it. ‘‘It was an endless pic-

a farm like that—-no roots to
grub, no stones to gather, no hills to
climb.’’ He might truthfully have
added, ‘‘no crops to harvest.’’ After
five years of unrewarded labor Si had
converted his non-producing farm into
a town site and his various farm  build-
ings into the town buildings referred to.
With his little remaining capital he put
in a smail stock of general merchandise
and proceeded to do business. His
methods would have bankrupted a much
more capable business man. He had
not the heart to refuse credit to his old
neighbors. ‘‘It wasn’t their fault if they

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weren’t able to pay. They couldn't
make rain and the crops wouldn't grow
without it.’’ He knew they would
square up as soon as they got a crop of
wheat or corn; but Si had tried for five
years without getting such a crop. He
ran the store in a sort of way by taking |
butter and eggs in part payment for his!
merchandise. These scanty farm prod- |
ucts he shipped East, sometimes making
a small profit, but as often making noth-
ing. Despite the fact that he was run-
ning in debt and_ that the blacksmith
shop remained unoccupied, Si still clung
to the idea of future greatness for his
town site, and consequent wealth for
himself.
When
owner and
old his finances

Si’s double venture of town
store-keeper was two years
had grown into such
shape that he couldn't tell whether he
owned the town or whether it owned
him. This perplexing question
rather suddenly answered for him when
the sheriff walked in and in the name of
the law took possession. A few days
later the little stock of goods, the town
and the town site were sold to the high-
est bidder. Poor Si was left without a
single worldly possession except the
clothes on his back—a poor, bewildered,
broken-hearted pauper. It more
than tired nature could stand and Si be-
came an inmate of the insane ward at
the county poorhouse.

The new owner of Walker’s Station
never gave a thought to what the place
had cost. He got it for almost nothing
and was well pleased with#his bargain.
The seven years of time, the hot sweaty
labor, the vain hopes, the broken heart,
the ruined mind were nothing to him.
He had for several months before the
sheriff sold the place been operating a
steam drill not only on Si’s town site
but in many other places. He told the
natives he was ‘‘drilling for water.’
They believed him and when he offered
to buy their land were only too willing
to sell. He bought all of the land he
wanted at his own price and then sunk
a shaft. The natives discovered when
it was too late that it might have been
water he was after, but that it was coal
he found. The -irony of fate was truly
exemplified. Walker’s Station began to
grow. Town lots were in demand.
Stores, shops and dwellings sprang up
on the very ground where Si had labored
for years and raised nothing. ‘The rail-
road company built roundhouses and
machine shops there, because coal was
so handy. Manufacturing concerns of
many kinds located there for the same
reason, and Walker’s Station became all
that Si Clay had dreamed-~a thriving,
throbbing center of industry.

Mac Allan.

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Mother Goose Up to Date.

There was a man in our town
Invested all his health,

With madly avaricious aim,
To win the goal of wealth;

And when the same he had attained,
With all his might and main,

He vainly lavished all his wealth

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nic,’’ said the man with the ax,

to To get his health again.

    
 

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that the S. C. W. cigar
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We
Sometimes
Lose a
Customer

But it is usually under circumstances like
those recently related by an old patron who
returned to us after some bitter experience
—=| elsewhere. He was teased by a smooth
solicitor of another concern into buying cou-
pon books at a low price, but when he real-
HT] ized that he had given an order four times
as large as usual and discovered when the

goods were delivered that they were so

slovenly bound and so incorrect in count
that his
against the system, because they assumed

customers became prejudiced

 

cided that it pays to give a fair price for
honest goods and deal with a house which

 

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stands back of its product by paying $1 in
cash for every book found to be incorrectly
counted. For this reason his name is again
on our list of customers. If yours is not

send for samples and quotations.

Tradesman Company,
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   
 

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The Meat Market

 

 

Right and Wrong Way to Dress Poultry.

When | say that not one in twenty
butchers knows how to dress a turkey or
chicken properly, I am making an
assertion that can be easily verified. In
my experience of over twenty years |
have come in contact with thousands
of butchers and at rare intervals I have
seen a first-class poultry dresser. The
few who did know were quite proud of
their ability, and with reason. Now,
let’s get down to facts:

Mrs. B. wants a fine large turkey for
her Sunday dinner; she’s going to have
company and is filled with importance.
After much fuss she selects a fine 16 or
18-pound bird—a handsome, dry-picked
turkey without a flaw or break in the
skin, young and tender, and leaves it
for the butcher to dress and send home.
When he gets ready to draw it he grabs
it like a ton of coal or a chunk of ice
and slams it on the block, chops off the
legs and head, picks up his knife, cuts
the skin open from the top of the breast
down to the end of the neck, takes hold
of the skin on both sides of the cut, pulls
it apart, and, after much pulling and
hauling, finally gets the craw out. The
whole breast is torn and ragged, and
from hauling over the block the skin on
the back and sides is broken and
bruised, which is only natural after the
way it has been handled. He then
makes a cut from the end of the breast
bone to the tail end of the carcass and
shoves a fist as big as a ham into the tur-
key, grabs the intestines and hauls them
out, leaving a hole in the body like a
cave, with torn and ragged edges. Eight
times out of ten the gall is broken, but
that is Mrs. B.’s affair: she’s going to
eat it, not he, so he doesn't care; he
fires it into a basket, and his part is fin-

ished. Then it goes to Mrs. B. Of
course, she’s going to stuff it, She or
her cook commence operations; the

breast is all torn, so she can’t put stuff-
ing there; they put the stuffing in the
other end and sew it up as best they
can; half the time the thread breaks
through while the bird is roasting, and
when brought to the table the stuffing
protrudes, the breast is invariably
burned, the skin hangs in shreds and
patches, and it has (to use a forcible if
not elegant expression) a sloppy-weather
appearance. Mrs. B. is dissatisfied,
and the butcher gets a hauling over the
coals the next day for his slovenly work,
and it serves him right. He brags to
his friends what an exert butcher he is.
And he doesn’t know how to draw a tur-
key! Nine times out of ten he’s even
more careless with a chicken; thinks
any old way is good enough as long as
he finishes his work and gets his orders
out on time.

Now to the proper way: Instead of
chopping off the feet let him draw the
sinews—it only takes two or three min-
utes longer. Then let him take a sharp
knife and slit the skin along the back
of the neck and draw it out and the
craw can be removed readily and in one
piece, not in sections, and much easier.
Afterwards the skin can be wrapped
around the neck, and a piece of twine
tied once around it at the extreme end,
which is more effective than ten or
twelve stitches would be,.and when the
bird is laid on its back the breast is
whole and no opening can be seen.
When this is properly done it appears
as though the craw was not removed at
all.

Before wrapping the skin around the

neck insert your finger at the base of the
neck and loosen the heart, liver and
gizzard by working it around until you
can fell they are clear and do not stick
to the sides; then cut a small hole at the
other end, just large enough for the giz-
zard to come through, and the skin can
be readily drawn together and sewed,
with barely a trace remaining where it
has been cut. To complete a clean piece
of work, take a thick slice of larding
pork cut down to. the rind, but not
through it; open the two slices as the
leaves of a book, and lay it lengthwise
on the turkey’s breast, with the rind
part down so the pure white larding
pork shows entirely ; then fasten secure-
ly at the four corners with toothpicks
(skewers would tear the flesh). Mrs. B.
and her cook will be pleased at the at-
tention. The slice of larding pork does
not cost you much, and a cook’s influ-
ence is considerable, as some of you
may know. Then when the turkey is
brought to the table, and the lady
friends of the hostess see how carefully
it has been dressed, they go into rap-
tures (trust a woman to see all these lit-
tle details). ‘‘Who is your butcher,
Mrs. B.?) My! he does know how to
dress a turkey!’’ And it’s dollars to
doughnuts that Mrs. B.’s butcher gets a
new customer or two the next day, par-
ticularly as the slice of larding pork
adds a most delicious flavor to the finest
turkey, and, of course, the butcher gets
the credit of it. The customer is
pleased, the company is pleased, and
the butcher has pleasure and profit there-
by. Chickens are dressed in precisely
the same way, but it is much easier as
most of the intestines can he drawn
through the neck; and with a very little
practice a chicken can be drawn so
scientifically that the customer has to
look twice to see if it is really drawn. —
Leon Alexandre in Butchers’ Advocate.

——_—_> 2.
How to Make a Crown Roast.

Much skill is not necessary to make a
crown Toast, yet a well-made one always
attracts attention and sells at a good
price. Take two plump racks of lamb
that have no blade chops on, and knick
each one about the same as you would
chop roast loin pork, but not too deep.
Run your knife from one end of the
rack to the other, on both sides, about
two inches from the top. Skin the lower
part the same as you would French
chops, then cut off the fat where you cut
across the rack. The two racks are
then placed end to end and sewed to-
gether. Then roll the whole together, so
that the ribs curve outward. They form
the crown. A piece of heavy cord is
then tied around the center, and the
tighter the cord is drawn the more will
the ribs curve out. Then take the caul
of a calf, and place it around the base
of the meat like acollar. The meat
taken from between the ribs should be
chopped quite fine, and placed inside
the crown, or ribs, and some parsley
scattered on it. Colored paper, knicked
with scissors, and placed around the
crown, helps the effect. Another good
decorative scheme is to place a grape
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Poor Way of Advertising.

A few years ago a retailer out in
Omaha advertised to throw off the roof
of his building on Christmas Day
twenty-five turkeys. The first turkey
was torn to pieces by the multitude:
the second injured a little child; the
remainder were carted off to the police
Station ina patrol wagon, with the re-
tailerand a couple of policemen as com-
pany.

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Why Brown Eggs Are Preferred to White
Ones.

There are several reasons why brown
eggs are preferable to white ones. The
great bulk of the surplus from the pro-
ducing states is marketed in the thickly
populated districts of the East, where
brown eggs take the preference over
white ones. They are not only attractive
in appearance, but are larger. A case
of all browns weighs from two to four
pounds more than a case of all whites,
and will show a smaller per cent. of
breakage because the shells are stronger.
They also evaporate less in storage than
white eggs under the same atmospheric
conditions. The loss by evaporation
during eight months in storage was
found to be three per cent. on all white
eggs, two and eight-tenths per cent. on
mixed colors and two and four-tenths
per cent. on all brown eggs. The tests
were made under conditions calculated
to reduce evaporation to the safest pos-
sible minimum, and with April stock.
Some idea of the volume of water thrown
out by the still force of nature may be
gained when it is stated that the amount
of vapor which escapes in this way
from the eggs during the entire season
in the largest storage center in this
country amounts to about 2,800 barrels
of water. It must not be supposed that
this represents the loss of nourishment
from the egg meat; only water and gas
escape, and the solids (food products)
remain within the delicate lining under
the shell. There is every inducement
to encourage the production of brown
eggs for the additional reason that not
only the eggs, but the poultry produc-
ing them, are preferable for market. It
has been claimed that brown eggs are
sweeter than the white ones, but this
assertion rests on the unstable founda-
tion of the consumer’s imagination.
Analytical examinations have shown the
constituents to be similar, both in char-
acter and proportion, but the facts that
they are larger, stronger, more attractive
and preferred by the trade are sufficient
reason to encourage the production.—
Egg Reporter.

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The Hen and the Editor.

A hen sets on her nest and lays eggs.
An editor sits on his office chair and
lies in his bed—or in his paper. The
hen ‘‘feathers her nest;’’ the editor
does not—he cuts his own throat by do-
ing business for nothing simply to keep
his competitors from getting it. The
hen cackles after she has laid a good,
fresh egg; the editor cackles about what
he intends to do, but seldom does it.
Sensible hen. The hen scratches for her
living; so does the editor. The hen
often covers up bad eggs; so does the
editor. The hen hatches chickens that
come to some good; most editors hatch
schemes that never amount to anything.
The hen presents her bill when she
wants something, and_ usually gets it;
the editor presents his bill, and hardly
ever gets anything. The hen has a
comb, which she doesn’t use ; the editor
may have a comb, and use it sometimes,
but not always. The hen has wings; the
editor has none and never will have.
The hen isn’t a high flyer; the editor is
—sometimes. The hen broods and raises
a large family; the editor broods over
how he is going to raise the large family
he already has, as well as over wasted
energies and _ lost opportunities. The
hen is a rooster when she sleeps—that’s
queer; the editor is a queer rooster all
the time. The hen often gets cooped;
the editor gets (s)cooped, too, some-
times. The hen often gets it in the
neck ; so does the editor. Sometimes the
hen crows, but why nobody knows; the
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between the hen and the editor, but they
do not come to mind just now.

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Valuable Hints on Packing Poultry.

We urge upon you the importance of
killing nothing but fat stock ; turn all
thin and poor stock out to fatten for fu-
ture use; it will pay you to do so, as
poor stock is a drug on the market.
Scalded stock, head and feet off, are
more salable on this market, and be sure
to keep all poultry from feed from
twelve to eigheen hours before killing
time. When the craws are full of feed,
it not only imparts a sour flavor to the
stock, but the craws soon turn black,
and detract from the appearance and
sale of same.

See that all animal heat is entirely
eradicated before packing your poultry
for shipment. Use nothing but dry,
clean, sweet packages; under no cir-
cumstances use pine or any other kind
of wood that is likely to impart an ob-
jectionable flavor to the poultry; use no
straw in packing; if you will insist up-
on using paper, use parchment paper,
and under no circumstances use news-
Mark the contents of package
palinly on the side or top, number of
pieces, and the net weight of same. If
you will heed our suggestions in this
line, we feel confident that you will not
have any cause to regret having done

so. G. M. Lamb.
New Method of Keeping Eggs.

papers.

A method of preserving eggs without
the use of chemicals or cold storage so
that they will keep for an indefinite
period as fresh as they were taken from
the nest has been invented by a New
Yorker. The chief merit of the inven-
tion is its simplicity. Its principle is
merely that the eggs shall be arranged
on racks in peculiarly constructed cases,
so that the air will have free circulation
around them. A case built upon the
new plan costs no more than the ordin-
ary packing cases now in use, yet the
inventor thinks a cargo of eggs placed
in them can probably be sent around the
world and come back to the starting
point ready to be cooked and put upon
the table of an epicure.

Egg Case Stock Scarce.

I-gg case stock is scarce and the big
demand continues. Nearly every egg
case manufacturer has more orders than
he can fill. The enormous consumption
of lumber for boxes in all lines of trade
in 18g9 has used up all accumulations
and mills are taxed to their full capacity
to fill current orders. When high water
comes in the spring hundreds of mills
in the Cairo district will have to shut
down and an egg case famine may be
one of the features of the business in
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Lady Butcher Gives It Up.

A lady butcher has given up the strug-
gle. She is Miss L. F. McCarthy, and
had a market in Hopkinton, Mass.. A
position which promises more profit
was offered her and she accepted it, clos-
ing her market.

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Some of the dressed poultry received
in the Chicago and New York markets
from prominent shippers in the favorite
poultry sections for the later holiday
trade showed careless dressing and pack-
ing, and many marks would not have
retailed at market prices even had they
arrived in perfect condition.

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The two eggs laid by a pigeon almost
invariably produce male and female.
Some curious experiments as to which
of the eggs produces the male and which
the female have resulted in showing that
the first egg laid is the female and the
second the male.

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business there is just a shade of prob-
ability that eggs will be bought at rea-
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Buffalo Cold Storage Co., Buffallo, N.Y.
Peoples Bank, Buffalo, N. Y.

BUFFALO, N. Y.

REFERENCES:

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26-28-30-32 OTTAWA ST., GRAND RAPIDS

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interested, because he is called upon to supply his patrons with
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in restoring the weak stomach and preserving the strong one. They furnish
work for the teeth, flavor for the palate and nourishment for the entire sys-
tem. New Era Butter Crackers (creamery butter shortened), a high grade
Gem Oatmeal Biscuits, a good seller, and Cereola, the
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GOTHAM GOSSIP.

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

New York, Jan. 20--Sellers of coffee
are holding on to their stocks and seem
to know no such thing as making con-
cessions. Advices from abroad indi-
cate a good degree of strength and_ this
market closes steady and firm. Roasters
are said to be taking all they can ar-
range for at prevailing rates, although
this may be taken with some allowance.
The fact remains, though, that buyers
are taking quite liberal allowances and
seem to take it for granted that they will
gain nothing by waiting or by shopping
around. ‘There is a more active specu-
lative market than usual and a decided
gain has been made during the week in
quotations. Rio No. 7 closes strong at
814@8'%c. In store and afloat there are
1,016,268 bags, against 1, 330,050 bags at
the same time last year. Mild grades
have ruled very high and the supply is
moderate. In some instances second
hands were selling West India growths
below the rate asked by importers. At
the close good Cucuta was quoted at
Io%e.

While the volume of teas changing
hands this week has not been large, the
market is firm and dealers look ahead
with a good degree of confidence. Quo-
tations practically unchanged.

A stronger market for raw sugars ex-
erted an influence over refined and for
the past two days there has_ been quite
a volume of business going forward.
Quotations have been changed, standard
granulated being listed Friday at 5 205,
instead of 5.05. Concessions on softs
have been withdrawn.

The amount of rice business has been
very light and it is said that relatively
quotations on domestic were lower here
than in New Orleans. Quite a fair trade
has been done in Japan, the price of
which is from 43,@4%c. Prime to
choice southern, 5% @5 5¢c.

Sellers and buyers of spices appear to
be unable to agree and their difference
of opinion has extended over several
weeks. The result is that little busi-
ness has been done. Quotations are
firm on almost every article.

As spring approaches there is de-
cidedly more enquiry for spot canned
goods and an awakening as to the situa-
tion for futures. Hardly an article can
be mentioned that is not firmly held,
unless it be tomatoes, on which, per-
haps, some concessions have been made,
and if prices have made no particular
advance, the tendency is certainly up-
ward. The situation in the Baltimore
market is said to be very strong and
some good business is going forward.
While the pack of tomatoes was so large
as to abundantly supply all wants, it
grows more and more evident that by
the time new goods come to hand, the
market will be almost bare of many ar-
ticles.

Lemons have sold at lower
the demand
sales being

 

prices and
for oranges is less active,
of very small lots. Sicily
lemons, 300s, $2@2.75; 360s, $2.35@
2.75. Oranges, Jamaica, repacked bar-
rels, are worth $6@6. 75; Florida brights,
$2.75@3.25; russets, $2.75@3; Califor-
nia navels, $2.50@3.25; seedlings, $2
@2.50,

The dried fruit
quiet so far as actual transactions are
concerned, the dealings being of the
smallest possible amounts, Holders,
however, seem to think more activity
will soon prevail and accordingly prices
are firm.

The molasses market presents few, if
any, features of interest, buyers seem-
ing to have sufficient supply to last for
some time, and sales being of very smal]
quantities. Syrups are selling with some
degree of freedom at generally full rates.

The butter market is still well sup-
plied with good goods and while de-
mand has shown some improvement
there has been no advance over the 25c
rate made for best Western creamery.
Thirds to firsts, 21@24c; imitation
creamery, 18@23c, the latter for fancy

market is very

stock. Western factory, I9@2Ic; rolls,
16@ toc.
There is a better demand for cheese,

both from exporters and the home trade,

the former business amounting to a re-
spectable total. Prices are unchanged.

Arrivais of desirable stocks of eggs are
light and firm, and the situation at the
moment is in favor of the seller. There
has in fact been an advance in Western
soods to a 21c rate for best goods, with
as to good 2o0c.

The bean market exhibits a good de-
gree of strength and choice Michigan
pea beans are quotable at $2. 10@2. 5 ;
red kidney, choice, $2.20@2.25.

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Was Not Legal Advisor to the Booths.
Belding, Jan. t9o—An article in the

Michigan Tradesman of Jan. 17, rela-
tive to the injunction served upon me,
is rather misleading. In the first place,

never met the firm of W. D. & I. J.
Booth, or Fremont Booth, until a few
days before the mortgage was executed.
I have only had a slight acquaintance
with their father, who has managed the
Belding store, and never have been em-
ployed by him or by or for any of them.
A few days before the mortgage was
given, the Booths came to me and _ said
they were hopelessly involved, and
wished to turn their two stocks of goods
over to their creditors. 1 suggested a
trust mortgage and asked them if they
had any one whom they preferred to act
as trustee. They replied that their only
concern was that the creditors should be
honestly dealt with, and that any good
man would be acceptable to them.
then obtained permission to act in that
capacity. After filing the mortgage, |
conferred with some of the leading
creditors as to the best method of man-
aging the business and was guided by
them in outlining my policy and execut-
ing my trust. In fact, I supposed that
my course was approved of by all until
two Grand Rapids creditors petitioned
to have the firm declared bankrupt and
to have me restrained from selling the
goods until a receiver could be ap-
pointed. This application for an in-
junction contained allegations of fraud,
conspiracy and other high crimes and
misdemeanors on my part—all of which
I denied in my answer and do now most
emphatically deny. Judge Severens, in
granting the order to have the temporary
injunction made permanent, said: that
his action in so doing was not to be con-
strued as any criticism on the trustee or
in disparagement of him, but that he
held that the giving of such a mortgage
for the benefit of all creditors, of all of
mortgagors’ interests in their stocks,
was in itself an act of bankruptcy and
that it then followed that a receiver
ought to be appointed. I also object to
the following statement in your paper:

‘Other creditors prefer ‘to see him
(the trustee) continue in charge of the
properties, in order that the winter goods
in both stocks may be worked off during
the cold weather. ”’

In my answer I made a showing that
the stock ought to be disposed of at once
for the reason that the winter goods
would depreciate in value if carried
over to another season. What the influ-
ential creditors did Say was that they
were satisfied that 1 had acted honestly
in the matter, and they thought that |
was the proper party to be appointed
receiver. The inference from your state-
ment is that, notwithstanding all pos-
sible conspiracy on my part, some of the
creditors preferred to see me continue
in charge ‘‘in order that the winter
goods in both stocks might be worked
off in cold weather.’’ I have always
guarded my professional honor and | do
not care to be misrepresented or wrong-
fully accused. It’ matters very little to
me who is appointed receiver of the
EBooth stocks, but it is of vital impor-
tance that all statements made concern-
ing my connection with said business
should be absolutely true.

H. L. van Benschoten.
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A German paper gives the following

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method of detecting small cracks in
steel tools : The tool, near the cutting
edge, is to be dipped in petroleum,

which must be rubbed off clean and the
surface then wiped with chalk. The
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rent is visible in its whole extent.

Pretty Near the Danger Line.

Just at present the chief interest of the
people of North Adams, Mass., centers
around a controversy between two lead-
ing meat dealers. Both have out carts
to make their daily rounds and a pretty
keen rivalry has developed between the
two, that has come finally to be a very
wordy and long-drawn-out controversy.
One of them is a newcomer and started
out by tackling the other, who has been
at the business a good deal longer, and
accusing him of being the agent of a
wholesale firm. The old settler got back
at the newcomer by telling the public
that his rival’s stock couldn’t eet a
clean bill from the easiest board of
health that ever looked after meat. mar-
kets and other matters of concern to the
public health; that his goods were ver-
min-laden, tainted with tuberculosis
and other fearful diseases, and, in
short, unfit for consumption. Unless
some sort of truce is patched up it looks
as though it might be necessary to put
one of the reserve police on special duty
to see that the matter doesn’t end in
murder.

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An Optical Tlusion.

Optician—1 can not sell you spectacles
for your husband. He must come for
them in person. What is the nature of
his visual defect?

Woman-——A five cent piece looks big-
ger to him than a five dollar bank note
to other people.

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An Epitome of a Century’s Progress.

Professor—Miss Flavilla, mention a
few of the most wonderful scientific in-
ventions of the Nineteenth Century.

Miss Flavilla—Yes, sir: the’ tele-
phone, photograph buttons, golf capes
and ice cream soda.

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He Wanted the Cash.
Collector—Fhis is the fifth time, sir,
I’ve brought you this bill.
Customer—Well, haven't I always re-
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Commercial Travelers

Michigan Knights of the Grip
President, E. J. SCHREIBER, Bay City; See-
retary, A. W. Srirr, Jackson; Treasurer,
O. C. GOULD, Saginaw.
Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Association
President, A. MARYMONT, Detroit; Secretary
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United Commercial Travelers of Michigan
Grand Counselor, JNO. A. MURRAY, Detroit;
Grand Secretary, G. S. VALMORE, Detroit;
Grand Treasurer, W. S. MEstT, Jackson.
Grand — Council No. 131
Senior Counselor, D. E. KEYES;
Treasurer, L. F. Baker.

   

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President, J. BoyD PANTLIND, Grand Rapids;
Secretary and Treasurer, GEO. F. OWEN,
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Standing on the Threshold.

The old year has closed and a new
one commenced. We _ stand upon its
threshold, solemnly, hesitatingly. For
who can look into the future?) Who can
tell what it will bring to us, what joy
and blessings or woe and misery?) Who
knows whether prosperity will smile up-
on him and hopes long deferred will be
realized or if adversity and reverses will
overtake him? This a time for re-
flection, an occasion for thinking over
all that we have done and left undone
during the past and for considering our
present situation, the causes which have
led up to it, and then we must draw
our conclusions, being either satisfied
or dissatisfied with ourselves and_ the
past. Everybody, more or less, makes
New Year resolutions, swears off from
this or that habit, but none of these res-
olutions will or can last for any length
of time, unless they have been prompted
by reflection. The ‘‘outer man’’ must
carry out what the ‘‘inner man’’ has
found for good. Nothing which is done
on the spur of the moment has a lasting
effect. You can not build a house where
there is no foundation and when we try
to shape our destiny our inner life must
be the foundation.

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Travelingmen are easy-going people.
As a rule, they are honorable, energetic
and generous. At the same time they
are not as strict in every respect as they
might be at all times. They often do
not take care of the ‘*‘ morrow’’
of ‘‘to-day,’’ and many disappointments
and tribulations are due to this fault.
When we look back over the past we
find where we have made_ mistakes,
where we could have done _ better by
looking ahead. We discover this in our
private life, we see it in our business
relations. But the world moves on,
and in time everything repeats itself.
There will be chances to retrieve lost
opportunities and grasp those which
offer themselves to us, and if we enter
the new year with the firm resolve ‘* look
ahead,’’ we are bound to pass through
it unharmed.

May 1goo be a good and prosperous
one for all of us, may its joys be many
and its sorrows few, so that when we
shall have a wish in the future it may be
for another year like 1900. Vindex.

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Gripsack Brigade.

John M. Fell has engaged to travel
for Geo. H. Reeder & Co., covering the
trade of Southwestern Michigan.

Kalamazoo Gazette: Waldo A. Forbes
hastakena position as traveling salesman
for the Waterbury Locking Hat Rack
Co., of Waterbury, Conn. He will travel
in Michigan and Indiana.

S. V. DeGraff, for several years past
city salesman for the Jennings Flavor-
ing Extract Co., has engaged to repre-
sent Foote & Jenks, of jackson, in

as well as

Howell Republican: The genial
salesman, Will F. Griffith, has com-
menced his nineteenth year with Far-

rand, Williams & Clark. The company
seems to know a good thing when it
see it.

The joint meeting of the old and new
Board of Directors of the Michigan
Knights of the Grip, which was to be
held at Lansing last Saturday, was post-
poned until Jan. 27, on account of the
death of Secretary Saunders’ mother,

which occurred at Buffalo, N. Y., last
Thursday.

Boot and Shoe Recorder: A _ sales-
man who travels for a well-known shoe

manufacturing concern was speaking
the other day of the tendency on the
part of many traveling men to recom-
mend widely advertised lines of shoes.
It frequently happens, he that
dealers question a salesman who is visit-
ing them with a line of women’s foot-
wear, as to what line of men’s shoes he
thinks is best for them to use at certain
prices. “This salesman says that men to
whom this question is put get into the
habit, thoughtlessly perhaps, of giving
the names of firms who do a large busi-
ness, and perhaps have all the trade that
they need. The dealer who takes the
advice which is given in this way will,
perhaps, be influenced to make a change
in certain lines of shoes which he is
carrying. ‘This salesman thinks that a
traveling man who is asked a question
of this kind should let the dealer make
his own choice, rather than throw down
some of his fellow salesmen who need
business. The foregoing is right enough
from the point of view of the salesman,
but, on the other hand,it is an excellent
argument for those firms whose lines are
well known through advertising. This
mouth-to-mouth advertising of which he
complains can only be given to such
firms as have spent a good deal of money
in pushing their goods by the use of
printer’s ink. There’s no getting away
from that fact.

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says,

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The walking delegate of trade is on
the warpath for 1g00, and everywhere
finds the doors wide open for commerce.

The successful salesman of the day
must be a hustler who can study and
understand human nature; size up a
man while talking with him; have an
open hand in greeting and an
purse for the needy and weak, a_ cheery
word, a hearty laugh and a howdy for
everybody. At the same time, perhaps
some one is sick at home—-perhaps sales
are ‘exceedingly bad or horribly good
perhaps he gets a telegram from the con-
cern: ‘‘Come home first train,’’ a fore-
runner of the great American bounce
a discharge—yet he must look pleasant
and be gay.

When the drummers gather together in
convention, it is a gathering of the
smartest, brainiest, nerviest and most
practical self-made men on top of the
globe. They work when others sleep.
They are great actors on the stage of
life. When they preserve that clam-like
silence which is so golden, they make
signs for others to read and learn. They
are never known to drink--too much
water. They sell goods and try so hard
to tell the truth. Take them in a bunch,
for good or bad, and they will pass in-
spection any time and anywhere. A set
of jolly good fellows, who kick at any
and everything, but make the most of
it while it lasts. Give them a_ through
ticket to heaven, and they will make a
kick for a sleeper and a lower berth.
Of course, some people would be satis-
fied with a cross-tie ticket, but they have
not learned the art of kicking.

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SUCCESSFUL SALESMEN.

John B. Heydlauft, Representing Burley &
Tyrrell, of Chicago.

John B. Heydlauff was born in Detroit

in 1854. His father, Andrew H. Heyd-

lauff, who was a carpenter and joiner by

trade, came to this country from Wur-

temburg, Germany, when he was 17
years old and settled in Detroit. Later
he met in Dearborn Miss Mary A. Low-

rie, whose parents were English, and
he married in 1852. They had
one daughter and three sons, the eldest
of whom was John. Late in the fifties
they moved to Muir, Ionia county, and
in 1861 the father enlisted in the
Twenty-first Michigan Infantry, in
which he served with distinction. At the

whom

close of the war he returned to Muir,
where he died shortly after. Upon John
and his mother devolved the responsi-

bilities of supporting the family, and
after spending nine years in the public
schools he began his business career at

the age of 15 asaclerk in Stevens Bros.’
general store at Muir, remaining with
them and_ their until 1833,
when he decided to remove to Jackson
and accept a position with ‘Tuomey
Bros., dealers in dry goods, cloaks, etc.,
by whom he was employed for two years.
He then resigned to accept a more re-
sponsible position with L. H. Field,
with whom he remained for three years.

When Mr. Field changed his store to
the departmental plan, Mr Heydlauff
tendered his resignation to accept a

successors

more desirable and remunerative posi-
tion with the wholesale and retail crock-
ery house of the Frank B. Taylor Co.,

mained with this firm, traveling and
selling its goods in a large part of Cen-
tral and Southern Michigan. When Mr.
‘Taylor retired from business in January,
Fortune again smiled on Mr. Heydlauff,
and he was engaged as Michigan repre-
sentative for the wholesale china, glass-
ware and crockery house of Burley &
Tyrrell, of Chicago, their business in
this State having expanded to such an
extent as to render this move necessary.
While Mr. Heydlauff resided in Muir,
he met Miss Hattie E. Hall, of St.
Johns, and they were united in marriage
Sept. 15, 1875. They have two daugh-
ters, both graduates of the Jackson public
schools. One married and lives in
Detroit; the other is still at home.

Mr. Heydlauff is a prominent mem-
ber of the Michigan Knights of the
Grip, having served as a member of the
Board of Directors for one year. He is
alsoa member of the U. C. T. and
Royal Arcanum and has taken the Blue
Lodge, Royal Arch and Council degrees
of Masonry. His business
career is largely the result of his hon-
conscientiousness
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esty,
and continued application.
ways enjoyed the confidence of his em-
ployers and customers and has always
been employed by houses of such high
standing to make this condition
possible. He has not lost a day’s time
in twenty years and hopes to be able to
make the same statement twenty years
hence.

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Kalamazoo Telegraph: G. C. Tenny,
of this city, traveling representative for
the Richmond Gas Co., of Richmond,
Indiana, has given up the eastern half
of his territory in New York, in ex-
change for a territory of forty towns in
Northern Indiana. This change will
enable Mr. Tenny to be at home more
than during the past two years of his
the company.
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Drugs--Chemicals

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GEO. GUNDRUM, Ionia - - Dee. 31, 1900
L. E. REYNOLDS, St. Joseph - Dee. 31, 1901
HENRY HEIM, Saginaw - - Dec. 31, 1902
WIRT P. Dory, Detroit - - - Dee. 31, 1903
A.C. SCHUMACHER, AnnArbor - Dec. 31, 1904

President, GEo. GUNDRUM, Ionia.
Secretary, A. C. SCHUMACHER, Ann Arbor.
Treasurer, HENRY HEIM, Saginaw.

Examination Sessions
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.

 

 

Pharmaceutical Dont’s.

Don’t buy cheap corks for the pre-
scription counter. The best are not al-
ways perfectly satisfactory.

Don’t keep deliquescent salts in tin
cans or wooden boxes or drawers.

Don’t use any water in compounding
prescriptions but distilled water.

Don't permit a deposit to accumulate
on the shelf bottle containing tincture
of ferric chloride.

Don’t use a Wedgewood mortar for
ointments or oleaginous mixtures. Glass
is more easily cleaned.

Don’t use shelf bottles for castor oil
and glycerin; small cans with a pump
are cleaner and much more convenient.

Don’t send out a refilled prescription
in a soiled bottle. Use a new bottle or
cleanse the former one, and put ona
fresh label.

Prepare medicated waters in quanti-
ties to last fora short time, and don’t
dispense them after a flocculent accumu-
lation is seen floating about.

Don’t put small quantities of essential
oils in large shelf bottles, where they
speedily deteriorate and become worth-
less. Buy these oils in small amounts.
Keep them in the original bottles in a
cool, dark place.

Over in Canada the authorities are
apparently not so lenient with druggist
breakers of the Sunday laws. In Toronto
the other day, a druggist sold ice cream
and soda water on Sunday.
prosecuted for it, and was fined one
dollar and costs, or ten days in jail.
The magistrate in delivering his judg-
ment said: ‘‘I find upon the evidence
that soda water and ice cream are some-
times sold as medicines. In my opinion
the sale of these articles mentioned was
not made as a sale of medicine, although
nothing was said by either party on the
subject.’’

We have known a druggist in the
States to plead that tobacco was a medi-
cine, and therefore he was justified in
selling cigars on Sunday, but this is the
first time, to our recollection, that the
plea has been made that ice cream soda
water is a medicine. It would be inter-
esting to have this question debated and
see all the arguments the druggist could
advance in support of the proposition.
We have not the nerve over here to
make such a plea.

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Abating a Nuisance.

The distribution by ‘‘patent medi-
cine’’ manufacturers of free samples of
headache powders, pills, etc., around on
door-steps has grown to be a consider-
able evil. Only the other day a colored
girl in Philadelphia, aged 11 years,
died from the effects of eating a pack-
age of sample pills which she had found
and which she had _ believed from the
sweetness of their first taste to be candy.
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this fact in mind.

unhappy results which followed the eat-
ing by a number of children of sample
“*liver pills’’ which had been distributed
freely about on the door-steps of a Phil-
adelphia town. Other cases have been
reported from time totime. This has
led to the passage of ordinances in many
cities forbidding the distribution of
medicines about the streets. Philadel-
phia, Harrisburg, and Cleveland have
taken the lead in this respect, and other
cities are now considering the advis-
ability of taking similar action. It is
expected that soon prohibitory ordi-
nances will be passed in every city in
Northern Indiana, a locality which
seems particularly subject to this evil.
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The Drug Market.
Opium—Is dull at unchanged price.
Morphine—Is firm at the advance

noted last week.

Quinine—Has again advanced and is
very firm. Better prices are obtained
for bark at each sale.

Carbolic Acid—The English govern-
ment has forbidden further exports from
England, and, as supplies are short in
this country, extreme prices will rule
this season.

Salicylic Acid—On account of the ad-
vance in carbolic acid, is very firm and
tending higher.

Chloroform—On account of the higher
price of chloride of lime, has been ad-
vanced 5c per pound.

Salicin-—-On account of scarcity, has
been advanced and is tending higher.

Balsam Copaiba—Has declined, on
account of large stocks and strong com-
petition.

Cloves—Have been advanced and are
tending higher.

Acetic Acid—Has been advanced by
manufacturers.

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The Best Bay Rum.

The bay rum which is considered the
best is made by distilling the bay leaves
with spirit, but much of it is made from
the essential! oil prepared from the leaves
by distillation in water.

The oil is not very freely soluble in
such spirit, but the difficulty is over-
come by filtration through magnesia,
which probably causes a slight chemical
as well as molecular change in the oil.
The following formula gives a good
product :

Oil of bay leaves, 3 drs.

Oil of orange peel, % dr.

Tincture of orange peel, 2 ozs.

Carbonate of magnesium, % oz.

Alcohol, 4 pts.

Water, 4 pts.

Triturate the oils with the carbonate,
gradually adding the other ingredients
previously mixed, and filter.

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Poison in Potatoes.

According to the Sanitary Home po-
tatoes contain a poison known as so-
lanin. New potatoes contain compara-
tively little of it unless they grow above
the surface of the ground and have a
green skin, when they are generally
known to be poisonous. It is not, how-
ever, generally known that old potatoes
contain much more of this poisonous
princi ple—solanin—and many cases of
serious poisoning have occurred in late
summer, when old potatoes are used.
In 1892 and 1893 there was almost whole-
sale poisoning among the troops of the
German army. The symptoms were
frontal headache, colic, diarrhoea, vomit-
ing, weakness, and slight stupor, and in
some cases dilatation of the pupils.
Meyer investigated the case‘and found
in old potatoes, kept in a damp place,
and beginning to sprout, twenty-four
times as much solanin as in new _pota-
toes. When using the old potatoes in
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Double Check Every Prescription.

John A. Dadd & Son, the Milwaukee
druggists, enclose the following slip
with every prescription they send out:

Next in importance to using your
sound judgment in calling the best
available physician or surgeon, in case
of illness or accident, is the selection
of your druggist. After the physician
has diagnosed the case and written the
prescription, where will you have it
filled, is the question. You want to take
it where you will have no doubt as to
accuracy in compounding or purity of
ingredients.

We double check our prescriptions ;
that is, one registered druggist com-
pounds the medicine and when finished
calls another druggist, who compares
the bottles containing the ingredients
with the written prescription, verifies
the quantities of each and re-reads the
directions. This insures you against any
possible error, as two heads are better
than one. Our prescription department
is under the strictest supervision of a
registered pharmacist, and none but reg-
istered men are employed.

Our reputation for fresh drugs and
pure chemicals is well known, extending
over a period of forty-nine years in this
city. We also carry a full line of sick
room necessities, from a medicine drop-
per to a fever thermometer, and from a
sick feeder to a hot water bottle. Prices
the lowest.

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An Ideal Baking Powder.

The nearest practical approach to an
ideal baking powder seems to be the
one made of sodium bicarbonate and
potassium bitartrate (cream of tartar).
This powder leaves a slight residue of
alkaline tartrates in the bread—an ideal
powder would leave none whatever. A
formula for this powder proposed by
Crampton, of the United States Depart-
ment of Agriculture, as the result of an
investigation of the leading baking
powders of the market is as follows:

Potassium bitartrate, 8 ounces.

Sodium bicarbonate, 4 ounces.

Corn starch, 4 ounces.

The addition of the starch answers
the double purpose of a ‘‘filler’’ to in-
crease weight and a preservative, the
chemicals not keeping well when mixed
alone.

The stability of the powder is in-
creased by drying each ingredient sepa-
rately by exposure to a gentle heat, mix-
ing at once and immediately placing in
bottles or cans, and excluding access of
air and consequently of moisture.
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Physicians Must Pay a Dealer's Tax.

Washington, Jan. 4—The Commission-
er of Internal Revenue has decided that
a physician who prescribes whisky,
brandy or any alcoholic liquor which is
not compounded with any drug or me-
dicinal substance, for the purpose of
forming a remedy, shall be required to
pay the special internal revenue tax of
$25 a year as a retail liquor dealer, pro-
vided he acts as a dispenser as well as
a physician. The ruling is to apply
even in cases where the liquor is pre-
scribed strictly as a medicine and so
used by the patient. The decision of
the Commissioner was brought forth by
the case of a doctor in West Virginia
who keeps a drug store. This doctor
prescribes liquor for patients and dis-
penses it from his store. He appealed
to the Commissioner of Internal Revenue
when the local collector held that he was
liable to pay a dealer’s tax.

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Collapse of a Chronic Cutter.

Louisville, Ky., Jan. 5—W. E. Klus-
meyer, the original cut rate druggist of
Louisville, has been made defendant in
a petition of involuntary bankruptcy
filed by his creditors in the Federal
Circuit Court. Klusmeyer assented in
writing to the petition. He says his in-
solvency is due to the war made upon
him by other retail men, who made it
so difficult for him to buy goods that
he purchased them in larger quantities
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worth $20,000, and his liabilities are not
over $15,000. Actions against Klusmeyer
for $89, due the Rumford Chemical
Co. ; for $80, due T. H. Slocum & Co. ;
for $130, due the National Sponge &
Chamois Co., and for $130 due Dr. R.
H. Kline, have already been tried in a
Magistrate Court. In all, eight or ten
executions have been issued and_ levied
on the stock.
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Don’t Monkey With Drugs.

From the Woonsocket Call.

The number of people who monkey
with drugs is much larger than it should
be.

There are altogether too many _ trying
to doctor a for real or fancied
complaints.

If you don’t feel well, see a reputable
physician and get a prescription.

Don’t trifle with drugs and endanger
your life.

1 have in mind a man who had got
accustomed to taking a certain drug
and thought he knew all about it, but he
didn’t. As he continued to use it, he
grew careless, but the drug didn’t. One
day, being in a hurry, he took an over-
dose. Soon he began to have pains and
rushed to a druggist for an antidote. It
was given him, but didn’t work. He
died soon afterward.

Don’t monkey with drugs.

2.2. __
Hobby of a Memphis Drngzgist.

A Memphis pharmacist has a cozy
corner in his store, supplied with easy
chairs, where patrons waiting for pre-
scriptions may rest comfortably and
read the daily papers, which he sup-
plies. Said he: ‘‘Every morning dur-
ing the summer I have a large fresh
bouquet of flowers placed on the center
table, and a fresh, clean sign appears
every day in the year calling attention
to some of our specialties, a sample or
two of which are tastily displayed so
that our waiting customers can see them.
You would be surprised to note the
amount of calls and sales thus secured.”’

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Pharmacists who have been for any
time in their business acquire quick
wits. From reading unintelligible notes
asking for unheard of remedies their
senses of sight and reasoning respond
readily to almost any call, but a Detroit
druggist was for some time at a loss to
find the right article to answer a de-
mand on his sense of smell. A young
man said: ‘‘I1 want to get a bottle of
my girl’s favorite scent for a Christmas
present. I don’t know the name, but
you will know it. It smells like cedar
pencils.’’ Frangapanni filled the bill.

A man with mouth awry and a gen-
eral look of one in great pain rushed in-
to a Detroit drug store and demanded
something for a toothache. Blank’s
toothache plugs were recommended as
a sure cure. He departed, but soon re-
turned, anger and pain struggling for
the. mastery. ‘‘Say, I whittled that plug
down to a toothpick point, but it didn’t
do my tooth a bit of good.’’ The clerk
tried hard not to smile. He had _ inad-
vertently given the customer a wooden
window dummy wrapped the same as

the bottles which contained the real
article.
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N. G. Pearce, druggist, Elsie: ‘‘I

enclose check for $1, for which please
send me the Michigan Tradesman for
one year. 1 have received a number of
sample copies and am favorably im-
pressed with the paper.’’

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Acidum | ( ae a Mee. gee OG 60) sate Coe. @ 50
Aceticum .......--++ $ 6@g 8} Copaiba. weveee 1:16@ 1 25 | Tolutan............-. @ 50
Benzoicum, German. 70@ 75 Cupebse ......... --.: 90@ 1 00 | Prunus virg........- @ 50
Boracic.. i. : @ 16 E —ee 1 00@ 1 10} Tinctures
Carbolicum .......--- 32@ 35 | Erigeron . 1 00@ 110) 4 Gonitum Napellis R
tpt 201 .| Gaulthe > 50@ 2 60 | 4
nak... a + ria. -. 2 50@ 2 60 an Napellls F F =
Hydrochlor. 3@  ~©5| Geranium, ounce... @ 7) 7 Heo um Napells 50
a... Gossippii, Sem. ~ 50@ ~~ «60 | _ deh “
ae |. pene 1wx@ 14| Hedeoma.. .. 1 20@ 1 75| As and Mytr 60
Phosphorium, dil. . @ 15| Junipera .. wees 1 5O@ 2 00 | _ feetids sae 50
Salieylicum ......--- so@ 60 | Lav endula .......... 90@ 2 00| e of . ae baa 50 | 1
eee -- nS 14@ 5 | Limonis . weseeee 1 35@ 1 45 | a e oo 60
A... et. Piper. ...... 1 25@ 2 00 | 2Unan Eien es+ +: =
Tartaricum =. 39@ 40 Mentha Verid._..... 1 50@ 1 60 | Benzoln . cea 60
din cece oe Morrhue, -gal. .. 1 1x 1 25 | Benzoin Co. 50
Ammonia Mereia ............ 4 4 | Deee....--- +> 50
Aqua, 16 deg......--- 40 6) OUNO) 7x@ 3 00 | © ‘antharides .. teeee 75
Aqua, 20 deg... an 6@ 8 | Pieis Liquida........ 10@ 12 50
Jarbonas . ...-- 13@ = 15| Picis nen Bal. a @ 35| 75
Chioridum.........-- 1z@_ = 14} Ricina. g6@ 1 05 | © ‘ardamon Co 75
Aniline Rosmarini.. es @ 1 00 | Castor....... 1 00
; | Rose, ounce......... 6 50@ 8 50 | Cate chu ..... . 50
Black .....-..-++5 205+ 2 00@ 2 25) Sueeini .............. 45 | Cinehona ............ 50
. oe 4 00 | Sabina --........ a ie cee oe: .
2 50@ 3 00 Sangalo... 2 50@ 7 00 Eto St
¢ Sassafras. . ee SB aban os 50
, Sinapis, ess., ounce. a 65 — ‘air és we * =
yy a] £
Cubebie......-- pot 15 12@ 14 ee a 160 | iigitalis....00...... 50
Juniperus.. = 3 oa oh eee “— ‘ 80 | Ergot. 50
Xauthoxyium Sen 20@ | tTheobromas ........ 155 20| ee Chiori ‘idum.. =
Copatba is so@ 5b | Potassium Gentian Co sesee i 60
Peru a @ 2 00 ca ee 15@ 18! Culac Sees = 50
Aaa. @  45| Bichromate......... 13@ 15] tuiaca ammon...... 60
Terabin, Canada... ae = Bromide we 52@ 7 | Hyoseyamus. 50
Tolutan.......------- 40@ 4
Carb >............... 12@  16| Iodine .... 75
Cortex Chlorate.. “po. 17719 16@ 18) Iodine, colorless ne 75
Abies, C ‘lanadian..... a8 Oyanide............. ayo 401 Baee .....-.........- 50
Cassie... ---- 12 | Iodide............... 2 40@ 2 50| Lobelia 50
Cinehona Flava. ..-- 18 | Potassa, Bitart, pure 28@ = Myrrh. 50
Kuonymus atropurp. 30 | Pota: ’ Bitart, com. @ Nux V omica.. | 50
Myrica Cerifera, po. 20 | Pota ; Nitras, _ T@, 10 | Opii........--..---.-- 75
Prunus Virgini Pollee 12 | Potass Nitras. 6@, 8 | Opii, a 50
Quillaia, gr’d....---- 12) Prossigte............ 2a 2% | Opii, deodorized..... 1 50
Sassafras .....po. 18 15 | Sulphate po......... 15@ 18| Quassia ............. 50
Ulmus...po. 15, gr’d 15 Radix | ee: =
a i e Ek
Extractum a Aconitum............ 20@ 25] sain 50
Glyeyrrhiza Glabra. 24@ 25| Althe............... 22@ 25 | Serpentaria .. 50
Glycyrrhiza. 1 ..: 2s@ 30| Anchusa............. 10@ 12) Stromonium......... 60
H:ematox, 15 Ib. box  01@ 12| Arum po............ @ 2) Tolutan . ey 60
Hzematox, is Sue 13@ = =14| Calamus... oe 20@ 40} | Valerian ei 50
Hzematox, 4S M@ 15| Gentiana po.15 12@ 15) Veratrum Veride... 50
Heematox, 148..-.---- 146@ 17} Glyehrrhiza...pv. 15 16@ 18 | ZiigaOE /. . 20
Ferru Hydrastis Canaden. @ 75} Miscell
ce _| Hydrastis Can., po.. @ 80} oe
Sarbonate Precip.. 15 | Hellebore, Alba, + BO. 12@ 15} Hther, Spts.Nit.3F 30@ 3
Citrate and Quinia.. 2 25) Inula, po.. . 1@ «620 | Ather, Spts. Nit.4F 3@ 38
Citrate Soluble...... 75 | Ipecae, po. . 4 25@ 4 35| Alumen ............. 24@ 3
Ferrocyanidum Sol.. 40 | Tris plox...po. 3% 3, 40| Alumen, gro’d..po.7 3@ 4
Solut. Chloride. ....- 15) Jalapa, PI...-....--. 25@ 30 | Annatto.........---+- 40@ 50
Sulphate, com’l..... 2| Maranta, 4s........ @ 35) Antimoni, ae
ae com'l, by Podophyllum, po... 22@ 25 Antimonie + ‘otass T 40@ 50
1, per cwt....--- Re TH 1 0 Snuifebrin @ 2
Sulphate, pure...... (} Tee, Gob... 8... @1 25 | Antifebrin ........-. @ 2
Flora Khe : .. 7h@, 1 35 a Nitras, 02. a =
| »| Spigelia 35@ 38) Arsenicum . , 2
os ca bee = Sanguinaria.. po. ‘15 @~ 18| Balm Gilead Buds.. 38@ 40
M: tricaria ls 30@ 35 | Serpe ntaria . 40@ 45) | Bismuth 8S. @ 1 50
a aac = Senega . 60@ 65 | Caleium C cee ie. @ 9
Folia Silex, oficinalis H.  @ 40 Caleium Chlor., 4s..  @ 10
Barosma. 38@ 40) Smilax, M. @ 25} Caleium Chior., @ 12
Cassia ‘Acutifol, ‘Tin- Seillee po. ‘35 10@~ 12| Cantharides, Rus. @ 7
nevelly 200@ 2% Symploearpus, Foeti- G apsici Fructus, af. @
Cassia, ‘Acutifol, “Alx. 25@ 30 aus, pO. ...-. 2. @ 25) Capsici F ructus, po. @ 15
Salvia officinalis, 14S Valeriana, Eng. po. 30 @ 25 | Capsici Fructus B, po @ 6
SG SES i) 12@ 20| Valeriana, German. 15@  20| ¢ ‘aryophyllus..po. 15  12@ | 14
Uva Uesi......-.. ---. 8@ 10| Zingibera........... v@ 16) C6 armine, No. 7 @ 3 00
gaia Zingiber j............ 2@ 27) Cera Alba.. 50@ 55
Acacia, 1st picked... @ 65 Semen e ‘era, Flava. & a
‘ Q 6: | Coceus .. a
Acacia, 2d picked .. @ 45/| Anisum.......po. 15 @ 12\6 is Fructus... @ 35
‘Acacia, 3d picked .. @ 35| Apium Se 13@ $15} Centraria. @ 10
Acacia, sifted sorts. @ 28| Bird, 1s....... 4@~—«G | | Cetaceum.. a a5
Acacia, pO....-..---- 45@ 65 Carui......... PO. 18° «u@ 12/6 hloroform ... 5b@, 60
Aloe, Barb. ‘po.18¢ 120 Ww@ 14 Cardamon. . 20@ 1 75 | Chloroform, squibbs @ 110
Aloe, Cape....po. 15. @ 12 ; oriandrum... Le 8@ a Chloral Hyd Crst.... 1 65@ 1 90
Aloe, Socotri..po. 40 @ 30} Cannabis Sativa. . ae 44, Chondrus.. 20@ 25
Ammoniac.......---- 55@  60| Cydonium . cc og 1 00 | Cc inchonidine, PEW 33@ 48
Assafcetida. a 30 28@ 30 Chenopodium . el 10@ WIC inchonidine, Germ. 38@ 48
Benzoinum .. . 50S 55| Dipterix Odorate.... 1 00@ 1 10) C .. 6 5G 6 75
Catechu, ee @ 13) Foeniculum ......... @ WiC 70
Catechu, 4S..------- @ 14} Foenugreek, po...... 7@ 9|Creosotum........... @ 35
‘atechu, 14S....----- @ 16/Lini................. 3%4@ 4% | Creta . .. bb. 75 @g 2
Camphoree ....-.---- ss@ 60 | Lini, grd..... bbl. 34 4@ 4% | Creta, prep. CC @ 5
Euphorbium. .. po. 35 @ 40 Lobelia . 35@ 40) Creta, precip......-- 9 il
Galbanum. .....--.+- @100;P harlaris ( Sanarian.. 44@ 5 | Creta, Rubra. @ 8
Gamboge .....---- po 65@ 70) Rapa. 4%4@  45| Crocus ........ . be 8
Guaiacum.....-. ae 25 @ 30 Sinapis “Alba... 9@ 10}! Cudbear. eee @ 24
Kino.. 0. $1.25 @ 1 2 | Sinapis Nigra.. 11@ = 12) Cupri Sulph. 64@ 8
Mastic... ee rs ors @ = Spir ins — ze : 12 ”
AEM 2k. os 5 a : ae i Se Ether Su KD,
Opii.. ase 4. — 00 3 45@ 3 50 Frumenti, W. § Co. 2 00@ e 50 Emery, alm numbers. @ 8
Shellac . 95@ 35 —- DF. 2 2 25 Emery. po.. i @ 6
Shellac, bieached.. 40@ 45 | Frumenti.....-.---.. 1 25@ 1 50 po. 96 85@ 90
Tragacanth .......--- 50@ 80 | —- _ 0. T.. ao F ae Ww Hite 12@ 15
Herba eae ie. ’ > 10| Gala. Seca @ 23
Saacharum N. E.... 1 9@ 2 10) Gambier 8@ 9
Absinthium..oz. pkg 25 | Spt. Vini a. ie 1 75@ 6 50| Gelatin waar 7 @ 60
Eupatorium..oz. pkg 20 | \ ini Oporto. . .. & Coe 2.0 I Gelatin, French. . a 35a, 60
Lancs... ...0Z. pkg 95 | Vini Alba... 2.2: 1 26@ 2 00 | aa flint, box | 75 & 10
Majorum . OZ. pkg PS Sponges Less than box..... 70
= Pip..02. a on | Florida sheeps’ wool a Gam, =o ea — 8
. raat 2 earriage. 2 50@ 275|&% c Wee... 2... a 3
= ieetum V ae pkg = Nassau sheeps’ ‘wool | Glycerina.. _.. woe 2
fanacetum °F a 25 earria 2 50@ 2 75 | Grana Paradisi. . A @ 35
thymus, V...0Z. pK Velvet saa sheeps’ Hunnius . 3... ..-... 250 55
Magnesia wool, carriage. .... » 1 50 | Hydrarg Chior a @ %
Caleined, Pat.....--- 55@ 60 | Extra yellow sheeps’ Hydrarg Chlor Cor. @ 8
Carbonate, Pat......  18@ 20| wool, carriage. .... @ 1 25| Hydrarg Ox Rub’ m. @10
Carbonate, K.&M.. 18@ 20| Grass ‘sheeps’ wool, . Hydrarg Ammoniati @1iv
‘arbonate, Jennings 18@ 20| carriage.........-. @ 1 00| HydrargUnguentum 9 59@ 60
oie ae a =. @ 7\| = hyo = ain . ag 4
ellow ee or
Absinthium......... 6 50@ 6 7 | Sinte USO... 650) -. @ 1 40 | Indig : 5@ 1 00
Amygdalz, Dulc.. 50 | " iodine, Resubi.. cee las - 3 60@ 3 70
Amygdal, Amare. ‘= =e 8 25 ae PyEOE? a Lodof orm... ee @ 37
PARE oo oooe cae es 2 RCAC... :...s- Lupulin 50
Auranti Cortex.. .... 2 40@ 2 50 | | Auranti — ee @ 50\L pate 65
Bergamii ......-.---- 2 40@ 2 60 | — oe @ 50 | Macis 5 7B
Cajiputi .........---- 80@ 85) Ipecac Bo oleiee shane, as Sainte @ Li uor “Arsen” et Hy-
Caryophylli. 75@ 85! Ferri a @ 50 rarg lod.. @
2 eee 35@ 45! Rhei Arom.........- @ 50 Liquor Potass Arsinit 10@ 12
Chenopadii.........- @ 275 | | Smilax ‘Omieliialis.- 50@ 60} Magnesia, Sulph.. 2@ 3
Cinnamon 1 25@ 1 - Senega . see : @ 50) Magnesia, Sulph, bbl @ 1%
Citronella 35@ Scilla... ....-------+ @ 50| Mannia,S. F........ 60

 

 

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Morphia, S., P.& W. 2 35@ 2 60 | ——- a @ 18) Linseed, boil —. oo 59
ro S.,N.Y. Q. Sinapis, ‘opt. ek eee @ 30| Neatsfoot, winter str 54 60

& Cc. C «oe. 2 25@ 2 50 a a sone De 1S Spirits Turpentine.. 57 62
Moschus Canton... @ 40 @ a)

Myristica, No. 1..... 65@ ~=-80 | sa snutt Scotch, De Vo’s @ 41) Paints BBL. LB.
Nux Vomiea...po. 15 @ 10 4 Soda, Boras. @ 11}

Os Sept... ..-.- 25. 30 | Soda, Boras, po. .... 9@ 11| Red Venetian....... 1% 2 @8
Pepsin Sane, H.& P. Soda et Potass Tart. 230 o5 | Ochre, yellow Mars. 1% 2 @4

I @ 1 00 | Soda, Carb.......... 1% » | Ochre, yellow Ber... 1% 2 @3
Picis L ny N.N. ¥4 Ball | Soda, Bi-Carb....... 5a 5 | Putty, commercial.. 2% 24@3

doz : @ 200 | Soda, Ash.......... 3%@ 4) Putty, strictly pure. 2% 24@3
Picis Liq., quarts... @ 1 00 | Soda, Sulphas. ' @ 2, Vermilion, Prime
Picis Liq., pints. .... @ 8%, Spts. Cologne.. @ 2 60| American . 13@ 15
Pil Hydrarg...po. 80 @ 050) Spts. Ether Co. @ 55| Vermilion, E neglish.. 70@ 75
—_— Nigra... po. 22 @ 18) Spts. Myrcia Dom.. @ 2 00 | | Green, Paris........ 134@ “=

— Alba.. - 35 @ 30| Spts. Vini Rect. bbl. @ | Green, Peninsular... 183@

iix Burgun.. Me @ spts. Vini Rect. 4bbl @ Lead, red be epee alas 6%@ ”
Plumbi Acet...... 10@ 12) Spts. Vini Rect. 1ogal @ | Lead, white......... 6.@ 7
Pulvis Ipecac et Opii 1 30@ 1 50 | Spts. Vini Rect.5 gal ( | Whiting, white Span @ 7
Pyrethrum, boxes H. Is Strychnia, C r —_ _ 105@ 1 25 | Whiting, gilders’.... @ 9

. D. Co., doz.. @ 75) Sulphur, a  gy4@  4| White, Paris, Amer. @ 1 00
Pyrethrum, pv. 20, 30) Sulphur, Roll........ 24@ 3%| W hiting. Paris, Eng.
Quassi®............. 8m 10! Tamarinds . 8@ 10) @ 1 40
Quinia, 8. P. & W. 31@,. 44| Terebenth Venice... 28@ 30 Universal P ‘repared . 1 00@ 1 15
Quinia, S. German.. 341@ 44/| Theobrome.. . =
Goins, N.Y... 2.2 -.. Sm. 44| Vanilla...........-.- 9 00@16 00 Varnishes
Rubia Tinetorum.... 12@ 14 | | Zinei Sulph.. 7@ 8
Saecharum Lactis py 18@ ‘Olle | No.1 Turp Coach... 1 10@ 1 2
alee... so 4 50@ 4 60 | Batra Tore.......,<- 1 60@ 1 70
Sanguls —, 0G BO) BBL. ——, | Coach Body......... 27 3 00
Sapo, W 12@ = | Whale, winter....... 70 0| No.1 Turp Furn..... 1 1 10
Sap Mo... ese 10@ Lard, extra..... . = a | Extra Turk Damar.. 1 55@ 1 60
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Castor Oil. . 60 7 00
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4 Ib. cans, 4 doz. case...... 35 |
14 lb. eans, 4 doz. case...... 55
1 tb. cans, 2. doz. case...... 90
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4 lb. cans, 4 doz. case.. 45
lg é Ib. cans, 4 doz. case.. .... &5
1 Ib. cans, 2 doz. case. 1 60
Jersey Cream
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9 oz. cans, per doz...........1 25
6 OZ. cams, per doz........... 85 |
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1. 85 | | Royal Tigers. . 5B@ 80 00 Tradesman Grade
Lobster | Royal Tigerettes.... ..35 50 books, any denom... 1 50
Star, 1p... ......... 1 85 | Vincente Portuondo ..35@ 70 00; 100 books, any denom... 2 50
(Sear, i>... 3 io | Ruhe Bros. Co......... 25@, 70 00| 500 books, any denom... 11 50
| Piente Talis. ...... ... 2 25} ET Co. .. ..85@110 00 | 1,000 books, any denom.. - 20 00
Mackerel | T - J. Dunn Ke 0.. -35@ 70 00 | Economides Giadoe
Mustard, 1lb........ 1 75 | McCoy & ¢ -.35@ 7000} 59 books, any denom... 1 50
| Mustard, 2Ib........ 2 80} The C ollins © igar Co..10@ 35 00 | 100 books; any denom... 2 50
| Soused, 11b.......... 175 | Brown Bros.. . 2... 1B@ 70 00 | Sees
so | 500 books, any denom... 11 50
Soused, 2 lb.... . 2 80| Bernard Stahl Co.. .... 35@. - 00 | ce ai ‘
| 1,000 books, any denom... 20 00
Tomato, 11b......... 175} Banner Cigar Co......10@ 35 00 : a :
Tomato, 2 Ib......... 2 80 | Seidenberg & Co.... ..55@ 2 5 00 | Superior Grade
Mushrooms | Fulton Cigar Co... 100 35 00 | ,50 books, any denom. a 50
(Stems. (00 14@16 | = B. Ballard & Co....35@175 00 | 100 books, any denom... 2 50
| Buttons... 207025 | E. M. Schwarz & Co...35@110 60 | _ 500 books, any denom.. Le 50
Oysters San Telmo.. ......35@, 70 00 | 1,000 books, any denom 20 00
| Cents, ib. 90 | Havana Cigar Co. .18@, 35 00
Cove.21b 1 50 C. Costello & Co.......: 35@, 70 00 50 books, any denom... 1 50
Peaches LaGora-Fee Co....... 35@ 70 00| 100 books, any denom... 2 50
Be 25 Is I. Davis & Co. ......35@185 00 | _ 500 books, any denom... 11 50
Yellow oo @1 65 | He neeG@o.. |... 35@ 90 00 | 1,000 books, any denom. -. 20 00
Pears : | Benedict & Co... ...7.50@ 70 00 Credit Checks
|\Standard ss... 70 | Hemmeter Cigar Co 357 70 00 | . 500, any one denom...... 2 00
Piagey 80 | G.J. Johnson Cigar C0.35@ 70 00 | 1,000, any one denom...... 3 00
i Peas | Maurice Sanborn .... 50@175 00 | 2,000, any one denom...... 5 00
Marrowfat .......... 1 00 | Bock & Co..........|..65@300 00 | Steel punch... a: 75
| Early June.......... 100 | Manuel Garcia........80@375 00 Coupon I ass Books
Early June Sifted. 60 | Neuva Mundo........ su 175 09 | . Can be made to represent any
Pineapple | Henry Clay... _... 857550 09 | denomination from $10 down.
Grated 1 25@2 75 | La Carolina. ...........96@200 00| 20 — weet ee tees eee es 1 00
PSieed se + 1 35@2 25 | CLOTHES LINES = ee co —
NL Pumpkin | Cotton, 40 ft. per doz. N00 Bea cee ie 6 25
Fair ................. 65 | Cotton, 50 ft. per doz. 1 2) con peaks (0 0 ae oe
Good ................ 75 | Cotton, 60 ft. per doz. “140 | Goo books Uae Bo
Cy 85 | Cotton, 70 ft. per doz. ...1 60 am Neen
Raspberries | Cotton, 80 ft. per doz ..1 80 CREAM TA RTAR
Standard. ........__.. 90 | Jute, 60 ft. per doz.......... 89 | 5.and 10 Ib. wooden boxes.....30
: Jute, 60 ft. | i
Salmon | Jute, 72 ft. per aoe g5 | Bulk in sacks.. a 29
Red Alaska.......... 1 35 | COFFEE DRIED FRUITS—Domestie
Pink ——: =o 95 Roasted Apples
ardines Sundried . -+++, @ 6%
Domestic, \48.. @A € Evaporated, 50 Ib. boxes .8@ 814
—— Mustard. @8 0 W~ California Fruits ’
French ..... S@22 Apricots 0
Stand: or berries a HIGH GRADE. Blackberries ..........
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Nei Special Combination. . 20
Faire... 0.0... 90 | rench Breakfast. . 5, | Pitted Cherries. ...... 7%
—............... 1 00 I Prunnelles . .
fines 1 29 | Lenox . ie 30 ee
: Tomatoes Nien as — lif cosa /
Fair go | Private Estate... 22.2.2... 2 ee
eee oT aa puprome. 100-120 25 Ib. boxes ...... @4_
| Good .............4.. 90 | "Less 3314 per cent. Gclivered. | 90-100 25 Ib: boxes -...1) @ 4%
: —, oo a 1 15 Rio 80 - 90 25 = ——s _.-. OD
re Bec. 2 35] pa; 70-80 25 Ib. boxes ...... @5%
CATSUP a gee @ 6
Columbia, pints. . ---cce-2 O0| Prime __. 12 | 50-60 25 1b. boxes ...... @7%
| Columbia, % pints....... 2.2.1 25 Golden .. 13 = 40 = —- ——- as
o 4s 4 ex ger i ee ) 0 ) JOXES
; Acme.. beiaigsias SE @14% ve Santos . 4 cent =, Ib. cases
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— ol Good 220 IESE 15 | London Layers #Crown, 17
Emblem............. ais, | Erie a — ora aie
Gem. @i4% | Peaberry.. es ste A... ---- 82 2
Gold Medal.. @13'4 Maracaibo | Loose Museatels 2 Crown 74
Ideal . a 14 | Prime. ae | Beene Muscatels 3 Crown 84
Ses @14_ | Milled. ae ea — rown
a a a @1: “Java | L. M., Seeded, choice ... |
prac @ 2 interior 26 | L. M., Seeded, fancy .... 10%
Pea. @i0 Private Growth. . -...... 380) DRIED FRUITS—Foreign
[tiem @iz | Mandehling.. es Citron
Limburger........... @13 Mocha’ Leghorn.. Se |
| Pineapple ........... 50 @75 Imitation . —-co-+----» 22) cre | ‘ I
| Sap Sago.. @17_—sSC|:« Arabian... onl _ 28 ‘Currants
| Cc HIC ‘ORY PAC K AG E Cc OF F E ‘E. Patras, cases. Dee coe 6%4
[Bok ..... 5| Below are given New York | Cleaned, bulk... ee v4
ee 7| prices on package coffees, to | Cleaned, racked ceo eo

Poe | 40
Saree, 2 dor. ...... 75 |
BROO)}
me. i Carpet... 8. 3 00 |
No. 2 Carpet....... ee es
mo Street... 2 50 |
No. 4 Carpet.. ..2 05 |
Parlor Gem. 2 75
Common Whis! 95
Fancy Whisk.. 2

Warchouse......
CANI

 

 

Electric Light, : Li. OM |
Electric Light, 1 16s. ..103% |
Paraffine, 6s. é -- 11% |
Parafiine, 12s Ge
ee ae |
CANNED ‘GOODS |
Apples
31b. Standards... 90 |
Gallons, standards. . 2 65
Beans
Baked ... se 75@1 30
Red Kidney......... 75@ 85 |
oo 80 |
a 85
Blackberries

Sean@ards........... 75 |
Slueberries |
Poe 85 |
Cherries |
Red Standards... .... 85 |
_oe........ i 1 15]
lams. |
Little Neck, : tb 1 10}
Corn |
ne 75 |
, —— 85 |
eo, 95 |

CHOCOLATE
Walter Baker & Co.’s.

  

German Sweet.
Premium.
Breakfast Cocoa.......
SIGARS
The Bradley C ee Co.’s es

 
   

Advance ...... 5 00
Bradley ... . 36 00
Clear Havana ‘Putts. 22 00
i-w.n Bh”... oes ee
Cm BB .. 5B 00
Columbian Cigar Co’s ‘s brand.
Columbian..............._. 35 00
Columbian Special. . . 65 00

Detroit Cigar Mfg. ce 0.’S —

Cree pee...
Green Seal Boquet........ 60 00
| Green Seal Regalia.. . 65 00
Maceo’s Dream........... 35 00
SOA es 33 00
Lo ame. 32 00

Medal de Reina. . 8 00
H. & P. Drug C 0.’s brands,
Fortune Teller. .
| Our Manager..

 
 

i Qeeeserbe 35 00

| G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s brand.

 

 

which the wholesale dealer adds
the local freight from New York
to buyers shipping point, giving
buyer credit on the invoice for

> the amount of fre ight he pays
| from the

market in which he
purchases to his shipping point.

These prices are further sub-
ject to manufacturer’s regular
ak
Arpmckio. 11 50
GESON. 11 50
Me Laughlin’ s XXXX

McLaughlin’s XXXX sold to
retailers only. Mail all orders
direct to W. F. MeLanghlin &
Co., Chicago.

 
  

 

Extract
Valley City % gross. a oe
Felix % gross.. 1.
Hummel’s foil iy gross. .
Hummel’s tin '4 gross ......1 48
COCOA
James nen & Co.’s
Boxes, 7 lbs.. i ... 40
Cases, 16 boxes... 38
COCOA SHELLS -
20 Ib. bags. be 2%
Less soe oe 3
Poun packages . cu 4

 

CONDENSED MILK
4 doz in case.

 

Gail Borden —_— ol 6 75
Crown...... Setece ce eo
Daisy.. Pose oy oe ese -5 95
Cnampion ................ .4 50
POO 4 25
Chationge .......... 2.2... 4095
PRB oe ee sos oo

 

Citron American 19 Ib. bx...13
Lemon American 10 Ib. bx ..10'%
Orange American 10 Ib. bx..10%
Raisins
Sultana 1 Crown.............
Sultana 2 Crown ............
Sultana 3 Crown.............
Sultana 4 Crown.............
Sultana 5 Crown.............
Sultana 6 Crown..

Sultana package
FARINACEOUS GOODS
Beans

Dried tima... ...
Medium Hand Picked 2 eee =
Brown Holland..............
Cereals
Cream of Gereal.=...........
Grain-O, small ....
Grain-O, large. .
— Nuts...
Postum C ereal, ‘smail |
Postum Cereal, large......
Farina
2411b. eae -
Bulk, per 100 Ib
Hask ell’s Wheat ¥F lakes
36 2 1b. packages... ....
Hominy
IBAPIOIS oo oe 2 50
Flake, 50 Ib. drums.......... 1 00
Lauhoff Bros. Flaking Mills,
Rice Flakes, 3 doz pkg case 2 85
Flaked Peas, 3 doz pkg case 2 85
Flaked Beans, 3 doz pkge’se 2 85
3> Chene St., Detroit, Mich.
Maccaroni and Vermicelli
Domestic, 10 Ib. box......
Imported, 25 1D. Dox... ......; 1.2 50

 

hoe eb

Boom
* Bi

 

Pearl Barley

Common...
Chester ......... . ie
Empire.. cs

 

Walsh- wa Co. s Brand.

 

24 2 Ib. eee oo
100 th. kegs.. Sao
200 Ib. barrels . ..5 10
Peas
Green, Wisconsin, bu.......1 35
Green, Scotch, bu. ..1 40
Split, bu.. a
Rolled eile
Rolled Avena, bbl...........3 75
Steel Cut, % Riis ..2 05

Monarch, bbl...
Monarch, % bbl.

 

Monarch, 90 Ib. sacks. ......1 68
Quaker, cases. oo
Huron, cases. . 2 00
Sago
German 4
Bast India... 2... 3%
Salus Breakfast Food
F. A. McKenzie, Quiney, Mich.

36 two pound packages ....
18 two pound packages .... 1 85
Battle Creek Crackers.

  

3

60

Gem Oatmeal Biscuit... 744@ 8
Lemon Biscuit ........ 74@ 8
New Era Butters. .,... 6%
Whole Wheat oo. 6%
Cereola, 48 1-lb. pkgs. 4
— a
Flake . le 22. So
Pearl. ll.
Pearl, 24.1 Ib. “packages oe 6%
Wheat
Cracked, bulk............... 34
242 th. packages ............2 50

FLAVORING EXTRACTS

DeBoe’s
2 OZ.
Vanilla D.C........ 1 10
Lemon D.C ...... 70
Vanilla Tonka...... 75

4 02.
1
1
1

80
35
45

 

Jennings’
D. c. Vanilla D. C. Lemon
-1 20 202. oe
ia 50 S02... .. 1 00
2 00 207. t. 1 40
3 00 Gez... |. 2 00
..4 00 No. 8....2 40
..6 00 No. 10....4 00
£ 2D No.3 T.. &
..2 00 No.3 T..1
.2 40 No. 4 T..1 50

 

Northrop Brand

 

 

Lem. Van.
20z. Taper Panel.... 75 1 20
2 0z. Oval. . a a 1 20
302. Taper Panel....1 35 2 00
40z. Taper Panel....1 60 2 25

Perrigo’s

Van. Lem

= doz
tie 2 oz. obert.. 25 7
XXX, 402. taper... 2 OB 1 2
XX, 202. obert...... 4 00
No. 2,20z. obert.... 75
XXX DD ptehr, 6 0z 2 25
XXX D D ptehr, 4 0z 1 7
K. P. pitcher, 6 02... 2 2

FLY PAPER
Perrigo’s Lightning, gro....2 50
Petrolatum, per doz......... 7
GUNPOWDER
ee
Kegs. -...-4 00
Halt Kegs... ..2 2
(Quarter Kegs .. oe
iibleans 0 00 Se
te CAMS oe es 18
Choke Bore—Dupont’s

Meee 4
eae ~see oat 50
Quarter Kegs .. se
oD CARS, oe 34

 

Eagle Duck— es
Kegs . .

  

 

Half Kegs.. wches cose ce 425

Quarter “i : os 25

1 1b. cans . ..
HERBS _

Saze.. ct ce ae
Hops .. : eee iD
“IN DIGO |
Madras, 5 Ib. boxes ...........55
S. F., 2,3 and 5 lb. boxes...... 50
JELLY
V.C. Brand.
pip. pats 35
30 Ib. pails. : to. Ge
Pure apple, per don 85
LICORICE
UES ec . .. . wo
Calabria... lo
oy... 14
ee 10
LYE
Condensed, 2 doz............ 1 20
Condensed, 4 doz............2 25
MATCHES

Diamond Match Co.’s ween.

No. 9 sulphur..
Anchor Parlor . in
No. 2 Home...... pee
Export Parlor... ees oe
1

 

00
Wolverine. . 50
MOLASSES |
New Orleans
BrAeCK 11
J 14
GOOG 20
Fancy 24
Open Kettle. aS 25@35
{alf-harrels 2c extra
_ MUSTARD

Bayle's c

 

 

 

Medium
Barrels, 1,200 count ......... 5 90
Half bbls, 600 count.........3 48
Small
Barrels, 2,400 count ......... 6 90
Half bbls, 1,200 count .......3 95
PIPES
Ciny, NO. 286 1 70
Clay, . os full count....... 65
Cob, No. 3.. Loe. SO
POTASH
48 cans in case.

Bappises 3s... 4 00
Penna Salt Co.’s............. 3 00
RICE
Domestic
Carolina head... ............ 6%

Carolina No. 1 pee. _.o
Carolina No. 2

Broken . oe

_Umport ted.

Japan, No. 1. -- 54%4@6
Japan, No. --44%4@5
Java, fancy a 5 @5%
Java, No. 1. _o @

Table.. “
‘SALERATUS
Packed 60 Ibs. in box.
Chureh’s Arm and Hammer. ; 15
Deland ss. 3 00

 

Dwight’s Cow.

  

Dpiem 210
a eee Se 3 00
Sodio i 3 15
Wyandotte, 100 MS. os 00
Ss § SODA

Granulated, bbls ee ce 80
Granulated, 100 Ib. cases.... 85
Lump, bbls. . fo a

80

Lump, 145 Ib. kegs..
SALT

Diamond Crystal

  

 

Table, cases, 24 3 lb. boxes..1 40
Table, barrels, 1003 Ib. bags.2 2 85
Table, barrels, 407 lb. bags.2 50
Butter, barrels, 280 Ib. bulk.2 50
Butter, barrels, 20 141b.bags.2 60
Butter, sacks, 28 Ibs......... 25
Butter, sacks, 56 Ibs......... 60
Common Grades
100 3 Ib. sacks........ -tac2 20
60 51b- sacks: :.-. 1 95
28 10M). sacks... |S 1 80
Warsaw
56 Ib. dairy in drill bags. . 30
28 Ib. dairy in drill bags. .... 15
Ashton
56 lb. dairy in linen sabks... 60
Higgins
56 lb. dairy in linen sacks... 60
Solar Rock
61D. SACKS o2000 2 22
ommon
Granulated Fine............ 1 00
Medium Fine. Bese eae cs 1 05
T FISH
Cod
Georges cured......... @5
Georges genuine...... @ 5%
Georges selected. @ 5%
Strips or bricks. 6 @9
POUOGK. @ 3%
Halibut.
SurIpS. J. sop Se
Chimks a "HB

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21

 

Herring
Holland white hoops, bbl.

 
 
 
 

 

 

 

  

  

Holland white hoopsbbl. 6 50
Holland white hoop, keg.. 85
Holland —" hoop mechs. 95
Norwegian ................
Bound 100 ihs............-. 3 60
Round 40 Ib: 1 75
Sealed ..... 15
Bloaters.. a. 2 ee
ake.
Mes& 100 Ibs. .............. © @
Mess 49 1bs..:....-....... 6 a0
Mese 10 1Ds. .........-..-- 165
Mess S1De..... ....-... -. 1 35
No. 1 100 ibs. .............. 18
No.1 40 lbs
No.1 101bs
No.1 8ilbs 2
No. 2 100 Ibs 50
No.2 40 1bs :
No.2 101bs 11E
Noo Sips... Ee
Trout |
No) 1 1000DS. 24. --4. 7. |
No. (oe ............
No.1 101bs
No.1 8slbs.. . |
Ww hite “fish
No.1 No.2 Fam
100 Ibs........ 8 50 2 75
40 TDS......-. 3 90 1 40
— oe........ 1 00 43
Sis. 83 37
SEEDS
ee ete ee
Canary, Smyrna..
Cuaway ........-.---- a
Cardamon, Malabar......... “60
Celery 10
Hemp, Russian......-.--.--- 4%
Mixed Bird 4%

 

  

   

   

  

 

 

 

 

 

Kingsford’s Corn
40 1-lb. packages. :

20 1-lb. packages... bak (tence. 6%4
Kingsford’s Silver Gloss
40 1-Ib. packages........... 6%

6 Ib. boxes... be tee
I amond_
64 10¢ packages : 5 00
128 5¢ packages 5 00
30 10e and 64 5¢ packages.. 5 00
Common Corn
20 1-Ib. packages .. 4%
40 1-lb. packages.. ._ —_-
Common Gloss"
1-Ib. packages......... .
Ib. packages......... 4',
6-lb. packages. . 5
40 and 50-Ib. boxes... 34
Barros... no te eee oe 3%
SUGAR
Below are given New York

prices on sugars, to which the
wholesale dealer adds the local
freight from New York to your
shipping point, giving you credit
on the invoice for the amount
of freight buyer pays from the
market in which he purchases
to his shipping point, including
20 pounds for the weight of the

 
 

 

a white...... a barrel.

Poppy.. cece ceee teense oe , | Domino ... ee
i cue sireee tie teen esac se Cus tent 5 55
Cuttle Bone.. ee *) Ghishet : i 5 55
SNUFF Gabe 5 30
Seoteh, in bladders.. 37 | powde red . le a
Maccaboy, in jars. ..-- 35] Coarse Powdered. ....... 5 25
French Rappee, in jars. ao. 43 | XXXX Powdered......... 5 30
SOAP Standard Granulated. .... 5 15
Fine Granulated..... .. .. 5 15
AXO a Seeeee Somes ‘ 5 30
extra Fine Granu ated.... 5 20
: Conf. Granulated.. _.. 540
Single box.. sete 500 | 5 2 Ib. cartons Fine Gran... 5 25
5 box lots, deliv ered..... 295) o1b. bags Fine — 626
10 box lots, delivered ........ 2 90 | E 51h eartons Fine Gran... 5 25
s ¥ fra? j Be Ib. bags Fine Gran...... 5 25
AS. 4. KIKA b OU. § BRANDS. | Mould A. i. 5 40
American Family, wep" ‘a....2 66 | Diamond A.. 5 15
Dome.. 2 75\ © agar eco “i 495
Gahine’g. |. "3 99 | No. 1, Columbia A.. . £80
Savon.. | 8 6e | No. 2, Wimdsor 4... _._. 4 80
White Russian. . 2 36 | No. 3, Ridgewood A...... 4 80
White Cloud, laundry. ......6 25|No- 4, Phoenix A......... 478
White Cloud, toilet. : “ 50 i No. 5,Pmpire A ......... 4 70
Ducky Diamond, 6 ox... 29 | DO &------------------- 4 65
Dusky Diamond, 50 8 o7.....3 00 4 60
Blue India, 100 % ¢ Ib. ...3 00 4 55
a a . 3 50 4 50
Eos. oe oe 2
Scouring 4 35
Sapolio, kitchen, Pd doz... 2 40 435
Sapolio, hand, 3 doz. ........ 2 40 4 35
— ‘ ee eee ae
54) No.6. 6

a English. . 4% TABLE SAUCES

SPICES.
Whole Spices
Allspice ....-.+0---. 002-2 ++
Cassia, China in mats.....
ssia, Batavia, in bund...

  
 

Cass

Cassia, — broken....
Cassia, Saigon, in rolls....
Cloves, Amboyna. re
Cloves, Zanzibar. eee
Mace oe 5
Nutmegs, 75-80... Ceues 55
Nutmegs, 105- 0 45
Nutmegs, 115-20..........+ 40
Pepper, Singapore, black. 15

Pepper, Singagore, white.
Pepper, shot..........-.---
Pure — in Bulk

  
 

Allspice... 15
Cassia, Batavia... ae 28
Cassia, Saigon............. 48
Cloves, Zanzibar........ . 16
Ginger, African..........- 15
Ginger, Cochin.........--- 18
Ginger, — es es 25
Mace.. 65
Mistard 000s 18
Pepper, Singapore, black. 17
Pepper, Singapore, white. 25
Pepper, Cayenne......-... 20
Gage es... 15

STOVE POLISH

SS
corsa WN

dst to ae ee

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

Barrels. ee eee acres coe ee

Hale bbls. 19

1 doz. 1 gallon cans. 3 15

1 doz. % gallon cans. ...1 85

2 doz. 4 gallon cams......... 1 00
Pure Cane

Hae ee 16

   

Chetee «0.0... ee, 25
Mixed
Vv. ¢. saree. Co.’s Brands.
_ Cy... 1
., fancy flavored. ....-. li

LEA &
.PERRINS’
SAUCE

The Original and
Genuine

 

Worcestershire.
Lea ‘& Perrin’s, large...... 3 75
Lea & Perrin’s, small. .... 2 50
Halford, large. . to Ss
Halford, small. . .. 225
Salad Dressing, large. ac. 4 55
Salad ag = small..... 2 7%

VINEGAR

Malt White Wine, 40 grain.. 7%
Malt White Wine, 80 grain..11
Pure Cider, Red Star........12

Pure Cider, Robinson. . ke
Pure Cider, Silver Ds
eo POWDER
cues 2 00

Kirk’s Eos..

 

 

Wisdom . 3 75
Roseine.. .. 32
Nine 0” mock. 3

Bappite s '776.. .....-...... 3 12
Gold = Poo ese oee ae 4 25
Johnson’s . cone Gute ce, (Oe
Swift’s .. 2 88
Rub-No-More.............. 3 50
Pearline, 72 8 0Z.... .....- 2 90
ison gate ama 2 85
Snow Boy.. 2 35
Liberty .. 3 90

 

WICKING
No. 0, per gross..

No. 1, per gross...

No. 2, per oes
No. 3, es gross

  

 

ODENW ARE
Baskets
Bashele 0.23 28. 1
Bushels, wide band......... 1 10
Market .. . 30
Willow Clothes, large....... 7 00
Willow Clothes, medium... 6 50
Willow Clothes. small....... 5 50
Butter Plates
No. 1 Oval, 250 in crate...... 1 80
No. 2 Oval, 250 in crate...... 2 00
No. 3 Oval, 250 in crate......
No.5 Oval, 250 in crate......
Clothes Pins
Boxes, gross boxes.. 50

Mop Sticks
Trojan spring . ep
Eclipse patent spring .. ne
No 1 commo!
No. 2 patent brush holder ..
12 tb. cotton mop heads.....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

  

 

 

  

Pails Le eee a oe
asa yao GTains and Feedstuffs Fresh Meats
3-hoop — Died sae cee 1 70 , BG . Boor
ae ome rN ee 8 | ae Carcass r 54@ 8

, je om é CU cabs ee scweueee oY CG ¢
Cedar, all red, brass bound. 1 25 | Wheat. . 65 | Forequarters ....... 54@ 6
Paper, | Eureka...... 2 25 } w been Ww ne rat ‘Flour Hindquarters ....... 7 @9
Fibre. 112 40 Loeal Brands Loins Nas... .... 9 Ge

Tubs, | Patents nl... 420| Ribs.......-...----.. § @I
20-inch, Standard, No. 1..... 7 09 | Second Patent. 3 70 | Rounds. ... oo ee
18-inch, Standard, No. 2.....6 00 | Straight. setae ae oe Seer a meee
16-inch, Standard, No. 3.....5 00 | Clear . ee ee ee atenea es | ae
20-inch, Dowell, No. 1.......3 = Graham . 3 50 | Pork
18-inch, Dowell, No.2.......5 25 | Buckw heat . GON) Dressed... . @ 6
16-inch, Dowell, No.3.......4 95 | Rye... piece cies Oe MORN ul @B8
No. 1 Fibre.. ea Subject’ ‘to usual cash dis-| Shoulders . @ 6%
No. 2 Fibre... 1.7 95 | count. Leaf Lard.. i @ 74
No. 3 Fibre.. ‘""'7 99 | . Flour in bbls., 25¢ per bbl. ad- M

w ‘ash ‘Boards | ditional. utton
' ayeiae 4... 8 Bt
Beonse Globe... 28 = a urt- Putman’s wey Spring Lambs. ...... 74 8
Dewey ee a ear ‘ o : 3 Bo | Veal '

» AG > oon] Ene oe 4 ow ome a oo y <
Double Aeme.........-.-.-5- 24 75 | Diamond 4s. i 3/60'| Gueeaas a
Single Acme.. oles tay ee eet rere tos ee 172 O78
Double Boatiase. le 00 | Worden Grocer Co.'s Brand
Single Peerless..............2 50 )} Quaker ‘gs. a 350 ya ee
Northern Queen ...... 9 50 | V Quaker isl) S56 Crackers
Double Duplex........ 3 00 | Quaker 49s... .-. --- 3 55
Good Luck 2 73 Spring w heat Flour The National Biscuit Co.
everest... ................ 2 251 Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brand | quotes as follows:

Wood Bowls Pillsbury’s Best es....... 4 25) Butter
11 in. Butter.................. 75| Pillsbury’s Best 4s...... 415 Seymour ey BM
13 in. Butter... .............1 00| Pillsbury’s Best ‘4s........ 4.05) New York... Bis
15 in. Butter.................1 60| Pillsbury’s Best “ss paper. 5| Family 54
17 in. Butter. .... ........-..2 00 | Pillsbury’s Best ‘4s paper. PSA Bi |
19 in. Butter... cu Oe | Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand | Worverine. 0.00 0...,.. 6
y EAST re ‘AKE | Soda
Yeast Foam,1% doz........ 50 Sogn 2 an................ ©
Yeast Foam, 3 doz...... ...1 60 | Soda, City...... 8
Yeast Cream, 3 doz........-.. 1 00 Long Island Wafers....... 11
Magie Yeast 5c, 3 doz. ...8 OO | Zephyrette . “ 10
Sunlight Yeast, 3 doz. ..1 00 Oyste r
Warner’s Safe, 3 doz........ 1 00 | | wanst
| | Farina..............-+.+-+- 5}
) | aaa 6
l rov isions_ | Saltine Wafer oi
_——— et | Sweet Goods— Boxes
Barreled Pork AAI ee eee
ae. @11 00 | Assorted Cake. 10
ee @A12 00 | | Belle Rose.........-..-.--- 9
Clear back........... @N 75 | Bent’s Water ........-..-- i
Short eut.. @ll 50 | | Buttereups... 9 ---+ +++: 13
Mee @15 00 | | Cinnamon Bar............. y
— 6 Coflee Cake, eee Hy
amily 9 9 | | Coffee Cake, Java. .......- 10
eu | | Cocoanut Tatty -
Dry Salt Meats | [Chace ull.
Bellies. 634 Creams, leed............. 8!
Briskets .. oe 644 | Cream Crisp. ....-- 9
Extra shorts......... 5% | | Crystal Creams. 10
: a Duluth Imperial 'ss....... 4 25} Cubans. 02 .).... 11!
Hams ee eae. rid @ 11 | Duluth Imperial us. _.. 415| Currant F ruit. il
Hams 141b. average. @ 10% | Duluth Impe rial \4s.. 405 . a . Hows y. 12%
Hams, 16]b. average. @ 10%, | Lemon & Wheeler Co.’s Brand | coo Cream... or ‘sm. :
Hams, 20lb. average. @ 10, | Gold Medal ‘¢s.. 25 | Ginger Snaps, XXX.. : 8
Ham dried beef..... @ 14 ‘| Gold Medal ¥s............ 415| Gladiator .... “a
Shoulders (N. Y. cut) @ 7 | Gold Medal %s............ 4 . Grandma Cakes........--- 9
Bacon, clear......... 7%4@ 8%| Parisian %s............--. 4 25| Graham Onpkere. 8
Californiafhams. .... @7 Parisian \4s.. 4 15 Graham Wafers........... 10
Boneless hams.... .. @ 9 Parisian 4s. . LL ... 405! Honey F heh ANN 1214
Cooked ham......... 10 @ Olney & Judson’s Brand 7 Imperials .. oS
Lards—In Tierces | Ceresota } — | Jumbles, Honey.. 12%
Com ae. ........-. 5% | Ceresota \ ; s | Lady Fingers...........--- 1%
one a ss acs 7% | Ceresota 8... 4 15 | < mon Wafers..........-- 14
55 lb. Tubs..advance % Worden ya Co.’s Brand | arshmallow . . =
= = a % Laurel ls. . a 35 are Walnuts... 16
_ ee % | Laurel 4s. . gee bono # _ ee eee aks 11h
ie ib. Palla. advance z Renee ee 9°
5 1b. Pails..advance Meal Molasses Bar... ... 9
3 1b. Pails..advance 1% Bolted . Lilsteeceeee se 190] Moss Jelly Bar 12%
danenwen | Gramulated................ 2 10| Newton........ w
Bologna a ie 5Y, | Feed and Millstuffs | Oatmeal Crackers. 8

es 6 | St. Car Feed, screened.... 16 00 | Oatmeal Wafers.. 10
ne 7% | No.1 Corn and Oats...... 15 50 | Orange — beat hice se anne 9

ee 714 | Unbolted Corn Meal...... 14 50 | Orange Gem. i. 6S
mo 64 | Winter Wheat Bran....... 14 00 | Penny Cake.......--.-.. 0. 9
Tongue .. i g | Winter Wheat —_—e 15 00 | Pilot Bread, XXX......... 7
Headcheese.. ul 6 | Screenings . 14 00 | Pretzels, hand made...... 7% |

Beef. '¢ a | Sears’ Luneh.. ens 7%
Extra Mess.......... 10 00 | Corn, car lots...........-. 34 a ee ;
Boneless.. oe 11 75 | | Less than car ote | SUBSE Ure am, ee .
Rump 11 50 Gus | a —_— eae ao 8

ne aes : | Sultanas. lo. 124
Pigs’ “Feet Car lots..................-- 27% | Tuttl Frutti. 1614
Kits, 15 Ibs.. | | Car lots, clipped. a 30 | Vanilla Wafe rs. 1
\% bbls., 40 Ibs... 1.50 | Less than car lots. . 32 | Vienna Crimp............- 8
% bbls., 80 lbs.. 2 70 | Hay |

Tripe | No. 1 Timothy car lots.... 11 50 |  . i ua a

Rits15 Tes. 70 | No. 1 Timothy ton lots.... 12 50 | Fish and Oy Sters

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Beef middles.......- 10 The appon & Bertseh Leather | Black Bass........-.-- 8@ ih
Sheep............+-+. 60 | Co., 100 Canal Street, quotes as | Halibut.......-........ @ i
uttering follows: | Ciscoes or He ering. @ 5
Rolls, dairy.........- 13% | Hides | Bluefish . @ il
Solid, dairy.......... 13 | Green No.1. @8 | Live Lobster. oss9) | Me oe
Rolls, creamery. .... 19 | Green No.2 @7 ion Lobster... ..-. > =
Solid, creamery. .... 18% | Bulls.. a Qe eee rt oD
senta Meats ” Cured No. 1. @ 9% | Haddock . wt. @ ©
Corned beef, 2 Ib 2 35 | Cured No. 2. @ 8% | No.1 Pickerel. + oe
Corned beef, 14 Ib... 16 00 | Calfskins, green No.1 @i0 | Pike .. eeonnnd |g
Roast beef, 2 Ib....-. 2 25 | ¢ Calfskius cue 4 —o e @ 8% | hon oe d g ;
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Potted tongue, 4s... = ‘i Tallow a. a Oysters ‘in Cans. |
Potted tongue, 4s... | Bete BS 30
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Oils | Washed, fine. ....... war | ¥. J.D. Standards. 22
i Washed, medium. . 26@28 Avene‘. 00... 20
as ee Unwasheé, fine. 18@20 | Standards........... 18
Barrels Unwashed, mi. 20@22 | Favorite...........-. 16
Eocene . @13% urs 1k.
Perfectio Gn | Cu wie............ ma hia fe
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Stick Candy
bbls. pails

Standard .. la. 2 aie
Standard H. H . 2 oo
Standard Twist..... 7%4%@ 8
Cut Loaf. i @ 8%
cases
Jumbo, 32 1b......-.. @ 64%
Pere ee. ........ @ &%
Boston Cream....... @10

Beet Root. : @ 7
Mixed Candy

ae @ 6
Competition he babes @ 6%
Special @7
Conserve @S8s
Booval ........ @ 7%
Rippon .....; @ 8%
Broken . eee eee @ 7%
Cut Loaf. ... @ 8%
English Rock.. @ 8%
Kindergarten ' @ 8%
French Cream...... @9
Dery Fan.......... @ 8%
Hand Made Cream
mixed . Levee @Al4

POO, oie css ee \ @ 8%
| ¢ ‘rystal Cream mix. @12

| Fancy—In Bulk

| San Blas Goodies. .. @\l

| Lozenges, plain ..... @9
Lozenges, printed. @Y9
Choe. Drops oo . @\1
Kelipse Chocol: ites. @13
Choe. Monumentals. @13
Gum Drope......... @ 5
moss De......... @ 8%
Lemon Sours........ @9y
| Imperials.. ... @ 9%
| Ital. Cream Bonbons

| tei ose... @\l
Molasses Chews, 15

1D, patis........ @13

Jelly Date Squares

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Golden Waftles...... @i\
Fancy —-In 5 Ib. Boxes
Lemon Sours... .. @50
Peppermint Drops. ' @60
Chocolate Drops.... G65
H. M. Choe. Drops. . @75
H. M. Choe. Lt. and
Dk. mo, f2.... nl (90
Gum Drops. (30
Licorice Drops.. Wes @i5
A.B. Licorice Drops 50
Lozenges, plain (55
Lozenges, printed .. . @DD
Imperiz ils. os bb
Mottoes . . 60
Cream Bar..... Dd
Molasses Bar........ (bb
Hand Made Creams. 80 @90
| Cream Buttons, Pep.
OO WOE, occa ee G65
| String Rock. . @60
| Burnt Almonds. . 13 @
| Wintergreen Berries (55
Caramels
| No.1 wrapped, 3 Ib.
boxes Cheap eres OD
Penny Goods 560
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| Oranges
| Fancy Navels @3 2B
| Extra Choice a3 00
Seedlings a
Fancy Mexicans w
Jamaicas . i“ @
| “Te e mons
| Strictly choice 360s. @3 50
sr choice 300s... 3 25
Fancy 300s. a (a3 50
| Ex. Faney ¢ i (@3 75
Extra Fancy 3608... . @A 10
Bananas
Medium bunches.... 1 00@1 25
| Large bunches...... 1 50@1 75
Foreign Dried Fruits
Figs
Californias, Fancy. @13
Cal. pkg. 10 lb. boxes @A12
Extra Choice, 10 Ib.
| boxes, new Smprna (13
| Faney, 121b., boxes new = (@14
| Impe rial Mikados, 18
Ib. boxes @
| Pulled, 6 Ib. boxes.. (@
Naturals, in bags.... (@ 5%
Dates
Fards in 10 lb. boxes (@10
| Fards in 60 1b. cases. @ 6
Persians, FP. H. V.. @ 6
Ib. cases, new..... (@ 6
| Sairs, 60 Ib. cases.. .. @ 5
| 1
Nuts
| Almonds, Tarragona @I\7
| Almonds, Ivica..... @
| Almonds, ee
soft shelled.. (15%
acid nOW......... @i*%*
Filberts . @13
Walnuts, Grenobles. (@i5
| Walnuts, soft shelled
| California No. 1... @12%
| Table Nuts, —::- @12%
| Table Nuts, choice. @u
| Pecans, Med. OY
| Pecans, Ex. Large.. @12
| Pecans, Jumbes..... @13
| Hickory Nuts per bu.
Ohio, new... . @\ 75
| Cocoanuts, full sae ‘ks @3 50
| C hestnuts, per bu. (@
P eanuts
| Fancy, H. P., Suns. 56 @5%
Fancy, H. P. , Flags
| Roasted . @62
Choice, H. P., ‘Extras @
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Hardware

 

Sale of Sewing Machines in Hardware
Stores,

In considering the sale of sewing ma-
chines, | desire to especially impress
upon the hardware dealer’s mind that a
knowledge of the general construction
of sewing machines is not essential to
the successful sale of them. The con-
struction of some machines is so simple
the carefully worded and __ illustrated
book that goes with each machine en-
ables anyone to use it without special
instructions.

The day is past when sewing machines
were classed as a luxury. They have
now become a recognized necessity in
every family, no household being com-
plete without one. When a family be-
gins housekeeping, along with the bed,
stove and so forth comes a sewing ma-
chine, and it would be impossible in
these days to keep house without it.
The sewing must be done either by the
housewife or the seamstress, and in
either case a sewing machine is a ne-
cessity.

Formerly sewing machines were sold
through agents and canvassers, while
to-day they are sold through hardware
dealers and other merchants almost ex-
clusively. A hardware dealer’ can
handle sewing machines to better ad-
vantage and with more profit than an
agent, because, as a rule, he is perma-
nently established, is well and favorably
known in his community and has the
confidence of his acquaintances and cus-
tomers, most of whom would prefer to
buy a sewing machine from him rather
than from a canvasser or stranger, be-
lieving they will get a better article and
at a more reasonable price, it also ap-
pearing more proper that the dealer who
supplies their other wants should also
furnish them a sewing machine. There
is no side line the possibilities of which
can be counted with more certainty.
The business is stable. It is beyond
the influence of fashion or caprice.
Change of season requires no change of
stock.

We are sometimes asked if every-
body has not already got a sewing ma-
chine. No indeed! About the same
number are and have been made each
year for the past twenty years. Sewing
machines, like furniture, wear out.
New improvements are being made and
new families are coming on, so that the
demand is just about equal to the supply
from one year’s end to the other. The
present outlook for a good trade in sew-
ing machines was never more encourag-
ing. Compared with other lines, we
see many favorable aspects. Wages are
good and the masses are spending money
freely. The tendency toward lower prices
and cheaper goods that has had a run in
all lines of trade has reached its limit
in our line, and we know we have struck
bottom. The demand is now, more
than in the past, for a sewing machine
that carries a substantial guarantee and
affords a fair profit.

There is no extra expense in the way
of rent, fire, lights nor help, so that any
profit is net and clear. Increased in-
come reduces general expenses, and
there is nothing a hardware dealer can
add to his already established business
that will net a better profit, with as _lit-
tle trouble, as a first-class sewing ma-
chine. The business does not require
much room. A small space set off in
the front end of the store, away from the
screw counter and away from the nail
bin, is all that is needed, keeping in

 

view the fact that a good display is al-
ways a good investment as an adver-
tisement, especially with an article that
may be considered a side line. You
can take charge of the sewing machine
department yourself, or, as a great many
merchants do, place it in charge of one
of the employes, allowing a small com-
mission on each sale as an incentive to
take an interest in it.

The hardware dealer should handle
but one make of machine, unless it
seems necessary to have both high and
low-priced goods, in which case _ he
should have but one of each. However,
I am of the opinion that he will do bet-
ter with one fairly good machine than
with the best half dozen. But it must
be a good machine. No dealer can do
well with poor machines anywhere.
He should study the need of his terri-
tory and confine himself to supplying
the principal demand rather than to _ try
to catch the stray customer who wants
something much out of the common run.

The extravagant price charged for cer-
tain sewing machines has nothing to do
with their quality or the cost of making
them. Unnecessary and often extrava-
gant expenditures are added to the price
without improving the quality in the
slightest degree. Besides this, many
people are willing to pay an extra price
as a premium for the sake of a fashion-
able name; but there are fewer of these
people than formerly. At the present
time the great majority of thoughtful
people who purchase a sewing machine
care more for its actual merits than for
its name. They are perfectly willing
to pay for quality, but for quality only.

Finally, serve all customers alike;
have but one time price and one cash
price to all. Don’t sell too cheap. Keep
prices up on your machines. Then
keep your guarantees good and _ conduct
your business so that you deserve the re-
spect of the community, and the confi-
dence and good will of your customers,
and you will find the sewing machine
business satisfactory and profitable.—G.
H. Dirhold in Hardware.

> 2.
Saw the Point and Settled.

A gentleman recently entered a_ store
where he had been buying his morning
paper for a number of years. The pro-
prietor, besides selling papers and
books, has a candy and peanut counter.

‘*Good morning, Mr. B—.’’

‘*Good morning, Mr. L—.’’

The paper was handed him, and he
was about to depart, when the proprietor
remarked :

‘*By the way, Mr. L—, I have a lit-
tle bill against you.’’

‘A bill against me? That must be a
mistake.’’

‘*] think not.’’

"cen me see 1f 7”

The bill was handed to him.

‘*For peanuts, $2.15,’’ it read.

‘‘ How is this?’’ blustered the gentle-
man.

‘*Well, sir, every morning for the last
four years you have taken two peanuts
when you left the store. That would be
12 peanuts a week, not counting in Sun-
day, when your paper is delivered at
your house, 624 peanuts in a year and
2,496 peanuts in four years. I have
figured there are 57 peanuts in a pint.
Fifty-seven into 2,496 goes about 45
times. Multiplying by five cents, the
price of peanuts per pint, | find the to-
tal $2.15. Are my figures correct?’’

The gentleman was so dazed that he
paid the bili without a word.

—_—_—_>29-2-___-

Spain is not disposed to allow Ameri-
can goods to be imported and sold in
that country, but the prejudice has not
reached far enough to cause Spanish
merchants to refuse to send their goods
to this country to be sold, although this

country might easily learn to do without
them.

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 a delightful occupation, but the merchant who
uses Coupon Books instead of pass books has the
satisfaction of seeing the dollars roll into his
coffers in a steady stream. The merchant who
uses coupon books has everything in his favor; his
accounts are never muddled; he never forgets to
charge anything; his business is conducted on a
cash basis.

Let us explain it to you, Mr. Credit Merchant.

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Getting the People

The General Advertisement, and Why It
Is Weak.

Every issue of every newspaper prob-
ably contains one or more advertisements
of the nature of the specimens repro-
duced herewith. They look well, read
smoothly, and yet—they are not good
advertising. Their trouble lies in the
fact that they deal in generalities. A
general advertisement does not appeal
to anybody in particular. It does not
make any effort to supply an existing

 

 

 

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git Is Not Easy

to fita man properly with a
f suit of clothes. It’s often

much harder to fit his pock-
et-book. I fit both every

time. My shelves are full
to the ceiling with new goods. j

f A. L. McLean,
Manistee, Mich.

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demand. It is merely a variation on
the old theme ‘‘we_ sell—shoes,’’ or
whatever the article may be.

Advertising should do more than this.
It should tell of some particular article
in a stock, describe it, and give its
price. It should do just what a sales-
man should do. If it does less, it is
weak.

Suppose, Mr. Merchant, you are sit-
ting in your store, and a drummer walks
in and greets you something like this:

‘‘T represent Brown & Jones, whole-
salers of men’s clothing. We have the
largest stock, the greatest variety, and
the lowest prices. Our line embraces all
the desirable cloths, cut in the latest
styles.’’

You would say, most likely, ‘‘ Well,
what of it? Get down to. business,
young man. Show me_ your goods and
tell me how much you want for them.

 

Garters
and
Neckwear

area long way apart, but we
can “furnish” you with every-
thing suitable between. It
costs no more to be stylishly
dressed with the best goods,
well fitting, well made, lasting,
out of our stock, than to be
dressed like a jay out of some
other stock. It’s true, too.

Bidelman & Lane,

7 Manistee, Mich.
SOSORORSC SOROCROCTOCROROEOCROROCER

 

I've no time to fool around all day lis-
tening to long-winded harangues.’’

And yet, Mr. Merchant, you are the
very man who will turn around and talk
in your own advertisements just as the
drummer did.

The whole point of the matter is this:
Advertising generalities may sell goods,
but you have no earthly way of telling
whether it does or not. Advertising
definite goods and prices will sell goods,
and you can tell pretty closely how
much good it is doing you.

It all depends on the point of view.
If you’re advertising for a speculation,
advertise generalities; if you're adver-
tising for results, advertise in the way
that will bring them.

 

Shiller Brothers, of Reese, send an-
other of their bright circulars for criti-
cism, and for it I have nothing but
praise. Their advertising has shown
remarkable progress in the last few
months, and they seem to have reached
a thorough understanding of the under-
lying principles of profitable publicity.

W. S. Hamburger.
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Custom of New Clerks in Candy Stores.
From the New York Sun.

There is an old story to the effect that
it is a custom in candy stores to tell the
new clerk to eat all the candy she
wants, the result being that she is soon
surfeited and wants no more candy for
a long time. The fact appears to be
that, substantially, there is no rule or
custom in candy stores regarding the
eating of candy by the salespeople. It
is, of course, required that they shall not
eat candy in the presence of customers ;
it might be possible that a new clerk
who developed an inordinate fondness
for candy would require a gentle hint ;
but clerks are not told when they begin
work that they may or may not eat candy ;
nothing is said about that at all; and
they do as they please about it, and eat
what they want, governing themselves,
it is to be presumed, by discretion and
common sense.

It was also the common testimony that
people do not get tired of candy by be-
ing always in the midst of it; and this
seems to apply alike to those engaged
in the manufacture of candy and the
handling of it by wholesale, and to the
clerks engaged in the constant actual
handling of candy in the sale of it at re-
tail. Those who are fond of candy,
men as well as women, are not surfeited
by the sight of it in quantities constant-
ly surrounding them; if itis good candy
they keep on liking it just the same,
and enjoy eating what they want of it.
As to whether men or women like candy
better there was some difference in the
expressed opinion. At some places it
was said that men and women liked
candy equally well; it was said, for in-
stance, that in a little company of men
and women eating candy, the men would
eat as much as the women. At one
place where the opinion was_ expressed
that men, take them altogether, do not
like candy so well as women do, it was
said that if a man was fond of candy
he was likely to be very fond of it, so
that he might eat a quantity of it at a
time. It was everywhere said that
among children boys and girls are alike
in their love for candy; but taking into
account expressions of people outside
the business as well as of those in it the
weight of opinion seemed to be that
among grown persons there are more
women with a sweet tooth than men,
that is to say that men are not so fond
of candy as women.

While the customers in the candy
shops in the shipping districts of the
city are almost exclusively women, there
may be found in the city candy stores a
very large proportion of whose many
customers are men. These shops are
found downtown in the region devoted
to trade and finance and occupations in
which men are more commonly engaged
and interested. These men, however,
are buying mainly for home consump-
tion, in city or suburbs; and in these
later years there has been seen among
the purchasers here an increasing per-
centage of women customers, due to the
increasing number of women employed
in this part of the city.

——__.2.____

Russia has discouraged the introduc-
tion and use of typewriters on the
ground that they would facilitate nihilis-
tic communications, but the needs of
commerce and business have become so
urgent that it is now disposed to admit
them, a concession which will be of
benefit to the empire as well as to Amer-
ican trade in these instruments.

> 0 -»—___

Let a man marry a woman because
she has fetching clothes and he must
expect to be fetching money home in
quantities years after to keep her
style up.

 

_ Hardware Price Current

Augurs and Bits

 

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eee eee... «. 4... s,s. 5 .- 2
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Axes
First Quality, S. B. Bronze............ 7 00
First Quality, D. B. Bronze. .......... 11 50
First Quality, S. B.S. Steel........... 7%
First Quality, D. B. Steel............. 13 00
Barrows

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Bolts
Cupra mew Mer 45
oe... Odie tee to oe duo 50
Buckets
we $3 75
Butts, Cast
Gast Loose Pin, figured ............... 65
rome Narrow .............-.. i
Cartridges
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OE eee 20
Chain
4 in. 5-16 in. % in. \% in.
oe. 8 oe Fe... Ce... Se
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Bee a ke a |. ae
Crowbars
Onset Stoel, per Wy: ... 6
Caps
EE 65
Mees C.F. perm.................... 55
GC Te Pee 45
O_o 75
Chisels
Soemes Pirie, .................,...... 65
Mocmes Urommie,... .................+. 65
Oe 65
Pee UO 65
Elbows
Com. 4 piece, 6 in., per doz............net 65
Corrugated, per doz. io. 1 25
AGAStADIO............. ee 40&10
Expansive Bits
Clark’s small, $18; large, S26 .......... 30&10
ves’ 1, SiS: 2. S78: 3, S0.............. 25
Files—New List
Wow Aieticnm ss... 70&10
NT ee 70
Hetler’s Horse Rasps.................. 6O0&10
Galvanized Lron
Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 25 and 26; 27, 28
List 12 13 14 15 16. 17
Discount, 70
Gas Pipe i
Black or Galvanized .................4- 40&10
Gauges
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s.......... 60&10
Glass
Single Strength, by box...............dis  85&10
Double Strength, by box... ....dis 85&10
By the Piget. dis #5
Hammers
Maydole & Co.’s, new list......... a+. ae 33%
Yerkes & Plumb’s...................--dis 40810
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel........... 30¢e list 7
Hinges
Gate, Clark’s 1,2,9....................die GOGi0
Hollow Ware
Pele ee 50&10
ee gee 50&10
SpMers. 50&10
Horse Nails
An Sale 5... is | ae
Pans 5
House Furnishing Goods
Stamped Tinware, new list............ 70
Japanned Tinware................+.-.. 20&10
Iron
Bar eon... ee eee
Liem bad... es tt. es, 3c rates
Knobs—New List
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings........ 85
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings..... ie 1 00
Lanterns
Regular 0 Tubular, Doz...............- 5 26
Warren, Galvanized Fount........... 6 00
Levels
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s..........dis 70
Mattocks
Ade Bye... .... <_._.-._. .. S17 OO..dis 60
Metals—Zinc
600 pound casKS...........6---- eee eee ee 1%
Per pound ...... .-....-.202- +. 0. eseeee 8
/ Miscellaneous
a i ea ee oe ea se 40
Pumps, Cistern...........-. 70
Serews, Now Uist ..................... 80
Casters, Bed and Plate.............-.. 50810810
Dampers, American ............-.++-++
Molasses Gates
Stebbins’ Pattern........--+-..-.eeee eee 60&10
Enterprise, self-measuring............ i 30
Pans
WEY, MCMC oe i i. ost oe ease oe 60&10&10
Common, polished.............-+.-+++ 7085

Patent Planished Iron
“A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 10 75
“B” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 25to27 9 75
Broken packages %c per pound extra.
Planes

Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy. ......-...+- +++.
Sclota Bene... . 6.2... 0. cess re cose
Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy......

Bench, first quality........

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Casing 6 advance....... Uy as ee ie. 35
Finish 10 advance ..................... 26
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CC eee 45
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Rivets
OE eee 50
Copper Rivets and Burs.............. 45

Roofing Plates

14x20 IC, Charcoal, Dean.............. 6 50
14x20 LX, Charcoal, Dean. nk 7 50
20x28 IC, Chareoal, Dean. ; 13 00
14x20 IC, Chareoal, Allaway Grade... 5 50
14x20 IX, Chareoal, Allaway Grade. .. 6 50
20x28 1C, Charcoal, Allaway Grade... 11 00
20x28 1X, Charcoal, Allaway Grade. .. 13 00

Ropes
Sisal, 44 ineh and larger............... 11%
Pee a... 17

Sand Paper
niet 2008. 19 66......,.... dis 50
Sash Weights
Sema Eyes, per ten.................... 22 50
Sheet Iron
com. smooth. com.

os es ...................... 2 $3 00
hos, 00 87 .......-..... as 3 2 3 00
eee, ee... eee a 3 20
ee ae 3 30
Le eee 3 50 $ 40
No. 27.. 50

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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
ee eee et 1 50
Bea fice... ............. 1 75
Shovels and Spades
Wiret Grade, Doz............. oe 8 60
moeond Grade, DOZ............--...-.. 8 10
Solder
4@%... 20

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

 
  
  
 
  

Squares
eee: ane Tie... .. ts. .,.e.. 65
Tin—Melyn Grade

mens WO, Careeal. 4, .... 4. 5... $ 8 50
eee TC, COeL,..... «os wo eo 8 50
OE eee 9 75

Each additional X on this grade, $1.25.

Tin—Allaway Grade

ee TC, Ceerconl..................... 7 00
boo Obarconl...:................. 7 00
Merete Ceeeeoe).............---.-.- 8 50
EO eee 8 5

Each additional X on this grade, $1.50

Boiler Size Tin Plate
14x56 IX, for No.8 Boilers, f
14x56 IX, for No.9 Boilers, § per pound.. 10
Traps

CE 75
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s..... 408&10
Oneida Community, Hawley & Nor-

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Mouse, choker, per doz.......... .... 15
Mouse, delusion, per doz..... —-...- 1 25

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Mamceiod Warnes... ..................- 60
Coppered Market...................... 50&10
Tiagoa Marhet......................+. 50&10
st eg rid SOOT... 5k oe 40
Barbed Fence, Galvanized............ 4 30
Barbed Fence, Painfed................ 4 15
Wire Goods
ee 75
Screw Eyes. 7
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Gate Hooks and Eyes................. 76
Wrenches

3axter’s Adjustable, Nickeled........ 30
OE — OO 10

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Status of the Independent Telephone

Movement,

The statement of President Glidden,
of the Erie Telephone Co., to the effect
that all the independent telephone com-
panies in the State are falling over
themselves in the attempt to get into
the Bell bandwagon, is undoubtedly a
fiction, conceived in the cunning brain
of one of the most fertile strategists in
the telephone business. Mr. Glidden
came to the city last week and_ inserted
interviews in the daily papers to the
effect that he was here to receive propo-
sitions for the purchase of the Citizens
Telephone Co. He hung around two
days, throwing out covert hints to the
effect that he was receiving numerous
propositions from the independent tele-
phone companies of Western Michigan,
but as he was not approached by any
officer or stockholder of the local com-
pany, he left the city in disgust.

The Tradesman is authorized to state
that no negotiations are in progress
looking toward the sale of the local ex-
change and that, contrary to all state-
ments which may be made by Bell offi-
cials, no response whatever has been
made to the overtures of the Bell people.
This statement will also probably hold
true as regards the local exchanges in
other parts of the State, very many of
which, the Tradesman is assured, have
received overtures from the Glidden
crowd, but that no negotiations what-
ever have been entered into. As a re-
sult of the false and misleading state-
ments constantly put out by the Bell
people, a meeting of the local telephone
companies was held in this city yester-
day, resulting in an iron-clad compact
being entered into, by which the inde-
pendent companies agree to make no
sale whatever of their plants or any por-
tion thereof to emissaries of the Bell
Co. This will tend to solidify the in-
dependent movement, the agreement
having heen entered into by all of the
independent companies except those at
Saginaw, South Haven, Three Rivers
and Allegan, which were not represented
at the meeting.

While the sale of the Detroit telephone
properties is a direct slap to the rest of
the State and an exhibition of treachery
which would not be tolerated in any
other city, it is not nearly so serious as
the Bell people would make it appear.
When the purchase was completed,
Mr. Glidden announced that it repre-
sented 70 per cent. of the independent
business of the State. Figuring by
phones and miles of toll lines, the De-
troit properties represented exactly 27
per cent. of the independent telephone
systems of the State and, while the sale
was a blow to the independent move-
ment in Michigan and should be re-
sented asa species of treachery unworthy
of a great market, yet the circumstances
were such that it is hardly fair for retail
merchants throughout the State to carry
out the talk of retaliation against the
wholesale trade of that market, because
very few representatives of the jobbing
trade were interested in the company,
the organizers being professional pro-
moters, who apparently organized the
companies solely for the sake of sand-
bagging the Bell company. The most
unfortunate feature of the whole situa-
tion is the unprotected condition in
which it leaves the minority stockhold-
ers, who will probably never realize any-
thing whatever from their investment.

The officers of the Citizens Telephone
Co. of Grand Rapids could not afford to
sell out the Citizens Co. until every
other independent company in Michigan

 

was first acquired by the Bell company,
because it has been built by leading
citizens, including members of the job-
bing trade, and much of the energy with
which the independent movement has
been prosecuted elsewhere is due to
the influence and example of the Grand
Rapids exchange, and the promises of
co-operation held out by it. To sell the
local exchange under such circumstances,
until every other local independent ex-
change in the State has been swallowed
up by the Bell octopus, would be to in-
vite a boycott on the part of every retail
merchant doing business with Grand
Rapids jobbers, which would give the
trade of the town a blow from which it
would be a long time in recovering.

~~» 0.
Object to Giving a Five-thousand Dollar
Bond,
If Chicago commission merchants

have their wishes granted the law which
compels them to take out bonds before
they can solicit shipments of produce from
Michigan will be a detriment to the
growers and a benefit to the merchants.
At a recent meeting South Water street
dealers, it is said, decided they would
be compelled to comply with the new
Michigan act, and they therefore de-
cided they would raise the Io per cent.
rate of commission to 15 per cent. They
also decided to fight the law, in the
hope of having it declared unconstitu-
tional, and_ have already retained G. J.
Diekema, of Holland, who is under-
stood to have given the law careful con-
sideration and reached the conclusion
that it is radically defective. The en-
actment of the law is regarded by the
Chicago commission men as a direct at-
tack on them. Local commission mer-
chants appear to be unconcerned over
the law and it is understood that Detroit
merchants have reached the conclusion
that it would be cheaper to execute the
bond required by the act than to attempt
to have the law declared unconstitutional

‘especially as the expense of testing
the law is to be undertaken by the Chi-
cago dealers.

ST
Rapidly Gaining Ground.

Saginaw, Jan. 22—The_ recently-or-
ganized Business Men’s Association will
probably hold a meeting within a few
days, as the committees on constitution
and by-laws and rooms have practically
prepared their reports. The Associa-
tion adjourned subject to the call of the
Secretary, who has not yet fixed the date
of the meeting. The membership roll
has been swelled to 80, a gain of ten
members since the last meeting, and it
is expected that more than 100 business
men will associate themselves with the
organization before the charter roll is
closed. That hearty co-operation on the
part of those who have many interests
in common can accomplish much goes
without saying, and if the new organi-
zation be so fortunate as to secure this
it will rank among the helpful factors of
the new year.

a
Pontiac Grocers in Line.

Pontiac, Jan. 22—Local grocerymen
have formed an association for common
benefit to its members. Out of sixteen
grocery firms, fourteen joined the Asso-
ciation. The object will be to maintain
better business relations, stop selling
goods below actual cost and to further
the interests of the grocerymen in every
way. Another scheme which the Asso-
ciation has adopted is one to prevent
their losing on bad accounts. The
officers elected are D. C. Lewis, Presi-
dent; W. J. Fisher, Vice-President, and
W. B. Anderson, Secretary and Treas-
urer.

 

————_s-e2a___.
Marshall Business Men Organize.

Marshall, Jan. 22—At a public meet-
ing of the business men of this city, it
was decided to organize the Marshall
Improvement Association to make an
attempt to boom the city by securing
more manufacturing companies to locate
here. The following officers were
elected: President, W. J. Blood; Vice-
President, S. F. Dobbins; Secretary
and Treasurer, G. H. Southworth.

 

Hides, Pelts, Furs, Tallow and Wool.

The decline of price on light hides
has been checked. The stocks on hand
were all cleaned up, leaving a_ bare
market, with a continued demand. The
quality of goods offered has much to do
with this decline. Prices were too high
to afford a margin to tanners on their
output.

The market on pelts holds firm, with
little change in values.

Furs of some grades are firmer, on ac-
count of reported operations in London.
The London sales.now going on will be
reported this week, which wili establish
values for the balance of the season.

Tallow remains strong at the advance,
with light offerings.

Wools hold strong at former values.
Sales are not large. The importation
of coarse grades are of some magnitude.
Supplies in sight are lower than at the
Same time last year, with all factories
at work at their fullest capacities.

Wm. T. Hess.
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Daniel S. Minogue, formerly of this
city, but now employed by Leland,
Wood & Sheldon, at Sisson, Cali.,
writes the Tradesman as follows: .'‘If
you see any of the old boys who were
schoolmates with us, please tell them
that I am alive and well in the Golden
West, with the beautiful scenery and un-
paralleled climate. Also tell them that
if they are coming this way they can
get plenty of the Golden West, with
beautiful scenery, etc., but they can not
live on it, as the Almighty Dollar is as
hard to get here as it is in Grand Rap-
ids.’’

Se

Minneapolis turns with complacency
from an examination of her yearly ac-
counts. There is no particular reason
why she shouldn’t. In ’98 she ‘‘did
herself proud’’ with an output of
14,232,595 barrels of flour and finds that
in 1899 she has broken the record, with
14,291,780 barrels.

Busines Hants

 

 

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

 

BUSINESS CHANCES.

POR SALE—HARNESS BUSINESS. GRAND
location, with long established family influ-
ence to help build up big trade. Town over
6,000; excellent farming country; store, 22x70,
situated near farmers’ sheds; small competition,
none near; rent low in order to assist anyone
looking for excellent spot to start in business in
Southern Michigan. Address, at onee, William
Connor, Room 82, Sweet’s Hotel, Grand Rapids,
Mich. 191

 

kK YR SALE CHEAP—A RACKET STORE;
only one in thriving town of 800 inhabitants.
M. Grinnell, Shepherd, Mich. 188

POR SALE—THE ONLY GENERAL STOCK

in small town; good surrounding country

and good established trade. Reason for selling,

»00r health Address Box 56, Alto, Kent Co.,
190

 

Mich.
ro SALE—ABSOLUTELY CASH GROCERY
business; sales, $20,000 last year; established
two years; large possibilities; admirably located,
moderate rent; $2,000 stock, $400 fixtures, con-
sisting of scales, safe, ete.; town of 10,000 to 12,-
000 inhabitants; county seat and large manufac-
turing center; large farming districts surround-
ing. Owner has other business. Address Cash
Grocery, care Michigan Tradesman. 189
W ANTED—STOCK OF HARDWARE IN
voicing $1.500 to $2,000 in town of 1,000 to
3,000 inhabitants, with well-established trade.
Good reasons for selling that I can buy right.
Address L. C., 137 Superior St., Toledo, Ohio.
1

 

 

VOR SALE — CLEAN NEW STOCK OF
clothing and furnishing goods; only stock in
town; great chance; small capital; reason for
selling, ill health. Address K, care Michigan
Tradesman. 184
OR SALE OR EXCHANGE—A TWO-STORY
brick business block in a Central Michigan
town; double room, 40x60 feet; rental value,
$600 per year; price, $5,000; or will exchange for
stock of clothing, boots and shoes. Address No.
175, care Michigan Tradesman. 175
O RENT—GOOD STORE, FINE LOGA-
tion for dry goods or general stock. <A live
man with good stock can do a very satisfactory
business; rent, reasonable. G.H. Kirtland, 1151
South Division St., Grand Rapids. 180

 

OR SALE OR TRADE—MODERN_ EIGHT-
room house and two large lots in Muskegon
Heights. Would take grocery stock as part pay-
ment. For particulars address Mrs. M. A. Lundy,
Benton Harbor, Mich., Rural Delivery. 185
V “ANTED—SECOND-HAND ENGINE AND
boiler, forty horse power. State price and
condition. A. Kimball, Mancelona, Mich. 179

kK‘ IR SALE OR EXCHANGE—STORE BUILD-
ing and small general stock in good Michigan

town. Might exchange part. Address No. 177,

care Michigan Tradesman. 177

Ke SALE OR EXCHANGE—NEW EIGHT
hundred dollar grocery stock in Port Huron;
established trade; good location. Owner has
other business. Address No. 176, care Michigan
Tradesman. 176
Fok SALE—DRUG STOCK IN TOWN OF
2,000. Established 25 years. Invoices nearly
$4,000. No competition within a radies of twenty
miles. Sales last year, $11,000. Owner has other
business which demands his attention else-
where. A gold mine for a good pharmacist.
Address No. 174, care Michigan Tradesman. 174
7” EXCHANGE —CITY LOTS AND 80
, acre farm, all free and clear, and some cash
for stock of merchandise. Address Wm. Springer,
425 Straight St., Grand Rapids, Mich. 171
POR SALE—RACKET STORE, DOING A
good exclusive cash business at county seat
of 6,000 population. Stock invoices $3,000. Poor
health reason for selling. Address Box 801, War-
saw, Ind. 161

— SALE—IMPROVED FARM IN GOOD
locality; good shape, well cared for; good
buildings; good water, ete. A. & O. Baxter,
Muskegon, Mich. 160
apt SALE AT A BARGAIN—TWO THOU-
sand dollar stock of groceries, feed, ete.,
also store, fixtures, millinery store and stock ad-
joining; also large warehouse beside railroad
track. Profits last year, two thousand five hun-
dred dollars. Proprietor wishes to retire. Ad-
dress E. D. Goff, Fife Lake, Mich. 159
NOR SALE—FINE HOTEL AND SMALL
livery barn; doing good business; terms to
suit. Address No. 135, care Michigan Trades-
mab 135
peed CASH PAID FOR STOCK OF DRY
goods, groceries or boots and shoes. Must
be cheap. Address A. D., care Michigan Trades-
man. 130
JE XCHANGE FOUR GOOD HOUSES, FREE
and clear, good location, for a stock of dry
goods or clothing, either in or out of city. Reed
& Osgood, 32 Weston building, Grand Rapids.
127

 

 

 

 

 

 

= SALE—GENERAL STOCK IN GOOD
country trading point. Terms to suit pur-
chaser. Will rent or sell store building. Ad-
dress No. 116, care Michigan Tradesman. 116

RYSON 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, WITHOUT ANY DE-
lay, will be paid for stocks of dry goods,
shoes or — merchandise, at a discount.
Correspondence positively held confidential.
Large stocks preferred. Address A. P., care
Michigan Tradesman. 107
rT 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
see SALE—NEW GENERAL STOCK. A
splendid farming conntry. No trades. Ad-
dress No. 680, care Michigan Tradesman. 680

 

NHE 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.
ANTED — POSITION AS GROCERY
clerk. Have had one year’s experience;
have also had two years’ experience as book-
keeper since leaving college. Best of references
furnished. Address No. 192, care Michigan
Tradesman. 192
E A. RANDALL WISHES A SITUATION
e as salesman with first-class dry goods
house. Has had plenty of experience; at home
in any department. Address, care Lee Bros. &
Co., Dowagiae, Mich. 193
ANTED—REGISTERED PHARMACIST,
recommended, single man preferred. Ad-
dress C. W. Fisher, Shelby, Mich. 187
OUNG MAN, EXPERIENCED STENOG-
rapher, bookkeeper and general office man
desires position. Good references. Address
box 40, West Campbell, Mich. 183

 

 

ANTED—POSITION AS MANAGER OR
head clerk in general store; 15 years’ ex-
perience as buyer and manager. Good refer-
ences. Address No. 181, care Michigan Trades-
man. 181
XPERIENCED DRUGGIST WANTS SIT-
uation. Address No. 178, eare Michigan
Tradesman. 178
ANTED—EXPERIENCED CEMENT
manufacturer at once. Address, stating
age, salary, ete., No. 182, care Michigan Trades-
man. 182
ANTED— AN EXPERIENCED SALES-
man to sell groceries for an old established
firm in Michigan. None but an experienced
man need apply. References required. Address
letters to X., care Michigan Tradesman. 170
ANTED—EX PERIENCED CIGAR SALES-
man for Southern Michigan and Northern
Indiana. Trade well established. Cigars, good
sellers. Good salary to right man. Address No
169, care Michigan Tradesman.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Travelers’ Time Tables.

MERCANTILE ASSOCIATIONS

 

 

 

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Railroad

 

Chicago.
Ly. G. Rapids, 7:10am 12:00m 4:30pm *11:50pm
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 City, 12:40pm 9:10pm
Ar. Charlev’x, 3:15pm 11:25pm
Ar. Petoskey, 3:45pm 11:55pm

Trains arrive from north at 2:40pm, and
and 10:00pm.

Detroit.
Ly. Grand Rapids.... 7:10am 12:05pm 5:30pm
Ar. Detroit........... 11:50am 4:05pm 10:05pm
Lv. Detroit........... 8:40am 1:10pm 6:00pm
Ar. Grand Rapids.... 1:30pm 5:10pm 10:45pm

Saginaw, Alma and Greenville.

Lv Grand Rapids...... ......... 7:00am 5:20pm
AP BANA fo ots. swe 11:55pm 10:15pm
Ly Saginaw.... ......... 7:00am 4:50pm
Ar Grand Rapids ............... 11:55am 9:50pm

Parlor ears on all trains to and from Detroit
and Saginaw. Parlor cars on afternoon trains
to and from Chicago. Pullman sleepers on night
trains. Parlor ear to Traverse City on morn-
ing train.

*Every day. Others week days only.

Gro. DEHAVEN, General Pass. Agent.
Grand Rapids, Mich.
January 1, 1900.

GRAN

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

 

 

Trunk Railway System
Detroit and Milwaukee Div

 

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

Buftalo, N. Y., Toronto, Mon-
treal & Boston, Ltd Ex..* 7:20pm *10:16am

Going West.
Gd. Haven Express............*10:21am * 7:15pm
Gd. Haven and Int. Pts.......+12:58pm + 3:19pm

Gd. Haven and Milwaukee....+ 5:12pm +10:llam
Eastbound 6:50am train has new Buffet parlor
car to Detroit, eastbound 3:27pm train has new
Buffet parlor car to Detroit.
*Daily. +Except Sunday.
C. A. JUSTIN, _ Pass. Ticket Agent,
97 Monroe St., Morton House.

 

 

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Northern Division. Goin From
Nort North

Trav. City, Petoskey, Mack. + 7:45am + 5:15pm
Trav. City, Petoskey, Mack. t+ 2:10pm +10:15pm
Cadillac Accommodation... + 5:25pm +10:45am
Petoskey & Mackinaw City +11:00pm t+ 6:20am
7:45am and 2:10pm trains, parlor cars; 11:00pm
train, sleeping car.
Southern Division Going From
South South
+7:10am_ + 9:45pm
+ 2:00pm + 2:00pm

Kalamazoo, Ft. Wayne Cin.
Kalamazoo and Ft. Wayne.
Kalamazoo, Ft. Wayne Cin. -* 7:00pm * 6:45am
Kalamazoo and Vicksburg. *11:30pm_* 9:10am

7:10am train has parlor car to Cincinnati,
coach to Chicago; 2:00pm train has parlor car to
Fort Wayne; 7:00pm train has sleeper to Cincin-
nati; 11:30pm train, sleeping car and coach to
Chicago.

Chicago Trains.

TO CHICAGO.
Ly. Grand Rapids...+7 10am +2 00pm
Ar. Chicago......... 2 30pm 8 45pm
FROM CHICAGO
‘Ly. Chicago...................t3 02pm *11 32pm
Ar. Grand Rapids............. 9 45pm 6 45am
Train leaving Grand Rapids 7:10am has coach;
11:30pm train has coach and sleeping car; train
leaving Chicago 3:02pm has coach; 11:32pm has
sleeping car for Grand Rapids.
Muskegon Trains.
GOING WEST.
Lv. Grand Rapids....+7 35am +1 35pm +5 40pm
Ar. Muskegon........ 9 00am 2 50pm 7 00pm
Sunday train leaves Grand Rapids 9:15am;
arrives Muskegon at 10:40am. Returning leaves
Muskegon 5:30pm; arrives Grand Rapids, 6:50pm.
GOING EAST.
,Ly. Muskegon...... +8 10am +12 15pm +4 00pm
Ar. Grand Rapids... 9 30am =130pm = 5 20pm
+Except Sunday. *Daily.
c. L. LOCKWOOD,
Gen’l or and Ticket Agent.

Ticket Agent Union Station.

MANISTE

*11 30pm
7 00am

 

 

& Northeastern Ry.

 

Best route to Manistee.

Via C. & W. M. Railway.
Lv. Grand Rapids................ 7 30am _—_......
Ar. Manistee.................. 12 06pm _........
TR ARISCC... 5. . cc. ec eee ee ee 8 40am 3 55pm

Ar. Grand Rapids.............. 2.40pm 10 00pm

Michigan Business Men’s Association

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

Michigan Retail Grocers’ Association
President, .J. WISLER, Mancelona; Secretary,
E. A. Stowk, Grand Rapids.

Detroit Retail Grocers’ Association

President, JosSEPH KNIGHT; Secretary, E.
MARKs; Treasurer,C H. FRINK.

Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association

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

Saginaw Mercantile Association

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

Jackson Retail Grocers’ Association

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

Adrian Retail Grocers’ Association

President, A. C. CLARK; Secretary, E. F.
CLEVELAND; Treasurer, WM. C. KOEHN

Muskegon Retail Grocers’ Association
President, H. B. SmirH; Secretary, D. A.
BOELKINS; Treasurer, J. W. CASKADON.
Bay Cities Retail Grocers’ Association

President, C. E. WALKER; Secretary,
LITTLE.

E. C.

Kalamazoo Reta:! Grocers’ Association
President, W. H. JOHNSON; Secretary, UHAS.
HYMAN.
Traverse City Business Men’s, Association

President, THOS T. Bares; Secretary, M. B.
Houuy; Treasurer, C. A. HAMMOND.

Owosso Business Men’s Association
President, A. D. WHIPPLE; Secretary, G. T.
CAMPBELL; Treasurer, W. E. COLLINS.
Alpena Business Men’s Association
President, F. W. GILCHRIST; Secretary, C. L.
PARTRIDGE.
Grand Rapids Retail Meat Dealers’ Association

President, L. M. WILson; Secretary, PHILIP
HILBER; Treasurer, S. J. HUFFORD.

St. Johns Business Men’s Association
President, THOS. BROMLEY; Secretary, FRANK
A. Percy; Treasurer, CLARK A. PUTT.
Perry Business Men’s Association
President, H. W. WALLACE; Secretary, T. E.
HEDDLE.

Grand Haven Retail Merchants’ Association
President, F. D. Vos; Secretary, J. W. VER-
HOEKs. :
Yale Business Men’s Association

President, CHAS. RoUNDS; Secretary, FRANK
PUTNEY.

 

 

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TO ALL POINTS IN MICHIGAN

H. F. MOELLER, aA. G. P. A.

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public? The manufacturers, by constant and judi-
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very presence creates a demand for other articles.

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The following kinds will be found in our line:

COMICS CARD MOUNTS
LACE CARD ASSORTMENTS
BOOKLETS FANCY NOVELTIES

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THE COMPUTING SCALE CoO.,

Uncle Sam is giving John Bull
a lesson in economy.

We can give our cousins lots of
pointers and they are not slow to
adopt them either; even the delib-
erate conservative Englishman. has
adopted “The Money Weight Sys-
tem.”

He knows a money maker when
he sees it.

Must we carry you clean across
the ocean for an object lesson?

Don't you see the point, don't
you realize your position?

Drop us a card. Remember our
scales are sold on easy monthly pay-
ments.

DAYTON, OHIO