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4 sets Coffees, handled ...0-... 1.0.2... Oe 4 20

Sei eS 1 doz Plates, s-ineh. ore 1 1 69

13 doz. Plates, 7-inch. nea 18 98

5 doz. Plates, 6-ineh .... in 6 20

7 doz. Plates, 5 inch.. ne 1. 7 07

1 doz. Plates, 7 7-inch soup coupe. Dawes - 1s 1 46

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1 doz. Oatmeals.... ... cae ne ee - 136 1 36

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grades of French China. The additional features of the pattern are the rich embossments,
the graceful shapes and artistic outlines, the lightness of weight and excellence of the
selection, and the delicate gold tracery on the knobs and handles and dishes.

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IMPORTANT FEATURES.

Page. ee

2. Dry Goods.

3. Trials of the Grocer.

4. Around the State.

5. Grand Rapids Gossip.

The Produce Market.

6. Woman’s World.

8. Editorial.

9. Editorial.

Rural Mail Delivery.

Men and Dogs.

Crockery and Glassware Quotations.
Shoes and Leather.

Those Pioneer Sawmills.

The Meat Market.

Bntter, Eggs and Poultry Situation,
Gotham Gossip.

Commercial Travelers.

Drugs and Chemicals.

Drug Price Current.

Grocery Price Current.
Grocery Price Current.
Successful Salesmen.

Getting the People.

Hardware Price Current.
Address of Ex-Presidont Stevens.’
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The Grain Market.

The lack of speculation in wheat
seems to depress prices for the present.
Cash wheat is getting scarcer right along
and prices are high in comparison with
futures. Why this state of affairs should
exist is hard to tell unless it is the ele-
vator trust in Chicago, which is crowd-
ing prices down, notwithstanding the
visible made a decrease of 1,239,000
bushels, and the invisible is away be-
low what it was one year ago when we
had a large crop to help out, while the
present crop was way below that of
1898. To be sure, our exports are some
30,000,000 bushels less than at the cor-
responding period in 1899, but what is
that when our harvest was 135,000,000
bushels less? Still the short element is
putting new lines out, but a day of
reckoning will come, and come when
least expected. The report is that all
the country elevators are full, but we
fail to see it, for if they were so full
why is not more offered here? We had
good roads, fair prices, but no wheat
moving from first hands. We also find
that what little wheat is held by coun-
try elevators is held by farmers and they
do not propose to sell while the outlook
for the coming crop is not at all good,
as the fly has destroyed a large amount
of acreage, which will have to be re-
planted in oats or corn. The fields in
this locality are covered with snow, but
south and east of us the ground is bare,
not alone in Michigan but in Ohio and
Indiana. Why procrastinate? It seems
a foregone conclusion that the present
price of wheat is below its intrinsic
value.

Corn seems very steady and exporters
have taken probably 35,000,000 bushels
more than at the same time last year
and farmers are not tumbling over one
another to sell, but prefer to wait for
better prices.

Oats are held up in price. Receipts
are not crowding on the market and
the oatmeal men are picking up all the
oats which are offered at present and
shipments are large, which accounts for
the strength.

Rye is flat, there being no demand to
speak of. Distillers are out of the mar-
ket. Prices are not changed.

 

GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1900.

Beans are being picked up as fast as
offered. Prices are still above the $2
mark and probably will remain so until
another crop is raised.

The flour trade has been slow the past
few days, as the dealers seem to think
that the price in Chicago wheat regu-
lates the price of flour. They do not
know that this can not be the case, as
that kind of wheat is a poor article to
make into good Michigan flour.

Mill feed is scarce and prices are well
sustained for both bran and middlings.

Receipts during the week were 37
cars of wheat, Ig cars of corn, 3 cars of
oats and I car of rye.

Receipts for the month were 182 cars
of wheat, 68 cars of corn, 16 cars of
oats, 5 cars of rye, 3 cars of flour, 2 cars
of beans, Io cars of hay, 4 cars of straw
and | car of potatoes.

For the corresponding month in 1899
the receipts were 249 cars of wheat, 39
cars of corn, 22 cars of oats, 11 cars of
rye.

We might mention that Detroit re-
ceived during January 140 cars of wheat,
against 182 cars for Grand Rapids.

Millers are paying 67c for wheat, or Ic
more than last week, while prices in
grain centers are some lower.

C. G. A. Voigt.
+> 2.
Old Hands at the Business—Another Fake
House.

Recent developments serve to con-
vince the Tradesman that the McDonald
trio who succeeded in swindling Mich-
igan shippers out of $15,000 worth of
goods during the month of December
are old hands at the business, having
been identified as the Mullhall gang,
which has moved from place to place
during the past half dozen years, leaving
a large circle of mourners in the vicin-
ity of each locality.

The Tradesman is informed that an-
other attempt will be made to exploit a
swindling produce house here in the
near future and that circulars are al-
ready being prepared by a local printer,
soliciting shipments of eggs at prices
above the parity of any Western market.
The Tradesman wishes to caution its
readers not to make shipments to this
house until they satisfy themselves as to
the reliability, or unreliability, of the
institution. Further facts will be given
by the Tradesman from time to time in
regard to this matter.

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Smiles cause wrinkles; but if you

laugh all the time, no one will notice

whether your face be smooth or not.
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Mrs. M. Harvey has engaged in the
grocery business at the corner of
Wealthy and Grandville avenues. The
Olney & Judson Grocer Co, furnished

the stock.
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Littlejohn Bros. have engaged in the
grocery business near Boyne City. The
stock was furnished by the Ball-Barn-

hart-Putman Co.
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Rice & Matheson have leased a
warehouse at Petoskey and will open a
branch establishment at that place
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Number 855

GENERAL TRADE REVIEW.

In considering the conditions of busi-
ness throughout the country, it is to be
taken into consideration that the long
period of increasing activity and ad-
vancing prices has caused transactions
in anticipation of much of the future in
almost all lines. A year ago now the
anticipatory business was in full blast,
and with the work of combination and
recapitalization swelled the volume of
apparent business, as indicated by the
clearing house, far beyond any previous
record, and beyond the present reports,
Thus a considerable portion of the busi-
ness now in progress is the carrying out
of old contracts, which lessen new orders
to a very appreciable extent.

With these and other conditions, such
as the foreign situation, operating to
prevent the advance of stocks, there is
such a strong tone in the general situa-
tion that a positive upward movement
is in The advance is slow,
but is in evidence all along the indus-
trial line, and in less degree the trans-
portation issues are strengthening. ‘The
lead in the advance is taken by the iron
and steel stocks, which have made un-
expectedly favorable reports of the
year’s business and declared more lib-
eral dividends than anticipated.

In the iron and steel trades the tend-
ency to lower prices is manifest except

progress.

in cases such as the steel and wire com-
bine, where prices are advanced in
spite of the conditions. In the reports
of prices of anthracite pig and grey
forge and for billets, bars and sheets in
Eastern markets lower prices are paid
than those which ruled in November;
but the difference is such as to indicate
that the situation is well maintained by
a strong undertone.

The movement of prices in textiles
would seem to indicate that the sum-
mit of the advance has not been so near-
ly reached as in most other lines.

The woolen manufacture has taken
large orders for heavyweight goods and
at prices 15 to 30 per cent. and aver-
aging 24 per cent. higher than a year
ago, with wool averaging 35 per cent.
higher. But the big orders for goods
were not followed by purchases of wool
and the trade perceives that the mills
have on hand _ substantially what they
have expected to require for the sea-
son. If they prove to be right the large
quantity of wool held for speculation
will have to be sold in competition with
the clip which comes forward in May.
The cotton manufacture is not helped,
nor is the demand for goods, by the rise
of cotton five-sixteenths during the last
week.

The boot and shoe works are getting
little new business, because buyers re-
fuse to pay the prices asked except for
the limited quantities they immediately
need, so that a yielding of half a cent a
pound in hemlock sole and some other
leather is not a bad sign, nor the grad-
ual decline in hides at Chicago, which
has averaged 4.6 per cent. since Decem-
ber 13.. Deliveries on previous orders
in January were from Boston, 473,973
cases, not quite 4 per cent. more than
in 1894, but 19.8 per cent. smaller than
last year, while Western reports indi-
cate strong expansion of the business
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_ Dry Goods

The Dry Goods Market.

Staple Cottons—Most of the lines of
cotton goods are in such short supply
that the question of price does not enter
into the transaction to any great extent.
For goods already on contract, every
effort is made to secure deliverics
earlier than originally contracted for.
The business is larger than at any time
during the past ten years for the same
period. The mills are unable to-day to
cope with the business on hand. Not
only is there a large yardage still on
back orders, but they are handicapped
still by the lack of water to run their
machinery. The duplicate orders which
must soon come to hand have been held
back by the jobbers until they can form
some better estimate of their needs. The
jobbers were prepared to a_ considerable
extent for the business which they are
doing, and consequently have not
rushed their new orders forward, de-
pending on orders already placed to
keep them supplied for a little while.

 

Linings—The cotton linings have
shown no material change during the
past week. New business has_ been
very moderate, and the mills are mak-
ing every effort to deliver old orders
within the time specified.

Underwear—The delivery of spring
goods began about three weeks ago.
Owing to the pressure of business, the
unusually short buying season and the
difficulty in running the mills, on ac-
count of the lack of water power, the
deliveries are very slow and _ unsatisfac-
tory. Buyers now realize that they will
not receive all the goods they contracted
for. The demand for balbriggans is
very large, and a great deal of difficulty
is experienced at this time in obtaining
goods even at advanced prices. Al-
though the advance in heavyweights is
considerable, it is nothing abnormal.
The fact must be taken into considera-
tion that the season opened last year at
from 5@I1oc below the prices of the year
preceding it. Prices varied consider-
ably on the various lines, and we esti-
mate the rise to be from 12% to 20
per cent., the sharpest advances being
in wool goods. Yarn is very hard, and
a great many manufacturers find diffi-
culty in obtaining enough yarn to man-
ufacture fall goods.

Hosiery—The conditions that mark
the underwear industry seem to be al-
most identical in the hosiery business
also. There is no doubt that the early
buyer will reap the profits of his fore-
sight. The manufacturers are beginning
to refuse orders from the jobbers, in
fact, many times they are so crowded
with orders that they realize that they
will not get all their goods delivered.
Agents refuse to take orders even for
next season. Buyers will certainly have
to pay an advance on duplicaic orders.
The delivery of foreign hosiery will also
be greatly delayed. Raw material and
labor not only have advanced, but it is
difficult to get good labor even at high
prices, as the laborers are seeking em-
ployment elsewhere in trades paying
better than knitting mills, and the
amount of goods turned out must of ne-
cessity be less.

Carpets—The jobbers report a good
demand for carpets, especially ingrains.
The fact that the prices for all kinds of
carpets are sure to advance has stimu-
lated the buyers to place larger orders.
The average price for all wool standard
extra supers is 47%c. The last advance
of 12%c per yard by some of the lead-

 

ing nbs, Jan. 10, brought the price up
to soc. We do not know of any orders
having been taken at the latter price as
yet, but there was such a rush of orders
at the old price that manufacturers were
convinced that the time had arrived
when they should ask more money.
Many of them are covered with orders
already (at the old prices) to last them
practically the whole of the season, and
the advance, as we stated previously,
will only affect duplicate business. It
is true that some of the buyers who
were banking on old prices remaining
got left early in the season, and recently
stirred themselves to get in before any
further advance was made, which they
are now convinced must come in order
to insure the manufacturer against the
increase in the price of all raw material
and yarn. There is no old stock to draw
from, and no manufacturer is safe in
taking orders ahead who is not covered.
Even the lower grades of yarn have
shared in the improvement. Some of the
leading ingrain carpet manufacturers
state that they feel confident there will
be a still further advance before the
opening of next season. Should this oc-
cur it will place the manufacturers in a
very strong position at the opening in
May. In fact, some who anticipate a
very early opening inform the writer
that they have already commenced to
prepare their samples. This is not gen-
eral, as the average mill does not com-
mence to get them out for some weeks
to come.

Smyrna Rugs—Are very firm at the
latest advanced prices. They have met
with phenomenal success this season.
Some manufacturers report that had
they been equipped with three times
their capacity they could easily have
taken orders enough to keep their ma-
chinery running full. Stocks of this
class of goods are small, and great diffi-
culty is experienced in procuring ma-
terial. Those who have placed their

orders at the present prices are very
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Smith—What’s wrong, oldman? You
look worried.
Jones—I am. You know I had my
life insured last week.
Smith—Yes; but what has that got to
do with it?

Jones—Well, the very next day my
wife bought a new cook book. Possibly
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$ 2.25 per doz. goods.................$ 2.00
4.5) per doz. goods... ......... 4.00
6.00 per doz. geods............. 5.50
7.50 per doz. goods. ............... 7.00
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12.00 per doz. goods......... ....... 11.25
13.50 per doz. goods.... ............ 12.50
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Wholesale only.
Call or send for samples.

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Detroit, Mich.

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TRIALS OF THE GROCER.
No Ordinary Paradise Sufticient Reward
for Him.
Written for the Tradesman.

I had just secured the attention of the
proprietor of the grocery and was ina
fair way of doing a good stroke of busi-
ness, when the door flew open with a
bang and a red-faced boy of 1o dashed
into the store. He was hatless and coat
less, his trousers were hoisted nearly to
his armpits by one string of a suspen-
der, his feet were bare, although the
morning was cool, and his face looked
as though it hadn’t been washed in a
year.

‘‘Say,’’ he yelled, blustering up to
the merchant and setting a dirty and
battered old tin pail on the counter,
‘‘ma don’t want this stuff. She didn’t
say kerosene, she said molasses. She'll
give it to you fer mussing up this pail
with your old oil.’’

‘*Didn’t you ask for oil?’’ demanded

the merchant, a red spot growing on
either cheek.
‘‘No, I didn’t. What would I want to

ask fer oil fer?’’

The merchant called one of his clerks
and had the exchange made, although
it was evident that the order had been
correctly filled, and the boy, after de-
manding a stick of candy for his trouble,
bounced out of the door, leaving it open
behind him.

‘Children are good customers,’’ I
suggested.

‘*Don’t know what we'd do without
them,’’ said the grocer. *‘They make
mistakes in giving orders and it is all
laid to the grocer. They order things
which the parents know nothing of,
when they get hold of the pass book,
and the grocer is accused of trying to
rob and swindle the father. They fall
down and break glass pitchers and
knock holes through tin pails and lose
money and pass books, and come_ back
crying for the grocer to help them out
in some manner so they won't get
whipped at home. Oh, yes, we have
fine times with children! 1 wonder that
parents trust them to do so much trad-
ing.’’

‘*Perhaps the women are busy and
really do not understand what nuisances
the children make of themselves,’’ I
suggested.

‘*They ought to know,’’ was the re-
ply, ‘‘by the way the little things act
around home. The other day a boy not
yet 6 years old drove away one of my
delivery rigs while the clerk was lug-
ging stuff down cellar for the mother—a
thing he ought never to have been re-
quired to do. The horse ran away, broke
the wagon and came very near killing
the boy. And what does the mother do
but come down here and give me an
old-fashioned ‘jawing’ for not making
my clerk hitch his horse? She never
thought, of course, that it was her duty
to keep her young one out of the street.’’

‘‘I presume you explained that to
her,’’ I said.

‘Of course I did,’’ was the reply. ‘‘I
lost a customer, but I freed my mind.
And speaking about children running up
unauthorized accounts reminds me of a
thing that happened only yesterday.
About a month ago, in settling with old
Brown, we found a lot of candy, nuts
and similar stuff that the boy had or-
dered without the knowledge of his par-
ents. At first old Brown swore that I
was trying to cheat him; then, when the
little rascal admitted getting the stuff,
he declared that I had no right to let the
boy have the goods and ae to pay
for them.’

 

‘And the boy was ordering goods for |

the family right along?’’

**Certainly. Well, the old man finally
settled, with many cuss words’ and
threats, and all went on smoothly until
yesterday. Then the boy came in and
called for a lot of nuts and candy and
said he’d take them with him. Of
course I thought I smelled a mouse at
once and questioned him. He acted
guilty and I finally declared that |
would not let him have the goods with-
out an order from his father or mother.’’

‘*Right, of course.’

‘‘Oh, yes, but just see how it came
out. The little chap went away mad
and came back in five minutes with
his father. And the father was mad,
too. You see, they were arranging for a
party of some sort at the house, and the
urchin had really been sent for the nuts
and candy. The father called me down
before a storeful of customers, said I’d
called his boy a thief and all that. |
stood it as long as I could and then
kicked him out of the store. Another
customer gone! But one can’t stand
everything, you know, even if he does
run a grocery store.’’

‘*The people do not agree with you on
that point,’’ I said.

‘‘No, they seem to think we will en-
dure treatment which a beggar would re-
sent. One day, not long ago, a little
girl came here crying and said she'd
lost the pass book and her mother would
punish her. She was a _ pretty little
thing who had never made me any
trouble, and, having a little spare time
just then, I took a new book, copied
into it the family account from my own
book, and gave it to her.

‘*You should have seen the breeze the
thing kicked’ up. The mother discov-
ered the substitution, of course, and
came right down to the store to make a
fuss about it. She had learned about the
loss of the book before she got here, of
course, and hinted that I might have
hidden the book in order to cheat her.
She said she’d never ordered half the
things charged and that I would never
have dared put them down to her if she
had her book.

‘‘It wasn’t any use to talk to her.
The child declared that she had lost the
book down by the brook, where she had
stopped to play, and I showed her that
the articles charged were just about the
average supply of the family for the pe-
riod included between the first date and
the last, but it was of no use. You know
what happened then?’’

‘* You lost another customer. ’’

‘‘Yes, but I gain enough by common
sense methods to make up for such
losses; in fact, I do not want to do
business with such cranks. People who
want to take advantage of every inci-
dent in their favor, just or unjust, are
always in trouble, and I don’t want to
have them buzzing around me. There
are folks in the world, you know, who
believe that their children can do no
wrong. Such a man came in here a
week or so ago to settle a bill, bringing
his four-year-old girl with him. Candy
when bills are paid, you see, candy or
a cigar, and this kid came along to get
the candy.

’

‘“While we were figuring up the ac-
count, the girl ran to the back of the
store and began climbing up on one of
the shelves, which happened to hold
empty fruit cans. Well, the shelf wasn’t
made to hold four-year-olds and fruit
cans, too, so it promptly dropped to the
floor, breaking about $5 worth of glass.
And do you know that youngster de-
clared up and down that one of my

 

clerks stepped up on the shelf and broke
it down! She was afraid of a whip-
ping, of course. The father believed
her, and I was out the cost of the
If people can’t keep their children out

glass.

of mischief, they should keep them at |
home, where they can have all the fun
to themselves.

‘‘Now, these are all small things,’’

continued the grocer, *'

small things make a big thing, and

things make people very weary some-
times. Children are taught to steal by
being allowed to take candy, nuts, fruit |

and crackers from open
get angry if anything is said about it. |
think there ought to be a special heaven
made for grocers! They endure so
much here that any ordinary paradise
won't be sufficient reward forthem.’’

‘“Of course, there will be plenty of
children in this new heaven?’’ |
asked.

‘*Yes,’’ was the smiling reply, ‘‘but

they won't go toddling about the golden
streets with grocers’ pass books in their
dainty hands, getting kerosene for mo-
lasses and breaking down store shelves.
Alfred B. ‘Tozer.

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

Around the State

 

 

Movements of Merchants.

Onaway —Patee & Lovell succeed Eli
W. Potee in the meat business.

f Oscoda—Stockman & Co., grocers,
have sold out to J. Lothian & Co.

Munising--C. H. Brown & Son, deal-
ers in notions, have discontinued busi-
ness.

Flowerfield—Wm.
chased
Kepler.

Owosso—Chas. J. Shaw has purchased
the hardware stock of Frank Wescott, at
Vernon.

Lansing—Albert Shaft continues the
fruit business of Shaft & Corwin in his
own name.

Maple City—Stanley & Young are en-
larging their general store to twice its
present size.

Niles—Inez Tyler has purchased the
millinery and dry goods stock of Isaac
D. Van Gorder.

Lakeview—J. J. Bale has purchased
the Staples grocery stock and will con-
tinue the business.

Durand—D. B. Holmes has sold his
stock of dry goods to Lyon & Pond, who
will remove it to Owosso.

Maple Rapids—Lowe & Redfern, the
farm implement dealers, will add a
stock of general hardware.

Holland—W. H. Sutphen, of Alle-
gan, will open a wool and seed store on
River street about March 1.

Detroit—The Hughes & Hough Co.
succeeds Orrin Wardell in the picture
frame and art goods business.

Otsego—F. E. Bushman has sold the
Earle drug stock to E. A. Dunwell, who
will continue the business at this place.

Middleville—John Campbell has sold
his stock of general merchandise and
furnishing goods to E. F. Blake & Co.

lonia—Simpson & Peer have sold
their dry goods stock to Lyon & Pond,
of Owosso, who will close out the stock
at once.

Quincy—F. A. Wagner has sold his
grocery stock and meat market to F, A.
Booth, of Homer, who takes possession
March 1,

Elsie—Walter Lusk has purchased a
stock of general merchandise at Chilson.
He will remove his grocery stock to
that place.

Trout Creek—The W. F, Dermont
Co., general dealer, and the Trout
Creek Lumber Co. are succeeded by W.
F. Dermont.

Brookfield—Myron Stuart has pur-
chased the interest of John O. Smith,
in the agricultural implement firm of
Smith & Crane.

Saranac—J. O. Norton has sold his
meat market to E. Barrows and TT.
Thomas, who have already taken pos-
session of same.

Kalamazoo—Geo, A. & T. B. Oliver
have purchased the grocery stock of
Harvey Woodward and will continue
the business at the same location.

Mt. Pleasant—J. F. Butcher & Co.
are closing out their dry goods and gro-
cery business and will devote their en-
tire attention to their lumber interests.

Detroit—Nelson, Baker & Co. have
filed a notice in the county clerk’s office
that the company’s capital stock has
been increased from $200, 000 to $250, -
Oooo.

Adrian—FEariena L. Hambleton, do-
ing business as Hambleton & Co., at 11
West Maumee street, has been adjud-
icated a bankrupt by the United States
Court at Detroit ; liabilities about $60, -
000 ; assets about $27,000,

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St. Johns—Myron A. Kniffin, who
has been extensively engaged in the
buying and shipping of eggs for a num-
ber of years, has sold out to E. F. Dud-
ley, of Owosso.

Flint—H. N. Bush, with Charles a.
Bartlett as a special partner, has pur-
chased the J. H. Gotshall & Co.’s gen-
eral stock and will continue the business
at the same location.

Muskegon—John Bolt, who recently
retired from the hardware firm of Boer-
sema & Bolt, has purchased the dry
goods stock of Frank Zimmer, at 279
West Western avenue.

Sunfield—Clyder Collar, of Lowell,
has leased the store building now occu-
pied by the bazaar stock of Mead
Bros., and will engage in the bazaar
business about March 1,

Escanaba—Rathfon Bros. & Young
will shortly open their branch shoe store
in the Masonic building. A. J. Young
will manage the business and will be
assisted by Matt. Fillion.

Horton—T. H. Knickerbocker & Co.
will shortly establish here a branch of
their undertaking business at Concord.
Geo. P. Ryan, of Hanover, will have
the management of the business here.

Pigeon—The Pigeon Mercantile Co.
has been organized at this place to suc-
ceed John J. Campbell in the drug and
jewelry business and the Wallace-Camp-
bell-Orr Co. in general trade and the
implement and elevator business.

Menominee—The Richardson Shoe
Co. has increaased its Capacity over 30
per cent. New machinery has been
added and about twenty more men will
be employed. The company expects to
turn out 600 pairs of shoes per day.

Battle Creek—W. G. Camburn, of
Charlotte, who purchased the drug stock
of the Chamberlain Co. some time ago,
has sold out to Martin H. Goodale, of
the Palace Laundry Co. Mr. Goodale
will dispose of his laundry business as
soon as possible, when he will take
charge of the drug business.

Houghton—A_ petition has been filed
in the United States Court at Marquette
by Peter H. Ratz, a butcher doing busi-
ness in Houghton, to be allowed to go
into voluntary bankruptcy. His liabili-
ties are $3,925.07 and_ his assets total
$6,909.54, but of the latter $2,170 is
claimed as exempt under the law.

Ann Arbor—Lindenschmitt & Apfel
have purchased the store building of
Mrs. A. L. Noble, which has been oc-
cupied by Noble’s Star clothing house
and will remove their clothing stock to
that location. Messrs. Lindenschmitt
and Apfel were each employed as clerks
in the Noble store for about fourteen
years prior to their engaging in business
five years ago,

Detroit—The Kaiser-Blair Co. has
been incorporated with $5,000 capital,
of which $4,000 is paidin. The company
will deal in clothing, hats and men’s
furnishings. The stockholders are John
Kaiser and John C. Hartz, 219 shares
each; Donald C. Blair, 62 shares. Mr.
Kaiser was formerly with Schloss Bros.
of this city, while Mr. Blair is now em-
ployed by John C. Harris in his fur-
nishing store.. Mr. Hartz will Carry on
his own business as at present.

Manufacturing Matters,
Detroit—The capital stock of the
Jenks & Muir Manufacturing Co. has
been increased from $50,000 to $100, 000.
Detroit—The M. N, Rowley Co.,

manufacturer of scales, safes and
butchers’ supplies, has merged its
business into a corporation under the

same style,

 

Battle Creek—Another factory will be
erected here the coming spring for the
manufacture of one of the numerous
health foods for which this city has be-
come famous.

Kalamazoo—Murphy & Bauer have
purchased the stock of the Cornell Car-
riage Co., in the painting room, and
have removed it to their Carriage paint-
ing establishment at 216 East Water
street.

Lansing—The Mason Furniture Co.,
owned by Hugh E. Root and Cary C.
Seymour, has changed hands. Mr. Sey-
mour has retired and C. W. Van Slykr,
ex-mayor of Mason, has purchased the
latter’s interest.

Detroit—-Fox Bros. & Co. have formed
a copartnership for the purpose of man-
ufacturing wood mantels and special
furniture. Warren G. Vinton put in
$1,166.66; Albert V. McClure and John
Kelsey, $1,666.67 each. They are the
special partners. C. W. Fox and B. j.
Fox are the other members of the firm.

Homer—A representative of the Squire-
Dingee pickle factory, of Chicago, is to
be in Homer in a few days to confer
with the citizens’ municipal improve-
ment association with regard to moving
the factory to that place. If the works
are secured they will afford a new and
important source of profit for the farm-
ers of the vicinity.

Oxford—Articles of association have
been filed with the county clerk for the
Harris Wire Fence Co., Capitalized at
$30,000, to operate at this place. All
stock has now been taken and the money
paid in. F. A, Moore, of Detroit, is
the largest stockholder in the concern,
The company expects to begin opera-
tions about the middle of March.

Kalamazoo—The Kalamazoo Co-oper-
ative Association has been organized
by the officers and employes of the Up-
john Pill & Granule Co. to engage in
the mercantile, manufacturing or agri-
cultural business to the profit of its
members. The capital stock is $10, 000,
of which one-half has been subscribed
by about seventy-five members and em-
ployes of the company.

Lansing—Prospectors have been mak-
ing an examination of the marl beds in
this vicinity and it is claimed have
found extensive deposits in what is
known as the Chandler marsh, three
miles north of the city on the line of the
Michigan Central Railroad. There is
a large tract of Swampy land several
miles in extent, under which it is be-
lieved there is an inexhaustible supply
of marl suitable for the manufacture of
cement.

Detroit—The Southern Manufacturing
Co. has been incorporated with $20, 000
capital, of which $2,000 is paid in. The
stockholders are Bayard T. Brown and
James Graham, of Detroit, 20 shares
each; Howell T. Fisher, Detroit, 10
shares; Charles A. Howell, Detroit, 4o
shares; George Wandless, Cleveland, 40
shares. The concern will Carry on the
business of mining, refining, smelting
and manufacturing all kinds of ores
and metals.

Marquette—F. W. Sambrook, of
Chocolay, has purchased the Bice mill
at South Marquette from the assignees of
the Wilkinson estate. The mill has
been idle for several years, but will be
completely equipped tor the manufac-
ture of both pine and hardwood. It is
rumored that Mr. Sambrook will grad-
ually transfer the seat of his operations
from Chocolay to this place, although he
will not immediately dismantle the
Chocolay mill.

 

Benton Harbor—The Board of Trade
of this city has raised go, 500, which se-
cures for Benton Harbor J. V. Farwell
& Co’s shirt, overall and duck coat fac-
tory, which will open May 1 with 100
machines. The Farwell company’s coi
tract states that it will remain in this
city ten years, the first year employing
over 100 people, and not less than 250
people the next nine years. The Far-
wells get a building in first-class shape,
with insurance free for five years and
the deed to the building at the expira-
tion of the contract period.

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The Boys Behind the Counter.

Grand Rapids—Claude Boynton, who
was in charge of the black goods de-
partment of Spring & Company, has
been compelled to suffer the amputa-
tion of a leg at the knee. While trying
to board a moving street car last fall he
suffered a fracture of the bones, which
was reduced by a local physician. It
is claimed that the operation was not
properly done and that amputation was
necessary in order to save the life of the
patient. A suit for malpractice will
probably follow.

Houghton—Emil Gelinais, for the
past eleven years clerk in the store of
Graham Pope at this place, has gone to
Trimountain to take charge of the new
store just opened by the Fay people, D.
W. Sutter being the general manager of
the company stores at Elm River and
Trimountain.

Evart—Geo. M. Johnson, of Traverse
City, a graduate in pharmacy, is now
employed at Dumon & Son’s drug store.

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Hides, Pelts, Furs, Tallow and Wool.

Hides are closely sold up, on a de-
clining market. Prices are Ic per
pound lower on light stock while pack-
ers’ hides are quiet. Dealers who were
not inclined to sell last week have sold
freely this week.

Pelts hold strong and are in good de-
mand at fair prices. All supplies are
wanted.

Furs remain firm, with
cleaned up. The catch
Northern Michigan.

Tallow does not materially change.
There are no great offerings, while the
demand is fair.

Wools of all grades are wanted and
sales East are of considerable volume.
Large manufacturers are well stocked,
but they are consuming large amounts.
The cloths offered during the late sales
were eagerly taken, while the price was
far above anticipations. The outlook
could not be well bettered for futures in
wool. Wm. T. Hess.
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Infamous Tactics of the Bell Octopus.
From the Cheboygan Tri bune.

A representative of the Bell telephone
monopoly has been in the city this
week trying to seduce our citizens to
patronize that company’s system. He
Is a smooth talker, but, so far as we have
heard, has not met with very great en-
couragement. Our citizens all remem-
ber the outrageous prices charged for
service by the Bell prior to the estab-
lishment of our home company. Before
opposition they could not afford to. fur-
nish service for a less price than they
were charging. As soon as the home
company was in operation they found
no difficulty in reducing rates and in
many instances provided free service
in order to crush Opposition, but it did
not work, our citizens stood by the Che-
boygan company and made it successful.
They would be foolish to again place
themselves at the mercy of the Bell

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Grand Rapids Gossip

Trials gnd Troubles of the Elwood Paper
“ Company.

H. C. Horrater, traveling representa-
tive for the Elwood Paper Co., has been
in town several days undertaking to set-
tle the accounts alleged to be due his
house for paper bags shipped as the re-
sult of orders he took here last fall.
Mr. Horrater has compromised with
some of the grocers who received goods
which did not conform to sample or rep-
resentation, but has been unable to
realize on many of the accounts he made
here and has, accordingly, entered suit
against H. C. Wendorff for $59.06, be-
ing the amount of the account alleged to
be due from him. The return day of the
case is Thursday of this week, but as
Mr. Horrater will not be present at that
time, an adjournment will be taken un-
til some day next week, at which time
Mr. Wendorff will undoubtedly ask for
an adjournment and insist on the plain-
tiff’s giving security for costs. The is-
suance of the summons discloses the fact
that the Elwood Paper Co. is owned by
one Isaac Levy, but as neither Mr. Levy
nor the Elwood Paper Co. is rated or
even given in the rating books of Dun
and Bradstreet, they are both possibly
covers or aliases for some one who is
ashamed to do business under his own
name.

The principal contention appears to
be the price charged for sugar sacks.
Mr. Horrater stated to a reporter of the
Tradesman that his price for sugar
sacks was from 6 to 8 cents a pound, ac-
cording to the gullibility of the purchas-
er; that he found Grand Rapids grocers
so poorly posted on the price of sacks
by weight that he charged them 7%
cents°a pound. The grocers, on the
other hand, claim that 4% cents a pound
would be a correct price for sacks of
this character and offered to settle the
bills on that basis. A peculiarity of
the situation is that the goods were
shipped in small quantities and that
the invoices were not sent out until
weeks after the goods were shipped, it
being the apparent design of the Elwood
Paper Co. to have some or all of the
sacks used before the invoice should be
received.

Mr. Horrater insisted that his house
has been in existence twenty years and
that it bears a good reputation in the
New York market; that the reason it is
not rated by the mercantile agencies is
that it refused to subscribe to either
agency and that the agencies take ad-
vantage of this fact to injure his house
by refusing to recognize it in any way.
This explanation is so manifestly lame
that it is hardly necessary to characterize
it as false, and, judging by the trouble
the Elwood Paper Co. has had in col-
lecting its accounts here and_ elsewhere
and the number of suits it has had to
institute in this and other states to sus-
tain its claims, it occurs to the Trades-
man that it would be well for dealers
who are not looking for trouble to use
due caution in dealing with the house.

Ca
The Produce Market.

Apples—Spys, Baldwins and _ Jona-
thans are in good demand at $3.50@4
per bbl.

Bananas—Are unchanged _but the cold
weather has checked all shipping and
has temporarily caused demand to fall
off. The available supply is very small,
and arrivals are limited, a combination
of circumstances which holds the mar-
ket firm, even although there is at pres-
ent no d2mand.

Beans—The price is so high that deal-
ers are unable to prognosticate the mar-

 

 

 

ket. The importation of foreign beans
from Hamburg has come to be regarded
as a feature of the market.

Butter—Factory creamery is in plen-
tiful supply at 25c. Dairy grades com-
mand 16@2oc, but most of the receipts
are inferior in quality.

Cabbage—75@goc per doz.

Carrots—$1 per 3 bushel bbl.

Celery—25c per doz. bunches.

Cranberries—-Jerseys have advanced
to $8@8.25 per bbl.

Dressed Poultry—-The market is
stronger and higher, due to bad roads.
Chickens are in active demand at 10@
11c. Fowls are in demand at 9@toc.
Ducks command 11@12c. Geese find a
market on the basis of ro@iic. Turkeys
are in good demand at 11c for No. 2
and 12¢ ae No. 1.

Eggs—Receipts of fresh are very lib-
eral, commandng 15@16c. Cold storage
stock is practically out of market, be-
ing held at 10@1I2c.

Game—Rabbits are slow sale at $1
per doz. Squirrels are in strong demand
at $1 per doz.

Lemons—The lemon trade is dead.
It is impossible to ship lemons during
such cold weather as we have had for
the past week or so and buyers are very
cautious about taking supplies through
fear of their being frosted. The quality
of the fruit now coming forward 1s un-
usually good, possessing all the keeping
qualities, and it should be good _prop-
erty at present quotations. Prices are
not likely to go any lower, for if they
do, importation will cease.

Live Poultry—Squabs have advanced
to $1.75 per doz. and are scarce at that.
Chickens, 7@8c. Fowls, 6@7c. Ducks,
8c for young and 7c for old. Turkeys,
gc for young. Geese, 9c.

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,
commanding s50c for Red Weatherfields,
Yellow Danvers and Yellow Globes and
55c for Red Globes.

Parsnips—$1.25 per 3 bu. bbl.

Potatoes—-The market is without ma-
terial change. Northern buyers are pay-
ing 40@45c, the steady market being at-
tributed largely to the scarcity of cars.

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.

—___»2>—__-—

Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association.

At the regular meeting of the Grand
Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association held
Tuesday evening, Feb. 6, President
Dyk presided.

R. Andree, 1255 South Division street,
Wm. Killean, 115 Canal street, and E.
J. Zevalkink, 182 Butterworth avenue,
applied for membership in the Associa-
tion and were unanimously elected.

The name of C. W. Payne was sub-
stituted for that of J. F. Gaskill asa
member of the special Committee on
Sunday Closing.

The Committee on Banquet presented
a preliminary report and promised to
give a detailed report at the next meet-
ing.

A member called attention to a peti-
tion which is being circulated by
Scofield, Shurmer & Teagle for the pur-
pose of raising the price of Palacine
oil to 14 cents. The matter was referred
to the Committee on Oil.

The Secretary suggested that, on ac-
count of the increasing work of that
office, a typewriter be purchased, and
B. S. Harris, D. S. Gray and Homer
Klap were appointed a committee to de-
cide upon the matter.

F. J. Dyk gave the members a short
talk on his visit to Cleveland as a dele-
gate to the convention of the National
Retail Grocers’ Association.

There being no further business, the
meeting adjourned.

—__> > —__

Julius J. Wagner, formerly engaged in
the grocery business on East Bridge
street, has taken the position of credit
and collection clerk for Voigt, Herpol-
sheimer & Co.

 

The Grocery Market.

Sugar—-The raw sugar market is un-
changed, quotations still being on the
basis of 4 7-16c for 96 deg. test cen-
trifugals, with the market strong at this
price. Stocks continue light and sales
are comparatively small. Stocks of
raws in the United States and Cuba ag-
gregate 187,916 tons, compared with
193,619 the week previous and 125,733
the corresponding period last year. The
refined market
demand.

is unchanged, with fair

Canned Goods—There is an_ increase
in the sale of futures of all sorts. Buyers
are showing more interest and the tend-
ency of prices is upward. The feeling
is more encouraging and trade is cer-
tainly upon a much better footing than
it was a week ago. With the present
conditions prevailing, the former dul-
ness and unsatisfactory conditions will
be overcome and trade will proceed up-
on the average basis at this season. To-
matoes have lost none of their firmness,
but it can not be said that they have
gained anything of late. Some incline
to the opinion that the market is no
firmer and that there is little likelihood
of a permanent favorable change at
present. Others—and they appear to be
in the majority—take exactly the oppo-
site view. At any rate, prices have
not declined for a week or more, and
there are indications that improvement
will follow present conditions if all
prices remain at present level. Those
who have anything to sell are asking
full figures for it, confident that the nec-
essarily high prices for futures will com-
pel liberal purchases of spot goods at
present quotations, for spot goods can
be bought at present prices and _ stored
until September for less money than fu-
tures for September delivery can be
bought for. There is considerable in-
terest in corn. Some New York State
packers are entirely sold out and there
are reports from Maine that many of the
packers there have already disposed of
their estimated output. In Maryland,
prices rule steady at about previous
range, with a strong upward tendency.
Spot corn is steadier and there is a no-
ticeable disposition to force prices up,
although no quotable advance has been
made as yet. There have been large
sales of peas recently at full prices. It
is said that a number of the largest
packers are entirely sold out, and that
others could have disposed of all their
estimated pack at full prices had they
so desired. A few have retained a por-
tion of their output to put on the market
later. Beans are steady but are not go-
ing very fast at present. The string
bean output will be larger than last year
or larger than it was intended it should
be last year before the era of short
crops was known. Sales will unques-
tionably be large, but it is intended to
raise and pack enough to supply the
demand this year, instead of running
short, as was the case last season. In
fruits there are no new developments.
Trade is quiet and business limited to
the actual necessities of consumption.
California fruits are nearly exhausted.
It is difficult to buy any quantity with-
out paying a substantial premium.
Blackberries are the only variety of
small fruits that show indications of
weakness and improvement is expected
in them later. Salmon is in good de-
mand at unchanged prices. Sardines
are rather quiet, with demand light at
present.

Dried Fruits—From all markets come
reports of the unusual dulness in dried
fruits. But little movement is noted

 

anywhere, but the disposition is to hold
all supplies firmly up to quotations.
There is a hopeful feeling in all lines,
but, as a whole, trade is dull and fea-
tureless. The condition is ascribed to
lack of export demand. are
quiet, but held firm. Very few are left
in first hands, perhaps 300 cars in all;
but these are held for the spring and
eatly summer trade and represent prac-
tically everything now available. All
buyers appear to have satisfied their
wants for the present, but the supply is
that ordinary
lead to
about

Raisins

so small
probably prices.
Prunes unchanged although
there appears to be a weakness develop-
ing in the larger sizes, which are in
heavy supply and are not wanted by
any one. Small sizes would command a

buying would
advanced

are

premium, but the large sizes are beg-
ging for customers at any price in some

instances. Last year it was the large
sizes that were wanted. If the winter
weather lasts a week or two, there will

be a much better trade in prunes at bet-
ter prices. Peaches are dull un-
There are only
apparently
Prices are
held generally steady at present range
because of the fact that stocks are sup-
posed to be small.

and
interesting, as a whole.
occasionally small orders,
for immediate consumption,

Everything pro-
curable is closely controlled and, when
trade opens for spring distribution,
prices are likely to advance. ‘There is
more enquiry for apricots, but move-
ment is small owing to the practical im-
possibilty of securing anything but the
smallest quantities. Stocks in all mar-
kets very small and will be ex-
hausted shortly after distribution begins.
The unusually heavy supply of dates
has at last had its effect and the tend-
ency is toward an easier feeling without
an actual reduction in prices. General-
ly there is a strong and active market
during January, but this year it would
appear that the heavy buying during
December stocked up distributers to
such an extent that they want nothing
more at present. Currants are firmer,
but no quotable change in price has oc-
curred. Figs are easy, with orders
limited to relatively small lots. Most
distributers appear to be well stocked
and do not care to increase their hold-
ings. Other lines are in about the same
condition as those mentioned. Although
the firm feeling in the market continues,
there is no activity and trade is in
small lots only.

Rice--Supplies of spot goods continue
moderate, with holders showing no anx-
iety to press sales, anticipating a gen-
eral advance in prices during the next

are

month. Prices are unchanged and de-
mand is fair.
Tea—-The demand for teas is fair at

unchanged prices.

Molasses and Syrups--The corn syrup
market is somewhat stronger this week
and prices show an advance of %c per
gallon and a corresponding advance on
cases. The demand for molasses con-
tinues small. Prices are firm, with an
upward tendency.

Fish—-The demand for codfish and
mackerel is picking up a little anda
large trade is expected during the Len-
ten buying season.

Nuts—There is nothing of interest in
the market for nuts. The demand is as
good as usual at this time of the year.
Advices from Norfolk report a slightly
easier feeling in the peanut market, but
there is no change in prices yet.
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_Woman’s World

How Some Husbands Attempt to Manage
Their Wives.

It often occurs to me, as it must to
every careful reader of the daily papers,
that women are rather getting the best
of things, so far as the press is con-
cerned. In every modern up-to-date
paper pages are given to exploiting the
pictures of gowns in which even a
homely woman must look like a fashion
plate houri that no man could resist.
Columns are devoted to minute instruc-
tion in the art of beautifying, so that if
every woman in the land does not pos-
sess the figure of a sylph and the com-
plexion of a Venus just rising from the
foam, the fault can not be laid at the
door of the papers of the country; but
most significant of all is the fact that
almost unlimited space and attention are
given to expert theories about the best
way to manage husbands.

Nothing of this kind is ever done for
man. He, poor thing, is left to buy
just whatever his tailor and haberdasher
choose to palm off on him, with no
“Daily Hint from Paris’’ to guide his
wavering choice. He, too, may yearn
for beauty and grace, but no inspired
articles on ‘‘How to be Beautiful,
Though Ugly’’ cheer him along the
thorny road of banting and massaging.
Above all, no matter how tried he may
be in his domestic relations, no prophet
in Israel arises to tell him the best way
—or any way—to manage a wife. The
press is deeply, darkly and ominously
silent on the subject and he may search
his paper through from end to end with-
out getting a single hint for his guid-
ance.

When we consider that the daily press
is the greatest and most powerful educa-
tor in the world the injustice of this
invidious distinction becomes apparent.
Leaving out of the discussion the mat-
ters of clothes and looks —two important
subjects that do not deserve to be side-
tracked—we confront the appalling fact
that millions of women are being sys-
tematically educated in the art of man-
aging husbands, while not a single man
is getting a particle of information on
the contrary proposition of how to man-
age a wife. Ina word, all the women
of the country are being converted into
highly-skilled professionals, while the
men remain merely bungling amateurs
in the art of managing, and we all
know what happens to the amateur
when he engages in a friendly game
with an agreeable and innocent looking
Stranger. It doesn’t take a prophet or
the daughter of a prophet to see his
finish.

Of course, the claim is made, in ex-
tenuation of this state of affairs, that it
is all done in the interest of making
home happy. Goto! The excuse is a
Specious one. Isn't a man just as much
concerned in making home happy as a
woman is? Nay, more so, for in the
eyes of the law he is the official and re-
sponsible head. He founded it, and if
it isn’t his business to make it happy
I’d just like to know whose it is, that’s
all. More than that, I contend that if
there’s any knowledge about how to
manage and make things happy floating
about, he is justly entitled to a share of
it. Women have no right to a monopoly
in that line.

If men are more backward in the
knowledge of how to manage than
women it is because that is one branch
of information they have never expected
to need to study. A woman knows from
the time she is born she must manage

 

 

 

some man to get what she wants. She
begins on her father; she practices on
her brother; she graduates on her beaux,
and she brings the skill of an adept to
deal with her husband. It never dawns
on a man beforehand that he is going to
have any trouble managing his wife.
He expects that to come dead easy. He
thinks she will be so grateful to him for
having saved her from being an old
maid that she will adopt all his opin-
ions and fall into his ways without a
question. His dearest illusion is that
he will form her, and he gets the jar of
his life when he finds out that her char-
acter was settled some twenty years be-
fore he ever met her and that she is just
as sect in her ways and as tenacious of
her views as he is. It is precisely here,
when he confronts the condition of life
and not the theory and is looking for
some peaceable way of managing his
wife, that the injustice of the press is so
manifest. For women under such cir-
cumstances the papers teem with ad-
vice, but never a word is offered to
guide the poor man who is setting out
to explore the terra incognito of his
new wife’s disposition.

Any suggestions along this line must
of necessity be tentative and experi-
mental, but, for my part, I could never
see that there is much difference be-
tween men and women. They are much
of a muchness when we get down to real
human _ nature, open to the same argu-
ments, and | should ‘‘admire,’’ as our
New England cousins say, to see men
apply some of the arts to which their
own sex have proven amenable to the
diplomatic management of their wives.
It’s a poor theory that won’t work both
ways.

Among the tenets most strenuously in-
sisted upon as efficacious in managing
a husband is the hidden hand policy.
Women are adjured to use diplomacy
and not force and to get their way with-
out appearing to do so. They are told
never to arouse Opposition or appear ar-
bitrary, and that victory perches on the
banner of the woman who knows how to
yield gracefully in little matters. Any
woman who has ever tried these wise
precepts knows that they come pretty
near being all of the law and the proph-
ets on the subject, but what is the mat-
ter with men applying them with equal-
ly good result to their wives? Every-
body with a grain of spirit in them ob-
jects to being bossed. There’s some-
thing in the contrariness of human _na-
ture that prompts us to rebel against the
person who asserts authority over us,
particularly if we happen to be married
to’em. The man who announces in a
loud tone of voice that he’s the head of
the house and proposes to manage it is
always outwitted in the end and finds a
stubborn resistance at every turn that
balks him. The wise man makes his
wife feel that she can do absolutely as
she pleases, and it always pleases her to
do exactly as he pleases. She gives
him the road because she believes she
could have it if she wanted it.

Another theory that one would like to
see applied from the masculine side of
the house is the personal charm theory.
Women are told continually that if they
would keep their husband’s affection
and make home happy for him they
must pay attention to their looks and
to those little graces of person and
mind which first attracted him. Noth-
ing could be truer, and every one of us
feels what a blow and disillusioning it
must be to a man when the pretty young
creature who has been the embodiment

 

of his’ fancy_of all that was dainty and

sweet takes to coming to breakfast in
dowdy, dirty wrappers and with her hair
done up in curl papers that she doesn’t
take down until company comes in the
evening. When a woman does that, it
really ought to be actionable as_ obtain-
ing goods under false pretenses; but
what about a man? When he came a-
courting, how handsome and _ swell he
looked. He was barbered and brushed
and perfumed until he was just too
sweet to live, and that was the kind of
man she fell in love with, not this seedy
individual with a three days’ stubble of
dirty beard on his face. It’s the funniest
thing on earth that a man never even
dreams that his wife can be disillusioned
and disgusted by his appearance, and
is really far more sensitive to it than he
is to hers, because she thinks more
about dress and looks. Nine-tenths of
the men in the world seem to think that
marriage means the liberty to go slouchy
and shave as seldom as they can. When
you see a middle-aged man suddenly
blooming out in good clothes and looking
spick and span and well groomed, you
know at once that he is a widower.

It has always been considered that the
supreme test of a wife’s good manage-
ment was her ability to make home so
happy and pleasant that her husband
would never care to wander from his
own fireside. She has been told, and it
is good advice, to always meet him with
a smile, to keep the unpleasant details
of domestic contretemps and _ servant
broils from a man already overburdened
by his own cares and, above all, always
to be bright and cheerful and entertaining
in her conversation. Is there any reason
why these delightful domestic virtues
should all be feminine? Surely it is a
man’s business to smile just as much as
a woman’s. Yet, there isn’t one man
in a million who doesn’t feel that he is
doing his full duty as a man and a hus-
band when he gives a few inarticulate
grunts in answer to his wife’s questions
and remarks and then absorbs himself
in his paper until he goes to bed. Pretty
interesting and exciting for her, isn’t
it? Yet, the man who does this com-
plains that his wife isn’t satisfied at
home and is forever wanting to go gad-
ding off somewhere. Good Lord, why
shouldn't she? Anybody would be jus-
tified in wanting to get away from that
kind of a mummy. If more men would
take the trouble to try to make home
happy and entertaining for their wives,
there would be fewer women so dead
anxious to chase off to the springs the
very first time the weather bureau hints
that summer has come.

Every now and then I hear it said that
some man is being ruined by his wife's
extravagance and that he can not man-
age her or prevent it. Well, whose fault
is that?) The man’s, almost without ex-
ception, and the remedy is so simple
the wonder is that it suggests itself to so
few husbands. Make your wife your
partner. Let her know exactly what
your income is and what your business
obligations are. Women are deathly
afraid of debt. Let one feel that she
must do her part towards helping you
meet a note and, my word for it, she
will do it cheerfully and willingly and
you'll have no bills to complain of. It
is because women are dealt with so un-
fairly about money that they are so often
extravagant. The woman who never
has any definite allowance, and often
no money except a little doled-out car-
fare, reasons to herself something like
this: ‘‘Oh, well, I don’t care. I give
my time and my services. I am house-
keeper, seamstress, nurse and servant

 

generally, and I never get a thing but
my board and clothes, and Jack always
grumbles over them, so I'll just get the
most I can.’’ It isn’t very exalted rea-
soning from an ethical point of view,
but wouldn’t a man feel pretty much
the same way about it?

Finally, my beloved brethren, be as-
sured that the one unfailing rule for
managing a wife is by kindness. No
woman ever yet rebelled against that.
Give her love, tenderness, appreciation,
and there is no question of manag-
ing. It settles itself. She gives in be-
cause she enjoys it. Dorothy Dix.

 

 

 

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THE KEY VS. THE GUN.

The desire for coaling stations in the
byway places of the earth by the nations
thereof is remarkable. No islands,
however remote, are left unoccupied.
The Samoan islands lift their lonely
peaks above the sea and forthwith three
of the most powerful countries want
them for coaling stations. Spain has
some marine property to dispose of and
Germany, in need of a coaling station,
buys it. No spot, however rugged and
worthless, that can not be transformed
into a coaling station and as such is ap-
propriated. Then, to the surprise of
all, these spots are found to be full of
importance as strategic positions and
are spoken of as the keys of territory,
near or remote. So the Philippine Is-
lands are beginning to be spoken of as
the key to the commerce of Asia. So
England and Germany and France are
looking out for keys to the commerce of
the same great continent, and, with
each nation furnished with its individual
latch-key, the pleasing idea is that each
nation can go and come as it pleases,
with no thought or desire of interfering
with its equally fortunate neighbor.

It is noticeable, however, that, once
possession is secured, the ‘‘coaling sta-
tion’’ and the ‘‘key’’ is lost sight of and
the changes made admit of but one
thought—that is, the gun. The coaling
Station and the key, modern figures sug-
gesting peace, are displaced by the im-
plement of force whose only meaning is
war. The modern figure is of republi-
can parentage; the gun, the offspring
and the hope of degenerate monarchy.
The commerce of Asia is the objective
point. Shall it be secured by fair means
or foul; by the acts of peace or the wiles
of war; the key of commerce or the
gun? It is to be a contest between the
old and the new; the battle ground
where civilization began; the forces, on
one side an army with every man
crowned with sovereign power, on the

 

other the embodied spirit of despotism
which for centuries has insisted that
might is right. Look at it as we may, it
is Europe with her wornout institutions
and America with her higher ideals,
tried and true, that are to engage in
this struggle. Monarchy has already
built its ramparts and planted its guns.
The Republic, standing upon the Phil-
ippines key in hand, unlocks the door
of Asia, swings back its ponderous por-
tal and insists that it shall stay open.
There is business enough for all. The
dollar is what all are after. Let us be
honest and admit it, and let the plea,
false as it is pitiful, that we want to in-
troduce a higher civilization into China
never be mentioned among us. That
will take care of itself. The civilization
that followed the merchants into Gaul,
in Caesar’s time, in ours will take care
of itself in China, with the same results.
It is the goods brought into barbarism
that civilize, not the guns. Force ap-
peals only to sinews and is needed only
to command respect; but it is much to
the point that the guns planted to-day in
China are not aimed at China! The
spirit of the old feudal lord of the cas-
tle has appeared in his grandson. A
field white with harvest and unprotected
has been noted afar from the watchtower
and a band of marauders has been sent
to reap it. As in the olden time, other
bands have come for the same purpose.
They circle the harvest-field. They dare
each other to thrust in the sickle and
the air resounds with ‘‘It is mine! It
is mine!’’ the battle cry of the Middle
Ages. With that cry is heard a voice
clear and determined from the Philip-
pines: ‘‘It is his who buys it. This is
the Twentieth, not the Twelfth Century.
The bars to the field are down. It is a
fair field and no favor to the tradesman.
Violence is not to be tolerated. Bullets
are not the medium of exchange. Who
bids for the harvest and how much?’’

There are frowns, there is seeking of
sword hilts by eager hands, resentment
is seen in every face, the arrogance of
offended dignity asserts itself; but be-
hind the unruffled voice floats the van-
ishing smoke above the Bay of Manila
and the echoes from the guns in that
sea-fight are driving home the fact that
the old has passed away; that the new
has come; that right and justice and
truth have claims which even the
mighty are bound to respect, and that
America, with a hemisphere of repub-
lics behind her, is ready to teach in
half-civilized China the lesson of Run-
nymede, of Yorktown and of Appomat-
tox, and so teach it that even the guns
will give up their places as civilizers on
the Chinese border to the gentler and
surer agencies which Republicanism,
the latest and purest form of National
life, so clearly illustrates and so strong-
ly recommends. She _ holds the key to
the commerce of Asia. Let that be the
figure which best symbolizes the situa-
tion, rather than the gun, for so many
centuries the emblem of force and the
dreadful defender of the throne, the
scepter and the crown.

Eighteen business men in St. Louis
were summoned to act as jurors. When
they were asked how many of them had
suffered from the visits of burglars re-
cently, six of them answered in the

affirmative.
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A man who owns a cocoanut grove in
Venezuela is independent, as the fruit
continues to ripen all the year around
and brings a good price. Each tree

averages an annual income of $1.20.

A PENNY WISE POLICY.

In spite of maxim and experience it
is remarkable how many men _ insist
upon a business policy which is sure to
thwart the very success they hope to
achieve. Prejudice, inexcusable igno-
Trance, penuriousness and dishonesty are
some of the impediments in the road
to fortune, and these they not only do
not try to remove or get over, but they
make every effort to turn them to prac-
tical account.

For some reason known only to him-
self, a grocer, fancying a certain class of
goods, determines to push it. With all
the strength of his misguided nature he
bends every energy in that direction.
His customers do not like the goods and
do not want them and when, after much
importunity, they will not have them,
he finds by bitter experience that it is
the man who uses the goods and pays
for them who settles the question of
sales. Another man, trusting to the
statements of an interested and over-
confident drummer, orders a_ bill of
goods ‘‘sight unseen.’’ He _ knows
nothing about them and takes no means
of finding out about them. They come,
fill up his empty space which should
have been filled with goods he was sure
of and prove so much dead weight upon
his hands. Nobody wants them. He
himself has no use for them and he
finally looks upon them as so much com-
mercial lumber to be given away, after
teaching him the pretty practical les-
son that there are drummers and drum-
mers and he who is deceived by them is
not wise.

The penurious tradesman, however,
is the man usually most blind to his
own interest. Here more than anywhere
else the penny wise and pound _ foolish
policy asserts itself and almost always
offensively. It is amusing to note how
invariably even-handed justice is made
the basis of this meanness. ‘‘A penny
is a penny as a dollar is a dollar. If it
is yours, take it. If it is mine, I’m
bound to have it.’’ So the stingy store-
keeper sifts sugar into the scales grain
by grain, until there is an exact bal-
ance, no matter how many customers are
waiting or how many indignant eyes are
watching him. An instance of this oc-
curred not many years ago somewhere
in the valley of the Mississippi. A lit-
tle girl, whom fortune had unexpectedly
favored with a nickel and whose gener-
ous heart prompted her to share it with
her playmates, concluded to spend it
for a package of mixed candies. The
confectioner—it was no country store—
found difficulty in getting the exact
weight. The smallest piece he could
find when taken out made the weight
too light; when put in, too heavy. He
could not cheat that poor, want-pinched
daughter of poverty; it would not be
justice to cheat himself and, prompted
by the spirit of equity which controlled
his heart, he bit in two the troublesome
piece of candy, tossed upon the balance
the half that made the weight exact, ate
the other half and went on with his
business, thinking, no doubt, that Solo-
mon was not the only man who knew
how to get out of a tight place.

One little oversight on the part of na-
ture has occasioned much disturbance in
trade circles. As far back as the time
when eggs became an article of mer-
chandise the size has been the subject
of contention, and during the interven-
ing period, the ‘‘nearness"‘ of seller and
buyer—shall we say producer?—has been
a subject of comment. Anarticle of fe-
male production, it fell naturally and

 

easily into the woman’s province, first

 

for barter and then for sale. Human
nature is the same the world over and
when big and little—‘‘an egg is an egg’’
—were offered for exchange, the woman
carried the day. It wasn’t worth quar-
reling over and not until the modern de-
vice of selling eggs by the pound has
there been found a peaceable wavy out of
the difficulty.

This human trait is not, however, a
matter of sex. Adam's old plea, ‘‘The
woman did beguile me and | did eat,’’
finds ample illustration in other forms
of trade, every one of them showing the
results of the penny wise policy. Ap-
ples, load after load, are brought to
market, the large and the little, the
good and the bad, thrown together. Po-
tatoes, similarly mixed, reach the same
destination. There is but one financial
result: The farmer gets rid of his load;
but the load sells at the rate of the un-
marketable part of it. Buying at that
rate, the thoughtless shipper sells in the
Same way, with like returns and the, last
trader finds a lot of unsalable goods
upon his hands, if he is as stupid as the
man from whom he bought. ‘‘Why will
not shippers learn to keep at home their
poor apples and their small potatoes in-
stead of mixing them with the good and
the big? There is profit in the good and
loss in the other kind, and yet nine
times out of ten the farmer and quite
as often the shipper will send these sec-
ond-class goods at a loss when there
ought to be a gain.’’

The whole matter can be crowded in-
to a nutshell. Some of these men are
too lazy and the rest are too dishonest
to forward their own interests. There
is untold joy in ‘‘working off ’ a lot of
unmarketable stuff even at a personal
loss which overbalances the chagrin in
advancing money to pay freight charges.
It is a matter, however, which is sure
to take good care of itself and sooner or
later disaster will put a stop to the whole
disreputable business. ‘‘ Honesty is the
best policy’’ in trade or out and a busi-
ness house not founded upon that solid
principle will prove to be another house
built upon the sand.

—

The saying that ‘‘One man’s meat is
another man’s poison’’ is seen in Amer-
ican dried apple. Germany is afraid
of it; but France is turning it to profit-
able account. A Paris drink-mixer has
concocted a beverage made up of dried
apple, raisins and water. It is al-
lowed to stand until fermentation takes
place and then, with the addition of a
little sugar, is bottled or served directly
from the cask. The dried apple used
is from the lowest grade of windfalls,
sliced, including skins, cores and the
inhabitants thereof without regard to
kind or quality. The new drink is
meeting with favor and furnishes ample
returns for the man who makes it.

 

 

 

The merchant tailors of Denver, in
the belief that their profession does not
occupy the position in public estimation
to which it is entitled, have formed an
organization to raise it to that position.
The formal statement of the purpose of
the organization is as follows: ‘‘To
elevate and ennoble our profession, and
to raise it to that mechanical, moral
and intellectual position in our great
city which its importance as an ancient
and honorable art entitles it to occupy.’’

 

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making and executive work in Ken-
tucky are piling up business for the
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THE CROAKER’S CHANCE.

A great deal has been said about the
cowardice of capital. It is always ina
state of alarm. Let a cloud no bigger
than a man’s hand appear in the clear
sky of noon day, no matter in what
quarter, and the man with money will
hasten to his castle, close his doors, shut
his windows, drop his  portcullis and,
taking his stand on the watch-tower,
watch that cloud until it gathers or
scatters, and not until the blue is clear
does he again venture forth. Trade,
more daring, is no less interested in
that cloud. No sailor sees more tremen-
dous possibilities, but, unlike the cap-
italist, with a firm grasp on the tiller he
turns into the teeth of the tempest and
trusts to luck and a kind Providence
and an undaunted will for results.

The South African war is bringing
out these characteristics. Every eye is
turned towards the Dark Continent.
The money of the world has hastened
behind its well-known barricades and
the trade of the world is turning its
prying keels towards the field of car-
nage. Now is the doubter’s chance.
‘*This war,’’ he croaks, ‘‘is a delusion
and a snare to American trade. It is
going to involve us in the politics of
Europe and as sure as guns we are go-
ing to come out at the little end of the
horn. This country has littie foreign
trade to brag of anyway, especially in
South Africa, and now that this war has
begun, that little is going to slip from
us and first we shall know the United
States will be up to its neck in trouble.
Better keep away from South Africa.
That flour-seizing business is only a
straw showing the way the wind blows.
Let England get a good grip on another
such chance and the outcome won’t be
quite so favorable to the American side
of the house. Do let well enough alone
and let the Lion and the Boer fight it
out by themselves. ’’

There might be sillier advice, but
probably not. The Yankee tradesman
is as much in love with his skin and
his pocketbook as the tradesman of other
nationalities and if his eye retains its
noted keenness and farsightedness he
sees none of these threatened evils. To
that vision the reverse of the things
threatened is true. Not only is this
Boer, war to have no bad effect on trade
in the United States, but directly the
reverse. Already its value and variety
have increased. The croaker is con-
stantly forgetting, what the Tradesman
is just as constantly insisting upon, that
good, honest American goods, once safely
landed, fight their own battles. They
are in the commercial fight what Dewey’s
guns were at Manila: They sink the
enemy’s fleet and come out of the con-
flict conqueror. Up to this time the
needs of South Africa have been the
needs of a nation striving with new
conditions in a new country passing
from the control of the wilderness. Min-
ing and farming tools and machinery
have been called for and supplied and
this country has had her share in answer-
ing the call. That phase of existence
over, the needs will be as great, but
necessarily in other directions. Domes-
tic animals and _ food-stuffs, and what
comes aS a matter of course from an
improved condition of things, are
wanted. England herself is ready to
take advantage of the opportunity of
getting what she wants with the least
trouble, and so America is improving
the opportunity of introducing products
unknown to that part of the world—a
proof that the croaker as usual croaks
for the love of it.

 

The mule is an instance. The ani-
mal was wanted and the United States
could supply the want, and did. This
led to other shipments and from time to
time steamships loaded with all sorts of
American products are leaving Ameri-
can ports for South Africa. Does any-
one, even the croaker, suppose that this
is going to stop? Is it the law of trade,
when a needed article is found at a rea-
sonable price with a responsible house,
to give up the certain for the uncertain?
The question is not worth answering.
The war may stop or goon. The trade
begun will continue, increased as it has
been already and widened by a greater
variety of merchandise. Grant that the
war ends. Provisions will still be wanted
and this country will furnish her share.
Great changes will follow and these will
create new wants. Grant that the war
goes on and the Boers wreck, as_ they
threaten, the mines of Johannesburg.
One thing is true: They will not de-
stroy the gold deposits whoever comes
off conqueror; and that same conqueror,
when peace returns, will be calling for
mining machinery to replace that which
has been destroyed. That replacement
will fall largely to this country and
every order will strengthen the state-
ment that this country will not bea loser
by the war.

It is safe, then, to declare that the
croaker and his note of warning are both
out of order. There is no reason for
the existence of either and none for
heeding them. The American trade in
South Africa is not a myth, as the mules
and the horses, the hay and the other
productions already there, sufficiently
testify. This trade is not to diminish.
It has already increased and it will con-
tinue to do so. War or no war, Eng-
land conqueror or conquered, orders will
come from South Africa, to be promptly
received, and as promptly filled. The
goods will go, and, besides satisfying
the present wants of that far-off country,
will create new ones, to be as _ certainly
taken care of. There may be a good
many faults in the make-up of the
American trader, but fear is not one of
them, and the commercial balance of
trade, when the year is over, will be
found distinctly and overwhelmingly on
the American side.

 

A hotel in New York largely patron-
ized by visiting buyers of merchandise
for outside stores has been so overrun
with salesmen looking for these visitors
that the key rack back of the desk in the
hotel office has been renumbered so as
to look like a Chinese puzzle. The
visitors, it is said, always like to see
the sights of the metropolis and so want
to sleep late in the morning. It became
the practice of the competing salesmen
to look up the rooms of the visitors on
the book, notice if the key was in the
rack and then sneak upstairs without
sending a card or any advance announce-
ment. Under the new method the key
rack is changed every little while.

 

Liberia, having obtained an income
from royalties paid by the English rub-
ber syndicate, is now again paying in-
terest on her debt of $500,000, on
which she defaulted twenty-five years
ago. The arrears of interest have been
cleared off by an agreement of the
creditors to receive $75,000 as payment
in full of all back interest.

 

It requires nerve for a nation to de-
mand of China an open door and at the
same time keep up laws and _ inspectors
to prevent Chinese laborers from coming
into that nation.

 

THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF LIFE.

It is a very common expression that
the present is an age of fast living;
that men break down their constitutions
and health by intemperate and luxu-
rious, and by vicious habits.

Probably there has never been a time
in the history of society when spirituous
and fermented liquors were so generally
in the reach of the people of every
class. It is only in the past few dec-
ades that the people have learned the
intemperate use of opium, cocaine and
other such drugs. At a first glance it
would seem that the present is  particu-
larly an age of intemperance and baneful
indulgences.

An examination of the situation shows
that this is not the case. We have noth-
ing to-day like the hard-drinking age of
a century or two ago, when all classes
of men, from the highest to the lowest,
were accustomed to go to bed drunk
every night of their lives. The number
of habitual drunkards to-day is decided-
ly limited, and the fact is mainly due
to the remarkable growth in the last
generation or two of the public respon-
sibilities of life.

To-day thousands of railway trains,
carrying hundreds of thousands of pas-
sengers, are rushing to their destinations,
each under the care of its engine driver.
On every sea swift steamers are plowing
their way, carrying thousands of human
souls and vast values of property. Hun-
dreds of thousands of electric cars are
speeding through the streets of cities,
while vast numbers of steam engines
are used in propelling the machinery of
thousands of factories, threatening death
and destruction to all in their reach if
they are subjected to the neglect of those
who care for them.

The fact remains that in almost every
department of industry the most danger-
ous and destructive forces are constantly
in use and they can only be prevented
from working death and ruin to many
human lives and to immense property
values by the vigilance, the fidelity and
entire trustworthiness of those who have
charge of them. Thus it is that the re-
sponsibilities of life are enormously
increased in every branch of industry,
and it is the case that the men who are
charged with such supreme cares occupy
not only humble positions in life, but
they are too often poorly paid.

And yet out of the vast numbers who
are daily and nightly intrusted with the
care of responsibilities in which life and
property are at stake, how few are the
instances in which disaster results from
the unfaithfulness or incompetence of
those upon whom such great trusts are
reposed, and when what is called an ac-
cident occurs in the matter of any of
those trusts, it startles the community
because such accidents are so rare.
Something over a century ago there
were no railroads on the land, no steam
vessels upon the waters; there were few
mills or factories operated by steam;
electricity had not become the indispens-
able servant of man, and, therefore, the
vast responsibilities which to-day rest
on such great numbers of workingmen
in humble positions did not exist. There
was then no danger to be apprehended
from a drunken engineer or motorman
because there were no such persons in
public or private service.

It has been claimed by the life insur-
ance statisticians that during the past
too years the length of life of the aver-
age man in the United States and in
the more civilized parts of Europe has
increased from a little over 30 to about
40 years. A multitude of causes, mostly

 

physical, have contributed to this re-
sult. Foremost among these should be
placed (1) whatever may be included
under the general term sanitation; (2)
methods in medicine, and
(3) the more regular habits of living,
which are the direct outcome of indus-
trial life on These are
some of the evident means by which
life has been lengthened. Inventions,
which have made production cheap and
the transportation of all products both
cheap and easy, have had an influence
too great to be computed,

But whatever is to be attributed to the
causes mentioned, it must not be left out
of the discussion that the enormous re-

improved

a large scale.

sponsibilities of business growing out of
the immense and constant use of such
dangerous forces as steam and electricity
have exercised great influence in length-
ening life by enforcing sobriety and
conscientiousness. The doors of every
great industry are shut against the
drunkard, the indolent and the self-indul-
gent. No person need apply for
employment, because it will be surely re-
fused him, The responsibilities of busi-
ness are too great to permit any favors to
be shown to an unreliable person who
might intrusted with the
safety of many human lives and the
care of vast property values.

The growth of sobriety among. the
working classes is one of the most prom-
ising features of the social conditions of
to-day, and it has been enforced by the
in the responsi-

such

have to be

immense development
bilities of daily life. Never were intox-

icating liquors and paralyzing drugs

more in the reach of the people, but
their excessive use is confined to very
few. The man who is known to be ad-

dicted to them soon falls into disrepute,
and being unable to secure employment
in any important capacity, he must ina
short time degenerate into the class of
incorrigibles and cease to have any rec-
ognition among decent people. ‘There
can be no doubt that the use of powerful
and dangerous physical forces in the
ordinary operations of life will constant-
ly increase, and the need of sober, re-
liable and competent
urgent that no man of irregular or in-
temperate habits will be able to secure
employment of any sort in the years to
come, and the time will not be distant,
either.

men become so

 

Florence Nightingale, famous as the
first war nurse, has written a letter in
which she agrees with Governor Roose-
velt in the desirability of an occasional
war as a means of developing men. She
contends that war is an excellent means
of bringing men to the fore and making
heroes of many who would otherwise be
useless to the country.

 

A bill has been introduced in the New
York Legislature to require the date of
the canning to be placed on all canned
goods. This is, of course, to prevent
the sale of old goods as fresh ones, but
it does not appear that the measure fur-
nishes any means of preventing the
fraud of dating the cans ahead.

 

The -consumption of tea in the United
States was estimated at 80,000,000
pounds in 1899; Great Britain and Ire-
land, 184,500,000 pounds; Russia,
37,550,000 pounds, and Canada, 22, 464, -
ooo pounds. In coffee, the past year, it
is estimated that the consumption in the
United States was 712,224,000 pounds.

 

If marriage is a failure, it is because
so many inexperienced people go into it.

A foolish man will ruin his own health
trying to kill time.

 

  

  

10

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

RURAL MAIL DELIVERY.
Some Facts Regarding Its Extension in
. this State.*

Rural free delivery had many trials
and difficulties to overcome in its early
day.

It was condemned by the House Com-
mittee on Postoffices and Postroads of
the Fifty-third Congress, and Postmaster
General Bissell concurred in his report
for 1893 and also declined to expend the
$10,000 appropriation made by Congress
in 1894 to test the feasibility of the un-
dertaking.

In 1895 the appropriation was _ in-
creased to $20,000 and Postmaster Gen-
eral Wilson adopted the views of his
predecessor, but in 1896, with an ap-
propriation of $40,000, Mr. Wilson was
prevailed upon to make the experiment,
with grave misgivings saying that he
had taken care ‘‘to choose _ territory
widely divergent in physical features,
and in the occupation and density of
its population.’’ True to his word,
forty-four ‘‘widely divergent’’ routes
were selected for this first experiment,
located in twenty-nine different states.

The details regarding the installation
of this service were placed in the hands
of officers of the Division of Postoffice
Inspection and Mail Depredations. They
were instructed to start experimental
tests of rural delivery in specifically
named localities, no matter whether the
conditions seemed favorable or other-
wise. Some became impressed that the
locations assigned had been chosen to
show that rural free delivery was not
desired and was impossible of execu-
tion. Under these unfavorable circum-
stances, it is not surprising that some of
the original routes established proved
not to be a ‘‘howling success.’’ How-
ever, other of these routes were so well
placed and gave such immediate satis-
faction to the people that their merits
could not be obscured and, _ steadily
coming to the front, demonstrated clear-
ly that rural free delivery, judiciously
inaugurated, was a move in the line of
progression and could be prosecuted
with profit and benefit to the rural dis-
tricts and without serious tax upon the
revenues of the Government.

In discussing this subject I can not
more fully expatiate upon this broad and
far-reaching service than by quoting
from a recent report of the Hon. First
Assistant Postmaster General Heath:
‘There has been nothing in the history
of the postal service of the United
States so remarkable as the growth of
the rural free delivery system within the
past two years. Largely aided by the
people themselves, this service has im-
planted itself so firmly upon postal ad-
ministration that it can no longer be
considered in the light of an experi-
ment, but has to be dealt with as an es-
tablished agency of progress, awaiting
only the action of Congress to determine
how rapidly it shall be developed.’’

The following facts, as set forth by
Mr. Heath, fully demonstrate the im-
portance of this subject:

1. Increased postal receipts.
letters are written and received.
newspapers and magazines are sub-
scribed for. So marked is this that
quite a number of rural routes are al-
ready self-sustaining by the additional
business they bring.

2. Enhancement in value of farm
lands reached by rural service. This in-
crease has been estimated as high as $5
per acre and a moderate estimate is from
$2 to $3 per acre.

. A general improvement in the
condition of the roads traversed by the
rural carrier. In the Western States es-
pecially the construction of good roads
has been a prerequisite to the establish-
ment of rural service, $2,600 having
been subscribed by one county in In-
diana to grade and gravel a road in or-
der to obtain rural free delivery.

4. Better prices are obtained for
farm products, the producers being
brought into daily touch with the - status
of the markets, and thus enabled to take
advantage of information heretofore un-
attainable.

More
More

 

*Paper read by A. Edward Robinson, Assistant
Postmaster of Grand Rapids, at annual con-
vention Michigan Retail Grocers’ Association.

 

. To these material advantages may
be added the educational benefits con-
ferred by access to wholesome literature
and the keeping of both young and old
fully informed as to the stirring events
of the day. The moral value of these
civilizing influences can not be too
highly rated.

It is pleasing to note that several of
the state meetings of Patrons of Hus-
bandry, and similar bodies, have ad-
vised the Department, acknowledging
the value of the system, and offering
resolutions commending and urging its
continuous development.

Upon entering the duties of First As-
sistant Postmaster General in March,
1897, Mr. Heath learned that he had an
appropriation of $50,000 to use in
further testing this service and he_pro-
ceeded at once to systematically organ-
ize and establish rural routes wherever
it seemed practical, realizing keenly the

great possibilities underlying the
project. Petitions _from every section

of the country where the service had
been given a fair trial began to pour in
upon the Department. Special agents
were appointed to look into the claims
presented and to lay out routes wherever
the conditions seemed favorable. Such
good results were obtained therefrom
that Congress responded with an appro-
priation of $150,000, and in the fiscal
year following, 98-99, allowed $300,000
more for the same purpose. Requests
multiplied so rapidly that before four
months of the present fiscal year had
expired, the appropriation was found to
have been practically exhausted and
therefore a halt was reluctantly called in
further installation, awaiting the dicta-
tion and provision of Congress.

As a practical illustration of what has
been accomplished, and the financial
basis upon which operated, 1 submit
Statements taken from the last official
reports :

At West Chester, Pa., service was es-
tablished Jan. 1, 1899, with six carriers.
The cost to maintain this service nine
months has been $1,800. A fair estimate
of the value of the postage collected is
2 cents apiece. One hundred nine-
teen thousand, six hundred  sixty-
eight pieces were collected, amounting
to $2, 393.36. Deducting the amount ex-
pended leaves a nice balance of $593.36
over the expenditure in favor of the
Government, thus being more than self-
sustaining and affording its patrons a
much-appreciated free delivery and
collection, which they had _ not hereto-
fore possessed. f

At Owosso, in our own State, from
Nov., 1898, to Sept., 1899, a period of
eleven months, one rural carrier deliv-
ered and collected a total of 88, 992
pieces of mail, an average of 8,090 per
month. This service cost the Govern-
ment $366, or a little over two-fifths of a
cent for each piece handled.

These are illustrations, to be sure,
of thoroughly organized and prosperous
routes, but it is convincing proof that
rural service can be handled withoyt ex-
travagant expenditure by the Depart-
ment in maintaining the system.

During the first four months of the
present fiscal year, this service has been
extended to 179, 131 persons, at an annual
cost of about .84c per capita, which is
very consistent, considering the service
rendered. This estimate does not include
the increase from postal receipts and
other sources, which really should be
considered. The comparison of rural
free delivery with city free delivery, and
especially the cities not exceeding
5,000 in population, makes a most fa-
vorable showing and reports tell us that
in the latter it costs $2.80 per capita,
again demonstrating the economical side
of rural service.

Official reports further show that on
Nov. 1, 1899, rural deilvery was in suc-
cessful operation from 383 distributing
points, covering over forty states and
one territory. Michigan is favored thus
far with having fifteen routes.

Thus will be seen the marvelous strides
which the traveling postoffice has made
during the short period of its seven
years’ existence. That it will continue
as one of the potent factors of our grand,
broad and progressive mail system is
unquestioned.

 

 

Acetylene Gas vs. Rochester Lamps

 

The following letter from a leading grocery house of the Grand

Traverse region is self-explanatory:

Elk Rapids, Jan. 31.
From January 1, 1899, to January 11, 1900, we used in our Owen
Acetylene Generator exactly one thousand pounds of carbide, which cost
us, including freight, $47.50. During the previous year it cost us $97.80 to
run our Rochester lamps—a clear saving of $50. 30, with twice the light and
one-fifth the labor! We think this is a pretty good argument in favor of
the Owen generator. E. S. NOBLE & SONS.

The Owen generator is manufactured and sold only by

GEO. F. OWEN & CO., Grand Rapids, Mich.

The Cline Acetylene Gas Machine

Are you interested in Acetylene
Lighting? If so, write us. The
Cline Machine has stood the test
of two years’ service.

 

It is per-
There are no
its construction. Has
There is
absolutely no loss of gas through
the blow-off.

up-to-date machine, write the

fectly automatic.
valves in

compartment Generator.

If you want the best,

Alexander Furnace & Mfg. Co.,
Lansing, Mich.

 

Fully covered by U. S. Patents

The Imperial Gas Lamp is acknowl-
edged to be the most handsome fixture
on the market.

The Imperial Gas Lamp has fully es-
tablished itself as the most economical.
It burns gasoline.

The Imperial Gas Lamp has proven
its light to be the most brilliant, most

\\ steady and most satisfactory.

The Imperial Gas Lamp is generally
conceded to be the best value, all things
considered. Satisfaction assured.

Write for catalogue.

Imperial
Lamp Co.,

132 and 134 Lake St.,
Chicago, Ill.

 

 

 

 

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MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

11

 

Last June Hon. Wm. Alden Smith,
who has been much interested in this
service, was successful in having the
Department consent to allow a special
agent to visit this portion of the State,
with a view of establishing rural service
in our own locality. After consultation
with Postmaster Bishop, Special Agent
Hammer, in company with some of the
local postoffice force, went over the situ-
ation here, and, as a result, the Depart-
ment established on Oct. 16 last three
rural routes from this office. We were
somewhat disappointed, however, in not
getting all we had hoped—four_ routes ;
we were a little greedy, possibly, but
realizing the benefits to be derived, we
were looking for the interests of our
Northern friends, as well as those re-
siding in the three other directions.
‘*Still we live in hopes,’’ and with the
forthcoming new appropriation, I as-

sure you, you will see both Congressman |-

and Postmaster diligently planning and
working to bring about this end.

Our experience with the service thus
far has been very satisfactory, and both
Mr. Smith and Postmaster Bishop feel
greatly pleased at the result, and by the
many kindly assurances of our rural
friends, it would appear that they, too,
share in this expression of the undertak-
ing. The short time our local service
has been in effect does not afford much
opportunity for comparison, but our
three routes show a steady increase in
both delivery and collections, and I ap-
prehend there would bea great upheaval
among our farmer friends should the
service be abolished. I have heard,
however, of one farmer who did not take
kindly to the new system. Every so
often John went to town ostensibly—for
the mail, in reality—for a little spree.
When his good wife informed him that
the mail hereafter would be brought to
his door and his numerous town trips
were a thing of the past, he threw up
his hands and exclaimed: ‘‘ What excuse
can | offer now, Sophia? This whole
system is wrong and certainly will have
to be abolished.’’

Our rural carriers leave their respec-
tive sub-stations daily at 8 o'clock,
Sundays and holidays excepted. All
mail arriving upon the early morning
trains, both from the North, South, East
and West, is dispatched to their respec-
tive stations from the local postoffice, so
that it will be delivered the morning of
arrival here, thereby giving the farmer
living eight or ten miles in the country
his morning papers and other mail mat-
ter just as early as many of the city res-
idents, especially those living in the
outskirts of the larger places. Each car-
rier provides his own conveyance and in
many localities these are a ‘‘thing of
beauty,’’ and reflect great credit to the
patrons and carrier. They travel about
twenty-seven miles per day each. Mail is
delivered to any person or family on or
adjacent to the routes free of all cost,
provided only that a suitable box to re-
ceive the mail is put up directly upon
their respective route in a place that can
be conveniently reached by the carrier
without alighting from his buggy. No
mail will be delivered unless a suitable
box is provided to receive it. Stamps
and postal cards may be purchased of
the carrier, but it is advised that a sup-
ply of these be kept on hand, as he has
not time to wait while letters and cards
are written.

A red flag should be displayed when
mail is to be collected, otherwise the
carrier, having no mail to deliver,
might pass by and not collect the_let-
ters. There is but little variance from
day to day in the time of arrival of the
carrier, and it is asked that patrons
watch for him and get their mail from
boxes as soon as possible.

Outside errands are permissible by
the carrier, so far as they do not inter-
fere with his official duties, and at
times this feature is of great benefit to
patrons.

Too much stress can not be laid upon
the importance of good roads. ‘These
are very essential, and especially is
this realized in bad weather, and the
success of the service depends largely
upon their condition.

It is possible to make pointed re-
marks and be very blunt about it,

 

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‘‘It always makes me mad,’’ remarked
a West Side merchant the other day,
‘‘when I hear anyone saying of a man,
‘Oh, he’s a perfect dog.’ They in-
tended it, of course, as the most scath-
ing, and sweeping, and contemptuous
criticism that one person can offer of an-
other, while in reality it is praise of
which the best of us might be proud.
By Jove, if I wanted to pay a mana
gilt-edged compliment that was simply
saturated with admiration, and that in-
dicated that he was the Pooh-Bah of all
the virtues, | don’t know how I could
better express my opinion than to say
he was a perfect dog. 1 would mean
that he was so faithful to every trust he
would give his life to keep safe what
was intrusted to his care. | would mean
that he was so unselfish that he was ca-
pable of a love that was content to give,
asking nothing in return. | would mean
that he was so true and loyal he would
stick to a friend through good and evil
report, down to the hovels, or up to the
very gates of the prison, if need be;
that he would starve and freeze and
suffer with you and never once think of
deserting you in your misery. A man’s
family may cast him off when he dis-
graces them. His friends may fall away
at the very first cold blast of misfortune,
but the dog sticks to him to the bitter
end. Nothing tempts him away from his
allegiance, and not all the money or
pomp of the world can buy one wag of
his honest tail. The other day I was
standing on the street corner, near one
of those abject and pitiful creatures who
rattle a tin cup and beg of every passer-
by. This one was a little old woman,
in a faded old black sunbonnet that
drooped limply and dejectedly down,
and on her breast she wore a placard
that said, ‘Blind for fifty years.” Her
old hands were knotted with rheuma-
tism, and as she turned her sightless
eves upon you you saw that pathetic
look in the face that comes to those who
have never known anything but poverty
and want and hunger, and who have
even ceased to hope for anything else.
You knew just as well as if she had
shouted it to you that nobody loved her,
nobody wanted her, and that when she
could drag her feeble old body out to beg
no longer she would be_ kicked and
cuffed about until the day when she was
carted off to the potter’s field. The only
living thing that clung to her was the
dog that crouched at her side, a_ miser-
able half-starved creature, hideous with
sores, an outcast among beasts as she
was among men. Presently down the
street came a woman and a dog that were
the very antithesis of these. Thorough-
bred and perfect grooming were in
every line of both of them. You knew
that they had lived luxuriously and fared
sumptuously all their lives and had
never known an hour of want and anx-
iety, and there was pride and arrogance
in the way the dog arched his neck and
in his light tread, as well as the wom-
an’s. As they came on the old blind
beggar woman rattled her cup’ and
turned her bleared eyes up in wordless
appeal to the compassion of a sister
woman, but with a rustle of silk skirts
and jingling gold chains the rich
woman swept by, hardly pausing to
even look at the other’s misery. The
pampered dog stopped, too, for a mo-
ment, but, unlike the humanity that
had been deaf to pity and scorned the
tie of a common brotherhood, with a
gesture that seemed full of infinite com-
passion he threw himself down by the
side of the pariah of his race and begun
gently licking his sores. There’s a lot
of difference, I tell you, between people

and dogs, and it’s mostly in the dog’s
favor.’’

Difference Between Men and Dogs.

 

Crockery and Glassware

AKRON STONEWARE.

Butters
oar wer ae... ...,... ee 40
Dore gal, er wal..................-. 5
ee ee 48
oo ee 60
eee... 72
15 gal. meat-tubs, each................ 1 05
22 al, MORE IDG, CACN................ 1 40
25 Ol. CRE HDS, CACH................ 2 00
30 gal. ment-tubs, cCoen................ 2 40
Churns
2 to6 gal., td es a 5
Churn Dashers, per doz............... 84
Milkpans
\ gal. flat or rd. bot., per doz......... 40
1 eal. Gat or rd. bot.,cacn............ 4%

Fine Glazed Milkpans

\% gal. flat or rd. bot., per doz. a 60
I gal. Gat or rd. dot.,6ach............

 

5%
Stew pans
\% gal. fireproof, bail, per doz......... 85
1 gal. fireproof, bail, per doz......... 1 10
Jugs

  
  

 

\4 gal, per doz...... 40
% gal. per doz....... 50
1 to 6 eal., per eal........... 6
Tomato Jugs
ee 50
Loe coe... 6%
Corks for % gal., per doz.............. 20
Corks for 1 gal., per doz.............. 30
Preserve Jars and Covers
4 gal., stone cover, per doz........... 75
1 gal., stone cover, per doz.......... 1 00
Sealing Wax
5 lbs. in package, per Ib............... 2
FRUIT JARS
Pies 4 00
eee 4 25
Mion Garrone... 6 00
i eee 2 00
Rees. 25
LAMP BURNERS
MOOS 37
Ot ee ee 38
Ree 60
eee 1 00
or ee 45
eee 60
EE eee 80
OO 50

LAMP CHIMNEYS—Seconds

Per box of 6 doz.

me Gree. 1 28
No ine 1 42
eee 22
Common
ss... 1 50
te... 1 60
a ...... 2 45
First Quality
No. 0 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 210
No. 1 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 2 15
No. 2 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 3 15

XXX Flint

No. 0 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 2 55
No. 1 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 275
3 75

No.3 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab.

CHIMNEYS—Pearl Top

No. 1 Sun, wrapped and labeled...... 3 70
No. 2 Sun, wrapped and labeled...... 4 70
No. 2 Hinge, wrapped and labeled... . 4 88
No.2 Sun, “Small Bulb,’ for Globe
a 80
La Bastie
No. 1 Sun, plain bulb, per doz......... 90
No. 2 Sun, plain bulb, per doz......... 115
No. 1 Crimp, per doz.................. 1 35
No. 2 Crimp, per doz.................. 1 60
Rochester
No. 1 Lime (6be doz).................. 3 50
Wo. 2 Lime (70e doz)... ......-....... 4 00
No. 2 Fine (80e¢ doz)"°-- ............ . 470
Electric
mo. 2 Lee (ree Gaz)... ............ 4 00
No. 2 Flint (80e doz)......... 4 40

OIL CANS

1 gal. tin cans with spout, per doz.... 40
1 gal. galv. iron with spout, per doz.. 75
2 gal. galv. iron with spout, per doz.. 25
3 gal. galv. iron with spout, per doz.. 75

al. galv. iron with spout, per doz..
al. galv. iron with faucet, per doz..

DNTP RE Oe
#
ow

5 gal. galv. iron with faucet, per doz.. 35
GB Gal. Doe eas... lk. 25
5 gal. galv. iron Nacefas.............. 9 00
Pump Cans
5 gal. Rapid steady stream............ 8 50
5 gal. Eureka, non-overflow........... 10 50
dwar Home mule... .................- 10 50
GAL, OMG BUC... osc ee ccc cece eee 12 00
Beal Witate Me... 9 50
LANTERNS
No. 0 Tubular, side lift............... 4 50
Mo. £2 tuner... ... 7 00
No. 13 Tubular, dash.................. 6 75
No. 1 Tubular, glass fountain......... 7 00
No. 12 Tubular, side lamp............. 14 00
No. 3 Street lamp, each.............. 3 75
LANTERN GLOBES
No. 0 Tub., cases 1 doz. each, box, 10c. 45
No. 0 Tub., cases 2 doz. each, box, 15c. 45
No. 0 Tub., bbls 5 doz. each, per bbl.. 1 78
No. 0 Tub,, bull’s eye, cases 1 doz. each 1 25

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Lincoln’s
Speech |

 

 

q at Gettysburg and the |,
4 Emancipation Procla- )
mation were prominent }
incidents in his life, but
‘ they are not the basis
of his fame. Great
things were character-
istic of the man. He did
4 extraordinary things
because he was an ex-
traordinary man. Spec-
ial occasions gave him.
special opportunities,
but he was equally
great on all occasions.

Men and merchan-
dise are measured by
the same rule—service
tothe public. Reliabil-
ity is first in importance.
The safest man may not
make the most brilliant
successes, but he will
make the fewest fail-
ures. The winning horse
in arace may not make
the fastest time, but he
must take the most
heats.

Flour to be popular
must be reliable. It
must be uniform. CER-
ESOTA has earned a
reputation for uniform
excellence. The qual-
ity never varries and
the flour never disap-
4 points. CERESOTA
4 on the sack guarantees
the contents.

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MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

 

Shoes and Leather

 

Shoe Manufacturers and Magazine Adver-
tising.

The question of extending trade by
means of advertising is one which per-
plexes the business man of to-day.
Years ago the average manufacturer was
able to sell all the goods he could pro-
duce at a fairly liberal profit, but owing
to the growth of the country and the ex-
tension of manufacturing generally, al-
most every line of productive industry
is now represented by so many manu-
facturers that competition is infinitely
greater, and, as a_ consequence, profits
have been cut down to the lowest notch.
Even with the advantages offered by
manufacturers of good quality and low
prices, there is still a difficulty in get-
ting all the business which is desired by
many of them, and therefore there has
been a wonderful growth of advertising
in the last few years.

Anyone who may look over the maga-
zines of twenty, or even ten, years ago
will be surprised to find that they con-
tained so little advertising, and that
these advertisements were, as a rule,
very small, very commonplace, and, as
a general thing, very few. To-day one
purchases a magazine of 80 to 120 pages,
and finds tacked to it 100 to 150 pages
of advertising. One would almost think
that the producers of this country had
gone mad over magazine advertising.

A liberal sprinkling of the advertise-
ments shown in the magazines of to-day
are those of shoe manufacturers. There
are several concerns who are spending
many thousands of dollars every year in
the weekly and monthly papers and
magazines of general circulation to pop-
ujiarize their makes of shoes. There
have been others who before them tried
the experiment and have given it up.
Almost any shoe dealer in the country
can remember the names of people who,
five or ten years ago, advertised their
shoes very liberally in the high-priced
mediums, but who to-day are almost as
unknown as Aquila, the tentmaker of
Corinth, who is advertised in the annals
of Luke, A. D. 55.

Those shoe manufacturers who have
been and are advertising their shoes in
this way are, we believe, working
against their own interests. In the first
place, they create an antagonism to
themselves and their goods on the part
of the retailers. No retailer likes to be
dictated to by the manufacturer, and
the man who advertises the ‘‘Sure
Enough”’ shoe at $3, ‘‘order of your re-
tail dealer and take no other,’’ too often
finds it difficult to get an enterprising,
go-ahead retailer to handle his shoes.
The retailer prefers to do his own ad-
vertising. He prefers to do it in his
own way, in his own local paper, where
he will get the greatest benefit. Not-
withstanding the fact that some of these
advertising mediums may have circula-
tions of hundreds of thousands of copies
in this and other countries, the retailer
knows that in the territory from which
he draws his custom only a compara-
tively few copies are read, and that for
his own particular trade such advertise-
ments are not worth a nickel a year.

It has been stated as a fact that a shoe
manufacturer who spent over $100,000 a
year in advertising his brand of foot-
wear was obliged to charge retailers
twenty-five cents per pair more for his
shoes than the same identical shoes,
made without his brand on them, could
be bought. Now, there are few retailers
who are willing to pay twenty-five cents

 

a pair for advertising their shoes; and.
certainly, of these few not even I per
cent. could be found who would be
willing to pay twenty-five cents more
simply because the shoes were adver-
tised in the large magazines and _picto-
rial weeklies. As was said above, every
retailer prefers to do his own advertis-
ing in his own way.

Wide-spread advertising is frequently
spread too thin to be of much advantage
to anybody, not even to the manufactur-
er, for it is quite a question whether it
benefits him in the end. In too many
cases it turns the shoe factory into a
mail order or retail store, where the
manufacturer himself, by selling the
retail customer, comes into direct com-
petition with the shoe merchants to
whom he supplies his goods. Such
driving away of wholesale trade for the
benefit of retail orders is grabbing for
the shadow and irretrievably losing the
substance.

Many of the manufacturers who have
tried magazine advertising in years
gone by have seen the folly of it. Some
have found out that experience is a dear
teacher, and they are to-day out of the
shoe business. Others have had their
experiences, but learned the lesson soon
enough to change their policy, and have
discontinued this kind of advertising.

The shoe manufacturer who to-day
wishes to push his business by advertis-
ing will endeavor to assist and instruct
the retailer, rather than antagonize him.
The way to do this is, first, to make a
shoe which the retailer can sell, and,
second, to inform the retailer all about
it, and to give the retailer that shoe at
as close a price as possible, thereby al-
lowing the latter to do his own advertis-
ing and yet enabling him to get sufficient
profit to be able to afford to buy this lo-
cal publicity.

The way is manifest: The shoe man-
ufacturer to-day who would enlarge his
business should advertise in the trade
papers, thereby placing himself in di-
rect communication with the retailers of
the country, and should inform and _ in-
struct them with regard to the goods by
means of careful descriptions, well-
drawn illustrations and close quotations.

The go-ahead, wide-awake shoe re-
tailers of the country are subscribers to
the trade journals. They pay out good
money for these publications, and they
read them thoroughly. Most of them
understand that the advertising pages in
the trade papers are among the most
important in the matter of vital trade
news; that the trade papers are the me-
dium for constant communication, and
they are, therefore, studied thoroughly.
If manufacturers who are now spending
thousands of dollars for advertising in
the popular monthlies and weeklies
would cut their appropriations down to
one-tenth, and spend that in the trade
papers, they would find that in the end
they would be the gainers thereby, and,
what is more, every retailer in the coun-
try would be a gainer to an even larger
extent; for it stands to reason that the
retailer and the consumer must pay the
advertising bills of the manufacturer,
and where these amount to hundreds of
thousands of dollars, it is a question
worth serious consideration in these
days of close margins and small profits.
——Boot and Shoe Recorder.

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Cold Storage Inspection.

A bill has been introduced in the New
York Legislature providing for the ap-
pointment by the Boards of Health in
cities of the first class of not more than
four inspectors, who shall inspect and
examine all buildings in their cities
used for cold storage purposes, as to
their sanitary condition.

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Knit or Felt Boots with
Duck or Gum Perfections.

Our stock is complete. Send
us your orders and they will
have prompt attention.

State
Com-

: : Rindge, Kalmbach, Logie & Co.,
binations.

10=22 N. Ionia St., Grand Rapids, Mich-
Agents Boston Rubber Shoe Com pany.

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HOES that bring comfort.
HOES that give satisfaction.
HOES that bring trade.
HOES that make money.

WE MAKE THEM

HEROLD-BERTSCH SHOE CO.,
MAKERS OF SHOES,
, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

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We are now prepared to fill all orders
promptly. The sizes and toes which manu-
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are now in stock.

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THOSE PIONEER SAWMILLS.
Some Memories of Them, With Other
Early Things.

Written for the Tradesman.

Looking over some back numbers of
the Tradesman, I have been re-reading
with much interest two articles from
my old friend, W. S. H. Welton. In
reference to the cutting out of 100,000
feet of 4 inch oak plank for paving
Chicago streets, I remember that well—
although Mr. Welton mistakes the name
of the sawyer, which was not Harry W.
Waters, but Henry S. Wartrous, who
was prominent among lumbermen of
those days as a contractor and an expert
raftsman and log-driver. His mill, at
the time spoken of, was between the
canal and the River and nearly opposite
Erie street. Just below it was another saw-
mill, operated by James M. Nelson, and
below that another run by William Hal-
dane, which, I think, was the oldest of
the three—all of them, I believe, using
the muley saw, instead of the earlier
slow-moving sash-gate saw. To cut
100,000 feet with this in six months was
not a very marvelous feat, for it would
turn out three thousand feet per day
without very strong urging. However,
the chief interest of such matters now is
in their association with early Grand
Rapids.

In that same fall of 1851 I purchased
of J. W. Winsor some 20,000 feet of
mill-run pine lumber and piled it up at
the southwest corner of Canal and Huron
streets. In the following March (1852)
came the big flood—the biggest one
known then since 1838—-when the float-
ing cakes of ice gorged at the islands
below, setting the River back and delu-
ging the entire length of Canal street,
also covering nearly the entire west side
of the city. Going out one morning
while that flood was at its height, 1 found
some of my lumber piles just starting
for a journey down the River and, get-
ting into the ice-cold water waist deep,
by hard work in repiling, I managed to
save the most of it, although three or
four thousand feet got away. This was
near the time when Mr. Wartrous com-
pleted his oak plank job.

If Deacon Haldane or Amos Rath-
bone were yet alive, either of them
might tell a good story about fitting out
and loading a vessel with furniture and
cabinetware stuffs and other things for
California—and how the _ enterprise
failed because the vessel (the hull of
which had been built and launched at
the shipyard opposite Island No. 2)
could not be passed through the Welland
Canal. Perhaps William T. Powers
will remember something about that.

Mr. Welton’s story of his experience
among the Quakers of New York also
interests me personally, bringing back
to memory a similar incident in my own
life, occurring at Ferrisburg, Vt., in the
summer of 1844. It was on my first trip
from home to any considerable distance.
Tramping for some six miles through
the woods on a faint trail over the Green
Mountains, and then passing on my
route some interesting points in the
scenery where was laid the plot of Dan-
iel P. Thompson’s novel, ‘‘The Green
Mountain Boys,’’ I came to a commu-
nity of Friends and stopped and worked
a few days for one of them, who had a
large dairy and was engaged in cheese-
making. On the ‘‘First day of the
week’’ while there I attended a meeting
of the Quakers, in a building exactly
such as was described by Mr. Welton,
in company with my employer and his
wife and daughter and several of his
employes. Then, too, for the first,tin ¢

 

in my life | heard a woman ‘‘preach."’

Well, the world moves; but the num-
ber of those still with us who can re-
member, and cherish with pleasure such
memories, while comparing the then
with the now, and pondering upon the
fast strides of work and of business and
of trade, during the past half century,
is growing comparatively small indeed.
What may be unfolding to the rising
and the succeeding generation none
can know. Will it be the equal in
grandeur and progress of the one just
past? Let us all hope so, for to retro-
grade, or even to halt, seems almost like
coming to the brink of a precipice in
human affairs too terrible for calm con-
templation. Albert Baxter.

Muskegon, Feb. 5, 1900.

—__ —~> 20> __
Not Ready To Talk.

Holland, Jan. 27—In answer to yours
of Jan. 22 allow me to say that | did ex-
amine the law enacted by the last Leg-
islature, providing for the licensing and
regulation of commission men and bro-
kers, but I am not so situated at the pres-
ent time as to give you anything for pub-
lication. Matters may soon progress so
far that I may be able to give you what
you desire in this matter, and it will
then give me great pleasure so to do,

G. J. Diekema.

 

 

 

 

 

Now’s
the
Time

If you place your harness
order with us now, it will
be filled before the rush
begins.

This means you will not
be delayed and you won’t
have to pay a cent more.

New harness price list
just out—send for one.

Brown & Sehler,
Grand Rapids, Mich.

HAH

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our line of

WORLD
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Is more complete and attractive than ever be-
fore. Weare not inthe Trust. We want good
agents everywhere.
ARNOLD, SCHWINN & CO.,
Makers, Chicago, Ill.

Adams & Hart, Michigan Sales Agents,
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resident

of the Mnited States of America,

JREETING 3

To

HENRY KOCH, your clerks, attorneys, ager.3.
salesmen. and workmen, and all claiming o1
holding through or under you,

Whereas, it has been represented to us in our Circuit Court of the United States for the District of

New Jersey, in the Third Circuit, on the part of the ENOCH MORGAN’S SONS COMPANY, Complainant, that
it has lately exhibited its said Bill of Complaint in our said Circuit Court of the United States for the District
of New Jersey, against you, the said HENRY KOCH, Defendant, to be relieved touching the matters therein

complained of, and that the said

ENOCH MORGAN'S SONS COMPANY,

Complainart, is entitled to the exclusive use of the designation ‘‘SAPOLIO” as a trade-mark for scouring soap,

Mow, Cherefore, we do strictly command and perpetually enjoin you, the said HENRY

KOCH, your clerks, attorneys, agents, salesmen and workmen, and all claiming or holding through or under you,
under the pains and penalties which may fall upon you and each of you in case of disobedience, that you do
absolutely desist and refrain from in any manner unlawfully using the word ““SAPOLIO,” or any word or words
substantially similar thereto in sound or appearance, in connection with the manufacture or sale of any scouring
soap not made or produced by or for the Complainant, and from directly, or indirectly,

By word of mouth or otherwise, selling or delivering as
“SAPOLIO,” or when “SAPOLIO” is asked for,

that which is not Complainant’s said manufacture, and from in any way using the word ‘““SAPOLIO” in any

false or misleading manner.

o
avituess, The honorable MELVILLE W. Futter, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the
United States of America, at the City of Trenton, in said District of New
Jersey, this 16th day of December, in the year of our Lord, one thousand,

[seat]

ROWLAND COX,

eight hundred and ninety-two,
[sicnzp}

Complainant's Solicitor.

S. D. OLIPHANT,

 

  

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

The Meat Market

 

Three Ways to Make Pork Mincemeat.

Take the best of the lean part of the
jow! and some of the sirloin. Be careful
not to use much fat. Cook it thoroughly
and chop real fine. Chop about the same
quantity of tart apples, not too fine.
To two gallons of meat and apples
mixed add two quarts of water, two
pounds sugar and some cinnamon and
and cloves. Now boil for one hour or
longer and put in glass jars boiling hot
and seal as you do in canning fruit, and
keep ina cool, dark place. In this way
it will keep perfectly for quite a long
time and can be taken out of the jars
and mixed with some hot water and fla-
vored as different people and different
parts of the country demand. Some use
vinegar, some whisky, some rum, some
much and some little. A little vinegar
and nutmeg with good paste for the
crust makes an excellent pie.

To every two pounds of well-cooked
meat (chopped fine) add six pounds of
finely chopped apples, four pounds of
raisins, one heaping tablespoonful of
ground cinnamon, one of allspice,
one teaspoonful of salt, two pounds of
sugar, one pint of molasses, one pint of
boiled cider, and one-half pint of pure
vinegar. This makes a mince-meat
that is not greasy enough to give one the
nightmare. Now as to canning, bring
the mixture to the boiling point, then
seal in glass jars, putting on good gums
and screw the lids on tight, then take
a strip of muslin one inch wide and
long enough to go clear around the jar;
then pour melted resin on the strip of
muslin, and while it is still hot bind it
tightly around the jar where the gum
and lid meet. This makes it absolutely
air tight.

Take the end of the backbone next the
head, leaving the tenderloin all on.
Cook it tender, take bones out, either
grind or chop. Take about twice as
many chopped apples, then season as
beef mince. Use boiled cider, sugar,
raisins, currants and spice of all kinds
to taste, and water to make thin as
wished. In making it for home use,
what I can for summer I take when just
meat, apples, sugar and cider are in,
put into kettle and cook until I think
the apples are cooked, then fill my jars
full and seal. 1 have kept it for a year
this way, and it was as good at the end
of the year as when I made it. In mak-
ing mincemeat for market different re-
cipes are used.—Butchers‘ Advocate.

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Pot Roast and Beef a la Mode.

Did you ever notice a butcher trying
to lard a piece of beef for pot roast? He
jabs a knife through it from one side to
the other; often the blade of the knife is
an inch wide, and the result is that an
ugly hole is left in the beef. He makes
a dozen or more such holes, cuts strips
of larding pork as thick as his finger,
and stuffs them into the holes, and at
the least rough handling by his order
boy or the cook the pieces of pork fall
out. The boy or the cook try to replace
them, and the result is, the holes are
made still larger until by the time the
beef is cooked and sent to table and the
first slice cut off, it has the appearance
of a checker board with the alternate
Squares cut out. The heat distends the
holes to twice their original size, and
the chances are it will be many a long
day again when beef a la mode is asked
for by that same customer. Every
butcher who wants to please his custom-
ers should invest 50 or 70 cents and
buy a larding needle. They come in all

 

sizes, but I have found the kind shaped
precisely like a steel with one side hol-
lowed out like a butter trier, but shorter
and with a long, sharp point, the best.
Let him cut his strips of larding pork a
trifle longer than the piece of beef is
wide—the strips not thicker than a small
skewer—and lay it in the larding needle
and push it gently through; then, by
placing his thumb against the end of the
strip of pork, close to the handle of the
larding needle, it can be withdrawn,
and the pork is left in its place, a very
small piece protruding at each end,
which gives it a most finished and neat
appearance. The small hole the needle
makes closes immediately, and the re-
sult is the strips of pork inside the beef
melt while cooking, and make the beef
tender and juicy, and the small ends on
both sides, melting, make a rich gravy.
The butcher might also suggest to his
customer (and sometimes such a sugges-
tion is appreciated) to cook her beef
a la mode, French style, by pouring a
half bottle of claret over the beef when
it is almost ready to serve, and slice a
few carrots in the gravy, and serve
with the sliced carrots and a few scul-
lions or small onions. Such a dish when
properly cooked and daintily served is
a treat for anybody, particularly if the
claret and carrots are added about
twenty minutes or a half hour before the
beef is cooked through. When speak-
ing of this particular dish never say pot
roast. Always say beef a la mode, it
has a more elegant sound—the word pot
roast is harsh—and the poor down-trod-
den butcher sees enough harshness in his
hard working life, and hears enough
harsh language from cranky customers,
who half the time don’t know what they
want. Customers as a rule when they
have a delicious roast or fowl or steak
say nothing to their butcher, but should
a steak be badly broiled or a roast of
beef or chicken improperly cooked,
then look out for squalls. Of course it’s
his fault, and it would be natural for a
woman to be highly indignant should a

butcher dare to insinuate that her cook-
ing was to blame. Therefore, let the
butcher look carefully after his orders,
and examine each before it leaves his
store. —Butchers’ Advocate.

—>>_ 9 2 __
Relative Value of Over-done and Under-
done Meat.

As to the comparative merits of rare-
cooked and over-done meats, there can
be no question that many people render
their meats indigestible and destroy
their nutritive value by cooking them
until as dry as a chip. It is well known
that the chief food-value of meat is in
its albuminous constituents, which are
coagulated and hardened by long-con-
tinued heating. The difference in di-
gestibility can easily be shown if one
will prepare two test-tubes, under suit-
able conditions as to heat, with solutions
containing pepsin and hydrochloric acid
in suitable amounts, and add to the
one tube raw or rare meat, and to the
other meat which has been dried up by
long-continued cooking. Hence it is
evident that in order to avoid the possi-
bility of parasitic diseases all meats
should be cooked, but cooked moderately,
in order to leave them easily digestible
and that they may have their full nutri-
tive value.

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Protect the Poultry.
From the Farmers’ Review.

When fowls are to be transported from
one place to another, care should be
taken that the cages or coops be so _pro-
tected by cloth or otherwise that the
birds will not be exposed to all the icy
winds that blow. It is no unusual sight
in Chicago to see fowls exposed to
weather far below zero.

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People who have nothing to say are
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IN CANS AND BULK.
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BUTTER AND EGGS
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SHIPPING
POULTRY

to Buffalo, N. Y., why not ship to headquarters, where
you are sure of prompt sales at highest prices and

prompt remittances always. That means us.

POTTER & WILLIAMS

144, 146, 148 MICHIGAN ST.,
BUFFALO, N. Y.

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Bought at a stated price on track. If you
have any to offer write to-day for prices and
particulars.

Stroup & Carmer,
38 S. Division St., Grand Rapids, Mich.

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WHOLESALE DEALERS IN

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Fruits and Produce.

Butter, Egg and Poultry Situation in Go-
tham.

I was told of a baker who had pur-
chased some factory butter, and after it
had been in his store a few days the
water began to run out until it wet the
floor considerably. He then stripped
the butter and drained out of each tub
anywhere from one to two quarts of
water. After hearing the story | inves-
tigated the matter and found that while
some of the facts had been exaggerated
there was too much truth about it to be
pleasant. Some of the Western ladle
packers persist in loading the butter
with water. They figure that 17 or 18¢
a pound for water pays well and they
incorporate into the product just as
much as possible. In looking up the
matter I went down cellar with a receiv-
er, and he turned out some tubs to show
me what he meant. When the tubs were
lifted off the butter the water ran out in
quantities. ‘* There is this phase of the
question,’’ said the receiver, ‘‘if a buy-
er gets ahold of this stock he makes an
awful kick, and never wants any more
of it; so it doesn’t pay to put up that
kind of goods. I am having more or
less trouble of this kind all the time,
and the packers ought to stop it.’’

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‘*You can’t say too much against the
practice of shippers in sending mixed
eggs here as fresh,’’ said an egg man
recently. ‘‘A large percentage of my
receipts the past two weeks has been so
badly mixed with stale stock that | was
ashamed to offer them to anybody, after
examination. Our market is demoralized
enough with the consignments of coun-
try storage lots without being loaded up
with eggs that are branded fresh gath-
ered, but contain more than 50 per cent.
of stock not any better than ordinary
storage. The shippers or packers may
think they are doing a sharp thing, but
egg buyers here can not be deceived in
that way.’’ It has been difficult to get
any fair value for stock mixed with old
eggs and as fine goods become more
plenty there will be no place for the
mixtures unless prices are put down
very close to prime refrigerators. In-
stead of getting fresh egg price for the
old eggs shippers will be more likely
to get old egg price for the fresh ones,
because buyers looking for fresh will
not handle the mixtures at all as soon
as they can get straight lots of new eggs.

ee

The free export movement in refriger-
ator and limed eggs which has set in
from this port to Europe during the past
two or three weeks has attracted a great
deal of interest, but it has not been easy
to get very reliable information as to
the prospect for its continuance. A
merchant who has experimented con-
siderably with British and Continental
egg markets in the past, and who has
shipped more or less this season, in-
formed me that he considered the out-
look for the stock now going over as
very unpromising. ‘‘ Refrigerator eggs,’’
he remarked, ‘‘are not in favor on the
other side, where the trade is confined
to fresh eggs and pickled.’’ He cited
instances where previous efforts to un-
load Amerian refrigerator eggs abroad
had met with disastrous results, and
stated the opinion that even if some
preliminary shipments this season had
been reported sold to advantage it was
quite probable that heavy shipments
would be likely to net bad results. It is
to be hoped that these views may prove
fallacious, for the present movement, if

 

continued for a few weeks, would be a
great relief to our overstocked and de-
moralized markets. The total quantity
sent to Europe (chiefly Great Britain)
up to the close of last week, as nearly
as can now be ascertained, was some-
thing over 12,000 cases and about 6,000
cases more will probably go out this
week. In addition to this the Cuban
trade has been taking about 2,400 to
2,600 cases of refrigerator eggs per week,
but this business is decreasing a little
now as Havana is drawing more fresh

eggs from our Southern ports.
ees

It is some consolation to hear from
Chicago that the rampant egg bulls of
last year have had their horns so closely
cropped that they will not try to scoop
up the early supplies this year. It is no
wonder that they can not ‘‘conscien-
tiously look a hen in the face and say,
‘I love you.‘ ’’ But who ever accused a
Chicago man of being conscientious
about loving a hen or any other creature !

Be ae

The dressed poultry market rarely be-
fore has been in such an unsatisfactory
condition at this season of the year as it
was a good part of last week. Weather
was warm and unfavorable in mc&t all
producing sections when the poultry was
packed and shipped, and nearly every-
thing arrived here some days in poor
condition. Warm, foggy and rainy, un-
favorable weather here caused the stock
to deteriorate more after exposure here,
and it was a go-as-you-please market,
holders being forced to accept about all
reasonable bids.

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The arrest of a local game dealer dur-
ing the week for selling foreign game
attracted considerable attention in the
game trade and the outcome of the case
is awaited with interest. The State
authorities claim that the State laws pro-
hibit the possession and sale of foreign
game and the dealers importing the
game claim it is unprotected by the
State laws. The arrest this week, which
is the first of the season, will doubtless
lead to a decision in the matter.

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The recent warm weather in the
Northwest caused many cars of dressed
poultry to be turned this way which
were intended to be naturally frozen.
Instructions came with the poultry to
put it in freezers here if suitable, but the
stock was usually out of condition, hav-
ing come through warm, unfavorable
weather and it had to be forced out on

the open market for what it would bring.
* * *

Several large deals in frozen poultry
have been consummated during the
week, probably 100 carloads in all
changing hands. Some of the stock is
in freezers here and the balance in
freezers at other points.—N. Y. Produce
Review.

 

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Mutton Growing in Popularity.
From the Drovers’ Journal.

The slaughter of sheep has made won-
derful gain during the past ten years
and seems destined to keep on increas-
ing for some time. Mutton commenced
to be in demand in 1894, when prices
reached such a low point that thousands
of people were attracted to it by reason
of its cheapness. Ever since mutton
has been growing more and more in
popularity. This has been due partly
to the fact that it has been relatively
cheaper than beef, but mostly to the
fact that the quality has highly im-
proved. People never like to eat a poor
quality of meat even although it is
cheap.

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clothes, but you can sometimes get some
idea of him by his wife’s clothes.

 

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GENERAL
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MERCHANTS

Wholesale Fruits, General Produce and
Dairy Products.
58 AND 6O W. MARKET ST.
121 AND 123 MICHIGAN ST.
BUFFALO, N. Y.

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BEANS

If you can offer Beans in small lots or car lots send us sample and price.
Always in the market.

MOSELEY BROS.
26-28-30-32 OTTAWA ST., GRAND RAPIDS
Seeds, Beans, Potatoes, Onions, Apples.

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J. W. LANSING,

WHOLESALE DEALER IN

BUTTER AND EGGS

 

BUFFALO, N. Y.

I want all the roll butter I can get. The market is firm at from seventeen to twenty

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

Buffalo Cold Storage Co., suffallo, hy. os

Dun or Bradstreet.
Peoples Bank, Buffalo, N. Y.

Michigan Tradesman.

EOE RO. SS BF. BP BS Sr

Beans and Potatoes Wanted

Wire, ‘phone or write us what you have to offer. Mail us your orders for
Oranges, Nuts, Figs, Dates, Apples, Cider, Onions, etc. The best of every-
thing for your trade at close prices.

The Vinkemulder Company,
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

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HEALTH FOODS

The question of “Foods” has become one of the very first importance of the
resent day and one in which every Grocery and Provision dealer is deeply

f interested, because he is called upon to supply his patrons with the very
best at the most reasonable prices. To aid you in this we wish to call atten-
tion to some of our products in this line. You have dyspeptics among your
customers and our Whole Wheat Crackers will furnish excellent food to aid

f 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
cracker for soups, etc. Gem Oatmeal Biscuits, a good seller, and Cereola, the
| king of Health Foods. See price list for prices. Address all communications to

BATTLE CREEK BAKERY, Battle Creek, Mich.
SEE SB. BB FB HF Bm

MAKE A NOTE OF IT. WE WANT

POTATOES

Write us what you have to offer.

MILLER & TEASDALE CoO., st. Louis, mo.

Receivers and Distributors of Fruits and Produce in car lots.

PRINTING FOR PRODUCE DEALERS "sandeep

Grand Rapids.

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

GOTHAM GOSSIP.

News From the Metropolis—Index to the
Market.

Special Correspondence.

New York Feb. 3—The coffee market
is firm and quotations have advanced.
As usual, the authorities clash, some
claiming the rise to be purely specula-
tive and others maintaining as stoutly
that it is perfectly legitimate. Advices
are now to the effect that the Rio crop
will be much smaller than usual and
quality somewhat affected also. In store
and afloat there are 1,132,064 bags,
against 1,295,810 bags at the same time
last year. Rio No. 7 closes firm at 83¢c
and one must go back some time to find
coffee up to this mark. Mild coffees are
oractically without change. Prices are
lon good Cucuta closing at 1o@1Ic.
East India grades are meeting with very
little call more than usual and the range
of quotations is firm although no
changes have been noted.

The market for raw sugar has steadily
gained strength and refiners have been
eager to take all offerings at an advance
of I-16c and, on the other hand, sellers
are not seemingly anxious to part with
stocks. For refined the market has _re-
mained fairly satisfactory. A nominal
advance of five points was made during
the week, but it seems to have been
only on paper, as the previous quota-
tion ‘‘goes’’ right along.

The tea trade appears to be awaiting
the result of the auction next week and
meantime transactions are small and in-
frequent. Holders are not inclined to
make any concession whatever and the
undertone of the market is firm. The
offerings at auction will comprise 11,000
packages.

Offerings of rice have been mostly of
medium grades and the demand _ has
been moderate. Holders, however, are
seemingly confident and prices are firm.
Foreign grades have moved slowly and
quotations seem to be hardly as firmly
sustained as last week. Japan, 43(@
4%c ; good to prime Southern, 44@5 4c.

With the exception of pepper there is
not an article in the spice line which
has attracted more than the most ordinary
attention and little animation is shown
anywhere in the market. Pepper, how-
ever, exhibits great strength and _ closes
firm at 123¢c for Singapore black. Am-
boyna cloves are worth 11@11 4c.

The market for desirable grades of
molasses is fairly active and prices are
well sustained, as stocks are not ex-
tremely large. Medium sorts move
rather slowly, and yet matters might be
worse. Prices are unchanged. Syrups
are in light supply and well held.

Save for rather more business in fu-
tures, the canned goods market has been
very quiet all the week. Most of the
business, however, has been with West-
ern jobbers. Peas appear to be meet-
ing with more enquiry than anything
on the list in the way of spot goods and
some good-sized blocks of standard June
have been marketed. Prices have made
no advance worthy of note, but the tend-
ency is certainly that way. Tomatoes
are not meeting with as good enquiry
as a fortnight ago. Pacific coast fruits
are moving about as usual and fetch
full quotations.

In dried fruits the call is mostly for
small lots, seemingly just for enough to
tide over present wants. There have
been a good many of these small orders,
however, and the aggregate amount
must be quite large. Some little im-
provement is shown in the demand for
“ope but buyers and sellers seem to

e unable to reach an understanding as
to price.

Lemons and oranges—in fact, the
whole line of green fruits—have been
“‘relegated to the rear’’ by the continued
decidedly cold wave. It will be very
dangerous to make shipments just now,
although prospects are for a warmer turn.
Quotations show about the same level
as last week.

There has been a pretty fair enquiry
for butter all the week and, as the cold
weather may check the arrivals to some
extent, there is a firmer feeling prevail-
ing, although it would hardly do to say
that any advance had been made in
quotations. For the best Western cream-

 

 

ery 25c continues to be the top rate, the
only difference being that inspection is
not quite as close as last week. Western
creamery, thirds to firsts, 20@24c ; West-
ern imitation creamery, 17@22c—latter
for fancy stock; Western factory, 16@
18c; roll butter, 16@18c.

Small size State full cream cheese is
worth 1234@13c; large size, 12%4@13Cc.
The market is in a fairly satisfactory
condition and both exporters and home
dealers are showing more interest thana
week ago, although there is still room
for improvement.

Best Western eggs are worth Ioc. The
market is fairly well supplied and it is
not thought higher quotations will be
made immediately.

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choice, $2. 30.

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President, E. J. SCHREIBER, Bay City; Sec-
retary, A. W. Srirr, Jackson; Treasurer,
O. C. GOULD, Saginaw.

 

Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Association
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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. MEsT, Jackson.

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Senior Counselor, D. E. KEYES;
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Out With the Old—In With the New.

Lansing, Feb. 5—The joint meeting
of the old and new Boards of Directors
of the Michigan Knights of the Grip
was held here Saturday. Al] the mem-
bers of the old Board were present ex-
cept Director Smith, of Saginaw.

The Treasurer’s report was read and
approved, as follows:
Amount in general fund,
Amount in death fund,
Amount in deposit fund,

$1, 183.71

653-59

72.00

Total, $1,909. 30
The Secretary’s report was read and

approved. The expenses since the last
meeting have been as follows:
Postage, $27.50
Telephone exchange, 4.69
Secretary’s salary, $460. 35
Treasurer’s salary, 78.00
Lansing Journal, 14.00
Proofs of death of seven members

were presented as follows:

H. S. Humphrey, Hillsdale; L. D.
Bingham’ Detroit ; William Allshouse,
Pontiac; M. H. Doty, West Unity,
Ohio; C. P. Coy, Ft. Wayne, Ind. ; J.
P. Reeder, Grand Rapids; H. W. Bee-
son, Detroit.

On motion of Director Thorne, the
claims were allowed and ordered paid.

The Board expenses were allowed
and warrants drawn for same, as fol-
lows:

C. L. Stevens, Feb. 3, $5.02
G. H. Randall, Feb. 3, 6.16
J. W. Schram, Jan. 20, 5.02
J. W. Schram, Feb. 3, 5.02
J. W. Thorn, Jan. 20, 2.58
J. W. Thorn, Feb. 3, 3.08
O. C. Gould, Feb. 3, 4.56
E. M. Converse, Feb. 3, 3.58
M. E. Stockwell, Feb. 3, 4.60
E. J. Schreiber, Feb. 3, 6.16
A. W. Stitt, Feb 3, 3.48

The bond of A. W.. Stitt (the new
Secretary), being of proper form, was
accepted and turned over to President
Schreiber.

The retiring Presideht was empow-
ered to perfect the Treasurer’s bond and
turn same over to President Schreiber.

The old Board then retired and the
new Board proceeded with further busi-
ness. J. C. Saunders, Secretary.

Jackson, Feb. 5—The new Board was
called to order by President Schreiber,
of Bay City. Present—O. C. Gould,
Treasurer, A. W. Stitt, Secretary, Di-
rectors Randall, Thorn, Weston and
Stockwell. Absent—-Smith and Howarn.

Director Thorn moved that an_assess-
ment be made, to be issued March I.
Carried.

A motion was made by ‘Treasurer
Gould to change the method of sending
out assessments that they might be is-
sued with one cent postage and receipts
on postal cards, for the purpose of less-
ening the expenses. After remarks had
been made by different members of the
Board, the motion was withdrawn. The
chair was instructed to appoint a com-
mittee to investigate the advisability of
changing the method of assessment no-
tices and receipts. The committee ap-
eo consisted of Gould, Weston and

titt.

Mr. Gould moved that the indemnity
bond of $4,000, given by A. W. Stitt as
Secretary, be accepted. Carried.

Mr. Gould moved that the new Board
endorse the action of the old Board in
leaving the completion of the Treas-

 

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urer’s bond in charge of Mr. Stevens,
the out-going President. Carried.

The Secretary was authorized to send
out a circular letter with the next assess-
ment notice.

Director Thorn moved that we meet
the first Saturday in March in Jackson.
Carried.

The meeting then adjourned.

A. W. Stitt, Secretary.

Bay City, Feb. 5—President Schreiber
has announced the standing committees
for 1g00 as follows:

Finance—Chas. H. Smith, Saginaw;

J. W. Thorn, Owosso ; Geo. H. Ran-
dall, West Bay City.
Printing—M. E. Stockwell, Grand

Rapids; J. A. Weston, Lansing ; Mich. ;
Howarn, Detroit.

Legislative--Homer E. Buck, Bay
City; H. B. Coleman, Kalamazoo; J. C.
Saunders, Lansing.

Railroads—E. P. Waldron, St. Johns;
Manley Jones, Grand Rapids; F. N.
Mosher, Port Huron.

Hotels—W. H. Baier, Detroit; Mark
Brown, Saginaw; F. L. Day, Jackson.
Bus and Baggage--L. J. Koster,

Grand Haven; Geo. Monroe, Owosso ;
Chas. Hurd, Flint.

Employment and Relief—J. F. Ham-
mel, Lansing; J. A. Bassett, Ypsilanti ;
E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids.

Chaplain—J. M. Fitch, Durand.

Sergeant-at-Arms--F. M. Bosworth,
Olivet.

—___~2<.____

Government Prices on Typewriters.

Bids were opened at the Navy De-
partment last Saturday for furnishing
the Department with 250 typewriters.
This was the beginning of the attempt
of the Department to get machines at
less than the market price, and if the
bids received are considered satisfac-
tory the system will be extended to all
the Government departments, the Navy
Department acting as the central pur-
chasing agent. Only single key board
machines, capable of making not less
than seven copies, were admitted to the
competition. The bids ranged from
$39.50 upward, as follows :

Rust-proof Franklin, $50.

Plain Franklin, $39.50.

Hammond, No. 2, $45.

Hammond, No. 3, $49.50.

Hammond, No. 6, $54.

Manhattan, $59.75.

Remington, $78.

Remington-Sholes, $62.48.

Underwood, $62.50.

Williams, $60.

Duplex-Jewett, $58.75.

Pittsburg Visible, $55.

Densmore, $64.85.

Brooks, $45.

Oliver, $62.50.

Columbia Bar-Lock, $56.98.

—___02—___

Elected Members of the Liars’ Club.

John C. Wright, Secretary of the Pris-
tine Order of Prevaricators, announces
in the columns of the Michigan Lyre
that four licenses have been issued dur-
ing the past month to traveling men, as
follows :

‘‘Hub’’ Baker, the genial Grand Rap-
ids drummer, received one of our
licenses the other day. He says he
doesn’t deserve one, but his friends have
a different opinion of the matter.

Last week we had the pleasure of
shaking hands with Frank J. Campbell,
representing J. T. Wing & Co., of De-
troit. We bestowed upon him the honors
of our fraternity and we understand that
before he left town he showed his abil-
ity to defend them.

A. W. Peck, traveling for the Hazel-
tine & Perkins Drug Co., carries one of
our licenses in his hip-pocket. Over
forty different persons requested us to
give it to him.

Lou Codman, the Hartford traveling
man, who sells moccasins, snow-shoes
and toboggan slides, is the proud pos-
sessor of one of our licenses. It didn’t
make him feel bad because he never
pretends too tell the truth anyway.

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This is the age of the horseless car-

riage and the rubberless winter.

 

Continental Tobacco Co. Discontinues Its
Graded Quantity Plan.

Under date of Feb. 1 the Continental
Tobacco Company, ina circular letter,
notified the jobbing trade that from date
until further notice drop shipments,
consisting of not less than 100 pounds
of plug, fine cut and smoking tobaccos,
of one or more of their listed brands,
would be made to retailers direct from
the factory, freight prepaid. The goods
will be billed at the card rates and a
check will be mailed the retailer for 1
cent a pound on the tobaccos embraced
in the shipment.

To the jobber a discount of 8 per cent.
will be deducted from the face of the in-
voice and the net amount of the bill
will then be subject to a further discount
of 2 per cent. for cash ten days.

At the end of each period of two cal-
endar months,
business shows

to every jobber whose
an increase of 10 per
cent. over the same period last year, an
additional gratuity of 2 per cent. will
be given as a reward of merit.

The Continental Company evidently
intends to force the sale of its goods,
and especial effort will be made to in-
crease the sale of fine-cut and smoking
tobaccos. The extra 2 per cent. will
prove a great incentive to price cutters,
who will as gladly divide their }:rofits
with the retailer in the future as they
have in the past.

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Gripsack Brigade.

Peter Fox, formerly on the road for
the Musselman Grocer Co., is now trav-
eling for Daniel Lynch.

Wm. M. Ten Hopen, city salesman
for the Clark-Rutka-Weaver Co., fell
on the pavement on Monroe street last
Saturday and dislocated the bones of
his left wrist. He will probably be laid
up for a couple of weeks.

The Michigan Commercial Travelers’
Association will give a social entertain-
ment—cards, dancing and_ refreshments
—at its rooms in the University build-
ing (Detroit) Saturday evening of this
week.

Grand Rapids Council, No. 131, will
hold an informal smoker on the even-
ing of February 17. Matters pertaining
to the coming annual meeting of the
Grand Council of Michigan will be dis-
cussed and some of the preliminaries
will be arranged.

M. C. Johnson, who has been with
Voigt, Herpolsheimer & Co, for four
years, having charge of the house fur-
nishing department, has taken a posi-
tion as traveling salesman for DeYoung
& Schaafsma, covering the northern
portion of the State.

Hillsdale Standard: A. W. Lewis, of
Hillsdale, a popular traveling man who

 

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on the road for the wholesale
dry goods house of Baumgardner & Co.,
of Toledo, the past nineteen years, was
made a member of the firm the first of
the year and will move to that city in
the spring in order to spend a portion of
the time in the house.

Traverse City Herald: A pocketbook
containing over $600in money and checks
was found in the store of S. Benda &
Co. yesterday. After enquiry
among the traveling menin the city Mr.
Benda found that the wallet belonged
to Louis Silverman, of
man for A. Jacobs. Mr. Silverman was,

has been

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Detroit, sales-

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of his property.

Cheboygan Democrat: Traveling men
were numerous in the city this week.
Some merchants received calls from six
to eight each day the first days of the
week. A dry goods drummer said he
having the best trade for twelve

and for the first time in that
period his house had run_ short of sev-
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years

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to what their husbands say until they
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Drugs--Chemicals

Michigan State Board of Pharmacy
Term expires

 

 

GEO. GUNDRUM, Ionia - -
L. E. REYNOLDs, St. Joseph -

HENRY HEIM, Saginaw - - Dec. 31, 1902
WIiRT P. Dory, Detroit - - - Dec. 31, 1903
A.C. SCHUMACHER, Ann Arbor - Dec. 31, 1904

President, Gko. 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.

 

 

Side Lights on the Profession of the Phar-
macist,

The buying, compounding, and _ sell-
ing of drugs and medicines, and the
buying and selling of drugs and medi-
cines already compounded, together with
various articles intended to conserve the
health and happiness of mankind—this
is the pharmacy of to-day. If any text-
book teaches any other meaning, the
practical lesson of experience makes
vigorous denial. Neither will Dame Ex-
perience admit of any favoritism in re-
gard to the importance of each of the
subjects as hinted at above. The whole
drug business, from the time you unlock
your door in the morning and mix a
Seidlitz powder ora bromo fizz for the
bilious sedentary or the remorseful
prodigal, until you or your soda water
professor hands out the last glass of
orange phosphate or kafa-kola_ to the
belated straggler from the theater-—all
this, with the thousand duties which in
this moment will pass before your mind’s
eye, constitutes your pharmacy. This
is your vocation. We can not consist-
ently separate the different classes of
business and say this is pharmacy, this
confectionery ; this moment I am a to-
bacconist, now a_ veterinary surgeon,
and in a moment more a bartender, or
when selling a pocket stove ora curling-
iron, a hardware dealer. The pharma-
cist who thus allows his feelings to be
harrowed up and imagines himself, un-
happily, a Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde,
makes a most unnecessary mental dis-
tinction.

I will come down to a plain instance.
Let the whole business done in any
store during each business day consti-
tute Ioo per cent. If one-half of the
customers in a particular store wish to
purchase sheep dip the pharmacist in
charge should certainly be prepared to
furnish this article of the right quality
and quantity, and at the right price ;
provided, of course, that there is no
dealer in another line where this article
can and should be procured. If this
chance for business is not improved, 50
per cent. of the opportunities of this
particular pharmacy have been thrown
away. The stickling shopkeeper may
say, ‘‘I am not a sheep-dip pharma-
cist!’’ Neither was the sage who could
not swim an aquatic philosopher, but
when the boat was sinking he wished in
vain for some of the philosophical
knowledge possessed by his boatman.
In one store it may be ‘all-day suck-
ers,’’ or it may be paint, red lights or
red window glass, anise seed or garden
seed. In another store it may bea white-
wash brush, in still another a hair or
tooth-brush. Some will strenuously ob-
ject, I know, to the attempt on my part
to classify these things as fractional
parts of pharmacy. I will not attempt
to do so upon theory, but will take
things as I find them and as they have

 

been for many decades; assuming that
every one is in business to succeed,
there can be no controversy over the
proposition that the store which comes
the nearest to supplying the wants of a
customer for all the articles he may need
in his particular line is the one which
stands the best show of doing so.

The whole idea I wish to convey can
be epitomized into the proposition that
since the whole of one’s business as a
pharmacist may be expressed as 100 per
cent., consisting, we will say, of one
hundred divisions, a faulty business
technique is shown, and the whole busi-
ness fabric is to a greater or lesser de-
gree marred and jarred if some parts
are, for any cause, considered unworthy
of adequate attention. There are pas-
sages in every musical composition
which are, no doubt, favorites to the
performers themselves, but how about
the audience, and what performer could
tell just which portion of the minuet or
the oratorio constituted its most attrac-
tive feature to any particular listener?
Certainly, to please all and do justice to
oneself no part can be neglected.

Goods must be bought in sufficient
quantity to supply all demands and in
ample season. Don’t wait until the
Fourth of July to lay in a supply of
moth balls and camphor gum. Soda-
water supplies need the same attention.
It makes a discord in the business har-
mony which should prevail when you
order of your wholesaler and find a list
of ‘‘omits’’ as long as the invoice of ar-
ticles supplied. It annoys the retail
purchaser just as much. Another thing
you have all noticed is that the average
purchaser at a retail drug store is im-
patient. If he doesn’t get what he asked
for at once, he wonders if you understood
his order, or, if you understood it,
whether you are not trying to work off
something else. Therefore, have your
containers supplied from extra stock
during leisure moments, or better still,
have goods neatly packaged and labeled
in the rapid selling sizes, so that when
the customer appears (and he is the
man for whom you are waiting) he may
be promptly served with goods whose
identity and price are unmistakable.

The list of articles which can thus be
kept ready to hand out is a long one. I
will name a few that the firm with which
[ am connected have found it profit -
able to keep thus ready: Epsom salts,
cream of tartar, Rochelle salts, in 5 and
Io cent boxes with printed labels at-
tached. These boxes can be procured at
a very moderate price with descriptive
and dose labels attached, using the pre-
caution to have each article in a box of
distinct color-—blue for Epsom salts,
pink for Rochelle, etc. Camphor gum
we put up in 5, to, and 25 cent, and $1
and $2 packages, wrapped in two
papers, the inner one being waxed; sas-
safras bark in 5, 10, and 25 cent pack-
ages; and to meet the demand created
by our friend, the department store,
glycerin, castor oil, cocoanut oil, sweet
almond oil, goose oil, and olive oil are
all kept in bottles of various sizes, from
5 to 50 cents, to meet the demands of
trade. C. R. Sherman.

Youthful Strategy.

‘‘Harry,’’ exclaimed the little boy’s
mother, ‘‘if you don’t stop pulling that
cat’s tail I will pull your hair and give
you a chance to see how you like it
yourself.’’

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An Injustice to Coca.

Prof. Lounden says that probably no
drug has been more unjustly maligned
than Erythroxylon Coca. Yet no drug
has really rendered more aid to thera-
peutics, as demonstrated in the many
writings by authors, botanists and med-
ical observers during the past century.

The fast-growing popularity of coca
was through untiring efforts of Mariani,
of Paris, who was the first to introduce
it in Europe and in America in a uni-
formly reliable and agreeable form, and
his labor and serious work in this di-
rection were appreciated by the medical
profession. His preparation has_be-
come a most formidable rival of the
many so-called tonics.

When it was clearly demonstrated that
coca was vastly superior and was being
adopted universally by the physician,
each quack ‘‘non-secret’’ house hastened
to add coca in some form or another to
their various mixtures. While this was
an admission of the value of coca, it
really injured its reputation, owing to
the defective preparations produced.
Unsatisfactory, even harmful, results in-
duced the profession to reject the many
valueless, at times dangerous, concoc-
tions. An active campaign was opened
against coca in the medical and daily
press. Sensational articles without any
basis of fact were instigated, with the
dual purpose of inciting the opinion of
the physician and the public against the
drug, and thus prevent its use.

These manufacturers had no know!l-
edge of the requisite treatment and prep-
aration of this delicate, probably most
volatile, of plants, and notwithstanding
the combined efforts of the many com-
petitors and antagonists, the well-known
preparation of coca by Mariani, of
Paris, France, which bears his name, is
the only one which has resisted all at-
tacks directed against coca.

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The Drug Market.

Opium—The market is easy, but the

price is unchanged.

 

Morphine—Is quiet at unchanged
prices.
Quinine—Manufacturers’ prices are

unchanged, but firm in this country and
London.

Carbolic Acid—Is in large demand
and supplies are limited. The article
is being sold in pound bottles in the
West 2@3c cheaper than in the East.

Salicylic Acid—On account of higher
price for carbolic acid, has advanced
about 100 per cent. The article is very
strong and another advance would sur-
prise no one. i

Salicylate Soda—Has also advanced in
sympathy with salicylic acid.

Bismuth Preparations—Are firm at
the advance noted last week.

Cocaine—Has declined 50c an ounce,
to the surprise of everyone, as it was
supposed higher prices would rule. Sup-
plies are limited.

Iodine and Iodine Preparations—Are
very firm at the advance noted.

Glycerine—Has been advanced Ic per
pound.

Menthol—Has declined on account of
better stocks.

Ipecac Root—Has declined on account
of the weakness in the London market.

Linseed Oil—Is very firm at the ad-
vance of 3c last week.

Flax Seed—Continues high, with no
prospect of lower price in the near fu-
ture.

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A Druggist’s Paradise.
Central America must be an ideal
place for druggists. It is stated that the
people {there have a mania for experi-

 

menting with all kinds of remedies.
Five or six years ago a consignment of
goods got mixed up, and a druggist in
one of the five republics received a keg
of liver regulator and a crate of empty
bottles for hair tonic—the medicine and
bottles are generally shipped separately
to dodge a clause in the tariff schedule
—and another druggist miles away got
the other part of the order. Druggist
No. I was in a quandary at first, but the
labels were very pretty, so he finally
filled the hair tonic bottles with the
liver regulator, which soon had a great
run; but the man was haunted with the
idea that the other fellow had palmed off
hair tonic for liver regulator and_pois-
oned a whole district. The other man
turned up one day and admitted he had
put the hair tonic in the liver medicine
bottles, and was more than satisfied
with the result, as he had received a lot
of testimonials certifying to remarkable

cures.
—_—__>2.___

Precedent Established in Favor of Drug-
gists.

Justice McLean, of the New York Su-
preme Court, recently decided that as
druggists are not permitted under the
laws of the State to practice medicine
or surgery, the proprietor of a drug
store can not be held to account for a
clerk’s action in treating a patient, even
if the treatment should prove injurious.
This decision was given in the case of
Roth against Arnemann & Behrens.
Ferdinand Roth, a butcher in New York
City, cut his thumb, and rushed to the
nearest drug store for treatment, which
happened to be that of Arnemann &
Behrens, at No. 570 Eighth avenue.
Roth says a clerk bandaged his thumb
with a cloth saturated with carbolic
acid. Later blood poisoning set in, and
he lost the thumb, whereupon he sued
the drug firm for $10,000 damages. The
counsel for the defendants asked the
court to dismiss the complaint on the
ground that the injured man should have
gone to a physician, not to a druggist,
and that, as a druggist has no right to
practice medicine or surgery, if any ac-
tion could be maintained in this case it
must be against the clerk only. The
court took this view of the matter and
dismissed the suit.

——__> 22> ____
Decomposition of Chloroform.

Pure chloroform was decomposed in
the presence of artificial light during
an operation. The room in which the
operation was being performed was
small, not ventilated, warmed by an oil
stove, and illuminated by an oil lamp
and a candle. Some of the chloroform
was accidentally spilt, and almost im-
mediately a most pungent, disagreeable
smell was noticed, whilst the whole res-
piratory tract vas affected. Violent at-
tacks of coughing seized the operator
and his assistants, and it was five days
before the irritative effect passed away
in one case. The room was pervaded
by a strong odor of chlorine the morn-
ing after the operation.

2-9-2 —___
The fellow who always complains that
life is a grind deserves to marry a crank.

Pil NFG. CHEMISTS,
: », ALLEGAN, MICH.

Perrigo’s Headache Powders, Per-

 

 

rigo’s Mandrake Bitters, Perrigo’s
Dyspepsia Tablets and Perrigo’s
Quinine Cathartic Tablets are gain-
ing new triends every day. If you
haven’t already a good supply on,

write us for prices.

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; ‘<. e thol....... ee a2 3 75 | Seidlitz Mixture ‘
<i> Declined— : 8 Y. @ 2 35@ 2 60 | Sinapis . 20@ 22 Linseed, pure raw 58 ;
y 4 or rn M 2 25@ 2 50 | |! ae is, opt. ( 6 2 ee yolled...... 59 =
3 * cc mal = a osehus Gan i ; Snu ‘gpcanme oe. De ‘ Neats oot, winter str ey ved
' 4 Acidum Coni | Myristica, janton.... a 40| _ Voe oe Spirits Tcnuas - 7
: a So ale fonium Mac......... 50@. Co Nux Vomica...po. 15 “ 2 a Sa a oar
: 4 Benzoieum, at Se Se athe . ‘sued ree @ 50| Os Sepia....... i oes 10 | Soda, Boras. 9@ 41 Paints BBL. |
Carbo if ee @ 16 | Exechthit a = o | Prunus virg...2..... @ 50 co — H&P. 7 Soda” Pea po ne x ii Red Venetiar pe
in : C 6 Aiea a ee a, | Soda Heo m_etien....... Ea?
: a... aa 47 | Exigeron ............ 1 ood 1 10 Tinctures Wa ss. ol Genre, yellow Mars. 1% 2 @A
t ‘+ Hydrochlor as aris 43@ 46 Gaultheria .... 2... 2 50@ 2 > | | Aconitum Napelli : M6 gal. a moe 1%@ 2 Ochre, yellow Ber a 1% ; @
- osama a 3@ 5 | Geranium, ounce. a. | Aconit N iis . 60 | Picis Li see @ 200! Soda, Ast — 3a 5 Putty, commerci: a ole ss @s
e fammm. .... 8... 8@ i Gossip @ 75) um Napellis F : q.. , quarts. aes @ . » ASN........-.- 344 P é 2% 2%@3
Oxalicu ) ippii, Sem. wal. 50, 60 | Aloes . 50 | Picis Liq., pints @ 1 00 | Soda, Sulphas 2 4 Putty, strictly pure. 2% 24@:3
y a Phosphorium, dil. : = na ~~. .. 1 70@ 1 75 | Shoes: and Myrrh... a oo aes ey &0 @ - Spts. Cologne........ o i" “a ™ 7 milion, vine | -
’ . 5 | * 2 ae ‘ | Arnicd : nor Niera.. po. ‘ db 50/ Spts. E ca. De srican .. : 30
Stuphurieum 2c.) 13 Laven 007 | ake 2 Assatwetida.= m0 | Piper Alba. po. 35 & eee “S.5 oon ree 700 7
t ~ ——- wet oo | Mentha Piper....... 1 350 1 45 | Atrope Belladonna... 50 | Pilx Burgun........ @ 30 | Spts. Vini Reet. bbl. = @ ee eo . 13%4@ 17%
ti 1a Piper 1 25@ 2 00 | Aure sorte 60} Plu 6 @ 7|Spts.V set. M B ireen, Peninsular.. :
u Tortaricum ....., ©38@ 40 | Mentha Verid..- ‘= 00 | a Cortex...... 50] P Sasa Acct. 10@ 12 | Spots oe ct.4bbl @ | Lead, red.. 130 16
ji lAcanion des Morrhuee, ‘gal. - 150@ 1 60) st lL 60] P s Ipecac et Opii 1 30@ 1 50 | Spts. oe ect. 10gal @ | Lead, white......... 64 z
f ? Aqua, 16 deg.......-- 4@ 6 = Ss a ‘ ae ; 50 | enon gg i 50 "Stoo te A. @7 Stryctaia, ee 1 wn 1 25 bi ae C bic Si ’ e 70
: a — —  53| Piceiia 7H 3 00 | Cantharides ...22... 50 | Pyrethrum, P¥ev ae | Suiphar, Subl. .... cos “u@ 4|W hite P —— Ff.
1 Carbonas..........-. 183@ 15) Pieis L ieui la, rere 10@ 12 | Capsicum ... 75 | Quasste ... -. - Se 24@ 3% Whiti — Cl
Chloridum........... ae | Rice —_ a, =. i @ = 35| Cardamon.... = Quinia, 8. P. & W. a 10 | Tamarinds .... a a ee ve? Paris, Eng.
1 aaaiee . Q : " 96@ 1 05 Cardamon a 7 | Quinia, 8. German... : D 48 | | Terebenth Venice.. RQ ! 1 : @ 1 40
~ Rosmarini.-.. 2" @ 1 00| Castor........ 75 | Quinia, N. Y. 34@ 44 Theobroma... a oo Universal Prepared. 1 00@ 1 15
on Te 6 500 8 50 | Catechu 2... : = Rubia Tinetorum.... re 44) Vanilla ........ a . 9 00016 . cc
‘oy Suoetit.....--------- 9B | $5 | Ginahonn Gas... aoe Varnishes
| a eee o0 | Cinehona Go... eae a “| No.aT
: i Santal . 2 Col tees Go| Sante Vraeonia 4 50@ 4 60 Oils No.1 Turp Coae ‘
; Sassafras. a 7 = Cc coo gaa a 50 anguis Draconis...  40@ 50 | ee Extra ‘tne spit . “4 = : =
i a ess., ounce.  @_ 65/| Cassia ‘eit Ps . 2@ 14 | Whale, winter. ...... 70 oA oe Body... 12...) 2 75@ 3 00
een _ ) 8 Thym : . 1 O@ 1 60} Cassia Acutifol Co.. a 12 | Lard, extra........ 55 6 | 0.1 Turp ¥ urn haus 007 1 10
; Xanthoxylum 1.1.15. 75@ 80 Thyme, a aha mm be | Diels... 30 @ | Lard, No.0 3% eT. ak a
Balsamum i Lo eee uh — : . Fert ¢ Chlorid 50 ) — wine —
@opaiba ..-......---. 50@ 55 Potassium i ™ | Gentian . dum. 35 a Cl — _ ~
/ gi Peru es @ 2 00} Bi-Carb. cu | =_— Co... 50 oo
Terabin, Canada.. we 45 aa 1b@ 18 | Guiaea. . 60 i Toca ams
; ‘Powe. 40@ 45| Bromide Ce Sl Guiaca ammon. -
" Cortex Gap oe =| a: 50
' _ Canadian..... 18 7 a -po. 17719 16@ 18 | | lodine, colorless. . *
Ne oe en 2 anlde ...........-. 4674 | ok ane 5
, q Cinchona Flava. .... “4 a nisi See 2 65 2 73 | > 50
i Euonymus atropurp. 30 | 4 *otassa, Bitart, pure 28@ 30 | Myrrh ae 50
A % Myrica Cerifera, po. 20 ao assa,Bitart,com. @ 15| Nux Vomica......... 50 |
Prunus Virgini...... LY “Rises Nitras. — 7@ 10| Opii.. sie 50
14> eS sis = ae Br Bs = com yhorated .. & |
: Uimus... po- 15, gr’d = Sulphate po. ........ 1n@ 18 | cease. 2590s 150} |
i Extractum mee Radix “hatany. ceeeteeseen m0 |
Glyeyrrhiza Glabra. 2 _. | Aconitum............ 200. ter
Glycyrrhiza, gg ase ae = Althze oo 23) OB | Sanguinaria........ 0 |
| H:ematox, 15 Ib. box ite ae nehusa ... na 2 | Serpentaria .........
Haeiet ....... “i — po.. @ 25 Stromonium......... a |
Heematox, 48......- = = Calanaus... i ona 0 | Valeria CE 6p ee asi ey ao
. Haematox, 4S as Ge Gentiana ......po. Ms 1a. alee 5 |
' “* @ 17) Glyehrrhiza...pv. 15 16@ 18 | ratrum Veride.. 5 | |
q mes ad rru — Canaden @ 75 | Zingiber . 2 | W | |
Sarbonate Preci ydrastis Cz ' : | 2 a | |
oe Citrate and oan i 1b Somebaee. Albi, po. @ 80 Mise ities e€ are Importers an d Jobl rc |
: Pa pcisact Soluble...... 7 75 —_) Bor re ie a | Fey — Nit.3F 30@ 35 : CTS |
: Se) ‘ 20CaAC 20 | er t aaa i Py .
f oo _ Be mae on Br 4 10@, 4 25 | Alumen si — a 38 of Drugs Chemicals bs | d-
° oride 15 plox. Po. "35038  35@ Sessa os - 24@ 3 ’ ais anc I ite
» 40| Alumen : aten
Sulphate, com’l..... » | Jalapa, pr. oe 30 | AlN: , gro’d..po.7  3@ 4 a
i Sulphate, com’l, by Maranta, 5. oo 30 nnatto.. care aes coe 50 Medicines
a bbl per ewt....... 80 corona po.. s 6 PPO 1@ 5 i
Sulphate, pure...... 7 ae ce ee ini oo 1 | aoe PotassT 40@ 50 W
: Flora ei, — ei: A pra » 2b 4 » 4a ae : . J
ieee. sc 7H 1 38 Antileprin 0 @ | e are dealers in Paints, Oils
; —_—— 2@ 2B Sanguinaria.._po. is = 38 a 10m 12 and V HT
> Matricaria 30@ 35 | Serpentaria ... an 2 Balm Gilead Bi Buds.. 38@ 40 arnishes.
Senega ol od 5 | S. N.. 50@ 1 60
60@ 65 | Calcium Chl = ig
Baros ou Smilax, officinali 1 ‘alei ace a 9 .
Bs Bee ee is. @ 19) Calclum Chor. Be . 3 We have a full line of Staple
nevelly . 0@ 2% e ‘No. 35 10@.~=«12 | Cantharid 5» 148 12 wte
\ Cassia, Ac a ae Symplocarpus, F E as arides, Rus.po @® 7 : IC °
7 Salvia , Acatitol A) — a ro ee ri e @ 2% ¢ Capeicl ene a @ 13 | D ruggists Sundries
and 4 “ | ‘aleriana, ing. po. a a z . ) 5 | —
= d 48 cn ee 12@ on | Welestann’ ra meal “eo 25 CapsielF ructus B, po 3 = |
: paces tees @ 10| Zingibera........ tan 20 ei -po.15 12@ 14 | We are the - ] ‘ °
einai Zingiber {.. -- 1@ 16) Ci rmine, No. 40..... @, 3 00 | Sole proprietors of
AA Acacia, ace. — — 208, 2% — — i So W th l ' hn
. eacia, 2d picked.. 4 ye . . i va 40@ 42 | c 1 : a
Acacia, 3d_picked.. € = Anisum ....... po. 1 @ @ Coceus . . o = | ather y Ss Michigan Catarrh
a sifted sorts. @ 28 Ss aeyget (grav —— 13@, 15 C one see = = | R d : |
- cacia, pO........--. 5@ 65 erste @ 6 e ae | e
Aloe, Barb. po.18@20 SS ue 12] eels 2 a | re - |
4 ioe, Cape....po. 15. @® 2 .125@175/C +23 55@ 60 |
a Aloe, S @ 12|Coriandrum......... 5 | Chloroform, squibbs ; : |
Aetiontae 40 = 30 — Sativa. .... 2 Py —— Hiya ¢ on. 1 ones i 0 | We always have in stock full |
‘ ssafce aes Jy! im : drus : < |
% Se po. 30 a 30 | Chenopodium ..... a rox ; 00 Cinchonidine, P. & W pt = | li f : : |
: La... 8 = Dipterix Odorate.... 1 00@ 1 10 a Germ. 38@ 48 | | ine O Whiskies, Brandies, Gins |
fee ss. @ Foeniculum ......... Does 6 0G 6 2h | | 3, SGD, |
a Se (1) Corks, tisk dis-pivet. 7" 70] | Wines and Rums f | |
Jamphorsz Le m4 7 = ce bl , oe eee « | > od o | |
Euphorbium... po. =... S4@ 4% | Creta .........bb1. 7 @ * s for medicinal | |
“4 a ta = 4 ec ary reta, prep....... D,
ence OS eB eee ai: Oe Alea purposes only _
Guaiacum......po.2 Ss 4 RAPA ..... 2.2.2... aia BIG a, Kubra........ @ | i |
+ cao. posi = @ 30 Sinapis Aina aa a Crocus eee 1K “ | - |
Kino........Po. $1. @ 1 = Sinapis Nigra....... u@ 12 Cadvear SD @ 2 We give our person ae gs |
Myrrh. 22:90." |, aa ou@ 8| || sonal attention |
x pii....po. 4.70@5.00 3 45@ 3 50 | Frumenti, W 1 sees T@ 10 ;
Shellac 5K 3 50 | 7, i, W. D. Co. 2 00@ 2 Ether Sulph.. > to : nn
Shellac, aon _ 35 : rumenti, D.F.R.. 2 00@ 2 - Emery, al numbers. “= 9% mail orders and guarantee sat- |
ae Trasecuall 40@ 45 frumenti............ 1 on 150) E™ meet po @ . i .
‘ Pec 50a 80 | Juniperis Co. O. T... 1 65 <p Erg di @ 6 isfacti
Herba Juniperis Co........ 17 ‘ 3 . F — W hite. -- Po. — 90 on. |
i Absinthium. .02- pkg 25 Spt, Vint = E.... 1 90@ 2 10 —_. cosets He = = A
Supatorium..oz. pkg 20 ni Galli. | 1 75@ 6 50 yambler . aes ll : |
Lobelia .... 20 | Vini Oporto......... : Gelatin, G i @ 2 orders s¢ j ; '
ES BRS Cain I : shipped and invoiced
f entha Pip. "oz. pkg me Sponges . Hassware, flint, box 75 & t 1
' OS ie. ’ ’ 10 é€ Sa > i
@ 0 Buon... con, Big 25 | Florida sheeps’ wool ane 70 me day we receive them
Tanacetuim V oz. Dk 30 | weasan has 2 50@ 2 75| Glue, white. ......" = 2 Send . |
Thymus, V...0z. Pkg 25 oe eM oe Glyeerina... "eo ® end a trial order
‘ 2s » Oo $ > hi “ ' |
i) a Magnesia yee — sheeps’ a —— og radisi...... “a 25
Jalcined, Pat... carriage. .... @ Hyd Chior Mite : 5d LE
Carbonate, Pat...... ss : Extra yellow sheeps’ see Hydrare cner — @ % OC
Carbonate, K.&M.. 18@ : wool, carriage. .... @ 1 25| Hydrarg Ox R el @ 8%
‘arbonate, Jennings 18@ 20 Grass sheeps’ me "| Hydrarg Ammoniati g i .
7
@laam Hard, for a ae @ 1 00 Hydrargyrum 50, 60
Absinthium......... 6 0@ 6 75| Yollow Reef, . * tehthyo - ka @ 80 e
oe Duic.... 30@ 50 slate use... ........ @ 1 40 aes. scm ceieh — = azel i
gdale, Amare. 8 00@ 8 25 s ; nae D100 e
Syrups a, Resubi.
A 1 85@ 2 00 | Acaci f Iodoform. . i.. 3 90@ 4 00
‘aoeaeil Cortex.. ; 0@ 2 eo. @ Bw @ 400
Bergamii ome 2 50 | Auranti Cortex...... @ w ee @ 50 |
% — — 60 Zingiber OS Me @ 50 oo eopodium. . 65 ru g (
4 pec cue  eae NOGAG O |
i, ae 7@ 85 | Ferri od... | @ 6 | Liquor Argon iy: % ° {| |
; Chenopadii. ee 45| Rhei Arom.......... - = Li rarg Iod.. y @ %
Cinnamontt = 2 75| Smilax ‘OMteinalis. 50@ 60 quorPotassArsinit 1 12 G d i ichi
Citrone 1. 1 25@ 1 35 | Senega ..........-.- Magnesia, Sulph... = rand Rapids, M
Ua . 1 3@ 40 | Scillae..2 2. ; @ | Magnesia; Suiph, bbl @ “ pids, Michigan |
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GROCERY PRICE CURRENT’.

The prices quoted in this list are for the trade only, in such quantities as are usually purchased by retai

dealers.

our aim to make this feature of the greatest possible use to dealers.

They are prepared just before going to press and are an accurate index of the local market.
possible to give quotations suitable for a
erage prices for average conditions of purchase.
those who have poor credit.

It is im-

1 conditions of purchase, and those below are given as representing av-
Cash buyers or those of strong credit usually buy closer than
Subscribers are earnestly requested to point out any errors or omissions, as it is

 

 

APPLE BUTTER
V.C. Brand in tin cans
2 doz 2% Ibeans...... 5
1 doz5 Ibeans.. ,
6 doz 10 Ibeans.. -
AXLE GREASE
doz.

—.............. 6 00
oe... 60 7 00
oe EB 50 4 25
i  —— 75 9 00
IXL ani, tin boxes 75 9 00

 

  

  

Mica, tin boxes.......75 9 00
Paragon .. . ..55 6 00
BAKING POWDER
Absolute
% Ib. cans doz..............
% lb. cans doz.
: .camsdor.............. 1
Acme
“ib. came3 doz............ ©
4 ib, canss doz............ 7
a %.cansidoz............ 1 00
Bulk. eo . - 10
Arect
6 oz. Eng. Tumble . =
El Purity
¥ Ib. cans per doz.......... 75
ig Ib. cans per doz.......... 1 20
1 Ib. cans per doz.......... 2 00
Home
¥4 Ib. cans, 4 doz. case...... 35
¥% Ib. cans, 4 doz. case.. 55
1 Ib. cans, 2 doz. case...... 90

TOG

 

4 lb. eans, 4 doz. case...... 45
¥ Ib. cans, 4 doz. case...... 85
1 Ib. cans, 2 doz. case.. .... 1 60

Jersey Cream
1 Ib. cans, per doz. .

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9 oz. cans, per doz.. 1 25
Goce. Gams, perdoz........... &
Peerless
1 Ib. cans . =
Queen ‘Flake

3 0z., 6 doz. case. ... Le ae
6 0z., 4 doz. case....
9 0z.. 4 doz. S
1 Ib., 2 doz. cz
5 lb., 1 doz.
BATH BRIC K-
an... 70
Eaeeen. 80

 

 

 

Small 3 doz.. 40
Large, 2 doz....... — wo
Arctic, 4 02, per ‘gross. . 400
Arctic, 8 0Z, per gross...... 6 00
Arctic, pints, per gross.... 9 00
BROOMS
No.1 Carpet. ee eicee oe ieee 3 00
No.2 (armpe......... 2 75
No. 3 Carpet... Ee
No. 4 Carpet.. oo
Parlor Gem. 2 75
Common Whisk. . cs
i 1 25
Warehouse. . 1d ID
Cc ANDLES |
Electric Light, 8s............ 12
Electric =" —..... 12%
Paraffine, 6s. Seon es
Paraftine, 12s. . «= os
Wicking .. ..20
CANNED ‘GOODS
pples
3 Ib. enim 90
Gallons, standards. . 2 65
Beans
Lae... ue 75@1 30
Red Kidney......... 75@ 85
80
85
Blackberries
Standards........... 75
lueberries
Reemaard 85
Cherries
a Standards........ 85
mice........ a 115
Clams.
Little Neck, 11b..... 110

 

 

Corn
ae 7
So 85
Fancy .......... 95

Hominy
peamdard 85
Lobster
sear. 6 9p........:... 1 85
— i ... 3 10
reat tals... ..... 2 25
Mackerel

 

  

Mustard, 11b.......-. 1 75
Mustard, 2lb........ 2 80
Soused, fie 1 75
Soused, 2 Ib... 2 80
Tomato, i i>......... 17
Tomato, 2Tb........- 2 80
Mushrooms
ss... 18@20
a 22@25
Oysters
Cove, fib. ......._... 90
Cove, 2ip........._.. 1 55
Peaches
Fie ...... .
(CO 1 65@2 00
Pears
Standard ............ 7
—. 80
Peas
Marrowfat .......... 1 00
Barly june.........-. 1 00
Early June Sifted.. 1 60
Pineapple
Grated... 1 25@2 75
Suceq.. 1 35@2 25
Pumpkin
ae 65
Oe 75
mee 85
Raspberries
standard............. 90
Salmon
Red Alaska.......... 1 35
Pink Alaska...... 95
Sardines
Domestic, 44s....... @A
Domestic, Mustard. @s
Preaca.. 8@22
Strawberries
Standard............ 85
may 1
Succotash
Pair... 90
. 1 00
—-............. 1 20
Tomatoes
—....... 80
Cee 90
—. ....... 1 15
Galions......... 2 35

 

CAT P
Columbia, pints.

 

 

Columbia, % pints..

CHEE
a @14%
Ampoy .............. @14
ie @15
Pmbiom............. @14
Gem. ee @14%

— Medal.......... @13%
Idea’ cee @l4
oe pee a eee @l4
Riverside............ @14
x @12
Pea... @70
omen @17
Limburger........... @13
Pineapple........... 50 @75

lpap Sago..........- @17

| CHICORY

bow ‘ ue
Red .. 7

‘CHOCOLATE
Walter Baker & Co.’s.

German Sweet.. : _ =
Premium ........... 35
Breakfast Cocoa.. 46

 

 

 
 

CLOTHES LI ‘
Cotton, 40 ft. per doz........
Cotton; 50 ft. per doz.
Cotton, 60 ft. per doz
Cotton, 70 ft. per doz........

 

1 00
1 20
1 40
1 60
1

Cotton, 80 ft. per doz........ 80
Jute, 60 ft. per doz.......... 80
Jute, 72 ft. = —... 95

RS
The a, Cig —" Co.’s —
Advance a ‘i 00

 

Bradley . 35 00
Clear Havana Pufis. . . 22 00
“WwW. EH. B. . 55 00
“W.B.B.”... : 55 00
H. & P. a Co.’ s , brands.
Fortune Teller.. . 35 00
Our a . . 35 00
Quintette.. ae . 35 00
G. J.J ohnson Cigar Co.’ s ‘brand.
Cc

BaG. W.... .211.) 8. 688

 

Phelps, Brace & Co.’s Brands.

Royal Tigers. 55@ 80 00
toyal Tigerettes......35
Vincente P’ ortuondo . .35h@, 70 00
Ruhe Bros. Co.. ..25@ 70 00
Hilson Co. -- + S5@10 00
7 an & Co.. ..35@ 70 00
ot 35@ 70 00
— ‘Collins Cigar Co..10@ 35 00
Brown Bros...........15@ 70 00
Bernard Stahl Co.. ....35@ 90 00
Banner Cigar Co......10@ 35 00
Seidenberg & Co...... 55@125 00

Fulton Cigar Co......
A. B. Ballard & Co....:
E. M. Schwarz & Co.. oo < 00

San Telmo.. 35@, 70 00
ee igar Co. ..18@ 35 00

. Costello & Co... ....35@ 70 00
cee Co........35@ 70 00
S. I. Davis & Co. .... ..35@185 00

ene & Co... ........ 35@ 90 00

senedict & Co ..7.50@ 70 00

Hemmeter Cigar Co .35@ 70 00

G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.35@ 70 00

Maurice Sanborn .... 507175 00
&

Boek @Co........... .65@ 300 00
Manuel Garcia........ 80@375 00
Neuva Mundo......... 85175 00
Henry Clay........ ... 85@550 00
La Carolina........._.- 96@200 00

COFFEE

Roasted

HIGH GRADE

FFEES

Special Combination...... ..
French Breakfast... .. .
Lenox . os

 

Vienna . ple bee eee
Private Estate. .............. 38
SuDrome, ss. 40
Less 3314 per cent. delivered.
Rio
—. |... |. 9
Good .... 10
Prune...
Golden . Dect ae
Peaberry .. etecceecee | ee
‘Gian
—. .—....... =
ceoe ee Us
Pamela
Reaper 18
Maracaibo
Prime . See
Milled . SUC NS Noa
ao
ee 26
Private Growth............. 30
Mandenimg ................ 2
Mocha
imitaien........... 22
Arabian.. 28

PAC KAGE c OFF EE.

Below are given New York
prices on package coffees, to
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 freight he pays
from the market in which he
purchases to his — point.

These prices are further sub-
ject to manufacturer’s regular
rebate.
Pe 12 00
Jersey .. -.12 00
McLaughlin’ s XXXxX

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

Extract
Vi alley City % gross......... &
Felix % gross... raul
Hummel’s foil Vy Bross.
Hummel’s tin '% gross .
COCOA SHELLS
SOND ARS... 2
Less quanti cee 3
Poun packages . ie 4
CONDENSED MILK

4 doz in case.
6

  

Gail Borden —e-
Crown

 

Daisy.. eee Gece tees: «200 20
Champion ............ ...4 50
APRONS 2 4 25
—- =
Dime. i ou -.3 35
COUPON BOOKS
Tradesman Grade
50 books, any denom... 1 50
100 books, any denom... 2 50
500 books, any denom... 11 50
1,000 books, any denom... 20 00

 

 

Economic Grade

50 books, any denom... 1 50
100 books, any denom... 2 50
500 books, any denom... 11 50
1,000 books, any denom... 20 00
Superior Grade
50 books, any denom... 1 50
100 books, any denom... 2 50
500 books, any denom... 11 50
1,000 books. any denom... 20 00
Universal Grade
50 books, any denom... 1 50
100 books, any denom... 2 50
500 books, any denom... 11 50
1,000 books, any denom... 20 00
Credit Checks
500, any one denom...... 2 00
1,000, any one denom...... 3 00
2,000, any one denom...... 5 00
Steel punch.. oe 75

Coupon Pass oe
Can be made to represent any
denomination from $10 down.
0 DOOKS 0. 1

OO DOORS... 28
eG beeks: 3 00
200 DOOKS.......... 6 2b
500 books................ 10 00

1,000 books................ 17 BO
CREAM TARTAR
5 and 10 lb. wooden boxes..... 30
Butk in saeks....... .......-... 29
DRIED FRUITS—Domestic
Apples
Sundried .

as
Evaporated, 50 Ib. boxes .8@ 53
California ig

 

Apreas
Blackberries ..........
Nectarines .
Peaches . -.10 @l11
Feats... 8.
Pitted Cherries. ...... 7%
Fropmnelies ............
Raspberries ..........
California Prunes
100-120 25 Ib. boxes ...... @4
90-100 25 Ib. boxes ...... @ 4%
80-90 25 Ib. boxes ...... @5
70 - 80 25 Ib. boxes ...... @ 5%
60-70 25 Ib. boxes ...... @ 6
50 - 60 25 Ib. boxes ...... @7%
40 - 50 25 Ib. boxes . @ 8
30 - 40 25 Ib. boxes .
4 cent less in 50 lb. cases
isins
London Layers 2 Crown. 1%
London Layers 3 Crown. 2 00
Cluster 4 Crown......... 22
Loose Museatels 2 Crown 7%
Loose Muscatels 3 Crown 814
Loose Muscatels 4 Crown 834
L. M., Seeded, choice ... 10
L. M., Seeded, fancy .... 10%
DRIED FRUITS—Foreign
Citron
Leghorn... |
Corsican . eae I 2.
‘Currants
Patras, cases. ee
Cleaned, bulk ............... 634
Cleaned, packages.......... 74
Peel

Citron American 19 lb. bx...13
Lemon American 10 Ib. bx..10%
Orange American 10 Ib. bx..101%4
Raisins
Sultana 1 Crown.............
Sultana 2 Crown ............
Sultana 3 Crown.............
Sultana 4 Crown.............
Sultana 5 Crown.............
Sultana 6 Crown.. Dee
Sultana package ..
FARINACEOUS ‘GOODS
Beans
Dried Lima..
Medium Hand Picked 2 sae 2
Brown Holland..

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Cereals"
Cream of Cereal............. 90
Grain-O, small .............. 1¢
Graim-O, large. ..............2 $
(Grape Nuts... 8. 1
Postum Cereal, small.......1 ¢
Postum Cereal, large...... 2
Farina
241 1b. packages ............1
Bulk, per 100 Ibs............. 3 00
Haskell’s Wheat Flakes
36 2b. packages... .... ..3 00
Hominy
Barcels 0 es 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, 3dozpkge’se 2 85

35 Chene St., Detroit, Mich.

Maccaroni and Vermicelli,

 

Domestic, 10 Ib. box.........
Imported, 25 lb. box......... 2 50
Pearl Barley

Common ...... .. 1...) ...:
GR@NGer. +22 BO
peapire. 3 00

 

 

Grits
Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s Brand.

 

24 2 Ib. peters -- Soece eco 2 Oe

100 fh. kegs... peg

200 Ib. barrels . oe
eas

Green, Wisconsin, bu.......1 30

Green, Scotch, bu. ..1 35

Split, bu.. : oS

Rolled a

 

 

Rolled Avena, bbl.. 3
Steel Cut, % bbis............ 2 05
Monarch, DDI................ 3 40
Monarch, % bbi............. 1 88
Monarch, 90 Ib. sacks. . -1 68
Quaker, cases..... vee 3 20
Huron, cases............... 2:08
ea
Geren 4
as s.....llU.tCC 3%

Salus Breakfast Food
F. A. MeKenzie, Quiney, Mich.
36 two pound packages .... 3 60
18 two pound packages .... 1 85
Battle Creek Crackers.

Gem Oatmeal Biscuit... 744@ 8
Lemon Biscuit 7'4@, 8
New Era Butters. ., 6%
Whole Wheat... . 6%
Cereola, 48 1-lb. pkgs. 4 00
_— a
Flake . See cee eeepc
Pearl.. . 5
Pearl, 241 1b. packages... . 64
heat
Cracked, bulk... ........... 3%
242 D. packages ............2 50
FLAVORING EXTRACTS
DeBoe’s
2 OZ. 402.
Vanilla D. C........ 110 1 80
lomoa D.C #..... = 1 35
Vanilla Tonka...... 1 45
i
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| eeeeanie aaa Extrac at
Vanilla he

1ozfullm.1 20 102 full m.
2ozfullm.2 10 20zfullm1:
No.3fan’y 3 15 No.3fan’y.1 75

Gea

Gieoczse >

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Lemon
20z panel. 75
4 0z taper. .1 50

2 oz panel..1 20

3 0z taper..2 00

 

Jennings’
D. C. Vanilla D. C. Lemon
2 OZ... .. 1 20 2OZ....... 75
3 OZ... 1 50 S02... 1 00
ioe OZ... .. 1 40
3 00 667. .)... 2 60
..4 00 No. 8....2 49
...6 00 No. 10....4 00
-.1 2 No.2 T.. 80
..2 00 No.3 T..1 25
..2 40 No. 4 T..1 50
Northrop Brand
Lem. an.
2 0z. Taper Panel.... 75 20

1
2ez. Oval... 7 1

3 0z. Taper Panel....135 200
40z. Taper Panel....1 60 2 25
Perrigo’s

Van. Lem.

po 4 doz.
XXX, 2 0z. obert....1 25 e
XXX, 402. taper....2 25 1 25
XX, 2 0z. obert...... ..100
No. 2,20z. obert .... 75
XXX'DD ptehr, 60z 2 25
XXX D D ptehr, 4 0z 17
K. P. pitcher, 6 0z.. 2 25

 

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Perrigo’s Lightning, gro....2 50
Petrolatum, per doz......... 75
HERBS
Sage... 15
Ops... 5... 15
INDIGO
Madras, 5 Ib. boxes ........... 55
S. F., 2,3 and 5 Ib. boxes...... 50
JELLY
V.C. Brand.
59D. pais. 35
sot Pais. ...-... 62
Pure apple, per doz......... 85
LICORICE
io 30
Calabria........... 25
Sicily .. 14
OGG 10
LYE
Condensed, 2 doz............

Condensed, 4 doz..

 

MATCHES
Diamond Match Ci 0. ’s —.

 

 

No, 9 Sulphur... cs, 1 65
Anchor Parlor . ..1 50
No. 2 Home ..... ..1 30
Export Parlor.. ...4 00
Wolverine... .-1 50
MOLASSES
New Orleans
Black.. Sees 11
Fair . 14
a Be ee 20
Fane tw ect coe ta 24
Open Vette ee ee 25@3
falf-barrels 2c extra
MUSTARD
Horse Radish, 1 doz......... 1 7
Horse Radish, 2 doz .3 50

 
 

 

 

Bayle’s ¢ elery, Ldez........ 1 75
SK LE
Medium
Barrels, 1,200 count ......... 5 90
Half bbls, 600 count......... 3 46
Small
Barrels, 2,400 count ......... 6 90
Half bbls, = count .......3 95
a PES
Cay t ING: 246.0 502 1 70
_ “D. ull count....... 65
Cob, SSL NU 85
* bor
48 cans in case.
Bapoirs. 4 00
Penna Salt Co.’s............. 3 00
RICE
Domestic
Carolina head................ 6%
Carolina No:t |... S
Carogea No.2............. 4
—-. ... 3%
——
Japan, No. 1 i 5%4@6
Japan, No. i
Java, faney aaa 5 @5%
Java, No. 1.. Cs @
Table.. @
‘SALERATUS |

Packed 60 Ibs. in box.
Church’s Arm and Hammer.3 15

   

Deland. le 3 00
Dwight’s Cow...............3 15
— Monee owes aoe cue AO
—. See ee 3 00
ee 3 15

WV Vyandotte, 100 AS. as. 00

§ SODA

Granulated, BOIS i... 80
Granulated, 100 Ib. cases. 85

Lump, bbls.. =. oo
Lump, 145 Ib. Kees... pe Gaia

Siemon ee
Table, cases, 24 3 Ib. boxes..1
Table, barrels, 100 3 Ib. bags.2
Table, barrels, 407 lb. bags.2
Butter, barrels, ‘ 280 Ib. bulk.2
Butter, barrels, 20 141b.bags.2
Butter, sacks, 28 Ibs......... 25
Butter, sacks, oe... 5

tommon Grades

 

100 3 Ib. sacks.. oe
60 5 lb. sacks.. Uae
28 10 Ib. sacks.. eee so cece es 1 95
D6 ID SAGES. ©... 36
28 Ib. —, ll. 20

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56 Ib. dairy = aril bags..... 30

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

Ashton

56 Ib. dairy in linen sabks... 60

iggins

56 Ib. dairy in linen sacks... 60

Solar Rock
OG 1D. SACK 22
Common
Granulated Fine.. 1 00
Medium Fine.. 05
SALT HS

Georges iniae io. @5

Georges genuine...... @ 5%

Georges selected...... @ 5%

Strips or bricks.......6 @9

POUeGR. . 8s... @ 3%

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22

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

SUCCESSFUL SALESMEN.,
Chas. M. Reynolds, Junior Partner of H.
M. Reynolds & Son.

Charles H. Reynolds was born at
Niles, Michigan, July 8, 1865. In the
spring of 1868 his parents removed to
Grand Rapids, where he attended the
public schools until he was 14 years of
age, when he went to Bowling Green,
Ky., to accept a position on the office
force of the Durkee Axe Handle Co.
Two years later he took the management
of a cattle ranch in Grove county, Kas.,
in which his father was interested, tak-
ing with him two carloads of cattle from
Flint. This occupation he followed two
years, and as he looks back to it now
he insists that it was the pleasantest
period of his life. On his return to
Grand Rapids, he entered the employ
of Nelson, Matter & Co., with whom
he remained several years. In 1888 he

 

 

 

 

entered the employ of his father and
undertook to master the rudiments of the
roofing business, starting in at the low-
est rung -of the ladder. His first work
was tending the tar kettle, but at the
end of a three years’ apprenticeship he
was placed in charge of a gang of roof-
ers, which position he occupied seven
years. Since that time he has devoted
his entire time to contracting and look-
ing after outdoor work, being practical-
ly general superintendent of the busi-
ness. He sometimes has as many asa
dozen jobs under way at a time, and it
not unfrequently happens that he has
jobs in two or three states under way at
the same time. In 1893, he was admit-
ted to partnership, when the firm name
was changed to H. M. RKevnolds & Son;
and, shortly after that time, he con-
ceived the idea of manufacturing roofing
and during the past two years he has
developed his ideas by the establish-
ment of a factory on Prescott street.
The machinery in the factory has been
mostly invented and assembled by him.
The two and three ply roofing sheets
which were for years cemented by ma-
chines and then coated by hand on the
roof are now put together on a machine
and coated by either asphalt or compo-
sition and covered on the top with fine
torpedo gravel, prepared and applied
by experts, which renders the roofing
superior to that made by the old-fash-
ioned hand method. The factory has an
output of about 200 squares a day and is
driven to its utmost capacity to meet the
growing requirements of the trade.

Mr. Reynolds is a member of York
Lodge, F. & A. M., No. 410, and Daisy
Lodge, B. P. O. E. He is well known

 

throughout the State, having superin-
tended work in nearly every city in
Michigan and called on the trade in
most of the small towns. He is an in-
tensely busy man and seldom finds time
to undertake any work outside of the
limitations of his own business; in fact,
his friends insist that this is one of the
reasons why he has never taken time to
get married.

— <2

Situation in Stoves.

Those stove deaiers who have had
cause to regret the open winter will now
have an opportunity for increasing their
sales. The recent cold snap has been
general and_ has led to an enlarged de-
mand for seasonable goods, while it has
also given rise to opinion that we may
yet have a considerable experience of a
zero thermometer. The weather last
year at this time was the coldest fora
decade, and was preceded by just such
mildness as went before the late drop,
so that on the principle of average we
may yet have a repetition of last year’s
experience.

Reports from the retail stove trade are
somewhat conflicting in one respect. A
considerable number of the dealers—the
great majority, in fact—bought freely
in anticipation of a strong movement,
and were well prepared for the demand
which ordinarily comes in mid-winter
or earlier, and did actually come to a
greater extent than had been the case for
several previous years. There were
those, however, who bought sparingly at
the first of the season and who did not
increase their stock as the winter pro-
gressed without producing any coid
snaps. These dealers are now running
short of stock and are buying more lib-
erally than is usually noted at this sea-
son, with the result that the manufactur-
ers’ sales in the last few days have
shown a considerable gain in volume.

In the meantime, the manufacturing
activity is more pronounced than is cus-
tomary at this season. The greater part
of last year’s activity was distributed
through the latter six months, so that it
is now cousiderably more pronounced
than was the case a year ago and yet
shows no signs of abatement. Additions
have been made to many plants and
other additions are either under way or
in contemplation, so that there need be
no question about a full supply this year
even should the demand considerably
exceed that for the latter half of 18 99.—
Stoves and Hardware Reporter.

a —_ > 0.
Solder For Aluminum.

The production of aluminum has in-
creased enormously in the last few years
and it is now finding many uses and
employments where other metals have
formerly occupied the entire field. It is
now being used as trolley wires, al-
though any extension in this line is not
very probable, owing to its lightness as
compared with copper. The great diffi-
culty with aluminum as applied to many
purposes is in the absence of a reliable
solder. Various formulae have been
used and some of them are said to have
given satisfaction, but the general opin-
ion seems to be that soldering aluminum
is impracticable. However, a new sol-
der is mentioned in Science and Indus-
try and is here given:

Take of aluminum and zinc in any of
the following proportions: 8 parts
aluminum to 92 parts zinc; 12 aluminum
to 88 zinc; 15 aluminum to 85 zinc; 20
aluminum to 80 zinc. Melt the alumi-
num ; add the zinc slowly; finally, add
some fat and stir with an iron rod, and
cast. For a flux, use 3 pints of copaiba
balsam, and 1 pint of Venice turpentine
to which a few drops of lemon juice have
been added. Dip the point of the sol-
dering iron into the flux. The solder is
claimed to be effective and lasting and

has been recommended by those who
have used it.

 

DUTU and Sugar Makers’ Supplies

Write for prices.

Wm. Brummeler
& Sons,

Manufacturers of

TINWARE AND
SHEET METAL
GOODS.

249-263 S. Ionia St.,
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

gf We are in the market for 1,000 cords of Basswood Excelsior Bolts, for es
7 which we will pay spot cashon delivery. For further particulars address

 

® 83 to 97 Sixth Street, Grand Rapids, Michigan. y

 

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FOSTER,
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& CO.,
GRAND RAPIDS.

 

TIPVOPNTE NNTP NEO NINTH YAP er Nor eereerenrNerenreereereerNnrtorier ter

 

 

The Grand Rapids Paper Box Co.

Manufacture

Solid Boxes for Shoes, Gloves, Shirts and Ca s, 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.

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

23

 

Getting the People

Criticisms of Advertisements and Their
Shortcomings.

There are a great many journals, ad-
vertising and otherwise, which devote
considerable space to the criticism of
advertising, but to my knowledge this
is the only one in which the advertising
column is absolutely fair and unbiased
in its opinions.

It is easy enough for an advertising
specialist to find fault with other peo-
ple’s advertisements--especially if he
has a motive for doing so. If the ad-
vertisements are written by competitors,
he naturally delights in the opportunity
of belittling their efforts. If the adver-
tisements are prepared by concerns
whose business he desires to secure, he
is glad of the opportunity of showing
off his own superior cleverness. So that,
in nine-tenths of the advertising columns
that come under my eye, the question of
advertising is subordinated to the boom-
ing of ‘‘O. St. Clair Browne,’’ or who-
ever the critic may be.

In this paper, it is different.
column is not intended to advertise me
or to run down my competitors. It is
conducted solely and simply in the in-
terests of better advertising for the local
retailer. It is as much a source of re-
liable information as the carefully pre-
pared reviews of the markets which ap-
pear in each issue.

1 have gone into this subject thus far
because I want every one of my readers
to understand that this column is open
to all—that all advertisements that are
submitted will be criticised freely and
fearlessly, but entirely on their merits,
and that no one will be criticised with a
view to adding to my own personal
glory.

I would like to receive more speci-
mens for review—the supply has been
rather small the last few weeks.

ee ce

H. J. Slade, of Wayland, sends in an
advertisement for criticism. The il-
lustration is rather crude and the dis-
play is poor. The body of the adver-
tisement is, however, well-worded—
crisp, terse and to the point. Mr. Slade
has the happy faculty of saying a good
deal in small space. 1 should suggest
resetting the advertisement after this
stvle—the wording I can not see a
chance to improve :

 

 

This

 

 

 

Poultry?

Don’t let them fool you on the
price.

See SLADE before you sell.

He buys every day in the week
--and gives full weight.

Seeds for farm and garden by the quart,
bushel or ounce.
Oil meal always on hand.

3. Slade

At Railroad |

 

 

 

 

 

 

S. Maudlin & Co., of Bridgman,
send in a circular, which is so good in
every way that I should like to repro-
duce it in full. The wording is admir-

 

able, and the display and presswork
are, without exception, the best I have
seen anywhere. Space only admits of
the reproduction of a small portion, but

Store Talks

Business is good at the Big Store. We hope
to see you often during 1900. We aim to
please you just the same whether you buy
5e worth or $5 worth.

Prices have and are advancing on nearly
alllines. We have a great many goods in
stock that we are selling for less money than
we can buy them for to-day.

Try a package of 8. M. & Co. Pure as Gold
Soda at 4c and save 4e.

You use a good many packages of yeast
during the year. Remember, we save you
one cent on every package you buy of us.

Rex Lamp Chimney, packed in nice scarton
and sold for se and 10e, is the best and cheap-
est chimney on the market. We have others
at 5¢e and se, but Rex is cheapest in the end.

That fancy Rice at 5¢ a pound,7 pounds for
a quarter, is a great bargain. You never saw
a better one for the money.

We are selling a great many Fox Crackers
now days at sca , That’s a cent more
than other brands, but our customers say
they are worth it.

Note our special price on Muslin and Cal-
ico. The ladies will want to do their sewing
before the busy season begins. This not
only saves you money but enables you to do
your sewing while you have time.

We have no heavy city rents, taxes or light
bills to pay. No delivery wagons to pay for,
and our other expenses are less than they
are in the cities. We know from experience
about what lines of goods are wanted in this
section and do not have to carry a lot of
fancy goods at a loss. These facts, together
with the large amount of business that we
do, enable us to make very close prices.

 

 

that will suffice to show its general ex-
cellence. My hearty congratulations,
Messrs. Maudlin! Let the good work go
on! W. S. Hamburger.
—__—_—_»2>—___
Preparations For a Bath.
From the Cincinnati Inquirer.

Billy Drach, the traveling man, tells of
a hotel experience in the interior of Ar-
kansas that is looked upon by his friends
with suspicion. He had arrived ata
small settlement, and at once repaired
to the Eagle House, which was situated
on the outskirts of the town on the bank
of a small stream:

After a dinner of side meat and corn
bread Billy lighted a cigar, and the pro-
prietor said :

‘Stranger, is thar anything we ‘uns
kin do foh yo’ all?’’

Thinking to confound his host, Drach
answered :

‘‘Well, yes; come to think of it, I’d
like to have a bath.’’

The proprietor let his feet drop from
the railing upon which he had hoisted
them, disappeared in the house, and re-
turned ina moment with a huge tin cup-
ful of soft soap, a rough towel and a
pick and shovel, which he offered
Drach.

‘*What’s the pick and shovel for?’’
asked Drach.

‘‘Waal, stranger,’’ answered the land-
lord, ‘‘th’ watuh’s low, and yo’ all ‘ll
hev to dam up th’ creek.’’

—_—_—_> 0.»
Changes in Terms.

Eastern Pennsylvania manufacturers
have determined on selling terms for
stoves and ranges which are a compro-
mise between those formerly in force
and the terms now prevailing in the
West. Ninety days will be given, with
5 per cent. for cash in thirty days and 2
per cent. for sixty days. The only for-
ward dating allowed will be in July and
August, when one-half of the goods will
be billed as of September 1 and the
other half October 1.

 

 

PAE APPA ALI I ASD PII A

For Sale Cheap

Residence property at 24 Kellogg
street, near corner Union street.
Will sell on long time at low rate
of interest. Large lot, with barn.
House equipped with water, gas
and all modern improvements.

E. A. Stowe,

Blodgett Building,
Grand Rapids.

 

 

 

Hardware Price Current

Augurs and Bits

 

Pe ee 60
sgennings’ gomuine..................... 25
Jennings’ imitation...................- 50
Axes
First Quality, S. B. Bronze............ 7 00
First Quality, D. B. Bronze........... 11 50
First Quality, 8. B.S. Steel. .......... 7
First Quality, D. B. Steel............. 13 00
: Barrows
ee 16 50
EN Ee
Bolts
Come Gow ee 45
Pow... ee 50
Buckets
‘Well, piain ......... $4 00

Butts, Cast
Cast Looce Pin, figured ............... 65

  

 

Wrougete Narrow ............... 60
Cartridges
Ol ee 40&10
Contra: Pie ...........-............... 20
Chain
¥y in. 5-16 in. 3 in. % in.
Se... Fe... €ea...€ €&
9 _. = ... Gx 6%
9% oe
Crowbars
Onnt Sicel, per M...................... 6
Caps
ee eastern rt 65
Hick’s C. F., perm. a 55
eG beer 45
Meee, perm... 75
Chisels
a 65
ee 65
Hoewec COPBOFr......................... 65
Ce 65
Elbows
Com. 4 piece, 6 in., per doz............net 65
Corrugated, per doz................... 1 26
Agjestable. (00... ai |
Expansive Bits
Clark’s small, $18; large, $26 .......... 30&10
Ives’ 1, $18; 2, S25; 3, 900.............. 25
Files—New List
Mow American ........................ 70&10
ee. we... 70
Hellier’s Horse Rasps.................. 60&10
Galvanized Iron
Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 25 and 26; 27, 28
List 12 13 14 15 16. 17
Discount, 70
Gas Pipe
Moe 40&10
Gites 50&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 Light..................... dis 85
Hammers
Maydole & Co.’s, new list......... oe... G18 334%
Verkes 4; Pinmys..................... dis 40&10
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel...........30¢ list 7
Hinges
Gate, Olark’s 1,2,3....................dis  G0&i10
Hollow Ware
Oa 50&10
cae. 50&10
Spidere..... 3c. 50&10
Horse Nails
AuSable 0... .....1................ dis <oane
Pose is 5
House Furnishing Goods
Stamped Tinware, new list............ 70
Japanned Tinware..............+++.+- 208&10
Iron
Her ree. 3 crates

Light Band.........

ees ceea ses. 3c rates
Knobs—New List

Door, mineral, jap. trimmings........ 85
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings....... 1 00
Lanterns
Regular 0 Tubular, Doz................ 5 25
Warren, Galvanized Fount........... 6 00
Levels
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s.......... dis 70
Mattocks
Adze Eye............---.....--$17 00. dis 60
Metals—Zinc
600 pound CasKS........--.+---. ++ seen ee 7%

Per pound... ............ ee -eeee ween ee 8
Miscellaneous
Wind Cages ..........................<- 40
Pumps, Cistern.........-..-.-. sees ee ee 70
Screws, New List ...................-.
Casters, Bed and Plate................ 50810810
Dampers, American ............--+--+-
Molasses Gates
Stebbins’ Patterm...................... 60&10
Enterprise, self-measuring.........--- 30
Pans
Fry, ACME... .......--. 0-2 e cee ce cece ce 60&108&10
Common, polished..............---++- 70&5

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

Ohio Tool Co.'s, famcy.............-..-
Selota Bemen. 0. 3... oe we oe
Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy.

Bench, first quality....

 

S3ss

 

Nails
Advance over base, on both Steel and Wire.

Seoe) Mas, DOSE. .............. 3 50
_J_ eee 3 65
eevee Base
Weve... ..........-....0.... 05
eee 10
ll 20
ee ee 30
See... ee ee 45
eee 70
eee

Come Maavence,................... 15
ee S AG eee...............--...-. 25
ee Oe ee 35
ime 06 WE VRIIOO .... 2... ooo. coe oo ee 25
(ee, 35

ee eee 45

 

 

 

Barrel % advanes.......... 85
Rivets
eon and Tianed...................... 50
Copper Rivets and Burs............-- 45
Roofing Plates
14090 TC, Charcoal, Dean.............. 6 50
$4000 TX, Charcoel, Dean............. 7 50
20x28 1C, Chareoal, Dean... a 13 00
14x20 IC, Chareoal, Allaway Grade. .. 5 50
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade. .. 6 50
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade. .. 11 00
20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade... 13 00
Ropes
Sisal, % inch and larger......... 11%
i a ee 17
Sand Paper
ee dis 50
Sash Weights
Solid Eyes, pertom................ 25 00
Sheet Iron

com. smooth. com.

Nea ie... a $3 00
Nee 1617..............-..-..\.-. oa 3 00
moe wee... .............. Se 3 20
i ee 3 40 3 30
‘i 3 50 3 40

 

 

A NET 3 50
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
ne ee ect es te ce ne 1 60
Beene Beek... ...,|... .....-....., 1 85
Shovels and Spades
Wirst Crnge, Dod...................... 8 60
Soecs Grease, Dee.................-4. 8 10
Solder

WY@*....

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

 

  

Squares
eee 65
Tin—Melyn Grade
Mente 10), Oharcoal..............-. «.-- $ 8 50
eyo TC, Obreoal,..............-.. ++. 8 50
SOyt4 1 CiaroOal ............ -.- ores 9 75

Each additional X on this grade, $1.25.

Tin—Allaway Grade

agn04 10, Chavooal..............-...... 7 00
oiuoe 10, Crmpooel...............-.-.-. 7 00
sOnt4 0X, Oliarooal..................... 8 50
1 Charcon............-....-..- 8 50

Each additional X on this grade, $1.50

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

faeet, Game... 75
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s 40&10
Oneida Community, Hawley & Nor-

eT eee 65&16
Mouse, choker, per doz............... 15
Mouse, delusion, per doz..... —---.- 1 25

Wire
Bru Mareet. .............. ---..... 60
Anpeniod Market.................-..- 60
Coppered Market............-..-..--++ 50&10
ieee Mares. ...................... 50&10
Compene’ Sora Steer. ............... 40
Barbed Fence, Galvanized ...........- 4 30
Barbed Fence, Painted................ 415
Wire Goods
i ne ne ee nen ne 75
Screw Eyes........ eo 75
Gate Hooks and Fyes............:...- 75
Wrenches

Baxter’s Adjustable, Nickeled........ 30
EO ae 30

Coe’s Patent Agricultural, Wrought..70&10

 

 
  

CONTENTMENT
We make four grades of books
in the different denominations.

sampres” ON INQUIRY, =,

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

    

24

MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

 

Annual Address of Ex-President Stevens
to the M. K. of G.

Once again, in the providence of Al-
mighty God, we are called to meet in
annual convention, this being the elev-
enth convocation of the Michigan
Knights of the Grip, and it is our pur-
pose to review the record of the past
year, to enjoy the delightful social in-
tercourse, always so eagerly anticipated
from year to year, to partake of the un-
bounded hospitality of our brethren of
Bay City, and to legislate for the up-
building and perpetuity of our organi-
zation. At the outset, therefore, permit
me to express to you the gratitude of my
heart for the honor you bestowed upon
me one year ago in elevating me to the
high and honorable position of Presi-
dent of the Michigan Knights of the
Grip—an honor that has been fully ap-
preciated and for which | offer again
my sincere thanks; also to the Secre-
tary, Treasurer and Board of Directors,
who have at all times, and under all
circumstances, shown me the greatest
respect and have in so many wavs man-
ifested their esteem. The Michigan
Knights of the Grip are to be most
heartily congratulated upon having had
such a capable, conservative and faithful
Board of Directors, the superior of
which I believe does not represent any
organization in Michigan to-day. That
we have disagreed at times goes without
saying, but to my recollection not one
harsh or unkind word has found utter-
ance from anv member of the Board
during the entire vear, each member
having shown due respect for the others.
The utmost harmony has invariably pre-
vailed and it is an honor of which any
man may be justly proud to have been
a member of the Board of 1895. It is
not my purpose in this address to as-
sume any of the prerogatives of our
efficient Secretary or Treasurer, so far
as strictly accurate statistics are con-
cerned, for they are carefully embodied
in their reports, which have been ex-
amined and approved by your Financial
Committee. There have been held
during the year the regular number of
Board meetings, as prescribed by the
constitution, except that of Nov. 25,
which was adjourned from the Septem-
ber meeting in order that amendments
to the constitution might be presented
thirty days prior to the annual conven-
tion. I would recommend that at as
early a date as possible the constitution
be amended so as to provide for a reg-
ular meeting of the Board somewhere
near the thirty days prior to the annual
convention. The meetings of the Board
have been held during the year 1899 in
Jackson, Owosso, Detroit, Lansing and
Grand Rapids-—-in each instance upon
invitation of the Director living in said
city. The average cost of these meet-
ings has been $41.77.

That no very important legislation is
to be reported this year is, perhaps,
owing to the fact that the Northern in-
terchangeable mileage ticket is so uni-
versally regarded with favor that we
have been satisfied to rest a while before
asking for further favors. You are to be
congratulated upon the fact that our or-
ganization is to-day in as good condi-
tion as ever in its history, the present
members in good standing being the re-
liable ones. There have been admitted
during the year — new members, a few
of these, however, being some who had
dropped out and came back upon appli-
cation as new members. This is just,
because said parties had no claim  un-
der the beneficiary clause of the consti-
tution during the interim. And here let
me say, brother Knights, that it seems
incredible to think that any could be so
careless as to forget the very small
amount necessary to keep alive a mem-
bership in the organization at so trifling
a cost. At nearly every Board meeting
we have listened to the lamentations of
bereaved ones, and have had tostifle our
emotions and steel our hearts to the
pleadings of those suffering in their be-
reavement still more because an _assess-
ment was overlooked or not paid and the
value of what might have been the
widow’s and the orphan’s comfort had to
be withheld because of simple neglect.
Let me urge upon you, therefore, to
see to it that your beneficiaries are pro-

 

tected after your strong arm is no longer
able to do for them. 1 sincerely hope
that the amendment relating to the more
prompt adjustment of proofs of death
and payment of claims will meet with
your approval. We come before you to-
day with every claim adjusted and every
death claim ordered paid.

This is the record, brother Knights,
and it istruly a record of which we may
be justly proud, that we have been able
to afford comfort and substantial assist-
ance in the hour of need _ to the benefi-
ciaries of our deceased brothers, most
of whom we knew personally and whose
genial faces we shall miss from the
road. Last February it was my priv-
ilege to attend the last services in mem-
ory of Brother A. C. Wetzel, who one
short year ago seconded my nomination
in the convention at Saginaw, and who
was called suddenly to lay down his
grip and go to his long rest. Surely the
thought of the uncertainty of life should
stimulate us to renewed effort to add_ to
the membership of the Knights of the
Grip, thus insuring its perpetuity. Re-
member, brothers, all depends upon
your efforts and mine. We have no
paid agents, nor can we have. Will you
not resolve to secure some friend for
membership the coming year? If each
member would do this it means a
doubled membership and cheaper in-
demnity cost.

At the last annual meeting, a fund
was placed at the disposal of the Com-
mittee on Employment and Relief to
provide relief for brothers in distress,
the amount not to exceed $15 in any in-
dividual case. Brother Starbuck wrote
me early in the year, stating that a
brother out of employment thought that
ne hada possible chance to secure a po-
sition with a Toledo house and _ thought
that if he could go there he might be
more likely to secure the position than
by correspondence, and asked that trans-
portation be furnished him to Toledo
from his house in Saginaw. Brother
Starbuck asked if relief of the kind de-
sired could be furnished. I answered,
‘"No,’’ that | understood the fund to be
for the relief of the sick or destitute,
as provided by the constitution, and not
for traveling expenses in search of an
uncertainty, and referred the case to the
brethren of Saginaw, if favorably
considered by them, that the attention
of the chairman of the Railroad Com-
mittee be called to the case.

On Oct. 9 I received a most cordial
invitation from Post K to attend the
Kalamazoo Street Fair on Traveling
Men’s Day, Oct. 17, when it was ex-
pected that President McKinley would
be present. A very pressing engage-
ment made it appear impossible for me
to accept, and I wrote Post K to that
effect on the 16th. Director Thorn tele-
graphed me from Kalamazoo that the
Knights were very much disappointed
and that I must come, if possible. I
finally secured a substitute for my busi-
ness engagement and wired Brother
Thorn that I would be there. On my
arrival at Kalamazoo I was met by a
delegation of nearly a hundred Knights
of the Grip, headed by ex-President
John A. Hoffman and a_ brass band,
who received me with all the honors
that could be bestowed upon the Presi-
dent of the United States and escorted
me to the Burdick House and right
royally entertained me, providing a car-
riage for me when we met and welcomed
the President of the United States. It
was a great day for the Knights of the
Grip, and for Kalamazoo in particular,
having two Presidents within her bor-
ders, William McKinley and myself!
Still she survived and will long remem-
ber the five hundred traveling men who
formed the escort for the President. I
wish to thank them all for the courtesy
shown me on that memorable occasion.
I shall never forget it.

1 have one other recommendation to
submit for your careful consideration—
that steps be taken looking toward the
creation of a_ reserve fund, which will
afford relief from making an extra as-
sessment when an unusual number of
losses occur. All fraternal organizations
recognize the necessity of this and I
trust that the subject may receive your
favorable consideration.

 

And now, Sir Knights, the record of
the year will be presented to you for

your approval or otherwise. Of one
thing we are certain: We have done
our best and have exercised our best

judgment. More than that no man can
do, and we lay down the gavel to-day
with the full consciousness of having
performed our full duty, as we saw and
understood it. Once again do | adjure
you to be faithful to our organization.
It has accomplished more than any
travelers’ organization ever did, and
when you look at your mileage ticket
and use it, remember that what it saves
you in money, time and annoyance is
more than the cost of your membership

each year. Ask your fellows to join us,
gather them in. In union there is
strength. Be loyal, be faithful.

And at last when we turn from this earthly
abode
And have finished up our last trip,
Mine Host of the Inn at the end of the road
Will welcome the Knights of the Grip.

—___> 2.
Predicts the Law Will Prove a Boomer-
ang.

Chicago, Feb. 6—The new Michigan
law, providing for the bonding of so-
licitors, is most unfair and I doubt if
any attention will be paid to it, except
by a few merchants who will fight it in
the courts. The law will prove a detri-
ment to fruit growers, and it will quick-
ly become a dead letter. 1 will have
nothing to do with it one way or the
other, and I expect to handle just as
much Michigan fruit the coming season
as I have ever handled.

Most of the merchants take the stand
that the Michigan fruit must come to
Chicago, as this is the best and most di-
rect market for it. If the Michigan
people insist on the enforcement of this
law we can merely withdraw our solicit-
ors and the fruit will come to us just the
same. It has been the practice of many
firms to send agents into the Michigan
fruit regions to solicit consignments of
fruit, and these firms are asked to put
up a bond of $5,000. If any Michigan
shipper is dissatisfied with his returns,
all he will have to do is to make com-
plaint and bring suit against the bonds.

The Chicago commission man must
then go to Michigan to defend the suit
and the chances are that the profits
would soon disappear in the costs piled
up in the Michigan courts. We are
willing to have fruit inspectors, but they
should be appointed to inspect the fruit
at the shipping points and not after its
arrival in Chicago. This talk of in-
creasing commissions from Io to I5 per
cent., in retaliation against the Michi-
gan fruit growers, is news to me, and |
do not take any stock in it. The plan
is not practical and would not accom-
plish anything. Henry W. Love.

———> + ____

E. E. Hewitt has purchased a half
interest in the fruit and produce busi-
ness of C. N. Rapp & Co. and will take
up his residence in this city and devote
his entire time to the expansion of the
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OR SALE—WELL-ESTABLISHED RETAIL
lumber and fuel business in a live town.
Stock inventories about $4,000. Wm. Sebright &
Co., Otsego, Mich. 204
] SALE—A NEW CLEAN STOCK OF
dry goods and clothing; also store to rent;
iu a good town in Western Michigan. Address
197, care Michigan Tradesman. 197
ANTED—GOOD STOCK OF SHOES O
groceries in Michigan for fine Southern
California home and fruit bearing ranch near
Riverside; clear, — and permanently wa-
tered; $2,500. W. Warren Fitch, 213 South
Thayer St., Ann Arbor, Mich. 195
POR EXCHANGE—ENCELLENT HOUSE
and lot in Detroit, Mich., worth $2,500, and
some choice lots, $400 to $1,500, to exchange for
stock dry goods or general merchandise. A bar-
gain. Address No. 194, care Michigan Trades-
man. 194
Ker SALE AT A BARGAIN—$2z,000 STOCK
of groceries, with fine fixtures, ina town of
2,500 population, situated in the finest farming
district in Southern Michigan. Storeroom, best
location in the town; rent reasonable. Address
No. 201, care Michigan Tradesman. 201
Pree SALE—STOCK OF GROCERIES IN
good town of 5,000 inhabitants. Stock in-
ventories about $2,000. Cash sales $17,000 for
1899. A bargain to the right party. Address
H. M. L , care Michigan Tradesman. 200
POR SALE—BOARDING HOUSE, 14
rooms, 5 acres land, one-third mile from
»0stoflice, and other property, all valued at
$5,000, at Brazil, Ind.; will sell cheap. Address
Daniel Hunt, Benton Harbor, Mich. 199
ro SALE—CLOTHING AND FURNISH-
ing stock, invoicing about $5,000; good town
Southern Michigan; low rent; good reasons for
selling. Address M. A. C., care Michigan
Tradesman. 198
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 once, William
Connor, Room 82, Sweet’s Hotel, Grand Rapids
Mich. 191
VOR SALE—THE ONLY GENERAL STOCK
in small town; good surrounding country
and good established trade. Reason for selling,
200r health Address Box 56, Alto, Kent Co.
Mich. 190
VOR 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.
POR 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. Gott, Fife Lake, Mich. 159
OR SALE—FINE HOTEL AND SMALL
livery barn; doing good business; terms to
Address No. 135, care Michigan Trades-
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and clear, good location, for a stock of dry
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oe 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
OR SALE OR EXCHANGE FOR GENERAL
Stock of Merchandise—60 acre farm, part
clear, architect house and barn; well watered.
I also have two 40 acre farms and one 80 acre
farm to exchange. Address No. 12, care Michi-
gan Tradesman. §
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

NJ ODERN CITY RESIDENCE AND LARGE
4¥i 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

 

 

 

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BUSINESS CHANCES.

VOR SALE—A FIRST-CLASS BUSINESS IN
a thriving, flourishing village of 1,500 inhabi-
tants, located on the Chicago & Grand Trunk
Railway, 13 miles from competitors of impor-
tance. A good building, containing a saw mill,
planing mill, cider mill, two turning lathes and
jig saw, all complete. Machinery in first-class
condition and runs the year round; all lumber
contracts made for this year at best prices and
lots of timber already bought. A first-class op-
portunity to put in an electric light plant to light
the town. Best of reasons for selling above and
SS solicited. Address all letters to

A. B. Hoyt, Bellevue, Eaton Co., Mich. 207
OR SALE—ON ACCOUNT OF THE DEATH
of the proprietor, I am instructed by the
court to dispose of the Foote drug stock and: fix-
tures, inventorying about $4,000. The store has a
good trade and is paying well. Charles Bennett,

Administrator, Charlotte, Mich. 206
O EXCHANGE—TWO 40 ACRE FARMS IN
the Fruit Belt of Oceana county for a clean
stock of dry goods and groceries. Address Box

333, Saranac, Mich. 208

 

 

 

 

TANTED—REGISTERED PHARMACIST,
one who understands work in a general
store preferred. State age, experience and sal-
ary expected. Address No. 209, care Michigan
Tradesman. 209
ANTED—HUSTLING GROCERY SALES-
man in every city to send name and ad-
dress; profitable side line. Al, care Grocery
World, 306 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa. 205

JANTED—POSITION AS REGISTERED
pharmacist. Have had twenty years’ ex-
perience in drug business; married; 40 years of
age; out of employment on account of fire de-
stroying building and stock. Address No. 203,
eare Michigan Tradesman. 203
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

XPERIENCED DRUGGIST WANTS SIT-
uation. Address No. 178, care Michigan
Tradesman. 178

 

 

 

 

 

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MERCANTILE ASSOCIATIONS

 

 

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Chicago.

Ly. G. Rapids, 7:10am 12:00m

Ar. Chicago, 1:30pm 5:00pm 10:50pm —*7:05am

Ly. Chieago, 7:15am 12:00m 5:00pm *11:50pm

Ar. G. Rapids, 1:25pm 5:05pm 10:55pm = *6:20am
Traverse City, Charlevoix and’retoskey.

4:30pm: *11:50pm

Lv. 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
Ly. 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
Ar ee ec, 11:55pm 10:15pm
Ly Saginaw..... . .... .. 7:00am 4:50pm
Ar Grand Rapids ...............11:55am 9:50pm

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

*Every day. Others week days only.

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

 

 

Grand Trunk Railway System.

Going East. Leave Arrive
Saginaw, Detroit & N. Y...... + 6:50am + 9:55pm
Detroit and East .............. +10:16am + 5:07pm
Saginaw, Detroit & East...... + 3:27pm +12:50pm
Buffalo & New York Limited..*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 +10:1lam
*Daily. +tExcept Sunday.
C. A. JUSTIN, C. P. & T. A., Morton House.

Nov. 19, 1899.

Northern Division.

 

 

Rapids & Indiana Railway
December 17, 1899.

 

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

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

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

hicago.

Chicago Trains.

TO CHICAGO.

Ly. Grand Rapids...+7 10am +2 00pm *11 30pm
Ar. Chicago ........ 2 30pm 8 45pm 7 00am
FROM CHICAGO
Ly. Chicago..... weeeeeee- 3 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 00a 250pm 7 00pm
Sunday train leaves Grand Rapids 9:15am;

arrives Muskegon at 10:40am. Returning leaves

Muskegon 5:30pm; arrives Grand Rapids, 6:50pm.

GOING EAST.
Lv. Muskegon...... +8 10am +12 15pm_ +4 00pm
Ar. Grand Rapids... 9 30am 1 30pm = 5 20pm

+Except Sunday. *Daily.
Cc. L. LOCKWOOD,
Gen’! Pass’r and Ticket Agent.

. C. BLAKE,
Ticket Agent Union Station.
& Northeastern Ry.

MANISTEE siertconteto sanistee

Via C. & W. M. Railway.
Ly. Grand Rapids............... 7 30am

 

 

 

Ar. Manistee....................12 pm _......
Ly. Manistee.................... 8 40am 3 55pm
Ar. Grand Rapids.............. 2 40pm 10 00pm

 

 

 

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Michigan Retail Grocers’ Association
President, C. E. WALKER, Bay City; Vice-Pres-
ident, J. H. Hopkins, Ypsilanti; Secretary,
E. A. SrowWk. Grand Rapids; Treasurer, J. F.
TATMAN, Clare.
Graud Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association

President, FRANK J. DyK; Secretary, HOMER
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Detroit Retail Grocers’ Association

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

Kalamazoo Reta. Grocers’ Association
President, W. H. JOHNSON; Secretary, CHAS.
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Bay Cities Retail Grocer.’ Association
President, C. E. WALKER; Secretary, E. C.
LITTLE.
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President, H. B. SmMirH; Secretary, D. A.
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Saginaw Retail Merchants’ Association
President, M. W. TANNER; Secretary, E. H. Me-
PHERSON; Treasurer, R. A. HORR.

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.

Pt. Hurons Merchant and Manufacturers’ Association
President, CHAS. WELLMAN; Secretary, J. T.
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T t, THos. BROMLEY; Secretary, FRANK
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Grand Haven Retail Merchants’ Association
President, F. D. Vos; Secretary, J. W. VER-
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Yale Business Men’s Association
President, CHAS. RouNDs; Secretary, FRANK
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Grand Rapids Retail Meat Dealers’ Association

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

 

 

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