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Lao ee Tees, Wises bow es ee 644 inches. Waees Bema. ee 5'4 inches. Vases, height....... Dias ogee 6oguc cee. cond. ocue ees ccey 4 5 inches. Celery Holders, height..... ............- 5-6 6% inches. Card Receivers, diameter...................+-.... .6'5 inches. hose Bowls. diameter... .................5-12.............4 Inehes. Bon Bons, length...........-.. Td Pretty Opalescent Novelties Just the Thing for Special Sale Days Excellent for PREMIUMS AND SOUVENIRS and they will sell readily at 10, 15 and 25 cents Opalescent Card-Tray Assortment Contains six dozen assorted, two shapes and three colorings, for $6.00 No charge for the package 42-44 Lake Street, Chicago. wT os a. "ae- os 0 » em -. ‘aes. 'e, as as ', as, aor. as a AY SSSSSSSISSISSISSSINSS We Know What Smokers Wan Are Smokers ourselves. That’s how we came to put Royal Tiger 10c, Tigerettes 5c on the market. Were looking for something extra good for our own smokes, had the best factories in the country make up cigars for us, finally settled on our choice and were so well pleased with them that we decided to have them put up under our own brands; that’s why they’re so popular. Good enough for anybody. A little better than anything else on the market for the same money. PHELPS, BRACE & CO., Detroit Largest Cigar Dealers in the Middte West. F. E. BUSHMAN, Manager. ws. ws. a. a. ao a a. a. ar, as ss a A SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS China SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS Cg o o Oo ¢ = Nn ~ 5 = O N o- om => ° Ey a > pe) @ 5 gQ WN oS 3 5 < » am Fancy Goods (slassware Johnson Bros. celebrated Porcelain Century Pattern, decorated and _ plain, the best on the market. Dinner and Tea Sets in many designs. JQ Oo . On om = nn Ley - om = @ — a oF i) o Qu os a a om wn om S 2 Oo © n om = o cS 71-75 Jefferson Avenue, Detroit, Michigan wo a a or ee A Jenness & McCurdy Importers and Jobbers of Crockery Lamps It leads them all. All new. SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSES WE. WR WH HS wT SA has become known on account of its good qualities. Merchants handle Mica because their customers want the best axle grease they can get for their money. Mica is the best because it is made especially to reduce friction, and friction is the greatest destroyer of axles and axle boxes. It is becoming a common saying that “Only one-half as much Mica is required for satisfactory lubrication as of any other axle grease,” so that Mica is not only the best axle grease on the market but the most eco- nomical as well, Ask your dealer to show you Mica in the new white and blue tin packages. ILLUMINATING AND LUBRICATING OILS WATER WHITE HEADLIGHT OIL IS THE STANDARD THE WORLD OVER STANDARD OIL CO. FFSSFFFFFFFFSF HIGHEST PRICE PAID FOR EMPTY CARBON AND GASOLINE BARRELS . : TOS TEESE SE SCS EEC SCE STO Walsh-DeRoo Milling Co., Holland, Michigan BUCKWHEAT PANCAKES made from Walsh-DeRoo Buckwheat Flour look like Buckwheat, taste like Buckwheat and are Buckwheat. Absolute purity guaranteed. Send us your orders. TOTS Te Oe WatsH-DERoo MiLuinG Co. Cong nornnrnrrnnrnngnnrg ren CESTICCTUSD, EB SOS SB EE SR. OG SPU HR ( One of Our Many Assortments of Bright Sellers Oriental No. 42 Gold 1oc Assortment, 1 doz. each 2 in. Rose Bowls Bar Tumblers Goblets D Salts and Peppers N T 45 in. Comports Custards C Salts and Peppers P T 445 in. Square Nappies 5 in. handled Nappies Wine Glasses Individual Creams 6 in. Plates Claret Glasses Champagne Tumblers Table Tumblers Individual Sugars 5 in. Olives Tooth Picks 4% in. round Nappies Egg Glasses Admiral No. 2 7 in. Gold Vase 21 dozen, 8 cents per dozen..........-.-.+2...+2- $18.70 ~ Hall & Hadden, 18 Houseman Building, Grand Rapids, Mich. BE Re. Sw eR SEE RP ae eR TH Volume XVII. GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1900. Number 857 : : : 9009S 00OS © 000000000 KOLB & SON are the oldest and most reliable wholesale clothing manufactur- ers in Rochester, N.Y. Originators of the three-button cut-away froeck—no bet- ter fitting garments, guaranteed reason- ablein price. Mail orders receive prompt attention. Write our representative, WILLIAM CONNOR, Box 346, Marshall, Mich., to eall on you or meet him at Sweet’s Hotel, Grand Rapids, March 5 to 12 inclusive. Customers’ expenses paid. 99999909 OHHOOSOSOO : . 0909090009900 00 00000005 THE , Y v INS. « a e® co. 4 ‘ Prompt, Conservative, Safe. q J.W.CHAMPLIN, Pres. W. FRED McBatn, Sec. ¢ $00400000000000eeeeseeees OO9OOOO Lo oe fd THE MERCANTILE AGENCY Established 1841. R. G. DUN & CO. Widdicomb Bid’g, Grand Rapids, Mich. Books arranged with trade classification of names Collections made everywhere. Write for particulars L. P. WITZLEBEN. [anager. Why not increase your Coffee trade ? A | c HIGH GRADE es ie «s COFFEES will doit. Write us for terms. Our prices will interest you. AMERICAN IMPORTING CO., 21-23 RIVER ST., CHICAGO, ILL. Geeeseeesseeseresereeteres 419 Widdicomb Bld., Grand{Rapids. Detroit office, 817 Hammond Bld. Associate offices and attorneys in every county in the United States and Canada. Refer to State Bank of Michigan and Michigan Tradesman. FSFTTSSSTSSSFFFSTTISFSSFSFSTSO POOQOQOOQOO© QODOOQOOQO OOOOQOQOOOS Michigan Fire and Marine Insurance Co. Organized 1881. Detroit, Michigan. Cash Capital, $400,000. Net Surplus, $200,000. Cash Assets, $800,000. D. WHITNEY, JR., Pres. D. M. Ferry, Vice Pres. F. H. WHITNEY, Secretary. M. W. O’BrIEN, Treas. E. J. Boorn, Asst. Sec’y. DIRECTORS. D. Whitney, Jr., D. M. Ferry, F. J. Hecker, M. W. O’Brien, Hoyt Post, Christian Mack, Allan Sheldon, Simon J. Murphy, Wm. L. Smith, A. H. Wilkinson, James Edgar, H. Kirke White, H. P. Baldwin, Hugo Scherer, F. A. Schulte, Wm. V. Brace, James McMillan, F. E. Driggs, Henry Hayden, Collins B. Hubbard, James D. Standish, Theodore D. Buhl, M. B. Milis, Alex. Chapoton, Jr., Geo. H. Barbour, S. G. Gaskey, Chas. Stinchfield, Francis F. Palms, Wm. C. Yawkey, David C. Whit- ney, Dr. J. B. Book, Eugene Harbeck, Chas. F. Peltier, Richard P. Joy, Chas. C. Jenks. DOODQOQOOD® QDOOQDODDO® HDOQOQDOOOOS]® MadeSinan Coupons ° ° » * » OSL4EE4O64 QOOOOOOQOE® Save Trouble. Save Money Save Time. © ©) ©) ©) @) @ ©) @ @ © @ © © © @ @ @ @ @ @ @ © @ @ @ ©) IMPORTANT FEATURES. Page. 2. Dry Goods. Getting the People. Around the State. Grand Rapids Gossip. The Produce Market. 6. Woman’s World. 7. Flank Movement. 8. Editorial. 9. Editorial. LO. Clerks’ Corner. 11. Crockery and Glassware Quotations, 12. Shoes and Leather, 15. Gotham Gossip. 16. The Buffalo Market. 17. Observations by a N. Y. Egg Man. 18. The Meat Market. 19. Commercial Travelers. 20. Drugs and Chemicals. tome OS o 2 Drug Price Current. 22. Grocery Price Current. 23. Grocery Price Current. 24. Hardware. 25. Stories by a Hardware Salesman. Hardware Price Current. 26. Queer Cattle. Business Wants. Sensible Suggestions to Working Women. The but one for the employer is a far more rigid task ter than your teacher. It is of the greatest importance that you should be able to distinguish your abilities from what may be called your tastes or inclinations. The latter are pleasanter to follow but not profitable. It is necessary to establish health on a pedestal as a vengeful little god who must be placated, and regard the care of him as an essential but impersonal matter. Af you have not health you can not work; if you can not work then others suffer. Another kernel of advice is to be busi- nesslike. There is a conviction of business is a school, in which the workers are paid novitiate work they do. You mas- world always among men that women are generally unpunc- tual and irresponsible. It takes a long period of virtuous conduct before a dog outgrows a bad name. Solely because we are women we have got to excel in being businesslike, that we may mend a reputation which was acquired during the days when Adam did the delving and Eve was permitted the luxury of simply being a woman with womanly duties. Business may be congenial, but it is not taken up for fun except in cases too uncommon to count, and those who be- come paid workers must put away all thoughts of sex and realize that ina contract value received relates to both parties, whether labor is for sale or merchandise. One of the most import- ant principles of business is prompt- ness, another energy, another ambition and another an undying zeal that is willing to sacrifice the lighter things of life and to expend all time and strength upon work, ‘*What comes of my social position?’ ask those who have not had their fill of accustomed gayeties. The question set tles itself by changing of taste. One who has lived on good steak no_ longer cares to feed on meringues, although they may be valued as a dessert. Caste is not lost by earnest employ- ment; the world of society is not cruel enough to turn a woman off because she and obvious duty ; but she on her part needs her time and strength for her work, and so. there has taken up a_ serious comes divergence of interest and a sep- aration from all friends. save the choicest But the compensation lies in this—that the pleasures of labor are keener than those of indolence and the lives of workers are full and rich past comprehension by the uninitiated. _ —_es> The Grain Market. Wheat is very contradictory as regards the various positions of that article. Both sides, the longs and rather dull, as reports are shorts, argue for either lower or higher values, which causes the outside dealers to take a waiting mood what the future forth. AS we are and see would bring nearing spring we will weather have done. If the predictions of the farmers are soon see what damage the fly and true the winter wheat crop will be as short as_ last season, which would he a sad calamity in the winter wheat belt. The visible made about as much of a decrease as last week. about ‘The world’s visible also decreased and Our visible would show a greater de- crease if it were not for the free ment one a half million bushels. move- from country elevators in Minne- sota and the Dakotas to escape paying taxes, which receipts in the Northwest larger than anticipated. This, of course, will have an end soon, when the true situation will assert itself, Cash wheat is extremely strong, owing to its scarcity. We do not look for much change, so far as the quantity is con- cerned, until next harvest. Corn, owing to the easy made feeling in wheat, is also rather tame. Prices have pone Off a trifle. Were it not for the general apathy in trading, prices would be enhanced considerable. The same can be said of oats. Noth- ing is doing, so prices remain the same. There is nothing new in rye, which is slow sale. The sellers are asking fully as much as before, but the buyers are rather slow to accept. It will more exports to raise the market. Beans have also suffered a decline of 5c and $2 is the asking price. require The flour trade has been good. The mills have all made fair runs during the entire week. Mill feed is still in good demand and firm. Receipts during the week were as fol- prices are held up lows: wheat, 53 cars; com, 11 cars; Oats, 13 cars; flour, 1 car; hay, 1 car; Straw, 1 car. Millers are paying 68c. C. G. AL Voge. +-1e Port Huron Business Men Touch Elbows. The second annual banquet of the Merchants and Manufacturers’ Associa- tion of Port Huron, which was heid last Wednesday evening, was largely at- tended and proved to be one of the most enjoyable events ever held in the Tun- nel City. Speeches pertinent to the oc- casion were made by about a dozen gentlemen, interspersed with music and other entertaining features. - —<>2 > ____ Swinging on a cemetery gate dead open-and-shut game. isa Man the Prize Conundrum, ‘Man,’’ said the woman of experience to the drum that women spend their lives. try- ing to debutante, “‘is the prize conun- guess. He is made up of as vaudeville show, a department store, but upon getting the right answer many caprices as a and as many contrasts as to the riddle will depend much of your comfort and pleasure. He is our great- of nine- both of us are kissing away the est blessing, and the tenths of happiest when he is SOUrFCE OUT Woe, and tears he has made us shed. He is as the face of actual he thinks himself dying if brave as a lion in danger, but he has a sick headache and keeps a doc- tor and three nurses on the jump, trying to alleviate his groans. He has discov- ered all the new countries of the world, but he can’t find a pocket handkerchief if it isn’t the top thing in the drawer. He will face the enemv on the battle- field, but he the cook He can boss an army of employes, but makes his wife discharge and speak to the wash lady. he can’t manage his own baby. He will heroically endure to be martyred for the sake of an opinion, but he hasn’t the courage to wear a last year’s style straw hat. even more paradoxical. In his dealings with women he is He is woman’s most relentless critic and satirist, yet loves her so well as when she He prides him- self upon being governed by his reason he never justifies all his gibes. and judgment, yet in the most import- ant affair of his life he throws reason to the winds and marries a girl because her eyes are blue and her cheeks rosy. The qualities he admires ina sweet- heart he objects to ina wife. He chooses a. girl she because is a butterfly, and feels ill-used because she isn’t a useful domestic grub. He will cheerfully work himself into nervous prostration for his family, but he considers it an imposi- tion to to bring up a bucket of coal. He trusts his wife with his name and his honor, but not with his pocket- book. At 16 he falls in woman old enough to be his mother and it flatters him to be addressed as ‘old man, and talked to as a world. At 60 only debutantes are young enough for his taste, and he likes to be He com- plains of the matrimonial noose, yet he have love witha man of the treated as if he were a boy. is never happy except when his neck is in the halter. He derides a woman's logic, but adopts her conclusions. He bemoans the sensclessness of her dress, but he admires her most when she wears the most frills and In his general dealings with her an angel and treats her like she was an idiot. He admires, in theroy, an intellectual goddess, but he marries the roly-poly little at the right moment on the second but- ton of his waistcoat. He can be as strong as a hero, as patient as a saint, as wise furbelows. woman he calls woman girl who weeps as a seer, and at the same time get into the most abominable tantrum because dinner is five minutes late. No woman ever really understand a man, any more than a man ever really understands a woman. ‘That’s what makes us of per- sonal interest to each other. The guessing is the fun of the game.’’ MICHIGAN TRADESMAN _ Dry Good The Dry Goods Market. Staple Cottons—This department of the market shows no change in prices or in the general tone, even although there has been somewhat more business trans- acted. This was expected for the past week, and there is not expected to be much change for another week. The local business has been of an average volume. In four-yard brown goods there has been some business transacted at prices a trifle below open quotations for forward deliveries. During the last two or three days, however, this has been to some extent checked. There are enough enquiries to show that if sellers were a little easier to deal with in other direc- tions, there would be a good amount. of business coming forward at once. Brown drills are another line showing signs of pelled to. Ginghams are strong and the market is bare of ready supplies. Knit Goods—The advance in the price of knit goods is very beneficial to the consumer, as well as to the manufacturer and retailer, because the manufacturers with few exceptions are enabled to maintain the higher standard in the materials used in the manufacture of their goods. This is especially so in the higher class of goods, where the substitution of an inferior material is more easily detected. One manufacturer of fashioned underwear makes the fol- lowing statement: ‘‘Any one of my cus- tomers is at liberty to search the market for better grades of silk than I employ in making up my fashioned underwear, and if successful in finding a better grade, I shall buy the same, use it in the manufacture of my underwear, and not charge the customer a cent more An eye-arresting window, an illustration from which our readers will doubtless gain a good many valuable suggestions is that of a linen exhibit, which was exe- cuted by Wade Cadman, decorator for D M. Christian, Owosso. Mr. Cadman arranged the display as a Thanksgiving exhibit of linens, but as it is one of those schemes which is germane to almost any season, and as linens play a very impor- tant part in the window d :corating plans for the winter months, we take occasion to reproduce the photograph now. judging from the photograph, the The decorator has tastefully combined table linens with the more decorative pieces which are used for home beautifying, and display was one of those dignified showings which could not help to have impressed the average passerby with the worthiness of the fabrics handled by this store’s linen department. weakness and it would not take much to make them favor the buyers. This and one or two other points show the ex- treme sensitiveness of the market. If quotations for raw cotton show growing strength, these lines will immediately harden, but if, on the other hand, raw cotton recedes, cotton goods will follow immediately, all except those lines well sold ahead. Bleached cottons show no change, and the amount of business _ for the week was better than last. Cotton flannels and blankets are strongly situa- ted and well sold ahead. Denims are among the firmest lines. They are scarce, and the tendency is upward. Ticks, checks, etc., are firm, and the supply is behind the demand. Prints and Ginghams—There is quite an improvement to be seen in the num- ber of orders coming to hand for various printed fabrics and the outlook is most encouraging. Manufacturers criticise sharply the conditions which exist in the jobbing houses with printed calicoes. The jobbers are selling at prices lower than the present quotations in first hands. This will hold business back, for the jobbers under the circumstances will not place more orders until] com- than he is now paying for the goods. This statement is made asa guarantee of the fact that I believe that I use the best quality of silk that is produced in the market, and satisfied customers are the result.’’ While there is a certain amount of advertising in this statement, nevertheless it shows that the tendency among manufacturers is to keep their goods up to their usual standard of ex- cellence. Carpets—The retailers are now quite | busy cutting up carpets. Some of them have cleaned up old stocks at greatly reduced figures, much below what new goods could be offered for to-day. The latter are also receiving more attention. The principal complaint from retailers to-day is the reduced discount and shortening of dating. They complain of the fact that all 3¢ goods on which they were formerly allowed 4 per cent. discount, if payments were made in ten days from April 1 dating, have since January 1 been changed to 334 per cent. off ten days from March 1 dating, 3 per cent. off thirty days, 2 per cent. off sixty days, or four months net. This holds where orders were not placed in the fall for March I dating, and as stated, new terms went into effect Jan. I. Some offer old terms where pay- ments are anticipated before the dating named. The manufacturers can not view : Corl, it in the same light as the retailers, for | 4 they have been forced, through long ; years of depression and low prices for | 4 goods, to make the best terms possible. Now the conditions have changed and ; the manufacturer knows that if ever he | @ : 2a. . is to obtain ‘‘live and let live’’ prices ; Furst Spring Ogen- ; as well as terms for his goods he must/@ . insist on more favorable conditions now, | # ng Pattern Flats, and while this at present only applies ‘ a to 3 goods, the ingrain manufacturers | 4 Leb. Z/, 28, Mar. should receive the same benefits. The ri manufacturers are all filling orders, | 4 / and 2 many of them working overtime. They | 7 r report the outlook favorable to a very | successful spring business. —_— @ = ___ A man gets very littie solid pleasure from hugging a delusion. & 22 N. Division St., 20 k Grand Rapids, Mich. 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WEP OPYE NEP HEP reer NeR er eereerNerNnrNer IAL UMAGA AMhdUh JAA JUN JUN Abb U4A 444 44d bb dk ddd | = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = PPOSSSSOS 00000000000000000000000000000008 A Big Sock display and some of the best values in Ladies’, Misses’ and Children’s hose that have ever been offered is one of the really good parts of our spring line. The fact is, we believe there is more good profit in this line for the dealer than in any other : and for this reason give it especial attention. Buy now—delay means a loss to you. Prices. 45 cents to $3 00 per dozen. Voigt, Herpolsheimer & Co., Grand Rapids, Mich 09000000 COCO OOOO OO CCCOCS | | Wholesale Dry Goods, 0000000000 : : : : 7 e > in \ 4 Y | ' - — co — \ 4 Getting the People Gradual Improvement in Hannah & Lay’s Advertising. Merritt B. Holley, who manages the advertising of the Hannah & Lay Mer- cantile Co., at Traverse City, writes me as follows: Enclosed you will find some of our latest advertisements. Will you kindly look them over and give them a fair and frank criticism such as they deserve. | am trying to improve the tone, under the most excellent advice that you are giving in the Tradesman from week to week. I take that page and file it away for reference, and the good advice helps me wonderfully. Mr. Holley sends in a very creditable collection of advertisements, and they all show great improvement over any- thing I have previously seen from his pen. My space admits of the reproduc- tion of only one of them, but this can be taken as a fair representative of the general excellence they show. Mr. Holley’s advertising has grown more thoroughly practical as his experience has increased. He is paying more at- tention to the question of dollars and cents and less to the construction of odd MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Mr. Holley has sent in and I trust that his progress will be as marked in the coming year as it has been in the past six months. I am in receipt of a clever advertise- ment from Saginaw in the shape of an Anti-Profanity Plasters. A customer confessed to us Saturday that Sehirmer’s Magie Corn Plasters had cured him of swearing. Of course we knew how it was. The aoe had gotten at the root of the matter +> He Learned Wisdom. James Pyie, who died in New York recently, was one of the pioneers of modern business methods and_ spent millions of dollars in advertising. He |did not think much of advertising at | first, however. Horace Greeley, of the New York Tribune, who knew him, tried for a long time to get Mr. Pyle’s adver- once Sia er A new way to fill an old want. tisement, and finally said to him: We do this to get your interest ‘*Here is the Tribune rate card. Use : g St. : } es : i sac for anv 1, whatever space you want for one year. f Then why not have a pleasant one? Why not have all the It s all said 23¢ for ae of ‘em. If you find that at the end of that time convenienees possible? Many people are judged by their You can t make a mistake here. ; ee ‘i a r ote « ’ office surroundings. The best is none too good—remember Get one if you want a good one. it pays, pay tor the space you have Half that. Ever stop to see how we can fit you out? No chance to get the worst of it. |taken. If you find it does not pay, pay LINOLEUM is needed for the floor, We have all Think of these and act ly |nothing.’’ Of course the space was paid a 2 py paca . : Ong oe en eee Se 4 i promptly. | widths—yard, yard and a half and two yards square; seli for | i ae i : | for. 25e to $1.50 the square yard. We'll take the measure and Others are go¢ d- -here s the best. | ) i of lay it for you. Winter weights at old-time prices. | — REVOLVING CHAIRS~—great big elegant easy Making prices that make goods cel. || = chairs any style you want. Solid oak with high carved back A stock that blossoms with beauty. | uminum oney Sn Your or with low back upholstered in leather, or the plain wood— Aig nine Sa | prices all the way from $4.50, $5.25, $6.50 to $11. Ve make prices that make business, Will Increase Your Business. ; ROLL TOP DESK—nothing like having a good con- ed to buy ee a soening 3 Start. Pa 4 ‘ venient desk with ‘\a place for everything and everything nen you want the Dest come nere. lie a, Life in its place.” Sell these from $12.75 to $180. Have a nice Our promises and what they mean id a CO, oN line of flat top desks from $4.50 up. Fea ak i i ia as bee ae ie By DESK SUPPLIES—all the “little things ” that are so F 2 i y ne ‘i f ee F a) Is necessary in the daily desk work. Pens 10¢ a doz.; Holders er ay at hal -measure prices. & 1c, 5¢, 10¢; Erasers le, 5¢, 10¢; Wood Rulers 5¢; Rubber We build reputation by giving values. ‘ Rulers 30c to 40e; Balls of Pins 10c; all sizes rubber bands, How we watch out for your interests. S ent mucilage and white paste. : aa ae i «1 6 Pp INK and INK STANDS—all sizes of ink stands from Provide for to-morrow by buying to- ¢: 15¢ in glass to the patent —— = 70e. ore so annoy- day. } ing as poor ink—we carry the best makes: Arnold’s, Dia- ee ce 4 ee eae 1 in mond ‘Sanford Stafford ‘Tomas. Best quality of Red Ink i Makes business and gives satisfac- ; coeapane ——, in 10¢ bottles i ' i tion Send for samples and prices. : Y — ee ae — ee pis ant Elegance combined with low priced- qj. 4. HANSON, a | ment—the large sized Ledgers and Journals in the best o el | our binding. Miniature blank books from 25¢ up: order books Lanne 44 S. Clark St., Chicago, Ill. and counter books — 5e UP; mems. at 5c, 10e, up to 50¢; w : vest mems. 5¢e up; desk pads 10c. — i Office LETTER BOOKS and letter presses, keep a copy of , every letter written—save you many dollars in a year’s ‘mY time. Letter books from $1 up; one of the finest presses at k $6; blotters, oil boards and carbon paper. + 4 HANNAH & phrases, and the advertiser who does this shows that he is arriving at a true conception of the purpose of advertis- ing. The style of display used in all of Mr. Holley’s advertising shows that the claim I made some time ago was founded upon fact: ‘‘That anyone could get the best possible kind of display from the local newspaper no matter how small the facilities of the office might be.’’ Mr. Holley uses but two styles of type in most of his advertisements, with the result that they present a clean, attrac- tive appearance that could not be at- tained by the use of a dozen or more different styles. It is often difficult to get the local comtpositor out of the old- fashioned rut in which he has learned to use as many phases of display type as possible. I have been there myself in this city, and 1 know what hard work it is, but.the mere matter of display affects so much the appearance of an advertise- ment that it will pay every advertiser to make the effort. While display is not everything in advertising, it is the point which strikes the reader first, and first impressions are usually the strong- est and the most enduring. I have noth- ing but praise for the advertising that LAY MERCANTILE COMPANY body of the advertisement and the read- ing matter is worded so well as to leave a permanent impression that Schirmer’s Magic Corn Plasters are a good thing. The idea of delivering them by mes- senger or by mail is a clever one, for it goes to show that the manufacturers are enthusiastic enough and_ progressive enough to take the trouble to sell a 10 cent article. An advertising druggist who advertises as well as Mr. Schirmer is so rare that it is refreshing to come across an announcement like the one re- produced herewith. W. S. Hamburger. —_-- — ~~ 2 > —- Opposed to Innovations. For some time the younger members of the Quaker congregation in Plainfield, N. J., have wished to introduce steam heat, electric lights and other modern comforts in their meeting house, and recently brought the matter up in meet- ing. After an earnest debate on it the congregation decided to continue with the old-fashioned boxwood stove and oil lamps, as they have done since 1777. Plainfield is evidently not a good town for the stove business. eS A_ bad memory is one that retains all the bad things, according to its cultiva- tion by a bad man with a bad mind. 3 Times a Day, at Work adit itr MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Hudson—James Deems, tinner, has sold out to R. W. Armstrong. Romeo—P. F. Heenen has purchased the general stock of M. P. Owen. Standish—-E. M. Ward has purchased the harness stock of Fred F. Dow. Clio—Bernard Runyan has_ purchased the grocery stock of Sanford Hunt. Lawton—F. N. Langdon & Son have opened a grocery store at this place. Vassar—J. L. Selling & Co. have sold their clothing stock to Chas. A. Lewis. Detroit—Butler & Stalker succeed E. 1. Butler in the tea and coffee busi- ness. Fairgrove—Burrough & Wise have purchased the bicycle business of C. C. Hoff. Holland—D. J. Sluyter has added a line of clothing to his furnishing goods stock. Breckenridge—A. J. Marks has_ pur- chased the general stock of James Red- mond. Allegan—J. A. Wiley will shortly re- engage in the meat business at this place. Durand—M. C. Terry has sold his clothing stock at Coleman to F. A. Slater. Posen—E. A. Hall has sold his dry goods and grocery stock to Vincent D. Vincent. Kalamazoo—Oliver Bros. have pur- chased the grocery stock of Harvey Woodard. Charlesworth—-Rufus Rose has sold his stock of general merchandise to F. A. Westgate. Cass City—J. H. Striffler & Co. con- tinue the implement business of Striffler & Wallace. Pentwater—Mrs. open millinery about March 15. Manchester——Robinson & Koebbe, dealers in clothing, will dissolve part- nership March 1. Milan—Alderman Bros. continue the meat, grocery and produce business of Allen & Alderman. Saginaw—D. Y. Stewart & Co. are succeeded by the Stewart-Leesch Co. in the grocery business. Harbor Beach—Chas. E. Pettit has purchased a store building and removed his drug stock therein. Ovid—Chas. H. Misner has purchased the interest of his partner in the meat firm of Misner & Losey. Union City—Whitney & Taylor suc- ceed Whitney & Burroughs in the gro- cery and bakery business. Homer—Frank W. Hill, dealer in clothing and men’s furnishing goods, has sold out to Buck & Robards. Springport—Miss Lou Rull and Miss Ella Mack have purchased the dry goods and millinery stock of Mrs. L. R. Canfield. Charlotte—Geo. Bracket has purchased the shoe stock of Parmelee Bros., at Lansing, and will add same to his stock at this place. Owosso--Frank C. Kneeland, of St. Louis, has opened a book store here. He will put in a stock of from 9,000 to 10,000 volumes. Stanton—Mrs. E. F. Tidd has sold her millinery stock to Mrs. G. F. Pot- ter, of Grand Rapids, who will open the store about March 1. Hudson—The fifty creditors of Whit- beck Bros., whose claims aggregate about $3,100, will probably receive about 20 cents on the dollar. Mary Bunnell will parlors at this place South Arm—Charles Brabant has pur- chased the general stock of the South Arm Lumber Co. and will continue the business at the same location. Hart—Louis Platt has purchased a half interest in the shoe business of his employer, L. P. Hyde. The new firm will be known as Hyde & Platt. Ypsilanti—Henry S. Platt, A. I. Sul- livan and G. Cook have purchased the clothing stock belonging to the late A. L. Noble and removed the same to this place. St. Louis—Chas. Van Denberg, of Saginaw, will shortly open a drug store at this place in the building formerly occupied by the clothing stock of L. Lenhoff. : Calumet—The Tamarack Co-operative Association has declared its ninth an- nual dividend—1o per cent. on the goods purchased at the store and 8 per cent. on the capital stock. Elsie —H. W. Tuttle has purchased the grocery stock of Lusk & Co. and the meat market of Sheldon Bros. Mr, Lusk has removed to Chilson, where he will engage in business. Allegan—J. C. & J. G. Stein have exchanged their stock of dry goods and store building at Gobleville for the fruit farm of O. B. Griffith, located a short distance north of Fennville. Dowagiac—-T. Cullinane, who former- ly succeeded T. Henwood in the shoe business at this place, and who is re- cently from South Bend, has re-engaged in the shoe business at this place. Allegan—The sale of the Guard, Fair- field & Co. milling property to C. L. Harvey, of Ula, which was announced about a week ago, wWaS not consum- mated, owing to a hitch in the proceed- ings. Sault Ste. Marie—Thos. J. Graham’s grocery store has been closed by the foreclosure of a chattel mortgage run- ning to P. C. Keliher. Mr. Graham expects to be able to resume business again shortly. Edmore—Frank Dreese has sold his brick store building to R. M. Miller, who will occupy the same with his dry goods and clothing stock. Mr. Dreese will remove his dry goods and clothing stock to Cedar Springs. Owosso—The Owosso Cold Storage Co. has been organized with a capital stock of $25,000. The incorporators are E. F. Dudley, Anna L. Dudley, W. H. Avery, A. D. Whipple and H. S. Hadsall, all of this city. Albion—The Austin & Smith hard- ware stock, owned by Henry D. Smith and the estate of Chas. F. Austin, has been purchased by Stephen A. Welling, of Detroit, and Geo. P. Griffin, of Mason. The firm name will be Welling & Griffin. Owosso—F. E. Mosely, the West Side grocer and butcher, has taken a partner in the person of Frank Russell, The market will be located in an addition in the rear of the building and the front of the store will be devoted to the grocery department. Benton Harbor—The clothing and furniture firm of Enders & Young has been reorganized under the style of the Enders & Young Co., it having taken a number of its employes into the busi- ness. The capital stock has been in- creased to $50,000. Menominee—Ludwig H. Larson, of Marinette, has purchased the stock of the Pauli Mercantile Co. and will con- tinue the business at the same location. He will dispose of the crockery stock and continuesthe clothing and dry goods business exclusively. ; Sault Ste. Marie—John A. Gowan contemplates opening a hardware store in this city soon, but as yet his plans are not fully matured. Mr. Gowan was a stockholder in the Chippewa Hardware Co. and thoroughiy understands every branch of the business. Muskegon—A. O. Lemire and William and H. A. Franke have engaged in the hat, capand men's furnishing goods busi- ness at 105 West Western avenue under the style of A. O. Lemire & Co. The store building will be remodeled and fitted with cases of Mr. Lemire’s man- ufacture. Traverse City—H. W. Beecher has consolidated his book, stationery and wall paper stock with the drug stock of F. C. Thompson and the two have formed a copartnership with Arthur S. Hobart, of Big Rapids. The new firm will be known as Hobart, Beecher & Thompson. Saginaw—James Stewart recently dis- posed of his interest in the James Stew- art Co., Ltd., after which the other members of the company decided to dissoive the company and enter into vol- untary liquidation, and elected A. T. Bliss, James B. Peter and’ Alexander Drysdale a liquidating committee. Charlotte--J. E. Pennington and E. Clyde Harmon have purchased the shoe stock of Goodspeed Bros. and will con- tinue the business under the style of Harmon & Pennington. Mr. Harmon will have charge of the. business and Mr. Pennington will continue as travel- ing representative for the Pope Com- pany. Elk Rapids—W. J. Mills has sold his drug stock to Frank and Henry A. Mix, who will continue the business under the style of Mix Bros. Frank Mix is a registered pharmacist and graduate of the Chicago College of Pharmacy and Henry A. Mix has for some time past been engaged in the lumbering busi- ness at Manistique. Laurium—Zephram Ethier, who re- cently purchased the corner lots at the junction of Fourth and Hecla streets, has decided to erect a large building there- on as soon as the weather will permit. The building will be three stories high, the ground floor being used for business purposes and the two upper stories laid out for flats. Lansing—A. M. Donsereaux has merged his business into a stock com- pany under the style of the Donsereaux Clothing and Grocery Co., with a paid in capital of $20,000. His associates in the company are David E. Brackett and Geo. Monroe. The former will manage the clothing department, while the latter will manage the grocery department. Sault Ste. Marie—Branigan & Brook are located in their new quarters on Ashmun street. The front portion of the Store is fitted as a grocery and is in charge of C. J. Brook, the junior part- ner. At the rear of the store, separated by a glass partition, is the Central meat market, which has been removed from its location across the street. This department is in charge of Al. Brani- gan. Ithaca—J. B. & F. M. Scott have formed a copartnership and purchased the furniture stock and undertaking business of F. P. Merrell. J. B. Scott, who will assume the active management of the business, has been for six years employed in the Ithaca Savings Bank. His father, F. M. Scott, will continue with the Lemon & Wheeler Company in the capacity of traveling representa- tive. He formerly conducted a success- ful boot and shoe business at this place. Manufacturing Matters. Medina—C. C. Colvin has sold his cheese factory to Warren Farnsworth. Crisp—The Crisp Creamery Co. has declared a dividend of to per cent. from the profits of 1899. Overisel—At the annual meeting of the Overisel Creamery Co., a dividend of 17 per cent. was declared. Tower—G,. E. Kuchle has purchased the interest of his partner in the stave, heading and lumber business of Street- er & Kuchle. South Ottawa—The South Ottawa Cheese Co. declared a dividend of 18 per cent. at a recent meeting of the stockholders. Owosso—Francis Korff, of Eureka, is negotiating with Owosso gentlemen to engage in the manufacture of his new acetylene gas generator. Kalamazoo—The American Broom Co., which was recently organized in this city, will shortly erect a factory building and greatly increase its output. Charlotte—Henry Levy has purchased the interest of his late brother, Emanual Levy, in the clothing firm of Greenman & Levy. The firm name will remain as formerly. Boyne City—Follmer & Stowe have purchased the saw and shingle mill of Kemp Bros. and will operate same in connection with their tract of cedar tim- ber in the valley between Boyne City and Boyne Falls. Kalamazoo—The partnership between J. B. Lehman and Louis Isenberg in the shoe business has been dissolved, the latter succeeding. Mr. Lehman has associated himself with a company man- ufacturing suspenders. Hillsdale—Seth H. Smith has applied for a patent on a veneered barrel head- ing and has associated himself with his three brothers—A. P. Smith, of Bel- levue, Ohio; Nelson Smith, of Traverse City, and Abel S. Smith, of this place—- under the style of S. H. Smith & Bros., and will soon begin the manufacture of barrel hoops and veneered headings. a i One Way to Curtail Fake Advertising. Ypsilanti, Feb. 20—At the last meet- ing of the Ypsilanti Business Men’s As- sociation, the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President—O. E. Ainsworth. Vice-President—G. M. Gaudy. Secretary—Guy E. Davis. Treasurer—W. H. Sweet. Executive Committee—D. L. Davis, D. L. Quirk, Jr. Attorney—D. C. Griffin. The annual dues of members for the ensuing year were remitted by vote of the Association. The Association passed a resolution recommending the appoint- ment of a night watchman to remain on the street all night. The two night watchmen for the year past, Charles Caine and Andrew Gibson, on account of their faithful and entirely satisfac- tory work during the year, were each voted a present of $15. It was also voted that the Secretary furnish each member with a list of all those who have paid for the support of the night watchmen and for sprinkling. Another matter to which the Associa- tion directed its attention was fake ad- vertising. Under the rules of the As- sociation no member is to go into any of the foreign advertising schemes which are properly designated ‘‘fake’’ advertising without the approval of the Executive Committee. When — such schemes are presented to members they dispose of the solicitors by referring them to the Committee which has the matter in charge. The solicitor is told that he can see the Executive Commit- tee, and if his project meets the ap- proval of that Committee, then it will not be necessary to explain ¢it to in- dividual. members, and vice versa. By this means, much money is saved to the members, 4h 44 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 5 Grand Rapids Gossip The Grocery Market. Sugars—The raw sugar market is somewhat weaker and _ prices have de- clined 1-16c, making the price of 06 deg. test centrifugals now 4 7-16c. Stocks of raws foot up 152,700 tons, compared with 105,000 the correspond- ing period last year. New York holds over one-half of these stocks, with Bos- ton next. Arrivals of raws are expected to be small the coming week. Advices from Cuba report that the grinding of cane has been interfered with by rains in some sections. The demand for re- fined is fair, with prices unchanged. During the month of January there was received at the nine beet sugar factories of Michigan 35,395 tons of beets, from which 7,431,108 pounds of sugar was manufactured. Up to February I an aggregate of 30, 106,113 pounds of sugar was manufactured. Canned Goods—While nothing has oc- curred in the trade to attract any par- ticular attention of late, it is certain that there has been a steady consuming de- mand, which has reduced _ stocks and left the trade in such a position that increasing business will cause increased prices and put the market in a better position than it has been inf or years. There was a distinct improvement in the future canned goods market during the week and the volume of sales was larger than for any preceding week dur- ing the season. The bulk of the buying was limited to tomatoes, corn and peas, with tomatoes in the lead, but there were fairly liberal sales of all varieties. Corn is unchanged in price, but there is more demand and trade is upon a somewhat better basis. Spot supplies are low and trade is more or less re- stricted in consequence. Futures sell about as they have heretofore. It is thought that there will be an improve- ment in the situation now that the packers have met and know what is be- ing done in all parts of the country. It is known that some canners in both New York and Maine are practically sold out; at least, they have sold what they consider their probable output. It is stated that Maryland corn will be of much higher grade this year than in the past, for the reason that the packers have been unable to compete with some of the other states and have demanded that growers improve the quality of pro- duction and much better results are ex- pected. Spot tomatoes are quiet. No very large sales are made and everything is held firmly up to quotations. Future tomatoes are steady at previous prices and some sales are in progress most of the time. There is increased activity in peas, particularly the cheaper grades, and the supply will be exhausted in a short time at the present rate of buying. Prices are held firm at quotations and holders are more inclined to advance prices than they are to shade them. The entire supply will be cleaned up long beforé the new crop is ready for distri- bution. The situation increases the firm- ness in futures and there is heavy buy- ing in this line. Small fruits are quiet, with prices unchanged. Baltimore quo- tations are about steady, but the market is weak and the movement is not active. Distributers buy in small lots only and trade is limited to the requirements of actual consumption. Pineapples are unchanged, but the supply is small and all stocks are firmly held. Packers are beginning to arrange for the coming season, but so far no opening prices have been made. There is only a small quantity left in any position and holders are not anxious to dispose of them, ex- cept at full prices. Other lines are un- changed and business is limited to com- paratively small orders. Holders are firm in their views, and buyers take only what they are compelled by circum- stances to take to supply the wants of their customers. Dried Fruits—While trade, as a whole, is no better than it has been for some weeks, there is a better feeling in some lines and holders appear to be somewhat firmer in their views. No quotable advances are noted as _ yet, but the probability is that an improvement in some varieties will occur before very long. Conditions are more favorable and early changes are expected. Prunes are selling readily in small lots and trade isona more stable basis, although no quotable change in price has oc- curred. Exporters are said to be show- ing more interest, without increasing their orders. The quantity left in first hands is problematical, but is believed to be comparatively small. Some ex- press the opinion that the entire supply will be cleaned up before the new crop comes in. All sizes are firmly held, as they have been for the past month or more, although the preference is for small sizes still. There are plenty of excellent quality large sizes to be had, but they are not wanted, and frequently go begging for customers. There has been considerable call for 100-110 prunes, but the supply of that size is not large and holders are not particular- ly anxious to dispose of what they have. Raisins are quiet. All supplies in first hands are firmly held up to quotations and the tendency is upward. Seeders have been looking over the field with a view of securing such supplies as are needed, but are reported to have been disappointed to find stocks so iow and so firmly held. Trade is on a firm basis and stocks work out from second hands with moderate firmness, although in small lots. The feeling in the trade Is one of confidence and there are indica- tions that everything available will be exhausted long before the new crop is ready to harvest. Peaches are un- changed, but the buying season is ap- proaching and the trade anticipate ac- tive movement. The general conditions are quite satisfactory and all supplies are held up to quotations, with confi- dence that buyers will have to pay the prices asked. The supply in first hands is known to be closely controlled and holders are said to be in position to ex- act the last fraction in making sales. It is believed by many that the demand will be sufficient to carry out everything available at the high prices; they there- fore do not shade prices at all.’ Apricots are steady, but trade is largely of a_ re tail character and confined to such or- ders as are needed to cover present con- sumptive requirements. Prices are high and held stiff because of scarcity. There is some improvement in the de- mand for currants and a fair business has been done during the past week. There is no change in price, but the market is firm. Dates are unchanged, but are moving moderately well under fairly strong demand. Figs are quiet, but there is some demand, chiefly for small lots. The evaporated apple mar- ket does not seem to improve as rapidly as was expected a few weeks ago. While there is no quotable change in prices there is some improvement in demand and, as stocks are getting cleaned up in the country, there is some prospect of an advance in the near Rice—There has been an exceptionally good trade in rice during the past week. Prices have remained unchanged, but are firm, with an upward tendency. Stocks of the good grades are light and holders do not seem particularly anxious to dispose of their stocks, as they antic- ipate higher prices later. Tea teas. A fair business done in Prices are held steady for all grades, with enquiries chiefly for the low and medium grades. Molasses was Molasses is unchanged in price, but the market is steady. Buyers continue to confine themselves to pur- chases to meet regular requirements, paying full values. Fish—Advices from Gloucester report a continued scarcity of codfish. Stocks, in view of the approaching season of improved demand, are firmly held at quotations. Nuts—The spring trade in nuts, which begins about this time, is lacking so far this year and the market shows few in- dications of approaching activity. Sup- plies on hand are not burdensome, but are ample to satisfy all requirements and keep the business in a fairly healthful condition. ‘Trade is limited orders, but there some to small additional enquiries for a few lines, which may be the beginning of the spring demand. European stocks of walnuts are reported very low and what are left are held firm- ly up to reported prices. Almonds at- tract little attention at about former prices. There is only a light demand for varieties. Jordan shelled are comparatively scarce, and prices have been advanced a littie. a Hides, Pelts, Furs, Tallow and Wool. Hides are on the down grade and all kinds are easier in value. Every tanner gives them a kick. ‘They realize that there is not a hide more on account of the high price, and now, as the quality is poor, they use it to lower prices. The last offerings show a shade lower and light sales. Pelts are slow sale at any increase of price and are left in dealers’ hands at any price above former quotations. While the grade is better, there are but few at best. Furs are scarce in Northern Michigan and prices are good on account of a brisk demand. are most The tallow market is strong on ac- count of London advices that all offer- ings were taken. This demand has been looked for so long that dealers were discouraged and sold out. The advance in freight rates has also forced up the foreign market, in order to se- cure supplies. Wool is dragging and is slow of sale. Prices, while not yuotably less, can not readily be obtained. It is claimed that the price is off from 2@3c per pound. The indications are that if sales are effected of any magnitude they will be made at a less price, although holders are firm in their views and hang on, thinking the advance will come later. Wm. T. Hess. Cee GT Henry J. Vinkemulder has sold his grocery stock to Robert Shoemaker and Wm. Taylor, who will continue the business at the same location under the style of Shoemaker & Taylor. The sale of his retail stock will enable Mr. Vin- kemulder to devote his entire attention to his wholesale fruit and produce busi- ness. ——s s____ For Gillies’ N. Y. tea, all kinds, grades and prices, Visner, both phones. | future. The Produce Market, Apples—Spys, Baldwins and Jona- thans are in good demand at $3.50@4 per bbl. Bananas—Are firm, with prices re- maining the same. ‘There are more in the market, but the quality is better and there is an increased demand. Cabbage—75@goc per doz. nia, $4@4.50 per crate. Carrots--S1 per 3 bushel bbl. Celery -25c per doz. bunches for home grown. California stock commands 60 (agoc per doz. Cranberries Jerseys have advanced to $8.50@pg per bbl. Butter--Factory creamery is easy at 25c. The next turn in the market will probably be downward. Receipts of dairy grades are liberal and the quality shows a great improvement. Dealers meet no difficulty in securing 18@2oc for choice to fancy roll stock. Dressed Poultry—The market is strong and active on chickens and ducks, but turkeys are easy and in plentiful supply. Chickens command 1o@1ic. Fowls are in demand at 9@ toc. Ducks command 11@12c. Geese find a market on the basis of 9@I1oc. Turkeys are in good demand at 11c_ for No. 2 and 12c for No. 1. Eggs——Receipts are heavy, but none too large to meet the consumptive de- mands of the market. The price hovers around 13c, at which figure stock moves promptly. Game—Rabbits and squirrels are in fair demand at 75c@$1 per doz. Honey -Dark is in moderate demand at 13c. White is practically out of the market. Lemons—Are firmer and prices have advanced 25@30c per box. The demand has increased slightly during the past few days and the excellence of the goods now coming in has caused this advance. The quality of the fruit is so unusually good that there is little difference be- tween the price of the varying sizes. Live Poultry—Squabs still fetch $1.75 per doz. and are scarce at that. Chick- ens, 7@8c. Fowls, 6@7c. Ducks, 8c for young and 7c for old. Turkeys, 9c for young. Geese, 9c. Nuts—-Ohio hickory command $1.25 for large and $1.50 for small. Butter- nuts and walnuts are in small demand at 6oc per bu. Onions--Home grown command 50c. Parsnips—$1.35 per 3 bu. bbl. Potatoes—-The market is a little weak - er than a week ago and prices are a lit- tle easier in consequence. Califor- 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. : > o> He Frank N. Barrett, the veteran editor of the American Grocer, New York, was in town a couple of days last week, ac- companied by Mrs. Barrett. This was the first time they had visited Grand Rapids since 1893 and both improved the opportunity to renew old acquaint- ances and shake hands with old friends. They spent a half day at the retail sales- of the Berkey & Gay Furniture Co., after which Mr. Barrett lunched at the Peninsular Club with representatives of the wholesale and retail grocery trade who had been invited to meet him and who were charmed by his modest man- ner and the quiet and unostentatious way in which he expressed himself. —__~<-6-<—_ — McDuff & Co. are sending out letters to the trade, soliciting shipments of butter and eggs. The firm is composed of Wm. McDuff and Geo. Krause, each of whom claim to have $200 in cash. The office of the firm is located ina residence at 110 North Division street. The Tradesman advises the trade to use due caution in dealing with the firm, as it carries no bank account and has not been established long enough to enable the observer to form a conclusion as to the intentions and experience of the young men composing the firm. room 6 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Scns aac pieseheet lao Woman’s World Which Result from with Other’s Affairs. Troubles Meddling The other day a cultured woman of rather sentimental tendencies asked me what I thought was the greatest art in the world. ‘‘The art of letting other alone,’’ I answered, and then ““and it’s the least understood.’’ She stared, then smiled, as if she thought I intended to be funny, but | was never more deadly in earnest in my life. I have suffered, you have suffered, the whole world has groaned under a martyrdom at the hands of those who would not let us alone, but who insisted on regulating our lives according to their own notions and without the slight- est regard for any prejudices we might have in the opposite direction. people I said, I am loath to confess it, but these well- meaning persecutors are generally women. Men are so busy trying to make both ends meet in their own busi- ness that they have scant leisure to med- dle in the affairs of their neighbors. A shoe merchant may do business for twenty years next door to an insurance agent without attempting to show him how to write out a policy or conduct his office. A woman, on the other hand, can never see anybody do anything differently from the way she does it without burning with a frantic desire to correct them and set them right. If Mrs. A.’s own children wear flannel she can no more help worrying over the B. children having on cotton than she can help breathing. Every woman in her heart believes that she is the only human being who possesses the real se- cret of economy, the true religion, and an infallible gift for managing, and be- ing so perfectly convinced of the cor- rectness of her point of view, it seems to her actually criminal to let you alone and permit you to do your own way in- stead of hers. As a matter of fact the passion for re- forming things is inherent in the sex and we can’t help it. We were born that way. In its violent and insane form it makes dear, sweet, refined, angelic girls throw themselves away on disgust- ing, drunken brutes whom they marry, expecting to reform them and lift them out of the gutter into respectability. No woman escapes the fascination of the idea entirely, and the very first thing a girl thinks of after she gets engaged is what a perfectly delightful time she is going to have reforming her husband just as soon as she gets him. Some- times it’s his politics and religion that she means to have him change, some- times it’s merely the shape of his collar or the cut of his hair, but she’s always bent on reforming something. If there could be a perfect man he would have to live and die a bachelor. There isn’t a woman living whom he would _inter- est, because there would be nothing to change about him. Men seldom suffer from this peculiar mania. When a man first falls in love with a girl he thinks that everything about her is absolutely perfect, and by the time he gets over that to a degree and gets a sober second view of her, he is too wise to undertake the job. He has found out that there is nothing mu- tual in a woman’s idea of reform, and that she most emphatically objects to the process being tried on her, and he lets it alone. Women seldom learn that, and so we are continually treated to the spectacle of women who have waged an unsuccessful war against their husbands’ smoking for twenty years and who are still hammering away at the same re- form, instead of letting them smoke in peace. It is doubtful if tobacco is harm- ful. Certainly it can’t be as bad moral- ly, physically or mentally as a perpet- ual argument on the subject. Only fancy what we should think of a man who was forever harping on the injurious effects of chocolate creams or nibbling between meals or ice cream soda! Our own es- pecial vices are the only ones that never need reforming. There isn’t much doubt that the great domestic problem is going to be solved when women make up their minds to let their husbands alone a little more—to take them as they are, faults and virtues included, and_ indissolubly mixed. Many a man must have sighed for _ sin- gle blessedness when he found out that his wife had apparently married him to correct his pronunciation and his table manners and to interfere with all his old ways and habits. A young bene- dict was telling me not long agoa funny story about his experience along this line. ‘‘When we were first’ married,’’ he said, “‘Mary began to develop her reform ideas. First thing of, course, she began on my smoking. ‘Why, 1 didn’t know you objected to smoking,’ I said. *You never used to. In fact, you used to say you liked a good cigar.’ ‘Well, 1 didn’t object,’ she replied, ‘but I didn’t feel responsible for you then.” Then she remembered two « three of my other pet weaknesses that she thought it her duty to police, and I began to get scared. Finally I said: ‘Look here, my dear, I see you are right, and it’s our duty to climb up to a high level and stay there, but I don’t feel equal to going by myself. What is sauce for the—I mean if it’s your duty to help me, it’s equally my duty to assist you, and I don’t intend to shirk it. So I will mention a few little faults of yours that must be given up. Of course, 1 have noticed them before, but I should never have spoken of them if you hadn’t set. me the example.’ She winced, but I went on: ‘Now,’ I said, ‘there’s high-heeled shoes—’ ‘Why, 1 thought you said 1 had the prettiest foot in—’ she began in dismay. ‘So | did,’ I returned, ‘but this is no time for pampering vanity. We must give up all such weaknesses now. Then there's corsets, you must discard them.’ ‘What!’ she cried, ‘and go about with a waist like a washwoman’s! Not if I know it.’ ‘They must go,’ I continued firmly, ‘and frizzes.” ‘And look like a fright!’ she exclaimed. ‘Do away with them all,’ | went on sternly. ‘You start-the reform procession and I ‘will follow.’ Well, that ended it, and she has let me alone ever since about my faults. She wasn’t so keen about reforms when there was a prospect of having to join in the game herself.”’ = The virtue of letting alone is equally applicable to children. What modern children suffer from is altogether too much attention. We are so afraid that they will hurt themselves that we keep them padded up in cotton wool as long as we can and thus deprive them of the great lessons experience teaches, and finally, when they will bear coddling and leading strings no longer, and they do make a break for liberty, we sit down and bemoan their lack of filial reverence and gratitude. Every mother _ starts out with a delusion that her children are simply like so much blanc mange that she can mold into any sort of curl- icues she pleases. Her ideal of a per- fectly satisfactory family is one where the mother picks out the husbands for the girls when they get grown and se- lects the professions for the boys, and places them into them whether they are misfits or not, as if that kind of wishy- washy people ever amounted to any- thing in the world, Our theory of doing the best we can for our children is al- ways to be doing something. We never think that the very highest best—if one may use the phrase—is to let them alone, and let them find out for them- selves what they are and what they want to be. It is a piece of monstrous vanity, anyway, to want one’s children to be just like one’s self. The art of letting alone never seems so admirable and so unattainable as when we deplore its absence in our as- sociates. Nothing else is so fatal a bar- rier to friendship. It is not possible to be on terms of any sort of intimacy with one woman in a hundred without her trying to more or less supervise your en- tire affairs. It isn’t enough for a woman to be satisfied with her own superlative dressmaker and infallible doctor. She is miserable until she foists them on every one of her friends, and then when she falls out with those paragons she ex- pects you to change with her. All sorts of reasons have been given for the scar- city of friendship between women. The real explanation is right here in a nut- shell. Just as soon as your neighbor gets beyond the call-on-your-day state she simply can’t stand by, hands-off, and see you manage your children and husband in your own way. ‘‘Do you let your Bobby eat chicken salad and fried oysters?’’ she demands in an awful voice. ‘‘My children were raised on health foods until they were 6 years old ;’’ or she asks in tones that simply reek with disapprobation if your hus- band isn’t very often late for dinner, and then adds, ‘‘I always insist on promptness at meals.’’ Of course, you feel like telling her that it isn’t any of her business, but you don’t. You just let her go, because no friendship is worth buying at the price of your liberty to do as you please, unvexed by any- body’s criticism. This inability of women to let another person alone also affords the explanation of why women are so loath to take an- other woman into their homes. Not long ago I was discussing the case of a gentlewoman who was in sore need of a home. 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Sh q» * y j d oe — C WO tte 8 — eS Sh q» * tng MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 7 send to any mother, especially a woman who went out much in society and who had little children she was unwilling to leave entirely to the care of servants.’’ ‘*So she would,’’ exclaimed my friend, ‘if she could only be induced to let other people alone, but she couldn’t be in any one’s house, to save her life, two hours without wanting to reconstruct it. Once she paid me a visit, and at din- ner she almost had a fit because we had wine on the table. She raised a perfect storm every time we went to the theater because she happened to disapprove of that. She lectured my husband about belonging to clubs and the children about reading what she called trash and kept everything in a perfect ferment by doing what she considered her duty. | never was so glad of anything in my life as when I saw her depart. Nobody on earth would live with her if they could help it.’’ And there it is, and there are millions like her. It sounds like a joke, but it’s the sober truth that a woman has to reach the very highest pinnacle of unselfish- ness and generosity before she is willing to let others do their own way, and be happy after their own taste, instead of hers, but how charming and delightful, how perfect and incomparable she is in every relation of life when she does master the art of letting others alone. Dorothy Dix. —___»>#+.—__—_ The White Woman’s Burden. One of the things that would be in- tensely amusing, if it were not also tragic, is the terrible tyranny of tradi- tion that demands that every woman shall be beautiful. Of course we all know from the outset that such a thing is impossible and that it is the very height of absurdity to expect it. Nature settled all that when she bestowed a certain kind of hair, eyes, complexion and features upon us, and we ought to accept her decision as final, but we don’t. We have been taught to believe that to tamely submit to being homely merely because we were born that way is a giving in to defeat that is little less than cowardly, so those of us who are plain of face wage a war against the inevitable from the cradle to the grave. It is not too much to say that the white woman’s burden may be summed up in her efforts at how to be beautiful, al- though ugly. In all sober truth, when one realizes the stress that we place upon a woman’s looks we are amazed at the extent to which we are dominated by a mere idea. Poets and romancers have set the pace for us. No woman, in a novel, inspires a deathless passion except a creature who is radiantly beautiful. When a man goes off to do great deeds and dare great dangers for a woman’s sake, we know at once that the description is going to say that ‘‘Gwendolin drew her slight, svelte figure up to its queenly height and looked at him with the tears drowning her purple eyes, with their long, dark, curling lashes, while her golden hair shone like a nimbus about her perfectly-shaped head, and a soft blush dyed her cheek, where the lily mingled with the rose.’’ And, more’s the pity, we feel that things are just as they should be, and that nobody could expect a man to do anything in particu- lar for a dumpy little woman with a snub nose and carrotty hair, no matter what sort of a soul she might have. Of course it wouldn’t greatly matter about this devotion to beauty in the ab- stract. Paper heroines had just as well be good-looking as not—it all comes in the price—but it is aggravating when it is demanded of real people. Announce that you are going to have a young lady come to visit you, and the first ques- tion asked you is: ‘‘Is she pretty?’’ No one apparently cares to know whether she is intelligent or talented or entertaining or charming. Enquire what sort of person is Miss A.? The answer invariably starts out with a de- scription of her looks. Is a woman seeking for work? Even then it will profit her more to have a peachy complexion than ability to do the thing she proposes to do. The whole world has a natural, spontaneous desire to help along beauty in distress. When a thing is held up continually before one as the most desirable thing in life it is perfectly natural that one should make a frantic effort to obtain it, hence the money women waste on com- plexion specialists and beauty doctors, and the weary massaging and cold creaming and frizzing and grace-pro- ducing exercising that makes life a bur- den to so many of us, and that is so futile. Really, after all, it is love’s labor lost. One ends by looking as one did at the beginning, and one might just as well have indulged in the luxury of being as ugly as she was born. A curious side light is thrown on this subject, moreover, that seems to_ indi- cate that our demand for beauty in woman is merely an ideal and does not really affect our practical actions. The women we admire most and who are the most popular in society are seldom even pretty, and even men who most strenu- ously insist on beauty in the abstract do not display any overwhelming desire to marry it, which is, of course, a comfort to the ugly woman. More than that, it might suggest to us that it is high time to look at things sensibly and to quit worrying ourselves in trying to effect impossible changes in our looks. There are other things besides beauty. Cora Stowell. 2. Morphine in Miners’ Outfits. From the Washington Evening Star. ‘*When I was in the Northwest during last October,’’ said a gentleman with some money invested in mines, ‘‘I em- ployed a prospector to go out into the mountains looking for properties which had been recommended to me. One day he was to have gone from our camp over into a very rough and rocky district, but when evening came he reported that he hadn’t made the trip. ‘**Why not?’ I enquired. ‘* ‘Because | didn’t have my morphine with me,’ he responded in a very mat- ter-of-fact manner. ‘* ‘Morphine?’ said I, in astonish- ment. ‘What has that got to do with it? You are not a morphine fiend, are you?’ ‘* “Not as much of a one as you are a tenderfoot,’ he laughed, and proceeded to inform me that every prospector who knew his business always carried with him enough morphine to kill a man easily, and that he did so in order to end himself quickly in case of an acci- dent which would disable him far away from assistance. There were many in- stances of prospectors falling over cliffs and crippling themselves, or breaking a leg in a hole among the rocks, or ren- dering themselves helpless in some other way, and death was sure to follow by starvation or freezing, or in some sec- tions by being devoured by wolves, or other wild animals. In order to prevent such a horrible death as any of these the prospector simplified matters by always carrying a little packet of morphine, which not only quieted the pain of the hurt he had sustained, but put him to sleep pleasantly to wake no more on earth. It struck me at first as uncanny, not to say wicked, but I got over that feeling after a narrow escape or two, and I carried my little tin box just like a veteran would.’’ FLANK MOVEMENT. Trading Stamp Companies Beaten at Their Own Game, From the Topeka Merchants’ Journal. This week the trading-stamp com- panies in Topeka have run up against a hard proposition. J. S. Sproat, pro- prietor of the largest cash grocery in Topeka, put a flaming advertisement in the newspapers this week offering to ex- change groceries for premium stamps. The following is the advertisement as it appeared: WANTED All day Friday the Blue and Green PREMIUM STAMPS In exchange for GROCERIES At our well-known Spot Cash Prices. The Premium Stamp in Topeka will soon be a thing of the past. Be quick and cash your stamps on hand. We will pay 25 cents (in trade) per hundred for stamps all day Friday. We prefer to buy Premium Stamps of Topeka peo- ple rather than pay our good money to the stamp companies, who take every dollar they get out of town. To-morrow we will pay for your Premium Stamps more than we have to pay the stamp concerns. A LADY I Said: ‘‘I took forty pages of stamps (2,000 in all) to the stamp store the other day and received a vase which my husband says is worth 40 cents.’’ To-morrow she could have bought $5 worth of Groceries of us with her 2,000 stamps. There is just one condition: The stamps must be loose and in good condition. You can buy 20 cents’ worth, or $20 worth just as you like. but the stamps must be loose and in good condition. 200 Premium Stamps to-morrow will buy a pound can of Dr. Price’s Baking Powder and 3 cakes of Yeast Foam. 400 Premium Stamps to-morrow will buy this bill: 5 Ibs. Granulated Sugar, J 25c; 6 Ibs. Rice, 25c; '4 lb. can Price’s Baking Powder, 20c; 1 pk. Potatoes, loc; 2cans 3-lb. Tomatoes, 15c; 2 sacks Salt, 5c. Total Value, $1. No guessing at the values of gilded Clocks, © Decorated China or ~ Cut’ Glass. Bring in your Premium Stamps and exchange them for Groceries at Known Prices. We will continue as heretofore to give Premium Stamps with all Cash Pur- chases. STAR GROCERY j. S. Sproat. Premium Stamps, both Blue and Green, buy Groceries here to-morrow. New Customers as welcome to-morrow as old ones. This move on the part of Mr. Sproat will undoubtedly create consternation in the camp of the trading stamp men. The premium stamp has_ heretofore been used as an advertising scheme by many Topeka merchants, but now the fact that their customers can take the stamps and go to another store and buy goods with them will take away all the virtue there is in the little stickers as an advertising method. Mr. Sproat’s move is a bold one and one which may possibly cost him several hundred dol- lars, but he can well afford to spend the money, for he will get plenty of advertis- ing and will undoubtedly succeed in drawing a large number of new custom- ers to his store. Mr. Sproat says that he has been buying trading stamps for from $150 to $200 per month for several months, having been forced into giving stamps by other merchants using them. He now proposes to buy his stamps from the people who have obtained them from other merchants as premiums, pay- ing them exactly what he is asked by the stamp companies. The Merchants’ Journal believes that this move will come nearer solving the premium stamp question than anything which has yet been brought forward as a remedy for the evil. Grocers who have been giving stamps will not take much pleasure in seeing their customers take the stamps they have handed out to the store of a competitor for redemption. They will be forced, as a plain business proposition, to redeem the stamps them- selves in goods; and then consumers who are asking for stamps will see through the whole thing.”’ Keep Your Temper. se good-tempered. It pays, in every way; it pays, if you are an employer; it pays, if you are an employe; it is wrofitable in every walk of life. And this is taking the most selfish view. You owe it to others to be good-natured ; you owe it to your own manhood, _ to your own. self-respect. In making others comfortable, you are making things agreeable for yourself; you are gaining and keeping good-will, which may be of value and help to you here- after; you are accumulating a_ capital of popularity and good report, which may be used to advantage, perhaps, in a critical time. Good temper is a_ great factor in success. DON’T BUY AN AWNING until you get our prices. DUMIN ESS, AWNINGS ‘CHAS. Aa Il P. art Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. Send for prices. idee Vealeitelviehleiiuhialddiealdaevuid tbe. Do not miss We cakes made from Manufactured by J. H. Prout & Co., HOWARD CITY, MICH. Feed and Millstuffs in car lots. Write for prices. (UEP CRN VCCUVCCUVCCUVUUNWUOWUCCUUUCWINNT DA LAL LL4G 46 Hb bbb bb hhh bbb HbGGGSSSOOOOOOSS OOOOOOOO the pleasure of eating good pan- : Pure Buckwheat Flour La AAMARARARAAAAAAAAAAAAARARAR AAR AAAABARAAAARA AR, Iron Cornice. and Contracting Roofers. 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Fairchild, Notary Public in and for Kent County, Mich. A COMMERCIAL FORERUNNER. The treaty of peace between the United States and Spain was hardly an- nounced when Chicago added Spanish to the list of languages in the public schools of that city. The increased commercial relations between Cuba and the United States should be looked after and nothing would be surer to make those relations valuable than for the young American to be on_ speaking terms with his Cuban neighbor. The announcement was received with lifted eyebrows. How trade with Cuba was to be benefited by setting the chil- dren of Chicago to studying the tongue of the Cuban was not apparent. Such an acquisition is not to be attained in a few weeks under the most favorable cir- cumstances by those most gifted in the learning of language and, admitting that as a possiblity after a year even of such study, would the boy at that age be sent to Cuba to practice in the interests of trade his newly acquired accomplish- ment? If not the city of Chicago has made a mistake; if so then the rest of the country is in error. It is, in the first place, a fact that a practical use of a living language can not, under existing conditions, be learned in the American schoolroom. Everything is against it. The classes are large and this precludes the possi- bility of individual instruction. If the language taught be the teacher's native tongue the chances are strongly against efficient teaching, it being a generally admitted fact that only an American knows how to teach American children. The instruction is limited to forty-five minutes a day, the pupil between recita- tions rarely hearing spoken the language he is supposed to be learning. With these facts it is submitted that not many pupils—it is doubtful if one does—will learn to talk Spanish in the Chicago schools fluently enough to warrant the expectation of making it of any prac- tical use in Cuba. German, in the public schools, affirms the same fact. With the hope of trans- planting a bit of the old fatherland to this country and of perpetuating it, the German population had the study of German introduced into the schools. The American, entertaining the fond hope that his children were to learn to speak it, did not object; but it is doubt- ful if a dozen children can be found, the country over, not of German parentage, who can speak German and who have acquired the ability to do that in the public schools of this country. As one of the necessary studies for college prep- aration it should have its place in the secondary schools, but with any other end in view it is time and money thrown away and never should have been introduced into the lower grades. And that, it is safe to say, will be the fate of the study of Spanish in Chicago. Again, the conditions in Cuba call for, not the study of Spanish by the people of the United States, but the study of English by the Cubans. The rule of Spain in that island ended when peace was declared; and then ended, also, the supremacy of the Spanish tongue. It will gradually give way to English as the other languages are giv- ing way to it. With this country’s trade, rapidly increasing, will come to the Cuban a greater need of the language of our country. That need is already felt—it is already expressed—and active measures already have been adopted to remove this bar to the intercourse be- tween the two peoples. One of the most encouraging features existing to-day in Cuba under Ameri- can supervision is the progress made by the public schools. At first there were strong objections to the American methods of education; but these same opponents are now asking that more English be taught in ‘the schools. If this be granted, and the knowledge of the English language becomes general, the future of the island will brighten as it never has before; and with that Eng- lish speech will follow a train of bless- ings which will surplant the evils suf- fered so long and be the foundation of a form of government which will ensure safety and progress and liberty, three elements of civilization which Cuba never has known. ee Another fact has been ruthlessly placed by the hands of science in the realm of fancy: The inside of the earth is not a liquid any more. On account of the enormous pressure the earth at the center is harder, if anything, than the crust is. Thus another doll is found to be stuffed with sawdust ! The Reed City Clarion is making a determined fight against the parcels post bill and is entitled to the gratitude of the trade for the energetic manner in which it is undertaking to arouse the merchants of Osceola county to the peril which awaits them in case the bill should become a law. The fat in the frying pan can get lit- tle comfort from that in the fire; and yet the United States, with a debt of some- thing over $900,000,000, is inclined to look with complacency upon England's indebtedness, amounting to $2,000, 000, - 000. So runs the world. Have you written your Congressman and Senator, requesting them to record a negative vote against the parcels post bill when it comes up in Congress? If not, you have failed to do your duty, both to yourself and your neighbors in trade, GENERAL TRADE REVIEW. While there has seemed to be a feel- ing of uncertainty as to maintenance of prices on the supposition that the sum- mit of values has been passed in many lines, the week has developed additional elements of strength in nearly every quarter. There have been a number of reports from the great iron and steel cor- porations indicating unexpected profits and values and showing that there has never been a time when these great in- dustries were so prosperous and when they made so liberal returns both to in- vestors and wage earners. The general strength of the situation has forced values in the stocks slowly upward in spite of dulness in trading and strong professional bear movement. A number of important non-dividend stocks have been placed in the paying list, including such industrials as the common stock of the Federal Steel Com- pany 5 per cent. and in transportation several important railways are put into the paying list. The fact that general business is larger than ever known at this season of the year upsets the calculations of the prophets of reaction. With general in- dustries prospering as never before, rail- way earnings breaking all records and with foreign trade running heavily in our favor there is little on which to base the croakings of pessimism. The iron industry showed a slight de- cline in prices during the closing two months of last year, but so far in 1900 prices have been maintained in nearly all finished products, while there is a slight decline, about 1.4 per cent. in pig iron. This decline is in anticipation of the starting of several large furnaces which must eventually increase the out- put at the expense of continuing the scarcity which has so long prevailed in the raw material. The recent heavy snow storms which have prevailed over an unusually large portion of the country have been of value in stimulating the trade in heavy wool- ens and other winter wear. There was an increase in the activity of the wool trade on the same account, but not enough to affect prices, which seem to have passed the limit for the season. Cotton is still booming, having reached 87% cents, and activity is without prece- dent, especially in Southern factories. There is better feeling in the boot and shoe trades on account of the decline in hides, which has amounted to 4 or 5 per cent. in the Chicago market. Ship- ments from the East have continued larger than in any other year. THE EASTERN QUESTION. Although there is no direct evidence that the powers of continental Europe contemplate taking advantage of Great Britain’s preoccupation in South Africa, several moves recently made by Russia have caused no little uneasiness in Eng- land. There is no disguising the fact that Great Britain is thoroughly isolated in Europe, as far as sympathy and actual help go, but it is equally certain that none of the continental powers have yet seen fit to allow their dislike and animosity to go the length of open hos- tility. As France will be preoccupied with the great exposition for the next year, it is not likely that she will pick a quarrel with anybody until that enterprise is brought to a successful conclusion. Ger- many hopes to profit by England’s course in South Africa and, in any case, will not be ready for an aggressive movement until the large navy Emperor William is solicitous about is secured. Austria and Italy are in no position at all to pick a quarrel with England, while Russia would scarcely attack the British unless assured of France’s help, something not to be counted on during the exposition year. Notwithstanding these facts, how- ever, Russia has been making certain military moves that are disquieting and can not be regarded with indifference by Great Britain, even although no imme- diate outbreak of hostilities is involved in them. Thus, for instance, we hear of Russia’s successful diplomacy in Persia, promising an outlet on the Per- sian Gulf. Again it is announced that 50,000 Russian troops are to be gathered at Port Arthur. And again it is ru- mored that a Russian force has been rendezvoused within easy striking dis- tance of Herat, the capital of Afghan- istan. All these movements, while not nec- essarily implying hostilities, undoubted- ly form part of a fixed plan, having for its ultimate aim the possession of Afghanistan and Persia and the firm es- tablishing of Russian power in China. All such movements are directly inimi- cal to Great Britain; therefore the anx- iety felt in London is not without good cause, even although no immediate dan- ger of hostilities is involved. A new feature has been added to the course of study at the State Normal and Industrial College at Greensborough, N. C. It is a dairy farm. The college owns 160 acres of fine farming land and stocked it with 50 head of fine Jersey cows. These are to be milked by the college girls. It is hoped that the dairy will not only be self-supporting, but will bring money tothe college from the but- ter made by the student-maidens. The butter will have the college stamp on it, and orders for the butter have begun to come in already. rr Paris has lately given tothe world her method of fixing responsibility. A building collapsed and killed eight workmen. The disaster was found to be due to the fact that the building was im- properly planned and constructed and the courts have sentenced the architect and masonry contractor to eight months’ imprisonment and two other contractors to two months. All four were compelled to join in paying an indemnity to the relatives of the victims. It is easy to conclude that a similar misfortune will not soon again occur in the French cap- ital. The world’s output of block tin is about 77,000 tons a year. Cornwell, England, furnishes about 6 per cent. of this; the British Straits Settlements, 60 per cent. and the Dutch East Indies about 20 per cent. Forty years ago the Cornish mines produced half the world’s production of tin and they controlled the market; but now the mines of the Far Fast are the controlling factor. The Swiss government has revoked a former decision and gives general authorization for the importation of American dried fruits. The importation of fresh fruits is also authorized on con- dition that they are examined at Basle and found to be exempt from parasites. Samuel Gompers has been doing mis- sionary work in Cuba, and, asa result, fourteen thousand men are out on strike in Havana. It seems there are not enough idlers in the land that is to be taught American progress and industry. digg Ra ) 4 rt n ms) Ge te 2 | Vy % wo rt MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 9 A BILLION DOLLAR COUNTRY. The statement has more than once been made that the United States is a billion dollar country. As time goes by and the financial condition of the United States becomes more generally known there seems to be more fact than fancy in this statement and a conviction that there is ‘‘much reasoning in the saying.’’ The country has outgrown the garments of its childhood. It takes more cloth for a suit of clothes and, with the increased financial ability which comes to a responsible manhood, there is the natural tendency to purchase a finer quality as well as a larger quantity of goods. : With this as a key to the situation, it is well enough to look over the books of the country and see just how the ac- counts stand: From authentic sources it is found that the foreign commerce of this country in 1894 amounted to $2,074, 345,242 and that the total money in circulation on February “I was $2,003, 149,355. The amount of money in the savings banks is $2,230, 366,954. The total resources of all banks in the United States are $5,196,177,381, and the December clearing house returns of all cities outside of New York are $3, 102, 896, 144, and those of the City of New York §$5,348,285,867. There are other returns which might be quoted, but these amounts are enough to show that the country has grown rapidly, that its expenses have increased and that these have amounted to billions of dol- lars. As an actual fact this is a billion dollar country. With these astounding figures comes the assurance that the National fortune has been amassed ; and it remains to be seen what the disposition of it shall be. Is the nation to repeat the disgusting history of the ‘‘new rich’’ and make it- self offensive by a lavish and uncalled- for display of a full pocketbook and an empty head? Will the billion dollar country plod on in the even tenor of its way remaining the simple, unpretend- ing, well-to-do nation that it has been up to this day, industriously earning more than it spends and caring little for the pomp of courts and the pride of kings? With abundant means at com- mand, will it do what it can to bring back the Golden Age? It was the first nation to lead mankind from the shadow of*princely power; to challenge the pre- tended right of kingship; to grapple with it, to wrest the right to rule from the hand that had maliciously abused it ; to write ‘‘Upharsin’’ with the glowing finger of fate upon the castle wall and on the throne of monarchy itself; to breathe into the soul of oppressed and _ suffering manhood the spirit of individual liberty, and to nerve the heart and the arm of that manhood to make that liberty its unquestioned own. With this for its struggling past, its future can be easily foretold. That youth and that early manhood is not to be cursed by a billion dollar Treasury. The wealth so won is not to be turned from its legitimate uses. Manhood, unshackled, by its means is to enter upon a higher’and a wider career of usefulness. That manhood, uplifted, uplifts the nation and the nation, break- ing away from the traditional selfish- ness of crowns, enters upon its mission of universal enfranchisement and en- lightenment. Already its plans are com- mensurate in extent and usefulness to its enormous wealth. It has staid the merciless hand of Spain descending upon long-suffering Cuba. It has freed the Philippines from the cruelty of the Middle Ages. It has commanded Nic- aragua to swing open her rocky gates to the oceans clamoring to pass through. It is Manning to join Alaska and the Philippines to Western Civilization by cable lines and Hawaii is to be a gan- glion of San Francisco, throbbed and thrilled by the electric nerve which binds those islands to the far off conti- nent. This is the work of a billion dollar country and this is the only country which can carry on successfully the bil- lion dollar work of the world. That this work will be done, and well done, there need be no fear. It has been placed in capable hands. The hands and _ the brain and the heart that control them, alive to the far-reaching interests and influences involved, will so labor for the universal good that, when it is done, more than ever will the world wonder, and more than ever will the truth come home that the United States is a billion dollar country and that on that stupen- dous scale she is doing, and will do, the work which her willing hands have found. The overhauling of vessels by the British navy does not realize encoura- ging results. Uncle Sam's flour is go- ing right on to its destined port and the seizure of the German vessel has been disposed of with a respectful ** Pardon me.’’ Of course the war of 1812 has nothing to do with this question, but it does suggest the thought that another century may find Great Britain more careful than she is now to keep her hands off other nations’ navies, no matter how great the seeming provocation. It begins to be evident that the good as well as the bad is catching. England lately bought a lot of American locomo- tives, found them all right—as everybody knew she must—and has been priding herself on her shrewdness. Now France has caught the same infection and has decided to place orders for railway en- gines in this country. An excellent mar- ket for United States machinery of all kinds already exists in France and with this for a center the sale of such mer- chandise is full of promise. Nobody ever heard of a Jewish beg- gar, or of a Jew suffering for anything which charity can relieve. When, then, it is stated that in Chicago all Jewish charities are to be placed under the con- trol and management of one organiza- tion, with a central committee which will receive and distribute every dollar of funds raised among the Jewish people, it is barely possible that the rest of the charitable world may find something in the statement which may be turned to practical account. The grand summing up of foreign com- merce of the United States for 1899 is more than $2,000,000,000. The exports were $1, 275,486,641, the imports $799, - 834,620, giving a balance in our favor of $475,652,021. With such returns no demagogues are needed to inform ‘‘the masses’’ of the prosperity of the coun- try. Building operations are reported from all parts of the country. During last year the total was $229,900,000 for twenty-one cities, an increase over ’08 of $66,000,000. Fifteen cities have gains varying from 20 to 74 per cent. There are about one thousand co-oper- ative dairies in Denmark and butter to the amount of 27,000,000 pounds is ex- ported annually. OVERWHELMING For some unaccountable reason Europe long ago made up her mind that Amer- ica, and especially that part of it occu- pied by the United States, is, and by right and reason ought to be, her agri- cultural supply farm. With Europe’s acknowledged superiority in manufac- tures and the arts, the result of centuries of training and patient, plodding work- manship, it was a natural inference that she should go on with her hardearned leadership and leave the simpler toils of life to ruder hands. That had been her experience. Her hands once fitted nat- urally to the plow, the hoe and the spade. The raising of sheep and kine was_ her acknowledged ‘birthright and this she turned to such practical account that the leading continent became that through the tireless and exhaustless energy of her thought-directed fingers. The way had been long and rocky; but it had led to success. Woods had been cut down, brambles had been cleared, swamps had been reclaimed, in a word, the earth had been wrested from savagery and been forced to yield her increase to the phys- ical needs of man. ‘That done, thought took an upward step and fashioned into beauty the earth’s increase. She still spun-and wove, but deftness crept into her fingers and the harsh and coarse gave place to the soft and fine. She still delved’and hoed, but the spade and the hoe were no longer clumsy and, bent into pleasing forms, made the work done by them no less pleasing and healthful and far more profitable. ‘The results of her handcraft followed the rumors that preceded them to other lands and when the demand warranted the outlay she wrested from the woods their timber, made it into ships and, taking advantage of the willing winds, scat- tered her goods broadcast over the world. So the Netherlands sprang into industrial life. So Germany became a worthy competitor. So the woolsack climbed into the seat of the lord chan- cellor of England. It had, however, taken fourteen cen- turies to do this work and Europe had had the advantage, if it were an ad- vantage, of Asiatic training and culture. History aiways repeats itself and Amer- ica would plod through the same _ pain- ful experiences to the same grand results during the same lagging centuries of time. With progress in the arts and sciences, the world was passing from the general to the particular and more and more, even in national life, the specialist is called for. So Europe would be given up to do the world’s best think- ing and skillful doing and America would take the place Nature had fixed for her as the world’s farmer and feeder. That thotght in the mind of Europe soon crystallized into fact and, once crystallization takes place, there can be no change. With the bread and butter question thus settled, the rest was easy and Europe had only to give _her- self wholly up to the grander career marked out for her. In reasoning herself to this conclusion two important elements were not taken into account: the civic conditions of the world at the two periods and the genius of the American people. If Europe be- gan her work where Asia left off Amer- ica had only to follow her example, and did, taking her existence from Europe and developing that existence in the traditionless environment of a new hemi- sphere. Both were offshoots, but with what a difference—the one a scion of Attila, ‘‘the scourge af God,’’ before European civilization began, the other a DISAPPOINTMENT. | | with child born under gentler influences, manhood as a birthmark inefface- ably stamped upon him. There was a difference, too, of stock. The old man life died of degeneracy, with just vitality enough left to give life to the new offspring. America sprang from a Ro- parentage as vigorous, mentally and physically, as Minerva’s. When, then, this new life began its work brain and brawn, from the beginning, worked to- gether; and the advance has been swift and sure. They seized the winds and the streams and set them to work. They grappled with steam and, harnessing it to cart and car, made it the pack- horse of mankind. They the lightning from the clouds to become first the letter carrier and then the general workman of its taskmasters; and, with these helpers to do his bidding, the American has been able to do the work of a decade in a day. So his limitless acres are pouring into the earth's gran- aries uncounted harvests of wheat and corn, thus realizing the hope of Europe as an agricultural nation; but, with that work done, the same keen brain and eager hand have entered into the higher fields of effort and are reaping there the richest returns. England, the first man- ufacturer, is first no longer. Germany, once hopeful of outstripping her English rival, finds herself third where she ex- pected to be first. In every department where European thought and skill were supposed to be insuperable the Ameri- coaxed can stafds first, or so nearly as to make the attainment a mere question of time. The fact is this country is an over- whelming disappointment to entire Europe. She had looked at it and labeled it as ‘‘the country of the hay- seed’’—the Yankee farmer to furnish the rest of the earth with potatoes and garden truck. From here were to come to her the cotton and the wool for her spindles and her looms. Her workshops were to make our machines. She was to build our ships and carry our goods. In her mind we were agricultural ; and she was determined to keep us so, for- getful, as it has been said, of the prog- ress the world has made and _ of the genius of the American people. We have committed the unpardonable offense of setting up our own workshops and, with our superior machines and workmanship, of crowding her goods out of the market, whether that market be in the wilds of Africa, the steppes of Russia, in China or, what is more to the point, in the trade centers of her own territory. We are, in fact, an over- whelming disappointment, the one and the only word which, in the present condition of things, expresses the ex- act idea. The Samoan treaty has been ratified. Now let American trade follow the flag to that distant island and go into busi- ness under the shadow of it. Trading is better than quarreling and fighting any day and a favorable commercial bal- ance is much _ pleasanter to look upon than a soldiers’ burying-ground. Here’s for the Samoan trade! The total amount of gold produced in this country in 1899 was $72,483,055, an increase of almost half a_ million dollars over that of 1898. Colorado takes the lead, with California second, South Dakota third and Alaska fourth. Cape Nomo_ furnished $3,000,000 and the placers on the American Yukon $2, 000, 000. If an American girl marries a count, she must expect to support him in the way he has been accustomed to live. 10 SLiansieeitensabitiakaienaeuiuaadtemamaaaiiiiatiiaiiinedc c= MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Clerks’ Corner The Secret of the Clerk’s Well-kept Ap- pearance. looked at him from head Brinsmade to foot. ‘*We don’t exactly need an extra man, but if you want to be a fifth wheel for a while we'll give you $3 a week. Will that do?’’ “‘It will if there’s anything the fifth wheel can do to earn the money. | could do up bundles until something better came along. Is there a chance for that?’’ The manager laughed. If there was one thing that he insisted on it was that nothing but a comely package should leave the establishment, and at the young man’s remark he fancied what the package would be like; but, yielding to the desire for a little innocent amuse- ment, he took the young fellow to the package department. ‘‘Rogers,’’ he said to the boy whose hands were deftly wrapping goods, ‘‘show this young man how you do that. He has come to work and we want to make the most of him. See that he is properly instructed. Rogers, not at all liking to be inter- rupted in his work, waited until Brins- made ‘‘got out the way.’’ ‘* There ain't no showing about it,’’ he said, ‘‘all you've got to do is to make a good-look- ing bundle and not be all day about it. Take that last lot and see what* you can do. Don’t be in too much of a hurry— you'll get along better if you’re not. The old man’ll be down on you like a thousand of brick if vou make a muss of it; and I'll tell you right now that the chances are he’s watching you. There’s your place and there are your goods—go ahead.’’ Rogers, with something of the spirit of the manager, kept watch out of the corner of his eye. Like a flash the cloth was whisked into the brown paper, which seemed to understand that there was to be no fooling about it, the pack- age assumed the firm and even _respect- ability which belongs to upper-class bundledom and, when the string fastened the whole without a mark of clumsi- ness about it and the package was tossed in front of the teacher, that individual with, ‘‘You’re no jay!’’ made more room for the fellow that needed no teaching in that line and a feeling of respect sprang up for him. Brinsmade at a distance saw and won- dered. He came nearer to get a better look at the surprise. He saw with de- light that Rogers held second place and that the new fellow would get the first chance at promotion. If that was the kind of fellow he had on hand the quick- er he went ahead the better. ‘*‘ Good look- ing fellow,’’ he thought as he took him all in. A heavy shade of tan told of a summer in the sun, but it took nothing from the hat-protected forehead, white as milk, broad and not too high. The eyes, black and keen, displayed an ability to see at a glance what was to be seen, and the teeth, which at that min- ute were helping on the smile at Rogers’ astonishment, were white and even and clean. The face was round and pleas- ing. The head, covered with shining black hair, but parted in the middle, was well placed upon the manly shoul- ders and the genral outline of the boy was that of an Apollo—or of a well-built healthy young fellow of the United States, as the reader may choose. He wore a collar too large for him and a discouraged-looking necktie and the fit of his coat made Rogers laugh to him- self—until he found himself beaten. Take him as he found him, Brinsmade was Satisfied and walked away. Later in the day when work was not so pressing the manager strayed around there again. He found both boys busy in rearranging ‘‘the coop’’ and ‘‘fixing things.’’ That was a good sign, *‘hav- ing things shipshape’’ being a hobby with the general manager and one he mounted the minute a new man came into the store. He was now even more interested. He felt as if he wanted to know the youngster and took out the mem- orandum book where he had written his name. ‘*Nelson Dane,’’ he read. ‘Well, if there’s anything in names there’s the right sort of a chap behind that one. I'll watch.’’ He did, and felt paid. He made op- portunities and found out by improving them that the boy was bright and smart because he had to be—he was born so. His home training had made him satis- fied with what he had done only when it was his best. He had had good train- ing in doing up goods in the village store, but he felt the place too small and had come to the city because he wanted to get more, for which he expected to work harder. That last did the business for both boy and man; on the boy’s side because it was evident that he wasn’t dn the look- out for ‘‘soft snaps ;’’ on the man’s side because he was always on the lookout for just that sort of boy. At the end of the first week there was a vacancy at the linings counter—Dane filled it. Rogers looked daggers and said things that wouldn’t look well in print, but for all that the new boy had the place and he proceeded to fill it to the eminent satisfaction of the manager. Dick Somebody had been there time out of mind and, finding that he would stay there for the rest of his life, con- cluded to quit. Linings counters are not generally considered especially desir- able or responsible places, but one wouldn’t have thought so had he seen Nelson Dane after he got behind that counter. What is the use of a fellow’s trying to sell goods if he doesn’t know what he has to offer? Brinsmade thought he’d give him a week. At the end of the first day he went to the linings counter and found he couldn’t feaze him. At the end of the second day by rearrangmeent it had the appearance of a new department. The dust was gone, the goods looked new, and whether on shelf or counter they had a freshness about them which made every blessed woman who went by—and that meant all of ’em—want to touch them, and they did. Never in that establishment had it been looked upon as anart to sell lin- ings. It was a necessity and was only a matter of so many yards and measuring them off, but not now. One would have thought that the fate of empire hung on the choice of a lining. It was easy to account for, Brinsmade thought, when a girl was the purchaser, for Dane was handsome and that eye of his and the unconscious--was it unconscious, con- found him !—way he used it was enough to set any girl’s heart a flutter; but, when mothers and grandmothers halted between two opinions and turned _ their gray heads this way and that way while he held up the goods, the manager sim- ply gave it up and laughed softly to himself. He early concluded, however, that it was a pity to waste that kind of talent on dress liningg and, more for the sake of seeing the fun go on than from any The Cline Acetylene Gas Machine Are you interested in Acetylene Lighting? The Cline Machine has stood the test If so, write us. of two years’ service. It is per- There are no Has There is absolutely no loss of gas through the blow-off. up-to-date machine, write the fectly automatic. valves in its construction. compartment Generator. If you want the best, Alexander Furnace & Mig. 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Olney & Judson Grocer Company, Western Michigan Distributors, Grand Rap'ds, Mich. The Northwestern Consolidated Milling Company, Minneapolis. ji! nn wil 12 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Shoes and Leather Unjust Concessions Demanded by Those Who Return Goods. A great deal has been said and_ writ- - ten of late in regard’to what is termed the ‘‘return goods evil,’’ and manufac- turers and wholesalers who have suffered at the hands of unscrupulous dealers have been instrumental in perfecting an organization for their protection. Like all stories, there are two sides to this one. That there are unscrupulous dealers who do not hesitate to take ad- vantage of the wholesaler whenever the opportunity offers them there is no denying, but there are others, and the number of dishonest manufacturers and wholesalers are as great as the retailers in proportion to the number engaged. Human nature is the same the world over and crops out in all walks of life from preaching to pugilism, and sharp practice is not confined to the ranks of the retailers by any means. * * * It is almost impossible for a manu- facturer to send out goods which all open up just as nice as the samples and dealers should not expect it. A reason- able allowance must be made. We have dealt with some houses a number of years, using in that time many thous- ands of pairs of shoes, and never had any complaints to make. Some _ houses have a reputation of sending out better goods than their samples and there are others who ship out goods that are so unlike the samples from which they were purchased that the dealer can not recog- nize them. The editor of a shoe trade paper who recently toured Europe wrote several articles on this subject to the effect that certain Eastern manufacturers had given the export shoe business a black eye by shipping shoes so inferio- to the samples shown that the foreign factor was compelled to dispose of them at a loss. + + Not long ago one of our customers, who is a_ well-to-do farmer, brought to us a pair of boots, one of which had been badly burned, and said: ‘* Here are those boots [ gave you $4 for less than six weeks ago and the leather is rotten.’’ We showed him they had been burned, but he insisted he had never been near the fire with them as he al- ways changed his boots for slippers be- fore entering the house. We offered to abide by the decision of any of our competitors or any shoemaker in the city as to whether the leather had been burned or not. He said in case they were burned it was before he got them and suggested we return them to the manufacturer and get a new pair for them as another dealer had done for a neighbor of his. We of course refused to make any concession and he left in high dudgeon, saying he would never spend another cent at our store and would see that his neighbors didn’t. A short time after that one of his neigh- bors visited the store and in the course of conversation asked if Jones had com- plained about the leather in his boots being rotten. We replied that he had. ‘‘Well,’’ said the neighbor, ‘‘he was helping me scald hogs and spilled a lot of boiling water on them. I told him at the time I was afraid he burned his boots, but he said he guessed not.’’ It wasn't very long before Jones was back buying goods as though nothing had ever happened. He is still a good cus- tomer and the burned boot episode has never been referred to by either of us, * * * The following conversation was re- cently overheard between a salesman and a party who had returned a pair of shoes which he claimed were worthless. He said he had hardly worn them at all notwithstanding the fact that they gave every evidence of rough usage. The heels were worn off almost to the counters and the inner soles were almost entirely gone. The salesman looked them over critically and then asked, ‘‘Whom do you suspect?’’ ‘‘I don’t know what you mean,"’ said the owner of the shoes. ‘‘Why,’’ answered the salesman, ‘‘you_ said you hadn’t worn them and it is very evident some one has, and he hasn’t been very particular about how he used them either. Now I would advise’ you to lock your wardrobe at night for some one else is surely wearing your shoes.’’ The complainant saw the point; the salesman made a slight reduction on another pair and the matter was amicably adjusted. fe aiet k You will occasionally find a retailer who does business in a weak way, and thinks to curry favors with his custom- ers by making unjust allowances and charging it up to the manufacturer. This isa fatal error on his part, for even rogues respect an honest man who knows his rights and is not afraid to stand up for them, and the dealer who allows him- self to be imposed upon is bringing down upon his head no end of trouble and loss of business. As all dealers of experience know, it is something re- markable how people who are apparent- ly honest and conscientious in other things will deliberately lie about the wear of a pair of shoes. Nine out of ten persons who burn a shoe will never acknowledge it. The leather may be burned so hard and crisp that it can be picked off in chips, but they solemnly assert they haven't been within ten feet of a stove or any other place to have been burned. These people must be dealt with kindly but firmly. Once the merchant gives in he is lost. The first thing he knows he has drifted into giv- ing concessions here and there until it amounts to such a sum that he does not feel like standing it all himself and in- vites the manufacturer to chip in.—Shoe and Leather Gazette. s>~3 > Curious Shoe Trust. From the Philadelphia Record. Doylestown has four odd characters who pool their issues in buying shoes. They all have the same sized feet, and each regards this fact in the nature of a libel perpetrated upon him by the other three. Every year each one of the quar- tet chips in $18, and the fund of $72 is expended for shoes. Buying them in such quantities, there is naturally a re- duction in price. One would think that there would be an equal division of the shoes; but that isn’t their little game. The shoes are owned collectively, share and share alike, and when not being worm they are kept ina closet in the express office, which is the general lounging place of the quartet. If one man wants to wear new shoes, he goes to the express office and puts them on. If he wants to change off to a pair that has already been broken in he does so. If he wears russets in the daytime and wants to wear patent leathers in the evening he goes to the express office and makes the change. They have been doing this for several years, and claim they wouldn't wear shoes in any other way. eo With 49,000,000 people of India now affected by the famine and with the enormous amount of wheat and corn har- vested in the United States, it does seem as if more ingenuity ought to be expended in bringing together these re- mote extremes, {Iycomings fete Best Fists Keystones Bre the Best Second We are now prepared to fill all orders promptly. The sizes and toes which manu- facturers could not furnish prior to Nov. I, are now in stock. GEO. fl. REEDER & GO., Grand Rapids, Mich. €eeeeeeeeecececeeeeeeeecee : ; Seceece DOOOOGOGOOGOOHOGHOOOOGHHHOGHOOOOG & SSSSSeses 2; No. 21, White Quilted Silk Top, Fur Trimmed, Pat. Leather Foxed, 1 to 4, per doz., $4 80 No. 22, Brown Quilted Silk =e. Fur Trimmed, Brown Kid Foxed, 1 to 4, per doz., 4.80 No 23, Red Quiited Silk Top, Fur Trimmed, Red Hoxed: 2...) ) 1 to 4, per doz., 4.80 No. 24, Black Quilted Silk Top, Fur Trimmed, Pat. 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Ballard & Co., Tampa, Florida.) ‘Atnericgn faventors eT Tnas pe palre Hage Bouquet 50. «55. PROBS “ pay Conchas Especial 50. «60. Perienty wrande a 0 0 Deliciosos 50° 60. Perfecto Chicos au 105.00 Teliciosos 25 65. Rothschilds 50 100.00 Purltahies 30 65. Bouquets Extra 25 90 00 Perfettos 5070. Diplomaticos ms 85.00 Thviieible 95 8b. Puritano Finos 50 80.00 (The Hilson Co.) Londres Finos 100 15.00 Hoffman House Bouquet Panatellas 50 75.00 Conchas Espcl. 50. bb FRB R ss. TUN Burekas, banded 50 62. Regalia del Principes 50 65.00 Jockey Club 100 65 Conchas Finos 50 60.00 Olympias, 3in foil 50 6h nese Bes a i Victorias, fancy tin box 25 «65 Key West Superior 100 = 40.00 Pérfectos, banded 50-70 (Seidenberg & Co., Key West, Fla.) Rothschilds 50. 70 La Rosa Espanola Vicente Portuondo Belmont 25 120.00 Conchas, banded 50° «50. Magnifico 50 100.00 Puritanos 50 55. Rothschilds Extra 50. 90.00: Bouquet, banded 25. «60. Puritanos 50. 75.00 Londres Grande,1 bundle 100 ~ 65 Conchas Especial 50. 60.00 Perfectos 25 70.0 CLEAR HAVANA. Wie (Celestino Costello & Co.) arrister (T. J. Dunn & Co.) Canehba 50 BS. Penns Bouquet : Esquisitos 50 | 55 Conchas 50 $60.00 Puritano Finos 50. 60 Panatellas 50 70.00 Rothschilds 50 68. Puritano Finos 50 70.00 Pertadtas 95 70. Medium Perfectos 25. 85.00 (Lagora-Fee Co.) (Bernard Stahl & Co.) Lagora Padrona Conchas 50 55 Jockey Club 50. 65.00 Exquisite 50. 55 Puritano Finos 50 = 75.00 Lagora-Fee 50 «70. Rothschilds 50 =—-75.00 Perfectos 50. «70 —™ ~——__ oe I ae eens pec SE ag WHOLESALE PRICE LIST OF CIGARS. 00 00 00 .00 00 00 00 00 .00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 .00 00 .00 .00 .00 ).00 .00 00 00 00 00 00 5.00 00 00 00 3.00 .00 .00 al/ (T. J. Dunn & Co.) Robert [lantell Regalia Chico 50 $55.00 Invincible Extra 50 70.00 (Maurice Sanborn, Key West.) Pond Lily Conchas Especials 50 50.00 Magnificos 50 55.00 MISCELLANEOUS. Capitol UNION LABEL 50 =55.00 Crawford Seniors—UNION LABEL 50 55.00 Carmencita Concha Especials 50 55.00 Banners Concha Especials 50 55.00 Royal Banners Loose 50 70.00 Hemmeters Concha Especials 50 55.00 Big 50 70.00 HIGH GRADE DOMESTIC. Sigerelles., Majestics 50 35.00 Regulars 50 85.00 Tampas 100. = 85.00 (Ruhe Bros.) Crown Five 50.35.00 Captain Corker 50 =—35.00 Club Five 50 = 35.00 Cuban Hand [lade 50 85.00 Generals 50 85.00 Little Peggy 50 35.00 Knight Pythias 50 35.00 lr. Thomas 50 85.00 Signal Five 50 =—85.00 Silver Cross 50 85.00 Crawford Juniors—UNION LABEL 50 35.00 Vicente Portuondo j Chicos, banded 50 =. 85.00 LondresChico,1 bundle, 100 35.00 Opera Reina, 1 bundle 100 35.00 Panatéllas, 2 bundles 100 35.00 Petite, 2 bundles 100 =35.00 Sublima 50 = 35.00 Veguero 50 =—85.00 “i — 3 eiialiiats et “a, . Little Barrister 50 Artie 50 New York Life 50 Lillian Russell Puritano 50 Aristocrat 50 La Flor de Dunn 50 Gloria 50 White Beauty 50 La Flor Cubana Hoffmanettes Junior Hoffmanettes Robert Emmett Tin box with lock 50 Jolly Tar Exquisite Conchas Red Rooster Exquisite 50 Conchas 50 Hemmeters’ Champion 50 pe Ges Ves Less than 500 500 or over 1000 or over Temple of Commerce Large, UNION LABEL Small, . 4 Prime : Union Label Fontello Perfectos Puritano Finos Reina Especials Detroit Free Press DOMESTIC CIGARS. 50 50 50 and 100 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 Paradise, 2 bundles 100 Counsellor, UNION LABEL 50 New Wonder 50 Royal Club, 1 bundle 50 Great Five 50 Lady Fly 50 The Verdict 50 First Pick 100 Pink of Perfection 100 Little Havanas 100 Lucke’s Rolled Cigar 50 oe ae ee 100 O. K. 50 Our Leader (Sweepers) 100 Key West Choice 50 $35. 30. 30. 35. 35. 35. 35. 35. 35. 30. 35. so 2° a= ct ct ao Ge or 33, 32. 31 35 . 3). 3). 34. 33. 33. 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 9.00 00 00 00 0.00 00 00 00 00 00 00 5.00 00 00 00 00 00 00 .00 .00 .00 5.00 .00 3.00 20.00 18. 17. 00 50 16.00 15. 15. 00 00 50 $15.00 Cuban Star Countess 5015.00 Village Belle 50 12.00. Happy Days 50 12.00 LITTLE CIGARS, CIGARETTES AND CHEROOTS., Uncle Sam Cheroots 250 =15.00 Silver 5s (Cheroots) 100 15.00 Old Mexico, pap.c’rt’n, 5for10c 250 15.00 Early York, Cher’t, foil 5for10c 100 15.00 Cuban Dainties 100 12.50 Old Virginia Cheroots, 5c pkg, 250 12.50 Key West Havana Cher’ts, tin cans 100 12.00 New Rival. large size, 100 12.00 Hoffman House Magnums 100° 12.00 Blue Points (Stogies) 100 10.00 It’s a Smoke (Stogies) 100: 10.00 Ideal (Tobies) 100 10.00 Monopole, Casino, 20 in package . with Gold Tips, in cartons 500 9.00 Monopole, Cairo, 10 in package, ’ with mouthpiece, in carton 500 7.50 Between the Acts 5008.50 Little Hoffman House, 10 in pap. cartons 250 7.50 Lucke’s Rolls 100 7.50 New Rival, Little Havana Cigars 10 in tin box, 250 in carton, (UNION LABEL) : 7.50. New Light 2350 7.50 Benedicts 100. 7.50 Sweet Caporal Little Cigars 500 4.00 Sweet Caporal Cigarettes 10s 500 4 00 Fairest Wheel, New Pattern 10.00 Globe Cash Register 25.00 L. A. W. Bicycle Slot Machine 12.00} Electric Cigar Lighter - Figure 2, Style A 7.00 Royal Tiger Electric Cigar | Lighter and Clipper, _ 7.50 NOTE—We sell fifteen hundred &85 cigars for f three thousand at $33 or five thousand at $32 or if sold at regular prices, give one hundred extra (of the same brands) gratis with fifteen hundred cigars, 250 with 3000 cigars or wit cigars. The above free cigars also apply to all cigars (exce stogies, cheroots, sapere oe and similar goods) rangin; e price from $15 to $35 per thousand, and may be assorted in as many different brands as the customer desires. These discounts or free goods do not apply to parties having show cases or similar articles on lease. THESE TERMS DO NCT APPLY TO BROWN BROS.’ BRANDS. e wae line a nf MICHIGAN TRADESMAN - GOTHAM GOSSIP. News From the Metropolis—Index to the Market. Special Correspondence. New York, Feb. 17—-The coffee mar- ket here is hardly as active as a week ago. Advices from Europe were of a weaker character and, while Brazil re- mained firm all the week, the supplies there were reported rather larger than usual, so that altogether the condition is not quite as bright as a week ago. Rio No. 7 closes at 85¢@834c, jobbers quite generally insisting on the outside figure. There has been quite a lot of specula- tion during the week on the Exchange, but at a lower range than last week. In store and afloat the aggregate amount of coffee is 1, 300, 375 bags, against 1, 388, 326 bags at the same time last year. Mild grades of coffees are meeting with less attentiion, both from jobbers and _ roast- ers. The supply, however, is rather moderate and holders refuse to make any concessions. Prices are firm, with Good Cucuta worth 11c. East India coffees are firm and higher. Padang Interior fetches 2343@25c in an invoice way; Mochas, 17@19%4c. The sugar market has remained prac- tically unchanged day after day and there is little to call for comment. List prices seem to be adhered to generally, although a Philadelphia refinery is said to be selling at 5 points less. Raws are quiet, but steady. The tea market is steady, but there is very little doing except the everyday business. Dealers are not disposed to make concessions and quotations are well sustained. Not much doing in an invoice way. Stocks of medium grades of rice are in fair supply, but the very low grades and head are not so much in evidence. The market is very quiet, buyers seemingly being disposed to let things drift along as they are for awhile and take only enough to meet the everyday call. Prices for both foreign and domes- tic are practically unchanged. Pepper shows a little advance again and closes firm. Singapore, 125¢@1254c. Cloves are well held at 834@8%c for Zanzibar. Other spices are also very firm and the market generally is in good shape. Grocery grades of molasses have been in very light request, most of the orders being to sort up broken stocks. If the call has been light, the supply is in the same condition and, as a result, we have a fairly firm market. Good to prime centrifugal has a wide range —-say from 20@35¢ or even 37'%4c. Open kettle, 44 @5s5c. Syrups are in-rather light sup- ply at practically unchanged quotations. The demand is light. Take the most careful observation of the canned goods situation possible and it will be hard to find a place where there is anything going on more than the most ordinary business. Brokers tell us that it is ‘‘between hay and grass."’ They are not expecting any trade and so are not disappointed. Futures are ab- solutely motionless and quotations on spot goods are practically unchanged. The market is firm, however, and if there has been no advance there is_ cer- tainly no weakness, and within a week or so we shall see a good amount of business going forward in all probabil- ity. Lemons and oranges have sold with a fair degree of freedom, but the market for the former all the season has been rather upset. California seems able to supply the demand from the West and, as time goes on, the products of the Golden State will encroach more and more into the territory heretofore oc- cupied by the Sicily fruit. Sicily lemons are worth, as to size and condition of fruit, from $2.10@2.60. Oranges, Cali- fornia, are worth $2.45@}3.90, the latter, of course, for fancy fruit. Fancy Flor- idas, $4@5 per box for brights and $3@ 4 for russets. Bananas are firmer and about 5@1oc higher per bunch for firsts. The dried fruit market is quiet and yet matters might be worse. Orders for small lots have been frequent and prices generally are very well maintained. California fruits are meeting with better reyuest every day and evaporated apples are doing well, especially the sort packed in cartons. The butter market has been fairly ac- tive and, while quotations are not any higher than last week, there is a firmer feeling and, as arrivals are not likely to be very large for several weeks, it is likely we shall have a_ firm basis for trade for some little time. For best Western creamery 25c¢ is still the quota- tion, with thirds to firsts from 21@24¢c. Western imitation creamery, 17@22c, possibly a fraction more for really desir- able stock. Western factory from 17¢ through every fraction to I9c for best grades. Roll butter is quiet within the range of 17@1gc. There is a firmer feeling in cheese and the call is more active, both from exporters and home dealers. Exporters are said 10 have offered 12'4c for large size full cream without securing any amount. The quotations for such cheese range from 12'%@13c. From this the range is down to to@tte for part skims. Receipts of eggs are light and the market is strong and improving every hour. How much of the improvement is due to speculation it is hard to say, but there is certainly a firm feeling all through the market. Fresh: Western goods are worth from 1414@I15c. It has been rather a quiet week in the bean market for all sorts of beans. But the feeling is firm and quotations have not declined, unless the rate for pea beans be an exception, as these are a lit- tle lower, Michigan in bags being worth $2.12%. There is some activity in the call for maple syrup and sugar, the former be- ing quotable at 1o@12c per lb, and syrup at 75@85c. Apples are firm within the range of $2.50@3.50 per bbl., as_ to variety. Cranberries are strong. The supply is very moderate and prices are well held. Jersey berries, per bbl., $7@8.25 ; Cape Cod, $7.52@8.50 2. Ruining the Stomach by Eating Too Fast. ‘*T tell you,’’ said a West Side mer- chant who isa crank on the subject of mastication, ‘‘the trouble with the peo- ple of the United States is that they eat too fast. Unless there is a reformation in the matter of eating, the next gener- ation will be a race of dyspeptics. There will be enough irritable cranks in the country to almost if not entirely upset the Government. , Look at the English- man. He doesn't eat any more on the average than the American, but it takes him twice as long to finish the job. The average American will load a mass of stuff into his stomach and let it do all the work which should be done with his teeth and salivary glands. When he is young and hearty he doesn’t seem to mind it much, but when he strikes mid- dle life he finds that things don’t taste like they used to. A lpt of things that he used to eat and enjoy he can’t eat at all, and he comes to imagine that when a man begins to age his appetite natur- ally fails. Or else he commences to grumble at the cook, imagines that his wife can’t cook like his mother used to, and then trouble commences in the fam- ily. He is to blame forthe whole thing himself. ‘The cooking is all right, but he, like a fool, has ruined his digestion and his poor wife or the cook has to take the blame. A man ought to be as hearty at 50 as he was at 25. He ought to en- joy a meal as well at 60 as he ever did. If he had made a practice of taking at least forty minutes to eat a meal, in- stead of cramming it down in about ten minutes, as the average American does, he would live twenty years longer and he wouldn’t be such a blamed nuisance to himself and his friends. He wouldn't go about growling and grumbling at the groceryman and the butcher and all the people who sell him things to eat, and quarreling with his wife because his stomach is out of order. He would act like a Christian and a white man ought to act.”’ Nathan T. Draper, aged 110 years, Was born in New London, Conn., Sept. 6, 1790. His grand- father was killed in the Battle of Bunker Hill. His father served under General Shay in the Battle of Bunker Hill. He resides with his rela- tives at 146 Seventh street, Grand Rapids. He does not look like a man over 80 years of age and has the full use of all his faculties exeept his sight, which is failing. The signature affixed to the following statement was written without the aid of spectacles. In the course of a recent in- terview Mr. Draper remarked: “IT heard George Washington make a speech in Washington when I was a little boy. I have had twelve children, seven boys and five girls. I had six sons in the late war, one of whom was killed. All the others have since died. I have been a constant smoker all my life and have smoked a great many different kinds and quali- ties of cigars. but have never found any as good as the S.C. W.” Alb yy Ae 5 cent cigars are the best? Ask Us to ship you a sample order. And of course you will also want some Improved Hand “ W. I 1. lg Made 1oc, 3 for 25c. The Bradley Cigar Co. Greenville, Mich. FLEISCHMANN & CO. 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Folding Boxes for Patent Medicine, Cigar Gold and Silver Leaf work and Special Write for prices. Work guaranteed. - GRAND RAPIDS PAPER BOX CO., Grand Rapids, Mich ee GQODQDOOe GOOQOQOOO Four Kinds Of Goupon Books are manufactured by us and all sold on the same basis, irrespective of size, shape or denomination. samples on application. Free 16 ee ee naan MICHIGAN TRADESMAN The Buffalo Market Accurate Index of the Principal Staples Handled, Beans--Demand continues active and supply only equal. Sellers are firm in their views. Butter— Market shows some weakness on all grades of creamery, although the demand is better than expected. Buy- ers are expecting a decline and are working in as small a way as_ possible. Dairy is scarce and wanted. Rolls are in good request and firm; few really fancy arriving and would probably ex- ceed quotations. Creamery, Western extras, 25c; creamery, Western extras, firsts, 23@24c; creamery, State and Pennylvania extra, 24%c; creamery, State and Pennsylvania extra, choice, 22'4@23c; creamety, State and Penn- sylvania extra, fair to good, 20@2I!Ic; creamery, imitations, 16@18c; cream- ery, ladles, 15@16c; dairy, extra State, 22@23c; dairy, Western extra, 21@22c; dairy, choice, 20@21c; dairy, fair to good, 16@18c; dairy, common, 15@16c ; crock butter, fancy, 21@22c; crock but- ter, fair to good, 15@18c; rolls, fancy, 18@1ogc; rolls, fair to good, 16@17c. Cheese—Quiet and only steady. Offer- ings fair of fancy full cream; common scarce. Full cream, small, fancy, 12% @i3c; fair to choice, 11@12c; skims and partly skims, 1o@tic. Eggs—Market unsettled and lower after our last report, but ruled strongly toward the close of the week and 14c was generally obtained for strictly fresh, with storage best at lo@tic, inside price bid. Prospects are steady under present weather conditions, 15c being the market to-day. Newlaid, fancy (nearby), 15c; Western and Southern, strictly fresh, 1412@15c; cold storage, fancy, 11@12c; cold storage, good to choice, 8@1oc; No. 2, 5@7c. Dressed Poultry—Receipts of turkeys were liberal, considering the light de- mand, and the market was weak. Chick- ens, especially fancy, scarce and in good réquest. Fowls firm, light receipts and all sold readily. Few ducks and only a fair enquiry. Geese are dull. Turkeys, fancy, small, 12c; turkeys, large, young, lo@1ic; turkeys, good to choice, 1o@lic; turkeys, thin and coarse, gc; turkeys, Old Tom, 8%@oc; turkeys, poor order, 8@gc; Capons, large, fancy, 14@15c; Capons, medium, fancy, 13@14c; Capons, small and slips, 12@12'%3c; chickens, choice to fancy, 11@12c; chickens, fair to good, 9@I1oc; chicks and fowls, mixed, fancy, 10@ 11c; broilers, 14@15c; fowls, choice to fancy, 10@10'%c; fowl, poor to good, 8@oc; old roosters, 7@8c; ducks, choice to fancy, 13@14c; ducks, poor to good, 11@12c; geese, fancy, 9@Iloc; geese, fair to good, 8@oc. ’ Live Poultry—Another active demand for chickens and fowl and the market is strong. ‘Turkeys and ducks scarce, and but little enquiry for the former. Turkeys, choice to fancy, chickens, fancy, 10@10%c; chickens, fancy, fair to good, 9@toc; chickens and fowl, mixed, 9@1oc; broilers, 13@- 15c; fowl, fancy, 9%@utoc; fowl, poor to good, 8@gc; ducks, fancy, per pair, 8oc@$1; ducks, small and medium, 65 @75c; ducks, old, 9@1o0c; geese, each, 65@80c ; pigeons, per pair, 20@25c. Apples—Stronger on improved de- mand and a good clearance ot No. 2 and lower grades. January trade was_ enor- mous, and it is figured that if shipments the next two weeks of this month show up in proportion, stocks here will be wiped out. At all events holders are not worrying over the situation. Potatoes—The present cold snap has held back receipts and prices have steadily advanced. Stocks of fancy are exceedingly light and firmly held at 6oc from store in a small way. We- believe it will take a few weeks to change present conditions. ; Sweet Potatoes—Easier; quote light trade. Potatoes, No. 1 Rural and white stars, 57@58c; No. 1 Hebrons and other red, 56@57c; fair to good of all kinds, 52@ 55c; Bermuda, per bbl., $6@7; Jersey, per bbl., D. H., $2.75@3; small and medium, per bbl., $1.50@1.75. 1O@IIc; Onions—Only steady for ordinary stock, but fancy sound show a firmer tendency. Onions, yellow, fancy, 42@45c; yel- low, fair to good, 38@4oc; red, fancy, 45c; white, 50@6oc; green, per dozen bunches, 8@12c; Bermuda, $2.35@2.50; Havana, $2.15@2.25 ; Spanish, per crate, $1.50@1.75. Vegetables—Cabbage is firmer. Let- tuce is in heavy supply from all points and weak. Squash, weak. Spinach in good demand. ‘Tomatoes firm for fancy ; others neglected. New beans dull and weak. Horseradish higher. i ee Pipe Line for Sugar Juices. Pipe lines for gas, water, steam and oil long ago demonstrated some of the attractive possibilities of the pipe line method of fluid transportation and made it familiar to all, with evidences of it abounding in every-day life. And yet one is impressed with a tinge of novelty in a recently circulated newspaper waif which tells of a 25-mile pipe line for conveying sugar-house syrup. At Spring- field, Utah, it appears, there is a plant for slicing sugar beets and extracting the sugar-laden juice by diffusion, and this, with its impurities, is then ‘‘piped’’ to a beet-sugar factory at Lehi, there to be treated and refined by the usual processes. Enquiring further, however, it is learned that the same system of piping sugar juices has been in vogue in France and Germany for a number of years, and in the latter coun- try, too, pipe lines have been used in potteries to carry much-thinned clay paste from one department to another. oe Cleaning Enameled Saucepans. Wash them thoroughly inside and out with hot soda and water, and if, as is usually the caSe, any hard substance ad- heres to the interior scrub the latter with a brush made especially for the purpose. | This brush should have a long handle, and should be fitted at the end and up one side with a number of short hard bristles. After the brush has been used rinse the pan well in clean water and dry it thoroughly. The brush should be rinsed in hot soda’ and water and hung up to dry. We_ need scarcely say that the saucepan lids should be as _ well washed and dried as the pans them- selves. If anything has been burned in the pans, before washing them _ boil some soda and water in them, and then rub them inside with sand nearly dry, until quite clean. ——__+ 0. ____ The time has gone by when a com- mission house can get along without ad- vertising. Houses conducting their busi- ness in the old way will have to come to modern methods if they are to hold their own with the up-to-date houses that advertise. D. Boosing General Commission Merctant SPECIALTIES Butter Eggs Poultry Beans Ruling prices on the Buffalo mar- ket Monday, Feb. 19: ; Roll Butter..... .......17 @20 e e Tub Babter ..... 2.0... 17 @20 ¢ © Fowls, dressed... - 10 @10%e < hiekens. . 20.2222 62 10%@12 e GOGEO es 11 @12 ¢ Decks 22002 12 @13 e WEPROYS.. 0... 13S Oil @e If our market is satisfactory, ship. Correspondence solicited. OC ©DO©OOOOOO 154 Michigan Street, Buffalo, New York. GOQQOOOE™ OOOO 1OOOEOOOOOOOS GHODOOGe DOOOOOOe GOOE SOOO OOOS OOOO O00S O9009000 0000000800000 008 00000000 IF YOU ARE SHIPPING POULTRY to Buffalo, N. Y., why not ship to headquarters, where you are sure of prompt sales at highest prices and prompt remittances always. That means us. | POTTER & WILLIAMS 144, 146, 148 MICHIGAN ST.., BUFFALO, N. Y. ’ POOOOOOS HOO060006 090000S 6000000008 ESTABLISHED 22 YEARS, 0O00000O 00090000 r; asinine TIP TIPVTPNT NOTE NP TEP NEP NTN N NOT NT ET eT NTT NEN HTT Her NeT TET tnES ESTABLISHED 1876. = CHAS. RICHARDSON GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANT Wholesale: Fruits, General Produce and Dairy Products. 58 AND 60 W. MARKET ST. 121 AND 123 MICHIGAN ST. BUFFALO, N. Y. Unquestioned responsibility and business standing. Carlots a specialty. PYTP NT NOTH TTPNTTNTT ITP HP ET TUNER NEPA Quotations on our market furnished promptly upon application. SAA dM MAUA ALAA AAA AL UA A ALL A JA AULULTSS UiAAAA NA Ab G4LJOA dA Ub 44h 4b bd bb 444 0 Ww EE CHR OR HR OR OE OP aR HR wR GER GR GR ww RR TE J. W. LANSING, WHOLESALE DEALER IN f BUTTER AND EGGS , BUFFALO, N. Y. f _ TE 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 pea em. MN. X. alo, N. Y. Dun or Bradstreet. Michigan Tradesman. WR OR oR aR a ae ae ee ee ee a ee a a es UA Peoples Bank, Bu wR a a a a a a a a a MACKEY & WILLIAMS, | l Dealers in { BUTTER, EGGS, CHEESE, POULTRY, ere. 62 W. MARKET & 125 MICHIGAN STS. BUFFALO, N. Y. We want Dairy Butter both packed and in rolls. Fancy stock 18@2oc. Fancy a WA _~ Ee Creamery good demand. Fresh Eggs steady. Poultry firm, excellent demand. REFERENCES: The City National Bank, Buffalo: Berlin Heights Banking Co., Berlin Heights, Ohio; National Shoe & Leather Bank, New York; Dun & Co. and Bradstreet Agencies. f Members of Produce Exchange. Established 1887. Long Distance Phone Seneca 1081. wR. WR OR HR WH oR oR a os a a a eo ee TA COPMMPMKPOQOOOOQOODOOQ DOODOOOOOOLODOQOOOO PS OOOOOwwre POOOOQOOowW wre ® : 8 $ Four Kinds of Coupon Books ° S are manufactured by us and all sold on the same basis, irrespective 2 © of size, shape or denomination. Free samples on application. © sf TRADESMAN COMPANY, Grand Rapids, Mich. yO oe nn Sots ecAs ‘betiodaii sae RSIBC NAMB ta sens woe ansible COOOOQ OSE |e ee ee ee or ve a a a | SUMNER AUR LERCAN CER CRN CONCORD GER EON COR GERCERENLED | 4000000000000000000000000000000000000000000008 |! MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 17 . changes the speculative disposition, sur- Fruits and Produce. plus is ordered sold, and the sale is found to be impossible. The same 4 Observations by a Gotham Egg Man. considerations which induce an offering ‘ ~ rs i While the refrigerator and limed eggs of the surplus induce buyers to hold off isn tll ; 8 iy | Pe ; : oe ‘ -which they are enabled to do by rea- gam 4 shipped to Europe this ae have | con of previous purchases beyond needs OS LPO i been sent out at a basis cf price which|——the bubble of speculative advance is : TZ UAH OQ TIES » means a heavy loss to the original hold- | pricked and prices fall back immedi- bi ok ee : : ers, the movement has been sufficient to| ately. My observation is that those who ' , : , i afford considerable relief to our heavily sell freely each day during these tem- orarvy and speculative advances make overstocked markets, and has un- , Pe | on i : the best average. It is generally pos- doubtedly exercised a favorable influ-| sible to sell at each upward step while ence upon the local trade, preventing | if stock is held for the ‘‘top notch’’ the as low a wind up as would otherwise general offering often causes a material have occurred. For several years past there have been occasional shipments of : : x ae Review. 4 States eggs to Great Britain, some of _$§_~-0.—_____ : which have been yrofitable and some Why Commission Merchants Dislike the : : I . . Bonding Law. 4 decidedly unprofitable, but never be- 3enton Harbor, Feb. 17—-If it is true ore has there been so liberal a move- | that afte »C issi on wi ae : : : : Nc" [that aiter the ooo = withdyaw If you can offer Beans in small lots or car lots send us sample and price. ; ment as during the past four or five |their solicitors the fruit will go to them Always in the market weeks. Since the first of January over just the same, only more so, can any 1 pages chieSiy of relapes ages | Person tell why those gentlemen have 7 ee efly of refrigerator eggs | not long ago voluntarily dispensed with s Highest Market Prices Paid. Regular Shipments Solicited. reaction before any important quantity 98 South Division Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. can be moved.—New York Produce but including a number of limed, have their useless solicitors and given the left New York for British and Conti- erat tans . toe a a4 a 26-28-30-32 OTTAWA ST., GRAND RAPIDS Seeds, Beans, Potatoes, Onions, Apples. i nental ports, chiefly the former. The | cent. ? . } conditions which have led to this move- The commission men ought to be able ment have, however, been exceptional : to offer other reasons for hiring jawyers nF do mesa ie al to fight this law than that the law, if en- in Europe the vy ee as been unusual-| forced, will result in the ruin of Michi- eans an oO ao eS an e so _— — it has — 7 gan hotel-keepers and livery-men and ably mild; there prices have ruled) will increase the shipments of fruit to a ; " a t above the average, with lightly stocked| Chicago, and will relieve-the pacer Wire, phone or write - what you have to offer. Mail us te sg rs for markets, while here we have had un-|sion men of the burden of sending so- Oranges, Nuts, Figs, Dates, Apples, Cider, Onions, etc. The best of every- usual quantities of held stock and rela-|licitors after the fruit and thereby save thing for your trade at close prices. tively low values. It is possible that | to themselves the 3 per cent. which they with our great egg producing capacity | have been in the habit of paying their The Vinkemulder Company, ' there may be occasional opportunities for | solicitors, and will, in reality, be a good * iin AG sa Sb it the profitable exportation of eggs to | thing for the commission men. : i ‘ Great Britain, but it does not seem like- There is not and has not been any Grand Rapids, Mich. iy that — sa — any rege-| occasion for friction between the honest arity. ney should, however, a spe- | fruit grower and the honest commission rT rT IG C. \ cial style of case, would be desirable as| merchant. They understand and appre- TRY I I I I S GOOD. {; the light cases in use here are far too | ciate each other. OUCHOR LECROTOTOEOR CRORORONOBOHONOHOROROHOEOHONONOHOS flimsy to stand _the handling given in Undoubtedly this new law was not| @ e ocean transportation. enacted without good reason. It is not © QUALITY GUARANTEED. Made from selected Apples, Gran- ° ss intended to embarrass nor in any way| @ u'ated Sug-r and Pure Spces. = 7 There has lately been a very marked | injure any man, But, like many other| @ 66 99 e ' i in th lity of the fresh | laws, it has for its object the regulati e BRAND = ; improvement In the qua ity of the fresh aws, it has for its object the regu atlon| r e e e i gathered eggs arriving 1n this market. |of those who require regulation, and| @ a : Many of the shipments from central and | this class are the only ones whocouldbe| @ MICHI ‘(AN APPLE BUTTt R e % southerly sections of the West, and from expected to raise objections to the law. = 5 the South also, are now practically all} The law in question requires of the| @ VALLEY CITY SYRUP COMPANY ¢ § new laid and differences in quality, in| commission man ‘the faithful perform- 3 GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. e such cases, arise chiefly from differences | ance of the trust reposed in him as com- © peccnenouenenenc vescuc neseneneneucToTeToEeEs FOEOES in size, cleanness and style of packing. mission man or broker, and to pay over ee ga In this respect there is, however, room | all moneys to the proper parties coming SEE OU OTATIONS IN P RICE CURRENT. for much improvement, and there are}into his hands by virtue of his agency am ' i still occasional lots arriving as fresh} or trusteeship, by virtue of his receiv- which show more or less serious mixture |ing the goods and produce aforesaid eee. ee em with stale, shrunken stock. A receiver | which shall justly belong to any per- LAUHOFF BROS. a a an who handles many Southern eggs called son.’?’ me in the other day to look at a line ‘*Every such commission broker man , : a . of Texas eggs which he had just re- shall be liable upon his bond for all take pleasure in announcing to the retail merchants of Michigan that their ceived; they were very unattractive in| moneys received by him from the sale representative will call soon to explam the merits of their mew food products, general appearance and about one-third | of such goods and produce, and for the i of them were ‘‘shakers;’’ 13c was the faithful performance of his duties in the Peas best price obtainable at a_ time when | premises. "’ J \ i prime Southern were easily salable at] Only that and nothing more. The only ’ Isc at mark and the lot was well sold at | object of the law is to protect the grower a e Beans e | Rice j that, as at least 10 doz., to the case had|against ‘‘crooked’’ solicitors and | ; no intrinsic value above about 10 or 12c ‘*crooked’’ commission men, q and the actual loss would reach 5 dozen. It is true that some of the more reck- 4 The receipts of fresh eggs in the New less among the commission men have Our selling representative for Western Michigan is B. H. Moore, of Grand Rapids. York market have lately been largely in| threatened to ‘*retaliate’’ by charging excess of the consumptive demand.|15 per cent. commission, saying they Sin ci ei A A AE A RN OE Whenever this condition occurs at this|can not afford to do business for 10 per | season of year the natural course of|cent. But in what predicament does sn ee, SS, SS SSB BOB Bs SL LL Le Me Le Me» Mie Ms , prices is downward and the declining this claim, or rather admission, place NBPSSsP333333~< 4. Trying to Inaugurate an Era of Cattle Raising. Timothy L. Miller, formerly of Illinois and now of Florida, who has been inter- ested all his long life in the breeding of cattle, is trying to inaugurate an era of cattle-raising in the South, which may be a formidable rival of the West. He particular in scraping off the slimy sur- face from the ham previous to replacing | it in the fresh water to finish soaking. | After it has been trimmed and soaked, | boil it for one hour, then scrape —_ wash in clean cold water; place it m1 a braizing pan with two carrots, two! onions, a head of celery, two blades of mace, and four cloves, moisten with sufficient common broth to float the ham and set it on the stove to braize very | gently for about four hours. To obtain | tenderness and mellowness, so essential in a well-cooked ham, it must never be | allowed to boil, but merely simmer very gently by a slow fire. This rule ap- plies also to all salted or cured meats, particularly corned or smoked _ beef tongues. When the ham is done, draw the pan in which it has braized away from the fire and set it to cool in the open air, allowing the ham to remain in the braize. By this means it will retain all its moisture, for when the ham is taken out of the braize as soon as done and put on a dish to cool, all its richness exudes from it. The ham’having been partially cooled in its braize, it should be taken out and placed in a pan with some of its own stock, and about three- quarters of an hour before dinner put in the oven or on a slow ire. When warmed through place on a baking dish in the oven to dry the surface. Now put it on a dish and garnish with well- dressed spinach, placed around it in tablespoonfuls, shaped like so many eggs. Pour some sauce around the base and to add to its appearance put a ruffle of bright colored paper on the bone and serve. After your customer has cooked a ham like that once, every friend she has in the world will hear all about it, and you won’t be able to keep up to your ham orders, and can sell at a better profit than before ; because there is noth- ing so delicious in the world as a ham well cooked. This is only one of sev- eral ways, each just as simple and effective. —_—_e 2.___ They Look Forward to Sunday Now. Less than 7 percent. of the butcher shops in Chicago, it is estimated, are now open Sundays, a condition more favorable than the clerks and dealers had hoped for when their fight for better working hours and Sunday rest began about six weeks ago. It was thought at the time that if go per cent. of the deal- ers could be induced to close one day in seven the limit of success would be reached. ‘‘For twelve years,’’ says one of the Sunday closing force, ‘‘I have been in business, and outside of our an- nual picnic or days when I have been too ill to work, I have stood behind my block. It got so that time was hardly given me for my meals, for like other dealers | became avaricious and, led by cut-throat competition, sought to make there are 500,000,000 acres of land ; which may become the finest cattle- ranges in the world, and that these Celestial out Li Chinese grocers at No. 8 Burrill street. All money coming to Li Look as his share will be day, Jan. 20. have nothing to do with the firm.’’ Says that the climate, water, and feed of Florida are capable of producing the finest quality of beef. The feed on which the breeders are said to base their claims and future hopes is cassava. It is a luxuriant, many-branched shrub, which is produced to the extent of six tons per acre, and is said to be cheap, nutritious feed for cattle, hogs and horses. Mr. Miller says that between the Chattahoochie River and Pensacola acres, stocked with Hereford cattle to their capacity to furnish feed, would be equal to 500,000,000 acres in Illinois. The climate is such as to require no shelter, so that cattle may run the year around. The experiments so far made show that the beeves are finished to the top of the market. Cassava brings them to this condition. _Such feed is used two months in winter, and the rest of the year the stock feeds on native grass. ——__> «2. ___ Plea for Plenty of Light. Correspondence Butchers’ Advocate. If there is anything some butchers are behind the times on, it is lighting up markets. It’s a sad sight to pass a market, especially on a street where there is lots of traffic, and see a window full of nice cuts of beef, mutton and poultry, and see one or two little lights burning in the window, giving it the apnearance of an undertaker’s shop. Butchers would do well to look at some of the clothing stores, dry goods stores and other retail stores on some of the avenues and see how brightly they are lighted up. It may cost a trifle more, but look at what it brings a man in the end. of advice and profit by it. >_> °o-— The High Price of Veal Calves. From the Drovers’ Journal. The advance of the calf market to the highest point on record places the value of these young critters far above their natural level. Calves are $1@1.50 high- er than a year ago, while matured cat- tle of all kinds are selling in practical- ly the same notch. Scarcity of good veal calves is responsible for this flight of prices, and the scarcity in turn is due partly to the fact that the supply of breeding cows in the dairy sections has been greatly reduced during the past year, and that farmers have made an effort to retain as many calves at home as possible to grow into beef. It would not seem reasonable to have current prices hold up long, yet the available marketable supply of calves is small. —___~»_0~—._ Chinese Partnership Dissolution. This is the way the advertises partnership : Look almond-eyed a_ dissolution of “Chin Sing has bought of Wah Lung & Co., paid at 12 o’clock Mon- After that time he will ee een nen nnn ene, WANTED Butter, Eggs, Poultry and Country Produce. W. B. STOPPARD & Co. COMMISSION MERCHANTS SYRACUSE, N. Y. PPDPADARADDDNS Prices by wire on request. APPALP SEE Re Se Ss SB SB Bee wwwa j Geo. N. Huff & Co., WHOLESALE DEALERS IN f f Butter, Fggs, Poultry, Game, Dressed Meats, Etc. f COOLERS AND COLD STORAGE ATTACHED. f f Consignments Solicited. 74 East Congress St., Detroit, Mich. f SE we SS DB SB BweBeBeewwwwe OLLLELELEEPEASSSSEAEEEEEEESEESESOOOE EES SLELELESSSESSS® WwW ANTED We are always in the market for Fresh SeSSObD q Sesesesecessese & BUTTER AND EGGS : 36 Market Street. R. HIRT, JR., Detroit, Mich. OF FTTSTSSSSSSSESTSSSSSSSSSTSESSSSSSS SS ssssssssssssess All Grades of Dairy Butter 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. .OYSTERS.. IN CANS AND BULK. F. J. DETTENTHALER, Grand Rapids, Mich. Citizens Phone 2530 MAKE A NOTE OF IT. WE WANT If there is anything people like to see, it is a well lighted-up store. | hope butchers will take this little piece Write us what you have to offer. MILLER & TEASDALE CO., st. Louis. mo. Receivers and Distributors of Fruits and Produce in car lots, en Business Helps The «“‘N. R. & C.”’ brand Spices and QUEEN Bakinc PowDeER are D business helps of the highest value. Mut 1 Accident Associati thus victimized by a brother traveler) Anne soaps, lard, Lion Arbuckle and | withstood the assaults of an alien corpo- » ichigan Commercial Travelers’ Mutual Accident association | meee Fe ee The matter of employing an attorney when the Bell Co, 1s compelled to retire : : j ae 8- lof Kalamazoo, to take charge of their] with whom the members of the Associa- | from the field which it has too long dis- He is representing the Dodge & Corey ! cs GAGE : ’ ; . : c , s poe A . acec Vy s presence, and St< Cac dry goods department succeeding Mr graced by its presence and stand ready tion may consult on matters involving cigar factory. Edwards. legal questions was referred to a com-|to enter into any alliance which will Q. F. Jackson, who has traveled sev- lh ny Hl mittee composed of M. H. Barber, J. |serve to hasten the time when one_ tele- eral years for the Saginaw Hardware Howard City—Joseph Paylor and Don | Geo, Lehman and L. John Witters. phone system will prevail in all parts of Co., has engaged ‘to travel for Foster, Denton, who were identified with the) The following communication was re- | the city. Stevens &°Co., covering the trade of ae ged sep panes for sev- . 7 — Cc. 0 city salesman iret — _ further business, the T me " . < eral years, Wl retain their former posi- or the orden Grocer Co. : meeting adjourned, Northern and Eastern Michigan. Mr. tions with the new firm of caeudel & |. Knowing that for some time past it a Jackson has resided at Ithaca for several Looks Like a Case of False Pretenses. years, but will remove his family to this city as soon as spring opens. Traverse City Herald: C. liams, lately of Chicago, has been placed on the road for Straub Bros. & Amiotte of this city, taking the territory south of here, while Mr. Amiotte con- tinues to see to the trade north of the city. Mr. Williams has had much ex- perience as a traveling man, having re- cently been employed by the tea and coffee house of H. C. Fisher. George Gane, Michigan representative for the Washburn, Crosby Co., finds it necessary for him to live nearer the cen- ter of the territory and will accordingly remove his family from Traverse City Co has been the desire of your Association co to secure some means whereby the cur- Cc. Beiding—Glenn Pope, who has been | rent expenses of the organization might / F. Wil- in charge of the People’s shoe store, has be more easily met, | would be pleased taken a position with A. & D. Fried- to present toa committee a proposition man, the clothiers. which, if adopted, will secure a perma- nent and substantial income. I trust you may make arrangements whereby I may meet said committee in the near future. The matter was discussed at some length and referred to the Executive Committee. A communication was received from the National Pure Food and Drug Congress asking the Association to cast the weight of its influence in favor of the food bills now before Congress, and the Secretary was instructed to write Congressman Smith and both of the United States Senators, requesting them to give the measure the benefit of their MB nes N. Addison, the Grand Haven dry goods dealer, favors the Tradesman with one of the most ingenious appeals to the generosity of the people which it has been the good fortune of the Tradesman to run The letter purports to come frem the Ten Girl Company, 823 Schiller building, Chicago, and at the top of the circular appears a halftone plate, showing the picture of ten very ordinary-looking girls, who are supposed to be the members of the concern. It expressly states that the girls are not objects of charity, but are obliged to make their own living and, in line with this programme, ask the recipient of the letter to send them 30 cents for a dozen Mr. Addison se FSP SPRL VLV SL LLL SO cates cy gia nests Otsego —Earl Mansfield is clerking in E. A. Dunwell’s drug store. Port Huron—The retail clerks have merged their local organization into a union, electing Fred W. Woods Presi- dent and Timothy O'Brien Financial and Recording Secretary. Sault Ste. Marie—Under the reorgan- ization of the Chippewa Hardware Co., Cc. W. Given, of the old company, has been retained as accountant, and Clem- ent Sylvester and Harry Stratton also re- across. fi 0 AE = a nee acaniset Mas to Grand Rapids as soon as_ spring | main in the store. Forrest Robbins, |. ie : gold-plated handy pins. : Nie. Gee SE f 4 i : influence and affirmative votes. , lh conan . opens. Mr. Gane owns a_ handsome | formerly with P. M. Church, is an ad- The oil question was then taken up writes that these pins can be purchased ‘ residence in the City-by-the-Bay, but] dition to the force. on the mane of the Secretary ied - at wholesale for 80 cents a gross, so that ‘ says he will meet with no difficuity in] Big Rapids—Verne Hobart is now in|field, Shurmer & Teagle were circu-|there is a very comfortable profit in seliing them at the rate of $3.60 a gross. Resort to the mercantile agencies dis- finding a purchaser because his home is thoroughly modern and is located jin lating a petition among the grocers of the charge of the Hobart Mercantile Co., |“ : : city, having owing to the removal of his father to for its object the raising of an excellent residence district. Traverse City to take charge of the book the price of Palacine oil from 13 to 14] closes the fact that the Ten Girl Com- It. is understood that David C Senith Te fe cents per gallon. In the discussion | :.. ii chon ah ae ] e ; i and stationery department of the new} which ensued, it appeared that this firm oo am nee Set er Wooley have formulated | house of Hobart, Beecher & Thompson. had entered into an agreement with the | with the ten young ladies ends when the i and E_ E- ; plans for the reoganization of a Pre- varicators’ Club and that they will ap- ply for a charter which will enable them to issue licenses to such members of the fraternity as they think are entitled to special recognition by reason of their picture is printed on the stationery. The Retajl Grocers’ Association by which given as the headquarters of the the Committee on Trade Interests was authorized to establish the price of oil at retail. This has been done for some months past and, inasmuch as Scofield, Shurmer & Teagle have given no notice of their desire to terminate the agree- ©. S. Percy succeeds Chas. Sowers as assistant clerk in the same establish- ment. lonia—Fred Cutler, duced room Ten Girl Company is one of the rooms occupied by the Bicycle Gum Co., and the woman in charge of the business de- clines to give any information as to the Jr., has intro- into Thomas A. Carten’s store a proficiency in handling the truth in an a raion . ment, it was very generally conceded | ownership of the Ten Girl Company, elastic manner. It is reported that Hub each of the twenty departments by each | that in circulating a petition in violation | the identity of those connected with it ; Baker and Bert Peck are both bent on clerk in the store. These daily reports | of that agreement they were antagoniz-| 4¢ the capital employed. obtaining the first license issued by the are condensed on books specially made | ing the Association and committing an pt 8 ss for the purpose. The purchases are act for which they should be properly Kruger once cut an obstreperous molar new organiza' ion. : oe : similarly classified and mid This reprimanded. On motion, the action of f Sin head, and mow it ine cudlail Boot and Shoe Recorder: Traveling aie ee ex: i a ak Scofield, Shurmer & Teagle in circu- rom his head, and n s re] men who visit the retail trade at West- 2 gains _ 7 — - lating the petition above referred to | that Mrs. meager cms the President's ) arn and Southern points are putting in 8 ov : si . ™m ~ epartment, | was disapproved. hair with a pair of sheep shears, and yet and the exact daily work of each clerk.}| The President asked F. W. Fuller to| there are some people who vainly im- a good deal of time in aranging samples and preparing for their trips another It simplifies the work of inventory and shows the amount of business, with the prepare a paper on the pure food laws : J agine that the Boers are not heroic! of the State for presentation at the next —_>2>—___—_ a on Al — f stale ae apt gow profits and losses, in each day or week | Meeting, which he agreed to do. When an army is cut off from tele- guard of s 10e salesmen will take their) | oq in each separate department The The special Committee on Typewriter | graphic communication, it is easy to q departure with fall samples. It is need- i ae taal Prana was instructed to purchase a Blickens-|; it has won a great victor : less to say that prices will be higher we books seem admirably de-|dorfer machine on the best terms pOS- oe ow . or i 7 4 lon the line. The boys will give their signed for the purpose, and were pre- | sible. When it is cut off from its base of sup- ! i 8 i aes 4 tak dics pared by Mr. Cutler, partly from large Homer Klap introduced the following | plies, it is easy to guess it is hungry. either pay more for next season’s goods ; = — — a adopted: | With the Samoan treaty ratified and ; the special requirements of the Carten I ; wl vo i Whereas—-The extortionate charges and arbitrary attitude of the Bell Tele- phone Co. rendered it necessary for the citizens of Grand Rapids to engage in the telephone business on their own ac- count; and Whereas—The service furnished by the local company is entirely satisfactory and 4o per cent. below the rates charged by the Bell Co. prior to the advent of the independent company ; and Whereas—The attitude of the Bell Co. has been antagonistic to the retail groc- the United States in possession of the Island of Tutuila, it is to be hoped that no more trouble will be reported from that quarter. or consent to take a good deal less value for the same money. Jack Harvey (Burnham, Stoepel & Co.) does not attend the Presbyterian church at Grand Haven as frequently as P he did formerly. The explanation he gives of this lapse is that it is impos- sible for him to attend that church with- out being sandbagged by his good friend ps and fellow traveler, Louis J. Koster, who happens to be a trustee of the store. —____#e so Men are every day declining to be candidates for the Vice-Presidency. Those who want the job are not asked to run. ——_ 2 &— Bread cast upon the waters will return again—if the water does not freeze too quickly and stay ice too long. ———_—_->s>——- —_—____—__ oo — Cotton at nine cents Jeads to the belief that calico will be expensive enough to be fashionable for women’s wear some day. Frick is not giving away public libraries; but he wants some of Carne- gie’s millions. pase URERNE. OED 2 ene peer ie x) DDN 20 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Drugs--Chemicals Michigan State Board of Pharmacy Term expires Dec. 31, 1900 Dec. 31, 1901 Dec. 31, 1902 GEO. GUNDRUM, Ionia - - 4. E, REYNOLDS, St. Joseph - HENRY HEIM, Saginaw -— - WIRT P. Dory, Detroit- - - Dec. 31, 1903 A. C. SCHUMACHER, Ann Arbor - Dec. 31, 1904 things, such as metals and rocks and jewels and various chemical salts, but when we consider the matter a little we See that all these things if melted by strong heat are minerals still, only they are now in a fluid instead of a solid State. The difference between these President, GEO. GuNDRUM, Ionia. Secretary, A. C. SCHUMACHER, Ann Arbor. Treasurer, HENRY HEIM, Saginaw. Examination Sessions Grand Rapids—Mar. 6 and 7. Star Island—June 25 and 26. Sault Ste. Marie—Aug. 28 and 29. Lansing—Nov. 7 and 8. State Pharmaceutical Association President—O. EBERBACH, Ann Arbor. Secretary—CHaAs. F. MANN, Detroit. Treasurer—J. S. BENNETT, Lansing. Punishment for Subst itution, It is gratifying to note that those druggists who, unfortunately, still per- sist in practicing the fraud of ‘‘substi- tution’’ are being punished by the courts. This is an offense for which there is absolutely no excuse. While a druggist is unqualifiedly permitted to draw the attention of his customers to his own, or some other particular prep- aration, and may use every legitimate means to dispose of any particular prep- aration which he believes has merit, the practice of some druggists of urging customers to accept a substitute for an article that has been particularly called for is reprehensible. But this not the worst side of the sub- stitution problem. If a physician pre- scribes a preparation of a certain man- ufacturer and distinctly specifies it, even although it be a preparation of the phar- macopeia, the druggist who will substi- tute his own or some other manufac- turer’s preparation is guilty of a pe- culiarly insidious and contemptible form of crime. If a physician wishes the preparation of a particular manufacturer used, he does so, it must be assumed, because he is familiar with its therapeutic value, and knows what results to expect from its administration. If another prepara- tion is used instead, the druggist not only deceives the physician and de- frauds the manufacturer, but the act may bring disastrous consequences to the patient. It is not sufficient that the druggist believes his preparation to be equal or superior to the one specified ; the physician’s judgment, not the druggist’s, must be relied upon. Now that some of those druggists, and their number, we believe, is comparatively few, who are willing to sacrifice honesty for convenience, or pecuniary gain, have been taught a lesson by the law, it is to be hoped that the practice will find no further lodgment in pharmacies pre- tending to be honest and respectable. — Western Druggist. oo Is Water a Mineral ? Prof. Loomis says: If one were to ask his friends what mineral we are most familiar with and most commonly used as food, the answers would prob- ably be both varied and amusing. Salt would, I fancy, first suggest itseif to many, and to those whose training in physiology and hygiene has not been neglected, no doubt the claims of lime, and iron, and carbon, which in one form or another we use with food to build up bone and brawn, would be amply urged. But, after all, it is water, for water is a mineral—a fused mineral, You will find it described as such along with quartz and topaz and the diamonds in books on mineralogy, or in treatises on stones. We usually think of minerals as solid minerals and water is that water gets fluid at a lower temperature than they do, and, like quicksilver, stays melted at ordinary living heat. But in those old ice ages which, one after another, have Swept now over the Northern and now over the Southern hemisphere, bringing ruin and desolation, the natural and common condition of water was that of a solid—ice—as it largely is to-day out- of-doors in winter when not kept fused by the stored-up heat of the soil and rocks, or melted by the sun.—Popular Science News. Ea An Imitation Wine for Inebriety. Prof. Slikbile says an imitation wine can be made which drunkards will drink while being weaned of their crav- ings for alcohol. The idea is that they must have some sort of substitute liquor, and one that reminds them of the intox- icants they are to abandon. Such a one is made in the following manner: white sugar, brown sugar, hulled barley, cori- inder seeds, hops, extract of violets, elder flowers, vinegar and water in the ‘roportion of 2% pounds of the first to an equal part of the second, half as inuch of the third, 465 grains troy of the fourth, an equal amount of the fifth, 3874 grains troy of the sixth, 13f pints f the seventh, and a trifle under 11 gal- lons of the eighth. These are all put into a suitable cask with a square hole it the bung 4 to 5 inches wide, the ingredients being thoroughly mixed in t cask with a paddle before the water is added, and the sugar being put in first of all. After eight days of infusion the mixture is strained into bottles and strongly corked. Four days after it is ready for use. To the moderate drinker it suggests nothing very agreeable, but the mixture is said to look like white wine and taste much like champagne. [he man who has sworn off drinks it with relish and no harm follows. The cost of the mixture is less than 2 cents a quart. ti Methylic Tincture of Iodine. * Apropos ‘of the use of methy] alcohol in the preparation of the tincture of iodine, Prof. Scoville observes that sev- eral writers have recommended that this preparation be made with wood alcohol, and a number of pharmacists have tried it. The iodine dissolves more quickly in this medium and all appears well. But when the ordinary cheap grades of wood alcohol are employed, the tincture develops a very penetrating odor and becomes so irritant as to make it unsal- able. This does not appear when the purified alcohol is used. Samples _pre- pared from purified methyl and ethyl alcohols which have stood a year and a half show no marked change in either case, and can not be distinguished ex- cept by the odor. i Cobalt Fly Paper. Quassia chips, 150 parts. Cobalt chloride, ‘10 parts, Tartrate antimony, 2 parts. Tincture pepper, 80 parts. Water, 400 parts. Boil the chips in the water until the volume of the latter is reduced oue-half, strain, and add the other ingredients, The tincture of pepper is that made from the long red garden pepper, and should be Strong (1:4). Saturate com- mon_ unsized paper with the liquid and dry in the ordinary way. The paper is The Drug Market. Opium—Is dull and weak quotably lower. Morphine—Is unchanged. Quinine—Is in a very firm position by reason of the late advances for for- eign and the advance of 2c by Powers & Weightman on the 17th. Higher prices are looked for this week, Acetanilid—Has declined, on account of strong competition among manufac- turers. Carbolic Acid—It is believed that the English government will soon permit export shipments for medicinal pur- poses, which will relieve the situation. Citric Acid—Has been again advanced by manufacturers 3c per pound and, as crude material is scarce abroad, still higher prices are looked for, Castor Oil—Is very firm at the ad- vance noted last week. Cocaine—On account of lower prices abroad, has declined 75c per ounce. Cuttle Bone—Is very firm and has been advanced. Menthol—Is_ in and is better supply and lower. Essential Oils—Anise is tending higher. Cloves are firm at the recent advance. Gum Camphor—Has been advanced Ic per pound by the manufacturers, with a higher tendency, and as the Jap- anese government is holding the crude it is difficult for refiners to get shi} - ments. en Extempore Preparation of Bottled Effer- vescent Drinks. To put up quickly and without the slightest trouble any carbonated drink where the carbonic acid is derived from the decomposition of sodium or potas- sium carbonate or bicarbonate with citric or tartaric acid, prepare your drink, add the acid ingredient, and let it dissolve. Then into one or more large capsules, as may be necessary, pack your alkaline ingredient, ‘drop it or them into the bottle, cork, and tie down. You can perform the corking and tying comparatively at your leisure, before the capsule dissolves and the carbonate to get in its work. —?>2>__ allows Poultry Restorative Tonic. Sulphate iron, 5 ozs. Dilute sulphuric acid, 2% ozs. Caramel, 114 ozs. Water to 1 gal. Dissolve the sulphate of iron in one- half gallon of water to which the acid has been added. Mix the caramel with the rest of the water, and add to the iron solution. Allow to stand over night, and decant from any sediment. This is an excellent tonic for chickens during the moulting period and in the winter season. A teaspoonful of it is to be mixed with two quarts of water and the mixture put in the fowls’ drinking troughs. It should be renewed three times a week on alternate mornings. 22 An Expectorant Mixture. Apomorph, hydrochlorate, 2 grs. Dilute hydrochloric acid, 20 ms. Simple syrup, 2 ozs. Distilled water, 6 ozs. For an adult, one, two or three teas- poonfuls of this mixture may be taken every two or four hours, or a small coffee-spoonful may be given to a child, equally frequently. The idea is to give enough to cause the expectorant effect without nausea and vomiting, a Celery Tonic Bitters. (1) Orange peel, 8 ozs. Coriander seed, 1 oz. Gentian, \{ oz. Ginger, 1 oz. Celery seed, 4 ozs. Alcohol, 2 gals. Water, 3 gals. Syrup, % gal. used moist. powder, and macerate for three days in a portion of the alcohol and water. Per- colate with the remainder of the alcohol and water, and run enough water through the percolator until 5 gallons of the per- colate are obtained. Filter and add the syrup. (2) Gentian, 4 ozs. Peruvian bark, 2 ozs. Roman chamomile flowers, I oz. Quassia, % oz. Celery seed, 2 ozs. Orange peel, ¥% oz. Dilute alcohol, 1 gal. Reduce the crude drugs toa coarse powder. Add the alcohol, and macerate for seven days. Express and filter, (3) Cinchona bark, 4 ozs. Coca leaves, 4 ozs. Caraway seed, 4 ozs. Celery seed, 8 ozs. Gentian root, 2 ozs. Orange peel, 12 ozs. Water, 3% gals. Syrup, % gal. Alcohol, q. s. Percolate the crude ground drugs with 134 gallons alcohol and water. Add the simple syrup and enough diluted alcohol to make the crude product measure 7 gallons. ——__2>2.___ Cough Mixture for Adults. Spt. chloroformi, ¥% dr. Acid, phosphoric, dil., 1 oz. Tr. senegae, 1 oz. Vin ipecacuanhae, 1 oz. Liquor cocci, 1 oz. Tr. camphorae co., 2 ozs. Syrup, mori, 3 ozs. Syrup scillae, 8 ozs. Glycerini, 8 ozs. Mix. After standing for a few days decant from the sediment into 4 oz, round-shouldered __ white-flint bottles. Label: One teaspoonful to be sipped slowly three or four times a day, or when the cough is very troublesome. Liniment for Rheumatism. According to Dunglison a good appli- cation for rheumatism is made by mix- ing the following : Tincture camphor, 1 oz. Tincture opium, 1 oz. Spirit ammonia, 1 oz. Olive oil, 2 ozs. 2 Young men who go out on a lark sometimes come home ina police wagon. SO ese {Send for § Our Samples sof Wall Papers We will send you same express prepaid. Twenty- six of the foremost factor- ies represented. Prices, terms, discounts guaran- -_ RS SE a eR. teed to be identically the Same as manufacturers, It will be to your mterest to see our showing. Write. Heystek & Canfield, | f ’ Grand Rapids, Mich. The Michigan Wall Paper Jobbers, SO ee ee ee | P Rial HFG. 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. Reduce the crude drugs to a coarse FLAVORING EXTRACTS AND DRUGGISTS’ SUNDRIES i ’ aie, sR cAI gal, aca als seg oc cite. i se te ee ws pinwheel ERA oe sR ma © athe Rib CA, SAD a Neca MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 21 Advanced— Declined— Acidum Aceticum ...........$ 6@$ Benzoicum, German. 70@ Boracic..........---- @ Carbolicum .........- H@ Gitricenm...........-. 48, Hydrochlor. 3G Nitrocum ... 8@, Oxalicum .........--- 12@ Phosphorium, dil... @ Salicylicum ........- 70@ ser meta SoS 14@ Tannicum . Lie SOG Tartaricum na 38@, pane Aqua, 16 deg......--- 4@ Aqua, 20 = fee ee 6@ Carbonas .. ie oe Cearvigeee eee oe 1w@ Aniline Biaek ...........--.- 2 00@ 2 45@ 2 0@ 3 Cubebs......-- ies 15 12@ Juniperus.. 6@ Xanthoxylum . 75@ Waleamuns C a a 50@ Per .... <2... @ 2 Terabin, Canada. 40@ Tolutan......-------- 40@ Cortex Abies, Canadian..... Gassize. |... 5. - Cinehona Flava..... Euonymus atropurp. Myrica Cerifera, po. Prunus V irgini a Quillaia, ord. ..._.. Sassafras ...... po. 18 Ulmus...po. 15, gr’d Extractum Glyeyrrhiza Glabra. 24@ Glyeyrrhiza, po..... 28@ H:ematox, 15 lb. box U@ Hiematox, 1s....---- 13@ Heematox, %4S.....-- H@ Hiemutox, 48....... 16@ Ferru Sarbonate Precip... Citrate and Quinia.. 2 Citrate Soluble...... Ferrocyanidum Sol.. Solut. Chloride. ..... Sulphate, com’l..... a com’l, = bbl, per ewt. . Sulphate, pure... hopes Flora Aenica. 62:12... ae Anthemis.....-...-.. 22@ Matricaria........-.- 30@ Folia 3arosmMa.......-.---- 38@ Cassia Acutifol, Tin- : nevelly . . 2a Cassia, Acutifol, / Ix. 25@ Salvia officinalis, 4S and %S ..).--. 12@ Ova Ursi.......-.---. s@ Gummi Acacia, Ist picked.. @ Acacia, 2d picked.. @ Acacia, 3d_picked.. @ Acacia, sifted sorts. @ Acacia, po. 45@ Aloe, Barb. ‘po. 18@: 20 12@ Aloe, Cape....po. 15. @ Aloe, Socotri..po. 40 @ Ammoniae. . _. = Assafoe tida.. ‘ipo. 30 =28@ Benzoinum ........-- DOS Catechu, 1S.....----- @ Catechu, %4S.....---- @ Catechu, 14S.......-- @ Camphore ......---- 62 jo egal — 35 @ Galbanum. . 5 @, 1 06 Gamboge ......--- ‘po 65 a pees po. 25 @ Kino.. sl 25 @1 Mastie .. ... @ Myrrh @ Opii. 30@ 3 Shellac L5@, Shellae, bleached.... 40@ Tragacanth........-. 50, Herba Absinthium..oz. pkg ee pkg Lobelia ......02. pkg Majorum . ...0Z. pkg Mentha P ip..oz. pkg Mentha Vir..oz. pkg Rue. ....... oz. pkg Tanacetum V oz. pkg Thymus, V...0z. pkg Magnesia Caleined, Pat........ 55@ Carbonate, Pat.. 18@ Jarbonate, K. &M.. 18@ Jar bonate, Jennings 18@ Oleum Absinthium......... 6 50@ 6 Amygdale, Dulc.. 30@ Amygdale, Amar. 8 00@ 8 AMASt ook 1 8 2 Auranti Cortex...... 2 2@ 2 Bergamii............ 2 40@ 2 oa a 80@ Caryophylli.... 80@ Cedar . 35@ Chenopadii.. @2 oe: .123@1 Citronella . <2. | Oe WHOLESALE PRICE CURR: NT. | Seine C0... 1... | Comfam Maec........- 50@ ~=—«60 | @ sO g | Copaiba .-.....-.-... 1 @ 1 2 Co @ 50 75 | Cu panes oom. 1 60 | Prunus virg......... @ 50 ig | Exechthitos......... 1 00@ 1 10) Tinctures 47 | Erigeron ............ 1 00@ 1 10 . Gaultheria .. > soc, 2 50 | Aconitum Napellis R 60 50 een ii “ 2. | Aconitum Napellis F 5 5 | Ge ranium, ounce @ 7} — om vepens = | GOssipp 5 zal... HO@ 60 7 | — © — sco 1 ee 1 70} Aloes and Myrrh. 60 15 | Junipera ............ 1 50@ 2 00 | Arnica ce 50 75 | Lave ndula .......... 90@ 2 00| Assaforti¢ a wesc ce nase 50 5 | Limonis . 1 35a 1 45 | Atrope = ladonna.. 60 00 | Mentha Piper. 1 We 2 00 | ee anti Cortex...... 50 4o | Mentha Verid....... 1 50@ 1 60 | senzoin aaah 60 Morrhue al. 7) 9 fom 1 15 | Bonaom Co... ..---- pi | Myreia . ITT a g0@ 4 so | Barosma... 50 6 | Ole |. LT) g@ 3 00 | : ‘antharides .. 75 8| Pieis Liquida....... 10@ 12 | Capsicum.......----- 50 15 | Picis Liquida, - i @ 35| Cardamon.. ‘i % 14 | Ricina. " ge@ 1 05 | Cardamon Cet 75 Rosmarini. . coe @ 1 00 | Castor........-. 1 00 yp | Rose, ounce......... 6 50@ 8 50 | ‘ oe, ca 7 50 > Snecma 40@ 45| Cinchona............ 50 00 | Sabina 9@ 1 00 Cinchona Co......... 60 50 | 3 @ o.ceeeeeee eee | WG I Columba . 50 1 Santal............... 2 ee 7 GO ay 00 | a Cubebie. 50 Sassafras... 50m 5d] A, : Sinapis, ess., ounce. Q 65) ¢ 7 ce 50 14| Tiglii. : 4 50@ 1 60| a ao Co. 50 5 7 fee 40@ 50| Digits ve = Phys, opt........-- @ 1 60) 7 : ™ Time ak a an 20 on a ‘idum .. = BD Potassium tentian Co. 60 00 Bi- Carp... .---.._. 7. 15@ 18) Guiaca.. oe 50 45 | Bichromate ......... 13@ 15 | Guiacé ammon...... 60 as | Bromiae _¢.......... Daa Oe | Ilyoseyamus........- 50 ‘Seb... ie el eames... af 75 1C hlorate.. “po. 17719 16@~—-18 | Lodine, colorless. ... 75 1s | Ovyanitie............ Se 4) BO 50 12 | lodide............... 2 65@ 2 75| Lobelia .............. 50 18 | Potassa, Bitart, pure 28@ 30 Myrrh. 50 30 | Potassa, Bitart, com. @ 15| Nux Vomica. 5¢ 20 | Potass Nitras, opt... 7@ —10| Opil.. 75 12| Potass Nitras....... 6@ 8 | Opii, “comphor ‘ated... 50 12| Prussiate............ 23@ 26| Opii, deodorized..... 1 50 15 | Sulphate po......... 1n@, 18| Quassia .......-...-- 50 15 Radix | Rhatany 50 | / | Rhei. ass 50 ag Aconitum............ MQ 2 | Sanguinar ac 50 25 | Althze............... 24@ 2) Serpentaria - _ 50 30) Anchusa ..........-- 10@ 12| Stromonium......... 60 12 | Amuse pO... ...-...- a 25) Tolutan | 60 14 | Calameus............. 20@ 40 | Valerian ...... a 50 15 Gentiana......po.15 12@ 15! Veratrum Veride... 50 17 | Glyehrrhiza...pv. 15 16@ 18] Zingiber...... 20 | Hydrastis Canaden. @ 7| Nee 15 | Hydrastis Can., po. @ 80 | oT os | Hellebore, Alba, po. 12@ 15} 4 ther, ae. Nit.3F 30@ 35 = | Inula, po.. . 5@ 20| ther, Spts.Nit.4F H@ 38 75 | Tpecae, po. ... 425 | Atamen oUt 24@ 3 40 | Iris plox...po. “7, 40| Alumen, gro’d..po. 7 3@, 4 15 | Jalapa, pr.....-.-- ro «6 | Amato... 40@ 50 “| Maranta, 44S........ @ 35 | Antimoni, POs 4@ 5 go | Podophyllum, po.. 29@, 25 \ Antimoniett otass T 40@ 50 P Re 70@ 1 00 | Antipyrin ........... @ 2% + | Wiel @Mb.. 2... .. @ 1 25| Antifebrin .........- @ 2 | Bhei py... 0.0.2... QF Argenti Nitras, 02... @ 48 16 | Spigeliz 1 Ee (0) Arsenicum .... : 10@ «12 o5 | Sanguinaria...po. 15 @, 3 | Balm Gilead Buds.. 38@ 40 35 | Serpentaria ......... 40 45 | | Bismuth 8. N. .. 1 50@ 1 60 | Senega . 604 65 | Caleium Ch lor. fa VS) : @ 9 | Smilax, officinalis HH. =©@ ~~ 40) Calcium Chlor., %s.. @ 10 40 | Smilax, @ 2% | Caleium Chlor., %4S.. @ 12 | Seillee . : -po. 35 10m 12/| Cantharides, Rus. po @ 7 25 | Symploearpus, Foeti- | Capsici Fructus, a @ 6 30 |. dus, po...) |... @ 2) 2 apsici Fructus, po. @ wb | Valeriana, Eng. po. 30 @, 2% | Capsiei Fructus B, po @ 1 20| Valeriana, German, 15@ 20 | Caryophyllus..po.15 12@ | 14 10 | Zingibera. i! wa 16 | Carmine, NO. 40... .. @, 3 00 | Zingiber j.. 2 27) ae Alba. ... Se ae 6 ane 5D | a d ) Cera Flava. 40@ 42 65 | ‘Seme n i Coceus .. @ 40 45) Anisum . .po. 15 @ 12| Cassia Fructus.. @ 35 35 | — (st aveleous). 13@ 15| Centraria.. vn @ 10 28 | Bird, 4, 6} Cetaceum.. ee a 45 65 | Carui. -D 18 M@~ 12| Chloroform ..... 55@ 60 14 | Cardamon. ... 1 28@ 1 75 | Chloroform, squibbs @110 12| Coriandrum.......... 8@ 10) Chloral Hyd Crst.... 1 65@ 1 90 30 | Cannabis Sativa. .... 444@ 5 | Chondmis........... 2@ 2 2 Cydonium . ‘i..) 7o@ 1 00 | Cine honidine,P.& W 38@ 48 30 | Chenopodium - .. 10@ 12|Cinehonidine, Germ. 38@ _ 48 55| Dipterix Odorate. 1 00@ 1 10} Coeaine ... 5 30@ 5 50 13 | Poeniculum ....... .. @ 10) Corks, list, dis. pr. ct. 70 14 Foe eeroek, pO... ... T@ 9 | Creosotum........--- @ 3 16 | Li ||... : 346@ 4% | Creta . .. bbl. 75 @ 2 65 | Lini, grd.. bbl. 3% 4@, 4% | Creta, prep. oe eee @ od po | Lobelia . 3x 40 | Creta, precip... 97% 1 Pharlaris Canarian.. 4%@ 5| Creta, es aa oe @ 8 70 Rapa ......-..--..-+- 4d Si Geeens §............ 1a 15 30 | Sinapis Alba.. 9@ 10! Cudbear. a @ 2 25 | Sinapis Nigra. 11@ = =12| Cupri ‘Sulph. oa 64@ 8 . Spiritus a on eee 3 _ : 3 r ’ ‘ a a er Suiph THAD, ¢ 35 | Frumenti, W. D. Co. : , 2 50) Emery, all ni numbers. @ &s 35 | Frumenti, Db. F.R.. 2 00@ 2 25) Emery, po. ae 45 | Frumenti............ 1 25@ 1 50} Ergota I Jo. 90 85 90 go | Juniperis Co. O. T... HD, 2 00 . White “Pe > 1 | aniperis Co 1 THe : Flake W mie 12@ 15 je ‘ e--- ---- 70a, 3 WO Galla . @ 23 | Saacharum N.E.... 1 90@ 210] ¢ Sean aaa dea nae 25 | Spt. Vini Galli 1 75@ 6 50 Gambler . oe 8s 9 5 Ani O SareRC TN a s@ © O | Gelatin, Cooper. .... @ 60 2 1 y...-...-. 1 2060 2 OO} eau tin, French 35@, 60 25 | Vini Py Sages ae tit) ig Sep 2 00] eee arin hos : | : 7 Glassware, flint, box 75 & 10 | Sponges Less than box..... 70 os | Florida sheeps’ wool Glue, brown......... 1@ 13 36 earriage.. 2 50@ 2 75| Glue, white......... 15K@ = 25 yy | Nassau sheeps’ wool Glycerina. . ----- W@ 2% 95 | __carriage.. 50@, 2 75 Grana Paradisi...... @ 28 | Velvet extra sheeps’ Humes ........-..- 25@ 55 | wool, carriage. @ 150 | Hydrarg Chlor Mite @ % 60 | Extra yellow sheeps’ : Hydrarg Chior Cor. @ 85 20| wool, carriage. .... @. 1 25) Hydrarg Ox Rub’ m. @ 1 05 20 | Grass sheeps’ wool, Hydrarg Ammoniati @1V% 20| earriage . @ 1 00| HydrargU — 50@ 60 Hard, for slate use. @ 75| Hydrargyrum .. @ 280 Yellow Reef, for 7 a obolla, Am. 65@ 75 2D | slate uses. 6000 0 @ 1 40| In +. 75@ 1 00 50 os Todine, Resubi...... 3 90@ 4 00 25 ae Iodoform.. ee @ 400 oo | Acacia ............-. @ 650 ai : @ 50 30 | Auranti Cortex...... @ 50 copodium. . 60@ 65 60 | Zingiber .. beaiee OQ 50 wan 65@ 75 . 5 eg @ 60} Li uor Arsen et Hy- Ferri —- @ 50 rarg Iod.. @ hei Arom.......--- @ 50 | Liquor Potass Arsinit 10@ 12 73 Smilax “OMicinalis... 50@ 60| Magnesia, Sulph.. 2@ 3 ae - ee eae cee @ 50} Magnesia, Sulph, bbl @ 1% 40 Sellke... --- . @ 50| Mannia,S. F........ 50@ 60 Menthol.. @ 3 25! Seidlitz asses —— 20@ 22) Linseed, pure raw... 58 61 Morphia, § _ & W. 2 35@ 2 60 | Sinapis . os @ 18) Linseed, boiled...... 59 62 “aT os s., N.Y. - | Sinapis, ‘opt. tt ie dee @® 30) Neatsfoot, winter str 54 60 .. 2 25@ 2 50 | Snu ne De Spirits Turpentine.. 59 65 Moschus Canton. @ 40| Voe ( 41 Myristica, No. 1..... 65 ~=80 | Snuff Scotch, DeVo's oe «4 Paints BBL. LB. Nux Vomica...po. 15 @ 10/| Soda, Boras......... oe il Os Sepia.. 28@, 30' Soda, Boras, po..... o@ 11) Red Venetian.... 1% 2 @8 Pe a Saae, H. & P. Soda et Potass Tart. 23@ 25 Ochre, yellow Mars. 1% 2 @4 Cc @ 1 00 | Soda, Carb.. 14a » Ochre, yellow Ber. 1% 2 @3 P ici is L a NN. % gal. Soda, Bi-¢ ‘arb... 30 5 | Putty, comme reial.. 2% 2%@3 doz. . @ 200) Soda, Ash.. 344@ 4| Putty, strictly pure. 2% 2%@3 Picis Liq., quarts. . @ 1 00| Soda, Sulphas. . @ 2 Vermilion, Prime Picis Liq., pints. . @ 85 Spts. Cologne.. ; @ 260 _ American . . ke & Pil Hydrarg. .. po. "80 @ &. Spts. Ether oe... 50@ «0b | Vermilion, English.. 70@ 75 Piper Nigra... po. 22 @ 18 Spts. Myreia Dom.. @ 2 00| Green, Paris........ 1344@ 17% Piper Alba.. — 35 @ 30) Spts. Vini Rect. bbl. @ Green, Peninsular... 1@ 16 Piix Burgun.. . @ 7 | Spts. Vini Rect. “bbl @ Load, O.........-.. OOS 2 Phumbi Acet......... 10@ 12 Spts. Vini Rect. 10gal @ Lead, white......... 64@ 7 Pulvis Ipecac et Opii 1 30@ 1 50) Spts. Vini Rect.5 gal @ Whiting, white Span @ 70 Pyrethrum, boxes H. Str rychnia, Crystal... 1 05@ 1 25 Whiting, gilders’... @ 9 ‘& P.D.Co., doz.. @ 75 Sulphur, Subl. 2464 4 White, rane Amer @ 1 00 Pyrethrum, pv...... 240 30 Sulphur, Roll. 24@ 3% | Whiting, Paris, Eng. Quassi 8@ 10| Tamarinds.......... s@ 10\_ cliff. @1 40 Quinia, S. P. & W. 30, 49 Terebenth Venice... 28@ 30) U niversal Prepared. 1 00@ 1 15 Quinia, 8. German. 36@ 46) Theobrom@.......... 55@—Ss«8 Coa N.Y... 37@«447'| Vanilla.............. 9 OO@I6 00 Varnishes Rubia Tinetorum.... 12@ 14) Zinci Sulph.......-.. 7@ 8 Saccharum Lactis py 18@ 20 Oils No.1 Turp Coach... 1 10@ 1 20 i 4 50@ 4 60) r Extra TUrp........-- 1 60@ 1 70 ae Draconis.. 40@ = 50) BEL, GAL. | Comen Body........ 2 75H 3 00 Sapo, V . .. 12@ 14] Whale, winter....... 70 70 | No. 1 Turp Furn..... 1 00@ 1 10 ee 10 12) Lard, extra.......... 55 65 | Extra Turk Damar.. 1 55@ 1 60 Sane Gio. 61.1... @ 15| Lard, No.1.......... 35 40 | Jap.Dryer,No.1Turp 70@ = 7E | i A AAAzAsS® +24 DLA HAAASA SH q Having just added an up-to-date which will be conducted upon the same high STATIONERY DEPARTMENT, plane as has characterized the other branches of our business, we can now supply our customers who wish to more fully concentrate their business with us with Staple Stationery for Every article purchased for this department is from the leading manufacturers and of the highest standard of excellence in its class, and as these goods will be Home, School and Office use. sold at New York and Chicago pr and can be shipped in most cases with other goods at a great saving of freight and express charges to our customers, we consider that this will be one of our most popular depart- ments. Our Mr. W. B. Dudley, who is well known to the trade, will call upon you soon with a complete line of sam- ples of these goods in connection with our line of DRuGGIST’S SUNDRIES, to which we have made many additions. As we are in a position to, and will promptly supply our customers’ every want in either of these lines for a sin- ices gle article or complete stock of DRuG- GIST’S SUNDRIES and STAPLE STA- TIONERY, please reserve your orders until you inspect our line. Our Mr. Hagy, an expert in this line, has selected an exceptionally de- sirable line of Paint Brushes, samples of which will be shown upon this trip by our representative. Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan. YY ——- - + + + a == = = ee ee a we ee ee — —_ ee ae ee ee oe oe eee Se ee ee a anninnnananamnetaa aimee: a... FC ; MICHIGAN TRADESMAN ROCERY PRICE CURRENT’. The prices quoted in this list are for the trade only, in such quantities as are usually purchased by retau dealers. They are prepared just before oing to press and are an accurate index of the local market. It is im- possible to give quotations suitable for all conditions of purchase, and those below are given as representing av- erage prices for average conditions of purchase. Cash buyers or those of strong credit usually buy closer than those who have poor credit. Subscribers are earnestly requested to point out any errors or omissions, as it is our aim to make this feature of the greatest possible use to dealers. 4 iti be ah a il SM ea So eT ce aR ees Name 4 } | | : APPLE BUTTER Corn | Phelps, Brace & Co.’s Brands. Above quotations are for either | Grits FLY PAPER : V. C. Brand in tin cans ee * 7 | Royal Tigers. . 55@, 80 09 | Tradesman, Superior, Economie | | Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s Brand. Perrigo’s Lightning, gro....2 50 ¥ : 2 doz 2% Ibeans...... : eee 85 | Royal Tigerettes...._.35 or Universal grades. Where | Petrolatum, per doz......... 1 | 2 @ee> cms) So Maney 95 | Vincente Portuondo _.35@ 70 00 | 1.000 books are ordered at a time | 2 ae HERBS 1% aez 10 ibcans..... _.._ . 3 35 ; a i = customer receives specially | 2 Hominy Ruhe Bros. Co. 25 70 00 I 3 Sage ee AXLE GREASE Standard............. 85 | Hilson Go 35@110 00 | Printed cover without extra | Hope e doz. gross Lobster T. J. Dunn & Go..... |135@ 70 00 | Charge. INDIGO i 4 = Aurora -...............55 6 00 Star, %Ib...0..0 22. 1 85 | MeCoy & Co...........35@ 70 00 Coupon Pass Books i Madras, 5 Ib. boxes ........... 5B d { Castor Oil.............60 700) Star’ 1 Ib.” 3 10 | The Collins Cigar Co..10@ 3500} car par. i : i S. F., 2,3 and 5 Ib. b Diamond .............. 50 4 25! Pienic Talls... 2.2... 2 25 | Brown Bros :15@ 70 00 | gat be made to represent any | earn ee ” i Messer s.. 2. ..7 | 9 68 Mackerel Bernard Stahi Go... "'35@ 90 00 denomination from $10 down. i JELLY : IXL Golden, tin boxes75 9 00) Mustard. 11h ke : Reyna |. ape a pO DOCKS. a Be V.C. Brand. H : Mustard, 1lb........ 1 75 Banner Cigar Co...... 10@ 35 00} 41099 Hooks 2 50 15 lb. pail ‘ 4 5 Mustard, 21b........ 2 80| Seidenberg & Co......55@125 00} } Ren: ue Bae ea aaa caticees 35 : rae | Soused, 1 It 175 | Fult Gisar C 107 35 00 500 books........... - 11 50 - sulD. patis..... 3 oo Os 2 Soused, 2 Ib... 2.80| A.B. Ballard & Go... 3ocraze 99 | 1000 books. 220000000077. 30 00 Pure apple, per doz......... 85 es Tomato, 11b......... 175 | E. M. Schwarz & Co...35@110 00 Credit Checks 24 2 Ib. packages ............ LICORICE e Tomato, 21b......... 2 80|San Telmo............. 35@ 70 00| 500, any one denom...... 2 00 | 100 th. kegs.... ee UES oe ge & Mushrooms Havana Cigar Co... |.18@ 35 00 1,000, any one denom...... 3 00 | 200 th. barrels ...............5 10 Ce 25 : = Hock i 18@20 | C. Costello & Co... ....35@ 70 00 | 2,000, any one denom...... 5 00 Pon Siciy cence one ae : Z Bigions 22@25 | LaGora-Fee Co....... 35@ 70 00 | Steel punch............... 75 : E oT | Oe 10 } & Oysters S. I. Davis & Co. .... ..35@185 00 CREAM TARTAR Green, Wisconsin, bu. ......1 30 LYE = Cove,a 1... 90 | Hene & Co... ........ 35@ 90 00 5 and 10 Ib. wooden boxes 30) Green, Scotch, bu...........1 35 Condensed, 2 doz............ 1 20 q @ )Oowe, 2%... 5. OE ee ee eee a ee CS ee 25 i i! : Peaches Hemmeter Cigar Co .35@ 70 00 a ae Rolled Oats MATCHES t = i goo) tien G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.35@ 70 00| DRIED FRUITS—Domestic t ie Diamond Match Co.’s brands. 4 E Parigon. |... es 6 og Go| Yellow ...... ra; 1 65@2 00 ee +++. BO@IT5 00 Apples ape Taney J r¢ 17. aida z nS ° ee ah ls ee lee ee OS Extract intmiam ctlee ie 2 05 iin = Jute, 72 ft: per doz... 1222! 9 | Valley City + gross......... 75 Soe cn ite oe ee ee .c. +7 ; “lectric Light, 8s............12 CIGARS felix 4 gross. a as ana ae a es 6602. 2001 cou ee te ‘ 3 Electric Light, 16s...... ....12% | The Bradley Cigar Co.’s Brands | Hummel’s foil 4 gross...... 85 Farina No. 8.. 1400 Ne. 8.24) Soe... ---:-.,. =” 4 Paraffine, 6s.................11%4 | Advanee oe eee oe Hummel’s tin % gross ......1 43 24 11b. packages ............1 25} No. 10....6 00 No. 10....4 00 56 Ib. dai ae, 4 Paraffine, 12s................12% | Bramieg Se iag COCOA SHELLS Bulk, per 100 Ibs.............3 00 | No.2 T..1 25 No.2 T.. 80 28 Ib. dairy in drill bess oa is ; Wicking ............ ........20 | Clear Havana Puffs. 1) 1) 39 00 |. a ; Haskell’s Wheat Flakes No.3 T..2 00 No.3 U1 2) ge ag a 4 CANNED GOODS “W.H. B.” 20 ib bass. De jon & pape 5 < 7 7 Ashton A} “ieee § lage eae a =. Less quantity 0202202007. 5 36 2 Ib. packages... ---- ..3 00| No.4 T..2 40 No. 4 T..1 50 56 Ib. dairy in linen sabks... 60 j 3b. Standards _.... 90 H. & P. Dru ats Sate Pound packages ......... 4 Hominy Northrop Brand — 4 Gallons, standards 2 65| Fortume Tellee . =i CONDENSED MILK Barres an io i Lem. Van. | 56 Ib. dairy in linen sacks... 60 Beans | Our Manager...” -”7-""": 36 oo fi ’ MEL Flake, 50 1b. drums.......... 1 00/202. Taper Panel.... 75 1 20 Solar Rock OM 75@1 30 | Quintette.... 000077777" 35 00! Gai acle | 10% in case. | Launoff Bros. Flaking Mills, | 202. Oval............ 75 1 20 | 56 Ib. sacks.................. = ( Red Kidney......... 75@ 85| ~ Te gene xail Borden Eagle .. ... ---6 73) Rice Flakes, 3 doz pkg case 2/85 | 3 0z. Taper Panel....135 200], Common Berd i go | G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s brand. Crown............. ---6 25| Flaked Peas, 3 doz pkg case 2 x5 | 402. Taper Panel....1 60 2 25 eg Fine............ 1 00 ee i 85 C SY nee ne ee ee tees ence none oe 5 7) Flaked Beans, 3 doz pkge’se 2 85 Perrivo’ Oe Serer anaes oo 4 OS Blackberries PION 450) oer : oe errigo’s SALT FISH = ‘ a C Magnolia 42 35 Chene St., Detroit, Mich. Van. Lem Cod Standards eee 75 : : strcecscesss-4 25) Macearoni and Vermicelli oo ae 3 Blueberries Challenge i) aoe Domestic, 10 lb. bo 60 . / doz. doz.| Georges cured......... @5 ¢ Reatidard 85 ~~ ee ae I _ aaa’ 25 oe han te | Se cle - 8 os 75 | Georges genuine - @5% aiden | @e COUPON BOOKS mported, 25 Ib. box......... 250) XXX) 4oz.taper...1295 195 Georges selected - @5% Red Standards 885 | : PeaeAcES X, 2 oz. obert...... 1 00 Strips or bricks. 6 @9 wae aa 1s 50 books, any denom... 1 50 earl Barley No. 2,2 0z. obert .... 75 POUSCK @ 3% . ea 7 100 books, any denom... 250| Common ...... ............ XXX D D ptehr, 6 0z 2 25 Halibut. Little Neck. 1 1b. 110/8.0.W ae 500 books, any denom... 11 50 Chester 2 50| XXX D D ptehr, 40z LD | SUR . POO Mie ee 1,000 books, any denom... 20 00 Pmpme 3 00 ' K. P. piteher, 6 oz... 2.2 CHWBRS es f GAN TRADESMAN 23 | Holland ae : a ae eee, bbl. 10 50 % —— — hoop — 5 75 | . SYRUPS - ¢ : ’ ‘< Ti i Pesky oe e — a 78 ee eee a — ss i Hound Woo Tse ooo 85 don a a | Trojan aa. Sticks ; PABA ie ena 3 60 | 2 OZ. V2 & 1 cans “0 | clipse g | Bloaters... 2. a 6 ailon é 19 _|N pate po Bloaters.. 0.2.0 -.2-00 + ” ise doz. 4 gallon cans 319 No, eommon. Spring !.12.119 00 Grains and , aa i - 5% Pp wns... Li SB i 12 patent hd ” oc ( ak | : 1 | es “Siackerei "| Se ee ee tan bash olde 9 nd Feedstufis, I ss 40 + tee teen ee | 9- re » heads a i wy Mes ins. | og | hoop 8 Pails fo ww res S Mess . — a in eee : - | z ee —— | Wheat. Wheat . h Meats i No. 1 100 SSN 16 ire, Cable... 1 50 Winte iL ' . 4 = a ater es 36 pes Cable” eens eet ater “Wheat Flot os | eee — Candies ie : 4 Ibs vereeee 13-25 | Pape all red, br “1 60 | Pate veal | ir yrequarters ....- H : 7 No. Bee ; | Paper, d, brass "19515 nts... srands Hindqu: ae 54@ 8 sm i = 2 100 Co a Fibre . a. ; bound 1 = Steatat = "atent... 1 iamenes cn 3 @ 6 Stick Candy a { No.2 Et aS | pe cia Ui gus 1 cone oe gaa eeaeen ¢ | Stand: D0 , No. ao = an | 20-inet Tubs _ es pre Clear .. ayes --+» 3 70 ea ce 9 @° Sti — . bbls 75 ¥ wea 10 IDS. 22. oo eoe 10 50 | ince, aie 7 40 | Graham ees. a 3 50 aooeee 8 ai Sti — on. iG 1 . $e. i i ef i meh, ee No. :. 7 00 | a : = CHUCKS... _-- Ga 4 | Cut caer Twist. .... 7 @ 3 wa 5 — —_ > | 20-inch, De idard . an ae co et ieee 6 @é es ---- (ao? No + 2 a8 1, Dowe No. > 00 Si see ie | a 6% 4 6@ 8 > No. i ‘” i ies ee bows 1. cs nf p : 00 | ne et ‘to ‘usual east 3 pos | Dressed Pork | 4@5- — 32 Ib @ 8% : i No.1 i cy N th, Dowe 0. 2. 2 Flour i al cash dis | 1 ea extra H a cases é vo.1 10 Ibs eee : | No. 1 Fibr ol Nea 2 tour IE : die eres coeees B wH aes . d No.1 8 a ay 40 Kingsf | No. : Fibre..... No. 3.......4 3 ditional. 1 bbls., 25e pe Bostot een oe ie @ 6! orn Cream @ 6% 0 Ibs. 1-Ib. gsford’s C N fee) 5 | I per bbl. ¢ St 1 Butts sa ‘ t Root @ 8 } 20 1-Ib. packages... orn | No. 3 ripre oe bara Barnhart- -ad- | | —e Beta @ 8 : nt @10 ; Leach oars ay .- 6 | W 7 9B | eee 12g, Putman’ at teed |. @i jt Mixed C @7 5 i 40 1-lb. a cites oe ou | araion a ‘Honeds "7 20 —— otha s Brand a @7 Groce a andy 7 32 i = - 5 co gagaie Si Giose* | Double Ac e " so a 2 Carcass .. Mutton @ % Competition sua @6 5 75 Cea NO 6% | Sir ye Acme. --+-2 50) () aia Ciao a 3 50 | Spring I ul i Conse sad aah a ¢ Ss AUE : a ee ace iamond eat | es Seon : ; Ou: oo 738. « rocer Co.'s Brand _ — ie 9 G 10 Roval i: a 7 30 B: SAUE : pack aS | Single Beciaeel at “ ea Sapo itchen, : 5 | 201 i ‘ins. ..ad irs 8 +h tL 5 | Mar ow nema 4 we nes ; “p lio, hand, 3 raider... ....2 40 10 1b — ‘aes |B i. “4 = eee Wali . fi ods. @50 5 i ae 2 40 5b. — har 4G jolted . Teal 5 | Milk a Plenic.... nude. 46 5EGAGO ) a 3 . Pails..a il 2e % | rranulate oo Molass mae ; ae ee — a Ib. Pails oe 1” a os | 90 | cena Cake beset a alee 1 B siete I ruits e | SPECES i BLE S Sausi : | St. Car Fe ay 210) ¥ aoe ae | eamGAA MTT , SPIC 4% LE SAUCES —— wusages 1 | No. 7G Feed, ser Milistu ufts | ate Jelly Bi Bee rady arnets 8 | pe Allspi Whole = A & e I BY Sa | Unbolted ¢ and oO ra d 16 00 | rad ton. ar. e | hore Navel anges « ec. spic : RTeeaRE , 5, | Wi ed Co ats.. a7 ie meal th a 12 |; Extra Cc Vels Cassia, China in| bid Por ort. +7. Ye | Vinter W i Meal...... 15 59 | Oatme aaa 2h | Seedli hoice | , Cassia, | Cia in ais) PERRINS’ Biot aeuane 8, | Sereent Wheat Bran.) 14 0 | so a seg Mec a Ww ) Cocca’ Salon, woke 25 SAUCE Tongue occ a UCC meiaatings. 14 00| Penny C Orson n+ o- ot ~—e % Cloves, —- rolls. 38 deheese....-. 6H | Corm, car | com Hea 14 00 | es sees 9 | Strictly eh po e ‘ cn ¢ rn, car lots | ee ee 8 | Strieth tad | “cs. zanaibar.... Le 55 The Original 7 Mes Beet 6 | zess than an eas | ore hand mad sre 8 on ietly cele 3608 .. pel eae . = Genuine al and —— So. 2-0 0- ; | y Bo i -- oo | i 1 a made.. 7 | an 3008 ce 3008. G 3 50 s es é c m : oo 0 00 | % Jats oa | ‘ar ( : pe | eee eae ane | i (D3 2 Stmegs “75 80.. oe a Lea & Perrin’s Worcestershir i ro el 11 50 | Car lots, | aoe eee” 7% | Extra Fan 3008... (a3 50 Bopper Sings a ica & Perr’, sal | a 2 a Tote: ppd. Sir Squutea pt Ere a as 7 feeeae | LI sek Halford. large.’ wil 4 mi or ae. | eee | T oe g 14 fedium bune nanas 23 7B 40 ord, s weeree . 200 ly bbl IS i 2 | utti F 4 cee 8 arge | ivches fae Singago e, black. Salad , small aCe oe s., 80 Il 80 | iNoit Ha “ rutti. oes punches a r, shot. re, white 15 | Sal cin ie : 3 75 IS. . i 1 50 No. imothy y i Vanilla Wa weve tes > ee | Poweta a 5 wl 75 ‘a Coa Lt .2e lad ‘pecan large... 2 25 Kits, oS Ite.. Tripe 2 75 | i Timothy read joke. talc | Vienna oe niet 16% | c: gn Dried ot 2 35 ee ound in in Bulk 16 | Malt Wh —— oP : = - = a. : a 1 lots... 13 S : >t a es sitneninn, - igs 1its Jassia Bat: : M: ite Win a 5 »bls., 80 70 _—____— 1 >: vtree 8 pk ancy . » Bata Mal W it It | sic le g, 101 oa Batavia... tees ee 1 Pome ta Wine’ te grain.. 7% | 5 Cas 1 25 Hi | Fish and pg oothy oo boxes @10 ; Ginger ee oo Pure Cider” Red Stat grain. tl Beet F or | ides and Pe 4 and Oysters fi soar, eo ie ocean “ % 2s, Zanilbar. 20... 48 | P a er, R tar... ” rour di steeeee ————— e F 2. ‘ Le ey, 21 iprna e Ginge , African ure Cid , Robins . Beef ids. _ S outs i \Im ih. 1 a 3 r ; 16 er, Silv son. - m 20 Ng —— a Fis | smperia JOXE ae a3 Ginger, ee = a pater aa a ia Se 3 | ( “The Cappon & Herts seh Leather Trout... fish... “a | r nl Soin ww «GM 5 ac ve ee N naan An Pe f anal schl out ior Th ‘u ed, rT 4a M e.. nsisae 18 OWDE B i. 10 | ollows: Stre eather | Blac Jb. 6 Ib. i / i > ae, oe Me 7 : a f 8 " i. d i Peppe Singapore, black. ' (Oy Rolls, al ee 13% | Secon a. “Ciscoe: ae ante ts 8D 1 Fards Dates @5 : per, Si bl. 1g | Rub : , crea ‘ , | Gree : : or I ‘ in 10 v4 | Pepper, aceae ome. 17 -No-More, 100 1 Solid, cra a 13 | Bulls.. eo. @ | L aig ee lerring. ,aG eo in 60 Ib. — ( si age TE 25|N wit aan ‘ C: om See « e Lobster .. a ae srsians, P. F cases @10 Ne nea : 0. 0 ICKING 1 eS oe Corned anned Me 135 C ed } m7 | Boiled ster... +. @ 11 Ib. ¢3 s, P.H.V 1S. @6 ( STOVE POLISH 20 | No. 1, Se a Corne beef, 2 eats y, | Cured @ 6 | C od Lobster ........ @ 2 Sairs asore new... @ VE POLISH 15 Xo. - per Sass .. 2-20 Rest bee, — a Calfskins, Be @ 94 | | cei “ioeig T.. cee a 28 rs, 60 Ib. cases... @ BH oO. 3, per ‘OSS ONE eile <* -otted 1 , 2 1D... oe 19 50 ns,gree 0. 1 ly | . diogte eseees an 1 ed oe @5 gross.. aD Potte lam, 14S ce : | ¢ Calfskins, ct ie No.2 meeeek |... @ 9 ; : ret ed tongue aes ' Le...s. 7 | Snapper......... le A nonds, Iv oT ae . wa ca By Marke ak ide band......... 1 Potted eoae. 2 16 : oo | a 1 Ta low 50@1 95 | eal Salmon.... 6 7 mes © aban Gli F ead cS ? Willow Clothes, a — = ee 1 00 5) Bee - @4 | ae a S 14 Bras new ip ay eo Cases, me ee : Oils | = | Washed, Weel” @3 | F. H. G — oa Walnuts, a er : B ‘small... . 5 50 | Eoce ‘Bar a ashed, medium... , Sele ), Selects. ..... ae Walt s, Grenoble @l: "i meme J [Sc ioc se eae 58) one es BE eae Be ee oe | . No. 4, 3d me 2 Oval, 250 in crate XX oem, @13% nwashed a 18@ | a acailas = Table ornia No. 1 No.6 oz. in cas 0. 3 Oval, ‘ in crate... 1 90 | W. W. W. Mich al: dium. G20 | St ors.... s. 25 Table 3 juts, fane he 12 , 3 doz. in e, gros! No.5 Oval. 950 in crate... oo | I Micl 1. Halt Cat, wil Furs 200@22 | auaueae vo (=| P e Nuts, ¢ By... 3 . In case, com. ; 50 val, 250 in = 23 Diamond white. ce @ 12 a Cat, ee oo, Favorite a 20 poses. oo Ou - 720 Bo Cloth ate......2 6 + 5. Gas. é .. @i% | Fox, re Ao Se 18 Seca eee. @i1 X@S, TOSS on Pins 60 | Reo. Naphth: a @_ | Fox, es eo | Et Bulk. 16 Hickors —— @10 XOS... ae er 1a. | @\ 2% | ee a 50@3 Ed | Eextr: Counts. k. Lic kory oe ci .. @12% Swcecs ngine nee op @12% | LD eo 10@ ; | Sotects > a algae =. Ohio, a bu. B 9 ri a | cts ( lack, winter... “1M « [Selects imag oo | Cocoanuts fess winter.... ll G's F . ' 3a, | Apetor Siandgnae 0 1 75 | chestnuts, full sacks @1 75 seeees @10 2 Hacegorten---.-o00 12 2 | andards ... ade + 35 a its, per “gg @ ‘ a Te 10Gt 00 . RT, 1 yo | Fancy, H. -— @ sie e a 15@1 40 | Clams, per Goods. 10 ea Suns 5 — per 100 a 1 Cc snore a _— . oe 28, 5 t....1 00@1 = Choice, = r, ‘Extras @ 6% Roasted . ., Extras @ = : z % Pa * % a s 5 4 4 ge is a 8 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN H ardware | How To Increase the Volume of Your Business. To increase your business, you must sell more goods. How many merchants are contented to drift along, taking only the business that comes to them, without making an effort to increase their trade? The merchant who would increase his business should everlast- ingly study the needs of. the public, keeping himself well informed in regard to all the new and practical articles be- ing introduced in the market; also keeping in view any novelties which will prove good sellers while they are new to the trade. He must advertise and display these in a judicious manner in order to find purchasers for them; for many articles in the hardware line can be sold to peo- ple that take a fancy to them, who would otherwise get along very well without them. There are luxuries in our line as well as in others and less money in staple goods; but here good judgment should be exercised in buying ; small sample lots should first be pro- cured to see how they will take with the trade. Should they prove poor sellers they can more easily be closed out and with very little loss. Keep a varied and good assortment : don't let a customer leave your store with unsupplied wants—if you can help it. To be able to supply almost every- thing in demand will materially assist in increasing your business. It is pos- sible to do this without filling your store with dead stock and you can not sell goods unless you have them. You can close out unsalable goods by special sales in a way that may be advanta- geous. Keep your store attractive, so that your customers will want to come again —people are not afraid to enter a nice looking store provided the right kind of aman Is In it. Employ good salesmen and see that each customer is pleased as he goes out. A good salesman will earn his salary for himself and a dividend for his employ- er; he is worth more to you than four poor clerks at four times their salary. He will materially assist in increasing your business, A good way to increase the cash re- ceipts is to educate the trade to a better class of goods. Push and advertise good goods ; quality is remembered long after price is forgotten and people are proud possessors of things worth hav- ing. Selling good goods gives a man a good business reputation and helps to establish a high class trade. While there will always be a demand fora cheap grade of goods, they are usually unsat- isfactory and competition on them is keen. They pay a smaller percentage of profit, and cost a greater percentage to handle, unless the volume of. sales is large. Is the merchant benefited by selling the cheapest grades of goods? The customer usually condemns them after he has bought them and frequently returns them in an unsalable condition, with a demand that they be exchanged or the money refunded. The manufac- turer disdains to take them back, hav- ing sold them on the strength of a low price. The dealer must either take the stuff back and stand the loss or lose a customer. How many ‘‘cheap stores’’ have estab- lished a permanent and profitable busi- ness in your own town? Yet you must tirely, else you might get the reputation of being a high-priced man. To pre- vent the possibility of getting a reputa- tion for high prices, keep a well assorted stock of ‘‘cheap goods’’ in the back- ground and sell them cheaper than the cheapest when necessary, relying on the better grades for a reasonable profit. A merchant should always first offer the best of any article called for and should that prove too expensive, then show the next best and so on down, until he reaches the level of the customer's purse. This course will often result in the sale of a better article than the pur- chaser originally intended. There are exceptions, as when the customer knows just what he wants and asks for it, in which case if you are busy it is better not to detain him, but to give him what he asks for. Ancther very important assistant in increasing your business is good adver- tising. Your local papers are, perhaps, the best medium through which to reach the trade; engage a good space and change your advertisements regularly. 1 shall not attempt to tell you how to advertise, as the trade papers are filled with good suggestions regarding it. I know it pays, and the better the adver- tising, the better it pays. There is much more which might be said upon the subject, but a whole ser- mon on selling goods may be found in these few words, ‘‘ Practice the Golden Rule in your business dealings with others.’’ If you do this and have a good location, proper ability, sufficient capital and a_ good character, you can not fail to increase your business. H. F. Schlegelmilch. ——_+>0.__ Oil on Files. All files when they leave the manu- factory are covered with oil to prevent them from rusting. While this is not objectionable for many uses to which the file is put, there are cases where the oil should be thoroughly removed, as when the file is to be used for finishng large cast iron surfaces of a glassy na- ture. The principal difficulty in such work is to make the file ‘‘bite’’ or keep sufficiently under the surface to prevent glazing. If the oil is not removed the action not only hardens or burnishes the surface of the work, but dulls the extreme points of the file teeth, thus working against the desired end in both direc. tions. Oil may, however, be used to good advantage on new files which are put immediately to work upon narrow fibrous metals of harder nature. In such cases it is not uncommon among good _ work- men to fill the teeth with mixed oil and chalk. Oil is also useful on fine files in the finishing of wrought iron or steel, as by its use the teeth will not penetrate to the same degree and the disposition to ‘‘pin’’ and scratch the work is material- ly less than when the file is used dry. —s20>____ Cheap Method of Hardening Steel. A company has been organized with Thomas A. Edison at its head to treat steel by a new process and it is claimed that the product will have greater Strength and elasticity than that im- parted by either the Harvey or the Krupp process. In a recent interview Mr. Edison said: ‘I have spent more time on this in- vention than any other. Actual experi- ments that have been carried on in most of the large iron plants of the country show that the tensile strength of iron and steel has been greatly increased by our system. We raise the standard of steel above its original state by adding to its tensile strength about 5 per cent., and to its elastic limit 30 per cent. and decrease the expansion some I5 per cent., as shown by the physical tests made by the Bethlehem Iron Company not discard cheap grades of goods en- Hardware Merchants, Attention! can afford to be without one or two. and be in on the ground floor. dealers: Never before has there been such a demand for a cheap bag holder and at the price the ‘‘Morton’’ is sold at no farmer Most convenient and desirable holder made. Hooks on the side of bin or on a common nail or screw driven ina post or side of wall. Al- ways ready. Thousands in use. Order now Prices to 1 doz., $2; 2 doz., $3.75; 3 doz., $5.25; net cash. STAR MANUFACTURING CO., Kalamazoo, Mich. Retail at 40 cents each. CAR STOVES ® ® ® ® ® ® ® @® ® ® ® ® ® ® ® ® ® ® ® P @® v ® a h ® ® ® ® ® ® ® ® ® ® > ® ® A ® ® ®B 1) ® ® Ssssess Il complete with Pipe, Elbow and Collar only $2.50 EACH sest made stove for the purpose on the market. FOSTER, STEVENS & CO., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. OOOOOHOODOHOOOOOOOOOOHOOHDHOHRHADHAMA ARAKI ee PSPSPS DYDD OOOOOOO OOD WP SPO SD SPD WNP SP SPSS SD SPD SD = Ip @) Seessoossessssssoossoossesssseesssssssesoessseaseses. Wap NUN PNP NN We aye Right Here Where we can be reached by tele- phone, letter, or you can see us per- sonally should there be anything wrong with any HARNESS you buy of us. Every set is our own make—we guarantee them, and you can guarantee them to your customers. Write for New Price List. BROWN & SEHLER, Grand Rapids, Mich rts Our line of WORLD Bicycles for 1900 Is more complete and attractive than ever be- fore. We are not inthe Trust. We want good agents everywhere. ARNOLD, SCHWINN & CO., Makers, Chicago, III. Adams & Hart, Michigan Sales Agents, Grand Rapids, Mich. on steel we treated for it.’’ NNTING FOR HARD ae Tradesman Company y Grand Rapids. aI i SR, 4 ; , 3 ce hel SE ic. A i Ce x i + ee weer wer eT eoCeCer ee Cee eeeeeee tae IM iit nl I, é ie ie. Meee S Be + MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 25 Stories Told by a Hardware Salesman. In 1867, when I ‘‘made’’ Northern Iowa by team, I used to goto many very small towns. At some of them | was the only hardware man. making the town; the boys in the store would say on my arrival, ** Hello, here’s the hard- ware man.’’ I remember of striking a certain town on a holiday (they had a church holiday there in those days about once a week, and sometimes oftener). When I reached there, I saw that my customer’s store was crowded like an auction room in olden times. I could see my customer in the rear end of the store, but couldn’t get to him; couldn’t squeeze through the jabbering and jostling women in the store, who were doing more visiting than buying. | concluded, however, to rush matters all | could, so I walked the whole length of the store on the counters, and getting at the buyer, told him I must see him and get through before dinner. 1 said, ‘*‘Some of your customers are quite noisy.’’ ‘‘Yes,’’ he -said, ‘‘some of them they buy for five cents goods, und they make for ten dollars noise.’’ Well, I got out my catalogue and _ or- der book and took down what he had on his want book, and turning over my catalogue, I came to wringers. He said: ‘‘For what is dot?’’ I said: ‘‘For wringing the water out of clothes. "’ He said, pointing out of the window: ‘*Dot’s the onliest kind of wringers da haf here.’’ I looked out and saw three or four women standing in the creek wringing, with their hands, some clothes they were washing in the creek. | hadn't any wringers of that kind. Next we came to stove polish and shoe blacking. He ordered one dozen stove polish and said: ‘‘Shoe blacking; vot ish dot?’’ I replied: ‘‘To black your shoes.’’ He said, throwing up one hand and shrug- ging his shoulders: ‘‘Och! I plack twice my shoes in seventeen years.’’ 1 turned over my catalogue and came to carriage bolts. ‘*‘How much you throw off on de polts?’’ ‘‘The discount from the list,’’ I said, ‘‘is 80 per cent.’’ He replied, ‘‘No, dot voodent pay. I puy in Dubuque for 70 per cent. und dot 10 per cent. dot makes de freight.’ Further on we came to_ hoes. He thought he might need some hoes. ‘Send me a quarter of a dozen.”’ ‘*Socket or shank,’’ said I. ‘‘Oh, mix dem,*’ said he. Smiling to myself | said, ‘‘Two shank and one socket, or two socket and one shank?’’ He looked perplexed for awhile, and after thinking it all over, decided that he had better not take any at all. After that I didn’t suggest any options. ‘*Was everything all right on the last order?’’ said 1. ‘‘No. I ordered one gross canopies (a small piece of tin for putting on end of wash basin handles, etc.), and they sented me a gross of can openers. The other time I ordered one hundred bolts 14x und they sented me 14x; dey voodent go in Spillville, und I sented them back.’’ | had to make everything all right with him before leaving. At another little town I sold a bill to an old Englishman—an old bachelor— old Benny Hustler they called him. He gave me an order for about $90 worth of goods, and when I had figured up amount of same, he drew an old_ stock- ing from out of a closet and paid me in advance for the goods. While I was figuring up amount of order, he drew out a little tin pan from > under his work bench and set it with its contents on the stove to warm it up. It looked like saw him dip some bread in it and begin eating it. Turning to me he said: ‘Ira (their man Owland) hover the way Says ‘es going to run me hout of business inside of one year; now, Ira, hit honly costs me 15 cents a day to live now, and if necessary I can live on_ 10, and at that rate hive got enough money m and now to keep me ninety years ; can never run me hout.’’ Several years later 1 was making some small towns in Southern Wisconsin. | was carrying two trunks and three or four grips that trip. At the store where I expected to show my samples they had a new clerk who had a good deal to say. [The store was small and crowded with goods, and it was about all the drayman could do to get my trunks inside the door; just as he had gotten inside, along came the new clerk. I was walking in carrying three satchels and a small teles- cope. He looked at the baggage and then at me, and going to Mr. M— said: ‘For heaven's sake, who is moving in here now? That feller with his packs looks like the traveling brass-band man that I saw down to Coney Island last summer.’ In 1875, or about, | was calling on the jobbing trade—representing an Eastern tirm--I was in the office of a hardware jobber at St. Paul; there were three or four other travelers ahead of me await- ing an audience with the buyer. I took my place intending to await my turn— was standing nearest the door--when in bounced a young man with a sample of some kind of flour sifter in his hands. | learned later that he was from Boston and that this was his first trip and that he had come to Paul direct from Boston and was arranging to work all the jobbing points on his way home. This was his first call. He walked up to me, held the sifter out in his hand and said: ‘‘It is not the duty of a trav- eling salesman to inform a buyer what is a salable article. I have here—** Hold on,” says I, ‘you are talking to the wrong man. I am _ not the buyer; I’m trying to get a chance to sell Mr. H. some sifters myself.’’ ‘‘Excuse me!’’ he said, in a loud voice, and deliberate- ly walked to Mr. H. (the old gentleman) and began: ‘‘Is this Mr. H.?’’ ‘* Yes, sir.’’ He then elevated his sample sifter and began: ‘‘It is not the duty of a traveling salesman to inform a buy- er what is a_ salable article’’—** Hold on,’’ says Mr. H., ‘' you will have to see my son, who does the buying.’’ (Mr. H. pointed over to his son.) Nothing daunted, the kid salesman strode over to the buyer and started in: ‘‘It is not the duty of a traveling salesman’’—but on looking around and seeing the grin on five or six faces present he at last realized that he’d better come in_ later. He had a patent sifter to show and a patent speech to make, which he seemed to think would do the whole business everywhere. Henry S. Gay. ~~. 0. Advised to Can Fruits. The Northwest Fruit Growers’ Asso- ciation met at Tacoma recently and heard a report from the traffic committee which showed the Association had failed in its attempts to secure lower rates from the railroads. The officials all advised the growers to can fruits rather than attempt to ship green fruits to Eastern markets. a Improved Methods. ‘We took milk of the same for ten years.’ ‘Why did you change?’’ ‘‘We found out the new man had a fil- you milkman _Hardw are Price Current ane rs a Bits Reet 60 sonmiees’ Senne. .................... 25 Jennings’ imitation.................... 50 Axes First Quality, S. B. Bronze............ 7 00 First Quality, D. B. Bronze...:....... 11 50 First Quality, S. B.S. Steel........... 7 First Quality, D. BE. Steel............. 13 00 Barrows eee 16 50 Se 30 00 Bolts poove ..... eee euted eddy e ot ou 50 Carriage, eT 45 MOM oo... ee, 50 Buckets wel pas. $4 00 Butts, Cast Cast Loose Pin, figured . eek, 65 Wrought Narrow . i oc 60 Cartr hie ee 40&10 Comtrni ite 20 Chain \ in. 5-16 in. % in. % in Ee ET ce BB.. 4 2 . . 6% 6% BBB.. te .. Sm... TH... Oe Crowbars (Cast Seoel, perip.....-................ 6 Caps Ely’s 1-10, per m. le te eee a oe 65 Hick’s C. . per m.. Dee ede ts 55 G. D.. perm... eee 45 Meeeeet erm 75 Chisels Soekoe Simmer... 65 Sewer Deamime. 65 Oe 65 MOGH@G SIGRS ow 65 Elbows Com. 4 piece, 6 in., per doz.. .. net 65 Corpugated, ins <................. 1 26 Adjustable. . ‘ ..dis 40&10 upemeive Bits” Clark’s small, $16; targe, $26 .......... 30&10 Ives’ 1, $18; 2, $24; 3, $30 2 Files—-New List New American . 70&10 Nicholson’s. . ee 70 Heller’s Horse Rasps... 4 La 60810 habeiniead an Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 25 and 26; 27, 28 List 12 13 14 15 16. 17 Discount, 70 Gas Pipe Black.. mates de ete ee eee cere ce, 40&10 Galvanized . oo, 50&10 Gauges Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s.......... 60&10 Glass Single Strength, by box. eS Double ea o ee dis 85810 By the Pigmt............ dis 85 Hammers Maydole & Co.’s, new list......... oso ae 33% Yerkes & Plumb’s ee one dis 40&10 Mason’s Solid Cast Steak .30¢ list 70 Hinges Gate, Clark’s 1, 2, 3.. ....dis 60&10 Hollow Wa are ee 50&10 Moles 50&10 Spiders 8 50&10 Horse Nails Au Sable . ..dis 40&10 Putnam.. ..dis 5 minens: ieee ends Stamped Tinware, new list............ 70 Japanned Tinware..............-.+.... 20810 Iron ar ee. 3 crates TN 3c rates Knobs—New List Door, mineral, jap. trimmings........ 85 Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings... Meee. . 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.... i ..$17 00..dis 60 Metals—Zine ee ee De tec caee 7% Per pound.. Ve eeccececbeaes 8 ‘Miscellaneous Bird Cages . Be ec ot eee e eee se 40 Pumps, C istern.. a ee 70 Serows, Wow 1a8t.................-.... 80 Casters, Bed aaa IAGO se ce 50&10&10 Dampers, American..............6-.-- 50 Molasses Gates Stepoins’ Pattern. ................-.... 60&10 Enterprise, self-measuring............ 30 Pans Mey, ACMIO, 02. 8. le 8 608&10&10 Oommen, poliahed as 7085 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 4c per pound extra. Planes Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy. . Sciota Bench.. something for greasing boots; but later I ter attached to his pump..’’ Nails Advance over base, on both Steel and Wire. Steel nails, base.. Lave 050 EO 3 65 20 to 60 advance...... Base 10 to 16 advance.......... es 3 ee es 10 ee 20 CO Ee 30 es 45 eee % Fine 3 advance... ek a Casing 10 advance. SO 15 neem 6 Gees... .................. 25 Came © meee .. ws. 35 CC _ eee 25 Finish 8 advance . ee ll 35 Eien GAGVanOe.................... +. 45 ervo: © Sevaned..................... 85 Rivets Iron and Tinned...... teeta: 50 Copper Rivets and Bi 45 Roofing Plates 14x20 IC, Charcoal, Dean.............. 6 50 14 IX, Chareoal, Dean. : ae 7 50 Q 1C, Charcoal, Dean. i 13 00 14x20 ic ni ‘hareoal, Allaway Grade. .. 5 50 14x20 1X’ Charcoal, Allaway Grade. .. 6 50 20x28 1C, Chareoal, Allaway Grade. .. 11 00 20x28 IX’, Charcoal, Allaway Grade... 13 00 Ropes Sisal, 4 | inch and ar ea 11% Manilla. soe. eae yuk an os 17 Sand sides ist acce. 16, 86.......................s 50 Sash Weights Bond Pyds, per ton.............-...... 25 00 Sheet Iron com. smooth. com. Nos. 10 to 14 ae $3 20 $3 00 Nos. 00 17............ Ses cae. oe 3 00 roe eee... ee 2 3 20 Nos, 22 to 24......... eae aia 3 40 3 30 ‘ Lele st cyan ee ss Oe 3 40 No. 2 ‘ 3 60 3 50 Ant "Shee ts No. 18 and lighter, over 30 inches wide, not less than 2-10 extra. Shells—Loaded Loaded with Black Powder........... dis 40 Loaded with Nitro Powder...........dis 40&10 Shot Drop.. Lee tent ayes cone ues 1 60 Be 1 85 Shovels and ante s CO EE ee 8 60 Second Grade, Doz........... 8 10 Solder 4@"% 20 The | pr ices of the many ‘other qualities of solder in the market indicated by private brands vary according to composition. Squares Steer ane WO. i. 8. 65 Tin—Melyn Grade ponta4 10, Charecal.........-...... .... $ ee OC eeeel..................... e004 1, Ceevooe)..................... Each additional X on this grade, $1.25. Tin—Allaway Grade meatal, Charcoal... ............ 2... ioc 1G, Coacoal..................... MGx0a T, ONArOORL, ........ 2... .-5. 0 14x20 IX, Charcoal. . Each additional X on this ‘grade, $1.50 Boiler Size Tin Plate can ass naonn ZSss 14x56 IX, for No.8 Boilers, } .,,, 14x56 LX; for No.9 Boilers, } per pound.. 10 Traps Steel, Game. 5 Oneida C ommunity, Newhouse’s 40&10 Oneida ¢ ew Hawley & Nor- ton’s. ae 65816 Mouse, choker, per ‘doz. Ll 15 Mouse, de lusion, per re 1 25 Wire OO EEE ee 60 POAT DRWEMOG.. ey ete etc e ass 60 Corer WERCHOE.. 1. ........ 6645-6) 50&10 Tinned Market.......... ae 50810 ( ae pee een... . 40 Barbed Fence, Galvanized ............ 4 30 Barbed Fence, Painted................ 415 Wire Goods ee ee oe 75 oo, eee 75 ae 75 Gate aus and Eyes. ae 75 ‘Ween ie Baxter’s Adjustable, Nickeled........ 30 Ores Germs. .............. 3s... 30 Coe’s Patent Agricultural, Wrought. .70&10 BOOK~KEEPING =) DISFUTED ACCOUNTS BAD DEBTS fu >. me stn SAM? ON INQUIRY | oMPANY, TRADESMAN ©° ZZ, ACCURACY 50 PROFIT CONTENTMENT 50 ng 60 Sandusky Tool Go.’ *s, fancy... cone 50 Bench, first quality........cccccceeceee 6 GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. i 3 % ‘a 3 Rie A ER LE OS 26 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN aiisaenedentatideariaedaamnast Mnauienetseheambdaiamidnatcaed ee a Se eT NA pe QUEER CATTLE. Porter House Steak From Nose to Tail. Written for the Tradesman. The hardware merchant sat at his desk as I entered the store and there was an ugly look on his face. To say the least, he did not seem to me to be in an approachable mood, so I took a seat by the stove and waited. 1 could hear him muttering to himself and growling like an enraged bear as he ran his pencil up and down long columns of figures, and I observed that the clerks dodged every time they came near the desk—dodged and turned to me with a sly wink. Presently he threw the pad he had been figuring on at the cat, which sat purring and _ looking surprised and grieved on an office chair, and came and stood by the stove. After rattling the keys in his pocket for a time and poking at the ruddy coal fire until it glowed again, he broke out: ““T’ve got a son Io years old whose chief ambition at the present time is to become a highway robber. I've argued and reasoned with him, mentally and physically, for a long time without making much of an impression on him, if I except physical impressions made in the woodshed after sunset, in the dark of the moon, and now I’m going to adopt a different course. I’m going to compromise the matter with, him.’’ The merchant’s face was so grave and stern, and there was so_ little show of humor coupled with the extravagant statement, that I could not help laugh- ing heartily. ‘‘Compromises are sometimes neces- sary,’’ I said, ‘‘but I hardly see what thing you can offer this youth in ex- change for a black horse, a lonely road on a dark night, a wide hat, a mask and a gun. If he’s anything like some boys I know of—mind you, | don’t say they are my boys !—you can't buy him off with a toy bank and a foreign mis- sionary collection.’’ ‘*Oh, that’s all right,’’ was the reply. ‘I’ve got it all studied out. I’m going to make him a butcher and set him up in the meat market business just as soon as he gets old enough.’’ ‘“The meat market business!’’ I re- peated, in amazement. ‘‘What has the selling of beef and pork and all that sort of thing got to do with a thirst for highway robbery?’’ ‘“‘It’s a kindred employment,’’ said the merchant, gravely. ‘‘ The two trades can be worked interchangeably. The highway robber would make a first-class meat clerk, and the average meat clerk could give the old-time highway robber cards and spades and beat him out at his own game. Have you bought any meat lately?’’ I replied that I bought meat nearly every day when at home. ‘Then you ought to know something about what I am suggesting,’’ was the reply. ‘“‘Ever go in and ask for a couple of pounds of nice thick round? Eh? If you have you've seen the rob- ber behind the counter cut it an inch thick at the bone and muscle section and about the thickness of a postage stamp where the good meat is supposed to be. You've seen him weigh half a pound of hand with a pound and a half of meat and charge you for two pounds without delivering the half pound of hand. I watched one do it the other day and asked him why he didn’t de- liver the rest of the meat. Well, sir, he pretended not to. understand me, and, although I had just paid for halfa pound of his hand, he put it in his pocket and walked off to wait on another customer —probably to sell that hand over again.”’ The clerks were gathering about, with sly grins on their faces, and the mer- chant warmed to his subject. ‘‘I ordered a neck piece not long ago, to aid in the composition of mince meat, and told the robber who waited on me that I wanted the best. I don’t kick on price, mind you, but I want what I order and pay for. He said he’d send me a piece that would make _ pies fit for a plumber or a United States senator, and | went home thinking I had at last struck a market man with a con- science ; but my dream was soon over. The meat was mostly bone and my wife insisted that she had never been taught how to make bone pie. I got an axe and chopped the meat up just as it lay and told her tc make a big pie of it, bone and all.’’ The clerks began to back away. A fleshy, red-faced man who had been buying nails at the front end of the store walked back to the vicinity of the stove and stood leaning against the counter, his hands in his pockets and an amused look on his good-natured face. ‘“Yes, sir,’’ continued the ‘and my wife did it. that pie to the butcher. big as Samson I'd made him eat it, bone and all. He wanted to know what I wanted done with the pie, and I said I wanted to leave it in the window on exhibition, just to show what sort of mince meat careful attention to business on the part of the butcher would pro- duce. They’ve called him ‘old bones’ ever since, and I begin to think he doesn’t like it, for the last mince beef he sent up to my place my wife tried out for suet before she learned the differ- ence. I’m going up there to-night and order a horn steak, just to see if I can really get what I buy. Why, sir, when I made a slight kick the other day on the quantity of bone on a porter house steak the ruffian swore up and down that the proportion of bone and meat was rather in favor of the meat.’’ The red-faced man drew nearer and 1 could see him chuckling softly to him- self. ‘‘When I got home,’’ continued the merchant, ‘“‘I cut out the bone and weighed it apart from the meat. Ac- cording to my figures, made honestly and without prejudice, 1 then discovered that if what the butcher said about the proportion was true he had been cutting up an ox that would have made its own- er rich as a museum freak. If he was bone and meat in the exact proportion that my piece of him was, he must have been bone clear back to within two inches and three-quarters of the roots of his tail. What do you think of that, sir? Must have fed him on plaster of Paris and Portland cement to keep him in proper condition. If I could buy cattle like that by the hundred I’d start a but- ton factory—would, for a fact—or you might grind him up and use him for fertilizer.’’ ‘They've found a new kind of cattle now,’’ said the red-faced man, ‘‘and they're going to use ’em exclusively. There isn’t a bone ina carload of ‘em and they’re porter house steak from the nose back to the tail. They're con- structed of alternate streaks of fat and lean and the meat is so juicy that it ruins a critter to bruise the skin when alive. The juice all runs out. There ain’t any liver or lights or inwards merchant ; Then I carried If I’d been as whatever, so there is no waste and the meat can be sold for three cents a pound and the butcher get rich.’’ The hardware merchant began to snort and move away. ‘‘I’ve been thinking of investing in these cattle,’’ continued the red-faced man, ‘‘only I haven't got the right sort of a place to keep ’em in. Being with- out bones, you see, they crawl out through any old place and escape. Man down the country bought one and it crawled out through a knot-hole in the barn, coming out all right on the other side, looking like a bologna sausage. This was a cow and the milk was in one series of links and the butter and cheese in another. I don’t think the farmer put the critter together again, but just brought her into town as she was. He'd been feeding her clover hay, and the meat smelled like honey and a swarm of bees followed him into town and—’’ The merchant gave a shout of laughte1 and made for the back door, the red- faced man in full pursuit. = Jthat’s a yueer combination,’’ | said, turning to the clerks, ‘‘who is that fat man? Crazy, eh?’’ ‘“Not much,’’ was the repiy. ‘'He’s the man our boss buys his meat of. Got even, didn’t he? They're both kick- Crs. | | And | went away without an order. Alfred B. Tozer. ———> 4. _ A man is safe in asking a young woman to share his lot with him when she knows he has money to build on_ it. >> ___ The valentined maiden must steel her heart to prevent some man from steal- ing it. Advertisements will be inserted under this head for two cents a word the first insertion and one cent a word for each subsequent insertion. No advertisements taken for less than 25 cents. Advance payments. BUSINESS CHANCES. POR SALE—A WELL-ESTABLISHED MIL: linery business. Stock worth about $1,000. Reason for selling, a desire to retire from. busi- ness. Mrs. A. W. Nicholson, Newberry, Mich. 221 YOR SALE—GOOD $2,000 DRUG STOCK, doing good business; well located in city of 25,000. Good 5 < arromog for right party. Ad- a dress 220, care Michigan Tradesman. 220 PLENDID OPPORTUNITY TO BUY OUT good business—good clean stock dry goods, notions, men’s furnishings and shoes; well es- tablished trade; best location in town of 3,000; best farming country in Central Michigan. Will sell store fixtures with stock. Address 219, care Michigan Tradesman. 219 YOR SALE—FOUR MILLION FEET VIR- gin hardwood and hemlock timber, all in a bunch, four miles from railroad, one mile from river. Price, $6,000. Address No. 222, care Mich- igan Tradesman. 222 OR SALE—FIVE THOUSAND TONS ST. Louis white lead, laid down at your station, freight prepaid, at five cents per pound: also gas and gasoline mantles, burners, ch mneys, shades, by-passes, mica goods, etc. Write for quota- tions. Fifty sales — wanted at once Glovers’ Wholesale Merchandise Co., Grand Rapids, Mich. 225 ANTED—HARDWARE STOCK, $1,500 TO $2,000 in town of 1,500 to 2,500 inhabitants; doing good business. Address No. 223, care Michigan Tradesman. 223 POR SALE— ESTABLISHED JEWELRY store in beS8t town in Michigan; good farm- ing and lumbering; store and fixtures, $500; rea- son for selling, poor health. Address box 12, Central Lake, Mich. 216 N\ RAND LOCATION FOR HARNESS BUSL ness, fortified by long established family in- fluence to help build up big trade. Town over 6,000; excellent farming country; store, 22x70, situated near farmers’ sheds; small competition, none hear; rent low in order to assist anyone looking for excellent spot to start in’ business in Southern Michigan. Address, at once, I. H., eare Michigan Tradesman. 211 OR SALE OR EXCHANGE—FOR A HARD- ware stock. Will pay difference if any. Jewelry stock, material, tools and fixtures in- voice $1,200. Located in good town in Northern Michigan; county seat; population 1,500; no com- petition. Address D. G., care Michigan Trades- man. a For SALE—STOCK OF DRY GOODS AND clothing; country town; best farming coun- try; opposition light; good business; $1,000 cash sales; connected with arch doors to grocery and shoe store; grocery store gives due bills to the amount of $75 per month in dry goods; store in good location; rent, taxes and insurance pon Snap for good man. Requires about $4,000 eash. Address No. 213, care Michigan Tradesman. 213 CS. WILL GET ONE OF THE BEST bargains ina hardware stock in the State. Investigation as to location and reason for sell- ing solicited. Address A. S., care Michigan Tradesman. 212 ANTED—PARTN LARGE BRICK store, 44x125 feet, $7,000 stock hardware, furniture and bicycles. City 35,000, Central Michigan. Address H, care Michigan Trades- man. 218 ro 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 OR SALE—ON ACCOUNT OF THE DEATH of the proprietor, I am instructed by the court to dispose of the Foote drug steck and fix- tures, inventorying about $7,000. The store has a good trade and is paying well. Charles Bennett, Administrator, Charlotte, Mich. 206 = SALE—WELL-ESTABLISHED RETAIL lumber and fuel business in a live town. Wm. Sebright & 204 Stock inventories about $4,000. Co., Otsego, Mich. POR SALE—STOCK OF GROCERIES IY 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 ORSALE—BOARDING HOUSE, 4 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 VOR SALE—THE ONLY GENERAL STOCK in small town; good surrounding country and good established trade. Reason for selling, poor health Address Box 56, Alto, Kent Co. Mich. 190 FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE—A TWO-STORY brick business block in a Central Michigan town; double room, 40x60 feet; rental value, $600 per year; price, $5,000; or will exchange for stock of clothing, boots and shoes. Address No 175, care Michigan Tradesman. 175 FOR SALE AT A BARGAIN—TWO THOU- sand dollar stock of groceries, feed, ete., also store, fixtures, millinery store and stock ad- eens: also large warehouse beside railroad rack. Profits last year, two thousand five hun- dred dollars. Proprietor wishes to retire. Ad- dress E. D. Goff, Fife Lake, Mich. 159 b tt, Fife 1. suit. man POT CASH PAID FOR STOCK OF DRY — groceries or boots and shoes. Must be cheap. Address A. D., care Michigan Trades- 130 JR SALE—FINE HOTEL AND SMALL livery barn; doing good business; terms to Address No. 135, care Michigan Trades- 135 man. {\ XCHANGE—FOUR GOOD HOUSES, FREE and clear, good location, for a stock of dry eon or clothing, either in or out of city. Reed Osgood, 32 Weston building, Grand Rapids. 127 = SALE—GENERAL STOCK IN GOOD country trading point. Terms to suit pur- chaser. Will rent or sell store building. Ad- dress No. 116, care Michigan Tradesman. 116 RYSON BRICK STORE AT OVID, MICH.., to exchange for timbered land or improved farm or stock of goods. Address L. C. Town- send. Jackson, Mich. 114, POR 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. 2 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 VJ ODERN CITY RESIDENCE AND LARGE 4Vi lot, with barn, for sale cheap on easy terms, or will exchange for tract of hardwood timber. Big bargain for some one. Possession given any time. Investigation solicited. E. A. Stowe, 100 N. Prospect street. Grand Rapids. 993 MISCELLANEOUS. Ww NTED—EX PERIENCED CEDAR OPER- ator to take charge of shingle and tie mill and lumber tract of cedar timber. Excellent opening for right man—one who would take an interest in the business preferred. Timber can be floated to mill, which has outlet by both water and rail. Address No. 224, care Michigan Tradesman. 224 ANTED—A_ FIRST-CLASS SALESMAN for grocers’ specialties, canned goods, ete. Send references and full particulars to Dunkley Celery & Preserving Co., alamazoo, Mich. 210 7 ANTED—POSITION AS SALESMAN IN wholesale or retail store. Seventeen years experience in general store, Address No. 216, care Michigan Tradesman 216 A7 ANTED—REGISTERED PHARMACIST, one who understands work in a general store preferred. State age, experience and sal- ary expected. Address No. 209, care Michigan Tradesman. 2 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 7 ANTED—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, care Michigan Tradesman. 203 ’ 39939393999999999999999999999 99999999 999999999999 | Travelers’ Time Tables. | MERCANTILE ASSOCIATIONS | 4? 1- ia = R e ‘ oT : ‘Excelsior Bolts Wanted d : Pp M tt Michigan Retail Grocers’ Association : E ie i ere arque e President, C. E. WALKER, Bay City; Vice-Pres- v e KING Treile 2. o ‘4 3 Railroad ge go Nuk: Treseret, Ee ; We are in the market for 1,000 cords of Basswood Excelsior Bolts, for 1. “ ne TATMAN, Clare. , which we will pay spot cash on delivery. For further particulars address Chicago. nea an ‘ # Ly. G. Rapids, 7:10am 12:00m 4:30pm *11:50pm Graud Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association I : Ar. Chicago, 1:30pm 5:00pm 10:50pm *7:05am President. FRANK J. DyK; Secretary, HOMER at wcciciaaaiie js >. Ly. Chicago, 7:15am 12:00m 5:00pm *11:50pm LAP; Treasurer, J. GEORGE LEHMAN gig Pr \817 5 7 I- a Ar. G. Rapids, 1:25pm 5:05pm 10:55pm *6:20am oo - are lone omen n i Y : . : : are , ED | Phage ype ge gas oix and{vetoskey. Detroit Retail Grocers’ Axsociation § 2m ae Tian 4 v. G. Rapids, 7:30am 4:00pm President, JosePH KNIGHT; Secretary, E ee na cnn ‘ Ar. Trav City, 12:40pm 9:10pm Nera Meee Se ee as ri alata . ‘ Ar. Charlev’x, 3:15pm 11:25pm MaARkKs; Treasurer, C H. FRINK. a == ; uf — ' Ar. Petoskey, 3:45pm 11:55pm . 10 if , 8) ae F Trains arrive from north at 2:40pm, and Kalamazoo Reta. Grocers’ Association A Net tJescsman te and 10:00pm. President, W. H. JOHNSON; Secretary, CHAS. A : Detroit. HYMAN. ul < GegndRevtas... tom seems ie. Bay Cites Retail Grocer’ Asoratio ae : Ly. Detroit...../).'.. 8:40am 1:10pm 6:00pm | President, C. E. WALKER; Secretary, E. © Ar. Grand Rapids.... 1:30pm 5:10pm 10:45pm LITTLE. zs j > ent Alma and gighee=an ya a Muskegon Retail Grocers’ Association - a i Lv Grand Rapids...... .....---- 7:00am 5:20pm | president, H. B. SMITH; Secretary, D. A " z , ‘Me SnpinawW eo ee 11:55pm 10:15pm eres Tetopilenie 7 ee ee wv Ly Saginaw... ees 7:00am 4:50pm nS Seen, m 83 to 97 Sixth Street, Grand Rapids, Michigan. v ; Ar Grand Rapids | ........---- 11:55am 9:50pm Jackson Retail Grocers’ Association Ne a GCEEEEEE ECE EEE CECE CECE COE CEE R EER EEE i Parlor cars on all trains to and from Detroit | president, J. FRANK HELMER; Secretary, W : calla Cre te a ' : ' ' y, i and Saginaw. Parlor cars on afternoon trains | 4, PORTER; Treasurer, L. PELTON. r to and from Chicago. Pullman sleepers on night trains. Parlor car to Traverse City on morn- Adrian Retail (rocers’ Association 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 Cinein- nati; 11:30pm train, sleeping car and coach to Chicago. Chicago Trains. TO CHICAGO. Ly. Grand Rapids...+7 10am +2 00pm Ar. Chieago......... 2 30pm = 8 45pm FROM CHICAGO Lv. Chicago..... ......-t3 2pm = *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. Ly. Grand Rapids....t7 35am +1 35pm = +5 40pm Ar. Muskegon........ 9 00am 2 50pm = 7 00pm Sunday train leaves Grand Rapids 9:15am; arrives Muskegon at 10:40am. Returning leaves Muskegon 5:30pm; arrives Grand Rapids, 6:50pm. *11 30pm 7 00am President, THOS. BROMLEY; Secretary, FRANK A. PERCY; Treasurer, CLARK A. PUTT. Perry Business Men’s Association President, H. W. WALLACE; Secretary, T. E. HEDDLE. Grand Haven Retail Merchants’ Association President, F. D. Vos; Secretary, J. W. VER- HOEKs. Yale Business Men’s Association President, CHAS. ROUNDS; Secretary, FRANK PUTNEY. Grand Rapids Retail Meat Dealers’ Association President, L. M. WILSON; Secretary, PHILIP HILBER; Treasurer, S. J. HUFFORD. WHOLESALE SUGARS AND COFFEES ing train. : : Se 9 e *Every day. Others week days only. Eee. A. C, CLARK; Secretary, E. F. : ; GEO. DEHAVEN, General Pass. Agent. YLEVELAND; Treasurer, WM. C. KOEHN / ce Grand Rapids, Mich. Saginaw Retail Merchants’ Association 1 January 1, 1900. President, M. W. TANNER; Secretary, E. H. Me- : PHERSON; Treasurer, R. A. HORR. : G AND Rapids & Sadiana Rallwey Traverse City Business Men’s Association pa. a uf ath Bd THT i jai i vi Write for prices. December 17, 1899. — ane iL i ee M. B. tk : i Hl q OLLY; Treasurer, C. A. HAMMOND. mh - y ; Northern Division. Goin From ri 5 oS } Mp \q Wm. Brummeler ; Sa North North Owosso Business Men’s Association My HF &S Trav. City, Petoskey, Mack. + 7:45am + 5:15pm | president, A. D. WHIPPLE; Secretary q. T Hine Hi ons / Trav. City, Petoskey, Mack. + 2:10pm +10:15pm MPBELL: Tres WE COLLINS. Se ’ j d pars Ee as + 5:25pm pened massing Treasurer, 'W. a } l etoskey & Mackinaw City +11:00pm + 6:20am | — Pt, Hurons Merchants’ and Manufacturers’ Association cia / : 7:45am and 2:10pm trains, parlor cars; 11:00pm | pres} coking vi Sandee! fp ' Manufacturers of 7 é train, sleeping car. I ot WELLMAN; Secretary, J. T. * Southern Division Going From any sa TINWARE AND 5 ke South =. Alpena Business Men’s Association ——— h RE ANI Z00, ht. Wayne Ulin. ¢ 2102 : ea y eel es ‘a o . oT se Kalamazoo and Ft. Wayne. + 2:00pm + 2:00pm I poner W. GILCHRIST; Secretary, C. L. {UMM SHEET METAL Kalamazoo, Ft. Wayne Cin. * 7:00pm * 6:45am F ana ee a Kalamazoo and Vicksburg. *11:30pin_ * 9:10am St. Johns Business Men’s Association GOODS. 249-263 S. lonia St., Grand Rapids, Mich. Michigan GOING EAST. Ly. Muskegon...... +8 10am +12 15pm +4 00pm . Ar. Grand Rapids... 9 30am_=—s 1 30pm_—s55 20pm Get our Prices es a a eT +Exeept Sunday. *Daily. Before Buying Elsewhere Cc. L. LOCKWOOD, Gen’l Pass’r and Ticket Agent. W. C. BLAKE, Ticket Agent Union Station. MANISTE & Northeastern Ry. MOSELEY AND SHELBY No. 25 TOWER BLK. GRAND RAPIDS Z 2Se Co., Ltd. Dealers in DUOO DD: 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. lowest prices Send your name and address for sample books of this season’s Wall Papers. £ INVOICE RECORD OR BILL BOOK So double pages, registers 2,880 INVOICES ....-...-.-002-0282 OO E. A. Stowe, B odgett Building, Grand Rapids. BRRARA ARR Iwi + Tradesman Company Grand Rapids, Mich. ANI DIROPS PS PSRs ; Best route to Manistee. T k R 1 t f fl 7 ; uw bake a Neceipt lor | Wall Paper y Via ©. & W. M. Railway. E thi fF , ' Ly. Grand Rapids..............-..7 30am... : > : ak Ar Mauistee "Ta tom verything Painters’ Supplies SR Gane itapids 220000000002 2 gopm_ 10 oopm It may save you a thousand dol- “y — — |W lars, or a lawsuit, or a customer. : an d Window ¢ enonencnenenenonenes onene fh We make City Package Re- a : oe = ceipts to order; also keep plain Shades z ] RADESMAN e G ones in stock. Send for samples. f s oF : a e BARLOW BROS, 2 oe sae St., tf > 6| % GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. etroit. Mich. a SIZE—8 1- . THREE cates: : Peres Agents Wanted for Villages and Towns. ’ 2 Quires, 160 pages... -..- $2 00 S iaase on co a For Sale Cheap We can furnish anything that Paper Hang- ae oe 72 . Residence property at 24 Kellogg ers and Painters need in their business; e B e B | : : DB e a 4 weet init ii ys tt eh nec et aaa ns ale ean de ear = Oe Er Se RSS SARS SS SS ESS SESE SAI SAIS IISA SEAS, eS H. L If not, write and heavy stocks enable us to avoid advanced prices and keep them down to the minimum. and send us a trial order. tention as large ones. Glassware Lamps Lamp Goods Lanterns Crockery Druggists’ Sundries Pins and Combs Handkerchiefs Sho2 Laces Thread and Hose Books Stationers’ Sundries Bazaar Novelties Account Books Express Wagons Children’s Carriages Pictures And many other lines. EONARD & SONS” IMPORTERS, MANUFACTURERS AND JOBBERS Have You Received Our Spring Catalogue? for one. It will save you money. Old contracts Look over the list below Small orders receive as prompt at- We handle: Silver Platedware Brooms Jewelry Stove Boards Furniture Refrigerators Carpets Gasoline Stoves Curtains Oil Stoves Matting Stoves & Ranges Rugs, Etc Shelf Hardware Draperies Tinware - Telescopes Enameled Ware Valises & Trunks Cutlery Leather Goods Brushes Clocks Paints & Frescoes Screen Doors Wall Paper Window Screens . Wringers Paper & Twine Woodenware Hammocks Bicycles Marbles Bicycle Sundries SASS OE RS SOSA AISA SAE OS OS AIS Let us hear from you. H. LEONARD & SONS, Grand Rapids, Mich. PISARSACISASA SAT OAS It pays any dealer to have the rep- ‘ utation of keeping pure goods. It pays any dealer to keep the Sey- MOUR CRACKER. There’s a large and growing sec- tion of the public who will have the best, and with whom the mat- ter of a cent or so a pound makes noimpression. It’s not how cheap with them; it’s how good. For this class of people the Sry- MOUR CRACKER is made. ' \K NY Discriminating housewives recog- nize its superior flavor, purity, de- liciousness, and will have it. If you, Mr. Dealer, want the trade of particular people, keep the Sry- MOUR CRACKER. Made by National Biscuit | Company -Grand Rapids, Mich. @® @ ® ® ® @ ® @ w db @® @ @ w ® @ ® ) @ @ ® I) ) @ @ @ w® @ ® ® ) ® ® ® ® ‘ OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOGOOOOOOOOOOOGOGODOOOOOOOGHOGOOOOGOOGOOOOOGOOODO It’s a Big Question OOOOODOOOGOOOGOOOGOOOOOOOOOOOOGHGG It’s a serious question. WHAT AM I IN BUSINESS FOR? The teaches you what you are in busi- ness for. Money Weight System 7 & Put Money Weight Scales in your store and see if your profits won't increase. Good honest profit on every ounce of merchandise weighed over our Money Weight Computing Scales. Who sells this system? _ The Computing Scale Co. Dayton, Ohio How do they sell them? On easy payments. GGHOGGHOOHGHHGHHOOOHHGHOOO Seaesoeeeessoess