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GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 1900.

IMPORTANT FEATURES.

Page. ie

2. Fruits and Produce.
Getting the People.
Around the State.
Grand Rapids Gossip.
The Produce Market.

6. Gotham Gossip.

7. The Buffalo Market.

8. Editorial.

9. Editorial.

10. The Meat Market.

11. Clerks’ Corner.

12. Dry Goods.

13. Clothing.

14. Shoes and Leather.

15. Woman’s World.

Crockery and Glassware Quotation.
17. Commercial Travelers.
18. Drugs and Chemicals.
19. Drug Price Current.
20. Grocery Price Current.
21. Grocery Price Current.
22. Hardware,
23. Men of Mark.
24. Booming the Town.
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GENERAL TRADE REVIEW.

The harmonizing of adverse interests
in the Carnegie company and the acqui-
sition of the Third Avenue street rail-
way property in New York by the Met-
ropolitan company are factors which
are effective in raising stock values all
along the line. The average of im-
provement of transportation stocks for
the week was $2.26 per share and of in-
dustrials $1.44. The much talked of
Third Avenue led with a rise of $35.25 a
share. The money market has become
much easier and this with the assurance
from the enactment of the currency bill
has some effect, but much more is at-
tributed to the settlements mentioned.

The harmonizing of the Carnegie in-
terests are also of vast importance in
the iron situation, giving as they do the
assurance of no radical changes in com-
petition or in the methods of manage-
ment. The great scarcity in steelmak-
ing iron is now a principal bull element
in the iron manufacture. Prices of
anthracite foundry, Eastern and South-
ern forge and _ steel plates are weaker,
but Bessemer pig is hard to buy at the
prices quoted and higher are predicted.

Nothing startling appears in grain,
which has fallen with decreased exports.
But the merchandise exports from New
York, including not less than 35,000
bales of cotton, have amounted in three
weeks to $43,916,895, or 63.8 per cent.
more than last year, while the imports
in three weeks have been $272,000 less
than last year. While the figures point
to an excess of exports over imports
considerably exceeding $50,000,000 in
New York, it can not be assumed that
the increase elsewhere has been as large.
Meanwhile the money market is undis-
turbed, and although clearings are 19.8
per cent. smaller at New York and 7.3
per cent. smaller at other chief cities in
March thus far than last year, when the
great corporations were being formed,
they are nevertheless 32.1 per cent.
larger at New York, and 32.2 per cent.
larger at other cities than in 1898, when
transactions were considerably greater
than had ever been known in March.

The tendency of prices in the boot and
shoe market is upward in spite of the
decline in the Chicago hide market.
The effect of the advance has been a

 

and
with fewer orders than for a

considerable curtailment of orders
works are
long time.

In textiles the woolen market main-
tains nominally its high quotations, but
the little movement there is in the trade
is at concessions. Many grades of
woolen goods sympathize with the raw
staple in dulness. European demand
still holds the price of cotton at a small
fraction below ten cents. Exports have
been 520,429 bales this month, against
276,251 last year, and at such prices that
instead of $8,500,000 last year, prob-
ably $23,500,000 is paid this month.
Including Southern consumption of 103, -
ooo, there have come into sight 449,925
bales this month, against 476,719 last
year; but Northern spinners have taken
only 108,745, against 138,997 last year.
Europe appears to need about 215,000
bales more than its commercial and mill
stocks to run until September at the cen-
sumption now reported, while Northern
mills apparently have more than enough,
with 1,251,000 bales in commercial
stocks left to meet Southern and foreign
needs. But the idea that foreigners will
buy much beyond their needs, in order
to carry over as much Io cent cotton as
they would carry of 6 cent cotton, has
yet to meet the test of events.
for delivery months hence are sold very
little and at some concessions. .

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A second Pan-American congress will
be heid next winter and already there
are evidences that it will be interesting
and valuable. It is worth something for
the republics on this continent to be
well acquainted with each other. These
conferences bring them into closer touch.
European influences anxious for trade
and commercial advantage have not
hesitated to attempt to make disturb-
ances and occasion differences between
the United States and other American
republics lying to the southward. It is
true that the export trade of this coun-
try to the South American republics has
fallen off quite considerably in the last
few years, and indeed the same is true
of our exports to all South and Central
American countries. There has been a
corresponding loss in imports as well.
In 1892 the United States imported from
these countries coffee to the value of
$120, 000,000, while last year the imports
were only $48,000,000. Sugar and mo-
lasses amounted to $87,000,000 in 1894,
and last year only $38,000,000. India
rubber is about the only article showing
any substantial increase in imports, the
business in that having increased
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A Boston man has been making hun-
dreds of dollars by selling ‘‘three star
ring good luck boxes,’’ the alleged pro-
duction of Hindoos with magical pow-
ers. As usual, an unfeeling postal in-
spector has killed the romance in the
story by discovering that the boxes
were turned out by a factory at Lynn for
5 cents each.

A young man who does no labor to
speak of during the year can easily per-
suade himself that he is overworked in

the spring.

 

 

Number 862

THE TROUBLE IN CHINA,

The fact that American missionaries
in China have been maltreated and_ the
further fact that American warships are
concentrating on the coast of China are
subjects of some concern to public men
at the national capital. The maltreating
of missionaries in China is no new
thing and of itself need cause no fears
of serious trouble. Neither is it any-
thing unusual to send warships to the
coast of China, as this country has
maintained for many years a squadron
in Chinese waters; in fact, the ‘‘China
Station’’ is one of the regular flag com-
mands of the service.

It must be remembered, however, that
China of to-day is not the China of a
decade and more ago. The territory of
the Chinese empire is now divided up
into what are known as spheres of influ-
ence, in each of which some European
power Claims an exclusive right to inter-
vene or operate. For this reason some
of the powers are disposed to view. the
sending of warships to Chinese waters
as unwarranted interference on our part,

In the present case the missionaries
maltreated resided in that part of China
claimed by Germany as her legitimate
sphere of influence.
ernment

The German gov-
offered to protect
American missionaries residing within
the sphere of influence in question. This
offer the Washington Government can
accept with all propriety, without, how-
ever, surrendering our undoubted right
to protect our citizens with our own
ships and military force if it should be
deemed proper to do so.

This country is
“open door’’
moment

has even

committed to the
policy, and can not for a
recognize the sphere of influ-
ence claims. Our treaty rights with
China force us to look to the Chinese
governinent for redress where our. citi-
zens residing in China suffer injury,
and no sphere of influence claims can
for a moment be permitted to stand in
the way of our doing our full duty by
Americans, wherever they reside. If
the Government deems it proper to send

warships to Chinese waters, and even
to land troops on Chinese soil, it has a
perfect right to do so and no foreign
government would have the least right
to interfere so long as forcible action
on our part was merely of a punitive
character, and was free from all ittempt
at territorial aggrandizement.

The excitement caused by sending
warships to China should warn our peo-
ple that the retention of the Philippines
will embroil us permanently in the
Eastern question, and lead to no end of
complications. International compli-
cations are the natural penalties of an
imperial policy.

It is said Delaware sportsmen have
made contracts with a New York millin-
ery supply house for 20,000 birds. This
useless and cruel slaughter is to feed the
vanity of women who are without hearts
and try to borrow the plumage of dead

birds to make themselves beautiful.
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Fruits and Produce.

When Will the Egg Shipper Learn the
Lesson ?

All along during my fifteen years’ ex-
perience in the business there have been
egg speculators—operators who bulled
or discounted the market—and_ their
wrecks jie along the shores of time.
Every state in the Northwest has con-
tributed the ‘‘defuncts’’ to the trade—
‘*knows ails’’ who thought they could
control the markets, control prices, con-
trol production, but who, alas! would be
much better off to-day if they had only
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It remained for the development of the
ammonia process cold storage system to
build the great cold storage houses in
the consuming centers during the past
six to ten years. That has furnished the
modern system of speculation in eggs.
During the past few years three out of
five of the gatherers and shippers of
eggs in the West have joined the spec-
ulators’ class, many of whom | know in
former years had done a legitimate, con-
servative business, buying and selling
on the market, making fair earnings,
such as a fair prosecution of this busi-
ness allows. This modern system, to
my mind, has been very hurtful to the
trade. Weak human nature, in its eager
desire to become rich, overweeningly
ambitious to be known as a_ large
handler of eggs, has succumbed to the
seductive propositions of the big storage
houses and aggressive commission mer-
chants, accepted their advances, and
waded in beyond its depth, only to be
in the end overwhelmed in the ebb
and flow of the tide of mercantile trans-
actions—some _ lost forever, others
stranded like a wreck, the big storage
house getting its storage charges and
advances out of the salvage, and the
Gommission merchant his commissions
and advances and interest, while the
poor shipper holds the bag.

Will the shipper learn the lesson of
experience? Can he not see that, under
the present system of storage, consid-
ering the vast capacity of the storage
Qouses and the increased production of
eggs, in storing large quantities of eggs
he departs from legitimate business ven-
tures, becomes a mere speculator, a
gambler with the cards stacked against
him.

I make this one general assertion, that
the shipper who continues to store large
quantities of eggs, under present con-
ditions, year after year, stares ruin in
the face as surely as the gambler who
bucks the wheel and keeps at it.

There is a legitimate storage for the
shipper. He-is buying and shipping
eggs on the market, paying a fair mar-
ket price, venturing like an enterpris-
ing merchant within his capital to de-
velop and widen his business. Com-
petition will require his storing a few
eggs in order to fairly hold his own, but
never more than his capital will fairly
admit of, nor more than he can weli dis-
pose of in the fall and early winter with-
in restricted outlets; and then he must
be willing to accept early small profits, or
even a loss in order to get rid of a_ sur-
plus.

No shipper can afford to own eggs in
public cold storage after December 1, or
15 at the latest, and the wisest shippers
sell their holdings just as soon as a
profit appears, although it’s within a
week after the eggs go into storage, and
they never let September go by without
decreasing their holdings largely.

As an almost universal rule the West-

 

ern shipper is storing from two to five
times as many eggs as he should. Can
he not see that, with this increased
storage capacity, every handler of eggs
in the East carries large quantities on
his own account with which to largely
supply his trade as the season arrives for
using storage eggs (which is right and
legitimate), and that those eggs will
be moved and furnished to consumption
just as soon as a margin allows and,
that this storage business is now con-
ducted on the most even and legitimate
percentage of profit, such as any other
business allows?

Experience has taught us this lesson
now for a number of years, and still the
inordinate greed of the country shippers
to buy all the eggs they see or can hear
of, and that, too, with money furnished
by storage houses or commission mer-
chants on an I. O. U. attached to a
warehouse receipt, forces this unnatural
condition of things, unreasonable
prices in the West and ownerships of a
great many more eggs in storage than
good business policy will justify. Ship-
pers who might with some reason own
two or three cars in storage talk of ten
or twenty, and shippers who could
afford to carry tive or ten cars talk of
twenty-five to fifty, and some who might
own ten to twenty-five cars must put
away fifty to sixty. Under such a_ con-
dition of affairs, is it any wonder that
unnatural, forced prices are paid every-
where throughout the West during the
Storage season?—A. W. Johnson in Egg
Reporter.

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the girl.

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of business success, | write to commend
your efforts and also to submit an adver-
tisement for criticism.

Mr. Clark’s advertisement is repro-
duced herewith. I have this criticism to
make of it: it asserts that Clark’s bread

Ask Your Grocer
For Clark’s Bread.

The best bread in the city for only 4 cents a
loaf. Don’t take any other, but insist on having
the best. If they are out of Clark’s bread come
to the City Bakery and get it.

Remember we can furnish you with Yeast,
Salt Rising, Cream, Brown, Graham, Home-
made, or any kind of bread you want, and at the
reasonable price of

4 Cents a Loaf.

Why pay 5 cents for bread when ‘you can get
the best for less money. Use Clark’s bread and
90 other and you are sure to be pleased.

At the City Bakery you will also find a full line

of other baked goods.
C. S. CLARK, Prop.

 

is the best without giving any reasons
for its superiority. Now, the people
who read the newspapers are not used to
swallowing statements whole—they want
to know the why of every assertion that
is made. What Mr. Clark should do is
to tell why his bread is best. Let him
speak of the care with which the flour is
selected, the cleanliness of every opera-
tion in the making of the bread, the
skill of the bakers who produce it—then
he will give his readers something to
remember—something that will always
come to their minds whenever they
think of bread. Mr. Clark's advertise-
ment is very creditable as to its general
appearance, and if he will adopt the
plan suggested above, he should be able
to stimulate the sale of his bread con-
siderably.
+ ee

The Hastings Drug Co., of Sparta,
sends in an advertisement for criticism,
which is one of the most attractively
displayed that it has been my pleasure
to see.

I have but one fault to find in it—the
expression, ‘‘Exceedingly Comfortable
Prices.’’ The use of the word comfort-
able is incorrect and there is not the
shadow of an excuse for it. There used
to be a time when people thought that
weird torturings of the English language
added to the force of an advertisement
—happily, that illusion is almost dis-
pelled. There is no objection to mak-
ing your advertisements masterpieces of
literature, provided you don’t polish the
business out of them—but don’t use in-
appropriate or absurd combinations of
words in the hope of making your ad-
vertisements original. Originality is not
to be desired when it comes at a sacri-
fice of common sense. The ravings of a
lunatic are original, in the sense that no
sane person would be likely to say such
things—but they mark the lunatic still
more plainly, for the same reason. As
a general rule, the more plainly, the
more simply, the more convincingly you
talk in your advertisements, the more

 

HASTINGS DRUG CO.

“The Brick Store on the Corner.”

Sparta, Michigan.

 

«Elegance fits nowhere as well as in
the home.”’

7. O expense of time or money is too great to
lavish upon the home. Nothing has so
much influence upon the character of young and
old as home surroundings. No other place
should be so pleasant or so dear to its inmates as
the home. The entire character of a house is
changed by its arrangements and decorations.
An immediate transformation takes place with
the transformation of its walls. There is no way
of making elegant and pleasing changes in the
home as cheaply and conveniently as with wall
paper.

Harmonious Creations of Wall Paper Art

Abound in great numbers in our splendid stock
of Wall Paper. Rich greens, dainty blues, cheer-
ful yellows, warm reds, high colored floral pat-
terns with shaded borders and blended ceilings
are strong points of beauty in wall paper for
1900. Added to the strong points of beauty are

Exceedingly Comfortable Prices.

We shall open the season by a Special Sale of
cheap papers, beginning at once.

1,000 rolls kitchen papers, choice of ten pat-
terns and colors, two band border, with
ceiling to mateh if desired, per roll......... le

1,000 rolls sitting room, bed room and stair
papers, two band borders, choice of ten
colors and patterns, usually sell for 5¢ per
POM; ce. piece ey dea cal er ls oi ze

1,000 rolls parlor, bed room and sitting
room papers. two band borders, full weight
and length rolls, large number of patterns
to select from, quality that usually sells for
Gelper TON ee

1,000 rolls of remnants, both papers and
borders, one and two rolls of a kind, just
right for patching and repairing, worth up
as high as 50e per roll, your choice, papers
Or borders, per rom oc be

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common people, of whom Lincoln said:
‘‘The Lord must have loved them—be-
cause he made so many of them.’’
W. S. Hamburger.
—-— o> - —————
Willing Testimony.

‘‘How do you like your new type-
writer?’’ enquired the agent.

‘‘It’s grand,’’ was the immediate re-
ply. ‘‘l wonder how I ever got along
without it.’’

‘*Well, would you mind giving me a
little testimonial to that effect?’’

‘*Certainly not. Do it gladly.’’ So
he rolled up his sleeves and in an_ in-
credibly short time pounded out this:

‘‘After Using the amtomating Back-
action a type writ, er for thre emonth
and Over, I unhessttattingly pronounce
it pronoce it to be al even more than the
Manufacturs Claim? for it During the
time in possession e i th ree month zi
id has more than paid for itself in the
ving of it and labor.—Johns $ Gibb.’’

‘“ There you are, sir.’’

‘“Thanks,’’ said the agent, and most
quickly went away.

—_-+-~> 9

A man who owes money has no right
to be loafing and wasting the time of
his creditors.

PREPARED PAINTS

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paints made. Sell well.
Wear well. One agent
wanted in every town.

Write to the manufacturers

A. M. Dean Co.,
230-232 E. Kalamazoo Ave.,
Kalamazoo, Mich.

 

Have You Played Crokinole?

It’s THE game of the year.
TRIUMPH Crokinole Boards
are best. Send for our handsome
catalogue. It explains all.

Dillenbaugh-Alton Mfg Co., Portiand, Mich

 

RUBBER STAMPS

You can do business with.
Write now to

BUSINESS STAMP WORKS.
49 and 50 Tower Block, Grand Rapids, Mich.

Catalogue for the asking.
Both Phones 2255.

  

 

YUSEA MANTLES.
We are the distributing
agents for this part of the
State for the Mantle that
is making such a stir in the

world.

It gives 100 candle power,
is made of a little coarser
mesh and is more durable.

Sells for 50 cents.

Will outwear three ordi-
nary mantles

more light.

GRAND RAPIDS GAS LIGHT CO.,

 
   

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Blue Wrappe

children.

and gives

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Grand Rapids, Mich.

Established 1780.

Walter Baker & Co,

Dorchester, Mass.

Largest Manufacturers of

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GOCOAS
CHOCOLATES

on this Continent.
No Chemicals are used in
their manufactures.

Their Breakfast Cocoa is absolutely pure,
delicious, nutritious, and costs less than one

LTD,

Their Premium No. 1 Chocolate, put up in
rs and Yellow Labels, is the best
plain chocolate in the market for family use.
Their German Sweet Chocolate is good tc
eat and good to drink. It is palatable, nutri
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the State

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Movements of Merchants.

Alcona—Wm. Clark has purchased the
general stock of Joseph Miller.

Detroit--Hester & Kramer have pur-
chased the grocery stock of Chas. Mer-
rell.

Clare—Pierce & McKinnon succeed
Henry W. Pierce in the grocery busi-
ness.

Niles—Hanna & Day, of Detroit,
have opened millinery parlors at this
place.

Frankfort—The drug stock of J. B.
Collins & Son was recently partially de-
stroyed by fire.

Cheboygan—Henrietta E. (Mrs. Ee:
E.) Hamilton has removed ,her bazaar
stock to Crystal.

Ann Arbor—Chas. Lampos_ succeeds
J. Lampos in the bakery and confec-
tionery business.

Flint—Edna L. Mason is succeeded
by Hewes & Cameron in the drug and
grocery business.

Eaton Rapids—A. W. Annis is clos-
ing out his boot and shoe stock and will
retire from trade.

Detroit--Chas. G. Roehm, dealer in
meats and vegetables, has sold out to
Chas. J. Granier.

Eaton Rapids—Norton & Coster have
purchased the bazaar stock of Mahala,
Townsend & Co.

Springport—The drug firm of Doak &
Orrison has been dissolved, John H.
Doak succeeding.

Charlotte—F. A. Waltersdorf has en-
gaged in the harness and vehicle busi-
ness at this place.

Litchfield—Wanless & Preston have
sold their harness, buggy and imple-
ment stock to J. B. Hadley & Co.

Fairfield—A. A. Goodsell & Co. have
sold their drvg, dry goods and grocery
stock to M. F. Billings, of Rome Cen-
cer.

Lake City—Fred Bartholomew has
concluded the purchase of a bazaar stock
at Cedar Springs and has removed to
that place.

Three Rivers—H. P. Hilton, of De-
troit, who recently purchased the harness
stock of C. J. Engle, has taken posses-
sion of same.

Sherman—Ruthie Wheeler has pur-
chased the merchandise stock of his
father and will continue the business in
his own name.

Cadillac—Jas. Broderick, formerly en-
gaged with the Giant Clothing Co., of
Grand Rapids, has opened a clothing
store at this place.

Ithaca—The grocery and crockery firm
of Ingles & Hiffner has been dissolved,
the former purchasing the latter’s inter-
est in the business.

Lake Odessa—Jacob Lundquist has
sold his meat market to Gardner Wight
and Harry Hubbard, who will continue
the business at the same location.

Saline—Wm. Judson has purchased
the interest of Mr. McKinnon in the
hardware stock of McKinnon & Jerry.
The firm name will hereafter be known
as Jerry & judson.

St. Johns—S. A. Post, formerly en-
gaged with the Crowe-Wesener Shoe
Co., of Owosso, has purchased the inter-
est of Mr. Woodruff, in the shoe firm of
Woodruff & Trompe.

Croswell—Wm. Owens and Wm. Pren-
tiss, formerly engaged in the furniture
and undertaking business under the style
of Owens & Prentiss, have dissolved
partnership, the former continuing the
undertaking business and the latter tak-
ing the furniture stock.

 

Northville—Mark S. Ambler & Co.
succeed the Ambler Mercantile Co. in
the lumber, coal and ice business.

Evart—The Evart Telephone Co. has
undertaken an extension of its toll line
service from this place to Marion, tak-
ing in Avondale, Beech Tree Corners
and Gormer en route.

Iron Mountain—The Iron Mountain
Co-operative Society will shortly open a
grocery store and meat market in the
Spencer block. John Hathaway has been
engaged as manager of the new com-
pany.

Ashley —Harry Rose has purchased a
half interest in the dry goods, boot and
shoe and grocery stock of B. Garrett,
and will assume the management of the
business. The new firm will be known
as Garrett & Rose.

 

Manufacturing Matters.

Rose City—Ray Beach succeeds H.
A. Beach & Son in the saw and _flour-
ing mill business.

Detroit—The Nonpareil Shirt Co.,
manufacturers of shirts, pants and over-
alls, will discontinue business about
May |.

Port Huron—The Thompson Wocden-
ware Co. is fitting up the store former-
ly occupied by Carleton & Cole and
will use it in connection with its busi-
ness.

Holland--The ‘stockholders of the
Holland Sugar Co. were agreeably sur-
prised this week when they received
notice that a dividend of 4 per cent.
would be paid on their amount invested.

Clare—Curtis Palmer, formerly en-
gaged in the mercantile business at
Colonville, has purchased an interest in
the chair rod factory of R. Muscott, the
firm name being Muscott & Palmer.
Other specialties will also be manufac-
tured.

Jonesville—The Leroux Cider and
Vinegar Co., of Toledo, will establish a
salting station at this place, having
contracted with growers for 300 acres of
pickles. The company is considering
the idea of establishing a canning fac-
tory here also.

Three Rivers—The Armstrong-Durst
Machine Works, of Chicago, have been
secured to locate here, the contract be-
ing closed this morning. The factory
will be located in the first ward near
the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern
Railway, on what is known as the old
city pound. The company employs
about fifteen people and cost the city
$1,500 and the site. Work will be com-
menced at once on a new building for
them.

 

>.>
The Bean Market.

The market is showing stronger feel-
ing and it looks now as though we
should see higher values within a_ short
time. Stocks are being gradually re-
duced to a very low point, both in the
United States and Canada. Canada now
has on hand from 130 to 140 cars. Mich-
igan has about 200 cars, including the
twenty cars at Detroit. California has
about 100 cars and New York has just
about what will be needed for seed. The
demand has increased for choice hand
picked pea beans somewhat during the
past week and it is rumored in the New
York market that a Government order
has been issued to buy 570,000 pounds
of beans, which will probably help the
demand a little. Foreign beans con-
tinue to arrive, but receipts have been
lighter for the past few weeks. Red
kidney and other fancy grades are quiet

and about 5c lower. E. L. Wellman.
——_> 2>_____

For Gillies’ N. Y. tea, all kinds,
grades and prices, Visner, both phones.

 

The Boys Behind the Counter.

Lansing—Clyde M. Douglas has re-
signed his position in the grocery store
of S. B. Taylor & Co., and taken a po-
sition in Leslie. He will be succeeded
by Basil Crittenden. Harold Brum has
also taken a position with the same firm.

Cadillac—Fred Woolston, who was
employed as pharmacist in George D.
Van Vranken’s drug store, has gone to
the home of his parents near Grand
Rapids. Mr. Woolston’s continued ill
health made necessary the change.

Owosso—W. Lee Crowe, who was at
one time a member of the firm of Harts-
horn, Son & Crowe and later of Crowe
& Payne, has taken a position with
Hartshorn & Son as floor salesman.

Saginaw—Retail Clerks’ union, No.
65, recently held a pleasant social gath-
ering at Gage hall, in honor of Fred M.
Campbell, one of the charter members,
who recently returned to this city after
an absence of several months. About
fifty couples participated, the east side
union and Bay City union being repre-
sented. A large attendance from Bay
City had been expected, but an import-
ant meeting there prevented the attend-
ance of some of the prominent mem-
bers. During the early part of the even-
ing dancing was enjoyed, and this was
followed by a banquet. After the tooth-
some viands had been discussed there
was a feast of reason. John W. Clark,
President of the union, acted as toast-
master.

Cadillac—F. N. Kathe, of Cleveland,
Ohio, has taken a position as clerk in
Morgan & Murray’s hardware store.

Owosso—Otto Stever has taken a posi-
tion as clerk in Fred Carpenter’s gro-
cery.

Cadillac—Wellington Snider has re-
signed his position with Johnston &
Kaiser, the grocers, and is now engaged
with the Harristown grocers, E. G.
Snider & Co. Fred Nye, of Flint, is
Mr. Snider’s successor at Johnston &
Kaiser’s.

Evart—Mrs. H. A. Bailey has re-
signed as book-keeper for the Davis
Dry Goods Co. and has been succeeded
by Miss Blanche Doolittle.

Port Huron—J. B. Vail, who has been
associated with the Meisel dry goods
house for the past thirteen years, has
closed his connection with the business.
He has completed arrangements for the
removal of his family to Balfour, North
Dakota, where he will take up a business
which promises a large measure of pros-
perity.

Cadillac—Andrew Lindstrom has taken
a position in Robert Johnson’s grocery
store.

Owosso—F red Conkling, formerly shoe
clerk for Goodspeed Bros., has entered
the employ of Hookway & Sons. He
will work in the clothing and shoe de-
partment. John Brown succeeds him
at Goodspeed Bros.’

Cadillac—George Webber has resigned
his position in A. H. Webber’s drug
store. Hereafter he will be engaged as
salesman in the Dunham & Cassler fur-

niture and undertaking establishment.
———_> 42>

The Grain Market.

Wheat during the week held its own
under the most persistent bear reports.
It seems impossible for the bear element
to find any more reports to force a de-
cline. The great bugbear is that Argen-
tine has 60,000,000 or 70,000,000 bushels
of wheat. Yet how insignificant that is
when one State, Kansas, a few years ago
alone raised nearly 90,000,000 bushels.
Still the bears harp on Argentine with
only the amount stated. We have about

tone.

 

54,000,000 bushels in sight, but the in-
visible is certainly not near as much as
it was a year ago, so there is no use of
trying to depress the market on that ac-
count, as it will all be needed before
the new crop becomes available. May
wheat closed to-day about where it did
a week ago. Winter wheat held its own
and is about 6c higher for cash as well as
for May, making May about 73c.

Corn has been very active and ad-
vanced fully 14%4c per bushel. May op-
tion is 38%c and all offerings are read-
ily taken. It really looks as if the de-
mand exceeded the supply at present as
farmers are not ready sellers at present
prices.

While the trade is large in oats, prices
have only made a slight gain of %c per
bushel. They will probably remain at
present prices.

Rye is only steady at last week’s quo-
tations, bringing about 6oc in carlots for
choice rye.

In beans the trade does not seem to
be willing to go over the $2 mark.

Flour has been very steady; in fact,
prices are rather on the upgrade. Local
and domestic demand is good, while
foreigners are raising their bids. _

Millfeed is still wanted at $16 per ton.

Corn and oat feed is fully $1.50 per
ton higher than last week.

Receipts have been: 71 cars of wheat ;
20 cars of corn; 4 cars of oats; 1 car of
rye; 3 cars of flour; 1 car of malt; 4
cars of hay; 1 car of straw.

Millers are paying 68c for wheat.

C. G. A. Voigt.
———__2> 0 2.___
Youthful Diplomacy.

A South Division street grocer relates
that a couple of days ago a little girl
entered his emporium and timidly lay-
ing down a dime asked for ten cents’
worth of candy.

‘*It’s for papa,’’ she said. ‘‘I want
to s’prise him when he comes home.’’

The groceryman proceeded to dig out
some of his stock, when the little girl
interposed.

‘*Don’t give me that kind. Give me
caramels. I just love caramels.’’

‘*But I thought these were for papa,’’
the groceryman remarked.

‘‘T know,’’ explained the little girl,
‘*but when I give them to papa he’l! just
kiss me and say that ‘cause I’m such a
generous little girl he’il give them all
back to me. So you’d better give me
caramels.’

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Sales by Misrepresentation.

As told by the South Dakota Retail
Deaier, the catalogue houses are adver-
tising a hay carrier sold under various
names at prices below what a first-class
carrier can be sold for, and are recom-
mended by them as the very best on the
market, and many people are led to be-
lieve that they are getting a bargain. It
will be only a_ short time before they
will find out that they have bought a
carrier of old stvle, out of date, and
dear at any price. When it comes to
getting something good it can not be
bought from a supply house as well as
from the local dealers who are backed
by the jobbers and manufacturers in the
furnishing of good and _ satisfactory
goods.

——___~>2.>___
Cereal Trust Abolishes Card Prices.

The American Cereal Co. has granted
to the jobbers of Chicago the privilege
of selling its oats at any price they
wish. The price established by the
manufacturers at which the jobber was
to sell to the retailer was never ob-
served, and the abolition means very lit-
tle.

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ment reader as to have no difficulty in
carrying on conversation in an ordinary
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Grand Rapids Gossip

Geo. F. Owen has removed his office
and showroom from 4o South Division
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Jacob Engbrenhof has opened a gro-
cery store at 11g Stocking street, pur-
chasing his stock of the Olney & Judson
Grocer Co.

Joppa Bros. have opened a grocery
store at Jamestown Center. The stock
was furnished by the Olney & Judson
Grocer Co.

Myers & Chase have engaged in the
grocery business at Watervliet. The
Olney & Judson Grocer Co. furnished
the stock. Mr. Myers was formerly en-
gaged in trade at Glendale.

O. H. Ingerson has engaged in the
general merchandise business at Hop-
kins. He purchased his grocery stock
of the Olney & Judson Grocer Co., his
hardware stock of the Clark-Rutka-
Weaver Co. and his dry goods stock of
P. Steketee & Sons.

Frank N. Cornell, for many years en-
gaged in general trade at Sebewa, has
opened a branch store at West Sebewa,
placing Frank Mapes, who was in the
employ of Mr. Cornell for five years, in
charge. The stock was furnished by
Grand Rapids jobbers—the dry goods
from Voigt, Herpolsheimer & Co., the
shoes from Rindge, Kalmbach, Logie
& Co. and the groceries from the Ball-
Barnhart-Putman Co.

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The Produce Market.

Apples—Carefully sorted Baldwins,
Jonathans and Spys command $4 per
bbl. Fancy stock easily commands 5o0c
additional.

Bagas—$1.35 per 3 bu. bbl.

Bananas—Are higher, a recent ad-
vance of 1oc having occurred. Supplies
now arriving are of rather better quality
than have come forward previously. As
yet shipments have been small and,
with improvement in the weather, the
demand has increased, which has had its
effect in causing an advance in prices.
It is very likely that this demand will
cause a still further advance shortly.

Butter—Receipts are increasing and
there is an improved demand for genu-
ine butter and less demand for the imi-
tation. Factory creamery is slow sale
at 24c, while dairy roils command 20c
for fancy and 18c for choice.

Beets—$1.25 per 3 bu. bbl.

Cabbage—$1@1I.10 per doz. and very
scarce and hard to get. California, $4
@4.50 per crate.

Carrots—goc per 3 bu. bbl.

Celery—California stock commands
goc@1.15 per doz. Home grown wili
not be in market again for about four
weeks.

Cocoanuts—$3.50 per sack of 100.

Cranberries—Jerseys command $10@
11 per bbl.

Dressed Poultry—The market contin-
ues strong, local dealers meeting with
much difficulty in obtaining supplies
sufficient to meet their requirements.
Chickens command 11@12c. Fowls are
in active demand at Io@tic. Ducks
are eagerly taken at 11@1i2c. Geese find
a market on the basis of 8@goc. Turkeys
are in good demand at lic for No. 2
and 12%c for No. 1.

Eggs—The warmer weather has re-
sulted in the anticipated slump in
prices, dealers paying 12c to-day, but
predicting a loc market before the end
of the week.

Green Stuff—Grand Rapids forcing
lettuce, 16@18c per lb. Onions, 20c per
doz. Parsley, 30c per doz. Pieplant,
8c per lb. Radishes, 35c per doz.

Hay—Market rules firm, No. 1 Tim-
othy, baled, quoted at $11.50 per ton in
carlots; mixed, $10@II.

Honey—Dark is in moderate demand
at 13c. Amber is in fair demand at 14¢.
White is practically out of the market.

 

 

 

Lemons—The_ situation is chiefly in-
teresting because the question of prices
has been satisfactorily adjusted and the
upward tendency has become marked.
Buyers have taken hold with some of
the old-time energy of late and prices
have advanced 75c per box on all grades
within the pdst two weeks. The demand
appears to be principally for the better
qualities at present.

Live Poultry—--Pigeons, 50@6oc.
Squabs still fetch $1.75 per doz. and are
scarce at that. Chickens, 9@loc.
Fowls, 8@oc. Ducks, oc for young.
Turkeys, 11c for hens and capons and
toc for gobblers. Geese, gc.

Maple Syrup—Selling at 75@85c_ per
gal., as to quantity and quality.

Nuts—Ohio hickory command $1.25
for large and $1.50 for small. Butter-
nuts and walnuts are in small demand
at.60c per bu.

Onions—Home grown command = 50
@6oc, according to quality.

Parsnips—$1.40 per 3 bu. bbl.

Pineapples—F lorida fruit brings $3.75
per doz.

Pears—California quoted at $3.25@
3.50 per box.

Potatoes-—-The market is without par-
ticular change. Local buyers through-
out the State are paying 26@28c. Local-
ly sales are made in small quantities at
4oc per bu.

Seeds—Mammoth clover, recleaned,
$5.25@5.50; medium clover, good to
choice, $4@5.50; Alsyke clover, $6.75@
7.50; Alfalfa clover, $6@6.75; crimson
clover, $4@4.60; timothy, prime to
choice, $1.20@1.40; field peas, white,
85c@$1; red top, prime to choice, 60c
@$1; red top, clean from chaff, $1.50@
1.75; orchard grass, $1.10@1.30; blue
grass, 75C@$I. 10.

Straw—Carlots of baled quoted at
$5.50 per ton for wheat and oat and $7
for rye. Last named very scarce.

Sweet Potatoes—Kiln dried Jerseys
command $4@4.25 per bbl.

‘Tallow--Common, 434c per lb. ; ma-
chinery grade, 5%@5%c.

Tomatoes—Florida stock commands
$3.75 per crate.

Turnips—$1 per bbl.

Vedl—Dressed carcass,
Ib., as to quality.

—~> 6 >

Hides, Pelts, Furs, Tallow and Wool.

The hide market shows more firmness,
as was expected with a slight advance.
The quantity is no greater, although
Chicago collections are larger, with no
sales of consequence, as the asking
price is above buyers’ views. The in-
dications are that hides will go back to
the old figure before offerings are made.

Pelts are not quotably higher, with
few offered.

7%4@oc_ per

 

Furs are in good demand at fair
prices, awaiting the outcome of present
sales in London.

Tallow is in fair demand, with no
higher values.

Wools are strongly held at the old
price, with light sales and light de-
mand. Supplies are getting low with
the manufacturers, as they are running
day and night on large orders. The new
clip is close at hand and the outlook is
good for fair prices. Wm. T. Hess.
——~> ©
Shorter Hours for Massachusetts Clerks.

The Committee on Labor of the Mass
achusetts House of Representatives gave
a hearing last week on the bill limiting
the hours of labor of grocery and_ pro-
vision clerks. This is the bill:

Section 1. The hours of labor of all
employes of meat markets, provision,
tea and grocery shops shall not exceed
sixty hours per week, and no agree-
ment between employer and employe
for longer hours of labor shall be valid.

Sec. 2. Any employer who violates
the provisions of this act by compelling
or inducing an employe to work more
than sixty hours per week, or by enter-
ing into an agreement with an employe
to work more than the said sixty hours,
shall forfeit a sum not exceeding $50
for each offense.

 

 

The Grocery Market.

Sugar—The raw sugar market is very
strong and prices have advanced _ to
$4.47, with a good demand at this
price. The visible supply of raw sugar
is 2,450,000 tons, against 2,480,000 tons
at the same time in 1899. On account
of the advance in raws the refined sugar
market is very strong and an advance in
price is daily expected.

Later—The market took an unexpected
turn this morning. On account of the ad-
vance in raws, Havemeyer expected to
advance prices, but when the market
opened Arbuckle reduced his list five
points. Asa result, the market is de-
moralized and buyers hardly know where
they are at.

Canned Gocds—There are no features
of moment in the market for either spot
or future goods, and trade, as a whole,
is disappointing to all alike. Holders
who have expected a brisk demand are
still waiting and there are no indica-
tions of any revival in business. While
trade, as a whole, is unsatisfactory,
there is a feeling of hopefulness which
serves to hold the market firm and _pre-
vents dealers shading prices to secure
trade. The impression prevails, how-
ever, that any important buying would
result in higher prices and that condi-
tions would improve: materially. The
small but numerous orders keep the
market firm, because they show beyond
doubt that distributers are carrying
small stocks and must buy liberally to
supply their trade, provided that trade
consumes as much canned goods this
spring as usual. Sales of futures are
no larger than last week, with the ex-
ception of corn, which has been selling
more freely the past few days; in fact,
the season for the heavy sales of futures
has passed and a good many think that
there will be more sales in the open
market than ever before. It is said
that the situation has many points of
benefit in it, because packers will not
put up as much of any variety as usual,
which will be better for dealers later.
Corn appears to be rather more active
and prices on both spot and _ future
goods are held firm in all packing  sec-
tions. Unquestionably, the prospect has
much of promise. Futures have sold so
freely the past few days that some grow-
ers have been directed by packers to
plant corn instead of tomatoes. There
has been freer selling among corn men
than appeared from the outside and now
packers are beginning to report *‘entire-
ly sold out’’ or ‘‘prefer not to take
further orders.’’ There is a rather bet-
ter feeling in tomatoes but so far there
has been no change in the future situa-
tion. Prices are likely to advance with-
in a short time, but that implies en-
larged buying, which doesn’t appear to
be so close at hand as some packers
have been sanguine enough to expect.
There is a considerable demand for
cheap grades of peas, but they are hard
to get and, when found, holders are
disinclined to let them go, believing
that they will bring better money later.
String beans are scarce and prices have
advanced materially in the past few
days. Packing of pineapple will begin
in a short time and the outlook favors a
large pack of good quality. The Maine
clam pack will be larger this year than
ever before. The cost of packing will
be considerably higher and  jobbing
prices will advance accordingly. The
salmon situation is very strong, but no
change in prices has occurred. Ac-
cording to present indications there will
be an upward move before long, the de-
mand having already outrun the supply.

 

It is feared that the Columbia River
salmon output this year will be very
short, as most of the futures have been
sold and the supply is considerably less
than the demand.

Dried Fruit—Although the market is
entirely without feature, there is a
steadily increasing consumptive de-
mand, which holds prices firm and_pre-
vents shading to secure business. Trade
for the most part is on a narrow basis,
but the aggregate, taking a week to-
gether, amounts to a fair average and
indicates that most retail distributers
are carrying light stocks and are com-
pelled to buy whenever consumers ask
for goods. This fact indicates that
prices are likely to advance whenever
buying begins on an important scale.
As has been the case for some time,
prunes attract the most attention and
sell most actively, going out in large
lots more frequently than for some time
previously. While this has caused a
better feeling in the market, there has
been no change of movement in prices,
but conditions are slowly improving and
business promises to be more satisfac-
tory in the next few weeks. The quan-
tity now on hand is smaller than usua
at this season and, aside from large
sizes, supplies on the coast are not ex-
cessive. Prices are somewhat firmer,
but show no quotable change as yet.
The raisin market is still rather un-
settled and will be so until the difficul-
ties between the growers and the Asso-
ciation are settled. Stocks are moving
out slowly at unchanged prices. Peaches
remain steady and, with sales increas-
ing, there is promise of improvement
in prices on some grades. There are
not many cheap grades obtainable and
the better quality of goods are more or
less scarce. Apricots are firm and
scarce. There is an excellent enquiry,
which may lead to further improvement
in prices later. It is almost impossible
to find any large lots, as they are well
cleaned up. Dates are unchanged, with
perhaps a slightly increased demand fot
most grades, which causes prices to be
held slightly firmer, without, however,
any quotable advance so far. Currants
remain practically the same, with fair
demand. Dealers would be glad to force
them up, if possible, owing to the fact
that present prices give them almost no
profit on their investment. There is no
change in evaporated apples. Prices
are practically the same and demand _ is
fair.

Rice—The demand for rice is some-
what improved. Prices are unchanged
but holders have full confidence in the
future market, with prospects becoming
more favorable as spring advances.
Fancy and good grades are in light sup-
ply, with offerings limited.

Tea—A better feeling prevails in tea,
with an improvement in the demand
and enquiries for the better descriptions,
causing a steady tendency to values.

Molasses—-Because of the limited
offerings, holders of molasses ask prices
too high to admit of much business.
Buyers confine themselves to small pur-
chases to meet immediate requirements.
The market presents no new develop-
ments, prices ruling strong.

—_——>- <>. --.--——

~ The cultivation of fruit trees along the
high roads of France is being extended
year by year. Following the example
of the government, the communes in
certain departments adopted the prac-
tice as a source of revenue, and now it
has become an important branch of na-
tional industry.
-—_—__—~> 2.

It is a bad memory that retains things

that ought to be forgotten.

 

 

AAD AR Eoo RAE Ros a povormare teeta

pay eerste neem anses

MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN co Ae

 

 

GOTHAM GOSSIP.

 

News From the Metropolis—Index to the
Market.

Special Correspondence.

New York, March 24—The coffee mar-
ket is rather dull. Buyers are hanging
off and only small amounts are changing
hands. Advices from Europe are weaker
in tone and the general situation is not
as encouraging as last week. If the
Brazil crop proves to be 2,250,000 bags|®5
short, as is estimated, there will be a
‘*turn about’’ before many weeks. The
invoice price of Rio is nominally 8%@
8%c. The amount in store and afloat
aggregates 1,251,728 bags, against I, 315, -
672 bags at a same time last year.
There has been little demand for the
mild grades and quotations have re-
acted somewhat, good Cucuta_ being
quotable at 1o4%@t1o%c. Little has
been done in East India sorts beyond
the usual transactions and no changes
in prices have taken place. :

A conference of the ‘*friends’’ of the
warring refiners has been held this week

to see if some solution of the trouble
could not be found. The _ idea is to
‘‘combine,’’ but one of the outside re-

finers wanted such a figure for his plant
that nothing has been accomplished and
matters have been put off until a future
date. In actual market there has been
a fairly active trade and refined sugar
is very firm at the last quotation, which
showed an advance of five points on
granulated.

The tea market continues fairly firm
and the sale at auction was attended
with considerable interest. Prices,
while showing no material advance, are
well adhered to for decent sorts of teas,
and the outlook generally is satisfac-

tory.
The rice market is ‘‘meeting with ap-
proval’’ by sellers, but there is room for

improvement. Buyers appear to be fair-
ly well supplied for the present, but the
position is one of hopefulness and_ later
on a good volume of business is looked
for. Prices here continue almost below
those of New Orleans, comparatively.

An average trade is being done in
spices and prices, as a rule, are well
sustained. Pepper commands most in-
terest, although cloves are strong. -

The molasses market is decidedly
dull. Grocery grades of New Orleans are
receiving scant attention and, although
offerings are light, there is a lack of an-
imation on the part of buyers. Good
centrifugal, 20@28c.

There is a better feeling for syrups,
although exporters appear to be doing

most of the trade. Supplies are not
large and prices are — Prime sugar

syrup, 20@22c; fancy, 23@27¢c.

The hoped- for ad in the canned
goods business has been put off. There
is a decided lull in the matter of futures
and there is room for improvement in
the spot trade. Some enquiry has existed
for Maryland tomatoes and there is
rather more doing in Columbia River
salmon, which are firmly held. In other
lines there is hardly an item of interest
to be picked up in the entire trade
worth mentioning.

There is a better feeling in dried
fruits and it is said that large trans-
actions in prunes will be recorded with-
in a short time. Other lines are steady
and, as a rule, prices are well sustained.

There are no changes of importance
to speak of in the green fruit market.
Lemons are firmly held at the recent ad-
vance and Sicily fruit is quotable from
$2.60@3.35. Oranges are higher, Cali-
fornia selling at $2.65@4.50; seedlings,
$2.20@2.49. Bananas are soaring high-
er and higher and no reduction is looked
for for six weeks. Firsts, per bunch,
are worth up as high as $1.75 for
Limons and $1.55 for Aspinwalls.

The aed oa supply for butter
have been about equal and the market
is steady, with best Western creamery
held at 25c; thirds to firsts, 21@24%c;
Western imitation creamery, 20@23Cc;
Western factory, 18@2oc, and choice
rolls the same. It is hard to -find very
fine goods at this season.

Cheese is firm. There is a better feel-
ing all around and the market is in good
shape. Small size, full cream State
cheese readily brings 13%c and _ holders

 

are seemingly’ rather indifferent as to
whether they part with stocks or not.

With more moderate weather the ar-
rivals of eggs have become larger and
the price has declined. It requires very
fancy stock to fetch more than 16%c;
Western, 1444@15 4c.

Choice medium beans are worth
$2.121%4@2.15; pea, Michigan, in bags,
$2. 12% ; red ‘kidney, $2.10@2.15. The
market for most all kinds of beans is in
good condition and there has been quite
an active trade all the week.

—___> 2. __
New Butter Classification in New York.

For a long time past members of the
New York Mercantile Exchange have
been of the opinion that the scores on
butter were too high and encouraged
manipulation of prices to the detriment
of receivers. The Butter Committee
recently took up the question and made
the following changes, which went into
effect Monday :

Extras.

Shall: be composed of the high-
est grades of butter made in the season
when offered under the different classi-
fications, 90 per cent. of which shall be
up to the following standard, the bal-
ance may be grade firsts:

Flavor—Must be fine,
and fresh if of current
sweet and clean if held.

Body—Must bé good and uniform.

Color—A_ light straw shade, even and
uniform.

Salt—Mild salted.

Package—Good, uniform and clean.

Score—Shall average 91 _ points, or
higher, with the exception of the months
of June and July, August and Septem-
ber, during which time the average shali
be 93 points or higher.

Firsts.

Shall be a grade just below extras,
and must be fine butter for the season
when made, and offered under the
different classifications and up to the
following standard

Flavor—Must be good, sweet, clean
and fresh if of current make, and good,
sweet and clean if held.

Body—Good and uniform.

Color—Reasonably uniform.
too high nor too light.

Salt—Neither coarse nor slack salted.

Package—Good and uniform.

Score—Shall average 85 points, or
higher.

sweet, clean
make, and fine,

Neither

Seconds.

Shall be a grade just below firsts and
must be good for the season when offered
under the different classifications and
up to the following standard :

Flavor—Must be reasonably good and
sweet.

Body—If creamery, must be sound.
If ladles or process, must be go per cent.
solid boring.

Color—Fairly uniform.

Salt—May be high, medium or slack
salted.

Package—Good and uniform.

Score—Shall average 80 points, or
higher.

Thirds.

Shall be a grade below seconds.

Flavor—Must be reasonably good and
may be strong on tops and sides.

Body—Fair boring if creamery, and
at least 50 per cent. boring a full trier,
if ladles or process.

Color—May be irregular.

Salt—High, low or irregular.

Package—Fairly uniform.

Score—Shall average 75 points, or
higher.

oe
No Misunderstanding.

‘*You are welcome,’’ said the man
who had just given up his seat in the
crowded street car.

‘*T didn’t say anything, sir,’’ haught-
ily answered the woman who had just
sat down.

‘*I know you didn’t, ma’am,’’ he re-
joined, beaming upon her cies great
cordiality.

A wheelbarrow may be an excellent
thing, but it won’t push itself. It’s the
same with trade. Put the laborer be-
hind the barrow, the advertisement he-
hind the business, if you desire progress.

 

D. O. WILEY & CO.

DETROIT, MICH. —

COMMISSION MERCHANTS

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Lined with parchment paper. The best class
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MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN 7

 

The Buffalo Market

Accurate Index of the Principal Staples
Handled.

Beans—Market is easier on marrows,
offerings of choice being made at $2.25
@2.30, while pea and medium hold
steady at $2@2.20. Supply is fair of
all kinds, particularly common to fair
lots.

Butter—General complaint of dulness
from holders of extra creamery and 25c
was top, while under grades say from
20@23c. Good, serviceable butter is
taken on arrival. Rolls are particularly
scarce and bringing 20c and occasional-
ly 21c. Low grades are all cleaned up
and the outlook on that class is favor-
able for shipment.

Eggs—Another unsettled week with
nothing to encourage buyers to take
more than would supply daily wants.
Receipts were light and all well taken
care of almost before arrival. Prices
ranged from 14@15c at the close of the
week, with most business at 14%c.
This week trade opened easy and I4c
was the going figure for jobbing lots.
To-day the market downed to 13c and
later to 12@12%c, closing easy.

Cheese—Old cheese has all been dis-
posed of and the demand for new is
light with a range of 12@13c for good to
choice. Skims dull and weak, best not
quotable above toc and from that down
to Sc.

Dressed Poultry—Active demand _ for
all offerings and market strong. Bulk
of receipts were fowls, fancy of which
sold at 12c and fair to good 1044 @11'4c.
Chickens, fancy, 12%@13c, fair to good
11@12c, capons 13@I14c, turkeys scarce,
the few receipts selling at 11@13¢, lat-

 

 

ter price for small fancy lots. Ducks
would bring 14@I5c.
Live Poultry—Receipts fairly lib-

eral, but only sufficient to meet the de-
mand. Market slightly easier, but on
the whole closed firm to-day. Turkeys
11@1t1%c. Chickens, fancy, 11@11%c;
fair to good 10%@t1c. Fowls good to
fancy, 10%@1ic. Ducks 80c@$1.15 per
pair. Geese 65@goc each.

Apples—Higher, offerings light and
demand good considering the advance.
Fancy fruit $3.75@4.50, No. 2 $3@3.50,
seconds $2.50@2.75.

Cranberries——Firmer; fair
choice to fancy $3@3.25 per crate.

Bananas——Higher, selected $2.25@
2.50, No. 1 $1.75@2 per bunch.

Potatoes—Liberal offerings have weak-
ened this market far below expectations.
Demand has not been above fair and
with stocks generally below the late
average there is every prospect of a still
further decline. Quite a fair lot of
frosted potatoes have also shown up the
past few days and considerable anxiety
is manifested to dispose of that class.
Really fancy sound stock, however, is
in light supply and will no doubt hold
fairly steady at 45@46c in carloads,
while common, mixed fair to good will
hardly bring 40@42c. Store prices are
from 3 to 5c above carloads in a small
way.

Onions—Market is cleaning up on
good to choice and the feeling is firm at
48@5oc in round lots. No white offered ;
would bring 60@65c. Bermuda dull,
$2.25@2.50 per crate.

Celery—Quality continues to be less
attractive as the season advances and the
best stock is not quotable above 55@60c,
fair to good 20@3oc per doz.

Cabbage—Market is almost bare of
desirable native stock and demand ac-
tive. Solid hard heads, Danish seed,
bringing $2.50@3 per bbl. and fair to
good $2@2.25. The few crates of South-
ern received here were poor and sold at
$2@2.25.

Lettuce—Very light supply the past
week and with an active demand market
was stronger. Fancy heads sold at 75c
@$1 per doz; boxes of 3 dozen $1@1.35 ;
bundle 30@4oc.

As po ORE: cg
offered at 50@60c.

Radishes—Fair supply, good demand
at 16@2oc per doz. bunches.

Parsnips—Strong, light supply and
good enquiry. Fancy sold at 60@65c
per bushel.

trade,

and weak; best

 

Squash—Steady, sound stock selling
at $3 per 100 lbs. & jg

Spinach—Scarce and wanted at $2@

2.50 per bbl.

Vegetable Oysters—Large selling at
45@ soc, small 25@230c per dozen bunches.

Popcorn—Quiet, 2@2{c per Ib.

Maple Sugar—Firm for light at 8@gc,
new quoted at 1o@tic per lb. Syrup 50
@z7oc per gallon.

Honey—Quiet, no fancy white here;
dark quoted at 1lo@1ic.

Dried Fruits—Evaporated in good
supply and light demand. Fancy 7%@8c,
fair to good 6@6%c per lb. Raspberries
scarce, 13@t4c bid.

Dressed Meats—Calves lower, good to
choice $7@7.25; common $6@6.50.
Hogs $5.75@6.25.

Buckwheat Flour—Quiet; $2 per cwt.

Straw—Scarce and higher, active de-
mand. Wheat and oat $7.50@7.75, rye
$9@Io per ton.

Hay—Stronger; no receipts of prime
and good enquiry. Loose baled will
bring $15.50; tight $14.50@15.00; No. 1
13.50@14; No. 2 $11.50@12 per ton.
> 0m

Marketing California Fruit.
From the Fruitman’s Guide.

It is reported here that a company is
shortly to be organized with $1,000,000
capital to build and operate a fruit auc-
tion house at Los Angeles, Cal., for the
sale of oranges and lemons during the
season. Several Eastern capitalists are
said to have been approached on the
subject and that the Santa Fe and South-
ern Pacific interests are agreeable to
the project and are willing to lend their
aid by laying tracks alongside such a
building. So far as is known of the
plan, the company proposes to have all
the fruit delivered at one point daily
from all sections, and immediately after
sale, in carloads lots only, send out the
trains to the various distributing points.

—_»> 2. —
Red and Yellow Bananas.
From the Fruitman’s Guide.

Ever since the trouble with Spain red
bananas have ceased to be a factor in
this country. For two or three years we
have received only the yellow fruit from
Jamaica and Central America. Several
years ago the tables were turned and the
red fruit predominated and the yellow
fruit was as much of a curiosity as the
red fruit is now. Another year it is ex-
pected that large quantities of the red
fruit will come here from Cuba. The
plantations were destroyed during the
war, but are now well under cultivation
again.

 

—_-_-_—~. «>
Continuous Happiness.
Mrs. Hix—Is your daughter happily
married?
Mrs. Dix—Indeed, she is. Her hus-
band shakes in his boots every time
she speaks.

 

POOQOOOOD DOOODOOGOOQOOOQOS

D. Boosing
General
Commission Merchant
SPECIALTIES
Butter Eggs
Poultry

  
 

 

 

Beans

TFMOQOQOOODD© DOGOE

Ruling prices on the Buffalo
ket Monday, March 26:

Mmar-

Boll Butter. -... ....... 18 @20 ¢
Tub Butter......:......18 @2i c¢
Fowls, dressed... .... 10%@11 ¢
CHIGKORS.. 2... 225... 11 @12 ¢
MOORE ll @12 ¢
ies ..........,...... 12 @13 ¢
MUSKOVS. 0.05.4... 5 10 @13 ¢

If our market is satisfactory, ship.

 

 

Correspondence solicited.

References: Bank of Buffalo and Dun’s
and Bradstreet’s Agencies. o

154 Michigan Street,
Buffalo, New York.

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Mich.

 

FIGHTING AGAINST FATE.

While in theory it may be true that a
man born to be hanged will never be
drowned, there is a belief in the human
mind that neither extremity is a neces-
sity. There is, therefore, a constant
attempt on the part of humanity to try
conclusions with destiny and against cir-
cumstance and condition to work out
one’s own Salvation in the way it seems
best. For some unknown reason the
storekeeper’s boy makes up his mind
that life is not worth living unless he
can distribute pills to the community
and saw its legs off. The boy of the
blacksmith at the corners informs the
family that the pulpit is to be his means
of improving mankind; and the country
neighborhood laughs itself sore when
‘‘that nincome’’ of a farmboy begins to
study law. In the minds of those who
know them, it is simply a fight against
fate for these boys to undertake the
long, laborious task to fit themselves for
the vocations for which they were never
intended.

It is getting to be the prevailing idea
that the specialist shall choose his call-
ing only after his general training is
completed. That will give him and the
older heads he comes in contact with
a chance to decide on sensible grounds
what he is best fitted for; and the re-
quirements of the ‘‘learned professions’’

 

now are such that the four years at col-.

lege is the only passport which will
admit the specialist to his chosen call-
ing. Better than that, the upper walks
of business generally, while less exact-
ing, are looking with favor upon the
young man who comes with a college
training as a foundation, even for a
clerkship.

This training with the diploma that
stands for it is now taken at its real
value, and unless on account of it the
possessor wants to begin several rounds
from the bottom of the business ladder,
he is always gladly received. He prob-
ably knows little now about business.

 

He may not be able to add an ordinary
column of figures without making mis-
takes. He will show himself often as
senseless as a little child; but when he
gets the hang of the ropes, he is found
to be the man looked for and, with fate
on his side, he makes a success of it.
An amusing instance of the fresh
young man in the newspaper office has
been furnished by an exchange. His
alma.mater had sent him out into the
world and a newspaper enrolled him
among its workers. Duty sent him to
the market and the fruit dealer rejoic-
ing over a consignment of choice or-
anges told the young pencil-driver that
they were the first navel oranges of the
season and as fine as they were rare.
Then was the time when the young
man’s learning came to his aid. The
fruit should have a name worthy of it
and when the edifor, with the heartless-
ness of his class, asked him what in—
something or other he meant by ‘‘um-
bilical oranges’’ and, blue-pencilling
the adjective, gave to the fruit the usual
term, it began to dawn upon the di-
ploma bearer that he had made a fool

of himself and that good, plain United
States is the only language tolerated in
trade circles.

One fact to be stated in regard to the
boy who makes his own selection of
what he wants to be is that the apparent
fight against fate is only apparent. The
inborn something decides the matter
and this settles the whole question. The
accidents of family and environment
which warp the judgment of the neigh-
borhood have no influence here, and so
it comes that the world’s best in states-
manship and in success, generally, is
due to that transcendent genius which
from a world of wants takes that which
is peculiarly its own and, with an earn-
estness and determination which never
falter, crowns the chosen career with
fame and fortune. There are certain
limits which can not be disregarded. A
peach, no matter whether the training
be much or little, will remain a peach,
and the potato a potato; but if both are
the best of their kind, the toil can never
be regarded too great nor the time
wasted which, with fate for or against
it, wins from the unpromising and com-
mon the best which the world has seen.

 

A New York justice has recently de-
cided that patent medicines are not
necessaries of life. He ought to geta
lantern and read the advertisements that
are in laid-off street cars at the railroad
barns.

 

When Excelsior marched through the
village, and saw housekeepers pulling
down their window curtains all along
the line, it occurred to him that ‘‘the
shades of night were falling fast.’’

The directors of the Paris exposition
have received 16,000 requests for per-
mission to erect refreshment and news-
paper booths on the grounds.

There will be a big demand for farm
hands this spring. This is annoying to
the tramp who is asked to work at
every place he asks for pie.

In New York the new woman, having
the rights. of man to hang onto a strap
in a street car, has come to be a stand-
ing joke.

A flag of truce in Kentucky means
that both sides will have time to take

another julep before hostilities are re-
newed.

Righteous indignation never lasts long.
It soon gives way to something easier.

‘| do it is another matter.

 

“UNTO CESAR.”

It is one of the easiest things in the
world to find fault. It is equally easy
to tell what ought to be done. To find
fault, to show where the trouble lies, to
point out the way to remove it, and then
A certain class
of citizens has been finding fault for a
good many years with the daily news-
paper. It is bad clear through. Not a
page, not a column, rarely a paragraph,
appears in the wide realm of the news-
paper which does not testify to the fact
that the whole thing is bad, if not abso-
lutely wicked. It caters to the low. It
is gossipy to the very verge of criminal.
Its tendency is to create and foster
crime. In the guise of a public servant
it panders to public corruption. Its
acknowledged influence is too often at
the disposal of the highest bidder. In
a word, if its enemies are to be be-
lieved, it is bad clear through.

It naturally follows that the church,
the acknowledged censor of public
morals, should stand foremost in check-
ing and, if possible, removing this pub-
lic evil. There is hardly a pulpit that
has not thundered against it. The keen
eye of criticism searches every item
stranded in the most retired and un-
pretending corner and, holding it up
to censure, the critic denounces it and
its publisher in good set terms. It has
not stopped there. It has presumed to
read lesson after lesson to the newspaper
fraternity as to the what and the how
the contents of the paper should be and
when the management after years of ex-
perience is fain to believe that its way
is better, the censor has upbraided it as
prostituting for gain its own and the
public’s highest ideals of purity and
worth. Not satisfied with that,the church
has gone one step farther and has _pre-
sumed to show the newspaper publishers
of the country how to run a newspaper.
Copies of the model are lying now on
the editorial table. They have been
carefully examined and they are best
described by a pleasantry from the
boarding house breakfast table: ‘* May
I venture, madam, to ask whether the
beverage this morning is tea or coffee?’’
‘Certainly, sir; a little of both.’’ It is
neither one thing nor the other and bev-
erage and newspaper on the church plan
remain untouched.

It is amusing to read the comments
which this sample of newspaper enter-
prise has brought out. Among the many,
a leading objection of the secular
press, charged again and again with ut-
ter disregard of and even disrespect for
sacred things, is that such journalism
tends to lower the divine. Men like to
talk of Religion’s coming down from her
pedestal and, like her Master, going
about doing good. That is theory and
as such is well enough; but when the
theory becomes a commonplace fact,
these theorists are the first to deplore it.
There is in the make-up of American
character a profound feeling for all that
Religion holds dear. The hymn that
comes back from the years that are gone,
hummed first to us by the lips tht bent
over our cradles, brings with it the ten-
derest, the purest and the sweetest idea
of holiness which human hearts can hear
and heed. Manhood may be black with
crime, womanhood may be degraded ;
but down through the wickedness and
the shame the home-blest melody finds
its way and heaven for the time in that
little kindgom is restored again on
earth. Sacred to the past, the inno-
cence of childhood, the sanctity of
home, the old days when life was young
and pure, are the memories, wholly his

 

own, which stand for that holiness now
enshrined in his heart and he enters
there alone and worships them.

When, then, with this feeling in his
heart, he hears that a man has deter-
mined to run a newspaper as Christ
would run it, it shocks him. It violates
every sense of propriety and fitness in
respect to what he considers sacred and
he resents it as he would resent a slur
upon his mother’s name. It makes com-
mon what from his childhood he has
been taught to revere and he denounces
man and newspaper alike. What does
this fellow know of the man who spake
as never man spake? When was he so
taken into His confidence as_ to be
taught how to run a paper on the divine
plan? Why confine the idea to the
paper? How about sawmills and corner
groceries and bargain counters? In the
atmosphere of the composing room and

in mule driving, what would He
can not, bad as he knows he is, com-
plete the revolting thought. In_ his

righteous wrath he falls into phraseology
unused since he went away from home
and, with an earnestness which crowds

his whole idea into a single expression,
he exclaims: ‘‘Render unto Caesar the
things that are Caesar’s.’’

The trouble with this attempt of ad-
vanced journalism is that it is mixing
incongruous things. It is a homely
phrase, but ‘* Whistling is out of place at
a funeral.’’ There is a time to pray and
a time to dance, but so far in the _ his-
tory of prayer meetings the exercises
have not been interspersed with the
negro melody and the’ waltz. That
same all-seeing discernment which is
supposed to lie at the bottom of the
whole matter should have kept apart
Caesar’s affairs and heaven's. When
they are to be intermingled it calls for
the divine to make it a success. Only
once in the history of mankind has the
incarnation taken place and then the
divine had the human so wholly under
subjection that, while it was always
about the Father’s business, it never
found it necessary to drive a delivery
wagon or seil soap or edit a newspaper.

 

The great machine, L’Assistance
Publigue, which dispenses charity to
the Paris poor, is the richest charitable
establishment in the world. It draws
from real estate investments 2,400,000
francs, and from government invest-
ments 3,560,000 francs, to which is
added a city subsidy of 185,000 francs,
making an income of over 6,000,000
francs. It is an enormous sum to dis-
pense in charity, and it would seem as
though nobody need go hungry in Paris;
but the complaints are constant that
worthy people are refused assistance. It
is said that five-ninths of the income is
spent in paying the functionaries who
handle this great sum. The professional
philanthropist is bound to live. He can
not afford to do good with other people’s
money simply for his health.

 

It is said a truly intellectual woman
seldom knows how to cook; but it does
not follow that a woman without intel-
lect can cook.

 

A New York firm in the hands of a
receiver says: ‘‘Our capital has become
inadequate to meet our maturities.’’

 

The busy man is not always indus-
trious. He may uselessly busy himself
about other people’s affairs.

 

Platforms appear to trouble many pol-
iticians; but they are the easiest of all
political things to get over.

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9

 

 

THE MID-WESTERN FARMER.

While the farmers of Clinton county,
lowa, are not ‘‘the embattled farmers’’
of Emerson’s verse, they have proven
themselves worthy descendants of that
worthy ancestry by a deed which will
follow, it is to be hoped, in the path of
‘‘that shot heard around the world,’’
fired by the New England patriot. It
is said by unquestioned authority that
a road running westward from Clinton
towards Elvira has been macadamized
for four miles and that the county pro-
poses to macadamize two miles more
during the coming summer.

The fact is noteworthy because it
stands unparalleled. It is important be-
cause it fixes the center of modern civ-
ilization at an unexpected point of the
Mississippi valley. It is significant be-
cause it places the farmer—the Mid-
Western Farmer—at the head of the
world’s civilizers. Had the same _ pro-
gressive and farseeing spirit appeared
earlier and farther eastward the auto-
mobile trip which ended in disaster in
the Mohawk Valley would have, or

might have, taken place in the region
west of the Rocky Mountains, a sup-
position which might have been a ce.
tainty, had that four miles of macadam-
ized road in Iowa had its counterpart in
supercivilized New York.

There has been a great deal of gen-
uine astonishment expressed of late
years at the surprising development of
the West, and this has been confined to
that narrow—physically and mentally so
—strip of territory forming the domain
of the original states of the Union.
From so many hives the swarms of
American youth have gone into the
Western country and have made homes
there. The country has grown up and
they have grown up with it. Indus-
trious, the well tilled land has yielded
them its increase. Prosperous, they
early surrounded themselves with signs
and conveniences of. prosperity. Intel-
ligent, they turned to practical account
the circumstances which surrounded
them. ‘bhey used the old until they de-
vised something better and threw the
old away. They began in every case
where the generation before them left off
and right there lies the secret, if a gen-
eraily known fact can be a secret, of the
Great West. It has been development
on their part ever since the West re-
ceived them, and the place which this
country holds to-day in the march of na-
tions is due to efforts of the Middle
West, where the Mid-Western farmer
has his home.

Until recent years there has never
been any comparison between the two
sections of country because in the opin-
ion of the East there has been nothing
to compare. That same condition still
exists, but now it is because in the
opinion of the West there is nothing to
compare. The old life and the old ways
and means in the East have not changed.
They have been hopelessly stationary.
In business lines the Erie canal is the
standard of comparison for self-satisfied
New York, and that standard has been
the laughing stock of the Middle West
for a great many years. Nobody can
tell how many summers the New Eng-
land farmer in whetting his scythe won-
dered what these mowing machines
were which he was constantly reading
about ; and when a home-returning New
England boy told of seeing a reaping
machine at work and what it would do
in a day, the heart of his farmer father
was grieved to hear that boy, brought
up in the fear and admonition of the
Lord, unblushingly lie like that!

 

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This piece of lowa road carries out
the same thought. By no_ possible
chance could it have been built east of
Ohio. In the Western Reserve, a bit of
transplanted New England, it might
have been expected; but not nearer the
Atlantic than that. There is not an
Easterner reading these lines who will
not recali country road after country
road, hilly and rocky, which was hilly
and rocky during his boyhood and
young manhood when he left the old
farm and which was just as hilly and as
rocky the last time he visited the old
homestead. There is a rock in a certain
bend of a New England road that has
offered its sharp shoulder to the tires of
ten generations and those ten genera-
tions have uttered profanity enough over
that rock to overbalance the prayers and
tears of as many generations of divines,
an@ yet the farmers of that neighbor-
hood are risking their hope of salvation
to-day, as their forefathers have done,
with no more intention of removing that
accursed rock than their fathers had. It
was reserved for the farmer of the Mid-
dle West to show this day and genera-
tion that no neighborhood and no na-
tion can become a civilizer in the high-
est sense of the term until there are
highways for civilization to travel.

The history of this piece of macadam-
ized wisdom in Iowa is soon told. The
farmers with brains concluded it would
cheapen the cost of marketing their
produce and add to the value of their
farms to have good roads. They be-
lieved if communication, rapid and
pleasant, could be secured between Clin-
ton and Elvira that both places would
be benefited. They concluded to have
such a road and that, therefore, it must
be a good one. The county might not
be able to build it. As owners of the
territory bordering the proposed high-
way, they could and they did; and the
result is so satisfactory that they have
raised $3,000 to extend it. This action
has stirred up the farmers of the entire
county and it is expected that, in time,
every road in that county will be mac-
adamized. It is an instance showing
that the good is catching; but, better
than all, it shows that the Middle West
is up and doing; it shows that the farm-
er is worthy of his heritage; and it
shows, too, that out of that Middle
West, where the brain and the sinew of
this country have made their homes,
over these splendid highways radiating
everywhere will travel the best of that
Western civilization which is everywhere
surprising and blessing the world.

—

As a fashionably-dressed woman was
leaving an electric car, the other day,
she lurched with the motion and the
conductor courteously put out his hand
to assist her. The lady drew back as if
she thought she would be contaminated
by the touch. ‘‘Don’t you touch me,
sir,"’ she said. The passengers who
had seen the act of courtesy so discour-
teously refused plainly showed their in-
dignation. Seeing this, after the car
had started on again, the conductor put
his head in the door and explained:
‘‘She’s all right. She told me, as she
was getting out, that she had just been
vaccinated.”’

The Pennsylvania Railroad has placed
an order for 105,006 tons of steel rails,
for which it is to pay $33 a ton, and de-
liveries have begun on this order. In
1864 this road paid $153.75 a ton in gold
for iron rails and in 1863 it imported a
lot of steel rails, for which it paid
$218.53 a ton. These were the maximum
rates ever paid in this country for rails.

 

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Ione, Cal., Feb. ist, 1900.

Alexander Furnace & Mfg Co., Lansing, Mich.
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nightly use ever since, and has never failed to
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It works automatically and to my entire satis-
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months’ use for electricity or any other artificial
light. The machine shows no signs of wear, it is
made from the best of material and will last for
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MICHIGAN

 

TRADESMAN

 

_ The Meat Market

Bargain Sales in Beef Steaks.

It is true that ‘‘coming events cast
their shadows before,’’ and it is also
true that very often the shadows first
take their shape in jokes. Let me illus-
trate: Five or six years ago | was em-
ploye on one of the daily papers, but
noted the change in the method of con-
ducting retail markets.

There was at that time a rapidly
growing tendency toward cheap meth-
ods, which it is not necessary to enum-
erate here. I wrote a joke, which was
printed in the World, and which had for
its theme the trials of a butcher who
was advertising ‘‘bargain sales in beef
steaks.’’ At that time the bargain sales
in meat markets were not known, but
to-day they are the regular thing. |
have often wondered why some _ butcher
has not gone further and announced
remnant sales, such as the dry goods
stores do. While walking along a
Brooklyn street last week I saw a sign
which converted me toa belief in the
transmission of thought, for there a
butcher had caught my idea, as_ proved
by this sign:

REMNANT SALE OF MEAT
at 10 A. M. To-day.

1 strolled into the shop and found the
proprietor, who in answer to my request
took me to the remnant counter. There
I found dishes of pork scraps, beef
scraps and mutton scraps beautifully
thrown together into a mass that looked
like hash prepared for a giant. The
price up to 10 a. m. was four cents a
pound, after that five cents a pound.
‘*You would not be offended at some
suggestions, would you?’’ I asked. He
said ‘‘No,’’ and smiled as he held up
a handful of the mass for my inspection.
I could see that he didn’t understand
what I said, so 1 repeated the question.
Whereupon he pointed to some chopped
beef and wiped his nose on his apron.
I went to a drug store and drank some
vichy, while I thought of the remnant
sale. Among other things, I asked my-
self how a man who could not under-
stand English got the idea of having
such a sign. 1 gave it up. Then 1
thowght of the possibilities of such a
sale if conducted by a bright man.
Wouldn’t it be a good scheme to sepa-
rate the remnants into three classes—
beef, pork and mutton? And wouldn’t
it make a hit if they were all sewed to-
gether end to end and sold by the yard?
Imagine the sensation a sign like this
would make:

REMNANT SALE,
Not more than 2 yards to each
customer.
Beef, 4 cents a yard, was 8.
Pork, 3% cents a yard, was 7.
Mutton, 3 cents a yard, was 6.

And think of what ‘‘bargains’’ this
would enable the thrifty housewife to
take advantage of! She could buy a
couple of yards of beef remnants for
eight cents, sew them into a piece a
foot or two square, and serve it asa
round steak—although it would be a
square one. Before I could get together
some other thoughts on the subject, |
heard drums, and then remembered it
was ‘‘St. Patrick’s Day in the morn-
ing.’’ Before I could escape the parade
was upon me, and I wondered how
many butchers took advantage of the
day to advertise their wares. In my
mind I put together a sign, and these
words it bore:

 

St. Patrick’s Day Suggestions.
Green Moulded Hams and Greens.
Irish Potatoes.

Green, 478 Green Street.

And then | woke up.—Stroller in
Butchers’ Advocate.
—_—__~> 2 >—__—_—_

Not an Authority on Bob Veal.

Henry Rhinehart, of Rochester,
N. Y., was arrested recently on a charge
of offering for sale a calf too young to
be used for food. A Health Board in-
spector seized the animal from the mar-
ket and said that it was not more than
five days old when killed. It turned
out in court that the calf didn’t belong
to the butcher at all, but he had slaught-
ered it for another man, and the other
man testified that it was two months old.
Mr. Rhinehart was discharged, and the
inspector blushed.

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Will Raise Thoroughbred Opossums.

LaGrange, Ind., March 1o—This city
is the home of another freak industry.
This time it is an oppossum farm, and
the same efforts will be made to achieve
as much success in this new industry as
that of the skunk farm operated here.
The opossum farm will be under the
superintendency of James Hart, the ani-
mals will be thoroughbred, and will
form the nucleus of the new project.
The location will be on the banks of
Olive Lake.

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Shortage of Sausage Meat.

Milwaukee sausage makers find it
difficult to secure sausage meat. One of
them writes us: ‘‘We are hardly able
to get sufficient sausage meat for our
retail business here and in Chicago.
Our stock of summer sausage is already
disposed of. We wanted to make three
times as much, but could not get the
material. All we can do is hold on to
our old customers, endeavoring to sat-
isfy them as best we can.’’

Adulterated Sausage Ordinance.

The Board of Health of Gloversville,
N. Y., has issued an order prohibiting
the sale of sausage containing anything
other than meat and the necessary sea-
soning. The punishment provided for
disobeying the order is a fine of $25 for
each pound sold or offered for sale.

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Dipping in for Sermons.

‘‘Did you notice the flour upon the
crown of the Rev. Mr. Nailer’s hat this
morning?’’

‘*Yes. He must be getting pretty
close to the bottom of the barrel.’’

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months ago worked a scheme which at-
tracted considerable attention. He ad-
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tache cups.’’ It was considered a joke,
but just the same the cups were given
as promised. Few people know that
mustache cups are manufactured for use
by people who use their left hand. in-
stead of the right. There is a demand
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Baskets, Display Baskets, Waste Baskets, Meat
Baskets, Laundry Baskets, Baker Baskets,
Truck Baskets.

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Incompetent Clerks a Drug on the Market.
Written for the Tradesman.

In trade a surplus brings down the
price. Wherever and whenever demand
has a great number to chose from it does
not pay much for its choice. The wheat
field and the apple orchard, the cotton
crop and the orange grove, secure the
least financial returns when the yield
is largest. Men follow the same un-
changing law. Last fall and the year
before the farmer advertised in vain for
men. Money could not hire them and
with wages doubled the crops suffered
for the lack of harvesters. Those same
years the streets in town were crowded
with men young and old besieging the
stores for a job. That condition of
things still exists and there is no em-
ployer wanting man or boy who can not
have his pick out of hundreds for the
vacancy he wants to fill, no matter where
in the line the vacancy occurs. The
fact is the clerk is a drug in the market
and as long as the surplus exists the
price paid for clerk service will be
small.

Following the natural laws of selec-
tion, the man who best meets the em-
ployer’s wants gets the place. With any
number to choose from there need be no
haste. With apples lying three deep
under the bough-propped tree, the man
who wants one wants the best and takes
his pick accordingly. There is no bet-
ter illustration of the survival of the fit-
test. The man may be deceived in his
choice, but one good bite settles the
question and the bitten apple, thrown
away with contempt, is soon replaced
by a better one. The last suits and the
rest remain for other pickers to cull
from and what is left, rotten, specked
and worthless, is carted away to the
cider mill or the waste heap.

It is becoming more and more evi-
dent that this waste should be taken bet-
ter care of. If the clerk is a drug on
the market ways and means should be
devised for turning him to more _ prac-
tical account. The mass needs sifting

. and one of the best things to be done is

to make intelligence the standard of that
work. That is the law in other lines.
The man with muscles and_no brains
has no business doing even such _brain-
less work as a floor walker’s. A boy
with the muscles of an ox is better fitted
to handle the spade than to do up_ bun-
dles and there isa better chance for a
manly life with the spade than with the
bundle. Let muscle with ne thought
behind it, then, be the standard of the
first grand division and out to the farms
where muscle is needed the greater part
of the unemployed will go, far better off
in the country life and air they have
long been needing and many times bet-
ter off by and by when homes are started
and sustained where individuality is
not lost in the crowd and where influ-
ence can be exerted upon the life about
it.

With this part, the much larger por-
tion of humanity, taken care of and
happy—because they are doing the work
Heaven intended they should do—the
rest sooner or later will find the places
they are fitted for. The task will not be
an easy one. Given an active brain, it
will seek the most paying places irre-
spective of fitness and the employer
will still find it difficult to get the man
he wants. This will lead to another
grand principle of classification, which
even now guides many houses in their
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

the contrary, the world is getting moral-
ly better. Respectable houses want  re-

-|spectable men to work for them, and_ it

is getting to be the practice for firms to
want clerks whose private lives will
bear inspection. Take for example the
traveling man. ‘Twenty years ago the
‘‘bummer’’ was to all intents and pur-
poses the synonym for the ‘‘drummer’’
who went out on the road. His  train-
ing—if he had any—was of the most
questionable sort. His reading was the
sporting literature of the day. His dress
was as flashy as_ his manners and his
character was a great deal dirtier than
his finger nails. The same man still
travels and faithfully represents the
house that employs him; but he has
given way to a better class. Times
have changed and men have changed
with them. Ignorance and coarseness
are not now in demand. Business
houses have found that men of this class
misrepresent them, if they are the re-
spectable houses they think they are
and mean to be. Gradually the old
passed away and the new men know to
their profit the inside of the school house
and are making better the trade circles
they enter in their travels over the coun-
try.
Much in the same line can be said _ of
the clerk. He is in the transitory con-
dition. In large houses it is not pos-
sible for the employer to know much _ of
the employed and the old employe,
morally or mentally, was not quite per-
fection. The store, however, is find-
ing that the reputation of its salesmen
is making unsavory the reputation of
the store. It is getting more and more
profitable to be decent and employers
of the best type are depended on to se-
cure clerks that are at least respectable
to stand behind their counters and _ wait
upon their patronage.’ Here is the di-
viding line for the commercial sheep
and goats, all the more important from
the fact that the clerk, if he be the
trained person he ought to be, with,a
good moral character, will do as much
good out of the store as in it and will
bring to the establishment the best cus-
tomers in town and keep them.

The problem presented by this drug
on the market will be solved, probably,
along these lines. The muscle market
will take what belongs to it and the rest
will be taken care of best by the same
standards of mental and moral fitness.
It is the old trouble of trying to fit a
square peg into a round hole and a strict
classification of pegs will help wonder-
fully in getting them where they belong ;
and if the time ever comes when that
part of the clerk refuse utterly fit for
nothing in the clerking world shall be
forced into other employment the ‘‘ clerk
drug in the market’’ will be classed
among the things that were.

Richard Malcolm Strong.

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There’s a large and growing sec-
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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.
Discriminating housewives recog-
nize its superior flavor, purity, de-
liciousness, and will have it.

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of particular people, keep the Sry-
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Dry Goods

The Dry Goods Market.

Staple Cottons—The advance in
‘*Fruit of the Loom’’ week before last
was looked upon by many agents as an
indication of quick advances on other
bleached goods, but this was not real-
ized last week. It is expected, how-
ever, that several jumps wili be made
during the present week. On this ac-
count sellers are, as a rule, very re-
served, and in many cases refuse to do
any business whatever. Those who ac-
cept orders take them ‘‘at value’’ only.
All low grade bleached goods are firm,
and show no change of importance.
Flannels, blankets, etc., show a moder-
ate business, but are without features of
importance, and the same is true with
brown sheetings and drills. Coarse col-
ored cottons showed slightly more ac-
tivity for one or two days, but it was
not lasting.

Prints and Ginghams—There is but
little new to report in regard to printed
cloths; fancy goods have been in fair
demand, with a tendency towards the
darker shades. In fact, this has been
so marked for the past weck or ten days
that stocks have been very materially
reduced. Light styles have not been
neglected, however, and business has
been coming to hand in fair propor-
tions. Staple prints show a good busi-
ness, and prices are firm in all lines, in-
cluding indigoes, turkey reds, shirtings,
etc., in stock, while orders ‘‘to arrive’’
are held generally ‘‘at value,’’ pending
advances. Advances are hinted at for
this week, and may become a reality
before this article is read. In fact, it is
said that the preliminary steps to such
a course have already been taken, such
as shortening discounts, etc. Staple
ginghams are very scarce, and fine lines
are frequently found to be in the same
condition. There are some lines of
dress ginghams still available for quick
delivery, but buyers are taking care of
these, and they will soon be reduced to
very small proportions.

Linings—As a rule the linings market
can be said to be in a good condition.
The orders coming to hand, while not
large themselves, aggregate a very fair
quantity ; in fact, several houses report
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very firm in all staple lines, and most
of the others. In kid-finished cambrics
there is no weakness shown. buyers

have endeavored to place contracts at
slightly below current prices, but with-
out avail. Silesias are also held firm-
ly, and where there have been no open
quotations advanced, many lines are held
‘at value,’’ and are expected to go up
a point or two very soon; other lines
show no change.

-The mills will have their
samples ready for inspection for the
spring season of 1gol early in June.
There are some manufacturers who feel
anxious, not as to what the probable de-
mand will be (for that is sure to be
very great), but as to what prices their
goods will command. They assert that
the past has proved that it is very diffi-
cult to sell underwear at prices covering
the advance they must pay on the raw
material, even when the demand is
large, and they quote present prices as
an example of the underwear market
being lower, comparatively, than the
yarn market. Their fears are believed
to be groundless, however, as there is no
doubt that the spring season for IgoI
will open at an advance over last sea-

Underwear—

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fully high enough to cover any advance
in the price of yarn and other raw ma-
terials. While it is true that the pres-
ent spring goods did not command the
prices that they ought to have done, the
reason for this was that some mills, hav-
ing raw materials on hand that were
bought when they were lower, were en-
abled to sell their goods at a price
which, while it did not cover the ad-
vance in raw material, labor, etc., yet
was sufficient to allow them to transact
business on a profitable basis, not as
profitable as conditions warranted, how-
ever. The manufacturers will not be
able to do this for the season of 1901.
Yarns are advancing steadily, and the
chances are that by June they will be
considerably higher. But even if the
price of yarn should not advance one
the manufacturer would be forced
to sell his goods at a material advance,
as having no more of the cheaper raw
material on hand to fall back on, he
would have to sell goods at prices fully
covering the cost of raw material or lose
money. As yarns will certainly be high-
er, it will readily be seen that prices
must open at a stiff advance over pres-
ent ones. As jobbers no doubt appre-
ciate this fact, and will be willing to
pay this advance, the season of I90I
ought to be a prosperous one.

Hosiery—Importers are transacting a
very large volume of business. They
are selling goods at a very reasonable
figure when general conditions are taken
into consideration. However, prices are
advancing ; for example, a popular line
that generally retails at 25c has gone up
‘43c per dozen. Deliveries are still very
slow, but there is a slight lessening in
the demand, and it is believed that
when the tension will be somewhat
slackened, the manufacturers will be
able to deliver goods more promptly.
The slow delivery occasions a scarcity of
spot goods, noticeably lace hose and low
grade ribbed goods, while the supply
of staple black hosiery from $1.50@2.25
is also below what it ought to be.

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False Economy.

‘‘Went home Thursday night and
found my wife ill. Symptoms alarming.
Dosed her best I could. Friday morn-
ing she was no better. Felt worried.
Wife dull and stupid. No life to her.
Started for doctor. Struck by happy
thought. Turned back. Cure complete.’’

‘‘What was it?’

‘‘Simple as pie. Just said, ‘Too bad
you have to be sick on bargain day, my
dear.’ She bounced up, ‘What!’ she
cried: ‘How stupid of one to forget.’
In five minutes she was up and dressed
and frizzing her hair.’

‘*Wouldn’t it have been cheaper to
have fetched the doctor?’’

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tion stock is the pocket book. We are
not manufacturers of these goods, but
modestly claim ‘the assortment we are
now showing is equal to that of many of
them. If your stock is low, sort up now
and get the pick of the line. Prices

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Says that “ personal beauty and grace are elements of power.
Freedom and grace of movement cannot be obtained when
Thousands of sensible women wear
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Substitutes, also our Jersey- Fitting Union Suits, Equ
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Clothing

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Neckwear shows a radical and de-
cided departure this spring from the
styles which prevailed a yearago. Then
everything inclined toward the large,
cumbersome English square. Now the
demand is for the smaller shapes and in
consequence the manufacturer’s best
efforts are being directed toward the
small-end Derby (four-in-hand) and the
batwing. Last season at this time the
made-up puff was exceedingly popular.
Now it 1s relegated to the rear and is
only shown when asked for. The small-
knot teck has taken its place so far as
made-up neckwear goes.

Tieable neckwear is at its height in
popularity; even remote _ localities,
where several seasons ago a tieable piece
of neckwear was unknown, now have it
to the exclusion, almost, of the made-up
goods. This evolution, as it were, is
pleasing alike to the manufacturer and
dealer, as it advances qualities, styles and
taste.

One of the most difficult phases of
this subject is to indicate the prevailing
colors. Last year ‘‘military’’ and
‘*cadet’’ blues held sway. This season
the color schemes are so numerous and
so distinctive that it amounts to a mat-
ter of choice and taste rather-than tend-
ency. It can very truly be said that
everything being shown by the higher
class neckwear makers is right.

Easter is the first event that brings
styles into prominence, and for it there
are many handsome specials in color
effects. Particularly intended for Easter
are lavenders, pale lilac, pale blue and
French blues. These colors are being
shown in combinations with white,
large, pronounced plaids with an over-
shot figure or in two-toned effects—solid
grounds and small figures in white self-
filled. To immediately follow the Easter
specials is the largest, handsomest col-
lection of Rumchundas and _ handker-
chief neckwear that either the manufac-

 

turer or retailer ever saw. The variety
of choice ideas seems to be endless.

As remarked, the smaller shapes are
the preference, and this demand _ refers
as decidedly to Easter shapes as it
does to those to immediately follow.
The smaller Imperial will be the favor-
ite shape for Easter, when the Derby
will assume control and lead up to the
handkerchief and squares for summer
negligee.

Following the Easter colorings are the
usual staple blues, purples and cherry
effects.

A new tie texture is just being intro-
duced which will certainly be a favorite
for midsummer negligee wear. It is a
silk and linen texture, with colors of a
neutral character. The designs are
large bars or squares, made by the cross-
ing of broad stripes. The colorings are
tints and very soft.

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Willing to Lend a Hand.

‘‘James,’’ whispered the good wo-
man, ‘‘there’s a_ burglar in the parlor.
He stumbled against the piano in the

dark. I heard several of the keys
struck.’’

‘All right!’ said James, ‘‘I’ll go
down.”’

‘‘Oh! James, you're not going to do
anything rash?’’

‘Certainly not. I’m going to help
him. You don’t suppose he can get
that piano out of the house without as-
sistance, do you?”’

No Cause for Worry.

Hewitt—So you are engaged to Miss
Gruet?

Jewett—Yes.

Hewitt--She looks so much like her
twin sister that | don’t see how you can
tell them apart.

Jewett-——I don’t have to; I’m engaged
to both of them.

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Guarding Against Mistake.

Eddie—-I hear that you gave your ma
a pair of slippers for her birthday.

Freddie—Yes; and | marked them,
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Outlook for Overcoats.

The outlook for overcoatings this sea-
son is far better than it has been for
several seasons past. It started off well,
and promises much. It does not take a
keen perception to see why the condi-
tions are as they are: the retail clotniers
have as a whole had better luck with
their overcoats than for several seasons,
not in New York City, but in other
parts of the country. Another factor is
the length of the garments. The long
‘*Raglan’’ is almost sure to be a prime
favorite, and if the orders now placed
hold, the business will be tremendous.
There is many a slip ’twixt the loom
and the retailer, however, and it may
not turn out as well as is hoped.

Kerseys will be prime favorites as
usual, and also many rough faced fab-
rics, vicunas, etc. Oxford and other
grays promise to eclipse all previous
records, and there will be a fair amount
of browns, olives, etc. If the present
prospects are only realized, the agents
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more satisfactory than it has been on
for some years. The carried-over stocks
are practically disposed of, and prices
have been advanced to a fair standard.
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cause and the people make no effort
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depredations as a dispensation of Prov-
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Shoes and Leather

How the Retailer Can Secure an Increase
in Price.

The fact that to-day there exists in all
grades of footwear a general advance of
prices is very apparent to all buyers of
shoes, from the manufacturer or jobber to
the retailer, and even from the retailer
to the wearer.

The condition that governs this state
of affairs is so strong that it is simply
an impossibility for any person, be it
manufacturer, jobber, retailer or con-
sumer (no matter what the strength of
his capital or his ability to purchase
quantities), to circumvent it in any
way.

The leather market is very firm and
it is controlled by such a combination of
conditions that it seems as though noth-
ing short of a general upheaval or a na-
tional panic could weaken it.

So the retailer need have no hopes of
a speedy change in the existing situa-
tion, and must needs think of some plan
by which he may still do business and
come out on the right side.

Perhaps it would be better while I am
speaking thus to back up my statement
as to the present strength of the leather
market, and in as few words as possible
| will attempt to do so. The advance
in the price of leather comes from the
ground up, beginning even farther back
than the cost of ‘‘stock on the hoof’’ on
the far-away ranch. The advance in
freight charges adds to their value when
they reach their market; in turn, the
packer must obtain a better price for his
hides, regulating it to the condition of
the demand. As the demand for these
hides has so materially increased dur-
ing the past year, and the supply failed
to increase in proportion, the result is
a market for hides at a larger profit,
and the foreign demand brought to bear
against our home buyers of hides has, of
course, a tendency to increase their
value to their holders. The hides reach
the tanner to-day at about a 25 per cent.
advance over the market of one and one-
half years ago, and upon enquiring into
the prices of other materials that go into
the making of a shoe—nails, thread,
laces, hooks, etc.—we find the same
general advance existing.

It is apparent that an advance is nec-
essary and the retailer must either de-
liver an inferior article at the old price
or stick to the old grade and charge the
customer the actual advance.

Now in my opinion the last method
is the only method for a successful re-
tailer to choose. It is the only way for
the retailer to face the existing situa-
tion. He must keep the same grade of
footwear that he has always kept, and
must prove to his customers that there
is an actual advance in the cost of all
footwear and insist upon receiving the
additional cost which he is obliged to
pay. It should be no hard matter to con-
vince the customer of the advance. Tell
him the reason for the advance in leath-
er and findings. Tell him that the ad-
vance he is asked to pay on the shoes he
buys is in every way perfectly legiti-
mate and very small compared to what
should be really asked.

You will find in most cases that the
customer is fully aware that every article
he buys is to-day costing him more
money than heretofore, and he will will-
ingly pay a legitimate advance on the
pair of shoes you sell him. So don’t be
afraid to ask it.

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There is on use in a retailer advertising
the fact that there is an advance in
shoes, for it may cause the customer to
fear to come in. Time enough, | think,
to talk advance after the customer comes
into the store, without advertising it in
the papers.

There are certain classes of footwear
which may advance in price without
the customer noticing it. By this class
I mean the fancy portion of the styles
in footwear, which are made more for
looks than for wear. These may be
cheapened in quality, and still have a
fine appearance. But these are but few
in number and the average retailer has
nothing to do with them.

In closing I would advise all retailers
to keep up the standard of their lines.
Substitute nothing as ‘‘just as good’’
for any shoe you sold last year. Do
not lower the grades. Be honest with
your customers and obtain your custom-
ers’ confidence, and you will surely
‘‘win out.’’—Shoeman in Boots and
Shoes Weekly.

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miles and that is enough.
The long distance axles on
some of our vehicles are
absolutely dust proof. The
dust can not get in nor can
the oil get out. Good talk-
ing points and they con-
vince customers. Cost but
a little more than the or-
dinary kind. Catalogues on
them, also carriages, har-
ness, implements—you can
have any by writing for it.

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Grand Rapids, Mich.

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Woman’s World

Sympathy Between Youth and Age.

When all is said, the widest chasm
in the world and the hardest to bridge
over is that which divides youth and
age. Between the two is the gulf in
which lie all the illimitable ignorance
and the unfathomable experiences of
two lives, and no matter how closely
akin an old person and a young one may
be, they are, in some sort, like travelers
who call to each other in a language one
is only beginning to learn and that the
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Youth and age have curiously little in
common. It is so hard to remember,
when one is shivering in the icy blasts
of December, that the air still blows
warm and sweet about young May. It
is so hard to realize, when one has seen
one’s own meager harvest gathered in,
that another is sowing in hope with all
the possibilities of the future years
stretching before him radiant with eter-
nal promise. Above all, when one has
grown old and blase—when one has
tired of the weary show, when every-
thing is as tedious as an old told tale,
and the actors seem merely puppets
whose mirth rings hollow and whose
tears are too false to move us—it is so
hard to remember that another is look-

ing at the play of life with fresh eyes
and pulses that thrill to every varying
phrase of interest, ready to give it the
tribute of tears and smiles.

True and strange, but strangest of all
in this—that we should so soon forget
the desires and emotions of our own
youth. Listen to any middle-aged man
descant on the follies of the young men
of to-day. He does not hesitate to de-
clare that they are imbeciles and that
there has been a general decadence of
the human race since he was a boy.

‘*Look at me, sir,’’ he cries. ‘‘When
I was a boy, did you ever see me smok-
ing cigarettes? Did you ever observe
me wearing a collar that threatened to
cut my ears off? Did you ever know
me to waste my time and money run-
ning around after little fly-up-the-creek
girls, instead of working and saving so
as to get a start in life? No, sir, that
wasn’t the kind of a young fellow I
was,’’ and then he sketches a fancy
picture of the boy he thinks he was—-so
wise, so virtuous, so industrious, so
obedient to parents, so solicitous of his
employer’s welfare that it has no parallel
outside of the covers of Sunday school
literature.

When he contrasts his own sons with
the model he was at their age and ob-
serves how far short they have fallen of
that shining example, he is filled with
the deepest pessimism and darkly won-
ders what the country is coming to when
the men of his generation are dead. As
he looks at his daughters he sighs to
think that there are no such noble, de-
serving youths now as he was whom
they may hope to marry. Ifthere were,
he could ask nothing better for them,
but how any girl in her senses could
even think of being rash enough to in-
trust herself to the modern young man
passes his comprehension. The funny
part of it all is that he is deadly earnest
in these opinions. A kindly and oblit-
erating hand has been drawn across the
slate of memory and the score wiped
out against him. He has honestly for-
gotten that as a_ boy he shirked work
whenever possible and cut school and
learned to smoke behind the barn and
that as a young man he patronized his
elders and never saved a cent until he

got married, and that his wife’s father
made precisely the same remarks about
his daughter marrying him.

Women, when they come to recalling
the follies of their own youth, have no
better or more reliable memories than
men. Probably there isn’t any middle-
aged woman who ever listens to the con-
versation of a bright young girl and her
hobbledehoy beau without a shudder at
the idiocy of their remarks and a_ throb
of gratitude to think that she never
could have been that silly. Never, she
is firmly convinced, was she ever guilty
of uttering such inanities, never did she
giggle, never could she have endured
the society of such a sap-headed youth.
On the contrary, she is positive that
when she was young she and the in-
tellectual young men who visited her sat
up decorously and discussed art and lit-
erature in an edifying manner. ‘‘Soci-
ety, among the young, lacks the dignity
and tone it had then,’’ she says with a
melancholy shake of the head. She has
as entirely forgotten as if it had never
existed how she and her girl chum
used to lie awake half the night ex-
changing confidences about that too
perfectly sweet young man who _ parted
his hair in the middle and clerked in
the dry goods store and how she used to
read sickly poetry and underscore the
dark and passionate passages and write
‘how true’’ opposite them, and was al-
together so silly and sentimental the
wonder is that she escaped the fool

killer.

What mother in advising her daught-
ers ever failed to hold up her own unim-
peachable youth for their admiration
and emulation! Dear me, how proper
we were then! How respectful to our
elders, how dutiful to our parents, how
willing to listen to them and be guided
by them when they picked out for us
the good young man who led the
prayer meeting instead of his scape-
grace’s brother who led the german,
whom we had picked out for ourselves.
She never flirted, oh, no! She never sat
out dances in dark corners, with im-
pecunious, but fascinating young men.
She always kept everybody at their dis-
tance, and as for a kiss in the dark—
fie, the idea !—such a thing was never,
never done when she was young. ‘‘And
how did you ever get married?’’ asks
Miss Pert, and mamma breaks off her
homily in confusion, because she has
happened to remember that things
weren't so very different then, after all.

What does youth, on its part, think
of age? It is every whit as intolerant
and as sure of its view point being the
superior outlook on life. It is a terrible
shock to our vanity to realize it, but it
is true, nevertheless, that youth does
not regard those of us who are older as
models to be imitated, but merely as
object lessons of what to avoid. What
mannerisms we _ have acquired that ex-
cite their derision, how antiquated our
most cherished ideas appear to them,
and as for dress, they are inwardly con-
vinced that although they should live to
be a million,they would never give way
to the weakness of wearing a turn-over
collar and a string tie and broad-soled
shoes or leave off their stays, just be-
cause it was comfortable. If their con-
versation appears to us inane don’t for
a moment suppose that they regard us
as anything but bores. The silliest chit
of a young girl thinks that she is be-
stowing an inestimable compliment on
the wisest man by giving him half an
hour of her valuable and entrancing
giggles, while the youth of 20 who de-
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

an elderly woman, no matter how dis-
tinguished and brilliant she may be,
does it with the conscious air of confer-
ring a favor on her that she really didn't
have any right to look for at her time
of life.

There is in reality no criticism so
merciless’ and unsparing, no judgment
so hard as that of youth. It makes no
Failure is failure to it, with
Every
young person is so cock sure that his
own’ life is going to be a triumphal
march, unmarred by mistakes, that he
has little pity for those who have fallen
by the wayside. Every boy can tell you
to a dot where his father erred in his
business calculations. He regards the
old gentleman's caution as cowardice—
his sticking to the methods that have
been tried and_ successful as old fogy-
ism. He intends, when the business gets
in his possession, to make a_ clean
sweep of the old employes and start rad-
ical changes that he is convinced will
make him a millionaire in next to no
time, but that to his surprise generally
land him in the hands of a receiver be-
fore he knows what has happened to
him. Then, by the time he has found
out that he wasn’t really so much smarter
than his father, after all, he has grown
middle-aged himself and shifted about
to the other point of view.

Every girl is equally sure she knows
so much better than her mother how to
keep house and manage a household and
raise a family. If the older woman
thinks the young girl, chattering non-
sense and giggling over nothing, is
silly, the girl returns the compliment
with interest by regarding the women
who are wrestling with the complex
question of how to pacify a cook who
wants to go, and keep a_ husband in
perpetual good humor, as nothing but
rank failures. She is dead sure that
the only reason that the great domestic
problem hasn’t been settled long ago is
because she has_ never brought her gi-
gantic intellect to bear on it. ‘‘Just
wait,’’ she says, confidently, ‘‘until 1
get to it, and 1’ll show you how that
matter ought to be settled.’’ But she
doesn't do it, and her daughter inherits
the same old question and the same
opinion that she is smarter than her
mother.

There are few things more to be de-
plored than this lack of sympathy be-
tween youth and age. In families, in
particular, it works grievous wrong, and
raises a barrier between parents and
children that nothing can break down,
and that causes untold suffering and
sorrow. John, with all the morbid van-
ity of youth, knows that his father is
going to sneer at his opinion, and de-
ride his dress as dudish and criticise
his natural love of gayety, and he takes
his confidences and his plans to strang-
ers. Mary, who is perfectly aware that
her parents are only listening to the
conversation of her friends to ridicule
it, takes precious good care that they
shail hear just as little of it as possible,
and so it often happens that a girl’s
mother has barely a speaking acquaint-
ance with her future son-in-law up to
the very hour of the wedding. Because
older people have no patience with it,
youth believes that its own life is differ-
ent from every other one the world has
ever known, and so it does not heed the
warnings that age is shouting back to
it across the chasm, but goes its own
way, and learns by mistakes and tears
and failures, and by and by it, too,
grows old and forgets that it was ever
young,and so the endless chain goes on.

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it with understanding, and then life is
at its best for both, for youth keeps the
heart of age warm with its enthusiasm,
and age teaches youth to walk without
stumbling in the tangles that are hidden
among the roses of springtime.
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Commercial Travelers

Michigan Knights of the Grip
President, E. J. SCHREIBER, Bay City; Sec-
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Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Association
President, A. MARYMONT, Detroit; Secretary
and Treasurer, Gko. W. HILL, Detroit.

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

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Senior Counselor, JOHN G. KoLB; Secretary-
Treasurer, L. F. Baker. :

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President, J. BoyD PANTLIND, Grand Rapids;
Secretary and Treasurer, GEO. F. OWEN,
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Gripsack Brigade.

Coldwater Republican: Frank Col-
lins, of the firm of Nichols & Collins,
started on the road last week as sales-
man for the Burial Device Co.

Champion correspondence Marquette
Mining Journal: Among the many
commercial men who travel through this
section there are none more _ interesting
or successful than A. G. Kent, a deaf
mute, who is now on his initial trip. He
spent Tuesday in Champion. He travels
in the interest of the American Manu-
facturing Co. of Sheboygan, Wis., and
handles a line of chairs. Mr. Kent is
an unusually attractive looking young
man and because of his condition many
take to him very readily. Although
the salesman never utters a word he usu-
ally receives the attention of the busi-
ness men more readily than commercial
men who are considered glib talkers.
The average person believes that the
first qualification of a drummer isa
ready tongue, but many of the dealers
will doubtless look upon Mr. Kent as a
sort of a ‘‘redeemer.’’ He carries a
pencil and pad with which to convey
and receive information. He has a
unique business card which explains
that he represents a house that *‘needs
no talking !"’ Mr. Kent became familiar
with the business some years ago when
in partnership with his father at Grand
Rapids. When the panic came in 1893
they failed, after which the son took to
the road. He met with great success and
says he found the work comparatively
easy, although troublesome at times, es-
pecially when he tried to do business
with a man who can not read or write
English. This young fellow is a good
example of what pluck and energy can
do when directed by a bright mind. He
lost his hearing when only three years
old through an attack of congestion of
the brain. He was educated at the Flint
school for the deaf, after which he en-
tered a business college. He is known
throughout the Lower Peninsula, where
he has traveled for some time, as ‘*‘ Kent
the Silent.’’ Although he is unusually
clever in every way and will go in and
hustle with the best talkers his affliction
is a help to him in business, people in
general being glad to do business with
a man who doesn’t bore them with an
excessive flow of conversation.

~~. 2.
Bound To Buy a Coat Below the Regular
Price. .
Written for the Tradesman.

Any one could see that she wasa
humble woman and that she was one of
those class of buyers who are not satis-
fied unless they can beat down the sales-
man. It was in a clothing store and she
was looking at some overcoats. She ex-
plained later that it was for her boy who
was a man grown, who worked in the
factory and couldn't get time to visit
the store. The truth is she probably

 

thought she could drive a better bargain
than her son.

‘*Looking for an overcoat?’’ the clerk
asked pleasantly.

‘*Yaw. How mooch fer dese?’’

The salesman informed her that all in
that pile were ten dollars. One after
another was pulled from the bunch and
inspected critically. Then the woman
began to beat down. ‘‘I gif you nine
tollar,’’ she said, having selected one.

Then came the usual explanation from
the salesman that everything in the store
was tagged and that there could be no
change in price. He had also discovered
that the woman couldn’t read, but noth-
ing would satisty her unless she could
get the coat one dollar less than the
price and, after some haggling, she
walked toward the door.

The salesman had lots of time, for
business was not rushing at the moment.
He was out of patience with the woman
and, getting reckless, made up his mind
to flimflam her if he could. As she
reached the door he hailed her with:

‘*Here’s a coat I know will suit you.’

She hesitated and then finally came
back. There was the same formula of
looking through the coats as in the other
case and then she asked the price. They
were tagged at nine dollars.

‘*Those, my dear woman, are eleven
dollars. They are worth at least five
dollars more than the other coats—better
lining, softer and more durable cloth,
heavier and warmer and better made all
through. ”’

After a time the woman selected
and holding it up, said:
ten tollar fer dot.’’

The salesman shook his head; but he
added: ‘‘I’m_ sorry, madam. _ It’s
against the rules of the store to make
any reduction. 1 don’t think I can do
HE.

‘‘Dot’s all I gif,’’ the woman said,
as she started for the door.

The salesman followed her and had
his hand on the door-latch. ‘‘If you'll
wait a moment I'll speak to the proprie-
tor. Perhaps he’ll make the reduction in
your case.’’

The woman stepped back and ina
moment the salesman, having _ per-
formed his errand, returned and ex-
plained that the proprietor disliked very
much to do it, that they were making
nothing on the coat and a lot more of
the same kind, but she could have it at
ten dollars.

‘What had we better do with the extra
dollar?’’ the salesman asked as he passed
the money through the window to his
employer, who was in ‘‘the cash coop.”’

‘*We’ll blow it in.’’ And they did.

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“IT gif you

The Drummers and the Trusts.

There was a young drummer who drummed,
With his order book always well thumbed,

But along came the trust,

And gave him a thrust,

And, of course, the young drummer succumbed.

A drummer who traveled for leather

Has lately encountered hard weather:
He’s too sad by half

To indulge in a laugh,

Though you tickled his ear with a feather.

A drummer with samples of glass,
Through a meadow was anxious to pass.
Old Trust — him out

And hoarsely cried out:

“ Young fellow, keep off the grass.”

A drummer whose line was in socks

Was finding himself in a box;

Though always alert,

He had pawned his last shirt,

And the Octopus gobbled his socks.
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Prompt Answer.

‘‘My friend,’’ said the long-haired
passenger to the young man in the seat
opposite, ‘‘to what end has your life
work been directed?’’

‘*To both ends,’’ was the reply. ‘‘I
have the only first-class hat and shoe
store in our village.’’

 

SPECULATIVE BUYING.

Diverging Opinions of Dry Goods and
Grocery Salesmen.

Grand Haven, March 26—I wish to
intrude on your valuable space to a cer-
tain extent in order to take issue with
the shrewd jobber from Detroit who
deprecates the early buying of goods in
order to avoid high prices, etc.

I have nothing to say as to how it
affects the grocery business, but in the
dry goods line, for instance, there are
many advantages in buying early.

If you will go among the merchants
throughout the State, you. will invari-
ably find that the one who makes a suc-
cess of his business purchases his goods
early, for several reasons :

First. He will get the choicest or
earliest selection, for he has a more
complete line to buy from.

Second. Having had the first selec-
tion he naturally has a better line to dis-
play for the benefit of his customers than
his neighbor who does not buy until he
has call for them or until his trade
actually need them, when, of course,
the choicest patterns are sold. True,
the late merchant will probably get all
the goods he wants—for money will al-
ways buy merchandise-—but he does not
get the assortment he should have in
order to compete with his more pro-
gressive competitor.

I do not believe that every man in
trade is ‘‘hounded to death’’ by the too
numerous salesmen and thereby becomes
a speculator, as a rule. On the con-
trary, the average salesman has the con-
fidence of his trade and, when the ques-
tion is put squarely before him, ‘‘ Would
you advise me to buy this now?’’ there
are few, very few, salesmen who would
not give an honest judgment to the cus-
tomer and advise him what to do, and
very rarely is that confidence misplaced.
I mean by this men who are traveling
over a territory for some years. Some
men only make one trip, load a custom-
er to the front door, knowing they will
never return, and let their successor
patch up the trouble. These men_ are
sharp, and should not be classed as
salesmen. I believe the merchant who
uses his best judgment in selecting
goods early, puts them on_ his counter
and gets a good profit early in the sea-
son should not be called a speculator,
but should be given credit for using
good comomn sense. Of course, early
buyers get a reasonable dating from all
jobbers and manufacturers and hence
are in better condition to discount their
bills when the time arrives, for they
have had the advantage of selling a part
of the goods in the meantime, for a
woman will buy a pretty dress pattern
when the styles first are shown—she can
not resist-——and have it made up two or
three months later. As far as too many
merchants being unable to discount is
concerned, there are various reasons
for that: One is that too many mer-
chants want to doa large business and
carry too much stock on too small a
capital. Another—and the _ principal
one—is that the average merchant gives
too much credit altogether. He has an
idea that if he sells a certain amount of
goods he is well satisfied, but not until
the credit man of the firm calls on him
to settle does he realize that he has too
much on the books. A merchant who
sells for cash is able to discount.

Louis J. Koster.

Grand Rapids, March 26—I notice
that the retail dealers who do not spec-
ulate, buy as they need the goods,
pay the cash for them and get the cash
discount are the most successful ones
and are sure to show a nice profit at the
end of each year, and | attribute it to
several reasons. The main one is that
the dealers who pay cash are more care-
fu! in regard to whom they extend credit
and are better collectors and give more
time to attending to collections than
they do to extending credits.

The commercial travelers are largely
responsible for the speculative buying
of dealers, and | realize that I am as
bad as any of them in that way,and just
so long as the dealers continue to buy
goods of every salesman who calls on
them just so long will the traveler urge
them to buy ahead, as he is obliged to
do to protect himself, If every dealer

 

would decide on one or two reliable
wholesale houses, represented by an
honest, reliable traveler, and confine his
trade to them, he would find in less than
five months that he is carrying less
stock, owes less and is making more
money than in the usual way of buying
of everyone. The past year has been a
favorable one for the dealer who pur-
chases ahead, as all kinds of canned
goods are higher than the futures were
sold for. The special free deals on some
brands of soaps also enable some deal-
ers to make a nice profit and own their
soap less than the jobber, and I think
that the dealer who has the cash to take
the discount with can make extra profits
in careful purchases ahead when he has
a low basis to purchase at; but he
should be thoroughly posted in regard to
the conditions of the market himself,
so he can be ina_ position to call the
traveler who talks advance on price.
Byron S. Davenport.
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The Giddy Old Man.

Meg in Pittsburg Dispatch.

The man who wants to get acquainted !
Were you ever going in any direction
that this man was not going that way
also? He is generally traveling for
pleasure, therefore his wife is not along.
He is rarely the man one wants to know,
or should know, therefore, selfish as it
seems, and lonely as it may be, the best
course for a woman is to observe the
behest of Elisha when he sent his’ serv-
ant, Gehagi, to lay his. staff upon the
face of the dead Shumanitt child:

‘If thou meet a man salute him not;
and if any man salutes thee, salute him
not again.’’

For it does seem that a man is never
too old to believe himself attractive to
some other man’s wife or daughter. You
can pull every hair out of his dear old
head; yank every tooth out of a one-
time sweet mouth; furrow him an inch
deep with Time's claw; rheumatiz his
joints, raise Cain with him generally,
and yet he will sit up and show his red
necktie and think he’s a darling that
ought to paralyze every woman.

Bah! We hear a great deal of the
foolishness and flightiness of the old
woman; but, my friends, she is enough
better behaved than the old man. Time
doesn’t handle a man with a thicker
pair of gloves than he puts on fora
woman, and the sooner men realize that
the Nineteenth Century woman is no
older at the same age than a man is,
that soon will he leave off being ridicu-
lous and’ become the dear, decent old
grandpapa God intended him to be.

- > 0. —
Store Papers as Advertisers.

A Kansas merchant has been making
experiments with a store paper. He tells
of the results in the following, published
in his home paper in the Sunflower
State :

I have two stores, in small villages,
doing about the same amount of busi-
ness, not generally varying more than
$10 a month. | started a special sale
counter in both my stores, and found
that by the special sale my business was
increased about 25 per cent. in both
stores. 1 then got advertising papers
for one store, and put exactly the same
line of goods in each store, so one would
have the same chance as the other, that
my test of the advertising paper might
be fair. I got 1,000 papers and scattered
them pretty thoroughly over the country ;
the result was that at one store without
papers I sold during the month of
August $984 worth of goods, and from
the store that the paper was sent out
from I sold $1,723 worth. Both stores
had special sale counters and exactly the
same goods, so that the difference in the
sales could only be attributed to the ad-
vertising paper, which proved to me
very conclusively that advertising pays,
and that the advertising paper is cer-
tainly a good way to advertise, and I
shall most assuredly stick to it until I
get some better way of advertising, if I
ever do. People who got the advertising
paper would pass by one of my stores
and drive for miles to the other one for
what they could have gotten at the same
price in my _ store nee at their door,
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Drugs--Chemicals

Michigan State Board of Pharmacy
Term expires
GEO. GUNDRUM, Ionia - - Dee. 31, 1900
L. E. REYNOLDS, St. Joseph - Dec. 31, 1901
HENRY HEIM, Saginaw - - Dec. 31, 1902
Wirt P. Dory, Detroit - - - Dee. 31, 1903
A. C. SCHUMACHER, Ann Arbor - Dec. 31, 1904
President, GEO. GUNDRUM, Ionia.
Secretary, A. C. SCHUMACHER, Ann Arbor.
Treasurer, HENRY HEIM, Saginaw.

 

 

Examination Sessions
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—Cuas. F. MANN, Detroit.
Treasurer—J. S. BENNETT, Lansing.

 

 

Profitable Articles Which Can Be Pushed
in the Spring.

Why should you be expected to exert
yourself more or to put forth greater
efforts to get trade in the spring-time
than at other seasons of the year? For
the same reason that we expect more of
the young man than of the old and
feeble man. Because everything takes a
new lease of life at spring-time. Be-
cause your efforts make greater impres-
sions in the spring-time, when every-
body and everything are waking up and
coming out of their winter lethargy. ‘‘]
must get ready for the spring trade,’’ is
an old saw with merchants in all lines
of trade.

The druggist who best prepares for
this inevitable spring trade is not only
going to get more present business, but,
if he has builded well, he will hold the
increase throughout the whole year. The
importance of being in the field early,
well equipped, can not be too strongly
emphasized. The spring-time is a good
season for the druggist who has never
made much ofa stir to get a_ Start.
There are several pointers here that are
capable of adaptation to every retail
drug business; and they will earn for
their user an extra penny and much
new business.

This is quite a subject for that drug-
gist to consider who wants to get all the
spring trade there is coming to him.
Very soon, now, every one will be put-
ting away winter furs and woolens.
Every one takes all the pains in the
world to prevent the devastation of
moths. Be in the field early with your
preparation for this purpose; get them
started coming to your store, and you
will sell more than any of your compet-
itors.

The most satisfactory preparation to
meet the needs incident to the putting
away of winter clothes is a mixture of
naphthalene flake and oil of cedar (a
few drops to the half-pound). Put this
mixture up in half-pound cartons and
sell it for ten cents. A good name for
this preparation would be Campho-
Cedar. A novel and paying way to
advertise this specialty is to distribute
a lot of flyers about 4x5 inches, saying
simply: ‘‘Moths can’t live where
Campho-Cedar is.’

The success of this depends on how
well you do it. Flood the community
or town with these flyers, paste them
on every available dead wall, fence and
other conspicuous place. Get the people
thoroughly acquainted with this bit of
philosophy, ‘‘Moths can’t lie where
Campho-Cedar is.’’ At the time this
distribution of flyers is made, make a
window display of Campho-Cedar, and
at the top of the window extending way
across use a plain white poster bearing
the same words as the small flyers. In
your newspaper advertising at this time
go into the argument part of Campho-
Cedar. ;,Explain its merits in short,

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crisp sentences, using but one or two
arguments in each announcement and
putting the price in every time.

Just now there is an especially in-
creased demand for a healing, soothing
dressing for the skin. The winds of
March with their accompanying red,
rough hands and faces make business
for the wide-awake druggist. The sim-
plest dressing, if it is thoroughly anti-
septic, will be found to be the most sat-
isfactory.

Here is a formula which I have found
as good as any to counteract the effects
of March weather: Make a base of
tragacanth mucilage, using equal parts
of witch-hazel and rose water as a sol-
vent instead of pure water; put up in
four ounce bottles. To each bottle add
one drachm of solution of carbolic acid
(95 per cent.). This preparation
soothes, heals, and protects the roughest
skin, and seems to present no objection-
able features.

A novel name for this preparation
would be ‘‘ Velvetia Cream for March.”’
The last part of this name may sound
superfluous, but it assists very greatly
in attracting and holding the attention
of the public. To push ‘‘Velvetia
Cream for March,’’ have printed a_pla-
card, and place this in your front door
where every one who comes in may see
it, as well as those who pass along the
street. Have this placard read: ‘‘ Defy
March winds with Velvetia Cream.”’
Counter displays of these goods will help
sell them. Package slips with a good
local testimonial and the price will also
assist. Give a one-ounce sample to
every member of the local woman’s club
or clubs in your town or community,
and then advertise the fact in your
newspaper space after this fashion:
‘*To-day each of the fifty-three members
of the Blankville Literary Club was
presented with a sample of Druggist
Blank’s new March Healing Cream.
This cream is an elegant preparation,
delicately perfumed, put up in a hand-
some package, and presents the proper
healing ingredients in a form and man-
ner so that the severest March winds
will now have no terrors for the mem-
bers of the Literary Club—even the thin-
nest skinned member.”’

A preparation which will effectively
kill roaches and bedbugs is readily sal-
able in the spring, and more or less so
at all times inthe year. The thing to
look for here as in other specialties put
out by the druggist is to get a product
that will do absolutely all that can be
wanted, and that still can be made and
sold at a reasonable price. With a view
of being of as much assistance as _ pos-
sible I give here a formula that is
actually the most effective of anything
that has ever yet been offered, and that
in addition has other qualifications to
recommend it—cheapness and ease of
application:

Use gasoline, benzine, or naphtha as
a base, color red with a gasoline solu-
tion of alkanet root, and add about one
drachm of flake naphthalene to each
pint. Bottle in green glass, twelve-
ounce bottles of the same sort as house-
hold ammonia is usually sold in. This
package will cost complete not over six
or seven cents, and a fair retail price is
25 cents. Cork and label, and sell with
a tin spout attached so that it may be
easily squirted into cracks and crevices.

This preparation might well be called
‘*Bugolene,’’ and it may be advertised
by having slips printed with the follow-
ing matter, wrapping these slips in
packages sent out of the store and dis-
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Spring is the time when those house-
hold pests—bedbugs and roaches—are
most numerous. Don’t bother or exper-
iment, but rid the premises of them en-
tirely in a*single vigorous effort. Bug-
olene will kill them at once and with the
least trouble to you.

Manufactured and sold only by A. A.
Blank, Druggist.

Price 25 cents.

An illustration of a water-bug in one
corner of the slip would add to its value.

There are a whole lot of other things
that can be pushed to good advantage
in the spring-time—blood medicines,
malt extracts, spring tonics, etc.—Harry
M. Graves in Bulletin of Pharmacy.

CS See ae
Improved Worcestershire Sauce.

A. Wangemann communicates the fol-
lowing formula to the Western Druggist :

Pimento, 2 drs.

Clove, I dr.

Black pepper, 1 dr.

Ginger, I dr.

Curry powder, I oz.

Capsicum, | dr.

Mustard, 2 ozs.

Shallots, bruised, 2 ozs.

Salt, 2 ozs.

Sugar, brown, 2 ozs.

Tamarinds, 8 ozs.

Sherry, I pt.

Wine vinegar, 2 pts.

Mr. Wangemann adds the following
instructions: Let there be added ¥% oz.
of powdered asafoetida and one bruised
liver, mixing these with the other in-
gredients before boiling. Asafoetida
and liver are added by all makers of
this sauce for the trade, since it is these
that give the peculiar tang. Worces-
tershire sauce, originally compounded
by an English physician for one of his
gluttonous aristocratic patients, was
originally intended as a vehicle for the
administration of asafoetida. The car-
minative aromatics employed success-
fully mask the taste of that gum. This
is an interesjing instance, and probably
the first one, of the modern tendency
to make nauseous drugs palatable.

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Sell Vaseline Only.

A bright drummer for an oil house re-
cently gave me an eloquent appeal to
sell his ‘‘petroleum jelly,’’ which he
claimed was ‘‘just as good’’ as vase-
line, when this latter article was_ called
for. His strong point was that we could
make an extra quarter cent on each five
cent bottle sold.

I refused to handle his ‘‘ just as good’’
or any substitute for this very well
known and popular remedy. It would
be equally foolish to try and sell a sub-
stitute for Epsom salt or paregoric.
Those who call for vaseline want it,
and know what they want. If we had
a customer whose business was worth
only a quarter of a cent a year, it
would not pay to experiment with him.
Honesty is the best way to make friends
with the public, and without that we
can not succeed.—Wm. T. Markis in

Practical Druggist.
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Clothes Balls.

Fuller’s earth, finely powdered and
well desiccated by heat, made intoa
paste with the juice of lemon, to this is
then added some carbonate of-potassium
and kneaded together until a stiff mass
results. Then form into balls and hard-
en them in dry air. Whena spot is to
be removed, moisten it with water and
rub it thoroughly over with the ball—
then wash with pure water and the spot
will be erased.

——__~> 9
Clearing the House.

‘‘The house is afire!’’ cried the
tenor. ‘‘The audience must be dis-
missed as quickly as possible.’’

‘‘All right,’’ replied the manager.
‘‘Say nothing about the fire. Go out
and sing.”’

age ua

Some people have an unconquerable
prejudice against anything made at
home or bought at home.

United States. Send for our
samples. We will send them

 

The Drug Market.

Opium—Is firm at the advance noted
last week. The reported damage to the
growing crop was unimportant. The
prices are higher on account of higher
markets abroad.

Morphine—Is unchanged.

Quinine—Is_ steadily declining, on
account of lower prices for bark.

Carbolic Acid—Is quiet at unchanged
prices.

Alcohol—On account of higher price
for corn has been advanced Ic per gal-
lon.

Borax—-The refiners have advanced ,
the price 4c per pound.

Castor Oil—Has been advanced 4c per
gallon.

Cocaine—Has declined 25c per ounce.

Cocoa Butter—Has declined in the
primary markets and is lower here.

Cod Liver Oil—Has been advanced on
account of higher primary markets.

Gum Camphor—Is very strong on ac-
count of higher prices for crude, and as
the season for demand is nearly at hand,
higher prices are looked for.

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Use charity with all; be generous in
thought and deed; help others along
life’s thorny pathway.

PACA AFG, GHENISTS,
,,  MILEGAN, HIGH

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

write us for prices.

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No manufacturer or jobber
can equal our assortment.
We represent twenty-six of
the leading factories in the

< to you, express prepaid, for
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MANUFACTURED BY

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Declined—
her ‘ a panies aie aA
Acidum Contam Mia Mac......... 50@ 60 | Selllze Co @ 501)
edi $ 6@$ 8| Lopaiba. -- 11@1 25 | olutan .... ‘ > t
(renzoieum, German. 70@ 75 = ae ics Be es s0@ : =) Prunus virg. . @ 50
Bisse... ._...-.... @ = riceton OS . ; po : Tine dani
ee ee 60
Hydroehior... 3@ 5/| Geranium, ounce.... @ 75) Aloes 60
7 Gossippii, Sem. ot. na 60 | ;
Nitrocum . 8@ 10 | Al d Myrrh.. 60
ae 6 Hedeoma.. .. 1 65@ 1 70 | Ai0es and Myrr
Oxalicum.........---- 12@ 14 ‘ace. ian oe... 50
Phosphorium, dil.. @ 1) en seer Te a an | See... 50
Salicylicum 79 | Lavendula .......... 9@ 2 00 | ‘A trope Belladonn: 60
Sal urieum Lea 1%@ __5 | Limonis. vee. 1 BHD 1 45) ots C oe 50
ae a ** “g0@ 1 00 | Mentha Piper. ...... ie se oe a
Tartaricum .......-- 40 eee one. oe : = ; = Benzoin Co.......... 50
Ammonia Myreia ce 4 00@ 4 50 Barosma... . eu 50
Aqua, 16 deg.. 4@ 6| Olive... |” 75@ 3 00 Pal a - =
‘ > » pPAPSICUID 2... we ee ee
Aqua, — 6@ 8 Picis Liquida.... ... 10@ 12) Cardamon........... 75
Carbonas .. 13@ = 15| Picis — -. @ 35 Cardi C 7
Chloridum. . 127@ 14| Ricina. jencass, SO SOR ie
Aniline Rosmarini. a | Oi 50
os, ounce......... 6 50@ 8 50} A ee
BIQGK. ..: 5. csc. 2 00@ 2 25) Snecini.......... 40@ 45 Cinchona ween ee cece ce 50
Brown 80@ 1 00| Sapina 0122! 9@ 1 00 a Se 60
Red vee s an 2 S conta | 2 75@ 7 00 a cee =
POUGW....-+.-+ assafras. 50@ BB ci ae
Bacem Sinapis, ess., ounce. = @ 65) Cassia ais 3)
Cubebe........ Po,15 12@ 14 Figt ii mp 2 8 Digitalis...) 50
Juniperus........-.-- 6 8 ee @ 0!) Erg 50
Xanthoxylum ... 75@ 80 Thyme opi ee ae 8G 8 = Fert ‘Chioridum . 35
aay . a rentiar <
Balsamum 50 5B Potassium Seatian Co... rs
a Se SC ¢ — Bi-Carb.. ee 15@ 18 Guisca Ce =
een 45 | Bichromate .........  13@ 15| Guiaca ammon
a Canada... 3 45 | Bromide ....°.°..-.. 54@ 87 | Hyoscyamus.. Bo
eae YE Ce t
Cortex Chlorate...po.17@19 16@  18/ Iodine, color 75
Abies, Canadian..... . a eo ie out , 5@ : 40 Kino... bo
(ase 8 ee 2 65@ 2 75} Li é
inchona Flava..... 18 | Potassa, Bitart, pure 28@ 30| Myrrh.......... 50
Cc
Euonymus atropurp. 30 | Potassa, Bitart, com. @ 15} Nux Vomica.. 50
Myrica Cerifera, po. 20 | Potass Nitras, opt... 7@ = 10| Opii.. i 75
Prunus Virgini. . = enor = mras 6@~—sé#8S = ‘iia eo
uillaia, gr’d........ 2 russiate............ 23@ 26} Upll, deodorize é
ane gi po. 18 15 | Sulphate po......... 15@ 18 Quassia Deeg oa 50
Ulmus...po. 15, gr’d 15 Radix oo eee 2
Extractum Aconitum............ 20@ 25|Sanguinaria.........
Glycyrrhiza — — 25; ARR... ........1. 2 BD uecakuatn aN 30
Glycyrrhiza, po..... 30 | Anchusa ............ 10@ 12] Stromonium......... 60
Hzematox, 15 ». box ie - — po.. xe * Tolutan oe 66
Heematox, 1s........ alamus. : 20@ iwatin )
Hematox, Be. os 5. 14@ 15 Gentiana .. oa ._po. “15 12@ 15! Veratrum Veride... 50
Heematox, \4S.....-- 16@ 17) Glychrrhiza...py. 15 16@ 18 | Zingiber . 2%
Ferru Hyaractis é aie @ = M iscellancops
Carbonate Precip... 15) 4 ath bore, Alt 12@ 15| #ther, Spts.Nit.? F 30@ 35
Citrate and Quinia.. {hfe a 5 | Ather, Spts. Nit.4F 34@ 38
Citrate Soluble...... 75 Ipecae, po. . 4 25@ 4 35| Alumen............. 24@ 3
Ferrocyanidum Sol.. 40 | Tris plox...po. 35@38 35@ 40/Alumen, gro’d..po.7 3@ 4
Solut. Chloride. ..... 15 | Jalapa, pr. . : 25@ 30| Annatto......... 40@ 50
pr com’l..... 2|Maranta, \s........ @ 35| Antimoni, 0... 4@ =+5
ca —" = “ Podophyllum, po.. 22@ 5 oo deans 8 50
1, per cwt i ne ee 75@ 1 00 | Antipyrin Q 2%
Sulphate, pure. secees 7 ithe, eut @ 1 25| Antifebrin ......... @ w
oo Bal met) tet Shas)
igelia . oe aM : Bo ie
Arnica... ....++-++++- = s — ) ~~ = Balm ae Buds.. 38@ 40
‘Anthemis 2 25 Sanguinaria.. "po. 15 @ 18 : :
eee 30@ 35 Serpentaria......... 40@ 45 Bismuth 8S. N........ 1 50@ 1 60
Ses Senega . 60@ 65 Calcium Chlor., 1s.. @ 2
Folia Smilax, officinalis H. @ Calcium Chlor., %4s.. @ 10
Barosm 38@ 40/ Smilax, M @ 2/| Calcium Chlor., 4s.. @ i
wutifol, 1 in- Scille . > 12| Cantharides, Rus.po @
S. Ail, : 20 25 | Symplocar, pus, = _ Capsici Fructus, e* i @ wb
i ng Oe tife 1, “AL 25 30 ¥, a4 po : @ 2% | Capsici Fructus, po. @ 15
cass a, Acutifo! a3 POs. tc. 25 | Xe pois
Salvia officinalis, 4s Valeriana,Eng. po. 30 @ | CapsiciFructusB,po  @ 6
and 145. 2.12.0... 12@ 20| Valeriana, German. 15@ 20 | Caryophyllus. 2 15 WL@ 14
Uva Oral... 2... ..:. 8@ 10| Zingibera........... 12@ 16| Carmine, No. 40..... aan 3 :
iinoal Zingiber j............ 25@ 27 = on He =
Acacia, 1st picked.. 65 Semen Cocecus .... a @ 40
Acacia, = pieked = Apium (i bird ee _ 2 — Fructus... @ i, 2
Acacia, picke i. grave eons 3 i entraria. @,
Acacia, sifted sorts. 28 | Bird, 1 L 4@ 6 | Cetaceum.. ee @ 44
Acacia, po 45@ 65|Carui...... 0... Po. ‘18 @ ~ 12| Chloroform’ |... 55@, «60
Aloe, Barb. ‘po. 18@20 12 14; Cardamon.. : 1 26@ 1 75 | Chloroform, squibbs @110
Aloe, Cape....po. 15. 12 | Coriandrum.......... 8@ 10} Chloral Hyd Crst.... 1 65@ 1 90
Aloe, Socotri..po. 40 2 pone Sativa. .... ta s@ a sree i 20@ =
Ammoniac.........-- Dydonium........... @, inchonidine, 38@
Assafoetida....po.30 28 30 | Chenopodium . 10@ = 12/Cinehonidine,Germ. 38@ 48
Benzoinum........... 50@ 55/ Dipterix Odorate.... 1 00@ 1 10| Coeaine . 5 05@ 5 25
Catechu, 1s.......... 13 | Foeniculum .......... @ 10] Corks, list, ‘dis. pr. ct. 70
Catechu, %s.....-..- 14 a po... 7G 9| Creosotum.........-. @ 35
Catechu, 44S........- J = _ age . oe 4% ae coe acas ccs a0) @ 2
Camphore .......--- 6! Lini, gr teal 5 @ 4% | Creta, prep.......... eo. t
Euphorbium...po. 35 @ 40|Lobeliar............. 3h@ 40] Creta, precip........ 9@ 11
Galbanum. . oe. an 1 . — ree 4%@  5/ Creta, Rubra........ a D :
Gamboge . -.po 7 apa %@ 5] Crocus......... 15@ 1
Guaiacum...... 0. 25 @ 30 Sanapis Alba... 9@ 10| Cudbear.. 24
i == @ 1 25| Sinapis Nigra... Sed 11@ =12| Cupri Sulph 64@ 8
é 8 en ae ae
0@ 3 50 oe = = — -— oe = Emery, aa numbers. @ 8
lace 25@ 35 oe ae 00@ 2 2% es PO @ 6
Shellae, bleached... 40@ 45 ee a ‘_ 1 250, 1 50! Ergota ... "po. 90 85@ 90
Tragacanth.......... 50@ 80 | Juniperis Co. 1 65@ 2 00) Flake Wi hie 1w@ 15
Juniperis Co........ 1 75@ 3 50) Gallia @ -23
—— Saacharum N.E..:. 1 90@ 2 10| Gambier 0. 8@tD
Absinthium..oz. pkg 25 | Spt. Vini Galli....... 1 75@ 6 50 | Gelatin, Cooper. .. @ 60
=~ agama pkg = — = a ee: ; = a ro Gelatin, French. .... 35@ 60
obella ...... OZ. PKS ; Decade ons 25@, 2 Glassware, flint, box 75 & 10
Mentha Pip. = aed = Sponges —— box..... - .
. lori 3? wi —— oe ........ 11@ d
Mentha Vir..oz. pkg = : — sistas 2 50@ 2 75| Glue, white......... 1b@ 2%
$Me os oz. pkg 39-| Nassau sheeps’ wool Glycerina.. - 17@ 2
Tanacetum V oz. pkg = carriage. 2 50@ 2 75 | Grana Paradisi. . @ 2»
Thymus, V ...02. DEE Velvet extra sheeps’ Humulus ....... ait “c 250, =
Magnesia wool, carriage. .... @ 1 50| Hydrarg © — z ite @ :
Caleined, Pat........ 55@ 60 | Extra yellow sheeps’ Hydrarg Chior Cor.. @_ 85
Carbonate, Pat...... 18@ 20| wool, carriage..... @ 1 2% | Hydrarg Ox Rub - @ 1 05
Carbonate, K.&M.. 18@ 20| Grass sheeps’ wool, Hydrarg Ammoniati @,1 1%
: 50G 0
‘arbonate, Jennings 18@ 20! carriage........... @ 1 00| HydrargUnguentum 50@ 6
Giisinan Hard, for slate use. @ 7 |Hydrargyrum....... @ 80
Yellow Reef, for Ichthyobolla, Am... 656@ 75
Absinthium ......... 6 50@ 6 75) gate use........... @ 1 49| Indigo...............  7K@ 1 00
Amygdale, Dulc.... 30@ 50 ; Iodine, Resubi...... 3 90@ 4 00
Amygdale, Amare. 8 00@ 8 25 Syrups Todoform. . aw eae
PIE yk oat oe 1 85@ 2 00} Acacia .............. @ 50} Lupulin.. @ 50
Auranti Cortex...... 2 25@ 2 30) Auranti Cortex...... @ Lybopodi 65@ 70
Bergamii ............ 2 40@ 2 60 —: eee sy ee @ ww 65@ 75
Capel... *.... 80@ ete coe nee @ “ ae: Asi et Hy- ai
Caryophylli.......... 80@ @
Cedar... : ceiasue. OO @ 0 LiquorPotass Arsinit 10 12
Chenopadii.. Rass a uiaaks 7 -—_ 2 75 50@ 60| Magnesia, Sulph.. 2@ 38
Cinnamonii ......... 1 1 35 @ 50| Magnesia, Sulph, bbi @ 1%
Citronella ......... .  3®@ 0 @ 0! Mannia,S. F........ 0W@ 6

 

 

 

 

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BrOnshet............ @ 3 25 | Seidlitz ee pecs. 2@ 22
Morphia, S., P.& W. 2 35@ 2 60 | Sinapis .. a oe x
Mor hia, Mop ats Fe + | Sinapis, ‘opt. eae cess @ 30
& C. Co . 2 25@ 2 50 | Snuff, Maccaboy, De
Moschus Ganton.. @ | Voes @ 41)
Myristica, No. 1..... 65@ 80 Snuff,Scoteh, De Vo’s o@ 4
Nux Vomica...po. 15 @ 10} Soda, Boras........ @ it
Os Sepia.. 30@ = 35 | Soda, Boras, po..... @ tii
es xT Saac, H. & P. | Soda et Potass Tart. 23@ 25
—. @ 1 @ Gogs, Care.......... 1%@ 2
Pr iels Liq. N.N.% gal. | Soda, Bi-Carb.... .. 3@ 5
doz @ 2 00| Soda, Ash........... 3@ 4
Piels Liq., , quarts... @ 1 00} Soda, Sulphas....... @ 2
Picis Liq., pints. . @ 85} Spts. Cologne........ @ 2 60
Pil Hydrarg. .. po. 80 @ 050/|Spts. Ether Co...... 5O@ 55
Piper Nigra... po. 22 @ 18|Spts. Myrcia Dom... @ 2 00
a Alba.... po. 35 @ 30) Spts. Vini Rect. bbl. @
Pux Burgon......... @ 7 | Spts. Vini Rect. %bbl @
Plumbi Acet......... 10@ 12) Spts. Vini Rect. 10gal @
Pulvis Ipeeae et Opii 1 30@ 1 50 | 7 Vini Rect. 5 gal @ |
Pyrethrum, boxes H. | Strychnia, Crystal... 1 05@ 1 25
Fr. Oo. Co., doz.. @ 7) Sulphur, Subl....... 24@ 4)
I -yrethrum, ...... 25@ 30 Sulphur, Rom........ 2g 346!
Quassiz . s@ 10/| Tamarinds. . 8@ 10
Quinia, S. PL & W. 35@ 45/| Terebenth Venice.. 23@ 30
Quinia, S. German.. 33@ 43) Theobrome.. . ao
nee, . &......... oo «6 Venue......... ... 9 0O@16 00
Rubia Tinetorum.... 122@ 14| Zinci Sulph......... 7@ 8
Saccharum Lactis py 18@ = 20 | Oils
OR 6 00@ 6 25)
Sanguis Draconis.. 0@ BO) BBL. GAL.
Sapo, neues 12@ 14| Whale, winter....... 70 70 |
pepe mm... 10@ 12) Lard, extra.......... 55 65
My ec. 8. @ oe, oo s.......... 35 40

ure raw...
Linseed, boiled......
Neatsfoot, winter str
Spirits Turpentine...

Paints

Red Venetian. .
Ochre, yellow Mars.
Ochre, yellow per...
Putty, commercial. .

61 64
62 65
54 60
61 67
BBL. Le.
1% 2 @8
1% 2 @4

1% 2 @3
2% 2%4@3

Putty, strictly pure. 2% 2%@3
Vermilion, Prime

American . 138@ 15
Vermilion, English... 70@ 75
Green, Paris. a 144@ 18
Green, Peninsular.. 13@ —si16
— red.. ortesees Oe 7

Lead, white... |... 64@ Ks
WwW hiting, white Span eo 7
= hiting, gilders’.... @

White, — Amer. @ 1 00
Ww hiting, I ‘aris, Eng.

cliff 2 1 40
Universal P ‘repared. 1 00@ 1 15

Varnishes

No.1 Turp Coach... 1 10@ 1 20
Eixera Turp.......... 1 60@ 17
Coach Body......... 2 75@ 3 00
No, 1 Turp Furn..... 1 00@ 1 10
Extra Turk Damar.. 1 55@ 1 60
Jap.Dryer,No.1Turp 70@_~ 7E

 

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ur representative, Mr.

Envelopes to match.

Notes, Drafts and Receipts.

We now have in stock and offer for sale—

Japanese Napkins, Gold and Silver Paper,

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Our Stationery
Department

Is meeting with universal favor and we have so far received
many flattering congratulations from our friends and custom-
ers, who are much pleased with the fact that they will be
able to purchase this class of goods from us in connection
with Drugs and Druggists’ Sundries.

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Fine Bulk Stationery of all weights, qualities and sizes, with

Box Paper, Writing and Pencil Paper Tablets, Blank Books,

Counter Books, Memorandums, Exercise Books, Office Scratch

Faber, Eagle, American and Dixon Pencils.
Sheffield

Penholders, Slates and Slate Pencils, Black Board and Rub-

ber Erasers, Rubber Bands, School Rules, Pencil Boxes.

Dennison Roll Crepe, French and American Tissue Paper,

Ordinary and Lace

Shipping and String Tags, Gum Labels, etc.
Specie Purses, Gents’ Wallets, Ladies’ Wallets, Bill Books, etc.

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W. B. Dudley, will call upon you
soon and one inspection of his line will convince you that we
are leaders in the Stationery Line and that we have the
goods and make the prices that you wish for.

Hazeltine & Perkins

Drug Company.

Grand Rapids, Mich.

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ROCERY PRICE CURRENT.

The prices quoted in this list are f
dealers. They are prepared just before
give quotations suitable for a
for average conditions of
those who have poor credit.
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AXLE GREASE Lobster
doz. gross | Star, % Ib..........+ 1 85
Seen... se 55 6 00/ Star,1 Ib.........-.- 3 10
i ...60 7 00| Picnic Talls.......... 2 25
4 25 Mackerel
9 00 | Mustard, 1lb.......-. 1 75
9 00 | Mustard, 2lb....... 2 80
Soused, 1lb.......-... 1 75
Soused, 2 Ib........- 2 80
Tomato, 11b........ 1 75
Tomato, 2 Ib.......-- i 2 80
Mushrooms
Popes. ..___ 1... 18@20
——ee 22@25
| Oysters
| Cove, 1%b. 0... 95
owe. 2 .......--- 1 70
Peaches
—s Pie. ........--------- ae
Mica, tin boxes.......75 9 00 er Pe 1 GQ &
Paragon............ --55 600/ ctandard............ 70
BAKING POWDER Famey... 80
Absolute Peas
tq Ib. cans dOZ......----+- ++ 45 | Marrowfat .......--.- 1 00
% Ib. cams dOZ....------ ---- 85 | Early June........-- 1 00
1. Ib. cams dOZ......-------- 1 50| Early June Sifted.. 1 60
Acme Pineapple
¥ Ib. cams 3 dOZ......-.---- 45 | Grated ........------ 25@2 75
% Ib. cans 3 dOZ......-.---- Zo | Slieed.............--- 1 35@2 25
1 Ib.cansi me. ........-s 1 00 Pumpkin
ee 10 65
Arctic 75
6 oz. Eng. Tumblers.......-- 85) Fancy .........-.--.- 85
El Purity Raspberries
4 Ib. cans per d0Z......---- 75 | Standard.........-.+. 90
% Ib. cans per e........-- 1 20 Salmon
1. Ib. cans per d0z.......--- 2 00| Red Alaska.........- 1 35
ome Pink Alaska......... 95
¥, Ib. cans, 4 doz. case.....- 35 Sardines
t Ib. cans, 4 d0zZ. Case....-. 55 | Domestic, 14S.....-.- @A
1. Ib. cans, 2 doz. case...... 90} Domestic, Mustard. @8
Prench............-. 8@22
Strawberries
Standard . oe : :
14 Tb. cans, 4 doz. case... .... 45 | Fancy ..- eae
1% Ib. cams, 4 d0z. Case....-. Sa 90
1 Ib. eans, 2 doz. case......1 60 cea 1 00
Jersey Cream Raney 1 20
1 Ib. cans, per d0z........--.2 00 Tomatoes
9 oz. cans, per dOZ......-.--- ee 80
6 oz. cams, per dOZ.....-..--- 85 | Good 90
Peerless Fane ct a 115
a Th. caps....... ..-.------ ---- 80 | eaons 9 35
Queen Flake L CATSUP
3 0z., 6 doz. case.....-.------2 70] Columbia, pints........-.---2 00
6 OZ., 4 dOZ. Cas@.....------ 2 20 Columbia, % pints........--- 1 25
9 oz., 4 doz. case........--.--4 80 GHEESE
1lb., 2 doz. case........--.--4 @13
5 Ib., 1 doz. case. .....------- 9 @14
BATH BRICK @1\5
American De ee ee @13%
English.......-..--+++5 +225 + is
BLUING 13%,
@13%
@14
@12
@90
ee @1i7
Limburger.........-- @13
Pineapple........... 50 @75
Sap Sago..........- @18
CHICORY
Small 3 doz........----++-+++ 40 | Red........-.-.--.. .. veces 4
Large, 2 d0Z.........0.-+0+++ 75 = ee eo ue
Aretie, 4.02, per gross. ..... 4 00 alter Baker & Co.'s. _
Arctic, 8 0z, per gross...... 6 00 — ee
i ints ss 9 00 | Premium..........----++--++
_— ~~ ais as Breakfast Cocoa........----- 46
ROOMS Runkel Bros.
No. 1 Carpet.........-.------ 3 00 Vienna Sweet ......-.. oe
No. 2 Carpet.....---.---++++- 290) Vamie ce 28
Wo. $ Garpet...............--2 50) praminm . 0... 6:2...) +.- 31
No. 4 Carpet..........-..----2 05 ne ae
in .......26|. oO ilbur & Sons.
Common Whisk. ........1.... 95 | Capital Sweet. --..-.---- -+- 2
Fancy Whisk............--.-1 25 | im perial Sweet. .... 22
—akaes...............8 | Bones Erceeam. 25
CANDLES Sweet Clover, 4s. 25
Electric Light, 8............12 | Sweet Clover, “s. 27
Electric Light, 16s...... ..-- 124% | Premium Baking. 33
Paraffine, 68............-....11% | Double Vanilla... wee++ 40
Paraffine, 128..........-.----12% | Triple Vanilla. .... 50
Wicking .............-.....--20 COCOA
CANNED GOODS Wee. 30
Apples (Clevyolana...+................ Hf
3 1b. Standards...... i Mops.  ..- . 42
Gallons, standards. . 2 65 | Van Houten, \%S...........-. 12
Beans Van Houten, 4S....... ae
a 75@1 30| Van Houten, %S............. 40
Red Kidney.......- 75@ 85! Van Houten, 1s....... oe
ee 80 | Colonial, 4S ........-------- 35
<...........- 85 | Colonial, %S..-.-..--- 33
Blackberries 45
Standards .........-- 75 41
Blueberries Wilbar, 48........ -...-...-- 42
Cherries 20 Ib. bags...... a 2%
Red Standards.......- 85 | Less quantity ... He 3
ae a 1 15| Pound Se ;
Clams. oa CLOTHES LINES
Little Neck, _ on Cotton, 40 ft. per doz...... .1 00
a a Cotton, 50 ft. per doz........1 20
Fair......----------+ gp | Cotton, 60 ft. per doz........1 40
Good .......--------- = Cotton, 70 ft. per doz........1 60
Fancy .......-------- Cotton, 80 ft. per doz........ 1 80
Hominy Jute, 60 ft. per doz.......... 80
Standard............. 85 Jute, 72 ft. per doz.......... 9%

 

 

CIGARS
The Bradley Cigar Co.’s Brands
Adwance ..........-.....-.-.900 OD
Bradiey .................. 36 06
Clear Havana Puffs....... 22 00
mW Mo Bo... 3. oe ee
ow ee... a ee
H. & P. Drug Co.’s brands.
Fortune Teller............ 35 00
Our Manager.............. 35 00
Quintette........... 35 00

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G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s bran

8.0. W:.........-. ae ee
Phelps, Brace & Co.’s Brands.
Royal Tigers. . .55@ 80 00

Royal Tigerettes......35
Vincente Portuondo ..35@ 70 00

Ruhe Bros. Co.......-- 25@ 70 00
Hilson Co.............385@110 00
T. J. Dunn & Co....... 35@ 70 00
McCoy & Co...........35@ 70 00
The Collins Cigar Co..10@ 35 00
Brown Bros...........15@ 70 00
Bernard Stahl Co...... 35@, 90 00
Banner Cigar Co...... 10@ 35 00
Seidenberg & Co...... 55@125 00
Fulton Cigar Co......10@ 35 00

A.B. Ballard & Co....35@175 00
2, M. Schwarz & Co...35@110 00

San Telmo.............35@ 70 00
Havana Cigar Co...... 18@, 35 00
GC. Costello & Co......- 35@ 70 00
LaGora-Fee Co......-.35@ 70 00
S. I. Davis & Co. .... ..85@185 00
Hene & Co... .......- 35@ 90 00

Benedict & Co.......7.50@ 70 00
Hemmeter Cigar Co. ..35@ 70 00
G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.35@. 70 00
Maurice Sanborn .... 50@175 00

Bock & Coe........:.... 654300 00
Manuel Garcia........ 80@375 00
Neuva Mundo........ .85@175 00
Henry Clay........---- 85@550 00
ba Carolina............ 96@200 00
Standard T. & C. Co. ..35@ 70 00
COFFEE

Roasted

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CorFFEES

 

  
 

Special Combination........ 20
French Breakfast........... 25
oS ee ee 30
Wiemes ee
Private Estate. ........ . 38
Supreme..........--.-..-.--- 40
Less 33% per cent. delivered.
Rio
far... 9
eS 10
Prime .. 12
Coen 6S.
PeabeIy ots
Santo
Paes ae
Goad) ls a
Prume 02k
Peanery... - 2... 18
Maracaibo
Prime...
Mlee ee 17
Java
as... 26
Private Growth............. 30
Mandenling -:..... 60s... 35
Mocha
a 22

 
  

Apa
PACKAGE COFFEE.
Below are given New York
prices on package coffees, to
which the wholesale dealer adds
the local freight from New York
to buyers shipping point, giving
buyer credit on the invoice for
the amount of freight he pays
from the market in which he
purchases to his shipping point.
_ These prices are further sub-
ject to manufacturer’s regular
rebate.
aera so 12 00
Jersey... ee
MeLaughlin’s XXXX
McLaughlin’s XXXX sold to
retailers only. Mail all orders

 
 

 

  
 

direct to W. F. McLanghlin &
Co., Chicago.

Extract
Valley City % gross. 75
Felix % gTross.......... 115
Hummel’s foil % gross... 85
Hummel’s tin % gross ......1 43

 

 

 

 

 

CONDENSED MILK

4 doz in case.
Gail Borden Eagle .. ........ 6 75
Oe. 8 ae 6 25
Day... 5 75
Champion ................... 4 50
Bieeoa 4 25
Challenge .................--4 00
Dime... 5)... .. 3

COUPON BOOKS
50 books, any denom... 1 50
100 books, any denom... 2 50
500 books, any denom...
1,000 books, any denom...
Above quotations are for either
Tradesman, Superior, Economic
or Universal grades. Where
1,000 books are ordered at a time
customer receives specially
printed cover without extra
charge.
Coupon Pass Books
Can be made to represent any
denomination from $10 down.

 
  

100 books
500 books
1,000 books
Credit Checks
500, any one denom...... 2 00
1,000, any one denom.. 3 00
2,000, any one denom.. 5 00

 

Steel ae 75
CREAM TARTAR

5 and 10 lb. wooden boxes.....30

Bulk in SaeKs.-..............--29

DRIED FRUITS—Domestic

Apples

Sundried+..........-..... @ 6%

Evaporated, 50 Ib. boxes.7@ 7%
California Fruits

Apricots .......... .--- @15
Blackberries ..........
Nectarines ............
iPeaehes:. 2... -. 2. 2... 10 @i1
_——————
Pitted Cherries. ...... 7%
Prunmeiies .......-.....
Raspberries ..........
California Prunes
100-120 25 Ib. boxes ...... @4
90-100 25 Ib. boxes ...... @ 4%
80 - 90 25 Ib. boxes ...... @5
70 - 80 25 Ib. boxes ...... @ 5%
60 - 70 25 Ib. boxes ...... @
50 - 60 25 Ib. boxes ...... @ 7%
40 - 50 25 Ib. boxes ...... @

30 - 40 25 Ib. boxes ......
44 cent less in 50 Ib. cases
Raisins

London Layers 2 Crown. 1 75
London Layers 3Crown. 2 00
Cluster 4 Crown........- 2 25

Loose Muscatels 2 Crown 7%

Loose Muscatels 3 Crown 84
Loose Musceatels 4 Crown 8%

L. M., Seeded, choice ... 10
L. M., Seeded, fancy .... 104%
DRIED FRUITS—Foreign

Citron
Leghorn........-.--..---------h
IGOPSICAR .......:.-.---> «225 + oe 12

Currants
Patras, CaSe@s.......------++- 6%
Cleaned, bulk ..........---+- 6%
Cleaned, packages.....-.--- 7%

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

FARINACEOUS GOODS

 

Pearl Barley
Gomme ... ... 5. .....-..-
POO (6. oe
Empire............ ....-----

 

100 tb. kegs...

Peas

Split, bu.........

Steel Cut, % bbls.........--
Monarch, bbl............---
Monarch, % bbl..........--
Monarch, 90 Ib. sacks......
Quaker, cases.......----++-
Huron, cases...........----
Sago
Gorman 2...) 3) st.
Hast tndia....-...........---

 

Vanilla Lemo
2 oz full m.2 10
No. 3fan’y.3 15

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20z panel..1 20 20z panel

 

 

900 tb. barrels ........-..----

Green, Wisconsin, bu.......
Green, Scotch, bu.........--

Rolled Oats
Rolled Avena, bbl..........-

tat ae

‘2 50
"3 00

 

24 2 Ib. packages ..........--1 80

-2 05
.3 50
1 95
-1 75
.3 20

4
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Salus Breakfast Food
F. A. McKenzie, Quincy, Mich.

36 two pound packages .... 3 60
18 two pound packages .... 1 85
Tapioca

RS ee
Pett
Pearl, 241 lb. packages..... 6%
Wheat
Cracked, bulk.............-. 3%
242 th. packages ........-..- 2 50
FLAVORING EXTRACTS
DeBoe’s
20z. 402.
Vanilla D. C......-- 110 1 80
Lemon D.C ...... 70 1 35
Vanilla Tonka...... 75

| “FOOTE & JENKS’ —

JAXON

| Highest Grade Extracts

nm

1ozfullm.1 20 1ozfullm. 80
2 oz full m.1 25
No. 3fan’y.1 75

3 0z taper..2 00 40z taper..1 50

 

Beans x
Dried Lima......-..-.-.-..-- 5% _ Jennings’
Medium Hand Picked 2 15@2 25 | D. C. V anilla D. C. Lemon
Brown Holland............-- : = ae ; = : = ous ; =
Cereals seeeee : =a pee ee
Cream of Cereal...........-. 90 apg — renee 2
Grain-O, small .............- 135) No. 3... Nol Rl. 3
Grain-O, large 2 25 NO. 8....4 00 No. 8. 2 40
aa. No. 10,...6 00 No. 10,...4 00
Postum Cereal, small .......1 35 eS te ase Pe
Postum wage large ane 225|No.4 T..2 40 No.4 T..1 50
arina
2411b. packages ............1 25 Northrop oo a
Bulk, Por 10) eiccat Fiakes (20% Taper Panel... 7 12
36 2 1b. packages... ---- --3 00/3 oz. Taper Panel....135 200
sree Hominy ca 40z. Taper Panel....160 225
were ccccrcocce cotoese ce 9

Flake, 501b. drums........ "1 00 ee igs

Lauhoff Bros. Flaking Mills, doe
Rice Flakes, 3 doz pkg case 2 85 | yx x. 9 oz. obert....1 OB 7
Flaked Peas, 3 doz pkg case 2 85 | xxx’ 40z.taper....225 125
Flaked Beans, 3 doz pkge’se 2 85| xx. 2 oz oot "100

35 Chene St., Detroit, Mich. No.2. 20z. obert ..... 75

Maccaroni and Vermicelli Xxx DD ptehr, 60z 2 25
Domestic, 10 Ib. box.......... 60 XXX D D ptehr, 4 0z 1 75
Imported, 25 Ib. box......... 250 K. P. pitcher, 6 0z... 2,2u

 

FLY PAPER
Perrigo’s Lightning, gro....2 50
Petrolatum, per doz......... 75

HERBS

Sage... 22s

Hops 2.00)
INDIGO
Madras, 5 Ib. boxes ..........- 55
S. F., 2,3 and 5 Ib. boxes...... 50
JELLY
V.C. Brand.
15 1b. pails.......... ----.... 35
90 Ib. palis...-..... 62
Pure apple, per doz.......-- 85
LICORICE

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Condensed, 2 doz............1 20
Condensed, 4 doz.........-.. 2 25
MATCHES

Diamond Match Co.’s —

     

 

    

Anchor Parlor ..150
No. 2 Home.... -1 30
Export Parlor.........- ..4 00
Wolverine.................--1 50
MOLASSES
New Orleans

Bie 11
aS 14
G ae ce. 20
ROAOY too. 24
@pen Kettie...........:...3

alf-barrels 2c extra

MUSTARD
Horse Radish, 1 doz......... 1 75
Horse Radish, 2 doz.........3 50
Bayle’s Celery, 1 doz........ 1 75
PICKLES
Medium
Barrels, 1,200 count ......... 5 90
Half bbls, 600 count......... 3 46
Small
Barrels, 2,400 count ......... 6 90
Half bbls, 1,200 count .......3 95
PIPES
Clay, No. 216. _........-.--+-- 170
Clay, T. D., full count....... 65
Ce nas...
POTASH
48 cans in case.

Bayes... .-...... 5... 4 00
Penna Salt Co.’s............- 3 00
RICE
Domestic
Carolina head..............-- 6%

Covomma Ho.r.............-. 5

Carolina No.2..........-_--.4

Broken... 8. 3%
Imported.

Japan, No. 1..........--54@6

Japan, No. 2..........-.44@5

Java, fancy head........5 @5%
Java, NO. 2... ........ oe @
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SALERATUS
Packed 60 Ibs. in box.
Chureh’s Arm and —- =

Deland ’s................. -.<-
Dwight’s Cow 3 15
Binbiem....-.-<. -.---.--<.-- 210
oe a 3 00
Mamie ek 315
Wyandotte, 100 %s.......... 3 00
SAL SODA
Granulated, bbls..........-- 80
Granulated, 100 Ib. cases.... 85
Lump, bbis.........-------- 7
Lump, 145 Ib. kegs..........- 80

SALT
Diamond Crystal
Table, cases, 24 3 Ib. boxes..1 40
Table, barrels, 1003 Ib. bags.2 85
Table, barrels, 407 lb. bags.2 50
Butter, barrels, 280 Ib. bulk.2 50
Butter, barrels, 20 141b.bags.2 60
Butter, sacks, 28 Ibs......... 7
Butter, sacks, 56 Ibs......... 62

Common Grades

 

 

 

 

 

100 3 Ib. sacks..........- 15
60 5 Ib. sacks..... conse OD
98 10 Ib. sackS........------- 1 95
5G Ib. SACKS. ...-.::.--<---- 40
98 ID. SACKS... <.-.-.----- ze

Warsaw
56 Ib. dairy in drill bags. .... 30
28 Ib. dairy in drill bags. .... 15
Ashton
56 Ib. dairy in linen sabks... 60
Higgins
56 Ib. dairy in linen sacks... 60
Solar Rock
56 Ib. sacKS..........--- oe
Common
Granulated Fine...........-1 00
Medium Fine......-....-+---1 05

 

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and Disadvantages of the
Credit System.

I have been in the hardware and _ coal
business in my present location for
twenty-six years, SO in whatever elsé I
am lacking I am not lacking in ex perl-
ence. I have been through the times of
big crops, when we expected to trust
everybody the whole year or until they
marketed their crops, and through the
period of dull times when we saw our
customers emigrate to the Dakotas by
the hundred, when I wondered whether
we could not do a cash business and not
run the risk of our debtors getting away
between two days. Then 1 would look
back and see merchants making a_fail-
ure of conducting a strictly cash busi-
ness, and so would fall back in the old
rut, not daring to make such a radical
move. In July, 18,7, my competitors
came to me and proposed going into a
strictly cash business, all of us, so that
one would have no advantage over the
other, one of them saying that they
were going into it alone if we would not
join. So we all agreed to post up no-
tices that August 1 we would do a strict-
ly cash business, and it seemed to be
contagious, for other stores posted the
same notices, and even some blacksmith
shops; but the end of it all came. It
died a natural death. Just when or how
it died no one knows. My private opin-
ion is that it commenced to die soon
after it was born, and it died so grad-
ually that it dried up and blew away
without even a public funeral, and cer-
tainly without any expression of regret.
Not one of us who was responsible for
its existence has ever mentioned its
name even to each other since. We do
not mean to say that nobody can do a
strictly cash business, but we do not be-
lieve that a man that is ambitious to
hold and increase business, and has
been in his present location for fifteen
to twenty-five years, can do a strictly
cash business.

Advantages

Now, why was it given up? There
were difficulties which arose that we had
not anticipated, and some that we had
expected loomed into insurmountable
difficulties under the pressure of anxiety
for more business, which, by the way,
is the main stimulus to giving credit
before we know the parties are worthy
of credit. The system seemed to be
going all right for a while. One of the
first difficulties 1 ran across was a man
running a farm on a salary. He wanted
to let the bill run and then pay it, and
the bill would show what he had done.
1 told him we would give him a bill
each time and he could file them away,
and he seemed partly satisfied, but soon
failed to come around, so the inference
was plain that he had found some place
where his bill could run and so save
him the trouble of caring for so many
bills. Then we heard of one of our
competitors selling a good customer
some fence wire. When loaded he said
he would pay it soon. The merchant
replied, ‘‘But, you know we are doing a
strictly cash business.’’ ‘‘Very well,’’
the customer answered, ‘‘I have not the
money with me to-day, so we will un-
load it.’’ But in the nick of time the
merchant pulled out his purse and said,
‘*Here, I will loan you the money to
pay for the wire.’’ I had a customer
who had traded with me _ twenty-six
years. He said it might inconvenience
him because he did not always have the
money with him, and after a while he
got caught that way and I loaned him

 

$25. Often some good responsible farm-
er would send in by a_ neighbor for
something, promising to pay next time
he came in. Sometimes—yea, a good
many times—a farmer would come in
and expect to pay until he had put his
hand in his pocket. And then again
there is the account with the county,
township, city, the different school dis-
tricts in the county, the road districts.
They all must have bills come before
them to be inspected before paid. Some
other corporations doing business
through their employes want bills of ac-
count before payment. So I find myself
in the old rut of doing business, using
my knowledge or passing judgment on
each individual customer. About eleven
years ago I went to England on a visit,
and in talking with my uncle I made
the remark, ‘‘Of course, your business
is all done on a cash basis.’ ‘‘Oh,
no,’’ he said, ‘‘the merchants do a
credit business, too,’’ and I said,
‘‘Why, I should think among so many
dependent on wages they would close a
great many of their accounts.’’ “‘Oh,
no,’’ was the reply, ‘‘if any failed to
keep their accounts they were brought
up before the magistrate and he would
take evidence of what amount of wages
was coming in each week from the
different members of the familly and
what it would take for the bare necessi-
ties, and then would order a_ certain
amount of the week’s wages to go to-
wards paying the debt, and he would
save a little for the indebtedness if it
threw the family down to bread and
water. And so, you see, people are
careful how they contract a debt.’’ This
is what [ call placing the responsibility
of going in debt on the shoulders of the
one wanting to go in debt to the extent
of all his property except six months’
provision for his family, and he will
think twice before contracting a debt
once. If he knows that the team he
drives is liable for the debt he is con-
tracting, he will wait until he is sure
where the money is coming from to dis-
charge the indebtedness. And such a
condition of things would make a more
industrious and economical class of
those who at the present time live part-
ly on beating other people.

As an illustration of this: When I
came back from England I was telling
the professor of our high school about
the wages in England—stonecutters,
masons and carpenters, $1.25 per day;
laborers, 75 cents per day; flour a little
higher than here, meat double the price,
etc., and he said my story did not hang
together, it was as much as _ laborers
could do to live in this country, so how
could they live in the old country on
lower wages and higher priced victuals?
I told him the difference was in the in-
dustrial habits and customs of the two
peoples. In England a child is com-
pelled to attend school until he can pass
a government examination in the third
grade—and any ordinary child could ac-
complish that at 12 years old—and from
that time both male and female go into
some factory. So that if there was a
family of man and wife and three girls
over twelve, there would be four earn-
ing bread for the table, whereas the same
family in this Western country would
only have the father earning the bread
for the table. This difference in the
working force, and counting meat asa
luxury only to be indulged in once,
twice or three times per week, according
to the purse of the family, very easily
explained the apparent contradiction.

If the American people will place the
responsibility of going in debt on the

 

 

 

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: Leon, Iowa, October, 1899.
The Patterson-Sargent Co.,

Gentlemen:—I note my first order was given you October 18, 1898;
since that time I have invested $745.66 in B PS products. Have furnished thirty-five
house patterns of your paint. I consider this an extremely good showing, as I had
over four hundred gallons of other paint to work off. I am making this statement
hoping that it may benefit you and possibly assist some other paint dealer who is
looking for something that has hitherto been hard to find—an honest mixed paint.
I consider the B P'S products as strictly pure in every way and the best line I have
met with in a matter of twenty years’ experience in selling paint. I hope you have
unbounded success in placing your goods. You are certainly deserving of success.

L. VAN WERDEN, Druggist and Apothecary.

The Patterson-Sargent Co.,
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one who wants to contract a debt, who
should know whether he will be able to
pay it when due, it will be a blessing
to the community—-a shifting of respon-
sibility from the merchant to the debtor,
and a blessing to the debtor class, for,
in the first place, the community as a
whole would be more industrious, eco-
nomical and provident people, the met-
chant could do business with less_ loss,
and the dead beat, or the ‘‘man that
the world owes a living,’’ would be
compelled to earn the lesson of industry,
economy and providence.
T. J. Lomas.
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Cheboygan Business Men Alert.

Cheboygan, March 26~—At the last
meeting of the Cheboygan Business
Men’s Improvement Association the
Committee on Public Market recom-
mended the purchase of a site on the
lower end of Main street opposite the
docks for $2,400. Geo. Annand, of the
Cheboygan Manufacturing Co., pre-
sented plans for a market home, esti-
mated to cost $1,500. The general
opinion, as expressed at the meeting,
was that the cost of the market at those
prices was too rich a luxury for the city
to afford and no definite action was
taken on the report. Inthe first place
the location suggested is not central
enough. In the second place too high a
value was placed on the property rec-
ommended.

Geo. E. Frost and James F. Moloney

were appointed to go to Detroit and _ in-
terview the officials of the Michigan
Central and try and arrange for satisfac-
tory rates for shipping potatoes from
this station to Eastern points.
Keeney & Co. announced their willing-
ness to build a warehouse here and sup-
ply our farmers with a choice variety of
seed potatoes and contract for all that
can be raised, provided they can secure
satisfactory rates for shipping them to
different points from the railroad com-
pany. Think they should have equally
as favorable rates from here to Eastern
points as they receive from Traverse
City, over the Chicago & West Michi-
gan road.

A letter from Promoter Roberts was
read in which he stated that the organi-
zation of the company to build the Che-
boygan and Petoskey railroad would be
completed on or about April 5, by which
time he expected to make a report that
would be highly gratifying to the citi-
zens of Cheboygan.

—_—_» 2»
Received All His Change.

‘I never felt so cheap inall my life,’
said Short, ‘‘as I did one day in a de-
partment store. I bought a book for 99
cents and while I was waiting for it a
young woman, whose good opinion I
value, came up and we began to talk.
The book was wrapped up and handed to
me by the girl at the counter, and after
a short while the young woman asked:

‘* ‘Are you waiting for your change?’

‘*I replied that I was, but in fact I
hadn't been thinking of it. I wanted to
talk to her and made that an excuse for
staying. After the usual long delay,
when it had passed entirely out of my
mind, the girl at the book counter
stepped up and said:

‘" “Here’s your change, sir.’

‘*And she held a bright new cent in
her open hand so that the other girl saw
it. I felt a chill at once and just be-
cause it appeared to the young woman
that I had been waiting all that time for
a cent. I got a reputation for close-
fistedness that is still sticking to me.’’

2» ____
New Illinois Baking Powder Regulations.

The Illinois State Food Commission
has decided that all baking powders sold
in the State must be labeled in a con-
spicuous way and place, with a name
signifying the class or variety to which
they belong, based on the name of the
acid ingredient. Thus, for example:
‘*An alum phosphate baking powder,’’
‘‘A phosphate baking powder,’’ ‘‘A
cream of tartar baking powder.’’ This
does not require the manufacturer to
publish the ingredients that enter into
the composition of his powders.

 

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MEN OF MARK.

W. D. Ballou, Proprietor Ballou Basket
Co.

W. D. Ballou was born at Becket,
Berkshire county, Mass., in October,
1865. His father, M. E. Ballou, was of

French Huguenot descent, took an active
interest in the welfare of his community
and was elected a member of the Mas-
sachusetts Legislature. His original
American ancestor was a preacher who
settled in Rhode Island. His mother
was of French ancestry. Mr. Ballou was
one of five children, three boys and two
girls. When he had reached a_ proper
school age, he was placed ina private
school, where he remained until he was
fifteen, when he entered the high school
at Pittsfield, Mass. After leaving the
high school, ne attended the Wesleyan
Academy at Wilbraham, Mass., for two
years.

Mr. Ballou’s first business experience

 

 

 

 

was obtained at the age of 17, when the
financial possibilities of being a book
agent induced him to leave school and
he began the battle for success. His
experiences for one month in this line
would fill a large-sized book, if re-
counted, but it is sufficient to say that
he earned $104 during that time, to say
nothing of the many other pleasant (?)
recoHections. He next learned type-
writing and shorthand and secured a
position with the Thompson-Houston
Electric Co., of Lynn, Mass., remain-
ing in the employ of that corporation
one year. He then engaged in the life
insurance business in Rhode Island and
Connecticut for two years. Then, in
partnership with his father, he became
a basketmaker at Becket under the firm
name of M. E. Ballou & Son, and for
four years manufactured baskets, largely
for the textile and paper mills of New
England. About this time Belding
Bros. heard of him and induced him to
go to Belding and begin the manufac-
ture of baskets. Here he established the
business, employing about twenty men
at first, and the force has been steadily
increased until he now employs sixty
to eighty men. He makes all kinds
and sizes of baskets and sends them all
over this country and to some extent
abroad.

While he was attending the Academy
at Wilbraham, he met and afterwards
married Miss Carmie VV. Landon,
daughter of a Methodist preacher and
niece of Judge Landon, of the Supreme
Court of New York. Their home circle
is made complete by four young basket-
makers, one boy and three girls.

Both Mr. and Mrs. Ballou are mem-
bers of the Baptist church of Belding,
and are actively engaged in church

work, Mr. Ballou being one of the trus-
tees of the society. He is also Presi-
dent of the Board of Education and
prominent in developing the industries
and material interests of the town of his
adoption. He is a member of the Odd
Fellow fraternity.

 

LABASTINE is the original and
only durable wall coating, entirely
different from all kalsomines.
teady for use in white or fourteen
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animal glue. ALABASTINE is
not a kalsomine.

EWARE of the dealer who
says he can sell you the ‘same
thing’ as ALABASTINE or “some-
thing just as good.” He is either
not posted or is trying to deceive
you.

ND IN OFFERING § something
he has bought cheap and tries
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damage you will suffer by a kalso
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ENSIBLE dealers will not buy a
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UISANCE of wall paper is ob-
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: A child
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ceilings, brick or canvas.
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4 GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.
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Manufacturer of

Galvanized
Iron
Skylight
and
Cornice
Work

Gravel, Tin, Steel, and Slate Roof-
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121 S. Front St., Opposite Pearl.
Grand Rapids, Mich.

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Popular Priced Jewelry and Novelties,

SISA ESESEESSASASSSS

Pulley Belts and Buckles

We have ’em in all styles, all colors and at all pric+s from
They are going to be the Season’s greatest
Put some in your show case.

We also carry everything in Sash Buckles, Jeweled and
Plain Combs, Men’s and Ladies’ Belts, Brooches, Pocket
Books, Waist Sets, Beauty Pins, etc., etc.

If one of our representatives does not soon call on you,
write us for a small line of these goods.

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BOOMING THE TOWN.

The Merchant an Easy Mark for Schemers.
Written for the Tradesman.

‘‘Another opportunity to contribute
fifty dollars to help boom the town,’’
said a dry goods merchant to me, the
other day, asa breezy-looking chap with
red side-whiskers and a glossy silk hat,
set far back on his head, whisked out
of the store. ;

‘‘Wants to secure some manufactur-
ing plant, I presume?’’ I asked.

‘‘Not this time,’’ replied the mer-
chant. ‘‘Last year that fellow who just
went out wanted the business men of
the town to put up fifty or a hundred
each to get a washing machine factory
to move here; now he wants us to put
up about as much more to induce a skirt
factory to remain here. He is a profes-
sional town boomer, that chap, and he
appears to be making money at it,
judging from appearances.”’

‘‘] presume he gives liberally him-
self?’’ I suggested.

‘‘Oh, he's usually down for a hun-
dred or so,’’ was the reply, ‘‘but that’s
but a small part of the commission he
gets out of the factories. He gets no
more of my money.”’

‘‘Going out of the town-booming
business, eh?’’ | suggested.

‘‘By no means,”’ said the merchant,
‘‘but I’m getting my eyes opened to a
few points in business life. I have ar-
rived at the conclusion that the average
business man is an easy mark for
schemers and I’m going to back away.
Talk about booming the town! They
brought their old washing machine fac-
tory here last year. To hear the pro-
moters talk, one would think that the
plant would soon occupy about half the
vacant property in the city and that the
workmen to be employed in it would
erect neat little cottages on the remain-
ing half. Yes, we were to grow a mile
and a half out each way, and the big-
gest city in the State would soon be
looking like a dirty two-spot in a new
deck beside us. Excuse my knowledge
of cards,’’ he added, with a wink, ‘I
acquired it last winter playing progres-
sive euchre.”’

‘*Well,’’ I observed, ‘‘I don’t see as
the city has spread itself to any great
extent. I don’t notice any ten-story
buildings going up.’”’

‘*Spread itself!’’ echoed the mer-
chant. ‘* You ought to go down and look
over the washing machine factory that
we paid $5,000 to set up business here.
Go down there at noon and see the
workingmen swarm out of the shops at
the dinner hour. Yes, swarm out of the
shops! You'll see three young men who
receive about four dollars each per
week. They are the fellows who were
to buy lots and build homes. Why, they
couldn’t support families on the pay
they receive if beef steak was selling
for a cent a pound and flour for a dol-
lar a barrel. They have all they can do
to save up enough money for a game of
pool Saturday night.’’

‘The concern may grow,’’ I ventured.

‘‘Oh, yes, it will grow,’’ was the
scornful reply. ,‘‘Wait until you see the
man who is the honored president, chief
stockholder, manager, superintendent and
foreman, all rolled into one. He sleeps
in the loft of the factory and boards
himself. Evenings he lolls on the rail-
ing in front of his place of business
and pulls away at a dirty corncob pipe.
He’s in debt for the power he uses, the
lumber he has worked up and _ the
crackers and cheese he devours in his
loft. And to think that such an igno-
ramus and that smooth promoter who

 

 

just went out of the store split fifty
dollars of my money between them!’’

The merchant made a few figures on
a piece of paper and threw it into the
waste basket.

‘‘l’ve given in the neighborhood of a
thousand dollars to town-booming
schemes in three years,’’ he said, ‘‘and
it hasn’t done me one cent’s worth of
good. Now, take the case of this skirt
factory they want to keep here. It em-
ploys about half a dozen young girls and
pays from thirty to forty dollars a week
in salaries. Why, if all the money the
girls earn could be divided up among
the merchants of the city each merchant
wouldn't get enough in five years to pay
back the coin he is now asked to con-
tribute to keep the little cheap-john
concern here.’’

‘*T presume you explained the exact
condition of affairs to the promoter?’’ |
said.

‘‘No, sir,’’ was the reply. ‘‘I told
him to go to the real estate owners and
ask for the money needed. We've got
a lot of land sharks here who sit around
grocery stores and smoke cheap tobacco
and spit on the floor and talk and talk
and talk. if a man comes here to in-
vest money, they double the price of
their cow-pastures and then wonder why
the city doesn’t grow faster. They kick
on all paving, sewer and water works
improvements and keep their tenements
looking like horse barns. But they
don’t give a cent. Their sons engage
in business and invest their money in
other towns, and come back here now
and then to tell us how slow we are. |
guess every city has the same sort of old
residents. ’’

‘‘IT know of several
said.

‘*Once in a while they wake up long
enough to study out some town improve-
ment scheme and get some shark to go
among the merchants and ask for con-
tributions. The merchant is the whole
thing when the town wants money. Yes,
the whole thing. We got up an associa-
tion here a few years ago that promised
well. Among the projects proposed was
a suburban line of electric cars which
would have brought a good deal of trade
here. Every merchant gave liberally.
The thing looked so promising that en-
quiries for stores and other places of
business began to be made. Then what
did these very enterprising and respect-
able old residents do but double our
rents and put the price of their avail-
able business lots up so high that no
one would buy and build. We simply
gave up our money to have our expenses
increased. Nice thing, eh?’’

The merchant lighted a cigar and be-
gan a restless touring of the store from
front to back.

‘*Yes, sir,’’ he went on, ‘‘the modern
merchant is a sucker. He can be talked
into any fool scheme. He’s an easy
mark for confidence men and no mis-
take.’’

‘*And still he must continue to give,’’
I said.

‘*Yes, he can’t get out of it,’’ replied
the merchant, ‘‘although it’s blackmail
in half the cases. I give a lot of fancy
goods to a church fair, so the people
who belong to the church will trade with
me, and my competitors give more
fancy goods, so the church people will
trade with them. I give prizes for
cookie contests and my rivals go me
one better. I guess I'll blow the bunch,
as the boys say in Chicago. I’m dead
tired of being worked for a sucker. I’m
not feeling very well to-day, myself,
either. Let’s go out and get a fresh
cigar.’”’ Alfred B. Tozer.

that have,’’ I

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Japanese Patent Medicine Law.

Japan has now a patent medicine law.
The seller of a patent medicine is re-
quired to send in a detailed account of
the use, dose, and contents of each pat-
ent medicine he sells, for which he pays
20 yen and an additional 2 yen yearly
for each single one.. The medicines
may not contain any poisons. The
permission may be withdrawn if the
maker should alter the composition, or
if it is proved that the contents are in-
jurious to health. Altering the compo-
sition is punished with confiscation and
20 to 50 yen fine, forging the permis-
sion 50 to Ioo yen, and secretly adding
poisons means a fine of Ioo to 500 yen.
The informer gets half the fine.

Te
Upsetting Arithmetical Tradition.

Jack—How did you come out on that
bulldog pup you bought?

Dick—Lost over a hundred per cent.
on the transaction.

Jack—Oh, | guess not. A hundred
per cent. is all you can possibly lose.

Dick—Think so, do you? Well, I
paid $1o for the pup and then | had to
give a boy a dollar to take him out and
drown him. If that isn’t a hundred and
ten per cent. loss, I’d like to know
what you call it.

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Took the Same.
Lawyer—You say you were in the
saloon at the time of the assault referred
to in the complaint?
Witness-—I was, sir.
Lawyer—Did you take cognizance of
the bar-keeper at the time?
Witness—I don’t know what he called
it, but 1 took what the rest did.
es
In One Lesson.
He—Your sister said she
dance.
She—-Well, can sher
‘*Ves, 1 made her. We hadn’t been
on the floor a minute when I stepped
on her foot. You just ought to have
seen her. ’’

couldn’t

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An English paper tells this story: A
Liverpool firm, delighted that one of its
employes was going to fight the Boers,
volunteered to pay to the man’s wife
half the usual wages during her hus-
band’s absence. At the end of the
month the woman appeared and the
moiety was at once given to her.
‘*What?’’ she said, ‘‘£4?’’ ‘‘Yes,’’ re-
plied the senior partner, ‘‘that is exact-
ly half; sorry you are not satisfied.”’
‘“It isn’t that I’m not satisfied; why,
for years he has told me he only got £5
a month altogether, and—and—if«the
Boers don’t kill him 1 will.’’

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One of the latest German inventions
is beer lozenges. These are made of
the powder obtained by evaporating
lager beer, and contain all the ingre-
dients of this popular beverage. The
only needful thing to turn them into a
sparkling ale is to dissolve them in
water to which some carbonic-acid gas
has been added.

BusinalsDanls

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BUSINESS CHANCES.

- EXCHANGE—FOR GENERAL MER-
chandise in 2 lively town of 2,000 to 5,000
well renting block in city, or Al 40-acre farm
two and one-half miles from city. Box 378,

Grand Rapids. 283
OR RENT—DOUBLE STORE, 40x65, PLATE
glass front, modern fixtures, electric lights,
Sewer connection, water, centrally located, with
nostoffice in same block. Address Box 32, Vicks-

urg, Mich. 286
AOR SALE—WELL-ASSORTED STOCK OF
roceries, dry goods, boots and shoes, cloth-
ing, hats, caps, crockery, etc., in good locality.
Owner wishes to retire on account of poor
health. Address B. M., care Michigan Trades-

man. 285

 

 

 

OR SALE, CHEAP—ONE FOURTEEN

foot and one eighteen foot oak top counter;

one ten foot show case; one Crandall typewriter.
D. Christie, Muskegon, Mich. 279

 

OR SALE—STOCK OF AN INCORPOR-
ated company in a well-established bean,
seed and produce business in one of the best
bean-growing centers in Michigan. Stock will
be sold for the purpose of enlarging the busi-
ness. Address No.. 284, care Michigan Trades-
man. 284
eR SALE—DRUG STOCK ABOUT $3,000,
within 50 miles of Grand Rapids. Will sell
or rent building. Enquire Hazeltine & Perkins
Drug Co., Grand Rapids. 278
RUGGIST, MIDDLE AGED, LARGE EX-
perience, good references, would like the
management or position of dispenser in a drug
store with the privilege of buying if satisfactory.
No objection to small town. Address 276, care
Michigan Tradesman. 276
OTEL FOR SALE OR RENT. STEAM
heat, electric light, hardwood floors. In
good condition and a good opening. Address
No. 272, eare Michigan Tradesman. 272
NOR SALE—PENTWATER DRIVING PARK
and four well-bred mares in fold and eight
Shetland ponies. F. O. Gardner, Pentwater,
Mich. 270
W ANTED—I WANT TO EXCHANGE SOME
very desirable Grand Rapids city ae
for a well-locatad stock of hardware. = ee
Gilbert. 67 Pearl St., Grand Rapids. 265
O RENT—SPACE IN OUR DEPARTMENT
store suitable for millinery, ladies’ underwear
or druggists’ sundries or shoes. Splendid chance
for some one. May’s Department Store, 47-53
Canal St., Grand Rapids. 266
eS ee STOCK, ABOUT
$2,000, in good town or location for new
stock. Address No. 280, care Michigan Trades-
man. 280
aS FOR SALE—FINEST COR-
ner grocery and market in Chicago. Good
opportunity for the right man. Big business.
Address A. Rueter, Gartield and Seminary Ave.,
Chicago, Il. 260
ARTIES HAVING STOCKS OF GOODS OF
any kind, farm or city property or manufac-
turing plants, that they wish to sell or exchange,
write us for our free 24-page catalogue of real es-
tate and business chances. The Derby & Choate
Real Estate Co., Lansing, Mich. 259
RY GOODS STORE TO LET, CARO, MICH-
igan, from April 1; best stand in Tuscola
county; growing town; rich country; large beet
sugarfactory. Enquire of Burnham & Co., Lan-
sing, Mich. 258
oe LINE SALESMAN WANTED ON COM-
mission to carry a line of suspenders. - Spiral
Manufacturing Co., Kalamazoo, Mich. 25)
Ke SALE—COUNTRY STORE IN SOUTH
Central Michigan on railroad; stock about
$3,000; a fine paying business the year around;
very small expense; will pay 40 per cent. clear
profit every year; owner going into larger busi-
ness; easy terms; a snap for the right person.
Address No. 256, care Michigan Tradesman. 256
| ees SALE—WELL-ESTABLISHED IMPLE-
ment business in live town of 2,500 in South-
ern Michigan. Clean stock, which invoices $1,000.
Small competition. Payment must be part cash.
Address Lock Box 295, Otsego, Mich. 249
oS SALE—FLOUR AND FEED MILL—
full roller process—in a splendid location.
Address No. 227,
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Great bargain, easy terms.
care Michigan Tradesman.
= RENT OR SALE—HOTEL, WITH
barn in connection; doing good business all
the year; resort region. Address No. 135, care
Michigan Tradesman. 135
r= SALE—FIRST CLASS STOCK OF
hardware; good location in one of the best
Address Lock Box _
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towns in Michigan.
Battle Creek, Mich.
Ke SALE OR RENT—STORE BUILDING
with dwelling attached. Good opening for
a general store. Also large warehouse suitable
for hay and feed business. For particulars ap-
ply to J. C. Benbow, Harrietta, Mich. 237
SALE, CHEAP — $3,000 GENERAL
stock and building. Address No. 240, care
Michigan Tradesman. 240
ey ROOM FOR RENT. PLATE GLASS
front; furnace heat; counters and shelving
all in and up to date in style and finish; 22 feet
wide and 90 feet long; centrally located in a good
town for trade. For terms address Box 37, Car-
son City, Mich. 238

ro SALE—STOCK OF GROCERIES I)
ood 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
POT CASH PAID FOR STOCK OF DRY
— groceries or boots and shoes. Must
be cheap. Address A. D., care Michigan —
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tr 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
—_ exchange. Address No. 12, care Michi-
gan Trad an 12

{y= 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

MISCELLANEOUS.

ee ae WANTED BY

one capable and best of references. Address

No, 287, care Michigan Tradesman. 287 |

ANTED—SITUATION BY REGISTERED

B druggist. Address No. 274, care —_—
rad an 4

ESS PHARMACIST WISHES PO-
sition where there will be an opportunity to
purchase one-half interest or stoc later on.

Address Pharmacist, care Michigan —_

 

 

 

 

 

A= ROUND Al REGISTERED PHARMA-
cist wishes position fifteen years’ experi-
ence; can do buying and managing, if desired.
Address No. 282, care Michigan Tradesman, 282

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> be Pere Marquette President, 0. E. WALKER, Bay ci A Yico Pree- i {
—7 Railroad E. A. Stows, Grand Rapids; Treasurer, J. F. tt {

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‘ “~e Ar. Chicago, 1:30pm 5:00pm 10:50pm *7:05am | President, FRANK J, DyK; Secretary, HOMER
$ Ly. Chicago, 7:15am 12:00m 5:00pm *11:50pm| KLAP; Treasurer, J. GEORGE LEHMAN ip) 4
Ar. G. Rapids, 1:25pm 5:05pm 10:55pm *6:20am A
i" fe Traverse City, Charlevoix andretoskey. Detroit Retail Grocers’ Association 4

\ = me ee ae Supe Prestions, JOSEPH KNIGHT; Secretary, E. 1) $j
L < Ar. Charter", = :19pm 11:25pm ARKS; Treasurer, C H. FRINK. si }
r. Petoskey, 3:45pm 11:55pm he
be Trains arrive from north at 2:40pm, and Kalamazoo Retail Grocers’ Association A ¢
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and 10:00pm. President, W. H. JOHNSON; Secretary, UHAS.
Detroit. HYMAN. a : a ¢
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Lv. Detroit....... 2. 40am 1:10pm 6:00pm | President, C. E. WALKER; Secretary, E. C Mica because their customers want the best axle grease they can get for
| Ar. Grand Rapids... at ‘opm 5:10pm 10:45pm | LIrrie. a a ” their money. Mica is the best because it is made especially to reduce
| ‘ Soci Aim nd Yo . gee a ee ee — ee ) friction, and friction is the greatest destroyer of axles and axle boxes. §
<> Ar Saginaw....... Pi1:85am 10:15pm |" BoeLKINs: ‘Treasurer, J) W. CASKADON. } It is becoming a common saying that “Only one-half as much Mica is 4
( re Grand Rapids. foes Saiisam 9: ta Sechian Reindl Sessas* belie ’ — for — — as of — — _ grease,” so that
r Parlor cars on all trains to and from Detroit President, J. FRANK HELmen; Secretary, Ww ) ica is not only the best axle grease on the market but the most eco- 7
: . cae Fuliman steepers on night H. PorTER; Treasurer, L. PELTO \ nomical as well. Ask your dealer to show you Mica in the new white },
ema Adrian Retail Grocers’ Association and blue tin packages.
> a day. Others week days only. President, A. : C. CLARK; Secretary, E. F. iY ee eee 4
GEO. DEHAVEN, General Pass. Agent. CLEVELAND; Treasurer, WM. C. KOEHN J Ol
a Grand Rapids, Mich. Saginaw Retail Merchants’ Association ‘ iL L U M 1 N AT | NG AN D
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. December 17, 1899. President, THos T. BATES; Secretary, M. B. (4
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Nort North Owosso Business Men’s Association g

DI Tray. City, Petoskey, Mack. + 7:45am + 5:15pm
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7:45am and 2:10pm trains, parlor cars; 11:00pm ;
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» Pe K aes, Pe. ba chen 5B ie President, F. W. GILCHRIST; Secretary, C. L. }, HIGHEST PRICE PAID FOR EMPTY CARBON AND GASOLINE BARRELS =
Kalamazoo, Ft. Wayne Cin. * 7:00pm * 6:45am ARTRIDGE. ie
. Kalamazoo and Vicksburg. *11:30pm * 9:10am : ae i a ¢
{ = aoe Gaon Woh anor = h to oe Gaiam te teen peas FRANK
; coach to 0; 2: m train has parior car to 9 ’ fi r
~ be Fort Wayne; 7:00 m ae has A ses 23 to Cincin-| A- PERcy; Treasurer, CLARK A. PUTT. ‘ STAND ae oO . co.
i nati; 11:30pm train, sleeping car and coach to Fist Desinen Ma's. ti ¢
' Chicago. erry business Men 8 ssociation 5 a il a ae a
i Chicago Trains. President, H. W. WALLACE; Secretary, T. E. 35355555555 > an & 7 > apt
TO CHICAGO. HEDDLE. noes a .
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enc ren ec nema FURNITURE BY MAIL| FURNITURE BY MAIL
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Lo: Train leaving Grand Rapids 7:10am has coach; | President, CHAS. RouNDs; Secretary, F
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sleeping car for Grand Rapids. - Grand Rapids Retail Meat Dealers’ Association
+ | @ Muskegon Trains. President, L. M. WILSON; Secretary, PHILIP
GOING WEST. HILBER; Treasurer, S. J. HUFFORD.
Ly. Grand Rapids.. ar 35am +1 35pm +6 40pm . ‘ ae
7 AT unday train leaves Grand Rapids 9:1sam,; no
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{ GOING EAST Our prices. for several years—-given it
=> Lv. Muskego ey 1am fz ispm +4 Oopm : all kinds of wear—that’s
+Except Sunday. *Dallys = _ the time to tell whether or
| o C. L. LOCKWOOD, not the chair i$ a good one.
os Gen’l Hass ran and —_ Agent. Our goods stand every
test. The longer you have
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a Best route to Manistee. 50 in. long, 34 in. deep and 50 in. high; oafte me oF
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Ly. Grand Rapids.. Le COMM | clos j enuine nan
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oe e RADESMAN a to be returned at our expense if not
EY . : CHAS. A. COYE, | found positively the best roll top desk i>
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a e Send for prices. per cent more. Contpare the style, the workmanship,
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