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Send for samples. BARLOW BROS , GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. eseseseseseseseseses sd ea ame O $0OOOOOO@ hAbobhbhed Abii ad 999999999 HGHOS 0909S OO THE os FIRE Ww INS. co. » Cul tive, Safe. J -W. AS. Pres. \ W. Fan MCBArn, fet. OO 90000000 000000000000 THE MERCANTILE AGENCY Established 1841. R. G. DUN & CO. Widdicomb Bld’g, Grand Rapids, Mich. Books arranged with trade classification of names. Collections made everywhere. Write for particulars. L. P. WITZLEBEN, llanager. =- A. I. C. High Grade Coffees -- have increased coffee sales for hundreds of the leading retailers throughout the United States, why not for you? For particulars, address, - - - - A. I. C. Coffee Co., 21 and 23 River Street, Chicago. Aabbbbhhta GABSS OOo Ses eee GFGUVUVVOVVVUVY Save Trouble. Save Money. Save Tiwe,. Trodesmian COUON GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 1900. IMPORTANT FEATURES 2. Getting the People. 3. Department Store Advertising. Around the State. 5. Grand Rapids Gossip. The Produce Market. 6. The Buffalo Market. 7. Why the Hens Went on a Strike. 8. Editorial. 9. Editorial. 10. Impure Maple Sugar. 12. Woman’s World. 14. Clerks’ Corner. 16. Hardware. 1%. Hardware Price Current. 18. Dry Goods. 19. Successful Salesmen. 20. Shoes and Leather, 21. Department Stores After the Trade. 22. Cold Storage to Keep Eggs. 23. Do Hens Pay? 24. The Meat Market. 25., Commercial Travelers, 26. Drugs and Chemicals. 2%. Drug Price Current. 28. Grocery Price Current. 29. Grocery Price Current. 30. Gotham Gossip. Crockery and Glassware Quotations. 31. Cipher Years. 32. G. R. Retail Grocers’ Association. GETTING THERE. Much has been recently said about the foreign carrier. In times of emergency it is well enough for one nation to call in the ships of another for the transpor- tation of its goods, but when the emer- gency is over a continuance of the prac- tice is an unmistakable sign of its weak- ness and should be stopped. Fora great many years this country has been satis- fied to be the producer. After years of depression it awakened into new life and energy. Hills were laid low and valleys were exalted. Hammer and whir of wheel were everywhere busy re- pairing and building up and when the time came for the goods to be carried to the foreign market, the English keels were ready for the work and did it at reasonable rates. When, however, the business of the country had settled down to run itself, this question of drayage became an im- portant one. It did not look well to see the dray of London, French & Co. backed up at the delivery door. More than that, it was hardly business to pay another firm for what it could do at less cost itself. It would have its own drays and its own horses and its own men and would add materially to its profit, by the cartage of its own goods. The thought became national in its preva- lence. The Government at Washington became interested and, asa result, the House Committee on Merchant Marine has reported its much-discussed subsidy bill, and, with this help from the Gov- ernment, it will not be long before the American-made goods will be carried to the foreign market in the American steamship. The object of, the bill is to promote the building of ships in this country. From computations made by the Com- mittee, it is estimated that there will not be earned in the first year under the subsidy by domestic vessels now in service more than $3,000,000. ‘To for eign vessels now in service and likely to be bought and registered in this country, the allowance for annual earn- ings is placed at $1,200,000. Vessels to be constructed within the next ten years to duplicate this foreign tonnage, esti- mated to be about 200,000, would earn $2,400,000. This list of figures might be largely increased, but the detail would only defer the conclusion that the large amount now paid to this foreign service for transportation will be kept at home. It will add to the influence of the country abroad and when the har- bors of the world are crowded with the vessels of this country as the markets which those vessels reach are crowded with its goods, more than ever will the flag that these ships carry receive the homage due to the nation that has with- in four generations not only made a name for itself among the powers of earth but has placed itself first among them in all that is excellent in national life and character. It is a remarkable instance of ‘‘get there,’’ and this last en- terprise, increasing as it will the con- veniences of communication, widening competition, lessening the cost of ocean transportation, extending the markets for American products, swelling the de- mand for employment and stimulating every industry in the country, will strengthen the growing belief that in the march of nations the United States is and by right ought to be at the head of the line. TIRED OF WORK. It is announced in Chicago that Honore Palmer, son of Potter Palmer, after working three months as a bank messenger at $6 a week, has given up his job in disgust and has gone to Berk- shire Hills to rest and recuperate. On Jan. to it was announced that young Palmer, who was accustomed to all the luxuries the wealth of his parents could provide, and who was a member of the brilliant set in Newport, had gone to work in a bank asa_ dollar-a-day mes- senger, and then his society friends covered his desk with flowers and bon- bons. It was said that he intended to learn the details of the business so that when he came into possession of the Palmer millions he would have a prac- tical knowledge of business. He was going to begin at the bottom and climb the ladder like thousands of other young Americans, but he has found the climb- ing business a trifle tiresome. Hence the trip in search of rest. It is also said the young man would seek his health with his wealthy and distinguished mother in Paris. Rich people always have amiable doctors who can direct them to agreeable places in search of health and recreation. ‘There would be no sense in telling a poor boy ina gro- cery store that he ought to go to Europe and stay abroad a year for the benefit of his health, and so the poor boy works on and grows strong and lives long and owns the business in time. With a rich boy it is different. He thinks of his tired feeling and of his money and the tired feeling prevails upon him to let other people do the work. See If Adam had nominated himself for President and friends had asked how he came to be so foolish, he would say: ‘*The woman did it.’’ Number 865 GENERAL TRADE REVIEW. The record for the week in general trade, while showing less in the way of advance than might be desired by the superficial observer, is one which is as reassuring to the more careful student could be. The stock prices have been very slight, bare- ly more than as it well changes in a recovery from the spec- effort of the element last It is becoming a matter for com- that the continues almost constant for so period of time. ulative bear week. of stock values long a ment average Prices of some commodities which have maintained at level for healthy been too high a business are Among petroleum, showing these are silk It is reassuring that is small instead of the a slight decline. coal, iron, tin, wool, and India rubber. the price change sudden and violent reaction which usu- ally followsa period of undue inflation. Taking the situation all in all there are than are election fewer causes of uneasiness usual in the advance of an year. Among the commodities to show. the yielding tendeacy is to be counted wool, although speculators are trying very hard to hold the present figure. In many lines of the manufacture there are positive declines, and on the whole the distribu- tion of woolen products is not satisfac- tory. Cotton has advanced again, but the cotton goods trade is quite similar to the woolen situation. The weekly output of pig iron, only 289,482 tons, against 292,643 on March 1, resulted from the stoppage of a few furnaces in the central region, while as many others started, of which two in Tennessee added 2,500 tons weekly, al- though the others were small. There was also a general decrease in output of the furnaces running, owing to irregular supplies of coke and ore. The known stocks unsold increased only 12,280 tons during March, but as nearly the whole production is now distributed on orders covering a long time to the various con- sumers, their stocks which are not re- ported must have increased largely. Combinations hold sheets, wire and wire nails, tin plates and structural forms without change, although the Eastern Bar Association is called practically dead, as refined iron is selling below its figures. Billets are also quoted $1 lower, $32 at Pittsburg. The exports of wheat this month have been 6,733,616 bushels, against 5, 368, 419 last year, partly making up the decline in March, when only 13,089,464 bales went out, against 15,654,221 last year. This makes the total imports thus far 144,503,359 bushels this year, against 188, 532,090 last year, indicating that the year’s exports may be about 180,000,000 bushels. Corn exports this month have been 7,161,034 bushels, against 6, 390, - 779 last year, which, with 14,756,355 in March, against 16,131,196 last year, makes 170,478,492 bushels for the year thus far, against 137, 145,313 last year. This promises a year’s total very close to that of 1898, which was 212,000,000 bushels. 2 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN , Getting the People Some Good Book Advertising—Inconsist- ency of a Big Concern. Merritt B. Holley, of Traverse City, writes as follows under date of April 10: I am sending you one of my latest advertisements. | do not think, as rule, you will find many ‘‘ail book’’ ad- vertisements in many papers—not even large dailies—for there you will see that most of them are for the department and always with other goods. | am try- ing to use one line of goods for an ad- vertisement. I am using much of your good advice. | file it away every week for future use and consult it many times. Mr. Holley has produced a_ notably good book advertisement and, barring the too frequent use of capitals in the introductory paragraph, for which the compositor is probably at fault, the ad- vertisement merits sincere praise. The little descriptive paragraph accompany- ing each book is the strong point of this advertisement. It gives the reader an idea of what to expect from the book that he purchases and it inspires much more interest than the ordinary dry list of titles and prices would do. On one point | think, Mr. Holley is in error: He says that he is trying to use one line of goods for an advertisement. It is impossible to advertise a department store successfully in this manner. De- partment store advertising is store news, and for an advertiser to attempt to confine his news to one line of goods alone each day is as foolish as it would be for an editor of a paper to confine his news to politics one day, theatricals the second, sporting news the third, and so on. The editor of a paper must cater to a varied constituency—he must pro- vide a sufficient variety of news so that each reader will find something to inter- est him. The advertising of a depart- ment store must proceed on the same principle. Not everybody is interested in books, that Mr. Holley’s book advertisement, good as it is, produces no effect on a certain percentage of its readers. If he had introduced hardware along with books he would have doubled his chances of interesting his readers, and each additional department repre- sented would have interested an addi- tional proportion. There used to be a time when a man carrying varied lines would advertise as follows : JOHN JONES, Dealer in Boots and Shoes, Crockery, Glassware, Groceries, Dry Goods, Coal and Wood. Best prices always paid for fresh eggs. so In order to turn such people from the error of their ways, the rule was laid down by- advertising experts that it was proper to speak of only one thing in an advertisement, but that rule was not in- tended to apply to department store ad- vertising. From an advertising stand- point a department store is as many stores as it has departments—and each department that has news to tell should tell it. The only application of the rule consists in the fact that each depart- ment’s news should be kept distinct and separate. A department store advertise- ment is many small advertisements with one signature, and department store ad- vertising can be made profitable only when each department is allowed suffi- cient space to tell the news of the day fully. The ‘‘one-idea’’ plan is a good plan for the store that carries but one line of goods, but it has its limitations. ee The Michigan Telephone Company's advertising is a striking example of hu- man inconsistency, as the announce- ment now running in the daily papers of the State will testify. The advertise- ment consists of two badly-drawn and much-worn cuts and some reading mat- ter that utterly lacks originality, bright- ness or convincing quality. That a company as rich and powerful as the Michigan Telephone Co., a company whose sole business is the introduction of modern methods into daily life, should use such inattractive and apparently home-made advertisements is rather amazing. A concern which desires to make the public progress should show itself to be progressive by employing some one with skill and unhackneyed ideas to prepare its advertising. There are hundreds of good arguments in fa- vor of the use of the telephone and there are plenty of writers of advertisements who know these arguments and can make use of them. There is an un- limited number of designers who can produce attractive and appropriate il- justrations which will print respectably in the newspapers. All these things are at the command of the Michigan Tele- phone Co., and still it persists in using advertising which the proprietor of the average country store would be ashamed to put over his signature. One sentence in the Michigan Telephone Co.’s adver- tisement should serve to convert it from the error of its ways, if read in the light of the above remarks: ‘People are not content with the slow-going methods of their grandfathers’ days.’’ W. S. Hamburger. - ——_—~>-9 > --—-- How a Railway Company Reclothed a Dead- Beat. From the New York Sun. Joe Blank had been employed by a daily newspaper in a large town not one hundred miles from New York. At the end of three weeks, an unusually long time, he was discharged for neglect of his duties. He was penniless and ragged. An overcoat he had, it is true, but his trousers were in lamentable con- dition. To get a new start he knew that he must manage to assume an ex- terior of at least semi-respectability. After applying to his various acquaint- ances with the usual result, he be- thought himself of his old quarry, the railroad companies. Having procured himself a hammer and a nail with an especially jagged head, he sallied forth at an hour when traffic is light. He succeeded in finding an empty car, which he occupied. Choosing a spot as far removed as possible from the eyes of the conductor, he sat himself down and producing the hammer and the nail, he proceeded to drive the latter into the seat, leaving the jagged head protruding about half an inch. This accomplished he deliberately sat on the nail and writhed. The result was a void in the most important part of his raiment. Then he arose and hailing the conduc- tor pointed out to him the disgraceful condition of the seat and the result. The conductor looked at the nail and at the rent raiment and was compelled to acknowledge a clear case of cause and effect. Blank took the number of car and conductor and in a few days the company were threatened with a suit for $75 in compensation for damages wrought to a new suit of clothes worn by one Joseph Blank. The company compromised on $20, the original value of the trousers being about $1.50, new. This is Blank’s favorite tale. He is es- pecially fond of telling it to the young, as a useful example of the methods which they should pursue if they are to make anything of a success in this world. RUBBER STAMPS You can do business with. Write now to BUSINESS STAMP WORKS. 49 and so Tower Block, Grand Rapids, Mich. Catalogue for the asking. Both Phones 2255, iate on Order We're ready for you. We'll give you immediate delivery on a spec- ially fine line of Men’s Fancy Worsted Suits In stripes and small checks, single . breasted sack styles with double : breasted vests. Splendidly tailored, latest spring ideas, right, like all of “H. Bros.’ Correct Clothes,” and the guaranteed best values on the market, at $7.50, $8.50, $10.00, $12.00 and $13.50 All sizes if your order is sent to-day. “CORRECT CLOTHES’”’ ? 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Many of them—in fact, it seems to be the popular way among this class—place a set advertisement in their local paper, which is nothing more than a business card, and let it stand week in and week out without change. It has become as familiar and common as _ the name of the paper and causes no more comment or thought than the paper’s heading. The page it appears on is usually made up of matter just as_ stale as the merchant’s card. The first thing the subscriber does is to turn the paper inside out and the advertisement, ‘‘tho’ lost to sight,’’ is not considered ‘‘to memory dear,’’ for it has not even at- tracted a passing notice. The paper lies on the family table for a week to be sure, is read and handled by every member, but the poor advertisement is out of sight and seen by none. The money paid for such advertising is wasted. For the set advertisement, let its wording be ever so good, | have no regard. The cumulative effects of advertising are what the progressive merchant is after. To get these the advertisement must be changed with every issue of the paper. Note the bright advertisements of many of the larger department stores. They are newsy, bright and catchy. They are the first thing turned to as the housewife picks up the daily. I never think of laying down the paper without first perusing certain advertisements. What is true of myself, | presume to say, is true of many another man. Now why this attraction? The daily I take is published too far away for the prices to be the attraction. In fact, | flatter myself I would not flutter near the flame did I live within trading dis- tance of this particular establishment. What then are the lessons to be drawn from department store advertising for the average country merchant? In the first place: Know your cus- tomers and do your talking to them. 1 suppose I shall draw down the wrath of the advertisement writers when | say | do not believe in the ready-made adver- tisements. The wording of an adver- tisement might attract the people in one locality but not in another, and ready- made advertisements are no exception. If you must use them, rewrite them and give them the wording that is natural to the community. The class of people talked to through an advertisement must be considered, and no one knows the people so well as the merchant himself. Therefore, I say, write your own adver- tisements. If for any reason you can not do it yourself let your brightest clerk try his hand at it. There may be talent there undeveloped that will bé valuable to you. In the second place, mention but few items in any one advertisement, and let the wording be natural--just as you would talk to your customer while show- ing the goods. Don’t try to say too much. Every article has some good talking point that you make prominent while showing it to a customer. In writing an advertisement of it, first con- vince yourself of the point that is its feature, then write about it just as though you were talking to a customer. When you have written all there is to say, stop. Don’t try to write any more. After this it should be read over several times, and if the point brought out can be made more prominent by condensing the wording, rewrite it. Take the place of the customer and see if it would be convincing to you, and if you decide not, keep changing the wording until it is in shape to suit. Don’t expect every advertisement will be first-class; you will be disappointed if you do. Make the wording bright as possible, but let it be natural; let it reflect your individuality. There’s no reason why the advertisement in the country weekly should not be as_ eager- ly looked for as the one in the city daily. In the third place, insist on getting good display. If the type is old, keep at your editor until he gives you mod- ern up-to-date style of type. Don’t al- low him to make an auction bill of your advertisement, but insist on a clean-cut, distinctive style. The position your advertisement is to occupy should never be changed. If you can not get top of column, then let it be at bottom of page, next to the news items. If other advertisements on this page occupy one column, have yours set two columns wide; if they occupy two columns, let yours be three or four wide; and if the others are all extra wide, make yours but one column. Have it different, distinct from the others; the eye will rest on it then, as the most prominent thing on the page, the moment the paper is opened. Read the proof of the advertisement each week yourself. Ludicrous errors will often be avoided, and some that are more serious than ludicrous. In, the fourth place, use a system in expenditures on advertising. It is an easy matter to spend more money than the business will warrant. It is the cus- tom of professionals to advise using 2 per cent. of sales. My experience has been that one-half of 1 per cent. is suffi- cient for a country store to use, and | think more than that isa useless expend- iture. In conclusion, watch for results. Know what kind of advertisements pay you. Preserve each advertisement for future reference. Don’t use programs. Be wary of all schemes; they are usu- ally fakes. Give a copy of each advertisement to each clerk, that they may know what is being advertised. Do just as you. advertise.—F. H. Hendryx in Topeka Merchants Jour- nal. —___>.—____ Took a Costly Nap. From the Philadelphia Press. To begin with, he’s ‘‘a good fellow.”’ That’s a phrase easier understood by men than by women. It generally means—well, it means he’s an all-round good sort in the male line. Saturday afternoon he was _ feeling pretty good. 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Harvey & Co. 59 Monroe Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. f Se woe oR ee ORE SE Ga a a. a. ee 4 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN _ Around the State a Movements of Merchants. Belding—John W. Walker, baker, has sold out to David B. Stock. Hudson—S. F. Eaton has sold his furniture stock to Bennett Bros. Hudson-—Chas. A. Steger succeeds B. J. Steger in the grocery business. Onaway—Geo. F. Barbarin has sold his branch drug store at Freeland. Detroit--Charles Buger has purchased the grocery stock of Charles Georgi. Pontiac—Jacobs Bros. have sold their harness stock to Arnold & Freguard. Ida—Gilhousen & Co. succeed Gil- housen & Son in the grocery business. Midland—Smith & Smith have pur- chased the drug stock of E. C. Salis- bury. Keeler—Claude Sykes has purchased the grocery and drug stock of Conklin & Son. East Tawas—Lorain Clanow has _pur- chased the grocery stock of Thos. P. Brown. Hudson—Lyman Wetherbee has taken possession of the C. A. Beckly meat market. Owosso—W. H. Bell, dealer in gro- ceries and crockery, will shortly remove to Detroit. Ida—Albright & Bro. continue the meat and grocery business of Albright & Hanson. Detroit—McLeod & Eisenhuth are succeeded by J. C. Johnson in the gro- cery business. Dowagiac—Baits & Ritter, dealers in groceries, hay and feed, have discon- tinued business. Jackson—D. A. Yocum & Co. succeed Geo. A. Yocum in the harness and vehicle business. Sherwood—Hawn & Vanderhoof con- tinue the lumber and coal business of Rungan & Hawn. Leslie—Steiner & Hill succeed Max- on & Millar in the confectionery and restaurant business. Hudson—Charles Halleck and Eugene Ball have purchased the grocery stock of Goodnow & Bennett. Sherwood—Fred Hutchings succeeds Luella (Mrs. Geo. W.) Hutchings in the furniture and undertaking business. Petoskey—J. Vanalstine has engaged in the agricultural implement business at the corner of Michigan and Petoskey streets. Flint—Berridge & Son is the name of the new firm which succeeds W. H. Berridge in the drug, grocery and meat business. Sault Ste. Marie—H. L. Newton has sold his meat market to Frank R. Chapel and will devote his entire atten- tion to stock raising. Belding—W. M. Reynolds has sold his grocery stock to Underwood Bros., of Athens, who will continue the busi- ness at the same location. Port Huron—A. J. Stewart, of De- troit, has leased the store building lately occupied by E. W. Bromley, and will shortly open a drug store. Hartford—S. P. High, of Buchanan, has removed his dry goods stock to this place and will occupy the store build- ing recently vacated by A. B. Dean. Monroe—Chas. Kremer will shortly retire from the grocery business. His stock has been purchased by Frank Houseman, who will take possession May I. : Battle Creek—Robert Binder has be- gun the erection of a six-story block on Monroe street which will be used as a storage house, work rooms and sausage factory. Ann Arbor—The grocery stock of Davis & Seabolt has been purchased by Rinsey & Seabolt. The firm will con- tinue both of its stores in their present locations. Sherman—E. J. Worden has discon- tinued the tobacco and confectionery business at this place and has removed the stock to Harrietta, where he has a branch store. Eaton Rapids—Wilcox & Godding have purchased the book, stationery and wall paper stock of Geo. Putnam and have combined same with their drug and book stock. Allegan—William Koloff and Frank Marty has purchased the grocery stock of H. L. Burton and will continue the business at the same location. The firm name will be Koloff & Marty. Sault Ste. Marie—Gowan & Pickford have engaged in the hardware business at 403 Ashmun street. The building has been materially improved by a plate glass front and new shelving. Hillsdale—The remainder of the French hardware stock has been pur- chased by Geo. F. Gardner. Geo. N. Smith has leased the store building and is occupying same with his hardware stock. Ishpeming—The establishment of a Finnish co-operative store at this place is about conceded, $6,000 having already been subscribed. F. Lassenius has been named as manager of the busi- ness. Allegan—Babcock & Ewer, who have been engaged in the flour and feed business on Brady street, have pur- chased the flour and feed business of R. N. Ellis, on Hubbard street, and have removed to the new location. St. Louis—Henry and Sigo Tyroler, who conducted the department store busi- ness at this place under the style of Tyrolers’ Dry Goods Emporium, have dissolved partnership. The business will be continued by Sigo Tyroler un- der the same style. Allegan—James Court & Son, of Marshall and Allegan, have established a branch of their poultry and egg _busi- ness at Bellevue, and Randy Barrett has gone to take charge of the business. Mr. Barrett may move his family there within a short time. Pontiac—Fred Graves, for a number of years pharmacist in Weed’s drug store, has purchased the drug stock of Clyde Morse Brooks, and_ has already taken possession. Mr. Brooks retains his wall paper and paint business and will hereafter devote himself to that ex- clusively. Battle Creek—Wm. W. McRae and Wm. Skinner will embark in the men’s furnishing goods business in Septem- ber. They will occupy the store in the Stone block as soon as it is vacated by M. H. Goodale & Co., who will move into the new Post Tavern block wheft completed. ! Lansing—The announcement of the death of Robert B. Shank Tuesday morning was a very severe shock to the people of Lansing, and especially the business community, where deceased was regarded as one of the foremost business men of the city. No man in Lansing was held in higher esteem by all classes of citizens than was Mr. Shank and no man was better known, as he had lived here all his life, and was born in the house in which he died. De- ceased was 43 years of age and had been in the grocery business continu- ously in the old State block on Washing- ton avenue for twenty-one years, and besides this store he conducted three other retail grocery stores, a meat mar- ket and bakery, and a prosperous con- fectionery business, all in this city. Early in April Mr. Shank was attacked with acute inflammation of the stomach. This was followed by brain trouble, and he was unconscious for several hours prior to his death. His wife, two daughters and two brothers, Dr. R. J. Shank, of this city, and Edward Shank, residing near Grand Ledge, survive him. The funeral will be conducted Thursday at 2 o’clock under the auspices of the Knights of Pythias. Manufacturing Matters. Adrian—The L. Ladd Co. will shortly discontinue its fruit cannery at this place. i Cushing—The new cheese factory now in process of construction here will be ready to begin operations in about thirty days. Traverse City—R. E. Weaver, who has been employed in the cigar factory of A. W. Jahraus for a long time, has resigned his position and will runa fac- [ tory of his own. Niles—The Niles Improvement As- sociation is working hard to secure a bicycle, sewing machine and _ auto- mobile factory, which will employ a large number of men. Charles A. Cha- pin, the millionaire mine owner of Chi- cago, is back of the project. Mason—E. E. Hartwick, of Grayling, has purchased T. W. Hanson’s interest in the lumber firm of Hansou & Mick- elson, of this city, and the firm is now Hartwick & Mickelson. Mr. Hanson returns to Grayling to look after the business interests of his father. Negaunee—The F. W. Reed Lumber Co. has purchased the Teal Lake saw- mill of Neeley & Williamson, together with the stock of logs of between one and two million feet. A condition of the sale is that Messrs. Neeley & Wil- liamson will not engage in the business at that point. Hudson—Collins Bros., carriage man- ufacturers at Jackson, who have a branch establishment here, will make a propo- sition to the citizens to build a manu- factory to supply 400 men with work if the citizens will give $6,000 and donate five acres of ground. The proposition has been taken under advisement. Hartford—Davis Haven has sold his cheese factory toa number of farmers, who have organized a stock company and will continue the business under the style of the Hartford Cheese Co. Mr. Haven has engaged to make cheese this season in the new factory now in proc- ess of construction at Cushing, Cass county. Sault Ste. Marie—The Soo Machine & Boiler Co. has been organized at this place for the manufacture and re- pair of machinery and mechanical im- provements and boilers and the manu- facture of brick, tile and earthen pip- ing. The capital stock is $15,000, all of which is paid in. The stockholders are James Strachan and Mrs. L. May Strachan, of this city, and Mrs. Mary E. Smith, of Ypsilanti. Bay City—The Boyce Coal Co. has filed articles of association. It is to do business in Bay, Saginaw, Midland, Tuscola and Arenac counties, with headquarters in Essexville. Jonathan Boyce, of Grand Rapids, and his sons, George J. and Archie, of Essexville, are the stockholders. This is the third coal company formed here in two weeks. The Boyces own a large tract of land at the mouth of Saginaw River which has been tested for coal. Bay City—The Bay City Sugar Co. contemplates erecting an evaporating works this season for the purpose of preserving the large quantity of sugar beet pulp which is annually turned out from the factory as refuse and hauled away by farmers. It is proposed to dry the pulp and pack it into bales for ship- ment to any section of the country, where it may be used for the feeding of stock. If this evaporator is built it will be the first in Michigan and may solve the problem of getting a revenue from waste that now goes free to the farmers. Beet pulp has been tried for fodder and has been a_ success. It has _ been shipped by the carload from Bay City, in addition to the hundreds of tons drawn away by farmers. ———___~+»2e. 2? The Boys Behind the Counter. Bellaire—E. E. Bedell succeeds N. B. Stratton as clerk in the grocery store of Hemstreet & Hinman. South Haven—Earl Combs has _ taken a position in John Mackey’s hardware store. Allegan—Irving Born has taken a po- sition as clerk in Thompson & Girce’s drug store. LeRoy-—Charles H. Hall, of Jenison, is the new drug clerk in Frank Smith’s store. St. Joseph—E. W. Kane has resigned his position with W. B. Church to ac- cept a similar one with Enders & Young, of Benton Harbor. Port Huron—C. E. Armstrong has taken a position in the Central drug store. —_—__»0.____ Bonnets As an Aid to Blushes. From the New York Commercial. A New York millinery house has had an enquiry for ‘‘blushing bonnets.’’ In- asmuch as it was the first enquiry of the kind, and as they did not know what under the blue canopy a ‘‘ blushing bon- net’’ was, they instituted a careful search to find out. The result is interesting, even from a sordid commercial stand- point. The ‘‘blushing bonnet’’ is known in London, and it may have had its origin there, although a London au- thority thinks the credit ought to go to Paris. It is any kind of a bonnet with a little spring and metal clasp hidden be- hind flowers, and when the head of the fair wearer of the bonnet is bent for- ward with that downcast movement so becoming to modest maids and matrons, the clasp presses on the temples and compels a blush. There is no chance for failure. —_—__—~»8<>__ Massachusetts Anti-Department Store Bill Collapses. The bill introduced into the Mass- achusetts Legislature to practically tax department stores out of the business and on which several hearings have _re- cently been held, has collapsed. The Judiciary Committee, to which the bill was referred, voted unanimously *‘leave to withdraw’” and the Senate as_unani- mously accepted the report. “‘Leave to withdraw’’ means that the bill will be withdrawn from consideration. The small retailers did not testify before the Committee—there seemed to he no de- sire to have them. An argument by an attorney constituted about all the case for the petitioners, while the opponents came forward in large numbers and presented their side of the case with great clearness and force. ——___~> 2 s>___ There is no word in the Chinese language that conveys an intimation of what we term public opinion; nor is there a synonym for patriotism ; in fact, there is no use for such words in China. ves Dewey was on the highest pinnacle of fame. It is very lonely up there, and he can hardly be blamed for wanting to come down. ses The Admiral fired himself off as a candidate, without waiting for Captain Gridley. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 5 Grand Rapids Gossip The Produce Market. Apples—Russets command $3.50 and Baldwins fetch $4.50 per bbl. Ben Davis are in fair supply at $4.25. The quality is good, considering the season. Asparagus——California stock com- mands $1@1.25 per doz. bunches. Bagas—$1.35 per 3 bu. bbl. Bananas—Are very active and some grades show an advance of 1lo@I5c per bunch. The supply is not sufficient for the demand, and prices are high. Pres- ent shipments, compared to last year’s at the corresponding season, show a de- ficiency of 80,000 to 90,000 bunches. Beets—$1.25 per 3 bu. bbl. Choice stock is scarce. Butter—Factory creamery has _ de- clined to 1gc and is slow sale at that. Choice dairy grades have declined to i4c and are in ample supply; in fact, receipts are considerably in excess of the consumptive requirements of the market. Packing stock is moving freely on the basis of 11@12c. Cabbage—Louisiana commands $4.75 per crate and California is strong at $5.50 per crate. Most of the sales are for half crates, which fetch $2.50@3. Home grown is very scarce at $1@I.10 per doz. California Fruits—Grape fruit, $6 per box; tangerines, $3.25@3.50 per half box. Carrots—goc per 3 bu. bbl. C2lery—California stock $1.10 per doz. Cocoanuts—$3.25 per sack of Ioo. Cranberries—Jerseys command $10@ 11 per bbl. Dressed Calves—Fancy, mon, 6@7c per lb. Dressed Poultry—The demand for _ all kinds of poultry is extremely active ; very little stock in sight to satisfy it. All signs point to higher prices. All other kinds of meat are high, and if current receipts do not increase mate- rially, which does not look probable, values will take a higher range. Chick- ens command 11@12%c. Fowls are in active demand at 10@1Ic. Ducks are eagerly taken at 11@12c. Geese are not wanted at any price. Turkeys are in good demand at 11c for No. 2 and 12%@l14c for No. I. Eggs—The market is a conundrum. In spite of the predictions of heavy handlers to the effect that they must have stock at 8c or let it alone, they are taking in eggs on the basis of 9@9%c and appear to be glad to get them at that price. Outside dealers are meet- ing with little difficulty in getting sup- plies at g@1oc and the local market has ranged from 1o@11c, due to the enor- mous consumption of eggs, which is ahead of anything ever before experi- enced in this State. Michigan eggs appear to be at a premium everywhere and every Eastern market appears to be willing to pay a premium for Michi- gan stock. Grapes—Malagas, $7.50@g per bbl. Green Stuff--Grand Rapids forcing lettuce, 14@15c per lb. Onions, I5c¢ per doz. Parsley, 30c per doz. Pie- plant, 7c per lb. Radishes, 20c per doz. or $1.25 per bu. box. 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 commands 7%4c; com- at 13c. Amber is in fair demand at 14c. White is practically out of the market. Lemons—Early in the week there was a decline of 10@15c per box, which was caused by the poor quality of the lemons arriving, but later prices advanced again to the former basis and now the market is very firm, with a strong up- ward tendency. Arrivals of lemons dur- ing April to date have been 56,000 boxes, against 72,000 last year. The decrease is accountable for the present firmness of the market. A terrific rain and wind storm in Sicily has consider- ably damaged the lemon crop. If the damage is as heavy as reported, prices will be higher, which may have a tend- ency to benefit California lemons. Live Poultry—In active demand at firm prices. Broilers weighing 1% to 2 Ibs. command 25c per lb. Squabs, $2 per doz. Pigeons are strong at 6oc. Chickens, 1oc. Fowls, 9c. ucks, 9c for young. Turkeys, 11c for hens and capons and gc for gobblers. Maple Sugar—8c for imitation and 9 @ioc for genuine. Maple Syrup—Selling at 80@goc 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 65@ 75c, according to quality. Oranges—California navels, $3@3.25 per box. Parsnips—$$1.25 per 3 bu. bbl. Pineapples—Jamaica command $2@ 2.25 per doz. Potatoes—The market is stronger, due to the poor roads and the inability of growers to market their supplies. The price hovers round 30¢ in carlots. Ber- mudas command $2.25 per bu. Seeds—Mammoth clover, recleaned, $5@5.25; medium clover, good to choice, $4.75@5.25 ; Alsyke clover, $6.50 @7; Alfalfa clover, $6.50/@725 ; ®°crim- son clover, $4@4.50; timothy, prime to choice, $1.20@1.40; field peas, white, 75@goc; red top, prime to choice, 60c @$1;red top, clean from chaff, $1.50 @1.75; orchard grass, $1.10@1.30; blue grass, $1@I1.40. Straw—Carlots of baled quoted at $5.50 per ton for wheat and oat and $7 for rye. Last named very scarce. Strawberries—Floridas, 25c per quart box ; per case of 24 pints, $2.25. Sweet Potatoes—Kiln dried Jerseys command $1.75 per bu. box. Tallow—Common, 4c per lb. ; ma- chinery grade, 5% @534c. Tomatoes—Florida stock commands $4 per 6 basket crate. Turnips—7sc per bbl. Wax Beans--$4.50 per bu. box. —_—_—__»> 2. ___ Whenever England loses her grip on the world’s merchant tonnage it will be the beginning of the end of her suprem- acy on the seas. It now exceeds that of all the other nations, and in spite of all competitions she is still determined to hold the lead. But every year it is more and more difficult to hold it. Other flags are rapidly gaining on the British and the rivalry is already very keen. There are now being built twenty-five big steamers for service between this country and Europe, and only nine of them are English. An American line is building six vessels. A continental company advertises 131 trips between New York and Europe between January and November, and the British rivals seem unable to keep the pace. The Germans, too, are rapidly coming to the front as shipbuilders. When other na- tions get the merchant ships England may have the warships. But the period of her decadence will have begun. Ae a Conklin & Eason, whose store build- ing and general stock at Ravenna were destroyed during the recent conflagra- tion at that place, have resumed busi- ness in the grange hall, purchasing a grocery stock of the Ball-Barnhart-Put- man Co. anda shoe stock of Rindge, Kalmbach, Logie & Co. They will im- mediately begin the erection of a new store building, on the completion of which they will add lines of dry goods and men’s fur nishings. —__»> 02> _—__ J. and N. Vogel have purchased the meat market of the late Gilbert Vogel, 821 Grandville avenue, and will con- tinue the business under the style of Vogel Bros. —_—__» 02. Geo. H. Kirtland & Co. have opened a dry goods store at 1159 South Division street. ———_>02>___ For Gillies’ N. Y. tea, all kinds, grades and prices, Visner, both phones. The Grocery Market. Sugar—The raw sugar market is strong and prices have advanced to 4'%c for 96 deg. test centrifugals. Owing to the strong position of raws, an advance in refined is looked for at any moment. It is estimated that the crop of Cuba sugar will not exceed 300,000 tons, which, compared with last year’s crop, shows a decrease of 40,000 tons. The Puerto Rico crop is estimated at 30,000 tons, against 70,000 tons at the same time last year. There is a general shortage in cane crops in other West India Islands, due to the damages inflicted by hurri- canes. Canned Goods--Spot trading is as un- satisfactory as futures. And at this sea- son, when business is generally active, both spot business and futures are dull and featureless, while both sides of the market wait for some one to offer con- cessions—something no one seems dis- posed to do, and therefore it runs on unchanged from day to day and prom- ises to run on unchanged until the pack- ing season opens and buyers are com- pelled to go into the open market to get their supplies. Jobbers appear to be moderately well stocked with everything required and holders do not exactly want to force sales by offering induce- ments in lower prices. ‘Tomatoes are still a very uncertain quantity, but some dealers seem to think that the sit- uation is somewhat improved. How- ever that may be, there have undoubt- edly been sales made at less than quota- tions. Friends of tomatoes are certain that they are good property and they re- fuse to make concessions. There are no future sales of importance, although a few orders are placed here and there at about full prices. There will not be nearly as many packed this season as usual, although growers are making preparations for larger crops. There have been considerable sales of peas and corn, particularly peas. Prices have been generally steady, although there has been some shading on large lots. There are some packers and some holders who are willing to make more favorable prices, provided the outlook for the coming crop is as_ stated. Whether the pea louse will or will not interfere with the yield in New York this season it is impossible to say yet, but growers are making preparations to combat it, so far as possible. The fact that the insect did not appear until after the early peas had been harvested last season offers some encouragement to growers, who will plant extensively of early sorts, with the idea of having the crop harvested and packed before the insect appears. Last season only the late varieties were troubled. Baltimore advices state that this season’s oyster pack will aggregate 1,000, 000 bushels, against 1,583,000 bushels last year. The demand for this article is good at un- changed prices. The demand for salmon is increasing somewhat. ‘The market is firm at unchanged prices. Dried Fruits—Seldom have the first three months of the year been so_ unsat- isfactory to the dried fruit trade as the past three months. During the winter distributers expect their heaviest saies and jobbers always prepare for consid- erable activity, following the regular midwinter dulness which follows the holiday trade, but which is generally over immediately after Feb. 1. Then trade usually revives and lasts with fair activity and reasonably high prices un- tilthe fresh fruits of early spring drive the less desirable dried fruits from the mar- ket until cold weather comes again. The trade at this season is scarcely ever in large lots, but is generally continuous and the movement encourages the maintenance of well sustained prices. Prunes are moving out slowly at un- changed prices, with plenty of the large sizes, but a continued scarcity of the small sized goods, for which a premium is often paid. The demand for loose Muscatel raisins is active, but as prices asked by holders are higher than buyers care to pay, sales are restricted. Owing to the advance in Greece, currants are a trifle firmer, but there is no change in price as yet. Sales are not large, but are in small quantities for immediate consumption. Dates are fairly active at previous prices. Evaporated apples are a little stronger. Stocks around the country are well cleaned up and good stock is hard to find. Rice—There is a marked improve- ment in rice and the demand during the past week has been very good. Some slight advances were made on some grades and dealers expect a general ad- vance on all grades in the near future. Tea_—There is no improvement in tea this week, most sales being for small lots for immediate consumption. Prices are steady and unchanged. Molasses and Syrups—The market for molasses is steady and unchanged, with moderate demand. Owing to the con- tinued strength of the corn market, corn syrup has advanced another wc, witha corresponding advance on cases, Every- thing points to stiJl higher prices. Nuts—The crop of Sicily almonds is not as badly damaged as at first re- ported. The yield will be fully up to last year’s. Advices from California say that favorable reports concerning the almond crop are received, and the in- dications are that a good yield will be harvested. Spot stocks are light and are being gradually absorbed. Prices have recently advanced 2c per pound and the market is strong at the ad- vance. Stocks of filberts are very light, and there is an active demand at full prices. > 0s - Hides, Pelts, Furs, Tallow and Wool. The hide market remains firm at the late advance, but tanners decline to pay a higher price. One-quarter cent more is asked and obtained on the late take off over prices of last week, while stock is neglected. Pelts are in small quantities and are in fair demand only. Sheerlings have come into the market and command good prices. Furs are not quotable from any quan- tities which are being sold. A few late skins drag into the market and bring low prices, on account of the lateness of the season and the poor quality of the stock. Tallow is firm, with a slight advance. The demand is good, with no large quantities being offered. Wool is rather depressed and is quoted lower with small sales and small offer- ings. The supply in dealers’ hands is light. Some new wools have been sold in the State at 22@23c for unwashed, 4 to % blood. This price is within 3c of Eastern quotations and purchasers can not make a profit on the present mar- ket. May auctions in London are ex- pected to show a decline, which helps depress prices here. Wm. T. Hess. oe Jesse Van Duinen, flour and feed dealer at 691 Cherry street, has pur- chased the Payne Bros. grocery stock, at 603 Cherry street, and will consoli- date both lines of business at the new location. The transfer took place April 13. 6 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Ne ae oa aa a gS as sea aah The Buffalo Market Accurate Index of the Principal Staples Handled. Beans—-Fairly good trade and supply light of fancy of all varieties. There is, however, a liberal supply of fair to good, and the feeling is not over steady on that class. Butter—Trade shows little improve- ment over that noted for a week or two past. Buyers took only small quanti- ties as the belief is general that lower prices will follow any increased re- ceipts. Stocks under present demand are ample of fancy creamery, but there is no oversupply of lower grades. Re- ceipts of dairy are falling off owing to the starting up of creameries throughout this State. Renovated in heavy supply and easy. Creamery extras sold at 19@ 2oc; dairy, fancy, 17@18c; fairto good, 16c; in crocks, 16@17c; rolls, 15@17c ; renovated, 17@18c per lb. Cheese—Market easier; demand only fair. Fancy, full cream, small, 12%c; good to choice, 1114@12c; skims, 5@g9c per Ib. Eggs—All attempts to advance prices failed, in fact, the market was easier than last week. Supply was heavy and demand disappointing. Market looks lower. State and Western fancy, 1134 @i2c; Southern, 11%4c; duck eggs, 18@2oc; geese, 40@soc per doz. Dressed Poultry—Active demand and market closed up strong with everything cleaned up. Turkeys and chickens were scarce, but there was quite a_ liberal supply of heavy fat hens and mixed stock not in very desirable condition, which had to go at rather easy prices. Capons would have sold higher if really fancy. No ducks offered. Fancy small turkeys sold at 13@14c; good to choice, 12@13c; fair, 11@12c; chickens, 12@ 13c; fair to good, I1@11%c; fowls, choice, 11%c; fair to good, 104%@IIc; capons, 12@15c; ducks, 12@14c per |b. Live Poultry—Nothing like an ade- quate supply of fancy reached _ this market last week, and we are in the same shape again this week and likely to be for some time to come. ‘Turkeys, 11@12c; chickens, fancy, 11!4c; fair to good, 10%@t1c; fowl, 1o@11c; mixed chickens and fowl, 10%@tic; ducks, goc@$1.15 per pair; geese, 60c@$I each. Apples—Good Easter demand and market stronger. Receipts, however, are fair and the outlook is only steady. Fancy, $4@4.50; good to choice, $3.25 @3.75; common to fair, $2.50@3. Cranberries—Good supply, easy at $2.75@3.25 per crate. Bananas—Higher at $2@2.75. Pineapples—Quiet. Large, 5 medium, $12@16 per 100. Oranges—Higher; active demand Navels, $3@3.50; seedlings, 2.50@2.75 per box. Lemons—Quiet at $2.75@3.50 per box. Strawberries——Weather unfavorable and demand was not up to expectations. Although quite an active business was done prices were not satisfactory. Louisiana cases, 24 pints, sold at $2.2 @2.50; Florida, 20@3oc per qt. Potatoes—Receipts have been heavy from nearby sources and, with quite lib- eral offerings from outside, the feeling was weak. Michigan stock is generally poor, being small or mixed as a rule. New York State stock is fancy, but it was impossible to reach last week’s fig- ures on the finest. Carloads No. 1 Rural and White Stars, 43@45c; No. 1 red stock, 42@43c; fair to good, all kinds, 35@37c. Store prices from 3 to 5c above track. Sweet potatoes quiet at $3@3-.75 per bbl. New Potatoes—Dull at $3@7 per bbl. Onions—Demand fair and although receipts of old are light, there is quite a liberal supply of Havana and Ber- muda, which are selling at low prices. A few lots of white and red old stock offered, but trade so far has been light. Yellow, fancy, 65@75c; fair to good, 5s0@6oc; red, fancy, 65@75c; white, fancy, 85@goc per bu. Green, per doz. OX Bermuda, $2@2.15; Havana, $1.80@1.95 per crate. Onionsets, $2.50 $22@2 ’ @3.50 per bushel; a few fancy selling at $4. Celery-—Active and everything offered sold at high prices last week. Fancy Southern, $1@1.25; State best, 75c; common to good, 30@6oc per doz. stalks. Cabbage—-Heavy supply of native and market weak and lower. Southern scarce; choice to fancy sold at $1.50@2 per bbl. Lettuce—Market was kept cleaned up and at strong prices. Fancy heads, 60 @65c; fair to good, 25@5o0c per doz. Leaf stock in bundle baskets, 30@4oc. Radishes—Liberal supply of Southern and at the low price of $1 per box; home grown were at a disadvantage. Fancy State stock sold at 15@2oc per doz. bunches. Spinach—Scarce and _ higher. Ham- pers, 60@6s5c; home grown, $1.50@1.75 per bbl. Cucumbers—Fancy, doz. Parsley—In heavy supply at 5@7c per doz. small bunches. Vegetable Oysters—Easier at 35@4oc per doz. bunches. Watercress—Firm at 18@22c per doz. Horseradish—Higher at $6.50@7.50 per cwt. Maple Sugar—Active demand for fancy new at 9@I1iIc per lb., according to color. Syrup, 60@75c per gal. can. Dried Fruits—Apples quiet. Fancy evaporated, 6@8c per lb. Raspberries, 13@15c. Peaches, 5@7c per Ib. Dressed Meats—Hogs, © $5.75@6.25 ; veals, $7.50@8.50 per cwt.; spring lambs, $4.50@5.25 each. Buckwheat Flour-.$1.75@2 per cwt. Straw—Firm ; good demand. Wheat and oat, $8@8.25; tight pressed, rye, $9@I1o per ton. Hay--Firm. Loose baled prime, $15 @15.50; tight baled, $14.50@15; No. 1, $13.50@14.25 per ton. <>< ____ $1.50@1.75 per Jobbers Organize to Fight the Banana Trust. Chicago, April 14—The banana _ trust is to have a powerful rival in the Na- tional Banana Jobbers and Importers’ Association. At a meeting of banana dealers from points as far apart as Michigan and Texas, Oregon and Ohio, the purpose was announced of creating a new corporation to free the Western jobbers from the hold of the Eastern trust. The new company will import bananas and other tropical fruits and will, perhaps, operate plantations in Central and South America. The capital stock was fixed at $100, - 000, with a likelihood of an immediate increase to $250,000. Of this stock $75, - 000 was subscribed. It is asserted that $10,000,000 is back of the movement. When Chairman W. W. Copeland, of Burlington, Ia., called the meeting to order yesterday afternoon, 120 men were present. For hours plans were debated, several jobbers being opposed to any extreme action until overtures had been made to the banana trust officials. . The debate was at times acrimonious. It was 7 o'clock before the jobbers finally took steps to form the company. When action was taken it was unanimous. The grievances of the jobbers were fully discussed. Speakers wanted to know whether the exactions of the Fruit Dispatch Co., said to be capitalized at $10,000, backed by the $5,000,000 or more of the United Fruit Co., should be further submitted to. At $1.20 a bunch, it was said, no trouble would have been experienced, but the price of bananas has been raised 65 per cent. higher than it ever was before. ‘*The Fruit Dispatch Co. bought the entire stock of foreign dealers six months ago,’’ said C. E. Kerr, ‘‘and has had control of the market ever since. Our profits have been cut to nothing, for if we attempted to raise prices the people would do without the fruit.’”’ The membership of the new organiza- tion will be confined to the list of those belonging to the National Banana Job- bers’ Association, When fully organized the Western people will control go per cent. of the trade west of Pennsylvania, the object being to cover all New Or- leans importations. It is expected that ten vessels will be chartered. His One Suggestion. ‘‘Furthermore, John Henry Meeker, ”’ said Mrs. Meeker, who was standing in front of the mirror and putting the fin- ishing touches to her toilet, ‘‘I want you to take notice that I am perfectly cap- able of getting ready for church without any prompting from you, and you can cough and look at your watch as much as you please—it won't hurry me a sin- gle second. Do you clearly understand that?’’ ‘*Yes, my dear,’’ mildly replied Mr. Meeker, ‘‘although I think I could un- derstand it a little better if you didn’t have your mouth quite so full of hair- pins.’”’ D. Boosing General Commission Merchant SPECIALTIES Butter Eggs Poultry Beans @ © S I will buy all the Fresh Eggs I S can get f. 0. b. your station in free 2 cases at 10c. © Dairy butter is selling at from 5 16 to 17¢. © If our market is satisfactory, ship. S © © © © Correspondence solicited. References: Bank of Buffalo and Dun’s and Bradstreet’s Agencies. 154 Michigan Street, Buffalo, New York. PODOOQOODOOCEOGHOS 1OQOO 8 PGQOOQDOOOO© DOQDODOOOO QOOQQOO!S Eggs Eggs Eggs Announcement. Stroup & Carmer have taken into partnership A L. Sickles of Elsie, Mich., who for the last fifteen years has been known as one of the reli- able carload egg and produce ship- pers of the state. This firm has large orders for storage eggs, and dealers who have butter and eggs to sell would do well to get their prices and particulars. Stroup & Sickles Co., 38 S. Division Street, Both Phones. Grand Rapids, Mich. We have our own Straw Board Mills. carry heavy stock. Prompt shipments. Write for prices. FLINT EGG CASE AND FILLER CO., Flint, Michigan. BE. SS SS SS. SB IB OA Ge A {WE BUY EGGS 116 DELIVERED BUFFALO | We will pay 11c delivered Buffalo for all the eggs we can get during the week ending April 21. Stock must be Cases will be returned at shipper’s expense if so desired. f large, clean and bright and No. 1 in every particular. . GLEASON & LANSING, 150 MICHIGAN ST., BUFFALO, N. Y. { SE SE a. EE. HR a Se. OR oR OR a. a. a wa UE We always want Dairy Butter. Members of Produce Exchange. EO SB SOS SS. SB GGG EHR MACKEY & WILLIAMS, Dealers in BUTTER, EGGS, CHEESE, POULTRY, &re. 62 W. MARKET & 125 MICHIGAN STS. BUFFALO, N. Y. Fancy Creamery in good demand. Live and Dressed Poultry wanted Ship us your Eggs. REFERENCES: The City National Bank, Buffalo: Berlin Heights Banking Co., Berlin Heights, Ohio; National Shoe & Leather Bank, New York; Dun & Co. and Bradstreet Agencies. Established 1887. OE SB SBS SR SSR a aR eR wR TR UA Long Distance Phone Seneca 1081. EE UR WR DA DALASLALDSS HAH GOGGGOS OOOGOOOOOOOOOO Abb bhbbhbbhboa aoa Iron Cornice. and Contracting Roofers. Grand Rapids, Mich. Office, 82 Campau st. Factory, 1st av. and M. C. Ry. OD GOV V FUSS GU GOOO VV 2b A 14DL444.4.4 444464660606 O&O OO SOO OCOV CCV CCC CCV CTC CUO CCU CCC VCC CUCU H. M. Reynolds & Son, Manefacturers of Asphalt Paints, Tarred Felt, Roofing Pitch. 2 and 3 ply and Torpedo Gravel Ready Roofing. Galvanized Sky Lights. ESTABLISHED 1868 Dbabhbbbd abt & Sheet Metal Workers Detroit, Mich. Foot 1st St. GOV VU GOV S FFF GUO OV OU DDAADAALALAOboOS MICHIGAN TRADESMAN - 7 eWhy the Hens of Hentown Went on a Strike. Hentown, April 13—Your corres- pondent finds that a very interesting labor problem has developed here with- in the last few days. It seems that some of the hens read the article in the Commercial about the wholesale price of eggs in New York being this spring only 12 cents a dozen, against 13% cents per dozen during the spring of 1899, and such indignant cackling has not been heard in the town since the mass meet- ing which followed the introduction of china nest eggs, upon which several self-respecting Biddies sat before the de- ception was discovered. When the news became known here another indignation meeting was held in the hen house, and there was a hot time in the old town. Reporters were refused all information as to what took place behind the locked doors, but it was soon known that a strike of the hens of Hentown was on. The trouble was referred to a Griev- ance Committee, composed of Old Speck, Red Hen, Mrs. Shanghai, Madam Lilliput Bantam and Miss Pul- let, with Sir Jack Gamecock as counsel. When Miss Hennessey, the Keeper of the Coop, appeared in the morning, she saw that something unusual was in the air, and in reply to her enquiries Old Speck answered as follows: ‘You ask why there are no eggs this morning, and well you may. The fact is, we are the victims of a great out- rage. As you know, Miss Hennessey, we have been scratching gravel dili- gently from sunrise to sunset, and not even asking for a half-holiday on Sun- day. But our efforts do not seem to be appreciated, for, notwithstanding our earnest efforts to furnish the breakfast table with the choicest soft-boiled and fries and scrambles, and add_ to the wealth of the whole country, the price of eggs has been gradually forced down. A cent and a half a dozen may look like a small item, but cast your eyes over the egg statistics for 1899 and you will see that our output for that year reached the enormous total of 976,636,080 eggs! A cent and a half a dozen for nearly 1,000, 000, 000 eggs is no feather weight !”’ The eloquent remarks of Old Speck were received with loud crowing by the cocks, and something suspiciously like it from the hens. When this ap- yg? had subsided there were cries or Mrs. Shanghai. That good lady flew to the top of the pump and said: ‘Eggs at 12 cents a dozen don’t pay for the lime in the shell, to say nothing of the albumen in the yolk and the wear and tear of machinery. It is my judg- ment that we are the victims of a so- called industrial movement; that we are, in short, in the grip of a trust! It may be a combination of the commis- sion houses, a traffic arrangement of the railroads, or the grocers may be leading a boycott in the interest of the artificial eggs. (Groans.) In any event, the product of our labor is being cheapened through the machinations of capital! ‘“The Standard Oil Co. is no doubt back of the whole infamous movement, so that it may sell more of its oi] for those accursed incubators, and the hens of the country cheated of the joys of ma- ternity. Could the infamy of capital go further? I feel the gravel gritting in my gizzard when | think of it! ‘*Mark my words, Mark Hanna. You can never re-elect Bill McKinley on 12 cent eggs! "Not on your wishbone! ‘‘Our learned counsel has, | believe, reduced our ultimatum to writing, and we will be pleased to hear from him.’’ (Loud crowing and cackling. ) Sir Jack Gamecock strutted out to the footlights, so to speak, his comb and wattles red with fiery indignation and his tail-feathers glittering in the sun. He bowed gallantly to the ladies about him, most of whom he knew personally, and began to read in a clear voice: ‘‘When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary—’’ (A voice, “Cut-cut-cut!’’) Sir Jack, mistaking this as a suggestion to cut it short, omitted the preamble, and went on: We demand: 1. That hereafter eight hours shall constitute a full day’s work for every healthy hen in Hentown. 2. That we shall be allowed a full hour at noon, with extra rations and fresh water in the trough. 3. That setting hens shall not be compelled to report to the timekeeper. 4. That we shall be paid in full every Saturday night, and overtime for Sundays. 5. That five hens shall constitute a coop, and there shall be at least one rooster for every Coop. 6. That the price of eggs in New York shall be not less than 13% cents a dozen in the spring and summer, 23 cents in the fall and winter, and as much more as possible. 7. That these demands shall take immediate effect, and if any hen lays an egg before they are accepted she shall have her tail-feathers pulled out by the roots as a badge of disgrace and be expelled from Hentown. The reading of this ultimatum was received by the most vociferous ap- plause, in which every living thing in the barnyard joined, even the pigs set- ting up a sympathetic squeal. As the last echo of this had died away, Sir Jack Gamecock stepped into the center of an admiring group of hens, and proposed the Chicken Coop Yell for the hens of Hentown.—New York Com- mercial. —___ +262. ___ What Gave Him His Start. From the Topeka Merchants Journal. A successful business man tells this bit of his own experience: He was an orphan and at the age of 14 had to be- gin to look out for himself and help take care of his mother and smaller brothers and sisters. He started out to look for a job, but hunted all day long without striking anything. The next day he started out again, and finally happened to see a_ sign, ‘“\A& . boy wanted.’’ He went into the front room and was told to go back into another lit- tle room. The door was partly open and a sort of weazened little man was sit- ting at a desk with his head bent down over some writing. ‘‘What do you want?’’ he asked gruffly. The boy told him he had come in to see about getting a job. He had noticed the sign out in front. *'I had taken the trouble,’’ said the business man, “to. close the door as I came into the room,”’ ‘Where did you learn to shut doors?”’ asked the old weazened man. ‘*At home.’’ ‘*Well, sit down; I’m busy.”’ ‘All right, sir, but if you don’t mind 1 will fix that door while I have to wait.’’ ‘All right,’’ and then he went to scratching away again with his pen. The boy took a file out of his pocket that he had been using in sharpening a pair of skates. Ina few minutes he had the door-catch fixed so that it would shut without any trouble. When he got through he turned around and found that the old man was watching him with a keen look. Then the old man spoke sharply: ‘*Got any parents?”’ ‘*Mother.”’ ‘“Tell her to come here with you at 2 o’clock.’’ Then the old man turned and went on with his writing. That afternoon the boy was hired. Six years after he was taken in as a partner in the concern, and finally became the chief owner. The starting point of his success was when he shut that door and afterward when he set about and fixed it. The old man made up his mind that the boy who saw what needed to be done and who had gumption enough to set about and do it was the boy he was looking for. ose Not long ago a charming young Aus- tralian was presented to the Prince of Wales, and not knowing how long she should talk to him naively requested him to tell her when to leave. His Highness assured her that it was for her to tell him when she was bored. In the chat which followed the girl said she had lived all her life in one place. ‘And how many years have you lived there?’’ said the Prince. ‘‘I am bored, sir,’’ quietly said the Australian, who thought her royal questioner sought to learn her age. A Sure Test. 339323399: From Life. 4 Docker—Is Mr. Swapperham an hon- est man’ 3S. Bash & Co Wracely--Well, he always gets the worst of it in a horse trade. —___—-0—___— A clean, neat, uniform package will help to influence an intending purchaser to form a favorable opinion of eggs offered for sale. It does not follow that|® poor eggs are made salable by putting them in a first-class package, but a first- class package is an indication of a first- | class man behind it. Therefore, buyers who are looking for fine eggs would pass by indiscriminate packages and examine the contents of uniformly hand- Commission Merchants ¥ : a Fort Wayne, Ind. 3 i : Jobbers of 3 Buyers of Potatoes and Largest @® Clover Seed in Northern Indiana. some cases. It is human nature to put Lh : the best to the surface. If, therefore, Write us for prices. the surface indicates carelessness, the 4133393399929232¢eCeceeeeeees core may be taken for granted. As W. R. Brice. Established in Philadelphia 1852. Cc, M. Drake. Sa W. R. Brice & Co., WHOLESALE EGGS g and 11 North Ionia St., Grand Rapids, Mich. References: Corn Exchange National Bank, Philadelphia. “Ae Western National Bank, Philadelphia. W. D. Hayes, Cashier Hastings National Bank, Hastings, Mich. Fourth National Bank, Grand Rapids, Mich. AN D. C. Oakes, Coopersville, Mich. Awe E. A. Stowe, Michigan Tradesman. To our many friends in Michigan: We again take pleasure in informing you that we have opened our branch house in Grand Rapids, and are in the market for large quantities of fine fresh Eggs and coun- try Butter. No doubt many of you have sold us your eggs in former years, and you have always found us fair and square in our dealings. We pay spot cash, and when ship- ping us you run no risk, as we are an old-established, thor- oughly reliable house, and shipments sent to us will be paid for promptly. Write for prices. Yours for business, W. R. BRICE & CO. AsVVVess ss z3F<< 1. so | \ “8 ae PRINT EF mane et-mon racic ONDA ERTS EEN MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 11 the maple sugar sold in Michigan con- tains foreign sugar,’’ which is all the article claimed, and claimed without desiring to cast any reflection on the Department of which Mr. Grosvenor is the respected head. It is to be presumed that he has used due diligence in exe- cuting the trust placed in his hands, and when he declares that ‘‘we have not found to the writer's recollection any adulteration of maple sugar which can be detected,’’ we are bound to believe that he has exercised the powers con- ferred upon the Department to the ut- most. I for one do not presume to criti- cise the chemical or other methods em- ployed by the Commissioner. When he says that foreign sugars are sold in Michigan as maple sugar, and that the Department is unable to detect the adulteration, he must be taken at his word. And what he says of maple sugar may be true also of spices, oils and _ jellies. The adulteration may be beyond the power of the Department to detect, al- though Mr. Grosvenor admits that cot- tonseed oil was discovered in stuff sold for olive oil, which is just what the criticised article claimed; in fact, the Commissioner’s letter does not dispute a single assertion made in the article he writes of. He admits that maple sugar and olive oil are adulterated, the first with foreign sugar, the second with cottonseed oil. He admits that foods are made poisonous by the use of coloring matter, although to a smaller degree than the language of the article would seem to indicate. lam unfamiliar with the legal ma- chinery employed by the Dairy and Food Department in correcting the abuses mentioned. The Department, however, has the full police power of the State behind it,and the supposition, in the admitted absence of anything to the contrary, is that everything possible and right is being done to protect the consumers of the State against impure foods, adulterated foods and poisonous foods. The Department, since it passed into the hands of Mr. Grosvenor, has always been credited with due vigilance in the line of duty, and the impossible, chemical or otherwise, is not expected of it. No one believes it possible for the Dairy and Food Department to provide the people of the State with pure maple sugar or pure olive oil or pure jellies or pure spices or pure buckwheat flour. That is not what the Department was constituted for. No one believes it pos- sible for the Commissioner or his assist- ants to personally inspect every article of food offered for sale to the retail gro- cers of the State. That would be an undertaking greater than the finding of the proverbial needle in the proverbial stack of hay. There is no question, however, that the work of inspecting should be done, or at least begun, at the warehouse of the manufacturer or mixer. The retail grocer is interested, except in rare instances, in selling the best goods he can_ get, and so keeping on good terms with his customers , but if he can not procure pure maple sugar and pure olive oil and pure jellies, he must do the best he can and tell his cus- tomers the truth regarding the stuff he offers them. This, however, if carried out in full, would place the inspection in the hands of the Federal authorities. The people simply expect the Com- missioner to do his very best, and, in the absence of any ia to Mr. Grosvenor or his Department in the article on food adulteration, I must in- sist that no claim has been made in the Tradesman that he is not doing his best. Food will always be cheapened and made injurious by adulteration. The remedy lies beyond the retail grocer. He must buy with judgment and do the best he can with the stuff he buys. If he finds that a carload of immature or frost-bitten potatoes has been shipped to him he must either return it or sell the tubers for just what they are. If he does not he will come to grief with his customers, upon whom he relies for his living and his profits. He will be offered storage eggs for fresh eggs, but- ter which is old enough to shave for fresh butter, boiled horse for corned beef, and bottled mustard which hasn't the snap of a patent office report for the real thing. And he will have to explain and explain and explain. The asser- tion of a Food Commissioner that the adulteration ‘‘can not be detected’’ will not satisfy his customers who have not entirely lost the sense of taste. 1 wish Mr. Grosvenor all success in his crusade against adulterated food. Alfred B. Tozer. —__» 02? Method a Merchant Took to Get Rid of a Contract. ‘‘T wouldn’t give a cent for a con- tract with an employer,’’ said an ad- vertising man. ‘‘Contracts are useless. If a man hires you for a certain sum to do certain work he pays you that sum because you are worth it to him and he’ll keep you without a contract just as long as he will keep you with one. If he agrees to pay you more than you are worth, he’ll find it out sooner or later and then your contract isn’t worth a fig. 1 know it shouldn’t be so, but it is so. I’ve got in mind now a case in which a New York merchant who boasts of forty years of business integrity figured. He employed a buyer in one of his depart- ments at a yearly salary and contracted with him for five years. This buyer was one of the best in the business. He worked along for about a year and then something happened that made the mer- chant dissatisfied. Of course the buyer was under a contract and the merchant could not get rid of him without vio- lating it. What did he do? Why, he sent for this man and he said to him: ‘« «Mr, ——, you have done splendid work for us and we are more than sat- isfied. We feel that you deserve some reward and we have determined to in- crease your salary $1,000 a year.’ ‘‘Well, the buyer said he was very grateful and all that and went out and put in some of his best licks. He got the increased salary for two weeks and signed a receipt for it. Then the mer- chant sent for him and said: ‘« «Mr. —, we were mistaken in our es- timate of you and we have determined to let you go. We don’t need you any longer.’ ‘’*Well, I don’t want to stay where I’m not wanted,’ said the buyer, ‘but | have a contract, you know.’ ‘* *Contract?’? said the merchant. ‘What contract? Oh, no, you have no contract. You consented to the abroga- tion of the contract two weeks ago.’ ‘* ‘Well, I didn’t think that’—the buy- er began. ‘“ It don't make any difference what you think,’ said the merchant with forty years of business integrity, ‘you did abrogate it. We don’t need you any longer. Good day, sir.’ ‘Well, now, probably if that buyer had taken the case to court he would have succeeded in enforcing the con- tract in spite of the fact that he had ac- cepted an increase of salary over the contract price. But suppose he had tried to enforce it? Where would he have been? Employers don’t like to hire men who might make trouble for them. If this man had sued he would prac- tically have shut the door of every other establishment that hired buyers against himself. Then again if he wanted an- other place, of course he had to depend on his former employer for a recom- mendation and where would he have been if he had made any trouble? He was just as badly off as if he had had no contract and I tell you that unless you are dealing with an absolutely hon- est man a contract with an employer isn’t worth the paper it is written on.”’ ____ + 6 Cincinnati No Longer Porkopolis. From the Cincinnati Commercial-Tribune. The hog-packing industry has gone to the West. Cincinnati still has a fair share of the trade, but, of course, she can never be pre-eminent again, for the simple reason that it is more profitable to pack hogs near the home of the hog than to ship them alive to distant mar- kets. And, of course, hogs can only be raised where cheap corn predominates, and that place now centers in Nebraska, Iowa and Kansas. Hence the Porkop- olis of the present and future must be across the Mississippi. LABASTINE is the original and only durable wall coating, entirely different from all kalsomines. Ready for use in white or fourteen beautiful tints by adding cold water. ADIES naturally BASTINE for yvrefer ALA- walls and ceil- ings, because it is pure, clean, durable. Put up in dry powdered form, in five-pound packages, with full directions. LL kalsomines are cheap, tem- porary preparations made from whiting, chalks, clays, ete., and stuck on the walls with decaying 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 to sell on ALABASTINE’S de- mands, he may not realize the damage you will suffer by a Kalso- mine on your walls. ENSIBLE dealers will not buy a lawsuit. Dealers risk one by sell- ing and consumers by using in- fringement. Alabastine Co. own right to make wall coating to mix with cold water. HE INTERIOR WALLS of every ehureh and school should be coated only with pure, durable ALABAS- TINE. It safeguards health. Hun- dreds of tons used yearly for this work. N BUYING ALABASTINE, cus- tomers should avoid getting cheap kalsomines under _ differ- ent names. Insist on having our goods in packages and properly la- beled. UISANCE of wall re ver is ob- viated by ALABAST wk It can be used on a. walls, wood ceilings, brick or canvas. A child can brush iton. It does not rub or seale off. STABLISHED in favor. imitations. Shun all Ask paint dealer or druggist for tint card. Write us for interesting booklet, free. ALABASTINE CO., Grand Rapids, Mich. 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 and _ gives more light. GRAND RAPIDS GAS LIGHT CO., Grand Rapids, Mich. SeUEnEReReNsReRanEEesesese a =F. J. Sokup oT‘. We ps a e 4 Manufacturer of s e e a 5 Galvanized e . Iron ° . Skylight e a and e e a a Cornice e ® a a Work e e a s Gravel, Tin, Steel, and Slate Roof- S @ ing and Roofing Materials at mar- @ = ket prices. Write for estimates. : ° 121 S. Front St., Opposite Pearl. ° ° Grand Rapids, Mich. a : Bell and Citizens Phones 261. : Sueueneseonenenenenesenonen It pays any dealer to have the rep- utation of keeping pure goods. It pays any dealer to keep the Srey- MOUR CRACKER. There’s a large and growing sec- tion of the public who will have the best, and with whom the mat- | ter of a cent or so a pound makes | noimpression. It’s not how cheap with them; it’s how good. For this class of people the Sry- MOUR CRACKER is made. Discriminating housewives recog- nize its superior flavor, purity, de- liciousness, and will have it. If you, Mr. Dealer, want the trade of particular people, keep the SEy- MouR Cracker. Made by National Biscuit Company Grand Rapids, Mich. i: 12 Pe ee cee ana Rea ale nintendo since cndicaeenliacena MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Woman’s World One of the Compensations of Village Life. In New York a number of prominent men and women have formed a club for the study of neighborliness. To peo- ple who live in the country or in vil- lages, where one touches the lives of those about him at every point and shares in their every joy and sorrow, nothing could seem stranger than the necessity for such an organization. Yet none the less is it true that the art of being neighborly is a lost art in cities and that nowhere else may one be so isolated as in the heart of a great me- tropolis. The despairing cry of the an- cient mariner, who found ‘‘ water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink,’’ has been echoed thousands of times by the heartsick and homesick of cities who have been jostled at every step by their fellow-creatures, but who knew that not one of all that passing throng cared whether they lived or died and that in reality they would not have been more alone in an African desert than in the crowded streets. Of course, innumerable reasons sug- gest themselves to show why this is al- most inevitable and why neighborliness is beset with difficulties and problems in the city it does not possess in the country, where everybody knows every- body else and people change their resi- dence infrequently. In towns one’s next door neighbors come and _ go so often and are generally such birds of passage one does not have time to come to know them if one would. They may even be people whom it would be neither desir- able nor safe to know, but no one will claim that, in losing all neighborliness, one does not lose something very fine and precious out of life, for which the city can scarcely offer any adequate compensation. The tendency of city life seems to be to make people more and more self-cen- tered. Those whom we call our friends are the people with whom we exchange cards once or twice a year and meet at dinners and receptions and from whom we would no more expect to get any real sympathy or comprehension than we would expect to catch the smallpox. Our philanthropy is done through some chartered institution or unwisely be- stowed upon the fakir who begs at our back door and we never get into human touch with those whom we try to help. We see the doctor’s coupe drive up day after day to the house next ours, but we are not interested enough to enquire who is sick. We _ scarcely give it more than a passing glance, even when a lit- tle white coffin is borne in, and the fluttering crepe tells us that the dark angel of death has entered our neigh- bor’s door instead of our own. In_ that house we must know, if we stop to think of it at all, that hearts are breaking and that sodden cheeks are blistered with bitter tears. but we have gotten so far away from all idea of neighborly duty that it no more occurs to us to go to them with words of sympathy and cheer than if they were in Kamchatka instead of just through a brick wall. How different it all is in those places where the sweet old-fashioned grace of neighborliness still prevails! There no one lives or dies unto himself alone. Joy and sorrow are common property. Happiness finds there its finest flavor because others share it with you, and you see the brightness of your success reflected from every face you meet. Sorrow, too, loses some of its bitterness, for the grief that can weep itself out on another’s breast is already half com- forted. There, when one dies, in enu- merating their virtues, they say that he or she was a good neighbor. How strange such a tribute would sound to a city man or woman! How impossible! We have not even thought of such a thing as being neighborly, and when we do happen to occasionally remember the command that bids us love our neighbor as ourself we are self-right- eously sure it applies only to the prov- inces. ‘‘Lord,’’ we say, ‘‘thou know- est we always lived in cities and never had any neighbors.’’ There are country flowers that wither and die when they are transplanted into the stony heart of the city and it may be there are country virtues that find urban air just as deadly a blight and that neighborliness in its sweetest sense can never be grafted onto city life, but there are many of us who cherish among our most precious possessions the memories of some place where a_ thou- sand strands of neighborly love and in- terest bound a whole community to- gether. It was once my good fortune to live in such an one and it has always seemed to me that nowhere else was life so sweet and simple and so full of the fragrance of kindly deeds and good will. It was an old-fashioned little vil- lage where the waves of progress washed up to our very feet and broke and rolled away without touching us and where the most stupendous event of the outer world was of less importance than whether John Smith had painted his front fence or Maria Wheat had sent off to the city for a new gown. Not for us was the hollow city vir- tue--only a mask for selfishness—that religiously abstains from all knowledge or interest in its neighbors’ affairs. We knew all about ours. What interest we took in every new baby; how many stockings we crocheted for it; how many little sacks we knit and how we _ inun- dated the young mothers with good ad- vice about croup and the best remedies for colic. Weren’t we almost as ex- cited as his mother when Tom White, who was attending college in the East, was elected to play as a quarterback in the Thanksgiving football match, al- though we didn’t know the difference between a quarterback and a whaleback? Didn’t we give tea parties in her honor, where we had out our old silver and embroidered doilies, when Mary John- son came back with the medal she won at the Conservatory in Boston, and when she got to be a famous concert singer didn’t we cut out the newspaper notices and treasure them as if she had been our own? Will anybody ever forget that awful day when Jim Reilly acci- dentally shot himself, and he who had gone forth the very embodiment of manly strength and beauty was_ brought back a thing so horrible and awful his very mother might have turned away from it? How the whole heart of the vil- lage beat at her door—one universal throb of love and sympathy. With us, to have let a hired stranger nurse one, when one was ill, would have been to have cast a_ reflection on the whole neighborhood. Neighbors vied with each other in their attentions, and if they lacked some of the technical skill of the trained nurse who persecutes you nowadays with her thermometer and her statistics about your temperature and nourishment, they made _ up for it in the tenderness which no money can buy. Then came the long days of con- valescence, when one felt it almost paid SM EM MM EM OE The Imperial as Lamp Fully covered by U. S. Patents yes i \ . No. 101. Price...... -$4.50 .~ .~w®,-@, => -~, A, .w, Aw, Ba. POO I OI I'D I'S The Imperial Gas Lamp is acknowl- edged to be the most handsome fixture on the market. The Imperial Gas Lamp has fully es- tablished itself as the most economical. It burns gasoline. The Imperial Gas Lamp has proven its light to be the most brilliant, most /\ steady and most satisfactory. The Imperial Gas Lamp is generally conceded to be the best value, all things considered. Satisfaction assured. Write for catalogue. The Imperial Gas Lamp Co., LA. LA. LA. LP. 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George Bohner, Agent. eae ae eee een ane MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 13 to be sick to be an object of such uni- versal interest. How one’s = room bloomed every morning like a flower garden with old-fashioned roses and spicy pinks, sent with a loving mes- sage to know how you had rested last night. No passing by the doctor’s buggy without a word there, you may be sure. Then the enticing little trays that found their way to your bedside, set out with one’s neighbor’s heirlooms of china and sent in with home-made goodies enough to feed a regiment of invalids. Ah, me! No wonder city people take good care of their health, since they have no neighbors to nurse them when they get sick! Perhaps, after all, though, nothing could have been more conclusive proof of our neighborliness than the pride we took in each other's possessions. We took strangers as a matter of course to see Miss Fannie’s fine old house, with its old carved mahogany, and to see the view from Mrs. Pryor’sand Mrs. Jones’ roses, but among the things that we were proudest of was Maria Wheat’s silver loving cup. In a way we felt that it reflected credit on us all and was a kind of tribute from the city to coun- try virtue, that it might admire but could not imitate. You see, Maria's daughter Susie mar- ried and went to Chicago to live. Her husband was well-to-do and they had an apartment in one of those big, fine green stone buildings where a dozen or more families live, almost touching each other, and vet with no more intercourse than if the distance from pole to pole lay between the stories and it took the reaches of eternity to measure the width of the narrow hall. The first time she went to see Susie, Maria began to ask her who lived in the flat above her and the flat below her and the one across the hall, and Susie, of course, didn’t know any more than if she had been asked who were the inhabitants of Central Africa. She explained to her mother that in the city people didn’t have neighbors and that it wasn’t good form to try to get acquainted with them, and Maria said, ‘‘Thank God, she lived where people hadn't got far enough ad- vanced to have their hearts petrified and their human interest in their fellow creatures atrophied.’”’ Pretty soon Maria began to notice the people who came in and went out of the building and in especial one pretty young creature—hardly more than a girl “_who was always alone and who looked up at the window with a hungry kind of expression when she caught sight of Maria’s good, honest face. By and by there came a day when Maria missed her, then another, and nearly a week went by, and somehow Maria got un- easy. She had found out that the girl lived in the flat above them, and one day she told Susie that she was going to see what was the matter with her. Susie objected. ‘‘It’s only neighborly,’’ in- sisted Maria. ‘‘Nobody has neighbors in the city,’’ protested Susie. ‘‘Well,’’ said Maria, ‘‘that may do for you, but I count on dying in the country and being judged by country standards, and duty to your neighbors is one of them ; so I’m going,’’ and so she did. When she knocked at the door a weak voice bade her enter, and when the girl saw her she cried out, ‘‘I think the good God must have sent you,’’ and she stag- gered towards her and fell in Maria’s arms in a dead faint. Maria found out afterwards that she was a young crea- ture who had been brought there as a bride and who didn’t know a soul in the whole city. Her husband had been called away on business, leaving her with a servant who had taken French leave the next day. The little bride became suddenly ill, and, too shy and too timid to call on strangers for aid, had been lying alone on her bed, suffer- ing for attention, like some poor de- serted animal that is shunned and neg- lected by its fellows and left to live or die as it may. Maria took the poor child in her arms and let her cry her loneli- ness and homesickness out on her breast and then she took her station by her bed and nursed her through the fever that followed. The doctor, of course, sug- gested sending for a trained nurse, but Maria wouldn’t hear of it. ‘‘What she needs,’’ said Maria in her positive way, ‘‘is a good dose of real neighbor- liness, and I’m going to give it to her.”’ That was in the summer, and it never even occurred to Maria that she had done anything out of the ordinary, but when Christmas came the little bride and her husband sent Maria that beauti- ful silver loving cup you may see any day on her parlor mantel shelf and on it were engraved these words: ‘*She loves her neighbor as herself.’’ Dorothy Dix. —____»0»—____ The Retort Courteous. All of us have been preached to enough, heaven knows, about the things we say. The tongue has been esteemed ever an unruly member, particularly where women are concerned, and if we transgress in the matter of idle gossip, or scandal mongling, or bearing false witness against our neighbor, it is not because have not been warned against the heinousness of those sins. What we are not warned against, how- ever, are the things we do not say the tender word of sympathy that is not ut- tered although we it would be balm to an aching heart, the silence when might give encouragement to some soldier who is fighting the hard battle of life, the boorish withholding of the speech that would show our apptecia- tion of some courtesy. Be sure that there are deadly sins of omission as well as commission in speaking. A funny little story that was not with- out its touch of pathos, and that ina way illustrated this was told the other day by a mother who was describing how her little girl, a little kindergarten ‘tot, made a wondrous folded paper gift for her uncle. It had cost many weary hours of labor for the clumsy little fin- gers, and the little one took it herself with great excitement to present it in person. An hour later, with quivering lips, she returned home and flung = her- self in her mother’s arms. ‘‘I div it to him,’’ she sobbed, ‘‘and he didn’t say noffin back.’’ All the pleasure was gone, and the poor little baby heart learned for the first time the bitter dis- appointment that comes of lack of grati- tude and appreciation, of doing things for people who ‘‘néver say anything back.’’ After all, we never get wise enough or philosophical enough to get much beyond the child’s point of view. It is always the thing that was said back the retort courteous or discourteous that counts. There is no work that seems hard if the one we do it for always stands ready with generous appreciation of our effort. It becomes a labor of love that glorifies the meanest drudgery and lends swiftness to our feet and cunning to our hands, and we are paid for it a thousand times by the loving things that are ‘‘said back.’’ The reverse of this is equally true, and perhaps none of us we realize how heavy we make the burden whims, of life for those about us_by our lack of | trays some remembrance of our makes us sympathetic appreciation of the — likes and dislikes, and sacrifices and efforts they make that our| feel of importance in the world. Such lot may be more pleasant. Surely the|a woman never neglects the small husband who toils all day that his | amenities of life. She writes the little family may live in luxury; surely the mcther and wife whose whole life is de- voted to the comfort and welfare of those about her hearthstone, would like, now and then, for some acknowl- edgment of what they have done to be "said Back.) | In a social way no gift is better worth cultivating. We like no woman so well as the one who has the gracious tact to always ‘‘say back"’ the right thing to us—-the little kindly speech that be- note of thanks to the hard-worked pro- fessional man and woman who have put themselves to trouble to try to serve her. She is not guilty of the rudeness of never answering a letter, or of returning thanks for a gift in so dilatory a man- ner it bespeaks her lack of gratitude in clarion tones. Always and under all circumstances she knows that the test of a real lady is appreciativeness—the art of at least ‘‘saying something back’’ for favors received. Cora Stowell. SOWA ws 3S eS OS SS 254 2 CUR CUES eo CST eI | Fhe Sun Fruit Jar, THE ONLY PERFECTLY HERMETICALLY SEALED JAR Restricted Price Guaranteed The only jar on which a good percentage of profit can be made by both jobber and retailer. A jar in which canning can be tested, and which dealers can guarantee to customers against loss by breakage through imperfections in the glass. 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Like most men of Griswold’s temper- ament he was apt to be in a condition of the extreme. The happy medium which most men find pleasure in he chose to shun. When, then, with a satisfied ‘*There!’’ he pushed the paper back upon his desk, it was easy to see which extreme held him. He had been writing an ‘‘advertisement.’’ He _ had been at it for a much longer time than he was willing to admit to the world at large, being one of a long list of minor matters he ‘‘tossed’ off without a thought, when he hadn’t anything else to do.’’ The paper showed the labor he had put upon it. There was erasure upon erasure. It was literally ‘‘line upon line ;’’ so densely so that his own eyes could with only the greatest diffi- culty decipher the finally finished copy. When the typewriter had done her work and the author of the copy had a chance to read it in its new form, it was certainly deserving the praise freely bestowed upon it: ‘‘It’s all right and it’s all true. We've got good goods, ‘the best in the market,’ as the adver- tisement says, and we'll open ’em up with all the required flourish of drums and trumpets this side o’ the Kingdom. That's the advertisement that will cut Brimsmade to the heart. He knows he can’t write one within a couple of gun- shots of that and the way he’ll grind his teeth when he reads it will be a caution to snakes. Well, it’s talent and while I have to give in to him in some lines I get ahead of him in others and_ he’ll have to grin and bear it—same’s I do, confound him!”’ The next Sunday edition of ‘*The Whooper’’ devoted a_ full page adver- tisement to Griswold’s copy and at the date fixed for the opening, the well- known establishment was thrown open to the public. From basement to upper story, it was a marvel of taste and love- liness. The general effect was wonder- ful and this was intensified by the care given to the minutest detail. Little odd corners that before had been neglected had been taken in hand. Snug, out of the way places where by twos, by threes and by fours, the tired patrons could sit for a while and chat, in the meantime refreshed by the simple but dainty re- freshments which attendants brought, were everywhere discovered and occu- pied. Music under skillful manage- ment lent its attraction and everything, so far as foresight could anticipate, abundantly provided for, showed that, for once, Griswold had a man who could take an idea and carry it out to perfec- tion. Just there, however, came the wet blanket. The man who had done all this and won the merited praise of his employer had been so inconsiderate as not to consult the wishes of one of the department managers, who promptly determined to let it be seen that no suc- cess could come to that establishment which did not receive his sanction, if he was only a department manager. The clerks immediately under him were not long in finding out the lay of the land so far as they were concerned and the in- fection once started spread. A sneer here and a bit of ridicule there on the part of the manager to his fellow man- agers, none of whom were free from envy towards the designer, had the de- sired effect; and while the innocent public, who had only praise for every- thing they saw, came and enjoyed and went away delighted, there was from first to last a something which Griswold could not counteract and which he can- didly acknowledged he could not under- stand. He did what a man of his tempera- ment and training only can do; he went home swearing. After a sleepless night and a neglected breakfast, he boarded the car and came near sitting down on Brinsmade’s lap without seeing him. “If there were a little less of you, my brother,’’ laughingly remarked Brinsmade, ‘‘I wouldn’t mind so much having you ‘sit down on me;’ but un- der the circumstances I am compelled to confess it is possible to get too much of a good thing. What’s up?’’ ‘*I’ve been euchred with both and the ace in my hands!”’ ‘*That comes from playing with the joker and forgetting that he’s in the pack. Who is he?”’ Griswold glared. What do you mean?’’ ‘‘Just what I say. If you’re euchred with that hand, somebody has done it and who is he?’’ ‘Thunder! I never thought of that. I guess you can help.me. Seen my ad- vertisement?’’ ‘*Yes. Couldn’t be better and I heard you had a swell affair with all the nobs in town for customers. What was the matter with it?’’ ‘*That’s what gets me. went along. all bowers ‘Who is hee’ Everything right wherever I was; but only there. It seemed to follow me around somehow. I couldn’t put my finger on a thing in my_ neighborhood ; but there is something of the almost- did-it that staggers me and mads me.’’ ‘*Who’s your window trimmer?’’ ‘* Dawson.”’ ‘*Who hates him?’’ " ethers.” **Why?”’ ‘‘On general principles, I guess. Jeffers thinks he can trim and Dawson knows he can’t and so do I.’’ ‘‘Nobody said anything to Jeffers about getting up the show, I suppose?’’ ‘‘Not by a—. No, of course there didn’t. What d’ ye take me for?’’ ‘*Oh, a good, bat-eyed sort of a fel- low, who goes around all day with his eyes wide open and can’t see anything that’s going on right under his nose. Griswold, I can’t make you out, some- how. Some ways you are keen asa briar and other ways, upon my word, you are actually stupid. I guess you'll learn one of these days that you can’t press the button in your office and have the other fellows do the rest just be- cause you want it done. Had Jeffers home to dinner with you yet, or that other fellow that I’m rather inclined to like?’’ ‘‘Humph! I won't tell you. Don’t go to thrashing over that old straw.”’ ‘‘All right, I won’t, my commercial brother; but right there is your weak place. You are not an old man by any means, but you are old enough to know from experience that the man at the head of a concern like that never can carry out any plan unless he has a body of clerks who will enter heartily into it. You have done your level best. You know that and so do I. You have been working at it nobody knows how long; and while I’ve no idea the thing is the failure you think it is, it is enough that in your mind at least to make what I tell you true. You never had a better advertisement than this last one. My wife has been comparing notes with different ladies who were there and it is ee ee Flaked ° . - - PEAS, BEANS and RICE... 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Buy the relia- ble and time tried SILVER BRAND VINEGARS and you won't get your “foot in it,” Lansing, Mich. LANSING, §19333:33333393933333 €CECECEEEEEEEEEEE 933333933339999993 €E€EECEEEECCEE GENESEE FRUIT CO., : : mart te? MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 15 the general opinion that it was one of the best openings the city has ever seen. That’s their side of it. Now, then, while you have done your part your clerks haven’t stood by you and done theirs. The clerk simply completes the work of the advertisement, which sim- ply brings the buyer to the store. Then the rest is in the hands of the clerk and he has it in his power to carry the thing through and make a success of it or, in a thousand ways which your unsophis- ticated soul hasn’t yet dreamed of, will make the thing flatter than any flounder that your inland-born eyes have so far seen.’ ‘*Your voice proceeds from the ven- tilator in your hat! Am I to infer that an invitation to dinner to Jeffers and Dawson and some half a dozen others would have made the opening what it should have been?’’ ‘**Humph! Don’t go to thrashing over that old straw.’ A little reflection will make you see how far the treatment of the clerk goes; but you will find the whole thing hinges on that man Jeffers. He couldn’t have a finger in the pie and he wasn’t going to lift that finger to help the thing along in any other way. More than that he would see what he could do to throw over the whole thing. Now if you rather have that sort of opening, you have a perfect right to have it. I wouldn’t. I'd rather give a dozen dinners to my clerks and make it a purely business matter than feel that I’ve made a fiat failure,as you seem to think you have done. Only, you un- derstand, I don’t do that sort of thing for what business there is in it. I won't have a man | don’t like well enough to take home to dinner. We have to be thrown with these men and we have to live with them. Let’s get our sort of men and make friends of them. It will strengthen the manhood both sides claim to have and a few years of that living will make better men of us all. Of course, Jeffers’ll go. The fellows who aided and abetted him will have their walking papers in due time; and, then, if | were you I'd turn off or down that man Griswold. He is the fellow that | should go for next and if he didn’t promise to make himself over through and through, | declare 1’d see what I could do to sever his connection with the house. Good morning, old man, you'll feel better when I see you again and in the meantime watch that man Griswold !”’ Brinsmade left the car with a laugh and Griswold after calling him some sort of a fool laughed too. Richard Malcolm Strong. __—__—». 0s The Twentieth Century Drummer. Written for the Tradesman. It was the first of the kind or nearly that. It took place in the parlor of the Bingham House in Philadelphia. Fifty drummers had come together on that quiet Sunday afternoon and, with Bible and hymn book, held the first gospel meeting of that widely-scattered com- mercial fraternity, one of the most im- portant of the many wonders of this re- markable century. Congregation and conductors were drummers and young, middle-aged and old were represented. The singing was hearty, the prayers were fervent and the remarks pithy and to the point. There were no long periods of silence and from invocation to benediction it was joyfully evident that the spirit of the drummer was pres- ent and was thrilling with life the too often dead forms of religious service. The theme of this first prayer meeting almost of necessity was whether trade and Christianity have anything in com- mon and, when the service was over, it was found that there is no reason for not believing that the two are parts of one stupendous whole. Trade, like every- thing else which mankind has put down as a benefit, is based on honesty, hon- esty is in a sense justice and justice is an attribute of the divine ; so that trade, which is only an exchange of values if carried on as it intended to be, blesses, like mercy, him who gives and him who takes. The agent who brings about this exchange, if he is true to his calling, is and should be a civilizer. More than that,. it is a Christian civili- zation he disseminates, and in his train follows the forecasting shadow of the Cross if it does not go before him. That the drummer has not always so considered himself need not be con- tended. Led into temptation, he has not always resisted. A wanderer from home, he has become careless to the teachings learned at his mother’s knee and then forgotten them. Sunday was first a day of rest, literally, and then of carousal. Sleep claimed the morning, cards the afternoon, theater the even- ing, and cigars and whisky all day. From his getting up to his going to bed, not a clean thought entered his head nor a clean word came out of his mouth. He read nothing. He left school early and so knew nothing. His conversation, punctuated with profanity, consisted of talk based upon the last ‘‘hot’’ play and bets on prize fights and races. Decent society ignored him and he pretended to ignore society. At all events they were never found together. The extreme was soon reached and then the reaction be- gan. Business houses began to find out that the honesty upon which trade is based must be made an essential part of the human being representing it. Ke- spectable houses would have nothing to do with the drummer who had made the word and the work alike contemptible, ‘‘and turned him off, like to the empty ass, to shake his ears and graze in com- mons, ”’ So the tide turned and educated, Christian men took up the gripsack and started out on the road. Clean-souled and clean-bodied they met with level looks the men who wanted the goods the drummers wanted to sell. Like met like and social civilities followed the giving and receiving of orders. The foundation cleaned, the waters flowing from it, no longer foul, carried with them purity and sweetness wherever they wound and rippled. That is the condition of the drummer to-day and that gospel meet- ing of commercial travelers in Philadel- phia suggests the idea that if these men who travel from place to place, true to their business, true to their manhood and equally true to the Master,should be always the purveyors of good which they ought to be, society at large would owe more to these traveling men than it does now and would do much to check and renew the acknowledged waning influ- ence of the pulpit. It is a fact which can not be ignored that money is the rock upon which pros- perity is based and that the tradesman who controls that money is largely re- sponsible for its blessing or its curse. If he shall assume the responsibility, the drummer will be his available agent in discharging it and the Twentieth Century, in realizing its grand ideals, will find no men or class of men more faithful to its interests than those men and the descendants of those men who held that first gospel meeting in that Philadelphia hostelry. R. M. Streeter. was eS New YOrk | Oane SUCArS | Buy your sugars from headquar- ters and save money. We sell in any quantity, carlots or less. Wire or write for prices. f § Other Specialties BBP eS SS BRSeewoonrr—m Coffees Matches Table Relishes Pickles Cereals f Salted Peanuts (guaran- teed to keep fresh for 60 days) j j Vinegar f j J Moseley & Shelby, { Brokers and Jobbers, 25 Tower Bldg, Grand Rapids, Mich. { OO a ee. 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I use it in its trade applications, not in its strict definition. Of course, every article we have in our stores was a novelty some- time in the past; but now most of them are necessities. If not necessities to the customers, they are in such demand as to be a necessity of stock. I say I do not speak of these things. We remember when barbed wire, gasoline and bicycles were novelties in a strict sense, but new conditions have made such things as these necessities to-day. I mean such things as the wire basket that may be used for boiling potatoes or for holding bouquets, or a ladder that may be used for an ironing board or an easy chair. Some of the things the specialty man sells are all right, but the risk of buy- ing dead stock offsets the chance of gain, and the safest advice to follow, whether to buy or not to buy, is: Don’t. The dividing line between sense and folly in your conclusion may be very narrow, but generally speaking, if you do purchase, it is a case of a ‘‘fool and his money.”’ It is a good deal like buying a patent right. The salesman gets you up in the air, and you wonder what you are going to do with all your money. Your money does not worry you so much later on. Sometimes you get a chance, or rather the chance is offered you, to buy a novelty, with the additional privilege of exclusive sale, and you pull the cork clear under. You buy and gleefully think of your hated competitor's con- fusion when he shall learn of your great gains in the selling of this commodity, which he can not buy except at retail. You count the profits you are going to make and gloat over the coin as it piles up in the chamber of your thought. By and by you remember that you did buy an ‘‘exclusive,’’ but you had forgotten it in the transaction of your regular business. Then you get the goods out where they can be seen and tell your clerks to push them. Some time after, weeks or months, perhaps, you see them all again or think of them all again and put them down to cost, but it does no good. You drop them to fifty per cent. below cost and maybe you sell them and maybe you don’t. Maybe you haul them to the dump. You may be mad about it, but it doesn’t do any good. It will do you no harm, however, if you speculate a bit on the question as to whether you have been so very cute after all. Never buy anything just because your competitor may otherwise get hold of it. Let him have some of these good things that come your way so often. 1 know what I am talking about. I have drained the dregs of ex perience. Talk about the song the Boomer sang ; he can’t warble with the boys that come in to sell me novelties. Twenty years ago I thought I knew all about the hard- ware business just because I had been attending college. A smooth pilgrim floated in one day and, with an inno- cent-looking green bag, under his arm, and the eyes with which he sized me up were as innocent as this bag which he carelessly cast upon the counter. | didn’t know that he sized me up then, but I know it now. He went down into that bag and pulled out a thing that he cheerfully informed me was a pleater. He talked and he worked. He worked the pleater and he worked me. He pleaded and he pleated. He made box- pleats and side-pleats and pleats. It was a thing with a wooden bottom and with wires with cranks on, with a coke tin hook to pull the cloth with. I bit and then bought. I paid him a dollar and a half apiece for those blooming things, which he delivered on the spot, spot cash, no discount. I think he had me figuring that I was going to make $24 on an $18 deal. I was more hopeful then than I am now, especially on_pleaters. Well, I have got most of them yet. I sold a few finally for seventy-five cents each and had to take every one of them back or have a row. Sometimes I took them back, sometimes I had the row, according as my mood was cheerful or pessimistic. I finally hid them where even the clerks couldn’t find them when they inventoried, but they kept fresh in my memory. I couldn’tjlive them down. Then I brought them out into the light of day and gave them a place of honor on the shelves. A man ina small town who is fairly prosperous is apt to compare himself with his fellow-townsmen and gaina large impression of himself. He does not have the chance to compare himseif or his condition with the very wealthy or the great, as does his brother in the large city, and he is apt to feel that he really is somebody. If ever I feel symp- toms like this coming on, I just go alone by myself for a while and gaze at those pleaters. It is bitter, but it is beneficial. I am glad now that I bought them. It has taken years of reasoning and years of seasoning to get me to think this way, but I am now glad. Sometimes a_ fellow comes in with a new-fangled contrivance and begins on me with the ‘‘best ever’’, and I let him go on with his talk. I am not afraid any more. The thing may look good; I may be losing the chance of my life; my competitor may give me a jolt if he gets it away from me, but I say softly to myself the magic word ‘*‘ pleaters,’’ and I am safe. One of these gentlemen came in to see me once with a patent arrangement for locking sash without weights. | knew several kinds of such locks and knew nothing much to their credit, but this was a new one tome. He only wanted to sell me twenty-four gross for a sample order. They looked all right, but I dwelt on the past and said nay. He waxed sarcastic and said that if all men were as big mossbacks as I was, we would still be using tallow dips and traveling by ox-team, but he didn’t feaze me. I just said **pleaters,’’ ‘‘pleaters,’’ to myself, and serenely passed him up. The hardware man in the country town has lots of chances to buy county rights. These are good things, too—for the other fellow. They really belong with the novelties I speak of. You may have heard of some one who has made money buying them; I never did. But I know some men who did buy and afterwards thanked God that they saved the neck yoke. There is the man with the patent Strainer, adjustable, you know; fits any- thing from the milk pan to the cow. He is an accommodating fellow. He will sell you the county right or will allow you to manufacture them for him. He is brother—not to the ox—but tothe man with the washing machine. Nature in its infinite variety can not compare with the multitude of forms in which the washing machine is foisted onto a con- fiding public by house to house can- vassers. To hear them talk one would think that ‘‘length of days was in their right hand, in their left hand riches e— and honor.’’ They will tackle anything from a wooden Indian up, and after they have sold everybody in sight, they will try to sell you what they have left over, Sometimes they will see you before they attempt a canvass. If you look easy, they look solemn and full of se- 5 crets. They get you out in the back yard or down cellar and whisper to you about the marvelous labor-saving inven- s tion that they have secured control of, painting the picture the while of the = luck of the happy vendor. They will first offer to let you manufacture and = C > own, at your own proper cost and ex- pense, a few dozen of these wealth-get- ters, by paying them a royalty that slides up and down according to the = An Honest Product attention that you are paying to their talk. If you don’t fall in, they offer to allow you a chance to bid in making a few hundred. They go to all your com- petitors and finally you all bid, and each one is informed of the others’ bid and given a chance to cut. If, unfortu- nately, your bid is the lowest, you get it in several ways. They order a hun- dred; you discount them and make Made by The Patterson-Sargent Co., Cleveland--Chicago--New York JAAAAAARARAAARARARARAR - ANN CE AT ST CRETE \ & Sons Manufacturers of Tinware and Sheet Metal Write for prices on = j Goods 249 to 263 South Ionia Street Milk Cans : Wm. Brummeler AAAARAARARAAARARAARAAABAARARARARARABARARAINS 1 ; This is the Only Machine Which Will Actually Chop In a satisfactory manner, all kinds of Meat, raw or cooked, a and ail kinds of Fruit and J Vegetables, as coarse or fine as wanted,and .. .. Without _Mashingst est ot te and a Afewofthethings | .it chops, | § » Easily Cleaned, , Vi . Easily Adjusted. J le od Self Sharpening. PX voc feu aGanc @ es f New Barraim,Conn. a USA d | y 4 The Best Meat-Cutter Made. _ eS FOR SALE BY | FOSTER, STEVENS & CO. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. _. This electrotype loaned to any dealer who handles these choppers, zi —— co Som ee enero eee oe ‘a MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 17 fifteen. You have made too many. They buy one ‘‘for a sample, you know,’’ and disappear for atime. Then they buy two or three more and have a hard time digging up enough to pay forthem. If you are off your guard, they will get trusted for the next one and then they do disappear, while you sadly sing ‘‘ They never came back,’’ as you begin to figure ‘‘stock and time’’ to find how much you have in the deal. After keeping the stuff around until you are sick of the sight, you leave out the ‘‘time’’ and try to sell them for the stock that is in them, if you hope for cash, or figure in both stock and_ time merely to have it look bigger, and then try to trade them off for a peacock or something else you don’t want. We sometimes envy the man in other lines. There is the groceryman, for in- stance. He seems to have an easy time in deciding what he must buy. His troubles are mostly dead-beats, rotten vegetables and department stores; but the hardware man must decide daily for or against the purchase of something he has never seen or heard of before. I have been told that the hardware business must be such a nice business, because things that we deal in do not spoil or go out of style. When I hear that I wonder if the worms have eaten into any more wood stock or whether | have any more of those 6x6 cast butts left. Then | think of my pleaters. In all seriousness, however, | would say that no retail hardware merchant carries a large enough assortment of staple articles or has sufficient number of lines to keep him busy most of the year. Most merchants say they can not afford to increase their stock and yet they often buy noveities, either from mistaken ideas of business or for the fear that their competitor may buy them and possibly make something. I would suggest that every dealer look through a jobbers’ catalogue,and decide on some line that he will add to his stock ; some line that he has a call for; some line that he knows will sell; some line, if possible, that none of his com- petitors sell, and if at that time he feels as though he could not put it in, let him keer a little memorandum, and the first time he is tempted to buy what I have cailed novelties, let him say no, and put their value down on the credit side of this memorandum. It won’t be long until he finds that he has saved enough, by not buying these things of unknown value and problematical sale, to put in a line that he knows will in- crease his standing as a merchant and inure to his lasting profit. E. H. Loyhed. > 30. Outlook For Gasoline Stoves. From Stoves and Hardware Reporter. The propects for a large business in gasoline stoves this year are now said by the manufacturers to be most excel- lent. This expectation is based in part on the contracts already made, but also to a very considerable degree on the steady advancement in their sale as made through succeeding years. These sales made their best record last year and there is not the least reason for ex- pecting a decrease during the coming active season. Gasoline stoves take the place of gas stoves for summer use in those localities where gas is not avail- able, and while the demand for the lat- ter class of kitchen necessities _ has steadily increased it has rather aided than impeded the sale of those first named. They both serve the one pur- pose of convenience and comfort during the hot weather, and in that respect are very much alike. _—6—_—_ Get up. There is no room at the bot- . tom, How the Apparent Expert Betrayed His Ignorance. From the Washington Star. The man who thinks he can shoot en- tered a Washington sporting goods store recently and looked with the critical examining glance which at once stamps one as being a sportsman of experience at a new model shotgun. He deftly raised the weapon to his shoulder and squinted down the pol- ished barrel with a_ regular trap-gun- ninety-nine-out-of-a-hundred squint. He tossed it at different angles, dropped it in the hollow of his left arm, fingered the safety lever with a skilled hand and lovingly snapped the triggers. He opened the breech and held the barrel between his eye and _ the light from the window, and said something about the advantage of using ‘‘ barrel reflectors’’ for cleaning. The clerk was much impressed. smiled. The learned gunner talked of ‘‘choke bores,’’ ‘‘new sixteen-gauge,’’ of the new ‘‘take down, single-barrel repeat- ing’’ shotgun being inferior to the old and tried double barrel gun; of the rel- ative qualities of ‘‘ Damascus,’’ ‘* double laminated,’’ ‘‘decarbonized,’’ ‘‘fine three-blade’’ and other barrels; of ‘‘half-pistol grips,’’ ‘automatic ejec- tors’’ and ‘‘solid strikers.’’ He expatiated on = ‘‘nitro-powder guarantees,’’ ‘'low circular hammers,’’ and explained to the clerk how easy it was to take out the ‘‘safety plunger’’ with safety. He was eloquent about ‘flat’? and other ‘‘trajectories.’’ He knew all about ‘‘globe,’’ ‘‘wind,’’ He ‘‘knifeblade,’’ ‘‘bead’’ and ‘‘peep’’ sights. The clerk was much impressed. He laughed. He gave a practical illustration to the admiring clerk of ‘‘how to stand when trap shooting without muscular strain or tremor.’’ He demonstrated the im- portance, where *‘ aperture front sights’’ were used, of having the ‘‘aperture in the bead ‘ring’ the bull’s eye.’’ Then he bought the gun. A week later he returned to the store as mad as one of the hares he had hunted. ‘*Here, you!’’ he cried to the clerk angrily. ‘‘Here, take this gun back! You have cheated me! It won’t shoot! | have tramped over the fields of Virginia for six days and banged away at all ranges at everything from a chip- pie bird to a cow, but never once have | brought down the game. I have shot until my arm aches and my shoulder is numb. Take it back, or I will have you arrested for obtaining money under false pretenses !’’ ‘‘What kind of shells have you been using?’’ asked the clerk mildly. | Diese.” ‘*Oh, that’s all right. Keep the gun; it is a good one. The shells are ‘blanks,’ that’s all.”” It was enough. EE Scarcity of Poultry Netting. From Stoves and Hardware Reporter. A rather unusual condition is pre- sented by the market for poultry netting. Manufacturers have contracted for a large part of their output and have now run behind with their deliveries, with the result that the supply has run short at a time when the demand is especially pressing. The manufacturers had evi- dently not anticipated such a_ wide movement and are not prepared to meet it in full, while jobbers are also some- what pressed for deliveries. Almost the same condition was in force last year in the market for wire cloth. Buyers were late with their or- ders and these accumulated to such an extent that the manufacturers could not fill them promptly and both jobbers and retailers were obliged to wait longer for the goods than is customary. Wire goods seem to be especially the cause of complaint on this score. It is prob- ably not so much the fault of the makers as of the retailers, who either hesitate about anticipating their wants or else are tardy in forwarding orders even after the extent of the demand has been estimated. Hardware Price Current Augurs and Bits eo ae 60 SE eee 25 cee eee. .... .. ..... «0s 50 Axes First Quality, 5S. B. Bronze..........-. 7 00 First Quality, D. B. mice. .......... 11 50 First Quality, S. B.S. Steel........... i First Quality, D. B. Steel. ............ 13 00 Barrows ares... ss... ee 16 50 Gireco................................888 oe Bolts Ree elena eee 50 CE tee 45 POW el. eee 50 Buckets wen wee... $4 00 Butts, Cast Cast Loose Pin, figured ..............- 65 eee 60 Cartridges are. 40&10 Centra: Wwe .......................... 20 Chain \% in. 5-16 in. 3% in. % in. Com... £¢$a.. fe..€¢é..¢€ < ee 9 i wa or 6. ae Bes.......... oo .. oe .. Te... oe Crowbars Case Steer, porlh........ ............. 6 Caps Ed gpl a ate aa 65 men SC... perm.................... 55 G. D., ert 45 Neishet, POF M......................... 75 Chisels C—O _ ae 65 Socket Framing...... ee 65 Recmet COBEN... 1. 8. st. 65 MOcHOG tiens.......................... 65 Elbows Com. 4 piece, 6 in., per doz............ net 65 Covragated, per doz................... 1 3 Adjustapie............................di8 Seane Expansive Bits Clark’s small, $18; large, $26 .......... 30&10 rved’ 1, Ore; 7 ee Gee ......+.5...-. 25 Files—New List now See ................... TOK10 Nicholson’s.... a 70 Heller’s Horse Rasps....... os 60&10 Galvanized Iron Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 25 and 26; 27, 28 List 12 13 14 16 16. 17 Discount, 70 Gas Pipe Ee 40&10 EE SOKO Gauges Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s.......... 60810 Glass Single Strength. by box...............dis 85& 5 Double Strength, by box..............dis 85&10 By the tigate... dis 85 Hammers Maydole & Co.’s, new list.............. dis 33% Yerkes & Plumb’s....................-dis 40&10 Mason’s Solid Cast Steel...........30¢ list 70 Hinges Gate, Claris ¥.2.3....................4i6 Gomme Hollow Ware ee a 50&10 mentee 50&10 Spies... 50&10 Horse Nails AuSaplie |. 1... ais ~«=6 a Pateae 5 House Furnishing Goods Stamped Tinware, new list............ 70 Japanned Tinware..................... 20&10 Iron — i... Hien band Knobs—New List 3 crates 3i2e rates Door, mineral, jap. trimmings........ 85 Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings....... 1 00 Lanterns Regular 0 Tubular, Doz................ 5 25 Warren, Galvanized Fount........... 6 00 Levels Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s..........dis 70 Mattocks Adze Bye........._............$17 00... dis 60 Metals—Zine 600 pound caskS.............-..-.--+.+- 7% Perpeuna 8 Miscellaneous mira Canes 40 Pumps, Cisterm........................ 70 Serows, Now List..................... 80 Casters, Bed and Plate................ 50&10&10 Dampers, American.............-+---- 50 Molasses Gates Stopbtns’ Fatterm ......-.-............ 60&10 Enterprise, self-measuring............ 30 Pans Rry, Aeme. 608&10&10 Common, polished.................... 70R5 Patent Planished Iron “A? Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 10 75 “B”? Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 25 to 27 9 75 Broken packages %c per pound extra. Planes Onio Tool Co. ’s, fmey................. Gelets Benen... 2.83. wee oe sone Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy........... Bench, first quality.............. SSS woseey Nails Advance over base, on both Steel and Wire eee a 0 (jlo, 3 65 (OO Te Base ee Oe Oe re ee eee. 5 i bh cele eee 10 Oe 20 —————————_—_——e 30 cee la het ven neioss es 45 eee 70 eee Come Se avewee..................... 15 I Se en ak cw as wee wo oe 25 SE eee 35 ee 25 EE eee 35 PE ee 45 meres & WO VROO....... «++. ++0-- Wes 85 Rivets ee ee ee 50 Copper Rivets and Burs.............. 45 Roofing Plates Bc TO, Charcoal, Dean............. 6 50 14x20 IX, Chareoal, Dean. . Le 7 50 20x28 IC, Charcoal, Dean. ea 13 00 14x20 IC, Chareoal, Allaway Grade. . 5 50 14x20 1X, Charcoal, Allaway Grade. . 6 50 20x28 1C, Charcoal, Allaway Grade. .. 11 00 20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade. .. 13 00 Ropes Sisal, % neh and larger............... 11% [a 17 Sand Paper Lie at 1 ..............-....-. a 50 Sash Weights Bee Eyed, oer Ooe................ 25 00 Sheet Iron ' com. smooth. com. mre. 0000 18... ee et ee $3 00 ree. 00 17...... edie eee oe 3 00 eee 3 30 3 20 . 2: oe 2e........ wo. 3 30 . 3 5O 3 40 el ee, oe All Sheets No. 18 and lighter, over 30 inches wide, not less than 2-10 extra. 3 50 Shells— Loaded Loaded with Black Powder...........dis 40 Loaded with Nitro Powder.......... dis 40&10 Shot CO 1 60 BBand Buck........... Level usies 1 85 Shovels and Spades IE 8 60 Second Grade, Doz........... 8 10 Solder i ee 2 The prices of the many other qualities of solder in the market indicated by private brands vary according to composition. Squares feee) Sie TG... oo. oe ee oe 65 Tin—Melyn Grade 10004 IC, Chareoal..............-.. a $8 50 1ano) 00), Climrcoal................. «+ & 5O 20x14 IX, Chareoal.... . 9 75 Each additional X on this grade, $1.25. Tin—Allaway Grade 04 10, Careoel. ..................-. 7 00 ee eee 7 00 eres te Cerone. .................... 8 50 140 Te. Chareoal............-......,.. & 5O Each additional X on this grade, $1.50 Boiler Size Tin Plate 14x56 IX, for No.8 Boilers, 14x56 IX, for No.9 Boilers, { per pound.. 10 Traps EE 75 Oneida Community, Newhouse’s...... 40&10 Oneida Community, Hawley & Nor- eee 65816 Mouse, choker, per doz............... 15 Mouse, delusion, per doz..... 0 ..-.- 1 25 Wire eee hee. 60 Sees Meareet.................. 60 Coppered Market....................-. 50&10 Wiasee Waeeee...........-............ 50&10 cree erie peeer...............- 40 Barbed Fence, Galvanized............ 4 30 Barbed Fence, Painfed..............-. 4 15 Wire Goods a. z on ove 75 Hooks 75 Gate Hooks and Eyes................. 75 Wrenches Baxter’s Adjustable, Nickeled........ 30 JOE'S GONUMO. .........-.--.-..-+----- Coe’s Patent Agricultural, Wrought. .70&10 The Rocker Washer Is a great seller and will please your customers and make youa nice profit. Write for price. ROCKER WASHER CO., tt. Wayne, Ind. arpa rete MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Dry Goods The Dry Goods Market. Staple Cottons—The actual demand for staples has increased slightly during the past week, but this is on account of expected advances on certain lines. The irregularities reported in some un- ticketed lines have mostly disappeared. Enquiries are reported for brown goods for forward deliveries, and a few small sales. Brown sheetings are, as a rule, quiet, but prices are firm. Bleached cottons are called for on a limited scale for nearly all grades. Agents are re- served and show no anxiety to acceler- ate business. All leading tickets are well under contract for some time to come. Wide sheetings, cotton blankets, flannels, etc., show no change of mo- ment, all being well situated and firm. Coarse colored goods, ticks, checks, stripes,denims, etc., are well under con- trol and, although the demand is good, sellers show no anxiety to push busi- ness, and have the market well under control. The whole situation shows that staple cottons are firmer, and much improved over a week or two ago, and it is not surprising that so much bullish talk is heard while going the rounds of the market. The unsettled conditions noticeable recently have for the most part subsided, and it would not sur- prise many on the market to see prices begin mounting again, as they were do- ing a month ago. Prints—Staple and fancy calicoes are quite well sold up, and prices are steady, as would be natural in most lines, but American black and white and gray prints have been advanced, as we note elsewhere. Printed ropes are doing some business for fall, and al- though efforts are being made to place contracts for turkey reds and_ other staples for fall, few agents wish to com- mit themselves for that distance ahead. Printed flannels have secured a good business for fall already; prices are firm and the demand is steady. Ginghams—Ginghams in all classes are in fine shape, showing no material change from last week’s report. Both staple and dress styles are well taken care of for some time, and prices are firm. Dress Goods—The dress goods mar- ket is not the scene of a great deal of activity at the present. There is a busi- ness of moderate proportions under way consequent to the presence in the mar- ket of a number of buyers from adjacent markets. It is generally believed that there are a goodly number of buyers who have not yet bought their full fall requirements, and agents are anticipat- ing a considerable volume of additional business from that source before the ad- vent of the spring season. Manufactur- ers of piece dye fabrics are well situated as regards orders in hand, and are well pleased with things. Manufacturers have still a considerable portion of their machinery engaged on spring goods, and it will be some little time before they will be able to put forth their full energies on the production of fall-weight a fabrics. Underwear—The prospects are that underwear will advance, as the Egyp- tian cotton and other yarns that have so much bearing on the price of underwear are steady and advancing, but it is too early as yet to hazard a guess as to how great their advance will be. Hosiery—There has been a great im- provement noticed in the deliveries of domestic hosiery, and very few com- plaints are received by the mills. Some jobbers admit that they have _ over- bought, and there are likely to be quite a few cancellations. This is a great change from a few weeks ago when job- bers were begging the milis to turn out goods more quickly. Now that the de- mand among the retailers has fallen off, the jobbers do not care if all the “goods they ordered are not delivered. Carpets—The busiest end of the car- pet industry is among the mills. The manufacturers are working hard to get their old orders out as soon as_ possible so as to have time to prepare their sam- ples for the fall trade, and be ready to take up the new orders as they come in. Upholstery Goods—The — upholstery trade is still in a very quiet condition for this time of the year, although bet- ter than the week previous. Jobbers in upholstery goods and piece fabrics claim that they are not getting the goods in as fast as they would like, and their mail orders are giving them some trouble because they can not fill them until they receive more goods. The manufacturers are pushing their pro- duction, and filling their orders as fast as possible. a Traveler’s Goat Ate Koop’s Horse’s Tail. From the Toledo News. Henry Travers and Otto Koop, who lives a few doors away, have long been the closest friends. But now they never speak as they pass by, and it’s all ow- ing to Travers’ goat and Koop's long- tailed bay mare. The bay mare had a tail that reached the ground and the goat an appetite that was indiscriminating and only limited by his ambulatory and reaching powers. But the horse’s tail instead of sweeping the floor as of yore is now but a jagged bunch of hair a foot and a half from the ground. The facts in the case are somewhat hazy, but Mr. Koop says: ‘“My heart is almost broken. Why, the tail of that horse was the best part of it. I wouldn’t have taken $500 for that mare, but now look at it! That confounded goat of Travers’ had to come in here and chew off its tail and disfig- ure the finest looking horse in Toledo. Why in heaven’s name didn’t Travers feed his old billy goat so that he would stay at home instead of trespassing around chewing up horses’ tails. It’s a blamed shame and I’m going down town to see a lawyer friend of mine and see if 1 can’t get damages. No, the mare ain’t much of a runner or trotter, but you just ought to have seen that tail. il kick a lung out of that goat if I get a chance.”’ ‘“Kick a lung out of my goat, will he?’’ indignantly snorted Mr. Travers when told what Koop had said. ‘‘Just let him try it. Damages? Fiddle- sticks. How is he to sue me? I didn’t eat the tail. Why doesn’t he keep his stable door shut if he is so particular?’’ @ Wecarryacomplete stock of Untrimmed ; Straw Hats i For Ladies, Misses and Children, from ; GEEEKSEGEEES $2.00 per dozen upwards. We are also showing a large assortment of Ready-to- Wear Hats for Ladies, ranging in prices Nh from $9.00 to $36.00 per dozen. Write for samples and prices. Corl, Knott & Co. Jobbers of Millinery SSO ae Se SARS ISS wa) (e\ Two : Dollars | a Looks as good as the kind usually sold i ata half dollar. It is well made, has a Bf a Suey 3] ai good black satine top, leather handles and sides and on each side a neat gilt ornament. This makes a splendid ar- D ticle to use as a trade winner. Order soon, as the quantity is limited Voigt, Herpolsheimer & Co., A RO SES I BRS R Wholesale Dry Goods, Grand Rapids, Mich. KES SDE DS EIS EIT SI SAY HOSIERY One of the most essential things in a dry goods stock is a good line of Hosiery. We have an immense line of Ladies’, Gents’ and Children’s Hosiery in plain black, plain colors, split soles, Moca foot faney stripes, drop stitch and, in fact, anything to be had in the Hosiery line. We have them in all prices. Write for samples. P. STEKETEE & SONS, Wholesale Dry Goods. Grand Rapids, Michigan, ee et ee eee ee ees PULLEY BUCKLES $1.50 per doz. up. TO THE TRADE: We beg to apologize to our patrons for the delay in ship- ping their orders the past few weeks. We have always prided ourselves on our reputation for promptness, but the unprecedented demand for goods in our line of late has caused us, unintentionally, to be a little bit slow. We think, however, that we are now in a position to take good care of all orders, but would advise those expecting immediate shipments to order their goods NOW. Yours very truly, J. A. Selling & Co, Popular Priced Jewelry and Novelties, 125 Jefferson Ave., PREPS PCO CPOE PEPE EO COUPE COCO PO ' COUP UD Buckles, Beauty Pins, Belts, Collar Buttons, Combs, Pocket Books, Waist Sets, Brooches, Detroit, Mich. Ftc., Etc. New York Office 3 Thomas St. OED DPPH ED COPECO EO EOE PEO UU, ~ BABABABGABGRECABCACACA CACA ECA. CACGACACACACACACGA CASACACA SCONE PEPE 'UD @a, 5 v ee oe lag A. ae we ng Aha sil, vam © gp ae ——— mg Ty Se SB lag A RE: Na er * . non % ‘ PO ho eee gp ae MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 19 SUCCESSFUL SALESMEN. E. Shattuck, Representing John G. Miller & Co. “ Erastus Shattuck was born at Char- don, Ohio, Oct. 24, 1845, his antece- dents being Yankee on his father’s side and Pennsylvania Dutch on his moth- er’s side. He lived on a farm until 16 years of age, when the war broke out. He attempted to enlist several times, but was rejected each time on account of his slight frame. He learned the trade of cheesemaker and made cheese for several seasons. In 1865, he went to Oil Creek, Pa., where he held the position of head treater in an oil refin- ery for two years. He then went to Bainbridge, Ohio, where he worked in a clothing store three years. His next change was to Petersburg, Michigan, where he learned the trade of harness- making. Not liking the business, he re- turned to Bainbridge, where he re- mained until 1872, when he came to Grand Rapids and entered the employ of E. S. Pierce, who was then carrying on the clothing business in the double store at 15 and 17 Canal street. Mr. Shattuck remained with this establish- ment sixteen years, when he formed a copartnership with Mr. Pierce and _ his brother, under the style of Pierce Bros. & Shattuck, which continued three years. For three years thereafter he was a member of the firm of Shattuck & Trowbridge. For one year he wasa member of the firm of Shattuck & Gable and for two years he carried on the mer- chant tailoring business on his own ac- count. For the last four years he has been a member of the firm of Williams & Shattuck. Since 1885 he has been on the road a large portion of the time, so- liciting orders, covering the entire northern, western and southern portions of the State and the northern part of In- diana. May 1 he starts out with the line of John G. Miller & Co., of Chi- cago, covering the entire State,and will undertake to see his trade four times a year. Mr. Shattuck was married June 14, 1871, to Miss Minerva L. Kilbourn, of Fenton, Mich. Three children, two girls and one boy, complete the family circle. The family reside in their own home at 1260 Fifth avenue. Mr. Shattuck is a member of all of the Masonic bodies from Valley City Lodge No. 86 to the Mystic Shrine, including Columbian Chapter No. 132 and De Molai Commandery No. 5. He is also a member of the Valley City Council, Royal Arcanum, and is an at- tendant at All Souls church. Mr. Shattuck attributes his success as a salesman to close attention to business and to fair dealing and _ to courteous treatment of customers. He has never used deception to sell goods, it being his theory to sell a man what he wants and can pay for and to sell goods on their merits only. During the years he stood behind the counter for E. S. Pierce, hundreds of customers would trade with no one else if he was in the store and was likely to be at leisure within a reasonable length of time. oe Rapid Growth of the Shirt Cincinnati. From the Cincinnati Enquirer. In the past half dozen years in Cin- cinnati there has sprung up froma small beginning an industry that is of greater importance than even some of those en- gaged in it themselves are aware. It is the wholesale manufacture of. shirts. Six years ago the making of shirts in Cincinnati was of not enough importance to claim a place in the list of enter- prises that engaged attention and_ capi- tal of the men of this pre-eminently manufacturing city. Now, the output of shirts by exclusively wholesale fac- tories in Cincinnati is sufficient to bring this city up in rank along with some of the famous shirt-producing centers of the country. Of course, Trov, N. Y., still holds first place as a shirtmaking point. Cincinnati and Chicago are the larg- est makers of shirts in the West, and the growth of the industry in Cincinnati has been so marked that it is more than likely that if the figures were obtainable the Queen City would not only lead the West, but march up in the ranks of the East as well. Of all the shirts made in Cincinnati there are no white shirts turned out by the factories. At first thought this would seem to limit the field for Cincin- nati shirt manufacturers, but such is not the case. In the past few years, al- most coincident with the increase inthe industry in Cincinnati from a small to a large one, the style has changed great- ly, and where there were ten white shirts worn formerly there is one worn now. In other words, the ratio of colored shirts to white ones now worn is about go per cent. The cause for the change in the style can be traced to the fact that the old-time flannel neglige shirts be- came a trifle old-fashioned, and giving way to a shirt a little more dressy, they were replaced by an article from which the step to a_ stiff bosom was a short one. If a colored shirt could be worn in the summer, why not in the winter also? The cause for the fact that Cincinnati makes no white shirts is easier to trace. It is due to the simple fact that white shirts in large quantities can not be laundried in Cincinnati to that degree of whiteness and immaculate spotless- ness and tintlessness that makes a dress shirt such a rest for the eye and_perfec- tion of good dressing. Cincinnati makes all kinds of shirts as far as the class of people for whom they are intended goes. From the high- er-priced stiff-bosomed colored shirts down through the line of cheaper wear of that kind to the summer and _ soft- bosomed neglige shirts, the output is for general wear. They are sold in all parts of the country. Most of the stiff- bosomed shirts are made for wearing white collars and cuffs, although some of them take collars and cuffs to match. Some of the soft-bosomed shirts, and nearly all of those intended for sale in this part of the country and the East, have separate collars and cuffs, while the South, on the other hand, requires a large number of shirts with the collars and cuffs non-detachable. There are also made in Cincinnati a great many workingmen’s shirts and flannel _ shirts. The kind of goods most largely used in shirtmaking in Cincinnati are madras, percale and cheviot, a large amount of such goods being imported and of the finer qualities. There is a branch of the shirtmaking business in {Cincinnati that is of more recent development than the shirt busi- Business in ness itself, and that is the making of shirtwaists. There are two concerns in Cincinnati that devote their entire plants and the energies of 175 employes to the manufacture of shirtwaists, and one of them used to be a large manu- facturer of shirts. The shirtwaist busi- ness is a good deal different from the making of shirts. Being an outer gar- ment instead of an under, more work is to be put on them than on a shirt. Styles change more rapidly and more radically. ‘Tucks are the thing to-day. Next week it will be all box plaits. Last season shirtwaists were made with a yoke. This spring if a woman wears a shirtwaist with a yoke in it all her friends will know that she has had it over from last year, or else had a last year garment sold to her. Then there is much more work to be done ona shirtwaist, more money to be paid for the making of one, and a higher price to be had. There are two classes of shirtwaists, wash waists made of all sorts of material and a_ better class of silk and such material wash. One concern in Cincinnati de- votes its factory to the making of fine waists exclusively and the other to the making of all grades of both classes. The shirtwaist is a garment that has come to stay. It is as much a staple article of wearing apparel as a man’s shirt. This has been recognized by Cincinnati capital, and that is why fac- tories are busy turning out this piece of that? will’. not wearing apparel that makes a_ pretty woman look so much prettier and a plain woman just about as plain. ——__~> 2. Definition of a Millinery Opening. ‘Tommy—Say, paw. Mr. Figg—Well. Tommy—What is a millinery open- Ing? Mr. Figg--It is a hole. It occurs in my bank account every spring. +e - The places we frequent have much to do with telling the story of our lives. Duck proof, We are offcring a Coat for the year 1goo that is first class in every particular, water- Coats New Duck and no mistake about. it. Dealers will find it to their inter- ests to see our Coat before placing orders for next season. The Ideal Clothing Company Grand Rapids, Michigan. Whe oh ode a apd abe ahh a a ob a ade abe od oe 4 Monroe Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. PEEEEEE ETE PEPE Ter rerete Send in your orders NOW for Mackintoshes We will make low- er prices than ever. Studley & Barclay, Manufacturers and Jobbers in Rubber Goods and Mill Supplies, Oh ob pop apoh oh oh oh oh eh oh oh op SEES ELECTS EET ETT ST the Miclagon Sutbend, +” Pumweit, Mie. , MAKE — THE ~ FINEST. ~ PYPPNT YON HTPNA TENANT NTA NTT a NUNIPVIPNIPNEP NNTP H NONE NOT NNT NR NP OR eT eT ver NP eT eP eP eT tT ITAL = sar. ; Michigan Suspender Unexcelled ship and durability. Every pair guaranteed. Write us and our agent will call on you. in workman- PUYIYYIUULU LY Michigan Suspender Company, Plainwell, Mich. ernie MUM AUAGUASAL ANA GUL JUN ANA GOA. S44 UA db JOA 4A Abb Abd 464 bd ddd Jbd ddd ddd Sills 20 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Shoes and Leather The Rise and Progress of Shoemaking. Written for the Tradesman. The most ancient nations protected their feet by what we would call a sole only. These were made of a variety of materials, among which were cloth made from wool or other fibrous mate- rial, rawhide, palm leaves, and a_ rude kind of sheet iron. Holes were made at the edges of these soles, through which strings or thongs were drawn and tied over the instep and around the ankle to hold them in place. These were known as sandals, and varied in form, some of them turning up in front as a protection to the toes. As time passed they were also turned up at the heel and sides of the feet, displaying more taste, as in the employment of rosettes, buckles and fancy bows of the ladies’ shoes in after years. During the Middle Ages the fashions of shoes for both sexes became very extrava- gant and eccentric, so much so that _re- straining laws were passed to suppress this so-called wasteful habit. But, as mankind repel as tyrannical all such laws, they proved powerless against fashion. Did it ever occur to the reader that man is the only animal in creation whose feet are not protected at birth with some kind of defense against in- jury? Hoofs will grow upon the feet of a horse, even if he never walks upon them, but man pursuing the same course, his feet would be as soft and delicate as when born. To be sure, the bare hands and feet of man will become somewhat hardened and calloused by use, but this alone is their only natural protection. The savage formerly went with bare feet and naked body—or very nearly so—but civilized man, guided by both refinement and physical comfort, exhibits inventive genius in protecting and decorating his feet and the rest of his person. The manufacture of shoes, in the American colonies, began soon after the Pilgrim Fathers landed, and quite naturally in Massachusetts. The first women's shoes made on the continent were by one Thomas Beard, at Lynn, Massachusetts, about 1630, or ten years after the Mayflower landed from Eng- land. From an old letter dated London, England, we copy, verbatim: ‘‘ The said Tho. Beard, hath in the Shipp, the May Flower, divers hydes, both for soles and vpp leathers, wc hee intends to make vpp_ in botes and shose, there in the country.’’ The women’s shoes first made at Lynn were of woolen cloth or neats’ leather, which was leather finished (after being tanned) with neats’ foot oil only. For weddings the bride’s shoes were often made of white silk. At first in this country, the toes of the shoes were made sharp pointed, and the heels were of wood, often two inches high, covered with leather. The making of wooden heels was a separate busi- ness, until about the first of the Ejigh- teenth Century, when leather came into use. No entirely wooden shoes have been made and placed upon the market in the United States until within the past twenty-five years. The first important invention in shoe- making was the pegging machine. Pegged shoes—fastening the soles with hand-made and hand-driven pegs—were made a long time before the invention of this machine, but its use largely in- creased the production and diminished the cost. The writer remembers that as late as 1834 ladies’ shoes made for serv- ice, of well-dressed calf skin and cut high about the ankle, were all bound around the opening over the instep, where they were laced up and tied in front. This binding was generally of some soft thin leather, presumably morocco, often in fancy colors or stripes, and the work was performed by women with needle and thread. My father be- ing a shoemaker and a ‘‘tanner and currier,’’ my mother often assisted and superintended the binding. At that date, in the State of New York at least, the shoemaker made his own pegs, from seasoned maple wood. To-day machines turn them out by the bushel at a trifling cost. The shoe laces used at that time were simply narrow strings of some strong yet soft and_ pliable leather, generally from the well-tanned skin of a young calf. Ata later date the ornamental buckle and strap super- seded the lacing period. The fashion or style of boots and shoes, like all other articles of clothing, generally changed only when the sup- ply exceeded the demand, when it be- came necessary to relegate a quantity of this stock to the lower classes or labor- ers and bring out entirely new designs for the wealthy class, who were only too ready to purchase them. We have had the ‘‘rise and fall’’ of the sharp- pointed or so-called needle toe in boots and shoes for the third time in the last cen- tury and a half. The great invention of the stitching machine by Elias Howe, in 1846, caused a complete revolution in the work of sewing leather. The uppers and bottoms of boots and shoes have long been and are to-day stitched to- gether by machinery. Before its intro- duction it is said that in 1855, 4,515 male and 11,021 female operatives in Lynn produced boots and shoes valued at more than $4,000,000! And yet even |}. this was only the beginning of better and greater work in this line, and those methods now seem crude compared with the present. While taking an outing in the country within a radius of twenty miles of Bos- ton the past autumn, | was surprised at the number of very old and_ tenantless one-story buildings on many of the farms, often erected only a few rods from the main highway and a_ short distance from the farm residence. They were quite similar in structure, although some were more roomy than others. Each building was provided with a door fronting the road and another in the end toward the farm house and each was lighted by two or three windows. Boards were nailed across the windows, if not the doors. Investigating, 1 learned that these old buildings were once used as private shoe factories by the farmers and their sons, who had learned the business of making the heavy stogy shoes for the Far Western market, for which they found a ready sale at remu- nerative prices from the manufacturers and shippers of the better class of goods. Upon enquiry why they were now abandoned, the reply was, ‘‘Ma- chinery killed all the hand work.’’ Frank A. Howig. -____ 9 Woman’s Way of Insinuating. ‘‘I see those friends of yours, the Rustlers, have their names in the paper again,’’ said the lady who is interested in social topics. ‘*Have they, indeed?’’ responded Miss Cayenne languidly. ‘‘I didn’t know the delinquent tax list had been published again. ae —_$$—~>--8 <> The individual who goes through life "i his eyes closed won't have much of a life. BRADLEY METCALF CE: CELEBRATED BOOTS: SHOES ESTABLISHED 1893 "THE BIGGEST Boor IN THE WORLD RADE MARK COPYRIGHTED If you buy Bradley & Metcalf Co. Boots and Shoes You buy the best made in Milwaukee. & — “Gold Seal’ Rubbers Pure Para Rubber SSSSSSSSS Goodyear Rubber Co. 382 and 384 East Water St., Milwaukee, Wis. W. W. WALLIS, Manager. OGOOGOOOGOOGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO SSSSSSSSSSSSsSss cai aiae~eiauaiusiepiiaat ® Red Cross Protection Seventeen inches high. Before negotiating for your Lumberman’s Overs for the coming season do not fail to first investigate the merits of our Red Cross Protections The rubber is the Goodyear Glove Brand Duck (will not snag.) Roll sole, best oil grain and attached to this is a warm lined waterproof duck, making the best footwear ever offered to the public. Write for prices. HIRTH, KRAUSE & CO., Grand Rapids, Mich. $000G05H0O0HHOHHOH50H00000 eeesooeeeseosess SSSSssss SSSSSSSSSSSsese ae IT’S A QUESTION of success. If you want to be successful in the shoe business you must have shoes that are in themselves a success. We make such shoes, Our Men’s, Boys’ and Youths’, Women’s, Misses’ and Children’s lines made up in various styles and prices will strengthen your business, they will make you successful e@ Write us for a trial order. HEROLD-BERTSCH SHOE CO., Makers of Shoes, Grand Rapids, Mich. | | ; ——-- ua De De MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 21 Department Stores After the Cream of the Trade. Well, there’s trouble come to our town. The announcement has_ been made that the Central Department Store Syndicate, which has been organized with a capital stock of $2,000,000, for the purpose of establishing and operat- ing department stores in the one-night- stand towns throughout this and adjoin- ing States, is about to commence opera- tions in Upperville, only thirty miles from here, and will lease one of the biggest buildings in the town and begin to make the small fry take to shallow water. If there is anything on earth that will make a shoe dealer feel that there is nothing left to live for it is the prospect of bucking up against bankrupt stock sales or department stores. We thought that we were safe out here in the country villages, but it seems that we were only left until the cities had been supplied. I don’t wonder that it attracts trade. In fact, I go to them myself, sometimes, when I| am trading in a retail way in the cities, although I always feel more or less ashamed of myself. But that is what they are up against in Upperville, and there isn’t a dealer in that town who isn’t looking for sym- pathy. The syndicate is to have a building which takes in nearly half of a block and opens on three sides. There are to be, besides the shoe department, which interests our class the most, a dry goods department, a clothing de- partment, a grocery and meat depart- ment, a drug department, a shelf hard- ware department and Heaven knows how many more departments, and busi- ness in Upperville is practically on its beam ends. The funny thing about it is that the or- dinary consumer is the last person who ought to desert the regular stores to support the department institutions, but there is something alluring about it, seemingly. I don’t know very much about the lines other than boots and shoes, but | presume that it is about the same with them as it is with us. Now take it in our line. You go into a store witha shoe department, and if you want a lady’s fine shoe or slipper or a neat pair of shoes fora man, probably you will find a nice line at tolerably attractive prices; but if you chance to be a farm- er, as most of our customers are, ask for a pair of coarse leather boots or a pair of heavy rubber boots, and the sales- man will smile politely and state that they are not kept. Likewise miners’ shoes are not kept, or any of the other things that we sell at granulated sugar prices. It is the key to the whole thing. The depart- ment store is simply after the cream of the trade in ali lines. The managers care not who sells the kip boots if they can sell the fine shoes. Anybody may have the trade on heavy overs at g per cent. above cost; they prefer to sell the single-carton cacks and the slippers. If the department store would sell a fuli line of everything in every depart- ment it would not be a menace. This is merely I. Fitem’s opinion, and may be taken at just that weight. As Sea- brooke Pasha used to say, ‘‘I may be wrang.’’ Now all this talk of mine doesn’t do a bit of good. The department store is undoubtedly a success. It has come to stay. Anything that the disgruntled dealers in special lines may say won’t have a particle of effect in turning the tide. Still, you happy dealers, who sometime may be up against it as the poor fellows up in Upperville are now, may take a little interest in it. We none of us know when the hour cometh. One thing I’m glad of is that when the lightning struck, it decided to strike in Upperville instead of here, and my sympathies go out to the deal- ers there who will have to stand by and see their old-established trades filing into the megamonsterthing with its acres of floor, and, with all of their howl- ing, powerless to stop the tide.—I. Fit- em in Boots and Shoes Weekly. Ee No Excuse for Rough Handiing. From the Boot and Shoe Recorder. ‘*The way in which many shoe buy- ers handle sample shoes which are shown them is simply shameful,’’ re- marked a salesman. ‘‘If this pulling, twisting and bending of the shoes en- abled the buyer to gain any advantage, I would not say anything about it. But there is no use whatever of this rough handling. It is done, too, by men who should, and undoubtedly do, know bet- ter, but who seem to be unable to get out of this destructive habit. 1 remem- ber that on the first trip which | ever made to sell shoes, | began in New York City. There | called on a large jobbing house and showed up my line. Not only the buyer but several of his clerks gave those shoes of mine such rough handling that most of them were utterly unfit to show to anyone else. I was mad clear through, but of course was obliged to control my feelings. I did manage to ask the buyer if he thought it was right to handle shoes in that way, and if he realized that my line was unfit to show to anyone else. He was obliged to ac- knowledge that he and his men were in the wrong. That didn’t help me, how- ever. I was compelled to send most of the samples back to the factory to be treed and dressed again and forwarded to me later. The shoe buyers haven't improved any in this matter of handling shoes, judging by other experiences which I have had and by the stories repeated by traveling men. One thing which now helps us out, however, is the using of forms, or followers, to hold shoes in shape when they are packed. This prevents to a great extent the rough handling of shoes, and the break- ing up of the upper and bottom stock by the outrageous bending and_ twisting habit of many buyers.’’ i Opening of the Popular Grand Haven Route. On Monday, April 9, the Grand Haven route was opened between Grand Haven and Milwaukee for the season of 1900. The line comprises the fine pas- senger steamers, Nyack and Naomi, which, in connection with the fast steamboat express of the Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee Railiway division of the Grand Trunk Railway, forms the line for the season of 1900, Train serv- ice and steamers are about the same as last year. The fast steamboat express leaves Grand Rapids at to p. m. daily, except Sunday, arriving at Milwaukee at 6:30 a. m. Returning steamer leaves Milwaukee at 9 p.m. daily, except Saturday, connecting with train leaving Grand Haven at 5:45 a. m. and arriving at Grand Rapids at6:40 a. m. These fast trains have new buffet parlor cars, seats only 25 cents. Tickets and berth reservations can be had at Grand Trunk city office, or at the depot. C. A. Justia, C. PL & VT. AL ui eg Respect the Small Buyer. Be especially reverent in your treat- ment of the customer of slender purse. A multi-millionaire requires only one- tenth the respect due to the man or woman who is bound by the law of necessity to buy within a limit, and a tactful avoidance of anything to wound or make forced economy conspicuous meets with instant appreciation, while attempts to force the sale of goods ** just a trifle’? above the price named by them is resented—and remembered. Our Styles for Spring and summer are fine. If you have not seen them you ought to. They will suit your customers and make you money. We make the best River Shoes on earth. Try them. Agent for the Boston Rubber Shoe Co. Rindge, Kalmbach, Logie & Co., 10-22 North lonia Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. He He a 4 SHR We know what the Michigan trade demands in shoes—and we have it. Not an undesirable line in our spring and summer offerings—not a style but wkat you can sell easily. Our travelers will be in to see you soon. If you defer ordering until they come, we'll get your order. Geo. H. Reeder & Co. 1g South Ionia Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. 5DHHDHHHHHHHHOHHHOO © Hemlock Bark, Lumber, Shingles, Railroad Ties, Posts, Wood. S Bark and | We pay Highest Market Prices in Spot cash and mea- 9 sure bark when loaded, Cor- respondencee solicited. 419-421 Michigan | Trust Building, Grand Rapids. Grand Rapids ae We A. Phelps, President, Cc. A. Phelps, Sec’y & Treas. Highest Cash prices paid and bark measured promptly by ex- perienced men. Call on or write us. oo MICHIGAN BARK & LUMBER CO., Grin kapias Mien 22 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Fruits and Produce. sso “sgramaaas Cold Storage the Only Way to Keep Eggs. I speak from the standpoint of a prac- tical egg man, with thirty years’ ex- perience, having tried all kinds of ex- periments with eggs, and paid very dearly for some. Being largely inter- ested in eggs and cold storage, and hav- ing egg packing points in different parts of the West, I become disgusted when I read about people trying to pre- serve eggs a long time with coatings of vaseline, paraffine, oils, varnish, salt, ashes, bran, dry lime, and what not. By all these processes the taste of the egg is destroyed, which is a very good reason why they should not be tried, nor even suggested at all, for the coun- try has plenty of bad and tainted eggs, many of which start right from the farm house; then the country — storekeeper, huckster and shipper get them, and what the result is later on every egg dealer knows. There are many persons in the coun- try who produce eggs, but who know nothing of the nature of them. As soon as they read some simple plan on_ pre- serving eggs, they start in at once to be speculators, spoil the eggs and_ then mix them with fresh gatherings, palm them off on the country merchant, and he, in turn, on the shipper, until the trash finally finds its way to the city markets, and causes great trouble and often hard words among egg receivers and dealers. Physicians and the board of health, I think, are not the people who know as much about eggs and their keeping quality as a_ practical egg man; there is a great difference be- tween theory and actual practical ex- periments, Book *‘larnin’’’ may be all right, but it won't do everything in the matter of keeping and holding eggs. In my ex- perimenting I have found that all condi- tions must be met to have perfect, well kept eggs. In the first place, we want fresh, new- laid eggs, and a clean, tasteless, or odorless package in which to place them, and then a good, clean storage room for them. The proper thing to do in these times is to improve onthe plan of holding eggs in cold storage, and use no other system of preserving, not even liming. I believe in packages that are not made entirely tight and only the stand- ard thirty-dozen case, and square filler. I believe in an egg room without any pipes at all, cold air to drop in the center, and the up-takes to be on each side of the room. I believe ina thirty- degree temperature, and in such a room I tested ten cases of April eggs for just twelve months, and it was surprising. Physicians, cooks and bakers used those eggs, and passed them for fresh, believ- ing them to be so until informed other- wise. Of course, we all know it is un- called for to keep eggs that long. I am convinced that there is no egg case filler made for storing eggs that will equal the odorless filler. My first ex- periment was with 500 sets, the next season 12,000 sets, the next season 16,000 sets, and this past year I used over 20,000 for April and May eggs, and our goods have the highest reputation on the Philadelphia, New York, Boston, and even Liverpool and London mar- kets. These facts may perhaps show you something of which you have not been aware. | am not an engineer or ice ma- chine dealer, but simply a plain egg man, and for years the chief egg inspec- tor of the Philadelphia Produce Ex- change, which position I still hold. 1 am also a member of the New York Mercantile Exchange. Jacob F. Miller. ———_2sea__ The Hen Makes Clothes. Information is supplied by the daily papers of the fact that a man in Glas- gow, Scotland, has invented a method of spinning threads from albumen ob- tained from eggs. These threads are said to resemble silk closely, and we learn that they have many qualities not only valuable, but superior. This re- markable invention, therefore, seems likely to widen the industrial scope of the domestic hen. The humble but use- ful animal already has an output which, if we recall rightly the impressive sta- tistics supplied by Edward Atkinson, surpasses in pecuniary dimension the product of American blast furnaces and perhaps even the net profits of the coast- wise carrying trade. But now, while the figures representing the value of her efforts in dollars may not be enlarged, observe in what manner her usefulness is to be expanded and her commercial achievements diversified! No longer will she merely feed us, she will also clothe us. The thrifty farmer, returning egg-laden from the haymow, will con- sider whether he shall turn his raw ma- terial into an omelet or transform it into a Sunday frock for his wife. With eggs at hand, each one of us may choose whether the ultimate outcome of fracture of the shells shail be custard or summer undershirts. We may have fried eggs with our ham if we wish to, but, on the other hand, we may change the material into a necktie or an umbrella. To poach or to weave will be, in the future, the question where eggs become property. Shall we digest or dress? Shall we put them upon our backs or stow them away in our interior departments? Mean- time, while further developments from Glasgow are eagerly awaited, strong protest may be made against any at- tempt on the part of the ‘‘money octo- pus,’’ of which we read so much in the papers, to buy up this great invention and to put it into a trust. The whole human race is entitled to whatever ad- vantages may accrue from the movement to clothe mankind in eggs. ~~ They Were Dead. A produce dealer who deals in both live and dressed poultry sent to the consignee of his dressed poultry a letter intended for the shipper of the live tur- keys as follows: ‘‘We regret to ad- vise you that four of the turkeys in your consignment of December — reached here dead. Please make deduction for the same and return corrected account.’’ The poultry man communed with him- self and replied thusly: ‘‘l am sorry to say that | find it impossible to make concession requested. I have established a rule requiring all customers who de- sive live dressed turkeys to notify us in advance, so we can send in heated cars. Turkeys without their feathers and in- sides are liable to catch cold if shipped in the ordinary manner. The mortality among dressed turkeys was very large this year.’’ —_——> 20 —>___ Who Was Fooled ? A Missouri man borrowed a neigh- bor’s hen recently on the pretense that he wanted her to set. As soon as he got the hen he broke up the setting habit and got her to laying eggs. In the next six weeks she laid two dozen eggs. These he sold for forty cents a dozen, and with the eighty cents that he got for them he bought the hen. Now, the question arises whether the original owner of the hen was fooled. Woman’s Way. Mr. Stockjobber—Darling, I am completely ruined. I have only $200 left out of all my fortune. Mrs. Stockjobber—Don’t worry, dear heart. That will be enough for me to get a divorce with. Where is it? We want to buy your Butter and Eggs for Cash FOR SALE-—Second-hand butter brocks, ones and twos. 3c per gal. f. o. b. Detroit. Hermann C. Naumann & Co., 353 Russell St., Opp. Eastern Vegetable Market, Detroit, Mich. Fibre Butter Packages Convenient and Sanitary Lined with parchment paper. The best class of trade prefer them. Write for prices to dealers. Gem Fibre Package Co Detroit, Michigan SE owe ORS Geo. N. Huff & Co., WHOLESALE DEALERS IN j f Butter, Eggs, Poultry, Game, Dressed Meats, Etc. COOLERS AND COLD STORAGE ATTACHED. Consignments Solicited. 74 East Congress St., Detroit, Mich. SOIL ES Ss Dn Ss Rewoewoorw OLLEELELELSESELESESELSELESE46446466466666666466666 WANTED : We are always in the market for Fresh BUTTER AND EGGS 3 36 Market Street. R. HIRT, JR., Detroit, Mich. OFF FT FTF SF STSTTTTTTTESTSTSTTTTTTSCTTTTTTTTTTTSTTTITIGS WANTED--- Potatoes, Onions, Apples, Cabbage, Beans, Honey, Eggs, etc. If you have any to offer name your price, quality and quantity, f. o. b. or delivered. G. A. SCHANZ & CO. WHOLESALE PRODUCE 58 W. Woodbridge St. and 22 Market St., Eastern Market, Detroit, Mich. References: Ward L. Andrus & Co. and City Savings Bank, Detroit. D. O. WILEY & CO. DETROIT, MICH. COMMISSION MERCHANTS ESTABLISHED 1868. BUTTER, EGGS, FRUIT, PRODUCE References, Dun or Bradstreet. Consignments Solicited. Please Mention Tradesman. WE PAY CASH F.O. B. your station for EGGS and all grades of BUTTER. It will pay you to write or wire us before you sell. HARRIS & FRUTCHEY, Detroit. Micu. ALL GROCERS Who desire to give their customers the best vinegar on the market will give them Rep Star Branp Cider Vinegar. These goods stand for purity and are the best on the market. We give a Guarantee Bond to every customer. Your order solicited. THE LEROUX CIDER & VINEGAR CO., Toledo, Ohio. a oo Ca fe oo. ’ a om 4 ~ sah MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 23 DO HENS PAY? Ten Thousand People Trying to Answer This Question. Nearly ten thousand persons in this country have recently entered a contest the object of which is to answer three apparently very simple little questions. The questions are: Do hens pay? If so, why? and how? The man, woman or child who can answer these three questions and demonstrate the correct- ness of his answers in the briefest yet completest fashion will on April 1, Ig01, be entitled to something like $500 in gold and may aiso obtain some of about two thousand special prizes offered by various individuals and firms that have become interested in the con- test. The conditions of the contest have been arranged so that the city man who keeps hens in his back yard has an equal chance for first honors with the man who makes his living by raising poultry on a farm. In fact, under the conditions a man with three birds may compete on even terms with the man who owns 3,000, and furthermore a man who loses money on his chickens dur- ing the time he is competing may still win the cash and special prizes, pro- viding his system of recording his methods and the results of putting them in operation is better than that of some other man whose benefits have been greater. The contest is one of a series having to do with the various phases of the farmer’s life that have been conducted by the American Agriculturist. A few years ago the proprietors of that paper undertook to collect some statistics that would give an adequate idea of the number of fowls in this country, the number of eggs produced in the course of a year and the value of both fowls and eggs. The figures obtained were rather startling, but there was no reason to doubt their accuracy, for they were the result of statistics sent in by thous- ands of correspondents in hundreds of different localities and were compiled with the greatest care. The figures showed 383,000,000 fowls in this coun- try in the year 1896; the number of eggs produced, reckoned in dozens, was I, 141,000,000, and the value of it all in dollars was $343,000,000. These our showed an increase of about 33% per cent. over 1890 and of almost 200 per cent. over 1880. At the present time they figure the number of fowls at 500, - 000,000, which, with their product for the year 1900, represent a total value, it is estimated, of more than $400,000, 000. The figures given for the year 1896 were reached on the basis of an average val- uation for chickens of 50 cents each; for turkeys, ducks and geese of $1 each and for eggs of 12 cents a dozen. Con- sidering the large amount of money in- vested in breeds of fancy _ strains throughout the country, which do con- siderable to bring up the average value of barnyard fowls, together with the rel- atively higher values of both poultry and eggs in producing regions adjacent to large cities, these figures are regarded as conservative. For many years the editor of the American Agriculturist has invited cor- respondence on the subject of poultry raising. The best methods of raising fowls and the easiest ways of making them pay have been discussed at length in the columns of the paper, and of course there have been conflicting opin- ions. The Western farmers have pointed out methods to their brethren in the East which have caused the Easterners to write humorous letters about the farmers of the West. Then the Western- ers have said things about their East- ern critics, while the Southern poultry raisers have taken falls out of each. And in the meantime each man has raised his fowls in his own way, satis- fied that that particular way was the best. The present contest has grown out of this discussion, and although April 1 was decided upon as the time for the beginning of records, more than 3,000 poultry raisers had entered their names in the contest on March 1. Some idea of the amount of interest taken in the contest can be gathered from the fact that there are now almost 10,000 contest- ants, and more names are being entered every day. Among them are city and country raisers in every state in the Union, in all parts of Canada, and even in Mexico, Puerto Rico, the Philip- pines, England and Australia. The greater number of contestants are farm- ers, but among those who are striving for the prizes are many poultry special- ists, who raise fine birds for amusement and with no idea of profit. In speaking of the contest and what led up to it one of the editors of the American Agricul- turist said: Poultry is raised on every farm, on most village homesteads and on count- less city lots, to say nothing of city cellars and back yards. So great is the interest in it and so vast the amount of money invested, that we regard the in- dustry as one of the great American in- dustries. Now we have an idea that it pays to raise poultry. But we don’t know how profitable it is, and we want to know. Still less is the general knowl- edge of how to manage poultry, on either a large or a small scale, so as to get the biggest profits with the least trouble and expense. This is a vital problem which we are going to try and solve.. We ex- pect that the inducements that we have offered will result in one grand effort on the part of those interested in poultry raising, to find out how much profit there is in the business, and how the profit may be increased. On our part we have headed the prize list with $500 in gold, and in addition we have set aside $2,500 for the expense of running the contest and for collating and pub- lishing the result. Hundreds of other prizes have been contributed by indi- viduals and firms. Some are money prizes, but for the most part they are ar- ticles of value to persons interested in poultry raising. The first prize will be awarded for the record that shows most clearly and ac- curately just how. the contestant has managed fowls during one year, the product obtained and how disposed of, the cost of making and marketing such product and the resulting profit or loss. The prize is not for the biggest profit. It is for the most accurate record of methods and results. A report that shows a_ loss may win over a less care- fully kept one that shows a_ profit. There is no incentive to lie, to misrep- resent or to be careless and every reason for a contestant to be absolutely truth- ful. We are greatly pleased by the charac- ter of the contestants. We made a spe- cial effort to get city raisers as well as farmers in and have met with great suc- cess. Among the contestants are doz- ens who raise poultry in the most crowded localities in large cities, others who keep hens in their cellars or back yards and one man who raises his birds in an old horse car that he bought for $5 and converted into a hen house. When all of these poultry raisers get through telling us their experiences, we will be able to give the world some val- uable contributions to poultry literature. In addition to the $500 in gold which the contestants are to strive for, there are these other incentives to = on the part of the poulrty raisers: 2,167 prizes of cash, birds, eggs, poultry food, books, subscriptions, etc., valued at $3,000, and a grand sweepstakes prize of $200 in gold. The regular prizes are $100, $50, $25, $15, $io and twenty prizes of $5 each. - J. COURT & SON, J. W. FLEMING, Belding J. W. FLEMING & CO., Big Rapids Buyers and Shippers of EGGS, BUTTER, POULTRY AND PRODUCE We are prepared to pay the highest market price and guarantee prompt returns. THE VINKEMULDER COMPANY Headquarters for NEW GREEN STUFF Tomatoes, Cucumbers, Onioys, Radishes, — Lettuce, California Celery, Cabbage, etc. Fancy Navel, Seedling and Blood Oranges. Lemons, Dates, Figs and Nuts. Maple Sugar and Syrup. Careful attention given mail orders. 14 OTTAWA STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. FIELD PEAS FIELD SEEDS MOSELEY BROS., 26-28-30-32 OTTAWA ST., GRAND RAPIDS VA = 3 = = 3 = 3 3 3 = 3 3 3 3 = 3 3 = 3 3 3 3 = = N ESTABLISHED 1876. CHAS. RICHARDSON GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANT Wholesale Fruits, General Produce and Dairy Products. 58 AND 60 W. MARKET ST. 121 AND 123 MICHIGAN ST. BUFFALO, N. Y. Unquestioned responsibility and business standing. Carlots a specialty. JUAN AMA AMA SUL ANA UA Ubk Jb ANA Jbk Jk dbd ddd ddd Quotations on our market furnished promptly upon application MA hdd dd NITION NOPE NTP NENA EP Ver NtP eT Soret tT . ee 8 hh 388 8 2 2222222222 EEE, ZsssSSsS sss ss SeSSee = [LSS = = LSLSS~a -— y 49 49 4) SEEDS We carry a full line of FARM and GARDEN W SEEDS. Best grades and lowest prices. Send 2 W us your orders and you will get good treatment. LARGEST Stocks, BEST QUALITY. ALFRED J. BROWN SEED CO. GROWERS, MERCHANTS AND IMPORTERS = y 49 49 4 S Poultry, Eggs and Butte Highest cash price paid at all times for small or carload lots. The best equipped poultry and egg establishment in the state. Write for prices. Marshall, Mich. Branch house at Allegan, Mich. Dun or Bradstreet, First National Bank, Marshall, City Bank, Allegan. Both Phones at Allegan. References: 24 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN The Meat Market Some Ways of Getting Solid With Cus- tomers. There is a feature of business—the very important one of holding trade— that is coming into vogue in this city, and one which country butchers have always had to contend with. Now, of course, there are numerous ways of en- deavoring to hold trade. The city butcher does it by trying to make him- self agreeable to his customers; if the customer happens to be a church-goer the butcher feels it his duty to never miss an opportunity to discuss the lat- est sermon of Dr. Piecrust, and he must appear to be deeply interested, draw out the customer’s opinion of the sermon and then endorse her views unanimously. If the customer prefers the theater to the church he must discuss the latest play. If the customer has a sick child he must ask every day how it is getting along and incidentally ad- vise ‘‘lots of beef tea.’’ The country butcher takes another path. His cus- tomers are interested in farming, and he needs enquire ‘‘how wheat is coming along, etc.’’ There is another thing he needs do, and that is, personally attend the funeral of every deceased customer, and so secure a cinch on the future trade of the remaining members of the family. It is this particular theme on which I wish to write—the funeral going business. Lately it has appeared in this city. I know one up-town butcher who not only attends the funerals of customers who have ‘‘gone unto the un- known,’’ but also sends a floral offering. He tells me it pays handsomely. ‘‘I’ll give you an instance of it,’’ he said to me, smilingly. ‘‘A family that once gave me all its trade cut me entirely. Why? Well, you know some of us have a habit of giving a piece of bologna to every child who comes in to make a purchase. I figured up how much that habit cost me, found it was expensive and decided to quit it. The family of which I am speaking had a _ red-haired, freckle-faced boy who was the terror of the neighborhood. When timid kids saw him coming they hid in the hall- ways until he had passed and he never came in the market without making himself generally obnoxious. If that hoy had got mixed up with a trolley car I don’t know that I would have gone into mourning or even had use for a handkerchief ; but I didn’t dare call him down when he poked his fingers into pieces of meat and helped himself to the bologna, because his family was my best customer and I knew he could carry home anything I said or did to him. 1 even had to continue giving him bologna. Well, one day I got a new clerk and forgot to tip him about the freckle-faced boy, who always found de- light in worrying a new man. I was away and in came the terror. He jollied the clerk, cut off chunks of bologna, threw skewers at the cuckoo clock and chased the cat with a cleaver. The clerk finaliy threw him out of the shop. For a few days I received no order from the family and began an investigation. It was then that I learned of the en- counter between the terror and the clerk. For my own protection I had to dis- charge the clerk, but I secured as good a position for him elsewhere. Then | went to see the boy’s mother. I made apologies; I perjured my soul by speak- ing of the boy as a young model; I was indignant at the clerk and told how I had fired him. But it was no good. Her ‘darling’ had been shamefully treated. word came to me that the terror had died. He choked to death, I believe, while trying to swallow a top. They tried to bring it up, but only succeeded in getting a little bit off the top, and that ended Willie. Now I sawa chance to get in my fine work. I ordered a floral piece that cost me $1o. It was a wreath with a cleaver resting against it, and at the top of the wreath was_ the word ‘Pet.’ I calculated that the mother’s heart would be softened to- ward me and that the cleaver would re- mind her of who sent the piece, in case she failed to look at my business card, which was tied to it. I went to the funeral, accompanied by my whole family, and we looked as sad as any- one there, especially my wife, who hated the boy because he once hit her in the back of the neck with a snowball. But the scheme worked perfectly. Next day the family’s trade came back to me and in two weeks I had got back the cost of the floral piece and the coach hire. Since then I have never failed to send floral pieces and to attend a funeral of any customer.’’ City people always go to extremes, and this butcher has, even in this mat- ter. In the country the butchers go to the funeral, but they don’t make the trip expensive. A month ago I attended a funeral in a South Jersey town. The dead man had in life been a farmer, and to reach the cemetery they had to bring his body into the town, pass through it and go out on the opposite side. When we reached the town a butcher’s wagon fell in behind the car- tiages and at the next corner a grocer’s wagon joined the procession. We had not gone half a mile before the butcher stopped in front of a house and hurried in with a basket. The funeral proces- sion moved on and it looked as if the butcher would be out at the finish. But suddenly the rattling of a rapidly mov- ing vehicle aroused the mourners, It was the butcher. Once more he was in line. Three times during the journey he stopped to deliver goods and after- ward catch up with the tail end of the slowly moving procession. At the grave he presented an odd appearance, at- tired in a long frock and black gloves. Which shows how differently they do things in the country.—Stroller in Butcners’ Advocate. a Eggs and Liquid Air. According toa student of the busi- ness, the egg trade, which has been revolutionized by cold storage, is likely to be still more changed by liquid air refrigeration. Egg shells are permeable in a very great degree. Often it has happened that the ammonia of an or- dinary cold storage plant has sent fumes to taint and ruin-a whole roomful of cased eggs. Limed eggs also come to taste perceptibly of the pickle. Even dry salt, in which eggs are sometimes packed for keeping, gets mysteriously through the shell and destroys the fresh- ness. Liquid air will make an end of all these things. The worst that can happen from its unskillful use is freez- ing—which means bursting to eleven eggs in twelve. At present neither bad eggs nor brok- en eggs go to waste. Broken fresh eggs, and whole ones merely suspicious, go about equally to the confectioners, the bakers, and the makers of photographic printing paper. The papermakers com- monly divide with either the bakers or the tanners, according to the condition of the eggs. If they are reasonably good, | I gave it up. Two weeks later the bakers get the yolks, leaving the | whites—almost pure albumen—for the paper men. Ifthe eggs smell to heaven the tanners of fine leather and kid glove- makers come in. All the finest kid, indeed, is softened and the tanning finished by beating for some time in a bath of egg yolk. The worse the bath smells, the finer and softer will be the kid. Thus it is easy to see that even a very bad egg has value —in the right place. Every big tan- ning plant which turns out any sort of kid leather has a yearly contract with the egg dealers for so many of their very worst. Two Uplifters. ‘What !’’ exclaimed the orator, ‘‘what two things are helping mankind to get up in the world?”’ ““The alarm clock and the steplad- der,’ answered the dense person in the rear of the hall. Ballou Baskets Are Best Is conceded. Uncle Sam knows it and uses them by the thousand. We make all kinds. Market Baskets, Bushel Baskets, Bamboo De- livery Baskets, Splint Delivery Baskets, Clothes Baskets, Potato Baskets, Coal Baskets, Lunch 3askets, Display Baskets, Waste Baskets, Meat Baskets, Laundry Baskets, Baker Baskets, Truck Baskets. Send for catalogue. BALLOU BASKET WORKS, Belding, Mich. 4 4 S 4 S ly lost to merchants from lack of investigation. How can you de- ter nine upon the merits of an ar- ticle without inspection and test? KEKE AE AE! AS AS AG = — ew cD em od ee e START (ale ® @ RE AS SKS | | ens Thousands of dollars are year- Do you know that is better that butter? for both dealer and consumer. ‘Its quality is uniform; it never gets rancid; the dealer enjoys a profit on each ounce purchased, and it re- mains perfectly sweet and whole- some until used. If you are nor a dealer let us then you should have our butterine to enjoy a successful and profitable business. Capital City Dairy Co. 3536263658 6% “Purity” Butterine It is better you. If you are a dealer Columbus, 0. & & a 4 oe Manufacturers of Queen Flake Baking Powder and Northrop’s Flavoring Extracts. esesseeeaeseqggeesseqges S & & S & 8 S & & S & S S & & S S S S S Ss & S S S & & S S & Ss s S 6 ® ® ® ® ® ® P)orthrop, Robertson & @orrier, $ ® [Planufacturing Pharmacists, ® Spice [P\iticrs, : , \holesale Prug and @roeer Specialties. : ® ® ® ® ® ® Ss ® 112-114-116 Ottawa street, East, LANSING, MICH. FOO OTHHHHODHVDHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHOH > ‘ Paitin Rigg ihe 7 oon 4 - 4 —— — ; dei * ae 4 - + id i MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 25 Commercial Travelers Michigan Knights of the Gri President, E. J. —— =. City; Sec- retary, A. W. Srirt, Jackson; Treasurer, O. C. GOULD, Saginaw. - Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Association President, A. MARYMONT, Detroit; Secretary and Treasurer, GEo. 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. Girand Rapids Council No. 131, U. 0. T. Senior Counselor, JOHN G. KOLB; Secretary- Treasurer, L. F. Baker. Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Mutual Accident Association President, J. BoyD PANTLIND, Grand Rapids; Secretary and Treasurer, GEo. F. OWEN, Grand Rapids. Gripsack Brigade. C. C. Jenks (Foote & Jenks) is spending the week among the retail trade of Grand Rapids. John Fell has engaged to travel for the Lagora-Fee Co., cigar manufactur- ers of Detroit, covering the trade of Western Michigan. The new arrange- ment goes into effect May 1. John E. Morehouse, formerly con- nected with the drug and grocery house of Morehouse & Co., at North Adams, has entered the employ of Phelps, Brace & Co. as specialty salesman. The ter- ritory assigned him is Western Michi- gan and he will make Grand Rapids his headquarters. L. M. Mills closed his engagement with Morrisson, Plummer & Co. Satur- day evening and started out for the Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co. Monday morning. The vacancy caused by his retirement will be filled by Irving F. Hopkins, who will cover all the towns north of the D. & M., and by Howard M. Jordan, who will cover the territory south of that line. Mr. Jordan is a new man in this State, having been trans- planted from Iowa, where he traveled for the house for several years. Mrs. Emma L. Allen, Michigan rep- resentative for E. W. Gillett, is ina position to furnish conclusive proof that misfortunes never come singly. First, Mr. Allen was seriously ill for several weeks with typhoid fever; then Mrs. Allen slipped on the sidewalk on Mon- roe street and fractured the bones of one arm; when the bones were sufficiently knitted to warrant her resuming her reg- ular trips on the road, she was seized with an attack of the grip. Providence permitting, she will be on the warpath again next week. Ludwig Winternitz, who has lately re- turned from a trip through Mexico in the interest of Fleischmann & Co., writes the Tradesman from Cincinnati that he was accompanied by his wife on his tour of Mexico and that they con- cluded to regard the trip as_ their ‘*bridle tour’’—which is certainly a horse on Winternitz. Ludwig came over from Bohemia only sixteen years ago and may be pardoned for getting a word wrong occasionally, considering the fact that he passesses a large heart which is always in the right place. In referring to the death of R. B. Shank, of Lansing, a well-known sales- man remarked: ‘‘I know only what every traveling salesman knows—that the very mention of the name of Bob Shank sent a little flutter of hope and courage to our hearts, for it both re- minded us and promised us the hearty greeting, the courteous attention to what we had to say, the attentive and _ inter- ested looking over of our samples and the positive assurance of an order if our goods and prices were right—virtues rare among buyers, who so often refuse even to look or listen. I looked upon Mr. Shank as a sort of gauge on the grocery market, so perfect was his knowledge of values. His _ personality was to me strikingly like that of Abra- ham Lincoln—tall, gaunt, in exterior so careless, but, again like Lincoln, bubbling over with true kindness and full of wit and humor.”’ Oe The Grain Market. Owing to no session of the grain ex- change in Liverpool for three days wheat has not been doing very much. Prices have remained very steady. The visible showed a small decrease, where an increase was expected, and prices were well sustained in spite of all the bear influence that was brought to bear on the market by local shorts and scalp- ers in grain centers. Exports have been light lately, owing to the scarcity of cars. As lake navigation will now open in a day or two all this will be changed and wheat will move out more freely. Harvest reports from nearly all the foreign exporting countries show more or less crop damage. There is nothing to offset this except the amount of wheat held by the Argentine. Our own crop, so far as winter wheat is con- cerned, is not going to be very large, three states showing only about one- third to one-half of the regularcrop. It is entirely too early to say anything about the spring wheat crop in Minne- sota, North and South Dakota. Many farmers will plant flax largely, on ac- count of the high price being paid for that commodity. For this reason wheat will not yield to lower prices. Our ex- ports have been about 30,000,000 bush- els less than during the corresponding time last year from July 1, 1899, to the present time. There are still ten weeks to July 1, 1900, when our exports will reach nearly 190,000,000 bushels. Tak- ing the situation as it is, it looks to. us as though better prices will prevail. Corn is hardly as firm as it was last week. That must be expected as it can not go up all the time, especially after a 7c rise. We do not look for much more of a set-back and would not won- der if prices would go to where pre- dicted, 45c in May, especially as the stocks on hand are not large, either in the visible or invisible in farmers’ gran- aries. I think there is less corn than in several years. As there will be no new corn until after at least seven months every one can form his own conclusions. Oats are strong, owing to a good de. mand from exporters, as well as domes- tic dealers. In my opinion they are high enough. I think there will be more oats sown, on account of wheat fields being plowed up, and for this rea- son oats can not advance. In rye there is nothing to be said. What little is offered is taken. We look for lower prices in this cereal. Beans are offered at $2.05. As the importation of beans has been large, prices cannot be crowded up any more. One dollar is bid for October delivery. The demand for flour can be said to be excellent, locally, domestic and foreign. In mill feed there is no change to re- port. Prices remain the same. Receipts have been very good, being 54 cars of wheat, Ig cars of corn, II cars of oats, I car of rye, 6 cars of flour, I car of barley, 3 cars of hay, 1 car of straw and 4 cars of potatoes. Millers are paying 68c for wheat. C. G. A. Voigt. SUCCESSFUL SALESMEN. F. L. Souter, Representing Walsh-De Roo Milling Co. Fred L. Souter was born in 1844 in Wingfield Parish, Suffolk county, Eng- land, in a cottage a few rods from Wingfield castle, a magnificent old pile built in the early sixteenth century and still in use as a dwelling by the lord of the manor. Mr. Souter was one of a family of ten children. His father, a foreman on the Wingfield estate, emi- grated with his family to America in 1852, landing at Quebec. The ocean voyage was made in the bark Helen, which was emploved in shipping lum- ber to England and in bringing back emigrants on the return trip. Three weeks were spent on the ocean and three weeks the ship was beating about in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. At Que- bec the family took passage on a steam- er for Hamilton, Canada. An incident happened at Montreal which nearly made this sketch unnecessary. While — the boat was lying at the wharf, in the rush and confusion of landing Mr. Souter either fell or was pushed over- board into the river. He was not missed by his family until he was brought back to the boat by a bystander who had res- cued him as _ he was floating down the swift current several yards below the steamer. He was quickly resuscitated and returned to his happy parents, (Mr. Souter states that this must account for his aversion to water). At Hamilton teams were hired to take them to their destination at Simcoe, in Norfolk county, Ontario, a distance of seventy-five miles. His father and oldest brother soon obtained employment ona farm. Being poor, the entire family, old and young, were compelled to work, and all the schooling Mr. Souter received was three months each winter until he was 15 years of age. His father leased a farm the third year after his arrival in Canada, which afforded employment to all the family who were able to assist. At the age of 17 he hired out to learn the wagonmaker’s trade, spending two years at the business. He then worked in a sawmill on Otter Creek, Ont., be- ginning as tail sawyer. In about two years he had worked his way up to the position of manager of the mill. In Oc- tober, 1865, he came to Michigan, lo- cating at Holland, where he still lives. He purchased a small piece of wild land of 40 acres and set about clearing and improving it for a home. He worked at all kinds of farm work and in the woods, making railroad ties, peeling bark, hewing square timber, cutting cord, wood and saw logs; in fact, he says if there is any kind of hard work of which he has not done his share, he is willing to take a day off and finish up the job. He became a citizen of the United States as soon as the law per- mitted. He held the office of justice of the peace for ten years and was elected township drain commissioner two terms and county drain commissioner two years. He dealt in fruit trees quite ex- tensively for about four years. In 1887 he was employed by the Werkman Man- ufacturing Co., of Holland, selling chamber furniture in portions of Mich- igan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota. Two years later he accepted a position with the Walsh- DeRoo Milling Co. and has traveled for this company continuously ever since, with the exception of a vacation of about two weeks each year. Last year he was sent South by the corporation to introduce its Sunlight, Daisy and Snow White brands of flour to the retail trade of the Southern States, his Michigan territory ,being covered in his absence by D. C. Gilmore, of Holland. While South and in making a trip by the steamer Newburn on Pamlico Sound, a few miles sovth of stormy Cape Hatter- as, the boat was caught in one of those ugly squalls common to that region. About 3 o'clock in the afternoon the boat was suddenly enveloped in a cloud so dense that it was impossible to see across the deck. ‘The wind, lightning and thunder were terrific, and just as Mr. Souter began to think of his ‘‘ Now I lay me,’’ the boat righted and the cloud passed by. The captain asserted that it was the worst storm he had en- countered during his career of seventeen years as a sailor on the sound. Early in July of last year he returned to Mich- igan and took up his old route, which includes nearly all the available towns in the western portion of the State. Mr. Souter is a steady-going sort of a man and enjoys a steadily increasing trade. He is credited with the posses- sion of an unusual amount of patience and persistence, which frequently en- ables him to win a customer where less persistent men fail to accom- plish their purpose. He is an exceed- ingly good story teller and, unlike most good story tellers, he is a good listener as well. He is not much of a ‘‘jiner,’’ and has never joined any religious or- ganization except the church at large. 8 Having Fun With An Echo. From the Washington Post. The mischievous pages of the House have discovered a new trick of the echoes in Statuary Hall. They play it upon the tourists by the score and up- on pretentious statesmen occasionally, when they can do so without discovery. There is a certain spot, near the beaten path of travel from the central doorway of the House toward the Sen- ate, where this peculiar echo is effec- tive. If any coin or metal object is dropped on the marble step between the telegraph office and the reception room it sounds to one passing the particular spot in question as though the object were dropping immediately at his feet. A boy with a dime or a nickel is able to have all sorts of fun by waiting until some one passes the point. Even the Senate pages skip away from their work to visit the boys on the other side and play with the echo. Oe — Will Keep Hotel Like Sheldon. Westerville, Ohio, April 16—Simeon Chapman, proprietor of the Hotel Holmes, authorizes the statement that the Rev. R. E. Erhart, Claysville, Pa., who has been a guest at the Holmes Hotel for several days past, will take charge of the hotel during next week and run it as Sheldon would run it. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Drugs--Chemicals Michigan State Board of Pharmacy Term expires GEO. GUNDRUM, Ionia a Dec. 31, 1900 L. E. REYNOLDS, St. Josep - Dee. 31, 1901 HENRY HEIM, Saginaw - - Dec. 31, 1902 WIRT P. Dory, Detroit - - - Dec. 31, 1903 A.C. SCHUMACHER, AnnArbor - Dec. 31, 1904 President, Gro. GUNDRuM, Ionia. Secretary, A. C. SCHUMACHER, Ann Arbor. Treasurer, HENRY HEM, 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—CuHas. F. MANN, Detroit. Treasurer—J. S. BENNETT, Lansing. How to Run a Five-Cent Fountain. Before one commences to sell an ice cream soda, an egg drink, or, in fact, any drink which is commonly sold for 10 cents for 5 cents, one must take a look at his Situation, ask and answer the question, ‘‘Can I increase my trade three times by this method?’’ If you do not think that you can, then you had best keep on as you are. Occasionally, one is driven to this course by some one else going into this line. In such a case, where you feel that you must come down to 5 cents or lose your trade, then | Say your one course is to make your plans to have everything a little better than your neighbor who has caused the trouble. If you are in a city where every one gets IO cents for ice cream soda, and you are getting your fair share of the trade, then I advise that you make no change in the price of your drink, but if you must make any change, make it in the quality of your goods, for by this method you can increase your sales and your profit much more rapidly. One of the most common errors is that when you put your drinks down to a 5 cent basis, you will not have to be as particular in regard to what you serve as how you serve it. This is ‘not true, if you have madh up your mind to this course. Then, the next thing to do is to look out for a man of experience in whom you can place every confidence, to work for your interest, and then give him absolute charge of everything and give him a chance. | Say this, because I know that no matter how many years a man has been an owner of a fountain, unless he has personaily stood behind the counter he does not know where the waste is or how to stop it as does an experienced man. There is at nearly all fountains more or less useless waste of material ; by this I do not mean that things are exactly thrown away, but much is lost that might under proper Management be saved. Much is lost by putting too much syrup in drinks, etc. “Such losses must be reduced to minimum if we are to nake our fountain pay on the five cent basis. One must also beware of false economy, for much is lost in the way of trade by an attempt at economy in small things. Help is a question that requires skill, and unless you are an expert dispenser yourself, the first thing is to find a man- ager and let him hire such assistants as are necessary. Next to your manager your syrup man must be thorough and careful, and one you can trust to give you each time the Same quality of syrup. The number of dispensers you have must depend much upon the amount. of business that you cando. Two are as few as any man can use ona profitable five cent trade. If you can not secure enough trade to at times keep at least two men busy, you can never hope to make the business pay you on that basis. The question is often asked, ‘‘Can’t I use a little cheaper grade of goods at a lower price?’’ I say and Say it em- phatically, ‘‘No.’’ On the 5 cent basis you must use a little better, if anything. The gains must come from a much in- creased trade, and not from a small re- duction of expenses. Could ae decrease your expenses even one-half you would Give the best, gain very little profit. be satisfied with a small margin and use judicious advertising, and I will warrant that you will never be wanting for lack of good trade and a good profit. If one is putting in a new fountain for the purpose of reaching after the bulk of trade, be sure and have as much counter Space as you can. Have room enough behind the counter to have two or three men work with ease. You may think this unnecessary at this time, but if you do the business that you must to make the five-cent business a success, you will need the space. Pure cream of a fair quality and at any rate pure can be secured for about 60c per gal. Some may possibly have to pay as high as 80c, and in some places even more. If you can’t secure a fair grade of cream at the above prices, there are numerous formulas for mak. ing ice cream from part cream and part milk, using gelatin, and you can easily produce a good cream at the figures | am about to give. When you can it is best to use the pure cream: Now our cream will cost, for say 3% to 4 gals. of ice cream, $1.20 for 2 gal- lons of cream; 12 cents for 2 pounds of Sugar; Io cents for I ounce of a good ($12 per gallon) vanilla; 13 cents for % dozen eggs at an average price of 25 cents per dozen. We will count ice, salt, etc., for freezing and packing at 45 cents and our cream has cost us $2. If frozen by power we should have 4 gallons, but to be sure of our figures we will call it 3%. How much can we afford to give with a glass of soda? | suggest that a scoop holding 2 ounces be used. This gives us when even full just 16 glaeses to a quart, but one always gives a little more and so can hardly figure more than 12 to the quart. At this rate we secure 168 glasses for $2, or at an average of I I-5 cents per glass. If you are care- ful not to give more than your measure even full, you can secure 200 glasses for the $2, making the cost but 1 cent a glass. The question of Syrup now comes up before us; many dollars are lost annual- ly by wasting of syrups. Toa 12 ounce glass 1 ounce of syrup is sufficient. for an ice cream soda, and when fruits are to be added ¥% ounce is enough. The Syrup when made from the finest of fruit stocks will cost us about as fol- iows: 1 quart good stock, 60 cents ; 3 quarts of syrup, 30 cents; foam, color- ing, acid, etc., not over 10 cents, or $1 per gallon. If then we use 1 ounce to a glass, we have 128 glasses for $I, or just about 3 of a cent a glass. If we are to add, say 1 ounce of crushed fruit of the finest kind, the cost will] be about I cent. When fresh fruits are in the market and you prepare your own, the cost will be much less, but 1 want to give the most expensive figures. We now have the figures, let us see what our drink will cost us: Ice cream, .o1 I-5; Syrup, % ounce, .003¢; fruit, .o1 ; soda, -00 I-10; total, .02-27-40, or a little less than .0234 cents per glass, A vanilla ice cream soda can be pro- duced for the following: Ice cream, I I-5 cents; soda and syrup, 3-5 cents, or I 4-5 cents. We see from this that if your fountain is properly managed and you have no great Josses to contend with, you can make from 24 to 3 cents on every glass of ice cream soda _ that you draw at 5 cents. One should, however, to make the fountain pay, take in at least $50 a day in the summer months. This means 1,000 drinks at a profit of $30 over the cost of materials. You will need at least two dispensers, one head or manager and one under man, which expense will be about $5 per day. Unless one can bring his business up to this point, | hardly think that it will pay to go in fora 5 cent business. lf you can and have a good man to run your fountain and look out for your in- terests, you will succeed. There is not much money in an egg drink at 5 cents at some seasons, at others there is a fair profit. You can figure your syrup and soda to cost you I cent, your egg from 1 to 3 cents, ac- cording to your location and the season of the year. When you can_secure your egg at 2 cents, you can make a_fair margin, and by having an expert make it you can gain considerable reputa- tion in this line. Lemonades are a problem that takes much time and thought to give a good article and still make money. Lemons in some sections reach as high as 3 cents each, but, as a rule, 2 cents can be fig- ured as an average, and at times they reach even as low as 1% cents. It is an easy matter when a lemon costs but 2 cents or less to make lemonades at a good profit, but when they reach over that price one must be careful. A 12 ounce lemonade can be made from a half of a lemon, with very good results, if care is taken to purchase good juicy lemons. We must push ahead and try to get people to drink plain cream soda. To do this put out an article that is simply fine; it is poor policy to say make all] you can on a plain drink, rather see how little you can make so long as you do not waste material. When making a plain cream soda, do not simply put in a dash of the cream, put in half an ounce. Made in this way many prefer it to ice cream soda, and you are mak- ing a good profit. The same is true of phosphates and fancy drinks, many of which do not cost nearly as much as an ice cream soda, and may, by the addition of a lit- tle ice shaved very fine, and a slice of lemon or orange dropped on, be made to take the eye and sell well. These are things you must look to. To be sure it takes more time to do all these little things, but one extra man costs but lit- tle; it is a great deal better to have too much than too little help at your foun- tain. Among other things, frozen phos- phates and fruit glaces, etc., afford a large margin of profit, and with the proper machinery are very easy to make; the only thing is that they take time. Revive the old-time milk shake. There is a good Margin in them, and the things to push are the things that offer the large profits. They take time, but 1f you have enough help, this will not count, as they will always have plenty of time. Mineral waters is a part of the busi- ness that it is well to push; it is the one thing on which you can make a large percentage and ‘serve with ease, but care must be taken in preparing your waters to have them good and never let them get old; better lose part of a tank now and then than to serve a poor article. Never put up a dose of medicine for any one for less than lo cents. It is worth that much to run around the store and put up a dose of any kind. I have always gone to market every day and_ purchased my own supply of berries and fruit. By so doing I saved many a hard-earned dollar. Every care must be taken to secure the best at the lowest price. I have made the statement that a man who takes in $50 a day should have $25 profit after paying for goods and help. A vast difference there is, to be sure, in the running expenses of a store and fountain, but a man doing $50 a day will have tied up ina fountain, $2,000; in sundries, $500. The interest and wear and tear on the fountain will be Say, $250; ice at $200; coat and towel supply, another $150; now suppose we call the rent of the fountain at $600, we have a yearly running expense of $1, 200, or $100 per month; we are taking in $25 a_ day profit, or $750 per month, which gives us a balance of $650 of profit. From this we will take $150 to cover any possible deficit and this leaves us $500 clear, and if we can average this for six months we are all right, even if we only make expenses during the bal- ance of the year. Many will think this an impossibility, but if your fountain is properly man- aged there is no reason why you should not succeed as well as others. When you are ready for business be sure and let the people know it. Don’t be afraid to advertise, for it will pay you. E. F. White. The Drug Market. Opium—lIs firm at the advanced price. Prices are now steady, both in primary markets and in this country. The re- ported damage to crop was not as great as it was reported. ; Morphine—Notwithstanding the ad- vance of 15¢ in opium, morphine has had two declines of toc per ounce. It is understood that the decline is on ac- count of the placing on the market of another brand of morphine. Competi- tion is quite sharp between manufactur- ers. Quinine—Is quiet but firm. At the bark sale in London 5 per cent. better prices were obtained. Higher prices are looked for. Cocaine—Has been advanced 25c per ounce. This did not surprise the trade, as prices have been too low. Cod Liver Oil—From reports received from the primary markets the oil is be- ing sold at less than cost of importa- tion. Higher prices will rule. Glycerine—Crude continues very firm and scarce. Refined is as yet un- changed. Grains of Paradise—Are very scarce and have been again advanced. Linseed Oil—Is firm at the advance noted last week. Continued high mar- ket for seed and stocks, being controlled, will probably keep oil up for some time. —__—e 6. _ Stomach of Less Importance From the Lancet. Large portions of the stomach may be excised, or even the whole may be removed, with no very great mortality, and in successful cases with wonderfully little effect on the patient's digestion. The stomach hardly occupies in our present opinion so important a place in digestion as it formerly held. We know that it is rather a preparer for the exer- cise of the digestive powers of the pan- creas than an active digestive agent it- self and that one of its functions is to render innocuous many of the micro- organisms which enter with the food. So that we can understand to some ex- tent the small amount of interference with digestion produced by even con- siderable resections of the stomach. Nowadays. PO enw jA Better Line ; jof Wall Paper f Is not shown by any house than we show this season. We have care- fully selected the best patterns that f twenty-six of the leading factories make. If your stock needs sorting up write us and we will gladly send you samples by express prepaid. § ov prices are guaranteed to be identically the same as factories § represented. Better write us to- day and see an up-to-date line of Wall Paper. Heystek & Canfield Co., j f Grand Rapids, Mich. : f The Michigan Wall Paper Jobbers. SE Ee ee. wa L p RIGA are Perrigo’s Headache Powders, Per- rigo’s Mandrake Bitters, Perrigo’s Dyspepsia Tablets and Perrigo’s Quinine Cathartic Tablets are gain- ing new triends every day. If you haven’t already a good supply on, write us for prices. FLAVORING EXTRAGIS AND DRUGGISTS’ SUNDRIES 1 sins 1 » 3 ri ‘ sales eaten dot MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 27 WHOLESALE PRICE CURRENT. Advancea— ee Declined— Acidum — Mae. 50@ ~=60 oe Co. @ 50 ee 6@$ 8/| Copaiba............. 1 15@ 1 25} Tolutan. a 50 en ama 70@ 75| Cubebe............. 90 100 | Prunus virg. . @ 50 BOUAG s .s: @ 16 een guage teeters ee : pn 4 : . 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N@ oe ee 25 | © carriage. 2 50@ 2 75| Glue, white. ........ 15@ 2 Tanacetum V oz. pkg 22 | Nassau sheeps’ wool °° ay ae Thymus, V...0z. pkg 95| _carriage............ ) 2 75| Grana Paradisi...... one = ymus, , Velvet es sheeps’ — Humulus............ 25@ 55 pssst wool, carriage. .... @ 1 50| Hydrarg Chior Mite @ % Jalcined, Pat........ 60 | Extra yellow sheeps’ Hydrarg Chior Cor.. @ 85 Jarbonate, Pat...... 18@ 20} wool, carriage. .... @ 1 25| Hydrarg Ox Rub m. @ 1 05 Carbonate, K.&M.. 18@ 20] Grass sheeps’ wool, Hydrarg Ammoniati Qi Jarbonate, Jennings 18@ 20] carriage. @ 100 oo 50@ 60 Olen Hard, for slate use.. @ 75 pes TUM ....... @ 8% Yellow Reef, for Ie — olla, Am... 65@ 70 Sa foes 6 _ 6 = slate use........... @ 1 40| Indigo....... ese 75@ 1 00 Amygdale, Amaia’. » On 8 23| ae weg, Bev. og 400 Se Clete ce 50 @ 50 ey Cortex...... 2 30 2 30 aaa Cortex...... @ 65@ 70 Bergamii............ 2 40@ 2 60| Zingiber............. @ 50] Macis 65@ 75 0 ae ie 80@ 85 ipeeee boa... @ 60| Liquor Arsen et Hy- ee. Ba 80@ 85} Ferri lod............ @ 50 rarg Iod.. @ B Cedar . ee Rhel Arom.. @ _ 650! Liquor ‘otass Arsinit 10@ 12 Chenopadii.. ue @ 2 75| Smilax Officinalis.. 50@ 60)| Magnesia, Sulph.. 2@ «63 Cinnamonii ......... 1 15@ 1 25} Senega.............. @ 650; Magnesia, Sulph, bbi @ 1% Citronella ...02022222 36@ = 40! Seite... 12222 @ 60! Mannia,S. F....’.... 5@ 60 Menthol............. @3 - Morphia, S., P.& 7 2 15@ 2 oa S.,} wy. 2 bs 2 05@ 2 30 Moschus Canton... 40 Mpyristica, No. 1..... 65 80) Nux Vomica...po. 15 @ 10} Os Sepia.. 30@ 35 | P epsin Saac, H&P. | Poe. @ 100) Picis " i, N.N.% gal. | doz . . @ 200 Picis L iq. quarts... @ 1 00 Picis Liq., pints. . @ 85] Pil Hydrarg... po. 80 @ BO} — Nigra... po. 22 @ is} a. Alba.. _ 35 @ 30! iix Burgun.. @ 7 Planch _—......... 10@ = 12 Pulvis Ipecae et Opii 1 30@ 1 50 Pyrethrum, boxes H. & P. D. Co., doz... @ % Pyrethrum, pv...... 20 30 Quassice ve 8@ 10 Quinia, Ss. PL &W... BG 43 Quinia,S. German... 33@ 43 “arn, 7. o......... 33@ 43 Rubia Tinctorum.. L@ 14 Saccharum Lactis py 18@ 20 | ne 6 00@ 6 25 | Sanguis ee 40@ 50) Sapo, W.. 12 «14! OG Me... 10@ 12} oo ............., @ 15 2S eS PS eweT TIS KK =) Seidlitz oe Moines 2 22 Linseed, pure raw... 64 67 Sinapis . @ = 18| Linseed, boiled...... 65 68 Sinapis, ‘opt... @ 30! Neatsfoot, winter str 54 60 Snu , Maceaboy, De | Spirits Turpentine.. 61 67 Voes @ 41) | Snuff,Seoteh, DeVo's @ 41) Paints BBL. LR. | Soda, Boras.. @ Soda, Boras, po. oe 9@ 11| Red Venetian. . 1% 2 @8 Soda - Potass Tart. v3@ 25 Ochre, yellow Mars. 14% 2 @4 Soda, Carb.......... 1%@ 2 | Ochre, yellow Ber. 1X 2 @3 Soda, Bi-Carb.. 3@ 5 Putty, commereial.. 2% 24@3 | Soda, Ash.. 34a 4| Putty, strictly pure. 2% 2%@3 | Soda, Sulphas. . @ 2) Vermilion, Prime Spts. Cologne... ; @ 2 60| American . 13@ 15 | Spts. Ether Co 50@ 55 Vermilion, English. . Re 7 Spts. Myreia Dom.. @ 2 00} Green, Paris........ 4@ «$18 | Spts. Vini Reet. bbl. @ | Green, Peninsular... 13@ 616 Spts. Vini Reet. %bbl @ | Lead, red.. evuccy OGRE 2 | Spts. Vini Reet. logal @ Lead, white...) 111 6%4@ a Spts. Vini Rect. 5 gal @ |W hiting, white Span @ 7 | oebeks. Crystal... 1 05@ 1 25 | a hiting, gilders’.... a 9 | Sulphur, Sul. 24 4| White, Paris, Amer @ 1 00 | Sulphur, Roll. . 24@ 3% | Whiting. Paris, Eng. Tamarinds .......... 8 10; clin. @ 1 40 | Terebenth Venice.. 28@ ~=630.|*;U niversal P repared. 1 00@ 1 15 | Theobrome.......... 50@ =o | Vanilla . . 9 00@16 00 Varnishes | Zinei Sulph.. Ta 8 , | No.1 Turp Coach... 1 10@ 1 2 ois | Extra Turp.......... 1 60@ 17 BRL. GAL. | Conon Bodgy......... 2 75@ 3 00 Whale, winter....... 70 70 | No.1 Turp Furn..... 1 00@ 1 10 Lard, Gxira.......... 55 65 | Extra Turk Damar.. 1 55@ 1 60 Lard, ee. 35 40 | Jap.Dryer,No.1Turp 70@_ = 75 LIZ IIS ' [Seasonable| avail Ses TJ | Mot We solicit RESSSAET ASS AA AASARA RS aS SES SESE AES eS I your orders. ue Vitriol Pans Green Insect Powder White F lehore im Camphor Quality prices guaranteed. Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co., Grand Rapids, Mich. ISAS AISA ASE SOSCEE SAISASO SA and MICHIGAN TRADESMAN erage prices for average conditions of purchase. those who have poor credit. Subscribers are e our aim to make this feature of ROCERY PRICE CURREN*. The prices quoted in this list are for the trade only, dealers. They are prepared just before going to press and possible to give quotations suitable for all conditions of in such quantities as are usually purchased by retati are an accurate index of the local market. It is im- purchase, and those below are given as representing av- the greatest possible use to dealers. Cash buyers or those of strong credit usually buy closer than arnestly requested to point out any errors or omissions, as it is ALABASTINE White in drums............. 9 Colors in drums............. White in packages.......... 10 Colors in packages.......... 11 Less 40 per cent discount. AXLE GREASE doz. gross Pere ss 55 Castor Oil.............60 imamond .............. 50 CORID S838 ceeters....._....) 75 IXL Golden, tin boxes 75 Mica, tin boxes.......75 9 00 Paragon............ ..55 600 BAKING POWDER Acme 44 Ib. cans 3 doz............ 45 . .cans3 doz............ 6 1 Ib. cans 1 doz............1 00 ae 10 Arctic 6 oz. Eng. Tumblers......... 85 El Purity Ib. cans per doz.......... 75 \% Ib. cans per doz.......... 1 20 1 Ib. cans per doz.......... 2 00 Home 4 Ib. cans, 4 doz. case...... 35 \% Ib. cans, 4 doz. case...... 55 1 Ib. cans, 2 doz. case...... 90 ¥4 lb. cans, 4 doz. case...... 45 \% Ib. cans, 4 doz. case...... 85 1 Ib. cans, 2 doz. case...... 1 60 Queen Flake 3 ez., 6 doz. case............. 270 6 02., 4 doz. case. . .3 20 9 0z., 4 doz. case.............4 80 1 Ib., 2 doz. case.............4 00 S tb., 1 doz. case............. 9 00 BATH BRICK See. 70 Oe EE ee ela 80 BLUING Semel S07... Large, 2 doz........... 75 Arctic, 4 0z, per gross. . 400 Arctic, 8 oz, per gross...... 6 00 Arctic, pints, per gross.... 9 00 BROOMS 0.1 Came. 3 00 ee 2 75 Mo: S Carpet... 2 50 me, 4 Carpet... 8... 2 05 fener Gem... ...... ....2 75 Common Whisk............. 95 Ramey Witisk....... 1 Warehouse....... eo CANDLES Electric Light, 8s.. ... a2 Electric Light, 16s. . ao weramne, 6s............... 10K Peramms, 178...... 2... eee CANNED GOODS Apples 3 Ib. Standards...... 90 Gallons, standards. . 2 65 Beans Sea 75@1 30 Red Kidney......... 75@ 85 80 ee 85 Blackberries Standards .......... : 75 Blueberries Standard .............. 85 Cherries Red Standards........ 85 ae 115 Clams. Little Neck, 1 lb..... 110 Corn aaa ns 75 85 OT a 95 Hominy Sees cs 5 85 Lobster Star, 4 ib........... 1 85 ee 3 10 Pienic Talls......... i 2 25 Mackerel Mustard, 1lb........ 1 75 Mustard, 2lb........ 2 80 Soused, 1]b......... : 175 Soused, 2 Ib........ : 2 80 Tomato, 11b......... 1 75 Tomato, 2Ib......... 2 80 Mushrooms Hopes. “ 18@20 Bupens........ e, 22@25 Oysters Cove, 1............ Cove, 21... 1 70 Peaches ie Wenow 1 65@1 &5 Pears Standard ........... : 70 Poery.........:...- ns 80 Peas Marrowfat .......... 1 00 Early June.......... 1 00 Early June Sifted. . 1 60 Pineapple ites 1 25@2 75 ReOeA 35@2 25 Pumpkin MO ee. 65 oes... 75 Paney 85 Raspberries Standard............ ‘ 90 Salmon Red Alaska.......... 1 35 Pink Alaska......... 95 Sardines Domestic, 4s........ @A Domestic, Mustard. @8 Prencn.... 8@22 Strawberries Standard............ 85 Baney. 1 25 Succotash ee 90 Geog...) 1 00 Raney... ...).. 12 Tomatoes rae 80 ooe. 90 ——-........... 1 15 Galions.............. 2 35 CATSUP Columbia, pints.............2 00 Columbia, % pints........... 1 25 CHEESE wieme @12% Amboy . Elsie ... @15 Emblem @12 ere. @13 Gold Medal.......... @12 Ideal sc @l2 EBON oe oo a @13 Riverside............ @12% ee eee @12 2 @90 Ecigen -- @17 Limburger........... @13 Pineapple ........... 50 @%5 Sap Sago........... @18 CHICORY ed 2... CHOCOLATE Walter Baker & Co.’s. German Sweet.............. 23 PORE 35 Breakfast Cocoa............. 46 Runkel Bros. Vienna Sweet ......... 21 Vane 28 Prema. 31 H. O. Wilbur & Sons. Capital Sweet............ 2... 21 Imperial Sweet...... ....... 22 Nelson’s Premium.......... 25 Sweet Clover, 4s............ 2 Sweet Clover, s... 27 Premium Baking. 33 Double Vanilla. 40 Triple Vanilla. ............. 50 COCOA Mee 30 MeVOIMS ae Pes 42 Van Houten, %s............. 12 Van Houten, 4s....... 20 Van Houten, %s............. 40 Van Houten, 1s ...... 72 Colomal,4¢8 ................ 35 Colonial *46........... 3... 33 caer 45 emper, 66.2 ae PM 42 COCOA SHELLS 20 Tb. Bags. 2 oe 3 Pound packages ......... 4 CLOTHES LINES Cotton, 40 ft. per doz...... .1 00 Cotton, 50 ft. per doz.. -1 20 Cotton, 60 ft. per doz.. .1 40 Cotton, 70 ft. per doz. 1 60 Cotton, 80 ft. per do: 1 80 Jute, 60 ft. per doz.. 80 vute, 72 ft. per doz.... 95 CIGARS The Bradley Cigar Co.’s Brands Ravanee oo: Co Clear Havana Puffs....... We Ms Bee Woe H. & P. Drug Co.’s bran Fortune Teller............ Our Manager.............. Guintelie.- G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s bran wast ganee &ssg seses Cc DS BG We eee Phelps, Brace & Co.’s Brands. Royal Tigers. - 55@ 80 00 Royal Tigerettes...... 35 Vincente Portuondo ..35@ 70 00 2 70 Ruhe Bros. Co......... 25@ 70 00 Hilson Co.............35@110 00 T. J. Dunn & Co....... 35@ 70 00 McCoy & Co é 70 00 35 00 The Collins Cigar Co..10@ Brown Bros .---15@ 70 00 Bernard Stahl Co.. ....35@ 90 Banner Cigar Co......10@ 35 00 Seidenberg & Co......55@125 00 Fulton Cigar Co......10@ 35 00 A. B. Ballard & Co....35@175 00 E. M. Schwarz & Co. ..35@110 00 San Telmo....... ..-35@ 70 00 Havana Cigar Co --18@ 35 00 C. Costello & Co....... 35@ 70 00 LaGora-Fee Co....... 35@ 70 00 S. I. Davis & Co. .... ..35@185 00 Hene & Co... ........ 35@ 90 00 Benedict & Co.......7.50@ 70 00 Hemmeter Cigar Co. ..35@ 70 00 G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.35@ 70 00 Maurice Sanborn .... 50@175 00 Bock & Co... 5... ..: 65(@300 00 Manuel Garcia........ 80@375 00 Neuva Mundo......... 85@175 00 Henry Clay... 85@550 00 La Carolina............ 96@200 00 Standard T. & C. Co. ..35@ 70 00 H. Van Tongeren’s Brands. mar Groen... ...... .... 35 00 COFFEE Roasted te sic: Special Combination........ 20 French Breakfast........... 2 Pea 30 WOowee 2 Private Estate. .............. 38 — LECCE Ga ey sence 40 4eSS 3344 per cent. delivered. Rio Ae CE eS EEN a ve 9 MOOR ee 10 Prime ..... 12 Golden ..... 13 Peaperry..... 0... 14 Santos a ae 000 2... 15 Erme ls. 6 POawerry.. 8 18 Maracaibo Prime. a Met 17 Java MOTOR oo oe Private Growth............. 30 Mandehling................. 35 Mocha Imitation... .....0 51... (22 Pe 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. pues i 12 00 JOEPSC¥ 8 Oe McLaughlin’s XX xX McLaughlin’s XXXX sold to retailers only. Mail all orders direct to W. F. McLanghlin & Co., Chicago. Extract Valley City % gross......... 75 Felix % STOSS................1 15 Hummel’s foil % gross...... 85 Hummel’s tin & gross ......1 43 CONDENSED MILK 4 doz in case. Gail Borden Eagle .......... 6 75 Crome ee Mey 5 75 CRAmpIOn oo. 4 50 MapnOla 6. 4 25 Challenge ...................4 00 Dene sis COUPON BOOKS 50 books, any denom... 1 50 100 books, any denom... 2 50 Ks, any denom... 11 50 1,000 books. any denom... 20 00 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. books... _—. o 100 books. oe oo ee 500 books................ 11 50 1,000 Books... 2... 20 00 Credit Checks 500, any one denom...... 00 1,000, any one denom...... 3 00 2,000, any one denom...... 5 00 Steel punch........... 75 CREAM TARTAR 5 and 10 Ib. wooden boxes..... 30 Bulk in sacks..................29 DRIED FRUITS—Domestic Apples Sundtied -- @ 6% Evaporated, 50 Ib. boxes.7@ 714 @15 California Fruits Apricots ..........'.... Blackberries .......... Nectarines ...... _ Beaches... ......-...: 10 @l1 TOR 7% Pitted Cherries. ...... Prunnelles ............ Raspberries .......... California Prunes 100-120 25 Ib. boxes ...... 90-100 25 Ib. boxes ...... 80 - 90 25 Ib. boxes ...... 70 - 80 25 Ib. boxes ...... 60 - 70 25 Ib. boxes ...... 50 - 60 25 Ib. boxes ...... 40 - 50 25 Ib. boxes ...... 30 - 40 25 Ib: boxes ...... ¥4 cent less in 50 Ib. eases Raisins ® L ®@9O9O99 DVR TN se oe we London Layers 2 Crown. 1 75 London Layers 3 Crown. 2 00 Cluster 4 Crown......... 2 2% Loose Muscatels 2 Crown 7% Loose Muscatels 3 Crown 84 Loose Muscatels 4 Crown 8% L. M., Seeded, choice ... 10 L. M., Seeded. fancy .... 10% DRIED FRUITS—Foreign Citron Leghorn. ae Wormieam (so a Currants Patras Cases... 8. oc 6% Cleaned, bulk). .............. 6% Cleaned, noctas Sa 74 ee Citron American 19 Ib. bx...13 Lemon American 10 lb. bx..1014 Orange American 10 Ib. bx..101%4 Raisins Sultana 1 Crown............. Sultana 2 Crown ............ Sultana 3 Crown............. Sultana 4 Crown............. Sultana 5 Crown............. Sultana 6 Crown...... ...... Sultana package ............ FARINACEOUS GOODS Beans Dried Pima. 5% Medium Hand Picked 2 15@2 25 Brown Holland.............. Cereals Cream of Cereal............. 90 Grain-O, small .............. 1 35 Grain-O, large............... 2 25 Grape Nuts 2... st 1 35 Pos Cereal, small.......1 35 Postum Cereal, large...... 2 25 Farina 241 1b. packages ............1 25 Bulk, per 100 Ibs.............3 00 Haskell’s Wheat Flakes 36 2 lb. packages... .... ...3 00 Hominy Bares oes -.2 50 Flake, 50 Ib. drums.......... 1 00 Lauhoff Bros. Flaking Mills, Rice Flakes, 3 doz pkg case 2 85 Flaked Peas, 3 doz pkg case 2 85 Flaked Beans, 3dozpkge’se 2 85 35 Chene St., Detroit, Mich. Maccaroni and Vermicelli Domestic, 10 Ib. box......... 60 Imported, 25 Ib. box......... 2 50 Pearl Barley Common 2. 2. Opester = 2 50 Paapire 3 00 Grits Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s Brand. 24'2 Ib. packages ............ 100 tb. kegs... Soo 200 tb. barrels Peas Green, Wisconsin, bu.......1 Green, Scotch, bu. .......... 1 Spit, BU 2... Rolled Oats Rolled Avena, bbl...........3 75 Steel Cut, 4% bbls. 2 05 Monarch, bbl.. 50 Monarch, % bbl...... 95 Monarch, 90 Ib. sacks 75 Quaker, cases.......... 8 20 Huron, cases............... 2 00 Sago German 4 MaGgG Sadia 3% Salus Breakfast Food F. A. McKenzie, Quincy, Mich. 36 two pound packages .... 3 60 18 two pound packages .... 1 85 Tapioca Piake 2 es ee ee Pearl, 241 1b. packages..... 6% Wheat Cracked, bulk............... 3% 24 2 tb. packages ............ 2 50 FLAVORING EXTRACTS DeBoe’s 20z. 402. Vanilla D. €........ 110 1 80 Lemon D.C ...... 70 1 35 Vanilla Tonka...... 75 1 45 FOOTE & JENKS’ JAXON Highest Grade Extracts Vanilla Lemon 10zfullm.1 20 1ozfull m. 80 20z fullm.2 10 202 full m.1 25 No.3fan’y.3 15 No.3fan’y.1 75 MEAN, CHIGH| Foote & JEN KS Vanilla ae Lemon 20z panel..1 20 20z panel. 75 3 oz taper..2 00 4 0z taper..1 50 areata 8 oe Jennings’ D. C. Vanilla D. C. Lemon BO. . 1 20 NOE ose 75 oo...... 1 50 SZ... 1 00 of....., 2 00 2oe.... .. 1 40 6 0Z......3 00 om... 2 00 No. 8....4 00 No. 8....2 40 No. 10....6 00 No. 10.. .:4 00 No.2 T..1 25 No.2 T.. 80 No.3 T..2 00 No. 3 T..1 25 No. 4 T..2 40 No. 4 T..1 50 Northrop Brand Lem. Van. 20z. Taper Panel.... 75 1 20 202. Oval. oo. oo... 1 20 3 oz. Taper Panel....135 200 40z. Taper Panel....160 2 25 Perrigo’s Van. Lem. doz. doz. XXX, 2 0z. obert....1 25 75 XXX, 40z. taper....225 125 XX, 2 0z. obert...... 1 00 No. 2, 2.0z. obert.... 75 XXX D D ptchr, 6 oz 2 25 XXX D D ptehr, 40z 175 K. P. pitcher, 6 oz... 2 25 FLY PAPER Perrigo’s Lightning, gro....2 50 Petrolatum, per doz......... 75 HERBS 2 ON ea 15 INDIGO Madras, 5 Ib. boxes ........... 55 S. F., 2,3 and 5 lb. boxes...___ 50 JELLY V.C. Brand. ID. pale 35 SUID. pals. -< 62 Pure apple, per doz......... 85 LICORICE Oe 30 Calabria ........... 25 BON 14 OC 10 LYE Condensed, 2 doz............ 1 20 Condensed, 4 doz.......... "9 25 MATCHES Diamond Match Co.’s br. s No. 9 sulphur........... 2 Anchor Parlor ....... 150 No. 2Home ig 30 Export Parlor.......... 17) -4 00 Wolverine Gg 50 MOLASSES New Orleans Lh . 11 Baar 14 Good. ...._- 20 Haney... hele 24 Open Kettle. eee. --- 2OQDOO Half-barrels 2c extra MUSTARD Horse Radish, 1 doz......... 1 Horse Radish, 2 doz... ||. oo a Bayle’s Celery, 1doz....___! 1 75 PICKLES Medium Barrels, 1,200 count ......... 5 90 Half bbls, 600 count..... 17 3 46 Small Barrels, 2,400 count .........6 90 Half bbls, 1,200 count ...._/ 73 95 PIPES Clay, No. 216... 00.2.2... 1 70 Clay, T. D., full count... 7/7: 65 Cob, Ne se ee POTASH 48 cans in case. Babbitt’s ........... ..4 00 Penna Salt Co.’s......... 2 3 00 RICE Domestic Carolina head................ 6% Carolina No.1....... _ Carolina No.2....... Broken Imported. Japan, No. 1.......... --54%4@6 Japan, No. 2........ -- -- 44%@5 Java, fancy head........5 @5% Java, No.1...0..........5 @ Taps a SALERATUS Packed 60 Ibs. in box. Church’s Arm and Hammer.3 15 Delan@es 3 00 Dwight’s Cow...............3 15 PROM 210 a ee 3 00 OGIO ee 3 15 Wyandotte, 100 %{s.......... 3 00 SAL SODA Granulated, bbls............ 80 Granulated, 100 Ib. cases.... 85 Lump, PRIS... ae Lump, 145 Ib. kegs........... 80 SALT Diamond Crystal Table, cases, 24 3 lb. boxes..1 40 Table, barrels, 1003 Ib. bags.2 85 Table, barrels, 407 Ib. bags.2 50 Butter, barrels, 280 Ib. bulk.2 50 Butter, barrels, 20 141b.bags.2 60 .Butter, sacks, 28 Ibs......... 27 Butter, sacks, 56 Ibs......... 62 Common Grades 100 3 Ib. sacks................2 15 60 5 Ib. sacks... -2 05 28 10 lb. sacks... -1 95 56 Ib. sacks. ... -. 231D Senn. 22 Warsaw 56 Ib. dairy in drill bags....: 30 28 Ib. dairy in drill bags. .... 15 Ashton 56 lb. dairy in linen sabks... 60 epeins 56 Ib. dairy in linen sacks... Solar Rock OG 1D: SACKS cos oe 25 Common Granulated Fine............1 00 Medium Fine................ 1 05 29 al « it. t SALT FISH Cod Georges cured.... Georges genuine. Georges selected . Strips or bricks. . Pollock ‘Halibut. Strips a See pk errin Holland wien noone, bbl. 11 - Holland white hoops4bbl. Holland white hoop, Keg.. 78 Holland white hoop mechs. 85 Norwestan .... 2... .. 2... Round 100 Ibs.............. 3 60 Round 40 Ibs............... 17% MOSNOG ss. 16% Biomeers.. Mackerel Mess 100 Ibs. .............. 17 00 Mees 4016s... Oe es eee. .............. 1 85 Micss. Sips... 2... 1 51 MO. E200 IDK, .. 3... se 15 00 No.1 isc. .........:. .. 6B Nout i9 ibs... ... NO.1 SIRS: .... 2... ES No. 216g ips... 8. 9 50 Tee 2 SOS 410 No.2 Tis... 2. Ne 2: SIS... 91 Trout No. 1 100 Ibs. Whitefish No.1 No.2 Fam 100 Ibs........ 800 72 2% 40 Ibs........ 360 3 20 1 40 1 is... .... 1 00 88 43 S tee... .... 84 73 37 SAUERKRAUT iBArEpIS -......-. gos cies ocie cs 5 00 Half barrels... Pa cite ae = SEEDS Mee: 3 9 Canary, Smyrna.. ——. - Oe 8 Cardamon, Malabar......... 60 Celeree e 10 Hemp, Russian.............. 4% x ae ag Mustard, white........ a ‘0 Be ont ae peace coeee a 4% Cuttle ee. 15 SNUFF Scotch, in bladders.. 37 Maccaboy, in jars.. = French Rappee, in ‘jars. — SOAP JAXON Single box.. ..3 00 5 box lots, delivered........ 2 95 10 box lots, delivered........ 2 90 JAS. § KIRK & 60. 8 BRANDS. American ——— —- Dome......... 3 30 Cabinet... Dede oegecte cece ae SaVOD oo acces cece 80 White Russian.. cece a ae White Cloud, ...-4 00 Dusky Diamond, 50 6 02..... 2 00 Dusky Diamond, 50 8 0z..... 2 50 Blue India, 100 % Ib.. ..3 00 - gg came ..3 50 Eos... .-2 65 100-1207 Dars....-.....<...... 100 big Twin Bars............ 3 65 IB Semess. 0. ic. 3 60 10 meso ee 55 25 box 45 5 cae o upward delivered ce SUA Al s Single box.. .-2 95 Five boxes, “delivered. ......2 90 Scourin Sapolio, kitchen, 3 doz...... 2 40 Sapolio, hand, 3 doz......... 2 40 er - 5% —_ English. . . 4% SPICES | Whole Spices Allepiee 22605 12 Jassia, China in mats..... 12 Cassia, Batavia, in a: 25 Cassia, Saigon, broken.. 38 Cassia, Saigon, in — 55 Cloves, Amboyna cag 6 Cloves, Zanzibar... a eee 14 Mace . pecee 55 Nutmegs, 7 55 Nutmegs, 105-10........... 45 Nutmegs, 115-20............ 40 Pepper, Singapore, black. 15% Pepper, Singagore, white. 23 Pepper, shot... 8... - 16% Pure Ground in Bulk Allspice......... 16 Cassia, Batavia. 28 Cassia, Saigon. . 48 Cloves, Zanzibar. . 17 Ginger, African...... eee 15 Ginger, Cochin............ 18 Ginger, — See tees 25 Mace.. Sse se cus 65 Mustard .. : 18 Pepper, Singapore, black. 18 Pepper, Singapore, white. 25 Pepper, Cayenne..... oe 20 Sage..... bee ats slat ces on 20 Kingsford’s Corn 40 1-lb. packages........... 6% 20 1-lb. packages.... ...... 6% 6 Ib. packages........... 7s Kingsford’s Silver Gloss 40 1-Ib. packages........... 7 6 lb. boxes.. bee io ae Ciceuimmaien Con 20 1-lb. packages... | ee 40 1-Ib. packages.......... 4% Common Gloss 1-lb. packages............. 4% 3-lb. packages... Leake) ain 6-lb. Ha be Be sies 5 40 and 50-lb ee veee oom Barrels... eccece | aoe SUGAR Below are given New York prices on sugars, to which the wholesale dealer adds the local freight from New York to your — point, So on the invoice for the amount of freight =— pays from the market in which he purchases to his —T oe ‘ocuaing or 20 — e weight of the barrel. Domino.. Beiecc ec cacacce OF ae Coble Coo 5 55 Crosbed -. 0.2... 1... 6 BS OO ee eo a as 5 30 Powdered . 5 25 Coarse Powdered. 5 25 XXXX Powdered......... 5 40 Standard Granulated. .... 5 15 Fine Granulated..... ..... 5 15 Coarse Granulated...... - 530 Extra Fine Granulated.... 5 30 Conf. Granulated.......... 5 40 2 1b. cartons Fine Gran... 5 25 21b. bags Fine Gran...... 5 25 5 lb. cartons Fine Gran... 5 25 5 Ib. bags ee Gran...... 5 25 Mould A.. eo Diamond A.. Confectioner’s A.. ice 8 No. 1, Columbia ani 4 80 No. 2, Windsor A......... 4 80 No. 3, Ridgewood A...... 4 80 No. 4, Phoenix A.. _ “oo ; o, ae A. 470 a 4 65 4 60 4 55 4 59 4 45 4 40 4 35 ee ee ce as 4 35 4 35 4 35 SYRUPS Corn ee ee Ha DiS... 20 1 doz. 1 gallon cans......... 3 32 1 doz. % gallon cans......... 1 96 2 doz. 4 gallon cans......... 93 Pure Cane Fair . es 16 Chotea 25 TABLE SAUCES The Original and Genuine en Lea & poo s, a Halford, large......... Halford, small... 2 25 Salad Dressing, large 4 55 Salad — small. 2 75 EGAR Malt white Wie, 40 grain.. 8 Malt White Wine, 80 grain..11 Pure Cider, Red Star........12 Pure Cider, Robinson.......12 Pure Cider, Silver........... 11 WASHING POWDER RubNoMore Rub-No-More, 100 12 0z ..... 3 50 WICKING No. 0, per gross..............20 No. 1, per oneal beac cass ae No. 2, per gross... oss onan No. 3, per gross... ee Seas ee WOODENWARE Baskets Bushels --1 15 Bushels, wide band. ak Market .. . - oe Willow Clothes, large ..7 00 Willow Clothes, me Se 6 50 Willow Clothes, small....... 5 50 Butter Plates No. 1 Oval, 250 in crate...... 1 80 No. 2 Oval, 250 in crate......2 00 No. 3 Oval, 250 in crate...... 2 20 No. 5 Oval, 250 in crate...... 2 60 Clothes Pins Boxes, gross boxes.......... 65 Mop Sticks Trojan spring .. Eclipse patent spring .. Nolcommon............... No. 2 patent brush holder .. 12 th. cotton mop heads .. Pails 2-hoop Standard............ 3-hoop Standard............. 2-wire, Cable.... 3-wire, Cable. . Cedar, all red, ‘brass bound. Paper, E ureka... Fibre.. a ‘Tubs, 20-inch, Standard, No.1.... 18-inch, Standard, No. 2.... 16-inch, Standard, No. 3.... 20-inch, Dowell, No.1....... 18-inch, Dowell, No. 2.. 16-inch, Dowell, ‘pons So... No.1 Fibre.. No. 2 Pre... .... No. 3 Fibre... Wash Bouts Bronze Globe.. 2 © Dewey . -t0 Double Acme.. -2 7 Single Acme.. 22 Double Peerless.. -.3 20 Single Peerless.. «2 OO Northern Queen .. ..2 50 et ee ..3 00 Good Luck . nate cuts ae Oe Weiversar el. . 2 25 Wood Bowls Sk in. Butter................. 75 13 in. Butter.................1 00 Soin. Butler... 5... f7 in. Butter..... ...........2 SO iin. Buever.................8 60 Assorted 13-15-17... ook Assorted 15-17-19 ............2 50 YEAST CAKE Yeast Foam, 1% doz........ 50 Yeast Foam, 3 doz.......... 1 00 Yeast Cre m, 3 doz.......... 1 00 Magic Yeast 5c, 3 doz... ....1 00 Sunlight Yeast, 3doz........ 1 00 Warner’s Safe, 3da07........ 1 00 ) sis ' Provisions Barreled Pork @13 00 ees ose ee os @I13 75 Clear baek........... @13 50 SUCFt CHUL. ......... @13 2 Pig .. eS @16 00 Bean.. a @11 00 Bamiy @13 75 Dry Salt Meats Beles... 8. 38% Brskets............. 8 Extra shorts......... 7% Smoked Meats Hams, 121b. average. @ 11% Hams, 14lb. average. @ 11', Hams, 161b. average. @ 11% Hams, 20lb. average. @ il Ham dried beef..... @ 13% Shoulders (N. Y. cut) @ 7% Bacon, clear......... 9 @ 10 California hams... @ 8 Boneless hams...... @ 9% Boiled Hams. @ 16 Picnic Boiled Hams @ 13 Berlin Hams. . @ 8% Lards—In Tierces Compound........... 6%s Kettle.. ls owuse 813 Wecetoie .......... 6% 55 Ib. Tubs..advance \% 80 Ib. Tubs..advance 1g 50 Ib. Tins...advance % 20 Ib. Pails. .advance % 10 Ib. Pails..advance % 5 Ib. Pails..advance 1 3 1b. Pails..advance 1 Sausages Bologma ............. 5% Laver... .. 6 Frankfort . 7% Ce 7% Oe ee 6% Moneme oe. 9 Headcheese.......... 6 Beef Extra gaa rs cl vial 10 00 Boneless. . ae 11 50 Rump .. 11 25 Po Feet Bes, e.......... 80 ¥ bbls., 40 Ibs....... 1 50 \% bbls., 80 Ibs....... 2 75 Tripe Nits, 15 Ibe.......:.. 70 \ bbis., 40 Ibs....... 1 25 % bblis., 80 Ibs....... 2 2 Casings Fork... ss .. 20 Beef rounds......... 3 Beef middles.......- 10 SHGGR ess... 60 Butterine Rolis, dairy.......... 13% Solid, dairy.......... 13 Rolls, creamery. .... 19 Solid, — eae 18% anned Meats Corned boot, 2Ib.. 2 70 Corned beef, 14 Ib.. 19 50 Roast beef, 2 Ib...... 2 70 Potted ham, \s..... 55 Potted ham, S.... 1 00 Deviled ham, \s.. 55 Deviled ham, %s.. 1 00 Potted tongue, 4s.. 55 Potted tongue, \s.. 1 00 ---9 00 .-9 00 8 00 00 - 7 25 50 -6 00 -5 00 Grains and Feedstuffs | Wheat | | Weeens, Winter Wheat Flour Local Brands Patents .. oie OO Second Patent. ee we 3 6 Straight es ee eee oe 3 20 | a ~_ oa Graham . a 3 30 Buckwheat ......... 5 00 Rye ‘ic. a a Subject’ ‘to usual cash dis- count. Flour in bbls., 25¢e per bbl. ad- | | ditional. Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand Diamond %s............... 360 Diamond 44S............... 3 60 | Diamond t4s............... 3 60 | Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand Quaker %s.......... 3 60 Quaker 4s 3 60 (higher Me... SS Spring Wheat Flour Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s jaar Pillsbury’s Best — nue foe Pillsbury’s Best 4 4 15) Pillsbury’s Best igs. 4 05 | Pillsbury’s Best %s paper. 4 05 | Pillsbury’s Best 4s paper. 4 05 Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand Duluth Iniperial ‘¢s.. 4 00 Duluth Imperial 4s... .... 3 90 Duluth Imperial 4s....... 3 80 Lemon & Wheeler Co.'s Brand Parisian %46......... 4 10) Patient s...... 4 00 Parisian %48.........,.... 3 90 Olney & Judson’s Brand Oeresofa %a.......>....... 4% Ceresota %4s............... 410 Ceresota %48............... 4 00 Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand ee a Pamret a... 4 00 maurel 48,.......... 8 88 Meal Bolted . 2 00 Granulated . . 2 20 Feed and Millstuffs St. Car Feed, screened.... 17 00 No. 1 Corn and Oats...... 16 50 Unbolted Corn Meal...... 16 00 Winter Wheat Bran....... 15 50 Winter Wheat Middlings. 15 50 SCreeMiINgS ................ 15 00 Corn Corn, ear lots.. 1 Soo Less ‘than car lots. - Oats Cat toe. 30 Car lots, clipped........... 33 Less than ear foes... Hay No. 1 Timothy car lots.... 12 00 No. 1 Timothy ton lots.... 13 00 _ Hides and Pelts The Cappon & Bertsch Leather Co., 100 Canal Street, quotes as follows: Hides Green No.1......... @7 Green No. 2......... @ 6 a. .........,... @5 on No. 1. @ 8% red No. 2. @7% Culekden arson No.1 @10 Calfskins,green No.2 @ 8% Calfskins,cured No. 1 @\1 Calfskins,cured No.2 @ 9% Pelts Peis, onee.......... 5O@1 25 Tallow NO to os @4 ING, Zoi... ces, @3 Wool Washed, fine........ 22@24 Washed, medium... 26@28 Unwashed, fine. .... 18@20 Unwashed, medium. 20@22 Oils Barrels Eocene . P @13 Perfecti i @11% XXX W, ww. Mich. Hdlt @11% Ww. W. ae Se dees q@ili cent White. . @10% _o Gas. ache alias @12% oun Naphtha. eee nue @12% Ol” ee @34 Mie 6. ra Black, winter.......... | | | | Fresh Meats | Candies lo a Pe mms ce: | Careass.. cotene Gneam 796 bbls. pails | Forequarters coacese «68 @ 6M | Standard. 7 é 7% Hindquarters ....... 7 @9 | Standard H. Hi. : £2 | a) ne Bo... 9 = | Seiad Twist. . 7%@ 8 | i ecid dedse baw 8 | a ‘i ; , 8% | Roonda G40 7 ote oa Cmmeme 4 ..........-, @ 6% | Jumbo, 32 Ib........ @ 6% | Plates . he odie 4 @ 5 Extra H.H..... @ 8% Daun ee —— ; @10 ) 2a, | BOC Oot... @7 Seen go. | Mixed Candy Boston Butts........ @ 7% | Grocers... .......... @ 6 Shoulders . coe @ 74 | ae . @ 6% Leaf Lard........... © 7% | Greece ........,...... @7 Mutton —— begs ou @8 “areas (ema: | OSE Spring Tambs: 9 @I10 | Broken ny @ 7% Veal. | Cut Loaf a @ 8% | Carcass eae gaat 74@9 | English Rock........ @ 8% ' | Kindergarten ....... @ 8% x cke | a --- ee @y nes Ce @ &% I ac ers | Hand Made Cream r a a : eae ee ie eas @i4 ae oo aris : C rystal Cream mix.. @12 Butter Fancy—In Bulk Seymour 2.2... 28... 5% | San Blas Goodies.... @il New York..............-.. 5% | Lozenges, plain ..... @9 Want 5M Choe, Drope nn @ Sal fees een os % B ‘ oll wa ss a EN ; ? | Eclipse Chocolates. @13 Soda — Drop @13 i mum Drops.......... @5 —_ oo a ¢ Moss Drops. ae @ 8% Long Island See aes u Lemon Sours... cess . @ 2% Zephyrette .. seceee 100 | Teal Cream Bonbons i Oyster 36 Ib. pafls......... @il Faust ek Molasses c iia 15 Parina........ Ib. pails.. @13 | gues Wee i oe } 4 he ted Marshmellows : Sweet Goods—Boxes Golden Wafiles . @u Animals. a 10% Fancy—In 5 Ib. Boxes Assorted Cake...........: 10 — Sours . @50 Belle Kose................. 9 ee Drops. @60 bemss Water............. 6 Ps @65 Buttercups... ........... 13. | H. M. Choe. Drops. . @i5 Cinnamon Bar............. g |H. M. hoe. Lt. and Coffee Cake, Iced. .. 10 |, Dk. No.1 @# Coffee Cake; Java......... 10 | Gum Drops. @30 Cocoanut Taffy............ 10 | Licorice IFOpS... @i5 Cracknells ................ 15% | A. B. Licorice Drops @0 Creams, Ieed............. $i | Lozenges, plain... .. @55 Cream Crisp............. . | Lozenges, printed .. @55 Crystal Creams............. 10 | mperials.... fete ee ee eee = Cubans .. (ol ae 6 Currant Fruit. 2.000. 2.022: i | Cream BE eo 05s @55 Frosted Honey............ 124% | Molasses Bar. . @5b Frosted Cream. i Hand Made Creams. 80 @9” Ginger Gems, lg-or sm... 9_| Cream Buttons, Pep. Ginger Sr Suape, ig oF risa 3 and Wint.......... @es ac 19 | String Rock......... @60 oan Cakes... _. “g | Burnt Almonds..... 123 @ Graham Crackers. -... Te nes eerie @5E xraham Wafers........... 10 nels Honey a... a 12% ar. 3 Ib. ius mperials 4. 2 tteeees @ Jumbles, Honey........... 124% | P sito Goods _55@ 60 Lady Fingers.............. 11% | —— cs — Lemon Wafers.. > c. Marshmallow . 15 F ruits Marshmallow Wainut 1 | —— — Mixed Picnic.. 11% Oranges Milk Biscuit.... 7% | Fancy Navels - 3 76@3 90 i zs an — ’ aa moece........ 2 on 75 asses Bar..... : Reemiage........,... 2 756@3 00 — ae... a {too Mexicans .... i @ ewton ss. 2 JAMISON ...... ...... Oatmeal Crackers. ........ 8 Lemons * Oatmeal Wafers........... 10 | Strictly choice 360s .. @3 50 — —— ese cut egress 9 | Strictly choice 300s.. 3& Penny Cake. 000000.0. 8 | ex Paney’ 30660." @a 00 Pilot Bread, XXX......... 7 Extra Fancy 360s. ... @3 75 Pretzels, hand made...... 7% Bananas Sears’ Lunch............... 74% | Medium bunches.... 1 75@2 00 Sugar Cake ee ee oes 8 Large bunches.. 2 0O@2 50 — Squares mee. ...... : Foreign Dried Fruits ar ee ee ula 8 Su tanas. . wcsccsces. 1056 | Californias, Fea. @10 Tutti Frutti. / 221) Cede coe 16% | Cal. pkg, 10 Ib. boxes @ 8 Vanilla Wafers............ 14 Extra thoice, 10 Ib. Vienna Crimp. . 8 boxes, new Smprna @13 et eer ee ne : ood i Mikados, new (@l4 mperial Mikados, 18 Fish and Oysters D. boxes.......... @ Pulled, é ib. boxes.. « Fresh Fish ie Naturals, in bags... @ 5% -er Dates White fish. . @ 9 | Fards in 10 lb. boxes 10 Trout.. -+++e-- @ 9 | Fards in 60 Ib. cases. 6 Bina i. bees eae poles @ = — r.u. ¥.. 3 M4 eee tl en ae Ses, new..... aa = oe 2 a Sairs, 60 Ib. cases.. @5 uefis C et oe Live Lobster... ——- a a Boiled Lobster ...._. @ 2 —— @ 9 Almonds, Tarragona @I7 @ 9 | Almonds, Ivica. @ @ 7%| Almonds, California, g : mm: shelled........ @15% raze, MOW......... 7 Red Snapper......... @ Mw | Bisents ............ ¢. Col River Salmon..... @ 14 Walnuts, Grenobles. @15 Minemerel.............-. @ 18 Walnuts, soft shelled Oysters in Cans. California No. 1... 13 F. H. Counts..... Table Nuts, fancy... 12% F. J. D. Selects..... ‘ 2 En N —- 11 ee ecans, 3 10 F. J. D. Standards. . . aan oe @12% — Hiekory Nuts per bu. Favorite... .. Se Ohio, new. @i 75 Bulk al Cocoanuts, full sacks @ F. H. Counts ‘ P00 Chestnuts, per bu... @ we CE, 8 0 it be Selects............... 175 Fancy, H.P.,Suns.. 5 @ Anchor Standards........ wit Fancy, H. P., Flags uy Seaiaania oasted ..... oreo a ac Choice, H. P., Extras @ Shell Goods. = P., Extras " Clams, per 100......... 1 00 oas sees 2s oes = Oysters, per Mme... 5... 1 00@1 26 ' Span. Shelled No.1.. 6%@7 30 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN GOTHAM GOSSIP. News From the Metropolis—Index To the Market. Special Correspondence. New York, April 14—The coffee mar ket so far as speculative buying is con- cerned is rather weaker and a fall of about five points took place on Thurs- day. On the Street, however, actual transactions have shown that prices are well sustained. Sellers say they could have moved some very good lots had they made any concession, but this they were unwilling to do, and No. 7 is firm- ly held at 77% @8c._ Buyers from the in- terior have been more numerous than from the city. The receipts of coffee at Rio and Santos from July 1 to April 11 have aggregated 8,301,000 bags, against 7,650,000 bags at the same time last year, and 9,328,000 two years ago. In store and afloat there are 1,076,037 bags, against 1,234,697 bags at the same time last year. West India grades are quiet, although an average call has existed for certain lines. East Indias seem to be somewhat neglected. Aver- age Mochas in an invoice way are worth 163, @17%c, and fancy 18@19c. While no advance has taken place in sugar, the market is firm and the extent of purchases is growing larger day by day as the season advances. ‘There are the usual weekly rumors about a settle- ment of the sugar war, but at the same time these rumors are as stoutly denied by those who ‘‘are in a_ position to know,’’ and _ they reiterate that there is not the least likelihood of Arbuckle and Havemeyer clasping hands over the boiling cauldron. Not a single change seems to have taken place in tea and the whole mar- ket seems to be flat, stale, and unprofit- able. The sale next week is awaited with some interest and may help to move things along. Prices are practical- ly unchanged. There has been a fairly satisfactory market in rice during the week, most of the call being for medium sorts, which are not overabundant in supply. Some call sprang up from the West for Japan sorts and, upon the whole, the situation shows improvement over last week. Choice Southern, 53¢@53éc; head, 53; @o6%c; Japan, 434 @5c. Spices are quiet. Buyers seem to be holding off to see what will turn up, and _ sellers are unwilling to make any shadings to effect sales, so the situation is practically unchanged from a week ago. Quotations are without change. Offerings of molasses of grocery grades are not large and sellers are ad- hering firmly to quotations. Good to prime Centrifugals are worth from 20c up to 37c. Open kettle, 44@55c; Puerto Rico, 34@4oc. Syrups are in light sup- ply and consequently are firm. Export- ers are doing some little business, and the market generally exhibits a fairly satisfactory appearance. Prime to fancy sugar, 20@27c. Jobbers are indifferent and the whole canned goods market is in a state of suspended animation. There is nothing doing at all in futures worth mention- ing, and spot goods seem rather hard to move, even if some reduction be made in prevailing quotations. The market here seems to be a reflection of even greater dulness in Baltimore, where one report says that, ** Never in the history of the trade has business been so quiet at this time.’’ Salmon, which seemed so active a while ago, has suddenly fallen off in enquiry. and sales are of an every-day character. There are no changes to note in anything. The dried fruit market is without in- teresting features and prices are seem- ingly hardly as well sustained as a week or so ago. Orders are for small lots and both sides seem to be waiting for some- thing to turn up. Lemons have taken a turn for the better and quotations show a slight ad- vance, the range now being from $3@ 3-75. per box. California oranges are moving freely and Navels are worth from $3@4.75 per box. Seedlings, $2.50 @2.65. The butter market is very quiet and prices seem to show a steady shrinkage. Strictly fancy Western creamery will not bring over 20c, and there is a good deal that will not bear close enough in- spection to fetch that price. Thirds to firsts, 17@1¢g%c; extra imitation cream- ery, 17@17%c, with off sorts 15@16c. Western factory, 16@16%4c; rolls, 15% @16%e. There is rather a better feeling in cheese than prevailed last week, and both home dealers and exporters show more interest, although there are no changes to note in quotations. The Easter egg demand has passed and the market has not shown any re- markable advance. For near-by stock the top rate is 13%c and for Western choice, 12@12%c. There is a fair every-day demand. The general market in beans is very quiet and holders seem to be anxious to do a larger volume of business, al- though they hate to reduce quotations, Choice marrow, $2.174@2.20; medium $2.15; pea, Michigan in bags, $2.15; barrels, $2.1714@2.20. New maple sugar is arriving in small quantities and the quotations range from 8@ltoc, and syrup 60@75c per gallon. The first box of California, 1900, cherries was sent from Vacaville April 11. Apples are in moderate supply and yet there are enough to seemingly meet the demand. Northern Spy, $4@5; Baldwins, $3@4.25. —> 2. Live Frogs’ Legs. From the Philadelphia Record. ‘‘I want some frogs’ legs, please,’’ said a young woman in a Filbert street market yesterday morning. ‘‘Want ’em alive?’’ asked the man, brusquely. ‘‘Mercy! no!’’ exclaimed the young woman. ‘‘We’ll kill ’em for you while you wait, if you want ’em,’’ continued the dealer. ‘‘Let me show you, any- how.’’ He led her to the rear of the establishment, and there were the frogs hopping about in a damp cage. ‘‘ How much are they?’’ asked the young woman, shuddering. ‘‘Two dollars a dozen,’’ was the reply. .‘‘Gracious! I’m not a millionaire. I never paid anything like that before,’’ said the fair marketer. ‘*‘But you mever got ’em alive before,’’ explained the man. ‘‘We can give you all you want from cold storage. That’s the kind you would get in a restaurant or hotel. I'll show them to you.’’ The young woman’s only comment was that they looked as though they had been dead a long time and ought to be buried. ‘‘I guess I won’t take any frogs’ legs to-day,’’ she said. Then she compromised on catfish. —_>2.__ Money in Vegetable Cattails. Wabash, Ind., April 14—A new and profitable industry has sprung up around the banks of the ponds and smail lakes in this part of the State. The common cattail, which grows in profusion in the marhsy ground near the water’s edge, has become a valuable article of com- merce and sells at the lake for a cent a pound. The cattails have largely su-| perseded wool, cotton and hair for mat- tresses and upholstery, and are said to be admirable substitutes, while they cost far less than the materials men- tioned. Since the first of March over ten tons of the commodity have been gathered and paid for at Syracuse, on Turkey Lake alone. The demand far exceeds the supply and is increasing. —_> 22> ____ English Tea Consumers Will Pay the In- creased Duty. The Liverpool (Eng.) grocers have decided almost unanimously to raise the price of their tea at once by twopence a pound. There was the usual dread of the cutter expressed at the Association meeting, but the more coufageous among the retailers were in a strong majority. The Manchester Federation itself and, departing from their usual course of abstaining from interference with prices, the Metropolitan Association are all recommending the immediate addi- tion of the twopence. This is to cover the advance recently made in the Eng- lish tea duty. ———_>0—_ A new substitute for celluloid, re- sembling horn in appearance, is now ee under the name of mar- oid, Crockery and Glassware " AKRON STONEWARE. Sealing Wax 5 Ibs. in package, per Ib............... 2 FRUIT JARS Te 4 ——.... 4 75 sal Gations. 6... oc —. 6 50 OORCES 2 00 Ropers 25 LAMP BURNERS NOC MR 35 Oe 45 Os 2 65 Ne seme 1 00 UA 45 Sccummy, NO. fT 60 secutiuy, WO. 2) 80 NAM 50 LAMP CHIMNEYS—Seconds Per box of 6 doz. O10 ee 1 45 NO. tsa | 1 54 No.2 San ee 22 Common MOO SUR 1 50 No.1 Sun... .. |. 1 60 NOl2 SUM Se 2 45 First Quality No. 0 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 2 10 No. 1 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 2 15 No. 2 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 3 15 XXX Flint No. 0 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 2 75 No. 1 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 3 75 No. 3 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 3 95 CHIMNEYS—Pearl Top No. 1 Sun, wrapped and labeled... .. 3 70 No. 2 Sun, wrapped and labeled...... 4 70 No. 2 Hinge, wrapped and labeled... . 4 88 No.2 Sun, “Small Bulb,” for Globe DAMS oo ee os 80 La Bastie No. 1 Sun, plain bulb, per doz......... 90 No. 2 Sun, plain bulb, per doz......... 115 No. 1 Crimp, perdez..... ........ 1 35 No. 2 Crimp, per dez.................. 1 60 Rochester Wo. 1 Lime (65¢ doz)... ........ 055... 3 50 fe. 3 Vane (ne OZ) ee 4 00 No. 2 Flint (80e doz)--*- .... ........ he 4 70 Electric No. 2 Lime (70¢ = ete oo ones 4 00 No. 2 Flint (80e doz).... ............. 4 40 OIL CANS 1 gal. tin cans with spout, per doz.... 1 40 1 gal. galv. iron with spout, per doz.. 1 75 2 gal. galv. iron with spout, per doz.. 3 00 3 gal. galv. iron with spout, per doz.. 37 5 gal. galv. iron with spout, per doz.. 4 85 3 gal. galv. iron with faucet, per doz. . 4 2% 5 gal. galv. iron with faucet, per doz.. 5 50 Deal. Piling cans... 7 25 5 gal. galv. iron Nacefas.............. 9 00 Pump Cans 5 gal. Rapid steady stream............ 8 50 5 gal. Eureka, non-overflow........... 10 50 3 gal, Home Rule...................... 9 95 Seal: Mome ie... ... : ko... 11 28 S gal Pirate King 2... 9 50 LANTERNS No. 0 Tubular, side lift............... 5 25 No. 1B Tabular: .: .. ... oe 7 50 No. 13 Tubular, dash.................. 7 50 No. 1 Tubular, glass fountain......... 7 50 No. 12 Tubular, side lamp............. 14 00 No. 3 Street lamp, each.............. 3 75 LANTERN GLOBES No. 0 Tub., cases 1 doz. each, box, 10c. 45 | No. 0 Tub., cases 2 doz. each, box, 15c. 45 : No. 0 Tub., bbls 5 doz. each, per bbl.. 2 00 ' No. 0 Tub,, bull’s eye, cases 1 doz. each 1 25 Butters Mal Per GOe ee 45° 1 to 6 gal., per gal.............0.000.. 5% ee el 48 ieeat Caen 60 See 72 15 gal. meat-tubs, each................ 1 05 22 gal. meat-tubs, each................ 1 40 25 gal. meat-tubs, each................ 2 00 30 gal. meat-tubs, each................ 2 40 Churns 2toG eal, per gab. 6 Churn Dashers, per doz............... 84 Milkpans % gal. flat or rd. bot., per doz......... 45 1 gal. flat or rd. bot.,each............ 5% Fine Glazed Milkpans % gal. flat or rd. bot., per doz......... 60 1 gal. flat or rd. bot., each............ 5% Stewpans ¥% gal. fireproof, bail, per doz......... 85 1 gal. fireproof, bail, per doz......... 110 Jugs be Sal per dOZ 50 Weak POE COC 40 DWSPAL, per gal... 6s 6 Tomato Jugs % gal., per doz. 50 ae CAC 6 Corks for % gal., per doz.............. 20 Corks for 1 gal., per doz.............. 30 Preserve Jars and Covers % gal., stone cover, per doz........... 75 1 gal., stone cover, per doz.......... 1 00 5 < i iS 3 : ~ Bi 15 some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.’’ “Just as good’ as _Ceresota and so much cheaper,’’ fools some people sometimes, but the careful housekeep- er judges flour by re- sults rather than price and knows better. Con- stantly increasing de- mand for Ceresota Flour proves its superiority. The fact that house- keepers are willing to pay more for Ceresota than for other brands is proof that they con- sider it worth more. People may try a new flour because it suits others, but they will not continue to buy unless it suits them. You can tell what people think by what they do. You can tell what consumers think of Ceresota by the fact that our sales have in- creased from five thou- sand barrels daily in 1895 to sixteen thou- sand barrels daily in 1g00. Ee EC Be SM Be SAE y EDR AN ey t M ICE so EES ee Olney & Judson Grocer Co., CBE Be Western Michigan y Y ® Distributors, NS , Grand Rapids. SRE ey 4 The Northwestern Consolidated Milling Company, Minneapolis. Be BAA EE EES ESE ES ESI EE EER COR Me STL ERD NA a Ee ES ES ENA DOPED CDA RRC SED 78% CBRE MRIS “ MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 31 CIPHER YEARS. How They Hoodooed a Battle Creek Mer- chant. Written for the Tradesman. Bartholomew Wentworth Brown-An- nin, dealer in men’s furnishing goods, was in a savage mood when | entered his place of business. He sat behind the counter with a scowl on his face and his one clerk stood at the door looking as if he expected to lose his job the next minute. An advertising man came in before | had an opportunity of say- ing a word and launched out on his argument. The merchant said not a word until aiter the agent had talked rapidly for about five minutes. Then he remarked, gruffly, that he wouldn’t take the space offered if he could get it for nothing. ‘‘Anything wrong with the Times?’’ asked the agent. The merchant shook his head. ** Your paper is all right,’’ he said, patroniz- ingly. ‘*Haven’t you anything to sell?’’ per- sisted the agent. ‘*Storeful,’’ said the dealer. ‘‘Then why won't you advertise?’’ asked the advertising man. ‘*Because,’’ was the reply, ‘‘I’m_ not going to spend a cent in advertising, open any new accounts or take a single chance of any sort this year.’’ The advertising man laughed un- easily. ‘‘Must have money enough,’’ he finally said. ‘‘T have all I can do to debts,’’ was the gruff reply. ‘‘I don’t expect to be able to do that long. This is the third year ending with a cipher that I’ve tried to do business and failed. This year has two ciphers on the end of it and I guess I’ll bust up for keeps this time.’’ I began to get interested and edged nearer to the counter where the two men were talking. ‘*You are superstitious about ciphers, eh?’’ asked the newspaper man. ‘*Superstitious nothing,’’ was the re- ply. ‘‘I guess I know what I’m talking about. I tell you I’ve tried these cipher years, and they’re no good. 1’ll bet we get knocked off the earth in the Philip- pine Islands and that the middle-of-the- road folks elect the President.’’ The newspaper man began making short, quick marks in his note book, but the merchant was too full of his hobby to notice what he was doing. ‘*In 1870,’’ continued the merchant, ‘‘I was just out of college. | wasn’t very strong and needed out-door work, so my father, who had quite a political pull in his city, got me _ the contract for sprinkling the streets. The previous contractor had made a fortune and re- tired, so. the future looked bright for me, especially as 1 got better prices than he had been able to get and had more work. Well, sir, I bought my teams and wagons and hired my men. Then I waited.’’ pay my ‘‘Waited?’’ repeated the advertising man. ‘‘Waited for it to stop raining,’’ re- sumed the merchant, ‘‘but it didn’t stop. It rained every night and the city had no more use for a sprinkling service than it had for a steam fire en- gine with a tenor voice. 1! took the job by the yard, you see, and the rain stopped everything but the wages of my men and the appetites of my horses. It continued to rain up to about the first of August and then it got so dry that you could hear the earth crack nights and the shingles on the houses took fire from the hot nails and burned about half the city down. I tried to sprinkle the other half, but the water works took fire and destroyed the pumping apparatus, so I couldn’t get any water. | remained right there until my men stole all my best horses and the remainder died of indigestion, caused by lack of exercise, and then made tracks for the West- broke.”’ ‘*That was hard luck,’’ said the newspaper man, writing hard and be- ginning to get red in the face. ‘*But I had worse luck in 1880,’’ said the merchant. ‘‘I had gotten a little money together and invested it ina mine out near Leadville. It was a peach of a mine and new lodes were being discovered every day or two. The first of the year I refused a hundred thousand dollars for my interest in the concern. I went away from there broke, too.’’ ‘‘Went away from there broke?’’ echoed the agent. ‘*Yes, sir,’’ replied the merchant. ‘*You remember when we had that little jar out there? People out this way called it an earthquake. It wasn’t an earthquake. It was my mine falling down.’’ ‘*How can a mine fall down?’’ manded the listener. ‘*My mine had a lake of water under it,’’ continued the merchant, ‘‘and one day all my shafts and levels and ore and machinery went down about ten thou- sand feet. Bottom caved right in, leav- ing a cavern there bigger than the mouth of a political orator. I tried to organize a company to develop the thing as a great natural curiosity, but three men working for me fell into the lake one day and never came up, so I got out of the neighborhood about ten rods ahead of a vigilance committee armed with a few gallons of whisky anda de- rope.’’ The merchant looked — reproachfully at the newspaper man_ because he couldn’t help laughing. ‘*By 18g90,’’ he finally resumed, ‘‘! had everything in ship-shape again. | was publishing a country newspaper in the South and doing very well. Aftera good deal of wire-pulling I got the Democratic nomination for Congress and | thought | was fixed for life. Well, the campaign went along smoothly enough until late in August. Then the yellow fever got into the district and a good many white Democrats got dis- gusted with the country and moved away. Everybody said we’d stamp the disease out before fall, but we didn’t. Instead of that, a nurse from the North brought the smallpox down there, and when it came election day there weren’t enough white voters in the district to elect a constable. The colored people elected their candidate and were so tickled over the event that they made a bonfire of my office. I got back to the North on a freight train. I can’t say what will happen to me this year, but I’m going to advise my friends not to stay around the store much. It would be just my luck to be struck by light- ning or have the building fall down be- fore the year is out. What’s that?’’ The merchant stopped talking and bent forward in a_ listening attitude, while the newspaper man made for the door. ‘*Never mind,’’ called out the mer- chant, presently, ‘‘vou may come back. I thought I heard the walls cracking, but I guess I was mistaken. I’ve had such a streak of hard luck during the years ending with a cipher that I’m get- ting nervous. And this year there’s two ciphers and a presidential campaign and a foreign war and a consolidation of business interests into trusts and I’m most afraid to go out alone nights. ’’ “‘You ought to be writing romances at five dollars the thousand words, ’’ said the newspaper man. ‘‘ You can get a job on the Times when your hoodoo gets done with you this year. I believe you'd make a good man to make circulation affidavits.’’ ‘Vm afraid your paper wouldn't live long,’’ said the merchant. ‘“‘If your press should break down or your city editor should get a dose of over-ripe hen fruit you’d charge it tome. No, I think I’ll be extra cautious and remain right here.’’ ‘*Yes,’’ said the newspaper man, ‘‘I think I should be cautious,’’ and we both went out together. Alfred B. Tozer. To My Many Friends and Patrons For fourteen years and until his re- tirement from business, I was head salesman for W. C. Dennison at his repository on S. Division Street. I have now associated myself with the Arthur Wood Carriage Co., as sales- man at their repository and factory, 33-37 Market Street, where I shall be pleased to meet you My aim has been, is and I hope always will be, to represent good, reliable firms, and believe you will agree with me that I have been exceptionally successful. When you are in the market for goods in the reliable line I shall be pleased to have you give mea call. Respectfully yours, N. W. Barker. Madame Salisbury’s Peerless Hygienic CORSETS Gracefu!, Healthful, Perfect Fitting Combining Health, Comfort, Beauty and Durability with Elegance of Form. PEERLESS. BODICE. 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Our line of WORLD Bicycles for 1900 Is more complete and attractive than ever be- fore. Weare not in the Trust. We want good agents everywhere. ARNOLD, SCHWINN & CO., Makers, Chicago, Ill. Adams & Hart, Michigan Sales Agents, Grand Rapids, Mich. Simple Account File Simplest and Most Economical Method of Keeping Petit Accounts File and 1,000 printed blank bil beads. 00. $2 75 File and 1,000 specially printed bill heads...... Printed blank bill heads, per thousand...... EE Specially printed bill heads, per thousand............ 1 50 3 00 I 25 Tradesman Company, = Grand Rapids. $000000000000000oeoooeees , 7 rYyyvvvvvvyvvyvTvvvvvvVTvVVvVrrreY?vtYVvVvVvVTVvVvTVvCC"rwevr+teeY?* le eh he he i hh bo hp bo bp bp bp be bp bp bp bp bp bp bp bp bp bp be bp bp be be bo bp bp be bp bp bp bo be bh bb be 32 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Se ea ke ane ari a foe cg Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association. At the regular meeting of the Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association, held Tuesday evening, April 17, J. Geo. Lehman presided. Two applications for membership were received and accepted, as follows: Noel Jubinville, 3 Robinson avenue, and ‘Engelhart Bros., 386 Eleventh street. The special subject for discussion was the advisability of adopting uniform packages for berries and fruit. The first speaker was Hon. Robert Graham, who was present by invitation, who stated that he was glad to be able to contradict the report published in the daily papers to the effect that the Grand’ Rapids Fruit Growers’ Association had adopted a uniform set of packages. It is a fact that a certain manufacturer urged the adoption of a certain style of package, but the matter is now in the hands of a committee appointed by the Association at the last meeting, and no action has been taken by the committee or the or- ganization. The 16 quart crate is best adapted for shipping purposes, while the 12 quart flat crate is best adapted for the home market. The advantage of the 12 quart flat crate is that it is con- venient to handle and convenient for the grower and grocer to carry on their wagons. Mr. Graham did not favor any law on this subject because of the diffi- culty of securing its enforcement. He referred to the basket branding law, which no one pretends to obey and no one attempts to enforce. The 10 pound basket has gradually come down to 8 pounds, and the 8 pound basket is now made to hold 6 pounds. Even 4 pound baskets are now used by some growers. The so-called bushel basket does not hold a bushel, even when heaped up. There should be a standard for fruit measures, but so long as the dealer is careless and the grower is anxious to get all he can for his fruit, any law which may be enacted will undoubtedly prove to be a dead letter. Jerome C. Maynard, who was also present by invitation, stated that he ap- proved of Senator Graham’s remarks and regretted that the St. Joseph bushel basket, so-called, had come to mean anything but a bushel. There are now four kinds of berry packages and, rather than add any new standards, he urged the reduction of the kinds of packages now used. The 16 quart crate is best for shipping berries, because it gives the fruit an opportunity to aerate all around, and this ventilation is neces- sary to prevent the fruit from going down. He stated that it was a disgrace for growers to use so many different styles of packages and also the old dirty packages which are used by the small growers. He believed that there should be some means devised for the preven- tion of the use of the old packages. Sen- ator Graham stated that he had always undertaken to live up to the rule adopted by the grocers some years ago, and reaffirmed by them from year to year, refusing to use a berry package but once. The larger growers invariably use fresh packages, but the small grow- ers use the boxes over and over again. As a matter of fact, an old box is. not fit to use for berries. J. Geo. Lehman called attention to the fact that the peddler is the man who keeps the old packages in circulation. There is not a grocer who would not like to live up to the regulation and most grocers do this. . John G. Gray suggested that the gro- cers and growers enlist the assistance of the Board of Health, with a view to Superseding the old packages which have long disgraced the market, and suggested the appointment of a com- mittee to co-operate with a similar com- mittee appointed by the Fruit Growers’ Association. Senator Graham said the trouble with the Fruit Growers’ Association is that it is composed aimost wholly of peach growers and that very few berry growers affiliate with the organization. Mr. Lehman stated that it would be a glorious thing if the grocers and grow- ers could bring about more uniformity in packages and secure the appointment of a city inspector on the market to prevent the use of filthy packages. Fred W. Fuller moved that a com- mittee be appointed to act in conjunc- tion with a similar committee from the Fruit Growers’ Association, and the chairman appointed as such committee Messrs. Fuller, Harris and Klap. __S. B. Drake, Manager of the Standard Oil Co., was expected to be present to discuss. the oil situation, but was un- able to do so on account of the illness of an infant child. John G. Gray read an article on the proposgd package post, which was _ well received. There being no further business, the meeting adjourned. Ee West Saginaw Reaching Out for Factories. Saginaw, April 14—At the last meet- ing of the Saginaw Business Men’s As- sociation, the matter of most importance was the proposition of H. G. Wolcott, of Albion, to remove his factory for the manufacture of windmills to this city. Mr. Wolcott is the patentee of what ap- pears to be a very ;-erfect and inexpen- Sive arrangement. He has been manu- facturing them on a smali scale for some years and they have been handled through a Chicago house until they have been introduced into every state and territory. Mr. Wolcott said that after looking over Saginaw’s advantages he was satisfied that this was the proper point to locate the business, which prom- ises to have a future. He has invested about $3,000 in machinery, and he wishes to bring the business here, and offers to take $3,000 stock for his equip- ment and his patent, if local capital- ists will take stock to the amount of $7,000, and organize a company with $10,000 capital. Mr. Zwerk, of this city, is ready to take one-third of the stock wanted here, and those who investigated the matter are satisfied it isa good thing. After a considerable discussion, in which Sec- retary Grant, of the Board of Trade, took part, the matter was referred to the Committee on Manufactories, composed of John L. Jackson, A. C. Melze and W. G. Van Auken. Mr. Melze expressed his good opinion of the enterprise, and the committee will endeavor to secure the capital asked for. E. F. Achard and others expressed the opinion that the business, if it was what it seemed to be, could be built up to large proportions. Mr. Melze said that he would rather put money into a business that was small, but had a fu- ture, than to try to secure some large in- stitution. The committee appointed at the last meeting to endeavor to arrange with E. L. Gregory not to remove his busi- ness from this locality reported the suc- cessful accomplishment of that work. The same committee suggested that an organized effort should be made to se- cure better express capacities for the west side business men; also to induce the Michigan Central Railroad Co. to replace the station at the foot of Court street with something more modern. Later in the meeting these matters were referred to special committees who will be named by the President. This was followed by a discussion of the need of a hotel, and the President and Secretary were authorized to request Major N. S. Wood to get a definite proposition from the owners of the Tay- lor House, as to terms they would make for the reopening of the house. There was considerable sentiment in favor of a new hotel, but the idea that the re- opening of the Taylor House will be a work requiring much less money and therefore more likely to succeed pre- vailed, for the time being at least. fi cage ggagomse? Nu Didn’t Know What They Were Striking For. From the Marquette Mining Journal. A good deal of quiet fun has been had in the copper country over the recent Franklin strike. It is claimed that the men did not know what they were strik- ing for and that, whereas they had been getting in about twenty-eight shifts a month on an average, counting the over- time, they struck for $55 a month, which is less than they averaged under the old system. Busines Yons BUSINESS CHANCES. ASH PAID FOR GENERAL STOCK OF merchandise. Address B. Cohen, Lake 312 Odessa, Mich. = SALE—SHINGLE MILL MACHINERY, all complete, ready to set up. Having com- pleted our cut, we offer our plant cheap, if taken atonce. Perry & Bentley, Tustin, Mich. - 311 O RENT—A STORE IN CEDAR SPRINGS, centrally located. A good live hustler can sell from $25,000 to $30,000 cash per year with a general stock. Rent moderate. Box 298, Cedar Springs, Mich. 310 OR SALE—$3,500 TO $4,000 HARDWARE stock in live town of 800 people. Very best of farming country around. Best location in town. Rent low. Best reason for selling. Ad- dress B. I., care Michigan Tradesman. 309 OR SALE—A NICE CLEAN STOCK OF drugs, wall paper, soda fountain and school supplies, invoicing $2,000, located on main street in a new brick block. The only drug store in the town, and no opposition in any of the above mentioned lines. Population 800 Good trade. Will sell for all or part cash, and at a liberal dis- count if taken at once. Address Box 380, New Buffalo, Mich. 308 $6 00 DRY GOODS STOCK FOR SALE : in live town of 8,000 people. Best stand in the town. Best reasons for selling. A snap for somebody. Address A. Z., care Michi- gan Tradesman. 306 = SALE—SMALL cheap for cash. cheap rent. Might exchange. care Michigan Tradesman. ANTED—LOCATION FOR STOCK OF general merchandise in live town of one to two thousand inhabitants. Will- purchase stock. Address N, care Michigan Tradesman. GENERAL STOCK Good town, good location, Address a | ae SALE—STOCK OF DRY GOODS AND shoes; big bargain; 12 years’ established trade; reason for selling, = health Address 210 West Bridge St., Gran Rapids, Mich. 294 RUG STOCK FOR SALE, INVOICING $1,500, in town of 4,500; good established trade; a paying investment for right party. Ad- dress Box 900, Dowagiac, Mich. 290 HOE STORE FOR SALE—SPLENDID OP- portunity for live man to purchase old-estab- lished business; forty-three years’ existence; good trade, which can easily be increased; good store, steam heat, reasonable rent. Address No. 297, case Michigan Tradesman. 297 _ SALE — NICE CLEAN STOCK OF -drugs, about $3,000, in the best town of its size in the Stat®é. Reasons for selling. Will sell or rent brick store building. Enquire of the Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Go., Grand Rapids. 298 | ay Ae 20 BUY PEDDLING WAGON, grocer’s spring wagon. Enquire C. W. Crimmins, Morley, Mich. 304 _ SALE—GENERAL STOCK, LOCATED at good country trading point. Stock and fixtures will ot about $2,000; rent reason- able; good place to handle produce. Will sell stock complete or separate any branch of it. Address No. 292, care Michigan Tradesman. 292 WY ANTED—1I WANT TO EXCHANGE SOME very desirable Grand Rapids city ea for a well-located stock of hardware. Gilbert. 67 Pearl St., Grand Rapids. 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 > SALE—FLOUR AND FEED MILIL— full roller process—in a splendid location. Great bargain, easy terms. Address No. 227, care Michigan Tradesman. 227 o RENT OR SALE—HOTEL, WITH barn in connection; doing good business all the year; resort region. Address No. 135, care Michigan Tradesman. 135 OR SALE, CHEAP — $3,000 GENERAL stock and building. Address No. 240, care Michigan Tradesman. 240 ——— 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 ina good town for trade. For terms address Box 37, Car- son City, Mich. 238 r= SALE—STOCK OF GROCERIES ID good town of 5,000 inhabitants. Stock in ventories about $2,000. Cash sales $17,000 for 1899. A bargain to the right party. Address H. M. L., care Michigan Tradesman. 200 POT CASH PAID FOR STOCK OF DRY oods, groceries or boots and shoes. Must becheap. Address A. D., care Michigan Trades- 130 man. | SALE OR EXCHANGE FOR GENERAL Stock of Merchandise—60 acre farm, part clear, architect house and barn; well watered. I also have two 40 acre farms and one 80 acre farm to exchange. Address No. 12, care Michi- gan Tradesman. 12 . 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. YANTED—A REGISTERED PHaRMA- cist, one who is familiar with general stock in small town, young married man preferred. Address, stating salary and references, X. Y care Michigan Tradesman. WANTED_SITUATION BY REGISTERED druggist. Address No. 274, care Michigan 274 Tradesman. GOOOQOOOEO per dozen. Pulley Belts Will be in exceptionally heavy demand this season, and the line of buckles and rings shown will enable you to supply the demand and make a hand- some profit. Write us for samples on approval, and our complete prices, This style in Roman gold, rose gold, French gray and bright silver finish, with and without enamel and stone mountings, at $2, $2.50, $3, $3.50 and $4 per dozen. Pulley Rings in bright silver and gold finish, 75¢ We handle everything in the line of cheap and moderate priced jewelry. American Jewelry Company, Pulley Gets | This style in Roman or rose gold, @ French gray or imitation cut steel © finish, $3, $3.50, $4 and $6 per doz. © 45 and 46 Tower Block, Grand Rapids, Mich. —~@-—— v > any goods made. “Rts WV TANNA NARA NWN MN A. T. VAN DERVOORT, Lansing, Mich. This is my specialty and I can give you prompt intelligent service, and will be glad to answer any inquiries regarding taps and dies, chucks I sell everything in taps and dies, and furnish repairs and extras for or drills. Catalogue for the asking. Say you saw adv't. in the Tradesman. General agent for TICHIGAN, E INDIANA 7 OHIO for — REECE GOODS. Gypsum Products Mfg Co., Manufacturers and Dealers in Calcined Plaster, Land Plaster, Bug Compound, etc. Mill and Warehouse: 200 South Front Street. Grand Rapids, Mich. An enterprising agent wanted in every town. Send for circular with references. Sek Granite The best plastering material in the world. Fire proof, wind proof, water proof. Is not injured by freezing. No Glue, no acid. Ready for immediate use by adding water. Office and works: West Ful- ton and L. S. & M.S. R. R. Office: Room 20, Powers’ Opera House Block. FURNITURE BY MAIL MAGAZINE 1950 FREIGHT PRE= PAID. PRICES OUTDONE Our Desk No. 261, illustrated above, is 50 in. long, 34 in. deep and 50 in. high; is made of selected oak, any finish de- sired. The gracefulness of the design, the exquisite workmanship, the nice atten- tion to every little detail, will satisfy your most critical idea. Is sent on approval, freight prepaid, to be returned at our expense if not found positively the best roll top desk ever offered for the price or even 25 per cent more. Write for our complete Office Furniture Catalogue. ln ° a e t 5 ' = AR me s a Q - oy. D RAPID HOUSE } BeFoRE BuvING FuRNI: HOLD | TURE OFANY KIND WRITE US FOR ONE ORALL OF OUR FUR= (“BIG 4’caTaLocuesor NITURE [ HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE MAGAZINE PRICES OUTDONE in having our chair in your home. After you’ve used it for several years—given it all kinds of wear—that’s the time to tell whether or not the chair i$ a good one. Our goods stand every test. The longer you have it the better you like it. Arm Chair or Rocker No. 1001. Genuine hand buffed leather, hair filling, dia- mond or biscuit tufting. Sent to you freight prepaid on approval for 2415 Contpare the style, the workmanship, the material and the price with any similar article. If it is not cheaper in comparison, return at our expense. ‘ Retailers of Sample Furniture LYON PEARL@&OTTAWA STS. GRAND RAPIDS MICH. HOUSE | BEFORE BUYING FURNI: HOLD | TURE OF ANY KIND WRITE US FOR ONE ORALLOF OUR FUR= (“BIG 4”caTaLocuEsoF NITURE | HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE MERCANTILE ASSOCIATIONS Travelers’ Time Tables. Michigan Retail Grocers’ Association President, C. E. WALKER, Bay City; Vice-Pres- ident, J. H. Hopkins, Ypsilanti; Secretary, E. A. SrOWE. Grand Rapids; Treasurer, J. F. TATMAN, Clare. Graud Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association President, FRANK J. DyK; Secretary, HOMER KLAP; Treasurer, J. GEORGE LEHMAN Detroit Retail Grocers’ Protective Association President, WM. BLESSED; Secretaries, N. L. KOENIG and F. H. CozzENs; Treasurer, C. H. FRINK. Kalamazoo Reta:l Grocers’ Association President, W. H. JOHNSON; Secretary, CHAS. HYMAN. Re ene Bay Cities Retail Grocers’ Association President, C. E. WALKER; Secretary, E. C LITTLE. oe Muskegon Retail Grocers’ Association President, H. B. SmiruH; Secretary, D. A. BOELKINS; Treasurer, J. W. CASKADON. Jackson Retail Grocers’ Association President, J. FRANK HELMER; Secretary, W H. PORTER; Treasurer, L. PELTON. Adrian Retail Grocers’ Association President, A. C. CLARK; Secretary, E. F. CLEVELAND; Treasurer, WM. C. KORHN Saginaw Retail Merchants’ Association President, M. W. TANNER; Secretary, E. H. Me- PHERSON; Treasurer, R. A. HORR. Traverse City Business Men’s Association President, THos T. BATES; Secretary,.M. B. HO.Lty; Treasurer, C. A. HAMMOND. Owosso Business Men’s Association President, A. D. WHIPPLE; Secretary, G. T. CAMPBELL; Treasurer, W. E. COLLINS. Pt. Hurons Merchants’ and Manufacturers’ Association President, CHAS. WELLMAN; Secretary, J. T. PERCIVAL. eo Alpena Business Men’s Association President, F. W. GILCHRIST; Secretary, C. L. PARTRIDGE. se St. Johns Business Men’s Association President, THos. BROMLEY; Secretary, FRANK A. PERCY; Treasurer, CLARK A. PUTT. Perry Business Men’s Association President, H. W. WALLACE; Secretary, T. E. HEDDLE. ae Grand Haven Retail Merchants’ Association President, F. D. Vos; Secretary, J. W. VER- HOEKs. ee Yale Business Men’s Association President, CHAS. Rounps; Secretary, FRANK PUTNEY. Nee Grand Rapids Retail Meat Dealers’ Association President, L. M. WILSON; Secretary, PHILIP HILBER; Treasurer, S. J. HUFFORD. PRIOR MP AL IMA IOI PINS For Sale Cheap Residence property at 24 Kellogg street, near corner Union street. Will sell on long time at low rate of interest. Large lot, with barn. House equipped with water, gas and all modern improvements. E. A. Stowe, Blodgett Building, g Grand Rapids. Pere Marquette Railroad Chicago. Ly. G. Rapids, 7:10am 12:00m 4:30pm *11:50pm Ar. Chicago, 1:30pm 5:00pm 10:50pm *7:05am Ly. Chicago, 7:15am 12:00m 5:00pm *11:50pm Ar. G. Rapids, 1:25pm 5:05pm 10:55pm *6:20am Traverse City, Charlevoix and’retoske Ly. G. Rapids, 7:30am 4:00pm Ar. Tray City, 12:40pm 9:10pm Ar. Charley’x, 3:15pm 11:25pm Ar. Petoskey, 3:45pm 11:55pm Trains arrive from north at 2:40pm, and and 10:00pm. Detroit. Ly. Grand Rapids.... 7:10am 12:05pm 5:30pm AY. DOUON.... ....... 11:50am 4:05pm 10:05pm ie 8:40am 1:10pm 6:00pm Ar. Grand Rapids.... 1:30pm 5:10pm 10:45pm Saginaw, Alma and Greenville. Lv Grand Rapids...... ......... 7:00am 5:20pm AY Sagimaw......................01:08am 10:16pm ae de 7:00am 4:50pm Ar Grand Rapids.......... Mes ay 11:55am 9:50pm Parlor cars on all trains to and from Detroit and Saginaw. Parlor cars on afternoon trains to and from Chicago. Pullman sleepers on night trains. Parlor car to Traverse City on morn- ing train. *Every day. Others week days only. GEO. DEHAVEN, General Pass. Agent. Grand Rapids, Mich. January 1, 1900. GRAN Rapids & Indiana Railway December 17, 1899. Northern Division. Goin From North North Tray. City, Petoskey, Mack, + 7:45am + 5:15pm Tray. City, Petoskey, Mack. + 2:10pm +10:15pm Cadillac Accommodation... + 5:25pm +10:45am Petoskey & Mackinaw City +11:00pm + 6:20am 7:45am and 2:10pm trains, parlor cars; 11:00pm train, sleeping car. Southern Division Going From South South Kalamazoo, Ft. Wayne Cin. + 7:10am + 9:45pm Kalamazoo and Ft. Wayne. + 2:00pm + 2:00pm Kalamazoo, Ft. Wayne Cin. * 7:00pm * 6:45am Kalamazoo and Vicksburg. *11:30pm 7:10am train has parior ear to Cincinnati, coach to Chicago; 2:00pm train has parlor car to Fort Wayne; 7:00pm train has sleeper to Cinein- nati; 11:30pm train, sleeping car and coach to Chicago. Chicago Trains. TO CHICAGO. Ly. Grand Rapids...+7 10am +2 00pm *11 30pm Ar. Chicago......... 2 30pm 8 45pm 7 00am FROM CHICAGO Ly. Chicago..... *11 32pm bod ne waite oe re Ar. Grand Rapids............. 9 45pm 6 45am Train leaving Grand Rapids 7:10am has coach; 11:30pm train has coach and eae ear; train leaving Chicago 3:02pm _ has coach; 11:32pm has sleeping car for Grand Rapids. Muskegon Trains, GOING WEST. Ly. Grand Rapids....+7 35am +1 35pm +5 40pm Ar. Muskegon...... 900am 250pm 7 00pm Sunday train leaves Grand Rapids 9:15am; arrives Muskegon at 10:40am. Returning leaves Muskegon 5:30pm; arrives Grand Rapids, 6:50pm. GOING EAST. Ly. Muskegon......t8 10am +12 15pm +4 00pm Ar. Grand Rapids... 9 30am 1 30pm = 5 20pm +Except Sunday. *Daily. Cc. L. LOCKWOOD, Gen’! ie and Ticket Agent. 7 O ane 3L Ticket Agent Union Station. MANISTEE fuente’. Best route to Manistee. Via C. & W. M. Railway. Ly. Grand Hapids............... 7 Sam me eee... Ae Ly. Manistee.................... 8 @am 3 55pm Ar. Grand Rapids.............. 2 40pm 10 00pm te W7aisilay Waal DON’T BUY AN AWNING until you get Our prices. CHAS. A. COYE, Il Pearl Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. Send for prices. POOQOQDOOQOQDOOOSODDQOOOQO OQOQOOOQOOO@: Michigan Fire and Marine Insurance Co. Organized 1881. Detroit, Michigan. Cash Capital, $400,000. Net Surplus, $200,000. Cash Assets, $800,000. D. WHITNEY, JR., Pres. D. M. Ferry, Vice Pres. F. H. WHITNEY, Secretary. M. W. O’BrRIEN, Treas. E. J. Boorn, Asst. Sec’y. DIRECTORS, D. Whitney, Jr., D. M. Ferry, F. J. Hecker, M. W. O’Brien, Hoyt Post, Christian Mack, Allan Sheldon, Simon J. Murphy, Wm. L. Smith, A. H, Wilkinson, James Edgar, H. Kirke White, H. P. Baldwin, Hugo Scherer, F. A. Schulte, Wm. V. Brace, James McMillan, F. E. Driggs, Henry Hayden, Collins B. Hubbard, James D. Standish, Theodore D. Buhl, M. B. Mills, Alex. Chapoton, Jr., Geo. H. Barbour, S. G. Gaskey, Chas. Stinchfield, Francis F. Palms, Win. C. Yawkey, David C. Whit- ney, Dr. J. B. Book, Eugene Harbeck, Chas. F. Peltier, Richard P. Joy, Chas. C. Jenks. Have You Had Our System Explained? § If you haven't, don't tell our sales- > x man that you know all about it, > for if you haven't it on your counter § he won't believe you, and he is jus- tified in his belief that you don’t know all about it, for if you did you would be a user. Our scales are sold on easy monthly payments. The Computing Scale Company, ch : ) Dayton, Ohio SSS SS See eS SS [SEES ES SASS ASA SSAA SASS C : = S S > io > > CaS) ~z YEIC TS > 1S] E YS] S yy] > WIC ys] MASA BarwZ BA Wes sew sss Wea Ve eS WBS eS SSS Stoneware |\WALL PAPER For a short time we quote the following low aoe SEASON 1900. Best White Glazed Ware. : i ichi ee The Best Selected Stock in Michigan. Bitter lars sos ee 05 ~=oper gal. : jugs, eS ee ie 06% per gal, Sample books now ready—will be Sent to . e. AN ee 2 . per gal. Onaate ARS. - 22.2 2 So .06% per gal. : s Tbs ba — 12 pal. sizes... . |. ‘05% a ar dealers or paper hangers on receipt of re- Meat Tubs, 15 and 20 gal. sizes.......... 07 per gal. . : ~ Meat Tubs, 25 and 30 gal. sizes.......-.. 08 per gal. quest, freight paid. Send name and address Churns and Covers, 2 to 6 gal....... .2++. .0536 per gal. Churns and Covers, 8 gal.......... .... 0614 per gal. at once. State priced papers you handle. SS Order at once for your spring trade. THE MICHIGAN WALL PAPER CO., LIMITED, H. LEONARD & SONS, Grand Rapids, Mich. 202 RANDOLPH ST., DETROIT, MICH. The Grand Rapids Paper Box Co.) fttttttttterrtrrerrereeres i e + eee + “Search-Light” Soap + Solid Boxes for Shoes, Gloves, Shirts and Caps, Pigeon Hole Files for ce o} Desks, plain and fancy Candy Boxes, and Shelf Boxes of every de- scription. We also make Folding Boxes for Patent Medicine, Cigar + Big twin bar for 5c retail. } Clippings, Powders, etc., etc. Gold and Silver Leaf work and Special oe a : : : ad Die Cutting done to suit. Write for prices. Work guaranteed, eS Positively guaranteed to do a perfect washing, without boiling rs GRAND RAPIDS PAPER BOX CO., Grand Rapids, Mich eS the clothes, or money refunded. Saves labor, time, fuel, the + } hands and clothes. «“‘SEARCH-LIGHT’’ SOAP makes two rs CUOHOR CHORORONOHON CHOROBOHODORONOHOROHOROROROROHOEOE $ bars of hand toilet soap that can’t be beat for removing dirt, + e Sealed = } grease, grime and stains, leaving the hands soft and smooth. $ © calc s o} Show card and circulars packed in each box for advertising. Nearly 40per cent. profit. ad . ® Try a box with next order. Sold by Olney & Judson Grocer Co., Grand Rapids, H Stick es . y @ } Mich.; Jackson Grocery Co., Jackson, Mich.; The Smart & Fox Co., Saginaw, } a Mich.; J. F. Halladay & Son, Battle Creek, Mich., or any Wholesale Grocery s Catches the Germ as well as the Fly. e : House in Detroit, Mich. + . Sanitary. Used the world over. Good profit to sellers. eS + It is the coming warm weather laundry and toilet soap. + Order from Jobbers. eS 6 a $y} oof py} efreGoegorge SOnOROROBOBOCRONOHOBOHOEE SOROROCUOCHOROROROROHOROCHOHOHO +} ++ r$ry i ade ade a F$$> - —_ Lg ine L * 4