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The grace- | doc Oveler Bowls, Stu... sea! per doz, 180 1 80 ful outlines and symmetrical shapes combine practicability as well as sightliness. an The design of pink blossoms and green sprays with gray tinted shading is a most Less 10 per cent.......... 10 83 effective execution of transfer work, and it is the soft rich finish thus imparted that $ 97 55 at once distinguishes the Rosedale as the Crate and ecartage........ __ 250 ° $100 05 Most Beautiful of All Save an Extra 10 per cent. Delicate gold tracery lends additional tone to the pattern. by buying in original assortments. Note that the articles are nicely proportioned as to quantity, and many undesirable arti- cles eliminated from the list. Our assortments are made up in a way that will please you. Our new catalogue is ready for mailing. Are you on our mailing list? We Sell to Dealers Only 42-44 Lake Street, Chicago. them. Do you carry Royal Tiger 10c Tigerettes 5c —A SMOKER’S SMOKE-—in stock? If not you're going to lose a portion of your cigar trade. The other fellow has them and he’s going to get your trade if you don’t carry them. “A word to the wise is sufficient.” PHELPS, BRACE & @CO., Detroit, Mich. F. E. BUSHMAN, Manager. ‘ Jenness & McCurdy 5 } Importers and Jobbers of China, Crockery, Glassware State Agents for Johnson Bros.” P. G. “New Century” Shape See our samples before placing spring orders. Write for list and prices. We will please you. Lamps 71-75 Jefferson Ave., Detroit, Mich. we W(t . 1. ( ' . es eR tai sats tai cee Important to Scale Users - 66 4 99 | FS — 2.9 a ait; S| = = eS Se > Ef ae : a8 = : aoe Be, 4s | $ CT Aen sah, Is one of our leading brands of flour, and is as bright and clean as wn Ww Wwe as ar, ar, ‘ar, ar. as, SA © © S. N ~~ ; wa Ww Ww we we we wa we wa wa w~A its name. Let us send you some. Walsh=De Roo Milling Co., Holland, Mich. i eidiaad pu aeuuesen MIS URIS AD S. For that tired, de= Large H. & H. Assortment. d d 1 id 20 = he pao A Sa fancy shape........ .29 10 sets 6 ine Bees 8 presse an angul 10 sets 7 — SR ae ces 33 AROS OUD TICS. oo 39 state of spring trade 6 nests Vegetables Dishes, 6 to 8. “dl : 12 nests Round on saga 6 tos. ee ee We offer the following 6 only Footed Bow ae ZX So g rereng ZERSES et et et : MesoryynS BSDNOhL OS . cag formula, put up in this i se Be pe a a Save time and money by using the Stimpson rit oe fet eee COMPUTING SCALE; gives weight and money value by + | 4 ment. 4 = latge ae ae en 5 h f : ; | This package is all 4 only S inch Covered ‘Dishes.. ae the movement of one poise. a SS Pe ci 32 28 It has hardened steel pivoted bearings throughout | ; the latest — 4 pairs large fancy Bowls and Pitchers.. 5s the platform construction, which ares strength oa : r eed. 3 Ee factory. eee = durability where most needed. | Hall & Hadden, Remember our scales are sold on easy monthly 18 Houseman Building, Grand Rapids, Mich. payments. “ : aan W. F. STIMPSON CO., Detroit. * 4° ~ aaa ere ) ey e 0 » » > >» > > > > THE MERCANTILE AGENCY Established 1841. R. G. DUN & CO. Widdicomb Bid’g, Grand Rapids, Mich. Books arranged with trade classification of names. Collections made everywhere. Write for particulars. L. P. WITZLEBEN., [anager. -- 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. TTOeSmOD COUpONS Save Trouble. Save Money. Save Time, GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 1900. IMPORTANT FEATURES. Page. 2. Getting the People. 3. Unprofitable Goods. 4. Around the State. 5. Grand Rapids Gossip. The Produce Market. 6. The Buffalo Market. 7. Men of Mark. 8. Editorial. 9. Editorial. 10. Dry Goods. 11. Clothing. 12. Shoes and Leather. 14. Clerks’ Corner. Crockery and Glassware Quotations. 15. Pioneer Grand Rapids. 16. Woman’s World. 18. Observations by a Gotham Egg Man. 19. Gotham Gossip. 20. My Shop Girl. 22. Hardware. Hardware Price Current. The Meat Market. Commercial Travelers. Drugs and Chemicals. Drug Price Current. Grocery Price Current. 29. Grocery Price Current. 30. Extensive Improvement Plan. 31. Something About Hinges. 32. Low Ceilings. 7 ww ww Asin om w wo . INTERNATIONAL CHARITY. The people of India are starving and it is stated that the Navy Department will charter a vessel to carry a cargo of food from this country. It is a good deed and only commendation should be heard; but the opportunity has been taken to wonder if this is the best thing to be done. Is it not a good plan, with hunger going on nearer home, to look out first for these neighbors of ours and _ let the Indians look out for themselves? If England can afford to add enormously to her debt for the sake of carrying war into Africa with the sorrow and the suf- fering attending it would it not be well to let her take care of the starving mil- lions in India? She has, indeed, if we may believe the report, contributed to the relief of the sufferers, but not enough to stay starvation, much less remove it. Let every nation take care of its own and let the United States feed her own children, in Puerto Rico, for instance, and at the earliest moment make an at- tempt to organize an international char- ity, so that one of these days if famine comes to this country, the countries we have benefited may have a chance to practice the ‘‘turn about rule’’ so com- mendable in every way. There is nothing to be said against the proposed organization. It will and does commend itself. In time it is to be hoped that it will take form and prove itself the blessing it promises to be. e 9 eo @ e e eo @ e 9g 9? e e e eo @ 9 e e o 9? 9g eo herewith, is thoroughly good in appear- ance and in wording. More than this, it is timely and the combination of its qualities should make a decided success. Now is the time for laundries to talk of the advantages in their method of laun- dering shirt waists, negligee shirts and the Jike and, while the laundry adver- tiser’s list of arguments is necessarily limited, he can at the same time make his advertising effective by keeping it up to date by advertising branches of his work in which the public are inter- ested. * * * The advertisement of Wells & Mor- gan, Lansing, which occupies two inches, single column, shows how effec- tive a proper use of display can make even a small advertisement. The two display lines and the heavy rule border a A NOTA BLE (American) WATCH MOVEMENT Fifteen jewel watch movement in a beau tifully engraved gold-filled case; war- ranted for 20 years; open face or hunt- ing, for only TEN DOLLARS .. . We have only a few and we don’t need to argue the case or the movement, for either is worth what we ask for both. WELLS & MORGAN give a distinctiveness and prominence to the advertisement that is rarely found in such small space. The wording leaves nothing to be desired. It is crisp, con- cise and convincing. It is easy enough to make a large advertisement stand out with prominence. The very fact of the space being large enables the large ad- vertisement to command attention. To make a small advertisement distinct enough to draw attention and interesting enough to hold it is quite another prob- lem, and one which Wells & Morgan seem to have solved very satisfactorily. W. S. Hamburger. —_—_—_o20.___ The Attitude of Labor. From the New York Commereial. As we take a running glance at the labor situation, the increases of wages everywhere, either with or without coercive measures on the part of the unions, the militant champions of labor in Chicago and the Winchester-armed strikers at Croton Dam, we somehnw feel as if the poem ‘‘The Man with the Hoe’’ were a trifle overdrawn. Whatever his condition in feudal Europe, where might was right for cen- turies, and the man who was weaker in mind or body was compelled by the stronger to bear the heavier burdens, even as the noble red man in America made his squaw the drudge of his wig- wam, the condition of ‘*The Man with the Hoe’’ in Republican America to-day does not justify poetical effluxes of the Markham order. Nor does it justify any fear that the growing momentum of capital (‘‘Gross- capitalismus,’’ our German friends tell] it) will bear labor down farther and farther toward absolute slavery until the terrible cartoons of the trusts which some of our festive contemporaries serve up daily to their readers have some ac- tual foundation in fact and capital has really become an antediluvian giant, hairy and horrid, swinging the club which makes the world afraid and driv- ing labor before it like dumb cattle to the slaughter. As nearly as we can judge from the reports which reach us from the West, labor has become the terrorizer, and has so far turned the tables that it will soon, be in order for another Markham to rise and write another poem, not in behalf of ‘‘The Man with the Hoe,’’ but in behalf of ‘‘The Man with the Money.’’ - —>_9—.__ A Serious Oceasion. Stella—I was awfully nervous when Jack proposed. Maude—Was it such a surprise? Stella—No; 1 was afraid some one would come in and interrupt him. SALTED PEANUTS NEW PROCESS Guaranteed to keep fresh for sixty days. Delicious, Ap- petizing, Nutritious. CRYSTAL NUTS THE IDEAL FOOD Made from nuts, fruits and grains carefully combined, thoroughly cooked, ready to be served at once. Samples of the above sent free on ap- plication. Lambert Nut Food Company, Battle Creek, Mich. The National Safe & Lock Co. Cannon Breech Screw Door Bank Safe, with anti-concussion dead lock de- vice. Can Not be opened by the jarring process. Absolute Proof against the intro- duction of Liquid or Dry explosives. Locking Action the quickest of any safe. Door and Jam perfect cireular form, ground metal to metal finish and her- metically sealed fit. Not a Single Case on Record where one of these safes has ever been bur- glarized. More than twenty-five banks in Cleve- and, Ohio, using these safes, and hun- dreds of other banks from Maine to Cal- ifornia testify to the absolute perfection of the mechanism and security. Estimates furnished on all kinds of safe and vault work. Office and Salesroom, 129 Jefferson Ave., Detroit, Mich. W. M. HULL, Manager. SE EL a a eR eT NGW YOPK baile Slidars Buy your sugars from headquar- ters and save money. We sell in any quantity, carlots or less. Wire or write for prices. WH OE CA HH eS ae ee es ee ee. §° Other Specialties Coffees Matches Table Relishes Pickles Vinegar Salted Peanuts (guaran- teed to keep fresh for 60 days) j Cereals f f SB BB BB BB SB OS BOB BSP RPS PSw Moseley & Shelby, f Brokers and Jobbers, 25 Tower Bldg, f Grand Rapids, Mich. L. Howto — Advance We might proceed to some length in ex- slaining all about how our cigars are made, by referring to the extreme care we use se- curing just the eres fillers, with the right flavor, of the even burn of the wrapper and binder. However, if the cigar did not hap- pen to suit your trade it might just as well be made from clover hay, yet the quality we have produced inthe 5 Cent Cigar will make a steady customer every time. ee the best. Competitors con- cede it. The Bradley Cigar Co. Manufacturers of the Hand (‘‘W. H. B.’’) Made Improved 19 Center Greenville, Michigan MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 8 No Necessity for Handling Unprofitable Goods. Every merchant is in business for the profit. However philanthropic may be his personal views, his mercantile busi- ness is expected to pay him something over tne expense. It’s a moral ques- tion as well as a cold business fact. Self-preservation makes it an absolute necessity. Without this profit the cap- ital would soon be impaired, creditors would be clamoring for their money and the sheriff would close the doors. This is no fancy sketch; it has occurred in the past, in fact, is occurring every day. In view of this, it seems strange that so many merchants will handle goods that bear them no profit—or practically none. It is safe to say I could step be- hind the counter of every one who reads these words, and lay out article after article on which the per cent. of profit received does not equal the per cent. of expenses. This is especially true of the grocer. Almost every retail gro- cer will handle many package goods at an actual loss to himself. When he does this, he is actually putting, not only this loss, but the loss of his own legiti- mate profit into the pockets of some large and rich corporation. He is ac- tually paying part of the expenses of the manufacturer out of his own depleted and depleting purse. Let me illustrate. The manufacturers of a certain breakfast oats advertised their goods extensively at 10 cents per package. Merchants felt obliged to carry the oats, as there was a demand for them, but were surprised to find the oats billed to them at $1.10 per dozen. It was impossible to get more than 10 cents at retail; the way to profit then was barred by the manufacturers’ adver- tisements. To handle these goods then at a profit of 9 per cent. was the only thing to do. The expenses of the grocer do not fall below 12 per cent. and the majority will exceed 15, and often reache 18 or 20. Every grocer handling those oats not only lost his legitimate profit above expenses, which is his by moral right as well as by all the laws of safe and correct business life, but he was actually paying from 3 to 6 per cent. of his sales on these goods for the privilege of handling them. There are other package cereals that afford the grocer no better results, and certain brands of baking powder for years have caused the retailer no end of losses. Package teas and coffees may be put in the same class. Extracts, ammonia, bluing, etc., while bringing a goodly profit, are not the profit bring- ers they might be. The wideawake grocer to-day is sub- stituting his own brands for these non- profit bringers. In the case of the oats a barrel of oat flakes (the one spoken of above was nothing else) put up in neat cartons, bearing the grocer’s own name, will yield over 100 per cent. profit. The cartons can be gotten, printed with the grocer’s own label, by the hundred at any box manufactory. Better and purer baking powder than for which he pays $4.65 per dozen pound cans he can put up himself for $1.50. Five cents’ worth of pure hartshorn in a_ gallon of rain water will retail for 40 cents. This will cost about 13 cents put up in bottles and labeled. Extracts may be made at half the wholesale price. The merchant who sells his own brands advertises his own name and place of business. He should put up pure goods under his own name, guarantee them, and live up to the guarantee. The oats are always fresh, the baking powder strong, requiring less, and the extracts purer and of better flavor. Careful and tactful substitution of such goods will give a valuable good will and name.— F. H. Hendryx in Topeka Merchants Journal. a Incompetency the Cause of Failure. Incompetency in buying, in financing, in getting and keeping customers, in selling on credit. Reverse this--The man who buys stocks judiciously— the kind the people want —no more than he can sell —at prices which will give hima reasonable profit— is a successful buyer. The man who can make his capital go far—get it back again with an _ in- crease —do it often enough and meet his payments promptly, is a successful financier. The man who can get customers enough to buy all he buys,and keep them buying from him and increase their number constantly, is a successful builder up of business. The man who can decide what people will pay if trusted—how much to trust them— and can curtail or cut off when they cease to be good risks, is a good credit man. Many business men can do three or two or one of these things and not the others. It is appalling to think how many men in business can do none of them, when the fact is that the really successful business man must do all of them. But a man may do poor buying, poor financing, poor custom building, and yet if he is a good credit man he may pull through. But if he does all the first three well, and is a poor credit maker, he is almost sure to fail. The reason is that he loses assets by drops when he is incompetent in the first three particulars, where he losses by bucketfuls on the last. Your clodhopper running the country store shrewdly learns this, and after the first year carves out the fellows who do nut pay, and by and by gets to be the money lender of the village; or if he is not quick to learn it, soon goes back to the plough and the cow milk- ing. The ‘country fellow has the instincts of business in him. I said to ‘‘Tackbary:’’ ‘‘John, what do you think of raising turkeys?’’ ‘*Good business,’’ said John. ‘‘A turkey don’t eat no more’n a hen, and you can get a dollar, cash, for him. ‘“Why, I had a hen turkey that come out with fourteen chicks in the spring, and | shet ’em all up together in a kind of a fence like. But the chicks all got out one day through a hole under the fence, and, puty‘soon the old hen broke through, too, and I didn’t see any on "em agin all summer. But the day be- fore Thanksgivin’ that old mother bird come back with fourteen full-grown turkeys follerin’ in behind her. ‘‘Yes, sir; you ken trust turkeys.’’ Wm. C. Cornwell. a Extremes in Dress. ‘“That pretty Miss Reckless is an ec- centric dresser.’’ ‘IT should say she was! Why, she came to the club masquerade the other evening wearing a gown that was cut ? rainy-day at both ends! HEMLOCK BARK Highest Cash prices paid and bark measured promptly by ex- perienced men. Call on or write us. ®® MICHIGAN BARK & LUMBER CO., when ~ Hemlock Bark, Grand Rapids Lumber, Shingles, Bark and Railroad Ties, Posts, Wood. Market Prices in Spot cash and mea- sure bark when loaded. Cor- ' respondence solicited. Ea | | 419-421 Michigan } | We pay Highest Lumber Trust Building, Grand Rapids. | W. A. Phelps, President, Company | C. A. Phelps, Sec’y & Treas. IN2IiR 2 IN 2 IN 2 3g FLEISCHMANN & CO. SPECIAL OFFER: An Opportunity to Procure the Best Cook Book Published. THE REVISED PRESIDENTIAL COOK Book Containing 1400 tested i . information on carving, how to cook for the sick, hints on dinner giving, table e tiquette, ete. It has 448 pages, is 8'4x6 inches in size, and contains numerous illustrations. By sending FLEISCHMANN & CO., 419 Plum Street, Cincinnati, Ohio, 10 two-cent postage stamps and 25 of our Yellow Labels, ene of which is attached to each cake of our Compressed Yeast, this splendid publication will be forwarded to your address by return mail free of all charges Grand Rapids Agency, 29 Crescent Ave. Detroit Agency, 111 W. Larned St. Orders for yeast sent to either of the agencies will receive prompt attention. bow nage ce PWHODOOOD DOO HDOHHH HOH HOHDHHHHHHOHOHHOHOHOD P)\orthrop, Robertson & Carrier, [P\anufacturing Pharmacists, Spice [Pyillers, \holesale PMrug and Grocer Specialties Manufacturers of Queen Flake Baking Powder and 112-114-116 Ottawa street, East, Northrop’s Flavoring Extracts. LANSING, MICH. eEeseeegeesqgqgqgqggsseqeqqggeqggeEes egogeegcgegegessgesgeqgseegsssaaEes MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Around the State Movements of Merchants. Hudson—Wm. Friend, baker, has sold out to A. J. Colvin. Hemlock—-R. B. Pettit has sold his general stock to F. B. Cole. Elk Rapids—S. J. Cromie has sold his meat market to P. C. Bailey. Sherwood—-A. W. Morris has sold his dry goods stock to J. C. Seymour. Woodville--T. Harter has purchased the grocery stock of Hale & Stage. Deckerville—Nathal Purcell continues the meat market of Miller & Purcell. Petoskey—Verna Myers has purchased the millinery stock of Mrs. K. Smith. Lowell—Campbell & Spraker succeed Clark & Spraker in the hardware _busi- ness. Carson City—F. S. Caswell has pur- chased the furniture stock of G. L. Shaw. Horton—Milton Reed & Son have purchased the grocery stock of John E. Aldrich. Cambria—W. R. McNaughton has purchased the general stock of Duguid E. Clare. Galesburg—Little & Durkee succeed James Little in the grocery and meat business. Edmore—Swarts Bros. have moved their general stock from Blanchard to this place. Bay City—Sarah C. Beebe succeeds G. C. drug business. Evans—J. Bird, of Cedar Springs, has purchased the general stock of White & Story. Holland—C. D. Smith, of Richland, will shortly open a drug store in the Huizenga block. Coldwater—F. L. Drury will shortly engage in the grocery and meat busi- ness at this place. Charlevoix—J. B. Backe succeeds M. H. (Mrs. E. E.) Brooks in the boot and shoe business. Lockwood—Charles Carroll and sons, Don and O'Neil, have opened a general store at this place. South Haven—Arthur G. Harrison has sold his grocery stock to Wm. O. and Walter J. Cook. Owosso—F. G. Oatman has purchased the grocery stock of W. H. Bell and added it to his stock. Sherman—Smalley & Hamptoh have purchased the hardware and implement stock of Thos. Wilson. St. Johns—A. A. Chick has assigned his grocery stock to E. J. Moinet. The liabilities are about $1, 700. Detroit—Wallace, Bell & Co., gro- cers, have dissolved partnership, David Wallace & Sons succeeding. Shelby—Edwards & Girard have pur- chased the clothing, boot and shoe and dry goods stock of L. D. Allen. Elk Rapids—J. D. Slater, of the house furnishing and undertaking firm of J. W. Slater & Bro., is dead. Charlotte—Fowler & Wilcox, crockery and bazaar dealers, have closed out their stock and dissolved partnership. St. Joseph—John Melscheimer and Ted Shear have engaged in the men’s furnishing and dry goods business. Dowagiac—W. M. Bryar & Co. are successors to Lee Bros. & Co. as own- ers of the White Front dry goods store. Stanton—E. S. Hawley has merged his general merchandise business into a stock company under the style of the E. S. Hawley Co. The capital stock is $20,000. The incorporators are E. S. Hawley, Clara P. Hawley, F. E. Joy, O. Swanton, all of Stanton. (Mis. G. C.) Beebe in the Shaftsburg—Will McCullough and Mr. Wright have formed a copartnership to engage in the grocery business at this place. Pine Creek—Sidney W. Clark has pur- chased the hardware, implement, cloth- ing and grocery stock of Charles C. DeBow. Imlay City—Malsbury & Odell, gro- cers, have dissolved partnership. The business will be continued by Daniel S. Malsbury. Olney--Smith Bros. have sold their general stock to Oliver D. Miller, who has consolidated the stock with his gro- cery stock. Cedar Springs—L. C. Stage, of Wood- ville, and E. S. Rose, of Solon, have purchased the hardware stock of S. A. Nickerson. Freesoil—Bennett & Stephens are erecting an addition to their general store building to be used as a hardware department. Watervliet--R. W. Cochrane has_ sold his stock of drugs at this place and closed the store. He will join his fam- ily in Kalamazoo. Sawyer—W. L. Hogue has sold out his business at Hinchman and pur- chased a general stock of goods and es- tablished himself at thls place. Traverse City—The Grand Union Tea Co. has opened a store in the Huell- mantel building, with Mrs. S. Van Syckle, of Battle Creek, in charge. Ovid—Fred Losey has opened his new market in the Farmer block. W. J. Johnson occupies the south portion of the block with his harness stock. Union City—Clarence Spore is again in charge of the news and feed busi-, ness, having purchased the old stand sold to George Barnes two years ago. Union City—James Hartford has taken a partner in the person of J. 1. Findley, of Concord, who has purchased an interest in the meat market owned by Hartford & Co. Three Rivers—H. H. Gage has sold his interest in the drug store to J. King. The business is under the man- agement of W. R. Fraser, who was for- merly engaged in the drug business at Detroit. . Oak Grove—John S. Smith, of Howard City, has engaged in general trade at this place. There is a prospect of a postoffice being established here, thus making the mail route direct from Cro- ton to Newaygo, Sault Ste. Marie—J. J. Masse, of De- troit and A. D. Carpentier, of this city, have leased a portion of the new Roach building and will open a drug store therein about May 1 under the firm name of Masse & Carpentier. Shelby—H. T. Compton has pur- chased the harness business of T. T. Usborne and will continue the business at the same location. Mr. Usborne will accept a position as traveling sales- man for a large saddlery house. Fenton—H. W. Scott, dealer in fruit, confectionery, tobacco and cigars, has opened a branch store at Linden and re- moved to that place to take the personal management of the business. His son will have charge of the store here. Mackinac Island—The dry goods firm of Mulcrone Bros., at St. Ignace, will shortly open its doors on the Island. John Mulcrone, o f the steamer Colum- bia, has retired from the firm, and M. F. Mulcrone is now sole proprietor. Albion—-G. W. Perkins and F. E. Steele, of the firm of Perkins & Steele, have dissolved partnership. Mr. Steele will continue the coal and feed busi- ness at the old stand, and Mr. Perkins will shortly engage in business in the McAuliffe block, handling wood, coal and oil. Cannonsburg—-Dr. Aaron Clark has sold his drug stock to Benj. F. Whit- more, who will continue the business at the same location. Mr. Whitmore has clerked for E. E. Lessiter, at Grattan, for the past six months, prior to which time he was identified with the drug business at South Haven. Jackson—-Peter M. Etchells, the Trail Street grocer, has recently suffered twice from the depredations of burglars. Be- ing a fine mechanic, Mr. Etchells made an automatic gun to intercept the next intruder. Tuesday morning he was the first to enter the store, and the charge blew his right hand off and narrowly missed entering his body. Jackson—Barnard, Thurber & Fitz- simmons have engaged in the hardware business at 123 West Main street. Chas. E. Barnard was for many years engaged by Wells & Fuller and later was a part- ner with Hugh L. Smith. Mr. Thurber has been for many years connected with the trade as traveling representative of a Detroit house and Robert Fitzsimmons was for many years with Barnard, Smith & Co. Manufacturing Matters. Boyne Falls—Guy M. Davis has pur- chased the saw and shingle mill of J. J. Robbins. Gladwin—The creamery and cheese factory at this place was destroyed by fire Saturday. The origin of the fire is un- nown, Niles—Niles bids fair to secure a large brass and iron works which may remove here from the East. The con- cern employs 500 men. Allegan—James H. Fairfield and Al- bertus Kolvood have purchased the in- terest of S. A. Guard in the milling property and business of Guard, Fair- field & Co., and will continue the busi- ness at the same location. Ann Arbor—-The Michigan Milling Co. has been organized with a capital stock of $225,000 to engage in the ele- vator and flour business. The incorpo- rators are H. S. Dean, W. C. Stevens, S. Dean and J. N. Kyer, all of this place. Detroit—B. N. Firmen will start a writing ink factory in Detroit. He has been in the business of manufacturing writing fluids all his life, and his father is probably the oldest inkmaker in the country. Mr. Firmen has been making ink in St. Louis for the last few years. Niles—This place has recently secured three factories which use a great many paper board boxes, and J. L. Reddy, a local capitalist, offers to furnish a build- ing and provide financial means to any man who will go into the business of making paper boxes. The raw material can be purchased here. Detroit—The Michigan Steel & Spring Co. has commenced the erection of a large factory at the southwest corner of Michigan and Hubbard avenues. It will have a frontage of 425 feet on Hub- bard, and 126 feet on Michigan, will be constructed of brick and structural iron and be one story high. It will cost $25,000. The plans were prepared by the company’s engineer, who will su- pervise its construction. Three Rivers—The firm of Roberts, Throp & Co. has been merged into a corporation which will be known as the Roberts Car Wheel Co. Cyrus Roberts, John A. Throp and John Cox founded the business in the '50s. During his lifetime, Mr. Roberts invented many agricultural implements, which were manufactured by the firm. The stock- holders now are Horace and James Rob- erts, Gen. Fred H. Case and his wife, Carrie, a daughter of Mr. Roberts: Henry B. Lathrop and James Donovan. The Donovan hand car is manufactured. ——_—_—~>-9 2 - The Boys Behind the Counter. Owosso—George Post has taken a po- sition as clerk with Mosely & Russell. Ypsilanti—Clarence Corbeil has. en- tered the employ of the grocery firm of Fisk & Ferguson. Sault Ste. Marie—James Nichols has taken a positon with the hardware firm of Gowan & Pickford. Lakeview—John B. King, of Howard City, has accepted a position in the general store of Eli Lyons. Mr. King was formerly engaged in business at Howard City, but more recently with Bradley & McGeorge of that piace. Kalamazoo—Louis J. Marsh has gone to Kansas City, where he will enter the employ of Siebert, Good & Co., of which G. H. Raynor, formerly of this city, is manager. Mr. Marsh was. for- merly employed by the Star Paper Co. and was connected with the G. H. Ray- nor store in this city. Manistee-—-P. Pierson has taken charge of Will A. Waite’s branch gro- cery store,vice Louis Larsen. Michigamme—lIt is the purpose of the members of the newly-organized Retail Clerks’ Association to ask their employ- ers to close their places of business at 8 o'clock every evening except Saturday, on pay nights and the nights preceding holidays. Most of the business men allow their clerks to leave the stores at 8 o'clock now, but they do not close their places at that hour. The clerks will endeavor to arrange an agreement with the business people whereby the key will be turned in the doors at 8 o’clock. ——_>-2._ Hides, Pelts, Furs, Tallow and Wool. The advance on _ hides has been checked. The late take-off sells freely, as the quality is better. Prices are at the high point and tanners can see a margin for their work and _ prefer to hold prices where they are. Pelts and furs cut no figure in the market, neither in supply nor demand. Values on both articles are lower. Tallow is again active and in good demand at {c per pound advance. The supply in sight is not sufficient, although an advance may pull out a hidden sup- ply from cellars. Wool has settled lower in price. There is an undercurrent among dealers that wool will be higher, but Eastern mar kets are decidedly quiet and lower. The May London sales are expected to show a decline. Holders are reluctant sellers on the decline and the demand is small. It is a time of waiting while the new clip is being offered, which must open at a lower price than that offered the first of the month. The extreme high price anticipated is not likely to be realized. Wm. T. Hess. —_—>_0 + Innocents Abroad. They stood looking in the window of a rubber goods store on Monroe street and from their general appearance one could tell that they hailed from Mill Creek. “*Silas,’’ she said, clutching his arm, ‘‘there is something I have been want- ing this long time,’’ and she pointed to a sign which read: ‘‘ Rubber garden hose sold here.’’ ‘‘] think I’ll go in and get a pair or two, for when I weed the flower-beds in the spring they’ll keep my ankles from getting wet.’’ Then, taking a tighter grip on her partner’s arm, she led him into the store, Pang MO, - “ ~~ > at . ik “ “ MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 5 Grand Rapids Gossip The Produce Market. Apples—Russets command $4.25 and Baldwins fetch $4.50 per bbl. Ben Davis are in fair supply at $4.25. The quality is good, considering the season. Asparagus—Home grown commands $1.50 per doz. bunches. Bagas—-$1.35 per 3 bu. bbl. Bananas--Continue strong and there has been a slight advance. Some of the goods now coming in are in bad condi- tion, but as stocks are so light, they are readily sold. The demand is far in excess of the supply. Receipts of bananas in New York for the week end- ing Thursday were 33,000 bunches, against 74,000 bunches for the corres- ponding week last year. Beets—$1.25 per 3 bu. bbl. stock is scarce. Butter—Supplies of both dairy and creamery grades are increasing and prices are softening. Factory creamery has declined to 18c and is ina little bet- ter demand. Choice dairy in rolls and crocks commands I14c. The quality has improved very materially during the past week. Cabbage--California is strong at $6 per crate. {Most of the sales are for half crates, which fetch $3. Home grown is very scarce at $1@I1.10 per doz. California Fruits—Grape fruit, $6 per box; tangerines, $3.25@3.50 per half box. Carrots—goc per 3 bu. bbl. Czlery—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 continues extremely active and there is very little stock in sight to satisfy it. All signs point to higher prices. Chickens command 11@ Choice commands 7%4c; com- 12%c. Fowls are in active demand at 1o@tic. Ducks are eagerly taken at 11 @ti2c. Geese are not wanted at any price. Turkeys are in good demand at lic for No. 2 and 12%@14c for No. 1. Eggs—Despite their positive state- ments that they would not pay over 8c for Michigan eggs, storage buyers ap- pear to be determined to obtain April stock, even although they are compelled to pay 2@3c per doz. more than they insisted must be the price earlier in the season. Grand Rapids buyers are pay- ing Ioc f. o. b. and 1o%c. del. for really desirable stock and %@Ic less _ for small eggs from the colony. Grapes—Malagas, $7.50@g per bbl. Green Stuff--Grand Rapids forcing lettuce, 14@15c. Onions, 15c per doz. Parsley, 3c per doz. Pieplant, 6c per lb. Radishes, 20c per doz. or $1.25 per bu. box. Spinach, 65c per bu. Hay—Market rules firm. No. 1 Tim- othy, baled, quoted at $11.50 per ton in carlots; mixed, $10@I11. Honey—Dark is in moderate demand at 13c. Amber is in fair demand at 14c. White is practically out of the market. Lemons—-[The warmer weather now prevailing is very beneficial to the green fruit trade and lemons have advanced 1o@1sc per box during the past week. Live Poultry—-In active demand at firm prices. Broilers weighing 11% to 2 Ibs. command 25c per lb. Squabs, $2 per doz. Pigeons are strong at 6oc. Chickens, 1oc. Fowls, 9c. Ducks, 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 6oc 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 30c 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@7.25; 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-—The floods in the South have delayed shipments to that extent that receipts are coming in rotten or so nearly so as to be unsalable. Shipments will not reach normal conditions until the latter part of the week. Sweet Potatoes—Kiln dried Jerseys command $1.75 per bu. box. Tallow—Common, 4:3¢c per lb. ; ma- chinery grade, 514@53(c. Tomatoes—Florida stock commands $4 per 6 basket crate. Turnips—75c per bbl. Wax Beans—$5.50 per bu. box. The Grain Market. Wheat, owing to the very fine growing weather, has sold off some for futures. Cash property has not felt the decline as much. When any is offered they ask the same price as they did a month ago. The situation has not changed any as regards stocks abroad and at home. Re- ceipts in the Northwest, where most of the wheat comes from, are growing less, so that the visible begins to decrease. It showed a decrease of about 500,000 bushels ; not as much as it ought to be, but then it will be more later on. Re- ceipts in the winter wheat section are very small, so much so that many in- terior mills are shut down for the want of it, which makes them bid up on wheat, and so it comes that farmers to- day are getting about Detroit or Toledo prices, which is hardly the proper thing, but then it helps the farmer. Corn has been somewhat irregular in price, not so much on account of its real values as the whims of the traders. May corn sold yesterday at 38%c and to-day at 39%c. The cold fact is corn is scarce and wanted, so this low price will not hold. Oats are very steady. No change whatever to report. Farmers are seed- ing more ground to oats than last year. Should the harvest be good prices may come down later. Nothing doing in rye, but prices are steady. Beans have shown some little strength and $2.08 is asked, while October deliv- ery is $1@1. 10. Flour remains steady. The mills are running full capacity. The present problem seems to be where the wheat is to come from for the next three months to keep going at the present rate. While the demand for mill feed is good, it can not be said to be as pressing as it has been for the past three months. The fine pasturage accounts for this. Bran is quoted at $15 per ton; middlings $16@ 16.50, according to quality. Receipts have been about of the aver- age, being: wheat, 50 cars; corn, 14 cars; oats, 15 cars; flour, 1 car; hay, 7 cars; straw, 2 cars. Mills are paying 68c for wheat. C. G. A. Voigt. ——_> 20. —___ Henry Eaton, druggist at 565 Cherry street, has engaged in the manufacture and sale of a line of secret remedies under the style of the North American Novelty Co. ——_> 0. ___ For Gillies’ N. Y. tea, all kinds, grades and prices, Visner, both phones. The Grocery Market. Sugar—Raw sugars are lower and have declined ‘gc, making the price of 96 deg. test centrifugals now 43¢c. The refined market is very quiet, with only a moderate demand, as jobbers seem to be well supplied for the present. Canned Goods—-The market shows practically no change, compared with previous reports. The demand, such as it is, is nearly all for small lots required for immediate consumption. Few deal- ers have the courage to buy any consid- erable quantity for future needs. The entire market can be characterized as having adopted a waiting attitude, which it seems to be impossible to break. If,later, there is any increase in demand, particularly if it comes before the fall pack is ready for delivery, dealers, as a whole, will welcome it with more pleasure than any similar re- vival for some time. Jobbers and brok- ers who have been years in this busi- ness say they never saw trade duller and more unsatisfactory. The conditions are all the more discouraging, inasmuch as they follow so closely upon the fail- ure to sell the usual quantity of futures, a trade on which a considerable number of packers in the Eastern section of the country depend for their business. The present dulness and the previous slow- ness of futures have caused some un- certainty about opening some canner- ies this season, particularly those which pack largely of tomatoes or other vege- tables which are generally dependent on future sales. The heavy carry-over of tomatoes, which, by the way, is re- ported heavier than was at first deemed possible, has a tendency to discourage liberal preparations for packing this season. It is probably true, however, that there will be enough packed to supply all requirements, including what will be carried over. Whether the re- ported 2,000,000 cases will be disposed of before the season opens remains to be determined, but, according to the views of some of the most prominent holders, it is scarcely possible. A pe- culiar feature of the market, when the extreme dulness is understood, is the firmness with which all varieties are held. Holdings are small and chiefly in second hands, otherwise it might not be possible to maintain this attitude. There is little demand, except for con- sumptive requirements, and those are not as large at this season as they are earlier or later. Fresh vegetables in plenty, principally of good quality, cause reduction in the trade in canned sorts, while berries and other varieties of domestic fruits are preferred to the canned varieties. With the arrival of peas and pineapples and the beginning of the canning season for 1900 will come a better tone to the general market as it will give the packers something to cal- culate upon besides the absence of fu- ture contracts. Corn has been slightly more active of late, but no change in price has occurred. Spot stocks are held at the old figures and futures are selling in a moderate way at about opening fig- ures for all grades. There has been some additional business in peas, par- ticularly the cheaper grades. Holders are anxious to close out what they have before the new season opens, when fresh packed goods will have the preference, whatever the quality. The present pros- pects are for a full average pack of peas this season. Tomatoes are selling at about previous prices, although trade has picked up slightly within a week. The season on the Columbia River will open in a few days. From all advices! at hand, it looks as if the output of chinook will be considerably short of 1899, but no definite idea can be formed as to the output of bluebacks. The price of fish has been fixed by the fishermen’s union at 6 cents a pound. This means an increased cost over last year’s open- ing of 22@25c per dozen, as fish, cans, etc., cost more this year. Dried Fruits~ Dried fruit of all kinds isin an abnormal state of dulness. The jobber, as well as the retailer, seems afraid to buy further than absolute daily needs, and even then is reluctant to pay current prices. This state of affairs is liable to continue until the warm weath- er begins, when a general revival is ex- pected. Prices are low that sellers are losing money and only a desire to unburden themselves of accumulated stocks makes them offer at quotations. The news of a larger crop of raisins in California than last year makes buyers wary and conservative in their pur- chases, and, although they are convinced that present prices are low, they are hopeful of further concessions from sell- ers before they venture to speculate. The damage caused by frost appears to have been great exaggerated. All vari- eties of fruit trees in California are so full of blossoms that even if two-thirds should be lost, the remainder is more than sufficient for an abundant crop. The demand for prunes is light, but, as stocks on hand are much _ reduced, sell- ers are not anxious to push sales at a sacrifice. It is claimed that there will be from 160,000,000 to 180,000,000 pounds of prunes in California, and the Oregon crop will also be a_ big one. They are working hard to form a com- pany to control the output, but if there is anything like this quantity, they will sell pretty low. ‘There is an active de- mand for currants and it is thought that so prices will not go any lower. Sellers are losing heavily at present figures, which are beiow cost. It is reported that the growing crop of Smyrna figs has been injured by cold weather, but how seriously it is too early to state pos- itively. Experienced observers on the spot estimate an output of 60,000 loads, or about a normal crop, compared with 48,000 loads in 1899 and 13,000 loads in 1898. Dates which heretofore have been limited to small orders for immediate consumption are showing more activity, hut there is as yet no change in_ price. Peaches and apricots are dull. Stocks are small and_ prices are firmly main- tained. Rice -There is a very good demand for rice at firm prices. Stocks of the better grades are decreasing rapidly and, with an increase in the general demand, prices are expécted to advance from %@%%c in the near future. The decrease in stocks of the better grades is caused not only by the increased home consumption, but also by the large sales to the Government for shipment to Puerto Rico. Tea There is nothing of particular importance in the tea market. The de- mand is very good at about previous prices. Molasses and Syrups. Supplies of all grades of molasses are small and trade is somewhat restricted by the high prices now ruling. Instead of the ex- pected advance in corn syrup, it has declined 1%c per gallon, with a corres- ponding decline on cases. Nuts--It is reported that the principal stocks of filberts have been sold during the past week at a considerable ad- vance. The peanut market is weak, and prices have declined ic. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN The Buffalo Market Accurate Index of the Principal Staples Handled, Beans—We have had an active trade for the past few days and supplies are cleaning up with more strength to prices. Receipts, too, are expected to be light and we can only see a firmer outlook under present conditions. Mar- rows, $2.10@2.30; mediums, $2@2.20; pea, $2@2.25 for good to fancy. Butter—A point has been reached at which some business can be done in fancy creamery and dairy, and it is pos- sible the low point has been reached, unless receipts should increase consid- erably over present expectations. We are done with renovated, packing stock and other stuff; also rolls are out of sea- son, and only the best grades will sell now as prices are low enough to suit all classes of buyers. Creamery, Western fancy, sold regularly at 18c; State, 17¢; dairy, 16@17c, and lower grades between 14@15c; crocks, 14@16c. Cheese—Easy, light demand and sup- ply fairly liberal. Fancy full cream, small, 12c; fair to good, 11@11%c; skims, neglected, 2@8c per lb. Eggs—-There were buyers of fancy cold storage stock at I2c, but offerings were not of that class as a rule and local consumptive business was considerably less than last week, which left quite a good supply on hand. That class sold at 113¢c and occasionally 11%c, but the tendency seems to be upwards on de- sirable goods and we can see nothing in the position at the moment to expect anything but an advance. Duck eggs scarce and strong at 20@22c per doz. Dressed - Poultry——-Really nothing offered the past week and with an ac- tive demand at the closing: 13@14c for chickens and 12@13c for fowl were possible figures. Broilers sold at 18@ 2oc,and for something fancy it would not be difficult to exceed that price. In fact, a higher market for anything is almost certain this week. Live Poultry-——Scarce and high. Fowls sold at 11@12c; chickens, 11144@12%c; springers, 15@16c. No prospects of an oversupply or any decline for the next few weeks. Apples—Some fancy stock is_ still offered and $4.50@5 is easily reached on that quality. No. 1 is moving off readily at $3.50@4 and there is an easy sale for lower grades at $2.50@3 per bbl. Strawberries—The light supply at the close of last week sent prices up to $2.75 for fancy cases, 24 pints, and not enough offered at that price to meet the demand. Weather has been decidedly favorable for this fruit. Oranges—Firmer; good demand. Na- vels, $3@3.50; seedlings, $2.50@2.75. Lemons—-Quiet at $2.75@3. 50. Bananas—Strong with Increasing de- mand and light receipts; $2.50@3 per bunch. Cranberries—Dull and easy at $2.75 @3.25 per crate. Pineapples—Fair supply; steady at $12@22 per 100. Potatoes—Market higher. Farmers are busy and the local supply is light at the moment. As was previously men- tioned, these times of scarcity will con- tinue for a week or two and shipments to this market will pay the best prices on the remaining crop. There is a heavy supply held back and everyone knows that farmers would rather plant than sell when the weather is right, and this is causing the present strength. Fancy white stock sold at 50@52c; fair se choice, 46@48c per bushel in round ots. egal Potatoes—Neglected at $4@7 per Sweet Potatoes—Dull at $2.75@3.75 per bbl. Onions—The market is lower; re- ceipts liberal and demand only fair. Yellow fancy sold at 60@ 70c : white, 60 @75c ; red, 65@7oc per bushel. Sprouted stock at any price. Celery—Home grown about done for; best lots 4o@s5o0c per doz; Southern sold at 50c@$1 per doz., according to qual- ity. Cabbage—Market cleaned up fairly well, but demand is light at $1.75@2 per bbl. for the best. No Southern offered. Lettuce—Scarce and higher under ac- tive demand. Fancy heads, 60@75c per doz. ; leaf stock, per box, 3 to 4 doz., 75C@$1.25. Radishes—Heavy supply of boxes from Southern points and demand good at 75c@$1. Home grown scarce at. 18@ 20c per doz. bunches. Pieplant—Heavy supply but witha better enquiry. Market firm for fancy at 80@goc per doz. bunches. Boxes of Southern sold at $2@2.25. Cucumbers—Light supply; firm at 75C@$1.40 per doz. Spinach—Fancy scarce; per bbl. Vegetable Oysters—25@4oc per doz. bunches. Horseradish—Scarce. per bbl. Watercress—18@25c per doz. bunches. Mushrooms—Scarce at 4o@s50c per lb. Maple Sugar—Fancy light sugar sold at 1lo@lic; dark, 5@8c per lb. Syrup, fancy new, 80@8>sc for full gallon cans; short measure, 60@65c. Dried Fruits—Quiet. Apples, evapo- rated,614@7c ; sun dried, 4@5'%4c; rasp- berries, 13@14c per Ib. Country Dressed Meats—No_ hogs offered. Calves, 6@8c per Ib. ; spring lambs, 1o@t2c per Ib. Straw—Good demand and _ firm. Wheat and oat, $8@g; rye, $9@I10 per ton baled. Hay—Light receipts. Prime, $15@ 15.50; No. 1, $14@14.50; No. 2, $12@13 per ton. $1.25@1.50 No. 1, $7@8 a A Hen’s Preference for Colors. Elkhart, Ind., April 21—Hundreds of Elkhart shoppers have been amused and considerably interested every afternoon this week in an _ exhibition which re- vealed a decided distinction in regard to color by a fussy hen, which, with her brood, has been displayed in a drug- gist’s window as an Easter egg dye advertisement. The druggist dyed the twenty chicks, some red, some brown, blue, violet, green and yellow. The hen, a big Plymouth Rock, evinces a remarkably violent dislike for the little fellows who wear the red and brown and fights them from her. She regards the others with varying degrees of favor and is particu- larly fond of the violet-hued offspring, although it would he natural to suppose that the yellow ones, being nearer the natural color, would meet with the most pronounced favor. As night comes on and the difference in colors becomes less noticeable, the hen's antipathy gradually lessens, and by the time the electric lights are turned on she has all of the twenty snuggled under her wings. Day- light, however, brings on a renewal of the manifestations, ———~ -0- a - The Future of Poultry. From Farm and Home. What the future of the poultry industry will bring forth is purely problematical, yet in the face of the past, and summa- rizing the results and comparing the to- tals with those of all other branches of commercial pursuits, we can only fore- see an era of prolonged prosperity—an era wherein one may hope to realize an assured return for the outlay of capi- tal and labor. The magnitude of the poultry indus- try of to-day exceeds that of almost any other product of the soil, and with an increasing demand there is no reason why the next few years should not be a period of the greatest prosperity for those who engage in poultry raising on a business basis—one that requires cap- ital, brains and enterprise—exactly as would the business of the merchant who sells the commodities that the public consume. a ——>2.___ The shape of the egg has nothing to do with the life germ unless the egg is deformed. The shape of the egg con- forms with the shape of the ovary, hence we have long eggs, short eggs and round eggs. The aircell and germ are in the broad end and if this part is smooth and even and if the germ is fertilized ‘that is ‘all that is necessary so far as shape.goes. Beecher’s Hard Luck. From the Ladies’ Home Journal. ‘“One day in a town where he was to lecture Henry Ward Beecher went into a barber shop to be shaved. The bar- ber, not knowing him, asked him whether he was going to hear Beecher lecture. ‘‘I guess so,’’ was the reply. ‘‘Well,’’ continued the barber, ‘‘if you haven’t got a ticket you can’t get one. They’re all sold, and you'll have to stand.’’ ‘“That’s just my luck,’’ ‘said Mr. Beecher. ‘‘I always did have to stand when I’ve heard that man talk.”’ © D. Boosing General Commission Merchant SPECIALTIES Butter Eggs Poultry Beans I will buy all the Fresh Eggs I can get f o. b. your station in free © © © © © © © © > cases at 10Kc. © Dairy butter is selling at from ® I6to17c. 5 If our market is satisfactory, ship. © © © © Correspondence solicited. References: Bank of Buffalo and Dun’s and Bradstreet’s Agencies. 154 Michigan Street, Buffalo, New York. POOQOQOODOE QODDOODOOE QDOOO OOO PDODOOOQOOO®DODOOQOOOOOC MOOOQDQOOOSOOSOOOOOS 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 I 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. POSS SE ERS BOBO : MACKEY & WILLIAMS, Dealers in § BUTTER, EGGS, CHEESE, POULTRY, etc. f f 62 W. MARKET & 125 MICHIGAN STS. BUFFALO, N. Y. From now forward ship dairy butter packed in tubs, 30, 40 and 60 Ib. weight. oultry in strong demand. nquiry. 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. De eh eh eh eh oh oe OY Oe Om Members of Produce Exchange. Fresh eggs wanted for storage. Frney creamery in good Dressed Long Distance Phone Seneca 1081. EE OP ee BASS SS SESE SR a. SE 8) wee ,; WE BUY EGGS ending April 28. expense. 150 MICHIGAN ST., a SR UR. OR 111-2C DELIVERED BUFFALO j We will pay 114c for all the No. 1 fresh laid Eggs de- f livered f. 0. b. Buffalo we can buy during the week If desired cases returned at shipper’s Write or wire us. f GLEASON & LANSING, BUFFALO, N. Y. References, Merchants Bank, Buffalo, N. Y., Bradstreet or Dun Commercial Agency. LUBA GPG wre Re ROW ALL GROCERS Who desire to give their customers the best vinegar on the market will give them Rep Srar Branp Cider Vinegar. These goods stand for purity and are the best on the market. We give a Guarantee Bond to every customer. solicited. ; Your order THE LEROUX CIDER & VINEGAR CO., Toledo, Ohio. PRINTING FOR PROD Tradesman Company Grand Rapids. ALEKS ~~ m= ile 4 «ait. Suisse: ti ~ = - — or eget i = Geos A. a a ie « a ical: =. » eke, w te OR a 4 ~ the m Ae ©»... Short Crop of Maple Sugar in New York. Lowville, N. Y. , April 21—Hon. M. W. Van Amber is at present taking his annual outing in the Adirondacks, su- perintending the manufacture of maple sugar. He has 5,800 trees, which were tapped two weeks ago and upon the run of sap thus far secured Mr. Van Amber bases the prediction that not to exceed one and a half pounds of sugar to the tree will be manufactured this season. A fair yield in the Adirondacks is two pounds to the tree, while on the uplands, where the orchards are less dense, from two and a half to three pounds to the tree should be made. But in all locali- ties the make will not come up to an average yield this year. Why this is so is not satisfactorily explained, but a great many are of the opinion that the presence of worms the ees two years is the direct cause of the shortage. Three years ago an average yield of sugar was secured, but the past two years has been below an average. Mr. Van Amber scoffs at the report that the worms have thus early made’ their ap- pearance this spring, but there are others who assert that they have found them in large numbers. From the 5,800 trees Mr. Van Amber has thus far made between 4,000 and 5,000 pounds of sugar. There are several persons who have equally as large number of trees in the Adirondacks, from which they are ‘\gathering sap and making sugar, but all agree that the crop is to be a light one. Lowville shippers continue to pay from 8 tog cents per pound, the latter price, however, for only fancy lots. PONS Ae OO There WZ S It pays any dealer to have the rep- utation of keeping pure goods. It pays’ any dealer to keep the Sry MOUR CRACKER. There’s a large tion of the public who will have the best, and with whom the mat- ter of a cent or so a pound makes no impression. with them; 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 Sry- MOUR CRACKER. National Biscuit Company Grand Rapids, Mich. eink and growing sec- It’s not how cheap it’s how good. Made by 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 — prefer BASTINE for walls and eeil- ings, because it is pure, clean, durable. Put up in dry powdered form. in five-pound packages, with full directions. ALA- 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 justas 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 a in packages and properly la- eled UISANCE of wall paper is ob- viated by ALABASTINE. It can be used on plastered walls, wood ceilings, brick or canvas. A child ean brush iton. It does not rub or seale off. STABLISHED in favor. Shun all imitations. Ask paint dealer or druggist for tint card. Write us for interesting booklet, free. a CO., Grand Rapids, ch. F. J. Sokup Manufacturer of Galvanized Iron Skylight and Cornice Work Gravel, Tin, Steel, and Slate Roof- ing and Roofing Materials at mar- ket prices. Write for estimates. 121 S. Front St., Opposite Pearl. Grand Rapids, Mich. Bell and Citizens Phones 261. SORORC SOROROTOEOHOCOROHO 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. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Devoted to the Best Interests of Business Men Published at the New Blodgett Building Grand Rapids, by the TRADESMAN COMPANY One Dollar a Year, Payable in Advance. Advertising Rates on Application. Communications invited from practical business men. ce pti meee must give their full names and addresses, not necessarily for pub- lication, but as a guarantee of good faith. Subscribers may have the mailing address of their papers changed as often as desired. No paper discontinued, except at the option of the proprietor, until all arrearages are paid. Sample copies sent free to any address. Entered at the Grand Rapids Post Office as Second Class mail matter. When writing to any of our Advertisers, please say that you saw the advertise- ment in the Michigan Tradesman. E. A. STOWE, EpirTor. WEDNESDAY, - - APRIL 25, 1900. STATE OF MICHIGAN ( gg County of Kent John DeBoer, being duly sworn, de- poses and says as follows: I am pressman in the office of the Tradesman — and have charge of the presses and folding machine in that establishment. I printed and folded 7,000 copies of the issue of April 18, 1900, and saw the edition mailed in the usual manner. And further deponent saith not. John DeBoer. Sworn and subscribed before me, a notary public in and for said county, this twenty-one day of April, 1900. Henry B. Fairchild, Notary Public in and for Kent County, Mich. A NEW ROAD. Were the sea land and steamers carts, there would be already a well-traveled road between New York and South Af- rica. As these columns predicted some time ago, so long as the war there goes on, and irrespective of which side is victorious, the trade between that coun- try and this will increase, and when the conflict is over will continue to go on. To-day England is buying enormously provisions for her troops. Among these there is a noticeable demand for pota- toes, and this has been so great as to suggest a rise in the price of the tuber in the American market. A guess based upon a fair judgment has already been made to the effect that when the year is over England will pay to the United States a provision bill of $30,000,000. Among the items especially noticeable are hay and horses. Within the last six weeks something over 3,000 tons of hay have been delivered—and thereby hangs atale: The British war department, because the hay is to be transported by mules, has ordered that the hay should be baled 100 pounds to the bale. This allows two bales to an animal. It was found, however, that to carry out the order required machinery especially constructed. Promptly to the front stepped the Yankee inventor and _forth- with has appeared a contrivance which, attached to a hay-compressing machine, accomplishes its purpose so accurately that all parties are satisfied. Better than that, the new method of baling has brought out the fact that a little less than one-half the space for storage in steamers is required, and so one-half the number of steamers for carrying the hay, an arrangement which saves in freight enough to pay for the baling and leaves a pleasing margin besides. The whole amount of the article so far sold can not be accurately determined. From American ports more than 300,000 tons have already been exported and Canada almost equals the same amount, so_ that during the year it is safe to say in hay alone the Western Continent will furnish 1,000,000 tons of hay for the South Afri- can war. The traffic in horses and other animals can be inferred from this amount of ex- ported fodder. It has been estimated that if steamers enough could be ob- tained there would be a line of them between New York and South Africa twenty-four hours apart and that fifty of these vessels would be freighted with horses, 50,000 of which are soon to be shipped from this country, at the av- erage price of $100 a horse. The mule, in spite of the part it played in an early British defeat, is not despised. From the ports of the South 35,000 mules, for which something over $2,500,000 has been paid, have been shipped and if the war goes on this number and this amount will be materially increased. The effect upon the market of the filling of these orders has already been felt. It had been feared that the in- creasing use of electricity had impaired the breeding of and the trade in the horse, and in the West especially, where the business was extensively car- ried on, there was no inducement to go into it. This sudden call, however, has changed the condition of things and the exports promise to exceed anything ever before reached in this line. As a beginning of what promises to be a new field of export the commercial aspect of our relations with the Dark Continent is certainly promising. The road, a new one, is opened. Trade has been established and the goods, by the steamerful, are already on the way. For numerous reasons the opened market will remain ours. For many years to come the Boers will not encourage trade with England. Without the prejudice sure to exist the English import would have little show with the Boers; with that prejudice, and the acknowledged superiority of the American production, the trade with that country will continue to increase and when peace has been secured will develop in wider and more diverging lines. At all events the new road to South Africa will continue open. The American product will con- tinue to gladden the South African con- sumer and when the war is over, while a daily steamer may not ply between these distant ports, the increased trade will go on and the goods, carried, as they doubtless will be, in American ships, will strengthen the commercial relations between the two continents, to the great advantage of both. lf Admiral Dewey has one thing to be thankful for, more than another, it is that the stand from which he will re- view the seven mile procession at Chi- cago next Tuesday was not reared by the hands of union labor—hands reek- ing with the blood of innocent men who insist on exercising their God-given right to live and breathe and support themselves and families by honest toil. Admiral Dewey has made several very serious mistakes since he became a de- votee at the shrine of an ambitious daughter of Eve, but his visit to Chi- cago is not likely to be marked by the unfortunate features which marred Pres- ident McKinley’s visit to Chicago last October, when the official head of ‘the nation accepted an honorary member- ship in a trades union and disgraced himself and dishonored his office by attending a meeting of trade unionists who have conceived and executed some of the most infamous crimes ever com- mitted in this country. ALL WOOL. Humanity hates to be cheated. No -realm and no inhabitant thereof have yet been found where or with whom deceit meets with favor. To be attracted by the pleasing, to become its delighted owner and then to find out that with all our supposed experience and keenness we have been unmistakably imposed upon goes against the grain. The one condition worse than this exists when, acknowledging ignorance and trusting implicitly upon the man of whom we buy, we find the goods not only not a yard wide but not anywhere near the ‘‘all wool’’ strenuously declared by the cheating salesman. The man who goes into a horse trade with his eyes wide open knows what to expect. It is cheat against cheat and he can afford to laugh no matter what the outcome is; but the great trading world is not engaged in that sort of traffic; when it buys shoddy it wants shoddy and when it buys all wool, all wool it wants and the cheat will find out his mistake when he suffers the unavoidable penalty of his mean- ness. A much needed machine as a com- plement to the wheel has been lately put upon the market. It was just the thing and went straight to the cyclist’s heart. The price was especially rea- sonable and the invention found ready buyers. Then came the reaction, the thing would not work, and the refuse barrel and the ash-heap are bright with the invention used once and with im- precations thrown away. The illustration, in itself of little im- portance, will serve to show what has not been the cause of the enormous _in- crease which has turned towards the United States the trade of the whole earth. “‘It was the guns in the bay of Manila,’’ says one. ‘‘When they found out we can and will fight they wanted to trade with us.’’ ‘‘It is something new, ’’ Says another. ‘‘When the novelty wears off that will end it.’’ They are both wrong, as well as the wiseacre who affirms that it is only a boom in the commercial world soon to be over and soon to leave trade as flat as it found it. ‘‘The fact is the American trader entered foreign ports in the wake of the gunboat and made the most of his chance.’’ It is not the fact, however. Admit that the gunboat battered down the doors of trade in the East. Grant that the American trader took advantage of the opportunity and did his best to push sales in the foreign markets. He found the merchants of other countries ahead of him. He found their goods in the markets and in the hands of their cus- tomers. He found the omnipresent drummer chuckling over his supposed discomfiture, but—and here is where the whole matter hinges—the American could see that he had the best goods. What if the market was crowded? So much the better chance to make a dis- play of something new. What if the goods already introduced had found favor? Where was the market and where were the people unwilling to be benefited when it could be done without cost? So the American bales were opened. So the foreign eyes were at- tracted. So the conscious finger of the curious customer came in contact with the Western fabric. A purchase was the result and the end was not yet. It soon came, however. the reputation of the Yankee, the goods —and not the buyer—were sold. They were what they were sold for—‘‘all wool.’’ Actual measurement showed In spite of, them to be a full yard wide. If they were warranted to wear well they wore well. The work the American machine was declared to do was done and well done. The product of the American loom, placed side by side with other products from other countries, was found to be the better. It was honestly made of honest material and so surpassed the English goods. It was made fine in quality and workmanship and so ex- celled the loom work of France. Its color in tint and fadeless properties challenged the expert and so was proven the superior of the German dye-tub. Asking no odds and receiving none, the American product stood upon its own merits, and rested there its case. The astounding expansion of Ameri- can exports is the pleasing result. Read arsingle statement: The domestic ex- ports of the United States in 1898 were $1,233,558, 140; in 1899 they amounted to $I, 252,903,087, a result not due to boom- ing, not due to the tireless activity of the aggressive American drummer, neither to the shattering shots of the American gunboat, but to real excel- lence in quality and workmanship. These are qualities which stay. They are appreciated everywhere. There is no cheat about them. They are all wool. They are what they claim to be; and the market, domestic or foreign, which expands for that reason has no limit to its expansion. A suit of some interest to the business community, and especially to insurance circles, has just been decided in the city of San Antonio, Tex. The suit was the result of the refusal of an insurance company to pay a loss under a policy. Thomas Brady, a wealthy property holder, was insured in the Georgia Home Insurance Company, and upon the destruction of his property made claim against the company for the amount of the policy. The company denied liability and judgment went against the company. Mr. Brady then instituted suit against the insurance company for $150,200 damages, claim- ing that the defense set up by the com- pany was libelous and malicious. This case was tried last week in San An- tonio, and resulted in a verdict in favor of the company. The fight against the consumption of the cigarette by the youthful smoker is still going on and increasing its terri- tory. A board of education has recently decided that no cigarette smoker shall receive a diploma from its hands. Good. Now, then, if cigarette smoking is the pest that everybody believes it to be, why not give a little attention to the maker of the article? A case of scarlet fever calls for a placard announcing the danger, smallpox and leprosy are quar- antined, but the cigarettemaker, sup- posed to be a bigger death-dealer than all three, smiling and happy, keeps right on with his business at the same old stand. Vermont has a law prohibiting the sale of liquor in any town unless the citizens vote for it, and then it must be dispensed by a town agent for medical purposes or use in the arts. Northfield, a town of 3,000, has had such an agency, and its receipts have been so large that the temperance people have had a law passed requiring the publication of the purchasers’ names. In some poor and_ thickly-settled places a census is about all there is left to take, a ~~ wn we Zw sa Sapo =i < geet A "¢ 1 aitgegaeibti aga si SS ve a a og - ea «Si agp ~ sly = vette ncn Whine ; i? oe .* ~~ itil = se Ps wags: a jet < age ms ais x wimg indi aati wx ve - ¢ a og ‘ ' ‘ asian" iim ~ ~_ vw > a AR Ms > é het oe w “a 4 4 [ ty i i iv condition of things has existed, MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 9 PAYING THE FIDDLER. - There are growls of discord from the voices of harmony. For some reason or other opera in this country has ended in failure. With 400,000 Germans in Chi- cago to the music-manor born anda goodly array of Americans who are de- voted to music, or declare they are, the opera season has come and gone and left a big deficit which some generous men and women with long purses have been kind enough to make up. In the mean- time there is a wondering going on as to whether the American nation is not relapsing into barbarism. ‘‘When Music, heavenly maid,’’ was younger it was not so. Night after night the opera houses throughout the country were thronged. Artists came and went, filling the land with melody, and even the man with the tin pail and the hoe gladdened his toil with the sweet snatches of operatic song. Now a change has come. Wealth and fashion and beauty drop in for a while when the performance is at its height for a bit of sprightly conversation and then de part for the next function. So- ciety discusses the singer’s wardrobe and diamonds and the implements of industry are accompanied by some live- ly whistling of the last gem of the min- strels. Are we as a nation degenerating? Is it true that ‘‘Lo! the poor Indian’’ who yields to the sweet influences of song is getting ahead of us? Apollo by his music moved the stones and the trees to his feet to listen to-his vibrating strings ; are we less susceptible to music than they? There can certainly be no fault found with the singing. With a com- pany whom New York had paid $1,000, - ooo, a well-known musical _ director came to Chicago to find himself out of pocket. The singing was the best; the opera was the best. Not an opera house in Europe had as many first-class sing- ers, with Mme. Calve at the head, and yet the expenses largely exceeded the receipts. The Middle West, the unpar- alleled, enterprising, aggressive, intel- ‘igent and cultured Middle West, was not civilized enough to support a sea- son of first-class opera, and all the world wonders why. It is not the first time in the musical history of this country when the same and without any beating around the bush the Tradesman ventures the opinion that it is a mere question of cost. When Jenny Lind, under Barnum’s manage- ment sang to the delighted crowds at Castle Garden, singer and song were novelties and this country, appreciating both, paid for them right royally. It was worth while. The noveity, however, has gone. A long line of remarkable singers have foliowed in the footsteps of the ‘‘Swedish nightingale’’ and gone back to their nests richly burdened. Others take their places, and while now the singers in the music market are nu- merous the same exorbitant salaries are demanded. New York paid $5 fora ticket. Chicago charged $3.50 and at the reduced rate, with prosperity flood- ing the country, the management would have been in debt had not generosity come to the rescue. Now, $5 and $3.50 are too much to pay for that kind of amusement. The patrons of it do not get the worth of their money. The singers do not earn it. A false value has been put on it, and the general public has submitted to thé imposition just as long as it is going to. These singers, like other toil- ers for their daily bread, before the ad- vent of Jenny Lind were satisfied with the reasonable amount they received. Now nothing satisfies them. They are monarchs of everybody and everything they survey. A whim seizes a singer and not a note for love nor money can be coaxed from her rebellious throat, although the opera house be full to over- flowing with people who have come from far and near to hear that particu- lar ‘‘star;’’ and more than once has an audience gone away protesting against being cheated. out of their money by that class of people in that kind of way. New York may be used to it and so be willing to put up with it. The rest of the country are tired of it, and it seems to be left to the Middle West to call a halt. Genius is something, talent is something and these with good hard work amount to a great deal more, but when a prima donna charges a thousand dollars or more for singing a song, it is as preposterous as it was for Coal Oil Johnny to use twenty-dollar bills for cigar lighters. Let us be honest then and say that opera comes too nigh. We can not afford it. We do not get satisfaction enough out of it. For a people wanting to pay its own way, it takes too long to earn the price of a ticket, and coming right down to the fact there is more real soul- stirring melody in the simple heart- songs, sweetly sung, of the people than there is in all the screaming and air- beating and uproar’ that have been crowded upon the operatic stage from Marco di Zanobi da Goghano to Wag- ner. SNAP. Short and sharp, the word is an apt sign of the thought for which it stands. The yae and the nay which the speech should be in trade and out of it find here condensed their pent-up force. With no waste of breath, with no wish or time to be curt or coarse, it goes straight to the point, says its say plainly and stops. With no hitch in the march of business, the clear, quick brain sees in advance the need not yet asked for, supplies it and the long line goes by without a halt from the beginning of the business day to its close. Conceding without protest that speech reveals character and that character is innate, it is a much discussed question whether training can supply either where it is wholly lacking. A boy horn to drive oxen with a brain as sluggish as his muscles can hardly be expected to direct great enterprises and where this is undertaken it is the character which must be dealt with. ‘‘I can’t make my reading class say ‘Oh!’ "’ wailed the teacher of a class of boys. ‘‘Nothing easier,’’ sharply replied the expert. ‘‘Jaba pin into them!’’ The business world is ful] of men who should have had that treatment be- fore they entered it. They are sluggish. They do not think and they do not want to think. The Spanish ‘‘to-morrow’’ is the besetting sin of their lives and it is constantly getting the better of them. They wake up late in the morning. They are down late to breakfast. They are a few minutes late at the store. They are forever finding fault with their ‘‘hind sight.’’ They like to loiter. They are given to dreaming. They take comfort in the fact that Rome was not built in a day and that the making of the world took seven. Then ‘‘why should the spirit of mortal be’’—‘‘up and do- ing with a heart for any fate!’’ This everlasting flying around and tearing one’s—raiment is not what it is cracked up to be. In a word the man has no snap. His speech declares it and his place in business and in the estimation of men affirms it. Whether even pin-jabbing can effect a permanent change is a question not easy to answer. For this,as in genuine training generally, a man’s grandfather is the place to begin. The sterling qualities of character and_ so of trade are no more the result of a single gen- eration’s care and cost than the big trees of California are the result of a single century’s sunshine and _ rain. Back of present conditions, down there where the real life lives, behind the bark and the wood where the heart is and throbs with nourishing sap is where the question must be settled. If there, hid- den from the eyes of men and often from the man himself, lies dormant only the germ of that snap which made suc- cessful the generations before him, the pin-thrust may accomplish its purpose. Without that the effort is useless. Phys- ical pain and vigorous protest are only so many lively manifestations of exist- ing discomfort, soon to pass and leave no sign. Much has _ been said of late of men’s growing old and useless and being com- pelled to give place to younger men, and a distinguished divine has asked if the old man had _ not better be put to death and so settle the question. These columns have already stated that age does not necessarily mean decay, much less uselessness,and it need be only said now that just so long as that snap which has made men and circumstances yield to its influence is alive, the white hair and the wrinkles are only the signs of experience, matured by time, tempered by thought, ready for greater demands and emergencies and knowing better how to meet them than when rashness and impulse were master. It is only an- other word for life, vigorous life, with no thought of death about it, life with a purpose, and that a good one, together with an unyielding determination for its early accomplishment; and he who at twenty or sixty or eighty has no such purpose and no such determination has lost whatever snap was once his, is ready for burial and should be promptly accommodated. A contemporary remarks that one of the remarkable things about British rule in India is that the longer it continues the more intense and frequent grow the famines. To this it may be answered that famine and plague are hard to com- bat by any form of rule with a people who deem it a religious obligation to drink the water of a river into which empty the sewers of a great city, and re- ject assistance from hands whose own- ers are not of the proper ‘‘caste.’’ Na- tive custom rather than British rule is responsible for most of the ills of India. It is our good fortune that in none of our new possessions have we the ‘‘caste’’ problem to wrestle with. The Prussian minister of railways has expressed a favorable opinion of the American locomotives that have been tried in Bavaria. He says: ‘‘ Notwith- standing their faultless construction, they cost considerably less than locomo- tives of similar style of Prussian make.’’ And_ now comes a report of a plug of tobacco stopping a bullet in front of the heart of a soldier in the Philippines. The pack of cards, the sweetheart’s pic- ture and the New Testament are not the only pebbles on the life-saving beach. The way of the transgressor and the tramp must be made hard. OUNCE Vs. POUND. The trade that has followed the flag to the Philippines seems to have lost its head. In its intense desire to start in early and make the most of the fine hay weather it has forgotten that there is something to be thought of besides the money to be made out of the undertak- ing. Every form of gain in these new possessions has been considered legiti- mate and, while enterprise received every encouragement to keep full the army canteen, it has not been able to understand why the canteen, introduced by the flag for the sustenance of its sup- porters, should not be passed around to these new countrymen of ours and_ thus early give them a taste of Western civ- ilization. The result of passing the bev- erage is a matter with which trade nor the laws regulating it have anything to do--that is a matter purely personal. Given a merchantable, article and a ready market, the conditions of ex- change are satisfied and the world,apart from the parties to the transaction, is expected to mind its own business. This wide-gauge view of the situation the meddlesome world does not take-— like Antonio's bond there is something else. The following of the flag gives no right to be a purveyor of death. To peddle goods to the Philippines im- plies no right, certainly no privilege, to kill them. In uncivilized Gaul mer- chants were not allowed to bring in those things which tend to make men weak and womanish and wine was prohibited. There will be trouble enough to tax every energy in dealing with our distant islanders even when they are sober. To Americanize them—unless, indeed, our American drinks are our surest and quickest civilizers—they must be taken at their best. What is, perhaps, more to the point, they must find us at ours; and it is insisted that the saloon is not the center from which must radiate all that is best in America. Of that center the less they know the better and meas- ures have been taken to avert the great- est mischief which can happen to them. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure and a bill has been pre- sented to the House of Representatives to prohibit the importation, sale or manufacture of intoxicating liquors in Puerto Rico, Hawaii and the Philip- pines. It was needed. ‘The Philippines al- ready show signs of demoralized civili- zation. The saloon came in with the conquering troops and at once went into business. The new drinks please them and they are making the most of their opportunities. Since the coming of the Americans the sale of intoxicating liquors has largely increased and with the increase have followed those evils, certain if not necessarily so, which cir- cle around the saloon. It has been said that Europe’s acquaintance with Amer- ica was characterized by an exchange of poisons, alcohol and nicotine, and America has already shown her good will by passing to Asia what her Euro- pean friendship has secured for her. Among the American Indians ‘‘fire water’’ did more to conquer and kill than powder and ball; and if it is the purpose of the Government to rid the Philippines of the natives a more effec- tive agent can not be found than the saloon-filled canteen. That that is not the purpose the bill before the House plainly shows. The islands are not to be given up to this destruction that wasteth at noonday ; and, that the ounce of prevention may preclude the pound of cure, the friends of the islanders and the enemy of the evil have determined- ly begun thus eariy to protect them from the curse of the saloon, ARS Pah gi Ms MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Staple Cottons—Strictly staple goods share the general dulness, and both buy- ers and sellers show indifference to each other. For home business as well as export business, brown sheetings are very quiet. If the sellers show a dis- position to make little concessions, they will be able to dispose of large quanti - ties, but at present writing there have been none of these shown. For brown sheetings the sellers are willing to ac- cept bids at the present quotations, but stand firm on that basis. There is very little to report in regard to bleached cot- tons, the demand being small for any grade, although prices remain unaltered in the leading tickets, and only here and there in unticketed goods may slight concessions be found in the way of discounts and tradings. Ducks and osnaburgs remain without change in any direction. In some of the low grade bleached cottons there may be found a little irregularity, prices varying per- haps one-quarter of a cent. Wide shect- ings, cotton flannels, blankets, etc., are quiet, but firm. Coarse colored cottons are in fair demand, and prices solid in all directions. Prints and Ginghams—There has been but little demand during the week for calicoes of any description. The orders are small and there are not very many of them, while the fancy division has been almost neglected, staples tak- ing nearly all the business that can be found. Staples, such as blues, turkey reds, mournings, etc., are in excellent condition, and supplies small. Prices are very firm. Fancy calicoes show a small business and more irregularities. A large number of the spring goods have been disposed of and only some of the lighter remain to be sold. These, however, may be secured, if taken in several quantities, at some little conces- sion. Ginghams are steady in both sales and prices, but show little change over our report of last week. Underwear—Manufacturers are mak- ing preparations for the spring season of 1901. There will not be any amount of business transacted in same until sometime in June, as manufacturers do not know what prices to put on goods, As one knit goods man puts it: ‘*Who can teli what the price of yarn will be in six months from now?’’ With yarns advancing and strong, the price of both wool and cotton underwear must open at a big advance, but how great the ad- vance will be is at present only a matter of conjecture. Even if yarns should re- main stationary, the manufacturers would have to advance prices, as they have no stock left which was purchased when yarns were cheaper, and as yarns will go up, it must be seen that the prices of underwear for the spring of 1901 must soar to heights controlled only by the laws of supply and demand, and the unwillingness of the jobbers to pay any abnormal prices. This spring im- porters have contracted a very large volume of business. Their orders have been coming in fast, but they are find- ing a great deal of difficulty in deliver- ing them on time, as goods are coming in very slowly from European manufac- turers. They are preparing their sam- ples for the advance light-weight busi- ness for 1901, and promise a number of salable novelties. There has been an increased demand for fancies, and many large importers expect to double the amount of business transacted in Ig0o during Igor. Hosiery—There are still a number of complaints heard about the backward- ness in the delivery of cotton hosiery. The mills still use the same excuse, difficulty in getting yarns. This is the only worry that the manufacturers have, as the capacity of their mills is sold up, not only in cotton, but also in cotton tfleeced and wool hosiery. There is a large demand for full fashioned hosiery, especially when it is available for early delivery, as there is a scarcity of spot goods, caused by slow deliveries from Chemnitz and other European centers. Carpets—The retail trade reports busi- ness slow during the past week, in part due to the continued cold weather and the intervention of the Faster holidays. Jobbers have done a fair business, con- sidering the fact that the season has nearly closed. Some manufacturers of carpets have in some instances about completed initial orders, placed early in the season, while others have enough business, taken at old prices, to last them up to June 1. A fair amount of duplicate orders has also come in re- cently, and manufacturers refuse to ac- cept them unless at 2%c advance over prices ruling in the earlier part of the Season. To-day standard extra super ingrains are held at soc. The former price was 4714c. Some second grades were taken at one cent per yard less. Manufacturers of all grades of carpets are very hopeful of the future. Smyrna Rugs—There is an effort mak- ing for additional trade discounts, but as the summer season is coming on, the manufacturers. are opposed to making any concessions, as there is no lower price for stocks from which the goods are made. —_>9 > __ Came Unfastened. Marjorie never cries when any little mishap befalls her and has been known to sustain without shedding a tear sev- vere bumps that have rapidly acquired a black and blue aspect; but the other day Araminta, her dearly loved and tenderly cherished doll, fell into the open grate and received a contusion of the nose which was_ most unpleasant to contemplate. Marjorie winked very hard for a few minutes, and then, run- ning with her injured Araminta to her mother, she buried her head in her lap, sobbing, ‘‘Oh, mamma, | don’t want to cry, but my tears have all come un- fastened !’’ Walter Baker & Go, £10. Largest Manufacturers of bgt PURE, HIGH GRADE on this Continent. ely i —_ = No Chemicals are used in Trade-Mark. their manufactures. Their Breakfast €ccoa is absolutely pure, delicious, nutritious, and costs less than one cent a cup. Their Premium No. 1 Chocolate, put up in Blue Wrappers and Yellow Labels, is the t plain chocolate in the market for family use. Their German Sweet Chocolate is good tc eat and good to drink. It is palatable, nutri tious, and healthful; a great favorite with children. Buyers should ask for and be sure that = got the genuine goods. The above trade-mar S on every package. Walter Baker & Co. Ltd. Dorchester, Mass. DIIIA, Straw Hats $2.00 per dozen upwards. Samples and prices. Corl, Knott & Co. Jobbers of Millinery - Grand Rapids, Michigan | ; \ ! eeeeceeeeeeesceceececcececccee” We carry a complete stock of ‘Untrimmed : For Ladies, Misses and Children, from We are also showing a large assortment of Ready-to- Wear Hats for Ladies, ranging in prices from $9.00 to $36.00 per dozen. Write for Young Ladies Peerless Corset Substitute porter. Elastic at sides. An agent wanted in every town. alogue and prices to MADAME C. F. SALISBURY, Battle Creek, Mich. Write for who ride bicycles, play tennis, attend gymnasium, go boating or horseback riding should wear our The Artistic Dress Reform Bodice A combined Waist, Bust, Skirt and Hose Sup- Absolutely healthful. cat- ) MAKE — be st * FINEST. ~© Michigan Suspender Unexcelled in workman- ship and durability. Every pair guaranteed. Write us and our agent will call on you. Michigan Suspender Company, Plainwell, Mich. HOPYEPYOTNEPNO NEP ereerernereor nen eerteTerEe AMAA AAA AAA UA G64 A UA kJ kA Ad JAA db 4b dd bb Sd G©OUGHOUDH Seeseeaaese Waiting too long in placing your order for Summer underwear. Weare ina position to show you one of the most complete lines in Michigan in Gents’, Ladies’ and Children’s Underwear. Ladies’ underwear we have in Lele es eee long sleeves, short sleeves and sleeveless. Children’s underwear in long sleeves and short sleeves. Gents’ underwear in jersey ribbed and balbriggan in all grades and ee eee See ae prices. Write for sam ples. P. STEKETEE & SONS, Wholesale Dry Goods, Grand Rapids, Mich. 3 = = 3 = = = = = = = 3 = = = = = = = = = 3 N TUNA UUM SUN AbA JAA Abb Abi 46h ddd Jb. J4d 444 ddd Jb ®OOGHDHOHHOHOOS Seseeeaeeaes GOHOHOOVOHVOHHHOHHHOYD The Ideal Clothing Company Grand Rapids, Michigan. 12 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Shoes and Leather How to Win Success as a Retail Shoe Salesman. The salesman is the most important factor in the success of a retail shoe Store. In all cases this may not be lit- erally true, individually, but collectively it is absolutely true. There is a differ- ence between a good salesman and a poor salesman, and I will endeavor to suggest a few things that will aida per- son in becoming a successful shoe sales- man, I trust that the salesmen who read this will do so carefully and then. think hard, for by so doing I befieve that they can increase their usefulness and ad- vance their own interests. To sell shoes requires unity of action on the part of all those who perform the necessary du- ties. A shoe store is almost wholly de- pendent on its salesmen. In order to be successful in business a dealer must first purchase his shoes at a rock bottom figure. What he buys must be in de- mand and the dealer must exercise good taste. Then the goods must be well advertised and the last thing and the hardest thing to do is to sell them, and this duty falls on the salesman. He it is who has the important work of fa- vorably impressing the people and mak- ing them regular patrons. Any saie lost through inefficiency or indifference of a clerk is irretrievable. If a customer is once slighted he will refuse to call again. One of the first requirements of a good shoe salesman, then, is affability. Each clerk should make it a part of his duty to be pleas- ing and courteous under any and all cir- cumstances. The treatment a customer receives creates either a favorable or an unfavorable feeling. If, through the politeness of a clerk, the impression is, favorable, a permanent patron is se- cured and the new patron, whenever the name of the house is mentioned, at home or abroad, will probably couple it with some such comment as, ‘‘and they have such polite and obliging clerks.’’ When these words are sincere- ly spoken they are worth columns of ex- pensive newspaper space. At all times ‘‘no trouble to show goods’’ should prevail wherever shoes are sold. This spirit should be earnest and not assumed. Courteous willing- ness indelibly stamps itself upon peo- ple and it generally is conducive to success. If a customer does not buy to- day he may buy to-morrow. If he is undecided in his choice and feels that a salesman _ resents being put toa little trouble he will probably go elsewhere. This attitude of ‘‘no trouble to show goods’’ sheuld be cultivated by each clerk; in fact, it is an essential re- quirement. When a salesman shows himself perfunctory, inattentive and unobliging, or displays lack of interest or enthusiasm, the business which he serves suffers correspondingly. Do not be short and abrupt. A good salesman will exhibit some interest in the pros- pective customer and try and engage him or her in conversation—advance some reason why a particular shoe is sold at a certain price and Say some- thing regarding its desirability or cheap- ness, and then get very busy showing other and better styles. Nine times out of ten a sale will be made in this way. A customer is easily nettled by indiffer- ence, so that it won’t do for a salesman to carry on a conversation with a fellow salesman, chew gum voraciously and do Several other things at the same time that he is trying to sell a customer a pair of shoes. Make painstaking efforts to make goods and prices attractive. Modern competition is so keen that no house can afford to keep a salesman who puts on autocratic and independent airs. The successful shoe salesman is diplomatic and never loses an opportunity to make a praton feel welcome, and_ by suavity of manner and speech never fails to convince a customer that the house ap- preciates his trade, and wants his con- tinued patronage. A salesman’s value is measured by the amount of his sales. The stock in trade of every salesman is weighed by the friends he makes. Friends that hunt you up when they want to buy can be cultivated only through the medium of politeness and perpetual willingness to serve them on all occasions. While a salesman should not be over persuasive, he should bear in mind that shoes do not sell themselves, and that the con- summation of a sale can often be helped by the right kind of an argument. Another important th ing: Remem- ber that no extraordinary credit is due you for selling specially-advertised, low- priced goods. These goods are sold, or nearly sold, when application is made for them, and it is always possible to sell something better, Carrying a greater percentage of profit, although you should not betray any prejudice against any Styles that are advertised. They must be sold, too, but, as a rule, when you can't sell anything of a higher grade. No matter what provocation you may have, never allow your temper to get the better of you, and never under any circumstances give a customer a sharp answer or back talk. You are paid for treating all persons with civility and you are expected to do so at all times. Keep your eyes open and do not stand around without giving customers prompt attention. Clerks who are looking for ‘*sinecures’’ are the ones who never get along. When you see a man inspecting a shoe, do not have to be told to wait on him, but go to him without being told. Always remember that the dig- nity of labor is the greatest of all dig- nities, and that industry and integrity are cardinal requisites to certain and honorable success. Also remember that success is not in time, place or circum- stance, but in the man, and that there is no direct road to it except that of un- remitting toil. Some salesmen look upon a possible customer who interrupts a pleasant con- versation or dreamy reverie as a posi- tive nuisance, to be suppressed at all hazards, and they are the salesmen who never advance. A good salesman should make himself familiar with the advertisements of competitors. A salesman who is well posted on the doings of his own house and also of the other houses can answer questions more intelligently than anyone who is too frivolous or habitually too tired to exert himself, In concluding, I would warn any per- son who intends to become a successful shoe salesman to guard himself against lapsing into lackadaisical’ habits. The world to-day wants good men and is con- stantly on the lookout for young men of magnetic personalities and quick gen- eralship. This is an age of civil-service promotion, and the salesman who hopes to better his condition must strive to deserve it, remembering that “‘fame comes only when deserved,’’ and then it is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.—Umber in Boots and Shoes Weekly. “Gold Seal” Rubbers Pure Para Rubber Goodyear Rubber Co. 382 and 384 East Water St., Milwaukee, Wis. Ww. W. WALLIS, Manager. SSSSSSSSeeseaaeses 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 Write us for a trial order, HEROLD-BERTSCH SHOE CO., Makers of Shoes, Grand Rapids, Mich. 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 Ionia Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. Shoes That Sell 3 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 what you can sell easily. Our travelers will be in to see you If you defer ordering until they © soon. come, we'll get your order. Geo. H. Reeder & Co. 19 South Ionia Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. ~ ~< sitll, “Citi gh ~ eigen . ei. ie ov >. » ae oie ailing 4 ie it MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 13 Use of the Pile Driver in Window Display. The shoe dealer in the small town which only boasts of weekly newspapers has really more need to pay strict and careful attention to his window displays than the larger and more pretentious towns and cities. The merchant in the small town has just as much need toadvertise his wares as those in the larger cities, and it is clear that he is under obligations to himself to develop such facilities as he possesses to give publicity to his goods as in places where the advertising re- sources are more varied. ‘*No: town liveth unto itself.’’ The merchants in it come in competition with those of the larger towns and cities. People may be attracted by the more ag- gressive advertising of the merchants in the larger places to buy their wares there, although the dealers at home may be able to satisfy their wants just as well. The dealer who can not appeal to his local public daily through the medium of the press, but must depend on week- ly doses, has in his windows a means of making up the deficiency to a great ex- tent. He should seize every opportunity to attract the passerby by special offerings. Do not wait for your. newspapers to come out, but make your announcement in advance through your windows. By this method the small town dealer will be able to produce the impression on the people of his town that he is in touch with all the new things in the trade and is just as able to give them price and quality advantages as the metropolitan dealer. *x* *«* * Cut sales, as a rule, are almost over with shoe dealers in general, but even at this late date we feel confident that there are merchants among our many readers who would like one more idea to assist them in making a clean sweep. We will give you an idea that is quite appropriate and may be constructed at no great expense: Have a carpenter erect a pile driver, following the usual proportions of this familiar structure. Let it be high—the higher the better—so that the spectators in following the course of the driver as it rises and falls must of necessity see the goods that are placed on the top and background. Let the frame be painted a brown or dark color so as to have the appearance of being weather beaten. The driver may be made of wood and if necessary you can load it with lead and fit it to the grooves in the upright. The grooves should be greased with soap, the pulleys must run without a squeak and the smali cord or rope should be of soft woven cotton. At the bottom of the upright, saw a round hole in the floor. Let this aperture be sufficiently large to permit the passage of the supposed pile driver. The pile may be inexpensively painted to resemble a log, having a piece of paper fastened to it bearing the words : ‘ We Have Struck ROCK BOTTOM And Can Not Go Lower. As the driver strikes this pile in its descent the pile is driven almost through the floor, but when the driver receives its weight the former resumes its posi- tion for another blow. This action may be obtained by strong rubber bands fastened to the floor of the window and to the lower edge of the pile, which is prevented from sink- ing too low by cords fastened between the elastic bands. The motive power to operate this display may be a small boy hidden from view. In some conspicuous place display the key to your trim: HOW WE DRIVE DOWN PRICES On... oe ae This is the season for window cards and they can be used very effectively in calling attention to the new line of spring goods in your show window. If an elaborate display is attempted it should be accompanied by an assort- ment of tasty window cards to properly emphasize the merits of the goods dis- played. It is not enough that the price of the shoes alone should be on the card, for that does not sufficiently impress the passerby. These cards’ should an- nounce some pertinent fact in terse language. Have it in such a way that it can easily be read at a glance, and you can do the necessary talking after your prospective buyer has come into the store. A window card is a bait only! You must be the hook to land your fish after he has nibbled at the card from the outside. If you can not afford the luxury of a professional win- dow dresser, you can frequently make adaptations of the best of the ideas de- veloped in the trade papers.—Shoe and Leather Gazette. The Domestic Barometer. Stranger—Well, 1 hope times are bet- ter among. you than they werea few years ago. Native—They are, mister. My wife’s demandin’ a $<0 set of furs this year as against nothin’ but a ball of yarn for darnin’ for the corresponding perid of last year. ed Cross Protectio 17 inches high Before negotiating for your Lumberman’s Overs coming season do not first investigate the m our Red 7 Cross Protections The rubber is the Goodyear Glove Brand Duck (will not snag.) Roll sole, best oil grain and attached to a warm lic. Write for prices. Hirth, Krause & Co. Grand Rapids, Mich. lined waterproof duck, making the best foot- wear ever offered to the pub- The Lady and the Teeth. ‘*l was called one day to a certain hotel to give chloroform to a young woman who was about to undergo a slight surgical operation to remove a morbid growth in the ear,’’ said a physician. ‘‘The patient, as it devel- oped on my arrival, had been married only a few days before and was in the city with her husband on their bridal tour. Although quite handsome, she was no longer exactly in her first youth, and she was very much averse to having her husband present at the operation. However, he insisted, and she _ finally agreed that he should stay, but | no- ticed that she seemed very nervous and preoccupied. ‘*The operation, as I said before, was trifling. She took the chloroform easily and all went well until she was just re- gaining consciousness when she opened her mouth and out fell a set of false teeth. She had said nothing about that detail, and the truth was that she had hoped, poor woman, to pass through the TRADE MARK COPYRIGHTED If you buy BRADLEY & METCALF CO. BOOTS AND SHOES You buy the best. nl. for the fail to erits of this is ordeal without the fact of her wearing such things being known to her hus- band. ‘* But the effect on that individual was entirely unexpected. He gave one hor- rified glance and then rushed at the old surgeon and seized him by the throat. ‘You infamous scoundrel!’ he yelled. ‘You have broken my _ poor darling’s jaw!’ ‘At that stage of affairs I beat a re- treat. I never did learn exactly what the husband thought had happened, or what sort of explanation was offered.’’ Increase of Crime. Judge Jackson of the United States Circuit Court took occasion to say at Wheeling the other day that the world is growing worse. **My experience on the bench,’’ he said, ‘‘has not been a limited one, and I regret to say that crime in this coun- try is on the increase. [am unable to determine whether it is a result of im- creasing population or of the lowering of the standard of public morality.’”’ COUTTS COSTS SECCS STC CCS BRADLEY: METCALF CO: CELEBRATED BOOTS® SHOES ESTABLISHED 1843 PSeSESESEES' Made in Milwaukee. PSESSESSESSES I Patent applied for. 14 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Clerks’ Corner. Tame Cat Clerks Who Warm Kitchen Chairs. This is going to be a short, fatherly, plain talk with grocery clerks. I am going to point out to these clerks the liability of falling into the tame-cat habit, and what it means when they get there. By the tame-cat habit I mean the habit a good many grocery clerks get in- to of loafing about kitchens and gossip- ing with the cook--sometimes even with the lady of the house. I have known a whole lot of grocery clerks in my time. I have never known one who had any ambition after he reached that stage. He seemed to gradually grow content with warming a seat in the kitchens where he went for orders, and if he ever had had any idea of rising above a grocer’s clerk, he lost it—content to serve out the balance of his days as a grocer’s clerk, and part of the time each day to be a tame cat in a customer’s kitchen. I have one of these tame-cat clerks in mind now. He’s past 4o years old, but he’s still a clerk. He always will be a clerk. He’s been one of the lazy, tame-cat variety of clerks for twenty years, and as soon as he got there he lost ambition, just as all of them do. This fellow makes regular rounds every morning for orders. He shows up about 8 o’clock and the people, of course, all know him. He squats him- self on a chair and talks. There isn’t a piece of neighborhood gossip that he doesn’t know, nor a neighborhood scan- dal that he doesn’t have at the end of his tongue. He gets his information through the back end of the house—the kitchens—on the trading process. He trades a piece of news for another piece, and in this way gets quite a stock. Maybe these bits of gossip, retailed with great gusto, help him to get or- ders, I don’t know. I knew a_ boy once—a bright, keen fellow—who went into the grocery busi- ness. He went into it to learn it, with the idea of becoming a business man himself. He was a sociable little fel- low and he thought the proper thing to do, when he went into a lady’s kitchen to get her order, was to talk either with her or her servants. He didn’t do it for love of gossip, but honestly because he thought it would help him in his busi- ness. Well, that was about five years ago. Inside of a year after that boy started he was a confirmed scandal-monger— rolled sweet morsels of gossip under his tongue from pure love of it. I was breakfasting in a house once where he came for anorder. He reached the house about as we finished and, as I had known him, | strolled back in the kitchen to say how-d’ ye-do. There he sat, fat, lazy and greasy — the typical man-gossip. He was just in the midst of telling some bit of neighborhood news when I appeared, and he was so intent on telling it that he scarcely greeted me. The lady of the house just then came back. **Hear about Mrs. Wilkins’ bad luck, Mrs. Jones?’’ he asked, eagerly. Mrs. Jones was the lady of the house. ‘No, I didn’t,’’ she said. But, womanlike, she wanted to all right. ‘**You know her aunt that used to visit "em every fall an’ stay three weeks? Had money, you know, and the Wil- kinses has always been nice to her "gause they ‘spected to get some of it. Well, she up an’ died last week, an’ left all her money to some orphan ‘sylum. He! He! He! Ain’t that rich, though?’’ The fellow was disgusting to me. He had degenerated into one of these things that would rather glaver over other people’s doings and characters than eat. ‘‘Oh, I most forgot!’’ said the clerk. ‘Mrs. Billings got word last night that her daughter Mary—you know Mary— had had twins, both boys! What d’ye think o’ that?’’ I left the kitchen—couldn’t stand it any longer! The bright, quick little fellow that I had known once as a boy with the ambition of making something of himself had degenerated into a mere tabby—a tame cat who warmed kitchen chairs and regaled hired girls and such of their mistresses as would listen to him with the bits of silly gossip he could pick up. Later in the day I went into the store of the grocer who employed this fellow. I tackled him about George, as if I knew nothing of him. ‘*See here,’’ I said, ‘‘whatever be- came of George Boyd? The last time I knew anything of him he was clerking with you.’’ ‘“He’s still here,’’ said the grocer. ‘*How’s he making out?’’ I asked. ‘Pretty well,’ said the grocer, ‘‘he’s a good boy, George is, but he ain’t got as much ambition as he used to have.’’ Don’t you see that it turned out ex- actly as 1 say? George had become a tame cat. He _ had fallen into the kitchen-gossiping habit and had lost his ambition. Somehow keen, hustling am- bition and the habit of loafing around back kitchens and exuding news don’t seem to go together, and in every one of a great many cases | have known the ambition got the worst of it and gave way. Clerks,take warning. Be sociable and friendly by all means, but don’t get gossipy. For as sure as you do, mark my words, you’ll get fat and sleek. Your mustache, if you have one, will grow to look like a tame cat’s. You'll be simply a tame kitchen cat, without an ambition except to keep warm afid gab- ble.—Stroller in Grocery World. ——___@»___ Like Contractors Do. Wiggs—l actually haven’t the courage to ask Miss Snapper to marry me. Diggs—Why don’t you send her a “*sealed proposal?’’ GOHUOOOOOOOOON Does = g ine nN = VU If the harness you sell to your customer satisfies him, you have done about all you could. - - You can do a great deal towards insuring the good wishes of your customers by selling them a harness you can guarantee. - We stand squarely behind you when our harness is in question. It is worth every penny we ask, and more—not only to us but to you. Brown & Sehler, Grand Rapids, Mich. OOOOGOOOOOGOOU SSSSSSSSSSseSeseoseeseees @ @® @ @ ) ® @® ® @ @® ® ) @ @® @ @® ® ® I) i) ® Crockery and Glassware AKRON STONEWARE. Butters % gal., per doz....... 1 to6 8 ga 10 gal. 12 gal. 15 gal. 22 gal. 25 gal. 30 gal. 2 to Re, POP Pa l. each Pee cins ures : each. CRE meat-tubs, each. meat-tubs, each. meat-tubs, each. meat-tubs, each. Churns 6 gal., per gal Churn Dashers, per doz..... 20.22.2277 Milkpans % gal. flat or rd. bot., per doz......... 1 gal. flat or rd. bot.,each............ Fine Glazed Milkpans % gal. flat or rd. bot., per doz......... 1 gal. flat or rd. bot.,each............ Stewpans % gal. fireproof, bail, per doz......... 1 gal. fireproof, bail, per doz......... Jugs a Sal PEP MOC ye Sal per doz. 1 to5 gal., per gal............ Tomato Jugs be eal. DOr @OZ a Corks for % gal., per doz..... . co . Corks for 1 gal., per doz.............. Preserve Jars and Covers Y% gal., stone cover, per doz........... 1 gal., stone cover, per doz.......... Sealing Wax 5 Ibs. in package, per Ib............... FRUIT JARS A OAS Half Gallons......... Moyers. 0 No. No. 2 ae Se ee AT ee BOCRIIOy, Nie Te nectnty, NO. 200 ee Nubmer. ci. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. LAMP CHIMNEYS—Seconds Per box of 6 doz. 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It has stood the test and proven its reliability. | Competi- tion only makes its po- sition more secure. a a ee a Olney & Judson Grocer Company, Western Michigan Distributors, Grand Rapids, Mich. The Northwestern Consolidated Milling Company, Minneapolis. ~ LH vv, TT Tere rere SO eee ee NINOS SPONSE NIE SES EOS SO ae oe Se LEP EO Se rr SSNS EO ae ty ; side! & ti wr - ype anal 4 oe ee 4 w eee we enlist... . 4 v = -_ Re Ms. we wii v A «he aaa 4 e} v ~~ -_ ER eS, id. ‘ we er i Pe 4 A «Sala ibaa 4 4 =< Pa » MICHIGAN TRADESMAN PIONEER GRAND RAPIDS. Influence of Four Devoted Divines on Its Early History. The writer recalls the names of four men that were so intimately linked with the early history of Grand Rapids and the Grand River Valley as to deserve at the hands of the people an enduring monument to their memory. They were men whose Christian lives, pious teach- ing, industry, integrity, remarkable foresight and executive ability did more than the talents of any other four men in their day to make Grand Rapids the second city in the State. Froma social, moral, religious and business stand- point each made his individual mark upon the future destiny of the Valley City as spiritual teachers, public edu- cators and business men. Each repre- senting a different creed of Protestant faith, they enjoyed each other’s con- fidence and friendship, working to- gether as a band of brothers for the spiritual and material benefit of the entire community. No history of Grand Rapids would be complete without fre- quent mention of the Rev. James Bal- lard of the Congregational Church, Dr. Francis H. Cuming of St. Marks Episcopal Church, the Rev. Wm. M. Ferry of Grand Haven, and last, not least, Father Van Raalte of the Dutch Reformed Church of Zeeland, Ottawa county, the spiritual guide and friend who led that band of pious Christian pilgrims from the Netherlands to their Land of Promise in the Grand River Valley, whose descendants now occupy so prominent a place in the population and history of Kent and Ottawa coun- ties. It is not the intention of the writer, nor would it be within the limits of this paper, to attempt an extended bio- graphical sketch of this quartette of de- voted Christian missionaries. I would only remind the present generation of Grand Rapids citizens of the debt of gratitude they owe to the memory of these earliest of pioneers for the part they took in laying the foundations of the prosperous and beautiful city of which they are now so justly proud. The time and place of my _ introduc- tion to the Rev. James Ballard are very fresh in my memory. Having occasion to visit the office of the then venerable John Ball (in June, 1850), I found him in consultation with Mr. Ballard. I record below the characteristic intro- duction to Mr. Ballard I received from the eccentric John Ball: ‘*Mr. Welton, allow me to make you acquainted with the Rev. James Bal- lard, who has been fighting the Devil in our midst for many years, besides making himself useful in many other ways—for instance, he united me in marriage to my wife.’’ Any one who ever enjoyed the friend- ship of John Ball will realize the in- imitable drollery with which he de- livered this introduction. Mr. Ballard’s courteous retort was no less characteristic: ‘‘Mr. Welton, I assure you it is one of my most pleasing recollections. I only regret that it did not occur twenty years earlier.’ Mr. Ballard’s unbounded hospitality and devotion to the spiritual and ma- terial welfare of Grand Rapids were proverbial. The last time I recollect seeing him was some years later, when he was assisting Mr. Childs to plant a row of maple trees in front of the Con- gregational Church at what is now the corner of Monroe and Commerce streets. Dr. “rancis H. Cuming, rector and founder of St. Marks Episcopal Church, was possessed of remarkable energy and executive ability. A devout churchman and earnest champion of the faith, he was never bigoted nor intolerant of others. Toevery enterprise that offered material benefit to Grand Rapids he was among the first to give encourage- ment. His ideas of the future of the Valley City were clear and comprehen- sive and he shaped his course accord- ingly. To eke out his limited salary he was for many years agent for life in- surance. Together with the Rev. Mr. Ferry of Grand Haven he laid out and platted Cuming & Ferry’s addition to Grand Rapids (West Side). At one time he contemplated founding St. Mars College and a_ preparatory school was opened in a small building built at his own expense on Division street, nearly opposite St. Marks Church. He was loved and honored by all who knew him. Of the Rev. Wm. M. Ferry it may be said that he occupied the same _ exalted position in the affections of the people of Grand Haven as did Dr. Cuming in the hearts of the pioneers of Grand Rapids. For many years he was the only Gospel herald in that sparsely set- tled lumbering village. He was not only a devoted Christian missionary, but his example and industry left an indel- ible mark upon the future of the present thriving city of Grand Haven. His benevolence was extended and his char- ities were liberal. The positions of trust and confidence that have been be- stowed by the people upon members of his family bear evidence of his domestic virtues. I first met Father Van Raalte at my own store, corner of Canal and Bronson streets, where he called to visit our late lamented friend, Paul Steketee, who was then in my employ. He impressed me as a man of strong convictions and iron will whose life was devoted to the spiritual welfare of his band of exiles from the Fatherland. His teachings and example left no room for agnos- ticism to take root. Devoted piety and unwavering faith in God’s promises and his inspired word, at this day such prominent characteristics of the Hol- land-American citizen, were the fruit of his faithful teaching. His labors and sacrifices were great, but he found his reward in the love and veneration of that band of exiles and their descend- ants. Such men should be kept in grateful remembrance by those who have profited by their sacrifices. Would it not be a graceful recognition of their heroic, self-sacrificing lives for the Historical Society of Grand Rapids to erect an en- during monument in John Ball park, or some central point in the city, upon which to record their names and keep their good works in perpetual remem- brance? W. S. H. Welton. A. M. Dean Company, White Lead and Color Works 230 and 232 E. Kalamazoo Ave., Kalamazoo, Mich. Manufacturers of the most durable paint made. Every gallon war- ranted to wear as good and look as well as any paint made and better than pure white lead. Write for prices and terms. One agent wanted in every town. ‘MICA | AXLE | GREASE has become known on account of its good qualities. Mica because their customers want ¢ their money. 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If it is not cheaper in comparison, return at our expense, * SP Cea aL PPRU UaLet) Retailers of Sample Furniture LYON PEARL& OTTAWA STS. GRAND RAPIDS MICH. Retailers of Sample Furniture LYON PEARL&G&OTTAWA STS. GRAND RAPIDS MICH. HOUSE } BEFORE BUYING FURNI: HOLD | TURE OF ANY KIND WRITE US FOR ONE ORALLOF OUR UR= (‘BIG 4’CATALOGUES OF NITURE | HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE HOUSE | BEFORE BUYING FURNI: HOLD | TURE OF ANY KIND WRITE US FOR ONE ORALL OF OUR FUR= IG 4" CATALOGUES OF NITURE | HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE WE PREPAY FREIGHT deat ie Vea : 5 Eo 3 i i 16 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Woman’s World Settling Some of the Vexed Problems. In many of the cities where the do- mestic sciences have been introduced into the public schools, the boys are be- ing taught to sew and cook as well as the girls. To the generality of women this may seem a doubtful blessing. It is an invasion of the sphere particularly our own. It is an attack on the one field of labor where we have been _per- mitted to work without anybody ques- tioning our right to delve init and, with a prospect of papa’s pies rivaling mother’s bread, we may well feel that there is danger of a time coming when, like Othello, our occupation will be gone. Worse still, it is a palpable blow at matrimony. The man who can sew on his own buttons and patch his own trousers and cook things just as he likes them will have one less incentive to marry than the man who depends on some woman to finally rescue him from the clutches of his laundress and the nightmare of boarding around. But all these objections, it seems to me, are more than offset by the dazzling prospects offered to the fortunate women who are lucky enough to draw these prizes in the matrimonial lottery, and we may look hopefully forward to the future when neither the millionaire nor the swell will be the object of pursuit of managing mammas, but the youth who has taken the blue ribbon in the cook- ing school will be universally regarded as the catch of the season. Nor does this imply that women have any inten- tion of abandoning the cooking stove that has so long been our most potent ally. It merely means that we shall recognize that the man who has _ served his apprenticeship in the cooking schools, who has wrestled with the fry- ing pan and been up against the pots and the kettles, will be able to extend a heart-to-heart sympathy and compre- hension to his wife when the steak is tough and the potatoes watery, of which the unculinary, half-baked man is ut- terly incapable. Dickens says, some- where in one of his stories, that no ed- ucated man ever looks at even the back of a book like an ignorant person does, and it is precisely the same way in housekeeping. The man whose whole experience in cooking consists in offer- ing gratuitous criticisms every time anything is underdone or overdone can never behold a dinner with the same exquisite perception of all the time and labor and worry it took to produce it that the man will show who knows from personal experience of the deceitfulness of butchers’ meat and the iniquity of the kitchen stove. As it is now, the average man is like the military experts who sit in their offices and theorize about how the officer in command ought to carry on a cam- paign in a country of which they know next to nothing and whose difficulties they habitually underestimate. As the husband figures it out, all the domestic trials that his wife considers mountains are merely kopjes that anybody ought to take with one hand tied behind them. All that she has to do is to march double quick upon the enemy intrenched in the kitchen, storm the garrison, rout her with slaughter, set up a new government that she expects the vanquished to hail with rapture, and white-winged peace will hover forever over the scene. It doesn’t even occur to him that the enemy is in her own country and that Domestic she is armed to the teeth with bombs in the shape of leaving without warning, and that at the very first hint of attack she would execute a successful trek out of the front gate, leaving the breakfast things in the sink and the clothes soak- ing in the tub. He has nothing but contemptuous pity for the female intellect that can not manage two servants without getting gray hairs and wrinkles in the process, while he bosses half a hundred em- ployes without turning a hair. The man who has been through the domestic mill on his own account will never adopt that tone of voice with his wife. He knows from experience that no rules that apply to other labor have any bearing on the servant girl ques- tion. Like the wind she cometh and she goeth as she listeth and no man or woman knows when or why or for how long she is going to list. Neither will this paragon make unfavorable com- ments on the culinary products of Dinah and Mary Jane. He will eat what is set before him, asking no questions for sympathy’s sake, and reflecting, when things go awry, that perhaps he would get no better results in his own affairs if he had to depend for all his help on ignorant and unreliable people who neither wanted to learn their business nor desired to keep their places. In all good truth teaching boys how to cook seems to me to be the most practical and helpful suggestion that has yet been offered towards settling some of the vexed domestic problems. It is the first effort that has ever been made to make men see domestic life from the woman's point of view. Ninety-nine times out of a hundred the trouble between men and women is caused by their not comprehending the difficulties with which the other has to cope, and anything that makes them see life from the other’s standpoint is just that much advance towards happiness. Without doubt the man who knows how to cook will make a more patient, a ten- derer and a more sympathetic husband than the one who believes that meals are conjured on the table at the striking of a clock by some sort of sleight of hand performance that is no trick at all for a woman to perform and for which she deserves no credit. For precisely the same reason that if I, aS a woman, were contemplating matrimony, I would search through the length and breadth of the land until I found a man who was a graduate of the cooking school, for a husband, if I were a man I would choose a woman who had had business training, for a wife, in preference to one who had led nothing but a doll baby existence, without thought or care or responsibility. The reason why the business woman is a preferred risk in matrimony is almost too obvious to need pointing out. For one thing, she will be more careful about money. No woman who has ever earned a dollar looks at one like the woman who has always had all the good things of life drop into her lap without question. To one it means something that comes easy and goes easy—an added luxury that she has coaxed out of husband or father. To the other it represents toil, weariness, sometimes the very life blood, if not of herself, of some other. 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Another thing that the man who mar- ries a business woman may count on _ is getting a sympathy in his work that the other woman is incapable of through her very ignorance of extending. The av- erage woman, down in her soul, regards her husband’s business as a kind of picnic. Her idea of having a thorough- ly good time is going for a morning's debauch in the dry goods stores and ending up by eating ice cream and soda water, and to save her life she can’t help feeling that his going down town every day is just the same kind of hilar- ious enjoyment. No woman who has sat behind a typewriter day after day and taken part in the daily grind of business, who knows all the disappoint- ments and vexations, the anxiety about notes that are coming due with no money to meet them, the promising schemes that turned to failures, that burden most men’s lives—no woman who has been through that cherishes any illusions about business being fun. She knows it for the heart-wearing. nerve- wearing thing it is, and her comprehen- sion of his trials keeps her from _ inflict- ing many of the unconscious cruelties that the woman who is totally ignorant of business practices upon her long- suffering spouse. It is this same knowledge that keeps the business woman from burdening her already overburdened husband with errands she can do herself or unpleasant communications that he might be spared. She remembers how, when she came home at night, with nerves fretted to fiddle strings, it seemed to her that just one more calamity would strain things to the breaking point. You may be sure that the woman who has been all along there never meets a weary man at the front door with the glad an- nouncement that Jenny has swallowed a pin and the butcher didn’t send the roast and there isn’t any meat for din- ner and Bobby broke the new plate glass window and the plumber sent in his bill and it’s perfectly outrageous and the laundry man has lost the new shirts and the gas meter is leaking and so on and so on. Neither does she ex- pect a man with weighty affairs, and whose time is money, to stop down town and match tape and hunt through a de- partment store to get a spool of pink silk. All of these pleasing vagaries be- long to women who do not intentionally make martyrs of their husbands, but do it through sheer ignorance, just exactly as so many husbands are nothing less than brutal to their wives about things that they do not understand and diffi- culties they do not appreciate. To my mind the most hopeful augury for future happiness in the home lies in this teaching boys to cook and girls something about business. When that is accomplished we have a common plane of mutual understanding and helpfulness on which the sexes can meet. We will not only know the trials and tribulations under which each other la- bor, but be able to sympathize and re- frain from adding to each other’s troubles. There’s just one more thing that I should like to see added to the men’s department study, and that is a course of domestic finance, with especial refer- ence to women. I should like to see a man learn from personal experience what it is to have his wife dole out a quarter to him on Monday and when he timidly entreats for more on Friday ask him what on earth he did with what she MICHIGAN TRADESMAN gave him. I should like te see him start to ask a friend to drink, and then remember he didn’t have any money and have to tell a fib about forgetting his pocket-book. I should like him to know, for his own soul’s sake, how per- fectly enchanting it is to have to go like a beggar to somebody for every cent he has. For I am convinced it is only be- cause men know nothing of what these things are like that they make their wives and daughters do anything so humiliating. With personal knowledge reform would come, and then indeed the mutual sympathy and benefit com- pany, with unlimited happiness as_ its dividends, would be a reality and not a dream. Dorothy Dix. ee The Widows Who Never Wed. Among the most pathetic figures with which we are familiar is that of the old maid whose sweetheart was killed in the war between the North and _ the South, and who has been described with a kind of ghastly humor as a war widow. As we know her best, she is generally a faded old gentlewoman, with hair that is whitening very fast these days, and a certain expression of wist- ful sadness in her eyes, as of one who has looked too long upon the face of grief and loss. Her bereavement is so old now that people have _half-forgotten it. It seems as if she must always have been a gentle little creature, looking on at other people’s happiness through a gray haze of melancholy memories, and to hear the story of her romance is like reading an old-fashioned book in the twilight, that is still fragrant with dead rose leaves that have been pressed be- tween its covers. Old people will tell you that Mattie or Laura was a beauty and a belle, and about how her bold young lover rode away in the morning sunlight, gallant and gay, at -the head of his company, to join the army. He was coming back so soon, covered with glory and honor and victories to make her his wife, and he kissed away her tears and unloosed the arms that clung about his neck, and was gone with the rose from her hair folded safe against his heart. But the days went by and he did not come. Weeks crawled their weary way into endless months and then there came a day when a _ white-faced woman knew that never, never, so long as the world lasted, would he come to her again. They brought her a bit of blue cloth, and a blood-stained rose that they took from above a quiet heart, and that was all. The years have come and gone since then. The tender hands of the grass have knit up the wounds in the scarred battlefields and white lilies of peace have bloomed spring after spring above the graves of the nation’s heroes, but for her life could bring no more springtime of love and joy. That was gone, and so she took her place among the saddest of all widows—the widows who were never wed. eT ec Looking Ahead. A North Omaha Sunday school super- intendent always conducts the lesson re- view in his school. 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The prices ruling are far above early ideas as to a_ safe storage basis, so much so that a good many dealers who would like to store April goods at a reasonable fig- ure are holding off altogether. And yet sO many are going to the warehouses that all surplus beyond consumptive re- quirements is being absorbed. + = It seems most unfortunate under the present circumstances that the actual amount of the storage movement can not be made known. What possible injury could this knowledge inflict upon any operator in eggs? A statement from the cold storage warehouses from week to week would now be of the utmost value in enabling operators in eggs to judge of the merits of the position; without it they are largely ‘‘going it blind.’’ If there were any class of egg men who could get this information for them- selves | could understand a reason for their opposition to the compilation of it for public purposes. But this is entire- ly impossible. The storage of eggs is now scattered over such a wide territory that even the best informed operators can not gain any knowledge of the ex- tent of inward movement, and their op- position to the publication by the stor- age houses of the quantity accumulating is as much contrary to their own _inter- ests as to those of their competitors. ee I have been urging the necessity for this reform for a long time and during the past year made extensive enquiries among egg men and storage houses to ascertain the general views of the sub- ject. I found a large majority of the egg storers anxious to have the public warehouses make weekly reports as to quantity on hand—only a very few be- ing opposed—but while most of the stor- age people were in sympathy with the movement, and seemed entirely willing to make the reports so far as they them- selves were concerned, many of them said they would ‘‘have to be guided by the wishes of their customers.’’ This means, as I suppose, that if a customer ‘objected they would not include his goods in their statement—which would make the statement inaccurate and con- sequently worse than useless. ae ak I can not see why a public cold _ stor- age house should take this position. The knowledge of their total holdings is cer- tainly their own, to do what they like with; if the trade at large from whom their custom is derived desire the in- formation it is unreasonable that one or two of their number can prevent them from obtaining it. The patron of a stor- age house has an undoubted right to maintain secrecy as to his own holdings, but with the total in the warehouse he clearly has nothing todo. The prin- ciple is the same in collecting reports of deliveries by railroad freight lines; at- tempts of individuals to have their shipments withheld from the report of total deliveries by a line have drawn forth the strongest condemnation from the trade at large, both upon the freight line and the shipper. I am very strongly convinced that storage houses which will consider the demands and the welfare of the egg trade as a whole, and publish from week to week the amount of eggs accumulated, which they have an undoubted right to do so long as they do not divulge indi- vidual holdings, will gain popularity among egg storers at large which will be to their material advantage.—N. Y. Produce Review. gs Coops and Cases. Several months ago the produce deal- ers of St. Louis decided to abandon the practice of furnishing coops and cases to shippers of poultry and eggs. At first there was some kicking on the part of shippers, but when they found that the decision was strictly adhered to by all the leading houses along the street, they made the best of it, and proceeded to stock up with coops and cases nec- essary to transport their shipments of poultry and eggs to market. The result is that during the months that have elapsed there have been more new coops and cases seen along Third street than ever before in the same length of time. They come in now marked with shippers’ names, instead of the dealers’, and it is to the shippers they are to be returned when empty. So far as the street is concerned, the dealers are more than satisfied with the change. Some few lost regular shippers for a time, after the decision went into effect, but the majority say the change has saved them money. One large egg dealer said it had saved his house $1,000 so far this year. This is an item. Two or three houses, as a bid for shipments, still stick to the old plan_ of furnishing coops and cases, but it is a dead idea on the market, and now that regular shippers have secured cases and coops sufficient to keep their shipments moving freely, it is doubtful if even they would Consent to a restoration of the old method.—Kansas City Packer. We have our own Straw Board Mills. carry heavy stock. Prompt shipments. Write for prices. FLINT EGG CASE AND FILLER CoO., Flint, Michigan. EOS 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. COLD STORAGE We do a general storage. We are in the field for business and solicit your patronage. Corres- pondence solicited. Second season in operation. GRAND RAPIDS COLD STORAGE CO. GRAND RAPIDS, 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 SB BB BB RP RS SP SR SE a a aE Geo. N. Huff & Co., f WHOLESALE DEALERS IN Butter, Eggs, Poultry, Game, Dressed Meats, Etc. COOLERS AND COLD STORAGE ATTACHED. 74 East Congress St., Detroit, Mich. SE SS DDB wee Wm Ww. OR OR TR SE f Consignments Solicited. e SEESEEEESEE SELES EOLELELEL ESSEEE® | WANTED We are always in the market for Fresh : : BUTTER AND EGGS & & 36 Market Street. R. HIRT, JR., Detroit, Mich. FFFSTFFSTSSTTFTSFTTFTFTFFSTTFESTSTITFTIO WANTE Potatoes, Onions, Apples, Cabbage, Beans, Honey, Eggs, etc. If you have any to offer name your price, quality and quantity, f. 0. 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. We want to buy your Butter and Eggs for Cash FOR SALE—Second-hand butter crocks, ones and twos. 3c per gal. f o. b. Detroit. Hermann C. Naumann & Co., 353 Russell St., Opp. Eastern Vegetable Market, Detroit, Mich. ee OE a eRe, CO SOLESSESOSOOSSOS ve \J 4 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 19 GOTHAM GOSSIP. News From the Metropolis—Index To the Market. Special Correspondence. New York, April 21—Hotels are so crowded that cots have to be used and the contingent of country buyers here is enormous. Jobbers are rushed and every- thing is simply humming. The coffee market is full of ups and downs and can best be characterized as unsettled. The shadow of a story about plague at Rio set prices tending up- ward, and then a reaction came and at the close the market is dull with No. 7 worth in an invoice way 8c, although Arbuckles are said to have bought 5,000 bags at 8%c. In store and afloat there are 1,072,531 bags, against 1,072,531 bags at the same time last year. For mild grades the demand is of an every- day character and quotations, Good Cucuta moving at lo@io%ec. East In- dias quiet. The undertone for refined sugar is firm and the volume of trade is fairly satisfactory. Jobbers seem to be fairly well supplied and most of the business is of a jobbing character rather than from refineries. Quotations remain un- changed. The week has been a duller one in tea than dealers like to see, very few orders coming to hand and those for supplies only sufficient to repair broken stocks. Prices, however, are pretty well sus- tained and the feeling on the part of sellers is that no concessions are neces- sary. Scarcely anything has been done in an invoice way. There has been a fairly satisfactory trade in rice and the outlook seems promising for rather higher prices. Foreign sorts are firm, with new crop Japan selling at 43¢@5c. A Govern- ment contract for 2,400,000 pounds of rice for Puerto Rico will be awarded next week, and this is attracting some attention. It will materially reduce stocks and tend to harden prices all around. In spices some business has been done in pepper and cloves, and more might have been had prices not been above the views of buyers. The general run of trade has been very quiet and the outlook is not especially encouraging for the moment. In molasses the grocery grades of New Orleans have been firmly held and the prices closely up to ‘‘top notch’’ of the season. The demand, however, is not especially active and orders are of a hand-to-mouth character. Supplies do not seem to be excessive, but there is enough to go around. Syrups are firm and meeting with fair sale. It begins to look as if all the ‘‘ future’ business in canned goods this year would be done when the spot goods are here. No one can recall a season when there was so little doing in future goods and the chances are that everyone will be just as well pleased. Spot trading is light and few lots of any size are chang- ing hands. New Jersey standard toma- toes are moving slowly at about 72%@ 75c, buyers seeming to be indifferent as to whether they get any or not. Reports are coming in every day of prospective good crops and also a good crop of new canneries. A couple of leading Maine packers are here this week trying to stop by legal methods the habit some packers in Illinois and other Western States have of putting a Maine label on West- ern corn, to the disadvantage of the Pine Tree State. May they meet with success. Let every tub stand on its own bottom. Lemons and oranges are meeting with good demand and prices are well sus- tained. Sicily fruit ranges from $3@ 3.75 per box. California oranges sell freely and prices are about as _ last quoted—Navels from $3@4.25 and $4.75 for fancy. Seedlings, $3.15@3.50. Ban- anas are still way up, but really seem to have reached the top. The demand is active and, as the supply is light, there seems some reason aside from specula- tion for the quotations given. Firsts, per bunch, Aspinwalls, $1.60@1.65. In dried fruits there has been a better demand for evaporated apples and fancy stock will command about 8c, Califor- ’ nia dried fruits are moving in the slow- est manner imaginable. Large sized prunes are pretty well sold up, but the market generally contains room for im- provement. The bean market for marrows shows some improvement and_ prices are steady. Choice, $2.15@2.174c; choice medium, $1.90@2.10; choice pea, Michigan in bbls., $2.17!14@2.20; bags, $2.15; choice red kidney, $2. 10. The time of year has arrived when the quality of eggs becomes a little ‘*shaky’’ so far as a large portion of stock is concerned, and buyers are becoming de- cidedly critical. Even near-by fancy stock will not bring over 14c. Selected Western, 13c. Western duck eggs, 17@ 18c. In butter there is a fair trade, but prices are no higher and are hardly as strongly held as a week ago. _ Best Western creamery is worth 18c. Thirds to firsts, 15%@17c; fancy imitation creamery, 16c; firsts, 14%@15c; rolls, prime to fancy, 13@16%c. There is a fair demand for cheese but the call is not loud. The home trade is taking small size, old, full cream stock at 12@13c. Some new full cream stock is now arriving, and exporters are tak- ing some at about 11 4c. —_—__+—_~». 2. How Peanuts Are Grown and Prepared for Market. The peanut crop of 1899 is nearly a million bushels heavier than the crop of the preceding year. The total crop will, it is thought, reach nearly 4,500,000 bushels of 22 pounds each. The bulk of the crop is produced in Tennessee, Virginia and North Carolina. It is not generally known that the American yield constitutes but a small proportion of the peanut crop of the world; the ex- portation from Africa and India _ to Europe is nearly 400,000,000 pounds an- nually, half of which goes to Marseilles to be made into oil. The running va- riety is a typical American peanut. Its vines are large, with spreading branches growing flat on the ground. The pods are large and white. There are many more varieties grown, some of them be- ing upright bushes instead of vines. The so-called Spanish nuts are used principally by confectioners. They have small, round kernels and are very fine. The crop averages annually 150, - ooo bags of 110 pounds each, It is only within the last few years that peanuts have been shelled by machinery. With the increase of their production ma- chines have been taking the place of the old slow-going methods. To grow peanuts successfully requires a calcareous soil without too much lime, and under such conditions, the yield runs from thirty to forty bushels per acre. There are about twenty pea- nut factories in America and the capital required for starting a mill is small. One factory handles five tons of peanuts daily, producing 235 gallons of refined oil, 175 gallons of crude oil, 3,680 pounds of flour and meal and -3,300 pounds of stock food. An_ extensive grower does not take the trouble to sep- arate peanuts from the vines and dirt when he has dug his crop, but sends everything to the factory. They are put into the mill, vines, dirt and all, and are then placed ina hopper and fed into a revolving cylinder which cleans them by friction, the dirt, leaves and vines being taken out by a suction pipe. The nuts remain in the cylinder and they are fed out upon a revolving slat-table, the slats resting upon canvas, from which negro women pick out those of the first grade, which are known as ‘‘fancy.’’ The selected nuts are fed from the table into chutes and then into bags. The remainder are run over a second revolving slat-table, fed into chutes and packed in bags labeled ‘‘extras.’’ Four grades are sorted, the first three being sold to dealers and the fourth to confectioners for making burnt almonds and cheap candies. America does a heavy export business to Europe in peanuts. Foreigners do not eat them as Americans do, but grind them into meal. They also make oil of them, which is resold to Americans as olive oil. The nuts are very rich in oil, 40 per cent. of the shelled nut being oil. | After the oil is extracted the cake which remains is sold for $30 a ton in Ger- 93393293323233337 EEE SEEESEEE many and fed to cattle and sheep. Pea- nut butter is one of the latest uses of j S. Bash & Co. ¢ the peanut. It is made by grinding the \ nuts very fine and reducing the mass _ to a pasty substance, a portion at least of the oil being removed. Salt is added as flavoring. M > | “ : 2 erchants Wisconsin papers estimated that the ¥ loss in storage eggs throughout that , Sis ; Fort Wayne, Ind. $60,000 to $65,000. Milwaukee had , : Buyers of Potatoes and Largest ; Jobbers of : Clover Seed in Northern Indiana. Write us for prices. $ NFIIIIFIFIIII®IEEEEEEEE EEEEL State for the last season was 4,000 cases stored, and there were about 50,000 cases throughout the State. The eggs cost in the coolers about 131% cents and quite a few of them were sold at 6 cents, while some brought 10% cents. None of them brought cost price. Commission : Vv ; : F. CUTLER & SONS, Ionia, Mich. WHOLESALE DEALERS IN BUTTER, EGGS AND POULTRY, Write or wire for highest cash price f. 0. b. your station. We remit promptly. ESTABLISHED 1886. References. State Savings Bank, Ionia. Dun’sor Bradstreet’s Agencies. Branch Houses. New York, 874 Washington st. Brooklyn, 225 Market avenue. SEEDS Mammoth, Medium, Alsyke, Alfalfa, Crimson, White Clover. Blue Grass, Orchard Grass Seeds. FIELD PEAS Can fill order quickly at right prices. MOSELEY BROS., 26-28-30-32 OTTAWA ST., GRAND RAPIDS THE VINKEMULDER COMPANY Headquarters for NEW GREEN STUFF Tomatoes, Cucumbers, Onions, Radishes, Spinach, 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. 00000000006 6000000000000000 OOOO OOOO OOOOOOOSOOOOOOOS '-Eggs Wanted- 50 Cars of Eggs. If you have large or small lots, write for prices. - - - - - C Libby, 98 SO. DIVISION STREET. Grand Rapids, Mich. 0OOOO00OO0O00000 00000000 00000000 S0000008 00000900 “gs . e é .™, a, -ra - S ead. SD. S. 2... L. LL. LL Le * /, BZ =sSsssssssssse<-- <> nine times out of a hundred she could . oe on a i 1 iii It is a great strain on a war hero to Save the argument and get better results | jive up to his reputation when he has if she did the thing first and then dis- nothing to do, and is in civil life. sedating Cudintantndgns Padtndins a ttn da tn dint in Mn Mn hi Mn tin Me Mn Mn Ma Mn bh Mn Mi tr tn tne Ms Mi Mi Ma tn bn GBP PPPS P PPP APS PP POPE PP EPP EPPA FA AAA OPA FS PPEAASD SEED POTATOES A bushel of THE DEWEY POTATOES to be given away with every tenth order. The largest yielder, best eater, and the coming market potato. Send for cireular. W. B. STOPPARD & CO., 245 West Fayette St., POPU VOU VU UY Syracuse, New York. 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The hulls are removed, and the naked raw berry is drawn into flakes as thin as tissue paper, and in this form CAN BE COOKED IN THREE MINUTES. Lauhoff Bros.’ Flaking Mills, 35 Chene St., Detroit, Mich. © 00000006 00000000 00000006 60000000 00000000 000000000 Golden Nectar Absolutely the finest flavor of oe any Food Coffee on the market DSSS WORLD’S BEST 5C. CIGAR. ALL JOBBERS AND G.J. JOHNSON CIGAR CO. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN _ Hardware_ First Sale on the Road Made by the New Partner, In the year 1865,1 had no sooner been permitted to sign the firm name with the characteristic flourish I had decided indicated dignity, than I became firmly convinced the proper thing for the ju- nior partner to do was to lay out a route and add traveling for trade to his many other accomplishments. You see, 1 had been held back by the foxy partner 1 succeeded and was given no opportunity to make an experimental trip, either nearby or far away, in order to show in my career how | could avail myself of the goodness of Dame For- tune and demonstrate to those about me that I was worthy of the elevation to which an admiring and indulgent head of the firm had pushed me. Then, again, I was a little afraid the departing partner would ‘‘flimflam”’ some other hardware house into believ- ing he was a good salesman and of com- mercial value. This was, I must con- fess, extremely questionable, to those who had previously been associated with him, but a decision had to be made that if we were going to hold the fairly developed Western trade, which natural- ly at that time was a large asset in the good will of the business, it was im- portant for me to try and ascertain for myself whether I was any good out on the firing line, my predecessor, before referred to, never having permitted me to wait upon any of the large buyers who made our house their hardware headquarters when in the city. In making up my itinerary | included a number of towns from which a mail order trade had been established, with- out having seen the men who pulled the wires to which we gladly responded ; and there were also a number of places from which good buyers had strayed in- to our store, picking up odd lots of im- ported goods, and who had informed me that while their stocks were of gen- eral merchandise, their line of hardware was usually purchased in some place nearer their town than New York. I was selected to act as the buying member of my own firm and, as is frequently the case, had my own idea of the amount of stock it was desirable to carry in order to make all the profit possible and divide with nobody. | felt a tirfle fresh and thought my predecessor had been too conservative in his views. The prices in the spring had been fa- vorably low and my orders for spring and fall trade were more than usually liberal in consequence. | was confident, even with a fair demand, goods would stiffen in price, and events justified the conclusion thus arrived at. All the old stagers in business, within a few blocks of our location, and there were a num- ber of them I found, were laying in light stocks, and business in those days —remember this was in 1865—-was a good deal like buying a ticket in the Louisiana lottery—you had to wait un- til the end of the trip to know if any dividends were in sight. Well, being the buyer of the house, as I mentioned, | had to get everything ali ordered up before I dared think of leaving my partners to buffet the tide of traffic alone for six or seven weeks. Finally in the latter part of June, with a zinc trunk full of samples and a big Russell & Erwin Manufacturing Co. ($25) catalogue, all priced up, as well as it could be in those difficult days to; obtain several thousand quotations, | bought a ticket as far as Chicago and started on my maiden trip. Chicago was a good many hours further off than it is now, so I took the | privilege of stopping off, which I did at | a place called New Brighton, Pa., a short distance out of Pittsburg. I had a} customer there to whom | felt confident I could sell my first bill. The firm was | named C. U. Meyer & Co. I remember it well. I landed at the station in the | evening and the zinc trunk, into which I | had crowded all the plunder | thought essential for success, was so chunky and | so solid the Irish porter for the hotcl at | which I intended stopping asked: ‘*Murther! is it goold ye have in your zincograph?’’ ‘*No,’’ I said very sanguinely,4** not gold, but the making of it.’’ I remember that first hotel well— everything but the name. At supper | had hard work to get even a glass of milk, until I had sent for the aged clerk and told him I was willing to buy a cow, if necessary, in order to obtain it, and then he sent out and bought some— not cows, but milk. When my trunk reached my room and I opened it a suspicious aroma filled the air. In packing my ‘‘duds’’ I had used the top compartment of the trunk to pack in a fair stock of linen and other supplies, when, fearing in some localities | visited 1 might find a brand of water the healthful quality of which could not be vouched for by the local board of health, I had deliberately and snugly tucked away between the large supply of the aforesaid linen a bottle of Hostetter’s bitters. Before the large audience I am now confiding in I want to be conscientious in my recollections, and even at this late day I am willing to make affidavit that it was the square shape of the bottle that made me decide in its favor when I selected this microbe destroyer. Well, the aroma was unmistakable. Upon investigation my worst fears were realized—that miserably-made bottle had played me a_ low-down trick and ‘‘busted on me.’’ Nota drink did I have for a dividend and every piece of wearing apparel in the compartment had to go in the wash at once in order to get them the next day. 1 saw my customers in the morning. The junior partner was a Mr. Smith, unfortunately quite lame, but an old- | time gentleman in his characteristics. Mr. Meyer looked after the mechanical part of the business—the tin shop, etc. —and Mr. Smith ordered the goods. They gave me an order amounting to nearly $400, which at once came near making my hat a size too small for my head. In connection with that bill I remember a blunder I made undetected, which materially lessened the profits. How easy it is to remember our blun- ders, especially the unprofitable sort! Screws at that time were, I think, sold at a list price, from which the reg- ular discount would be 40 to 4o and 7% per cent. for a close price. [| found they were buying in Pittsburg, or had been, at 30 and 10, and as they had all their costs of every size figured at that price I gave them net prices at 4o per cent., which by comparison seemed low, say- ing nothing at all about discount. When I sent the order in, to make it easy for the entry clerk, as 1 had put all the prices in my order book, I placed these net prices over the sizes; and then, oh, strange fatality—no Hostetter’s bitters in this—also placed 4o per cent. in the discount line. Who could believe that sucha stupid bull as this could pass un- Write for prices on Milk Cans Wm. Brummeler & Sons Manufacturers of Tinware and Sheet Metal Goods = = 249 to 263 South Ionia Street Grand Rapids, Mich. AAARARAAARARAARAAAAAARAAR AAA, This is the Only Machine Which Will Actually Chop In a satisfactory manner, all 3 kinds of Meat, raw or cooked, eas and all kinds of Fruit and Vegetables, as coarse or fine as wanted, and .. .. And m 7 ‘6 i Afew of the things Without Mashing tt ote ‘itchops. 7 Ee < Easily Cleaned. Easily Adjusted. ——— Self Sharpening. = 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. If you are looking for an up-to-date article that will increase your paint business 50 per cent. put in a stock of BPS Paints. They have in- creased the business of other representative dealers in your vicinity and, with our co-opera- tion, will increase yours. The paint is right, the advertising is right, the price is right. TT | ih a ct > { an : ie |GA Lh SARG, THE PATTERSON- SARGENT CO., e Cleveland-Chicago- New York. Buckeye Paints, Colors and Varnishes are unsurpassed for beauty and durability. Do not place your orders until our Mr. Carlyle calls. Buckeye Paint & Varnish Co., Toledo, Ohio. - Ai =. wv a elite, A i MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 23 detected, but it did, and the bill clerk The Life of a Stove. _ Hardware Price Curre E Nails rushed off the heart-breaking invoice In daily use to-day are stoves built —— dara : n cn Advance over aan, on both Steél and Wire charged in that fashion. forty years ago and which are still cap- Augers and Bits me —— — oa It was only when I returned from my able of performing their ordinary func- | Snett's. 60 ee Base trip, that in looking over the business ee Se eens Migs: Ber —_ —. soe ; : : : S}are just as good performers as when first | ' ennings’ imitation. 50 por henson oe 10 of the past, I discovered Lf. Of course, | set up, the only difference being that Axes caso” = as any self-respecting salesman natural- | some of the parts have been replaced as | First Quality, 5. B. Bronze............ 7 00} 3advance 45 ly would do, although it was six weeks | Necessity required. First Quality’ a Poe i " _ P ngs se ” old, 1 notified Meyer & Co. of the error a: _ ened of Pig = First Quality, D. B. Steel..... 0.00... 13 00 — 10 advance, eS, 15 os : rs are Maintainin 1e reputa- : vipers’ bap hheucppie LCC ee 25 of the entry desk, explaining how they ltion of their makers son stoves a the a 16 50 | Casing 6 advance................-..-. 35 had been given an unearned dividend|same type and line which have been in| Garden... met 30 00 yl an ne a a a = and, of course, enclosing a ‘‘corrected|service not one-tenth so long as_ the Bolts Finish 6 advance ................ 2000. 45 bill.’’ I smile at this very moment in| others, which were better stoves because Carriage, iiew ae he terehtonte sees = Barrel % advance... ..........-... +++, 85 remembering their extremely ingenious r= were of Egor aag and oF sd Plow ........ as eo ee ee 50 —" et +a. omparison with those of an earlier beadaes Iron and Tinned. 50 reply : They =— indeed doubly | manufacture are scarcely worth the price | Well, plain ..... Buckets ee $1 00 | Copper Rivets and Burs.. sees 45 sorry ; they had noticed the price was 40] of their old iron. They are flat failures "Butts, Cast Roofing Plates per cent. lower than I had quoted, and] for present use, no matter how capable | Cast Loose Pin, Some Se 65 | 14x20 IC, Charcoal, Dean.......... ba 6 50 yo and 5 per cent. lower than in Pitts- | when first installed. Wrought Narrow ....... een ee cee ee a burg; but they thought that a big drop This lack of merit is commonly at iis i Cartridges 14x20 IC, Charcoal, —.. Gatien a had taken place in prices, and had tributed to the makers, but they have | Central Fire 10020 40810 | 14x20 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade. - 6 50 or oh ! nothing fo do with tt. Ehe fauliiswith| oy 20 | 20x28 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade. .. ln conscientiously marked all their selling the meee! They hee abused the eae sags a 20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade... 13 00 prices down to meet it,in fear of a com-| until all its usefulness has departed, ‘ 4in. 616in. % in. 4 in. Ropes petitor, and were actually and kindly|and then blame the makers instead of BE ag ape ae pe Hig inch and larger.............-. 11% saving all their screw orders for us to] @dmitting that the fault is in their own | BBB.. 9% on ell ne ieie aa m fill, for being so honest with them.’’ | }Snorance. A stove is like a human a List acct. 19, °86 panes lis Well, well! I hadn't a word to say; but being in that it requires careful treat- | Cast Steel, per Ib...................--. a aE au ne — ” & , ‘ ‘ ‘ ie » | ment or else will lose its usefulness. Caps Sash Weights as an old sport would remark to-day,| As has been repeatedly said in this | Ely’s 1-10, per m. 65 | Solid Eyes, per ton.................... 25 00 there was no doubt that 1 was ‘‘it.’’ connection, the dealer who sold the .o per m.. 55 Sheet Iron Hardware. stove was primarily responsible for this | Muske ei wget cnet : com. smooth. com. eg eee wearing out in an unnecessarily short Ghisgie — sa a al ol ie“ so Low Prices on Cutlery. time. He may have acted on the theory | Socket Firmer .....................--- 65 on, +s to a eee 3 20 ’ Prices ,on pocket cutlery have moved |that the quicker the stove wore out the — Framing...........+-+-0++-+-+. 65 | Nos. 22 to 24........ Ea 3 30 4 upward in a very moderate degree as better are - his chances ee ne ee S Now ee ae 4 3 50 5 compared with other lines carried by aoe a | . and gene RSC 8 Elbows All Sheets No. 18 and lighter, over 30 Inches é laa Is a y is not only impracticable, | aon 4 piece. 61 ei .. | Wide, not less than 2-10 extra. hardware dealers. In speaking of this]for obvious reasons, but is manifestly Corrugated, per doz... oe _ ~ Siolis Koudod matter, one of the largest makers of fine | dishonest. Stoves are built on and | Adjustable.. a gi Meee aie os ....dis 408&10| Loaded with Black Powder. ..........dis 40 goods is thus quoted : backed by the reputation of the maker, ‘Expansive Bits Loaded with Nitro Powder........... dis 40&10 Many manufacturers say they have and if the dealer sells them with the — S small, $18; large, $26 .......... 30810 Shot aoc de cack cask of eRe before | \dea that their abuse and practical de- | 'V° $18; 2, $24; 3, $90.............. NT 1 60 during their entire business career. struction will work to his benefit he m ss Files—New List i i ae 1 85 ‘ Some of them are working as though commits an assault on this reputation wae aaa ee ana nite — Shovels and Spades they did not believe they would again which its holders will not be slow to | Heller’s Horse Rasps.. a suman Wiest Grade, ee. 8 6O see such a revival of business aslong as}™S°™™ gg Galvanized Iron Second Grade, DoZ...... 26.0.0 -++.-++- 8 10 they lived. The cutlery manufacturers], .... Freight Rates—Test Wel \ Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 25 and 26; 27, 28 Solder are enjoying the prosperity, wad Ga ower Freight , ate . mn ell—Build- a 2 15 16. ies 20 some ways they have a decided advan- ing an Armory. iscount, 65 10 The prices of the many other qualities of solder tage over other ‘producers. What I mean Cheboygan, April 23—At the _ last as Gas Pipe Ate omens” private brands vary is that the material used in cutlery meeting of the Cheboygan Business Galvanized new list.2021220022 20000000 Sousres amounts to such a small sum that prac- Men's Improvement Association Messrs. Gauges it eis ' “ tically the only heavy expense in the Moloney and Frost made a report of | staniey Rule and Level Co.’s.......... 60810 | cutlery business is labor. Take an extra|their trip to try and arrange with the Glass ne Tin—Melyn Grade fine pocket knife and there is less than Michigan Central for satisfactory rates Single Strength, by box. ..dis 85& 14020 ic. pec a ON AN ' 8 30 five cents’ worth of steel in it. When |for Keeney & Son, in regard to locating | Double Strength, by box. 02200000202. dis 85810] 20x141X,Charcoal..............-.--+-+ 9 75 4 > you consider that the knife probably a seed potato plant in Cheboy gan, The By the Light..... aa dis 80&10 Each additional X on this grade, $1.25. sells for $1.50 or more, you can readily | "Port was not very encouraging. Hammers Tin—Allaway Grade see the advantage in favor of the manu-|, President Smith read a letter received | Masdole & Vo.s, new list.............. AE, Contd... ase ies. 7 00 facturer of small goods. We are affected from the contractors for sinking the test | Mason's Solld €: se Steel 20.0.0. 30e list a 14x20 £C, Charcoal... 7 00 so little by the raise in the price of ma- salt well. They claimed to have been Hinges ete core 2a terial that we can offer customers goods | Puncoed, that the conditions of the ma-| Gate, Clark’s 1, 2, 3. dis 60&10| Each additional X on tis grade, $1.50 at about the same price as two or three terial to be penetrated were misrepre- Hollow Ware a Boiler Size Tin Plate years ago. The very idea that there has sented, the casing pipe not what it} por o.oo... cccecceccctecte 508&10 | 14x56 IX, for No.8 Boilers practically been no raise in the price should have been, etc., but they are | Ketties..... 50&10 | 14x56 1X; for No-9 Boilers’ ¢ Pet pound.. 10 seems very attractive to the customer willing to resume work this spring if] Spiders....... an — Traps aul aeaules in heavy ede satisfactory arrangements can be made Horse Nails it Ce 4 - Tis avec duce Ws plies Ga tie as regard price to be paid for the work, —— oe 40&10 | Oneida Community, Newhouse’s..._ |. 40&10 The matter of building an armory in i Oneida Community, Hawiey & Nor- past year has not been beyond 10,per] the city was brought up and, on mo-|. ioe Furnishing Goods ton’s.. ce 65816 cent., while other lines have practically |tion, it was unanimously voted that the eee Peet “eine nome ere ST 1 5 doubled in value. This condition has| President and Secretary sign a petition |’ ” ee ql aU been of practical advantage to the re-] @8king the Common Council to appro-| par trome................c00000 000 3 crates | Bright Market...... 60 tiles. When cedtomess conpltia of priate money to aid in the securing of a | Light Band .o20o.20 2000. he rates | Annealed Market................-.... 60 : : 3 site and the erection of a_ building. Knobs—New List Coppered Market..................-... 50810 high prices in general, the dealer can} After the President and Secretary had | Door, mineral, jap. trimmings........ lace ee La = show by comparison that pocket cutlery | signed the petition, it was passed around | Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings....... 1 00 et eg ee a 3 0 has not advanced proportionately be-|and signed by all present except the Lanterns Barbed Fence, Painted........ 20... 3 15 cause the cost of the steel isa very aldermen in attendance, who, while fa- ee er aes oo 5 26 Wire Goods small consideration, and that higher] Voring the project, eet el iis stesemanees 75 ee : : ; sistent with their position to sign the re MR rr etches ee tsnree onencene oes % prices in other goods—wire, nails and paper Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s.......... dis 70 | HOOKS... 0.1 ee eee ee cece ee ee ee cee ees 7 heavy hardware generally—are caused ; a — Gate Tos and — ae bs by the fact that the cost of the material Didn't Like Air Cars. mipiuadinnaacran deal? he hae syaicimanaane 60 | paxter’s Adjustable, Hickeled.. 30 is at least equal to the cost of the work | From the New York Sun. iliac tas Metals—Zine ry, | 2008 Genuine Peis cle ese 30 in their manufacture. In addition to] The New York man was showing the ee ‘es nee Agriciitral,jWrought. 7oan0 this, the relatively low prices on cutlery | visiting merchant from Kansas the com- Miscellaneous eSSSSSS00e have induced large purchases, and it is] pressed air cars in Twenty-ninth street, | Bird Cages .. 40 known as a fact that the saleshave been|and after one of those lucid explana- | Pumps, Cistern ... 70 very heavy during the past year. tions for which a New Yorker is fa- fone ven Li inte tae eines The Rocker Washer ee mous, he asked the Kansan to take a| Dampers, American............... ce 50 Her Fears Confirmed. ride with him. Molasses Gates ‘I suppose,’’ said the woman who ‘*Not much!’’ protested the visitor, | Stebbins’ Pattern...................... 60&10 Is a great seller had sampled every kind of candy she| pulling back like a steer on a rope. Enterprise, self-measuring............ 30 and will please could reach by thrusting her arm over] ‘‘Why not?’’ expostulated the New Fans the protective railing, and finally had | Yorker. Pry. & , See eee caeniae 60810&10 your customers bargained for five cents’ worth of but-| ‘‘Because, by Gravy!’’ explained the |”°™™°" fo So ia el — and make youa ter scotch, ‘‘all this is adulterated. You| Kansas man, ‘'l’ve been moved _ two OF | «4» wooa's oe ra win we nice profit. couldn’t sell it so cheap if it wasn’t. three times by a cyclone, and I’ve got | «B» Wood’ *s patent Dianiahed’ Nos. 25to27 9 75 Write for price. ‘*Yes,ma’am,’’ returned the salesman | all I want of it!’’ Broken packages %¢ per pound extra. solemnly, ‘‘its all adulterated. ‘‘That 0 - - Planes butter scotch you’re getting, for instance, | The man to have about and be_ useful | Ohio Tool Co.’s, faney............. 50 ROCKER WASHER CO., = —— little butter and not a bit] is one who knows what to do and when Se auunce esl aii oo ¢ Ft. Wayne, Ind. of Scotch, to do it. Bench, first quality............sss0..0. r* wi ao ’ “MICHIGAN TRADESMAN The Meat Market How to Make and Use German Saugage Seasoning. No. 1. 5 lbs. ground white pepper. 4 ozs. saltpeter. 10% ozs. fine salt. No. 2. 3 Ibs. ground white pepper. 3 ozs. saltpeter. 3 ozs. nutmeg. 1% ozs. sage. 7 lbs. salt. No. 3. 4 lbs. ground black pepper. 4 ozs. 3 OZS. 9 lbs. saltpetre. cayenne. salt. No. 4. 6 lbs. ground pepper. 6 ozs. nutmeg. 12 ozs. coriander. 14 lbs. salt. No. 5. Ibs. black pepper. ozs. saltpeter. 4% oz. bruised garlic. 41% Ibs. salt. These recipes have been proved by many years’ practical experience to be of the very best for their given purpose. It would, however, be a matter of im- possibility to season an article to please each and every one, for the simple rea- son that individual tastes differ, and what may be pleasant to the palate of one person may be equally disagreeable to that of another. The greatest care should be paid to the weighing out of the various ingredients for seasonings, for too little of one spice or too much of another invariably means spoiling the seasoning completely. It is advisable for each and every manufacturer to show the most persistent care to pur- chase the various ingredients required from some firm who will guarantee their goods to be genuine, for, no matter how good a recipe may be, a satisfactory result can neither be obtained nor ex- pected if the ingredients used are of an inferior quality or made up from old stocks of herbs and spices, and every article well seasoned carries its own recommendation all the world over. It would, however, be a matter of impos- sibility to suggest any particular class of seasoning to suit each and every in- dividual maker without knowing some- thing of the nature of class of trade he does; for instance, one would hardly expect a cheap sausage to be as nicely flavored as an expensive one. The same remarks also apply to the making up of the various other articles made up by the trade. A grave mistake is made by using cheap seasonings even for the commonest class of article, as it invar- iably proves far better and more _profit- able in the long run to use a better class of one and less of it instead of making them almost unpalatable by the use of cayenne, rice flour, and common salt, It is always advisable not to allow the stock of seasoning to run too low, for it is not always an easy matter to pro- cure the various articles required at a moment’s notice. It is also most essential that all sea- sonings, herbs, spices, etc., must be kept in air-tight tins or canisters, for if they be exposed to the air for ever so short a time they invariably lose a great percentage of their strength and flavor. Half an ounce of seasoning should be used to every pound of fresh meat, but when salt pork, beef or heads are used the seasoning must be used entirely without salt, and in which case four = “ ounces of seasoning will be found am- ply sufficient for each twenty pound block of meat, except in the case of for- eign sausages, which are generally re- quired to be kept for a considerable length of time, in which case it would be advisable to use six ounces of sea- soning to every twenty pound block of meat.—Butcher’s Advocate. ~~» 0. — Booming Saturday Trade in Meat. J. E. Morris, proprietor of the Frank- lin Market, Santa Ciara, Cal., has in- troduced some new advertising methods, which have proven to be very success- ful, and is now busy remodelling a large building in San Jose, Cal., which he will open asa general market. It will be one of the handsomest on the Pacific coast and will be pushed in the same method as regards advertising as has made his Santa Clara establish- ment the most talked about market in California. He is a firm believer in timely announcements, and has found the following scheme to work advanta- geously : TEN ROASTS FREE We will make a present of ten roasts (each roast worth S50 cents) to our Cash customers on Saturday. Each of the following numbers won a seventy-five cent roast Sept. 30, 1899: 44—210—255—316—335 Bring winning tickets to the Market and get your roasts. Low prices still maintained. i FRANKLIN MARKET Santa Clara. The success which the free roast idea brought is told in the next week’s ad- vertisement : 74.52 This represents the increase in our sales Saturday last over corres- ponding Saturdays of last year. It shows that the people appreciate Fair Deal- ing, Good Treatment and Low Prices. It also shows that the wave of prosperity has struck this Valley and that the fall will be a wonderfully good one. Come and see us. FRANKLIN MARKET, Santa Clara. ——_> 2s ____ Mess Pork Almost a Nominal Affair. From the National Stockman and Farmer. To those who are unacquainted with the situation, the statement that only a few thousand barrels of mess pork are among the stocks of provisions in this country is well-nigh incomprehensible. Millions of hogs slaughtered and less than 40,000 barrels of pork at Chicago! Yes, that is not only possible but a fact. Making mess pork is nowadays a very small part of the business of manufac- turing hog products. It is still an ar- ticle of speculative trade, but it is not a great staple in the world’s markets as it used to be. The demand for it has decreased to very small proportions. Our readers have doubtless wondered why pork has been much of the time of late years cheaper in the barrel than in the hog. Manifestly this would be im- possible for any length of time were it really a staple article made and used in great quantities. The changed condi- tions of the provision trade have made mess pork almost a nominal affair aside from the speculative markets, and _ that is why it neither follows nor leads the market for hogs to a very great extent. +> -@~<-- A Butcher’s Epitaph. An English paper gives the following as copied from the tombstone of the fa- mous John Higgs, at Cheltenham: Here lies John Higgs, A famous man for killing pigs; For killing pigs was his delight. Both morning, afternoon and night, Both heats and colds he did endure, Which no physician e’er could cure. His knife is laid, his work is done, I hope to heaven his soul has gone. Neighborliness. Mr. Moveoft—Well, my dear, how do you find the neighbors here—sociable? Mrs. Moveoft—Very. Three or four of them have sent in to ask if I would] allow their children to use our piano to practice on. References: Highest cash price paid at all times for small or carload lots. equipped poultry and egg establishment in the state. Write for prices. J. COURT & SON, Marshall, Mich. The best Poultry, Eggs and Butter-- Branch house at Allegan, Mich. Dun or Bradstreet, First National Bank, Marshall, City Bank, Allegan. Both Phones at Allegan. J. W. FLEMING, Belding J. W. FLEMING & CO., Big Rapids Buyers and Shippers of EGGS, BUTTER, We are prepared to pay the highest market price and guarantee prompt returns. POULTRY AND PRODUCE G 121 AND 12 AL ALALALALALALALAL AL LAL LALLAL LAL ENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANT Wholesale Fruits, General Produce and Dairy Products. 58 AND 6O W. MARKET ST. 3 MICHIGAN ST. BUFFALO, N. Y. Unquestioned responsibility and business standing. Carlots a specialty. Quotations on our market furnished promptly upon application UMMA UAA AAA AMA AAA ANA AAA NA AAA UA JUN LUA J44 244 44 404 04 Jbk Jk dd Jk dk AUIS {AUTTPNTP NTT NTT NEP NET TEP TEP VRP NETO OP TPT NPN NNN NTT NTT NTT ITAL ESTABLISHED 1876. CHAS. RICHARDSON = MAL AMA UMA JUL ADA AUN Jb JUb ANA bk 2b4 Jhb ddd dd UES HE ® ® = © ee Don poe Ca Sa InVestl- lt GE KE HE KE AE SE AE RE — os gs RE RE HE AS AS Thousands of dollars are year- 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? Do you know that “Purity” Butterine is better that butter? It is better Its quality is uniform; it never gets for both dealer and consumer. rancid; the dealer enjoys a profit on each ounce purchased, and it re- mains perfectly sweet and whole- some until used. If you are Not a dealer let us START you. If you arE a dealer then you should have our butterine to enjoy a successful and profitable business. The Capital City Dairy Co. Columbus, 0. Pa Da 2%a 23 Ys a a a a a 4 4 a 4 a ‘ MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 25 Commercial Travelers Michigan Knights of the Grip President, E. J. SCHREIBER, Bay City; Sec- retary, A. W. Strirr, 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. Mrst, Jackson. Grand Rapids Council No. 131, U. C. 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. Cc. D. Brewer, of Battle Creek, has secured a position as traveling salesman for the Puritan Corsei Co., of Kalama- z00. W. M. Reynolds, formerly engaged in the grocery business at Belding, has engaged to travel for the cigar depart- ment of Phelps, Brace & Co. H. V. Hughes, formerly on the road for Geo. A. Alderton (Saginaw), 1s now in the employ of the Computing Scale Co., of Dayton, Ohio, covering North- ern Illinois. He is connected with the Chicago office. John Hurley, Southern Michigan salesman for Lee & Cady (Detroit), was recently married to Miss Del N. Gore, of Battle Creek, the ceremony tak- ing place at Cincinnati. The happy couple will take up their residence in Jackson, where a furnished home awaits them. Traverse City Herald: George Na- varre, for the past three years salesman in the clothing department at the Bos- ton store, has severed his connection with that firm and entered the employ of Wm. Beitner. After learning the stock Mr. Navarre will go out on the road for the well-known firm, his first trip to be in the West. Kalamazoo Gazette: The local lodge of the United Commercial Travelers met Saturday evening in Elks’ hall for one of their regular round-ups. After the disposal of the regular business Harry Hill and Otis Baker were ** put through the territory.’’ After the can- didates had been given a report of their trip through the new country the party sat down to a luncheon and dancing fol- lowed. The committee in charge of the function was Messrs. W. Watkins, Fred Zander and Lawrence Verdon. New Orleans Times - Democrat: ‘‘Speaking of railroad accidents,’’ said a veteran commercial traveler at the Cosmopolitan yesterday, ‘“‘I am _ re- minded of a curious experience, and in- cidentally of the most incorrigible gamblers | ever met in my life. I was going West over the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe some years ago, and one of my fellow passengers in the Pullman was a race horse man from Louisville. He was an interesting fellow and a good story teller, but his conversation was marred by his habit of leading every- thing up to a proposition to make a wager. Every statement he made was clinched by an offer to back it with money, and finally the thing became rather tiresome, and I made some ex- cuse for avoiding his society. Our sec- tions in the sleeper happened to be di- rectly opposite, and that night we were sitting on the edge of our respective lower berths preparing to retire, when all of a sudden the whole car was shaken by a series of swift and heavy concus- sions. We both realized instantly what s had happened. The train had jumped the track and was at that moment bump- ing its way over the ties, preliminary to heaven only knew what kind of a plunge. We were at that time in a part of Kansas that is fuli of ravines and gullies, and short bridges are of fre- quent occurrence. That disquieting fact flashed into our minds simultaneously. ‘Bet y’ a hundred we’re on a trestle!’ yelled the Louisville man, above the pounding of the wheels. ‘Take y'!’ 1 yelled back, and with that the coach gave a sickening lurch and rolled com- pletely over. When I extricated myself from a broken window I found we had stopped on level ground, and while everybody was more or less cut and bruised, no one was killed. I encoun- tered my Kentucky friend wandering about the wreck and he _ promptly handed me a hundred-dollar bill. ‘What made you take me up so quick?’ he asked. ‘Because if we had been ona trestle we would all have been killed,’ I replied, ‘and you couldn’t have col- lected the bet. I stood to win, but not to lose.’ ‘That’s so,’ he said, regret- fully. ‘Next time this happens I'll take the other end.’ ’’ —__—_ 2. Woman’s Industry Causes Strike. Lowell, Mass., April 21--Three hun- dred weavers employed by the Lowell Manufacturing Company, one of the concerns in the Bigelow Carpet Com- pany, are on a strike because one of their number, Mrs. Jessie Derrick, per- sists in turning more work off her joom than is permitted by the regulations of the Carpet Weavers’ Union. The union has decided upon a maximum product of two and one-half pieces, but Mrs. Derrick has her loom speeded up so high that she can turn off three pieces a day. On account of this the union sent word to the agent of the company and asked that he compel her to reduce her production, but he refuses to stop the woman from earning all the money she is able to. The strike began last Tues- day and threatens to involve the entire working force in the mills, about six hundred hands. Mrs. Derrick says that the assertions of the Weavers’ Union are mostly un- founded, and that she does not get off more work on the average than the rest of the weavers and that her loom is not speeded up higher than any other in the mill. ‘‘About two weeks ago,’’ said Mrs. Derrick, ‘‘the mark on my piece of carpet, indicating the end of the cut, came up about half an hour before the time required by the union. Miss O’Brien, the President of the union, came up and asked me to slip my loom, but I refused. Then Miss O'Brien went to the overseer and asked whom | was working for, the union or the com- pany. The overseer told me to keep my loom running, and I did so.’’ The work of Mrs. Derrick attracted the attention of the other operatives and they remonstrated with her. Some of them are as capable of getting off as much work as she, but, as the union has decided it is unwise for them to do so, they ail comply with the rule limiting the maximum product of each operative to two and a half pieces. Mrs. Derrick was a member of the Weavers’ Union, but her refusal to obey the commands of the President caused her expulsion. a No Stock in the Current Super- stition. ‘Some men have scruples about oc- cupying room number 13,’’ said Mr. Howe, clerk of the Hibbard House at Jackson to Allan D. Grant, as the latter placed his Spencerian autograph on the register. ‘‘I have none,’’ replied the only Allan D. I have mocked at death in every form. I joy at the post of danger and, so far as hard luck is concerned, I feel fully acquainted with the gentleman. Room number 13 is good enough for me. Iam very tired. Our factory is away behind orders. Call me at 6 o’clock. Good night.’’ Takes Status of Pharmacy in the Bay Cities. Benson,” Manager. A. E. Ewing, attorney for the Michi-|¢C gan Board of Pharmacy, has sent Sec- retary Schumacher the following report of the condition of pharmacy in Bay City and West Bay City: Bay City. Dr. J. P. Gariepy, Proprietor. 2232. Son, clerk, unregistered. Unregistered. E. . Benson, clerk,funregistered. (Have now quit the drug business. ) R. W. Brown, Prop. Unregistered. L. Tupper, Prop. Reg. 641. F. Ralston, clerk, unregistered. W. H. Keyes, Prop. Reg. 1083. No clerks. Reg. DD. 5. Perry, N. Kinney, clerk. 568. J. Prop. Reg. Reg. 3754. Werner Von Walthausen, Prop. Reg. W. T. Eldridge, Prop. Reg. 3862. 1182. Wife, clerk, reg. asst., 73. J. H. Charters, clerk, unregistered. _ Charles P. Hemstead, Prop. Reg. Geo. C. Ray, Prop. Reg. 306 No 631. No clerks. clerks. Charles N. Ghent, Prop. Reg. 290. Summary. No clerks. Registered proprietors, 31; unregis- J. K. Mead, Prop. Reg. 4610. No|tered proprietors, 3; registered * clerks, clerks. 17; unregistered clerks, .8; “registered Geo. A. Layerer, Prop. Reg. 1279. | assistants, 3. ’ R. W. Pearce, clerk, reg. 4557. Drug stores without clerks, 16; drug _W. E, Stevenson, Prop. Reg. 1511.}stores with one pharmacist, 23; drug Geo. M. Gaukel, clerk, reg. 4118. } stores with two pharmacists, 10; drug Claud McKeowen, clerk, unregistered. L Wh Pamet, Prop, Res. 333. E. three pharmacists, 2; drug i. pharmacists, 1; drug stores with stores with no W. Goff, clerk, reg. 3503. W. stores with one unregistered clerk, 6; Blome, clerk, reg. 4452. drug stores with two unregistered G. A. Swaby, Prop. Reg. 1150. M. | clerks, 1. Presser, clerk, unregistered. H. H. Bruner, clerk, unregistered. J. K. Mason, Prop. Reg. 785. L. F. Beach, Prop. Reg. 786. M. Van V leit, M clerk, reg. 3625. aan J. E. Knapp, Mngr. Reg. 4140. O. Barber, Prop. Unregistered. , W. Hertick, Prop. Reg. Tracy Wales, clerk, reg. clerk, unregistered. F. A. Tepoorten, Prop. Reg. 2241. No clerks. A The one store without a registered pharmacist has retired from business. > o> Struik has engaged in general trade at Ellsworth. Rindge, Kalmbach, Logie & Co. furnished the shoes, the Olney & Judson Grocer Co, supplied the 3559. ’ groceries and Voigt, Herpolsheimer & ife, Co. sold the dry goods. - «o> -- like an Easter bonnet little thing : 7 rahe ) ie ? t : aoe nee Fee See ee has been known to turn the head of a Fr. ‘Bateman, Prop.) Reg) toog. | J. | ome when it is worn by another W. Adamson, clerk, reg. 2518. ~ | woman. O. W. Ballard, Prop. clerks. J. F. Martin, Prop. bertine Martin, a Reg. 695. No Reg. 4245. Al- unregistered. 50 Cents . B. Perry, Prop. Reg. Ostrander, manager. Reg. 3599. M k G. W. Milligan, Prop. ~ Reg. 3354. us egon S. Rivet, clerk, unregistered. O. R. Lloyd, Prop. Reg. 2962. No Sunday G.R.& I. clerks. E. D. Gudschinsky, Prop. Reg. 1219. No clerks. A. |. Harris, Prop. Reg. 1363 (now . } £- 130: dead). Louisa T. Harris, Manager. ~ 7 4. — cs EK Train leaves Union Station at 9:15 a. m. T. Jones, en “oa ” 4/ | Returning, leaves Muskegon, 5:30 p. m. McMulien, clerk. Reg. . T. W.|50 cents round trip. Fenton, clerk, unregistered. Mrs. H. Carrier, Prop. W. Landis, Manager. Reg. 3755. Carrier, clerk, unregistered. Unreg. G. A. |The Climax Wall Paper Cleaner . |. LaCroix, Prop. Reg. 1770. >, | will clean your old smoked paper and make it I a ; “— : a a I 8 77 C like new. Every box guaranteed. ea een Ma Neg. 3945. Advertising agents, ladies or gents. in every city, West Bay City town or village. Big money for right people. E. H. Vedders, Prop. Reg. Glover’s Wholesale Merchandise Co., No clerks. Grand Rapids, Mich. H. H. Burdick, Prop. C. Hargadon, clerk. E. T. Boden, Prop. Reg. 3247. H. Hudson, clerk. Reg. asst. 1205. F. C. Warner, Prop. Reg. asst. 830. W. E. Belcher, Manager. Reg. 2776. CC) M. LaRue, Prop. Reg. 719. A. J. Grenny, clerk. Reg. 3003. A. E. Benson, Prop. Unreg. W. Reg. oft. H. Reg. 4393. 8-9 Tower Block. Our system of Colleetion Foreers for the retail Bad Debt trade will aid you in col- lecting a very large percentage of your bad debts. The set consists of three rubber stamps to be used on statements until bill is collected. Price for complete set 75¢ prepaid. Ask for catalogue of rubber stamp supplies. F. F. E. BARR & Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Manufacturers of all kinds of interior finish, counters, show cases, grills, fret--work, mantels, stair work, desks, office fixtures, church work, sash and doors. Write for prices and estimates to the McGRAFT LUMBER CO., Muskegon, Michigan MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Drugs--Chemicals Michigan State Board of Pharmacy Term expires Dec. 31, 1900 GEO. GUNDRUM, Ionia - - L. E. REYNOLDS, St. Josep - Dee. 31, 1901 HENRY HEIM, Saginaw - - Dec. 31, 1902 Wirt P. Dory, Detroit- - - Dec. 31, 1903 A. C. SCHUMACHER, Ann Arbor - Dec. 31, 1904 President, Gko. GUNDRUM, Ionia. Secretary, A. C. SCHUMACHER, Ann Arbor. Treasurer, HENRY HEIM, Saginaw. Examination Sessions Star Island—June 25 and 26. Sault Ste. Marie—Aug. 28 and 29. Lansing—Nov. 7 and 8. State Pharmaceutical Association President—O. EBERBACH, Ann Arbor. Secretary—CHAS. F. MANN, Detroit. Treasurer—J. S. BENNETT, Lansing. Seven Successful Window Displays for Druggists. Toward one side of the window space, on a pink or white carpet of paper or cheese-cloth, erect a sort of distilling apparatus from various vessels, tubes, etc. Let it be somewhat complicated. People put a greater estimate on things that puzzle them. Partly fill some of the containers with water so colored as to simulate violet ammonia. About the appliance strew artificial violets and let there be a pile of these near by. In the vessel that is the supposed still proper, mingle some of the flowers with the colored water. Now let the little fig- ures of men be distributed about in gro- tesque attitudes amid the apparatus and flowers. See that they are peeking into things, pulling at a tube or pushing a leg of a tripod; have one or more of them smelling from a bottle of this toilet aid, and have others bringing flowers to the ‘*factory.’’ In the vacant window space pile bottles of violet ammonia of various sizes and prices, and let price cards be very much in evidence. Having a vine of smilax or ivy trained over and be- tween the bottles, and a few clusters of artificial violets here and there, would add beauty to the trim and enhance its selling qualities. For a placard use the following words: ‘‘Violet Ammonia Factory.’’ A successful exhibit of cough drops or lozenges, and liquid cough banishers, can be realized in this wise: Upon an elevation in the center of the window, made from empty boxes covered with white paper, seta number of bottles and other vessels filled with medicaments common to this class of remedies, viz., horehound, licorice, wild cherry, tar, squills, tolu, honey, glycerin, sugar, etc. Fill a large glass vessel with horehound tops and leaves, loose or compressed, and other vessels with licorice in pow- der, root and ‘‘stick,’’ and syrup of licorice (?). Let still other vessels con- tain wild cherry bark and syrup. In this way elaborate the exhibit by dis- playing cough-cure ingredients, in their various official forms. Let each and every container be plainly labeled. Now to the left of this pile of stuff as- semble the devices at command for molding troches and tablets. A some- what pretentious tablet machine would be of most service as an eye-catcher and an advertisement, but if such a contriv- ance be not accessible, place at this point whatever you can in the way of a tablet compressor. If thought advisable, then, in order to elaborate the display and enhance its worth, resort to a little deception by exhibiting an ensemble of irrelevant but practical mechanism. Make as great pretensions as appur- tenances will permit! Scatter some tablets about the compressor and let a dish rest near it filled with a powder ready for the press. On the right side of window stage make a careful display of cough drops, troches, and syrups, with prices plainly written on each. By means of a card tothe public call atten- tion to the exhibit of your cough-cure ingredients, and to the significant fact that opium and allied drugs are asbent from the display. A practical but modified utilization of the foregoing idea would be to put the tablet compressor in the center of window, set on a level with the eye of pedestrian and amid a fallen shower of finished tablets. Have cough-drop in- gredients to the left and a pile of the boxed article to the right. By a clever arrangement have the tablets apparently being made by the mites of men from former trims. They may be seen fetch- ing medicaments to the press; stacking boxes; one might be shoveling the loose disks into the cartons. Paste this pla- card to the window pane: ‘‘Use our cough drops and drop that cough.’’ Procure a small keg and stand it in the center of the display space, bottom up; lay over this bottom a layer of whit- ing to look as though you were present- ing a full keg of the substance. Build from sponges a circular pile around about this small barrel, making the top of the latter the apex of pile. Begin with large sponges, and, as the build- ing proceeds upward, let the sponges diminish in size. Possibly the keg will need to be elevated somewhat. About the base of the sponge heap form a gir- dle from the bottles of ammonia. Just to the left of this design stand a box hid- den beneath a mantle of pink cheese- cloth, on which place a large bottle of water labeled ‘‘Benzine.’’ To the right of the keg is put a similar pedestal supporting a huge bottle of ** Turpen- tine.’’ About the base of each box group a varied assortment of polishing agents to clean silver, brass, etc. Space not accounted for in this description should be utilized for the display of in- sect annihilators, packages of whiting of different sizes and prices, furniture polish, etc. Fashion a background by stretching a cord across the rear of the window, upon which hang many chamois skins. Put price cards upon these va- rious articles. ‘‘ House-cleaning helps’’ may be the wording of one placard. A translation of a spring episode would be the following: In the center of the window have this placard: ‘‘A cold and a cough.’’ Have an umbrella and a new pair of overshoes rest on the left side, accompanied by a card say- ing: ‘‘The cause.’’ A goodly stock of your bottled cough and cold cure should be assembled in the unoccupied space to the right, on which appears this no- tice: ‘‘Thecure.’’ Tell the price of the cure. Cover the window flooring to a depth of some few inches with clean, sweet straw. Stand erect in the center of the space a well preserved bundle of the same. An appropriate distribution of your cough and cold cure should be made upon this carpet of straw. Upon the bundle should be affixed a card on which is printed: ‘‘ The last straw broke the camel’s back.’’ Have another pla- card appear in a suitable position bear- ing these two sentences, one beneath the other: ‘‘Break that cough to-day. To wait a day is dangerous!’ An exhibit of the ingredients of some toilet powders would increase interest in a trim made from such an item of toilet stock. Fancy bottles and vessels of glass could be made to contain such substances as_ rice-flour, corn-starch, talc, orris, precipitated chalk, extracts of rose, vanilla, jasmine, violet, and musk, oil of almonds, etc. Lots of peo- ple would like to know of what this class of preparations are composed. Paste a placard on the window-pane telling a simple story, and twine some artificial vine in and out amongst the vessels and over the packages of the preparation you are advertising. Label all matter displayed and put prices on packages. Put a large placard on which appear these two words, ‘‘Chapped skin,’’ in the center of the window. On either side of the window space heap high a pile of ‘‘skin cream’’ or other emollient or lotion. Upon one pyramid put this card: ‘‘A perventive ;’’ on the opposite one this: ‘‘A cure.’’ Give prices. Red is a very pronounced and catchy color, especially to the feminine eye. When you display skin beautifiers, drape the window in red cloth or crepe paper. Then hang a placard with this query: ‘‘Is your skin red and rough?”’ The public will see and admire such a ‘‘loud’’ trim. We have all seen a goodly supply of tooth-brushes made most manifest to the eye by suspending them on long lines of twine from the window top. Here is a modification of this trite idea: Se- cure a large hoop of wood; also one of the same material that will fit within the first and leave three or four inches in- tervening. Completely cover these bands with pink or blue paper or cloth. Lay the smaller hoop within the larger one, and equal distance apart at all points, and fasten both together by means of several strips of thin wood board or pasteboard.. Rest the tooth. brushes across the two hoops in lines radiating from the center, much as the spokes of a wheel, and fasten with twine. Let there be a sufficient number of brushes to make the device look well and not appear skimped. Nowattach a heavy piece of cord to the outer ring and suspend the device laden with brushes in the center of the window space, about midway between the upper and lower boundaries of the window pane, so that from all points it will ap- pear to passers-by to be in the center of the window. At an opposite point from which the first cord was fastened, at- tach another and lead it down to the window floor, and secure it after pull- ing it taut. Now with these lines and the conceit described as a guide and foundation, design with cord a sort of cobweb. The lines that diverge from the center will answer without the inter- secting shorter ones. This fabric fin- ished, hang tooth-brushes from each and every line that forms it. While this method of exhibiting tooth-brushes is a little more elaborate and labor-consum- ing than its predecessor, certainly ‘‘the game is worth the candle.’’—Joseph Hostelley in Bulletin of Pharmacy. —___> 0» ____- A Whistle Sixty-five Miles Long. From the Milwaukee Sentinel. An odd incident occurred on the Chi- cago & Northwestern Railway Sunday forenoon at Highland Park, Ill. As the engineer, of the train which reaches Milwaukee at 11 o’clock blew the whistle the valve broke and he was unable to shut off the steam from the noise-maker. From Highland Park to Milwaukee, a distance of about sixty-five miles, there was not a moment when the whistle was not sounding full strength. It could be heard for miles away as the train came on in, a long continuous shrill sound, and at every city and village people ran to their doors to learn what was happen- ing. While the whistle was blowing the fireman was straining every nerve to keep the steam up to the running point, and succeeded in bringing the train in- to the station on time. The Drug Market. Opium—lIs steady at unchanged price and is firm at the primary markets. Morphine—Competition among manu- facturers has brought about a third de- cline of 1oc per ounce, making a reduc- tion of 30 cents in two weeks. Codeine—Has declined. Castor Oil—The market is very firm, on account of reports of short crop of seed. Cocaine—Is very firm at the advance noted last week. Cocoa Butter—Is weak and lower, al- though advices from abroad would in- dicate higher prices later on. Cod Liver Oil—Advices from abroad continue firm and the catch is reported small. Notwithstanding this fact, prices are lower in this country. Glycerine—Owing to the strong posi- tion of crude, is very firm. Gum Camphor—Is in active demand and, as the crude is again higher abroad, another advance is looked for in this market. Hemp Seed—Has declined. Linseed Oil-——Is very firm at the ad- vanced price. A 70 cent price is freely talked. ——_~>2._ Game two Can Play At. At this moment something came bhurl- ing from the gallery and_ narrowly missed the gifted tragedian. Instantly he advanced to the foot- lights. ‘*That is a game,’’ he said in a deep voice, ‘‘that two can play at.”’ And he took an egg from his pocket and threw it with all his might. It struck one of the pillars of the gal- lery and scattered itself impartially over fifteen or twenty hoodlums. He took out another egg, but did not have to throw it. The first one had done the business. Receipt for clearing a gallery: Same as for clearing a pot of coffee—use an egg. +P o> -—- Easy Escape. ‘*How did you finally get rid of that man who wanted you to become a_ mil- lionaire by letting him put you in on the ground floor of a mining scheme?’’ ‘Oh, I gave him 25 cents to buy a lunch. ’’ PPA MFG. CHEMISTS, : ., ALLEGAN, MIGH 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 BW DD. TR OE UE jA Better. Line ‘ jof Wall Paper ‘ Is not shown by any house than we show this season. We have care- fully selected the best patterns that 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. f Our prices are guaranteed to be { identically the same as factories i: Better write us to- day and see an up-to-date line of Wall Paper. Heystek & Canfield Co., | Grand Rapids, Mich. The Michigan Wall Paper Jobbers. “_ oa a ee ee eS eS eS CULL ~~ aE ty, — MICHIGAN TRADESMAN WHOLESALE PRICE CURRENT. Advanced— Declined— Acidum —— — eee 50@ 60 = o. . a etioum 3s g | Copaiba . : .. 1 15@ 1 26/ Tolutan.............. @ ee eo —_ 75 | Cubebee . 90@ 1 00 | Prunus virg......... @ 50 Borate. 8 .. @ 16 Bocmantio.... : = ; . Tinctures ——— Se ae 2 00@ 2 10 | Aconitum Napellis & 60 Hydrochior......... 3@ 6 /| Geranium, ounce.. @ 7% yrs um NapeLs Nitrocum .........--- 19 | Gossippii, Sem. Bal. 50D GO| Mees es Myth 4 Oxalicum...........- 12@ 14| Hedeoma............ 1 65@ 1 70 en Seat 50 Phosphorium, dil; @ 15) Junipera .. 1 teen. 50 Salicylicum ......... 66@ 70| Lavendula .. -- 90@ 2 00 | ‘An trope Belladonna... 60 Sulphuricum ........ 14@ 5 | Limonis............. 1 35@ 1 45 | (anti Cortex 50 Tannicum.........-. 90@ 1 00 ao tee pgp esa 60 reaceag settee: 40 Morrhuze, ‘gal. 1 20@ 1 25 Benzoin Cc |... Bo mmonia eects Ce 4 00@ 4 50 oon that a eer at a a 20 Aqua, 16 deg......... 4@ 6} Olive ........ .. 75@ 300 con “sa ee... 75 Aqua, 20 deg... : ee) 8 Pieis Liquida....... 10@ 12 os See gr a ema _ oes : Picis senda, = @ 35 oa ono weteeeeeee 45 Ricina. : 0@ 1 08 — 70... . ‘ 5 Rosmarini. . 1 00 Son - a eS A Rose, ounce... 8 50 | Gt - eae ** 5 Suecini .............. 45 | Ginchona Ga... : Ls 1 00 Conaiha: . cea 60 Santal . 7 09 | Columba ve 50 Sassafras... @ Caml aie 50 , Sinapis, ess., ounce. @ 65 pes Acutifol “oh 2 Yubebwe........ po, 15 "9 14| Tiglil.............--- 50@ 1 60 Digit mR ne 59 Juniperus..........-- 6@ 8| Thyme............... 40@ 50 i 5p Xanthoxylum....... 75@ 80 Thyme, opt.......... @ 1 60 Ferri Chioridum.. 35 Theobromas ........ 15m 20 Balsamum ubeiiiiane aoe - feces 4 . tentian Co.......... ee 06 183 BLCarb oss. 15@ 18 | Guiaca......-...--- 50 a ee > 45| Bichromate ... 4 15 | Guiacz mmon...... © een ne 45 —e * Lees = — = ee Becta bo yar Lecce 2 E see 5 Cortex Chlorate... .po. 17719 16@, 18 | Iodine, colorless. ... 75 Abies, Canadian..... 18} Cyanide.............. 36@ 40| Kimo ................ 50 Cassie sc... a?) fodide. 00 2 65@ 2 75 | Lobelia .............. 50 Cinchona Flava. .... 18| Potassa, Bitart,pure 28@ 30] Myrrh.............-. 50 Euonymus atropurp. 30 | Potassa, Bitart, com. @ 15| Nux Vomica.. 50 Myrica Cerifera, po. 20 | Potass Nitras, opt... 7@ 10} Opii.. 75 Prunus Virgini...... 12| Potass Nitras....... 6@ 8 | Opii, comphorated .. 50 Quillaia, gr’d........ 12| Prussiate............ 23@ 26 | Opii, deodorized..... 1 5o Sassafras ...... po. 18 15 | Sulphate po......... 15@ 18} Quassia ............. 50 Ulmus...po. 15, gr’d 15 Radix 0 50 Extractum Aconitum............ 20@ 25|Sanguinaria........ 5g Glycyrrhiza Glabra. 24@ 25) Althve ............... 22@ 25) Serpentaria........ 5o Glycyrrhiza, _ boc 23@ 30| Anchusa ............. 10@ 12] Stromonium.. 60 Heematox, 1 box ie 12] Arum po... @ 25! Tolutan .... 69 Hzematox, - 14} Calamus.. ieee. 20@ 40] Valerian |. 5y Haematox, 4S. a He 15 | Gentiana . “po. 15 12@ 15| Veratrum Veri 50 Hezematox, 4s....... 16@ 17 os = 15 = 18 | Zingiber .. 20 . ydrastis Canaden. @ 75 : = ru Hydrastis Can., po... @ 80 Miscellaneous Carbonate Precip... 15 | Hellebore, Alba, ee 12@ 15| ther, Spts.Nit.? F 30@ 35 Citrate and Quinia.. 2 25 | Inula po... 15@ 20 | Asther, Spts. Nit.4F 4@ 38 Citrate Soluble.. 75 | Tpecae, po... 4 2h@ 4 35| Alumen............. 24@ 3 Ferrocyanidum Sol. 40} 7 1 i Alumen, gro’d..po.7 3@ 4 ris plox. PO. 5038 35@ «40 g Pp Solut. Chloride. ..... 15 Jalapa, pr.. 25@ 30/| Annatto.............. 0@ 50 Sulphate, com’l..... 2|Maranta, 4s_...... @ 35 | Antimoni, 4@ «OB Sulphate, — = Podophyilum as | 29@ 25 Antimontet Potass 7 40@ 50 bbl, per cwt.. 80 | Rhei......... vee 75@ 1 00 | Antipyrin . 0 Sulphate, pure...... 7] Rhei, cut............ @ 1 25| Anti ebrin .......... @ 2 Flora hel py, 7K@ 1 35 | Argenti Nitras, oz... @ 48 14@ 16 | Spigelia .. 3h@ 38) Arsenicum.......... 0@ 12 2@ 2 Sanguinaria.. po I i @ 18 ea me = : . 30@ 35 | Serpentari ism 50@ 1 6 Matricaria........... 30@ 35) Fer . ia. oe = Calcium Chior, a @ 9 Holts Smilax, officinalis H. | @ 40| Caleium Chlor., 4s... @ 10 Barosma.........---- 40 | Smilax, M. @ 25| Calcium Chlor., 4s.. @ 12 Cassia Acutitol, Tin- Scille . Do. 35 + 10@ 12| Cantharides, Rus. i @ 7 nevelly ..........-- 20@ 25| Symplocarpus, Feeti- Capsici Fructus, a @ Cassia, Acutifol, Alx. 25@ 30 aS, POs... @ 25 | Capsici Fructus, po. @ Salvia officinalis, 44s Valeriana,Eng. po. 30 @ 25 | Capsici Fructus B, po @ eT es a ae 12@ 20} Valeriana, German. 15@ 20 = z= 15 12@_ 14 Uva Urs. 8@ 10| Zingibera........... 12@ 16| Carmine, No. 40..... @ 3 00 Gann Zingiber j............ 25@ 27 = Alba. .... . — = Acacia, 1st picked... @ 6 | Coceus .....0.0.0se es @ 40 Acacia, 2d picked .. @ 45) Anisum .......po. @ 12| Cassia Fructus Lo @ 35 Acacia, 3d picked.. @ 35 77. (siaiveieons). 13@ = 15} Centraria.. us @ 10 Acacia, ga sorts. @~ 28) Bird, 1 4@ 6] Cetaceum.. @ 45 Acacia, 45@ 65) Carui.......... ‘pO. ‘18 1@ ~ 12| Chloroform ..... 55@ _ 60 Aloe, arb. ‘po. 18@20 12@ 14| Cardamon.. ...-. 1 25@ 1 75| Chloroform, squibbs @ 110 Aloe, Cape....po. 15. @ 12| Coriandrum.......... 8@ 10| Chloral Hyd Crst.... 1 65@ 1 90 Aloe, Socotri. . po. 40 @ 30/ Cannabis Sativa..... 4 @ 53 | Chondrus............ 20@ 2 Ammoniae..........- 55@ 60} Cydonium........... 75@ 1 00| Cinchonidine,P.& W 38@ 48 Assafcetida.. ites 30 28@ 30} Chenopodium . 10@ 12] Cinchonidine, Germ. a 48 Benzoinum .. 50® 55| Dipterix Odorate.... 1 00@ 1 10} Cocaine 5 60 Catechu, 1s........-. @ 13|Foeniculum ......... @ _ 10| Corks, ‘ist, ‘dis. pr. et. 70 Catechu, 4S........- @ = 14| Foenugreek, po...... 7@ 9 Creosotum........... @ 35 Catechu, 44S.......-- @ i6|/Um-............__.. 3%@ 4%} Creta. .. bbl. 75 @ 2 Camphore .......-.- 65@ 69} Lini, = aes bbl. 3% 4@ 4% | Creta, prep. eels eee @ 5 Eu —— = 35 @ 4 Lobelia . 35@ 40/ Creta, precip........ 9@ 11 Galbanum. . @ 1 00 Pharlaris Canarian.. 4 @ 65 Creta, Rubra........ @ 8 Famboge ......--- “po Ch WW Rapa :.....:........ 4@ a1 Crocus .......... 15@ = 18 =—— iss oe po. 25 @ _ 30| Sinapis Alba.. 9@ 10| Cudbear....... @ 2 Kino.. .. po. $1.25 @ 1 25| Sinapis Nigra. . 11@ 12] Cupri Sulph.. -.. 64@ 8 Mastic: ee ea e 60 Ss betes Dextrine ...... Cos Myr 40 ee Ether Sulph.. BO 9 Opi... po. 4. ‘ida. %0 3 ss 2 3 60 | Frumenti, W. D. - 2 00@ 250! Emery, allnumbers. @ 8 Shellac ...........--- 35 | Frumenti, D. F. -4 00@ 2 25! Emery, po........... @ 6 ae bleached.. po 45 Promenti.......... .. 1 25@ 1 5O Ergota - 85@ 90 Tragacanth.......... 50@ 30 | Juniperis Co. O. T... 1 65@ 2 00| Make 12@ 15 Juniperis Co..... ... 1 75@ 3 50} Gallia @ 23 Herba Saac arum N.E.... 1 90@ 2 10| Gambier . 8@ (9 Absinthium..oz. pkg 25 | Spt. Vini Som. en 1 75@ 6 50| Gelatin Gooper... @ 60 Eupatorium..oz. pkg 20 V ni Oporto. . - 1 25@ 2 00| Gelatin’ French ’ 35@ 60 Lobelia ...... oz. pkg 25 | Vint Alba.........-. 1 25@ 2 00| Glassware, flint. box 75 & 5 oer _— pkg = Sponges Less than box..... 70 Mentha Fip..o7- DKE 23 lorida sheeps" woo! Giue, brown...-..... 1M@ 13 Rue es .. oz. pkg 30 | Caner 2 75 | Glue, white Be % Tanacetum V oz. pkg 2g | Nassau sheeps’ wool eS aa — = Thymus, V...oz. pkg 25 | _ carriage.. 2/76 | Seen ; @ 7 i Velvet extra. sheeps’ Humulos .....-...... 25@ 55 Magnesia wool, carriage. .... 1 50 | Hydrarg Chior Mite @ % Caleined, Pat........ 55@ 60| Extra yellow sheeps’ Hydrarg Chior Cor.. @ _ 8 Carbonate, Pat...... 18@ 20| wool, carriage. .... 1 25 | Hydrarg Ox Rub’m @ 1 05 Carbonate, K.&M.. 18@ 20| Grass sheeps’ wool, Hydrarg Ammonia @ 1 1% Jarbonate, Jennings 18@ 20| carriage @100| HydrargUnguentum 50@ 60 Oleuu ; Hard, for slate use. @ = 75| Hydrar; @ 8 Yellow Reef, for Ichthyo 65@ 70 Absinthium ......... 6 50@ 6 75| slate use. @ 1 40 | Indigo.......... 75@ 1 00 Amygdalz, Dulc.. SO, re lod se ee. 90@ 4 00 Amygdale, Amare. 8 00@ 8 25 Syrups Todoform @ 400 Pee ise 1 80@ 1 90| Acacia .............. @ 50} Lupulin....... @ 5 Auranti Cortex...... 2 25@ 2 30| Auranti Cortex...... @ 50| Lycopodium... 65@ 70 Bergamii............ 2 40@ 2 60 | Zingiber............. @ BO acis 65@ 75 appa ............. 80@ 85 / Ipecac. @ 60 i + Arsen et Hy- Comropngm.. Boe le os 80@ 85| Ferri Iod.. @ 50 oro @ 35@ 45) Rhei Arom.. @ 650} Liquor otags Arsinit 10@ 12 Chenopadii @ 2 75 | Smilax Officinalis... 50@ 60| Magnesia, Sulph.. 2@ «3 Begs aics ou 1 15@ 1 2 Senega ..........-.+- @ 50 ieetesate’ Saipt. bbl @ 1% Citronella . cuccdevece | COGk SO 000M... .........-.- @ 60! Mannia,S.F........ 50@ 60 Menthol.. @ 3 25 | | Seidlitz Mixture. hie 0@ 22 | Linseed, pure F raw... 64 67 Morphia, S., P.& W. 2 05@ 2 30 | Sinapis . ae @ 18) Linseed, boiled...... 65 68 es S$. N.Y. | Sina -* ie, @ 30} Neatsfoot, winter str 54 60 A ia 95@ 2 20 7 arenes De Spirits Turpentine. . 55 60 Moschus Canton.. @ 4 @ 41) Myristica, No. 1..... 65@ 80) snuff Scoich, De Vo's @ Al} Paints BBL. LB. Nux Vomica...po. 15 @ 10} Soda, Boras.......... @ 11) Os Sepia... .. 30@ 35) Soda, Boras, po..... 9@ 11| Red Venetian....... 1% 2 @8 Pepsin Saae, H. & P. | Soda et Potass Tart. 23@ 25| Ochre, yellow Mars. 1% 2 @A4 Ce @ 1 00 Soda, Carb.. 1%@ 2/| Ochre, yellow Ber... 1% 2 @: Piels 1d. N.N.% gal. | Soda, Bi-Carb.. 3@ 5/| Putty, commercial.. 2% 24%4@3 a iene @ 2 00 | Soda, Ash.. _.. SS 644) Ee, ——, pure. 2% 2%@3 Picis Liq., quarts.... @ 1 00! Soda, Sulphas..... a @ 2) Vermilion, rime Picis Liq., pints. . @ 85| Spts. Cologne........ @ 2 60| American . 13@ 15 Pil Hydrarg. ..po. 80 @ 50/| Spts. Ether Co...... 50@ 65 | Vermilion, English.. 70@ 75 Piper Nigra... po. 22 @ 18) Spts. Myrcia Dom... @ 2 00 | Green, Paris........ 4@ 18 — Alba.. .. po. 35 @ 30| Spts. Vini Rect. bbl. a. | Green, Peninsular... 13@ 16 Piix Burgun......... @ 7) Spts. Vini Rect. 4bbl @ | Lead, red............ 64G 7 Plumbi Acet......... 10@ 12| Spts. ViniRect.10gal @ | Lead, white. ........ 64Q@ 7 Pulvis Ipecac et Opti 1 30@ 1 50 | Spts. Vini Rect. 5 gal @ | Whiting, white Span @ 70 Pyrethrum, boxes H. is Shrychnia, Cr patal.. . 105@ 1 25 | Whiting, gilders’.... @ 9 & P. D. Co., doz @ 75| Sulphur, Sul. 24@ 4| White, Paris, Amer. @ 1 00 Py ietlacon. wy... 25@ 30 /| Sulphur, Roll.. 4@ 3%) Whiting, Paris, Eng. Quassiz .. 8@ 10! Tamarinds . — 8a 10 e ee @ 1 40 Quinia, 8. P. & W. 33@ =) Terebenth Venice... 28@ 30) Universal Prepared. 1 00@ 1 15 Quinia, S. German... 33@ | Theobrome.......... 50@ ~=sé4 | Guna, N.¥......... 33@ 43 | ool. 9 00@16 00 Varnishes Rubia Tinctorum.... 12@ 14) Zinci Sulph.. 1@ 8 Saccharum Lactis py 18@ eis | No.1 Turp Coach... 1 10@ 1 2 OI oe ee wc ees 5 00@ 6 : | Extra Turp.......... 1 60@ 1 70 Sanguis _— 40@ BBL. GAL.| Coach Body......... 2 75@ 3 00 Sapo, +. wo Whale, winter....... 70 70 | No. 1 Turp Furn..... 1 00@ 1 10 2 ee 10@ 2 Lard, oxtra.......... 60 70 | Extra Turk Damar.. 1 55@ 1 60 Sapo G. @ 15} Lard, No.1.......... 45 50| Jap.Dryer,No.1Turp 70@ 7 } | SAC SAsa= aa ea SASaseas Ie cS Seasonable a A ISS IS i kas PSS ARATE SA SASASAEeS SRS ue Vitriol We solicit your orders. Pans Green Insect Powder White Hell Moth Bal (sum Camphor CHOTC Quality and prices guaranteed. Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co., Grand Rapids, Mich. set 5 SIA SSL oS GE ELSIE DO ESS HS STEELE SASASASa GDS CREEES SISISESESM * MICHIGAN TRADESMAN ROCERY PRICE CURRENT. The prices quoted in this list are for the trade only, in such quantities as are usually purchased by retaii dealers. our aim to make this feature of the greatest possible use to dealers. They are prepared just before going to press and are an accurate index of the local market. possible to give quotations suitable for a erage prices for average conditions of purchase. those who have poor credit. It is im- 1 conditions of purchase, and those below are given as representing av- Cash buyers or those of strong credit usually buy closer than Subscribers are earnestly requested to point out any errors or omissions, as it is ALABASTINE J Lobster White in drums............. a ie... 1 85 Oolors in drums............. 10| pear, ts. 3 10 White in packages.......... = Picnic Talls.......... 2 25 Colors in packages........-- Mackerel Less 40 per cent discount. " eee ie eed : eh Mustard, 2Ib....... - = a gross —- = ea E 1 > pera B56 00 | Soused, 2 a 2 Castor Oil. “160 7 09 | Tomato, 11b........ 1% Diamond . +B 4 5 Tomato, 2 Ib. . 2 80 Fraz ( 9 00 | eden Mushrooms wai a a te 7 | oes O's IXL ‘Golden, tin boxes ‘5 9 00 —— 225 AMLE GA, | Oysters | Cove; 17m... ... 95 Cove, 2ib....: -- oe 1 70 , >; Peaches f Nacvoann Oa y Mee NA ; Mellow 1... 1 65@1 8&5 ei Pears Y AZ Standard .......... : 70 Pamey. 7 80 Peas Marrowfat ...... 1 00 Early June. . 1 00 Mica, tin boxes.......75 900} Early June Sifted _ 1 60 Taree .......- 55 6 00 seca Pineapple i i . 2 mang howe Sliced... wooo sese nce 1 35@2 25 \ Ib. cans 3 doz. vee 45] as Pumpkin 65 ¥% Ib. cans 3 doz............ 75 Good oe os a i cansi doz............ LO0 (see oe. y a 10 | Fancy ............... 85 Arctic Standard Se 90 6 oz. Eng. Tumblers......... 85 Salmon EI Purity Red Alaska..... ao 1 35 ¥, Ib. cans per doz.......... 75| Pink Alaska....... 95 l lb. cans per doz.......... 1 20 Sardines 1 1b. cans per doz.......... 2 00 | Domestic, 4s.. @A Home eo ‘Mustard. =. ab cans, 4dor case... 36) (PCBCR 22. = a \% Ib. cans, 4 doz. case...... 55 ea se 9 aS PLAMNUAIYG 2... 2 eee eee S 1. Ib. cans, 2 doz. case...... 90 — 1 25 Succotash wJ A J N oe 90 feed 8. 1 00 ¥4 Ib. cans, 4 doz. case.. 45 Fancy..._._.-._.-... 1 20 % Ib. cans, 4 doz. case.. 85 Tomatoes 1 Ib. cans. 2 doz. case...... “1 60 =. ee _ ueen Flake OO ee 3 02., om case... ....2 70| Faney.....-..-.----- 115 6 0Z., 4 doz. case...........-.3 20 Gallons. «5 — 2 35 1 foo 2 doz, case..222/20.0//4 00 | Columbia, pints. ............2 00 5 Ib., 1 doz. case. . ‘“"9 09 | Columbia, % CH BES pce ee as 12 Fe BATH BRICK ay | Ame... @12% merican ee a aes 7 Ambo @lz ee See é 7 Emblem __e @12 semaine Ge oe @12% E Gold “Medal... 2.2... @11% Ideal . Seis eo aise @l2 22 OO - me. B- ....-- 56 00 “WRB? . 55 00 H. & P. Drug Co. ‘s brands. Fortune Teller............ 35 00 Our Manager.............. 35 00 Quintette ee eee ce ee 35 00 G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s brand. Cc oN S.C. W......... a On Phelps, Brace & Co.’s Brands. Royal Tigers. . 55@ 80 00 Royal Tigerettes......35 Vincente Portuondo . .385@ 70 00 Ruhe Bros. Co......... 25@, 70 00 tS Co.. — <— 00 Tt. J. — & Co.. -.35@ 70 00 McCoy ..35@ 70 00 The Coitine Cigar Co. -10@ 35 00 Brown Bros.. 5@ 70 00 Bernard Stahl Co.. |. 35@, 90 00 Banner Cigar Co...... 10@ 35 00 Seidenberg & Co...... 55@125 00 Fulton Cigar Co......10@ 35 00 A. B. Ballard & Co....35@175 00 E. M. Sehwarz & 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... |... 65300 00 Manuel Garcia........ 80@375 00 Neuva Mundo........ = 0175 00 Henry Clay... ........ 5@550 00 La Carolina. . "960 200 00 35@, 70 00 Standard T. & C. Co. H. Van Tongeren’s = Star Green)... 5... 00 COFFEE Roasted Ailc- Cort es Special Combination.. to | ao French Breakfast. . oo ee Lenox . : ae 30 Vienna . Ls i Private Estate. .............. = ————. Less 3344 oe eee deliv coon. ie A eS SS Mi 10 Geen ee Prime ..... Siege cee oe Gemeente POOURTAy .. santos Bair... .. . 14 Good .... 15 Pam 16 Peaberm.... 1. as Maracaibo Prime . el Milled . : ae ie “Java Interior.. 26 Private Growth.. 30 Mandehling.. : 35 Mocha Imitation. . pecs, ae Avabian. ke 28 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. Arbuckle .. -12 00 Jersey .. -.12 00 McLaughlin’ 's XXXX_ McLaughlin’s XXXX sold to retailers only. Mail all orders direct to W. F. McLanghlin & Co., —— Extract Valley City 2 gross... 75 Felix % gross ee Hummel's foil M% gross. a 85 Hummel’s tin % gross ...... 143 CONDENSED MILK 4 doz in case. Gail Borden sone Ee .+++-6 75 Crown oe eae cee ie oO Le 5 75 Complion poe ee yc eed 4 50 ManmOna 6.2. ec: 42 Challenge .. woes eu > OO Dime... ..... ..3 35 COUPON ‘BOOKS 50 books, any denom. 1 50 100 books, any denom... 250 500 books, any denom... 11 50 1,000 books, any denom... 20 00 Above quotations are for either Tradesman. Superior, Economie 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 cassie down. 50 books. . : Soins a8338 383s Credit Checks | 500, any one denom...... 1,000, any one denom...... 2,000, any one denom.. Steel punch.. CREAM TARTAR ore bo 5 and 10 lb. wooden boxes..... 30 Bulk in sacks... sees ee DRIED FRUITS—Domestic Apples Sundried . 6% Evaporated, ‘50 Ib. boxes. 7@ 7% California Fruits Apricots ...... 6. 2. @15 Blackberries .......... Nectarines .... Peaches ..... Pea@rs: 2. Pitted Cherries. ...... Pranneiies ............ Raspberries .......... California Prunes 100-120 25 Ib. boxes ...... 90-100 25 Ib. boxes ...... 80 - 90 25 Ib. boxes ...... 70 - 80 25 Ib. boxes ...... 30 - 70 25 Ib. boxes ...... 50 - 60 25 Ib. boxes . 40 - 50 25 Ib. boxes 30 - 40 25 Ib. boxes . 14 cent less in 50 Tb. eases Raisins London Layers 2 Crown. London Layers 3 Crown. Cluster 4 Crown......... Loose Muscatels 2 Crown 4 Loose Museatels 3 Crown oe Loose Muscatels 4 Crown 834 L. M., Seeded. choice ... 10 L. M.. Seeded, faney .... DRIED FRUITS—Foreign Citron mR ~ DID ND be ws ws ‘ @NSd5a9N estore Corsican . 2 ‘Currants Pautas, CABes.. 0... s 5. 8: 6% Cleaned, OR 6% Cleaned, packages.......... 74 ee Citron American 19 Ib. bx...13 Lemon American 10 lb. bx..10% Orange American 10 Ib. bx..10% Raisins Sultana 1 Crown Sultana 2 Crown . Sultana 3 Crown Sultana 4 Crown Sultana 5 Crown Sultana 6 Crown...... . Sultana package .. FARINACEOUS ‘GOODS Beans Dried Tima... .:..: .. Medium Hand Picked 2 sits 2 Brown Holland...... ‘Gcucenn Cream of Cereal............. 90 Grain-O, small .............. 1 35 Grain-O, large.............-: 2 2 Grape Nuts... sd 3b Postum Cereal, ‘small. ..2.221 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 Barrelg oe 2 50 Flake, 50 Ib. drums.......... rum 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, 26 Ib. box......... 2 50 Pearl Barley DOMINO 2625-2 5) loss. eSeOr. cs ek 2 50 Mmpire ss 3 00 Walsh-Deltoo Co.’s Brand. 24 2 lb. packages ............1 80 100 DB: kegs. -. 28 200 th. barrels ...............5 10 Peas Green, Wisconsin, bu.......1 30 Green, Scotch, bu...........1 35 Spe pi 3 Rolled Oats Rolled Avena, ee 3 Steel Cut, % bbls. Monarch, bbl... Looe Monareh, % See lg. Monarch, 90 Ib. sacks.......1 75 Quaker, cases............... 3 2 uron, eases....:.......... 2 08 Sago German oe 4 Hast Indian... : 6. ss: 3% Salus Breakfast Food F. A. McKenzie, Quincy, Mich. 36 two pound packages .... 3 60 18 two pound packages .... 1 85 — Flake . See Pearl + _- Pearl, 24.1 1D. packages... . 6% Wheat Cracked, bulk. . 3% 24 2 fb. packages .. ..2 50 FLAVORING EXTRACTS DeBoe’s 2 oz. 4 Oz. Vanilla D. C........ 1 10 1 80 70 1 35 75 1 45 FOOTE & JENKS’ s JAXON Highest Grade Extracts Vanilla Lemon 1ozfullm.1 20 10z full m. 20z fullm.2 10 2 0z full m. : 2 No.3fan’y. 315 No.3fan’ yi7 COLEMAN'S Eros ses aa Vanilla Lemon 20z panel. 75 200 40z taper..1 50 2 oz panel..1 20 3 oz taper.. ” Scan? D. C. Vanilla = C. Lemon 2 0Z......1.20 2 OZ. -:.. 75 S02... 1 50 SOL... s. 1 00 POF... 2 00 A 1 40 nt ae 3 00 S02... 2 00 No. 8....4 00 No. 8....2 40 No. 10....6 00 No. 10....4 00 No.2 T..1 2 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 2 oz. Oval. . ee: 1 20 3 0Z. Taper Panel....1 35 2 00 40z. Taper Panel....1 60 2 25 Perrigo’s an. Lem. doz. doz XXX, 2 02. obert....1 25 75 XXX, 40z. taper....225 125 XX, 20z. obert...... 1 00 No. 2, 2 oz. obert . 75 Xxx DD ptehr, 60z 2 25 = D D ptehr, 40z 175 . P. pitcher, 6 02.. 2 25 FLY PAPER Perrigo’s Lightning, gro....2 50 Petrolatum, per doz......... 75 HERBS Sage.. Hops .. “INDIGO Madras. 5 Ib. boxes ........... 55 S. F., 2,3 and 5 lb. boxes......50 JELLY V.C. Brand. ibith. pulls 6 35 wom. Pans... oe Pure apple, per doz......... 85 LICORICE Pure. 30 Calabria... poe eieccec coe ae Sicily ...... Se swe tse ae HOGG. oo 10 LYE Condensed, 2 doz............ 1 20 Condensed, 4 doz............2 25 MATCHES Diamond Match Co.’s —— No. 9 sulphur. 9 1 65 Anchor Parlor . ..1 50 No. 2 Home . ..1 30 Export Parlor.. cine ceae OO Wotverme.... 1 50 MOLASSES New Orleans a ll A 14 Coed ek 20 Fancy . Soo 24 Open Kettle... .- 25@35 alf-barrels 2c extra MUSTARD Horse Radish, 1 doz......... 1 75 Horse Radish, 2 doz......... 3 50 Bayle’s Celery, 1doz........ 1 75 PICKLES Medium Barrels, 1,200 count ......... 5 90 Half bbls, 600 count......... 3 48 Small Barrels, 2,400 count ......... 6 90 Half bbls, 1,200 count .......3 95 PIPES ia, NO. 296 1 70 Clay, T ae Tull count....... 65 Cob, No. Selo ce ae peace 48 cans in case. Babbitt’s . <2. 8 68 Penna Salt Co.’s............ 3 00 RICE Domestic Carolina head................ 6% Carola, No.t........ 2.0... 5 Carotina No: 2... ...........4 EO 3% = Waa Japan, No. 1. 14.@6 Japan, No. 2.... aoe Java, faney head |. 2 > Java, No. 1.. 0 Table g SALERATUS Packed 60 Ibs. in box. Church’s Arm and ee 3 15 Deland’s.. ..3 00 Dwight’s s Cow.. Ss ree a 2 10 Sodio Wyandotte, $00 KS... 5: 3 00 SAL SODA Granulated, bbls............ 80 Granulated, 100 Ib. cases. 85 Eump bbs... .. 75 Lump, 145 Ib. kegs... 80 SALT Diamond Crystal Table, cases, 24 3 Ib. boxes..1 40 Table, barrels, 100 3 Ib. bags. 2 85 Table, barrels, 407 lb. bags.2 50 Butter, barrels, 280 Ib. bulk.2 50 Butter, barrels, 20 141b.bags.2 60 Butter, sacks, 28 Ibs......... 7 Butter, sacks, 56 IDS... . 62 Common Grades 100 3 Ib. sacks.. cece ao 605 1b. sacks... .......... 2... 2 05 28 10 Ip. Sa@KS... 2.2... 1 95 be 1: SaekS 40 OE 22 Warsaw 56 Ib. dairy. in drill bags. .... 30 28 Ib. dairy in drill bags. .... 15 Ashton 56 lb. dairy in linen sabks... 60 56 Ib. dairy in ce sacks... 60 Solar Rock SBIR Sacks. 25 Common Granulated Fine............ 1 00 Medium Fine................1 05 ™ od» MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 29 SALT FISH Cod oO Georges cured......... @5 Georges genuine...... @ 5% Georges selected...... @ 5% Strips or bricks. . -6 @9Y rae... @ 3% Halibut. Serpe... .. -. 2. CHIN. coe eS Herring Holland white hoops, bbl. 11 00 Holland white hoopsbbl. 6 00 Holland white hoop, Keg.. 75 Holland white hoop mechs. 85 Norwegian ......... Round 100 Ibs . 3 60 Bound 40 Ibs............... 7 MGM is 16% Bloaters.. Le 2.5 2 60 inckeset Mess 100 lbs. . a Mess 40 IDS. ........ 02.005 Mess 10 lbs Mess _ 8 lbs. No. 1 100 Ibs. No.1 40 lbs No.1 10 lbs No.1 8Ibs No. 2100 IDs. ......-....... No.2 40 Ibs No.2 10 Ibs. INO: 2° SIDS. 0... No. 1 100 lbs No.1 40 lbs No No. bo we “Whitefish. No. 1 No. Fam =e We.......- 8 00 3 2 75 is 1 40 43 37 coumne manic oe ae --5 00 Half sar Oe soe SEEDS | Anise .... : .. Canary, Smyrna.. —. laraway ..:..:.....- -. 8 eer Malabar... . 60 ao =— bee co eee oe 4% Mixe . us 4% — ais. ae a OS Rape... nee Cuttle Bone.. oe oe eee “15 SNUFF Seotch, in bladders.......... 37 Maccaboy, in jars. . 35 French Rappee, in jars..... 43 SOAP Single box 3 00 = ions, delivered .. 2 9S 10 box lots, delivered ........ 2 90 JAS. § KIRK & CO. ‘8 BRANDS. — — wrp’d.. Mie 2 oe Cabinet 3 40 Savoe. 5... 2 80 White Russian.. 2 80 White Cloud, ... . .-.4 00 Dusky Diamond, 50 6 0z....-2 00 Dusky Diamond, 50 8 0z..... 2 50 Blue — 100 0 3 = ..3 00 Kirkoline .. eee 50 Eos. [oo os ee Safe 100 12 oz bars.. ie ceo OO 100 big Twin Bars.....--.---- 3 65 5 bee .......-..... 3 60 10 LS arroi 25 boxe: 5 boxes ma upward delivered free AS Single box coe OO Five boxes, “delivered. ......2 90 Scourin Sapolio, kitchen, 3 doz...... 2 40 Sapolio, hand, 3 a 2 40 SODA Boxes. 600... Be Kegs, English.............-. 4% SPICES Whole Spices —, a oe cies a 12 ‘Jassia, China in mats..... 12 Cassia, Batavia, inbund... 25 Cassia, Saigon, broken.... 38 Cassia, Saigon, in rolls.... 55 Cloves, Amboyna. . 16 Cloves, wanzibar...... 14 Mines. 3... 2 55 Nutmegs, 75-80...... wi 55 Nutmegs, 105-10........... 45 Nutmegs, 115-20..........+ 40 Pepper, Singapore, black. 15% Pepper, Singagore, white. 23 Pepper, shot...........---- 16% Pure Ground in Bulk Allspice..........-- 16 Cassia, Batavia... 28 Cassia, Saigon..... 48 Cloves, on: pease 17 Ginger, African <......:.- 15 Ginger, Cochin..........-. 18 Ginger, =: Lovee ee eee sp 65 Mustard... : 18 Pepper, Singapore, black. 18 Pepper, Singapore, white. 25 Pepper, Cayenne..... on 20 FSi cbs aneaice ns ty sinese 20 STARCH Kingsford’s Corn 1-lb. packages........... 6% 1-Ib. packages.... ...... 6% Ib. packages........-.- 7% Kingsford’s Silver Gloss 40 20 6 40 1-Ib. op ean i. 6 Ib. boxes. . i. oe ibang cate 20 1-lb. packages... 4% 40 1-lb. packages. . 4% Common Glee Lib. packages............. 3-lb. packages... ne 6-lb. packages.... . 5 40 and 50-Ib. boxes......... 3% Basres oe ose 3% SUGAR Below are given New York prices on sugars, to which the wholesale dealer adds the local freight from New York to your — ng point, = on the invoice for the amount of —— —— pays from the market in which he purchases to his rT ing point, including 20 pounds for the weight of the barrel. Domino.. : 5 40 Cut Loaf. Soe a oe Crushed «00.0.0... es2.00 5 55 Cubes .. Cece oe Powdered . 5 25 Coarse Powdered ....... 5 25 XXXX Powdered......... 5 40 Standard Granulated..... 5 15 Fine Granulated..... ..... 5 15 Coarse Granulated...... . oe Extra Fine Granulated.... 5 30 Conf. Granulated.......... 5 40 2 1b. cartons Fine Gran... 5 25 2 1b. bags Fine a |. 5 aS 5 1b. cartons Fine Gran... 5 25 5 lb. bags Fine Gran...... 5 25 Mould A. non coe & 40 Diamond A................ 5 15 Confectioner’s A.... . 495 No. 1, Columbia AL . 436 No. 2, Windsor A......... 4 80 No. 3, Ridgewood A...... 4 80 No. 4, Phoenix A......... 4 75 No. 5, Empire A.......... 470 ee PP ahhh ph hp KERRASESHS SYRUPS Corn Jo ee os eae Higt POI 2 cl 18 1 doz. 1 gallon cans......... 3 15 1 doz. % gallon cans......... 1 85 2 doz. 4 gallon cans......... 92 Pure Cane Paes. OGG ee Chote 50s . 25 TABLE SAUCES PERRINS’ SAUCE The Original and Genuine Worcestershire. Lea & Perrin’s, large...... 3 75 Lea & Perrin’s, small..... 2 50 Halford, tareo............. 3% Halford, smal... .......... 2 25 Salad Dressing, large..... 4 55 Salad Dressing, small..... 2 75 VINEGAR Malt White Wine, 40 grain.. 8 Malt White Wine, 80 — 11 Pure Cider, Red Star........12 Pure Cider, Robinson....... 12 Pure Cider, DHVER. ccc... il WASHING POWDER Tub No Move Rub-No-More, 100 12 0z ..... 3 50 WICKING No. 0, per gross..............20 No. 1, per gross....... No. 2, per gross.. eas No. 3, per gross.. . WOODENWARE Baskets Buse ce 15 Bushels, wide band......... 1 25 Market . . Willow Clothes, large. sok Willow Clothes, m jum... 6 Willow Clothes. small.......5 Butter Plates No. 1 Oval, 250 in crate...... No. 2 Oval, 250 in crate...... No. 3 Oval, 250 in crate...... No. 5 Oval, 250 in crate...... Clothes Pins Boxes, gross boxes.........- Mop Sticks Trojan spring .. Eclipse patent spring .. Nol common............... No. 2 patent brush holder . 12 th. cotton mon heads Pails 2-hoop Standard............ 3-hoop Standard.. 2-wire, Cable.. 3-wire, Cable.. Cedar, all red, ‘brass bound Paper, 1 Eureka.. 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, No. 9. | No. 1 Fibre.. os IO. 2 Pare... .......,-.. No. 3 Fibre.... oe Wash ante Bronze Globe.. Dewey A ace .2f£@ Double Acme...............- 2% Single Acme.. oe Double Peerless............. 3 20 Single Peerless.... 2 50 Northern Queen .. 2 50 Double Duplex.... 3 00 Good Tack... 2 ca a ee ee 2 25 Wood Bowls a0 Oe, Biber... 75 a3 ot. Batter.....:........... 1 00 oO eho... ke 07 im. Batier..... ...........2 50 1 te iter... ..... e. 3 00 Assorted 13-15-17 ... ........1 75 Assorted 15-17-19 ........... 2 50 YEAST CAKE Yeast Foam,1% doz........ 50 Yeast Foam, 3 doz.......... 1 00 Yeast Cre m,3doz.......... 1 00 Magic Yeast 5c, 3 doz.......1 00 Sunlight Yeast, 3doz........ 1 00 Warner’s — 3dez....:... 1 00 ) _ Provisions | Barreled Pork eee @13 00 Beck =... 8... @13 75 Clears WacK........... G13 5) Shore cut........:... @13 2 Wee oe cee... @I16 00 Oana. @11 00 | Family .. @13 75 | ie Salt Meats Bellies. 8% Briskets 844 Extra shorts. .....-.. 7% Smoked Meats Hams, 121b. average. @ 11% Hams, 14]b. average. @ 11h. Hams, 16lb. average. @ 11% Hams, 201b. average. @ 11 Ham dried beef..... @ 13% Shoulders (N. Y. cut) @ 7% Bacon, clear......... @ 10 California hams..... @ 8% Boneless hams...... @ 9% Boiled Hams. . @, 16 Picnic Boiled Hams @ 13 3erlin Hams....... @ 8% Lards—In Tierces Compound.... 6% Kettle....... 8h Vegetole ........... 675 55 lb. Tubs..advance \% 80 Ib. Tubs..advance Me 50 Ib. Tins. ..advance 4 20 Ib. Pails. .advance % 10 Ib. Pails..advance % 5 lb. Pails..advance 1 3 1b. Pails..advance 1 Sausages Bolocna .....:.....:. 5% RAVOM oe cn 6 Frankfort ........'... 7% POUR oct Te oed os 8 o 6% eee... .......... 9 Headcheese.......... 6 Beef Extra Mess.......... 10 00 —— 11 50 Rump .. 11 25 Pigs Feet Kits, 15 Ibs... 80 4 pbls., 40 Ibs... 1 50 \% bbls., 80 1bs....... 2 75 Tripe Hits, 15 Ibs...... 5... 70 — 1 25 % bbls., 80 lbs. . 2 25 ae Pork . c. 20 Beef rounds......... 3 Beef — Sete cee 10 Sheep.. 60 “Butterine Rolls, dairy.. : 13% Solid, dairy.. a 3 Rolls, creamery. . Lele 9 Solid, creamery. .... 18% Canned Meats Corned beef, 2 1b.... 2 70 Corned beef, 14 lb... 19 50 Roast beef, 2 Ib...... 2 70 Potted ham, %4S..... 55 Potted ham, S..... 1 00 Deviled ham, %4s.... 55 Deviled ham, %S.... 1 00 Potted tongue, \%s.. 55 Potted tongue, %s.. 1 00 eee OBS et ee MNO ROe aa 333s Lao ss | Grains and Feedstuffs | Wheat Weems... t.. 68 | Winter Wheat Flour Loeal Brands Patents .. 410 Second Patent.. 3 60 | — da ou eck 3 40} ee 3 00 | Graham . nea ee use| a ae Buckwheat ................ 5 00 Meee te 3: Subject to usual cash dis- | count. Flour in bbls., 25¢ per bbl. ad- | ditional. Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand | 3 60 | 3 60) 3 60 Diamond %46............... Diamond 4S............... Daemon 466............... Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand Quaker 4s........:.... Gabor ie... a CANO? He... os. 5... 3 60 3 60 3 60 Spring Wheat Flour Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Pillsbury’s Best = Pillsbury’s Best 4 Pillsbury’s Best oe Pillsbury’s Best bss a Pillsbury’s Best 4s paper. 8 Brand | iE 415 4 05 4 05 | 4 05 | Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand Duluth Iniperial tas... .... Duluth Imperial 4s... .... Duluth Imperial \s..... 4 00 3 ¢ 3 80} Lemon & Wheeler Co.'s Brand Parisian \s...... Parisian 4s Parisi $468.......... .. a 410) es 3 90 Olney & Judson’s Brand Oeresota 4A... oreeoen ie... ............ Ceresota 4s............ 4 15 4 05 | a 2 oe Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand Eoemel is... Laurel 4s Laurel He es Meal Bolted . 2 00 Granulated |. 23 Feed and Milistuffs 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 Merccwinms 15 00 Corn Comm ear idts,............. 43 Less than car lots. . Oats Car lots.. 291 Car lots, clipped.. oe 32 Less than ear lots. ........ Hay No. 1 Timothy ear lots.... 12 00 No. 1 Timothy ton lots.... 13 00 Hides and Pelts S and Felts nae ‘appon & Bertsch Leather . 100 Canal Street, quotes as Salon: Hides Green @7 Green Se @6 We. @ 5 Jured No. 1. @ 8% Cured No. 2. @ 7% Calfskins green No.1 @10 Calfskins,green No.2 @ 8% Calfskins,cured No. 1 @l\ Calfskins,eured No. 2 @ 9% Pelts Pelts, each.....:.... 5O@1 25 Tallow We to. @4 a @3 Wool Washed, fine........ 22@24 Washed, medium... 26@28 Unwashed, fine..... 18@20 Unwashed, medium. 20@22 Oils Barrels Eocene . on Perfectio: @i1% XXX W. W, -Mich. :Hdit @il%s W. W. Michigan ...... @u Diamond White....... @10% D.,.8. Gas... .. @12% Deo. 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B 8% Packers Hand Made Cream _—— The National Biscuit Co. | Nobby, Re irre oo quotes as follows: Cc ryatal Cream mix. @l2 Butter Fancy—In Bulk Ce 5% | San Blas Goodies. Ml New York.. "| §ig | Lozenges, plain . .... @9 Family .. BY | Lozenges, printed. . GY [Salted 000.000. ccLlLLILITTD 51g | Choe. Drops. @u Wolverine. . ee Eclipse C hocolates. @13 a = _nmnentans. @13 ' if ; 5 [Soda XXX ereerssesoee @ | Mowe Drape -2 gos Long Island Wafers....... il a eg $ 7 Zephyrette .. ---e-- 10 | Ital. C —— Bonbons : Oyster 35 Ib. pails. @il eee 8 7 Molasses Chews, 15 Peete... ce cs 5% Co @A3 | Extra Farina ............ 6 | Jelly Date Squares @ ae | Saltine Wafer. sy 5% | Iced Marshmeliows. ( Sweet Goods—Boxes Golden Waftles . @ ti | Animals. ee Fancy—In 5 Ib. Boxes | Assorted Cake............ 19 | Lemon Sours . . @50 Mom Woes... g | Peppermint Drops... @60 Bent’s Water ...........-. 15 | Chocolate Drops.... @65 Buttercups... MITT ag | H. M. Choe. Drops. . @75 Cinnamon Bar...........-- y | H.M. 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Ss boxes. . teeta @50 Jumbles, Honey........... 12% | Penny Goods: 55@60 pees a om Dees age aes 1%|= Lemon Wafers............ 14 Marshmallow . —- i Fruits Marshmallow Walnuts.... 16 —_—— Mrsed Picnic... ......... 11% Oranges Me Beco. .............. 7% | Fancy Navels 3 75@3 9) Molasses Cake... a Extra Choice 3 1003 75 Molasses Bar... 9 Seedlings. . 2 75@3 00 Moss Jelly Bar. 124% | Medt. Sweets @3 25 | Newton.. 2 | Jamaicas....... @ | Oatmeal Crackers 8 Lemons Oatmeal Wafers.. - Strictly choice 360s... @3 50 Orange Crisp.............. 9 | Strictly choice 300s.. @3 50 Orange Geom.............. 8 Fancy 2008........... (@3 75 Foamy Gake ee 8 | Ex. Faney 300s...... @4 00 Pilot Bread, XXX......... Extra Fancy 360s. ... @3 75 Pretzels, hand made...... 7% Bananas Sears’ Lunch.. --e--- %%| Medium bunches.... 1 75@2 00 Sugar Cake.. a. 6S Large bunches.. 2 WG@2 25 Sugar Cream, boo. aN 8 Foreign Dried Fruits Sugar Squares . aa 8 Figs Sultanas. coweenceee Save | Californias, Faney.. @10 Tutti Frutti. 16% | Cal. pkg, 10 Ib. boxes @ 8 Vanilla Wafers.. -oue. 14 | Extra Choice, 10 Ip. Vv jenna C i ----+-- 8 | boxes, new Smpma (@12 | nents a new @)s mperial Mikados, 18 Fish an 7 Oy sters ih Hoken @ Pulled, 6 lb. boxes... @ Fresh Fish Naturals, in bags.... @ 5% Per lb Dates White fish. . @ 9 Fards in 10 Ib. boxes (10 liom... .......-...2. @ 9 Fards in 60 lb. cases. @6 Biack Bass.........-... 8@ 11 Persians, P. H. V @5 Haneus...5....-....... @ 17 Ib. cases, new. .... @ 5 Ciseoes or Herring. . @ 35 Sairs, 60 Ib. cases.. @ 5 Bisome 4... eo .. @ il a - ———— Live Lobster.......... @ 2% Boiled Lobster........ @ w N uts a es @ il —_—— me Haddock .............. @ 9 | Almonds, Tarragona @17 No. ee: ee, Almonds, lvica..... @ Pike aecceeee. @ 7% | Almonds, — Pereh.. eee = & soft shelled.. @15% Smoked White........ @ §& | Bhiils, bew......... @7 Red Snapper......... @ 10 Bilberts ............. G13 Col River Salmon. .... @ i4 Walnuts, Grenobles. @i5 MseHOre!...:......-... @ 18 Walnut 2 Another Mean Man. a9 ‘*Stimson is a mean man. ‘Why so?”’ ‘*He’s got a way of keeping his wife from going through his pockets for loose change.”’ ‘*How’s that?’’ ‘‘He spends it all before he gets home.’’ Lawn and Park Vases and Settees, Roof Crestings, Carriage Steps, Hitching Posts, Iron, Brass and Aluminum Casting Write for catalogue and prices. Rempis & Gallmeyer Foundry Co., Grand Rapids, Mich. PELOUZE SCALE & MFG Co..™ LOG E COUNTER (MANUFACTURERS OF HOUSEHOLD, oO MARKE T, CANDY POSTAL SCALES | | Huds 01S LSS ee) } | i | | | | A Uneeda Biscuit to fill it. Always healthful —always the same—always crisp, tender and delicious. Order a 5 cent ora 10 cent package of Uneeda Biscuit Examine package and you'll undcr- stand why they keep good. At your grocers, Avoidimitations. _ > ibe rig p rin fe ele s\¢ | “= i ~/ | 7 Ee en ii vit 7 fm ae © jhe © é ey a 21 ¢ y)\)V¥ sala . © @ \e ? e se ele ~ Oo vA > @ « @ + ® ilk "he giy +) MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 31 Something About Hinges—Their Mechan- ism Taught By Lower Animals. Written for the Tradesman. Webster tells us that man is an ani- mal, and is called man to distinguish him from all other animals. We contend that man may learn, has learned and can learn many _ things from the so-called lower animals. Man has been taught mechanism by the bee, the spider, the beaver and other lower animals. We say ‘‘taught by them,’’ because the lower animals were un- doubtedly in the world long before man and, being in existence, were subject to all laws of improvement and evolution. On looking over the many kinds and varieties of hinges a few days ago, my thoughts naturally reverted to ‘‘what | know about them,’’ and with your per- mission I will talk briefly on the sub- ject: I was at one time a resident of Cali- fornia. While there I was quite aston- ished to find that, with all man’s boasted ingenuity and wisdom, hinges’ were made and used by animals long before man had any use forthem. Entering a drug store one day in San Francisco, my attention was called toa glass jar upon the counter, containing a large species of spider—the tarantula of trop- ical climates—with its nest or dwelling also. As the nest was for sale I was permitted to handle and examine it closely. It was difficult to realize that this ungainly animal, weighing prob- ably half an ounce only, constructed this really beautiful and ingenious resi- dence for itself. This nest was dug out of the earth about twelve inches below the surface, the spider, being out for a walk, being first captured. The nest was constructed of grass and stems of wild flowers. It was about four inches in diameter and lined with a silky sub- stance closely resembling the *‘down’’ from our common thistle and sufficiently thick to be soft and warm. On one side of it was a door having an upper and lower hinge, the door opening outward only. These hinges were a curiosity in themselves. They were quite similar to the old-fashioned withe hinge, made and used by farmers on doors of rude buildings for cattle, pigs or chickens during the first quarter of the last cen- tury. There was also an old-fashioned latch upon this door, quite similar to the old ‘‘ wooden string latch,’’ which many old people can call to mind. But the very acme of perfection was reached by a soft and nearly square door mat—it is said for the animal to wipe his feet up- on before entering! I had seen cuts of these spiders’ dwellings with the door hinged at the top and opening upward, but believed this to have been the imagi- nation of the artist only; but I saw sev- eral others after the one described and all were constructed substantially alike. The most ancient Egyptian hinges were pieces. of leather or rawhide, fas- tened to both the door and the doorpost. It is in Egypt that we find the earliest record of the substitution of the actual hinge idea, viz., a pivot or joint in place of a merely flexible material. The Egyptian doors turned on wooden or bronze pins projecting upward and downward from the top and bottom of the back of the door into sockets in the lintel and threshold. Similar pegs were used for hinges on the lids of boxes also. A most curious style of hinge in the ruins of the Kingdom of Bashan on the eastern boundary of Pal- estine is found in some of the deserted towns where a few of the old dwellings are still habitable, These very ancient buildings are constructed of slabs of basaltic rock, a species of black mar- ble, almost as hard and heavy as iron. A Mr. Porter, a traveler, describes the door of a house in Burak, one of these deserted cities, as follows: ‘‘ The outer door was a slab of stone four and a _ half feet high, four feet wide and eight inches thick. It hung upon pivots forming two projecting parts of the slab, working in the lintel and threshold, and although so massive | was able to open and close it with ease.’’ A Greek in- scription on one of these buildings bore the date of 306 B. C., being more than 2,000 yeais old. These projections were prolongations of a perpendicular line through the door itself. During the Middle Ages hinges were made ornamental as well as_ useful; but no improvements were effected in the mechanism itself. This ornamenting was by means of the attachments upon the door, which were worked into graceful designs. Real improvements in hinges themselves are far more mod- ern, say within the eighteenth century. The best patents on hinges have, how- ever, been issued much later. Some of these are for sloping flanges, which cause the door to rise a little as it opens and to slide back or close by its own weight. Others are for combinations of a spring and hinge. The latest and greatest advance is embodied in the ‘American spiral spring butt,’’ being a combined spring and hinge, which is so placed and fastened that as the door opens the spring is forcibly in part un- coiled by being turned or pushed back- ward in the direction of the coil. Of course, the door again left free, the spring returns to its original position, driving the door with it. Like most other really valuable inventions many worthless imitations of these best hinges are already on the market and a skilled mechanic should be consulted before purchasing. Frank A. Howig. —— a — Stuck. ‘*And you are stuck on your last hus- band?’’ we faltered, wishing to seem very sympathetic. The beautiful woman burst into tears. ‘*] never was so badly stuck ona hus- band jin all my life!’’ she sobbed. ‘‘I supposed he was worth a million, and he isn’t worth anything !’’ In our material age, the word stuck as lost much of its tenderly sentimen- tal significance, and is mostly used, as here, in its technical commercial sense. — Bryan Show Cases Always please. Write for handsome new catalogue. Bryan Show Case Works, Bryan, Ohio. RUBBER STAMPS You can do business with. Write now to BUSINESS STAMP WORKS. 49 and 50 Tower Block, Grand Rapids, Mich. Catalogue for the asking. Both Phones 2255. 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, II. Adams & Hart, Michigan Sales Agents, Grand Rapids, Mich. Star Green Cigar AY ye B Gosh, It’s Good! H. Van Tongeren, Maker, Holland, Mich. For Sale by All Jobbers. Galo Basels Ae 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 Baskets, Display Baskets, Waste Baskets, Meat Baskets, Laundry Baskets, Baker Baskets, Truck Baskets. Send for catalogue. BALLOU BASKET WORKS, Belding, Mich. No. 13—-Combination Platform. No trouble are in the city shall be pleased to have you call on us. ARTHUR WOOD CARRIAGE CO., Grand Rapids, Mich. and price list. If you want the agency for, or want for private use, a good reliable vehicle built on a “how good” and not “how cheap” plan, write to us for our 1900 catalogue to show goods and when you Lyve vena rven rena ere neve naee ener e neta ety j i SUT YY Nyy yyy verervrrrrrrreeey you that they are only mwoarmee i 2: 3 $s Who urges you to k public? The manufacturers, by constant and judi- cious advertising, bring customers to your stores whose very presence creates a demand for other articles. WLUAALALbLabbdaddbecdbbabadadasadddddaddadddddddandd They all say = “It’s as good as Sapolio,” when they try to sell you their experiments. Your own good sense will tell trying to get you to aid their eep Sapolio? not Is it ths a IVVVITITITIUCIUITUUUUCCCCC 32 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN LOW CEILINGS. How an Ingenious Merchant Would Clean House. Written for the Tradesman. ‘‘The next house I build,’’ said a boot and shoe dealer to me the other day, ‘‘will be the kind of a domicile the world has been crying for for two thous- and years. The ceilings will be but seven feet high and there will be a pat- ent pulley above every article of furni- ture in the house.’’ ‘*T should judge,’’ I said, ‘‘that you have been through the annual agony of house cleaning.’’ The merchant rubbed a quantity of arnica on a sprained wrist and smiled wearily. ‘*Ves,_ sir,’’ he said, “‘I’ve been cleaning house. The piano is out in the woodshed, the coal stoves occupy conspicuous positions on the front porch and the back yard is full of chairs and tables. We are sleeping in hammocks and eating out of the coal bin. We lost the baby last night and found him in the top drawer of the dresser, along with the stove polish and a $50 edition of Gibson’s pen-and-ink work.’’ ‘‘Enjoying himself, I suppose?”’ ‘*Oh, yes, of course. A combination of stove polish, baby and art is one cal- culated to produce results. The young- ster had innocently revised a good many of the drawings and the stove polish had interfered with the baby until he resembled a rag doll left over night in the charcoal bag by mistake. Most of the canned fruit is leaking out on the bedding, but we hope to get back to the old routine in a month or two.’’ ‘*But about this new house,’’ I sug- gested. ‘*I’m coming to that,’’ was the reply. ‘*We got things all torn up and sent for the paper hanger to come and change the complexion of our walls. He said he’d be up the next day with a gang of men and put the job right through. He came up the third day, did a_ lot of measuring, smoked cheap cigars until the house smelled like a ward caucus, and went away. The first of the next week he came to the store and said that there was a strike on over at the boiler shops and he didn’t know but it might be catching, but if I’d give him time he’d do me a good job. ‘‘T waited another week, during which time the pantry shelves broke down on account of having the best part ofa nickel-plated cook stove packed up there to get it out of the way, and broke a $50 set of china. The broken crock- ery somehow inserted itself in the syrup jar and didn’t agree with little Johnny, who thought he had found a mine of rock-candy and was working it for all he was worth when discovered sitting in his night dress on the ira in the alley. The doctor says he wiil live if he didn’t get too much of the china into his little lungs. ‘‘Last Monday I went home and tackled the wall paper myself. Our ceil- ings are ten feet high and I had to buy a step ladder. I got one with patent slides and catches. Anyhow, that’s what the hardware man explained to me, but I didn’t see any catches when I slid off into a pail of paste. It was a good large pail of paste, and I fell fourteen thousand feet into it and went to the bcttom. Yes, sir, I fell fourteen thous- and feet in a ten foot room. You know that there are times when the mind is superior to all physical conditions. This was one of the times. ‘‘When I squashed into the paste a fountain of flour and water and brushes ’ and cuss words and other things went | up to the ceiling. My wife said that if I had had the gumption to get right up then and put the paper on before the paste on the ceiling got dry I'd have made a good job. I think I madea good job of it as it was. The paper—- one of these soft, dreamy tints of pink, like an Italian sunset on a cigarette box —somehow got into a mix-up with the paste and formed a rare pattern on the floor. When I tried to walk on it my feet went out from under me and | tipped over the parlor table. Now our family photograph album looks like a city directory in a drug store, and in the pictures our dear ones have a blue and pink complexion, like the figures in a modern story paper with fifty thous- and million circulation and colored il- lustrations.’’ The merchant hobbled out to the front of the store, sold three pair of shoe- strings for a nickel and came back. ‘*Did you get the paper on at last,’”’ I asked, in order to get him started again. ‘*Oh, yes, 1 got it on,’’ was the re- ply. ‘‘What I didn’t get on the seat of my trousers I got on a wheelbarrow and pushed out to a vacant lot. I left a cow eating wall paper hash, a beau- tiful blue and pink hash, and I’ve been expecting to see high art milk adver- tised. When I get my house with seven foot ceilings, | won’t have to use a par- achute to do my papering. I can stand on the floor and sing merrily at my work. And the complexions of those who inhabit our photograph album won't resemble lithographic tints taken from pine cigar boxes. ‘*T went out to look at the piano this morning. It looks like a freight car in a head-on wreck, but I guess it can be tinkered up if it will hold together un- til I get it down to the blacksmith shop. I reckon the children have been play- ing circus with it. When I get my pul- ley system into operation nothing will have to be moved out of the rooms when we clean up in the spring. Just tie the furniture up with ropes and hoist it up to the ceiling. Eh? I may have to put an electric motor into the basement to get the power, but that will be better than for me to acquire a habit of shoot- ing through the air like a_ wireless telegram. ‘I presume I can invent a telescopic stovepipe that will shut up when I ele- vate the heater. Oh, I'll have things fixed all right when I build my new house. Think of getting up carpets without ripping the buttons all off your clothes liting things. The moral effect will also be desirable. Last night when I was coaxing the bookcase along with a crowbar my wife got on her things and said she’d go home to her mother before she would listen to such talk. Huh? Well, I wasn’t to blame if the cat did eat two of her canaries when | knocked the cage off an old chromo of the resurrection morning. ‘“The paper hangers are coming in the morning, so the strike at the boiler shop must be off. The plsatering is off the west wall where the stove fell down and broke the dog’s leg, but I reckon they can patch it up some way. Of course, if they slip up on the soft soap I] spilt on the parlor floor that is their lookout.’’ ‘“‘When you get your new _ house done,’’ | said, *‘I’d like to have a look at it.”’ “‘It will be on exhibition,’’ was the reply. ‘‘The patent, self-acting pulleys ought to make a hit. I’m going to have a special attachment for book agents and children who want to earn a gold watch in one day selling soap to their friends. Just pull ‘em up to the ceiling and send for the poilce. Call in and see me.’’ 1 left the merchant, pencil in hand, drawing a diagram of a white bulldog trying to eat a yard of plaster off a low ceiling, with a cat making faces at him from the top of a framed motto reading : ‘* Bless our Furnished Room.’ Alfred B. Tozer. ’ ES The Fashionable and Favorite Fruit. From the Topeka Merchants Journal. ‘*Speaking of apples,’’ said the Kan- sas groceryman, ‘‘it seems to be a_ fact that the apple is getting to be the most fashionable and favorite fruit. It has come to be the common thing for Con- gressmen and Senators, I notice, to lunch on apples. 1 have more calls for good apples in my business than for any other kind of fruit. The only trouble is to get enough apples to suppiy the de- mand. As to this talk about their being especially healthful, that is largely a fad. Eating raw apples agrees with ,some people and with some it does not. The people of this country are full of fads. The fact is, you can not measure up all stomachs by one standard. One man’s meat is another man’s poison. What agrees with one stomach does not agree with another at all.’’ ea Examine the methods of your rival who has achieved a quick success. You may learn something. Be candid enough to admit to yourself that you do not know it all, and study the successful examples. od Hero worship is a hollow fraud while the hero lives. Let a hero aspire to hold a high office and he will find the worshippers jumping on him and tread- ing him into the mud. It seems foolish to borrow trouble when so many people are trying to be rid of it. Su The hardest thing for a man to swal- low is his pride. BusuaNins Advertisements will be inserted under this head for two cents a word the first insertion and one cent a word for each subsequent insertion. No advertisements taken for less than 25 cents. Advance payments. BUSINESS CHANCES. POR SALE—A GILT-EDGED BAKERY AND restaurant; doing fine business; in hand- somest village of 1,200 in State; good reason for selling; price, $1,000. Shaffmaster & Locke, Bronson, Mich. 327 AKERY FOR SALE—GOOD LOCATION for a good baker. Reason for selling, cannot stand inside work. Address No. 326, care Michi- gan Tradesman. BY VOR SALE—FURNITURE AND UNDER- taking stock in a hustling town of 3,000 pop- ulation; a fine farming country from nine to fifteen miles to draw from; must be sold. Write for particulars to No. 319, care Michigan Trades- man. VOR SALE—$3,000 HARDWARE STOCK, a paying about $1,500 yearly profit; no compe- tition; will sell or rent building; terms, part eash, balance on time. Address S. J. Doty, Harrietta, Mich. 317 USINESS CHANCES AT MUSKEGON—I have several stores in good locations at Muskegon for grocery or other business. There are more people here than ever before and only half as many groceries as formerly and all doing well. Will sell or rent cheap. M. C. Kelley, Muskegon, Mich. 315 OR SALE—AN OLD ESTABLISHED EGG, butter and poultry business in Michigan. Handled over $140,000 business in 1899. Address No. 314, eare Michigan Tradesman. 314 VOR SALE—THE HASTINGS DRUG STORE at Sparta. One of the best known drug stores in Kent ‘county; established twenty-six years; doing a prosperous business; brick build- ing; central corner location; reasonable rent; long lease; belongs to an estate; must be _ sold. M N. Ballard, Administrator, Sparta, or M. H. Walker, Houseman Building, Grand Rapids, Mich. 322 FIRST-CLASS DEPARTMENT STORE, new and up to date, for sale at a bargain, in a town of 3,000 inhabitants; rent low; good liv- ing apartments if desired; stock invoices about 800. G reason for selling. Address No. 321, care Michigan Tradesman. 321 OR SALE CHEAP—$33,000 GENERAL stock of hardware, farm implements, wag- ons, buggies, cutters, harnesses, in good town and good farming country. Reason for selling, other business. Address No. 320, care Michigan Tradesman. 320 OTEL AND BARN TO EXCHANGE FOR merchandise; twenty-five rooms in hotel; resort region; a money-making investment. Address No. 318, care Michigan Tradesman. 318 NOR SALE—BOOT AND SHOE BUSINESS * {n good Central Michigan town of 6,000. Best location and business in city. Guarantee the business to net $1,000 per year. Good reason for selling. Address No. 323, care Michigan ea man. , 23 ANTED—TO EXCHANGE GOOD HOUSE and lot, farm, vacant lots or unimproved lands for clean stock of dry goods. G. H. Kirtland & Co., 1159 So. Division St , Grand Rapids. 325 ASH PAID FOR GENERAL STOCK OF merchandise. Address B. Cohen, Lake Odessa, Mich. 312 NOR SALE—SHINGLE MILL MACHINERY, all complete, ready to set up. —s com- pleted our cut, we offer our ape cheap, if taken at once. 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. Kent low. Best reason for selling. Ad- dress B. I., care Michigan Tradesman. YOR 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 es SALE—SMALL GENERAL STOCK cheap for cash. Good town, good location, cheap rent. Might exchange. Address No. 300, care Michigan Tradesman. 300 eS FOR STOCK OF general merchandise in live town of one to two thousand inhabitants. Will purchase stock. Address N, care Michigan a 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 SHOE 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 ce SALE — NICE CLEAN STOCK OF drugs, about $3,000, in the best town of its size in the State. Reasons for selling. Will sell or rent brick store building. Enquire of the Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co., Grand Rapids. 298 = SALE—GENERAL STOCK, LOCATED at good country trading point. Stock and fixtures will inventory about $2,000; rent reason- able; good place to handle produce. Will sell stock complete or separate any branch of it. Address No. 292, eare Michigan Tradesman. 292 W ANTED—I WANT TO EXCHANGE SOME very desirable Grand Rapids city propery for a well-located stock of hardware. . Gilbert. 67 Pearl St., Grand Rapids. 265 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 ‘OR SALE—FLOUR AND FEED MILL— full roller process—in a splendid location. Great bargain, easy terms. Address No. 227, eare Michigan Tradesman. 227 Wwe SALE, CHEAP — $3,000 GENERAL stock and building. Address No. 240, care Michigan Tradesman. 240 TORE ROOM FOR RENT. PLATE GLASS \O front; furnace heat; counters and shelving all in and up to date in style and finish; 22 feet wide and 90 feet long; central! town for trade. son City, Mich. | pen SALE—STOCK OF GROCERIES I) good town of 5,000 inhabitants. Stock in ventories about $2,000. Cash sales $17,000 for 1s99. 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 eap. Address A. D., care Michigan — 1 located in a good For terms address Box 37, Car- 238 bec man. OR SALE OR EXCHANGE FOR GENERAL Stock of Merchandise—60 acre farm, part clear, architect house and barn; well watered. I also have two 40 acre farms and one 80 acre farm to exchange. Address No. 12, care Michi- gan Trad n 12 ae MISCELLANEOUS. W ANTED—A REGISTERED PHARMA- eist. Good chance for right man. Ad- dress No. 316, care Michigan Tradesman. 316 ANTED—WORK ADDRESSING ENVEL- opes by an inmate of the Masonic Home who is unable to pursue his regular occupation. Address John M. Raper, Masonic Home, Paul P. O., Mich. 324 ws 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. . 313 ANTED—SITUATION BY REGISTERED druggist. Address No. 274, care Michigan Tradesman. 274 , an < |@ ~ bi me @ ‘ | v y Be ins "| ¢\% “ |* We 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 We make showcases. We make them right. We make prices right. Write us when in the market. Kalamazoo Kase & Kabinet Ko., Kalamazoo, Mich. i AT AUVIPTET NI TIP NET NPN NNTP HOP APT dui 464A UA ALAA AJA LULA AA A SOL LUA AAJA LEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE EE EY “Search-Light” Soap Big twin bar for 5c retail. Positively guaranteed to do a perfect washing, without boiling the clothes, or money refunded. Saves labor, time, fuel, the hands and clothes. ‘“‘SEARCH-LIGHT’’ SOAP makes two bars of hand toilet soap that can’t be beat for removing dirt, grease, grime and stains, leaving the hands soft and smooth. * Show ecard and circulars packed in each box for advertising. Nearly 40 per cent. profit. Try a box with next order. Sold by Olney & Judson Grocer Co., Grand Rapids, Mich.; Jackson Grocery Co., Jackson, Mich.; The Smart & Fox Co., Saginaw, Mich.; J. F. Halladay & Son, Battle Creek, Mich., or any Wholesale Grocery House in Detroit, Mich. It is the coming warm weather laundry and toilet soap. LEELELEEEEEEEEE EEE EEE EES tip oh oh op op oh oh ooh oh op epahohehep ehh hhh heheheh hh oh > Granite The best plastering material in the world. Fire proof, wind proof, NWN ae ane water proof. Is not injured by freezing. No Glue, no acid. Ready for immediate use by adding water. Oftice and works: West Ful- ton and L. S. & M.S. R. R. ~ Gypsum Products Mfg Co., Manufacturers and Dealers in Calcined Plaster, Land Plaster, Bug Compound, etc. Mill and Warehouse: 200 South Front Street. Office: Room 20, Powers’ Opera House Block. Grand Rapids, Mich. An enterprising agent wanted in every town. Send for circular with references. ALL PAPER SEASON 1900. The Best Selected Stock Sample books now ready—will be sent to in Michigan. dealers or paper hangers on receipt of re- quest, freight paid. Send name and address at once. State priced papers you handle. THE MICHIGAN WALL PAPER CoO., LIMITED, 202 RANDOLPH ST., DETROIT, MICH. MERCANTILE ASSOCIATIONS Travelers’ Time Tables. Michigan Retail Grocers’ Association President, C. E. WALKER, Bay City; Vice-Pres- ident, J. H. HorpkKINsS, Ypsilanti; Secretary, E. A. STOWE. Grand Rapids; Treasurer, J. F. TATMAN, Clare. Graad Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association President, FRANK J. Dyk; Secretary, HOMER KuapP; 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 Retail Grocers’ Association President, W. H. JOHNSON; Secretary, CHAS. HYMAN. on Bay Cities Retail Grocers’ Association President, C. E. WALKER; Secretary, E. C LITTLE. ae Muskegon Retail Grocers’ Association President, H. B. SmirH; Secretary, D. A. BOELKINS; Treasurer, J. W. CASKADON. Jackson Retail Grocers’ Association President, J. FRANK HELMER; Secretary, W H. PortTeR; 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. Mc- PHERSON; Treasurer, R. A. HORR. Traverse City Business Men’s Association President, THos T. BAtTss; Secretary, M. B. Houuy; Treasurer, C. A. HAMMOND. Owosso Business Men’s Association President, A. D. WHIPPLE; Secretary, G. T. CAMPBELL; Treasurer, W. E. COLLINS. Pt. Hurons Merchants’ and Manufacturers’ Association President, CHAS. WELLMAN; Secretary, J. T. PERCIVAL. a Alpena Business Men’s Association President, F. W. GILCHRIST; Secretary, ©. L. PARTRIDGE. Ll 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. ee Grand Haven Retail Merchants’ Association President, F. D. Vos; Secretary, J. W. VER- HOEKS. oe Yale Business Men’s Association President, CHAS. RouNDs; Secretary, FRANK PUTNEY. ee Grand Rapids Retail Meat Dealers’ Association President, L. M. WILSON; Secretary, PHILIP HILBER; Treasurer, 8S. J. HUFFORD. PAP PPPLL ALA IEA IAS OIF For Sale Cheap Residence property at 24 Kellogg street, near corner Union street. Will sell on long time at low rate of interest. Large lot, with barn. House equipped with water, gas and all modern improvements. E. A. Stowe, Blodgett Building, Grand Rapids. DON’T BUY AN AWNING until you get our prices. S—=— ea Fines jst CHAS. A. COYE, 11 Pearl Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. Send for prices. 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. Charlev’x, 3:15pm 11:25pm Ar. Petoskey, 3:45pm 11:55pm Trains arrive from north at 2:40pm, and and 10:00pm. Detroit. Ly. Grand Rapids.... 7:10am 12:05pm 5:30pm Ar. Detroit...........11:50am 4:05pm 10:05pm Lv. Detroit...... . $:40am 1:10pm 6:00pm Ar. Grand Rapids... 1:30pm 5:10pm 10:45pm Saginaw, Alma and Greenville. Lv Grand Hapies...... ¢........ 7:00am 5:20pm AY Saginaw ........ wou cccenedetOeem 10:16pm Oy TN it hae 7:00am 4:50pm Ar Grand Rapids................11:55am 9:50pm Parlor ears on all trains to and from Detroit and Saginaw. Parlor cars on afternoon trains to and from Chieago. Pullman sleepers on night trains. Parlor car to Traverse City on morn- ing train. *Every day. Others week days only. H. F. MOELLER, Acting Gen. Passgr. Agt. Grand Rapids, Mich. January 1, 1900. GRAND icceaters, tos. Northern Division. Going From North North Trav. City, Petoskey, Mack. + 7:45am + 5:15pm Trav. City, Petoskey, Mack. + 2:10pm 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. +10:15pm Southern Division Going From South South Kalamazoo, Ft. WayneCin. + 7:10am + 9:45pm Kalamazoo and Ft. Wayne. + 2:00pm + 2:00pm Kalamazoo, Ft. Wayne Cin. * 7:00pm Kalamazoo and Vicksburg. *11:30pm * 9:10am 7:10am train has parlor car to Cincinnati, coach to Chicago; 2:00pm train has parlor car to Fort Wayne; 7:00pm train has sleeper to Cincin- nati; 11:30pm train, sleeping car and coach to Chicago, * 6:45am Chicago Trains. TO CHICAGO. Ly. Grand Rapids...t7 10am +2 00pm At. Chicago......... 23pm 8 4pm FROM CHICAGO Ly. Ohicago..... .............78 Gps Wl Same Ar. Grand Rapids............. 9 45pm 6 45am Train leaving Grand Rapids 7:10am has coach; 11:30pm train has coach and sleeping car; train leaving Chicago 3:02pm has coach; 11:32pm has sleeping car for Grand Rapids. Muskegon Trains. GOING WEST. Ly. Grand Rapids....+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......+8 10am +12 15pm Ar. Grand Rapids... 9 30am 1 30pm +Except Sunday. *Daily. Cc. L. LOCER WOOD, Gen’l Pass’r and Ticket Agent. W. C. BLAKE, Ticket Agent Union Station. MANISTE Via C. & W. M. Railway. *11 30pm 7 0am +4 0Opm 5 20pm & Northeastern Ry. Best route to Manistee. Ly. Grand Rapids............... 7 Mam Oe ce ee one ee ie a Ly. Manistee.................... § Mam 3 Sipm Ar. Grand Rapids.............. 2 40pm 10 00pm Michigan Fire and Marine Insurance Co. Organized 1881. Detroit, Michigan. Cash Capital, $400,000. Net Surplus, $200,000. Cash Assets, $800,000. D. WHITNEY, JR., Pres. D. M. Ferry, Vice Pres. F. H. WHITNEY, Secretary. M. W. O’Brien, Treas. E. J. Boorn, Asst. Sec’y. D1rRECTORS. D. Whitney, Jr., D. M. Ferry, F. J. Hecker, M. W. O’Brien, Hoyt Post, Christian Mack, Allan Sheldon, Simon J. Murphy, Wm. L. Smith, A. H. Wilkinson, James Edgar, H. Kirke White, H. P. Baldwin, Hugo Scherer, F. A. Schulte, Wm. V. Brace, James McMillan, F. E. Driggs, Henry Hayden, Collins B, Hubbard, James D. Standish, Theodore D. Buhl, M. B. Mills, Alex. Chapoton, Jr., Geo. H. Barbour, S. G. Gaskey, Chas. Stinchfield, Francis F. Palms, Wm. C. Yawkey, David C. Whit- ney, Dr. J. B. Book, Eugene Harbeck, Chas. F. Peltier, Richard P. Joy, Chas. C. Jenks. OOO@DOODaGE OaeaG aX Tanglefoot ‘<* Fly Paper Sticky Catches the Germ as well as the Fly. Sanitary. Used the world over. Good profit to sellers. Order from Jobbers. CROROROROROROROROROHORC HOROROCOROROROROROROROCHOHON The Grand Rapids Paper Box Co. Manufacture Solid Boxes for Shoes, Gloves, Shirts and Caps, Pigeon Hole Files for Desks, plain and fancy Candy Boxes, and Shelf Boxes of every de- scription. We also make Folding Boxes for Patent Medicine, Cigar Clippings, Powders, etc., etc. Gold and Silver Leaf work and Special Die Cutting done to suit. Write for prices, Work guaranteed. GRAND RAPIDS PAPER BOX CO., Grand Rapids, Mich oe ee Ne Flame Oil Stove ; Superior to any on the market. 1 “ENTERPRISE” Blue The most economical, the simplest in arrangement, the quickest heater; is perfectly odorless and gives an instan- taneous blue flame as soon as lighted. No. 77,2 burner, low, 8 inch wicks....$ 5.60 No. 78,3 burner, low, 8 inch wicks.... 7. No. 105, 2 burner, low, 12 inch wicks.... 6. No. 107, 3 burner, low, 12 inch wicks.... 7 No. 111, 3 burner, high, 12 inch wicks... 10. BRaY Seer oer For full list of oil and gasoline stoves == see pages 92 and o3 of our catalogue * No. 152. If you haven't received it ask for it. y= H. LEONARD & SONS, Grand wow Rapids, Mich. Te a ae re — ee aa) (aa aaa aaa a a ' Pulley and Cl asp Buckles } We have a splendid line of ready sellers at very modest prices to retail at 25c, 50c, 75c, $1. It will pay you to handle them. Send for samples on approval. © @ @ ©, © © Pulley rings in bright and dull silver and In Roman or rose gold, French gold finish, per dozen pairs, 75c. gray or imitation cut steel finish, a dozen different styles and prices per dozen $3 and up. © IPL Tae . . case . 2 S Kah ge es ot VOI COTO OP OE Oy OTe ees 2 @ QE OO OED EIS BOREAS A BORD EA BOM IOS . © + a RO SD ge Oo - i ~ es oe sil 2 a CXGIAGTA CIOS a ) OF EK e COMO ere © © CURB CHAIN BRACELETS—With lock and key. Silver and gold finish, on tissues © or pads, per dozen, $2.25. Sterling silver and 14 karat gold filled, warranted five and @ ; ten years, per dozen, up from $9. O ° ° . ® We also handle a beautiful line of brooches, waist sets, breast © ® Pins, stick pins, chains and rings. Only Exclusive Jewelry Jobbers in Western Michigan. Write for samples and prices. AMERICAN JEWELRY COMPANY, Grand Rapids, Mich. DOODODOODODOOOOSOOQOOSOHOOES DE GH DOODHHOOOOODHHOOSOOGDSGGOOSS Have You Had Our eS} Sees eS System Explained? _~ [ . 3 : <= ({ wy Y nN If you haven't, don't tell our sales- 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 PPD, . 1G ~ | LJ oe you would be a user. a a Me on i \ ee t Our scales are sold on easy i ‘\ y AL Wor : ey ~ monthly payments. fi ~ = \”\ BU WY) zs Lire \ { y X aN \ To ‘ NGL VEN ) The Computing mAs SSF , \ KE 3 —<——_——— Wy : : c / — a pele a a Y’\\Z\ AP Ik Scale Company, G - 2 a : . Dayton, Ohio Ny NSN SNS SISOS SNS ASN SNS SOAR RISEN RES ASASE eS SSS SI EASA SS Ne a ny ESA) S| SS Besa Va Beavers eZ ac (SG NS eee : Sons SIGS FATA SAaSaAeSsaSsea