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Drugs and Chemicals. 2%. Drug Price Current. 28. Grocery Price Current. 29. 30. 31. 32. 16. 18. 23. Grocery Price Current. Getting the People. Pay No Profit. High Water Mark. NOSE OUT OF JOINT. Like most momentous matters the item was crowded into a little space. A single sentence announced the fact in the fewest possible words: A cargo of grain has been discharged at Liverpool straight from the Chicago elevator. It had been long talked of, but had been pronounced a pretty lively dream with ‘‘a difference in the morning.’’ To-day there is a change. Chicago wakes up to find herself the peer of any city upon the Atlantic coast and, with the wide- awake determination to turn the fact to practical account, is looking the matter over. She has already reached con- clusions and a direct line of steamers from the inland metropolis of the Mid- dle West will soon be plying its fre- quent periodical voyage to the English port. The boats will be of the Weliand Canal size, with a capacity of 75,000 bushels of wheat on a draft of fourteen feet. Negotiations are going on be- tween Chicago and Montreal by which freight can be transferred at that point and save the lake-ship the voyage across the Atlantic. There is every prospect of carrying out the project, which, once entered upon, will furnish New York another powerful reason for ‘‘ wishing she hadn’t.”’ For years Chicago has been crying with Sterne’s starling: ‘‘I want to get out! 1 want to get out!’’ but the At- lantic port gates of the continent did not open. A city a thousand miles from sea-water must not get into its head strange notions. The possible had limits which even Western commercial enterprise was bound to respect, and what that Middle Western world must do is to make the most of the ample rail- road facilities furnished and go right on in the same old way. In the open sea- son the Lakes and the Erie Canal might furnish a let-up on freights, but the railroad was the agent to be rejied upon and, although somewhat costly, it was the only and so it had to be the best way; and, this sage counsel having been delivered, the daughter of Old Rip Van Winkle went to sleep. But not Chicago nor the boundless country with interests centering there. ‘“‘Not if we know ourselves!’’ roared the waves of Michigan as they angrily struck the Chicago docks. ‘‘What does she take us for?’’ snarled the Missis- sippi as the waters of the ship canal reported the selfish story. ‘‘We won't do a thing about it!'’ murmured the winds, as they swept down from the wide Northwestern wheat fields, and the big uncounted corn patches of the Mid- dle prairies responded, ‘‘No, we won't!’’ But New York did. A _ little more sleep, a little more slumber, a lit- tle more folding of the hands to sleep, and then between naps she thought that the Erie Canal might be widened and deepened and she would see what the folks thought about it. They thought it might and Canada, with her Welland Canal, thought it might not and Chicago and her far-reaching clientage thought so, too; and now, with the new ocean line established and the grain trade thus early started, the gateway of the West- ern world, basking contentedly in the Land of the Sometime, finds her nose out of joint and her coffers, which once overflowed with the freight rates of the grain transportation, as empty as the docks deserted by the grain-laden steamers now on the Atlantic for Liver- pool. No, they are not doing a thing! But the lake waves are placid now, there seems to be a brighter green to the growing wheat of the Northland and the sprouting corn is unsheathing its blade with more than its wonted _ flourish, while the messengers of the growing crops between the Alleghanies and_ the Rockies are telling of a larger acreage, of a most promising harvest and so of a thriftier foreign trade between Liver- pool, the chief emporium of Great Brit- ain, and Chicago, the principal porium of the United States. crn More hemp will be raised in Ken- tucky than has been raised there ina great many years. It is very suggestive. It is doubtful, however, if there will be more than enough for home consump- tion. Another objection, which it is hoped will be overcome, is that hereto- fore the hemp there has not been raised high enough for the best practical pur- pose, a fault which should be corrected. Coal has been selling in Austria at $10 a ton, and some of the German schools have been closed for lack of fuel. Ex- ports of American coal to Europe are becoming common. An English syndi- cate is said to have contracted for 2,000,000 tons of Alabama Goal to be for- warded by way of New Orleans. The value attaching to good general- ship has been so strikingly demonstrated recently through a conspicuous want of it that governments hereafter may be content to let merit rather than favorit- ism determine the selection of com- manding generals. Silk is likely to go up in price, on account of an epidemic among the Ital- ian and French silkworms. They re- fuse to eat and are dying by myriads on their mulberry leaves. Number 868 GENERAL TRADE REVIEW. Wall Street dealers are now taking their punishment for the crooked deals in some of the leading stocks, in a de- gree of dulness almost without prece- dent. The buying public seems to be thoroughly frightened away and opera- tions are confined to a quiet buying on the part of the strong operators, who seem to think that the situation is as- sured by the general condition of strength and industrial activity through- out the country. Latest reports indicate an increase of activity, but at the ex- pense of further decline. Naturally the work of price adjust- ment in iron and steel and the apparent need of it in some other lines serve to cause some uneasiness and pessimistic predictions, but that these are warranted is strongly contradicted by the unpre- cedented transportation business, by the vast volume of trade in the Center, South and West as indicated by the remarkable and increasing reports of clearing house business and by the fa- vorable condition of export trade. Heavy gold exports are thought to be a cause of uneasiness, but that is abund- antly accounted for by the demands. of england for her war and the extraor- dinary needs of other nations. The general tendency of prices in the iron and steel trades is toward a lower and more healthy basis. The only ex- ceptions are in the sheet schedule, which is fully sustained, with a pros- pect of further and in the price of rails, steel beams, angles and tinplates. The fact that some prices are yielding is made a pretext for careful buying in advance, many of the great industries. Thus boot and shoe shipments from Boston are declining for the reason that many are looking for yielding prices. Hides and some kinds of teather are slightly lower in Chicago. The tendency in the great textile staples is toward lower values, favorable crop reports having brought cotton down a cent. The period of high prices has naturally increased the manufacture until some works are compelled to lessen production. And the same may be said substantially of the situation. In both branches the aggregate of business is wonderfully large, but the time in which demand can keep the lead is inevitably short. woo! The workman who can select quickly the size of stone or brick needed to fit spaces in putting down pavement is better educated than the writer who words that are a misfit in meaning of his small chooses big conveying the ideas. It is in the joyous springtime that a man reads on the fences how torpid his liver is, how bad his blood is, and feels how sure he is to die soon unless he in- vests in the medicine so strongiy recom- mended by board fences The most troublesome workingmen are those have no time to work. On the same line, the lawyers who are con- stantly stirring up strife are those who have no clients and no_ business in court, who MICHIGAN TRADESMAN a Growth and Importance of the Butter Business. Butter as a food appears to be as old as history. We have record of the use of butter as early as 2,000 years before Christ. The Bible is interspersed with references to butter, the product of milk from the cow. In Genesis we read that when Abraham was on the plains of Maure, he entertained the three angels who appeared unto him as men, as he sat in his tent, and he said to Sarah to take three measures of meal and knead it quickly and make cakes upon the hearth; and it is said that he went to the herd and fetched a calf tender and good and gave it to be dressed, and he took butter and milk and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them and they did eat. Thus it will be seen there is divine authority for the statement that butter is a fit food for the angels. Not only has it been regarded from time immemorial as a food fit for the gods, but its use appears to have been divinely recom- mended, and its users promised certain immunities against evil. For instance, in Isaiah 7:15, it is said: ‘‘Butter and honey shall he eat that he may know to refuse the evil and choose the good,’’ while in the 22d verse of the same chapter it is further stated that ‘‘He shall eat butter, for butter and honey shall everyone eat that is left in the land.’’ -And no doubt is left in the minds of the readers in either case as to the kind of butter meant, be- cause it is referred to as from milk. In Judges 5:25, butter is referred to in a manner which proves that it was regarded there as a favored food. ‘‘He asked for water,’’ reads the verse, ‘‘and she gave him milk: she brought forth butter in a lordly dish.’’ And not only is butter spoken of as a favored food, but it was used as an_ in- strument for the performance of mir- acles. job 29:6 reads: When i washed my steps with butter and the rocks poured me out rivers of oil.’’ What other food has such sacred en- dorsement and history? It is presumed that in four thousand years there has been considerable of an improvement in the manufacture of but- ter, although, of course, we know little more of the method by which Sarah pro- duced this butter for the angels than we know of the means employed in the construction of the pyramids. The earliest details of method of man- ufacture are derived from the Arabs and Syrians, who appear to be as well satis- fied with the original process of making butter as they are with other habits which have remained unchanged for centuries with the Arabs. To-day, as was the original practice so far as known, the Arabs and Syrians use for a churn a vessel made from goat skin. The animal is skinned, the skin sewed up tight, leaving an opening only at the left fore leg, where the cream is poured in. Then the ‘‘churn’’ is sus- pended from the tent poles and swung until the ‘‘butter comes.’’ This is the earliest known process of making but- ter. In Mexico only a few years ago cream was placed ina bag by the na- tives, the whole taken behind the saddle of a spirited horse, and a tour of a few miles horseback undertaken by the rider. When the journey was at an end, the churning process was supposed to be finished. Not all butter made to-day can be said to be ‘‘fit for the gods.’’ It may be that in the days of Abraham _ butter was produced which even the angels might have turned up their noses at. But it is a fact, however, that 75 per cent. of the butter made to-day by our modern methods is of better quality than the exclusive 25 per cent. of fifteen years ago, because there have been tre- mendous strides in the manufacture of butter the past fifteen years, not only as to quality, but from the point of econ- omy of production. Up to this time the very primitive method of farm dairying appears to have been followed, little improvement upon which had __ been known for a century. The great progress in buttermaking alluded to as having taken place during the past fifteen years has been brought about largely through the introduction of the centrifugal cream separator and the invention of a simple method by which the exact butter value of milk may be ascertained by the creamery operator, the use of which test enables the creamery man to pay for this vary- ing lacteal fluid according to its fat value, and thus take from the grasping farmer the historical temptation to ‘‘water’’ his milk. Before the day of this Babcock test, when milk for the separator creameries was purchased in the bulk, regardless of its fat value, the farmer who had the deepest well upon his place appears to have been the most successful dairyman. It is not so to-day. The separator has proven both a fat saver and quality producer. By the old method of setting milk and allowing the cream to rise, fully 10 per cent. of the butter fat remained in the skim milk. The modern separator will take prac- tically all this out, thus practically. in- creasing the yield of the cow to that ex- tent. With the method now employed by the separator creamery of receiving sweet the whole milk and separating it, the buttermaker has_ under his control the important process of ripening the cream, wherein lies the secret of flavor, which is quality. There is little necessity for alluding to the minor details of the business as they exist to-day. It is known that at present the butter business is in rather a complex state. Its future is shrouded in uncertainty. We donot know what the coming year may bring forth. There are conditions and _ intluences prevalent which the most astute can not fathom. The trade had about accepted the general impression that the day of 30 cent butter had passed. In late for- mer years, when our markets had reached 25 cents, there had been reactions of a disastrous nature, but the past year has proven exceptional. New York went to 30 cents last January. Chicago touched 29 cents, and we were reminded of old- en times when there appeared a close similarity between the value of a tub of butter and a keg of gold. You ask what has brought this about? This question has puzzled the best in- formed. Some say increased consump- tion. Others say lighter production. Still others lay the condition to a con- spiracy to run butter up to an exorbitant figure at that time to influence Congress adversely in the matter of legislation to be asked for for the protection of the pub- lic against fraud. It appears most plausible, however, that there is a little of something in each of the first two explanations. There is no doubt that the prosperous times of the past two years, especially during 1899, have increased consumption of pure butter, or I might sav, have en- THE VINKEMULDER COMPANY Headquarters for NEW GREEN STUFF Tomatoes, Cucumbers, Onions, California Celery, Cabbage, etc. Blood Oranges. Lemons, Dates, Radishes, Spinach, Lettuce, Fancy Navel, Seedling and Figs and Nuts. Maple Sugar and Syrup. Careful attention given mail orders. 14 OTTAWA STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Es z | | | | Clovers | | | Lawn Grass Flower Seeds | | ei A RE SGN | | S ders come. Seed Corn | Grass Seeds | S eeds Largest stocks, best quality, lowest prices, prompt service. are still complete. quickly day received. Let your or- Garden Seeds in Bulk. Our stocks All orders filled Peas Beans, Etc. ALFRED Seed Growers and Merchants 24 & 26 North Division St. J. BROWN SEED CO. Grand Rapids, Mich. COLD STORAGE . We do a general storage. for business and solicit your patronage. pondence solicited. We are in the field Corres- Second season in operation. GRAND RAPIDS COLD STORAGE CoO. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. pwvvvvvvvVvVVUVVUVUVUUUUUUUUUUCUUUVUUUUVUUUVUUVCUCCCCCC?CCC?C wwuvuvvvuVVUUY?) 245 West Fayette St., POP DGG DOGG DDOGFGFGFGTFF OOD OSTGTTSTSTTSTSTSTSTSE VTC SCSCTSCDTSCSCSTDG 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 circular. > > > > > > W. B. STOPPARD & CO., be Bn bn bn by Lr Oh i Li i Op i i i i a a i i i a i i i i i a i i a i i i i PUG UOT OOOO UCVUW Syracuse, New York. 4B Oy > b> 4 4 fn bn bp bn pn i i hi i PUG OOGOOCOCOVGOGTOCOCETVOEFCSCPDEPTSESCCSCTCSCSCSCS SG VA = 3 3 = 3 = 3 3 3 3 3 = 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 = 3 3 = = N COMMISSION AU TIPNEP TPN TENT TET IOP NTT NOP NTP TEP ITT NPT ESTABLISHED 1876. CHAS. RICHARDSON GENERAL Wholesale Fruits, General Produce and Dairy Products. 58 AND 60 W. MARKET ST. 121 AND 123 MICHIGAN ST. Unquestioned responsibility and business standing. Carlots a specialty. Quotations on our market furnished promptly upon application. MUA SUA SUA SU SUA SU SU SUN dU JUN Jk bk db Ahk. Abd Ad Abd Abd db ddA ddA dda MERCHANT BUFFALO, N. Y. QUA GA ADA GAA AMA bh Jbd JUd Jbd J0d Jb d44 Jb4 24 a“ SEEDS Mammoth, Medium, Alsyke, Alfalfa, Crimson, White Clover. Timothy, Redtop, Blue Grass, Orchard Grass Seeds, FIELD PEAS Can fill order quickly at right prices. MOSELEY BROS., 26-28-30-32 OTTAWA ST., GRAND RAPIDS | a, ¢€ > a. a ‘ * ‘ & ~ { oe &@ & « 4 & - « * s ee 7 d aes, MICHIGAN TRADESMAN ive) abled people to follow the market up higher than informer years. There has been no increase in consumption, be- cause production has been curtailed through this same prosperity. During the past year New York’s receipts of butter were 20,000 packages lighter than in 1898, and the receipts at Chicago fell off 50,000 packages. It is probable that receipts at other points were short in proportion. Of course this appears strange in face of the fact that prices in New York have averaged 2 cents higher and in Chicago 3 cents higher for the year 1899 than for the year preceding, and during the latter part of the year values showed an increase of 5 cents, or about 20 per cent. The matter of producing butter is not the question of a day or a week. It is the question of years. During 1896, 1897 and 1808, values of butter were very low; in fact, they at many times were below cost of production. Farmers held on only because other farm products were equally low in price or short in yield. But when live stock and grains went upward, the farmer found more lucrative, attractive and less arduous fields for his labor, and abandoned the cow by thousands. He had no way of knowing that the year 1899 would bring forth fabulous prices, and was not prepared to produce milk when those prices came. He was like the foolish virgins; there was no oil in his lamp when the bridegroom came. Statistics show that the dairy busi- ness, so far as cows are concerned, has not progressed the past ten years. In 1890, with our 62,622,250 population, we had 15,952,883 milch cows, or about 264 cows to every thousand population. In 1900 we have no more cows with our gain of at least 10,000,000 ropulation, so that to-day we have not more than 228 cows for every 1,000 population, in- stead of 264, as ten years ago. In fact, in actual numbers we have to-day more than a half million less cows than we had in 1894, when the records showed 16, 504,000 against 15,998,000 in 1899. And the high prices of beef the past year have tempted the sale of more milch cows than have been sold for slaughter in many years past. We have heard a great deal during the past few years about an export trade for our butter in England and the Orient. We have sent considerable butter abroad the past three or four years. It has gone ajmost wholly to England, the great butter consuming country. Secretary of Agriculture Wilson has spent a great deal of time in an effort to develop the foreign market. In 1894 our exports to England were valued at $125,947; in 1895, $271,776; in 1896, $617,525; in 18g7, $633,549, while in 1898 they fell to $285,309, as a result of higher prices in this country brought about’ by a de- crease of production. The statistics for the past year’s exports have not yet been published, but during the months of August and September there was a phenomena! demand for our butter from England, which took all our surplus and more than we were able to spare and supply our domestic trade at the former level of prices. A scorching drouth all through England and Europe, which lately spread to the Western hemi- sphere, was responsible for the demand from England, in whose regular pro- ducing counties the make of butter was tremendously reduced. It is a very doubtful question as to whether the United States will be a reg- ular exporter of butter to any great ex- tent. The large exporters of butter to- day asa rule are those countries with smal] population and many cows; great producers and small consumers. Den- mark, for instance, with its 2,000,000 people, sends England $37,000,000 worth of butter. The people of Denmark ship their butter and eat oleomargarine, consumption of that substitute aggre- gating for its 2,000,000 people almost a third of the amount consumed in Amer- ica by our 75,000,000 of population. Canada is a natural dairy country, a heavy producer and light consumer, as are Ireland and Australia. The secret of their success is the fact that they are al- ways producing more than they can consume, consequently always have a supply for their trade. Steadiness of supply is a necessity in the English market, and something we can hardly expect to attain. Our population re- quires too near our entire production to enable us_ to have a steady supply for export. For instance, in 1897, the heaviest export business for years was done; yet the exports amounted to not more than 1 per cent. of our production. A shrinkage of I per cent. in produc- tion or an increase of 1 per cent. in consumption at home wipes out our sur- plus. Therefore we are but an irregular shipper abroad and never get an oppor- tunity to get the advantage secured by those who are regular patrons of the Englishmen. Our export trade with other countries than England amounts to little. There is some trade with the tropical countries and the Orient. One Boston firm quite well known to the trade, Simpson, McIntyre & Co. by name, are about the only people who do an extensive busi- ness with the tropics. Their butter is all tinned and is said to give excellent satisfaction. In fact, it has been my personal experience that it stands up better in flavor after being opened than the Danish tinned butter, and I have eaten both in South America. But why should we spend our time looking for markets abroad when our own markets are being wrested from us by the greatest fraud of the century? It is my opinion that if as much time and money had been spent by the Agricul- ture Department in showing up the fraudulent methods by which pure butter is being crowded out at home as have been devoted to an effort to get a mar- ket established abroad for our surplus, the industry wouid be far better off. There is five times as much oleomar- garine sold as butter every year in this country as we export butter. We have simply been yielding our own markets to the fraud and meekly looking for some place else to sell at a reduced price. T. C. H. Wegeforth. OOOOOOOOGOOOOO Every Piece Inspected In our harness department no piece of leather can get into a harness without being in- spected. If there is any doubt about its quality it is thrown out and only the good part is used in some other kind of work. In this way we are per- fectly sure that our make of harness is all right in every particular. We sell it with this understanding. The price will suit you, also. Brown & Sehler Grand Rapids, Mich. SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS @ @® @ w @® ) ® @ @ ) ® @® @® w @® ® ) @® © @ i) OOOOOOOOOOO SE En Bn, BBB. BO BOO a KE Geo. N. Huff & Co., f WHOLESALE DEALERS IN f Butter, Eggs, Poultry, Game, Dressed Meats, Etc. COOLERS AND COLD STORAGE ATTACHED. Consignments Solicited. 74 East Congress St., Detroit, Mich. ws HE wR HR. SE, SS SE RE SE SE SB. BO Ee. BS Se WE BUY FOR CASH Eggs and Butter IN ANY QUANTITY. Hermann C. Naumann & Co., 353 Russell St., Opp. Eastern Vegetable Market, Detroit, Mi h. Phones 1793. SLESESEEEEELLDELEDESSHELELIL SEE LEEELELELEELELELDEESE® WANTED We are always in the market for Fresh ‘ ‘ BUTTER AND EGGS : ‘ e ®% 36 Market Street. R. HIRT, JR., Detroit, Mich. OFFF FFFFISFTSFFFSTTFTFFFSFSFTFFFTITSITSIF WANTE Potatoes, Onions, Apples, Cabbage, Beans, Honey, Eggs, etc. If you have any to offer name your price, quality and quantity, f. o. b. or delivered. G. A. SCHANZ & CO. WHOLESALE PRODUCE 58 W. Woodbridge St. and 22 Market St., Eastern Market, Detroit, Mich. References: Ward L. Andrus & Co. and City Savings Bank, Detroit. D. O. WILEY & CO. DETROIT, MICH. COMMISSION MERCHANTS ESTABLISHED 1868. BUTTER, EGGS, FRUIT, References, Dun or Bradstreet. Cc iiateeeata Solicited. PRODUCE 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, Micnu. ALL GROCERS Who desire to give their customers the best vinegar on the market will give them Rep Star Branp Cider Vinegar. These goods stand for purity and are the best on the market. We give a Guarantee Bond to every customer. solicited. Your order THE LEROUX CIDER & VINEGAR CO., Toledo, Ohio. 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 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Around the State _ Movements of Merchants, Bristol—Sutton & Holcomb are erect- ing a new store building. Lansing—The Lansing Awning & Tent Co. has sold out to John Oram. Port Huron—Wm. Simpson opened a grocery store on Erie street. Williamston—James N. Leasia suc- ceeds Leasia & Piper in the drug busi- ness. has Monroe—Henry Hermann succeeds Duval & Hermann in the meat busi- ness. South Haven—Cording & Merson have engaged in the grocery business at this place. lonia—W. K. Wilson has sold his gro- cery stock to Wallace Haight and David Jepson. Dice—Edward J. Geddes has sold his dry goods and grocery stock to George Russell. Tecumseh—J. A. Maus and_ Fred Waring have opened a furniture store at this place. Homer—Harmon & Allen announce that they will shortly retire from the dry goods business. Grand Ledge—Spencer & Hall have purchased the boot and_ shoe stock of George L. Coryell. Allenville—J. D. Erskine has added lines of crockery, glassware and tinware to his general stock. Clarksville—R. H. Goodfellow has purchased the drug and wall paper stock of R. C. French. Elkton—Aldrich Bros. succeed AIl- bert J. Aldrich and David E. Winer in the hardware business. Sault Ste. Marie—Gowan & Pickford are now located in their new hardware store and are ready for business. Coldwater—H. C. Simons & Co. is the name of the new firm which suc- ceeds H. C. Simons in the jewelry busi- ness. Reed City—J. W. Patterson has bought the grocery stock of Johnson & Gingrich and will continue the business at the same location. Caro—L. A. Phelps has sold his gro- cery stock at this place and removed to Canton, Ohio, where he will engage in the cold storage business. Petoskey—Ramshaw & Doherty have opened a new grocery store. Both gen- tlemen were formerly engaged in the grocery business at Cheboygan. Owosso—W. H. Bell has closed out his stock of groceries and crockery and expects to go to Detroit to opena furni- ture and house furnishing store. South Haven—A. G. Harrison, who recently disposed of his grocery stock to Cook & Son, has engaged in the whole- sale butter, egg and fruit business. Detroit—Frederick J. Todd and D. W. H. Moreland have opened a drug store on Woodward avenue under the style of the Central Drug Store Co. Boyne Falls—Herman Mazidsohn, general dealer at Elkton, has opened a branch store at this place under the management of Abraham Assersohn. Paw Paw—The Thompson Furniture Co. is the name of the new firm which has put in a stock of furniture and un- dertaking goods in the O’ Dell building. Alpena—The firm of Owens & Fritz has been dissolved by mutual consent, Mr. Owens continuing the undertaking business across the river. Mr. Fritz will retain the Second Street store and will continue the undertaking, picture frame and art business. Newberry—F. B. Stade has closed out his business at this place and re- moved to Mass City, where he will en- gage in the dry goods and clothing business. Manton—J. M. and P. F. Wolfe, for- merly of Fife Lake, have purchased the jewelry stock of W. G. Crawford and will continue the business at the same location. Charlotte—V. C. Roblin has purchased the interest of Albert Murray in the shoe firm of V. C. Roblin & Co., and will continue the business under the same firm name. Charlotte—J. W. Bower, of this place, and Arthur Bailey, of Belding, have organized a company, with a capital stock of $2,500, to be known as the Charlotte Baking Co. Charlotte—Mr. Watson, of the dry goods firm of Watson & Newman, has sold his interest in the business to his partner and will engage in the dry goods business at Charlevoix. Manistique—The First National Bank has been organized with a capital stock of $35,000. It will succeed to the busi- ness of the Citizens’ Bank, which was started about six months ago. Petoskey—-T wo grocers of this city en- joy the honor of having horseless_ car- riages—-Ad. Fochtman & Son, who have a mule on their delivery wagon, and I. Goldstick, who utilizes a push cart in the delivery of goods. Saginaw—Vern Jj. Wolcott, of Albion, has leased the store building at 412 Court street, and will occupy it witha stock of dry goods, doing business un- der the style of the Wolcott Dry Goods Co, Detroit—The Berkey Cash Jewelry Co. has been organized with a capital of $5,000, of which 50 per cent. is paid in. Charles A. Berkey holds 350 shares, E. P. Goulding 100, and Merton E. Rowley 5o. Eaton Rapids—-Hartson & Vaughan, who have been in the furniture and un- dertaking business, have dissolved part- nership. J. J. Vaughan will continue the business with his’ brother, D. G. Vaughan, and the firm will be known as Vaughan Bros. Ann Arbor—F. L. Wilber, of Char- lotte, has purchased an interest in the Goodspeed shoe stock here and will have charge of the business. Mr. Wil- ber was for eight years a boot and_ shoe merchant in Ypsilanti. Otsego—Frank McCall, of this place, and Bert McCall, of Hickory Corners, have purchased the grocery stock of Herbert McCall and will continue the business at the same location under the style of McCall & McCall. Adrian—H. W. Glover, of Ypsilanti, who was the principal owner of the stock of the Cash Dry Goods Co., of this city, has turned the stock over to F. H. Goadly, representing H. B. Claflin & Co., of New York. Traverse City—J. W. Slater has just completed a new store building at Elk Rapids, 26xioo feet in dimensions, two stories high, which he will occupy with his branch undertaking business and house furnishing goods stock. Fennville—R. S. Shiffert, dealer in general merchandise, and W. E. Shiff- ert, dealer in dry goods and groceries, have consolidated their stock and will continue business at the R. S. Shiffert iocation under the style of R. S. Shiffert & Son. Ypsilanti—The Sullivan-Cook Co. has been organized with a capital stock of $7,500 to engage in the clothing and men’s furnishing goods business. The stockholders are Henry S. Platt, Arthur S. Sullivan and George A. Cook, each of whom owns 250 shares of stock. Detroit—Customers of Pardridge & Walsh, dry goods dealers, will hereafter only have to pay 12% cents for a shill- ing’s worth of goods, the firm having adopted an aluminum half-cent, good for trade in their store, to be used in making change. Pardridge & Walsh are first to adopt the scheme in De- troit, although it has been in use suc- cessfully in other cities for some time. Ishpeming--The Finnish Co-operative Store is now a reality, having purchased the grocery stock of Kaugas & Co. for $3,000. Jacob Kaminen, late with Braastad & Co., is book-keeper for the new Co-op and F. Lassenius, late with Hendrickson & Skoglund, will manage it. The meat market conducted by Oscar Forsberg has been purchased and will be incorporated in the store, Mr. Forsberg continuing in charge of the business. Manufacturing Matters. Paris—A. M. Sanford has purchased the Nye sawmill and moved it three miles south of Careyville. Bay City—The mill property of the South End Salt & Lumber Co. has been sold to A. F. Bartlett & Co., of Sagi- naw, the consideration being $10,000. Coldwater—J. D. Payne and E. H. Williams, cigar manufacturers, have formed a copartnership and will con- tinue the business under the style of Payne & Williams. Detroit—Articles of association have been filed by the Jarrait Paint & En- amel Co. Capital stock, $7,500, of which $2,700 is paid in. Stockholders, John B. Jarrait, Joseph Belanger and Harvey F. Belanger. Allegan—The Allegan Wheel Co. has purchased the building formerly occu- pied by John M. Heathas a foundry and machine shop, together with all of the patterns, tools and machinery. Brown & Danner have purchased an interest in the company. Mr. Danner will as- sume personal charge of the business. Port Huron—James R. Burgess, a Port Huron inventor who has_ perfected a new idea in cook stoves, is attempting to organize a company of local capital- ists to place the stove on the market. The members of the Port Huron Mer- chants & Manvfacturers’ Association have interested themselves in the matter and will aid in its promotion. John G. O'Neill has agreed to take $5,000 of it. Cheboygan—The horse collar factory is at last an assured thing. A stock company, with a capital of $4,000, has been organized. The incorporators are J. M. Nichols, Egbert A. Smith, Geo. frost, Dr. 5S. AL St. Amour P. 1: Lapres and O. M. Clark. The com- pany is looking for a suitable location and expects to begin manufacturing next month. Mr. Nichols is confident that in less than a year the company will furnish employment to fifty men. Caro—The Peninsular Sugar Refining Co. has brought suit against James Speyer, Ferdinand Herman and Martin Erdman, bankers of New York City, to recover $300,000 on a bond which, it is claimed, was forfeited. The complain- ant alleges that at Detroit on January 31, 1899, it was agreed between the plain- tiff and the Wernicke Co., of Germany, that the latter should construct and equip for the Peninsular Sugar Refin- ing Co., for $400,000, a beet sugar fac- tory for the manufacture of white gran- ulated sugar ready for consumption and that the factory could be doubled to the capacity of 1,000 tons of beets per day at a minimum cost. To complete the contract the Wernicke Co. furnished, it is claimed, the bond of the defendant bankers in the penal sum of $300,000. The complaint further says that the plaintiff corporation, in accordance with the agreement, paid $300,000, and that the remaining $100,000 was to be paid by first mortgage bonds as soon as the factory should have been in opera- tion thirty days and should have pro- duced standard granulated sugar at an average cost of three cents a pound. This contract, it is claimed, was not carried out, and it Wernicke Co. is liable for damages to the amount of $450,000. The penalty on the alleged forfeited bond is therefore sued for. Should Be Held Down to a Cash Basis. Some time ago the attention of the Tradesman was called to the question- able methods of the Union Fruit & Grain Co., of Detroit. Upon investiga- tion it was learned that there is a gang of fellows operating under different firm names in different parts of Detroit and working into each other’s hands. The Union Fruit & Grain Co., run by Samuel Tucker; the Tucker Produce Co., also run by Tucker; the Manhattan Fruit and Grain Co., run by a Mr. Crawford ; the Crawford Fruit'and Prod- uce Co., also run by Crawford, and the Wolverine Fruit and Produce Co., run by Crawford’s son. Jas. Boyce is sup- posed to work for Crawford. Investiga- tion discloses the fact that Wick Hath- away is a fictitious name and that such a man does not exist. Bush Bros., 47 Woodbridge street, Detroit, are sending out circular letters to the trade, offering to pay 11%c for eggs on track and return cases free. The Detroit market does not justify any dealer in paying such prices. The firm is not rated by R. G. Dun & Co. The Tradesman feels called upon to warn its readers to beware of R. J. Jones, of Norfolk, Va., who is ordering goods of all kinds-—from cigars to ashes —from Michigan merchants and ship- pers. He isa rank fraud and is now the defendant in several suits which may result in landing him behind the prison bars. Frank B. Hancock, who purports to be a commission merchant at Casky, Kentucky, is also ordering goods indis- criminately from Michigan and In- diana dealers and has thus far failed to establish a reputation for prompt pay- ment. He should be treated with due caution, pending further investigation on the part of the Tradesman. Ce a i Meeting a Cordial Reception. The Cappon & Bertsch Leather Co. has fitted up three floors for the reception of its saddlery hardware stock and will immediately enter upon the work of fit- ting up a fourth floor for the same _pur- pose. Manager Otis announces his in- tention of carrying a full line of sad- dlery goods, from A to Z, which he will sell at prices which will command the attention and patronage of the trade. The reception accorded the new depart- ment has been hearty beyond expecta- tion, giving grounds for the belief that this departure will prove to be one of the most popular moves ever made by the company. ee Ll D. Harris, butter and egg dealer, Delray: Like your paper. Good mar- ket reports. —__—__e- eo For Gillies’ N. Y. tea, all kinds, grades and prices, Visner, both phones. is claimed that the _ MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 5 Grand Rapids Gossip Milo Bolender, whose drug stock at Hubbardston was recently destroyed by fire, has resumed business. The new stock was furnished by the Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co., the order being placed before the fire was entirely ex- tinguished. Edward Fitzgerald has resigned the position of manager of the Michigan Barrel Co. to accept the management of Mitchell Bros.’ extensive lumber busi- ness, which has its headquarters at Cadillac. The resignation took effect May 1 and Mr. Fitzgerald entered upon the duties of his new position May 7. He will continue to reside in Grand Rapids, making Cadillac his headquar- ters and making frequent trips over the territory in which the firm is operating. It is reported that the management of the Royal Furniture Co. will shortly pass into new hands, a controlling in- terest having been purchased by Alex- ander W. Hompe, Robert W. Irwin and Ralph Tietsort. Mr. Hompe is al- ready Vice-President of the corporation and has been identified with the busi-. ness for several years. Mr. Irwin has been superintendent of the Grand Rap- ids School Furniture Works for several years and will relinqyish that position to take the office management of the Royal. Mr. Tietsort has been on the road for the Royal for several years and will continue in that capacity. John Smyth, local representative for Fleischman & Co., was stricken with paralysis while transacting business with the storekeeper of the Peninsular Club Monday morning and is still ina precarious condition, although Dr. Ful- ler is hopeful of his ultimate recovery. The attack is confined to the right side, but it is so severe that speech is impos- sible. Ludwig Winternitz was sum- moned from the deathbed of a relative to take temporary charge of the office and will remain here until there is a change for the better. He is in excel- lent health as the result of a trip through Mexico and a recent ‘*bridle tour.’’ —_ +» 2. The Produce Market. Apples—-Baldwins and Ben Davis command $4.25@4.50 per bbl. Asparagus—65c per doz. bunches. Bagas—35c per bu. Bananas—The banana market is firm but unchanged. It is reported from Cuba that heavy shipments of bananas will be made from the Island to this country in June. This, in conjunction with the arrivals expected from Jamaica at that time, may oversupply the mar- ket and break the backbone of the pres- ent ruling high prices. Beets—$1.25 per 3 bu. stock is scarce. Butter—Factory creamery is stronger and higher, owing to scarcity in the Eastern markets, and local dealers meet no difficulty in getting I9c. Dairy grades are also higher and in better de- mand, owing to the fact that many deai- ers have discontinued handling butter- ine. Fancy grass butter in crocks com- mands 15c, while choice stock fetches 14c and roll is weak and sluggish at 13¢c. Cabbage—California is strong at $7 per crate. Most of the sales are for half crates, which fetch $4. California Fruits—Grape fruit, $6 per box; tangerines, $3.25@3.50 per half box. Carrots—$1.25 per 3 bu. bbl. Cocoanuts—$3.25 per sack of 100. Cranberries— Jerseys command $10@ II per bbl. Dressed Calves—Fancy, common, 6@7c per lb. Eggs—Storage packers pay 10}4c and more bbl. Choice 742@Q8c; return cages free. Local handlers pay 103(c for small shipments and Ic for large shipments on track, cases returned at owner’s expense. In some _ Cases, where the stock is especially fine, slightly higher prices are paid. Green Stuff—Grand Rapids forcing lettuce, 11@12c. Onions, loc per doz. Parsley, 30c per doz. Pieplant, 5c per lb. Radishes, 20c per doz. or $1 per bu. box. Spinach, 50c per bu. Honey— Fancy white is now in mar- ket, commanding 14@1sc. Amber is still in demand at toc, while dark is held at oc. Lemons—The market is firmer on all grades, especially for fancy 300s, which are about 15c per box higher. The fruit now arriving is in good condition and there is an active demand. Maple Sugar-—8c fur imitation and 9 @ioc for genuine. Maple Syrup —Selling at 80@goc gal., as to quantity and quality. Oranges. California navels, per $34 per box. Parsnips— $1.75 per 3 bu. bbl. Pineapples Jamaica command $1.75 per doz. Potatoes--Local dealers hold old at 35c and new at $2.25 per bu. Poultry -Tiie market is strong and re- ceipts are not sufficient to meet the con- sumptive requirements of the market. For live poultry local dealers pay as fol- lows: Broilers weighing 114 to 2 lbs. command 25c per Ib. Squabs, $1.75@2 per doz. Pigeons, 50@60c. Chickens, 8@oc. Fowls, 7@8c. Ducks, 9c for young. Turkeys, toc for hens and capons and oc for gobblers. For dressed poultry : Chickens command _ Iic. Fowls fetch roc. Ducks are taken at IIc. Geese are not wanted at any price. Turkeys are in good demand at toc for No. 2 and 12@13c for No. 1. 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; crimson clover, $4@4.50; timothy, prime to choice, $1.20@1.40; field peas, white, 75@ooc; red top, prime to choice, 6oc@s1; red top, clean from chaff, $1.50@1.75; orchard grass, $1.10 @1.30; blue grass, $1@1. 40, Strawberries—Tennessee stock is com- ing in freely, but about two days out of three the receipts.are streaked, due to the unfavorable weather which has_pre- vailed for some time in the South. The ruling price at this writing for fair stock is $3 per crate of 24 quarts. Tallow. Common, 43,c per Ib. ; ma- chinery grade, 51440@5c. Tomatoes—-Florida stock $3.50 per 6 basket crate. Turnips-—$1.25 per bbl. and scarce at that. Wax Beans-—$3.50 per bu. box. —_—_—~>-0.>—__- Hides, Pelts, Tallow and Wool. The hide market again shows a weak- ness in light stock. Packers’ values are lower and are expected to decline still more, as buyers are holding off. There is no accumulation of consequence, while the supply is am; lc. Country re- ceipts are small and the light stock shows a greater decline than heavies. Wool pelts are draggy at lower prices, while sheerlings mect a ready sale at good prices. Tallow is quiet, with a demand for all offerings at slightly lower values. There is no accumulation of stocks. Wool is weak and last year's prices are likely to prevail, which are much lower than anticipated. The London sales now in progress, which were ex- pected to open at a decline, have created a waiting market on this side. With a short supply throughout the world the offerings at the sale are the largest everknown. English and Amer- ican mills are running to the fullest ca- pacity, with only sufficient wool for im- mediate wants. The present large offer- ings make a weak market, for the pres- ent at least. Wm. T. Hess, commands The Grocery Market. have week, Sugars—Raw sugars advanced 1-16c during the past but on Monday declined 1-2c, making the pres- ent price 47-16c for 96 deg. test cen- trifugals, with the market weak and but little business being done. There are nineteen ships in the Cape Horn fleet which is now loading at Hawaii and which will bring part of the 1900 crop of sugar to the United States. Owing to the stamping out of the plague in Hon- olulu, the boats can now get clean bills of health. The fleet will carry about 62,800 tons of sugar. The refined mar- ket is unchanged with fair demand. Owing to the strength of raws an ad- vance in all grades of refined has been looked for, but since the decline on raws Monday no advance in refined is expected. It is understood that nego- tiations to bring about an agreement among the refiners will continue and _ it is believed the same will ultimately be successful, as refiners are anxious to do a profitable summer business. Canned Goods—The market for all varieties of canned guods remains prac- tically unchanged. There is no demand and no movement, although holders con- tinue firm in their views, and, with the exception of tomatoes, refuse to make concessions, even if it would bring busi- ness. There is some intc.est in future California fruits at prices to be named later, which will, it is said, range from 1o@2oc higher than last year’s open- ing. The packing season of 1900, in Baltimore, will open about May 10 with pineapples, followed by peas and strawberries around the last week in May or first of June, and from that time on the other articles in the list will fol- low in rapid succession, with small fruits, early string beans, lima beans, etc., up to the latter part of July, when the tomato packing season begins, fol- lowed quickly by and winding up with peaches, peas, corn, etc., lasting until October or November. ° The jobbers all over the country are beginning to take more interest in future goods of all kinds, but up to this date the buying for forward delivery has been extreme- ly light, except pineapples, the sales of which are beyond the packers’ ex pecta- tions. In view of the fact that there is a shortage in Cuba, compared with or- dinary years, the demand for futures is heavy and opening prices are likely to be the lowest of the season. The spot tomato market shows weakness, although there has been no recent reduction in prices. Futures are still untouched, al- though buyers are said to have asked for concessions in some instances and to have received them. California canners are working on peas and report a good enquiry at previous prices. There has been a reduction on old stock for the purpose of attracting trade to close out everything on hand before the new sea- son opens. The present holdings are very small. Prices on new pack will come late this season. Corn sells fairly well at previous ‘prices. Stocks are very low indeed and round lots are diffi- cult to obtain. The salmon situation is very strong. The pack of 1899 in first hands is entirely exhausted, although it was the largest ever made on the Coast. One of the factors in thisexhaustion is the large purchase made by the United States and British governments, both of which now make canned salmon a lead- ing article in their military commissary supplies. This active market has in- creased prices on the rivers, where 6@7c have been paid to fishermen by the can- storage ners and cold companies, against sc and less last year. The run on the Sacramento River is next to nothing. The catch of the canneries is said to be fully 20 per cent. below the corresponding time in 1899. From the Columbia River there is not much en- for the Chinook salmon None of the canneries pack full time on account of not being able to the fish. This looks bad, for the season is early, owing to warm weather. On Puget Sound canners con- tinue to make preparations for a large couragement, average small. get pack if the fish run. No advance in sardines is looked for in the near fu- ture. Jobbers have large stocks, bought at low prices, and they wish to close these out before they take on any more, consequently the demand is very light. Dried Fruits—Dried fruit is little wanted by any one and trade is con- fined to the smallest possible quantities. There are no_ indications of improve- ment at present, the warm weather and the competition of fresh fruits, which are coming forward more freely and which practically shut out sales of dried fruits during the summer months. ‘Trade .is probably no duller than usual at this season, but what hap- pened last and the seeins to owing to year is only a memory now present trade the ever known. Opinions as to the damage to the crops in California While some estimate the damage as_ se- rious, contend that the _ frost helped thin out a superfluous amount of buds. From the present outlook, the summer crop will be fully as large, if unsatisfactory be worst by frost are conflicting. others not larger than last year. Prunes and raisins are selling fairly well at un- changed prices. ‘The same applies to peaches. deed on account of their scarcity and extremely high price. Currants are in good demand at unchanged _ prices. There is a decline in the demand _ for figs. but as some stocks still remain the tendency is in buyers’ favor. Late Smyrna advices speak favorably of the new crop. In other lines there is prac- tically no business and trade is limited to such orders as are required for the Apricots sell very slowly in- actual requirements of every busi- ness. Rice--The rice market is very firm. The demand active for the low grade of domestic, which are held at extreme prices. Supplies of this grade are very light. a decided confidence in the future mar- ket. The large movement from Burmah to the famine stricken districts of India still continues and no abatement thereof is probable until the incoming of the new crop in July. Tea—The tea higher on some grades. day continues Holders express market is slightly The demand is good, especially for the lower grades. Molasses—Offerings of are light, due to small stocks in first hands, holders showing no anxiety to press sales, with the statistical position ruling in their favor. Prices are very firm, with a strong upward tendency. Nuts-—-The market for such California almonds as are left is somewhat firmer, although the movement is rather quiet. Shelled almonds of all sorts are in small supply, and, with higher cables from abroad, the advancing tendency of the market is still prominent. California walnuts are about exhausted and what are held go out rather slowly. Present indications are for a moderate crop. The walnut districts have had copious rains in the past few days, which will help the crop materially, especially the quality. Naples walnuts are in stronger demand and prices are higher. Gren- obles are neglected and prices are lower, with only moderate stocks. molasses 6 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN The Buffalo Market Accurate Index of the Principal Staples Handled. Beans—Trade is getting down to light proportions, but with no fresh receipts. Sellers are inclined to hold on to the price when small lots are wanted. It is possible, however, that considerable shading could be effected to clean up a round lot. Marrows, $2.05@2.25; me- diums, $1.95@2.10; pea, $1.95@2.15; outside prices for fancy. Pea are taken in preference to other varieties. Kidney quoted at $2.20@2.35 per bushel. Butter—Market has gradually gained strength, but it was hard work to touch the 20c mark on Saturday, although Ig4c was easily obtained for the best extras. Quality is steadily improving with considerable show of grass, and the best class of buyers are finding no fault with present prices. Lower grades of creamery, however, are quiet, the trade preferring dairies, which are coming in quite freely and of excellent quality. Crock butter sells on arrvial when fancy. Rolls are out of market. The opinion is that the market will hold firm at pos- sibly higher prices on first-class goods for a week or two at least. Creamery extras quoted at 19%@2oc;; firsts, 18@ 18%c; fair to good, 16@17c; dairy fancy, 18c; good to choice, 16@17c; poor butter, all kinds, 1o@12¢c. Cheese—Lower ; demand slightly ‘et- ter than last week, but still too high; buyers claim to expect a fairly good business. Fancy small full cream col- ored, 11@11%c; good to choice, 104@ 11c; skims, 5@7c. White cheese sells slow in this market except when really fancy, and usually about %@ic_ below colored. Eggs—We have had a drooping mar- ket for a week past and Saturday quite a good business was done at I2c and buyers claimed quality of stock was all that could be desired. Still 12%c was nearer the market price, with selected occasionally reaching 13c. Receipts have been light and the consumptive demand is only fair. Higher prices are predicted to-day and 12%@13¢c is bot- tom to-day. Dressed Poultry——The few lots reach- ing this market are not of desirable quality and it is difficuit to quote the market. Choice to fancy, well iced stock, would command strong prices. Turkeys quoted at 12@13c; chickens, 11@13c; fowl, to@12c; broilers, 18@22c per lb. Ducks nominal. Live Poultry—Quite a good supply of chickens and fowl reached the market this week and the feeling was not as firm as for several weeks past. Quality was at fault, fowls being too heavy. Still everything cleaned up to-day. The few turkeys brought 11% @12c; chickens, I11@12c; mixed fowl and chickens, IIc; fowl, 10%@i1%c; ducks, 75c@$1.15 per pair. Apples—Stock remaining here is com- posed of Baldwins and Russets and is nearly all in the hands of holders, who|} have a market for them as soon as_ they are ready to accept bids. Baldwins and Russets, fancy, $4@4.50; No. 2, $2.75 @3.25. Strawberries-——Carloads were received in this market from North Carolina on Friday and Saturday and while there was an active demand, the supply was sufficient to go around at present prices. Fancy quarts sold at 18c; choice, 15@ 16c ; common to fair, 11@12c. Oranges—Active demand and market firm. Navels, $3@3.50. Lemons—Choice to extra, $2.85@3.50. Pineapples—Heavy supply; demand fair. No. 1, $14@16; small and me- dium, $8@12 per too. Bananas—Firm_ at bunch. Potatoes—Receipts were liberal and with few offerings from Michigan and throughout this State and only a light local trade. Prices are lower. Strictly fancy stock, however, is scarce and we believe a wider range will be made between that class and the present mixed stock. The pressure to sell is at its height just now, but as soon as these offerings are cleaned up a reaction is expected. Fancy white stock on track, $1.50@2.75 per 40@42c; fair to 43@44c; fancy red, ‘ Store prices good, all kinds, 35@38c. 2@3c above track. New Potatoes—Receipts are light, but at $5@7 per bbl. for fair to good pota- toes there is little prospects of a rush- ing business in this market. New Or- leans are expected in a few weeks and quoted at $4.50@6 per bbl. Onions—Market firmer for sound yel- low or red and demand good at 70@8oc ; anything showing sprout must sell at low prices, say from 35@soc per bushel. White onions dull at 40@75c. New Orleans new onions, $4.50@5 per bbl. Havana and Bermuda,’ $1.40@1.50 per crate. Green onions, 5@7c per doz. bunches. Onion sets, $2.50@3.50 per bushel. Garlic, 6@7c per lb. Celery—Only offerings are Florida and New Orleans. Extra fancy sells at $1.25@1.50; choice to fancy, 65@75c; fair to good, 20@40c per doz. Asparagus—The range of prices has been so wide that it is useless to quote Southern. Northern grass fancy sold at $2@2.50 per doz. for large bunches; Illinois cases, $1.25@1.50 per case; small and medium, soc@$1 per doz. bunches. Beans—New green, good supply; fair demand. Wax, $2@2.75; green, $1.25 (@2 per bu. box. Cabbage—Home bring $2.50@4 per bbl. at $3.50@ 4.25 per crate. Carrots—Old 20@25c per bushel. Cucumbers—No. 1 sell at $1.25@1.35; No. 2, 75c@$1. Lettuce—Heavy receipts, but demand was active. Only a few lots are carried over. Fancy heads, s5o@6oc per doz. ; basket lots, 20@4oc. Pieplant—Market liberally supplied with Southern boxes, containing 4oto 45 Ibs., and these sell at $1@1.25. Long fancy plant sold at 4o@soc per doz. Radishes—Receipts light; good de- mand and market firm. Bushel boxes long sold at 50@75c; round fancy, per doz. bunches, 18@25c. Tomatoes— Fancy per carrier. Peas—No really fancy offered. here sold at $1@1.25 per box. Spinach—Plenty of coarse seedy stuff. Fancy scarce and brought $1.50@2 per bbl. Watercress—Fancy fresh in good de- mand at 20@25c per doz. small bunches. Mushrooms—Liberal supply offered at 35@50c per lb. Popcorn—Firm at 2% @2%c per lb. Maple Syrup and Sugar—Light re- ceipts; active demand for fancy syrup at 80@85c per gallon and g@toc for light sugar; dark, 6@8c per lb. Honey—A few lots of white sold at 16 @i8c per lb. Dried Fruits—Dull. Evaporated ap- ples, 5@7c outside for fancy in boxes; barrels, 444@5 4c. GODOOOOOGEOGOOOGOXOOOGOOOOe? D. Boosing General Commission Merchant SPECIALTIES Butter Eggs Poultry Beans grown scarce and Southern sold Florida, $4.50@5 Best I will buy all the Fresh Eggs I can get f. 0. b. your station in free cases at 10%c, Dairy butter is selling at from 16 to 17¢. If our market is satisfactory, ship. POOOODOODOOODOODOOSE Q©ODOOODOOPOOSGE ©OQOGDOOO® Correspondence solicited. References: Bank of Buffalo and Dun’s and Bradstreet’s Agencies. 154 Michigan Street, Buffalo, New York. POOQOQOOOQOCS HOGS ® PHDOODOOODODODOGQODOOS = BP SS we , MACKEY & WILLIAMS, Dealers in { BUTTER, EGGS, CHEESE, POULTRY, Etc. 62 W. MARKET & 125 MICHIGAN STS. From now forward ship dairy butter packed in tubs, 30, 40 and 60 lb. weight. Dressed poultry in strong demand. inquiry. Fresh eggs wanted for storage. Frncy creamery in good Berlin Heights, Ohio; National Shoe & Leather Bank, New York; Dun & Co. and Bradstreet Agencies. 2 {embers of Produce Exchange. Established 1887. f f j BUFFALO, N. Y. j f f f REFERENCES: The City National Bank, Buffalo: Berlin Heights Banking Co., write or wire us. 150 MICHIGAN ST., Ee oR SE OE OR UR. OE GLEASON & LANSING, f f f f f f f j f f f f f f f f j EGGS WANTED FOR 53 COLD STORAGE j We want 10,000 cases fancy fresh eggs within the next ten days to fill our orders for cold storage. livered Buffalo and return cases. -_ We pay spot cash de- For further information BUFFALO, N. Y. References, Merchants Bank, Buffalo, N. Y., Bradstreet or Dun Commercial Agency. bt et et i ee ee eh eh ee Oe Oe OU OU CN SNIPTPHPTENTNETENI TINIE NIIP TET Can we do your business? Write us. BUFFALO COLD STORAGE CO. Buffalo, N. Y. db dbabdbdbdddbdbddds Tb ibdaabda Our line of WORLD > Bicycles for 1900 Ye 7 Is more complete and attractive than ever be- fore. Weare not in the Trust. We want good agents everywhere. ARNOLD, SCHWINN & CO., Makers, Chicago, Ill. Adams & Hart, Michigan Sales Agents, Grand Rapids, Mich. Bryan Show Cases Always please. Write for handsome new catalogue. Bryan Show Case Works, Bryan, Ohio. | SOC TSTSTSSTSS The Ransom Automatic Gas Machine : Produces from gasoline a quality of gas unsurpassed for lighting, heating, cooking and mechanical purposes Absolutely safe, prac- tical and economical. A new de- parture from the old st: le of gas machines. Write for particulars and prices. Ransom Gas Machine Co., 372 and 374 E. Water St., Milwaukee, Wis. peoQago000000 0 a peao00e a e . {i ‘ ~ £ = a 4 » ~ 4 GOTHAM GOSSIP. News From the Metropolis—Index To the Market. Special Correspondence. New York, May 5—The coffee market has taken a turn for the worse and prices are down. Very little interest is dis- played, either for spots or futures, and jobbers are not disposed to take large supplies in the present state of affairs. The decrease in the world’s visible sup- ply, it was thought, would be very con- siderable; but the reverse is the case and, as a result, holders have been in- clined to make some concession. The spot market closes rather dull and No. 7 can not be safely quoted at above 734c. The stock in store and afloat is not far from as great as last year, being 1,020,483 bags now, against 1,201,752 bags then. In the mild grades neither buyer nor seller appears to be much in- terested and the situation is devoid of interest. Good Cucuta is worth 934 @1oc. No staple article has had a more wearisome week than tea. There is no change in prices, neither is there any demand, and the situation is almost as dull as six months ago. Offerings at the auctions have been so large that the street market has been unfavorably affected. With increased strength in the mar- ket for raw sugars there is an improved feeling for raws and, while quotations are practically the same, the feeling is that there may soon be an advance. Some very fair orders for future deliv- ery have been placed and jobbers gener- ally take more interest in the situation. Prices of rice, especially for the lower grades, are firm and in fact for all grades there is a feeling of greater con- fidence. Some fair-sized lots have changed hands at prices which give no indication of weakness and the under- tone of the market is satisfactory to sellers. With the exception of pepper and cloves the spice market is flat enough. Of the former, supplies are not large and the market is very firm. Sellers seem to be determined to obtain full rates and Singapore black is generally held at 123{c; Zanzibar cloves, 9@9 4c; Amboyna, 114%4@12%c. While molasses prices are steady, there is a falling off in the demand, as is natural at the approach of summer, and orders coming to hand are for small lots to repair broken assortments. Good Centrifugal, 20@28c; prime, 30@37c; open kettle, 44@s55c. Syrups are firm and for the low grades exporters are quite liberal purchasers, taking about all they can pick up. Prime to fancy sugar goods, 21@28c. Canned goods packing will commence in some sections by May 15, and opera- tions have been going on for a week on the Pacific coast. Interest in futures this year has not existed. The buyers have been utterly indifferent ever since the first of January and prices now will mostly be for spot goods. There are so many conflicting parties packing salmon that the situation in that article will grow more and more interesting. Corn, peas and tomatoes are selling rather in buyers’ favor and, taking the whole MICHIGAN TRADESMAN market together, it’can be called easier. New York standard corn, 75@8oc; Maine, 80@g5c, as to brand and qual- ty. The dried fruit market generally is very quiet and orders coming to hand are for small lots. Large sized prunes are more sought for than anything else and for these there is a_ better feeling, although prices have shown no advance. Future prices will depend on the suc- cess of the combine. Crops of prunes are reported fine on the Pacific coast. Lemons are steady and prices are slightly higher, Sicily fruit ranging from $3@3.75 per box. There is a con- tinued good demand for California or- anges, navels selling from $3@4.50 per box, and seedlings, $2.9073.35. Bana- nas still ‘‘rule the roost’’ and are auot- able from $1.70@1.95 per bunch for firsts, with demand active. The sup- ply is light, receipts from Jan. 1 to date being 676,350 bunches, against 1,244,430 bunches during the same time last year. Beans of all kinds are quite firm and prices are well sustained. Choice mar- row, $2.12%@2.15; medium, $2.15; pea, $2.25; red kidney, $2.05@2.07%. Moderate supplies of butter have given strength to the market and the outlook just now is for a continuance of at least present quotations for several days. Extra Western creamery, 20c; thirds to firsts, 16@19%c; imitation creamery, 14@17¢, the latter for fancy stock. Factory, 14@1I5c. The cheese market is in fair condi- tion for new and hardly as firm for old, which holders are disposed to shade in order to work off stocks now on_ hand. Large full cream new cheese is worth 10%c for colored and 103¢c for white. Fancy stock of old full cream is worth 12@12 4c. : Quality counts for a good deal in eggs just now and the supply of desirable stock is not overabundant. Select West- ern stock, storage pack, is held at about 13c for best goods; regular pack, 12@ 12%c. a Frog Crop Promises To Be Large. Washington, D. C., May 5—Forty species of frogs are known in the world, according to the frog man of the Smith- sonian Institution, who has given the matter laborious and industrious atten- tion and whose authority is the highest obtainable. As this is the frog season it is inter- esting to know that the crop promises to be an unusually large one and that the market price will not be exorbitant. Less than a quarter of a century ago only a few people ate frogs, but now almost everybody eats them, and they have become a regular and much sought for market article of food. ‘The Government’s frog man will not acknowledge that Canada produces finer frogs than does our own country, but contends that in the marshes along the Potomac, the swamps of Louisiana, and the marshes and swamps of Pennsylvania and New York are to be found some of the finest and largest frogs. It is con- fessed, however, that our Canadian neighbors understand the art of prepar- We sell, buy and handle all Foreign and Domestic Fruits and Vegetables. of Lemons from $2.70 to $3.70, 300 Barrels of good medium Pineapples at and Navel Oranges. ing frog legs for market ina manner su- perior to ourselves and that this has brought the frogs of Canada into popu- lar favor. The Canadians simply have the best of us in thoroughly understand- ing the art of skinning and preparing for market, while our frogs are superior both in size and flavor. It is the helief of those who have given the matter consideration and study | that frog farming is sure to become one of the most profitable of all our small industries, and already quite a large number are engaged in raising the ‘*jumpers’’ for market. Of the forty known species the largest is the gigantic ‘‘bellower,’’ found in the swamps of Louisiana. This frog grows to four pounds weight and is one of the choicest for table use. Next to the ‘*bellower’’ come the Potomac and New York frags, both large and of superior flavor. It is, however, true that there is scarcely a state in the union in which good table frogs can not be found in abundance. It is claimed that the ‘** pickings’’ on the body of a frog is just as good as the meat on the legs, but it is said that in the days before the deluge frogs grew to such immense size that the legs fur- nished sufficient meat to satisfy all de- mands without eating any other portion, and hence the custom has been kept up. le anna Whose Boots Do They Black? Frederick Douglass, in his lecture on John Brown, used to tell the following story, which well illustrates Lincoln’s ready wit and firm belief in the equal- ity of man: The President was blacking his boots one day, when a number of foreign dip- lomats were unexpectedly ushered in. One of them, seeing Lincoln's occu- pation, said rather sneeringly: ‘‘ Mr. President, in the countries we repre- sent our chief executives do not black their own boots.’’ ‘'Is that so?’’ said Lincoln, looking up with apparent sur- prise and interest, ‘‘whose boots do they black?’’ | CARD BOARD Made in 6 sizes, 1c, 5¢, 10e, 25¢, 50e and $1. Each denomination printed on a different eolor of board. Extra heavy and tough stock. Send for free sample. Ww. R. ADAMS & CO., 34 W. Congress St., Detroit, Mich ee sOur iWall Papers Are up to date and of as latest designs. We have the newest ideas in Photo Rails and Plate Rails. Estimates furnished on all kinds of decorating and pa- per hanging by expert work- men. Pictures framed to order. C. L. Harvey & Co. f 59 Monroe Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. | OB. eR TF 50 Cents Muskegon Sunday G.R. & I. Train leaves Union Station at 9:15 a. m. Returning, leaves Muskegon, 5:30 p. m. 50 cents round trip. Cadillac MADE BY THE NEW SCOTTEN TOBACCO CO. Fine Cut and Plug THE BEST. Ask for it. (independant Factory) AGAINST THE TRUST. See quotations in Price Current. 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., ESTABLISHED THIRTY YEARS GEROE HOW ARE YOU? Weare headquarters on all new Fruits and Vegetables. line in Ohio. We can place ten cars of White Potatoes at a price. WRITE US. BE FRIENDLY. A. A. GEROE & SON, TOLEDO, OHIO THREE TELEPHONES AND POSTAL WIRE IN OFFICE Toledo, Ohio. We offer, this week, 2000 Boxes 8c per pine and 1000 Boxes of Budded Largest mail order house in our Clean Gilt Edge Dairy Butter is wanted. WHOLESALE FRUITS AND PRODUCE 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. ae Advertising Rates on Application. Communications invited from practical business men. a en 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 Tradesinan. E. A. STOWE, EpirTor. ~ WEDNESDAY, - - MAY 9, 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 Company and have charge of the presses and folding machine in that establishment. I printed and _ folded 7,000 copies of the issue of May 2, 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 fifth day of May, 1900. Henry B. Fairchild, Notary Public in and for Kent County, Mich. THE PARIS EXPOSITION. In spectacular splendor the French- man rules the world. The love of nov- elty, the intense determination to have only the best, with an inborn faculty to turn only the best to the greatest telling advantage, are qualities readily con- ceded to him and the World’s Fair Ex- position in the finest capital in the world furnishes an occasion for the dis- play of his talent. But he will be taken somewhat at a disadvantage this year. In spite of a great deal of enthusiasm it must be ad- mitted that expositions are, on the whole, tiresome. There is such a thing as having too much of them and hav- ing them too often. The glories of the White City have not yet sufficiently faded from the memory of men for them to have much interest in what can not be greatly excelled so soon. There will be great attractions, but with them will. be too many reminders of the ‘‘has beens’’ and these, to those who see them now for the first time, will have no nov- elty to recommend them. The splendid bridge which this year newly spans the Seine will be a beauty in architecture, therefore a joy forever; but the Eifel Tower is a kept-over wonder and _ wil! on that account detract from what is new. The Trocadero is fine, ‘‘but,’’ long known in pictures, ‘‘ who now wants to look at that old thing!’’ Like the Dewey Arch these have had their day and, that day past, it is doubtful policy to try to preserve them longer. It is not going too far to say that the United States will be the most thronged department at the Exposition. It is gratifying to state that this country stands next to France in the number of exhibits, something to the number of seven thousand having been sent al- ready. In 1889, the American exhibit was not all that could be desired. The one place that was always full but never crowded was that given up to electricity and the, at that time, defective phono- graph. Then, however, the Marble City on the shore of Lake Michigan had not risen ‘‘like an exhalation’’ to the astonishment of the world. We were then only a people industrious and _ in- offensive and rather inclined to self- talk. We were a continent of screaming eagles and Rocky Mountains and Lake Superiors—at least we said so. We made filled cheese and put up canned beef and sent to Germany diseased pork and dried apples. We pretended to be ‘“some’’ in inventing machines for do- ing all kinds of impossible work and the phonograph was only an amusing in- stance of what we couldn’t do. All that is changed now. The phono- graph talks. The nation talked at the Great Exposition and the world heard what it had to say. Since then our guns have been talking, and they have so pounded American ideas into the stupid heads that up to that time never had had any that now they are ready to_be- lieve anything that is said to be done by that wonderful Fighting Republic. Whatever is American will be marvelous in theireyes now. The raw material and the manufactured product will not be passed unseen, while the machine that has done the work will be the greatest wonder of all. The Exposition will be written down in history as French. It will be that only in name. It will be in fact an Exposition of Education, with the United States as schoolmistress and the benches crowded with the peo- ples of the nations who have come to learn. It is the Great Nation towards the sunset that is teaching them now, and they will learn. They will see and hear and feel and understand, and when home again they will say to the crowds who stand with eager ears, ‘‘The one- half of the greatness of the United States was not told us, for that country exceedeth the fame we have _ heard of it.”” It will, indeed, be a never-forgotten object lesson and the expansion of trade to this country resulting from it will add interest to the attractive trade story whose opening chapter is so full of promise. It is not generally known that a great deal of the paper money that is constant- ly circulating about gets frequent wash- ings in the same way as the housewife or maid goes at the dirty clothes on a Monday morning. In some banks there is a regular washday every month, usu- ally at the beginning, when a clerk may be seen bent over a tub and rubbing real money up and down a washboard. The dirty greenbacks that have been saved up for a month are soaped and rubbed just like handkerchiefs and socks, and are run through a wringer before being put out to dry. The paper currency may be handled somewhat roughly, as it does not tear, because there is in it a great deal of silk and linen. After the notes have been passed through the wringer they are hung on a line stretched in the bank clerk’s de- partment. Said one clerk the other day: “I wash about a hundred notes every month, and when I’m done you can hardly tell them from new money. The washing strengthens as well as cleans the notes.’’ a The woman whose labors begin at dawn and last all day, and sometimes all night in caring for a sick child, has no recourse by striking for an eight-hour law; but the strong man who wants to gain two hours more time for sitting in a beer saloon is all right. COMMERCIAL SHORT CUTS. The United States is a nation of haste. The ‘‘Hurry now!’’ which early becomes the torment of American child- hood is dinged into it until it is a part of the child’s very being. ‘‘Don’t let the grass grow under your feet’’ is the maxim of youth, and manhood adopts it as the talisman of life. The child learns to cut ‘‘cross lots’’ to the school- house. The fields are traced with short cuts to the village and over these _time- saving footpaths are hurrying the young, the middle aged and the old ‘‘just as fast as the Lord will let them.’’ There used to be a loitering place in the lanes of learning when the little child began to learn his abc’s, but the drudgery of letter-learning is done away with. The child learns his letters now without knowing it. He learns by do- ing. It is a principle of pedagogy that he must proceed from the whole toa part. The word is the whole. It is learned and written as such, and so not only is much time saved, but the child sooner gets into the first reader. It is not to be inferred that the short cut is always to be ignored. Useless work, be it physical or mental, should be left undone. A straight line is the shortest distance between two points and wise is he who takes it—sometimes. The wisdom lies in knowing when. There is too much of the short cut in commercial lines. It is hurry and cut from the cradle to the grave. The baby is forced to walk too soon and goes through life bowlegged. He shuns the alphabet, never learns to spell. He hur- ries into the second reader before he finishes the primer. He studies the multiplication table by a new method and never learns it, and to the end of his days nine times eight is fifty-six( !) until he has repeated the ninth table to eight. He is allowed to drop grammar because it is not practical, and there he saves time. He reaches fractions before he is ready forthem. He finds them nonsense and of no earthly use, runs away from school to get rid of them and soon goes ‘into business.’’ He begins on ‘‘the lowest round of the ladder,’’ not on the ground be it understood, and works his way up: Friends boost him and after two long years of hardship and struggle if he is not made a junior partner in the firm it is either because he is not appreciated or because there is somebody in the establishment ‘‘down on him.’’ Needless to dwell on the foolishness of this. Experience since the begin- ning of time has been repeating the truism, ‘‘There is no royal road to learning.’’ More and more is it daily proven that commercial ignorance is the inevitable forerunner of commercial dis- aster. More than a halting knowledge of the multiplication table is demanded to manage a business amounting to mil- lions and this underlying fact is con- tinually asserting itself in the rapidly increasing foreign trade of the country. Our business men are constantly finding themselves hampered by the lack ot well-trained agents. The short-cut pol- icy of the country has made a dearth of these needed men. Business offices are crowded with applicants for the va- cant positions not one of whom knows a foreign language, not even the correct use of his own, and if the places are filled at all by Americans they must be filled by men whose education has been in accordance with the short-cut policy. Not long ago an American commercial traveler found himself in a North Ger- man province where he was to place a large order; but he could find no one who could speak English. While order- ing dinner in the sign language a young German came to his assistance who to the traveler’s delight spoke English like an educated native, through whom he was able to transact his business. A little questioning brought out the fact that the linguist had spent four years in Jondon for his English, four years in Paris for French and three years in Rome for Italian, in order to ‘‘ prepare himself for business,’’ so that he had a thoroughly practical knowledge of three languages besides his own. Such is the work that other countries demand of the men who cater to their export trade, and the commercial trav- eler would have learned, had he cared to ask, that there is nothing unusual in a clerk’s speaking fluently and correctly three languages and that three is by no means the limit. A similar experience occurred in Paris: A middle aged Ger- man answered in the purest English the questions put to him and when asked where he had learned his English re- plied, ‘‘It was in London. I was there four years to learn the language.’’ An- other case in point is that of a man in charge of a department in the Agricul- tural building at the World’s Fair. He was master of seven different languages, and stated that they were all necessary in the conduct of his business. There are no short cuts in such schooling. One thing is certain: If advantage is to be taken of the commercial oppor- tunities presented by our expanding foreign trade there must be a change in the training of the American agent if he is to do the work. The short cut is not in education the straightest line nor the best one. The boy must be trained early and long for his commercial ca- reer. Hard work without flinching and no shirking from early childhood must be the unchanging law. Not five years but fifteen, and more if necessary, is the time for preparing for business, without a single short cut during all these apprentice-serving years. The American merchant is holding his own fairly well on the*field of trade without these men; with them he would exclaim with the old King of Epirus: ‘‘If I had such soldiers I should be master of the world!’’ It is to be hoped. that en- terprising America some day will have an army of just such men. An important discovery has just been made by an Italian officer, Colonel Cor- nara, from which it would appear that water has a very high expiosive power. Water, if subjected to great compres- sion and then decomposed by means of an electric current into its elements, oxygen and hydrogen, explodes with tremendous force in the process. Col- onel Cornara succeeded by this means in producing in water an explosive force fifty-five times greater than that of or- dinary gunpowder, and_ twenty-eight times greater than that of dynamite. This new explosive, to which he has given the name of cosmos, entails no danger upon the person using it. A company has been formed at St. Marcel, close to Turin, for the manufacture of explosive water cartridges, which, if the experiments are to be trusted, will play an important part in war and com- merce. In New England the abandoned farms are being planted with nut trees, and the worked-out ground is found to fur- nish enough nourishment for the walnut, butternut and chestnut to flourish abun- dantly. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 9 A SAD CASE. The Ameer at Cabul, the capital of Afghanistan, is in a quandary. Leagues to the south of his little kingdom stretches the vast tefritory of British India ; to the east lie the vaster posses- sions of the Chinese Empire and to the north, vastest of all, are the Siberian steppes of the Russian Bear. He knows, weak as his country is and little as it is, that it stands between two of the strongest powers on_ earth, but he knows, too, how valuable his friendship is for both and how necessary for his own existence it is that he remain the neutralest of the neutral. From the top- most rail of diplomacy he sees the mo- mentous moves that are made upon the political chessboard and he has _ learned how helpless he is to take part in the game or even to suggest by word or sign an idea concerning it. It is this utter neutrality which oc- casions the distress of the Ameer. He has had a most wholesome respect for the determined power between him and the Indian Ocean. The paw,heavy and black, of the beast on the north is work- ing its claws towards Herat and now that the lion has its fangs in the flesh of the South African Boer and can not be drawn from its prey the Mahomme- dan pawn, witha pawn’s indifference, is rather inclined just now to be reconciled to be put where it can threaten the English queen. The cause of this growing indifference is what draws the attention of the civil- ized world to this nabob. His country is threatened upon every side by the ag- gressive ‘spirit of Twentieth Century progress. Already across the dreary wastes of northern desolation is heard the heavy foot of the engine as it treads whistling its mighty way through ice and snow. There are wires girdling the continent, the elevated footpath hung upon the air for the lightning-sandalled feet of the modern news carrier. Be- hind them are pressing those innova- tions which have cursed Europe, made America a terror and are pressing hard against the barriers of his southern bor- der. The claws of the bear already emit electric sparks. Too near have come the rumbling Siberian trains and if his powerful ally, the government of India, does not stop pressing upon him and protect him from these coming evils, he will feel no longer under obligations to remain neutral and must lend his influ- ence to the power which promises most. In a word the Ameer finds the edge of the L rail he has been sitting on so long too sharp for comfort and appeals with something of a threat to England to help him or she will wish she had. Uncomfortable as the position of the Ameer is, there is every indication that it will not improve. He and his coun- try may continue to declare that they can never consent to the construction of railroads and telegraphs in Afghanistan, but the railroad and the telegraph will notwithstanding goin. The iron horses of civilization will course over those deserts. ‘Down from the forest-girded mountains they will drag the treasures of the woods and along the winding river courses of the fertile valley they will with panting breath pull the freighted car. The conscious wires will throb there with the intell ence of the earth and the Ameer, even’if he be not long-lived, will find his markets filled with goods and their vfitues ex- tolled by fair-haired and fair-tongued strangers from, to him, the land of the sunrise. Then will come his deluge. His harem doors will open and woman- hood unveiled will walk forth into the sunshine free and his acknowledged equal. In time a schgol house will sur- prise the Afghanistan landscape,a cross- crowned church will rise beside it, the sewing machine will fill the land with its music and the spirit that conceievd and brought it forth will so infuse itself into the semi-civilized of the East that the West, clasping her hand, will so com- plete the circle of civilization and ém- pire which the ages so long ago_ began. It is a sad condition of things for the complaining Ameer but a joyful one for the rest of mankind, and the joy is all the greater from the fact that the soon dawning century promises to see all this before its course is halfway run. OUR CHANGED RELATIONS. One of the most conspicuous results of the war with Spain is the changed as- pect of our foreign relations. Upto the outbreak of that war the United States was practically isolated from other na- tions of the world. We had no common interests with them, and our interests did not conflict with theirs. Asa con- sequence there was no ground for quar- reling with any of them, and disputes were of rare occurrence. Since the war with Spain our terri- torial expansion policy, as well as the great increase in our foreign trade, has made us many rivals and not a few enemies. People who formerly were indifferent to us are now covertly our enemies because of conflicting interests. We now have an interest in everything which happens in the Far East, and it is actually difficult to avoid interfering in every important international dis- pute which arises. Our new position as a world power makes our old-time contention that, ac- cording to the Monroe Doctrine, no European power must intervene or ac- quire territory in the Western Hemi- sphere a much more serious matter than it formerly was. Until within a few years European powers attached no very serious importance to our Monroe Doctrine contention. Now, however, the case is different, as it is now recog- nized that we possess power, as well as the inclination, to enforce our demands. It would be well to recognize the fact that the maintenance of the Monroe Doctrine is sure, eventually, to get us into trouble. European powers are casting wistful glances in the direction of Central and South America. They are secretly coveting portions of the rich continent to the south of us, and the only obstacle in their path is that which we are able to place there. In order to maintain our pretensions with respect to the Western Hemisphere we must have a large naval force. At the present time our fleet does not com- pare with the fleets of the first-class naval powers except Germany, and even that power is endeavoring to make large in- creases to its fleet. Unless we can main- tain a fleet sufficiently large to cope with any other power than England, we will some day be in danger of failing to enforce the Monroe Doctrine. Secre- tary of War Elihu Root sounded a note of warning a few days ago which the country would do well to heed. At the present time we have not a sufficient fleet and by no means sufficient officers and men to man even the ships we have. Unless, therefore, we are content to risk disaster and humiliation we must prepare for trouble or promptly resign our pretensions to a practical protecto- rate over all of the Western Hemisphere. A TOUCH OF THE TUDOR. The Queen of England has been visit- ing her Irish subjects. For three weeks or more she was the honored guest of the kindest hearted people on the face of the earth. From the moment that her royal foot gladdened the Emerald sod until the farewell echoes of the guns faded along the shores the Saxon and the Celt stood hand to hand and_ heart to heart, glad that the strained relations were over and gladder to know that both had hearts and that these were beating again together. The journey Windsor and the return was worthy of the English Queen and the people who crowded and cheered her progress. Throughout their history the British isles have seen nothing grander and nothing that so surely proclaims the love of the English people for the worthiest queen and the womanliest woman on earth. There were those who thought that the land of the shamrock would greet her with folded arms. The skies were, indeed, forbidding and the clouds dropped rain upon the royal yacht at Kingston, but the shores were packed with welcoming crowds and in smiles brighter than the sunshine which came at last the good Queen began her long ride to Dublin. Those who have seen the beautiful street through the heart of the Irish cap- ital can well understand how easily it was transformed into a royal road which only the real royal should travel. Not a house stood unadorned. ‘The tri-colors of the Isles were everywhere. The sham- rock, the rose and the thistle bound to- gether looked out from among the flags, repeating the story of love and devotion which hatred and malice and all unchar- itableness were insisting had been long forgotten, and when down through that municipal magnificence rode the royalty of more than a thousand years the loy- alty of the generations from Egbert the Saxon found utterance in the heartfelt rejoicing which greeted that noble woman on every hand. Whatever of remissness, fancied or intended, had been hers, whatever of wrong and slight could be laid to her charge, was forgot- ten and throughout those miles of regal greeting aside from resounding cheers was only heard: ‘‘She comes. She’s here. She’s past. May heaven go with her !’’ from There has been some vigorous shak- ing of heads the world over in regard to the Queen’s visit to Ireland. It was a matter of pure policy. Nobody has been deceived. The war in = South Africa was what led to the visit. “Troops have come to be a matter of some im- portance and Irishmen are wanted for the Boers to kill. It will save so many English lives. For thirty-nine years Ireland has been snubbed by the Queen. She has wanted nothing. Why should she be disturbed by the [rish rabble, as unreasonable and as turbulent as_ the Irish Sea? But now! So tthe ill will shows itself and Victoria comes and goes when the right time comes, re- ceiving the blessings that she knows belong to her and scattering the bless- ings that her royal hand alone can give. Faction stands powerless in that mighty presence. Intrigue slinks from the cheering crowds to hide his hateful head. Selfishness for a moment forgets himself and rejoices with the rest; and now that all is over and the good Queen is again at home, the kingdom is at peace, harmony is abroad, rancor is dead, enmity is no more, grievances have been laid aside, the golden age in England has again returned and ‘‘all the world wonders. ’’ It should not. It is an old story many times repeated. The Tudors are respon- sible for it. ‘*Good Queen Bess’’ was the joy of her subjects and one strong trait in her character was to know just when to act. Imperious, willful, a tyrant when she saw fit, she knew enough to stop when it was time and to yield at the right moment. Her father, Henry VILI., bluff and beastly, was blessed in the same and VIL, the founder of the family, revealed the happy faculty of always ‘' he got there. | Tudor have been times way Henry stopping when In modern parlance a ‘*slopped over. ' There when the prejudiced mind would call it exactly that, but it is a mistake; and this good queen, this grandchild, for thirteen generations has inherited this happy trait. It is the Tudor touch and the blessings which are to follow this visit of the English Queen to Ireland, already begun, will increase never as the years go on and be put down as one of the brightest and kindliest epi- sodes in her long and glorious reign. LET US FOSTER THE NAVY. The appropriation bill which was recently disposed of in the House of naval Representatives was for the first time in years used to further political ends. It is true that the bill went through finally in practically the shape provided by the Naval Affairs Committee, but the de- bate developed the fact that there were members in Congress prepared to dam- ave the best interests of the naval serv- ice to further their own ends. The bill as passed provides for sev- eral additional ships, including tw« battle-ships; but no provision is made for increasing the number of officers in increase is Owing to the existing scarcity of officers, it is impossible to provide adequate complements for those ships in commission, and it is entirely out of the question to commission ships now ready which the Navy Department earnestly desires to utilize. Take, for instance, the crusier Atlanta, which has been recently entirely renovated. This ship has been ready to be commissioned for some time, but it is impossible to spare officers and men sufficient to form the complement required for a ship of the Atlanta’s size. Several propositions have been pre- sented to Congress looking to an in- crease in the number of officers, but all have been ignored so far. All the plans proposed call for the appointment of more cadets to the Naval Academy and the reduction four years. the navy, although such an sorely needed. of the course from six to It is believed in this way a sufficient supply of officers could be se- cured in the course of time. While the change proposed does not hold out the least hope of an immediate relief, it at least has the merit of providing for fu- ture needs. Whether or not the proposed increase in the number of cadets at the academy will meet the demand for more officers is a problem naval officers themselves can best solve. If all the officers re- quired can be secured through the acad- emy at Annapolis, well and good; but if that can not be, the Naval Affairs Committee should take other steps to meet the requirements of the situation. No. consideration should for a moment be permitted to stand in the way of the true efficiency of the fleet. Officers must be had promptly, and, if they. can not be got in one way, they must be secured in another. 10 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Woman’s World Deserves to Rank as a Female Moses. Women everywhere will read with awed delight of the stand a certain rich and courageous society woman of New York has taken against the tyrant dress- maker. ‘The lady in question, it seems, ordered a waist of a fashionable modiste and when the garment was sent home it did not fit. The bill of indictments against it was full and complete. It hitched up in the back nntil it made the wearer look like a hunchback. It wouldn't fasten across the breast. It choked in the collar. It was too tight in the armholes. ‘Three times was it sent back to the maker for alterations, with the final result that its last éstate was worse than its first. So far there is nothing uncommon about the story. It is one that every woman can duplicate times out of num- ber out of her own experience, but the difference comes in in the sequel. The rest of us, in the end, have always meekly accepted the botched garment and paid the dressmaker for spoiling our good. cloth. ‘The rich woman re- fused to pay, and when sued, actually had the audacity to go into court and assert her right to get good work in ex- change for good money. It is a boldness so incredibie as to seem actually revolu- tionary. From time immemorial the dressmaker has been a law unto . herself and none have dared to question her right to do as she pleased. She has been a modern She-Who-Must-Be- Obeyed, who has calmly defied every rule of trade, whose customers have come as suppliants and not as orderers, and who took what they could get, when and how they could get it and knew that the only certain thing about it was that they would have to pay, pay, Is this autocratic sway to be broken at last? Is the dressmaker to be called down and forced to conform to the laws that govern other business transactions? Has she got to guarantee the quality of her goods and make them come up to the specifications and the time-limit like the grocer and the carpenter and the other tradesmen and artisans with whom we deal? The question is one of pro- found interest to the entire sex. pay. As it is now, the dealings between the average dressmaker and her patrons are carried on with all the mystery and un- certainty that hangs around a lottery shop. You take your expensive mate- rial to a modiste and deliver it over with fear and trembling, never knowing what the result isto be. It may bea miracle of art. It may be the greatest botch ever turned out by careless and incompetent workers. All that the dressmaker will commit herself to is a dark and mysterious hint that she hopes that she will have good luck with your gown. Further than commending it to fate she virtuaily washes her hands of all responsibility in the matter. Perhaps luck was against you and a lop-sided garment is sent home to you that is short enough in the skirt for a ballet dancer and tight enough in the waist for a straight-jacket. You screw your Courage to the sticking point and take it back to its author. The dress- maker receives you with a welcome that would make the frigid zone seem trop- ical and, after examining the defects, Says that she thinks maybe she can fix it so you can wear it, if you will buy a few yards of chiffon and some velvet and passementerie to hide where it was patched and pieced. She does this with an air that plainly indicates what an undeserved favor she is bestowing upon you. She never does it as your right, and the very idea of making good to you the material that she has spoiled would strike her dead. More than that, at the end of the month she sends in her bill just as serenely for ruining your dress as if she had made a howling suc- cess of it, and such is the simple and sheeplike quality of women that they pay it. Of course, we have all known that men didn’t do that way. If a man or- ders a suit and it doesn't fit he throws it right back upon the bungling tailor, but it never seems to have occurred to women that they could do the same way. We haven't even asked ourselves why the dressmaker should be superior to the laws that govern other branches of trade. Perhaps she isn’t. Perhaps when she has ill-fitting garments thrown back upon her hands and has to pay for the cloth she ruins, she will put more faith in science and less in luck. If the New York woman can succeed in get- ting any recognized business basis es- tablished upon which to deal with dress- makers she will deserve to be considered a female Moses who has led her sex out of the wilderness into the promised land. Dorothy Dix. The Working Woman’s Worst Foe. The most deadly and dangerous enemy that the workingwoman has is not the man with whom she must compete in the working world, nor yet the rich and idle woman, who, living in luxury her- self,is forever lamenting the tendency of the modern woman to earn her bread and butter outside of her home when she has neither bread nor butter inside of it. The working woman’s worst foes are those of her own household—the fool women in the working ranks, who dis- credit woman’s labor in the market by their silly and senseless demands. A pertinent example of this is afforded by the women employes of the census office who have appointed a committee to wait on Director Merriam and de- mand of him: First, a refrigerator for their lunches; second, a_ better quality of soap; third, mirrors that will not make them look jike frights; fourth, a supply of hairpins for the toilet-room ; fifth, a place to heat curling tongs; sixth, a locker for wraps ; seventh, the opportunity of fixing up before going to work. The beauty of American women has long been our proudest boast, and with a view to sustaining the national repu- tation, a benevolent and paternal Gov- ernment may see its way to granting these aids to good looks among its fe- male servants, but what a scathing com- mentary it is on the earnestness and purpose of woman’s work! Imagine, if you can, such a thing in the working world of men. Fancy a railroad threat- ened with a tie-up of its entire system because it didn’t furnish scented soap to the brakemen. 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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. —™ | | MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 11 work, and to elevate the work of her sex to a plane where it will be worth paying: for. If she was confined to the Washington departments she wouldn't be so dangerous, but she is everywhere. Sometimes her peculiar brand of idiocy consists in believing that she is still in society at a pink tea, instead of work- ing for wages in somebody's office or store. She gets huffy if a man keeps his hat on in her presence. She has con- niption fits if anybody smokes before her. She weeps if her work is crit- icised. She has a romantic past on which she dwells, and a vague future in which she trusts to somebody to come and rescue her from the work she never learns to do,and you are never surprised when she is superseded in her job by a freckled-faced boy with red hair who has neither a past nor a future. Sometimes she is the woman who be- lieves that there is some special dispen- sation of Providence to woman’s work that makes any kind of bungling and in- accurate performance go if it only bears that cabalistic label. She can see that if a merchant hires a man clerk he is right to demand that he be on time, but she thinks it rank tyranny to dock a woman for strolling in half an hour late. She can understand why a man stenographer or confidential clerk who gave up and stayed away from work every time he felt bad or wanted to go to a picnic wouldn't be any value, but she can’t see for the life of her why a woman shouldn't be permitted to knock off when she feels like it and write the letters and keep the books at any old time. Ina word, she demands the im- possible. She wants the salary of a working man and the privileges of an idle woman. Of course, it is always a matter of a short time until her serv- ices are dispensed with, but the wrong she has done doesn’t stop with her. Just as far as she was able she has branded woman’s work as utterly worthless and unreliable. Allied with these silly women are their injudicious friends, who, with the very best intentions in the world, can do the real working woman more harm in a minute than malice can invent in a year. Their ill-directed sympathy takes the fatal form of demanding that women shall be granted unusual holi- days and short hours and heaven knows what concessions until the employers are scarcely to be blamed if they grow weary of it and hire only men who don’t expect anything on account of their sex, and who can do the work for which they are paid ,without any fuss and feathers. In several states the fool friends of the fool working woman have gotten so many laws passed guarding and cherishing the woman worker that they have cherished her almost entirely out of a job. The real working woman who has sense enough to hold down a good place is amply qualified to deal with her employer, and the well-mean- ing meddlers between them do her only harm. It is against these women that the earnest working women, who are trying to raise woman’s work to the plane where it will have no sex, but be only good work, offer up their most fervent prayer fordeliverance. Dorothy Dix. —___» 2. _____ Paper bags can be readily and se- curely closed by a new fastening device which is formed by a loop of soft, pli- able wire of sufficient length to extend beyond the folded and flattened mouth of the sack, being slipped over the folded mouth and twisted to wind up the loose portion. Putting Things Away for the Summer. The time of the year is upon us now when all womankind are going through the annual ordeal of putting the winter things away. In every house you enter there is a ghastly odor of moth balls or the spicy fragrance of camphor or cedar shavings in the air—according to the faith in which we have been reared and clothes are being brushed and aired and folded preparatory to being packed away in chests and trunks to make room for our new spring belongings. Gone are the heavy cloths and velvets and silks; gone the wraps and furs. Enter the filmy muslin, the flower-wreathed hat, the chiffons and airy frivols of sum- mer. The king is dead! Long live the king! Familiar as is this yearly task, she is still something less than woman who does not find something pathetic in putting things away. Who is so happy and so fortunate as not to know that awful putting away of the things of the dead? Ah, me, the heart break when we packed away the garment whose every foid seemed to breathe with the very personality of the loved and lost, and when memory stabbed us with a thousand fond recollections of how she looked when last she wore it. Or haps it was a little child’s clothes—the half-worn shoes, the little crumpled white frock, the tiny jacket with the pocket still bulging with a boy’s treas- ures. How our hands trembled at their task and how the tears dropped like a bitter rain upon them! Even with our own belongings there is a certain sentiment and suggestiveness about every garment that makes us_ lin- ger over it and that gives to each asso- ciations that make them almost human. How much of good health, of high spirits, of thrilling center-rushes on the bargain counters, of charming walks with the friend with whom we delight to commune, we seem to be packing away with our tailor-made frock! What memories of dances, of whispered words per- of love, of the throb of a heart and the. perfume of a rose we put away in the glitter and laces of every ball gown! Does not the very spirit of music—the goiden aria of the diva, the passionate lilt of the tenor’s love song—seem to cling to the brocade of an opera wrap like the incense about an altar? We have only to glance at it to see again suevveenavenavennevnaeenvevvenvveenseennenet yet They all say = “It's as good. as Sapolio,” when they try to sell you Your own good sense will tell | >= ql SUNYYYVOPPNDTYTYYYYYP PAT ITINY their experiments. you that they are only the glittering horseshoe, the dazzle of the stage and fee! the tense excitement while the singer’s voice held the house in the breathless pause, followed by the storm of applauding hands. All this we are putting away with the gar- ment, with that little chill at the heart ‘the undefined fear that maybe never again will life be so sweet to us and so well worth living. Sometimes this little familiar domes- tic duty of putting away the winter clothes seems to suggest that it would be a good idea if we could carry the process into spiritual things as well as material. What a_ pity that we can’t pack away old ideas and worn out hob- bies and unlovely grudges like we do our discarded garments and get a brand new outfit, clean and fresh and sweet, every now and then. ‘There’s the old enmity that we have been cherishing so long. Surely, it is high time to fold that away and pack it down in the very bottom of our recollection won't see it every day. There’s the fad that we have worn into frazzles. Why not hang it up in the lumber-room and at least adorn ourselves with a new one that is up to date? There are little slip- shod ways of temper and speech that we have fallen into the way of indulging where we ourselves in, just as we have in an un- tidy wrapper, and we might well pack both of them away together to make room for something with the the spring. more in keeping freshness and loveableness of Let’s pack away all of the disagreeable old things of the winter with the winter clothes and take a fresh start in life. Cora Stowell. —> 2. Probably the real germ of a woman’s hatred of old bachelors is the fact that they always call a baby ‘‘it.”’ | Fhe Sup The only profit can be SSR eSESESE SS) CSRS RSESE Ss ing hands in SS . Zz aie’ rubbers or cc WE The Sun F 74 Wall Street Citizens Phone 2218. d eS SAE trying to get you to aid their Og Who urges you to keep Sapolio? Is it not the public? The manufacturers, by constant and judi- ciousadvertising, bring customers to your stores whose very presence creates a demand for other articles. 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Not only is it difficult to secure skilled labor, but the English people work so much cheaper than they do here, and furthermore all the machinery is imported from Nottingham. Despite these great difficulties, the Americans are fast driving the English- -made cur- tains out of this market, and only a small proportion of foreign-made cur- tains are now being sold in the United States. —___~» 2. Shoe Stretching a New Occupation Women. When the woman said she wanted a pair of shoes the hollow-eyed clerk did not ask, ‘‘What size,madam?’’ but said, instead, ‘‘ New or second-hand?’’ The woman hesitated, not quite grasp- ing the significance of the question. ‘Why, new, of course,’’ she, said at length. ‘“The reason I asked,’’ said the clerk, “was that we have several pairs of a of different sizes that have been worn a little, just enough to stretch them, and 1 didn’t know but that you would like a pair that your feet would For slip right into and that you'd never have any trouble with.’’ The woman’s interest had plainly got started by that time. ‘‘Have you any such?’’ she asked. ‘A few pairs,as I just said,’’ replied the clerk. ‘‘They have been worn long enough by professional shoe stretchers to take the stiffness and newness away. We are thinking of making these stretched shoes a permanent and promi- nent feature of our stock. Why, do you know,’’ he continued with increased earnestness, ‘‘if I had a_ foot that | could expand or contract at will, ac- cording to circumstances, | could make a pile of money by just trying on shoes. Anybody who has ever endured the _tor- ment incident to stretching a new pair |} of shoes would be willing to pay 50 cents more a pair in order to be relieved of the discomfort of getting them set to the foot. The custom of offering stretched shoes to patrons has already been introduced into several stores in town and it certainly ought to become very popular. Judging by present in- dications, it will not be long until every shoe store of any pretensions will em- ploy people with feet of the standard sizes to wear new shoes for a day or so to break them in. It will certainly be a good investment, for patrons will buy shoes oftener when the horror of setting them has been removed, and thus more money will accrue to the dealer. Shoe stretching is a calling that will not per- mit its followers to tread on flowery paths of ease, but the possibility of buy- ing shoes that are comfortable from. the start opens up a view of elysium for the wearer.’ Oe Drummers in No Danger of Trusts. Arthur Gray, who publishes ‘‘The World Is Mine’’ for commercial trav- elers, is himself a commercial traveler, and knows as much about the hopes, fears and aspirations of the drummer, including his haunts and habits, as any ordinary mortal. He does not agree with the view that trusts are going to destroy the drummer, for the reason that the drummer is indestructible. He says that while great trusts may destroy each other, the man with the grip can take care of himself, even amid the wreck of matter and the crash of worlds. He fully agrees with Secretary Hoge of the Commercial Travelers’ and Hotel Men’s League, in one thing, namely, that the time has come fora great novel to be written around the drummer. If Kipling or Howells or Laura Jean Libby will not undertake it, he may do it himself. Se ee Yellow Pine Industry. From the American Lumberman. The time when yellow pine was the basis for a contracted and impoverished industry has passed away, and now in some respects it is the leading branch of the lumber industry of the United States. It is now one that develops new ideas and new features. Particu- larly has it been the field for legitimate business combination—not trusts nor price combinations, but those which come about by the influence and the in- vestment of capital of strong, forceful and far-seeing men. It is the home of the joint seliing agency, where a num- ber of mills will economize in this im- portant and difficult branch of the busi- ness by placing their product on the market through one house, perhaps or- ganized for the purpose. The Sport of Millionaires. ‘It must be ‘a source of great satisfac- tion to you,’’ remarked the millionaire’s friend, ‘‘to be able to give these large sums to struggling institutions of learn- ing. ‘You notice,’’ replied the million- aire, ‘‘my gifts are generally made on condition that the beneficiaries raise an equal sum within a certain time.’ “Well, I think I get more satisfaction from seeing the managers shin around after that money than I do from any- thing else.’’ —__—_~»-2 >. When a man’s heart is hurt, his ‘first instinct is to hide himself; a woman’s first instinct is to hide the hurt. — _ a AKRON STONEWARE, Butters Ye gal., per doz.. eee ce 40 1 to 6 gal. per gai. Sek 5 8 gal. each. i Ae Ea 44 10 gal. each... eee 55 12 eal. Cach...... oe, 66 15 gal. meat-tubs, ‘euch... _ 1 05 22 Oa), eet, CheN................ 1 40 25 Wal. 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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 JetYerson Ave., Detroit, Mich. W. M. HULL, Manager. curing just the ag ie fillers, flavor, of the even binder.’ | How to Advance We might proceed to some ‘seapsoerye ran about how our cigars are made, yy referring to the extreme care we use se- with the right yurn of the je tlie MES 5 Cent Cigar will make a steady customer every time. Unquestionably the best. cede it. The Bradley Cigar Co. Manufacturers of the Hand (‘‘W. H. B.’’) Made Improved 19 Center Greenville, Michigan length in ex- wrapper and However, if the cigar did not hap- en to suit your trade it might just as well ve made from clover hay, yet the quality we have produced in the Competitors con- MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Butter and Eggs Observations by a Gotham Egg Man. A large egg receiver asked me into his store one day last week to look at some which he had received from the Middle West. The stock was of very good quality and would have been quite desirable had it been properly packed; but how any one in his sober senses could have used such fillers was a mystery un- solved. They were made of strawboard, but the stuff hardly deserved the name weak, flimsy, rotten, not fit to pack wooden eggs in. I asked my friend how much he supposed the shipper saved by buying those fillers. He said he didn’t know but if the chap got them for nothing he had a dear bargain. And I could readily see that it was no exaggeration. Taking off the covers and top packing the contents of the case were seen to have settled, the fillers be- ing so weak as to offer no adequate sup- port for the weight of the eggs, and the breakage was something serious. ‘This lot of eggs if properly packed and in perfect order would have sold at $3.75 cos cess brought $3 per breakage per case ; as it was it case owing to the loss in rather a dear price to pay for the ilege of saving a few cents in the first priv- place. I took some trouble to enquire in other places as to the use of these mis- erable fillers and found that a number of receivers were complaining about them. They should be abandoned en- tirely. If a packer gets a lot of these flimsy things when he orders a good article he Should send them back to the maker or dealer forthwith; if he buys them knowingly with the idea of saving in cost he makes a great mistake, for he is pretty certain to lose more than he Saves, <_< My attention has also been recently called to a very undesirable style of egg case in use by some of the Illinois ship- pers. I did not recognize the wood but it looked as if it might be some variety It had a red color and _ these cases were very rough and uncouth look- ing--decidedly unattractive. The white wood has come to be identified with first-class Western goods and odd of maple. case looking cases, especially when made. of rough, splintery lumber, bad impression upon buyers and retard sell- ing. make a * Desiring to get some information as to the practicability of establishing weight standards for the different grades of eggs as fixed by trade rules, I asked the egg inspector of New York Mercan- tile Exchange, John Borland, handled the eggs when inspecting. He informed me that when inspecting a car- load of eggs all the eggs in twenty cases were taken out and examined carefully. As fast as the eggs are taken from one case they are repacked in another. ‘*Then,’’ I remarked, ‘‘it would bea perfectly simple matter to weigh each empty case and the fillers and packing, weigh again when filled and record the Het weight of the twenty cases.’ “*Yes,’’ he replied, ‘that would add very little to the work of inspection.’’ ‘Don't you think,’’ I suggested, ‘‘that this would give a much more practical method of judging of size than any other?’’ ‘*I certainly do,’’ said Mr. Bor- land,*‘and it would be much better than leaving the judgment as to size merely to the eye of the inspector.’’ how he screen osctonstmentmnntaatiotatnisctn mn =: aces In regard to the weight specifications which might properly be made for the different grades the matter would of course require considerable investiga- tion by the egg committee, but it should be comparatively easy to arrive at sat- isfactory requirements. Such investiga- tion as I have been able to make (not very extensive) would indicate that for average good lots of Western new laid eggs the net weight per 30 dozen ranges from about 41 to 42 Ibs. In selected goods which are graded according to size as well as cleanness it reaches 45 lbs. quite frequently and sometimes a shade more. If the spirit of our pres- ent rule for ‘‘extras’’ was carried out and the stock made free from ‘‘all small’’ eggs the weight per 30 dozen ought to come pretty close up to 48 Ibs. ; but it is very rare that packers grade as close as this. If it should ever be de- cided to make a trial of the weight sys- tem for grading eggs it would of course have to be considered that refrigerator eggs lose weight and that goods which went into storage 45 Ibs. to case in April might weigh only 41@43 Ibs. when taken out late in the year; a_ dif- ferent scale might be necessary for ‘‘re- frigerator’’ and for ‘‘fresh gathered’’ goods. It would seem that the weight system ought to work well in the fall, when any serious mixture of shrunken country holdings by reducing the net weight would, as it should, throw the stock off grade.—-N. Y. Produce Re- view. $2» Yellow Meated Poultry. From the American Cultivator. The public demand for yellow-meated and yellow-legged poultry just compels one to heed the fancies and whims of the consumers. It is difficult to say why certain market demands for farm prod- ucts arise, but it is sufficient for the producer to meet the demand. Yellow- meated birds are no better in flavor or tenderness than the white-meated ones, but it is difficult to convince city con- sumers of that. The idea has gained ground that ideal poultry should have both yellow legs and yellow meat. Dis- play fowls on the same stand at once for sale, and the yellow-meated birds would sell for the highest quotations, while the white-meated chickens would drag and be finally knocked down at a discount. Knowing this, it is a waste of time to raise birds for market that do not have both yellow legs and yellow meat. For- tunately two of our best breeds meet this requirement, and in addition to furnishing the right kind of meat, they are good layers and setters. Both the Plymouth Rocks and the Wyandottes have the necessary requisites for good meat poultry, and they are also such good layers that they are all-round profitable birds. These two breeds are hardy enough to suit almost any climate and situation in this country, and with a fair amount. of care they will yield good returns. ——_—_ 2 <.___ A Talented Hen. From the Boston Herald. They have a wonderful hen down in Rhode Island. At least they are tell- ing wonderful tales of her achievements, among which may be mentioned that of laying a dozen eggs a day. Her fame has spread abroad, and her coop is now being watched by distinguished students of the miraculous. But here is where the trouble comes in. She isva modest hen, and apparently not a seeker after notoriety. She is willing to lay twelve eggs a day for the enrichment of the old lady who has given her a parlor bed- room, but she refuses to gratify the curi- ous people who come to see her perform the feat. So she is now resting for a time in order to show that a watched hen never lays. a Some people excuse stealing on the plea that they wished to anticipate the other party to the steal. BUTTER WANTED Roll or packing stock. Write for prices. Cash f. o.b. car lots or small shipments. We are the largest packers of Imitations or Ladles in Michigan. H. N. RANDALL, TEKonNsHa, MICH. IOLA J. W. FLEMING, Belding J. W. FLEMING & CO., Big Rapids Buyers and Shippers of EGGS, BUTTER, POULTRY AND PRODUCE We are prepared to pay the highest market price and guarantee prompt returns. Poultry, Eggs and Butter-- Highest cash price paid at all times for small or carload lots. The best equipped poultry and egg establishment in the state. Write for prices, J. COURT & SON, Marshall, Mich. Branch house at Allegan, Mich. References: Dun or Bradstreet, First National Bank, Marshall, City Bank, Allegan. Both Phones at Allegan. PE. CUTLER & SONS, Ionia, Mich. ® WHOLESALE DEALERS IN : BUTTER, EGGS AND POULTRY, Write or wire for highest cash price f_o.b. your station. We remit promptly. ESTABLISHED 1886. Brooklyn, 225 Market avenue. References. State Savings Bank, Ionia. Dun’s or Bradstreet’s Agencies. Branch Houses. New York, 874 Washington st. i. Nssssss: ~~ A >. > => oS. LD. LF. LO... LO. LO. LO. L.B.. SII POLS OI I I I AID ea a a ee ee ee W. R. Brice. Cc. M. Drake. YY W. Rk. Brice & Co., WHOLESALE EGGS W ¥ g and 11 North Ionia St., Grand Rapids, Mich. W W Corn Exchange National Bank, Philadelphia. -as Western National Bank, Philadelphia. W W. D. Hayes, Cashier Hastings National Bank, Hastings, Mich. Fourth National Bank, Grand Rapids, Mich. 4 \ D. C. Oakes, Coopersville, Mich. Established in Philadelphia 1852. References: 7 \ E. A. Stowe, Michigan Tradesman. To our many friends in Michigan: We again take pleasure in informing you that we have opened our branch house ia Grand Rapids, and are in the market for large quantities of fine fresh Eggs and coun- try Butter. No doubt many of you have sold us your eggs in former years, and you have always found us fair and Square in our dealings. We pay spot cash, and when ship- ping us you run no risk, as we are an old-established, thor- oughly reliable house, and shipments sent to us will be paid Write for prices. Yours for business, W. R. BRICE & CO. for promptly. ~ z i ag. Heir abate ; a ie iconlag, . UA. it = 4 _~ ta le ie Nin x saipseuc OE SET Pe 1 we ee a ae a | | CY gs ellie »F iON ti Hiei Pred Sis NaS aig MRSS 2-0 rs ee ae ¥ w ~ ahah: ail ae, ea lg i biases. . CR, iiiitticaggiiin: sg sake Sellen $action. cinaaiy : MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 17 Proper Style of Packing Butter—Trying Season to Buttermakers. In company with a large buyer on this market I went into one of the butter stores last week and while the jobber was purchasing a number of lots that had just come in we talked over the matter of qualities, style of packing, etc. Finally I left him with the sales- man to settle the question of price, and I walked across the store to examine a shipment of butter that had before at- tracted my attention. It was one of the well-known Western creameries, but the buttermaker evidently had some er- roneous ideas of packing. I remarked to the porter that the tubs were not paper lined, and he assured me that | was wrong. But there was not a scrap of paper to be seen and I persisted that he was mistaken in the lot, that there were no linings in those tubs. ‘‘ Look here, and I’ll strip a tub,’’ he added, and in a half minute the butter had been turned out. To my surprise the paper was on the sides, but instead of putting it on in the right way the lining was folded over in the bottom of the tub at least three inches, and the upper edge of the paper did not come within a half inch of the top of the tub. It was a most peculiar method of using the lin- ings and instead of having anything to commend it, the whole style is con- demned by everyone familiar with good packing. For the benefit of the butter- maker, and possibly some others, I wish to say that as there is a bottom circle of paper in the tub the side linings do not need to fold over much on the _ bot- tom; they should be so placed in the tubs as to reach about half an inch above the top of the tub. When the but- ter is packed nicely and the top evened off smoothly, the paper should be folded over the top of the butter, and then a cloth circle should be placed neatly on top of this. Such packing, if well done, is strictly up-to-date and is ap- preciated by = sellers alike. I was conversing with a well-known Reade street butter merchant on Mon- day about inconsistencies of some mer- chants and buttermakers, especially the latter. He referred to a make of goods he had in for three consecutive weeks, but which he had difficulty in selling until last week and then he did not get top price as the goods were poor. He made his returns for the three lots and this week got a letter from the Secretary of the creamery refusing to accept the check in settlement in full for the goods. He wrote that the butter came in here on a 20c market and the merchant was not instructed to hold the goods, but was supposed to sell them day of arrival at top market price at least. The merchant told me that at the time this butter ar- rived, in fact, for three weeks, the mar- ket weakened considerably, declining to 18c. There was no demand for the but- ter at the time and he couldn’t sell when the goods arrived to as good advantage for the creamery as he did later—last week-——as he finally found a purchaser who needed just that kind of butter and was willing to pay more, probably than any one else for it. ‘*The idea seems to prevail in some creamery sections, or at least in the minds of some cream- ery men, that if their good don’t sell promptly on arrival at highest price quoted, or at a premium over this quo- tation, then the house receiving the goods should make up the difference be- tween the price received for the goods and the top price quoted, notwithstand- ing the fact that their butter is not up in quality ; and in the case just referred to the creamery never has made fancy butter with any degree of regularity. Certainly we can’t afford to put up any loss, although there may occasionally be a case where such a thing is done.’’ oe This is the season of year generally trying on buttermakers as it is between hay and grass. Warm weather the cows are turned out, and in a good many sec- tions are fed ‘‘any old thing’’ that hap- pens to be left over from previous sea- son. Cows thus fed do not, of course, produce as good milk as when fed a first-class balanced ration, and it is in handling this poor milk that the patience of buttermakers is tried. I was speak- ing of this matter to a Warren street dealer the other day and he said his firm was in receipt of a letter from one of their buttermaker friends in which he spoke of the difficulty he was experi- encing in securing a supply of milk fit for fancy buttermaking. He said that the feed supply was low on many farms and dairymen were not inclined to pur- chase much feed as prices were high; they prefer to feed their dairy cows most anything they may have left over, whether it is fit for milk production or not. ‘‘But it won’t be long now,’’ re- marked the merchant as I was leaving him, ‘‘when the cows will have good, green grass to feed on, and then our buttermaker friends should be able to regain their equilibrium.’’—N. Y. Produce Review. —__> 2. Extremes to Be Avoided. ‘*We ought to be very careful in our choice of a clergyman.’’ ‘*Have you had any trouble?’’ ‘*Ves; if we get an energetic man he works us to death; and if we get one without energy we have to work our- selves to death.’’ YOUR CUSTOMER Anybody is once introduced. can see the difference. ‘¢The Salt That’s All Salt”’ DIAMOND CRYSTAL SALT CO., St. Clair, Mich. Can't help but see the difference between ordi- nary butter salt and DIAMOND CRYSTAL BUTTER SALT Intelligent dairymen will not use ordinary salts after If you think a pleased cus- tomer is a good advertisement; if you think it really pays to keep what the best buyers want; if you desire to be known as a first-class grocer, we shall expect to hear from you. -Butter and Egos- -Wanted- We are in the market for large quantities of fresh eggs and all grades of dairy butter. Highest market price paid on track shipping point. Get your money out of your low grade butter and write us for prices. STROUP & SICKELS, 38 So. Division St., Both phones. Grand Rapids, Mich. We have our own Straw Board Mills. carry heavy stock. Prompt shipments. Write for prices. FLINT EGG CASE AND-FILLER CO.,, Flint,; Michigan. Is conceded. Uncle We make Market Baskets, Bushel livery Baskets, Splint De Truck Baskets. Hallow Baskets Are. Bes uses them by the thousand. Baskets, Potato Baskets, Coal Baskets, Lunch Baskets, Display Baskets, Waste Baskets, Meat Baskets, Laundry Baskets, Send for catalogue. BALLOU BASKET WORKS, Belding, Mich. sixty days. Sam knows it and all kinds. Baskets, Bamboo De- livery Baskets, Clothes Baker Baskets, Gosh, It Holland Star Green Cigar My *s Good! H. Van Tongeren, Maker, For Sale by All Jobbers. = plication. » Mich. SALTED PEANUTS NEW PROCESS Guaranteed to keep fresh for Delicious, Ap- petizing, Nutritious. CRYSTAL NUTS THE IDEAL FOOD Made from nuts, fruits and grains carefully thoroughly cooked, ready to be served at once. combined, Samples of the above sent free on ap- Lambert Nut Food Company, Battle Creek, Mich. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Hardware Piratic Nature of Department Store Com- petition. a A great deal has been said and writ- ten upon the piratic nature of depart- ment stores and catalogue houses. I am in hearty accord with most of these views. Results, however, have demon- strated that the public has little interest in issues whose sole argument appears to be prompted by motives of self-inter- est and we have possibly been directing our efforts against the symptoms of a public disease while we should have applied the knife to the canker gnawing at the heart of our republic. If the propositions I am about to establish are true, which I believe they are and _ will stand the test of every thinking man’s moral convictions, then the responsibil- ity of the evil does not rest alone with the men who are taking undue advan- tage of circumstances, but a consider- able amount of it may be charged to the public blindness and indifference which unwisely creates or tolerates con- ditions under which either individuals or classes may take improper opportun- ities to so great an extent as to effect a decaying condition of the moral forces cementing our body politic, and _ its remedy will call for a more efficient de- gree of patriotism than that of firing bombs on Fourth of July and occasion- ally cheering the mention of great men’s names. Here are six propositions upon which I base my views against department store systems: I. The ruinous influence their under- selling process has upon quality of man- ufacture, as demonstrated during the past ten years in goods which are now but a semblance or shadow of*their for- mer quality. 2. The improper advantage they take, under lax laws, to ruin and drive out of market lines of goods by selling them as ‘‘baits’’ for less than cost of manufacture, until their commercial value is ruined and their manufacture must practically be discontinued. 3. The discouraging influence such actions have upon the higher ambition of mechanical minds to excel destroys an essence to which we must concede considerable importance as a factor in attaining our present commercial stand- ard. 4. Their method of wrecking the small merchant’s business by continual- ly harassing him in unloading upon the market goods at less than cost and prey- ing upon the ignorance of society to balance these losses through inferior qualities and corresponding advance of prices in other goods, 5. Their tendency towards changing the opportunities and privileges of in- dependent support into a System of un- derpaid labor, a condition whose natural result enforces celibacy and encourages the accompanying crime of infanticide, thus establishing like conditions under which France is known to be fast fall- ing into decay. 6. Their influence in establishing a standard of wages which from force of circumstances must be followed by all kindred lines of retai] trade, inadequate to respectably support the woman whose labor is her only support, and too often calls for virtue to be thrown into the scale to balance accounts. I have the highest regard for any woman who has the courage to honestly make her own living whenever circum- stances oblige it, and accord to her every honorabie right to enter upon whatever calling her tastes and _ talents are suited for, whether it be a profes- sion, a clerkship or a trade. If a rail- road company has a switchman at some important crossing who is incapable or too dissipated to fill his position proper- ly, and his wife or daughter can and will fill the place with greater safety to the public and more Satisfactory to the company, let her take the place, and as long as the act is without injury to the many it is of little importance to the public which one earns the bread for the family. But if her four daughters determine to enter the same calling and, from the sufficiency of living at home, peddle their labor to the company at less than it is worth, and are hired by the com- pany to supplant the four young men who should become husbands and heads of families, the scale established through the influence of an unwise act which has reduced the wages of the po- sition to less than the requirements of decent family support, even if the four men could again get these places, puts marriage out of the question, and dem- onstrates two social evils effected by the act; the one of influence wielded in the wage scale upon all the employes, and the other the enforcement of celibacy and its accompanying evils. The wag might ask, Why don’t the four young men combine, marry the four girls and control the market? and in the ordinary commercial] sense this has its weight. But marriage, we must admit, is not entire- ly based upon commercial methods. First, the proper affinities to such end might be lacking. Second, the question involves a condition of assurances from the society of which they are a com- ponent part that another four equally as rash women will not immediately ap- ply for and be placed in the position and leave the four couples to live on “love by the wayside.’’ So that the society assurance implied by the ques- tion rather assists us in establishing its importance as a political issue. [| hope this is sufficiently plain to demonstrate the injuries inconsistency of labor pro- duces for itself, by which no one profits but the rich, and from which, sooner or later, society at large will reap the moral effects. Advocates of these institutions assert that the conditions of female labor in these establishments are largely due to girls of the reasonably well to do classes offering their services for whatever they can get as a little side money. This, however, would not mitigate nor excuse the evil influence of the act upon our social fabric, but, if true, simply adds enormity to the deed. Another theory is often advocated, that the *“demands of society inducing women to dress_ be- yond their means is largely responsible for these conditions.’’ If this be true, and in a measure it may be so, yet taken as a whole I dispute the inference or conclusions to be deducted from such an allegation, and whatever the extent of her implication in the bringing about of these conditions, I am here to Say, the spirit of American woman, which has ennobled her sex with deeds of patriot- ism and charity—by responding to the call of distress, whether from battlefield or nursery, from home or prison, from palace or slum, from midst the dangers of a Klondike or the fever-infested In- dies, and by her untiring missionary work proved so prime a factor in break- ing the shackles of slavery for an unfor- tunate race, and under all circumstances has proven herself above any fear or limitation when the interests of human- ity demanded it—is a Spirit above the guilt of intentional crime from which even the lowest creatures might suffer. And if she has given moral aid and financial support by her patronage to so great an evil as the various phases of these conditions imply, then she has done it through her ignorance of facts, for which you and I are responsible. The great warfare the American woman has conducted, even under the most blighting ridicule of man, in fight- ing the evils of intemperance, and by her persistent devotion and social influ- ence has done more to abate the evil than all the laws man’s mind could de- vise, will not knowingly abet an eco- AN HONEST PRODUCT. The PATTERSON-SARGENT Co., New York. Cleveland, Chicago, ae wy SY Y VP PPOD OOOO OOOS OOOO Iron Cornice. and Contracting Roofers. Grand Rapids, Mich. Office, 82 Campau st. Factory, 1st av. and M. C. Ry. OOOO OOOO G444 44 PVF FVUVOOOOS OD: 02644644 SOOO 00 000000000000000000000CSSSCbbsebd eee e GFuUVyD H. M. Reynolds & Son, Manefacturers of Asphalt Paints, Tarred Felt, Roofing Pitch. 2 and 3 ply and Torpedo Gravel Ready Roofing. 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This electrotype loaned to any dealer these choppers. who handles te Smee 7 "7 * sii edly TET » » ia * _—. ~_ This is the Only Machine { Which Will Actually Chop 1. yr shea wy ~~ ” | 9 ° OOOOCOCC COC CC CCCCCCCS ese Manta Sih aii Gy ABR 0 i ” % "4 ai i tically SET 0' 4a MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 19 nomic evil which destroys woman’s hope of a home for man’s lack of means to support a family, and reduces her to a wage scale which too often enforces a crime against her soul, fills the streets with young men without hope or a chance of useful occupation, and feeds the very flames against which she is di- recting her moral energy. If woman must enter commercial pur- suits, let her do so under the moral law she owes her fellow beings, and let the survival of the fittest govern the situa- tion. Let her see to it that she gets what her labor is worth, and let the public assist her by establishing social and political conditions or circum- stances that will enforce it. Let society discountenance women of well to do circumstances peddling their labor for less than men should have for the same services, and avoid establishing an un- balanced condition of labor from this source. Then patronize houses who pay a living wage scale, although they may not offer the ‘*bargains’’ made pos- sible by a commercial system which in- volves the hope of home and family, too often jeopardizes the soul, and is fostering an unwise and unjust heritage on our progeny. A great deal more might be said upon this moral phase, but I will pass it with the volumes con- tained in this sentiment: Less $3 women; more $15 men. millionaire Less merchants; more happy homes. Less demagogism, more politics from whose influences men and women will learn a higher appreciation of American patriotism. Z. T. Maller. ——__-_-~> 2. Meeting the Competition of the Catalogue House. As hardware dealers, we have not only the catalogue houses, department stores, steel range peddlers, etc., and last, but not the least, also our local competitor to compete with. Some of you may wonder what disposition | may make to overcome some of this competition. I go at it in this way, in regard to catalogue houses, etc.: In the first place, I have on file all the leading catalogues and _ price lists which are issued, up to date, and keep posted on their prices. To meet this class of competition I always keep a little of the Cheap John ware on hand, which I virtually sell at cost price. However, I always show them the better class of goods first, and if they hesitate on the price I reason with them and endeavor to show them the folly of buying the cheaper class of articles, and I most always meet with success. One very essential point*which we must not overlook is this, that we must also keep a close check on_ those who purchase through these various me- diums. Your own drayman is the best man I know of to keep you posted on these shipments. We will suppose that here comes one of those fellows now; I shake his hand, say ‘‘how do you do,’’ etc., with all due respect and courtesy. This possibly is something he did not expect and if he is not one of those chilly icemen we read about, I have by this kind of a reception made half the sale. He undoubtedly was astonished and expected a good brown roast, but I fooled him. Do you realize my gain? Now he starts to buy. I give him prices. He says he can buy this and that cheaper, but will not let on where it is. So I question him a little closer and then I will tell him these prices are from such and such a place, get out my catalogue, which is the same as his, and here I give him another surprise party. He will wonder with astonishment where I got it from and will begin to size me up. We will now start to talk business. I will say to him that if he will give me the same price on the same class of goods as the catalogue quotes, with freight added, that that is enough profit for me and I will be pleased to meet any legitimate quotations he may have to offer. Sometimes I surprise them by going them one better, if in my judgment he is a man who is appre- ciative and whom | can not get at in any other way. Have patience, try this two or three times and you will succeed. Never deceive him and do always as you agree to do and you have not only gained a customer, enriched your purse, but have also made a lifelong friend. I will now proceed to give you a taste of how I get along with my local com- petitors at home,and I am a firm believ- er that some of its principles are correct and that the same should be followed more closely by merchants generally as a rule at home. You have nothing to but everything to gain. On the subject of local competition there is no question but what you will all agree with me. That is a subject we do not care to read very loud when our com- petitors are sitting within a stone’s throw of us. Who will read this for me? Look out, here she goes. In the first place, | can congratulate myself upon the fact that I have only gentlemen as competitors to deal with; men who are business men in every sense of the word ; men who have not gone into trade to seek health, but who invested money in the hardware business to make money. It undoubtedly may seem strange to you that my competitors and myself are on speaking terms; that we smoke and eat—but do not drink together—or that lose, our families will visit one another and that they, too, will eat and drink —but will not smoke together. When | forget myself and try to get a little gay, they will call my hand and meet my prices. Then I stop. I have learned one thing, and that is this: That I can not sell all the hardware there is to be sold in our city, either by | ¢ getting foxy in cutting prices or by making unkind remarks and insinua- tions against them. It does not take long to find out that your competitors have as much money, brains and friends as you or that they will hesitate to meet competition ; understanding one another thoroughly on these particular points, | will be frank enough to admit, is mak- ing me money, as also for my competi- tors, as I am informed on very reliable authority that they are discounting all of their bills right along. Whether this is the proper feeling that should exist between local competitors, I will not say, but will leave the solution of this question to my readers. H. EF. Strehlow. —___+—_~»-9 2 --—- Wrestling Scripture. *Maria,’’ said Mr. Smart, *‘ whenever I go to the club | always think of the verse, ‘Where the wicked cease from troubling and the weary are at rest.’ | alter one word and feel perfectly happy.’ ‘Which word do you change?’’ Mrs. Smart. ‘*Tsay :‘ Now, | am ‘*‘ where the women cease from troubling and the weary are ab ese 717 ‘John Smart,’’ said his wife severe- ly, ‘‘ you should change a word in the last part of that. It should be: ‘Where the women cease from troubling and the wicked are at rest!’ ”’ asked ‘ Hardware | Price Current _ Augurs and Bits Snell's. ee eee ae £0 Jennings ‘genuine. . a 26 Jennings’ eT 50 Axes First Quality, 5S. B. Bronze.. eee 7 00 First Quality, D. B. Bronze. . ae 11 50 First Quality, S. B.S. Steel. . _ 7 First Quality, D. B. Steel. . a 13 06 Barrows COMO ee 16 50 Carden... s.r =| ae ee Bolts Stove . oe 50 Carr riage, nee 50 riow ........ eee. 50 Bue kets. Well, plain ........ eee es $4 00 c mi Cast Loose Pin, figured . ete ee 65 Wrought Narrow . Les ee 60 candies Mie Piro 40&10 Central Fire... 20 Chain ¥% in. 5-16 in. % in. % in. Com... S$ G@.. Je..¢€ ¢€.. € € BB. eo . va... Ca ... GS BEB. a4 |. 6. ae 8. Crowbars Cast Steel per ip... .-................ 6 Caps Ely’s 1-10, ee Nee oe tena ae 65 Hick’s C. per m.. Dee ce ae oe 55 G. @., ye ee 45 Maveker peri... 75 Chisels Roches Diemer 65 NOCECE PIamaine .............-......- 65 BOCKCUQOMION......................... 65 BOGKOG SMM. 65 Elbows Com. 4 piece, 6 in., ape Gon... net 65 Corrugated, “ doz.. See coe 1 25 Adjustable. . Cok ..... dis 40&10 ‘ane Bits Clark’s small, $18; re oo ......,... 30&10 Ives’ 1, $18; 2, $24; WU ee ek te 25 A List NeW Anesicgy 8... = Nicholson’s. Heller’s Horse Rasps. . 6&0 Galv isda iin Nos. 16 to 20; 22 _ 24; 26 and 26; 27, 28 List 12 13 15 16. 17 Discount, 65 10 Gas Pipe ac eee eee. Galvanized new list............. 00... Gauges Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s.......... 60&10 Glass Single Strength, by box.. ..dis 85& Double Strength, by Bee dis 85&10 By tie Pigs. se dis 80&10 Hammers Maydole & Co.’s, new list.............. dis 33% Yerkes & Plumb’s.......... ....dis 40810 Mason’s Solid Cast Steel... ..30¢ list 70 Hinges Gate, Clark’s 1, 2,3.. -ee---is 60&10 Hollow ‘Ware Pots.. ae gees « 50&10 Kettles ........ 50810 Spiders.. a 50&10 " Mlowse Nails “op gt a a ..dis 40&10 Putnam.. a oe .. dis 5 House Furnishing ‘Goods Stamped Tinware, new list............ 70 Japanned Mnware. 20&10 Tron TT ee 3 crates Light Band. 3c rates ae Jon L ist Door, mineral, jap. trimmings.. 85 Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings... baa 1 00 Lanterns Regular 0 Tubular, Doz................ 5 25 Warren, Galvanized Fount........... 6 00 Levels Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s.......... dis 70 Mattocks EE $17 00..dis 60 Metals—Zine eet. See Se tceee cc ee secs ce 1% Per pound.. — 8 ii aciicaae Bird Cages - 3. 40 Pumps, Cistern 70 Screws, New Lis 80 Casters, Bed and Pilate................ 50&10&10 Dampers, American.................. 50 Molasses Gates Steppins’ Patterm...................... 60&10 Enterprise, self-measuring............ 30 Pans yy Aemies a 60&10&10 Jommon, ‘polished ee eee 7085 Patent Planished Iron “A”? Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 10 75 “B” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 25to 27 9 75 Broken packages %c per pound extra. Planes Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy. . Oi oes BOLOGA BORON i. or oc oscn o-oo oes ee woes Sandusky Tool Go.’ s, fancy.. Bench, first quality SSS Ores eeerrerereereres Nails Advance over base, on both Steel and Wire Steel nails, base. . 2 65 Me ee en, wee eee ee 2 65 oy Oe Oe Sees... ....... ...-...-s.- Base Oe we ee eee. 2... 5 i ie eck cee ee 10 Le 20 ee a. 30 OE 45 ee 7 Fine 3 advance. eee ei ac, Casing 10 ST 15 Casing 8 advanee............... os 25 ee 35 eee 25 cE 35 eee ee... 45 O_O —————eeeeeeee 85 Rivets Iron and Tinned. eee 50 Copper Rivets and Burs. ees 45 Roofing | Plates 14x20 IC, Charcoal, Dean.............. 6 50 14x20 IX, Charcoal, Dean.... . ' 7 50 20x28 IC, Charcoal, Dean. a 13 00 14x20 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade... 5 50 14x20 IX’ Charcoal, Allaway Grade. . 6 50 20x28 1C, Charcoal, Allaway Grade. .. 11 00 20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade... 13 00 Ropes Sisal, 4% inch and re ee 11% Manilla ll 17 Sand abi Mine ook, 4 ee. a 50 Sash Weights Solid Eyes, per ton..... Le. 25 00 Sheet Iron com. smooth. com. Noe. 10to 14... ................... S23 oe $3 00 ee eee ee 3 00 ee tote... Se 3 20 oe aoe ae... oe 3 30 ae Pbreeee: Oe + No. 2 3 60 3 50 on ‘Sheets No. 18 and. lighter, ‘over 30 inches wide, not less than 2-10 extra. Shells— Loaded Loaded with Black Powder. ... . 40 Loaded with Nitro Powder........... 40&10 Shot B 8 Ona Buck.. ce sae ec. 1 85 Shovels and | diabite Pirst Grade, Der...................... 8 60 Geoond Grade, Dez...........,....... 8 10 Solder 4@\. The prices of the many ‘other qualities of solder in the market indicated by private brands vary according to composition. Squares Pooch Ae ENON, 65 Tin—Melyn Grade a $ 8 50 Tc IC, Obarcoal..................... 8 50 Sest4 is Charcoa..................... 9 75 Each additional X on this grade, $1.2£ Tin—Allaway Grade eci4 tC, Cearecal................._... 7 00 14 1, Cnarcoa)..................... 7 00 neuta du, Onavegar.... 8 50 teen te Charcom..................... 8 50 Each additional X on this grade, $1.50 Boiler Size Tin Plate 14x56 IX, for No.8 Boilers, 14x56 IX, for No.9 Boilers, ; per pound.. 10 Traps —— ot... ............ 75 Oneida Community, Newhouse’s 40&10 Oneida Community, Hawley & Nor- ton’s.. ae 65&16 Mouse, choker, per ‘doz.. a 15 Mouse, delusion, per ee 1 25 Wire ee 60 Annealed Market.. es 60 Coppered Market.. 50&10 Tinned Market.. hele ee eee. 50&10 © ee Spring ie saas 40 Barbed Fence, Galvanized............ 3 30 Barbed Fence, Painted................ 3 15 Wire Goods ee 7 eee ee, 75 ek ere dees sae oe cee see 75 Gate Hooks and Eyes.. eee 75 Ww veniiee Baxter’s Adjustable, Nickeled.. 30 Ce ee uine Coe’s Patent henieadianal, jWrought. .70&10 THE ROCKER WASHER Is a great seller and will please your customers and make youa nice profit. Write for price. ROCKER WASHER CO., Ft. Wayne, Ind. 20 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Shoes and Leather | Scheme to Cope With the Dreaded De- partment Store. There’s one thing I like business men of Lasterville, in the shoe trade or in other lines: No matter how much they are rivals in ordinary busi- ness times, they are always ready to stand together to fight trouble. When the Central Syndicate Co., which established a store in Upperville, and been paralyzing trade for the special-line people, began to feel around for a foothold in Lasterville, you can bet that there was mounting in hot haste. It was the topic in every store, and the general feeling was that noth- ing could be done to keep the big de- partment store away, and that just as certain as the store opened in Laster- ville, just so certain would business be ruined for a large proportion of the reg- ular dealers. about the has since All sorts of schemes were talked of, but they all seemed so silly and futile, and like the party who tried to sweep the sea back with a broom, that no plan could be decided upon which would ren- der the new competition powerless. Things were blue among the dealers for a time now I tell you. I thought that even my mammoth _in- tellect would fail on a scheme and _ old man Laster gave it up from the start. But then, old Mr. Laster has a pretty good sock lining, as you might call it, saved up, and if business all went to the dogs he would still be able to get his three square meals a day and he able to drive his two steppers out after supper for an hour up and down the River road. The old man saw that I was_ horribly worried, and one evening he says to me: | Bitem,”' he ought to be able to get up some plan to fight this thing, although I’m blessed if I can. Go home and dream over it, and get up some scheme to knock the enterprise out before it comes. You can never do it after the store is opened.’’ ‘But what can I think of?’’ I asked. ‘‘Everybody making a big cut-price sale now,or after they get started, would only temporarily harass them at the start; they would know we could not keep it up—and, of course, couldn’t.’’ | Wes, that's so,’ the old man said. ‘*but there is one thing to take into con- sideration, the merchants are all inter- ested, no matter what they sell. Re- member that. I presume that you and all of the rest of the dealers have been craving sympathy from everybody, but in thinking of plans to stop the thing have only thought of how it would affect their own particular trade. Isn’t that so?’’ says, you we I was obliged to admit that I sup- posed it was. ‘Well, now, go home and dream like a good, broad-minded boy and I'll bet you'll think of something.’’ Of course, with such a pat on the back as that I simply had to think of some scheme, and just when I was ready to go to sleep an idea came over me like a flash and I actually got out of bed and wrote a lot of things down so that I wouldn’t forget them. I presume that there are not more than a hundred towns in America where the defense could be put up as we are go- ing to put it up here, but that is our good fortune. Our store is now located in the Laster block, owned by old man Laster and his wife. The other tenants of the block and of the big opera house block adjoining include some of the leading business places in town. Draper & Co., the leading dry goods dealers here, have the big double corner store in the opera house block, we are next with our boot and shoe store,then comes the biggest clothing store we have, Cotes Bros. Beyond them is the Laster- ville pharmacy, a first-class drug store, keeping a full line of novelties, and the last in our block, on the corner, is a big double store used by Lemon & Coffee's big grocery establishment, which also has a meat market attached. Back of the dry goods store on the side street is Files & Things’ hardware store, the largest in the place, witha toy store next, and Dresser’s Furniture Emporium has the rest of the Laster block on the other side street. In the second stories are a swell barbershop, a millinery establishment, a photog- rapher, a tailoring establishment and the only decent restaurant in the village. You see that the business places I have mentioned occupy exactly one-half of the square, and we have the finest loca- tion in town, The only thing that is remarkable about all of this is that not a trade is duplicated in the two blocks. Well, I presume that you see my scheme by this time, but for fear you don’t I'll tell you. The idea I evolved was to form a co-operative business as- sociation among all of these merchants and connect them all into one big co- operative institution. My first hair- brained thought was to combine them all into a stock company, but I saw im- mediately that this would be simply bringing, in another form, into the town the thing we were trying to avoid, and besides, the different business calibers are too diverse. I unfolded the scheme to Laster and he was tickled to death, and then, one by one, we explained it to the other dealers. It took them some time to grasp the idea, in several instances, but they were all so scared that they were bound to take an interest in it, and as a result before the end of the first day the landlords had been consulted, and they, being somewhat scared themselves readily assumed the expense of making alterations, and before night carpenters and masons were at work cutting arches between the stores all through the two blocks. Big iron fireproof doors, which close automatically in case of fire and which are closed and_ double-locked each night, are put in the fire wall open- ings, but during business hours a cus- tomer who enters any one of the stores can visit all of the others without going out of doors. Then the second story establishments have been connected with the inside stores in the same way, so {that the whole fourteen establish- ments are easily accessible, or rather ‘‘are to be,’’ for the thing hasn’t been formally sprung yet. It took a whole lot of disctission be- fore the best plan was decided upon, but we decided eventually that the best idea was to run each establishment sep- arately so far as ownership, buying and selling were concerned, but to help each other in every way possible, and to ad- vertise as though the whole fourteen businesses were combined and operated as one establishment. was assessed on a satisfactory basis for the advertising expense, and I was chosen to act as advertising manager. The second day after our plan was formed I had half of a page in our lit- tle daily and a quarter of a page in each of the weeklies, announcing the great business combination, and it at- tracted immense attention. We haven’t had a formal opening yet, but expect to close for two days soon, and then open up with a band of music and throw the inside doors open simultaneously. Of course, there will be all sorts of obstacles to overcome, but thus far we haven’t encountered any that worry us at all.—I. Fitem in Boots and Shoes Weekly. Each _ business |}. GOGOOHHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOOOOOOOOOOH “Gold Seal” SSSSSSSSSSsessass Rubbers Pure Para Rubber Goodyear Rubber Co. 382 and 384 East Water St Milwaukee, Wis. W. W. WALLIS, Manager. Send for Catalogue. O9OOOOOOOOOOGHGHGHGHGHHOOOHOHOOG ) SSSSsesesesesessesees OWS OOOOWOWO Shoes That Sell We know what the Michigan trade demands in shoes—and we have it. Not an undesirable line in our spring and summer offerings—not a style but wkat you can sell easily. Our travelers will be in to see you soon. If you defer ordering until they come, we'll get your order. Geo. H. Reeder & Co. 1g South Ionia Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. DDDODDDHHOHHHHOOO (S) MOWMOIOK RALLLLLLLALALLR IAD LAQLALAADALA ALANNA LAA AHA NN DVO RADD 3 2 BRADLEY? METCALF CO: CELEBRATED BOOT IN THE WORLD THE BIGGEST TRADE MARK COPYRIGHTED If you buy BRADLEY & METCALF Co. BOOTS AND SHOES You buy the best. MADE IN MILWAUKEE COSTS STS TS SS TSS TSS TSS CS SSS SESS 2 © Our Styles for Spring and summer are fine. If you hav not seen them you ought to. Agent for the Shoe Co. Rindge, Kalmbach, Logie & Co., 10-22 North Ionia Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. They will suit your customers and make you money. We make the best River Shoes on earth. Try them. Boston Rubber e€ Pal 9 , Where the Shoe Pinched. Miss Martynia Martin was a sufferer from corns. She was also afflicted with a bunion. Not for worlds, however, would she have acknowledged the fact of her infirmities, for she was possessed of any amount of pride, and corns and bunions were the natural rude and vulgar. woes of the Mr. Hawkins, proprietor of the vil- lage store, prided himself upon being able to supply all the wants of his cus- tomers, from tea, tacks and nutmegs_ to nux vomica, boots and bicycles. He had just succumbed to the wiles of the insinuating Mr. Babcock, travel- ing salesman for a boot and shoe house in the city, and handed him an order with a sigh, saying: ‘‘T don’t want any footgear any more than a dog wants two tails. I’ve any amount on hand yet, but seein’ it’s you, why, | s’pose, of course, etc.’’—when Miss Martynia appeared upon the scene. Mr. Hawkins, bachelor, had been cherishing the hope that Miss Martynia Martin, spinster—who had waited long and patiently for him to say so—would some day become convinced of the desirability of becoming the mistress of his heart and belongings. It would be so convenient. When he was obliged to be away on matters of busi- ness, it would be handy to have some- one around who could keep one eye on the shop while the other was occupied with the housekeeping department in the rear. Miss Martynia had given no sign as yet that she was willing to respond to his strong, if unuttered, desires. In- deed, he was so extremely retiring and modest in his demeanor, that he had never so much as even dared to hint of them with what is vulgarly termed a ‘*sheep’s-eye.”’ ‘*What can | do for you this morning, Miss Martin?’’ he asked with deferen- tial alacrity, while the drummer drummed with his fingers on the bench placed for the convenience and comfort of customers along the outside of the counter. ‘“IT came to see if you had anything in the way of a pair of shoes that will fit me,’’ answered the lady with a coquet- tish simper. ‘'Something soft and com- fortable, please.’’ ‘Ob, yes. Lo’ be I think so. Certainly. Perhaps,’’ responded Mr. Hawkins with incoherent eagerness and blushing amiability, as he dived into the gloomy recesses of the store, where he rummaged restlessly for a space. Miss Martynia sat in severe and pa- tient propriety at the other end of the bench. Mr. Babcock surveyed her out of the corner of his near eye, while he continued his tattoo. ‘*What size did you say?’’ asked Mr. Hawkins, emerging out of chaos, with anxiety plainly printed upon his glow- ing countenance. long SUTe. ’ ‘*Four and a half,’’ was the laconic reply. Mr. Hawkins retreated into the depths, reappearing presently with sev- eral pairs of shoes, and an empty nail- keg. The latter he turned bottom end upward and, seating himself upon it be- fore the lady prepared to try on the boots. With a blush and simper, Miss Mar- tynia modestly divested her right foot of its covering and submitted to the operation. But Mr. Hawkins’ efforts were not to be crowned with success. Not one could he prevail upon to slip on to his lady-love’s fairy foot. He tugged, and strained, and struggled. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Miss Martin would not hear of trying a larger size. Four and a_ half was her size, and that was all there was to it. She did not propose to wear a No. 5. The idea! ‘‘Allow me, madam,’’ said Mr. Bab- cock, gallantly rising to the occasion. Gracefully he seated himself upon the keg, which the nervous and crestfallen Mr. Hawkins had vacated in his de- spair. After a deal of careful manipu- lation he managed to get the boot on. Her face was crimson with pain, which she endured with Spartan-like determi- nation for a few moments. Then she succumbed. ‘Il guess it’s a little tight,’’ she re- marked, with compressed lips. ‘I’m awfully sorry,’’ said Mr. Haw- kins, falteringly, ‘‘but I’m afraid I can't do any better,’’ glancing resentfully at the traveling man, who, with a tender air, was asking: ‘*Where do you feel it most, madam?’’ leaning toward her in an engaging man- ner. As she indicated the great toe joint, where the knobby protuberance _ pro- claimed the presence of the unsightly bunion, the nail-keg gave way beneath him, and his two hundred pounds avoir- dupois came down with a crash. She screamed. He looked up with a comic- ally astonished expression, then roared. ‘‘T can’t go any further than the floor, that’s one comfort,’’ he said, and picked himself up with astonishing agility, considering his size. ‘‘T will have the goods shipped imme- diately,’’ he said, turning to Mr. Haw- kins. ‘‘ There will likely be something in the lot to fit the lady. I will be around this way before long, again, and will enquire about it,’’ and as his horse was in waiting, he took himself off. Mr, Hawkins, devoured by jealousy, read volumes of amorous meaning in that gentleman’s innocent remark, and the elegance of his departing bow filled his soul with despairing envy. What might not happen when the fascinating drummer came back? Commercial trav- elers were notorious jady-killers. It would never do to risk it. Miss Martynia was gazing pensively after the retreating figure and, nerved by his fears, Mr. Hawkins then and_ there summoned up courage to lay himself and merchandise at the feet of the cause of all this mental turmoil. His charmer, wondering what had brought him to the point at last, grac- iously consented to receive the offer- ing, and made him happy with the sug- gestive remark : ‘“Those boxes of shoes want a good sorting over. You can’t make head nor tail of them as they are. They’re ina terrible jumble.’’ He realized that she had indeed taken him into her care and keeping—boots, shoes and the rest of the merchandise, to have and to hold until the end of the chapter.—-Nancy Nettleton. > 0 > Only Asked for the Hand. Old Crusty—You ask for my daughter? Why, young man, at your present sal- ary you could not even dress her. Suitor—Oh, yes, sir; I could keep her in gloves. Old Crusty—Gloves! Do you mean to insinuate that my daughter would only wear gloves? Suitor—Pardon me, sir; | asked only for her hand. oo A woman’s greatest weakness is that she thinks she can make a man _ believe anything, when he is only pretending to believe. he Boots with Vulcanized Leather Soles, manufactured by Woonsocket Rub- ber Co.? feet. of the future is the ‘*Vulcan.’’ 21 Have you ever sold the **Vulcan’’ Rubber Inner They do not sweat or draw the They are lighter, easier to the feet, more durable, do not crack, will wear long- er than any Rubber Boots made. A outer sole is easily fastened to the leather inner sole after the first is worn out. new For firemen it is a safeguard against nails enter- ing the bottom of the feet at fires—is quickly put on and holds its shape better. more Mark the prediction: The Rubber Boot No argu- ment about this whatever. Men’s Vulcan Dull Finish Short Boot, made in ‘*Wool,’’ ‘*Fusion’’ and ‘‘Rubber’’ and W. Order a case and give them a trial. linings, widths F A. H. Krum & Co. Western Agents, 161=163 Jefferson Ave., Detroit, Michigan | Draw ||| complaint was registered. standard. MAKERS OF SHOES. Your Own | Conclusion One thousand cases of Leather Top Rubbers were in our factory last season and not one pair came back; || not a single pair ripped or caused dissatisfaction; not a ||| Our this season’s Leather Tops are up to this high | Our price on them for the coming season is || | $2.00 Per Pair. Let us book your order now. HEROLD-BERTSCH SHOE CO. made Draw your own conclusion. Granp Rapips, Micu. Red Cross Protections 17 Inches High Before negotiating for your Lumber- man’s Overs for the coming season do not fail to first investigate the merits of our RED CROSS PROTECTIONS. The rubber is the Goodyear Glove Brand Duck (will not snag.) best oil grain and attached to this is a warm lined waterproof duck, making the best footwear ever offered to the public. Roll sole, Write for prices. Hirth, Krause & Co., Grand Rapids, Mich. 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 and price list. No trouble to show goods and when you are in the city shall be pleased to have you call on us. ARTHUR WOOD CARRIAGE CO., Grand Rapids, Mich. 22 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN The Meat Market Some Specimens of Good Advertising for Butchers, Sononconcnenenenenonenens There’s No Short Cut Only by buying MEAT which we know is of excellent quality and by supplying it in good condition and full weight we can hope to give satisfac- tion to our customers. As our business is dependent upon the approval of our patrons, we take no risks- Everything we offer is of the primest quality. GEORGE H. DEINZER, 64 Dennis Street. @ ohOe Os OROROROROROREORORO to perfection. I consider the above one of the most cleverly worded butcher advertisements ever composed. It seems to hit the nail on the head. Reading it over hastily one would discover no especial merit in it, but the more it is studied—like Shakespeare’s tragedies—the better it becomes. Mr. Deinzer’s advertisement is worthy of a place in your scrap book. The next advertisement is that of Charles Paulus. I think he has permit- ted the printer to use too much space in the head, and not enough to bring out the fact that meat is the article under discussion. Besides, advertisements should be truthful. Even when making a misstatement that can do no one harm, an advertisement loses its force. He says: ‘‘Just got your neighbor tak- ing our meats.’’ I’m quite certain Mr. Paulus has got no neighbor of mine to take meat, because he has never tried. Even if he had, that would not influence me. If I read that Mr. Paulus sold the best quality and sold it cheaper than anyone else, and read something to convince me of it, I should give him my trade, and would not care a conti- nental if he had ‘‘'got my‘neighbor’’ or not. His careless, ‘‘ might as well try us,’’ would have no effect on me, either. { should want a reason for trying him. I advise Mr. Paulus to prepare new copy for his space. his : : Just Got Your Neighbor taking our MEATS Now we want you. Might as well try us. Meats the best. Service the best. Prices right. GUVUVUVyO CHARLES PAULUS’, 52 Hiram Street. SSSSSNNSNH SSSSSGHSHS LOAD AA OS PUVVVGOVV VUVVUVVOP? : : : One of the most enterprising butchers at Union, N. Y., 1s S. Skillman. I re- produce his advertisement exactly as it appears in his local paper, except that I have had a_ border put around it. Right here I wish to advise that when placing an advertisement always give orders that it shail have a border. It improves the appearance of the adver- tisement greatly, and makes it stand out prominently among others that have no borders. But to get back to Mr. Skill- man. If I were he I would devote some Space to naming what he means by “‘everything else.’’ I confess that I do not know. If he sells other things besides meat, and wishes to call atten- tion to them in his meat advertisement, he can not do it successfully by using the general term of ‘‘everything else.’’ Then he says: é We Can Please You! ; ; as well as in everything else. Quality : m best, service best, delivery prompt. We k quote pure home-made sausage. Here, Y too, you'll find the best Beef, State and W Western Pork, Veal, Lamb and Poultry at lowest market prices. q S. SKILLMAN. Z "‘Geeeeceeececeececceeceee ‘‘We quote pure home-made saus- age.’’ The proper piace for the quota- tions are in the advertisement.—Jona- than Price in Butchers’ Advocate. 22. Best Method of Smoking Hams and Bacon. The smokehousés in some large cities throughout Great Britain where hams and bacon are dealt with in considerable quantities are generally built of fire- bricks in the form of arches or kilns, each of which is capable of holding up- wards of five tons of bacon. After be- ing well washed and dusted over with pea meal, the hams and bacon are sus- pended from the iron crossbars which are built across the kilns at a convenient height. The fires are generally made of oak chips, over which is thrown a con- siderable quantity of sawdust, for the purpose of creating a dense smoke, which is so essential for giving the rich brown color which is so much desired; the kilns are then closed and the bacon is allowed to remain therein from two to four days according to depth of color required. The smokehouses used in this country are constructed in a different manner altogether and are considered far supe- rior for the purpose, the bacon and hams being hung in an upper room, while the fre is either on the ground floor or in the cellar. The smoke, hav- ing to ascend some distance before reaching the smokeroom, is condensed and purified from its impurities by passing through a grating formed of fine wire gauze. The fires are made from different kinds of wood, oak or beech being considered the best, with the addition of a few sticks of juniper, which greatiy improves the flavor. The meat requires a longer time to smoke, owing to the smoke being somewhat cooled, but has a far superior flavor to that of Great Britain. A useful size of smokehouse for doing in small quanti- ties is 3 yards long by 2 broad, and about 7 feet in height, with 4 or 5 cross- bars from which the bacon is suspended ; the roof should be made in such a man- ner as to prevent the smoke from es- caping, with a small chimney at one end fitted with damper, so that it can be opened or closed, as desired. The floor should be of firebrick and the door must be so fitted as to prevent the es- cape of smoke. The flitches should al- ways be hung with the shoulders down- ward. After the articles have been placed in position, lay underneath a layer of dry straw, next a quantity of shavings, then a good layer of sawdust (oak wood sawdust is the best if it can be had) and cover the whole of these with a thick layer of wet straw; this will cause the fire to smoulder for a con- siderable time, and also cause it to emit a deal of smoke without burning away too rapidly. A few handfuls of juni- per berries scattered on the above will greatly improve the flavor of the smoked articles. le Might Have Known It. An austere-looking lady walked into a furrier’s the other day and said to the salesman: ‘*T would like a muff.’’ ‘‘What fur?’’ ‘“‘To keep my_ hands idiot !’’ exclaimed the lady. warm, you ° : : : : 7 -Eggs Wanted- 50 Cars of Eggs. If you have large or small lots, write for prices. - - - - - : C. HH. Libby, 98 SO. DIVISION STREET. OOOO OOD POSS OO0 09000400 © Grand Rapids, Mich. 2OOOO6 OS $0050696 000060026 00009006 06600008 00006 060 iY Hammond, Standish & Co.,' f Detroit, Mich. fe Pork Packers and Wholesale Provision . Dealers, Curers of the celebrated brands, i K “Apex” and Excelsior Hams, Bacon and : NG 0 Our packing house is under U. S. Government inspection. Nera iEw am ew ew ema ema) Butterine WS Made in our wholly original and y scientific manner is a food prod- uct superior to butter. 4p Seteeeceeeeececeeeeececeeccn & 66 tw”? ' *“Purity” Butterine c sumer and a “money maker” for the dealer. The great loss and inconvenience occasioned by but- # ter becOming strong and rancid during warm weather are entirely overcome in our “perfect” butter- ine, which makes it more of a summer product than butter. A “leader” with all leading grocers. ys] CS) = CASS Lard, Cooked Boned. Hams, Sausage and warm weather delicacies of all kinds. § 3339 233 “‘Seeee cece ecee cee eeececee cecececeececece Is a “money saver” for the con- XN THE CAPITAL CITY DAIRY CO., COLUMBUS, 0. Coupon Books for Meat Dealers We manufacture four kinds of coupon books and sell them all on the same basis, irrespective of size, shape or de- Free samples on application. Tradesman Company, Grand Rapids, Mich. nomination. ~r, r anche tS ™ WF az ne a in li as 2... = ‘isaalauiaieSebceank abe alps 4 a 7 o teereeatatee best be allt sits. i - ee re x go | PODVOOTCOS 999 OO OOOO OOOOQD '’ SESSA SOS CSS NS acl 6 we Ce en SES Lt esa EEE — large families because he got there first.’’ ‘*We’ll have the world made. over,’’ said the commission man, with a smile, ‘‘and jet you boss the job.” ‘*There’ would be a lot of things left out,’’ said the newsdealer. ‘‘The in- stinct of accumulation would be abdl- ished, for one thing. Even our dogs bury bones now, just to keep them away from the hungry cur that comes dashing down the street with a teakettle tied to his tail. And farmers spoil our streets by robbing them of shade and bees are thrown out of employment by men who manufacture honey. I saw in the paper the other day that forty thousand—-"’ The newsdealer hesitated and_ the commission man made for the door. * Wait,’’ yelled the former, **I’ve got a lot of suggestions to make yet about this new world you’re going to let me set up.”’ But the customer was gone and the newsdealer sat down in a chair and laughed until his sides shook. Alfred B. Tozer. GPOODADDDAODDODHOHFH DOOD HDHHDHHOHHO DH H OOH OOD P)\orth rop, Robertson & @orrier, [P\anufacturing Pharmacists, Spice W\ilicrs, \Mholesale Prug and Grocer Specialties Manufacturers of Queen Flake Baking Powder and Northrop’s Flavoring Extracts. 112-114-116 Ottawa street, East, LANSING, MICH. GPOHOODODHODOHOHOHDDHOODHDVDHADOHDHODADHHOHODDAHD OH HOD Sesesesessseqsqgsesseqqeseesses Seseegcecssesessesseeseessese . . - PEAS, BEANS and RICE... These goods are not steamed or soaked in any manner, consequently all the original @ nourishing qualities and flavor of the raw Peas, Beans and Rice are retained. 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. OO 9000000 0000008 $0600064 66060606 60606000 000000006 OOOO 0OS 06 OOOSCOOO g "Wheat ‘Golden | : Meat Nectar i: Absolutely the finest flavor of pf any Food Coffee on the market Bs If your jobber does not handle order sample case of F j KALAMAZOO PURE FOOD Cv., Kalamazoo, Mich. 5 = oS Se Calo ESS SINE nt " cS G y5) Neon coors sonoma aueaeseuall A delicious, crisp and pleasant Ds health food. | The Worker’s Lunch =| Build it on a biscuit basis—a YUneeda basis. Use any kind of a relish, but one kind of a founda- tion— Uneeda Biscuit. They possess as dainty a flavor as is ever found in the best bread. Uneeda Biscuit have started the thoughtful housewife crackerwards. In Uneeda Biscuit she finds food novelty without loss of nutritive value; a complete, satisfy- ing, health giving food that is always ready, always fresh, always dainty. ‘hese are the reasons why Uneeda Biscuit make the ideal lunch for the business man or the mechanic—for everybody. Order one of the new 5 cent air tight packages. vo 24 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Clerks’ An Employer’s Courtesy Saves Clerk From Temptation. Written for the Tradesman. ‘Well, ‘Constant dropping wears a stone’ and I’m going to try it. Brins- made’s eternally harping upon the idea and there may be something in it. I suppose | ought to be made up differ- ently, but I have seen so much of the cussed side of the man behind the coun- ter that I do anything like this half- heartedly, and I guess the trouble begins right there. Why, Mary, you know what both of us tried to do for Jim Ferris. Your knowing his folks away off in the East somewhere and their asking us to keep an eye out for the fellow made us both think that we should win our en- trance into Paradise by adopting him. Well, we won't go over all that, only when Jim Ferris chucked down into the rut that carried him plump to perdi- tion, I got it fixed in my mind that that should be the last time that I’d waste any more good intentions and the worry that backs them upon any more Jim Ferris this side of the kingdom. I got enough of it and so did you, and it so eternally soured me on the whole detest- able pack that I’ve given ’em a wide berth ever since. Once in a while, when Brinsmade walks into me I feel kind o’ sorry and think I’m carrying the thing too far and then the face of that—that reprobate comes up to me and I get to swearing and that ends it.’’ ‘*Well, precious, don’t waste any more valuable time in coming Straight to the point. You need it in your business. Who is the fellow this time-- that gnarly, freckled-faced, chuckle-headed, forlorn-looking piece of seven by nine intelligence that looks after the shirts and the neckties?”’ ‘Now, here, Mary, you don’t want to talk like that. He doesn't hap- pen to be the man I have in mind; but even if he were what’s the use in let- ting your prejudices run away with your good sense. Young Wilkins can’t help his looks and I’m going to tell you right here that six months is going to change that fellow so that you won't know him. That’s just like a wom- an. [—’’ ‘‘Never mind the rest, precious. | know it all by heart and will put it down to your credit. Who is the fine young gentleman this time who is to chance to get a boost up the commercial ladder at least two good rounds by your earnest efforts?”’ ‘‘T don’t know whether you have seen him. He's at the counter at the right of the main entrance going in. Rather tall, with an oval face, blondish and a rather earnest moustache of the same color; blue eyes and hair parted in the middle ; broad shoulders and shapely; a coat that was made for him and fits him; and a nectkie that he dotes on— the only weak thing about him that I Cam see.” “If you’d said dark hair and brown eyes | should have thought you meant Ferris. Are his eyes close together and his finger joints bunchy? What’s he been doing to start you off? The way you spoke of his broad shoulders hints of a bit of muscle-using. Has he been straightening anybody out?’’ Corner. now, Sce have a Griswold laughed and pushed his chair back from the breakfast table. ‘“What a woman you are, Mary! There was a sort of a scrap at the store last night. This man Standford some- how struck Penrose as a kind ofa ‘Mary Jane’ and it seems that for the week the new man has been here Penrose has been calling him ‘Sissy’ on the quiet and the way the fellow has been fond- ling his necktie has helped to carry out that idea. Penrose thought that the others were with him and when they were going after their coats and hats last night Standford got in Penrose’s way. ‘Get out 0’ my way, Sissy!’ says Pen- rose and, I guess, gave the other fellow a sort of a shove. Standford turned around and saw that Penrose meant it and the next minute Penrose was flat on the floo:, with Standford with fists ready if they should be called for. Without a word Penrose got up and walked off. Then Standford without a word went out too, after he’d straightened his neck- fie! 7 ‘‘Good for him. Do you want him to come to dinner to-night? Your favorite pudding is good enough for that fellow, and I shall make the ice cream myself. Now, don’t let’s jump all over this boy at once and conclude to adopt him un- der a week at least. Let’s find out who his great-grandfather was. I’m_ con- vinced that his ancestors on both sides came over in the Mayflower. You'd bet- ter stop on your way down town and get tickets for the play. We’ll do what we can to show the boy we are on his side and then if that Penrose undertakes to pay him off for his knock-down the boy will be encouraged to go ahead and pol- ish him off.’’ When Griswold was going around to Standford’s counter he saw a_ rather flashily-dressed woman leaving it and Standford reading a note which he had evidently just received. Something about the female stamped her as one who had been seen talking to Penrose and Griswold made up his mind that he would watch developments. The boy slipped the paper into his pocket and looked at the retreating woman with a good deal of astonishment showing it- self in his staring eyes. The woman on reaching the door turned and gave the fellow a glance with an expression on her face which was enough to condemn her. The rest of the morning saw Standford frequently reading the note and Griswold watching him. By noon that gentleman had reached conclusions and as Standford was on his way for his hat to go for his luncheon the manager intercepted him. ‘‘Get your hat and come with me to luncheon, Standford, I’ve something I want to say to you,’’ and the two left the store together. Seated at the table, Griswold began: ‘‘What part of the East do you hail from, Standford?’’ ‘* Baltimore. ’’ ‘Any related to the Calverts?’’ There was a_ swift glance into Gris- wold’s face and a reluctant, ‘Well, yes. My mother was a Calvert. How did you come to think of that?’’ ‘Oh, I’m not.a stranger to Baltimore and I thought I saw resemblances. That’s a pretty good family to belong to.” ‘*Well, we think so.’’ : ‘It’s always been a hobby with me that a man with a name to be proud of has one of the strongest reasons to keep Straight that he can possibly have. A fellow without any ancestry has a chance but no inducement except on general principles of decency to hold his head up and insist on being clean clear through, but with the other fellow it's different. There’s his father and then his grandfather and one or two behind him all straight for some four genera- tions and with that to brace him up you. don’t find that fellow roped in by any good-for-nothing adventuress who takes a fancy to him. I’m ready to bet my last dollar on that fellow no matter what the temptation is. Somehow he isn’t quite ready to break off the family chain of integrity and when both sides of the house are made up of the same kind of material the result is doubly sure. Isn’t that so?’’ “That's the way we all look at it and I think it’s about right. A boy away from home, though, in a big town like this is strongly tempted sometimes. I’ve been here long enough to know that. You see—’’ ‘*You needn’t try to tell me anvthing about it. In the first place he gets lone- some. That’s as far as I’m going now, for I took this chance to ask you to come home to dinner with me to-night, thinking you in just that condition. My wife told me to be sure to make the in- vitation strong, for she had made up her mind to have you come and she _ is go- ing to hold me responsible. 1 want you to say that you'll come and then I’1] tell you the rest.’’ ‘‘Why, I thank you a thousand times but it so happens that I’m about the same as booked for this evening,’’ and in saying this Standford made a move for his pocket as if not quite certain about the hour, which the note would set right. ‘‘If I could be excused by nine o’clock | could come.’’ ‘At nine o'clock, Mr. Standford, you will be seated between my wife and me at the theater in one of the best seats in the dress-circle. That’s all there is to that. There are some engagements it is better to break than to keep. This one with me I urge you to make and keep. That one in your pocket is the other sort. You are not the Calvert to become the missing link, if I know myself; and if you have any more invitations from that sort of humanity who compro- mised you this morning, you'd better settle back on the family dignity and— well, look at her as your grandfather would have! Have a cigar.’’ ‘“Thank you, Mr. Griswold. I accept all three: the cigar, the invitation to dinner and the advice. They came just intime. I'll ring your front doorbell promptly at quarter to seven.’’ There was a small party of three sat down to dinner that evening at 7 o'clock. They had a fine dinner, with English plum pudding and some royal ice cream for dessert. They went to the theater and enjoyed one of the prettiest com- edies that Shakespeare has blessed the world with. They went home afterwards and had one of the daintiest suppers that an interested woman can get up. Then the men of the pariy, late as it was, had some cigars and Griswold showed the young man his room. After the good- nights were exchanged and Griswold turned to go, Standford, with a great deal of unnecessary earnestness, ex- claimed: ‘‘Mr. Griswold, 1 want to thank you for what you have done for myself—and for my grandfathers as far back as Ihave any! Again, goodnight.’’ *‘Brinsmade,’’ remarked Griswold the next time he saw him, ‘‘that dinner business of yours works pretty well— sometimes, ’’ Richard Malcolm Strong. ——_>0<.___ The custom of women in Japan at marriage giving their teeth an everlast- ing coating of blacking is practiced now by only a small percentage, but there are still seen in the cities hun- dreds of women hideous with black ivory and dentists’ showcases contain sets of black teeth. Grand Rapids Bark and Lumber Company We pay Highest Market Prices in Spot cash and mea- ®, sure bark when loaded. Cor- respondence solicited. _ Hemlock Bark, _ Lumber, Shingles, _ Railroad Ties, Posts, Wood. 419-421 Michigan Trust Building, Grand Rapids. W. A. Phelps, President, C. A. Phelps, Sec’y & Treas. 5C. CIGAR. WORLD’S BEST ALL JOBBERS AND G.J.JOHNSON CIGAR CO. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. cad HOUSEHOLD COUNTER ARKET a _ CANDY Loe Fi aa ae | lg ~ & ROE Si a rie alle a iti ‘herbed Beh aa \ » ’ a ~ - + A PE alii cn, a “nly Sale a ? sy EP ites ~ & v ~ eae tibiae is lt MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 25 Commercial Travelers Michigan Knights of the Grip President, E. J. SCHREIBER, Bay City; Sec- retary, A. W. Stitt, Jackson; Treasurer, O. C. GOULD, Saginaw. Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Association President, A. MARYMONT, Detroit; Secretary and Treasurer, GEo. W. HILL, Detroit. United Commercial Travelers of Michigan Grand Counselor, JNO. A. MURRAY, Detroit; Grand Secretary, G. S. VALMORE, Detroit; Grand Treasurer, W. S..MEsT, Jackson. Grand Rapids Council No. 131, U. C. T. Senior Counselor, JOHN G. KOLB; Secretary- Treasurer, L. F. Baker. Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Mutwal Accident Association President, J. BoyD PANTLIND, Grand Rapids; Secretary and Treasurer, GEO. F. OWEN, Grand Rapids. Gripsack Brigade. * Lieut. John Lane, formerly on the road for Corl, Knott & Co., has engaged to take up road work July 1 forthe Cap- pon & Bertsch Leather Co. He will spend May and June in the store posting up on the saddlery hardware line. Thos.- R. Petrie, who has transferred his allegiance from the Simmons Hard- ware Co. (St. Louis) to Foster, Stevens & Co., has moved his family from Kal- amazoo to Traverse City, which city he will make his headquarters hereafter. Guy McDonald, who has had charge of J. F. Muffley’s shoe store at Dowa- giac until recently, has engaged to travel for the Herold-Bertsch Shoe Co., covering the trade of Northern Indiana. Mr. McDonald will reside at Ft. Wayne and make that city his headquarters. D. C. Clapp, traveling representative for the Michigan Furniture Co., of Ana Arbor, shot himself May 4 in the office of the Hotel Hattell at Goshen. He had bought the revolver in Goshen, walked into the hotel and sent a bullet through his brain. No cause is assigned. He was 51 years of age. The remains were taken to Owosso for interment. Greenville Daily Call: Wm. B. Bur- ris has sold his interest in the Bradley Cigar Co. to L. W. Hyde and H. F. Sigler. Mr. Burris has not yet decided where he will go into business, but this much we know, that wherever he goes he will be as much respected and liked as he is here. He is an enterprising, active and a business method young man and we are sorry he feels it his duty to locate elsewhere. > 0 .____- Gradual Growth of Grand Rapids Council, No. 131. Grand Rapids, May 6—There is a principle or faculty natural to nearly all successful traveling salesmen and which others soon recognize and acquire before they become successful: To suppress themselves and emphasize others, while keeping their light from under a bushel and letting it shine with all the wisdom and goodness there are in it, forthe en- lightenment and advancement of all ‘with whom they come in contact, sup- pressing every indication of egotism or self-conceit and at the same time, em- bracing every opportunity to emphasize the virtues of their fellow associates, re- membering the man is most popular who makes the most people think them- selves of most consequence and, with no intention of flattering, well knowing that flattery is not popular under the name of flattery, but, when properly used, it clears from thorns many a weary pathway and strews it instead with flow- ers. Of just such gifted salesmen the U. C. T. Council, No. 131, of this city, is composed. We have no big I’s and little you’s in our council. They are all big you’s—the I’s don’t count. We look at each other through the telescope of brotherly love, with the small end point- ing towards ourselves and the large end towards our brother members, magnify- ing their many virtues in our own hearts. The results are harmony, peace and prosperity, supported by the strong pillars of unity, charity and temper- ance. We added further luster to our Coun- cil Saturday evening by initiating three of Grand Rapids popular salesmen— W. S. Bums, Frank E. Rogers and Chas. W. Jones. Burns was especially honored with the much-appreciated (by the lookers on) honorary degree of Im- presario; and just before the ‘‘ Royal Bumper’’ was led forcibly away, I heard Burns faintly murmur: Oh, zephyrs, blow more lightly. Don’t caress me quite so tightly (Bang!) Gee whiz, boys, stars shine brightly! Pick me up, but handle me lightly. Chas. P. Irish, of this city, and Her- bert Griffith, of Traverse City, have also been enrolled with us since our April meeting. J. B. McInnis, chairman of the Com- mittee on Arrangements for the enter- tainment of the Grand Council May 18 and I9, gave us an exhaustive report of the progress made by the various sub- committees, and if all arrangements are carried out successfully—-and they will be, weather permitting —our visitors will leave us feeling that there is no place like the Furniture City for a hearty welcome and right royal good time. We are going to give the boys the key to the city, but we will keep them so busy that they won't carry away anything but a full stomach, light heart, our royal good will and a feeling of re- luctance to leave us. W. R. Compton. ~— -@ The Boys Behind the Counter. Eaton Rapids—Bert Green, who has been clerking or A. W. Annis for some time, has secured a_ position with the Knapp Grocery Co. Flint—John Farer, formerly with Crampton & Litchtield, has taken a po- sition with Stephen M. Hegel, druggist at Goodrich. South Haven—John Ghent, who for the past two years has been employed in Chas. Hill’s drug store, has taken the position of registered pharmacist in Mrs. J. J. Fabey’s drug store in Benton Harbor. Dowagiac—W. L. Brenneman, for- merly with Gilmore Brothers, of Kala- mazoo, is the new salesman at the White Front to succeed Henry J. Bruen. Charlotte—Arthur Roblin, clerk in the shoe store of Albert Murray, and Fred. Murray, clerk in the shoe store of V. C. Roblin & Co., have exchanged posi- tions. Dowagiac—Guy McDonald has _re- signed the management of the J. F. Muffley shoe store to take the position of Indiana traveling representative for the Herold-Bertsch Shoe Co., of Grand Rapids. —_—_ 2. _____- Dearth of Genuine Mocha Coffee. Wm. E. Curtis in Chicago Record. C. H. Conrad, of Chicago, denies my statement in a recent letter that there is no genuine Mocha coffee in this market, and asks a correction. There has al- ways been a certain quantity of genuine Mocha coffee imported into the United States, but of late years, since the trees were destroyed by the plague, it has been so small that it does not appear in the reports of the Bureau of Statis- tics. An enquiry at the Custom Bureau discloses the fact that the imports of coffee from Turkey and Asia during the last year amounted to 3,676,567 pounds, out of a total importation of 831,827,063 pounds. The supply of Mocha coffee is so small that it is not sold in the gen- eral market and is not quoted in the or- dinary price lists. It is handled only by a few houses for the gratification of epicures. —___»> 2. ______ A man has nerve when he announces himself as a candidate for any office subject to the action of any party that will nominate him. a ee a The Admiral was great at Manila when the occasion offered. He was also ue later on, when he had a chance to be. POLITICAL CORRUPTION IN CITIES. Honesty in the administration of mu- nicipal affairs is the most important element in the politics of any city. The public official who steals money out of the people’s treasury is usually regarded as the worst sort of man sible in public affairs; but there are many far worse. He is only a thief and his peculations are sure to be found out and brought to an end. sut the public official who uses his position and the power intrusted to him to make corrupt bargains with private parties to barter away the rights and pos- property of the people for his personal gain and advancement is not so. easily found out. He may carry on his corrupt Operations until mous extent, involving many persons and vast interests and endangering pub- lic order and the prosperity of the city itself. Such a man public enemy, a foe to the preservation of so- ciety and an underminer of public and private honesty and morals. Whenever and wherever the knowledge of corruption in public places is spread they become of enor- becomes a through the business community, per- sonal integrity will be weakened just as surely as slow poison the vitality of the human body. Let the impression go abroad that polit- ical influence will obtain ad- vantages, and _ the first impulse aroused is a determination to “‘hustle’’ for the favors. A favor granted is an obliga- tion created. A business advantage ob- tained from a politician calls for a cam- paign contribution, and the next favor is too often a cash transaction. The people of Grand Rapids are by no means unacquainted with that sort of official corruption, as the result of the criminal methods pursued in obtaining the present street railway franchise some years ago and the questionable methods by which other concessions have since been obtained at the hands of the Com- mon Council. Bird S. Coler, the Comptroller of the City of New York and one of its fore- most public men in the esteem and affection of the people—an affection won by his. vigorous and_ successful efforts to block and prevent the consum- mation of corrupt and rascally schemes against the people whose servant he is in an article in the May Munsey says: honesty and saps business The modern political corruption is far more dangerous than that of thirty years ago. The old way led to exposure and disgrace, the new leads to wealth and political power. Where men can_ be corrupt in public business and yet keep within the letter of the law the rewards of honesty become mere ashes of young hopes compared with the gains of polit- ical plundering. The City of New York is robbed to an extent difficult to estimate, robbed ina legalized way and often by men who would resent any question as to their personal honesty, all because corruption in politics has been tolerated too long. This fact is bad enough, but its evil re- sults are spreading through every chan- nel of trade and slowly but surely un- dermining business integrity and inde- pendence. It is no answer to this assertion to say that the charge is general or vague. There are few men in the city engaged in large business or financial enterprises who have not had evidence of its truth. Not long ago I asked an officer of one of the largest financial corporations in the city to assist me in a certain public matter. He apologized for his refusal with this explanation: ‘‘I know you are right, but J must protect the interests of my company and can not afford to an- tagonize certain politica] interests. If I did, we should be annoyed and op- pressed in a variety of ways.’’ Mr. Coler well remarks that whenever such methods can be adopted with im- punity the poison of corruption in pol- itics has begun to spread through the community, public spirit has been weak- ened, and business honor is imperiled. If the officers of all the great financial and business corporations in most of the large cities should compare notes in confidence, there is little doubt that many a one could tell a story of poli_t- cal blackmail, oppression or annoyance. Some there are, perhaps, who couid tell, if they would, of valuable favors obtained through the medium of politi- cal influence, but some day they will realize that the debts incurred in that way may become a burden greater than they can bear. Business men who engage in dishon- est transactions with public officials may excuse themselves on the ground that they did not create the condition which inures to their benefit. Asa matter of fact, they are wholly responsible in so far as they create temptations that are too strong for the weak man in public It is difficult to find any excuse for the man who knowingly buys goods from a thief because they are life to resist. cheaper than the price in the open mar- ket of honesty and publicity. “ ——_ oa : Blacklisting Held to Be Legal in Canada, A case of much interest to retail cers was tried in Hamilton, Ont., re- cently. At the assizes there William Harper, a street car conductor, brought suit against the Hamilton Retail Gro- cers’ Association for libel. The evi- dence brought out that Mr. Harper had run up bad accounts with several gro- cers. He owed Mrs. Murphy, a mem- ber of the Association, $7.58, and was sent a notice to the effect that if his ac- count with Mrs. Murphy was not settled in ten days his name would be reported to each member of the Association. As he did not pay up, his name was printed, with others, on a circular with the following heading: ‘* Hamilton Re- tail Grocers’ Association. The follow- ing names, having been dealt with through the collection department, are found to be unworthy of credit, and cash dealings are advised.’’ The plaintiff told the court that the list was shown him by a grocer, and he also saw it on a street car. He said it had been diffi- cult at times for him to keep all ac- counts paid up. After being out three hours, the jury delivered a verdict for the defense. gro- ~ -oe Joint Meeting of Committees at Lansing. Ann Arbor, May 8—The Michigan Board of Pharmacy will hold a special meeting at Lansing May 22. The object of this meeting is to meet with the Leg- islative Committee of the State Phar- maceutical Association in order to dis- cuss or recommend important changes to be made in the pharmacy law of this State. I will undertake to furnish you with the particulars of the meeting as soon as possible, giving you the changes recommended as well as other points that may come before the meeting. A. C, Schumacher, Sec’y. ik > The enthusiastic ovations to Admiral Dewey by thousands of school children might suggest to him the propriety of curbing his presidential aspirations for yet a few years. Not all of these school children are girls. - >.> — An old fellow like Uncle Sam who has had just claims pending against him for nearly a hundred years ought not to talk too saucily to Turkey. a A man who says he is driven to drink looks at himself as a donkey or an ox that may be so driven. - > o> If men could always borrow, few of them would buy umbrellas to lay up for a rainy_day. 26 Drugs--Chemicals Michigan State Board of Pharmacy xpires Gro. GuNDRUM, Ionia -_ - Dee. 31, 1900 L. E. YNOLDS, St. Joseph ~ Dee. 31, 191 HENRY HeEIM. Saginaw -- Dec. 31, 1982 Wrirr P. Dory, Detroit. - - Dee. 31. 198 A. C. SCHUMACHER, Ann Arbor - Dee. 31, 1904 President, Gro. GuNDRe™, Ionia. Secretary, A. C. SCHUMACHER, Ann Arbor. Treasurer, HENRY HIM, Saginaw. Examination Sessiens Star ISiland—Fune 3 and 2. Sault Ste. Marie—Aug. 3 and 2. Lansing—Nov. 7 and & State Pharmaceutical Association President—O. ERERRACH, Ann Arbor. Seeretary—CHAsS. FL Mann, Detroit. Treasurer—J_ S. BENNETT, Lansing. Plans Prepesed fer the Prevent Price Cutting. ien of As the young man with increasing years looks forward hopefully to the fu- ture, picturing to himself victories to be achieved, so he of declining years may be pardoned for indulging in retro- Spective musings. As the yout! rarely attains hts he has aimed to reach, elder, as he look backward upon life's ashes withered leaves, not infrequently tracts comfort and satisfaction from the thought of i immounted and even slight measures of success As Aeneas, in relating to Dido the Story of the defense and sacking of vet the heigh even so ths h Troy, added force to his story by telling how he was a part of it, wo 1 would modestly claim some part in the efforts that have been made during the past quarter of a century or more to place the business side of pharmacy on a bet- ter and more remunerative basis. Have we yet gained the hoped for meed of Success? Assuredly, ne. To many it would seem as if we had lost, instead of gained, ground. Yet this is not true, Since all our efforts have not gone nothing. We have laid a foundation that our successors may some day build upon. We have made history; perhaps a history of errors, whereby it may be that those who succeed us, yea, perhaps those who have already taken our places, may bring about better things. As the pendulum swings over the same arc from one stopping unless time recorded, let us i which point o cated. Many years ago | succeeded in busi- mess to almost the counterpart in per- sonal appearance of the apothecary de- scribed by Shake whe is & tor extreme to the other, never itself ceases to be we can discever at he arc we are now lo- ty if t c - i often quoted at us on festive occasions, although seldem by us. Like Taddeo Saddi’s bridge, celebrated by Longfel- low, he was ‘old, so old.”’ He cou remember almost the dawn of pharmacy re Paha » tur? y , in our country. He told me of the appearance in our midst of the strictly proprietary medicines. It was, if | mis- take not, an Engli i, and was sold in bar rooms, taverns and in general pharmacies, strict Stores. True, | non as now, but those were not so con that did exist stuck closely to their own trade and would have none of the nos- trums. Proprietaries increased slowly but surely in number. As drug stores also increased in number they gradual- ly added proprietaries to their stock in trade, and thus laid the foundation for trouble for their descendants. Once more the pendulum seems to be swing- ing back to its starting point, with the sale of certain proprietary medicines being urged in bar rooms and general Stores. As it reaches the perpendicular may it not bring us once more the boon of prosperity? Let us hope so at least. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN As the operations of the cutter were felt first in the East, particularly around Boston, whence the evil spread West and South, so the first efforts to with- Stand the engulfing tide were made there. So far as I know, Essex county, Mass., is entitled to the credit of mak- ing the first organized effort in the way of a county association and price iist, i 187q. Local associations soon sprang into existence in Salem, Lynn, Haver- hill, Lawrence and elsewhere. The State association followed as a natural Sequence, and the National Retail Druggists’ Association (the forerunner of the N. A. R. D_) was founded shortly after. Each had their brief day, albeit some lived for a number of vears, and went their way, all save . L PERRO 0, 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 2 good supply on, Write us for prices. FLAVORING EXTRACTS AND DRUGGISTS’ SUNDRIES Aluminum Money Will Increase Your Business. Cheap and Effective. Send for samples and prices. C. H. HANSON, 44 S. Clark St., Chicago, Il. A. M. Dean Company, White Lead and Color Works 230 and 232 E. Kalamazeo 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 im every town. ee ee 4A Better Line jof Wall Paper icniiies ie eee gi show this season. We have care- k.q 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 SS Better write us to- day and see an up-to-date line of j- Wall Paper. Heystek & Canfield Co.. f j Grand Rapids, Mich. f The Michigan Wall Paper Jobbers. i SP SR a a—atyaes onde ido tA aly od ~ w se ge “ 4 * A esl Ves A i pit a I ¥ ‘ te Asati 8 ( MIC HIGAN TRADESMAN 27 Declined CE CURRENT pra . 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De gy Y . 300%, t A w? i ath Chenepaati,. ey 35 doer iow h Wee nm a 4 Cimament? ie ss whet & MW TA ~ 5 “7 Ui sacibianatid 1 2) 7 Smilax % ht | ” or Arsen et ity Z a a a -- a ae igquorPnt oar : MW oe Seftiar. a ‘wl Maeomene ager vA St. s p ro Ss agnent, — iB | * : Vinee. -_ pht wh , ' a Wares " y es iy 5 a Site SY : i EB ¢ § 2 3 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN GROCERY PRICE CURREN’. The dealers. rices quoted in this list are for the trade only, They are prepared just before Fone to press and possible to give quotations suitable for erage prices for average conditions of purchase. Cash buy those who have poor credit. Subscribers are earnestly requested to our aim to make this feature of the greatest possible use to dealers. 1 conditions of pur in such quantities as are usually purchased by retati are an accurate index of the local market. chase, and those below are given as representing av- ers or those of strong credit usually buy closer than point out any errors or omissions, as it is It is im- ALABASTINE White in drums.... 9 Colors in drums... 10 White in packages 10 Colors in packages. ... nl Less 40 per cent discount. AXLE GREASE doz. gross Te: 556 00 eee ce... | Fae a es, = se IXL Golden, tin boxes75 9 00 Mica, tin boxes. ......75 3 00 Paragon .. _-_-— ce BAKING POWDER 6 oz. Eng. bn ear Ld ee os Sa) El Purity % Ib. Qf, per doz... 73 46 Ib. cans per doz..........1 20 t @. Gems per Goz.......... 20 Home % Ib. cans, 4 doz. case...... 35 4 Ib. cans, 4 doz. case...... 55 1 Tb. cans, 2 doz. case... 9 JAXON 4 Ib. cans, 4 doz. case... .. 4 Tb. cans, 4 doz. case...... SS 1 Wb. cans, 2 doz. case... ...1 60 Queen Flake moe. See. Ohs0.............2 7 me On., © Ok. hod. ............3 oe. 6 oc. Ob58. .... ........ 4 88 Ree., 2 eos. Oeod.............4 00 Em., 1 Gee. cbse. ............9 0 BATH BRICK a gam Ce = _ BLUING ent eee Te 75 rr tee Arctic, 4 0z, per gross. 4.00 Arctic, 8 oz, per gross. . 600 Arctic, pints, per gross 900 BROOMS etre. ee No. 2 Carpet.......... No. 3 Carpet... ho SS HS GS 3 w oo Sree... 8 Oe eer Gem... ae cmemon WHISK............. 95 menor Whisk... eres a CANDLES Electric Light, 8s... ..........12 Electric Light, 16s. ..... 2a See, Oe... ee Tree, COR. BOR eee CANNED GOODS Apples | 3 1b. Standards..... 80) Gallons, standards 2 65 Beans om 75@1 30 | Red Kidney. 75@ 85) SO 80 a % Blackberries Standards ........... 75 Blueberries Pee 85 Cherries Red Standards........ 85 eee 1 15] Clams. Little Neck, 1 Ib..... 1 10} Corn a ne 75 | Mes... 85 | Fancy . 95 Hominy Standard............ 85 | Lobster | ee ia 185) et... 3 10 | Pienic Talls........ ey 2 2i H. O. Wilbur & Sons. Capital Sweet... 8. Imperial Sweet. ..... Nelson's Premium. Sweet Clover, 4s. . Sweet Clover, ‘ss. Premium Baking. a Dounle Vania... .........- Triple Vanilla cao COCOA oe... | Cleveland a a a Wan Houten, 3¢s5.........__.. Mackerel Mustard, 1 1b 17% Mustard, 2 1b 28 Soused, 1 Ib-. 1 75 Soused, 2 Ib 290 Tomato, 1 Ib 17 Tomato, 2 Ib 29 Mushrooms EE 18@20 Buttons . 2R@3 Oysters Cove, 1 1b a % Cove, 2 1b ce 170 Peaches Pie ' Yellow : 1 Qi S Pears Standard 70 | Faney . Ue Peas Marrowfat 1 00 Early June 1 00 Early June Sifted 18 Pineapple Grated . : _. ew eee... : - 1So@2s Pumpkin ee 65 Good 73 Fancy . : SS Raspberries Standard soa 20 Salmon Red Alaska : 135 Pink Alaska a) Sardines Domestic, 4ys.. @4 Domestic, Mustard @s French . i S@2 Straw berries Standard . i. $S Fancy .... ua 13 Succotash Fair.. : 90 Good 1 00 Fancy oo. 1x Tomatoes Fair . so Good 90 Faney 18 Gallons on 235 CATSUP i COM Bees... 2 00) eo ee 13] CHEESE Acme... te @lil Boeeee ............. @il's Carson City. ........ @u wae... @ Emblem .. B's ——.............. @l2 ioe Bledel... |. @il aoe QW oe ........ ce @li Maversies......... .. @ily Brick . ee a @12 ee @90 Sore @1z enoeeer......... @13 Peano... 5... 30 @75 a oeee........... @18 CHICORY See 5 CHOCOLATE Walter Baker & Co.'s. | Gormee Swees.............. 28 roe ......... ——- oo Breakfast Cocoa............. 46 Runkel Bros. Vienna Sweet .... ..... 21 Momence 28 i SO ee 31 12 Van Houten, + 20 | Van Houten, 40 | Van Houten, 72 Colonial, ys _ 2 Cee GS... ae Beer os een aS. 8 ae me i 42 COCOA SHELLS i bare 2% | Less quantity ............ 3 Pound packages ......... 4 CLOTHES LINES | Cotton, 40 ft. per doz...... .1 00 | Cotton, 50 ft. per doz........1 20 Cotton, 60 ft. per doz........1 40 Cotton, 70 ft. per doz........1 60 Cotton, 80 ft. per doz........ 1380 Jute, 60 ft. per doz.......... 80 Jute, 72 ft. per doz........ - © | Private Growth. ... » | prices on CIGARS The Bradley Cigar Co.’s Bran cu n Advance -&S5 00 Bradley - ete 35 00 Clear Havana Puffs....._. 2 00 ae... ll LULL H. & P. Drug Co.’s brands. —— ae........ ae Qur Manager... - BO ae ULL G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s brand. K » oe... ae Phelps. Brace & Co.’s Brands. Fulton Cigar Co . A. B. Ballard & Co....35@ E. M. Sehwarz & Co... 35¢ ae coo... Se = Royal Tigers. . . 5@ 80 00 Royal Tigerettes.... _.35 Vincente Portuondo ..35@ 70 00 Bahe Bros. Co... .. .. .. 25@ 70 00 | Hilson Co....... .. ....35@110 00 T. J. Dunn & Co..... ..35@ 70 00 McCoy & Co....... ....35@ 70 The Collins Ci Co..10@, 35 Brown Bros. ..... .15@ 70 Bernard Stahl C .35@ 90 Banner Cigar Co.. 10@ 35 Seidenberg & Co...... 55@125 2% 3 75 ~ ‘4 Havana Cigar Co.... ..18@ 35 C. Costello & Co... .... 35@ 70 LaGora-Fee Co....... 3a 70 S. I. Davis & Co. .... ..35@185 eee aGe... |... RS 7 | Benedict & Co....... 7. J338 culweneae oS o $8 52333388553323838 Hemmeter Cigar Co. ..35@ G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.25@ Maurice Sanborn .... 50@175 00 Bock & Co... .. .... ...65@300 00 Manuel Gareia........ S0@Q375_ 00 Neuva Mundo. ....... .S8@175 00 Henry Clay ..,. .... ....85@550 00 La Carolina. .......... .96@200 00 | Standard T. & C. Co. ..35@ 70 00 i. Van Tongeren’s Brands. oe as... ...... 35 00) COFFEE Roasted > HIGH GRADE. FEES Special Combination ........ 20 French Breakiast........... 2% PACKAGE COFFEE. Below are given New York 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. AeeeenIO..........) aS BB eneey McLaughlin’s XXXX McLaughlin’s XXXX sold to retailers only. Mail all orders direct to W. F. McLanghlin & Co., Chicago. Ex Valley City 44 gross.. 1 ae Felix \% gross........ 115 Hummel’s foil % gros . & Hummel’s tin % gross ......1 43 CONDENSED MILK 4 doz in ease. Gail Borden Eagle __..____. 6 75 ae es ee ee + re + eee I 3 COUPON BOOKS 50 books, any denom.._ 1 100 books, any denom. 2 500 books, any denom.__ 11 1,000 books, any denom 20 00 Above quotations are for either Tradesman, Superior, Economic | or Universal grades. Where | 1,000 books are ordered ata time customer receives specially | printed cover without extra charge. Coupen Pass Books Can be made to represent any denomination from $10 down. 23S RBKSA books oe Sa... sc llc eas. lll cl lCU ieee hooks... lO Credit Checks 500, any one denom..___. 20 1,000, any one denom...... 3 00 2,000. any one denom. 5 00 eee 7 CREAM TARTAR 5 and 10 Ib. wooden boxes.___. 3 a 23 DRIED FRUITS—Domestic Apples Sundried __..__. @ 6% Evaporated, 50 Ib. boxes ‘1 7% California Fruits aoe... @i5 Blackberries -. ue Mocwrnes. Pee Pitted Cherries Prunnelles Raspberries California Prunes 100-120 35 Ib. boxes ...... @4 90-100 25 Ib. boxes @ 4 80 - 90 25 Ib. boxes @5 70 - 80 25 Ib. boxes @ 5% 60 - 70 25 Ib. boxes @é6 50 - 60 25 Ib. boxes @i% 40-50 25 Ib. boxes ...... @s 30 - 40 25 Ib. boxes London Layers 3 Crown. Cluster 4 Crown... ____. 2 Loose Museatels 2 Crown 7 Loose Muscatels 3 Crown St Loose Muscatels 4 Crown Sy L. M., Seeded, choice _.. 10 London Layers 2 Crown. 1% > > ee <-- -sssss05++ 30). ML Seeded. famey...- 10% kaa lc FRUITS—Foreign a Oa a aeie er a Less 3335 reo delivered. Cortana ee Fair 10 | Currants i ee ee 11 | Patras, cases................ 6% aoe 13) Cleaned, bulk ..... -.- Ox a. ae packages 000.00. Ty | Peaherry .. ee 15) Citron American 19 Ib. bx...13 | Fair 34 | Lemon American 10 Ib. bx..10°5 Good 22.00.22. yg | Orange American 10 Ib. bx .. 10% ee Raisins | Poanorry..................._.. | Suleman i Geom. | Maracaibo | Sultana 2 Crown ............ eee a rs moe (eee ae en | Java Sultana 5 Crown. Interior.... -+.++.... 26) Sultana 6 Crown. Sultana package .. Mandehling enh 35 | FARINACEOUS GOODS Potato Ce 22 pried Lima ane 53 | Arahian |. 28 | Medium Hand Picked 2 ise - Medium Hand Picked 2 15@2 25 j a ar ie ea a eS 1 20 io Brown Holland.............. |3 02 "150 Son cu 1 00 | Cereals Pion 2 00 Be... 1 40 | Cream of Cereal. _- Migez 3 00 Goze... 2 00 Grain) Susan... 135) No. 8....4 00 No. &.... 234 | Grain-O, large. . -2 25 | No. 10....6 00 No. 10....4 00 Grape Nuts............. ....135| No.2 T_.1 No.2T.. 90 | Postum Cereal, small .......1 35 | No.3 T.2 00 No. 3 T..1 35 | Postum Cereal, large...... 2 25/| No. 4 T..2 40 No. 4 T..1 50 Farina | Northrop Brand | 241 1b. packages ............ 1 25} m. Van. | Bulk, per 100 Ibs....... 2.2... 3 00 | 20z. Taper Panel.... 7 1 20 |, Haskell’s Wheat Flakes | 2 oz. Oval........_... 7 1 20 | 36 2 Ib. packages... .... --3 00 30z. Taper Panel....135 200 | Hominy |; 40z. Taper Panel....160 225 MEO 2 50} Perrigo’s Flake, 50 Ib. drums.......... 1 00} Van. Lem | _ Lauhoff Bros. Flaking Mills. | doz. doz. | Rice Flakes, 3 doz pkg case 2 8 | XXX, 2 0z. obert....1 95 75 Flaked Peas, 3 doz pkg case 2 85 | XXX’ 402. taper...22% 92 ed Beans, 3 doz pkge’se 2 85 | XX, 20z. obert...._. 1 00 35 Chene St., Detroit, Mich. No. 2, 2 0z. obert .... 7 Maccaroni and Vermicelli | XXX D D ptehr, 6 oz 223 | Domestic, 10 Ib. box......... 60 | XXX D D ptehr, 40z 175 Tmported, 25 Ib, box...,..,..2 50 K. P. pitcher, 6 02... 2 2% Pearl Barley ee a 250 ees 3 00 Grits Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s Brand. Green, Wisconsin, bu____. _. i®@ Greem. Scotch, ba........___ 1 3 wee ULL Rolled Oats Rolled Avena, bbl......._... 3 6 Steel Cat, % bbis........ ..1 Monarch, bbl... .. oe 3 30 wee eee Monarch, 90 Ib. sacks. _.._..1 60 Gastar cases = 3 2 ene canes... lc ae Sago a LL. - eis 34s Salus Breakfast Food F. A. MeKenzie, Quiney, Mich. 36 two pound packages _._. 3 60 18 two pound packages ___. 1 8&5 Tapioca eee 2 Es 5 Pearl, 241 Ib. packages ____. 6X | Wheat Cracked, bulk....... .. 242 th. packages 230 FLAVORING EXTRACTS | DeBoe’s 2 oz. 402. Vantin D.C... it 10 bieam D.C ...... 135 Vanilla Tonka...._. 7D 14 FOOTE & JENKS’ JAXON Highest Grade Extracts Vanilla 1ozfullm.120 lozfulim. so 2 0z fullm.2 10 20z full m.1 25 No.3fan’y.3 15 No.3fan*y.1 75 Lemon 5 Vanilla Lemon 2 0z panel..1 20 20z panel. 75) 3 oz taper..2 00 40z taper..1 50) | D. C. Vanilla D. C. Lemon 2 0z 2 a. 75 | Dwight’s Cow. ae FLY PAPER | Perrigo’s Lightning, gro. __2 50 Petrolatum, per doz......... 75 HERBS oe ge ny INDIGO | Madras, 5 Ib. boxes... 55 S. F., 2,3 and 5 Ib. boxes....__50 JELLY V.C. Brand. Stare ULL KS) eee 62 Pure apple, per doz_____.... 85 LICORICE ee es eS ee ee ee LYE Coniease@ 2éc0 __ 120 Condensed, 4 doz.......... 3% MATCHES _Diamond Match Co.'s brands. No. Seer 16 Anchor Parlor ...._..... |) 150 Rete 1s Sear ..4 00 Wererme 50 MOLASSES New Orleans eee i _ 14 eee 24 (entices 8 =. G35 alf-barrels 2c extra MUSTARD Horse Radish, 1doz...... _. 1% | Horse Radish, 2 doz... 3 50 | Bayle’s Celery,idoz....____ 175 PICKLES Medium Barrels, 1,200 count... 5 90 Half bbls, 600 count... 3 4& Small | Barrels, 2,400 count _.....__. 6 96 | Half bbls, 1,200 count _...__ 3 95 _ _ PIPES rom aoe 170 Clay, T. D., full count... || 6 Cees 85 POTASH 48 cans in case. (ees es PoamacatCas 3 00 j RICE Domestic Crimbees Ul, 64s an Nee 5 (anemia Meas ll as Ce 33% _ Imported. span, Not -- 544@6 Japan, No. 2.._....._...46@5 Java, faney head... 5 @% ee @ ee SALERATUS Packed 60 Ibs. in box. Church’s Arm and Hammer.3 15 Deland’s...... eS a oo ee 2 10 ee 3 00 le 3 15 Wyandotte, 100 3{s_......... 3 00 SAL SODA Granulated, bblis............ 80 Granulated, 100 Ib. cases.... 85 ane le | Lump, 145 Ib. kegs........... so SALT Diamond Crystal Table, cases, 24 3 Ib. boxes..1 40 Table, barrels, 100 3 Ib. bags.2 85 Table, barrels, 407 Ib. -2 50 Butter, barrels, 280 Ib. bulk.2 50 Butter, barrels, 20 141b.bags.2 60 Butter, sacks, 28 Ibs......... 7 Butter, sacks, 56 Ibs......... 62 Common Grades 100 3 Ib. sacks... ..............2 15 60 5 Ib. saeks..... 2 6 ro ee 1 95 Oot Saree. 40 25 Sage 2 Warsaw 56 Ib. dairy in drill bags. .... 30 28 Ib. dairy in drill bags. .... 15 Ashton 56 lb. dairy in linen sabks... 60 Higgins 56 Ib. dairy in linen sacks. .. 60 Solar Rock Sey seek 2 Common Granulated Fine............1 00 Medium Fine......0.....000:1 08 fe gi Bebe is wos ren 8 ona A Foy —_ aa . -~ MICHIGAN TRADESMAN SALT FISH Cod Georges cured......... 7 Georges genuine...... @ 5% Georges selected... .. & 5% Strips or bricks.......6 @9 Polioek os G 3% Halibat. — — Chunks _. ence 15 Herring Holland white hoops, bbl. 11 &© Holland white hoops+.bbl. 6 © Holland white hoop, Keg.. = a white — mehs. S foes 100 Ibs..._.... 3@ Round 40 ibs. 1% ae Ww, Bloaters.. : 150 Sincicorel Mess 100 Ibs. ._-. oe Mess 46 Ibs. . ~ 2s — ol... 1 % Mos sme. 15 a Be No.1 46 ibs. 6 No.1 10 Ibs. 1 & No.1 8 Ibs. 1s No. 2 100 Ibs. - 9 as ee. 4 6 [ee oe 1 a 91 Trout No. 1 160 Ibs. No.1 4 Ibs. No.1 16 Ibs mat Se... Whitefish No.1 No.2 Fam = a $00 73 2% —__ Ee 1 ie —. 1 a8 43 sae. a 7 3 ing AUERKRAUT Barr eS Half iain oe. 2 te SEEDS Anise... oe Canary, Smyrna.. _. - Caraway a 2 Cardamon, Malabar.......-- @ — 10 Hemp, Russian Se : Mix Bird.. ag 4- sila ae —— eek : + 5 SNUFF Seotch, in bladders. Maccaboy,. in jars.- oy French Kappee. in jars oe SOAP LP SED BRA Single box. 26 5 box lots, delivered... _._.2 = 10 box lots, delivered ........ 2% AS. KIRK & 60. HRA American Family. — fé... 32 -_. o -.2 2 --2 2% 4 © 2 @ Dusky Diamond, 50 8 oe Blue India, 100 % Ib-. 30 eo ae —— --2 @& Rub foMore meres... SEARCH- LIGHT 100 big Twin Bars.- 3 t& 5 homes. : 3@ i ! 3 = ® boxes... 3 5 boxes or upward delivered free SILVE RR Singie box.. oe Five boxes, “delivered. _.: es Sapolio, kitchen, 3 2 0 Sapolio, hand, a Bee 20 SODA (Ee tn eae SPICES Whole Spices Ae 2 Cassia, China in mats. 2 Cassia, Batavia, in bund .. % Cassia, Saigon, broken... 3 Cassia, Saigon, in rolls... 5S Cloves, Amboyna. . Leee 16 Cloves, Zanzibar. .*........ 14 Nutmegs, pe 55 Nutmegs, 105-10. . Nutmegs, 115-20.. Pepper, Singapore, black. 1544 Pepper, Singagore, white. ZB ee 16*5 Pure Ground in Bulk Allspice........ 16 Cassia, Batavia... Lo 23 Cassia, Sale 48 Cloves, Zanzibar........ 17 Ginger, African..........- 15 Ginger, Cochin .. see 18 Ginger, Jamaica. See B Mustard. 18 Pepper, Singapore, black. 18 Pepper, Singapore, white. 25 Pepper, Cayenne..... —— a | vac Kages Kingsford’s Silver Glows » L-Ib. packages. 6 Ib. boxes . Common Corn Lib. packages fy 1b. packages Hs Common friess i-th. paekages £ ib. eoaiaee.. - 6-Ib-. packages > 4 and Sib. boxes. Be Rarrels .. . . diy STGAR Below are given New York priees on sugars, to whieh the wholesale dealer adds the local freight from New York to your shipping point, giving yon eredit on the imvoiee for the amount of freight buyer pays from tt market in whieh he purchases to his shipping point. ineiuding 29 pounds for the weight of the barrel. Domino .. Cut Loaf. Crushed Cubes - Powdered Coarse Powdered XXXX Powdered Standard Granulated Fine Granulated. " Coarse Granulated Extra Fine Granulated - Conf. Gramulated_ 2 Ib. cartons Fine (ran Th. ime ¢7Tan ine Gran — oan rie ¢ Tar Confectioner’s A No. 1. Cok ambia A. ». Windsor A. . Ridgewood A . Pheenix A . Empire A A e ‘ BO PAM Wake Bo | SYRUPSs Corn Barreis.. Half bbls 1 doz. 1 gallon cans 1 doz. *s gallon cans 2 doz. % gallon cans Pure Cane TABLE SACCEs SAUCE The Origin Genuine Lea & Perrin’s, large. Lea & Perrin’s, small Halford, large Halford, small. Salad Dressing, large Salad Dressing. srnaii TOBACCO Seotten Tobaces (o."s Pram Sweet Chunk plaz Cadillae fine ent Sweet Loma fine eut VINEGAR Malt White Wine, © grain. Malt White Wine, grain. Pure Cider, Ked Star. Pure Cider, Robinson Pure Cider, Silver. PERRINS’ Worcestersha » 5 > $ £ £ s 4 $ + 4 4 “ . $ 4 4 i sy e s ro WASHING POWDER Tub Ne More Rub-No- More, 10 12 oz WICKING No. 6, per gross. No. 1, per gross. No. 2, = — No. 3, Bushels ..... oe wide band. Market .. i Willow Clothes, lar i Willow Clothes, me Willow Clothes, small. Butter Pilates No. 1 Oval, 20 in erate. No. 2 Oval, 20 in erate. No. 3 Oval, 250 in erate. | No.5 Oval, 250 in Clothes Pins Boxes, gross boxes eeee ee owee ee wen SESS FSSsn te he ee bi WSERBSUTSEWHSH va WMVy ne bea ‘ Bussessd Bi 4 ‘ PURER ws ‘ BRAS ue Mop +tick« Trojan spring Eelipse patent spring No! common No. 2 patent brush helder 1? 1. estten mop heads Pait« Zhoop Standard hoop standard -wire,. Calle -wire, able €edar. all red. brass bennd Paper, Eureka Fibre Tabh= Sineh,. Standard, ¥« i+ineh, Standard, Vo if-ineh, Standard. V« Mineh, Dewell, Vo i*ineh.. Dewell, Vo i¢+ineh. Dewell, Va No. tf Fil Vo. 2 I No. 3 Fibre Weh Rewrt. Bronze (inne )-wev Denhtie Lemme “ingie Aeme Donibie Peertecs Single Peerless Northern (neen Donhie Dupier Good Luek Universal Weed Revew '~ E im J i im I Sim F 7 im i> im. ‘“ssorted: 15-17 isserted i VRE4LAT € 488 east Foam ~~ ee ; t Po tag Yoast (r= mm 3dee Vagie |) ~ast ie tee Sumlight Feast. .: ox Marner’ «afte € Pearreteod Powers Vass ™ Pa ~ lear Semele i Short ent “ Pie 2 Rony 4 Pam ‘ Pry “ait Beaute Ro es Perszet. Extra shorts seeevkerd Weer < Hames. 52>. arora Hames, 14). arora *“ Hams. 4b. aeorage * Hames. 68> ore“ * Ham fr'ed soot s Shoniders (%. ¥_ent % Bacon. clear » Me ‘abfornia hams s S_arche Tee ‘ om pewine Kettie . eet Bib Tohe advan 6. Tote aieaner Bib. Tine atcanee 2 > Pails. afranee 61> Palle advaner 31) Palle aicaner > Palle awicanee age + Podoaa Liver P rankiort Pork Poewwt Tonge Homieneoce Poof Extra Mess Peme' ons Rivmyp Pick’ Peet Kite, % The 4 bite. # is ig bis. @ He Tripe Kits, 15 The i, bde., @ The 5 iis. 6 Be Cming- Pork Beet ronumds Peet miidies Sheep . Beattori ne Kolls, éat vy SOK ry we © & ¥ » - ARUAUSESE WSSSS 7S SMUG J$8eByve Se ui * . Seseae .. ‘es * vss $F ue \ seu hae tae a 1SGS25 eyeing Reet FY ene peste gS lao “ao owe $ Pre pew WE ott gle or er FT matt a we thet Hatha aoe ll 2 eer Wwe ater Tew w ener ry ag i ae © sere se Teeter tor > am AEs Ry Mam cert a esi “ed eae PF tame eee rr w reg oy rat Ven 2 ai Tele gree a Ca ee gee, aif ne pret Te Bete ts ont Pott. F ative cpio te pase ete gory Ce rt gation pent iy eo a yt in of owe - sees mae Noe pono Sawa a thee: Pe oa ig. een we a pee er er ie Aer or lle apy sare Whine Ma vs mi ad Oa mnt a Pm soy on sei . wr mt er ay aha wae we ra i ~ ® i © eigee fn origal ia a al gh a emery a Pa ene al ~ al nigga Baty ge yo ne 7 creat a oe ed Rvrerrme yt Serta Py ett ps , 5 va ae , 4s sa tht ie i , 5h tee + are SK a Fos 0 pce te ” Tes at we sti cs i i a oa sa Home sty li wii yt il a at Aa . “ rig wot ya We emg ian “ya i Al « # ion tes me, ag ys ene ge cot “it i im tag iy a # ia El “ ii Mit a“ i a " my ¥ fe - “ ¥ i vague “ i” at * age “ Nae gt as ae ” a sa geet wt we atm it pean m% sive ca * is oe A ah a ee ee Pb atl igs * rep ty snl ler om eee it atl ou - ” 6 a" * ee me a - te noel ape os i % ” ca “ “ — “ vs sev « Pte 8 ‘eee ‘ * * a mae bigs nt > «. val ae a ‘t wrilnnme * ee ea etait te i a isi 3 vs Wl eae ie i 30 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN _ Getting the People Cursery Review ef Same Recent Adver- tising, H. M, Koffman & Son, of lin, write as follows: Kawkaw We enclose one of our advertising bills, which kindly look over and crit icise, We have always taken great in terest in reading your columns and fing it helps us wonderfully, We issue bills j | i | j ; similar to this eight times per anna, | but begin to feel that Please give your opinion, The circular submitted by my pondents and the display could be improved up on, but the great objection to it is that the matter is not Interesting jt contains almost nothing but prices, without any introductory remarks, making it rather dull. My advice to Messts, Koffman & Son ts to endeavor to puta little ‘snap’? into the advertising, in order to make it more readable. Elight times a vear is not often enough to issue a circular Even if a circular is month, without other advertising intervening, it gives the opportunity to the public of forgetting the store and to be forgotten is almost as fatal as to CUPTES Issued once a any go out of business. If itas not advis- able to issue a large circular every week, I should advise the use of three smaller circulars, followed by one larger one. The constant pounding away at a series of names is bound to produce the desired effect in time, and not such a very long time at that. The prices quoted in the circular seem to be low enough, but the fact that the reading matter is not interesting will undoubted- ly affect the pulling power of the ad- vertising. ‘More advertising and more ginger’’ is my prescription for this case. iS Not especially well printed | IT US too often, | | A few price dints W. 1. Benedict, of a circular and two advertisements, all of which are worthy of high praise, Belding, encloses a Harmon & Pennington, of Charlotte, }send in a large advertisement for crit- Yhey are bright, interesting and, at the | . i ~ u Spray Your Fruit Trees The apple orehards af Western New SREPPIN® Oke DY Their number, size and the care faKen of Them iplay is t { York | AS & result The trees | WHR de loaded to the breaking pokat with per | TOE APES Tre farmers Chore ealtivate the | ground between the Trees and spray with | Fordeann Mixtare. da same villages & @ar } Tres Palat, REW Celliag, REW site Wall, Rew BE toad of sulphate of Capper is sald Them for | TRat purpose, Tt pays Grea some That abe stag and almost spoited, 2s WONEN FY VOY POOKEE fo Spray S ar 4 Eiayes With Bordeaux Mixtare made after Eis for mwas 6 Jbs, sulphate of Capper, 4 1s wad S OVREES PALIN green te OB gallons of Walter Paris green 289, ia ST. lots tte. Sulphate of copper, 61, lots at Fige ih S01D. lotsat he. London purple we pound We'll Gel. vou mote about iP youl eal W. L. BENEDICT, Draggist. =~ HE SAID! Last Satuniay a customer asked for a bottle of Busy Bee Toothache Drops. As we handed it to him he said “several vears ago when there Was a dentist up stains TP wanted a tooth pulled Dut he Was not in his office, T puta Hite of Busy Bee Toothache Drops on some eotton and pushed it into the tooth—it has neverached of bothered me since.” 1e bottle, What it Cures, A cough following “Grippe” often is not helped by the old proprietary cough cures and expeetorants — because these patents nearly all contain opiates or nareoties in some form, Which dry up the secretions and make the trouble worse tustead of better, Busy Bee Cough Honey relieves the air pas sage of all unhealthy seeretions and heals any throat irritation. 10e size holds 15 doses, 60 doses in the we size. W. 1. BENEDICT, Druggist. same time, have an air of candor about them which adds greatly to their effect. I reproduce the advertisements and hope that they will be of benefit to some others of my readers and also to demon- strate that good advertising is only a matter of telling the truth and telling it in an interesting and attractive fashion. TWH PAY Vou, | , ‘ \ i The Trees WH as easily bear goad apples ax |} ) add dopordadle im Shoes, DOANE OUP ERANAATES i Dacked by the maker ) { sya Ficism, which is reproduced herewith, So faras the wording is concerned, || have no objection to make, but the d@is- nor well balanced: in orher | words, the heavy display lines are so] a at Aa Entire Traasiormation Scene | Our store Ras wadergee a Worden change Tags, EVERY TRS boing arranged Jast ast should be ta properly Rowse and display oar incoming | rehases Of NEW SPRING” POOPTWEAR ; wok GAY DEAS a REW sheeting of What IX Dest NO Make roo PoP Eres | WEL KOREN We Rave Iaagerated and invite voy i to share aa CLEAN SWEEP SALE oF Te Dalance of The Goodspeed stock, begin WIRE OF WENT SALWAY MONA, ApH OS, contin wine wo Weeks. We mightadd Nght here Ghat the quantities are small and prices qvroted rear Quick Work, AL S4 and 3.50 Shows, Sa, ALL SS Shoes, 82.23, AN 82.50 Shoes, 82, ALL? Shoes, $1.50, These and many other bargains ean be had in both ladies’ and gentiemen’s shoes. We want you to inspect the genuineness of this CLEAN SWEEP SALE) we want you to inspect the at tractiveness of ow NEW SPRING SPOCK. We sell only the best and at lowest prices. CALL AND SER. HARMON & PENNINGTON close that one kills the effect of the other. If the heading had been made heavier and the lines in which the prices are quoted had been made lighter or in smaller type the effect would have been much better. An inch of white space all around the advertisement would have served to relieve the apparently over- crowded condition of the advertisement. These criticisms may seem far-fetched, but, if I could show you the advertise- ment reconstructed as | have suggested, you would admit that the point was well taken. jimpreve our advertising, pare Charles H, Coy, manager of the Coy Mercantile Ca, of Alden, writes as fol- lows : } mail you under another Tcover copy of advertisement for this week. Kindly paint out the weak points, Put the ““hooks** tate it, for we are anxious to Some mer chants say that it does not pay to ad- vertise in small towns, We find it pays pand pays well, provided we change fie- i quemty, advertise seasonable goods and throw life into the advertisements, We Rad also that it pays to use cuts They like red neckties—sure to be no- | teed, The advertisement in question is handicapped by being set up in several styles of ugly and antiquated type, and yet it is, in the main, a good adver Say, Mister? Let us get Nght down to business and brass tacks and figure WEA You on shoes, Shoes that will stand hard wear and lots of banging. We know and you Know hata shoe to stand up ia this sandy country has got to be built just right, of good, honest, durable leather, The fellow who had swallowed the fifteen centst did it to have a (ehange.) Perhaps you have been disappointed in the wearing qualities of your shoes. If so, swallow your disappointment and change on to our lines; we know we Will please you, (Prices) The Coy Mercantile Co., Alden, Mich. tisement. I must, however, enter a se- rious protest against the attempted joke in the introductory paragraph. It is a good plan in advertising not to say any- tiing funny unless you are quite sure it is very funny and then only when its connection with the article advertised is clear and unmistakable. This sup- posedly humorous paragraph is rather deep for the average intellect and its relation to shoes is decidedly obscure. Otherwise, the advertisement is thor- oughly good and deserves a great deal of credit. W. S. Hamburger. what he gets. ‘PROFIT and the only it—you are trading old-fashioned scales time, for you can’t The Computing invested in business. Make your customer pay full value for You are entitled to a just reason you don't get “sight unseen;” your will beat you every Stand to give down weight; it means loss on every weighing, and a total loss of all the capital you have The Money Weight System will insure you a profit. Our scales are sold on easy monthly payments. Scale Company, Dayton, Ohic. \ MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 31 PAY NO PROFTFTE. Advertising Sigas Which Clatter Up the Narre. The time -has grocer ought to come when the retat weigh every move he makes in the scale of t estion ‘Does it pay me a living If a given move dvesm’t pay hima living profit, he oughtn’t to make the MOVe, This looks radical at first glance, A ler of peopl le will saw that there is an other factor besides profit “Wall this do me credit as a business man and he a good advertisement for my business? 1 admit that that is unquest PRES ent, Dut, after all, the prot is the Stronger t rig, Hecause i" goes rg down to the bottom of things. A man] may be doing a whole lot of things that} are a credit to him asa business man but if he doesn’t make a profit he very Soon not be a business mian, Now we'll draw right down to the question of the retail grocer displaying the manufacturers’ this littl sermon signs in his store. That's the text this morning, brethren, and we'll see what we will make of it, I see a whole lot of manufacturers beginning to squitm a little. Never fear, gentlemen; if you are doing the square thing by the retailer, this little talk of mine can only do you good. You go into any grocery store, no matter where it is, and you'll find the walls plastered and the posts covered with signs. ‘‘Quaker Oats, the World's Breakfast ;’? ‘‘Friends’ Oats Nature’s Breakfast,’’ and a whole lot of other stuff just like it. Why, ! was in a coun- try store the other day where a grocer refused to post a public-sate bill in his store because ‘“‘there wasn’t room,.’’ And there wasn’t, either; the walls were covered with advertising signs and the sale bill had to go. All these signs advertise specialties that the grocer sells, but all of them don’t advertise specialties that he wants to sell. And there you have the root of the whole matter. The grocer should help the goods that help him. He should post the signs that advertise the goods that pay him a profit, and he should throw out those that don’t. A good many manufacturers have got- ten extremely arrogant about this sign business, and the retailer has educated them to be. A few weeks ago I was standing in z retail grocery store about twenty miles from Philadelphia, when a salesman, with a big grip, came in. The grocer was busy, and while waiting for him, what did his salesmanship do but reach in his bag, pull out a tin sign, and tack it up. Wouldn’t that jar you? For all I know, it was a good sign to have there. The goods that it adver- tised may have been profitable goods. It is the nerve of the salesman in putting it up without as much as “‘by your leave’’ that riles me. In a way, a grocer’s walls and _ posts are an advertising medium, just like a newspaper. The grocer has as much right to charge for space in his medium as a newspaper publisher has to charge for space in his. I know a grocer in the suburbs of Philadelphia who will allow a manufacturer to paint a sign on his outside wall, but only for a considera- tion. Altogether, he makes about $50 a year out of his walls. I know another grocer on the space on his roof to some other peo- & t , ple. He says Market street who rents out | the rent trom? these signs “ LB.LSTING > “er ontrack neariy paws hes rent meiy Raradie wail coming, nine @ “ 4 ii fftererns wm wa canaenens s he eh gli . . — = fei Sor er f& owlate ar oe a » = every Stigm Oy tbe me Yeomsrettt: th walls? tag = ul Qe Qs tt re ESR, ae “ — * = ° = SOME Baa RCtiUrers wi bowtie é 2 = Wh ™ * So aad . s Wy ¥ & > Fowl x LUASTOVs or walk op >: e we Daa Pe ~ See Tree - 2 ns. Perea Ler % ree onea.2. = : store te & deen. cumple Ue yp aw qumieer BD ah gmrce s _" . Noetea, Eh, Tie pemnerned a sD > . 7 Py \ t ~ ty : iirreertt ates. Toa. a¥ xe * . > m << Ww Sa¥ mM < oN Shs ee ae Sere : Munch > ba . ' rete rl ee + thiaed we re giving ¥ wee Decne eae ae ae = ang . CFOATIONS ae : : 2 “tar ain Chr wails “hth de Lie : Caer EL ¢ = CoOSt Us “ nS z witileeee. artis wi a s 3 } tw & herent? Sh aga MIQMS ¢ chars : Wart s es ‘ Dueuk Sen iz £2 ~ cu wee . = x N St ES EOS ~~ | ee we , Yer ete hee e “-— : k PRON am «SS : LIS hing” 2 ALARA “4 = eS s “ : hing im ao phew oe \ ore ~ oe < rn i - = * * i iy = ¢ y maAY walls . 2S. Peet St. Geet Peer : i Nine Ya Bre ~~ AS ra “e ‘ rei ee wth uz © tormmnas eo mats in hover ; a er Dee nage lg ~ @ . uN ; wm “ wt i a~ se s $i sa “se ~ = ric RUS minen % # * aan t an we? < hte tategrr : Pay leer eee " didn't ‘ 7 o r CEy NS aS - ‘ t Ls ‘ ‘ : st ' i gk Was a siz “ms * mS Pink 3 2 ’ a) © Seton! adwertis * 3] eo roa Ww ts | “ym ce a 1\ . " re - ; ¢< tw make *«s z \ Ty IwNnY with in uy w * o malt other—-using his mouth to damn it and wre ~ tn urT : Uk ee ig WE INTERIOR WALLS ™ ' WIS WALLIS TO AdVe;»°risc Se, ae . = " ¥ . “ “ wt a - e : \ ” Chere are plenty of goods tt av the wiky WH r ALAR AS auc \ Lat grocer a profit, and the manufacturers TINE satieg . " “i r ] 5 oh ae ened hui frevts - co ‘ — ah 2 i of a lot of them yet out St as pretty! tt ~ signs as anvbody. Those are the sort] Kor of signs the grocer ought to save his] a Ne Ne » a n . t y ? ? walls for—the kind that he him to ure , av ‘ «t cyWET the goods he wants to sell because they “" : , pay him a pr ont. 7 a ire In this dav it’s got to be a cle case | rr i £ ‘ i - , . a « of “you tickle me, [ll tickle y } . . r r Stroller in Grocery World. NE Sears s Sells : . 4 n ‘ ™ ‘te nite . \ ‘LY ° » of ¥¥ 4 t _ > non lee ot Glover’s Unbreakable Mantles — nar nti — «tt are the best, but we carry a complete line of STARLISHE! in favor. 8 - Gas and Gasoline Mantles (of all makes) and imitations ask paint dealer of TY) t Chimneys, Shades, Burners, Miea Goods, ete druggist for tint ard -. ~ . ; j 3 vy » ’ } « le» Keep in line and use Glovers’ Unbreakable w for interesting beeklet on GRAND RAPTPX & & ERT ee Mantle. ALABASTINE CO.. Grand Rapids : : dl e : ° a “ae Me iw? Glover’s Wholesale Merchandise Co., Mich. nant Cagpitin, Mitnt Grand Rapids, Mich RUBBER STAMPS You can do business with. Write now to BUSINESS STAMP WORKS. 49 and so Tower Block, Grand Rapids. Mich. Catalogue for the asking. Both Phones 2255. MOSELEY & SHELBY, SUGAR BROKERS, We work direct and can interest you Wire or write us for prices. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 25 TOWER BLOCK. Established 1780. Walter Baker & Go, £10. Dorchester, Mass. The Oldest and Largest Manufacturers of yPURE, HIGH GRADE |- COCOAS CHOCOLATES on this Continent. No Chemicals are used it: their manufactures. Their Breakfast Cocoa is absolutely pure, delicious, nutritious, and costs less than one cent a cup. Their Premium No. 1 Chocolate, put a> Biue Wrappers and Yellow Labels, is the piain chocolate in the market for family use. Their German Sweet Chocolate is good te eat and good to drink It is os nutri tious, and healthful; a great favorite = ers should ask for and be sure that t ae genuine goods. The above etpsnael oe every pac Walter Baker & Co. Ltd. | Dorchester, Mass. 8-9 Tower Block. - Manufacturers of all kinds of mterior fish. counters, show cases | grills, fret-work, mantels, starr work esks, off toves. chasch | work, sash and doors. Write for prices amd estimates to the McGRAFT LUMBER COoO., aie Sichigen Se ; é ‘ t ; 4 a Pare 32 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN HIGH WATER MARK. Loans and Discounts Larger Than Ever Before. The bank statements just rendered, showing the condition April 26, are'very satisfactory. ‘The loans and discounts for all the banks, including the trust companies, are $11,155,485.59 and_ this establishes a new high water mark. The national banks carry $7,741,782. 32 of this amount, the savings banks $3,051,032.96 and the trust companies $362,670. 31. The best previous record of the national banks shown in the February statement did not reach the present level by $400,000, and the savings banks have $220,000 more than before. As compared with April 5 one year ago the national banks have in round figures $750,000 more loans and discounts and the savings banks have $675,000 more, The increase in two about $1, 800, 000, In stocks, counts the national banks carry $337,- 661.66, the savings banks $2, 320,875.S0 and the trust companies §454, 260.84. This is not far different from the Feb- ruary statement, but as compared with a year ago, shows a falling off in the national banks of $170,000, and in the savings banks of s8o0,000, The banks are tinding more profitable investment for their funds than in low interest se- curities. Since the February statement the Old National has increased its government bond holdings from $50,000 to $207,000, the latter including premiums. bonds will be used as the basis for addi- tional circulation, the order for which has already gone in, The National City has ‘‘written off'’ its premium on bonds as an asset and the holdings now ap- pear at par, The national banks are carrying $1,034,889.73 in outside banks, the sav- ings banks $609, 796.04 and the trust com- These are slightly usual, but not ever years is bonds and mortgage ac- ‘These panies $284,585.70. smaller balances than enough to be noticeable. : The cash items in the national banks aggregate in the savings banks $339,028.67 and in the trust com- ‘These are about the $070, 335.15, panies $26,930.08. average amounts, The surplus accounts in the national banks show $600,634.86, an increase of $53,086.27 since February 13. The sav- ings banks have $206, 234.17, an increase of $24,225.52 since February 13. The average net earnings in the ten weeks on the capital stock of the banks is 2.66 per cent. As compared with April 5, 1899, the national banks have increased their surplus by $54,244 and the savings banks $48,597. All but one of the banks show substantial increase in the surplus account, with the Kent leading with an increase of $35,000 within the year. One of the national banks shows a de- crease of $30,000. The total commercial deposit is $3,980, 728.71, which shows a decrease of $19,000 since the February statement and about $20,000 less than a year ago. The certificates and savings aggre- gate $7,794,631.54, which is $40,000 more than in February and $845,000 more than a year ago. Inthe year the national bank certificates have run up nearly $300,000 and the savings banks savings and certificates have increased nearly $650, 000, t..Che bank deposits aggregate $1, 163,- 536.83, which is somewhat below the average for the last two years. The banks tributary to this market and which deposit here have use for a large amount of money at home, which ex- plains the slight slump. The total deposits, including the trust companies, is $13,957,584.54. The na- tional and state banks,aggregating $13, - 134, 569.06, show a decrease of about $3,000 as compared with February 13, but compared with a year ago the in- crease is $891,448, and with two years ago, $2,000, 000, (Three of the banks show rediscounts or bills payable to a total of $261,220. Seven when nearly every bank had rediscounts, it was due to the heavy shrinkage in deposits, but now it is on account of the brisk home demand for money. The Old National alone has $174,300 in rediscounts, but as soon as its new circulation is issued this will be taken up. years ago, ok > The Old National Bank will occupy the offices of the Peninsular Trust Com- pany while the rebuilding of its bank- ing house is in progress. Harvey ]. Hollister recalls that it was just fifty years ago last Saturday that he arrived in Grand Rapids. The town then did not much resemble the city of to day. : The bank clearings Monday reached near if not The heavy clear- $479, 332.91, which is the high water mark. ance was due to the transfer of the city money from the Kent Savings Bank to the Grand Rapids National. Last Sat urday Cashier Verdier, of the Kent, ex- ecuted a certified check for $241,000, the amount to be transferred, and sent it with his compliments to the Grand Rapids National. This quarter of a million dollar bit of paper went through very the clearing house Monday, and the bal- ances to be settled on all the business of the day reached $242,766.54. The Kent settled its adverse balance with Detroit and Chicago exchange and checks on the local banks where it The clearing house set- tled with the Grand Rapids National with New York, Chicago and Detroit exchange and $40,000 in gold and cur- rency. This $40,000 represented prac- tically all the real money handled in the big transfer, the remaining $200,000 be- ing passed in the book-keeping. ek car- ries deposits. Secretary George E. Hardy, of the Michigan Trust Company, has gone to Denver, and while there will attend the annual meeting of the Denver Gas Co., in which Grand Rapids capital is interested to the amount of $300,000. or $400, 000—-par value. —_—___» 0. The Grain Market. Wheat has ruled very steady in the spring wheat markets, the visible show- ing a decrease of 2,647,000 bushels, which ordinarily would be a very strong argument for an advance. However, the exceptionally fine growing weather held it down. Inthe winter wheat mar- kets wheat has gained in price, owing to the scarcity of that kind. For the present we see nothing to either depress or elevate prices, so the market is in a waiting mood. Corn has deciined, contrary to all ex- pectations. The visible showed a de- crease of 4,750,000 bushels. Stocks are low and farmers are not selling. Ex- ports have been large and still prices have sagged about Ic per bushel. Un- less there is more offered prices will be better. Oats have been very steady, the de- mand absorbing all offerings. The vis- ible made a decrease of goo0,o00 bush- els. Should this decrease continue a few weeks it would run the visible down to a very low point, as there are only 7,891,000 bushels in sight. Rye has sold off 1c per bushel. About 55¢ is all that choice rye is worth at present. Beans remain very quiet at $2.08 in carlots. Flour has ruled strong, in sympathy with winter wheat. Prices will prob- ably go up a little, in accordance with wheat. Mill feed has been reduced soc per ton for both bran and middlings. Receipts of grain have been rather small, being 34 cars of wheat, 4 cars of corn, 16 cars of oats, 1 car of flour, 1 car of straw and 5 cars of potatoes. Millers are paying 68c. C. G. A. Voigt. ee a The Typewriter Good For the Eyes. Oculists say that the typewriter is a boon for the eyes, the machine strain- ing them less than the pen both in the writing and the reading. It is said that a person can typewrite for eight hours consecutively with little or no fatigue. 2 —<__ Some men are unreasonable enough to want to marry an angel and expect to possess a wife who can cook. They for- get that the fires and cooking are not in heaven. "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. } OR SALE OR EXCHANGE F FOR STOCK of Groceries—Forty acre farm one-half mile from railroad; all clear; good house and barn; good peach, plum and apple orchards, all bear- ing. Fruit crop this vear will average $1,000. Address No. 837, care Michigan Tradesman. 337 Kok RENT—DOUBLE STORE, EITHER whole or half of it, 40x65; plate glass front; modern fixtures; electric lights; sewer connec- tion; water; centrally located, with postoftice in same bloek. Address Box 32, Vicksburg, Mich. 336 \ , ANTED—-HARDWARE STOCK, $1,500 TO Y $2,000, in town of 1,500 to 2,500 inhabitants; doing good business. Address No. 344, care Michigan Tradesman. 344 JANTED—SEVERAL FIRST-CLASS .¥ salesmen for Ohio, Indiana, Hlinois and Michigan to sell the largest and strongest lines of rubbers on the road. Salary or commission. Write for particulars, giving references, The L. A. Dudley Rubber Co., Battle Creek, Mich. 346 POE SAL CHEAP—DRUGGIST’S PRE- scription case, good size; good as new; two sets seales, Address E. E. Day & Co., Wayland, Mich. 343 SOR SALE—CHOICE STOCK OF GROCER- ies in manufacturing town of 5,000, sur- rounded by best farming country out of doors; Southern Michigan; best location; finest store; modern fixtures; largest trade; all eash; a moneymaker; sales $40,000; no trades; a rare chance for one who means business. “Address Lock Box 53, Niles, Mich. 345 ke SALE—WHOLE OR HALF INTEREST in dry goods and clothing store; country town; no trades. Address No. 342, care Michi- gan Tradesman. 342 PARMACIST WISHES SITUATION IN live town. Best references. Address No. 341, care Michigan Tradesman. 341 ke SALE—DRUG STORE; BEST STOCK and location in city; $6,000 year trade; low rents; population 5,000; sickness cause for’ sell- ing; will not trade. Murray Waltman, Dunkirk, nd. 340 bp SALE—STOCK OF GROCERIES IN good town; doing good business. Reason for selling, other business. Address No. 339, eare Michigan ‘Tradesman. 339 gers SALE—STORE BUILDING ANDSTOCK consisting of shoes, clothing, dry goods, gro- ceries and small amount of hardware; stock in- voices about $3,000; store building worth about $2,000; annual sales about $14,090; a hustler can easily do $20,000 business; located on railroad; population, 500; good farming country; no com- petition. Will sell for cash, cheap, and give good reasons for selling. Address No. 331, care Mich- igan Tradesman. 331 W ANTED—$2,500 DRUG OR SHOE STOCK. If drug stock, must be doing good legiti- mate business; no joint; cash. Address No. 328, care Michigan Tradesman. 32. - SALE—NICE CLEAN STOCK OF drugs, invoicing $2,000; well located; ex- penses light; full prices; _. cash sales $475; cheap for cash. Address E. F. G., care Mich- igan Tradesman. 333 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 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 AKERY FOR SALE—GOOD LOCATION for a good baker. Reason for selling, cannot stand inside work. Address No. 326, care Michi- gan Tradesman. © POR SALE—$3,000 HARDWARE STOCK, paying about $1,500 yearly profit; no compe- tition; will sell or rent building; terms, part cash, balance on time. Address S. J. Doty, Harrietta, Mich. 317 K ¥R 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 OR SALE CHEAP—$33,000 GENERAL stock of hardware, farm implements, wag- ons, buggies, cutters, harnesses, in good town and good farming country. Keason for selling, other business. Address No. 320, care Michigan Tradesman. 320 Wy Anrep ro 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 312 Odessa, Mich. Kee 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 iS 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 ae about $2,000; rent reason- able; good place to handle produce. Will sell stock complete or separate any branch of it. Address No. 292, care Michigan Tradesman. 292 7 ANTED—I WANT TO EXCHANGE SOME very desirable Grand Rapids city —— 65 for a well-locatad stock of hardware. Gilbert, 67 Pearl St., Grand Rapids. ARTIES HAVING STOCKS OF GOODS OF any kind, farm or city property or manufac- turing plants, that they wish to seil 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 T= SALE—FLOUR AND FEED MILL— full roller process—in a = location. Great bargain, easy terms. ddress No. 227, care Michigan Tradesman. 227 VOR SALE, CHEAP — $3,000 GENERAL stock and building. Address No. 240, care Michigan Tradesman. 240 . Ragpieis. 7-siaam ore ar. Trav € tty. er ages > pen ar. (harriers. 250m to Ar. Petaskey, 3-Gom Som Traine arrive from sort «¢ fate, ond and i- oan. Detravt Frere, Le. ramet Rapnts = io te Ar. Detroit I Le. Detroit. + ean — ee ar. Grand Rapids fom +m a Segiacw F exe, LY Grand Rapiis 7 i => Ar Maginaw Wien + Spm Le naw Teens te Sane Ar ram Rapieis tom +S Partor cars on ail traime eo wet fom bette and Saginaw. Parlier cars om atternenm ori to amd from “hiewage. Plime deepers wp vita taim. Porter car w Traverse tv ww ere ng train Trery fay hers werk favs wir BF. Mowrien. teting Gem. Poser. sgt “wet Rapids. Wiehe dacs £ adinze teiwe: G Nerthern Driw inten. oT P-—e Varth ert Trav. City. Petoskey, Wack. «ota + i$ ig + Trav.( ity. Petoskey. Wark. Spe “te ( aetiliar Acrommevtation Som ~e Petoskey & Waeckinaw (lity <-t) om ~*~ +e 7 iam amet >: po trains yarter =e: 7 om train. +ieeping car senthern Pri w mney Kaiamazo. Pt. Vayee Cin. «7: + +p Kalamaze and Ft. Wayne. « ip + cae Kalamazoo. Ft. Wayne Clim «7pm © de Kalamacoe at Vieksferg. "oop * » ce 7am train ecoaeh to * Dieage ad outer car Ge Tener, Mow Tn tas oerte car op Fort Wayne. > saom train tae sleeper ay rae President, THos. Bromiey: , Prayvx ' on 4 ' A. Percy; Treasurer, CLARK A. PUTT. = on Spm tran, sheping car and cone te Perry Basiness Men's Astociation Catenge Teuton a Ti oe le awe gi mo ga W. WaALtLace; Seeretary, T. E./ , Grand Rapids. Tm “: om “Yt eee Seclathg ee Ar. Cileage > Roa = 8¢ Som > ela Gand Haven Retail Merchants’ dsseciation Rw Ce eee President, F. D. Vos; Seeretary. J. W. se Chieag <> ope ey LaeRE HoErKsS. Ar. Grand Rapids » oem Fe Yale Basimess Men's Associating — CHAS. Rowunps; Seeretary, Frawa oENEY Grand Rapids Retail Meat Dealers’ Sesociation Secretary HILeeR; Treasurer, 8. J. Hoe rrorr. ew~“—onrvrrwOOOoreeeeseesesst 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. ~ Perr Train ‘eaving ‘rand Ramiele 5 ome tae mas | 11:30pm train haw coach aed eee: arrives Wuskegon at eum irvine epoow Muskegon + Wom. arrives +, cand Rapids, 4- pm ves iw (Le. Mask “= [enim Som “+ Wipes Ar. Grand iets * Jaen wT 3} oem *Exeept Seumday. “Daily Le ue a we a vty Gen) Pasew'r and T ae Agen. “w RG sae Tie®et Agent MANISTE Siew station. & “ortbeasters By. Beat ronite ‘ Mastin. Vise. aw. w Railwes Our prices. CHAS. A. COYE, Il Pearl Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. Send for prices. e e, e, * 2, e, e ° ° santhemum Assortment Embossed pattern, made of porcelain, fine spray flower decoration and gold lines. All large sizes. Extra fine bargains for your 10, 15 and 25 cent counters. > Big Values. Nice Goods. Sell on Sight Contents of our Chrysanthemum Assortment. ¥% doz. Cable Jugs, 36s 2 doz. Large Handled Teas ¥Y doz. 7 inch Nappies 1 doz. Fancy Handled Teas ¥ doz. 8 inch Dishes 2 doz 7 inch Plates 1 doz. 5 inch Nappies 3 doz. 6 inch Plates 1 doz. 30s Bowls 1 doz. 5 inch Plates 12 dozen pieces for $10.20 NET Nocharge for package. We have many more such bargains and solicit your correspondence. THE DAUDT GLASS & CROCKERY COMPANY, 236 Summit Street and 230, 232, 234 and 236 Water Street, TOLEDO, OHIO Highest Cash prices paid and bark measured promptly by ex- perienced men. Call on or write us. Oo MICHIGAN BARK & LUMBER CO., 222553328 3guigmy mi : : : Tangleroot scx, Fly Paper: 1 a : Sticky s = Catches the Germ as well as the Fly. : e s Sanitary. Used the world over. Good profit to sellers. S s Order from Jobbers. S BOROROROROROROROROROHORC SOROROCCORORCROROROROROCHORORO 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 | i ) wo hi nt } ih IU a Choice of above % pint Tumblers I9c per dozen Shipped from Cleveland with a charge of 35c for each barrel. Packed 22 to 25 dozen in barrel. This offer is good for one week. Orders ac- cepted for shipment any time during May. Terms 60 days or 2 per cent. discount 10 days. Mail Order Department KINNEY & LEVAN, Cleveland, Ohio Importers and Jobbers China, Glassware, Lamp Goods, House Furnishing Goods, AMERICAN JEWELRY CO. 99 per cent. of your customers wear jewelry of some kind. Why don’t you get in line to supply them? We are the only people in West- ern Michigan that make a study of selecting the latest things in jewelry that people want. You can handle our goods with a very small outlay, make handsome profits, get the reputation for being progressive and add lots of new customers. Write us—we’ll instruct our travelers to call on you. AMERICAN JEWELRY COMPANY, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. Now to buy your stock of Screen Doors and Window Screens and we are the people that can supply you at the lowest prices. Common Doors, any size, 4 inch stile, % inch thick, % Faney Doors, any size, made of select pine, finished in natural wood, 4 inch stile, 6 inch bottom rail, % inch thick, % metal clips which guide the frame. Put up 1 dozen in crate: Number High Closed Open 1 Dozen 40 16 20 34% $1.70 41 18 20 34% 1.95 42 20 20 34% 2.55 mailed in a few days. H. LEONARD & SONS, Grand Rapids. Is the Time dozen in erate, per dozen... -.- 2. oo. 8 ieee cas Ree ees $ 7.9 dozen in crate, per dozen............... Ge ioral. neue wee $11.90 “ Wolverine” Adjustable Window Screens, adjusted by long Our New Catalogue No. 154, comprising our entire line, will be