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GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 1900.

IMPORTANT FEATURES.
Page.
The Copper Country.
Careless of Credit.
Around the State.
Grand Rapids Gossip.
The Buffalo Market.
Gotham Gossip.
Editorial.
Editorial.
Shoes and Leather.
12. Rapid Growth of Telephone.
13. Crockery and Glassware Quotations.
14. Dry Goods.
15. Clothing.
16. Woman’s World.
18. Hardware.
19. Hardware Price Current.
20. Eggs.
21. Poultry.
Fruits and Produce.
23. Making a Will.
24. The Meat Market.
25. Commercial Travelers.
26. Drugs and Chemicals.
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SOME GERMAN REJOICING.

The saying, ‘‘It’s an ill
blows nobody any good,’’ has had re-
cent exemplification, The prosperity
which has come to America to stay, and
more than that the real reason for it, has
gone hard with our friends upon the
Rhine and beyond it. ‘hey have been
bestirring themselves. They have been
looking into matters and things and
they have found that after all it is not
the excellence of the American goods
nor the handicraft that produced them
but the tariff; and with proud satisfac-
tion they proceed to give us as good in
that line as we send. The meat bill is
disposed of —and other things which will
show us what to expect hereafter—and
that done, the mug is brought and the
pipe’is lighted and the world along the
banks of the vine-bordered river is
bright and rosy again.

This ought to be enough, but the best
remains to be told: Within the past
week the news has come from South
America that $1,000,000 worth of con-
tracts upon which American firms were
bidding has been awarded to British
and German houses, for the reason that
the European bidders offered better ma-
terial at lower prices, a statement
which, while setting the German heart
rejoicing, is suggestive that the Ameri-
can has become over confident and _ re-
ceived a much-needed setback. Not
many weeks ago, in quoting from an
Australian newspaper, the Tradesman
noted a similar circumstance in Mel-
bourne, and rather boastfully asserted
that England would find it to her ad-
vantage to send no more goods to the
smallest continent because America
could ‘‘offer better material at lower
prices.’’ It would seem now that she
has chosen South America for the field
of her future commercial endeavors.

The fact does not set well on the
American stomach. There is too much
in the rejoicing which implies a curi-
osity to know how we like taking an oc-
casional dose of our own medicine,
which is all the more disagreeable from
the fact that we had begun to think that

wind that

 

that phase of our industrial life had
been settled once and forever. Nor is
there any reason for this rejoicing even
if it is temporary. Our goods were tell-
ing their own story and making their
own way. A fair profit would have been
realized—-was realized—if expenses only
had been made. It is not good policy
to be swinish ever and this fact is
pecially pertinent when so much is_ de-
pending upon the introduction of goods
into a country not inclined to look with
any too much favor upon a nation said
to be inclined to ‘‘absorb.’’ The whole
affair smacks too much of killing the
goose that laid the golden egg,a fable not
often applicable to the shrewd, wide-
gauged American trader.

For more than a year American mak-
ers of iron and steel have been carry-
ing all before them and close upon them
have followed manufacturers of other
lines. They have run over the trade rim
separating them from foreign markets
and while they have kept within reason-
able limits success has attended them.
Everywhere glowing reports have gone
abroad as to the excellence of the Amer-
ican artisan. If this German and Brit-
ish rejoicing is an earnest of what is be-
fore us the expansion of American trade
has reached its limit. Prices, it seems,
are to depend not upon the worth of the
merchandise and a fair profit, but upon
the amount the purchaser can be forced
to pay. Because the home markets have
gone into the hands of trusts and prices
here depend upon the whim of the man-
ufacturer, the same feeling seems to
have entered the exporter. It will fail
and it ought to fail and unless this re-
joicing of our commercial enemies shal]
teach a much-needed lesson the failure
will prove to be a permanent one.

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From investigations “made at the fac-
tory of Messrs. Lumiere, at Lyons, it
has been ascertained that continuous
working under a ruby light has a curious
effect upon the workmen. It produced
a certain amount of bouyancy and ex-
citabilty, but by subsituting a dark
green light it was discovered that the
workmen were much less inclined to
conversation and frivolity, and that in
the evening they were much less fa-
tigued than formerly.

 

If the craze for automobiles continues
they will, before long, entirely super-
sede the use of the horse at the nation’s
capital, for not only have they become
the fad with society people, but the
shops, the express companies and the
transit companies are rapidly adopting
them

 

 

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which are educating hoodlums, allow
hazing and permit acts of vandalism on
the part of so-called students to go un-
punished.

 

Man proposes and woman 1 disposes
of the hard-earned reputations of heroes
and statesmen. i

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Never marry a horsey girl.

become a nagging wife.

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Number 873

GENERAL TRADE REVIEW.

The story of continued
dulness in speculative markets, with the
exception of grain and cotton, and
adjustment to lower price
most manufactures is
Vet it is to be
which

monotonous

re-
levels in
still continued.
noted that payments
record themselves through clear-
ing greater than ever before
throughout nearly all the country, and
yet many works are stopped because or-
ders are delayed. ‘The orders to-day
would tell of shipments and payments
two or three months ahead, it is true,
but there was indisputable shrinkage of
such new business two or three months
ago, and to many works then idle many
others have been added, and yet all the
payments for the first week of June out-
side of and New
York show a gain of 1o per cent. over
last and 23 per cent. over 1808 ;
the Boston and Baltimore payments are

houses are

soston, Baltimore

year

ig per cent. below last year’s, but 20
per cent. more than in any other year,
and New York payments are 14.9 per

cent. below last year, but 22.3 per cent.
than in any other year.
no denying such records; just where
speculation plays a great part they fall
off, but are larger than ever before at
other cities throughout the country.

The of the stock markets is
still in the direction of decline on the
general average, although changes con-
tinue very slight. This is attributed to
the political situation and the increas-
ing complications in China, which have
more than neutralized any favorable re-
sults from the British success in Africa.
Railroad stocks averaged a decline of
$1.73 a share last week, for which no
reason beyond general apprehension of
foreign uncertainties can be given. The
industrials ended only 54 cents a share
above the lowest point they have ever
touched, May 17, but declined for the
week only $1.26 a share, and a_ steadily
increasing number of them appear to
have reached a point at which buying
and holding are under ordinary circum-
stances sufficient to maintain prices.

more There is

course

Changes in iron prices continue in
the direction of a lower level. The for-
mal reduction of $4.90 in the Pittsburg

price of Bessemer pig,an1 the fall of $2
in Southern and $3 to $4 in Eastern pig,
would have had a much greater effect
had it come before midsummer inter-
ruptions were so near. Summer holi-
days, disagreements about wage scales,
and the political campaign will now
make it effective, especially as
there is serious curtailment in the de-
mand for nearly all finished products of
iron and steel, of which have not
yet been reduced in price from the high-
est point.

less

some

have generally been
held nominally at the high level until
this week new and lower quotations
have become necessary, although the
changes, where made, are not as great
as the decline of a cent in cotton and 3
cents in wool. Boots and_ shoes still
continue dull on account of the main-
tenance of the high price in leather, in
spite of the material decline in the hide
market.

Prices of textiles

 

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MICHIGAN

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THE COPPER COUNTRY.

Progressive and Prosperous Calumet,
Houghton and Hancock.

Calumet, June 9—On our way to the
Copper Country business took us to the
thriving village of Pequaming, about
nine miles north of L’Anse on the east
shore of Keweenaw Bay, Lake Supe-
rior. It is a lumbering town and a model
one. The owner of this beautiful well-
built little nook, Mr. Charles Hebard,
controls the entire property; his mills
cut over 25,000,000 feet of lumber every
season; he has made a strictly temper-
ance place and takes pleasure in telling
his visitors that by doing so he has had
the best kind of results, in having good,
industrious and sober workmen that
stay with him year after year. He is
generous to all his tenants, giving them
house rent free. He finds this the best
kind of investment as it secures for
him the very best quality of labor. The
lowest figure on his pay rolls for a
day’s labor is $1.75, while some of the
ee skillful men make as much as $9
per day.

In going to Pequaming from the rail-
way Station at L’Anse, we took in pref-
erence the road which skirts along the
shores of Lake Superior. This is a most
charming drive, as the wild cherry tree
and the tame fruit trees in many fine
orchards that we passed were in full
bloom, which was a surprise to us in
this far northern region. These farms
that we passed are owned and cultivated
by Chippewa Indians whose Govern-
ment reservation and missions are lo-
cated here; these Indian settlers of the
lands of their forefathers are a_ thrifty,
industrious, and_ sincerely religious
people ; the majority of them belong to
the Methodist church, a neat house of
this denomination being on their mis-
sion grounds about midway on the road.
Instead of filling up with the white-
man’s fire water they take for their an-
nual outing and feast the real old-fash-
ioned Methodist camp meeting and _ en-
ter into the spirit a this pious gather-
ing with as much if not more enthu-
siasm as their white brethren.

Houghton, one of the prosperous cities
visited, is located on Portage Lake,
and contains over 5,000 people. The past
season has seen erected a number of
new, splendid, sandstone buildings ;
among them is an elegant hotel, a
much needed improvement in this sec-
tion. The management of this hotel
has been give to John Mann, formerly
of the Knight Hotel at Ashland. He is
considered to be one of the most popu-
lar hotel men in the country and is now
in Chicago where he has purchased the
most modern and up-to-date equipment
that money can buy. He expects the
hotel to be running by July 1.

Hancock, on the opposite of Portage
Lake, has about the same population as
Houghton. The Quincy mine, one of the
principal mines on the Copper Range,
is located here on the hill, 600 feet
above the town. This mine has an out-
put of about 800 tons a month; also the
Franklin with an output of 300 tons a
month. These mines have _ general
stores on the location which do an im-
mense business, especially that of
James H. Seager on the Franklin loca-
tion. He has two stores and is also
President of the First National bank of
Houghton, one of the wealthiest and
most profitable banks in the State.

Calumet, the metropolis cf the Copper
Country, is now reached. When the ex-
plorers discovered copper in this district
it was in a primitive wilderness ; a for-
est of heavy timber covered all the land,
not an attractive place to build a city.
Since then all the wood of the forest has
been hewn down and consumed in the
boilers of the mining plants to make
steam to raise the copper rock to the
surface and the tall pines that covered
hundreds of acres have been sent
thousands of feet below the surface to
support the openings made by taking
out the mineral wealth. The opening
and developing of these mines was the
means of attracting a great amount of
capital. Fortunately for the city’s wel-
fare the early pioneers who opened up
these mines were determined to make it
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restrictions on the liquor traffic.

Calumet with its surroundings scat-
tered in a radius of about five miles
contains about 40,000 people. A great
proportion of the population are min-
ers, from all sections of the globe. It
is said that there are over thirty lan-
guages spoken. The clerks in the
stores to be of value to their employers
must be acquainted with at least four,
and to be conversant with a number of
others is a desirable acquisition.

The most valuable copper mine in
this region, and for that matter, in the
world, is the Calumet & Hecla. This
property has paid back to its share-
holders many, many very large fortunes,
now fast approaching the hundred mil-
lion dollar mark in dividends since it
has been in operation. At present a
decline has taken place in the price of
its shares owing to a fire having broken
out in one of the lower levels of the
mine, and the extent of depreciation
will depend entirely on the amount of
destruction the fire may do the working
part of the mine which still contains
copper-bearing vein rock. An _ under-
ground mine fire is a serious problem
for the mine managers. It baffles them
as to how most efficiently to extinguish
the flames. Water will not reach the
under side of the timbers and those
parts remote from the shaft. Past ex-
perience has taught them to seal the
shafts and thereby exclude all air and
draught. The combustion consuming
the oxygen was most effectual in extin-
guishing it. The forcing of carbonic
gas has also been used with success by
the Calumet & Hecla management.

The mining of copper has been one of
the industries that has been stimulated
by the McKinley wave of prosperity,
caused by the building of new elec-
trical roads, telephones and _ the elec-
trical lighting and other supplies. The
price now fluctuates between 16 and 17
cents a pound. This price affords a
splendid margin of profit, as it is
claimed it can be mined at Io cents and
pay good dividends to the shareholders.

Calumet boasts of having the finest
schools in Northern Michigan. Presi-
dent Agassiz, one of the largest share-
holders and President of the company,
takes a personal interest in the build-
ing up of this splendid school system.
Calumet school directors believe in hav-
ing the best educational ability that the
country affords and they obtain it by
paying salaries that attract teachers of
ability who would not otherwise leave a
more congenial climate to come to this
land of six months winter.

Another great attraction that com-
mands the attention of all who come to

 

Calumet is the high standard of excel-
lence and quality of musical entertain-
ment given by the Calumet & Hecla
band, an organization that attracted at-
tention in the cultured city of Boston
when it went with the Knights Templar.

Calumet has shown a rapid growth in
the last four years ; that part of the loca-
tion which is the incorporated city of
Laurium has made rapid strides, gain-
ing a population within that time of
over 4,000. The estimate is that the
census taken will give them 10,000. One
of the handsomest mercantile establish-
ments of the city is located here; it is
that of J. Vivian, Jr., & Co. It would
do credit to Milwaukee, with its fine
plate glass front and elevators and the
modern improvements of a first-class
store. That part of Calumet known as
Red Jacket has made many notable im-
provements in the business buildings.
Messrs. Ruppe & Son, Ryan, Ver-
tin Bros., and Hosking have modern
stone and brick stores, containing their
own electric light plants and other im-
provements. One pleasant feature of
the Calumet merchants is the cordial ity
and promptness with which they treat
the traveling representatives of the
wholesale trade.

The mines paying their employes
monthly only makes it necessary for
the merchants to extend one month’s
credit to the customers, and this ac-
counts for the prosperity of the old es-
tablished merchants, as they have a long
list of customers who can buy as cheap-
ly of them as they can of the cash mer-
chants, and they can not go to another
merchant and open an account if they
are not square where they are dealing.
The cash stores have a quiet time gen-
erally the week preceding a general pay
day.

Nothing in the way of shoddy or even
the cheaper and coarser class of goods
is wanted by the copper miner, there-
fore the man who sells a high grade of
merchandise and _ has the confidence of
the dealer has atrade in the Copper
Country that he can be proud of.

The Calumet & Hecla mine is one of
the most wonderful mines in the world,
but not more so than the Tamarack
mines adjoining. All these mines have
attained a depth of over 5,000 feet ver-
tical depth, and on the incline of the
vein some of the shafts are over a mile
in depth. As the principal shafts have
been in operation over a quarter of a
century, they, of course, are operated
on a scale that requires the use of the
most powerful machinery that the in-
genuity of man can design. The Calu-
met & Hecla has its own designer of
machinery and mining engineers from

 

all parts of the world come here to study
it. One of the hoisting engines that the
writer saw has a capacity of nearly
8,000 horse power, and is_ furnished
with steam from a battery of ten steel
boilers of a thousand horse power each.
This mammoth engine raises a load ot
ten tons of rocks at the rate of over fifty-
five miles an hour.

The Calumet & Hecla company em
ploys over 3,500 men in the mines and
mill, and its liberal and kind treatment
of them has been the subject of many a
news letter. The a provides its
employes with medical attendance and
medicine and it also pays every em-
ploye the sum of $25 per month for all
time lost by sickness and accident and
pays $500 to widow or relative of every
employe killed while on duty. A few
years ago the company paid an equal
amount into a fund to maintain this ex-
pense with the employes, but now the
fund is large enough to sustain itself.

All the mines in Calumet employ
about 12,000 men, making a sum of
$600,000 paid to the miners monthly. It
will therefore be no surprise that this
city has had continued prosperity, as
never in the history of the mines has _ it
been closed down except for a brief time
in case of a fire. In speaking with one
of the shareholders he said the true
value of the mine was difficult to esti-
mate as they had now over $25,000,000
worth of vein rock ready to be broken
or blasted out and _ hoisted to the sur-
face, and with an inexhaustible supply
to draw from in the future.

We paid a visit to an old mine that
has been recently recapitalized, since the
rise in copper, known as the Mass
mine. This mine produces a _ forma-
tion of pure copper which is something
out of the ordinary. The rapid growth
of the town of Mass City, organized by
the company, has been phenomenal,
with its population of over 1,c00 people
and fifteen saloons in less than one year
attracted by future prospects - of this
mine.

The people in this section are de-
lighted to know that the long promised
electric road will soon be built. A large
consignment of rails was received at
Hancock last week. It is proposed to
connect all of the towns in the mining
region by this road, which will be one
of the most important improvements
that can be made in this vicinity and
will prove a great convenience.

There are now under construction two
new railroads into the town, Dakota,
South Shore & Atlantic and the Copper
Range. The company is also erecting
a larger smelter on L’Anse Bay.

 

 

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Full Paid and Non-Assessable.

19-21 Fountain St.

$18,000,000 IN GOLD

TAKEN IN 1899 FROM 2,500 ACRES.

RAVEN HILL is the center of this rich

by good mines whose stocks have advanced 100 to
Personally examined and vouched
for by the following well-known Grand Rapids men:

W. O. Hughart, Jr.
Dudley E. Waters
Judge Cyrus E. Perkins
Dr. W. A. Dorland

Who invite their friends to purchase some of this

Prospectus free at stock and bond

Pei Alfred O. Crozier & Co.,

Stock 15 Cents Per Share

ha ba, Also Open Evenings for a Few Days.

tract of land. Our prop-
of Raven Hill and surrounded

Alfred O. Crozier
Col. E. Crofton Fox

Organized, owned and

Auditorium Building Ground Floor.

     
 

 

 

 

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MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

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CARELESS OF CREDIT.

Little Things Which Affect a Merchant’s
Standing.

It has long been a profound convic-
tion of the writer that in the fullest
sense the value and importance of an
untarnished commercial credit are great-
ly underestimated by a much too large
number of the tradesmen of our country.
It, unfortunately, is not uncommon to
find those who, while jealous of their
rights as citizens, proud of an honorable
family record and rejoicing in the es-
teem of their fellow-men, are seeming-
ly unconscious of the fact that commer-
cial integrity is something to be equally
proud of and that credit is a sacred
thing.

Character and credit are synonymous.
Neither can be smirched and be fully
restored. A single mistake in a lifetime
has ruined many a man’s character and
likewise the commercial honor of many
a business man has been so stained by
a single departure from what is just and
honorable that never again has he en-
joyed the full confidence of his fellow-
men.

Sharp business practices which are
morally wrong, although legally safe
from attack, have been so frequently
indulged in and so often condoned, and
even looked upon as evidences of busi-
ness acumen, that the standard of busi-
ness morals in our land is far from ele-
vated, and it is a misfortune that the
same stigma which attaches to those
who seek to evade the payment of hon-
est debts in some of the European
countries does not follow similar acts
here. It is, however, not the purpose
of this article to consider the methods
of the dishonest trader, but to refer to
the great mass of well-meaning mer-
chants who seek success and_ gain
through honorable means, but who may
be unconsciously indulging in practices
hurtful to their credit.

It will probably be admitted that
many little and comparatively unimpor-
tant things are permitted in business
transactions to-day which could not be
squared to the Golden Rule, or even pro-
nounced just or honorable, and outside
of business in other walks in life would
be scorned by the same man who prac-
tices them in commercial transactions.
They have, however, become so in-
grained into business custom that the
wrong is not realized, and here it is,
the writer believes, that many well-
intentioned merchants, little by little,
undermine their credit.

The view point from which these state-

“ments are made is that of the wholesaler

as touching upon his relation with the
retail merchant, and it is hoped that a
consideration of the subject may cause
all who chance to read this article to
cherish more deeply that priceless
boon, a high commercial credit.

The methods employed by the mer-
chant are conceded to be strictly his
own affair, but the effects thereof are
more far-reaching. To illustrate: The
man who is known to keep books of ac-
counts, not necessarily an elaborate set
of books, but something from which he
or others may obtain a correct and in-
telligent idea of the condition of the
business, must command more con-
fidence than his neighboring tradesman
who does not keep books, or does so in
such a manner as to be worthless as a
record of business conditions, and it
does not matter whether the business
is conducted on a cash basis or not.
Careful book-keeping cultivates system
and accuracy, both invaluable accom-
plishments in a business man.

 

Confidence in his ability to pay his
debts will also be directly affected by
the manner in which (if he does a credit
business) he trusts out his merchandise
and collects his debts. This is the
one stumbling block over which thous-
ands of merchants have fallen into finan-
cial ruin, and its importance as a factor
in business must not be overlooked. It
must be remembered that a certain class
of accounts are not as good an asset as
merchandise, and that the proportion
existing between the merchant’s stock
on hand and the amount standing out
will have much to do in determining his
desirability as a credit risk.

The connection between this and
credit may not at first be apparent, but
when it is remembered that a carefully-
taken inventory acquaints the owner
with his stock, and helps him to deter-
mine what goods are undesirable and
should be sold, and because of this
knowledge helps him to buy intelligent-
ly,not exceeding his actual needs, then
it may be readily seen how much this
means to those who are lending him
credit. Overbuying has been the first
step toward bankruptcy in a great many
instances.

This isan extremely important matter.
A proportionate amount of insurance
to stock in trade is an evidence of pru-
dence. Too much insurance excites sus-
picion, and too little indicates a lack of
appreciation of the risk involved. The
right amount always kept in force
creates confidence in the sagacity and
ability of the merchant.

Neglect in this direction is hurtful,
because it can not fail to convey
the impression that negligence is a
habit and applies equally as well to
matters of more importance. Business
letters should receive prompt and _ cour-
teous reply and particularly requests for
the settlement of matured obligations.
If a few days’ extension seems desir-
able, it may almost without exception
be obtained if asked for when bills are
due, and reasons therefor stated.

It is unfortunate that there are mer-
chants who have a prejudice against
making a showing of their affairs over
their signature, because the refusal is
so naturally and so justly construed as
a desire to conceal existing conditions,
and the inference can only be that
those conditions are not favorable to the
obtaining of credit. If it could only be
borne in mind that the willingness to
state facts begets confidence, while eva-
sion and refusal excite suspicion, there
would be less trouble in obtaining
signed statements. What harm, in-
deed, can follow a simple telling of the
truth? A merchant’s position in regard
to this question makes or mars his credit
in a high degree.

At the beginning of this article refer-
ence was made to practices prevailing
in business which could not be looked
upon as fair or honest. Among these
may he mentioned: Making unjust
claims, returning goods, taking ex-
cessive discounts, refusal to pay inter-
est, countermanding orders after goods
are made, etc. There is much to be
said on both sides in reference to these
questions, but the principle involved is
much the same, and its application here
may be made in a few words. The
habitual practice of these things will not
only gain for the merchant an unenvi-
able reputation as a man, but will pos-
itively impair his credit and, just in
proportion to the extent that he is found
committing these little acts of commer-
cial piracy; while on the other hand,
he who avoids these things, and in all

 

his affairs keeps ever in mind that
which makes for honesty and _ upright-
ness and fair dealing, is building for
himself an unsullied credit and _ insur-
ing to himself an honored name.
George G. Ford in Grocery World.
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The College Man in Business.

It is said that Horace Greeley once
posted on his outer office door this no-
tice: ‘‘No Harvard or Yale graduate,
or other horned cattle, wanted here.’’
However absurd or amusing these words
may sound, it is undoubtedly true that
in many business circles there is still
considerable opposition to what may be
called the college movement in America.
That this opposition is not universal,
however, is evident from the large en-
dowments of our higher institutions of
learning by thoughtful men of the busi-
ness world.

The college man seldom, if ever, re-
grets his early training, while the really
successful man of business sooner or
later realizes the value of such an_ edu-
cation, and grieves for lack of it. Those
who are most ignorant of the advan-
tages of a college training are generally
the most violent in their opposition to
such training. The best men in the best
circles of the business world favor col-
lege-bred men. There are a few who
still hold that higher education unfits a
man for success in business. If success
means reaching the millionaire round
of the ladder, there is probably some
truth in this statement. Except those
who have inherited large fortunes, a
very small percentage of business men
can acquire a million or more. With
those who do, it is sometimes the case
that, sooner or later, nothing but their
business can give them gratification or
pleasure. The college-bred man will be

 

pretty sure to desire other things than
wealth; and, desiring these, he is not
apt to give to his business that con-
tinuous and absorbing attention which
makes the millionaire. After ten years’
experience in the business world, he
will easily lead the uneducated business
man, all things considered, ; but he will
have an avocation as well asa vocation;
and, while he will be successful, he will
work to live, and not live to work.—
Professor Canfield in Success.

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Hen News from Down East.

From the Daily Kennebee Journal.

Down in South Sebec a hen recently
hatched out a brood of twenty chickens,
although only thirteen eggs were placed
under her.

A Blanchard’ hen has_ hatched a
chicken with four legs, all of which
were perfectly formed and about two
inches apart. It was so different from
the rest that the mother killed it.

 

For anything in the line of Steam
Heating, Hot Water Heating, Hot
Air Heating, Plumbing or Sheet
[Metal Work of Galvanized Iron,
Black Iron, Tin, Zinc or Copper,
write your wants and you will re-
ceive full information; also as per-
taining to Mantels, Grates, Tiling,
Gas and Electric fixtures. Largest’
concern and best show rooms in
the State.

=-Weatherly & Pulte--.

97 & 99 Pearl St.
Grand Rapids, Michigan

 

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Nothing is more appre-
ciated on a hot day than
a substantial fan. Espe-
cially is this true of coun-
try customers who come
to town without provid-
ing themselves with this
necessary adjunct to com-
fort. We have a large
line of these goods in
fancy shapes and unique
designs, which we fur-
nish printed and handled

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to fill an order on such short notice if you can avoid it.

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Grand Rapids, Michigan

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Around the State

Movements of Merchants.

Mt. Pleasant—T. A. Winans, meat
dealer, has sold out to Leo Wardweli.

Ludington—Madsen & Johnson suc-
ceed James Madsen in the meat  busi-
ness.

Sickles—W. F. Markham has _ pur-
chased the dry goods and grocery stock
of Benson & Crawford.

Wayland—J. M. Burpee succeeds H.
J. Slade in the produce business. Mr.
Slade will remove to Ft. Wayne, Ind.

Ada—H. H. Bradfield has purchased
the grocery stock of Geo. La Barge and

 

 

will continue the business at the same
location.
Coldwater—Nichols & Balcom is the

style of the new firm which succeeds
Nichols & Collins in the coal and wool
business.

St. Joseph—The Commercial State
Bank-of St. Joseph has applied to Com-
missioner Maltz for permission to in-
crease its capital from $25,000 to $50, 000.

Battle Creek—E. W. Wilson has his
new store building completed at the
corner of Exchange street and Lake
avenue and is occupying same with his
grocery stock.

Portland—Perry N. Moore has dis-
posed of his interest in the grocery stock
of A. H. Moore & Co. to Clyde Moore,
and the firm will hereafter be A. H.
Moore & Son.

Newport—The Newport creamery,
owned by Cash Nauman & Co., was
destroyed by fire Tuesday morning;
cause unknown. Loss on stock, ma-
chinery and icehouse, $2, 500.

Marshall—John W. Marshall, former-
ly engaged in business at this place, has
purchased the clothing stock of his
brother, R. B. Fletcher, and will short-
ly remove from St. Joseph to this place.

Saginaw—The machinery for the Sag-
inaw Produce and Cold Storage Co.’s
plant on North Niagara street was
shipped yesterday and it is expected that
the plant will be in operation the last of
the month.

Ionia—E. H. Cogswell, who has been
in the employ of G. F. Phelps for the
past nine years, has opened a grocery
store at 410 Main street. W. J. Gould &
Co. and the Worden Grocer Co. fur-
nished the stock.

Detroit—The Hoyt Steam Laundry
Co. has been incorporated with a capital
of $10,000, fully paid in. The share-
holders are: Thomas J. Hoyt, 989
shares ; Claude A. Weymouth, Io shares;
Elmer L. Allor, 1 share.

Cadillac—Wm. McAdie and John De-
Young have purchased a third interest
in the Michigan lron Works plant of the
estate of the late Robert Leslie. The
name will remain the same as hereto-
fore—Wm. McAdie & Co.

Ishpeming—The Finnish Mercantile
Association, which began business here
about a month ago, buying out the store
conducted by Kangas & Co. at the cor-
ner of Division and First streets and
the butcher shop of Oscar Forsberg, has
had a notably successful career to date.
In fact, the business has been so good
that it is the intention to begin work
on a new business block with little de-
lay. Two lots on Division street have
been purchased. A block occupies one,
in which the bucther shop is located.
While no steps have yet been taken to
secure the erection of the proposed
building, it has been definitely decided
to build it, as more room than the pres-
ent quarters afford is demanded for the
proper conduct of the business.

 

Adrian—The grocery stocks of Neil
Gray, 3 East Maumee street, and A. R.
Lowry, at 37 North Main street, have
been consolidated under the firm namie
of Gray & Lowry. The business will be
conducted at the North Main street store.

Houghton—I. E. Swift & Co.’s new
hardware store in the Shelden-Calverly
block is fast nearing completion and
will be ready for occupancy in a few
days. The furniture, as well as a_ por-
tion of the stock, has arrived and is
being transferred from Ruelle & Dube’s
warehouse to the store as fast as pos-
sible.

Kalamazoo—A. L. Flexner will short-
ly open a department store in the Up-
john block on South Burdick street. The
building is undergoing radical improve-
ments, including a large plate glass
front. Mr. Flexner is also the owner
of a large store in Dakota, which is un-
der the management of his brother and
which will eventually be merged into
the enterprise here.

— ee
The Boys Behind the Counter.

Constantine—R. W. Cochrane has
been employed as_ pharmacist in
Younglove & Co.’s drug store, taking
the place of Omar A. Nichols, who will
return to his home in Detroit.

Cadillac—Fred Sackett, who recently
resigned his position as clerk in L. B.
Bellaire’s grocery, is now in St. Paul,
Minnesota. Mr. Sackett is making a
tour of the Western States on a bicycle,
and at the same time looking for a_ po-
sition.

Central Lake-—Miss Belle Smith has
gone to Mancelona to accept a posi-
tion in J. L. Farnham’s general store.

Cadillac—James R. Sayles has re-
signed his position in L. J. Law's
clothing store and gone to Wisconsin,
where he will be the traveling represen-
tative of a Chicago wholesale house.

Cheboygan—Will Van Tassel, who
has been employed in the C. P. Cueny
grocery for several years, has resigned
his position in that firm. Mr. Van
Tassel expects to remove to the Soo.

South Haven-—John Ghent, for several
years registered clerk at Hill’s drug
store, has taken a similar position in
Strong’s drug store. :

Petoskey—-Jacob Greenberg, who has
been in the employ of S. Rosenthal &
Sons for the past six years, has taken a
similar position with Levinson’s Fair.

Shelby—Girard & Edwards have a
new clerk in their dry goods store in
the person of Wm. Marsh, of Pentwater.

Houghton—Arthur Emmons has taken
the position of manager of the builders’
hardware department of I. E. Swift &
Co.’s new hardware store.

Harbor Springs—Harry Metz, who re-
cently returned from M. A. C., has
taken a position with W. J. Ciarke in
the grocery department.

Cadillac—Carl Ericson has, resigned
as salesman at the Granite Block cloth-
ing store, and accepted a more lucrative
position with a clothing house in Seat-
tle, Washington, and will leave ina
couple of weeks for that Western city.
His family will remain in Cadillac un-
til he thoroughly familiarizes himself
with his new duties.

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Oceana Strawberries in Market.

Shelby, June 11—The first strawberries
of the season were shipped to Chicago
to-day. They were very nice. Owing
to the copious rains, there will bea
large crop to go from this section.

All other fruits are looking good and
are out of harm of frosts.

J. H. Chapman.

 

Call For a National Produce Shippers’
Association.

Detroit, June 12—The average crop of
potatoes in the United States for the
past five years is 215,316,810 bushels,
amounting to $82, 382,372. This amounts
to 430,632 carloads of 500 bushels each.
All perishable. Shipments are often
made 1,500 to 2,000 miles in both ex-
treme cold and hot weather.

No one will question the absolute need
of a compact and thorough organization.
Such an organization has never been at-
tempted. Such an organization must
be apparent, as our shipments are _per-
ishable and must be handled quickly
and judiciously to avoid loss. Among
the objects thus sought to be attained
are the following :

1. Much needed social intercourse.

2. Avoiding market gluts.

More prompt disposition through
more reliable channels at terminals.

4. Sworn individual truck load
weights at terminals. This condition
exists in Philadelphia and a few other
large cities and is eminently satisfac-
tory.

5. Better. protection for receiver as
well as shipper.

6. The publication of our own organ,
peculiar to our own conditions and for
our mutual interests.

7. Protest against discriminating
rates and any other abuses of transpor-
tation.

8. Better seed stock; more care in
loading ; round housing in extreme cold
weather and refrigerating in extreme
hot weather; more prompt collection of
freight overcharges; avoiding houses
which over quote; eliminating the un-
reliable shippers and receivers, etc.,
etc.

We may differ widely on these ques-
tions, but’ when we get together we can
and will make the organization what we
want it.

Every shipper should be interested.
Let us have a large representative
meeting in Detroit, Aug. 29 and 30.

Rates will not exceed one fare for the
round trip and will probably be one
cent per mile, granted the Knights of
Pythias. Tickets good coming Aug. 25
to 28, returning to Sept. 5, or, on pay-
ment of 50 cents,extended to Sept. 14.

Baker, A. L., Minneapolis, Minn.
Buck & Bolton, Gaylord, Mich.
Bane, R. R. & Co., Detroit, Mich.
Cleveland, E. L. Houlton, Me.
Emerson, C. C., St. Paul, Minn.
Ferrin Bros, Detroit, Mich.
Freeman, C. G., Pontiac, Mich.
Lovely, W. H., Howard City, Mich.
Moseley Bros., Grand Rapids, Mich.
Parkhurst, E. E., Presque Isle, Me.
Penney, A. M., Waupaca, Wis.
Randall, C. L., Oxford, Mich.
Rockafellow Grain Co., Ltd., Carson
City, Mich.
Starkes, L., Plainfield, Wis.
Skallerup Bros., Chicago, III.
Waupaca Starch & Potato Co., Wau-

paca, Wis.
Wells, C. H. & Co., Greenville,
Mich.

Michigan Produce Shippers’ conven-
tion Aug. 28 and 29, until noon.
National Produce Shippers’ Conven-
tion Aug. 29,afternoon, and Aug. 30.
R. R. Bane, Acting Sec’y.
ee
Interesting Meeting of the Port Huron
Association.

Port Huron, June 11—At the last
meeting of the Merchants and Manu-
facturers’ Association, F. D. Sanborn,
Geo. Sargeant and D. C. Kinch were
elected to membership.

A communication from the Jackson
Grocers’ Association gave the informa-
tion that the decision had been reached
not to come to Port Huron this year.

The committee on the proposed moon-
light’ excursion reported favoring an ex-
cursion on the steamer Conger within
three weeks. The report was adopted
and the committee was instructed to
carry out the program proposed.

The special committee on the invita-
tion to the new Marine City Association
reported recommending that a meeting
be held for the entertainment of the
visitors at a date yet to be named. The
report was adopted.

A motion was adopted recommending

 

 

that the Mayor of the city be invited to
call a meeting to consider the question
of a Fourth of July celebration. A com-
mittee of five was appointed to represent
the Association in the meeting. H. C.
Knill, E. S. Post, L. A. McCarthur, F
J. Haynes and Phil Eichhorn were ap-
pointed as that committee.

Messrs. Little and Fuller, Bay City
grocers, presented the urgent invitation
of their Grocers and Butchers’ Associa-
tion for the Port Huron Association to
join in the jubilee to be held in Bay
City in August. A committee of five
was appointed to report ona plan of
action. Messrs. F. C. Wood, W. D.
Smith, Jr., C. Lauer, Phil Hoffman and
Geo. Parker were named as the com-

mittee.
—__—<§-6——___

The Grain Market.

Wheat has taken on new life—the sit-
uation has entirely changed. Prices
have made a steady advance since last
week. Winter wheat has advanced 5c
and spring wheat 6c per bushel for July
option. The visible showed about 300, -
o00 bushels decrease, leaving it about
44,704,000 bushels—about 17,000,000
bushels larger than at the corresponding
time last year. The crop damage in the
winter wheat belt is becoming more pro-
nounced and the drouth in North and
South Dakota, as well as in Minne-
sota, is not broken to any extent. The
foreign crop news shows no_ betterment.
The Government crop report estimates
spring wheat at 87.3 and winter wheat
at 82.7, all of which strengthened the
market. The conditions seem to favor
still higher prices and the shorts were
bidding up to buy what they had sold
short. With the present crop prospect
there will hardly be 200,000,000 bushels
of spring and 330,000,000 bushels of
winter wheat, making a total of 530,000, -
ooo bushels, against 547,000,000 bushels
in 1899 and 675,000,000 bushels in 1898.
As_ we need 400,000,000 bushels for our
own use and will export 200,000,000
bushels, any one can draw his own con-
clusions as to prices in the future. Then
present prices may look cheap, as no
amount of rain can make an average
crop of spring wheat now.

Corn has felt the advance in wheat,
but not to such an extent as the position
in that cereal warrants. Trading is very
much restricted, owing to the small
stocks in sight. While these cold nights
are not propitious for the growing crop,
still there is plenty of time yet provid-
ing the season is right, but we need a
large amount to bridge us over until the
new corn crop is fit for use.

Oats are only steady. There is no
boom, nor will there be, asthe new crop
will be available long before corn com
in.

In rye there is nothing doing—hardly
any trading.

The receipts were: 49 cars of wheat,
g cars of corn and 1o cars of oats.

Millers are paying 7oc for wheat.

C. G. A. Voigt.
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Cadillac Clerks Join Hands.
From the Cadillac News.

Thirty-five or more of the retail clerks
of this city met last evening for the
purpose of organizing a Retail Clerks’
Association. The following officers were
elected :

President—George McInnes.

Vice President—L. W. Rogers.

Secretary—Oscar Johnson.

Treasurer—B. A. Benson.

It will be the object of the members to
promote sociability among themselves
and to conserve their mutual interests.
Another meeting will be held on Mon-
day evening of next week.

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Someone says: ‘‘You can not shake

It is quite as im-

the hand of fate.’’
possible to shake fate

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

5

 

Grand Rapids Gossip

The Produce Market.

Asparagus—30@35c per doz. bunches.

Bananas—The market for bananas is
steady, with an active consumptive de-
mand. Prices are unchanged, but are
firmly maintained.

Butter—Factory creamery is weaker
and lower than a week ago, fancy stock
commanding 18c. Dairy grades are
coming in freely, fetching 13c for pack-
ing stock, 14c for choice and 15c for
fancy. The receipts are heavy, running
largely to packing stock.

Beets—30@35c per doz. bunches.

Cabbage—Caro stock commands 75@
goc per crate. Mississippi stock fetches
$3 per crate.

Cherries—Sweet command §1 per 16
qt. crate. Sour fetch $1.25 for same
quantity.

Cocoanuts—$3 per sack of 1oo.

Cucumbers—35@4oc per doz.-ferhome
grown.

Eggs—Receipts are large and price is
firmly maintained at 1lo@1Ic on a com-
mission basis.

Green Peas—75c per bu. ‘

Green Stuff—Lettuce, 5o@6oc per bu.

 

 

for outdoor stock. Onions, Ioc_ per
doz. for evergreen and 12c for silver
skin. Parsley, 30c per doz. Pieplant,

50@6oc for 50 lb. box. Radishes, toc
per doz. for long, 8c for round and 12c
per doz. for China Rose. Spinach, 35c
per bu.

Hay-—Carlot prices, track Grand Rap-
ids, are: No. 1, timothy, $12.50; No.
2, $11.50; clover mixed, . $11.50; rye
straw, $7.50; wheat and oat straw, $5.50
@6 per ton.

Honey—Fancy white commands 14@
15c. Amber is in demand at toc, while
dark is held at gc.

Lemons—The market for lemons is
still higher this week and prices for the
best grades show an advance of 25@35c
per box. The lower grades show an ad-
vance of about 15c per box. This past
week prices were the highest of the
season. There are continued reports of
the poor keeping quality of the Califor-
nia lemons. This will force dealers to
buy Sicily lemons, as no one wants to
buy stock that will spoil on their hands
in a short time.

Maple Sugar—8c for imitation and 9
@ioc for genuine.

Maple Syrup—Selling at 80@goc per
gal., as to quantity and quality.

Oranges—Mediterranean sweets, $3
@3.25; fancy seedlings, $3.50; bloods,
$3.50@4 per box.

Pineapples—Havanas and Jamaicas
command $1.50@1.75 perdoz. Floridas
fetch $2.25 per doz.

Plants—Cabbage, sweet potato and to-
mato, 75c per box of 200. Celery, goc
per box.

Potatoes—$1I
old.

Poultry—The market is stronger and
slightly higher this week, due to favor-
able local conditions. For live poultry
local’ dealers pay as follows: Broilers
weighing 1% to 2 lbs. command 17@
18c per Ib. Squabs, 1.75@2 per doz.
Pigeons, 50c. Chickens, 7@8c. Fowls,
6@7c. Ducks, 8c for old and 14c for
spring. Turkeys, loc for hens and 9c
for gobblers. For dressed poultry:
Chickens command toc. Fowls fetch
gc. Ducks are taken at 10c. Turkeys
are in fair demand at 11c for No. 2 and
12c for No. 1.

Strawberries—The receipts are heavy,
the local crop being enormous. Prices
range around 75c per 16 qt. crate and
will probably go no higher. The qual-
ity of the local crop is superb, the size
running large.

String Beans—-$1.25 per bu. crate;
$1 for 24 bu.

» Tomatoes—Florida stock commands
$3 per 6 basket crate and $2.25 for 4
basket crate.

Turnips—75c per bu.

Wax Beans—$1.25. per bu. crate; $1
for 2% bu.

—__>2>—____

Henry H. Bradfield has engaged in
the grocery business at Ada. The Wor-
den Grocer Co. furnished the stock

for new and 4oc for

 

Albert C. Cain, flour and feed dealer
at Rome City, Ind., has formed a co-
partnership with Wm. Deltz and en-
gaged in general trade under the style
of A. C. Cain & Co, The grocery stock
was furnished by the Worden Grocer Co.

W. W. Pearson, who has been en-
gaged in the clothing business at Fre-
mont for several years, has leased the
large store building formerly occupied
by the Newaygo Improvement Co., at
Newaygo, and will open a department
store therein about June 15. Mr. Pear-
son purchased his dry goods of Edson,
Moore & Co., his groceries of the Mus-
selman Grocer Co., his shoes of the
Bradley & Metcalf Co. and Wolf Bros.,
and his crockery and glassware of E.
M. Shaw, of Newaygo, who will dis-
continue the sale of this line in con-
sideration of Mr. Pearson’s agreement
not to carry a line of hardware.

 

The Citizens Telephone Co. has pur-
chased the Peninsular Telephone Co.
system, comprising local exchanges at
Bellevue and Athens and long distance
lines running from Charlotte to Battle
Creek via Olivet; Bellevue and Penfield,
thence to Athens, thence to Homer via
Union City and Tekonsha, thence to
Coldwater and Quincy; also an unfin-
ished line from Concord to Jackson.
This is one of the most important pur-
chases yet made by the Citizens Co., be-
cause it places the Citizens system in
direct communication with a chain of
important towns in Central and South-
ern Michigan. The exchange at Athens
will be entirely rebuilt with the most
up-to-date construction.

Judge Perkins on Cripple Creek.
‘‘The element of risk we consider
practically eliminated im our Cripple
Creek gold investment from the fact that
we have selected strictly inside prop-
erty at the center of the four sections
of land from which over $18,000,000
in gold was taken last year and about
$25,000,000 will be mined this year,’’
said Judge Cyrus E. Perkins, who is
trustee for receiving the subscriptions,
to-day.

‘*This output is at the rate of $10,000
per year for every acre, which would be
an ipvestment at 10 per cent. on a valu-
ation of $100,000 for each acre in that
small district. We pay $100,000 cash
and one-fifth the stock for about four-
teen acres. We don’t see how we can
lose anything, and we think we have a
chance of making from Ioo to 5,000 per

cent.
He 0m

Collapse of Robert B. Sulter.

R. B. Sulter, of Cleveland, whose in-
flated quotations have received frequent
attention at the hands of the Trades-
man, made an assignment Monday to
J. T. Heald, with assets and liabilities
nominally the same—$3,500. It will be
remembered that this is the man who
tendered the Tradesman a 9 inch adver-
tisement some three months ago, which
offer was declined, at which time the
Tradesman gave its readers certain very
good reasons why the announcements of
men of the Sulter ilk would not be ad-
mitted to its columns.

ao 8

A. E. Brooks is spending a couple of
weeks with friends at Denver and
Topeka. His chair is being occupied
in the meantime by Perry Barker.

a
It is hard work to marry an heiress;

but lots of loafers are ready to under-
take the job.

—- > 0

The man who has laid by something
for a rainy day now has days to
spend it.

rhe Grocery Market.

Sugars—The raw sugar market re-
mains practically the same as last week,
prices for 96 deg. test centrifugals now
being 45sc. On account of the strong
advancing tendency of raws, it was gen-
erally expected that prices for refined
sugar would be advanced to points for
the entire list. The market has been
firm, with a good demand, but the an-
ticipated advance has not yet been es-
tablished.

Canned Goods-—-The chief point of
interest in the canned goods line is in
the pea pack. The market on the new
pack of peas is in a very unsettled state
owing to persistent reports of damaged
and light crops. There is a fair demand
for the cheaper grades of peas, but no
one seems to want the better grades, in
view of the general uncertainty in the
situation. Buyers generally are holding
off until things become more settled. A
well-known Baltimore packer writes as
follows: ‘‘In our opinion the pea pack
in this section will be about three-
fourths of last vear’s, which was a very
short one. We think the present week
will see most of the peas in this section
in cans and our growers tell us that the
early June peas will be over entirely
next week. Up to this time we have
packed only about one-half of our usual
quantity. The price of raw material is
the highest we have known in years.’’
Every one recognizes now that the
Southern pack will be small, but with
the Western pea growing sections to
fall back on, all hands will likely get
peas enough in the end. Not only has
the Baltimore pea pack proved a great
disappointment as to size, but the qual-
ity of practically all the peas that have
so far been packed is declared to be
very inferior to that of former years.
The present indications are that prices
will move up a peg or two during the
coming week. The spot tomato market
continues strong, with considerable
buying. There are some indications of
higher prices. The demand is still good
from nearly all quarters. Corn is very
dull, with but few sales made. New
pineapples come in for considerable in-
terest and there is some buying of them,
but not so much as for the past two
weeks, as peas claim the most attention
now. Some business is being done in
new strawberries at prices which are re-
garded as low. ‘The strawberry pack is
very large this year. Future canned
peaches are selling more freely, with a
more active market for spot goods. Sar-
dines are showing more signs of activity
and more movement is noticed in them
than for some time. The run of fish on
the Columbia River has been much bet-
ter the last few days and some believe
it is the beginning of a big June run.
The freezers and picklers of salmon are
shipping large quantities to Europe and
they can afford to pay a much higher
price than the packers. As it stands
to-day the packers are not making much
of an effort to put up salmon and, unless
they get raw fish at about 5c per pound,
they will not be able to deliver 50 per
cent. of their orders this season. An-
other condition exists on the River
which will go a long way toward mak-
ing the business unprofitable and thus
check the pack—~a lively fight between
the Association and the outsiders. Both

sides are trying to see how much dam-
age can be done the other and many of
the packers have refused to name prices
until conditions have settled down to a
point where they can make figures with
a reasonable certainty of at least getting

 

their money back.

Those packers who

‘sorts,

 

are naming prices are making them
only on the amount of goods they have
réady for shipment and prices named
do not apply to future business.

Dried Fruits—-The dried fruit market
is practically the same as last week, the
only activity being in prunes and cur-
rants. Prunes still continue to pass in-
to consumption at a good rate, mostly in
small lots. It is stated that the crop of
prunes in France will be large. Already
low prices are being quoted in European
markets for the crop. With this
situation on the other side and the pros-
pects of an immense crop in this coun-
try, Californians will have to be mod-
erate in their ideas of prices of this
season's crop in order to make the ex-
port business what it should be. The
peach crop will be quite as heavy as
last season in California and indications
are that there will be some of the finest
peaches ever produced. Apricots are
very quiet, there seeming to be no de-
mand whatever. It is estimated that the
apricot crop will be about 800 carloads.
Raisins are exceedingly dull, with noth-
ing of interest to report. Currants are
decidedly firmer, due chiefly to a much

new

firmer market in Greece, where the crop
reports are not so favorable as they were
a few weeks ago. A good business is
done at present prices. Favorable ad-
vices continue to be received about the
new crop of figs,which is variously esti-
mated at all the way from 60,000 to
75,000 loads. It is expected moderate
prices will prevail. Evaporated apples
are about cleaned up. What few lots
are left are mostly in cold storage and
will probably be all sold out before the
new crop comes in. Owing to the scar-
city, prices are a little firmer, but there
has been no positive change in price.
Rice—The rice market is very firm,
with a continued good demand for all
but especially for the lower
grades. Offerings are very light and,
consequently, sales are small. Reports
from the South about the new crop are
not encouraging. At a time when fully
three-fourths of the acreage should have

been well under way, scarcely more
than one-third has been seeded. Cer-
tain limited sections in Carolina and

Louisiana are doing finely.

Tea—There is nothing of interest to
note in the tea market, but prices con-
tinue to hold steady. Jobbers seem to
be fairly well supplied and do not buy
in large lots. Offerings of new crop
teas of various descriptions are being
made and some business is done on
these lines.

Molasses and Syrups—-Molasses has
slightly eased in price and the larger
proportion of the crop has been dis-
posed of. The demand for corn syrup
is rather light just now, but prices re-
main firm and unchanged.

Fish—The outlook is fora good mack-
erel catch this season. The fish up to
date have been mostly in small schools,
but it is claimed that in all probability
the catch will be larger than for a num-
her of years.

Rolled Oats—Oatmeal millers have
taken advantage of the strong grain
markets to make an advance on rolled
oats and have forced up prices 35c per
bbl. As this price affords them only a
very small profit, it will undoubtedly
hold and may possibly go higher.

Nuts—There is a very good demand
for peanuts just now, due largely to the
opening up of the summer season.
Prices are unchanged but the market is
very firm.

>

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

 

    

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The Buffalo Market

Accurate Index of the Principal Staples
Handled.

Beans—Pea beans _ have the call here
and all of that variety are taken as soon
as offered and bring the best prices.
Marrows are in fair supply or easily
obtainable, also mediums and trade is
only fair. Marrows, $2.10@2.25, out-
side for fancy ; mediums, $2@2.20; pea,
$2.15@2.30, outside prices for fancy ;
kidney, white and yellow eye are dull.
Fancy prices are $1.75@2.25 per bushel.

Butter—Buyers outside of cold storage
speculators have been taking only
enough to supply daily necessities and
with good receipts there was a lower
feeling near the closing for fancy cream-
ery. This was followed by a decline of
fully %c to-day, with good prospects of
another decline to-morrow. Dairy con-
tinues scarce considering the demand
and the market is firm for fancy. Low
grades of butter of all kinds are in ac-
tive request and selling proportionately
higher than ever known in this market.
Extra creamery, 20c; firsts, 18'4@1gc;
good to choice, 17'%4@18c; dairy extra,
18@18%c; good to choice, 17@17%4c;
crock butter, fancy, 17c; fair to good,
15@16c.

Cheese—-No new full grass cheese in
market yet and the best mixed lots are
not quotable above toc, with 9@g%c
nearer the market, and holders are anx-
ious to unload. This fodder cheese
must sell lower, and is not fixing the
price for well cured full grass by any
means, as that quality will bring a
premium in this market irrespective of
the manipulations of Eastern buyers.
We want full cream grass cheese. The
trade here is sick of poor stuff and will
not take it at any price.

Eggs—The market is weak. Western
sellers are offering fine stock at 12c and
cold storage buyers seem to be filled
up. The few speculators left are not
anxious purchasers under present weath-
er conditions, and with only a light lo-
cal trade for strictly fresh or closely
candled at 12%c, there is no prospect
of any improvement in prices. Good
to choice lots are offered at 11@12c and
seconds g@tioc. Duck eggs are not
good enough to bring more than 14@15c
per doz.

Dressed Poultry—Receipts were not
as liberal, but there was sufficient to go
around and as is usual at this season of
the year considerable of the stock was
poor or arrived in nearly unsalable
condition. The trade here advises
shippers to put in plenty of ice as heavy
losses can only be avoided by _ that
method. On arrival here in good con-
dition dealers are able to take care of
all receipts, as cold storage facilities
and supply of ice are abundant and
cheap. Fancy fowl sold at roc; good to
choice, 9@9!4c; common, 7@8c; broil-
ers, 20@22c, with an occasional lot ata
fraction more. Turkeys are dull within
a range of 8@i2c for good to best.

Live Poultry—Light receipts, good
demand and market strong for broilers
and fancy fowl. Turkeys dull. No
young ducks in the market; good en-
quiry. Turkeys, 7@1oc; fowl, 9%4@
loc; broilers very scarce and all re-
ceipts brought sold quickly at 24@26c,
with a few fancy coops 14@134 |b. at
28c and a few at 3o0c per lb.

Strawberries—Receipts were enor-
mously heavy, in fact, the market was
never so liberally supplied with berries
from ail sections as this year. Many
cars were refused and sold on track for
less than freight charges owing to con-
dition. Berlin Heights came in quite
liberally late last week and some _near-
by receipts were also reported, but only
express lots, and these sdld up to 12c,
being of fine flavor and quality. Regu-
lar run of Southern shipments did not
exceed gc and it took fancy to bring
that figure. Most sales, 5@7c for good
to choice. To-day Berlin Heights sold
at 7@10oc.

Oranges—Trade quiet and with fruit
deteriorating in quality there is an eas-
ier feeling on the bulk of the offerings.
California navels, fancy, $3.75@4;
choice, $3.25@3.50; seedlings, $3@3.25
per box. f

 

 

 

Lemons—Active and_ higher; hot
weather the past few days and offerings
light of fancy fruit. Extra fancy, $5@
5.50; good to choice, $3.50@4.50 per
box.

Bananas—Receipts light and demand
confined to fancy large fruit. Sales
were made of fancy at $2.25@2.50; No.
I, $1.85@2; No. 2, 75c@$1 per bunch.

Pineapples—Heaviest receipts ever
known in this market. but with an ac-
tive demand prices continue firm. Ex-
tra, 15@20c; No: 1, 11@12c; No. 2, 9@
toc; No. 3, 7@8c each.

Cocoanuts—Fair supply and good de-
mand at $2.75@3 per 100.

Cherries—Southern are in, but the de-
mand was light for quality offered.
Best lots sold at 10c; fair to good, 7@8c
per quart. California cases sold at $1
@1.25 and quality exceptionally fine.

Peaches—The few Georgia in market
were prematures and not desirable either
in quality or variety. Best sold at $2@
2.50 per case.

Apricots—California sold at $1.25@2
per case.

Huckleberries—A few lots were re-
ceived and sold at 12@15c per quart.

Potatoes—Old potatoes are weak for
fancy stock, the best lots bringing any-
where from 42@45c off the track. Com-
mon to fair not wanted. New potatoes
are coming in liberally and quality of
late receipts is almost perfect. Buyers
refuse to touch anything except the best
and paid $3@5 per bbl., while early re-
ceipts, held over stock, mostly common
and culls, were offered at $1@2 per bbl.

Onions—Receipts light and good de-
mand and market firm for Southern.
Bermudas neglected. Egyptian held
higher. Green onions firm. Southern
dry, per bbl., $3@3.25; per bag, 70
Ibs., $1.25@1.39. Egyptian, $2.50@2.85
per sack; green, I0@12c per doz.
bunches.

Celery—Offerings light ; good demand
for fancy at $1@1.25; fair to good, 20@
50c per doz. stalks.

Asparagus—Scarce and firm; active
demand at $1.25@1.50 for large fancy ;
No. 2, 75c@$1; small, 30@4oc per doz.
bunches.

Lettuce— Market heavily supplied and
too unsettled and low to quote.

Cauliflower—Oniy fancy ‘wanted, for
which buyers are paying $3@3.50 per
doz.; medium and small -neglected;
offered at $1@2.

Tomatoes—Quiet; heavy supply of
common to good and few fancy. Quoted:
Fancy, $3@3.25; good to choice, $2@
2.50 per carrier; common unsalable.

Beans—Wax and green were in heavy
supply and lower. Fancy fresh receipts
brought $1 and held over stock any-
where from 25@soc per hamper.

Cucumbers—Really fancy fresh were
in light supply and sold quickly at $3@
3.50 per bbl., while stale stock hardly
brought freight charges, and the bulk of
the receipts were of that class. Home
grown fancy sold at 30@4oc per doz.

Cabbage—Heavy supply and market
lower. Large crates sold at $1.25@1.50
and small at 75c@$1, when fresh re-
ceipts; other stock at the best bid.

Peas—Scarce and wanted. The few
arrivals of fancy bring $1.50 per ham-
per.

Honey—Fair supply; light demand;
easier. No. 1 white, 15@16c; No. 2,
12@14c; dark, 8@toc per lb.

Dried Fruits——Evaporated apples
uiet, but offerings are cleaned up and
eeling is firmer. Fancy, 64%@7%c;

—— good, 5@6c; sundried, 4%@s5%c
per lb.

Straw—Scarce and firm. Wheat and
oat, bright, on track, $8.50@8.75 per
ton.

Hay—Active and firm. Loose baled
prime, $16@16.50; No. 1 tight baled,
$15@15.50; No. 2, $14; blue grass, $14
@15 per ton on track. :

————___~> 2.
If She Had to Make a Choice.

‘*Why is it,’’ said Willie Wishington,
‘that a woman who has no ties of affec-
tion will devote herself to a pug dog?’’

**I don’t know,’’ said Miss Cayenne;
‘*if I felt positively obliged to make a
choice, I believe there could be found
a man who was less stupid and annoy-
ing than a pug dog.’”’

 
   
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

D. Boosing

General
8 Commission Merchant @
© SPECIALTIES

@
Butter Eggs
Poultry Beans

EGGS WANTED

or less. I also want dairy butter, packed

in 30 and 40 and 60 pound tubs, selling

from 4c to 17c, according to quality.
® Dressed poultry in good demand, selling
) from licto12c. Any further information
you wish write or wire me and I will
answer promptly.

| I am paying spot cash for eggs in car lots

Correspondence solicited.

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

154 Michigan Street,
Buffalo, New York.

POOOQOODOOE ©OOS@ ?

 

POSS Se Sere.

Paris
Green

Labels

The Paris Green season is at
hand and those dealers who
break bulk must label their
— according to law.

e are prepared to furnish
labels which meet the require-
ments of the law, as follows:

100 labels, 25 cents

200 labels, 40 cents

500 labels, 75 cents
1000 labels, $1.00

 

Labels sent postage prepaid

where cash accompanies or-
der. Orders can be_ sent
through any jobbing house at
the Grand Rapids market.
Tradesman
Company,
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

-Butter and Eggs-
-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.,
Grand Rapids, Mich.

Ballou Baskets Are Best

Both phones.

 

 

Is conceded. Uncle Sam knows it and

uses them by the thousand.
We make all kinds.
Market Baskets, Bushel Baskets, Bamboo De-
livery Baskets, Splint Delivery Baskets, Clothes
Baskets, Potato Baskets, Coal Baskets, Lunch
Baskets, Display Baskets, Waste Baskets, Meat
Baskets, Laundry Baskets, Baker Baskets,
Truck Baskets.

Send for catalogue.

BALLOU BASKET WORKS, Belding, Mich.

 

MOSELEY & SHELBY,
SUGAR BROKERS,

We work direct and can interest you.
Wire or write us for prices.

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
25 TOWER BLOCK.

TRADE CHECKS

Made of heavy, 6 ply tough card board. Six

denominations, 1c, 5c, 10c, 25c, 50e and $1.00.

Each denomination on different color of

board. 60c per 100 prepaid. 20 per cent. dis-

count on 500 or over. Send for free samples.

W. R. ADAMS & CO., Detroit, Mich.
30 West Congress St.

 

 

 

 

 

Cn ee OR OR OR OH wo

MACKEY & WILLIAMS,

Dealers in

BUTTER, EGGS, CHEESE, POULTRY, &rtc.

f 62 W. MARKET & 125 MICHIGAN STS.
BUFFALO, N. Y.

From now forward ship dairy butter packed in tubs, 30, 40 and _ 60 lb. weight.
one in strong demand. Fresh eggs wanted for storage. Frncy creamery in g

nquiry.
REFERENCES:
Berlin Heights,
f York; Dun & Co. an

Members of Produce Exchange.

The City National Bank, Buffalo: Berlin Heights Banking Co.,
Ohio; National Shoe &
d Bradstreet Agencies.

Established 1887.

Dressed

Leather Bank, New

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Long Distance Phone Seneca 1081. j

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sWANTE

We want 100,000 lbs. of dairy butter either ladles or packing stock with-
We are always in the market to buy fresh eggs.

in the next few days.

We pay spot cash, f. o. b. Buffalo.

wire us.

new. Write for prices.

GLEASON
150 MICHIGAN ST.,

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: 5,000
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References, Merchants Bank, Buffalo, N. Y., Bradstreet or Dun Commercial Agency.
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We have for sale five thousand No. 2 egg cases, practically as good as

EGGS AND BUTTER §

FOR COLD STORAGE.

For further information write or

& LANSING,
BUFFALO, N. Y.

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GOTHAM GOSSIP.

News From the Metropolis—Index To the
Market.
Special Correspondence.

New York, June 9—There is little of
interest in the coffee market. Trading
has been quiet during the week and sell-
ers are seemingly unconcerned as to
whether they make sales or not on the
present basis. Advices from abroad
have not been especially encouraging
and from Rio come continued reports of
plague, so that aitogether the situation
seems to point to advanced rates. At
the close Rio. No. 7 is quotable at 85¢c.
In store and afloat,the quantity of Brazil
aggregates 783,217 bags, against I, 197, -
086 bags at the same time last year.
Mild coffees are quiet at the moment,
although during the week some fairly
good sales were made. Good Cucuta
is worth 1o%c. East India coffees are
quiet and little has been done beyond
the ordinary everyday trade.

There is a fair volume of trade in teas
and buyers seem to be rather more in-
terested than usual. The range of
prices is low and no one can tell what
effect the troubles in China will have,
if the disturbance increases, as_ there
seems every likelihood of its doing.
The present is apparently a good time
to buy.

There has been a large movement on
old orders for sugars, but buyers appear
loath to take much stock ahead on pres-
ent quotations, preferring to wait for
future developments. Quotations are
without change, although some softs, it
is said, are shaded 5 points for round
lots.

Stocks of medium and fancy grades
of rice are rather light and it is this
which keeps prices firm, rather than any
special activity in demand. Foreign
sorts are held at full values. Prices are
unchanged from last week.

Orders for spices in a jobbing way
have been more frequent and some
quite satisfactory trades have been
made during the week. Holders insist
on full rates and buyers are not inclined
to dally.

Sales of molasses and syrups during
the week have shrunken to very small
proportions. Some business has been

done in low grades—worth say 9c—but

the general tone is quiet. Syrups are
steady and the demand is moderately
active.

There is precious little to tell about
the canned goods market. -Spots are
irregular and quiet and there is nothing
doing in futures. Reports come of fail-
ure, or at least of a very light yield of
peas in Maryland, but the market is
affected little, if any. Brokers advise
purchases, but the trade does not respond
with much fervor. Tomatoes are doing
better and canners are not disposed to
accept current quotations of 75c for Jer-
seys, insisting on 80c. Lower rates in-
dicate that the quality is not all it
should be.

Lemons and oranges have been in
good request. Sicily lemons are worth
$3.75@5.25, the latter, of course for
fancy. California oranges are showing
a decline in quality and are quotable at
$4.25@4.50, with fancy stock as high

 

as $5.25. Bananas have receded in
price and quotations are nominally
$1.50@1.55 per bunch for Aspinwall
firsts. Pineapples are firm, with Flor-
idas held at $2.75@4 per crate, as to
size. Havanas, 7@14c each.

Dulness characterizes the dried fruit
market all around and neither buyer nor
seller shows any interest.

The butter market is unsettled and
weak. The demand has not been equal
to the emergency occasioned by the ar-
rival of large supplies, and, with the
accumulation, a decline has come.
Fancy Western creamery is worth at the
outside I9c. From this the decline is
rapid. Thirds to firsts, 16@18%c;
Western imitation creamery, fancy, 17@

1744c; firsts, 15%c; factory Western,
15@16c. :
Cheese is dull, although perhaps a

little better than last week Large,
white full cream, 9% @93¢c; small, col-
ored, 84% @8c.

The egg market is quiet, with best
Western at not over 13c. Arriving stock
shows a large proportion of eggs which
will not stand inspection.

—_—_-~> 2. —___—_
The Career of an Errand Boy.
From the Chicago Tribune.

The career of the late Charles P.
Huntington, who died recently at Yonk-
ers, N. Y., illustrates the success which
waits upon a man who devotes himself
to his duties industriously and ener-
getically. Mr. Huntington began his
business career in New York in 1857 as
an errand boy ina large sugar house.
He remained connected with that house
all his life, and at the time of his death
he was the head of the firm which first
employed him. His career was marked
not only by great industry, but also by
unflinching integrity. His life closed
with an act of generosity which adds to
the instructiveness of the lesson. His
fortune was estimated at about $1,000, -
ooo. After personal bequests amount-
ing to $180,000, made to his sister, to
friends, and to employes in his estab-
lishment, he left $700,000 to the Cathe-
dral of St. John in New York and dona-
tions of $20,000 each to ten deserving
charities, besides a sufficient sum to es-
tablish a library in Norwich, Conn., his
birthplace.

9
Sheep Dulness Exemplified.

‘*The stupidest animal in the world,’’
said Herny Rudolph yesterday, ‘‘is just
a plain, everyday sheep. About two
weeks ago a sheep belonging to G. W.
Painter, who lives about three miles
south of town, turned up missing. Mr.
Painter concluded that it had been killed
by dogs; but a few days ago, while
looking under the barn floor for some
purpose, he saw the missing animal in
a Salt barrel. The barrel was lying on
its side, and the sheep had gone in to
lick up the salt which adhered to the
sides of the barrel. Finding that it
could not go on through, it stopped, and
had been there nine days, when discov-
ered, without food or drink. And it
would have stayed there until it per-
ished. All it had to do was to back out
of the barrel, but it hadn’t sense enough
to do it.

Identifying a Bad Man.

‘*Do  you--do you remember who
killed Abel?’’ asked the old man in the
street car of the man on his right.

‘**Why, Cain, of course,’’ was the
ply. ‘‘Who did you think it was?’’

‘*Waal, durn my hide, if I hain’t
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minits ago that I bet a man $2 to $1
that it was Goliah, and now I'll hev_ to
go barefut all summer to make it up.

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THE PASSING OF THE SCEPTER.

Aluminum was discovered in 1828, by
Wohler. Thirty years later Deville made
the discovery commercially available.
In 1854 it was quoted at $270 a pound;
in 1859 at $40; in 1889 at $7; in 1892 at
$1, and the market price now is some-
thing over 30 cents. The output of the
metal in the United States last year was
6,520,000 pounds, an increase of 25 per
cent. over the year before; and the
product this year will probably show a
still greater increase, on account of its
taking the place of copper, which is too
costly, and because the lightness of
aluminum is making it more generally
sought after for manufacturing purposes.
Its resemblance to silver made it at-
tractive for the numberless articles al-
ready in common use and its wonderful
strength has recommended it to the
manufacturer where iron has been used
before. It has proved itself so far equal
to every emergency as to suggest the
thought that it may in time take the
place of iron. Its increasing cheapness
favors the idea and if it shall be found,
as it promises, to be proportionally
stronger the long reign of iron is over.

It is not easy to comprehend what that
means in its entirety, for so comimon is
iron in everyday life that we are not
ready to give to it the credit it can
justly claim. Let the more important
uses remain unmentioned and let us go
down to the humble conditions of life to
find what iron is doing for us. A tin
dish is common, but how useless is the
tin if the sheet iron it covers is taken
away. The removal of the stove takes
the country back to the fireplace and the
removal of crane, crane-hook and kettle
launches us into barbarism. What
would become of womankind to-day
were she deprived of the omnipresent
hairpin? And fancy the wail of forlorn
mankind if the common pin_ should
suddenly cease to exist. Remove the
nail from the world of industry, strike

 

 

the ordinary carpet tack from the list of
common things, banish from the earth
the last needle, and common life would
cease to be common and not worth the
living. So important a part has this sin-
gle element played in the civilization of
the world, so firmly and yet so modestly
has this iron king of an iron age worn
his iron crown, that when it is remotely
suggested that there is even a far off
end to his reign there comes an _ indig-
nant protest.

Whether the passing of the scepter
shall come in the coming century time
alone can tell. Steel has supplanted iron
because bulk for bulk steel is the
stronger. The old-fashioned farming
tools still rusting in the New England
barns and tool houses weigh four times
as much as the modern implement and
only the workman handling the fork and
the hoe can appreciate what thé differ-
ence means. It has taken two thousand
years to bring about this change since
Christianity began; how long before
that period no one can tell. The Stone
Age gave way to iron. Is aluminum
reaching out its hand now for the em-
blems of kingship in the world of use-
fulness? So far the new metal has met
the qualities demanded of it. It is
lighter and stronger. It does not rust.
Its color commends it. It offers no
difficulties in the hands of the artisan.
Already in pleasing forms has it taken
possession of mansion and farmhouse
and every day its usefulness widens. If
the promises of science are fulfilled, and
the cost of the new metal can be reduced
to that of iron, the rest is a mere mat-
ter of time. Slowly and as surely the
cumbersome will give way to its oppo-
site, and where now the heavy and dark
holds all that is substantial in its clutch
the light in weight and color will come
in, the symbols of power will pass from
hand to hand and the new. metal,
crowned and enthroned, will lead its
people onward toward the ‘‘Golden

Age.”’

A French journai asserts that half of
the suicides are caused by losses in-
curred at horse races. It will avail
nothing to stop the horses on that ac-
count. The Frenchman will find some
other cause for killing himself.

 

The poet-laureate of England gets a
hogshead of wine every year for lau-
reating,and good judges are now saying
England is paying extravagant prices
for her official poetry.

 

A million-dollar smelter is to be
erected immediately at Salt Lake City.
Labor agitators and walking delegates
smelter strike before the contracts were
signed.

 

A young man is too forward when he
speaks of a lady friend as ‘‘his in-
tended.’’ The most important part of
the contract hinges upon her intentions.

 

Miracles that can make loaves and
fishes are also wanted to keep them
fresh while the world is wondering.

 

A thorough physician has . goodness
of heart and professional pride enough
to wish his patient well.

 

The Boers did not want to surrender
before enjoying one more chance to lick
Buller.

 

It is best to keep away from things
that will happen beyond a reasonable
doubt.

 

Marriage is a failure when there is
heart-failure to contend with.

 

GERMAN RESENTMENT. =
The American press is giving consid-
erable attention to what it is pleased to
call ‘the hostility of Germany.’’ For
some unaccountable reason that nation
has come to the conclusion that there is
too much Yankee in the world. If she
goes up he is there. If she goes down
he is there. If she takes the wings of
the morning and flies to the uttermost
parts of the sea the first object her eyes
rest on is that American with his grip-
sack full of samples. Once there was
no terror in the sight. His nutmegs
were wooden and his timepieces would-
n’t go unless they were carried. She
favored his presence. He pioneered the
way with his stuff and she followed with
the genuine articles. He thought he
was doing something in the world of
business and she fostered his idea. She
liked his push and he pitied her patient
plodding, and so long as she came out
first there was nothing objectionable to
him or about him. Trace him back far
enough and they both came together in
the Teuton heart. Same blood after
all, and it’s a nice thing to find rela-
tion one can make use of.

This has been the condition of things
for a good many years. The German has
looked upon the American as a savage
reclaimed by Baron Stuben, to whose
training all that is good in the North
American continent is wholly due. That
training has inclined the nation to look
upon Germany asa model. We are a
nation of copyists and have shown a re-
markable intelligence in selecting what
is really worth copying. We can work
and do work. We are industrious, with
an eye out to the main chance of cut-
ting a corner when we can, but we are
not original—the copying shows that.
We are a people with good intentions,
with a reputation from fair to middling,
but we are not profound. We will do to
take the subordinate places in doing
the world’s work. We are ambitious,
but it is ‘‘the almost’’ that has been
and will be the great national lack. We
can make a machine, but our workman-
ship is like the photograph: It lacks
the artistic element. There is the form,
the face, but the soul is lacking; and
that is what the world wants. We can
never furnish that because we haven’t
it and that is why America can never
be a rival of Germany !

With this matter thus settled, the Ger-
man has gone on with his smoke and
the Yankee has been ‘sawing wood.’’
He knew—‘‘none so well as_ he’’—that,
aside from the Baron Stuben notion,
the estimate of Germany was correct ;
but he was determined it should not be
so. He ‘‘learned to labor and to wait ;’’
and when, the other day, the American
Consul General at Berlin said that Ger-
many has been paralyzed at the enor-
mous upward bound of the foreign trade
of the United States it seems that the
pipe has been put down with exclama-
tions, that the iabor has amounted to
something and that the waiting is over
with. The Yankee is still, gripsack in
hand, making the most of his opportuni-
ties, and no longer a copyist nor a fol-

lower. There is where the resentment
comes in: He has learned how. There
is a heavy balance of trade which this
country is holding against the land of
the Rhine, textile exports have declined,
the growth of American exports is enor-
mous and the competition of American
metal is not only aggressive, but it is
successful and, resenting all this, the
German has put down his mug witha
bang, his pipe emphasizes the expres-

 

sion of the empty schooner and we shall
see what we shall see!

That is natural. Nobody likes to be
beaten at his own game. The father
beaten at a game of checkers by his own
son is glad enough at the outcome, but
for a moment he wants to cuff the
youngster’s ears. There is, however,
no enmity in his heart. Henceforth he
will play a manly game. He will do
his best and the harder the struggle the
worthier the ‘reward. So this talk of
enmity on the part of Germany towards
this country is groundless. The old
country is waking up to the fact that
the new one has got over being a boy
and is able to assert his manhood. He
has become a manufacturer. He _ has
learned how to trade. His dye tub has
learned the secret of coloring. His
looms weave the best woolens. In a
word, he has overcome ‘‘the almost’’
and, in a vernacular peculiar to him-
self, he ‘‘gets there with both feet.’’
Germany has no more reason for enmity
against this country than England. In
a certain sense the latter has a greater
grievance than Germany, and he would
be looked upon as a simpleton who
should talk of English resentment
against this country because she has
been over-reached in trade. Oh, no,
Germany has been taken by surprise,
that is all. In the struggle for commer-
cial supremacy she has found an_ unex-
pected rival. Roused to the fact, the
resentment she feels will follow legiti-
mate channels and the Yankee will find,
if he succeeds now, he has earned his
success; and he will find, too, that Ger-
many will appreciate the fact as thor-
oughly as he does and heartily applaud
him for it.

Colorado specially names watches
among the articles of personal property
on which a tax shall be paid; buta
watch being something easily concealed,
the assessors have had difficulty in col-
lecting the tax. The Denver assessor
has, however, hit on the expedient of
assessing each voter in his jurisdiction
at $20 for his watch on a guess, and it
is represented that the treasury has been
enriched $26,250 thereby. This puts
the assessors on their metal, and makes
them watch out for the Waterbury watch,
which must be accompanied by a suit
of clothes to make a boy take it.

The electric light is used now in
nearly all of the jute mills in India.
This state of affairs was brought about
by the working people, who found they
could work overtime under much better
conditions and with increased pay in
mills which were electrically lighted,
and flocked to those employing that

system in such numbers that other mills:

had to introduce the light into their
workrooms.

 

The pie bakers of New York attribute
the great demand lately for their prod-
uct to a disappearance of the belief that
pies are indigestible. Even athletes
now eat pies in training.

Japan has discovered gold mines, but
no foreigner will be allowed to work
them. When Cecil Rhodes hears this
England may be induced to declare
war on Japan.

 

Low-necked dresses are gradually get-
ting their work in again. Fashion has
been choking beauty to death with the
garret collars.

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There seem to be only two kinds of
bananas. They are the unripe and the
over-ripe.

 

 

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A PATHOLOGIC PUZZLE.

Inflammation of the vermiform appen-
dix, formerly one of the very rarest of
dangerous human diseases, has within
a r.cent period become one of the most
common, as well as one of the most
fatal.

The attacks of this disorder are con-
fined to persons of no class, age or con-
dition, but are experienced by people
in every walk of life, apparently with-
out exception or distinction. The child
of tender age, the young man and
maiden, men and women of leisure, as
well as workers. all seem alike subject
to the painful and often deadly assaults
of this most obscure and little under-
stood disea e.

Formeriy, and that was from _ the
earliest times to the present generation,
the attacks of appendicitis were attrib-
uted to the entrance into the appendix
of some foreign body, such as a fruit
seed or pin or some other small article
swzllowed by accident or otherwise ; but
it now appears that such causes only ac-
count for 4 per cent. of all the cases,
while the other 96 per cent. must be
charged to something else, and just
what that something may be is a puzzle.

The vermiform appendix is a small
intestinal tube, a few inches in length,
connecting with one of the lower large
entrails of the human digestive system.
It is closed up at the farther end and is
declared by many medical men to_ per-
form no known function. They claim
that it is merely a relic of some crgan
that was possibly of use to men when
they were undergoing some early stage
of evolution, but that they have out-
grown it, and now it is of no use what-
ever. This mysterious organ, is pos-
sessed by animals of the orang-outang
and ape species and also by some of the
opossum family.

Modern science is so dogmatic that
it will not tolerate any serious question-
ing.of its formal deliverances, and, hav-
ing pronounced upon the non-utility of
the worm-like organ that has lately come
into great prominence, that troublesome
appendix is fit for nothing but to be cut
off by the surgeon's knife; but the  fre-
quent fatality of the operation, and the
by no means infrequent return of the
disease after the extirpation of the or-
gan,seems as if it were a sort of protest
against the opinion held of the ejected
and cast-out organ.

Since the appendix has been scien-
tifically condemned as wholly useless,
it would be presumption to suggest any-
thing to the contrary; but it occurs to
students of human mechanisms—that is,
of mechanical structures designed by
men in connection with the organisms
of the human body—that the appendix
is just such a device as would be used
to take up and dispel what would other-
wise be the fatal consequences of shock.

There are many mechanical appli-
ances operated by tremendous forces
which are subjected to such violent
shocks that they would be greatly dam-
aged, and even destroyed, if there were
not some device to take up and distrib-
ute the force of a sudden impact. For
instance, when a cannonis fired, the re-
coil of the gun is made with a force
equal to that which is communicated to
the shot. The great gun kicks back-
ward, and if it were not for special
mechanism in the construction of the
carriage to dispose of the force of the
recoil, the discharge of such a cannon
would be calamitous to its own gunners.

To reverse the motion of a steam rail-
way locomotive or the engine of a
steamship, when going at full speed,

 

would work havoc to the engineers and
to the machinery if it were not for spe-
cial provision for disposing of the
shock. There are elevators or ‘‘lifts’’
for carrying passengers up and down in
lofty buildings, which are so provided

,that the fall of the cage bearing the pas-

sengers is robbed of its danger by pro-
vision to neutralize the force of what
would be otherwise a terrible impact.

There are many other machines in
which some such device is necessary,
and it is most commonly in the form of
a cushion of compressed air contained
in some appropriate receptacle. The
compressios of the air is effected in a
moment by the impact caused by the
sudden arrest of motion, and it creates
a progressive reaction against the force
of the shock.

To suppose that the human system,
which is subject to the effects of the
most violent emotions, of nervous and
muscular exertion, under the pressure
of highly exciting causes, is not  pro-
vided with some means of resisting such
shocks is a most unreasonable assump-
tion. If science believed in a supreme
creative intelligence and force, it would
be most degradifg and unworthy to as-
sume that the Divine intelligence has
failed to provide in the highest vitalized
organism protective mechanisms that
man in his works has long ago applied.

But even if the Divine creative power
be rejected, and it be held that man_ is
the result of an evolution which impels
him to attempt to supply every urgent
need as soon as it is realized, it must
be inferred that evolution has met all
such requirements, and that the human
body is provided with the means of
meeting physical and emotional shocks
which would otherwise damage or des-
troy vital oragns. It may, therefore, be
possible that the appendix vermiform-
is, and the caecum, of which it is an
appendage, are a part of the anti-shock
mechanism. If so, then the little organ
which is now regarded with so much
contempt may be of large actual value
after all.

But why has appendicitis within a re-
cent period become so frequent an as-
sailant of human health? The same sort
of question may well be asked in regard
to several other disorders—Bright’s
disease, for instance. That is a question
which must be left to the medical fac-
ulty; but it may not be out of place to
suggest, in connection with appendi-
citis, that the use of anodynes and cal-
matives has become so general, while
the agents employed are so numerous
and many of their properties and effects
are so little understood, that they de-
prive the anti-shock apparatus of the
exercise of its due and proper function,
so that this heretofore indispensable ap-
paratus, being no more actively em-
ployed, has begun to degenerate and to
breed diseases of its own on account of
such disuse. Not only has the excessive
use of anodyne and _ narcotic agents
wrought its effects upon the constitutions
of the users, but it has reacted on their
descendants. At any rate, the appendix
vermiformis has come into enormous
importance in a comparatively recent
period, and it has already created a
general alarm that may, if not stopped
by the assurances of reliable relief,
reach the extremes of panic. Here is a
problem of the first importance for
medical investigation.

Whatever else may bind Germany
and this country together, the former’s
excluding American sausage is going to
make one link the less.

 

THE JAP AND THE YANK.

It was an incident hardly out of the
ordinary which took place the other day
when a large consignment of wheat from
a Pacific port of the United States
started for Japan. Other consignments
had preceded it, but this one so much
larger calls attention to the growing de-
mand for American products by this
country so lately wakened and so_ sud-
denly transformed, if the figure is not
too violent, from the sluggish insect of
semi-civilization to its perfect develop-
ment of modern life. '

It is unnecessary to go back very far
to mark this increase. Two years ago
four million dollars’ worth of flour went
westward to the East, for the most part
to China, Japan and Russia in Asia.
Last year almost six millions of the
same merchandise passed between the
same ports and it is not going too far to
add that from present indications the
amount of exports from this country to
those will certainly be no less. They
buy every year a billion dollars’ worth
of goods. The United States has been
able to get 6 per cent. of this trade.
From that increase of two‘millions a
year as a basis it does not indicate over
confidence to affirm that that 6 per cent.
during the next decade wit] be much
larger.

With the expansion of trade, which has
been rapidly increased since prosperous
times began in this country, it will oc-
casion no surprise to learn that much of
our increase has been with the Orient.
During the eight months ending with
February, exports to Europe were in-
creased 5.4 per cent. as compared with
the corresponding months of the preced-
ing fiscal year. South America took 8
per cent.; North America, 13.3 per
cent., for which our Canadian sister has
our hearty thanks; Asia, 38 per cent.
and Oceanica 51 per cent. This in-
crease in our sales to the Orient occurs
in every country classified under the
head of Asia and Oceanica and while it
might be a pleasing task to furnish in
detail the figures which confirm the
statement of the increased per cent., it
would be a_ tedious one and this from
Japan must stand for the whole story:
In the eight months ending with Feb-
ruary, 1899, the amount of sales to Japan
increased from $10,505,854, to $18, 344,-
179, in February, I900, an amount
which indicates a growing interest be-
tween the Jap and the Yank, which may
mean something more than an array of
figures.

This interest is not lessened by the
fact that the general importations of
that country have been greatly decreased
under its new tariff, which is somewhat
protective, and an examination of the
amount of imports for the fiscal year
ending in 1899 shows that while Japan
is decreasing her general imports she
continues to increase rapidly her im-
ports from the United States.

While this condition of trade doubt-
less rests on the general law of advan-
tage, there seems to be something else
Comparing the Yankee, the latest out-
come of national development, with the
Jap, the child of the semi-civilized,
there are some points of resemblance
not purely fanciful. The two are thor-
oughly wide awake. They stand each
first as the best type of the life behind
them. They are both progressive. They
are both ambitious. They are both
looking out for the main chance, differ-
ing from the nations behind them in
this, that both are determined to be
found equal to the leading place circum-
stances have given them. There are

 

other points of resemblance, but these
are enough to show that the two peoples
are enough alike to be attracted to each
other and they are. The wit hidden in
the Yankee machine finds full appre-
ciation in the delighted Jap and from
the manufactured product up through
the cunning contrivance the apprecia-
tion passes to the nation and the genius
behind the machine and its product.
There is the touch which establishes
the kinship and it need not create sur-
prise if later this kinship, remote as it
is to-day, be more generally acknowl-
edged, and a union of these
extremes may produce the most bene-
ficial results.

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By means of electric lights the interior
of a burning building is made as_ plain
as daylight, and can tell at a
glance the window-ledge whether
their presence is needed inside. The
lights are made detachable, so they can
be taken from the engine and set up on
standards. They are also provided with
200 feet of flexible conducting cables,
which the firemen to run the
searchlights out on a pier, or even into
a building. One of the great fields for
usefulness of this new apparatus is in
lighting up the interior of boats when
on fire. When a ship at the pier gets
on fire the darkness in the hold makes
it difficult for the firemen to control the
flames. Dense volumes of smoke further
obscure the point where the fire is burn-
ing, and sometimes ship and cargo are
lost simply because the firemen are un-
able to locate the exact place of the fire.
The portable searchlight, which will
soon be re-enforced by smaller incan-
descent lights for carrying in the hand,
will make fire-fighting at night a much
easier matter than in the past. Hereto-
fore fire safeguards have been consid-
ered chiefly for the public; it is a wise
move now to consider the firemen.

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Miss Florence Nightingale has just
celebrated her 80th birthday. Entirely
confined to her room, Miss Nightingale
has daily proof, in the number of the
pistolary enquiries and the gifts of fruit
and flowers she receives, of the place
she continues to hold in the affections
of the people. In all the efforts through-
out the country to provide sufficient
hospital accommodations and comforts
for the troops at the front, she has taken
a lively interest, and quite recently she
sent $500, with a sympathetic letter,
to the lord provost of Edinburgh, on
behalf of the maintenance of the South
African hospital, equipped by the
northern capital and east of Scotland.

For preserving timber from decay
an Australian has patented a new treat-
ment, consisting of immersing the tim-
ber in a solution of arsenious acid and
an alkali until thoroughly impregnated,
after which a coating of sulphate of cop-
per is applied. '

 

Drunkenness is more common on Sat-
urday nights than other nights, because
then the workman is paid wages and
has money to loan the dead-beat drunk-
ard.

 

The early closing movement originated
with the clam, which shuts up when it
hears the approach of footsteps on the
beach.

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have to be carried out by people who
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Shoes and Leather

Glimpses of Life in a Shoe Store.

Mr. Jones, who ran the store, and had
one clerk, had gotten down town before
the little clerk that morning. It was
not a usual thing, and it was not the
little clerk’s regular hour to appear, yet
Mr. Jones stood in the doorway fora
moment without unlocking the door and
scowled.

He didn’t usually get down so early.
But it was such a pretty spring morn-
ing and the birds sang so just outside
his window that he couldn't sleep, so he
had jumped out of bed, bolted his
breakfast for the first time on record
along with the boarders who were always
called at six and went to work at seven.

There was no reason on earth why
Jones shouldn’t have felt happy that
beautiful spring morning as he stood in
the doorway. Business was pretty fair,
there was no competition which he could
not meet. He owed nothing. The an-
nual inventory had showed a good stock
on hand and a very tidy profit over the
preceding year. Still he was grumpy.
There could be no denying that.

He did not unlock the door; he just
stood there and scowled.

It was not yet 7:30, and he knew that
that was.the hour which the little clerk
had been told to open the doors until
June 1, and yet had an unreasoning feel-
ing of anger because the store was not
open.

Jones was not a bad sort of a_ fellow

 

 

at all. We all of us are that way some-
times.
Somebody was whistling blithely

down the side street. The whistle came
around the corner. It was accompanied
by the little clerk. The boy gave one
terrified look at the man in the doorway,
and then at the town clock and looked
puzzled, but he stopped whistling.

There was no reason on earth why
Jones should not have said ‘‘ good morn-
ing’’ blithely, but he did not. He sim-
ply nodded and stood silent until the
little clerk unlocked the door, and the
shoe store door, which is always the
same, and unlike anything else, swept
out in his face. Then Jones went in
and watched the boy. He watched him
take the rugs out on the front walk and
mix up the sawdust and water for the
bare floor, and the soaked paper scraps
for the carpets. He went and stood in
the doorway while the Iad beat the rugs
and swept and rolled the long strips of
carpet that were used in front of the
settees. He watched him sweep the
carpets and he watched him sweep the
spots of bare floor and behind the do-up
counter,

Jones didn’t mean anything, but it all
seemed very real and horrible to the lit-
tle clerk. He usually whistled or sang
as he did up his morning's work, but
he worked silently and nervously on this
particular morning.

Once Jones pointed toward a little
patch of sawdust which had been left by
the boy’s broom, and once he took the
broom from the lad's hands and reswept
under the stove.

[he sun peeped over the top of the
opposite building and shone brightly in
on the window trim. The boy did not
notice it. Jones walked rapidly to the
door and lowered the awning. The boy
felt like a convicted felon.

Once an early customer came in and
asked for a number three and one-half
rubber. The little clerk leaned his
broom up against the ledge and it fell
over with a startling crash. The three

the customer departed. The little clerk
felt more guilty than ever.

He laid his dustpan down for a mo-
ment while he went to get his broom
and Jones picked up the dustpan and
hung it up, and it scared the little fel-
low to go and take it down again.

He dusted with the greatest care, and
just as he was about to put the duster
away, Jones walked over to the counter,
picked up a pile of single-pair cartons
and held them while the little clerk
dusted the spot on the counter where
they had stood.

It was sunny and delightful out of
doors, but it seemed horrible inside to
the little clerk. And really Jones did
not mean anything at all.

Suddenly Jones seemed to think of
something. He felt of his coat pockets
and of his vest pockets, and then he
went over to his light overcoat and
searched through several _ pockets.
Finally he drew out a pleasant-looking
cigar. He smelled of it thoughtfully
and bit off the tip. He found a match
and drew it along the under edge of the
do-up counter and looked cross-eyed at
the tip of the cigar while he lighted it
carefully.

He had breakfasted so early that he
had forgotten his morning cigar. He
took two or three whiffs and blew the
smoke in rings toward the ceiling.

‘‘ By Jove, Jimmy,’’ he said, ‘‘this is
a blame fine morning. 1’ll flip with
you to see who goes to the ball game
this afternoon. ’’

Were you ever a little clerk in a shoe
store?—I. Fitem in Boots and Shoes
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—_-2.—__
The Whistling Boy.
A merchant went in the summer time
To a pleasant, peaceful, pastoral clime
Where the roadways ribboned the acres through
And the fruit of the farmer’s labors grew.

He walked along where the hidden choirs
Tossed plaintive notes to the vibrant wires
Of Zepherus, that caught the thrill

And flashed its sweets o’er grove and hill.
His senses woke to a measure new,

A hallowing peace did his mind imbue,
And he paused as he felt its benefice

Like a spirit passed to the realms of bliss.
As there he stood in the bowered way,

He caught the notes of a happy lay

That came from a lad in the corn field wide.
Who whistled the while his hoe he plied.

He watched the boy as from hill to hil]
He swung the hoe witha sturdy will,
And the harder he worked the fuller vent
He gave to his lips’ accompaniment.

** Ah, there,” said the merchant, by impulse bade,
** Is a son of man whom work makes glad!”
Then he went to the boy in tattered blouse

And engaged him to work in his counting house.

The youth took hold with industry grim,
But he brought his whistle along with him,
And in just two days its charm gave o’er,
And the whistler was kicked through the office
door.

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A California man has what is thought
to be the largest herd of Angora goats
in the world. It varies from eight to
ten thousand head. He considers a
thousand to fifteen hundred the best
number for a herd. Pure-bred bucks
are worth from $25 to $40 a head and
does from $4 to $8, according to grade.
The average fleece of the thoroughbreds
is from four to six pounds, but clippings
of eight and ten pounds are not uncom-
mon, There is a South African Angora
buck, Pasha by name, that can be de-
pended upon for at least twelve pounds
of mohair annually. From another and
larger buck, brought from Turkey, a
fleece was taken one year that weighed
fourteen pounds and twelve ounces, and
one weighing fifteen pounds and _ three
ounces the next year. These animals
are appraised at $500 each, but are not
for sale.

 

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The straightforward business man who
has his price, and sticks to it, is safer
to deal with than the sharper who will
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rubber shoes:

1. The heel having a ribbed back, it protects the clothing from becoming wet or
soiled on the under surface by breaking the suction which two smooth surfaces create
when wet. 2. The ribs, being near together at the top and spreading over the heel to the
bottom, serve to hold the rubber securely on to the boot and prevent it from slipping at

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and a short fit ean not be forced on the wearer. It also secures the shape of the rubber

until worn out.
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Agents for GoopYEAR GLOVE Hoops AND OLD COLONY RUBBERS,
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19 Sour Ionia STREET

The “Gold Seal
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Window Display—Arrangement Adapted
to Independence Day.

Metropolitan shoe dealers are now
bringing skins into play for the purpose
of making their windows more attrac-
tive. Almost any line of shoes now dis-
played will have a tanned skin or two
in the window representing the leather
from which that particular line of shoes
was made. A recent window display
of a specialty woman’s shoe had some
untanned kidskins, other skins finished
in different shades of tan and black and
one or two in patent enamel. These
were arranged unobtrusively around in
the window in such a way as to suggest
the origin of the shoe and yet not de-
tract in any way from the prominence of
the display of the finished articles.
These skins can be adapted to a num-
ber of displavs in a wonderfully effec-
tive way. You can secure the temporary
loan of a few, from your manufacturer,
or, if you are to handle a considerable
quantity of his goods, you should be
able to effect the permanent acquisition
of some of them. Occasionally when
fixing up a display of some particularly
strong shoe, one that has a solid sole,
to which you want to draw particular at-
tention, you can borrow a side or two of
good oak leather from your local har-
nessmaker. He will very likely be per-
fectly willing to make the loan if you
will explain the object for which you

desire it.
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June is the graduating month in the
greater number of the schools and acad-
emies throughout the country and
‘‘commencement’’ slippers will be in
demand. It will be well to plan a dis-
play of these beforehand. A solid win-
dow of white slippers can be very effec-
tively arranged by having your back-
ground of a dark, rich shade (not a
dulldead shade) of royal purple. If
you have not a sufficient variety and
quantity of white slippers for the dis-
play, you may combine black slippers
with them, but in that case I would
combine white with the purple back-
ground. Arrange the display and back-
ground so that the white shoes will be
relieved by the purple and the black

shoes by the white in the background.
*x* * *

When ‘‘summer days come on apace’’
and the whole creation seems trying to
turn into a_ bake shop, study out what
methods you can employ to make your
store cool and inviting looking. If you
have electric power in your town have
fans installed by all means. And an-
other thing, don’t limit yourself to hav-
ing fans that will ‘‘stir up’’ the air
within your store, but have some method
of ventilation that will carry off the
fetid air from the room and have a con-
stant circulation of pure fresh air from
the outside. +I sav one feilow who had
a big ventilator fan in the back of his
store connected with a big outlet pipe to
carry off the air. This big twirler
created a constant breeze through the
store and there was an entire absence
of that ‘‘stuffiness’’ so prevalent in
smaller store rooms in sultry weather.

Another way to attract attention and
to give the store an inviting appearance
is suggested by this mention of fans.
Fasten streamers of bright-colored rib-
bons (red, white and blue is appropriate
and effective) arourd the door facing,
at the entrance to your store. Have these
about four or five feet long, with one end
loose—simply tack one end to the door
facing. Behind these place a buzz fan
(on each side of the entrance) in such a
way as to catch these ribbons in the cur-
rent of air and keep them in constant

 

motion. Have the fans turned so as _ to
face the back of the store and not across
the entrance. This will give one the
impression that there is a constant
stream of fresh air pouring into your
place and the fluttering ribbons will be
wonderfully eye attracting.
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A cotemporary gives a description of
a contemplated Memorial Day window
that we consider good enough to_ repro-
duce for the benefit of our readers. This
need not be confined to the purpose of
a display on Memorial Day ; it is equal-
ly appropriate for a Fourth of July win-
dow and, as such, may be planned out
and perfected before that day comes
around :

A down-town dealer has an idea for a
Memorial Day window, which he says
he will adopt if he can secure the loan
oi the battle flags that are needed as an
integral part of the proposed display.
The day set apart to commemorate the
deeds of valor of the soldier dead falls,
in this and other Northern States, on
Wednesday, May 30. It is the custom
to arrange a public display of flags,
bunting and other embiems of patriot-
ism, and all classes of stores are accus-
tomed to vie with one another in doing
honor to the veterans.

The plan of this enterprising mer-
chant is to give his window for four
days to a_ unique display that will at-
tract attention to his shoes as well as
awaken patriotic impulses in the be-
holder. On the platform in his window
he will have a covering of red, white
and blue paper, not paper of the cheap
variety, but paper for decorating pur-
poses, which can be loaned or even pur-
chased for a small sum. The paper
will be arranged in three broad strips,
diagonally across the window, he plans,
or else the raised part of the window
will be entirely red, the broad beveled
edge blue and the floor in front of the
platform white. He will use his brass
standards as usual and will also arrange
shoes between the standards on _ the
platform and floor, The red ground
will make a handsome contrast for white
slippers, patent leather shoes will be
effective in contrast with the white
background, and tan shoes will be ar-
ranged on the blue field. Each shoe will
contain either a small American flag, or
a white shield with red and blue border,
to be used as a price mark.

The display will not necessarily de-
pend on the procurement of the flags.
Red, white and blue bunting will do as
well if arranged gracefully in the back-
ground. ‘In selecting the colored papers
for the floor of the window select a
shade of blue that is somewhat lighter
than the blue field of our flag, for this
shade is almost too dark for the prettiest
combination with the shade of tan in
summer shoes. A pretty baby blue will
harmonize with the red, white and tan
perfectly.—Shoe and Leather Gazette.

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The immense output of Philadelphia
manufacturers is a matter of popular
knowledge, but shill when one hears of
3,500 dozen goat skins transformed into
leather every day, it is easy to under-
stand what becomes of the goats. All
Frankfort is talking about Follers’ out-
put in the goat line, especially as it re-
quires 9,000 dozen skins in the three
days required for the process to finish
up the 3,000 odd skins per day. The
modern processes are, of course, a trade
secret, but the old-time way of doing it
was to sew the goatskin into a bag with
the hair inside. This bag was filled
with chemicals and dropped into a vat
filled with water. When the chemicals
had done their part the goatskin rose
to the surface of the water and was re-
moved; otherwise the skin sank to the
bottom of the vat and had to be fished
out for refilling. It is said that 900 men
are engaged in this one factory in
Frankfort. The goats grow in Africa,
Spain and many other countries.

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RAPID GROWTH.

Status of the iciniinasaen Telephone
Movement in Michigan.

The Michigan Telephone Co. has
been doing business in the State about
twenty years and is a Bell company, as
is officially stated by the President of
the Erie Telepone Co. (the owner of the
Michigan company) in his annual re-
port January 2, 1899: ‘The Michigan
Telephone Co. operates exclusively un-
der the American Bell Telephone Co.’s
perpetual licenses in the State of Mich-
igan.’’ The independent companies
began to operate in 1895. Their growth
was at first slow, but during the past
two or three years, both Bell and inde-
pendents have experienced a remarkable
growth, exceeding the most extravagant
expectations.

In the case of the Bell Co., this
growth is easily ascertained from official
figures, as follows:

December 31, 1896
December 31, 18

December 31, 18%
December 31, 1899

oe 15,025 telephones

3,270 telephones
39 telephones
32,231 telephones

Official figures of the independents on
December 31, 1899, are not at hand,
but a careful estimate of the State (call-
ing the Upper Peninsula 2,800—the con-
ditions being comparatively unfamiliar
to the writer) showed the number to be
about 29,000.

This remarkable growth of the Michi-
gan Bell is easily accounted for as fol-
lows:

As competition occurred, the Bell Co.
reduced its rates below the rates made
by the Citizen or independent com-
panies, in many cases the charges not
paying operating expenses. In Grand
Rapids, for instance, the Bell gave
two years of free residence service, then
made a $12 residence rate. During the
entire period, it has had from three to
twenty solicitors constantly in the field.
It furnishes absolutely free service in a
number of cities and towns at the pres-
ent time, by allowing the telephones to
remain in service after parties refuse or
neglect to pay for same and even after
the telephones are ordered out.

The Bell exchange in Grand Rapids,
as in other places in Michigan, has not
had_ sufficient telephone rentals to pay
operating expenses during any quarter
for over three and one-half years, the
average cost of maintaining telephone
service in Grand Rapids exceeding $19
per year.

The result of competition upon the
Bell rates is shown by the folllowing
Bell exchange rates:

Jan, 1896
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Business Res.

  

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Greenville......

Sipees............ 48 36 6 3
Muskegon. ..... 48 36 DO sida eek 2144¢

per call fee.

These less-than-cost rates .have se-
cured a large increase among people not
directly connected with commercial in-
terests.

The growth of the independents or
citizen companies is owing largely to
the following reasons:

1. Reasonable rates, regulated by
franchise. (The Bell Co. has no fran-
chises regulating rates).

2. Service far superior to that for-
merly given by the Bell Co. and now
equal and often superior to that given
by the Bell, even after the latter has re-
built its exchanges two and in some
cases three times.

3. More rapid development of local

{toll lines and at present a more com-

plete State line system in the Lower
Peninsula (except the southern tier of
counties) than has the Bell company.

4. The knowledge by the people of
the State that the independents are not
only paying expenses, but dividends,
and that so long as the independents are
in the field, rates will remain reason-
able and service be satisfactory. The
independent companies do not give free
service.

As illustrating the accuracy of state-
ments above, the following table is giv-
en of the growth of the Grand Rapids
Citizens exchange, where no free service
is given and no solicitors have been
employed for more than three years:

Telephones
in service

September 1, 1895...........-------------- 1,460
January 1: 1607. ....-...-.--2----------- 1,776
ebaber m0 8607... 2... 2,074
November 1. 1606 ................-...._.._ 2a
Moveumser 1, 1600.........................8 3.064
Miay G. 2000 3,306

Numerous other cities and towns in
the State can show equally satisfactory
growth in their local or independent ex-
changes.

As showing the toll or State line ad-
vantages offered by the independents,
the following list of exchanges and toll
stations within fifty miles of Grand
Rapids gives the number of telephone
connections, both Citizens and Bell:

Exe. Citizens Bell Exe. Citizens Bell
Allegan . 6h C6Ut Kalamazoo. ..800 900
a 95 1 Ralamo...... 2 0
Belding ........ 16.6 OV Kibbie........ 45 0
Bloomingdale... 22 0 Lake Odessa. 94 1
Carson City.... 36 1 Lakeview. .... 37 1
Casnovia....... 12 1 Lowen........ 04 i
Cedar Springs . 54 1 Lyons ....-..- 25 1
Coopersville... 23 1 Middleville... 58 2
Comat... -... 11 0 Mair... ...- 21 1
Douglass....... 20 0 Mullikan...... is . 0
Edmore ....... 42 1 Muskegon. ...666 460
Fellows ....... 21 0 Nashville,.... 52 2
Fennville ....... 39 0 Newaygo..... 24 1
Fremont ...... 61 1 (htsewo........ 93 1
Ganges ........ 30 0 Fiainwell..... 4 ©
Glen........... St 0 Rockford. .... 52 1
Gobleville ..... 16 0 Saranac....... 44 1
Grand Haven. 8 125 Saugatuck. . 37 0
Greenville.....220 91 Sheridan...... 12 1
Hastings....... 2. South Haven.175 1
Holland ...... .260 175 Wayland...... ¢ a2 1
— City.. 86 Whitehall.. 16 1
aete 91 200 Zeeland . 42 1
Othe : iell-staiions.........-.....0 0) 72

Total telephones within circle.. 2.4431 2,174

Total points reached: Citizens, 218;
Bell, 90; exchanges and toll stations
reached exclusively by the Citizens’
lines, 127; excess telephones, 2,267.

If all Erie property was consolidated
against the Citizen Co., the result out-
side of Grand Rapids within the circle
would be:

Exchanges Toll Stations
Michigan Bell.......-...-.- 10 80
ow maeee Oo. ............ 5 14
Central Kalamazoo......-- 4 7
Dotal Hrie...........- 19 111
CIGIZERS... 5... 2.2... 36 141
Citizens excess...... 17 30

While the above is not a fair average
for all cities in the State, yet equally
good averages, numerically, can be ob-
tained by using Saginaw, Alma, St.
Johns, Traverse City, Cadillac, Muske-
gon, Allegan and Benton Harbor as
centers for similar fifty mile circles.

The selling of the Detroit exchange,
the Kalamazoo exchange and toll line
system (Central Telephone Co.) and a
majority of the New State Telephone
Co. stock (toll lines around Detroit) to
the Erie Telephone Co. in January and
February, 1900, threatened, as was _ in-
tended, to overthrow the independent
movement of Michigan. The telephones

included in properties sold to the Erie
Co. were as follows:
a 5,225
New Seas pes. 4,305
Kalamazoo companies ..................... 1,548
Total 11,078

Although negotiations for other proper-
ties progressed, no more sales were
completed. Asa result of this attempt
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prevent the same, several sales and con-
solidations took place among the inde-
pendents, the most important being the
purchase by the Citizens Telephone Co.,
of Grand Rapids, of the Lansing prop-
erty and a majority of the Muskegon
Co.’s stock.

Recently a State contract for the inter-
change of business for twenty-five years
on a fair, equitable basis, has been en-
tered into by companies owning 80 per
cent. of the telephones in Lower Michi-
gan, not controlled by the Erie Com-
pany, which contract also has, as one of
the parties thereto, the United States
Telephone Co. of Ohio. This insures
long distance service, not only to Ohio,
but to other states, and thus will be soon
developed that branch of the business
in which the Bell Co. has heretofore
had the control—the interstate long dis-
tance toll business. What alliances or
working agreements may be made _ with
the Western Union or other companies
can not be stated, but with long distance
business secured to the Michigan inde-
pendents, the Bell Co.’s last great ad-
vantage will be overcome, and the final
result is already open to speculation.

Certain information obtained from the
annual report of the telephone com-
panies, filed with the State for the year
ending Dec. 31, 1899, is significant.
The following list is selected from said
reports :

Gross income
$765,587.79

Telephones
Michigan Bell Co......... 32,231

Detroit Telephone Co 5,200 161,247.57
New State Co............. 4,457 93,821.43
Kalamazoo exchange.... 819 11,695.88
Central Telephone Co. .. 413 18,403.25

The capital of the Michigan Tele-
phone Co. was $2.500,000 for several
years, but the articles of association
were amended in April authorizing the
issuing of $7,500,000 more stock.

The bonded debt of ‘the Michigan
company is $5,000,000, bearing 5 per
cent. interest. The Erie Co. announced
1% per cent. dividends on the ‘Michi-
gan Telephone Co. stock for 1899, so
that the interest and dividends for one
year on the bond and stock issue (De-
cember 31, 1899) would be 5 per cent.
on $7,500,000 or $375,000. It is of in-
terest to note that in 1899 the gross in-
come of this Bell Co. was but $765,000
or Io per cent. (plus) of its stock and
bond issue.

Taking the average Bell telephones
for 1899 as 26,000, the average income
per telephone from both toll line and
exchanges was but $29. 49 per instrument.
The Citizens Co.’s Grand Rapids plant
has cost about $80 per telephone. It has
no bonded or mortgage debt. The other
independent Michigan companies make
as good or better showings, as to aver-
age cost, as a rule.

Can the Bell Co. with an average is-
sue of $78 stock per telephone and $156
bonds per telephone—a total issue of
$234 per instrument—(to say nothing of
royalties, extraordinary expenses or
onerous contract conditions) be able per-
manently to compete with companies
having but one-third the investment per
instrument and giving at least equally
good service? If not, can it peramnent-
ly do business in Michigan at a loss?
These are the two questions that are
most frequently being proposed among
both telephone people and the public in
Michigan.

With the Detroit, New State and Kal-
amazoo properties still being operated
in connection with the independent
lines, under twenty-five year contracts,
and the lack of information as to just
what policy will be pursued with said
properties, other interesting, questions

 

arise which the writer does not presume
to discuss at this time.

A. few conclusions, however, the
writer has reached, among them being,
that :

1. Reasonable rates are here to stay.

2. Good service must be and will be
maintained.

3. The telephone development is only
fairly begun.

4. Exchange rates in Michigan will
be regulated by local franchises or by
State legislation.

5. It would seem from this review,
that only by an increase of exchange
rates can the Michigan company succeed
financially, and such increase can not
be made permanently except by its
again securing the monopoly of the
State, which is an absolute impossibil-
ity.

Everything indicates the permanency
of the independents in Michigan and
their success, financially, is conceded.

1.8) Ware.

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Sewing Machine Will Revolu-
tionize China.

‘‘The sewing machine,’’ said the
Western representative of a large manu
facturer of those useful implements of
domestic progress, ‘‘will in time work
a revolution in China which as yet all
the missionary teachings of all the de-
nominations have not started. | refer
to the horrible custom of that country
which confines the feet of girl babies in
bandages that prevent their growth and
make cripples of women. You don’t
see why, do you? Well, let me show
you. The first sewing machines ever
introduced into China were put there
by Americans, who taught the tailors of
Shanghai and Hong Kong to use them.
From this source the new idea spread
to other tailors in other places, and then
by degrees, even slower than among the
men, the women began to use them.
But the women were handicapped, or
footicapped I might better say, by their
crippled feet, and they found great
difficulty in working the pedal ma-
chines. They saw, however, that the
sewing machine was a good thing, and
they asked for a machine that worked
by hand. In this country that kind of a
sewing machine is hardly more than a
toy. But the China women could do
better work with it than by the old
means, and the hand machines are do-
ing their work of teaching. Now, I am
predicting that in a few years the pro-
gressive China woman will discover
what a wonderful thing the sewing ma-
chine is when properly worked, that is
by foot power, and she will kick as well
as her little feet will let her against a
custom that practically makes her girl
children useless to her,and to their hus-
bands and homes later, and she will re-
fuse to bandage the baby feet. The men
will also see how much more valuable
their wives will be with feet that can
run a sewing machine, and the old cus-
tom will be knocked galley west by the
spirit of utilitarianism. The demand
for sewing machines in China is in-
creasing all the time, and instead of the
civilized manufacturers trying to invent
machines to meet a heathen custom,
they will trust to their machines as now
constructed to destroy the custom.”’

How the

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Full and Explicit Directions.

Two bicyclists passing through a
small town decided to take the train
from there home. Being unfamiliar with
the place, they stopped to enquire of a

colored woman the way to the railway
station.
‘‘We are. strangers,’’ they said;

‘‘would you kindly direct us to the
station?’’

‘Certainly suh,’’ she replied; Keep
agoin’ right on till yo’ comes to de cor-
ner wha de ole postoffice usded ter be,
den tu’n to yo’ lef’ an’ yo'll go right to
de station.’’

As they rode off she beamed with
pride, they with amusement; and, al-
though they found the station, they
have yet to discover the corner wha de
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Crockery and Glassware

AKRON STONEWARE.

Butters
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16 cal. meat-tups, Chch......-......... 1 05
49 gal, nGat-CUNs, EHCN................ 1 40
25 gal. meatcubs, each,............... 2 00
30 cul, meattubs, each...........:...- 2 40
Churns
2 to6 gal, — et 5
Churn Dashers, per doz............... 1 00
Milkpans
\% gal. fiat or rd. bot., per doz......... 40
1 gai. fat Or rd_ Dot.,cach............ 5
Fine Glazed Milkpans
\% gal. flat or rd. bot., per doz......... 60
1 gal. flat or rd. bot.,each............ 5%
Stew pans
% gal. fireproof, bail, per doz......... 85
1 gal. fireproof, bail, per doz......... 1 10
Jugs
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S000 ee, bee Oe. ..........-.....-... o%

Tomato Jugs
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DO i ek one es 4
Comms for 4 eal. per dod.............. 20
Corks for 1 wal. per doz........-..... 30

Preserve Jars and Covers
144 gal., stone cover, per We 75
1 gal., stone cover, per d0z.......... 1 00
Sealing Wax
5 ibs. in package, per IbD............... 2
FRUIT JARS
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Tale Gallons. ...........-+..-«.-- <2... 7 75
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LAMP BURNERS
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No. 1 Sun, erimp top, wrapped & lab. 2 15
No. 2 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 3 15

XXX Flint
No. 0 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 2
No. 1 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 3 7%
No. 3 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 3

CHIMNEYS—Pear! Top

No. 1 Sun, wrapped and labeled...... 3 70
No. 2 Sun, wrapped and labeled... .. 4 70
No. 2 Hinge. wrapped and labeled... 4 88
No.2 Sun, “Small Bulb,” for Globe
Lamps...... es 80

La Bastie
No. 1 Sun, plain bulb, per doz......... 90

No. 2 Sun, plain bulb, per doz......... 1 15
Wo. 1 Crimp, per €0z.................. 1 35
No. 2 Crimp, per doz.............-.... 1 60
Rochester
No. 1 Lime (65¢ d0z)..........-----.-- 3 50
No. 2 Lime (70e doz)!.............-.-- 4 00
No. 2 Pint (S0e doz) °° .....-.....- a 4 70
Electric

No. 2 Lime (70e doz).................. 4 00

4 40

No. 2 Flint (80¢ doz)........ i
OIL CANS
1 gal. tin cans with spout, per doz....
1 gal. galy. iron with spout, per doz..
2 gal. galv. iron with spout, per doz..
3 gal. galv. iron with spout, per doz..
5 gal. galv. iron with spout, per doz..
3 gal. galv. iron with faucet, per doz. .
5 gal. galv. iron with faucet, per doz..
5 gal. Tilting cams...........5-.-..-.--..
5 gal. galv. iron Nacefas..............
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5 gal. Eureka, non-overflow.........-- 10 50
3 wal. Home Rule.......---.-.. .2.- +e 9 95
i wal. Home Rule...............-..-.-. 11 28
5 gal. Pirate King.............---..-.- 9 50
LANTERNS
No. 0 Tubular, side Hft............... 5 25
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No. 19 Tabular, dash.......-......-... 7 50
No. 1 Tubular, glass fountain......... 7 5O
No. 12 Tubular, side lamp..........-..-. 14 00
No. 3Street lamp, each....... 3 75

LANTERN GLOBES
No. 0 Tub., cases 1 doz. each, box, 10c. 45
No. 0 Tub., cases 2 doz. each, box, 15¢c. 45
No. 0 Tub., bbls 5 doz. each, per bbl.. 2 00
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Dry Goods

The Dry Goods Market.

Staple Cottons—Neither store trade
nor mail orders have been anything
more than enough to cover present
needs. Ducks show a moderate trade
without open changes in prices. Osna-
burgs are quite slow and _ irregular.
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nor have prices showed any open
change. Leading tickets stand firm,
but outside lines are irregular. Wide

sheetings show a small business, and
prices are steady. Cotton flannels are
dull, and the same must be said of cot-
ton blankets. Prices for denims are ir-
regular, and business slow. Ticks are
dull and unchanged, and other coarse
colored cottons are the same.

Prints and Ginghams—The supply _ of
prints promises to be somewhat smaller
than usual this season, so it is likely
that whatever price the goods are opened
at will be maintained. Staple prints
for this season’s trade have
with moderate freedom and the market
has been fairly steady. Light fancy
calicoes have been in fair request, al-
though irregular. Fine printed = spe-
cialties are quite well sold and_ steady.
Dark napped_ goods, both printed and
woven, have been quiet, but this means
only that a large part of the goods are
already under contract, and this leaves
the market firm throughout. The mar-
ket for ginghams of all kinds has been
quiet, but stocks of both staples and
fancies are very limited, and prices are
easily maintained.

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Dress Goods—The developments in
connection with the dress goods market
have not been many norimportant. The
volume of new business has been very
light, although some few orders have
found their way in. The activity in the
market at the present time has_ relation
to delivering on contracts and making
preparations for the new season. De-
spite the fact that the business now _be-
ing done at first hands and by jobbers is
very small, the position of the market
should not inspire any adverse com-
ments. Prices are very strongly held,
and an additional steadying influence
is the fact that buyers are very generally
in a hurry to get the goods coming to
them. The flannel market is in a satis-
factory position, both as to orders in
hand and prices. The plain goods
end of the market is fully as satisfac-
tory as a week ago, and when this is
said nothing more is wanting. Outside
of fancy goods mills, those who have
not orders in hand sufficient to keep
their machinery busy well into July
are the exceptions.

Underwear—While the weather has
not been as good for retail business as
dealers would like to see, nevertheless,
every little counts, and it is to be hoped

that it is ‘‘only the beginning of the
beginning.’’ Of course, it is neediess
to say that balbriggans still head the

procession as the best sellers, although
there are other favorites that press them
very closely for first honors. A line of
goods that are becoming more and more
popular every day is mercerized cotton
underwear, with silk finish. They are
taking the place of silk underwear
toa large degree, as the color is fast,
they wear well, and there is a very fine
finish. Mesh underwear is beginning to
find favor, as its advantages in hot
weather are beginning to be appreciated.

Hosiery—-Business is very quiet at
present. On account of the belief among
a number of jobbers that the yarn mar-

 

ket will show more decided signs of
weakness, they are waiting for lower
quotations before ordering any more
goods. However, there is not much
probability of a falling off in the price
of hosiery. Of course, there is not liable
to be any large advance for some time.
There is an increasing demand for hos-
iery of the higher grades, irom, say,
35@5oc. There is not much change in
ladies’ hose. The most popular are tan
and blue, with polka dots of various
sizes, while open work stockings have
lost none of their accustomed favor.

Carpets—The fall business among the
ingrain carpet manufacturers has opened
up in a very satisfactory manner. The
men are all on the road, and orders are
coming in, although not very fast as
yet, with some manufacturers. It is the
opinion among the wholesale trade that
the new season will prove a_ profitable
one in all grades of carpets. Philadel-
phia ingrains opened at 52% cents for
standard extra supers, while some orders
have been taken at soc. Manufactur-
ers of damask and Venetian stair carpets
are well satisfied with the way in which
the new fall business opened up for
their line of goods—-orders taken away
ahead already. This grade of carpet,
as well as others, had to be advanced.
This was due to the scarcity of jute
(from which the filling is made), as
well as the high price of cotton yarns.
Manufacturers state that prices for fall
goods are being paid, and that the ad-
vance made will be maintained. Some
manufacturers have for several weeks
been working on orders, prices to be
made later. C. C. ingrains range from
40@42% cents, and orders have been
taken at these figures. The latest an-
nouncement in regard to the Bigelow
Carpet Company’s wiltons is that they
have been opened at 5c per yard ad-
vance over last season. :

Smyrna Rugs—Continue active for
this season. The pressure made by the
buyers on the manufacturers has been
very great, but no concession has been
obtained. Stocks are not large, and
some manufacturers can not run their
looms for the scarcity of jute. New
styles are very handsome. Medium
sizes in this class of rugs are selling the

best.
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Wanted—A Minister’s Wife.

At last we have settled a pastor;
Now, really, I can’t tell why

The people should be so hard to please
Or candidates prove so shy.

But the smart young man we have chosen
Is needing a partner for life;

Please notice our advertisement:
Wanted—A minister’s wife.

Wanted—A perfect lady,
Delicate, gentle, refined,
With every beauty of person
And every endowment of mind;
Fitted by early culture
To move in fashionable life
And shine a gem in the parlor;
Wanted—A minister’s wife.

Wanted—A thoroughbred worker
Who well to her household looks—
Shall we see our money wasted
By extravagant Irish cooks?—
Who cuts the daily expenses
With economy sharp as a knife,
Who washes and serubs in the kitchen;
Wanted—A minister’s wife.

Careful to entertain strangers,
“Traveling agents’? and sueh;
Of this kind of * angels’ visits ”
The deacons have had so much
As to prove a perfect nuisance,
And hope these plagues of their life
May soon be sent to the parson’s;
Wanted—A minister's wife.

To lead in the ‘ ‘mothers’ meeting,”
The “sewing circle’ attend,

At all the Sunday school pienies
Her ready assistance lend:

To play the organ on Sunday
Would aid our laudable strife

To save the society money;
Wanted—A minister’s wife.

- so, if our efforts prosper,
We hope by working the two

To rebuild the church, to pay the debt,
Then we shall know what to do;

For they will be worn and weary.
Needing a change of life,

And we'll advertise: ‘ Wanted—
A minister and his wife.”

 

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from $9.00 to $36.00 per dozen. Write for
samples and prices.

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Some of the Fashions Which Go and Come.

Women have a reputation for fickle-
ness among rejected suitors, a few
poets, more authors and a still larger
number of department store salesmen,
whether deservedly, it is not for us to
say. While we do not want to find fault
with the weaker sex, nevertheless we
must do so with one woman, who not
only is one of the oldest as well as most
powerful women in the world, her al-
most innumerable slaves being found
in nearly every clime, but is even more
fickle than the American people’s ad-

miration for their living heroes. The
lady we refer to is Mrs. Grundy. She
resembles many others of her sex, in-

asmuch as the date of her birth is un-
certain. It is only known that she was
born many centuries ago, and since the
day of her birth she has been telling
people what to wear and what not to
wear, and ever since she has been
changing her mind so often that when
a new fashion comes in we often find
that it is either the identical same gar-
ment that was worn many years ago by
our ancestors, only to be discarded and
resurrected again, or some modification
of the same with a few of the details
changed. Just as nature with her won-
derful foresight prevents too large a
number of animals and plants from ac-
cumulating upon this earth by giving
some more strength than their less for-
tunate companions to protect themselves
against their enemies, thus causing *‘the
survival of the fittest,’’ so does the com-
mon sense of man in the end weed out
most of the less useful and less indis-
pensable articles of wearing attire, re-
taining the styles that are the most com-
fortable and well-appearing. Of course,
we do not mean to assert that man’s at-
tire at the present day is all that it
ought to be.

No doubt there are many idiosyncra-
sies of fashion that future generations
will criticise and laugh at, just as we
criticise the hoop skirt and many other
absurdities of bygone years, but these
abominations are either temporary fads
that will soon disappear, or fashions of
longer standing that, while they will
take longer for man’s good sense to
eliminate, in the end will be entirely
discarded. The ideas of man are con-
tinually developing and improving, and
every minute we gain fresh proofs of
his ingenuity. The same holds good in
regard to men’s fashions. They do not
retreat or stand still; every year we no-
tice some improvement in regard to
both good taste and comfort, as well as
from an artistic point of view. And
many a hint do we receive both from
our near and farther back ancestors in
the matter of dress, just as most of our
laws were made by them hundreds of
years ago, and just as we are constantly
learning from their trials and tribula-
tions. So, if you examine this matter
closely, you will be surprised to find out
how many points of similarity there are
in the clothes worn to-day and those
worn twenty-five, one hundred or even
hundreds of years ago.

The Raglan is a good example of a
garment that has been discarded and
restored to public favor again within a
comparatively short number of years.
Fifty years ago, an enterprising tailor
manufactured an overcoat very much
like the present Raglan, calling it after
the then popular and well known, but
now almost forgotten, hero of the Cri-
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ity of the coat became enormous, and
remained so for about two years. Then
it gradually lost caste, and in three
years time,the coat was seen on a man’s
back about as often as Lord Raglan’s
name was on man’s lips, practically
never. However, the popularity of the
coat was not dead; it was only slumber-
ing. Recently the English swells began
wearing it. It was a matter of course
that it should cross the ocean and arrive
in America. A few Americans, who
had returned from England, were seen
in the streets with their newly pur-
chased Raglan overcoats, trying to look
as though they were not aware that
everyone was gazing upon them. From
that time on, it gradually wormed its
way into the favor of the Americans, so
that now it is worn, not only by the
most exclusive dressers, but by men who
copy what the exclusive dressers wear,
just about the time that the latter, see-
ing that it has become popularized, dis-
card the garment in favor of some newer
coat. The Raglan has not come to stay
for any length of time. Already varia-
tions of the same are appearing, and
the excessive popularity, causing imi-
tations by cheap tailors, will cause it to
disappear for a time, leaving behind
it a tendency towards wearing overcoats
looser than was formerly the case.

What a large number of people have
geen that great old comedy upon which
so many recent plots are based, The
Rivals, and have laughed at and en-
joyed the great comedy acting of that
actor who seems, like wine, to improve
with old age! And how many specta-
tors, three years ago, looking at the
gorgeous attire worn in that play, show-
ing fashion as it was during the Eight-
eenth Century, would have dreamt that
the gorgeously flowered and fancy waist-
coats worn by the various male charac-
ters, would again find favor at the end
of the Nineteenth Century? Yet, such
is now the case. I have seen waistcoats
of every hue and degree of gorgeous-
ness, fully as bright as those worn a
century ago, while some flowered vests
seen in the windows of prominent tailors
were the counterpart of those worn by
Bob Acres and Sir Anthony Absolute.
The reason for this is that man so sel-
dom has a chance to show bright color-
ings in his attire that when the chance
does come, he is liable to become
‘color drunk’’ at his unusual privilege,
and not stop at the lines bounded by
good taste, until his natural dislike for
any article of wearing apparel that out-
rages the best dictates of fashion re-
asserts itself. Such is the case at pres-
ent, as there is a quieter tone prevail-
ing in men’s fancy vests, and our an-
cestors’elaborately flowered and gorgeous
waistcoats are disappearing gradually.
Which one of their customs or garments
may become popular next, there is no
telling. If a man were to walk through
the streets of New York with an old-
time three-cornered hat on his head, he
would be laughed at, and there isa
chance that he might be the advance
guard of a number of men who would
adopt hats of that style. You can never
tell how a fashion is going to ‘‘take’’
until it is tried.

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When the Husband Should Masquerade
as a Star Boarder.

Cincinnati has a judge who is, in
good truth, a second Daniel come to
judgment. The other day he was called
to pass upon the marital woes of a
young couple who testified that they led
a cat and dog life together and that they
could only agree to disagree. The case
was complicated, as divorce cases are
apt to be, by the fact that there were
children, whom both parents desired to
keep and whom the father must support.
In this dilemma, the wise judge advised
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status of star boarder, instead of hus-
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gests its extension, with modifications
and alterations to fit the case, into other
households which are still a long ways
on the sunny side of the divorce, court,
but whose bickerings are sufficiently
frequent to keep them perpetual storm
centers. The greatest charm, as well
as the greatest misfortune, of family life
is its continual association, its intimacy
and lack of reserve. When this means
a love and sympathy so acute that it
divines, as if by instinct, our every
thought and feeling; when it means a
comradeship so true and so congenial
that it doubles every pleasure and
halves our pains, heaven has given us
its best gift, and we may well be thank-
ful for it. When it simply means that
because a_ person is kin to us, or mar-
ried to us, they feel that it gives them
liberty to offer us insulting criticisms
and tell us unpleasant truths, as they
would not dream of doing to a stranger,
it can make ‘the family circle as good
an imitation of an unmentionable place
aS anyone need desire to see. There
are many people who reserve their bad
manners, as they do their old clothes, for
home wear, and there is no doubt that
in many families an element of formal-
ity could be introduced as a_ peace
measure with beneficial results.

From the woman's side of the subject
there are various things to recommend
a husband in the role of star boarder.
For one thing, it offers a satisfactory
way of laying that spectre that haunts so
much domestic life—the financial prob-
lem. Sordid as it seems, it is never-
theless true that the money question is
just as disturbing in the home and just
as provocative of a row as it is in na-
tional politics. It is Mrs. Benedict's
persistent and continual demand _ for
money for the butcher and baker and
candlestick maker, and Mr. Benedict’s
tart replies in consequence, that precip-
itate nine-tenths of the arguments that
end by Mr. B. jamming his hat on_ his
head and slamming the front door be-
hind him, and Mrs. B. sobbing out that
she wishes she had never left her mo-
mo-mother!

In no other thing are men so illogical
and unreasonable as in the way they
treat their wives about money. Every
man worthy of the name expects to
support his family when he gets mar-
ried. In reality, he probably does not
object to doing it. He is perfectly well
aware that servants must be paid, sup-
plies for the table purchased, clothes
bought, and that children are apparent-
ly born for the sole purpose of enriching
the shoemaker and the school book pub-
lisher. Yet, knowing all this, about
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when their wives come to them for
money for the common family needs.
‘‘Great snakes, you want wash money
again?’’ they cry. ‘‘ What, the flour out
again! You need a half dollar to pay
for getting Johnny’s shoes mended! By
George, I believe you think I am made
of money!’’ and alas for human frailty,
the woman is more than apt not to re-
turn the humble answer that extracts
money and turns away wrath, but to
remark, instead,that if she were a mira-
cle worker and could run a house with-
out money, she wouldn’t be working for
any man for her board and clothes—she
would be secretary of the treasury.

There are plenty of such homes—and
the men in them are not necessarily
mean, only thoughtless and inconsider-
ate—where every single item of ex-
pense is argued out at as much length
as if it were a Mississippi River im-
provement appropriation bill, and where
a pair of shoes can’t be bought for the
baby or a calico frock for the wife with-
out a debate that is hot enough to. leave
a blister. The inevitable result is con-
tinual friction that spells disaster to the
family, and the very best’ thing any
woman under such circumstances can
do is to take her husband as a boarder,
charge him enough to run the house on
and spend the money in peace and as
she pleases. As long as she makes him
comfortable he has no more right to in-
terfere in her management than he
would with any other landlady’s meth-
ods. Women confide too much, anyway.
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hand everything one thinks she is go-
ing to do, particularly if it is liable to
be objected to. Do it first and discuss
it afterwards. Saw wood and say noth-
ing, is a wise motto for wives as well as
politicians.

Another advantage that many women
would gain if they could induce their
husbands to regard themselves more in
the light of a boarder, and less in the
light of a boss, would be a very superior
article of manners to that to which they
are now accustomed. No man would
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that she doesn’t know what she is _talk-
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him over to a hired nurse and go off
and leave him.

Nor would all the advantages be on
the side of the woman. Many a man
would have everything to gain in being
promoted from the rank of the husband
to that of the star boarder. It can not
be denied that if there are cantankerous
husbands—and I am talking now not
of the happily married, but of the dis-
gruntled of both sexes, to whom matri-
mony has brought more kicks than ha’
pence—there are also neglectful wives.
There are women, good women, in whom
the mother kills the wife ,and who after
the coming of the first baby simply exist
for their children.

Such a woman goes dowdy in her
clothes, because baby hands pull so at
frills. She puts away all the pretty
things in the house because she doesn’t
like to interfere with the children’s en-
joyment of playing train with the parlor
chairs. Nobody dares laugh aloud for
fear of waking the baby. She considers
it of infinitely more importance to hold
a spoiled child’s hand while it goes to
sleep in the evening than to try to cheer
and entertain a tired and worried hus-
band, and in one case which I knew
she kept the table down to an almost
sterilized baby food standard because it
was so hard for the precious little darl-
ings to see rich and highly-seasoned
food that they were not permitted to eat.

In such a family,and there are plenty
of them, the husband merely exists as a
kind of animated cash register. He is
of no consequence in the house. None
is so poor as to do him reverence and
he is right to strike for the position of
star boarder—the gentleman who pays
the rent and who is entitled, on that
account, if no other, to the best of every-
thing. ‘‘Ah, colonel,’’ says the lady in
one of Maurier’s cleverest cartoons,
‘*after all, the liver wing is the choicest
bit of the fowl, isn’t it?’’ ‘‘I don’t
know,’’ replies the poor colonel. ‘‘I
have never tasted it. In my youth they
gave it to the old people and now the
children get itall.’’ The liver wing and
other perquisites, like the best of his
wife’s society, her prettiest manners and
prettiest looks, the colonel might claim
as no more than the star boarder has a
right to expect.

A small matter, but still worth men-
tioning in this connection, is the fact
that the landlady doesn’t feel free to
lecture the star boarder. That way lies
peace. She may perceive his faults,
but she doesn’t consider it her duty to
call his attention to them. She notices
his mistakes, but refrains from saying
‘*I told you so,’’ She has heard his old
stories time and again, but it is her
business to laugh at them and she does
it. She defers to his tastes, she studies
his whims, and the star boarder stays
on, and the establishment prospers. The
moral of all of which seems to be the
rather cynical one, that in order to get
along harmoniously and peacefully with
one’s family it is only necessary to
treat them with the same courtesy, con-
sideration and deference that we show

to strangers. Dorothy Dix.
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tiving Good Advice.

However frugal we may be in other
respects, none of us are niggardly when
it comes to bestowing good advice upon
our fellow-creatures. It is the one time
when we are all agreed in the grand al-
truistic belief that it is more blessed to
give than to receive, and so we go
cheerfully along, offering gratuitous
counsel to every one we meet, no matter
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sential conditions surrounding them, or
how unfitted we are to pass upon them.

A recent, and very amusing illustra-
tion of this universal foible was given
in the message sent by the ‘‘Don’t
Worry Club,’’ of Cleveland, to Presi-
dent Kruger, and to which he has sent
a polite reply expressing his apprecia-
tion of their delicate attention. It is
imaginable that in the Transvaal,
where we are told that they don’t worry
about education, or cleanliness, or fash-
ion, or progress, or many of the other
things that vex our souls, the ethics
of the Don’t Worry Club may not be
fully understood, but surely for once the
good advice and the hour met. The
idea of sending a man harassed by:a

victorious enemy, with hopes over-
thrown and a country laid waste, a

message not to worry was nothing short
of an inspiration, and every one will
sincerely hope that Mr. Kruger will be

able to take the good advice thus
offered.
In a smaller and less picturesque

way, most of us have experienced some-
thing « f the same kind and realized how
easy it was for the person sitting safe
and comfortable at home to advise the
one in the thick of the fight not to mind
the wounds he was getting. The old
bachelor, who regards all children as
more or less troublesome little beasts,
of whom anyone must be glad to be rid,
can’t see why the anxious mother, with
all her wealth in one coin, as Mrs.
Browning says, should worry about her
child every minute it is out of her sight.
The rich and prosperous, with an as-
sured income, grow eloquent over the
poor clerk worrying for fear he may get
sick and lose his place. The woman
with old, trained family servants thinks
it positively weak-minded for the
woman with one green girl to worry so
over her housekeeping. Those with the
digestion of an ostrich jeer at the fads
of the dyspeptics, who are always worry-
ing about what they can eat and what
they can’t.

It is always safe advice to tell people
not to worry, but, after all, we owe
more to those who worry than to those
who don’t. Contentment is comfortable,
but it isn’t progress. The men and
women who move the world are the dis-
contented., The woman who is satisfied
to wear a calico frock will never wear a
silk one. She who is contented to sit
on the lowest rung of the ladder will
never perch on the top one. The moth-
ers of great men have never been the
placid women who sat with folded hands
and let events take their course. They
have been the women who wanted an
opportunity for their children and wor-
ried until they got it.

As‘a dispenser of good advice, the
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There is no doubt that health and peace
and happiness await the man and wom-
an who can make up their minds to quit
worrying and take life as it comes, but
they will get precious little else. The
worryers will have all the plums. Worry-
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tomers should avoid getting
cheap kKalsomines under differ-
ent names. Insist on having our
quote in packages and properly la-
beled.

cus-

UISANCE of wall paper is ob-
viated by ALABASTIN . it con
be used on plastered walls, wood
ceilings, brick or canvas. A child
ean brush it on. It does not rub or
scale off.

STABLISHED in favor.
imitations.

Shun all
Ask paint dealer or
druggist for tint card. Write
us for interesting booklet, free.
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Mich.

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Manufacturer of

Galvanized
Iron
Skylight
and
Cornice
Work
Gravel, Tin, Steel, and Slate Roof-

ing and Roofing Materials at mar-
ket prices. Write for estimates.

121 S. Front St., Opposite Pearl.
Grand Rapids, Mich.

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

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

Sells for 50 cents.

Will outwear three ordi-
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more light.

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No Glue, no acid.
Ready for immediate
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Office and works: West Ful-
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Manufacturers and Dealers in

Calcined Plaster, Land Plaster, Bug Compound, etc.

Mill and Warehouse: 200 South Front Street.

Office: Room 20, Powers’ Opera House Block.

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For Candy, Tea, Tobacco
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usual prices at which candy is
sold.

Warranted accurate.
nickel plated.

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Weight boxes 2% lbs. Gives also
exact weight by half ounces.
Order through your jobber.

Send for new catalogue of Con-
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Hardware

Varied Experience of a Hardware Broker.

For fourteen years the firm of Con-
verse & Steele, dealers in hardware,
tools and agricultural implements, had
at first existed, then lived, and, for the
last five years, under the sign of the gilt
horseshoe, had prospered exceedingly.
But after a time John Converse, em-
boldened by success and cramped by the
limitations of a town of 60,000, had for
two or three years been longing for an
opportunity for expansion. This oppor-
tunity came in jthe offer of a salesman
with a Chicago house to purchase his
interest for a sum which triple plated
his already brightly polished hopes.

Viewed by E. Prentiss Grindstone,
aged 24, clerk in the employ of Con-
verse & Steele, the situation resembled
that of the Italian peasant who fails to
admire the eruption of Vesuvius in his
helpless contemplation of the sure ap-
proach of the lava which means the de-
struction of his vineyard and home. The
Chicago traveler had a son he wished
placed, and Prentiss knew there was
no room for another clerk, and that at
the expiration of his year he must go.

With this prospective he turned to the
‘‘Help Wanted’’ advertisements and he
found eight vacancies for chemists,
cutlery salesmen, foundry foremen,
metal salesmen, and but one, the last of
the list, for a hardware clerk. Contin-
uing down the column, he found under
‘*Situations Wanted’’ thirty-one appli-
cations for positions as book-keepers,
foundry superintendents, and, sadly
mismated, one who ‘‘thoroughly under-
stands the art of moneymaking.”’
Somewhat alarmed by the disproportion
of the ‘‘ins’’ to the ‘‘outs’’ he sent in
an application for the hardware clerk-
ship, bolstering it with a letter of
recommendation from Mr. Converse and
also one from the cashier of the only
national bank in town. He sighed as he
read, ‘‘E. Prentiss Grindstone is heart-
ily recommended as a young man of
good character, thoroughly honest, and
well posted in the details of his busi-
ness.’’

The letter mailed he returned to his
work, endeavoring to rid his mind of
the problem which continually vexed
him, “‘If it takes that letter a day and
a half to go and the same to return,
when may I receive a reply?’’ In his
struggle he was encouraged by the name
of the occupation of one of the vacant
positions, there being something magi-
cal in the name metal salesman, which
conjured before him visions of happi-
ness produced by a plentiful supply of a
certain much coveted yellow metal. In-
as much as the metal sold by the _sales-
man referred to in the advertisement
was pig iron, it required just such
alchemy as abounds in the imagination
of youth to produce the change. Con-
tinuing his search through the journal
he found among the notices of Stores
For Sale a small insertion announcing
that Langdon & Co., of Chicago, de-
sired a salesman, on commission, to sell
babbitt metal. With the metal idea at
white heat in his brain and quite dis-
pelling the clerkship, he went home,
nervously waiting for the hour when
his father, after the evening meal,
would fill his malodorous pipe, and,
with feet elevated on the rail of the
front porch, proceed to fumigate the
vicinity.

Owen Grindstone was of Welsh and
Irish descent, and had come to Ohio in
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shrewdness, as contractor for the sinuous
water ways, he had accumulated an am-
ple fortune. In the raising of his chil-
dren he exemplified this talent by the
formation of such terse maxims as, ‘‘To
ruin a boy give hima _ pony.’’ ‘‘Work
and plenty of it is a young man’s salva-
tion.’’ To. E. Prentiss these maxims
had been very bitter pills. To be com-
pelled to pay $3 a week for board out of
a salary of $10, and that to his own
father, seemed the superlative of harsh-
ness ; to be sure, as things went he got
his money’s worth, for as Kennedy the
grocer said: ‘‘Owen was a good liver.’’
Upon this particular evening late in
April, the old gentleman abandoned the
porch, but not the pipe, to inspect and
adversely criticise a section of the
ditch being dug past his property, in
which were to be laid pipes for the new
water works, an improvement of much
interest to taxpayers. With no interest
in the ditch Prentiss followed his father.

‘‘What’s new at the store?’’ enquired
Grindstone, Sr., as they stood looking
into the narrow trench. ‘‘New_ boss
come yet?’’

‘‘He’s coming to-morrow, I hear,’’
replied Prentiss, ‘‘and that means a
short shrift for me. Seems to me, fath-
er, you might give mea lift toward a
start in business. ’’

“You in business!’’ interrupted his
father. ‘*What’s a boy like you to know
of business? You can’t see yet. If I
was a young man in your position I
could start without capital and make
money.’’

‘It is for you to talk so, now that you
are fixed,’’ said Prentiss. ‘‘ But times
have changed and a young man has not
the opportunity for moneymaking that
you had in your day.’’

“Tut! Tut! boy. The trouble with
the youngsters to-day is they can’t see;
the chances are as good as they ever
were. There is one for you right here
in this ditch.’’

‘* But I don’t see it, father.’’

‘‘Of course you don’t; that’s what I
Say, you can’t see. Now, what’s this
ditch for?’’

‘Water works for the town.’’

‘‘How will the water be used on the
lawns?’’

‘By hose, I suppose.’’

**Who’ll sell that hose?’’

‘*The hardware dealer, of course.’’

‘Not if you have enterprise enough.
Now, see here. It will be several months
before this pipe will be done. Nearly
every house on Peebles avenue and
Grant street and on many cross streets
will want hose. You will be free, you
say, by May 1. See if you can’t get
the agency of some rubber house, and
make a thorough house to house canvass
with samples, and I'll bet you'll sell
several thousand feet of hose before the
hardware chaps are onto the scheme.”’

The town of Melrose, located upon a
plateau, is one of the best business and
manufacturing towns of its size in the
Western Reserve. The main line of the
C.C. & C. R. R. skirts its southern
border, thus drawing away from the
residence portion quite an imposing
number of industries, locally called
‘‘shops.’" These vary in importance
from the Burnside Machine Works, em-
ploying 300 hands, and occupying two
acres of ground, to the Enterprise Nov-
elty Company, consisting, principally,
of a large sign facing the railroad, and
the proprietor, who is also office force,
salesman and mechanic. Through the
center of the town runs the old post
road, now called High street, strung
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Before buying a new furnace investi-
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1. They have a larger radiating sur-
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2. For economy of fuel they are un-
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3. They have double
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4. They have revolving duplex grates.
5. All cleaning can be done direct
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We make a specialty of heating and
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the homesteads of the pioneer settlers.
These give place gradually to the hotel,
bank, hardware and other stores, form-
ing what the High streeters delight to
call the business center. Sloping grad-
ually from High street toward the flats,
Broadway, a wide, well paved street,
contests with High street the claim to
mercantile supremacy. It, too, has a
hotel, a bank, National at that, anda
hardware store. The title to suprem-
acy is considered temporarily settled
when either contestant secures the post-
office, consequently the postal authori-
ties are continually besieged by rivai
committees. When High street has it,
Broadway is out looking for signers to
a petition for its removal. If by some
turn of the political wheel Broadway
secures the prize, High street is ina
state of upheaval.

When, for the last time as clerk,
Grindstone, Jr., walked under the gilt
horseshoe, shining resplendent in fresh
leaf and a new firm name, Broadway
was the Mecca of the townspeople, for it
now possessed the postoffice, pretentious
in patent lock box system, which the
‘*Broaders’’ considered far ahead of
free delivery.

With the thought of his unanswered
application in mind he turned his steps
in the direction of the postoffice. Near
the entrance, through which a throng of
people were surging, he was accosted
by a six foot young man carrying a sur-
veyor’s apparatus on his right shoulder,
who said, ‘‘Hold this, will you, until
I get the mail?’’

‘*Get mine, too,’’ called Grindstone
as he took the transit. In a few minutes
he came out with several packages and
letters which he handed Grindstone,
Saying, ‘‘Come over and inspect my
new quarters, just across the street.’’
Together they ascended a flight of stairs
and entered a large room on the second
story, lighted by three windows. On
each side of the room were long, high,
unpainted tables. ‘* Who’s in with you?’’
enquired Grindstone, glancing at one
of the tables covered with architectural
drawings.

‘‘Dawes,’’ replied the surveyor, put-
ting away his instrument. ‘‘The room
was too large for me, and is yet; notice
that alcove?’’ he enquired, pointing to
an offset made by the stairway. ‘* That
would make ‘good desk room for some
one, if agreeable to all concerned.’’

‘*How much?’’ laconically enquired
Grindstone, standing in the alcove and
looking across at the stream of people
passing in and out of the post office.

‘Five a month, to a good fellow.’’

‘*You don’t want much! I'll give you
three, and that’s just so much money
found, and you know it.’’

‘““You! What do you want with it?’’
The surveyor turned quickly toward
Grindstone, motioning toward an un-
usually high stool before one of the
tables. ‘‘Climb up there,’’ he con-
tinued ; ‘‘now, what’s up?’’ Grindstone
perched himself as directed, with his
back to the table, leaning upon it with
both elbows.

‘‘Maybe you know and maybe you
don’t,’’ he commenced, ‘‘that I am out
of a job.’’

‘*That wouldn't worry me,’’ inter-
rupted the surveyor, ‘‘if my dad was
as well heeled as yours.’’

‘*That kind of talk makes me sick,
French,’’ testily retorted Grindstone.
‘*Everybody in this town knows O. G.,
and then to talk that way to me—’’

‘*Well! well! never mind, I'll] take
it all back,’’ laughed the surveyor, ‘‘so
go on,”’

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‘*He has suggested a scheme, O. G.
has,’’ explained Grindstnoe, somewhat
mollified, ‘‘which I think is a pretty
good one. You see these Wienerwursts, "’
holding up six or eight 3-inch lengths
of rubber hose strung on a string, which
he had taken out of one of the postoffice
packages. ‘‘Oyer there (pointing to
the postoffice) you may see at the pres-
ent moment Doc Layton, Judge Patter-
son and several more, while before you
is E. P. G. Well, that’s the combina-
tion. My friend here, Mr. R. Hose, is
desirous of entering society, and I have
been suggested as the proper person to
make the introduction, so that alcove
would just hoid my desk nicely. There,
unobserved, I can await the coming of
the joo, then rush over to the office, go
through the form of coming after the
mail, engage society in conversation,
present R. H., and ‘if well done when
‘twere done,’ the affair will result in
the satisfaction of all concerned.’’

‘*That’ll do, perhaps, during the
summer, but how about winter?’’ en-
quired the surveyor.

‘‘Well, to be candid,’’ replied Grind-
stone, ‘‘the result of the hose business is
largely imaginary, and even if I do sell
hose, it won’t take long to stock this
town, so I intend canvassing the shops

for their trade. Here—’’ untying a
package, ‘‘are samples of Babbitt
metal, solder, etc., which came by ex-
press. Nate Plumb-—-you know Nate,

foreman at Burnside’s—told me they use
tons of Babbitt, and,’’ excitedly, ‘‘ Mr.
Burnside said if the quality and price
were right he would give me an_ order.
Then tools--the Rasp File Company, of
Philadelphia, write they will give me a
good price and protect me on all orders
that come through my influence. Be-
sides, | have several other things in
view; so now what do you say about
that alcove?’’

‘*Oh, that’s all right,’’ replied French,
examining one of the pieces of hose.
‘*T’ll be glad to have you in with me,
and it will be all right with Dawes.
This kind of hose,’’ holding up one of
the samples he had separated from the
bunch, ‘‘is all right. When I was sur-
veying the lock works’ plot I saw a sec-
tion in Jake Burns’ barn. I think he
said he had used it five years.’

‘Is that So?’’ exclaimed Grindstone.
‘*If I can use Jake as a recommenda-
tion, that’ll be great. So here’s fora
try,’’ jumping down from the stool. ** To-
morrow I[’!] be with you, and it will see
the starting of the first hardware broker
in Melrose.’’——-Iron Age.

> 2.
Wire Nails and Old Nails.

Careful experiments made at Cornell
University are said to show that:
‘First, cut nails are superior to wire

nails in all positions; second, the main
advantage of the wire nail is due to its
possessing a sharp point; third, if cut
nails were pointed they would be 30 per
cent. more efficient in direct tension ;
fourth, wire nails without points have
but one-half their ordinary holding
power; fifth, the surface of the nail
should be 'slightly rough, but not
barbed—barbing decreases the efficiency
of cut nails about 32 per cent. The
pointed end enables the nail to enter
wood without breaking its fibre exces-
sively, thus preserving its grip., A
serious defect of wire nails is their
readiness to rust. They are made gen-
erally of a sort of soft steel, and steel
rusts more readily than some other forms
of iron. In some parts of the country,
it is said, shingles put on with wire
nails drop off after six or eight years.

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Keep your credit good by using it
sparingly. It is like your bank account,
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Hardware Price Current _

 

Augurs and Bits

 

 

 

 

PO ee 60
Jennings genuine. . 25
Jennings’ mitation.. 50
‘im
First Quality, S$. B. Bronze............ 7 00
First Quality, D. B. Bronze........... 11 50
First Quality, S. B. S. Steel........... ‘2
First Quality, D. B. Steel............. 13 00
Barrows
REO eee ey cake 8 00
Ganges, et) |=6 ae ae
Bolts
La ST On es E
C arriage, new list nO 10
PIG oe. i... ee 50
Buckets
Wen Ste... ck $4 00
Butts, Cast
Cast Loose Pin, a ee 65
Wrought Narrow . eoges 60
‘neti
Me, 40&10
OGMEEAR PG 20
Chain
4 in. 5-16 in. % in. \% in.
Com... ....... @e...7¢6€.. €¢ ..¢ &
.......... 9 i Cm Cw. OS
Bee oe ... 7% . 7%
Crowbars
Cee Geet, per ............-. 4+... 6
Caps
Ely’s 1-10, per m. 65
Hick’s C. F., per m. ao 55
G. D., per aL em a 45
MuUSKeS, perm... 75
Chisels
poeHec Wimmer sw... sl... 65
Socket Framing........... 65
Socket Corner............ Vee ee 65
POCMOUPMGME. 06.6.1, 65
Elbows
Com. 4 piece, 6 in., eer Cee... net 65
Corrugated, ag OZ. eg ees co 1 25
Adjustable. . ‘ ....dis  40&10
Seen Bits
Clark’s small, $18; om. oa5 .......... 30810
Ives’ 1, S88; 2, S24; 3, S00 .............. 25
Files—New List
New Americam...............,........ 70&10
Nicholson’s. 70
Heller’s Horse Rasps... Se eeres 60&10
Galvanized Iron
Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 25 and 26; 27, 28
List 12 13 14 15 16. 17
Discount, 65 10
Gauges
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s.......... 60&10
Glass
Single Strength, by box............... dis 80&20
Double Strength, by box.............. dis 85&10
By (ie Pigms... ... dis 80&10
Hammers
Maydole & Co.’s, new list.............. dis 33%
Yerkes & Plumb’s Sa eee .dis 40&10
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel........... 300 list 70
Hinges
Gate, Clark’s 1, 2, 3.. . .ee-.- iS 60810
Hollow Ware
Pots.. 50&10
Ketties .. 50&10
Spiders. . ee 50&10
Horse Nails
Au Sable . ..dis  40&10
Putnam.. ..dis
‘Mouse ‘ Petsing ‘eats
Stamped Tinware, new - es 70
Japanned Tinware.. Se ade os 20810
‘hh ron
Co ee 275 crates

Light Band..
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344c rates

Door, mineral, jap. trimmings.. << 85
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings... le 1 00
Lanterns
Regular 0 Tubular, Doz................ 5 26
Warren, Galvanized Fount.. 6 00
Levels
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s..........dis 70
Mattocks
Adze Eye....... i ..$17 00..dis 60
Metals—Zine
5 gag et ld a a ™%

Per pound.. Dae wees 8
Miscellaneous
mire Comes 40
Pumps, Cistern.................- i 70
Menewe. iow bse... -.-.....-........ 80
Casters, Bed and Plate................ 508&10&10
Dampers, American.............. Pe 50
Molasses Gates
Stebbins’ Pattern........-............. 60&10
Enterprise, self-measuring............ 30
Pans
Fry, A oe a 608& 10810
fe Aoany ‘polished. Se es oo aaa 7085
Patent Planished Iron
“A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 10 75
““B” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 25 to 27 9 75
Broken packages %c per pound extra.
Planes
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy. . 50
Sciota Bench.. a 60
Sandusky Tool Co.'s, fancy. oe a 50
Bench, first quality............ 00000000 ]

 

Nails
Advance over base, on both Steel and Wire.

Peer Me ce cc ee case 260
Wire meee, Fee... 5... 2 60
20 to 60 advance............-seeeeceeue Base
Ma Pe OVeNOe 5

Oe 10

Oe 20

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Soe i. ee
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Casing 10 advance. .. 15
Casing 8 advance... 25
Casing 6 advance.... 35
Finish 10 advance .. 25
Prem 8 aaqvance................. 35
Finish 6 advance 45
Barrel 3 4 advance... ede eee 85
Rivets
Iron and Tinned. 50
Copper Rivets and Burs.. eis 45
Roofing Plates
14x20 IC, Charcoal, Dean.............. 6 50
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Dean.. 7 50
20x28 IC, Chareoal, Dean.. as 13 00
14x20 1C, Charcoal, Allaw ay Grade... 5 50
14x20 1X, Charcoal, Allaway Grade... 6 50
20x28 Ic, Charcoal, Allaway Grade... 11 00
20x28 IX, Chareoal, Allaway Grade... 13 00
Ropes
Sisal, % inch and ee Wee eed bs 10%
Manilla : a. 16
Sand nahin
oo. oe .......................ae 50
Sash Weights
Sema Eyes, perton.................... 25 00
Sheet Iron
i com. smooth. com.
ee ae $3 20 $3 00
S. Sie -_. Soe 3 00
-. o ae 3 20
aos on 3 30
. 3 50 3 40
i 3 50

3 60
~ All ‘Sheets No. 18 and lighter, ‘over 30 inches
wide, not less than 2-10 extra.

Shells—Loaded

Loaded with Black Powder. .......... dis 40
Loaded with Nitro Powder........... dis 40&10
Shot
eee ele 1 50
BB aa eon... 1 75
Shovels and Spades
Beet Grade, POe.................. 4... 8 60
mecona Grage, DOZ.,................4; 8 10
Solder

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The prices of the many ‘other qualities of solder

in the market indicated by private brands vary
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Squares
be 65
Tin—Melyn Grade
10x14 IC, Charcoal. $ 8 50
14x20 1C, Charcoal... . 8 50
oesseus Coeveces.... ....... 9 75

Each additional X on this grade, $1.25.

Tin—Allaway Grade
wxt4 IC, Coareoa)..................... 7 00
14x20 IC, Charcoal. . We 7 00
10x14 IX, C€ “esate eee eee ae, 8 50
Tee, Cnaredes...................... 8 50

Each daitional X on this grade, $1.50

Boiler Size Tin Plate
14x56 IX, for No.8 Boilers,
14x56 IX, for No.9 Boilers, i per pound.. 10

Traps

Steel, Game.. 75
Oneida C ommunity, “Newhouse’s...... 40&10
Oneida Community, Hawley & Nor-

Doe... ks 65816
Mouse, choker, per doz............... 15
Mouse, delusion, per doz..... .. ..... 1 2

Wire
Bo 60
reneG MOEnOt.. .... 2... ......---- 60
a se 50&10
Tinned Market. dee els 50&10
C joppered Spri ng | eT 40
Barbed Fence, Galvanized............ 3 20
Barbed Fence, Painted................ 2 90

Wire Goods
ioe ope oe bocce cee wes 75
MT eke r es oete 75
age odie on ge ea oy wae 75
Gate Hooks and Eyes................. 75
Wrenches
Baxter’s Adjustable, Nickeled........ 30
Coe’s Genuine 30

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Aluminum Money

Will Increase Your Business.

 

Cheap and Effective.
Send for loougias and prices.

C. H. HANSON,
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__ Eggs

Observations by a Gotham Egg Man.

The suggestion in regard to estab-
lishing a weight standard for the differ-
ent grades of eggs has been commented
upon considerably by egg receivers and
seems to meet with very general ap-
proval. In fact, the more consideration
is given to the matter the more certain
it appears that the weight system _pre-
sents many advantages and no disad-
vantages whatever. One of the difficul-
ties met with in buying and selling eggs
under trade rules has always been the
uncertainty as to whether lines of goods
would pass inspection. Not only does
this uncertainty arise in the mind of a
receiver as to his own judgment of
quality, but the judgment of the inspec-
tor, which is very naturally more or less
variable, must also be considered. Un-
der present rules the opportunity for
variable and uncertain judgment comes
in regarding the proportion of fresh,
full eggs, the relative quality of the
balance, the size, and the cleanness.
Now there is more probability of a fair
uniformity of judgment as to the pro-
portion of fresh and full eggs than as to
size. Small objects never look so small
as when they are mixed with large and
it is difficult to keep one’s judgment al-
ways the same as to different lots of eggs
being ‘‘reasonably large.’’ The more
of uncertainties we can bring down to a
constant and unvarying standard the
better. So far as quality and relative
cleanness are concerned those must in-
evitably be left to the judgment of in-
spectors. But rules governing them will
always work well or poorly according to
the uniformity of judgment. As to size
the rules aim at uniformity of requirc-
ment, but do not provide the only stand-
ard by which such uniformity can lx
obtained. Why do the rules provide
that fresh gathered firsts, for instance,
shall be ‘‘of good average size?’’ This
is evidently only effort to provide a
standard of size by a means which is in-
definite and uncertain, when by simply
weighing the goods inspected the object
sought could be certainly and detinitely
attained. We have yet to hear a single
valid objection to this manifest im-
provement in the egg rules and there
can be little question that the greater
certainty of judgment as to official grade
which a weight standard would give
would greatly facilitate business under
the rule. As to the proper net weights
which should be designated for extras,
firsts and seconds, and whether these
should change from season to season and
be different for storage eggs than for
fresh gathered—all this would require
investigation at different seasons of the
year. Why would it not be well for the
egg committee to appoint a sub-com-
mittee of two or three to investigate net
weights of different marks and qualities
with a view to recording some data from
which proper weight standards could be
determined? One day’s investigation
should be sufficient to fix fair limits for
fresh gathered eggs.

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I am glad to note that more and more
of the egg receivers are falling in line
with the effort to sell eggs at mark all
the time. Several receivers have told
me that they are able to sell fully 90
per cent. of their receipts on the mark
basis and it is very evident to one who
travels through the egg market daily
that the system is growing and giving
satisfaction. Here and there are objec-
tions, however. One receiver said to

 

me the other day: ‘‘I declare I don’t
see how anyone can sell eggs at mark
and get their full value; it's like buy-
ing a ‘pig in a bag:’ you can’t tell
anything about the amount of loss with-
out putting out an expense for examina-
tion which would cost more than the
commission; and even then the buyer
will not accept your word for the qual-
ity and would bid low enough to cover
the risk.’’ And yet others, who have
been endeavoring to sell all grades at
mark report no serious difficulty. They
say that they can ascertain the quality
and loss near enough to make_ bargains
which are satisfactory to their customers
and themselves and their shippers and I
am satisfied that more and more of the
trade are taking this view. One mem-
ber of the egg committee remarked the
other day that he thought a sub-com-
mittee should be appointed to go all
over the rules and put them on a case
count basis throughout. But with the
changes now contemplated (perhaps
they will be adopted by the time this is
printed) case count business may be
fairly well provided for in the rules
and it is certainly best to make changes
only as changes in the natural method
of doing business call for them.
Bok ok

Speaking of changes, I must say that
if the new rule for case count firsts at
mark during the loss off season limits
the loss to 1% dozen there will be
mighty little case count business done in
this grade ‘‘under the rule.’’ The mark
business now actually being done in
grades which are fairly passable as firsts
on a_ loss off basis is very largely on a
basis of 2 doz. loss to the case; only the
exceptionally fine goods go through with
any lighter fixed average. Why not
make the rule compare more nearly with
what custom already establishes?—N. Y.
Produce Review.

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Poor Scalding Prevalent With Shippers
and Buyers.

 

 

Scalded poultry is not in as much fa-
vor as dry-picked as a rule, buyers
claiming it deteriorates more quickly
than dry-picked owing to improper or
careless scalding, and a good part of the
season prices on scalded fowls area
fraction lower than dry-picked, except
a few exceptional marks which bring as
much if not more than finest dry-picked.
This applies to the general run of stock
but there is continual complaint about
scalding, many lots, especially from
new shippers, arriving slack-scalded or
over-scalded and for all such stock it is
impossible to realize full prices. This
loss amounts to a great deal to shippers
and could with a little more care be
avoided. The directions for scalding
usually sent out by commission receiv-
ers are as follows:

The water for scalding should be just
at the boiling point, but not actually
boiling. Immerse the birds, holding
by legs and head and lifting up and
down in the water three or four times.
Immediately after scalding chickens and
turkeys remove the feathers—pin-feath-
ers and all—very cleanly and without
breaking the skin. After scalding ducks
and geese, wrap them in a cloth about
two minutes; then the down will roll off
with the feathers. All scalded poultry
should be ‘‘ plumped’’ after picking by
dipping for about two seconds in very
hot water—just under the boiling point
—and then thrown into cool water of the
natural temperature, where it should re-
main for 15 to 20 minutes. When the
scalded poultry is to be packed dry for
cold weather shipment it should be
taken from the first cold plumping
water and hung up by the feet until
thoroughly cold and dry; it will then be
ready to pack. But when it is intended
to pack in ice for warm weather ship-
ment, the poultry should be transferred
from the first cool bath to another of
colder water (not ice water) and remain
there for one-half to one hour, after
which it should be placed in ice water
and left for eight to ten hours, when it
will be ready to pack.

The object of placing the stock, after
scalding first in water of moderate tem-
perature, is to encourage the flow of
blood, which would be checked if the
stock were plunged immediately into
ice water.

Guard against overscalding and un-
derscalding ; the former causes the _vel-
low cuticle to loosen and rub off, giving
the poultry a bad appearance, and the
latter increases the danger of the stock
becoming slippery in transit.

A leading receiver of dressed poultry
in speaking on the subject said he had
great trouble in getting some of his
shippers to scald their poultry properly.
Shippers are inclined to have the tem-
perature of the water too low or too
high. The water should be just off the
boiling point and that is where the main
trouble seems to be. If the water is
too hot it cooks the skin and it comes
off in little patches with the feathers,
giving the poultry a pock-marked ap-
pearance. Inavoiding this shippers do
not scald the stock enough and it has a
tendency to become slippery in transit
or not keep well. In my opinion the
correct way to scald poultry is to have
two boilers, using them alternately.
The water should be allowed to come to
a boil and then a dipper of cold water
thrown in, which will lower the temper-
ature enough to take it just off the boil-
ing point. The fowl should then be
dipped and handed to the picker and
the operation continued until the water
gets below the boiling point, when the
same operations should be gone through
with the second boiler, alternating be-

tween the two according to temperature
of water. In this way the water can be
kept just right, whereas with one boiler
the operator has to stop and wait, after
dipping a few fowls, until the water
boils up again, which is too slow work
for most men. The fire underneath boil-
ers should be kept going all the time in
order to keep water boiling. It takes an
expert to do it just right and the few
marks which are properly scalded are
sought for by buyers and usually com-
mand a premium over ordinary stock.
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Eggs By Weight the Coming System.

The New York Commercial, in an
interview with a wholesale produce man
quotes him as saying:

‘*T expect some day to see the present
system of buying and selling eggs by
the dozen give way entirely to the better
system of trading in them by weight.
Until one has weighed a lot of eggs by
way of experiment, he would not believe
how much difference there is in the
weight of eggs. I have eggs weighed in
my place every once in a while for my
own satisfaction, and they vary all the
way from 1% ounces to 2% ounces
each.

‘‘Why should I get as much fora
dozen of eggs that weigh 1% ounces
each as I do for a dozen that weigh 2%
ounces each? Asa rule, of course, the
little eggs go along with the big eggs,
but it is apparent that the fair system
to both seller and buyer is to trade by
weight. To my mind this is so obvious-
ly the only satisfactory method that I do
not hesitate to predict its universal
adoption. ”’

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is next door—and took one of these flat
slab tombstones off a grave. i put it in
the bottom of the oven and it fitted fine.
I heated up and shoved in my dough,
and that day I broke the record selling
bread. But Heavens!—that afternoon
about six o'clock every cussed one of
my patrons came back. Each hada
pome of bread under his arm and de-
manded the money back.’’

**What in the world was the matter?’’

‘‘Well, you see, I had taken this
voinbstone and put it in the bottom of
the oven,,and shoved in my dough—
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were these words: ‘Here’s the remains
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Dr. Wiley’s Opinion of the
servatives.

 

Use of Pre-

Preservatives are very commonly em-
ployed with manufactured foods prone
to decay. The keeping of food in the
fresh state is certainly commendable,
but the use of preservatives which de-
arrange the digestive organisms is most
reprehensible. The decay of foods is
produced by the action of living fer-
ments. A food can be kept by destroying
the life of these ferments or by paraly-
zing their activity. There is only one
method of paralysis which is perfectly
hygienic, and that is accomplished by
the production of a low temperature.
The preservation of foods in cold _ stor-
age for a_ limited time can not be ob-
jected to; but even frozen fruits lose
their flavor and appetizing qualities
slowly, and cold storage should not be
continued too long.

There is also one proper method of
killing these ferments, and that is by
sterilizing the foods at a high tempera-
ture. This is the principle on which
the preservation of foods in sealed
packages rests. At the temperature of
boiling water ferments are killed, and if
the food thus sterilized be protected from
innoculation, either by hermetically seal-
ing or by other means, it keeps inde-
finitely.

A cheaper and more convenient way
of paralyzing the ferments is by the use
of preservatives, or chemical com-
pounds, which have the property of
checking the fermentative action.
Typical bodies of this class are salicylic
acid and formaldehyde, the latter a
substance made by the oxidation of
wood alcohol. Salicylic acid is made by
a chemical treatment of carbolic acid,
which itself is a preservative but, ow-
ing to its odor and taste, can not be
used in foods. For successful use, a pre-
servative must be practically odorless
and _ tasteless, at least in the quantities
employed, and _ salicylic acid and
formaldehyde fulfill these conditions.
Unfortunately, however, for the use of
preservatives digestion is itself a purely
fermentative action, and hence these
chemical reagents, which tend to par-
alyze ferments outside of the stomach,
tend to exercise the same influence up-
on the ferments of the digestive organs,
which prepare the food for absorption
and assimilation.

The question is not, what preserva-
tives are harmless, but what preserva-
tives are least harmful? There are cer-
tain articles of food which seem to re-
quire the use of a small quantity of
some preservative, and it will be the
duty of the Government, at an early
date, to issue, after careful study and
experiment, a list of the preservatives
which may be used, in small quantities,
without endangering to any great ex-
tent the public health. The indiscrim-
inate use of preservatives can not be too
strongly condemned.

One of the most insidious methods of
using preservatives is to sell them un-
der assumed or fanciful names. Sal-
icylic acid, formaldehyde, sulphite of
soda, borax, and many other preserva-
tives, which could not have been sold
under their own names, have been dis-
posed at enormous profits under names
which do not indicate in any way the
chemical character of the substances.
This form of adulteration is prehaps the
most objectionable of all, since it may
be possible to use extremely harmful
bodies in this way, in large numbers of
articles, thus endangering the health of
whole communities.

There is only one honest way in which
preservatives can be used, and that is
to print plainly upon the package the
nature and amount of the preservative
employed. If the Government should,
in harmony with the suggestion made
above, appoint a committee of scien-
tific, medical, and hygienic experts, to
determine what preservatives are per-
missible and in what quantities, there
could be no valid objection to their use.

For instance, one ofthe substances in
which preservatives would be useful is
tomato catchup. This substance is a
condiment, coming in bottles, in too

 

 

large quantities usually for use at a sin-
gle meal. If it contained no preserva-
tive body, when opened and allowed _ to
stand, it would soon ferment and be un-
fit for use. Since only a small quantity
of this substance is employed at any
time, the presence of a permitted pre-
servative, in a permitted quantity,
would not seriously endanger health.

It is not safe, cither, to condemn or
commend a possibly injurious body by
the results of its action on any one in-
dividuai. There are some organisims
which seem immune to poison as they
are to contagious disease. There are
others which are particularly sensitive
to poison and contagious influences.
The safest plan is always to protect the
most sensitive, since the immunes nat-
urally protect themselves. It appears
to me, therefore, that in the case of pre-
servatives~none should be_ permitted
which in the small quantities employed
would injuriously affect the most sensi-
tive stomachs.

In general it may be said that the
adulteration of food is intended primar-
ily for commercial gain and so greedy
is this principle that even the health of
the consumer does not stand in the way
of its practice.

Aside from this, the substitution of one
article of food for another, both of which
in their places may be wholesome, may
work injury to the health by unbalanc-
ing the ratio and by disturbing the di-
gestive processes. In this sense all
forms of adulteration may be in a way
harmful and therefore the protection of
the public health alone would be a suffi-
cient reason for the suppression and
regulation of all forms of food adultera-
tion. Apart from this the purely fraud-
ulent nature of food adulteration is a
crime amenable to the civil code.

Often extravagant statements are
made respecting the character and ex-
tent of food adulteration. Many intelli-
gent people are convinced that it is im-
possible to buy pure food upon the mar-
ket. This impression is entirely erron-
eous. The adulterated article of food is
the exception rather than the rule ex-
cept in the case of condiments. The
great majority of the staple articles of
food are unadulterated. But the fact
that fraud extends to only a small per-
centage of the whole consumption is
not a sufficient reason to excuse its ex-
istence.

When the debasement of public morals
attending this practice is brought into
consideration the evils of food adultera-
tion assume a degree of moral turpitude
which should call forth the denunciation
of every good citizen. When _ public
sentiment is aroused on this subject, and
it will be when the evils of food adulter-
ation are sufficiently well known, legal
enactments for its restriction and con-
trol will be easily secured.

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Song of the Banana Peel.
Like a bar of the beaten gold,
I gleam in the summer sun;
I am little, I know, but I think I can throw
The fellow who weighs a ton.
I send out no challenges bold,
I blow me no vaunting horn,

But foolish is he who treadeth on me—
He’ll wish he had never been born.

Like the flower of the field, vain man
Lifts his head at the dawn of the day;
But when he shall feel my grip on his heel,
Like the stubble he fadeth away;
For [lift him high up in the air.
With his heels where his head ought to be;
With a down coming crash he maketh his mash,
And I know he’s clean gone upon me.

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unless this is actually true, and if it is
true, it is best to state why it is done.
It is not customary to sell goods except
at a profit, as everybody knows, and if
the goods have become shop-worn and
out of style, it is best to say so, and
State that this does not impair their
wearing qualities or decrease their ac-
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WHOLESALE DEALERS IN
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sugar barrels, for which we will pay the highest market
price. We are also in the market for FRESH EGGS.
Write or wire us for prices.

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The Grand Rapids Paper Box Co.

Manufacture

Solid Boxes for Shoes, Gloves, Shirts and Ca s, 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
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MAKING A WILL.

 

Should Be a Diversion Instead of a Seri-
ous Occupation.

Making a will isa picnic or a pen-
ance, according to the way you look at
it. ‘here is no particular reason why
it should ever be taken seriously, inas-
much as nobody seems able to make
one so safe that an experienced lawyer
can not crack it, and, in reality, mak-
ing wills should be set down in the
category of diversions instead of serious
occupations. People make wills for va-
rious reasons. Generally they are the
last token of a man’s self-conceit—his
frantic desire to still manage things
after he is dead and gone—and his firm
conviction that he knows what is good
for other people’s happiness and wel-
fare better than they do themselves. To
such a man the worst feature of death is
the inexorable edict that he can carry
nothing more out of the world than he
brought into it, and so he sets his will
about with regulations and stipulations
over which his heirs quarrel and lawyers
grow rich. There are other clever peo-
ple, with something to bequeath, who
draw perpetual dividends all through
life on their wills. They dote on codi-
cils and speak alluringly of ** remember-
ing’’ such and such a one. In conse-
quence, obsequious relatives fawn upon
them. Every door stands invitingly
open at their approach, their whims are
catered to, their unpleasant tempers be-
come mere interesting peculiarities.
The disagreeable old uncle oraunt with
a will up their sleeve has the trump
card that takes all the tricks in the
game of life. 1 once knew of a wily
old man who worked this confidence
game for fifty years. He had a strong,
black iron box, from which he never
allowed himself to be separated for a
single day and which was popularly
supposed by his family to contain a
horde of gold. Relatives vied with
each other in showing him attentions.
The choice seat at the fireside, the tid-
bit at the table were always for him,
and to each, in turn, he would say in
confidence, and with a great air of mys-
tery, ‘‘Your name, my dear, will be
found in my box when lam gone.’’ At
last the old man died and the relatives
could hardly wait to get home from the
funeral to open the box. It contained
nothing on earth but a list of the names
of his victims and the deceased’s very
lively opinion of those who wait im-
patiently for dead men’s shoes. The
worst wills are those inspired by hatred
and revenge, in which the unforgiving
dead, who have such need of mercy for
themselves, seek to reach back a hand
from beyond the grave to stab and
wound a living heart.

Sometimes the fancy for making and
changing their wills grows into a kind
of hobby with people. I recall a pretty
and pathetic story of this about a man
who was once a wealthy citizen of the
Windy City, but who, through reverses
and afflictions, lost his fortune and his
mind and is now ending his life in an
asylum for the insane. Making wills is

his hobby and day after day he sits

writing, devising and bequeathing, as
he may have thought to have done his
great estate in happier days. Curious
to see what he was doing, one of the
attendants recently picked up one of the
sheets of paper upon which he had writ-
ten, and found there this curious and
beautiful will:

I, being of sound and disposing mind
and memory, do hereby make and pub-
lish this, my last will and testament, in
order, as justly as | may, to distribute

 

my interests in the world among suc-
ceeding men. That part of my interests
which is known in the land and _ recog-
nized in the sheep-bound volumes as my
property being inconsiderable and of
none account, | make no disposal of it
in this, my will. My right to life, being
but a life estate, is not at my disposal,
but, these things excepted, all else in
the world I now proceed to devise and
bequeath :

1. 1 give to good fathers and mothers
in trust for their chiidren all good little
words of praise and encouragement and
all quaint pet names and endearments
and | charge said parents to use them
justly, but generously, as_ the needs of
their children shall require.

2. 1 leave to children exclusively,
but only for the term of their childhood,
all and every the flowers of the fields
and the blossoms of the woods, with the
right to play among them freely accord-
ing to the custom of children, warning
them at the same time against the
thistles and the thorns. And _ I devise
to children the banks of the brooks and
the golden sands beneath the waters
thereof, with the dragon flies that skim
the surface of said waters and the odors
of the willows that dip therein and the
white clouds that float high over the
giant trees. And I leave to children the
long, long days to be merry in, ina
thousand ways, and the night and the
moon and the train of the milky way to
wonder at, but subject, nevertheless, to
the rights hereinafter given to lovers.

3. I devise to boys jointly all the
useful, idle fields and commons where
ball may be played, all pleasant water
where one may swim, all snow-clad
hills where one may coast and _ all
streams and ponds where one may fish
or where, when grim winter comes, one
may skate, to have and to hold the same
for the period of their boyhood. And
all meadows with the clover blooms and
butterflies thereof, the woods with their
appurtenances, the squirrels and birds
and echoes and strange noises and all
distant places which may be visited, to-
gether with the adventures there found.
And I give to said boys each his own
place at the fireside at night, with all
pictures that may be seen in the burn-
ing wood, to enjoy without let or hin-
drance, and without any incumbrance
of care.

4. To lovers | devise their imaginary
world with whatever they may need, as
the stars of the sky, the red roses by the
wall, the bloom of the hawthorn, the
sweet strains of music and aught else
they may desire to figure to each other
the lastingness and beauty of their love.

5. To young men jointly I devise
and bequeath all boisterous, inspiring
sports of rivalry, and I give to them the
disdain of weakness and undaunted con-
fidence in their own strength. Although
they are rude and rough, | leave to them
the power of making lasting friendships
and of possessing companions, and to
them exclusively I give all merry songs
and brave choruses to sing with lusty
voices.

6. And to those who are no longer
children or youths or lovers I leave
memory, and I bequeath to them the
volumes of the poems of Burns and
Shakespeare and of other poets, if there
be others, to the end that they may live
the old days over again freely and fully,
without tithe or diminution.

7. To our beloved ones with snowy
crown | bequeath the happiness of old
age, the love and the gratitude of their
children, until they fall asleep.

o-oo

The farmers of Kansas have begun to
harvest the largest wheat crop in the
history of the State. Secretary Coburn,
of the State Board of Agriculture, says:
‘*The crop this year will be the heaviest
ever known. In 1892 Kansas had 3,800-
ooo acres of wheat and raised 70,000, -
ooo bushels, an average of eighteen
bushels to the acre. This year the win-
ter wheat acreage is 4,685,819, as esti-
mated by the growers, and the average
yield will be larger than that of 1892.
If the yield per acre is the same as in
1892 the aggregate yield will be 85,000, -
000 bushels. The crop in general was
never in better condition.”’

 

 

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grills, fret-work, mantels, stair work, désks, office fixtures, church
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The Meat Market

Calfskin

 

 

Some Recent Changes in the

Business,

The season is now at hand when ac-
cording to precedent, there should be
liberal receipts of skins, but in the evo-
lution which is constantly progressing,
methods are changing and business is
conducted on entirely new lines. It is
only a few years ago when there were
in Boston a number of firms dealing in
green country hides and calfskins. At
the opening of the calfskin season they
commenced receiving consignments
from country butchers and collectors,
and during May and June they accumu-
lated packs in their hide cellars of
many hundred thousands. It was a mat-
ter of common occurrence for a large re-
ceiver to salt down in pack 30,000 or
more skins. More frequently than
otherwise he would carry all these packs
through the hot weather, and in the fall
the calfskin tanners laid in their sea-
son's supplies from these packs.

In later years this method changed
somewhat and tanners purchased their
supplies as salters received them. The
laying away of huge packs by salters
was eliminated, and the tanners carried

them. While. city salters accumulate
some skins, they do not c rry them
through the summer. There is no well

defined season now as formerly, and the
method of collecting calfskins has
changed. The country slaughter house
is practically a thing of the past. The
large packing and slaughtering houses
of the West have absorbed the business
of the country butchers, and in every
large city of New England, as well as
in the larger towns, are located the beef
warehouses of these large slaughtering
firms, who supply butchers and_provi-
sion dealers with meat of better quality
than the old method ever admitted of
and on lower terms.

Another reason why there are no
longer any well defined seasons is that
the establishing of creameries all over
the country and especially in New Eng-
land has created a demand on the farm-
ers fora regular supply of milk. The
birth of calves is regulated by the farm-
ers, and their cows ‘‘come in’’ at any
and all seasons of the year. A few
years ago the season for receipts of
calfskins was practically over by July 4,
and more than go per cent. of all the
calfskins would be taken off in May and
June. Now they are taken off every
month in the year, although not in like
proportion. 7

Again, the farmers have discovered
that the raising of calves is a profitable
adjunct to their other farming opera-
tions, and thousands of young animals
are purchased to be sent to the cattle
ranches to be raised for beef. It is
within the memory of many tanners and
skin collectors that farmers killed their
calves when a week old or less because
they wanted the milk. The carcass was
fed to hogs and the skin would not pay
the cost of taking off and marketing. In
this way thousands of skins were wasted.
Now they are valuable and are carefully
handled.

Formerly there were thousands of calf-
skins sold to tanners for wax skin pur-
poses. Now that branch of the business
has been almost entirely supplanted by
new methods and by patent chrome,
combination and _ russet tannages.
Large tanners in all sections of the
country employ buyers who travel
through the farming sections of the
country and collect all. the skins they

 

can find. The largest collector in the
country, in Vermont, still employs an
army of collectors, who send their skins
to his hide house, as in years past,
where they are sorted, trimmed and
graded to meet the tanners’ special
wants. For the past two or three years
the take-off has been so inadequate for
the demand that many hundred thous-
and skins have been imported, and this
is still going on. Fifteen years ago hun-
dreds of country tanners of rough leather
tanned and sent to Boston commission
houses thousands of rough calfskins, and
it was no unusual thing for a rough
leather commission house to carry 50,000
skins rough tanned. The business has
been practically done away with.—
Butchers’ Gazette.
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New Booklets.

The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
Railway is issuing a series of booklets
regarding points of interest along its
lines, and if you are interested in the
Western country, or contemplating a
trip, write Geo. H. Heafford, General
Passenger Agent, Chicago, IIl., for the
special publication desired, enclosing
four cents in stamps for postage for
each one,

 

No. 1. The Pioneer Limited.

No. 2. The Land of Bread and But-
ter.

No. 3. "The Fox Lake Country.

No. 4. Fishing in the Great North
Woods.

No. 5. The Lake Superior Country.

No. 6. Cape Nome Gold Diggings.

No. 8. Summer Days in the Lake
Country.

No. g. Summer Homes, 1900.

No. 11. The Game of Skat.

No, 12, Milwaukee—The Convention
City.

No. 13. A Farm in the Timber
Country.

No. 14. Stock Raising in the Sun-

shine State.
No. 15. Hunting and Fishing.
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Why Southdown Mutton Excels.

Southdown mutton invariably fetches
the top price in the London market.
This mutton is specially esteemed for
its flavor, which is generally recognized
as being about the most ‘‘delicate’’
possessed by the meat produced by any
of their breeds of sheep. Much of the
‘‘sweetness’’ of Southdown mutton is,
no doubt, due to the nature of the herb-
age upon which these sheep are fed.
Southdowns are native to certain dis-
tricts in the south and southeast of Eng-
land, where chalk downs prevail, and
where the land produces a_ peculiar
herbage. It is a well-known fact that
when Southdowns are kept out of their

ative habitat their flesh is not found to
possess any appreciable superiority over
that pr-duced by other Down breeds
kept under the same circumstances.

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It is absolutely essential that butchers
should keep their markets clean and
sweet during the summer months. It
can not be done by a general bustle of
activity once a week—keeping constant-
ly at it is necessary. Instead of having
the windows washed every Friday, see
that they are cleaned three times a
week. Have the place under your
benches scrubbed every day and don’t
let the fat accumulate there. Use fresh
sawdust on your floor every day, and
have it raked two or three times a dav.
Very often the unpleasant odor of a
market is due to permitting small pieces
of meat, which are hidden by the saw-
dust, to rot. Instead of letting your men
gossip in the back of the market, keep
them busy scrubbing the wood work.
Put sawdust on the blocks before scrap-
ing them, and throw a pail of water over
each one before closing for the night. It
makes them white and gives them more
endurance. A clean market is sure to
draw trade. A little disinfectant—pref-
erably liquid and _ odorless—scattered
around occasionally will help the good
work,

 

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palatable, during this hot weather, “old fashioned”
butter. Advocate advanced ideas by substituting for
it our inimitable quality of BUTTERINE, which is a per-
fect summer product. It never gets strong or rancid;
will keep perfectly sweet and wholesome, qualities
which should at once be appreciated and taken ad-

vantage of by every judicious dealer and consumer.

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all on the same basis, irrespective of size, shape or de-
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Commercial Travelers

Michigan Knights of the Grip
President, E. J. SCHREIBER, Bay City; Sec-
retary, A. W. Stirr, Jackson; Treasurer,
O. C. GOULD, Saginaw.

 

 

Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Association
President, A. MARYMONT, Detroit; Secretary
and Treasurer, GEO. W. Hitt, Detroit.

United Commercial Travelers of Michigan

Grand Counselor, J. E. Moore, Jackson;
Grand Secretary, A. KENDALL, Hillsdale;

Grand Treasurer, W. S. MEsT, Jackson.

Grand Rapids Council No. 131, U. €. T-
Senior Counselor, JoHN G. Kop; Secretary-
Treasurer, L. F. Baker.

Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Mutual Accident Association

President, J. BoypD PANTLIND, Grand Rapids;
Secretary and Treasurer, GEO. F. OWEN,
Grand Rapids.

 

AS HE OUGHT TO BE.

 

of the Ideal

Traveler.

Regarding the age of the commercial
traveler, it stands to reason that it is
better for him to be over than under
twenty-five years old. 1 know that a
great many in the business -have not
reached that age, and I do not mean to
say that even very youthful drummers
will fail to transact business to the en-
tire satisfaction of the houses they rep-
resent. But it is not open to question
that a commercial traveler of mature
years will, other things being equal,
more easily create an opening fora
business transaction than one who is
still of a boyish appearance. A man of
advanced years, naturally, has a great
advantage over a very young man. His
experiences and riper intellect greatly
facilitate his endeavors, and assist him
to accomplish with comparatively little
effort what would cause a youthful per-
son a great deal of trouble. His mature
years are a passport to confidence, and
give weight to his representations.

While it is true that some youths of
twenty have far more capacity and
general knowledge than, many an old
man, practical experience can come
only with years. Of course, business
men, particularly those no longer young,
appreciating this fact, avoid involving
themselves in business transactions
with very young men, preferring a man
nearer their own age. This is especial-
ly true in the settlement of such dis-
putes as are the subjects of argument.
In these cases the authority of advanced
years is very apt to outweigh the rea-
sons advanced by a young man. A
merchant who has been many years in
business can not be expected to toler-
ate the superior wisdom and airs of a
young fellow whose grandfather he is
old enough to be. 1 know that even a
very young man, if he represents a large
and well-connected house, or offers goods
for sale which are in great demand,
may, in some instances,do a large busi-
ness, but, generally speaking, youthful
enthusiasm is not wanted in the com-
mercial traveler. This quality, by the
way, is pretty sure to cool off and dis-
appear before he has been many years
on the road. A great deal of experi-
ence, and above all steadiness, will gain
the good will of those with whom the
traveling merchant has to deal. Though
there are extremely young drummers
who early manifest these qualities, as a
rule they are met with only in persons
of riper years.

It is well to know before calling to so-
licit orders whether or not a house has
a good repttation. Commercial agen-
cies are trustworthy as far as they go,
but it is the duty of the commercial
traveler to gain as much information as
possible about.the financial standing of

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a customer at the place where he is do-
ing business. I need hardly say that
this is not always easy to accomplish.
It is my opinion that in small towns the
observations of an experienced drum-
mer will gain for him more trustworthy
information concerning the financial
standing of a merchant than any com-
mercial agency can give him. In a
small place the store is not always the
principal means of financial resource to
the man who keeps it. Farming or
stock raising is a side pursuit which
constitutes what may be called his un-
known resources. Enquiries as to the
financial standing of a man must be
made with great discrimination, as in
some cases the persons addressed may
be his near relations, or there may be
other good reasons for misleading state-
ments to be made by the person ap-
proached for information. Presuming
that among storekeepers in the same
line of business a good deal of jealousy
generally exists, the commercial travel-
er had better not question them at all
with reference to the affairs of their
neighbors. In small towns the hotel-
keeper is an excellent medium where-
by to gain an insight into a buver’s cir-
cumstances, for he is, as a rule, well
informed about the different establish-
ments in the place. The information
he gives is likely to be impartial and
trustworthy, as it is for his own good to
consider the interests of his guests. The
bank where a customer keeps his account
is also a pretty reliable authority.
Moreover, no sensible merchant can
feel offended that the commercial trav-
eler with his first orders politely asks
for references and names of houses with
whom his customer has been in the habit
of dealing.

A drummer with some experience will
unconsciously draw his conclusions in re-
gard to the financial standing of a new
customer by the manner in which the
buyer appraises his goods, as, if he
carefully ascertains what profit he will
gain by such and such a price, his first
orders being small, etc. After all it
may happen that the traveler is deceived
in the man. For this reason he should
never fail to ascertain from timesto time
if any changes bearing on the credit of
even an old customer have taken place.
This should be done in such a manner
as not to hurt the customer's reputation.
He might say, for example, in making
his enquiries: Aithough Mr. So-and-So
has been a reliable patron, and his pay-
ments have been very satisfactory in-
deed, still the present condition of the
money market, the scarcity of cash, as
well as the prevailing poor state of
business everywhere, induce me to re-
new enquiries about his financial stand-
ing. Pursued in this way,enquiries as
to the reputation and credit of a mer-
chant can not do him injury.

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The Bachelor’s Toast.

I drink to the man who ne’er woos—aye, nor
weds—
The man who sews buttons and mends—
The man who ean live without women around;
Here’s joy to my bachelor friends!

He has none to keep but himself—happy man!
And always enough to pay bills!

He gives to the grocer a merry ha-ha!
And squanders no shekels on frills.

He walks not at all in the dark, stilly night,
With colicky offspring in arms,

Which squalls with a zest thatis dreadful to hear
And fills the whole block with alarms.

He knows when he talks to himself he won’t have
To yell so that he will be heard;

He knows when he talks to himself that he’ll get
To chuckle the very last word.

So here’s to the bachelor—blessed is he
Who has none to keep but himself—
The man who smiles grimly while Cupid puts

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His worn and frayed goods on their shelf.

Graphie Description of the Modern Trav-
eling Salesman.

The traveling man, like St. Paul, is
‘‘all things to all men.’ He is ubiqui-
tous, versatile.

He isa pioneer. Go where you will
you will find him by your side, or that
he has been there before you.

On the trackless prairies of the Da-
kotas, in the fastnesses of the Carolina
mountains, in the canebrakes of Louis-
iana, from the golden East to the free-
silver West the footprints of his tribe
mark out the pathways for commerce.

He is genial, and as Artemus Ward
said of the kangaroo, ‘*a most amoosing
cuss,’’ and as full of information as an
egg is full of meat.

Would you know the best hotel? Ask
the traveling man, or watch his smoke.
The best is none too good for him.

Are you in arid prohibition Kansas,
with a dark brown taste in your mouth
and a hankering after ‘‘ strong waters?”’
See the traveling man. Probably he
never touches it himself, but if there is
a drop of whisky within the confines of
the Sunflower State, he can locate it, and
you will get it if it costs him a leg.

He is usually a married man—at home

-and single when abroad.

He can no more resist the temptation
to flirt with every pretty girl he meets
than he can help breathing. He has
been likened to the sailor with a sweet-
heart in every port; but he doesn't
mean it, it’s just his way, and usually,
if you will investigate, you will find
that somewhere, in a cozy cottage, there
is a little woman with eyes of brown or
of blue who watches and waits for his
coming and who holds in her keeping
his big, generous heart as with bonds
of steel.

He brings to town the latest story and
can tell it with inimitable drollery.

He is ‘‘hale fellow well met’’ with
everybody, from the Governor of his
state down to the peanut boy on the
railroad train.

He can lead a village prayer meeting
or referee a prize fight with equal facil-
ity and urbanity.

He is able to discourse upon politics,
science, religion or art. He holds an
opinion upon every subject under the
sun, and is not often backward in ex-
pressing it.

He has the tinest line of goods upon
earth, sells them the cheapest and gives
more liberal discounts and better terms
than any of his competitors.

There is another quality that endears
him to the heart of his employer-—he is
a ‘‘hustler,’’ and when he starts out to
do something (or somebody) he gets
there.

He ‘‘jollies’’ the merchant into giv-
ing him an order, bullies the hotel clerk
into giving him the best room in the
house and ‘‘kids’’ the bootblack almost
out of his senses.

»»

The traveling man is a martyr. He
is the Wandering Jew of the Nineteenth
Century. He dines in Kalamazoo, sups
in Oshkosh and sleeps in the cars of
Pullman.

He has probably eaten
beefsteak, more aged eggs, and has
consumed more weak coffee and strong
butter, and laughed at a greater multi-
tude of ancient jokes, purely in the in-
terest of commerce, than have fallen to
the lot of any man since the world be-
gan. ;

This much-berated traveling man,
under a cynical exterior, often hides a
heart of gold. His sympathies ate of
the quickest, his sensibilities are of

more tough

 

the finest, his charity of the broadest -

so broad, indeed, that methinks had he
no other quality than this to recommend
him it would cover a multitude of sins
greater than his.

1 speak of him as I know him. A
true friend, a generous foe, he rises to
the fullest stature of manhood in that
he is an honest, manly man.

He is an institution that the world
could illy spare.

Long may he wave.

Carl P. Swain.
es
Stirring Appeal From President Schreiber,

Bay City, June 9—A few months ago,
through a circular letter, we made an
urgent appeal to our membership for
new members--demonstrating how ben-
eficial it would be financially to every
member, as well as to the organization,
Since then fifty active and eighty-two
honorary applications have been re-
ceived and approved, not counting the
many reinstated, showing that some, at
least, of our members have the future
welfare of the order at heart and are
working for its interests. To those who
so zealously have assisted in this grat-
ifying increase are due the thanks of
the entire order and we hope for a con-
tinuance of their good work. ‘To those
members who have not been heard from

who have overlooked the importance
of aiding in every possible manner the
order of which they form part and par-
cel-- we wish once more to appeal. You
all recognize the fact that, in order to
carry out the aims and objects for which
we are banded together, we must be
progressive. There is no standing still

it is either progression or retrogres-

sion. With upwards of fifteen hundred
active members—all progressive, hus-
tling business men there should be no

retrogression. Our pride as hustlers is
at stake. If every one of our nearly
fifteen hundred members would make
up his mind to bring in at least one
new member, how glorious would be
the result! Let each one do his share!
You are conversant with the qualifica-
tions for membership. You have been
supplied with applications—how many
have you sent in? How many new
members did you solicit? Certainly
every reputable traveler in our order
(and we have no othes) hasa friend still
outside of our ranks. With a little work

a few judicious words—-a_ proper
amount of enthusiasm—you can land
him, and by so doing do him a favor
which, perhaps in after years, will be
appreciated, if not by himself, by those
bereft and not infrequently thrown on
the mercy of a cold, unfeeling world.
Make every eligible traveler view it in
this light and you will increase our
membership by one in every instance.
By results we will be judged. Through
sending in new applications you will
demonstrate that you are interested
that you are united with us—and if we
can be thus united we will be all-power-
ful for good and the respected and ad-
mired of men.

Edward J. Schreiber,
President Michigan Knights of the Grip.
—__—» 0 > .

Edwin 0. Wood, formerly a well-
known traveling man in the grocery and
clothing lines, but now Supreme Com-
mander-in-Chief of the Knights of the
Loyal Guard, is in town for a few days.
Mr. Wood is devoting his entire time
to the insurance organization founded
by him, which is growing very rapidly
and is meeting with the approval of
those who are disposed to commend
conservative fraternal insurance.

_ ee ae -

John H. Hoffman, ex-President of the
Michigan Knights of the Grip, has been
elected Steward of the Michigan Asylum
for the Insane at Kalamazoo. Honest
John will make an ideal purchasing
official, but the Tradesman opines that
he will yearn for an opportunity to book
orders for pumps and agricultural im-

plements before a year has rolled around.
——_»>0.——
A young lawyer going out of town to

 

argue a case is making a trial trip.

 

  

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

Drugs--Chemicals

Michigan State Board of Pharmacy

Term expires
Dec. 31, 1900

 

 

GEo. GUNDRuM, Ionia - =

3

L. E. REYNOLDS, St. Joseph - Dee. 31, 1901
HENRY HkEIM, Saginaw -— - Dee. 31, 1902
Wirt P. Dory, Detroit- - - Dec. 31, 1903
A.C. SCHUMACHER, Ann Arbor - Dec. 31, 1904

President, GEo. GUNDRUM, Ionia.
Secretary, A. C. SCHUMACHER, Ann Arbor.
Treasurer, HENRY HEIM, Saginaw.

Examination Sessions
Star Island—June 25 and 26.
Sault Ste. Marie—Aug. 28 and 29.

sing—Nov. 7 and 8.

State Pharmaceutical Association
President—O. EBERBACH, Ann Arbor.
Secretary—CHAs. F. MANN, Detroit.
Treasurer—J. S. BENNETT, Lansing.

 

Novel Methods of Appealing to Physician
and Public.

To advertise is a necessity. Business
is all done in this day through that
means, and the man who neglects to
advertise will surely tall behind in the
race for recognition. 1 do not mean by
this that a man may secure trade by
means of advertising only, but granted
that one has stock, and follows modern
methods, he will surely outstrip another
having an equally good stock but fail-
ing to avail himself of his opportunities
to advertise.

Druggists have two sides to. their
business, and can advertise either or
both sides to advantage. That from
which the influence of physicians is to
be gotten is the department of prescri p-
tions, or the business of supplying med-
icines and supplies to physicians direct.
The other relates to the means and
methods of attracting the attention of
the general public. I have found
through experience that physicians are
influenced by about the same condi-
tions and circumstances that affect
the run of the people in general. Be-
cause of this fact I have always made it
my business to call their attention _per-
sistently to any new condition or cir-
cumstance of trade at the earliest mo-
ment possible. It has been my plan for
some years to address all the physicians
of my acquaintnace, or all those within
a reasonable distance of the store, in a
circular letter about twice a year. In
this letter I call attention to some spe-
cial feature of the establishment, and
end up with a general description of the
whole institution. At frequent intervals
1 send out printed postal cards ora
small printed circular enclosed in an
envelope and sent through the mail.
This is used for some one substance
only—that is, only one substance or
subject is written about at a time.
These should be sent out weekly, or at
least not less than once a month. In the
general circular | am always careful to
call special attention to the laboratory
facilities and invite inspection. I have
also found it very profitable to supply
physicians with the remedies and dress-
ings they use in their offices. Experi-
ence has taught me that we can sell to
the doctors just as readily as the larger
firms; and that the only requisite is to
go after their business. If one succeeds
in obtaining the trade of the doctor for
materials of his own consumption he
will surely stand a much better chance
of securing his influence among his
patients, and most likely get the trade
of allor the greater part of them. Once
having gotten the doctor in the habit of
trading with you, it is quite easy to
sell him substances and remedies of
your own manufacture.

The other side of our business is the
one in which we come in direct contact
with the people. Next to a well kept
Store (and all that that means) the best

 

 

 

method of advertising among the peo-
ple is to send them samples of medic-
inal or other substances. For some years
past it has been my custom to select
monthly some article or popular sub-
stance and prepare several thousand
small packages suitable for distribution.
These we put ina neat but cheap en-
velope, each envelope containing (be-
sides the sample of medicine) a de-
scriptive circular as tothe uses, dose
and cost of the remedy. These circu-
lars are always made to answer the pur-
poses of a general advertisement of the
store, and particularly the prescription
department. The remedy under consid-
eration is recommended to be used in-
stead of some patent medicine, and a
statement of comparative cost is made.
We take anything, from Epsom salt,
compound licorice powder, and cathar-
tic pills, to Castile soap, borax and
powdered alum. One of the most profit-
able advertisements I ever made was
with ground black pepper.

If not out of place I would like to
direct the attention of all to the adver-
tising pages in our pharmaceutical jour-
nals. Most of us can learn very much
out of the advertising of the journals,
and also much through a close study of
the advertising pages of the daily press.
It will pay any one many times over to
make a careful examination of any idea
in advertising that can be adapted to
his business or that would appeal to the
people of his neighborhood.

F. W. E. Stedem.
—_—_—_—_©9<__
Ten Practical Suggestions For Pharma-
cists.

I. Be pleasant and agreeable to all
patrons and sze that your clerks follow
your exaniple.

2. Keep your store clean at all times
and don’t try to save gas at night, for
it not only makes a dingy looking store,
but also causes mistakes.

3. Keep your name before the pub-
lic, for if you fail to do so, your neigh-
bor will be the only pharmacist known
in your vicinity.

4. In buying drugs and chemicals of
your wholesaler, try always to obtain the
very best, for you must remember that
human lives often depend upon the
quality of your goods.

5. Use the National Formulary in
making your preparations, the conse-
quence of which is more honor and
profit to you than if the prescription
called for a patent or proprietary article
of some kind; also show the products
to your physicians and ask them to re-
member same when prescribing.

6. Make your own non-secret rem-
edies. You can obtain a more elegant
preparation, and also ata less cost, than
if made by an outsider.

7. Treat your neighboring pharma-
cist with respect and if he is in need of
some article, accommodate him just as
you expect him to do you.

8. If your physicians ask fora per-
centage on prescripions which you have
received, by all means refuse the re-
quest. You must bear in mind that it
is a plain case of stealing from the
patient, for you will surely make it up
again.

g. Every retail pharmacist should
keep posted on the advance and decline
of drugs and chemicals, for it means
money to him all the year around.

10. Do not dispense medicines to
patients over the counter (commonly
called counter-prescribing), unless the
patient has a physician's prescription,
or you will undoubtedly gain the enmity
of the doctor, the consequence of which
is a ruination of your business.

Otto F. Claus.

 

Dispensers of Soda Must Be Up-to-Date.

Has the soda fountain ever puzzled
the druggist? Has he ever wondered
why his competitor gets most of the
neighboring soda trade, incidentally a
few prescriptions through it? Has he
ever stopped to consider that it is atten-
tion to details which wins success for
the soda fountain, as well as for every
other department of his business? Is he
so decidedly professional that the soda
business fails to interest him?

With a poorly equipped fountain,
with soda syrups of uncertain flavor and
a bouquet of mustiness, and with soda
water that is not kept uniformly cold,
the pharmacist injures every other
branch of his business. He had better
either close up the fountain altogether,
or else, if he can do no better, use it
as an occasional advertisement and help
pay for the ice by the exercise of clean-
liness, punctiliousness, and judgment
in every detail.

Location determines to a large extent
the value of a soda fountain asa money-
making factor, although this is only
relatively true. I once knew a little
dried-up, unpromising looking druggist
to carry the best and most fashion-
able trade of a city of 45,000 inhabitants
Six or seven squares from one drug store
to another. His patrons clustered about
his fountain like flies around a sugar
barrel. It was interesting to study the
cause of his phenomenal success among
a host of comparative failures. His lav-
ishness in expending money to obtain
the best of everything for his soda foun-
tain would have appalled the average
conservative druggist. Nothing was al-
lowed to outlive its usefulness a minute,
whether it happened to be the syrups,
the lemon-squeezer, the ice-cream ladle,
spoons, holders, glasses, shaker, plumb-
ing or service. The keen eye with
which he detected flaws and the slight-
est fauits about the fountain and all that
pertained to it was only excelled by the
despatch with which he disposed of
them. He was punctilious, cleanly,
exercised good judgment, used the best
material, strove to please, studied the

individual palates and dispositions of:

his patrons, and was courageous in the
expenditure of money to obtain results,
for all of which he was amply rewarded
by the returns. He was interested in
his soda fountain and carried, as it
were, a miniature soda fountain, as well
as the way to run it, about with him in
his head.

On the other hand, | knew a pharma-
cist in the same city who for thirty
years had been making money as the
acknowledged leading prescriptionist of
the town and who had the confidence of
the doctors. He had no fountain, but
as his store was in the best business
part of the town he conceived the clever
idea of starting one. It was indeed
pitiful to see the efforts he made in this
direction. He relied solely on the thirst
of the public, which in his locality he
was perfectly safe in doing, but disre-
garded attractiveness of service. Ac-
cordingly, he removed a few cases of
perfume that had rested on the marble
slab of a counter near the entrance to
his store, put in an ice-box and stock of
pop and ginger ale, invested in a few
heavy and unwieldy tumblers, placarded
the innovation in the windows and
opened business against the advice of
the writer. During the course of the
two succeeding months he answered a
few casual enquiries as to what he
meant by adding drinks to his stock and
whether they had any particular medic-
inal virtues, and sold two bottles of pop

 

 

 

 

to unsuspecting strangers in the town.
Meanwhile, the clerks, who appreciated
the innovation immensely, devoured the
rest of the effervescing refreshment:
and then the fountain was closed. Had
this man possessed the same ability as
a soda dispenser that he possessed as a
pharmacist, and taken the same interest
to obtain this ability or hired a man
like the little druggist, it is safe to as-
sume that he would have had a pro-
nounced success instead of failure, judg-
ing by the locality and the lack of any
strong competition, in which respects
he was particularly favored.

All of this goes to show that men can
not succeed in any line unless they take
a real interest in their work or engage
those who do. Men fail utterly in an
enforced occupation.—R. F. Ruppiler
in Bulletin of Pharmacy.

—__>0.___
The Drug Market.

Opium—Is very firm, and has ad-
vanced on account of reduced supplies
in the primary market and good de-
mand.

Morphine—Is unchanged.

Quinine—At the Amsterdam _ bark
sale, prices were 5 per cent. higher and
all that was offered was sold. It has
caused a firmer feeling in the market,
although there is no intimation of an
advance at present.

Acetanilid—The manufacturers have
at last stopped the ruinous competition
they have been working under, and ad-
vanced the price 6c per pound.

Essential Oils—Anise is firm, and
shows a fractional advance. Lemon is
very firm, and higher prices are looked
for. The same may be said of orange.

Wormwood—Has declined on account
“ie

of better supplies.

Gum Kino—Has declined.

Caraway Seed—Has again advanced
on account of high primary market, and
poor crop prospects.

Mustard Seed—Is in small supply and
very firm.

—__>2.__
Milk of Roses for the Complexion.

Blanched almonds, 2 drs.

Curd soap, 4 drs.

Cetaceum, 2 drs.

Almond oil, 4 drs.

Alcohol, 4 drs.

Tincture of benzoin, 2 drs.

Oil rose, 5 dps.

Oil rose geranium, 5 dps.

Rose water, 8 ozs.

Melt the cetaceum and oil together;
add the curd soap and continue the heat
until uniform; then transfer to a warm
mortar and add gradually about an
ounce of the rosewater, boiling. Beat
up the almonds well in another mortar
and add the melted cetaceum to this
paste. Mix thoroughly and stir in the
remainder of the hot rosewater to form
anemulsion. To this add the oils dis-
solved in the alcohol and tincture, strain
through fine calico, and make up to 10
ounces with rosewater passed through
the material on the strainer.

3» _>___

Volume of business tells the story of

a firm’s prosperity.

|) RieA AFG, CHEMIST,
., ALLEGAN, Kh

Perrigo’s Headache Powders, Per-
rigo’s Mandrake Bitters, Perrigo’s
Dyspepsia Tablets and Perrigo’s
Quinine Cathartic Tablets are gain-
ing new triends every day. “If you

 

 

haven’t already a good supply on,

write us for prices.

FLAVORING EXTRACTS AND DRUGGISTS’ SUNDRIES

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

WHOLESALE DRUG PRICE CURRENT

 

~ Advanced—

Declined—Gum Kino, Oil Wormwood.

 

 

 

 

  

  
 
  

   
 

Acidum
Aceticum .. 6@$
Senaaaenees German. 70@
Ce @
Carbolicum.......... 35@
Gigriewm............. 45@
Hydrochlor......... 3@
— ae
Oxalieum.......:.... 2@
Phosphoriaz, dil.. @
Salicylicum .... 65@
Sulphuricum ........ 1%4@
Tannicum........... 90@1
Tartaricum ......... 38@
Ammonia
Aqua, 16 deg......... 4@
Aqua, 20 deg......... 6@
Carbonas............ 1L@
Chloridum........... 1@
Aniline

Rigel -- 2. 5... 2 00@ 2
Brown . 80@

OG eo 45@
Yellow... -.. 2... 2 O@ 3

Bacce
Cubebe........ po, 15 2@
Juniperus...........- 6@
Xanthoxylum . 75@

Balsamum
Copaiba.........---- 50
Rem 2.6. 2... ¢
Terabin, Canada.. 40@
Toletan.:...-....----- 40@

Cortex
Abies, Canadian.....
Oasdize.......--..----
Cinehona Flava. ....
Euonymus atropurp.

Myrica Cerifera, po.
Prunus Virgini......
Quillaia, - eee
Sassafras ......po. 18
Ulmus.. .po. “45, gr’d

Extractum
Glyeyrrhiza Geese. Fins
Glycyrrhiza, po.....
Heematox, 15 b. box ug
Hzematox, 1S......--
Tizematox, %4S.....-- 14@
Hzematox, 4S....... 16@

Ferru
Sarbonate_ Preci
Citrate and Quin a.. 2
Citrate Soluble......
Ferrocyanidum Sol..

Solut. Chloride. .....
Sulphate, com’l.....
Sulphate, —* =

bbl, per ewt......
Sulphate, pure......

Flora
Arnica.......- 14
Anthemis.... . 22
Matricaria. . .. 380@

Folia
Baro 25@
Cassia y Acutttal, ‘Tin-

nevelly .. 20@
Oana. Acutifol, “Aix. 25@
Salvia ‘officinalis, 48

and 4s .....- 12@
Uva Gest... <5. ---- 8@

Gummi
Acacia, 1st —
Acacia, 2d picked ..
Acacia, 3d_ picked...
Acacia, sifted sorts.
Acacia, po 4
Aloe, Barb. ‘po. 18@20 12
Aloe, Cape....po. 15.
Aloe, Socotri. po. 40
Ammoniae........... 55@
Assafcetida....po.30 28@
Benzoinum .......... 508
Catechu, 1s.. g
Catechu, 4s.
Catechu, 4S. on
Camphore .......-.-
Euphorbium...po. 35 @
Galbanum®.........- @1
Gamboge ........- po 65@
Guaiacum......po. 25 @
@
a @
Myrrh. .:.. ...- @
Opi. ..po. 4504.80 3 30@ 3
Nelae os... 25@
Shellac, bleached. . 40@
Tragacanth .. Se 50@

Herba
Absinthium..oz. pkg
Eupatorium..oz. pkg
Lobelia ...... oz. pkg
Majorum ....oz. pkg
Mentha Pip. .0z. pkg
Mentha Vir..oz. pkg
nee... ci oz. pkg
Seance V oz. pkg
Thymus, V...oz. pkg

Magnesia
Calcined, Pat........ 55@
Carbonate, ag oa 18@
Carbonate, K.&M.. 1

‘arbonate, Jennings * 18@

Oleum

Absinthium ......... 6 00@ 6
Amygdale, Dule.... 35@
Amygdale, Amare. 8 00@ 8

te ee be gsiemens 1 85@ 1
Auranti Cortex...... 2 25@ 2
Bergamii............ 2 BO@ 2
Cajiputi .. .... 80@
Caryophyill... Gc waay 75@
o— padi. ics @

eno 2
Cinnamoni: 10@ 1
Gtironella

 

 

 

Conium ee: Sea caw 50@ =
g | Copaiba . cesses 1 15@ 1 2
15 Cubebe . Lescace, SOQ tO
16 Exechthitos .. pee 1 00@ 1 10
40 | Erigeron .. seeee 1:00@ 1 10
48 Gaultheria .......... 2 00@ 2 10
5 | Geranium, ounce.... @ 7%
10 — Sem. gale. 50@ 60
14| Hedeoma.. teens ks elo
15 | Junipera .. +++. 1 50@ 2 00
70 Lavendula .......... 90@ 2 00
5 | Lamonis ............. 1 40@ 1 50
oo | Mentha Piper....... 1 25@ 2 00
49 | Mentha Verid....... i 50@ 1 60
Morrhue, ‘gal. . . 1 20@ 1 25
Myreia.... ....--. 4 00@ 4 50
Ci Olive: os. 75@ 3 00
8| Picis Liquida....... 10@ 12
15 | Picis ees, - a @ 35
14 | Ricina.. .-. 100@ 1 08
Rosmarini........... @10
25 Rose, ounce......... 6 50@ 8 50
00 Sucemm .) 8.2.3... 45
50 Pee 90@ 1 00
00 ee ee 2 75@ 7 00
Sassafras... 50m OBB
a. eSS., ounce. @ 65
sq) Rigen 50@ 1 60
@| Poyme.............-. 50
go | Thyme, opt..... ss @ 1 60
Theobromas ........ 15@ 20
BB Potassium
op | BECSTP.........5.... 15@ 18
45 | Bichromate ......... 13@ 15
45 | Bromide Litcce.- oe oe
Oa °C
Chlorate... “po. 17719 16@ 18
18 | Cyamide.........-... 35@ «40
12 | Fegsge.. 2 65@ 2 75
18 Potassa, Bitart, pure 28@ 30
30 | Potassa, Bitart, com. @ 1
20 | Potass Nitras, opt... 7@ 10
12| Potass Nitras....... 6@ 8
12 Prussiate............ 2@ 26
15 | Sulphate po......... 1K@ 18
15 Radix
Aconitum............ 20@ 25
2 Ale. ee
30| Anchusa ............ 10@ 12
12 | Sram po...........- @ 2%
14| Calamus.. 200@ 40
15 | Gentiaha .. ..po. i 12@ 15
17 Glychrrhiza.. . Pv. 16@ 18
Hydrastis Reino @ 7
15 Hydrastis Can., po.. @ 80
25 Hellebore, Alba, po. 12@ 15
75 Inula, eo L icietgiee cious cre 156@ 20
40 Ppecae, po. ...-..<. .. 4 25@ 4 35
15 Iris ae -po. = 35@ 40
2 Jalapa, pr.. 23@ 30
Maranta, 4s. Ce ees @ 35
80 Podophyllum, po.. 22@ = =25
7 MOM ca: 75@ 1 00
hel, cut...-........ @ 1 2
Rhei, Mo 75@ 1 35
16 | Spigelia . 35@ = 38
25 Sanguinaria.. “po. “15 @ 18
35 | Serpentaria . . ... 40@ 45
Senega 60@_ 65
Smilax, officinalis H. @ 40
30 Smilax, bee @ 2
Scillez . ‘po. 10@ 12
25 Symplocarpus, Peet
30 POL. @ 2
Vaiewioms: Eng. po. 30 @ 2%
20| Valeriana, German. 15@ 20
10 | Zimgiber a........... 122@ «16
Zingiber j...........: 232@ 27
65 ——
45 | Anist - po. @ 2
35 Apium n évveieons). 13@ 15
28 | Bird, 1s. I@ 6
66 | Carui:....: .... ‘po. “18 11@ = 12
14| Cardamon........... 1 25@ 1 75
12 | Coriandrum.......... 8s@ 10
30 | Cannabis Sativa. .... 4@ 5
60 | Cydonium........... 75@ 1 00
30| Chenopodium.......  10@ 12
55 | Dinterix Odorate.... 1 00@ 1 10
13 | Foeniculum ......... @ 10
14 ees Oo. s: 7@ 9
16 | Lini .. i. 3B4a@e 4%
72) Lini, grd. ee “bbl. 3 4@ 4%
40 | Lobelia . 35@ «40
00 Pharlaris ‘Canarian.. 4@ 5
70 | Rapa 44@ 5
30 Sinapis “Alba... 9@ 10
75 | Sinapis Nigra. . 1@
60
40 Statins
49 | Frumenti, W. D. Co. 2 00@ 2 50
35 | Frumenti, D. F.R.. 2 00@ 2 25
45 | Frumenti............ 1 25@ 1 50
go | Juniperis Co. O. T... 1 656@ 2 00
Juniperis Co........ 1 75@ 3 50
Saacharum N.E.... 1 90@ 2 10
25 | Spt. Vini Galli....... 1 75@ 6 50
20} Vini Oporto......... 1 25@ 2 00
25} Vint Alba....:... <-.. 1 25@ 2 00
= Sponges
95 | Florida sheeps’ wool
39 carriage. 2 50@ 2 75
99 | Nassau sheeps’ ’ wool
95 | __Carriage............ 2 50@ 2 75
Velvet extra sheeps’
wool, carriage. .... @1530
60 | Extra yellow sheeps’
20} wool, carria age. .... @ 1 25
20 | Grass ‘sheeps’ —_
20| carriage. @ 100
Hard, rs slate use.. @ 7
Yellow Reef, for
- slate use........... @ 1 40
25 Syrups
90 | Acacia. .:...........- @ 58
30 Soeti Cortex...... @
60 | Zingiber ............. @ 50
85 | Ipecac....... caegese @ 60
80 | Ferri Iod..... : @ 50
45 | Rhei Arom.......... @ 80
75 | Smilax Officinalis 50@ 60
20 | Senega ...........--.- @ 8
40 | Se’ phe pase sea arse S@ bw

 

 

  
 
 
  
  

 

 

 

   
 
  
  

 

 

 

 

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Tinctures
Aconitum Napellis R 60
— hipesap anal F 50
Aloe: 60
‘ian and Myrrh.. 60
MCR os 50
Assafactida Pcussess 50
Atrope Belladonna... 60
Auranti — eased 50
Benzoin . eens 60
Benzoin Co . 50
Barosma........-...- 50
Jantharides 75
Capsicum . 50
Cardamon 75
Cardamon 75
"50
Cinchona ... 50
Cinchona Co 60
Columba ..... 50
CUDOND.:...--.:-.2-, 50
Cassia Acutifol...... 50
Cassia Acutifol Co... 50
a ete 59
got.. 50
Ferri Chior idum 35
Gentian . hae 50
Gentian Go.......... 60
Guiaca. . bales 50
Guiaca ammon...... 60
Hyoscyamus......... 50
Iodine .-. .. 75
lodine, colorless... . 75
Me 50
Lobelia iedies 50
Rivne... ...s.. 50
Nux Vomica......... 50
Opii.....-...+-e eee 75
Opii, comphorated.. 50
Opii, deodorized..... 1 5g
Quassia ............. 50
ee: a 50
Miele... 50
Sanguinaria .. 50
Serpentaria .. 50
—— See ceeeed 60
Tolutan . ee ce pub we 69
Valerian ............ 59
Veratrum Veride... 50
Zingiber ...........-- 20

Miscellaneous

Ather, Spts. Nit.? F 30@ 35
Ather, Spts. Nit.4F 3@ 38
Aigner 2.5... .. .... 24@ 3
Alumen, gro’d..po.7 3@ 4
— ae 40@ 50
Antimoni i 41@ 5
‘Antimonie Potass 1 T 40@ 50
Antipyrin . i @ 8
Antifebrin .......... @ 2
Argenti Nitras, 0z... @ 48
Arsenicum . - 10@ 12
Balm Gilead Buds.. 38@ 40
Bismuth S. N........ 1 50@ 1 60
Calcium Chior., 18... @ 9
Calcium Chlor., %Ss.. @ 10
Calcium Chlor., 4s.. @ 12
Cantharides, Rus. po @ 7
Capsici Fructus, a! @
Capsici Fructus, po. @
Capsici Fructus B, po @ 1b
Caryophyllus. .po.15 12@ 14
Carmine, No. 40..... @ 3 00
Cord Alba..........- 50@ = 55
Cera Flava........- 40@ 42
i @ 40
Cassia Fructus...... @ 35
Centraria..... ee ae @ 10
-Cetaceum.. @ 4
Chloroform .. 55@ ~=«60
Chloroform, squibbs @ 110
Chloral — Crst.... 1 65@ 1 90
Chondru 25
Cinchonidine, Paw 33@ 48
Cinchonidine, Germ. 38@ 48
Cocame ............- 5 30@ 5 60
Corks, “ist, dis. pr. ct. 70
Creosotum........... @ 35
eta . ..-- bbl. 75 @ «2
Creta, prep.......... @ 5
Creta, precip........ @ il
reta, Rubra........ @ 8
Cicet ........... «ae. IS
Cudpear........-..-. @ 2
Cupri Sulph......... 64Q@ 8
Dextrine . aoe 7@ 10
Ether Sul yh.. 750
Emery, al numbers. @ 8
co. gala Se @ 6
WOLA ......-- po.90 85@ 90
Flake White........ 120@ 15
Gae .ts s. Q@ 2%
Gambler . Sides s@ 9
Gelatin, Cooper Eee @ 60
Gelatin, French..... 35@ ~=—«60
Glassware, flint, box 75 8& 5
Less than box..... 70
Glue, brown..... 1@ 13
Glue, white. 15b@ 25
Glycerina..... 17 28
Grana Paradisi @ B
Humulus....... 25@ 55
Hydrarg Chior Mite @ %
Hydrarg Chior Cor.. @ 8
Hydrarg Ox Rub’m @ 1 05
Hydrarg Ammoniati @117
HydrargUnguentum 50@ 60
Hydrargyrum....... @ 85
Ichthyobolla, Am.. 65@ 70
Indigo - T@ 100
ioe. Resubi-.... .. 3 90@ 4 00
Todoform.. : @ 400
Lupulin..... @
Lycopodium. .. 70@ 75
65@ 75

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Magnesia, Sulp 2@ 3
Magnesia, Sulph, ‘bbl @ 1%
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Morphia, 8. P.& W. 2 05@ 2 30 | Sinapis ..

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Moschus Canton...
Myristica, No. 1.....
Nux Vomica...po. 15
OG SOM... 04.2...
Pepsin Saac, H. & P.

Pieis Liq., quarts....
Picis Liq., pints. ....
Pil Hydrarg...po. 80
Sega Nigra... po. 22
oa Alba.. — 35
i Baree.........
Plumbi Acet.........
Pulvis Ipecac et Opii
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IQeeeiee 4. os. os
Quinia, 8S. P. & W.
Quinia, 8. German...
Gunna, N. Y.........
Rubia Tinctorum....
Saccharum Lactis pv
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i @ 18) Linseed, boiled...... 67 7
Sinapis, ‘opt. @ 30) Neatsfoot, winter str 54 60
Snu , Maceaboy, De | Spirits Turpentine.. 55 60
Voes @ 41
Snuff,Scotch, De Vo's @ Ai) Paints BBL. LB.
| Soda, Boras.......... 9@ 11 :
| Soda, Boras, po..... 9@ 11) Red Venetian....... 1% 2 @8
| Soda'et Potass Tart. 23@ 2 Ochre, yellow Mars. 1% 2 @4
| Soda, Carb.......... 1%4@ _2.| Ochre, yellow Ber... 1% 2 @3
| Soda, Bi- Carb.. 3a 5 | Putty, commercial.. 2% 2%4@3
| 34 eon =—", pure. 24% 2%@3
Vermilion, rime
American . | 13@ 615
Spts i | Vermilion, English. 7 75
Spts. Myrcia Dom.. @ 2 00 | Green, Pari i ons 14@~s«s«i18
Spts. Vini Rect. bbl. @ | Green, Peninsular... 13@ 16
Spts. Vini Rect. bbl @ | Lead, ee a 64G 7
Spts. Vini Rect. 10gal @ | Lead, white......... 64@ 7
Spts. Vini Rect. 5 gal @ |W hiting, noni Span @ 7
Strychnia, Cr stal... 1 05@ 1 25 | Whiting, gilders’.... @ ®
| Sulphur, Subl....... 24@  4/| White, Paris, Amer. @ 1 00
| Sulphur, Roll. . 24@ 3% | Whiting, Paris, Eng.
| Tamarinds .......... a 1 40
Terebenth Venice... 28@ 30/ Universal Prepared. 1 00@ 1 15
Theobrome.......... 52@ «555 | i"
Vanilla . . 9 0OM@16 00 Varnishes
| Zinei Sulph.. 7 &\
| ‘Oils No. 1 ie‘ Coach... 1 10@ 1 20
| Extra Tu . 1 6€0@ 1 70
BBL. GAL. | | Coach Bor Leek ones 27 3 00
Whale, winter....... 70 70 | No.1 Turp Furn..... 1 1 10
a6, oos........... @& 70 | Extra Turk Damar.. 1 55@ 1 60
Rae. NOL T.......... 45 50 Jap.Dryer,No.1Turp 70@ 75

 

 

 

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; JAXO N Brown Bos. Co. 4 7 00 — eee ee i 50 |] Highest N Table.. A ae as ne “_-
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3 -ans.12 7: Fair uccot: 1 ard T.& C. Co. 96@ Ties .. cece itter, sack 20 141b.b 2 50 7
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521 00 | settee Star G ongere @ 70 00 | 1 ifornia P , sacks, 56 Ibs......., or
BA — 90 treen. n’s Bra: 00-120 25 runes Cc Ibs... - 2
Am TH B a le nd. : Ib. s 1 ee | 6 i
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sees TO] GO0d eso - 80 2 .S
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i } i is Loo: seatels 2 Crowr 9 on | X 0.3 T. No.2 T.. 00 | 56 Ib olar R ks... oe
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No.3 Carpet. 3 00| Pineapple ar er ae on ee arrigain Oar J N vey
0. 4 Carpet. 1.27518 ipple aaa Se ee ie Patras urrants +12 Vi Bho tea, :
Parlor Seg cn eat 50 = Sago.. _ 50 = ee pers Cleaned bali ts : a XXX, ee aan — 10 bax lots” delivered --.- 3 00 ;
Faney W Whisk... "9 75 ulk.... HICORY @i6 ned, packages... oe Xx.3 4 02. taper... -1 25 a iAS. ivered._. ~a 95 ‘ox
Fancy Whisk e a Red... Citr P. Be No. 4 e obert +o 12 J § KIRK ee 7
gga ela Nadi : Be on Amer eel -- 7% 2,2 02. obert 1 00 25 k
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P lectrie Ligh 8s. Premi n Sweet.. Co.’s. ao rican 10 lb. x..10% P. piteh T,40Z 225 abinet.. a :
Parafling €s t, 168... ae Breakfas! t Coe c 93 | Fair Maracaibo 13 | Sultana a — sey tae 2 a8 Wate “oe 20 e
a... on sts 1% i aa ibo 13° | Sul rown Per PAP 2 25 te Ri ---2 40
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lons, . standards. ao | Capital s rth ), Wilbur ‘ia = reas ee 16 Sultana a vores * : epieatgeely —— ee % Se \! s
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75@ 85 | Promiug HOVER, 348. oo -0. Ga a = Medium Hai 5 Ib. cee
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SALT FISH
Cod
Georges cured......... @5
Georges genuine...... @ 5%
Georges selected...... @ 5%
Grand Bank. ..-:....... GA
Strips or pricks....... 6 @9
Polloek. s,s... @ 34%
Halibut.
Strips. jo ene tee
Chunks... 15

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Holland white hoopsbbl. 6 00
Holland white hoop, keg.. 75
Holland white hoop mehs.* 85
Norwest ...... -.........

Round 100 IDs............... 3 60
Round 40 lbs... 1 75
—- 16%
Bloaters.. 1 50

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No. 1 100 lbs
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No.1 10 Ibs.
No.1 8lbs
No. 2 100 Ibs. .
No.2 40 lbs. .
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No. 2 Site: oe 91
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No.1 40s... .c.. ...-:
No.t tIps.......:.....-.-
No-1 Sis... 2... .-
Whitefish
No. 0.2
200 Ibs... 2.25... 750 700
49 Ips... .-. 330 310
10 Ds.......: 85
iS is :....... 75 71
cecal
Anise 8
Canary, Smy! rna. 4
Caraway . . _o
Cardamon, Malabar. ..60
ee 10
Hemp, Russian............-- 4%
Mixed Bird. ................. 4%
Mustard, whi a 5
Poppy........------ ..10
Raoe eo 4%
Cuttle Bene...) 15
SNUFF
Scotch, in bisdlecs. Secs oe
Maccaboy, in jars. io oe
French Rappee, in jars. oe 43
SODA
Box i pre ae
Keg 4 En is . 4%
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Whole Spices
AMnpIeL ot. ee 12
Cassia, “China in mats..... 12
Cassia, Batavia, inbund.. 25
Cassia, Saigon, broken.. 38
Cassia, Saigon, in rolls.... 55
Cloves, Amboyna. . 16
Cloves, Zanzibar........... 14
Mace... 55
Nutmegs, 75-80............ 55
Nutmegs, 105-10.. eee 45
Nutmegs, 115-20............ 40
Pepper, Singapore, black. 15%
Pepper, Singagore, white. 23
Pepper, shot............... 16%
Pure Ground in Bulk
Allspice... me 16
Cassia, Batavia.. ener 28
Cassia, SAigOn............. 48
Cloves, Zanzibar..........- 17
Ginger, African.. es 15
Ginger, Cochin.........-.. 18
— saan coe cas 2
eed ess ie ann 18
Pepper, Singapore, black. 18
Pepper, Singapore, white. 25
— _— aati 20
Sage.. 20
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Kingsford’s Corn

40 1-Ib. packages. . ou. Oe
20 1-Ib. packages... eae tenes 634
6 lb. packages.......-.-- 7%

Kingsford’s Silver oo
40 1-Ib. packages...........
6 lb. boxes. 7%

Common Corn’

20 1-lb. packages... oe
40 1-lb. packages.......... 4%
ommon Gloss

i-Ib. packages............. 4%
3-lb. packages... 4%
6-Ib. packages Poceuca | a

40 and 50-Ib. boxes. 3%
Barrels. . 3%

 

STOVE POLISH

 

4 50
7 20

No. 4, 3 doz in case, gross. .
No. 6, 3 doz in case, gross. .

 

 

SUGAR
Below are given New York
prices on sugars, to “which the
wholesale dealer adds the local
freight from New York to your
—t point, giving you credit
e invoice for the amount
of freight buyer pays from the
market in which he purchases
to his shipping point, including
20 — or the weight of the
barrel.

 

 

Domino.. oe. 5 85
CuePoa a 606
Crashed. .0...:.. 1. ee
Cubes .. Be oe ye ese a 5%
Powdered . _.. oo
Coarse Powdered. ....... 5 70
XXXX Powdered. . .
Standard Granulated. . 5 60
Fine Granulated. .... ..... 5 60
Coarse Granulated........ 5 75
Extra Fine Granulated.... 5 70
Conf. Granulated.......... 5 85
2 1b. cartons Fine Gran... 5 7
21b. bags Fine Gran...... 57
5 lb. eartons Fine Gran... 5 70
5 1b. bags Fine Gran...... 5 70
Mould A.... 5 85
Diamond A...... 5 60
Confectioner’s A.......... 5 40
No. 1, Commo A........ 52
NO. 2, Winasor A......... 5 25
No. 3, Ridgewood A...... 5 2
No. 4, Pree A........ CS
No. ry Maapire A... 5 15

 

SYRUPS
Corn
Baer. oe oe
a DPS 2
1 doz. 1 gallon cans......... 3 20
1 doz. % gallon cans. ........1 95
2 doz. 4 gallon cans. oo
Pure Cane_
Bair... Looe 16

    
  
 

PERRINS’
SAUCE

The Original and
Genuine
Worcestershire.

Lea & Perrin’s, large...... 3 75
Lea & Perrin’s, small..... 2 50
Halford, large: ............ 3%
Halford, sman:...........- 2 25
Salad Dressing, large..... 4 55
Salad Dressing, small. .... 2 75
TEA
Japan

Sundried, medium .......... 27
Sundried, choice............30
sundried, fancy.............40
Regular, modvum............ 28
Resular, choiee ..-..........30
Reuter, fancy ..-........... 40

sasket-fired, medium ...... 26

sasket-fired, choice. ........¢ BD
Basket-fired, fancy.......... 40
Nibs.. us ytd
Siftings.
Fannings

 

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Gunpowder

Moyune, medium ...........26
Moyune, choice .........
Moyune, faney..........
Pingsuey, medium......
Pingsuey, choice...
Peecey, famcy.............

 

  
 

  
 

Young Hyson
Choice ............-......- ae
Mame ess 36

Oolong
Formosa, Gney............-. 42
Amoy, me@dium)......-.....-- 25
AmOy, GNOICG.:..-....._.....22
English Break fast

Medan. 3. 27
Choice. .

Pages: . cuss. 2 eee ee 42

India

Oeyion, choles. ..--..-...._.. 32
WOMEW ou kee. 42

TOBAC co
Seotten Tobacco Co.’s ——-

Sweet Chunk plug .......

Cadillac fine cut...... ...... a

Sweet Loma fine cut........38
VINEGAR

Malt White Wine, 40 grain.. 8
Malt White Wine, 80 grain..11
Pure Cider, Red Star........12
Pure Cider, Robinson. . ae
Pure Cider, Silver...........
Ww. SHING POWDER

 

   
 

Sat ef
Rub-No-More, 100 12 02 ..... 3 50
WICKING

No. 0, per gross..............20
NO. 1, POF Gross... .. .. . 2.4 0s =
No. 2, per @TOSS..............
No. 3, per gross............ "5S

 

 

 

   

 

 
 
  
 

 

 

  
 
  

 
 

  

 

  
 

 

 

WOODENWARE
Baskets
So ck se 1 15
Bushels, wide band......... 1 2
Market .. ~~ oe
Willow Clothes, large. ..7 00
Willow Clothes, me jum... 6 50
Willow Clothes, smaill....... 5 50
Butter Plates
No. 1 Oval, 250 in crate...... 1 80
No. 2 Oval, 250 in crate......2 00
No. 3 Oval, 250 in crate. .2 20
No. 5 Oval, 250 in crate. -2 60
Clothes Pins
Boxes. gross boxes.......... 65
Mop ao
Trojan spring ee
Eclipse patent Spring .. ...9 00
DO one ec ne oe 8 00

0. 2 patent brush —- .9 00
a ts. cotton mop heads.... 1 25
Pails
2-hoop Standard.. ...1 50
| 3-hoop ae = 3
2-wire, Cable.. ..1 60
3-wire, Cable.. oo
Cedar, all red, ‘brass bound.1 25
Paper, Eureka. a oe
Pips |. ee
j Tubs
20-inch, Standard, No. 1..... 7 00
18-inch, Standard, No. 2..... 6 00
16-inch, Standard, ~ a 5 00
20-inch, Dowell, No. 1. 3 @
18-inch, Dowell, No. 2. ..6 25
16-inch, Dowell, No. 3. ..4 2
No. 1 Fibre.. le Ss
No. 2 Fibre.. : ost 2
No. 3 Fibre... Loe oe
Wash ‘Boards
Bronze Globe...... ee
JOwWeY .....: 21
Double Acme 0 to
Single Acme. nous oO
Double Peerl ..3 20
Single Peerle: ..2@
Northern Queen ............2 50
Double Duplex.............. 3 00
Good Luck telodceus 2 ae
arverees.........-..-....-..- 2 25
Wood Bowls
11 in. Butter.. Lewes ae
13 in. Butter.. es ee
15 in. Butter...... a
17 in. Botier..... .......... 28
eee 3 00
Assorted 13-15-17.... .....-.- 17
Assorted 15-17-19 ...........- 2 50
YEAST CAKE
Yeast Foam, 1% doz........ 50
Yeast Foam, 3 doz..........1 00
Yeast Cre m, 3 d0z.. ...1 00
Magic Yeast 5e, 3 doz.......1 00
Sunlight Yeast, $doz........ 1 00
Ww. arner’s Safe, 3 d0z........ 1 00
Crackers
The National Biscuit Co.
quotes as follows:
Butter
Seymour ............ ciemel ac 5%
New aa 5%
Family .. 5%
| Salted ..... 54
MVOrvermne.....-. .........- 6
Soda
Soda XXX.. Sees. Os
Soda, City oe 8
Long Island Wafers... 1... 1
Zephyrette .. .
Oyster
Eee 7
ee ee 5%
Extra Farina |
Saltine Oyster............. 5%
Sweet ——
Animals 10%
‘Assorted. ‘Cake... --. ie
Bells Boge... ....... 2.0... 9
Bent’s Water............. 15
Buttercups... .- -.--....- 13
Cinnamon Bar............. 9
Coffee Cake, Iced......... 10
Cotiee Cake, ave. ........ 10
Cocoanut Tafly............ 10
@racknelis ................ 16%
Creams, Iced...........-. 8%
CreamO@risp............... 9
Crystal Creams.. —. =
eee 11%
Ourrant Fruit........:.... 1
Frosted Honey..........-- 12%
Frosted Cream. «2
Ginger Gems, Ig. ‘orsm... 9
Ginger Snaps, NBC.. 8
Gladiator . I
Grandma Cakes........-.- 9
Graham Crackers......... 8

Graham Wafers...........
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Honey Fingers........-...-

Iced ancy ve riimpets. 10
Imperiais .. La
Jumbles, Honey. eee 124%
Lady Fingers..........---+ 11%
Lemon Wafers...........- 14
Marshmallow
Marshmallow Walnuts... 16
Mary Ann................- 8
Mixed Pienic.... ......--- 11%
Milk Biscuit...........---- 1%
Molasses Cake...... 2 g
Molasses Bar..........-+-+

Moss Jelly Bar..........-- 12%
Newton =
Oatmeal 6 rackers. Lo sees 8
Oatmeal Wafers........-..- 10
Orange Crisp.....-..-- +++ 9
Orange Gem............-- 8
Penny Cake................ 8
Pilot Bread, ee 7
Pretzels, hand 1 =“ eee 7%
Sears’ Luneh.. becceese:, oe
Sugar Cake.............--- 8
Sugar Cream, XXX....... 8
Sugar Squares ..........-- 8
Sultanas........... « 12%
Tutti Frutti... 16%
Vanilla Wafers... |
Vienna Crimp.........-..- 8

 

 

Grains and Feedstuffs

Wheat

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
  

 

 

 
  

 

 

 

 

Wheat. . 70 Beef |
Winter “Wheat ‘Flour | Careass.. . 64@ 8 |
/ | Forequarters. cuceees | Ce a Okt
Patents. om eT oe fveon, og yale . & Be |
Second Patent..........-.. 3 7e | Loins No.3.......... 10 @l4
AMM a al 3 50 | Ribs....... ---- 10 @i4
Clear § 95 | Rounds.............. @8
Graham .................., 350} Chueks..............  54@ 6
- ey oa ee “liad 4@5 |
ele Bu oy sk ee oe ta ee 3 25 > |
Subject to usual cash dis- en |
count. Dressed . @ 64
Flour in bbls., 25¢ per bbl. ad- | Loins . @8
ditional. | Boston Butts”. @7%
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand | orto teres . -
Piamtind %6.........75.... 3 75 | Mae TEN «~~ +--+ e
Diamond ‘4s.. 3 75 | Mutton
Diamond \s.. eae 3 75 eile en
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand Spring. Lawthe ' @ié
a 3 70
Quaker \4s.. 3 70 Veal
Quaker 4s.. 3 70| Careass.............. 74@9 |
Spring ‘Wheat Flour . :
Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s —
Pillsbury’s Best ‘s.. ) se
Pillsbury’s Best 4s.. .... ‘ = I rOvVISIONS
Pillsbury’s Best Ms.. _. t=
Pillsbury’s Best 4s paper. 4 35 Barreled Pork
Pillsbury’s Best 4s paper. 4 35 -
eH Barnhart > a se @i2 50
Ball nen Putman’s ne aah | ant @i3 50 |
Duluth Imperial %s........ 4 35 | Clear back... 1.11). @12 50 |
Duluth Imperial 4s....... 4 25) Short eut.. i @12 50
Duluth Imperial 4s... .. Ca ea MN @AG 50
Lemon & W nome Cove Brand | Bean... @10 50
bg e 168.. ae @13 50
Whoa We.............. 46
Wingold Te Dry Salt Meats
Olney & Judson’s Brand ne tees es aie
sriskets . :
Ciera a... Slee el. pl
Geresota 48............... 440 Extra shorts......... 74
Coeresota 46.............+. 4 30 | Smoked Meats
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand | Hams, 121b. average. @ 111:
Ransel ee... 2. ..s. 30 Hams, 141b. average. @ hg
Laurel 4s. . ns 4 20) Hams, 16lb. average. @ 10%
Laurel Ys. . . 410) Hams, 20Ib. average. @ 10%
Laurel '38 and us. paper. 415! Ham dried beef..... @ 13%
Meal ee Y.cut) @ 7%
E ‘ acon, clear. ........ @ 10
Sepang any ; 00 California hams. .... @ 7%
nae net et _ *~ “| Boneless hams...... @ "1
Feed and Millstuffs | Boiled Hams....... @ 6
St. Car Feed, screened.... 17 50 | Pienic Boiled Hams @ 12%
No. 1 Corn and ac te 17 00 | Berlin Hams @ 9
Unbolted Corn Meal .. 16 50 | Mince Hams....... @ 9%
Winter Wheat Bran.. 15 00 | se
Winter Wheat Middlings. 15 50 | Lards—In Tierces
Sereenings ..............-- 15 00 | ¢ Compound. ae 6%
Corn debe ceewas 7%
1 ‘ Vegetole ..... ! 6%
Corn, ar iots...-......... #2 7
come Sapa 55 lb. Tubs..advance le
Less than ae bee. = Ib. Tubs. advance ie
ats 50 Ib. Tins... advance %
Oar tote... 8... 291% | 20 1b. Pails. .advance %
Car lots, clipped........... 32 10 Ib. Pails..advance %
Less than ear lots......... 5 1b. Pails..advance 1
Hay 3 lb. Pails..advance 1
No. 1 Timothy car lots.. a 00 Sausages
No. 1 Timothy ton lots... ais we BOOGns............. 5%
: AOE oo es oe s 6
1“
Bikes and Pets |S... ti
Rae —— | Blood .. 6%
"The Cappon & Bertsch Leather Tongue .. 9
= a , 100 Canal Street, quotes as Headcheese. oe 6
ollows:
Hides Beef
Green No.1........- @7 | Extra Mess.......... 10 75
Green No. 2. @ 6 peMeHeSs, 6... ....-- 11 00
Cured No. 1. i. Os Ree. 10 50
Cured No. 2.. @7
Calfskins, roi No 1 oan Pigs’ Feet
Calfskins,green No. 2 b 8 a :
Calfskins.eured No.1 @10'2 | A Yo bs. 018
Calfskins,cured No.2 @® | ig bbs. 80 Tbs... 2 75
elts
Pelts, each.......... 50@1 10 Tripe
Tallow —- ~~ a Se 70
= s, | 4 Dowe., @ Ids....... 1 25
Novbesseccci Gg | Dbls., 80 Ibs..-... 2 5
Wool Casings
Washed, fine........ 20@22 | pork . a 20
Washed, medium... 22@24 | Beef rounds......... 3
Unwashed, fine..... 14@15 | Beef middles....... 10
Unwashed, medium. a See. eal... 60
Tea Butterine
~ Fish sh and Oysters Rolls, dairy.......... 13%
Sold, Gairy.......-.. 13

Fresh Fish

  

 
 
  

Per lb.
White fish. . @ 9
Trout.. cuceroeeece ae 8
Black Buss. Dude cece cee 9@ 10
Fiat .........-..-..-- @ 13
Ciseoes or Herring. . @ 4
BineGen ........-..-.-. @ il
Live Lobster.........- @ 16
Boiled Lobster........ @ 18
Cag. ...4. -.-. - @ 10
Haddock ..... ,@& 2
No.1 ee _@ 8
Pike ._@ 7
Pere @ 5
Smoked White........ @ 8
Red Snapper......... @ 9
Col River Salmon. .... @ 10
Mackerel...........--- @ 18
b acoer ig in Cans.
_ H. Counts........
ae D. Selects..... H
Solve ns
F. J. D. Standards. .
ineuere,.......,-.--
Standards ...........
Favorite............-
Shell Goods.
Clams, per 100........- 00
Oysters, per 100.. ... 1 00@1 25

 

Rolls, creamery. ....
Solid, creamery. ....

Canned Meats

Corned beef, 2 1b....
Corned beef, 14 Ib...
Roast beef, 2 Ib......
Potted ham, 4S.....

 

 

  

Potted ham, s..... 85
Deviled ham, 4s.... 45
Deviled ham, s.... 85
Potted tongue, %4S.. 45
Potted tongue, 4s 85
Oils
Barrels
Mocene ........... @A2
Perfection. . @10%
XXX W.W.Mich.Hdlt @10%
W. W. Michigan ...... @10
Diamond White. . @ 9%
D., S. Gas. es @it%
Deo. Naphtha. idee espa @11%
Cylinder............... 29 @34
MEIN 6g oon ise oe 3 19 @23
Black, WTINGOT.. 22. -. Bilx

 

  

 

  

 

Candies
Stick Candy
bbls. pails
Stamdard ............ z 7%
Beaneard H.8...... 7 @ 74
Standard Twist..... 7%@ 8
Cut Leer..,.......... @ 8%
cases
Jumbo, 22 7)........ @ 6%
Evers On. 2.......... @ 8%
Boston Cream....... @10
Beet Root. @7
Mixed Candy
Grocers.. oki yion 6
Competition. ooo @ 6%
| Special. . Wee eve @i7i
| Conserve......... 3 @B8
Boee? ........,...-.. @ 7%
ET @ &%
Broken. @ 7%
Cut Loaf. . @ 8%
| English Rock. . @ &%
| Kindergar ten. @ 8%
French Cream, @9
Dandy Pan. @ 8%
Hand Made Cream
meee @i4
| Nobby @ 8%
Cc rystal Cream mix._ @lz
Fancy—In Bulk
San Blas Goodies.. .. @il
Lozenges, plain ..... @9
— printed. . @9
Coc. Drops. ........ @iL
Eclipse C Eeacialies: @13
Choe. Monumentals. @13
Gum Drops.......... @5b
| moses Drone... ...... @ &%
Lemon Sours........ 9
Imperials............ @ 9%
Ital. Cream Opera @il
Ital. Cream Bonbons
oo 1 Dee. ........ @ii
‘Molasses Chew
Ib. - ee ee @13
Pine Apple lee. @12%4
Iced Sorthanatiows.. 14

Golden Wattles . ‘ “@u
Fancy—In 5 Ib. Boxes

 

 

Lemon Sours . " @n
Peppermint Drops.. @6o0
Chocolate Drops.... @b5
H. M. Choe. Drops.. @i5
H. M. Choe. Lt. and
a @
| Gum Drops... ses OH
| Licorice drops... en @i7
A. Bb. Licorice _ Qh)
Lozenges, plain. . @55
| Lozenges, printed . @55
| Imperials.. ee @55
, | Mottoes . (60
| Cream Bar. 55
Molasses Bar. . @5b
Hand Made Creams. 80 @90
Cream Buttons, Pep.
ane Wee. ......... @65
String Rock......... @6o
Burnt Almonds..... 185 @
Wintergreen Berries (@5E
Jaramels
No. pees. 3 Ib.
boxes. . i
Penny Goods.’ 5560
Fruits
Oranges

Fancy Navels
Extra Choice
Late Valencias.

  
  

peceunes...........- 75
Medt. Sweets........ bor 75
Jamaicas.... @
Fancy Valenci @5 00
Strictly choice 360s. . @A 50
Strictly choice 300s.. @A 50
Fancy 300s........... (@4 75
Ex. Fancy 300s...... (a5 60
Extra Fancy 360s.... @5 00
Bananas
Medium bunches. . 1 75@2 00
Large bunches...... 2 0O@2 25
Foreign Died Fruits
Figs
Californias, Fancy.. @10
Cal. pkg, 10 lb. boxes @ 8
Extra Choice, 10 Ib.
boxes, new Smprna p12
Fancy, 12 lb. boxes new Sas
Imperial Mikados, 18
PONE... «0, +- @
Pulled, 6 lb. boxes.. @
Naturals, in —-. Ne @ 5%

Dates
Fards in 10 lb. boxes
Fards in 60 Ib. cases.
Persians, P. H. V..
Ib. Cases, new.....
30 Ib. cases...

~~ Nuts

Almonds, Tarragona —
Almonds, Ivica.....
‘Almonds, en
soft shelled.. oes
Brazils, new. :
Filberts es uae
Walnuts, Grenobles.
Walnuts. soft shelled
California No. 1...
Table Nuts, fancy...
Table Nuts, choice..
Pecans, Med.. i
Pecans, Ex. Large...
Pecans, Jumbos.....
Hickory Nuts per bu.
Ohio, new.
Cocoanuts, full sacks
Chestnuts, per bu.
eanuts
Fancy, H. P., Suns..
Fancy, H. P., Flags
Roasted .
Choice, H. 2 Extras
Cholee, H. P., Extras

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

Getting the People

How the Country Merchant Neglects His
Opportunities.
Written for the Tradesman.

Did you ever stop to consider what a
decided advantage the country store-
keeper has over the merchant in the
city? It isa fact. In the average coun-
try town, practically everything is
bought and sold at stores not more than
half a mile apart, the buyers being al-
most exclusively those who live within
the town limits or a short distance in
the surrounding country. The store is
located not far from the postoffice and
as near as possible to the trade center.
The country store merchant knows
practically every one of his customers,
has grown up with them, is acquainted
with their likes and dislikes, can gauge
their wants accurately, and, consequent-
ly, is less liable to err in his judgment
of the quantity and kinds of goods re-
quired than is the buyer for the big city
store. Every country store is in the
country center and every country news-
paper reaches those who are naturally
buyers from that store. The country ad-
vertiser has only a small territory to
cover and the mediums that he uses cir-
culate in that territory and in that terri-
tory only; consequently, there is no
waste circulation for him to pay for.
His advertisements reach just the peo-
ple he wants to reach and no others. On
the contrary, the large store located off
the main street outside of the business
section of a large city is at a disadvan-
tage, because the great city dailies
which cover the whole city are useful to
it only in part, for a great portion of
their circulation is among people who
are too far distant from the store to be
attracted by its announcements. The
country storekeeper gets the full benefit
of every dollar he spends in the news-
papers. His customers are more set-
tled in their likes and dislikes than
are city customers—they are not sub-
ject to fads. The country storekeeper
has the grandest opportunity of any
merchant in the land to do good adver-
tising and to reap liberal benefit from
it, yet it is he who neglects his oppor-
tunities most shamefully. There is not
a shadow of excuse for it. He knows
his public so well that he should make
few mistakes in his advertising. He
does not need to experiment like the
city merchant. He does not have to
contend with the ruinous competition
that the city merchant does. The space
in his local newspaper is really less ex-
pensive than the space in the city news-
paper, for he can use one paper and
cover his section thoroughly, while the
city merchant must use three or four,
and even then reach a great number of
people whom he can not possibly in-
terest. The only thing with which the
country merchant has to contend is the
fact that the local newspapers do not
always take the best of care in setting
his advertisements, but a few dollars in-
vested in suitable display type and
rigid instructions to the compositors in
regard to the method of setting up the
advertising will overcome this difficulty.
It would pay the country advertiser to
study up the problem of advertising a
great. deal more than he is doing at
present. It would pay him to have a
good working knowledge of type and
display and to read up the principles
that underlie good advertising. If he
has not the time or inclination or abil-
ity to do this, let him employ somebody
who has. He can well afford it.

The country merchant who is located

 

 

 

in a town where there is no newspaper,
or the city merchant who is so far from
the business center that he can not afford
to use the newspapers on account of
waste circulation, often sits down con-
tentedly and does no advertising—pos-
sibly because he does not know what
else to do. Why doesn't he publish a
paper of his own? An advertising sheet
regularly issued and circulated among
his customers, by mail or otherwise, is
always a good method of advertising a
store. It does not take the place of
newspaper advertising—that is, I would
not advise its use to the exclusion of
newspapers where the papers can be
used profitably—but it is a great help
in connection with newspaper advertis-
ing or where the newspaper can not be
used to advantage. ‘The value of such
an advertising sheet would depend
largely upon its not having too much
advertising in proportion to its reading
matter and in its being issued regular-
ly. It should be brought out at least
once a month and should reach its read-
ers about the same date each month. It
can be gotten up in either newspaper or
magazine style, not like a circular.
There should be plenty of stories and
other interesting reading matter, which
can be clipped from out-of-town news-
papers or popular magazines. It is
often a good plan to run a portion of
an uncopyrighted novel each month as
a serial. The advertising can be of
whatever character is desired and should
be set up in regular newspaper or
magazine style, not bunched in one
place, but distributed through the pub-
lication in such a manner that the ad-
vertising is always next to or opposite
reading matter. Have a puzzle depart-
ment for the children, a household
recipe department for the housewife,
and a fashion department for the young
girls—have something in it to interest
every one in the home—especially the
women. The expense of getting these
papers up should not be very heavy—
anywhere from a quarter of a cent to
five cents each, and they should be dis-
tributed in every home within the radius
reached by the store. It is best to ad-
dress them personally and deliver them
by mail or messenger. The better the
reading matter of such a paper the more
interesting it will be to its readers and
the greater will be its value as an ad-
vertising medium. The more attractive
itis and the better it is printed the
greater will be its chances of being
read. A_ publication like this can not
fail to do a vast amount of good for the
house that issues it and it is quite pos-
sible for the publisher to make a little
additional revenue out of it by accept-
ing advertisements from other business
houses in his town whose lines do not
compete withhis. W. S. Hamburger.
> 2 >
Flowers a Necessary Feature of a Funeral.
The question as to whether flowers are
a necessary feature of a funeral is a
queer one to be brought into the courts,
but it has engaged the attention of the
highest judicial tribunal in Rhode Is-
land, all the same, where the payment
of the bill of a florist was resisted by
the administrators of the estate of a de-
ceased citizen at whose funeral flowers
were furnished on the credit of the es-
tate. The Court now justifies this ex-
penditure, remarking that the custom of
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Public Favor as Capricious as a Woman’s
Whims.

Where under Heaven do all the brands
go that come into being and die?

A -manufacturer’s agent who rubs
against a great lot of things every year
told me last week that for every brand
of goods that actually succeeds, there are
a hundred that never get anywhere.

Where do they go? What becomes of
them? Why didn’t they get there?

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tions of the manufacturer’s agent | men-
tioned a while ago.

‘‘What is your theory,’’ I asked, ‘‘as
to why 99 out of every 100 brands do
not succeed?’’

He looked at me a moment quizzic-
ally.

‘‘If I could tell that, my boy,’’ he
said, ‘‘do you think I'd be selling goods
for other people?’’

And he was right. Nobody can tell
why. Sometimes a brand will come
forth that has every reason for success.
It is good goods, well packed, properly
priced. And yet it will limp along for
a few steps and finally collapse. It
never gets anywhere. It doesn’t even
make a ripple on the sea of trade.

Why is it?

An old manufacturer who has brought
out a good many things in his time
told me once that he had found it ab-
solutely impossible to make any fore-
cast at all as to how a certain brand of
goods would strike the public. All he
could do was to put up a good piece of
goods, sell it right and trust to luck.

It is a big mistake to think that co-
pious advertising will sell anything, at
least that it will keep it selling. 1 re-
member well, a few years ago, when a
certain brand of laundry soap was ad-
vertised in this section. The manufac-
turer took whole half pages in the daily
papers, and pushed the soap for all it
was worth.

The advertising sold a whole lot of
soap, and it also cost a whole lot of
money. While the advertising continued
the soap sold—whole stacks of it; but
the manufacturer told me himself that
as soon as it stopped the sales stopped.
He sold some soap, understand, but no-
where near what he should have sold.
Back he went to advertising and up
went the sales again. After awhile he
stopped the advertising again and again
the sales stopped.

The point was that the soap never
caughton. The advertising sold it for a
while, as it will sell anything, but it
never made any distinct impression of
its own. As soon as the advertise-
ments ceased to hypnotize the public
into buying the soap it hadn’t caught on
enough of itself to stay.

Pretty soon the manufacturer’s money
ran out and he stopped. In six months
the soap was practically dead. There
is some of it selling yet. I saw a little
pile of cakes on the shelves of a coun-
try cross-roads store only a few weeks
ago. But the city grocers have forgotten
all about it.

The most successful manufacturers are
the quickest to admit that they never
can tell what the public will do. They
will all tell you what I have—that time
and time again there will be every rea-
son why a brand should succeed, and it
will fail. About two years ago a brand
of corn came on the market. It was
New York corn, and everything about
it was superfine. The corn itself was
selected and well treated. The package
was as fine as anything on the market,

 

and the price, if I remember rightly,
was all right, too.

The brand never sold from the very
start. People who knew told me it was
the most stubbornly slow piece of goods
they had ever known. There was every
reason why it should have gone, but it
didn't, and nobody will ever know until
the Judgment Day why it didn’t.

The little things sometimes influence
the sale of a thing, manufacturers tell
me. The color of a match, or of a
broom stick—brands have failed on these
and less than these.

There are a few exceptions, but aside
from them every country grocer in the
country has some of these corpses laid
out on his shelves with a_ shroud of
dust. The enterprising grocers have
cleared them out long ago, but some are
still holding on to get their money out,
which, incidentally, they will never do,
if they wait a thousand years.

One manufacturer I know of was go-
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months ago, but he didn’t. He had a
certain specialty that he was offering
in competition with several others that
had been established for years. His
goods sold at the same price as the
others, but his package was handsomer
and his quality—he said—better. His
plan was to advertise it in the country
towns and he used great squares of
newspaper space to do it.

The brand didn’t go. The manufac-
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up a scheme by which he was to send
an agent to every woman in that place.
The agent was to ask each woman one
question: ‘‘Why don’t you buy So-and-
so?’’ and was to make a memorandum
of all the answers.

This seemed like a pretty good
scheme, for if 2,000 women were seen
and asked and 988 of them said, in sub-
stance, ‘‘It’s too sweet,’’ the manufac-
turer would have the key to the trouble
right in his hand.

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put into operation, however, and I don’t
believe it would have been successful
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THE MERCHANT'S BURDEN.

Compelled to Decorate on the Least Prov-
ocation.

Written for the Tradesman.

One of the proprietors of a dry goods
establishment in the southern part of the
State stood in front of his place of busi-
ness as | came up, directing the efforts
of a number of clerks who were putting
out decorations.

There were great bolts of red, white
and biue material and flags innumer-
able. Everything was in bustle and
confusion and customers were leaving
the store without being waited on.

‘*Now,’’ cried the merchant, from his
position on the walk, ‘‘carry that blue
strip across the front. That’s right.
How does that look?’’ he added, turn-
ing to me.’’

‘*All right,’’ I replied. ‘‘How many
times a year do you put up decora-
tions?’’

‘About every other day, it appears to
me,’’ was the reply.

**Does it pay?’’

" No.""

‘*Then why do you keep at it?’’

‘*Because we are asked to and be-
cause there is a general notion in the
alleged brain of the average citizen
that the modern business man is his
servant and gets a_ living by his con-
sent. Every time a dozen members of
the ‘Domestic Order of Chin-Waggers,’
or the ‘Independent Sons of Men Who
Never Shot a Gun,’ or the ‘Approved
Patrons of the Pump’ take a notion into
their heads that they want to put a red
collar about their necks and follow a
band down th® street, we are requested
to decorate. It's an awful nuisance.’’

‘*Bat it makes the town look attrac-
tive.’’

‘*Oh, of course. It would make the
town look attractive to paint green lions
with yellow whiskers and two-legged
cows with plug hats on along the walks
and on the plate glass windows, but |
never heard of such a thing being done.
I’m willing to do my share in anything
that will make the town attractive to
strangers, but I think we are getting it
put on us pretty strong on this decora-
tion business. It is expensive and draws
very little trade. But we decorate for
one society, and so we have to decorate
for another. You know how that goes.’’

“of think IT do.”’

‘“*And while we are spending our
money to make the business streets look
inviting, the same people who urge us
on are getting up sports and games at
some near-by summer resort to take the
people away from the city the minute
the procession is over. Now, that’s a
nice thing, isn’t it?’’

‘*So you may as well close up in the
afternoon?’’

** Exactly.’

While we talked a man in a sack coat
and a battered silk hat who had been
observing the work of decorating from
the opposite side of the street crossed
over and approached the merchant.

**Say,’’ he said, ‘‘you want to keep
those colors handy for next week. We're
going to have the State meeting of the
‘United Order of Authors Who Never
Get Anything Printed’ here and we
want to cut a dash. Iam chairman of
the reception committee and I'll call on
you later to talk it over.’’

The merchant was plainly annoyed.

‘*How would it do to get out a lot of
six-horse floats,’’ he asked, with a sly
wink in my direction, ‘‘and put up a
representation of a big waste basket, in
green and gold, on the front of the
building, with a big black office cat

 

sitting on the cornice looking down in-
to it?’’

‘*Why, do you think that would be
appropriate?’’ asked the chairman of
the reception committee, with a dubious
grin.

‘‘Oh, yes,’’ was the reply. ‘“‘And |
might get an old printing press and
have a boy printing stamps for return
postage as the procession filed through
the streets.’’

The chairman backed away.

“I'll come in and talk it over with
you,’’ he said.

**Be sure and give me plenty of time
to get ready,’’ replied the merchant.

‘*That is a fair sample of the requests
made,’’ said the merchant, as the man
in the battered hat moved away in the
crowd. ‘‘Of course, we are glad to
help the town in any way we can, for
we get our living here, but what is the
use in catering to all this love of dis-
play?’’

‘“‘Look here, Tom,’’ said a citizen,
stepping up to the merchant with a
broad smile on his face, ‘* you'll have
to do better than that with your dis-
play. Your rival down the street is just
throwing himself.’’

‘*He is welcome to put a brass band
on the roof and an Oriental bazar in
each front window,’’ was the reply. ‘‘It
is my private opinion that it is only the
people who belong to this society who
take any interest in this fool parade and
I’m just going to fix up so the store
won't look like thirty cents when the
procession goes by and let it go at
that.’’

**Study the thing out to please your-
self,’’ said the other.

‘*There’s the secret of a good deal of
this trouble,’’ said the merchant, ina
moment. ‘‘In two words, it is business
rivalry. They play one dealer against
another, ’’

‘“Well,’’ I suggested, ‘‘the merchant
who gets his store talked about, either
because of fine decorations or because of
judicious advertising through the news-
papers, is usually the man who wins
out.”’

‘*That is true enough,’’ was the re-
ply,‘* but the secret of commercial suc-
cess lies in so conducting business as
to make a permanent customer out of
the chance buyer. My customers won’t
leave me because a rival house puts out
more flags than I do every time a ten-
minute parade goes through the streets.
And these things bring few new faces to
my counters. It’s just a burden put on
the merchants because they are foolish
enough to submit to it.

‘‘A merchant should flatter his cus-
tomers by showing that he takes an _ in-
terest in their affairs, but he should
not carry the point so far that it be-
comes an expensive nuisance, should he?
Oh, I’m sick of the whole business,
and the next time I am asked to put out
a display I’m going to make a_ kick.’’

And I left the store realizing that
nearly all the business men in the town
felt the same way that day. But they
all decorated. Alfred B. Tozer.

—_ ——~>2.>—___
Truce in Sugar War Will Give Big Profits.
From the New York Commercial.

With the present margin of 78 cents
per Ioo pounds between raw and refined
sugar, there will be, if it is maintained,
a profit of about $5, 880, 000 for the Amer-
ican Sugar Refining Co. during the
next six months, which is the busy sea-
son. There will be a profit of at least
half that amount for the remaining re-
finers, or $8,820,000 altogether.

Assuming that the profits during the
remaining six months of the year are
only one-half of what they are during

 

the busy season, the total profits for the
coming year will be about $13,450,000
for all of the refiners of the United
States.

It is understood in the trade that a
satisfactory agreement has been reached
between Mr. Havemeyer and Mr. Ar-
buckle—at any rate, Mr. Havemeyer
will stop cutting prices in the future, so
that the profits mentioned are likely to
be realized.

For the Arbuckles there are large ad-
ditional profits from the coffee trade,
which is said to net them fully $2,000, -
000 a year when there is no disturbance
in prices. The American Sugar Refin-
ing Co., which controls the Woolson
Spice Co., will also come in for a large
profit in the coffee business. The Wool-
son Spice Co. was credited with making

profits equal to 100 per cent. a year be--

fore the sugar-coffee fight broke out.
The surplus of the American Sugar
Refining Co. is supposed to have been
reduced to a low pcint by the warfare
with the Arbuckles. If the agreement
is maintained, considerably more than
12 per cent will be earned on the com-
mon during the coming year.
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Hides, Pelts, Tallow and Wool.

The hide market remains quiet at the
late decline. There is a disposition on
the part of some dealers to advance
prices, which is strongly resisted. All
offerings are readily taken at the old
price. ‘The market is in a healthy con-
dition, with no apparent change in pros-
pect.

Sheep pelts are lower, with light de-
mand. Sheerlings are wanted and are
in good demand.

Tallow is lower and-sluggish in trade.
The supply is ample, while prices are
at the lowest point possible, as slaugh-
terers will not save the stock at a lower
price, there being no margin left for
handling.

Wools are dull and, while the ruling
price at the seaboard is about 2c above
the basis of 1899, it has been well mar-
keted to dealers in the State at 3@4c
above. The local buyers are now wait-
ing for jobbing buyers, who do not ma-
terialize, to give them a profit. But lit-
tle stock has gone out of the State, and
that little has been on consignment.
Late reports from the East are to the
effect that the market is easier and that
sales of any magnitude must be made at
concessions. Fine wools are somewhat
below the importing point, on account
of lack of demand. The coarse grades
are fully up to this point and the local
purchaser’s price is above.

Wm. T. Hess.

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RUG STORE FOR SaLE—THE UNION
Pharmacy, Muskegon (brand of Fred
Brundage); doing a fine cash business. gaining
steadily ; ae cigar, soda and transient trade;
no other drug store in vicinity; no cut rates;
rent low; stock invoices about $2,500; no rea
estate wanted; reason for selling, main store re-
quires entire attention. Fred Brundage, Mus-
kegon, Mich. 387
OR SALE—GOOD PAYING RESTAURANT
with twenty-seven regular boarders; twelve
furnished rooms; in town of about 45,000 popula-
tion. Sickness reason for selling. Address No.
385, care Michigan Tradesman. 385
VOR SALE—A NICE CLEAN STOCK OF
general merchandise in one of the liveliest
towns in Michigan of 400 inhabitants; stock in-
ventories $6,000; good farming all around; good
reasons for selling. Address H. & B., care Mich-
igan Tradesman.
OOD DRUG STOCK NEAR MUSKEGON
for sale or trade. Write quick. R.- E.
Hardy, 294 Concord Ave., Detroit. 391

Yy ANtED BAZAAR STOCK IN GOOD
town doing good business. Address No.
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two good grocery stores, doing $50,000 busi-
ness a year; or will sell one store, doing $20,000
cash business; one of the best cities in the State.
If you are interested write at once to 414 Monroe
St.. Bay City, Mich. 387
YOR SALE—ONE-HALF OR ENTIRE IN-
terest in a first-class grocery stock, in a city
of 50,000; doing a business of $50,000 a year. If
you desire to investigate this any further address
at once W., care Michigan Tradesman. 386
‘OR SALE OR EXCHANGE FOR GEN-
eral Stock of Merchandise—Two 80 acre
farms; also double store building. Good trading
point. Address No. 388, care Michigan Trades-
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WING TO BUSINESS CHANGES A
Sooty competent and experienced of-
fice man will be open for an engagement about
Aug. 1. Capable of taking full charge of an of-
fice, conducting correspondence, passing on
credits or conducting finances. First class
book-keeper. Could make change earlier if de-
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references and bond if required. Address G., P.
O. Box 418, Grand Rapids, Mich. 363
POR SALE—AN UP-TO-DATE HARDWARE
stock invoicing $4,500. J. C. Comstock,
Thorntown, Ind. 384
POR SALE—NICE, CLEAN $1,200 STOCK
of groceries and fixtures; established thir-
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railroad shops and thresher work, employing 600
men; suburban corner grocery on one of the
best streets ina city of 18,000 population; poor
health; must sell quick. Terry & Son, Battle
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O RENT—THE BRICK STORE AND

basement in the Wurzburg Block, 118 Front
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YOR SALE—I WILL SELL THE BOSTON
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Mich. If taken at once, this is a rare chance for
alive man; no trades. If you mean business,
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OTEL AND BARN TO EXCHANGE FOR
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Fee SALE—THE HASTINGS DRUG STORE
at Sparta. One of the best known drug
stores in Kent county; established twenty-six
ears; doing a prosperous business; brick build-
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long lease; belongs to an estate; must be sold.
M. N. Ballard, Administrator, Sparta, or M. H.
Walker, Houseman Building, Grand Rapids,
Mich. 322
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at good country trading point. Stock and
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able; good place to handle produce. Will sell
stock complete or — ~~. branch of it.
Address No. 292, care Michigan Tradesman. 292
ARTIES HAVING STOCKS OF GOODS
of any kind, farm or city property or manu-
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MISCELLANEOUS.

ANTED—POSITION AS REGISTERED
pharmacist of eighteen years’ experience.
Good habits and good references. Address
Henry Jacobs, Constantine, Mich. 389
ANTED—POSITION AS SHOE CLERK,
billing clerk or assistant book-keeper by
young man of 18 who has good education and can
eee exceptional references. Address L. A.
Jaquith, 304 Jefferson Ave., Grand Rapids. 376

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President, C. E. WALKER, Bay City; Vice-Pres-
ident, J. H. Hopkins, Ypsilanti; Secretary,
E. A. STOWE. Grand Rapids; Treasurer, J. F.
TATMAN, Clare.

Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association
President, FRANK J. DyK; Secretary, HOMER
KLAP; Treasurer, J. GEORGE LEHMAN

Detroit Retail Grocers’ Protective Association
President, WM. BLESSED; Secretaries, N. L.
KoeEnrIG and F. H. Cozzens; Treasurer, C.
H. FRINK.

Kalamazoo Retail Grocers’ Association
President, W. H. JOHNSON; Secretary, CHAS.

Bay Cities Retail Grocery’ Association

President, C. E. WALKER; Secretary, E. C
LITTLE.
Muskegon Retail Grocers’ Association
President, H. B. SmiruH; Secretary, D. A.

BOELKINS; Treasurer, J. W. CASKADON.

Jackson Retail Grocers’ Association
President, J. FRANK HELMER; Secretary, W
H. PORTER; Treasurer, L. PELTON.

Adrian Retail Grocers’ Association
President, A. C. CLARK; Secretary,
CLEVELAND; Treasurer,

gE. F.
mM. C. KOEHN

Saginaw Retail Merchants’ Association
President, M. W. TANNER; Secretary, E. H. Mc-
PHERSON; Treasurer, R. A. HORR.

Traverse City Business Men’s Association
President, THos T. BATES; Secretary, M. B.
Houuy; Treasurer, C. A. HAMMOND.

Owosso Business Men’s Association
President, A. D. WHIPPLE; Secretary, G. T.
CAMPBELL; Treasurer, W. E. COLLINS.

Pt. Hurons Merchants’ and Manufactorers’ Association
President, CHAS. WELLMAN; Secretary, J. T.
PERCIVAL.

Alpena Business Men’s Association
President, F. W. GILCHRIST; Secretary, C. L.
PARTRIDGE.

Calumet Business Men’s Association

President, J. D. CupprHy; Secretary, W. H.
HOSKING.

St. Johns Business Men’s Association
President, THOS. BROMLEY; Secretary, FRANK
A. PERCY; Treasurer, CLARK A. PUTT.
Lg Page Men’s Association
President, H. . WALLACE; Secretary, T. E.
HEDDLE.

Grand Haven Retail Merchants’ Association
President, F. D. Vos; Secretary, J. W. VER-
HOEFKS.
Yale Business Men’s Association
President, CHas. Rounps; Secretary, FRANK
PUTNEY.

Grand Rapids Retail Meat Dealers’ Association
President, L. M. W1Lson; Secretary, PHILIP
HILBER; Treasurer, S. J. HUFFORD.

 

 

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Crushed Cereal Coffee Cake.

 

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Crushed Cereal Coffee Cake Co.
f Marshall, Mich.

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PERE MARQUETTE

Chicago Trains.
Ly. G. Rapids, 7:10am 12:00m 4:30pm *11:50pm
Ar. Chicago, 1:30pm 5:00pm 10:50pm * 7:05am
wv. Chicago, 7:15am 12:00m 5:00pm *11:50pm
r. G. Rapids, 1:25pm 5:05pm 10:55pm * 6:20am
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Ly. Grand Rapids, every day.........-.-- 10:10pm
(Ay Weieemieee.. ..-. . 55... ---1-- +0 5 +c Ge
Ly. Milwauke?...... 1-4. .--.. .- 354. 56. .
Ar. Grand Rapids, every day.........---- 6:55am
Traverse City and Petoskey.
Ly. Grand Rapids......7:55am 1:45pm 5:30pm
Ar. Traverse City......1:15pm 6:25pm 10:45pm
Ar. Petoskey ..........4:10pm 9:20pm ......--

Trains arrive from north at 10:50am, 4:15pm
and 11:00pm.
Ludington and Manistee.

Ly. Grand Rapids...... 7:55am 1:45pm 5:30pm
Ar. Ludington......... 12:05pm 5:20pm 9:25pm
Ar. Manistee...........12:28pm 5:50pm 9:55pm
Detroit and Toledo Trains.
Ly. Grand Rapids. .* 7:10am 12:05pm 5:30pm
Ar. Detroit......... 11:40am 4:05pm 10:05pm
A¥. Toledo .:....... SRN ice cece: pea ses
Lv. Toledo.......... 7:20am 11:55am 4:15pm
Ly. Desrot......... 8:40am 1:10pm * 5:15pm
Ar. Grand Rapids.. 1:30pm 5:10pm 10:00pm
Saginaw and Bay City Trains.
Lv Grand Rapids......... ..... 7:00am 5:20pm
BY SORIIAW. -. .. 220. ce ceee score 11:50am 10:12pm
Ay Bay Coy... .:....-.-.+.---:+- 12:20pm 10:45pm
Ar. from Bay City & Saginaw..11:55am 9:35pm

Parlor cars on all Detroit, Saginaw and Bay
City trains.

Buffet parlor cars on afternoon trains to and
from Chicago. Pullman sleepers on night trains.
Parlor car to Petoskey on 1:45pm train.

*Every day. Others week days only.

May 13, 1900. H. F. MOELLER,

Acting General Passenger Agent,
Grand Rapids, Mich.

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Northern Division. Goin From
Nort North
Trav. City, Petoskey, Mack. + 7:45am + 5:15pm
Trav. City, Petoskey, Mack. + 2:10pm +10:15pm
Cadillac Accommodation... + 5:25pm +10:45am

Petoskey & Mackinaw City +11:00pm t+ 6:00am
7:45am and 2:10pm trains, parlor cars; 11:00pm
train, sleeping car.
Southern Division From
South
+ 9:45pm
+ 2:00pm

Going
South
Kalamazoo, Ft. Wayne Cin. + 7:10am
Kalamazoo and Ft. Wayne. + 1:50pm
Kalamazoo, Ft. Wayne Cin. * 7:00pm * 6:45am
Kalamazoo and Vicksburg. *11:30pm_ * 9:10am

7:10am train has parlor car to Cincinnati,
eoach to Chicago; 1:50pm train has parlor car to
Fort Wayne; 7 — train has sleeper to Cincin-
nati; 11:30pm train, sleeping car and coach to
Chicago.

Chicago Trains.

TO CHICAGO.

Ly. Grand Rapids...+7 10am _ +1 50pm *11 30pm
Ar. Chicago......... 2 30pm 8 45pm 7 0am
FROM CHICAGO
Ly. Chicago...................3 02pm *11 32pm

Ar. Grand Rapids............. 9 45pm 6 45am
Train leaving Grand Rapids 7:10am has coach;
11:30pm train has coach and a ear; train
‘leaving Chicago 3:02pm has coach; 11:32pm has
sleeping car for Grand Rapids.
Muskegon Trains.

GOING WEST.
Ly. Grand Rapids....+7 35am +1 35pm +5 40pm
Ar. Muskegon........ 9 00am 250pm 7 00pm
Sunday train leaves Grand Rapids 9:15am;
arrives Muskegon at 10:40am. Returning leaves
Muskegon 5:30pm; arrives Grand Rapids, 6:50pm.
GOING EAST.
Lv. Muskegon...... +8 10am +12 15pm +4 00pm
Ar. Grand Rapids... 9 30am 1 30pm 5 20pm
+Except Sunday. *Daily.
Cc. L. LOCKWOOD,
Gen’! Pass’r and Ticket Agent.
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ITEMIZED | EDGERS

SIZE—S8 1-3 x 14.
THREE COLUMNS.
2 Quires, 160 pages... ...$2 00
3 Quires, 240 pages........ 2 50
4 Quires, 320 pages........ 3 00

§ Quires, 400 pages........ 3 50
6 Quires, 480 pages........ 4 00

£
INVOICE RECORD OR BILL BOOK

80 double pages, registers 2,880
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Ticket Agent Union Station.
& Northeastern Ry.

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Ly. Grand Rapids.............-. 7 am = ..-..+
Ary, Mamistee: .... .. 2.005 sJ00 40 12 Gpm 3... 6
Lv. Manistee...................- 8 40am 3 65pm
Ar. Grand Rapids.............. 2 40pm 10 00pm

 

 

50 Cents
Muskegon
Sunday
G.R. & I.

Train leaves Union Station at 9:15 a.m
Returning, leaves Muskegon, 5:30 p. m.
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SPECIAL

FOR THE MONTH OF JUNE

Our “New Century” assortment of Gray Flint
Enameled Preserving Kettles. Thisassortment
consists of 4 dozen Gray Enameled Preserving
Kettles as follows:

¥% dozen No. 220, 4 quarts
1 dozen No. 240, 5 quarts
1 dozen No. 260, 6 quarts
1 dozen No. 280, 8 quarts
% dozen No. 300, 10 quarts

The quality of this ware is so-called “Run of
Kiln,” in other words, unselected goods, as they
come from the ovens.
Price of this assortment $9.37, subject to
regular cash discount.

Figure this up and compare with prices you
have been paying.

IMPORTERS KINNEY & LEV AN vossers

CLEVELAND, OHIO
CROCKERY, GLASSWARE, LAMPS, HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS

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21 dozen, 7 dozen each of the three styles illustrated, per dozen 36 cents.
Packed in boxes of 6 dozen, 2 dozen each of the three styles shown; per
box, $2.46. Sold only in packages as quoted. No charge for package.

H. LEONARD & SONS, Grand Rapids, Mich.

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Manufacturers and Jobbers

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