eee PN IG a VALS Sic By, ee ) {eS Ch ACS EBD Pac VOTE ES ee ae Ae? i NC y EO CT axe Nee SQ Wie OSU, Mx oo (re Te, CSPUBLISHED WEEKLY Oa =e TRADESMAN COMPANY, PUBLISHERS 233) SUA SRE ern ro Gees : ELC OM Ye Ser SSP oe pes SZ FAAS Rw SAF OSCS SEO DSO 5 REPU SRE, RES RO OES ADS GRAND RAPIDS, NOVEMBER 7, 1894. NO. 581 EDWARD A MOSELEY, Established 1876 TIMOTHY F. MOSELEY. 7. MOSELEY BROS Bel e Jobbers of SEEDS, BEANS, PEAS, POTATOES, ORANGES and LEMONS, Egg Cases and Fillers a Specialty. 26, 28, 30 and 32 Ottawa St.,GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. To the Retail Shoe Dealers-=- Our line is complete in Boots, Shoes, Rubbers, Felt Boots, Socks, Etc., for your fall and winter trade. Place your orders with us Our Celebrated Black Bottoms in Men’s Oil Grain and Satin Calf, tap sole in Congress and Balmorals, now and get the best to save money. are the leaders and unsurpassed. Our Wales-Coodyear Rubbers are great trade winners. Mail orders given prorr} ~ 1ttention. HEROLD BERTSCH SHOE CO, Duck Kersey and Coats Pants We manufacture the best made goods in these lines of any factory in the country, guaranteeing every garment to give entire satisfaction, both in fit and wearing qualities. We are also headquarters for Pants, Overalls and Jackets and solicit correspondence with dealers in towns where goods of our manufacture are not regularly handled. ants & Overall Co., LANSING, JPIICH. Lansing P ABSOLUTE TEA. The Acknowledged Leader. SOLD ONLY BY TERLPEPER SPICE GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. GRAND RAPIDS BRUSH COMP’Y, memes saa BRUSHES Our Goods are sold by all Michigan Jobbing Houses, CO., GRAND RAPIDs, MICH RINDGE, KALMBAGH & GO Manufacturers and Jobbers of Boots, Shoes and Rubbers. Our stock for fall and winter trade is complete. New lines in warm goods and Holiday Slippers. We have the best combination Felt Boot and Perfection made. 12, 14 & 16 Pearl St, GRAND RASSS: YOIGT MILLING GO. Grand Rapids, Mick NAPTHA AND GASOLINES. Works, Butterworth Ayu BULA WCRKS3 AT MUSKEGON. GRAND HAVEN, HOWARD CITY. MANISTES- CADILLAC, + RAPID<-- LUDINGTON. iMGAN, PETOSKEY, ~IGHEST PRICE PAID FOR wry GARBON & GASOMIN’ BARRELS HEYMAN COMPANY, Yanufacturers of Show Gases of Every Description. FIRST-CLASS WORK ONLY. 63 and 65 Canal St, Grand Rapids, Mien, WRITE, FOR PRICES i 4 bs VOL. XII. ADESMAN GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1894. NO. 581 Your Bank Account Solicited. Kent County Savings Bank, GRAND RAPIDS ,MICH. dno. A. CovopE. Pres. Henry Ipema, Vice-Pres. J. A. 8. VERDIER, Cashier. K. Van Hor, Ass’t C’s’r. Transacts a General Banking Business. Interest Allowed on Time and Sayings Deposits, DIRECTORS: Jno. A. Covode, D. A. Blodgett, E. Crofton Fox, T. J.O’Brien, A.J. Bowne, Henry Idema, Jno.W.Blodgett,J. A. McKee J. A. 8. Verdier. Deposits Exceed One Million Dollars, INS. i 7? co. PROMPT, CONSERVATIVE, SAF. J. W. CHAMPLIN, Pres. W. FRED McBAIN, Sec. The Bradstreet Mercantile Avency. The Bradstreet Company, Props. Executive Offices, 279, 281, 283 Broadway, N.Y: CHARLES F. CLARK, Pres, Offices in the eens cities of the United oStates, Canada, the European continent, oAustralia, and in London, England. Girand Rapids Office, Room 4, Widdieomb Bldg. HENRY ROYCE, Sapt. ™ COMMERCIAL CREDIT CO. 65 MONROE ST., Have on file all reports kept by Cooper’s Com- mercial anes and Union Credit Co. and are constantly revising and adding to them. Also handle collections of all kinds for members. Telephone 166 and 1030 for particulars. L. J. STEVENSON. . BLOCK. W. H. P. ROOTS. MICHIGAN Fire & Marine Insurance Co. Organized 1881. DETROIT, MICHIGAN. - i 5 AND7 PEARL STREET. ESTABLISHED 1841. Eee THE MERCANTILE AGENCY R.G. Dun & Co. Reference Books issued quarterly. Collections attended to throughout United States and Canada 5. P. BENNETT FUEL & ICE 60. MINE AGENTS And Jobbers of ALL KINDS OF FUEL, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. WHO STOPPED THE STAGE? Old Dabbs rode slowly up the trail. The heat of the sun, reflected from the baked earth and superheated granite of the hillsides, shimmered in waves of shell-like tint all about. The dust raised by the shambling hoofs of the old clay- bank mustang he bestrode hung in thick suffocating clouds in the deadly still air. The silence was intense—not a bird, animal or insect seemed alive. The whole world was baked into silent indif- ference, and Dabbs himself was stunned by a shock, the reality of which had never seemed possible to his unsophisti- cated mind. Forty years before he had made his way across the plains to California from his native Tennessee, and cast in his lot, as sO many others had done, in that devil’s race for gold. He never could keep his when he had any, however, and so, in spiteof better luck than most of those in the diggings, he found himself, when the placers had been despoiled of the cream of their treasure, as poor a man as when he first crossed the Sierras. With ambition dead he turned his face to the mountains—for he was moun- tain bred—and sought a spot in which he might build for himself a cabin near a spring, and possess a few acres of bot- tom land to raise ‘‘truck’’ upon; for the rest, his rifle and traps would suffice. He found such aspot with but little trouble, and in a few years it was known far and wide as Dabbs’ ranch. The only thing to complete a home there was a woman, and her he found, also, and in the course of years there came to this pair a child—a girl baby. In his secret soul Dabbs thought it the most marvel- ously miraculous interposition of Prov- idence ever known that he, such a horny-handed, seamed and scarred son of Anak, could be the father of this wee creature with eyes like wet violets, ereamy satin skin, spun gold for hair, and limbs molded on the model of a pocket Venus. He _ worshipped her openly, mourning much at the loss of the mother whose life went out a few years after Starr (for thus he named her) came into the world; but it was more for the child’s sake than for its mother’s. Then one of those mining booms that follow the discovery of new gold fields in the mountains occurred near Dabbs,’ and, as the ranch was on the main trail leading to the mines (and was one of the few fertile spots, with its never failing spring, in many weary miles of desert), it was made a stage station, and the old man reaped a rich harvest from his little orchard and garden. This time the money was hoarded as a sacred trust for Starr, and sent down in the treasure box of the express company to a bank at San Francisco for safe keeping. In a year or so the diggings failed, and the tide of dusty, travel-worn gold hunters sought other fields; but settlements had sprung up inthe country beyond Dabbs’, and the stage company still ran a line over the road. The little ranch sufficed still for Dabbs and Starr. One day, however, the old man learned that the bank he had entrusted Starr’s money to had closed its doors, and that he would never see the coin again. The news of the misfortune almost killed him, but he pulled himself together for the child’s sake. In a little while he was almost the same cherry giant he had al- way3 been, and, now that Starr had be~ come a woman (she was fifteen), he be- gan to make plans for her future. She would marry, of course, but she must be independent, and the little ranch was growing more and more valuable every year; the spring was the only available water supply in many leagues of grazing country, and since by this time the dis- trict had been given over to cattle ranch- ing, the old man’s income had materially increased from his water right. But one evil day the stage line cast envious eyes upon the ranch with the spring. They offered to buy it, and Dabbs laughed at them. It was Starr’s —all he had to give her. The men ar- gued that the sum they were willing to give would return at interest as great an income as the spring, but Dabbs’ confi- dence in the power of money to earn in- terest had been shaken by the bank failure, and the spring was always sure— it never closed its doors. But the com- pany was determined to have that spring, and the lawyers found ready fiaws in poor Dabbs’ title. After. long weary months of litigation the courts decided that the spring belonged to some one who was willing tosell to the company, and that Dabbs was a trespasser and must get off the land. * * * Dabbs was now on his way home from the county town where the trial of the cause had been held. His lawyers had swallowed up all the savings of the years that followed the unfortunate failure of the bank, and he and Starr were ‘‘broke” —‘‘stun bruk,” he called it. They were nearing the ranch now. The claybank pricxed up his ears and started into alope. Dabbs pulled him- self together with a mighty effort; he would not tell Starr yet. He had a little present for her in his saddle bag; he never came home without something— no matter how trivial—for her, and he knew she would be watching for him somewhere along the trail. As the elay- bank rounded an abrupt corner of jut- ting rock there was a whoop, the slash of a whip across a horse’s flank and Starr was loping alongside on her pony. One might have taken the girl to be a mere child, so small she seemed, but that the delicately rounded curves through the close fitting habit of coarse jean showed a woman, exquisitely proportioned. She sat her blueskin as only one who has lived in the saddle can. A black som- brero, gay with gold bullion, shaded her face; the golden hair was in striking eontrast to the black eyebrows; the eyes were of that velvety violet that shades to black, and her olive skin was wind and sun-kissed to a peachy brilliancy of coloring. She urged the blueskin close alongside her father’s pony, and nestled against him as they rode. The old man said nothing, but, leaning his massive head and shoulders down to her, kissed her very tenderly. The ponies were on a walk now, and the two rode in silence for some little distance. Suddenly the girl looked up at Dabbs and said, ‘‘Busted, dad?’? The old man nodded before he bethought himself of his resolution not to tell her. ‘‘Darn them lawyers, anyhow,” was her reply to the nod. . Her father, still silent, shook his head as if, in expostulation at the mild profanity, and Starr continued, ‘‘Never you pester yourself, dad; me and you’ll git erlong spite o’ anythin’, ’n’ ef Jim Bulger don’t do up sum o’ them fellers he needn’t cum a sparkin’ roun’ me no more.”’ ‘*Yer see, Starr,’? the old man said, ‘“tain’t es ef I hed tuk th’ stuff ther cum- p’ny’d a giv me fer it’n the fust place; now, we don’t git nuthin—dust er lan’, er spring—all gone.’?’ There was a pathos in the last words that went straight to the girl’s heart. “Pap, yer mustn’t feel so knocked out,’’ she cried; .‘‘I’m yer little gal yet, ain’t I? ’N’ ez long’s we two are lef’ we’ve got each other, ’n’ I’ll never marry Jim—never ez long’s yer feel like this,’’ and she nestled closer to his side, while he bent and kissed her again. Then, with a sudden burst of spirit, she cried out, ‘Cum er long; I’ll run yer to ther corral,’’? and the next moment the blue- skin and claybank were galloping neck and neck down the bill to the ranch. They were received at the door by ‘‘the widder,’’ who had been installed by Dabbs as housekeeper shortly after his wife’s death. No one ever knew of whom ‘‘the widder” was the relict. If Dabbs knew he never told any one, and he never referred to her save as ‘‘the widder.” She was a tall, gaunt, color- less female with a weakness for religion and ghosts—a most excellent cook and Starr’s slave. ‘“‘We’re just plum busted, widder,”’’ was Dabbs’ salutation, ‘’n’ I’m powerful grub struck.” The ‘‘widder’? promptly led the way to the living room where the three sat down to supper. Dabbs had begun to feel an odd sense of comfort stealing over him; he could not explain why, but in some mysterious way he felt that all would yet be right, and he ate with his usual appreciation of the ‘‘widder’s’”’ art. After he had finished his meal he sat smoking on the little vine-clad porch overlooking the valley. Starr was by his side, one hand in his, the other stroking his head and face while she talked to him and petted him as one comforts a child. As the sun sank behind the range and the western sky blazed with color, the giri’s heart was filled with intense indignation that the home her father had wrested from the wilderness should be torn from him in his old age, when it was dearer to him than ever. As the short twilight deep- ened into night there was a sudden clat- ter of hoofs down the trail, and a horse- j 3 a “3 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. man in all the bravery of the cowboy lover dashed up to the horse rail. ‘‘Howdy, Jim,’”’ said Dabbs, in answer to his visitor’s salutation; ‘“lite ’n’ cum er long ’n’ hev supper.’’ *‘Hed a gnaw a’ready,’”’ returned Jim. ‘‘Whar’s th’ gal?” Starr had disappeared at his appearance. “Oh, here I be,’”? she answered, the inner darkness of the house. goin’ for a bresh across th’ range, *n’ yer kin cum.” *‘AJl rite.” was the “Pll cinch th’ blueskin fer yer.” He returned in a few moments leading the pony and found the girl kissing her father good-bye—something so unusual for her to do that he wondered silently, as they mounted and rode off up the white trail in the dusk. Their ponies loped easily, side by side, and Starr told him of the outcome of the suit for the ranch. Jim was the son of a neighbor- ing stockman and had a tidy bunch of eattle himself. He and Starr had been sweethearts since she was twelve and he sixteen, and they were to have been mar- ried the coming Christmas, but the girl insisted now that she would not leave her father. Jim argued, but to no pur- pese; she would not marry him her father cou!d in some way regain the ranch. “But how kin he?”’ asked poor Jim, all argument exhausted. ‘‘Hev yer any plan, starr?’ “Uv cou’se I hev,’’ she replied loftily; “but yer’ve got to hev lots o’ sand ter jine in, Jim Bulger.”’ ‘*What’s yer plan? fear,’’ answered Jim. She bent toward him and whispered close in his ear a few rapid sentences. The man straightened up in his saddle; his face was white and his voice husky as he almost shrieked, ‘‘By——yer don’t mean it, Starr.”’ She faced him calm and pitiless, her scornful eyes looking him contemptu- ously through and through. “Yer kin bet 1 do mean it, Jim Bul- ger, but we den’t want no cowards ’n’ this yer deal, ’n’ I reckin I kin count on Pete DeBar ter help me out,’? and she turned her pony’s head as if to leave him. He was at her side in a moment. ‘‘No man on th’ range dar’ say that t’ me, Starr, ’n’ yer know it,’’ he hissed, as his hand caught her bridle close to the bit; ‘‘l’m in this yer deal ter th’ turn.” ‘An’ ’'m with yer, Jim,’’ she whis- pered, and, as his arm went round her, she kissed him full on the mouth. # * * from Jim, laconic response; unless Pll jine in—never The up stage, carrying two or three passengers, the mails and the company’s treasure box, was due at Dabbs’ at 9:30; but that night it was late, for as it neared the ranch, just at the top of a steep grade, there came a stern voice from the roadside: ‘‘Hands up! Throw out that box—both of ’em—dummy aan’ the right one—no_ foolin’—drive on’— and the deed was done. Jim Bulger and Starr returned from their ride just before the stage pulled up at the office, and they led the search for the highwaymen, but there was no trace of them. The dummy lay in the road where it had fallen, but the treasure box had disappeared. The dusty trail, trod- den by innumerable hoofs and footprints, told no tales, and when the company’s detectives came up from the city they were quite as much mystified as any- one else. | “i'm | Sg es PEE SS SPO LAE I SENS The company offered a large reward for the capture of the robbers or the re- covery of the money. There had beena large sum in curreney in the box that night which was sent up to some men who were buying a great mining prop- erty, and the company did not like the idea of making it good. Weeks passed; absolutely nothing in the way of a clue was found, and the company had con- cluded to write the loss off their books when a very surprising thing happened. The president of the company sat in his private office one morning, when one of their most trusted detectives entered and asked permission to introduce Miss Dabbs, the daughter of the old chap up country that they had had so much trou- ble with. The great man was pleased to think that one bucolic mind at least had been impressed with a proper sense of his importance, and he puffed out his chest, buttoned his coat across it and or- dered her shown in. Starr entered as nonchalantly as though she were accus- tomed to interviewing bank presidents every day in the week. She took the chair offered her, and, placing a small valise on the table, opened it and gave the president of that company a sur- prise from which he will never alto- gether recover. There was the dollar of it! The girlrefused any reward save the return to her father of the ranch, and immunity from publicity. The matter was to be a secret to all save herself and the company—not even Dabbs was to be told of it—and no questions were to be asked as to how the money came into her possession. The great man willingly promised, and Starr carried away with her a letter to her father which was a promise to him from the company to put the deeds con- firming his title to the raneh on record within forty-eight hours. There was a wedding at Dabbs’ on Christmas Day, and the bride’s gift from the company was acheck for the amount of the reward offered for the recovery of the stolen money. The amount of that check, with interest added, stands to Mrs. Jim Bulger’s credit to this day in the company’s bank at San Francisco. Gro. CHAS. BROOKE. —— > 2 The Kicking End of a Boycott. With a boycott, as with a mule, there are two terminals enclosed in the same hide. In the case of the gentleman with long ears, if we deny him his oats and refuse him his fodder, he is likely to re- taliate with the steam hammers kept in reserve at the other end of his anatomy. In this sense the boycott and the mule are similarin their habits, the kicking returns being as certain in one case as in the other. What is generally understood as a boycott is a travesty on what, in its true and undemoralized sense, is simply an act of self-protection. For purposes of sanitation and the protection of the public health we report a choked sewer or a dead dog, and placard the door of a house where a contagious disease is con- suming the life of an inmate. A _ shoe- maker who sells pasteboard for leather, a milkman whose cow is a hydrant, a purveyor whose sugar is sanded, and whose butter has had neither cream nor churn in its experience, a clothier who sells shoddy for cloth, and a doctor who kills more than be cures—all these gen- tlemen and others of the same family, as stolen money—every Sc a aa ae | the wool is peeled off the wolf, it is not an iniquity but a duty to expose andj leave outin the cold. The same logic | and the same law operates in industrial | matters. When men squeeze labor as | they do a lemon, and grind it as they do grist, when, for personal greed and ab- normal lust for gain, they drive toilers like cattle, and reduce their means of living to stale bread and the thinly- dressed ribs of a herring, it is no sin, either in the face of God or against the rights of man, to chalk their names on the public blackboard, leaving the pub- lic, however, to do as they please in buy- ing pies for Dives, or finding a soup bone for Lazarus. This, however, is far dif- ferent from an organized conspiracy, by which the man who will not toe the chalk line established by a union dem- agogue is deliberately damaged or ruined in business by a gang of organized plun- derers who abhor labor but do not shrink from incendiarism or assassination. This man may be humane and just, clean-handed in his business methods, and, all in all, a better man than those who seek to intimidate and ruin him, but if the clique, or a labor leader, writes ‘‘boycott” over his door, he is sentenced to the guillotine, where the basket is ready for his head. Here the boycott becomes a crime, when its rea- sens are *insufficient and its objects purely partisan and one-sided. It is not to be forgotten, as it too often is, that the focal or personal significance on the surface of a boycott is largely illu- sionary. The men directly interested in the boycott of a certain industry are but a minority of those affected by it. The scorching process is for skins as well asfortheirown. There are trades and industries that run in groups, and are so vitally related that a boycott of one is practically a damage to all. In the building trades we have the mason, carpenter, brickmaker, lime burner, hardware man, painter, plumber, glazer, ete. They are links in one chain—snap one and where are the rest? In the coal mining industries we have a ramification of interests that is practically beyond dis- cernible limits, from the iron plant that has to shut down to the washerwoman who has to laundry an extra pair of cuffs to cook an egg. In the transportation business we have the whole network of traffic disarranged and broken, from the shipper who loads a car with silver to the farmer who ships a crate of chickens or a firkin of butter. This affiliation of interests is sensitive, and a pin in its flesh makes the whole body quiver. In this sense, and under these conditions, we cannot hurt another without hurting ourselves, and it is right here we get at the kicking ead of a boycott, as the term is understood. No man can drop a dead cat in a town well to spite his neighbor without spoiling his own tea. FrED Wooprow. _ Oe Last May Queen Victoria visited Man- chester for three hours to open the new ship canal. The bills for the celebration, amounting to $50,000, are being now in- vestigated. Among the items is one of $7,000 for badges for the City Council. At the banquet they ate strawberries at $1.40 a pound, asparagus at $1 a bunch, and pineapples at $3 apiece. It cost $110 to look after the Queen’s horses and ear- riages. The auditor reported that it looked as though something else had been opened besides the canal. The man who worships himself is easily satisfied. business oa TY other men’s | CANDIES, FRUITS and NUTS The Putnam Candy Co. quotes as follows: STICK CANDY. Cases Bbls. Pails. | Standard, per lb.. 6% ik H.H.. << 6% 1% | . Pett 6% 7% | Boston Cream ....,...... 9 Pees Eoat........:........ 9 Bitrate O........ _ .. 2 MIXED CANDY. ois Pails ae... 6% ceeeer.......... ce 5% 6% cos a es ee i” 8 Nobby ... eee 8% English De i*% 8% Comseryes ... .... Lee ee eee [1% 8% Broken Taty.............. baskets 8% Peanut Squares............ 8 9 French Creamm.......... Valley Creams .... a“ Midget, 30 Ib. baskets..... NO 8% Pancy—In bulk Pails Lozenges, Se 9 oes... ee ee 9% CORO UNO 13 Chocolate Monumentals...............:..... 13 Gum Drops.. a“ cote cetecee stances ele aoe... aipaicdl cia, oe ee 8% Eereeeee. 8... 10 FaNcy—In 5 lb. boxes. Per Box Leen eee 55 Sour Drops . ee os 55 Peppermint Drops. ee eee eee 60 Chocolate Drops...... ee eee cece tees ee m ©. Coocemie Drges.......... 20 ame eee... 4(@50 Licorice Drops.. . Pete eee ate eons ae A. B. Licorice Drops. eee eee Lozenges, plain.. Se printed . SS imperials.. eee een ‘ oe ee... ee Molasses Dar............ io done ea 55 Hand Made Creams. 85@95 Plain Creams. . pees crete oe ee, g lecorated Creams............. i ee A ee burnt Almonds.. eee ee Wintergreen . oa 60 RAMELS, No. 1, wrapped, 2 Ib. “boxes bboy ee oct ee oe 34 No. 1, 3 ee ee ey 51 No. 2, a 2 . tees a peace eee, ee ORANGES, Pancy Urietss. 1%. ......, 1. 8. i... 2 Faney Brights, 150, 176. 209, a Golden Kussets. 1.0, 176, 20, a - 3 00 LEMONS. Floridas, 259.... te ee Extra fancy 360, Sorrentes 00 4 5b Malagas, 4u0s.... sl BANANAS. Large bunches.. Senet OUGNON. wl. 1 soa 50 OTHER FOREIGN FRUITS. Figs, fancy layers, a. 12 34 ‘ —- 36 i. Dates, Pard, 10-lb. box. @i% “ -lb. @ ° ee 50-lb. box @ 5% _ Lone . NUTS. Almonds, aa ieee. @15 imooe.............. eave @i4 : California ieee pees bee ee. a ae eee. @8 Filberts . ee eee ee @i0 Walnuts, eee @i2 r ON @iv : ee Ey @i2 Tapie Nuts, ae @i11% Cee ou. oe G10% Pocmms, Tomes ff F., ................., 6@i% Coe hor 4 00 Hickory Nuts per SSA Sa A Cocoanuts, falisacks......:...... ..... PEANUTS, Fancy, H. P., Su ee. @5% a Oi Fancy, a. P., Pee @ 5% > MO... QT Choice, H, P. Boos. @41% ~ meee... @é6 FRESH MEATS, BEEF. bn coerigrag tt eS a 5 @6 Fore quatters........... — - 834@ 4% mie rerters.... ....... 6... oe Lome No. S....,... amine os . 8 G10 “oie a 6 @e Rounds ... 5 @6 Chucks . a i EE in 3 @3% PORK. Preset. sl seeei 5 @5% tee eee 7% PO ee ee 5% i 9 MUTTON. ee. 4@5 ccna ee ee 54@ 6% VEAL, CeCe -6 @T% OILS. The Standard O11] Co quotes as follows: BARRELS. Bocese............ oe 8% XXX W. W. Mich. Headlight... i. " Naptha.. _. @ 6% a @ 7% oe @36 Engine. ie honk eu 13 @21 Black, zero test.. 1s colle eeaebh suo 12 Black, 15 cold test 1... / he 10 FROM TANK WAGON. het aca se hs 7 XXX W. W. Mich. Headlight. ine cee : 5 Be & i CS si = ‘fk os BE —; Fiv«Ss A TVs . Roy MN ARRAS L6 BAIN. b TRUTH WILL PREVAIL. Integrity and Clean-Handed Dealing the Best Guarantee of Success. Tricks in trade are without end and so far as historical dates go without nativ- ity, race or nation, and like the gift of speech are as universal as the children of Adam. Their vocation is not limited to any respective trade or calling. They are not bigoted or exclusive and their adaptation to circumstances surpasses that of an India rubber ball. In sermons as in sanded sugar; in pol- itics as in perfumery; in press notices as in stump speeches; in the milk we drink and the bread we eat, and in the raiment that has replaced the apron of Eden, the art of deceiving and being deceived is ubiquitous. ' It may or it may not be that we can en- core the act of the serpent in Adam’s apple tree with more grace and skill than our grandfathers, but whether or not, it is beyond a doubt, we have as much of it as we can fairly carry. It is a mistake to suppose that we are better because we are presumably brighter. Education is not supposed to sanctify ingenuity, nor is the light of science shining only in the paths of vir- tue. We know more end we sin better and so far as tricks in trade are concerned we can manipulate the wires the more easily by being the better posted. There is more in the skin of an edu- cated rogue than could be crowded in the epidermis of a sperm whale. We have also so far succeeded in calling things by their wrong names, that so far as our shelf morals go, the label on the bottle is perjury on its contents. If we economize on the truth in selling a horse or a pocket knife, the commercial fib, served up on a half shell, is known as ‘business.’’ If we succeed in making a customer believe that we are selling him goods at zero prices, and are willing to make an icicle of ourselves to keep his bones in a genial glow, we expand eur shirt fronts with the proud satisfaction of being ‘‘smart.’’ Moreover, if by this supple and well lubricated twist in our morals, we ‘‘get there,” as the saying goes—that is, in a suburban residence, and in the upper crust of business and social life—our critics are few and our admirers many and at our decease when the curtain falls over the comedy, the crowd in the re- served seats calls our life a ‘‘success.”’ Of course, this is pure humbug, but when our moral optics are out of order, a crooked stick may seem to be straight and we really cannot discern the differ- ence between a toad’s eye and a planet. This is not saying by any means that business success is synonymous with a lapse in business integrity, or that a mer- chant or a manufacturer has to sell his moral birthright for a mess of pottage. The fact is that there are thousands of men in business who would rejoice to see the day dawn on the business world when subterfuge and deception would be an abandoned policy, the hands of trade be clean and a white conscience be an element of success and not a stumbling block. As itis, with competition in a state of lunacy and the golden calf a presiding deity, the premiums hanging out like red ribands at a state fair for men with sharpened wits and dead souls, and the thousand and one conditions that make integrity, honesty and honor a misfor- tune rather than aglory, it isconfessedly a problem and astruggle with the best of men to so run their business as to sleep without a regret and return totheir busi- ness without leaving their conscience in a nightcap. We are aware that it is easier to formn- late an ideal than it is to practically ma- terialize it and that some very finely spun ethics that can gracefully decorate a pul- pit or a book shelf fade like rainbows in the stern and uncompromising realities of business. There can, however, be no mistake that a lie is a lie, wherever it is told; that all cheating and fraudulent prac- tices, no matter how big their salaries, are as criminal with a merchant or a manufacturer as with a confidence man or the unwashed gentleman who steals to buy beer or bread. We must come down to this plain talk in business vernacular and practice, or continue the old story of honesty being at a discount. We, moreover, believe it is a law as firm as the everlasting hills and as sure as the roll of the tides and the courses of the stars, that in the long run, in spite of all odds, integrity and clean-handed dealing in business are the best guarantees of success. FRED WoopRow. >_> Low prices for wheat have been a fact so long that the novelty is lost and no- body is startled to hear the talk that quo- tations are the lowest on record. This is no doubt true in a way, but somebody has dug into the history of Great Britain and finds that in 1597 English wheat sold as low as 16 cents per bushel. The dif- ference in the value of money, however, probably accounts for the low figures three centuries ago. WALTER BAKER & CO. The Largest Manufacturers of COCOA and CHOCOLATE IN THIS COUNTRY, have received from the Judges of the World’s Columbian Exposition The Highest Awards (Medals and Diplomas) on each of the following articles, namely: BREAKFAST COCOA, PREMIUM NO. | CHOCOLATE, CERMAN SWEET CHOCOLATE, VANILLA CHOCOLATE, COCOA BUTTER, For “ purity of material,” “excellent flavor,” and “uniform even composi- tion.” SOLD BY CROCERS EVERYWHERE. WALTER BAKER & CoO., DORCHESTER, MASS. Cor BOS. SMOG UD, STATE AGENTS FOR The Lycoming Rubber Company, keep constantly on hand a full and complete line of these goods made from the purest rubber. They are good style, good fitters and give the best satisfaction of any rubber in the mar- ket. Our line of Leather Boots and Shoes is com- plete in every particular, also Felt Boots, Sox, ete. Thanking you for past favors we now await your further orders. Hoping you wiil give our line a careful inspection when our representative calls on you, weare REEDER BROS’. SHOE CO. WORLD'S FAIR SOUVENIR TICKETS ONLY A FEW LEFT. Original set of four = - < > = 25¢ Complete setoften - - - = = 50¢ Order quick or lose the opportunity of a lifetime to secure these souvenirs ata nominal figure. They will be worth ten times present cost within five years. Tradesman Company, —IF YOU WISH AN — Engraving of Vour Stare, smo Send us a photograph and tell us what changes you may wish in the view ar- rangement of signs, etc. (we can make any changes), and it will surprise you at how low a price we can make it and do the finest work. TRADESMAN COMPANY, Grand Rapids, lich. WE BUY Sundried and EKuaporated APPLES HASTINGS & REMINGTON, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. PRCA S Pay the best profit. HEADACHE POWDERS Order from your jobber THEY ALL . “It’s as good as Sapolio” when they try to sell you their experiments. Your own good sense will tell you that they are only trying to get you to aid their new article. | Who urges you to keep Sapolio ? Is it not the public? The manufacturers by constant and judicious advertising bring customers to your stores whose very other articles. presence creates a demand for JOBS IN RUBBERS! t= WRITE FOR NET PRICE LIST BEFORE THEY ARE ALL GONE. Just the thing for A LEADER. = Address G. R. MAYHEW, Grand Rapids, Mich. a ef : 4 : io AROUND THE STATE. MOVEMENTS OF MERCHANTS. Alpena—A. F. Dunlop has sold _ his drug stock to Thos. Middlemas. Mt. Clemens—E. H. Connor, Moxon Liniment Co., bas retired. Escanaba—M. Werner has purchased the harness stock of F. D. Clark. Seneca—Bodine & Rothfuss succeed E. B. Smith in the grocery business. Lansing—C. M. Caldwell succeeds W. B. Cushing in the grocery business. Sidnaw—Ed. Kaiser succeeds Harry Maker in the confectionery business. Escanaba—Dineen & Manley have sole their hardware stock to E. Olson & Co. of Three Rivers—Stephen Spear has pur- chased the hardware stock of O. P. Slote. Saginaw—Chas. Spindler succeeds Henry L. Spindler in the grocery busi- ness. North Branch—T. H. Lammiman sue- ceeds Chas. E. Wilcox in the meat busi- ness. Flint—The bakery stock of N. N. Davison has been closed on chattel murt- gage. Crooked Lake—S. J. Martin has moved his grocery stock from Farwell to this place. Nashville—Mary E. (Mrs. D.) Ashley is closing out her millinery stock at this place. Corunna—Wismer & Co. succeed Geo. M. Wismer in the dry goods and bazaar business. Sturgis—Geo. N. Rich sueceeds Edwin A. Breese & Co. in the coal and wood business. New Haven—J. C. Bentley has re- moved his general stock from Meade to this place. Port Huron—W. D. Ragan moved his grocery stock from Saginaw to this place. Shelby—Arthur M. Hunter re- moved his grocery stock from Muskegon to this place. Petoskey—A. M. Coburn has pur. chased the book and stationery stock of Geo. E. Sprang. North Muskegon—Peter Zalsman has removed his grocery stock from Muske- gon to this place. Gladstone—MacKinley & Shelley suc- ceed McWilliams & MacKinley in the dry goods business. Duck Lake—M. B. Corey succeeds Corey & Franklin in general trade and the drug business. St. Johns—Geo. C. Roberts succeeds Place & Roberts in the bakery and con- fectionery business. Fennville—H. A. MeDonald is moving his stock of groceries and dry goods from Douglas to this place. Saginaw—Solomon & Mann, clothing dealers, have dissolved, Samuel Solomon continuing the business. Pompeii—Doan & Peters, dealers in agricultural implements, have dissolved, C. R. Peters succeeding. Eaton Rapids—Adams M. Whitehead and Scofield & Reeves have exchanged stores and grocery stocks. North Muskegon—A. R. Williams has removed his grocery stock to Fruita, Col., where he has resumed business. Belding—R. L. Hale has sold his shoe stock to E. R. Spencer, who will con- tinue the business at the same location. Harrietta—Harry Drebin succeeds Drebin Bros. in the dry goods, clothing and boot and shoe business, and has re- moved the stock to Cadillac. has re- has Ta eee iy ee rae the | HEH MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. | Nashville—F, ~_ shoe stock to Reynolds Bros., who | will remove the goods to Eaton Rapids. | Belding—C. W. Ives has leased a va- | cant store building in Traverse City and will soon remove his drug stock to that place. Freeport—Dr. H. C. Peckham has sold his drug stock to Geo. Northrup, who will continue the business at the same lo- cation. Big Rapids—J. L. Barker has pur- chased the shoe stock of M. E. Barker and he and F. C. Barker will continue in general trade under the style of Bar- ker Bros. Reed City—Chas. T. Kerry has beecme a convert to the cash plan of doing busi- ness and anrounces that, on and after Nov. 10, no groceries will go out of his store except for advance payment. Hart—J. Riley Smith, Ivers Anderson and J. D. Hanmer have formed a copart- nership under the style of the Michigan Meat Co. for the purpose of embarking in the purchase and sale of cattle, ship- ping mainly to the Muskegon market. Mr. Smith will look after the Muskegon end of the business and attend to the selling department generally. Hastings (Banner)—Several days ago Sheriff MeKevitt went to lowa to arrest William Otto, formerly of Middleville. Mr. Otto was a member of the hardware firm uf Otto Bros., at that place. Of splendid ability, possessing the entire confidence of all and doing a_ prosper- ous business, his future looked very bright. It is said that his downfall was caused by a woman. He is charged with the crime of forgery, of which he is said to have done a good deal in and around Middleville. Last spring he was arrested in Allegan for forgery and also was arrested here for disposing of mortgaged property. He was released on bail and skipped the country. Word from Sheriff MeKevitt brings the news that Otto left the place in lowa the morning of the night that Sheriff McKevittt arrived. The Sheriff got track of him again in Minnesota and arrested him in Albert Lea, Minnesota, and he is now in jail at this place. MANUFACTURING MATTERS. Lufton—Beunett & Son have soid their shingle mill to the Freude Land & Lum- ber Co. and it will be moved to Rose City. Clarence—Hubbel & Cole, of Lake George, have taken a contract to cut and deliver here a large quantity of shingles, lath and cedar posts, for the Clarence Lumber Co. Grand Marais—The machinery of Col- well’s shingle mill, shipped from Harris- ville to this place, has arrived and is be- ing put into a mill frame erected for its reception. Gladstone—The Buckeye Stave Co. will build a factory here which will give employment to 130 men. The company has purchased 25,000,000 feet of timber. Its plant will consist of a stave factory, 40x140, saw mill, kilns, sheds and ware- houses. Ludington—T. R. Lyon’s north saw- mill has been shut down for the season. It is probable that the present saws will be supplanted by two bands during the winter, with a capacity of 15,000,000 feet for the season. Thus cutting the Lyon pine would hold out about four years. Manistee—The demand for cedar shingles still keeps good, but, as is the ea eraser eee eed ae erawe= aint | | | | | | | | | J. Feighner has sold case with most other products, the price does not seem toimprove. Pine shingles are also being shipped out more freely and we will not go into winter quarters with any great supply of either kind on ' hand. Detroit—Articles of association have been filed by the Universal Electric Con- struction Co. The incorporators are James H. Talbot, William R. McLaren and Reginald A. Brett. The amount of the capital stock is $25,000, the entire amount of which is represented to have been paid in. Manistee—The McKillip & Co. sawmill has shut down for theseason. They have been sawing by the thousand most of the season and have about exhausted their supply of logs. Mr. Hopper had some stock of his own left to saw, but pre- ferred holding it in the log until spring in hopes next season will develop better prices. St. Joseph—The Big Four and the Van- dalia Railways have purchased the stretch of land on the north side of the river and canal, between St. Joseph and Benton Harbor, and will use it for an im- mense lumber storage and transfer yard. The tract embraces 400 acres. It is said that the money consideration was about $150,000. Jackson—The statement in last week's paper to the effect that the Crown Paper Co. had purchased the broom factory of S. W. Phillips is not absolutely correct. The business was purchased by Smalley Bros., proprietors of the Crown Paper Co., who will operate the factory inde- pendent of their paper business. Ontonagon—Pilers and truckers em- ployed at the Diamond Match Cv.’s two mills here went ona strike recently. The mills stopped running for a time, but re- sumed operations later with another force of men, none of the strikers being allowed to enter the mills again under any pretext. The outcome is very unfor- tunate for some of the men, as they have homes here, with no prospect of securing employment. The trouble was due en- tirely to the interference of an idler, who endeavored to act the part of walking delegate and dictate to the cempany. Saginaw— Last week was an unevent- ful one in lumber circles. The campaign has somewhat affected trade, and while dealers all report some business there is norush. There is a better movement by water, but this does not represent all new business, as there is a considerable quantity sold during the last thirty days to go forward. The mills which have been running since July 4 are still in operation, and shipments do not keep pace with the accumulation of stock. It is the prevailing idea that there will bea still further revival of business after the elections. The presence of buyers here from Chicago and the shipment of 25,- 000,000 feet, bought on the river for western markets, will materially help out the trade, as heavy shipments from Canada have somewhat cut into the Michigan trade. ————— The Drug Market. Opium has again advanced on a report of damage to the growing crop. Po. opium is also higher. Morphia has advanced 10 cents. Gum assafetida is scarce for prime and has advanced. Higher prices are looked for. Bi-Carb Soda has declined. Canary seed is lower. PRODUCE MARKET Apples—Dull and slow of sale. A few strag- gling lots of Snows continue to come in, com manding #2 per bbl. Greenings are scarce, but spies and Baldwins are in ample supply. No one appears to have nerve enowgh to lay in a large stock, owing to fear that the price may go off or the demand become even more sluggish than itis at present. Beans—The market has sustained a sharp ad- vance, owing to the bad weather interfering with the harvesting and threshing of the crop. Handler. have advanced their paying price for cleaned stock to $1.25 per bu., holding at $1.50 in carlots. Butter—Best dairy Is scarce and higher. held at 18%20c. Creamery 23@24. Beets—Washed bring 0c per bu. on the mar- ket; unwashed 5c. Cabbage—The market price is 39¢ per doz. for small and medium and 40ce for large. Cauliflowers—#l per doz. for choice stock. Celery—Is held by dealers at 12% ¢15¢ per doz. Egg Plant—The market price is 75¢ per doz. Eggs—Firm at 17@18c per doz. for fresh, which are scarce and grabbed up as fast as they ap- pear on the market. So far as Tue TRADESMAN’s information goes, none of those who hold pickled or cold storage stock have yet permitted any of their goods to goon the market, as they believe higher prices are in store for them later on in the season. Grapes—N. Y. Concords command 20¢ per 8 lb. basket. All Michigan varieties have disap- peared from the market. Lettuce—10e per Ib. Onions—Reds and Danvers command 35@45e per bu Movement is slow and unsatisfactory. Parsnips—Grocers pay 40¢ per bu. Parsley—25e per doz. Potatoes—Handlers pay 4%¢ per bu. here and 30e at the principal Northern buying points, al- though the Oceana county buyers have been compelied to pay 35¢ in order to get supplies of any quantity. Grocers who have laid in their winter stocks find that the tubers. are already rotting so badly that they will have to be sorted over. The tendency to unusual decay is, prob- It is ably, due to the rapid manner in which potatoes grew after the September rains came and this defect in their keeping quality will deter many grocers from attempting to lay in stocks except for immediate use As large buyers decline to pile up stocks, for the same reason, it looks as though the liability of loss from decay will have to be borne by the grower, who will find fewer potatoes when he comes to sell them than he dug, by a large percentage. If this condition holds over the States—and Tus TRADESMAN has information which leads it to believe that the same is trae of Wisconsin—the price of potatoes will be very high before another spring opens. Pears—Californias bring $2 per bu. box. Quinces—Dealers hold them at $1 per bu. Radishes—Grocers pay 8@!0e per doz. Sweet Potatoes—Jersey’s prime stock, are held by dealers at 75¢ per bu. Squash—The mar et price is 1c per lb, Tomatoes—Are slow sa e at 35¢ per bu. Turnips—Washed are sold on the market for 30c per bu. Vegetable Oysters—Grocers 20¢ pay per doz. \ JANTED—FVERY DRUGGIST JUST starting in business and every one already started to use our system of poi-on labels, What has Cost you $15 you can now get for $4 Four- teen labels do the work of 113, Tradesman Company, Grand Kapids. Henry J. Vinkemulder, JOBBER OF Prvits and Vegetables, 418, 420, 445 and 447 So. Division St Grand Rapids. We have some very nice Red and Yel- low Onions. If you ean use a carload ean make you alow price. Quote you Fancy Yellow Onions at 45¢ per bu. Fancy Ked Onions 45¢ per bu. No. 1 Winter Apples $2 per bbl. No. 2 Winter Apples $1.75 per bbl. Fancy Jersey Sweet Potatoes $2.25 per bbl. Cabbage 30 to 40¢ per doz. Home-grown celery 15¢ per doz. If you have any Fresh Eggs to offer, please quote us price. . Favor us with your orders, they will always have our prompt and careful at- tention and benefit of any decline in ! prices, ‘THH MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP. L. L. Launier & Son, grocers at 418 West Bridge street, are succeeded by Launier Bros., composed of Albert J. and Louis W. Launier. Patrick Keating, formerly clerk for M. K. Collins, the Plainfield avenue grocer, has opened a grocery store at 796 South Division street. P. H. Kilmartin, formerly engaged in the grocery business at 1166 Wealthy avenue, has purchased the confectionery stock at 65 South Division street. Frank A. Klaiber and Frank H. Reber have formed a copartnership under the style of Klaiber & Reber and opened a meat market at 497 South Division street. The Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co. has leased the three-story and basement store building north of its preeent location, re- cently vacated by A.E. Brooks & Co., and will take possession of the premises as soon as archways can be cut through the brick walls on each floor. Both build- ings will be equipped with steam heat and automatie fire extinguishers, reduc- ing the insurance rate to the lowest pos- sible notch. The accession of the Brooks building augments the floor space oceu- pied by the corporation 50 per cent., en- abling it to increase its stock and execute its orders with greater facility than be- fore. > 2 <> - The Grocery Market. Sugar—The demand for nearly all grades is strong, the retail trade having evidently reached the conclusion that prices have touched bottom and_ that now isa good time to stock up. Two declines occurred last week—ige on nearly all grades on Tuesday anda sim- ilar decline on hards and a sixpence on softs on Thursday. The action of the refiners in reducing prices under present conditions is utterly without precedent and no one is able to present any satis- factory explanation. Some authorities assume to think that the cut was made to meet the break at Chicago, but even this reason does not afford a satisfactory explanation, when existing conditions are taken into consideration. Pickles—F. A. Waider Co., of Chicago, issues the following circular to the trade, under date of Nov. 6: ‘*The pickle crop is short all over the world this season. Europe is buying heavily in the East and in the West. In the Mississippi River section the crop was almost a total fail- ure. Two hundred and sixty carloads of pickles in brine have been taken from this section by Eastern and European buyers and, with half the demand of last year, the stock will be exhausted before the season is over. Salt pickles are now selling for comparatively higher prices than present quotations for pickles in vinegar, and much higher prices will prevail as soon as dealers begin to lay in their supplies.’’ Tobacco—Sorg has reduced the price of Spearhead plug to 37c, reduction to re- main until Dee. 1. Soap—The N. K. Fairbank Co. has re- duced their prices on Santa Ciaus and Brown brands. Flour—Local millers have declined all grapes of fiour, except rye, 10c per 100. Vates—There is more or less inquiry for New Persian dates, but none of 1894 crop- has reached this side of the water. | The first vessel to bring them in will ' reach port about Nov. 12, but, as her cargo is not Jarge, the orders already in the hands of various brokers will take them up quickly at top prices. Other cargoes are due Nov. 20 and 24, and at sale of the latter prices will probably be easier. Candy—Manufacturing confectioners report a most satisfactory condition of business in this line, and state that or- ders for the holiday trade are being placed freely, notwithstanding the fluc- tuations of the sugar market. Foreign Nuts—The new crop of some varieties is already in and others are due during the present month. A good de- mand is setting in and full sack orders are numerous. New Grenoble Walnuts are expected to reach New York about Nov. 12, and, though price is yet to be named, it is generally thought that it will be about two cents above present quotation of 1893 crop. Lemons—Malaga stock has made its appearanes, packed in fancy colored wrappers and in Messina style of boxes, and, to a casual observer, presents a most attractive appearance. They are nothing but Malagas, however. Florida packing is to be had, but what prevents a growing demand is the fact of the fruit being so rough and thick skinned. This will, in a measure, be done away with year by year as more care and attention are bestowed on the young trees. The ‘Sampson Groves,’’? which, by the way, are in a high srate of cultivation, may be cited as proof of the statement. Fruit from this renowned grove is superior to anything of like nrture in market, and demonstrates that Florida, as a lemon producing State, is yet in its infancy. The first of the new Sicily fruii is now en route, and the first auction sales of same will be made about Nov. 15, and by Nov. 25 will be offered from this market. Until that time Floridas and Malagas will have to stand in the gap. Bananas—It has been several years since the demand at this season of the year has been so light. Most of the wholesalers here who usually do consid- erable business in this line are leaving them out and turning their attention to other lines that do not require so much crowding. When three or four cars ar- rive at once, with a limited demand, it means heavy Just at present the local market is bare of good shipping stock. loss. Oranges—The Florida crop promises to be of larger volume than last seasen, notwithstanding the damage done to it in certain sections by storms. There have been numerous carloads of half matured green fruit already sent out, which has caused more or less dissatisfaction, as might have been expected; but the early groves are new yielding fairly flavored and richly colored fruit, and the season’s business can now be said to have fairly opened. Although the fruit is not yet in its full prime of exeellency and flavor, each week, however, brings it nearer perfection, and, by the middle of Decem- ber, it will be a leading article of con- sumption all over the country, cantain- ing the rich qualities that make the Florida orange the finest in the world. Our market will be supplied, and a con- sultation of the prices given on another page shows that Grand Rapids can, and does, make bid for the patronage of sur- sounding towns on a basis with larger markets. Purely Personal. Niels Christensen has opened a bank- ing office in the building formerly occu- pied by the First National Bank of Greenville. Will P. Granger has resigned his posi- tion with Swift & Company, at Duluth, and returned to this city, with the inten- tion of remaining here permanently. E. C. Blanchard, junior member of the firm of O. D. Blanchard & Son, general dealers at Casnovia, was in town Monday. He was accompanied by his wife. Arch. Cameron, the versatile Scotch- man who exercises a general supervision over the affairs of the Cameron Lumber Co., at Torch Lake and Central Lake, was in town a couple of days last week. Mr. Cameron ‘‘has an eye like an eagle’’ and can see through a stick of timber or “dip into the future’? as clearly as any man in the Grand Traverse region. The reputation of Charley McCarty, the Lowell merchant, for buying any- thing offered him as wide as the boundaries of the State. An _ instance which happened at Saginaw a few years ago has probably never been seen in print. Charley has always sold a good many goods to Richard Luster, the Sag- inaw grocer, and on the occasion of one of his visits to the Corkscrew City he was told that an Indian had been in town a couple of days trying to sell a trio of cub bears. Luster had told the Indian that the Lowell Poo Bab would surely purchase his stock of bears—and, sure enough, he did. The Indian wanted $25 for the three bruins, but reluctantly ac- cepted an offer of $15, disgusted that no one in the city had exhibited nerve enough to buy the animals. Within an hour of the purchase a traveling man from Detroit offered Charley $25 for two of the bears, which he accepted. The other animal he crated and took home with him, fattened him for market and sold the carcass the next winter to the late John Mobrhard, of this city, for $35. Charley says he was only $45 ahead on the deal—which was only 300 per cent. on his investment—but that the transac- tion afforded him more than $150 worth of fun. is ———_—__—~. -2 << Card from Candidate Owen. GRAND Rapips, Nov. 4—l wish to ex- press my thanks, through THE TRADEs- MAN, to Daniel H. Powers and Jotun Smythe for their kind efforts in my be- haif by placing my portrait before the boys as candidate for Secretary of the Michigan Knights of the Grip. Their work is commendable (I never knew be- fore how good looking I was). Should lL be honored by being elected to that posi- tion | hereby agree to have their assess- ments come as often as possible and to squeeze them for the full amount promptly, and at the expiration of my term of office I will recommend them most cordially to my successor. In the words of Rip Van Winkle, will say, ‘‘May they live Jong and brosper.”’ Yours as ever, Gro. F. OWEN. P. S.—In the notice in last week’s paper the writer used the words ‘‘sang frvid.’’ 1 don’t know what it means, but hope that it means something awfully good. CG. SSUES inneettiiesdtineatl From Out of Town. Calls have been received at THE TRADESMAN Office during tbe past week from the following gentleman in trade: Smith & Bristol, Ada. E. A. Webb, Casnovia. Chas. McCarty, Lowell. Wm. Borgman, Filmore Center. Cameron Lumber Co., Central Lake. I. C. Elsbey, Rockford. Mrs. O. Chapel, Talmadge. ' ; prevail. The Wheat Market. Wheat during the week has been get- ting stronger, so that prices have ad- vanced for No. 2 red about le per bushel or better, while white wheat re- mained about the same. Exports have hardly come up to the past two weeks, but receipts have also been lighter in the Northwest and, with unfavorable weather, the receipts will shrink more yet. It certainly is a peculiar state of affairs when cash wheat brings a_ pre- mium over future or December wheat. It seems that higher prices must ere long Receipts from farmers are merely nomiual, and hardly one-fifth of what they were last year, and one-tenth of years ago, but, with better prices, the mills expect larger receipts. Corn, owing to damp weatter, been gaining strength, also, and it has shown a marked advance. The same is also true of oats. The price been enhanced about the same ratio with corn. There not seem to be prospects of much advance in oats in the future, as there seemsjto be plenty of oats, while the opposite is the case with corn. Receipts during the past week were wheat 74 cars; corn, 2 cars; oats, 4. cars. All the mills have been running steady during the week and some are behind orders. Cc. G. A. Voter. has has has does FOR SALE, WANTED, ETC. Advertisements will be inserted under this head for two cents a word the first insertion and one cent a word for each subsequent insertion, No advertisements taken for less than 25 cents. Advance payment. OR SALE CHEAP IF TAKEN AT ONCE— Drug store doing good business. Value, less than $1,000. Address No. 629, care Michigan Tradesman. 629 OR SALE—FIRST CLASS GROCERY sTCCK and fixtures nearly new. Good location, good town. Gond reason for selling. Great op- portunity for the right man. Address No. 27, care Michigan Tradesman. 627 | SALE—FIRST CLASS PAYING JEW- elry business in a Michigan town of 1,200 population. Stock and fixtures, $80 to $1,000, including a first-class fire proof safe. For cash or real estate. W. G., care Michigan Trades- man. 628 RICK STORE TO RENT: LIVING ROOMS above; good trading point, surronnded by good tarming lands: a’ undance of fruit: rea- sonable terms. Address A. L. Power, Kent City, Mich. 62 _— MAN WITH $2.009 READY eash to take half interest in a well estab- lished hardware business in a live town of 500 popniation. Good farm‘ng country, good trade and no eompetition Address No, 625, care Mich- igan Tradesman. 6&5 OR SALE—A SHOE BUSINESS, OR HALF interestin ssme on one of the principal streets in Grand Rapids New stock goo? trade, location At. Address No. 624 care Michigan Tradesman. 624 NREAT OPPORTUNITY—TO RENT FINE J storein Fenton. Mich. Best opportunity fo> dry goods and notions in Mich. Nostore now on south side of river. Address Lock Kox 96. Fenton Mich. 623 I ARDWARE FOR SALE—A NICE CLEAN stock, good opening and will inventory $ 50) to $2.00. Address “Hardware” care of Michigan Tradesman. 618 K MR SALE—A FULLY Eq! IPPED SHINGLE mill Perkins machinery, having a capacity of 45.00 shingles per day, now in ope ation. Situated on a good str amauand in a cheapshingle timber district. First-class Huvett & Smith dry kiln in connection. Will sell cheap for cash, Good chance for mill man with some money, Reasons for selling given to one who means business. Morse & Schneider. Seney, Mich. 620 V ILL PAY CASH FOR STOCK OF CLOTH- ing if price is right. Address Box 11:6. Cadillac Mich. 616 M® TO SELL BAKING POWDER TO THE iE grocery trade steacy employment, ex- perience unnecessary. $75 monthly and expen sesorcom. If offersatisfactory address at once with particulars eonce:ning yourself. U. § Chemical Works, Chicago. 608 | ey MILL—WE OFFER FOR SALE the North side Planing Mill, which is first- classin every respect, or will receive proposi- tio: s to locate the business in some other thriv- ingtown. Correspondence and inspection solic- ited, Sheridan. Boyce « ‘’o.. Manistee. Mich. 013 EARLY NEW S8AR-LOCK ‘TYPEWRITER for sale at a great reduction from cost- Reason for selling, we desire another pattern of same make of machine, which we consider the best on the market. Tradesman Company, 100 Louis St., Grand Rapids. 564 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. SHE GOT EVEN. Written for THE TRADESMAN. Father and daughter had been eating a lunch of herrings and sweet crackers by the store stove, and the young woman, after brushing the crumbs from the front of her dress, approached the salesman and the following colloquy took place. Sne—I want to look at a pair of shoes. He—Yer don’t want ter look at no such thing! Clerk—What sort of shoes would you like to see ? She—I want a nice pair of kid ones. He—Whatter yer thinkin’ uv? What yer want is suthin’ good an’ stout thav’ll Stand bangin’. Clerk—Here is something that [ think will suit you exactly—only three dollars; same thing they sell in the cities for five and six. He—Three dollars fer that there pair uv shoes! What yer want isa pair uv them there oil-tanned leather like Pollard got. Them’! outlast three pair uv these fer yowr business, an’!] only cost two dollars ! She—These are about the thing I wanted, only I’d like’em better if they had pateut leather tips. Have you got any of that kind ? He—Patent ieather tips! Whatter yer take me fer, anyway? Think I’m a mil- Yonaire? You'd better get them pair | tol’ yer about in the first place. Clerk—Here’s just what you say you want, Miss. They are the very latest style, and I’m sure they will give you the best of satisfaction. She—Now that is something like what I wanted. Give me a pair of sixes on the double E last, and athin stocking, and I'll try ’em on. He—You kin try ’em on ef yer wanter, but that’s all the good it’ll do vex. | ain’t no Jay Gould. Them shoes yer’ve got to hum’s plenty good ernough fer stajjin’ round the varn with, an’ if yer want suthin’ Sunnays an’ prayer meeting’, why, there’s them carpet slip- pers uv ma’s, She—These seem to be a across the ball of the foot. got half a size bigger ? He—A lettle tight! Haw, haw, haw! A lettle tight! Good fer you. Ef them there buttons warn’t spiked on better’n common, yer’d uv busted every one on ’em otf afore now. A leetle tight, eh ? Well, I should sorter kinder gently hol- ler! Haw, Haw, haw! Clerk—I think this, now, will be just the thing. You will find it roomy and neat. (Hands her a7 W.) He—Jump into it, Sue. Jam yer dilli- ket Cinderreller foot inter it Keerfully er yer might tear your socks a dein’ uv it, yer know. Fit yer trotter into the box, why don’t yer ? She—There ! may do those up. He—Do ’em up—that’s good! Haw, haw! Good things ter keep on the what- not for ornyments. Do’em up in tisher paper so’s they won’t spile. Who in thunders agoin’ ter pay fer them there gondolas ? Clerk—Would there be anything else ? She—No, not to-day. How much ? Clerk—Four dollars. He—Four Prophets of Gilgal ! agoin’ ter pay for this stuff ? She—You are, dad. He—No, I haint nuther. Sbe—(To clerk) Here’s your money. He—Thunderation! I didn’t know yer had any scrip! She—No, I s’pose not. I sold the spotted steer to the butcher this morning and got the money for it—that’s all. | told you you’d pay for that pair of shoes, and lrather think I kept my word. Gro. L. THuRsToN. Central Lake, Mich. detsy fer little tight Haven’t you That fits very well. You Who’s iis CNC Ss gio se een eet ecm ae eae Dry Goods Price Current. UNBLEACHED COTTONS. Bere 7 ‘* Arrow Brand 4% ee 5% ‘* World Wide. 6 Atiantiea AA......... 6 oe 4% oo 6%| Full Yard Wide..... 6% - _ Sy Cooreia A.......... 6% ' E......... 5 |Honest Width...... 6 e >... S tierttordA ......... 5 gaa 4%| Indian Head........ 8% el Sacer 4 4 6% Archery Bunting... 4 eee... 5 BeaverDam AA.. 4%4|Lawrence LL...... 4% Blackstone O, 32.... 5 |Madras cheese cloth 6% Biack Crow...._...- 6 |Newmarket a... 5X Bisck Mock ......_. 5%! a ff... cage 7 | me x. 6% hy cet ogg = en | e DD.... i (ove ¥..... 54) \ az 6 Chapman cheese cl. 3&%|Noibe R............. 5 Clifton CR........ -544/Our Level Best... & See a 6 Dweent iter... | Su Poumet..... 0c. 7. San CCC... ae 6 |Top of the Heap.... 7 BLEACHED COTTONS. ABC. ............. 84/Geo. Washington... 8 AIBRSOR............. 8 Miles ie z —.... ..... S tere oe. ve 4 Art Camore......_. 10 |Green Ticket....... 824 Blackstone AA..... %4|Great is... .... 6% Bee Be * (Hope... 7% See 12 |Just Out..... 4%@ 5 ae. 6%|King Phillip........ 7% et | . f.... 7 Charter Oak....... 5% [Lonsdale Cambric..10 Conway W...... ... 7iiiienuedale : 8 Cleveland ...... ... 6 |Middlesex.... .. @ 4% DwightAnchor.... 8 INo as... 7% - | @Georm 8 tek View... .... Soweres......... 6 Dar Oen....... 5% aaeee 7 |Prideof the West...12 Pare. . (eeeead............ 7% Fruit of the Loom. 7%/Suniight............. 4% Tae... 7 iUiG@ea Millie... Bac Pires Prise.... ....... 6 - Nonpareil ..10 Fruitofthe Loom %. 7%/Vinyard............. 8% Palreaount.......... 414) White Horse........ 6 Foil Voalue.......... co. “ Rask ... 8% HALF BLEACHED COTTONS. ee 6%|DwightAnchor..... 8 Parwee.. CANTON FLANNEL. Unbleached. Bleached. Housewife A........ 5%4|Housewife Q.... ... 61g S B.... .. oe _ a 7 i i 6 ao — 7 ne a 6% se eo 8% ‘ ee 7 “ Ce 91g wag -. 7 sa z...... 10 i eS i*% si 7... -10% a5 a. 7% - x 11% ng : ... 84 ' oa 12% $ a... 8% - ..... 13% . c.. 94 . i... -10 2 10% . y.. — ea i 21 ae P. 14 CARPET WARP. Peerless, white...... 17 |Integrity colored...18 c ecolored....19 (White Ster......_... 17 fee... ie 066—ti“‘ * #élokoncl 19 DRESS GOODS. en... 5 Nemotems...... ._... 20 “ “ a "| 127% @QG Cashmere...... 16% - oo Hemline ... ._..... 16 e oe CS 18 - aD CORSETS, Comes. ........... 89 50/Wonderful. .. ...84 50 Scuuumee.. ...... DOiBtenion . _ .. as Davis Waists..... 9 00/Bortree’s .......... 9 00 Grand Rapids..... 4 50/Abdominal]........ 15 00 CORSET JEANS. al 6%|Naumkeag satteen.. 7% Androscoggin....... 74| Rockport...... — oo Sioerera... Conewers.... 7% Brunswick. ..... .. 64{}Walworth...... --- 6¥ PRINTS. Allen turkey reds.. 54%|Berwick fancies.... 5% . pees... _.. 5%|Clyde Repes........ - = & purple 5%|Charter Oak fancies 4 a cs... 5%|DelMarine cashm’s. 5% ‘pink checks. 5% ' mourn’g 5% - Staples ...... 5 |Eddystone fancy... 5 “« ehirtings... 3x! ' chocolat 5 American fancy.... 5 ic rober.... 5 Americanindigo... 4%/ e sateens.. 5 American shirtings. 3%|Hamilton fancy, ... 5 Argentine Grays... 6 _ ny aa 5 Anchor Shirtings... 4 |Manchester fancy.. 5 Arnold - soos 6 . new era. 5 Arnold Merino..... 6 |Merrimack D fancy. 5 ‘* long cloth B. 9 Merrim’ck shirtings. 4 2a _ ro © . Reppfurn . 8% ‘* century cloth 7 |Pacific fancy........ 5 ~ peeoce..... 4 “ rob -5% ‘* green seal TR10% ‘* yellow seal. .10% - e........ 1 com... .... 5 “Turkey red. .10% «solid black, 5 Ballon solid biack.. Washington indigo. ¢ ss o Turkey robes.. 7 7 ee Portsmouth robes... 6 Simpson mourning... 5 : Treys colors. wie Bengal blue, green, ‘* India robea.... red and orange... 6 “plain T’ky KX & 7 Berlin solids........ ae a " -—.- = oo... 6 * Ottoman Tur- “ << eeres.. 6% ‘“’ Foularde ... 5%|Martha Washington “red %& 7 Turkey red X..... ss oe . 9%|Martha Washington - re 22. 10 Turkey rod... ..... 9% ie ‘“* 3-4XXXX 12 |Riverpoint robes... 5 Cocheco fancy...... 5 |Windsorfancy...... 6% _ madders... 5 o = ticket * XX twills.. 5 indigo blue....... 10% a. aoe... 5 [Hermony......._. . 4g TICKINGS, Amomeece ACA. 2204 CA.. ... 11% omen me ........ 7 |Pemberton AAA....16 - a er ee re Awning..11 |Swift River......... 7% Peer. ............ 6 ea ieee 12 Piret Prisp.......... ween .... 12% Lenox Millis ........ 3 WConoutess .......... 16 COTTON DRILL, Adios, D...... aa A... 8 eee Caine Mems........ .. 7% ea. ......... % epet Heap........ 9 ee ane eae DEMINB. Ameone...... .... 12 {Columbian brown. .12 os ocn..... 14 |Everett, blue........ ii si brown .14 : brown. ....i1 Audover............. 11%|Haymaker blue..... Beaver Creek AA...10 o brown... . Be...9 ere. ll4y e Cc.-.. Lancome .......... 2% Boston Mfg Co. br.. 7 |Lawrence,9oz...... 12% e blue 8% c Mo. 2....12 * d«&twist 10% . No. 250....10 Columbian XXX br.10 - Ro.ze.... © ' XXX b].19 GINGHAMB. Amoskear...... .... Lancaster, staple... 544 ‘Persian dress 64, na fancies .... 6 . Canton .. 7 . Normandie 6 c i... &%/Lancashire.......... 4% C Teazle...1044|Manchester......... 4% _ Angola..10%/Monogram.......... 4% “ Persian.. 7 |Normandie..... oo Arlington staple.... 614/Persian............. 6% Arasapha fancy.... 4%/Renfrew Dress...... 7% Bates Warwick dres 74%/Rosemont........... 6% . staples. 6 |Slatersville......... 6 Centennial. ........ ie oeorncs...........- a (aon 104/Tacom a 7% Cumberland staple. 5%/Toil du Nord....... 8% Cumberiand.... .... S eon... 7% —... 4 ‘* seersucker.. 7% a ciwerwack.... ...... 6 Everett classics..... 8%|Whittenden......... 8 Brposiaes.......... Tq . heather dr. 7% oes... 6% . indigo blue 9 Grenarven.... ...... 6%|Wamsutta staples... 6% Glenwood........... 74) westwrook.......... 8 ion... 8 5 . 10 Jobnson Jhaloncl 4%/Windermeer........ 5 C ingive bine Sivark.... 8... 6% ° zephyrs....16 GRAIN BAGS. Amoskear ..........13 |Georgia ... tte cee ee 13 ee American. .........- a THREADS, Clark’s Mile End....45 |Barbour's..... ..... 95 Coeee,, 2. &P....... > (Marmhairs ......... 90 erwenes.. RY KNITTING COTTON. White. Colored. White. Colored 5... 38 IN cca ae 42 No. oO. 14 a. 2... A 43 r 2... -—-: BB... 39 44 oe 36 at ee 45 CAMBRICS, ee * (tewords........... 4 White Star......... * (ockweed...... ... 4 Eid Giove........... *- (wooae........... Newmarket......... - Mtunewick........ 4 RED FLANNEL, Piscean... ..... aa fe ..........., 2% Creoamore.......... Sele a... 32% Tete Rae... Ver sar. 35 Nameless...........27}%|Buckeye............ RY MIXED FLANNEL, Red & Blue, plaid..40 |GreySRW......... 17% Cues E 224%) Western W ++ eae... eee... 18% 6 oz Western........ ao Washing XEX 234% cmon .... 22%|Manitoba........... 23% DOMET FLANNEL, Nameless ..... 8 9 Se 9 @10% a 8%@10 oe 12: CANVASS AND PADDING. Slate. Brown. Black.|Slate Brown. Black. 9% 9% 94q| 1044 10% 10% 10% 16% 104) 11% 11% 11K 11% 11% 1144)}12 12 12 12% 12 124/20 20 DUCKs. Severen, § os........ 9%|West Point, 8 ox....10% Mayland, 8oz....... 10% _ ies ...2 Greenwood, 7% oz.. 9%/Raven, 100z......... 13% Greenwood, 8os....11%|Stark ode Boston, 6 ox,........ 1044|Boston, 10 oz........ 12% WADDINGS, Walle, Gos... 25 |Per bale, 40 dos... .88 50 Colored, dos........ mo roeeeree 7 50 SILESIAS, Slater, Iron Cross... 8 ;Pawtucket.......... 10% | Seco... 9 Mamie 9 Ce oe 10%|Bedford.... .... --.10% r fee AA. 12%/Valley City......... 10% ee ee 10% ee 8 SEWING SILK. Corticelli, dos....... 55 [{Corticelli knitting, twist, doz..37%| per }oxz ball...... 30 50 yd, doz. .37% HOOKS AND EYES—PER GRORB. No 1 Bl’k & White..10 {No 4BIrké White..15 * = - ie i- ss 20 “ 3 “ ..12 |“ 10 “ 1.25 PINs. Res-@, NM C....... 50 i 4-15 # 8%...... 40 " = 2eC........ 45 COTTON TAPE. No 2 White & BI’k..12 |No 8 White & BI’k..20 . @ ' —— t- - ' --28 “ 6 “ te “ 12 o nae SAFETY PINs, ee... 28 _ ae 36 NEEDLES—PER x. a eee 1 40|Steamboat........ eo. orem... .... ... 1 35/Gold Eyed.......... 150 Marwers........... 1 00|American........... 100 TABLE OIL CLOTH, 5—4....17%5 6—4... a. 6—4...2 30 COTTONT WINES, Cotton Sail Twine..28 |Nashua......... ... 14 aon... 12 |Rising Star >. Stebbin’s Genuine................ LS ee +a Enterprise, self- ‘measuring. tate eon cues os 30 NAILS Advance over 7“ * on both — and = Cie ene Meee 35 Wire nails, base a i 35 eee Base Base eee aoe e cece eee cee acs 10 oi. 25 =... 35 16... 45 i... 45 ... 50 i ieee ieee ec, 60 ee. 7 ee 90 EEE eee 1 20 a... 1 60 Veen... 1 60 ee 65 ee 75 - ©... -..................... 90 Pie vis] ee 90 - 6 ......,.................... 10 Clinch 10 70 Se eee cee coo 80 a. 90 an . Kee a 17% “PLANES. dis. ae Tooele we Fanos... 5... 1.8... Ot Seiota Bench Be Sanduaky Tool Co.’ 's, ‘fancy. oe 40 OE EE e400 Stanley Rule and Level Co.'s wood. SOIC PANS. Pee, Agus... ...... ee ee ee dis.60—10 Ouasaen, polished es eee obs cower cease dis. 70 BIVETs. dis. men and Tinea... 50—10 Copper Rivetsand Burs.................... 50—10 PATENT FLANISHED IRON. ‘A’? Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 10 20 ‘*B’? Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 26 to 27... 9 20 Broken packs %c per pound extra, HAMMERS, Maydole Co an | dis. 25 Pee... a 25 Yerkes & Plumb’s. . Ais. 49&10 Mason’s Solid Cast Steel. . .30¢ list 60 Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel Hand .. .30e 40&10 HINGES, Gate, Clark’s, 1,2,3 . i -d18.60810 State r dox. net, 2 50 sone Hook and Strap, to 12 in. vi 14 and (OO oo Screw Hook and Eye, %. net 1n . : rT %. met 8% . i i a net 7% a net 7% Strap and T.. . dig. i HA NGERS, dis Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track... BOe10 Champion, anti-friction.. / : 0 Widder woe@Gaek ge” a HOLLOW WARK. nm ES 60416 Bees. 80816 peeaaee el 60&10 ren Goeeeren... .. 40810 HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS, amped Ti Ware new list = Japanned Tin Ware Granite Iron Ware . -new lis a WIRE ‘@00Ds. | diz, ie. 70&10&10 Screw Eyes.. heeeae - -70&10810 Hook’s Sy Gate Hooks and. Byes. ey eel ae 70810810 EVELS. Ha.7% Stanley Rule and leu Co.’s. i ROPES, Sisal, is inch and larger . i. _ @ ae. LC... oo SQUARES, dir, Seocland trom..... ..... 7 &10 Try and Beyels............ 66 Mitre . . to 20 “SHEET ROR, Com. 8 Nos, 10to 14........ “oo” S50 Mea ttet,.... 3 50 26) be 4 05 = 70 oe «ac. 2 OG 2 80 Nos. 25 tO 26 . loo. 3 = 2 90 No. 27 3 37 00 All sheets ‘No. 18 and ‘lighter, “over 30 {ncher wide nat less than 2-10 extra SAND PAPER, eee te ee dis. 50 SASH CORD, Silver Lake, = A... ! list 50 oy a. 55 . White s. 50 c mae lL . 5A . White C ' F0 Discount, 10. SASH WEIGHTS. SO ee. per ton 8&0 oe oe dia i ee ie oes 2 Stiver | Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot.,.... 7: ‘* Special Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot. . 50 ‘* Special Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot.. 80 ‘Champion and Electric Tooth X Cum, perfoat. TRAPS, dis. oe Cane. 60&10 Oneida Community, Newhouse’s.......... 49 Oneida Community, Hawley « Norton’ 8..7C-10 10 Mouse, choker Mouse, delusion.. . ar = ae — "WIRE. dis BeIghe Maree 70210 Anneatce Mecwee 95 Comperee MaPECe 70 inne Markee oe Copperea Spring Steel... .. 50 Barbed | Fence, — Pee eee eee eee 2 50 De 2 10 HORSE NAILS, ao oe dis. 40&10 Pee dis NOt dis. 10&10 WRENCHES, dis, Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.. 30 Coe’s Genuine ...... 50 Coe’s Patent Agztcultural, wrought, . eee a. 75 Coe’s Patent, malleabl 1&6 aaa, dis. bea eiges 56 Pumps, Cistern 75&10 Serowa Nowl we... .. 7O&1! &10 Casters, Bed a d Plate.. re Dampers, American.. Forks, hoes, rakes and all steel goods.. “esi METALS, PIG TIN, Pig a. hs de ee 26¢ Pig Bars.. 28¢ Juty: Sheet, sie - pound, 600 pound casks.. eee eee. 6% Ver OO 7 SOLDER. OE 16 ee re The prices of the many other qualities of solder in the market Indicated by private brands vary according to composition. ANTIMONY. eee 8. eT pound epee... . Mt —-MKLYN GRADE. 10x14 IC, Charcoal a $750 14x20 IC, a 7 50 10x14 IX Meee eee eee, 9 2 7 9 25 Each Saditional X on this grade, $1.75. TIN—ALLAWAY GRADS. 10x14 IC, Charcoal Nee ete eee eee. 7 14x20 IC, : 6 75 10x14 1x, Cs 8 25 14x20 1X, vs ae 9 oF Each additional X on this grade $1.50. ROOFING PLATES 0d” Wee. 14x20 IX, Se 8 5% 20x28 IC, ‘ ee 12 50 14x20 IC, “ Allawey Grade.......... 8 0 14x20 TX ea, 7S 20x28 IC, ' . ee ee 12 50 20x28 IX, * : . 15 56 BOILER SIZE TIM PLATE. 14x28 = a 814 00 —.f........,. a. oo lane ix’ ix, for N io. : Botlers, | per pound.... 10 00 SS Bs ERIE Oe ee THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. men into specialties of their business. To-day, in every branch of industrial labor, men are set to operating a partic- ular sort of machine, and the result is 4 WEEELY JOURNAL LEVOTED TO THR Best Interests of Business Men. Pablished at 100 Louis St., Grand Rapids, — BY THE — TRADESMAN COMPANY. One Dollar a Year, Payable in Advance. ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION, Communications invited from practical bust- ness men. Correspondents must give their full name and address, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. Subscribers may have the mailing address of their papers changed as often as desired. No paper discontinned, except at the option of the proprietor, until £1] arrearages are vaid. Sample copies sent free to any address, Entered at Grand Rapids post-office as second- class matter, te" When writing to any of our advertisers, please say that you saw their advertisement in THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. E, A. STOWE, Editor. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7. ONE-SIDED TRAINING. There is no country in the world where machinery is so generally used as in the United States. It is because in this country there was from the beginning a constant demand for labor greater than the supply. The people who came to settle up a hew world had, first of all, to put it into such a condition that civilized people could live init. They had to cut down forests, clear fields, build homes, make roads and bridges, and establish depots of supplies and furnish means of com- munication. All thetime they were per- forming these duties they had to fight hostile savages. Thus it will be seen that from the very beginnings of the country there was a grievous lack of men to do its work. Therefore, when the genius of the in- ventor and the skill of the mechanician were called into requisition to create labor-saving machinery, their efforts met with a ready welcome and their machines were rapidly brought into use. Out of these conditions grew nearly all the labor-saving machinery in the world, all that is strictly so being American. Every operation that can possibly be carried on by mechanism is rapidly being transferred from the handicraftsman to the machine. In the countries of the Old World con- ditions are different. There is too much labor al) the time, aud, by consequence, there is not so much demand for ma- chiuery to save labor. Where a mechan- ical device will give better results than can be got by hand work, it is often em- ployed; but machinery is not generally sO much in use in proportion to the prod- ucts turned out as in the United States. In Europe, too, the son is apt to follow the trade of the father, and in that way handicrafts are continued through gen- erations in the same family. In this country the son commonly rebels against his father’s trade, and in order to assert his independence he seeks some other line of business. Whether this is a bet- ter way remains to be seen. This would be a proper subject for the students of the effects of heredity to examine. But to return to machinery, the result of its almost universal use is to drive that we are coming to have a great num- ber of mechanics who are expert in a sin- gle item of their business, and are ig- norant of any other. An old master me- chanic once said to the writer that the time is rapidly coming when there will be no longer any all-around machinists, capable of performing any detail of the service. In their stead are growing up specialists, expert in the handling of a particular machine only, and knowing little else. The really well-informed mechanics come out of the country or | other small shops where the business is | not extensive enough to be divided into specialties. It is growing to be the same way in printing. Once there was atime when | the graduated journeyman printer could | set type, make up a form and work the |press. Now everything is done by a special mechanism, and it is going to be | soon the rule to have printing offices in which there will not be a man who can Set up a stick of types. It is very much the case in business of all sorts. A man goes intoa great com- mercial concern and is set to doing a par- ticular sort of work. He sticks to that to the end of his life, and learns nothing else. Such education in specialties makes men one-sided in their knowledge and in their manner of thinking, and to be one-sided is to be disabled, or at least disqualified, to a large degree. Itis for this reason that the great masters of commerce in every city are not men who were brought up in the specialties of a great business, but boys who started in a country store, and learned to sell goods as well as to keep accounts, to deal with men as well as with matter, to become judges of human natureas well as judges of the commodities they handled, and to become familiar with the actual facts of | crop-growing and handling, as well as with the theories of the statisticians who | live shut up in city offices. Thus it is that the man who tries to know all of a single item of life and busi- ; ness Must be ignorant of almost every- thing else. But the worst result of this one-sided life is that men are disabled. Turned out from the places they have long occupied, they are helpless to at- tempt anything else. This is one of the results of the selfish system which exists in the economic organization of to-day. By confining men to specialties, they are kept out of every other walk of labor. it reduces competition. The man of one Specialty is not liable to have to compete with the man in another Specialty. And by creating class feelings, the man of one specialty does not have to trouble him- self about the distressed member of an- other. It is the result of the excessive use of machinery. The thing of iron muscles and steel nerves was extremely valuable when there were not enough men to do the necessary work; but now that there are plenty of men, the iron worker does not let up. It has no soul and no mercy. It continues to make men one-sided and to turn them out of the workshops help- less. The dangers, as well as the defects, of a one-sided training are becoming serious matters in the economy of life. How they are to be counteracted is a problem not solved. It is worth attention. THE IMMIGRATION PROBLEM. The problem of immigration has at- tracted much less attention for the current year than was the case pre- viously. Owing to the business depres- sion and the increasing difficulty ex- perienced by newcomers in securing profitable employment, the volume of immigration has fallen off. Neverthe- less, with a return of prosperity, the in- flow of foreigners will no doubt resume the same vast proportions experienced prior to the present year. If the officials at Washington are to be believed, there has been an improve- mentin the class of immigrants who have recently come to this country. According to Superintendent Stump, of the National Bureau of Immigration, the Governments of Europe have ceased entirely to aid their subjects to emi- grate to the United States. This, of it- Self, has had a tendency to reduce the flow of immigration in this direction, and it certainly has caused a diminu- tion of the number of criminals and other undesirable persons among the immigrants. Superintendent Stump, who has re- cently completed a tour of the principal European countries, declares that he found the Governments of both italy and Germany willing and anxious to co-operate with the United States in preventing the emigration to this coun- try of criminals and other undesirable persons. He also stated that the Italian Government, while finding it profitable for so many Italians to come to this country, because of the large sums of money they are able to send home, is at present deing nothing to encourage emigration. To thoroughly reform the system of immigration, however, it will be neces- Sary not to depend on the aid of for- eign Governments, but to have our own agents at the ports of embarkation in Europe, so as to be ina position to ex- amine the status of every emigrant in his Own country prior to his departure for our shores. ————— THE COMING CHANGE IN BRAZIL. It now seems certain that President Peixoto, of Brazil, whose term comes to an end on the 15th of the present month, will quietly surrender the Office to his constitutionally elected successor, Presi- dent-elect Moraes, who was chosen at the election held in March last, while the De Mello rebellion was in full blast. It has been freely predicted in many quarters that Peixoto would not relinquish the residential office at the close of his term, but that he would declare him- self dictator and overthrow the constitu- tion. It now appears, however, that the Pres- ident has made all preparations to leave his office, and bas asked and obtained from Congress grants to defray the ex- penses of the inauguration festivities with which the rule of President Moraes is to be ushered in. A grand military review is to take place, and there will be other demonstrations of rejoicing on a grand scale, : The Republic of Brazil is greatly to be congratulated on the fact that constitu- tional methods are to prevail, and that no further pretext is to be given for rey- olution. President Leixoto will also gain immensely in public esteem. The adher- ents of De Mello and Da Gama, the rebel admirals who led the recent insurrection, claimed that Peixoto contemplated mak- ing himself dictator, and this was the rallying ery which held the rebels to- gether for many months. With the retirement of Peixoto from office, it is expected that the political sit- uation in Brazil will improve very much. Peixoto’s methods have not been popular with his people, and although the rebel- lion was quelled, the discontent stil] smolders. President-elect Moraes, on the other hand, is known to be in favor of general amnesty for insurgents and a strict adherence to constitutional forms of government. As soon, therefore, as he assumes power, it is expected that the wounds of the civil war will begin to heal. ne In view of the crusade for cheaper bread, which has been started in various large cities of the country, the Agricul- tural Department has given out a bul- letin on the ‘‘Cost of Bread,” taken from the forthcoming report of Prof. “. 0. Atwateron the nutritive value of foods. It says: ‘In practice one hundred pounds of flour will make 133 to 137 pounds of bread, an average being about 136 pounds, Flour, such as is used by bakers, is now purchased in the eastern states at not over $4 per bbl. This would make the cost of the flour ina pound of bread about one and one-half cents. Allowing one-half cent for the shortening and salt, which is certainly very liberal, the ma- terials for a pound of bread would cost not more than 2 cents. Of course there should be added to this the cost of labor, rent, interest on investment, expense of selling, ete., to make the actual cost to the baker.”’ a It looks as though the gold fields of Alaska were not altogether stocked with talk. A dispatch from Tacoma, Wasb., Says, that the steamer from Chilcot the other day brought down 100 pounds of gold dust, which represents the season’s work of four miners on the Yukon river. The dispatch states that the value of this gold is $400,000, but as absolutely pure gold is worth but $20.67 an ounce, or $248 a pound, there seems to be some mistake about that statement. Another consignment of $200,000 worth of gold from the same region is said to be on its way to California. It is reported that 800 miners are wintering on the Yukon, and that there is danger of a shortage of provisions. i Parisian doctors are warning the peo- ple there that they are running a great tisk in eating horse flesh, a sort of food that is said to be rapidly increasing in popularity there. Paris first became ac- quainted with the flavor of horse flesh during the seige of that city by the Ger- mans. Many acquired a taste for it, and its cheapness as compared with beef, costing less than half as much, commends it especially to the poor. Its use has also spread to Berlin and many other continental cities. The doctors have now discovered that the horse is specially liable to trichinosis, a most dangerous disease, which has hitherto been sup- posed to affect only hogs. i The trades: unions of Australia have gone to the length of protesting against the admission of non-union men to the public and charitable hospitals. This is in keeping with the cardinal doctrine of trades unionism, which asserts that no one has aright to breathe unless his ; Deck is encircled with the yoke of the ‘walking delegate. eee heer end THE SECRET OF SUCCESS. What is the secret of success in life? Who can tell? lt has been said that about 5 per cent. of the commercial men in the United States grow rich and die rich. The other 95 per cent. either fail or at- tain only limited success. As _ to the professional men, the percentage of those who reach distinguished eminence is, perhaps, not much greater than is that of the mercantile classes. There are small numbers of great lawyers, phy- sicians, clergymen, and still fewer great authors and soldiers. As to actors, the members of either sex that rise to the highest grade are few in number. But, after all, what is success? Does it mean wealth, influence, power, hap- piness, or what? Can it be defined in terms? These questions can be an- swered only approximately. There is no fixed standard of success. There must, indeed, be a different definition for every sort of success. In the lack of any fixed authority as to what is success, how would it do to inquire of the people what success is? However, there is nothipg so poorly founded as public popularity. A prize fighter, a bold highwayman, a dishon- est and unscrupulous politician, is, as often as any others, at the height of popularity. Often, too, popularity is as evanescent as a sunbeam on a cloudy day, a popular hero being car- ried on the shoulders of the crowd one day and stoned in the street on an- other. This has, virtually, happened to Mr. Gladstone in his time. Nevertheless, the populace, the mul- titude, while often misled in its hero- worship, never fails to recognize the world’s greatest men, and those were the men who were always truest to principle and most unswerving in their devotion to duty. Never were two men more unlike than were Generals Washington and Grant; yet both gained the applause of the world, not merely because of their transcendent military genius, but, more than that, for their lofty principles and steadfast, un- swerving devotion to duty. Nothing could turn them aside from what they believed was right. To succeed in anything, a manu must win the confi- dence of all with whom he is as- sociated. To be recognized as great, one must gain the confidence of the peo- ple. There are two principal sorts of peo- ple who gain public confidence. Of one are the men who go forward doing their duty as they see it, thinking no evil and seeking, if not to do good to all, at least to do as little harm as pos- sible. Such people will seldom attain popularity; but they will gain, at least, the respect of those who know them. Even bad men have a certain sort of respect for one who has always tried to do right, and has never been mixed up in any crooked or questionable pro- ceeding. Thieves cannot even manage their affairs without trusting somebody. Another sort of man who rapidly be- comes popular is the genuine confidence man. He has no principles. He is everybody’s good fellow, because he seeks public favor, because he wants to use it for his selfish purposes. He is always ready to give, because his object is to live on the public, and so his charities and benevolence always come out of the public pocket. Such THE: la man is generally a popular politician; but he sometimes appears in other roles | when an emergency seems to require} it. A masterly confidence man is equal to almost any occasion, and at the summit of public favor until his crimes, for he is pretty snre to be a criminal, are found out. Necessarily, is @ very rich man will occupy a very prominent position in any community. It makes little differ- ence in what way he made his for- tune provided it be not too highly scented with villainy and crime, but there is no necessary connection be- tween the possession of money and the commission of wrong. Many rich men are as honest, upright, charitable, and otherwise worthy as man can be. Some men have a faculty of being able to make wise or lucky turns in business. Everything they do prospers; but in ail of it they cannot afford to do anything that would destroy public confidence. People may pay court to a rich man whom they believe or know to be dis- honest, but they will neyer respect him. When it comes to the learned pro- fessions, intellectual endowments, of course, play an important part in the attainmeut of success. But they are not everything. The professional man must be regarded as honest, honorable and reliable. Without this he is sure to be distrusted. But, after all, no real light has been thrown on the secret of success in any walk of life. It is much a matter of individual qualities, and largely one of opportunity. However the problem of chances may be viewed, it certain that it cannot be wholly ignored. The children of the same parents, rocked in the same cradle and surrounded by the same influences, are by no means alike as to their mental and physical quali- ties. They are often radically differ- ent. Then their opportunities or chances are, also, just as different. Here, then, is a set of conditions that cannot be generalized. They must be treated in each case separately. Thus it comes out at last that nobody knows the secret of success in life. But it is a good rule to be upright, honest and true; to develop the mind as much as possible, and the moral nature, too, and to do with zeai such work as is to be done, and do it in the best manner and for the best interests of all concerned. This may not gain suc- cess, but it will win a good conscience, which is worth having. is Didn’t Make a Sale. From the Lewiston Evening Journal. A Lewiston family which traces its ancestry far beyond the Revolution owns an old coat whichis supposed to have been worn by a Major in the colo- nial army, and which is stained by his blood. This coat hangs in a showcase in the-hall, among other curiosities, and the family have for fifty years pointed to the yellow stain with pride. The other day a peddler came to the door and was left standing in the hall to await the lady’s pleasure in seeing him. Hesold some kind of infallible soap to remove stains, and,seeing the coat and its honored stain, he thought to please its owner by remov- ing the discolor. “You see, madam, that this soap is sure to remove stains of all kinds,’ he said when she appeared, and he pointed to the coat. He did not sell any soap there. oO MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Use Tradesman Coupon Books. re QUALITY - UNIFORMITY - P SEARS CRACKERS and CAKES Currant Drop Cakes. Imperials, Cream Jumbles, Cream Drops, Cornhills, Nonpareil Jumbles. Have you tried our new goods? Add a box or barrel to your next order. They are splendid sellers and sure to please. New York Biscui i ey S. A. SEARS, Manager, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. MUSSELMAN GROGER 60, WESTERN MICHIGAN AGENTS FOR HL ION 0. § GEDTONC BUTE SPRINGDALE (dairy) in 1 and 2 lb. rolls and tubs. SPRINGDALE CREAIIERY in 1 Ib. rolls, 2 lb. prints and tubs. GOLD NUGGET (fancy creamery) in 1 lb. prints. These goods took the lead in this market last season and we have reason to believe they will maintain their supremacy the coming season. MUSSLEMAN GROCER CO. Fall ’94 Underwear, Overshirts, Hosiery, Socks, Kersey and Cotton ade Pants, Caps, Outing Shirts, Yarns, Flannels, Cotton Flannels, Skirts, Cotton and Woolen Dress Goods, Ginghams, Seersuckers, Satines, in black and fig- ured, Batts, Comforts, Blankets. We have received over 100 cases new fall prints in all the newest styles and colorings, prices from 33 to 54. Give us a Prices always the lowest. P. Steketee & Sons, Grand Rapids, [lich. call. ‘mission or performed more absurd follies 10 SECOND-HAND PEOPLE. How They Suffer Trying To Be What They Are Not. There is no brand of inferiority so un- mistakable as the word ‘tsecond-hand.”’ The woman who buys a second-hand chair or table does so by stealth, and blushes to have it known. Ifshe bought her frocks and hats at a cast-off clothing store she would straightway find herself a cast-off from society. As for second- hand food—pah! no one but a tramp would eat such stuff. In all that per- tains to the mere bodily existence, what fastidious creatures these mortals be! If this care extended to the soul, the angels might come down and walk with us, as Raphel walked with Adam. But | if, in some rarely thoughtful mood of ob- | servation, we venture to analyze the} real entity that hides behind the acces- sories of body, clothing, food and furni ture, we make the astonishing discovery that this being so dainty, so refined as to its mere surroundings, is, or is fast be- coming, the poorest, meanest and cheap- est of second-hand things. Her bonnets come straight from Paris, her gowns are Worth’s freshest creations, the food that passes her lips is the daintiest product of earth and sea. “And meanwhile the soul, the self, is feeding, prodigal fash- ion, en the husks that the swine have left—the rotten opinions of dead ances- tors—swathing itself in the moldy wind- ing sheets of prejudice and custom that ought to have been thrown on _ the funeral pyre of some long past age, or making itself over with its next-door neighbor as a pattern. A psychological study of such a soul is More prs fitable than pleasant. It is like beg of a mummy. We come finally {o something that was once a liv- ing thing made in the image of God, but no precious sp’-es and embalming fluids have been used, as in the case of the mummy, and one needs a vast amount of fresh air while pursuing the investiga- tion. But open the doors and win- dows and let us begin. the unre Second-hand people spell society with a tremendously big S, and worship a Mysterious’ oracle whose name _ is “They.’? This pronoun has a_ widely varying significance. To find the noun that stands behind it is as difficult as finding the bacillus that stands behind a hew disease. If we have the patience to trace the word to its antecedent, we gen- erally find that ‘“‘They”is a commonplace woman, who lives in a three-story house, who has a few diamonds and a carriage, and who gives an occasional dinner party. Stranger still, we find that “They” is also second-hand, and a wor- shiper of another ‘‘They’’ whose house is more spacious, whose diamonds are a little larger, and whose dinner parties are more frequent and expensive than those of the other ‘‘They,” and so on through every grade of society. We speak of the freedom and enlight- enment of the nineteenth century, but what fetich-worshiper, what witch-be- liever, ever bowed in more fearful sub- than the second-hand people—mostly | women, alas !—who live in this year of our Lord 1894, and do homage to the | great god ‘*‘They.” Every season and | every occasion give opportunity for | some display of their second-handedness. Here is a poor little second-hand woman | setting out for Madame Blank’s spring) ‘THE: opening. She knows that John has a note in the bank that must be met this month, and that his insurance assessment She knows, too, that her | last spring suit is sti:l neat and becoming it has no ruffles on the! is now due. to her, but shoulders. She knows that ruffles on the shoulders will make her look like a fright, and she knows, too, that John hates that peculiar style of garniture. But ‘‘They” are wearing ruffles on the shoulders, and her next-door neighbor is going to have a new dress this spring, so she throws her common sense to the four winds, orders a new gown such as “They” wear, and poor Jobn has to pay the penalty for having married a second- hand woman, instead of the fresh, original, wholesome, independent crea- ture she might be if she would only use her own taste and judgment in the man- agement of her own affairs, instead of borrowing the taste and judgment of ‘They’? and her next-door neighbor. Here is another wretched little second- hand woman who is going to give a din- ner party. She could easily and sensibly entertain a few friends with an old- fashioned dinner or tea, but ‘‘They” are giving dinner parties. Mrs. B. gave one last week, and so, of course, Mrs. A. must follow suit. Mrs. B.’s husband has an income of five thousand a year, and Mrs. A.’s husband has no income at all. A dinner party is an every-day affair to wealthy Mrs. B., with her retinue of well- trained servants, while Mrs. A.’s ex- perience with this species of social function is limited to the reading of an article on ‘‘Dinner Parties,” in the Fire- side Journal or the Ladies’ Companion. But these trivial facts have no bearing at all on the ease. So Mrs. A. borrows a silver tray from Mrs. C., a set of salad forks from Mrs. D., some ice cream spoons from Mrs. E., acut glass jardi- niere from Mrs. F., and some finger bowls from Cousin Martha. Mrs. G. kindly lends her purse to act as dining room servant, and the dinner party is an actuality. The hostess has a head- ache the next day, and no one is at all deceived by the innocent ruse of a second-hand woman who is trying to regulate her life according to the stand- ards and ideals of her wealthy neigh- bors—about as sensible a proceeding as trying to wind an Elgin watch with the key to your front door. Here sits another second-hand woman with discontented face and idle hands. She needs some money for her own use and perhaps for others dependent on her. She knows a way, a perfectly hon- orable way, of making it. But society does not recognize wage-earners, and what would *‘They” say if she should make a brave confession of her poverty by taking up some honest work ? That mean soul who digged a hole in the ground and buried his talent was a second-hand man. The Lord had given him, probably, a talent for gardening or tailoring. and he perhaps wished to be a | So he interred the | gift that would have made him a first- Class workman in that particular craft, ; and wasted his life writing doggerel or And how many | poet or a painter. spoiling good canvas. descendants that man has. left! Women who have atalent for cooking, | and who prefer to paint pictures; women who would make admirable seamstresses. yet who teach school rather than sew; men who might be excellent mechanics, | and who would rather be fourth-rate MICHIGAN ‘TRADESMAN. | Leap INTO THE Licut by discarding the antiquated business methods of the past and abandoning the cash registers of a former age and adopting in their place up-to-date methods and a cash regi-ter adapte:! to the wants of the merchant of to-day. Such a cash register is the CHASIPION, which is hailed with delight and approval by the trade everywhere as one of the mechanical marvels of the age. The superiority of the CHAMPION over every other register ever invented is conceded ata glance, as it is the only register which enables the merchant to keep an accurate account of the sales ot each clerk or an itemized record of the transactions of each departm nt, or both. As progressive merchants and shrewd business men, the officers of the Parker & Fleming Co. take rauk with fancy grocers anywhere. Read their opinion of the CHATIPION cash register: PARKER & FLEMING CO., Jobbers and Retailers of, PURE FOOD PRODUCTS. JACKSON, Mich., Oct. 16, 1894. CHAMPION CASH REGISTER Co., Grand Rapids, Mich.: GENTLEMEN— When we opened our branch store in the new Library block last month, we purchased one of your cash registers for use in that store, and find it a great satisfaction to be able to check over each day’s transactions and know just ; what each clerk is doing. We have examined several other kinds of registers, but have not seen anything that would do our work as satisfactorily as the Champion. ’ We take great pleasure in recommending it. Yours truly, PARKER & FLEMING Co., D. S. Fleming, See’y and Treas. ("Every essential feature of the CHAMPION is fully protected by patents owned and controlled by the Champion Cash Kegister Co. Users will be protected and infringements will not be allow: d. ("Merchants desiring to inspect our Register are requested to drop us a ecard, So that one of our agents can call when in the dealer’s yicinity. It will cost noth- ing to see the machine and have its merits explained. Manufactured only by Champion Gash Register Go. Grand Rapids, [lich. ‘ : a S REED De ee) - = Mercer err gs ee I; ‘ aN a A Sis . # a - ‘THH MICHIGAN PRAVESMAN. a2 lawyers or doctors or preachers; people who despise the homely ‘‘gift that is in them,” and who are bent on manufactur- ing for themselves a gift that is buta base imitation of somebody else’s gift; people who might be an original voice, but who are only asilly echo; who are always to be found in the front ranks of the ‘‘fad-followers;”’ who read ‘The Heavenly Twins’? just because ‘‘They”’ are reading it, and who look to ‘**They”’ to give them an opinion of the book; who are making the most strenuous efforts to worm themselves into a ‘‘set’’? because “They”? are in it; who are neglecting their mental and moral culture and stint- ing themselves in the comforts and necessaries of life in order to make the same outward show that is being made by those enviable ones who are ‘‘in the swim;’’ who have turned their backs on the people in their own station in life, and are wearing out soul and body ina ridiculous attempt to float down the stream with the brass kettles; who make their little world in very truth ‘‘a stage,” and they themselves ‘‘merely players,” by trying to be something they are not, looking nervously around every few moments to get their cue from ‘*They;” who are thinking things they do not say, and saying things they do not think, and turning life into a long miserable course of self-depreciation. And while we are using the microscope and scalpel on others, we might occasion- ally turn our gaze inward on that strange something which, in materialistic lan- guage, we call ‘‘our soul.” It is just possible that there may be something second-hand about that, too; for, while a mirror for the bodily form is regarded as a necessity, a mirror for the soul is the last toilet convenience most of us would ever think of demanding. We know every curve of beauty in our faces and forms, every dimple, every wriukle, every lock of hair must be daily studied; yet we live strangers to ourselves, die without ever having looked our souls in the face. And for some of us_ there could be no more terrible judgment than. for one fearful moment, in the white light of eternity, to see ourselves as In- finity sees us. What is the lurking in- sincerity that makes us second-hand ? Is it a concealed and cowardly allegiance to some cause that has not yet reached the stage of universal popularity ? Is it the sneaking silence in which we hold ourselves when the expression of an hon- est opinion would call forth the ridicule and scorn of ‘‘They ?”? Are we cultivat- ing the acquaintance of people merely because society has set the seal of its ap- proval upon them—people whom we know in our inmost souls to be but stupid commonplace nonentities and whose companionship can only result in a mental and moral lowering of our- selves? Are we neglecting others whose elothes are shabby, whose mantels are bare of vases and plaques, but whose society and example might be to us a constant impetus toward all noble things? Are we spending our best ener- gies striving after something that we want merely because somebody else has it? Ah, poor second-hand beings that we are. it is only a chosen few who can an- swer such questions satisfactorily. I think that when our great forefather Adam looks down on the follies of his sons and daughters—especially those of his daughters—he realizes that the chief bliss of his married life in Eden lay in the fact that his wife had no neighbors | from whom to borrow ideas, opinions and rules of conduct; that she ate, drank, | furnished her bower, spread her table | for the Angel Raphel, clothes and put on fig blessed ignorance of ‘‘They.’’ What it | would be to have such a being for a wife | let that man say who goes about with | knitted brows and anxious heart paying bills for furniture like Mrs. Smith’s, | went without | leaves, all in | bonnets like Mrs. Jones’ and ‘“‘pink teas’? | like Mrs. Brown’s. The Creator has been at infinite pains, one might say, to produce an infinite di- versity in all his creation. Microsco- | pists tell us that there are no two grains of sand exactly alike; we know there are | no two bodies exactly alike, and this di- versity has been extended to the realm of soul, with the divine purpose of giving! to each human being an individuality of | his own—the most precious possession he could possibly have. Yet ninety-nine | out of a hundred people spend existence in an idiotic effort to destroy their indi- | viduality, to efface their real selves and | make instead a base imitation of some-} thing or somebody approved by ‘They.’ | Show me the woman who thinks, speaks, | acts out of the fullness of her own heart, and not out of the emptiness of some- body else’s heart, and I would gladly walk a score of miles to press her hand! and look into her face. You may tell me that she high-tempered and) “cranky” and ‘‘peculiar,’? and that Mrs. So-and So does not visit her, but if she is only herself and not an echo of ‘'They,”’ I shall find her an interesting personal- ity. In the intellectual world the great de- mand is for originality. It is the new thing or the old thing in a new form that brings from an editor the letter with the check init. And in the social world the same need exists. The second-handed- ness of people has made life so weary, stale, flat and unprofitable that we fly for | refuge to the theatre, the novel, any- thing that will give us a chanceto study human nature. We cannot see the essen- tial differences between Mrs. X. and Mrs. Y. They dress alike. they have the same | external polish of manner; they buy | their cloaks, hats and gowns at the same | establishment; each has a Brussels car- pet and a “parlor set” in her drawing- | room; when we enter this sacred room on | the serious business of ealling, the same | platitudes greet us. O for some sign | that shall make known to us the real! woman that must exist somewhere under | these externals! To discover and set! forth this is the business of the clever novelist, and hence it is that the daily novel is as important a factor in our mental life as the daily bread in our physical life. To be one’s self: is What does it mean? It means that you shallown no law higher than the ten commandments. It means that you shall bring every custom of society and every requirement of fashion before the tribunal of your com- mon sense, and, looking first at the cus- tom and requirement and then at your own individual circumstances and abili- ties, judge bravely and independently whether you shall follow and conform, or go your way free and unfettered. It means that you shall no more think of using your neighbor’s’ tastes and opinions than you would think of wear- ing her last summer’s bonnet, or eating Caysal Sorings Walet & fuel €0.. COUGH Jobbers of COAL, COKE and WOOD, 39 Monroe st. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Correspondence solicited with outside dealers. 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ONLY 607.CAN 10 2* HIGH GRADE BAKING POWDER SOLD AT THIS PRICE ILB.CAN 25° os - MANUFACTURED BY NORTHROP, ROBERTSON, & CARRIER ZANSING MICH. LOUISVILLE KY. a a ant a4 re the cold food from her table. It means that we must keep our spiritual palate as sensitive as our physical one. Offer me @ spoonful of some unknown mixture and I turn suspiciously away. I must know what I am taking into my mouth. But let society say, ‘‘Take, eat,’’ and we gulp down the thing without a moment’s hesitation. ' | Think of the bewilderment of such Ar Mit WIGAN PRADESMAL tion and failure; the only original act they ever perform is the act of dying, and unless there is a second-hand heaven prepared for them, God only knows how they will manage to spend eternity. be- ings at finding themselves in a state of existence where there is no ‘‘They,” no | society to whom they can refer their It may be an opiate for the brain, or a/| poison for the soul, but down it goes, because we have not the sincerity and the courage to refrain from doing the thing that everybody does. We are ac- customed to think of the actor’s profes- sion asa very difficult one. We marvel at the skill, the study, the intense men-| tal effort needed for Irving to personate Shylock. But this is a trifle compared with the difficulty the average human being has when he tries to be himself; for being one’s self means, in two words, sincerity and courage—virtues entirely too austere for the average human being to practice, since society lays a heavy tax on all who dare to be themselves. In a little Southern town there once lived and still lives a woman who, what- ever she may be, is not second-hand. This woman built a house on a site com- manding a lovely view. There was a certain point in the horizon that she wanted to be visible from a certain win- dow, and to compass this end the build- ers were directed toset the house in such a way that the front door faced the left- hand corner of the yard. This was a daring innovation. From time imme- morial in that little town ‘*They” had been building their houses so that the front door faced the front gate. There was no special reason for this—‘*They”’ themselves could not have given any. The other way proved quite as conven- ient to the occupant of the house and her | thoughts, words and deeds; thrown at | once and forever on their own little re- | | sources, with nothing before them but | the steady development of one’s individ- uality in the service of others, finding heaven is but a continuation of the- life | they scorned when on earth—what will | with him fer yourself. Visitors. But ‘*They” arose in their wrath and declared the owner of that! strange house to be a ‘‘erank.” Had the house been a fine mansion, and its owner a member of society, it would straight- way have become fashionable to make | the front door face a fence corner instead | of the front gate. Everybody have built that way and would have told you complacently that ‘They’? were building that way. But it humble little one-story cottage belonging would | | | to a bright, cultured, independent, poor | | the contents, when, as he inserted his woman; it remains solitary and alone, a witness to the ‘‘crankiness’’ of its owner, so the vast majority of people see it, but to me it seems always to say, ‘‘The woman who built me was not second- hand.”’ And what higher encomium could there be as a public opinion in life or an epitaph in death, for the servile imitation of others no better than we are is but an open confession of the mean opinion we have of ourselves, the cringing self-depreciation, the lack of all womanly self-respect, self-depend- ence and self-assertion that makes us twin-sisters of Uriah Heap and leaves us no claim whatever on the respect of others? Poor second-hand souls! No poet, no dreamer, no reformer, no thinker, no prophet, no singer of sweet songs, no lightener of the world’s darkness, ever came from their dreary, barren ranks. They march along cowering under the lash of ‘‘that chaos of ignorance and prejudice whick we call public opinion;’’ their lives are an apotheosis of the com- monplace; their ignoble discontent drives them into the valleys of humilia- j }as make him yell with pain. be .heir shock of surprise to find that no second-hand soul can enter the kingdom of heaven, either here or hereafter ! George Macdonald puts these words into the mouth of one of his loveliest characters, Margaret Elginbrod: “I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature I could think of. For to have been thought about—born in God’s thoughts— and made by God is the dearest, grand- est, most precious thing in all thinking.”’ Here is the content that will crowd out of life every base ambition, every mean emulation, every petty desire, every low craving, and leave us free to become just ourselves. Here you are, my lady, in all outward appearing as fresh and original as the first flower that bloomed in Eve’s garden. But you open your lips, you utter an opinion and—bah! second-hand ideas, second-hand tastes, second-hand habits, second-hand religion, second-hand mo- | rality-everything second-hand except the clothes. Away with you to the musty shelves of the old-clothes man! He would gladly buy your hat and gown, and perchance you might drive a bargain Think how you would icok hung up by the side of an old ball dress and labeled: ‘‘For sale, cheap—A second-hand soul.’’ EvLIzA CALVERT HALL. A Charged Mail Box. The constant danger that threatens the inhabitants of our cities from the heavy currents of electricity employed in elee- | tric lighting and trolley cars is well il- was only a! lustrated by an incident that occurred in Chicago a few days since. A carrier went to open the mail box to take out key in the lock, he received such a shock A police- man came running up and asked what was the matter. ‘I’ve sprained my wrist,” was the sly answer of the mail earrier. ‘*‘Won’t you unlock the box for me??? Then the policeman accommo- datingly pushed the key into the hole and fell back as though kicked by a mule. The two victims laughed and stood aside to await for results. A red-faced man stepped up with a hand- ful of letters and grabbed the knob which opens the box ontop. He didn’t put the letters in the box, but dropped them on the sidewalk and began to swear at the government for imposing upon its patrons. A woman with a bun- dle under her arm and a postal eard in her hand was the next to trifle with the feelings of the mail box, and she dropped both bundle and postal card to scream. A crown soon gathered around the mail box and waited for the chance to laugh. One by one the victims came up with mail to deposit, only to jump back, and then go away in search of a box that was better behaved. For an hour this con- tinued, when the current of electricity forsook the box, but nobody has been able to tell where it came from or whither it went. —_ = Use Tradesman Coupon Books. } | jc | | | } | i | | Established 1868 H M. Reynolds & Son.) Building Papers, Carpet Linings, Asbestos Sheathing. Asphalt Ready Roofing, Asphalt Roof Paints, Resin, Coal Tar. | Roofing and Paving Pitch, Tarred Felt, Mineral Wool, Elastic Rooting Cement Car, Bridge and Roof Paints. Oils. Practical Roofers In Felt, Composition and Gravel. | Cor, Louis and Campau Sts., Grand Rapids | > i We The Leading Nickle Cigar Made inthis Market. The Only Brand in the State (outside of Detroit) Made by Improved Machinery. This Cigar is made with Long Mixed Filler, Single Connecticut Binder and Sumatra Wrapper. Sold at $35 per 1,000 By the Manufacturer, G. - Johnson. +47 Grand Rapes Telephone 1205. GRINGHUIS’ ITEMIZED LEDGERS Size 8 1-2x14—Three Columns. © Guircs. 0) pees. $2 00 3 e 240 es 20 4 . 320 a 3 66 5 ii 00 : -oo) 6 o 489 ' 4 00 INVOICE RECORD OR BILL BOOK. 8) Double Pages, Registers 2,880 invoices. ..32 00 TRADESMAN COMPANY, Agents, Grand Rapids, - - - Mich. ' Cc Fe xo WS aGe: mot ae » Ce*DeUs > CURED rs racist to grow hair on the hse. tce with laese who cam cali at my offies a: « ihe ofice of my agents, provided the head is act glossy, or the pores of the scalp not closed. Where the head is shiny or the pores closed, there isnocure. Call and be examined free of charge. If youcannot call. write tome. State the exact condition of the scalp and your cccu- 2 230m PROF. G. BIRKHOLZ Tetc ce MIGHIGAN CENTRAL “* Tne Niagara Falis Route.’ (Taking effect Sunday, May 27, 1894.) Arrive. Depart pPenm........ Detroit Express ........7 00am 5 30am ....*Atlantic and Pacific..... 11 20pm 1 ys m...... New York Express...... 6 Opm *Daily. All others daily, except Sunday. Sleeping cars run on Atlantic and Pacific ex press trains to aud from Detroit. Parlor cars leave for Detroit at 7:00am; re turning, leave Detroit 4:35 pm, arriving at Grand Rapids 10:20 p m. Direct communication made at Detroit with all through trains eeat over the Michigan Cen- tral Railroad (Canada Southern Division.) A. ALuQuist, Ticket Agent, Union PassengerStation. 4c < RMiase Din A G € 23 4, aNS? en ’ ‘CEIGAN & Y. GOING TO CHICAGO, Ly. Gd Rapids... ..... 7:25am i:-5pm *11:20pm Ar. Chicago ... 1:25pm 6:50pm *6:45am RETURNING FROM CHICAGO, av. Chicago............8:15am 5:00pm *11:45pm Ar. G’d Rapids.........3:05pm 10:25pm *6:25am TO AND FROM MUSKEGON. Ly. Grand Rapids 7:25am 1:25pm 5:30pm Ar.Grand R. 9:i5am 3:05pm TRAVERSE CITY. CHARLEVOIX AND PETOSKEY. Ly. Grand Rapids.. 7:30am 3:15pm Ar. Monmisee........ 2:20pm 8:15pm Ar. TraverseCity.... 1:00pm 8:5 pm Ar. Charlevoiz...... 3:15pm 11:1lupm Ar. Petoskey 3:35pm 11:40pm Trains arrive from north at1:(0 pm and *10;00 | pm. | PARLOR AND SLEEPING CARS, Parlor cars leave for Chicago 1:25pm. For north 3:15pm. Arrives from Chicago 10:35pm. From north l:pm. Sleeping cars leave for Chi- cagu 11:3Upm. Arrive from Chicago 6.25. *Every day. Others week days only DETROIT, LANSING & NORTHERN R, R, Sept. 23, 1894 GOING TO DETROIT. Lv. Grand Rapids...... 7:00am 1:20pm 5:55pm At: Deo... ......... 11:40am 6:30pm 10:40pm RETURNING FROM DETROIT. iy. Dees... 7:4vam 1:1pm 6:00pm Ar. Grand Rapids...... 12:40pm 5:15pm 10:45pm TO AND FROM SAGINAW, ALMA AND 8T. LOUIS. Ly. GR 7:40am 4:45pm Ar. G R.12:35pm 10:55pm TO AND FROM LOWELL, Lv. Grand Rapids........ 7:00am 1:20pm 5:55pm Ar. trom Lowell.......:.. 12:40pm 5:15pm ....... THROUGH CAR SERVICE. Parlor Cars on all trains between Grand Rap- ids and Detroit. Parlor car to Saginaw on morn- ing train. Trains week days a. GEO. DEHAVEN, Gen. Pass’r Ag’t. Yaa GRAND HAVEN & MIL- WAUKEE Railway. EASTWARD, Trains Leave +tNo. 14itNo. 16)tNO. 18/*No, | Gd Rapids, Lv) 6 45am/10 20am| 3 25pm |11 00pm lente... ar, 7 40amj11 25am) 4 27pm |12 35am St. Johns ...Ar, 8 25am/12 17pm} 520pm| 1 25am Owoss)...... Ar) 900am| 1 20pm} 6 05pm! 3 10am E, Saginaw... Ar /10 50am] 3 45pm| 8 00pm| 6 40am Bay City .....Ar/11 32am] ¢ 35pm} 5 37pm} 7 15am rim... Arj10u5am| 345pm| 7 U5pm/ 54 am Pt. Huron... Ar}1205pin 5 50pm} 8 50pm} 7 30am Pontiac ..Ar}10 58am} 305pm) § 25pm] 5 27am Detroit. Ar|i150am| 405pm]| 925pm] 7 0dam WESTWARD. For Grand Haven and Intermediate Cacia ¥*7:00 a. m. | For Grand Haven and Muskegon.... .¢1:(0 p.m. ’ . si “Mil. and Chi. .+4:55 p. m i +Daily except Sunday. *Daily, | ‘Trains arrive from the east, 6:35 &.m., 12:60 i p.m., 4:35 p.m. Trains arrive from the west, 10:10 a. m. 3:15 pm. and 9:10 p. m. Eastward—No. 14 has Wagner Parlcr Buffet Car, No. 18 Parior Car. No. 82 Wagner Sleeper. | _Westward— No. 11 Parlor Car. No, 15 Wagner Parlor Buffet car. No. 81 Wagner Sleeper, Jas. CAMPBELL, City T’cket Agent. Grand Rapids & Indiana TRAINS GOING NORTE, Leave going North | For Traverse City, Petoskey and Saginaw 7:40 a.m ty : | For Traverse Ci Lagi ainpridhiiccariait tc deere eee ae non etl Sl :25 p.m [ior Oe -5:00 p. m. | For Petoskey and Mackinaw...... ee 10:25 PD. n. | TBAINS GOING SOUTH Leave going : outh. ~~ :50 a.m For Kalamazoo and Chicago... 5 p. n. For Fort Wayne and the Kast.. 715 p m. mer nee 40 p.m. For Kalamazoo and ae. *11:40 p.m Chicago via G. R. &1. R. R. Lv Grand Rapids........ 6:50am 2:15pm 11:40pm ae Os... 2 9:00 p m 7:10 & m :00 p m 2:15p m train hasthrough W decane g agner Buffet Parlor 11:40 p m train daily, through W and Coach. y z agner Sleeping Car v cago 3:30pm 11:30 Arr Grand Rapids 9: 15 om 7 208 = 3:30 p m has through Wagner Buffet Parlor Car. 11:30 p m train daily,through Wagner Sleeping Car. Muskegon, Grand Depts & Indiana. For Muskegon—Leave. — 1 35 an m a = 00pm ra m *:40 Dm Seep m KWOoD*‘ 0.L. LOC General Passenger and Ticket Agent. NGRAVINGIF Buildings, Portraits, Cards and Stationery Headings, Maps, Plans and Patented Articles, TRADESMAN co., Grand Rapids, Mich. 54, ; a. pm am pm amp = § B r. pm pm pm pm pm pm ip- rn- ocee 5 5ee = W1.E.DOUGHERTY, Sat Svrou.nw Sekai: fH a MINCE MEAT. PLUM. RASPBERRY, PEACH, APRICOT. BLACKBERRY. APPLE, RAISIN. HUCKLEBERRY, CHERRY, or alate tat mai i Pm nha wasanan Prins & 9B ye The Fairy’s Pie, or ‘‘All the Goodies in One Bite.’’ Piper of Hamelin, charmed by his wonderful music? They wandered | for years through the Valley of Childhood, rushing along without | stopping to think of the goodies they had left behind them. One day Mother Goose was flying by on her broom-stick and stopped to listen to the piper’s playing. She loved music and children too; and when she remembered how long the little ones had been journeying with iy you remember the gay troop of children that hied after the Pied | not a bite to eat she shook her old head and said: ‘‘Music! yes, that’s all well enough, but those children need something else beside music and scenery. They must have victuals and drink.” As the children caught sight of the old lady they set up a loud cry, be- seeching her to steal them away from the piper. The dear old soul turned her broom-stick downward and dipped up every little tot and left the old piper to wander alone. a —— **Squeak—i—ty—-squeak,” went the old broom, for the load was all it could carry. Now, where should they go? Mother Goose headed her stick to the North—every youngster shivered. She turned to the South—they all squirmed with the heat. They had come from the East, so away to the West they started. ‘‘Now, children, what do you want most of all? Whatever you say, you shall have,” said Mother Goose; and again they shouted all together, ‘Something that has every goody in the whole, wide world in a single bite.” Mother Goose was puzzled. ‘‘Victuals and drink all in one bite! I didn’t suppose they would ask for so much.” The dear old lady had swept cobwebs out of the sky all her life, now she must sweep them out of her memory, for where would she find that rare dainty that would hold every goody in a single bite. She wrinkled her forehead, and thought, and thought, and finally snapping her fingers she said, ‘‘I have it! ha! ha!” Away they flew on to the West, over the ocean, through the clouds, now up, now down. and at last the broom-stick began to drop, drop, lower RED FRONTS! RED FR cre rc2 ar we ARE SEE WHAT WEA D send free to at e 8 ng 5 Fr THe FairRy’s Pieé 0 ¢ 16 T. E. DOUGHERTY, CHICAGO, ILL., & PORT BYRON, N. Y. and lower, and suddenly what a beautiful country they saw! Mother Goose had brought them back to the real world again, and she told them that they were now in New England where she lived when she first came to America years and years ago. Soon they came to a New England home, and in they sailed through an open pantry window. The whole load of children were dumped, and Mother Goose and her good stick were gone. And what do you think they saw? And what did they smell? And what did they taste? Surely every goody in the world in a single bite, for they scrambled around a real New England mince pie, and a beautiful pair of Fairy Hands with a bright silver knife cut the pie just to fit each wait- ing mouth. It was fairly bursting with spices and sweets and fruits and meats, and they ate, and they ate, and they ate, and then they began to grow. And what do you think they grew into? Why, just what all good children grow into who eat mince pie made from DOUGHERTY’S NEW ENGLAND CONDENSED MINCE MEAT.—splendid American NEW ENGLAND CONDENSED MINCE MEAT. citizens. ONTS! RED FRONTS! ruses 2 red fronts ab ir For 5 RED FRONTS-- THE FaiRy'S Pie B K f I ry t ‘ Ne 1 For 2O RED FRONTS--(All i r E Fairy’s Pie,’’ FAIRY’S CHILDREN,’* ANC FAIRY'S PiE Boo r. te aunt eis BSE SS oo ta tas podbot a Maret art 15 ON THE WARPATH. Muskegon Grocers Determined To Cur- tail the Peddling Nuisance. From the Muskegon News, Oct. 31. There was a liberal response to the call for a meeting of the grocers last night, and the crowd that assembled in the commission house of Moulton & Ride] showed how they felt towards put- ting a stop to peddling produce about the city and establishing a city market. The hour set for the meeting was 8 o’clock and but a few moments after that a glance about the spacious office reviewed the following grocers: C. C. Moulton, A. Ridel, D. Christie, Wm. Me- Comb, W. H. Read, L. Vincent, F. Smith. F. B. Aldrich, F. Danielson, C. Welling- ton, H. Shaw, A. Towl, D. Boelkins, Wm. Nested, J. Carscadon, A. Payne, J. Medema, D. Kampenga, H. Solheim. There were also present N. Nelson, M. Birch, butchers, and Mayor McGraft, Re- corder Schnorback and 5S. H. Stevens. of the Charter Committee. Once assembled but little time was lost in getting down to the subject at hand and it was discussed in a manner that betrayed tne seriousnes of the matter and also the deep interest the merchants feel. Recorder Schnorbach stated that the present ordinance could not be en- forced because the Supreme Court had rendered it invalid in other cities. An ordinance governing such a matter must contain a schedule of articles such as it may cover and the amount of license to be paid for the privilege of peddling them. An ordinance without such pro- visions would not stand. S. H. Stevens was of the opinion that the Coancil should pass an ordinance covering the matter. Early during this expression of opin- ion Mayor McGraft made his appearance and the subject was turned to a discus- sion of the practice of peddling about the city, and some very forcible argu- ments were used in favor of abolishing such a practice, or rather regulating it in such a way as to deal fairly with the merchants. Many of the merchants argued that not only the retailer was harmed, but the people who buy, as well. W. H. Read gave a good illustration as to wha: the people sometimes bought for A lt cheese from peddlers. ‘They eall it skim milk cheese,” said Mr. Read, “‘but this is the way they makeit: Mix milk with cotton seed oil, a little flour added and then steam injected and you have what many of these fellows sell for the best make of cheese.’”’ “It is not only groceries that are ped- dled from door to door,” coutinued Mr. Read, ‘but everything from a folding bed to a dish rag, and it harms every merchant, no matter in what line it may be that he deals.’’ Other merchants stated that to their personal knowledge peddlers called at the celery farms in the outskirts of the city and, procuring the leaves stripped from the sides of celery, would bunch them and sell them fur celery. Another said he had personal knowledge of some peddlers gathering up garbage from grocery stores, sorting and selling it. Mayor McGraft suggested that the Grocers’ Association appoint a commit- tee to draft a schedule of articles and prices for the purpose of presenting it to the Council and asking to have them embodied in an ordinance. Acting on the suggestion, the following committee was appointed: W. H. Read, F. B. Aldrich, A. Towl, J. Carscadon and D. A. Boelkins. No action was taken toward the estab- lishment of a market, as the Mayor did not think under the present charter a market would be practicable. ADMIRABLE FORM OF ORDINANCE. Naturally enough, THe TRADESMAN was appealed to tu furnish a suitable draft for an ordinance, submitting the following form as admirably adapted for the purpose: AN ORDINANCE Relative to hueksters, peddlers and hawking in the city of ———. Sec. 1. License for peddlers. sell without. Unlawful to THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 2. License for fruit venders. lawful to sell without. 3. Application for license. 4. Cost of license. 5. Farmers may sell their farm product |expressly prohibiting the without license. 6. Name and number on wagon. 7. Obstruction to streets, must not be. | 8. Penalty for violation. 9. Bonds in certain cases. 10. Annual licenses only to be issued. 11. Permits forbidden. The Common Council of the city of does ordain as follows: Section 1. No person or persons shall engage in the business of hawking, pack or other peddling in the streets or other public places, or from door to door, in the eity of ———, without first having obtained a license therefor from the Common Caunceil of said city. Section 2. It shall not be lawful for any person or persons to engage in the business of selling fruits, nuts, candies or any other article whatsoever, froma stand, stall, cart, wagon, pack, basket, or in any manner, on any of the publie streets, parks, grounds, places or alleys in said city, without first having obtained a license therefor from the Common Coun- cil of said city. Section 3. Any person desiring to ex- ercise or engage in any eallings afore- said shall make application to the Com- mon Council of said city for a license therefor; such application shall state the goods or merchandise to be sold and the place and manner of selling, and the time said applicant desires said license to run. Section 4. Upon the granting of such license by said Common Council, the ap- plicant therefor shall pay into the treas- ury of said city such sum as the said Common Council shall direct, not exceed- ing in any case $15 per day, and shall also pay to the clerk of said city the further sum of $1 for issuing and reeord- ing such licease. [Section 5. This ordinance shall not be so construed as to apply to any person or persons coming into the city with teams or otherwise with any produce for market, orto any person selling \ ge- tables or berries or other produce of their own farms or premises. | Section 6. Any person who shall ex- ercise the vocation of a peddler by means of a wagon, cart or other vehicle shall cause his name, together with the num- ver of his license, to be printed on the outside of his vehicle in letters ures not less than an inch in length. Section 7. to sell their goods or merchandise from the wagon, cart, booth, stand, pack or basket, shall pot occupy the street or sidewalk in such a manner as to inter- fere with or interrupt the travel on the street or sidewalk. Section 8. Any person or persons who shall violate the foregoing provisions and requirements of this ordinance, on conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not less than one dollar, nor more than fifty and costs of prosecution, or by imprisonment at hard labor in the common jail of the county of ———, or in any penitentiary, jail, work-house, house of correction or alms-bhouse of said city, in the discretion of the court or mnagistrate before whom the conviction may be had, for a period of not less than two days-or more than sixty days; andin case such court or magistrate shall only impose a fine and costs, the offender may be sentenced to be imprisaned at hard labor in the common jail of the county of ——, or in any penitentiary, jail, work- house, house ef correction or alms-house of said city, until the payment of such fines and costs, fora period of not less than one day nor more than sixty days. Section 9. Hucksters and peddlers of fruits and vegetables shall be required to give a bend in the sum of fifty dollars with two surities of satisfactory responsibil- ity, tocomply witu the requirements of the ordinance and to pay any damages sustained by reason of the sale of un- wholesome fruit, vegetables or berries. Section 10. In the case of peddlers of fruits and vegetables annual licenses only shall be issued. Section 11. The Mayor is hereby ex- pressly forbidden to issue any permits to apd fig-| | Un-/| peddle or in any way interfere with the | | enforcement of this ordinance. | Section | where the charter contains levying | dle the products of their own farms. <—_2e > | Monthly Report of Secretary 5 may be omitted altogether no provision | of | few weeks ago. | license fees on farmers who wish to ped- Mills. ‘*‘My attention was called to Paskola,” he said, ‘“‘by a marked copy of the New | York Times, which was mailed to me a This paper contained | an attack upon the food and also an an- | alysis made by Dr. Eccles, formerly of | the United _States Agricultural Depart- | > is alvsis j an ee > ‘ | Granp Rapips, Nov. 1—The following | ment. By this analysis it appeared that new members have joined during the past | Paskola consisted of one pint of glucose, month: aoe 3733 C. A. Baird, Detroit. Edward Bullock, Detroit. E. F. Baxter, Boston, Mass. 7 John M. Curry, Ingram, Pa. 3728 Thos. C. Daly, Detroit. 3733 E. A. Foster, Detroit. ‘ M. H. Gunn, Lansing. 3738 W. W. Gillam, Kalamazoo. 3720 Michael Hogan, Grand Rapids. 3761 John Hawthorn Ypsilanti. 3736 C. A. Lemen, Lansing. 3740 R. E. L. Murphy, Lexington, Ky. 3719 J. C. Phelps, Grand Rapids. 3735 Perry O. Priest, Grand Rapids. 5760 E. C. Plumstead, Detroit. 3731 Milton Reeder, Grand Rapids. 3716 John F. Shaw, Grand Rapids. 3726 C. W. Sprague, Chateaugay, N. Y. 3730 O. C. Shults, Chicago. 3715 W. F. Bowen, Grand Rapids. 3716 J. Fillmore Shaw, Grand Rapids. 3717 Martin DeWright, Allegan. 3718 C. W. Mansfield, Ypsilanti. 3721 H. L. Gregory, Grand Rapids. | $722 H. B. Prescott, Niles. | 38723 Chas. E. Young, Brockport, N. Y. 3724 J. B. Smith, Grand Rapids. 3725 R. W. Holmes, Detroit. I will, under date of Nov. 10, mail each member a notice of annual dues of $1 for 1895, payable on or before Dee 31, and enclose with same an application blank, and if only one member in four sends in the application of some desirable com- mercial traveler during the next sixty days, our membership will reach the 2,000 mark, which we are rapidly near- ing. 1 would call your attention to the sub- joined letter from Chairman Moeller of the Railway Committee, and congratulate Our members upon the very friendly re- lations existing between the railroads of our State and this Association, and I sin- cerely trust that no member of this Asso- ciation will be guilty of abusing any of the privileges so generously granted us. I assure you that the present Board of Directurs will promptly expel any mem- ber proven guilty of this charge. L. M. Mints, Sec’y. All persons who are or who | may be licensed by said Common Council OFFICIAL NOTIFICATION. DetTRoItT, Nov. 2- Enclosed please find copy of resolution passed by the General Passenger Agents at their September meeting. { was under the impression that I had not sent this to you; if I have, no harm done. H. F. MOELLER, Chairman. Resolved, That for the annual meeting of the Knights of the Grip at Grand Rap- ids, Dec. 26 and 27 next, a rate of one single fare for the round trip be granted, upon presentation to the ticket agent where tickets are purchased of the mem- bership certificate issued by the Michigan Knights of the Grip, identifying said member to apply for members, their wives and immediate members of their families, selling agents to take a record of the name of the parties to whom tickets are issued and the number of the certificate for each ticket issued, and for- ward the same to their general passenger agent. Selling days, Dec. 26 and 27, good returning up to and including Dee. 28. ne Prohibiting the Sale of ‘‘Paskola.” The State Food Commissioner of Ohio has issued an edict, prohibiting the sale of ‘‘Paskola” within the boundaries of that State. The same action has been taken by Dr. Luther S. Harvey Food Inspector of Detroit, so far pas the city of Detroit is concerted. The State Food Commissioner of Michigan has not been heard from on the subject. The grounds on which Dr. Harvey bases his action is set forth in a newspaper in- terview: fifty drops of muriatic acid and from seven to eight drops of sulphurous acid. Later I saw another analysis by an ex- | pert, which tallied with the one made by Dr. Eccles, in the July number of the Druggist Circular. The that I procured I tested for glucose, and found that it contained nearly 190 per cent. of that substance. The sale of this articie as food is clearly in violation of the law, aud I shall order its sale stopped in this city, and if the order is violated by any druggist I shall proceed against him as provided for by the State law.”’ The apathy of the State Food Com- missioner is significant, especially when the activity of Detroit’s Inspector is con- sidered. bottle —— > 2 A Valuable Monopoly. Aluminum is commercially produced by an electric process, of which one company has practically the monopoly of the world. The fierce heat of the electrie are is employed to fuse the ore and lib- erate the pure metal. A special type of dynamo is used, delivering a very large current of just sufficient intensity to overcome the resistance of the mass to be fused, so there is but little loss, and nearly the whole energy of the generator is available as heat. The chemical de- tails of the process have been so greatly simplified by the introduction of electric heating that the older metheds have been driven out of existence. Aluminum may be easily and permanently coated, or plated, with other metals by a method recently discovered in Germany, and which bids fair to be of great value in the arts. The aluminum is first dipped into a solution of caustic potash, and left there until bubbles of gas appear on the surface. It is the laced in a batb of corrosive sublim: and, after an- other dipping in eaustie potash, is put in a solution of a salt of the desired wetal. A Dangerous Swindle. Pittsburg is making war on the ‘discretionary pool.” a form of gambling and swindling which has sud- violent denly grown popular in that city. A nuinber of concerns have sprung up there and it is estimated that they hold from $5,000,000 to $1,000,000, repre- senting some 50,000 investors. Their eli- ents are workingmen, washerwomen, do- mestic servants, farmers and others, who have been assured of getting anywhere from 20 to 100 per cent. profit on their money @month. Many men have mort- gaged their property to put money into the pools. The theory of the concerns is that the money deposited is to be in- vested Dy a skillful broker at dis- cretion, in stocks, bonds, grain. or provisions. Monthly dividends are de- his clared to the stockholders out of the profits. Several of the concerns have been running for some time, and large dividends have been declared regularly. But it is said that these are merely to serve for bait to allure more investors into the business, and that presently the concerns will disappear, and most of the money invested will go the same way. _——_-_—~-+o << — A bond investment company, in To- ledo, has been debarred from sending matter through the mails by the Postof- fice Department, on the ground that the company is conducted on the same basis as a lottery and circulars relating to its operation are non-mailable. Use Tiadesman Coupon Books. 14 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Drugs# Medicines. State Board of Pharmacy:! One Year—Ottmar Eberbach, inn Arbor. Two Years—George Gundrum, lonia. Three Years—C, A Bug bee, Cheboygan. Four Years—S. E. Parkill, Owosso. Five Years—F.W.R. Perry. Detroit. President— Fred’k W R Perry, Detroit. Secretary—Stanley E. Parkill, Owosso. Vressurer—Geo. Gundrum, Ionia. Coming Meetings—Lansing, Nov. 7 and 8. Michigao State Pharmaceutical Ass’n. President— A. B. Stevens. Ann Arbor Vice-President—A. F. Parker, Detroit Treasurer—W. Dupont, Detroit. Secretay—8S. A. Thompson, Detroit. Grand Rapids Pharmacenticea) Society President, Walter K. Schmidt; Secretary, B. Schrouder Window Dressing in a Drug Store. With respect to advertising, a phar- macy is in a measure handicapped; it has not the latitude of the large depart- ment stores of the city, which advertise one particular line and incidentally sell adozen others. If a man goes into a drug store to buy liver pills, a shelfful of cough wixture does not appeal to him in the least. It may be that the retail druggist of the future will be forced to carry a general line of merchandise, to which his drug stock will be merely an adjunct; but to-day the profession looks to each individual pharmacist to protect its dignity and demonstrate its ability to stand alone. One might as well be adead man as a nonentity, in business. The merehani must make himself known, andif, as is the case with the druggist, his advertising resources are limited, he must fall back On an attractive establishment to invite the public within his walls. He musi make a landmark of his store, give it an individuality, and have it Known for its reliability and high standard. Noi enough attention is paid, as a general rule, tu the dressing of show windows, and this is really so important a feature the druggist cannot affurd to overlook it or grow careless in his displays. It is a Mistake to fill a window with a heter- ogeneous collection of elixirs, pills, per- fumes, eorn-cures, and hair- brushes; it may be a fine exhibit of first- Class stock, but it is too contusipg a mass to make any impression on the passer- by—there is nothing to catch the eye. On the other hand, if the druggist will clear out his window, and into the empty space unload carelessly in a heap a bar- rel ot stick liquorice, a munkey-skin of aloes, a quantity of some crude drug, or any other one thing, it is comprehended at a glance, and serves asa reminder to the pedestrian of something in the drug line he ought to have. A windvuw in one of the popuiar New York pharmacies presents a very at- tractive appearance. The background and floor are covered with Turkish towels; the pyramid of rock-salt boxes is flanked on both sides with loofahs, two meeting in a point at the apex; sponges are festouned from the ceiling, and svap, flesh-brushes, ete., dropped promiscu- ously about, the whole making an at- tractive, display. it is a good thing to keep window dec- orations *‘up to date’’—that is commem- oraie current festivities and celebrations With appropriate designs and colors. In selecting colors, harmony is, of course, the main thing, and the following com- binations may be used with artistic ef- fect: cigars, Orange and black. Pink and olive-green. Lavender and mauve. Golden brown and yellow. Cherry and white. Light blue and mahogany. Yellow and white. On class days, and occasions that arouse public enthusiasm, as foot-ball games, boat races, ete., the college or club colors may be adopted in the win- dow dressing. These color-display ar- rangements are exceedingly dainty, and involve only the expense of a variety of drapery silks, which will last almost in- definitely if removed earefully and laid away smoothly after each time of using. The dressing may be more or less elabo- rate according to the talent of the dresser, a simple method being a half- length curtain hung on a brass rod at the back, and the floor covered loosely with silk of the complementary shade. One week the exhibit in the window may be toilet articles—perfume, face powder, tooth-brushes, manicure implements; another week, bronchial lozenges, in bulk and packages;-the next week, an array of witch hazel, or whatever is sea- sonable. Rose-pink draperies and black liquorice in a window would tempt any man to buy. A very clever device, and one which atonce attracts the eye and could be used in these color windows effectively, is long satin streamers, attached to bot- tles or packages or to miniature flag- poles, and kept flying festively in the breeze created by a concealed electric fan. A marine window for the advertisement of the various cod-liver oil products is zood. In this a complete model of a ship— -chooner, sloop, or other fishing boat- is used as acenter piece; and around it, in classified groups, are bottles of pure ced-liver oil, emulsion, capsules, malt and oil—any preparation that contains a per- centage of oil. Sea-weed, star-tish, or iny aquatic curiosity, may be used for additional decoration. This method of advertising admits of almost inexhaustible variety; but even in this the question of environment must be considered. One must study the taste of his patrons, to learn what style is most likely to win their attention; he must look at the subject not only from his own standpoint but also from that of the class of trade his locality commands. L. H. FostEr. Seely’s Flavoring Extracts Every dealer should sell them. Extra Fine quality. Lemon, Vanilla, Assorted Flavors. Yearly sales increased by their use. Send trial order. Seely’s Lemon, rapped) Doz. Gro. loz. $ 90 10 20 2oz 120 12 60 4o0z. 200 2280 60z. 300 33 00 Seely’'s Vanilla Wrapped) Doz. Gro. 1o0z.$150 16 20 20z. 200 21 60 3°75 4080 60z. 5 40 57 60 Plain N.S. with corkscrew at same price if preferred, 4 oz. Correspondence 0 Solicited SEELY MFG. CO., ;Detroit, Mich. | Is This A Good Thing ? $15 for $4 You Want It! You Have Yo Have It! The haw Says You Shall Have [t! 2,800 Labels All in convenient form for immediate use as illustrated below, with in- structions for using. NO LABEL CASE NECESSARY. THEY NEVER CURL. THEY NEVER GET [IXtrD UP. TRADESMAN © COMPANY'S CLASSIFIED LIST OF —_ ee | POISONOUS DRUGS < How to Use Them 2: ARRANGED IN FOURTEEN GROUPS WITH AN ANTIDOTE FOR EACH GROUP. mn which Antidote to use for a giv also the number: of find the arncle on following list, “ te label to be ased—see oumber Gab eee Ue ee CAUTION—Use no other system of Poisan Labels with this fst i ee PP ware ORDER NEW LABLLS BY NUMBER. | There are 113 poisonous drugs sold, which must all be labeled as such, with the proper antidote attached. labels, the smallest amount sold. ure it out—113 kinds at 14 cents ?—$15.82. Any label house will charge you but 14 cents for 250 Cheap enough, at a glance, but did you ever fig- With our system you get the same re- sults with less detail, for less than one-third the money. Sent prepaid to any address, when cash accompanies order, for $4. Tradesman Company, Grand{jRapids, Mich. ' ' THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Wholesale Price Current. Advancec—Gum Opium, Morphia, Assafcetida. Declined—Canary seed, Bi Car Soda. ACIDUM. Aceticum ...... ...... 8@ 10 Benzoicum German... 65@ 75 eS 15 Carverecum:......... 2B ae 22Q@ 2 Eiyarocniog ........... 3G ee ..........--.- 10@ 2 Omer ...... 24... 10@ 12 Phosphorium dil...... : 20 Salievicote ..........-. 1 25@1 60 Sulpnuricum.......... 14@ 5 re. ..4......-.. 1 40@1 60 Tercaricum........ i<- ao oo AMMONIA, Aqua, 16 ual 4@ 6 a - aee.......... 61@ 8 ene ees 12@ 14 Colgneee ...... 2... 12@ 14 ANILINE, cee. 2 00O@2 25 Bee... ... oo epee yee Vemew .........: 0: 2 5003 00 BACCAE. Cubeae (po 25)...... 20@ 2 Jemiporas ............. 8@ 10 Xanthoxylum... 25@ 30 BALSAMUM, sk 45@ 50 — Deets cae @2 (0 Terabin. — _— = Tolutan . voc. oe CORTEX. Abios, Canadian.... ........ 18 Ceamee ....--.-..-... 2 Cinchons Piers ............ 18 Euonymus atropurp........ 30 Myrica Cerifera, po......... 20 Cregaus Viewim.............. 12 Quiliaia, grd...............- 10 Seemeee ..... es. woes 12 Ulmus Po (Ground 15)...... 15 EXTRACTUM. hiza Glabra... 24@ 25 —, eee RD BQ 35 " __~ boar.. 16 @ ——- 1 Leet cee 13@ 14 ' ‘a bss tsp oc 14@ 15 _ gs. 16@ 17 FEBRU Carbonate Precip...... @ 15 Citrate and Quinia.... @3 50 Citrate Soluble........ @ 8 Ferrocyanidum Sol.... @ 8 Solut Chioride........ @ 15 Sulphate, com’l....... 9B 2 - per... e& 7 FLORA. eee 12@ 14 ee eS BW@ 35 Micra #4 tir. .- 50@ 65 FOJA Bar rng 14@ 30 Ga “scutitol, n- : arvene ...... .....-.- 2@ 28 ni lx. 3@ 5 officinalis, 34s eS 0 Ura tre ...-:........ 8@ @UMMI. st picked.... @ 60 Gamboge, po.......... 7 " Guaiacum, (po 35)... @ 3 Kino, (po 1 %)....... @! 75 Manteo sl @ Bi Myrrh, (po. 4)......-. _@ @ Opli (po 3 30@3 50)..2 5°G@2 60 Bao ........... .. 2 & bleached..... 33@ 35 Treeecans ........... 40@1 00 HERBA—In cunce packages, Ae Eupatorium . Lobelia.... Majorum. Mentha Piperita <— wz. . Ru Tanacetum, Thymus, V MAGNESIA. Caloined, Fas.......... 55@ Carbonate, Pat........ 20@ Carbonate, K.& M.... 2@ Carbonate, Jenning5.. 3@ OLEUM. Abeinthicm. ......... 50@3 00 —, maid... .. 30@ 50 —_ alae, Amarae....8 00@S 25 yo SS eS 2 65@2 80 Auranti Cortex....... 1 80@2 00 Dergaeet ............- 3 00@3 29 i 60@ 65 Carvouhyil........... BQ 8 os. 35@ 65 Chencpodii . ee @1 69 Cinnamond ........... 1 60@1 = oo ee @ Conium Mac.......... 35a és Opes 0 86@ Cubebae..... a 2 00 Exechthitos 1 20@1 30 Erigeron . --1 20@1 30 Camere 8... 1 50@1 60 Geranium, ounce..... @ Gossipii, Sem. gal eoma . Junipert.. Lavendula Limonis..... Mentha Piper.. Mentha Verid. Morrhuae, gal. gs ounce... oe. 04 eceeaal a. 2 1 00 Rogae, ounce. .6 50@8 50 Succini...... - 0@ 45 Sabina ...... - 9@i Santal .... -2 50@7 00 Sassafras. 50@ 55 Sinapis, ess, ‘ounce Tiglii POTASSIUM. Bi Carb. tsi--yese.. Ee 2e Bichromate ee 13@ 14 — ete ee ses ou, 0@ 43 Sn 26 1 Gueaai (po, i 7@19).. 16@ 18 Cranes 00 50@ 55 Ce 2 996@3 00 Potassa, Bitart, gy 23@ 2 Potassa, Bitart, com.. @ 15 Potass Nitras, opt Lecce 8@ 10 Potass Nitras. eae ee ie oe 1@ 9 Prue. 8... 28@ 30 SUIpAets pO........... 15@ 18 RADIX, ey 20@ 2% aneee. 22 3 po ee 12@ 15 mae §G............. @ B Calamus. . tess oe Gentiana (pe ). 12). _—-. on Glychrrhiza, (pv. 15). . Be ———_ Canaden, == fet @ Ww He here: “Ala, me 15@ 2 ee 15@ 20 eee pe... 1 30@) 40 Tris plox (po. 35@38).. 35@ 40 aeeee, OF... 40@ 45 Oran, We.......... @ 3 Podophyitum, me... 15@ 18 Ree 75@1 00 o ees @1 75 = ue eae T5Q1 35 Spige ‘EN LA 35Q 38 Sanguinaria, (po 25).. @ w Bernentaria............ 30@ 35 Senega 55@ 60 Simiflax, Officinalis. H @ 4 M @ 25 Scillae, (po. 35)........ 10@ 12 are, Fosti- Ss @ Valeriana, Eng. (po. -~ @ German... 15@ 2 ee 183@ 2 ee 18@ 2 SEMEN. Anisum, (po. 20).. @ 15 Apium (graveleons).. 4@ 16 me oe... 41m 6 Carul, (po. ta)... 2. 10@ 12 Cortes... 1 00@1 25 Comancrum........... 12@ ” Cannabis Sativa....... 4@ Cone. ben a Chenopodium ...... Dipterix Odorate ..... 2 4092 to Poemouwnm........... @ Foenugreek, po..... . & OS ei - Bh@4 Lint, a. (bbl. 8%)... 3%O 4 io............... 35@ 40 Pharlaris Canarfaa 4@ 5 nee... | 44 5 Sinapis Ai ri 7 °& Nigra.. 11@ 12 SPIRITUS. Framenti, W., D. Co..2 00@s 50 De RL 1 75@2 00 eee eu oe 1 25@1 50 Suntperts Co. O. T....1 Gz 00 Santee. 1 75@3 50 ee mo... 1 73@2 00 Sot. Vind Galld........ i ee CO Onee _.........- 1 25@2 Vint BiG8............: 1 25@2 00 SPONGES. Florida sheeps’ wool Careage............ 2 % Nassau esheeps’ wool TS 2 00 Velvet extra sheepr’ wool Carriage....... 1 10 Extra yellow sheeps’ eerraee .........-... 85 —- sheeps’ wool Car- .“ Hard for slate use. 7 Yellow Reef, for slate We. 2... 1 40 SYRUPS. MO cy tiles ic, 50 . 50 —— eek ee ie ee 60 ere SOG. 50 — a ieee ieee 56 Tet AYOUR ct. ful. 50 Similax Officials: eacas = Oe a se 50 Re 50 Pe Ms ecites a uccie soe 50 OMAR cs cet aca, 50 Me WO ec. - TINCTURES, a Napellis - ese — ee Sanguinaria. Barosma .... Cantharides. Capsicum ... Ca damon. Co. Camor...... Catechu... Cinchona . " Co. Columba .... Contum ..... _ . SSSSSSSssgg SSRSSS SU HAS SSS SSEESESesesadsasecsacesess mmon Zingiber ....... Hyoscyamus.. ioamee.. " Colorless. . on Chloridum.. eee Nux Vomies......... R Camphorated...... ie " See 2 AugrantiCortex...... ....... Cee ew ee eeeeeete = 5... Cossia Acutifol......... ... ' ecco. Sormeniarig MerOmmOnee [nn Veeren eee Veratrum Veride............ MISCELLANEOUS. Aither, Spts Nit, : F.. 2@ 30 47... 2 & Pee . 24@ 3 . — = a). - : 3@ 4 Annatto. De oes . 55D «60 Antimoni, a... @ 5 iia et Potass T. = 60 meee... lt. @1 40 Antife re... @ 2% Argenti Nitras,ounce @ 50 Avecnicum .......... ” 2a ~ . 200 s* ita © Red Star. 4 , cans........ 40 si % b Bes a . -_* 1 40 Teifer’s, : - cans, dos. = oe 7 4 Ib. ‘ee Our Leader, \& -b cans..... 45 .ics...... @ : iibeans..... . 1 @ BATH BRICK, 2 dozen in case. as Euaglish ie ae 80 Rae BLUING, Gross Arctic, ‘ oz ovals oe 3 60 — . ...... 6 7 _ pints, sei Looe Oe oa Ro. 2, sifting box... 2% “ Fes .. £0 = woe ' ._ 8 : ) og ball .. Lo 45 Mexican Liquid, : oe. 3 60 nes 6 80 BROOMS, ado. 2 Hurl eee ee 1 90 OE, 2 00 No. 2 Car Co. 2 1% No. 1 Po 2 50 Poe 2 50 Common Weiek............ 85 Fancy oo 1 on marceomn........ .....-... 2 85 BRUSHES, Stove, No. a... 13 Oe ee eee 1 50 oa = 2... ....----... 1% Rice Root Scrub, 2 row.... 85 Rice Root Scrub, 3row.... 1 25 Paimotto, goose............ 180 CANDLES, Hotel, 40 Ib. boxes oe 10 Star. 40 Paraffine Wicking OANNED GOODS. Fish. Clams, Little Neck, 1 ib 12 - . 2... 1 90 Clam Chowder. aa te... Cove ee Ib Standard 1 7 Ib. aoe 1 35 Lobetérs Star, [C= : 2 45 2 lb 3 50 Picn Ib. 2% ° 2ib. 2 on Mackere!, Standard, 1 tb 110 21 2 10 Mustard, 2lb. 2 25 Tomato Sance, 2 1b 2 25 Soused, 2 Ib . 12 25 Salmor. Columbia River, flat 1 85 = wil 1 6 Alaska, Red 1 3n as penk... 2 Kinney’s, flats 1% Sardines, American ‘gt 4%@ ae »@ Imported ‘9 @w « I5s@ é Muetard &s 627 Boneless .... . 21 Trout. Brook 38, Ib... 2 Fruits. Appies. 3 lb. standard . 9) 2 60 York State, — : Hamburgh, ' . niesipioanal live oak. ...... : 1 40 Benes Crem........ ... 1 40 oo... 1 50 Overland. 1 #0 Blackberries. recy... .....- 85 ' Cherries. ok @i 20 Pitted Hamburgh | oo _aee ....... rom 1 40 — .. 1 Damsons, ‘Eee Plums and Green ages. a 1 35 —)hOté(‘(‘( lf. 12% Gooseberries. Common oo 13 Peaches. ,.. ... . 1 16 oe... 1 50 ee oe eee 150 oe - % Monitor . re. ee Pears. —............. oe ee.............. Pineapples. een... 1 30 Johnson’s sliced...... 250 . ereted.....: . + Booth’s eliced......... @2 5) - oreted........ @2 Quinces. es .............. 1 10 Raspberries, ae 95 Black = c, 14 Erie. black 120 Strawberries. Lawrence . 13 Hamburgh . ‘= = |. C 1 20 Terrapin 1 5 Whortleberries, Blueberries ........ 85 eats. Corned beef Libby’s....... 22 Roast beef —" nee 2 Potted ham, — oa 12 ee 70 . tongue, oe. 1% . oc. oe ' chicken, SR 95 Vegetables. Beans. Hamburgh stringless....... 115 French style..... 2 00 . es. ...... 1. © Lima, green..... 16 C soaked.. 70 Lewis Boston Baked 12% Bay State Baked...... -.--k World’s Fair Baked........ 1 25 gee 95 Corn. aan 12 Livingston Iden ........... 119 —s ...-. -1 00 — we... 12 Morning Glory... aoe 2... vis} Pea Hemburgh wae eee 1 30 early June . ...1& - Champion Eng..1 40 . = oo... 1 4 ancy sifted.. _ a seamen... ———. o Herries standerd............. % VanCamp’s marrofat....... 110 ' early June..... 1 30 Archer’s Early Blossom....1 25 French.. sone ae Mushrooms. enc: os ceee e 1921 “Pumpkin. i‘ ae. i Squash. oe 1s Succotash. oe oe 140 I tence cn, 80 Boney DewW...........- 1 40 ae... 1 35 Tomatoes. pee Excelsior Eclipse Hamburg.... he ae... 3 00 CHOCOLATE, Baker’s. German Sweet... .......00- 23 rooms... 4... oe. 37 Breakfast Cocoa.......... 43 ee see... 11% oe 11% Eeeree..... os 5 lis Riverside ... lls. Goid Medal...... 10% 2 8@9 Brick 12 case ..... 1 06 Leiden . el 20 Limbarger on @15 Pineappl @24 Roane cy @*5 Sap Sago.. B20 set weitzer. ‘mported ¢. 3 domestic .... wid CATSUP. Blue Label Brand. _ pint. 25 bottles Oo m tO aZR SSa Quart 1 doz bottles — Triumph Brand. alt pint, per dos ......._. Pint, 25 bottles ort oer Gee... |... CLOTHES PINS, = gross boxes........... 40@45 COCOA SHELLS. i> eee... Less —— oe @3% Pound packages ...... . 6%&@7 One COFFEE. ae 19 ee 20 ee 22 ar. ——— and Guatamala. eS oe... cig: 24 Maracaibo, ae 23 — 24 Java, Some 25 Private Growth... 27 Ce 28 Mocha, ae 2 ee 28 Roasted. To ascertain cost of roasted coffee, add ec. per lb. for roast- ing and 15 per cent. for shrink- age, Package. McLaughlin’s XXXxX.. » 80 ——- 20 36 Lion, 60 or 100 lb. case.... 20 80 Extract. — City STOBB........ 7 i 115 Hummer’, a gross. ee 1 65 avs 2 CHICORY. Bulk. 2 ae 2 CLOTHES LINES. Cotton, 0ft....... per dos. 1 25 . oe....... . 140 . i... . 1 60 _is......- _ 175 ie er... . 1 90 Tute on... e 85 _ rr ..._.- _ 1 00 CREDIT CHECKS, 500, any one denom’n..... 83 00 1000, CS 5 00 — = Se 8 00 Steel —s.. .... _ = CONHENSED ‘MILK, 4° dos. in care, N.Y.Cond’ns’d Milk Co’s brands Gail Borden Eagle..... ... 7 40 See. 6 25 eS 5% een 4 50 ae | 425 Dime... 3 35 Peerless evaporated cream, 5 75 SEDMULKGe ee aa 5 00 eee. 8 4 50 ieee. ................... oe CRACKERS. Butter. Soypmeureee............ . 5 Seymour XXX, cartoon..... 5% Family Xxx 5 Family XXX Salted Xxx Salted XXX, cartoon Kenosha. . ae... Butter biscui oe, cee... a, City Sean, Pechem.............. 8% Crseeel Warer..,.-.......... 10% Long Island Wafers ....... 11 — So Oneer £Ee............. 5% City Gyater, SEX............ 5% Pextoe Opiier.............. CREAM TARTAR. Serictiy pure.......... oo Telfer’s Absolute.......... 30 eens... cs... 55... DRIED FRUITS, Domestic, Apples. Sumaeies. by Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes 6% Apricots, California in bags.. ... 10 Evaporated in boxes. ee In boxes.. . 7% Nectarines. i eee... 25 t>. bewes.... .......... Peaches, Peeled, in boxes........ Cal. se —ti‘( 8% i in bage...... 8 Pears. California in bags.. — — ted Cherries. 50 1b. boxes . 2° Prunelles. 30 lb. boxes.. . Raspberries. oe... 20 50 1b. boxes..... eee ees 21% oa 2% sins, Loose Muscatels in Boxes ewe. 3% a 1%q _-. . 5% Loose Muscatels in Bags, oor... 3% oo 4% Foreign. Currants. a oe... 3 Vostizzas, 56 1b. cases ..... 3% IMPORTE g “*0 CLEANED gy Phin, RAPIDS CLEANING CO. HIE Race? 205. sy, Hits = acedl) I 36 1 Ib cartoons........ 6 25 ib. boxes, bulk....... 5 50 Ib boxes, buik........ 4% Sultana Raisins. 1 Ib, cartwons............11 Peel. Citron, Leghorn. > Ib. boxes 13 Lemon 8 Orange » = . . 10 Raisins. Ondura. 29 Ib. boxes... @ 8% Sultana, 20 : @s. Valencia, 30 ‘“ Prunes, California, 0-19).......... 990x100 25 Ib, DxR. ~ ' 80x90 6% “ 7 x80 “a 6% i Cameo ire Turkey ee over ................. ENVELOPES, XX rag, white. mie... 81 35 0. 2, 6% 1 En 1x mo. 2.6.... ' —. to Manilla, white. ee 75 eae 70 Coin. ee oee.. 90 FARINACEOUS GOODS. Farina. 100 Ib. kegs............. 3% Hominy. BRETONS oc cccsccsesesccscccs 6 UD a. ..._......,......-..... 3% Lima Beans. ae. 5 @5% Maccaroni and Vermicelli. Domestic, 12 Ib. box.... 55 oe 10%@l11 Pear! Barley. ORB. crc ccc ccccccccceecces Peas. ay Oe poe OOP... 3 Rolled Oats. Schumacher, Pee oe %b Monarch, bbl Monurch, & bbl.. Quaker, cases. Sago. Pee 4 aes... Wheat. I 34 FISH--Salt. Bloaters. Oe Cod. Georges cured...........- 4% Georges genn'ne......... Georges selected......... 6% Boneless orcks.. ..... 6% Boneless, strips.. ....... 6@9 Halibut. ee Herring. Holland, white hoops a 6 8 11@12 Norwegian Round, ~ ‘bbl 100 Ibs — 3 20 (a 16 ae... C ' 16 eae. =... Sardines. mae, HGes.............. 55 Trou No.1, % Lage 100lbs Sco eee 4 00 No. 1% b 1, 40 a... 1 - oe. t, ioe. 10 Ibs. . aaa mo 1,60 bae............ a7 Whitefish. No. , family % bbls, — eee 7 OO 2 5H 40 ie a 1 1% 10 Ib. ee 8 44 OO — 7 35 MATCHES, Globe Match Co.’s Brands. Columbia !arior. $1 Zak Seer ....._... 1°60 Diamond Match Co.’s Brands. | Beier perier............... i 30 ae lw Rxpoct perior............... 400 FLAVORING EXTRACTS, Souders’. Oval Bottle, with corkscrew. Best in the world for the money, Regular Grade Lemon. soe .... oe... Vanilla. Jennings. Lemon. babi 202 regular anes 75 40 _. 2 0 6 ox o -. 3 00 Mo. S taper........ 1 35 2 00 No. 4 taper........ 1 50 2 50 Northrop’s Lemon.. Vanilla. 2o0z ovaltaper 75 1 10 3 02 ' - to 18 2 oz regular ‘ 85 1 20 4 o r to 225 GUNPOWDER. Rifle—Dupont’s, ee i 3 25 om cee... 1 90 Gumrter keeps... ..........- 110 oo... “a 30 i Come.................,. 18 Choke pee Cen cone 42 Her Kees..............- -- + apna kegs... ~_i1o Tip cans ...... - Eagle ieik:-deeemete. ege So eee ees Seer cece 11 00 dN 5% martes Repe.... °. ... |. 3 00 ee 60 HERBS, INDIGO. Madras, 5 lb. boxes....... 55 8. F., 2,3 and 5 lb. boxes.. 50 LY. is 2S. polis... @ 62 _ @ 57 @ 89 30 25 12 meee we 10 LY€, Condensed, : ye a 1 20 bee ce s+ oni ns Mince meat, 3 doz. in case. 2 7 Pie Prep. 3 doz. in case....3 00 MEASURES, Tin, ame dozen. 1 gallon oe . & © Half gallon. ee 2 aoe... 70 ee a 45 ier pene... sl 40 Wooden, for vinegar, per doz, Roe 7 00 Half aren... 4% —" eee oe. 3 78 rs... - = MOLASSES. Bilacgetrap. pueer Sous... .... 14 cea Baking. OvGginary.......... 16 20 Fancy .. 30 Per .. 18 Good 22 Extrs good..... pene sce 27 Cees eee a 32 Fancy 40 Half. barrels 3c.extra THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN, 17 PICKLES, Medium. Barrels, 1,200 count... @5 00 Half bbis, 600 count.. @3 10 Small. Barrels, 2,400 count. 6 00 Haif bbls, 1,200 count 3 50 PS gay Clay, he oe................ 2 = 2. Tull Ome... 2. 70 Cen Bae... 1 20 POTASH, 48 cans in case. Oy 400 Penne Salt Co.s.......... 3 00 RICE. Domestic. Caroiina — ss ceed et 6 ° Ree a Imported. See ee Tk. 8 5% - mae... 5 oere............ ———. Pate... .:...... oe SPICES, Whole Sifted. Aiees. 9% Cassia, China in mats...... 9% " Batavia in bund....15 - Saigon in rolls...... 32 Cloves, —— Petes cesae 22 ' Zanzibar..... ae 11% Mace Meievm....... ....... 80 Nutmegs, ao. ......... 75 Bef = - eo. 2............... Pepper, ee — 10 - ae. 4. 16 "a — aii in Bulk. ac... Cassia, “Batavia Deets Voce oe : and Saigon.25 . peteee ........ Cloves, Amboyna - dees eyes. Ginger, African.. Cochin.. = pone an Maco tees... 65 Mustard, Eng. and Trieste. .22 Trieste............. 25 fae 2 bao ie epper, Singapore, blac. 1 ee 2s J hig ion eas ae oe. “Absolute” in Packages, es Aimee... . 84 155 Cinnamon.. «sce fF 2 GS Cleves... ............. 84 155 Ginger, Jamaica...... & 155 r Airican........ 84 155 aoe eee eke ee a fe RE occ oc aae 55 ee. a, os ae SAL SODA. Granulated, bbls eee a cress 144 75lb cases...... lw Lump, toe 115 Trp Kers........._- 1\% SEEDS, oa @15 Canary, Smyrna....... 4% Caraway _............ 8 Cardamon, Malabar.. 90 Hemp. Russian....... 4 Mixed Bird........... 5@6 - agi white....... = ee ere... ..... ....... 5 Cuttic bene........... 30 STARCH, Corn. ee POEM 5X et ee 5% Gloss. Liepeckages................ 5 3-lb . fed eee os oe 6-lb ee 5% 40 and 8 Ib. boxos.......... 356 corres... 3% SNUFF. Scotch, in bladders..... Maccaboy, mn 3ene.... 35 french Rappee, in Jars..... 43 SODA, Box cnet ss cece a tie came English | oops cee cae 4% ALT, een Cc rystal. Cases, 243 lb. boxes......801 60 Barrels, : ao TOR... ... 2... 2 50 115 2% oe 4 00 ° t05 7 4u No. 0, - bull’s eye, cases 1 i doz each.1 Ou LAMP WICKS, mo. 0 nee Gross... 26 No. 1, ee ol 28 No 2, CS 38 No. 3, c 65 Mammoth, per doz.. 78 JELLY TUMBLE sas—Tin Ton. 14 Pints, 6 doz in box, per box (box (0)... 64 5 ee ag Goa (Obi 3)...... 23 _ . © box, “ Dow (bow O).... 1 a — Ss” * bee, doz (bb1 36)..... 26 STONEWARE—AKRON. Butter Crocks, Lte6g gal. .... c % gal. per doz. a Jugs, % gal., per doz. i“ ee eles) oe “ ito4 gal., per gal. eT . @& Miix Pans, va Kul., per dos a. " ou 1 H T STONEWARE—BLACK GLAZED. Butter Crocus, 1 and2 gal .... 6% Milk Pana, 4 pal. per doz... ._....... 65 ‘ 1 i se 73 Gripsack Brigade. B. F. Winch (Swartout & Downs) Starts out this week after an enforced dleness of five months, due to a serious kidney and liver attack. Traverse City Eagle: Hub Baker, a well-known traveling man of Grand Rapids, was in town this week in a rather crippled condition. He just arrived from Petoskey, where he enjoyed a happy experience with a rope stretched across a sidewalk, just above the walk— evidently the scheme of the proverbial small boy. The result is a couple of broken fingers and _ several painful bruises which suggest a damage suit against the corporation of the resort town. 48 ‘THH MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. MEN OF MARK. Artemas Ward, Advertising Manager of Enoch Morgan’s Sons Co. The transfer of the National Grocer to the American Grocer Publishing Com- pany, by which the National Grocer and the Philadelphia Grocer and Market Journal are absorbed by the American Grocer, removes, to a large extent, from trade journalism a figure that has been connected with the grocers of this coun- try for many years—Artemas Ward— who for twenty years has been directly connected with the grocery press of this country, and during this time has de- voted much energy and brought to bear upon the grocery movement an intelli- gent and healthy criticism that has borne good fruit, and will do soin the future, as its influence will be of infinite ad- vantage to the grocery trade and the gro- cery movement. In this sketch it is not intended by the writer that it shall be biographical, be- cause in such a sketch full justice could not be done to a personality entirely distinct from any other that has ever been connected with the grocery press. Mr. Ward’s ancestors were national characters ata time when this country needed men of patriotism, honor and energy. The grandfather of the subject of this review was General Artemas Ward, who was second in command to Washington in the struggle for American independence. Springing from such a stock, it is only natural that Mr. Ward should have displayed in his public career a courage equal to that of his an- cestors. We know from personal expe- rience that in the darkest days of the grocery movement and also the darkest days of the journal with which Mr. Ward Was so many years associated, he would never listen to any compromise or be party to any clique—no matter what the reward held out—that had not the best interests of the retail grocer at heart. Many times and oft has Mr. Ward raised his voice and used his pen against the shams that have been simply intended to serve the interests of some individuals at the expense of the retail trade. He struggled for and maintained an inde- pendent newspaper in the face of untold odds, and one of his first figfits was with a house which demanded the insertion of advertising as editorial announcements. While Mr. Ward at this time was by no means in easy financial circumstances, he refused, even with the threat of a law suit made against him, to allow one single line to appear in his newspaper which could be in any way construed into a reflection upon the honest manu- facturer or against the best interests of the retail trade. Of course, nobody with the independent views and manliness and courage to ex- press his views, as Mr. Ward has done in the past, could escape adverse criti- cism. He was called by his enemies ‘‘a good fellow, but a crank.’? What of this? All men of character, of original- ity, or of independence, are more or less considered to be cranks; but Mr. Ward’s erankiness could never be said to be smirched in the least by selfishness. was, without doubt—and say I this ad- visedly—the most unselfish journalist ever connected with the trade press of this or any other country. The writer recalls many instances wherein Mr. Ward’s personality served the trade well and sayed it from much odium as well as rom its would-be-friends. He | | Asawriter, Mr. Ward must rank as | one of the most brilliant and original the jtrade press has ever seen. In recent years he did little of this, his time being | taken up in other more pressing matters, | but those who can remember him in his | early days of grocery journalism will re- |eall the broad humor, elegant diction and original ideas which permeated all he wrote. He was not a financial writer and paid little attention to that depart- ment in his paper, but some of his edi- torials on trade subjects stand out as re- markable literary productions. These were far above the average, and many a time has Mr. Ward been urged to con- AS AN EXPERT ADVERTISER. Under the heading of ‘‘A Brainy Ad- vertising Man,’’ the following review of Mr. Ward’s career appeared in Printers’ Ink under date of Jan. 7, 1891: Artemas Ward, of Sapolio fame, was born and educated in New York, al- though long residence in Philadelphia, and aconnection of sixteen years with the Philadelphia Grocer, has led many to consider him a Philadelphian. It pleases him to tell how he secured his engagement with the Enoch Morgan’s Sons Co. He applied to them for an ad- vertisement for his paper. Discussion led to better acquaintance. At a third eall the idea of writing advertisements for them was suggested and declined, but led to his engagement as advertising nect himself with the daily press. Had he done so, he would certainly have made as great a markin the daily jour- nalistic field as he has done in his con- nection with Sapolio. The many vicissitudes and changes that Mr. Ward has seen in the grocery trade since his first connection with it made his judgment valuable and his ex- perience in this direction has aided him in bringing Sapolio so fully before the | people that to-day it is a household word |and is to be found upon the shelf of every grocery store in the world. Personally, Mr. Ward is a prince of good fellows, a faithful frierd, constant and fearless in his support of what he believes to be the truth, and an indefat- igable worker. Besides his connection with Sapolio, he is now editor of Fame, a journal devoted to the interests of ad- vertisers. In his partial loss to the gro- cery trade press, the retailer loses a steadfast friend, who could always be relied upon in the hour of need and one who never hesitated to make personal and financial sacrifices to advance what he considered the rights of the retailer. B. manager, and soon to a general connec- tion with its work. The business has very largely increased during his six years’ attention to its interests. As an advertising writer he is well known, his Sapolio proverbs being sec- ond only to Solomon’s in wide publicity. He declares that the patience and effort involved in studying four thousand pages of proverbs, many in their original lan- guages, really deserve more praise than any talent displayed in wording or adapt- ing them. As a dispenser of advertising, he has gained a reputation for absolute secrecy in regard to rates, and of good faith in dealing with agents. In these two points he has probably no equal in the field. The advertising of Sapoliois very di- versified. Its variety of methods has rarely, if ever, been exceeded. The street cars of every city in the United States display its proverbs, but so do those of Caleutta, Rio, Valparaiso, Lon- don and even Nagasaki. Its pamphlets are very effective, and are even printed in Russian. Its bill-posting includes countless wordings and sizes, from the gutter snipe to great posters, which rival those of the circus men. An enthusiast in regard to advertising, Mr. Ward is ever ready to discuss a doubtful point, until those who visit his office wonder when he takes time to at- tend to the many commercial interests under his care—he replies that he belongs | to the labor union, and works 16 hours a | day and uses three phonographs dictating | to the one in his dining-room after dinner |and before breakfast. He discounts the merit of mere advertising writing, which, if not associated with capacity for gen- eral business management, is of compar- atively little value. We inquired, for | our readers’ information, how Mr. Ward learned the advertising business, and received the following characteristic re- ply: “Do you recall Paul’s personal record when he contrasted his labors with those of his contemporaries? 1 do not wonder at the errors of the majority of advertis- ing dispensers, when I realize how little 1 know of the great work after seventeen years of hard toil. Yet I take no back seat in the record of effort. I have kicked a Gordon press all day; fed 32x44 sheets to the cylinder half the night; folded paper for the binder all the week; run the papereutter till the floor was knee deep in trimmings; read proof to the compositors until the ‘lunch hour’ after midnight was as usual as the noon- day meal; clipped for the pun hook and scribbled for the copy hook until they were full enough to justify one day’s ab- sence from the office; made ready on the press, overlaying and underlaying, and have stood over it all night; issued an eight-page illustrated paper the size of Harper’s Weekly, on an outlay of $50 per week; corded up my own bundles for the American News Co. and got them back with my own knots in the ropes; edited, published, addressed, folded and wrapped with my own hands a commercial paper mailed to all parts of the world, which brought exchanges for years from India, China and even the Boer presses of the Transvaal; run a country weekly with 350 subscribers; edited and published three rival grocery sheets in one city; edited a 16-page illustrated paper, with a 100,000 issue; devised, printed and filled every sort of advertising scheme, from the bills of fare and backs of the tickets of a restaurant up to the issue of cluoth- bound volumes, doing most of the can- vassing for them myself; have read proof (generally by that painstaking method of spelling every word after the copy) in French, Spanish, Dutch, German, Portu- guese and Russian; have been an em- ploying printer, editor, publisher, office boy and devil; have employed probably 25 ecanvassers, and although I always tried to run an honest advertising me- dium, I have seen one of my canvassers hide behind the press when an adver- tiser came in! I know how hard it is to canvass for advertisements—how hard it is to get honest service from canvassers, or honest reasons from advertisers; how trying itis to bear the foolish assump- tions of superiority on the part of tyros— and how difficult it is to devise a really telling advertisement; but I do not yet know the whole advertising business. I speak as a fool; none knows it; none ever will.” Mr. Ward’s name is widely known through its connection with the humor- ous lecturer, but he derives it from his great-grandfather, Major-Gen. Artemas Ward, of the Revolution, and the substi- tution of a ‘‘u’’ for an ‘‘a’’ is one of the little things that annoy him. While he strenuously opposes being confounded with his phonetical name- sake Artemus Ward, he is fond of telling funny stories, and there is not a more loyal disciple of the humorist with the wax works show than the individual who gives out advertising for Sapolio. He be- lieves in the article he advertises. He breakfasts with Sapolio, he dines with Sapolio and he dreams of Sapolio. Sa- polio is his Alpha and Omega, and sue- cess must crown the man who so thoroughly and emphatically believes in what he teaches. ft would be idle to say one word of praise of the advertising of Sapolio. It speaks for itself. It may be criticised, but criticism often springs from jealousy, oftener from incompetency. Success has fixed its seal to the methods and to the article; but Artemas Ward is something more than an advertiser, he is in absolute contact with the entire business of the house. He can tell youall about Sapolio in New York, New Orleans, Denver, San Francisco, Honolulu, New Zeeland, Aus- THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. tralia, Japan, the Strait Settlements, India, Cairo, St. Petersburg, Lisbon, London, Edinburgh, and even Killarney, where he worshipped at the shrine of the Blarney stone in the interests of Sapolio! Few men who dispense advertising in this country, or for that matter in any other, so thoroughly realize the impor- tance of their position as Mr. Ward. Not that he conceives his own importance, but that he realizes the responsibilities which are earried with the distribution of over $600,000 a year. A mistake means considerable loss to his own prestige and to the profit of the concern which he represents. Itis through the conscien- tiousness with which he spends other people’s money that Mr. Ward has achieved his great successes. In many respects he is regarded as a crank, but his crankiness may always be traced to his earnest desire to serve those who employ him. In this respect he is a wholesome element in the advertising world. ——(c» -2- > BUSINESS ENGLISH. Who is there at the present day that does not give more or less attention to the peculiarities of the English lan- guage? He may not be a student of lan- guage itself, and yet, in everyday contact with words and phrases, his attention is drawn to some peculiarity which cannot fail to have its effect. Every new slang phrase commands attention. Frequently a phrase of this kind excites admiration, for it opens up a new avenue of expres- sion without which certain ideas could not be so well conveyed. Again, at- tention will be drawn to the foreigner’s idiom at rendering English. Many are the stories which have been written at the expense of the German and the French who have been struggling with the peculiarities, not to say absurdities, of our language. Our idiom is some- thing which the foreigner rarely mas- ters. However correctly he may speak the language, however grammatically he may write English, there will yet be be- trayed in some peculiarity of construc- tion or the use of some obsolete word the fact that he is not to the manor born. One of the extremest illustrations of the use of ‘dictionary English’? in con- trast with everyday usage came to our attention only a short time since. We were examining a collection of engray- ings. The captions originally were in French, but some one, probably a French- man, for the benefit of English observers, had attempted to translate the captions. One of the pictures represented the re- - Sults of a premature burial. There was depicted the supposed corpse breaking out of his casket. The ordinary phrase appropriatee to the picture would be “Premature Burial.’’ Contrast with it the following choice arrangement of perfectly proper words: ‘‘Inhumation with Precipitation.”’ But whatever may be said about the struggles which the foreigner has with our language, something also is due to the peculiar uses made of familiar words. For example, take the word ‘‘plug.’’ We remember an occasion when a young German asked in the presence of a half- dozen Americans the meaning of the word ‘‘plug.’? Their answers were spontaneous and to the point, and yet sounded as though they had been pre- arranged. Said one, ‘‘It is a run-down horse.’? Said another, ‘It is the end of a water pipe brought above the sidewalk for the use of fire engines.” Said an- other, ‘‘It is a kind of hat.’”? Said an- other, “It is a stopper for closing a hole.” Said another, ‘‘It means tobacco in a certain form for chewing pur- poses,’”’ and, finally, said the last one of the group, “It means a blow straight from the shoulder against the eye of your contestant.”’ The reader will recall how variously the word ‘‘post”? is used. He will also bring to mind the Frenchman’s complaint of the common expression, ‘‘Look out.” | He was enjoined to look out, inthe sense of being careful, whenin a railway train. Taking the phrase literally, he put his head out of the window, which was ex- actly the reverse of what was intended. Perhaps there is no one word in the English language more thoroughly mis- used, abused and overlooked than the word ‘‘thing.” Itis made to stand for various other terms, and so general is its use in conversation that it is prac- tically impossible to ignore it. To insist that in the talk of other people their ideas should be conveyed by words which mean exactly what is intended to be expressed, instead of by a word which means anything or nothing at all, would be to put upon thema practical embargo. A writer in Harper’s Bazar, discussing the word mentioned, presents the follow- ing interesting paragraphs: There are few words in the English | language of such comprehensive appro- priateness as the word ‘‘things.’? We put, on and take off ‘‘things.’”? We put down and take up ‘‘things.’? We walk over | ‘*things,’’ and pick ‘‘things’’ up, and put “things” away. We love ‘“‘things’’ and | hate ‘‘things,” and consider ‘‘things’? | and think about ‘‘things.’? We look be- yond the ‘‘things’’ seen to the ‘‘things’’ | not seen. And these are the ‘‘things’’ temporal and those are ‘‘things” eternal. And each and every one of these “things” has a_ different significance and belongs toa different class. There are material ‘‘things” among them, and immaterial ‘‘things.’?’ They are physical and mental; of heaven and of earth; of time a.d of eternity. A word of no special definition, it designates everything in turn, forit may be anything. It may be nothing. It is a facile snare to the slipshod writer. Dilating on the beauties of ‘‘every- thing,” this ‘lovely thing’’ or that ‘‘ex- quisite thing” tempts him to rest satis- fied with the yielding expression which saves search for a more specific word. It is the ready reeourse of the shallow chatterer, who calls her friend a ‘‘sweet thing” as frequently as she speaks of her enemy as a ‘‘spiteful thing.” It is the refuge of the lazy, the negligent, the ig- norant talker of any age, to whom the proper names of articles are superfiuous so long as the word ‘‘things’’ exists in the dictionary. O. B. SERVER. So - 2 o Uncle Mose, a Texas darky, had occa- sion to buy a yardof silk. He was some- what surprised at the cost, and on asking what was the cause was told by the ac- commodating clerk that probably it was owing to the scarcity of silkworms. A few days afterward he came to the same clerk and asked, ‘“‘How de tapewums comin’ on?’ ‘What do I know about tapeworms?’’ asked the indignant clerk. “I was gwinter buy foah yards ob tape, but I dunno if I has money enuff. May- be dar’s sumfin de matter wid de tape- wums, jes’ as der was wid de silkwums de udder day.’’ Riordan LEE The Young Man: Gracie darling, what is it your father sees in me to object to? The Young Woman (wiping away a tear): He doesn’t see anything in you, Algernon; that’s why he objects. _ Wy Not Use the Best OUR “Sunlight’’ FANCY PATENT FLOUR Is unsurpassed for whiteness, purity and uc strength. Increase your trade and place your self beyond the competition of your neighbors by selling this unrivaled brand. Write us for price delivered at your railroad station The Walsh-DeRoo Milling Co., HOLLAND. MICH, IMPORTED aug CLEANED py \ GRAND RAPIDS U T CLEANING CO. GRAND RAPIDS, Micy. IF NOT, WHY NOT? ae SE SINAAND WSINS SWINGS ke € K Cr cash on every 0c ‘asion. The Celebrated Cleaned Greek Currants and the Genuine Cleaned Sultana Raisins, Prepared by Grand Rapids Fruit Cleaning Company These currants are cleaned by a new process (they are not |washed like other so-called cleaned currants) and are war- ranted the year round; ask your jobber for them and take no others claimed to be just as good. Be sure and get them. Sold by Musselman Grocer Co,, Olney & Judson arocer Co., I. M. Clark Grocery Co., Hawkins & Co. (==> For Quotations see Price Current. Cash or Credit Customers. Few merchants are in a position to do an absolutely cash They must deviate from the strictly cash plan once in a while, or lose the patronage of some customers who are as valuable to the merchant as those who are prepared to pay To meet this d: mand and save the trade of this clasg of people we advise the adoption of the cou- pon cook system, which places all transactions on a cash basis and enables the dealer to place the absolute cash customer and the cash-at-regular-intervals customer on a equal footing. Merchants who are slaves to the credit system, whose book-keeping is irksome, whose losses are out of proportion to their business, are also invited to investigate the merits of the coupon book system, as by its use the dealer can place his credit sales on a cash basis. If you are not already familiar with the merits of the coupon book system, we invite your inspection. Samples of our several styles of books and illustrated catalogue and price list will be sent on application TRADESMAN COMPANY, Grand Rapids, Mich, . — Jackson Coming to Grand Rapids in Full Force. JACKSON, Nov. 3—Post B, Michigan Knights of the Grip, held a very en- | thusiastic meeting this evening at the! Hibbard House parlors to arrange for at- | tending the annual meeting at Grand! Rapids. The Post intends to go in a! body, and all feel assured that a good | time awaits them. Every effort will be made to have a large delegation go. An invitation will be sent to members in the vicinity of Jackson to join them. There is also a strong sentiment in favor of adding the accident feature to! our association, which would make the Knights of the Grip the best accident as- | sociation in the United States. This will | keep the thousands of dollars in Michi- | gan which is sent each year to outside in- ! surance companies. It is believed that the members will have pride in the or- | der, that when they haveall the accident | features they want that they will drop| the outside companies and continue in | their own State organization. The Secretary was instructed to present | our sentiments and keep THe TRADEs- MAN posted on our future deliberations. CHAS. BRIMLEY, Sec’y. | IMPORTANT OPINION. Right of Farmers to Peddle Without a License. LANSING, Oct. 31—Attorney General Ellis has furnished an opinion of interest to farmers and butchers in relation to the right of individuals to peddle fresh meat in this state, from place to place, without first{ obtaining a hawkers and peddlers’ license, as required by sections 1257 and 1266 of Howell’ Statutes. The party referred to resided upon a farm, raised his own eattle, butchered them on his farm, and during certain seasons of the year, ran a meat wagon in the country, selling meat by retail to farmers and other persons living out- side of villages. He also occasionally purchased live stock from third par- ties, and then butchered and sold them in the manner stated. It was claimed first, that the statute does not apply to this case, and second, that the law is void as being in restraint of trade. In reference to the first claim the attorney-general says, butchering cat- tle simply converts the article into a marketable condition, and would not, in my opinion, affect his right to sell with- outa license. But, when he purchases live stock, simply for the purpose of immediate butchering, and selling, as above stated, he would be required to pay the tax and obtain a license, the same as any other person engaged in alike business. In discussing the sec- ond point raised the opinion reads: “I do not believe the law is void on the ground that it is in restraint of trade. Such a proposition is not borne outeither by the decisions of our own court or that of any other. Legislation of this character has been universally sustained. The charge imposed by this statute is a specific tax upon the privilege of ear rying on the business of hawking and peddling. Cooley on Taxation, p. 175. Section 1259 provides that before a person snall be allowed a hawker’s and peddlers’ license, he shali pay into the state treasury the following ‘‘duties.’’ A ‘*‘duty’’ is an arbitrary tax or burden imposed upon an occupation or article of commerce, for the purpose of raising revenue. Of the power of the Stat: to impose such a tax, there can fF: no question. Cooley on Taxation, pp. 384-390. Similar statutes have been upheld by our own court. Wolcott vs. People, 17 Mich., 68. Kitson vs. Ann Arbor, 26 Mich., 324, Youngblood vs. Sexton, 32 Mich., 406. The law in question formed a part of chapter 21 of the Revised Statutes of 1846, relative to specific taxes. It oe- cupied that position in the law when the present Constitution was adopted in 1850. Section 10 of article 14 of such Constitution provides: ‘‘The State may continue to collect all specific taxes accruing to the treasury under exist- ing laws.’ As appears from section 1259, above referred to, this tax has al- ways been paid directly into the State treasury, and was one of the specific taxes which was collected at the time the Constitution of 1850 was adopted. We have, therefore, not only judicial authority in support of the law, but we have an express constitutional pro- vision, authorizing the levy and col- lection of the tax imposed by it. I am aware that it has been held in Chaddovk vs. Day, 75 Mich., 527, that where a license fee was imposed by a municipal corporation, which was so excessive as to amount practically to a prohibition, it was void, as in re- straint of trade; but that case, in my opinion, has no application to the hawkers and peddlers’ statute. The difference between a local license and a specific tax is quite apparent. One is assessed for the benefit of the people at large, and for the purpose of raising State revenue; while the other is us- ually imposed asa matter of local po- lice regulation. Oneis a tax, and the power of the Legislature to impose it is governed by the constitutional limita- tions upon the taxing power only, while the other is usually limited, in deter- mining whether or not it is reasonable, to the expense incurred in issuing the license and extra police regulations or supervisions incurred by reason of such business. Oneis imposed by the Legis- iature of the State having plenary power over the subject of taxation, while the other is imposed by local boards whose powers are prescribed by -the charter of its particular village or city.” ea Lower Prices on Granulated. The Committee on Trade Interests of the Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Asso- ciation has promulgated a new schedule of prices on granulated sugar, as follows: 5 cents per pound. 5 pounds for 25 cents. 11 pounds for 50 cents. 22 pounds for $1. PROVISIONS. The Grand Rapids Packing and Provisinn Ca quotes as follows: PORK IN BARRELS. —........ ._.. 1300@ +350 Peet ene 1400Q 14 5c &xtra Clear pig, short cut..... ma 15 00 Extra clear, hoayy.......... . Cicer, 85 eee. 13 75 @ 14 2 Boston Clear, short cut............. (Cider DOCK, Snoeteut............... 14 00 @ 15 00 Standard clear, short cut, best.... BAUBAGE, Pork Me 8 ee ee, 5% Techie oe, cece ocucie eee ce. 6% Wome... os. She meee... ..-.. -..........4......, 6 eee GnOOMe oe ° 6 Ce, ee Lew 10 Preskiwris..... 0.0. s eee i. 7 LARD. Kettle Rendered... ........... oe 8% ee - 8% ee 5% Cope 5% eee 7% U0 Ib. Tins, 4c advance, WOteraes -. 2... oie de een ee 634 2u ib. pails, %e : ein, =~ Xe . 5 6 Ue Ut ® oto. * de . BEEP IN BARRELS, Extra Mess, warranted 200 Ibs............. 7 Extra Mess, Chicago packing............... 7% Benelons, rump Gallic. 10 50 SMOKED MEATS—Canvassed or Plain. ems, gyersgewie.. o ied Ree Ce cei 10 : . eee retoe.......... 10% , eee 1% Y Me 8% POO ee Ld ee eee ce 6% Breakfast Bacon boneiess.............. 9¥@IC%® Dried beef, ham prices..................10%@11 DRY SALT MEATS. DORE Oe RANE Pees, tee, i. a . .. toe eae ae ee 2 ee cheese ees he, | i PICKLED PIGS’ FEET. elt GAO 3 50 APUMTIGE OMETENO ec iy ec. oo, Denon cee wae 2 00 Bim... ae etree ees oer eee 90 TRIPE. hie noneveome . 5 a . - Solid Brand, Extra Selects, per can$ 26 Solid Brand, Selects, percan....,.. 24 Solid Brand, E. F., per can........ 20 Solid Brand, Standards, per can.... 18 Daisy Brand, Selects, per can...... 22 Daisy Brand, Standards, per can... 16 Daisy Brand, Favorites, perean.... 14 standards, por eal... 5... Cees 90 Extra Standards, per gal.......... 1 00 Oysters fine and cans well filled. The Queen Oyster Pails at bottom prices. Mrs. Withey’s Home Made Jelly, made with green appies, very fine RE oo S01! pa a 63 ED ae 58 151m. pAll....... Hosted eee teas 52 Mrs. Withey’s Condensed Mince Meat, the best made. 85 cents per doz. 3 doz. in case. Mrs. Withey’s bulk mince meat: 20-10 pats, por ih... 4... Couey 6 PotD pels oer 614 10-1 pais, BOF The a 61g Pure Cider Vinegar, per gallon.... 10 Pure Sweet Cider, per gallon...... 12 Fine Dairy Butter, per pound...... 20 Presh Hoes per doz... 02 006... 17 New Pickles, medium, barrels..... 5 00 New Pickles, medium, % barrel.... 3 00 New Sauer Kraut, barrels......... 4 00 New Sauer Kraut, 1¢ barrels....... 2 50 EDWIN FALLAS, Oyster Packer and Manufacturer. VALLEY CITY COLD STORAGE, Grand Rapids, Mich. Muskegon Bakery Crackers (United States Baking Co.) Are Perfect Health Food. There are a great many Butter Crackres on the Market—only | : . 4 | one can be best—-that is the original Muskegon Bakery Butter Cracker. Pure, Crisp, Tender, Nothing Like it for Flavor. Daintiest, Most Beneficial Cracker you can get for constant table use. Muskegon Toast, ALWAYS Nine Roval Fruit Biscuit, ASK h Muskegon Frosted Honey, YOUR Other Iced Cocoa Honey Jumbles, GROCER Great Jelly Turnovers, FOR Specialties Ginger Snaps, MUSKEGON Are Home-Made Snaps, BAKERY’S Muskegon Branch, CAKES and Mlik Lunei). CRACKERS United States Baking Co. LAWRENCE DEPEW, Acting Manager, Muskegon, ~ Mich. Are You Selling 1F NOT, WHY NOT? Clark op Grocery ZEA Ci. Oysters OLD RELIABLE -ANSHOR BRAND All orders receive prompt attention at lowest market price. See quotations in Price Current. RF. J. DETTENTHALER. 117 and 119 Monroe S8t., Grand Rapids A Majestic Exhibit For the next two or three weeks there will bea Grand Dis- play of Majestic Steel Ranges in our Retail Department, and we want all merchants in Western Michigan, if in the city, to drop in and see them. Coffee and Hot Rolls will be served daily. Steel Ranges are fast sup erseding the Cast Range. Dur- ing this exhibit expert range salesmen direct from the fae tory will be on hand to show up their good qualities. poste TEVENS & EM vise THEM Be Sure and Get Them. Sold by all Grand Rapids Wholesale Grocers and oe THERE PUTNAM CANDY CO, <> New Holiday Goods <- i ne oe { The following package Dolls shows the latest style of best selling patterns all of our new im- JNO. MADDOCK & SONS p Pp portations. The retail price list at which all can be sold gives a liberal profit on the package of JNO. MADDOCK & SONS \ . 4 i . i 6o Per Cent. or $11.64 on investment of $20. No charge for package. Green Ro > ‘ ne coco, Gold Edges. English White Semi Porcelain. ASSORTED PACKAGE DOLLS—NO. 20 Retail Price. a Per Doz. Each. Total. : Fi 1 Gro. Penny, Jointed Arms and Legs, China Babies, 2 in.. 85 1 tae 1 Doz. Decorated China Boys and Girls, Assorted......... 26 > 60 | ™ |D@ressed China Babies, blackhair.................. SB oO 60 i ‘* China Limb Dolls, 8 in., fine model. . She 60 ; i “ China Limb Delis, [3 in., Gnemodel....... a ao 160 1 20 ' China Limb Dolls, 17 in., striped body, bisque head PUG ET 260 160 25 1 50 a China Limb Dolls, extra fine head, arms and legs, i ‘ BO seo 1 63 40 2 40 a - Washable Doll, with hair, natural eyes, with faney ‘ He , a id SRE SS a a 200 100 25 150 ae a ® | 1-6 ** Extra-sized Baby Doll similar in style to last, a New Tariff price brings it as low as the most Speman SOe Aen ee ag 67 50) 1 00 common ware was at old prices. 1-6 ** Large Washable Dolls, 36 in. long, Sin. bust, beau- Assorted Crate int OADe eee ee 800 134 $i 2 00 JOHN MADDOCK & SONS 1 ** Kid Body, Bisque Head with hair, natural eyes, New Astor Shape Poms tlie Sc. oe 15 1 80 th : WHITE SES PORCELAIN, Ls ‘+ Kid Body, extra quality, extra fine model, the pret- Latest Style in English Decorations. : : : rest for a quarter......... en l & Ss 2 1 50 Assorted Crate ) lates 24 Vegetables. uh af : a . . ai cing sg : Soa Ly Kid Body. extra large, fine bisque head, natural JOHN MADDOCK & SONS et te ne i een eves, real Shoes and stockines........_....... . 3 90 98 SO 1 56 Rococo Pattern. 12 doz. Breakfast Plates 6 Sugars, ee al > : i ' : ' ee 2s ets Pon New Felt Body. bisque head. natural eyes, assorted 4 doz. Pie Plates. 6 Pickles, ee EE — sR : i = i i colors body, pleases everywhere oe 1 58 io 25 0 50 a at sci iaia 4 Cake Plates, 2 doz. Soup Piates doz. Fruits, . : c : 2 ak lates nies — i " i cinceaurbeiyiasysel * Same, only larger size. bodies red, black, blue felt.. 225 112 35 2 10/3 ¢0e Breakfast fiates, oe ate ' Gon et me wus ries ' ‘+ Same, extra value for 50c doll, extra large..... --- 400 133 50 2 00} 6 doz. Fruit Saucers. 6 Sets Coffees i es. Assorie S ( shes : : i fl i! ic ig a j ee a i 6 Baby Dolls with hood, natural eyes, hair and fancy qf doz. Butters. 24 Vegetable Dishes a abe hte ou hana ace shirt, Ane dimpled limbs.) 00 0 200 100 25 1 50 ro ek ee = (yd ba F Y — i i onediad } 3 Baby Dolls like above only larger, finer features... 4 00 133 60 2 40 8 Ba. ers. 6Butters, A — cay : = 1 ‘ Leader 10c, full dressed, washable doll, as good as 18 Pitchers. 6 Creams, " cue somes aM (nmi we formerly sold for Oe od 85 10 1 20] This small assortment illustrates one of our } slant ing i a ** Leader, 5c dressed china limb dolls, apron, gilt belt 40 5 60 | many beautiful new assorted packages of Deco { Price list of above sent on sidan Don't fail) 1g ++ Full dressed washable dolls, with bonnet, leather rated Ware for the Holiday Trade. We trust we to get our prices on our new lines before place shees, assorted style dresses.....-........-0..... 225 118 25 1 50 | may be able to show you these patterns in per ing Foliday Orders. Variety of Dinner Sets, 1 DOS BOAR CRIMES 45 45 5 60 \non. Sold sither by set alone or in crates and Toilet Sets and New China is equaltoany in the | ** Dolls head, china, 4 in., extra large bust..... cn 85 43 10 60 | may be matched for years, Price of above on market. $20.00 $31.64 | request. = @ ° s » Grand Rapids, Mich. ow oe : : oe le i. a Se ee NR SS AN OOCC¢S Ooo DO} Dé oy SA o> a a A . > pr dorterrterstesderste Se by bos bdesdes rw ‘ é ili i ii lit i ili lin Ain “di li hn i dn dn din din PDPQPOPIPPPQPPPVIDOVDOYY EG POWOOO ODD OPGGOOOE p QYOOCOQL y © “i, ii "= we : BORDEN’S PEERLESS BRAND : és — &¢ a: a }4 3 =~ ~e— EVAPORATED CREAM © oa ef} c re $f! e¢ x ' } ee f f i < ‘ e2 Is pure milk reduced to the consistency of cream, light in color, natural < i hn ® ¢: ta fl: VOr. : e2 It cannot be compared with any unsweetened milk or evaporated cream 3 < i ¢: heretofore offered. $ & | ae 7 3 3¢ © It is not dark in color. It does not thicken with age. < _. : : . 2 | z It is not disagreeable in flavor. It does not spoil. © © ( aoe é ’ Prepared and suaranteed by the... . : « 7 NEW YORK CONDENSED MILK COPPANY p > . Se ; For Quotations See Price Columns Af Ve ea vee