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WHEAT HAS ADVANCED —— GH BARK AND LUMBER GD,

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sample order to any ofthe following Jobbers:

Tiaeliine & Perkins Drug Co. Ball-Barnhart-Putman Co. Olney & Judson Grocer Co.
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VOL. XII.

GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 29, 1895.

NO. 610

 

THE MICHIGAN TRUST GO., &"9y Aon

Makes a Specialty of acting as

Executor of Wills,
Administrator of Estates,
Guardian of [linors and In-
competent Persons,
Trustee or Agent
in the management of any business which may
be entrusted to it.

Any information desired will be cheerfully
furnished.

Lewis H. Withey, Pres.
Anton G. Hodenpyl, Sec’y.

 

 

 

 

   

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J. BRECHTING, ARcuireEct,
79 Wonderly Building, GRanp Rapips.

Correspondence solicited from
parties who intend to build.

 

|
THE TRADESMAN
Has a FIELD of its own.

 

THAT'S Why

Advertisers get RESULTS.

 

 

 

Commercial
Credit Co., timitea.

Reports on individuals for the retail trade,
house renters and professional men. Also Local
Agents Furn. Com. Agency Co.’s ‘‘Red Book.”
Collections handled for members. Phones 166-1030

65 MONROE ST., GRAND RAPIDS.

Michigan re dnd MATING

INSURANCE CO.
Detroit, Mich.

PROMPT, CONSERVATIVE,

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Water and Steam Power.

Full line of Wood Working Machinery, Bench-
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Also other property with power for manufac-
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Opera House Block.

 

Organized
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THE PRIZE WINNER.

 

Brief Biography of Frank Lawrence, of
the Putnam Candy Co.

THE TRADESMAN is gratified at the ac-
tion of the awarding committee of the
Retail Grocers’ Association in selecting
the essay of Frank T. Lawrence on ‘‘Ad-
vantages of the Cash System’’ as the one
most worthy of the first prize, as the
author is one of the bright and intelli-
gent young men associated with the
wholesale trade of the city and richly
merits the honor thus bestowed. For
the past two years he has prepared the
fruit market report of this journal, and
the retail trade throughout Michigan are
aware that the summaries given from
week to week are as true an index of
market conditions as is to be found in
any trade journal in the country. The
gentleman in question was born in Clar-
endon, Orleans county, N. Y., inSeptem-
ber, 1859, and passed the period inter-
vening between that date and November,
1871, im the village of his birth. His
parents moved to Michigan in the latter
year mentioned and until 1877 his daily
labors were passed as a farm boy. A
desire for commercial life then took
possession of, him and he eame to Grand
Rapids and entered the employ of A. B.
Knowlson as delivery boy and general
hustler, and held that position, with
gradual promotion, as the business war-
ranted, until 1884, when he purchased
his employer’s grocery interests and for
the two succeeding years did a most
lucrative business, but, owing to various
causes—he is frank enough to say that
like many another he could not stand
success—he was forced to discontinue
and sold out to his head clerk, Oscar Em-
mons. His next move was to obtain a posi-
tion with Putnam & Brooks as city oyster
salesman and from that position he was
rapidly advanced to city shipping clerk
and house salesman, and, when that firm
dissolved in 1889, he remained with the
new corporation which succeeded it,
known as the Putnam Candy Co. He was
installed as manager of the oyster and
fruit departments and so well are his
abilities thought of that for two years
past he has been looked upon as one of
the managers of the institution and
evidences of his handiwork may be found
in all the transactions and correspond-
ence of the firm named, and he is direct-
ly responsible for all the advertising and
printed matter which emanates from the
house. In ingenuity and aptness it is
second to none, and his productions in
this line stamp him one of the successful
‘sad’? writers of the day. He is a
‘‘hustler,” in the accepted sense of the
word, and generally gets what he goes
after, whether orders for the house or
the good will of co-workers and manage-
ment, and itis a matter of pride with
him that he was never discharged from a
position he was selected to fill. To earn

more than his salary by conscientious,
painstaking application, is his motto,
and the success he has achieved in that
direction proves conclusively what any

 

young man may accomplish by well di-
rected, untiring energy. Personally, he
is affable, obliging and quick to perceive
points of advantage when they incline to
the benefit of the house he labors with,
and he stands high in the estimation of
all who know him as being one of the
young men who are destined to become a
factor in business circles.

1.2 __—-

The Drug Market.

Acid—There is a continued unsettled
and irregular market for salicylic, with
the combination prices more or less
nominal. Benzoic remains easy. Citric
is active and steady. ‘Tartaric continues
to harden under the influences last noted
and manufacturers’ prices have been
further advanced.

Alcohol—Grain continues to advance
in sympathy with the steady improve-
ment in crude material. Business is of
average volume and there is less compe-
tition.

Beans—Angostura tonka are firmly
held under diminishing stock® and un-
favorable reports concerning the new
crop. Vanilla continues to move freely
into consuming channels, with prices
well sustained.

Borax—Is without much animation,
the demand being moderate, with prices
unchanged.

Bromides — Manufacturers
vanced prices 2c per Ib.

Cocaine—Is in good consuming request
at the decline noted last week and a fair
business is reported.

Cod Liver Oil—Iit transpires that
stocks in this country are much smaller
than previously estimated and the bulk
is now under control of one holder. The
situation u«broad indicates increasing
strength and the lowest quotation named
is said to be equivalent to $42 laid down
here.

Cream Tartar—The continued upward
tendency of argols abroad has influenced
a further advance in manufacturers’
prices.

Morphine—The anticipated decline
was announced last week, when manu-
facturers and importers reduced quota-
tions 10¢e per ounce on all quantities and
sizes.

Quinine — Continued activity is re-
ported, with the tone of the market
strong.

Roots—The stock of jalap in first
hands continues to accumulate and in
the absence of interest on the part of
dealers, the market has a drooping
tendency. Arrivals of Jamaica ginger
are steadily growing smaller and indica-
tions favor a higher market. Serpen-
taria, senega and golden seal are all rul-
ing quiet at unchanged prices.

Sugar of Milk—The leading brand of
powdered has been advanced, but there
is no change in the lower grades or
crystals.

have ad-

——_——>_ <>
The Detroit Herald of Commerce has
ceased to exist and L. 8. Rogers has en-
tered the employ of the Detroit Evening
News in the capacity of advertising
agent.

 

Grand Rapids — Grocers’ Associa-
tion.

At the regular meeting of the Grand
Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association, held
at the office of the MicHiGAN TRADEs-
MAN on Tuesday evening, May 21, Presi-
dent White presided.

The following letter was read by the
Secretary:

GRAND Rapips, May 18—I find it im-
possible to continue my talk on the sub-
ject of the rebate system of selling flour,
as the situation has changed in some
cities since I last addressed you. In
Baltimore and Buffalo this method is con-
tinuec, but in Minneapolis it is changed
somewhat. The fact is, there is a con-
tinual change, especially when wheat is
so erratic and fluctuating as at the pres-
enttime. If the grocers will act together
the rebate method of selling flour can be
easily arranged so as to be mutually
beneficial and wrong no one.

Cc. G. A. Vorar.

Mr. Wagner moved that the communi-
cation be accepted and placed on file and
that Mr. Voigt be requested to keep his
agreement to continue the discussion of
the flour question and announce his posi-
tion in the matter of selling flour on the
rebate plan at the next meeting of the
Association. Adopted.

John H. Goss moved that a committee
of three be appointed to wait upon the
yeast manufacturers and solicit their as-
sistance in securing a representative at-
tendance at the next meeting of the Com-
mon Council. Adopted.

The same gentleman moved that every
grocer consider himself a committee of
one to wait upon the aldermen of his
ward and secure their co-operation, if
possible, in maintaining the present
license fee for hucksters. Adopted.

The following resolution, introduced
by the Secretary, was unanimonusly
adopied.

Resolved, That the thanks of this Asso-
eiation are hereby tendered Aldermen O.
A. Ball and G. H. DeGraaf for the able
manner in which they championed the
cause of the grocer in the matter of licens-
ing hucksters and peddlers,

A communication was received from
the Commercial Credit Co., Ltd., offering
to collect the unpaid dues on the basis of
10 per cent. commission. On wotion of
Mr. Lehman the offer was accepted.

Chairman Wagner, of the special Com-
mittee on Essays, then presented the re-
port of the Committee, announcing the
prize winners, as follows:

1. Frank T. Lawrence, Grand Rapids.

2. E. A. Owen, Vittoria, Ont.

3. E. A. Cloonan, St. Louis, Mo.

Mr. Wagner stated that the essays
were so uniformly good that the Com-
mittee had much difficulty in determin-
ing which were entitled to the prizes,
and suggested that the essays receiving
the prizes be taken up and discussed at
the next meeting of the Association.
Adopted.

The subject of employing a regular
salaried secretary was then taken up and
discussed at some length, culminating in
the adoption of a motion, offered by Mr.
Lehman, that the Secretary send each
member a circular letter, calling his at-
tention to the expense of employing an
officer to give his entire time to the work
and asking whether such action is in ac-
cordance with the wishes of the mem-
bers.

Peter Schuit introduced the subject of
the grocers’ picnic by suggesting that a
parade of wholesale and retail grocers’
wagons be held on the morning of the
picnic and that prizes be offered to both
branches of the trade making the best
display. The suggestion was well re-
ceived and will be discussed at the next
meeting.

There being no further business, the
meeting adjourned.

 

   

2

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

Commercial Aspect of the Bicycle.
Written for THE TRADESMAN.

The local street railway officials are
complaining because the bicycle is mak-
ing business a little dull for them. The
liverymen are also registering a kick on
the pneumatic tired horse, and for the
same reason. A report has been circu-
lated that the latter people are trying, in
imitation of their brethren in Denver,
Col., to induce the Common Council to
pass an ordinance providing for an an-
nual tax of some odd dollars to be levied
on each wheel in the city, hoping in that
way to reduce the number of bicycles
used. Their kick is funny. It might be
compared to a man stationing himself at
the dock of a steam transportation com-
pany and trying to induce the people to
take passage in a frail rowboat; it also
resembles a man trying to sell straw hats
in December. They are trying to induce
people to spend their money for some-
thing they don’t want. Theydon’t want
a horse and buggy, because a bicycle will,
without effort, cover twice the number
of miles in an hour that the ordinary
equine will. They don’t want to ride on
a street car, because, on a ‘‘bike,’’ they
can take an even start with an electric
motor and beat it to any given point in
the city. Old wheelmen have known
this for the past three or four years.
The Great American Public is just find-
ing it out, with the result of a material
decreasé in the two lines of business re-
ferred to.

A little calculation as to the amount
the Street Car Company is losing through
the great increase in bicycle riding might
be interesting. The bicycle dealers in
the city ought to be the best judges of
the number of wheels used here. They
think that a conservative estimate would
be about 6,000 of all kinds. Now, out of
this number, at least 5,000 would take
two street car rides a day—to their work
in the morning and home again at night.
That would represent $500 in nickels.
Then, there are about 1,000 more who
would take four rides a day. This
would add $200 to the above amount.
The amounts takenin by the conductors
in the evening, which would come out-
side of both these classes of people,
would foot up no small sum. Certainly,
enough people use bicycles who formerly
took the car at night to average up $50
more, bringing the grand total up to
$750. Even considering 6,000 as an ex-
aggerated estimate of the number of
wheels in use here, the money saved to
the riders is surprising. Upon a basis
of only half that number the amount
represented would, in six months’ time,
amount to $67,500. It is astonishing but
figures don’t lie.

What do they all dv in winter? At
present, they store their wheels away;
that is, most of them do—not all of them.
Winter riding is easy. In the future, it
will be made still more easy. That
“Necessity is the mother of invention”
will prove to be true in this case. A
bicycle rider dislikes to put away his
wheel worse than anything he could be
asked to do. So, when nearly everybody
shall own one, city ordinances will be
enacted providing for means to keep the
streets clean and passable for bicycles
the entire winter. Riding on the snow
is not hard work; in fact, hard packed
snow makes one of the best surfaces for
bicycle riding extant. When properly
dressed, there can be no objection to win-
ter riding, and, when the people find

 

this out, as they have just found out that
the bicycle is a good thing to use, cy-
cling in January will be as common as it
is now in July. People wonder at it
now, but they also wondered, a long
time ago, whether wheels would ever be
improved sufficiently to enable their
riders to glide past a horse on the road.
Now thatit is easy, and winter riding
will some day be easy, also.

Referring to city ordinances suggests
some of those now in force relating to
the bicycle. Here in Grand Rapids,
wheelmen are allowed the use of the
sidewalks outside a certain limit and on
paved streets. Actually, they have no
right on a sidewalk or sidepath used by
foot passengers. A bicycle is a vehicle
and its status as such has been decided
in the courts time and again; therefore,
it must go in that part of the public
thoroughfares set aside for vehicles.
Wheeimen, here, are allowed the privi-
lege of the sidewalks, because the city
streets, as arule, are almost unridable.
At this, the horse owners come forward
with a remark to the effect that a vehicle
that cannot be used on any street in the
city has no place in the city. They for-
get that, if the wheel is, according to
law, a vehicle, and must be classed with
other vehicles, the communities in which
the machines are owned are obliged to
keep the highways in a passable condi-
tion. An instance of this was noticed in
a Massachusetts town some time ago.
A young man rode his bicycle on the
sidewalk, was arrested and paid a fine.
He then sued the town for maintaining a
nuisance in the shape of an impassable
street whgre he was using the sidewalk
and collected damages. Lamp and bell
ordinances are also unenforceable, unless
every other vehicle is compelled to come
under the rule. There should be no dis-
crimination. Here, in this city, wheel-
men carry bells in exchange for the
courtesy of sidewalk privileges. When
they are compelled to Keep in the street,
off go the bells, or else every other kind
of vehicle is provided with a gong.

That article in the New York Tribune
which was noticed in the last issue of
THE TRADESMAN was very well taken.
A good wheelman asks no odds of any-
thing that goes over the surface of the
earth. ‘‘Roadhogs’’ are plenty, and the
way they impose on new riders, and
especially on ladies, is a disgrace to the
community that permits it, as well as to
the guilty parties. A good share of this
kind of driving, however, is not intended
to be spiteful. Drivers become so used
to seeing wheelmen dart around through
all sorts of places that they have become
tired of turning out for them when they
see that it is of no use, and so they make
up their minds to go straight ahead, and,
not knowing whether the approaching
bicyclist is experienced or not, they often
cause new riders, and, as I say, ladies
especially, considerable inconvenience.
When a wheelman is approaching a pe-
destrian, he begins, as soon as he sees
him, to make calculations how he will
pass him. He looks to see if any other
persons are about and, if so, he calcu-
lates their relative rates of speed and
how pear together they will be when he |
arrives in their vicinity. Bicycle riding |
enables a person to make these calcula-
tions correctly and, if the persons walk- |
ing keep their course, the rider can tell,
rods in advance, just exactly where he |
will go in passing them. If a man is |
crossing the street, the rider will, nine |
times out of ten, go behind him; so, if |
the pedestrian does not stop or try to|
dodge, there will be no trouble. Of |
course, there are exceptions to every |
rule, and there are blunderers riding |
bicycles, just as there are blunderers in |
all walks of life. Occasionally, a ‘thobu”
is seen rushing through the streets, pay- |
ing no attention to the safety of anyone
in his path, but they are rare. They
also manage to break their wheels about
twice or three times a week by their |
carelessness, which is good enough for |
them and is good for the public, as, |
when their wheels are in the repair shop, |
they are not taking up twice the amount
of roem in the street that is generally al-
lowed one man. Morris J. WHITE.

 

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You can always tell

Which bicyele is the most popular, most sat-
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eye, and the keenest competitor, by what its

business competitors say about it. The
dealer

Who Is hurt by
Such competition as our customers are able
to put with our line of NEW CLIPPERS,
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Noticing who hollers

Lately: it’s those who can't find a better line
to compete with these ‘ice wagons;” they
hurt because they stand up and give satisfac
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ness, just TRY A NEW CLIPPER before you
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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

THE BACK OFFICE.
Written for Taz TRaADESMAX,

I suppose there are exceptions to every
rule, but, when I read the other day
that it is a good rule in business to throw
a bucketful of dirt on those who throw a
spoonful on us, my first thought was that
the exceptions to the rule would be more
numerous than the instances that estab-
ished it; but I have been looking the
ground over more carefully since the
reading, and | find in business the pre-
vailing idea to be, not an eye for an eye
and a tooth for a tooth, but for each eye
and each tooth take two! Theidea is, of
course, that there are a good many
mighty mean men in the world—that
these men resort to the meanest business
practices, and that the only thing to be
done is to punish the offender that the
offense will not be repeated. It has been
proven, times without number, and it is
nature’s way. Whosoever stops a flying
brick gets hurt; ‘‘A burned child dreads
the fire.’? So these men, overpaid in their
own coin, are mighty glad to sneak away,
and the lesson, once well learned, does
not need repeating. It is readily seen
what the reverse of this leads to. That
thief filled his pockets with his employ-
er’s money and slipped to Canada; this
wretch, crazed with whisky, kills his
brother, and other crimes are committed
against the public peace and safety.
Then the philanthropist steps in, talks
about the ‘‘quality of mercy” not being
strained and its dropping ‘“‘like the gen-
tle rain from heaven upon the place be-
neath.” Then the thief comes back,
the murderer, poor fellow, is set at lib-
erty, the other crimes are condoned; and
then everybody wonders what the world
is coming to. Anybody with half an eye
can see what it has done in politics.
Saints are made of the biggest scamps
unhung, and a decent man won’t accept
public office for love or money. That’s
what it’s coming to in business; and the
only way is to shut down on these
scamps. If they throw a spoonful of
dirt on us, they must be treated to a
bucketful, or, better still, bury them un-
der a mountain of it. Tough, but that’s
the only way.

It is remarkable how history repeats
itself: That’s just the way they got to
talking some nineteen hundred years
ago. You favor me and I’ll do the same
for you; but, if you hit me with a club,
confound your everlasting picture, I'll
smash your head with acrowbar—lI guess
they had a crowbar, or something like it,
then; and then, from Bethlehem, from
the lips of Him who spake as never man
spake, comes echoing down the centuries:

. ‘I say unto you that you resist not evil,
but whosoever shall smite thee on the
right cheek, turn to him the other also;
and whosoever shall compel thee to go a
mile, go with him twain.’’ That Jordan
may be a hard road to travel, but if we
insist on an eye for an eye and so over-
come, ‘‘Whatreward have ye? Do not
even the publicans so?”

Human nature is something that never
changes; and isn’t it possible, even in
business, that, if the bucketful of dirt
be replaced with another filled with the
milk of human kindness, there will be
fewer of the spoonfuls thrown and so
fewer to resent? I have lived a good many
years in the world, and I have yet to see
any good accomplished by a faithful fol-
lowing of this old principle, ‘‘An eye for
an eye and a tooth for a tooth,’”’ nor do I
believe that the world will be any better,

 

even in business lines, by exacting two

eyes or two teeth for one.
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There is a trade paper published in
Canada which finds its way in here now
and then and is sure to make Itself wel-
come, a good many times over. It is
broad-gauged and thinks no more of
talking of matters and things outside of
dollars and cents than it does of printing
a price list. Inthe copy I have before
me, it asks why young ladies in a certain
part of the provinces use the word
“aught” for ‘‘naught,” and proceeds to
tell the ladies that naught is the right
word to use when naming the cipher.

The mistake is not confined to Canada
nor to those Northern ladies; but, what
I am after now is the fact that a trade
paper should find this a matter of suf-
ficient interest to give ita place in its
columns. Thereis a common argument
south of the Great Lakes: ‘‘Tradin’ ’s
tradin’; ’n’ ’t don’t make no diff’rence
haow ye say it, ’f ye c’n git threw ’n’ git
y’r money for ’t; ’n’’f ye hed a bill ’ith
a couple o’ aughts on ’t, I wouldn’t keer,
b’ gosh, what ye called ’em, ’f ye’d gimme
the bill!’

Has the time, indeed, arrived when it
does make a difference whether the
trader at his desk and the clerk behind
the grocer’s counter speak, in its purity,
their mother-tongue; and, is it dawning
upon the business world that a man’s
grammar, in the marts of trade, as well
as his manners, has a commercial value?
I know that, inthe higher walks of trade,
where merchant princes dwell, the
‘aught’? element was ostracized long
ago; 1 know, too, that much, if not all,
of that ‘‘looking down upon’”’ which the
grocery clerk sometimes complains of is
due, not so much to the work as to the lack
of training so woefully apparent in all
he says and does; but I did not know
that Trade, per se, is beginning to care
how a thought is expressed, and that he
not only knows the difference between
aught and naught—something and noth-
ing—but that he insists that others shall
mark this difference and shall state it in
good and intelligent English.

I beg leave to tender my hearty con-
gratulations to the leading paper of Brit-
ish America, and to say that, if there is
aught I can do to help in the good work
begun, I shall be only too glad to make
every effort, even should it amount to
naught. RICHARD MALCOM STRONG.

a
Toots from Ram’s Horn.

Sin is deadly only when it can hide its
face.

God is still calling some people to do
small things.

To say ‘‘Thy will be done,’? means to
say good-bye to self.

God’s warriors are always chosen from
his worshipers.

When you shut your closet door, lock
it with a promise.

The rod never does good unless the
hand of love holds it.
oO Whatever is gained in Sodom must be
lost with Sodom.

The only things we really know are
those God tells us.

It is never hard to believe when we
get on believing ground.

It is the wolf in sheep’s clothing that
has the sharpest teeth.

We can only walk with God when we
are willing to go his way.

The devil is most like a lion when he
looks most like a sheep.

Let us do right, and God will see to it
that we come out right.

 

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There is nothing a man likes to think
about more than his difficulties, when he
has conquered them.

 

Yes, we’ve got ’em!

Nove'ties and Staples in Dry Goods:
Everything in Notions. [

Big Line of Gents’ Furnishings.

All that can be desired in Yarns.

We are Headquarters for &

Floor Oil Glotns ond Linoleum

Have you ever done business with us? If not,
let’s get our heads together and see what we
can do

VOlGT, RERPOLSHEIMER & GO. :

Wholesale DPy Goods,
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

 

 

Spring & Company,

IMPORTERS AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN

Dress Goods, Shawls, Cloaks, Notions,
Ribbons, Hosiery, Gloves, Underwear,
Woolens, Flannels, Blankets, Ging-
hams, Prints and Domestic Cottons.

We invite the Attention of the
Stock at Lowest Market Prices.

Trade to our Complete and Well Assorted

Spring & Company.

 

We are ready to show, both in the house

and on the road, samples of

Fall Underwear, Overshirts,

Yarns, Hose, Socks, Batts,

Dress Cashmetres i 36, 38, 40, 45 in. widths

Dress Flannels, 26, 36, 50 in. widths,

Eiderdown and Teazel Down
Flannels,

And all at our usual Low Prices. .

P. Steketee & Sons

Duck __, Kersey
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.

Lansing Pants & Overall Co.,
LANSING, [1ICH.

 

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AROUND THE STATE.

 

MOVEMENTS OF MERCHANTS.

Newaygo—Bruce & Blanchard have
opened a meat market.

Niles—Snyder & George,
succeed W. H. Snyder, Sr.

Clio—G. M. Long has sold his grocery
business to Reuben Parmelee.

Manistee—George Johnson & Co. have
opened a new shoe store here.

Osecoda—Chas. E. Ernst succeeds
Ernst Bros. in the bazaar business.

Charlevoix—Geo. Bates has purchased
the meat business of A. J. McLeod.

Muskegon—Geert P. Bulthuis sucgeeds
Bulthuis & Co. in the feed business.

Thompsonville—J. A. Evetts succeeds
J. P. Winters in the hardware business.

Coleman — Philo Stemple succeeds
Stemple Bros. in the confectionery busi-
ness.

Kalamazoo—M. E. Bennink succeeds
Roelof DeKorning in the grocery busi-
ness.

Esecanaba—Ehnerd & Willard succeed
Herman A. Breitenbach in the meat
business.

Hancock—Juntilla & Co., grocers,
bave dissolved, S. Juntilla continuing
the business.

Paw Paw—A. Hathaway & Co. have
assigned their stock of Iumber to Geo.
W. Longwell.

Coleman—Harrison Sampson has pur-
chased the grocery and notion business
of Seth Bowdish.

Dowagiac—C. E. Lyle is succeeded by
the Jones & Murray Co. in the dry goods
and carpet business.

Alba-—-Fred Shepard has bought a
stock of groceries and begun business in
the Welch building.

Pontiac—Losee Bros. & Co. is the
name of a new firm who will shortly
open a shoe store here.

Menominee—Cate & Cate, druggists,
have dissolved. The business will be
continued by H. B. Cate.

lronwood—The Rebate Mercantile Co.
las merged its business into a stock com-
pany under the same style.

Stan wood—Burghdoft & Mitchell,
dealers in dry goods and groceries, have
dissolved, Thos. Mitchell continuing the
business.

Traverse City—Richardson & Co. and
Schoolcraft & Co. have consolidated their
grocery stocks under the style of School-
craft & Richardson.

lint—The C. E. Smith Shoe Co., of
Detroit, recently fereclosed a chattel
mortgage on the shoe stock of E. M.
Weller and sold it to C. D. Ulmer.

Sherman—Wnm. Foster has sold his in-
terest in the hardware stock of Wilson &
Foster to his partner, who will continue
the business under the style of Thos.
Wilson.

Elweli—Taylor & Meyer have leased
the store building formerly occupied by
E. L. & J. 1. Gee and moved their drag
stock to that location. They will add
lines of dry goods and groceries.

Sand Lake—F. W. Pollock has decided
to erect a one-story brick building, 22x60
feet in dimensions, for the reception of
his drug stock. A. Giddings will erecta
building adjoining Mr. Pollock’s store,
22x70 feet in dimensions.

Otsego Lake—Thomas McArthur, of
Gladwin, has purchased the boot and shoe
stock of C. W. Bahel and will continue
the business. Mr. Bahel will take a
summer off and says he will next fall
embark in the drug business at Gaylord.

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ekki | M. Harwood has sold
his drug stock to E. J. Burrell and Harry
Luke, who will continue the business
under the style of Burrell & Luke, hay-
ing leased Mr. Harwood’s store building.
Mr. Burrell was formerly connected with
the chemical department of the Mance-
lona iron furnace. Mr. Luke was for-
merly employed by J. G. Johnson, the
Traverse City druggist.

East Jordan—C. W. Dunham, who for
the past three and a half years has had
charge of the mercantile department of
the East Jordan Lumber Co.’s business,
has tendered his resignation of that posi-
tion, to accept a more congenial position
with a wholesale house in Chicago. Mr.
Dunham has been a resident of this place
for twelve years, seven of which have
been spent in the empioy of the Lum-
ber Co.

Owosso—At a recent meeting of the
Owosso Business Men’s Association com-
mittees were appointed to look after the
pickle factory and the Exeter Manufac-
turing Co., both of which are desirous of
locating in this city. The Mt. Pleasant
Plow Co., which was recently burned
out, is also considering the idea of re-
moving to this city. Officers of the com-
pany were here a few days ago with that
object in view. A committee was also
appointed at the last meeting to devise
ways and means for bringing to the at-
tention of outside capital the business
advantages of our city.

Cadillac—The Chicago Supply Co. suf-
fered a complete knockout at the bands
of a jury in Justice Long’s court one day
last week. A short time ago Mathew
Proud, of Colfax, was sued on a note for
$80 held by the Drovers’ National Bank
of Chicago. The note was given to the
Chicago Supply Co. by Mr. Proud for a
parcel of merchandise, represented by
the agent to be of much greater value
than the amount of the note given.
When convinced that the goods were of
an inferior quality and not worth the
amount to be paid and that their verbal
agreements were not kept, Mr. Proud re-
solved to let a jury decide the merits of
the case, with the result above stated.
This virtually decides the invalidity of
the notes given the Supply Co., so far as
justice court juries are concerned, and

the many gentlemen of this section

whose notes are held by the Drovers’
Bank will feel secure against payment of
the obligations held os them.

Port Huron—Mayor N. S. Boynton has
tendered his resignation as President of
the Chamber of Commerce, accompany-
ing the resignation with the following
caustic criticism: ‘I had invited the
grocers and commission merchants of
this city to meet at the Chamber of Com-
merce to make arrangements for enter-
taining the grocers of the Saginaw val-
ley, who were to have their annual ex-
cursion or outing in the near future, and
I had invited them to come to Port
Huron. Only four of our grocerymen
showed up. Instead of an active inter-
est being shown in the work of building
up our city, holding what enterprises we
have and securing others to locate here,
I find that a great deal of indifference
prevails. One of our most valuable
manufacturing institutions has been
forced to move elsewhere, and it looks
as if others would follow. Empty
dwelling houses are found everywhere,
and more are being vacated. There
seems to be a disposition on the part of
some of our business men and large real

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| estate owners to oppose a improve-
ments and exhibit an utter indifference
to add to our industrial enterprises.”

Detroit—The joint executive commit-
tee of the cigarmakers’ and cigarpackers’
unions has finished the appeal to the
international union asking its indorse-
ment of the strike to be begun against
tbe ‘“‘open” shops of this city, and it was
mailed to the headquarters in Chicago
Saturday night. At a meeting held
Tuesday it was voted to strike if the in-
ternational union gave its consent. The
matter may be referred to a vote of all
the unions affiliated with the interna-
tional union, or the executive board may
indorse the application. It will proba-
bly take a couple of weeks before the an-
swer of the international reaches Detroit.
An open shop is one in which both union
and non-union persons are employed.
The blue label is not placed on the goods
manufactured by open shops. The shops
classed as open shops by the local union
are the Banner, Detroit Cigar Manufac-
turing Co., George Moebs & Co., Alex-
ander Gordon, Cabinet Cigar Co., and
H. Dietz. The union men have no
grievance, so far as wages or hours are
concerned, but it grieves them beyond
measure to be compelled to work side by
side with non-union men who do not con-
tribute to the support of unionism and
the upbuilding of anarchy.

Detroit—Two of the oldest business
houses in the State will be married Sept.
1. The firm names of H. P. Baldwin, 2d,
& Co., and A. C. McGraw & Co. will then
be wiped out of existence, and in their
place will be written that of Baldwin,
McGraw & Co. H. P. Baldwin, 2d, &
Co. is composed at present of H. P. Bald-
win and Samuel C. Sutter. The mem-
bers of A. C. McGraw & Co. are the A. C.
McGraw estate, Thomas 8S. McGraw,
William A. McGraw and S. G. Caskey.
The new firm will be made up of H. P.
Baldwin, Samuel C. Sutter and Thomas
S. McGraw. H. P. Baldwin & Co. are
doing business at the southwest corner
of Woodward avenue and Woodbridge
street in the building that they have oc-
cupied since 1851. A. C. McGraw & Co.
are at the southwest corner of Griswold
and Woodbridge streets, so that the two
factories are separated by only an alley.
After Sept. 1 Baldwin, McGraw & Co.
will occupy the latter location, which af-
fords an immense fioor space. Not only
will there be no decrease of the number
of operatives, but an increase is ex-
pected. The change is due largely to a
desire to close up the estate of A. C. Me-
Graw, and, no doubt, to the advantages to
be gained by combining the interests of
the two institutions and stopping the
competition between them. Both firms
have made enviable records as manufac-
turers of boots and shoes. H. P. Bald-
win, 2d, & Co. is the outgrowth of H. P.
Baldwin & Co., which, in its turn, was
established in 1836 by the late Gov. Bald-
win. H. P. Baldwin, 2d, and Mr. Sutter
were taken into the firm in 1870 and suc-
ceeded to the business in 1878 under the
present name. An indication of the con-
servatism of the house is shown in their
long tenancy of their present quarters.
Only one other firm in this city, it is said,
has remained the same length of time in
one place; that is, T. H. Eaton & Co.
The other house was established by
Alexander C. McGraw in 1832. Stephen
Smith was taken in as a partner in 1843,
but S. G. Caskey succeeded him in 1853.
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McGraw were admitted. Alexander C.
McGraw died in 1893, and since then the
business has been conducted by the ex-
ecutors of his estate and his surviving
partners. A rubber business was con-
nected with A. C. McGraw & Co.’s boot
and shoe factory at 33 Woodward ave-
nue. This will be carried on by W. A.
McGraw.

 

MANUFACTURING MATTERS.

Armada—Hulett & Case will begin
making cheese about June 1.

St. Clair—The Diamond Crystal Salt
Co. is erecting an addition to its works
48 x 41 feet in size and three stories high.
On the second floor will be a grainer.

Dorr—A 50-barrel roller process flour
mill is to be built here by Herman
Geerds, of Fremont. The citizens donate
a site and $500 in cash as encouragement.

Detroit—The name of the Globe
Foundry Co. has been changed to the
Globe Iron Works and its capital stock
has been increased from $5,000 to $15,-
000.

Muskegon—E. E. Nolan, W. E. Thorn-
ton and D. M. Stever have leased the up-
per floor of the Barcus saw shop and will
embark in the manufacture of bicycle
rims under the style of the Only Perfect
Wood Rim Co.

St. Ignace—Immense gypsum beds
have been discovered three miles north-
west of this vity and Kansas City capital-
ists have secured options on all the land
in that locality, with a view to develop-
ing the business. “

Detroit—Articles of association of the
Globe Electrical Co. have been filed in
the county clerk’s office. {t has a capi-
tal stock of $10,000, of which $3,000 is
paid in, andis held by Will H. Palmer,
400 shares; Scott H. Morris, 399, and
Friend Palmer, 201.

Traverse City—The Potato Implement
Co, has purchased the woolen mill prop-
erty and will convert it into a factory for
the manufacture of the Acme hand po-
tato planter, the Acme plaster sifter, the
Hill improved knapsack sprinkler and a
new cart sprinkler, recently acquired by
the company. C. K. Buck is now devot-

ing his entire attention to the business.
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A Prompt Settlement.

Granp Rapips, May 24—Yesterday
my house at No. 174 Lyon street was
badly damaged by the fire in the
Second Reformed church. I reported
the loss to the office of the Grand Rapids
Fire Insurance Co , and the proper per-
sons immediately took up the adjustment,
and this morning Secretary McBain
handed me a check in full settlement of
my loss. 1 recommend all Grand Rapids

citizens to insure their property in our
home company, where they are sure to
receive prompt, honorable and courteous
treatment.

CALVIN L. IVEs.

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Henry J. Vinkemulder says that his
book-keeper files his order slips in
Shaw’s Name File Book and that, when
so filed, accounts are always ready for
settlement. Mr. Vinkemulder’s growing
trade necessitates the most economical
system of accounts.

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E. O. Goss succeeds Caldwell & Goss
in the meat business at 351 East street

White and Armstrong have opened
their office for the sale of cigars at 75
Lyon street.

N. M. Hooker has opened a grocery
store at Moline. The Olney & Judson
Grocer Co. furnished the stock.

E. L. Lanphere, formerly of Toledo,
Ohio, has purchased the grocery stock of
L. J. Wheeler at 704 Wealthy avenue.

Edwin Fallas has enlarged the scope of
his activity by adding machinery for the
refining of syrups at his jelly, pickle and
mince meat factory on Livingston street.

E. H. Donnally, trustee for the credit-
ors of the Sweet Electric and Manufac-
turing Co., announces that he will dis-
pose of the assets at public sale on
May 31.

The United States Circuit Court of Ap-
peals of Boston has g:anted the O. & W.
Thum Co. a rehearing on each of the
seven points asked for in their suit
against Boston parties who imitated the
salient features of their Tanglefoot.

The report that Wm. Graham and S.
Fred Rouse had consolidated their gro-
eery stocks under the style of Rouse &
Graham is untrue. Mr. Grabam contin-
ues business at 703 Madison avenue and
Mr. Rouse remains in trade at the corner
of Madison and Griggs avenues.

L. E. Hawkins & Co. have sold the
stock in the ‘‘Little Corner Grocery,” at
the corner of East Fulton and Lagrave
streets to Aldis E. Holmes, formerly of
St. Joseph, and Frank Whipple, of this
city, who will continue the business un-
der the style of Holmes & Whipple.

The annual license fee of $30 for
hucksters of vegetables and peddlers of
fruit is an established fact, Alderman
Shaw having sustained a third defeat at
the meeting of the Common Council
Monday evening, when the aldermen re-
fused to reopen the question by the de-
cisive vote of 17 to6. It is now in order
for the police department to act promptly
and effectively in the matter, prosecut-
ing those who have neglected to take out
the necessary licenses as a preliminary
to engaging in the peddling business.

The I, M. Clark Grocery Co. recently
foreclosed its chattel mortgage on the
stock of Leonard Gates, the Howard City
grocer, and last Wednesday Fred B.
Clark bid in the stock at publie sale for
$375. As the claim of the Grocery Co.
was $678 and Mr. Clark had reason to be-
lieve that goods had been purloined from
the stock and secreted, he caused the ar-
rest of Mr. Gates on a charge of secret-
ing chattel mortgaged property. He
subsequently sold the stock to C. A.
Straith, who has leased the store build-
ing occupied by Mr. Gates and will con-
tinue the business at the same location.

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The Grocery Market.

Sugar—Hard sugars are firm, but some
grades of soft are weak and a shade
lower. There are no indications of a de-
cline in granulated, nor are prices likely
to go lower unless the European markets
develop great weakness and influence a
decline in raw sugars here, which at the
moment seems improbable. It is believed
that jobbers still have fair stocks, the
consumptive demand having fallen off,

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due in a great measure to the cold snap,

and it is not expected that the trade will
take hold with freedom until the latter
part of this week or early next week.
Bananas—The market for the past
week has been rather bare of what could
be called real good shipping stock.
Nothing but culls could be obtained up
to Wednesday, at which time three or
four cars came in, but the fruit was en-
tirely green and will not be fit for ship-
ping before next Monday. The severe
frosts which materialized during the
past ten days injured the berry crop to a
considerable extent and for that reason
bananas have been in greater demand
and have sold rapidly at good prices. It
is to be expected, however, that from
now on the fruit will be plenty and
cheap, as domestic fruit will begin to
come in freely and materially affect the
demand for this item.
Lemons—Everything at present goes
to warrant a possibility of having
warmer weather and, if it comes, it can
be reasonably expected that higher
prices will result. The recent cold
spell did not have a tendency to reduce
prices, as many dealers supposed and
hoped it would. It simply checked the
demand. Stocks in general held by
Western dealers are light and all of
them are kept from buying largely for
fear that there should be a slump, and
they do not want to be caught with large
stocks in such a case. We believe that
it will be perfectly safe to buy what will
be needed for the next six weeks at
present prices and that these who take
advantage of them now will reap their
reward in dollars and cents. New York
brokers and importers report already a
stronger feeling and an advance of at
least 50c per box will probably be re-
corded before another issue of this paper,
if the weather does its duty.
Oranges—Most of the local dealers are
buying in a small way—from hand to
mouth, we might say—as all of the seed-
lings melt down very rapidly and it is
much safer to get them in small lots,
even at a slight advance over car load
prices, than to order them in large quan-
tities, and lose money and labor in re-
packing made necessary by natural de-
cay. Mediterranean sweets are begin-
ning to come into market and, while the
fruit is not at all superior to seedlings in
quality, they will stand up much better
and for that reason are held at higher
prices. Navals are practically gone,
what few there are left being too puffy
and juiceless to Therit any attention.
Messina fruit is arriving freely and sell-
ing at good prices, but the quality is not
up to the California stock. Prices, as
they appear in another column, are cor-
large
orders would be shaded a little in price.
Fireworks—The wholesale dealers in
fireworks are already giving their men
samples, and it is high time that the re-
tail trade began to put in stock, as a
great many of the smaller towns are go-
ing to celebrate and, if one wants to sell

goods, it is necessary to have them in
stock in good season. Prices this year
are lower than were in force a year ago
and in keeping with the times, especially
in 40-64 long stem crackers, American
cannon crackers, torpedoes, flags and

rockets.
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L. C. Prescott, formerly engaged in the
paint and wall paper business here, has
removed, with his family, to Port Huron,
where he has established a successful
business in the same line under the style
of the Prescott & Winchester Co.

 

Gripsack Brigade.

C. J. Pope, of Owosso, has taken a po-
sition as traveling representative for the
Saginaw Hardware Co.

Albert C. Antrim (Alabastine Co.) has
returned from a four months’ trip to the
Pacific coast, going via Washington and
Oregon and returning via New Mexico,
Arizona and Texas. Mr. Antrim still
claims the distinction of being the first
traveling salesman to go out of the Grand
Rapids market.

J. W. Martin, traveling representative
for Voigt, Herpolsheimer & Co., has con-
cluded to take up his residence in Grand
Rapids and has, therefore, removed his
family from Detroit to this place.

The members of Post C (Detroit),
Michigan Knights of the Grip, have
chartered the steamer Wyandotte for
their annual excursion, to be given to
Sugar Island, Saturday, July 6. Invita-
tions have been sent to the different
traveling men’s associations in the State.

Two more deaths have occurred in the
ranks of the Michigan Knights of the
Grip—N. L. Bouton, of Pentwater, and
Theo. Schultze, of this city. The former
was an old member, but the latter had
joined only last December, having paid
only $3 into the organization. The $500
the widow will receive as the result of
this investment was all the insurance
carried by the deceased. This makes
seven deaths in the K. of G. so far this
year and, in addition thereto, three
deaths occurring during December were
carried over to this year’s account, mak-
ing ten in all.

_ OOS
The Grain Market.

Another booming week has passed,
during which time wheat has advanced
fully 5c per bushel. There are various
causes for this booming. The scarcity
of wheat is caused largely by the enor-
mous quantities of grain used for feeding
purposes. As wheat has been so ex-
tremely cheap, it seemed that the whole
country was bound to destroy it—any
way todispose of it—and now many farm-
ers wish they had the wheat back in their
granaries. The frost seems to have in-
jured the growing crop in Indiana, Ohio
and Illinois. Kansas reports a very
short crop. Our opinion is that wheat is
at a pinnacle price. Speculation has
been very lively and country speculators
for once are reaping the benefits. The
decrease during the week was 2,224,000
bushels, leaving the visible 54,260,000 or
about 9,000,000 less than the correspond-
ing week last year.

Corn did not advance with wheat, as is
usual, owing to the fact that the receipts
were large. The present cool and frosty
weather is a setback to the growing crop.
There is still abundance of time to make
a good crop of corn, which is a drawback
to its advancing in price, although we
think it is the lowest on the list.

Oats are very firm and the demand for
them is increasing.

The receipts during the week were as
follows: Wheat, 54 cars; corn, 33 cars,
and oats, 4 cars. C. G. A. Vorer.

et

O. S. Rodenbaugh, of the firm of Ro-
denbaugh Bros., druggists and grocers at
Mancelona, died May 22, after a linger-
ing illness with consumption. Deceased
had been a resident of Mancelona since
1882 and was well known and highly re-
spected, having held many positions of
trust and responsibility, including that
of president of the village.

Ask J. P. Visner for Edwin J. Gillies
& Co.’s special inducements on early im-
port teas for June shipment.

 

 

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No advertisements taken for less than 25 cents,
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BUSINESS CHANCES.

OR SALE — ONE HALF INTEREST IN A
general store in a hustling town of 3,000
population. Willinventory about $00. Only
cash offer considered. Obliged to sell on ac-
count of poor health. Address No. 778, care
Michigan Tradesman. 748
\ OOD OPENING FOR BARBER SHOP, AND
residence to rent cheap. Address No 7 9,
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OR SALE—FIXTURES WORTH #107 AND
good-will of an old-established clothing
store for $300. Good chance for a live man to
drop into a good paying busiuess. Address A.
Markson & Son, Big Rapids, Mich. qi
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and business paying. Good reasons for selling.
Address Dr. Nelson Abbott, Kalamazoo,Mich.776
OR SALE OR EXCHANGE—A FIRST-CLASS
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tschments; seventy-five bushels capacity. Ad
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OR SALE OR RENT—THE SAUGATUCK
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774
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with $2,000 to 5,000 capital,in a town of
1,000 inhabitants. For particulars address No.
75, care Michigan Tradesman. 775
OR SALE—DRUG STOCK, CONSISTING OF
staple drugs, patent medicines, stationery,
blank books, wall paper, etc.. inventorying about
$4,000, for one half cash and two years’ time on
balance. Cash sales last year, 84,(u0. Store has
steam heat, electric lights, hot and cold water—
everything in first-class shape—and is situated
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dollar. Best stock ever offered; fine location:
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OR SALE—A WELL SELECTED STOCK OF
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once. Address Chas. E. Mercer, ’phone 863, 1
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ANTED—PARTNER TO TAKE HALF IN
terestin my 75 bbl. steam roller mill and
elevator, situated on railroad; miller preferred;
good wheat country. Full description, price,
terms and inquiries giyen promptly by address
ing H.C. Herkimer, Maybee, Monroe county,
Mich. 71
IGHTY CENTS WILL BUY $1 WORTH OF
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ANTED — PAIR PLATFORM SCALES,
standard make, capacity not less than 1,000
pounds. Large platform preferred. Address
No. 768, care Michigan Tradesman. 768
G RANITE AND MARBLE MONUMENTS,
markers and all cemetery work. Largest
stock. Write us about what you want and we
will quote prices. Grand Rapids Monument Co.,
818 South Division. 761
7 TO SELL BAKING POWDER 10 THE
grocery trade. Steady employment, experi-
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onee, with particulars concerning yourself, U.S.
Chemical Works, Chicago. 757
ANTED—POULTRY,VEAL, LAMBS, BUT
ter and eggs on consignment. Ask for
quotations. F. J. Dettenthaler, Grand Rapids,
Mich. 760
ANTED—BUTTER, EGGS, POULTRY,
potatoes, onions, apples, cabbages, etc.
Correspondence solicited. Watkins & Smith,
81-86 South Division St., Grand Rapids. 673
ANTED—EVERY DRUGGIST JUST
starting in business and every one already
started to use our system of poison labels. What
has cost you $15 you can now get for 84. Four
teen labels do the work of 113. Tradesman
Company, Grand Rapids.

SITUATIONS WANTED,

ITUATION WANTED — REGISTERED AS-

sistant pharmacist; first-class references;
; graduate in pharmacy and chemistry. Address
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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TOLEDO’S EARLY DAYS.

 

Pioneer Incidents of the City on the
Maumee.
Written for THE TRADESMAN.

No town in the United States which
cannot trace its rise to the fort can ever
hope for a place among thearistocracy of
cities; and, when the time comes for To-
ledo to take her place as the Great—not
the Future Great—City of the world, she
will point with pride at the place

‘where the brook and river meet,”

and tell the story of her early toiJs aud
tears to those who come to stand on the
spot where Fort Industry stood, the
eradle where was rocked the infancy of
the Lady of the Lakes. It was near the
mingling of these waters—Swan Creek
and the Maumee—wherey early in the
present century, the fort was located—‘‘a
stockdale fort,’’ the records say, ‘‘as
pear as can be determined, on Summit
street” —and, it may be added, itis, proba-
bly, the site of Fort Industry Block on
the corner of Summit and Jefferson
streets, and the scene, on July 4, 1805, of
a treaty with the Indians, when their
elaim to Fire Islands, a tract of country
including all of Huron county and most
of Erie, was given up.

With this in mind, I sauntered to the
dock at the foot of Jefferson street, not a
stone’s throw from the site of the Fort,
and looked out upon the placid Maumee,
as wide here, perhaps, as the Rhine at
Cologne, and almost as dirty. It is not
a hundred years since the old stockade
shut out the Indians, but marvelous are
the changes which have taken place
since then. The old-time picture is
easily painted, for the woods, then, came
down to the river upon either bank; the
sky was probably fiecked, as to-day, with
hints of recent storms; the sun brightened
alike the leaves and the ripples, and up
the stream and down the stream it was a
scene of woods and river, breeze- kissed
under a cloud-dotted sky of blue.

No records tell us how many built and
occupied the Fort, nor who they were;
but they do say, later on, that the woods
were full of game, and, indirectly, they
furnish an idea of the life going on
around the old Fort. Deer in large herds
roamed the foresi, ready, when needed,
for the wants of the hunter. Wild tur-
keys are especially mentioned and we
are led to infer that it was no uncom-
mon thing for the turkey to weigh, when
dressed, thirty pounds. Partridges and
quail were in great abundance, also
woodcock and snipe, and, farther down
the river, where Jackson street strikes
it, it was no unusual sight to see, at one
time, 500 prairie chickens. Quail were
then sold at a shilling a dozen, bringing
614 cents more when dressed, and ducks
and geese, of which there seemed to be
no end in Maumee Bay, were sold for the
munificent sum of 30 cents a dozen.

These are pleasant things to read; but
there were other things to be taken into
account by those who thought of settling
near Fort Industry. They might, with
composure, read,

“On Maumee, on Maumee,

The potatoes they grow small;
They roast them in the fire,

And they eat them tops and all.”

But, when they learned that Mr. Ague
had pitched his tent here, and that they
who felt his grasp shook so that ‘‘the
house and all’’ fairly rocked, it is prob-
able that more than one, when assured of
this,

‘Folded his tent like the Arab,
And as silently stole away.”

I myself have heard from the lips of

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for prices.
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A. B. KNOWLSON,

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will pay a liberal bonus for a Hardwood
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Basswood Timber.

Correspondence solicited.

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VANDERBILT
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the early settlers how, when the place
had become a growing town, it was a
common thing, in ague time, to meet
strangers at the station and take their
measure, that their coffin might be in
readiness, and that confusion and de-
lay which otherwise might be expected
to follow be avoided—a practice not cal-
culated to secure a rapid increase of pop-
ulation, This and similar stories were
recited, however, as a sample of what
the enemies of the Future Great City
were in the habit of saying of their ag-
gressive rival; but the retailers of these
yarns informed that the stories were
pleasant little fictions, merely, and that
they were wholly without foundation.
There might have been some ground for
them when Swan Creek, unvexed by the
Perry street bridge, mingled its waters
with the yellow waves of the Tiber—I
should say Manmee—but, since then, no
ague to amount toanything has darkened
a single day of the Lady of the Lakes,
especially if she began the day in the
orthodox fashion with a good horn of
whisky and was careful to see that her
stock of quinine was not exhausted—
began and was careful, mind you, for,
now, there is not a city in the basin of
the St. Lawrenee so free from malaria
and from disease of any kind as is the
city of Toledo.

When I first knew the city, she was
struggling with that awkward period
known as the ‘betwixt and between”
time of life. Hardly large enough and
hardly old enough to don the garb of wom-
anhood, and yet painfully aware that
some of the proprieties of maturity must
be observed, she wore, at that time, a
gown much too large for her and, with
skirts frayed and bedraggled in the mire
of pasturelands and vacant lots as forlorn
as they were neglected, reminded one
of a buxom country lass, with stockings
and shoes to wear, if she would, but
much preferring to go without them.
She took pride in Summit street and be-
lieved, after one or two buildings of brick
had been put up, that little more was
wanting to make her the business center
of North America. When one or two
lines of railroad had connected her with
the rest of the world, she complacently
contemplated the Maumee and Lake Erie
and wondered how long it would take
the poor stupid world to find out the lo-
cation of the Future Capital of the West-
ern Empire. The building of the Oliver
House was an event; of the Boody, a
climax, and, when Society left White’s
Hall and engaged a box at Wheeler’s
Opera House, after rejoicing that she
was no longer provincial, my Lady of
the Lakes concluded to go barefoot no
longer and, putting away childish things,
to enter upon that career predicted by
the early settlers about the Fort at the
mouth of Swan Creek.

Then it was that Toledo began te be a
city. She found that a store could be
built on some street besides Summit, and
she built it. She concluded that, witha
water way unsurpassed at her very door,
she ought to be more of a railroad center;
so she built the roads. These finished,
she insisted that a city so connected with
the remotest parts of the country should
be a manufacturing center; she gained
her point. Then she became tired of
living in a basement house wedged in
between two other basement houses and
without any dooryard, and, going out
where there were green fields and an
abundance of tall trees, she built her a

 

home worthy of the daughter of a fort-
building father; and the pasturelands
and the woodlots of long ago are now so
many carefully-kept lawns, the pride of
as many beautiful palaces, upon streets
nowhere surpassed in pave or border, the
whole having gained for her the title she
gracefully wears—‘'The Lady of the
Lakes.”’

It was of the palace and not the Fort
that I thought, as, my reverie over, I
joined the crowd on Summit street; and
yet there must have been something of
the old hunting ground spirit within me
striving for expression, for, while I was
under the shadow of The Nasby, a reg-
ular sky scraper, I found myself hum-
ming, a3 I followed its lofty top into the
clouds:

“On Maumee, on Maumee,
The potatoes they grow small;
They roast them in the fire,
And they eat them tops and all!”
RicHARD MALCoM STRONG.

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WEDNESDAY, MAY 29.

 

 

CONSEQUENCES OF THE DECISION.

There has been considerable discus-
sion as to the consequences of the in-
come tax decision in its curtailment of
the power of taxation by the general
government and many dire effects are
predicted by those who dissent from the
opinion of the court. These predictions
are of all degrees of absurdity and
prophesy ruin and chaos to the revenue
system. Senator Morgan, of Alabama,
aa able constitutional lawyer, goes so far
as to say that the decision will make it
necessary to refund all liquor and tobacco
taxes, claiming that they are as much di-
rect taxes as a tax on personalty. Some
even discuss the necessity of an extra
session of Congress to repair the wreck
and to make provision for the deficit so
greatly increased by it.

The more conservative majority, how-
ever, are not at all alarmed as to the sit-
uation.

They recognize, what would seem to be
the fact, that the constitution in its in-
tention and interpretation clearly defines
that the general government has the sole
right to levy all duties and tariff taxes,
and any others that would interfere with
commerce between states. It also has
the right to levy a per capita tax. It
was evidently the belief, which has been
justified, that, without the last, these
would be sufficient for all ordinary needs
of the government. If some of these
have been diminished toan imprudent de-
gree it is not a fault of the constitution.

To offset these reservations by the gen-
eral government the power of direct
property taxation is by the same instru-
ment secured to the individual states.

There seems to be nothing in the de-
cision that interferes with the statement
of the situation. All talk of an amend-
ment of the constitution to enable the
government to impose direct taxes is the
sheerest nonsense. The _ anarchistic
spirit that made it possible to pass such
a law through its activity and the dem-
agogism of Congress really actuates but
a small minority in this country. It
might be possible to carry a state or two,
but it is an absurdity to think of carry-
ing the necessary two-thirds to secure
the adoption.

It is probable that improved condi-
tions will so increase the revenues of the
government that the increase of the de-
ficit will be speedily arrested. This will
allay the anxiety on that subject until a

 

new Congress can take such action as
may be necessary to put the revenues into
a healthy condition, and the unpleasant
episode of an income tax will be soon
forgotten.

THE CUBAN SITUATION.

The reports from the insurrection in
Cuba indicate that the movement is grow-
ing in magnitude and that while the
Spaniards are continually reporting
severe defeats administered to the Cu-
bans and the killing of the prominent
leaders, these reverses seem to be con-
stantly increasing the strength and ac-
tivity of the revolutionists, and two
prominent leaders seem to spring up
where one is cut down. The Spanish
government relied greatly on the pres-
tige and prowess of their greatest gen-
eral, Campos, fancying that his going to
the island with a large army, nearly 30,-
000 men, would overawe and dishearten
the Cubans and that it would be an easy
matter for him to restore its authority in
the provinces in rebellion.

The result has been far from their
anticipations. His coming has adver-
tised the importance of the movement
and caused great accessions to the insur-
gent ranks from the Cuban population
impelled by the patriotic hope that inde-
pendence would become the question at
issue. It has also led to the flocking of
great numbers of Cuban sympathizers
and other adventurers from this country
to the island with munitions of war and
other assistance.

It is said that the Cubans are depend-
ing on the assistance of that grim de-
stroyer, pestilence. The unacclimated
Spaniards can hardly hope to pass the
heated term without suffering severely
from yellow fever, while the islanders
will be comparatively exempt from its
ravages, and will have command of many
of the healthier localities.

The prospect of a termination of the
mevement is, to say the least, very re-
mote. The Spanish general has waited
so long before attempting decisive move-
ments, that it would seem his opportuni-
ty is gone. If the Cubans pursue a de-
fensive policy, they will tire the Spanish
government with the expense of main-
taining such armies in the field and by
the loss of so great a share of the reve-
nues it has exacted, and it is not un-
reasonable to conjecture that the war will
result in greatly lessening the rigor of
Spanish rule, if not in independence.

 

There has been built, at the London
Empire of India Exhibition, a wheel on
the plan of the Ferris wheel at the
World’s Fair. It is considerably larger,
to beat the Yankee wheel, of course; and,
to adapt it to the differences in national
customs and prejudices, it was found
necessary to make ten of the forty cars
in luxurious style for first-class passen-
gers, while the remaining thirty will be
adapted to the more plebeian patrons.
The Ferris wheel had thirty-six cars on
a democratic level.

 

Technicalities and motions are being
introduced into the litigation attending
the management of the affairs of the
Whisky Trust to an extent that bids fair
to give the lawyers the lion’s share of the
profits of that association for a long time
to come. United States Courts are reli-
able business managers, but when there
are sO many conflicting interests to re-
ceive attention, their services are pretty
expensive.

 

OPPORTUNITIES IN CHINA.

During the past ten years Li Hung
Chang, the Chinese viceroy, has made
every effort to break down the prejudice
of the Chinese government against mod-
ern inventions and to secure the adop-
tion of modern arms and implements.
Before the recent war, he was defeated
in most of these efforts by the advisers
nearest the throne. In the instances
where he has succeeded in getting the
assistance of foreigners in the customs
and other services, the results have been
very favorable, and at the same time
those rendering such assistance have
speedily acquired large fortunes. The
government is willing and can afford
to pay fur such service munificently when
it will accept it at all. It is probable,
as one result of the war, that the liberal
Viceroy will be allowed to have his
way, and already numbers of English
and American promoters have gone to
that country, ready to take advantage of
any move on the part of the Chinese gov-
ernment to construct railroads or tele-
graphs or to adopt any foreign inven-
tions. With legitimate commissions
there is a fortune for the foreigner who
can get the contract to supply the army
with new guns and ammunition, or to
furnish material for the new navy which
China must speedily secure to take the
place of that navy which was broken up
at the Yalu and at Wei-hai-wei. In the
building of railroads and canals there
will be even greater profits. China needs
railroads and waterways more than any-
thing else, and if the Viceroy is not
checked he will see that the main prov-
inces are well supplied with means of
communication.

Foreigners who can speak Chinese
have an enormous advantage, and any
man of ability who can speak and write
the language of China ought to get a
lucrative post in these days. The Orien-
tal Departments of American colleges
like Yale, Harvard and Cornell ought to
turn out men who can prove of great
value to China in her present extremity.
Certainly, the government service, as
well as trade, in China offers great re-
turns to young Americans who know the
Chinese language and who have the busi-
ness ability to make use of it. There
may not be another fee so fat as that
$100,000 in silver given to ex-Secretary
John W. Foster for his few weeks’ work
in arranging terms of peace for China;
but the Chinese are prepared to pay lib-
erally for any foreign expert advice that
will help them to get even in the race
with Japan.

 

NOW SEE THEIR ERROR.

It has taken a long time for the rail-
way labor organizations to arrive at cor-
rect conclusions as to the merits of the
great Pullman strike. That some of
them seem to have finally done so is in-
dieated by the following extract from
the official address of the Seeretary of the
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen at the
recent biennial session of that body:

The general effect of the strike will, 1
believe, be beneficial in the end to or-
ganized labor. It has taught the lesson
that in order to win a fight of any con-
sequence you must bein the right. I do
not pretend to say that the cause of the
Pullman Company was just, but Iam
obliged to admit that the strike against
the railroad companies—and, particu-
larly, those with which our membership
and that of other railway labor organiza-
tions had contracts—was wholly unjusti-
fiable. I am satisfied that those mem-

bers now see the error of this action, but:

 

at the time it was impossible to convince
them that strict compliance with the law
and their contracts with the companies
was the only proper course for them to
pursue.

It would hardly seem necessary that so
self-evident“a truism as the statement
that to ‘‘win a fight of any consequence
you must be in the right” would need so
costly a lesson of blood and riot in an
unjust cause to demonstrate. The injus-
tice of the strike was as potent to the in-
telligent among the labor leaders during
its occurrence as at this late day, but it
seems the question as to whether an un-
just strike could be won needed to be de-
termined.

 

 

It has been noticed that the old prej-
udice against the Hebrew has well-nigh
disappeared in most countries, and no
sensible or right-minded person dis-
credits a Jew because of his race or re-
ligion. In fact, in some quarters there
is a distinct tendency to the other ex-
treme, and many persons are glad to
claim Jewish descent. Members of the
English royal family have been known
to boast that they have Jewish blood in
their veins. And it is certainly in the
power of the offspring of Princess Bea-
trice to do so, for the mother of Prinee
Henry of Battenburg, Princess Julie of
Battenburg, was of Jewish extraction on
her mother’s side. If belonging to an old
family gives a sound claim to distinction,
certainly there is reason for pride in the
Jewish blood. The Jews as a race far
antedate the oldest families in Europe,
royal, noble or aristocratic. They are
quite able to eare for themselves when
it comes to intelligence, enterprise, edu-
cation, influence and wealth.

The opening of the Kickapoo reserva-
tion for settlement last week was at-
tended by arush in some regards more
exciting than the famous Oklahoma
rush. The number of people, as com-
pared with the number of claims, was
much greater—25,000 for 437 claims.
Great numbers of claimants are camped
on a single claim in many instances, and
it will be a considerable time before
peace is restored and it is decided who
are the rightful claimants. Of course,
in a majority of instances might will be
the arbiter.

Chas. A. Dana, the veteran editor of
the New York Swn, thus discusses the
necessity of character in the publishing
business:

A fellow who is practicing arts of de-
ception may last a little while, but he
cannot last long. The man who stays is
the man who has the staying power; and
the siaying power is not merely intellec-
tual, itis moral. Itis in the character.

 

The new Utah constitution provides
for a jury of eight members, instead of
twelve, and that a verdict may be ren-
dered in civil cases by a three-fourths
vote of that number. The experiment
will be watched with great interest by
the older states and, if successful, as it
probably will be, similar innovations
will follow elsewhere.

 

Country merchants who are pestered
by peddlers should remember that the
law regulating the peddling evil has been
amended so that peddlers must now ob-
tain separate licenses from the township
boards of each township in which they
peddle their goods.

 

The business office of THe TRADES-
MAN will close at noon Memorial Day.

 

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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

9

 

GETTING THE PEOPLE.

 

Art of Reaching and Holding Trade by

Advertising.
Written for the Tradesman.

It is generally conceded that the phar-
macy—and especially the drug store in
the smaller towns—is one of the most
difficult branches of merchandising to
successfully advertise. The druggist
cannot conscientiously say, in his alloted
space in the local paper, ‘Bankrupt
Sale of Sticktite’s Everlasting Porous
Plasters. <A job lot on our hands, which
we must move at once to make room for
Spring Styles.’’ Plainly this would
never do. Job lots in porous plasters
and pills with which to beguile the un-
wary have not, as yet, been introduced
in the drug line. Still, there’s no doubt,
if trade demands them, they will be
made available. Neither can the dealer
in physics attract the bargain-seeking
eyes of the fair sex by calling attention
to his “‘Spring Stock of Thattiredfeeling
& Co.’s freshly imported Painless Kala-
mazoo Compound,’’ which is guaranteed
to cure the most obstinate case of ‘‘Blue-
Mondays” in fifteen minutes or money re-
funded.

Obviously, none of these things will
“fetch,” and ‘‘fetching’’ business is
what the drug man is trying to accom-
plish. Yet there’s no doubt in my mind
that a thousand and one different and
fresh ways of bringing trade to his door
may be devised by the ‘thinking and ob-
serving’? advertiser. Personally, I never
sold an ounce of drugs in my life, and
am utterly without experience in the
pharmaceutical business; yet, by giv-
ing full rein to my imagination, by ‘‘put-
ting myself in the place” of the ad. read-
ers, and making myself, to a certain
extent, a mind-reader, I am egotistical
enough to believe that I can devise new
advertising — advertising which will
‘‘fetch’’ and hold trade—even for a drug
store.

When you stop to think of it, attract-
ing public attention is no trick at all.
The foundation of the whole fabric lies
in appealing to the cupidity, curiosity,
characteristics and conditions of man-
kind.

Just sit down behind your desk some
day, when business is slack, and write
an advertisement something like this:

Politics and Roguery

Are often supposed to go hand in hand.
This may be so, yet we can prove that
“Roguery and Druggery”’ do not fit, in our
ease. Inour

DRUGGERY

are no adulterations or rogueism of any
sort, but only the purest and best drugs on
the market. A full line of Surgical Instru-
meuts, Toilet Preparations, etc.

JACK & PILL,

Open every moment. Upthehill street.

The above will appeal to the ‘‘curios-
ity’ side of mankind. Then you may
add to it just enough in the way of some
special bargain to attract the attention of
Mr. Cupidity, alias ‘‘Buycheap,”’ and, in
the language of Solomon, you’ve ‘‘got
’em.’’

Personal invitation advertising by
means of neatly printed slips, delivered
at the homes and addressed especially to
the ladies, is an old-established method
and, if the advertising is properly word-
ed, will pay.

It is an easy matter to obtain the por-
trait of acat. Get a nice-looking, corpu-
lent ‘‘Tommy”—not one who looks as if
he had been through a nocturnal prize-
ring and concert contest. Place the pic-

 

 

ture in your show window, surrounded
by the article to be advertised. The
startling announcement, ‘‘This cat gives
milk,’’ is very certain to attract the at-
tention of pedestrians. A card like this,
printed in plain black letters on white
cardboard, with plenty of white space
around it, will do the rest:

Wis Cl (ls

The cold shake. He prefers
BOODLER’S LACTATED CREAM
For the Complexion. 50c.

 

 

 

 

This can be varied to suit any article
of a similar nature.

Mr. Druggist, you haven’t begun to get
at the meat of drug store advertising.
Look over your shelves, and get some-
thing new and novel before the public
camera every day. Impress on the minds
of the people that you are in business to
sell goods—that your store is not merely
a gossiping resort, a place to wait for the
ear, a convenient city directory holder,
nor yet a rendezvous for lovers who dare
not meet except by apparent chance.
Give it to’em hard—I have even heard
of cases where a positive insult was em-
bodied in the advertising and it drew
trade. Yetthis is bad practice and is
frowned upon by all legitimate advertis-
ers.

Some day, as you pass your local black-
smithing parlors, ask the brawny artist
in iron for an old pair of broken buggy
springs, the rustier and more old-fash-
ioned, the better. Perhaps you have a
liver invigorator of your own make—if
not, sell some other. Place the broken
spring tastily upon a bed of cotton, sur-
rounding it attractively with the medi-
cine.

POSITIVE SPRING REMEDY!
Bonnet’s
Hooperupella

WILL STRAIGHTEN OUT THE
MOST TORPID LIVER.

Add to this in any attractive way and
place the card above the springs. Under-
neath you might say:

“THE BROKEN SPRINGS”
Of life welded and made to carry the
weight of care over the rough places with-
out jolting, through the agency of ———
I will venture to assert that your window
will be crowded with lookers.

Buy your goods with especial reference
to advertising. Never place an order
without including some novelty or staple
which you can ‘‘boom,’”’ thereby ‘‘fetch-
ing’’ the people to your place of business.
Once there, you and your clerks, as cour-
teous gentlemen, will know how to keep
the people and bring them back again.

Don’t fall to the rear in the race for
trade, Mr. Druggist of the ‘‘Druggery;’’
there are plenty of advertising methods
for youin the possibilities of art com-
bined with English ‘tas she’s wrote,’ all
pulverized with the pestle of ‘‘persever-
ance’ in the mortar of ‘“‘pleasing the
public.” Foc. FostER FULLER.

———>-.

New York City is still hard at work
getting rid of the overhead wires which
disfigure the city and are a constant
menace to the lives and property of the
citizens. At last week’s meeting of the
Board of Electrical Control the Secretary
reported that since the last meeting 642
miles of overhead wire and 317 poles had
been removed. He said that 126 more
poles were to be removed at once. This
isasit should be. Subterranean wires
cost the companies a little more, but in
the long run they cost the public a good
deal less.

 

 

Michael Kolb
& Son

Wholesale Clothiers
Rochester, N. Y.

Our representative, WILLIAM CONNOR,
of Marshall, Mich., will be pleased to call
upon the Trade and show you samples, if
you will favor him with a line.

Mail orders promptly attended to.

 

Reeder Bros.
Shoe Co.

State Agents for Lycoming Rubber Co.

LYCOIPINGS are our FIRST QUALITY
KEYSTONES are our Second Quality

Nine years ago these goods were not known in
Michigan, and to-day they stand second to none
and are as well known as any. A great many of
the best retail merchants in Michigan and Indi-
ana think they are the best good
made from the Purest Rubber :
style lasts, and are the best fit
market. Our trade for the p
these goods has steadily increased.

    
 

   
 

OUR LEATHER LINE is full and complete;
also an elegant line of FELT BOOTS and SOX
for fall.

See our salesmen-
samples.

REEDER BROS. SHOE CO.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

it will pay you to examine

 

A. HEROLD,

F, E. WALTHER,

A.C WETZEL

SAM H. SIMMONS

ARE HUSTLING THESE DAYS FOR ORDERS ON

 

WALES-GOODYEAR RUBBERS

THE BEST WEARING BRAND ON EARTH, for the

Herold-Bertsch Shoe Co.,
5 and 7 Pearl St., Grand Rapids.

P.S. Write us care the house.

 

RINDGE. KALMBACH & G0.

12, 14 and 16 Pearl St.

Manufacturers and Jobbers of

Boots, Shoes & Rubbers

Agents for the Boston Rubber Shoe Co.’s goods.

 

Now is the time to order your rubbers.

They will be higher Oct. 1st.

If you place your order with us, we will take good care of you and give
you the best possible terms and discounts, and guarantee them until time

of payment.

You do not have to pay for them any sooner, and you are

more sure of having your order filled complete if given now. Light goods
very much improved in style and quality.

 

BOSTON
RUBBER SHOE

GOMPANY’S

Goods are found at

McGraw’s
DETROIT

We have the Greatest Variety of the Freshest Goods, and the Largest Stock

of any housE in the United States.

 

Use Tradesman W ants Column

 

IT REACHES THE PEOPLE.

 

  

10

ONE PAIR OF GLOVES.

Thirty-three years ago this autumn, a
little boat was dropping slowly down
the Medway, below the old stone bridge
of Maidstone. Init were Ralph Erroll
and Bessie Farleigh, and there is small
wonder they did not hurry their journey,
for to them it was a sail into Loveland.
Bessie was beautiful, and the evening
was beautiful. The air was redolent
with the rich, balmy, bitter odor of
hops; far and near were the little camps
of the pickers, and drifting in fitful
strains over the river came the echoes of
their songs and laughter.

It was not an evening when love
needed to plead; he could let his pres-
ence blend with all other sweet influ-
ences, and trust to the effect. Bessie
felt the charm of the sweet gloaming
and the still stronger charm of Ralph’s
presence. By and by the boat drifted
into a cove, and, stepping ashore, they
were in a park that rose gradually to-
ward an old gray Hall.

‘See, Ralph; there are lights in the
parlor! We must go home.”

‘Wait here one minute, Bessie; I have
something to ask you. When I have
made a little practice in London, will
you be my wife? Answer metruly, now,
as a good, honest girl ought to.”’

*‘] will, Ralph.”

And when they came among the old-
fashioned flower-beds, they were sol-
emnly pledged to share life’s fortunes to-
gether. For one minute they stood lean-
ing on an old sun-dial, and in the newly-
risen moon everything about Bessie had
a strangely bewitching beauty. Ralph
could not help noticing how exceedingly
small and shapely was the hand that lay
in his, and how dainty and pretty the
pearl-colored kid glove that covered it.

When they parted, he said:

**Bessie, this has been a great night
for me; give me this glove, that 1 may
know to-morrow it was not all a dream ”’

Bessie laid it in her lover’s hand with
a smile and a kiss.

‘“‘Take it, Ralph,’’ she said, ‘‘it is my
gage that I will redeem my promise.”

Ralph put the delicate little pledge
away and went up to London. He had
something to work for and hope, now,
and he soon made these influences tell.
Bessie’s parents had not objected to the
match. ’Squire Farleigh was the poorest
of a long race of Kentish ’squires, and
though the old Hall and lands remained,
he had not been a successful farmer, and
money was very scarce with him. There
seemed nothing better for Bessie than
that sbe should marry Ralph Erroll, for
house and lands must go to her brother
Tom, and every year the savings toward
her dower had been less and less.

But the very next spring after Bessie’s
engagement, a speculative neighbor who
had money proposed to the ’Squire the
planting of the rich meadows of Farleigh
in hops. Everyone knows that the cul-
ture of hops is the gambling of agricul-
ture. As it happened, it was a lucky
move for ’Squire Farleigh. lt was a new
crop to his lands; the yield was enor-
mous, and the rate of duty—on which
everything hangs—unusually' small.
When the picking was over, the hops
sold, and profits divided, the "Squire had
4,000 pounds in the bank.

Everything looked different now. He
had found an El Dorado at his own door,
and could do nothing but abuse the con-
ventional stupidity which had led him
always to plant wheat and oats and

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

feed cattle, simply because the ’squires
before him had always done so.

But he was no better able to bear sud-
den riches than most men are. He im-
mediately launched into unusual expen-
ses—refurnished the Hall, and rebuilt
his kennels, and bought a couple of
hunting horses. There was plenty of
time for Bessie’s dower; next year’s crop
would provide for her; and, indeed, he
had already begun to doubt the wisdom
of Bessie’s choice. He told himself that
she would never live in a close city, and
a doctor to him was only associated with
scenes of death and misery.

The next year’s crop was another suc-
cess, and the ’Squire began tc build fine
oast-houses on his lands, for he was now
determined to have everything necessary
to the culture of hops of the very latest
and best description. In the meantime,
the whole family were learning extrava-
gances never thought of in the days of
simple farming. Tom Farleigh put no
stint to his pleasures, and they were all
of an expensive kind, and Bessie had de-
veloped equally expensive desires in the
way of dress and watering-places. The
’Squire, with all his influx of ready mon-
ey, was always in a tight place.

in the second winter of her engage-
ment, Bessie was to stay with a new ac-
quaintance in London. So far as Ralph
was concerned, it was a very unhappy
visit. He loved Bessie withall his heart.
Bessie had begun to love many other
things besides Ralph. The charm of
London society, in all its splendid nov-
elty, captivated her imagination. A life
without the park and the opera, without
balls and shopping, seemed like a return
to the dark simplicity of Farleigh before
the hop days.

Bessie thought she still loved Raiph,
but she did not know her own heart until,
one day, Ralph took her to see a little
cottage at Richmond, and told her how
much his income was, asking her honest-
ly to redeem her pledge to him at once.
She was struck with dismay at the ap-
parent narrowing of her iife, and posi-
tively refused to accede to an immediate
marriage.

Indeed, the possibility of breaking
it off had now entered her mind, and
being once admitted, the idea made
rapid progress, and she found plenty
of reasons and excuses fur her con-
conduct. Ralph felt the change, but
love is always blind where it does not
want to see; and one morning, when
he read her engagement in the Morning
Chronicle to a wealthy magnate of the
East India Board, he felt as if his life
had been suddenly smitten with blind-
ness.

When a man is constant, there is no
constancy like it. Ralph refused to
blame Bessie; everything and everybody
were wrong but her, and he treasured
the little glove that had been such a
faithless gage beyond all his possessions.
Day after day he watched the post with
a feverish hope that incapacitated him
for every other employment. He wrote
and wrote to Bessie, and was quite sure
that sooner or later she would find means
to answer him. The only answer that
ever came was a description of her mar-
riage festivities down at the old Hall at
Farleigh.

Then he knew his love was dead to
him, and he tried to bury it in some
sweet-scented corner of his heart; but
just as he thought he was succeeding, he
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Bessie in Oxford street. He suffered so
keenly after it that he determined on
putting himself out of the way of such
rencounters. So he advertised fur some
medical position, and had three answers.
One would take him to Canada, one to
Ireland, and the other to India. He de-
termined to let the decision rest on which-
ever offered him the highest salary.

The Indian appointment won, and
within a few weeks he was on the road
to Caleutta. He had destroyed every
memento uf his engagement except one;
but on that last night in England, when
he had sadly burned Bessie’s letters, and
her little gifts, and even her picture, he
had not been able to commit to destrue-
tion that dainty little glove that had so
long comforted him. It seemed almost
part of Bessie, and though he several
times dropped it toward the flames, he
finally put it away with a sad and half-
reproachful tenderness.

It found its home in no very romantic
place—a secret drawer in his medicine
chest—and there through eighteen long
years it remained untouched and un-
looked at. In this retreat it went with
Ralph to Calcutta, and after a few
months, he had no temptation to disturb
it. He had become an enthusiast in his
profession, and a devoted botanist, and
in the two pursuit found ample interest
for life.

His salary was a very good one, and
he was not indifferent to that fact. He
loved money just enough to be anxious
to make it; and as his practice lay very
much among native princes and begums,
his professional rewards were frequently
magnificent—twenty years ago these
dignitaries did not calculate quite so
closely as they do now—good invest-
ments were plentiful, and Ralph was
known in Calcutta as a man who always
had a few thuusand rupees for a profit-
able scheme.

He grew attached to his Indian life.
One relay of officers after another was
exchanged or sent home on long fur-
loughs, but Ralph never thought of any
change save a few weeks every summer
to the cool heights of the Neilgherrys.
Probably he would have died a very con-
tented exile, if he had not received a
letter in the eighteenth year of his In-
dian life, telling him that he had become
the lawful heir to the barony of Erroll
and Hastings.

Then he went back to England. But
after the first excitement and pleasure of
his return and his new position were
over, he began to feel a sense of ennui
and disappointment. His _ profession
was dear to his heart, and it was impos-
sible at once to find the calm, easy duties
of a country gentleman equivalent for
the exciting incidents and labors of a
physician whose circuit had extended
over a range of fifty miles every way. In
fact, in spite of wealth and honors, he
was bored, and seriously inclined to a
journey of unlimited leugth in any coun-
try or countries that promised him some-
thing to do, or to learn.

He had come up to London with this
idea in embryo, resolving to make inquir-
ies and preparations there. Bessie had
no place in this movement. He knew,
indeed, that she was living in Hamp-
shire; but he had no thought or hope of
meeting her, and would have avoided
such a possibility at some personal trou-
ble. Probably he still feared her power
over him, fur he had never dared to look

THE MICHIGAN

at the only souvenir of their love, nor
yet to love any other woman.

He did not hurry his preparations, but
talked at the various clubs with various
travelers on polar and tropic lands, and
wavered considerably in his intentions.
One day, when he had about decided on
California and the ‘Great West,” he met
an old Indian acquaintance at ‘‘The
Oriental.’? They had a long chat to-
gether, and as the major was leaving, he
said:

**Doctor, Ll want you to-morrow night.
My daughter Belle—you saved her in
that jungle-fever, you know—is to be
married soon to Jack Dawson, of ‘Ours,’
and it is her betrothal party.”’

“I never meddle in such affairs, Major.
I will come another night and see Miss
Belle.’’

But the happy father would hear of no
excuse, and Ralph was obliged to go. It
was a very splendid affair, but the doc-
tor was used to Indian magnificence, and
the splendor did not interest him. What
pleased him most were the groups of fair,
innocent-looking girls, their pale-brown
curls, and blue eyes, and rosy skins, and
their candid, child-like joyousness, con-
trasting so vividly with the bronze-
colored, dark-eyed, half-veiled mysteri-
ous beauties of the Far Eas«.

By and by, wandering through a con-
servatory, he came suddenly upon a sight
which gave him an inexpressible emo-
tion—a _ little, scented, pearl-colored
glove, lying on a rustic table. He stood
looking at it with a strangely tender
feeling in his heart, and in a few mo-
ments a young girl glided up to him,
and, looking shyly in his face, said:

“It is my glove, sir.”

Then Ralph looked at her. She was a
little rosebud of a girl, clothed in pearl-
gray silk, white lace and pink ribbons;
and he fell irremediably in love with
herin that one moment. He followed
her timidly about for an hour or two, and
finally got an introduction to her—‘‘Miss
Bessie Wilmot.’? It was Bessie Far-
leigh’s daughter, of course, but he was
thinking so little of the old Bessie at that
moment that the circumstance never
struck him, until someone asked the new
Bessie, as they passed her, when she
next went to Farleigh.

Well, this meeting changed all Ralph’s
plans. Hedid not go to California; he
went down to Farleigh instead.

He found the ’Squire alive and pros-
pering; Farleigh Hall had become one of
the show-places in Kent; and in its old
gardens, and again floating down the
Medway when hops filled the air with a
richer perfume than olibanum or nard,
he wooed and won the lovely Bessie
Wilmot.

He has two little pearl-colored gloves
now, and the first Bessie laughed pleas-
antly when he showed her that the two
were excellent matches, and made a pair.

“The second gage redeems the first,’’
she said, with a tender, happy look at
the little Bessie so dear to them both.

Three years ago they were married,
and Ralph does not now find the country
gentleman’s life dull. Indeed, as he has
some idea of taking ’Squire Farleigh’s
advice and planting hops in Erroll mead-
ows, I have no doubt he will find in the
uncertainty and anxiety of their culture,
taxation and sale plenty of material for
excitement, if he still thinks it necessary
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Saleswomen in the Great Stores.

From the Cosmopolitan Magazine. Reprinted by pcr-
mission.

in spite of ‘*Daisy Miller,” there is no
settled type of the American girl. The
country is tou young. She is only one of
a large assortment, like a naturally beau-
tiful, but untrained voice, where one note
differs from another, following its own or
its great Creator’s fancy without any
respect for the most approved methods.
So the shop-girl, in spite of the inevita-
ble Psyche Knot, is composed of many
varieties, all sizes, ages, complexions and
nationalities, with the Jewess and Lrish
maiden well in the lead. The tormer
has a way of drawing money trom the
customer which is certainly astonishing
to the uninitiated and delightful to her
employer. The Irish girl is usually a
strong second in running what is calleda
*tyood book,’’ from her characteristic
native wit, but the American, while you
will find her modest and oftentimes re-
fined, lacks the ‘‘push” and ‘*go’’ to be
come as valuable.

To bea good saleswoman is not to be
able to sell a customer something that
she asks for and has started out, after
studying the bargain columns, to get, but
to sell her something she does not want
and has no idea of buying when she
comes intu the shop. A cloak is adver-
tised for some one day only for $7.50,
worth $15, ‘‘special.’’ That is what is
called a ‘‘leader,’’ and that is the bait
which draws tbe cus.omer to the house.

A ciever saleswoman will gently lead
the innocent victim onward and upward
until she walks out with a $35 garment,
of some eiegant material, maybe, but of
an old style which they are longing to be
rid of, and which the purchaser fancies is
the most wonderful vargain, as she still
hears its songs of praise ringing in her
ears. ‘Then it is that the pretty little
Jewess who has made this sale pats her-
self on the back and lets everyone else
know of her achievement, even the pro-
prietor himself, if it is possible, telling
of it in adeprecatory style which is a sort
of combination of modesty and self-ap-
preciation. The average hurried, impa-
tient shopper in these crowded dry-gouds
houses gets very indignant at the
saleswomen. The short answers, the in-
difference, the particularly discouraging
information of **three rooms over,” *‘two
counters below,’’ make one feel often-
times as though these people’ were
leagued against you and the proprietor,
in an iron-clad union, the motto of which
is: ‘Sell as little as possible and be as
disagreeable as youcan.” But this is not
the case. They are most anxious to sell,
for their positions are held almost solely
by their sales, and the greatest amount
of rivalry exists among them in trying to
outdo each other.

There is no bone of contention so great
as one which is a common occurrence.
For instance, a woman comes in in an un-
certain frame of mind to buy a hat. Ev-
ery style, shape and argument in the
place is brought to bear upon the ques-
tion, but the discouraging verdict is ob-
tained by the weary saleswoman that she
‘‘will look a little further before decid-
- Iing—”’ The next day she walks in and
buys of another the same hat that has
been high in favor the day before. War
is immediately declared. ‘**That is my
‘come back,’’’ says saleswoman number
one, in the shop vernacular, ‘‘and | ought
to have that check.’’

‘Well, you won’t get it,’’ says number
two, with more firmness than politeness,
‘for I lost a check the same way yester-
day,’’ etc.

Women who go from shop to shop
ought surely to try to find the same girl
who has shown so much patience in wait-
ing on them.

Before I looked into this question, my
sympathies were, to a great extent, with
the customer; but, since, they have been
transferred to the much-enduring sales-
woman. The time women take to look at
an article, to finger it, to ask questions,
the same one over and over in a dozen
different forms! The many times they
try iton, and decide first for and then
against its becomingness. How they al-
most come to the point and then shift off
and try every one of its kind in the room,
asking the same thing over, and then
come back to the original! And all this
is bad enough if there is only one person

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

| to suit. But when the customer is ac-
companied by two friends, each, of
| course, of adifferent mind! Butthe bane
| of the saleswoman is the ‘‘looker.’’

Thousands of women promenade the
shops having not the slightest idea of
buying, fingering this and pricing that,
so that it is no wonder the poor shop-gir!
is often short in her answers to a person
who really means to buy. If these
‘‘lookers” could only realize how hard it
is on the people who have to wait on
them, they would certainly refrain from
this fourm of amusement.

The proprietor of a large store on Sixth
avenue one day asked the saleswoman
what was wanted by a customer who had
strolled along and addressed some ques-
tion to her. ‘She did not want any-
thing; she was only looking.’? Happen-
ing to feel somewhat out of sorts that
particular morning, the proprietor said:
“Oh, L guess she would have bought
something, if you had expressed a little
more interest in her. IL don’t think we
want such people as you around; you go
to the office and get your salary;’’ and so
the girl was out of a place, and all because
a too curious woman had asked the price
of some fancy goods that she had not the
remotest intention of buying.

The grading in astore forms a very im-
portant element. A girl begins as *tcash”
on a dollar and seventy-five cents a week,
and it is her duty to do everything she is
called upon to do by everyone in author-
ity, and, of course, everyone is in author-
ity over the poor little ‘teash.”’ But all
things have an end, and when she is pro-
moted to the next place, ‘‘packer’’ (wrap-
ping and neatly tying up the parcels),
her turn comes, and she orders about the
‘cash’? in a much more supercilious man-
ner than the head of the firm himself.
After serving a sufficiently long term as
a ‘‘packer,’’ a steady, bright girl is often
called upon to take charge of a table of
bargains; then her head is apt to be much
turned, for she has reached the zenith of
her ambition. Sheisa ‘‘saleslady!” A
young girl who had left the packing
desk about a week before to take charge
of selling at a bargain table of aprons
was heard berating a small cash girl who
had offered her some slight indignity.
‘The idea,”’ she said, ‘of telling me what
to do, and me a saleslady and her a cash!
The very idea!”

There are all sorts and conditions of
saleswomen—some, at the head of the
profession, very wise and important;
others, secondary lights and ‘*under-
studies,’ those who dust and take care
of the stock only coming forward to sell
at busy times and seasons. ‘here are,
also, in all the important shops, beauti-
ful girls, used almost exclusively as
models, and when the customer sees a
gown, cuat, or hat on an almost perfect
figure or charmingly pretty face, she, not
being able to ‘‘see herself as others see
her,’’ lays the flattering illusion to her
soul that it will look just like that on
herself, and is, thereby, much more
tempted to make the outlay.

At the head of each department is
the ‘‘buyer.’’ Thatis a position of im-
portance and responsibility, for a large
part of the success of the establishment
depends upon the judiciovsness of the
‘‘buyers,” and this position is generally
earned by a long shop girl apprentice-
ship. They go to the wholesale houses
to select and haggle for the goods, scour
the town for ‘‘jobs,” a lot that can be
sold cheap, with a great hue and cry of
advertising, and get a very comfortable
profit for the proprietor. The salary of
a ‘‘buyer’’ is generally very good, from
twenty-five dollars a week up to several
thousand a year.

The workrooms, filled with shop-girls,
where they manufacture the beautiful
creations in hats, fancy bodies, tea-
gowns, and collarettes are, perhaps, the
most interesting part of an establish-
ment. A glimpse into a millinery work-
room, for instance, reveals two or three
French ‘‘trimmers,” and some of other
nationalities, who are seated at different
intervals, each surrounded by three or
four girls called ‘*millinies,” or ‘‘improv-
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have felt, or made others feel, so much
his august presence as did the diminu-
tive French woman. ‘This little woman
had the best seatin the room, near the
light, she was screaming for the stool
for her feet, she was ordering about her
girls in the most dictatorial style, and,
above all, she was turning out truly
wonderful creations of art and fashion!

Conversation in the workroom is ¢ar-
ried on almost incessantly in a brisk but
low-voiced manner, always brought to
an abrupt standstill at the entrance of
the ‘‘forewoman,” the thread of the dis-
course immediately resuming as the door
shuts behind her. The theme is almost
invariably the coming man. He may
vary from day to day in his style, his ac-
complishments, his attainments, but he
is always in it, so to speak, for these
working-girls look forward with the
constant hope of being released from
their daily bondage by matrimony. The
majority of the older girls, I found,
have what they call their ‘‘steady com-
pany,” and when they decide upon some
one particular favorite they are, for the
most part, very loyal to him. It is then
only a question of time and salary when
the nuptial knot will be tied. All their
little pennies are saved up for Christmas
and birthday souvenirs, and I was
greatly surprised at the magnitude of
these gifts. A working-girl would scorn
a plain gold ring as an engagement
badge, and many of them possess dia-
monds of quite goodly proportions, which
they do not always wear except upona
Sunday.

Some of them have very wild and am-
bitious flights of fancy concerning this
coming arbitrator of theirfate. One girl,
getting a salary of six dollars a week
for the consideration of sewing little
puffings of lace on a wire frame, calmly
announced one day in all seriousness
that she was going on her vacation for
two weeks where a certain young bach-
elor, worth many millions, has a country-
seat, and who knows what may happen!
The significance of the look which fol-
lowed this declaration quite awed the
workroom into complete silence for sev-
eral minutes. The society notes failed
to chronicle an event of a startling na-
ture, so the young woman still continues
to sew, although the winter velvet has
taken the place of the summer lace.

But not all are looking forward to a
life of matrimonial bliss. Some dream
of independence. Some have more pro-
nounced flights of fancy. One young
girl, who was perfectly indifferent to the
correctness of speech as prescribed by
Mr. Murray, announced, after a short
acquaintance, that she was not very much
interested in her work, that she did not
expect to be learning atrade much longer
—she was going tobe a literary lady,
and was studying to that end ‘‘evenings.’’
She also brought books to read during
the lunch hour, not the lovely, romantic
tales, such as ‘‘Dora Thorne,’”’ ‘‘Wife in
Name Only,” or ‘The Curse of Clifton,”’
devoured by the girls with the sand-
wiches and cakes at noon, and perused
morning and night going up and down
on the elevated, but essays on ‘‘How to
Compose Sonnets,” ‘‘The Proper Course
of Instruction To Become a Poetess,’’
and similar deep literature. “On.
yes,’’ she said, ‘‘I have written a great
deal of poetry. I haven’t had it printed
yet, but the minister’s wife died the
other day and I sent him an original
poem on embossed cardboard, with a
beautiful gold edge and a hand-painted
bunch of violets at the top, tied with a
black ribbon. Would you like to hear
it??? Of course, there was a general con-
sent, and forthwith a copy of the poem
was produced and read to the admiring
erowd with such pathos as brought tears
to the eyes. How they did pity that
poor afflicted minister! The embryo
poetess worked so hard at her studies
“evenings,” burned so much after mid-
night oil, stinted herself so, that she
might buy her essays and systems of
“Complete Compositions,’ that she
finally grew unfit to work at the plebeian
millinery business, and the last that was
heard from the poor girl was that she
had succumbed to a fever. After that all
trace of her was lost.

Some, of a more practical turn of mind,
were figuring on ‘‘setting up” in busi-

 

ness, and one actually did, and lost the
earnings of many months.

Superstitions in the workroom are
many and varied and command great re-
spect. To drop an unfinished hat on the
floor is a sure guarantee of its success,
and, aS many are sold that have taken a
tumble, and would be naturally, the sign
is considered infallible. To drop your
scissors means extremely bad luck, if
you stoop to pick them up yourself. You
must step on them, and then have some
one else return them to you. When you
are so fortunate as to get an order for a
bride’s hat, you must pluck a hair from
your own head and sew it in your work;
then, every girl demands the privilege of
trying it on, and she is sure to get a hus-
band on her own account.

Every one knows the adage about try-
ing on a mourning hat, but, strange to
say, Many, even the most superstitious,
drape themselves in widow’s weeds
whenever they get an opportunity; prob-
ably, although thoroughly believing in
the fate in store, they do it on the prin-
ciple: ‘‘’Tis better to have loved and
lost than never to have loved at all.”

A sneeze is fraught with augury.
What sneezing portends is expressed in
rhyme.

“Sneeze on Monday
Sneeze for danger.
Sneeze on Tuesday
Kiss a stranger.
Sneeze on Wednesday
Get a letter.

Sneeze on Thursday
Something better.
Sneeze on Friday
Sneeze for sorrow.
Sneeze on Saturday
Joy to-morrow.”’

In most of the large establishments,
where many people are employed, the
rules are very strict and the punishment
is generally a fine, which is deducted
from the salary at the end of the week.
For example, a cent a minute is gener-
ally charged for tardiness, and many of
the people, no matter how small the sal-
ary, and maybe living many miles from
their place of business, frequently, in
fact, almost uniformly, carry home their
salaries at the end of the week minus
fifty cents or so. On the other hand, if
customers come in late and stay over
elosing time, these same girls are ex-
pected to wait on them cheerfully some
fifteen or twenty minutes after six with-
out extra compensation. Still, fining
seems necessary, for, when not enforced,
there are always those who take advan-
tage of it, and they must be in their
places to get their stocks in order and be
ready to wait on the customers.

Fining applies more especially to the
low-salaried sales-people. The higher
up in authority, and the bigger wages
one receives, the more leniency shown;
therefore, the ‘thead fitter,’’? getting her
$75 a week, the French trimmer, whose
time is worth her weight in gold, or the
large-salaried buyer, arrive with an air
of importance a half hour or so after the
appointed time of opening.

In most of the great shops there is a
surprising lack of comfort in the way of
a lunch-room, or a place to spend the al-
lotted three-quarters of an hour at noon.
In some places this room is at the top of
the building, and in others in the cellar,
but almost all are dirty and unattractive
in every way. In one particular house
on the west side the rats are so large and
numerous that the services of a Pied
Piper are sadly in demand. This is a
disgrace, especially when one sees the
fine waiting-rooms provided for the cus-
tomers. There are one or two notable
exceptions to this, however, one espe-
cially, which is following closely upon
the lines of the famous Bon Marche, in
Paris, and it is greatly appreciated by all
the employes. It is an unpretentious
house on Lower Broadway, but the com-
fort of the sales-people seems to be as
much considered as that of the cus-
tomers. They take an especial pride in
their lunch-room, which is large and
neat. Clean, attractive tables, at whicu
four can comfortably sit, line the sides,
and in the middle is a beautifully neat
cooking counter bristling with cakes,
sandwiches, eggs, pies, frankfurts, tea,
coffee, milk, and other edibles, in charge
of a pleasant-faced woman, who keeps
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with exceeding pride, and well she may,
foritisajoy. In summer a bow] of de-
licious raspberries, two tremendous
watermelons, vichy, ginger ale, and sar-
Saparilla, and, crowning all, a great
freezer of ice-cream; while in winter,
hot chowders and soups are provided.
The employes can buy an appetizing,
wholesomely prepared lunch here for a
few pennies; and how much it is appre-
ciated they only can say!

The half-holidays provided in the
Warm months are a great boon to the
working-girls. Just think how little
time they get to do any sewing or mend-
ing, or any little feminine fussing and
planning. Very few spend their Satur-
day afternoons at Coney Island and such
places, as the common idea may be, but
are only too glad to stay quietly at bome,
making a new shirtwaist or a faney col-
larette, and in looking forward, plotting
and planning for the great holidays, such
as Fourth of July or Decoration Day!
Every one has something on hand, and it
takes all the next day to tell of its joys,
its successes, or, maybe, its disappoint-
ments.

A word as to the morals of these bread-
winners. They ‘are far above the fin-de-
siecle society girl. They have little
time, little money, or little opportunity
to learn aught of champagne or ciga-
rettes. They have few invitations to
gaze on ‘‘Living Pictures,’’ and few op-
portunities to discuss society dramas.
As a rule, they live at home, and they
have absolutely no control over the little
salary which they earn. That is carried
home at the end of the week in its envel-
ope, just as it is received, and given to
the mother. She provides what she
thinks is right for her daughter, regard-
less of what the child earns, and this
right is almost universally exercised,
even far beyond the time when the
daughter is of age legally and entitled
to control her own earnings. Naturally,
the little girl who starts out at the age
of ten to earn her few pennies as ‘‘cash”
soon becomes very wise in her genera-
tion as to the ways of the world, but she
also learns, at the same time, to be her
Own guardian angel, and she generally
succeeds. MAry P. WHITEMAN.

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Thereby Hangs a Watch.

It is the fashion in Paris now among
the swells to have the watch attached to
&@ quarter-inch-wide piece of grosgrain
ribbon, which is passed around the neck
and rests upon each side of the white
dress shirt front, then passed through
the second buttonhole of the dress waist-
coat and thence into the watch pocket.
The effect is Startling, to say the least;
but it will doubtless become a favorite
fashion with the ultra swell. If the
dude has no watch, or if one that was
given to him is in the pawnshop, the
ribbon, borrowed from a girl, can be
worn all the same, and the swell will
esem to be in style.

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Among the many useful articles which
are sure to be in demand in every family
is the ‘‘Star Cleaner,’’a preparation man-
ufactured expressly for cleaning carpets,
rugs, curtains, wood work, woolens, silks,
Satins and plush goods—indeed, all kinds
of fabrics that are liable to fade from ex-
posure and become dingy through the
accumulation of dust. The advantages
and virtues claimed for it are that it saves
hard labor and produces quick results all
over the house; that one can of it will
clean 25 yards of woolen, ingrain or
Brussels carpet without removal from the
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A Story of Suffering and Deprivation
Seldom Equalled.

Written for THE TRADESMAN. |

In one of the basements—or, rather, |
cellars—of this fair and prosperous city
live a woman and her four little chil-
dren, an American woman of intelligence
and pleasing manners. A partition
makes of this underground home two
tiny rooms. There is a window in each
of these compartments so small that one
cannot see to read, even in a sunsbiny
day, without the aid of a lamp. This
woman pays for these unfurnished
apartments $1.25 a week, invariably in
advance. She has one bed for herself
aud these four children, the oldest of
whom is but fourteen. She makes a bed of
quilts each night upon the floor of one of
these underground rooms, and part of
them sleep there. The children, as well as
the mother, are bright and attractive. The
money with which this rent is to be paid,
with which fuel and food and clothes are
to be purchased, is earned by this woman
at the washtub. Once, she eould hardly
do her own washing; now, she does mine
and many more. All she asks of the
world is enough washing to do. Perhaps
some who rejoice in the welfare and
prosperity of their fellow men would
think she ought to be congratulated that,
in these dull times, with so many out of
work, she has five ‘steady places’? to
wash; but, if they could see the awful
pallor upon that woman’s face after a
half day’s washing, they might possibly
conclude it would be just as well if she
had a little more money and a little less
work.

The reader may be interested enough
in this woman to wish to know a little of
her former history. Through no fault of
hers, through no mismanagement, not
even through an unwise marriage, has
she come to this hopeless and pitiable
condition. Nor was she born to it. It
has all come from a circumstance for
which she was no more responsible than
you or I. Kight years ago, she had a
pleasant home and an industrious, de-
voted husband. He wasa young man of
only 32 years, a brakeman on a railroad.
They were happy with their children and
with each other. One day, he was
brought home unconscious, injured in
the head by an accident. Since that
day, eight years ago, he has not even
known his wife. It was not the fault of
the railroad, hence no damages could be
obtained. The little they had saved
could not last long, and, after he was
found to be incurable, he was sent to
one of our insane asylums, where he has
since remained, in possession of perfect
bodily health but with a hopelessly im-
paired mind.

At that time, the youngest of her chil-
dren was but six weeks old—the oldest 6
years. What was she todo? It is mer-
ciful that we have not always time for
tears, or for memories of the happy past.
The great problem of how to get a living
confronted her. People cannot receive
alms when they are proud and self-re-
specting, and what was to be done? Had
she been capable of teaching, copying or
keeping books, could she have done it
with those four helpless babies to care
for every minute? She did the only
thing she could do—washing. At first,
she took it home and then, as the chil-
dren got old enough to be left alone, she
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dreary years, and her whole earthly pos-
sessions now consist of that one bed, one
stove, a chair or two and a few old dishes
and cooking utensils, she having sold,
little by little, everything she could pos-
sibly live without.

If the seventy-two church members,
who were reported last Sunday, at the
annual meeting of the C. O. S., to be
making friendly visits among the poor
for the purpose of giving sympathy and
encouragement to ‘‘the higher life,’’
were all to visit this woman, either sin-
gly or in a body, it could not help her.
That is not the way to help this woman,
fighting, single-handed, life’s hard battle
se bravely. Away with such! When
she gets home at night to her hungry
children, she is too tired to receive
friendly visitors; besides, such as she
shrink from notice and prefer to bear
their trouble alone. Sympathy and en-
couragement are best shown to such as
this toiler by a month’s rent being paid
in some mysterious way, or, better still,
by her landlord being interviewed and
his conscience touched; by a good Sun-
day dinner being sent in, on the assump-
tion that she is ‘too busy,’’ and not that
she is too poor, to prepare it herself; by
any and every practical way in which
life may be made less hard.

She is looking forward to something—
she hardly knows what; but her hope,
her interests, her ambition, center in
these children and in their future.

I have given you, without embellish-
ment and with no drawing on the imagi-
nation, the story of a woman in this very
city, born in our free land and entitled
to happiness, but dragged under the
wheel of pitiless circumstance—the true
story of one showing more heroism than
to fight in a hundred battles. Ought
life to be so hard and sad for some and
so easy and bright for others?

EE A. K.

[THE TRADESMAN is conversant with
the circumstances connected with thesad
ease above described and vouches for the
accuracy of the statements and the good
faith of the writer. The money paid her
for this contribution will be presented
to this worthy woman, whose only aim
in life is to rear and educate her chil-
dren; and if any of THE TRADESMAN’S
readers feel disposed to contribute any-
thing to assist her in her endeavors to

keep the wolf from the door, THE
TRADESMAN will see that such contribu-
tions are immediately turned over to the
writer of the above article, who has
taken a friendly interest in the woman’s

behalf. |
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He Paid for the Comb.

He wasn’t a bad looking man, nor
meanly dressed. His faceis often seen
about town. He went into a furnishing
goods store and made a few trifling pur-
chases. When the young lady clerk
went to the other end of the counter to
do up the package the customer slipped
a pocket comb into his pocket. He did
not know—or if he did, it slipped his
mind at the moment—that every button
on the dress of a young lady clerk is an
eye. When it comes to seeing, in the
line of their business, the late Mr. Argus
is not in the same class with them.

The young lady clerk returned with
the package to the customer, smiling
sweetly—very sweetly. She laid the
package before him, and looking into his
face, said in her softest and sweetest
tones:

“Did you wish to pay for the comb
now, or shall I make a slip of it?’’

The customer cleared his throat in an
embarrassed sort of a way.

‘‘Ahem! Er-ah; what did you say?”

“The comb; the comb you put in your
pocket a moment ago. I thought per-
haps you might desire to pay for it along
with the other articles.”’

Alas, the sweetness of her smile and
the liquid murmur of her voice!

‘‘Ah!—ahem! What is the price of
combs?’’

The young lady clerk leaned gracefully
upon the counter with her dainty elbow,
while the magnetic glance of her eye
penetrated his soul and _ percolated
through every molecule of his nervous
system.

‘*The price of the one you have in your
pocket is 5 cents.”

He ran his hand violently into his
pocket and pulled out all the money he
had, a solitary and sickly-looking 10-cent
piece. He threw it on the counter, and,
without waiting for the change, went out
at the door so fast that he upset an um-
brella rack and nearly overturned the
showcase on the outside.

The young lady clerk laughed a rip-
pling, sunny laugh; the cash register
rang with a merry jingle and showed up
the private signal as follows: ‘‘10c.”

Then the young lady clerk returned
demurely to her fancy work.

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THE POMPANO.
Written for THE TRADESMAN.

In a recent issue of THE TRADESMAN
appeared an article with the title,
‘““Canning Delicacies at Sea,” in which
it was stated that a schooner had been
fitted out at New York for the purpose of
plying the Southern waters and canning
and preserving, on board, delicacies of a
perishable nature. Among other good
things in the edible line to be conserved
for our future delectation was mentioned
‘the pompano.”

“The pompano”—what was that? My
ignorance on the subject was dense. I
dimly recollected having heard the word
mentioned someway in connection with
fishes; and, possessing a child’s inquis-
itiveness in regard to the unknown, I
hied me to my desk and ‘‘dropped a line”
to a retired old tar down on the Florida
coast—aged enough to be gathered to his
fathers. He’s a good old soul, is he, and
has been wont to help me in similar
times of need. In answer to my peremp-
tory demand, ‘“The pompano—tell me all
about it,’? came along, by the next mail,
a lengthy dissertation on the subject, in-
terspersed with many a quaint seafaring
phrase, and giving more than a hint of
the traditional nautical tobacco. I shall
not attempt to produce the whole of his
kindly effort in my behalf—it possessed
all the charm of an old-fashioned friend’s
conversation—nor to give it verbatim,
only attempting to get at the main facts
in the case.

{So much for the pompano of the Atlantic
Coast. That of the Pacific Coast will be treated
in a future article. Ep.]

THE POMPANO.
He’s a beautiful fish—as good to eat
as he is pretty to look at. He comes—

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

like some of his mammalian brothers—
of an old but plebeian family. This
family is surnamed Mackerel. You hear
him referred toas ‘‘the far-famed pom-
pano of Florida,’’ so no wonder that,
with such fulsome praise, his head some-
times gets turned.

As good a fisherman as ever wet a line
says that the skill necessary for hauling
him in lies mainly in knowing the most
favorable bottom-grounds, the state of
the tides most propitious to success and
the best inducements to offer him to al-
low himself to be caught—you might
call it bait—at the various seasons of the
year.

He succumbs to being ‘‘taken in’’ only
with the hand-line, which must have a
heavy sinker,

The rod and reel are ignored and voted
useless by anglers of the deep-sea line.
With regard to tackle, game fish, in gen-
eral, of Florida are uneducated. They
are not at all particular, and expensive
flies need not be used to allure their
fishships. For hand-line fishing, resi-
dent experts use cable-laid cotton and
braided cotton lines. The main thing is
strength of tackle—stout lines and large
hooks. But the Izaak Walton who
would ensnare the wily pompano must
have more than mere tackle—he must be
to a degree, alert.

In the matter of bait, our pompano
doesn’t object to clam, in fact, rather
likes it. Alas for him when he gazeth
on it too often and too fondly!

Mr. Pompano and his fellows are
caught in small schools, in shoal water
along the sea beaches, where they illus-
trate the saying, ‘‘The big fish eat up
the little ones;’”’ but their principal diet

 

is a small shell-fish—known as the
‘pompano shell,’? on account of being
eaten by them—which seems to hobnob
amicably with their digestive apparatus.
Their habit is to swim as near the shore
as the depth of the water will permit.
They seldom appear at the surface, al-
though occasionally jumping into the
air in play or for unwary insects. Other
things being equal, the best grounds
cannot be expected near cities and the
larger towns, where steamers and vari-
ous sailing craft frequent and scare
away these denisons of the deep.

There is a great commercial demand
for fish of this variety, which is fully
supplied only a few weeks of the year—
spring and early summer. in the New
Orleans market it ranks first with epi-
cures, and, in fact, is considered by most
as the finest food-fish of the Southern
waters. Along the southern coast of
Florida, this finny animal is found all
the year round. At Key West they are
caught in great quantities. Farther
north, they arrive at the coast only in
the spring and disappear in the fall.
Their movements are from the eastward.
Their ordinary range is northward to the
coast of South Carolina. They are
found occasionally as far north as Cape
Cod. It is chiefly the baby pompanos
that are found so far north as this point,
the grandmothers seeming inclined to
prefer a more southerly home—case of
Old Rheum. mayhap.

A curious feature of this much-lauded
fish—as well as much-landed, | might
say—is that, when he gets old, he loses
his teeth, which may be as great a cause
for annoyance and lament with him as
with some others that might be men-

 

tioned. And, when he becomes a Methu-
selah, and his blunt nose begins to sink
in, he may not be the object of beauty
that he once was. Hic jacet omnia—
more’s the pity! ~

But, though Old Age overtake him, it
eannot rob him of his good long names—
Trachynotus Carolinus is his chief one,
although he locomotes under a number
of others. Near and around Charleston,
he goes by the cognomen of crevalle,
which was bestowed upon him by the
early French settlers.
And he brings a good price, too—that

during the seasons when he ‘‘makes
himself searee,” so to speak. Then he
commands $1 apiece; but, when abun-
dant, he loses prestige—men, the world
over, don’t want that which they can pro-
cure without effort—and goes begging at
5 cents apiece.

He tips the beam at 6 pounds. An-
other species of pompane of inferior
edible quality boasts a weight of 20
pounds—illustrating ‘‘Quantity, not qual-
ity.”’

To sum up: The angler may have net,
seine, gig or barb; he may fish in boat,
or from the shore; in the daytime, or by
torchlight; for fun, or for fish—he will
find nowhere on this continent a better
theater for piscatorial feats than the
waters around that beautiful Gulf State
—Florida—and no fish will better repay
his skill than the bold biter swimming
under the name—the pompano.

nH. E. B.S.

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Short Measures from the Standpoint
of the Fruit Grower.

GRAND RApips, May 24—This paper
is written by request in reply to a num-
ber of articles written by grocerymen in
regard to fruit packages.

I have argued for years that all pro-
duce should be bought and sold by
weight and then all would get their just
dues. I am willing toadmit that there are
fruit growers who will ‘‘stuff’’ a package
and give short measure—it would be
strange if there were not—and I would
be willing to admit that there are a good
Many grocerymen who have the same
reputation; yet it would be unjust to say
that ‘ta more dishonest class of men ever
existed.” I wonder if Nemo ever sent to
the morning market and bought berries
by the crate and potatoes in a ‘‘bastard’’
bushel basket, kicking and finding fault
about the quality and the measure and
then chuckling to himself over the good
bargain he had made; and after reaching
home and dumping the potatoes in an-
other basket and having some over a
bushel to sell to someone else; also
dumping his crate of berries into a tray
and when a customer came along, saying,
with a galvanized smile, ‘‘Yes, they are
the finest berries I saw on the market
and I am selling them for exactly what
they cost—ten cents a quart;’’ then tak-
ing his battered tin wine quart measure,
larger at the bottom than atthe top, and,
with a shingle shovel, filling the measure
until it ran over and giving his customer
an ‘‘honest quart,” and yet having
enough left to make a good profit on the
crate. But enough of this, and now for
a few facts in regard to fruit packages:

I take it for granted that the St. Joe
baskets are spoken of only as a sample of
what all the manufacturers are making,
so I will take them as an example. The
standard bushel basket in general use in
Grand Rapids and all over the country
will hold by measure level full a bushel
of wheat, sealed measure. In some
places fifty pounds are allowed for a
bushel of peaches. As generally put up
here, peaches weigh fifty-five pounds
gross weight. A legal bushel of fruit or
vegetables must be heaped measure,
which we always give. If we use a
cover it gives one and one-eighth inches
above the top of the basket. It is claimed
that nine-tenths of the small fruits are
sold by wine measure. The raising of
the bottom in the square Hallock berry
box has always been a subject for jokes,
but it is an actual necessity to allow for
the heaping up of the bottom boxes in
the erate. A wine measure quart con-
tains fifty-seven and three-fourths cubic
inches. The Hallock wine measure
quart berry box holds fifty-seven and
one-fifth cubic inches. The band is four
inches wide, scored to make a box four
and one-half inches square and three
inches deep, inside measure. A dry
measure quart contains sixty-seven and
three-fourths cubic inches. The Hallock
box is made four and three-fourths inches
square and three inches deep inside of
box and contains sixty-seven and one-
fifth cubic inches, and we always give
heaped measure. Pintsin both wine and
dry measure are of the same dimensions,
except, of course, only one-half as deep.
There are a limited amount of Hallock
berry bexes made, called the Standard
quart, holding about sixty-two cubie
inches and claiming to hold full dry
measure quarts.

There is no law compelling eitber the
producer or grocer to use a certain size
of package. At the last three annual
union meetings of the Western Michigan
Horticultural Societies, held in Grand
Rapids, resolutions were adopted agree-
ing to use the Standard bushel basket for
fruit and the Climax four and one-half
and eight pound baskets for grapes, and
to discourage the use of a smaller pack-
age.

As a rule, the grocerymen do not prop-
erly encourage honesty in packing and
in measure. If you have extra goods,
they will quote you what they can buy
poorer stock for, when they know the
comparison is not just, and wish to buy
yours at the same price.

Wa. K. MUNSON.

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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

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HOW TO FIT TRUSSES.

 

Pertinent Suggestions by a Druggist
of Experience.

Were any one of us to talk with a
dozen different druggists on the subject
of truss-fitting and selling, we should
probably find their opinions about
equally divided regarding it. Some
would say that they like it, that they find
it an interesting, ia tbe main a pleasant,
and a fairly profitable branch of their
business; others would pronounce it a
nuisance—more bother than it is worth.
This difference of verdict may be due
somewhat to the difference of the drug-
gists in matters of taste and in mechan-
ical skill, but | think itis mainly due to
their different modes of conducting the
business. The first requisite to success-
ful truss-fitting is to have a clear con-
ception of what a hernia is—to be able to
recognize the various forms of rupture,
and to know in each case in just what di-
rection to apply pressure in order to re-
duce the bernia, and also to hold it most
securely and at the same time most com-
fortably to the patient. There are pub-
lished various anatomical charts which
illustrate this subject. A person may
gain a very good knowledge of it by
studying Gray’s Anatomy. Some of the
manufacturers’ catalogues also contain
illustrated chapters on hernia, and on
symptoms vf hernia often mistaken for
those ot other affections.

The second requisite to successful
truss fitting is a good outfit. No man
can do govud work without a good place
to work in and a good assortment of good
tools to work with. Under the head ot
outfits 1 would place first of all a suita-
ble room, where one is retired, not sub-
ject to interruptions, where things are
neat and clean, comfortably warm, and
where trusses and toois are or can be ar-
ranged conveniently at hand. One works
at a decided disadvantage when he takes
his customer behing the prescription-
case, or down cellar, or into a back room
among barrels and boxes, subject to con-
stant interruptions, and where it is so
cold that the patient in his exposed con-
dition suon becomes uncomfortable and
impatient.

Next in order comes a good assortment
of trusses. By good assortment I don’t
mean that one should try to keep some
of every kind and style that are made,
and buy every new-fangled, double-
geared contraption that comes along.
He should select a few good styles
which by experience he knows he can
do good work with, and then have a full
assortment of sizes of these on hand. As
to what is the best truss to keep, good
judges would no doubt give different
Opinions. One thing certainly is true:
no one truss is the best truss for all
cases. Were a new man in the business,
just putting in a new stock, to ask me to
advise him in making a selection, I
should say to him: Get a few elastic belt
trusses, a few soft, kid-finished, light-
spring, French pattern, including infant
sizes, and then get the greater part of
your stock in hard-rubber covered
trusses. Of the different styles of hard-
rubber trusses | would select the ones in
Seeley’s Catalogue as Figures 3, 5 and 6
(**Hood’s’’). I think very highly of the
Hood pattern; it seems to me to obtain
the lifting pressure resembling that
which one exerts when holding a rupture
on himself by his fingers on the same
side, the nearest of any truss that 1 have
ever used. The ‘‘cross-body” style
worked well in the few cases of femoral
hernia which I have had. For in-
guinal hernia | do not consider it as good
as the other styles mentioned.

The best way to store trusses is in
boxes, with a cut showing the style
pasted on the outside of the box, and the
sizes distinctly marked onit. The boxes
should be arranged on shelves, where the
marks can be readily seen.

Next to the trusses themselves one
should have a vise and a good pair of
large pliers, to be used in bending and
twisting springs. A No.8 vise is sufti-

 

 

 

ciently large. Screw-driver, tape meas-
ure, alcohol-stove for warming hard-rub-
ber trusses, matches, etc., should be in
their places. And the outfit is not com-
plete without a chair in which the pa-
tient can be gradually let down flat
on his back and gradually brought up
again to a sitting position without an ef-
fort on his part. Such a chair is better

than a couch, because when necessary to!

fita truss to a person lying down, the
straining required in his rising is apt to
throw everything out of place. A cheap
surgeon’s chair answers every purpose.
In the absence of such a chair a couch is
infinitely better than the floor, or even
some boxes.

With your room, your trusses, your
vice, chair, etc., all in good shape, the
next question is, how to handle your
patient? This is frequently a compound
and a complex question. If I could do
just as I would like with a patient, I
should examine him, make up my mind
what kind of a truss is best for his case,
take a hard rubber one of that pattern,
fitit to him, paying no attention to his
suggestions, being sure to have it stiff
enough to hold him, and then tell him to
come in again after a few days. Then,
on his coming in, if I thought I could
weaken the spring so as to make it more
comfortable for him and still keep the
rupture secure, I would do so. That
would be comparatively simple and easy
work; but, as a rule, we can’t do it in
that way. The customer is apt to have
ideas and whims, to ignore which will
offend him and leave him dissatisfied, no
matter how good work you may do on
him, while to yield to them will insure
poor results. The question, then, how to
handle your patient, is a double one—
not merely how to treat his rupture, but
how to manage him, or, as one truss-fit-
ter expressed it, ‘thow to fit his head as
well as his rupture.”’

When a man has worn a certain kind
of truss and wants another just like it,
if you happen to have that kind it is
usually best to give it to him, and prac-
tically let him fit himself, even though
you may know that it is not the best
truss for his case. You might exhaust
yourself persuading him to take the kind
that you know to be the best for him, but
most likely you would do him no kind-
ness. Ten chances to one, he would
bring it back to you after a few days,
pronouncing it a failure, and his poor
opinion of you as a truss-fitter would be
established forever. Most men weai
their trusses too low; they do not under-
stand that the aperture is above the
tumor. If you place the pad where it
should be, the first thing they do is to
shove it down out of place. It is the
truss-fitter’s duty to explain to them the
anatomy of the parts and why the pres-
sure should be placed higher than they
suppose, and, if possible, ‘educate them
up” to wearing the pad where it belongs.

In cases where the patients are not at-
tached to a truss which they have been
wearing, but still are disposed to follow
their own ideas, making their own se-
lection of a truss and dictating how they
want it adjusted, I say to them pleas-
antly: ‘I think I know a great deal bet-
ter than you do what your case requires.
lf you will permit me to select the truss
and fit it to you, and if you will wear it
where I place it, I will guarantee that it
will suit you, or I will take it back and
refund the money to you.”?” Whena pa-
tient proposes to take one or more of ny
trusses home and try them, I say: ‘No;
you may select your truss and fit it to
yourself here, and if you desire | will
assist you, but I take no chances on your
truss-fitting. You must pay for the truss
before you take it home, and, after
you take it home, you must keep
it.” After a little firm but kind talk of
this sort the patient will usually put
himself in my hands. In talking that
way to a patient I mean just what I say.
I will not let any man take my trusses
home and try them. If they don’t fit, he
doesn’t know how to make them fit, and
he is almost sure to bring them back
soiled more or less. I have then had my
trouble and the damage to my trusses all
for nothing. I will take my chances on
my own truss-fitting, and the patient
must take his chances on his. On this

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Benzoicum German.. 6p 75 | Brigeron .............. 1 20@1 30
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Salicylicum ........... 65@ 7 = ies ane vsreeee 1 85@3 00
Sulphuricum.... .. 1%@ 5 nasa Verid. 1 80@2 00
Tanto... ..1 40@1 60 ms uae, gal. ...... 1 40@1 59
Tartaricum........... 30@ 33 a” ounce. @ =
AMMONIA. Picts  Liguida, ei) 10@ 12

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Cuteane ee 122@ 14 Sucelat ——— =
Cheetos... 12@ 14 ae crete 9001 0D
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Te 45@ 50} ,i8it..........-. @i 00
Wallowa See ==: @ 60

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Cubeae (po 25).....- WE 2 POTASSIUM.
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Xanthoxylum ... 25@ 30|bichromate ........... 11@ 13

BALSAMUM. Bromide.............. 45@ 48
cere... 12@ 15
50} Chlorate (po.17@19).. 16@ 18
cru verse | @3 25! Cyanide ....... 2.2... 50@_ 55
Terabin. Canada ..... 45@ 50|fodide. 111.112.7777 2 96@3 00
! 45@ 50 Potassa, Bitart, pure.. 23@
CORTEX Potassa, Bitart, com. @ 15
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Cassiae .........-----ee---- 12) Promatate 0...) 23@ 23
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Citrate and Quinia.... @3 50 Podophyilum, Po. cone 15@ 18
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Ferrocyanidum Sol. . @ = “oat. a @1 75
Sotet Chloride........ @ 15 ... tes
Sulphate, com’l....... .9@ 2 Spigelia 5@ 38
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Anieeee ............. 18@ 25 M @ %
Matricaria tite ss ss 18® 5 | Scillae, (po. 35) ........ 10@ 12

FouaA Symplocarpus, Foti-

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catechit, "3 (4s, 14 Mas, @ 1 Foenugreek, po..... 7 6 «C8
ammeuine -.s-- 55@ 80 a rd. (bbl. BK)... aie 4
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Buphorbiom po... 5@. 10) Simepis “Alba 8
Galbanum........ G2 0 ND 1@ 12
Gamboge, po 65@ 80
Qualacun, (ro 35) .. @ 2 SPIRITUS.
Kino, (po 3 00 @3 00 | Frument!, W., D. Co..2 00@ 50
Mastic @ 80 D. F.R.... 2 0@2 25
Meret, (Po, ais" 1 sogpe 00 | sunt iperis Co. 0.1 1s
P pe “ uniperis Co. 3
Shell 40@ 80 ‘1 75@3 50
" . , iia N.E -1 W@2 10
Tragacanth ........... 50@ 80 opt. Vini Galli. -1 75@6 50
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——__ Es 25 Vink Albs...... seal en cide
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Calsined, Pat... ...... SQ @ — wool Car- 65
‘ 92 Age .....--..--.--.- &
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Auranti Cortex...... 1 80@2 00} Ferri lod.. 50
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Scillse.. 50
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AO 60

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Atrope Belladonna.......... 60
Benzoin eee. 60

Se tee cece was. 50
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Camenariaes........... |. 75
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CAammen... 8

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Cenone 50

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Cane... .. 1... =e
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Cree Cl . 50

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Iodine. . 75

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Se 50
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Stromontum........ 60
Tolutan . 60
Valerian .. . “ 50
Veratrum Veride ....... 50

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Antipyrin .. ' @1 40
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Argenti Nitras, ounce @ 53
Arsenicum . so 7
Balm Gilead 1 Bud.. 38@ 40
Bismuth 8. -1 20@1 30
Calcium aan ‘1s, (Ka

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Cera _— eee ae 40@ 4

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Camaia Pructusg........ @ 2%
Coenen... .......... @ 10
Comcoum ............. @ 40
Chioroform . 60@ 63

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Chlorai Hyd on. us 15@1 30

Chondarus ....... 20@ 25

Cinchonidine, P& WwW 15@ 2

German Ay 12
COcemne 1... 1.5... 6 00
GOrks, seni dis. —

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Creaeetume .......... Qo 3
Creta, Dg —..... 2 2

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Cudbear. oo . 24
Cupri Sulph... 5@ 6
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Emery, numbers.. @ 8

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Flake nee... 1... 12@ 15
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Gelatin, Cooper. Leen @ 60

French........ 50
Glazeware mani, by box 80.
Less than box 70
Glue, Brown.. 9@ 15
White... -_.-. oo a
GiyOCrins ............- 13@ 20
Grans Paradial........ 22
Hanis. ............- at 55
Hydraag Chlor Mite.. @ i9
Cor @ 69
. Ox _ a @ 89
' Armmoniati.. @ 99
. — 45@ 55
Hydrargyrum..... : @ 6
Ichthyobolia, Am vis 25@1 50
meee... 75@1
{fodine, Resubl -3 80@3 90
Hodetorm........ @4 70
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Lycopodium .......... 60@
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Liquor Fotags Aratntia 10@ 12
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Pe NY Was eo @ 34] Red Venetian.......... 1%

C Cea 1 65@1 90 | Snuff, Scotch, De. Voes @ 34 | Ochre, yellow —- =
Moschus Canton...... @ 40/ Soda Boras, tS. 7 lr ee 1%
Myristica, No 1.. ... 6@ 70 = et Potass Tart... 24@ 25] Putty, ommend . 24 24%4@8
Nux Vomica, (po20).. @ 10 a Car. 1%@ 2 in strictly pure... woeee 24% 24@3
Ge Seka 15@ 18 Sods, Hicers......... 8@ 5| Vermilion e Amer-

Pe ein Saac, H. & P. D. Seda, Aan 34@ 4] _Ican.................. 13@15
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Picts Liq, N.C., % gal Spts. "Ether Co ........ 50@ 55] Green, Paris.. " 20%0:
a @2 00} ‘ Myrcia Dom..... @2 00 | Green, Peninsular.
Picis Lig., quarts . @1 00} “ Myrcia Imp.. @2 50 | Lead, red....
mae ...... @ 8 o jini Rect. bbl. 2.55
Pil ime (po. 80) .. @ so; “* “ %dbl. 2 60 | Whiting, white Spa .
Piper Nigra, (po. ha @ 1 “ “ “ i6 gal. 263 Wong, Gilders’...... @
ie Alba, (po --- @ 3 ~~ - * 5 gal. 2 65 | White, Paris American 1
Piix Burgun........... @ 7| Less 5c gal., cash ten days. Whiting, Paris Eng.
Phimbi Acet (00... |. 10@ 12) Strychnia Crystal..... 140@1 45} _ Cliff .............-.... 1 46
Pulvis Ipecac et opli..1 10@1 20 Sulphur, Sae......... 2%4@ 3 | Universal Prepared ..1 C0@1 16
Pyrethrum, boxes H o a 2 = 2 VARNISHES,

&F. D. Ca. dos... . @1 25 | Tamarinds ............ 10 No. 1 Turp Coach....1 10@1 20
Pyrethrum, pv........ 20@ 30 tome Venice..... 2 Extra Tur 166@1
Guaee 8@ 10|Theobromae .......... By 4g | Coach Body...... a
Quinia, S. P. & W.....344@39% | Vanilla............... — oo | No.1 Turp Furn...... 1 00@1 10

German.... 27@ 37] Zinci Sulph.. ........ g | Butra Turk Damar. ...1 55@1 60
Rubia Tinctorum..... 12@ 14 OILs. — Dryer, No. 1
Saccharum Lactispv. 16@ 18 Bbl. Gal Pe oc 70@75
os ae eer 2 = = on winter........ a 70

anguis Draconis..... ere, GX6ra.......... 65
ss. 12@ 14|Lard, No. 1........... 40 45, THE TRADESMAN

‘ M.. el 10g 13 Linseed, pure raw es OCCUPIES

2... Ll. 5 nseed, boiied.. .... 61 €3
Seidiits Mixture... .. @ 2) Neat’s Foot, winter ITS OWN FIELD.
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os tt poe COCOA SHELLS. di i Grade
BAKING POWDER. ie ener 110 | 351 bags.......... : aa $% Lemon.
acme. Peaches. Less quantity tee Q3% Silver 7@10 .
% 10. sane. 3 dos.... ee. 109] Pound packages... 64%@7 ee : 20s ....8 %
% “b. ~~ oe ee 75 Maxwell .............. 1 40 Universal ” DISINFECTANT. don.....150
-_ " i. 1 60 Shepard's 1 40 81 books, perhundred 83 00] Zenoleum,6o0z ............ 2 Ov
ae... :. a... ms ss 6 “ 3 50 Zenoleum, —...... oe
California........ _ is ; Regular
Arctic. Matin as ‘ 4 o¢ | Zenoleum, % gal........... 7 20 Vanilla.
"<a case. a ae $5 “ 5 @ | Zenoleumi, gal.............1200 dos
_~ a -te a _ | . . FISH--Salt 2oz.....81 20
ie meee 0 ' co Bloaters. a... 2
5 b “ 1doz eS... 1 25 Above prices on coupon books | Yarmouth........... 1 65
Red Star, is ® cans 40 Pineapples. are subject to the following XX Grad
- a. oC. ie... 1 00@1 30 quantity discounts: Georges cured............ 4 —
hed — Johnson's alioed on 2 50 a books ee . per cent | Georges genuine.... Ce 20z.....81 50
ee ee 2% * Georges selected......... 6
a ~ cans, : = Case. -... = Booth" 5 sliced. SS @2 5)| Peaberry 33 go ee a ome og Sete. sl. 6) || it Ul “—
[i “* S@on. ~ 1. 160 ee @2 % a Mexican and Guatamaia. (Can be made ‘tae Boneless, — ee 6%@8 XX Grade
ini eee ig 6 i Mesa 21 denomination from 810 down. | en : Vanilla.
gr 1 10] Good... Smoked 11@12
4 Ib. cans, 6 dex. case..... = Raspberries, oot 20 books...«............ $100 erring. 20Z..... 81 75
i ib. 7 - — eee oc Black fiat oe as ao Me TETE tater esses 3 00| Holland, white hoops a: é 80 : oon..... 3 50
UTE ...-... Ce ee ce ve wie ‘ { ennings
‘relfer's, Lo cans, dos. 45 | Brie, black............ {10 St ge TED 63
. ib. iz ae 10 | Milled eee _ Ee iseteceess: 10 20% sn =
Our Leader, 4 -b cans.. S S Bamburgh 2000 -. : - Interior Ch a 1000 emeniiite‘czmasaieas 17 40: . st 2 00
\ Ib cans...... Se... 85 oo 500, any one denom’n.....88 6 0% 75. =n
- # ibeans......130 Terrapin go Mandehling 000, ** ‘“ sb 5 Wo. 3 taper........ 1 35 2 00
BATH BRICK. Whorileberries. aii * 4 ._-*.* “ ce No. 4 taper........ 1 50 2 50
Blueberries ........ : Cita og | Steel punch wees Northrop’s
2 dozen in case. = eee rabian.. “‘esce eee 28 CRACKERS L Vanill
cacti... ............_-... 8 \- i ted. . emon. Vanilla.
ES 70 ceed bent a : = To ascertain cost of roasted mas 20z oval taper 75 1 10
awe... Potted ham, 3 ib. reee ee i = coffee, add ic. per Ib. for roast- Seymont XXX cartoon... 3 oz . . 1 20 1°75
BLUING. Gross 70 | 28 8nd 15 per cent. for shrink-| Family XXX na zozregular ‘* — 85 1 20
Arctic, i —---------- : = “tongue, % -_ sar nsieien, sald XXX, cartoon... — 10 2%
Se ‘ > Siete , ———a— GUNPOWDER.
wig ints, round........ 900] « chicken, & Ib 95 cLaughlin’s XXXX.. <1 361] Salted xa cartoon
‘ g <..22: ——_-.. hon. or lib cass. 915i e oo Rifle—Dupont’s.

“No. 2 sifting box... 2 75 Ve stables. a—_— 31 30 Kenoste ae “one au . ud 3 25

“ No.5 “ : 8 00 Hamburgh strin vr all ‘115 | etseY wr ame one noes 21 30) Butter biscuit... 2.11.01") Halt ies bee eiet initia : =
Mexican Liquid,4o2.-.-°° 3.60) Tiina moles FO] yatiey City 6 grom + | TB) soda, xxx Seon... sg | NO 18D kite a a... oS

BROOMS, ete oamed 2200000222272 3B | Hammes fot, grows... 1 65| Soda’ Duchoew 222. BA yg bbls, 100 Ibs. bo il ans

. - Soutien Baked........ 1 25 eddie S05] Crystal Water........ ...... 10% Fo -.. 820 140] Kegs 1s

Go. 2 Hel. -secrcrroriiT! 2 9g | Bay State Baked... -. 2... ia. =e ---. 11 | 10 Ib. kite... Bi 43 Halt kegs... 2 40
ee [sl ..------ Orne 7 | s oyster xe" —<— 37 | Quarter kegs. . <=

ae 2 50 senor CLOTHES LINES. ra, oa ig «gage oe Tibcans...... 34
Parlor Gem veteceeeeees g = Bemba 1 15 | Cotton. on tttteee per dos. : = Farina Oyster.............. 6 Eagle Saheim.

aay epesseees 1 00 Livingston = --- oe - 60 ft... . 1 60 wae che Beep a eeseseeeseee eee 11 00
Warehouse. .....-. -----+-+ . Honey Dew........ cape 125 . a. : (eon) eee) )h6Udla cl he
coon ‘ aa “ Y% oz size. ..812 00 uerteraces....... .......
s — - oases —oey..... “ Jute ne “ 1 = - oz size... 18 00 2 OOM... 60
Stove. BB on nee ence wee ERE Ne ree pene ce en mee a oe “ 1 00
Peas. .

oe 1% Hamburgh marrofat ee 1 30 CONDENSED MILE. Liq.Glue,loz 9 69 ~ = HERBS. _
Rice Root Saito, Srow.... & : early June. ...1 W OS. in Case. Leather Cement | Per box....38e. ee Nae
Rice Root Scrub, 3row.... 1 25 c ce Eng.. . : 1 ozsize... 12:0] In 5 case lots, per case.... 3 30 ”
me isle: nash is 18 a6 _ ancy sifted vile ier Br 2 oz size... 18 ‘0 In 10 po yk 7 a? - 320 Madras, 5 ee 55

“Little Tanglefoot.” , 5 Ib, a
Hotel, Ff ib. boxes ... .... 19 eee nan n2 erecne 8 Rubber Cement Retails, per box Deb tc i 8. F.,2,3and51b. boxes. 50
: ens VanCamp's marrofat.-....-1 1¢ ' ro — =.
— a : arly June.....1 — ‘ns... @ 3
en oe Archer's Early lossom....1 25 DRIED FRUITS. ee a ee $ -
OARNED 3200 ae: 215 Domestic bia os
Mushrooms. Apples.
—. French ...............-0++ 1921 ao 6 LICORICE. i
Little Negr, 11D -.....-...1 20] grte....... ———. - Evaporated, 00 1. baxes ™% a... -
sis a | admin ae . % Me ho
a Hubbard ......... Stites 115 ns’ Evaporated in boxes... 3 te rere oe ,
— Cove Oysters. — Succotash. a ow ns’d Milk Co’s brands Blackberries. cic
Standard, 11b............ go | Bawmburg........... —— ee 5 | 2 aie + eine sae sn box, pr. bx. 8 38 Condensed, 2 dos. ... » 20
“ 2 1b 145 Honey — Daley... ite 5 75] 70 1b. bags............-... Per case of 10 boxes....... 3 40 oe ------ a“?
ae Champion.................. 450] 28 Ib. b : :
Star, 1 lb 2 4p | MATIC... .--nene seer ereeree eens 135] Ma nolia - eee... oes 9 DWARF SIZE.

a." "Ske Tomatoes. —— Peaches. 25 double sheets in box,
st 2 Hancock Ce ee eee ie cel = os. in boxes........ 14 —_ - = ct [ae 1%

coe po eeeebScrec cue ee Cl 9 ase 0 ones. ......... 2 50

‘a 2 90 Belipee.. --.-...-0.0.. eee 1 ee in page. ati s 8 COMBINATION CASE.
standard, 11D. +210 | Gallon oso 227 22222 California in bags... 6% | 12 boxes Dwart Decoy | - 83 4
Mustard, 2lb .... 225 See. California boxes........ 7%] FARINACEOUS GOODs.
Tomato Sauce, Oh... i Sean er’s. - nOae Pitted Cherries. ie na.
eo + ode —— OBB. we cceceee..- 2%

AAG Mey 37

volumbia River, fist ... ...1 e| Breakfast Cocoa. 5 sya, peer rernnaa Walsh DeRoo & Go.s..... 1 8
i talle ... 1 65 —_ . Prunelles, Sominy Mince meat, 3 doz. in case. 2 75

os Ee - ete 130] acme... . om. bones ..... ...... O64 | BArrele .. 22 ncccec wees 2% | Pie Prep. 3 doz. in case....2 75

ue z ok oe “od ~ — oe i marvel esPbertios. as Grits a a 3% MATCHES
Se icici omc OR EEE eee ee Z Lim eans. '°
america, Sune ; a Ht BOIb. Domes os .. 2% | Dried... sai ind Vara 112% | Globe Match Co.’s Brands.
ae : ia a % oni an
er . g| Gold Medal ..... 000°. 8 | Peerless evaporated cream 5 75 Raist * Domestic, 12 Ib. b ermicelli. 55 | Columbia Parlor........... u 25
Imported \s g| Skim ...........-..... 5@6 ns, Sean 4 “io 1 XXX Sulphur.. 1 00
0 $ a il OGUPON BOOKS, Loose Muscatels in Boxes. pa ce %@11 | Diamond Match Co.’s Brands.
metace S55 sevtese 4 ‘= : rae en ae ” pmrere..... . seecce 3% ia oe ole uacan =
Boneless —. i 1 cneuie ao en _ * . Muscaiais in i a. Chester....... . te oe eoes-. 2%/No.2home......_ nc 110
ace. lhl 2 50 ce 4 2 crown... age 3% Green, bu.. een 110 Export parlor 400
Fruits. Sap Sago.... .. 18 ay 3% | Split per ib ............ 2% MEASURES,
ms anc PPlCe Schweltser, importea. & Foreign. Schumacher, Dbl omer Tin, per dosen.

b. standard vee | “ ~~ domestic oi4 Currants. a cmilLee............... ae
York State, gallons — 3 00 CATSUP. Petras, bbis......- @3% Monarch, bbl oe Half galion..... ae 1 40
Hamburgh, Blue Lakel Brand. ae | VY ostizzas, 50 1b. cases...... 3% | Monarch’ % bbi.. es : = ei al
ini pricots Half pint, 25 bottles........ 275 ‘“Tradesman.’ Schuit’s =. Cnskee, C6nee eee ER 45
Santa Crus......... ‘2 ew rnte ne 50 | 8 1 books, per hundred.... 2 09/ 25 1b. boxes.. . --- 5) | Oven Baked.......... ce nd ee ee 40
Beak oc, Peer ae a] gga ae 2 eck - si Wooden, for vinegar, per dos,
ae. 1 10} Half pi q ---» 800 4 ee BE bcs eos os a es 7 00
Biackbercien Pint, p<) ~-dlagygage ered : = - ee ce 2 00 Citron, Leghorn. Sip. boxes . East India...-- ee 3% Half if gallon .. 4%5

ee ee ee, ll le ee . : ee. 2. rr

85 Quart per Gee ..... ceo 3 75 | 820 . - ss -:++ 500! Orange ‘ = 6 eee... io oscieelg 3 ag i ee oe heels oie . 3”

 

 

 

 

‘THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

MOLASSES.
. 4 Blackstrap.
0 Os sees. 14
- Cuba Baki
Ordinary .......... 16
Porto Rity.

PD |< i --ccs es ele sees ae 20
ee 30
New Orleans.
ose cs ae 18

aes ee ee ok ee 22
ies O08... ............ 27
ae i 32
7. ——— ee 40
Half -barrels 3c.extra

PICKLES,
Medium.
Barrels, 1,200 count... @4 00

Half bbls, 600 count.. @2 50
mall

 

 

8 .

Barrels, 2,400 count. 5 50
Half bbls, 1,200 count 3 25
PIPES,

Clay, NO. 216............ 2... 1 70

<. D. full count. ios ae
Coe Bes... 8... 1 20
POTASH,

48 cans In case.
eee .................. 4 00
Penna Salt Co.’s.......... 3 00

Pesos
seem.
Carolina head..
No.1 5
c No. i 4%
BOOROE co vscnc..- 05, ae
Ja Mat e...... 5%
a. 5
eere.......... I EN
Pees... !. 4%
SPICES.
Whole Sifted.
OS SS 9%
a, China in mats...... _
. Batavia in bund..
" Saigon in rolls...... “3
Cloves. Fnac i essa eee 22
“' Zansibar............ 11%
Mace Batavia....... etl, =

 

Pepper, Singapore, black..

 
  

: white... “a
Pure andl in wait.
a
sia, Batavia Lethe mouse on 18
and Saigon .25
’ saigon ees uee aun 35
Cloves, = a =
Ginger, African.............16
, oe. 20
- J oe... 2
Mace Batavia..............- 65
Mustard, es and panes
cen aa
Pepper, Singapore, bi +: =
' jain Picbeus ceed 20
“Absolute” In Packages,
4s Ke
Allepiee .....-.... 84 155
Cinnamon. & 155
ceoree........---- 84 155
Ginger, Jamaica...... 84 155
Afrioen.......- 84 155
Neoee............... 84 155
Pepe 8 155
ies 84
STARCH.

Kingsford's s Corn.
20 1- > PACKAZES. ...--+++--.- 6%

Ringsford’s Silver Gloss.

 

40 1-lb. packages...........- 6%

Gis. Sonea........ -..--.. %%
Common Corn

2 Oe. ....... 22s, 5%

- Ye 5%
Common Gloss

1 > packages ide cee wee

6-lb ees x

40 and 50 lb. boxes.......... 35g

ee a I ST i 3%,

SODA,
ec ioe beecs ac auau we Sh
— sensi. Sel eee cede 4%
SALT.
Diamond Crystal.
Cases, 243 lb. boxes...... $ 1 60
Barrels, 320 ibs....... - £0
. 115 2% lb bag 400
“ 5 l 3 v5)
* Sem * |... £m
Butter, me heee......-. 65
20 14lb bags......... 3 50
“ 200 lb bbis........ 250
Fee ae 225
Worcester.

115 2%. -lb sacks Cee tee ye 8400
mete Le. 3
30 Tob eae eee 3 50
ae 3 30

ee ee ee 2 50

Sipe. Ce  .. 32%

linen acks:..... .- _ a

Common Grades.

= Sm. O0Gre.......... ..- 82 10

ce 1 90

8 101. yg ee yah eee 1 75

56 lb. dairy in drill page... 30

sh. * on rr. =
Ashton.

56 lb, dairy in linensacks.. 75
—

66 lb, dairy in linen sacks vis)

Soiar Rock.

56 ln. sac 2

-. 90

Manistee .. 90

 

 

SEEDS,
I oi occas oy os @13
Canary, Smyrna....... 4
a 7
Cardamon, Malabar.. 80
Hemp, Russian....... 4
Mixed Bird .......2.! 4%
a white....... 9
oo 8
eee... 4%
Came bone........... 0
SNUFF.
Scotch, in bladders......... by
Maccaboy. in jarg........... 35
french Rappee, in Jars..... 43
SALERATUS,
Packed 60 Ibs. in box.
Cees... 5s. oe oe 3 30
ee 3 15
cee. |. gs, 3 30
‘Taylors..... ele e eeeregeeees 3 00
saciiast bsg
1 oz. M8" 90 0 doz. $10 20 gro
i Ns. 1 20 12 60 “
"22.1.8 ° 1440 “
Vanilla.
1 oz. F. M. 1 50 doz. . 20 gro
2° S232 * eo “
- °°“ Pe se * 3 50 -
Rococo—Second Grade.
Lemon.
SOn.......-..9 ee... ee “
Vanilla,
2Gen...... 1@da.....0 5 “
SOAP.
Laundry.

R. Soap Works Brands.
coneoraia, ba % Ib. bars...3 50
5 box lots......-3 35
_ 10 box lots.......3 30

. 20 box lote....... 3 20
Best German Family.
COLIe bees... 8... 2a
5 box lote........ ol oo
oo pox oe... 200

Ailen B. aes 8 Brands,
Old ee aes Lie........ 3 20
Good Cheer, 60 Lib eee es 3
White Borax, 100 <i... 3 65

Proctor & Gamble.
tone... 3 45
Tyory, 1 Om... ............ 6 75

° c¢oe.............. -. £0
[enon ... ettece ee ae
Mottled German........... 3 15
oo eee... .......--... 3B

Dingman Brands.
Sisere bem... ..--.........- 3 95
5 box lots, delivered....... 3 85
10 box lots, delivered...... 3%

Jas. S. Kirk & Co.’s Brands.
American Family, wrp d..%3 33
plain... 2 27
N. K. Fairbank & Co.’s Brands.
Semee Cleee......,-.--..... 3 90

Brown, im Oe ............. 2 10
80 bars ..... 3 10

Lautz Bros. &_Co.’s ‘feande.
a 3 65
Cotton Oil.. cticse «Or
Meee... 3... 025. 400
ee En ee 400

Thompson & Chute Co.’s Brands

     

Biivew........ . 3 66
Moae.... ..--<-- odes 3 30
ivan Improved ete dane 2 50
Ramee... ae 2 80
Gomes. 3 2
Reageueee!................ 23
Scouring.
Sapolio, kitchen, 3 doz... 2 40
hand, 3 ida. 2 40
SUGAR.

Below are given New York
prices on sugars, to which the
wholesale dealer adds the lo-
eal freight from New York to
your shipping point, giving
you credit on the invoice for
the amount of freight buyer

ays from the market in which
os purchases to his shipping
point, including 20 pounds for
the weight of the barrel.

  

ee . 8% 3)
oe a a a 5 =
Cubes. os a
Powdered ..

x<xxx Powdered...

Granulated aa Be
Fine Granulated... ee a es 4
Extra Fine Granulated... 4 7.
Te Bie ee cere occu ae 494
Diamond Confec, A....... 4 62
— Standard A....... 4 5

 

 

  

 

SAL SODA,
Granulated, oe 1%
7Slb caseg...... 1%
Lump, me 2... 1%4
— a ese . 1%
YRUPS.
eae
Merrele. ......... peace eeles 22
mee eee 24
-=_™ cc
Pair... 15
20
NS 25
TABLE SAUCES,
Lea & Perrin’s, IOS 2... 475
oe ..... 2%
Halford, — eee estas 3%
ee 22
Salad Dressing, legge ..... 455
eat ....- 2 65
TEAS.
saPan—Regular.
@17
@w
@26
@3A
@12
@l7
@20
Gx
@34
@i2
i8 @2
@25
Choicest @35
Extra choice, wire leaf @40
GUNPOWLER.
Common to fai1....... 25 @35
Extra fine to finest....50 @é65
Choicest fancy........ 7 @8s
OOLON@. O26
Common co fair... ...23 @30
IMPERIAL,
“ommon to fair....... 3 @
Superior tofine........ 30 @35
YOUNG HYSON.
Commor to fair....... 18 @26
Superior to fine....... 30 @40

ENGLISH BREAKFAST.

 

TOBACCOS.
Cigars.

Conguen Brand.
Invincibies ... w<.«-.... $80 00
a dete ca... oe
Perfectoa....... ..--..... 6) @
Boguets . 5 00

Edw. W. ‘Ruhe’s Brands.
memes Pive...-. i... ... 35 40
Commere | 6... 35
Mr. ojos Ses 35 CO

G. J. Johnson’s Brand.

$c

cy...

Fr: tinier & oo ‘ Brands.
—_ Se @25

  

Mawes .............
A cose ee 32
ee 30
Spaulding & Merrick’s Brauds.
Sterling .. 30
Private | Brands.

 

Cherry
eee @30
Can CBR, 2... aoe sccaue @27
Nellie Hiy...........-- 24 @25
Uncie Beu,............%% Ges
McGinty ......... -.-- 27

. é bbis.....-. 25
Columbia .....++..-...-. 24
Columbia, drums aes 23
Bane Up......<....-.-- 20
Bang up, drums.......-. 19

Plug.

Sorg’s Brands,
—— ty ee ew econ 9
ee 27
Nobby Twat............

Scotten’s —
Byvid,......<- Boece
awatha,.........--- 38
Valley City ...... 34
Finzer’s Brands.
Old Honesty......---- 40
aon Tar. ..._ ...-.-.- 3

Lorillard’s Brands.
Climax (8 0z., 41C)..
Green Turtie.......... 30
Three Black Crows... 27
J. G. Butler’s Brands.

Sunes = ese 38
Out of Sigh 24

Wilson & McCGaulay’ s Brands.
Gold Home. ........-... 43

Happy Thought....... 37
Mominaic .........,..- 32
Mores........ ....... 31
a 27
Smoking.
Catlin’s Brands,

Bie Gee 0... —
Goides Shower.............
mouse... ............... 33
Meerschaum .. .......... 29@30
American Eagle Co.’s Brands,
— Mepy.......;-....... °
aacaas kee imate dean 15
Frog . esas ae
Java, Ks ee 32

——— Tobacco Co.'s Brands,
Beener.......... 16
euros Cavendish......
Gana Cet. kes. 30

 

 

Smoking—Continued.
Scotten’s Brands.

Werneee... 5... 8. 14

Homey bow........5........ 6

Gale ieee... .... 2. 30

F. F. Adams Tobacco Co.’s
Brands.

ol ea 26

   

22
Globe Tobacco Co.’s Brands.

ee 40
Leidersdorf’s Brands.
= = Be ewe
The OOM co.4, | ll: —
Bea Cove... .........- 05
Spaulding & Merrick.
Tose ang Joy. ...
Traveler Cavendish........ 38
Buck Horn..... Sees cae 30
coon Boe 8 30@32
Come Cape........ 8 16
VINEGAR.
40 gr oe ee
ee. 6 9

$1 for barrel.
WET MUSTARD,

 

Duis peeses ...... .. 30
Beer mug,2dozincase... 1 75
YEAST.
Diamond...... _
Eureka..... 1¢0
a 1 00
Yeast Cream ....... 1
Yeast Foam 1 00
WOODENWARE,
Tubs, ee is, 5 3
ae So .- 46
ae cf: . 400
Pails, No 1, two-hoop. . 1 25
«Nel, three-hoop ... 1%
Bowls, 11 ine
- we Le 90
_ 2? le
. eee 1 80

HIDES PELTS and FURS

Perkins & Hess pay as fol-
lows: :

HIDES.
Green .... 6 Qi
Pan Corea... .. @i%
_ 7%@ 8
eeu 64@ 8%
Kips, green ea 5 @6
= Gao... ..... 7%@ 9
Calfrkins, green a inm@ 9
en deu 10 @i2z
Deacon a. See gees 10 @2
No. 2 hides \& off.
PELTS.

Shearlings. . : 53 2
ee 10 @ 30
wooL.

Washed oe . 8 @s
Unwashed ...... . » 6
Oid Wool. 40 @id
MISCELLANEOUS.
Tallow .......--....-. 3 @ 4%
Grease butter ........1 @2
a ------ 1%@ 2
Ginseng 1.2 0U@2 25

GRAINS and FEEDSTUFFs

WHEAT,

No. 1 White (58 Ib. test) a8
No. 2 Red (60 Ib. test) 48
FLOUR IN SACKS.
et eee

   

 

Second Patent. 40
Birsiene......-... 4 00
2 eT 37
eT es
Boer erent ............. . <a

ye. 410

“Subject ‘to usual cash dis-
co

mae in bbls., 25¢ per bbl. ad-
ditional

MEAL.
pee... 2 50
Granulated. . 275

FEED AND MILLSTUFFS.
St. Car Feed, screened. ..#23 06
St. Car Feed, unscreened. x2 50
No. 1 Corn and Oats ..... 22 00
No topecm .......-... 2u 50
Unbolted Corn Meal...... 21 50
Winter Wheat Bran ..... 15 00
Winter Wheat Middlihgs. 16 00
Berecenimgs .......... aces 2 OO

CORN.
ia ie. 57%
Less than car lots.......... to

OaTs.

Car lots. .... Lies soe
Less than car lots Se eee 37

No. 1 Tancthy.¢ an lots....10 50
0.1 . ton lots .....11 50

FISH AND ND OYSTERS.

 

FRESH FISH.
Wate ............ 9 8
Trout . Ge canes 7%
Black Bass. a. isteis
ieee ._............. @12%
Ciscues or Herring... @6
Bieeeee......... @12%
Fresh en me .. 14
Cod Hat " 10
Haddock @s8
No, 1 Pickerel........ @8

i ie eee a @i
Smoked White ... ... @7
Red Snappers... ..... 14
Columbia River Sal-

Oe coed... 15
CO a 18@25
Scallops.........

Seeeee ..... 2... 1
OO i ee anne,

SHELL 600D8
Oystera, per 1U00....... 1 26@1 50
Clams. 75@1 00

OYSTERS—IN CANS.
F. J. Dettenthaler’s ——
Fairhaven Counts..
F.J.D. Selects.......

 

CROCKERY AND GLASSWARE
LAMP BUBNEBS.

 

Security. No. 1..
Security, No. 2.

   

  

   

Wiumee.
eee.
LAMP CHIMNEYs.—6 dos. in box.
Per box.
me Chen... ... Sac ese Petes 1%
DE ee es 1 88
TE 2 70
First quality.
_e Sun, crimp top, wrappe and ~~ -2 10
a : oo “ ‘i ‘ “ o fe
XXX Fi
No. ¢ Sun, crimp top, wrapped and —" 2 60
No.1 -.2 gO
No. 2 ue ity a“ oe ii ae 3 80
ari top.
_? i Sun, wrapped ar and ~— Lee eee eee. 70
No. 3 Hinge, : . i @
Fire Proof—Plain To
Noe’ Sun, plain bulb Ae oaea r Sees cence 3 40
OE 4 40
La Bastie.
No. 1 Sun, plain bulb, per. Cee i. 1 2%
No. 2 : -21 50
No. crimp, per. ‘a ee eee 1 35
ee 1 60
Rochester.
No. 1, ime —— bed ue, Ccuce eee oe 3 50
No. 2 , ime (70¢ doz) . edge esse cease oe
ve, Gime (Oe G0 470
Electric.
eG. >, Se COG Ge 4
VO, Sues Gee dee)... Seteccee, 4 40
Miscellaneous.

  
 

Junior, Rochester ......

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Mammoth Chimneys for esta Lamps.

&

SRERERE

No. 3 Rochester, lime 4 °50
No. 3 Rochester, flint. 2
No. 3 Pearl top or Jewel gl’s.1
No. 2 Globe Incandes. lime...1 75
No. 2 Glebe Incandes. flint. ..2
No. 2 Pearl glass.. be
OIL CANS.

E gal tin Cane with apout..... .....,......
1 gal galv iron, with spout........
2 Sal galy tron with spout .......... ove
2 oa) galy fron with spont........... |...
SOR Mout, wilh pont. ...................
5 gal Eureka, Wilt SoG...
5 gal Eureka with faucet
5 gal galviron A & W etek tee case
5 gal Tilting Catis, Monarch... 0.6... | :
5 gal galv iren Nacefas..
Pump Cs ans,
See Gomehee 10
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No. ©, Tubular, cases i doz. eaeli............ 45
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No. 0, i cy a See 45
No. 0, " bbis5 ‘ eg 40
No. 0, e bull’s eye, cases 1 doz each.1 2
LAMP WICKS,
noe rer eros. 2
No. 1, : 28
Lg 2, ' 38
a 65
con tt 7h

JELLY TUMBLERS—Tin Top.
% Pints, a doz in box, per box (box 00)... 1 60
504 ‘oO

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— * % " ™ pox, “ bex (hon 0G).... 1 a0

s. - ©” “be, ~ dex (hhlw)..... 22

STONEWARE—AKRON.

Butter Crocks, 1 to6 gal.. See cue
% gal. per doz.. .. =
Jugs, Onl Penden. CC. 7
lto4 gal., —s .......... . =
Mik Pans, % gal. per Gee... ..... - =
© © i ee 72

STONEWARE—BLACK GLAZED,
Better Croems, { an@2eal................. 6%

Milk Pans, * gal. per OZ... eee eee eeees 65
ee 3
FRUIT JARS.

Masom—@ld style pinfs............ ......... 7
CO -t@&
Mate galions.............. 9 75
Mason-—ti doz. i case, pints........ ......«-. 7 BO
quarts. .. . . 2a

half gallons. ... 10 00
Dandy—glass cover, pints.......... ica... on
quar ..............., 1 ae
half gallons.... .14 00

OLLS.
The Standard Oll Co. quotes as follows:

BARRELB.
BRocene...... Oe eee 10
xxx W. W. Mich. Headlight.. Ee ion 84
Naptha.. . ae @ 9%
Stove Gasoline. . See ew es @lix%
Cee. 3; @a3s
(Oe eo .-12 @zi
EE i 9%
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FROM TANK WAGON.
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Zax W. W. Mich. Headlight........... 64
Scofield, Shurmer & Teagle quote as follows:
BARRELS.
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eater Wee. 1. ees 8. r=
Red Cross, W Ww ‘Headlight. Meee ude beueume
Naptha ccaen se eee g asc uaa e on
Miewe Geeerme i | 11%
FROM TANK WAGON,
Pe ee wecc.cse OM
Mea Croan WW Hondlight.... .... ......2... 6%

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

 

HOW TO FIT TRUSSES?
(Continued from Page 18.)
point it pays to be independent and posi-
tive.

In cases where a patient is strenuous
for a belt truss, either because he has
been tortured by a poorly fitted spring
truss, or for any other reason, if I think
that a belt truss will serve him fairly
well I follow his preference.

As to the best trusses for women, my
experience is limited. Two lady physi-
cians have been in the habit of coming
to me for trusses to fit their lady patients
with; frequently they have described the
cases to me and asked my advice. From
that experience I have formed the opin-
ion that, while a woman may face the
music and have a tooth pulled with less
ado than a man (and dentists tell us such
is the case), when it comes to protracted
discomfort she has less patience and
endurance than a man; moreover, she
forms opinions from the looks of a truss.
If a truss looks hard and uncomfortable,
it will hurt her when she wears it; and if
it looks nice, soft and comfortable, she
will find it comfortable. Therefore, for
women, I would select neat, soft, kid-
covered French patterns, with as light
springs as possible.

So much on the management of a
customer. We will now consider briefly
the matter of adjusting atruss. Exactly
how to adapt a truss to each individual,
it would be impossible for any one to
explain without a clinic of a variety of
cases, but certain general instructions
may be given:

First. Insist on exposing the patient
sufficiently to have a fair chance at him.
Working under several layers of clothing
from undershirt to overcoat, and among
a tangle of suspenders, etc., is too much
like cutting a man’s hair with his hat
on. Take off coats, let down trousers,
and pin shirts up out of the way. If the
patient wishes to wear the truss over his
underclothing he can do so after you get
it fitted; the thickness of the clothing
will probably make no difference with
the set of the truss; but fitting over a
shirt is blind work. Have the patient
stand up straight, with his heels to-
gether, and bearing his weight equally
on both feet; reduce the hernia while he
is in that position if it can be done
easily. If that is not easily done, select
the truss which you are to use, put your
patient on the chair, reduce the hernia,
hold it with your fingers while you bring
him back onto his feet, then put on the
truss, and remove the fingers. In some
very bad cases it may be impossible to
remove the fingers and adjust the pad
without letting the rupture partially es-
cape. In such cases put the truss on
him, get the rear adjustment all right,
then put him on his back, lift up each
pad, reduce the rupture, put the pad in
place, then carefully bring him onto his
feet. Then sit down in front of him;
have him cough and change positions; if
it escapes, watch and see just where it
escapes. If possible, be sure to have the
hernia completely reduced before the
truss is put on. Sometimes in an old
hernia certain growths or adhesions ren-
der a complete reduction impossible.
Whatever can be returned to the abdom-
inal cavity without materially lifting the
spermatic cord should be held there. Be
sure to have the truss completely hold-
ing him before you let him go. A truss
that is pinching an intestine which has

 

partly, even in a small degree, slipped
by itis a very uncomfortable and ofien a
very harmful truss; for that reason it is
better to have the spring too stiff
than too weak. It is better to say to
a patient, ‘I think this spring is
stiffer than you will need it per-
manently, and, -after you have worn
it a few days, if you will come in, I will
slack it up,” than it is to say to him, ‘I
want to make it as easy as possible for
you; I will try a limber spring; if it
doesn’t hold you, I will make it stiffer.”
If it fails to hold him he is liable to con-
sider you a failure and to want to try
some one else. So, on the start, what-
ever else you do or fail to do, be sure, if
possible, to establish the fact that you
can hold him. At this point I would em-

phasize again the importance uf keeping
a full assortment of sizes, for it is too

 

bad to fail of a perfect job just because j

you have to use a truss which is a size
too large or too small.

Keep a record of every truss you fit;
it will be of service to you in many
ways.

RUPTURE IN INFANTS.

It is sometimes impossible to put onto
little fellows trusses which will be com-
fortable, or which will keep in place. I
think that, as a rule, aspring truss is bet-
ter than a compress, and that a soft,
leather-covered French pattern is the
best. A hard-rubber truss would be
cooler and more cleanly, but it is more
apt to slide out of place. The following
device has worked well in some light
cases: Take two corn or bunion plasters,
stick their gummed sides together, and
stick them onto a piece of adhesive
strip. The plasters make a good com-
press with the hole in the middle; place
the compress on the hernia and fasten it
in place with the strip. This should be
changed quite frequently, and each time
the slip should be fastened to a new
place. If more pressure is needed, an
additional bandage can be attached to
the compress and passed around the
body.

Sometimes a person coming to the
druggist for a truss brings along his
physician to superintend the matter. As
a rule, physicians are not practical truss-
fitters. I have found that the most sat-
isfactory way in such cases is simply to
tender the physician the use of your
room and your assortment of trusses and
leave the case entirely in his hands. If
he declines your tender, as most likely
he will, he will be careful not to inter-
fere with your work or make any sug-
gestions that will embarrass you.

H. G. CoLMAN.

Kalamazoo, Mich.

SMITH-HILL ELEVATORS! bh. & DUNYON & 60.

Electric, Steam and Hand Power. Wil a :
, ill buy all kinds of Lumber—
PRICES LOW. TMIECHANISM SIMPLE. J
NOT LIABLE TO GET OUT OF REPAIR. Green or Dry.

Call and see me or telephone 1120 and I will
accompany enquirer to dozens of local users of | Office and Yards, 7th St.and C. & W. M. R. R.
our elevators. J. C. MULBERRY, Agent. .

Kortlander Building, Grand Rapids, Mich. | Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

23

 

 

CURRENT COMMENT.

The potato patch scheme of charity,
originating with Mayor Pingree, of De-
troit, last year, has become very popu-
lar, and a large number of cities, both in
this country and Europe, are preparing
todo something of the sort this year.
The fact that the poor people of Detroit
succeeded in raising last summer, with
the oversight and help of the mayor and
his co-workers, about $14,000 worth of
produce from 400 acres of land at a total
expense of not more than $3,500, has
been accepted as a demonstration of the
practicality of the plan, and those most
interested in it have been the more grat-
ified because, though essentially a char-
ity, the system accomplishes its purpose
by helping the poor to help themselves.
The use of the land is loaned, the plow-
ing is done by the city, and the dressing,
seeds and tools are furnished; but the
most of the labor is done by the poor
people who are to benefit by the system,
and this fact lifts them above the
enervating shame of mendicancy. The
plan is found also to have an educational
value, for the men who work on these
potato patches must of necessity learn
something about agriculture in its sim-
pler forms, and by this means they be-
come less dependent upon factory or
other employment by which they have
been accustomed to seek a livelihood.
That this benefit is something more than
theory is proved by the fact that a con-
siderable number of the beneficiaries of
the Detroit system have left the city for
the purpose of engaging permanently in
agricultural work on their own account.

* * +

A story comes from Massachusetts of
a small boy who was playing with dyna-
mite and lost the tops of the fingers and
some of the thumb of his left hand. He
was taken home, and the doctor who was
called in advised the removal of tie suf-
ferer to the hospital. The boy was
afraid that his teacher would think that
he was playing truant, and insisted on
being brought before her en route to the
hospital. His teacher was very sorry
and expressed her sympathy quite freely.
‘Do you feel badly about it, Willie?’
she asked. ‘“‘About what?’’ said he.
‘Why, about losing your fingers and go-
ing to the hospital.” ‘‘Well, no,’’ said
he, quite meditatively, ‘‘I don’t feel so
bad about that; but I’ll tell you, 1 play
shortstop for our club, and we are going
to play a match to-morrow, and | feel

rotten to think that I’m out of it.’’
* * *

One of the largest retail houses in New
York has applied the card catalogue sys-
tem to its book-keeping. Two catalogues
are kept, one of balanced accounts, the
other of open accounts. When the firm
wishes to send a statement to acustomer,
an accountant runs over the live cata-
logue, takes down all the items against
the customer in question, and makes up
the statement. When the bill is paid all
the cards that went to make up that
statement are transferred to the balanced
account catalogue, together with a card

recording the payment.
= *

The Chinese burglar takes an ingre-
dient of his own, burns it, and blows the
smoke through the keyhole of the bed-
room where the master of the house is
asleep. The fumes dull the senses of

the victim just enough to make him help-
less, while at the same time permitting
him to hear and see everything that goes
on in the room.

Pop Corn Goods

Our Balls are the Sweetest and Best in the market.
200 in Box or 600 in Barrel.

 

 

 

 

 

Penny Ground Corn Cakes in

Molasses Squares

aud Purkish Bread
Are Tip Top Sellers.

DETROIT POP GORN NOVELAY G0. “"“ozs™cs"™*

Detroit, [lich.
ESTABLISHED THIRTY YEARS.

oy YOU NOTIC.

 

 

 

 

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ON YOUR CRACKERS?

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UPERIOR
EYMOUR

That is what it means--

“THE ACKNOWLEDGED LEADER
OF CRACKERS!”’

 

THEY

Originated in MICHIGAN
Are Made in MICHIGAN
Are Sold in MICHIGAN

And all over the World.

 

 

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The New York Biscuit Co.,

Successors to WM. SEARS & CO.,

Grand Rapids, [lich.

ven LARC T TSS iiesic

EARLY GARDEN VEGETABLES

YOUR ORDERS SOLICITED.

r. J. Dettenthaler, sein re MICH.
SEEDS = Pota toes = Beans

 

 

 

We handle all kinds FIELD SEEDS, Clover, Timothy, Hungarian, Millet, Buck-
wheat, Field Peas, Spring Rye, Barley, Etc. Buy and sell Poti utoes, Beans, Seeds,
Eggs, Ete. Car lots or less.

EGG CRATES and EGG CRATE FILLERS.

If you wish to buy or sell write us.
26=28-30-32 OTTAWA STREET

Moseley Bros. Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

Jobbers SEEDS, BEANS, POTATOES, FRUITS.

 

CHICAGO =="
AND WEsT MICHIGAN R’Y.
GOING TO CHICAGO.
Lv. Ged Rapids......... : :15am si 25pm *11:30pm
Ar. Chicago 25pm 6:50pm *7:20am
RETURNING ‘PROM CHICAGO.
Ly. Chicago. 8:25am 5: ‘00pm *11:45pm

Ar. @’d Rapids.........3:05pm 10:25pm *6:25am
TO AND PROM MUSKEGON.

Ly. Grand Rapids...... 7:25am 1:25pm 5:30pm

Ar. Grand Rapids...... 11:45am 3:05pm 10:25pm

TRAVERSE CITY. CHARLEVOIX AND PETOSKEY.
Ly. Grand Rapids.. 7:30am 3:15pm
Ar. Maniastee........ 12:20pm 8:15pm
Ar. Traverse City.... 1:00pm 8:45pm
Ar. Charievotz...... 3:15pm 11:10pm
Ar. Petoskey.... 3:45pm 11:40pm

Trains arrive from north at 1:00 pm and 10;00
pm.

PARLOR AND SLEEPING CARS,

Parlor car leaves for Chicago 1:25pm. Ar-
rives from Chicago 10:25pm. Sleeping cars
leave for Chicagy 11:30pm. Arrive from Chi-
cago 6:25am.

i *Every day. Others week days only.

DETROIT ses

7
LANSING & NORTHERN R., R,

GOING TO DETROIT.

Ly. Grand Rapids...... 7:00am 1:20pm 5:25pm
Ar. Detroit .............11:40am 6:30pm 10:10pm

RETURNING —_— DETROIT.

Ly. Detroit. __. 7:40am = 1:10pm_c6:00pm
Ar. Grand Rapids. ee "12:40pm 5:20pm 10:45pm
TO AND FROM SAGINAW, ALMA AND 8ST. LOUIS.
Ly. GR 7:40am 5:00pm Ar. @R.11:35am 10:45pm

TO AND FROM LOWELL.
Ly. Grand Rapids........ 7:00am 1:20pm 5:25pm
Ar. from Lowell.......... 12:409mn S:Wpm .......

THROUGH CAR SERVICE.

Parler Carson all trains between Grand Rap
ids and Detroit. Parlor car to Saginaw on morn-
ing train.

Trains week days only.

GEO. DEHAVEN, Gen. Pass’r Ag’t.

MICHIGAN CENTRAL

‘Tie Niagara Falls Route.’’
(Taking effect Sunday, May 27, 1894.)

 

28, 1894

 

 

Arrive. Depart.
10 20pm....... Detroit Express........7 Mam
5 30am -*Atlantic and Pacific..... 11 20pm
1.06pm ..... New York Express... 6 00pm
*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 pm

Direct Communication made at Detroit with
all through trains eeat over the Michigan Cen
tra] Railroad (Canada Southern Division.)

A. AtmguistT, Ticket Agent,
Union PassengerStation.

 

 

 

ETROIT, GRAND HAVEN & MIL-
WAUKEE Railway.
EASTWARD.
Trains Liave  tNo. 14;tNo. 16)tNu. 18)*No.

 

6 45am} 1t 20am} 3 25pm 11 00pm
| 7 40am}11 25am) 427pm/1235am

G’d Rapids, =
ion...

 

 

St. Johns a 8 25am)|12 17pm} 52 20pma | 12am
Owomes ...... Ar! 900am| 120pm) 605pm; 3 10am
E. Saginaw..Ar |1U 50am 3 45pm} 8 00pm} 6 40am
Bay City.....Ar}113¢am} 435pm) § 37pm} 7 15am
Fiint ....-.--- Ar|10 05am} 3 45pm) 7 05pm/| 5 4Cam
Pt. Huron... Ar |1205pm 5 50pm | 850pm| 7 30am
Pontiac ......Ar|1053am]| 305pm) 8 25pm| 5 37am
Detroit...... Arj1150am| 405pm} 925pm)} 7 00am
WESTWARD.

For Grand Haven and nnnnneneee
Poe ..*8:40 a. m.
For Grand Hav en and Muskegon... +1:00 p. m
Mil. and Chi. +5 35 p. m.
For Grand Haven, Mil. and Chi.. *7:40 p. m.
For Grand Haven and Milwaukee....+10:05 p.m.

+Daily except Sunday. *Daily.

Trains arrive from the east, 6:35 a.m.,

.m., 5:30 p. m., 10:v0 p.m.

Trains arrive from the west, 6:40 a, m. 8:15
a. m. 10:10 a. m. 3:15 pm. and 7:05 p. m.

Eastward—No. 14 has Wagner Paricr Buffet
car. No.18 Parlor Car. No.82 Wagner Sleeper.

Westward — No. 11 ParlorCar. No. 15 Wagner
Parlor Buffet car. No. 81 Wagner Sleeper.

Jas CAMPBELL. City ‘I‘cket Agent.

vranc Rapids & Indiana,
TRAINS GOING NORTH.

12:66

 

Leave going
North

For Traverse City, Petoskey and Saginaw... 7:40a. r-
For Saginaw ......0..cccccees cscsescestecscees- 5:00p ”
For Petoskey and Mackinaw................ 5:25, m.
TRAINS GOING SOUTH
Leave going
South.
For Oincinnatl............sccescceseccsccecceees 7:25

a.
For Kalamazoo and Chicago... - 2: 15 p.
For Fort Wayne and the East. - 8:18 Pp.
Wor Cineiamess. .................. "5:40 p.
For Kalamazoo and Chicago................ *11:40 p.
— viaG. R. & 1. R. BR.
Ly Grand Rapids. . a: a 2:15pm *11:40 pm
Arr Chicago............. 2:40pm 9:05pm 7:l0am
2:15p m train hasthrough Wagner Buffet. Parlor
Oar and coach.
11:40 p m train daily, through Wagner Sleeping Car
and Coac
Ly Chicag: 0 6:50a m 3:30 p m 11:30 p m
a cuea Rapides 2:50pm 9:15 pm 7:20am
30 p m has through Wagner Buffet Parlor Oar
ll: aa m train daily,through Wagner Sleeping Oar

Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana.
For = From Muskegon—Arrive,
7:25am

m,
m.
m.
pa

 

am
1:00pm 1:16pm
4:40 Dm 6:20p m

O .L. LOCKWOOD‘
General Passenger and Ticket Agent.

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24

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

  

 

GOTHAM GOSSIP.

 

News from the Metropolis---Index of
the Markets.
Special Correspondence

New York, May 25—Peaceful and
happy has the week been. All attention
has been concentrated on the wheat pit
of the Produce Exchange, and a person
not used to the sight would think he had
landed in pandemonium had he gone into
the visitors’ gallery.

Coffee has been actively dealt in dur-
ing the week, but it is hardly possible te
chronicle any advance in the staple. On
tbe contrary, the quotations on No. 7
Rio have been slightly reduced and 15%e
seems to be the outside limit. The
amount of coffee afloat is much larger
than last year, being 554,864 bags,
against 326,908 last year. Mild sorts of
coffee are in good demand and, as the
supply is not excessive, holders are in a
cheerful frame of mind.

The tea market—well, there is no mar-
ket for teas. Purchasers are buying
enough tolast ‘‘over Sunday,” but the
whole aspect of things is flat. The sale
of Wednesday was a large one, nearly
10,000 packages being disposed of. For-
mosas made the best record, and for
these there may be said to exist a better
feeling. Fine Formosas are worth 28
@30c¢.

The demand for refined sugar has
shown considerable falling off during the
past few days and not many buyers are
in the market. All orders are promptly
filled. Prices have undergone no change.

Grocery grades of molasses are firmly
held and are doing better all the time.
Syrups and glucose, also, are feeling the
effect of stronger markets and holders
are singing, ‘Oh, be joyful.”’

Rice, both foreign and domestic, is
still meeting with an excellent demand
and holders are making the most of their
golden opportunities.

Spices of all sorts are making a good
record for themselves and, while cloves
and pepper lead in the race for higher
rates, the confident tone extends to the
entire list.

Canned goods are quiet and steady.
The recent severe frosts do not seem. to
have exerted any influence, one way or
the other. Brokers are sending out so
many conflicting reports that one hardly
knows what’s what.

There is a moderate demand for lemons
and oranges, which promises to extend if
the warm weather continues. Pine-
apples, bananas, ete., are selling well,
and prevailing prices are firmly ad-
hered to.

Butter is firmer, and, while the supply
is large, itis passing out at a rate which
leaves no great accumulation in storage.
Best Elgin and State butter is worth
17i¢¢.

Cheese remains unprecedentedly dull.
Small size, full cream cheese, is bring-
ing 6c. Export trade is slack and
stock going abroad is mostly of a in-
ferior make.

Eggs show a weaker feeling than ex-
isted last week. Arrivals are larger, de-
mand lighter and weather warmer—all
conditions exerting an influence that
tends to lower rates.

Domestic fruits and vegetables are
here in such seeming abundance that it
would seem as though frosts were un-
known. Fine strawberries are retailing
at three boxes (alleged quarts) for a
quarter. New potatoes prevail at res-
taurants, but they are mighty poor
eating. Old ones are advancing in price.

THE MicHIGAN TRADESMAN is to be
congratulated upon the excellent portrait
and biography of ‘‘Lion’’ Woolson in the
last issue.
to see big piles of Lion coffee boxes here.
The world is Woolson’s parish and his
friends are legion.

———— ein

Annual Meeting of Wholesale Grocers.

The annual meeting of the Michigan
Wholesale Grocers’ Association was held
at Bay City last Wednesday, at which
time the following officers were elected
for the ensuing year: President, W. J.
Gould, Detroit; First Vice-President, A.S.
Musselman, Grand Rapids; Second Vice-
President, John Robson, Lansing; Treas-

 

It is no uncommon thing |)

 

urer, C. Elliott, Detroit; Executive Com-
mittee, Gilbert W. Lee, W. H. Brace, |

James Edgar, Detroit; William Judson,
S. M. Lemon, Grand Rapids; H. S.
Griggs, Jackson; J. W. Symons, Sag-
inaw; Mr. Dixon, Port Huron; W. I.
Brotherton, Bay City.

In the evening a banquet was tendered
the visitors by the wholesale grocery
trade of Bay City.

> +4 =
E. E. Lessiter, the Grattan general
dealer, has the sympathy of the trade in
the death of his wife, who passed away
May 19 as the result of Bright’s disease.
Deceased was not quite 20 years old and
possessed the love and respect of all who

knew her.
—— —~e -e-

R. A. Service, the St. Ignace druggist,
was in town last week for the first time
in several months. He was chief clerk
for Thum Bros. (Grand Rapids) for three
years and found much pleasure in renew-
ing his acquaintances among the drug
trade.

 

——- q+ >

Strong, Lee & Co. (Detroit) have se-
cured the State agency for the celebrated
parchment lining, which retains its stiff-
ness, no matter how many times the gar-
ment of which it is a part is washed.
The paper is evidently destined to have
a large safe.

 

PRODUCE MARKET.
Asparagus—40@ 45e per doz. bunches.
Beans—It looks now as if the decline which
hus been going on for some weeks had been ar-
rested and that the bottom had been reached.
The jobbers, who were free buyers on the rising
murket and have been peddling out stocks since,
are now practically out of goods and have com-
menced to bny again.
light.

Butter—In ample supply at 12@15¢ for choice
dairy.

teceipts still continue

Beets—New, 40c per doz. bunches.

Cabbage—Mississippi stoek commands $17 1.25 |

per doz.
Caulitlower—$1.50 per doz.
Cucumbers—Home grown are now in ample
supply, commanding 35@40e per doz.
Eggs—l1@11%¢e and fairly tirm.
Onions—Green bring 8@10e per doz. bunches.
Bermudas command $1.50 for 40 lb. crate.
Potatoes—Old stock is stronger and slightly
higher than a week ago, the demand from Ohio

and Indiana for seeding purposes being quite
active: The price hovers around 50¢ for city de-
livery, about 40c being paid at outside buying
points.

Pieplant—25e for 75 Ib. basket.
tadishes—Round, 10e per doz.
doz.

Spinach—30c per bu.

Straw berries—Illinois stock is arriving in fair-
ly good condition, considering the unfavorable
weather of the past two weeks. The price
ranges from $2@2.50 per crate of 24 qts.

Long, 15¢ per

 

PROVISIONS
The Grand Rapids Packing and Provision Co
quotes as follows:
PORK IN BARRELS,

ee... 12 50
ee 12 2%
xtra clear pig, short cut............. ; 14 60
ico aie
aoe 13 00
Boston Clear, short cut...... eee. 13 50
Ciear baek, sorteut.................... 13 50
Standard clear, short cut, best........ . 13 50
SAUSAGE.
aes. 1%
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oe se. 6
a 8%
ae 6
ae ore. 6
im vp EO EEE oOo 10
eee 7%
LARD.
Sees Beier. 7%
ce gt EE SO ec lee 7%
ee 5%
rere Bly
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Cotosuet..... eee ie a aay ci esi 6%
50 lb. Tins, 4c advance,
201b. pails, 4c 83 **
pk * xe _
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BEEF IN BARRELS,
Extra Mess, warranted 200 Ibs............. - 6%
Extra Mess, Chicago packing............... Tv
i 1 00
SMOKED MEATS—Canvassed or Plain.
Poe ore 934
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C op ls 10%
. ee 7%
_ eee 9
cota «aa EE i ae 7
Breakfast Bacon boneless.................... 9
Drtee beet, hana prioes........ 22... 8. aes

 

THE MICHIGAN BARREL CO.

GRAND RAPIDS. MICH,

MANUFACTURER OF
Bushel Baskets, Cheese Boxes,
Bail Boxes, Axle Grease

Boxes, Wood Measures.

 

 

Everything for the
Field and Garden

Clover, Medium or Mammoth, Al-
syke, Alialfa and Crimson, Timo-
thy, Hungarian Millet, Peas and
Spring Rye. Garden Seeds in
bulk and Garden Tools.

Headquarters for Egg Cases and
Fillers.
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128 to 132 W. Bridge St.,

 

Grand Rapids, Mich.

BUTTER WANTED!
Prices quoted on application.

NOTE LOW PRICES

On following goods:

Mrs. Withey’s Home Made Jelly. made with
boiled cider. very fine. Assortment con-
sists of Apple, Blackberry, Strawberry,
Raspberry and Currant:

ae Pe a. 70
ee 50
ee ee —-
oe eee 40

1 quart Mason Jars, per dos......... ..... 1 65

1 pint Mason Jars, per dos....... ....... 1 25
Per case, 3 doz. in case........ eee ec eras 3 6)
Mrs. Withey’s Condensed Mince Meat, the

best made. Price per case 2 40

Mrs. Withey’s bulk mince meat: =

 

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ore Oe eee 64
tt 6%
Pie Cee DOr Gee
Bo Cee ee ee
Pint Mason Jars, per doz........ io <2
Quart Mason Jars, per doz ............. - 200
Pure Sweet Cider, in bbls., per gal...... -. 16
Pure Sweet Cider, in less quantities, per gal 14

Maple Syrup, pint Mason Jars, per doz. 1 40
Maple Syrup, quart Mason Jars, per doz.... 2 25
Maple Syrup, tin, gallon cans, per doz...... 9 00
Peach Marmalade, 20-Ib pails ... .. ...... 100
Peach Marmalade in pt Mason jars, pr dz . 1 20

No 1 Egg Crate Fillers, best in market, 10

sets in case, No. 1 Case included...... nt

No. 1 Egg Crates with fillers comptete......
Special prices made on i(0 Crate lots,

I make Syrups and quote you Refiners’ prices:

White Sugar Drips, ¥% bbls...... .. pergal 32

land % gal. pails ‘* “ 53

Money Dring, bie . . =

land %% gal. pails...... Cc:

EDWIN FALLAS,°®4%2,84P!ps

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We offer 47 1-2 chests Morilyan, Heimann

& Co.’s packing, 1894 Japan Teas, weight

88 lbs., at 25 cents per lb.

We also offer 92 1-2 chests Hellyer & Co.’s

packing, 1894 Japan

at 18 cents per Ib.

Teas, weight 80 lbs.,

Less 6 per cent. cash with order.

These Teas are elegant value. Send for

samples and try them.

 

THE JAMES STEWART CO

EAST SAGINAW, MICH. -

 

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ki tes i : a Ie 2 5 84 | 2doz6in Plates..... 62 124 % doz Pickles........ 5 66s
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“4 } “3 “1 1 40 113 12 doz7 in Piates....:. 73 876 1dozCov’d Dishes.. 549 5 50
59 x ~ 1 » 33 | 2dozSin Plates..... 84 168 3 doz &. & B. Plates. 1 3 60
M4 } 4 s s a «6 GS 56 | 6 doz4in Fruits..... 34 204 %dozCov’d Butters 405 203
35 loz I s m i2& Gonna Jues............. 17 . 1p . ‘ cs -
2 ; Sr = : ;~ | 6dozInd. Butters... 23 138 1% doz 24Sugars...... 304 152
s On) 5 OK Dis 13 a % 113 |%doz 9in Dishes... 1 DS 6S %4 doz Creamers...... 128 63
a‘ - . - 36s Bowls... --i.-77-- » 8 4 & | % doz 10 in Dishes... 203 101 18dozTeas......... 9 16 20
~ } 4 2 2 6 . 9 Ewers & Basins 7 13 ,5 Ve : : oe : cin ae
S 2 113 2 81 ~ 6 ered Chambers 9s. 450 2 -s | 36 doz 12in Dishes... 3 38 1 18 7 dos Coffeds........ 16 210
: , ) 3°44 99 13 -ov'd Chambers 9s. 3 00 3 00 | 1-6doz 14 in Dishes... 4 73 (9 3doz30Oyst’r Bowls 90 27
. s s 2 i) 66 104 St. Denis Teas 3% 3 2 doz 3 in Bakers.... 79 1358 Crate and Cartage 2 50
. 9 ti j i 38 101445 Daisy é . ate oum i. eo ne :
; ‘4 hei a St as 31% 6 62 sé doz 7 in Bakers.... 1 2 45 $63 79
S 7 Se ie Crate and Cartage ... 250 | 14 doz 8 in Bakers.... 2 03 68 '
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6 Jishes 1 { Dishes 4 5) 73 #4 doz oe () §| K $6.25
6« Dis 1 SA ~ 1 50 oo mM doz 12 Jugs... .... >) tide pen 0C ’ .
G« , s 2 P S 11s ral ta a 1 38 79
( “ 4) ; Cass S. $50 res 16 GOZ 24 JURS........ 3 “s
— Sin ( eS 5 i S4 i doe 2) Jues........ 1 ao 67
S58 72 3 Sinch Covered Butters 3 38 At

All :hese goods in Open Stock at Slight Advance.

H. LEONARD & SONS, Grand Rapids

The Dayton Computing Scale!

 

 

 

 

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It Sells
ecause of
Its Money-
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Features!

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Warning!

The trade are hereby warned against using
any infringements on Weighing and Price Scales
and Computing and Price Scales, as we will
protect our rights and the rights of our general
agents under Letters Patent of the United
States issued in 1881, 1885, 1~&6, 1888, 1§91,1893 and
1894. And we will prosecute all infringers to
the full extent of the law. The simple using
of Scalesthat infringe upon our patents makes
the user liable to prosecution, and the impor-
tance of buying and using any other Comput-
ing and Price Scales than those manufactured
by us and bearing our name and date of patents
and thereby incurring lability to prosecution is
apparent. Respectfully,

The Computing Scale Co.

 
 
  
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

See What Users Say:

Officeof CHICAGO LUMBERING CO.
Manistique, Mich., Apr. 2, 1895.
Dayton Computing Scale Co.:

Gentlemen: - We bought three Standard [lar-
ket Scales and:‘two Tea:Scales of you, Feb. 11th,
for our twostores, and have thrown out a!! our
otheriscales, and had these in constant use ever
since.

Welare very much pleased with them and
think THEY HAVE SAVED US ABOUT $5.00
PER DAY, or nearly the cost of them, by this
time. Yours truly,

THE CHICAGO LUMBERING CO.

Per C. S. Hill, Manager.

For further information
drop a postal card t

The COMPUTING SCALE CO., Dayton, Ohio