Mu BV(E a In a 7FP2 ie W/Z IW & were Sere Q) « SR roe Bs SPUBLISHED WEEKLY ¥% vont aersrueser: SING ee TST =< Z VOL. XII. “Wo eta GRAND RAPIDS JUNE 89, 18905 SPECIFY DAISY BRAND 1" ap For Sale by all Jobbers of Groceries, Hardware and Woodenware. a. There are thousands of SIGNALS, but none so good as the “SIGNAL FIVE” A Fine Havana Filler Cigar for 5 cents. ED. W.RUHE Gitékc. * SBA AP: 2oo | Absolute THE ACKNOWLEDGED LEADER | Tea! i trier spice co. @O1O.OO.O100.00.0.0:00.00.0.00.0.0 | GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. © FOR SALE--Profitable Business, and rors d Dr Specia a of Seeee8eCG ©2020 :886; *'Sheep Dip © © 8 ---Z,CNOlCUM kk Disinfectant © Order af gon Toner The A. H. ZENNER 00, dereori hich: ©6'© © ©©.6:0.0.0.0:0:0:0:0'0:0'0:.0:6 © A Valuable Pointer! vaS IT VANISHES IN ae - 5 oe = i A GOOD THING FOR 4thOF JULY OR ANY — | DAY @ | © | © © Ask your Grand Rapids Traveling Men about it. ALDEN & LIBBY, Choice creamery and Dairy Butter Wholesale Produce A SPECIALTY——_—__{_ Northern Trade supplied at Lowest Market Prices. We buy on track at point of shipment, or receive on cons ignment. PHONE 1300. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. M. R. ALDEN Cc. H. LIBBY 93 and 95 South Division Street, SWEET’S HOTEL MARTIN L. SWEET, Proprietor. HENRY D. and FRANK H. IRISH, [l’grs. Steam heat in every room. Electric fire alarms throughout the house. Other improvements and decorations will soon make it the best hotel in Michigan. Hy FoR THE BOILER AND ENGINE. ARE THE ENGINEERS’ Favor f iH) 30 00 fd veramngyy AUTO ii Teper ES in use, giv ‘ing = ct aatis pene g J ad und Die r Jet Pumps, Wa ages and ¢ are Unequalled. : Seno FoR P= -NBERTHY INJECTOR co. DETROIT, Avrowatic WATER GAGE- CaTalocue. BRANCH FacTORY at WINDSOR, ONT. AICH. __SINONDS WIRE AND UN eee MICHIGAN. 2Qufacturers of nienere WIRE SIGNS BUR ere Wire and Iron Fences, Window ‘iuard, Bank and I Office Railing Fire Escapes, Roof Cresting, Stable Fixtures, Etc. w 2 F. MUR P i 1 Y, SUTTON iP 0 SEGAL AMDORDER fURNIUR Factory. 99 WN. (ONIA ST, Gt Telephone 738. WHOLESALE sii Feubber JFKootwear EXCLUSIVELY C. L. Weaver & Co. 161-163 Jefferson Ave., Detroit, Mich. Office Fixtures, Store Fixtures, etc. 0nd Ropias WOONSOCKETS RHODE ISLANDS Wide on eas ee pa oo ly Toes. We wi sacha lyou aie t Table and Catalogue upon —______—IN THE LINE OF————_—_ Heating --- Plumbing Steam, Hot Water or Hot Air. IN ALL ITS PARTS. Sheet Metal Work NO FIRM IN THE STATE HAS BETTER FACILITIES OR REPUTATION. OUR WOOD MANTEL GRATE, GAS AND ELECTRIC FIXTURE DEPARTMENT Is pronounced the FINEST IN THE COUNTRY, East or West. WEATHERLY & PULTE, GRAND RAPIDS. coxcress [NDISPUTABLY the FINEST HAVANA CIGAR in AMERICA Dealers who are desirous of adding an exceptionally fine Havana Cigar to their stock will find it to their interest to send a sample order to either of the following Jobbers. Ask their Salesmen to show you sampl:s of the Congress Cigar BALL, BARNHART & MUSSELMAN GROCER HAZELTINE & PER PUTNAM CANDY CO. OLNEY « JUDSON PUTMAN CO., co. KINS DRUG CO. GROCER CoO. Wholesale Grocers Wholesale Grocers Wholesale Druggists Wholesale Confectioners Wholesale Grocers LEMON & WHEELER oo Cc I cA R S Wholesale Grocers - CECE WHEAT HAS ADVANCED Yes. a startling advance, and it is one of the signs of | and factors in returning general prosperity. It means better business, larger profits. Your customers will! want the best brands of Flour, and we make the VERY | BEST ON EARTH. Write us for prices. I. M. CLARK GROCERS \-E. BROOKS « CO. WORDEN GROCER CO. M H. TREUSCH & BRO. * Wholesale Grocers Wholesale Confectioners Wholesale Grocers Wholesale Cigars LUMBER GO, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 18 and 19 Widdicomb Bld. fp PF cna N: B. CLARK, Pres. | W. D. WADE, Vice-Pres. a | C. U. CLARK, Sec’y and Treas. Se eA ZG 2 Daisv. Morning Star, Idlewild, Diamond. SPECIALTIES—Graham Flour, Wheatena Flour, Buckwheat Flour, Rye Flour, Rye Meal, Pearl Barley, Wheat Grits, Rolled Oats, Bolted Meal, Feed (Corn and Oats), Meal, Mill.Feed. WALSH-DE ROO MILLING GO., “tet )->-4-4->-- ~~ ve seotage eo HSS SSLSSSSHSSSOSESCOFSSSISSSIISSSSSSSOSUEC GOSS OSSe ~~ we fee s— SSSSCSSSSSUSUSULSSE® 5 $SS0 SESS S80 SOSCOS89SOCSSEESOOOS OOOSOSOCHSOSOEOE SOOO SOOSESSISESOOOSS. 38 SST . e: ==" 5 THE GAIL BORDEN EAGLE BRAND — CONDENSED IIILK is a staple article; sold every- = eee ij where, and as an infant food has no equal. BRANDS— Sunlight, Michigan, Electric, Purity, Magnolia, | 5a oe We are now ready to make contracts for bark for the sea- son of 1895. a Correspondence Solicited. ; I DI fy e ofthe New YORK Conese All reliable dealers sell it and it is a good stock for jobbers to carry. Prepared and guaranteed by the kat “SRS THE NEW YORK CONDENSED MILK COMPANY SOOCOOSSSOSCEOOSOHCESOSSSCE SOOCHOOHCHCH SH VSOOHOHGBHHIND! es IT HAS NO EQUAL__—_, For Quotations See Price Coiumas. ss e 8 cececmcococccccocccoscccoocsccosococs coco cosocococosocooocooscccccocecococococosecosess © EOF eee eee eee ene cSSS OO’ -SSSI0SCCOOSOCORSCO OOOO SOOOOOOS ESOS OOOO 000800000000 0000000008 | f T ; YOUR CUSTOMERS WILL ALL PREFER IT. PRICES FOR THE REGULAR SIZE. 54 x 9 inches. Per Ben... Siicoats Pores... $3 40) In 5 Case lots, per case...... $3 30 In 10 Case lots, per case..... 3 20| Particularly adapted for Show Win- | dows and Fine Rooms. If you are particular about your STICKY FLY ‘ ee Sheets in a Box, 15 Boxes in : se. PAPER, specify Retails for 25 cents a box. Costs $1.75 per case. | | Profit nearly 115 per cent. | Will be a Good Seller. Order the largest quantity you can “a and get the BEST DISCOUNT. j ‘A \ G J EFOO I FOR SALE BY ALL JOBBERS. 4 i mee Ae 2 © sae = a 1 Te ee ammo, A 2. I ©..aa~ate venace ws GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE‘19, 1895. NO. 6183 SMITH-HILL ELEVATORS Electric, Steam and Hand Power. PRICES LOW. MECHANISM SIMPLE. NOT LIABLE TO GEF OUT OF REPAIR. Call and see me or telephone 1120 and I will accompany enquirer to dozens of local users of ourgleyators. J. C. MULBERRY, Agent. Kortlander Building, Grand Rapids, Mich. J. BRECHTING, ARcHITECT, 79 Wonderly Building, Granp Rapips. Correspond: nee solicited from parties who intend to build THE FIRE r INS. co. ®ROMPT CONSBAVATIVE. SArE J. W. CHAMPLIN, Pres. W. FRED McBAIN, Sec. NICHI TITG Od MOTIE INSURANCE CO. Detroit, Mich. Organized 1881 Commercial Credit Co., Limited. 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. 5 AND7 PEARL STREET. The Michigan Grand Rapids, Trestia. “Sa Makes a specialty of acting as EXECUTOR OF WILLS ADMINISTRATOR OF ESTATES GUARDIAN OF MINORS AND INCOMPETENT 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, President. ANTON G. HODENPYL, Secretary. THAT'S WHY LR Advertisers get RESULTS. ———— EE THE TRADESMAN Has a FIELD of its own. NULL AND VOID. The New Peddling Law Proves To Be Defective. In 1889 the Legislature passed a law allowing Upper Peninsula township boards to assess whatever license they wished on peddlers. In some places it has been prohibitive. The peddiler nui- sance was thus abated. Representative Hoyt, at the recent session of the Legis- lature, attempted to have a measure passed which would accomplish the same end in the Lower Peninsula. He had the 1889 act amended te that effect, making the law apply to every township in the State. Unfortunately, the title of the bill was not changed and the act is, therefore, null and void, according to re- peated decisions of the Supreme Court. Section 2 of the act of 1895 also con- tains a grave error. It provides for the repeal of section 6, of chapter 21, of the Revised Statutes of 1846. This chapter relates to specific taxes and turnpike companies. The evident intention of the act was to repeal section 16, of chap- ter 21, which relates to hawkers and ped- dlers. The result of this miscarriage will be that the Upper Peninsula’ township boards will continue to fix the license fee at any figure they see fit, while the State Treasurer will continue to exact the statutory fee from peddlers who op- erate below the Straits. —_——~ + The Drug Market. Acids—There is a continued seasona- bly active market for citric and tartaric, with prices of both ruling firm. Salicylic is also receiving a fair degree of atien- tion, but quotations are yet irregular. Carbolie is moving rather freely in lim- ited quantities at about quoted figures. Alcohol—Unchanged. Borax—ls__ slightly irregular, with small outside holders quoting a fraction under regular quotations. Cocaine—Weak and lower, having de- clined 25c per oz. OChlorate of Potash—ls steadily im- proving abroad, and a continued strong feeling is manifest on the part of holders here. Cod Liver Oil—Continues very strong and very active, with large buyers will- ing to take everything of reliable qual- ity. The situation abroad continues fa- vorable to holders. The ancient infor- mation concerning offerings of cod liver oil from which the active principle had been extracted, reference to which was made in this column as long ago as last autumn, has been recently published by contemporaries as fresh news. Cuttlefish Bone—The demand is very active with the tone of the market stronger, owing to depleted stocks and lessened competition, several of the former dealers having abandoned the article. Cream Tartar—lIs firm under the in- fluences heretofore noted and a fair busi- ness is reported. Essential Oils—Peppermint has de- veloped a firmer feeling among holders, but aside from a rather better enquiry no cause is assigned for the improvement. Pennyroyal is active and higher. Gums—Curacoa are steadier, all the recent direct arrivals having been taken for shipment to Eu- rope. Camphor is strong at the advance noted last week and considerable ness is from second hands, closing out nearly all their stock of American in barrels. Advices from London are still favorable to holders and all indications point toa further advance. Japan can be had in a limited way only. Chicle is stronger. Leaves—Short buchu are very strong, the better qualities being in very light supply. Tinnevelly senna continues to harden under a good demand and increas- ing scarcity of medium grades. Reports regarding Alexandria varieties continue to be exaggerated; the primary market is stronger, but there is no such improve- ment as intimated. Opium—Cables to hand from Smyrna report that market firmer, but no quota- tion is given; the firmness is said to be due to the belief that large orders have recently been received there. The spot market is also firm. Quinine—The irregular market quoted in last issue continued several days, when a firmer feeling developed. Roots—The declining jalap has been checked. seasouably aloes somewhat busi- repurted tendency of Jamaica ginger is meeting with a fairly active demand from the consuming trade and values have a firm support. Colombo is selling moderately. Sponges—The spot market is decidedly strong, but there is an entire absence of stock of Rock Island Florida sheepswool in first hands. Clerks’ Corner. Elk Rapids—A, L. Haight succeeds E. A. Bivins as prescription clerk for Chas. E. Mahan, Mr. Bivins having gone to Alma to take charge of the drug store at that place recently purchased by Mr. Mahan. Traverse City—James S. Lewis, whoso quietly slipped away from all his friends afew weeks ago to marry a Petoskey lady, has returned to this city with his bride, after an extended and very pleasant wedding trip, and has resumed his posi- tion in J. W. Milliken’s dry goods store. Hastings—Fred L. Heath’s drug store had a narrow escape from fire Sunday. The clerk spilled some linseed oil upon the floor Saturday and then put shavings ou to absorb the oil. He afterwards gathered the shavings up and put them in a barrel. Sunday, Mr. Heath and the clerk smelled some unusual odor and be- gan an investigation, which resulted in discovering that the shavings in the bar- rel were smoking and ready to burst into flames. A few moments later there would undoubtedly have been a blaze had it not been discovered, and in that row of wooden buildings there is no telling where it would have stopped. A Use Tradesman Coupon Books. |p. 8. ana S. S. The Hardware Market. General trade continues good and buy- ers feel confidence in prices and are keeping their stocks up in better shape. The recent advances are held firmly and all indications lead to the belief that the beginning of a firmer market has arrived. In the bar and pig iron centers great ac- tivity exists and prices have advanced very materially. We note advances in bar iron of $7 a ton, while pig iron shows only about $1 a ton advance; but as one iron mill says, ‘‘We have been selling iron for $3 a ton less than it cost us for the past two years, and we feel as though we were entitled to a little ad- vance.”’ Wire Nails—Are firm and mills are re- fusing to name any price for July and are declining orders for June, claiming they are all filled up. The price of $1.30 at mill and $1.45@1.50 from stock is firmly held. Barbed Wire—The market is strong and there are orders enough in sight to keep the mills busy for several weeks. Wire now has advanced over the lowest price $5 a ton. The present price is $1.95 for painted and $2.30 for galvanized. Window Glass—A new list has been adopted by the Association and anew dis- count made, which is 75 and 5 on bath New lists can be had of the jobbers by writing for them. Gas Pipe—Iin sympathy with goods, has advanced 10 per cent. Many lines show higher prices and we will mention a few: Common hollow ware to 60 and 10. Tin and stove bolts to 70 per cent. Bright wire goods to 85 per cent. Lead pipe has advanced 4c a pound. Drop and buck shot, 15¢ a bag. Galvanized sheet iron is now being quoted by the mills at 70 and 10, with every prospect of being 70 per cent. ina few days. Carriage bolts to 70 per cent. Machine bolts to 70 and 10. Dealers should be careful not to quote any prices on staple goods until they know what they can buy them for. Hold your present stock firm. If you have money to buy with, use judgment and keep good stocks. Of course, some things may recede, but with wages being advanced all over, the tendency to im- proved business is everywhere manifest. owner other Tn : A new medical story has arrived from Maine. ‘My doctor is a real joker,” said a Lewiston lady. ‘‘I didn’t know that my talking bothered him when he was writing prescriptions until the other dap. He never mentioned it, and I al- ways asked him all sorts of questions while he was writing them out. Recently he examined me and sat down to write something. 1 kept talking. Suddenly he looked up and said: ‘How has your system been? Hold out yeur tongue.’ I put out that member and he began to write. He wrote and I held out my tongue, and when he got through he said: ‘That will do.’ ‘But,’ said 1, ‘you haven’t looked at it.’ ‘No,’ said he, ‘lI didn’t eare to. I only wanted to keep it still while I wrote the prescriptton.’”’ Lane. en Les cian > ? : Sal Gore aaeeb Temi PMI tes Al SS aiterttes Helin dibia Rede Uesebideebee A a.” Eva BMC Ee RES SO es ke EN (SEND LOEB IRIS IR FH Peach ceraibnenatnaratonnan tie 2 Written for THE TRADESMAN. An innovation like the bicycle must, | /to outnumber all other vehicles in the | streets, it is different. necessarily, interfere in some respects with accepted conditions and ideas. It required some time for it to findits prop- er classification, which it finally did, as a vehicle. It was then taken for granted that it should be subject to all the laws and regulations governing vehicles, while the idea that any of these should be modified, on account of the pecul- iarities of the wheel, was considered ridiculous. It took along time to dem- opstrate that itis something more than an idle plaything, and any considerations of its needs were regarded about as the needs of the boys for coasting in the streets in many of the towns of the coun- try. There was a decided antipathy to the wheel on the part of many. Timid, nervous people disliked it and still do dislike it on account of its silent ap- proach. Many drivers of other vehicles, especially those from the country, waald have it suppressed because it frightens their horses. The average farmer has no patience with anything in the streets which does not meet the approval of his team. Many others dislike it from a conservative tendency to abhor all inno- vations. As aconsequence of this dis- like on the part of so many, there has de- veloped a strong tendency to antagonize the wheel and in some towns there are severe ordinances regulating its use. For instance, in Hackensack, N. J., it is said that it is not only forbidden the use of sidewalks under all circumstances, but it is not allowed to go through the streets at a greater speed than eight miles per hour, and must be provided with a loud bell or gong at that, while from sunset to sunrise a lighted signal lamp must be carried. Penalties for violating these ordinances are very se- vere and without appeal. Perhaps there are no other towns where the regulations are quite so arbitrary, but in many localities they are such as to in- dicate that the wheel is considered a nui- sance, to be suppressed or restricted. Thus, the Common Council of this city bas an ordinance under consideration which forbids the use of all sidewalks ip an area including a wide belt where the streets are impassible for the wheel much of the year. This is considered the log ical sequence of its classification as a ve- hicle. What is the proper standing of this mode of conveyance and does it deserve any special privileges over the coal wagon? To reach a logical conclusion on this question, it may be desirable to ask, What is the proper purpose of the streets? The answer is obvious—for the greatest facility of transitof people and their be- longings—and to properly serve this pur- pose there must be adaptation to the re- quirements of the modes of conveyance used by the greatest number. Thus the sidewalk is most suitable for the pedestrian, and it is not so very se- rious a matter for the coal wagon and similar vehicles, even those more ele- gant, if the streets are rough and coated with a thick layer of mud much of the time; but such conditions are not adapted to so delicate a mode of transit as the wheel, and the question of its de serving consideration turns upon the numbers using it. If all used wheels there would be no objection to their monopolizing the sidewalks. As long as THE MICHIGAN PROPER STATUS OF THE BICYCLE. there were but few wheels in use, they | | could not properly claim any special con- sideration; but now that they are getting They may prop- erly claim a suitable pathway. As vehicles, the proper place for the wheel in a city ison the paved street. Where it is not paved and the mud is so deep as to be impassable, the proper way. theoretically, to meet the requirement, is to pave the street, Practically, in a city like this, where rapid growth makes it impossible, on account of taxation, to prevent a wide belt of unpaved streets, it is a question whether it is not better to bend the rules for vehicles and per- mit the use of sidewalks not too thickly occupied by pedestrians until such time as the city may be able to provide proper roadways; and it is aiso a question whether the great number—now over 6,000 in this city—does not entitle them to demand some consideration of this kind. It cannot be denied that the present antagonism is largely caused by the law- lessness of a few wheelmen—reckiess speed on the sidewalks with a sudden ring of the bell at the instant of flashing past the pedestrian; startiing people by passing without ringing; using the side- walks when it is unnecessary, when the streets are in good order alihough not paved, and showing, in other ways, a disregard of the rights and convenience of pedestrians. Thus the convenience of the many is hazarded by the lawless selfishness of the few. More and se- verer punishments should be meted out to such, and the use of sidewalks, where permitted, should be carefully regulated as to speed, etc. Numbers must compel a recognition of the wheel and it must be accorded corresponding facilities for use. w. Wn. F. —_> > —_ How To Detect Poisonous Cheese. Numerous complaints have come to THe TRADESMAN during the past two weeks of the existence of poisonous cheese, Fennville, Lamont and several other Michigan towns having suffered severe experiences of this kind. THE TRADESMAN has secured samples of the cheese which caused the trouble at both places named and in both cases the lit- mus test disclosed the existence of ty- rotoxicon in considerable quantities. The Vaughan method of testing cheese for tyrotoxicon is so simple that all of THE TRADESMAN’S readers should be prepared to use it in the event of there being any question as to the wholesome- ness of any cheese they happen to have on sale. The test is made with blue lit mus paper, which can be obtained at any drug store. If apiece of the paper be applied tothe freshly cut surface of a eheese, and the moisture therefrom im- mediately gives the paper an intensely red appearance, the cheese may well be regarded with suspicion. While all new or green cheese feebly and slowly redden blue litmus paper, only the poisonous cakes give the intense and instantaneous reaction. If the cheese is dry, a bit of it may be moistened with water and the paper then applied. In a note to the editor of Toe TRADES- MAN, Dr. Vaughan states that his re- cently discovered cheese poison is a pro- teid body, as distinguished from a_ bac- terium like tyrotoxicon. Heis diligently at work in developing the poison and promises to describe it at length in an early issue of this journal. WOMIN AT THE AUCTIONS. Usually Keen, Discreet and Able as Buyers. During the spring season the keen- witted housekeeper has an appalling list of odds and ends to buy for her summer cottage, and only by sacrificing a gown can she get them at first hand. Her pe- rusal of the morning paper extends from the marriage notice to the auction sales and her mind is made up. It is the alluring look of an anpounce- ment that all the elegant fittings and fur- niture of some up town house will be sold at a great sacrifice at 11 o'clock that fills her with hope. She goes to ex- periment, she stays to buy, and she usu- ally comes home having expended just double tbe amount of her original inten- tion. The gown was sacrificed after all, but the delight of having struck such marvelous bargains was sufficient com- pensation, and ever after she is adevoted follower of auction sales. That is the way the average woman is drawn into auction shopping. Finding them good customers, every clever auc- tioneer now keeps a vook in which he is at pains to register as Many Hames as possible, and for every sale that pos- sesses any attractions he sends out little notices to private addresses of the hour and articles for auction. Unfailingly, almost, he will find the women respond to notices of the disposal of somebody’s household effects. If the auctioneer is counting on a large fem- inine attendance he makes no end of kindly little preparations for their com- fort. The common crowd is no longer herded in to stand and listen to the shouts of a lazy or facetious assistant. The women who make big purchases like to be comfortably seated for the task, so that now, when the hammer is about to fall on private household goods, and the articles are sold on the premises, a big room is cleared for the sale, rows of stout folding and camp chairs are pro- vided, the light is pleasantly regulated, and the idle rabble barred out. For the auctioneer himself, his voice is like silk, low, earnest, cheerful, conti- dential and sincerely respectful in tone. Whatever may be his native or profes- sional talent for joking, he sternly sup- presses it, for no woman ever takes her shopping lightly or will consider the selemn business of bargaining in a jest- ing mood. She dvoesu’t like to be bur- ried, either, but she dearly loves tu be persuaded and allowed to make and un- make her wind as frequently as she pleases. This is easily and inexpen- sively done, for, unless itis some really very desirable object, started at a smart bidding pace, the price 1s apt to rise by very short steps of five, ten and fifteen cents. ‘The first two or three times a woman attends an auction she is apt to let her wavering decision be clinched by the lively opposition and brisk bidding of someypther woman. Then, if her temper gets a bit aroused, she will be apt to bid in an iron pot with a hole init merely for the sake of showing her rival she knows her rights and can spend her money if she wants. After a little experience she is likely to run to the other extreme of absurd caution, and the oddest fact to be noted in attending these auctions pat- ronized by women is that none of them will buy merely for the sake of a bar- gain. A woman must always persuade | raise her voice in its favor, and no auc- | tioneer has yet been found who can al- ways be sure he is putting forth a de- sirable bargain before a feminine au- dience. A lot of unforgivably ugly, cheap little colored prints will in five minutes be pushed up double, treble their value, but, with the delightful inconsistency of the female mind, purses will shut withasnap and dead silence reign when a set of cut glass is put up at a sacrifice. Only by sobs in his voice and aconfessed butcher- ing of price can the bewildered salesman raise a bid. There are some things, too, a we}l- trained auctioneer separates as goats from the sheep of good things he can probably sell in a woman’s audience. Books only by the standard authors, such as Dickens, Scott, George Eliot, Cooper, Hawthorne and the like, ever find any worthy prices among women. Then they are dreadfully particular as to the completeness of the set, refusing almost to have a broken lot at any figure. They care nothing for simple, hand- some bindings, or rare editions, and they have a particular contempt for other folks’ kitehen furniture, but revel ip sales of rugs and carpets, house linen, and tableware, and have a particular pen- chant for bidding in clocks. But the true charm of the auction is the possibilities of really wonderful bar- gains, and numbers of women have furnished half their houses from pur- chases discreetly made under the ham- mer. They find that for a song china, glass and good plated ware for stocking a coubtry house are to be had at hotel sales, as the modern hostelry uses excel- lent and tasteful furnishings of this sort, quite appropriate for the most refined private home. An announced sale of rugs invariably brings women out in large numbers, but for the intrinsic value of really beautiful brie-a-brae they have searcely any appreciation, perhaps the only point on which their thrifty sense of perception fails. Some of them become well-known habitues of auction rooms and buy with amazing discretion, never rising above what seems to be a fixed limit; and yet one who attended some fifteen auctions in the month of April secured every detail of furnishing for her little seaside home, and did it all on $306, including hemmed linen dish eloths and a box of laundry soap. “The reason women make such excel lent. bargainers,’? said an experienced auctioneer, “is that they don’t object to examine every lot or object persoually, criticise apd discuss it, and they release a cuveted chair or lamp shade rather than overstep their set bounds of price. Once a woman strikes her limit, Orpheus himself eouldn’t force her over it, and so she gets what she wants in spite of our efforts. Their one weakness is change of opimion, and if atable or a bookcase goes home and seems to bea mistaken purchase, they will come back to me, pour out their woes and voluntarily double my commission to get it off their hands. The funniest instance IL ever knew was of a woman who bid in a very gorgeous screen. After it got home she found she was mistaken in her estimate of its color and it wouldn’t harmonize with her drawing room walls. She gave it back to me to resell and came to watch its disposal. It took at once, and because a woman she knew and apparently dis- liked made very lively bidding on it, saying its color just suited her complex- ion, the first owner paid $12 over the original price and carried it off again ip triumph—perfectly satisfied.” herself she wants a thing before she will MARGARET BISLAND. # i, = g THE _MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 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Z. his grocery stock to Paul Jones. Ashley—Parmeter & Martin E. Pitts in the grocery business. Grant Station—Henry Teidy succeeds Henry Hotell in the meat business. Hillsdale—Cole & Mason sueceed Lin- coin F. Cole in the grocery business. Norway—Wm. Buchholtz has sold his hardware stock to Chas. H. Treiber. Chase—L. A. Stone sueceeds J. S. (Mrs. W. 8S.) Gordon in general trade. Sault Ste. Marie—E. M. Lacy has re- moved his drug stock to Mt. Clemens. Freesoil—B. F. line of groceries to his hardware stock. Mt. Pleasant—Hall & Coffey Alex. Hall Big Rapids—Jacob ceeds Wm. Ward & Co. in the meat busi- ness. Rosebush—Will W. Rozelle has added a succeed Carman is SUc- succeed | Dupscombe has sold | ! succeed | ‘ Aivin-—Dr. W. ee When Lemons Are High It pays to buy bright waxy stock. You can always get that kind of the Putnam Candy Co. >_> > __ Be on hand for new Japan Teas. are now seasonable. the best, They Fans are J.P. Visner, Ag’t. Gillies’ e a valuable” addi- j | which | Everyone knows that A. W. | Rapid Rise uf a Man Who D:d Not Watch the Clock. SAGINAW, E. S., June 15—I heard a story here the other day, very pretty I think will bear repetition. Wright is many times a millionaire, and it so hap- | pened that, some years ago, there was employed in his sawmill at Saginaw City a young man who drew the munificent sum of $1.25 a day for piling siabs as they came from the saws. Unlike every other employe of the mill, this young man failed to have his coat on so as to jump for the street the moment the whis. tle blew for noon or quitting time at night, and, as luck would have it, Mr. Wright happened to notice this pecul iarity of the young man on more than one occasion. Feeling that his services were worth more than ten shillings a day, he applied to the manager for an advance, and was told that, while he filled the position to the entire satisfac- tion of the foreman, the work he did wa worth no more than he had been receiy- ing. He, thereupon, gave notice that he wished to leave the employ of the mill at acertain time. Happening to learn of the circumstance, Mr. Wright inter- rogated the young man on the occasion of his next visit to the mill as to what he proposed todo. The young.man stated that he was going West to embark in the sheep raising business, whereupon Mr. Wright stated that he thought he would go along and see what sort of a business sheep raising was. Finding a ranch which met their requirements, the young man invested his savings of $200, Mr. Wright advancing the remainder of $12,- 000 and making a contract with the young man, giving him a quarter inter est in the profits for looking after the business. That was several years ago, and Mr. Wright now states that he has no more loyal and trusted partner than the former employe who did not know what it was to have his hands washed and his coat on. ready to jump when the whistle blew. There is a moral to this story which men will recognize, whieh is that no man need expect his employer to take any interest in his wel- fare unless the employe exhibits a dis position to look well toe his employer’s business. VINDEX. some PROVISIONS The Grand Rapids Packing and Provision Co quotes as follows: PORK IN BARRELS. Pee. os \ 12 & Peete... oe 12 60 xtra clear pig, short cut........... 14 04 Extra clear, heavy Clear, fat pack ee oo 13 ( Boston clear, short cut.. oS 13 Clear back, shortcut.... ee 13 Standard clear. short cut. best oo 13 § SAUSAGE, _ Pork, links.. 7% DOLOGTS. .. chen Le ae el ee ee ie 5% -...... ' hah coon ko 6 TOAEe oe ws eee Sh Biood ‘ sl ie ee a 6 Head cheese eae ee 6 eer... ct ee ae 10 Frankfurts. ... ceca on i} LARD. i Kettle Renderee an a4 ‘ys Granger i oo a Family .. o ie ' i Oe Compound 5% Cottolene. ... | ol COUOSUOE. 26. u 00 ie ea 6% 50 ib. Tins, 4c adv ance. 20 1b. pails, 4c ’ oS ~ - Sib * | Se “ 3 lb ic BEEF IN BARRELS. Extra Mess, warranted 2 Ibs..... Cie Oe Extra Mess, Chicago packing...... boul ¢ v0 Boneless, rump butts... WW 00 SMOKED MEATS—Canvassed or Plain. Haims, average w lbs........ ass Oe " " Pe tee ct... 9% ' mieten 9-10. - ee od i.e hore oF ‘7% EE tecrciec maniecccn oe ee a 2 Shoulders... ... 3 eevee a Breakfast Bacon boneless dade 8% Dried beef, ham prices.. ee eee DRY SALT MEATS. i Long Clears, heavy........ 6% Briskets, medium. a ha 7 eeeeuuee —— PICKLED PIGS’ FEET. Half terrete we eeecereee 3 00 EE Ee oe Taek ca 90 TRIPE. L Bite, homeyeomaby o.oo. espe ee on ee omen % Wits: prominin oh eae Lee | | BUTTERINE. Creamery, rolls........., ..5....-.. iced ae RU ce cee ae nen eens 15 Dairy, rolls...... See age ag pc ee ese een 11 pute someeesoee ? ‘ b GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP. J. George Lehmann has opened a weat market at 43 East Bridge street. D. C. Hunter has opened a confection- ery and cigar store on Burton avenue. James V. Jury, of Traverse City. has opened a meat market at 5 avenue. tobinson store at Big Rapids. The I. Grocery Co. furnished the stock. Mark L. Hunter has opened a grocery store at Coopersville. The Olney & Jud- son Grocer Co. furnished the stock. TF Schoonbeek | has opened a grocery store at 110 Cedar street. The stock was furnished by the I. M. Clark Grocery Co. The style o of the ‘Richmond Manufac- turing Co., at 47-55 Alabama street, has | been changed to the Grand Rapids Book Case Compan} ¥. Ww. Eh. Bix ‘kok ‘has embarked in the grocery business at 670 Cherry street. The stock was furnished by the Olney & Judson Grocer Co. EK. J. Herrick has leased the grocery store privilege at Ottawa Beach and will conduct a store at that resort during the summer season under the management of Miss Mary Ormand, the efficient young lady in charge of the candy department in his Monroe street store. & A. Sears and A. D. Kathban, Jr, have sold their stock in the Cyeloid Cycle Co. to the other stockholders, in conse- quence of which A. Video and Wm. E. Martin have been elected to succeed them on the Board of Directors. Geo. C. Fitch sueceeds Mr. Sears as Vice-Presi- dent of the corporation. Attracted by the uniform profit which has now been maintained on feedstuffs for several years, a number of local capitalists are considering the idea of establishing a feed mill on a large scale. It is also reported that the Voigt inter- ests will invest $20,000 in the same sort of an establishment in the near future. The retail grocers of Chicago are not so fortunate as their brethren in the matter of obtaining ade- quate license fees for peddlers. They endeavored to get an ordinance passed, placing the fee at $25 per annum, pay- able at thetime issued. The friends of the peddlers made a desperate attempt to get the license placed at $10, and a com- promise was finally effected, making the license $25, payable in quarterly install- This leaves the matter in bad Grand ments. shape, as a peddler can now take out a license for only three months of the peddling season. An annual fee of $10 would be preferable to a quarterly , fee of $6.25. The Grand Rapids method is by all means preferable—$30 per year, annual licenses only. —_—____ ~~ -4 = Gripseck Brigade. Cc. S. Hitehcock, of Marshall, has taken a position as traveling salesman for the Steele-Wedeles Co., of Chicago. | His territory comprises Southern Mich- | igan. David McGhan, formerly with the Kortlander & Murphy Co., but for the past year on the road for Nussbaum Sloman, of Chicago, has engaged to travel for Hulman & Beggs, of Terre | Haute, Ind., covering the same territory ! as before. Rapids | and peddle | only during the most profitable portion | —e MICHIGAN | | Frank E. Chase and family left Mon- day for Detroit. From there Mrs. Chase | and Miss Chase will proceed to Cape | | Cod, where they will spend the heated | term with friends. T. J. Patterson succeeds Isaac Baer as specialty salesman for the Standard Oil Co. in this territory, [tm this city. Mr. office. The commercial traveler of to-day is aman of energy, earnestness of purpose, edueation, refinement of deportment, petition and organization have driven from the road the bummer, the gambler, and the libertine. Such are outclassed and cannot compete with the self-respecting mind, man of who is possessed of customer. 0 —— The Grain Market. as compared with last report Wheat, (ore week ago) closed lower- July, pression was caused by the small amount exported, which was only 1,781,737 bush- els, against 2,991,600 bushels the pre- vious week and 2,254,000 bushels the cor- responding week last year; still the bear ; element kept pounding for all there was in it. cash, 7¢¢;3 Tige, and September 614c. The de- The tired longs sold and large lots of wheat were moved on stop loss orders, and many sold to save what margins they had init. The fact is, it was a general liquidation all around. All the news Illinois re- ports only 39 per cent. of an average crop and Indiana claims only about 18,- 000,000 bushels of a crop, against 45,644,- 000 bushels last year. Combining the small amount exported and the causes favored stronger markets. enumerated above are the reasons forthe While wheat declined in wheat centers we find it hard to get cash wheat here, as farmers are holding on to what they have, knowing the growing crop will be short. The highest reported es- timate is only 420,000,000 bushels, with only a smal! amount in farmers’ slump. hands. /Qur yearly home consumption is about 350,000,000 bushels. ‘this would leave a surplus for export of only about 70,000,- 000 bushels, while this year we exported about 150,000,000. Corn followed wheat down, but there is a good cause for the decline in that cereal, as the outlook for a good crop is all that could be wished for at present writing. Oats are also weaker, with a lower tendency. The receipts for the week were: wheat, 34 cars; corn, 9 cars and one car of oats—rather a small amount of oats. The visible decreased 2,000,000 bushels, which was about 500,000 more than was looked for. Cc. G@ A. Vorier. i i lem _ Change in the Secretaryship of Jackson Post. JACKSON, June 10—A meeting of Post 3. Knights of the Grip, was held June 8, at Castle hall. Inthe absence of Presi- dent Alwaid, C. MeNolty was elected chairman protem. W.S. Mest tendered his resignation as Secretary and F. C. Davis was elected to fill the vacancy. A proposition was made that Post B co-operate with the United Commercial Travelers in arranging for a day’s excur- sion and picnic during the summer. | After considerable disscussion, it was i decided to cal! a meeting of the Post at he office of the Secretary, Saturday evening, June 22, ~ take action in the | matter. ‘, C. Davis, Sec’y. with headquarters | Patterson hails from} oT NEE | Cleveland and brings with him all the! Barton & Swift have opened a grocery | : ; : , ,,..../ enthusiasm characteristic of the home| M. Clark | | sobriety and indomitable industry. Com- | the esteem of both his employer and his! TRADESMAN. Secretary. | The following letter has been mailed to the members of the Grand Rapids Re- | tail Grocers’ Association: | Granp Rapips, June 17—As you are ;provably aware, the business engage- |} he earnestiy desires to retire from the iSecre aryship of the Association, at the same time recommending that a person be employed who will devote his entire time and attention to the work of the or- ganization. | The suggestion has been discussed at | several meetings of the Association, cul- minating in the adoption of a resolution requesting the Secretary to communicate with each member by letter for the pur- pose of ascertaining the sentiment of the membership on this subject. You will, therefore, please answer the following enquiries at the earliest possible date: 1. Do you think it advisable to employ a regular salaried Secretary? 2. Will you agree to contribute a pro- portionate share of the expense of main- taining such an officer? No definite statement can be made as to the cost of such an undertaking, but if every grocer in the city were to join the Association, the expense of such an officer, including office rent, telephone and other incidentais, would, probably, not exceed $3 per year per member. The advantage of such an arrangement will be readily manifest, as the employ- ment of a regular Secretary would en- able the Association to use its good of- fices in adjusting differences between members and harmonizing matters of an annoying nédture which might arise be- tween the wholesale and retail trade. The Association has been remarkably successful in maintaining a uniform price on granulated sugar for nearly three years, thus saving the grocery trade from the demoralization which prevails in Detroit and other cities where no attempt is made to obtain uniform prices. Please let us have your reply at the earliest possible moment and oblige Yours truly, E. A. STOWE, Sec’y. i — i Alpe here Purely Personal. Lewis T. MeCrath has leased his cot- tage at Ottawa Beach to E. J. Herrick, who will occupy it with his family dur- ing the heated term. Henry J. Vinkemulder, the street grocer, will June 26, when he will lead to L. Blake, of Grand- South Division become a Benedict the altar Miss Belle ville. J. A. Henry, Manager of the Seager Bros. & Janney cannery, at Hart, has returned from an extended trip through the Central States, during vhich time he placed all the stock left of the pack of 1894. Will Canfield (Olney & Judson Grocer Co.) suffered the loss of his youngest child—a two year old boy—by cholera infantum last Saturday. The funeral and interment were held at Plainwell on Sunday. John McConnell, the old-time hard- ware dealer, has left the city to spend the summer on his large tract of land on Bear Lake, near Petoskey. Mr. McCon- nell led an active life for nearly a quar- ter of a century and merits the respite he is now able to take from business cares. neni — A Lightning Phonographer. Business Man—Can you write short- hand? Applicant—Yes, sir. ‘‘How many words a minute?” ‘‘I never counted ’em, but the other day when my wife found in my overcoat pocket a letter which she gave me to mail last fall, | took down every word she uttered as fast as she said it.”’ **Yoa’ll do.”’ nn, “There goes a man that keeps his word!’’ ‘“‘He does!’ ‘Yes; no one else will take it.’’ The Antiquity of Butter and Cheese. Butter was not known, or very imper- fectly known, to the ancients, although the early Hebrew translators claimed to have found it mentioned in scripture; those best acquainted with biblical criti- cism, however, unanimously agree that the word ‘‘chamea”’ signified milk or | cream or sour milk, and not butter. The first mention of butter, though this is doubtful and obscure, is in the account given of the Scythians by Herod- |otus. ‘* These people,’’ he says, ‘‘ pour | the milk of their mares in wooden ves- sels, cause it to be violently stirred or shaken by their blind slaves, and sepa- rate the part that rises to the surface, as | they consider it more valuable and more | delicious than that which is collected be- |low it.”’ The writer evidently explains | that the richer part of the milk is sepa- jrated by shaking, and thus alludes to | butter; this is also confirmed by Hippoc- |rates, who was almost .contemporary, ; but he gives a more detailed description: i**The Scythians pour out the milk of | their mares into wooden vessels and | Shake it violently; this causes it to foam, and the fat part, which is light, rising to the surface, becomes what is ealled but- ter. The heavy and thick part, which is below, being kneaded and properly pre- pared, is, after it has been dried, known by the name of ‘hippace.’ The whey or serum remains in the middle.’’ This writer evidently speaks of butter, cheese and whey. The Scythians probably quickened the separation of the caseous part from the whey by warming the milk, or by the addition of some sub- stance known to them to effect this. It is noteworthy that the word *‘but- ter” does not occur in Aristotle, though we find in his works information in con- nection with milk and cheese. He at first gives milk but two component parts—the watery and caseous—but he afterwards remarks that in milk there is alsoa fat substance, which, under spe- cial circumstances, is like oil. He in all probability intended to point out that the fat part of the milk was observed under an oily appearance in cheese made of sweet milk, from which the cream had not been separated. Their comparison to oil also occurs Dioscorides and Pliny. Considerable importance has been at- tached to the remarks of Dioscorides and Galen on the subject of butter. The in pared from the fattest milk, such as that of sheep and goats, by shaking it in a vessel till the fat was separated. To this butter he ascribes the same effects, when used externally, as those produced by our butter, adding (and he is the first writer who makes the observation) that fresh butter melted and poured over pulse and vegetables was far preferable to oil, and that it was an excellent sub- stitute for fatty matters in making pastry. The Roman writers, giving an account of the ancient Britons, all agree that they lived principally on milk, but while some tell us that they used cheese, others affirm that they were not acquainted with the method of preparing it. Pliny says they did not make cheese but butter, which was largely used as an article of food; he even goes so far as to ascribe to them the invention of it, and describes the vessels employed for making it, which appears to have been somewhat similar to those at present in use; at all events he says that they were covered and that the lid was perforated. ‘*Oxygala’”’ was a kind of cheese pre- pared with sour milk, the serum being separated. According to Pliny, this cheese was made from the caseous parts which remained in the buttermilk, which, when separated by acids and boiling, were mixed and prepared in various ways. Galen says its acidity or sourness affected the teeth, but mentions a mild cheese under the name of ** caseous oxy- galactium;” in the ‘*Geoponieca” direc- tions were given how to keep this cheese for a length of time. ~ > —_> Grand Rapids Pharmaceutical Society. At the regular quarterly meeting of the Grand Rapids Pharmaceutical So- ciety, held at the office of the Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co, last Wednesday evening, President Peck presided. Applicatious for membership were re- ceived from the following druggists: Wm. Legate, 1213 South Division street; Dennis Baker, 61 West Leonard street; G. S. Putnam, 1168 Wealthy avenue; F. W. Curtiss, 196 East Bridge street; Emil Riechel, 416 West Bridge street; Laura A. Oliver, 702 Madison avenue. On motion of Frank J. Wurzburg, all of the above applications were accepted aud the applicants elected to member- ship in the organization. No other business of a public nature was transacted. —————_ > True to Life. Papa—Are you sure that you mamma thought of me while you away? Little Grace—Yes; we heard a man just scolding awful about his breakfast, and mamma said, ‘‘That’s just like papa.” a Those who live only to make money finally become as hard as the money it- | self. and were rs Use Tradesman Coupon Books. happened to me,’ | in the seat) } | | | the | upon the cara and files it to the boy’s | summed up, and the boy whose account | AUGUBS AND BITS. din Oe ee ee Cook’s oe SS | J sunings’. genuine. a ae cee wemtuee, eeseeten we... , sone AXES. fis First Quality. = 2. eee........ a. oo & eee ............ 9 © ' 8S. B. 4. Steel 6 06 s D. B. Steel . 6 BARROWS ettlroae , a #12 06 14 00 garden . net 30 00 BOLTS. dis, stove, : SOG 10 ‘arriuge ew itmt 70 £106 Plow AN Ath Melgn shoe ee a "0a ' BUCEETR, Well, piain ewe uel a #22 BUTTS, Cast. die Te ‘5 wr ae ek eee 7. oe BLOCRKRE. Ordinary Tackle, i*t April 1892. 70 CRADLES. Gr in, Wood brace $16 (0 Grain, Wire brace Monee $18 90 nBUW BARS Cast sic perm 4 CAPs dle perm 6 Hick’s «. © ’ 5° G@.D “-- r 35 Musk t <-e “ 60 CARTRIDGES Rim rire oS 5e Central Fire f a dis. 25 CHISELS. dis. sucket Firmer i » 75&10 Socket —— 75&10 Socket Corner. . 75810 socket Slicks .... ne 25&10 Butchers’ Tanged Firmer OHALK, White Crayons, per — os 12@12% dis. 10 COPPER, Planished, 14 os cut tosize... .. ne pound 26 i 4x52, 14x56, 14x60 .... 26 Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60. 2 Cold Rolled, CS .0 eee 2 DRILL, dis. Morse’s Bit Stocks ......... 50 Taper and straight Shank. 50 Morse’s Taper Shank s 50 DRIPPING PANS. Small sises, ser pound 6% | Large sises, per pound 06 BLBOWS. Oom. 4 piece; Gt... co... dos. 26t 65 ie i ais Ser Aaneeere: .ti at ver oo und extra, Has@Bt&ar, Maydeie &Co.'s............ .. Gia. 2) ae. ' . dis. 2 Yerkes & Piumb’s......... dis. 40a7' Mason’s Solid Cast Steel. . .. 800 list 7 Blacksmitn’s Solid Cast Steel Hand... .30c 40&:0 HINGES. Gate, Clark’s,1,2,3. ! dis.60&10 State.. "per r dos. net, 2 5 Screw Hook and ‘Strap, 'to 12 in. 4% 14 and ee . 3% Screw Hook and Bye, ee, ee net 1 . a net Sm» iL i “ x eet eenes net 7 Sede net 7% ee . dis. . HOLLOW WARE roe. ..... . : oud > Ketties 604) Spiders ... Of &! Gray enameled aa 4065 HOUsSK FURNISHING @00De. stamped Tin Ware new lim &10 Japauned Tin Ware. i nea e al Gale Granite Iron Ware . new lis 40 WIRE GOODS. Bilght Lae oe eee 80 vv —_<_<—L ieee ., Sons... Steep eecee) ooeee Oe Gete Hooks and tyos............... 80 LEVELS. ‘tanley Hule 4.40 Levei Co.'s... . a's." 9 BOPES Sisal, 4% inch and larger 5% Manita.......... oo . ! 9 SQUARBS. dis. Biec. au Irom... ........... ' 80 Try and Bevels...... A acs... ..:t*ti‘i‘C‘C*CC;*#CW*CS 20 SHEET IRON. : Com. Smooth. Com Nos. 10to 14... : 350 88° 50 Moe. tot7 ....... Le 356 26 Nos. 18 to 21 405 2 70 Nos. tom ........ 3 55 2 80 Nos. 25 to 2 + 6 2 W 3% 3 All sheets ‘No. 18 and lighter, over 30 inche> wide not less than 2-10 extra SAND PAPER. ton eek Te oe ............... dis. at SA8H CORD stiver Lake. White A. Le. list 5U Draba.. ’ 65 _ Were ao .......... : 5 “ Drab B. . 5 ke meee. cL ., ay 30 Ww Discount, 10. SASH WEIGHTS ano meee... «|... per ton 82u SAWS dis. . eee ................ 20 Silver Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot,.... 7 ‘* Special Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot.... SO ‘« Special Stee] Dia. X Cuts, per foot... 30 ‘“ Champion and Electric Tooth xX use, fon oe. ce TRAPS. ais Mise Game, - Oneida Community, Newhouse’s......... Oneida Community, Hawley # Norton’s..7(-10 to mouse, ngewe... 3... 15¢ per dos Mouse, Getaiom.... $1.25 pe : _ WIRE. sright Market. ee sees 754610 inmegicg Maree. ............... «os 008s Cue Coppenee MOEEee ee 75 ea eeee.............................. 2 Soppered Spring Steel. . eee eee 3arbed Fence, galvanised. . bok d idee edaaaues 2 30 _ paleo... 1 95 HORSE NAILB. ny sweede ne dis. 40&10 ES ee di Northwestern s. 05 See ee cue Gis. 10410 WRENCHES. dis saxter'* Adjustable, nickeled.............. oes GO-nume ............ oo 5n ‘oe’s Yatent Agricultural, wrought,. el 7 &10 ‘oe’s Patent. malleable. a a MISCELLANEOUS dig. Bird Cages soe tue aa io Pumps. Cistern 75&1' &5 Screws, New L'st hs tees Casters, Bed a .d Plate 50&1041": Pemocrs, AMOR |e ae 4 &10 forks, hoes, rakes and all steel goods.......... 70 METALS, Pie TIN. ra Cate. ee 246 co cdc. ZINC. Ono pound CASEN........................... 5% aan 6 SOLDER. @% 12% The prices ‘of the many ‘other | qualities vw solder in the market indicated by private brands vary according to Composition. TIN—MBLYN GRADB, 10x14 IC, Charcoal. .....- 6... eee ee ee ees $600 14x20 IC, - £0 toxi4 OE 7 50 14x20 IX, ° 7 50 Each additional X on this grade, 81.7 "6. TIN—ALLAWAY GRADE, 10x14 [C, C harcoal 5B 14x20 [C, 5 25 10x14 [X, : wees 6 2 14x20 [X, — 6 25 Each additional XK on this grade $1.50. BOO PING PLATES lax20 IC, Dean 5 00 14x20 [ . o 6 00 20x28 (C ‘ . i 14x20 IC, Allaway Grade 475 14x20 1X : ss TS 58 20x28 1C, “ “ EN 9 SU Sais, * " ieee aes il 5) BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE. au 1X for ¥ o Guliers, 4X30 > “ ead et } per pound 8 MicriGAN TRADESMAN A WEEKLY JOURNAL PS2VOTED TO THR Best Interests of Business Men. Pablished at New Blodgett Bldg., Grand Rapids, — BY THE— TRADESMAN COMPANY. (ne Dollar a Year, Payable in Advance ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION, Communications invited frum practical busi- ess men. Correspondents must give their full name and .ddress, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. Subscribers may have the mailing address of tueir papers changed as often as desired. ! No paper discontinned, except at the option of the proprietor, until] &1]] arrearages are vaid, Sample copies sent free to any address Entered at Grand Rapids post-office as second lass matter. we" When writing to any of our advertisert lease say that you saw their advertisementin He MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. E, A. STOWE, Editor. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19. A SOURCE OF CUBAN ASSISTANCE. Added importance has been given the Cuban revolt by the proclamation of the President, forbidding filibustering. Of cvurse, such action was necessary for consistenze in the claims made by this country under the nutrality laws; but the action has no significance as to the feeling of sympatby in this country for those who are fighting fer their freedom in Cuba. That the aid the Cubans are receiving from this country is a very serious factor in the problem fur Spain is beyond ques- tion, but it is not correct to charge that fact entirely to the sympathy of Ameri- eans. The aid they are receiving, while coming from this country, is largely, if not principally, trom others than Ameri- cans, and the fact of the existence of that source of aid is to be charged to Spanish misrule and oppression. Commercial intercourse between Cuba aud the United States has been very in- timate and coustantly increasing and many of the most enterprising of the young business men of the Island, trained in that most difficult business school— difficult on account of Spanish exactions —have naturally turned to this country for more favorable opportunities. Here they have quickly assumed prominent positions in the business world and are among the most enterprising and wealthy of many of the large cities. Thus, in New York there is a large Cuban colony. These men are engaged in lines of trade in which Cuba is especially interested, such as tobacco, coffee, fruits, ete. They have come to this country to make money and have retained their interest and pa triotism for their beautiful Island. Their relatives are there and, in fact, their homes—they are exiles, not emigrants. These men, by means of their own wealth and the wealth they are able to command on account of their business interests and associations are supplying large sums for the prosecution of the war for freedom. It has been a matter of wonder how the rebels are provided with the finest modern arms and have unlimited supplies of all kinds. The source is not far to seek and any proc- lamation of the President or any degree of diligence on the part of the officials will not materially affect it. The truth of the matter is, Spain has been unable to prevent Cuba from becom- |, commercial dependency of this| for his officiousness. ing a ' | | country. Her short-sighted policy of | oppression has weakened the ties be- | MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. TRADE WITH THE FAR EAST. One of the most interesting of the de- | tween her and Cuba and driven the latter | velopments connected with the surpris- | to seek commercial sympathy and aid | elsewhere. She has sown the wind and the whirlwind will be the harvest. There can be no accurate knowledge as to the situation on account of exaggera- tion and the censorship of Spanish news, but nearly every Spanish success is fi- nally corrected as an insurgent one and all the most prominent Cuban leaders slain in battle continue to turn up else- where very much alive. Spaincontinues to pour in money and troops, but not enough to turn the scale, although her armies there are greater than were ever sent in any previous war in the Island. WATCHING THE CLOCK. The letter from ‘‘Vindex,’’ published elsewhere this week, setting forth the circumstances which led a young man in comparative obscurity to become asso- ciated in business with a millionaire, is commended to the perusal of every clerk within the scope of THE TRADESMAN’s influence. The employe who watches the clock lest he give his employer a few minutes more time than he is paid for never achieves any degree of success, for the reason that his methods are not such as commend themselves to the kindly eonsideration of employer. THE TRADESMAN happens to know a man who is expected to be at his post of duty at 7 o’clock. About half the time he is from five to fifteen minutes late (which he never makes up), and whenever he arrives at the place where he is employed a few minutes ahead of time, he sits down with his coat and hat on, waiting for the clock to strike 7, so that the garments may be removed and hung up on the employer’s time. Such a man ean never get very far away from the shadow of the poor- house, for the reason that be has seldom sufficient ambition to strike out for him- self and, whenever he does so, he is sorely handicapped by slovenly habits which absolutely preclude success. The suc- cessful man of the future is the clerk of to-day who is not afraid of work and who is not over particular about the extra hours or minutes he gives his employer, but who devotes every energy to contrib- ute to the success of his employer’s busi- If this employer happens to be so sordid that he does not appreciate faith- ful service on the part of the clerk—and there are, unfortunately, such employ- ers—some other employer is pretty sure to detect the good traits of the employe and to reward him therefor by the offer of better pay or a partnership interest in his business. If such recognition fails to come, the employe still has recourse to the broad avenue of embarking in busi- ness for himself, in which the habits of faithfulness formed earlier in life will come into play to excellent advantage, and will contribute, in no small degree, to his ultimate success. the ness. The Mayor of Muncie, Ind., is in for it. A few days ago he issued an order for the arrest of the engineer of a pas- senger train for running into town faster than the law permitted. The arrest caused the train to be delayed for more than half an hour, until another engine could be procured to take it on. Now it occurs to the people of Muncie that the Mayor has interfered with the United States mail and with interstate com- merce, and the official is likely to smart’ ing strides in civilization made by Japan in recent years is the progress reported in industrial enterprise. Not only has Japan essayed to produce all that is re- quired for home consumption, but she has also sought to compete for foreign trade with a success which promises in the not distant future to make her a formidable rival of the Western coun- tries. Within the past ten years a consider- able cotton manufacturing industry has been built up in Japan, which not only supplies the home demand for manu- factured cotton goods, but also ships goods to China in competition with India. The opening up of new sections of China as a result of the recent war, and the throwing open of Corea to com- merce, will develop a wide field for Japanese enterprise in cotton manufac- turing. Owing to an abundance of in- telligent and cheap labor, the Japanese mills are able to produce cloth at a lower cost than can either India or Manchester. They are also in a better position to manufacture just the styles of goods that will sell best in the Chinese and Corean markets. The Japanese have discovered that American cotton suits their needs bet- ter than India or other Eastern cotton, hence fair quantities of the fleecy staple have been purchased direct from the United States, and still larger amounts of the American product have been im- ported via Liverpool. Owing to their econominal methods of manufacture and cheaper cost of labor, the Japanese find they can import American cotton, manu- facture it and sell to China at a cheaper price than Manchester, or even New England milling centers. Having experimented with American cotton and found it well suited to their purposes, there is no doubt that the Japanese will seek to import an annually increasing amount of cotton direct from the United States. At present the high cost of freight, resulting from the haul to San Francisco and the reshipment there for Japan, is an obstacle in the way of the trade; but when the Nicara- gua Canal is built, placing Japan and the East generally within easy reach of the great cotton belt of the United States, the Japanese will import large quantities of new cotton from this coun- try. THE WHISKY TRUST DECISION. The decision of the Illinois Supreme Court declaring the whisky trust illegal and its charter void is in the line of the decisions of various courts in the oil, sugar, match and other combinations to control output of industries. The decision will not have the importance in the present case that it would ‘have had if the affairs of the trust were not already in the hands of a receiver. One result of the decision, however, is to leave the question in doubt as to the rightful pos- sessors of the plants, and rumors of seizure by the individual owners have made it necessary for the receiver to provide about 100 deputy marshals in Chicago and alarge number at Peoria and other points. it is remarkable that in most of these decisions affecting trusts the trials dem- onstrated the fact that their operation had been to lower prices, on account of the | greater economy in administration and ‘many, in those particular lines. distribution. Still, the general reason given in all the decisions is that they tend to destroy competition and are con- trary to public policy. In the case of the whisky trust it was also held that the charter of the corpora- tion only authorized the ownership of distillery plants for the purpose of car- rying on its business and the control of any others was in excess of its powers. Japan is fully meeting the expectations of her admirers in the manner in which she is taking her place as a modern power. The signing of a treaty between that country and Russia is the fourth ef- fected, the others being with the United States, Great Britain and Italy. The most important provision of all these treaties is that Japan is recognized as an equal power, with independent rights to make her own tariff laws and conduct her own judicial procedure without for- eign consulur courts at the large treaty posts. This means that she is recognized as competent to manage her own affairs without the supervision of the powers which has been exercised, to a great ex- tent, ever since the nation began to ad- mit foreigners. In the manner, also, in which she is gathering up the fruits of her victory over China, the vigor with which she has taken possession of For- mosa and has asserted her rights in other regards under the treaty with China, there is nothing to criticise or suggest. There were those who thought that her action in resigning her claims to the ter- ritory west of Corea on the recommenda- tion of the powers was a manifestation of weakness, but, as a matter of fact, those recommendations were based on sound political reasons in the interest of permanent peace, and her resistance would have amounted to foolish bravado. That she so quickly recognized that fact and acquiesced cheerfully and with dig- nity argues well for her appreciation of political interests. r A dispatch from Massillon, Ohio, says that while his thermometer, fifty feet away, registered 100 degrees, Uriah Matthews satin his cold storage room, the other day, in great danger of freez- ing todeath. He entered the chamber to arrange some supplies, leaving the door open. An employe, not knowing that Mr. Matthews was inside, closed the door and locked it carefully. Mr. Mat- thews shouted and pounded, but in vain. He had grown stiff and numb and was all but unconscious when, occasion arising for some one to enter, the door was un- locked. He was carried out helpless, but alive. Restoratives were applied and he will recover. The Chicago Inter-Ocean, noticing the prosecution of a woman in New York for attempting suicide, says that the punish- ment of attempting suicides can only have the effect of making them more careful to be successful in the execution of their attempts. It holds that punish- ment is brutal, and is founded on ex- ploded superstitions, and thinks that the true way of dealing with such cases is to convince them that there is still some- thing in life worth living for. In its output of steel rails and railroad iron of various kinds the Illinois Steel Works, of South Chicago, is said to be without a rival, even excelling the famous Krupp works at Essen, Ger- . % WHO is MAST#R? Now that thereisalull in the scrim- mage which has been going on in Asia’s back yard, there seems to be some doubt as to who is to take control of the matter as it stands. Time was when the two parties which had come to blows in- sisted on settling their differences in their own way; but, now, when the one worsted has taken his dose and expected to abide by it, Russia & Co. step in with a decided, ‘‘No, no!” and there the thing hangs fire. Japan had a grievance and, with the odds supposed to be fearfully against her, ‘‘went in’? and gave her overbearing neighbor a drubbing she will remember for many a day; and she is un- able to see why she shouldn’t have a Slice of territory if she wants it? And she can’t exactly see what right Russia or England has to calla halt. Isn’t In- dia large enough, and -was Japan con- sulted when that part of Asia went over to the English crown? Aad will the Russian Bear kindly mention the date when, with a ‘Beg pardon” to Japan, his big paw came down and covered “‘for keeps” a goodly portion of Asiasic terri- tory? Of course, France is calmly look- ing on, and, of course, if there is any kind of a show, the German Emperor will be there, and, while the United States cannot hope for anything, she has such a desire to see fair play that she stands on tiptoe looking over the heads of the crowd. In the meantime, what of China? Beaten and bleeding and robbed, is it to be supposed that she is to remain in the pitiful condition in which Japan has left her? Her foolish dream of superior- ity and the sleep which produced it are over. It is painfully evident that, if she isn’t wide awake, it won’t be a great while before she will be, and when 300,- 000,000 Chinamen ‘‘get a move on them,” to quote the vernacular of the street gamina, something will be done. . We respectfully suggest to the nations and peoples of the earth that, in their dealings with this question, they exer- cise due care not to get their digits too near the rapidly revolving buzz saw; something unpleasant will be sure to come of it. A nation may be half civ- ilized, but it is human, and the humanity that is in it will take such an instance as the Alsace and Lorraine episode of 1870 and make as much of it as France hopes to one of these days. It was Shylock who said: ‘The vil- lainy you teach me I will execute, and it shall go hard, but I’ll better the in- struction;” and, when that same idea gets fairly settled in the mind of a na- tion, the execution is as sure to come as is the sunrise. China has a history; and, if that history repeats itself, when the final answer is given to the question, ‘‘Who is master???’ the now prostrate nation, in the dust no longer and bleed- ing no longer, will reply with a single word, and that word will be, ‘‘China.’’ TO MAINTAIN NEUTRALITY. There is now not the least doubt that a filibustering expedition, well equipped with arms and ammunition, to assist the insurrectionists in Cuba, succeeded in getting away from a Florida port and landing on the north coast of the island. The expedition was an important one, not merely from the fact that it carried over 300 men, but because it was well supplied with arms and ammunition, which have been more needed by the revolutionists than have men. ‘Tne evidence of the success of this ex- pedition has urged the Spanish govern- ment to make representations at Wash- ington, and the authorities there have been compelled to take notice of the mat- ter and make arrangements to prevent future violations of the neutrality laws. With that object in view, the cruiser Raleigh has been ordered to proceed at once to Key West, Fla., in order to cruise along the Florida coast for the purpose of preventing the sending of more filibustering expeditions. Collect- ors of customs at the various Gulf ports have also been instructed to be on the lookout for expeditions intended for Cuba, and to use the revenue cutters in patrolling the coast. It is impossible for the Government to refuse to take these precautions now that the fact has been established that the neutrality laws have been violated; nevertheless, it is clear to every impar- tial observer that popular sympathy in the United States is on the side of the revolutionists, and their ultimate success would be hailed with satisfaction. All the latest accounts received from Cuba indicate that General de Campos is not meeting with the success he antici- pated in quelling the trouble. Owing to the breaking out of rebellion in many new portions of the island, and the pros- pect of trouble also in Porto Rico, the outlook for a successful termination of the struggle on the part of de Campos is not particularly bright at the present time. His demand for more troops has been met by the ordering of ten ad- ditional battalions to Cuba, and that the Spanish government considers the situa- tion serious is attested by the fact that, in addition to the ten fresh battalions ordered to embark, ten more battalions are to be held in readiness to depart at short notice. By the provisions of a new state law in New York, no railroad corporation shall hereafter employ a locomotive engineer who is not able to read and write. While it is true that ability to do so forms no part of an engineer’s duties, it is, never- theless, some evidence of a man’s intel- ligence. Intelligent men are required in such responsible positions, and, with all the provisions that are made to-day for at least an elementary education, the il- literate cannot be classed as thoroughly intelligent. Another feature of the new law prohibits the employment of any person under 18 years of age, or who has had less than one year’s experience as a railroad telegraph operator. This is also on the side of safety, as the operator is responsible for many lives, and the blun- der of an inexperienced boy may at any time result in a great catastrophe. By- and-by, when laws are laws, somebody will be to blame if railroad accidents oc- eur. The property owners and residents along the Grand boulevard of Chicago are up in arms against a proposition to de- stroy some 500 fine shade trees, for the purpose of constructing a bridle path. The trees are said to be more than twenty years old. They have grown to large size and form a most attractive feature of the boulevard. The petition for their removal came from some of the horsemen of Chicago who wish to have equestrian paths provided where they can enjoy the pleasure of horseback rid- ing. Opposed to them, however, are the pedestrians whose walks are sheltered SHE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 9 by the trees and the land-owners whose property is enhanced in value by the nearness of attractive natural features. As the opponents of the scheme are greatly in the majority, and include wealthy and influential eitizens, it is believed that their indignation meeting and the resolutions of remonstrance which have been adopted will be suc- cessful in saving the park from devasta- tion. The tramp question is rapidly forging to the front as one of the most serious social problems of the country. With the warm weather come thicker reports of the depredations of these disagreeable cattle in all parts of the country. A gang of about fifty tramps has been in complete possession of barns and old houses in Baltimore county, Md., and from the Berkshires in Massachusetts news is received of a meeting of citizens called for the purpose of planning some way of relief from a similar scourge there. It is estimated that in the coun- try at large there are not less than 60,- 000 habitual tramps, who beg and steal their living at a daily cost of about $30,- 000, which comes, of course, out of the earnings of honest workers and _ tax- payers. Pacific coast people are talking about shipping flour to China to enter into competition with rice. They think that it could be sold there at a profit at 11 cents a pound, and at that price the Chinamen would buy it in preference to rice. Once they have begun to use it, it is argued, they would not go back to rice, even though the flour costs more, and thus would be created a demand which would keep the flour mills on the Pacific coast running at their fullest eca- pacity. Unfortunately for the plan, the chances are that if the Chinese want wheat they will raise it themselves at prices to ruin the Pacific coast millers. CURRENT COMMENT. Rio de Janeiro, the capital of Brazil, has a notoriously bad climate, and the government has resolved to change the site of the capital. A scientific commis- sion has been appointed to select a better place. The commission have selected a plateau which should be a real land of promise to the transmigrants from the coast. The spot is between the parallels of 15 degrees 40 minutes and 16 degrees 8 seconds south, and the meridians of 49 degrees 30 minutes and 51 degrees west. It is over 4,000 feet above the level of the sea and its temperature resembles that of the middle of France. There is plenty of water for agriculture and no yellow fever. The journey by railway from the coast is a matter of some eigh- teen hours. * * + The London Times thinks that the na- tives of India are in much greater danger from the use of alcohol than the use of opium. Itsays: ‘'We are introducing a new industrial era into India, and the milder narcotic stimulants which sufficed for the old organization of labor in In- dia no longer suffice for the new. Every Indian magistrate, every Indian doctor and every Indian governor knows that the present danger to the people arises not from the use of opium, but from its supersession by alcohol. The British nation would take on itself a terrible re- sponsibility by any measures calculated to promote or accelerate that change. The opium commission was appointed, not to satisfy the whims of extremists, but, as we have said, to instruct and guide the conscience of the nation. If it succeeds in making the nation under- stand the moral issue now at stake in In- dia, it will have rendered a noble serv- ice. We refer not to any financial aspects, but to the plain alternative as to whether the Indians are to remain mod- erate consumers of a stimuiant which sends scarcely a victim to the hospitals, lunatic asylums or jails, and which hardly ever causes the dismissal of an employe, or whether the harmless par- cotic that has during generations gradu- ally won its way is to be superseded, un- der British compulsion, by the alcohol that ruins every tropical race among whom we have brought it.”’ * * * Is it to be a silk waistcoat this season or not, and is it to be of gorgeous pat- tern or of modest and subdued style? These are the questions that are agitat- ing the fashionable tailors of London. The Prince of Wales is the only person who can answer the questions, and he has been more deliberate than the tailors like in signifying his royal will and pleasure. If he says ‘‘silk waistcoat,’’ there will be arun on English silk pro- ductions, and probably a corresponding rush for the manufactures over here. American silkmakers are quite ready for this bright-hued fashion, and will wel- come it con amore. The time when gaudy waistcoats were ridieuled will all be brought back, but in these days men are more independent, if less dandified, in their dress, and nobody will be ashamed to resemble robin redbreast or a Baltimore oriole. *% * * A French optician has recently brought out an entirely new kind of field or opera glass, which may be folded up flat and carried in the pocket. It has no tube or barrel whatever; the object glass and eye-piece are hinged at either bar, which is capable of being lengthened or shortened by a simple ratch and pinion adjustment. * * * The project of filling in Lake Michigan out from the Chicago shore to the end of the government piers on the south side of the harbor has assumed such form that it will, undoubtedly, be carried out in the near future. The land thus res- cued from the Lake will be added to that adjoining, now owned by the city, and all be devoted to park purposes. i ip eters Apia oe z THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 11 ton, or a skull and cross-bones, in the window with this warning legend: | Result | of | Using Our Canned Goods may cost alittle more but you avoid funeral expenses by the sir use. Fune erals come high. There is nothing that will kill your trade so quickly and surely as going to sleep and allowing the flies to roost on you and your wares. Be up before your neighbor, and stay awake allday. Not only this, but wake up the people and the ‘‘other fellow’? with the originality of your advertising and the rush and roar of your volume of trade. Foc. Foster FULLER. The Subjugation of the Jungfrau. Written for THz TRADESMAY. If Mount Blane is the ‘King of the Alps,’’ the Jungfrau is, without ques- tion, the ‘‘Queen.’? There, in royal majesty, she sits, her crown against the sky, as awe-inspiring to the Alpine trav- eler as she has been, so far, inaccessible. A few, indeed, of the braver spirits have clambered the perilous heights, but the enchantment which distance lends the view has remained unbroken, and in silence and solitude the Jungfrau has reigned. That reign is almost over. What Hannibal and Napoleon accom- plished in the pursuits of war is now to be repeated in the arts of peace, and early summer will see the beginning of an undertaking which will end in the subjugation of the Jungfrau. An electric road is to be built to the top of that famous mountain. It starts in the clouds, a mile and a quarter above the level of the sea. It tunnels the mountains when that is best; it picks its way over narrow ledges; it spans the precipices at head-swimming heights, and stops, at last, 14,000 feet above the level of the sea. To reach the peak of the mountain an elevator 200 feet high will be built, and there will be erected a pa- vilion of steel and iron, capable of en- tertaining 500 people. The lengthof the road is about seven and a half miles, five of which will be tunnel. Five years are given for the building of it, and the new century can be greeted by the celebrat- ing, among Alpine heights, of the great- est feat of engineering skill the world has ever seen. It may be put down as a piece of Amer- ican assumption, but, nevertheless, it is safe to say that the people of the United States are, in a certain sense, largely re- sponsible for this last wonder of a won- der-producing century. Let it be known that American travel is to be stopped, and the building of the Jungfrau electric railway would be indefinitely postponed. Let the road be built and then stop American travel in Europe, and few would be the trips of the electric train to the peak of the Jungfrau. So, when the work is done and the lightning drags the loaded car up among the Alpine crags and peaks—its old-time playground— America, while listening to well-merited praise of her sister continent’s genius and skill, may yet rejoice that she has been able to be the instrument of making possible this crowning glory of the grandest century! R. M. STREETER. _—_—~-o-— Every business man has his troubles and disappointments, but if he keeps on doing the best he can the chances are that in the end he will come out all right. The Bicycle Trade. Written for Tam TRADESMAN. | The bicycle business, so far this sea- | son, has exceeded the expectations of ; even the most sanguine, and anumber of manufacturers are already advising their agents that they will not be able to fill orders on certain models. In a_ recent contribution TRADESMAN 1 suggested that dealers order more liberally, predicting the present situation. Those who did have fared better than their neighbor who ordered sample wheels; but no dealer has been able to get a sufficient supply of wheels to supply the demand. Who is to blame for this shortage? Not the manufacturers. They prepared them- selves according to the way dealers or- dered. You have probably sold from 50 to 500 per cent. more wheels than you origi- nally planned orders for; and how could any factory anticipate this demand when you lacked knowledge or confidence? The demand for ladies’ wheels has sur- prised every dealer and manufacturer and a good wheel of this description is hard to get promptly, except from those who had confidence and placed liberal orders early. One factory making high-grade wheels proposed to make 3,000 wheels. They have already made and sold over 5,000 and are still a month behind orders. The makers of any kind of medium-grade wheels have found a ready sale, and some of them have advanced prices since March 1. Some jobbers paying from $1 to $3 more for a wheel than their con- tract called for, in order to try and sup- ply their trade. The small dealer is now beginning to cancel orders, thinking that the trade is about over and that everybody is sup- plied. They make a big mistake. There will, no doubt, be a large cheap and medium-priced trade all summer and even to the middle of September or the first of October. Farmers’ sons have to have wheels as well as the city fellow, and a great many to THE ‘of them will not buy until after harvest and seeding. Featherstone has notified his jobbers that he shuts down his factory August 1 for inventory, repairs and to begin on 796 models; and those wishing wheels for late trade will be obliged to place or- ders at once, in order to get them by August 1. Last year, there was a large trade and this class of wheels was hard to get. This year, the late trade will, in all probability, be in the same propor- tion as the early trade. If you want to sell wheels, don’t lose your confidence or trade, but make preparations early—now. If you don’t, you will be the loser. Stick a pin here. WILL B. JARVIS. a The Sultan of Morocco has notified the representatives of the foreign powers that he is unable to protect the lives and property of travelers in the interior of his dominions, and that if they go there it will be at their own risk. It would seem as though the time had arrived to relieve him of the burden of governing a country which he acknowledges his ina- bility to govern, and to turn it over to somebody that can and will govern it. France would willingly undertake the responsibility and might do for Morocco what Great Britain has done for Egypt. —_———~-6 << Ose Tradesman Coupon Books. Mr. Thomas IS NOT A MUSICIAN, BUT—— THE BEST FIVE CENT CIGAR IN THE COUNTRY. ED. W. RUHE, MAKER, CHICAGO. F. E. BUSHMAN, AgI., 625 Jolin Si., KALAMAZOO 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 ad Turkish Bread Are Tip Top Sellers. DETROIT POP CORN NOVELTY GU, * “oetie’ ic Detroit, Mich. ESTABLISHED THIRTY YEARS. { WRITE FOR PRICES ON ANY SHOWCASE NEEDED. 55,57, 59, 61 Canal St. GRAND RAPIDS Show Cases, Store Fixtures, Etc. NEW CIGAR SHOWCASE. BT T ccecieas PHILLIP’S SHOW CASES. J PHILLIPS & CO., Detroit, Mich. Established 1864. PERKINS & HESS, DEALERS IN Fides, Furs, Wool & Tallow. Nos. 122 and 124 ie Street, Grand Rapids, Michigan. WE CARRY A STOCK OF CAKE TALLOW FOR MILL USE. 12 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. THE BACK OFFICE. Written for THE TRADESMAN. We are now ‘‘knee-keep in June;” and the maple standing before my window, with its hands spread out for the wind and sun to kiss, is only one of a thou- sand things which rejoices with lifted palms for “This day so cool, so calm, so bright. The bridal of the earth and sky.”’ I do not wonder that the senior mem- ber of the firm puts by the morning mail and looks dreamily at the bit of blue above the top of the block just over the way. I am not surprised to hear the desk-lid come down with something very like a slam, nor to hear him unconscious- ly whistle an old-time tune as the office door swings noislessly behind him. He isn’t the senior member any wore. It was the bars leading to the pasture, not the desk-lid, that clattered so, and he, a ‘‘barefoot boy with cheeks of tan,” is on his way to the strawberries which June has ripened for him along the wali and around the stumps in the pasture. He and the quails exchange greetings as they pass. The brown thrush on the top of the old chestnut tusses him a bar or two of marvelous song. The bluebird flutes for him from the orchard; the robin warns him to keep away from its **mansion in the skies,’’ and the bobo link, “atilt like a blossom among the leaves,” pours out its heart | | How bright the grass in the meadow | lands to-day; and how the wind, sweet | with the breath of clover, throws it into | waves till it looks like an inland sea. Off on the hills the cattle are ‘‘cropping shorter the short green grass;’’ the lambs are exchanging terms of endearment; the chipmunk is chattering his ‘thit me if you can,’’ and the big elm, down where the brook has dug out a place to sleep in | when the days are hot, is beckoning with long fingers and pointing to ‘tthe old | swimmin’ hole!’’ No wonder that the lid came down with | a bang, that the years have dropped into nothingness, that the hot bricks and the tiresome pavement have given place tu green things growing! No wonder that the senior member hears the sound of laughing brooks, the hum of bees and the murmur of voices calling across the years, and that, hearing them, gone back to-day to the greeen pastures and the still waters of the long ago. He/| will be here again to-morrow, and his face will be bright with a gleam of the sunshine he has brought back with him. We shall! find him ready to go on with | “The Old Oaken Bucket,”’ if we give him the first line; all the old hume-poems and | songs will come singing from his lips; Whittier and Emerson and Holmes will brighten, in turn, the passing hour, and | he will finally turn to his desk, repeat- ing softly to himself, as he lifts the lid: | “In profuse strains of unpremeditated art.” he has | “When life was like a story, holding neither sob nor sigh, In the olden, golden glory of the days gone by!”’ ' = = I have been reading an intensely inter esting article on buying eggs. It is as full of good points as the article it treats of is full of meat. It tells about the de- licious flavor of the new-laid egg, and | about what delectable delights for the table can be made of it wheninits prime; and, when the story is done, the reverse of this is pictured, until one turns from the description with all the symptons of jered and decayed that it couldn't be |The box, this year, seems to be the | ries, the one in question was altogether |too small, \’em by the box—fifteen cents. See? |for a while and there itil stop and | |up his mind long ago that ithe best policy,’? and that cheating in | any form duesn’t pay. mal de mer. The whole concludes with CHas. E.MEECH 3 S AMORMAN S.A.MORMAN & CO. OFFICE 19 LYON ST. WAREHOUSES COR. WEALTHY S tONIA ST. the admuuitiou: ‘Be careful in buying | eggs.”’ There is no doubt that the advice is worth following. Everyday experience confirms the fact that the less one has to do with a ‘‘bad egg’’ the better; and yet, such advice to a grocer doesn’t read well | to that grocer’s customers—not nearly as | well as ‘‘Be careful in selling eggs” would read. Ofjcourse, it is to be inferred that the careful buyer will ve the careful seller, but that doesn’t necessarily ful- low, and it is a fact, as the article men- ‘the flavor of the egg CEMENT COAL SEWER PIPE tioned says, that undergoes great changes in a few days after it is laid;” and | have known the most careful buyer to keep eggs a great many days after they were laid, and he wasn't particular to state the fact when he sold them. What a reputation that | Ag grocer would make who should say to bis | Wholesale a nts for Alsen’sG best in the work nd C ement, the »r Sidewalk work. GRAND RAPIDS, [ICH. HOOKS, iN | | | SATUN, LYON t Al GRAND RAPIDS. customers: ‘Ll wouldn't use those eggs for salad if | were you, for only the cord ose freshest eggs are fit fur that, and these | vited to write are not the freshest. They have been in cee the store at least a week. For boiling | they won’t do atall.’? No danger of my | 4, y BENNETT hearing that, you say? 1 am afraid not, and yet, what a “‘pity ‘tis ’tis true,” io what a greater pity ’tis that the state- | ment is not confined to eggs. Madam was busy, the other day, and sent Bridget out for sume bananas. A good price was paid and when the fruit was put upon the table it was so with- Trade is OAL EL AND Ick 60. GRAND Atl MICH. Thos. E. Wykes COAL AND WOOD, LIME, SEWER PIPE, FLOUR, FEED, Etc. 45 S. Diviston St., Grand Rapids. HIMES. Wholesale Shipper eaten. In the explanation which fol- A | lowed it came out that ‘‘the boy didn’t " | aw Bridget and wasn’t careful in se- jeeting hem.” 0 for the grocer who (COAL, LIME, GEMEN 8, as careful in selling as he is in buying! SEWER PIPE, ETC 1 CANAL ST. GRAND RAPIDS. A great deal was said, last year, about an FEEDS —f aig selling strawberries by bulk. Tbe ma- Everything for the jority seemed to lean strongly to ~ Field and Garden box—they were less liable to ‘muss.’ 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 |favorite method of transportation and sale, but, when | recently took occasion to remark that, fur a quart of strawber- “A quart! | We sell | | | 99? | the reply was, Don’t talk through your hat! lam sorry to say | do; and | am also very sorry to see how easy it is for deal- | ers to be careful about buying and yet! how utteriy careless they are in selling | Fillers. ;eggs and bananas and strawberries and | leverything! ‘This is the place for a ref- | erence to the Golden Kul-; but, as this isn’t sermon-day, we forbear, with the A ‘ e remark that that sort of thing will go on | 128 to 132 W. 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That, now, is only so much ‘‘abuse,’’ and the farmer who does that ‘‘ought to know better.” Send forour Catalogue and Price List. We have a complete line of a best goods made, besides many they’re | Novelties which sell themselves, and which no other house has. Prices NEVER so low before. A. FE. BROOKS & CO. 5 and 7 South Ionia St., Grand Rapids. $) THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 13 4 He ought to know that a field that pro-| Starting in the Hardware Business. : duces apples does all that is expected of | In country towns, say of 5,000 to 10,- a it, and anything beyond that is ’way off!;000 inhabitants, connections and the 7) [ N 7 Ce Be. Next thing, we shall hear will be that the | popularity of the would-be hardware average farmer’s wife doesn’t know how | merchant have much to do with the ad- to make butter, and that that is the rea-| visability or otherwise, of establishing a son why so much is said in favor of oleo-| new store. Of course where a man buys margarine. What that Dogberry officer | cut an old established store, he naturally Br in the Agricultural Department needs is |€xPects to succeed to the ‘good will” somebody to ‘write him down an ass!” and patronage enjoyed by his predeces- a sor, but the writer means starting in a The other day, the Supreme Court of adnan A ae ie ae O N ¥y O U R C R A . K E R S ? the United States, in sending the drunken | promised support of his friends and ac- Debs and his associates to jail, said:|@Uaintances. These latter, unfortu- “We vield to ae nately, are not always, to be relied upon; ? i : ran in ve admiration of they are, as arule, a little more exacting EARS any act of heroism or self-sacrifice, but | and Jess easily satisfied than the general UPERIOR F we may be permitted to add that it is a] public. The writer has known in his lesson which cannot be learned too soon | twenty years’ experience, several unfor- EYMOUR or too thoroughly, that, under the gov- tunate victims to the promises of their friends—has heara of others, who : : ernment of and by the people, the means | opened a store with glowing prospects of That is what it means-- of redress of all wrong is through the | success but closed with more or less dis-| | i A e courts and the ballot box, and that no ~~ results. : ia dial “THE ACKNOWLEDGED LEADER a ; : te ere is one experience, his friends, as : wrong, . ~ ~ “ mah ot fancied carries with it), inatter of course expected and got] QF CRACKERS!”’ egal warrant to invite, as a means of re-| credit and were surprised that he should dress, the co-operation of a mob, with its} be sc importunate about those little bills, accompanying acts of violence.” tale it po crecpaee Pe far . to re- hat’s . : . min im oO certain obligations for past hy Vs _— ee on rons spite favors. A little later, his friends(?) dis- THEY ee a of the thousands of A. R. U.’s, Debs | covered that his goods were no better nor Originated in MICHIGAN goes to jail. Nine to thousands! The} cheaper than those of other merchants, majority rules with a vengeance!” perhaps going so tar as to say, ‘they do Are Made in MICHIGAN e s 2 et not compare favorably with Mr. Sawset’s 3 oe across the street.” Finally, he found Bt Sci have been examining the second some of his professedly warmest friends Are Sold in MICHIGAN ql Government bulletin for the benefit of ex- | jeaying him to trade elsewhere, many of And all over the World. porters, relating to the extension of|tkem forgetting tosettle. Remonstrances . 4 trade in American products with Ger-} Were useless and in some instances lost ie a a _| friends and accounts also. In the end, [7 many. Besides the German tariff sched which was not long coming, the sheriff | Manuf. ctured —< ule, so far as it relates to American pro- | took possession. Of course, there is an- ducers and shippers, it has a statement | other side to this, the man referrec to in- HI i of the commercial unions of Germany, | berited some money on his father’s death T N W Y c showing that they have been an ae and having been rather popular with he © York Biscuit 0.; : : i : rf **the boys,’’ hail fellow weil met, and so Successors to WM. SEARS & CO., factor in stimulating Germany’s foreign op, sought advice as to what to do with trade, which was $252,280,000 in 1850,]|his money. Oh, start a hardware store, n a and, in 1894, $1,876,154,000. For the|$3,000 will be enough and all your Grand Rapids, [lich. last three years the Unifed States and friends will patronize you. He had : fi some business experience, but noi in tag Russia supplied all the caviare imported hardware trade, and being a little too into Germany. Consular reports from | blunt and confident in his manner, which, German commercial centers are appended | combined with want of tact and poor : to show the feasibility of extending the |J¥dsment together with the loss of his ! . | friends’ support, soon brought him to . market for American products in their —" . grief. respective fields of observation. But we The sole reliance of the beginner in the THE MOST POPULAR BRAND OF * don’t find one of them giving an inch of | retail hardware trade, or, indeed, any re- space to the superior quality of our tail business ap ge town, should be PL U G 7 O B A c> C O integrity in dealings, reasonable stuffed cheese! prices, civility and strict attention to the In Michigan to-day, and has only been on i . . ' business in hard. Should he properly the market four months. For sale only by It begins to look a little like a war- apply the foregoing principles and pos- cloud away off there in the Far East—|]sess a fair amount of business ability he or west, with us, if we take it the other| will undoubtedly make patrons of his way. Germany charges Russia with friends and friends of his patrons, there- 8 : : : i : vy laying the foundation of a permanent bad faith in making terms with China] pysiness success. GRAND RAPIDS while taking care of the Chinese loan; —___. > __ and Russia, considering it ‘‘like the idle At the Back Door. wind which she regards not,’’? keeps on Mr. Newcomer—Have the neighbors ; ee ; sy called upon you yet.? — a a Mrs. Newcomer—l! should say they had. yearn st Uke ABE 2 RCSA AABN PNB A Re EN RR NO CESS I US AECOORMENTA NYS Sth EERE OR OU IMR ANN AA RAR confident that the young Kaiser has wit| [hey’ve called upon me for almost every- enough to know how far to go in that] thing in the house. line and when to stop. How sorry France would be to see Germany get into which you must submit to. Some mer- fund the money. If not, give a satis- ¢ 5 Y'So trouble, and how mad England would be : to see Russia scope Constantinople! x WAR RicHARD MALCOM STRONG. Lp i Re ee SQ o- , — Ak a Ne ey : Say ‘‘No” Gracefully. 7 eS CAG. a ae le . Bs You are often asked to refund money. : VSR. 5 j This is a sort of an accommodation now Vy ¢ ———S=aEooo— chants will conclude that this is unfair. ; re eo Ah SS Catches Mae Plies Sometimes it might be, but be careful 7 x how you refuse. If at all possible, re- ye im a ip than any other Sticky Fly ‘ / Os /s o}/ fo he, DECOY pay JDAPELS Paper and pleases every- factory reason for being compelled to re- Ag eo Manufactured by ae ture. Daw't got wrathy. Some poeple ge RR DETROIT FLY PAPER CO. 3% bag ut, ’ can say ‘‘no”’ so gracefully that instead NR |g CETROIT. MICH. ie ee of offending, it is satisfying. There isa OTNER PATENTS PENDING. Be / Every box guaranteed by the manufacturer. ~ knack about this. You can do it, pro- x ! CT eiecmarmeae sae | ZB vided you don’t get excited. It is a # ie & ' A. : grave mistake to lose your temper at : << ae $, any request. : €: _—_—__—>-+o<—_—_————— Use Tradesman Coupon Books. | Costs no more than com} mon fly paper. 14 ' IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN EXPECTED. ‘“‘Now, father, tell us all the news.”’ Mrs. Merriman had filled the old farm- er’s pipe, had given him his favorite seat by the fire, for the evenings were grow- ing chilly, and was bustling about tbe | comfortable, roomy kitchen, preparing supper. A market-day supper was a serious business, for Lucy Merriman and | her mother took a ‘‘snack’’ on that day instead of the customary noonday meal, | and substantial food was reserved for; the hearty supper ‘‘father’’ relished so} well after his long drive from town. It was another time-honored custom | for the farmer, in the interval while his wife and pretty daughter prepared sup- | per, to tell them all the gossip he had | heard in town, and prices obtained for | his chickens, butter and eggs, and the purchases were to be unrolled after sup- per should be over. But on this especial evening, the farmer, instead of putting down his pipe and clearing his throat for a long talk, glanced anxiously at his only child, his Lucy, the pride and darling of his ola heart. She was very pretty, with blue eyes and brown hair, and a very tender smile; but she had lost something in the past three months of the bloom and brightness that had been her great charm. She looked pale and not alto- gether happy,.as she drew out the table and spread the cloth for supper. “| was right,’’ the old farmer thought; ‘‘and yet I hate to tell her. She has never been the same girl since he left.” ‘Why, father,’? Mrs. Merriam said, ‘you look as solemn as if you had bad news. Ain’t lost nothin’, have you?’’ ‘“‘No—no. I got your calico all rigbt, Jane, and the groceries, but—well, it don’t exactly concern us now, but, the fact is, I did hear some disagreeable news to-day.”’ Then he paused again, wondering at his own reluctance to impart the tidings. But Lucy had drawn near the arm- chair, her face white as snow. “Don’t concern us now?’ she said. “Is it—is it news about Henry Newton?” ‘“‘Well, well, women folks are master hands at guessing,” said the farmer. ‘*You thought your old father was very cruel, Lucy, didn’t you, when he would not let you marry that fine city chap who was turning all the girls’ heads?’’ ‘*“‘You—you are never cruel, father. You meant to be kind—but—but—what have you heard?”’ ‘“‘Berks has been up to Albany about some business for the store, Lucy, and he heard that Henry Newton had been ar- rested for forgery and theft.”’ “Bunt it is not true! Father, it is not true!’ The wailing cry of utter misery called the mother in from the buttery. Lucy was lying in her father’s arms, shivering and moaning as if stricken with physical pain. “It is true, Lucy. LIalways mistrusted him, the smooth-tongued villian. Thank Heaven, [| was firm for once, and kept my darling.” ‘*Father, where is he?”’ ‘*Where they put criminals—in jail!’’ There was a pause of utter silence, Mrs. Merriman coming across the room to stroke her daughter’s hair with a lov- ing touch. Then Lucy rose stiffly from her father’s arms, and staggered across the room to the staircase, stumbling up blindly to her own room. Her mother | she’d take it so hard?” }on such a scoundrel, when there’s good |men would give their right hand to win | she'll get over it! We’ll see her a happy | wife yet, please Heaven.’’ THE MICHIGAN would have followed, but the old farmer held her back. ‘‘Leave her alone a bit, mother,’ he said, hoarsely, wiping his eyes with the back of his broad hand. ‘‘She’ll fight it out best by herself. Who'd ’a’ thought; ‘‘We knew she loved him, father!” ‘But she’s been so quiet since he left, | I thought she was getting over it.” *‘We can’t be too thankful she did not marry him when he wanted her!’ ‘‘No—but—poor child! poor child! to think of her young, pure heart being set | 9 her! ‘It’s the world’s way, father. But Then Mrs. Merriman bustled away again, and put the smoking supper on the table. After she had filled the farm- er’s plate, she went upstairs, coming back with red eyes. ‘She'll not eat yet, father!’’ she said. And the food left the table almost un- touched, for neither father nor mother could eat, thinking of the stricken heart mourning in the room above them. Be- fore they slept th@y stole in, as if their child was sick, for a silent caress, hop- ing morning would bring comfort. 3ut when the sun rose and the farmer lifted his head from a sleepless pillow, he saw his wife coming from the room beyond, white and shaking. “She’s gone, father,’? Mrs. Merriman whispered. ‘*She’s not slept in the bed all night, and she is not in the house. She left this!” As she spoke, the mother held out a note, at which she had looked with hun- gry eyes, knowing nothing of reading or writing. But the farmer could read; and, in a choked, low voice, he read the letter: ‘I cannot stay to disgrace you! I was married when Henry Newton went away in August, on the day I coaxed father to take me to town to buy ahat, You will find the marriage on the books of the church opposite the tavern where father always puts up. I saw it written down, there. I have my lines with me that the minister gave me. I must go to my husband, and you must think of me as if l was dead, because I will never come back to disgrace the old home. I am a convict’s wife, and no longer worthy tobe yourloving child. Lucy.” “Oh, father!’ ‘*‘Married—all this time deceiving us— 1 thought if there was one true woman on earth, Jane, it was our Lucy, and she has been living a lie to us for weeks!’’ “But what will she do? Where can she go? Will she be allowed to go with him?” ‘“‘“How do | know? I’ve been an hon- est man, Jane. What should I know of prisons and prison rules.’’ The old farmer’s face was set in rigid lines as he spoke, for the treachery of the child who was the very idol of his heart cut him deeply. It had cost him bitter pain to refuse her her heart’s desire, but he had doubted the brilliant man who had wanted to marry her, knowing that he was the richest farmer in the country, and fearing that the suitor thought more of that fact than of Lucy. And he had trusted Lucy blindly, never supposing her capable of a deceitful act or thought. Mrs. Merriman went downstairs to get breakfast, knowing it was useless to — i Fore = Dayton TRADESMAN. OMPUTING OG TON to, At Prices Ranging From $15 SCALES I ust Upwards. The Styles shown in this cut $30.00 Which includes Seamless Brass Scoop. For advertisement showing our World Famous Standard Counter and Standard Market Computing Scales See last page of cover in this issue. THE COMPUTING SCALE CO, - DAYTON, OHIO Standard Oil Co., GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN DEALERS IN [llUminating and Lubricating Office, Michigan Trust Bid. GRAND RAPIDS, BIG RAPIDS, ALLEGAN, argue with her husband when his lips were compressed and his eyes stern. = OILS :- Naptha and Gasolines. BULK WORKS AT Works, Butterworth Avs. MUSKEGON, MANISTEE, CADILLAC, GRAND HAVEN, TRAVERSE CITY. §_LUDINGTON, HOWARD CITY, PETOSKEY. REED CITY, Highest Price Paid for AMPTY GARBON % GASOLINE BARRELS. ey Spy giro SRE Rags ceneeT i, Sperry ame oo ‘THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. ‘*He loves her so!’ the mother thought, wistfully. ‘*‘He will never let her go.’’ The breakfast was a silent meal, and when it was over, the farmer sat with his face hidden in his hands for a long time. When at last he looked up, the mother’s heart gave a great throb of grat- itude. She did not need to hear his words to know that Jove had conquered. “I will go to Albany, Jane, on the noon train. I'll be but six hours behind her.’’ **You’ll bring her back, Dan’!?”’ ‘Ay! If she will come.’’ It was a dreary journey, and when the farmer reached the city, it was after 7 o’clock. He had been to Albany but twice in the sixty-four years of his life, and, he thought bitterly, he had never inquired before where to find the jail. But it was closed, and he found only a warden on duty at the gate. “T was wishing to seen Henry New- ton,’’ he said to that official. ‘‘Any day between 10 and 2, if you are a relative,’’ was the answer. “IT am—” the words came chokingly, “his father-in-law.” The man gave a long whistle. **‘By Jove!”’ he cried, ‘‘another one!” ‘Will you tell me what you mean? I am an old man, in heavy trouble, and— this man—has—taken my—child. I am looking for her.’’ “Sit down; sit down. I guess it’s a bad business. You see, he’s an old of- fender, this Newton, and he’s evaded the law for years, so they are glad enough to have proof now to convict fifty men, if need be. And he’s got a wife here in Albany, that he quarreled with years ago and left. But, woman- like, as soon as she heard he was in trouble, she came here to him, and has been every day. But to-day, a young girl, a country girl, came to see him, and his wife was in the cell. There was arow, of course, for Number Two had her certificate, and Number One was fu- rious, and they both went off.’”’ “But where? Where did Lucy go?’’ “Lucy! That was the name, sure enough. I can’t tell you any more than that she left here.’’ But, even as the warden spoke, a policeman sauntered up, and, lounging in the doorway, said: ‘‘Remember the country party, Tom- kins?’ “Yes. Where is she?” ‘“‘Where she won’t trouble Newton any more. Mrs. Newton the first has the coast clear.” “You don’t mean she has —’’ ‘Yes, 1 do! Walked from here straight down to the river and hung about till dusk. One of the steamboat hands saw her when she jumped off the dock, and gave an alarm. But, bless you, when they found her she was dead. Hulloo, who’s the old man?”’ For the farmer with one awful groan had dropped senseless on the fluor. ‘“‘Her father!’ answered the warden, stooping over the prostrate figure. “Was inquiring for her as you came up. Nice pill, that Newton, take him all around.” “Yes! He’s coming to himself! Here, old man, you must not give way like that! Here, take a sip of this!” Rough men both and accustomed to ~ scenes of misery, but they were tender as women in their touch, as they lifted the farmer to a bench, bathed his face and put spirits to his lips. “Can you take me to her®’ Those were his first words as he looked up into the policeman’s face. ‘‘To-morrow. You see it’s a coroner’s case, and we couldn’t get at her to-night. V1) take you the first thing in the morn- ing. Tomkins, can’t you let him lie there to-night?’’ “Yes, yes. I'll see to him.” And be was kind and sympathizing. But, oh, the long, long night, the weary stretch of time before morning. What could he say to Jane, the farmer thought; how tell the waiting mother that he had kept his promise and brought her child home, dead, never again to smile upon her, never again to speak a loving word. Then a wild desire for revenge upon the villain who had wrought all this mis- ery seized the old man, and he paced up and down the small room, his hands clenched, his eyes burning, calling for the vengeance of Heaven upon his child’s destroyer, and the warden, looking on, whispered: ‘‘Better so than moaning likea girl.” But the day broke at last, and the policeman came to keep his promise. All through the weary, bitter day Mr. Merri- man had to wait with al! the patience he could command, till the coroner gave his verdict, and the law allowed the heart- broken father to claim his child. Another interval was spent in neces- sary preparation, before she could be taken to the home she had made desolate, and there was unutterable pathos in the father’s tone as he said to the under- taker: ‘“*You must arrange for me to have an hour or two before the coffin is sent to the farm, to tell her mother. I cannot send word, for Jane cannot read writ- ing.’’ But she could read the stricken face for which she was watching, and it needed no spoken word to tell her why Lucy was not with her father. “She is dead!” she cried, ‘‘she is dead!” And then waited for a denial that never came. It needed not the time the father had asked for to break the dread- ful news, but the mother went with a strange, apathetic calmness to prepare the house for funeral rites. Very fair and beautiful was the face that was pillowed in Lucy Merriman’s coffin, and very sincere was the sympa- thy extended to the sorrowing parents. But, with the deep mourning, the sincere pity, was ever the bitter truth that comes to so many sorrowing hearts, that at the root of all the desolation and grief was the one act of deception, the one lie, that was the parents’ reward for years of devoted love There is much written of true love, of parental tyranny, but thousands of tales could be told where the love is but a glamour of youth, and the tyranny only tenderest of fatherly love; where the pain of opposition is as keenly felt by the father as by the wayward child. Many a home tragedy that will remain forever unwritten is founded upon one such hasty act of deceit, one such living lie as desolated the home of Lucy Merri- man, and brought her in her first youth and loveliness to fill a suicide’s grave. Mary A. WHITE. —>.—— Times may improve, but if you do not keep your stock and business methods up to date you are not likely to reap much benefit from the more favorable conditions. Reeder Bros. Shoe Co. 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SIMMONS ARE HUSTLING THESE DAYS FOR ORDERS ON WALES-GOODYEAR RUBBERS THE BEST WEARING BRAND ON EARTH, for the Herolc-Bertsch Shoe 5 and 7 Pearl St., Grand Rapids. P.S. Write us care the house. BOSTON RUBBER SHOE GOMPANY’S Goods ure found at McGraw’s DETROIT We have the Greatest Variety of the Freshest Goods, and the Largest Stock firand Rapids Office, Room 4, Widdieomb Bldg. HENRY ROYCE, Sapt. A. C. WETZEL A. HEROLD, Co., of any house in the United States. RINDGE, KALMBAGH 4 OU.De 12, 14 and 16 Pearl Street Agents for the Boston Rubber Shoe Co.’s Goods Manufacturers and Jobbers of Boots an Shoes We make the best line of Medium Priced Goods in the LINDEN : market. You can improve your trade by handling our goods. NEEDLE TOE. Use Tradesman W ants Column IT REACHES THE PEOPLE. TERT eer a ea NE NT ENS eT NTT RN OTC TE IE HEI arn i i ; Ed £ q ie 16 THE ROAD PROBLEM. Written for THE TRADESMAN. This question is one having many un- determined elements, that is, undeter- mined by practical demonstration, though many ideal and theoretically com- plete schemes of practical solution have been devised and published. The fact, however, that there is so little real prog- ress in the work of securing good roads seems to indicate that there is something lacking in practicality. The practical difficulties in the way of permanent road improvement are indi- cated by the remarkable fact that so many railroads have been built in regions where the real needs of commerce would have been better served by improved highways to other, not distant, railroads. I base my assertion as to the better servy- ing the needs of commerce on the fact that so many such roads are built at vast expense where it seems utterly hopeless that they will ever pay, and where the attempt to make them pay must be at exorbitant tariffs. Now, why is it that these roads can be built at such expense and nothing can be done for the high- ways? Aside from questions of speculation, fraudulent floating of bonds and schemes of municipal aid, the difference lies in the fact that in tHe construction of a railroad there is obtained by the com- pany a positive property and monopoly that is impossible in any scheme of road improvement yet devised even if such monopoly were desirable. The toll rvads from many of the larger towns are of so little importance to the main ques- tion and the tenure of monopoly is so slight they are scarcely to be noted as exceptions. In these facts, then, seems to lie the greatest difficulty: There is no definite basis for organization of road improve- ment which shall give to those investing in the work a definite and tangible indi- cation of the amount of their several Ownerships in it. And there is no means of making a sufficiently apparent return for the investments of each owner in such improvement. 1 mean by this that there has not yet been devised a plan for co-operation in road improvement that can command the confidence of the average farmer, or, as to that matter, merchant, and induce an investment init. It seems strange that the economic conditions are such that capital will build such a great milage of railroads at such vast expense, when the same investment in improvement of highways would produce so much greater returns. The building of one mile of railway costs about $20,000. The per- manent improvement of one mile of high- way is placed by the best authorities at less than $1,000. The cost, then, of build- ing twenty miles of railroad would build no less than four hundred miles of per- manently improved roads. It would need but little figuring to show which would yield the greater returns, thai is when made tributary to a reasonably ac- cessible railroad line. Of course, the first plan that suggests itself is co-operation. This is the plan almost universally advocated (though there are locatities considering the prac- ticability of county bonds for this pur- pose.) But the difficulty is to get the av- erage farmer to appreciate and join in this kind of co-operation. It is much easier to get him to subscribe for a railroad, for then he has something to THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. show for his investment, though it prove to be bankrupt stock; or easier to get him ! to vote a bonus because it will ‘‘open up” the country. A great work awaits the one who finds a solution to this problem. W. N. F. nn A Doctor’s Story. It was while I was practicing at Ashe- ville, N. C., a few years ago. One morning there came into my of- fice an old fellow who had the appear- ance of a mountaineer. He was accompanied by his wife, who was totally blind from cataract. The old fellow said that if I would cure her, or manage to give her just a little sight, he would pay me $100. Said he: *‘The ole woman’s been blind for over twelve years, and ain’t of no use to herself nor nobody else, soif you will go ahead and fix her up so’s she can see ag’in and be of use to me, why, I will give you the money.”’ I agreed to take the case; not withont some trepidation, as a fellow physician had already operated upon one of the eyes with bad results. In the course of time, however, I man- aged to restore the old lady’s sight, so that she could see and read quite well, and then after a reasonable lapse of time I presented the bill. ‘| ain’t a-going to pay you nothin’ on that bill.’’ *-Why?’’ I asked. ter?” ‘ Well,’ said he,‘‘it’s just here. I told you, you will remember, that if you would fix up the old woman so that she would be of some use to me, I would pay you, but she ain’t no more use now than she was before, or as much, for she used to do some work before she could see, but now she won’t do nothing but sit around the house and read novels.” —_—_—_———— OO “Company Stores” Doomed in Penn- sylvania. The ‘‘company stores’? of Pennsylva- nia received a black eye recently from the State Legislature, which passed a bill fixing a tax of 10 per cent. on the face value of all store orders, checks and pass-books or any other device repre- senting the wages of any employe given him in payment for labor by any mining, transportation or manufacturing concern. A penalty of 75 per cent. is imposed for neglect or refusal on the part of any company or firm to make returns to the Auditor-general of the amount of such business transacted. This law is ex- pected to prove a blessing to the miners and others in the employ of large con- cerns which compel their employes to patronize certain stores. ‘‘What is the mat- Use Tradesman Cowpon Books. 7 Made of Portable Bath Tub sists oe ~. Can be used => as a Portable > or Stationary Bath Tub, with or with- out casters. Teaae snan Co w. C. Hopson & Co. H. HAFTENCAMP. Louis and Campau Sts. Grand Rapids. SEND FOR CATALOGUE W. C. HOPSON. GRAND RAPIDS. 9 Harnesses, Harrows, Plows, Cultivators. AND A FULL LINE OF SMALL IMPLEMENTS AND REPAIRS. Prompt attention to Mail and Telegraph Orders. Prices right. Write for Catalogue. Telephone 104. ) Buccies, MANUFACTURERS OF SLEIGHS & WAGONS, ’ ESTABLISHED 1865. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. 1 “i THE GROCER’S SAFETY. MADE IN 2 SIZES ONLY. FULLY WARRANTED. Body 7 ft. long, 36 in. wide, drop tail gate i .. 40 00 boGy 5 (©. tone, 36 im. wide, dpap ial wate... BELKNAP, BAKER & Co. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. Light Delivery and Order Wagon. 88-90-92 S. Division St., Grand Rapids ~~ TAA MICHIGAN “OLA HOS na A IN. 17 WOMEN AND BUSINESS From the Standpoint of a Business Woman. Written for THE TRADESMAN. The woman question is one which will not be downed, and, as Jong as the agita- tion consequent upon women’s voting continues, it will not be lost sight of. This is not intended as an article on the ‘rights’? or ‘‘wrongs” of women; but, as a business woman, and seeing some things from a woman’s point of view that would be lost sight of from a man’s, allow me to advance some ideas which might not be exactly agreeable or ad- missible from a member of the opposite sex. Some of us have a way of arguing that woman, given the chance to exercise equally with man the right of voice in public affairs, will have a beneficial in- fluence on all matters business and po- litical, although we all agree that hered- ity and environment are the factors which make one’s character and life. As sisters of, why do we not partake of the same nature as our brother man? Given the same business education and training, why should we be any better or worse than he? It has been my observation that almost any woman will tell you she had much rather have business dealings with men than with a member of her own sex. Women would rather work for men than for each other, which may be one reason for the rush for shop and office positions, instead of seeking employment in domes- tic service. In a recent editorial in one of the lead- ing Chicago dailies, some attention was given to the subject of women’s work in the matter of trades, and the question was asked, ‘“‘Why is it that girls will continue to overfill the ranks of office as- sistants, etc., when the trades peculiarly feminine are not yet sufficiently full of good help?”? And, further, ‘*A thorough- ly competent dressmaker or artistie mil- liner can command any reasonable price for her labor, and the demand is still greater than the supply of skilled work- ers.’’ The business woman is no better and sometimes not so agreeable as the men in like occupations. It is more than likely that a great cause is in the lack of busi- ness training, which men receive from their early years and which is usually lacking among women. Iam not speak- ing of individual cases but of them as a class. We hear a great deal about the ‘‘new woman,” and it would probably not be particularly advisable for any writer to allude to the former class as the ‘‘old woman;” kut, undoubtedly, with the old-time views of women’s education and training, her morals and general tendencies were superior to those of her brother. But, given his education, sur- roundings and general training, with his ambitions and temptations, she is still his sister in a great degree and, in time, will be his equal—no more, no less. Women have shown that in business they are no better than men, and why should the ery of their ‘‘purifying pol- itics”’ still be kept up? No greater fal- lacy ever was dreamed of. In a woman’s club not a thousand miles from here, the fact has been shown that skillful schem- ing is not unknown, and that, too, where salary is not one of the incentives. The chivalry of all ages, much of | which still remains, is responsible for. the idea that woman, in the abstract, has a purifying influence wherever she may be placed. Happily, such is the case in a great measure; but she is not infallible, and, the more one sees of the business world and of the women in it, the more he is convinced of the ‘‘equal- ity’? of the sex in more matters than one. Do you speak of loyalty to the sex? That is all very well, but ‘‘Be just before you are generous’’ is a good motto to keep sight of. Too many women want the rights of men and the privileges of women at the same time. When we enter the field of business, we should expect the same treatment that men give each other, and not attempt a competition with them and expect them to give us all the advantages which chivalry would exact. JACQUELINE. > +> A Rhetorical Question. Written for THE TRADESMAN, An exchange, ’way up in matters of finance, asks, ‘‘Would free coinage re- duce wages,’’ and then goes on to say, to allintents and purposes, that anybody would see, if he would think a minute, that, of-course, it would reduce wages. Well, now, there are two sides to that question and, somehow, we have got on the other side. Take it a year ago, when every other man met was out of work, and the man that did have it worked for almost nothing—if the silver had been coined without limit, would wages have gone down? Of course, they wouldn’t, for they couldn’t. So much for that. What would have been the result? Where a man earned $1 he’d earn at least $2, and, when he was paid off every Sat- urday night, the employer, out of his abundance, would have slipped in an extra dollar or two as a kind of surprise. Out of the fullness of his pocket his lib- erality speaketh, and the era of prosper- ity would have returned. So much for that. Here’s another idea that might as well be disposed of now as at anytime. How large ought a dollar in coin to be? It is a question of convenience. Who wants to carry about a lot of weights for the sake of having a dollar or two in his pocket? Compare the old-fashioned cent with the last one from the mint. That’s the idea. For ‘“‘cent’’ read ‘‘dollar” and you have it. There is no reason in the world why we.shouldn’t have twice the number of dollars with only the expense of the coining. The common dollar is as large again as it ought tobe. All that’s needed is to stamp the half-dollar as a dollar and that matter is settled. Don’t ask what, with potatoes at a dol- lar a bushel, the farmer would say to one of the new dollars? He wouldn’t say anything. He would be so glad to get the dollar that he would slip it into his pocket without a word. No; a dol- lar’s a dollar, whether it’s as big as a cart wheel, or reduced to the size of thé little gold one—another proof that size has very little to do with the coin of the country. We submit, then, that free coinage, in- stead of reducing wages, would have an effect exactly the reverse. We say that hard times are due entirely to a dearth of dollars—a matter of experience with the majority of men during the last two years; and we say, too, without fear of contradiction, that, if the half-dollar | should be stamped as a dollar, the mass of mankind would have twice as many as they have to-day. Q. E. 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Retail at 20 cents each. 348 Grand Bod Ave American Pepsin Cracker Co.>8 24,8) Ask Jobber for a sample order, or eB INS ETT Ie ee ee THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. COIN AND CREDIT. How Paper Money and Bank Checks Have Supplanted Coin. In the purchase and sale of stocks, the impulse to buy, like the impulse to sell, is produced by trifles and is destroyed by trifles. Men pass from hopefulness to despondency and back again for no other reason, often, than that they are tired of the one state of feeling and take up the other for a change. After they have bought they want to sell, and then they want to buy again. What is true in this respect of the stock market is also true of the market, when there is any, for all kinds of ar- ticles capable of being bought and sold with sufficient ease to furnish inviting chances of profit. As we see daily, not only are the prices of wheat, corn, cot- ton, beef, pork, iron and petroleum sub- ject to speculative fluctuations, but even those of less important commodities. sueh as drugs, spices and hemp, and of so bulky and unwieldy a kind of property as land and buildings, have their ups and downs, resulting from men’s changes of sentiment in regard to future values. In fact, value itself is only the popular estimate of the desirability of things. The wore earnest the desire for them the greater their value, and the less earnest the desire the less their value. If no- body cared to diamonds the Kohinoor would be as worthless as a piece of broken glass, while the eager- ness of the Se’ th Sea Islanders for iron made it as valuable to them in Capt. Cook’s time as gold is to us. Of course, the ease or the difficulty with which the desire for the possession of things can be gratified is also an ele- ment in increasing or diminishing value. If diamonds were as plenty as pebbles and as readily to be had, they would be as valueless, no matter how fashionable they might be for ornaments. So, too, if iron were as scarce with us as it was with the South Sea Islanders, and as hard to get, we should be willing to pay as much for it as they were. Not de- mand alone, therefore, nor supply alone determines value, but the action and re- action of each upon the other. Of the two, however. demand is the primary and more efficient factor, since without it the essential element of value would be lacking. Let nobody want an article, even as a gift, the fact that it is scarce and hard to get will not make it worth anything. It is evident from this that, when the desire to possess any particular thing or class of things takes hold of a great num- ber of people at the same moment, the value of that thing or class of things will increase, and as value in buying and selling is expressed by the amount of money things command, their price in money will go up. To create and to stimulate this desire are the aim of own- ers who have things to sell, and to the degree that they sueceed in doing it, or that it is done for them without effort on their part, a rise in prices is the result. Correspondingly, when the desire to buy abates, and especially when a desire to sell takes its place, prices go down, as so frequently happens in the stock market. Itis alla matter of feeling and of imagina- tion, and hence the difficulty of prognos- ticating the course of prices either of stocks or anything else. What ought to take place, in reason, can be foretold, but, unfortunately, reason is not always supreme. possess Value, too, being the result of mental operations, cannot be said to be fixed and absolute. itis, in its very nature, relative, but, being usually expressed by areference to the single commodity of money, the relative value of all other commodities to one another is over- looked. We say that wheat sells for so much a bushel and cotton for so much a pound, and there we stop. If we wenta step farther and compared wheat with cotton, we could as properly say that a bushel of wheat was worth so many pounds of cotton, or a bale of cotton so many bushels of wheat. The dollar, or the shilling, or the franc, or whatever money unit employed to express prices, is merely a convenient common measure by which to get at the relative value of things, without going into the complicated caleulations which direct barter entails; for, the seller of wheat or of cotton, while he insists on being paid in money for what he sells, does so only for the purpose of buying with that money the other articies which he de- The use of money does not de- stroy barter; it only makes it easier to effect. Although the whole business of the civilized world is, in the first in- stance, buying and selling for money, it is, actually, a gigantic system of ex- changes, by which every individual de- voting himself to the preduction of a few things, or, perhaps of a single thing, obtains various other things which his fellow men produce, and which he needs for his comfort or his pleasure. is sires. The money with which this great ex- change of commodities among men is ef- fected may be anything which is so gen- erally desirable that it will be readily taken in payment for other things. In different ages and in different countries it has been cattle, salt, wampum, cow- ries, furs, teas, tobacco, and, in short, almost every kind of non-perishable com- modity. The metals, from their supe- rior durability, gradually supplanted, as civilization progressed, everything else, and iron, brass, silver, and, finally, gold, shaped into convenient form and size as coin, successively became the only money used. The result is that when money is spoken of hardly any one thinks of anything but coin, or of paper representing coin. Coin, however, is by no means the last stage of the development of money. With the growth of commerce, especially in these days of railroads, steamers, and electric telegraphs, the actual passing over of coin from hand to hand in every transaction has become too laborious an operation. Where the aggregate of pur- chases and sales amounts at a single point, as it frequently does, to hundreds of millions of dollars, payment in coin is physically impossible. A hundred thou- sand dollars in gold weighs 370 pounds, and in silver, at the ratio of 16 to 1, it weighs nearly three tons. A million of dollars in gold weighs nearly two tons, and the same amount of silver nearly thirty tons. We have only to fancy the employment of the actual gold or silver in effecting the exchanges of commodi- ties in this city, to become convinced of its impracticability. All the horses and earts at our command would not suffice to carry the stuff around, even if men enough and time enough could be had to count it. To overcome this difficulty the practice was long ago introduced, and has con- tinually been more and more extended, 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 Trade to our Complete and Well Assorted Stock at Lowest Market Prices. 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 in 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 Yes, we’ve got ’em! Novelties and Staples in Dry Goods. Everything in Notions. 7 Big Line of Gents’ Furnishings. All that can be desired in Yarns. We are Headquarters for Hoot Ci! Glotns and Linoleums Have you ever done business with us? If not, let’s get our heads together and see what we “OIG, HERPOLSHEIMER& 60. Wholesale Dry Goods, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. BOSTON CLOTHING Of all descriptions We are Exclusive Agents for Boston Patent Pants Co. BICYCLE SUNDRIES BASE BALL and TENNIS GOODS Agents Wanted SKINS ARIGHION 97-99-10! Ollawd 81. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. PATENT BICYCLE PANTS. THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 19 of substituting for coin, in business transactions, first, paper money repre- senting coin, and, what is of far greater utility, bank credits. Within a month the banks of New York City in one day exchanged among themselves credits representing $137,000,000, and_ settled the resulting balances not in coin, but in paper and in warehouse receipts for coin. In London, which is the great eommercial and financial center of the civilized world, the bank exchanges averaged last year on Stock Exchange account days $400,000,000, and amounted for the year to $31,000,000,000. What is done in these two cities is done in like manner on a smaller scale, but still, in the aggregate, to an enormous amount, in other commercial cities all over the world. Only the smallest conceivable fraction of the business transacted in- volves the use of actual coin, nearly the whole being accomplished by the use of credit. I mention these facts, not as being new to my readers, but because they need to be brought into prominence just at this moment, when so great an outery is made on both sides of the Atlantic of the insufficiency of the supply of coin in the world to do the world’s business. The truth is that, just as coin sup- planted eattle, shells, and other incon- venient kinds of money, and as gold and | silver supplanted iron, copper and brass, so paper money and bank checks have supplanted gold and silver coin. Under the pressure of the same progressive movement silver is disappearing from civilized countries as a medium of ex- change, and is used only as subsidiary or token money in the same way that paper or bronze might be used. In process of time gold itself will be no longer coined, but kept in the shape of large ingots, and in that form employed to settle in- ternational balances, as it is now toa great extent. MATTHEW MARSHALL, ro She Had the Book. From the Philadelphia Grocery World. Judging from a case which came under the writer’s notice during the past week, it is small wonder that some retail gro- cers fail. The case was one in whicha Philadelphia retailer was the chief fig- ure. Hedida good business, and had a reputation among his fellows of being a pretty progressive fellow. Recently this grocer had quite a good-sized bill which he was unable to collect. After temporizing for some time, he placed it in the hands of a certain collection agency in the city, with instructions to push it. After the bebtor, who was a woman, had been notified through the collection agency that the bill had been placed in the latter’s hands for collection, she paid a visit to the agency, and said she would pay the bill instantly upon receiving an itemized statement. The manager of the collection agency congratulated himself on getting the account in so easily, and communicated with the grocer with a re- quest for an itemized bill. The grocer answered the request in person: ‘TI can’t give you any itemized bill,” he said. “Why not?” asked the collector, in surprise. “Why,” answered the grocer, ‘‘she’s got the book.”’ “You don’t mean to say that’s the only book of her account you kept, do you?”’ demanded the manager. “Why, certainly,’’ was the grocer’s an- swer, given in a tone which denoted that | he was surprised at the question. The result was that the account still | remains uncollected, and is likely to. Any customer has such a grocer right under his or her thumb. | A Bit of Modern Verse. Written for THE TRADESMAN. Without insisting too strongly that the American muse has, in a fit of inspi- ration, given utterance to some practical and, at the same time, prophetic verse, we confess to a feeling akin to that ex- perienced in reading accounts of Eng- land’s action in Central America and on the continent farther south. To our prejudiced ears these accounts have a striking resemblance to an old story, told first in 1776, and repeated, with little variation, a little later, when Perry ‘‘met the enemy and they are [were] ours.”’ It is to be hoped that there is no dan- ger of a return of the condition of things then existing with the corresponding re- sults, but, when we see the same old spirit asserting itself in the same old ag- gresSive way, the lines of the modern muse, doggerel though they be, come to us and we find ourselves humming with considerable vim: “You can’t holler down our rain barrel, If you won’t be good to me!” The fact is that too little attention has been paid to the limits of the back yard and the ownership of the rain barrel. One would think a continent barrier enough to keep off troublesome neigh- bors, and yet, when the trouble began with the Hawaii children, there was that John Bull monopolizing the yard and keeping the children from sliding down their own cellar-door. Nicaragua hap- pens to leave her back gate open and John B. at once mounts the gate-post and lets nobody go out or in. Venezuela concludes to do what she will with her own, but there stands the omnipresent John, who, with a wave of the hand, tells the youthful republic to get right back—that part of the dooryard belongs to him. It makes no difference what is said or done—whether it is sliding down the cellar-door, or hollering down the rain-barrel, or climbing the apple-tree— this big-vested John has something to say about it. It does seem as if the time has come to eall a halt. Hints enough have been dropped, but to no purpose, and, if nothing will do but emphasizing the hint with a kick, let the latter be given and with force enough to lift the burly med- dler from the ground. That, if any- thing, will bring matters to a focus and will give special force to the suggestive lines: “You ean’t holler down our rain-barrel, You can’t climb our apple tree, And you can’t play in our back yard For you ain’t good to me.” R. M. STREETER. ——_—>-+— Courting the Curiosity of Customers. An ingenious Chicago merchant re- cently placed the following inscription ona a in one of his store windows: WATCH THIS WINDOW TO-MORROW. The curtains of the a were closely drawn, which circumstance aroused the curiosity of shoppers as to what was going on behind them, and in- duced them to be present on the morrow when the curtains were raised. The scene presented to their vision was an extremely handsome and artistic display of the very latest styles in the dealer’s line, which they considered a genuine commercial treat. To make such a dis- play cost the storekeeper a good many dollars, but he considered the money well invested, judging by the customers attracted to his establishment by the scheme. —_————_—~<>-<———_—_—-— Use Tradesman Coupon Books. GHAS.A. MORRILL & U0. Importers and Jobbers of -> TEAS< 21 LAKE ST., CHICAGO, ILL. | EMON % WHEELER (50 WHOLESALE GROCERS Grand Rapids SHE USES ¢ CONCORD SOAP SOLD BY ALL GROCERS. Mauufactured by e e ee See TRADESMAN’s Quotations, THE STAR CLEANER AND FABRIC RENOVATOR Most Useful, Best and Greatest Labor-Saving Preparation of the Age. Manufactured Expressly for Cleaning Carpets, Rugs, Curtains, Glass, Woodwork, Uphol- stered Articles, Woolens, Silks, Satins, Plush Goods, Hats, Kid Gloves and all kinds of Fine Fabries. Price to the Trade. ee $2 00 POT CSS a os i ee weet terete cee 22 00 Retails at 25 cents. For Circulars and Rates address Slot MOMUClU CANTON, OHIO. OS GGRE SSR H ESS SaOReOoGGUeee Peo thes ee te 8 8 : i @ its drudgery and discomfort. Some women have © % 5 found out that there is one great aid that helps = : as % to make Jighler the work of wi ishing clothes. ca @ That is 4 G ae x a = © 3 3 ” UE «© : > It takes rage dirt out eolaekout excessiv ap ot t: a & leivesthe clothes clean and white,withoutinjury. = = # Vou cin well afford to give it atrial. Get it at z : : your dealers. A catalogue of beautiful pictures » o — & free. & 5 5° 3 a s & GOWANS & SONS, Buffalo, N. Y. 2 ¥* a Nearly every woman dreads Co GO OOOO OOOO COS RoR Oa eR SSH Ss ‘wash day’? with grees epee pte TIE: ees serene = e ie Pe me Mer Pee re i ep cae 20 THE TROUBLESOME CUSTOMER. How She Disturbs the Soul of the Dry Goods Dealers. E. H. Shedd in Dry Goods Bulletin. Job, yes Job had some trial, but his life was as a sunny pilgrimage compared with that of most merchants. He ought to have bought a retail store if he was looking for trouble. But this was not the beginning; as nearly as 1 can remember the curtain arose upon the following: “Tell her 1 am busy—writing some letters that must be mailed to-night;” and seizing a pen he began writing at a rapid pace. The mere entrance of a lady customer oceasioned all this. The clerk stepped behind the counter and politely inquired her wants. ‘-Could I see Mr. Blank a moment? He knows just what I want; besides, you know I always trade with him.” “Mr. Blank is very busy at present. He is writing some letters which must be mailed to-night. Don’t you think | would do this time?” “Why, yes, certainly, you would any time, only you know, as I said before, l am so accustomed to trading with him that it seems he can always put his band right on the article | am after. 1 am looking for a pin for baby, and 1 can’t make up my mind whether to have it say ‘baby’ or ‘mamma’s darling.’ ” “Ob, mamma!’ groaned Mr. Blank taking afresh dip of ink and bending lower over his work. The clerk set a tray of pins on the case before the customer, suggesting, as he did so, that the lettering was merely a matter of taste. She looked and looked; picked up one pin after another and laid it down, a look of troubled indecision wrinkling her brow. “You haven’t any with ‘mamma’s and papa’s darling’ on, have you?”’ Blank made a frenzied jab at the ink stand, remarking in an undertone that she would probably end up with a door plate with the whole blooming family on it. ‘| think it’s real mean of you, Mr. Blank,’’ she observed, poutingly, *‘to not come and wait on such a good old cus- tomer as I,’’ “That’s true, Mrs. Smith,” replied Blank, ‘‘you are an old customer and very good to excuse me this evening when I have more than I can do; but the truth is, John knows more about baby pins than all the rest of us put together. He has made a special study of them, and knows all the good-luck charms in the catalogue. Take his advice and you will be safe.’’ ‘Oh, aren’t you awful! But say, Mr. Blank,” and she walked down to the desk with both hands full of pins, ‘‘do you think there is any danger of these pins coming unpinned and sticking into baby ?’’ Mr. Blank could not do otherwise than put a half an hour of careful consulta- tion with his customer, the result being the sale of a fifty-cent pin. This lady, the merchant afterward ex- plained, was one of his best customers. Since a little child she had stood stead- fastly by him, apparently never thinking that it was possible to buy goods else- where. When the year rolled around it was invariably found that the trade of her family was very near the top in amount. As for pay, the account was worth 100 cents on the dollar. These were the good features. On the other hand, it always cost all the profits to sell her goods, so long did it take to make the selection. No one could wait upon her but Mr. Blank, and when she had made a pur- chase the counters and show cases were tilled with goods which she had in- spected. ‘‘What can a person do?” inquired the proprietor. ‘I have tried every scheme i can evolve, but they all seem to only entertain her the more. If I tell her that I cannot afford to waste so much time with her I will not only lose her trade but that of her parents as well. “This baby has temporarily given a different form to the plague, but it might as well be the baby as anything else, for on some excuse or other she is bound to consume 100 minutes for a dollar. 1 timed her to-night, and it took her ex- actly forty-three minutes to buy a pin that would have been j .st as satisfactory if bought in the dark. ‘*] will pay ten years’ subscription in advance and agree to become a life reader of any trade paper that will offer an effectual remedy tor this affliction. Every merchant has it in some form, some are beset with sample fiends, butas a rule they do not bother long. It is the good customer, such as the one just in, who always buy, but are forever at it, that tries one’s patience.”’ i 1 know another merchant whose experi- ence was very similartotheabove. The annoying customer’s especial hobby was dress goods. Whenever he advertised the arrival of new dress goods she was the first to put in an appearance, and, as he put it, the last to leave. Every piece in the house had to be taken down, several yards unrolled, and the merits and demerits discussed at length. Naturally, the counters svon looked as if a cyclone had struck the place. His temper not being proof against every- thing, he was considerably annoyed, yet this very customer bought more and bet- ter dress goods than any other patron. Of course, he could not afford to send her away, because her trade was consider- able, and, besides, she had friends who would be more or less influenced. He thought long and laboriously; at last an idea arrived, and, with it, a smile of satisfaction. He bided his time. It was springtime; the gentle cackle of the hen blended in tuneful cadence with the rythmic rattle of battens on the barn; it was springtime and spring dress goods were liierally flooding the stores— if the statements in the papers could be believed; Likewise came the lady cus- tomer, even before the newspaper man arrived with his bill. The time had ar- rived. The proprietor waited upon her. It was the same old story—piece after piece came down. When enough had been placed upon the counter to afford an excuse he called the book-keeper, with whom it had been previously ar- ranged, and set him toe replacing the goods on the shelves. The book-keeper gauged his speed so as to keep even with them, being careful to make a painful display of the vast amount of work re- quired to build up that which they were tearing down. It did not take quite so long that time. In a few days she came in again; this time the proprietor and a clerk went to wait upon her. Two or three times, this was done, when one day she re- marked: ‘IT never before knew how much trou- ble I have made you; lam more trouble than all my trade is worth to you.” In response te which the proprietor promptly and suavely lied, saying that she was no trouble; that it was a pleas- ure to show goods, etc. But the mer- chant never again took a clerk wiih him, nor was it necessary, for the little object lesson opened her eyes to the fact that she was making unnecessary trouble, and that was sufficient. While every merchant has his trouble- some customers, there are very few who go to such extremes, and since hearing the above | have often wondered if it would not be productive of good results if the salesmen would stop and carefully roll and replace each piece before taking down another. Of course, this would apply to only those wno make too much trouble in the selection of goods. >. —_ — Value of Advertising. “Jeremiah, said Mrs. Shuckins, ‘they ye bin ter the post office yet?’’ **Nope.’’ “Well, | wisht ye’d go down now I hatn’t a scrap o’ paper ter light the fire with termorrer mornin’ an’ it’s about time another batch o’ them green goods cire’lars was gittin’ in.” _> «> Use Tradesman Coupon Books. DEMANDS THAT Y OU STOCK UP WITH Fireworks, Candy, Oranges& Lemons WE ARE THE LEADING SUPPLY HOUSE IN THE CITY FOR ITEMS NAMED AND YOUR ORDERS WILL BE EXECUTED WITH A DEGREE OF PROMPTNESS AND EXACTNESS THAT WILL CERTAINLY PLEASE YOU. First Class Goods at Correct Prices. THE PUTNAM CANDY CoO., Grand Rapids OPPORTUNITIES FOR SUCCESS. It is a common complaint in these days that there are no good opportunities now, such as there once were, to make money. Competition, men tell you, isso keen that the profits of business are small, while risks of loss are many and large. To do a profitable business re- quires not only more brains, but a larger capital and intenser activity than ever before. Trade tends to concentration in fewer and fewer hands. The great houses are continually absorbing the small ones, or, by underselling them, driving them into bankruptcy. For every clerkship there are hundreds of ap- plicants, which reduces wages so low that a young man who wishes to go into business by-and-by for himself can bare- ly live, without laying up a dollar. Now, while there is a certain amount of truth in this, we believe it to be enormously exaggerated. We think we could show, had we space, that for a man who is abreast with the age, and has mastered the latest and best mode of doing business, the present is in many respects the best time in the world’s his- tory to win an independence or a for- tune. Instead, however, of showing the truth of this opinion, we will tell an an- ecdote. About fifty years ago, we were chatting in a hotel in Maine with a shrewd old retired merchant over eighty years of age, who, beginning life a poor boy in a village in Kennebec county, Me., had accumulated from $800,000 to $1,000,000 —asum equal, probably, to more than twice as much to-day. “People,” said the old man, ‘‘are al- ways complaining that there are no chances now to make money. Thirty years ago, they tell you, there were plenty of such chances; and, had you lived at that time, you would have heard tbe same croakings. I remember well that people then said that the days for acquiring fortunes had gone by—that the time for making money was just after the revolution; and I have no doubt that during this last period there were plenty of unsuccessful men who asserted that there was no profit in business—that the lucky men were those who lived a gen- eration earlier. And so you might go back a hundred years, or more, and al- ways you would hear from many persons the same despairing. Now, the fact is, Mr. Mathews,”’ continffed he, after paus- ing a moment to take a pinch of snuff, “that all times are good for making money, if you only know how; and if you don’t know how all times are bad.” “But, Mr. G——,’’ said we, ‘‘suppose that a young man is a clerk in a store in Boston, with a salary of only $200 a year, and he has to pay $5 a week for his clothes and board; how is he to lay up any money? How is he to get a start in life, or find capital to go into any busi- ness for himself?” “I don’t undertake,’”’ replied the old man, in his shrill, slow voice, ‘‘to say how it can be done; I only say that if he has a will to do it, it will be done. But, in- stead of arguing the matter, I will tell you a story. “About fifty years ago, there was a poor boy in Maine, whose father, once independent, had lost most of his prop- erty by indorsing notes for his friends, and lived in a log house. The boy used to pick strawberries and other fruits and carry them two miles to a country vil- ,and interesting TRADESMAN. at lage, where be sold them at 3 centsa quart. ‘One day a firm of traders, thinking he had a turn for business, asked him how he would like to be one of their clerks. His eyes sparkled at the proposal, and, on his saying he would like the place, he was taken into the store. His salary for the first seven years was $40 a year and board. For the next two years he re- ceived $100 a year and his board. At the end of the nine years’ clerkship his em- ployers took him into co-partnership. How much money do you suppose he had at that time laid up?” “Why,” we replied, ‘‘if he uad re- sembled some clerks that are employed to-day, he probably, if he could have got credit for such a sum, would have been about $1,500 in debt.’’ ‘‘Well,” said the merchant ina tone of triumph, ‘‘that is precisely the sum he had laid up in cold cash. And now, if you don’t believe the story, 1 will tell you who the boy was. He was your own father, and I was one of the firm that employed him as clerk and finally took him into co-partnership.”’ Surprised at this revelation, and con- scious that we had been fluored by an ar- qumentum ad hominem, we were silent for a few minutes, and then added: “But the whole of the clerk’s salary, Mr. G——, for the nine years, put at com- pound interest, wouldn’t have amounted to the $1,500, which you say he had hoarded.’’ “Oh,’? was the reply, ‘the kept his mon- ey turning over, of course. He fished at night in the Kennebec—caught and sold salmon, and dickered with the farmers, ete. But he never neglected his em- ployers’ business. He was my partner for thirty years, and the only one 1 did not lose money by.’? Ww. MATHEWS. —_~> +> Should Stick to One Thing. When a man starts out as a merehant, and is desirous of being successful, he should stick to that one vocation. Few men are such geniuses as to be able to look after the crops, electioneer tor the mayoralty, deal in horses, etc., all at the same time. Don’t have too many irons in the tire. A ‘‘jack-of-all-trades’’ is, generally, the master of none, and a shoe merenant who attempts to maintain other commercial interests in conjunc- tion with his shoe business will not very likely prove a striking success in any of his pursuits. ‘‘All-around” men are few and very far between. Any one having an extensive circle of acquaintances is well aware of the fact that the ‘‘know- it-all” man, as a rule, knows but very little. Few architects are at the same time writers of poetry; artists are not usually composers of music, and the doc- tor who is anxious to succeed in his chosen profession does not study Black- stone. itis the same with the shoe mer- chant. If he wishes to prosper in his commercial enterprise, let him study shoes and all that appertains to them. He should be well versed in leathers and the different styles of tanning. He should be familiar with the leather mar- ket and its customs. He should know how # shoe is manufactured, of the proc- ess from the time the leather is cut until the last button is sewed on. He should keep himself well-informed as to what is going on in the markets, and it would be greatly to his advantage to peruse every week a progressive, newsy, trade journal. Not every man can operate a store success- fully. Tobe a success as a merchant requires brains, and lots of them. The duties of few men, whatever their pro- fession, business, or trade may be, are more exacting. The merchant may hold up his head as high as any man, for though his vocation is not so gilded as the lawyer’s, or the journalist’s, it neces- sitates intellect to conduct it. WALTER BAKER & G0. The Largest Manufacturers of PURE, HIGH GRADE COCOAS anp CHOCOLATES on this continent, have received HIGHEST AWARDS from the great bi Industrial and Food EXPOSITIONS IN Lurope and America. Ynlike the Dutch Process no Alkalies or other Chemicals or Dyes are used in any of their preparations. ‘Their delicious BREAKFAST COCOA is absolutely pure and solublé, and costs less than one cent a cup. SOLD BY GROCERS EVERYWHERE. WALTER BAKER & CO. DORCHESTER. MASS. Eggs. We want your Eggs. Will pay you full market price for them, delivered here. Please note, we are Buy- ers, not commission men. We are Headquarters for Egg Cases and Fillers. Will sell you No. 1 Cases complete, in lots of 10, each, # % No. 1 30 doz. Cases, in lots of 10, empty, ea... No. 230 doz. Whitewood Cases, empty, Ce 13 No. 230 doz. Whitewood Cases, knock- Gown, i lots OF 25, caeh....:.......... 10 No. 236 doz. Whitewood Cases, each... 14 No. 236 doz. Whitewood Cases,K.D.each 11 No. 1 Fillers, 10 set in No. 1 Case........ 100 No. 2 Fillers, 15 set in No. 1 Case........ 100 W. T. LAMOREAUX C0. Grand Rapids, Mich. Allegan, Mich. Thoroughly renovated, repaired and refur- nished from kitehen to garret. It is the inten tion of the landlord( whois an old traveling man) to make the house a veritable home of comfort and good cheer to the traveling public. E. 0. PHILLIPS, Ptop. NOTHING SUCCEEDS LIKE MERIT! Rocker Washer Has proved the most satis- factory of anyWasherever placed upon the market. It is warranted to wash an a ordinary family washing of 100 Pieces in One Hour as clean as can be washed on the washboard. Write for Catalogue and Trade Discounts. ROGKER WASHER GO., FL Wayne, It CHICAGO Now AND WEsT MICHIGAN R’Y. GOING TO CHICAGO. Ly. G@’d Rapids......... 7:15am 1:25pm *11:20pm Ar. Chieaga...... .... 1:23pm 6:50pm 7 :lam RETURNING FROM 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......11:4%am 3:05pm :0:25pm TRAVERSE CITY. CHARLEVOIX AND PETOSKEY Ly.Grand Rapids... 7:30am 3:15pm Ar. Maniatee........ 12:20pm 8:1!5pm Ar. Traverse City 1:00pm 8:45pm Ar. Charlevoix 3:15pm 11:10pm Ar. Petoskey .... 3:45pm 11:40pm Trains arrive from north at 1:00 pm and 10. m. PARLOR AND SLEFPING CARS. Parlor car leaves for Chicago 1:25pm. Ar- rives from Chicago 10:25pm. Sleeping cars leave for Chicags 11:30pm. Arrive from Chi- cago 6.25am. *Every day Others week days only DETROIT, Oct. 28, 1894 LANSING & NORTHERN R., KR. GOING TO DETROIT. Ly. Grand Rapids. 7:00am 1:20pm 5:25pm Ay. Detroit .. ........11:@am 6:00pm Wi: lepm RETURNING FROM DETROIT. Ly. Detroit... .. T:4¢am 1:10pm 6:00pm Ar. Grand Rapids 12:40pm 5:24pm 10:45pm TO AND FROM SAGINAW. ALMA AND 8T. LOUIS, Ly. GR 7:40am 5:00pm Ar. GR 11:45am 10:45pm TO AND FROM LOWELL, Ly. Grand Rapids........ 7:00am 1:20pm 5:25pm Ay from Lowell.......... 12:40pm S:Fom o.oo: a THROUGH CAR SERVICE. Parlor Curson all trains between Grand Rap- ids and Detroit. Parlor car to Saginaw on mory- ingtrain. Trains week days only. GEO. DEHAVEN. Gen. Pass’r Ag’t. MIGHIGAN CENTRAL “Tie Niagara Falls Route.” (Taking effect Sunday,, May 27, 1894.) Arrive. Depart 10 20 oo m........ Detroit Express ........7 Ga m 5 30am *Night Ezpress........ 1. 20pm 1145 am New York Express...... 6 00pm *Daily. Alilothers daily, except Sunday. Sleeping cars runon ail night trains to and from Detroit. Parlor cars leave for Detroit at 7:00am; re turning, leave Detroit 4:35 pm,arriving at Grand Rapids 10:20 p m. Direct communication made at Detroit with all through trains erst over the Michigan Cen- tral Railroad (Canada Southern Division.) A. ALMQuisT, Ticket Agent Union PassengerStation Pou GRAND HAVEN & MII WALKEE Railway. EASTWARD Trains L ave tNo. 14)tNv. lojtny. i5(*o,. G’d Rapids, Lv aeanlt 20am | 325pm/11 00pm roe Ar! 7 40am|1) 25amj| 427pm/|1z35am St. Johns Ar| 825am/12 lipm| 520pm!/ 14am Owoss) . Ar} 900am} 1 20pm} 605pw) 3 10am E. Saginaw Ar /|1050am) 345pm) 8 00pm) 6 40am Bay City ...Ar|113 am] 435pm| $ 37pm| 7 15am Flint . ... AT/10 Ham] 345pm| 7(5pm! 54 am Pt. Huron. .Arj1205pmj 550pm! 8 50pm} 7 30am Pontiac .Ar/10 58am] 305pm/ $ 25pm) 5 27am Detroit. Ar }13 SHam| 405pm/ 925pm) 7 00am WESTWARD, For Grand Haven and Intermediate Points Le eee lo we oe A For Grand Haven and Muskegon . .ti:}0p.m - ni . “ Mil. and Chi. 15 Sp. mw. 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., 12:60 p.m. 6:30 p. m., 10: 4 p.m. Trains arrive from the west, 6:40 a, m. 8:15 a. m. 1:10 a. m. 3:15 pm and 7:05 p. m. Eastward—No. 14 has Wagner Paricr Buffet ear. No. 18 Parlor Car. No.82 Wagner Sleeper. Westward — No. 11 Parlor( ar. No. 15 Wagner Parlor Buffetcar No. 81 Wagner Sleeper. Jas. CAMPBELL, City T*cket Agent. Grand Rapids & Indiana TRAINS GOING NORTH, Leave going North For Traverse City, Petuskey and Saginaw....7:404a. p- Wer IAW oo a, fo ced wc eee 5:00 p. * For Petoskey and Mackinaw.. . 6:25) m TRAINS GOING SOUTH Leave going South. Bor Olimeinmntt.... ......-0.6. 6.2000. cccesesd 0M oie For Kalamazoo and Chicago. «128 oe oe. For Fort Wayne ana the Kast. 2:16 PD. mh. For Cincinnati ........ 2... eececenee enna ae p.m. For Kalamazoo and Chicago........ , aces hhee o. o Chicago via G. R. & I. R. R. Lv Grand Rapids........72%am 2:15pm “11:40pm ave Oleioago...........-. 2:40pm 9:05pm 7:10am 2:15p m train hasthrough Wagner Buffet Parlor ‘Oar and coach. 11:40 p m train daily, through Wagner Sleeping Car and Coach. Lv Chicago 6:50a m 3.30 p m 11:30 p m Arr Grand Rapides 2:50pm 915 pm 7:20am 3.30 p m has through Wagner Buttet Parlor Car 11:30 p m train daily,through Wagner Sleeping Car Muskegon, Grand Rapids & fudiana. For Muskegon—Leave. From Muskegon— Arrive. 7:25 a 9:50 a m 1:15pm 5:20p m O .L. LOOK WOOD* General Passenger and Ticket Agent. 1:00pm 4:40 pm ee eee eee a eos it] Gear a eee SER Se es ee oe Od CURRENT COMMENT. The California coast papers are brag- ging that more than one-half the salmon pack of the United States, and nearly half of the world’s supply, is now put up in Alaska. The business has some $3,000,000 capital invested in it, and the value of a season’s catch, without count- ing the manufactured products there- from, is about $2,000,000. Last year there were twenty-two canneries in op- eration, which packed 646,000 cases, be- sides twenty-four salting establishments, which marketed 21,000 barrels of salt salmon. The fish are nearly all taken by seines at the mouths of the rivers, thus preventing the salmon reaching their spawning grounds, and it is said that the industry is rapidly destroying the fish. The salmon have practically disappeared already from the Columbia and other Pacific coast rivers, and, at the present rate, it will not be long till one cannot be found in Alaska. It might be worth while for the Government to take some steps for the protection of the salmon on the west coast. It would be easier and cheaper than protecting the Behring Sea. seals in * = - For five days an unlucky cat was upa tree in Brooklyn without food and wail- ing piteousiy for assistance. This cat knew about climbing up than climbing down, and though every induce- ment in the way of food was spread out at the foot of the tree, she could not get down. Passers-by pitied her, policemen stared at her, residents of the vicinity cursed her, and agents of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals could not help her. Finally, a small boy solved the difficulty. He climbed up the tree and brought the cat down, amid the plaudits of an admiring throng, and his picture got into the World. -_ = * more A Mr. Borden, of New York, has of- fered a reward of $10,000 for the arrest of the men who murdered his negro but- ler, and says that he will make it $20,000 toconvict them. Itisa big sum. The chiefs of police of the big cities recently decided that it was wrong and criminal to accept rewards for the capture of criminals, but the chances are that if these are taken, the $10,000 will not be refused. * = * The’ ecarriagemakers, blacksmiths, hackmen and others of Quebee have joined in a protest to the mayor against the new electric street railway, which it They de- clared thai it would be extremely danger- ous to life, and that it would ruin their trades. The mayor heard the committee to the end, and then told them that he was sorry that he could not agree with them, but that he felt bound to do all in his power to secure the proposed rail- way for the city, as it wonld have to keep up with the procession or fall into the background altogether. He said that the old city had already suffered no little through its reputation for back- wardness, and that it was time to take a new departure. is proposed to operate there. * * There is no need of wasting any sym- pathy on Florida. If a state ever did seem to need it, that State was Florida when the cold wave struck her and ear- ried away, when it ebbed, one of the most promising crops of oranges that her trees had ever borne. Everybody was sorry for her then and should have been; THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. but, with a ‘‘So be it,” the land of blos- soms wiped her eyes and started for her melon patch and went to work. Now she comes forward ‘‘with smiles where once were tears” and informs us that she has the biggest melon crop on record and expects to ship more than 8,000 car- loads. Well done, Florida! MHere’s hop- ing that the melons will be all that they promise; and here’s hoping, too, that the example set by that not-to-be-cast-down sister State will be faithfully followed by the other members of the same family! * + * Here’s a move in the right direction: A dairy division has been made in the Agricultural Department at Washington, D. C., and will be organized about July 1. Its purpose is to gather and spread information concerning the dairy busi- ness of this country. In 1892, the United States exported 15,047,246 pounds of but- ter and 82,100,221 pounds of cheese, their combined value being $9,835,000. The Americans were securing the Lon- don market for their cheese when some smart Alec of an exporter began ship- ping filled cheese and selling it for full cream cheese. That finished the busi- ness in Europe! Mulhall, the English Statistician, places the total annual dairy production of the world at 1,946,000 tons, and that of the United States alone at 610,000 tons. — + From the time John Sutter found gold in his mill-race, to the present, Califor- nia has stood, in the eyes of the world, as the gold-producing state. The time has come for that idea to broaden. ‘The gold product is all right but it holds the first place no longer. For the past ten years the fruit has been pushing to the front, amounting, last year, to $50,000,- 000. The value of the gold mined for tRe same time was $40,000,000, which shows that, if the mines give out, tbe State will still be able to keep her nose above water. She seems to have heard the fable about not putting all her eggs in one basket and to have turned it to practical account. - = * Scientists are talking again about the gradual subsidence of the Atlantic coast of this country. A landmark set up in Fairfield county, Conn., about 100 years ago, is now deep under water at low tide, and along the New Jersey shore it has been necessary to move houses back at intervals of thirty years. At one point on the Florida coast a lighthouse had to be abandoned and another built higher on the shore. The indications are strong that Long Island was once a part of the mainland. Along the Atlan- tic in Northern Europe the coast is slowly rising, but the Italian shore is subsiding. Fortunately, scientists maintain that there is an alternation in this movement, and that in the course of ages our Atlan- tic seaboard will rise again. - + ¢ A Portland business man has hit on a new scheme for being awakened at the proper time in the morning, which he de- clares beats any alarm clock that was ever invented. He has his telephone in his bedroom, and each night when about to retire he calls up the central office and requests the operator to call him up at a designated hour, in order to find if the *phone works properly. Promptly at that hour the bell rings loudly, and he is awakened with neatness and dispatch. He claims that the service thus rendered is alone worth the annual rental of the telephone. Engraving Department | Anything for Any Purpose The demand for the finest Mustrations of all kinds, as well as forthe finest mechanical and ornamental designs, is constantly increasing and inciting to con tinual effort to keep the lead in the production of the best work. ‘lo meet these demands, we are con- stantly adding facilities und improved methods OUR HALFTONE ENGRAVINGS Are unexcelled. PHOTO AND PHOTO TINT Engraving for Advertising Designs, Buildings, Cards and Letter Headings, we are making plates whieh will compare favorably with any in artistie design, fineness and printing quality. 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IN It isa pleasure for us to answer questions as to the best process for the work required, togive estimates of cost and to send samples of. work in similar lines Cheap — Coupon Books | In this era of low prices and low grade goods CHEAP COUPON BOOKS, which can be made and sold at a lower a demand has arisen for price than our Standard Grades, that have bee on the market for a dozen years past and have stood the test of time. We Cheap goods in any line, and we note that those are not advoeates of houses which attempt to build up a reputation by catering solely to the demand for low grade goods, seldom make any monéy and soon cease to cut much of a figure in the business world. e However, if any of our customers want a cheaper book than our regular * TRADESMAN, SUPERIOR or UNIVERSAL Grades, we have it and will cheerfully send sam- ples and quote prices on application. Our ECONOMIC 300k is not quite up to the standard of its pre- decessors, but it’s a heap better than the books sold by other coupon book makers for the same money. If you are skeptical on this point, we solicit a comparison of workmanship and quo- tations. Tradesman Company Grand Rapids......... |'THE MICHIGAN TRACESMAN THE KEY TO SUCCESS. Vital Principles Which Must Be Ob- served by the Salesman. The most vital and difficult task a man has in this life is to determine what his talents are and then select that vocation which demands an exercise of these same talents. Every man has some one faculty with which he may excel. With this faculty he possesses the ability to develop himself more fully than with any other he may have had given him. Applying this to selling goods, we have no hesi- tancy in declaring that a salesman is born a salesman, i. e., he is born with the qualities which make a salesman. He may have no ability whatever to exe- cute for himself. So careless may he be about finance that at the end of his life he has barely enough to support himself. Yet he may be a success as a salesman. There is one quality that he must have in an unusual degree, and that is judg- ment of human nature. If he is unable to read his man he had better hunt for another job. He must make himself congenial to his customer. Salesman- ship does not consist in selling what a man desires to buy. It is in directing the attention of your customer to some- thing which you know is paying a good margin, or which is unsalable and must be gotten out of the store or a loss will result. And to thus direct a customer’s attention to stuff when he has no appar- ent interestin it one must be agreeable— agreeable in the sense of reading your man and so impressing yourself on him as to please him. A keen salesman will meet a customer with dignity and con- tinue to treat him so until sure that he will stand a joke. But to continue to travel on your dignity when your cus- tomer is a jolly fellow is just as grave an error. Or to indulge in a spirit of weak- ness about price when your man wants one price and that in a very firm tone, is wrong. Again we insist the ability to read your man is absolutely necessary to your success as a salesman. Some ad- vise against introducing politics into the conversation when selling goods. Such unqualified advice is injurious. There are many men who can be won as your friend only by taking opposition to them. We have heard the hottest kind of a political argument between a merchant and a drummer, and it only made more secure that drummer’s grip on the mer- chant. Here again is manifested the necessity of knowing your man. There is a subject, however, that one had bet- ter omit, and thatis religion. Get into no argument on religion; it is dangerous ground to tread. Is it required of a salesman to express no decided views? We believe it is not, and that merchants and customers delight to deal with a salesman who has well-defined ideas. To know to whom and when to express them is the difficulty. Human nature once more. . = 2 A good salesman sells more than a cus- tomer wants or a better article than was in mind. This is salesmanship. You go into a clothing store. You have decided on a $20 suit. You ask for such. It is shown you. About what you expected, but skillfully your attention is drawn to a $24 suit. So much more desirable is it shown to be that you buy it. Just so with your lady buying a dress. A better dress will be bought if skill is used. Here is another case of good salesman- ship that happened in a Western town recently: A lady isin the store trading. She has purchased quite a bill of car- pets. Itruns up to quitea figure. She has informed her salesman that she de- sires nothing more. She is on the way to the door when the proprietor accosts her. He informs her that he has some- thing to show her. She thinks it is needless to look at it as she is through buying. .He persists, and ere she is aware he has a pattern of dress goods nicely draped with silk to match, drops a jet yoke over it and then folds his arms. She looks interested. It is beau- tiful (good buying), but hesitates. Her daughter is enthusiastic. Still she hes- itates. ‘It will be gone in the morning,” remarks the proprietor. ‘‘Have only one.” And she buys it, trimming and yoke, $20. Salesmanship! But hear the rest. Another lady has seen the effect of the draping, and expresses regret that she didn’t get it. ‘‘I have another even prettier.” She is incredulous. He gets it out and drapes it. And he sells it. How much did he make? Four dollars on the dress and the same or more on the trimming. Eight dollars’ profit on each dress by salesmanship. Either in pushing old or new stuff this salesman- ship is necessary. Encourage it by a bonus of $50 at the end of the year to whoever practices it, especially in old stuff. = ¢ * A well-informed salesman is more de- sirable than the thoughtless, shallow fel- low. Customers care to trade with a salesman who is bright and alert con- cerning the questions of the day, and his influence extends into society, and out- side of the store he is making friends who will come to trade with him. En- courage talent which is anxious to be used outside the store. It is cheap ad- vertising. Your tradeis to come from the people with whom such a fellow as- sociates; not from sports. # * * A salesman who will misrepresent is a detriment to any store. People know very little about the goods they buy, and they are aware of it. They pub- lish such facts only in one way, and that is by stopping trading with a sales- man who lies. In one of the jobbing houses of a certain city is a salesman who has an extraordinary following among the trade, and ranks easily first in his line. That man never misrepre- sents. We never heard of a customer who refused to have this man wait on him, but we have seen the flip, flagrant liar passed who possessed other qualities superior to the first salesman. —__<-.<___—_ Interesting Archeological Discoveries. According to a note in the London Times, the excavations by the American School at the Heraion of Argos, under the direction of Professor Waldstein, which were resumed this spring, have been very successful. Two hundred and fifty men have been employed on the work. Besides the two temples and five other buildings previously discovered, a large and well-preserved colonnade 45 meters long has now been found, 25 feet below the surface, south of the second temple. The discoveries include parts of metopes, two marble heads of the best Greek period, a hundred objects in bronze and gold, gems, vases and terra cottas of the Homeric period, as well as numerous scarabs and several Mycenean tombs with Argive inscriptions on bronze, probably of a religious eharacter. The excavations, which are now in the fourth season, will be completed this year. They rival the French excava- tions at Delphi in magnitude and impor- tance, representing all the periods of Greek life from prehistoric to Roman epochs. —_—_—_—__—<--<.—__— The Pottery Tree. One of the most peculiar yegetable products of Brazil is the Moquilea utilis, or pottery tree. This tree attains a height of 100 feet, and has avery slender trunk, which seldom much exceeds a foot in diameter at the base. The wood is exceedingly hard, and contains a very large amount of silica, but not so much as does the bark, which is largely em- ployed as a source of silica for the mana- facture of pottery. In preparing the bark for the potter’s use, it is first burned, and the residue is then pulver- ized and mixed with clay in the proper proportion. With an equal quantity of the two ingredients, a superior quality of earthenware is produced. This is very durable, and is capable of with- standing any amount of heat. The na- tives employ it for all kinds of culinary purposes. When fresh the bark cuts like soft sandstone, and the presence of the silex may be readily ascertained by grinding a piece of the bark between the teeth. When dry itis generally brittle, though sometimes difficult to break. After being burned it cannot, if of good quality, be broken up between the fin- gers, a mortar and pestle being required to crash it. GET READY FOR THE Potatobuges THE ECLIPSE IS A NEW AND VALUABLE IMPROVED Wolet Sprinkler with Sitter or Duster Allachmen! (Patented 1886. Improved 1889.) Especially adapted for applying Paris Green Water, Powder Compounds Plaster, ete., to Potato Vines and other plants ce THE ECLIPSE is manufactured in such a durable manner as to be practi- cally indestructible, and also sosimplified as to be quickly and easily detached for any purpose necessary, making it the Cheapest and Most Convenient Sprinkler for all purposes—in doors or out—and a practical device indispens- able for effectually destroying the Potato Beetle and other plant insects. For Store or Floor. For Sprinkling. For Vines or Plants. For Dusting. Acme Plaster Sifter FOR POTATOES AND OTHER VINES. EASY 10 OPERATE =---= SIMPLE ond DURABLE EIGHT 10 TEN ACRES GOVERED PER DAY. To Operate the Sifter. Place the square piece of Sheet [ron with points down over the agitator inthe bottom. Put the Plasterin can on top of square piece. This square piece takes part of the weightof plaster, which is very heavy, from the agitator and allows it to work freely. A slight turn of the wrist, easy or hard, as you may wish much or lit tle plaster to be delivered, is all that is necessary to opera'e the sifter. With one in each hand a man can care for two rows at once, covering from eight to ten acres per day. poster TEVENS & CG: MONROR ST. GRAND RAPIDS. Barn Telephone 1059. AAAI tA At i ONAL RN ak Office Telephone 1055. Storage and SECU RI TY Transfer Co. Warehouse, 257--259 Ottawa St. Main Of*ce, 75 Pearl St. Moving, Packing, Dry Storage. Expert Packers and Careful, Competent Movers of Househo!d Furniture. Estimates Cheerfully Given. Business Strictly Confidential Baggage Wagon st all hours. F.S.ELSTON, Mer. Grand Rapids Brush Co. <3 SIEMANUFACTURERSZOF —D Teo ga Our Goods are sold by all Michigan Jobbing Houses. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. i f ee fs é i # te i i i : tea he i a) Q4 The ‘‘Pullers-in” of Milliners’ Row. | | From the New York Tribune. \ ‘“‘Among the characteristic sights of | the lower East Side ‘‘Milliners’ Row” is and interesting example. The ‘‘Row’’ | consists of that part of Division street | which lies between Market street and the Bowery. Every store in the row on the| north side of the street is occupied by a| milliner, whose trusty ‘‘puller-in” stands | guard in front ready for the unwary woman who may glance at a bonnet. There are a few miilinery stores seat- | tered farther along Division street which act as asort of skirmish line. The real business, however, begins when Market | street is reached. The women ‘‘pullers-in,” although | more gentle in their methods, are just as persuasive in manner and glib of tongue as their male brethren on Baxter sireet. | Their scent for a customer is just as keen, thought their voices are nut so loud. When a ‘“‘puller-in” sights a pros- pective customer she darts out ot the doorway, places a hand upon the arm of her quarry, throws her head persuasively on one side, and proceeds to sing the praises of her mistress’ wares. ‘*Vant to buy a nice, cheap hat? Ve have de best goods Step inside and loozg them ofer. needn’t buy if you don’t vant to.” Nearly all the milliners, and ‘‘bark- ers,” too, are Jewesses, as their faces and names proclaim, with no uncertain voice. The ‘‘pullers-in’’ present an end- less variety as to age, attractiveness and costume. Some are old, some are young, some pretty and tender-eyed as Leah, others hideous as a Welsh rarebit night mare. They are all alike in one respect, however, in that they wear no headgear. The very thing they want to sell is strictly tabooed among themselves when onduty. This gives a fine opportunity for the display of artistically coiffured locks, which are, as a rule, glossy and raven-hued like the heads of most of the children of Israel. Their business methods do not call for quite as much perspicacity as the duties of a Baxter street ‘‘barker.” He has to distinguish between man and man, and only accosts men who, in his judgment, are likely customers. Out of the fifty passersby, he probably only tries his wiles on half a dozen. Not so the senti- nels of Division street. Every woman, old or young, who passes Milliners’ Row, is held up, not by one ‘puller-in,”’ but by allof them. After witnessing half a dozen women stopped by every ‘*puller- in’? along the line, whom even the re- porter’s poor masculine judgment con- sidered as extremely unlikely customers, he asked one olive-skinned Rebecea the reason for so much waste of persuasive arguments. The reason she gave was of as distinctly a feminine nature as the goods she was trying to sell. “Vell,” she said, with a shrug, “if they do not vant to buy, vat are they do- ing down here, anyvay?” Some of the women get angry when importuned, and impatiently shake off the hand of the ‘‘puller-in.” This does not in the least deter the others, how- ever, who, if anything, increase, their efforts to send a customer inside. Even men are not safe from the importunity of the girls, who entreat them to pur- chase a ‘‘nice hat for your vife.” Once inside, a male customer is absolutely certain to become a purchaser unless he is possessed of unusual strength -of mind. The hats displayed are all very much the same in every window. There are a few black, a few white, and a good many colored ones, with always a chef d@’ oeuvre, generally a huge white hat, in the mid- dle. The prices range from $1 to $5, or higher for hats made to order. and de cheapest. You ' business men to be mean and | lakes coming recently under the writer’s no- | involved, as the principle. As arule, the girls of rival stores seem to be very good friends, although the proprietress does not encourage friend- Ship between her girl and the one next door. Two girls will be seen cozily chat- ting together until the ‘‘boss”? puts her Semitic nose out of the door, when they will shoot apart with great celerity. Among the Baxter street one or two men are by the rest as being facile princeps | among them. There has always been a “‘king’’ of the ‘tbarkers,’’? but you comet | **barkers’? | always looked up to} ‘THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. nd a ‘‘queen’? among Milliners’ Row “‘pullers-in.”” Apparently, there are just as many ‘queens’? as there are girls, for none of them will admit the superiority of any of her sister workers. Altogether, the women ‘‘pullers-in’’ are quite an institution in their way, and contribute largely to the local color of the great East Side. >< Unworthy of Credit. From Farm Implement News. There are many opportunities for “small” if and one of the is tu make mis- An occurrence they are so inclined, meanest tricks of all intentionally. lice is One which deserves severest con- demnation, nuvi so much fur the amount A merchant remitting tor a bill of $23 and deducting a discount of tive per cent. to which he was entitled, deducteit $125 instead of $1.15. This might eas:ly be set down as a Clearly unintentional error; but in this particular case the wan virtually boasted that it was intenilonal, and that he picked up a guod many dimes in a year ip the same way, as his crediturs seldom mentioned the matter, but gave tu: credit. Such a man must be lacking that necessary part of true manhood, conscience. He must have a soul that would defy the microscope and be utterly devoid of principle. lf a discount amounts to $2.13, it is no uncommon thing to deduct $2.15, but however prevalent this may be, it is, nevertheless, wrong. And if this prac- tice does have apologists, surely no one can excuse the deliberate meanness of the other case. Another case equally as reprehensible was that of a merchant who was entilled to a credit for freight on a certain ship- ment. In remitting he deducted $3 but did not inclose the freight bill. When asked for it he ignored the request, and not until several letters had been written did he respond. With the freight bill came eighteen cents in stamps, for the bill showed the freight to be only $2.82. His excuse was that it was easier to fig- ure on even amounts. For the sake of business integrity and as amatter of principle every manufac- turer or wholesaler should absolutely re- fuse to accept business from men who are known to be guilty of such prac- tices, no matter how strong they are financially, or how large their season’s account is. — xo“ 4. o> ____——_ Home-Made Dimples. It is reported that once upon a time a certain woman applied to the patent office for a patent upon her dimple-pro- ducing process; but, as it was refused, the secret is now common property, and any one who cares to experiment may try it. Her claims were as follows: Smear a small spot on the cheek or chin with colorless shellac varnish mixed with glue. With a pencil or penholder press the flesh with the point, holding it there until the substance on the face becomes dry and hard. The stiffened indentation thus retains the exact shape of a dimple, and a little face powder carefully dusted over the ‘‘artificial dimple’? will com- pletely conceal the varnish and glue compound. Some care must be observed in smiling too suddenly or the dimple may be broken. But with ordinary gen- tle usage it will retain its pretty shape a whole evening, if not longer. While the dimple process is applicable to those whose faces comprise a soft, velvety or pulpy surface, as then a very deceptive dimple can be produced, it is not so available for thin or bony faces, nor where the skin is very thick and unyield- ing. > -- —_ — Henry C. Strong, of Chicago, claims to be the first inventor of the telephone. He made his first one in 1877, out of a piece of gas pipe, a block of wood, a reel of copper wire, and a bit of sheet metal. He applied for a pateut in the spring of 1877, but only got it a few years since, as a fire in the patent office destroyed his model and caused a delay. >> a Use Tradesman Coupon Books. JUST ARRIVING! Ee New Crop 1805 BUY iT--The Quality is Right BUY 1IT=-The Price is Right. BUY [T==And ‘You’re all Right. The general public are recognizing more and more every day the desirability salt. The result is a largely increased demand for Diamond Crystal Salt. you aim to handle the best goods in every branch of the trade. Diamond Crystal Salt is now packed so the grocer can handle it at goods. Note these greatly reduced prices: For other sizes in proportion see price current on another page. Diamond Crystal is much lighter than common salt, and the 2! are about the same size as 5 Crystal is purer, stronger, and goes farther. the very, best material—saving waste from broken bags. DIAMOND CRYSTAL SALT CO., ST. CLAIR, MICH. $ it? of pure Of course Why notin salt? a profit equal to that made on inferior 120 42% bags in a barrel, @ $3.00 75 4 66 - 66 @ 275 40 7 66 sé 66 sé @ 2.50 DDG DADA DAADAADA AAA A AAD SVvVvvvVVVVVVYYVVVuVVeVrVVevuevueVvTe 5,4, and 7 Ib. bags 4€ Diamond 4 are handsome, and made of 4 > 3, 5, and 10 lb. bags of the ordinary product. The bags a VurVVVVYy SEEDS - Potatoes = Beans We handle all kinds FIELD SEEDS, Clover, Timothy, Hungarian, Millet, Buck- wheat, Field Peas, Spring Rye, Barley, Ete. Eggs, Ete. If you wish Moseley Bros. Buy and sell Potatoes, Beans, Seeds, Car lots or less. EGG CRATES and EGG CRATE FILLERS. to buy or sell write us. 26-28-30-32 OTTAWA STREET Grand Rapids, Mich. Jobbers SEEDS, BEANS, POTATOES, FRUITS. wc EPO TT TTS esi EARLY GARDEN VEGETABLES ‘F. J. Dettenthaler, YOUR ORDERS SOLICITED. 117-119 MONROE STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. The Grocery Market. The markets have been without partic- ular feature during the past week. Trade in many departments is improv- ing slowly, and, considering the time of the year and the conservative policy which buyers are known to pursue, the volume of business in nearly all lines has been of fair proportions. Sugar—The demand for refined grades last week was not equal to the produc- tion and another week has gone by with- out any positive indications of a change in the market. The retail trade has light supplies, but in purchasing for a time, at least, dealers, will, undoubtedly, pursue a hand to mouth policy, owing to the decline and easy tone of the market for raw sugar. Provisions—The conditions of trade have been tame and unsatisfactory all through the week. It has looked as though the outsiders who have been buying have given way steadily to more conservative operations. The failure recently to make material advances in prices on the spurts of speculative ex- citement in general commodities was disheartening. The large stocks of the products all over the world and the in- creasing out-turns on the part of foreign countries have been depressing, while steady full receipts of hogs have added further to the accumulations at the pack- ing centers. Canned Goods—Advances have been made on several kinds of canned goods, and a generally better feeling pervades the market. Currants—There has been a stronger movement in currants during the week, but the market is not quotably higher. Prunes—The market does not improve in any respect, and prices are weak and in buyer’s favor. California prunes drag at former prices, and sellers would probably shade them a trifle. French are reported as stronger, on the other side, but there has been no attempt to increase values here. Sultana are dull and unchanged. Raisins—A better feeling has been manifested in California raisins and prices are somewhat firmer, although still very low. Buyers have taken hold of the lower grades quite freely. Spices—Hardly so active, although there is a fair business in progress, and prices are generally strong, with the ex- ception of pepper and cloves, in which a slight weakness is reported. Coffee—Brazilian grades have been very dull and the market has been weak with prices entirely nominal. Mild grades have done moderately well. East India growths have been quite strong and at times active. Cheese—The drought is causing a seri- ous shrinkage in the milk supply, in con- sequence of which all grades of full cream stock are 4¢@%c higher thana week ago, with every indication of still higher prices unless the drought is broken soon. Bananas—Continue to sell freely, as prices are a little lower, owing to the abundance of berries and other fruits. Local dealers have made arrangements to secure a good supply for Fourth of July trade and orders sent to this market will receive as good attention, and be filled with as good a grade of fruit, as from any market in the country. Lemons—There has been a strong de- mand for lemons during the past week, but no particular change in prices from THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. those quoted in our last issue. There is no possibility of lower prices before the Fourth of July, if the present weather continues, and several chances that they will advance. Local dealers are well supplied with stock and orders to this market will be executed with prompt- ness and despatch. Oranges—Nothing in market suitable for reshipping, except Mediterranean Sweets. They are in their prime, and really the best orange obtainable at pres- ent. It is not to be expected that lower prices will be made during the next three weeks, and, as there is sure to be & good demand for use the Fourth of July, it will be advisable for retail dealers to place their orders for such amounts as they may need early, as it is possible that the wholesalers will run short for some of the best sizes, such as 176s and 200s. All dealers in fruits report a good vol- ume of business. They are working with a will to keep up with the orders as they come in. A tt The Improvement Continues. The financial and industrial situation continues to improve steadily in nearly all lines. Iron is still in the lead and this fact gives assurance of the genu- ineness of the business revival. In cot- ton goods the influences of the improve- ment areslowiy making themselves felt and improving demand and pices are helping the labor troubles in the eastern factories. Since the beginning of the advance, about five months ago, when the lowest prices known prevailed, the rise in Bessemer iron is 26 per cent.; cotton, 35 per cent.; wheat, 53 per cent.; leather, 60 to 70 per cent.; refined oil, 80 per cent. and hides, over 100 per cent. The only industry which does not sym- pathize with the general improvement is coal. The price of anthracite has de- clined 25 cents at the mines and there seems to be as much uncertainty as ever. This is charged to the reckless competi- tion, and has no significance as to the general situation. $$$ <> 9- <> To Be Continued at Newaygo. The Automatic Circuit Breaker Co. has been organized, at Newaygo, with a cap- ital stock of $10,000, of which $6,100 is paid in, divided among three stockhold- ers in the following amounts: ioe © Wetlser ........-.....-ce.-..6 S00e A. G. Bumed......-... oe N, fooee.. ... -. 100 The corporation is officered as follows: President— A. G. Runnels. Vice-President and Secretary—N. Run- nels. Treasurer—Chas. C. Kritzer. The new company has acquired the patents, good will, machinery and tools of the defunct Sweet Electric and Manu- facturing Co. and will remove the prop- erty to Newaygo as soon as the necessary building can be prepared for its recep- tion. ——_—_—__-—>-2_—__—_ Spain is making much ado over the assumption that the United States has been negligent in regard to Cuban fili- bustering and cites the example of the Alabama claims resulting from similar English neglect during the civil war. The difference is that in the case of the civil war the South was acknowledged as belligerent. Spain refuses to thus acknowledge the Cubans and stoutly as- serts there is no war. If this be true, how can neutrality laws apply in the case? Leena Use Tradesman Coupon? Books. i laine c.0.C. New and Up to Date. See them and get prices now ! CYCLOID CYCLES CORRECT Designs, POPULAR Weights Cycloid Cycle Co. Factory and Salesroom, 488 S. Division St. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. NELSON-MATTER PURNITURE CO. f@} MAKERS OF FURNITURE FOR CITY AND COUNTRY HOMES SELL FURNITURE AT RETAIL... 43-35-37-89 CANAL ST., GRAND RAPIDS Bedroom Suites, Sideboards, Bookcases, Chairs, Tables, Chiffoniers, Couches and Lounges, Upholstered Parlor Furniture, Lace Curtains and Drapery Silks. Correspondence and Orders by Mail solicited. NELSON-MATTER FURNITURE CO., Grand Rapids Mich. Coupon Books. We were the pioneer Coupon Book Manufacturers and, although we have had many imitators, we have succeeded in keeping at the head of the procession. We constantly carry in stock four grades of books, in de- nominations of $1, $2, $3, $5, $10 and $20, and are prepared to get out anything our customers require in the shape ot special books. We have special machin- ery for every branch of the business and employ skilled workmen in every department. If you have never used coupon books, and wish to satisfy yourself as to the economy and utility of the sys- tem, send for samples, which can be had for the asking. Tradesman Company Grand Rapids......... smcepaapernmpaeetee see reyporneapeen aye eer x Alp “oR ay ane pee every cope Piney ae pan ee SEIS es id fe ser Iga fg th 26 Drug Department. State Board of Pharmacy. One Year—George Gundrum, Ionia. Two Years—C. A. Bugbee, Charlevoix. S. E. Parkhill, Owosso. . W.R Perry, Detroit Four Years— Five Years—A. C. Schumacher, Ann Arbor. President— Fred’k W .R. Perry, Detroit. fecretary—Staniey E. Parkill, Owosso. 'reasurer—Geo. Gundrum, lonia. Coming Meetings—Detroit (Star Lansing, Nov 5. Island), June 24; Michigan State Pharmaceutical Ass’b. President— A. 8. Parker, Detroit. : Vice-President-—John E. Peck, Detroit. Treasurer—W. Dupont, Detroit. Secretay—F. C. Thompson, Detroit. Next Meeting—At Detroit, July 16, 17, 18 and 19. Graud Rapids Pharmaceatica! Society. President, John E. Peck; Secretary, B. Schrouder. DECLINE OF PHARMACY. Methods Which Must Be Adopted To Improve the Situation. Under the sensational caption of ‘“Druggists Fear Ruin’ there appeared lately a report in a Chicago paper, purport- ing to give the views of prominent retail druggists of that city relative to the op- erations of the pharmacy law. The re- porter says ‘‘the druggists are worried” and complain that *‘ruin stares them in the face” because ‘‘depaitment stores, sharp competition and profitless selling prices” render it impussible for them to hire registered clerks as the law requires. According to this reporter the law is odious to the druggists, *‘discriminates against them, and makes ho compensa tion,” compelling them to bire a regis- tered clerk who ‘“‘must have a good salary.” One druggist is reported as saying that if the law would prevent apy man not a graduate in pharmacy from filling pre scriptions, the department stores would be ‘prevented from engaging in the busi ness and cutting prices.”’ Another is represented as having said that ‘*there is at preseut widespread dis tress among druggists,” resulting from defects in the present pharmacy law, which, in his opinion, **imposes vurdens without adequate compensation,’’ an: that he hoped the law gvould be either amended or repealed. He expressed the opinion that ‘‘at present almost any one may engage in the drug business,’ and stated that ‘‘stures are springing up at every corner,’’ admitting at the same time that departmept stores ‘‘cannot be forced out of the business.”’ Representatives of ‘‘department stores” were interviewed by the reporter. One said he was not frightened by the clamor of the druggists; his firm was ‘‘in the business to stay,’’ and if the retail drug- gists were ‘out for a little fun” he would be right with them. Another said his house “employed a registered phar- macist, and could not see how anybody could prevent them from selling drugs.” A representative of a wholesale house expressed doubt as to the possibility of stopping the sale of drugs at depart- ment stores, There is no doubt about the ‘‘cutting of prices” and the blighting effect of commercial competition npon the pros perity of the retail druggists of the pres- ent; itis almost true that ‘talmost any- body can engage in the drug business,” and that additional ‘‘stores are springing up at every corner” not already occupied. At some corners there are, in faet, four drug stores, and you may see six drug stores within two blocks if you will. It is also undeniable that the ‘tdepartment stores cannot be forced out of the busi- ness” as huw couducted and under the conditiuns established by the radical changes which have come upon the retail drug business in all countries within the past quarter of a century. That our defective pharmacy laws do not afford any remedy, is equally true. But itis certainly untrue that regis- tered clerks receive high salaries. The writer recently received a letter from the Dean of an Eastern college of phar- macy, who expressed the opinion that greatly increased courses of college ed- ucation in pharmacy must be regarded as impracticable so long as the majority of the students could look forward to nothmg better than $15 per week for | THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. their services after they had graduated. The remedy for this extremely unsatis- factory condition of the average retail druggist and his business lies in the di- rection of better education for the real professional pharmacist, and the utter abandonment of the vain hope that pure- ly commercial competition ever can or will be restricted by law in this country. The only hope is to make the pharmacist a really professional man, entitled to professional fees for his expert services, and independent of mere commercial competition. No change for the better is at all pos- sible while boys of from 12 to 16 years are allowed to begin to ‘‘iearn the busi- ness’? in the stores, leaving school sev- eral years too early for that purpose. These all get into business on their own account some day and increase and de- grade the competition. No material improvement is possible without a reasonable measure of compul- sory education, both general and special. Better education will check competition. No relief is possible so long as every so-called drug store is placed on precise- ly the same plane as every otber drug store, and every retail druggist on the same footing with every other druggist, without any reference to qualifications, duties, responsibilities and services ren- dered. No remedy will ever be found until the retail druggists themselves shall have become once for all and finally con- vinced that they can never enjoy a monopoly of the business of selling the ordinary merchandise of the modern drug trade, and that the only occupation which the pharmacist can rightfully claim as exclusively his own must be the compounding and dispensing of medi- cines and the sale of substances which it would be dangerous to permit every dealer to handle; and he has abso- lutely no right to claim even these ex- clusive privileges unless he can base his claim upon such ample special education as will constitute a substantial protec- tion to the public against the dangers that inevitably attend the dispensing of potent medicinal substances by persons not familiar with their properties and behavior. Nothing will bring us to a permanent and satisfactory solution of the difficul- ties complained of, except a higher standard of education for those who en- ter the ranks, a genuine professional esprit de corps, and a full and free recog- nition of the fact that the mere buying and selling of any articles whatever, be they drugs and medicines or calicoes and nails, is not pharmacy. If any retail druggist finds that his trade does not enable him to hire a regis- tered clerk, let him consider that there are buttwo methods of obtaining relief— either he must stop compounding and dis- pensing medicines and become a mere merchant, or he must direct his energies toward enlarging the scope of his really pharmaceutical work. The boards of pharmacy have already ample power to insist upon very much higher standards of education for the proprietors or managers of stores. They can absolutely refuse to register as a fully equipped registered pharmacist any person who is not competent to interpret and apply all the pharmacopeeial defini- tions, descriptions, tests, and processes. They can make the standard of educa- tional requirements lower for clerks or registered assistant pharmacists. They can permit proprietors to absent them- selves from their places of business one full day each week, leaving a registered assistant pharmacist in charge. They can insist upon a high-school education or its equivalent preparatory to appren- ticeship in pharmacy. They can, per- haps, permit general stores, in places where there is no registered pharmacist in business, to sell unopened packages of medicinal preparations, and tosell epsom salts, castor oil, and other simple domes- tic remedies for which there is a suffi-| cient demand that ought to be supplied and that can be supplied by any person without danger to the public health. If any of the existing pharmacy laws do not admit of this interpretation, they ought to be amended without delay. There are altogether too many drug | stores; the best interests of the public and of the medical profession, as well as of the druggist himself, demand that fur- ther increase in this direction shall be checked; and this object can fortunately be gained by at once beginning the en- forcement of sufficient educational qual- ifications as a requirement for ‘‘full reg- istration,” such as caries with it the right to open or conduct a pharmacy; and unless this one possible check is ap- plied the competition will become even more intensified. Pharmacies of the First Class should be such as are conducted by Registered Pharmacists, who should have the right to dispense or sell any medicinal sub- stances so potent as to be rightly classed among poisons, or so important as to render it imperative that they should be of never-failing activity and uniformity of strength. Pharmacies of the Second Class should be such as may be conducted by Regis- tered Assistant Pharmacists, who should not have the right to dispense or sell the important and potent remedies above re- ferred to in such pharmacies. Licensed Drug Stores should be con- ducted by persons of good moral charac- ter registered as Licensed Druggists, who should have the right to sell common and simple domestic drugs (to be defined by the Board of Pharmacy) and druggists’ merchandise, in places where no phar- macy is conveniently accessible, but who should not have the right to prepare or compound any medicines. With a perfect system of registration this classification is certainly practi- cable. The rank of the store showd depend directly upon the rank of the registered retail druggist conducting it. Thus a pharmacy of the first class should remain such as long as conducted by a regis- tered pharmacist, but sheuld cease to be one when no longer in charge of such a pharmacist. A pharmacy of the second class should be raised to a pharmacy of the first class as soon as placed in charge of a registered pharmacist. Compulsory college training in phar- maey might be introduced, to take effect January 1, 1900. All persons already registered as reg- istered pharmacists or as registered as- sistant pharmacists must, of course, con- tinne entitled to annual renewal of their registration as long as they continue to apply for it and remain in actual prac- tice. There seems to be no other plan avail- able which would really improve the practice of pharmacy in our country, and this plan would by no means work any rapid change; but it ought not to be ex- pected that any substantial and lasting reform can be effected except gradually. —— oe — — Preacher to little boy—‘‘My son, does your father smoke yet? Little Boy—‘‘I don’t know. He’s been dead six months.’’ P E C; K ’ S HEADACHE POWDERS Pay the best profit. Order from your jobber GHENT'S HEADACHE WAFERS Immediate= =-Effectual! Cures Neuralgia Permanently ! Handled by all Jobbers. Prepared by C. N. GHENT & CO., Pharmacists, Bay City, [ich. IT IS----2<=«=== Making a Name ===== WHEREVER SOLD. oe siete ail CIGAR A BOX! TH EVER PUT IN WELLAUER & HOFFMANN GO, MILWAUKEE, WIS. Wholesale Distributors. J. A. GONZALEZ, ‘Michigan Representative THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 27 \ OL RCR AE SRE TE NET ELI Wholesale Pri etl Curren t. ways > 2 w. 4) @2 (0| Snuff, Maccaboy, De os PAINTS. - Ib. Advanced—Balsam Tolu, Oil Ci inh Verri ' scl a a ge NI VN ly ee @ 34 enetian.. -: % Adva u, Oil Citronella, English Vermillioa. Declined—Gum Kino. Pod + ..es-eeeee 1 65@1 90 | Snuff, Scotch, De. Voes @ 24 Ochre, yellow Mare. ' in ot = - a Canton... @ 40| Soda Boras, (po. 6%-9)6% 9 Ber......1% 23 acIDUM. Cubebae. ae 1 50@1 60 aN Nosy anor aa oa “= = —_ st Potass Tart... 24@ 25| Putty, commercial. ‘een pentbinie osic gece 10 | Exechthitos ||!) °"!.": 20@i 30 ' . a Carb.-.......... 1%@ 2 | “ strictly pure... 2% 2 Senactent Germsn.. > 75 ee 2O1 30 Aconitum Napellis R..... o = brea i ee 16@ (8) Soda, BiCarb......... %@ 5 —_— Pane Amer * on O3 Boracic ..... ea Gaultheria .... ...1 50@1 66 i ee | oe aac, H. & P. D. Soda, Ash............. 34@ 4} {can ........ 13@15 Carbolicum .......... 2 = Geranium, ounce... @ 75 | Aloes.. sees) 60 Picts Li 00 | Soda, Sulphas. . @ 2 Veruatiion. English * @ts Cee ee a 41@ 44 sa Sem. gal. .. Oe @ an , and myrrh. aa a) @2 0 Spts. Ether Co oe. - 55 > oar — cs-sc tes, | SOCeee =a 5 aaa. rnica . ce yreia Dom. .... 2} Green, Peninsular ... a 10g 12 pecan one Asafcotida ee i _ Picts Liq., aac ss mn Myreia Imp... .. @250} Lead, red. — : ais iD cE 10@ 12| Lavendula . trope Belladonna.......... geal ; ni Rect 257) “whit . 5% i ——« -...... - on) timonig ............... 1 39@' 50 Benzoin ee i dee = Hy rar, (po. 80) - a “webb. 2 a2 Whiting, ane Span... our : Salicylicum ..........- 65@ 70} MenthaPiper. ........ 1 &5@3 00 a 50 Piper aie. toe =). = 3 cg “10 gal, 265| Whiting, Gilders’.. . @Xx : Sulphuricum.... .. .. 14¥@ 5 Mentha Verid. .......1 80@2 00 | Sanguinaria................. 50 | Piix Burgu er @ 3 oo + 5 cal. 2 67 | White, Paris American 1 i Tannicum...........-- 1 40@1 60 | Morrhuse, gal. ......1 75@1 80 | Barosma -................... 50 | Plumb! Acet -- _@ 7| | Less 5c gal., cash ten days. = Paris Eng. is Tartaricum..........- 30@ 33 Myrcia, ounce... ..... @ 50 ash lhlmrmllUmlL 75 | Pulvis Gu cet ....... 1@ 12] Strychnia Crystal cee 1 40@1 45 cliff oes Es i ps iia ere 90@3 00 oe ee ee 50 va ba 10@1 20 Sulphur, — tt. Se a meus Prepared ..1 coi - i A cs ulda, (gal..35, Mm oamon. re --- 2 2 v a Aqua, 16 deg.....----- 4@ 6} Rict nee _ , a Ce 75 | Pyreth ae @1 2% | Tamarinds ............ 8 16 No. 1 Turp ‘Coach 1 10@1 206 Bs ‘= aan... is 8 Rosmata a 190 CABLOT «env ee ons ee oe oY. i = = Theobromee BQ 30 oe ee: “+++. 166@1 70 i osae, ounce. ....... 650@8! ee eae. romae ......... 45 4g | Coach Bo ee carvonts ie 4 i4 ieee “—. 2 Ce = se Raw " m42@30ig Vere ||. 00g6 00 | No. “i as 1 cont 2 ee Rahina os Ze mn ac Bie erman. 7B 37 | Zine! Sulph. oe 7@ | Butra Turk Damar .. 1 55@1 60 et ANILINE. — s. . ....2 50@7 00 a ee a -. . — = Orns. — Dryer, No. 1 e3 asa : ee ; Bbl. bh le 70@7 ie RE ae onda...) ge] Cubeba. CII 7 in a _ pede at ae erage eF 45@ 50 | Tiglit......... a sie 50 | Sa — ee! CUCU 1 Yell 2 50@3 00 Thyme ....... 40@ 50 nies 3... |... 50 7? M 12@ 14) Lard,No.1........... 40 45 THE TRADESMAN Fe re a. oe ee ooo - =. Ss OCCUPIES BACCAB. ‘yheobromas..... ..... 15@ 20]. “ 60 uesanes Mixture.. a beet 65 ITS OWN FIE : ‘ ‘ j 20 | Neat’s LD. Caann Soe %5)..---. = > POTASSIUM. we phe = — es 3 18] strained - ed meng 6% 7 | its Columns Bring RETURNS ee Xanthoxylum.. ... %@ 30 Seen; --------+-- ES SE ameee ..-.. 50 eT @ 30|SpiritsTurpentine 35 40 TO ADVERTISERS. 3 | a tite e ec eees 11@ 13} Hyoscyamus . a —— — ome Se BALSAMUM. : tree e teen cee ‘ i % a Cee. 8. ~ > Coes ---- et ~— = Chlorate (po. ' 7@19).. a 7 Terabin. Canada .) 45@ 50] Toatae.. 722. 2 oe = Z a & = & Tolutan . oo 50@ £5] Potassa, Bitart, pure.‘ CORTEX. Potassa, BI rt, Com... z Abies, Canadian.. renee 18 reas aa - / = 9 OT aes = Camsine ....-.------+--++-+- 12] Prugsiate ..... 25@ 23 ‘* Deodor Ny 2 00 : Cinchonea Flava ..... -. . Sulphate po... 15@ 18] 4 — i 2 aa eon, oe : a .. 12] Aconitum ...... 20@ 2% BRI orem nnn oe bs Quiliats, eee ceding ees WiAweee.......... i 2@ foe. 50 * SAMOEONN teeta ee i 12@ 15] Cassia Acutifol. ee He Ulmus Po (Ground 1) .....- 5 i Aree, pe...........-.- @ Ce 50 a aneeeoren Calamus.. 2@ 40 | Serpentaria .. a A . Gentiana (po. 12). 8@ 10 Seeeaeeeen............ 60 he ae 33@ 35|Hydrastis Canaden, Valerian .... ee ny Haematox, 15 lb. box. ie a “s “a \ @ 30| Veratrum Wendie 50 | ro ce ellebore, Ala, po... 15@ 2 : ' : " ro Bee eee 14@ 15] Inula, po... 15@ WO MISCELLANEOUS Little Daisy Perfume Atomizer = = 6... cas. FO Oa _— = po - 1 30@) 40) Aither, Spts Nit,3 F.. 352 38 No 12 Maci » Perf A Se .. ole (96. 03 B® 40 iF. ih 2 . 12, Magic Perfume Atomizer, metal oes i umen .. ee 2 3 be Carbonate Procty. bo 2. 15 oe = Alun ioe aa %@ tube trate and Quinta... ww eeepc, Po a 15@ 18] 7) eR ie : : Citrate Soluble......- @ 8] Rhet ~~ Te Fe Vaseline Atomizer 2 Ferrocyanidum Sol... os an. ae oe Antimoni, po 4@O# x i ~° o . Solut Chloride ...... @ 15 pr 31 3 vie ak © Valley City Oil Atomizer Sulphate, com’) ..... %@ ; eed ia. 35@ 38] Antipyrin.. t @1 40 N N : : i pure... @ Stoutnaia (po 2). g 20 Antifebrin. @ ih 4 a1 Magic Atomizer, long metal tube es pee aria ' 5f 55 rgenti Ni 5 ’ ~ . . 2 i ie ruons. | se 98 = gent Nis, ‘oii a4 No. 5, Magic Atomizer, straight and bent ce] a —- ee eceteeere es ae = Similax, Officinalis. : g 40 Balm Gilesd Bud.. ... 38@ 40 adjustable nies “ith fl will bl ty paws er seeey es ; ~ g smut 1 1 80 ; 9eS : exl > —_ iy Matricaria =... 150 5| setae, (po. m8) |. 108 18] Caletnm Chor, ts, oan ‘wi. Pe, dle rubber FOUA. ymplocarpus, Fett. 8, 1z 9 eS 1 ,| dus, po @ 35|Cantharides Russia w i iol cues 30 n, 1a Baron cutifol, win _ | Véleriana, Eng. (po.80) @° 2) po... ' @100 No. 25, Magic Atomizer, two adjustable Es 4 erman. g ‘, i ee ee i peter 8 ees 3 2 Capsio! Fructus, af... .: hard rubber throat and nasal tubes Ee Zingiber : “ “s EP i 3 ® ee un 2 2 eRMEN, Caryophyllus, (por15) 10g. 12 No. 30, Magic Atomizer, four hard rubber 3 we Ural ie 8@ 10 Anisum, (po. 20) @ 15 Carmine, No. 40....... @3 75 se + a ei eum. Apiam igraveleons) 4@ 16 = Alba, 8 &F..... 50@ 55 N pinched tips” i Bs Acacia, 1st pioxed oO as a fae... i No. 31, Magic Throat Atomizer fe iy 7 Cardamon 1 00@t 35 Cassin Proctas........ 23 No. 32, Magie Nasal Atomizer a sifted sorta. 6 mw) coriendrum . ..-- 1 Fi Cetacoum ........... N Qe vs : . te mi OS 8 wannabe Sativa iS 3 ee No. 33, Magic Atomizer, single bard rub- iJ e, Barb, (po. : nate “ aquibbs 1 25 ! / 1. ' . fe oS oe @ i2| dencsodian ----.. 108, i “asl” +e ber tube, for toilet, throat or ordinary 3 catechn, ia, (4m i4 48 @ 8) scenicnium .... .... @ Cinchon! idi Paw 28 = uses oa ’ ’ 2 x, 6Q . ncbonidine, : a ee 1 g| 7oenugreek, po.. A ' at 4 i ammonia ao ~ 3 Hy Oe ni a, | Cena... —" tae No. 36, Magic Atomizer,for toilet purposes be ssafootida, ( 403 35 : i Seaveraun... pO a 0 5A Aci i | 0 — or per - No. 44, Magic Atomizer, with extra hard by Dea 5@ 58 é Ea a ont 7 oe ie cs iba. Tia a 5 Crete “" a3 a valde throat and oul tips P Galbanu : mn 2 50 os i . 3 aa 2... / 70 Nigra.. 1@ 12 peste... sy No. 48, Magic Oil Atomizer, with three & Guaiac 35 Be SPIBITUS. “ i " as Ey Kino, (po. Soe Z oe 00] Framenti, y.>. Co..2 00@~ 50} Crocus . a 509 55 hard rubber screw tips ra astic . ni Be “ 2 2 2 N . c aoe | So i wre ipo 4 S 2) 5 DER... 2068 8) Cotes. 73% a No. 6, Goodyear Atomizer, long metal tube ies ii 10@3 30) ..1 90@2 00 5 i eo as f : fe Opil (pn 3 tai 9 “1 00] suntperte Go. 0. F-...1 653 00| Dextrine..-..- ---- 0B FF No. 2, Goodyear Atomizer, hard rub’r tube = i ‘bleached .... 4 45 s J ‘ ha Sl ' : i maa = eee vesees ‘eae «2 No. 12, Star Atomizer, long metal pipe, : Sea Sennen Vint Oped ......--+- 1 25@2 00 eet Bie es = = a with inserted flexible rubber tube and ‘ aa Rie 25@2 00| Flake White.......... : i Hupatoriam 0... % ‘iui a he three hard rubber tips is pi ee a eo pial | ke Menthe Pi rita a = ‘a wool, 50@2 75 —" —— nn 308 50 , No. 3, Ellis & Gottermann Water Oil At E —_ pert a. BY) Nassar aheeps’ wool Glasnware flint. by box 80. j ; : oo... 25 y box omizer, three tips . fue ve | velvet extea aber” | Gine, Brown... 15 ee hak Adee : etacetaas,V oy 1S eee (. a gee alley City Throat Atomizer, long rubber p mus, : ; 2 = i a = Sed eS — | Caicined, Pai Sq ow | Grass sheeps’ wool Car- Humulus. 4 55 . Carbonate, Pat a | ee... --.----- 65 | Hydraag Chior. Mite. @' IN STOCK, AT BEST PRICES Carbonate, K. & M 2@ 2 | Hard for slate use.... 75 @ 69 ' Carbonate. Jenuings 35@ 3 | Yellow ae for slate a iu — Rubraim 3 = " a " C mmonia’ ® OLSU™ : " Unguentum. 4 55 Absinthium 2 HHG3 om SYRUPS. a eemiasven - "Ses 65 Amygdalae, Duic _ 80@ oi poe 8. ee ae Ve oe = Sn 8 a = Zingiver ... 50 digo es 75@1 00 ae .....-. . 1 90@2 Ipecac. 60 Somtee, Resubl ee | 8 8 vu Auranti Cortex 1 80@2 OU | Ferri lod. 50 | lodoform. anaes Zi 70 een ‘ 3 a = soon erie 0 le ty Copotiin a 2 25 ® ee hea ne , oo Aree... .....- a. co um Cees ewes 6O@ 65 varyophylli .... 7@ 80 | Similax ‘Ofticinalis.. |... 60| Macts 70@ %5 | i ee 35@ 6; * . 50 | Liquor Arsen ‘et ‘Hy- GRAND RAPIDS MIGH Chencpodii ais ee 50 hoes 100. ......_.. 27 \ : Cinnamonii 1 4°@! 50| Scillae... 50 | Liquor Potass Arsinitis 10@ 12 ee . 68 4 aot = —— Sulpb ami vise t Peeas ie 06) WAN a ck. . Bae ee 4 f Copaiba ....... “1°: GR sol teenes ig ....-.. - 10! Manele, &F......... “Oe 63 || a | a Bg & Bw & g 28 GROC! ‘HE MICs z< 2s AN "TRADES “IN ERY PRICE. CURMAEZIN:. he prices quoted in this list are for the trade only, in sach quantities as are usually purchased by retail dealers. They are prepared just before going to press and are an accurate index of the local market. given as representing average prices for average conditions of pure hase. Subscribers are earnestly requested to point out any errors or omissions, as it is our aim to make this feature of the below are those who “have poor credit. greatest possible use to dealers. AXLE GREASE. 0zZ gross ek ws 2s 70 8 00 aurora 55 6 00 Jastor Oil |. = 7 00 ae... Ce 5 50 oir... .... 9 00 Paragon 55 6 00 BAKING POWDER. acme. % iD. calls. 3 dos.... 45 % “b. eg ie -_ i lb. : * ._.. 1 60 oe 10 Arctic % b caus 6 doz case. ; 55 »% b 4 aoc ~*~ -i 1¢ i> ~*~ 2eee . 2@ tn ~*~ (on . 900 Red Star. si b cans. 40 _ % tb fis] . ib 1 4 Sun Li ight. ig Ib. cans, 6 duz, case 45 ca — 4 doz 85 : ih. 2 doz te Van Anrooy’s Pure. l 4 Ib. cans, 6 doz. case. 85 yy ib. ‘Gon. ~ a £5 co - Sex. 3 25 Yeifer’s, ' ~ cans, dos. 45 “ % Ib. 85 . 1b. ' . 150 Our eader, 4 .b cans 45 _ \% ib cans.....- wD _ 1 Ibeans 1s BATH BRICK. 2 dozen in case. Bugiish ....-.-- 30 Bristol. .... 7 Domestic 6u BLUING. ‘Gross Arctic, 4 oz ovals oe 3 60 > oo. ~~ -...- 6 75 eT gy ail i. 9 00 “ No.2, sifting box, 2 75 - eo. 3 . 400 = Eos . ee <« peosbali ..... . 450 Mexican Liquid, 2 oz. 3 Ww Sos... 6 80 BROOMS, 90 - 2 Hurl.. on No. < Carpet « 15 No. { 2 50 Farior Gem 2 5 Common Whisk 85 Fancy ' . Us Warenouse. 2 8 HHE SOF, ature No i i = see 1 3 Qloe Rust Soruv.< row oe Rice kool scrav, 6 cuF 3 2 Pa.metio, g008c i we arteries weir: 2 ID. Gisee lu sz * r § ParaMire io Wieglii« 4 CAXNED GOUDs. Fish Vite Little Neca, 1 1D.. 12a = 2... ee ‘er Chowder Standard, 31 z a ‘Oysters Standard, 1lb.. 4) . 21b 1 45 Looscera. Siar, i 1b.... z 4 - ©£m....--- $ Ht fone, £ ib... _. z H i fe 2% MaCKervi Stauderd, i 1d 10 2 Ils 210 Mustard, 2 ib 2D To:nate Sauce, 2 Ib 2 25 Gemcen. 2 &.......... 23 Saimon. oinsatde River, flat .. 1 28 ' ‘ie. .... 1 of Alsska, —_-- oe ee ees 30 —_ a Kinney’s. ae ee i9 Sardinez. American = een @ 4 ers @6 Imported r. ee @9 nae @3 Mastard ue a @7 Boneless ... Py Trout. Brook &, ib bow oe ie Fruits. Apples. 3 lb. standard 90 York State, gallous 3 00 Gamburehb. ae. Live oak....... : 1 40 ios CAME... Ck... 1 40 ee ee. 1 50 SS 1 10 Blackberries. 2 ee... 85 Cherries. ee tet pecs es oa : I isos oop tea a Erie . i Damsons, Egg Pi ums ‘and Green FAR os 1 00 rere a 1 Gooseberries. ——......... 1 10 Peaches. rae. ©... 109 ae ......... 1 40 oes... 1 40 (erormie........ @! 55 Monitor Oxford... _ Pears. Does... .. 10 ees... 123 Pineapples. ee... 1 00@1 30 Sana 8 sliced...... 2 50 ' grated..... 2% Booth’s sliced. @? 5) erated ..... . QB Quinces. ———. Ct. 1 10 Raspberries, ee 95 Black Hamburg.. 146 Erie. black ..... i110 Strawberries, Lawrence . 1 2 Hamburgh . iv Erie.. ee ee ae 85 Terrapin a 80 Whorileberries. Blueberries ........ 85 Meats. Corned beef 2 35 ence 6... 22> Potted ham, * 6 1 3u 8) tongue, . ‘Tb -1 30 ~ 35 Chicken, % Ib ...... 95 Vegetables. Beans. dambureh stringless . 1% French style..... 2 00 ' oe p3) iow e soaked . 7 Lewis Boston Baked. 123 Bay State Baked oe oe World’s Fair Baked........ 12 Picnic Baked... _ = Corn. Hamburgb ... oe caemaeiol Megs 1 00 Purity eee - = aoe Bow... 15 Domes clery i ....... Seeeee 75 EY eRa, damburgh meerreret........ 1H early Jane = . Cc *hampion Baz f . peils pois.. 12 ' taney sifted i. ~aned oo a xb ferris standard ces : ani *sanp "e marrofat 1} early June.... 1 3% srehner’s Karly Blossom ....1 3 a 2 12 “Mushrooms. French . oc scoee ol SZ : Pumpkin, a 90 Squash. eee 5 Succotash. Hamburg.. cook 3 Soaked ..... ——— noerey See... 1 36 Erie . oo ” Tomatoes, ae R0) oe 82 a. | ae scgeettges 1 30 ———— le 2 25 CHOCOLATE. Baker’s. Goren oeen.. ...... -. 23 CO a ie hie 32 Grvakfast Cocoa. . 5 CHEESE, ioe 8% Acme.... 8% Jersey . a S44 Leurwee. ene a 8» Riverside . && ctoid Medal Skim 526 a il ee 1 00 een 20 Limodurger @i5 a 30 @2i Rogue @35 Sap Saga ais Schweitzer, 'mporte1. Sz damesfi¢e wi4 CATSUP. Blue Lats! Brand. Half pint, 25 bottles _ 2 Pint . -. a Quart 1 doz bottles |. 850 iumph Brand. Haif pint, oor Shc... 135 Pinto woes. ........._ .. 450 nn ar oe... 3 7% CREAM TARTAR. Strictly pere...:.... 3 Telfer’s Absolute i. 30 — 1h@e2* CLOTHES PINS, Daisy HKrand. 5 gross boxes 40@45 COCOA SHELLS S5ib oags..... es Less quantity O3— Pound packages 6%@7 COFFEER Green. hie. Fair re is Good 19 Prime . 2} Golden. 23 Peaberry _ 23 Santos. Fair ieee 19 Good. 2 ae 2 Peaberry i 23 Mexican and Gnat amelie, Fair. ee oe Good ae Faney / ! 24 Mgracaibo. Prime : .-23 Milled Lo 24 Java moto... 25 Private Growth 27 Mandehling . . 28 ocha Imitation “ z rein... | 28 Roasted, To ascertain cost of roasted coffee, add \c. per Ib. for roast- ing and 15 per cent. for shrink- age. Pack -. Moiaaghlin’s XXKX.. 21 3 Lion. 60 or 160 1b. ease 21 30 o............ 21 30 Jermey 2. oe xtract, bee vulty & STOss 75 elix 15 Hummels, om. gross... os 1 65 2 85 CHICORY. ae. eC aT ? CLOTS ES Lin ¥, Cotten, @&....... per dos. 1 25 ' r....... ra 14 di S 1 60 _ oe... . 1 %5 . oe. = 1% inte we * e % “ 7 t “ i yw CUN -SPeSED Wil & 4 dos ir case, N.Y.Cond’ns’d Milk Co’s — Gail Borden Eagle..... ... 7 40 Cree 6 ae 5 %5 _eoeee. 4 50 aoe... 42 a 3 35 Peerless evaporated cream OOUPON BUOKS, ‘Tradesman.’ $1 books, per —. 2 $2 .. 250 s 3 ity “ “ L 3 00 3 5 oo “ “ 3 oe S10 se “ee “ 4 ow 82 ' " ‘ ot oe It is impossible to give Cash hb *supertur.” uyer +*, per hundred =m 2 ‘ee iT Yon g 3 “ “ “ " 3 5t 8 5 oe “ee “ 4 0O 810 ' - Kg 5 $20 ‘ tty oi 6 00 ~ Universal ’ #1 books. per hundred Gs . i 3% t 3 se ‘ 4% $5 : 5, « S10 . - 6 * ga ‘ 7 é Above prices on coupon DuOks are subject to the followinx quantity disconntr: 4 books or ove Sper | se “ Suu -10 i008 ‘“ “a ‘ COUPON PASS BOE ‘an be made to represe “ “ KS. ul any denomination from %10 down.} 20 books 50. 10 oe — hl, 500 “* 1000 oneDbit CHEOK xO, aDy one denom’ n 1000, * 2000; Stee! punch CRACKERS. Butter. “ “és “6 Seymour XXX............ Seymour XXX. cartoon Family XXX Family XXX, cartoon Salted (XX Salted XXX, cartoon Kenosha Sone... Butter bisenit... soda. Soda. XXX soda City Soda Duchess cal Crystal Wafer...... “ong Island Wafers yater. = (oyster XX i City Gvater. EEE... “artna Oyster Cc EMEN? Major's. per gro. 14 oz size Lig.Glue,1 1 ox size... Leather C a Of size... 2 ou size... 81% 2 00 300 6B -. 10 00 17 50 Ss. 1? 00 18 OF oz 9 69 ement 12 0 18 0 Rubber Cement 32 oztize... 12 00 wniets FRUITS, Domestic. Apples. sundried.. 6 Evaporated. hu 1b. boxer 7% Apricots, California in bags @ Evaporated in boxes. 8 Blackberries, fn boxes. ..- Nectarines. 70 lb. bas... ...... oe mote. DONes.... .........- 9 Peaches, Peeled, in boxes........ 14 Cal.evap. ‘“ oo. 9 ws = eee...... 8 Pears. California in bage..... 6g California boxes........ T% Pitted Cherries. ee... 50 ib. boxes . : ‘ “ Prunelier, mim ere... 94 Kaspberrier. Se Ee 22 50 1b. boxes i <2 25 Ib eee 22% Loose wena in pam. : crown . “ —_ Muscatels in lg ee eee 3% gl ee a or Foreign. en Patras, bbls.. —-- oo Vostizzas, 5v ib. cases” -. =e Schuit’s Cleaned. oe, OO el 5% oo 1D. DOXGS..... .... 2 . . 1 lb. packages P eel. Citron, eS 25 Ib. boxes - Lemon Orange “ ae “ 10 cmap tata suitable for all conditions of purchase, and those s or those of strong credit usually buy closer than Raisins. Ondura, 29 lb. boxes. . @ 6 Sultana, 20 ” %@ 8 Valencia, 30 ‘ i Prunes, California, 100-120 .. - 90 100 25 Ib. oxs *% ' ae = C Mx 6 ° 60x70 &. 7 Silver 7T@10 DISINFECTANT. Renee, © O8 .........-.. 2 Ov Zenoleum, qts..... 20... 4 Oa Tenoieem, & wal........... 7% Zenoleum, gal.. 1210 FISH--Salt Bloaters. aaa Coa. Geers cered...........- 4 Georges genuine 2 Georges selected......... 53% Svueless, VFiCKK.. ,_ Boneless, strips... i se @s Halipdt, smoked i@lz Herring. Holland, white hoops keg 80 . bhi 10 6 Norwegian .. 11+0 Round, * bbl 100, ibs ee 25 _— * ..... 1 30 Seam ........ 13 a No. 1, 100 Ibs.. 12 00 No. 1, 40 lbs. . 5 50 No. 1, 10 Ibs... net 1 75 No 2, eo s..... 8 0 Mo. 240 tbe -:..... 3 Te moe eee 190 Pamtiy, 90 Ibs. . : . 16 Sardines. ae, oo... 55 out. Me. i, % bbis., Olbe........ 42% No. 1% bbi, @ Ibe.......... 1 95 No.7, 21, ite ...... 59 No 1,81b kita. .... 48 Whitefish. No.1 family % bbls, 100 lbs........87 25 2 50 Ce ae ae ae kee... le 40 Ss 3 as Regular Size. Per box....38e. Per cuse..$3 40 In 5 case lots, per case.... 3 30 In 10 case Io 8, percase.... 3 20 “Little Tanglefoot.” Reteils, perbox .. .... 25 oele, Her Come... eae 1% LARGE SIZE. 5 dbl. shts. in box, oe bx. 8 38 o case of 10 boxes... . 3 40 DWARF +*1ZE. 25 double she°ts in box, Case of 10 bexen........... 1 25 Gase ol? toxres........... 259 COMBINATION CASE. 5 boxes Large Decoy } 834) 12 boxes Dwarf Decoy {°° *’ FA KRINACEKOUS GUOD= Farina, ot. cease... 2% Grits, Walsh DeRoo & Co.’s..... 1 95 Hominy. Barrels pss obescgese 2 ES 3% Lima Beans, —... 6% Maccaroni and Lent. Domestic, 12 lb. b feperted....._........ 10%@l1) Pearl nae. eeagee.... |. 2... 3 Chester.. ee 2 Peas. ores, He... . . 1% Sem perio ...... 2% Rolied Oats. Schumacher, Rees #4 75 _....... 2a Monarch, bee... 3 90 Monarch, . bie... .... G. uw? usker, CANes........... . 3 20 Oven Terese. 8 25 SRS. 2 25 Sago. ee 3 Bast India.................. 8% Wheat. FLAVORING EXTRACTS. Souders’, Oval Bottle, with corkscrew. Bestin the world for the money. Regular Grade Lemon, dos 2 o£ 8 402 ~L.o Regular Vanilla. doz f20z ....81 20 fon.....34 XX Grade Lemon, 20z.....$1 50 oe... 3 00 XX Grade Vanilla, -o..... 81 75 so. .... 3 50 Jennings. Lemon. Vanilla 202 regular panel. 75 1 20 40% -1 50 2 00 6 oz " ...2 00 3 00 oe oe........ 1 35 2 00 No. 4 taper <.. O p - GUNPOWDER. Rifle—Dupont’s. a i fe 1 90 ost. Keegy... ..... 1 18 ie come... 30 i eee 18 Choke Bore—Dupont’s a. - oa Half kegs... tcc uertereces. .... . .. 135 i cam...... | 34 Eagle Duck—Dupont’s. aoe... ee 11 00 aie... Cl 5% ost Oe... 3 00 io Come... 60 HERBS. ee ee cee OO i INDIGO. poe. 5 Ib. boxes. .... 55 S. F.. 2,3. and 5 lb. boxes . 50 JELLY. > Dees... @ 37 alm @ 4 30 . + . @ 70 LICORICE ee ee eee 30 eR 25 Sictiv 3 aoe, 10 LYE. Condensed, 2 dos. oo oe... 2. 2 26 MINCE MEAT, Mince meat, 3 doz. in case. 2 75 Pie Prep. 3 doz. in case....2 7 MATCHES, Columbia Match Co.’s Brands, Columbia Parlor. 7 25 XXX Sulphur.. 1 00 Diamond Match Co.’ 8 | Brands. No.3 sulphur oa 1 65 AOeer partor........... oe a2 eeee .... 4. 110 Riso eer. -.-...... 4 00 MEASURES. Tin, per dosen, 1 gallon ' 81 75 or eee. 2... cl 1 40 meet ...... 7 les) veo ae 45 re TOG ce. ck coe 40 Rai — manga for vinegar, per doz. NE ics occ eae han 7 00 Heit galion topes fag 475 uart . one’ 3 75 as “ 2 THE [[IGAN TRADE N. ee ks Sugar h ackstrap. ouse ap. oeee A . oma cuba “Baxing. 14 aoe os — prime Porto Rics 1e Caen _" @13 i ane Faucy eo i. i ee Mal 4 | —£ibs «Xd N ; ng 26 mp, aba 7 ATA i> _ ow Orleaus. — 30 oe — j 80 7? 7 M ce as Nag ae . istard in 4 9 N.S, ) doz Dan Gee ote teanse ot i Pop . white 2” FM 120% $10 2 gr au king — Extra good sleesen ee 18 Rape” a ih | $4 Mae 12 on aa outed. 7 Maal? ee a ae 27 attle bone. et oz. F ¥ Vanilla aa Honey en CRu alf barrels 3¢.exti oe aa miase M. 1 50 doz, — DOW. cc eeseceeeeecees 4 UnbnL A -extra o Seotch, SNUFF * : “ ¢ y 20) ** ' 16 20 gr ie A a 2% No.0s Ab ol. PICK Mace in blad . i M25) ° 21 6 gro Adams Tobaceo By N .0Sun.. LAMP BU a ee ‘ LES, a Pe — i | railings . = : te Papuieds a ar - ae “Loar eee. UBNEBS. anh pareele, ee —_ h Rappee. ee = = 2 02.. —— else = Tom. Le bauer. neon oem 8, 600 c + SA 8 : ' -----40 @ ' i We | ' 26 causes Hes a ; wt neee 4¢ oO : L 43 i 2 W9 doz. . rd... as, security. N ae ou oa ) Barrels, 2,40 — 3: S ( Packed eagay | Gen. vaaae eT “eae on ne 18 Security, a TE DA SEO MA NS 45 1B, «» . b sai ) d dr 22 Hines | eotee cee ee “<: if Half bbis, 1 fees i Poor peters | lbs. In Dox | Gra SAL -- 1050 * an a 0.’s Brands aoa” . ns a - 00 count 5 50 MS... 2... ' | nulated. SODA. ' Kob R ersdorf’s. : en aaa ee ‘ PIPES 3 25 ao a 3 30 ; | _bbis.. Uncle OY.----- ' Brands. sa oe aioe ' ae i 60 or. 216 . wight’s.... 202. oo... os is ump, bbls 75lb caser eee 1% Red C 2 Sam....-. —. 26 No.0S ¥ CHIMNEYS. Lo . «ere i os 36 St 3 3 | a 1 i‘ teres = ai : 8 Cob, No. fullcount....... = ' oN 145lb kegs... a 1% T Spaulding & M - apse No. 1 >I dos. in box. 115 3.. $....... = — ---- 3 00 s¥ aes ee — Eten and “i & Merrick. 32 Mod W csec esses ~, tin +. L ° i IPS 9 ay Siigasad™ | xoosgenjmoit nt -er bi POTASH. 41 ae R aundry. Harre as Ss. * Rue eler cane pee iH Bo pe ill a box Babbit ,48 cans In Concor meh Works Half e oe Plo k Horn. ndish....... 3% No. 0 Sun, Firat quali a 14 Bla smi 72 eg’ case. g dia, » 100 34 % nag Brands »bis .. ee ee aon Boy... cites ges = _ 7 crimp top, st quailty. 1 88 ' a ‘i a 9 » Sn PP eaabeaee +++ 00 ° “ce 2, 2 a Me is 4 00 | aoe lots " 3 50 | Fair Pe eu 24 Seat — ' “ upped and label RICE, 3 00 B 20 oom lots... ; 5 | — seseeeeeee ni 40 gr VINEGA / = ¢Sun.e XXX ' ed...2 10 Be i oe 7. "hoie a . sia a - N c ’ . 22 i ( ‘arolina needenss 601 ‘Best German Fatal 3 = i cose ab het wana 4G ae R. Ne i : rimp top, oa “ 3 25 i. 5 box lots. nily. esate ae 20 os @8 a [ ped nl ag i No. ae 25 3 ots «-e a 2 | TA a e “81 a ‘ 66 and labe i Brok No. : veees : 5% eee lots : ene on Lea & perrin’s, SAUCE oe Ww for barrel. @ No. 1 ‘“ és abeled 20 ee ee a a % oid Cot B Wrisley’s se 2°5 | Half pe re — se MUSTAR No. 2 .s wrapped and. top. ji il 2 gt i oe sley’ si se ( or ea a $4 Japan, No Imported. : 3% Good ee Tlb Brands. 00 ford, — — a = peer ee tdens D, No. 2 Hinge, ‘ and labeled. . & 4 wl... rite ,601 1b ee | Salad cn ne a ncase.. 30 ‘ i Java No. 2.. ml : Bors! 100 acib. 3 | cua! dae 3% _ se. 7 No : «“ ne Pate tk ay Proctot ae 4 = sing, large . -.. 2 25 Diamond." — aes No. 2 1, Sun, plain Proof—P} 4 70 eG 5 Concord r & Gambl ae smal) 4 55 M ne ' in bulb ain Top. 489 SPICES. —.. <6 Ivory, 10 oz... . “ ee 2 wo ag 5 he ” v Se es i alr N- st ¢ ee 0 Gt sae All Ww . tues .2& i ite Ye rear z Sun, a — hole Sifted ue pees rn — a --1 00 a plain bulb, Bastie. 2 Assia, Chinen ine i i: Mottled ae isRtE 400 bgirs ee @i7 woo a 00 og 1 erimp, pe ulb, per doz r i Baahie feed x own d German enn 3 65 ~~ setae Ts , Sune. . DENWARE. 00 ” r doz : ne Cloves Saigon i sund . Di Ae na 2 15 rt i = A 5 “i N ee N i i pa i “8, n roll 5 ; in 2 DF i @» 1 yes ‘ No. 1, lin a a ves, Amboyna olin... 32 Single bc aamNeieR oe Fair 8UN OC --10 or i ee 5 78 No. 2 1, lime (65¢ Roche 1 35 Zan ~ 5 OX is . URED. 12 Pa 3 d i e doz ester — wae i 22 ptr lots, dei oe ’ poem Lee ' Als, No. 1, tworl ae 3 No. 2 on (oe pn a cove ' 1 utmegs a wee cee ee box lots ered. 3% $005 eecee case @17 No. 200 - 4.00 it (80¢ --- + He tlh a ee 3% — 7 B it p. v do N ancy..... : 7 tua 3 Baledoad (11, 3 45 a ‘ @2 owls, n — hoop | 125 su a. 7 | a ee 28 +s NO. aR Kirk 1 3 Dusi ° - 24 @ 1 35 _~/ lime E ist aa 4 degen Pepper, Bo _ ' American . & Co.’s Brat . ‘ si . 2 O34 ‘“ - Bees iV a No. 2 a ae aaah lectric. 7 00 is singapore, black 78s N. amily, wrp d a ~~. 1 piED,. @iz me ae ee naa 90 wae " i ' : K. 1 a3 ‘hol . i ii wien soos DMD on vee se ee i sh 10 Ss Fairb plain cr ri ice . IDES oe +9) Junto cellane . 410 a5 Pure 20 anta Cla ank & Cc 2 a roices r : ...18 Ge : s&s PELTS 1 8 Nu r, Roche eous, ae 4 se is: Allspic Ground 5 Brow nari »."8 Brane rt t. we Perki and tmeg . ster . 40 é e in 16 a n. 60 a. sds, UCR eE weed 2F 1 ig ns & : FUR Ulum < Co . # Cassia, aap Bulk. 80 —_ i nag 39) ice waiee lead Ox ows: & Hess pay as Ss Bansal lots, 2 setesee Dos ba itavia. 5 Lautz a as : 10 TOBACCO or ia pen s fol z in. es : bases. a si) is ‘ ? i 4 i e ‘- 2 meee eT a i 7 br Clov ao ‘Saigon .2 Acme .. . & Co.'s Br - Cor Cigars. Part Cr ec ase lots, “a Shades... oa -- eS es, Amabeyns i oi Cotton on ands. eek ine oo Brand, Full ired ._ to M A o 1 00 z ¢ Z ‘ & ee 3 65 impe a Full oe -1 @ : RE : oe < rn) : ae sa ‘ 2 —— e OS — owe vee B80 | Kip Cc ana gy Gis No. : 10th Chimn 1 of i rican oS ster 6 U0 i etos / 0 ee, grecm ......- %4@ 9 o.3R eysf ) Coe « .18 ca Boquets 2 Pr een . . 614 % N 2oche ‘or Sto ap i ochi ee 4 Of juets -+- ) WO c nano 2@ 8} No. 3 ester, li re Li n ie Thom ) oe ured ee > r Ko zr, | D sa : Mace Jamaica ou ease a ompson & C .. 40 Si Edw. W. - 6 00 C alfseins, +. : vo @ 7 No. 3 P wh hester, Poon Oz. ps t 4 Mn Batavia _~ hute Co.'s gnal Fi Ruhe’s B 55 00 green. THE 9h No. 2 earl top ¢ int 1a) Box a stard, we .'s Bra | Co ive. rand D eu 8 4 No 3 Giob or Jev 17 eo] Eng. alegre =n 6 tis Comrade 8. eacon skins red... cao No 2 Giot e lueande: wel gl’s.1 io 4 20 hae Tr r’ iy a ‘ sobe Ir as. li 5 it Nutmegs, oe! tente. 22 ea La No. 2 hides ¥ 0! 0 @ nia ete 2 a fe Pepper, esate 25 G.J Jal oe a si 6 off. ) @Qx5 glass. 8. flint...2 il 5 #5 i 1gapore, anal is :nson’s NE —— ELTE. tone pital 2 10 : 10 ‘ wh 1b : Oi besos : A a ine i CANS, : bi e Cayenne pes 24 aan. 10 é 30 2 onl oo spout wd ' li > < oo y a 1, Ww ia Absolute” in P. = Washed cece uw @ me 3 gal one iron — So Doz Fe Allspic 2 Packages ; Unwashed oe 5 gal Sen iron with enamel i 1 WW Bt Cini D neo 48 : Mu hac e @i4 ¢ gal E Nutt, with 1 spout. a i 2 00 k C a Rianne 84 = Tallow ISCELLANEOU a @lz 5 gal —: ih spout a P Ginge on = { grease but . 5 gal val eka with spout 450 ie r ca 4 6155 2 fia swite butte 3 5g galv iro : _ el : 1, Jamaica. are aie 55 Silver; —— . ; os o a 2 oo 4 Mustard Re Sf 155 Mono | seny : 1 2 2 gal galy g Cans, hy ' 6 50 ; . Pepper ........ ' 84 1 5 Say ann : e -G@ Z iron Nace Ou eee | 7 Ww ’ Sage aE ENE a 1 = Sunt i proved i ; = i er ins Cut 00 RAINS and FE 2 Qe 2 25 3 gal H i ‘| fas... ee _¢ 50 4 a — = se Golue ee i Sweet Kns rd. Co. : SEDSTU FY 5 gal He iia hikes | ump © 1+ ae avian 84 55 Rec nen i i iG 50 Tiger.. 5 i *s Brands, No. 1 Wht WHEAT. rys 3 gal — ihe aus, a 2¢ King —— No. 2 as ib, Lest » gal Goodenough ' ae sford’s Cort flenry Pass 2 25 a. na ing ‘ ee ho 5 gal Goodenough ate Wy 0 '-lb — 2. iesolt’s 8 Bra 225 Cobe i. rands, ‘Patents \OUK IN SACKS 8 rate pl nt penne a 6% ud Rocket .... ao 60 Second ae acer ae cam N o LL rE a . IZ 40 1-1b. en s Silver Gl 6% spaulding & Me 32 Straight. ceeeesesees 490 No. 0, Tubular of AMT eg 78 r 6-lb, boxes ages .. a Sterling . « Merric k Le 30 saa CALL 445 No. o & , Cases 1 ane - +s 10 B. ws ol a rands. haat a sere 4 2) N ~Uy oe co ae oo. eact i va Comu i ae he Private Buel gees EE a No. 0, if ae ich... = pI boxes. cheap a a 74 eens ‘ate Brands. — te cman 7 . coin “ Ona wc. 4 cuca aig 3AZ00 « --. eee N ie! pau 1 ween 45 oa Can Ca : @3? — a - . 4a No. t, pe Lan ye, cases wees seen 0 oe Gloss 5% Nellie -- to aaa — -| | Seow — ject to usual cas 4-0 a : ahi Reiley i doz each.) 25 f a2 ee Unele Bei. «. a 3a aniour in aia ake sh dis- No. = saa ses eee -— ie ‘6 1 4 zint ee x ’ 2 pe < be oo. a ce be rs D abit. base 5 A sa y 24 @25 B per bbl. ad- Mammoth, seoetsaeeteeees on oF ie, arrels boxes. ll eee Atiag .... eli bbis 27 Bolted ..- MEAL. per doz.. oo a tah a i ee a a . Cabaibia. | |. 25 ek ¥% Pints, Oe a mnt ste ees a 3 Boxes — 334 Sa Scourin i mone +? irums 24 a: er ee AND 8 + 2a = 2 eusLens—Tin a 3 Kees, Rugiteh.. sabi polio, kite i g. ang up, drum 23 ot. é - Feed MILLSTUFPA 275 - wa aa “ Dbl, per box — dpoe ae serseeee eed han 2 doe... 2 5 a r Feed ened. ..$ eo oe “ box, ‘ doz ox 00). a ar eae on d3oz.......2 40 me sore’ Bra 19 a ec. orn Sod Oats 24 06 ‘ 5 «bbl box —- ae 60 Cong Diamond Cc ul Bel 5 The Putnam Candy Co. quotes as follows: STICK CANDY. Cases Bblis. Palis. Standard, per 1D......... 5 7 LT 6 z . Teist ies 6 7 Boston Croam............ 8% cdl ee GT, 8 a 8% MIXED CANDY. Bbls. Pails Rete. ce oy 6% ao eee eee ce uee oe 7 pe ES 6% T% Nobby aches een gue wel gue a 8 ae ; 8% ee 7% Brocen weey.............. baskeia Peanut Squares............ 8 French Creams.......... acces 9 Valley Creams... sie LC 12% Midget, 30 Ib. baskets. eee ede. Cebe coe ee eee rancy—In bulk Pails Lozenges, eee beecue 8% i 9% Cen eeee 11@12 Chocolate Monumentals.............. \ 12 en ero... . s ee, EE . eee ee, a 2 OO ee ee 9 Fancy—In 5 lb. boxes. ver Box CO ee = pees eee... . oo Peppermast Drows.................. 60 Conese Peraee..........-....... 65 BE. M. Chocolate Drops...........- i to oe a 35@ 50 Deer POON cs. ek le ..1. A. B. Licorice ae. cde. % ee 60 ' as. Loe . 65 ee ec 60 ee, _ a ae eee ee . mereenes Der............. ....,.- ..50 Hand Made Creams..... se X aw Par oe. .. son eoorated Croamm................ <... Pree eee. eo Drees Rees... . W@ 2% Wintergreen Berries............ oo CARAMELS. No. 1, wrapped, = boxes hen ae 34 No. 1, x 51 No. 2, . : oe 28 ORANGES. — oo 3 00 Ne ee ue 3 2% LEMONS. MNO COC e, FU ok eee ee cane 5 50 oe Ee 6 00 ee eee 6 50 Meer tee, OP... i. 5 50 oe ee . 600 BANANAS. Large bunches.... ioe Te oo Small bunches...... lous etee denen yon 8 Oe OO OTHER FOREIGN FRUITS. Pies, fancy layers 1 ..............-- 13 . “ oe, ~~ ous a Se ee ne 7 Oe ee a 6% Dates, Pard, 10-1b. box Lol be ibs ee ele ee @ i% es labereusiece @5 ' witien. G. M.50 Ib ee ee, @ 1% NUTS. Almonds, _— ees ceed Cal ak ence G% i4 x @ ene soft shelled .... @12 Brazils, uew.. ‘ ee @8 Filberta... ... i. @10 Walnuts, Grenoble ..... @i5 id Preeomcm........ @ ” ee ee a @il2 sg Soft Shelled COtE os... @13 Tavie Nuts, Ee @il OO @? Poecaes, Temes, F., ...........-.... 8 @il ee ee Hickory Nuteper bu., Mich............ mrocoemars, Pntlengke.......-..... .<.. 3 65 Per, OO Occ. res aes Black Weinuts, per OG........... ...-. PEANUTS. Fancy, il P., Game Goes Sw@5* - Meee... ... aes. Qi. Fancy, x. P, Association . odees S@ 5% ~ Meetion...... ee cence @i Cnet. @ 4% = "eee... sk. @é FRESH MEATS. BEEF. Oc ee cc cleeectee 5 @7 Wee GUORURES. -. 0... ese eecse see... 3%@ 4 Hind —— ciecees .§ @?d Loins No. 3. @10 ibs. -8 @l2 Round . 6%4@ 7 Chucks : 3%@ 5 a... dl 3%@ 4 PORK. Dressed ... Loms..... Shoulders .. : eee Be i. one MUTTON. Carcess ........ ee ee ec 54@ 6% a ee 8 @10 VEAL, POMPCROE el ee bie 5% @ 6 BRIGHT BOY. Effect of Home Training in the Grocery Store. “Will you lend me your watch, sir, for a few minutes? 1 want to use the second hand.” . Billy is to be trusted with anything, sol promptly handed him my valuable timepiece without a question as to the use he would make of it. A few minutes later I glanced toward the rear of the store, and saw Billy rapidly doing up different sorts of merchandise into neat parcels and as rapidly undoing them. I walked toward the scene of action to see what he was about. “I?m just practicing,’’ said he in an- swer tomy mental inquiry. ‘‘When I was over to your competitor’s store the other day, there was a young man there who could do up a bottle into a package while I counted ten. I thought maybe if 1 practiced long enough 1 could learn to do it, too.” While Billy talked his busy fingers made neat knots, and one eye was kept steadily on the small hand of my watch, which lay before him. “Do you think it’s worth all the trou- ble it will be to learn?’ { asked. ‘Course 1 do,’’ he answered promptly. “I don’t believe it will take me more than a month or two, and then 1 shall know how as long as I live. You see you never forget the things you learn with your hands or your feet.” l said nothing, but watched the boy’s dextrous fingers as he skillfully shaped the stiff wrapping paper around various objects. After a minute or two he went on: “It?s so mugh easier to do anything after you know exactly how; and I hate to be achump with my hands, anyway. Have you noticed that new clerk you got last week? He’s a nice man, and every- body likes him, but he’s the clumsiest chap Lever saw. He always spills a lit- tle of everything he touches—about a tablespoonful on the average. After he’s had a real busy morning there are enough spilled groceries behind the eounter to make a square meal for a tramp, only they are too mixed even for that. “That man ought to live with my mother a little while. When 1 was a little shaver I had a bad habit of spilling things on the tablecloth. Mother spoke to me once or twice about it. Then one day, after dinner, she lifted me up to the table and showed me the place where my plate had been. There was a clean white circle with a lot of different colored spots around it. ‘* ‘My son,’ said she, ‘if it made your dinner taste better or made you any hap- pier to put those spots there lL would let you go on doing it, but as 1 am sure it will not you must break yourself of the habit at once. 1 will take one cent out of your pocket-money for every spot you get on the tablecloth, and see whether you can’t learn to be a little tidier. It is a matter of habit, either way, and you will always find that on the whole a good habit is easier than a bad one.’ “Well, sir, 1 was pretty poor for a week or two, but after that my place was the cleanest at the table, and | guess | am cured of spilling things as long as I live. “] don’t like to do up packages spe- cially well, but if 1 can learn to do up twice as many in a morning as anybody else, | suppose I would be worth twice as much wages; wouldn’t I, sir?” 1 smiled, but said nothing. I am afraid sometimes that Billy is getting too sharp for me—but. i — i Why Some Merchants Succeed. Many merchants wonder why their competitors forge right ahead to success, while they lag behind. There is noth- ing wonderful about it. A schoolboy can reason the whole thing out, and make itas plainas ABC. The business man who succeeds is, probably, better lo- cated than the man who is grumbling about the depression of trade; he has a andsomer store, the exterior being in first-class shape, the pavement solid, the steps leading to the store are firm, the show-window is up to date and attractive- ly dressed. The interior éf the store is well furnished; the chairs and settees 31 THE MICHIGAN ib.e; the sture is weil lighted and ven- tilated; the stock is of as good a quality as it is possible to procure anywhere for the money; the salesmen are obliging and patient, and last, but not the least important, the proprietor of the store advertises liberally. Go thou and do likewise, if thou art anxious to succeed. ee All Due to a Grocer’s Mistake. “Good land! The old chestnut about the shoemaker and the bad $10 bill has started on its rounds again.’’ ‘‘What? That old thing about the man buying a $2 pair of shoes and paying for them with a $10 note’’— ‘*And the shoemaker hasn’t the change and sends out for it”— “Yes, and gets the money’’— “Pays the customer $3’’— ‘“‘And finds out afterward the bill is bad?” ‘“‘And how much was the shoemaker out??? (Both together)—‘*Why, easy.”’ ‘“‘Well, how much do you say?”’ ‘‘How much do you say?” ‘“‘He’s out $18 and the course.” ‘*Nonsense! It was $28 and the price of the shoes. Anybody can see that you’re wrong.’’ “Dll bet you.”’ ‘*Why, man, what do you take me for? I ain’t a robber.” “You ain’t, eh? when?"’ ‘*Well, now, look here. Don’t you be a fool—that is, any more of one than you are now’’— ‘*You’ve got such a mathematical head on you—you have’’— ‘Look here, now, you think you’re so smart. Il’ll just figure it out for you. The man paid $10, didn’t he?’ that’s dead shoes, of Since when? Since “Yes. No, hedidn’t either. It wasn’t $10. It wasn’t anything. It was less than $10.”’ ‘You haven’t any more sense than a rabbit. Then there was $8 the shoe- maker gave the man”— ‘“‘Doesn’t that prove what I said? shoemaker was $28 out.” “No, you didn’t. 1 said that.” ‘Now, look here. 1 said from the be- ginning that the shoemaker was $28 out.” “So you’re a liar as well as a fool, are you? ll have you know thatit was | who said $28—hold on; was it $28? No. How could the man lose $28, when there was only $10 in the transaction? No, ivs only $18 the man lost. Vl show you’’— “Gentlemen,” putin a quiet man sit- ting close by, ‘I think L can settle your difficulty. In me behold the shoemaker.”’ *-How much were you out?” ‘‘Not a cent,’’ ‘Not a cent?” “No. You remember the grocer of whom my boy got the change said the bill was bad?”’ Yon: ‘‘Well, he was mistaken.” —_»>->_——_ Posed the Britisher. A young Englishman, on his first visit to this country, relates the following as specimens of American slang that he overheard in a Pullman car in Chicago. The colored porter said to the conductor; “You better go and talk with that lady in lower 10; 1 can’t do nothing with her; she’s too flip.”’ ‘‘Oh, go on and be pa- tient with her,’’ replied the conductor. “She’s too much for me, conductor; she’s gettin’ flipper.” ‘“‘As the porter stood waiting near me,” said the Englishman, ‘‘l1 asked what he meant by saying the lady was flip or flipper.”’ ‘“*Why, | meant she was too fresh,’ answered the porter. ‘**Too fresh?’ I queried. ‘**Yes, that is she’s too soon,’ he ex- plained. ““Plip, fresh, soon—I don’t under- stand you yet,’ 1 told him with a laugh. “*Qh, Lord, can’t you talk English?’ exclaimed the porter; ‘well | mean she’s too fly.’”’ —_———___ ~<>-o-——— The Putnam Candy Co. interesting announcement on The Has an are comfortable; no dust or dirt is vis- ' page 20. TRADESMAN. A Pertinent Observation. The following remarks, taken from an insurance monthly, seem worthy of re- publication, as they certainly character- ize some of us mortal men: The meanest of all men is he who makes a pretense of loving a woman; de- prives her of all other chances in the world by appropriating her to himself; sees her youth and beauty expended in his service; -ees her become the mother of bis children, and refuses to secure for her, by life insurance, the provision she might have saved from the wages of a hired servant. We are with yeu, reader, when you say, ‘‘Amen!’’ Very truly yours, The PieRCE MANUFACTURING Co. Ludington, Mich. We manufacture the ‘Pierce Broom.” et >< Use Tradesman Coupon Books. IS SUPERIOR! If we should VCS cscsaenine And live as we should, USe THE BEST! Highland Brand Vinegar we must i Wi A ighlon Nation, Mich A Few Hot Weather Shots $ exchange, f.o b. Chicago. We offer this week, cash with order, in 10.000 lbs. Armour’s Hams, 16 Ib. current av., at Sic. 100 cases Buck: ye Rolled Oats at $1 90 per case. 100 Full Cream Michigan Cheese at 7c. 250 Bbls. Pomeroy Butter Crackers, at $c. 250 pails Sweet Russet Kine Cut at 24e. A CARLOAD FIRECRACKERS at lowest price ever named in Michigan. JAMES STEWART CO. LID. EAST SAGINAW, MICH. Is one of the tew All smokers will Good & cent brands, which -r. Realize by giving them a trial. COMRA [ED W.RUHE, 523 John st. Maker, Chicago Bushman, Agt. Kalamazoo 32 LHH MiCHiIiGAN « TRADESMAN. GOTHAM GOSSIP. News from the Metropolis---Index of the Markets. Special Correspondence New York, June 15—It is rather diffi- eult this week to give the true inward- ness of the volume of business done by the jobbing grocery trade in this city. Some report a good trade and others do not. Upon the whole, one concludes that business is not all that might be hoped for. There seems to be a midsum- mer lull which has come before it was really due. The coffee market shows no animation. Values are steadily maintained, yet if there is a chance of turning an honest penny, the probabilities are that there might be some shading done. Invoice value of Kio No. 7 remains at 1534 @16e. The amount afloat is 578,213 bags, against 269,483 bags last year. It is said that interior dealers are taking so much coffee from the importers that our grocery job- bers are complaining of being ‘‘left.” Of about 90,000 bags delivered during the past ten days, our jobbers have handled less than 10 per cent. Mild coffees main- tain a good degree of stability. Teas remain dull and lifeless and buy- ers are taking only enough to last for present requirements. Refined sugars are dull and no change has been made in quotations of gran- ulated. Mail orders have come in quite freely and from wide sections. The can- ning industry is now taking its usual re- quirements and these are promptiy met, as supplies seem ample. Raw _ sugars have declined about 1-16ce since last week. Taking the sugar trade as a whole, it is probable that it is rather dis- appointing, so far as refined is con- cerned. Rice is firm and dealers show no dis- position to make any concession. The country trade is good. Spices are quiet, the trade being some- what under speculative control. Quota- tions are firm and indications are that we shall see no speedy decline from con- trolling rates. i In canned goods a steady improvement is to be seen. While the volume of or- ders is not materiaily larger, perhaps, there is more willingness on the part of buyers to pay prevailing rates, and an indisposition on the part of holders to make any concession whatever. Corn and tomatoes both show a decidedly bet- ter appearance and on the former article there has been an advance on the best Maine sorts. A few days ago Maine corn was found to be quite plenty at 80c; but the same is now firmly held at 70ce. For fancy 90c to $1 is asked and obtained. There is every prospect of a reduced pack of tomatoes in this part of the coun- try and, as a better demand already seems to prevail, the growers are in hopes that the long lane of low prices has at length been turned. New Jersey brands are worth 65c, with 67¢c¢ fre- quently obtained. It seems to be gener- ally believed that there are a great many cases of last year’s peas with this year’s labels on, and buyers are cautioned to exercise discrimination in making pur- chases. Early Junes of this season’s pack of extra quality have sold for $1. The pack now in progress shows great variation in quality. Salmon is firm and steady. The call is chiefly for red Alaska, which is held at $1.10; Columbia River, tall tins, spot, $1.55@1.75. Lemons took a tumble of 50@75c a box on Thursday, as buyers couid not or would not give prevailing quotations. There is a very steady market, however, all along the line. The orders from out of town have been numerous and of good size. They all indicate the near ap- proach of the Fourth, with all it implies. Bananas and pineapples are quickly ab- sorbed and at good rates. The fact that firecrackers are about 50 per cent. cheaper than last year will make the small boy smile all over. The thought of 40 packs of firecrackers fer 75 cents is sufficient to make an old fellow wish he were a boy again. Butter is arriving freely, but a great amount is being put in cold storage and, as there is a good demand, the market is firm and quotations are closely adhered to. Cheese is showing a little better tone. It is likely that a large amount has gone into cold storage. Exporters have taken rather more than the average and dealers profess quite a good degree of confidence in the future. The receipts since Mon- day bave been about 45,000 boxes. Fancy small white cheese of N. Y. State make is worth 734c. Eggs are stale. That is the condition of about nine-tenths of them, anyway. Really good stock from Michigan, North- ern Indiana and Northern Ohio will fetch 15}¢e, but it is very hard to find de- sirable eggs at any price. New potatoes are worth from $3.25@ 4.50 a bbl. and are plenty. Pea beans, choice 1894, $2.15@2.20. The demand is moderate and the market is easier. F. B. Thurber, formerly of the Thur- ber-Whyland Co., has been appointed trustee of the new East River bridge that is to be. The appointment is generally commended, as Mr. Thurber allows no grass to grow under his feet, and the bridge will ‘‘-hump,” if he has his way about it, while building. . _> <-> The bill passed by the Illinois General Assembly, prohibiting the manufacture of cigars in the State penitentiaries, has been vetoed by the Governor on the ground that to prohibit any particular industry in the prisons shows partiality against the rest. By this reasoning the prisun wardens constitute the supreme tribunal to decide what industries may be undertaken inthe prisons. Of course, the management will endeavor to select the trades which will make the best showing in meeting prison expenses. As long as their judgments may vary in regard to the proper trade to select, many lines of manufacture will be constantly threatened by convict competition. It is said that the cooperage trade in Chicago has been almost entirely destroyed by this labor scourge. It seems a strange reasoning dhat takes the right to decide such matters from the legislatures and thus relegates them for decision to the jobbery of prison rings. £22 _ Two honorable members of the Colo- rado Legislature have just been tripped up in a pretty mean scheme of making money by beating railroads that had given favors to them because of their public office. They have been making a system of renting their annual passes on the railroads to traveling men at $15 a month apiece. In the case of one mem- ber, who has a German name, the fraud was discovered through one of his per- sonal passes being presented by aman of palpably Hibernian nationality. The conductor could not reconcile the name and the brogue, and held the man and the pass for investigation, when the fraud was discovered. Following this clew led to the discovery of the system operated by the two legislators. One pass that the Assemblyman had rented for $15 a month had been used for more than a hundred dollars’ worth of travel in that time. Fully Capable. Shoe Dealer—if a woman should come in and ask you to show her a good, com- mon-sense shoe that would not pinch her foot, what would you do? Would-be-clerk—I’d bring out a shoe about two sizes too small for her. **] guess you'll do.” 2 Russia, Belgium, Portugal and Ger- many have introduced the bicycle into their armies for orderly and other sery- ice. $9 Use Tradesman Coupon Books. MUSICAL MERCHANDISE. A Display of Handsome Instruments That Should Be Seen--The Largest in This Section of the State. Any one that is a musician, or for that matter, any one that appreciates a beau- tiful display of wares of any kind, should devote at least one hour some day viewing the immense line of music- al instruments Julius A. J. Friedrich is showing in his mammoth emporium, on Canal street. Space will not permit a detailed mention of the many makes there displayed of both pianos and or- gans, but if the visitor does not say he never saw a larger or more complete line in this section, a serious mistake is made. All kinds of instruments and the finest made are found there, along with sheet music and musical literature from all over the world. The five floers in con- stant use are reached by a passenger ele- vator. _ eo A Dealin Eggs Which Was Not Con- summated. a This isa story of how a New York grocer grievously offended a customer, also of how the customer wounded the sensitive feelings of the grocer, and of the circumstances which led to this most ubhappy estrangement. The customer was ‘every inch a lady;’’ the grocer, though he never wore a stove-pipe hat, was in other essentials a gentleman. They met at the grocer’s counter, and this is the conversrtion that placed be- tween them a great yawning chasm: ‘‘Are those eggs fresh?’’ she asked. “Yes, marm,’’ replied the grocer. ‘You are quite sure?”’ “‘No doubt about it, marm.” “Now, if there is any doubt about it, I should not care to buy any.’’ ‘“‘You can depend upon it, marm. I wouldn’t say they were fresh if they weren’t.”’ “There were three rotten ones in those I bought the other day.”’ ‘You won’t find any of these that way.’’ ‘‘Now, you say you are positive these are perfectly fresh?’’ “‘That’s what I said, marm.” “You'll take back the bad ones, if | find any won’t you?” ‘*You’ve got to take them just as they come, marm.” ‘*You’ll warrant that there are no bad ones among them, won’t you?” “No, L won’t; ’d a warranted them when you came in, but they’ve grown old since then. You can’t expect eggs to last forever, marm, and another thing —”’ But the slamming of the door as the lady flounced out lost to the world the verbal pearls that continued to come from between the grocer’s celluloid-filled eeth. —+ +2 The House Was a Failure. Bingo—Didn’t you have some trouble in building your house? Kingley—Oh, a little. The architect made a slight mistake.in the estimate, and it cost me $4,000 more than | counted on. Bingo— Was that all? Kingley—All? No, sir. The carpen- ters forgot there was such a thing as specifications, and left out a hall; but, of course, one shouidn’t mind a little thing like that. Bingo—Certainly not. Kingley—Then the pipes were put in wrong and had to be replaced. Bingo—That usually happens. Kingley—Oh, yes. Then I neglected my business for three months trying to find the architect, and that cost me a pretty penny. Bingo—But you expected that? Kingley—Certainly. After the place was finished I found my old furniture ~wouldn’t do, and I had to get a new out- fit. Then my cellar flooded, the roof leaked and the piazza warped; but these things aren’t anything to the trouble ’m in new. Bingo—What’s the trouble now? Kingley—I can’t sell the house. Barnato, the mine owner of South Africa, is at present scattering his mil- lions in Paris. Twenty years ago he was very poor, and acted as clown in a circus, with two trained donkeys. Now he is worth $150,000,000. He was per- forming in Kimberley to poor houses, when, on a waik, he found a sparkling stone in the fields. It was a diamond and worth $:0,000. Barnato bought the fields around there and gradually looked up gems and sold them. Thus he went on and did likewise later with the Johan- nisburg gold mines. Heis a fellow di- rector with Cecil Rhodes in the com- panies that control the mines. PRODUCE MARKET. Beans—The market is stronger and higher than a week ago, the Chicago market having ad- vanced to $2.05, in consequence of which hold- ers are still strong in their views. Butter—In ample supply at 12@15¢ for choice dairy. Beets—New, 357 45¢ per doz. Cabbage— Maryland stock is coming in freely, commanding $1.75@2 per crate of two to three dozen. Cucumbers—Mississippi stock, 30e per doz. Home grown, 40@45¢ per doz. The latter is much better in quality and gives better satisfac- tion than the Southern product. Cherries—Red Richmonds command 10e per qt. Sweet are about the same price, but do not sell as readily as sour fruit in this market. Eggs—Handlers pay 10e and hold at lle in a regular jobbing way. Onions—10¢ per doz. bunches for green stock. Dry stock from the South commands $1 per bu. Potutoes—Old stock is about the same as a week ago, selling in small quantities to the retail trade at 38@40e per bu. New stock is coming in freely, commanding #2@2.25 per bbl. The re- ceipts are mostly from Tennessee. Gooseberrics—In full supply, but in no demand whatever, this being one of the few markets in the country which takes no interest in this fruit. Pineapples—$1@1.25 per doz., according to size and quality. Radishes—Round or Long, 8¢ per doz. Spinach—25e per bu. Strawberries—The season proves to be a very disappointing one, as it is now generally con- ceded that the yield of home grown will not be over one-quarter of an average crop. Had there been frequent showers immediately after the May frosts, the crop might still have been a fair one in point of both quality and yield; but the dry weather precluded a second crop of blos- soms and shortened the yield accordingly. This week will practically close the season, locally, during which time the price will rule from 8@ 10c for average stock and 124%@14e for fancy of- ferings. Tomatoes—#1.50 for 4 basket crate and #2.25 for 6 basket crate. Most of the stock now in mar- ket is from Mississippi. Wa» Beans—scarce and higher, the market price having advanced from $1.50 to #2 per bu. BUTTER WANTED! Prices quoted on application. NOTE LOW PRICES On following goods: Mrs. Withey’s Home Made Jeliy. made with boiled cider. very fine. Assortment con- sists of Apple, Blackberry, Strawberry, Raspberry and Currant: ee ee i 50 oe ee 45 re ee 40 1 quart Mason Jars, per doz......... _. eo 1 pint Mason Jars per doz....... .. - 125 ror cues, Soe fo Goe6. 8 ee Mrs. Withey’s Condensed Mince Meat, the Destmade, Price per Case ............... 2 40 Mrs. Withey’s bulk mince meat: eee ee I 6 oa Oe, 6% Peo. pele, pee .... .... ee 6% 21D. Cae, per Gos... ............ ooo ph aeepas 1 40 vigleie e part Oe Dare por Gok ......, 1. 1... 1 25 Quart Manon Jarre, per dos .............. .. 2 00 Pure Sweet Cider, in bbls., per gal.......... 12% Pure Sweet Cider, in less quantities, per gal 14 Maple Syrup, pint Mason Jars, per do# 140 Maple Syrup, quart Mason Jars, per doz.... 2 2 Maple Syrup, tin, gallon cans, per doz...... 9 00 Peach Marmalade, 20-lb pails ... 1 ee 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.......... 12 No. 1 Egg Crates with fillers complete...... 33 Special prices made on 100 Crate lots. I make Syrups and quote you Refiners’ prices: White Sugar Drips, ¥% bbls...... .... pergal 32 land % gal. pails ** ‘“ 58 Money Dri “bbls 8, oe land % gal. pails...... | EDWIN FALLAS,"*w.8t””® ere 4 A Fi A ee a ee ee scenes iieennnaemmnmentil