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The Grocery Market.
Sugar—Fairly active at steady and un-
changed prices. Advices covering all
sections that draw on Eastern markets
for supplies continue to indicate ex-
tremely light stocks in jobbers’ hands,
and the comparative lightness of the de-
mand ata season when trade should be
brisk is rather surprising. This peculiar
position gives ground for the belief that
apn active demand is not far distant. Buy-
ers have been holding off, and any con-
centrated movement on their part to ob-
tain supplies hastily would undoubtedly
result in much inconvenience and delay
in shipments.
Molasses and Syrups—From advices
received from primary markets, it is
learned that receipts will be light from
now on, as the crop is about over at
ail the islands. Advices from Bar-
badoes show a large shortage as com-
pared with last year. The stocks of
foreign molasses in the United States
are smailer by about 40 per cent. than
last year, and the statistical position
certainly favors a steady range of
values. The market for syrups is
quiet and prices are more in buyers’
favor. There is a better assortment
on offer and refiners are accumulating
some stock, hence the easier tendency.
A further decline is reported in glu-
—
cose in sympathy with the lower mar-
ket for corn.
Tea—Does not improve a particle, the
trading being dull and dragging.
Cotfee—Both Brazil and mild grades are
dull, with prices on the former nominal.
Spices—The activity of a short time
ago, which came from _ speculative
sources, has disappeared, and the job-
bing demand is also lighter.
Provisions—For several days at the
beginning of the week the changes in
price for hog products were slight and
rather unimportant with occasional
starts to higher figures. Any firmness
was owing to the quite moderate receipts
of hogs. Thetrouble to sustain prices
was lack of speculative buying interest
and on almost complete suspension of
export demand, on account of the large
stocks held generally on the Continent
and United Kingdom. A turn from this
steady temper came with the close of the
week, when the packers, disgusted over
the dull business and large stocks, be-
gan selling. In one day’s trading pork
declined 60 cents per barrel, while ribs
were down 15 to 1744 points. The mar-
ket is still weak and depressed, due
largely to the depression in grain.
Bananas—The local market to-day is
entirely bare of good shipping fruit.
There are three or four cars en route for
this market, but at present it looks as
though there would not be enough of the
fruit to supply the Fourth of July de-
mand. It is certain that prices will rule
higher for the next ten days.
Lemons—The weather has not been as
hot during the past week as people sup-
posed it would, and for that reason there
has been no material advanee in the
price of lemons. In fact, there was a
little decline at the New York auctions on
Wednesday, but it was on the weak
lines, which would have to be repacked
before sending out. Fancy stock has
brought good prices, and will continue
to do so until about July 1, in spite of
the weather. ‘The arrivals expected for
the next three weeks are only about half
what they were for the same period last
season. New York people figure it out
that there will be 40,000 boxes sold this
week, 27,000 next, and about 66,000 the
third week. With continued hot weather
there will be no decline in prices, but, if
it turns cool, they will probably sag off
from 50c@$1 per box. Everybody at the
present time is buying very light, and
there will be nostocking up toany extent
until they sell for about two-thirds of
what they bring at present.
Oranges—Local dealers report an ex-
cellent demand for Fourth of July and
most of them have provided themselves
with plenty of stock. There are a few
Seedlings left in cold storage, but the
bulk of the offerings are Mediterranean
Sweets. Eastern markets are handling
some Messina and Rodi fruit, but very
little of it gets so far west as this point.
All fruit of this variety is shrinking more
or less, and to offset that it has been
necessary to advance prices on the best
sizes.
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A novel method of rewarding the
Japanese troops for their services in the
war against China has been resolved
upon by the Japanese government. In-
stead of being presented with medals,
each soldier who has served in the cam-
paign is to be given a ‘watch, and the
Japanese war office has just entered into
contracts with several Swiss firms for a
large supply of these timepieces. The
presentation of the watches will be made
by the Mikado when he reviews his vic-
torious troops at the close of the war.
The Hardware Market.
General trade has been fairly good,
but, owing to theextreme dry weather,
not as good as it would have been had
we had plenty of rain. Theruin of the
hay crop has lessened the sale of scythes
snaths and rakes, but dealers are buying
more freely of cradles, forks, ete. The
general advance in many lines of hard-
ware are being fully maintained and it is
hard to find any manufacturer but what
looks with confidence on the future.
They say it is impossible for values to go
as low as they have been for several
years. In many cases the advance in
raw material, as well as labor, will pre-
vent it.
Wire Nails—The past week has wit-
nessed quite a jump inthe price. There
does not seem to be any great degree of
regularity in jobbers’ prices. The rea-
son, we presume, is that they hardly
know what to make of the situation, or
to determine where they are at. We
have heard of $1.75 rates at Cleveland
and $1.70 rates at Detroit, while Grand
Rapids jobbers are holding at $1.80@1.75
and are not anxious for large orders at
those figures. Nearly all jobbers have
ceased quoting mill prices in nails and
are supplying the trade from stock. We
think that by August 1 the situation will
be better understood and then jobbers
ean quote both from mill and stock.
Barbed Wire—The last week has had an
advance of $2 a ton at mill on all kinds
of wire and manufacturers are refusing
to contract ahead even at the advance.
They claim the recent advance in labor
and other causes fully justify even
higher prices. We quote at present,
subject to change:
Painted barbed atmill...... ..... 31 70
Galvanized barbed at mill ......... 205
Painted barbed from stock .......... 2 W
Galvanized barbed from stock. ..... 2 35
Sheet Iron—In sympathy with other
lines has advanced $2 a ton.
Dealers can safely look for higher
prices on everything in which iron en-
ters and if they are in shape to buy can
hardly make any mistake in purchasing
freely. While some may think the ad-
vance is too rapid it will be noticed by
the accompanying table that the low
prices of 1893 have not yet been reached
by the present advance. Taking the
prices ruling in the first week of June,
1893, and in the last week of May, this
year, we obtain the following, which
fairly covers iron and steel products and
is sufficiently general for present pur-
poses:
1893. 1895,
Bessemer pig, Pittsburgh ecoeSla SO $11 65
Steel billets, e weecs, Fo Oe 10 25
Bar iroa, ee 1 45 110
Wire rods, _ aa 29 00 25 00
Wire nails, ° toes 1 50 1 35
This shows that, although a substan-
tial advance has already been made in
the prices of articles mentioned, a good
wide gap remains to be bridged until the
prices of June, 1893, are equaled or
passed.
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The Drug Market.
Acids—Boracie has been moving
rather freely into consuming channels,
but without quotable change in prices.
Tartaric is alsoin good demand for con-
sumption. Salicylic is more or less un-
settled or irregular. Other descriptions
are without noteworthy feature.
Alcohol—The market for grain is again
unsettled and irregular.
Bicarb Soda—Business continues of
average volume with prices maintained
at the former range of values.
Blue Vitriol—Small parcels are meet-
| ing with an active inquiry and sellers
;} adhere firmly to 4@41!gc, depending on
size of order.
Cocaine—A further decline of 25c per
ounce is announced. The cause of these
continued reductions is thought to be
the determination of the combined mak-
ers to crush out an outsider in Southern
Germany, who has just started cocaine
making. It was thought that the last
shot would have silenced this intruder;
buf the contrary was the case, the ‘‘out-
sider” replying to the challenge by a fur-
ther reduction in his quotation to 14
shillings for 100-ounce lots, which still
leaves him a sixpence below the estab-
lished price. The end of the fight will
probably be the inclusion of the outsider
in the syndicate, followed by & general
advance in the quotations.
Cream Tarter—Continues to move
rather freely and manufacturers’ prices
are firmly maintained.
Cuttlefish Bone—Dealers report a con-
tinued active jobbing demand for prime
Trieste.
Gums—Camphor continues on its up-
ward course and prices were further ad-
vanced 3c per lb. on Wednesday last,
with the previous strong conditions pre-
vailing. Itis claimed that the present
cost of crude would justify still higher
prices. The London and Hamburg mar-
kets have been flooded with rumors to
the effect that ‘‘the Japanese have limited
and taxed the export of camphor, and its
cost is therefore going up and may reach
a high figure,” but the reports are em-
phatically denied in this market. It is
believed that the foreign canard was
started solely for the purpose of advanc-
ing prices.
Leaves—The better qualities of short
buchu continue strong under steadily
diminishing supplies. Medium grades
of Tinnevelly senna are still tending
upward and continued activity is re-
ported.
Seeds—The demand for canary is
light, but prices continue firm both in
this country and in London; the syndi-
cate at the latter market is said to con-
trol large holdings. Russian hemp is
firmer, owing to increasing scarcity, and
prices have been advanced. Celery is
moving upward.
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Purely Personal.
The sympathy of the trade will go out
to H. Young, the Albion grocer, in the
loss of his wife by paralysis last week.
She left a host of friends, as wellasa
husband and two grown sons, to mourn
her loss.
John B. Howarth (Pingree & Smith),
President of the Merchants and Manu-
facturers’ Exchange of Detroit, was in
town two or three days last week, for the
purpose of interesting local jobbers in a
new rating system recently introduced
by his organization. Mr. Howarth was
much pleased with his reception and was
satisfied with the results of his visit.
M. D. Elgin (Musselman Grocer Co.)
has lately developed exceptional abil-
ity as a vocalist and his friends insist
that he should place himself under the
instruction of the German masters of the
art. Instead of doing so, he is said to
contemplate uniting his fortunes. with
a fair daughter of Sweden whose voice
is famous for its sweetness, thus com-
bining the companion and instructor in
one person. As such an arrangement
would add to the fame of Grand Rapids
as a musical center, THz TRADESMAN
sincerely trusts that the contemplated
will culminate in actuality.
THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.
DETECTING GREEN GOODS.
(CONCLUDED FROM PAGE THREE.)
and, at such times, his gloves would be
temporarily removed. Then the reason
for their use was plain: While his face
and neck were tolerably fair and smooth,
his hands were dark, cracked and
rough, as if by the most severe labor and
hardships, and seemed to partially verify
the truth of his statement that he had
been on shipboard for several years as a
sailor, before the mast, and had visited
the principal Chinese cities. As time
passed, he became still more talkative
and, not infrequently, half a dozen per-
sons would draw their chairs about him
to listen. His fund of information was
never exhausted, and he seemed able to
converse upon almost any subject. One
day, when the conversation turned upon
the public lands in the West, and the
low price asked by the Government for
them, he remarked that, ‘money could be
saved in purchasing them by procuring
Government land warrants.’ As some of
the listeners were curious to learn more
regarding these warrants, he casually re-
marked that he had one which they could
look at. He drew it forth and spread it
out upon atable. Every one seemed in-
terested at once and crowded about the
document. I bad seen hundreds of them,
a few years previous, as they were piled
up for sale in the banks of Nebraska.
As they were a really beautiful and at-
tractive piece of engraved paper, | laid
down my pen for a moment, stepped
from my little den of an office to feast
my eyes upon the paper which was eall-
ing forth so many encomiums. One
glance at the engraving told me that it
was counterfeit and the first one 1 had
ever seen, or even heard of. Fortunate-
ly, perhaps, the eyes of all around that
table were intent upon the paper; other-
wise, the varying expressions of surprise
and astonishment depicted in my face,
would have caused an embarrassing de-
nouement. I moved noiselessly . away,
without having been noticed. Some
hours afterward, being alone with my
employer, I asked, ‘Did you have any
suspicion that the land-warrant you
were looking at to-day was a counter-
feit?? It was then his turn to be aston-
ished. ‘Did you see it?’ he asked, ‘1 did
not netice you near the table.’
***] saw it,’ was my reply, ‘and I am
confident it is counterfeit, yet the owner
may not know it.’
‘**Did you ever see a spurious one be-
fore?’ he asked.
‘**T never did, and I never before sup-
posed they were counterfeited.’
***If 1 could ever doubt your judgment
in the matter of engraved paper,’ said he,
‘it would be in this instance. I cannot
believe, however, that the young man is
aware of the fact, if such is the case, for
only a short time ago I discovered that lL
am well acquainted with his father, who
is a well-to-do farmer not far from here,
and the family is highly respectable.’
‘“* ‘Several months passed, and the
visits of our customer—the sailor—grew
less frequent and, at last, he disappeared
altogether. As the autumn advanced, it
was discovered one morning by the por-
ter, that burglars had entered the store
from an alley, during the night, and
stolen a large quantity of cigars, most of
them being our famous ‘Anchor’ brand.
I believe a few valuable show case goods
were also missing. The total value of
the entire loss may have been in the vi-
cinity of $200. Detectives were at once
set to work upon the case, but without
having a shadow of a clue or suspicion,
and it was many months afterward be-
fore the least track was found which
might be followed with any promise of
success. The owner of the store in which
I was engaged was afterward traveling,
on business, some hundred or more miles
from home and, curiously enough, while
passing a restaurant one day, saw,
through the open door, some boxes of his
‘Anchor’ brand of cigars upon a shelf.
These, of course, attracted his attention
at once, Knowing that he had never sold
any of them in that city or vicinity, and
his first thought was, that some one was
imitating his registered brand. Stepping
inside, he asked to look at a box, upon
which he recognized his own cost mark.
He at once informed the proprietors that
the cigars had been stolen from him and
a long conversation ensued, disclosing
the fact that soon after the burglary was
committed, the owner of the. restaurant
had purchased a thousand cigars—all of
this brand—from a man _ representing
himself as agent for a Chicago manufac-
turer, aad his description of the man
pointed forcibly to our sailor and Chinese
traveler. Learning that the pretended
agent, while there, had remainedin town
over night, my employer at once set out
to find where he had lodged. After visit-
ing almost every hotel in the place, with-
out success, he was at last rewarded by
finding a small house of entertainment
in the suburbs where—soon after the
cigars were stolen—our sailor friend’s
name was found upon the hotel register.
His residence had been first written as
the town in which his father resided, but,
after ward, this had been partially erased,
and Chicago placed in its stead. There
is little more to add, except that a com-
petent man was at once placed upon his
track. He was tracea Eastward, and,
after a long search, was located in a hotel
at Albany, New York., where he was at
ence arrested. Before allowing him to
visit his room it was searched. Part of
a box of the ‘Anchor’ brand of cigars
was found in his possession, and beneath
a false bottom of his trunk was carefully
spread out more than 150 land warrants.
which were afterward proven to be
counterfeit. No sales of any land war-
rants could be traced to him, but he was
tr.ed for the burglary; convicted and
served his sentence of either ten or fif-
teen years in state’s prison. After his
eonviction, it was learned that he had
never been a sailur, and never visited
China, but had served a lengthy term in
jail in a Western state, where he worked
at blacksmithing during the greater part
of thetime. ‘This accounted for the con-
dition of his hands when he first returned
home.”’
Thanking Mr. Dean for his wonder-
fully interesting and entertaining story,
I returned home, wondering whether or
no he were possessed of a supernatural
“gift,” or was a mere human, like my-
self. FRANK A. Howie.
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When a woman writes a note to her
husband she very seldom wastes a full
sbeet of paper on him. If she can’t find
a half sheet already torn off, she uses
brown wrapping paper, tears theedge off
a newspaper, or uses an ould envelope.
When the request is for money, she looks
for the smallest scrap of paper in the
house to write it on.
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The true philanthropist is the man or
woman who provides work for the wage-
earners, and pays the wages and main-
tains the conditions that enable a man to
acquire independence and contentment.
He is the man who builds a solid founda-
tion on which a nation must progress.
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It is stated that Dr. Bertillon has dis-
covered a new method for identifying
handwriting by enlarging the letters by
photography and measuring the altera-
tions due to beating of the pulse.
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Asparagus, per doz. ! 30c
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Spinach, new, per bu.. 50C
Pie Plant, per bu _ 400
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7
THE GOSSIPING HABIT.
Not Monopolized Altogether by the
Female Sex.
Written for THE TRADESMAN.
Reading ‘‘incidents of Travel” in a re-
cent issue of THE TRADESMAN revived
my varied experience along the same
line.
Some incidents provoke laughter,
others tears, as I live them over; but the
one which keeps nagging me to be put
on paper is one until now buried in my
own heart; but the telling ean do no
harm and, possibly, may contain a les-
son for some, sol seize my willing pen
to write it up under the foregoing title.
The word ‘‘gossip” is, as a rule, under-
stood to imply woman, but I think it is
high time the tables were turned. Self-
ishness is not exclusively a womanly
trait, and 1am sure I speak for my sex
when I say that we no longer want the
monopoly of the word; nor do we deserve
it, either.
Until now I have kept mum on the
snbject, but I long ago came to the con-
clusion that men were not always above
gossip, but I never had proof quite so
conclusive as in the following incident:
I was once—never mind when or
where—forced to take a short journey,
when I much preferred the seclusion of
my own home; for a troublesome tooth
had rendered my face woefully one-
sided. But gol must, so I resurrected
an out-of-date ‘‘barege” veil and wound
it around my head, and presto! no fea-
ture was visible.
Soon after I had taken my seat in a
car, a learned and dignified lawyer and
judge, living in the same town, entered
and took a seat directly back of me.
My disguise was so complete that he
took his seat without dreaming that he
was near a neighbor.
At the first stop a lumberman yot on
and took a seat by the judge. He had
formerly lived within a stone’s throw of
the judge and the veiled woman, but,
for obvious reasons, while one greeted
the newcomer cordially, the other made
no sign of recognition.
The men talked of hard times af first;
then they drifted into politics, one con-
tending that the Democrats were all at
fault, the other taking the opposite
ground. They did not, or could not,
agree, but evidently agreed to disagree,
and then began to gossip and got on
swimmingly. They drifted into it so
gracefully and naturally that I hardly
knew which started it; but after a few
apologetic ‘‘they say,’’ they publicly ex-
pressed their private opinions of as
many people living in the town left be-
hind us as any two women, on a wager,
could possibly have done.
Perhaps 1 should have taken a seat
elsewhere, but, positively, I couldn’t af-
ford to—it was such an eye-opener to
hear men—and one of them so learned a
judge that 1 had stood quite in awe of
him—revel in gossip as they seemed to.
Their language was chaste, for they
were Christian gentlemen; but, like too
many women, they were indiscreet
enough to gossip and appeared to take
delight in it. No harm came of it, how-
ever, for, although the listener belonged
to the much-maligned sex, which is sup-
posed to be unable to keep a secret, she
did not until years afterward relate that
experience; for, had she done so at the
time, a veritable hornet’s nest would
have been stirred up, for lawyers, if not
lumbermen, are supposed to be discreet.
I had my revenge by hearing some of my
own relation (by marriage) discussed.
As I was about to leave the train, 1
put my pride in my pocket, raised my
veil and, turning the natural side of my
face to the gossips, blandly said ‘‘Good
morning.’’ I did not glance at the lum-
berman, for a sight of the judge’s blush-
ing face warned me that I must give
vent to long suppressed iaughter. As I
turned on my heel I heard:
‘‘Whew! she must have heard all we
said!”
The next time I met the judge I no
longer stood in awe of him, for I had dis-
covered that he was woefully human,
but he blushed like a school boy and
muttered some apology.
{ assured him that no harm was done,
but advised him to choose a less public
place in which to gossip next time.
Let me add, for the comfort of any
judge or tumberman who may be racking} @
his brain to know just when he figured
as discribed, that the men gossips I refer
to, do not live in Kent county, or even in
this State ; but, if among my readers
they have any counterparts, I trust the
lesson may not be lost upon them.
Not long ago, on our own street cars,
I had a similar experience. On hailing
the car late in the evening, on my return
from church, I evidently interrupted
another choice bit of male gossip, which
was continued, just back of me, as the
car started. [did not know the speak-
ers, but with an evident relish they were
rattling the bones of some family skele-
ton. I paid little heed—although if one
has ears one cannot help hearing a high
pitched voice—until familiar names were
mentioned, and then I learned that ‘‘the
broken-hearted woman’’ referred to was
one I had always supposed ahappy wife.
I do not know who those gossips were,
but 1 left the car indignant with gossips
in general, and especially with those who
have as little discretion as these to whom
1 had been forced to listen.
Gossip, at best, is bad enough, but it
is high time that some one raised a voice
against the too common error of discuss-
ing other people’s affairs in public.
H. H. THomas.
or 9
The Dry Goods Market.
All lines of cotton goods exhibit an up-
ward tendency.
Brown cottons are sold well ahead and
have advanced ‘4c in price.
Bleached cottons in certain grades are
searce and have advanced from ‘4@¢e.
Kid cambrics are oow held firmly at
35¢¢, with a possibility of reachihg 4c be-
fore July 10.
Shirting prints are still 3%c, but
makers are talking of higher prices soon.
Indigos are held at 41¢e.
Fancy prints for fall are being shown
by manufacturers, who are trying to get
5i¢ge for new fall work, such as Simpsons,
Manchesters, Cocheco Acids, Windsors
and Hamiltons. Any stock jobbers have
on hand is, of course, sold at old prices
until these new goods are opened up in
August, when prices will become settled
at either 514 or 51yc net. In no case
will they be sold for less than 5e for
above named makes.
Satines for present delivery are scarce,
although there are good styles shown to
retail at 10@121¢ @16¢ and are being sold
freely.
Challies and lawns are nearly all
closed out, jobbers finding it a hard mat-
ter to get good styles and low prices at
this season of tke year. Prices range
from 34%@7kKe.
White goods are in good demand at
prices quoted for the past month.
Hardware Price Current.
AUGUBS AND BITS. dis.
ee 70
seal 49
Jennings’, genuine. . eee ee,
Jennings’, re “soaio
AXES. dis.
First Quelity, 8. B. bones... .. 2... S20
- oe. eee. .............,.. &9 60
Se a 6 00
‘ 2 ee 10 00
BARROWS.
ero... ... 812 00 14 00
See. Deeg e ace bet 30 00
BOLTS. dis.
Stove. .. eee ue ee. 60
Gteas new list. ee 70
ee 0
Sleigh shoe.. noe a
BUCKETS,
Wen, ee $3 2
BUTTS, CAST. dir.
Com locerin.Ggurca..... tit... 5
Wrongnt Narrow " . 8le
BLOCKS,
Ordinary Tackle, ist April 1g92..... ..... 70
CRADLES.
rem, Wood trace ........ ........ ..... St oo
Cram, Weetrece .... #18 gO
OROW BARS
Cee ee 6?
Ely’s 1-10 . —
y’s ee eee eee oa, rm 65
a cry... a BS
ll “ 35
Musket eee, “ 80
CARTRIDGES,
Pe Pre. 5¢
aa eee dis. 25
CHISELS. dia.
mececs pice... +» T&10
DOCRECUTOMUNE. ek eee
CCN ee eee ee ec 75810
arr oe 75816
Butchers’ Tanged wateeer.......... |. i. 40
OHALE.
White Crayons, per gross.......... 12Qi2% dis. 10
Pl ni hed, 14 oz c ame
anishe oz cu ms... .. r pound 28
14x52 2, 14x56, 14x60 .... slit 26
Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60... pee. 2"
Chee tae... 20
ae: Li. 2
DRILLS. dis.
Morso’s Bit Stocks.............. -. 50
Taper and straight Shank............ 50
i 50
aaa PANS.
Small sises, ser pound - es 8%
Large sizes, per pound | eee 06
ELBOWS.
Com. 4 piece, 6in....... pees eee dos. net 60
ae dis an
EE dia. 4n&10
EXPANSIVE BITS. dis.
Clark’s, —., on: invee eee. 30
Ives’, 1, 818: 2, 824; coe ......... Pa3)
FILEs—New List.
aos... ee... 6010-10
Now Seen 60&10-10
ae ee W&10- 0
Bee 50
ener s ore Maeme... ................_. 50&10
GALVANIZED IRON.
Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 2% and 26; 27 28
List 12 13 14 15 16 17
Discount, 70
| PANS.
Ce CN dia.60—10
Caan aan .. . 70
RIVETS. dis.
Iron and Tinned...... a 60
Coyper Rivets and Kurs. _ 5U— iO
PATENT FPLANISHBD [KOR.
“A” Wood’s patent piauleicu, Xun, 44 lo 27 _ 20
‘*B? Wood's pat. planigshe@, Nus 2b io 27... 20
Broken packs 4 perce er cetee,
Baw@eorce.
— & Co.'s. oo. Jie. 25
Ki ei “ia. ,
Yerkes & Plumb’s. cl. dis. ss"
Mason’s Solid Cast sieei.... .. B00 list 7
Blacksmitn’s Solid Cast Stee! Hand. . Be 40&1:
HINGES.
Gate, Clark’s, 1, Bee dis.60&11)
State.. uu -per dos. nei, 2 56
eo ‘Hook and ‘Strap, ‘to 12 in. ‘ 14 and
oc... .......
ole 3
Screw Hook and Bye, Ms... net r
“ “ “ %- net 8%
%. net 7%
‘ee ae “ % i net 7
Porepenas.............. tans E
HOLLOW WARE
2 6641
Bowes......... ae 6041
Soigers ... ..... es ee
Gray cnameiod.. «--- 01:
HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS,
Stamped Tin Ware.. new ~~ ? -
Japanned Tin Ware.) - 2 &10
WIBB G00D8 8
Bilght aed al alld i chal -80
Serow Hyos.......... 80
Hecke... - .80
Gate Hooks and —, oe 80
RVE BLS,
Stanley Rule and Level a e......... 1... aie
OPES.
Sisal, is inch and Seseuae eae io 5%
Manill .............. _ . 9
SQUARES. Gis.
Peccrama om. 8. a. 20
iy ene Moree
ee ! 2
SHERT IRON.
Com. Smooth. Com.
hoe ete wm... -88 50 8? 50
OO 3 50 26
Noe. 16te21.......... _ -. << 2 70
aes. 2 80
Nos. 25 to 2 . hee lc . & 2 90
No. 27 3 75 3 00
All sheets No. 18 and ‘lighter, over ‘30 fnehes
wide not less than 2-10 extra
SAND PAPER.
List acct. 19. °86 . ee 0
‘SagH ‘COED.
Silver Lake, White A. _.. _...
DrabA..... eed ’ §
' Wee ol ' 5i
' Drab B... ‘ 5
' wenec |... ' 30
Discount, 10.
SA8H WHIGHTS
eae per iv: #2!
SAWB. dia.
Hand. 2
Sliver Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot, . 2
«Special Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot.. te
- a. Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot.. a
- fon and Electric Tooth x
oe a
Steel, Game... oe. —_
Oneida Community, ‘Newhouse’ B.
GAUGES. dis. Oneida Community, Hawley # Norton’s. .7(-10 10
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s a co) oar, ChOeer 15¢ per dos
ENOBs—New List. din, Mouse, oe... ............ $1.25 pe a on
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings ... 55 wise.
Door, porcelaln, jap. trimmings _. 55| Bright Market... ..... ... ..... ms E10
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings... 55 Annealed Market. ci etnias acai “——
Door, porcelsin, trimmings ............ 55 oe MTKOt.--. ee ee eee ee ee
Drawer and Shutter, poreelain CEH 7 aa aa oe a tie
eo dts, Barbed Fence, galvanised. ‘ay 2 35
Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list 55 “ painted as 2 00
allory, Wheeler & Co.’s........... 55 HORSE NaAILe. ey
oes betes teen eee ee cee nee r = An Aahle..... ee
OFWSlK'B........-...---..-. -. 55; Putnam .. a dis. 65
MATTOCES. aon Le ee i dis. 10&10
Rane Bye...... -.... . 816.90, dia. 60-10 WRENCHES. dis
Hunt Bye sec-reees---- 010.00, Gis. 60-10 | Saxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.............. 3U
Hunt’s...... ee 818.50, dis. —" —_- = a icaitara, ee 5f
AULA. Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought,...._ 7 &10
Sperry @ ‘'s.'3, Post, ‘iene eee Coe’s Patent, malicabl i Sin
v MILLS. dis sedcenadianin ai
. 8.
Coffee, sae i 40 | Bird Cages eee eee ee
P. 8. & W. Mfg. Co.'s Malleables.. 40) Fane, Comer... maces -» a VOGnnt aes
. Landers, Ferry & Clerk ik. 40 | Screws, New List.... ie te ee eG
a oe |. . . 30 | Casters, Bed a .d Plate . a. —— i
MOLASSES GATES. dis. Dampers, American ... i “=
Recents Fates... 8... 60410 | Forks, hoea, rakes and all steel ‘goods... Sade. ees
Stebbin’s Genuine...... ne Coe METALS
Enterprise, a. 30 PIG TIN.
Advance over base, on beth Steel and Wire. i a
Steel nallz, base..... a 1 80@1 75 ae se [
Wire nails, Se0e......-... .-...... -1 6081 55 | 690 pound casks. . a By
tees ee wee Base Base Per pound a 6
Se ea 10 py nia
ee eee a. 3 Ce 2%
Os eg a ce cee renee dope oc ecs 25 The prices of the many other qualities ot
2 Sethe ae nett eae eae eens nee e terete, S solder in the market indicated by private brands
eae oa ee cece ce io vary according to composition
= . = TIN—MELYN GRADE.
- eee cbaees 60 — = Charcoal........0... 0... esses ee eee $6 00
~ : 4 CO 4x20 CHCECA OCH MOM Heme Cee Coeeae 6 00
— ee ene aa a 10x14 IX, “ ” BO
Oe 1 29 | 14x201 gE 7 50
eh a ee 180 Each additional X on this grade, 81.75.
Fine 3 shnas esa PRS Fate 1 60 TIN—ALLAWAY GRADE.
Case 10 65 — ic’ Charcoal .............. 20. sees 5 25
- : eae ee OL 5 25
: ee ee ee cece cy 90 loxid IX, ' “ 6 2
Finish 10 7 | 14x20 TX, Y a. @ oe
ae 90| Each additional X on this grade 81.50.
“ 6 eel. 10 BOOFING PLATES
Clinch 2. ol = —_ = u Dean ole : =
a Cotas a 90| 20x28 Ic, “ “ a ae
arose... at 75 si “ Allaway Grade Sd eg ce =
PLANES. 8. ‘ : el 2
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oe ee 60&10 | Oxz8sIx, c ye 11 5)
a ae se .... eo BOILER SIZ3 TIN PLATS.
eee Ore Gueer.... 6... ke. kw. 50 |
Stanley Rule and Level Co.'s wood... .... 60 |
14x56 TX, for No, 8 soliers,
4x 2, 9
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26.
LAW OF SELF DEFENSE.
The recent term of the Supreme Court
of the United States was marked by im-
portant decisions. The Debs and in-
come tax cases were far reaching and of
vast importance, and the law, as de-
clared by the Court, affected men and or-
ganizatious. Kuta decision of interest
to every individual, among the latest
rendered previous to the adjournment
of the Court, has received little atten-
tion. This was a decision defining the
law of self defense.
One of three brothers named Jones, in
Arkansas, had adispute with Babe Beard
over the ownership of acow. The three
making common cause of the claim, had
been warned by Beard to keep off his
premises. But in his absence they went
one day to possess themselves of the
cow. Mrs. Beard opposed them, and,
while they disputed, the husband re-
turned. One of the brothers moved to-
ward Beard and seemed about to draw
his revolver. Beard struck him on the
head, fatally injuring him. Beard’s
plea on trial was self defense. The trial
judge instructed the jury regarding the
law of self defense; that Beard was com-
pelled by that law to avoid danger by
getting out of his assailant’s way, if he
could, and that the only place where he
could not retreat farther was his dwell-
ing house. The jury found Beard guilty,
and he was sentenced to eight years’ im-
prisonment for manslaughter.
The Supreme Court differs from the
trial judge, Parker, in holding that a
map on his own premises must retreat
from an assailant until his dwelling
shields him, when he can stand against
all comers. As defining and construing
authentically the law of self defense we
give the language of the Court, written
by Justice Harlan:
Beard was in the lawful pursuit ef his
business—that is, doing what he had a
right to do—when, after returning home
in the afternoon, he went from his dwell-
ing house to a part of his premises near
the orchard fence, just outside of which
his wife and the Jones brothers were en- |
gaged in a dispute—the former endeavor-
ing to prevent the cow from being taken
away, the latter trying to drive it off the
premises. *** In vur opinion the
court below erred in holding that the ac-
cused, while on his premises, outside of
his dwelling house, was under a legal
duty te get out of the way, if he could, |
of his assailant, who, according to one
view of the evidence, had threatened to |
kill the defendant, and, in execution of
that purpose, had armed himself with a
deadiy weapon, with that weapon con-
'cealed upon his person went to the de-
| fendant’s premises, despite the warning
of the latter to keep away, and by word
and act indicated his purpose to attack
the accused. The defendant was where
he had the right to be when the deceased-
advanced upon him in a threatening man.
ner and with a deadly weapon; and if the
accused did not provoke the assault and
had at the time reasonable grounds to be-
lieve and in good faith believed that the
deceased intended to take his life or to do
him great bodily harm, he was not
obliged to retreat, nor to consider
whether he could safely retreat, but was
entitled to stand his ground and meet any
attack made upon him with a deadly
weapon in such way and with such force,
under all the circumstances, he at the
moment honestly believed, and had rea-
sonable grounds to believe, was neces-
sary to save his own life or to protect
himself from great bodily injury. As
the proceedings were not conducted in
accordance with these principles, the
judgment must be reversed and the cause
remanded, with directions to grant a new
trial.
LEARNING BY OBSERVATION.
Now that the war between China and
Japan is over, the interest in the details
of the great naval fight between the fleets
of the two belligerent off the mouth of
the Yalu River, in the Bay of Corea, is
increasing rather than diminishing, be-
cause the facts connected with that
memorable occurrenee are becoming bet-
ter known in detail, and, consequently,
they are in better shape to prove in-
structive to the student of naval affairs.
Special reports on the subject, prepared
by American naval officers on the scene,
are being considered this summer at the
Naval War College, and the conclusions
which the naval officers who attend the
school arrive at are likely to result in
changes in the equipment of the ships of
the fleet, as well as in details of the fleet
drill.
it appears to be the common verdict
that, although the Chinese fought well,
they were outmaneuvered. The Japan-
ese, on the other hand, maintained their
fleet formation throughout the action,
and it was to this fact that their success
was due. The general results of the ae-
tion are reported to have fuJly demon-
strated the superiority of the battle-ship
over the cruiser, for the reason that the
two large Chinese battle-ships, though
attacked by four of the largest Japanese
cruisers, were not disabled in any way,
nor was their armor belt pierced at any
time.
One fact conclusively demonstrated
was that the presence of wood in war-
ships is exceedingly dangerous. All the
Chinese ships suffered severely from fire,
and, in the case of those vessels which
were destroyed, fire first completely
burned them out. Another important
development of the fight was that all sig-
nal halyards were promptly shot away,
consequently, early in the action, the ad-
mirals of the respective fleets were pre-
vented from signaling, a fact which was
disastrous to the Chinese. The armored
conning towers prove of little value in
the fight, as all the commanding officers
found it expedient to conduct the fight
from the decks.
One of the most important develop-
ments of the action was the exemption
from injury of the engines and machin-
ery, due to the effectiveness of the ar-
mored protective decks. This immunity
was experienced by practically all the
large vessels of both fleets.
| nually,
OLD-FASHIONED AMERICANISM.
A leading newspaper, in referring to
the new Secretary of State and what may
be expected of him, says that many of
the newspapers declare that he is about
to make a startling display of ‘‘old-fash-
ioned Americanism.”’ It is net true, be-
cause there isn’t any such thing. What
is meant by Americanism may grow old
with time, but it can never be old-fash-
ioned. It is above and beyond the term
and everything belonging to it. The cap
it wears is liberty’s own, unchanged and
unchanging. Its shield is as unchanging
as the years. The stars in its flag still
shine in the field of blue. The stripes
are there—the old thirteen—old, but not
old-fashioned.
The same is true of the principles
upon which Americanism rests. They
are incapable of change and so will be
always found in fashion. There was a
time when the term in certain quarters
did seem out of date. Stars fell from the
field of blue and the stripes—all but
three—were lost. They were found,
though, every one of them, and the stars
came back and there they are, the old
thirteen and the old star-spangled blue—
old, if you please, but old-fashioned,
never!
The same fact underlies every princi-
ple which Americanism holds dear. It
is as deathless as immortality itself, and
when, years ago, it was stated witha
distinctness which admits of no mistake
that America, North or South, is not a
field for European encroachment or en-
tanglement, a question, then raised, was
settled forever and the Monroe doctrine
became one of the immortals. England
smiles sometimes when the principle is
pressed, France remembers Maximilian
and is silent, Spain protests and Portu-
gal sighs for the lost crown of Brazil.
So, when such principles are called
old-fashioned, it is the language of igno-
rance or of thoughtlessness, and they
who, relying on either, presume to treat
the principle as old-fashioned and out of
date, will find, as others have found, that
there are things above change and that
the Monroe doctrine is one of them.
United States Consul Tingle, stationed
at Brunswick, Germany, writes the State
Department that he has had so many in-
quiries from the United States in conse-
quence of his report on the possibilities
of importing American horse meat into
Germany, that he submits some addi-
tional suggestions. He advises ship-
ping horses on the hoof and consigning
them to some large port, such as Ham-
burg. The duty on live horses is but
$4.75 each, while if meat be shipped,
some objection, similar to that now made
against American beef, might be brought
forward. Horse meat sells in Germany
at 7 cents a pound, fresh, and 12 cents a
pound smoked. The German horse
butcher pays on an average $35 apiece
for horses. American fresh _ horses
should bring better prices.
At the opening of the ship canal con-
necting the Baltic and North Seas the
German Emperor christened it the ‘‘Kai-
ser Wilhelm,’’ after his grandfather,
who inaugurated the project. The open-
ing of this canal is an event of the great-
est consequence to European commerce,
and, especially, to that of Germany.
The shipping passing through it will
amount to many millions of tons an-
all paying toll to Germany,
whieh has exclusive control over it in
every regard, commercial and military.
It is said that, on account of the facility
with which the German fieet can be
transferred by its means in time of war,
it will practically double its efficiency
and the security of the German coast.
The canal will be of vast benefit to Rus-
sian commerce. About one-third of the
traffic will be to or from British ports.
The celebration of the opening was at-
tended by the greatest naval review of
history, although the number of vessels
taking part—one hundred and sixteen—
will not seem very large until it is re-
membered that any one of them is power-
ful enough to destroy the navies of the
world up to twenty-five years ago. It is
interesting to consider that not one of
the number was ever engaged in serious
battle. ‘he possibility of such use in
the future seems very remote. Four of
the most efficient, although technically
not the most powerful, were American
ships, built in American ship-yards.
The State of South Dakota has compro.
mised the crime of its defaulting treas-
urer, Taylor, accepting as much of a res-
titution as he is able to make and agree-
ing to sentence him to two years in
prison, from whicn sentence he is to be
pardoned by the Governor in season to
save his citizenship. This plan of com-
promise seems to have been reckoued up-
on before Taylor disappeared and he only
kept in hiding until the arrangement
could be brought about. It was doubt-
lessly devised in the light of his knowl-
edge of the characteristics of South Da-
kota officials. Thedilatory, half-hearted
way in which the search was made for
him by the detectives he refers to as
amusing. He spent the time until he
had grown a full beard in cruising about
the West Indies and Central America.
He then came boldly to one of the North-
ern cities, where he has been in perfect
security.
Spain is finally beginning to realize
the fact that there is disaffeetion in
Cuba. After having sent nearly 30,000
men, officered by their most prominent
general, to that Island and found them
wholly inadequate, she now proposes to
send 25,000 more. If any of the Spanish
reports can be credited, they have finally
succeeded in killing one prominent rebel
leader, Marti, but it is stated that his
death was only accomplished by the pay-
ment of a large sum to his assassin.
American interest in the matter in the
way of filibustering expeditions seems to
continue, regardless of the neutrality
proclamation. If matters keep on in
this way Spain will eventually be obliged
to acknowledge that there is rebellion in
the Island.
The Chief Entomologist of the Agri-
cultural Department issues a warning
that this is the “locust year.’? The
West Central States are to be invaded by
the hosts of the seventeen-year locusts,
which made their last appearance there
in 1878; and Georgia, with the surround-
ing territory, will have the thirteen-year,
or Southern species, which appeared in
1882. The entomologist says that a
serious time may be expected, and recom-
mends the example of a Western farmer,
who, when he first observed signs of the
locusts coming out of the ground in his
orchards, called in the aid of his hogs
and chickens, which made away with the
locusts before they had opportunity to
climb the trees.
CHANGE IN WOMEN’S ATTIRE.
The civilized world is considerably ex-
ercised nowadays over the problem of
women’s attire, owing to the rapid growth
of the sentiment that skirts should be
e@bolished and pantaloons or bloomers
substituted therefor.
Let it be understood, by way of defini-
tion, that the term ‘‘pantaloons’’ is re-
stricted to the garment which in this
country appropriated to men. It
means the straight up-and-down twin
cylinders of cloth which are used to in-
close the masculine legs. The term ‘‘pant-
aloons’’ does not embrace trousers, or
bloomers, or tights, because they are all
more or less in use by the women of
Europe and America. This discussion
is, therefore, confined to ‘‘pants’’ alone.
No consideration of this matter should
be eommenced without reference to the
fact that a great majority of the women
of our planet do wear, and have from the
earliest times continued to dress their
nether limbs in trousers. These are the
women of China, of India, of Japan, of
the Turkish Empire, of Persia, of all the
Mahometan countries of Africa and the
Asiatic Islands. There are, perhaps,
400,000,000, and may be 500,000,000, of
women to-day wearing trousers—a sort
of loose, baggy breeches reaching, in
most eases, to the ankle.
Such a dress is considered thoroughly
modest; it amply protects the person and
is adapted to all the purposes of an in-
doors or out-of doors costume. It is the
stereotyped style for all Oriental women
from the very earliest historic times, and
in all probability would have been
adopted by the women of the Western na-
tions but for its extreme ugliness. It
wholly conceals and disguises the beauti-
ful proportions of the female form, and
that is good reason for discarding it. In
the Oriental nations the women dress
only for their husbands. I the West-
ern nations they dress for the delight of
all observers. In Christian countries a
man who has a beautiful wife delights to
have her admired by the outside world.
In Mahometan and the pagan countries
the beauty of the women is especially re-
served to be enjoyed by those to whom
they belong.
Thus it comes about that in the West-
ern nations the true rule that should goy-
ern the style of women’s dress is that it
shall make the wearer as attractive as
possible. In the Eastern countries the
women are not allowed to attract. Their
beauty is for the home alone.
Having arrived at the foundation prin-
ciple which governs women’s dress, it
will be in order to decide upon the
“pants” proposition. Such a garment is
even uglier than the baggy trousers of
the Orient. Pantaloons would utterly
destroy all the beauty of a tapering limb.
Its artistic curves and elegant propor-
tions would be wholly lost in a cylindri-
eal envelope which is of the same size
from thigh to ankle. Its unquestionable
ugliness condemns such a garment, and,
therefore, it will never be used, save by
cranks, like Dr. Mary Walker, and a
woman crank is a most unusual fact.
is
It must not be inferred, however, that
women will not adopt bifurcations. The
sex, by virtue of its rapidly hastening
emancipation from all the restraints and
traditions of the past, is undergoing an
evolution which will make woman a new
creature in anew world. Already there
is talk of the ‘‘new woman.” The object
of these remarks is not to criticise the
THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.
New woman, or to pronounce a judgment
on her; but simply to recognize her.
Facts cannot be ignored. They are here
to speak for themselves, whether people
like them or not.
The new woman is moving swiftly into
prominence, and she has already adopted
a bifurcated style of apparel, the
bloomer. Above all things, the bicycle
is the great impulse to the divided gar-
ment. Such a dress is necessary when
one must ride astride. Having adopted
the bicycle, it necessarily follows that
women who wish to ride in comfort are
driven to bloomers; but bloomers are not
pretty. They are but little improved
upon the Turkish trousers. The latter
reach to the ankle and the bloomer tothe
middle of the calf. As an article of
beauty it is a failure, and beauty in
dress is indispensable.
There is, then, but one more step to be
taken, and the movement is ali in that
direction. Itis to the page’s dress—the
dress which we read of in medieval ro-
mance and see on the stage of grand
opera. It is composed of a close-fitting
bodice, short trunks or breeches, and
tights. Here the figure is fully dis-
played, and the richest and most elegant
material may be used for the dress.
It would be no new thing, but only a
return to an ancient style. In the mid-
dle ages, in Europe, before the introduc-
tion of side-saddles, the fair sex always
rode on horseback astride, and they
adopted the page’s dress for the purpose.
In the middle of the sixteenth century
the celebrated Queen Catherine de Medi-
cis, of France, was accustomed to ride
through the streets of Paris with a bril-
liant bevy of ladies dressed as pages and
mounted on horseback ‘‘en cavalier.’’
Such a dress for women was so much the
rule that nobody questioned it.
Somebody will ask, ‘‘Is it modest to
dress in tights???’ This may well be an-
swered with another question: When
did modesty control styles of dress?
Fashion is a matter of leadership. Any
woman who is beautiful and occupies a
prominent social position can set a fash-
ion in dress. If the new style makes
her handsome and shows off her beauty
to advantage, it will be quickly imitated.
The great body of the women never think
of dress from the low and brutal! stand-
point of men. They display their lovely
arms and bosoms in evening dress with
never a dream that there is anything im-
modest or even suggestive of improper
exposure. It is left for men to diseover
evil where it does not exist.
The evolution of women is a great
movement wrought by social forces which
cannot be overborne or checked in their
course. The softer sex is taking a posi-
tion in social affairs never before oceu-
pied by it. This movement necessarily
creates new conditions in social life to
which man must conform himself. The
mere items of dress and other circum-
stances of adjustment to these condi-
tions will be governed wholly by conven-
ience and appropriateness. These will
be the arbiters in such matters.
The Chicago Chronicle thinks that the
army of Americans who do not find their
own country good enough for them, and
annually troop to Europe to squander
their American dollars, are the gold car-
riers who threaten mvure danger to the
treasury reserve than is likely to come
from any other source.
THE BACK OFFICE.
Written for THE TRADESMAN.
‘“‘When I spend a doliar I want some-
thing to show forit, and if the world in
general would pursue the same policy,
there would be a world a great deal bet-
ter off than itis now. Take this conven-
tion business: It’s simply run into the
ground. After it’s all over with, what
has one of the attendants to show for it
but a headache in the morning? That
isn’t what money was made for.”’
We were walking by the soldiers’ mon-
ument, at the head of Monroe street,
when this opinion was expressed, and |
thought I’d better say something. ‘‘That
Monument business illustrates pretty
well what you’ve been saying. There it
stands—a piece of work costing, 1 don’t
know how much money—and what of it?
How much better it would have been to
have used the money for the poor, in-
stead of putting it there to look at and to
talk about each Memorial Day and
Fourth of July. Think of the money
wasted and worse than wasted in just
making a noise. Think of the sky-rock-
ets and the costly fireworks and, if you
please, the firecrackers, burnt up, the
country over—the suffering and death by
accidents occasioned by this wanton
waste of money which might, as Judas
said, have been given to the poor. That
Judas had a head for business!”
“There you go, off on a tangent, as _us-
ual. I don’t remember that they had
conventions in the middle ages. Seems to
me that every blessed man of them
wasn’t satisfied until he got behind his
castle wall, with the drawbridge up; and
it seems to me that’s the way things went,
until that Peter What’s-his-name got up
that convention where all hands went to
Jerusalem. Dead? Why, until that first
crusade, one half of the world didn’t
know that the other half was alive, and
hoped it wasn’t. After the old hermit
waked them up and they rubbed against
each other in their fight for the Holy
Sepulchre, life began to be worth the liv-
ing once more. If it hadn’t been for
that convention, what would have be-
come of all the splendid achievements
which have brightened the world since
then and made it better? How about
the start and progress of learning which
that same event;produced; and, if it hadn’t
been for it, who knows but what you and
the trading world would find your busi-
ness confined to Henry VIII’s pet line of
torturing the Jews for their money.
‘“‘What you should do, my friend, is to
forget all about showing something for
your dollar and go to the next conven-
tion you hear of. You need it. Youare
getting to be a regular mossback. You
want to get away from yourself just as
fast as you can. You want to start on
your first crusade at 10:45, and you have
just sixty seconds to get to the station.
Start! make yourself one of the rest when
you get there, and come home as the old
crusaders did, and as our soldiers did, in
rebellion times, with your shield or on it.
By that time you will tind that there
are things in the world better than money
and the last illustration you’ll ever
think of using will be Judas and the
head he had for business, when you are
trying to ridicule the idea of attending a
convention.”’
= * *
When one American built steamer,
carrying the American flag, creates the
excitement that attended the St. Louis
on her initial trip, what will be the con-
dition of the American mind when our
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commerce upon the seas once more as-
sumes its old time ‘mportance? When
the seas are once more dotted with Amer-
ican merchantmen, sailing under the
Stars and Stripes?—Hardware.
That isn’t a hard one. By the time
the next steamer slips down ‘‘into the
arms of the gray old sea,’’ the American
mind will have regained its normal posi-
tion on the question of ships and steam-
ers, and will bestrongly inclined to deny
that it was ever excited over such a com-
monplace, matter-of-fact affair as a ship-
launch. ‘‘Why, my dear sir, you don’t
seem to take in the American mind.
You convey the idea that this shipping
business is something new to this coun-
try: but it isn’t any such thing. We’ve
been atrifle busy with other and more
important matters, and haven’t been
especially anxious to give up our time
and attention to the carrying business of
the world. England didn’t seem to have
much to do and the Germans seemed to
take to the business kindly, and, solong as
they knew how, and wanted the job, why
not? The minute, however, they began to
hint that we don’t know how to makea ship
and to sail it, that’s an entirely different
thing. Wedo know how and we have
shown that we do. So, when the big
ship slid from the stocks, there had to be
considerable noise about it and we made
it. That done, that was the last of it;
and now a fleet may be launched at once
and ‘the American mind’ will speak of it
at the breakfast table as one of the ordi-
nary affairs of life and look upon the
man regarding it as a wonder as a sort
of Uncle Josiah, just from the farm and
so so not up ‘in matters marine.’ ”
Don’t you know what a dreadful time
we were going to have in the resumption
of specie payment? The world was to
be turned upside down. Financially it
everybody was going under. Then, when
that awful New Year morning dawned
upon the world and things went right on
as usual, there was a line of I-told-you-
sos, from Maine to the Golden Gate and
long before sunset, the man who dared to
speak of the resumption as remarkable
was requested to go in and get the hay-
seed out of his hair. It will be the same
with dotting the seas with American
merchantmen. When the time comes and
we feel like it, we’ll dot ’em, and to the
American mind ‘‘they’ll be dotsthat’ll be
wuth suthin’.”’
RICHARD MALCOLM STRONG.
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A Chicago paper tells about a gentle
man of that city who, a short time ago,
wanted fifty gold dollars for some pur-
pose. He applied to his bank for them,
and was offered the amount in larger
coins, but the dollars they did not have.
He looked farther, and soon found that
there were no gold dollars to be had in
Chicago, not even at the sub-treasury.
He wrote to New York and Washington,
but the dollars could not be found. Fi-
nally, he learned that they could be had
in San Francisco, but only on the pay-
ment of 50 per cent. premium. It is said
that there has not been a gold dollar
coined in forty years, and that altogether
but 1,004,000 have been minted.
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The greatest bridge in the world was
planned by a Chinese engineer and built
by Chinese workmen. It is of stone,
and reaches across an arm of the China
sea by 300 arches, Over the pillar of
each arch reclines a lion carved from a
block of marble 21 feet long. The road-
way is 70 feet wide.
THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.
The Traveling Ma
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GETTING THE PEOPLE. |
Art of Reaching and Holding Trade by
Advertising.
The amount of money thrown away
upon unproductive advertising in the
United States alone would reasonably
suffice to pay off a large portion of the
public debt. This waste arises from
many sources, the principal ones being
the unfitness of media and the indifferent
wording of the advertising. Space in
popular magazines and the leading dailies
and weeklies of the country is almost be-
yond price, and while many manufac-
turers and dealers employ able ‘‘ad-
smiths’’ at princely salaries, there are
yet instances of the most valuable space
being utterly lost through weakness of
phraseology and a lack of perception as
to points in the article advertised which
will interest and hold the buyer’s atten-
tion.
Below will be found some original ads.
for use in nearly any branch of trade.
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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. —
LOWER INTEREST RATES.
How the Avenues for Investigation
Have Been Curtailed.
The accumulation of unemployed
money in the financial centers of the
eountry is little less than remarkable.
In New York City, for instance, borrow-
ers in good repute can get loans on any
kind of marketable collateral at 1 per
cent. per annum on call, and at 2%¢ per
cent. for three or six months. Good com-
mercial paper is bought by banks at a
discount of 3 per cent. per annum and
less, and the regular rate for long time
loans on first-class real estate mortgage
security is 4 per cent., with a tendency
to a still lower figure.
For the benefit of those who are not fa-
miliar with the facts it should be ex-
plained that by the ‘‘money,’’ which is
lending at these low rates, is not meant
gold and silver coin, or even legal tender
notes and bank notes, but merely bank
credits. When a borrower in Wali street
obtains a loan he takes it in the form of
a check on the lender’s bank, which he
deposits in his own bank to his own ac-
count, drawing against it checks as his
needs require. The persons who receive
these checks deposit them in their banks
in turn, and thus the entire sum is split
up and passed from hand to hand with-
out the use, except on special occasions,
of a dollar of actual circulating medium.
It is true that the borrower has the right
to exact legal-tender money for either the
check he takes or for the checks he draws
himself, but this right is exercised rarely.
The bank credit is so completely equiva-
lent to money that it is treated as money
by everybody.
This explains, too, what often puzzles
the uninitiated, how the banks of New
York City, with only $180,000,000 of
specie and legal tenders in their vaults,
ean report deposits to the amount of over
$568,000,000, and how, in like manner,
the total deposits of all the banks in the
United States footed up, according to the
latest report of the Comptroller of the
Currency, $4,620,000,000, although their
entire stock of specie and paper money
was but $689,000,000. The credits given
to borrowers are counted as money of
equal value with species and notes, and,
ordinarily, they serve equally well the
needs of the community. It is only pan-
ics, such as that of 1893, when confidence
in the solvency of the banks fails, and
depositors, all at the same time, begin to
clamor for actual money instead of certi-
fied checks, that the difference becomes
apparent. Atother periods, people hardly
ever reflect, when they take checks in
payment of debts or for property sold,
that these checks entitle them to actual
money. They deposit them in their
banks, and are satisfied with the entry
of the amount on their passbooks.
Whether it would not be wiser to do
our business differently and to substitute |
for the enormous volume of bank credits
which now fulfil the function of money,
something less liable to impairment in |
periods of financial distrust is another
question.
long as the banking business of the coun-
try is controlled by some 7,060 or 8,000)
bank presidents, few of whom concern |
themselves with the state of business af-
fairs outside of their own immediate
neighborhood, and who, under the stress
of fear for the solvency, each of his own
particular institution, go, in seasons of |
panic, from the extreme of expansion to}
the extreme of contraction, and act, not ’
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It is not to be denied that so!
in concert with one another, but inde-
pendently, we shall never be free from
the danger of catastrophes like that of
1893. On the other hand, to abolish bank
credits altogether and to restrict all pay-
ments to the passing from hand to hand
of coin and of paper secured so as to be
equal to coin, would be a step backward
toward primitive ages, which is not to be
thought of. The continuation of the
safety of cash payments with the con-
venience of credit isa problem for this
country yet to solve.
Taking, however, the facts as they ex-
ist, we find that the supply of what
serves the purpose of money is at the
moment so largely in excess of the de-
mand for it that the compensation paid
for its use is greatly diminished. The
natural consequence is that many of
those who hold it and cannot lend it tem-
porarily at a satisfactory price are turn-
ing their attention to buying those stocks
and bonds, which, without much danger
of loss, yield a larger return. Time was,
rwithin the memory of many still living,
when 7 per cent. per annum interest was
accepted only upon the very best se-
curity, then 6 per cent. became the
standard, then 5, and now it is 4, with a
tendency toward 31g. The prospect is,
that, unless something unforeseen hap-
pens, the same class of investments
which now yield 4 per cent. will yield
only 3, and those that now yield 3 willbe
reduced to 21g or perhaps 2.
public?
their experiments,
_Nothing can retard this result but the
discovery of new fields of industry, or
the invention of new productive pro-
cesses requiring the use of large amounts
of capital. Borrowers of money, whether
it be in the form of coin and paper, or in
that of bank credits, do not borrow it for
the mere pleasure of paying interest on
it. They convert it as speedily as pos-
sible into merchandise, machinery, labor,
or some other kind of wealth out of
which they hope, by their enterprise and
skill, to create enough new wealth to pay
the interest and leave a sufficient surplus
to reward them for their efforts. Until
lately they have found opportunities for
doing this in the building of railroads
and of factories, in the opening of
mines, in carrying on commerce with for-
eign countries, and in real estate im-
provements. It looks now as if aboutall
the railroads are built that are needed,
and all the factories; that the mining of
coal and iron has been overdone, and
that our foreign trade is diminishing.
Only real estate shows signs of activity,
but at the rate at which the modern steel
towers of Babel are going up in the large
cities of the country, the demand for new
buildings, other than dwelling houses,
will soon be satiated. So far, therefore,
as the known outlets of capital are con-
cerned they are well filled up.
The solution of the difficulty most
probable, from present indications, is the
transference of enterprise to higher and
They all say
“It?s as good as SAPOLIO,’’ when they try to sell you
new article.
Who urges you to keep SAPOLIO?
The manufacturers,
ious advertising, bring customers
more complicated forms of the same
kinds of industry as now prevail. New
railroads may not be built to any great
extent, but those which are already built
may be enormously improved by the con-
struction of parallel tracks; the laying of
sidetracks and the building of expensive
bridges and culverts; the improvement of
the roadbed; the further use of drawing
room and sleeping cars in place of eom-
mon day coaches; the erection of better
depot and freight buildings and the im-
provement of the depot grounds. In the
field of manufactures, the growing wealth
of the country and the more liberal
earpings of those who live by their labor,
is creating every day a greater and
greater demand for goods of superior
quality and finish. Our dwellings, our
furniture, our clothing, and even our
daily food are already of an excellence
far surpassing those which the genera-
tion preceding ours was able to command,
and the tendency of the age is to make
us still more luxurious in our require-
ments in these respects. In a word,
new capital will hereafter be applied to
the promotion of luxury, the demand for
the necessaries of life being already fully
supplied. MATTHEW MARSHALL.
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A Danish manufacturer has two es-
tablishments near London, which turn
out 800,000 pounds of oleomargarine a
week. Londoti consumes most of the
by
product as butter.
Your own good sense will tell
you that they are only trying to get you to aid their
is it not the
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POOR BOOK-KEEPING.
One of the Leaks Which Preclude
Success.
Wilson Maclay in Trade.
“Good morning, Mr. Jones; just pass-
ing, and thought I would stop in and
pay my bill.”
“Thai’s goud. Always
people talk that way.’’
‘“*Yes? How much is my account?’’
‘‘Let me see—how far back does it
run?’’
“You've got me there—look at your
books.”
‘‘That’s what 1 want to do; but if you
could tell me just when and where to
start, it would save time.’’
**‘How do you mean?’’
‘“‘Why, you see, if you knew just what
time you bought the first bill that you
want to pay now, I wouldn’t have to
waste any time going through my books
to find the right place to start.”
‘‘How do you keep your books?”
‘The regular way, of course.”
“All right; let me have a statement.”
“Very well; just sit down there; Vill
have it in a few minutes.”
The gentleman who was anxious to
pay sat down and picked up a newspa-
per. The few minutes soon were ten,
and then twenty. At last, when twenty-
five minutes had been added to the great
past, he looked up at Jones, who was
struggling with his salesbook and a
sheet of paper, and asked:
‘“*Nearly ready?’’
‘Yes; here it is now.”
“That doesn’t agree with my version
of it.”
‘In what particular?”
‘‘In about six or seven particulars.”
**‘Let me see.’’
The visitor had drawn a slip of paper
from his pocket, and was comparing it
with the statement that the grocer, Mr.
Jones, had handed him. We will peep
over his shoulder and see how the papers
look. '
The following is the grocer’s state-
ment:
like to hear
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$18 87
And this is the paper that came from
the visitor’s pocket:
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$19 66
In answer to the request made by
Jones, his visitor handed him the state-
ment that he had received, and his own
memorandum, saying: ‘‘Look for yonr-
self.”’
“There seems
doesn’t there?”
**] should say so.”
‘“‘You must have made a mistake some-
where.”
“I never make mistakes in things of
this sort. My memory is a particularly
good one, but 1 never trust it when it is
a question of an account, either in my
favor or against me. Now, let’s get at
this muddle and straighten it out.”’
‘“SAll right.’’
“In the first place, taking your state-
ment, you have charged me with $1.26
ou the 6th. That bill was paid at the
time it was presented. Here it is, re-
ceipted. The bill of the 9th is all right.
You seem to have forgotten to charge
my purchase of the 10th—that’s 37 cents
in my favor. Then, the bill of the 12th
should be $2.49, instead of 49 cents—
that’s $2 more. You’ve forgotten to
charge $3.75 on the 13th, and the $4.07
of the 15th was cash. I can’t imagine
how you keep your aceounts, if this is a
fair sample.’’
‘*‘Most of my customers don’t run ac-
to be a difference,
counts that stand a whole month. They
pay every week.”
‘And when they don’t, whbere are
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“Well, I do my best; but it seems that
my books never come out right.”’
“See here; I don’t want to lecture you,
but there are a few words that I would
like to say to you on this subject of
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book-keeping. The trouble that you
have is what almost every man that runs
a small business meets.
‘There is po attempt made to keep your
accounts on the only correct principle.
Let me try to explain what I mean. The
man doesn’t live who is proof against
mistakes, and that fact once recognized,
a great deal of progress has been made.
There is nothing in which one is more
likely to err than figuring, and there isn’t
a memory in any one’s head that is 75
per cent. proof, or 60 per cent. either, for
that matter. Recognizing these facts,
and allowing—to yourself, of ceurse—
that you are no better than the average,
how in the world do ever expect to have
any right idea of the state of your busi-
ness, if you are going to depend on the
accuracy of your unproved additions
and your far-from-perfect memory? You
must have some system in the manage-
ment of your affairs, and the first step in
this direction is the keeping of an intel-
ligent set of books.
“Your system of book-keeping does
not have to be a complicated one. You
do not have to have more than a cash
book, a salesbook, the same as the one
you now run; you do not need a journal,
but you do need a ledger. But you also
need something which is considerably
more than all of these, and that is the
determination that you will make your
charges and your cash entries when they
occur, and not in the evening, when you
are all tired out, and your brain refuses
to entertain any idea that is not directly
connected with retiring. Don’t make
charges on bits of paper and stick them
in your pocket, to be pulled out with
other things and so lost. You may say
that you cannot afford to keep a person
that shall do all these things for you,
and I’1l say that you’re right. You must
do them yourself; you must certainly
have plenty of opportunities during the
day, when customers are scarce, like the
present.
“You look as though you were getting
ready to say that you do not understand
how to keep a set of books on the double-
entry system. All right; Vll answer
that for you, too. Thereare iots of books
that can be bought for a mere song that
will give you a very fair idea of how the
thing is done. And if there should be
some points that you do not understand
readily, you must have a number of ac-
quaintances beside myself who will be
very glad to give you all the information
you desire. You can count on me when-
ever you want.
“Now, just think of the advantages
this little extra labor will give you. Sup-
pose that I was not honest, and had no
desire to do the right thing. {f would
have shown you my two receipted bills of
the 6th and 15th, and paid you $13.54 and
gone on my way rejoicing over the fact:
that I had cheated you out of $6.12. For-
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tunately for you, most of the people you! a sales-book—is nothing new to you, and
deal with are honest, but there are very/so, you see, the whole cost of having cor-
few among them that keep any record of | rect accounts will be an average of one-
what they buy at a grocer’s, and if you| half an hour per day. Don’t you think
forget to charge them they are not likely | you can spare the time?’’
to remember, even if the thought of| The grocer had listened to all of this
cheating you is the farthest from their | long harangue with a sort of half inter-
minds. ; est, as one does who is hearing the for-
“And now about the time that you/|tieth repetition of thesametune. Atthe
will have for the keeping of your ac- | end, however, he said:
counts. The whole work of posting can; ‘‘Well, I think I'll try it, although I
be done in ten hours for the entire! really can’t see why my system isn’t all
month, and the pasting of your bills into) right.”
a book that can be bought for that pur-; ‘‘l don’t know any reason against its
pose won't take three. The other! value, except that it does not put any
work—that is, keeping a cash-book and/ check on your errors. Good day.”
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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.
DAY AFTER TO-MORROW.
Written for THE TRADESMAN.
‘Baxter? Rodney
mean? QO, he died years ago.
to-morrow killed him.’’
“What?”
‘I say day after to-morrow killed him.
You see it was this way: The spring
you went away—why, that was twenty
years ago, wasn’t it?—well, that spring
Rod told his father that he was through
school, and as for going to work on the
farm, he wouldn’t do that for love nor
money. No, he wouldn’t go into any-
body’s banking house; nor would he go
to the city—he was right about that, 1
think—but, if the ‘old man’ would fit up
a store for him down in the village, he
believed he’d like that—at all events, he
was willing to try. So Jethro — ye
haven’t forgotten Jethro Baxter, I hope!
Don’t you remember how you boys used
to sample his water melons for him after
dark? Well that’s the one—he went
down to the village and bought out Dan-
iel What’s-his-name and turned the store
over to Rod.
‘‘Well, things went en swimmingly for
awhile, and folks said that Jethro had
hit it, so far as the boy was concerned.
Old Daniel—strange I can’t think of that
man’s name!—had got old and pokey—
some said, you know, that he never was
young—and his store was topsy-turvey
from top to bottom. That just suited
Rod, who was as neat as a pin, and for
the next two months he was busy put-
ting things where he’d know where to
find ’em. When he got through, it looked
like a new store and you couldn’t stop at
a farmhouse within ten miles of it with-
out being asked if you’d seen the new
store over to Plymptonville.
Baxter, do
Day after
‘That part of it is easy to account for.
Old Daniel never took account of stock
in his life; he never cleaned up things:
he was always dropping whatever he
used wherever he used it; and, as a mat-
ter of course, he never could find any-
thing when he wanted it. So it wasa
elitter from one end of the store to the
other. They did say that the molasses
wandered over to the dry goods side of
the house and got mixed up with the
shoestrings and the ribbons, but that
was going too far. Nobody ever believed
that, but Rod straightened things out
until it did, for a fact, seem like a new
store.
‘The thing which the boy didn’t like
—and the minute one of them Baxters
didn’t like anything it was all up with
them—was to do a thing before he got
good and ready. There are some people
built just that -way. He cleaned the
store, and he put it to rights all fair
enough and fast enough for that matter,
but not until he got ready. Then things
had to stand ’round. Thai does pretty
well in matters which concern only one;
but when there are more, there is bound
to be trouble. Time and tide wait for
no man, and once in a while a man comes
along so much like time and tide that
you can’t tell ’em apart; and after awhile
Rod came in contact with that kind of a
man.
‘“You see, the boy got to dealing a
good deal in eggs. Farmers liked him,
because he dealt fairly with them, and it
got sothat a good many of them would
rather sell their eggs to him for a little
less than to anybody else, and it made
him a little pompous. After a while he
began to think that the rest of the
world were like the farmers and that it
you |
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was his motion that must be waited for.
So the city folks would send him an or-
der, and he’d look at it and that would
be the last of it fora day or two. Then
when the signs were right, he’d send the
eggs, and that would be the last of it—at
least, that’s what he thought.
‘‘Well, there began to be a little fric-
tion. One would give him a raking
down, and then another, and he’d laugh
it off as if it was one of the biggest jokes
in the world. It did turn out so in most
cases.
mad and tear around like a pea ona hot
griddle and trade somewhere else for a
while; then they come marching back
and | laugh at’em. You see, somebody
must have their way and I don’t see why
I ain’t the one to have it. I don’t know
of any law that’s going to make me an-
swer a letter the same day I get it; and 1
don’t know why I should jump out of
my skin because Hilton & Hobbs want to
fill an order on a certain date which they
know or might know is going to be
mighty inconvenient for me to forward
on time. I ain’t going to do it,’ and he
didn’t.
‘You know Hilton, don’t you? He’s
one of these men who is right up and
down. When he says, ‘Thumbs up,’ the
thumbs go up. So, after their man had
got tired of fooling with Rod, he turned
him over to Hobbs, who pretty soon
found that he had met his match; and
finally told Hilton that they’d better hunt
up another factor and let Rod go.
‘I guess Rod was about the first man
Hilton ever met who ever dared to in-
timate that he didn’t like to play the
game above mentioned unless he, Rod,
He had, he acknowledged, in
bygone times occasionally turned his
thumbs up or down to another’s dicta-
tion; but never so far as he could remem-
ber had he ‘wig-wagged’ to anybody and
he didn’t care to begin now. He’d send
the eggs when he pleased. He wasn’t
quite sure about it; but, if he could man-
age, without too much inconvenience, he
thought the goods would move about day
after to-morrow.
‘Hilton read the letter and ‘ah’-ed. He
went home early that afternoon and took
the letter with him. After dinner he
made a preliminary remark or two and
put the letter into the hands of his
daughter and asked her what she thought
of that. It did not take her a long time
to read it, and while she is so engaged,
it will be a good time to say that Rod
had evidently been in favor with the
senior member of the firm, had been
looked upon kindly by his only child,
more on her father’s account than on her
own, so that when she returned the letter
she simply said: ‘I’ll tell you what 1
think*of your letter after you tell me
what to think of mine; and the young
lady placed in his hand a letter received
that morning from Rodney Baxter.
‘it was not quite so bad as the one to
the firm, but it was hardly what a young
woman would expect from a young man
asking her to be his wife.
***Well?’? said the young lady, with a
strong circumflex accent, as the letter was
returned to her.
‘***Well!? was the answer with several
exclamation points and no end of double
daggers.
‘*The next day the firm countermanded
its order by telegraph, and the young
lady took the opportunity to say that,
while she wasn’t quite sure about it, she
would manage to give him a definite an-
mas °St.””
‘These fellows,’ he said, ‘will get | -
The Chimney
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And so do we. That is, we always suit our cus-
tomers, because our goods always suit our cus-
tomers fcustomers, and so
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Everybody likes this kind of suits.
Let us give you fits—with some of these suitings.
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There’s money in ’em.
“
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Swer day after to-morrow; but when he
looked for the date of the letter he didn’t
find any!
‘‘Well, do you know, that broke him
allup. He went around quiet-like for
several days; and, finally, one morning
his father went out to the barn, and the
first thing he saw there, was the boy,
dead. It made a good deal of talk at the
time; but he had only himself to
blame for it.
‘What! Is this Lansing? ’Tis. There’s
the Capitol, no mistaking that:’? and
there was just time enough for the teller
of the story, a woman witha high- pitched
voice, and a very deaf old man to get
ready to leave the train. My seat, im-
mediately in front of them, had com-
pelled me to listen, whether I would or
not, to the story which promised to be a
farce and ended a tragedy. Who they
are I did not ascertain. Who the Baxters
or the Hiltons are 1 have no means of
finding out. I only know that I have
told the story as I heard it, without any
attempt to account for the incongruities
which I should be glad to explain if I
could. It is the first instance I ever
heard of where ‘‘day after to-morrow’’
killed anybody; and it seemed te me a
good idea to play Captain Cuttle and
‘make a note on’t,’”’ it being barely pos-
sible that some reader with a reflective
turn of mind may find a moral in the ex-
pression and so turn it to practical ac-
count. RAMBLER.
_ 2 —
Don’t Try To Cheat a Lawyer.
A young lawyer just starting in his
profession hung out his sign in a town
where there was only one other lawyer,
an aged judge.
A close-fisted old fellow, thinking to
get legal advice fur nothing, called upon
the young man and contrived in a sort of
neighborly way to get some legal ques-
tions answered. Then, thanking the
young map, he was about to leave, when
the young man asked for a $5 fee. The
old fellow went into a violent passion
and swore he would never pay. The
young lawyer toid him he would sue him.
So the old fellow went down to see the
judge and said:
“That voung scamp that’s just come
into town! I dropped in to make a neigh-
borly eall on him, and he charges me $5
for legal advice.’’
“Served you right,’’ said the judge.
“But have I got to pay it, judge?”’
““Of course you have.”’
‘*Well, then,’”’ said the man, ‘‘I suppose
{ must,” and started off.
“Hold on,’’ said the judge,
you going to pay me?”
‘‘Pay you? What for?”
‘For legal advice.”
‘**What do you charge?”
**Ten dollars.”
The result was that the old fellow had
to pay $5 to the young lawyer and $10 to
the old one.
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THE MICHIGAN 'TRADESMAN.
REUNITED AT LAST.
Meeting After Twenty - Five
Years’ Separation.
Written for THe TRADESMAN.
Twenty-five years ago, there lived, in
one of the little villages of the Far West,
two people with an only child, a girl of
sixteen. They were called, for those
days, well-to-do people and were of the
sturdy New England stock, who had
come West to get rich, and, like many
others, had seen greater possibilities in
the future of this little town than the
facts have proven warrantablie, for it is
now only a little larger than it was thirty
years ago. Towns are very much like
boys—you never know just how they are
going to turn out,
very often show such promise for a few
years that we stake our hopes and for-
tunes on them, only to find that we
have made- very losing calculations. If
al] the cities that have been put down on
our mental maps had materialized, we
would have Chicagos dotted all over our
fair land. And so, too, if all the boys
into whose clear, truthful eyes fond
mothers have looked and read signs of
future greatness had become the men
these mothers believed they would be-
come, then our jails and prisons would al!
be empty; nay, more than that—there
would be no ordinary men among us, for
mothers think not only that their boys
will not be positively bad, but that they
will not be negatively good. And as it
is often an apparently unimportant oc-
currence that shapes the destiny of a vil-
lage, making it in the future a great
city or a ‘‘dead town,” so, likewise, our
boys become either lawyers or loafers,
presidents or pugilists, capitalists or
criminals, through, sometimes, some
trifling occurrence in their early life.
But I began to tell you the strange
story connected with these three people
of twenty-five years ago. Soon after set-
tling in this little village, a worthless
but handsome young man was attracted
to this bright young girl. She seemed
so different and superior to these West-
ern girls, and his calls showed marked
interest in her. But his reputation was
by no means good, and the parents at
first objected and finally positively for-
bade their daughter seeing him or com-
municating in any way with him. But
that only enlisted the wayward girl’s in-
terest in him the more, and so clandes-
tine meetings followed, which, to make
the story short, culminated in an elope-
ment and marriage. Of course, the par-
ents were heartbroken and began a
search for their daughter; and, during
all these twenty-five years, they have not
wholly lost hope that some day she would
return. To be sure, they half believed
she must be dead; but we find it so hard
to believe what we do not want to be-
lieve!
And so the years went by and these
two people were growing old and many
changes came into their lives. The once
thriving little village received a death-
blow by the railroad being taken away.
They lost a great deal on their invest-
ments, and, in time, they left that town,
after living here and there, came, a few
years ago, to Grand Rapids.
Three years ago, this heartbroken
mother was stricken with paralysis and,
during this subsequent time, has been
unable to walk a step alone. They lived
alone, he being her devoted companion
and helper. In truth, 1 think he sees
more beauty in that sweet wrinkled face
Happy
and, like boys, they ,
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of 70 years, with the soft gray hair about
it, than he ever saw-when she was young.
And, after all, is not real beauty,
whether in youth or old age, that unde-
|finable something that has little to do
with outline or color, with form or fea-
ture?
The years went by and hope of ever
seeing their child had wellnigh died in
both their hearts, and, year by year, each
became dearer to the other, for they had
a common sorrow and that is a stronger
bond than joy.
as I opened the door, 1 saw a new light
was in the mother’s eye, and no artist
could ever paint the look of happiness
upon that face. She was there alone,
with the Bible in her hand, and when
| she saw me, she simply said, ‘‘We have
found our child!’ I could only reply
with tears that choked my voice and for
a few minutes neither of us could speak
but sat and wept together, so closely al-
lied are sorrow and joy that both find
often the same expression. Ishallnever
forget the sound of her voice when she
uttered that single sentence, ‘‘We have
found our child!’ When joy reaches its
supreme height, it becomes a solemn
thing. Gladness is not gaiety, save in
youth. When she could finally speak,
she told me that they had received a let-
ter, which had been sent to numerous
places and had, by a most remarkable co-
incidence, fallen into the hands of a man
who knew them and he had forwarded it
to them. This was all she knew—that
her child was alive, and that this young
girl of 16 must be now a woman of 41.
She could not quite comprehend it all.
What must that letter have meant to
these two people who had waited twenty-
five years for it!
A telegram was at once sent to the
daughter’s address in New York, and
then another letter came and this was
the story that it told: This wayward,
willful girl had found the man whom
she married even worsein character than
her parents supposed him to be, and,
after living five years a most unhappy
life with him, he died, leaving her alone
in the world with one child. During
these five years, she was too proud to let
her parents know the sad fate that she
had brought upon herself. After he died
she had this child to care for, and she
was a mere child herself in judgment and
ability to earn a living. After strug-
gling along for atime, maintaining her-
self and child by sewing, and feeling al-
ways the burden of her past terrible mis-
take, she began to realize that she was
only adding cruelty to the wrong she had
already done, and she resolved to return
home, if they would take herback. Let-
ter after letter was send and returned to
her, for, as I said, they had made sev-
eral changes and all knowledge of them
had been lost in that little Western town
that she once called home. So here
were parents looking for their child and
a child looking for her parents! After
several years of weary work and loneli-
ness, she was married again to a most
estimable man. And the letter told them
that they had four grandchildren, as well
as a daughter and son.
The next time I called, they had sent a
letter begging them not to come for a
visit, but to come to stay with them dur-
ing the few remaining years of their
lives.
A little while after, 1 was, one day,
about to pass the house, whenI heard
But, one day this spring,
I went to see these dear old people and,
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the laughter of children. 1 looked up
and the house, always so hushed and
still, was full of life and stir. So then I
knew the prodigal had returned and it
was meet that they should make merry
and be glad. When I go in and see all
these happy faces, and the dear old lady
the happiest of them all, I go out with
streaming eyes and say, ‘‘At last, all
wanderers will return to the Father’s
house.”’ Hf. A.
—_—_____-».->___——
Commercial Value of a Good Reputa-
tion.
What is it worth to a merchant, in dol-
lars and cents, to have a reputation for
honesty, fairness and reliability?
The very suggestion of the question
causes a chill to run down the moral
backbone of the purist, and those who
love righteousness for its own sake stand
aghast at the cold blooded query. Such
would answer, and very properly, that
there is no true honesty which takes ac-
eount of the commercial advantage of
right doing; and that itis a very limber
sort of integrity which studies the policy
of good behavior. The only honest man,
in sober truth, is he whose honesty
springs from an inborn sense of right,
and who is fitted with a quality of mind
and soul which leads to honest acts and
thoughts as unconsciously as plants grow
upward and forward toward the light.
That man who measures the effect of
righteous conduct and chooses it because
it pays best is esseatially mean and base;
when the real trial comes, when a great
erisis confronts him and honesty means
ruin, while timely ‘‘crookedness’’ will
save his estate, he will reveal himself
nine times out of ten, and the hypocrite
will stand unmasked. The truly honest
man will stand by his principles, what-
ever the price of his faithfulness.
But read the title of this article again:
You wil! find it asks the value of a repu-
tation for honesty. Now, reputation is
not character. Some one has wisely
said, ‘‘Reputation is what men think of
us; Character is what God knows of us.”
The honest man possesses character; the
politic man enjoys reputation. We are
not, therefore, to consider the commer-
cial value of honesty per se, but the
worth in dollars and cents of a reputa-
tion for honesty. It is adistinction with
a vast difference. .
Good is so much valued in this world
that even the semblance of it com-
mands a premium in commerce and trade.
However weak and nerveless a man may
be morally, in his own inner knowledge
of himself gathered from the self-inven-
tory of his moral qualities, if he does
right in the public eye, acts honorably
with men and honestly with the world at
large, he secures a reputation which is
avery considerable part of his capital
and adds a liberal measure to his stock
in trade. Such a man need not vouch the
quality of his goods; the fact that he
sells them, without explaining their de-
ficiencies, establishes their worth at the
price. He is not compelied to go into
hysterics in his advertising; he need only
state the facts in strong, simple language,
and his presentation will attract the con-
fident public against the questionable
neighbor who must invent superlatives
and sprinkle exclamation points through
his advertisements to compel the doubt-
ing reader’s attention. Take up any
metropolitan newspaper, and the student
of advertising can instinctively fix the
status of the several leading advertisers
in the confidence of the community.
Here, one has to scream at the reader;
there, another calmly and confidently
states his case. One gets the ear only
through the compelling power of ‘‘the
bargain price;’’ the other commands a
hearing on the merits of his goods. The
one talks to the prospective buyer of
that day; the other to an all-the-year
audience, and in so doing demonstrates
the solid value of a well-earned reputa-
tion. The ‘good will’ of such a busi-
ness is an assessable quality; of the
other, itis valueless.
A good reputation is acquired so slow-
ly, and represents such a vast accretion
of little right-doings, that one should
treasure it above every other form of the
capital in their investment—for it is cap-
ital, as certainly as that represented in
merchandise and bank balances. Yet
how wasteful men are of the chances of
acquiring this treasure! In Kings county
penitentiary there are sixty-one bank of-
ficers imprisoned for embezzlement —
seven presidents, fifteen cashiers, forty-
nine tellers and clerks. They deliber-
ately squandered the potentialities of a
good reputation, with all the human dig-
nities and honors attaching thereto—and
their crimes brought them the briefest
compensations. The same quality of
misdemeanor, if not the same quantity,
menaces the future of the thoughtless
merchant who is selling cotton-and-linen
for ‘‘all linen,” or rolled-plate cases for
‘‘twenty-year filled;’?’ who broadly inti-
mates that his honest competitor is ‘‘no
better than he should be;” who advertises
‘‘dollar values at nineteen cents;” and
who, in divers and manifold ways, prac-
tices upon the ignorance or the duplicity
of the public. Like the embezzling
bankers, their sin will eventually find
them out; if, by cunning and ingenious
concealment, they evade detection in
their own day, their children will have
to bear the burden in theirs—the burden
of discovery of a parent’s fraud, the wit-
ness of the punishment of the public
scorn, and the contempt of honorable
men.
— — om —
Profitless Baking Powders.
From the Spice Mill.
The baking powder war is assuming a
new phase—one that the recail grocer
will no doubt be glad to see and become
interested in. It has been gradually
dawning upon the trade that the lines
are being so tightly drawn on baking
powders recently that there is no longer
freedom nor profit in handling this
staple. An exchange says that the large
manufacturers, backed by the enormous
fortunes which the grocers have assisted
in building up, are making a determined
effort, and not without some degree of
success, to keep down competition.
Flushed by their success, they now say
openly to the retailer, ‘‘You must handle
our goods, for we have proved that all
other baking powders are deleterious to
health.” They would even teach the
consumer to believe that all baking pow-
der made hereafter will be poisonous.
This is about as absurd as for them to
say that the grocer is compelled to handle
their brands to the exclusion of others.
Does the manufacturer of any staple
have more influence with your customers
than you? If he has, you are losing
ground and, perhaps, self-respect. The
grocer is not a machine to be worked for
the profit of others, and I believe he will
not be restricted in handling baking pow-
ders, any more than he would allow any
set of manufacturers to dictate what
brands of coffee he should handle.
The offerings of new brands of baking
powders on the market recently has
brought about a wholesale denunciation
of all baking powders but ‘‘ours.’’ The
‘ours’? being the two or three companies
that have made people so weary during
the last three years by their charges and
counter charges that their competitors’
goods contain alum, ammonia, etc. It is
high time that the retail grocer should
step in and have something to say and do
regarding the purity of the goods he
sells, for it must be remembered that a
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HINTS ON ROAD IMPROVEMENT.
Written for THE TRADESMAN.
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In this short series of articles I shall
endeavor to give some practical hints or
suggestions as to the desirability and
practicability of the permanent improve-
ment of highways. My interest in this
subject extends back to my earliest ex-
perience in farm life. The limitation of
value of the farms of the locality in
which my boyhood was spent was the
distance and inaccessibility of market,
and while the region was fertile, with
favorable climate the farms were almost
worthless as to immediate remuneration
for the labor expended upon them on ac-
count of the impossibility of selling the
produce. In the case of the farm on
which my experience was obtained it was
found that the most valuable crops, as to
money returns, that could be raised,
were wool and maple sugar. These had
the most value as to quantity, and the
former was ready to market when the
roads were most passable and the latter
could be kept for the most convenient
season. As these were scarcely sufficient
to make a promising outlook for the time
to come, better prospects were sought by
emigration to a locality more accessible
to markets. The interest caused by this
early experience has led me to give con-
siderable attention to the subject, and
my familiarity with the operations of the
old methods of road-tax work has kept
me on the Jookout for practical methods
of doing the work those did not do.
The magnitude of the undertaking of
securing permanent or easily maintained
highways is beyond comprehension. In
European countries the task may be said
to be well advanced, but it is relatively
much smaller there on account of the
much greater density of population; and
again, the work has been much longer in
progress. This undertaking in this
country is far greater than any other
economic undertaking before us.
The idea has obtained quite largely
that the older portions of our eounty are
becoming worked out, that opportunities
for work, for improvements, for indust-
rial enterprises, are becoming scarce. It
was in the light of this idea that the
capable, though at times somewhat er-
ratic, economist, Horace Greely, advised
the young man to go West and grow up
with the country. He has taken the ad-
vice and done so with a vengeance. The
best opportunities of the East have been
left scarcely skimmed, while the new
and untried enterprises of the far West,
irrigation and development of arid re-
gions, receive the attention that should
have been given to the far more practie-
able resources of the East. It is a fact
well known but scarcely realized that in
many localities in the so-called garden of
the country, the Eastern prairie states,
as Indiana, Illinois, lowa, and even in
the southern counties of our own state of
Michigan, the larger portions of the
small towns and villages have declined in
population and have lost most of their
manufacturing industries, as shown by
tbe federal census. The rush to the
West accounts for some of this decline
but the greater cause is the lack of high-
ways to make the surrounding regions
tributary to these towns. The all too
great supply of railroads facilities has
reduced the more accessible ones to ship-
ping points from which to send the prod-
ucts to the great centers, while the less
accessible have not even the consolation, -
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if such it be, of seeing their rightful |
tributes pass their doors. The quality |
of a prairie road is proverbial and in the |
country, tributary to the towns referred
to, they are still deserving of their repu- |
tation. Had these towns been provided |
with suitable roads in place of the re-
gion being so overdone by railways they |
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would have continued to be centers ot
prosperous trade and manufacture.
Now these conditions as to develop-
ment of the resources of the East are
temporary. The tide of emigration to
the West will stop and roll back from
the foot of the Rocky Mountains and the
increase in population will demand that
the neglected resources of the East shall
be exploited and this question of roads
will be the first and most important one.
Reference has been made in recent
numbers of THE TRADESMAN to the im-
portance of this subject to the country
merchant. This feature of the question
cannot be too much emphasized. The
condition of trade in the towns referred
to above are a sufficient indication of
this. Examples of merchants who have
embarked in trade in new and promising
localities who have met disappointment
and failure simply because the town
failed to become a center of trade for
want of roads are familiar to everyone.
In varying, but not small, degrees, this
question is a factor in the problem of
success or failure of every country mer-
chant. WW. N. EF.
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Novel Method of Getting Solid With
the American Youth.
This is about the season of the year
when athletic sports take possession of
the brain of the small boy, his big
brother and the old man, and base ball
clubs galore are formed from an average
in height of from 3 feet 6 inches to 6 feet
3 inches from Maine to California. Every
town has its base ball cranks and every
town has its base ballclubs. Out of this
fact alive retailer may work in some
good advertising.
Select a club of boys, say 16 years old
or so, and rig them out with cheap suits,
caps, etc. If there are two orthree clubs
of this character in your town, let them
play a series of games for the suits.
Give the lucky club your name and act
as Manager, with an assistant to do the
work.
Arrange games in your vicinity and get
the weekly papers thereabouts to puff
up the games. With the exercise of a
little shrewdness you can get some good
notices that will bring you trade.
The main thing, however, is to make
yourself popular with the youngsters.
Offer prizes uf small value at intervals.
Get the boys headed your way and very
frequently the old folks will be towed
along in their wake.
During the summer arrange for a ball
game between the merchants on the op-
posite sides of your street, or between the
fats and the leans, and get what free ad
vertising you can out of it.
There is another way of making your-
self solid with the boys and at the same
time with the workmen. Procure a
quantity of thin white caps with your
business card printed on the front, and
give them away.
These caps are very cheap now. In
fact, they are sold for but a very slight
advance on cost, and ifno one in your
neighborhood has them they will make
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AN UNSUCCESSFUL CLERE.
Confessions of a Man Who Never Made
His Mark.
i,
I am now nearly fifty years of age, and
hold a $600 position in a general country
store, where, I hope, if not discharged,
to end my days in the monotonous round
of its humble duties. There have been
times when a more ambitious purpose
filled my mind, but that was years ago;
and my own failure in life leads me to
look with considerable interest at every-
thing recorded by men who have been
able to do what I undertook, but did not
carry to success.
Greatly interested attention gave I to
the letters of my friend, Mark Rowland,
whose business life was so graphically
outlined ip that admirable serial entitled
‘*From Porter to Partnership.”
1 will show you, in a little space, how
I managed to fit myself for the position
now occupied, and by what methods my
business life was deprived of those emol-
uments of wealth and honor that my
early associates have so pleasantly gar-
nered.
I knew Mark Rowland well. Soon af-
ter he entered the employ of Mr. Ely, in
the combined capacity of errand boy,
porter and sub-clerk, I was installed in
a similar position in the store of Samson
& Crow, at the county seat, an Ohio
town of some 4,000 inhabitants, which
possessed not only the court house, but
one railroad and two long lines of hitch-
ing posts—one row upon each side of the
main street, where a hundred or so teams
of country buyers would find location
and a feeding place during the business
hours of each pleasant day.
I was born and raised in the little
country town in which Mark lived, and
where he laid the foundations of his busi-
ness success. We attended the same
school for several years, and it was with
no little wonder that I noted his pro-
ficiency in arithmetic, and the confident
air with which he would march up tothe
blackboard and ‘‘do’’ the most abstruse
‘“‘sums” in Ray’s Third Part Arithmetic.
The examples and definitions which
failed of accomplishment at my hands
were always turned over to Mark; and
the superior air with which he would
march by me and cover the board with
figures that, under his deft manipulation,
always aggregated safely into the an-
swer required by the book was an ag-
gravation that had its sting so deep that,
even to-day, | am unable to recall it
ewithout a lingering touch of jealous
heartburn.
In reading, geograpby and spelling,
1 could hold my own with him; but in
those days and schools, the supreme test
of intellectual merit lay in the ease with
which a pupil could master his arithme-
tic. What an unattractive round of
mysteries lay bound in that dog-eared,
brown-covered book! Commencing with
the multiplication table—how I hated it,
with its six times seven are forty-nine;
eight times nine are ninety-four—and,
working on by the slough of Fractions;
the morass of Proportion; that bill of
difficulty called Partial Payments; and
so on by Cube Root, Arithmetical Pro-
gression, and those like horrible things,
put ip, 1 believed, merely to entrap a
boy who found more pleasure in playing
‘‘authors,’”’? or sleigh-riding with the
girls, than in poking around at home,
studying dry figures by the light of atal-
low candle set over in the middle of the
kitchen table.
I have said that the supreme test of
our district school lay in arithmetical
proficiency. There should be a slight
modification of this statement. Once
each week we had an afternoon for
‘‘speaking pieces,’’ when the little girls
would come in clean pinafores, and the
big girls in curls and delaine dresses;
the little boys with newly-washed faces,
and the big boys in their store clothes—
well do 1 remember that Mark Rowland
was the first boy in our school to wear a
real paper collar.
A few prim old ladies, redolent of
*‘dill,’? and, perhaps, a school director,
would be present upon these stirring oc-
easions, to catch this intellectual over-
flow from the ‘Corners’? school. The
boy or girl who could make the best ap-
pearance in the way of essay or decla-
mation was, for the moment, set upon a
pedestal of fame equal to that of the
prize pupil in Ray’s distracting series of
mathematical conundrums.
Where was Mark’s glory in ‘sums,’
when | was permitted to march out upon
the floor, in well-blacked cowhide boots
and a black alpaca roundabout, and, in
shrill and soul-compelling manner, recite
‘‘Marco Bozzaris’”’ or *‘On Linden When
the Sun Was Low!’ I was regarded as
one of the ‘“show’’ pupils brought out
upon such occasions; and, unfortunately
for me, the idea found lodgment in my
mind that as fame and honor could be so
easily won in that little world by this ap-
pearance once each week, it would be
folly to labor all the remaining days over
lessons that were so hard to learn and so
easy to forget.
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seek some labor by which he may pay
his own way in the world. 1 was hardly
sixteen when my schooldays ended. My
father’s roof and table were still un-
grudgingly at my service, but boots, hats |
and clothes required ready money, which
I was considered old enough to earn.
I must confess that this view coin-
cided with my own. I felt that all the
education | should need, even for the!
United States Senate, which was then |
set as the goal of my ambition, had been |
already secured, and that such solid ac- |
quirements as were lacking could be)
made up by dash and guesswork. Inj;
later years it has been my lot to meet |
more than one young man who set out in
life equipped with the same miserable
theory.
The succeeding year was spent in farm
work, here and there, at fifty cents a day
~—haying, hoeing, chopping, cutting corn,
plowing, ete. It was good physical exer- |
cise, and in that respect a great benefit.
My evenings were largely spent in read-
ing the old New York Ledger, Captain
Mayne Reid’s remarkable stories, or Mrs.
Southworth’s early novels—about as bad
a collection of trash as could have fallen
into a boy’s hands.
I think that Mark Rowland’s success
in getting into Mr. Ely’s store first set
me to the serious consideration of seek-
ing something similar for myself. Of |
course, | meant to become a lawyer—}
we boys in those days thought that the
one requirement for that profession, was |
an ability to ‘‘speak pieces’’ better than |
the other boys. I recognized the fact, |
however, that a leap from Deacon Peck’s
cornfield into a law office. was beyond |
even my abilities, and that some inter-|
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jurist might come along, discover me,
and take me into immediate partnership.
There was no chance in the stores of
our village, Mark having secured the}
one vacancy then open. The county seat |
was only fifteen miles away, and my |
hopes naturally turned in that direc-
tion. I knew that my father would
raise objection to my leaving home for a
year or so at least, and I decided to do a
little figuring without him.
It was late in the year when he de-
cided to drive over to G with a load
of hides he had been buying from the
farmers, and | was permitted to go with
him. Wereached our destination a little
before noon, and, after dinner at the
main tavern, I set out among the stores
to seek my fortune.
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A WHISTLING GIRL.
Gimpton was an old-fashioned burgh,
full of old-fashioned people, not one of
whom pretended to deny that Mellie Rose
was the prettiest, liveliest girl in the
place.
Now, although Gimpton folk had re-
luctantly succumbed to the inroads of
progress, insomuch that they admitted
there were no witches, they still clung
persistently to wise old saws. Why not
eall them the worn-out old saws, and
relegate them to the junk pile of other
bygone misconceptions?
Thus it happened, that while other
girls were ‘‘spoke for’’ as soon as they
became of age, sweet Mellie Ruse wasted
her sweetness upon transient lovers.
Joshua Jones, the most appreciative of
these, had remarked to his mother:
‘“Naow, mammy, I don’t believe
there’s a thing wrong with Mellie. Il
like her mighty well.”
“Gracious, Josh!” said she, holding up
her hands in horror. ‘if you’re a-gittin’
struck on that gal, you had just better
git over it as quick as possible. My
griet! A whistlin’ gal in the Jones
family! Ugh!’
So honest Josh put aside his sentiment
by muttering:
**Yes, I s’pose whistlin’ gals and crow-
in’ hens is as true to-day as it ever was.”
Josh was right. This old saw is just
as true to-nay as it was when the lunatic
of long ago manufactured it. Accord-
ingly, he married a ‘‘good housekeeper,”’
who never whistled, and Mellie seemed
destined to be an old maid.
in Gimpton, a girl became an old maid
if she was not ‘‘keeping reg’icr com-
pany’’ by the time she was twenty-one.
*“T can’t see why Mell can’t be like
other gals,’’ said her aunt Durothy, who
didn’t believe ik old maids. ‘*Can’t you
stop this pesky whistling, Mellie?” she
asked her one day.
“Pll try, aunty,’’ replied the innocent
girl.
So fora week or so she went about
looking as demure as possible; but it
was up-hbill work.
‘Got a new minister. They say he’s a
young man—right smart, too. Guess V1]
invite him in. No tellin’, he might—
but no, of course not! Well, l’ll invite
him, anyhow,” said Aunt Dorothy.
A week or two after this, she was busy-
ing herself, making the little parlor look
‘‘spry,’? when a knock sounded on the
door. She ushered in a fine looking
young man with a decidedly clerical air,
but pleasant and kindly withal.
The pastor and his hostess were soon
talking quietly on parish matters. In
the next room there was a rattle of some
one washing dishes.
‘ll call Mellie as soon as she finishes
her chores,’’? Aunt Dorothy was saying,
when, horrors! there arose in that young
lady’s clear, piccolo-like whistle the fa-
miliar notes of ‘‘Old Hundred.’’ Poor
Mellie had kept her mouth in its normal
position for two whole weeks; but now,
to the time of the rattling crockery, the
notes rose and fell with startling dis-
tinctness.
Aunt Dorothy turned red and then
white; fidgeted about, and finally, when
the assortment of noises stopped, went
into the kitchen, saying as she went:
**Excuse me, Mr. Haviland, and I’1l
tell Mellie to come in.’’
With blood curdling coolness she said
to her niece:
“The new minister’s in here. Come in
and be introduced.” That was what her
mouth uttered; but her eyes said, ‘‘Now
you’ve done it, with that dratted whistle
of yourn! Let’s see how you’!] git out
of it.”
Mellie followed the irate lady.
‘‘Mr. Haviland, my niece, Miss Rose.’’
One would have supposed that a real
rose could not be much redder; but when
Mr. Haviland said, in an amused tong,
‘Your brother is a fine whistler,” then
one knew that Mellie’s first blush was a
mere tinge of color.
‘“‘I—I have no brother,’ she replied
honestly; so the evidently painful sub-
ject was dropped.
“A remarkably fine young lady,’’
thought the young minister, as he was
returning to his boarding-place, ‘and
evidently as innocent as her name. It’s!
so dull here; I really must cultivate her
acquaintance.” ©
So the fleeting summer days found the
Reverend Haviland often at Aunt Doro-
thy’s house, or, in Mellie’s company,
wandering upon the rocky banks of Lit-
tle River.
To the young lady these bits of sun-
shine in her life were snatches from
dreamland. To hear the educated young
man discourse upon the people and
things of the big, big world was so dif-
ferent from the humdrum talk and gossip
of Gimptown. Her aunt thought:
“T swum! I do believe the parson’s
a-gittin’ interested in Mell. Now if she'll
only keep that whistle o’ hers shet long
enough, who knows? something may
come of it.’’
®Gimpton in general said it was almost
scandalous that so fine a young man
should be ‘‘took in” by a pretty face,
when everyone knew that that face was
disfigured by a whistling mouth.
Miss Smith, whose age was an un-
know quantity between twenty and forty,
and who had set her cap so often that
that article was badly frayed around its
figurative edges, said:
‘No, he shan’t be bamboozled, not if
1 have to warn him myself!” And it is
on record that she did warn the daring
man!
In spite of all this opposing element in
his flock, Mr. Haviland could not help
thinking how dull life would be without
a certain fiower whose perfume he alone
seemed to have discovered.
One bright September day, he walked
over to Aunt Dorothy’s little cottage, in-
tending to invite Mellie to accompany
him upon an errand of mercy. As he
reached the gate he stopped a moment.
The front door was wide open. Mellie,
dressed in pink calico, with a cap of the
same material only partly concealing her
fluffy brown hair, was busily engaged
with broom and dust brush in the hall.
There was a happy look upon her inno-
cent face. When, as if, bird-like, she
eould not restrain her joy, the ruby lips
puckered bewitchingly, and the notes of
a hymn thrilled forth with startling
clearness and truth.
Suddenly the unconscious warbler was
electrified into silence by the sharp
words:
**Perfectly shockin’, ain’t it ?”
Glancing up, she saw Aunt Dorothy
standing, with watering-can in hand, as
if preparing to water her own feet, which
seemed rooted to the ground. She was
staring at Mr. Haviland, who leaned up-
on the gate with a puzzling expression
upon his face.
Not waiting to hear his answer, Mellie
fled to her own room, where she indulged
in that which seldom spoiled her happy
face—a good ‘‘ery.’’ For she doubted
not that she had forfeited her place in
the minister’s esteem.
She was not surprised, then, when
Aunt Dorothy met her with:
‘*Now you have done it! My goodness!
I don’t know what to do with you. I
swum, you’re enough to try a saint’s pa-
tience!”
But Mellie was surprised when her
aunt handed her a note from Mr. Havi-
land containing his request to accompany
him to the house of some poor people,
who lived several miles away.
*‘Shall I go?’”’ she asked her aunt.
“Of course! No use makin’ matters
worse than they be by refusin’.”’
So Mellie said she would accompany
the minister, though her sensitive nature
rebelled against the trial.
After packing a basket of food for the
poor people, Mellie waited in nervous
anxiety for her escort. When he ar-
rived she quietly allowed him to assist
her into the buggy, where she sat almost
dumb, a pained expression upon her
face.
‘‘What is the matter with you to-day?”
asked the minister, as they trundled
through the green fields.
Mellie trembled at his kindly tones;
but she would not be drawn into conver-
sation until——
But there, no matter! What right
have we to intrude? Suffice it to say
that the next day Mr. Haviland asked
Aunt Dorothy for Mellie’s hand.
That worthy dame, though ‘tickled to
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death’”’ with the proposal, could not help
saying:
“But, Mr. Haviland, she is a whistlin’
gal; an’ you know—”’
“There, there—don’t say a _ word
against the future mistress of the par-
sonage!’’ he interrupted. And so, amid
shocked Gimpton’s surprised talk, the
doomed old maid of twenty winters was
converted into a happy bride of twenty
summers.
Rumor has it that Miss Smith is prac-
ticing the much abused art of whistling.
But heartless rumor also says that she
whistles in vain.
2
The Spurt in Cinnamon.
To most people, the sudden spurt in
cinnamon and the extensive business
done in it have come as a great surprise,
and most people, who used to look upon
this spice as an article too small to at-
tract the attention of strong speculators,
have now come to the conclusion that
they have undervalued its significance,
and that a formidable ‘‘bull” clique has
taken this article in hand, aclique which,
furthermore, has operated with a skill
and a secrecy worthy of an undertaking
of a bigger thing, says the London Com-
mercial Record. Speaking of the pros-
pects, it says: ‘‘So far as we can see, the
apparent strength of the clique repre-
sents, at present, the only feature in
favor of the ‘bull’ movement, for the
statistical position of the article does not
appear to be of a character likely to in-
spire anyone with a desire to buy exten-
sively. The shipments from Ceylon have
been large, in spite of the supposed dam-
age done to the recent crop by the
drought. They amounted to 522,445
pounds in bales from Jan. 1 to April 29,
1895; 442,920 in 1894 and 472,096 in 1893.
The reports of the coming crop continue
favorable, promising fair supplies. Our
stocks are about the same as last year at
this time, being returned as about 3,000
bales, and our trade, to judge from the
little support it has extended to the
movement, is undoubtedly well stocked,
and as no fresh employment or outlet has
been found for cinnamon, it is difficult to
understand the justification of the spurt.
It is a speculative ‘bull’ movement, pure
and simple, the duration of which will
depend entirely on the strength of the
clique sinha for it.’’
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Grand Rapids Retail Grocers Associa-
tion.
At the regular meeting of the Grand
Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association, held
at the office of THE TRADESMAN on
Tuesday evening, June 18, President
White presided.
The circular letter sent out by the
Secretary, explaining the necessity of
employing a regular salaried Secretary,
was discussed at some length and ap-
proved.
The matter of closing on the Fourth of
July was then discussed at some length,
culminating in the adoption of a resolu-
tion, offered by Mr. Klap and supported
by Mr. Lehman, that the Association
continue the custom of previous years,
and close promptly at noon on Indepen-
dence Day.
The subject of the annual picnic was
then taken up for discussion. A mem-
ber suggested that the picnic be held on
labor day, which suggestion did not meet
the approval of the other members, for
the reason that Grocers’ Picnic Day has
come to mean as much in Grand Rapids
as labor day or Fourth of July.
Mr. Lehman moved that the picnic be
held in the month of August and that
the Chairman and Secretary be instructed
to prepare alist of the necessary com-
mittees for presentation at the next
meeting, which was adopted.
The Treasurer reported a balance on
hand of $239, and the meeting adjourned.
Entirely Safe.
From the Boston Herald.
“Did you ever hear of Nocash’s most
generous offer to the town of Littleton?’
“No; what was it?’’
“He offers to give the town $500,000 for
a free library if the citizens will raise a,
similar amount.”
“But Nocash is not worth $500,000.”
“Neither are the citizens of Littleton.”
When to Try on Shoes.
Retailers will hardly believe that there
are special times and seasons for trying |
on new shoes, but soit is. You need a|
larger pair of shoes in summer than in|
winter, and it is always best to try them |
on in the latter part of the day. The |
feet are then atthe maximum size. Ac- |
tivity naturally enlarges them or makes |
them swell; much standing tends also to!
enlarge the feet. New shoes should be}
tried on over moderately thick stockings;
then you can put on a thinner pair to}
ease your feet if the shoes seem to be |
tight. Itis remarkable what a differ- |
ence the stockings make. If they are|
too large they will be nearly as uncom- |
fortable as a pair of shoes that are too}
tight. New shoes can be worn with as |
much ease as old ones, if they are stuffed |
to the shape of the foot with cloth or
paper and patiently sponged with hot
water. Or, if they pinch in some partic-
ular spot, a cloth wet with hot water and
laid across the place will cause imme-
diate and lasting relief. Milk applied
once a week with a soft cloth freshens
and preserves boots and shoes. If these
points are brought by the retailers to the
notice of their patrons they will find
them a help in attracting customers, who
will thereby recognize that the dealer is
not only seeking their custom but is
looking to their comfort and _ con-
venience as well.
icici ie ome e ten
Cast Out Illegitimate Competition.
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The majority of retail shoe merchants
are rigidly honest and honorable, and
their stores are conducted accordingly,
but there are a few in business who at
times do not pursue a straightforward,
business-like course of trade. This
should not be, and the evil could be
readily eradicated if the honest mer-
chants would combine in some way to
destroy it. The manner in which this
class of dealers conduct their business is
detrimental to the many upright mer-
chants, although generally it lasts but a
short time. The influence of these rogues
is not only felt among the retailers, but
also by the wholesalers, and eventually
by the public. Consequently, they should
be driven out of the business for the ben-
efit of everybody, as they not only injure
the shoe trade materia'ly, but the stigma
they cast upon it by their operations is
felt socially as well as the financial loss
they entail upon the trade generally.
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Temporary Boss.
“Are you the boss of this ranch?’’
asked the tramp.
‘Yes,’ said Mr. Timmins, thought-
fully. ‘‘I think that at the present moment
I can truthfully say that 1 am the boss
here. The hired girl is taking an after-
noon off and my wife is out riding a bicy-
cle.’’
— > 2. <—_
Necessary To Go Away.
Strawber—lI thought you were not go-
ing away this summer.
Singerly—I wasn’t, but my creditors
are too numerous.
Strawber—lI see.
for your health.
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The trial of Milkman Blackham for
manslaughter, at Stamford, Conn., is one
of more than ordinary interest to the
public in general and to users of milk in
particular. Blackham washed his milk
cans, and perhaps weakened his milk
with water from a well alive with mi-
crobes of typhoid fever. Over 400 of his
patrons were taken sick, and twenty-one
of them died. Typhoid epidemics have
occurred in a number of New England
towns from similar causes. Some 1,600
cases of the disease have been traced to
this source, 250 of them fatal.
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MOVING SAND-HILLS.
Powerful Agents in Changing the Crust
of the Globe.
The phenomenon of a moving hill of
sand is by no means an uncommon one
on various parts of the earth’s surface,
and, not unfrequently, whole villages
and towns have thereby been over-
whelmed and destroyed. To sucb shift-
ing mounds the name of ‘‘dunes’’ is usu-
ally given by geologists, and from a sim-
ilar root the more familiar term of
“‘downs’’ seems to be derived. Dunes,
or downs, of sand are commonly found
within a short way from the seashore,
being composed of the fine particles cast
up by the waves, and afterward dried in
the sun, and carried inland to a greater
or lesser distance by the wind. The
coasts of Holland present an example of
vast quantities of detritus taken down to
the sea in the first instance by rivers, and
subsequently thrown back upon the
land, forming long chains of sand-hills,
or downs. The shores of France, Spain
and various other countries exhibit the
same phenomena at particular points.
On the shores of the Bay of Biscay, mov-
ing sands are so common as to have oc-
casioned much injury to the land and
the inhabitants, both in early and recent
times.
About the year 1770, a whole village
near St. Pol de Leon, in Brittany, was so
completely buried by one great move-
ment of drift-sand, that nothing could be
seen of it but the spire of thechureh. In
the same region, according to Cuvier,
these dunes advance with irresistible
force, burying forests in their route, and
impelling before them lakes of fresh
water, derived from the rains which can-
not find a way through them into the sea.
“One village in the department of the
Landes, named Mimisan, has been strug-
gling for twenty years against them: and
one sand-hill, more than sixty feet high,
may be said to be seen advancing hourly.
In 1802, the propelled lakes invaded five
fine farms belonging to Saint Julien:
they have long since covered a Roman
causeway leading from Bordeaux to Bay-
onne, and which was seen about forty
years since, when the waters were yet in
a low state. The river Adour, also, ias
been turned out of its former course by
the same causes,’’
Sometimes assuming the shape of con-
{cal mounds, and sometimes appearing in
the form of flat heaps or masses, these
shifting sands have also done much harm
at different periods on the British coasts.
In Suffolk, in the year 1688, part of
Downham (a name ominously indicative
of the character of the district) was over-
whelmed by sands which had begun to
move, about 100 years before, from a
point about five miles to the south-west.
The drifting mass traveled over the in-
tervening distance in the course of the
century, and covered more than a thous-
and acres of land. On the north coast
of Cornwall, a considerable extent of
country has been inundated by sands,
constituting hills several hundred feet in
height. So completely bave these vast
mounds shifted their whole bulk from
spot to spot, that the ruins of ancient
buildings, originally overwhelmed by
them, have again been laid bare in the
rear of their line of progress. A pot of
old coins was found in the same situa-
tion in one instance, by which a guess
could be made at the period of entomb-
THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.
ment. The changes had certainly occu-
pied many centuries.
Many other examples of these sand-
| hill phenomena might be selected; but
enough has been said regarding sea-borne
sands. There are drifting sands of a
different character, which have effected
far greater changes on the face of the
earth, and have far more deeply in-
fluenced the eomforts and affected the
lives of its inhabitants. What were the
original limits of the desert-sands, and
what the former condition of many re-
gions now covered by them, it is scarcely
possible to determine; but certain it is
that they have shifted to an immense ex-
tent within the knowledge of man, and
have produced deplorable consequences.
By the actiou, seemingly, of the west
winds, the sands of the African interior
have been gradually forced in more and
more upon the banks of the Nile, until
they have engulfed many cities, and the
ruins of cities, and have covered a great
portion of the tillage lands of Egypt.
The number of cities, towns and villages
thus effaced from the earth is too large to
be calculated. The French traveler,
Denon, tells us that their summits still
appear externally in many instances, and
feelingly observes, that ‘‘nothing can be
more melancholy than to walk over vil-
lages swallowed up by the desert-sands,
to trample under foot their roofs, to
strike against the peaks of their temples,
and to reflect that here were cultivated
fields, that here grew lofty trees, and
that here were even the homes and _ hab-
itations of men—and that all have van-
ished!”
These remarks will bring to the mind
of many readers the buried condition in
which the majority of the recovered
sculptures and monuments of Egypt
were found, and particularly the great
Sphinx, the base of which extraordinary
piece of sculpture was sunk thirty or
forty feet in the sands, having little
more than its massive head above ground
to point out where it stood. Although
the desert sands, however, have wrought
such vast apparent ruin, by swallowing
up the glorious monuments of past ages,
there is a degree of consolation to be de-
rived from this very fact—this very en-
gulfment. The sands are, in one sense,
conservators of the things they entomb.
By no other mode of interment or keep-
ing could the fine sculptures, stuecos and
paintings discovered by Burekhardt,
Beechey and Belzoni have been handed
down to us in so perfect astate. Mr.
Lyall, who makes this remark, points it
out also as not improbable that the sands
which have shifted may shift again, and
in sucn a manner that ‘‘many a town and
temple of higher antiquity than Thebes
or Memphis may one day re-appear in
their original integrity, and a part of the
gloom which overhangs the history of
earlier nations be dispelled.”
But alas! the numberless human lives
which the desert sands have destroyed
can never thus be restored to the light of
day. Whole caravans, numbering in
dividually hundreds of followers, have
been overwhelmed in this way, in vari-
ous lines of travel, as well in Asia as in
Africa. In Arabia, the bones of dead
men and camels are the principle guides
of the pilgrim.
The sands which cause the greater
part of these deaths come usually in the
form of a wind, bearing fine particles on
its wings, which blind and suffocate the
unfortunates who chance to be in their
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path. These saud-winds move along in, think he would like that. Then 1 asked
columns of great height, in a whirlwind | him if he would object to carrying bun-
fashion, and well defined in their out- dies. Well, he wasn’t anxious to carry
eee tale i bundles, either. He was like many
in extent. inthe same countries, | young men who talk about wanting to
sands also move slowly along the earth,} work, but when it comes to the point
as the dunes of Europe move; but the| they want to do only kid-glove sort of
chief source of fear and destruction to work. I must say 1 don’t have much
travelers is the whirling sand-wind. (are all brothers, and what is
/ : . .,/ mouth that defileth a man. It is not
ing, renewing and re-arranging the solid Ce
g & salen r work, but character, that can be discred-
crust of the globe. In other respects, | jtable.
their influence is equally powerful, for While | was working as errand and
there cannot be a doubt that they have — boy | improved such opportunity as
altered, and are still altering, to a great had to read books, and to attend book
capabilities of large regions to the east, | useful to me hereafter. It was my aim
north and north-east of the central Af- | ®!ways . be wth position where | could
: i use my best talents to the best advan-
rican deserts whence they came. tage. I fixed my ambition high, so that
DONALD L. WILBER. j/even if 1 did not realize the highest, 1
——— might at least always be tending upward.
Good Advice to Young Men. A man should not only use all his facul-
It is thought that because 1 have been ties, but be constantly developing them
a young man, and have worked hard and | 8° that he can do more. If you jump at
achieved success, I am qualified to advise | # thing with your whole heart and mind,
others who are starting in life. It is not|though you may not be exceptionally
for me to decide whether or not this idea | #ble, it is wonderful how much you may
is correct. But lam sure that few ben-| 2ccomplish, but if you are half hearted
efits can be conferred upon humanity you will fail. Gro. W. CHILDS.
more important than to help the young 7 FFecsAilbno ll Gin
to lead good and useful lives; and if any- Her First Pair of Shoes.
thing I can say will promote that end 1] Among many interesting incidents
am willing and happy to say it. connected with the closing of the saloons
There is nothing miraculous in the} in Kittanning, Pa., a leading merchant
success that I have met with. If a man} tells the following:
has good principles and does his best to] A woman came into his store very
act up to them, he cannot fail of success, |timidly. She was evidently unaccus-
though it may not be success of precisely | tomed to trading.
the same kind as mine. There are in- ‘“‘What can I do for you?” inquired the
numerable ways of being useful in this| merchant.
world, and each man has his peculiar ‘I want a pair of shoes for a little
gifts and qualifications. Each man will} girl.’
walk in the path best adapted to him; ‘What number?’’
but there is no reason why every path ‘She is 12 years old.”
should not lead toward one and the same| ‘But what number does she wear?”
point—toward the benefiting of men in **] do not know.’’
general. Good principles are just as| ‘But what number did you buy when
good for the artist as for the artisan—for | you bought the last pair fer her?”
the poet as for the ploughman—for the| ‘She never had a pair in her life.
man of business as for the clergyman. It} You see, sir, her father used to drink
makes no difference what you do, as long | when we had saloons; but now they are
as it is just and you are honest and dili-| closed he doesn’t drink any more, and
gent in the doing of it. this morning he said to me: ‘Mother, |
“Who sweeps a room, as for Thy laws, want you to go uptown to-day and get
Makes that and the action fine.” Sissy a pair of shoes, for she never had a
It is well, in my opinion, to accustom | pair in her life.’ I thought, sir, if I told
one’s self early to work, and not be] you how old she was, yeu would know
afraid of any kind of work that is hon-| just what size to give me.’’
est and useful. Il began to support my- a
self when I was 12 years old, and | have Two Trade Winners.
never been dependent on others since. i gs _ ‘
I had some schooling, bat not mach; I The pang = the Hommeter
never went to college, not because 1 did Imperial” cigars will continue to merit
not think a college career might be a|the wide popularity which they now
good thing for those who could make a enjoy. The Hemmeter Cigar Com-
good use of it, but because I did not feel pany, of Saginaw, imports the Havana
that it was so important for me as to be i i :
earning my own living. When | left leaf direct, employs seventy-five skilled
home to come to Philadelphia, one of my | workmen and the most modern methods
relatives said that 1 would soon have|of manufacture. Mr. Frank E Hoover,
enough of that and would be coming back one of the best traveling salesmen
again. Butl made up my mind that l : a
would never go back—I would succeed. known, tries to cover all of Michigan
I had health, the power of applying my | every sixty days but his growing trade
self, and, 1 suppose, a fair amount of} necessitates longer time and the occa-
brains. I came to Philadelphia with $3 in| .iona) assistance of Mr. J. P. Hemmeter,
my pocket. | found board and lodging for :
$2.50 and then got a place as office boy the Secretary and Manager of the com-
for $3. That gave me a surplus of 50| pany. Mr. Hemmeter will soon find time
cents a week. to spend a few days in Grand Rapids and
I did not merely do the work that I was then everybody will be enjoying the
absolutely required to do, but did all 1} | i u
could, and put my heart into it. | Hemmeter’’ and the ‘‘Hemmeter I[mper-
wanted my employer to feel that I was| ial.”
more useful to him than he expected me
to be. I was not afraid to clean and A Reasonable Doubt.
sweep and perform what might be con- Lawyer—lIs that your signature on the
sidered by some young gentlemen nowa-| back of this check?
days as menial work, and, therefore, be- Merchant—lI don’t know, sir.
neath them. I did not think it beneath | be.
me then, and | should not now. If it ‘‘Does it look like your signature?”’
were necessary, I would sweep out my ‘*Not a particle.”’
office to-day, and 1 often carry bundles. ‘“‘Doesn’t it bear the least resemblance
But the other day a youth came to me to} to your signature?”
ask if I could find some employment for} O**Not the least.’’
him. His father had died and his mother “Then why do you think it may be
could not support him, and he wished to| your signature? Tell me that.”
support himself. i looked at him and “| might have written it with a bank
saw that he had on very nice clothes and | pen.”’
kid gloves. I asked him if he would like \ >
to wheel a wheel-barrow. He seemed It is hard enough to meet temptation,
surprised, and answered that he didn’t! but worse than folly to court it.
_nenan >. <—-_- eaesin
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sympathy with that sort of feeling. Men}
: worthy of |
These mobile sands, therefore, must/one is not unworthy of another. The!
be viewed as powerful agents in chang- Bible says itis what cometh out of the!
7 sales, so as to learn the market value of |
extent, the appearance and productive} books and anything else that might be |
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Opinion of an Expert on This Important
Subject.
F. L. Stevenson in Boot and Shoe Recorder.
Successful salesmen are born into this
world the same as the successful musi-
cians, acters, or any of the others pos-
sessed of gifts bestowed upon mortals,
and unless a person is born into this
world endowed with certain traits of
character, he or she, in my opinion, will
never become a successful salesman in
the general acceptance of the term.
There are two kinds of salesmen,
wholesale and retail, and they are alto-
gether different. Butin writing on this
subject 1 suppose we are to accept them
and treat them asone. While a person
may be successful in the one line he may
be a failure in the other. But accepting
the two as one he must possess, as |
said before, several excellent traits otf
character, and in this, my maiden effort
at writing, 1 shall try as best I can to de-
scribe what 1 think are the most essen-
tial elements that go to make up the sue-
cesstul salesman.
in the first place, a man, to bea SUccess
in this line, must possess at least an or-
dinary amount of intelligence. He must
at least be a fair judge of human nature,
and the better his ability to read char-
acter the more successful he will be, for
without this judgment he will often
make mistakes which to a certain degree
will depreciate his ability. Human na-
ture in all its different phases is being
presented to himin his everyday voca-
tion. And the more proficient he is in
this line the better his chances are to be-
come successful.
Next in the composition of this ideal
salesman we are making up we must
have a person who is fond of the occupa-
tion he is following. We must have a
person who has at least good control of
himself, and the better the control the
more successful he will be, for one, to be
a success in a retail way, must be blessed
with that greatest trait of Job, patience.
While it is possible for any one of us to
school ourselves in that line, there are in
our ranks many who, as 1 said be-
fore, are born with that divine-given
blessing, an even, smooth and gentle
temperament, which any successful sales-
man needs and must have to a degree in
a retail way.
This wonderful being must also
possess as one of his good qualities a
good address and the more attractive his
personality the more successful will he
be, other things being equal. Now, in
this connection I think a great many
have an erroneous idea of what a good
impression really is. Some salesmen
think the more entertaining they can be
to a customer the better the impression
they have made, whereas, in many
cases, they overdo the matter. As a
general rule a customer goes into a store
to purchase goods and not to listen to a
lengthy dissertation on the weather,
politics, the latest social event, ete.
Now, don’t understand me to say that a
little spice is detrimental. On the con-
trary it is very essential in some cases;
but if a salesman gets into the habit of
visiting with his customers he generally
wastes valuable time besides losing much
of the trade. I therefore claim that the
better the first impression the more suc-
cessful the salesman. After his good
impression is made he must, in his pleas-
ant way, impress the trade that his sole
object is to please and suit them. At
this point he must use his good judgment,
for you must read the character before
you, for, while the thing said or done
would have the desired effect with one, it
would have the opposite effect with
another. Soitis through all our lives
as salesmen, for we are constantly meet-
ing new trade and, therefore, we are
meeting different kinds of character.
And the one the most apt in this di-
rection stands in a fair way to be the
most successful salesman.
The truly successful man, must, in his
dealings, be honorable and honest in re-
gard to all the wares he is trying to dis-
pose of. While deception will at times
win, it is the last and poorest argument
to use and is not resorted to by success-
ful salesmen.
One of the strong points for a success-
ful salesman is his ability to serve the
greatest number of customers and to do
it ina satisfactory manner, both to the
trade and at the same time to himself or
to his own credit, and alse serve his em-
ployer at the same time. 1 have seen
salesmen who would be called very suc-
cessful from one point of view, who did
not finish with a customer in a satisfac-
tory manner, and I consider this point
alone quite a necessary qualification.
In order to be a successful salesman it
absolutely necessary that you be
thoroughly posted in regard to the line
of trade in which you areengaged. The
more learned or versed in the line the
more successful, for the salesman who
can and will, in a business-like manner
and in an intelligent way, answer in-
quiries in regard to the stock he is try-
ing to sell, will surely be more success-
ful than one who cannot go into detail
and answer such inquiries in an intelli-
gent manner. I therefore claim that he
must be posted.
You will always find the successful
salesman pleasant and polite to all of the
trade, without any regard to social stand-
ing or difference in stations in life.
And, as a matter of fact, the better his
conversational powers, the better his ar-
gumentative powers, the more successful
will he be. The most successful sales-
man, some will say, is the one who is
most popular and has the greatest num-
ber of friends. But I do not think so,
for 1 have seen very popular salesmen,
in a social way, who would not be con-
sidered as successful salesmen.
A man, to be a success, must possess
traits of character besides those that are
required for one to become what would
be called popular. For instance, a man
may be a fine conversationalist and yet
lack that needed argumentative power,
and in a great many cases he would be
unsuccessful.
Some would claim, I suppose, that the
one who sells the most dollars’ worth of
goods is the most successful salesman.
But in this I differ, for a salesman may
increase his sales largely by neglecting
other things which I claim are very es-
sential to the qualities of a successful
salesman. A manin this case must not
only be a man who can sell goods, but
the stock is to be looked after and the
man who keeps his stock in a proper
shape and at the same time sells his pro-
portion of the goods is, in my opinion,
the better salesman of thetwo. Iconsid-
er to be a good stock keeper, one who has
his stock so arranged as to be the most
convenient and the least trouble to find,
one of the strongest points in the suc-
cessful salesman. I would give a good
stock keeper a decided preference over
the one who had the reputation of being
a good salesman, as the term is generally
used and applied, for without the stock
in a proper position and things arranged
in a systematic way, no matter what the
salesman’s other qualities are, he is at
sea in a badly kept and poorly arranged
store.
Another thing that seems to me to be
a very strong point in the make-up of
the successful salesman is the ability to
make his sales from the undesirable
stock that is staying and to dispose of
the odd sizes that are sure to accumulate
in the best regulated stores. Most any
one can take nice fresh, new, desirable
goods and sell them, but it takes a very
successful salesman to dispose of the old
ones.
Another strong point in favor of the
truly successful salesman is the know]l-
edge of two or more languages. Asa
matter of course it is not absolutely nec-
essary, but by some it would be consid-
ered, and we must all admit that it is a
decided advantage to a salesman, but
should not be considered against us if
other things are equal.
In finishing this article let me say that
if you will show me a salesman who goes
to his work from day to day with a pleas-
ant word to all he meets; a man who ad-
dresses and receives his customers in a
polite gentlemanly manner; a man who
is always willing to serve all the trade
just as it happens to present itself to
him; a man who can sell the finest article
in the store to the most aristocratic trade
in the city, and can and will in a like
manner serve the humblest and poorest
is
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that he may be galled to wait upon, and
make them both feel that they have had
the best of attention; a man who is truly
honest and upright in all his dealings; a
man whoecan place his hand on any article
in the store and can in a business-like
way talk the same; a man who, perhaps,
for his honesty will at times lose a sale;
aman who will sell the most goods in
the most satisfactory manner; a man
who is always careful about his charges
and credits; a man who can start at the
bottom and do anything pertaining to bis
line from the stock keeping to the buy-
ing if necessary; a man who has a kind,
affable, pleasant way, kind and courteous
under all the trying circumstances in a
mercantile life;"a man who can always
find something to oceupy his time that
will be a benefit to his employer; a man
who has a memory, that he can call
trade by name after once hearing it, and
remembers little incidents, for it has a
good influence, as the trade feel that
that salesman has an interest in them,
and in many cases will make trade for
life. Show methe man I have tried in
my maiden article to describe, and I
will show you a man who is wise in dis-
pute or an argument, a lion in the mer-
nantile conflicts, a teacher among his
companions, an arbitrator in his vicinity,
conscientious in action, content with his
state, regular in his habits, diligent in
his calling, faithful in his friendship,
temperate in his pleasures, deliberate in
his speech, devoted to his God, so he
will be happy in his life, easy in his
death, and an esteemed example for us
to follow.
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The Grain Market.
Contrary to all expectations, the past
week was another of depression. While
everything pointed to firm and higher
markets, the reports of the damaged con-
dition of the crop were more than con-
firmed. The State Agricultural Board
of Kansas issued a report showing only
13,000,000 bushels of wheat, against
some thirty odd million last year, and
nearly 50,000,000 bushels in 1893. Cali-
fornia claims only 30,000,000 bushels
against 35,000,000 bnshels last year.
Where threshing has commenced in the
winter wheat belt the yield is very un-
satisfactory, being below the estimate.
Individual opinions go for naught in
times like these.
The visible will be less than 46,000,000
bushels, against 55,800,000 bushels the
corresponding week last year. This
leaves a shortage of about 10,000,000
bushels and is about 20,000,000 bushels
less than In 1893. The invisible isa mere
bagatelle, as the farmers have been
using the wheat for feeding purposes. In
the face of all this, wheat lagged about
5e during the week, and about 15c from
the highest point. As stated last week,
farmers do not sell any and millers are
compelled to pay 3c over Detroit prices
in order to get their supply of wheat.
This downward tendency cannot always
keep in with the present condition and
we look for an advance.
Corn is lower, as the outlook has never
been better for an enormous crop unless
some unforeseen calamity overtakes it.
Oats are, also, weaker, owing to good
outlook.
One thing has taken a boom beyond
all precedence, and that is hay, which
climbed up to $18 per ton during the
week.
The receipts during the week were as
follows: Wheat, 35 cars; corn, 5 cars;
oats, 2 cars. The above amounts re-
ceived were extremely small.
Cc. G. A. Vorer.
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Note Cycloid Cycle Co.’s advertisment
on page 15. Immediate delivery guar-
anteed. Dealers are invited to send for
trade discount.
REFUSED A HEARING.
The Stewart Co. Denied the Privilege
of Making a Statement.
' SAGINAW, June 22—Enclosed please
find communication we sent to the Even-
ing News Weekly, of Detroit, replying to
its refusal to continue our advertisement
in its paper, it claiming that all the Sag-
inaw jobbers, anda portion of the De-
troit jobbers, objected to it, thus ignor-
ing a written eontract with the paper
covering a certain space for a year’s
time. This paper, inan abrupt and high-
handed manner, denied us the privilege
of selling our goods at such prices as we
saw fitto name. We leave it to the re-
tailers of Michigan to draw their own
conclusions.
Will you kindly publish the letter in
Ture TRADESMAN and much oblige
Yours truly,
THE JAMES STEWART Co., LTrp.
SAGINAW, June 7, 1895.
Evening News Weekly, Detroit:
GENTLEMEN—Your favor of May 28 at
hand and contents carefully noted.
Your Mr. Jenkins informed us a few
days ago, in reply to his request, that
our company should cease to name prices
in the space we had contracted for in
your Weekly, which we declined to do,
that, owing to the very strong pressure
that would be brought to bear upon your
paper by the other wholesalers, he had
strong doubts as to whether our adver-
tisement would be continued in the
manner we desired.
In your favor just at hand you write:
‘‘We have noted your remarks very care-
fully and, no doubt, what you state is
well taken.” In this you were candid
enough to admit that the position taken
by this company was correct.
You further state that “‘if all jobbers
were to inaugurate a series of cutting
prices, it would tend to demoralize the
trade.” Is it possible that you are not
aware that every jobber in the State of
Michigan, without exception, is to-day
doing what he has done for the past
twenty years—cutting prices on some
article in hopes of catching customers
and building up a trades.
When did your paper undertake to
dictate to its patrons and establish a cen-
sorship over their advertisements? What
course would your paper pursue, if other
parties in your line of business sought to
establish censorship over your editorials
and attempted to dictate the price at
which your paper should be sold?
Is it not true that, waiving all argu-
ments as to prices involved, you have
been solely influenced by the threats of
wholesale grocers, both in Saginaw and
Detroit, that, in the event of your not
suppressing the Stewart Co.’s advertise-
ment, they would withdraw their patron-
age from your paper? Is it not a matter
of fact that you have submitted to the
dictation of certain men for the money
that was init for your paper? Why do
you not undertake to dictate to the
wholesale trade in dry goods, clothing,
and other branches of business, at what
price their goods will be sold?
It is a well-known axiom in trade that
goods well bought are half sold. The
James Stewart Co. is well known
throughout the United States as a cash
buyer of merchandise. The prices
quoted in the Evening News Weekly
specified, ‘‘Cash with order in current ex-
change.” Will any jobber dispute for a
moment that goods cannot be sold in this
manner at a less price, than for long
credit, with the attendent dangers of
failures?
In your communication to us you re-
gret that you are unable to use our copy
on account of the so-called ‘‘cut prices’’
quoted therein. In this connection we
quote an extract from your issue of May
29, taken from the advertisement of one
of the leading wholesale grocery houses
in Detroit: ‘Why pay $2.90 or $2.20 per
case for rolled oats, when you can get
the same quantity, and same quality for
$2.10. Buy acase of Buckeye Oats for
sample.” This house has stated our po-
sition exactly and we fully agree with it
that the retailer should be allowed the
privilege of purchasing his rolled oats,
or any other article, from the wholesaler
quoting the lowest price. It is rather a
strange coincidence that in the adver-
tisement suppressed by you we quoted
these self same rolled oats at $1.95 per
case. Further comment upon this point
is unnecessary. The retailers of Michi-
gan can draw their own conclusions.
We take it for granted that the Even-
ing News Weekly desires to cultivate the
good will and gain the support of the re-
tailers of Michigan. If so, would it not
be a good idea—and it lies within the
scope of your paper to ascertain from the
retailers of Michigan what their views
are upon this subject—to learn whether
they desire the wholesale grocers to
quote open prices or not? Ifa large ma-
jority of the retailers should answer in
the affirmative, what course would your
paper then pursue?
The causes that lead up to the naming
of cut prices are often legitimate. A
wholesaler frequently finds himself over-
stocked with an article of a perishable
nature. If he is a good merchant he
knows that the first loss is the lightest
and proceeds to make a price which will
move the goods.
Again, a far-sighted merchant per-
ceives a weak market which will proba-
bly result eventually in very much lower
prices. He proceeds to unload as rap-
idly as possible, and, in order to do so, is
compelled to shade prices. Neither do
we regard it as reprehensible where a
jobber has been fortunate in stocking up
heavily before a sharp advance to share
his good luck with his customers by not
insisting upon charging him the extreme
market price.
lf time permitted, we might go on and
give you many reasons why we think it
is right and proper to quote close prices
to close buyers. We have already en-
croached more upon your valuable space
than we had at first intended. Reserv-
ing the right to give publicity to the
above, we remain,
Yours truly,
Tue JaAmMgEs STEWART Co., Liv.
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Preparations for the Thirteenth Annual
Convention,
Derroit, June 24—Extensive prepara-
tions are being made by the druggists of
Detroit for the entertainment of their
fraters on the occasion of the thirteenth
annual meeting of the Michigan State
Pharmaceutical Association, which will
be held here July 16, 17, 18 and 19.
The meetings will take place at the
Light Infantry Armory, and an exhibit
of druggists’ goods will be held at the
Auditorium on July 17, 18 and 19, par-
ticipated in by wholesale druggists and
manufacturers from all over the country.
The four days’ programme begins on
Tuesday afternoon with different sports
at the Island. On Wednesday the Asso-
ciation will be called to order. The sec-
ond session will take place at 2:30 in the
afternoon, and will continue through
the remaining two days.
The pharmacy exhibition at the Audi-
torium will be open to the public at 10
a. m. on Wednesday, July 17, and will
remain open mornings, afternoons and
evenings for three days. The jobbers
and manufacturers will hold a reception
in the evening at the Light Infantry
Armory for visitors, members of the As-
sociation and the trade. On ‘Thursday
evening a promenade concert will be
given at the Auditorium. On Friday
evening, the closing of the meeting will
be celebrated by a moonlight exeursion.
At the meetings of the Association, re-
ports will be received from the Executive
Committee as to the advance of the drug
trade interests in the past year. This
comprises F. W. R. Perry, chairman, of
this city, John E. Peck, of Grand Rapids,
D. E. Prall of Saginaw, A. Bassett, of
Detroit, and F. J. Whitmarsh, of Pal-
myra. The report of the Committee on
Trade Interests is likely to cause discus-
sion. This committee is composed of C.
N. Anderson, chairman, of Detroit, F. J.
Wurzburg, of Grand Rapids, and H. G.
Colman, of Kalamazoo.
Other committees to report will be the
Pharmacy and Queries Committees, com-
prising D. M. Russell, chairman, of
Grand Rapids, and F. B. Raynale, of
Lansing; the Legislation Committee, com-
prising A. Bassett, chairman, of Detroit,
John E. Peck, of Grand Rapids, and
James Vernor, of Detroit; the Auxiliary
Committee on Legislation, comprising 8.
E. Parkill, of Owosso, Dr. G. J. Ward, of
St. Clair, and George Gundrum, of Ionia;
the Adulteration Committee, comprising
A. B. Stevens, of Ann Arbor, John D.
Muir, of Grand Rapids, and C. C. Sher-
rard, of Detroit; and the Research Com-
mittee, comprising J. O. Schlotterbeck,
of Ann Arbor, O. Eberbach, of Ann Ar-
bor, and A. C. Schumacher, of Ann Ar-
bor.
The committee which will receive the
members of the Association is: Harvey
C. Parke, W. C. Williams, F. Stearns,
Harvey Clark, John J. Dodds, John M.
Hinchman, E. Nelson, James E. Davis,
Chas. C. Hinchman, F. K. Stearns, H. P.
Williams, F. F. Ingram, John Wiiliam-
son, all of Detroit, and Hon. C. S. Hazel-
tine, of Grand Rapids, Prof. A. B. Pres-
cott, of Ann Arbor, and Thomas M.
Peck, of Grand Rapids.
The following local committees have
been created:
General Committee on Entertainment—
Frank Inglis, chairman; F. F. Ingram, J.
P. Reinfrank, John Williamson, F. W. R.
Perry, Harry Baker, F. D. Stevens, Jas.
Vernor, F. E. Bogart, W. H. Dodds, D.
Gray, W. D. Church, A. S. Parker, W.
B. Wendover and A. W. Allen.
Reception Committee—W. M. Warren,
chairman; Harry Baker, F. E. Bogart, S.
C. Stearns and A. S. Brooks.
Committee on Exhibits—A. Bassett,
chairman; C. N. Anderson, Chas. C.
Hinechman and F. A. Thompson.
Committee on Subscriptions and Tick-
ets—Wm. Dupont and W. H. Dodds.
Committee on Music—F. W. R. Perry,
A. S. Parker and Frank Inglis.
Committee on Games and Prizes—W.
D. Chureh, chairman; A. W. Allen, D.
Gray and F. D. Stearns.
Committee on Boat and Refreshments
—F. F. Ingram, chairman; Jas. Vernor,
W. H. Dodds, John Williamson and W.
B. Wendover.
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Every employer should encourage the
reading of good trade papers by his em-
ployes. What benefits them benefits
him, and the employe who does not
profit by the careful study of a paper in
his line is either very stupid or has
stumbled upon a very stupid paper.
mm
Use Tradesman Coupon Books.
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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.
Drug Department.
State Board of Pharmacy.
One Year—George Gundrum, Ionia.
Two Years—C. A. Bugbee, Charlevoix.
ThreeYears—S. E. Parkhill, Owosso.
Four Years—F. W.R Perry, Detroit
Five Years—A. C. Schumacher, Ann Arbor.
President— Fred’k W .R. Perry, Detroit.
£ecretary—Stanley E. Parkill, Owosso.
Vreasurer—Geo. Gundrum, Ionia.
Ooming Meetings—Detroit (Star Island), June 24;
Lansing, Nov 5.
Michigan State Pharmaceutical Ass’p.
President— A. 8. Parker, Detroit.
Vice-President—John E. Peck, Detroit.
Treasurer—W. Dupont, Detroit.
Secretavy—F. C. Thompson, Detroit.
Next Meeting—At Detroit, July 16, 17, 18 and 19.
Grand Rapids Pharmaceutica) Society.
President, John E. Peck; Secretary, B. Schrouder.
REPRESENTATIVE RETAILERS.
H. E. Parmelee, the Hilliards General
Dealer.
An amusing story is told of a country
clergyman who, while artlessly admitting
that his sermons were fair, never felt, he
said, that he had done his text or himself
justice unless he could begin with Adam
and work his way up. Then he was sure
of a sermon that would stand the test of
time. It is something like that in gath-
ering materials for these sketches of re-
presentative men. Unless we can begin
with the farm, we are not quite sure of
the work; but, sooner or later in the nar-
rative, we find ourselves with the towns
behind us and stopping at last at the
farmhouse, asleep under the apple trees,
where the representative man was born,
and where, if the fates were kind to him,
be was bred. With that fact fixed, the
rest follows, as a matter of course.
It was, then, no surprise to learn that
Mr. H. E. Parmelee, the prosperous gen-
eral dealer at Hilliards, was born ona
farm some thirty years ago. It was a
surprise to learn that his own unaided
exertions had been his only means of se-
curing the prosperity so plainly his (thus
early in life); and when, to the question
how it had been brought about—not hap-
pened—the old answer of hard work and
enough of it, was given, the old idea of
the farm as a nursery of successful men
came promptly to the surface to add its
interest to the annals of this busy life.
Those of us whose early years were
farm-biessed, need not be told how his
early life was spent. The old claims of
the wood-box—first a pleasure, then any-
thing but that—doubtless heads the list.
There were cows to go after at sunset,
and to drive to pasture at sunrise; and
then that round of daily work known as
‘“‘“chores’’—unremitting as they are end-
less—began to test the temper and so be-
gin the training of the future represent-
ative man. It is said, sometimes, that
there is nothing on a farm to bring out
the latent qualities of a sterling man-
hood, especially in its early years. I
will not argue the question. I prefer to
meet it as boyhood on the farm has to
meet it, and insist that the maker of the
statement shall turn the grindstone in
hay-time for the grinding of a new scythe
and tell me, when the grinding is over,
whether there is in the work anything to
drive home the truth that there is hard
work in the world to be done and that
each must have his share of it. I will set
him to picking stones where the crop is
abundant and, at nightfall, ask him, as
he compares what he has done with what
remains undone, whether the discourage-
ment experienced has its counterpart in
other and wider fields of the world’s
work: and, when that is done, I will let
him drive oxen from the rising of the sun
unto the going down of the same, and
have him tell me, then, whether farm life
has about it tendencies to bring out the
sterling qualities of manhood.
It was under such training that this
storekeeper at Hilliards passed his first
twenty-one years. Then, his own mas-
ter, he hired a farm of his father and,
with his young wife, began life a tiller of
the soil. Here, sorrow came and the first
half year of wedded life found him beside
his young wife’s open grave.
He finished the year on the farm and
then went home, where, after two years
more of farm life, he became convinced
that something better was waiting for
him in the world of trade. A clerk was
wanted in the nearest country store and
he supplied the want. A little experi-
ence in this new field of effort convinced
him that he had found his niche and,
with the faith which follows conviction,
he bought out his employer and at once
assumed control.
Where did you get your money, you a
boy of twenty-three, working on a farm—
enough of it to buy a store?
Listen, and don’t talk to me about a
farm’s being no place at all to bring out
the sterling qualities of manhood.
“O, Learned it. A fellow with a stout
back and wanting to get along in the
world will always find all he wants to do
onafarm. That’s the way it was with
me. I found out pretty early in life that
what a man gets he has got to work for
{what a life-lesson from the farm is
pounded into that!] and so I took off my
coat and sailed in. After I had earned a
dollar with my hoe, or my axe, or my
scythe, somehow it looked a good deal
bigger to me than other dollars did, and
I got into the notion of keeping ’em. I
liked the nice things you can buy well
enough, i’1] tell you that, but I tell you,
too, when a fellow has to work an hour
and a half hoeing potatoes for a dish of
ice cream, somehow he’d rather go with
out the ice cream. [Young fellows, put
that into your pipe and smoke it!] I
did, anyway; and so, after I had been in
the store for a couple of months and
found I could make it go, the owner
wanted to sell out and I concluded to
buy and did. That was something over
seven years ago. Some of the time it
has been rather rough sledding, but, when
such times come, all you have to do is to
brace up and go tight straight along
about your business. Vacation? Well,
once or twice, for a week, but when you
are at a thing and are in earnest you
don’t think of vacations.”’
Of course, there were ‘‘marriage bells
a-ringing’’ sometime after the store life
became a settled thing, and, of course,
there were little guests who came to
stay; and so the old farm lessons, trans-
ferred to another house and home, are.
doing what they can for another day and
generation.
If now I have been at all successful in
making prominent the leading traits of
this retailer’s life, the reader will not
fail to see how much has depended upon
work. Without that nothing has been
expected—nothing hoped for. Some
time in the old farm life, the idea of get-
ting on in the world came to the boy and
stayed. It was worth his while to strive
for it, and so, in season and out of sea-
son, the struggle began and continued.
It came to him one day that a penny
saved was as good as a penny earned,
and the saving, like the work, began and
continued. He found on the farm what
his store experience has proven again
and again, that the only way to be pros-
perous is to be honest. A farmer, who
turns over a big, red-cheeked apple to
hide a rotten speck, may chuckle at his
shrewdness on his way home; but the
specked apple has an uncomfortable way
of turning over at the wrong time, and,
once turned, tells its ugly story with a
distinetness which borders on the alarm-
ing. Surely honesty is the best policy
always and, when this is intimately as-
sociated in business with thoughtful work
and with a determination that opposi-
tion cannot check, there is but one result
and that finds an ample illustration in
the management of the store at Hil-
liards—a result which tells its own pleas-
ing story and furnishes its own convine-
ing conclusion. kK. &. S.
— _ 2 —_ —
A Typical Niagara Falls Hackman.
There is a new story out concerning
the reasonable kindness, amiability and
proverbial honesty of the Niagara Falls
hackman. Two tourists, a lady and a
gentleman, stopped off at the Falls be-
tween trains. A hackman engaged them
for a brief tour of sight-seeing. The
time actually consumed was fifty-five
minutes. The hackman said he must
have $10. The gentleman remarked that
it was an outrage. The driver explained
that he had been of great assistance in
pointing out the places of interest and
stood firm. The gentleman prepared to
pay under protest. Unfortunately for
himself, he handed the man a $20 Dill.
‘“‘Do you pay for the lady, also?’ asked
the hackman, promptly. ‘Dol pay for
the lady?” repeated his fare, in astonish-
ment. ‘Of course, I do. What do you
mean?” ‘*Then there will be no change,”
replied the hackman. ‘‘My charge of
$10 is for one person; $20 for two per-
sons. The amount you have handed me
is exactly correct. Thank you, sir.”
ee >_> © <-> —
Random Shots.
The skeleton alone of an
whale weighs twenty-five tons.
If a match is held to a celluloid bil-
liard ball, the ball will cateh fire and
burn.
Embrace every opportunity and you
have hugged to your breast the secret of
success.
Unfair competition will always con-
tinue to turn the grindstone for the fair
merchant.
average
Everyone bears his own burden except
the dead-beat. His grocer usually does
that for him.
Don’t love a woman for her beauty nor
a man for his prosperity. Both are sub-
ject to change.
There are 119,900,000 copper pennies
somewhere, but nobody knows what has
become of them.
if you are too good-natured you may
rest assured there will be no limit to the
things you will be allowed to do for
other people.
If the experiments now in progress
succeed, paper stockings sized with po-
tato starch and tallow will be put on the
market and sold at three cents a pair.
If grocers would spend more time in
educating their customers up to stand-
ard brands and less money in price-cut-
ting, they would have an easier time
holding trade and make more money.
The latest move on the part of the de-
partment stores in Brooklyn is rumored
to be the opening of milk routes. It is
rumored that an order has been placed
for the building of forty delivery
wagons, with which they will serve milk
from house to house.
There was nearly 33,000,000 barrels of
beer made and consumed in the United
States last year. Ata very low estimate
the retail cost of the same to the drink-
ers was $66,000,000, and about two-
thirds of this vast sum was profit to the
manufacturers and dealers.
A Western tanner who was comparing
his May business this year with that of a
year ago found that he had bought just
as many hides this year as last, but that
he had paid 100 per cent. more for them
than last year. While this condition
continues leather cannot decline.
There’s a lively telephone war now on
at Madison, Wis., between the Bell and
the Harrison companies. Rates have
been cut to $1.50 per month by both of
them, and there’s a likelihood of another
cut, for each company is after the other’s
scalp. The price charged by the Bell
people before the Harrison began the
fight was $6 per month.
‘ Qy M.E. Wadsworth,
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Wholesale Price Current.
Advanced—Linseed Oil.
Declined— Alcohol, Cocaine, Opium, Opium po.
AOIDUM,. ee. ie - snl = TINCTURES.
pee tae 8@ 10] Exec a... 7
ponsolouls German... 65@ 7 a. a, i 21 30 Aconitum Napellis B...... 60
eee aed . = Geranium, ounce... i @ 7 Aloes Se es 60
Citricum a4 | Gossipfi, Sem. gal..... 60@ 70 OF cal seecamestae --. ©
Hydrochior 5 | Hedeoma ............'1 s5qp1 40] Arnica ...................... 50
Nitrocum 12 fT ee Soe OD Aint 60
pemecee & a op | Limonis 0.0... 1 3001 50 “eer eee 60
Salicylicum ..........- 65@ 70 ane ga noseen sol Ee mV. =
Sulphuricum.... .. 1%@ 5 sc @ ae 50
Tannicum......--..--- -.1 40@1 60 Myrcia, of _— tenes 1 i % Gantiandas 2
Tartaricum.........-- 30@ 33 pda aa 90@3 00 | Capsicum .. 50
AMMONIA. Picts I Liguida, (gal. = = 3 Ca eee / a
—s. = 3 Romaarini...... 1 00 | Castor ...... +1 00
Casbonee .......-+-.++ 12@ 14 an ig te etee es —s ee =
Cheosidum ......-...-- 12@ 14 aanaee oe a 00 ‘“ Co ' 80
ANILINE. ee 2 50@7 00 | Columba .. 50
Sassafras. 50@ 55 | Conlum 50
BOBO non on one enn ee 2 00@2 25 wees Cubeba 50
1 09 | Sinapis, ess, ounce. SS i... .--: -°---------------
— teteeceeneed boas oo 50 ™ SN @1 00 Digitalis ee 50
alg a a adi a a
WOW .-.... neon ss 2 50@3 00 PB i ee. 50
BACCAB, "’heobromas......... 15@ 2! giaica ee 60
Cubeae (po 25)..--.. 20g 2% POTASSIUM. 6) ane ee
i oe ei Cer. ee I einete 50
Xanthoxylum ... 2@ 30] Biehromate........... 11@ 13 Hyoscyamus 50
BALSAMUM — st ee ete eee eee nm S Iodine SS eee ee %
i ar ' olorless. Le
Copaiba .......-.------ oe Chlorate (po. 1719) .- 16@ 18 Ferri Chloridum...........: 35
Terabin. Canada |... 45@ 50|fouide. 020000022 ‘2 99@3 0) Sep 20
ROOM ices eaten oe 50@ 55 | Potassa, Bitart, pure.. 24@ 26| Myrrh....................... 50
TEX Potassa, Bitart, com... @ 15 hg Voaaes 2... 50
bitte Potass Nitras, opt..... SB 0) Op ......................... co)
Abies, aati ' Potass Wie... :@ = : Camphorated CC . 2
Cammiae ......------2+++----° ee os, 2 ‘ ' Oem... 200
Cinchona Flava 0.01... 18 Sulphate po..... -.. 15@ 18} anrantiCortex...... ....... 50
etn Oeriters: POs... 20 BADIZ. ON ec eyes 50
aa... heen ........... Sa Me) ee +--+ - 50
Quillaia, grd.......--.---+-: 10 ee. ............-. 2B 25 Be a
Saseateas .......------------ 21 knee .............. Ia © . rr Go . 50
Dimus Po (Ground 15)...... 15 al gl See eedes cece “a = ae. cme
EXTRACTUM. Gentians (po, 12 ’ ig 10 oo eR pesecenee =
“ . bea... 1 25 wehrriien, (ov. 10).. 16 18) 20-oree-------------- «os
wage _ nee 0 35 ——_ Canaden, Valerian .............. -.... 50
Haematox, wei. box... HG = . .. @ 3 Voratrum Voride............ 50
ae case 1 14} He ean. Ala, n.... he @
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Carbonate Precip...... @ 15) Maranta, %s.. @ 35 “ground, (po.
Citrate and Quinia.... @3 50 Podophylium, ee se 8 3Q 4
Citrate Soluble........ ee Wet 00 | Annatio............... 40@ 50
Ferrocyanidum Sol... @ 50 " - ee @!1 7% | Antimoni, po.......... 4@ 5
golut Chloride ie i 75@1 35 et PotassT. 55@ 60
Sulphate, com'l. ad 9@ 21 Spig dia ee 353@ 38 a a @1 40
‘pare .. @ 7) Sanguinaria, (po 25).. @ 2| Antifebrin............. @ 15
ea Serpentaria........... 50@ 55 — Nitras, ounce = .
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Arnica -. wee cseceecesnes 4 a Similax, Officinalis. z @ # Balm Gileed Bud... 7s
Anthemis ..........--- 5 2.
Matricaria ce 1825 | Scfllae, (po. 85)........ 10@ 12 Calcium Chlor, 18, (48
POA — Foti- i... -..... eo 2
B 30 _o......_.. @ 3 caninarides Russian,
arose utitol, ‘Tin. valeriane, ene. (po. 30) m 6) o6 @1 00
— sa B erman... 15@ 20 onan Fructus,af... @ 15
nivelly ...;-- a 25 30 as; eas + 4 = “ i‘ a @ 15
peeree 7 ......... 2 “ “ po. @ ib
— Pg — _ ea 12@ 20 SEMEN. Caryophyllus, {po. 15) 10@ =
Ura Ural ..-, 8@ 1¢} antsum, (po. 20) @ 15| Carmine, No. ......- os
Cera Alba, 8. &F..... 50@ 55
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ae ' Cydenium——_....... 75@1 09 | Chloroform ...........
Aloe, Barb, (po. 60) = $0 | Chenopodiam 108 12] cnioral mate 34 = =
cope Cpe. ¢0) © @ 80 | Ditertx Odorate ...1 208° 00 | Chondrus........ ao 2
cenicuiam =—tiw«.sS(tié SCS | COMGrus......-......
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ce 56 6 Ceeaine...... ........ 5 Of@5 25
ammoiiie, (po 40; 350 oie — i $j | Cora, list, dis. per a
Benszo1num.. - Zo ne 4 51,0028 =
Camphor®......-..---- ee ee -4%@ 5 24
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Gamboge, pO... OM 2 Sere sia mo 1
Guaiacum, "po =) .- @ x | a
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Myrrh, 45) . : @ #0 ...1 BQ1 5 6
Opti (Pa, 00@3 20) ..1 S5@1 90 Juniperts Co. 0. T....1 65@2 00 10@ 12
Shellac . ee ee 1 75@3 50 T5Q 90
+ bleached - 4-@ 45} Ssacharum N. E...... 1 90@2 10 2@ 2
Tragacanth - 50@ 80 opt Vini “Galit.. oe 1 — = -— <
ASRBA—InD ounce packages. ini Oporto . "7°" Bape 00 PO 15
Absinthium 25 Viet Ae... «25... $3
Bupatorium..........-...... 20 SPONGES. 8 Oo
a lee eee uae yee = Florids sheeps’ woo! — ‘oor xno 60
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Mentha oa 2 Nassau eineeps’ wool sal Glaseware | Aint, by box 80.
os age .....--.---. Less
Dee aie sees eee wees 30 Glue, Brown......... 9 15
Tanacetum, Vo. -- B velvet 8 ao Loner 1 10 Wie 183Q 2
Thymus, V..........------- 25] pytra yellow" ‘sheepe’ Glycerina ............. 13@ 2
MAGNESIA. ries. ..--...--.- 85 os me... .... >
Cotstant, Pes... — — —— 65 Hydraag Chior 1 Mite.. @ 19
at zs _ ae 25 | Hard for glate use. 7% c aa a a @ $9
Je 5. 3¢ | Yellow Reef, for slate ubrum @
Carbonate, Jenning5. 35@ ee enn 1 40 “ A oniati. a 99
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Absinthium .... 2 50@3 00 SYRUPS. brine og Losec se c 65
Amygdalae,Dulc .. .. 30@ 50/ Accacia .........-....---+++ 50 thyobolla, Am.. . 1 mgt &
Amydalae. Amarae....8 00@8 25 | Zingiber ..........-.--++-+++ ee 5@
I ce eae sens 1 90@Z 00 | Tpecac............52..-2-0 00 60 lodine, Reme........ 3 80@3 90
Auranti Cortex....... 1 80@2 = erri a eee Cae ope . pan Set sen aueee. 43 =
3 00@3 ce eta te | | CN ee ete ied oes
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Curveuegiu..........- = = Similax ‘Ofticinalis.. ose = Liguor Arse ot Hy 70@ 75
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Coreneia ...... ...- HQ WO es aee eee = — Sulph .
Conium Mac......... wae 06 | Tesete ........-....---.-..- TE BRP erences cee tone
Copaiba ........ 80@ 90 ~~ 50! Mannia, 8. F.........- 63
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caeuan. 1% 2@3
Ochre, yellow Mars....1% 2@4
Berg 203
Putty, commercial....24% 24%@3
. ana, Basa bees 2% 2%@2
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nes &. P. ‘2 Ww. Snuff, Maccaboy, De
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‘1 10@1 20 Sulphur, Subl......... 24@ 3 Universal Prepared .
boxes oe... 2 @2% VARNISHES.
@1 25 | Tamarinds 10 | No. 1 Turp ei 10@1 20
: Terebenth Venice. oe Extra Tur rns oss O0C 20
Theobromae . a Coach Body........... 2 T5Q3 00
I eecsee ess 9 — 00 | No.1 Turp Furn...... 1 00@1 10
Zinci Sulph. g | Eutra Turk Damar....1 55@1 60
Japan Dryer, No. 7
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Whale, winter........ Zl
Lard, extra...... -
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Linseed, pure raw.
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Linseed, boiled.. ITS OWN FIELD.
Neat’s Foot, winter
stained |. 65 1 | Its Columns Bring RETURNS
SpiritsTurpentine.... 35 40 TO ADVERTISERS.
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Little Daisy Perfume Atomizer
No. 12, Magic Perfume Atomizer,
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Vaseline Atomizer
Valley City Oil Atomizer
No. 1, Magic Atomizer, long metal tube
No. 5, Magic Atomizer, straight and bent
adjustable pipes, with flexible rubber
tube
No. 25, Magic Atomizer, two adjustable
hard rubber throat and nasal tubes
No. 30, Magic Atomizer, four hard rubber
screw tips
No. 31, Magic
metal
Throat Atomizer
No. 32, Magic Nasal Atomizer
No. 33, Magic Atomizer, single hard rub-
ber tube, for toilet, throat or ordinary
uses i
No. 36, Magic Atomizer,for toilet purposes
No. 44, Magic Atomizer, with extra hard
rubber throat and nasal tips
No. 48, Magie Oil Atomizer,
hard rubber screw tips
No. 6 , Goodyear Atomizer, long metal tube
No. 2, Goodyear Atomizer, hard rub’r tube
No. 12, Star Atomizer, long metal pipe,
with inserted flexible rubber tube and
three hard rubber tips
No. 3, Ellis & Gottermann Water Oil At-
omizer, three tips
Valley City Throat Atomizer, long rubber
tube
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Above prices ou co:.pon books
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200 books or over.. 5 per cent
500 se . 10 “4
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COUPON PASS BOOKS.
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250 “ a 6 25
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CREDIT CHECKS,
500, any one denom’ n ...83 00
1000, ‘ 5 00
2000, se “ a 8 00
Steel punch 75
CRACKERS,
Butter.
Seymour XxX 6
Seymour XXX. cartoon.... 6%
Family Xxx =
Family XXX, cartoon .. 6%
Salted XXX _.
Salted XXX, cartoon -.
Boston. ... 6%
Sears’ Tea. . 6%
Soda.
Soda. XXX 6
Soda XXX.car on a
Soda, City 2
Sa Pao... —-....
Crystal Wafer -. 10%
Long Island Wafers io AE
Ovster.
S. Oyster XXX 6
City Oyster. KEx.... ... 6
Farina Oyster 8
Sweet Goods,
Iced Coffees oo. 9
Ginger Snap?. |
Graham Crackers —_.0
Oatmeal! Crackers
Pretzels o 8
Molasses Cake....... a
pecer Cake .............:. 75
DRIED FRUITS.
Domeatic.
Apples.
ere... ......-.. 6u
Evaporated. 50 Ib. boxes 7%
Apricots.
California in bags @7%
Evaporated in boxes. .. 8
Blackberries,
In boxes..
Nectarines.
70 lb. bags :
25 Ib. boxes ae 9
Peaches,
Peeled, in boxes : 14
Cal.evap. “ 9
' * in bare ... 8
Pears
~'ifornis t+ b Gly
California boxes ' TM
Pitted Cherries.
Recvcks.......
50 lb. boxes
2 oe a
Prunelles
sib. boxes . 9%
Raeprerries,
.2 barrel- 22
Wit. Soxte...... : 2
Bi * : ae 2%
Raisins.
Loose Muscatels ™ mam,
2 crown 3%
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nies pepeenenciata in 1 Bags
2 crown - a
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Foreign.
Currants.
Patras, biis........... . @z%
Vostizzas, Su lb. cases ..... 2%
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50 Ib, boxes Lee ue ue. 5
1llp. packages ooo ca
Peel.
Citron, Leghorn, ae boxes 12
Lemon !
Cranes ‘5 - “s ‘ss
10! Cracked..........
Raisins.
Ondura, 29 Ib. boxes. . @ 6
Sultana,20 ‘ -- 64@ 8
Vaiencia.30 ‘
Prunes.
California, ee 3%
90x100 25 Ib. bzs 54
_ 80x90 . ook
e aoe - 6%
‘“ x70 a
Silver
DISIN FECT ANT.
Zenoleum, 6 oz a 2 Ov
Zenoleum, qts. . . 408
Zenoleum, % gal. ee
Zenolcum, £a:..........-.. 120
FISH--Salt
Bloaters.
Varmouth............
Coa,
iGoormes Gured...........
Georges genuine ........ 5
Georges selected......... 5%
soneiess, DTiCKS.. ...... 6%
Boneless, strips.. ....... 6%@S
Halibut.
smoked . 11@12
Herrin ng.
Holland, white hoops keg 80
“we
11 60
Round, % bb! 100 Ibs...... 2 55
' ae Le. 1 30
i 13
Mackerel.
' : 12 00
5 50
1 35
9:00
3 9%
1%
Sardines.
Boetan, Kers.............. 55
Trout.
No. 1, % Dbis., 100ibs........ 4 25
me te One, Tee...... 06 1 %
Tee, 0, ee ee. ten eee 56
No 1, Sip rie ........... 48
Whitefish.
No.1 familly
% bbls, oS. “<2.
2 2
10 Ib. kits.. i a
8 Ib. = =
Pay P. APER
Regular Size.
Per box....38c. Percase..33 40
In 5 case lots, per case.... 3 30
In 10 case lo‘s, percase.... 3 20
“Little oe ”
Retails, ber box eee 25
.orts ner case
LARGE 81ZE
25 dbl. shts. in box, pr. bx. 8 38
Per case of 10 boxes.... 3 40
DWARF SIZE,
25 double shects in box,
Case of 10 boxes.
Case of 2) boxes
COMBINATION CASE.
5 boxes Large Decoy / $3 49
12 boxes Dwarf Decoy {
FA KINACKOUS GUODs.
Farina.
215 te. bees.....-..-.-...- 2%
Grits.
Walsh DeRoo & Co.’s..... 1%
Hominy.
BATTER .. ccvcgiccvcces 2
eee... 5... --. 26
Lima Beans.
— .........,......, 6
%
Maccaroni and Vermicelli.
Domestic, 12 lb. box.... 55
Paper... -...-...... 10%@11
Pear! Barley.
BOGPEIO. eee. By
I ies oe weed ies woor.. 2%
Peas,
Geeem, OG...............: 1M
meee Pere 4... ones 2%
Rolled Oats.
Schumacher, ae eS 84 60
m.. aa
Maeerce, POc............... 3 90
Moaarch, % bh... .... .. 2
Gmeker, cones...........,. 3 20
Crier BONG. tec us Oe
ee ee ee 22
Sago.
NE oka occas.) : 3
nes Ine... os... kos... 3%
Wheat.
; Mince meat, 3 doz. in case. 2 75
‘
FLAVORING EXTRACTS,
Souders’.
Oval Bottle, with corkscrew.
Best in the world for the money.
Regular
Grade
Lemon.
Regular
—,
Seos..... 2 40
XX Grade
Lemon,
aos..... $1 50
oon... 3 00
XX Grade
Vanilla,
7... 7 75
eon, .... 3 50
Jennings.
=e Vanilla
2 » regular — 1 20
40 ak 2 00
6 = c ..2 00 3 00
No. 3 taper .. 13 2 00
No. 4 taper..... 2 50
GUNPOWDER.
Rifle—Dupont’s.
=~ Pie eh orbs eg eee. 3 25
eee See 1 90
uester Zees.......... A
1 i> GCame...... 2
i toe... 18
Choke Bore—Dupont’s
—. _ =
eS -.2 40
Gusrter wees... ........ i=
Tipcens...... 34
Eagle Duck—Dupont’s,
Rae. ae
Half a
(renreer wOes....... .......
i es
HERBS,
oe ence eee ce eeen eres 15
Tok oc cece see ees. oe 15
INDIGO.
Madras, Sib. boxes.......
8. F., 2,3 and 5 lb. boxes.. 50
JELLY.
- 1b. ete.......-...
* *
LYE,
Condensed, ? - Seen ae 1 20
Oe. aces 2 2
MINCE MEAT.
Pie Prep. 3 doz. in case....2 7
MATCHES.
Columbia Match Co.’s Brands,
Columbia Parior..........- = .
3X Suipner........... ..
Diamond Match Co.’s Brands,
No. 9 suiphur ee
Aue pare. ....-......-- i 70
Re. tae --.--.... 110
Export parlor ieee
MEASURES.
Tin, per dosen.
1 gailon 7
Halt gallon. 40
~ 70
io is 45
Half OE is el aes 40
—— for vinegar, per ~~
Hult gallon 000022. °." 4%
Let can cdl sew cuenl alee 3 75
~y ‘oe hay eel ee 2
THE MICHIGAN
TRADESMAN.
MOLASSES.
Blackstrap.
Sugar house.. a 14
Cuba “Baking.
Ordinary - it
Porto =
PD on ss veces : 2
Fancy aU
New Orleans
_— Bee ee ce eee tease 18
oak eee. tanee 22
— OE. oie ote os. on 2
(aeeee . cc... 32
Fancy... --- . 40
Half -barrels 3c.extra
PICKLES.
Medium.
Barrels, 1,200 Count... @4 2%
Half bbls, 600 count. @2 63
Small.
Barrels, 2,400 count 5 50
Half bbis, 1,200 count 3%
PIPES.
Clay, N ec. 12
= D. full count...... 70
Gen Me. €....--.--..... . -.1 20
POTASH,
48 cans in Case.
Hebets ...5-...5....-.-- 4 00
Penna Salt Co.’8...... -.. £0
RICE,
Domestic.
Carolina a 5%
No. 1 5
MeN. cues. te
Japan, No.1.... ..-..-----++- 5%
“ No
SOMO... so... <<
Allispice
Cassia, China in mats...... =
o Batavia in bund..
. Saigon in rolls...... “3
Cloves, — eee er
meer..... il
Mace mania ect. oe A
Nutmegs, a ee 65
_ OS dace caie es 60
- Pe s..... .55
Pepper, singapore; black. 10
il “20
. aoe. .. ....-..- 16
Pure Growid in Bulk,
Allspice Dee ee
Cans! a, “Batavia. oe 18
and Saigon .25
“ Heigon .........--.. 35
Cloves, —_—- oo 2
° Zansiper...... 18
yes African ee 16
jocnin...... 7
. fee a : . aa
Mace Batavia.. 65
Mustard, eee and Trieste... 22
— roa 7135
Nutmegs, No. 2 12
Pepper, Singapore, black. ...16
me... 124
" nn. a
Sees. ... se a
*‘Absolute” in Packages.
igs a
Allaios .... 6... a
Cieeeen ....... .... 2 £m
Cieeee .._......-..-... 84 155
Ginger, Jamaica...... 84 155
C Atees.....-..- 84 155
ee 84 155
Pogoer ...............- & 155
oo... i =
STARCH.
Kingsford’s Corn.
20 1-lb packages 6%
40 1-lb 64%
Kingsford’s Silver Gloss.
40 i-Ib. penne _o+ OM
eee | Te
Common ‘Corn
20-1b boxes idee 5%
oe 5%
Common Gloss
eee oe
3-lb ee pea cea 5
6-1b Oe eee eee 5%
40 and 50 Ib. boxes.. «ss Ok
oe ws 33
SODA,
hie eceeekia scenes ee 5
Fag a 4%
SALT.
Diamond Crystal.
Cases, 243 Ib. boxes..... 8160
Barrels, — ON eee ee 2 50
oe 4 00
" OS ib . 2a
c =e ” oo
Butter, or) Oeen...-..... 65
29Gb baee.....-..- 3 50
« 20 bee ........ 2
._ = - ...-.... 2 25
Worcester.
115 a: -lb Sacks Lees Weasel #410
ae 3¢
0 10.1b howe. suo
Wk can cues 3 30
0 oe... . 280
8 ib sacks. — . 2%
linen acks.... Lown: oe
ae ¢ Grades.
100 3-lb. sacks.. & 10
etm. * 1 90
28 10-Ib. sacks... 1
Warsaw.
56 lb. dairy in drill bags.. 30
28 Ib. “ ou“ ee i i6
Ashton.
56 lb. dairy in linensacks.. 45
ns.
56 Jb, dairy in , sacks 75
Soiar Roc:
5H lu. sacks. ; 22
Common Fine.
pone clededcewesse-
SEEDS.
Pe Se SG Ts @13
Canary, Smyrna....... 4
Caraway .......... .
Cardamon, Malabar.. 80
Hemp, Russian 4
Mixed Bird .. 4%
Mustard, white ...... 9
reer ......-..- i. 8
Rape Scone. 4%
Cuttle bone.. a a)
SNUF F.
Scotch, in bladders..... os)
Maccanoy, in jers........... 35
French ppee, in Jars... . 43
SALERATUS
Packed 60 lbs. in box.
Church’s 3 30
Detemare ............... 3 15
Dwight’s.... .. a
een we 3 00
SOAP.
Laundry.
G. R. Soap Works Brands.
Concordia, 100 % Ib. bars...3 50
a 5 box lots.......3 35
e 10 box lots.......3 3
° 20 box lots.. 3 20
Best German Family.
60 1-lb. Dare... .- 2
ee LS a6
25 box fots..... . a
Allen B. W risley” s Brands.
Old Country, 80 1 1.
Good Cheer, 60 1 ib eee 3 90
White Borax, 100 &ib...... 3 65
Proctor & Gamble.
Comeena. ...............4,.. 3 4
iyvery, 10 Of... ...........-- 6 %
co. .......... 400
lonen. ...... ........... 3 65
Mottled German.. a. oe
Towe Toe ................. ss
Dingman Brands.
Single box.. ...-...-....-- 3 %
5 box lots, deiivered.. . 3 85
10 box lots, delivered...... 3%
Jas. S. Kirk & Co.’s Brands
American Family, wrp 4..8 33
pla... 2 27
N. K. Fairbank & Co.'s —
Sante Claus........
Brown, On pees .........,.. 2 10
So bars ..... . 3 10
Lautz Bros. & Co.'s Brands,
WS i cw 3 65
Cotton Oi).... Looe, 6 00
ee 4 00
wae. ............. ..... £8
Thompson & Chute Co.’s Brands
Biiver ... .. a. oe
5
Mono ie ce sac ees © Oe
Savon in proved 2 50
2 80
Goluen 32
»
Eec om.cal a
Henry ree 8 Brand.
box lots, del
Atlas,5 . $83 60
Scouring
Sapolio, kitchen, 3 doz... 2 40
. hana? 7Os....... 2 40
SUGAR.
Below are given New rot*
prices on sugars, to which the
wholesale dealer adds the lo-
cal freight from New York to
your shipping point, giving
you credit on the invoice for
the amount of freight buyer
ays from the market in which
he purchases to his shipping
point, including 20 pounds for
the weight of the barrel.
Domine. ..................
Cat LOE. .... 2 ne ons 6 3l
UC eee 9
Powdered ...........
Zax aaa
Granulated 2
Fine Granulated..........- 4 62
Extra Fine Granulated... 4 7o
Mase A ...........-..-..- 494
Diamond Confec. A....... 4 6.
Confec. aera A. _.
We Fac. oe 437
eee 437
we Sf... 25
No.2 “ “ “ ‘ “ “ ls 25,
XXX Flint.
No. ¢ St un, crimp top, wrapped and labeled 2 to
No. - 2 2
No. 2 “ec “se “s ‘6 a 80
Pear! top.
-_ 1 Sun, wrapped and lapeled.... 3 7
oO. = . “ee a
No. 2 Hinge, ‘‘ - . ; a
! Fire Proof—Plain ~_
No. 1, Sun, plain bulb Le nee 2
—s.hlUlmUlUS ee. 4 40
La Bastie.
No. 1 Sun, plain bulb, per doz 1A
No. 2 " 1 50
No. 1 crimp, per dos. 1 3
a 1 AC
i tochester.
No. 1, lime (@e des) .......... 3 50
Na © thee (0edar).......-.s#ss«C#s 4 00
No. 2, flint (80¢ doz).. 470
i Elect! tric.
No.2, lime (70e doz) a 4
No. 2 fiint (oc dos) ...... 4 40
Miscellaneous,
Doz.
a eee ..........,.....,.. .... ‘ =
Nutmeg. ee cen eee
[luminator Bases. . ee ‘1 00
Barrel lots, 5 doz 9u
7 in, Porcelain ie 1 v0
Coscia fda... wo
Mammoth Chimneys for! — Lamps.
No. 3 Rochester, lime . 1 5 ca
No. 3 Rochester, tint. _1& 4 SU
No. 3 Pearl top or Jewel gl’s.1 85 5 25
No. 2 Giobe incandes. lime...1 75 > ld
No. 2 Giobe Incandes. flint...2 Ou 5 8
Do 2 Peer che... .........2 © 6 Ww
OLL CANS.
Doz
I gal tin cans with spont..... .... 1 wW
1 gal galv iron, with spout..... 2 00
2 gal galv iron with spout : 3 25
3 gal galv iron with spout. 450
5 gal McNutt, with spout......... 6 0
5 gal Eureka, with spout. 6 50
5 gal Kureka ‘with faucet..... _ - 7 00
5 gal galviron A & W in i 50
5 gal Tilting Cans, Monarc h.. . WS
5 gal galv iron Nacefas.. 9 OU
Pump Cans,
3 eal Romeruie . -... 1G 50
5 gal Home Rnle..... .. 2 a
3 gal Goodenough........ 2 2 0
5 gal Goodenough 13
5 gal Oe 1”
LANTERN GLOBES.
No. 0, Tubular, Cases 1 duz. eac a. 45
No 45
No. 0, bbls 5 > 4"
No. 0, _ bull’s eye, cases 1 doz eweh.i 25
LAMP WICKS,
Na. t, per groms.......
e
EE eee
7 2, ‘
No. 3, i
Mammoth, per doz..
JELLY TUMBL ane Tin Top.
1 Pints, 6 doz in box, per box (box 00). 60
4 24 “bri, ° dow (bbl 3) 2b
_ 5 ‘tea, * box (bex 0) .. 1 su
— * nm apbL ““ doe (bor 3)..... 23
STONEWARE—AKKHON.
Butter Crocks, Ete¢egal.... O06
% gal. " doz. 60
Jugs, e gal., per dioz.. . 7
o4 gal. , per gal.. oF
Miik on wy gul., per dos. bu
“a “ 1 72
STONEWARE—BLACK @LAZED,
Butter Crocks, 1 and 2 gal...... i ' 6%
Milk Pairs, % gal. per doz.... 65
se 1 os ir 7
FRUIT JARS.
Mason—oid styic, pints?........... .........3%
ee Zt %
half — ee 9%
Mason —_1t dow. in cuse, pints... -.. -...-.- 7 BO
quarts. a 8 Ou
half gal llons.. 10 «0
Dandy—glass cover, pints.. 10 50
quarts - a 11 OU
half gallons. 14 00
OILS,
The Standard Oil Co quotes as follows:
BARRELS.
Eocene. ee 10 4
XXX W. W. Mich. —— eae 9
Naptha.. : ae G@ 9%
Stove Gasoline.......-. ...... oo. G@li%
Cyraer.- «._ ee oe
——. ee... 2 G@2I
ao soe... uly
Black, summer. 834
FROM TANK WAGON.
Bocene.......- 9
Tx W. W. Mic h. Headlight. ..... 7
Scofield, Shurmer & Teagle quote as follows:
BARRELS.
Palacine. .... .-.. .-.-.- 11%
Daiay White. ......-.-.....---....--. 1%
Red Cross, W W “Hleadlight. ey 9
Wapima....... -.-.--.....-... 9%
Stove Gasoline.......- 11%
FROM TANK WAGON,
10
Palas. ceo
Red Cross W W Headlight.... .... ..
SUCCESS FROM FAILURE.
Necessary Lessons Taught by Bright
Careers.
From the New York Press.
Here is a message for all men, young
and old, who are striving with sincere
purpose to wrest the prize of success
from an indifferent, because a very busy
world:
‘Do not be discouraged because of one,
or even more than one, failure in the bat-
tle for suecess. Be prepared for your
chance when it comes to you, whether it
seems to promise great or only moderate
rewards, and when you have begun the
work of taking advantage of the chance
never stop till you have won.”
Every successful man will indorse this
message; every student of humanity
knows of its truth; it is taught by the
lives of hundreds of the great men of the
past. Take the career of General Grant,
for instance, whose name will always
shine in the galaxy of greatest Ameri-
cans, for the reason that he was not dis
couraged by failure—an element in his
character concerning which Bishop New-
man, of the Methodist Church, who is
shortly to go to Europe on an important
mission, delights to talk to his friends.
Nearly everyone knows of the military
achievements of the heroof Chickamauga,
but how many think of the buffetings the
silent soldier had to endure before his
chance to become the savior of tbe Union
came to him? It was after the Mexican
war that he met with circumstances that
would have discouraged almost any other
man. Who but Grant, during the dreary
years when he was living on the Dent
farm in a log house near St. Louis, could
have maintained that supreme faith in
himself that was finally justified? Dur-
ing that period almost all his cash income
was derived from the sale of firewood,
which he cut with his own hands and
hauled to market in the city, where he
sometimes had to stand for hours on the
street corner waiting for a purchaser.
After that he went to Galera, Ill.,
where he was employed at most meager
wages in his father’s leather establish-
ment, and where, though he was consid-
ered well enough in his way, it was
never dreamed that he was a man likely
to make any sort of mark in business,
polities, or, least of all, in war. The
first of his chances came when it was de-
cided to hold a meeting to indorse the
movement to prevent the disruption of
the Union, and he was asked to preside
because he bad been a lieutenant in the
Mexican war. He saw a further chance
in the coming conflict, and he took it,
too, by offering his services to the Gov-
ernment. They were accepted, but no
oue wanted him and he was not assigned
to any command for many days. Mc-
Clellan had no use for the unassuming,
quiet-looking tanner from Galena, and
he was sent to Indianapolis, where for a
short time he was set at clerical work.
He took the small chance offered to him
to work at the records of the military de-
partment then and did his work well.
By and by there was a call for a man to
command a regiment somewhere in the
southwest that no one else wanted.
Some one said: ‘‘Why not send Grant
there? He wants active service, he says,
and it is likely he’ll get all he wants
there. Besides, he may make a success
of it. He is really a very competent
clerk, hard working, persistent and pa-
tient.’’
So to Ulysses S. Grant was given
charge of the regiment that no one
wanted, and though no one suspected it,
probably Grant as little as anyone, that
was the first step toward the beginning
of the end. Grant made good soldiers of
the troops, and when the time was ripe
he took Paducah with them, greatly to
the amazement of certain officers, who
had snubbed the tanner from Galena
when he was knocking about from
pillar to post in search of his chance.
Grant was not a young man then; in fact,
as he was born in 1822, and Paducah
was captured in 1861, he was thirty-nine
years old. Till then his life had been a
failure and he was taunted with this in
the press and on the platform. There
were those who insisted that he was a
failure then and afterward, all through
the Civil war, indeed; but the facts and
the estimation of a grateful Republic are
all the other way. Certainly the achieve-
ments of General Grant should teach the
lesson that there is never a time when a
man can afford to be discouraged.
A WORD FROM MR. HEWITT.
There is no one in New York who
preaches this doctrine more logically or
more convincingly than Abram S. Hewitt,
ex-Mayor, ex-Congressman,and thorough-
ly successful man of affairs.
‘The world is full of successful men,”
he said to the writer a day or two ago,
looking up from a desk that was covered
with work, ‘‘who were not able to count
themselves as such until they had made
more than one failure. But itis not easy
to define the word success. Some men
give up the opportunities that come to
them to make phenomenal material suc-
cess, in order to devote themselves to
what they consider higher things. Mr.
Edward Cooper and myself have been in
the iron business for many years. We
began in a small way, applied ourselves
to the work, and soon had the satisfac-
tion of seeing our business grow, and
growrapidly. We never took any money
out of it, for we had other means of sub-
sistence. The business came, in time, to
be the largest of its kind in the country
It was valued at $5,000,000. But we have
lived long enough to see it just about
where it was when we began with it, so
far as profit is concerned.
‘*To be sure, we have a period of ex-
traordinary activity to look back upon,
during which we have done a very large
business, during which we have also em-
ployed many men in times of depression
as well as times of prosperity. We have
never missed a pay-roll and never failed
to meet our obligations, and at one time
we were a large amount ahead, but, as |
have said, we are now where we began in
the iron business. Now would you call
that suecess?
“Success, as the word is generally ap-
plied, is as likely to come at one time as
another in a man’s life, and is not less
likely to be ultimately reached because
of previous early failures. In fact, the
man of brains and determination is pretty
sure to learn something from every fail-
ure, and therefore to be able to more cer
tainly grasp the next good chance that
comes along. Almost any man of intel-
ligence and force may command success.
Young men should not lose sight of that
nor become discouraged because of one
or a dozen unsuccessful ventures. Yet I
have known men who possessed the chief
elements of success—intelligence, good
habits and industry in remarkable degree
who were not successful. ‘Luck’ was
against them all theirlives. Their fail-
ures could be explained on no other
ground.
“One of the best instances of success
through many trials was Peter Cooper.
Another was Goodyear, the inventor of
vulcanized rubber. The story of Robert
Bruce is familiar to every schoolboy, and
they all teach that, so long as oue has
health, there is never a timein any man’s
life when he is justified in giving up in
discouragement.”’
HOW PETER COOPER SUCCEEDED.
Peter Cooper’s success—a success that
has left a monument in the shape of
Cooper Union, the people’s school, the
people’s meeting place—was won by the
hardest sort of struggling. He first, asa
boy, worked in his father’s hat shop and
thenin a brewery. Then, at seventeen,
he started in to learn the coachmaker’s
trade. Although he was offered a part-
nership with his employer, he declined,
rather than go into debt, but continued
at his trade watching for his chance.
This came to him in 1812—he was born in
1791, and the centennial of his birth was
duly celebrated here three years ago—
when the war with Great Britain broke
out. Our ports were closed to foreign
manufacturers and there was a great de-
mand for native textiles. Cooper in-
vented a machine for shearing rough
cloth, and, there being a demand for the
contrivance, made some money before
the close of the war. When the last gun
had been fired the demand was no more,
but with the beginning of capital that he
had acquired Cooper turned his factory
into a cabinet shop. Then he entered
the grocery business, but finally aban-
OANDIES, FRUITS and NUTS
The Putnam Candy Co. quotes as follows:
STICK CANDY.
Cases Bbis. Pails.
Standard, por ib......... 5 .
- ..:.... ace 6 7
: a 6 .
Boston Cream............ 8%
a. eee... 8
aa |
MIXED CANDY.
Bbls. Patis
een. 5% 6%
Rc 5 7
= Sieben ch apes pends eee 6% 1%
ae 8
aon oo. 7 8%
ree 6 7%
eee eeey.............. baskets
Peanut Squares............ - ¢ 8
Peewee eee... 8. 9
oe oOo... 12%
eee Sie heekes... .....
ee
rancy—lIn bulk
Pails
ore eee 8%
. = oe cette ees ee 9%
eo 11@12
Chocolate Momumentals.....................
oo ...................- 5
ae... 7%
Sour Drops. eae
ee 9
FaNOoY—lIn 5 Ib. boxes. ver Box
eee 50
Sour —— Me ee ce ee eee eee cee. peer eee 50
Peppers Trope.................. ae
eee
a, oe Ceeoeeeee Drees... ke
ee ane 35@50
Licorice Dro ko
A. BM. teeeetes Deepe................
OE 60
. i eee wl 65
ee... 60
oe a
co ee ie 55
eee... .:tCtCiCSCC 50
Hand Made Creams..... - BI
ee... -63@80
ore 90
ee ee. ft t0
EE Ek -. W@1 25
Petes Sores C8.
CARAMELS.
Mo. 1, wrapped, 2%. bomes....... ......... 34
No. 1, 3 CS 51
NN 28
ORANGES,
ee 3 2%
i 3 2
LEMONS.
Sather eC 5 50
Pancy 3 ...... ol eons oe 1a i oecuce ae
autre Morey 25)... , 6 oe
ores, we... 5 50
ae 6 00
BANANAS.
Eeree bees... .., 5... ee Oe
oe 1 25@! 50
OTHER FOREIGN FRUITS.
Pics, tamcy layers 16 ................ 13
" - a ae...
“ ext _ ee
es. ° 6%
Bates, Peed 17m Oee.................. @i%
ete a EE eS @5
' Persian. G.M.5U lb box..... @ 4%
NUTS.
Te qm 14
ae. ....... ee ae
California, soft shelled oe
Brasils, new..... es @8
ee @10
Walnuts, Grenoble ..... : @15
. ee ee @
_ oe Bee @12
stg Soft Shetied Calif............. @13
Ee @i1
ee ee. @?2
Pocems, Teams, H. F., ......... 8 @ll
re
Hickory Nutsper bu., Mich.........
Cocesmuts, fail ageks............. ..... 3 65
essere ber er $.
Bleck Walnuis, per bu. ......... ......
PEANUTS.
Panes, U. P..Game Cocks ............. @5%
. . * Koasted.... ; @i7
Fancy, H. P., Association . @ 5%
. - eee... |. e Q7
Chotes, 1. P., Bxtras............... ——_ 2a
' . eee oo. @é
FRESH MEATS.
BEEF.
CATCABB..... 00 csece-scee sees : @7
Fore quarters....... o %@ 4
ee a... @9
Lote me. S........2. i " @il0
ae. 8 @12
Reames .....,... ee hee ce ee pe 64@ 7%
CHUCKS ..0-c-ccee,....- - eee oscs ee
PN ee none «++. 34@ 4
PORK.
eee ee 5 @5%
Loins...... Cee eee ec are eae
eee ee 7
Loe eee... oo. dee 8
MUTTON.
NE ee 54%@ 6%
creme OS. se ee
VEAL.
Ceres .......... ‘ -- 5% @ 6
eee ere
June 16, I895
CHICAGO
AND WEST MICHIGAN R’Y.
GOING TO CHICAGO.
Ly. G’d Rapids 6:00am 1:25pm *6:30pm *11:30pm
Ar. Chicago ..12:05pm 6:50pm 6:(0am * 6:25am
‘ — FROM CHICAGO.
av. vet, ys ee EES 7:2Cam 5:00pm *11:45pm
Ar. Gd Rapids........ 12:40pm 10:40>m *6 30am
TO AND FROM MUSKEGON,
Ly. Grand Rapids...... 6:00am 1:25pm 6:30pm
Ar. Grand Rapids...... 11:30am 5:15pm 10:40pm
TRAVERSE CITY. CHARLEVOIX AND PETOSKEY.
Ly. Grand Rapids.. *8:00am 1:00 :
Ar. Manistee ‘AS 12:55pm -
r. Traverse City.... *1:20pm 4:50 :00
Ar. Charlevoix...... *3:50pm 6:30pm 6:30am
Ary. Petoskey..... *4:20pm 6:55pm 7:00am
Trains arrive from north at 5:3) am, 11;45am,
1:00 pm, *1: :30 pm,
PARLOR AND SLEEPING CARS,
Parlor Cars leave Grand Rapids 6:00 am, 1:25
pm: leave Chicago 7:20 am, 5:00 pm. Sleeping
Cars leave Grand Rapids *11:30 pm; leave Chi
cago *11:45 pm. :
_*Every day. Others week days only
DETROIT, Oct. 28, 1894
LANSING & NORTHERN R. BR.
GOING TO DETROIT.
Ly. Grand Rapids...... 7:00am 1:20pm 5:25 m
Ar. Detroit... .........11:408m 5:30pm 10:10pm
i ddaraaaate FROM DETROIT.
- See. 7:40am = 1:1¢ :
Ar. Grand Rapids......12:40pm oe octee
TO AND FROM SAGINAW, ALMA AND 87, LOU
Lv. GR 7:40am 5:00pm Ar. G R.11:35ain 10:45pm
Sepernn ae FROM LOWELL.
.o ee... 7:00am 1:20 22
Ar. trom Lowell........__ 12:40pm 5:20e _—
THROUGH CAR SERVICE.
nueteen = oe between Grand Rap
etroit. arlor ca S -
on r to Saginaw on morn
Trains week days only.
GEO. DEHAVEN, Gen. Pass’r Ag*t.
MIGHIGAN CENTRAL
“*T1e Niagara Falls Route.’
Arrive. De
10 20Dm........ Detroit Express ........ 7 Oa m
5 30am........ *Night Bxpress........11 20pm
1 om... New York Express...... 6 00pm
Ps 9s All others — except Sunday.
ping Cars runon all night trains
from Detroit. ” ee
: — a — for Detroit at 7:00am; re
urning, leave Detroit 4:35 pm, arrivin ;
Rapids 10:20 p m. . chinese
Direct communication made at Detroit with
all through trains eest over the Michigan Cen-
tral Railroad (Canada Southern Division.)
A. ALMQUIST, Ticket Agent,
Union PassengerStation.
ETROIT, GRAND HAVEN
D WAUKEE Railway. oo
EASTWARD.
Trains Liave ,tNo. 14)tNo. 16)tNO. 18;*No.
G@’d Rapids, Lv} 6 45am 10 20am| 3 25pm /|11 00pm
Ionia ........Ar) 740am|1125am| 427pm/1235am
St. Johns ...Ar| 8 25amj1217pm/ 520pm| 1 25am
Owoas...... Ar! 900am| 1 20pm! 605pm) 3 10am
E, Saginaw..Ar \1u 50am} 3 45pm! 8 00pm) 6 40am
Bay City ..... Ar }1]1 30am) 435pm) § 37pm) 7 15am
was .....:.. Ar}10 05am! 345pm/ 7 05pm} 5 40am
Pt. Huron...Ar|1205pmj 550pm} 8 50pm) 7 30am
Foutiec .._.. Ar |1053am)} 305pm| 8 25pm] 5 37am
Dewokt....... Ar}1150am| 405pm)} 925pm} 7 00am
WESTWARD.
For Grand Haven and Intermediate
Perse... 5. *8:40 a. m.
For Grand Haven and Muskegon..... +1:00 p. m
- ws - ‘* Mil. and Chi... 45.35 p. m.
For Grand Haven, Mil. and Chi...... *7:40 p.m
For Grand Haven and Milwaukee....+10:05 p. m,
+Daily except Sunday. *Daily.
Trains arrive from the east, 6:35 a.m., 12:60
p.m., 5:30 p, m., 10:40 p.m.
Trains arrive from the west, 6:40 a, m. 8:15
a.m. 10:10 a. m. 3:15 pm. and 7:05 p. m.
Eastward—No. 14 has Wagner Paricr Buffet
car. No. 18 Parlor Car. No.82 Wagner Sleeper.
Westward— No.11 ParlorCar. No. 15 Wagner
Parlor Buffet car. No. 81 Wagner Sleeper.
Jas. CAMPBELL, City Ticket Agent.
Grand Rapids & Indiana R. R.
Schedule in effect June 23, 1895,
NORTHERN DIV. Lv Ar.
Saginaw and Cadillac........ +7 00am = t11 30am
Trav. Cy. Petoskey & Mack....*8 00am +5 25pm
Trav.Cy.Petos.&Harbor Sps...+1 40pm +10 15pm
Saginaw and Reed City....... +4 45pm +11 00pm
Petoskey and Mackinaw..... +10 45pm + 6 20am
800 am train has parlor cars for Traverse City and
Mackinaw. 140 pm train has buffet parlor car for Har-
bor Springs. 1045 pm train has sleeping cars for Pe-
toskey and Mackinaw.
SOUTHERN DIV. Lv. Ay.
Cin., Ft. Wayne & Kalamazoot 7 2am + 9 15pm
Ft. Wayne and Kalamazoo...+ 2 15pm + 1 30pm
Cin., Ft. Wayne & Kalamazoo* 6 00pm * 6 50am
Berens. .........: *11 40pm * 9 20am
725 am train has parlor car to Cincinnati. 6 00 pm
train has sleeping cars to Cincinnati, Indianapolis and
Louisville.
CHICAGO TRAINS.
Lv. Grand Rapids...+7 23am +2 15pm *11 40pm
Ar. Chieeee.......... 240pm 9 05pm 7 10am
215 pm train hasthrough coach. 1140 pm train has
through coach and sleeping car.
Ly. Chitage.......- +6 50am +3 00pm *1i 30pm
Ar. Grand Rapids... 1 30pm 9 15pm 6 50am
300 pm train has through coach and 1130pm has
through coach and sleeping car.
MUSKEGON TRAINS.
Ly.Gd.Rapidst7 25am +1 00pm {8 30am +5 £0pm
Ar.Muskegon 850am 210pm 9 55am 7 0>pm
Ly.Muskegont9 13am +12 05pm +6 30pm + 4 05pm
Ar.Gd.Rapids10 30am 115pm 7 5dpm 520pm
+ Except Sunday. * Daily. {Sunday only.
A. ALMQUIST, c. L, LOCKWOOD,
Ticket Agt. Un, Sta. Gen. Pass.& Tkt.Agt.
——
doned it and went to making glue and is- .
inglass. Peter Cooper’s glue factory is still
in operation, and with it he secured the |
nucleus of what was afterward a great | best sense, and he became so because he
fortune. It was not until 1830, howerer,
when he was thirty-nine years old, that
Mr. Cooper began the manufacture of
iron, establishing works at Canton, Ind.
When the Baltimore & Ohio railroad
was laid out, it was Peter Cooper who
built the first locomotive for the line,
and this was the first locomotive ever |
built in the United States. It was of
only one horse-power, and on its work-
ing depended, in some measure, the con-
tinuance of the road’s construction and
the contract with Mr. Cooper for the iron.
For this reason he ran the engine him-
self on the trial trip. In order to keep
the steam pressure up, he had to hold
the safety valve down with his own
hands, to the entertainment of a jeering
erowd; but Mr. Cooper was struggling
with a chance for the success of his iron
business. He proposed to win, and he
did win by recognizing the situation and
acting accordingly. Never once in his
long and eventful life did he become dis-
couraged; never once did he let the
chance that came to him pass by. He
was engaged in nine different occupa-
tions during his career, and his life his-
tory should serve as a leading example
to all struggling young men.
GOODYEAR’S FRUITFUL FAILURES.
The life of the inventor of vulcanized
rubber, who was mentioned by Mr.
Hewitt, was a most remarkable series of
failures—failures that never caused dis-
couragement, and that were crowned
with success that unhappily came so late
that the man who won it had hardly time
to enjoy it.
Chatles Goodyear was the son of
Amasa Goodyear, of New Haven, who
first made hay forks of steel instead of
wrought iron. The boy was brought up
as the son of a well-to-do manufacturer
should be, and when he became a man
entered his father’s business as a part-
ner. When he was thirty, however, the
business broke up, and Charles found
himself a poor man. The development
of the India rubber industry had just be-
gun, and therein Mr. Goodyear thought
he discovered his chance for winning
suecess. This was in 1830, and then and
for some years thereafter there was a
state of excitement concerning the gum
of the caoutchoue tree scarcely less re-
markable than the gold fever and the oil
craze of later years. ‘The great thing
was to learn how to treat the gum so that
it would bear the heat of summer. Good-
year set about solving this problem. He
had to borrow what money he used in
his experiments, his family was in con-
stant want, he had to move from place
to place, and he was several times
thrown into prison for debt.
It was not until 1835, when he com-
bined the gum, magnesia and quicklime,
that there was a gleam of success ob-
tained, but the product which promised
so well was bound to yield to weak acids
like vinegar. A year later he combined
nitric acid and rubber gum, a partner with
money was found, a factory was secured
on Staten Island and astore on Broadway,
and success seemed near. But the panic of
1837 wiped everything out, and he found
it impossible to go forward for the time
being. His persistent working at the
chance that had come to him made him a
subject of ridicule; he was called the
‘‘India rubber maniac.”’
Roxbury, Mass., and got another start.
After a good deal of money had been ex-
pended it was found that the nitric acid
process only affected the surface of the
rubber. Everything was again swept
away, and he was once more penniless.
He was urged to give up his experi-
ments, but he would not, and he finally,
through the accidental sprinkling of
sulphur on the gum by an employe, dis-
covered the principle of rubber vulcan-
ization, now in use the world over. This
was in 1839, but it was not until 1844,
when he was a man of middle age, that
his patents were taken out. In 1851, he re-
ceived the great Council medal of the
World’s Fair at London, and honors of
all sorts were showered upon him. Many
persons got rich out of India rubber, but
Goodyear did not. He worked inces-
santly until his death in 1860 and he saw
But he went to’
; ent uses, but he died in debt.
31
his invention put to five hundred differ-
Yet Good-
year was successful in the highest and
could not be discouraged by failure. To-
| day there is not a man, woman or child
in the civilized worled who does not profit
constantly by his inventions.
NORVIN GREEN’S PERSISTENCE.
The first of the very high modern
buildings to be erected in New York
stands on lower Broadway. It is a mon-
ument to the memory of another man
whose power to rise above discourage-
ments made him one of the phenomenal
successes of the century, and changed
the whole trend of business life—Norvin
Green, who was President of the West-
ern Union Telegraph Co. during the pe-
riod of its upbuilding and till his death
a few years ago. Mr. Green had no early
educational advantages other than those
afforded by the rather narrow instruction
ef the common schools. But he was a
man of vast persistence, and all the spare
time of his boyhood days of severe work
on his father’s farm was given up to
hard reading of whatever he could get
hold of. His father was sheriff of Breck-
inridge county, Kentucky, and Norvin
used to ride about the county collecting
taxes. His first personal venture in a
business way was undertaken sixty years
ago, when, in 1834, he gave his notes for
a boat and stock at Cincinnati, and went
down the Ohio on a trading voyage. In
three years he had made ensugh money
to pay his father’s debts and buy a farm.
Then he went to cutting lumber and
cordwood, swinging his axe himself with
his men. Ai little later he went to Louis-
ville and took up medicine, his range of
study extending far beyond the healing
art, however, for it was during the years
he was acquiring a physician’s diploma
at Louisville that he laid the foundation
for the wonderful fund of information on
all sorts of topics for which he was soon
afterwards noted among his acquaint-
ances. For thirteen years he practiced
medicine, devoting some time also to pol-
itics. It was not until 1854, when he
was 36 years of age, that he became
identified with the telegraph, and it was
then that his real struggle for success be-
gan. He was the active spirit in the
formation of a syndicate to lease the
United Morse lines from Cincinnati to
New Orleans and the People’s lines be-
tween the same cities. The outlook for
the enterprise at this time was nota bril-
liant one. The lines were badly strung,
the instruments in use were not the per-
fected ones of to-day, so much of the de-
velopment of which is due to Edison’s
genius and unremitting labors, and there
were all sorts of difficulties to overcome.
But Norvin Green never lost his faith;
he knew that his chance had met him.
He proceeded with tireless industry and
almost matchless pluck to conquer it.
In 1857 he eame to New York and got
together the presidents of several tele-
graph lines, and succeeded in making
the ‘‘Six Party Contract,’’ the first tele-
graph deal ever entered into. The suc-
cess of this arrangement was so marked
that nine years afterward, in 1866, when
Norvin Green was 44 years old, he suc
ceeded in forming the Western Union
Telegraph Co., and may be said to have
conquered the success of his life.
The list of men who have won because
they never got discouraged might be con-
tinued almost indefinitely, but the ex-
amples of Grant, Cooper, Goodyear and
Norvin Green are among the brightest in
the history of successful endeavor.
Their study should drive depression
from the mind of every struggler.
———___—_>_+<_—_
Pertinent Suggestion Anent the Sale
of Dress Goods.
East JorpAN, June 19—Retail dealers
in smali towns are laboring under a ser-
ious disadvantage on account of a con-
dition which has grown to be an evil of
considerable importance. It is the ex-
istence of too many yard lengths in
which each piece of goods is put up
and sold to the small trade by manu-
facturers and jobbers. The retail dealer
in a small town is as anxious to satisfy
his trade as the city dealer and his cus-
tomers are even more difficult to please
than those living in the cities. In a
small town people who are neat, stylish
and fastidious in their tastes, and are
particular about their clothing and ap-
pearance on the street, are constantly
annoyed by seeing a pattern identically
like the one purchased by them worn by
people who are exceedingly careless in
regard to the fit and appearance of their
clothing. Once a pattern worn by an
untidy person is seen in the street, Mr.
Smalldealer might as well put the re-
mainder of the piece of goods—often
nearly a full length—on his remnant
pile, as none but second-class trade will
again buy from that pattern, and the
merchant is obliged to see his best trade
continually sending mail orders to the
cities for their fancy dress patterns.
Now, if goods in the faney and toned
patterns were made in lengths, say from
fifteen to twenty yards, dry goous re-
tailers in small towns would not be
obliged to see their best trade go ‘‘out-
side” for something new and different, but
they could, for the same money, give
their customers a better assortment, have
fewer remnants and back number fancy
goods on their shelves, which are un-
salable to the best trade at any price
In this respect price cuts no figure, for
what a merthant’s best customers want
is cheap at any price. I believe that
this feature and condition are so common
that every dealer in small towns will
recognize the fact and, as it can be easily
remedied, it seems reasonable that it
might be eliminated without much
trouble. F. E. BoosinGER.
The above states its subject matter so
clearly that it is published for the ben-
efit of those concerned. While THE
TRADESMAN has its own ideas in regard
to overcoming what is there complained
of, the opinion of the expert is needed,
and, calling on Mr. John Snitzeler, of the
dry goods house of Voigt, Herpolsheimer
& Co., and placing the communication in
his hands, asked him what he thought
of it.
“Well, the trouble is there, fast
enough,” he said, ‘‘and the remedy, toa
certain extent, has been found in the
plan proposed. In cheap lines, that is
done now. In large houses, even, it is
not unusual to order a single dress pat-
tern; but in fine goods it is not possible
to do this.’
Mr. Dan. Steketee, of P. Steketee &
Sons, concurred in the above opinion.
Manufacturers have been appealed to
with more or less success. Some houses,
even in fine goods, will sell reduced
lengths. Another evil which should be
done away with is the habit mapufactur-
ers have of turning in and spoiling the
end of goods, *; of a yard or more—a
trifle, if confined toa single piece—but
amounting otherwise to a great deal.
Mr. Geo. E. Raymond, of Spring & Com-
pany, was not surprised at the complaint.
It was an old one and had often been
discussed. In prints it had been tested
apd samples at hand showed what had
been done. in that live of goods the
plan worked well and there is no reason
why it would not be the same with
others. In his opinion, »owever, the
discuss.on of the question would amount
to little. The manufacturers would do
nothing; the wholesale houses cannot,
without additional expense, and that the
retailer cannot, and as often will not,
stand. Itis a good plan, but experience
had convinced him that it would never
be carried out.
It cannot fail to be noticed that the
manufacturer is the man who can re-
move the difficulty, if he wiil; and we
can say that we have yet to see the man-
ufacturer who would not, if the change
promised to be a benefit to all, make it,
if it was in his power. ‘That is the point
to which every energy should be directed
and if Ture TRADESMAN can do anything
to aid in the matter it will be found ready
and willing to do it.
We have no new Teas due inside
of 30 days.
big line of last sea
We'lhave on hand a
son’s Teas. They
are the Best Value in this State at
the prices we will sell them at.
Send for samples from 18c¢ up to 35¢ for the
finest Tea ever imported into Michigan.
We offer the best Mocha and Java Coffee in
the market, in 1 Ib. packazes, under Do-
soris brand, at 30c.
We have a big drive in a “Canuck”
Soap,
costs $3.10 per box, LOO bars, equal to many
brands sold at $3.50.
JAMES STEWART CO.
EAST SAGINAW, MICH.
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THE MICHIGAN
TR by DD HS N ji Ay IN.
GOTHAM GOSSIP.
News from the Metropolis- --Index of
the Markets.
Special Correspondence
NEw York, June 22—A trip among
the jobbing grocery houses of this city
convinces me that a good big trade is
going on. There is, of course, always
“‘room for one more” and business is not
particularly booming; but, better than
that, the trade is steady and profitable.
There seems to be no weakness whatever
and all lines are remarkably well held,
with a very few exceptions, coffee show-
ing a little depression and raw and re-
fined sugars hardly coming up to the
mark.
The deliveries of coffee have been
about 10,000 bags ahead of the same
week last year, but 15,000 bags behind
last week’s deliveries. The market,
while quite firm, shows some points of
weakness, and while the quotations for
Rio No. 7 are from 1514@15%{e, these
prices are nominal. Stock afloat, 587,-
916 bags, against 295,632 bags last year.
The greatest year for coffee imports was
1892, when the net imports into this
country aggregrated 629,671,748 pounds.
For the year ending June 30, 1894, the
aggregate was 547,068,994 pounds, or a
per capita import of almost exactly
eight pounds. The imports for the cur-
rent year promise to be a trifle larger, as
the amount imported of free and duti-
able up to April 30, 1895, was 542,164,-
343 pounds. With twelve months of in-
creasing prosperity and decreasing
prices we shall see the consumption of
the beverage increasing by leaps and
bounds.
The tea market is characterized by the
same monotonous dullness which has
pervaded it for many months. The
character of the arrivals has been some-
what disappointing and buyers are tak-
ing no interest, although the turn is, un-
doubtedly, in their favor. Purchases
are beipg made in only an everyday sort
of way.
Sugars have been going in rather a
disappointing way during the week, but
within a day or so the demand seems to
have taken a turn for the better. There
has been no change in quotations save
for a fractional decline in certain grades
of yellows.
Packers of canned goods are meeting
with a fair demand for peas. The Mary-
land pack is said to be short of last
year’s as to quantity. Prices of new
goods are firm but still remain very low.
The finer grades of early June peas
fetch from 90@95c, and are said to be
worth that readily. Standard No. 3 to-
matoes are worth 674,@70c. Peaches
are steady. The Alaska Packers’ Asso-
ciation is said to have sold the 1895 pack
of red. Prices have not been publicly
mentioned, but it is thought they will be
about 2}¢c higher than last year. Pres-
ent rate of red Alaska, $1.10.
The outlook for California dried fruits
is said to be somewhat brighter, owing
to the breaking of a combine. Four-
crown raisins are held at 4c. Asa
whole, however, the market is not thrill-
ingly interesting and this is true of the
foreign dried fruit trade as well.
The lemon market is active. Prices
have declined and jobbers are busy fill-
ing orders from local dealers, while the
mail orders have been frequent and of
liberal proportions. It is almost impos-
sible to find any kind of lemons for less
than $4 a box, and from that the range is
to $5, $6 and even to $7. The supply of
California oranges is diminishing rapidly
and, as all that is available will soon be
here, the dealers in Mediterranean fruit
are hopeful of obtaining better rates.
Sixty-five carloads of watermelons came
Friday. The quotations range from $16
@20 per hundred.
Butter shows considerable firmness
and holders profess great satisfaction.
Eighteen cents seems to be about all that
can be obtained for the best Elgin, al-
though 4¢e more has been realized in
some instances.
Cheese has been taken quite readily by
exporters and for fancy large full cream
7¢e seems to be the prevailing rate.
Eggs have declined, owing to several
reasons, chief among them being lack of
storage room, lack of demand, and the
quantity arriving not being up to mark.
Clerks’ Corner.
Otsego—Miss Josephine Pattison has
taken a position in Edwards & Chamber-
lin’s hardware at Kalamazoo. Miss Han-
nah Pattison has taken her former posi-
tion here.
Rockford—Clifton Sears, senior son of
Chas. F. Sears, the veteran general
dealer, was recently married to Miss Katie
M. Baker, who achieved success as an
elocutionist and school teacher. THE
TRADESMAN extends congratulations.
Chairman Lawton requests THE
TRADESMAN to call a meeting of all
Grand Rapids traveling men to be held
at the meeting place of Post E, Saturday
evening of this week, for the purpose of
deciding whether it is desirable for the
traveling men as aclass to be represented
in the street parade on the morning of
July 4.
Lapeer—A young grocery clerk here
thought he would show off his new bicy-
cle before some young lady friends. He
had a deceptive bag of eggs in one hand.
It is difficult to execute any intricate
movements under such a condition, so he
turned a somersault, and now there is a
large omelette on the walk, baked by the
sun. The young ladies appreciated the
various moves he made.
Kalamazoo—A. B. Bretzel, who has
been so familiar a figure at the grocery
store of Desenberg & Schuster for many
years, has resigned his position as book-
keeper. He is 81 years of age and has
come to the conclusion that he ought to
retire. The firm is sorry to lose his sery-
ices, as he has been a faithful employe
for thirteen years. Mr. Bretzel has been
a resident of Kalamazoo since 1861.
Big Rapids—The departure of Gil Rey-
nolds, so long with the Comstock banks,
makes two other changes. Prior to en-
gagipg in the boot and shoe business,
Fred Neahr, of the firm of Neahbr &
Hughes, was book-keeper for the Chip-
pewa Lumber Co., and ranked with ex-
perts in his line. Mr. Neahr has taken
the place of Mr. Reynolds in the Mecosta
County Savings Bank, and his place in
the store has been filled by Charles An-
derson, for many years clerk for M. M.
Brackney, D. Hamilton’s connection
with Mr. Brackney permitting Charles to
leave. Mr. Neahr will continue to hold
his interest in the shoe store, and the
firm name of Neahr & Hughes will re-
main as at present.
PRODUCE MARKET.
Beans—The market is higher, with evidences
of still higher prices. News from other points
report a fair distributing trade, with holders
very firm in their views.
Beets— New, 15e per doz.
Butter—Factory creamery is slow sale at 16@
lje. Dairy is in fair demand at 12@13c, with in-
dications pointing to higher prices in the near
future on account of the extremely hot weather
and depleted pastures.
Cabbage— Maryland stock is coming in freely,
commanding #1.75@2 per crate of two to three
dozen. Cairo stock, $1.58 per crate of 114 doz.
Cucumbers—Mississippi stock, #1.50 per crate
of about 7 doz.
Cherries—Red Richmonds command tc per
qt. Sweet are about the same price, but do not
sell as readily as sour fruit in this market.
Eggs—Handlers pay 10c and hold at 10\%4.@1le
in a regular jobbing way.
Onions—1l0e¢ per doz. bunches for green stock.
Dry stock from the South commands $1.25 per
bu.
Potatoes—Old stock has taken a sudden up-
ward turn,inco sequence of the advance of new
stock to $3.50 per bbl. Sales were made Monday
on the basis of 65c per bu., with every prospect
of considerably higher prices before the end
of the week
Gooseberries—Nominal.
Pineapples—$1@1.25 per doz., according to size
and quality.
tadishes—China, 15¢ per doz.
taspberries—Black are beginning to arrive,
commanding 11@13e per qt. Red are also in
murket in limited quantities, commanding 8@
i2e per qt. Both will recede in price as the
week advances.
Strawberries—The season is about at an end,
such stray lots as come in commanding fancy
prices.
Tomatoes—#1.25 for 4 basket crate.
Wax Beans—$1.50 per bu. crate.
‘America against the world! The latest
American product to take front rank is
the cornstalk. In the construction of
modern war ships there has been placed
between the outer and inner skins of the
vessel a substance called cellulose, whose
business, when a shot has passed
through, is to swell at contact with the
inrushing water and close the hole. The
cellulose in use is an English product
made of cocoa. An American has been
experimenting with the pith of corn-
stalks, and June 10, atest of the two was
made at Indian Head. The conditions
were precisely similar, an eight and a
six inch shot being fired through each.
The cocoa cellulose permitted a slight
trickling of water to get through, while
the cornstalk, or American, cellulose was
an absolute water stopper. The test
was intended to decide which product to
use in future construction of war ships,
and the result eliminates, practically, the
last foreign element from our cruisers
and battle ships.
+
The entrance to a cemetery at Otisco
is crowned with an archway bearing the
somewhat dubious inscription, ‘‘Wel-
come to all.’? Theinvitation was placed
there on Memorial Day.
——_
Use Tradesman Coupon Books.
PROVISIONS
The Grand Rapids Packing and Provisinn Co
quotes as follows:
PORK IN BARRELS.
a... oe 12 50
oe a u%
£xtra clear pig, short cut.. 14 00
Extra clear, heavy eee
oe eee 12 75
Boston Cheer ahortcut....:. ........_.. 13 50
or bak eto. 13 50
Standard clear. short cut, best........ . 13 50
SAUSAGE,
aaa... TH
ee 5%
ae 6
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PE 7%
LARD.
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Pas... ee ee 5%
Pompom a
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50 lb. Tins, 4c advance.
201b. pails, %e
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BEEF IN BARRELS,
Extra Mess, warranted 200 Ibs............. -7@
Extra Mess, Chicago packing............... 7 00
Saas. 10 00
SMOKED MEATS—Canvassed or Plair.
Paros 9
ae se 6 lbs
- 9 eae... 10
. ee 7
r scuneginmannscomt HET nen 8%
ccnige renee OT oT a
Breakfast Bacon boneless.................... 8%
a
DRY SALT MEATS.
iene Clears, hoagy........ 2... oe 6%
an ae.
PICKLED Piés’ FEET.
a ee 3 00
merter Garreig...... 8. |
a eee de ee 90
TRIPE.
Daas ll %
eee 65
BUTTERINE,.
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Dairy, rolis......
_ Se... 11
G. W. AMES,
Dealer in
Real Estate
And Promoter of
Business Chances
BAY CITY, MICH.
POR BRENT.
Manufacturing Property with Power,
One Store and several fine Offices.
APPLY TO
WM. T. POWERS or J.W. SPOONER
Room 34, Powers’ Opera House Block.
The latest substitute for coffee consists
of roasted seeds of the sunfiower. The
oil contained in the seeds will doubtless
interfere with their use for that purpose.
Wants Column.
Advertisements will be inserted under this
head for two cents a word the first insertion and
one centa word for each subsequent insertion.
No advertisements taken for less than 25 cents.
Advance payment.
BUSINESS CHANCES.
| ae SALE—STOCK OF GENERAL MER.
chandise in a growing town of 3,000 Will
inventory about $5,000. Best store and location
in town. Address No. 793, care Michigan Trades-
man. 493
— EXCHANGE — 360 ACRES FARMING
land in Crawford county, Mich., close to
railroad and county seat, for improved farm; al-
so village lots in fine, flourishing villages in
Missouri and Tennessee, for horses, buggies,
wagons or bicycles. Address H. Harrington,
Reed City, Mich. 787
ANTED—A GOOD LOCATION FOR DRY
goods, clothing and boot and shne store,
Address No. 792, care Michigan Tradesman. 92
OR SALE—NICE CLEAN STOCK Os HARD.
ware, invoicing about $14,0 0, in good enter-
prising village of 700 or 800 inhabitants, situated
on two railroads—Grand Rapids & Indiana and
Wabash; also a stock of agricultural implements
in connection. Address No. 791, care Michigan
Tradesman. 791
OR SALE OR EXCHANGE—A GOOD FARM,
stock, tools and crops, for general stock or
lumber yard, price, $4,000: alsolarge new brick
hotel, furnished complete, doing a good busi-
ness, to exchange fora good farm. Address W.
H.N., care Michigan Tradesmen. 789
re SALE—STOCK OF CLEAN GROCKR-
ies in good town. well located. Inventories
from $1,800 to $2,000. Best of reasons for selling.
Address No. 785, care Michigan Tradesman. 785y
ILL PAY CASH FOR LARGE GENERAL
stock, if cheap. Quick deal. Address
Lock Box 39, Sheridan, Mich. 786
OR SALE—DRUG STOCK AND FIXTURES;
corner location; stock in good condition
and business paying. Good reasons for selling.
Address Dr. Nelson Abbott, Kalamazoo, Mich.776
OR SALE—DRUG STOCK, CONSISTING OF
staple drugs, patent medicines, stationery,
blank books, wall paper, etc.. inventorying about
$4,000, for one half cash and two years’ time on
balance. Cash sales last year, 83,000. Store has
steam heat, electric lights, hot and cold water—
everything in first-class shape—and is situated
in best town in Upper Peninsula, in mining dis-
trict. Reasons for selling, ill health, necessitat-
ing a removal toa warm climate. Address No.
769. care Michigan Tradesman.
ANTED—PARTNER TO TAKE HALF IN.-
terestin my 75 bb]. steam roller mill and
elevator, situated on railroad; miller ens:
good wheat country. Full description, price,
terms and inquiries given promptly by address.
ing H.C. Herkimer, Maybee, Monroe county,
Mich. 711
\OOD OPENING FOR BARBER SHOP, AND
residence to rent cheap. Address No. 779,
care Michigan Tradesman. 779
MISCELLANEOUS,
ANTED—YOUNG REGISTERED PHAR
macist, well recommended, who can build
up a business in a new store. Address No. 790,
care Michigan Tradesman. 790
OR SALE CHEAP—COMPLETE SET TIN.
ner’stools. Address P. W. Holland, Chapin,
Mich. 784
\RANITE AND MARBLE MONUMENTS,
markers and all cemetery work. Largest
stock. Write us about what you want and we
will quote prices. Grand Rapids Monument Co.,
761
818 South Division.
EN TO SELL BAKING POWDER ‘10 THE
grocery trade. Steady employment, experi-
ence unnecessary. $75 monthly salary and ex-
penses orcom. If offer satisfactory, address at
once, with particulars concerning yourself, U.S.
Chemical Works, Chicago. 57
ANTED—POULTRY,VEAL, LAMBS, BUT-
ter and eggs on consignment. Ask for
quotations, F. J. Dettenthaler, Grand Rapids,
Mich. 760
WANSTED—BUTTER, EGGS, POULTRY,
potatoes, onions, apples, cabbages, etc.
Correspondence solicited. Watkins & Smith,
84-86 South Division St., Grand Rapids. 673
ANTED—KVERY DRUGGIST JUST
starting in business and every one already
started to use our system of poison labels. What
has cost you $15 you can now get for 84. Four
teen labels do the work of 113. Tradesman
Company. Grand Rapids.
WE
KNOW
YOU
6 foot length.
Patented Feb. 12, 1895. :
WILL WONDER how you ever got along with
that old-style counter, once you have seen and
used ‘*SHERER’S.’”’ Finished and framed in
Oak, substantial and made to last, it displays the
goods attractively and keeps them secure and
clean. First-class and up-to-date in every re-
spect. Standard height, 33% inches; length, as
desired, from 3 ft. 8in., to 12 ft. Send for de-
scriptive testimonial and price list to the Sole
Manufacturers, SHERER BROTHERS,
37 River St., Chicago.
tse
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Order the largest quantity you can use and get the
BEST DISCOUNT.
FOR SALE BY ALL JOBBERS.
‘Tanglefoo
SEALED STICKY FLY PAPER
YOUR CUSTOMERS WILL ALL PREFER IT.
Wg xX 9 inc
PRICES FOR THE REGULAR SIZE.
coe Cemes Per Gene 8 ll. $3 40
-$3 30 Iv 10 Case lots, per case..... 3 20
Her Box... 11...
+ In 5 Case lots, per case..... Particularly
Ee dows and Fine Rooms.
If you are particular about your STICKY FLY
PAPER, specify
TANGLEFOOT
a case.
Retails for 25 centsa
Costs $1.75 per case.
25 Double Sheets in a Box,
box.
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I
adapted for Show Win-
15 Boxesi 1
Profit nearly 115 per cent.
Will be a Good Seller.
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THE GAIL BORDEN EAGLE BRAND
CONDENSED IIILK is a staple article;
where, and as an infant food has no equal.
sold every-
All reliable dealers sell it and it is a good stock for
jobbers to carry. Prepared and guaranteed by the
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Arab Arab MICHIGAN DARK AND LOMBER 60,
GRAND RAPIDS,
SUNDRIED
PANFIRED MICH.
18 and 19 Widdicomb Bld.
} N. B. Cuark, Pres,
§ W. D. Wave, Vice-Pres.
Th nee that our Nt ww Cr - 1805 ‘Te: asarein. This high-grade Ay i
rar _ It is ‘‘well known and highly respected by all.” Send tC. U. CLARK, See’y and Treas.
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Arab GRAND RAPIDS Ara b Correspondence Solicited.
INDISPUTABLY the FINEST
LA VAN: A CIGAR in AMERICA
De alers w bi are ma ‘SIrous of a hi an exceptionally fine Havana Cigar to thei ur stock
will find it to their interest to send a sample order to either of the followin g Jobbers.
Ask their Salesmen to show you samples of the
We are now ready to make
contracts for bark for the sea-
son of 1895.
CONGRESS
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MUSSELMAN GROCER HAZELTINE «& PER PI OLNEY « JUDSON
BALL. BARNHART & ay ve
PUT) ! CO, KINS DRUG CO. oe ce ee GROCER CO
w som ‘ a Grocers Wholesale Grocers Wholesale Druggists Wholesale Confectioners Wholesale Grocers
| I. M. CLARK GROCERY
ao A. E. BROOKS & CO.
|
Grocers | Wholesale Grocers | Wholesale Confectioners
LEMON . & . WHEELER :
i WORDEN GROCER CO.
Whol
M. H. TREUSCH & BRO,
ssale Grocers Wholesale Cigars
” Wholesale
CIGARS
We illustrate only a few. Send for new Cata
logue, No 118, showing full line.
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15009 SUGAR. 94 SPOONER. 39D BUTTER 49D SUGAR.
No. 1895 Package, 4 piece Glass Sets.
arranged this package to give our customers a good variety of small quan-
4 piece sets on the market, at the same time saving you 10 per cent.
CONTENTS OF PACKAGE.
14 doz. No. 9144 piece sets, at #2 % $ 56 | 1-6 doz. No. 49D 4 piece sets, at & 00 1 00
144 doz. No. 15009 4 piece sets, at 2 rae i a
1-6doz. No. 39D 4 piece sets, at 4 00
1-6doz. No. Alexis 4 pce. sets at 00
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We have especial]
tities of the best selling
Se
Barrel, 35 cents. Less 10 per cent. 36
kge. Con-
eae ft
rkinds of
assorted
Our ‘‘Squirrel’’? Assortment of Half-Gallon Pitchers.
to buy quick
selling Sta-
ples in
pa
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««Alexis’” Water Set.
“New Regent” asstd. pkg. Lemonade
and Water Sets. You ean not invest a
} sma mount of money in any goods that
ll more rapidly or prove more at
ve than our ‘““New Regent” asstmt.
, each different, 4 styles. 3 colors.
yles, $1.10 4.40
Cs, ip 3.00
les, ia 300
+10.40
per cent 1.04
H. LEONARD & SONS, Grand Rapids
‘¢Melrose’’ Water Set.
Acharmer. Excellentimitation of Rich Cut Glass
ttern. 8 pes. complt. with tray, 55e. Per dz. sets, %
‘Alexis’? Water Set, brilliant pattern, the grandest
success of the year. Superbly finished, smooth pol-
shed bottom tumblers. & pes.complt.with tray,ea.65¢
er doz. sets, $7.
‘“‘Regent,’’ Assorted.
The Moneyv-Saving Scale
PAYS FOR ITSELF
Every two months and makes you 600 per cent. on the invest-
ment. It prevents all errors in weighing and
STOPS THE LEAKS
in your business these hard tin
without one.
1es. You can not afford to be
YOU. NEED IT!
SEE WHAT
BOSTON STORE
USERS SAY.
J. W. WHITELEY & SON,
Dry Goods, Clothing, Groceries, etc.
Bonaparte, Iowa, April 22, 1895.
118-124 State St.. and 77-79 Madison St.,
CasH MERCHANDISE Dayton Computing Seale Co., Dayton, O.:
Chicago. Dee. 31, 1894 GENTLEMEN: In reference to yours of recent
date regarding the Computing Scales which you
The Computing Seale Co., Dayton, Ohio: sent us, permit us to state that they have ex-
GENTLEMEN: We have had your scale in use | ceeded our expectations, giving us the utmost
since November 24, 1894, in our butter, cheese
nd meat department. We find them to do ev
actly what yor aim. Our clerks can wait on
more customers and assure them accuracy in ey
satisfaction. We consider it one of our greatest
conveniences in our store,and knowing it, as we
now doand from the experience we have had
from its usage in the store, we would not dis-
pense with it for ten times its value. Any ordi-
nary clerk, with common school education, can
ery respect. We can recommend them as the | expedite business equal to two or three clerks,
most economical seale i
and groceries. Yours truly,
BosToN STORE
Investigate the Dayton Computing Seale. For further particulars eal
THE COMPUTING SCALE CoO.,
nuse for meat markets | 4nd we prize itas one of our foremost fixtures
in our store. We consider and feel that ours has
paid for itself in two months.
Yours truly,
J. W. Warretzy & Son.
1 or write
Dayton, Ohio