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BROOKS & CO. 5 and 7 S. lonia St., GRAND RAPIDS 3 000000000000000000000000000000000006000000000000000 PERKINS EDS “i HS, TS, Wo an Tao IN WE CARRY A STOCK OF CAKE TALLOW FOR MILL USE. Nos. 122 and 124 Louis Street, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. POROHOHOHOROHOROHOROROHOROROHOHOROHOROROROHORONOHOE © 4 BOILER N Oreste ECOMGmICH!, Noiseless — Absolutely Sale! POOSOO SOS SHS HOOF Sbecbbbhbhii sbbbbes FIRE mace and weighs les than any er power s per horse power made Mannfacturers of Marine E es and Launches. send for Cata ..A GOOD THING... ‘ orde = LEMONS = hatthey shal y¢ repackea ¢ sound. little more, Lu “IT P, AY So. THE PUTNAM CANDY O0., 1 Rapids ourse, tha costs a | Sintz Gas Engine Co., 242-244-246 Canal st., G'd Rapids | RHODE IS LAND =! BUEF line WIDE, MEDIUM, NARROW and PICCADILLY TOES Excel in FIT, STYLE, QUALITY and FINISH 8 i ° } LIVIIUU, A DELICIOUS RELISH......... THE } piste ST G OODS f the Great Seller Good Profit FOR SALE BY The Ball; Barnhart- Pata! UOMpADY GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. Sour PRoprierors “© “co 21s iobbers class jobber Wdbdaabdbdbabdbababdbdbabdbdsdbdbdbdbaddbdddddiddad tr | | B. J. REYNOLDS, Sole gent for Michigan ---GRAND RAPIDS --- Goods Guaranteed Mail Orders Solicited TETPTPTETE TP TENERETETE TTR Rr HrTETETeToTeRrHrNRTE TTT yt _¢ ee aes Volume XII. GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 31, 1895. Number 619 ooo 900006006 a 7 eee — oe SUCCESSFUL SALESMEN. ® e 3 FIR E « ; J.J. Frost, Treasurer of the Michigan Knights of the Grip. e r * e | = e James J. Frost was born at Royal Oak, 3 7 Oakland county, Nov. 21, 1844, his ry Prompt, Conneevative, Safe. @ | father being a Vermonter and his mother @ J.W.Cuampe iy, Pres. FRED McBAIN See. @ . \ : $00 00600000000000000000005 of Scotch extraction. He lived on the | Organized 1881 Commercial Credit Co., Limited. Reports on individuals for the house renters and professional men. Also Loc al Agents Furn. Com. Agency Co.'s “‘Red Book.’ Collections handled for members. Phones 166-1030 65 MONROE ST., GRAND RAPIDS. Hh It Ha Ie Detroit, Mich. > retail trade, WAYNE COUNTY — BANK, Detroit, Mic 600000 M0 10, INVEST IN BONDS counties, towns counties, towns 1 distri cls of Mich. Officers of these a ric “ipalit ies about to issue bonds will find it to their advantage to | wpply to this Bank. Bl nk ponds and blanks for proceedings st upplied with out charge. Communications and e nquiries have prompt attention. Bank pays 4 p.c. on deposits compounded semi-annually y. S. D. ELwoop,Treas. Country Merchants Can save exchange by keeping their Bank wccounts inGrand Rapids, asGrand Rapids checks are par in all markets he (Ito nc Offers exceptional facilities to its custom- erg, and is pent to extend any favors DANIEL McCOY, President. CHAS. F. PIKE, Cashier. The Michigan Trust Ca. Grand Rapids, Mich. Makes a specialty of acting as EXECUTOR OF WILLS ADMINISTRATOR OF ESTATES GUARDIAN OF MINORS AND INCOPMIPETENT PERSONS TRUSTEE OR AGENT In the management of any business which may be entrusted to it. Any information desired will be cheerfully furnished. LEWIS H. WITHEY, President. ANTON G. HODENPYL, Secretary. OUK DER? LO AND 7 PEARL STREET. | The Tradesman’s advertisers receive farm with his parents until he was 14 years of age, when he entered the Dick- inson Institute, at Romeo, from which institution he graduated on the English course four years later. During the next three years he taught school in Macomb and Oakland counties, and for three years was principal of the graded school at Lakeville. In 1868 he embarked in the dry goods business at Romeo, under the style of Frost, Fiumerfelt & Co. The firm burned out in 1877, when it discon- tinued business, paying every creditor in full. Mr. Frost then went on the road Mr. Frost lives in a $7,000 residence at 517 Grand street, South, and holds stock in two Lansing banks. He belongs to no secret order, but has been a member of the M. C. T. A. for the past sixteen years, and was a charter member of the M. K. of G. He was made Treasurer of the latter organization in 1892 to fill va- cancy; was chairman of Post A during 1894, and at the last annual meeting of the State organization was elected Treas- urer by an‘overwhelming vote, which betokened his wide popularity among the boys. Mr. Frost attributes his success as a salesman to the fact that he is able to hold the customers he makes, and, as an evidence of his ability in that direction, he points to the fact that the same deal- ers he sold to on bis first trip out, sixteen eases ago, are oh Ht his es for Ketchum Bros., carriage manufac- turers of Romeo, with whom he remained two years. In 1879 he removed to Lans- ing and engaged to travel for Clark & Co., with whom he has been identifidd for the past sixteen years, covering the retail trade of Michigan, Northern In- diana and Ohio, and the jobbing trade of Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri and Kentucky. On the organ- ization of the Anderson Road Cart Co., he was elected a director and Vice-Presi- dent, subsequently succeeding to the po- sition of President. He handles the line of that corporation in connection with the line of Clark & Co. Mr. Frost was married in 1868 to Miss Margaret Flumerfelt, of Pontiac, and is the father of two children—Louis E, aged 23, who is a graduate of the Cayuga Lake Military Academy and is now en- gaged in business at Honolulu, Sandwich Islands, and Cass, aged 21, who is now doing office work for the Michigan Fuel sure and profitable results. Co., at Lansing. JAMES J. another of those $100,000 cheeks from that Tacoma bank. as to the cause of his vanity disclosed that a third son arrived Sunday afternoon and that both child and father was doing as well as could be expected under the FROST. Personally, Mr. Frost is a genial gen- tleman whom it is a genuine pleasure to know and a privilege to know well. He is a man of strong likes and dislikes, but makes and holds as many friends, so- cially, as heisenabled to hold customers, in a business way. Satisfied with the success he has achieved, as a citizen and a business man, and happy in the pos- session of a comfortable home and in his family relations, Mr. Frost enjoys an en- viable existence and has reason to look forward to the future with a reasonable degree of complacency. © Frank Jewell (1. M. Clark Grocery Co.) was so proud Monday that his associates could not surmise what had happened to him unless it was that he had received Enquiry at his home Price Marking Goods. One of the most important matters con- nected with the mereantile business is the marking of goods. In doing this three objects should be kept in view: Profit to the merchant, ready sale, and satisfaction to the customer. This last object is often lost sight of, but we in- sist that a policy on the part of the sales- man which does not aim at securing sat- isfaction to the customer is a short- sighted one, and will ultimately prove disastrous to the dealer. A customer will pay for a suit of clothes a price which will yield to the merchant a fair profit, and yet be content with his bar- gain, but were a sack of sugar marked to yield halt as large a profit, a customer would feel that an attempt had been made to impose upon him. On some kinds of goods, then, customers will willingly allow the merchants a good profit, but others they will purchase only ata very small margin above cost. It is the duty of the salesman to con- sider all the circumstances attendant on this feature of his business, as the amount the capital invested ought to earn, the probable amount of the year’s sales, the running expenses of the es- tablishment, the kinds of goods handled, the competition to be met, trade catered to, what will or will not satisfy his customers, ete. A volume could be written upon this one feature of mercantile business, but practical ex- perience and native good judgment are the only means by which a salesman can become proficient in it. the class of Having considered every circumstance which ought to influence him in marking the goods, the salesman should make his prices and then adhere to them. A rumor that a house has two or more prices, according to the customer who is buying, will spread rapidly and soon create a distrust very hurtful to its busi- ness. It is unfair, undignified and down- right dishonesty to make different prices to different customers, other things being equal, such as quantity, time, ete. Uni- form-dealing, one-price houses command a respect among customers which sliding- seaie dealers never enjoy. Careful investigation has shown that in nearly all cases of bankrupt retail dealers a large proportion of the goods on their shelves were unmarked, and hence in a condition of confusion which could not but result in loss and disaster. The retail dealer who puts his goods on the shelves without marking them is tolerably certain to learn by bitter ex- perience, sooner or later, the folly of his course; and the wholesale dealer who fails to keep a suitable record of prices as the market fluctuates is omitting a vital feature of success. B. F. Cummines, JR. i — im —— nto The Brooklyn troiley system has caused the death of 114 persons since it went into operation. The number of fatalities greatly exceed in proportion those of any circumstances. other eity in the country. ae v2 THs KIGHTS OF MAN. Mistaken Notions Which Gain Cre- dence Through Repetition. A large share of the political diffieul- ties of the times arises from mistaken notions in regard to the rights of man. The anarchist, the single-tax men, rail- road strikes and labor difficulties gener- ally, may all be traced in one way or another to the fact that people do not have a clear conception of man’s rights and duties. Men talk about ‘rights of labor,’’ the ‘‘wrongs which capitalists are inflicting upon laborers,’’ about poverty, the ‘‘crime of capital,” and a thousand other things in the same category, all of which are based upon the thought that one man is as good as another and that the world owes every mana living. Carried to their logical conclusion these ideas finally take the trade union form. Every man should receive ab- solutely the same wages, no matter what kind of work he may be engaged in; that these wages should be paid regardless of the hours of labor or the results pro duced, and carried a little further we find that the ultimate conclusion would be that no man has a right to property or anything else beyond a bare subsistence. To those who are at the bottom of the social scale it seems eminently right and proper that others who have by labor or fortunate circumstances been able to ac- cumulate should be brought down to their own level. Why, except for selfish personal ends and gain, intelligent men of the higher classes should be willing to advocate such nonsense it is difficult to say. That such men have not been taught how to reason or what relation- ship to give to their observations seems to be the simplest and most charitable solution of the problem. Edward Bellamy, in his famous novel, ‘“‘Looking Backward,’’ draws a picture of society under the likeness of a coach upon which everyone is trying to climb, in order to be carried forward with ease and comfort by others who are not sue- eessful in getting up out of the hot. dusty road. The workingman and the tramp alike feel and talk as though the world went around because of their un- aided exertions, and the idea is very com- mon and is frequently expressed that the world owes them a living. Unable to see the principles upon which the whole creation is founded they miss the fact that the world owes nobody a living. Neither bird, beast or fish ean be said to be provided with a living by nature. The more highly developed the animal the more is he called upon to exercise his brain and to work. We may take it as a fact that when a man is unable to earn a living he has no right to demand a living of the world. When be cannot earn his daily bread, then his only right is to starve to deathin a decent manner When the savage, unable to hunt and| fish, can no longer gather food for him- self, he calmly draws his blanket over his head and dies. This is the fulfill- ment of the natural law. When a man cannot find the wherewithal to gratify his taste or supply his wants it is just as well for him to remember that he has no longer any business in this world. Humanity has its duties in this matter, but humanity’s duties in this case are not rights for the individual. The right which is conferred upon him in civilized countries is the right to go to the poor- | house and there receive such support as the state chooses to furnish. THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Tue woibingman is very ptoue tu lalk | about the sins of millionaires, and in this The mil | that stock and bondholders generally are| action we may safely draw the conclu- | he outrages public decency. | lionaire can with just as much propriety 'say that all workingmen are swindlers and defraud their employers of a large amount of time and labor as the work- ingman can say to the millionaire that his money has been obtained by fraud and oppressiun. The millionaires have sins, some of them have committed crimes; but, in general, sins of the mil- lionaire against the workingman have been no greater than those of the work- ingmen to their employers, and the two should be considered an offset to each other. There is a principle which has been recognized since the days when the world was young, that every man should be paid according to the value of his labor. He who can do much, therefore, receives more than he who can do little. Again, it has been recognized as fair that com- modities vary in value and some are worth much more than others. There- fore, it also has come to pass that some kinds of labor are worth more than other kinds. Since this is so, some men re- ceive more for their work than others. it is one of the rights of men, therefore, to receive, every man, according to his work, having regard both to kind and quantity. The reasonableness of paying a man who can do fifty days’ work in one day in proportion to what he per- forms has never been called in question, until the army of the great unwashed. headed by men without conscience, at- tempted to set the world aside in the in- terest of the Lord knows what. When, during the last century, royalty and aristocracy had trodden down the common people to a depth of degradation which can searcely be conceived, the great savers of the people, as they called themselves, made it fashionable to talk about the rights of man. They little dreamed what a whirlwind would follow as fruit from the seed which they were sowing. In utter ignorance of what rights man had, and imbued with a frightful hatred of the aristocracy, their movement went to the extreme which is scareely conceivable. They held that all men were equal and that they all had the same rights. They utterly failed to see that the peasant was not equal to his lord, that by neither birth, education nor mental ability was he entitled to the rights and privileges which belonged to the well-bred and educated man. Be- cause the country had been badly ruled by the injustice. greed and recklessness of the king and his nobles was no reason why the government should be turned over to the greed, recklessness and injus- tice of the common people. It was then calmly taught and accepted that these ignorant peasants, who were only one re move from the cattle by whose sides they tuiled, were capable not only of self-gov- |ernment but of taking a part in the gov- ernment of one of the greatest nations of the world, and this absurd proposition was argued with such foree, and there was such a reaction on the part of those who had been rulers and belonged to the ruling classes, that these statements were generally believed and accepted as facts. If the results had not been so fearfully disastrous, not only for Europe but for the whole worla, the matter would have been one for laughter. No one dreams for a moment that ‘minor children owning stock in a great Collpaby are Capavie ul Vuulllg al imcci- | ues au iusuilivicut aiuvuul ul intelligence ings of stockholders. No one thinks | to understand the results of his political capable of managing the affairs of aj sion that he is not fit to take part in the railroad, and yet these stockholders as a} general government of the country, nor rule are vastly more intelligent than the | to vote at general elections. voters of a country, taken as a whole. In in general, men’s rights are very much these great money companies there is no| more restricted than the great unwashed pretense whatever that stockholders; multitude are willing to believe. Men without knowledge of financial affairs | may not have the right to vote, and yet have tbe right to rule the company. It| have the right to keep honestly governed. is conceded that they do not know how, | The intelligent class may have the right and that the most they may ever do is to| to direct those who are ignorant, and the volte for persons who are to select still| rich, by reason of their wealth and edu- other persons, who will be the actual/cation, may be entitled to numerous privileges denied to those in different po- sitions. On the other hand, the poor have the right to demand the right use of the wealth and power of those above them, socially, mentally, physically and legally. W. E. PartrinGeE. rulers. -A man’s right to regard himself ceases when he has insufficient knowledge to look after his own personal interests. The idiot, the imbecile and the feeble- minded are not allowed even the freedom a of personal self-control. This is too oT Wield. the Chicane dry goods well recognized as right and proper to| man, now takes a valet with bim when need discussion. When the individual | he travels. r BUSINESS WHEELS LIGHT ROADSTERS LADIES’ WHEELS A High Grade Machine, Built on Mechanical Principles. ate Shipment. Prices Right. Immedi- Dealers, write for discounts. CYGLOID CYGLE CO. 488 §. Division St., Grand Rapids Absolute : _ ...The Acknowledged Leader... : SUL ONLY BY TELFER SPICE 60., GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. © es If you knew The satisfaction vivel Luo yourself and cus‘omers by selling Highland” Brand Vinegar, you would not be without it. Thousands off merchants will tell you this. Nighland Brand Vinegar is Superior. along eee THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN : W BiNDING TWINE. Chicago the Greatest Twine Producing Center in the World. A Chicago manufacturer produces enough binding twine every working day in the year to reach half way around the earth. The capacities of his factories, of which there are two, is eighteen miles every minute, or about 3,333,330 miles a year. The weight of the annual product is 26,000 tons, and it would stretch from the earth to the moon thirteen times witb a loose end left over that would girdle the earth nine times. If atrain were to travel as fast as twine is made in the fac- tory it would speed from Chicago to New York in about forty-five minutes. These factories make about one-third of all the binder twine consumed in the United States. The total amount would therefore be abont 10,000,000 miles, or 48,000 tons. Allowing about two feet of twine for every bundle uf wheat, the total number of bundles har- vested would be 105,600,000,000, a simply inconceivable amount. Chicago is by all odds the greatest twine producing center of the worid, and it distributes its output ‘‘from China to Peru.” The largest amounts are used in Minnesota and Dakota, but other states are also great buyers. Of foreign coun- tries, Argentine is far in the lead asa twine cousumer, but large sales are made in South Africa and Australia; in fact, everywhere in the world that wheat will grow. The best twine is made from East In- dian manilla hemp. Itisa product of a plant known to botanists as musa tex- tiles, a variety of banana palm which grows only in the Philippine Islands. Some fairly good varieties of hemp, al- though far inferior to the manilla, are now being grown in Southern Mexico. Yucatan supplies the much-used sisal, which comes from a plant known as the American aloe, resembling the century plant in appearance. The fiber takes its name from Sisal, a seaport town in Yu- catan. The work of cutting the fiber, stringing it out, suspending it on racks to dry, and packing it for shipment em- ploys thousands of the natives during a part of the year. All the rest of the time they employ in a magnificent leis- ure, spending their earnings and waiting for the next sisal season. The Yucatan hemp is now much used, although it is not as strong and durable as the East In- dian products. The various kinds of hemp come to the factory storehouse in bales containing from 270 to 375 pounds. Some of them are bound in rattan and palm leaves, and are covered with cabalistic lettering in some foreign language. Recently a little of the hemp grown in Kentucky as an ex- periment has been tried, but it was not found to be fit for binding twine, which must not only be strong and smooth but uniform in size so that it will work well in the machine. The warehouse is three stories high, 275 feet long by 100 feet wide, and is packed from top to bottom with hemp bales, the entire capacity being 5,000 tons. Great caution has to be observed in providing fire protection, for if the piles of bales once became ignited it would be almost impossible to extinguish them. Superintendent Michaels has to keep a sharp eye out when the bales are unpacked, for the wily Mexicans do all sorts of things to make them weigh heavy. Oftentimes great chunks of grindstones and cobblestones, to say nothing of wood and cheaper grades of hemp, are found packed inside the bale. It pays better than hemp-raising, and doubtless the Mexican chuckles more over getting money in this way than he would if he had earned it. The twine factory proper is a great new building. In one corner of it is one of the largest engines in the world. It has the thirty-two-foot fly wheel which attracted so much attention in machinery hall during the World’s Pair, and the in- dicator registers up to 2,000 horse- power. One man who stands on the clean var- nished floor is the sole master of the great engine which keeps the hundreds of spindles in the factory clicking away so busily. g.. When the bates of hemp come in from | the warehouse they are torn apart, and the besides reversing the ordinary geography workmen shake out each of the separate’ of buyer and seller. bunches, which are knotted at the end, | and somewhat resemble a horse tail, only EP TORT LINE TO they are nearly white, and very coarse, ig the fioers varying from two up to six feet | in length. So closely is the hemp packed ae ae tnat a bale more than doubles in size when it is loosened. The hemp now goes to the preparing- Mrvernrarsarerveanrnrnertrys Blank Books 2 Tablets Stationery PINPYEPVED VO ND VED NED UOPNOR UnrNEFNnONANNRES ZU ae room, where the roar of machinery is so. Via D., G. H. & M. Ry. and GOODRICH LINE. deafening that it is impossible toe speak The Magnificent New Fast Steamships, loud enough to be heard. The room is} ATLANTA and CITY OF RACINE a remarkably high, so that the thick hemp | SCHEDULE: dust which fills the atmosphere will be| Leave Grand Rapids — ee H. & M. Ry. a lan ' at 7:40 p. L, a e Chicago 6:30 a. . Swept out, and will not injure the em-| mare sues ties Chae anil at 730 p. m., ployes. The hemp goes first to the/ arrive Grand Rapids 6:40 a. m. EATON, LYON scutching frame, which is a vroad wheel GRAND RAPIDS to $3 90 about eight feet in diameter, the outer CHICAGO, ONLY ' & CO — yp e , : ar i “OR THE ROUND TRIP. Stater surface being covered with short, sharp $6.50 a a toate} ~ ino eae pegs set close together. This is covered MAUdUAGUAdbk dA dNkdNbdAk bd Abb dbi ddd dbb ddd dd stateroom berths can be had at the city offiee and _¢ all over with a shield, which is pierced | depot of the D., G. H. M. Ry., Grand Rapids 20 and 22 Monroe St. 2% ; . Tv also at all stations on the D., G. H. & M. ny. O., : . See TT En On ST oat cle, Grand Rapids this hole the hemp bunches are switched H. A. BONN, Sl until the teeth have combed the fibers out General Pass. Agent straight, tearing away, also, a good deal | Goodrich Trans. Co., Chicago. PANY Yvvivinyy yrs of dust and short, value‘ess fibres. The hemp now goes to the first ORCHOHORCHOROROROROHOHCHOROROCHOROHOHOROROEOHONOHOHOHE spreader or breaker. This consists of two : sets of belts, both covered with short metallic teeth or pegs, the first moving S Our Varns and Underwear more slowly than the second. On being | m . fed into the machine the hemp is spread : Are now in stock, and more coming every week. Be sure and out, carded and straightened, the second e see the line before buying belting pulling it apart longitudinally | m@ ie and making the ribbon thinner. From © 3 the end to the first spreader a girl atten- dant, who is powdered with dust from . Our Floor Oil Cloths head to foot, guides the big loose rope © into high tin pails, from which it is fed @ Can be delivered now-—Qualities Nos. 1, 2, SA, 4. into the second spreading machine, and | m Also RUGS in) Oualities t 2, 2A. best line we have ever so on through eight of them until the celia idl aa prices very lise i hemp ribbon is smooth and even and much thinner and narrower than at first. it now goes in high tin pails to the bell machines, where it runs over nu- merous spools and rollers, which smooth it down beautifully, twist it and draw it out finer and thinner, making the fibres more and more compact. After going through two of these machines itis ready to be sent to the 600 spindles or looms on the second and third floors. It is difficult to give an idea of the scene in thespindle-rooms. Hundreds of machines, all just alike, with each part LOH HH9OOOOO9090090640950000006000060600000006 moving in unison, each belt flapping in line, and over all a deafening sound of whirling wheels and clicking spindles. Among the machines a few giris move about quietly, keeping them free from P. Steketee & Sons GRAND RAPIDS CHOROHOROROROHOROROCHOROHOROHOROHORONONOROROHOReHORE ¢ A Horse Canning Factory ' Is being erected in Oregon, so the report goes, and dust and seeing that their insatiable all on account of the bicycle. The horse must go. mouths are always full. Here theribbon of hemp runs from the pails through a Are you aware that we make a specialty of very small hole, and then it is pulled very fast, so that it grows thinner, at the same time being twisted a little. Then it is fed on a big spool or bobbin in the LUMBERMEN’S SUPPLIES ? Our line of Duck, Kersey, Mackinaw and Leather Coats, 9O9OSOOOOOO9O006606606006006 form of the finished twine—650 feet to Mittens, Gloves, Lumbermen’s Socks ani Kersey Pants every bobbin. A very complete system is immense. Values that make a man’s eyes “stick out.” Send of inspection and examination is in use us your card and our Agents will call. at the factory for insuring absolute ex- : actness in the size and strength of the » ‘ twine. The binder attachment of a har- Voigt, Herpolsheimer «& Co. vester is set up in the room and a bundle me y i ! ‘ of rag bags is bound from time to time WHOLESALE DRY GOODS GRAND RAPIDS to see if the twine is perfect practically. The bobbins are now sent up to the balling department. Here a great num- ber of girls with incredibly nimble fin- gers are engaged in operating busy little machines which wind the twine from the bobbins into the well-known shape of the twine balls. The balls are so made that the twine unwinds from the inside out instead of from the outside in. Be- ing paid by the piece, some of the girls make as high as $1.30 a day. The balls are now weighed and twelve of them are placed in a fifty-pound pack- age and covered with burlaps ready to be shipped to the farmer. Twine mills are operated only about ten months, beginning in the fall and continuing until late the next summer. The selling season is, of course, before and during harvest time. ——"_—o--_ It is an inversion of the ordinary course of trade to have wheat shipped from East to West in this country; but it has been done a number of times in not- able quantities of late. Oneof the larg- est of these transactions was the pur- chase, by the Cleveland Milling Co. of 125,000 bushels of wheat stored in Buf- falo. It was a large transaction in itself, FOSS O99995495555645956606066 eee OH 999OO99O999 909990090 55066064600666606666006 TIPEPUNPVOPNUrNePnr or vereereervoryoreervervorvaneerververvorneriervenEs Spring & Company DRESS GOODS, SHAWLS, CLOAKS, NOTIONS, RIBBONS, HOSIERY, GLOVES UNDERWEAR, WOOLENS, FLANNELS BLANKETS, GINGHAMS, PRINTS and * DOMESTIC COTTONS jp We invite the attention of the Trade to our Complete and Well Assorted Stock at Lowest Market Prices. SPRING & COPIPANY, Grand Rapids MULAN dNb bk dNk bk Abb bk Ahk sbi Ahk Lhd Ahk bd Abb sbd chk bd chk sbd dk ddd Abd dbAD NO VOPHNPNOP NNTP NNNNTIEZ MUUdNb dba dbA dh db bk Jhb bb bi db dba ddd db dd NIV Ieserververseneenvenser CO eat ais cise nolacceectaahshaaneineaneinnaanaaainettied 200UN/! LBB pia ie. MOVEMENTS OF MERCHANTS. Grand Ledge—s. W. N. M. VanAtor in the hardware business. St. Johns—C. S. Allison, sold his stock to R. G. Allison. lonia—W. S. Bouk W. Bouk & Co. in the harness business. Diamondale—N. H. Widger has closed his grocery store on account of pour busi- ness. Central Lake—W. chased the furniture Crothers. Briggs succeeds succeeds Ss. H. Clark has pur- stock of Dennis Constantine—A. C. Sheffer has pur- chased the grocery and baking business of Beecher Dentler. Hudson—The Brown & Stowell gen- eral stock was sold at auction Aug. 24 to EK. T. Binns, of Bryan, Ohio, foi $7,700. The stock was valued at $12,000 Belding—E. H. Deatsman has leased his double stores on Bridge street to Mr. Luther, of Greenville, and W. A. Dennis, of this city, who will from a partnership and embark in the furniture and taking business. Flushing—Parrish & Davis, who have been engaged in the bazaar business at this place, dissolved, F. H. Davis retiring from the co-partnership. C. W. Parrish and G. D. Parrish have pur- chased the stock and will continue the business. Belding—Lee Cusser has purchased the interest of Thos. Welch in the gro- eery business of Bond, Spencer & Co. and Spencer. in the People’s Savings Bank ant Cashier. Alto—Scott & Hunsicker have out their stock of dry goods to MeCart- ney Bros., of Lake Odessa, and have dis- solved partnership, P. W. Hunsicker retiring. J. M. Seott has the grocery stock into his hardware building, where he will continue the business. Muskegon—Geo. E. Lovejoy, who has been at the head of the dress gouods partment of the Wm. D. Hardy Co. eleven resigned himself under- have the firm name is now Cusser & Mr. Cusser has been employed Assist as closed moved de- for has, years to identify with a Jackson house. other clerks in the store with a gold him the pre-ented headed ebony cane on eve of his departure. T. Webber John Wag- ner have purchased the stock of clothing lonia—J. and of the Rochester Clothing Co., at St. Jobns, and Mr. Wagner has already gone there to take personal charge. Mr. Wagner was formerly with Mr. Sheets. | with Mr. Webber here for four or five years. Holly—The H. J. Heinz Co. Holly to secure for it the and buildings of the Holly Vinegar and Pre- serving Works, and it will run three years, the fruits cucumbers the farmers can raise. the end of the it has made a success of the business it to turn the plant over to the village. there mortgage $4.500 which would satisted the proposed scheme could be carried out, a citizens’ meeting has been called to eon- sider the matter. of Grand Ledge, and has been wishes grounds for and if them | $5,000,000. buying all at three years not agrees As = os of have to be before liardware Co. has filed a certificate of limited partner- ship, for years July 1, 1895. The general partners are Chas. T. Fletcher, G. Byrne and James T. | Whiting. ‘The special partners are Alice H. Ducharme and Sara E. Maclean, of ' Detroit—Tne Fletcher |} is now up two from Geo. | Kalamazoo, kk. Sh. lian, 6 of the late Detroit, Uvliciia executrices aud as | Theo. P. Sheldon’s will, with a contribu- | tion of $50,000 each to the common stock. jeweler, has | The! | i ;}a new route | Manistee & Northeastern | used they have contracted to supply from 12,- | spirited, but not wise, poker player. MANUFACTURING MATTERS. Hanover—Groger & Keeney succeed Ansterberg Bros. in the flouring mill business. Battle Creek—H.[{B. Sherman, manufac turer of hose clamps, has merged his business into a corporation, under the style of the H. B. Sherman Manufactur- ing Co. Hart—Harry C. Nelson and Samuei Sivertson, of Ludington, have formed a copartnership under the style of Nelson & Sivertson and opened a cigar factory here on a small scale. Evart—H. E. Henry, of Battle Creek, is building a sawmill of 25,000 feet eca- pacity on Doc and Tom creek, near this place. He has 4,000,000 feet of timber to cut in the vicinity of the mill. Ludington—The Danaher & Melendy Co. has started its lugging camp in Ne- wayzgo county, after a shut-down of a month. The camp will employ sixty men, and will put on cars for the mill at Ludington 100,000 feet of logs daily. Oscoda—Pack, Woods, & Co. have a large force at work raising sunken logs in Au Sable River, the present low stage for the busi- of water being favorable Bess. It is said there are 100,000,000 feet of these logs iu the bed of that stream. E-tey —The new heading mil! of the R. H. Sayers & Son Co. is about ready to be- Zin Operations. The miil cost $15,000 and is modern throughout. A stave mill will also be erected this season. The concern proposes to manufacture nail keg and butter tub heading, hoops and staves. Houghton—T. City, and W. J. have coniracted to cut and bank 35,000,- 000 feet of pine logs in this county for J. TF. Hearst, Wyandotte. The logs will be run down the River W. Davison, of Bay Tenney, of Roscommon, af Ontonagon j to Kenton, where they wiil be sawed by the Sparrow-Kroll Lumber Co. for ship- ment to Marquette. It will take two years to Complete the contract. Manistee—Our railroads are making The Man- istee & Grand Rapids, which had a line improvemen.s all the time. graded around to the river two years ago, abandvoned that route and is nuw grading ravines. The is grading an its read from its terminus through the extension ot [through Maxwelltown to the site of the |) hew tannery, as most of the vark to be there comes over this rvad, and 0U0 tu 15,000 cords of bark yearly. 2 At one time, avout fifteen years ago, Senator Jones, of Nevada, was worth A severe streak of bad luek followed and in two years he was broke. During bis tlush period he presented his wife $60,000 worth of diamonds. When he reached the financial zero he asked his wife to fend him the diamonds. She did so He soid them and invested the proceeds in mining stoeks. The venture was lucky, and in less than a year the $60,000 had been increased to $500,000. He then returned the diamonds to his wife, increased by 25 per cent. Jones is interested in mines in Nevada, Califor- nia, Arizona and Colorado. His wealth in the millions again. Rich or poor. Jones is always happy. firm believerin his own luck. lost $85,000 at one sitting at Tombstone Ariz., and raked in $25,000 of Tom Bowen’s money the first week the latter served in the Senate. THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN — He is a} He is a| He | Se AG. pe kc Written for TH&# TRADESMAN. A daily paper ventures the s.atement that *‘Grand Master Workman Sovereign’s hair-brained scheme of boycotting Na- tional bank notes clearly proves that he is not a safe man to place at the head of a great army of laborers;’’? but I guess he is. It is the kind of man who is al- | ways chosen to head such schemes; and it looks as if Providence has a great deal to with it. They never succeed. They never were intended to succeed; and, when they get almost there, the same foolishness which selected the man for leader, blossoms, bears its wormy, immature fruit and down it drops and another takes its place to bloom and get wormy and drop in the same old sense- less way; and sv it will be to the end of do time. One would fancy that in the course of centuries they would learn something, but they don’t seem to be built that way. Just take that Tower of Babel busi- hess, the parentof all this nonsense which is constantly cropping out every now and then. Looking at it across the centuries one would naturally suppose that brain power had sufficiently developed, even in that early period of the world, to con- vince the men of the time that they were making fools of themselves; but they kept pegging away until Heaven stepped in and unexpectedly finished the job for them. Of course, in these later times the in- terterence dues not take place in just that way, but it is well to observe that it takes piace just the same. Debs, in his way, had just as much hope ut ever car- rying out Lis his antediluvian ancestor, and nu more. He created just about the same chaotic dis- turbance, and his pretty little tower bad got pretty well up into the clouds, when that flash from the United States bayonet completed the comparison and Babelized the whole contemptible business. senseless scheme as It would be supposed that the recent instance would settle this business for awhile, but it is altogether evident that it hasn’t made the slightest impression. This new scheme confirms it. Given the tangible to produce the impossible and the old Babel builder to work. His reasoning is easy and con- vineing and, with the zeal of the school- boy, he takes his slate and goes to work. Once naught that is five times have it; and the old tower again on the old foundations. rnere is no doubt about the hair-brain part of the but the safety need not be entertained. goes bravely is naught, and five times as much. is started scheme, as the multiplication continues to be so many times naught will harm. comes five that the and when Grand Master Workman Sovereigu there mischief begins reaches that poiut his overturned tower sLould be made tv produce tue vid-time coufusion. * * * There you | idea of | So long | be no} it is when five times naught be- | It is safe to say that the days of paliu- istry are over. Tae crossing of the hand with silver will vanish with tie! gipsy and in its piace will come the ;Same skili with the other extremity. | Trilbyism is putting its best foot for- ward, not as a fad but asa science. Its single discovery bears the stamp of From all sorts and conditions ;Of feet it can, with the instinet of a ' Joan of Arc, pick out the royal foot of | | genius. the in.i time. If your foot is jong and siender, have hope. If your toes are in proportion, be of good cheer; but if, in addition to the above require- ments, your toes are practically of the same length from the big one down to the liitie one, you had better go bare- footed—you have the foot of a mil- lionaire. Of course, the Trilbyitic scientist hasn’t the matter down to a fine point, as yet. He unable, at the present state of the science, to say whether the foot has a tendency to adapt itself to an improyed condition of things. He can- not tell whether the toes can be de- pended on as a correct barometer of the financial atmosphere; but he urges, with all the zeal of the scientist, that that young man will be ciassed among the level-headed who finds favor with the young woman with level toes. Itis pleasing to note that the science is losing its vagueness and is entering the realm of unequivocal fact. It is be- ginning at the very foundation. Its single contribution is worthy a distin- guished place at the end of the century, and will probably do more to make a boom in the matrimonial market than any, purely scientific, which has so far been discovered. RICHARD MALCOLM STRONG. ee A curious use for a jusband is reported from Clerkenwell, near London, where a Mr. Lamb and his wife keep a small general For fourteen years the paying taxes by the sending husband to jail to serve the for unpaid taxes, while she remains at the store at- tending to business. Itis beyond ques- tion that the Lew woman, who supports a dead-beat husband, will find some use for the partner of her sorrows. When he wooed her he said he would die for her. Whenin trouble she asks him to please go to jail for her; and he goes. iuualic cVery is store. avoided the legal firm has wife’s out time PROVISIONS fhe Graud Rapids Packing and Provision Co quotes as follows: PORK IN BARRELS. ee. ....... 12 WO ae 11 50 &xtra clear pig, short cut . 13 50 Extra clear, heavy ... coon, Tok OAee.......... 12 % Boston Clear, short cut.... 13 Qu Cloar back, shortcut........... pe Standard clear. short cut, best i3 00 SAUSAGE, Pork, tuks......... os 7% Bologna....-... oe ea. ‘ 5% So — . 6 Tongue ee el 8% Blood oo . a 6 Head cheese oe sae 6 Summer. .... 10 Prema rores. -..-....,....._. 7% LARD Kettle Rendered... ' 1% Granger Pen i ee in Se 5 | Cottolene... 64 OCOSIOE..... cece oe el 6 | 50 lb. Tins, ye advance, 2ulb pails, %e ' 10 ib. ' | ec 5 Ib %C 3 1b ie BEEF tN BARRELS. Gairn Mess. warranted 240 IDs 7 00 Cir Mess. ('nicago packing / 7 vw nen, Fe ee _ =o SMOKED MEATS—('anvassed ur rialn. ain. wverxeve 20 1De... 10 eee 1034 ' 12 to 14 lbs 104 potecas le : ee i*% ta! Doneless 8% snoulders hl 7% | Breakfast Bacon boneless ..................- Sn | Uried beef, ham prices . 11% | DRY SALT MEATS. Long Viears,heavy.... 6% Briskets, medinm. i. TM PICKLED PIGS’ PEET. Bal Secem .. 1... ee e.............., .. eS. 90 TRIPE Bee, Soeweomy i, 75 aes tt. 65 BUTTERINE, Coommery, 0008... 16 . eine... 15 Dairy, rolis.... 11% bay tubs... i THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 5 GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP. | Leslie & Co. have opened a grocery | store at Cadillac. The Musselman Gro- | cer Co. furnished the stock. _o.. F ersonette, formerly of Indian- phi will shortly open a grocery store at Kalkaska. The Musselman Grocer Co. has the order for the oe Ez. 0 Owen F. Hands and James H. Selby have formed a copartnership under the Style of Hands & Selby and purchased the meat market of James Brotfee, at 203 Plainfield avenue. Abraham | Eps stein has “purchased the grocery stock of Mrs. Howard (formerly Mrs. Wm. Karreman), at 206 Plaintield avenue, and will continue the business at the same location. Oo. D. Price . & Co. have purchased the fixtures of J. M. Smith, at 220 Plainfield avenue, and embarked in the grocery business at that location. The Lemon & Wheeler Company furnished the stock. A. F. & Daniel Meloche recently be- gun foreclosing proceedings against W. I. Benedict & Co., the Belding druggists, whereupon their claim was purchased by the Hazeltine & Parkins Drag Co., which discontinued the proceedings and placed Benedict & Co. in the stock. possession of Samuel Krause, “who conducted a re- tail shoe store at Ann Arbor for three years, and for the past five years has traveled in Michigan, Nebraska and Col- orado for the Harrisburg Shoe Co., of Harrisburg, Pa., has purchased an in- terest in the leather and findings estab- lishment of Hirth, Krause & Co. and will remove to this city and go on the road for the house. The boys connected with the Lemon & Wheeler Company and the Ball-Barnhart- Putman Co. played a matched game of base ball at the Fountain street park Saturday, resulting in a score of 26 to 6 in favor of the furmer. The victors at- tribute their success to their battery, Roy H. Dailey and Chas. J. Watkins. | Byron Stockbridge Davenport (Olney & | Judson Grocer Co.) officiated as umpire in a highly satisfactory manner. ———>_- The Grocery Market. Sugar—The market has ruled steady and unchanged during the period under review, but demand has been less active as compared with last week. Refiners have caught up on their oversales and are now shipping all grades promptly. The outlook is favorable in the near fu- ture for a continued steady market, with unchanged prices and, if anything, the tendency is upward in sympathy with the firm market for the raw material. Tea—The market remains without an- imation and the trade is simply awaiting the beginning of operations on the part of country buyers. As not a great deal is expected at this season, sellers are not | showing any disposition to force matters | in the way of concessions, as they think prices are on too low a basis now. There ; than ever before at | year. is nothing to stimulate the market and | for that reason holders await the legitimate trade wants rather than depress the market further. Stocks | are light throughout the country and it! would seem that a more liberal move- ment must soon begin. Molasses—Prices are fully maintained | and holders show much confidence in the | future of the market. The situation os! are content te! reeord. | wendened better by the strong statistical | Spearmint is in position of the article, stocks of desira- | stronger. better demand and H. G. H. pepper-mint is very ble grades being very low, in facet lower! firm, and very little stock is obtainable. this of the Very four months will elapse before new crop goods come and from present appearances there will not be enough to go around. In New Or- leans stocks are practicaily exhausted, except the black stuff, which is unsala- ble. Foreign molasses is in fair demand at steady prices. Holders are confident regarding the future, as stocks are well concentrated and under excellent con- trol. season nearly Spices— Buyers have not as yet taken any considerable quantities of goods, but they appear to be feeling their way pre- paratory to the fall trade. About the only feature of importance this week is the break in the London clove market. It is said that the Operators are working the market, as they want to get control of the unsold portion of the new crop, and as soon as they accomplish that, that values will advance again. Several va- rieties of pepper are a trifle lower, but there has been no business of moment done. Calcutta ginger is slightly off, while African is somewhat easier on the large stock here. In mace and nutmegs trade is quiet. The former is a little stiffer, while nutmegs are weaker. Oranges—The California crop is pretty well cleaned up. The few yet to come forward are soft and spongy excepting, possibly, a few Bloods and St. Michaels, but these grades are too high priced to sell freely with the general trade in small towns. For the next two months Rodi and Sorrento offerings will com- prise all that is worth handling in the orange line and prices will probably range from $3.50@4 per box. Lemons—Really good fruit continues to bring fair prices. There is a great amount of Verdella stock being offered, which sells very cheap, but the unlucky buyer will, undoubtedly, consider it high priced before his stock is disposed of. With any kind of to- be-expected weather during August, there is sure to be an ad- vance Over present prices, especially for fancy grades. Bananas—Loeal dealers report a most uncertain and vacillating demand, which renders it difficult to keep provided with stock, and of the dealers—those who handle domestic fruit largely—are thinking of dropping out bananas alto- gether until the demand is stimulated by a cleaning up of the small fruits, which seem to have the call at present. _> 2 <> The Drug Market. Acids—Citrie has been reduced 1¢ per Ib. by manufacturers. Salicylie is un- settled and irregular and the market is thoroughly demoralized. Boracie is without further quotable change. Tar- taric is meeting with an average demand and values continue firm. Balsams—Couopaiba is jobbing steadily at the old range, but no large sales are reported. The recent heavy arrivals of gurjon balsam are attracting considera- ble attention, being the some largest on Canada fir is in better de- mand. Essential steady undertone, with continued activity in the various leading descriptions. | Anise has been advanced. Cassia is also | |higher. Holders of cajeput have ad- vanced their views Owing to scarcity. Peru and tolu are both quiet | but steady. Oils—The market has a/ Flowers—Arnica and chamomile are both in good demand and steady at quoted prices. American saffron has quieted down and only a light jobbing demand is reported. Gums—There is a little more doing in camphor without change in prices, but the tone is firmer, owing to advices from primary sources, and there are indica- tions of another upward movement. The continued disturbed condition of affairs in Formosa is expected to stop shipments from that point. Kino is in seasonable demand and steady. Leaves—The general market is quiet, with little doing outside of short buchu and senna. The Tinnevelly varieties of the latter are steadily hardening and stocks are very much reduced. Alexan- dria are meeting with a largely increased demand at the old range of prices. Morphine—Has ruled easy in sympathy with opium, and on Monday last a gen- eral reduction of 10¢ per ounce was made in manufacturers’ quotations. Opium—Estimates of the new crop are unchanged but thought to be somewhat exaggerated, although a total yield of 10,000 baskets may be looked for. Opium being a favorite article of speculation among the Armenians and natives of Turkey, and the fact that the profits ac- cruing to the wool growing interests of those countries have been something ex- traordinary this year, it is among the possibilities that unusually low prices for opium may result in the bulk of the current year’s output being taken up by speculators, and that foreign buyers would be compelled to pay advanced fig- ures. Another factor not to be lost sight of is the internal dissensions now existing in Turkey and the strained ef- forts of that government to obtain money, which may result in the impost of an ex- port duty on opium. Such action would be gladly welcomed by the native mer- chants, as they could easily recoup them- selves from foreign purchasers, and thus prevent the curtailment of their re- sources. Roots—There is a continued strong market for ipecac, but the demand is seasonably light and no business of con- The Grain Market. The past week has seen sharp changes. The longs forced an advance of 5e and then the 2@3e. Finally, the innings, and, it was on The smart ones on both sides had their innings, with the longs on top. The visible decreased 1,254,000 bushels, leaving only 38,000,000 bushels, against about 55,000,000 in 1894. While the ex- ports are the smallest since 1891, the re- ceipts are of the same tenure, being very small. The fact is, higher prices will have no prevail. The only When will they come? Our opinion is that it will be in the near future. While we do not expect to see it go to $1 all at once, we do feel positive it will be con- siderable above the present forced it down longs had bears their at the close of the week, top again. question is, level, as we now have an advance of 50 per cent. from the low point in April. Corn is about the same price as last week. Oats have dropped a few points and are, probably, about as low as they will be on this crop. The receipts of wheat are being only 46 ears. and nine cars of oats also came in. is above the average for oats. C. G. A. Voier nominal, Fifteen ears of corn This Mason Fruit Jars cartave. sequence is reported. Jalap has been . ainiedl yore ree 7 sf more active and prices for desirable Half gallons, wide mouth... 3 +2 qualities are somewhat steadier. Same packed in straw as 5 -_——_—~ +4 <> cents DCT Bross i€ss. Be on hand for new Japan Teas. They | xtra caps and rubbe Se $3.5 are now seasonable. Gillies’ Fans are _— oo , saaoags sa the best. 7 Vo te ince ARTHUR J. WATKINS WATKINS& AXE, Wholesale Produc FRESH EGGS, CHOICE CREAMERY and rr oe son Northern Trade Solicited for Meats and Produce Phone 395 ecial \t to ¢ frments oe 1 and Buying o fick 84 and 86 South Division St., GRAND RAPIDS. INCLUDE A CASE OF KOFFA- AID In your next order t to your Jobber A NEW ARTICLE to be used in connection with Coffee. Guaranteed not to contain one particle of chicory or deleterious ingre dients. It pays you a profit of 33 per cent. THE KOFFA-AID C0. Saves the consumer 2: > per cent. DETROIT, MICH. peaseas anes uae CR tne tn Ar SG LA 6 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN AN UNSUCCESSFUL CLERE. Confessions of a Man Who Never Made His Mark. iil. My first afternoon with Samson & Crown was one of interested and wonder- ing investigation. The senior partner, whose good sense and business ability were tinged with a pleasant vein of humor, sat down with me, and talked fora half hour upon the opportunities before me, and the things that it would be to my advantage to undertake or to avoid. **Don’t learn too fast, Henry,’’ said he, ‘and let us older heads manage the store for the present. There is one boy I like a little less than the one who knows nothing, and that is the one whvu knows it all. Keep your eyes and ears open, and ask all the questions you wish of us here in the store, but don’t do any talking on the outside. Look among the goods and learn all you can concerning them, but don’t think you knowall about them too soon. If you are waiting upon a customer, and are not certain as to price or quality, come to one of us and find out. Be sure your figures are right before your customer goes, and cvunt over your change a dozen times, if neces- sary, until you know it is correct. Treat all who come in with politeness. If any one angers or aggravates you, Keep silent, and come right to me. One feature of my department is to do all the swearing and jawing-back for the wbole estabiish- ment.’’ Turning toaslim and pleasant young man, who was my senior by some twu years, Mr. Samson said: **Almon, | turn this boy over to you. Teach him the cost and selling marks and instruct him in his present duties. Help him in ail possible ways, and see that he does not learn too fast. Wedon’t want his vital energies so exhausted in the first week, that he will feel permanently tired ever after.” (lL thought to myself as he spuke: “Tired! I guess not. It must be the pleasantest kind of fun to work ina place like this.’”’ I was longing to get back of the counter at once.) The store of Samson & Crown was lo- cated upou Market street, was of brick and consisted of three stories and a base ment. The firm had been in business for a number of years, and held asteady, reliable trade, many customers coming from points from ten to twenty miles away. While dry goods comprised the bulk of their stock, they also handied furs, carpets, boots and shoes, hats and caps, took orders for men’s clothing to be made up, aud bought butter, eggs, dried apples, feathers* paper-rags, etc. In accordance with the custom of the time and place, they marked their goods at a fair price, and then took what they could get after haggling with the cus- tomer; charged a great deal upon the books, 25 per cent. of which was never collected; and paid for the produce above enumerated in trade. They enjoyed the company of three employes, counting the youth who had just arrived. The head clerk, Smith Raymond by name, was a man of middle age and uucertain temper, who looked after the finances and kept the books. His associate, Almon Nichols, wasa most excellent clerk, a student of bouks and of people; a pure, high-minded boy, whose influence and example upon me were ever of the most helpful and beneficent kind. His kindness, during the time we were together, was of a most tender character, and the memory thereof has abided in my soul with pleasant fragrance through all these years. Almon took me in hand, and revealed the mysteries of store keeping, as seen from various points uf view, from attic to cellar. Of the dried apple and feather department upon the top floor, he said: “You will be immediately made full manager up here. | have had that honor for two years past.’’ My young heart glowed at the prospect of responsibility. ‘*Will I stay up here and buy and sell these goods?’ | asked. “No. But you will come up about! butter. The paper-rags come on the list only when the buyer come around, which is about once each month. Is your muscle pretty good?”’ A somewhat brighter prospect was re- vealed to me down in the store proper. We spent an hour in going over the stock, and locating the departments. My Men- tor made a couple of diagrams, and asked me what they meant. The first one was like this: mMmietpitak ee [kee éea 468 8 ‘Is ita game?” I asked. “Don't make game of everything you | don’t understand, my boy. That’s our| cost mark. Look at the tags on these dress goods. Do you see that upper line?” Ldid. it was: 10. ‘Each letter on the top line stands for the figure underneath. The 1O means that this piece of goods cost twenty-eight cents a yard. Now this is our selling mark: G Aaa (ee eeee nee *“*You see this mark on the upper line of the tag: FN? That means that this piece of goods, which cost twenty-eight cents per yard, is to be sold for forty— if we can get it.” Even in the silent watches of the night, [| arose and studied these price marks. They were plastered all over the barn and schouvlhouse at home, as these familiar scenes returned to me in my dreams; Samson and Crown and both clerks were at my elbow at various times between bed-time and dawn, shouting them into my ears. The rest of the time { was packing eggs, dried-apples and dress goods into a great butter tub. There were other causes for dreaming. Almon had explained the arrangements that had been made for my board and lodging. ‘You will take your meals with me at Mr. Samson’s,”’ he said, ‘tand sleep in the store for its protection. Are you afraid to stay here alone?’’ 1 could truthfully answer that 1 was not. **Here’s your bed.’’ He led me to a long, broad table at the further end of the store. It was used during the day for the display and sale of cotton cloth, several bolts of which were ever in evidence. *-Do L sleep on these?’’ He showed me a feather bed, a pillow and some blankets in a box under the table. ‘*You pull this out, pile them on the table, and there you are. Here’s your gun,” he added, producing from the drawer av ancient Colt’s revolver, as long as his arm. ‘lf a burglar tries to getin, just pull the trigger, and let him have i” it struck me that this was thrusting considerable responsibility upon a boy from the country, at $100 per year. But | took the weapon as though shooting midnight prowlers was an incidental of the business that could not be over- looked. Thank heaven, there was never any need of carrying his instructions into effect. The labors of this first day of exhilirat- ing excitement ended with the filling of the coal box, the putting up of the shut- ters, and a half-hour’s exercise with the broom. With head upon the pillow, lL was able to review my experiences with some measure of coolness, and then pass into dreamland down an avenue hung with the garlands of hope and promise. — Hardware. > The Spanish government has placed orders to the extent of $12,500,000 in England for gunboats and other war ma- terial. That’s right. She’ll need ’em. If she doesn’t look out for herself, she'll have something besides poor little Cuba on her hands. eee Connecticut has been making herself ridiculous. She does that once ina while. This time she indulged in a frost on July 20. Eleven years ago she once in two weeks and pack them for|had the same lark on the Ist of the shipment. It will take another day each week for the eggs, and about two for the’ month, when, if reports are true, there was a frost every month in the year. OANDIES, FRUITS and NUTS The Putnam Candy Co. quotes as follows: STICK CANDY. Cases Bbls. Pails. —, woe re... 5 2 ae... ie 6 7 - erie 6 7 Bosten Cromm............ 8% Cut imat....... Lene 8 Baa G.... S% MIXED CANDY. Bbls. Pails ee 5% 6% or oe eee eee ce 6 7 ee 6% 7% eee 7 8 et z 8% een 6% 7% | Broken Taey.............. baskets | Peanut Squares eee 8 French Creams...... i. 9 | wale Comeme.. .............. 12% Midget, 30 Ib. basket . ee Panoy—In bulk Pails omer pee... 8% : = ee 9% (Ones vo Checolate Monumentais..................... CO ee ee ‘ Moss Drops...... ee ee ec eee ee Th Hour Deope.......... a 8 ae 9 Fancy—In 5 lb. boxes. Per Box Been PEO 50 ti. 50 Pepperm a Prom 60 Pomoc. 65 HM. — Drops oe ttc. 35@50 Licorice Drops.. .... to A. B. Licorice Drops.. — % Lozenges, ae C.. 1 eee. 60 — so 65 imperials.. ee 60 eee . 70 ote le, 55 Molasses Bar.. ee 50 Hand Made Creams... oa SQ Piste Crome... 6. @s0 Doreen 90 String Rock.. seekers 60 Burnt Almonds...... boeee e .-- 90@' 25 Wintergreen Bere 60 CARAMELS. No. 1, wrapped, 2 22>. bOxen....... No. 1, 3 gs No. 2, ' 2 ens ORANGES, Medt. — eee 3 C0 re eee 3d Zouli’s, ”900’s.. . ee eee 4 00 LEMONS. Bieter, we... 8. 8. Paney a .........-._. ono ae 5 00 mautre Panes, 3) .......... oe ee oe oe Extra Choice, 3) ....... oe Paecy, =... ee 5 50 BANANAS. [acre bees... tk , @1, 75 Small bunches........... o.oo ore @l OTHER FOREIGN FRUITS, Pigs, fancy layers 16m ........ 13 oe “e “ce 30k LL - oui ee en 15 ** bags -- Dates, Pard, 10-Ib. ‘box... ee eater eae oe @z P . . oO - seule. G. M. 5U lb box... . 3 4% NUTS. Almonds, ee ee ee ee oo @ 15 = soft shelled oo ee @i% Filberts .. oe @10 Walnuts, Ce @i4 ae @ 4 or Met @i12 . Sett Shelled Calif... 00100... @i3 Tapie Nuts. fancy.. ha oo @10K choice . @? Pecans, Texas, H. P| Lee, ee 8 @i2 ee... Hickory Wuteper bu., Mich............ (Cossmmets, Pall enoke. ........... ..... 3 65 Beseree per be... isck Welw, per ia........... ...... PEANUTS. Fancy, H. P., Game Cocks.. i @ - eee... @iw% Fancy, H. P, Association . Shin . moetoe,....... STH Choice, H. Ps Extras..... ee @ 4% “Roasted. ...... @ 6% FRESH MEATS, BEEP. ee 5 @7 Fore quarters. =| he ene eos 3%@ 4 Hind quarters... 8 @9 ees. \ @10 — 8 @12 ss... Ce 64@ ™ ae... i. con a rae. © ie teeter. Oe 2 PORK premee on ——— 54@ 6% ae 11% oes. 8 onto. oe oe 8 MUTTON. I er eo :2 oy Soe ee 6 @7 VEAL, Cees |. tk sie khhbdeee -6 @ 6K June 16, 1895 CHICAGO AND WEsT MICHIGAN R’Y. GOING TO CHICAGO. Ly. G’d Rapids 6: aaa a ea *6 :30pm *11:30pm Ar. Chicago ..12:05 pm 6:00am * 6:25am RETU ENING 1 FROM CHICAGO. iy. Ceicaee........._.. 7:2Cam 5:00pm *11:45pm Ar. Gd Rapids........ 12 2: 7:40pm 10:40pm *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 1:00pm 11:10pm Ar. Maniatee........ 12:55pm Ar. Traverse City.... *1:20pm 4:50pm 4:00am Ar. Charlevoiz...... *3:50pm 6:30pm 6:30am Ar. Petoskey... *4:20pm 6:55pm 7:00am Trains arrive from north at 5:30am, 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,5:00pm. 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. R. GOING TO DETROIT. Lv. Grand Rapids...... 7:00am 1:20pm 5:25pm Ar. Detroit... ... -11:40am 5:30pm 10:10pm RETURNING FROM DETROIT. iy. Desreit....:....._.. 7:40am 1:10pm 6:00pm Ar. Grand Rapids...... 12:40pm 5:20pm 10:45pm TO AND FROM SAGINAW, ALMA AND 8T. LOUIS, Lv. GR 7:40am 5:00pm Ar. G@ R.11:35am 10:45pm TO AND FROM LOWELL. Ly. Grand Rapids.. . 7:00am 1:20pm 5:25pm Ar. from Lowell.......... 12:40pen G-20pm ....... THROUGH CAR SERVICE. Parlor Carson all trains between Grand Rap- ids and Detroit. Parlor car to Saginaw on morn- ingtrain. re week days only. . M. Futter Chief Clerk, Pass. Dep't. MICHIGAN AN (CENTRAL “‘Txe Niagara Falis Route.’’ Arrive. Depart 1020npm....... Detroié Express ........7 am 6 30am ..*Atlantic Express. .... 11 20pm il ®am ..... New York Expross...... 6 0pm *Daily. All others daily, except Sunday. Sleeping cars run on all night trains to and from Detroit. Parlor cars leave for Detroit at 7:00 a m, reaching Detroit at 12:20 p m; returning, leave Detroit 4:35 pm, arriving at Grand Rapids 10:20 pm. Direct communication made at Detroit with all through trains erst over the Michigan Cen- tral Railroad (Canada Southern Division.) . ALMQuIsT, Ticket Agent, Union PassengerStation. ETROIT, GRAND HAVEN & MIl1.- WAUKEE Railway. EASTWARD. Trains Leave (tNo. 14|tNo. 16|tNo. 18/*No. G - ati net 6 45am/10 20am — 1100pm foam... .... 7 40am|11 25am) 427pm/1235am St. aaa he 8 25am|1217pm| 520pm} 1 25am Crens> ..-..- rT 900am} 120pm) 605pm! 3 10am E. Saginaw ashame 3 45pm/ 8 00pm} 6 40am Bay City ....Ar|11 3am] 435pm/ § 37pm/ 715am Flint .... .-. Ar/1005am| 345pm| 705pm!/ 5 40am rs. Huron. .Ar 112 05pm 550pm/ 850pm! 7 30am Pontiac _.Ar |10 53am 305pm)| 8 25pm! 5 37am Detroit.......Arj1150am| 405pm! 925pm/ 7 00am WESTWARD. For Grand Haven and Intermediate ee *8; - : m. For Grand Haven and Muskegon..... +1:00 p. m “ Mil.andChi. 35 b. m. For Grand Haven, Mil. and Chi...... *7:40 p. m. For Grand Haven and Milwaukee....+10:05 p. m. +Daily except Sunday. *Dail} Trains arrive from the east, 6: 35 a. m., p.m., 5:30 p. m., 10:v0 p.m. Trains arrive from the west, 6:40 a, m. 8:15 a.m. 10:10 a. m. 3:15 pm. and 7:05 p, m. Eastward—No. 14 has Wagner Paricr Buffet car. No. 18 Parlor Car. No.82 Wagner Sleeper. Westward — No. 11 ParlorCar. No. 15 Wagner Parlor Buffet car. No. 81 Wagner Sleeper. Jas. CAMPBELL, City T'cket Agent. Grand Rapids & Indiana R. R. Schedule in effect June 23, 1895, 12:50 NORTHERN DIV. Lv. Ar. Saginaw and Cadillac...... . +7 00am +11 30am Trav. Cy. Petoskey & Mack....*8 00am +5 25pm T:av.Cy.Petos.&Harbor Sps...+1 40pm +10 i5pm Saginaw snd Reed City....... +4 45pm_ til 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. Ly. Ar. Ft. Wayne & Kalamazoot 7 25am + 9 15pm +t 1 30pm -t 2 15pm * 6 50am Cin. Ft. Wayne and Kalamazoo.. Cin., Ft. Wayne & Kalamazoot 6 00pm Balemerbo. 0000) 000. *11 40pm * 9 20am 725 am train has parlor car to Cincinnati. 600 pm train has sleeping cars to Cincinnati, Indianapolis and Louisville. CHICAGO TRAINS. Lv. Grand Rapids...+7 25am +2 15pm *11 40pm Ar. Coeeere.......... 240pm 9 05pm 7 10am 215 pm train has through coach. 1140 pm train has through coach and sleeping car. Ly. Chicago........ +6 50am +3 00pm ‘il 30pm Ar. Grand Rapids... 1 30pm = 9 15pm 6 50am 300 pm train has through coach and il se pm has through coach me sleeping car. USKEGON TRAINS. Lv.Gd. Rapidst?. 25am +100pm {8 30am ¢ 5 50pm Ar.Muskegon 850am 2 10pm "9 55am 7 05 pm Lv. Muskegont9 13am +12 05pm +6 30pm + 4 05pm ** Gd.Rapidsi0 30am 115pm 755pm 5 20pm + Except Sunday. * Daily. + Sunday only. A. ALMQUIST, C. i. LOCKWOOD, Gen. Pass.& Tkt.Agt. Ticket Agt. Un. Sta. a “ i 2 i = % Value of Position on the Morning Mar- ket. Whoever loiters along the line of mar- ket wagons with his eyes half open will come to the conclusion, before ue has gone far, that there are things to learn there besides the price of fruits and veg- etables. The growers have a belief, amounting almost to a superstition, that some particular place along the line is sure to secure the earliest and the most profitable sales. There may be some- thing in this theory, fora place held by a thrifty grower until those who have purchased his produce come to like him and his goods may be more desirable than another location not usually occupied by a thrifty grower, but I would be willing, were I that grower, to take my chances and not be wandering over the country in the small! hours of the night for the sake of getting exactly in the middle of the line. Choice produce and fruits is what the early marketer is after and he will not put up with an inferior article from the middle wagon, when one farther up or down has better goods. Position, then, is one thing, but by no means all. I am open to criticism in making the statement that the best produce is al- most sure to come in company with the best cared for teams. Of course, there are exceptions; but a snug wagon, with a well-cared-for horse or horses, is almost sure to have a clear-eyed driver with certain signs about him which lead one to expect good and attractive produce when the covering is removed. If he has raspberries, the chances are that he has the best in the market. If blackber- ries make up his load, the old prompting of boyhood comes back, and it is hard to get by that wagon without sampling. I have never cared particularly for rad- ishes, but | found it no easy matter to let some crisp specimens go untouched which I saw the other morning, so fresh and so pink and so clean they looked. They, too, were in a well-cared for wagon, drawn by a well-groomed horse. As I said, there are exceptions, but one thing a rambler on the market can learn if he will—that like produces like—and that the farmer who brings good goods will never be compelled to take them home. Desiring to test the truth of this state- ment, I concluded to follow it up. By 8 o’clock, the market is usually as lone- some as a graveyard. Is it possible that day after day every box and basket has its buyer and nothing left over? after wagon became empty and started homeward; and, finally, when waiting became weariness, I said to a jolly young farmer whose razor had been misplaced for several days, ‘‘Do you ever have to take any peaches home?’’ ‘““Never,’’? was the prompt reply. ‘‘If we can’t do anything else, we eat up every d——d one of ’em!”’ When | left the market, there were signs that the unkempt young man had a bountiful breakfast to dispose of before going back to his peach orchards. RAMBLER. Fruit Skins Should Not Be Eaten. Fruits ; and d Produce Wagon. | THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN uriant growth of microbes, that of the grape only less so; and when these skins are taken into the stomach they have more favorable couditions for their lively and rapid gdevelopment, which cause the decay of the fruit before it is possible to digestvit. This is the season many persons think they cannot eat raw fruit. If they would in all cases discard the skin they could derive only good from the fruit itself. Nature provides the skin for the protection of the fruit from the multitude of germs which are ever ready to attack it, as is evidenced when the skin is bruised or broken in any way. The microbes at once begin their work ‘of decay, and the fruit is un- | fit for food. Chilaren are chief offenders in respect to this rule, and should be carefully watched and frequently cau tioned. A daintiness as to the condition of fruit should also be cultivated, to pre- vent its being eaten unripe, or too old, on the verge of decay. Remember that it is sweet and ripe fruit, in prime con- dition only that is recommended. —_— > <> - Cinch bugs have been having a picnic in Central Tennessee, and the way they are trying to get rid of the pestsisa novel one. < Infected bugs are to be dis- tributed among the swarms in the hope that the disease will spread. ——_—_———P_—J fo It looks as if Southern California will pull through. She lacks a little good- for-nothing $150,000 to make her income from oranges this season $2,000,000. To- | day she is busy selling Bartlett pears at | $25 a ton. > 2. > New Jersey has been doing what she can for the Thanksgiving dinner. Her cranberries never gave better promise, and it looks now as if the crop will equal | that of 1893, the largest one on record. ——_—_—_—~ +29 Delaware is reported as looking good- natured—with the prospect of 1,500,000 baskets of peaches worth $750,000, the | biggest crop she has had in ten vears, PRODUCE MARKET. \pples—Home grown are in adequate supply and are meeting with fair demand. Duchess of Oldenburg command 40¢, while yellow harvest fruit and Red Astrachans bring 25@30c. Beets—New, 10c per doz. Blackberries—Lawtons, 8@ 10c per qt. Butter—Factory creamery is’stationery at 18@ 9c, Dairy is in fair demand at 15@16c. Cabbage—Home grown is now inamplesupply, commanding 50@60e per doz. The size is small, but the quality is fair. Celery—Home grown commands 18@20c per doz. bunches. The quality is good. Demand fair. Cucumbers-—-Home grown, 20@25e per doz. Eggs— Handlers pay 10c and hold at 10'%@lic ina regular jobbing way. Green Corn—s@l0c per doz. In ordering dealers should be particular to specify sweet corn, or they will be likely to receive field corn. ws the growers find it easier to produce field cornu, Whichis very much inferior to the sweet variety. Onions—Green command ~ 8@10e per doz. bunches. Home grown Yellow Danvers are in moderate request and adequate supply at 60@75e per bu. Peaches—The market has been flooded all the | week with Alexanders, which have sold down as low as 12¢ per bu., which involves a considerable loss to the grower. Until this season, Alexan- ders hav» met a fair demand, but, for some rea- son, the trade his refused to take hold of them to any considerable extent this year, and most | of the growers assert that they will cut down all grown have not yet put in an appearance Fruit skins carry germs, and are no more intended for human than potato skins, melon rinds or pea pods. The bloom of the peach is a lux- sustenance . the trees they have of that variety, or graft them with other varieties. The Alexanders look w ell, so far as appearances go, but they are of no use, except to eat from the hand, as the juice is abont all that can be utilized. Loeal handlers have billed them out at 25@50¢ per bu., accord- ing to the condition of the market the day of sale. Huale’s Early will begin to come in next week. Pears—#1.25 per bu. for Southern fruit Home! Potatoes—45@50¢e per bu. for Missouri or home | grown. Nearly enough is brought in by local growers to supply this market. Tomatoes—50@ 60 for 4 basket crate. Watermelons—I24%@lide apiece, according to size and quality. Wax Beans—50c per bu. for home grown. The Peach Crop promises to be large this year and as we have had some rains lately, expect that quality will be good. We shall handle more this year than ever before and are in position to give yout orders prompt and careful attention. Corres pond with me early and let me know how many you will need daily. Alexanders have been coming in for the past week. prices ranging from 40¢ to #1 per bushel. They are elingstones and are not very desirable goods to handle. but if you can use any, shall be p eased to receive your orders and will make prices a- low sible on day of sh. pment. Apples are coming in better every day, and we have a pote ate y daily of AsStrachans, Dutchess, Sweet Boughs, Sour Boughs and all other varieties that are in market. Quote you Astrachans, Early Harvest and Sour Boughs at £2.50 to $3.00 per bb. (sugar bbls.) 44% bu. Dutchess, Maiden Blush and Sweet Boughs #2 to 2.25 for 3-bu. bbls. Po atoes a0c per bu. Beets, 60¢ per bu. Turnips, 60¢ per bu. Wax Beans,*50e yer bu. Celery, 20¢ doz. Cucumbers, *5e a doz. Onions, Radishes and Carrots, 10¢ atdoz. Home-grown cabbages 10 to Hc a doz. Melons, 16to 18e. Tomatoes. 65 to 75e. Pop corn, 3e per Ib. Shallgbe pleased t> have your ma | orders. HENRY J. VINKEMULDER, 418-420-445-447 S. Division St. , Grand Rapids as ne Everything for the Field and Garden Clover, Medium or Mammoth, AIl- syke, Alialfa and Crimson, Timo thy, Hungarian Millet, Peas and Spring Rye. Garden Seeds in bulk and Garden Tools. Headquarters for Egg Cases and Fillers. } e | 128 to 132 W. Bridge St., Grand Rapids, Mich. We guarantee the Highest Market Price for Butter and Eggs. If you have any to dispose of, let us know at once. Yours truly, (C0. OTN 4 U. 42 Jefferson Avenue DETROIT, Mich. 45 South Division St. 142 Woodbridge St.W. COA HAY, GRAIN SEEDS, PRODUCE. Orders Promptly Fillec VW rite tor Ouotations HOLLAND, TCH. B. E. PARKS DRAFTSMAN} and ENGINEER, Lock Box 80, Grand Rapins, [lich. Inventions and New Ideas as perf ected Power Plants des gned. erect Steam Engines rintended er measured = (COAL. 5. P. BENNETT FUEL AND IGE C0. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. A. HIMES. Wholesale Shipper COAL, LIME, CEMENTS, SEWER PIPE, ETC. I CANAL ST. GRAND RAPIDS. THOS. BE. WYKES COAL Wood, Lime, Sewer Pipe, Flour, Feed, Ete "Cae nce solicited GRAND RAPIDS WHOLESALE RE ETAL A MORMAN & C0. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. LIME, CEMENT, HAIR, SEWER PIPE, BRICK, LAND PLASTER, FIRE CLAY. We sell Alsen’s German Port: best int und Cement—the he world for sidewalk work Eggs, Ete. Car lots or less. If you wish to buy or sell write us. MOSELEY BROS., Jobbers SEEDS, BEANS, POTATOES, FRUITS. SEEDS, POTATOES, BEANS We handle all kinds FIELD2SEF DS, Clover, wheat, Field Peas, Spring Rye, Barley, Ete irian, Millet, Buck ‘1s, Beans, Seeds, Timothy, Buy and sell EGG CRATES and EGG CRATE FILLERS. 26-28-30-32.0TTAWA STREET Grand Rapids, Mich. WHOLESALE COMMISSION... ov | TVE Poultry BUTTER, EGGS, FRUITS and VEGETABLES. We can get you the Highest Mar- ket Price at all times. r. DETTENTHALER, '117=119 Monroe Street, = Grand Rapids, Mich. J Reagice treat HupLABRURRY EE Zh em oe ee 8 Ca ne ee THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN er FSS MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Devoted to the Best Interests of Business Men Published at the New Blodgett Building, Grand Rapids, by the ITRADESMAN COMPANY ONE DOLLAR A YEAR, Payable in Advance. ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION. ted fre ny m prac ical business 1dents must give t ! their full lica Subse their nH heir pa No paper ¢ he fi } at the option of earages are paid. ree to any address. When writing to any of our Advertisers, please say that you saw the advertisement in the Michigan Tradesman. FA. STOWE, Epiror. WEDNESDAY, JULY 31, 1895. THE SACREDNESS OF THE STREET. itis a common idea that the abuse of whatever pertains to the public is tne individual’s peculiar privilege. The one has no rights which the other is bound to respect. Time, thought and money are expended to promote the pub- lic welfare; convenience and comfort are sacrificed for the public good; and, when the result is reached, private inter est steps in and appropriates to itself what was intended to be sacred to com- mon weal. There is nothing which conduces more to the healthfulness of a city or village than the care of its streets. They are the arteries and veins through which its life currents flow. Clog these and the municipal health becomes impaired. Neglect them and the town languishes. So true is this that they who have in hand the sanitary conditions of the city and town have come to consider the streets as a charge little less than sacred and they have come to believe that, un- less the sacredness of the street becomes, as it should be, a matter of public con- cern, little can be done to secure and maintain that high development—moral as well as physical—which should be the aim and boast of every urban commu- nity. Much of the desecration of the streets is, doubtless, due to thoughtlessness. The banana gives up its nutritious pulp and the careless consumer tosses the skin to the sidewalk or the pavement. The peanut bag and the newspaper wrap- per are given to the winds, to scare the horses, to wreck the carriages, and en- danger the lives of both pedestrians and drivers. Bottles, no longer needed, are thrown into the street where, whole or in pieces, they lie in wait to cut and lame the boy or beast who treads upon them. The carbon stick, its mission over, rests from its labor in the street where it has been dropped by the are light tender; and, as sure as the coming of the morning, the sweepings of the store are too often thrown out upon the sidewalk or into the gutter. Wagons go and come and the streets are littered with their loads. Here the manure cart leaves its offensive trail; there the saw- dust sifts as the wagon joggles along. Loads of hay and of straw go by and each leaves a sample as it passes. What difference does it make? It is a public street. Thoughtlessness and convenience are here the leading traits, and it is con- sidered the individual’s peculiar privi- lege to abuse what pertains to public in- terest. Thereis nothing sacred which the city owns—the streets least of all. This desecration of the streets is not always the result of carelessness and in- difference. There is too much method in the lawlessness to locate the mischief with either. Chance never set up one of these poles and strung it with wires to disfigure the arteries of trade. Not a thoroughfare has ever been torn up and left to the detriment of the town because somebody forgot. Public sidewalks have never been turned into private store- houses, nor made the dumping places of empty boxes and ash barrels without a thorough knowledge, on the part of somebody, of what has been going on. In fact, the sacredness of the streets has never been violated in the interests of private gain, unconsciously, and if the public has any right to speak of it, it is the peculiar privilege of individual greed to abuse it. Paris, by common consent, is the cleanest city on the face of the earth. For an hour or more every morning it is washed and scrubbed. It is literally as clean as it can be. Not a particle of paper, not a bit of refuse is seen about the streets; and whatever is offensive and unavoidable is at once removed. Once clean, it is taken care of, and man, woman and child are taught that the leading virtue of a true Parisian is best seen in the care he helps to take of the finest city the world knows. The streets of Paris are held sacred in the eyes of her citizens, and this is one of the vir- tues which causes Paris to be the wonder and the envy of all. The principle upon which municipal life depends in America is wrong. ‘The individual is not more than the state and never can be. The public has rights and the individual is bound to respect them, and when carelessness and convenience and personal greed interfere with these rights, the public—which is the guardian of us all—is bound to protect itself and us. It is the general good that is sought after, and tbe citizen, irrespective of age, sex or condition, can work for this general good in no way more effectively or more surely, in season and out of sea- son, than by insisting upon holding in- violate the sacredness of the street. The Cuban situation, while increasing in interest, is rather monotonous in that every movement goes through the same routine First, there is a great Spanish victory, in which the insurgents suffer severe loss. Then a rumor is sent out to the effect that the Spaniards did not have it all their own way, and, finally, comes full information that the Spaniards are badly beaten and frequently in imminent danger of being cut to pieces. With a continuance of such victories, it will be some time before the island is reduced to submission. One result of the changed conditions, on account of the war in China, is a great stimulation in the trade with this country in ornaments for women’s wear, such as shell buttons, bangles, ‘‘cat’s eyes,’’ etce., as well as beads, rosaries. earrings, bracelets and necklaces and other ornaments where pearl is used. It is stated that the Chinese utilize as many as fifty species of shell fish. RING IN THE NEW. In the heat of the discussion which is going on among the press and the people in regard to the New Woman—what she shall do and what she shal! wear—would it not be well enough to ask something about the New Man, and whether, after all, the newness lies only in the develop- ment of something old as creation itself —the human nature which first found a home in Eden? It may not be a pleasure for the man, new or old, to consider; but, if he be true tothe mother who bore him and to the wife who loves him, he willingly ad- mits that the new conditions of the woman are due to her love for him and her sympathy for him; and that these, as lasting as eternity, have prompted her to lighten his burden by taking it upon herself. When times are prosperous and the returns of his toil are abundant, she gladdens his life, by the sweet graceful- ness of her own; but when dark days come, with the same sweet gracefulness, she takes without a murmur her share of their burden—and often his—and with a laugh and a song plods, barefoot if need be, over the rough road, until easier times return. Once there was but one way; and with a heart as happy as when she donned the wedding gown, she put on her linsey woolsey and in the kitchen did what she could to make herself a blessing. In time she learned to teach, and many a wrinkle has she smoothed thereby from the anxious brow. Art whispered to her one day and with the one thought ip her heart to shift to her own shoulders the burden she felt she ought to carry, she listened and gave good heed; and now, with a bar nowhere to her progress, she still stands by the side of father and brother and husband, ready with the old laugh and the old song and the old-time gracefulness, to gladen by her own thrift the life ad- versity has darkened. “Ring in the new?” Thereis no new toringin. It is simply the same oid hu- man nature asserting itself. The woman has grown tired of seeing the man carry his burden and hers while she saunters along by his side with a parasol and a poodle. That is all there is toit. Inthe hour of ease, there is no reason why she shouldn’t be uncertain, coy and hard to get along with; but when pain and an- guish and hard times wring the brow, it isn’t the New Woman—there isn’t any such thing—that becomes a ministering angel, but it is the same old precious ar- ticle that badgered poor old Adam’s life almost out of him and drove them both out of the garden and then set to work and made him think that the best thing that ever happened to him was going through the gates of Eden and having it bolted behind him! Ring in the new! Very well, ring. Only remember that it is the newness of the springtime which, instead of hiding the dear old face of Nature, only makes it attractive in an- other of her ever-varying forms. That business in the United States is unusually good is shown by the Govern- ment report of receipts for postage stamps, postal cards and stamped en- velopes. Receipts increased last quarter $1,820,000 over the second quarter of 1894 and $1,220,000 over the corresponding period of 1893, which held the record up to the panic. As will be noted by the official call, published elsewhere in this week’s paper, 'the second annual convention of the Northern Michigan Retail Grocers’ Asso- ciation will be held at Reed City on Tues- day and Wednesday, Aug. 13 and 14. An exceedingly interesting and varied pro- gramme is being prepared and wili be announced in full in next week’s paper. The retail grocers of Reed City are mak- ing extensive preparations for the enter- tainment of their brethren, having se- cured the city hall without expense to the Association and having arranged to tender their guests a complimentary ban- quet on the evening of Aug. 13. Every grocer doing business contiguons to and north of the line of the D., G. H. & M. Railway is cordially invited to become a member of the Association, and it is hoped and expected that a large number will attend this convention. Increasing war rumors indicate that there is likely to be an epidemie of petty warfare in many parts of the world. Be- sides Spain’s efforts to subdue her rebel- lious American dependency, which has assumed proportions by no means petty, serious disturbances are in progress, or threatened, in various parts of the bor- der land between Turkey and Russia; a few little wars are in progress in differ- ent parts of Africa, and Franceis propos- ing to give the black mountaineers of Abyssinia a trouncing, while Japan is still pounding away at her new acquisi- tion, Formosa. Even the United States, not to be an exception, hasa little Indian war, which has already cost the lives of a large number of settlers in one of the valleys of Idaho. It looks as though it will be sometime yet before the science of warfare shall have become one of the lost arts. The general trade outlook continues favorable. The iron and steel industries lead in the advance, which, of course, give the greatest assurance of perma- nence. The demand for all kinds of manufactured iron is constantly increas- ing. Orders for rails amounted to 713,- 000 tons during the Jast six months, against 502,000 tons for the correspond- ing period in 1894. Copper is still ad- vancing, with greatly increased demand. Grain has advanced again, and there isa greatly improved outlook for textiles, with a tendency to advance in most lines. Sales of wool are very heavy, be- ing nearly double those of the corres- ponding time last year. Fusataro Tokano thinks the content- ment of the lower classes of Japanese a great misfortune. Their artistic sim- plicity, which foreigners admire, he con- siders a great obstacle to progress, and he thinks it the imperative duty of Jap- anese friends of humanity to agitate un- til Japanese labor becomes as discon- tented as American. When Debs gets out of jail, Mr. Tokano can engage his services to make Japan unhappy, upon the line of thought that if a werkingman is happy with his lot, it is the duty of a committee of walking delegates to sand- bag him, and make him think the world is against him. The Dry Goods Chronicle thinks it is a good thing to ‘‘be in touch’? with your employes. That’s all very proper but when it is suggested as well, to be on “easy footing” with them, the employe will be found to object. Fun aside, a common regard for the proprieties will prevent either extreme, a condition of ' things always to be deplored. vo Ue at ao eat THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 9 HUMAN DEMONS. There are men who devote to the ser- vice of crime talents and accomplish- ments which, if applied to useful and honorable purposes, would have made them eminent as good citizens and fam- ous in commerce, science and learning. It is a common belief that all men who were born of respectable parentage are naturally good, and only turn out other- wise because they were exposed to evil and unfortunate influences, and that there is never a time in their calmer moments when they would not, if cir- cumstances were favorable, repent and turn to better things. It is good to have so high an estimate of human nature, but in not a few cases it is one wholly erroneous and false. There are people who have gone wrong only because they have been the victims of extreme mis- fortune and of overwhelming temptation; they have been virtually driven to evil courses, and these are they who sin- cerely mourn their faults, and would, if they could, gladly turn to the right. But there are other evil-doers who are diametrically different. When a human being is wholly selfish, and any restraint or any individual is in the way of a desired gratification, that being will soon reach a point where he will hesitate at nothing to accomplish his desire. He will not stickle at mur- der, robbery or any other crime if that will assist him to his object, and he will never be troubled by any twinges of conscience or regret for his evil acts. The possibility of punishment is the only care he feels, and the inordinate egotism of such a man enables him to postpone the fear of punishment to the last moment. These are the criminals who are sel- dom brought to punishment for even the most flagrant crimes. They are so un- moved in the presence of the strongest evidence of their crimes that they attract a favorable regard from all spectators who will not believe that persons so ap- parently respectable and with so much coolness and_ self-possession can be guilty. One of these remarkable crimi- nalsis a young medical student named Durant, now undergoing trial at San Francisco. He had a reputation for piety and associated much with church people, being the librarian of a Sunday school of a Baptist church. He had special keys to the church and spent much time there when nobody else was supposed to be present. Two young girls, of good reputation, with whom Durant associated much and who were last seen in his company near the church, disappeared from their homes, and were, after many days of search, found murdered, under circum- stances of great atrocity, in the church. One of the girls had been most brutally assaulted and the other had, doubtless, been the victim of the murderer’s wiles. The indications of guilt pointed strongly to the religious Durant. The parse of one of the murdered girls was in his pocket; many circumstances con- spired to fix the crime upon him, and, despite his pretensions to piety, it came out that he is a man of brutal lusts, which had been most unscrupulously in- dulged. It was evident that he had mur- dered one of the girls because she had resisted his assault, and would, if spared. have denounced him to her friends. The murder of the other was necessary in or- der to prevent an exposure which would have been damaging to his repue! tation. A still more remarkable criminal is in jail in Philadelphia, under conviction for swindling a life insurance company, while detectives in half a dozen cities are seeking evidence of numerous murders charged to him. This man has had, per- Laps, the most astounding criminal ca- reer of modern times. His name, picked out from numerous aliases under which he has passed, is Herman W. Mudgett, but he has become so infamous as H. H. Holmes that every newspaper in the country has been lately filled with his doings. Born in a New England ;village, Bel- Knap, N. H., he has extended his opera- tions to many parts of the country. Ac- cording to a Chicago newspaper, he has developed ‘‘fake’’ mineral springs and sold the water from Lake Michigan at 5 cents a glass and 25 cents a quart; he has swindled people on a ‘‘gas generator,”’ the gas he claimed to be generating was floating into his machine from a Chicago company’s mains; he has duped innocent and confiding women out of fortunes ranging from a few hundred dollars to $75,000 and $100,000; he has bought land, and built fine houses on credit, and then borrowed money on the results; he has deceived life and fire companies right and left, and he now has many murders charged against him in the accomplish- ment of this work. He went through Ann Arbor University while his wife worked to pay his tuition; he has had six wives and twenty-five children, lo- cated in different parts of the United States; he has floated fraudulent corpora- tions with almost unlimited stock and bonds and successfully gulled business men of sagacity and ordinarily shrewd business sense, and he has operated in Ann Arbor, while a student there; he swindled people in Texas, in Denver, in Boston, in New York, in Chicago, and, no doubt, in many other places that are yet to be heard from. The schemes he carried out, and he worked so carefully he was never caught, are sufficiently numerous to fill a volume if related in detail. This man got intotrouble through hav- ing swindled a life insurance company in Philadelphia, and the trial of the case brought out the fact that he had secured insurance upon the lives of persons whom he murdered in order to get the money. In one ease he killed, or caused to be killed, three children, who were also heirs to an insurance policy in which he had an interest. His influence over women seems to have been extraordinary. They fell in love with him and made their property over to him, and were then murdered to make room for others. Almost every day fresh developments of this man’s crimes are being brought to light, but he expresses no remorse. The only regret he has is that he was so elumsy as at last to have fallen into the hands of the law. These are some of the criminals who are so, not because they are the victims of evil fortune, but, because, being wholly selfish and having resolved to gratify their desires at any cost, have taken, without scruple and without hesi- tation, the property, the honor and the lives of women and men, and have acted as if they had a right to all they wanted and much more than they got. These are the most dangerous of all criminals and the most difficult to bring to punish- ment. 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Modern readers are educated to a pvint where they look for what they wish to see, no matter where it is and they will find it if legibly and attractively dis- striking accustomed to it is only played and written in a logical, and forceful manner. The matron of to-day takes as if not more, pleasure in reading the ad vertisemeuts of various lines of goods and articles in which she is interested, as does her lord in perusing the Harvey- Horr debate or the financial and stock markets. First, the society column is scanned, then Madame turns her atten- tion to Mr. Finesilk’s list of bargains. Nor does she stop there, but everything, if she be an economical and discriminat- ing woman, which is illustrative of cheapness in price and worth in value, passes under her bargain-seeking eye. This is true of the maid, as well as the matron, and is as true of the man or youth as itis of the finer-textured sex. Advertisers are slow to realize the pro- gression which has taken place in nine- teenth century advertising methods. They do not sufficiently realize that im- proved and cheapened methods in the manufacture of type faces and ments, and the universal lessening of cost of the production of engravings by a number of processes, have transformed the plain, ugly, forlorn and cheerless ad- vertisement of twenty years ago into a work of art which is appreciated and en- joyed by everyone. much, orna- tain papers which cater to only the higb- | est class of trade are as eagerly scanned and as thoroughly digested by the eye and mind alike of the reader as reading portion. Classification, papers and trade journals, be recognized as the correct and equita- ble manner of locating advertisements. This gives each space-purchaser an equal | advantage, and is of the utmost benefit | to all alike, for if the reader is looking | for the ad. of a certain line, he cannot help but see the announcements of all | others in that line. While classification occasionally bring. |! your advertisement at the boctom of the | page and, perhaps, away from reading | matter, yet you will find, if the location | is left to the discretion of the newspaper, | that the number of advantageous loca- tions given you will be fully up to your desires. publishers, if left to themselves, satisfy all their advertisers, can readily be seen, is very much to the financial interest of the former by hold- ing his advertising. ma ARCS af _— I will venture to as- | sert that the advertising columns of cer- | is the | both in magazines, daily | ¢,, has come to| The reason for this is, that the | aim to} which, it | Cae eee THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN dt lias Leche hy Iul.uae iv uave cuarge }at one time of the composing room of a a | well: established paper of high reputa- Some few of the ads. were espec- located and were paid for ata higher rate. There is no doubt that these certain locations were of more value to the advertisers, but for special reasons. For instance, the front cover was a preferred spot and was really much more valuable, in some ways, than ether places, and so with other locations. But the majority of the advertising was left to the discretion of the publishers as to position. The result was that my in- structions and best efforts were toward the classification of advertising and also to give each individual advertisement its full share of desirable positions. Every ad. in the journal, with the exception of those mentioned, had a different location |}each issue, and | may claim that seldom a space-purchaser was dissatisfied with | tion. ially his results. in the old days of placing a milliner’s ad. in close companionship with that of a horseshoer, or an advertisement for a bunion cure next door to that of a con- fectioner, advertisers had quite sufficient reasons for locating their ‘‘People Get- ters,” if only for the sake of getting away from undesirable and incongruous com- panions. But, as | have said, classifica- tion has changed all this and for retailers it is Just as well er even preferable to leave the location to the judgment of the publishers. if the latter are progressive and really want your money in exchange for their space, they will certainly give you all the show possible. The Right Bower Is the ecard which takes the trick. It’s quite a | tri ck to dress in such a manner that your lady jacquaintance will give you the smile and turn |} the cold shoulder to the other fe llow. We are | fullof such trieks in all the nobbiest styles, both in business suits and suits for even j ing wear—all ready-to-wear. We guarantee our } #10 Clay worsted. extra long froek or saek Suits be the best value for the money you ever saw. Often sold at $15 or more. EUCHRE & oo. Dainty Dressing for ‘Dainty Feet A pretty foot is one of woman's great- est attractions ‘To give tiie foot its hi hest charm it must be properly shod. il! | fitting shoes have lost many a good “‘catch” for 4 youn lady. Let us fit your pretty teet with a as ot elegant Tan Walking shoes, ¢ sting you ly $3 which will give added beauty to an al- es dy pretty foot and restore neatness to the (Quality of the finest. 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We have other Cigars but these lead. ~ Their popularity grows each day. Made of the best stock obtaimable Maifest Peninsul We are back of them in every way. Order one lot and you will want é more. They are the Leading Brands of the State. Musselman Grocer Co. GRAND RAPIDS, “HICH. Cremona Se | OF COURSE YOU HANDLE For Sale by All Jobbers. laa aiatclaaiaciain sities SEE PRICE LIST ELSEWHERE. EVERY PAGKAGE 16 02. NET WITHOUT GLAZING. Perfectly Pure Coffee. 9999990000 0000000600000600000 WOOLSON SPICE CO. TOLEDO, OHIO, and KANSAS CITY, MO. 9090099000000 9900906600 ‘ apettene oes ee THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 11 For this juie y fruit reminds us that we have just received a lot of the juiciest, sweetest and most soul-satisfying Watermelons and Cante- Opes you ever put tooth into. A fine line of other seasonable Fruits and Berries. together with an up-to-date stock of Groeeries. L. G. DEEDDATSGOOD. Ever Step « on a Cat’s Tail” In the Gloaming? How he did holler! But that’s noth ing to the vociferations of our com petitors. We are treading on their toes and the weight of our low prices and high values make ‘em fairly yell! Never mind—it don’t hurt us and puts money in your pocket. “We are the people! PINCHES & CO. Don’ " ‘Aik for Grease W hen you want good butter, let anyone sel] and don't youa poor article for a good one. We have just opened a lot of the finest creamery Butter—at 18c—that ever struck town (it didn’t walk in). We don't expect to make much out of itat this price, tut its exeellenee and purity will give us your trade \ complete line of the best Groceries in connection with the butter. FAIRDEALER & CO. “Td “— rather b beat a train on beat a car- eo Said a Weary Willie, asking for a meal. “I’ve no doubt that’s very true,” replied the lady, As she turned the bull-dog loose upon his heel. When you really want a square, hunger satis- fying meal that will make you feel like an alderman newly elected, call on J. f. PULEFEED. An Auspicious Occasion always select ‘‘bargain time,” When shopping, and don’t drop in upon merehants unawares, We are always ready for you, however, in the way of bargains in Dress Goods. Fancy Goods, Ladies’ Underwear, and a full assortment of Novelties. Callin any time—you'll never catch us napping. WIDEAWAKE & CO. I wish to impress upon the advertiser the importance of having a list of prices on the articles he sells embodied in the ad. This is asure winner. There is no reader but is attracted by a list of low prices on staple goods, and often an ar- ticle at once becomes a necessity which had not been thought of before. ‘*Why, that’s just what I want!”’ the reader ex- claims, ‘*‘and it’s a bargain at that price. Pll go and see it to-morrow.” A catchy introduction is a necessity. So, also, in most cases, is a list of articles, descrip tion and prices. Foc. FosTER FULLER. _> . —_ Refute slander by correct conduct. _ Clerks’ Corner It is possible, boys, that I am making too much of neatness in and around the store, especially the grocery store; but, when you remember that those clerks who understand the divine art of keep- ing clean are those who possess the most flattering promises of success, you will then see why there is so much harp- ing on this one string. Our boy, Pete, did something the other day which in some eyes is little less than atrocious, and yet it was done so inno- cently that [ concluded to make a note of it, for the benefit of Pete and the rest of his class, with the bare possibility of hit- ting the ‘‘boss’’ himself. it was Saturday, and that means busy clear up to where you part your hair. It was a hot day and the cust was plentiful there on the corner, and by 10 o’clock Pete’s face looked as if he’d been shovel- ing coal. He was wanted in the front store and, feeling that he was hardly presentable, he threw off his cardigan, ran to the wash basin, gave his facea wipe with his wet hands and wiped it and them on the towel. The result was a very dirty towel and a streaked face. He went into the front store, but was back again a moment after, the boss with him, who went straight to the towel. ‘There you cub! It’s you, is it, that wets your hands and face and then wipes the dirt off on the towel? Now you wash your hands and face with that soap and water. That’s what they are there for. After you get through, dry your hands and face on the towel and then throw the water out of the basin. Who do you sup- pose wants to do that for you? Another thing: you have an idea that if thereis a little round place clean in the middle of your face, the rest will take care of it- self. It does, and it tells a pretty dirty story about a boy who does’nt know how to wash bis face. There; that’s better. Take that towel home with you and have it washed. If you cut that dirty caper here again, you can find another place.’ Don’t tell me, boys, that my story doesn’t hang together because grocers don’t stop in the hurry and drive of Sat- urday morning to ‘‘jaw’’ a boy for wip- ing a little dirt off on an old towel. Gen- erally, no; but itis the unexpected that is always happening and that is what in- duced me to make a note of it. A man who has an attractive store knows, inthe first place, that it must be clean and that everybody having anything to do with it must be clean, also. He knows, teo— from his own experience, possibly—that there is an inherent antagonism between wash water and boyhood and that unless this is overcome, at least partially, there is more hopes of that boy in the field of politics than in the grocery store. So then, boys. wash with soap and water and do it thoroughly. Keep the towel for drying purposes and remember that the dryer the hands are after wash- ing, the less liable they are to be rougb, especially in the winter when they will become chapped and sore unless they are thoroughly dried. Another thing which | will give you to think of. A _ half-washed face, like a half-blacked shoe and a half-swept floor, has ruined the prospects of many a boy and they will ruin yours unless you look out fer them. UNcLE Bos. aan ) eas Sri In Use this cut $30.00 which Seamless Scoop. PRP POS OSS SS DOSS OSS S OSS OOOO SOO S GPO SOOO OO OD FS OOOOOSGSOO9O9F9S545F9S99OO456OSOSHOOOO 4 4 4 . . 4 4 4 4 a 4 4 . 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 . .. 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 q 4 4 q 0 000000000000000000000000008 ooo Computing Scale More than 13.000 At prices ranging from $15 upwards. The style shown in includes Brass For advertisement showing our World Famous Stan- dard Market DAYTON COMPUTING SCALES see last page of cover in this issue. The Computing Scale Co., DAYTON, OHIO. ia i THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN JANE CRAGIN. How She Turned the Tables on a Chronic Nibbler. Jane Cragin put down the morning paper with a laugh. “I wish Mrs. Kenworthy would read that story. Read it, Cy, | think there is a hint in it for us.”’ ‘‘Haven’t time. Give us the p’int on’t *n’ let the rest go. What is it?” ‘‘Why, a jeweler when he stepped into his grocer’s just tasted whatever he got his hands on. The grocer got tired of it, and the first chance he got, went into the jeweler’s to look at some unset dia- monds. Picking up the best looking one, he threw it into his mouth, exactly as Mr. Jeweler always picked out the best strawberries and tossed them into his mouth. Of course, this made a rumpus and, when the grocer put back the dia- mond, he gave the jeweler to understand that the latter would pay for his tasting thereafter, or there’d be a reason why.” Cy laughed. ‘‘That’s all right for a story, but what you goin’ t’ dew in berry time to keep folks fr’m eatin’ a handful every time they go by? I can’t stop ’em. There’s that old man Dawkins—he’ll come along any time and put a claw into a tray o’ berries ’n’ take half of ’em at a grab—he’s got a hand ’s big ’s the hand o’ Providence—’n’ what he don’t take he’ll mash. Say anything, ’n’ in half an hour itll be all over town that we made a fuss because Dawkins picked up one or two huckleberries, while he was dewin’ s’me tradin’; ’n’ Dawkins ain’t the only one, by a long shot.’’ ‘Well, I should say nix!’? Jim took the floor. ‘Old lady Walker came pranc- ing in here the other day, with her nose tipped up. ‘Hahve you a-ny su-pe-ri-or proones?’—the fellow imitated exactly the woman’s tone and manner—‘some- thing a-bove the ahv-er-age?’ ’n’ she stuck up them specks o’ her’n on the end of a stick, with her left hand, ’n’ squinted at the prunes, ’n’ her right band, somehow, got all tangled up in them tip- top strawberries that we got from Wilcox. It took her the longest time to make up her mind ’bout the prunes, ’n’ after she’d et a dozen r’ so of the biggest berries, she didn’t want the prunes. Then, all of a sudden, she saw the strawberrie-— ‘x made b’lieve she did. -Oob! what love-ly straw-ber-rie-!’ ’n’ that hand o’ hern hovered over the tray like a hawk over a chicken coop, ’n’ lll be doggone if she didn’t take the three biggest ber- ries there was. She smacked her lips as the last one went down. ‘How much are these re-al-ly fine ber-ries?’ ‘Fifteen cents, ’n’ mighty cheap, at that,’ says I. Up fiew her hands, ’n’ down bobbed her head like an ol’ hen-turkey, ’n’ she yepped out: ‘O, my! I nev-er could think of pay irg that price for strawber-ries and these are not quite sweet yet!’ ’n’ off she teetered, with berries enough in ’er to keep ’er alive for a fortnit! Buy any- thing? Of course she didn’t. She was full as a tick; what should she buy any- thing for?’’ ‘Well, that’s taking one at a time,” said Jane, ‘‘but when Mrs. Kenworthy comes in with the twins and the dog, lL confess I’m ready to giveup. I think we shail have to draw the line right there. We simply cannot afford to let this thing goon. The other day, Mrs. Kenworthy came in to look and, of course, the other three came too. Zippy was promply put out; for a dog in a/ @/MMANGIAIG IIb JbLsbh Jhb Jbkdbkdbhdbhdbh Abb dNhdNhdbhdbLAbLdbh Ahh Ahh ANA ANA bbb bh bbb bk bbb dbd dbd bbb dbd dbd dbd dd store I can’t have, and | won’t. The twins bawled and the dog howled, and we had quite a concert here. Mrs. Ken- worthy wanted some gingham for an apron—at least, she said she did, and, while we were busy with the prints, the twins were making the most of their op- portunity. Amelia adores sweet things, and Parmelia hankers after the sour; and, while one was up to her eyes in sugar, the other was trying to fish up the biggest pickle. I kept looking at them, that their mother might see that I was annoyed. Finally, I said that I was afraid that if Parmelia should lose her balance, she would go head first into the pickle barrel; but that woman, with an ‘O, I guess not,’ never so mucb as looked around. Well, I stood it awhile longer, and throwing on the counter a new piece of print, I took Amelia from the sugar and covered the barrel tight, and wiped Parmelia’s hands on her apron, and covered the pickle barrel, and then I went back to Mrs. Kenworthy. 1 got there about the time the twins found the peanuts. They ate what they wanted and filled their pockets, and then began to tease to go home. “Of course, where they are right in the village here, we can charge up their tasting on something else, and it’s all right; but, take such a case, now, as Deacon Phelps: He doesn’t have any charges. What he brings from his farm is always good, and just what we wantin every way; and yet that man goes for the crackers and cheese the minute he strikes the store. I wonder how he’d like it if I should startin on his butter and eggs in that way, or on anything else that he brings in?’’ ‘*You can try it, Miss Cragin, for here he comes. I dassent—I tell ye that b’forehand. Why not let Cy see what he e’n dew? Come, now, you’re the boss, Cy; jes’ go out, ’n’ most eternally dew ?im up!” Into Jane Cragin’s face crept that lit- tle spot of pink—the pennon on the cas- tle tower announcing that her majesty was at home—and, slipping from the high stool, she gave that portentous little flirt to the immaculate apron and, with a cheery ‘‘good morning,’’? went out to wait upon her thrifty farm eustomer. Chas. A. Morrill & Co. — Coeooooo = Importers and —Jobbers of »A E AS - 00000008 21 Lake St., CHICAGO, III. ‘ ny ‘ » a Sir St, BY SD A POINTER | i> The S. C. W. is the only nickle (> Cigar, Sold by all Jobbers traveling from Grand Rapids and by Snyder & Straub, Jobbers of Confectionery, Muskegon. We do not claim this Cigar to be better than any 10 cent Cigar made, but we do claim it to be as good as any 5 cent Cigar that is sold for a nickle. {ITIPSTPNTVOP NTR NTE VNTR NTT NTP OP NTT NTP TRH NEP err NTE erNer NTE erNTrLe ES? awe PURITY and QUALITY are the twin characteristics of our products. ses They Please and Satisfy the Consumer and pay the Dealer a profit. THE PUTNAM CANDY CO. GRAND RAPIDS PYPPYNPNOPNOP ND NNT IND NOP NUP ER NEPNURErNF ERNE nT VentD MUNA SUA MAA AAA bk dbk bk Jhb dbk bk bk Jhb dk sbi db dbbdbbdd 3 —? = ——_> = — = — = ——_ = ——_ = = = —— = — = — = — = —= = —_ = 3 << = a = = a —_ — = = = = ——_ = ae —_ — = — = | = = —~ = — = =: 3 — = —» = — = —»_ = a — — aa = = 8 Stop! AND READ. Make write us about Portland and Swell Body Cutters WIPYTPNOP UNION NUR ER NERNPNOR ER Nene ren NerNnrNOR ener no contracts for 1895 until we call or you Belknap, Baker & Co. *$0COOOOee-- --c0SOOSee-. --co@QOees-- GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. TUUNNANN AN AAA AAA UAA bk bk db dbk dk dk dNk Nk bk Ubk Jbi dbi db db ddd SPUN AMAA JAA AUG di 644A di ddA ddA AAMAS | THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 1: wh Already, the green cover of the cheese- box was turned back and a generous slice of cheese was in the hands of the deacon, who was peering over his spec- tacles for the crackers. ‘“*The Hillfarm folks are all well this morning, I hope.” The deacon managed to say, with his mouth full of dry crackers and cheese, that ‘‘they wus putty wal.” ‘“‘What have we here? Phelps’ Dutch cheese? Well, isn’t it nice?” Reaching for the cheeseknife, she cut the biggest ball of snow in two and took a generous mouthful. ‘“‘If that isn’t good, I wouldn’t say so! Here, Cy, you and Jim may have that half. This belongs to me. So long ago as I ean re- member, I used to tease for ginger snaps and Dutch cheese. When I have good ecrackers—these are rather nice, don’t you think they are, Deacon?—I just like to dip into ajar of Mrs. Phelps’ butter and spread it on thick. The Phelps but ter, I call it, is just salt enough to go with these flaky white crackers in the box here—help yourself, Deacon—and if anybody is cracker hungry—Cy says 1 always am—and will slice the butter off like this,’’—she suited the action to the word—‘‘by the time it gets melted in the mouth with the cracker, it’s what I call good eating. ‘A-ha! What’s- this? Well, Deacon, these are the finest radishes we’ve seen yet. Here, Cy, just try that. Want one, Jim? ’M—’m! Aren’t they good?’’ and three of the best radishes disappear in a shower of praise. ‘‘There! I guess I’d better get these out of sight before they are all gone. Jim, take the butter in and weigh it, and the cheese, too, and I'l] count the radishes. Cy, I wish you would wait on the Deacon, for I must get on with the books. You must re- member me to Mrs. Phelps, Deacon, and just tell her from me that we want all the radishes and Dutch cheese she can possibly spare.” A minute later, the high stool was again occupied by the book-keeper, Cy was filling the Deacon’s order, and Jim was sampling still further the radishes and the butter in the back store. Deacon Phelps? O, yes. He didn’t say anything; but never after in the Milltown store did he help himself to the crackers and cheese. RICHARD MALCOLM STRONG. => A year ago a Danish merchant experi- mented by taking Danish milk, which is peculiarly delicate and rich in flavor, freezing it by the use of ice and salt and sending it in barrels by rail and steamer to London. On its arrival the milk proved to be as sweet and well tasting as if it had been just drawn from the cow in the middle of Sweden. The milk was so much in demand and proved so profit- able an article of commerce that the ex- porter immediately took out a patent on the shipment of frozen milk from Sweden and Denmark to London. He then sold the patent to a stock company with large capital, which on Feb. 1 last bought one of the largest Swedish creameries, con- verted it into a factory, and, having put in a special freezing apparatus, began on May 1 the export of frozen milk in large quantities. > Frances Willard thinks that poverty is the chief cause of the drinking habit. There may be something in it, but the experience of thousands is that the Some of Mrs. drinking habit is an extremely efficient ! cause of poverty. FORTY YEARS AFTER. We climbed to the top of Goat Point Hill, Sweet Kitty, my sweetheart, and I, And watched the moon make stars on the waves And the dim white ships go by: While a throne we made on a rough stone wall, And the King and the Queen were we, As Isat with my arm about Kitty, And she with her arm about me. The water was mad in the moonlight, And the sand like gold where it shone, And our hearts kept time to the musie AS we sat in that splendor alone. And Kitty's dear eyes twinkled brightly, And Kitty’s brown hair blew so free. While I sat with my arm about Kitty, And she with her arm about me. Last night we drove in our carriage, To the wa’ at the top of the hill, And though we're forty years older, We're children and sweethearts still. And we talked again of that moonlight That danced so mad on the sea, When I sat with my arm about Kitty, And she with her arm about me. The throne on the wall was still standing, But we sat in the carriage last night, For a wall is too high for old people Whose foreheads have linings of white. And Kitty’s waist measure is forty, While mine is full fifty and three. So I can’t get my arm about Kitty, Nor can she get both hers about me. If a Michigan chemist realizes his ex- pectations the sawmills in the pine for- ests will become active competitors of the Louisiana sugar plantations. The audacious scientist declares that he can make granulated sugar out of sawdust, and, in support of the claim, he exhibits a substance which looks, smells and tastes like glucose. Hesays he first con- verts the sawdust into starch, and turns the starch into sugar, which he declares crystallizes into as pretty granulated sugar as was ever turned out of a sugar refinery. But his most astonishing claim is that when he has perfected his process he will have no use for a tariff or bounty, for he will make sugar cheaper than Cuba, China, Germany or any other coun- try can possibly produce it. ~o 9 < The much talked of banana flour or meal has apparently found its place in industrial economy, and not for making bread or cake either. Itis said that it is now used in breweries to replace a part of the mait, and has been found very de- sirable in the manufacture of yeast. This last use is probably as near as it will ever come to a bread-making mater- ial. <= CORBIN’S > Lightning DCISSOIS Dlarpenel MAN Abb bab dbbdbbdbdbbddbddd IT’S A DAISY SOMETHING NEW QUICK SELLER EVERY LADY wants one LASTS A LIFETIME VOPVOP INP HORNET IEP HOR ER HOR CET Will The only perfect Sharpener made. Sharpen any pair of shears or scissors in ten seconds. Made of the finest tempered steel, handsomely nnished and nickel plated Because every lady can see ata S LLS A IGH the practical benefit she will lane c derive from this addition to her work basket. Her scissors will always have a keen edge. Satisfaction guaranteed or money re- funded. Put up one dozen on handsome 8 x 12 Easel Card. Per Dozen, $1.50. FOR SALE AT WHOLESALE BY I. M. CLARK GROCERY Co. HAZELTINE & PERKINS Drue Co. MUSSELMAN GROCER Co. AL E. BROOKS & Co. LEMON & WHEELER Co. PUTNAM CANDY Co. BALL-BARNHART-—PUTMAN Co. WURZBURG JEWELRY Co. OR BY THE MANUFACTURER, W. T. LAMOREAUX, GRAND RAPIDS, [IICH. LEMON & WHEELER CO. Wholesale sessseeLILOCELScoeceee ae GRAND RAPIDS ww estTTVTTvnTynTveTveTverveanerneeneaveeneeneneTeni tn ttic HFHHAY ! = 4 o o a ee oo _ o o = o _— o _ —— o public? o e- ps _ o o = They all say = “It's as good as Sapolio, their experiments. you that they are only trying to Ww ae tt lt las Who urges you to bis Sapolio? Th manufacturers, by constant and judi- cious advertising, bring customers to your stores whose very presence creates a demand for other articles. ” when they try to sell you Your own good sense will ‘tell get you to aid their Oo Is it not the Viduiuiiduitdvuaua NITTTETECCUUUUIITTCOCCCCOCCUTTCeCeCCCCUU Ih Eccstustiestdboenasahenaaincendiemaani ed THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN The Cashier Who Robbed the Bank. Our bank was the First National Bank of Scottville, a town having a population of about 10,000. There were two or three private banks, but no other institu- tion having the capital and dignity we carried. The stockholders numbered nearly thirty people, and all were resi- dents of the city and county. Among them were four or five widows, and quite a number of minors and orphans were also represented. At that date, Il was a young man ot 23 and acting as cashier and boekkeeper for a manufacturing con- cern. Lt had $3,000 in cash, and with this | bought stock in the new bank. The organization tad been completed, and the institution was teady to open when the president sent for me and said: James, | have known you for the past three or four years. Everybody in the iowts seem~ to speak well of you. Your employers tell me they have the utmost confidence in your integrity, and each one of our Executive Board has spoken in your tavor. I have purchased $2,000 worth of stock in your name to bring your holding up to $5,000, and am author- ized to offer you the position of cashier.’’ Yes, | had many friends. I was ambi tious avd industrious. I was also hon- est. No man could say I had ever wrouged him in any manner. I don’t mean to convey the idea that I was an exception. There has never been any scarcity of thoroughly reliable young men, nor will there ever be. I accepted the position with a feeling of gratitude toward those who had tendered it, and | made up my mind to prove myself com- percent aud worthy in every particular. In one year we had grasped half the business of the county. In two years there Was ouly One private bank left We had any amount of money to lend on €as) tetins, and whenever an extension was wanted it was cheertully granted. I bait dene more than any otber man to bring about this state of affairs. IL say so because all the officers and stockhold- ers said so. In two years my salary was advanced three different times. No man could have been more fully trusted tban I was. My advice was sought and invar- lably fol-owed, and everybody compli- mented the bank in securing my serv- ices. | had been with the bank two years aud tour months when a singuiar incident happened. One evening as I sat reading in my reom the thought came to me like a flash to rob the bank and escape toatereizn country. I pledge you my word I was frightened fora moment. It was as if a voice had whispered in my ears. Rob the bank! Why, I would chop off a finger svoner than embezzle a penny! What could have given birth to such a thought? i was upset and indignant, and yet I could not shake off the idea. To my alarm, | found myself beginning to reasuvnp and speculate. It was as if lL had a double, and the double said to me: “You are working like a slave to en- rich others. You are getting a fair salary, but it ~hould be double what it is. Why slave away for years to get a few thousand ahead when you can lay your hand on a fortune any day? It would be stealing, but then we all steal. You are young and full of energy and ambition. With $50,000 to back you, you can go to some foreign country and make millions and become a nabo!) in atew years.”’ 1 should have trampled such thoughts under foot on the instant. No man ina trusted position turns thief in aday. It is only after he has tought with tempta- tion and been overcome—allowed him- self to be overcome. | made an effort to rid myself of the thought, and it would have vanished but for a silly action on my part. A week later, as 1 smiled in contempt at the idea of my turning rob- ber, I allowed myself to speculate on what would happen in case 1 did. That is, | wondered how much I could get hold of, what country I should go to, and so forth and so on. When I sud- denly found myself greatly interested, I jumped up in shame and confusion, but half an hour later was deep in imagina- tion again. It seemed as if the evil one did every- thing in his power to aid me after I had finally determined on my course. I had the ‘‘luck’? to meet an American who had just returned from South America. ' He mentioned several sure things in the way of speculation, and painted such a glowing picture of the country that I was excited and impatient. The bank had large deposits that fall, and on the 13th: day of September we had nearly $70,000 of what was called outside money. This was cash temporarily deposited by the county treasurer and by the cashiers of three or four manufacturing establish- ments. I had been waiting for such an opportunity. I could have taken from $20,000 to $35,000 almost any day, but I had planned to practically clean out the institution Between the 4th and 11th of September {1 planned the details of my flight. I knew the time tables of the different railroads | should pass over, what day I should take the steamer, and every de- tail had been carefully worked out. I might be pursued, but | flattered myself that | had laid my plans too well to be caught. | planned to go to the bank at 9 o’elock in the evening and secure ad- mission. The watchman would not hes- itate to let me in. | would then assault and overcome him. He could not give the alarm before morning, and I would then be far away. I planned to make my coup on the night of the 13th. At the close of business on the afternoon of that day we had $107,000 in greenbacks in the vaults. After a bank has closed its doors to the public at 3 o’clock p. m. there is work to keep the foree busy for an hour or more. For a year 1 had al- ways been the last one to leave and my hour had been 6 o’clock. The trusty day porter was then left alone until 8 o’clock, when he gave place to the regular night watchman. At half past 5 o’clock that afternoon and just as the last clerk had departed the night-watchman came to notify me that his wife had died sud- deuly and to ask that a substitute be em- ployed. He named a man, but I told him that I would make my own arrange- ments. When the watchman had departed I notified the day porter that he might leave at 6 o’clock, as 1 had work which | would detain me till about 8. Five min- | utes after 6 | was alone in the bank and | its funds were under my thumb. The train by which | should leave town was not due until 10:50, and I was therefore in no hurry. I locked up and went to my boarding house to supper. At 7 o’clock I returned to the bank, pulled down the shades, lighted the zas, and in the course of twenty minutes had packed every dollar in the vaults into a satchel provided for the purpose. I placed on a chair outside the railing, This satchel | and had sat down for asmoke when there | was a rap at the door. I knew it was one of our force, but hardly expected to) see the president himself. ‘*l expected it was you,’’ he said as he entered; ‘‘always the last to go. You are working too hard and must take a rest. At a meeting of the board to-day it was decided to give you a month’s leave and a gift of $500 in cash. You have been faithful and efficient, and we wish you to know how thoroughly you | are appreciated.”’ 1 don’t remember what | said in reply, but ldo remember that something like horror seized upon me at the idea of my own baseness. Right there within reach | of his hand was the money I intended to | fly with, praises of my integrity. He remained only a brief time, and soon after his de- parture I went outside to walk about and plan a little. I hadn’t given up the idea of robbery and flight, but a still small voice was whispering to me. On the first street corner I encountered a tramp. { was very much perturbed, but I shall always remember what he said. When he asked for alms I suppose I stared at him, for he added: “Yes, I’m ashamed of myself. own fault that I’m down here. temptation get the better of me.” That was another prick of conscience, but he actually hurt me when he said: ‘‘Thanky, old man. May you never know what it is to lose the respect of the world.’’ Within twelve hours it would be known that I was an embezzler and an absconder! Not only that, but I was robbing widows and orphans and helpless It’s my I let and yet he was lavish in his | JUST ARRIVING! New Crop 1895 BUY 1IT==The Quality is Right. BUY IT=-The Price is Right. BUY IT==And ‘You’re all Right. Cotfee— 99990064 66966006606060006 “QUAKER” —_“T0-K0" STATE HOUSE BLEND’ Roasted and put up especially for us by Dwinell, Wright & Co., the famous Coffee Roasters TRY THESE COPFEES ~ (en Grocer G0. GRAND RAPIDS 24464646446 644642446468 4646 24464646 624 264464 44 2424446444644 46464 4466444664444 6486444 e = old ment if -eemed tu nic 1 euuld a. ready hear the newsboys crying out the | headlines of the article telling of my shame and dishonor. I stood looking | after the tramp as he walked away, when | a hand was laid on my arm and I turned | to confront the leading merchant of the town, I knew him well and favorably, al- | though he had never been a patron of our | institution. | ‘‘-Look here,’? he said, as we walked | along arm in arm, ‘I’ve always done business with Gleason, because | found everything all right, but I’m going to be- gin with you to-morrow. Gleason is as good as gold himself, but I don’t fancy his new cashier. He’s a high roller, | hear, and some day he may turn up miss- ing with all the boodle he can carry. No fear of that in your case.”’ And I had $100,000 all packed, and was only waiting for train time to become the meanest and most contemptible rob- ber ever heard of in the state! ‘Everybody is speaking in your praise,” he continued, ‘‘and you deserve all that is said. Just keep a level head and you’ll find the road to honor and wealth.”’ When he had left me I had to lean against a dead wall for support. The sound of his footsteps was still in my ears when I suddenly felt that 1 was saved. There had been a terrible strug- gle of conscience, but right had tri- umphed at last. I was pulling myself to- gether to return to the bank when a wo- man accosted me by name and said: ‘‘How lucky I happened to see you! 1 was on my way down to Black’s to see if he wouldn’t take charge of this package till to-morrow. It’s money I got only two hours ago—$2,000.”’ *“Come in here and I'll give you a re- ceipt.” ‘*Never mind that. and trust you.”’ Her parting words gave mea shiver. How little they knew me! A hundred rods away was evidence to make me an object of contempt in the eyes of every man, woman and child in the community! I had one more trial to undergo. Almost at the door of the bank Ll met two busi- ness men of high standing who were holding an animated conversation. ‘“‘Heard the news?’’ asked one as I came up. “What is it?” “You remember the clerk in my brother’s office in Vhiladelphia who skipped out two years ago with $30,000? Well, he’s been overhauled. He went to Peru, no doubt expecting to have grand times. It seems that everybody soon knew that he was a thief, and he was an object of general contempt. He wan- dered about, always a marked man, and at last was so overcome with shame and degradation that he asked to be arrested and sent back. He was despised, insulted and plundered, and did not have one hour’s solid comfort out of his stolen funds. He will go to prison for ten or | fifteen years, and he might as well die then. Say, isn’t it a curious thing that men will so destroy themselves?’’ We all know you ‘“‘Take your own case,” added the other, as he placed a hand on my} shoulder. “You are young, but re-| spected, trusted and honored, and on the sure road to wealth. You might crib $100,000 from the bank and get away, sacrifice? No. I tel! you the man who has got to outlaw himself to enjoy his plunder must see days when he would almost give his life to be set back in the position he once held.”’ I passed into the bank and carefully | locked the door behind me. were so weak that 1 had to rest fora) good twenty minutes. Even my hair was sopping wet with perspiration. | When I felt strong enough I carried the satchel to the vault, opened the doors, and replaced the money, and it was not until the iron doors were locked again that [felt sure l had won. There would be no watehman that night. 1 had planned it so. I took off my coat, kicked off my shoes and made myself comfort- able in an armchair. I did not feel sleepy, but when the day porter came at seven watchman I was sound asleep. in the morning to relieve the It got to} My knees | THE MICHIGAN toc Cais ul tue ullicets thar | bod sacri- ficed my night because of the death of the watchman’s wife, and the president feelingly said: ‘‘Bless the dear boy! of a million!” Am I still cashier? abcut that. I am still regarded as an honest man, and I doubt if you could make any of my business friends believe that I had ever been tempted for an in- stant. He is a man out Well, never mind 2

_> Calis for Early Delivery. Retailers who have not been getting their goods from the jobbers early are be ginning to complain, and asking if the jobbers are going to try and get out of filling orders because of the advance in prices. It is much more pertinent for the jobber to ask the manufacturer this question, as there is no denying the fact that some of the smaller and less reliable manufacturers are endeavoring to avoid filling their orders, Delay in shipping goods will, they hope, result in cancella- tion of the order. The jobbers will not have an easy time filling their orders, for if one manufacturer fails in filling his orders, the jobber cannot buy the goods elsewhere without losing money. Retailers generally want their goods early, not alone on account of their iow stocks and anticipated large fall trade, but so as to be sure of having the goods. Those who bought prior to the advances are particularly desirous of having the goods in stock. orders even though at a loss, and this is | occurring more frequently than they care to have it. One manufacturer recently remarked: ‘1 am shipping goods every day that are a loss to me, but lam going to fill every one of my orders. I can see now where | was wise in marking up my goods, and I only wish LI had marked more of them up.”’ —_——>--—_- Have You Ordered Your Rubbers Yet? From the Shoe and Leather Gazette. Of course, in this hot weather every- body is inclined to take matters as easily as possible, but it is a very seasonable suggestion to make to the jobbers in rub- ber boots and shoes, as well as to the re- tail dealers, that the prices in rubber footwear are going up very soon. The price of rubbers, as every jobber Knows, is to be advanced 5 per cent. to the job ber Sept. 1 and 5 per cent. to the retailer Oct. 1, so that all dealers who want to take advantage of the present low prices must have their orders in in time for the goods to be shipped them before these two dates. The jobber’s order must be in so that the factory can ship him the goods by the last of August or he loses this 5 per cent. The factories have been exceedingly busy this summer. The orders which have been received by the different fac- tories of the United States Rubber Co. have greatly exceeded the orders of pre- vious years. This can be accounted for in two or three different ways: First, by the general revival of business; and, second, during the dull times of the last twoor three years, both jobbers and re- tailers have allowed their stocks to get very low. Accordingly, the orders tothe factories have been unusually large and the factories of the United States Rubber Co. are running full time with orders way ahead. This means that jobbers who wait until the last of August be- fore putting in their orders, or who even wait until the lst of August, are very uncertain about having their goods de- livered before the Ist of September. The 5 per cent. is well worth saving and dealers who do not save it will certainly be at a marked disadvantage with other retailers who take time by the forelock and take advantage of this percentage. ~~ -9<—__-—— Large Shoes for Summer. The feet have more to do with com- ifort during the hot weather than the be made of | wind and the thermometer. Tight shoes will destroy peace of mind more rapidly than philosophy and virtue can create it. Tight shoes will make even moderately warm weather trying, and will render the record breaking days absolutely un endurable. The feet follow the example of other things and are expanded by the heat. It is, therefore, necessary to buy summer shoes a little larger than winter ones. They should be changed fre- quently. A pair of fresh stockings and a pair of fresh shoes are frequently as cooling as a cold shower bath, and are far superior to cold drinks. —__—=> An electric motor on a branch of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Rail- road was recently tested for speed, and mady sixty miles an hour without diffi- culty. Thenit drew seventeen heavily laden freight cars, with a weight of 500 tons, at the rate of twenty-five miles an hour. The motor has been placed on regular train service, and its perform- ance is expected to lead to some import- ant changes in railroading. Money drawers, showcases, sample cases, counters, shelving and all kinds of tools at Jim Travis’, 67 Canal street, Grand Rapids. Agents for the BOSTON RUBBER SHOE CO.’S GOODS RINDGE, KALMBACH 4 OU.De 12, 14 and 16 Pearl Street Manufacturers and Jobbers of Boots ana Shoes We make the best line of Medium Priced Goods in the market. You can improve your trade by handling our goods. NEEDLE TOE. Owing to the Great Advance in Leather, soots and Shoes are necessarily much advanced in price. REEDER BROS. SHOE (0 Have a great many things purchased before the advance that they are still selling at old prices, and balance of the line at not one-half of the advance of the cost to manufacture the goods to-day. It will pay you to examine our line of samples when our representative calls on you. COUCH DIDS. OFC Ut Q Od 7 North (oid Si, Grand Ronids. HEROLD - BERTSCH SHOE CO. Manufacturers and Wholesale Dealers in BOOTS, SHOES & RUBBERS 5 and 7 Pearl Street GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN Side Agenis WALES-GOODYEAR RUBB RS We carry in stock Regular, Opera, Piccadilly and Needle Toes. We are prepared to furnish a Rubber of superiority in quality, style and fit. Od year - (OVE = RUDDETS Are the Best. eg A irth, Krause & Co. We Carry a Large Stock. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Association Matters Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association > idlent President, E. WRITE, Secretar BE. A, Srowl Treasurer, J. GEO. LEHMAN, Sugar Card- Granulated. Sig cents per pound. Hh prow 10 pounds for 50 cents. 20 pounds fo ds for 25 cents Jackson Retail Girocers’ Association W. H. Por President. By non ¢ rER - MILL: Secretary Treasurer, J. F. HELMER. Sugar Card Granulated. Stig cents per pound. 9 pounds for 50 cent Northern Mich. Retail Girocers’ Association President. J. F. TaAtTMAN, Clare Secretary, #. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids: Treasurer, FRANK SMITH, Leroy. Owosso Business Men’s Association. President, A. D. WHippLe: Secretary BELL: Treasurer, W. E. Co1 G.7. (Aue Lixs Michigan Hardware Association. President, F. ARLETON, (‘a umet: Vice Presi dent, Henry ©. WEBE! Detroit: Secretury Treasurer, HENRY C. MINNIE, Eatun Rapids. S. ¢ THE NINTH ANNUAL. Grand Rapids Grocers To Picnic at Ottawa Beach. After considering the matter for eral days and reviewing the propositions from the several resorts in and about Grand Rapids, the Picnic Committee of the Retail Grocers’ Association finally decided to accept the proposition of the Chicago & West Michigan Railway to hold the ninth annual picnic of the or- ganization at Ottawa Beach. A contract has, therefore, been closed in the name of the Association, providing for a round trip rate of 75 cents on the day of the picnic for adults, and 40 cents for children between the ages of five and 12 years. Trains will leave at 8 a. m., 9:15 a. m., 10 a. m. and 1:25 p. m., returning from the Beach at 7 p. m., 8p. m. and 9:10 p. m. The retail grocers of Hol- land will join with their brethren in cele- brating the anniversary, and at ten o’clock two ball games will be called— one between the grocers and grocery clerks of Grand Rapids and the other be- tween the Holland grocers of Grand Rapids and the grocers of Holland City. Dinner will be in order at 12 o’clock, the railway company having agreed to place tables and benches for 1,000 people in the casino, in addition to the tables and benches already in place in the grove. At 2 o’eloeck the steamship Soo City -will give an excursion of two hours’ duration on Lake Michigan, free to all who hold railway tickets purchased at the Grand Rapids depot. On the return of the ex- cursion, at 5 p. m., an exhibition drill will be given by the crew of the life sav- ing station. Other sports and contests are under consideration and will be an- nounced later on. It is expected that every grocer in Grand Rapids will im- prove this opportunity to join with his brethren in making the ninth anniver- sary picnic memorable in point of num- bers and interest. * * * sev- It will, possibly, be a source of regret to some grocers that the Committee did not designate Reed’s Lake as the location for the picnic, eight of the nine annual picnics given under the auspices of the Association having been held at that re- sort. The reason for selecting Ottawa Beach, instead of Reed’s Lake, is that the caterers at the latter resort took the same position they did two years ago and positively declined to contribute any- thing toward the success of the event. THE MICHIGAN although the Street Railway Co. and the | caterers at Keed’s Lake were willing to | concede that a grocers’ pienic showered j at least $10,000 into their coffers, they | were unwilling to share any portion of | It takes money to conduct a large picnic | successfully, and a good deal of it; and, the profits of the event, which would leave the Association without funds to provide the special attractions which the people have come to look upon as neces- sary to the success of a great picnic. The Reed’s Lake eaterers will, prob- ably, protest against holding the picnic away from the city on the gronnd that we ought to ‘‘keep the money at home.”’ The admonition is so flimsy as to be un- worthy the consideration of broad-minded people. Grand Rapids has been favored during the month of July with the visits of a thousand furniture dealers from all parts of the country, who have come here forthe purpose of placing orders for fall Suppose the furniture manufacturers of New York City should say to the dealers of that city that it is unpatriotic them to go to Grand Rapids to buy goods—that they should “keep their money at home.” The aver- age Grand would smile at goods. for Rapids man the foolishness of such a suggestion and point to the fact that we are cosmopoli- tan; that we believe in the policy of ‘live and let live” and that we have made our city great and our furniture industry famous by a policy as broad as the hori- zon. Considering that our prosperity as a manufacturing center and fruit market is due to the liberality with which we been have patronized in all parts of the country and that the success of this city as a jobbing point is due to the generous patronage of dealers in all parts of the State, the attempt to narrow the retail grocery trade down to a four-mile ride to Reed’s Lake, on the ground that it is un- patriotic to go thirty miles away to cele- rate a holiday, should meet with merited contempt. —_— <—- —— The Glut in Alexander Peaches. The market for Alexander peaches has been in a sorry plight for a week, the supply being largely in excess of the de. mand. Some were evidently brought in the hope that a little something might be got for them, so small and bul- lety and deadly the little things looked; others, with to bringing- up, had a well-to-do-air about them, little in keeping with the disreputable speci- with some claims mens which were bringing disgrace upon the whole family of peaches, while the baskets, commendable in size and rejoicing in all the virtues of a turned red with anger at the ignominious price of a shilling a bushel, irrespective of quality. A shilling a It does not pay for the picking, te say nothing of bring- ing the fruit to market in the small hours of the night; and the question which the front is, What ean be done to prevent this glut, so dis- patricians in long line of clingstone ancestry, bushel! eomes promptly to astrous to the producer? It is needless here to say anything about the clingstone peach. God might have made a meaner peach but he never did. The fruit is here, however, and it is flooding the market. Can its wild waves be stayed? Is it possible, for ex- ample, to prevent the forcing of the in- ferior article on the market, and, if not, can no way be devised to dispose of the glut in some more profitable way? The sound common sense which has always been the distinguishing characteristic of the fruit grower ought to find relief and avert, if possible, the ruinous price which the glut has produced on the market. mee A Purely Personal. J. M. Hayden (J. M. Hayden & Co.) nas returned from a week’s visit with friends at Tecumseh. F. J. Dettenthaler will return early in August from a three weeks’ pleasure trip about the Chesapeake Bay and Balti- more. John Smyth, local representative for the Riverside Yeast Co., has returned home after a fortnight’s visit at Balti- more, Philadelphia, Washington and At- lantic City. Daniel Steketee and David M. Hooger- hyde (P. Steketee & Sons) and Geo. Mul- der, of the firm of Mrs. Anna Mulder & Sons, general dealers at Spring Lake, capsized the boat in which they were fishing on Spring days ago and narrowly escaped watery graves. H. M. Reynolds was one of the twenty- six charter members of the National As- Lake a few sociation of Composition Roofers, which recently held its eighth annual conven- tion at Buffalo, on which occasion Mr. Reynolds was elected President of the organization—a worthy honor, worthily bestowed. i i lp Three Great Picnics. Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Associa- tion—At Ottawa Beach, Aug. 8. Saginaw Retail Grocers’ Association— At Port Huron, Aug. 8. Jackson Retail Grocers’ Association— At Diamond Lake, Aug. 8. It is a little singular that the leading grocers’ organizations of the State should |of them prefer 7 per cent. mortgages or | have selected the same date on which to stock in the house employing them to! hold their annual outing. a prreceeec cart TS Drugs--Chemicals STATE BOARD OF PHARMACY. . GUNDRUM, Lonia GBEE, Charlevoix One Year (Eo Two Years ( \ Three Years ). PARKILI Four “ars r. WW. Peers ‘i . SCHUMACHER, Ann At Owosso Detroit bor BUGBEI MICHIGAN STATE PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION. President, Gee. J. Warp, St. Clair. Vice Presidents. S. P. Warrmarsu, Palmyra Cc. C. Peiciips, Arm : B. ScurouperR, Grand Rapids. Ws. Dupont, Detroit. ynmittec F. J. WUurRzerRe. Grand D. STEVENS, Detroit: H.G. CoLMan cK. T. Wess, Jackson: D. M. Rvs do Rapids. GRAND RAPIDS PHARMACEUTICAL SOCEETY. Presiden Joun E. Peck Secretary Bb. SCHROUDER A Financial Experience. When I go into a bank | get rattled. The clerks rattle me; the wickets rattle me; the sight of the money rattles me; everything rattles me. The moment | cross the threshold of a bank 1 am a hesitating jay. If 1 attempt to transact business there | become an irresponsible idiot. I knew this beforehand, but my salary had been raised to $50 a month and | felt that the bank was the only place for it. So | shambled in and looked timidly around at the clerks. I had an idea that a person about to open an account must needs consult the manager. L went up to a wicket countant.’’ The accountant was a tall. cool devil. The very sight of him rattled me. My voice was sepulchral. ‘““Can lL see the manager?” added solemnly, ‘‘alone.’’ why I said ‘‘alone.’’ ‘‘Certainly,’? said the accountant, and fetched him. The manager was a grave, calm man. I held my $56 clutched in a crumpled bal! in my pocket. **‘Are you the manager?” [| knows I didn’t doubt it. *“Yes,’’ he said. marked ‘‘Ae- ] said, and ldowt knew said. God ‘Can I see you,’’ I asked. ‘alone?’ | didn’t want to say ‘‘alone’’ again, but without it the thing seemed self-evident. The manager looked at me in some alarm. He felt that 1 had an awful se- cret to reveal. ‘‘Come in here,” he said, and led the way to a private room. key in the lock. ‘‘We are safe from interruption here,” he said; ‘‘sit down.” We both sat down and looked at each other. 1 found no voice to speak. “You are one of Pinkerton’s men, I presume,” he said. He had gathered from my mysterious manner that I was a detective. | knew what he was thinking and it made me worse. “No, Pinkerton’s,”’ not from 1 said, seemingly to imply that | came from a} rival agency. **To tell the truth,’’ 1 went on, as if I had been prompted to lie about it, ‘‘l am not a detective at all. I have come to open an account. I intend to keep all my money in th's bank.” The manager looked relieved, but still serious; he conciuded now that L was a son of Baron Kothschild or a young Gould. “A large account, I suppose,”’ he said. ‘Fairly large,’ | whispered. ‘‘! pro- pose to deposit $56 now, and $50 a month regularly.’’ The manager got up and opened the door. He called to the accountant. ‘“‘Mr. Mentgomery,” he said, unkindly loud, **this gentleman is opening an ac- count: be will deposit $56. Good morn- iag.”’ I arose. A big iron door stood open at the side of the room. He turned the Sa eee a THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN “Good morning,’’ |] said, and stepped into the safe. ‘Come out,” said the manager, coldly, and showed me the other way. I went up to the accountant’s wicket and poked the ball of money at him with a quick convulsive movement as if 1 were doing a conjuring trick. My face was ghastly pale. “Here,” | said, “depesit it.” The tone of the words seemed to mean, ‘‘Let us do this painful thing while the fit is on us.”’ He took the money and gave it to an other clerk. He made me write the sum on a slip and sign my name ina book. I no longer knew what [ was doing. The bank swam before my eyes. ‘Is it deposited?” I asked in a hollow, vibrating voice. ‘It is.” said the accountant. ‘Then I want to draw a check.’’ My idea was to draw out $6 of it for present use. Some one gave me a check book through a wicket, and some one else began telling me how to write it out. The people in the bank had the impres- sion that I was an invalid millionaire. I wrote something on the check and thrust it in at the clerk. He looked at it. “What! are you drawing it all out again?’’ he asked, in surprise. Then I realized that I had written fifty-six in- stead of six. I was too far gone to rea- son now. I had a feeling that it was impossible to explain the thing. All the clerks had stopped writing to look at me. Reckless with misery, I madea plunge. ‘Yes, the whole thing.’’ ‘You withdraw your money from the bank?” ‘*Every cent of it.’’ ‘Are you not going to deposit any more?’’ said the clerk, astonished. “Never.”’ An idiot hope struck me that they might think something had insulted me while I was writing the check and that I had changed my mind. I made a wretched attempt to look like a man with a fearfully quick temper. The clerk prepared to pay the money. ‘‘How will you have it?” he said. “What?” ‘-How will you have it?” “Ob!” 1 caught his meaning and an- swered without even trying to think, ‘‘in fifties.”’ He gave me a $50 bill. ‘‘And the six?’ he asked dryly. **In sixes,’’ I said. He gave it to me and I rushed out. As the big doors swung behind me I caught the echo of a roar of laughter that went up to the ceiling of the bank. Since then I bank no more. I keep my money in cash in my trousers’ pocket, and my savings in silver dollars in a sock. —_— 2. —_ The Standard Dictionary. The test of a text-book the class- |room. Given an earnest, enthusiastic |teacher and a roomful of students, and - text-book which comes from the or- | deal unharmed needs no further trial. | The Standard Dictionary seems to have been taken in hand with the idea of pass- | ing just that ordeal. | Its task, at the outset, was clearly | marked out. A vocabulary of more than | 300,000 words was to be spelled, pro- ; nounced and defined. is Synomyns and au- | | tonyms were to be given. Quotations | | and their location were to be furnished. | | Lists and tables were to be made out. | | Illustrations | conveying the full meaning of a word and, bookmaker was to be called in, and what- | ever was best in his art was to be turned to practical account to meet successfully | the test to which the work would be sub- | jected in the practical classroom of the | | world. | There was | but one line to follow in this stupendous work and it has been pursued. Every word of the 300,000 has were to lend their aid in| when all this work was done, the. 9 been subjected to the ordeal of a class of experts everywhere acknowledged as the best. From them there is no appeal and the result is ‘‘a pure well of English, un- defiled.” A chance opening of the book brings to the eye ‘‘companion.’’ After the word, in syllables, comes the pronuncia- tion, and here arises the first objection: Will a dictionary which necessitates learning a new key to pronunciation find favor? and was the change from the old diacritical marks to new phonetic char- acters needful, or even desirable? If 0, halved by a curved line with the inverted curve beneath, has the sound of u short, would it not have been as well to use the familiar u? The objection is easily met. The diacrit- ical marks are not learned. The new characters are exact, simple and easy to remember. Not readily mistaken, they always tell the same story, and are, then the best. ‘‘Companion’’ is then defined as a verb, and its use illustrated by an extract, lo- cated. The use of the word as a noun follows, with a sentence from Goldsmith as an illustration. Six different phases of the word are then given. Then comes its derivations—so full of meaning—fol- lowed by synomyms, and the preposi- tions with which the word is used. The whole is exact, concise, complete; and, on that account, is ready for the test any- where. The typographical part of the book is in harmony with the rare exeellence it enshrines. The paper is of fine texture and strong. The printing is’ unexcelled, apd the stout and handsome binding— the useful and the beautiful in one— make the book, as a whole, ‘‘a thing of beauty and a joy forever.’’ Another point upon which too much stress cannot be laid,is the exactness given to business terms. It can hardly be said that learning can be found at fault, but it is too often noticed that the profoundest scholarship fails to express itself in the language of business. The Standard Dictionary has looked out for this, and the words used and defined in the Standard will show that here, too, the specialist has been at work and that the trained hand of a Bradstreet has signed the business vocabulary with his seal of approval. It is easy to fall into the superlative in writing of a work like this, with the re- deeming feature, in this instance, that the reader will find on a personal exami- nation that not even the half has been told. PECK’ Pay the Best Profit. HNEADACHE.......... soccocessse OP VV LIEDER - Order from your jobber There are thousands of SIGNALS, but none so good as the “SIGNAL FIVE” A Fine Havana Filler Cigar for 5 cents. Maker, ED. W. RUHE. CHICAGO. F. E. 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Pil Hydrarg...po. 80 Piper Nigra... po. 22 Finer Alba....po. 35 Piix Burgun Plumbi Acet... Pulvis Ipecac et Opii Pyrethrum, boxes H. & P. D. Co.. doz Pyrethrum, pv Quassiz a Quinia, S. P. & W Quinia, S. German Quinia, N.Y Rubia Tinctorum SaccharumLactis pv Salacin.... Sanguis Draconis Sapo, Sapo, M. Sapo, G 1O0@ fa 50 | Siedlitz Mixture.... ( 20 _% . 40 45 1 9; Sinapis...... a 18 , pure raw 61 64 Sinapis. opt 5 a boiled.. 63 66 1 80, Snuff, Maccaboy, De winter 40 Voces... .... Q 3 dd 65 TO 80 | Snuff,Scotch, DeVo’s @ 34 s Turpentine ao 38 10 Soda Boras 9 i i8 | Soda Boras, po 7 9 Paints BBL LE Soda et Potass Tart 240 25 ia 13 2 00 | Soda, Carb. 1140 2 cua j 134 Soda, Bi-Carb 3a 5 Ochre. yellow 1 2 00 | Soda, Ash 3140 4; Putty, commer 2 1 00) Soda, Sulphas 2 ict] 2 & | Spts. Cologne. ~ 50 | Spts. Ether Co 5O¢ 5D 13a 15 18 Spts. Myrcia Drm @, 2 00 O7 ‘ao 30 Spts Vini Reet. bbl @ 2 51 i 20) oe 7 | Spts. Vini Rect.',bbl @ 2 56| Green, Peninsular x 16 12 Spts. Vini Reet. 10gal 2 59 | Lead, Red.... 5146 6 1 20| Spts. Vini Rect. § @ 2 Le hit 5 Less 5e gal. cash 1 10 days. 30 | Strychnia, Crystal... 1 10 Sulphur, Sub! as 3915 Sulphur, Roll ( ‘ Tamarinds 8 3714 | Terebenth Venice 280 14. Theobroma 15 20 | Vanilla + OO , & | Zinci Sulph 7 50 14 Oils BBI 12; Whale, wintet 70 15; Lard, extra 60 AUYIPIO TPP PT PP PPT UT pT nN nNN RD Te Np On InA for a trial “Sanitary” The Perfect For Cleaning, Beautifying and Preserving the Teeth and Hardening the Gums One Dozen on Handsome Stand. Send | GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. dozen. Tooth Soap us an order WUVAUAAGL AAA AUMAA AGA AUA AAG AAAGUd Add ddd ddd ddd QLLAAMAAALMaLA AQAA AAGMAAALGdAAkAAGALLALAGLAGGdk AA hkdkGkAAGUUd Ad Add Add dddddd Alb bdaddd 20 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN UR A a GROC! those who “have poor credit. greatest possible use to dealers. the local market. OnmY PRICE, CURRENT. lhe prices quoted in this list are for the trade only, in such quantities as are usually purchased by retail dealers. going to press and are an accurate index of below are given as representing average prices for average conditions of purchase. They are prepared just before It is impossible to give quotations suitable for all conditions of purchase, and those Cash buyers or those of strong credit usually buy closer than Subscribers are earnestly requested to point out any errors or omissions, as it is our aim to make this feature of the AXLE GREASE. doz gross aa... 70 8 00 Surees... ..-.-. +. = 6 00 pastor Oil. ...- 60 7 00 aos... ..... 5 50 oe ........... 75 9 00 Paragon 55 6 00 BAKING POWDER. Acme. %4 1D, cans.3 doZz.... 45 ix es 5 _ > 1 90 eae 10 Arctic i cans 6 doz case. 9 > ' 4 doz i. i» 2 doz 20 _ i doz . 9 00 Red Star, 4 . cans. = ' + D 1 40 Van Anrooy’s ‘Pure. 4 Ib. cans, 6 doz. case..... So yy lb. aon ~ 1 65 ch *~ 2a * 32 relfer’s, s > cans, dos 45 “e as ae S5 ' a ib, ' i= Our L eader, a .b cans. 45 Ib cans...... 7D i Poeun t= BATH BRICK. 2 dozen in case. Guaglish . 8o —.....-.--- . i 70 Domestic. ... 60 BLUING. Gros arctic, 40x ovals 3 60 e i 6% C ints, rand........ 9 00 . me. 2, sifting box... 2% ' No. 3 400 - me, 8 00 - i= sball ..... 450 Mexican Liquid, lig oz 3 60 8 oz 6 80 BROOMS, si .* a... 18 -_? * gc oo = 2 Carpet... 2 15 _ a oo 2 50 | 1 ain —— 2 50 Common Whisk ae 85 ate toes toile 1 00 Warehouse....... 2 85 BRUSHES. stove, No. a see 1 25 eeeeee 4 WwW ' B.. ee dice Root Scrub, 2 row 85 ice Root Scrub, 3 row : 25 Palmetto, goose...... na H gg ercgags / Hotel, 40 Ib. _—— .. Star, 40 . 3 Parafine . Lo ~ Wicking ..... z CASNED GOODS. Fish. Ciams Little Neck, i. is :-_........... 1 90 Clam Chowder. Standard, 3 lb.. oe Cove Oysters. Standard, 1} b SO Si ...... . 1451/8 Lobsters. 230; 3 35 2 50 2% Mack standard, 1 Ib. “ 2 Ib Mustard, 2lb. Tomato Sauce, 21b.... soos 2 e.......... Salm stumbia River, =... to a........ lS Alagka, a cbc sees 1 30 a Kinney’s, a ..._& en american _" @4 ee @ 6 iz aported = aes @9 H8...... . @i3 moasterd Me.......... Qi ae... 21 Troat srook 8, Ib 2 By Fraits. Appies. 3 io. standard .. ! wW York State, gallons 3 vu damburgh. * Apricots. Livgecek. .... . 1 40 Santa Cras.... 1 40 —-... 1 ot Overland.. 1 Blackberries. .& Ww... ; 85 ‘Cherries. _ @1 15 ae. 1 1 40/5 — Damsons, —— — and men ee eee 1 00 California ace ne ene 1 6 Gooseberries. as .......... 110 ee Pie. . 1 00 Maxwell . oa 1 40 Shepard’s ........... 1 40 ree... ....... @1 55 Monitor _ee.......... -— Domestic. eee 105 iene 13 Pineapples. ———.tCt:t 1 00@1 30 Johnson’ 8 sliced...... 230 grated..... 2% Booth’s sliced....... @2 5) eresee........ @2 % Quinces. ese. 1 10 Raspberries. es 95 Black ee 46 Erie, black . 1 10 "eben, Eaweere ........_.. 123 a iz Erie.. ee id Terrapin . ee tee ee 90 Whortleberries, Bineberrios ........ 85 Meats. Corned beef . 2 35 ase 2 Potted ham, % Ib. 1 3u a. 89 tongue, . Ib 1 20 ib... 35 chicken, %< Ib 95 Vegetables. Beans. Hamburgh etringicss.......1 15 French style..... 2 00 —- 122 aan —................ 0 re eee... 70 Lewis Boston Baked........ 1 25 Bay State Baked............ 123 World’s Fair Baked........ 1 23 cee oeken...... 95 Corn. Hamburg a a Livingston Eden . — Purity ed eee eee = Honey Dew........ 13 Morning Glory... a 66 Peas, Bamburgh marrotat........ 1 00 early June — ...1 2) o Champion oe -1 20 C ons pom.......1 & _ ancy nifted.. . oo —- 5 idarris standard......... -_ = VanCamp’s marrofat....... 1 ib ' early June.....1 36 Archer’s Early Sesenens.. Lt French. i 215 ia ‘Mushrooms. Pe . ce bincishbebineeece te 1 Pumpkin. - =... ...... cose OO Squash. Hoos 115 Succoiash. pemeene esol 30 ee ee . Dew............ 1 Tomatoes, Peeoere wl. 80 xcelsior ©00eeeenee — eae.. ............. . = eee 1 30 aon... 2... CHOCOLATE, Baker’s. ermeen Seree.. .......... 23 ae. a7 Breakfast Cocoa.... 45 CHEESE, Ambey ; 19 —... .... ... 10 —s............., 10 Lenawee li 10 Baie 10 ‘70iG Medal eo wee . 6O7 Brick. ei 11 dan _ Se 1 00 oo... 20 imburger @15 Pineapple G24 Roquefort aBx5 Sap Sago.. 218 Schweitser, imported. 24 domestic wi4 CATSUP. Biue Late! Brand. daif pint, 25 bottles.... 2% Pint ‘ : -.. 450 Quart 1 dos botiles ... ..... 3 50 Triumph Brand. Half pint, per doz.......... 1 35 Pint, 25-bottles.. on oe ears per Gee ..... ....,.. 3 75 CREAM TARTAR, trictly p —........ Telfer’s Absolute.......... ee 15@25 CLOTHES PINS, Daisy Brand. 5 gross boxes ° - -40@45 COCOA SHELLS, 2o'> ObRes.......... @3 — ee eye G34 Pound packages........ .. 6% @7 COFFEE. Green. Rie. Pa. . oo 18 Good . 12 aee.........._- ee —- lll 21 Peaberry : a Santos. eS ee — le —e.. as. 23 Mexican and Guatamala. SL 2 oe ys... oe Maracaibo. Prime . Milled an 24 Java ae... 2 Private Growth. 27 Mandehling . 28 Mocha. Imitation . .. 25 Arabian.. . _- oo ‘Roasted. To ascertain cost of roasted coffee, add c. per lb. for roast- ing and 15 per cent. for shrink- age. one Arbuckle Ls 21 3 —...... ...... 21 30 Li ON © FFEE IN 11b. PACKAGES. WITHOUT GLAZING. 16 Fuuw Ounces: Net —— = 2\ 3- 10 Casinets 120 Ibs. Same Price, 90 Extra For CABINETS. McLaughlin’s XXXX.. 21 36 Extract, v — City % STORE 75 *elix 1 15 ammel’s, sc gross, 1 65 2 8& KOFFA- AID 100 packages in case 60 packages in case CHICORY. Buaik.. ; _ Red “30H CLOTHES LINES. Cotton, 40 1% - dos, 1 25 o 50 ft ' 14 [ 60 ft he i 60 “ as... - i ' os... .. ss 1 9 sure ee... ' 85 " =e ...,.. ‘ 1 0 CONDPMNSED MILE 4 dos. in case. N. ¥.Cond’ns’d Milk Co’s brands Gail Borden Eagle..... ... 7 40 ae 63 ae 5 75 eee... 450 oe... Ce 423 ee 3 35 Peerless evaporated cream 5 75 COUPON BOOKS, ‘Tradesman.’ $8 1 books, per hundred. .... 2 00 82 . - ss <- oe 23 ae “ oe i‘ 3 00 $5 . - - -- 800 810 “ “ oe ne 4 Ov $20 sé “ “ _s 00 ‘su pertor.”’ “**, per hundred i ‘ Soownw Ae WwW Baeee Universal * $ 1 books, per hundred... 83 00 82 a ay +. oo 83 ’ ia .. 400 $5 = - -- 5 00 $10 - - on Sze ng - 7 Above prices un coupon books are subject to the following quantity discounts: wu books ur over.. 5 per cent SUL “ . “10 io — * : . 2n - COUPON PASS BOOKS. Can be made to represent any denomination from 810 — | 20 books... .-8100 _ = _ so =: 3 00 250 ll 6 _— 10 00 — * |. 17 50 CREDIT CHEOKS. 500, any oue denom’ n.....83 00 1000, ' 5 00 2000, “ oe a oe 8 00 Steel punch . 75 CRACKERS. Butter. Seymour XXxX.. _.-. ooo seymour =" cartoon 6 a. 5% Family tex, ‘cartoon 6 paced KXK....... 54 Salted XXX, cartoon’ 6 ee 6% sears Tea i. 6% Soda, soda. XXX 5% Seda kks carton, |... 6 Beda, Dom ........ 2 50 ee _ 22 Common Grades. 100 3-lb. Backs ae & 10 60 5-1b / 1 90 28 10-lb. sacks ee Warsaw. 56 lb. dairy in drill bags 3) 28 Ib, ae o“ ary 6 Ashton. 56 lb. dairy in hema eacks.. <5 g D8. -~ lb, dairy in finen sacks... THE MICHIGAN Sesmi auc. &. SXCES tt oe Common Fine Saginaw 60 Meaweee . ow... 90 SNUFF Scotch, in bladders...... ..37 Maccaboy mire... ...... 35 french Kappee, in Jars... -48 SALERATUS, Packed 60 lbs, in box. Cerca .... ._...... 3 30 Paaws ...............3 8 Dwight’s.... hoses scaee oe Weyewre ... 2... 3 00 SOAP. Laundry. Ailen B. Wrisley’s Brands. Old Country, 80 1-lb a Good Cheer, 601 1b.. ...3 90 White Borax, 100 %- LA 3 65 Proctor & Gamble. Comoe... 3 45 Ivory, 10 OZ... .... ....... 6 7 eel 4 00 eee 8 3 65 Mottled German........... 3 15 Town Pee... 3 2 Dingman Brands. Senge BOX. ...... 3 9 5 box lots, delivered. ' 10 box lots, delivered...... 3% Kirk & Co.’s Brands. American Family, _ 'd...83 33 plain.. 2 7 Jas. S. N. K. Fairbank & Co. ‘Brands, Bente Ciaue............ Brown, GF pare. ............ 3 10 ao & bare ..... 3 10 Lautz Bros. & Co.’s Brands. ee 3 65 Cotton Ol1..... 6 00 —....... ..-.....,. 4 00 ae 400 Thompson & Chute Co.’s Brands Silver cee, Oe oe ee _28 Savor: in proved...... 2 50 Sunflewer Loewe oe oo ~~ ............ 2 S40 oe ........-...... & Henry Passolt’s Brand. del #3 60 8,5 box lots, Atla Scouring Sapolio, kitchen, 3 doz 2 40 hand,3 10z 2 40 WASHING POWDER LA BESTA 100 packages in cause : UGAR, Below are given New 1.1% prices on sugars, to which tne 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 pays from the market in which he purchases to his shipping point, including 20 pounds for the weight of the barrel. Domine |... .........,.. 08 it Eger... ll $ 31 Coes i. i. 4 94 Powder Oe 5 00 Raxx Paodued ee _os Cj oe ae ee 4 62 Fine Granulated...... _. Extra Fine Granulated... 4 7o Wiig A ........-....-.... 4 94 Diamond C onfee, All... 4 6: Confec. Standard A....... 4 50 We fF... ae ee. 4 37 OO, 8 kkk idee ees 4 37 (ee 4 37 me 6f.. . 47 Te ae 4 31 WE, Bia eee eee eats 4 2 Mee Fc ee _« 03 re 66 ....... see - te Ra fs... ...... . 46 No. W.. . £9 No. it. . 3 94 I, PR ek ee cee we aoe 3 87 No. 13. Be eee ese en es 3 75 eo oo .3w Shtlass, Antse a3 Unuary, dluyrua, i + Caraway ......... . Cardamon, Malabar... 80 Hemp, Russian....... 4 Maxed Bird. ........ ; 4% Mustard, white....... 9 oppy ed cl ' 8 Rae... 4% Cuttle bone.. 30 SAL. SODA. Granulated, oe... 4... 1 75lb cases...... 1% Lump, te... 1% Tid Eors.......- . 1% SYRUPS. Corn. Barrow... ............ . 22 Hee Oe. 24 Pure Cane. re... 15 Geoe........... 20 Cieles ..... 25 TABLE SAUCES, Lea & Perrin’ Stores... .. 4% eueall..... 27 Halford, ree 37 oaen........... 2a Salad Dressing, large ..... £6 gmal) . 2 65 TEAS. yaPan—Regular. Poe @17 a... @20 Comee............... 28 Ges Choicest .... 2 @34 Dust 10 @i2 8UN CURED. a... .............. @l7 Goss. 2. ex Choice....... -+-e Gee Choicest... 22 QO Dust oo. i. Ee BASKET FIRED. a. 18 @20 ‘hoice.. @2 Chotcest...... @35 “ tra choice, wire leat @s0 TOBACCOs. Cigars. Edw. W. Ruhe’s Brands, a "rie. . . 39 +0 RE a Mr. ae _. 3) 0 G.J Johnson's t rand an 3° OO B. J. Reynolds’ Brand. Ho net’s Nest . soo 0) Fine Cut. Lorillard & Co.’s Brands, ssiied Russet . oa 25 Tier ...... “ 30 D. Seotten & Co's Brands. Hiawatha ....... 60 Cuba. ... a. 32 Rocket _. 30 Spaulding 4 & | Mesic Ks Brands. ering -..... ef Private Staats. Cherry ...... @32 ol @30 Can Cem. .............. GQ Nellie Bly... 24 a Uncle Ben. oe 25 McGinty . i. 27 4g ; bbls. ae. 25 Coiumbia See ce ase 24 Columbia, drums...... 23 Bane Up.... . 2? Bang up, drums 19 Plug. Sorg’s Brands, Spearhead . i 3° soner .. cma 4 ~ 4 NobbyT wist.. . 40 Scotten’s Brands. WIG .. ceases eee 25 Hiawatha,........ ..-. 38 Valley City ...... a 34 Finzer’s Brands, Old Honesty....-.---. 4 Jolly Tar..... Le z Lorillard’s ‘i Climax (8 02., 41C). 39 Green Turtle. ......... 30 Three Black C rOWS... 27 J. G. Butler’s Brands. Something Good..... 38 Heart. 36 Out of Sight.. ee 24 Wilson & McCaulay’s — Gale Boee............ Happy oe —. 3 Messmate . Le, a2 norTe....... Lee. 31 _— ol... 27 Smoking. Catlin’s Brands. crn iee........... @i7 Golden Shower ........ 19 ee 26 Mecrechauin st... -. - -29@30 American Eagle Co.’s —, Myrtle ane See gees Stork > coe .. ....- aon 15 Free ... ee Java, 48 foil... a. ee Banner Tobacco Co.'s Brands. eee i6 Sommer ‘Cavendish... oe Gold Cal. ........-......... 30 one eran aaa a a TRADESMAN Sasse Me ange — | “Celt «= br ts a... Boney Pow... Gold Block. . FF. Adams T ‘obacco Co.’s Brands Peerless...... es 26 me Toe... Standard. oo oe Globe Tobace co Co." 8 Siendn ee 40 Leidersdorf’s Brands. Rob Roy Ce ae 1 oe Uncle Sam. i... =e Red C ‘lover. . oo 5 v4 Spaulding & Merric k, Tom and Jerry......... 2 Traveler Cavendish........38 Buck Horn........ 0 Plow Boy. |. W@32 Corn Cake ........ oon, ae P. Lorillard & Co.'s ras ids Alligator lose 30 — 0G8....... sa Rose Leaf.. LL _ a Sensation ...... +s ¥ INEGA R. Highland Brand. ........ 12% WET MUSTARD, Bulk, per gal .. 30 Beer mug, 2 doz in case 1s YEAST. Diamond i ! . 2 Burek¢..... 1 FO Magic. 1 WO Yeast C ream 1 0U Yeast Foam 1 06 WOODENW ABE. Tute, No i 4 00 Ve No. z.. . a 30 bi NO 4....... 3 00 Pails, No. 1, two-hoop. 95 6 No. 1, three-hoop 1 10 Bowls, i inen... : 80 i ” 4... 90 C m ” . 1 2 c (Ct. : 1 80 HIDES PELTS and Ft Rs Perkins & Hess pay as fol lows: AIDES fereen : SLi Part Cured 438 run oo $%2 In Dey... 64 , 31 Kips. green Cri TH “~ Cured... ... RM% ilu Calfskins, green o4 it ' curec,..... 1z @ 13% Deacon skins 2 3 P2L - Sneatduge A ( Lambs 0 @ & Oid Wool i & 5 WwooL Was! 1e0 . a lv @8 Unwashed ...... » @ls MISCELLANEOUS. Pauw ...... 3 U4 Grease butter 1 @2z Switches 1%@ 2 Ginseng 2 (ie 2 25 GRAINS and FEEDSTU FF8 WHEAT. a oo 7 New oo Ls 63 FLOUR IN SACK. ae —. 1 50 Second Patent ce 1 60 Straight 3 +0 ae es 3 60 rem... i... -.-.- 36 Buckwheat ..... 4 50 Rye oo & iS *Subjec t to usual c fash dis count. Flour in bbis., ditional. 25¢e per bbl. ad- MEAL. Bolted ............ : 2 30 Granulated,..... 2 FEED AND MILLSTUPFS St. Car Feed, screened... #20 50 St. Car Feed, unscreened. 2.0 00 No. | Corn and Oats .. 19 50 Nu. 2 Special . 9 GO Unbolted Corn Meal. 9 00 Winter Wheat Bran ..... 16 40 Winter Wheat Middlings. 17 50 Screenings ..... ta 09 CORN. Car lots ooo 4y Less than car lots 52 OATS. Car lote .. “: oon Less than car lo oo 35 HAY. No. 1 Timothy, car lots....i7 50 No.1 by ton lots 18 00 FISH AND OYSTERS. FRESH FISH. Weienee ............ @s8 ous... @ 7% Black Hass...... ' @15 Benes... .c...... 13 g15 Ciscoer or Herring @6 Binefish ' @12% Live lobster, ‘per 1b. 16 Boiled lobster 8 18 Cod . 12 Haddock... .... aoe @s& No. 1 Pickerel @8 rime. ... oe @i7i Smoked Ww hite @i7 Red Snappers cas 15 peor River Sal hi asi ae Nate. ... ae Shrimps, per gal 1 26 SHELL GOODS Oysters per is Clame 25@1 50 7>@1 00 OYSTERS—IN CANS. . J. Dettenthaler’s Brands. iene Counts. 40 F.J. 0D. Selees....... 35 ' i Jo < 4 42 Nat * . 48 ae o tee ee cis teria he 6 pecmry, MO el . Le Ne 50 ee 1 15 LAMP CHIMNEYS —6 dos. in box. Per box &5 No.0 Sun 1 NO. a 2 00 ee 2 Ff First quality, No. 0 Sun, crimp top, Ww rapped and labeled. . 210 No. 1 2 No.2 ‘ 6 “6 ‘ "3 25 Xxx Flint, No. G Sun, crimp top, wrapped and labeled. 2 55 No, 1 . 2 75 No. 2 te “ se 3 55 a tv Pearl top. No. i Sun, wrapped and | labeled ..& 20 No, 2 470 No. 2 Hinge, ‘ . . as i) i Fire Proof—Plain Top. No.’1, Sun, plain bulb Mee cuee. 3 40 No.2, ‘* UU 4 40 i : La Bastle, No. 1 Sun, plain bulb, per dos. 1m No.2 “ ‘c ‘6 SE 1 50 Ne temp perdae. 0 0 5 a oe Pp per doz... eo. : 3 10/0 ee ome © oe 0 | | Rochester. No. 1, lime (Ge des)... os 3 50 NO. 2 thaie (i0e dex)... .._.. . a 00 No. 2, flint (80e doz) ee Le 7 2 SoG Goe) i . 470 Electric. No.2. ees ae doz ee wens ae, a .4 WO No. Pint (Medea). 4 40 Mise ellaneous, Junior, Rochester ............ i ~~ Nutmeg ° TN 15 Hinmaueter en... a 1 ri Barrel lots, 5 doz . ae 90 7 in. Porcelain Shades. .... a v0 Case lots, 12 doz.. : 90 Mammoth Chimneys 5 for! Store hie : Doz. B No. 3 Rochester, lime 1a ‘an No 3 Rochester, t 1o 4 8U No. 3 Pearl top or Jewel gl’s.1 8 5 25 No. 2 Giobe Incandes. 1 iw 5 10 No. 2 G.obe Inecandes. ti 2 UO > 85 NO. 2 Pearl class, _. ce. 6 WO OIL CANS, Doz ns wi ith spout 1 oO I 2 00 -o 4 ¢ l Eureka. vi 6 SO al Eureka wit! 7 00 : ' i 50 5 iL Let a BS 5 1 Nacefas.. 5 OU Pump Cans 3 gal Home Rule.... 10 50 > gal Home finle,........ an 2 3 gal Goodeno gh Meee lp 00 » gal Good enough 13 2 = 1 te 0G y Oa) Pirate Mitie ........... 8. es 10 00 ' TERN GLOBES, No. 0 ul 1 doz 2ach 5 mae : 102. each...... ed 2 No. 0 ' bbis 5 Ha a No. 0, =i bull’s eye, cases 1 doz each l 2 LAMP WICKS, No.i, per gross t No. I, ' Je No 2 x: =N ~y 4 No, 2, : . ' _— ' 6 Mam motn, perder .... 8. 1 7 on LERS—Tin Top. 4 Pints X, per box (box 00)... 1 60 Ly { doz (bbl pe ae *s t , oo 7 box (DOX { in 1 8O Lg i "ls doz (bbl 35) ee 224 STONEWARE—AKRON. Butter Crocks, 1 to6 gai... . : U6 . i ¢ gal. per doz Ly 60 Jugs, % gal., 168... Lee 70 " 20 4eaL pereal...... .. 0O7 Miik Pans, »% x41., per dos ou “t “ . 6 ‘ bl 1 a 4. 2 STONEWARE—BLACK GLAZED, Butler Crocks, 1 and 2eal............. 6% Milk Pans, % gal. per doz....... 65 ey ee 78 FRUIT JARS. Mason—old style, pints Mason—! doz. in ' _ qui arts. . . half gallons. Dandy—glass cover, pints i quarts . 10 50 half gallons... 13 50 OiLs. The Standard O}l Co. quotes as follows: BARRELS. Eocene. ae ees 16% XXX W. W. Mich. Headlight.........1. 9 Naptha... ee eee l @ &% Stove Gasoline....... ee cy @11% Cylinger.......... ee Hegine... _.... i. 12 @21 Biack, winter..... a Dhy Black, summer........... 8% FROM TANK WAGON, Eocene. .. ee 9 XXX W. W. Mich Hee ne 9 Scofield, Shurmer & Teagle quote as follows BARRELS, Pa’acine 11k alg Whole... Ce Ked Cross, W Ww oe Naptha... -- os. : oo. 9% Stove Gasol ine. oe eee 11% FROM TANK WAGON, Palacine.. .. Le ee oe 10 Red Cross Ww Ww He adlig ht. ee 7 22 RMR I NNR SA DAP AN hi No THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. HINTS ON ROAD IMPROVEMENT. Written for THE TRADESMAN. VL After the road is graded to the extent that may be found absolutely necessary er practically feasible, by filling hollows and digging down elevations which can- not be avoided in its location, and while the matter of drainage is receiving care- ful attention, the shaping of the roadway must be considered. For ordinary coun- try roads, it is the most economical to provide the hard roadway or wearing surface to the width of from eight to nine feet. while the entire width between the diteches—that is, the entire convex road surface—should be at least sixteen feet, to allow for teams passing at any point. In case of extreme economy, this may be reduced, if frequent plaees for passing are provided. If there is much traffic, the hard surfacing should be made the full width—sixteen feet—as it will-be so much more durable than a single narrow track, where the ruts or wheel tracks must needs be in one place. The shape of the road should be truly convex, to the full width of sixteen feet. The rise in the center should not bea ridge with straight slopes each way, as such a surface will soon wear into mud- holes; but it must be rounded from the highest part in the center both ways. The road must not be made too high in the center as it will throw too much of the load on the lower wheels, causing the vehicle to run hard and tending to slip sideways, thus injuring the road surface. But it must be given enough curvature to secure the quick removal of surface water. This removal must always be provided for by the water flowing off from the surface—never by its sinking into the road. The best material with which to make a permanent surface is, of course, broken stone of uniform hardness. But this, or any other material, will be worse than wasted if it is put on an unsuitable foundation. Probably the worst founda- tiom for such material is clay, subject to softening by the action of water and frost. A stone surface put on such a foundation will sink into the clay in spots and will become broken, with miry places almost impassible for teams. The filling of these places with more stone is of no use, as the sinking will go on in- definitely—wet clay is a bottomless pit. Perhaps the best material to put on the clay as a foundation for the surfacing is sand. This will not mix with the clay, provided there is a sufficiently hard sur- face above it to protect it from hoofs and wheels. It follows that sand is a good foundation where it is the natural ma- terial of the road, but it must then be properly shaped and compacted by roll- ing. Some townships and localities provide themselves with machines for breaking stone for road meta!. The advisability of such an enterprise is worthy of con- sideration in many places. But, where this is impracticable, a good surface can be made of gravel, which is generally ae- cessible for this purpose. The rounded stones of the gravel are much harder to keep in place than the angular fragments of broken stone, and such aroad requires more care as to width of tires, and re- quires more attention in maintenance, but it is so much cheaper that frequently it is the only material practicable. With a properly prepared foundation, which, if made of sand over clay, need not be very thick, thoroughly compacicd by rolling a surface of broken rock four inches thick, with the interstices just filled, and no more, with small gravel and sharp sand, also thoroughly rolled, will afford a durable and fairly perma- nent roadway, with little care for a con- siderable traffic. A gravel surface of the same thickness, if thoroughly drained and compacted, will do very well; but, where practicable, it should be somewhat thicker. If, with the other necessary tools, such as scrapers, etc., a community could be provided with a steam roller, it would be of great value, but is nut absolutely essential. An effective substitute may be found in co-operation in the matter of tires. In fact, the work of the heaviest steam roller will soon be undone by heavily loaded wagons with narrow tires. If all tires used on an improved high- way, even the slightest improvement de- scribed above, were of proper width, the passage of every loaded vehicle would be a benefit to the road, until such time as worn places should appear, which could be easily filled with gravel to be com- pacted to the smooth surface by the pass- ing wheels. The matter of tires is of great impor- tance. It is a mistake to remit taxes as a premium for the use of wide tires, for the taxes are needed; but a penalty should be put on the use of narrow tires. Any one driving over an improved road with a tire so narrow that his load is en- dangering the surface, should be arrested and fined. If there are poor farmers who cannot afford the $10 or $12 it will cost to change to wide tires, let them be aided to this extent, either by subscrip- tion or public funds; but set it down that narrow tires must not be used. A proper discussion of this matter will se- cure co-operation sufficient to prevent that danger to the improved road. Finally, let us recognize the fact that our interests are mutual in this matter. Every effort which leads to improved conditions causes an increase in the sum total of the wealth of the community. ~. 5. FE. “Please Remit.”’ A reporter on the Utica Observer has discovered in the hands of a descendant of the aneient debtor a dunning letter written ninety-eight years ago. We pre- sent it as being in pleasant contrast to the curt ‘‘Please remit’’ of the present day: WuirtEs Town, 16 June, 1798. HONOURED Sir: A few months ago you did me the honour to become my debtor for the purchase of goods at my store amounting to 12 dollars and eigh- teen pence. I have no doubt that a small transaction of this nature may have slipped your mind, and I trust you will pardon and excuse me for mentioning it to you upon this occasion. If you could find it convenient to forward it by safe means the same would be greatly appreciated, for 1 am in expectation of the receipt of some nine barrels of extra fine rum, for which I shall owe the con- signor a part of the purchase price, and which I desire to pay at the earliest convenience. If you should not find it convenient to forward the same, take no thought of what I have written until you might chance to come this way, when you may quit the indebtedness in your own time. I should be pleased at any occasion to receive a visit from you, and should you be in need of rum, axes, log chains or some very heavy boots for self or ser- vants I should be pleased to sell them to you. Y’r ob’t servant, Wo. GREEN. Nelson - Matter Furniture Company MAKERS OF FURNITURE KO 33-35-37-39 Canal St., GRAND RAPIDS Dell FUrMITUTE at Retall— Bedroom Suites, Chairs, Tables, Chiffoniers, Couches Upholstered Lace Curtains and Drapery Silks. Correspondence and orders by mail solicited. NELSON-MATTER FURN. CO., Grand Rapids HOROROROHOHOROHOHOROROCHOROROHONONOHONOHOROROHOROHOCE lounges, a) mR CUVY AND COUNTRY HOMES Bookcases, and l‘urniture, Sideboards, Parlor WRITE FOR PRICES ON ANY SHOWCASE NEEDED 55,57; 59, 61 Canal St. GRAND RAPIDS Our Goods are sold by all Michigan Jobbing Houses, SHOW CASES, STORE FIXTURES, Etc. J. PHILLIPS & CO., ESTABLISHED 1864. OFFICE AND STORE..... HATURES GW ORDER... 99 N. lonia Street, Grand Rapids Detroit, Mich. J T. MURPHY, [Manufacturer SPECIAL AND FURNITURE TELEPHONE 738. Tear Vel Grand Rapids ....brush Co. MANUFACTURERS OF BRUSHES GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN MEN vF MARK. Jas. Stewart, Manager of the Jas. Stewart Co., Limited. James Stewart was born at Stratford, Ont., Aug. 18, 1845, removing to Detroit with his parents six months later, where he attended the public schools until he was 20 years of age, when he traveled eighteen months for hishealth. He then went to Saginaw as the representative of J. L. Hurd & Co., who at that time oper- ated a line of steamers competing with the Ward line between Saginaw and Cleveland, which position he filled with satisfaction to all coneerned for seven years. In 1872, he leased the warehouse and dock at the foot of Tuscola street and launched out in a small way in the flour, grain and produce business. Two years later he leased the store and dock at the foot of Genesee avenue, succeeding John JAMES STEWART. G. Owen in the wholesale grocery busi- ness. He continued the business at this location for seventeen years, during which time the business was merged into a special partnership under the style of the Jas. Stewart Limited, which now has a capital stock of $75,000 and a surplus of $20,000. Although not the neminal head of the business, Mr. Stew- art is General Manager of the institution and his ideas and business methods pre- vail to that extent that the trade has that the policy of the of its founder and Co., come to realize house is the policy manager. The business outgrew the old quarters three years ago, when the com- pany took possession of a handsome and commodious four-story brick building, erected especially for it and especially adapted for the wholesale grocery bus'- ness. Mr. Stewart was married March 19, 1868, to Miss Annie Young, of Paisley, Scotland. The engagement was a re- est, it being a case of “love at first sight.” The young peopie met while Mr. Stewart was on a tour of Europe, but all plans were abandoned and all other countries forgotten in with which the young man pressed his suit for the hand of the Scotch lassie. Persistence finally won—as it usually does—and the marriage subsequently took place at New Orleans, bride was on a visit to friends in this country. Five children have bless the union—four daughters and a son—Dunean Young Stewart, now 22 years of age, who is Secretary of the Stewart Co. Mr. Stewart is an attendant of the Presbyterian church and is a member of the Royal Arcanum, Uniformed Rank K. P., and Eitks, having served the latter Ruler. He has made three rope and has also visited Egypt and Pal- estine in the far East, wandering through Iceland in the North. He is full of rem- iniscences of his travels and noted men he has met. the State. be inferred from his Seotch cidedly pugnacious, As would naturally antecedents, he egory of people who are aptly described as those who rather fight than eat,’? and he has carried into his busi- ness relations a spirit of aggressiveness which has caused him to be very much disliked by some of his competitors. True to the Scotch instinct, he cares lit- tle for the praise of his friends or the censure of his enemies, but pursues a straightforward course, as it appears to him, never swerving from the path of duty, as he sees it. Beneath a rugged exterior and an aggressive temperament there lurks a big warm heart which beats would ** tions of everyday needy people have had his unostentatious charity. THE MICHIGAN BARREL CO. GRAND RAPIDS. MICH, MANUFACTURER OF 'Bushel Baskets, Cheese Bail Boxes, Axle Grease Boxes. Wood Measures. markable one in point of romantic inter- | the ardor. while the lived to) all the Masonic orders, including the 32d | degree and the Shrine, the Saginaw Club, | organization in the capacity of Exalted | trips to Eu-} Personally, Mr. Stewart is one of the} most peculiar of men to be found in the | is de-| belonging to the eat- in sympathy with the needs and aspira- | humanity and many | their burdens | lightened and their lives brightened by Boxes, | \ eos = oes? 22s ® Se ssse Sac. SVSVeVVSVeEVVUVSVeSVVVSVIS VS VSVISVIEVeSV SSI VVETVVUVS VE VSCVV VV VVSVeVVeVeeVeVeVTeVeVeVeeeVeeY @Gee-- Give Us Your Ear We have a ¢ next week. If any interested in Japz e can do them lots of good. WOODENWARE.......has old, w til present prices low we. dare \V rite us. We Offer fora 150 Cases fat Peas, 2s, cases Fe ‘lipse T714C per Gz. cash. 350 -eeeCheap Piug Tobaccoseee-. \We are in the swim on all Plugs at up to 16c per Ib. The Jas. oleWa (LIMITED. i2% carload not Nunley New Of our 1) Teas due friends are Teas, new or declined un- are so extremely publish them. Snap IIynes Marrow- lew, at 48c per dz. ‘Tomatoes, 3s, at In 5 case lots, net iS NOT A BEST FIVE MUSICIAN, BUT—— CENT CIGAR IN THE COUNTRY ED. W. RUHE, MAKER, CHICAGO. F. E. BUSHMAN, AgL., 523 dotin S1., KALAMAZOO OCOOCC0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 ~ fdas SS BadsonS treet. te os ie IT HAS NO EQUAL. The GAIL BORDEN EAGLE BRAND Condensed Milk The demand for is also growing rapidly. Of course, Prepared and guaranteed by the For Quotations see Price Columns. BORDEN’S PEERLESS BRAND Evaporated Cream this indicates merit is not rivaled by any other brand of milk. testimony of Consumers, Dealers and Jobbers, the 1: irgely increased sales each year. New York Condensed Milk Company. This is the universal and accounts for 7 PRDENS Ss UNSWEETENED ABSOLUTELY PURE. SOY, > .S Cm, CoOodCNOCN0NN0000C0000080 OCODDDDDINDININNNO NNN NN NOON ONO OOO COON CN 000000 00000000 CV000CON0COCC00000000 Soke ate aes ai ataatn nate comantitemmak aaa THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN GOTHAM GOSSIP. News from the Metropolis- --Index of the Markets. Special Correspondence New YORK, July 27 more livable weather comes a better feeling among tradesmen. The grocery jobbers are feeling better than last week, for they have an influx of visitors and some goodly mail orders. Inquiries as to prices and the probable outlook for —With cooler and the future have been numerous and all indications point to good times by and by. Stocks in all directions are said to be low and there must come a purchasing time that will make things warm all around. During the week considerable foreign refined sugar has come hitber and been sent to interior points. Samples on view show an excellent product of Dutch refining at prices considerably less than the Trust’s. Of course, these im- ports may cut no great show, and it is intimated that the price was allowed to go unchallenged by the Trust in order to influence the price of raw stock. Gran- ulated sugar is in light demaud at the moment and no difficulty or delay is ex- perienced in filling all orders present. Granulated is without change at 4 7-1l6e. An excellent jobbing trade has been done in coffee and some Western dealers have placed large orders. Statistically, at there are afloat 508,856 bags, against 368,909 bags last year. No. 7 Rio is held, nominally, at 15%ge. Mild coffees, | in sympathy with the ranker sorts, experienced a very firm market all the week and sales of Maracaibo have been on a basis of 1914¢¢c for good Cucuta. Padang Interior, 27144 @272{¢. Mocha, 2514 @26ce. Mexican is within the range of 19@21. Tea? Well, this the one which no one ever grows ent over, except in the decoction. ket is dull. Buyers are taking to ‘‘last over Sunday,’’ but prices are low and unremunerative. Offerings at auction comprise about the qual ities and quantities. thing husiastie The supplie S is mar- usual All desirable stocks of molasses here are concentrated in a few hands. For first-class stock fuil quotations must be paid and buyers seem to realize that for such there is no earthly use of *tshop- ping round.’’ They take it or leave it. Inferior sorts are in ample supply Syrups seem to be in rather —_ tion. There no great imul and the movement is nena. Prime to choice, 18@22c. osu is ace ition fairly There is a very steady trade in rice and |: rates are firm. The demand seems to bs mostly for best sorts of Japan. It is hinted that an advance may occur, but it is hardly likely, in view of the near re- ceipt of domestic. Spices are rather dull. Trading at the moment is light and, perhaps, a few ‘‘bargains’’ could be picked up. Transactions in canned goods have been rather limited during the week, but there is a feeling that this is going to be a profitable season for the canner and broker. Stocks of old tomatoes seem to be very well cleared up and the article shows an advancing tendency. Western packers are said to have held from 90,- 000 to 100,000 cases on July 1. Futures of New Jersey pack are worth 80c. The Western pack of peas is said to be 25,000 cases less than last year. The butter market is quite firm, with 174g @18e quoted for the best Elgin. The latter, however, is certainly extreme and receipts are such as keep the article from advancing at the present time. Cheese remains practically unchanged, the best State small full cream selling for 83 c. Eggs are steady at 131¢ for best West- ern, and 15¢ for near-by. Accumulations are not excessive and holders express confidence in better prices in the very near future. Nuts are in better request for some lines and Sicily shelled,almonds are said to be worth 164; @l17c. California paper- shell are worth 11@12¢e Dried fruits, foreign and Pacific, are doing better and quite a good jemand has been experienced for loose California and Valencia raisins. Stocks are not large. have | | he ad for two cents a word stre I rm oly the city for iring and Jobbi rods from I ) reasonable, Lemons are firmly held and the ten- | @ dency of the market is toward higher | prices, Sicily ranging from $3 all thej|; way to $5. Oranges are firm and stocks | are not excessive Pineapples are steady | and bananas lower. For peas and beans the market is dull. Prices rule very low and the finest mar- row are offered at rates less than $2.25. Pea beans, $1.85@2.05. Ev+ porated fruits are in light request, evaporated apples selling from 6@8l¢c. New dried cherries and raspberries are in market, but are not meeting with any reat request. Apples are worth 75c@$1 for fruit which is good, but the greater portion of stock which is coming now is not of and sells for next to nothing. Peaches are selling well when of desira- ble quality. A few New Jersey arrivals have put in an appearance, but, for the most part, they are very poor. > > Gripsack Brigade. A. B. Hirth and Samuel Krause (Hirth, & Co.) have gone to Boston, they will spend a couple of weeks the best Krause where in familiarizing themselves with the rub- ber situation. It is reported that Jas. has a contract for building piers at Macatawa Park and that he is carrying that resort on the train each evening for the purpose of A. Morrison government stones down to saving freight. A dec travel- ing men was recently rendered at Find- Ohio, in the ease of Arthur J. Mor- Le. & W. Company. The plaintiff, a ticket broker, purchased a and mile book in an assumed name. After 286 miles had been used up, it was contiseated by a conductor on the ground that the man who was using it was not the one in whose name it was is- sued. Suit was brought against the rail- way company for $14.28, the value of the mileage still unused. Judgment was rendered in favor of the plaintiff for the full amount, the court holding that the ticket could not be claimed by the rail- road company, unless its value was prof- fered the owner. ision of great interest to lay, ton vs. Railway thous COLUMN. inserted under this the first insertion cent a word for each subsequent in- No advertisements taken for less than Advance payment. WANTS Advertisements will be d one rtion. 25 cents. BUSINESS CHANCES. .; G CHANCE FOR SOMEONE—JEWELRY ll stock, tools and fixtures, to the amount of 4 1). can be boug for $550. with fi s lo iress No. 8 ire Michig Trades wt? id a. rED ro EXCHANGI DESIRABLI resider oy ty or 7 ots loented Bente HH ‘ vi for ‘: of rocerit 0 r stock \ ss B %, Benton H: ! 815 ie SALI ] il A FINE MILL ’ I W er power: would make 1 LOO s ent s creek; Grand Rapids. os RENT—IN LIVE rOWN IN MICHIGAN, Poods store 25 x 82 feet rlass front. Car 1 witl t > f : one other ‘ yods store f 1.800, which has two n er +r 400 people: also chair 1 ry € \ » people. Weekly pey- ] (,ood reasons fur va- s, address W. C. Edsell, Otsego, M SUS I] ° ¥F iv E TO Bt STOR ey BLOC! K ind Rapids, ERED L AND FOR SALE OR nge for clean stock of groceries or ft ve goods. Address Bisbee Bros., Paris, J [ S00 eo SALE—DRUG STORE, GOOD LOCA- tion, cheap. Good reasons for selling—own- ernota druggist. Enquire of J.G Pearl street, Grand Rapids. Jae n a MICHAEL KOLB & Wholesale Clothing Manufacturers, ROCHESTER, N.Y. SON, Write our representative, WILLIAM CONNOR of Marshall, Mich, Box 346, to call upon you and see our fall and winter lines of Overcoats, Ulsters and Suits for all ages, prices, fit and make guaranteed,. or meet Mr. Connor at Sweet’s Hotel ou ,Thursday and Fri- day, Au allowed. Customers’ and o. K:stablished 38 years. gust 8 expenses BUYS 80 ACRES (ONE-HALF PRICE) S401 ten acres Cleared, good log house eighty rods from Rhodes, Mich Address M. Bentley, Rhodes, Mich. S02 For SALE—ESTABLISHED DRUG BUSI- ness in booming Northern Michi tow! |} Owner has interests in the South. mal it ne ry to close out this busi ss. Correspond nust be prompt. Address No. 803, Care an Tradesman. 805 NOR SALE THE DANIELS STO k OF GRO } ceries. Best loc t i town. Strictly cash 1] lished. stock w orth about $4,800. Wil ftive-sixths of inventory, cash. Fixtures the dd’ess Box 97, Traverse City, Mich. eee SALE—STOCK wF DRUGS, BOOKS, wall paper, in one of the best towns it Southern Michigan. | rice about $4,000, Te secured. Wot sell one-half intere rty Addrese with pa No care n Tradesman. your sah S— STOCK OF CLEAN GROCERIE 4 ; in good town. well loc Biroes"g Invento $1.800 to #2,000. Be-t of reasons ee dress No. 785, care Michigan Tra JrOk SALE -DRUG STOCK AND F oo corer iocation: stock in good condition ind business pay gy. Good reasons for selling d dress Dr. Nelson Abbott, Kalamazoo, Mich. 6 gpa SALE DRUG STO K CONSISTING OL s » drugs, patent mec f ery hat I] or, ett out and two years on last year, $8,000, has ixhts, hot and cold water ated in lass shi ‘r Peninsula, ll health, in mining district. necessita rate Address No. 769. care = WW \STED TSE PAKE HALF IN- rest in ye ( bbl. steam roller mill ia elevator. situa:ed on railroad: m preferred: eood wheut country. Full de e terms a1 n ilriesg teat H.C. Herkimer, M: 100D OPENING FOR G residence to rent cheap. ( un Tradesman. 779 » Mic ~ MISCELLANEOUS Ww ‘Aiate te bo cua niin til REGISTERED DRl 5G CLERK. experience, salary expected and s of former employers. J. Hanseiman MM; stee, Mich. S24 FINT AND VUART MASON Vould like to hear from parties who ind ure located in sec ns where ruil and have no call forthem. Edwin Fallas, Grand Rapids, Mich. S16 pe SALE -COMPLETE SET OF BUTCH er’s tools and ma fixtures. \ddress idison I » Quiney 812 FOUR (4) ST \NDARD\ OUNTER latform Dayton Computing scales; w months: all in good iactes Mae Oe le Co., At anta, Ga. 805 ALL KINDS st JR AP IRON, METAL, hirt and overall cuttings and rut ‘ Wm. “Brummeiler & Sons, 260 S. Toni: io i Rapids. “Phone 640. 804 Pers tools. Addr OTe ae SET TIN ners tools. Address P. W. Holland, Chapin. ich. i34 W ANTE D—BUTTER, EGGS, POULTRY, PO oes, Onions, apples. cabbages. ete. Cor respondence solici 1 kins & i 84-865 South Division street, Grand R ipids. 673 a SALE—5.000 NICE CLEAN STOCK O1 boots, shoes, clothing and dry goods at 50 ct 1S Ci ish on the dollar of the whole Si le cost. Address No. 810, care Michigan Tradesman. 810 D—EVERY DRUGGIST JUST COM b ness, and every or ilready t to use our system of poison la What ae eek vos 5 you ean n et for Four en labels do the work of 113. Tr desman Com- any, Gra id Rapids. BOMERS’ Express and Transfer Co. MOVING and STORAGE BAGGAGE a Specialty aa Grand Rapids V. SEBRING HILLYER Consulting Engineer Structural Iron Work Attention given to Drawings for Patents 803 Michigan Trust Building GRAND RAPIDS For Bargains in Real Estate, in any part of the State, Write €0.00000 6.00000, : G. W. Ames 106 Pheenix Block BAY CITY, MICHIGAN Are You Looking .....f0r Business ? We offe The Michigan i Works Plant GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. r 1On Sc i] Buildings, Machinery, Foundry and Boiler Shop, with Tools, Patterns and good will of the business. Located right in center of the city, on the bank of the river and near the railroad. Now in op- eration and doing a fair business. Size of ground, 160 x 170 ft Machine Shop, me story, 60x 65 ft. Foundry, 60 x 60 ft., two cupolas. Boi 1 Pattern Shop, two stories, 50 x 100 feet. Blacksmith Shop, ~ rear, 50 x 60 " ft., two forges. Engine Room, 33 x 20 ft. Engine id Boiler of 75 horse power ¢ nwee ity. Vacant 1 for storage, 60 x 160 ft. WIll be sold el an estate, yroune leap and on easy terms, to close Ww M. T. POWERS & SON, Grand Rapids, Mich Survivor. by We. T. Powrrs, TO CLOSE UP AN ESTATE Good Furniture Business...... nel Gp AM a ! Established 1887. good \lways new build- growing business. Occupying 1g In prosperous city of 100,000 people. } Large territory tributory to it. Well selected and complete stock of all } " kinds of Household goods. \ early business ot $50,000 can be done. Will be sold at a bargain. Address No. rooo, care MICHIGAN ‘ TRADESMAN. Walter Baker & Go. Limited, The Largest Manufacturers of PURE, HIGH GRADE f COCOAS anp CHOCOLATES on this continent, H have received A\HIGHEST AWARDS | from the great SS industrial and Foo EXPOSITIONS IN Europe and America. | CAUTION : = In view of the many imitations of the ; labels and wrappers on our goods, consum- ers should make sure that our place of man- ufacture, namely Dorchester, Mass. is printed on each package. SOLD BY GROCERS EVERYWHERE. Walter Baker & Co, Ltd. Dorchester, Mass, yaa EXACT SIZE OUR BARGAIN. CASE Costs $5.00 Retails for Over 100 per cent. PROFIT. BOTTLE Contains 24 dozen 25 cent Makes 16 Cuaris | size (at $2 per dozen), $5 | FREE! 2% doz. 15-cent trial bottles, one forty oz. $1 bottle, two glasses, one tray, signs, cou- | pons, posters, ete., 300 coupons to advertise with. | The 40 ounce bottle makes 80 qts., or 1,000} glasses. Keep a pitch- | er mixed and serve to | all your customers a will sell a case every Special Triple Ex- tract, for soda foun- tains and soft drink trade, in one gallon bottles, price $3. Will make 13 gallons fine syrup at a cost of only 50 Gents a gallon. i ORDER OF YOUR JOBBER For sale by the fol- lowing wholesale dealers: Grand Rapids Olney & Judson Gro- cée Uo. Lemon & Wheeler Co. ’ Musselman Grocer Co. y 1.M.Clark Grocery Co a Worden Grocer Co. # Ball-Barnhart-Put- =» man Co. f Hazeltine & Perkins S Drug Co. Putnam Candy Co. A. E. Brooks & Co. Saginaw wai Wells-Stone Merc. Co. mm Jas. Stewart Co., Ltd 1 Symons Bros. «& Co. Melze, Smart & Co. D. BE. Prall & Co. #G. A. Alderton. fd. P. Derby. Bay City | W.1. Brotherton «& Co. t. P. Gustin Co | Meisel & Goeschel. W. Bay City Walsh & Tanner Kalamazoo 4 Desenberg & Co Muskegon ATABLE SPOONFULL MAKES A QUART DIRECTIONS:” . One téaspoonfn! extract, three of sugar, or sweeten to taste in tumbler water. © Drink freely as you would lemon-. ‘ade. Can be used with either hot or cold water. For Coughs, Colds, Sore Throat, etc. use bot.>: Never drink water without adding a few drops of extract. ag it will des- troy all Cholera and germ diseases, rendering impure water harmieSs. To make the beverage in larger quantity, use 1 gal. of water, 2 to 4 ounces extract, 1 pound sugar, Neyer mix in tin vessels. A GREAT NERVE TONIC. Invaluable for Nervausness, Headache, Sleeplessness, Dyspepsia, Rheumatism, Stomach, Liver and Kidney troub- les. Read circular. None genuine without signature. Daily use will positively prevent any disease from gain- foot hold on the system, as it is one of the best known Can be taken without the slightest injury. PRICE 25c., MAKES I6 QUARTS. $1.00 SIZE hMiAKES 80 QUARTS. HOMPSON:*PHOSPHA e | Geo. Hume & Co. Fred Brundage. Battle Creek John F. Halladay & Jo Godsmark, Durand c Co Morgan & Co. The Bradstreet Mercantile Agency THE BRADSTREET COMPANY WN | NGS TENTS uaa EXECUTIVE OFFICES 9 , : 279, 261, 283 Broadway, N.Y. Offices in the principal cities of the United States, FLAGS AND CANVAS COVERS Se a continent, Australia, YACHT SAILS A SPECIALTY GRAND RAPIDS OFFICE- 187 Jefferson Avenue Room 4, Widdicomb Bldg DETROIT, Mich. HENRY ROYCE, Supt. Manufacturers of CHARLES F. CLARK, Pres. ‘EASY 10 OPERATE =---- SIMPLE and DURABLE GET READY FOR THE PotatobBugs THE ECLIPSE IS A NEW AND VALUABLE IMPROVED] Woler Spr Mle Wi se Or Duster Altachmert, 11886. Improved 1889. Especially adapted f plying Paris Green Water, Powder Compounds, Plaster, etc., to Potato Vi ind other p E ECLIPSE is manufactured in suc durable manner as to be practi- destructible, and also so ind easily de making wnd Most C n doors or out ind a ying the Potato Beetle and For Store or Floor. For Sprinkling. For Vines or Plants. For Dusting. Acme Plaster Sifter FOR POTATOES AND OTHER VINES. EIGHT 10 TEN AGRES COVERED PER DAY. To Operate the Sifter. Place the square piece of Sheet Iron with points down over the agitatorin the bottom. Put the Plasterin can on top of square piece. This square piece takes part of the weightof plaster, which is very heavy, from the agitator and allows it to work freely. A slight turn of the wrist, easy or hard, as you may wish much or lit tle plaster to be delivered, is all that is necessary to operate the sifter. With one in each hand a man can care for two rows at once, covering from eight to ten acres per day OSTERZ I EVENS & C: MONRO E GRAND RAPIDS. SE RE RE ne RPE REE RERE E RE RE nE REE RE RE HE RE RE EERE AERP NERO Eo d - .~ + _ a ‘ | & < Nearly every woman reads wes?z day with | ** % its drudgery and discosnfort. Some | ] 2 = found out that there is one great { 2 % to make /igh/er the work of washing clothes. 5 i & That is ie | % ite ae | & —<— o x | te ty ty : = om a ce : He sl 24 eR RES ASN: eA Re AE SAMMUT a = It takes the @77/ out withou bbing— = Ss leavesthe s clea 1 Hjuly. = © FF You cai ll afford to give it a tp Get it at ¥ o o a 1 Se ee ae i. = fs * your dealers. A catalogue of beautiful pictures 4 & ana 4 free. S ct o : | 2 ¢ GOWANS & SONS, Buffalo, N. Y. 2 = OHO CHG OS CO a ee | WILLIAM REID, JOBBER OF PAINTS, OILS, VARNISHES, BRUSHES, et, Plate & Window GL? 26-28 Louis Street, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Gi — Investigate the Dayton Computing Scale. PAYS FOR ITSELF Every two months and makes vou 600 per cent. on the investment. It prevents all errors in weighing and STOPS THE LEAKS in your business these hard times. You can not atford to be without one. YOU NEED IT! SEE WHAT USERS SAY. | iw i " | J. W. WHITELEY & SON, BOSTON TORE. | Dry Goods, Clothing. Groceries, ete. sOST! ST¢ nian | pie aparte. Iowa, April 22, 1895. 118-124 State St., and 77-79 Madison St., Dayton Computing Seale Co., Dayton, O.: | GENTLEMEN: In reference to yours of recent date regarding the ( oampeitis ng Scales which you t us, permit us to state that they have ex- dour expectations, giving us the utmost CasH MERCHANDISE Chieago,. Dec. 31, 1894. The Computing Seale Co., Dayton, Ohio: GENTLEMEN: We have had your scale in use since November 24, 18%, in our butter, cheese ction. We consider it one of our greatest sniences in our store. and oe it, as we and meat department. We find them to do ev loand from the expe rience we have had actly what you ea m. Our clerks can wait on its usage in the store. we would not dis- : - pense W th it for ten times i ts value. Any ordi- more customers and assure them accuracy in ev lary clerk, with common school educ ation, em ery respect. We can recommend them as the expedite business equal to two or three clerks, most economieal scale in use for meat markets 2nd we prize it as one of our foremost fixtures en " r in our stor We consider «nd feel that ours has and groceries Tours truly, paid for itself in two months S}OSTON STORE. Yours truly, Jd. W. Warrecey & Son. For further particulars call or write THE COMPUTING SCALE CO., Dayton, Ohio. Another Drop! GLASS and CROCKERY BO OOO6O066660000966060606606000666060060000006 — Package of yl Crystal Glassw are. lassware to more than pay the freight Seceeeenees We Can save you enough on every package of i a TT ee NOG 15030 ASSORTED PACKAGE-—.\ very attractive pattern. smooth]y fi Ss ~ i t oF re iH) I s J J s ] } Be ; \ 38 s B s Wr ite by our New Illustrated Catalogue, 118 ARAL customers ug AA YNVINVINONNHNODORDORDORD OPENED OPPO OPO OnPODORDORDOOD ODO ND OnE OPO nnOnD OOD NOD ED ORD OnPOnDOND Ve Assorted Package Glassware. NO. 1805 ASSORTED FOUR PIECE SETS. Sugar. reamer, Sugar. We have especially arranged this package to give our ood variety of small quantities of the best selting 4-piece sets on the market, at snt. Contents of package as follows: Butter, Spooner, ¢ Widuiuiuausuauauiuaurus the same time saving you 10 per ce , doz. No. 44 i e Sets. 235 «6$ «456 6-1 doz. No. 49D 4 piece Sets 76 00 $1 00 14 doz. No. 15909 4 piece Se 9 25 56 a 1-tdoz. No 39D 4 pieck Sets. Le 67 #3 63 -doz. 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