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ADMINISTRATOR OF ESTATES GUARDIAN OF TIINORS AND INCOMPETENT PERSONS TRUSTEE OR AGENT In the management of any business which may be entrusted to it. Any information desired will be cheerfully furnished. LEWIS H. WITHEY, President. ANTON G. HODENPYL, Secretary. 0 NDER? LO AND 7 PEARL STREET. Grand Rapids, GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7, SUCCESSFUL SALESIIEN. Robert L. Hall, Representing Allen B. Wrisley, of Chicago. Robert Hall, a veterinary surgeon of Bristol, England, came to the United states and settled in Buffalo, N. Y. eleanor Loudon, from Ayrshire, the Bobbie Burns, followed the beckoning finger of fate and also came to Buffalo. The two met, land of became lov- ers, were married and set up a home that beautiful lake city Of incongruous name. Here, not far for themselves in from the Robert L. When’ the boy was six parents left Buffalo for where he was sent to school. pivot of the century, a son, , was born to the happy pair. ycars old, his Sandusky, He made and, passing through all the primary through the high school, includ- ing Latin and graduated good progress in his studies grades from German, he BOO 00000000 000000000000008 with honor, and was ready for the next z THE 3 step. For years he had been indulging 3 FIR E$ ina dream of laudable ambition in the o ” IN a @ | only proper way. In the odd corners of 3 c/o 85 ] time-—and even ones, when fortune fa- @ @| vored— he worked at whatever he could ° wi ae ig ae z find to do, and when his public school Fe aintnmidninninemnaenaeis @@| days were done, he found $250 to his MIGTIggN FE ONC. Mar INSURANCE CO. Organized a Detroit, Mich. credit in a Sandusky bank. With this the result of his own industry, he went to Detroit and Bryant & Stratton’s Commercial College as a stu- dent, a branch of which was located at that place. tious dream, and in due sum, entered Here he realized his ambi- time left the institution with his diploma, duly signed Commercial Credit Co., timites. Reports on individuals for the retail trade. house renters and professional men. Also Loca Agents Furn. Com. Agency Co.'s Collections handled for members. Phones 166-103 65 MONROE ST., GRAND RAPIDS. ““Red Book.”’ and sealed. He was then 17 years old, and the biographer stops in this part of the narrative remark that a 17-year-old boy, with $250 of his is not a common sight, long enough to own earnings, 1} even in America. ) With school and college behind hit, he entered the employ of A. C. Austin WAYNE COUNTY SAVINGS BANK, Detroit, Mich. $000,000 10 INVEST IN BONDS counts? towns and school districts of Mich. Officers of these municipalities about to issue bonds will find it to Blenk ponds and blanks for proceedings supplied with- out charge. Communications and enquiries have Bank pays 4 p.c. on deposits, 8. D. ELwoop, Treas. their advantage to apply to this Bank. prompt attention. compounded semi-annually. The Tradesman’s advertisers receive sure and profitable results. & Co., wholesale dealers in fancy goods, at Detroit, where, as book-keeper, he re- mained three years. Thinking that would answer for an apprenticeship, he became book-keeper and cashier for the Evans & Walker for nine years. Here his health gave out, and he concluded to change his business. With this end in view he went to Chicago and connected himself wholesale grocery house of 1895. with Allen B. Wrisley, manufacturer of laundry and toilet soaps, where he is to-day, and where he has been for the last fifteen years, with a territory in- Northern Ohio and and sales amounting to $60,000 cluding Michigan, Canada, a year. An item which is well worth reading and which the writer puts down for his that from the time he began his career to the present day, Mr. Hall has never and in the changes noted he left one es- OWN gratification is been out of a job: tablishment at night and began with the other next piasetna Mr. Hall has been a Master Mason for twenty-one years. He is an Odd Fellow of six years’ standing. He isa Knight of Pythias and a K. of G.. and is) a member of the Michigan C. T. A., and of the Utica Commercial Traveling Men’s Association. His Detroit and years, and home is. in has been for the last thirty recent reports from the me- tropolis of the State are to the effect that a man by the Robert L. Hall position of School name of was elected to the Inspector by an overwhelmingly large majority. that the their school days are May he so use his influence Detroit, over, school boys of when may be able bank accounts of to show $250 which they have earned at odd jobs and which they intend to make use of still higher the in climbing ladder of learning! i i been Therefore, be it Re- solved, miass-meeting as- advocates as a fair, equitable balance between what a public officer ought to be, and what he can reasonably expect to be, without regard to the opinions or usages of people in other parts of the world. And we hereby endorse — the standard of public and private virtue he represents to be the same as always ex- isting, from the time of our forefathers, and which is in every respect good enough for as.” have a "Now, my friends, we state- ment here which, if true, leads to but lf false, the resolution that the admitted by all to be the maximum standard for human one conclusion. falis with it. It is Golden averred Rule tacitly guidance- has been tampered with by a select few, and its requirements ex- tended to cover certain lines of conduct heretofore governed by a lesser rule, which allows a2 more liberal interpreta tion. By so doing, the ratio between good and the best has been inc reased until common honesty ora tair reputa tion does not current at its former pass value. But, even if true, this statement does not fit the case in hand. “*We can all remember when the Hon. Augustus Goodfellow had a reputation which did not belie his name. There was a time when he was in no peril from the acts of a so-called oligarchy, for he was, himself, one of them, willing to be measured by the same. standard. Where is he now? Ask the business men who have suffered by his dishonest schemes! You all know that in his po- litical course he has falsitied promises made to confiding voters legislative committees have left records proving his complicity in many cases of bribery where a treasury has been plundered through the connivance of its watchmen. sworn Besides, he is disreputable in his private life, as attested by com- mon fame, which defies denial. "What claim has he, descending scale of mo- then, to ask us to endorse his rality? What right has he to blame hon- est public sentiment for measuring him with the same rule he acknowledged in his earlier career? A change 1s, 1n- deed, apparent between now and then ; and the Golden Rule is permanent, and | safe | drifted from. its It is natural,in one who floats, The (soodtellow seems to be he it is who has mooring. to think the solid land recedes. Hon. Augustus in a similar condition to the Scotch no- bleman who, on his way horseback from a late supper, and well besodden had to In doing so, a sudden misstep with whisky, cross a small stream. of the animal brought him to the water with a Splash Hey, Sandy, he craes "hear the rack- has dropit into the to his groom, ‘did ve na et?) Some puir soul drink! His that Sandy, repited: tt wad be ver “Na, na, the lips of his tipsy master. ‘It Situation was so comical convulsed with laughter, ainsel’, my ' lat Sandy!’ came from Canna be me, for I’m here.’ ** Perhaps the author of this resolution also imagines that the eternal principles of right are, like shooting-stars, scatter- ing into space, and he alone holds— his integrity. But, viewed in the light of sense, the position of A debased standard of morality is offered for your approval, sober Common things is reversed. in lieu of one which all acknowledge as perfect. Are you disposed to accept it, with all the demoralizing consequences it may involve? Can you, even by this resolution, make black white condone the evil from which you have so long suffered, and ° insult your own. intelli gence by substituting the less for the greater, expecting it will pass current in the world’s market, without grievous concerned 2 l loss to all speak as to wise men--judge ye! It is enough to add that, upon sub- mission of the question, the vote stood almost unanimous against the resolu Hon. low’s appeal was dismissed with costs. PETER C. MEEK. en New Fire Proofing Compound. Ht. M. Reynolds & Son, of this city, have secured the exclusive agency in Michigan of a new chemical tire proot tion, and the \ugustus Goodtel- ing compound which is fully as good and efficient as fire insurance. It is go Fire Prooting Company to last guaranteed by the Chica and Wood Presery ny practically as long as the wood that is | treated with the chemical. This com- pany says: ‘‘If we were lumber that is to go into a building t thoroughly fireproof, we would) gladly give a ten years’ insurance policy free and agree to test its fireproof qualities at the end of ten years and, if it is not as thoroughly fireproof as when first put on, we will refund the cost of fireproof ing. In fact, a blaze will not start in temperature that will melt steel. When the lumber is already in the building it can be treated with an air brush, and the outside of the wood is rendered ab- solutely non-combustible and as safe as if a sheet of iron around it.”’ Tests are daily being made by H. M. Reynolds & Son, and a great “demand for this compound is already established, _— o. ~—_> It is rather humiliating to acknowl- edge that the Chinese, whorm Japan has polished off so handsomely — furnish the civilized world with fans, umbrel- , las, kites, spectacles, gongs, bank notes and postage stamps. given all the] cover was placed | Strverernerersnrvorernerertes = Blank Books = Tablets = Stationery E bh EATON, LYON & COm— | | 20 and 22 Monroe St. Grand Rapids TUNA AANA UA AAA AAA dALAAAUAATS John Brechting Architect Grand Rapids. \s there are so many different ways in which a con:ractor can tuke advantage of an intending builder that it would make a rather long story of the matter, so I will give only an »ccount of UAW UN dh dUh dA dbk lbh sdk bh dbb Jhb dbdddbdd oa eo oe oa o eo ,<— = eo ta o - oo eo Se ~ o o oo o oo ~ o one, which, I trust, will be enough to convince the intending builder that the architect earns his pay and that he saves his client three time~ the amount of good many other things which I will men- tion later on. Inthe first place, an intending builder forms some idea as to what kind of a build- ing—-let’s call it a residence—he wants, in size, the urrangement of rooms, ete. Now comes the question as to what it will cost (To be continued) iis fee, besides a ee Anybody having any quest’on to ask on this subject will be cheefully answered. The Bradstreet Mercantile Agency THE BRADSTREET COMPANY Proprietors. EXECUTIVE OFFICES 279, 281, 283 Broadway, N.Y. Offices in the principal cities of the United States, Canada and the Europeancontinent, Australia, and in London, England. CHARLES F. CLARK, Pres. a GRAND RAPIDS OFFICE Room 4, Widdicomb Bldg. HENRY ROYCE, Supt. MICHAEL KOLB & SON, Wholesale Clothing Manufacturers, | ROCHESTER, N.Y. Write our representative, WILLIAM CONNOR of Marshall, Mich, Box 346, to call upon you and see our fall and jwinter lines of Overcoats, Ulsters and | Suits for all ages, prices, fit and make }guaranteed, or meet Mr. Connor at i Sweet's Hotel ou Thursday and. Fri- day, August 8 and 9. Customers’ expenses fallowed. Established 38 years. Morgan & Co. Manufacturers of WNINGS, TENTS, FLAGS AND CANVAS COVERS YACHT SAILS A SPECIALTY 187 Jefferson Avenue DETROIT, [lich. peewee Uae rane: 5 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 3 The Trouble of the Wheat Farmers. The wheat farmers of the have got to meet the other wheat-raising may desire the price, competition of countries. ‘They as much as they will to raise to double it, to increase it, by some mysterious process, such as the free coinage of silver: but, all the same, they have got to meet competition or abandon the world’s markets. India, Australia, Argentina are the countries, RUSSIA == nn ’ South Hungary, Siberia and great grain-growing in addi- tion to the United States, that supply the world with Their products make the price of wheat in Europe. if the farmers of the to meet that cept the made for them, and it is plain the free coinage of silver, or wheat. United States propose competition they must ac- Prices SO of Copper, or Of not make the price in. the metal, will difference in the markets. If Congress were to make a law regulating any other least European bushel, and it would not the least. The the price of wheat at SS a of flour at $15 a benefit the barrel, farmers it price would be made abroad on the ba- sis of supply and demand, and that would settle the matter. «the situation comes, then, to. this: The wheat farmers of the United States produce more wheat than can be sumed at home, con- and they find it neces- sary, in order to dispose of the surplus, to tind markets in There their product comes. in with the wheat of tries, and the petition. What the Sary to do, countries, conflict foreign coun- foreign other price is fixed by this com- farmers will find it neces- instead of with impracticable experimenting financial Improved economy in the production, shipping and marketing of their grain. If they could build a Chi- around the United States to prevent supplies from coming in from abroad, and if the farmers could form a combination to hold their wheat. until the people were high prices for problems, is to secure nese wall Starved into paying it, they would not even because the people would revolution and take by force what they needed to save their lives. Thus it is seen that there is no possible way to raise the prices of the necessaries of life independent of the actual facts of demand and supply. then succeed, raise a Thus it is that the problem of the farmers comes back to the imperious necessity for superior economy in grow- ing and handling their One of these to decrease the from the great the seaboard. proving the produc s. eee economies is costs of transportation interior wheat fields to This is to be done by iim- natural waterw: Lys. A vast deal has been said and written about various projects for cutting ship Cane ils, so that vessels may go to sea from the wharves of Duluth, Milwaukee and Chi- cago with cargoes of grain and pork, In this connection m; iy be noted an ar- ticle by E. V. Smalley, in the Forum. i August Improvements in the connections be- tween the great lakes, at Sault Ste. Ma- rie, and in the St. Clair flats, have given a twenty-foot channel for steamers from all the upper lakes ports to Buffalo. By these means, a bushel of wheat is now carried from Duluth to Buffalo for from 1% to 2 cents, a distance of over 1,000 miles, while the carriage from Buffalo to New York by the Erie Canal and the Hudson river, a distance of 495 miles, still costs from 3 to 5 cents. All-rail transportation from Chicago or Duluth to New York costs 14% cents per bushel, Northwest , and the rate by water to Buffalo, and thence by rail to New York is 8 cents. At the of the civil war it cost 27 cents to haul a bushel of wheat by rail from Chicago to New York. But when the wheat is delivered at Buffalo it is still 500 miles nearly from the sea. Mr. Smalley sees as the only remedy a ship canal on the American Falls, around that re- markable obstacle, and another through the State of New York to tide water. This will involve the expenditure of hundreds of millions of dollars which would have to be by the Federal Government, and which, in- deed, the ought not. to grudge, for the benefit of close side of Niagara some done Government American ag riculture and commerce. In the meantime, Chicago is spending $25,000,000 to cut a channel for drain- e Lake Michigan river, and this, with the improvements in progress in the up- per river itself, of large barges of to New Orleans, great seagoing vessels bound for age and commerce from to the Mississippi will permit the floating grain from the lakes it will meet the all for- where eign ports. Australia is now shipping much wheat to Liverpool. India sends about 50,000, - 000 bushels a year. The Argentine Re- public it an immense prairie navigable now being rapidly occupied by railway much of intersected by rivers and lines is attracting a heavy immigra- tion of farmers from Germany, Spain and ‘Italy, and is “raising wheat under very favorable climatic conditions. In 1893, 25,000,000 bushels went across the Atlantic from that country, and it is es timated that the crop of 1894 has yield- ed 90,000,000 bushels for export, Rus sia is building a railroad across Siberia that will open to settlement an immense region, with a= soil well adapted to wheat, and a climate like that of North Dakota. The Western farmers are not com- lands and en- wheat. The sugar beet and a domestic sugar pelled to devote all their ergies to the growing of produc- tion offers them a grand opportunity for profitable agriculture. With reasonable tariff production,a tariff revenue at that, they can make money in sugar farming, in connection or 2 cents per pound, with central sugar factories. FRANK STOWELL, —_ + —> Dissolution Notice. Alden & Libby was dis- solved by mutual consent July 18, 1895, and the business will be M. KR. Aldén and FE. E. the firm name of M. R. The firm of continued by Alden, under Alden & Co., in the same store, 93 and 95 South Di- vision street, Grand Rapids. M. R. ALDEN. _ Hh Lpey. _— 2 <—_ Puget Sound people are more than ‘humping themselves.’’ A new meat plant recently started, when, just for a cattle, 200 sheep and 200 hogs were killed for home consump- beginning, eighty tion. Later on a British steamer, bound for Yokohama, took from. that port the largest Oriental cargo ever clearing Puget Sound, and bringing the largest cargo ever coming there. Three thousand _ tons, including flour, nails, cotton, were taken. An- British steamer, on its way thither Yokohama chartered to load a cargo of feet of lumber for South ot. Paul and Tacoma lumber, other from oC, , teas, has been 2, 000, 000 Africa at the mill as soon as the work of discharging is with accom- plished. These are little straws, but they indicate considerable breeze over in the Northwest. UBEROID EADY OOFING.... All Ready to Lay. Needs NO COATING OR PAINTING Is Odorless, absolutely Water Proof, will resist fire and the action of acids. Can be used over shingles of steep roofs, or 's suitable for flat roofs. Will OUTLAST tin or iron and is very much sheaper. Try Our Pure Asphalt Paint For coating tin, iron or ready roofs. Write for Prices. H. M. REYNOLDS & SON GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Ask your ha:dware de: ler for it Mason Fruit Jars We quote for immediate orders the following prices; packed one dozen in box, each jar in separate Compartments. Price subject to change. No charge for box or cartage Per Gross, Pints. wide mouth. 6.25 Quarts, wide mouth Half gallons, wide mouth... Same packed in straw as before. gross less. Extra caps ind rubbers ie ae * Rubber rings for Mason jars : ‘ a0 Mail orders direct to H. Leonard & Sons, BOMERS’ Express and Transfer Co. MOVING and STORAGE BAGGAGE a Specialty Office, 56 Ottawa St. Telephone 509-3r. 25 cents per GRAND RAPIDS. Grand Rapids ae | SHORT LINE TO hile | THe SET aih Via D., G. H. & M. Ry. and GOODRICH LINE. The Magnificent New Fast Steamships, ATLANTA and CITY OF RACINE SCHEDULE: Leave Grand Rapids daily via D., G. H. & M. Ry at 7:40 p. m., arrive Chicago 6:30 a. m. RETURNING, Leave Chicago daily at 7:30 p. m., arrive Grand Rapids 6:40 a. m. GRAND RAPIDS to CHICAGO. ONLY” 93-90 $6. © FOR THE ROUND TRIP. Stateroom 5 Berth Included. Through tickets and stateroom be “e can be had at the city office and depot of the D., EH. & M. Ry.» Grand Rapids: also at - ste danas on the D., MH. & M. Ry. D., E&@n.G. kh. & | anagt. Ss & 'M. Rys. H. A. BONN, General Pass. Agent, Goodrich Trans. Co., Chicago. Travelers’ Time Tables. C Hi ICAGO and West Michigan Ry Going to Chicago. Ly. Gd Rapids 6:00am 1:25pm *t: 30pm *11: 0pm Ar. Chicago....12:05pm 6:50pm 6:00am 6:25am Returning —_ Chicago. Ly. € hicago uae :20am 5:00pm *11:45pm Ar. Gd Rapids..... 2: 40pm 10:40pm *6:30am To and from gy =n Ly. G’d Rapids - 6:00am 1:25pm 6:30pm Ar. Gd Rapids. : -11:30am 5::5pm 10:40pm Traverse City, Charlevoix and Petoskey. Ly. G’d Rapids... . "3 am 1:00pm 11:00pm Ar. Manistee Ar. Traverse Oity Ar. Charlevoix 6:30pm 6:30am Ar. Petoskey. «4: 20pm 6:55pm 7:00am Trains xrrive from north at 5:30a.m., 11:45a.m., 1:00p.m., *1:30p.m. PARLOR AND SLEEPING ARS Parlor C ars leave Grand Rapids 6:00a. m., 1:25 p.m.; leave Chicago 7:20a m.,5 (0p.m. Sleeping Cars ‘le save Grand Rapids *11:30 p.m.; leave Chi cago *11:45 p.m, *Eve ry day. 4:50pm 4:00am Others week days only. Oct. 28, 1894 DETROIT ytansing & Sadie R’y Going to Detroit. Ly. Grand Rapids 7:00am 1:20pm 5:25pm . Detroit ' 11:40am 5:30pm 10:10pm Returning from Detroit. Ly. Detroit. :40am 1: 10p m 6:00pm Ar. Grand Rapids 12: 40pm 5:2upm 1 Saginaw, Alma and St. Louis. Ly. G R 7:40am 5:00pm Ar. G R 11:35am 10:45pm To and from speceigge Ly. Grand Rapids......7:" am ‘20pm “ae Ar. from Lowell. 12:40pm 5. 20pm : THROUGH CAR SERVICE. Parlor cars on all trains between Grand R: ip- ids and Detroit. Parlor car to Saginaw on morn ne nae wins week days only. . FULLER, Chief Clerk, Pass. Dey MICHIGAN CENTRAL “*T1e Niagara Falls Route.’ Arrive Detroit Express ......____. 10:20pm *Atlantic Express...... New York Express....... 11:45am 6:00pm *Daily. All others daily, except Sunday Sleeping cars run on all night trains to and from Detroit. Parlorcars leave for Detroit at 7:Wa.m., reaching Detroit at 12 20p.m.: return ing, leave Detroit 4:35p.m., arriving at Grand Rapids 10:20p.m. Direct communication made at Detroit with all through trains east over the Michigan Central Railroad (Canada Southern Division.) A. ALMQuIsT, Ticket Agent, Union Passenger Station. DETROIT, °"Niiwentes Milwaukee Railway Eastward. {No.4 +tNo. 16 tNo. 18 Ly. Gd Raj ids.6:45am 10: Oam : i 45pm Depart ‘0am 6:30am 11:20pm *No. 82 25pm 11:0 pl Ar. Ionia ¢:404m ‘pm 12 Ar. St. Johns. .6:25am ‘vupm Ar. Owosso. ...9:00am 6:05pm Ar. E. Saginaw 10:50am 8:0. pm 6:40am ar. Bay City. . 11:20am 8:37pm 7:15am Ar. Flint 10:05am 7:05pm 5:40am pm Ar. Pontiac... 10:53am 3:05pm 8: “5pm 0:37am Ar. Detroit Il: vam 4:05pm 9:25pm 00am Westward. 8:50pm 7:.0am j 7 For Gd Haven and Inter.ediate Pts 8:40am For G’d Haven and Muskegon. +1:00pm For G’d Haven, Milwaukee and Chi 15:35pm For G'd Haven, Milwaukee and Chi if 10pm For G’d Haven and Milwaukee ‘10 5pm tDaily exeey pt cepa ‘Daily. ‘Trains arrive from the east, 6:35a.m., 12:50p.m., 5:30p.m., 10:00 pm. Trains arrive from the west, 6:4 :a.m., 8:15 a.m., 10:10a.m.,3:15p.m., 7:05p m. Eastward No. 14 has Wagner Parlor Buffet car. No. i8 Parlorear. No. 8 Wag suer sleeper Westward—No. 11 Parlor ear. No. 15 W: wgner Parlor Buffet car. No. &1 m" wher sleeper. Jas. CAMPBELL, City Ticket Agent GRAND Rapids & owl Northern Diy. Leave \rrive a and Cadillac... 7:00am +l :30am Trav. Cy., Petoskey & Mack. ..#8:00am = +5:25pm ‘Tray. C Petos. & Harbor ae 40pm +10:15pm Sagini a ‘and Reed ity i 45pm +11 :?W0pm Petoskey and Mae kinaw ine +10: 5p m +6:20am 8:00am. train has parlorcars for Traverse City and Mackinaw. 1:40p.im. train has buffet parlor car for Harbor Springs. 1lu:45p.m. train has sleeping cars for petoskey and Mackinaw Southern Div. Cin., Ft. Wayne & Kalamazoo Ft. W ayne & Kalamuzoo t2 Cin , Ft. Wayne & Kz ilamazoo. .*6: :00pm Hie *11:40pm *9:2 am 7 2208.10. train. hi us parlor car to Cincinnati. 6:00p.m. train has sleeping cars to Cincinnati, Indianapolis and Louisville. Chicago Trains. Lv. G’d Rapids.. t7:25am +2:15pm oe Ar. Chicago 2:40pm 9:05pm 7:10am 2215p. m train has through coach. 11: -40p. m. train has through coach and sleeping ear. Ly. Ch eago.... ...t6:50am = +3:00pm a 30pm Ar. G "d Rapids 1:30pm 9:15pm 50a 3:00p.m. train has through coach and II :30p m. has through coach and sleeping ear. Muskegon Trains. Lv G’d Rapdist7:25am +1:00pm +8:30am +5:50pm Ar Muskegon..8:50am 2:10pm 9:55am 7:05pm Ly Muskegon.+9:13amtl2:05pm +6: 30pm +4:05pm Ar G’d Rapids10:30am_ 1:15pm 7:55pm 5:20pm tExcept Sunday. *Daily. +Sunday only. A. ALMQUIST, C. L. Lockwoop, Ticket Agt. Un. Sta. Gen. Pass. & Tkt. Agt. 4 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Around the State, Movements of Merchants. Detroit assigned to Edmund Haug. Dowagiac—-H. W. East succeeds Jones & East in the grocery business. Rose City—Frank G. Bull Randall & Bill in general trade. Grand Ledge—F. W. Henry Holcomb, builder, has suc ceeds Briggs succeeds N. M. Van Ator in the hardware busi- LSS. McBain-— Mrs. Geo. Hughston suc- ceeds Hughston & Reed in general trade. Edgerton—-F. D. Saunders has remov- ed his grocery stock trom Sheffield to this plac c. Hudson—Brown & Stowell, dealers, have dissolved, Frank H. Brown general succeeding. Schoolcraft—A. & Co. Gilmore in the gro- R. Gilmore suc¢ eed Andrew i. cery business. Wood’s Corners—-R. Warren succeeds R. E. Anslow in the dry goods and gro- cery business. \Mlarenisco W. D. dealer at this Eveleth, Minn. Newaygo Ellsworth, general place, has removed to Lynn Raider is planning to start a drug store at Grant. He 1s a competent druggist. Albion-—J. L. Meader & Son, dealers in books and groceries, have to George W. Craver. Homer E. C. Doolittle succeeds Doo- little, Anderson and croc kery business. sold) out & Co. im the grocery Williamston —Hall & Austin succeed P. B. Hall & Son in the bakery and confectionery business. Dakeview(. EK. Baker & Co., for- merly engaged in the confectionery and cigar business, have retired from trade. Mecosta A pointed lor - F. receiver has been ap- Pierce & Co., propri- etors of the Exchange Bank at this place. lonia -Hayes, Spaulding & Co., deal- ers in agricultural The tinued by Spaulding & implements, have business will be Merritt. Wilson has re Kalamazoo for i. of chewing dissolved. con- Kalaamzoo—Ray L. signed his position with the National Bank to go on the road F. Farnum, manutacturer sum. Detroit-—J. M. sold their cigar Emerson & Co. have stock at 83 Woodward avenue, corner of Larned street, to John- son & Gibbons, who will continue the business. Owosso-—The Banister grocery stock has been purchased by Hookway & Son, who will conduct the business tndepend- ently, for the present, at least, trom their former store. Detroit. Up to July 25, the wholesale hrm of C. Elliot & Co. was composed of Clifford Elliott and Wil- YTOCery liam E. Saunders (Saginaw) as general g partners, and David Whitney, J|r., as special partner. On that day, William I lr. Radcliffe Edward W. Reynolds were admitted as general Mr. Whitney renewed tribution to the capital and partners, and his $50,000 con- stock for three years. Allegan Lhe much pleased to note a tendency among (Gazette ) Gazette is the storekeepers of the town to orna- ment their windows with boquets. This ening a liking for all forms of art. The display costs practically nothing, but the benefits from it can not readily be measured. Manufacturing Matters. Grand Haven—The Dake Engine Co. succeeds the Dake Engine Manufactur- ing Co. Ontonagon— The Match Company has shipped by water during the 8,000,000 feet of lumber. Tawas City—-Gale & Ramage are put- ting the machinery into their new plan- Diamond last two weeks, ing mill and will start the plant in a few days. Petoskey--Williams & the Petoskey Cigar Co., have George Williams will Fry, propri- etors of dissolved. con- tinue the business in his own name. Watersmeet—Kern & Woodman running their mill day and night, cut 11,000,000 feet of lumber for the Minnesota Lumber Co. this season. Manistee—-The Stokoe & Nelson filled its dock which there seems to be slight demand will vives. are and will mill has with shingles for and not saw again until trade re- Saginaw —-Fuehr & Weiss, cigar man- ufacturers, are succeeded by John Weiss. The retiring partner, Nelson J. Fuehr, will open a general store at Shields, a this city. has settlement four miles west of St. James—Dennis Banner aban- doned his cigar factory here and remov- ed to Cheboygan, with the intention of starting a cigar factory there. He in James C. McCauley as a part- has taken ner. The was Fuller absorbed by Washboard is to be washboard the Lo ) closed in- Kalamazoo factory, which Trust (the American several years ago, definitely in about thirty days, thus de- priving 70 hands of employment. Bay City—-The Inter-Urban Electric Railroad Company is pushing the work of building a motor line from Saginaw to Bay City and expect to finish it’ by November 1. This line it is expected will greatly stimulate manufacturing in- dustries along the river by affording rapid transit. Reed City--Frank Vahue has. ex- changed his interest In the milling tirm of Harvey & Vahue for property in Grand Rapids. Willard 5. Martindale, an experienced miller of Mr. Vahue to Allegan and engage in that city, is the purchaser. may return business, or vo to Chicago and enter the employ of the firm he formerly worked for. Grant & Co. have been unable to start their sawmill this season, as the docks which has not been sold and consequent- Mr. Grant 100, 000 feet last week and two car loads on Mon- thousand. It off in driblets. Saginaw—-C. L. mill are full of lumber ly not moved. sold is On rl The September, day, at Si9 a stock, but firm may start the mill in roe POCS but as yet are undecided, Muskegon-—The Utility Co. has been organized here witha paid-up capital of $10,000 to manufacture oilcloth rollers, pickets and various wooden and metal novelties. The Hartshorn Company has the new altogether mnufacture which the up. With large orders already booked, the Utility Company pates a prosperous future. It abandoned of pickets, company takes antici- has leas- week there have been exhibited several! The flow- ! ers add greatly to the beauty of a show tine bunches of nasturtiums. window and delight hundreds of those who pass, while educating others to ap- preciation of floral beauty, thus quick- elec- Muskegon officers are: Vice-Presi- ed the Bredin plant and will use tric power furnished by the Flectirc Light Co. The President, Thomas Hume; dent, A. F. Temple; Secretary and Manager, C. H .Parker; Treasurer, C. C. Billinghurst. The capacity of the plant will be 10,000 rollers per day. The other stockholders are H. N. Hov- ey, Thos. Munroe, L. B. Smith, Robt. E. Bunker, Wm. Carpenter. The raw stock is being bought at Menominee. Saginaw-—The lumber is unusually light and the rail- roads complain that lumber shipments are very small, The talk that prices are too high does not water movement of comparatively. seem to be well founded, since there 1s so little inquiry for lumber at any price. Hemlock is particularly de- pressed, owing to the cheap white pine, which is preferable to the harder timber. It is claimed that the coarser grades of lumber are the most seriously affected by the dullness. i — > The Egg Situation at New York. New York, Aug. 1—The develop- ments of the egg situation during the past month have brought to light no new features of especial encouragement to holders of accumulations. Buyers who were willing to put stock away at the prices which prevailed during April and May have generally reached the end of their rope and the market, deprived of their support, has turned downward. In this city the decline, increased by the effects of hot weather, carried prices down to 12c, after which there was a gradual recovery to 13c, which has since been steadily maintained. The decline which occurred after the first week in June caused some renewal of speculative buying by operators who saw safety in the fact that goods could be put away at lower prices than the bulk of the earlier accumulations, and the holdings in cold storage, already comparatively heavy, were further in- creased, so that the total is now be- lieved to be fully equal to that of even date of last vear, if not actually larger. But speculative buying has vradually decreased of, late, and is now a small factor in maintaining values. The mar- ket seems at last to have reached a self- supporting where current sumptive demands are about equal to current collections, and where any pcr- manent decrease in the latter would give rise to a healthy upward tendency. In fact, just at the close, the tone shows a slight hardening at this point and sales of exceptionally fancy goods have reach- ed 13'%c, the slight improvement aris- ing trom purely healthy conditions. We believe this is the first sign of upward movement this season which has not had speculative demand for its foundation, The position now reached is the first step toward conditions which will per- mit a reduction of storage accumuia- tions. How will that) point be gained, and how it will be met by holilers of reserve goods, are mter- est and importance. basis, con- SOOTL questions o1 Judging from this market, alone, the current Consumption of eggs is free but not remarkably large. he ability to supply it from current collections alone, at prices below the cost value of the bulk of stock in store, will depend quite largely upon the weather during the remainder of the summer. Cool weather, being favorable alike to pro- duction, and to the preservation of the usefulness of steok produced, would tend to defer until a late date any short- age which would compel the trade to seck supplies trom. storage. extreme heat would have the opposite effect. It seems likely to depend upon some such accident whether or not there shall be any outlet for stored eggs before the fall. Last year a very considerable quantity was moved in August and early September at about 15@16c_ in New York, the extreme heat destroying or damaging a large percentage of the late summer collections and causing a scarcity of fine cool eggs. The chances of a repetition of these conditions are perhaps somewhat remote, but as soon as any Opportunity occurs, be it early or late, tor the reduction of the present holdings, it would certainly seem the part of wisdom to use it for all it is worth. The quantity of eggs held is excessive. Their cost is relatively high and no chance to realize even a small profit on them should be lost. F. G. URNER. _> oo. -_ The Ninth Annual Picnic. Every indication points to the con- clusion that the ninth annual picnic of the Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Asso- ciation will be the best attended and most enjoyable event of the entire se- The Picnic Committee held a meeting on Tuesday evening and de- cided to offer cash prizes of $5 each to the winning teams in the baseball matches, and the New York Biscuit Co. kindly volunteered to furnish the losing teams with boxes of sweet goods. In- dications point to the fact that practic- ally every grocery store in the city will be closed on the day of the picnic, the ries. exceptions to this arrangement being so few as to cut very little figure in the ag- Twenty-five thousand hand- distributed among the grocery trade, to be placed in the bask- the announcing the closing of the stores, and 1,000 hangers have been divided among the stores to gregate. bills have been ets of customers, be displayed in conspicuous positions, making the same announcement. The Holland City grocers have decided to join with their Grand Rapids brethen in celebrating the event and will cross bats with a team from the Grand Rapids grocers on the morning of the picnic. —_—> —_ One of the meanest crimes on record was perpetrated in New York the other Albert umbrellas, was approached by a beggar day. Bamberger, a dealer in on the street, whom he recognized as Louis Freind, a former acquaintance. fed clothed gave him money for food and to pay for told Bamberger that he intended to secure a Bamberger and him and a furnished room. Freind then position with a firm at York street and West Broadway, who proposed to give prizes of umbrellas and watches to their On on Bamberger and patrons. Monday he called secured three good umbrellas that he said he would show to the firm for their approval. believed his story, and took him to Jor- Jamberger dan, the jeweler, who also gave Freind five gold watches to show as samples to the firm. umbrellas and watches the next day if He promised to return the the firm disapproved them. As he failed to return, Bamberger made investigation and Jearned from the firm that Freind had been employed there, as he asserted. deceived him, as he had never —_— 2. —_- The rise of the horseless carriage has stirred up interest again in the matter of gunpowder engines. It is a desideratum with the horseless carriage that it should carry the greatest amount of energy in the smallest and most com- pact shape. The lack of a perfect stor- age battery makes it out of the question to use electricity as the motive power, and steam necessitates a good deal of machinery, as well as water and fuel. The most successful carriage so far is op- erated by exploding a mixture of gaso- line and air in the cylinder behind the piston. But if a machine could be in- vented to utilize gunpowder, it has many advantages Smokeless powder will probably be the coming over gasoline. thing. A single pound of it con- tains the enormous energy of | 170,- 000 §=foot-pounds. It leaves no solid residium on combustion, and gives some- thing like 1,000 volumes of permanent gases. THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Oo Grand Rapids Gossip C le ‘ment & Kunst have purchased the grocery stock of Isaac Van Westenbugge, at 60 Center and will the business. avenue, continue Atkins & Perkins, who recently open- ed a grocery store at 732 South sion street, have from business. Divi- closed out and retired Dr. Peter Beyer has removed from Brutus to this city, and will open a drug store at 931 Wealthy Ha- zletine furnished the stock. avenue. ‘The Perkins Drug Co. Burrill Tripp has purchased the jewel- ry stock of Gleason & Co., at 50 West Bridge street, same to 6 and removed Canal street, where he will continue the business. B. H. King and William Dobbelaar have formed a copartnership under the style of King & Co., and opened a gro- cery store at the corner of Fifth avenue and Union street. C.D Cooley, drug stock at Kalamo, was recently destroyed by fire, has placed an order for a new stock with the Hazletine & Perkins Drug Co., t be shipped as soon as his new build- whose ing, now in process of construction, is completed. The New York E Biscuit Co. has suc- ceeded in acquiring a_ satisfactory title to the land at the corner of Cherry and Ionia streets, 17 feet front- age on Cherry street and 130 feet front- age on lonia street, with an alley in the rear, and will probably begin the erection, another season, of the and most completely equipped baking establishment in the State. —_ > —- Gripsack Sietede: William Dobbelaar (King & Co. ), who has been laid up with a wound caused by a spike penetrating his foot, is able to be comprising largest about again. Frank Chase (A. C. has been spending a few «x Co ) days at St. James, chaperoning a party of around the Chas, the tea and coffee Leonard street, has McGraw ladies Beaver Islands. aged West position Fallas. (Musselman Visner, formerly eng business on taken the of city salesman for Edwin D. &. MeVean Co.), who has been laid up with rheu- matism for the past eight weeks, has re- sumed his trips to the trade. He is with the Hoosiers this week. Jas. M. Bailey (Detroit), who has represented Wm. Preston & Co., of Om- aha, for the past year, has travel for the Illinois Hoopeston, Ill. Mr. expects to devote a couple of weeks to the retail trade of Muskegon and contiguous towns, after which he month or six and suburbs. Grocer engaged to Canning Co., of Bailey will put in a weeks in Grand Rapids The Grocery Market. Advices from nearly light stocks, and with the increase in the receipts of fruits during the next few days it Sugar all sec- tions indicate probable large is expected that a fuller demand for re- fined sugars will manifest itself. The present prices of refined sugars, when the entire situation is looked over, certainly appear safe, as all indications point to at least a steady market for some time to come. Spices nearly the entire list, and holders are not making concessions, being content to await the -Prices are firm on revival of demand. Occasionally weak- holder, but decidedly the little ness is shown by a these cases. are There exception. has been a more doing in cloves, and foreign markets have again advanced somewhat. The syndicate is evidently still working the market up and down and showing a desire to cre- There is is held ate a speculative interest. more demand for pepper, very firm. Molasses The market is dull,a condi- tion perfectly natural to the time of the year. well held, cessions would not at all, and on all made full which Prices are as any con- increase the request transactions that are Stocks prices are obtained. of low grade centrifugals are large, and kettle goods retain their strength. For- eign molasses is in good demand, and, as compared with last year, there is an estimated shortage of 6,000 hogsheads in first and second hands. Oils price, been reduced in Ic per gallon in barrels and %c from tank wagons. Fruits—-The lemons, of like is very spiritless at pres- ent, as most of the dealers are domestic fruits largely. Kerosene has demand _ for bananas and other class oranges, foreign fruit handling Prices on every variety of fruit offered are very low and a dollar goes a long a supply. The will be way in procuring that there peaches. will soon be out of the thus making room. for prospects are an enormous yield of The clingstone way, freestones, and, with their advent, the various ship- pers will begin operations on a_ large scale. The prices of fruits, as they appear ‘in our Price the general asking prices, but would be shaded to liberal buyers. — 72 The Grain Market. Although all signs were for a foreign Current, are they higher level of prices, the outcome was to. the contrary. as wheat dropped off 2%c per bushel during the week. The visible decreased 712,000 bushels, leaving now 38,500,000 bushels in sight, or about 34,000,000 bushels less than last year. The increase tor the same week of 18094 was 2,857,000 bushels. The shipments from the United States and Montreal were 1,400,000 bushels, or 200,000 more than the week before, against 2,977,000 bushels during the corresponding week oF i804. This falling off. as our prices are about on a may expect new wheat is quite a However, shipping basis, we exports. As vc, move very freely. While fair, there is quite a that will grade only No. 3, and even less. Re- ports from the other winter wheat states do not show up as well as. the larger does not the quality is portion samples received by the millers here would. in- dicate. Owing to this fact, the local millers are getting all the wheat they can of the crop of 1894. Weare still believers’ in higher prices for wheat, thus far have not been they as the one-quarter receipts what were in previ- ous years; so we will wait for the re- sults. Corn, as we have stated, ing to the fine outlook, ed there will be nearly 2, bushels raised this year, is weak, ow- estimat- 300, 000, OOO providing the early frost does no damage. Oats, are weak. as 5¢ 1S also, in sympathy with corn, While the crop in Michigan is very light, other states have crop and, with a large amount. of oats will be very cheap. The receipts during the week were as follows: Wheat, 40 cars; corn, 22 cars, and oats, 7 cars. This is about nor- mal for wheat and oats, but the receipts of corn were rather large. C. G, A. Voter. a good corn, The Tail End of a Senseless Strike. | From the Grand Rapids Press. Aug. 5. At a meeting of the local printer’s union, held yesterday, it was decided to call out the union men = working in the Tradesman Company’s job. printing department. There is) only a such man regularly employed there. He had not received the order to walk out up te noon, but said that when it did come, of course, he would have to obey. He has been employed by the Tradesman Company for nine years. The order al- so affects another, who is only occasion- ally employed. A member of the printer’s union who was seen by a Press reporter, said: ‘The walk-out is ordered because the union thinks it is a violation to its prin- ciples to have one of its members work- ing in a non-union office. ”’ in the main, but inaccuracy which does the injustice. The This item is correct, there Tradesman is one inaccuracy is in an intimation which tradicted by the item itself—that the office is non-union. This intimation is disproved by the fact that one of the men ordered out by the is really con- union had been Tradesman for Whatever may be the sentiments of the proprietors of the Tradesman on the subject of the fact that a workman union, or to any other recognized or- ganization, has never been a bar to his employment and will not be until the agitation of the subject other in the employ of the the past nine years. unionism belongs to a discussion and becomes a hindrance to workmen or in some way interferes with its busi- ness. As has been stated in these col- office is black or bond or umns before, the Tradesman open to the white, free, so long employment of Catholic, as the workman is Protestant or | | | | willing | to devote the time paid for to its serv- | ice, Some two years ago the union saw fit to call out the workmen in one ment of the Tradesman ; but, compromise of the ‘‘principles’’ re- ferred to in the item above quoted, the union left those employed in another de- partment in the enjoyment of their posi- tions. The inconsistency of such ac- tion becomes apparent when it is. re- membered that the ownership and man- agement of these departments are identi- cal. The Tradesman did not slightest supplying the places. of at that difficulty in those ‘‘ordered out’ time and the change of one or two more workmen at thie time is a matter of no importance, except to the poor dupes who are forced by the union to sever relations which have been both pleas ant and profitable to both employer and employe for several years. ——— — Ed. W. ufacturer, his family at Diamond Dine, tee Chicago cigar man- is spending the summer with Lake. depart- | through a } ; | Central |} lish paper which is interesting. Extensive deposits of cement roc k Of a very good quality have been found in Kansas, and are being worked at a profit. The development of this industry began in a small way tive years ago, when a farmer witha hill of the ma- terial on his place laboriously dug it out and ground it ina hopper worked by a weary old horse. One day a_ party of business men passing through the coun- try stopped and inspected his. plant They wanted to buy his farm, but he re- fused to sell. They offered him 25 cents a load for the privilege of mining the cement, and he tion. and went to work, ac cepted the proposi- They organized a stock company is that Way and the result the farmer’s income is all the from $25 to $100 a week. Many other deposits ghbor- r the product is been found in the nei id the demand fo increasing. A went into the buildings at the Fair, Chicago. It is 7 SUCE 100d, ar good deal of this cement » World’s said to make ex- cellent Schillinger pavement. — > Here is a statement found in an Eng- “Horse meat as 1 an article of food is not new to the people of Oregon. The old mission- aries, from 1833 to 1844,used it as a reg- ular diet.’ That the time that an English traveler in country about 1 this from home was probably received a_ letter forget his imto the urging him not to pocket compass if he went woods out- side of Boston limits and, above all things, not to wander off alone where he would be likely to fall into the hands of those dreadful Comanches. He’d better go to Chicago first, stopping over for a few days at New Orleans, and then, on his way to New York, he could {take in San Francisco and St. Paul and so lose no time! Poor little Lilliput England! When will she ever in what a little dried-up huckleberry het hitte Island is in the gigantic washtub of the world! | wholesale find the! i > —_ CURRENT COMMENT. One thing is pretty certain, and that is that ‘‘ Johnny Cake’’ is going to be plenty this year. The largest corn crop ever grown in the United States will be harvested this year if it ‘‘pans out’? as it now promises. This is the way thing looks now : 2, 400,000,000 bush- Will enterprising house send over some up-to-date cook to the els! some grain show the people over there the blessing of Johnny cake and hulled corn? ee Charles Sharp, o himself a pretty sharp business man. He was employed as ° clerk’’ by a wholesale meat house, and he proceed- his f Chicago, has proved ‘credit ed to establish on own account sev- eral retail meat markets, which he car- ried on under the names of various friends. These markets he gave unlim- ited credit on the wholesale house for How long it how much he unknown, and discovered he has the purchase of supplies. has been going on, or has made SIncec oat of if, is the disappeared. yet trick was * * It is lucky for California that she has into industries other than mining. gone The ocean is full of gold at the rate of from two to four cents a ton, and. St. Louis has a citizen who is going to pat- ent a process to get it. After this when the reserved fund gets too low, all that will be necessary will be to ‘‘go to. the shore,’’? and dip some up. Science is a great thing! 4 4 + The California Fruit Grower wants to know if jobbing grocers ‘‘shall’’ sell fresh fruits. A limited acquaintance with the individual referred to at the Golden Gate precludes a positive an- ; but if the dihaiiente of the class in other swer California species have the parts of the country, it may be safely put down that he will; if he takes a no- tion to, and all the ‘*shalls’? out you can crowd in between here and Kalamazoo would be but the wind which he re- gards not. In Staffordshire and Shropshire, Eng- land, they have a most cure for toothache. The a mole’s runway with a spade extraordinary sufferer watches and traps, and as soon as he succeeds in capturing one reputed eyeless little ani- mals cuts off its paw and quickly ap- plies to the molar. In order to make the cure and effective, the paw must be amputated while the ani- yet alive; furthermore, if the aching tooth is on the right side of the jaw a left-handed mole paw must be used, and vice versa. A similar tooth- ache superstition exists in the Cape Verde islands and_also on the Canaries. of these aching sure mal is Mr, | Valuable Books on Patents and Patent Law Mailed FREE to anybody interest ed. Address LY. MOULION Attorney, id. Rapids, Mich. Wooden Shoes Pembrook Wooden Shoe Go. 803 Mich. Trust Building, GRAND RAPIDS THE AGTIVE POWERS * @ INVENTIVE GENIUS V. SEBRING HILLYER Consulting Engineer Structural Iron Work Concrete Construction. Machinery Draughting. 803 Michigan Trust Building GRAND RAPIDS Are Your Coal Bills too High ? \leaky or improperly adjusted valve may cost you hundreds of dollars per year atthe coul pile. Ican show you how to save it by apply ing the indicato’ to your engine, B. E. PARKS, Engineer. Address Lock Box 80), Grand Rapids. The Mich. Barrel Co. GRAND RAPIDS. MICH, MANUFACTURER OF Bushel Baskets, Cheese Boxes, Bail Boxes, Axle Grease Boxes, Wood [leasures. THOMAS E. WYKES COAL - Lime Sewer Correspondence Solicited. 45 South Division St. GRAND RAPIDS A. HIMES Flour Wholesale Shipper Feed Ete. Lime Cement Sewer Pipe Etc. 1 CANAL ST., GRAND RAPIDS. COAL 5. P. BENNETT FUEL AND IGE CO. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. WHOLESALE {> () A FETAL 5. A MORMAN & C0. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. The Trade is cordially in- vited to write us for sum- mer prices on LIME, CEMENT, HAIR, SEWER PIPE, BRICK, LAND PLASTER, FIRE CLAY. We sell Alsen’s German Portland Cement—the best in the world for sidewalk work. ~ ote 8 tee een PERE O LF Se Reape NTS LP THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 7 Fruits a and | Prod uce Beneficial Effects of the Rain A Mar- ket Suggestion. There was no need of asking the grow- ers on the market if the recent rains have done them any good. Discourage- ment has given place to confidence and prices were given with a tone which meant ‘‘that or nothing.’’ The horses into. the occasion and let it be not to be tankerous seemed to enter spirit of the known that they trifled with, that I inadvertently caromed against dropped his big ears with a thud, were and a can- old mule with the evident intention of putting up something on the morning market besides radius of prices. Reports from a miles from relief how from two or three the city to twenty, brought by the be expected from the in the confirms the Little can meadows except rain. way of pasturage, which will improve. fitted, feeling Potatoes will be greatly bene- and already the everything now growing is wetting it has re- ceived. look as if The choicest Raspberries are getting to their days of usefulness were over. blackberries, full of re doing their best to keep up a hature’s wine, a good reputation. The currants are few and far between and look, when they do put in an appearance, as if seeds were to be in great demand, early in the season. The apples haven’t opened fire on the market yet. A_ little skirmish- ing is going on: but, so far, a good cider mill has been cheated out of its just rights, if we except some fair green sweetings which are brought in from time totime. The days of the cling- stone peach are numbered for this sea- son, and prices are small, correspond- ing fairly with too much of the runt ar- ticle now exposed for sale. Vegetables are bravely holding their own. Where they obtained their rich, rank growth during the past dry weather, it is hard to understand; but, in this direction, the market has been as remarkable as it has been profitable. One of the used to it, 1s the surprises, until one gets number of children in with the market wagons. alike are found “What are asked of a who come Boys and girls among the early comers. this morning?’’ I potatoes frower, who stood beside some likely tubers. ‘Them ain’t mine; they belong to that little shaver.’’ The boy was on hand in little and a shaver an instant, enough young for a number dollar, amount of enough not to be of years yet-—bright as a how- ever, and ready to stand any beating down. A wagon or two farther on, my sympathy was excited by a handsome young fellow of 18, whose eyes looked as if he had been up all night. ‘Drive far this morning?’’ dozen miles or 50,” “Gets you up pretty early, doesn't 1t?’? and the sympathy in my voice made us ‘‘hail fellows well met?’ right off. “Yes, generally: but | went toa dance last night and I got home just in time to start with the load !’” I have done that thing too often not to know how that boy felt at that moment; and we paried, each with a he with a bit of pleasantry, Portland England, in morning. new friend and | whistling the °° Fancy’’ I danced years ago in New hours of the like beating the the wee sma’ It seems a_good deal air to say anything about a market house or an improved market place, but tor all that a little harm. | exercise will do us no that the wind notice city Solons have decided to do a little street repair- ing and why couldn’t they do something for the prove the growers and im- t to scoop clean that trian- comfort of these as well. How would city do, for instance, gle made by the intersection of Louis, lonia and Fulton streets and gobble up enough onthe southeast corner of Fulton and Jonia streets to make a= market space, and so improve, if nothing more, the spaces referred to? The classic Structure on the corner of Louis and Ionia streets might, in its day, have been a fine specimen of Grecian archi- tecture, but three of the five’ pillars facade are de- building should which once made up. the gone; the glory of the corner has parted forever, and the give way to the improvement which the whole triangle is hankering after. It’s all very well to talk about a market, roofed by the skies and lighted by the stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels; but, for good sturdy, sensible Michigan- ders, who are not longing to be ‘‘angels and with the angels stand,’’ a plain, or- dinary, wooden roof would be more sat- a great deal more comfort- able on a rainy morning, and they want ita piece of information for which there 1s no charge. isfactory and RAMBLER. — > PRODUCE MARKET. Apples--The crop of harvest fruit is turning out much larger than was ex- pected. Red Astrachan and Duchess of Oldenburgs are the favorite varieties, commanding 50c. per bushel, and $1.75 per barrel. Cooking stock finds moder- ate sale at $1.25@1.50 per barrel. Beets—-New, toc. per dozen. Blackberries— Lawtons, 8@utoc. per quart. Scarce in amount and inferior in quality. No wild berries have yet put In an appearance, the supposition being that most of the wild crop has been de stroye “d by the forest fires. Butter Factory creamery is statione ry at 18@ioc. Dairy is in fair demand at 15@ 16c. Cabbage -Home grown is now in am- ple supply, commanding 60@75¢ per dozen. The size is considerably larger than a week ago, and the quality is also much improved. Celery —Home-grown, 18c. per dozen bunches. Cucumbers-- Home = grown, 20@@25¢ pcr dozen. : Egys Handlers pay toc. and hold at lo's@iic. ina regular jobbing way. Green Corn-—toc. per dozen. Very scarce. Onions—-Green command toc. per dozen bunches. Home grown Yellow Danvers are in mode rate request and adequate supply at 6007 per bushel. Muskmellons Indiana whey 2 Der 100; Osage, $1.75 per dozen. Peaches. Early Rivers have the mo- nopoly of the market this week, and it is expected that prices will rule from 50@ 75¢ per bushel. Hale’s Early are be- ginning to come in and will probably command about $1 per bushel. There is no longer any doubt as to the outcome of the crop- there will be enough and to spare for everyone. The recent rains have already made a considerable im- provement in the size of the fruit. Pears—Clapp’s Early, excellent in size and quality, $1@1.25 > per bushel. Bartlett’s will begin to arrive next week. The yield of both varieties will be large. Plums $1.75 per bushel. Patatoes Home grown are in ample supply at 45c. per bushel. There is meager shipping demand, owing to the ey fact that home grown is meeting the consumptive demand in nearly all sec- tions. Tomatoes soc. for four-basket crate. Watermellons--1o@15c. apiece, ac- cording to size and quality. More and more is electric current as- | serting itself. The Italian wine mer- chant is now making use of electric processes for the aging of wines in. the The next thing to be made. of is the paper sail to take the place of canvas. Something lighter, elastic and more iir-tight more is wanted, and paper seems to : i promise most in the qualities called provinces of Italy. By means. of these | | extraordinary modifications in the bou- quet and body of the vintage are made | i possible, and the suggestion has been | | G. Dunton & Lo. made that the same thing might be] used to advantage in correcting the | faults often apparent in California | wines, due to the rich soil where the| grapes are grown. | WELL BUY ALI LUIMBER-Green or Dry Office endc. & W.M.R.R. MICH. KINDS OF and Yard —Seventh St GRAND RAPIDS, WHOLESALE comnssin.. | TW@ Poultry BUTTER, EGGS, FRUITS and VEGETABLES. We can get vou the Highest Mar- ket Price at all times. F. J. DETTENTHALER, 117-119 Monroe Street, = Grand Rapids, Mich. SEEDS, POTATOES, BEANS We handle all kinds FIELDoSEEDS, Cl wheat, Field Peas, Spring Rye, Barley, Et Eggs, Ete. Car/{lots or less. Millet, Buek- Beans, Seeds, Hungarian, and ssell Potatoes, ver, Timothy, c. Buy EGG CRATES and EGG CRATE FILLERS. If you wish to buy or sell write us. MOSELEY BROS. 26-28-30-32,0TTAWA STREET 9 Grand Rapids, Mich. Jobbers SEEDS, BEANS, POTATOES, FRUITS. ARTHUR J. WATKINS ._ 2. ASE WATKINS& AXE, Wholesale Pinadince FRESH EGGS, CHOICE CREAMERY and DAIRY BUTTER Northern Trade Solicited for Meats and Produce. Phone 395 Special Attention to Consigt and Buying on Track. ments 84 and 86 South Division St., GRAND RAPIDS. 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 your orders prompt and careful attention. Corres- pond with me early and let me know how many you will need daily. Early Rivers have been coming in for the past week, prices ranging from 75¢ to #1 per bushel. Hale’s Early will be coming in this week, and will have peaches from now on until the middle of October. If you can use any, shall be p eased to receive your orders and will make prices as low as_ pos- sible on day of sh pment. Apples are coming in better every day, and we have a good supply daily of Astrachans, Dutchess, Sweet Boughs, Sour Boughsand all other varieties that are in market. Quote you Astrachans, Early Harvest and Sour Boughs at $2.50 per bb . (they are sugar bbis.) 4% bu. Dute hess, Maiden Blush an Sweet Boughs $1.75 to 8 for 3-bu. bbls. Potatoes 50c per bu. Beets, 60c per bu. Turnips, 60e per bu. Wax Beans, 50e jer bn. Celery, 18e a doz. Cucumbers, 18¢ » doz. Onions, Radishes and Carrots, 10¢ a doz. Home-grown cabbag S, | 40 to Te a doz. Melons, 16 to 18c. Tomatoes, #5 | to The. Popcorn, 3¢ per lb. Shall be pleased to} have your mail orders. HENRY J. VINKEMULDER, 418=420-445-447 S. Division St. Grand Rapids Everything for the Field and Garden Clover, Medium or Mammoth, AI- syke, Alalfa and Crimson, Timo- thy, Hungarian Millet, Peas and Spring Rye. Garden Seeds in bulk and Garden Tools. Headquarters for Egg Cases and Fillers. Send your consignments of Peaches BUTTER, EGGS, POULTRY and FRUITS to GeO. E. Darling & 0. 42 Jefferson Avenue, 142 Woodbridge St. DETROIT GEO. E. DARLING H. H. ROBINSON W. H. BEACH WHOLESALE DEALER IN HAY, GRAIN, SEEDS, PRODUCE, Orders Promptly Filled o 6 e 128 to 132 W. Bridge St., Grand Rapids, Mich. | Write for Quotations HOLLAND, MICH. 8 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN sSEs Ks, MICHIGANTRADESMAN Devoted to the Best Interests of Business Men Published at the New Blodgett Building, Grand Rapids, by the TRADESMAN COMPANY ONE DOLLAR A YEAR, Payable in Advance. ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION. Communieations invited from practical business men. Correspondents must give their full names and addresses, not necessarily for pu! - lieation, but as a guarantee of good taith. Subscribers may have the mailing address of their papers changed »s often as desired. No paper discontinued, except at the option of the proprietor, until all arrearages are paid. Sample copies sent free to any address. Entered at the Grand Rapids Post Office as Second Class mail matter. When writing to any of our Advertisers, please say that you saw the advertisement in the Michigan Tradesman. E. A. STOWE, Epiror. WEDNESDAY, - AUGUST 7, 1895. WHAT IS TO BE THE OUTCOME? labor-saving Since the invention. of machinery, the question of the anxious workman has been, ‘*What is to be the outcome?’ and, in spite of the answers which experience has const intly and correctly given, with the often returning fear, comes the same old cry. Briefly and cone isely the outcome is to be the emancipation of mankind from That has the first. and she has held to her purpose in spite the work of a mere machine. been nature’s intention from of man’s dogged determination for cen- the which, too often, he is to-day. turies to be unthinking machine There is no need of going back for examples. The whole black race of the South, jess than a hundred years ago, were doing the work of a machine. Eli Whitney, a Yankee schoolmaster, saw what the trou- ble the gin, set. the was and, by inventing cotton living machine at liberty. Men the world over were making pack- horses of themselves and women were so many animated spinning wheels ma- chines, all of them, knowing little of the world, and caring less for it as the time went by. Then Watt and and Fulton and Hargraves went to think- Stephenson and, whenthey got through, the lo- the rying the burdens of the world, the spin- ing, comotive and steamboat were car- ning wheels were sent to the attic or the the liberated more, transformed slaves, at them- wood pile, and liberty once into the next machines. which The the selves women settled down the men split shingles with a cleaver or did cattle in the fields. By and teeth of Elias Howe came pricking through, and Cyrus McCormick concluded that he had were handiest. contentedly with needle, and the work of horses and by the wisdom been an ox long enough: and one morn- ing when, after a sleepless night, Howe found out that the world had ing with the eye in the wrong end of the McCormick for breakfast after doing more than an or- been sew- needle, and came in dinary day’s work with his reaper, the human race was again at liberty to set- tle down as a machine at some other work, which would preclude the need of any agitation of the cerebrum. For years it was supposed that gun- stock tiresome making and typesetting, while enough and monotonous enough, and almost thoughtless enough, to be put down as machine work, had still thought enough about them to defy inventor, and they the genius of the have laughed him to scorn; but when Blanchard smilingly produced the gun- stock which his machine had turned, and Thorne presented the galley his ma- chine had filled with the speed of light, the human machine is nonplussed and helplessly asks with a whine in his voice, ‘‘What is to be the outcome?”’ The question has already been an- The world has no place and no Mind its su- swered. use for a human machine. perior to matter; and this agitation will go on until the mind, recognizing its mission, will enter upon it with a zeal before unknown; and the machine, wholly material as it was always intend- ed to be, will do the thoughtless work of the world without weariness and without That is the outcome, and_ the sooner the mind makes up to the exi- the times, the the emancipation of mankind take pain. gencies of sooner will place. THE COMING CONTEST. The departure of the Valkyrie from England, a few days ago, on her long voyage across the Atlantic, in order to compete for the America’s cup, is an event which has created a great deal of interest all over the country, and every- body will await with anxiety and keen expectetion the news of the safe arrival o the gallant vessel. As much as _ pa- triot Americans desire that the famous trophy should remain on this side of the Atlantic, they cannot but admire the in- domitable pluck of the British yacht- men, who, in spite of a number of dis- couraging defeats, still persist in send- ing over vessels to endeavor to wrest from us the coveted cup. The Valkyrie odds the finest vessel which has yet been dispatched to the United States to com- pete for the America’s cup, and enthu- siastic yachtmen on this side of the At- lantic all feel that the contest will bea remarkably close one, and that the ves- sel chosen to defend the trophy must be is said to be by long superior to any of the famous boats which have figured in the past in the role of *" Defender.’’ The built for the purpose has so far met all expec- vessel tations, and, although defeated in one of the recent trial ure was due to an accident. races, her discomfit- \ll feel that the contest in September will be remarkably close, and, as a re- sult, the interest in the event is all the keener. The Valkyrie will be enthusi- astically welcomed on her arrival, and, whether she succeeds in wresting victory from us or not, the enter- for the splendid craft and her backers will be equally cordial. Should British stroke of good fortune, succeed in capturing the them, sentiments tained friends, by our any cup, a cannot wish they may feel assured that the people of the United States will see to it that there will be no dearth of challenging vessels SsuCctcs: wc dispatched to British waters to recover the trophy. Good reports continue to come in re- garding the Detroit potato patches. At last accounts the women were in charge, diligently weeding and hoeing. An this innovation by the women is expected with the bewildering outcry against question, What are we coming to when the woman walks up and _ takes the nat- ural implement of man’s industry right out his hands? Taffy-giving in trade has ceased to be a novelty, and now a Chicago store has been trying the virtue of ice-cream, ‘free to all,’’ to attract customers. Next! A FALSE LEADER. In the course of a recent address in New York, Samuel Gompers betrayed the and the shallowness of the fol- his intellect in coarseness of nature his lowing harrangue : We see millions and piled up in fortunes. We see million- aires lolling in luxury. We protest against this. We protest against enor mous riches on the one hand and de- graded poverty on the other. We are determined to be larger sharers in the products of our own labor. millions being it is submitted that this 1s a great mistake. Speech and sentiment alike are out of date. The whirligig of 7°93 has been on the move since such talk was representative, and the quotation shows that the labor leader has not kept up with it. The distribution of wealth is no longer the question of the hour, but the distribution of labor. The old idea that disease only is catching 1s ex- ploded and it is found that health and wholesomeness are just as Contagious. Emma Goldmann learned when she was not allowed to speak at the working girls’ in New York, and _ the fact was brought out at Lynn in July, when the shoemen This is what meeting, same refused to obey the order to quit work simply to satisfy the vanity of a half dozen walking delegates. It is strange that the walking delegate and the labor leader are the last to learn and are not the Think of the sen- either should openly and boldly de- clare that old things have passed away and that all things have become new: that the distribution of wealth is not the the hour, but that of instead ; that the curse of Eden by La- into the mankind; and that ‘‘we are here to-day, my brethren, to tacts first to scatter them. sation created if these wholesome avow the new theory question of labor bor’s hand, has been changed greatest blessing of man can best secure that rich ot consider how each the share of work belongs to him, bond or Let us re- whether he be free. poor, A new era has begun. joice and be glad in it. Let each, with his new views In his veins, do what he the wholesome truth that life’s greatest distribution of can to spread work and not wealth is good, and that the just ‘labor is the panacea which the world There are millions of acres for idle ging not for bread, but for earn it. How shall these suffering be brought together? How shall tribution of labor be best effected? needs most. of fertile soil calling There are millions of husbandmen. hands. beg- a chance to this dis- It was the opportunity of a lifetime; and the agitator, in failing to improve it, showed that he is lacking in those elements of greatness which distinguish the two leaders. WILLIAM CAXTON. With a feeling akin to reverence, the TRADESMAN places at the head of this ar- ticle the venerated name of the father of English printing. Like other men whose genius has blessed the world, but little can be said of him, because little only is known. That he was English born, and well born, biographers all agree. That he early wandered from the ** green little island’’---a trait he transmitted to his countless children—is conceded ; that Gutenberg, his German fellow- craftsman, outranks him in making and using movable types is granted; but at every step which the printing art has taken for the preservation of speech, it is Caxton’s spirit which has English suggested it and resolutely led the way. | whose blade comes nearest i boundary of the the first English book was printed. It was his spirit, centuries afterward, which up- set the treacle which made up a part of a fellow-workman’s meager dinner and so banished forever the awkward inkball and prepared the way for the coming touched one day the slumbering genius of an- cylinder. He with his wand other devoted grandson and brother, and the cylinder press began its wonderful work. He whispered to the uneasy spirit of Hoe, and the startled machine bent to its task, and in an hour ac- complished what before had been the work of years; and, finally, when the art had, to all appearances, reached its limit, the wizard of the fifteenth century communed with a fellow-craftsman of the nineteenth, and the typesetting ma- hands the composing stick and set with its nimble tingers the thoughtful lt 1S the crowning glory of the printer’s art, and the TRADESMAN, as it places before its readers the latest, beautiful specimen of machine craft, believes with its readers, that the uneasy spirit of William Cax- ton, the English -printer, should rest at chine took in its conscious type. last in peace. ncigenphagI Is it too much to expect that the print- ing press, with this new fellow-worker, will accomplish for the next five hun- dred years what Caxton and his press accomplished for the last five hundred? the known story; but the popular govern- It is needless now to repeat well- ment which the press inaugurated it will still support; the beautiful and benefi- cent in literature, it will still make per- manent and all, and the voice of the prophets and the teaching of the apostles it will scatter, as the Master directed, ‘‘unto all the world.’’ This has so far been its work ; this it is now doing ; and this, with whatever the accessible to coming years may ask of it, it will be sure to do hereafter. Of the efficiency of that what triumphs are before it, we cannot now conceive; but in the far-off years work we need have no fear; when the results are garnered, they who gather them will remember the printer of the name of olden time and, repeating the Caxton, will write after it as reverently as we do to-day, ‘‘the father of English printing.’ ny the ** The Twin census dispute between Cities continues would seem that St. wait the result with the St. Paul Trade Journal. disputing, both of you. Two big, strap- to rage, and it Paul can afford to confidence, ’’ says Better stop ping girls as you are, had_ better be do- Why not stop quarreling, make up, and go in for like New York and so, when the time comes ing something else, anyway. a preater city’ and Pittsburgh ; to move the National Capitol westward, St. Minne will By that time United nearer the North Pole and St. Minne will be, geographically, the center of the country. Here’s to St. Minne, the future capital of the greater United States! be the city of cities to the northern States will be than receive it. it is now, Gambling by electricity is said to be rapidly gaining favor in Washington. It is managed by an ordinary electric fan. Its blades are numbered, and the them will stop nearest the perpendicular wire at the bottom of the guard which covers the fan, when the current is turned off. Each player puts up his coin, be it a nickel or a dollar, and the lucky one the wire players bet on which one of His own hand grasped the lever when| takes the pot. See seeecaseeetinias: se — — = ay Pt 0 PARES ab ere A THE GREATER VILLAIN. ‘Are men getting better or worse? Is a question often asked by moralists, and variously answered according to the y 5 standpoint occupied by the observer. In view of the large number of. the stories of crimes which make up so great a part of the news of the daily newspa- pers, and in the face of the growing cor- ruption and criminality prevalent among men who hold important public trusts flagrantly betray them, _ it would seem. that, and who instead of growing better, the world is getting worse. On the other hand, when one regards the numerous and noble hospitals and asylums for the charitable care of the sick, the blind, the deaf and dumb, the helpless orphans and the aged who are poor and dependent, it would) be diffi- cult to resist the conviction that the world is getting better. Other evidences of this great moral improvement are the establishment of civil liberty and relig- ious freedom, and increased humanity to the prisoner and medical treatment for the insane. ‘Truly, these are proofs of a vast moral and intellectual im- provement in human nature, and that within a very modern period. There is another sign of improvement, too, not the least important. It is the vast and growing need of honesty in pri- vate business, and the enormous private interests in the hands of trusted agents and employes. There never before was in the history of the world a time when, by the organization of stock companies and corporations, such colossal aggrega- tions of capital were created, nor was it ever before that such tremendous enter- prises in Commerce and industries were undertaken by private parties. ly a Pharaoh would assemble a million of his slavesand set them to work in build- Former- ing the pyramids or in excavating irri- gating canals that covered wide regions of territory. Ancient despots would turn out the people in mass or set the legions of the to construct aqueducts, bridges, roads, temples, or other public works, at the cost of the taxpayers. To- day all this is done by private enter- prise, with private capital, and with no Charge upon the taxpayers. army The proprietors of such Titanic under- takings, unable to manage and admin- ister all the details of their enormous business, are compelled to intrust_ it largely to assistants and agents, and, as a result, the demand for honest, capa- ble and reliable persons to administer these trusts is very great. When the immense private interests in the hands of employes and subordinates are con- sidered, it is truly astonishing that there are so few robberies and defalca- tions by these trusted agents, and all the facts combine to demonstrate how individual and personal honesty in the premises. Men will often risk and even sacrifice their lives to guard and protect private trusts committed to their care. grand is the exhibit of This stanch fidelity in such cases pre- sents a striking contrast to the dishon- esty and corruption which pervade offi- cial circles. It would seem that many men have two standards of honesty and diametrically opposing principles of morals where public and_ private trusts are in contrast. It is simply a fact that there are men who are scrupulously careful of private trusts, but who have no hesitation whatever in robbing the public treasury. Such a man holds that money once paid in for taxes becomes a proper subject for plunder, and he has- tens to get his share of it before others whose opportunity has been less favor- TRADESMAN 9 able should be able to put their claws On IL So far does the lack of conscience in regard to public trusts go that citizens who stand fairly and respectably in the community do not hesitate to bribe a public official or to buy favors from pub- lic legislative bodies, while they regard with complaisance the officials who have sold their honor for gain and have en- riched themselves by illegal and dishon- The greatest diffi- culty is experienced in arousing the people against corrupt and dishonest public officers, because the people seem to take it as a matter of course that public office is a private perquisite, and public funds are a common subject for orable official acts. plunderers. It is this popular indifference which has created so much official corruption. Phe jobbers and robbers have so long enzoyed immunity that they are actually astonished when they are brought to ac- Official morals will never be any better until the people fully recognize that there is no differ- ence between count for their crimes. private dishonesty and officialfcorruption, and that the violation of an official public trust is precisely as dishonorable and as criminal as is steal- ing from a trusting friend. There is only one sort of honesty, vir- tue, truth and morality, and there can be no different rule in the administration of public affairs from that which should obtain in private business. Every man who steals is a thief, whether from a private or public fund. Any man who uses his public position and opportuni- ties to doa wrong is even the greater rascal for it, since to steal an unguard- ed treasure is the base crime of a man who would steal the guarded ure if he dared to. difference between the official criminal and the unofficial, save that the former, being the more trusted, is the greater villain. treas- There is no LAUGHING AT THE LAW. At Emporia, Kansas, much indigna- tion has been excited by Mayor Cagney’s order to the police to enforce sjrictly the bicycle ordinance, which provides that the bell must be rung at every street or alley crossing. Nearly one hundred per- sons have been summoned to appear be- fore the police justice. Among them are several young women Conspicuous in so- ciety. The leading business men, doc- tors and lawyers also, have been sum- moned. Only one or two have appeared, and no fines have been paid. It is said the matter will be carried to the Su- preme Court, if necessary. The other night the law was violated openly, and was burlesqued by the use of cow bells, tin pans, horns and torches. New laws must be made to cover new machines; but they should not be ridiculous. The project of annexation to the United States is assuming a state of renewed ac- tivity in Hawaii. cently held in Honolulu, resolutions were passed requesting the Government to re- open negotiations for that purpose with this country. It seems too bad that the overtures to that end made by the Gov- At a mass meeting, re- ernment in 1892 should have been re- jected. of uncertainty and turmoil from that time It has kept the Islands in a state to this, and will continue to do so until they are accepted by this country or some other steps in. The commercial inter- ests of both countries demand an early settlement of this question in accordance with the wishes of the Hawaiians. THE EASTERN QUESTION. There can be no disguising the fact that the situation of affairs in the Bal- kan peninsula is giving rise to very se- rious apprehensions im Europe. In Bulgaria there has existed a very unset- tled state of things since the assassina- tion of ex-Prime Minister Stambuloff, and it is thought in many quarters that the abdication of Prince Ferdinand will soon be announced. That potentate is still staying at Carlsbad, and it is re- ported that his ministers have advised him not to return to Sofia for the pres- ent. Much more serious than the condition of Bulgaria is the revolt in progress in Macedonia, a province of the Turkish Empire bording on Bulgaria. The Bul- garians have openly aided the insurgents in the neighboring territory, and both Russian and Bulgarian officers have been found serving among the rebels. Russian intrigue is believed to be be- hind the upheaval in Macedonia, as well as responsible for the srained condition of affairs in Bulgaria. The powers of Europe, having guar- anteed the peaceable government. of Macedonia, are compelled to put down the revolt; hence steps have already been taken to that end. Austria has been charged with the duty of restoring peace, and Turkey is already mobiliz- ing a large force of troops in order to cope with the situation in the rebellious province. It is clear that there is no intention of giving Russia a free hand in the Balkans, hence the selection of Austria, a power well known to be op- posed to Russian aggression in south- eastern Europe. With the settlement of the Macedo- nian trouble, there will at once arise the problem of finally determining the dis- pute over the crown of Bulgaria. Prince Ferdinand has never been recognized by the powers, and although he has re- cently sent a deputation to the Czar, Russia has not consented to recognize the Prince. Should Ferdinand be forced to abdicate, the question of finding a successor would prove very embarrass- ing. Russia would doubtless claim the privilege of selecting a prince devoted to her interests; but the other powers would scarcely permit her way in this. Russia to have On her part, Russia would be as unwilling to recognize any prince but one of her own selection as Ferdinand, hence it is difficult to see how Prince Ferdinand’s abdication would — settle anything or remove the dangers at pres- ent lurking in the situation. For all these reasons the crisis in the Balkans is Creating anxiety. she has been to recognize AMERICANS ABROAD. Americans who are at a discount in foreign countries with all except the tradespeople, the landlords of hotels, the waiters and the beggars, to all of whom the extravagant habits of our country- men much commend them, get little consideration from the authorities. It is known that the United States Govern- ment does not protect its citizens abroad, and always leaves them to the mercy of foreign countries, and that the ‘‘ Stars and Stripes,’’ despite all the poetry that has been written about them, are not an aegis for Americans in foreign lands or on foreign seas, and, knowing all this, the authorities of foreign na- tions are not slow to take advantage of the fact. These remarks, so discouraging to patriotic pride and so humiliating to American sensibilities, were suggested by the tribulations of Mr. Stern, a prom- inent citizen of New York, who has got into trouble with the authorities of Kis- sengen, Germany, over some matter of mere social form. Some pompous offi- cial took exceptions to the presence of Mr. Stern’s young son at the Kur Gar- den, a public resort, and hence the trouble. Mr. Stern has been arrested and sub- jected to great indignity for the most trivial cause imaginable. The matter has been reported to the American State Department, than which nothing can be more ridiculous, as, according to all precedent, it will receive no attention at all. It is not sufficiently serious to be arbitrated, which is the last resort of this great nation to get out of a foreign complication, and all the satisfaction Mr. Stern will ever get will be to pay heavy costs, and probably be driven from the watering place by his arbitrary oppressors, When wealthy Americans abroad, they ought to be smart enough to secure in some way British protec- tion. Then they are safe from official insult and wrong. Otherwise they ought travel to spend their money in their own country. [ ~<« ee Japan is finding enough to do in her recovery from the effects of the war to keep the political situation in a state of healthy activity. This will insure con- tinued advance in modern governmental methods. The necessity of action to meet the financial complications growing out of the war makes it probable that the Corea 1s proving rather intractable, and Japan is not succeeding in establishing as favora- ble relations with that country as she Formosa, too, is very backward diet will soon be convened. wishes. in coming under the control of the Japan- ese army of occupation and is keeping the military department in a state of con- siderable activity. In addition to all this the government is carrying on a diplo- matic contest of no small magnitude with Russia and the other European powers over the question of vacating Chinese ter- ritory around Port Arthur. Altogether the conditions are favorable for a strong national organization and the government seems to be meeting every emergency with as much firmness and dignity as would be expected of a country much older in modern methods of government. England seems determined to keep the merits of the Monroe Doctrine in a state of consideration. No sooner is the Nicaragua matter fairly settled and the interest somewhat abated claims of Venezuelan territory, than she in her raises it afresh by the seizure of the I[s- land of Trinidad, belonging to Brazil. That country expresses a determinatior to regain the Island at the expense of! war, if need be, depending on_ the United States vindication of the Mon roe Doctrine to help her out. ing the attitude of the administratior and its representatives in the case of Nicaragua, it would not seem to be a very safe dependance. It is said that the seizure of the Island is in the inter- est of a cable company which wishes to Consider make it a stopping point for a line from England to Argentina etna The Chinese government has decided upon the reorganization of its army on the plan of the German military system and have employed several German of- ficers for this purpose. owing to the high degree of efficiency of the German system. It remains to be seen how efficient the Chinaman will be as material for such an army. This choice is He eer ats ae ea oe ao nee TN eT Cr at va 10 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN _ Getting the People _ Art of aiachiae and Holding Trade by Advertising. think what an If you have, Did you ever pause to advertisement Consists of ? you were astonished at the almost num- berless phases the subject assumes. Anything which attracts the public mind and enchains the attention, even mo- mentarily, is an advertisemeiit. When passing on your way, your attention is in the walk tact that coiled SI- directed to a dangerous hole This advertises the The roadside, or path. danger lies. snake, the there lently by sounds his rattle or utters his peculiar hiss to announce to you his venomous presence. The rainbow was placed in the skies as an vwivertisement. A lean and hungry cur, slouching along, announces to the ob- server, by his drooping attitude and tail between his legs, that his lot in life is misfortune and that he is the receptacle of his master’s i]]-humored kicks. The cross and il babe, whining tn its mother’s advertises its woes and trials in its early struggle with lite. Che signboard, cracked and dingy with scaling paint and we ather-beaten boards, its language ungrammatical and its words incorrectly spelled, announces to the public that here is a man who lacks push, energy, lightenment. It education and en- tells, as plainly as a historian can possibly do, of years, per- haps, of lazy waiting for the tide of fortune to make a favorable turn, while ine rex iplent ol the tickle voddess’ favors sat idly by, indifferent as to the outcome of his existence. It tells of the man who, instead of forcing for tune’s favors to himself by continued and unabating push and vim and strug- fle, folds his hands and slides along in the worn | nis tather and g sadly groove which, perhaps, randfather made smooth before him. So with the advertisement in the news- paper, the magazine, the street Car, or the window. It is, of the two, perhaps, the least objectionable Oo Dever print a word in advertisement of yourself or your business or merchandise than to make such announcements in a care- less, ignorant, slovenly way, which de- grades and belittles both the goods, the merchant and the newspaper. luappropriateness is) a word which covers a series of the most glaring faults to be found with writers of ad vertis Publicity, to be effective and pregnant with results, must be fit- ting and harmonious. lncongruity will not wi ludicrousness sometimes does. \ idvertisement taking for its prelu 1 subject entirely foreign and uncon! ted with the goods desig ened to be sold, is not only a waste of money but a positive damage to the seller. — It is possible to make a readable and valu- able advertisement for an article by talking about its opposite. For in- stance, if one desires to sell coal, he may readily use the summer heat as a mantle with which to surround his ca- loric-giving substance and do it in an appropriate and catchy way which will sell the coal. But, if one wishes to sell coal, there is no possible use in talk- ng about feathers. If you sell baled hay, to give the subject of jewelry or a war in China undue — prominence, with no connection, either ludicrous, or humorous, or otherwise, with baled hay, is a prostitution of the art of ad- vertising. With the rapid advancement of adver- tising methods and means has come an : : inordinate desire on the expense of logic, honesty, plainness of speech and common sense. of choking on a gnatand swallowing the camel, hump and all. The extremist in sits down to his work with to gain pub- ad. writing the firmly-rooted idea that, licity and fame, and to create must use language which merchan- dise sellers, he has never been previously aired, or, at not commonly. He go back to the hieroglyphic age in to tell nineteenth century Americans that Jones’ butter doesn’t shaving. He must struggle with the dead languages to con- folks that Brown’s made and that He must exhaust the ancient tradition and obsolete words to fully illustrate the simple fact that Smith can pull a tooth properly. He must twist the English language 1n- to uncouth shapes and sandwich it with and least, must order need vince soap 1s to wash with, it performs its duty well. store- houses ot quotations from Horace’s odes Shakespere’s sonnets to sufficiently im- press the fact upon the reader that sugar is not sand, and that shoes are made of leather instead of brown paper. All these false and many more, take their way through the writer’s brain and, after a brief struggle ideas, must new and an unloved existence, be quenched with the cold water of Common sense and understandable words, before the first indication of a successful advertis- ing vein can be reached. After the advertisement has passed through this crude begins to find out that perhaps the common herd is not up to that their edu- cation in things pertaining to the deluge neglected, or they don’t And when he finally realizes and recognizes the fact that peo- ple who read advertising in 1895 are too sharp and shrewd and busy with money- attention to his constructor and his- toric period, he his heights of rhetoric has either been appreciate it. making affairs to give poetical and historical high-class effu- sions, then, and then first, does he com- mence to write what people will give time to read. When he arrives at this stage, he may consider his real value as commenced to Until such attract a writer of ads to have if merit he then, the effort to attention is wnivesttnl. Stric tly in It! show, p* SSCSSCS. time, public Our shelves never held a nicer assortment of Choice Canned Goods and Fine Groceries than now, and we Gan piease everyone in price. We always keep an extra nice lot of butter to -ell to our friends—the public generally is our best friend. STARCH & CO. What Do You Think Of the man who tells you his stock of goods is being closed out at 25 cents on the dollar of cost? He is either crazy or thinks you are foolish enough to believe it. He’s got a lot of old shelf-worn goods which he can’t possibly give away, so, to save a dead loss, he will let you have ‘em for almost nothing, which is clear gain for him. Now, you don’t want such stuff. You want goods that are reliable and up-to-date in style and quality. These are what we aim to supply you, and you can’t find a shoddy or shelf-worn piece of stock in our store SPIGOT & BUNGHOLE. : | part of some writers to be unique and original, at the It is a case Boece oe 2 The printing of Office Station- S|. : ally approaching perfection in is an art which is continu- and artistic neatness. 6 : simplicity ° The Tradesman ©) Company...... Makes a specialty of Business Men’s Printing---Printing that vives tone and value to Office Stationery. The Tradesman Company's work facilities for first-class and prompt execution of or- ders in any and all branches 6) of the art are surpassed by © Prices are in harmony 6) none. with best results and quality of stock furnished. 6 Can the Tradesman Company SS. Assist You........... © ©) 6) In making your Business Sta- i 3 tionery what it should be : ©) Tradesman Company Grand Rapids = Love’s Golden Chain Leads many a fair lady to the altar of hymeneal bliss, or otherwise. The expenses of a wed- ding trip may easily be s ved by purchasing Furniture and Household Furnishings of the reliable house of Qnarteroak &Co. The finest line of the most durable and fashionable goods to be found in market. See these prices, QUARTEROAK & CO. Ciataleiine a Rat By the tail is as easy as getting so” e- thing for nothing. If you want hon- est values and low prices, examine onr stock of Dry Goods, Carpets, Ladies’ and Gentlemen’s F messiah tne Goods, Ete. EVERNEW & CO. Delicate, Dainty, i Delightful, Durable makes of China, Glass and Silverware. to furnish pleasant dinner tables and brighten the sideboard and china eee. The newest and most clegant patterns always in stock early. See our 120 piece Dinner Set of Moss Rose Pattern at $16.50—a bargain. SMASHEM & CO. A Necktie Party i Of this kind is unpleasant for the guest of honor. Buyers and wearers of Fine Neckware, Shirts and Underwear will find themselves well pleased with our line for the neck, and our prices are reasonable for new and stylish articles. LYNCHED & CO. When the summer's glaring heat Beats upon the dusty strect, Then You're Hot! When the ice man, on his round, Gives your ice-box just one pound, Then You're Hot!! When the Frost King, cold and drear, Freezes ice upon your beer, Then You’re ot! When the rain, with gentle beat, Soaks your clothes and wets your feet, Then When you read this little mot, This will be your only thought, This Rot !!! If you're not dead, after reading the above ef- fusion, come in and examine our line of Spring Summer and Fall Poetry, Suits and Underwear, Nothing finer or cheaper in the city. POETASTER & CO. THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN ‘“‘Send Me a Dozen== They Are Splendid !”’ Was the delighted exclamation of a lady customer, recently. speaking of our New Line of Shirt Waists. It's no wonder she ordered so many, for they are a fascinating and comfort- able creation of the dre ssmaker’s art, worth far more than the moder- ate price of 69 cents we ask for them. We have exactly 6 dozen and seven left this morning, out of 100 doze n un- vacked last Saturday. The ladies know a good Shirt Waist. EASE & CO. An Epicure’s Salad Must be flavored with the choicest Vin egar. Our regular customers won't have anything but Lowland Brand, a pure Cider Vinegar made in the most approved way, with none of the rank odor and bitter taste found in many others. See our stock of Table Deliea- cies, TOOTHSO DME & CO. Simplicity is the motto which every advertiser should inscribe upon his ban- ner. Only a few years ago, the most complex machinery was considered the most valuable and wonderful. To-day, the machine with the fewest parts, and those of the simplest character, is the aim of inventor and user alike. The old method of handwork in type compo- sition has been supplanted by type-set- ting machines, but the intricate and complicated machine of many parts has been relegated into disuse, to the ad- vantage of simplicity. tisements So with adver- simplicity, honesty and plainness of speech win, where verbiage and prolific expression utterly fail. Fpc. —— —— -_ > The Sign Was Canine. A Monroe street merchant who is fond of fishing for trout, had nearly finished a long day’s tr: amp on a stream strewn with cut poles, bait-boxes and other evi- dences of the native angler. He had ignored an occasional sign tacked to a tree of ‘‘No fishing on this stream. ’’ The day was nearly over and he was nearing the mouth of the stream, when he was hailed by a resident of a neigh- boring farmhouse. Hello, cap'n!77 ‘Well?’ ‘Ye been fishin’ up here?’’ es 77 ‘Can ye read?’? nwesit? ‘Did ye see that sign tellin’ ye there’s no fishin’ up he ree 7 ‘Yes, and it’s true, too.” A light seemed to. break since the farmer’s pe ig sm and he grunted and faced about for home. —_ The Desirability o of Frequent Changes. People don’t like to see the same old sights. There is that inthe make-up of the most conservative of us which causes us to € njoy hew scenes. The shrewd storekeeper knows this and makes use of it. He not only changes his advertisements as often as possible but he shifts his stock frequent. ly. An old stock may be made to look new by a mere rearrangement of it. It is a capital idea to set carpenters at work in your store every now and then. Three or four times a year is not too often. Let them yank a counter out here and put it in there. Drag a table from the northwest corner and set it in the southeast niche. Haul things about until people who have been coming every week will notice the change. They may not know just what the change is all the better perhaps. They like to guess. They like to see something they never saw before. li — el The man who resigned from his posi- tion as floor walker in a store explained that he had a baby at home cutting teeth, and had all the floor walking he could atte nd to at night. i 2 Woman is composed of 234 bones, 189 muscles, and 396 pins. Fearfully and wonderfully made, and to be handled with care to avoid scratches. radesman Company ENGRAVING EPARTMENT BUILDINGS Large or Small. exact E:ngravings of the Most Complex ANYTHING PORTRAITS Groups or Singly. Simplest or iil FOR ANY PURPOSE. *$©@OSSGer-- COMPLETE FACILITIES--Artists employed in every branch. PROMPTNESS--Orders filled when promised. PRICES--Bottom for Best Work. FURNITURE DESIGNS CONFIDENTIAL. TRADESMAN COMPANY, GRAND RAPIDS ih e = E Bees ee ee 12 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN JANE CRAGIN. ities of a New Clerk. Joe, one of the boys in the Milltown store, got mad and left. There was too much woman in there for him. There never was a country store which was kept as clean as a_ parlor, and there never would be. He could stand almos} everything, but when it came to white- washing the tirewood and washing the potatoes, that was where he should draw the line; and when he was told _ that there wasn’t going to be any line-draw- ing, he mumbled something under his breath and left. Business was a little light, just then, and no effort was made to fill the va- cancy; but it came to be. generally known that they were *‘short of a hand, ’ and a candidate, from time to time, presented himself. It occasioned no surprise, therefore, when Cy called out to Miss Cragin one day. ‘Bere’s yr man, jane | | xpected he’d be alone b’fore a great while. Ye hev my c’nsent b’foré y ask it. lake 1m, a yed better offer a vood price ‘'r’e’ll shp through y'r tingers,’’ and before he could give his little chuckling laugh, a big hulking shadow fell upon the store floor, followed by a hulk- ine fellow almost as big. He went straight to Cy. ‘I’ve heard you wanted a hand in the store, Mr. Huxley, and I’ve come to see if you don’t want me."’ ioeep up t the winder, there, 1 she'll tell ye.’” Cy gave a sidelong nod toward ne Cracin, who was fain to admit, until she heard the newcomer1 speak, that Cy had ample grounds tor his mirth. The way he handled his and his Yong di- English pleased her rect to Cy, without the “‘sidling up”’ peculiar to most tarm-boys, made her look at him closely, as he stood before her. He stood six feet in his stockings, **"n’ had meat ‘nough on ‘im t’ make ‘im staout ‘n’hahn’some.”’ His face was round and red with sunburn; his hair, black as coal, was long and somewhat tangled with wind and perspiration ; his clothes were thick, even for a win- ter day, and white with the dust of a long, hot walk; his shoes were ample, but it was easy to see that they were much too large for his feet. He stood, tired and hot, before the window, too eager to be embarrassed or to think of anything but securing the place. As he approached the window, he removed bes hat. and, above the line of hat l rim, nis forehead was as white as a girl’s. The undetinable something in the big boy's earnest face whether the sparkle of the bright black eyes, or the good nature that looked out from every feature, or the removing of the hat, it would be hard to tell settled the ques- tion in Jane Cragin’s mind and, open- ing the office door, she asked him to come in. ‘lam obliged to you,’’ was the an- swer, “but | am too dusty to Come in. I ‘Never mind the dust. Come right in. Have you ever worked in a store?’’ ‘No, ma'am: | live onatarm But I’ve been wanting to try work in a store for a long time, and when I heard yes- terday that vou are looking for a stout boy, | concluded I would come and see about it. I’m strong enough, I’m How She Detected the Sterling Qual- > ‘That part is all right, I can see, and you can do what heavy work is wanted ; but suppose I should want you to do up Eons do you think you could do it?’ ‘| think I should be bungling 3 at first, but I’d keep at it until I could.’ ‘Can you_reckon rapidly? What would twelve and three-quarter pounds of sugar come to at seven and a half cents pound ?"’ ‘Ninety-five--96 cents,’’ was the an- swer, almost as soon as the question was asked. lease come to the desk and put] z your address on this envelope. ”’ Cy changed his position to see the fellow draw himself over the desk and stick out his tongue, as the girls and boys always do when they make pot- hooks in the copy-book at school. But he was disappointed, tor the brown hand took the pen he took Jane's tinest point and, without a movement of his face, wrote rapidly in a handwriting as neat and even as a lady’s: Sidney T. Benton, | Evan's Corners. ‘Evan's Comers! You don't mean to tell me that you've walked fifteen miles this hot day, to get a chance to work in this store?”’ ‘Why, that isn’t so very far; but I’m afraid I look as if I had walked a great deal farther. I do want the place, and I hope, if vou haven't found anybody who suits you better, that you'll jet me ay. Chat brought in Cy. *Haow old be yer Imost seventeen. ’’ ‘Gee-whiz! Wha'd ye weigh?’’ ‘A hundred an eighty. ‘Ben t’ school much?’’ “Well, always winters; but mother used to be a teacher, and she’s helped me a great deal.”’ ‘Wha’'d ye ’xpect f’r wages?”’ ‘Whatever you think I’m worth ; only, for a little white, I'd like to have you pay-me every weck.’’ ‘That'll be all right. Jim, come here. This boy--what'd ye say yr name was?’ ‘Sidney Benton——Sid for short.’’ (pee if you c/n help im cit rnd o some o’ the dust that’s hangin’ to ’im. Ye've got real estate enough on ye t’ pay taxes. ”’ Lhe boys went into the back store. ‘By the way you came in and clinched the bargain,’’ said Jane, °‘it looks as if you were afraid he'd. slip through my fingers after all. What was the matter? Don’t you suppose [ can tell, when | see a thing, whether | want it or not?} This poor fellow comes in here, after a walk of fifteen miles, and you make all manner of fun of him. Then, when | make up my mind that he’s the one we | want, you come in and take the matter right out of my hands. I don't suppose | we shall ever hear anything after this, | but the fact that you knew, the minute you put your eyes on him, that he was the chap we wanted, and that you told me so. Your sharpness, Cyrus, is as remarkable as your good judgment! You must remember that you made fun of him, and that, if you hadn't thought that you were playing a good joke on me, the poor boy would have gone out as dusty as he came in.”’ That very afternoon, Sidney Benton Computing Scale nett 13,000 in use! \t prices ranging from $15 upwards. The style shown in this cut $30.00 which includes Seamless Brass Scoop. GOFF 990999990 099609900966060006- GOODS S HHS 9GOOSSSF OHH SOHHHHOHOOOSH99OH 68 OF 90909959 994O09060946000060064 Ob bb bhbbhbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbhbbbbbthbbbbbbbhbbotath > > > > > > > > > 4 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >» > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > l-or advertisement showing our \WWorld l-amous Stan- dard Market DAYTON COMPUTING SCALES see last page of cover in this issue. The Computing Scale Co., DAYTON, OHIO. CORBIN’S <-> LIQHININg SCISSOrs Sharpen GAbdbbdbbdbbdbbdbedbb ddd dddadda IT’S A DAISY SOMETHING NEW QUICK SELLER EVERY LADY wants one LASTS A LIFETIME FOP HEP AEP IEP NET OER ONR OEP ONF ONT Lhe only perfect Sharpener made. Will Sharpen any pair of shears or scissors in ten seconds. Made of the finest tempered stecl, handsomely finished and nickel plated SELLS AT SIGHT Her scissors will always have funded. ecause every lady can see ata glance benefit she will derive u this addition to her work basket. Satis ction guaranteed or money re- Put up one dozen on handsome 8x 12 Easel Card. Per Dozen, $1.50. FOR SALE AT WHOLESAL LM. CLARK GROCERY Co. MUSSELMAN GROCER Co. LEMON & WHEELER Co. BALL-BARNHART- PUTMAN Co. E BY HAZELTINE & PERKINS DrRuG Co. 1, BROOKS & Co. PUTNAM CANDy Co. WURZBURG JEWELRY Co. OR BY THE MANUFACTURER, W. T. LAMOREAUX, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Teeseeaaeny : Z : tae POLED ame a ora Rept is eG = A ete t : & : a : came to the store ready for work. In looked and he certainly felt more his working “like folks, ” clothes he more like working than he did in the heavy misfit that hampered him in the morn- ing. “Jim, show Sidney the way down cel lar. You'll tind things pretty bad down there, for we have been too busy to look after it since Joe left. Just see what you can do. ” He did. the first thing and, findine that the after The windows. were opened noon sun fell aslant the western windows, he fastened a looking glass so that the reflected sunlight swept the whole length of the cellar. Then his Vegetables that corners and were decaying, were taken real work be- } i gan. had rolle into care of, barrels full of uncleanliness, were emptied; and, late in the after- Jane went down to see if it do, the agreed so thoroughly with her looks that noon, when would pleasure she expressed the new hand was. sure that his first job c had been a success. In the course of a week the store would bear inspection anywhere, and when, one morning, coming down early, the book-keeper found Sid, considerable energy on the the that’s what I like!’’ mop in hand, expending store door, in that hearty tone of hers, was ample proof that an- other point had been made in the new clerk’s favor. Would the clumsiness which he fellow ever get over the had It was brought with him from the farm? eetting to be a question with Jane how she should that he must *‘fix As the tan faded from his hands, his manage to tell him up’’ a little. face and big shoes and his long hair seemed more than ever notice- able, and made him the butt of every- body's ridicule. Finally, made up her mind when Jane that she couldn't have that fright around her anv longer, Benton came in sheared and shod, and clad in his first tailor-made suit. She him. result of the affected once ordered a suit didn't recognize Jim was simply astonished at the ** shed- and Cy was so by the that he at for himself, for he'd be ** ain. change dumbed f" he'd play second fiddle to that sort 0’ tune.”’ The needed to bring out the new clothes were all that were young fellow’s other good points. His hands were al ways clean, his teeth were well taken care of, and, farm-boy though he was, his mother had taught him that a hu through his nose man being who talked and dropped his g’s was a bad speci- men of a trained human being. Jane Cragin’s comment was character ‘Sidney, you don’t look much as after fifteen from home, and, if I hadn't seen in you istic. you did your mile walk then what I ,now see, you wouldn't be here to-day. A boy who shows as plain ly as you have that he expects to work above all, a face and manner as hard for what he gets, and, boy who shows, in } you did, that there was a firs iss fel- low somewhere inside of that dusty suit, will always find an early opportunity to show the good that is in him at least, if he comes anywhere near me."’ RICHARD MALCOLM STRONG. a In Jamaica, when death occurs in the house, all the water in the house is im- mediately thrown out as poisoned and dangerous to use. The people say that when death has completed his job, he proceeds to cool his’ sting’ by dipping it into the first water he finds. As death is invisible, it is held safest to throw out all the water in the house. , to be THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN ‘THE DEAD-BEAT. | | Eloquent Tribute To His Versatility and Shrewdness. hve-legged calves and ladies with beards he might be more of a curiosity than a hnursance. As it is, he is one. without being : the othe r. No ne could think of put- ting him ina museum or of paying a dime to look at his profile. He is seen | too often and known too well to have the honor of being an attraction or a} lost diamond. It would be a_ source of satisfaction sleep to could only be and a good night’s HumMerous Prov cil modern dead- that the beat, like the red) Indian and the of the plains, was petering out and the | last of the individuals if it or even stated tl bison family, emigrating to a for- eign shore. Such a mercy, however, if often prayed for, is never expected. The man in business and the mistress of the boarding house and. the laundry still regret his presence and pigeon-hole his bills. Suits of clothes are still oc- upied by the wrong tenant and edibles, groceries and liquids of all kinds make their pilgrimage to a desolate land trom whence the letter carrier brings no reg- and the is out of istered mail money-order de- It would be easier to interdict the whooping cough wx forbid the partment business. flies appearance of grocery than to attempt. the Inia Extinction of the ubiquitous, irrepressible and. in- genious dead-beat. He is everywhere and in everything. One would not need a lantern to find | him in Congress, a corporation, or in a} Saturday night. He is} meat shop on not, necessarily, a person who never | changes his linen or has a dislike to | soap. He may wear tan shoes and im- | maculate cuffs, play « roquet, write let- tinted in a newspaper, and in social life be a ters on paper, have his portrait three-storied mansion with lace curtains and a stone front. For all of this he fraud as aS artistic | Dickens may be and lovely a could picture. The only people who knows. it are those untortunates who find his pocket as unreliable as his word. They have loaned and fattened, clothed and housed, and calculated their interest and profits, and tound out, when too late, that all their faith in a drv cow was not worth a pint of milk. Che great hat business men cven a misfortune of all this is, | and even ladies who ake in washing are compelled to make honest people pay the debts of rogues. They have to be figured on as are fire hazards in insurance and the margin of protits made so elastic as to cover a multitude of sins. No wise man doing a credit business | can afford to overlook his dead-beat risks. These are, practically, as im- portant as any other kind: of hazard, | whether from fire or weather, damage in transport or stagnation in trade. To cover his they are all included in the unit of value. It is hardly fair that the man who pays as he buys should be assessed for those who fail to do so. It may be true | that in large transactions some of. this | is remedied by discounts, but in the| business of every day life, where a| week’s wages is the only available cash, | it is a taxation of honesty to add the} debts of such as never mean to pay to | the charges of those who would hunger | rather than steal. Perhaps if there was less greed on the | part of those who sell, there would be | more justice to those who buy. It might | also do something in weeding out the | dead-beat evil if we taught the rising | race that it is better to be honest than ' Smart, 7" t t t hazards OF COURSE YOU HANDLE Phe modern dead-beat is by no means y Tare. If he could be classed with such an ey anomalies as disinterested politicians, For Sale by Ali Jobbers. 99 S999 99449999566 464660000666 a ; 3 SEE PRICE LIST ELSEWHERE. $ - 4 : ® 4 BS: EVERY PACKAGE 16 OZ. 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Calan i pblon ation Tuck Mr. Thomas IS NOT A MUSICIAN, BUT—— tHE BEST FIVE CENT CIGAR Cl, IN THE COUNTRY. _ ED. W. RUHE, MAKER, CHICAGO. F. E. BUSHMAN, Adl., 523 Join Si., KALAMAZOO THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN SUCCESSFUL SALESMEN. Reeder Bros. Shoe Co.’s Quin= tette of Hustlers. MILTON REEDER. Phe subject of this sketch was born Nov is, 1302, at Kd TO Erie cour iv. Fa. 4 well-to-do fan was s birt ice but ad ttle attraction iO Lim, ar t Ss easy to understand with what) pleasure e started for the \ ire Wit Ss hw?) t came Afi I the far dl the iblic school had done the W at the ave of 19 he « itered t Norm i oc ‘ 1 | 1 OT, Where Tie remained two vears Bix he eft Edinbo wr the well-know1 omme! cial scho it Poughkeepsie x. 4 ae shige t Ct St ri followed the tar of | re unt ne came to (x s) Nebrasl 8s. at that tir : tow four or. tive sand people Het he becam Oo} CEeper 101 ti vrocery house ) He un Oehirich & Bro. He re i ig here I¢ - 1 iy ct tirce years His next cha e was Big Rapids. He went there in De empe 1507 vhere he had « Cot a > wind shoe store, unde firm ame of Milton Reeder & Co. In 1888 t stock was emoved to Traverse City, and he remained there until Jar I is5o. Dispesing of the store he came to Grand Rapids, where he « tered the esta ‘ ent if Ceo Reeder & Co, as st ) cler| \fter holding the position ( methine less than a vear, he took charge of the books for the same leng ot time and, while holding this positic e was admitted into partnership in July, 189 Alter 2 year of service the offic in Septem ber, 1891, he became traveling salesman for the Reeder Bros. Shoe Co., of whic he is a stockholder and director. December 20, 1891, Mr. Reeder was Matricd to Miss Mary A. Ohler, of Grand Rapids, and hie ves at 84 Henry street J. Pp. REEDEI Was born on one o he fertile farms of Northwestern Pennsylvania, near. the town of Edinboro’, Dec. 24, 1855. On his father’s side he ts of English parentage, and Irish on that of his mother. His sche fe was that which is common wit a boys summer and. winter, unt the farm work wanted him _ in summer, and winters until he was Io years old, the last year of school life ben passed at the Edinboro’ Normal School, al nstitution well-known throughout that corner of the State. When s school days were over, he went home an five years. Owl, whicl 1 He j ne 1 worked on the farm for then had a farm of his carried on for two years. At the end of that time, he sold out and went to Napoleon, Ohio this was in i881 where he engaged in the meat business. Two years saw the end of this and, after selling out here, in 1853, he went back to Erie, Penn., where he a farm of 300 acres and went to ins. With this in full blast, cared to look after for twe he had all he ) years Chen he sold out and came to Ovi Mich... and opened a grocery store, which he carried on for two years. In 1887, he disposed of the store and came to Grand Rapids. Here he en- ai Reeder X As the busi- tered the employ of G. Co. as traveling salesman. ness was new to him, and not wanting to fall below the average amount of sales, he was told that if he sold $500 worth a week he ought to be satisfied. When the first vear was over, and he found S9 in sales as the result of his work, it is reasonable to suppose that he was satistied. The next and last change came in 1593, when G. H. Keeder & | gave place to a stock company un- der the name of the Reeder Bros. Shoe Co which Mr. Reeder became a stockholder and a director. In 1870, Mr. Reeder, at the age of 21, was married to Miss Mary Phillips Fa. died at Edin- and in March, 1862, he rreenville, She horo’ in 1597, married to Miss Jennie Dryden. of Grand Rapids. A little boy, 16 months _% 1 old, James Dryden Reeder, O47 is very much home at Wealthy avenue, | and manages to contribute his share to the happiness of the family. ION M. FELL. The oid Keystone State claims him where at Orangeville, January 7, 1861, he was born. The family lived here for seven years afterward, Ohio. went on with the school when they Here the life already ia Kinsman, moved to } DO begun in Pennsylvania, varying little by occasional work in a flouring mill, and, what was better than all, get- the himself. ng into his head at that early age idea that he must look out for Kinsman Che tor ten years. residence in went on He ended his school days to. think world of question there, and there he began was best fit for in the The to came from his native State, and, went to with Gillespie & what he work. answer the when Sharon ne was 17 years old, he and took a position Hammond, wholesale dealers in hide and leather. He worked for them two vears, when* he heard of a_ place he thought would suit him better in Michigan, and, in 1880, he took up his residence in Howard City and went which to work in a grocery store. For two years he staid here, thinking, it seems, behind two a great deal of the ‘‘girl he left him’’ in Kinsman; and, when the years were over, he returned to the land famous for its buckwheat, Kinsmau long part in a_ wedding made Miss Alice M. of that place, his wife. stopping at enough, at least, to take ceremony which Smith, a This took young lady place March 29, 1 Thus prepared for whatever tate found a home the had in store for him, he in Sharon and took up his grip) in i interests of T, I. Gillespie . successor to the old house of Gillespie X Ham- had Finding that his time mond, for which he formerly worked. was not fully taken up, he engaged to. travel for William Flaccus & Son, whole- also, sale dealers in leather and tannery goods, Covering territory in) Pennsyl- vania, Ohio and West Virginia. end ot The year 1886 saw the this, and, when an opening appeared in Pe- toskey, he and his household traveled to the where he upper angle of the Lower Peninsula, remained until, in 1887, he came to Grand Rapids and entered the | r & Co., fol- employ of Reeder, P | lowing the fortunes of that house until the present time except for a year and a half, during which time he. traveled . 2 | for C. M. Henderson & Co., Chicago, on the same territory and in the same line. Mr. Fell has no children, but those who visit him at his pleasant home will understand, after sharing his g@enerous hospitality, why the boys like him, and why so many heartily call him ‘‘a jolly good fellow.” cE. Rk. MACKEY. Tennessee is his native State and Nashville his native town, where he was born January 12, 1866. That same year his father, who was a captain” in the regular army, moved to Hancock, Ill., where he remained until the spirng of 1870, when he went to Fort Madison, From Fort Madison Captain Mackey removed his family to Keokuk, in 1872. From Keokuk he went to Mem- the After a residence of eight Towa. phis, Miss., where boy began his school life. years in that place, the family went to Montrose, Iowa, where there was a year’s schooling for the boy, followed — by another school year at Dallas City, III. Here his school life ended and, return- ing to Keokuk in 1882, he took a_ posi- tion in the wholesale millinery house of M. Stern. He remained here a year and then was a year with his father ina hotel at Keokuk. invitation reached His brother, A. H. ; Mackey, at that time chief clerk in the At this itme him from Texas. an quartermaster’s department, urged him to pay him a visit at Fort Concho, and for four months he was in the Lone Star State, getting a good knowledge. of the When this lengthy vacation was over, country. he returned to Keokuk and took a posi- the Co., where he gained his first knowledge of tion with Huiskamp Bros. the shoe business. He was with them for Six years. \n opening in the wholesale gro- cery house of Buck, Reiner & Co. pre- sented itself,, and he took advantage of it, traveling for the company for \ Still in Keokuk, he severed his connection with the above tirm and, for the Kendall Manufacturing Co., Providence, R. | two ycars. two years, traveled for “. manufacturers of washing powders. Keo- kuk for Grand Rapids, and is now trav- Early in the present year he left eling for the Reeder Bros. Shoe Co. the reader that Captain Mackey, the father of Mr. Mackey, was an inmate for nine- teen After took up the practice of law in Memphis, Tenn. It may not be uninteresting to months of Libby Prison. leaving the army, in 1872, he Mr. Mackey was married January 12, 1888, his birthday, to Miss Addie L. Buck, and he has one child, Flavilla, He is a member of Odd now tive vears old. the Congregational church, is an Fellow, and belongs to the Iowa State Traveling Men’s Association. FRANK fF. PALAIER. Next to New England, there is no bet- to be born in than the Western be ferred, that that section of Ohio was set- ter place Reserve, for the reason, it) may in- tled by a strong New England element. People opposed to the Puritan and his straight-jacket notions delight to go on with the saying that it is a good place to get out of as soon as possible after the momentous event a statement, how- ever, not applicable to the Western Re- Here at Euclid, November, Palmer first saw the light. It serve, 553, Mr. is needless to say that his early educa- tion was looked after in that region. of the had done for him what they could he learning and, after public schools finished his mental training at Collamer College in 1871. College days over, a mercantile ca- reer attracted him, and he began the same year to clerk ina general store at Willoughby, Ohio. Thirteen years is a long time for a first engagement, and when; in 1884, a position was open in the ranks of the Standard Oil Co., he i 4 ¢ { = 2 - i a Bi THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN changed his line and, as a traveling salesman in Michigan, he sold oil until Sot. In that year his field of useful- ness was transferred to the Pacific coast, and for a twelve-month he labored with human nature in Washington, Oregon and California. Wisconsin was the next territory to be benefitted by his exertions, and when a year was over he entered the employ of the Reeder Bros. Shoe Co., a position he holds) with credit to himself and to the house as well, Mr. Palmer was married in Septem- ber, 1837, to Miss) Cora Page, ot Shelby. Some three years and a_ half ago a bright-eved boy came to stay with them, whose chances are good for the presidential chair. There are. consti- } tutional objections to tixing the date so early as 1920; but, if the young man now in kilts inherits the sterling qual- ities which has made his father the suc- cess he is, there is going to be the live- liest election along in the first quarte1 of the coming century which will have been known since the campaign of the Loe Cabin and Hard Cider. THE BACK OFFICE. Written for THe TRADESMAN Science has made another discovery. The realms of light and sound, until now supposed to be wholly, apart, are found to have everything im common, and the so-thought unfathomable abyss between them has been bridged by a concord of sweet sounds.’’ The note A, for example, is represented in’ color by indigo; B, by violet; C, by red; D by orange; E, by yellow; F, by green, and G, by blue; while the sharps and flats can be depended on to produce the same endless variety of shade in color as they do now in sound. The advantage to be gained from this discovery to the world of trade will be seen at once. Its resources are doubled: and what has been so_ far merely guess work is brought down with the exactness of mathematical law to plain, undisputable fact. Time, of course, will be required for a general diffusion of this knowledge, but, when once mastered, as it will be, things. in- congruous will be so no more, and the discords of color, so common now, will become as rare as misplaced sharps and flats in a well-trained city church choir. On the other hand, we have the key at once to the secret of the artist’s success. ‘The beautiful picture hides a psalm or a song, before concealed, but now made audible to an appreciative world. Let us apply this new-found knowl- edge to the common concerns of life. The dry goods merchant, for example, } is tired of the senseless display in his Store windows. He wants it to mean Something. So far it has been only novel, The crowd comes and looks, and passes on. Why, the organ-grinder on the corner does more than that. No matter what tune he plays, every foot falls into step as it passes, and the ma- jority unconsciously hum the tune as they pass on. Now his window can do the same thing, or better still, the tune in the window will hereafter send them humming into his. store. He calls for When the task is done, the crowd comes, looks the expert and sets him at work. and lingers, and passes. some to their business, some into the store, but the air outside and in is Sweet with the same sweet song, and whistler and hum- mer alike, catching the key from. the window when they go are busy with "Home, Sweet Home!”’ Vhink of the piles of harmony that have remained unsung in the grocery butcher's stall, and the fish and think what a cunning hand Store, the market ; might do to secure wade by arranging the groceries and vegetables by color SO as to reproduc e to the customer’s cye, the song he used to sing! Suppose, tor example, that the corner grocery should open up some morning with ‘Old Dog [ray’’ in color; suppose the butcher, by a skillful arrangement of fats and leans, with here and there a spray of parsley, should thrill the air about him with Captain Kidd when I Sailed;’’ and what if the fish monger should fill ad market with songs to the sight alone of The Ovsterman,”” or | The Lone Fish Ball???’ There would be but one result. Trade would) receive an impe- tus before unknown; and who can tell but that the bickerings of business would be subdued if: not wholly removed by the sweet influences of silent song? The application of this new-found knowledge to the social world is without limit. What could be more touchingly appropriate for a temperance lecture than The Old Oaken Bucket that Hangs in the Well,’’ arranged in fes- toons of the proper colors around the walls of the lecture room. Think of the effect of the wedding march where the dim old church brightened with = the blossoms which have so far hidden the familiar air; and what would add more to the hilarity of the festal occasion than garlands of ** Landlord Fill the Flowing Bowl,’ and of ** Little Brown Jug, How | Love Thee. 7’ There is no need of going on with this. Every class and condition are to be affected by it. so many treasure houses of song in color ; ‘Hurrah on the appear- ur homes are to be our tables are to resound with * for Old New England, ’’ ance of brown bread and _ beans; the Thanksgiving dinner reduced to the finest coloring will be found to be '"Old Lang Syne,’’? and the grandest display which patriotism has ever witnessed America and the Star Spangled Banner, done in color and will be only SOng. RICHARD MALCOLM STRONG. a It is oon sliaceiiscaad flaw that ren- ders a shaft useless, so it is the neglect- ed details that prove disastrous to busi- ness. It is the little things which one man forgets and another remembers that ;make one a good business man and _ the other a poor onc. Cotiee— 99990090 9O090600090004000 “QUAKER” “10-0” STATE HOUSE BLEND” Roasted and put up especially for us by Dwinell, Wright & Co., the famous Cotfee Roasters TRY THESE COFFEES NUZ ax den Grocer C0. GRAND RAPIDS aa a a a a SO Be ee Be OS GV SO SV VS VS VS SS VSS VS VU VV SSS VVVSVVVVSVUIEVTVUVVEVVITVIEVTVeTVeEVTeVTeVTVeVTeseewEese ve 0 Sve Bie Rus eS FES We have the agency for CURTICE BROS.’ Celebrated Canned Fruits and Vegeta- + bles, among which we carry in stock: We Ske 8 mS SS BRS raf Early Sweet Corn Sftd Early June Peas Axes Ex. Fam. 2% ‘Swt Wrinkled Peas 2 Blue L’b'l Tom. 3% th. June Pickings ( Fr'ch Style) Preserved Peaches P’d Bartlett Pears Golden Wax Beans — Preserved Quinces White Mar’fat Peas Egg Plums ‘Tom. ' wid Succotash Lima Beans 2 Refugee St'gles B’ns oye = et The packer’s name is a guarantee of quality. Send us your order. The prices are right. #1... CLAR ~ GROCERY CO. Grand Rapids 313 3 GS SFY me GS BE Bs = mare ae = a @ 3 BIS 29) site & Tr ‘dl if \ E i t 5 z # t u ' ® : te ft t oe 16 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN TYPESETTING BY MACHINERY. Description of the New Device Now Used by the Tradesman. the TRADESMAN is the a OF This tssue of first in which the type ts com- posed, by machinery. The large amount of reading matter the has con- tained recently has made the question paper of rapidity and economy in setting the The machine type an one. question whether there would practically meet the requirements Important was a which in thesezregards has not been answered so long as to warrant the purchase of one sooner. So faras its knowledge extends, the TRADESMAN is the first weekly journal in the State to put in such a ma- chine, The rapid advance in the application of machinery to so many of the indus- trial and manufacturing has long caused anxiety among the less in- telligent, especially as to the stability of the trades. This is not strange, when it is considered that the acquirement of these trades has taken years of effort, the results of which seem to be destroyed by the application of a machine which will automatically do the work more processes perfectly, and many times more rapidly than by hand. Indeed, in the hardship worked by the adoption of many Cases, such machinery has been very serious, temporarily. Most changing social and industrial conditions work hardship to means an event- human some, but the advance ual increase in the sum total of happiness. There were many trades, however, which seemed to be beyond the posst- bility of suffering from the encroach- | ments of the ‘‘iron craftsman,’’ andj among the most secure in this regard It seemed which was the compositor’s trade. impossible to make a machine should do his work until a mechanism could) be devised which would. think. Alas, for his security! While it may not ; possible to build aj found have been ‘*thinking machine, ’’ there are so many of the the , types into order for the printed line sub- ject to the possibilities of mechanical | ingenuity, that he finds a machine. which requires but little more than the ‘“thinking’’ and which enables one op- | erator to do the work of many. movements of assembling are at all familiar with the processes of printing know that, after use, the types have to separate compartments Those of our readers who be returned to in the printer’s ‘‘case,’’ preparatory to their use again in composition. This is called distribution. The possibility of this distribution ever being auto matically done by a_= machine laughed at by any compositor to whom it may have been suggested a few years In this his trade, he felt certainly secure ; was part of but the lines of type, after using, into the machine illustrated on this page, which automat- ago. are put ically separates or distributes them, put- ting all the ‘‘a’s’’ together in one place, the “"b’s’’ in another, and so and this without the possibility of an error. On | Means have been found to dispense with the necessity of thinking for this opera- tion. The the types for printing is done by the same composing or assembling machine. This operation, while not en- tirely automatic, is so nearly so that the compositor can operate it many times faster than he could do the same work by hand. The manipulation consists in lightly touching the keys, similar to those on a typewriter, whereupon the letter corresponding to the key is in- stantly produced by the machine and caused to take its place in the line be- ing set, and this so quickly that the eye cannot follow it. The operation of the keys requires much less force than is necessary for a typewriter. The machine produces the type in one line, which moves across in front of the operator. An at- takes about the lines in a column long continuous ‘*justifier, ”’ the of this paper and spaces or “*justifies”’ it so it will be the exact width of the column. The machine then places the justified line in the ‘‘galley”’ umns, as they appear on this page. tendant, or length of one of or in col- This machine is the only one which successfully does composition and dis- tribution by the actual use of the types, There are ma- use on large daily metal as in hand composition, chines in successful newspapers which cast lines of very simple, although it Is composed of many thousands of pieces, and has an appearance of complication. It is about a dozen yentor by the name of Thorne conceived the idea of a type-setting machine. He wears Since an it- spent a number of vears in experiment- ing upon it and earried his) invention far enough to demonstrate the practica bility ol he had already amassed a competence 1 other he did not care to such a machine. As lines of =invention, follow it through to complete success, sold it to a company ol and so he younger and more practical men. These have required a good many years to bring to its present high degree of per- fection. They may now be said to have it fairly on the market, and the great plant they have created for its manu- Hartford, orders to. its facture in Conn., is crowded with utmost Capacity. The Thorne Type Setting Machine now in use in the office of the TRADESMAN. type. These are only of use on papers where typographical The would neatness is of no consideration. readers of the TRADESMAN detect from its appearance that the type is not set by hand. In fact, the operation is prac- tically the same as hand work. The machines referred to are very complicated, requiring the constant attendance of machinists, and are made hot and dirty from the maintaining a gas furnace for melting the type metal. The Thorne machine, as used on the TRADESMAN, appearance, never line-casting necessity of is very clean and neat in and, when in operation, makes less noise than a sewing machine. The force required to run it is about one-fourth of a horse power. The prin- ciples upon which it is constructed are Where the composition of a sufficiently large amount of ype is required it is easy to demonstrate the practical econ- omy of the machine, and though its cost is quite an amount, it is being rapidly adopted in most of the larger cities. The TRADESMAN congratulates _ it- self, as well as its readers, that it has grown toa Size to demand the use of such an ald in its production. While the cost is considerable, in the case of the TRADES- MAN, about $2,500, including the type used in its operation, it is fully war- ranted by the continued increase in de- mand for reading matter. The TRADES- MAN cordially invites its friends to call and see this machine in operation. It is worth an inspection as an example of the farthest advance in the typo- graphic art probable in this century. THE SUMMER STAGNATION. How the Vacation Season Interferes with Business. feel it absence for two The business men who neces- sarv to take leaves of weeks or a month at a time each sum- mer act as a serious drag upon the busi- of the Matters charge have to ness interests country. await their return, or the substitutes who tem- in their special porarily attempt to perform their duties, familiar would with not The very fact that the vacation season is spread over so many the trouble for large As _ fast as one compe- thoroughly which not being them, create delays otherwise occur. months prolongs establishments. tent employe resumes his place and _ his work another goes away, and thus at no time is the staff complete. Hence, un- dertakings of importance are begun only when they cannot be postponed until every man 1s again at his post, or, when they are begun, they are carried along under the discouragement of difficulties and delays which seriously retard their accomplishment. This mer is not a it confined to this country exclusively, but is common in all the stagnation of business in sum- novelty in history, nor is great cities of London, Paris, Berlin and their the world. Vienna have each ‘'dead’’ sea- sons, as well as the metropolitan cities of this Whole streets are de- serted by their winter inhabitants, the the vear become almost entirely idle, thea- country. tradesmen who are busy the rest. of ters are closed, shops are open only | during as few hours in the day as possi- i ble, all business affairs of importance fare put off, and but for strangers and | sightseers the | by artificial hotels would be idle. But the cities steamboats gain, empty there, as lose the Their the city industries diminish, and the summer is and the hackmen well as here, what railroads and Customers increase as those of their harvest time. The made between the cessation, or, at least, comparison will naturally be the slackening of activity of which I am speaking, and the periods of repose human beings are compelled to observe by the weakness of their phys- constitution, by the alternation of night and day, by the rigor of winter, which ‘ 1 ical and, in Christian countries, by the in- stitution of the Sabbath. The animal frame requires not only food but sleep to keep it fit for use, and, besides sleep, rest and recreation during waking hours are also now recognized as indispensa- ble. The darkness of night, for many industry, cannot be relieved light; the farmer and the forms of planter must, perforce, intermit their labors while the ground is hard with frost, covered with snow and _ ice, or soaked with excessive rains. And, either from religious, or from prudential grounds, one day in seven in Christian countries is marked by more or less ab- stinence from toil. These analogies, however, so far from proving the physical and mental neces- sitv of the custom of taking additional periods of rest from labor, rather refute ct. Night the Sabbath compel an inactivity which ought suffi- ciently to repair the strength impaired by toil without the supplemental aid of vacations not thus imposed by the laws of nature or by those of religion. Un- der the present constitution of things in this country the vast majority of its in- habitants labor only ten hours out of the twenty-four on ordinary week days, resting altogether on the fifty-two Sun- winter, and «i «i THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN a” days and on the dozen more or less holi- Agricultural- more than this during the have long periods of idleness to counter- days established by law. ists, indeed, do special seasons of year, but they balance them. The fact is, | suspect, that people take their summer vacations as they drink intoxicating beverages or smoke tobacco, not because they are necessary to their health, but because they like to Work, to irksome, and idleness a relief if have them. most people, is not a positive pleasure. Any excuse for do- ing nothing where so many are interested in main- taining the validity of that commonly given for a longer or shorter is gladly accepted, and which is vacation during each year, it is useless to question it. observer it does not But to a dispassionate that their own seem there is any reason, except Caprice, why men whose daily efforts consist in sitting in their armchairs or directing the work of others from 8 a. m. to 5 p. m.,withan interval for luncheon, should become so exhausted mentally and phys- ically that they should go abroad or to some watering place for months every year in order to recuperate their enfee- bled energies. The disposition to avoid work upon any plausible pretense is re-enforced also by a desire for amusement on the part of the fair city is not propitious to the gregarious sex. Summer in the entertainments in which they delight, such as balls, receptions, and dinners, and it makes the theater and the opera hot The country summer hotel, and disagreeable. summer cottage and the on the other hand, afford opportunities of winter recreations for a resumption under favorable auspices, and, falling these, a trip to Europe can easily And as and exist solely for more be proved to be indispensable. created the sake of pleasing women, they cannot men were do otherwise than fall in with their wives, their daughters, and their sweet- hearts’ views. A few have the eccen- tricity and the boldness to resist their ake during uf a 1 ~ generally denounced as dictates and to themselves com- fortable at but hardened reprobates and held up as ex- home the summer, they. are amples not to be imitated. Atter all, I that, irrational as it is, the summer stag- nation produced habit is altogether detrimental to human hap- am not prepared to say by the vacation piness. In fact, most of the pleasures of life are everybody was sensible and did only the right thing on all I fear, would be much more stupid than indefensible by reason. — If occasions, the world, it is. Love, ambition, avarice, and all the other dominant passions of human- ity lead to the performance of more foolish without than wise ones, and little, be accomplished. Amusement with tri- fles is childish, yet it Is life would be The wise Solomon has put It upon record deeds yet them if anything, would amusement, and without amusement even less worth living than it is. that he ‘‘commended mirth because a man hath no better thing under the sun than to eat, drink, and be merry.’’ I do not say that he was right, but that was his opinion after many years of experience. MATTHEW MARSHALL. The extra effort the clerk puts forth in his employer’s behalf becomes a reserve fund from which he may reap benefit in the future. Although he may realize his services are not fully compensated just now, yet he is storing up capital which will later be of value to him. REPRESENTATIVE RETAILERS. { | | B. H. King, Senior Member of King & | Co., Grocers. It was Dr. Holmes who says that, to} know a man, we must begin two or three | When, then, I learned | that the grand-parent on born and bred in the North. of generations back. one side was Ireland, and another grand-parent saw sunlight first in the land of the Scot, I knew that behind the with the there was no need. of this FoIng returns in instance, and, privilege of the biographer, from that point, [ go on with the story. Hearing of the and the promises realized there, the Scot land beyond the sea and his Kathleen Mavourneen left the English isles for New England and found a home among the hills of New There in the cradle of the Western World the and, when the time came for the fledg Hampshire. children were born, lings to leave the home nest, one with his mate found his way to the Western Reserve, and at Painesville, Ohio, went on with the New England life which he had brought the old granite hills. There Benjamin Harri- son King was born, a name which meant much then, has meant much may be again as tull of meaning ; with him from since, and for it was given in the days of the Log Cabin campaign in honor of the hero of Old hard the political fad and the successful candi- date for the White Henry Harrison. Tippecanoe, when cider was House was William it is possible that the name has something to do with the lively political times in Benj. H. King has passed a part of life. Joliet, where his For his first twenty-one years a farm, near Painesville, was his home. The rebellion wanted him then, and enlist- ing in the Fifth Wisconsin Battery, he went to the front and = staid there for three years of the war. Leaving the army he went West, railroading here and surveying there for several months along the Platte Kiver; and then, petting enough of a roving life, he turned his steps Eastward towards the Sucker | State, and, in 1867, settled down in Jol- iet. Here he gave his attention to grain, had became in- and for a number of charge In 1880 he years of an elevator. continued In 1894 the city of Joliet was looking around for an Assessor, and fixed on Mr. King. After serving the city in that capacity fora he took in Grand terested in barbed wire, and in that business until 1893. year advantage of a business opening Rapids, where he came early in The business not proving what it prom- Mr. King withdrew from of Sengenberger & Co.,and embarked in the Union street and Fifth avenue under the King « Ce.. confident of a career as long and perous as that which smiled upon him at Joliet. 1895, with his family. ised the firm grocery business at the corner of firm name. of where he is pros- — oe ——— The Policy of Honesty. The value of the your success. As an system in your business is of greatest importance to example of what it means to houses, We Cah mci tion that of a large Boston firm of dry coods that returned an over charge of twenty-five cents to a lady some two weeks after the sale was made. It was a surprise to her, and it can be safely assumed that she will hereafter feel that her interests safe with this house. There is one basis of ultimate success some are in your business career, and that isa systematic course of strict honesty with | your Customers, — BES AGS ea reS eee enero ee A273 Pe oS ee rare ae KAKO EGO CEO GC OC Ges andard Oil Co. DEALERS IN i n3ee i 23 as a Hluminating and Lubricating OILS Naptha and Gasolines Oy, es Sits 3S A 3 SANSA IAS} nT at iis sit SES site ie aS pox Office, Mich. Trust Bldg. Works, Butterworth Ave. Nps i GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. saya 2a ee RY A. BULK WORKS at Grand Rapids, Muskegon, Manistee, Cadillac, Big Rapids, Grand Haven, Traverse City, \llegan, Howard City, Petoskey, Reed City. Ludington, Highest Price paid for Empty Carbon and Gasoline Barrels sre maaat 2s SoughEMss Sap r Be sieeds FER Pes ODER FEUER UCC OOO GATT GEG ESUIAE Senneses HOSS SHS TOE HEBD OO weneoers 3 3 > co C2 > * Sd & Sd Sd > S 2 > + Ca * ra a 4 ¢ a a ¢ e ; — PX (iania e o ; _ gest 3 3 sess paiS ses: 3 ¢ oe . + . S ry - < . . : + 3 Our New Goods are arriving daily. $ : | ee > Our Salesmen will call upon the | rade ¢ soon. Do not place orders until you have seen our beautiful line of Novelties. . ee + > e Ee + - 4 . @ 3 r : 3 : WuorzpurGc JEWELRY Co., $ 3 3 3 GRAND RAPIDS 3 . . 300000000—___—__—_0000000000000¢ 000000009 5, ences a 7 eetaaeoty ete sm terse eat FER SHAR RR PDT SE Re Ie rye Piet ace pyc aa SRA RL Noe wee EE TE 18 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN THE PURE FOOD LAW. Full Text of the Statute Now in Force in this State. The people of the State of That no person shall, manufacture for sel] any article of unit is adulterated within the mean- tis act. The Section 1. Michigan enact, within this State, offer for or which ing of ~~. 2. sale, y | Sale, term food, as used here- in, shall include all articles used for food, drink, or intended to be eaten or drunk by man, whether simple, mixed or compound. Sec. 2 An article shall to be adulterated within the thas act - 1. If any substance or substances have been mixed with it, to lower or depreciate or injuriously affect its qual- or be deemed meaning of SO aS ity, strength or purity. 2. If any inferior or cheaper substance or substances have been substituted wholly or in part for it. s. If any valuable or necessary con- stituent or ingredient has been wholly or in part abstracted from it. oe under the name other article. cr If it consists wholly or it is sold of an- in part of a decomposed, putr ric iL infected, rotten animal or vegetable article, whether manufac- tured or not, or, in the « of milk, if it is the product of a diseased animal. 6. If it is colored, coated, polished or powdered, whereby damage or inferior- diseased, tainted or substance or ase itv isconcealed, or if by any means it is made to appear better or of greater value than it really ts. 7. If it contains any added substance or ingredient which poisonous or in- jurious to health: Provided, That the provisions of this act shall not apply to mixtures compounds recognized ordinary articles or ingredients of arti- food, if each — every package sold or offered for sale be distinctly la- mixtures or vices and are hot injurious to — Sec. 4. No person, by himself or agents or servants, shall manufacture or offer or expose for sale, as butter, and the legitimate product of the dairy creamery, any Les not made exclusively of milk or cream, but into which the oil or fat of animals or any other oils not) produced from milk enters as a Component part, has been introduced to take the place of cream. Whoever violates the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a mis- demeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not less than nor more than $500 and the costs of prosecution or by imprisonment in the county jail, or the State House of Correction and Reform: tory at Ionia for not less than ninety days nor more than two years, by both such fine and im- pr isoument in the discretion of the court for each and every offense. sec. 5 No person shall manufacture, deal in, sell, offer, or expose for sale or exchange, any article or substance in the semblance of, or in imitation of cheese made exclusively of adulterated milk or cream, or both, into which any animal, aaa or offal fats or oils, or melted butter in any condition or state or mod- ification of tl or oleaginous sub- stances of any kind not produced from Ik or cream shall have 1S or as cles ol beled as his for sale or sell, or S50 or iC Same, unadulterated milk been introduced. Whoever shall violate the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be pun- ished by a fine of not less than $50 nor more than $soo and the costs of prose- cution, or by imprisonment in the coun- ty jail or the State House of Correc- tion and) Reformatory at Ionia for not less than ninety days nor more than two years, or by both such fine and im- prisonment in the discretion of the court, for each and every offense. sec. 6. Every manufacturer of full milk cheese may put a brand upon each cheese, indicating ‘‘full milk cheese. and no person shall use such a brand upon any cheese made from milk from which any of the Ser. 7. be missioner shall cheese proper cream has been taken. Dairy and Food Com- procure and issue to the manufacturers of the State, on application, which application ' shall be _— on or before the first di Ly | of October, D. 1895, and on or before the first day a April in each year there- after, and under such regulation as to the custody and use thereof as he may prescribe, a uniform — stencil brand, suitable device or motto and the words “‘Michigan Full Cream Cheese." Every such brand shall be used on the outside of the cheese, and upon the package containing the same, and shall bear a separate number for each separate factory. The said Com- missioner shall keep a book in which shall be registered the name, location and number of each manufactory using the brand, and the name, or names, of persons at each factory authorized to use the same. No such brand shall be used on other than full cream cheese or packages containing the same. The commissioner shall receive a fee of SI for each registration, said fee to be paid by the party applying for the same, which amount shall be accounted for and used as a part of the fund appropri- bearing a ated for the enforcement of the laws of this State with which the Dairy and Food Commissioner is charged. Sec. 8. -No person shall knowingly offer, sell, or expose for sale, in any package, cheese which is falsely brand- ed or labeled. Sec. 9. No person shall within this State manufacture for sale, have in his possession with intent to. sell, offer or expose for sale, or sell as lard, any sub- stance not the legitimate and exclusive product of the fat of the hog. Sec. 10. Every person wi » manufac- tures for sale, intent to sell, offers or exposes for sale, or sells, any substance made in the sem- blance of lard, or an imitation of lard, and which consists of any mixture or compound of animal or vegetable fats, other than hog fat, in the form of lard, shall cause-the tierce, bar- rel, tub, pail or package containing the same to be distinctly and legibly brand- ed or labeled ‘* Lard Substitute or Com- pound, ’’ and every person who manu- factures for sale, has has in his possession with as oils, or in his possession with intent to sell, offers or exposes for sale, or sells, yz! substance made. in wx semblance of lard or as an imitation f lard, or as a substitute for lard, and — is designed to take the place of lard and which consists of any mixture or compound of lard with animal or veg- etable oils or fats, shall cause the tierce, barrel, tub, pail or package containing the same to be distinctly and legibly branded or labeled either ** Adulterated lan, $Lard Vompound, or Lard Substitute.’’ Such brands or labels shall be in letters not less than one inch in length and shall be followed with the name of the maker and factory, and the location of such factory. sec. 11. Ewery dealer or trader who, by himself or agent, or as the servant or agent of another person, offers or ex- poses for sale, or sells, any form of lard substitute or adulterated lard as herein- before defined, shall securely affix or cause to be affixed to the package where- in the same is contained, offered for sale or sold, label, upon the outside and face of which is distinctly and leg- ibly printed in letters not less than one- half inch in length, the words, ‘‘ Lard Substitute, ”’ *Adulterated Lard,’’ or ** Lard Compound,’’ or other appro- priate words which shall correctly ex- press its nature and use. r Sec. The having in possession of any lard substitute or adulterated lard or lard substitute or adulterated lard or lard compound, as hereinbefore defined, which is not branded or labeled as here- inbefore required and. directed, upon the part of any dealer or trader, or any person engaged in the public. sale of such articl es, shall for the purposes of this act be deemed prima facie evidence of intent to sell the same. sec. 13. No person, firm or corpora- tion in this State shall manufacture for sale, or sell, or offer or expose for sale, as fruit jelly, or fruit butter, any jelly or imitation fruit butter or other simi- lar compound made or composed in whole or in part of glucose, dextrine, starch or other substances, and colored in imitation of fruit jelly, or fruit butter or iz. [CONTINUED ON PAGE TWENTY] Se ae 20a Grand Rapids .... brush Co. MANUFACTURERS OF BRUSHES Our Goods are sold by all Miehigan Jo’ bing Houses, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. —— _-- score LCN LL TLL LLL LLL LALLA LL EL HORORSRORORORORORCHORORORORCHORCHOROHOROHOROHOCHOROHO J T. MURPHY, [lanufacturer : Be FIXTURES oi FURNITURE § s 99 N. lonia Street, Grand | a Buy Phillips’ Show = Cases SHOW CASES, STORE FIXTURES, Etc. J. PHILLIPS & CO., Detroit, Mich. ESTABLISHED 1864. WRITE FOR PRICES ON ANY SHOWCASE NEEDED 55,57, 59, 61 Canal St. GRAND RAPIDS NEW CIGAR SHOWCASE. MOROCROROCROHOROROROROROKFORORORORORORORROROROOCHOHOROHOE plson- Matter Furniture Company MAKERS OF FURNITURE FOR CITY AND COUNTRY HOMES 33-35-37-39 Canal St., GRAND RAPIDS Doll FUTMILUTE al Retall— Bedroom Suites, Sideboards, Chairs, Tables, Chiffoniers, Couches and Lounges, Upholstered Parlor Furniture, lLace Curtains and Drapery Silks. Correspondence and orders by mail solicited. NELSON-MATTER FURN. CO., Grand Rapids Bookcases, ~~ enmanenp neni THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 1¢ ~~ IYvvrvnvovodvevovononoveDunononDonaDeHnnenanonenaDinonnenveDnneDnNOnNNDs Mlajor’s Cement ESTABLISHED 1876. REGISTERED TRADE [MARK No. 17,570. —1 $909 000660600009 2 TWO MEDALS awarded at the World’s Columbian Exposition. Universally acknowledged to be the — and — —— ever of- fered to the public = = For Repairing China, Glassware, Furniture, Meerschaum, Vases, Books, Leather Belting, Tipping Billiard Cues, etc. TRADE MARK. \n ordinary plate broken in two and mended with MAJOR’'S CEME NT held a stone weighing 300 pounds during the World's Columbian Exhibition at Chicago, 1898. It’s the Sore Finger isa omy ee fat ea JOR’S CEMENT and put on a bandage like this: Sh 208 CAM On Stee p, work and was h your hands. This bandag roteets and allows the sore to heal rapidly. FOR OBSTINATE RUNNING SORES, use a bandage with ab- sorbent cotton, like this: SSS OO PRICE LIST. Majors Cement, '¢ oz. size, 15 cents...._. pér gro. $12 oo Majors Cement, 1 oz. Size, 25 cents......per sro. 18 oo Major's Best Liquid Glue, 1 0z. size, to cts.per gro. 9 60 MAJOR’S LEATHER CEMENT costs 15 cents Major's Leather Cement, I 02. size, 15 cts., per gro. 12 00 a bottle, and with it ‘invisible’ patches can be Major's Leather Cement, 2 OZ. Size, 20 CtS., per gro. 18 OO so prolonging their wear. Worth Major's Rubber Cement, 2 02. size, 15 cts., per gro. 12 00 eS ee put on shor ) the price, if you only use it once at. @ A fine 4 ft. Thermometer, Folding Chair, Out-Door S : ee r Showcase Box and Tumbler, given away with Handled by Wholesale Druggists. >'')° ge 4 MAJOR’S RUBBER CEMENT, for repairing ni . fi i & small orders. Write for particulars. Rubber Boots, Shoes, Rubber Garments B The above Cements for sale J If you handle Major's Cement and haven't a Showcase evele ih be SD ee il aa lew dealers all around the earth, or by Box and wish one, we will send you, expressage prepaid, material. Price 15 cents per bottle. Yi yu can also repair all kinds of garments and umbrellas mail at the same price. the Box, also a Tumbler. of different material in the same way A. MAJOR CEMENT GO., bl Pell ol Or Pak ROM REM YORK GI se TITNNTTYETENTTETYTETTETTERTTOTTYETTOEYYSTTEYERYSTEEYEESTTOYRRETRTTETT TESTED ET TTTTTTTT TT TTTYPPTY Ez iANUibJAGAAALANAALAAAOAUUGAbAAAALAALAuLudasutsususidiaivasaui THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN THE PURE FOOD LAW. fine and imprisonment in the discretion] severe electric shock. The ex-alder-| Unprecedented Cheap Excursions to CONCLUDED FROM PAGE EIGHTEEEN jot the court. man was wetting down his lawn with Niagara Falls. . : : | Sec. 20. It shall be the duty of the all any such jelly, fruit butter} . Da a4 ee ae the garden hose when he suddenly be- The Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwau- j airy alt * OOK om sskt ( > ‘ 4 nor sl mpound be manufactured, or sold, | Gate to investigate all complaints of vi- | Came possessed to ‘*shoot’’ at the elec-| kee Railway will tender its patrons one ( or offered for sale under any name. or or « olations of this act, and take all steps|tric trolley wire, and he would have] of the finest and cheapest excursions to designation whate ver the same necessary to its enforcement. It shall] qone it but for the timely arrival of the] Niagara Falls given for years. It has shall be composed entirely of In¢gredi- ‘ ae a racer ne S menial F io ia : : . a i = ig Sern aa “a nd si all be the duty of all prosecuting officers of lineman, who advised him not to. Since} long been the wish of its patrons to give Be a ame Sat’ | this State to prosecute to completion all ; ;-| them an opportunity to visit the grand- ; not be colored in imitation of fruit jelly, | cuits brought under the provisions of | then i eek coe: Hae | ‘1d h I] i key ee) eal | i ng i : : : : . a on » world at a rate that ; = and every can, pail or package of sue") this act upon the complaint of the com-]ties in electrical matters, and they all] 6st scene int wate at a ae eo 2 I] r bu vt fi le 1 thi ) _ sh; : : “4 . " il en i } i on st ave ‘ jelly or butter sol | tn this ofate | hall be | missioner or of any citizen. It shall be tell him that it is a dangerous thine to] ©?" afford, and to this end they have : distinctly and durably labeled * Imita- ee at g { ; named Wednesday, August 14, for the tion Fruit Jelly or Butter’’ with the] i, examine all complaints made to them play with. While it is not absolutely great event. Tickets will be valid to SS oe et ere ore tee PCE lof violation of thes act, amd te eemiber |Cettain Gat a pt rson_ throwing water on| return up to and ine luding Tuesday, where made. Whoever violates the pro-] assistance in « nforcing its provisions. an electric wire from a garden hose} August 20.. This will give an opportu- visions of this section shall be deemed] q¢ shall also be the duty of all health nity to visit relatives and friends, and i a would get a shock, the electricians say [ Bey OF 2 MRSGeRCAROT, 20 CR CO a eer Gad se : : ne -|also the great cataract and scenery of they don’t care to try it. The stream of victed thereof, shall be punished by a}townships to take cognizance of and Niagara Falls. For this occasion re- fine of not less than $50 nor more than report or prosecute all violations of this|water and the nickel faucet make an ex- duced rates will be made at hotels and “GE srl ig ee in the county | act that may be brought to their notice} cellent conductor, and the probabilities os of — — = gene ha el jail or State ouse of Correction and - they may have cognizance of. w . : i rain will leave ran¢ \apids at fF _/ > S 12 Saree game 1 they = have cognizance of, within} J+ that the person who aims such a gun é . afggsine asap at ae Falls anc crormatory < ah Y — oT eneir Mirisriction. ‘ . » « 2 \lagare aus ¢ E ninety days nor more than two vears, or Sec. 21. All acts and parts of acts} the trolley will wish he hadn’t. 7.30 p.. m. For time of train from other Dy DOT SCR TRE 2nd TOAD ISONI Cee ee ire hereby He. —_—- stations make inquiries of all agents D., q the discretion of the court. nealed / A new law in Pennsylvania provides] G. H. & M. R’y. a : : i i t : / i a - i f Hc HEE - ye 2c rj > © : Sec. 14. No packer or dealer in pre- Approved, May 22, 1895. that all typewriting heretofore executed, The following low —_ will be made a ee ee o : ae i Le : : a is 4 served or canned ruit and vegetable : —_—<- - - and all which may hereafter be done, for —- sep aitinnytosaonneg ae 4 or other atticies Of food, Shall sell or Those who have hosepipes and hy- es Ce CL Lo. Grand Haven to Berlin inclusive. ..%6 5 . Ser for sale such canned articles, un- |; iho ian, Y-|for any purpose whatever, shall have Grand Rapids to Muir inclusive... 6 00 a : : olan ee ee oe drant water should not feel funny enough | the same legal force and effect as ordin- Pewamo to Ovid inelusive........... 5 50 3 less such article hall be entire free - ca oc : i ee oT e bs ce ee anes eg Cem to want to throw a stream on a trolley| ary writing, and that the word “’ writ- Owossv to Royal Oak inclusive...... 5 00 bs from substances or ingredients deleteri- | 00 Wan LD ML id " |ing’’ occurring in the laws of the State For particulars and other information ft us to health, anc nless such irticles irc. nil all an ex-aiderman } } ' i a. i . tl : —o —e " ee ee ee OWDE EE MATIN AEE EXSMCONMET TST Shall be held to include typewriting. | ask all agents of this company or ad- “ 29ar : “a7 st: rate? « a i aS ‘ i Bini ie cg i S z oo oe i : _o- i oS Po bear a mark, stamp, brand or label/ under obligations to an electric light] This is the first state which has thus le-| dress Ben Fletcher, Trav. Pass. Agent, a bearing the name and address OT ThE} iineman for saving him from a_ very galized the work of the typewriter. Detroit, Mich. firm, person or corporation that packs 5 the same. All ‘“‘soaked or bleached me shghisiesta retin verauratimn goods’ or goods put up from products dried before canning, shall be plainly marked, branded, stamped or labeled as such, with the words **‘Soaked or Bleach- ° ed Goods”* in letters not less than two- line pica in size, showing the name of the ¢ le and the name and address of the packer. Sec. 15. No person shall manufacture or sell, or offer for sale, anv manufac- ’ : e s tured tal coffeeberry im imita- | : % tn the nate: bey Sper of the United States of America 3 shall . sell or offer for sale. j any ground or prepared coffee, which is adulterated with chicerv or other sub ‘alth, unless To se ge Stik lucid Uae dicsiae’ eee cn Sad Batt De CSCC ty HENRY KOCH, your clerks, attorneys, ager le i stances not inyurious to } ed or marked ** Coffee Compound, ’ 4) 6 om her with Hie mame onl ee ai satesmenm and workmen, and all claiming or the manufacturer or Ccompounder there- holding through or under you, of. GREETING: Sec. 16. No person shall within this ; / | State manufacture, brew, distill, have or i tfer fo sale r sell any rity Is r ¢ cas : . . : : : : t Pa ve ci i ae oe oe ra i C 3 it has been represented to us in our Circuit Court of the United States for the District of ‘ fermented Or mait 11Quors, Contamming ay any substance or ingredient not normal ; or healthful to exist in spirituous, fer- New Jersey, in the Third Circuit, on the part of the ENOCH MORGAN’S SONS COMPANY, Complainant, that mented or malt liquors, or which may it has lately exhibited its said Bill of Complaint in our said Circuit Court of the United States for the District be deleterious or detrimental to health of New Jersey, against you, the said HENRY KOCH, Defendant, to be relieved touching the matters therein when such liquors are used as a bever-| complained of, and that the said arc. ; Sec. 17. The taking of orders, of the | pats ENOCH MORGAN'S SONS COMPANY any person, firm or corporation, or by 9 any agent or representative thereof, for the future delivery of any of the arti- ] Complainant, is entitled to the exclusive use of the designation ‘‘SAPOLIO” as a trade-mark for scouring soap. cies, produc ts, goods, wares or merchan dise embraced within the provisions of ' this act, shall be deemed a sale within Wow € ere ore j the meaning of this act. 3 3 we do strictly command and perpetually enjoin you, the said HENRY i Sec. 18. Whoever shall falsely brand, 2 é mark, stencil or label any article or pro- KOCH, your clerks, attorneys, agents, salesmen and workmen, and all claiming or holding through or under you, duct required by this act to be branded, vader the pains and penalties which may fall upon _you_ and each of you in case of disobedience, that you do marked, stenciled or labeled, or shall ae ° os : sone ia es bie phere absolutely desist and refrain from in any manner unlawfully using the word ‘‘SAPOLIO,” or any word or words ate, imitate or counterfeit. any brand. substantially similar thereto in sound or appearance, in connection with the manufacture or sale of any scouring mark, stencil or label so required, shall soap not made or produced by or for the Complainant, and from directly, or indirectly, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be pun- i i oe . c a e es e ished by a tine of not less than S1oo nor B W a f th th ll rn a l more than S1,000 and the costs of prose- y or 0 mou or 0 erwilse, se ing or e ivering as cution, or by imprisonment in the coun- i tv jail or State House of Correction and 66 SAPO] 10 99 h 66 SAPO] 10 77 k d f Reformatory at Ionia for not less than | 9 or W en 1S as e or, six months nor more than three years, or by both such fine and imprisonment | : i : l ' in the discretion of the court for each | that which is not Complainant’s said manufacture, and from in any way using the word ‘‘SAPOLIO” in any and every offense. | false or misleading manner. Sec. 19. Whoever shall do any of the | wase acts or things prohibited, or willfully | avitness neglect or refuse to do any of the acts | . 9 The honorable MeLvitte W. Futier, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the or things enjoined by this act, or in any | United Sta*es of America, at the City of Trenton, in said District of New av violate anv of the risions, shal . : way Violate any of the provisions, shall | Jersey, this 16th day of December, in the year of our Lord, one thousand be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and | . ; Seine ei orale ee eight hundred and ninety-two. where no specinc penalty 1s prescribed i 7 a ee a at ae et [SEAL] [SIGNED] by this act shall be punishec ”y a fine] S. D. OLIPHANT ‘\ of not less than $100 or more than $500, | r r Ts ee : or by imprisonment in the county jail | Clera for a period of not less than thirty nor | ROWLAND COX, more than ninety days, or by both such! Complainant's Solicitor = Rann ene via ie MAE MSY Eb a bid i iS - 3 r ae ae s 4 3 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 21 Clerks’ Corner things which I can commend you for, but no well-balanced young man can endure the embarrassment which comes from having one’s virtues brought out before all the rest of the fellows, no more than he likes to be ‘swiped in the neck’’ before them all. For that reason, suppose we go for that other fellow this morning. He has beef: hav- ing it his own way altogether too long; and that, as everybody knows," is liable to stretch the hat band. It will be per- fectly safe for everyone of you to listen to this, because it is about a boy who lived in the time of your great grand- father. His name was James. He was both of poor but pious parents, who brought him up with the idea that he must learn to depend on himself and earn his own living. As we say, nowa- days, he *‘caught on’’ early and went at it. When he was 12 years old, he made up his mind that too much learning is a dangerous thing. It takes away a boy’s originality to spend too much time pour- ing over readin’ ritin’ n’ rithmetic. What he needs isto **haul off your coat, boys, and roll up your sleeves’? and pitch right in. He did. He left home early, and school earlier. To be per- fectly candid about it, the ° ‘folks’? didn't know when he left. He went to the city and found a place in a grocery store. After he had been there six months or so, he began to wonder if it was not about time to be getting more than board and clothes; and, one day, when the work had been unusually hard, he ventured to ask the man of the house to do a little better by him. Tut! tut !’’ was the answer; *‘ young man, you shouldn't quarrel with your bread and butter !’’ There was not anything comforting in that, and James felt called upon to resent it, aS any enterprising, hustling fellow ought to do. He **soured’’ on everybody and everything. Then he growled, un- til it was positively dangerous to ask him to do the slightest thing. Then it was noticeable that the endl did not do its duty; and, when it got through its half-finished work in the morning the stupid thing would throw itself into a corner and trip up the unwary who passed that way. This sort of thing went on for three or four weeks nowa- days they would have fired him before sunset-—-and, finally, the head clerk, a big two-fisted fellow, as stout as an ox, having almost broken his neck over the broom handle, took James by the neck and brought him up against the side of the store, with a bang. It won’t make any difference about what immediately followed; but, after James had meekly and submissively picked up the hammer and the scale weights and the offending broom, and several other objects which, like riches, sometimes take to themselves wings and fly, this is what that big clown of an ox said to him: ‘‘Now, young man, I’ve just one thing to say to you: We don’t want any more of your nonsense. This work is to be done and you’re going to do it, and you'll do it without pouting or you’ll have something to pout for. You are troubled about your pay. You don’t seem to know that you are now | : | .| were otherwise, you seem to forget tha Yes, boys, there are any number of | ’ —_— “getting more than you are worth, or will ITIP VOPSTPe Nn HOST POPNeP nr seT etre erer rete SIP trEz be, for some time to come: but that’s the way the matter stands. Even if it there is a bargain which you are expect- TWINS ew -~— ~aEE™ ee - PURITY and QUALITY are the twin characteristics of our products. ed to live up to; and, if you were earn- ing ten times more than you get, it is no more than you ought to do. You’d be a pretty potato vine, wouldn’t you, to turn out three or four little warts ot things and, if there was the sign of an- other, turn yellow and dry up because that was more than you bargained for. SHEeNe They Please and Satisfy the Consumer and pay the Dealer a profit. That isn’t the way to tind favor with the farmer. Nota bit of it. A hill of pota- toes was what the bargain was, when he prepared the ground for you and covered you up. A hill of potatoes 15S what the sun said, day after day, as it greeted you in a moming. Potatoes,’ whis- pered the rain, and the dew; a ‘hill of potatoes, indeed, repeated the tarmer when, in the fall, he tilled a half bushel of tubers which, in size and quality, — gE ess THE PUTNAYT GANDY C0. GRAND RAPIDS LAAN ANN AUAANAG Abb dOUA4444 468444440 400400444448 408 40044440 0 ddd dd so tickled at what you have done. that oT were unsurpassed. That’s your model, young man--a potato and, when you me have filled your half-bushel, never you | SAUVIPUUenreeeserernue atenee serene or nnnnee saneenner sinner strttr a fear about the rest. Vhe farmer will be there will be nothing too good for you. So, then, as long as you have made up your mind to be a potato, be the best of your kind. Early and late be at it, with never a thought of over-doing, or dropping the potato idea. Earn as many times your salary as you can. Never overrate your ability. Let your work speak for you and remember that he who does his best irrespective of salary is the man, after all, who succeeds, and the only one who ever earns whatever salary he gets.’ James was sore in body and mind for several days after that; but he got over it and then went to work ; and his chil- dren’s children have been heard to say that the wealth which has been handed down to them was the result of the ad- vice which their great-grandfather re- BUSINESS WHEELS ceived a hundred years ago, and put at LIGHT ROADSTERS once into practice. LADIES’ WHEELS UNCLE Bos. ene A High Grade Machi Built on Mechanical cre ples. Prices Right. Immedi- Phe man who is continually allowing ate Shy mment. Dealers, write for discounts. sea eet Aner or of oe) BY GL OD GL OD, 488 S. Division $1, Grand Rapids Stnennrnrerenrenrnerrerennrneeernereernnr err Stop! AND READ. Make no contracts for 1895 until we call or you write us about Portland and Swell Body Cutters Belknap, Baker & Co. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. MULAbb dN Abb dbh shh bk bk sb bk shh bk bk shh bk bk dk bk dkkdbk bk shh bk bk shh db dbb bb ddd dba db dba cba ddd dea dbaddadbad 5] SUANLALNbbdbbdbe bh dbhdbedbedbadbedbedbbdbbdbb dba dba cde dbeddb dba \ COCO OSee>- --ceOOGOSeee- --coeOOeese:- SINT TEPNRTNT STANT SEVENTEEN NTE HORNET VERNER STENT NTT ATONE ‘ bE: i ' ") Ne a THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Shoes and Leather Cee eee ee ee acu cil alan mn Difficulties With Which the Shoe Clerk Has To Contend. ‘* What size, please; twos?’’ He knew, the hypocrite, that she couldn't wear three C to save her life. ‘Well, I want them plenty big enough ; perhaps you had better try threes.’’ So Mr. Hypocrite walked away and brought a pair of fours, and they just ft. He thought they would, because he had been in the business a long time, and could tell at a glance pretty nearly what size of a shoe a customer wanted. The young woman was. delighted. She thought she was wearing threes, although she knew her last pair was a size larger. ‘There are tricks in all trades except ours,’”’ said the salesman, as he noticed the twinkle in the eyes of aman who watched the episode. The latter really had no business in the woman’s depart- ment, except that he was waiting for his wife to buy a pair of shoes. ‘Il suppose you have some customers?’’ was asked. ‘“Do we! said he, and then contin- ued confidentially: **! more people are odd about shoe-buying than anything else in the world. The man or woman who comes in here knows what she wants, takes it and pays our price for curious believe he or it without wrangling, scarce that he or she is the greatest cu- riosity of them all.” At this moment a messenger boy saun- tered in with a letter in his hand. The Is so salesman took the note to the office and soon came back with a smile on his lace. ‘| Here's a sample,’ said he, as he showed me the letter. It read: ‘*Dear Sir—Kuindly send per messen- +r boy one pair of shoes to tit the in- osed foot, and oblige, Mrs. Korruns.’’ The ‘‘inclosed foot’? was drawn upon a sheet of paper made by tracing the outlines of her foot. ‘*Now, that woman will doubtless be surprised if we don't ft hertoa 7,7’ said the salesman. “Yet 1 haven’t the faintest idea whether she has a high instep or a low one; whether she wants Oxford button boots, or how much she wants to pay for them. She inclosed $5, but whether she expects change or not 1s a question. “What are you going to do about it?”’ ‘Well, from the dainty shape of the o Cc t l ties or foot as shown here | guess she has a high instep. If that is the case she has a pretty foot, so for a second guess | should imagine she wants low-cut shoes, as they display the foot and ankle to the best advantage. Thirdly, a woman with a pretty foot always wants a fine shoe, so I guess I'll risk the whole of the ll Chat sounded pretty shrewd, and he laughingly said some time afterwards that he had just hit it. ‘*See that girl over there?’” continued ine salesman. [I could what kind of shoes she wants without half try- ing. She wants a square toe lace shoe, of good material, yet very serviceable. You can tell that from her style of dress, and the her face. Of course, the kind of shoe that a customer wears is a great assistance to us in suit- ing them. Most people like pretty near- ly the same thing every time, and gen- erally about the same price. With a large stock like ours it would be a hard thing to suit people unless we made up our minds what they want beforehand. Now, here’s a woman we won't be able to suit. I'll consider myself lucky if I sell her anything.’ The salesman’s conversation with this customer was something like this: ‘‘Is there anything I can do for you to-day, madam?’’ ‘‘T don’t know. I thought I’d drop in and see if you had anything to suit me.” ‘‘About what price would you like?’’ ‘I don’t know. a cheap shoe, either.’ So the salesman picked out a good razor-toe shoe of the most. stylish pat- tern. She eyed it dubiously. ‘“Is this the latest style?’’ she asked. ' Phe very latest,’’ was the reply. It is very much worn. now.’’ fuess expression ol |'me folks wear things like these. |pair of shoes exactly Not too high and not | ‘It doesn’t seem to be as pointed as Clara’s.’’ The salesman mentally won- dered what kind of feet Clara had, for this shoe was ultra-pointed and looked like a needle. ‘*T think it is the most pointed shoe made, said he. So the customer con- descended to try it on. Of course, it was too small for her. She _ insisted, however, that it was her size. ‘But it looks so big. Goodness, | feel as though it was a foot long.”’ The salesman explained that the extra length that was not observed, because of the narrow width. ‘A narrow shoe,’’ he said, © makes one’s foot look small, even if it is very long. As you have naturally small feet, this style of shoe ought to be very be- coming to you.”’ This flattered her a bit, but she was not altogether convinced. ‘*T can show you something very sty- lish and a little less pointed than this that would be smaller,’’ suggested the salesman. So he brought out half a dozen different kinds of shoes, and one by one she tried them on. "| think these black shoes. russets are prettier than Let me see what you have in russets.”’ So he pulled down box after box of shoes and tried on everything he showed her. Finally she returned to the first one he showed her. ‘**How much is this one?’’ she asked. Dix dollars.” ‘*Clara only paid $5.90 for hers, and I’m sure her’s are more pointed. | guess I’d better see her’s again before | buy any. Hi So without even thanking the sales- man for all his trouble, she walked out. ‘Fat women are the bane of our life, ”’ said the long-suffering one as he re- turned without even saying, **I told you so,’ about the customer who had just leit. ‘**Why so?’’ ‘They always want small and narrow whereas we are lucky if we have anything wide enough for them that can button around their ankles. See that salesman over there, trying to suit that stout customer? He's red in the tace trving to get a shoe on ker that he knows is much too small, but which she insists is just her size ‘‘after it gets on once.”’ } Snoes, ‘Do the majority of people want shoes too small for them?”’ Of women, yes. But there are a great many who want them too large. Chey are easier to suit, but we usually have trouble with them after they have the three or four weeks. Loose shoes, you know, make sore heels. Vhey rub against them because of the and then com¢s complaint. They lose their shape, too, very quick- ly, and are inclined to ‘wobble’ on one side. When shoes are too loose they are just as likely to cause corns as when too tight. ' ‘* But all of our troublesome customers are not women. not by any means, There’s that dude over in the other side. He?ll give as much trouble as any wo- man alive. He can’t make up his mind what he wants, yet I’ll bet high I can pick out exactly the shoe he will finally decide upon. He’ll take a razor-toe as sharp as possible. It will hurt his teet and cramp them all out of shape, but he don’t care for that. He’s a martyr to fashion and will suffer torture simply to be in style. Yet I imagine that if he had a mild toothache he would cry al- most from the pain. ‘Contrast him with that fellow from the country over there. He wants the biggest and clumsiest and most wearable shoe in the place. ‘*Show him one of the razor-toes and he'll say: “Sho! You don’t mean to tell My worl shoes looseness 9 99 laws, how do they get in ‘em? ‘“There’s a man who always buys two alike. He has to change his shoes every day, because of perspiration. He may not know it, but those two pairs will last him longer {than three pairs would worn every day. | Every man ought to change his shoes every day, because of perspiration. It’s better for his health and his pocket- | book. Owing to the Great Advance in Leather, Boots and Shoes are necessarily much advanced in price. KEEDER 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. 5 and 7 North toria Si. Grand Ror ids Agents for the BOSTON RUBBER SHOE CO.’S GOODS RINDGE, KALMBACH i G0. 12, 14 and 16 Pearl Street Manufacturers and Jobbers of Boots ana Shoes We make the best line of Medium Priced Goods in the LINDEN market. You can improve your trade by handling our goods. NEEDLE TOE. BORCHOROROROHOHOHORORORORORORORORNOROROROROROHROHOOHORE a GOVE = RUDDETS | Are the Best. r. Hirth,Krause & Co. We Carry a Large Stock. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Hononoucnononoyonenenonononcncnononononcnononencnene HEROLD - BERTSCH SHOE Co. Manufacturers and Wholesale Dealers in BOOTS, SHOES & RUBBERS 5 and 7 Pearl Street GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN SHOE AENIS WALES-GOOBYEAR 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. ie AR f ‘ ' £ é k ee eared taakes ore eisai ee ih BARA ESA CDE HEP ste SO A te a MR. PALMER’S LONG REST. There was triumph, tinged somewhat with regret, in. Palmer’s voice when he said, while we were shaking hands: his is my last trip, Mr. M., and I want a nice order from you.’’ ‘Your last trip! I suppose | ought to congratulate you, but I shall be sorry to miss your regular calls. I remember the first time you came to see us.’’ ‘* That was just twenty-five years ago, Mr. M., and there are few men in busi- ness to-day that | met then. But I have looking towards settle long been working and the time when | could down at home again and have a long rest. There are some pleasant things about my work, but it is hard, and it takes me away months out of the l am getting old, Mr. M.’’ Ves, ne had passed the three-score line a few years since, and looking at the man before me, | tried to from my home. ten twelve. ‘was. He recall him as | saw him enter the store where I was at work a quarter of a cen- tury before. He wasatype of the class of best traveling salesmen—genial, devoted to the interests of his house (one of the largest concerns in Connecticut), hon- orable in every detail with his cus- tomers, generous with all his competitors, and a favorite with all who knew him. Had you met him on the street or on the cars, where he spent so large a part of his time, you would never have classi- fied him asa ‘drummer.’ He was not obtrusive, he did not tell ** LF ul stories, a he did not want the earth. He sood salesman because he quickly won Was a the respect of those whose business he sought, and they soon learned that his word was as good as gold. Phere springs up a warm friendship better Che shrewd in trade between buyers and the class of traveling salesmen. merchant knows that it is decidedly to his interest to have the good will of these men, and in securing this a friend- ship grows that is a pleasant part of business life. When re glad to put business aside for a mo- these salesmen call on us they ment; perhaps to show us the picture of a new baby: or the latest) photograph of , | | a daughter: or to unbosom themselves of their worry over an invalid at home. They tell us of their hopes and of their plans. Of hopes that look towards their becoming a member of the firm; oF Of their opening a house of their own. Of plans that contemplate a season of leis- ure after they have acquired a compe- tency for their later years. If hope was taken out of life, the world would be but a prison cell. Yet Ht is pitiful that so large a part of our lives and our thoughts is given for the future that may or May not ever come tO wus. We bread, but we long for the coming of the offer Everything points to the wisdom pray for this day’s daily to-morrow that shall us cake and wine. of enjoying the present hour, except the philosophy that grapples our thoughts and bids us deny ourselves of some pleasure to-day that we may take keener enjoyment when testing it a year hence. So we wait. But Palmer’s to-morrow had at last | reached him, and he was ready tor his | pleasure. ‘Vou will be very lonesome, ’’ I said, What do you intend doing with yourself?”’ ‘‘when you stop work. your THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 23 ‘I have one of the prettiest places in Connecticut, be said: —{ have been fixing it up, and paying the bills for the last ten years, and now it is in apple- pie order—-fifty acres of the finest land in the State, slopes from the main road back to the Connecticut river; a perfect garden.* And I’ve got are all up to date.’ ‘So you are going to farm?”’ ‘I’m going to play farming. I have some money in stocks, and | shall not go hungry, even if farming don’t pay. it stocked with | some*fine Jerseys, while my buildings | Say, I want you to promise me that if | you ever_come out that way you'll come and see me.’ He said this so earnestly, | looked at } him and saw that he meant it. °'Cer- tainly, | will go and see_you,’’ I said: ‘‘T dislike the idea of your leaving the | road. upon us whose history goes back to my first When next 1 am East | will drop inatthe farm beginning, as does yours. and test your Jersey butter.”’ We devoted ourselves to what business There are very few men who call | we had to do, and as he bade me good- | bye, he said, again : ‘*Now, don’t you forget me when you are down in my country. I know I shall | : : | have rather a hard time getting used to | my new life, but the bright spot will be | a visit from some of my old friends. I thought [| should feel happier when the | time came for me to give up traveling | but I realize that it is also the last time | 1 that I shall see a good many ol my | friends. But.”’ and his face bright-| ened, ‘‘we can’t have everything in this world, and | feel that | have earned a long rest.’’ | | | thought of him frequently in the | next few months. | pictured him among his green fields and his Jerseys, | and I was glad that he had been able to | realize his dreams. Some three or that | mito months after New rose up preparing to go Palmer’s face at once befor > me, and I determined that | would stop over one train and say *‘ howdy.’ I met a mutual friend in the New Ha- ven depot, and [ said to him: ““I'm goime to over a train to shake with old have you stop hands man Palmer; seen him since he quit the road?’’ He glanced at me **Haven't morning’s Courier?”’ Neg: ‘*Ves- when his daughter called him with surprise. vou seen the item in this is it about Palmer?’’ yesterday morning he did not answer, and tried to later, she could not when she awaken him, he was dead.”’ that ist | ‘*Here he has been saving and scrimp- ‘“*Oh, how cruel cried. ing for years to enable himself to enjoy his last years here, and just as he en- taken He was so happy, as he told me ters upon his pleasures, he is away. a few months ago, that he was going to have a long rest.’’ Wel ‘don't you friend, speaking think that is j what God is going to give him?’’ We. H. MAHER. —>——_ said my just softly, It looks as if ready to take advantage of England were getting extra har- ivesting there may be on this side of salt water. With the exception of hops, the crops are reported to be far below what they were at this time last year. | four | was in New York, | England. ee Raa ne aie di i ae ae a ais aL meee = 009 OOO0S 09690909 © ies ee Hold Your Nose To the grindstone, if you want to, but if you would rather straighten up and move through this world with less wear and tear and more money in your pocket, “' Lily White Flour Note the following Pointers! This Flour is always the same. People always want more of It. Where they buy Ilour they buy Groceries. $9OOOO4OOOOOOOOOFOOOOOOO = 9 OOOOOSS 49OOSOSO SOOO OO% | Pleased customers are good ad- vertisers. Varley Gity Jiting Go SOLE MANUFACTURERS 2AND RAPIDS, MiIcu. — G aie pe = 9OOOOO9O99OOOOO8 Site VANILLA WAFERS GINGER VANILLAS GINGER WAFERS = Be Progressive! 9 = a 4 =| Are YOU... 5 Y Handling our Crackers and o | and Sweet Goods? = . PURITY, QUALITY and be FRESHNESS make the finest |= < line in the world to select from. |Z _| Making Money " Z Will be comparatively easy if |Z S you push our goods. Liberal |4 A profits and quick sales will be 5 q yours. Customers buying once S will come again. ‘Try, and be |= ~ convinced. a 2) Selling b “| Crackers Is a very easy matter if you sell |# = the kind the people want. F = and Cakes Our aim is to produce the best. |2 " Only the choicest Creamery |- sutter,the purest,sweetest Lard, |% sh the finest Patent Flour and the |¢ - richest Molasses enter our pro- |= is ducts. 5. Ol} We make a Specialty of SUMMER DELICACIES. i =| THE NEW YORK BISCUIT CO. |: S Successors to WM. SEARS & CO. Z a Grand Rapids, Michigan. F VANILLA SQUARES. MOONGER ONAL an IMPERIALS BE Poms monger danny eRe ete no ena RR slp THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Disadvantages of Tactless Salesmen. | **l like to trade at Blank & Co. cause Charley Smith clerks there,’’ or] ‘I don’t like to trade at Blank & Co.’s because Char ley Smith clerks there. Such expressions have been used in our presence the past few days, and so em- phatic were they that we could not. fail to note that the parties using thet mined by the their place of trading ler when in , y Gerem who met them Retailer, do you Cierks those t \l, | ‘ SEOTCS. vel. BHnOW, as ought, whether your clerks are liked your trade: The fact is well known all merchants that” patrons are at- tracted or driven away in no de sree by their help, but not every mer- Chant watches this matter as he should. Inquiry Concerning likes dislikes average reason: Ele is } - { } t qdoor aft the stor { nd his tirst salutation show vou?’ The Strong aversion t« a practice ti S common The sales » more t than for your ploy, and the sooner you. crowd him out. the better tor your own welfare. We desire to call your attention to this mistake of so many clerks, not so much to direct you itte Ole Cerro iS i CMipnas Lid Wwe core ] Vou i tow Ln ’t have the ge of their clerks aqomye, which they they ought. Many Le ' : toOHars and Customers are lost because and what they are ight and which of a gross negligence on the part of mer- chants Conceming we besecc n you: ind be more anxious to get th 1 rather than to wait on proper salesman them yourself. And then, even when you have directed a customer to the proper salesman, watch closely the eect having, and Moment there is too your goods and prices are I it i ( I nuch hesitation, by special attention irself assist. We don’t advocate the i hich 1s certair ly a big one that x tf if the customer yourself--—but simply impressing yourself on both cus It has its exce ptions, I ids : & Sf R year tk vou a, ChRereeric young fellow can be see ed for it in place ol that sieepy man vou have nd vou! counter now. A couple of custom- I ut the ulm OMY ‘ we iis L hie s) \ ire dissatis VCT al tS DESL ryt } mcrchnaut who sets his goods farmer who is short of money and has a horse that he wants to sell in order to s buver visits him and MmEeTS 25 OFr 33 pcr CCM. 1eSS than Value of € trie! . tiioe ot va } | that the horse 1s ra e Duver : : IS Stoica ne 5 mn must seil } And he gets the horse at his own price » | Betore he 2S more to sell , a, NC Peis over being sore. Not soaclerk. Daily as sociation begets an aggravated feeling to one’s employer that is anything but desirable. And the practice of squeez- ing help grows on a merchant unti! it is nothing if not a ia, and, like all Maniacs Tie does hot apprehend his conditior Chere is but one good effect methods, and it driven to originate pt t ¢g whereby they can get out for themselves. In this particular in Connection with such is that help will be 's be- 1 ! }to the merchant. Another practice along {the salary line is the slowness of mer- | chants to talk salary. Many never touch fon it until a clerk introduces the matter. | How much more business-like and man- ly would it be for the merchant to intro- }duce the matter, even though he can do - or nothing for the clerk. If you ave satisfactory reasons for not increas- ng the salary, the clerk knows it about iS Wel as you do, and will gladly Con- sider it. We are led to introduce this ‘ this time, because of an ex- store which has our attention recently, and best of help is employed and st-Class salaries paid. The store is a ain we ask, is it money in your have cheap help and to squeeze continually? llv successful iii. 1S PpockKe} To In Conversation with a successful man- ver of a retail dry. goods store, in which male and female nelp, the point was made that sales- ladies insist on that stvle or color which ‘use notice what strikes the customer’s fancy and taste, thus forcing something not altogether wc Wer discussing they like, and refuse to pleasing to the customer. Whether this isa failing of lady clerks we will not consider just now, but the point under nsideration is of interest to dry goods pe Not sufficient care is eEXETK ling about what a cus- tonne Phe amount desired to be p customer ought to be eart : style or weave, if pos rte Such should then be shown, a i" | \ | Harp Outlook Deinyg Kept to discover to article or cloth the custom- This having been one should then cover up them out of sight boas do e's eloque nce and logic direct- lon it. Refer to no other until the customer desires it, and then endeavor » direct attention tO One concerming Have ( ire = which the customer is inclined. your trimming department, if roods are being shown, near the dress goods, and when the choice of a dress is ly made, clinch it by draping it Su with trimming. Many sales al t be etfected., \ nder Frew Cir- im manifest a chotce until vou snow where your customer stands re garding the selection. CURRENT COMMENTS. Perhaps the oddest pavement ever laid is one just completed at Chino, Cal. It is made mostly of molasses, and if it proves all of the success claimed for it, It may point a way for the sugar planters of the South to profitably dis- f oh, 1] ' { «»] Y rl ] pose of the millions ot gallons ol useless molasses which they are said to have on hand. The head chemist of a Sugar Eac- tory at Chino, E. Turke, was led to make experiments, of which the new sidewalk, a thousand feet long, from the factory to the main street, is the re- sult. The molasses used is a_ refuse product, hitherto believed to be of no value, It tain kind of sand to about the is simply mixed with a cer- boy acidentally fell overboard. big Newfoundland dog saw the boy fall, and just as he came to the surface sprang fast- into the dock and swam to the sinking boy. The boy neck, which wooly hair on the dog's kept him afloat, and then the dog start- ed to swim with his burden to the other side of the dock. A man rushed to the rescue, and when the dog reached the place, jumped into a row boat and man- aged to pull both the boy and dog out of the water. The dog became a hero in the eyes of the people who had been at- tracted to the scene, and he was given a first-class dinner for his heroism. Cycling has proved of an unexpected benefit to more than one manufacturer of a line of goods entirely distinct from ‘There is twenty feet of water in the dock. The clutched the those usnally connected with bicycling. A large watch concern found themselves burdened with a lot of wheels and inte- rior works of a line of watches which, for some reason or another, had not proved satisfactory. The mass of ma- terial was virtually worthless, and to get rid of it, it was offered tor sale at a price, but no one wanted it. An ingen- ious workman, wanting a cyclometer for his wheel, went to this scrap heap, se- lected several parts from it, adding two of his own making, and the result was an accurate, durable and economical cyclometer. Other workmen who were cyclers did the same thing until the value of the scrap heap became known to the heads of the company, with the result that from what was at one time deemed a worthless scrap heap, over 1,000 cyclometers a day are now being turned out and retail at $2 each. IMPORTERS and NOTIONS, at Lowest Market Prices. 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WHOLESALE DRY GOODS —- GRAND RAPIDS ‘The horse must go. bébhbheooaoaiaoAsihha aman’s eyes “stick out.” Send habbbhhibih ree VEE EE VS PVC VCC SCS CS Gbebooiisa VE VVeVeVTy? consist- ency of asphalt, and laid like an asphalt pavement. The composition dries quick- } ly and becomes quite hard, and remains so. The peculiar point of it is that the sun only makes it drier and harder, in- stead of softening it, as might be ex- pected. A two tTeet long, block of the composition, a foot wide, and one inch thick, was submitted to severe tests and stood them well. Laid with an inch or 1 1 So of its edges only resting on supports, t it withstood repeated blows of a ma- chine hammer without showing any effects of cracking or bending. A big Newfoundland dog, that be- >? onged to nobody, officiated as life-saver at Baltimore the other day, and got both A little eight- year-old boy and the dog were romping glory and a good master. it isa blessing to the clerk and a loss on the dock in the morning, when the Are now in stock, and mx Can be delivered now Also RUGS shown and at prices very P. Steketee & Sons GRAND RAPIDS see the line before buying. Our Floor Oil Cloths Qualities Nos. 1, 2, 3A, 4. in Qualities 1, 2, 3A, best line we have ever Our Yarns and Underwear re Coming every week. Be sure and low. Sli a BE aR a SOBA Rachie es esate * 2 BA Feel OCS a eMC SMES = Association Matters Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association President, E. Wire: Secretary, E. A. Stowe; Treasurer, J. GEO, LEHMAN, Sugar Card - Granulated. hig cents per pound. 4 10 pounds for 50 cents, 9 pounds for 25 cents 20 pounds for #1, Jackson Retail Grocers’ Association President. BYRON . Hii: Secretary, W. H. Por- reER: Treasurer, J. F. ecasaats Sugar ae Penge 51, cents per pound, pounds for 50 cents 19 jonnds Sas $1. Northern Mich. Retail Grocers’ Association President, J. F. TatmMan, Clare; Secretary, F. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids: Treasurer, FRANK SMITH, Leroy. Owosso Business Men’s Association. President, A. D. WurprLe; Secretary G.T. Camp- BELL; Treasurer, W. E. COLLINS. ee — Association. President, F. S. CARLETON, Ca umet: Vice Presi- dent, ees y C. WEBER “Deen: Secretary- Treasurer, Henry C. Minnie, Eaton Rapids. SECOND CALL. Official Notification of the Reed City Convention. Grand Rapids, July 30--The_ second annual convention of the Northern Michigan Retail Grocers’ Association will be held in the City Hall at Reed City, on Tuesday and Wednesday, Aug- ust.13 and 14, convening at 10 o'clo k on the day first named. Every grocer doing business in Michigan north of the D., G. H. & M. Railway is invited to attend the meeting, as matters of great importance to the trade will come up for discussion and action. Among the top- ics already assigned are the following : ‘Was the invalid 1895 a move in the Hon. C. K. Hoyt, ‘Should this association recommend the — the blue letter collection system? i H. Beebe, Big Rapids. iis) a jeeaie to improve the present exemption law?’’-H. W. Hawkins, Reed City. ‘“Is it desirable to pay cash for pro- duce instead of trade?’ ’—_-F rank Smith, Leroy. ‘*Wherein can this association greatly benetit the grocery trade of Northern Michigan?’’? -C. J. Fleischauer, Reed C ity. “Is it desirable to substitute weights for measures in the handling of pro- duce?’’-Jesse Wisler, Mancelona. ‘What plan can grocers adopt to pre- vent whole sale grocers selling hotels a Taylor, Shepherd. ~~ long must we endure es dis- grace of handling fruits shipped 1 bas- tard baskets?”’ ii W. Densmore, gee c ity. “Would it be desirable to have a local board of trade in every town for the pur- pose of establishing uniform prices on produce, butter and eggs?’’- N. Bick- nell, Clare. ‘*What is the best course tailer to pursue on package other articles on whi : the manufacturer raises the price after the retailer has placed them before the trade and creat- ed a demand?’’—M. ©. McFarland, Coleman. Other topics are under consideration and will probably be introduced. Extensive preparations have been made by the Reed City for the entertainment of their guests on the occasion of the ntion, including a complimentary banquet, which _ be given at the Hotel King ot the evening of August 13. Half rates hav: also been secured at the Hotel King, and, in the event of there being one hundred pres- ent who have paid. full railway fare in coming, the railways wil sell return tickets at one-third regular fare. This concession cannot be secured unless the purchaser of a ticket secures a certifi- cate from his ticket agent at the time ticket is purchased. Believing that our association 1s des- tined to accomplish much good for the peddling law of ou direction?”’ Hudsonville store woods to for the re- eoods and Frocets of conve grocers of Northern Michigan, and con- fident that you will feel like doing your share to assist in the good work, we THE MICHIGAN earnestly invite you"to be occasion of our second tion. Come one present on tl a conven- come all! E. A. Stowe (Grand Rapids), Sec’y J. F. TArMAN (Clare), Pres. _—- o> A POUND OF BUTTER. I was standing at the sink washing the breakfast Gertrude had just brought the cream in from the ice chest and. Was pre ance to sit down and begin the stirring of it. She said that] butter-1mz aking was very romantic 1n nov- “ie she had Teed _ he ng often ved fora drink of butte . and he was continually admiring the beauti- ful, round arms of the heroine as_ she slapped the dasher up and down. For her part, Gertrude expressed a wish that the writers of these novels had to slap that dasher up and down themselves for an hour or two. It would be good dis- cipline for them, and would put a stop to all that rot about the beauty of dairy ae I don’t make butter. I said when we came to Ransom that I would follow the plow, I would groom the the stables, myself strong minded, but | make butter. Gertrude replied that no- body asked me; that she would do it herself. And she made some remarks at that time about the beauty of the white, foamy milk; the luscious loveli- ness of the creamy cream; the richness of the golden, dewy butter. — horse, ciean would not She doesn’t make those remarks now. Instead, when the subject is mentioned and [I quote to her about the creamy cream, she that dairying always makes her think of Kathleen Mavourneen, that years and it may be forever before th butter will condescend 10 COME, and when it does come it may not be in the mind to ‘‘separate.’’ She has also in- formed me that there is no position i which a mortal human being may be placed in which that being de ghly helpless as be fore butter that refuses to separate. It is here, and yet it is not here. Ice water is poured in upon the sub- stance; still that same appearance of wigs ~ an odor of tresh cream. The jar is set away that the contents mav : ive time to think over their mis- deeds and to resolve upon reform. The wretched Gertrude goes out al nd pulls from the strawberry bed, thus to distract her mind. She returns. She brings back the pot of cream and dashes in more water, \t last a white, watery stuff detaches itself from) somewhere in the jar, and that is buttermilk. It 1s going to separate. The butter is going to ‘Trium- phant moment. to the perspiring, dis- pairing dairymaid ! My friend has informed me coufiden- tially that there is not a moment from the first skimming of the cream to the putting of the result of her work in the muold, when it is an appropriate time for the appearance of an admirer, or when an admirer, if he did appear, would not be disillusioned. I give this} assertion to the world for what it may be worth. Although we do a great deal ot £ hard work, like hocing in the oe wash- ing our democrat wagon, and other things which require a_strong-minded person to perform, we do hate to wash clothes. Therefore, we have for a long time had Nancv Holland do our washing. We usually pay her in cash, but last requested, as she was out of butter, and the grocery man didn't come round until the next day but one, and she hadn’t ordered butter anyway, that we let her have butter In payment. Whereupon the following Conversation weeds hoping CUanc. week she ensued : | was not present. I usually escaped | = small bedroom that Jed out of | » long kitchen. Here I sat on the | wet he —- every word, and thought of | a great deal better answers than Gertrude | va . Mrs. Holland came in all of a flutter, as was her ordinary condition. ‘I come after my butter,’’ she said. a a Se and do anything else to prove | asks me if | am willing to} talk of something else. She herself says | it maybe for | fe ri ‘ls so | TRADESMAN ef You know you told me I could have isome for that last washing.’’ ‘Yes. How much do you charge? ge OW - | thought a wi ishing was wutha | pound of butter; don’t you? That de pe nds on the price of wash- ing and the price of butter.”’ ‘] ain't zot nothin’ a washing is wutha to Say, pound of ‘cept that butter. |” The quavering tone was a trifle \¢ erent now. bellig- ‘But supposing you charged 35 cents for washing, and butter was 30 cents; or supposing the other way?”’ Gertrude was very calm and clear in her statement. It almost seemed as if even Nancy Holland would see what she meant. But Mrs. Holland only raised her voice and reiterated her assertion that a washing was worth a pound of butter. Again Gertrude patiently repeated her explanation There was silence for a moment. [ took one of the pillows se the bed on which I sat, pounded it a few times and replaced it in its position. | Itwas of no possible consequence, but }when a person comes and_ says a thing like that to you you are directly seized lwith an imperative desire to make that | person un derstand. And Mrs. Holland’s attitude was a de- fensive attitude as if we should not be likely to give her her just pay. ‘Wall, anvwav, a washing is wuth a pound. of butter.’ ‘But, Mrs. Holland, don’t you see, I might owe you 50 cents, or even a dol- lar, tor a we ishing and | shouldn't pay you enough in that case. Or I might owe you less than the price . butter now. Whv can’t you tell me what I do c owe Vou! ‘It ain't no matter. I guess I ain't goin’ to go into that,’’ in a high voice, ‘Now, don’t you Say that a washing Is wuth a pound of butter?”’ I took up the pillow again and pound- ed it still harder. ‘Why in the world,’’ | whispered to mvself, ‘‘doesn’t Gertrude make that woman know what she means? I could do it: 1 know | could do it.”’ At this moment my friend appeared in the doorway. "| Have you heard?”’ she asked. "Ves, | have, ‘Well, I'm going to give her my last churning.”’ | TOSe. ‘Vou shan't, said tl | Get her ten pounds if you like: but first 1m going to make her understand that a pound of butter isn’t worth a washing- no, the other way, | mean, unless the the same, |’ ‘Very well, go in there and talk with her,’’ was the response. And Gertrude smiled in a way that was not stimulat- ing. | walked resolutely into the kitchen. Nancy was standing by the table. Her poor head was shaking, and her faded blue eves were dilated with the interest lshe felt. Her washed-out figured ss ais lwas drawn tightly about her shoulder and she held h er pa rasol in both ian jas if thus to ‘i be ‘r hands steady. ! began immediately. ‘It doesn’t follow,’’ I said, ‘‘that the price of washing and butter is the same and unless it is the same ‘A washing is worth a ter, now, ain't it: oe interrupted, a —_ you jes’ tell me if it ain t | Price Is | | |} explanation. I even took two !from a basket and called one a washing went dh my words seemed so extremely clear that I was sure I had made Nancy see what | meant. When I had finished she hurriedly t over her face. ‘" | don't care nena she said, ‘‘I ain’t talkin’ |What 1 mean is this: | A |wuth a _ of butter. : 1 went back into the asked Gertrude if she would goand giv that woman anything she pleased all we had in the world, if by that means ‘bout p taters, washin’ is | Mrs. Holland could be induced to drop pound of but-| ling to pay cash for our washing, cash But | went right on with an elaborate | potatoes | ' i eves. She and one a pound of butter; and I pro-| li ceeded in the most lucid manner. As I} | \ sulled out her handkerchief and passed | |! | dab of butter’’ "bout p'taters. | bedroom. L the subject that seemed to be occupying her mind. "No," said | my friend, calmly |’! have placed the affair in your hands. Do with the matter as you think best. I’ve long noticed that you pe iad thought that you could make things clear to Mrs. Holland. You have your oa: now. Improve it. All I have to say ts that vou know where our stock of butter is kept. As we have nothing € Mrs. Holland desires, why give her what vou please. ‘Ise that ‘But she only wants a pound,’’ feebly. i At this Gertrude began to laugh in the most heartless way. left the little bedroom and returned to the kitchen. There sat our guest by the table on which lay the innocent tu- bers with which I had been given an object le sson. The woman looked up at me with an aggrieved expression. nothin’ "bout p'taters, she remarked in an unsteady voice. ‘‘I ain't out of um. Mr. Guild give mea peck yisterday. ‘N’ I don’t eat many p'taters, anyway. I used ter like um first rate with meat victuals; but I’ve kit nder sot off the notion of um some way. "Lain t said ] She rose as she spoke. She glanced at the bedroom door as_ if Gertrude. expecting [ said. ‘How "I'll get vour butter for you, ”’ And then I asked desperately, much do you want?’’ I felt I was actually getting excited. I had rushes of belief that I could make Nancy These momentary seasons were followed by a despairing conviction that I could never succeed | | such an attempt. understand. Mrs. Holland's vapid, worn face was now wrinkled) with an_ ingratitating smile. "I’ve been thinkin’ ’s I’ve be’n set- tin’ here,”" she began, " that it’s jest as t plain as it can be that a washin’ is wuth a pound of butter; but if you folks don't want to spare it Tl) go down to Nic, White's nH see i 1 (cn git it there. But thev never work h any way. But | ck be unac¢ omydati rn Over t want to enous I'm com to have shell beans for dinner. 4 i yilin now. N beans a mess oO They're on takes butter. I did not answer a word. I reached son my hand and grasped the dingy tin pail Mrs. Holland had brought. 1 went into the back room and took from the ice chest two pound lumps and de- posited them in the pail, which L car- ried back to its owner. ‘Tm ever * much obleeged,’’ she said, het hi 1 shaking piteously as she extended it for the pail. © "N | guess you'll see when vou come to think it over that a washin’ ’s wuth a pound of” Never mind!’ | ‘Wall’? she said, all ri She walked out into the that | could not endure the f ara. 1 telt fanhitic SENSE of helplessness that came to me, SS if this experience should be repeated? [ hastened after Nancy. 1 overtook her at the great gate. I caught hold of tl i flving end of her shawl. ‘Mrs. Holland,’’ | said after this 1 want you to understand that we re go- every time, and I don’t care what you charge. It’s going to be in cash. She blinked at me with her watery evidently thought extremely powers ; | 1 1 yut she could little of my mental not have had so low < as I cherished myself. “Wall wall, She head shaking than ever, [4 know’s. there’s anything to be mad about. If vou begrutch me this little n estimate of them responded, het more ‘Tl don’t begrudge you anything, 4 broke in. ‘Il only wish you to k1 LOW it’s to be a cash business after this. [ didn’t wait to hear any reply. I hurried out into the lane that led up in- to the rocky pasture. I wanted alone. J] did not feel like seeing Ger- trude MARIA LOUISE POOL. to be apemac gece a pegees 26 ~ THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Drugs=--Chemicals STATE BOARD OF PHARMACY. One Year— - GEO. GUNDRUM, Ionia Two Years Cc. A. BuGBEE, Charlevoix Three Yea's S. E PaRKILL, Owosso Four Years F. W. R. Perry, Detroit Five Years - A. C. SCHUMACHER, Ann Arbor President, C. A. BuGsEer, Charlevo'x Secretary, F. W. KR. Peany. Detroit. Treasurer, GEO. GUNDRUM, Ionia. Houghton, August —. Lansing, November 5. Coming Meetings MICHIGAN STATE PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION. President, Geo. J. Warp, St. Clair. Vice Presidents, S. P. WaitMarsH, Palmyra: G. C. PHituips, Armada. Secret ry, B. ScHrRoUDER, Grand Rapids. Treasurer, WM. Dupont, Detroit. Executive Committee—F. J. WurzBuRG. Grand Rapids: F. D. STEVENs, Detroit: H.G. Cotman, Kalamazoo: E. T. Wess, Jackson; D. M. Rus- SELL, Grand Rapids. GRAND RAPIDS PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY. Joun E. PEcK B. SCHROUDER President, Secretary, The Drug Market. Acetanilid erate quantities to the consuming trade, Continues to sell in mod- with values remaining unchanged. Acids—-There ts in the position of salicylic, and competition no improvement between sellers continues keen, with the market unsettled Citric and steady at the reduced and prices. irregular. German Benzoic are fairly prices noted in our last issue. Tartaric continues in fair request and firm. Arsenic--Is_ in better supply and easier. Balsams Central American copaiba is moving rather freely in a Tolu is jobbing way. quiet and nominally steady. Beans Holders of old crop Angostura tonka are firm in their views. Cacao Butter Remains quiet but firm and the tendency is upward, Cassia Are and with stocks concentrated, prices are firmly maintained. Colocynith Apples--Are strong and tending upward in sympathy with firmness Buds in good demand, very increasing abroad, with a good consuming inquiry. Cuttle Fish All meeting with an average consuming de- Bone mand and values continue steady. Cod Liver Oil Is in good request for this time of year, and the market con- tinues strong with the tendency of val- ues toward a higher basis. Cream Tartar—Continues to meet with a fair trade demand, and values are de- cidedly firm. Cubeb Berries —Are in better demand, but at easier prices. Ergot consuming demand. Continues steady under a fair and Values of both anise and Essential Oils--Anise Cassia are both stronger. are yet market. Spearmint continues Bulk peppermint of prime qual- ity has been advanced. All change, cassia below the parity of the London firm. Flowers without quiet. American varieties are quotable and rather There saffron beyond the filling bing orders. The im tone owing to cables from is nothing doing in of small job- Gums market for camphor is stronger beth London and Japan of a further im- provement there. The demand is rather better, and moderate sales are reported. Leaves-- The only noteworthy features in this department are continued activ- ity in short buchu and senna, both of which are ruling firm at old prices. Lycopodium—-There is an improved together varieties are inquiry and rather more doing, with values steady. Menthol and prices here have declined. Is cabled lower in London, been a continued or a Opium. -There has fair inquiry. The only influences stimulating character were firmer prices Constantinople quoting *‘druggists quality’? 7s., which from primary sources, is a slight advance over previous fig- It is also claimed that the avail- able spot. stock is very much reduced, ures. but it must be remembered that there is considerable opium here which is held out of the market, and that the future outlook is not very encouraging to high- in view of the large current shortly be available. The opinion is expressed in Smyrna that the to change hands there must be a disastrous cr prices, crop which will when new crop. begins collapse in values of old. Quicksilve -Remains quiet and nom- inally steady. Quinine ~The consuming demand has continued active, especially from pill makers, and the market retains a decid- edly strong undertone. The demand tinues seasonably light, but values are Jalap is firmer in tone, Serpentaria is easier, owing to increased the West, and have reduced their quotations. Roots for ipecac con- ruling strong. offerings from helders Golden seal is slightly lower. Seeds There is no activity in canary and the market is rather weak, with val- ues barely steady. Russian hemp is in light supply and very firm. There is no quotable change in prices of the various grades of mustard : California indicate that the quality is be- Celery has samples of new crop poor, but reports of shortage are to met with an active consuming demand lieved be exaggerated. and a good business ts reported. Sugar of Milk very heavy of The demand has been late, and the) principal manufacturers have advanced prices of ali brands tc. per pound. ~~ It is going to be very bad form one of these days to indulge in light and heat at the same time. With the mercury among the nineties, as it has been so many times during this present sum- mer, it is little less than unbearable to endure the extra heat. coming from the gas jet or the electric loop. A young man from the ** Jarses”’ says that it is wholly unneccessary and he has made a discovery which makes the whole glass globe glow with brilliancy instead of the common wire. He expects one of these days -and not so many of them either to sell sticks of light, about the size of a_ stick of candy, which will burn for forty-eight hours. It can be the pocket. At night all you have to do is to press the button and you havea bright light. shall hardly know ourselves by the time carried around in vest If things keep on in this way we the new century Comes in. - > - > The glad when the Merchants’ Sentinel men can eat all the time is coming grapes they want without being afraid of swallowing the seeds and filling up the appendicitis, a disease which has had its day. Gardeners are trying their best not to have any seeds. The navel leads the van. to yield to the treatment and the grapes will wheel into Of of ostrich never has been bothered with the grape seed, orange——almost seedless Apples are beginning line pretty soon. course, with the stomach an anybody | but shortly the grape seed will be the the name will be a thing of the past. Ghent’s Headache Wafers IMMEDIATE--EFFECTUAL Cures Neuralgia Permanently | Handled by all Jobbers. Prepared by C. N. GHENT & CO., Pharmacists ||} BAY CITY, [lICH. 2 PECK’ Ss eee PowpERs disease with long Pay the Best Profit.’ more, and - Order from your jobber uhe’s eal Ripper eigns oyally....... AS THE VERY BEST amet 55 CENT CIGAR, — Fl). W. RUHE, MAKER, CHICAGO. F. E. BUSHMAN, Agent, 523 John St., KALAMAZOO Will you allow us to give you j A POINTER 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. 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| Mamaia, © P--:----- 60@ 6&8 4 QUAM AbhbdbddbAddQde Abb ddbddddda dda dad’ . i naa a oe cena a a Senge Sa na ETE THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN GROCERY PRICE CURRENT. The prices quoted in this list are for the trade only, in such quantities as are usually purchased by retail dealers. They are prepared just before going to press and are an accurate index of the local market. It is im- possible to give quotations suitable for all conditions of purchase, and those below are given as representing av- erage prices for average conditions of purchase. those who have poor credit. our aim to make this feature of the greatest possible use to dealers. AXLE GREASE. doz. gross Aurora 0D 6 00 Castor Oil. 6 7 00 Diamond 50 5 50 Frazer's i 9 00 Mica .60 & 00 Paragon 5D 6 00 BAKING POWDER. Acme. 14 lb cans 3 doz. 2 lb cans 3 doz... 1 Ibeans 1 doz. 1 00 Bulk. 10 Arctic. : 144 lb cans 6 doz case 5d 1, Ib cans 4 doz case 1 10 1 lb cans 2 doz case 200 5 lb ease 1 doz cuse 9 00 Red Star. 14 Ib cans. 40 2 lb cans TD 1 ib eans 1 40 Van Anrooy’s Pure. 14 lb Cans 6 doz Case. Sd 1, Ib cans 4 doz case 1 GA 1 Ib cans 2 doz case.. 3 3 Telfer’s. a: 1, Ib eans doz. 45 2 Ib cans doz bd 1 Ib eans duz 150 Our Leader. : 1, Ib cans. 4 » Ib eans. i) | i} cans. 150 BATH BRICK. 2 dozen in case. 3 American O En; lish. ba BLUING. (, ross Arctie 4 oz ovals.. Ho Aretic 8 oz ovals ~- i a Arctic pints round 9 OB Arctic No. 2 -ifting box. 2 Arctic No. 3s: fting box 4 00 Arctic No. 5 sifting box.... 8 Aretic 1 oz ball. : 450 Mexican liquid ! oz. 3 60 Mexican liquid & oz. 6 ~¢ BROO/IS. No. 1 Carpet. - ov No. 2 Carpet. 2 OU No. 3 Carpet. l No. 4 Carpet. 1 Parlor Gem 2 5 Common Whisk SD Fancy Whisk. 1 Warehouse 2 CANDLES. H. tel 40 Ib boxes. If Star 40 lb boxes.. 9 Paraffine it CANNED GOODS. As the pack of 189% will not begin to arrive in any qua:.tity unt ubout Sep. 1, we Lave concluded to di ferthe public: tion of full list under thi hea until our issue of Sept. 4. CATSUP. Blue Label Brand. Half pin 25 bottles 20 Pint 25 bottles. 4 50 Quart 1 doz, bottles 3 50 Triumph Brand. Half pint per doz.. i Pint 2 ‘ ot les. HM Quart per diez 3 7 CEMENT. Major's. per gross == lg OZ size 12 Oo S$ i 1 oz siz. Is 0 : Liq. Glue.] z 9 60 t i j | j | | | | Cotton. 40 ft per doz Cotton, 50 ft. per doz Cotton, 60 ft. per doz ‘ otton, 70 ft. per doz Cotton. 80 ft, per doz Jute, 60 ft per doz Chicory. Bulk Red CHOCOLATE. Baker's. German Sweet Premium. : Breakfast Cocoa CLOTHES LINES. Jute, 72 ft, per doz.. CLOTHES PINS. 5 gross boxes COFFEE. Green. Rio. Fair ‘ (;00d $ Prime : Golden : 21 Peaberry . 23 Santos. Fair 19 (ood ae Prime ze Peaberry 23 Mexican and Guatamala. Fair 21 Good oe Fancy : 24 Maracaibo. Prime 2 Milled 24 Java. Interior 25 Private Growth 27 Mandehling 28 Mocha. Imitation 25 Arabian wR Roasted. To ascertain cost of roasted coffee, add !3¢ per lb. for roast- ing and 15 per cent. for shrink age. Package. Arbuckle Jersey Lion Coffee Fine a of Summer QUES F10W i the atka eS. 16 Ounces ‘Net ~ Cases 100 /bs.\ i ” 60 - 7 21 8- 10 Cabinets 120 /bs. Same Price 904 Extra for Cabinets. 21 80 21 80 MeLaughlin’s XXXX 1 80 Extract. Valley City ‘4 gross 75 Felix % gross 11 Hummel’s foil % gross 85 llummel’s tin 44 gross 1 43 KOFFA- AID 100 packages in case 60 packages in case COCOA SHELLS. Leather Cement, | (‘Tocers’. } | 1 | j 1 0z size 12 00} 2 Oz size Is 001 Rubber Cement. 2 0zsize 2 CHEESE. Amboy @ Ww @ Ww a 1) a 10 uw li (eld Medal Skim 6 @ 7 Brick @ 11 Edam . : @1 00 Leiden. ; @ 2 Limburger. @ Pineapple.. ne @ wa toquefort : @ & Sap Savo : @ 18 Schweitzer imported @ 2 Schweitzer domestic @ 14 20 ib bags... 24 Less quantity 3 Pound packages 1 CREAM TARTAR. Strictly pure 30 Telfer’s Absolute 30 . 1@H CONDENSED MILK. 4 doz. in case. N. Y. Condensed Milk Co.'s brands. Gail Borden Eagle..... -7 40 Crown . .- 5 2 Pas... ._. 2 Champion ... ..4 50 eee ee _. ame ..0 oo ‘‘Tradesman.”’ are subject to the following quantity discounts: 200 books or over “) books or over. ..10 per cent 1000 books or over 20 per cent Coupon Pass Books, Can be made to represent any denomination from #10 down. 20 books .. 1 00 50 books 2 00 100 books 3.00 250 books » 62 500 books... ..10 00 1000 books... ~~. 98 oe Credit Checks. 500, any one denom’n 3.00 1000, any one denom’n 5 00 2000, any one denom’n. 8'0 Steel punch... 7 DRIED FRUITS. DOMESTIC. Apples. Sundried. Pe 614 Evaporated 50 lb boxes a California Goods. Bxs Bgs Apricots ... i --814 8g Blackberries... Nectarines . Peaches.. 81 g1 Pears ; oe 64 Pitted Cherries. Prunnelles.. Raspberries........ Raisins. Loose Muscatels. 2 Crown... ol 3 Crown.. i ith wma 5 FOREIGN. Currants. Patras bbls.... LL Vostizzas 50 1b eases. Schuit’s Cleaned. 25 Ib hoxes... . 50 Ib boxes... . 1 lb packages. Peel. Citron Leghorn 25 Ib bx Lemon Leghorn 25 }b bx Orange Leghorn 25 Ib bx Prunes. 2% lb boxes. Cai fornia 100-120... 44, California 90-100........ 514 California +0-90 6 Cal fornia 70-80.. 6% California 60-70......... 74 14 Cent less in bags | a | | } # 1 books. per 100 . 200 % 2 books. per 100 2 50 $3 books, per 100... 3 00} ¥ 5 books, per 100... 3 00} #10 books, per 100. 4 00} #20 books, per 100.. 5 00 | ‘*Superior.’’ % 1 books, per 100... 2 50 $ 2 books, per 100 2 00 #3 books, per 100 3 50 $ 5 books, per 100... 1.00 #10 books, per 100 >a #20 books. per 100 6 00 ‘‘Universal.”’ ¥ 1 books, per 100 3 00 ¥ 2 hooks, per 100... 3 50 | * 3 books, :er 100 400 i $ 5 books. per 100 ; 5 00 #10 books, per 100...... 6 00} #20 books, per 100... 7 00 Above prices on coupon books | | | 5) per cent | Raisins. HERBS. Ondura 29 Ib boxes... @d*, | Sage 15 Sultana 20 1b boxes.. «634 Hops : 15 Valencia 30 1b boxes GUNPOWDER FARINACEOUS GOODS. cena Farina. Kegs . i , Bulk 3 | Half Kegs 1 90 | Grits. Quarter Kegs 1 10 | Walsh DeRoo & Co.'s 2 00 IIb cans.. 30 H a ls lb e@ ns _ barrels —e 3 25 on Choke Bore ee e flake. 60 tb. drums 50) ee. : aE Flake, it ib drum 1 X ee 2 40 a Lima Beans. .. | Quarter Kegs 1 35 5 | Dried oss 6'2 1} 11b cans : 34 N i v Hi. 3 laccaroni and Vermice Eagle Duck—Dupont’s. Domestic, 10 lb. box. 60 Kegs 11 00 suported, 2- Ib. box 2 50 Half Kegs 575 Pearl Barley. Quart rKegs 3 00 ; Empire oo 34 | 1 ]beans. 60 | Chester . ne 2! INDIGO | Green bu ee. 115 Madras, 5 |b boxes a) Split, perib........... za, |S. F.. 2,3 and 5 1b boxes a0 Rolied Oats. a i JELLY. A | Schumacher, bbl 4 20 15 = a . — | Schumacher, 4 bb! a V% » ame i | Monarch, bbl..... 360 | 301b pails wo Monarch, % bbl 1% LYE. Quaker, cases 320 | Condensed, 2 doz : 1 20 Oven Based 325 Conden:ed. 4d z.. 2 25 Lakeside : 2 2 Sago. LICORICE. } German i 4 Pure ee 20 | East India . 3h Calabria 25, Wheat. Sicily 14 Cracked, bulk 3 Root.. 10 242 1b packages 2 40 MINCE MEAT. FISH. Cod. Georges cured.. @ 4% | Georges genuine. @ 5 Georges selected. . @, 5% Strips o° br ck 6 @9 Halibut. Smoked oo li @iz Herring. Mince meat, 3 doz in case x pase pe — oe) ’) Pie Prep. 3 doz in ease olland white hoops bb Norwegian... ... MATCHES. Round 100 Ibs... 2 55 Columbia Match Co.’s brands Round 40 lbs.. 1 30| Columbia Parlor. 25 | Sealed... ' 3 00: XXX Sulphur..... 1 00 Mackerel. Diamond Match Co.'s brands. No. 1 100 Ibs co 12 00 | No. 9 sulphur 1 65 No.1 401bs 5 50} Anchor Parlor. 1 70 No. 1 10 lbs 1 35] No.2 H«me i mo. 2 Opie... ..... 9 00} Export Parlor 4 00 No. 2 DOilus 3 95 MOLASSES. | No. 2 a si Blackstrap. conan o | Sdgar house 107 12 i Sardines | Cuba Baking. Russian kegs i 55 | Ordinary... ... 2@i4 | Trout. Porto Rico. No. 1 100 Ibs 4 25; Prime ae 20 No.1 wlbs 1 % | Faney ' 30 | No.1 10 Tbs a | New Orleans. No.1 8&1bs 48) Pair ale ! 18 Whitefish. oe iC » No.1 No.2 Fam Extragood.... 24 m0 the ..... 700 60 250! Ch ice rd 40 lbs 310 24 120] Fancy i . 30 i a... 85 7 40| Half-barrels 3e extra. & lbs 71 63 35 | OIL CANS. FLAVORING EXTRACTS. | Crystal valve, per doz 1 00 Ene | Crystal valve, per gross. ..36 00 Oval bo'tle, with corkscrew. PICKLES. Best in the world for the Medium. money. Barrels, 1.200 count 1s | Regular Half bbls, 600 count 2 HD Grade Small. Lemon. Barrels, 2,400 count 5 25 doz) Half bbls, 1,200 count 315 ~ OZ ” _ = PIPES — ” | Clay, No. 216... 1 70 Clay, T. D. full count 65 doz | POTASH. ~ OZ 120) 48 cans in ease. j 4 Oz. 2 40 | Babbitt’s + 00 XX Grad Penna Salt (o.’s 50) rade J Lemon. RICE. Domestic. 20z 150 Carolina head 5g 4 0z 3 00| Carolina No. 1 : 5 Caro‘ina No. 2.... 445 XX Grade = Broken a4 3% Vanilla. Imported. : | aapen, Ne.1...... 43 204 175) Japan, No.2 ee 407 oi gava Ne ee Jennings. eave, he. 2... 414 Lemon Vanilla | Fatma ................. 20z reguiar panel.. 75 20 SAL SODA. 4 oz regular panel..1 50 2 00) Granulated. bbls........ 1 10 6 0z regular panel. .2 00 3 00 | Granulated, 100 lb eases. _1 50 | Bo. 3 teper.........' 2 S00 teen Bie |. 1 | No 4 7aper...... --1 50 2 50} Lump, 145Ib kegs.......... 1 10 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 SEEDS. Anise oo : ee 13 Canary, Smyrna 6 Caraway ...... : 10 Cardamon, Malabar. 80 Hemp, Russian —- 4 Mixed Bind.... 414 Mustard, white 614 ' Poppy cu pial ida Sg Rape a ete alps cat 4 Cuttle Bone...... = 20 | SYRUPS. Corn. Barrels 18 Half bbls os 20 : Pure Cane. Fair ou 16 Good oe 20 Choice : ; 25 SPICES. Whole Sifted. Allspice : oa 9% Cassia, China in mats 9% Cassia, Batavia in bund....1 Cassia. S igon in rolls......3 Cloves, Amboyna. . 22 ee ane r ih 11 ‘ loves, Zanzibar 11% Mace, Batavia 70 Nutmegs, faney es Nutmegs, No. 1 60 Nutmegs, No. 2 eae Pepper, Singapore, black... 10 Pepper, Singapore, white 20 Pepper, shot. ‘eee ae Pure Ground in Bulk. Allspice .. 15 Cassia, Batavia... wa Cassia, Batavia and Saigon .25 Cas-ia. Saigon Lo 35 Cloves, Amboyna 22 Cloves, Zanzibar 1s Ginger, African 16 Ginger, Cochin 20 Ginger, Jamaica 22 Mace, Batavia ~..6o Mustard, Eng. and Trieste 22 Mustard, Trieste =o ce Nutmegs, No. 2.... ee Pepper, Singapore, black. ..16 Pepper, Singapore, white. 24 Pepper, Cayenne............20 Sage ; 20 ‘‘Absolute’’ in Packages. : 4s 16s Allspice S 155 | Cinnamon & 155 Cloves. oO 1 Ginger, Jamaica 84 155 Ginger, African 84 1 55 Mustard NN 6 1 SS Pepper 84 1 55 Sage S41 .. STARCH. Kingsford’s Corn. | 20 1-lb pack: 6! i 10 1 Ib packages 614 Kingsford’s Silver Gloss. | 40 1-Ib packages 63 | 6-lb boxes A 74 Common Corn. 20-lb boxes oe j o% | 40-Ib boxes 5% Common Gloss. | 1-lb packages 5 | 3-lb packages 5 6-lb packages 534 10 »nd 50 1b boxes 334 | Barrels 334 SODA. Boxes 5% Kegs, English 13; SALT. Diamond Crystal. Cases. 24 3-lb boxes 1 OO Barrels, 320 Ibs 2 50 Barrels, 115 2'% 1b bags -4 00 Barrels, 605 1b bags 3°75 Barrels, 3010 Ib bags 3 50 Butter, 56 1b bags 0 Butter, 20 141b bags. Butter, 280 1b bbls Butter, 224 1b bbls Common Grades. 1003 lb sacks..... 2 00 60 5-lb sacks 1 85 28 11-lb sacks i 1 70 Warsaw. 56-Ib dairy in drill bags 30 28-lb dairy in drill bags 15 : Ashton. 56 1b dairy in linen sacks 60 Higgins. | 56-lb dairy in linen sacks 60 Solar Rock. ee 22 : Common Fine. Saginaw ! . | 7 Manistee ial 1 SNUFF, Scotch, in bladders..... 37 | meccaboy. iniars,. 35 | French Rappee, in jars..... 43 THE MICHIGAN) TRADESMAN 29 pul ; SALERATUS No. 3 ie : ’ and Made Creams. 80 @90 Subject to usual oe ne ' Os . isual cash 3 Packed 60 lbs. in box. 2 4 4 Zi | P lain Creams 60 (sO oe en or FR ESH MEA I S. . OL — Dui Church’s scl o S 131 Decorated Creams a) Flour in bbls., 25e pe 1; gal tin cans with spout } Deiand’s .. 3 15 — 6 425) String Roem 00... See ba. ybls., 25e per bbl. ad- Beef. galy iron with spout Dwight’s 339, Ne ¢ $18] Burnt Almonds 12 @90 Med Carcass 5 + iron with spout Taylor's Loo > 5 12 | Wintergreen Berries abo Bolted : o< Fore quarters 3 4 blac ied O68 aa a . i : ars TOBACCOS. No. 10 { 00 | i Caramels. Granu ated —, — r 8 — No. i o4 | oe rapped, 2 Ib. Hay. 2ibs i i @ ‘ | ) es i 2 nn f . ‘ Edw. W. Ruhe’s brands tay Ie | No. 1 wrapped, 3 Ib L3d No. 1 Timo hy, ear lots 17 50 | Rounds . 6 05 Signal Five : 35 00 “be 7 5 Lowes ao oe 131 No. 1 Timothy, ton lots 1x OO | Chucks 31 4 OO kh. BR. B- 55 00) 7°" No. 2 wra so it val Oats Plates : 2: Pp : 9- n ~ + ener hu ~ ; ow 1 ae m 2 Se mE ° 1omus 35 00 TABLE SAUSES. boxes nie i Car lots 31 Pork a il Home Rule 10 50 J. Johnson’s brand Lea & Perrin’s, large Less than car lots 35 ] Home Ru Lea & Perrin’s, small 2 sata oo > /aga : Feed and Millstuffs Loins a@1145 | 3 gal Goodenough 2 0 fattoca a se FRUITS. St. Cur Feed, seree ed 2 39 | Shoulders @ &~ | 5gal Goodenou 3 00 ord s » OF - a \ . ’ Ae > ar >, 2 Se ou. oe : Salad Dr acs large : Medt Sweets, 150s = Car Feed, unscreened. .20 00 Leaf Lard ( 5 gal Pirate King 10 00 Salad Dressing, 3mall 2 65 I at oT es, Ne. 2 pela one 5 oo sagan LANTERNS. i . Ce i 2ode and Sorrentos vl 3 i : ' : ¢ Carenxss i i £400 > 6 4 a WASHING POWDER. ie tmanerals ee — . — _— - = Spring L ambs. “e Gi NO. 7 r a 3 ae 2008 K = i heat bran. b cog ie) conc nally 2 j | ibe in Blade etn : Winter Wheat Middlings..17 50 Veal. i x - to ne u » 00 Dressed 514, 6 a a a . Screenings 14 09 Carcass 6 @ 6s iv i Lemons. 4 > 35 00 Extra Choice 260 Corn ers ——— — I amp a ee : : : Amp... 3 5 “2 a ynold’s brand. New Verdillis....4 50 @ Car lots 19 ey an t” s Nest 35, (4) | 100 packages in case 2 35 Extra ¢ hoice 300 Less ane in eur lots 52 OILS LANTERN GLOBES. En | New Verdillis....4 50 @ nt No. Tubular, cases 1 doz Private brands WICKING. Fancy 300 New Ver- H id — ca eee ee en A coz “ Quintette ..- 35 Wl ~ i dilli r ides es The Standard Oil ¢ potee | a : ? oD 9: llis 500 @ he Sti i 1 Co. quotes | No, 0 Tubular, eases 2 do New Brick 30 00) pai Fancy 360 Novem! er : s and pelts. as follows: este siunieie sata 45 SOAP. 4) euae F 500 @ "Perkins & Hess pay as fol-| focer Pent iNo. Tabular, bbis 5 doz : we | Extra Fancy 360 No- lows: i ee @ ‘'2| eacl Laundry. ‘71 vembe cut 550 @ Hides XXX W.W.Mich.Hadlt @ + No. 6 Tobulas bull's e vl Allen B. Wrisley’s brands, =| Extra Fancy 300 No- Green a 6 - High Tost Headlight @i | a i aie a 1 25 : , } 2 6 : 7 : po > i ns ani cases 1 do each 2 8 Sa. 3 = CRACKERS. vember cut 550 @ Part cured “@ 5 ae " ies | LAME -3 tp hive Gicoliue HAGUE | _AMP WICKS White Borax 100 %; lb 3 65 - Bananas. ass — Si2@ 92 | Cylinde 3. Ga | No. o — / oo : : : - ZG _ ». 0 per gross a Proctor & Gamble. The N. Y. Biscuit Co. quote 8 | A definite price is hard to| Kips. green ri ; ., Engine Iz @7l PG 5 Concord as follows: | name, as it varies according t: Kips. cured 7 sit : > Black, winter = = Ivory, 1002 Butter. — buneh and quality of | C-ifski Sreet ie 1 Black, summer. @ 74) No, 3 per er 3 a . uit. a er i i & per gross ‘a Iqory, 602 Seymou 51 alg Calfsk , cued 2 @ls From Tank Wagon. | Mommoth per doz any XXX 4 | Small }unche ; ; Lenox RX. Sid. Car “ae a : Ce ' a @l = Denconskins : a3 Locene BS XX sya agi Medium bunches 2 @l WO Eocene ( >| JELLY TUMBLERS Tin Top. bi Mottled German XxX W.W.Mic idlt mn ¢ 516 arve ncehe ~s - : AA a «tid 1 a Town Talk Fami XX, 31b carton 6 | sis anon fe eee St Pelts. ile : Pints. 6doz in box, pe : i i Ss adda rearlings ae i ae Dingman brands Salted XXX BM | ear ee Lambs a ee Scofield, Shurmer & Teagle | oe box OO 1 60 Single box 3 g, | Salted XXX. 3 1b carton g | ¥ie-. Fancy Layers Old Wool ni on quote as follows: ee: a 24 doz in bbl, per 5 box lots, delivered 3 ND < | 10to 16 Ibs wid eo ae B ' doz (bbl 35) 2 10 box Lone, de livered os Sada XXX Soda. | Figs, Choice Layers Wool. Palacine wana »10 a} a 6 doz in box per a. Hl, I ] 7 ‘ onc tees nile le (GAN 0 box Jas. S. Kirk & Co.'s brands. Soda XXX, ih earion ft oo goa ag a3 oe he d 10 @I8 Bde Wii ¢ 9 Mae - - wae 1 80 secicen Family, wrp'd.. 3 338] Soda, City 7 bag ee oe nwashed a «3 Rei Cross, WLW. Halt a@, % doz (bbl 35 Ce . eG a ae ‘ ZS @ 6s : lap ‘ ~ os DDL dep) - American Family, plain a as | ¢ 7 W afer 10% | Dates. Fard- in 101b a/2 Miscellaneous. eee me 3% __ ~ N. K. Fairbank & Co.’s brands | Long Is and Wafers 11 | boxes @, 7 Tatlow 2 @4 ee va aly ee Santa Claus 3 9) | L. I. ‘< afers, | lbcarton 12 Date s, Fards in 601b ' Giense Batter 1 so From Tank Wagon. Mason—old style, pints On Brown, 60 bars » 10] | \ s “i i. i . Palacine ' Muson ryle. ¢ t 65 " a | Ovs | ses @, 5d witches 1 a alacine “ i | s > > Brown, 80 bars 3 10} ST : . : D: ates, Persians, G. Ginseng » wa? Red Cross W. W. Hadlt “ Mason » en sh) Lautz Bros. & Co.'s brands. | re Tae RxX 1 XN ” j Ms 60 1b Gases @ % i Mason ase, pts 5 Acme : 3 65 | a ri ica arton. ¢ | Dates, Saiis 60 Ib coon ae : ccc = pas ise S Cotton Oil tai” © | Gases @ 34 R ~ o ison ist wal 8 7 ocaiies es - PROVISIONS. Crockery and Dany or, pints Master + 00 | SWEET GOODS — Boxes. | So Se Glassware Dandy —glass cover, qts...10 50 = : | | The Gran : king = / Dandy- glass cover, 12 ¥ f Thompson & Chute Co.'s Animals 10%, | NUTS. and Proy a ‘ tars 7 re . t ene reer rns Teeter brands. | Bent’: Cold Water oe } a ' acetal an abn \ | : | Belle Rose Se | Almonds, Tarragona @1D lows: B: ' LAMP BURNERS. | Coe anut Taffy g_ | Almonds, Ivaca a Wes arreled Pork. Ll No. 0 Sun 42 | Coffee Cakes x | Almonds. California ke 1) 50 No. i Su {8 | Frosted Honey 11 soft shelled @ 12 ae he ed 30 No, 2 Sun (| | Graham Crackers g | Brazils new @ 7% | Snort a Sard Pubalar “ 50 “ Ta . - Tilber wn | re OMe OO security o. | tid Ginger Snaps. XXX round. 643 | Filberts wo iv 2 i > ; B Ss = } Ginger Snaps. XXX city gi, | Warmuts, Grenob e “14 hy 13 vo a 1 .NGe ss ul ines | Gin. Snps.X XX home made * | Walnuts, Freneh : a waar rene Z ay | Gin. Snps. XXXs alloped g:, | Walnuts, Calif No. 1 @i2 ea L ae cn | ; Hs 7) Wal s, soft shell dry Sz ats ~ oe Van Ha 8 | pape , soft shelled 13 Bellies 7 or ae : LAMP CHIMNEYS- Common. Tien ] allt WMi3 : ‘ ea wed 11 Table Nuts, fancy a, O14 | Bits Its 63, Per box of 6 doz. | Molasses Cakes 8 | fable Nuts, choice ~ Extra shots 64, Oo sun 1 ND | Marshmallow 15 Pecans, Texas HP... 8 @12 Saaiedl eatc! = I oc 2 oo Silver Marshmallow Creans 16 Chestnuts u Hams, 12 1b av 102 vga ca ' = 80 r Mono Pretzels. hand made gi, | Hickory Nut- per bu., a oo v4 Sec : e Savon Improved 2 Pretzelettes, LittleGerman 6%2 Mich @ get i: 7 ae AOA en Seer Sunflower 2 80!) Sugar Cake 8 Coecoanuts, full sacks ao br Hl ch : a io oe ye lv No. © Sut, ert np top 4 Golden > Sultanas re Butternuts per bu a a 7 uverag wrapped and lube ed 2 10 ‘ Economic al » 2) | Sears’ Luneh " Black Walnuts per bu “a ae ed pee No ft Sun, ¢rimp op, } + cs Snoul eis (N.Y. cut capped und abeied.. 25 | Ge BENG Henry Pa solt’s br ind — la Squ:re s Peanuts. Bacon. ciear No. 2 ~un. erimp top a } fers i ce ~ } ’ i la Wafer 4 Fancy, H. P.. Game California hams wrapped and labele . 3 20 Cocks a Boneless hams oo - ~ Fancy. H. F., Game Covuked ham 1, XXX Flint. Of th CANDIES. Roasted @ i Lards. No. 0 Su. crimp top e Fancy, H. P., Associa 4 : : _ |. wrapped and labeled 2 5d se se Compuund, tierces 5 No Sun t ne cnn 1 ee @ 5% | By type 2 No. I op, Phe Putnam Candy Co, quote Fancy, H. P.. Arsovia . unily, tierce 54) wrapped and | > + as follows: ange ix anal i tion Roasted a Ts ro : : . No. 2 Sun, crimp top, V Stick Candy. anaes £45 ia | wrapped and labeled... 3 75 aiue t ‘ottole e labeled. 3% Choice, H. P., Extras, Cottole « bbIs. pai 5 standard 6 @i : Bre standard il. H a 7 a coe dvance &| No.1 Sun, wrapped and “an, 5 lots . 3 go | Standard Twist t @i * 20 1D Pals awivance | tahe ex n oo Of th Atgus, 5 box lots, del 3 60 | Standarc ‘7 Fish and Oysters) i Pails. cadvanee | No. ¢ s 3 70 Cc } Cut Loaf i @ 4|No.< Sun, wrapped and Roasted “a 6 Cotosuet lg 6 Pearl Top. Scouring. | cases | —— = 5 lb Pails “ndvance : | ase i ae 3 1b Pail t 4 70 Sapolio, kitchen, 3 doz 2 40} Extra H. H Gi, 8hS uu Fresh Fish. 3 1b Pais _. dvanee 1 Ne ve, wrapped and Sapolio, hand, 3 doz » 49} Boston Cream i, Si, | Whitefish ) Sausages. | labeled : _. 4s . : : i" Trout : w 74 | Bologna 5 ce i ra esman Gowans & Sons’ Brands. | Mixed Candy. — Black Bass ais | Liver | Fire Proof—Plain Top. Crow 3 30 bbls. pails | Halibut 13415 =| Frankfort 714 | No. 1 Sun, plain bulb 3 40 German Family > 15 —— 5 @ 7 2 — He ring “6 Pork | "| No. 2 Sun, plain bulb .. 40 : American Grocer 100s 3 60 | mee 54@ 62 | Bluefish #124, | Blood | ony American Grocer 60s 3 on | Leader 5 Live Lobster. per Ib ais | Tongue - Bastie. om pa ny Ss N.G 3 30] on ax > Boiled Lobste1 GAB Head cheese | | o Sun. plain bulb, per i \ White 3 } Conserves @ia Cod w12 Y UZ : oe 1 & ao ouiy { | Broken o@ *'s | Haddcek a6 E needs Beef. L No. 2 Sun. plain bulb, per Oak Leaf 3 Kinderg rien 74@ 82!) No. 1 Pickerel a8 extra Mess 700 | doz 1 50 Old Style |} French Cream w 9 Pike (a Boneless ..... 9% | No. 1 Crimp, per doz 1 oupon Happy Day Valley Cresm a\2'2 |) smoked White Ae _ .. Pigs’ Feet. | No. 2 Crimp, per doz 1 60 : ' te " Red Suappers ais | mits, 19 TDS... \ 80 Sg "= SUGAR. roa or. ‘ol River Salm n aid 14 bbis, 40 lbs 1 65 “ - R pg - i ie 4 aa Pails sani ct 18025 1, bbls, 80 lbs .3@ i I. ‘ipo ie Woz 4 pe Books scCiOW are : ew Th Ooze FES dain ib &% rape doz 90 Cubes 194) Peppermint Drops (160 Wh Solid, ¢ eamery N , = ‘ ‘ i 55 eat. : Aammoth Chimneys for Store re i la oie ee a oa ae 6s Canned Meats. Lamps. Doz. Box n AAA2 -ow de rec 5 is i . On". Ops i : : : i ' completed in bbls 4 56 Gum Drops 3h @50 New 68 | Corned beef, 2 Ib 2b No. 3 Rochester. lime 100 42 Granul: ited in bags 456 | Licorice Drops 100 @ Flour in Sacks. —_ aor 15 - 1h 00 "0 : Rochester, flint 175 4 50 Fine Granulated 456/ A. B. Licorice Drops (a ) Patents 450 | Roast eet, = 10 1 3 No.3 Pearl top, vr oo S y Extra Fine Granulated $69 Lozenges, plais (260 Second Pate t 4.00 | Potted ham ee i Jewel glass ls 3 2 ave ou Mould A 4 4 +s, printed (abd straight 3 80 Potted ham, %%* 1 a No. 2 Globe Incandes i : Diamond Confee A 462 Imperk als (60 Clear .. 3 60| Beviledham, 48 5 ~— li 5 a Confee. Stand: ard A $50 Mottoes ww Graham Lee 3 60 | Beviled ham, “as is No. Globe Ineandes. L i No. | a $37) Cream Bar....- @>d | Bu kwheat 4 50 | Potted tongue 4s ... a ‘flint | 2») 5 85 oney No 2. _.4 37) Molasses Bar ..-- @50_ =| Rye 3 751 Potted tongue '4s......- 125 | No.2 Pearl glass.....210 6 00 i : : 5 ? ye ™ a . } f ; ro? THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN The Hardware Market. General trade has not been overly good i of the State, and it can be easily accounted for. The many fires put a n this section extreme dry weather and serl- ous damper on trade, and no one has felt like buying anything which was not actually needed. While this has been the case in this territory, in the remain- der of the country at large, it has had no effect upon prices. All iron p products have been advancing at a 2:4jo-gait, and the end is not yet. The advance in all raw materials, as well as labor, has jus- tified many of the advances, and to this we add unanimity of action among the manufacturers which enables them to work together and thus hold tirm each advance as it is made. The nail, wire, iron and glass manufacturers are all together in this movement, and it does seem as though they all had ~ reins well in hand, and would be al to hold the market firmly. This is rg sired by evervbody. We want no more declines. What we all want is a good, healthy advance —-and the advance strongly held. All retail dealers can assist in this movement and do their share by not trying to keep underselling their neighbor. Wire Nails--Are well up. For a long time they have not been as high. In addition to the advance in the base price, they have advanced the extras in the larger sizes trom to to 60, So cents a key over the base price, Jobbers are now sending out their new card of ex- tras. We quote from stock at $2.35@ 2.40 rates, which make the Io to 60, cut $2.55€¢S82. 90. Cut Nails In sympathy with wire nails, have advanced in the same ratio and, at present, are quoted a‘trifle less than the wire nail. Bar lron -Has been advanced over the low price early in the year, S1o a ton. We quote $1.75 rate in the same. Barbed Wire —-Has been vradually go- ing up. U ntil now we quote plated barb and galvanized barb from stock at $2.15, from stock at $2.50; plated barb from mill, $1.85, and galvanized barb from mill, $2.20. Gas Pi Is not behind, if any, oe os to follow along in the procession. We quote : 4 Black and Smaller 5010-5 > Black and sb arger G—_10 ig Galyar Her HO—10 14 Black and I a 5 Window ie Is firm at the new list, with 75 to 75 and 5 per cent. discount from same. Sheet Iron--Many orders are being placed and, if things keep on, it is well to look for higher price nn We quote No. 26 at $2.90, and No. 27 at $3. We been affected epidemic : Wringers Wri Miscellaneous lention a few ar- ticles which have by the prevailing Novelty Falcon 2,400 doz 1,700 doz gers Bright Wire Goods 80—10dis Wood Bench Planes 50-—10dis Wrought Goods 80—10dis Well Points 7a—10dis Tin Bolts .65—10dis Sheet Zine . 614 Ib Carriage Bolts . .65—10dis Copper Tea Kettles .40 —10dis Cold Ro led Copper 19 Ib New Derty Hangers 60dis citi demon 29 bOdis , k's Hangers : 60dis anized sheet Iron 7VOdis r Pompe... __ : 7d— 10dis W. Pumps i 40— Sdis D. W. Pumps (No. 423 Vadis 2 << - Physics of the Bicy cle. When a wheelman is on a bicycle, what keeps him up? That the question asked by inquisitive minds, as the rider passes swiftly along moving forward is on a wheel base practically without width. Sitting on a still wheel base is an almost impracticable feat; but it is simple enough to maintain an upright position when moving at a very slow speed. It is a physical fact that a body in motion persists in maintaining its plane of motion and unless some addi- tional force acts on the body at an angle to the original line of motion, it will continue to move in its original plane until stopped by friction or arrested by an obstruction. A body set in motion tends to move in a. straight line, and will do so unless affected by a force act- ing on it in a different direction from that of the first movement. lo illustrate this point we might refer to the rim of a flywheel, which moves in a certain plane, but not in a sraight line because it is confined to a circular path by its spokes. Should the flywheel burst, its parts would fly off in paths that would be perfectly straight, but for the force of gravity, and it is only too well known that these are not easily deflected from the paths taken by them at the mo- ment of explosion. A wheelman pieces is through prope ‘led space at a velocity sufficient to cause him to maintain his plane of move- ment. Should he desire to change this plane of motion, as in describing a curve, he can do it only by calling in the aid of gravity, i. e., he must lean to the concave side of the circle, more or less, according to the radius of the curve he is following. And. further, in describing a curve, he is impelled out- wardly by centrifugal force which is, more or less, according to his velocity, and he must oppose this force by a cen- tripetal force, which in this case is gravity. This he does also by inclining his body toward the center of curvature of the path he is describing. In this case the wheel sometimes forms a con- siderable angle with the ground, so that under some conditions it slips from un- der the rider. It is in view of this fact that the circular race track at Manhattan Beach, Coney Island, has lately been constructed with a considerable down- ward inclination toward the center, that wheels —— this track would be more nearly at right an- vles with the surface on which they roll. Phe ability of a bicycle and rider in rapid motion to do serious damage in a collision with another machine or with a pedestrian is fully ap pre lated by few wheelmen. A man weighing 150 pounds and moving at the rate of ten feet per So) on second (which is only about seven miles per hot ir ) has a momentum of 1,500 pounds, leaving out of the account the weight - the wheel. This is sufficient to upset any pedestrian with teriffic force. It has been suggested that the pneumatic tire forms a= sort of fender which would prevent serious concussion of a colision. It would undoubt- edly have a slight modifying effect, but it would be of little account. A colli- between two wheels, each with a 150 pound rider, spinning at the moder- ate speed of seven miles pe : hour, would result in a smashup with a force of 3, 000 In view of these facts, it is no wonder that bicycle accidents are often in OA oO Yo. ° wi aK a a or (SS — Me KEDDIGK TRAP © BORN JAN. 1, 18905. All the old Traps boiled down into a better one, at one-third A FIRST CLASS TRAP. No mole can pass under 24° this trap and live! the old price. FOR SALE BY Foster, Stevens & Co. Grand basics 38 Nae 2 IREIREIRE IRE 5) fod Oe eos oo P SOG ESS GAN ows o WwCSN owGowGo e ae Valve Oil Can...... THE BEST TO BUY! THE BEST TO SELL! THE BEST TO USE! Automatic Valves--Non-Explosive Over 100,000 Sold in 1894, Ask your Jobber for them, or write _ STAR MANUFACTURING CO. CANTON, OHIO. THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 31 Democracy and Socialism. seizing on all the necessaries of life, In an address delivered before the and, if this be so, would not the result graduating class of Yale ¢ ‘ollege, a few of such action be the converting of our | weeks ago, Justice Henry A. Bri the Supreme Court of the United States, undertook to set forth, in a sort of pro- There are two sorts of socialism in | WM. BRUMMELER & SONS, MANUFACTURERS NWAR AND JOBBERS OF... Selling Agts. for Columbian Enameled Steel Ware. Ww rite for C italogue. 260 South lonia Street Telephone 640. JRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Se ) eee eee onconcnonenenenenene ORORODOROROROROROTOCTOCHOHS HOROCHOE RAINS & HESS “a SU WE CARRY A STOCK OF CAKE TALLOW FOR MILL USE. Nos. 122 and 124 Louis Street, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. RORONOHOROROROROROHOROROROTONOCHOROROHOHOROHOROTOHOES own, of |8reat republic into a vast system of so- | cialism? phetic way, the ¢ thief dangers which be- | Which the Government carries on and | set the social system of the American |CONtrols all that concerns the people. republic. This address is published in One of these is a great mobocracy, like the August number of the Forum, and, | that reated by the French Revolution of it comes, its observations and statements i871. The other is that of a supreme | | | considering the high source from which 1793, or that of the Paris Commune in | | are worth attention. lustice Brown |@utocracy or Czarship. In either the | : | | | : ; 4 nie be ye ] sees in the growing power of financial people have nothing to do with public corporations one orcat eV il, and in the affairs Save to obey orders that emanate extraordinary corruption of municipal from the convention or the czar. governments another. These are the There has never existed for any con- destructive forces that threaten to over- siderable period a mobocratic so¢ ialistic turn the entire system ot individual | Sovernment, because its arbitrary des- freedom and personal liberty in this potism is so unbearable that it is always country. If the corporation trust mo- soon overthrown. As to autocratic des- nopoly system in business and indus- |Potism, there is not one outside of dark- You Can Hold ‘Up tries shall be allowed to reach its roal, jest Africa, in all its absolute complete- \ aa . Ss Ls eae oil » Ruesias j our washing a go S s it will convert the masses of the people |"€S5- Even the Czar ot all the Russias \\ Yy shing as a good example for others if you use into a. body of slaves existing at the and the Kaiser of United Germany dare | A K- EA F OAP. P_ | will of their wealthy masters; while, if uot disregard the voice of opposition to nan oa en their extreme measures. political corruption be pr rmitted to ' | It does the work easily, does it better, and does it quicker. It’s a yea a reach its full growth, it will extend from Once let the people surrender their || soap—no acids, no starch, no marble dust, nothing to injure—every- the government of cities to that of rights and liberties to any ¢ entral power, ||thing to help. Washes equally well in hard or soft water. Ask the \jgrocer for it. OLNEY & JUDSON GROCER CO., . Wholesale Agents, Grand Rapids. istration, and, instead of having as at Jof all that makes them free men and ot present a government by a political | citizens. But it must not be supposed . party for the benefit of such party, there that there is no remedy for the eN ils of ae GOOD { H ING.... { will result a set of cliques and cabals of | financial monopoly save that of Govern- states, and finally to the national admin- Jand they will soon find themselves reft individuals carrying on the government {ment control, and it is strange that a lo insist oe — placing an ‘ . = . ‘ ul ‘ oraer rior for the benefit of those individuals. justice of the Supreme Court should In proposing remedies to these ev ils, |have failed to propose It. This remedy — | Mr. Brown has nothing better to oppose will be found in vigorous laws properly oe lg to the vast and constantly increasing executed against all) organizations In- —_ te power of financial, commercial and in- [tended to control any of the necessaries Is thatthey shall be repackea and 1) Senne. dient of requiring U ‘ Of course, that costs a little more, bu ment to own and operate the business | 0° service of universal use. If there ...1T PAYS.... now carried on by corporations. °° If.’? |were no great Commer ial and industrial i says this eminent personage, “the Gov- | trusts, the small dealers and manutac- | THE PUTNAM GANDY G9. Gann Rapids ernment mav be. safely intrusted with |turers would not be crushed out of exist- dustrial trusts than the socialistic expe- of life, whether it be food, money, e National Govern- | clothes, fuel, labor or any other article { the transmission of our letters and pa- ;ence, and there would be no | 1. pers, | see no reason why it may not|tions employing men by the no ach } transportation on land and the trans- }Selves, and thus has grown up the Caus- | also be intrusted with the transmission |thousand. And if there were no such of our telegrams and parcels, as is al- employers of armies of laborers, there | : “ ] most universally the case in Europe; or} would be no organizations of laborers | = 1 U Y E of our passengers and freight, through a | for protection against or aggression Upolu | > ve S our ar q state ownership of railways, as in Ger- employers. : l 2 — France, Austria, Sweden and The nner the | -— nahi ge : We have 2 carload New ‘Teas due Norway. ploy a million of men to do their work. ) i a qT as ee ee But ‘the railways and the telegraph These railways can, if they will, combine | : next week. an ol — friends - corporations are by no means the only|to fix the wages of their laborers | interested in Japan Teas, new 01 ones that maintain monopolies over a and they will fix them at the very | > old, we Can do them lots ot good. necessary service or articles of univer- lowest possible pornt. The workpeo- | : WOODENWARE has dec lined un- sal daily consumption. Not only are ple, in turn, combine to protect them- | ° TT A > til present prices are so extremely low we dare not publish them. \Vrite us. We Offer for a Snap terests are joined or combined in order }lation against all trusts, whether com- mercial, industrial or financial. Labor | oee@ 150 7 Nunley Hynes Marrow- mission of news under powertul corpor- | ation of a tremendous social conflict | ations, but so also are the industries of |which, if not prevented by wise and | - ly . ’ tr mining, manufacturing, banking and } just measures, will plunge this country insurance. The various corporations | nto terrible social revolutions. The | . oo engaged in carrying on these great m- )Tre medy 1s in prompt and effective legis to make and maintain the prices of their . | products or of the service they re nder, [trusts should be dealt with just the same | ® fat P eas 25. new, at ASC | yer dz. Well does Mr. Brown say: “‘If no |as the others. Justice Brown knows well ° sh Yl r | S S| 1 . student can light his lamp without pay- that there are already laws enacted by | - - pay E clipse ‘Vom: ‘toe 3) at ing tribute to one Company 5 if no house- |Congress against combinations in re- | e T/A€ per dz. in B Case lots, net keeper can buy a pound of meat or of |straint of or for the control of trade. | cash. sugar without swelling the receipts of | But it has been impossible to obtain | i two or three all-pervading trusts what |judgment in the Federal courts against | -eooeCheap Piug Tobaccose@ees-- is to prevent the entire productive in- | the financial and commercial monopo- | e We are in the swim on all Plugs at dustry of the country becoming ulti-|lies. Not so, however, in regard to the : I mately absorbed by a hundred gigantic |operation of these laws against combi- | a 12 — to 10c rT ). ——— If a railway company |nations ot laborers. The laws have been | originally wreanized to build a hundred |enforced against them without hesita- | miles of ‘oudl has, by fifty years of con- | tion by the courts. solidations and leases, become the un-| Here, then, is’ the remedy. Let the | disputed master of ten thousand miles | strong arm of the Government put down | of transportation, what Is to prevent It} all - -ivate ke power from private combinations in another fifty years from monopolizing which is used or intended to control the | (LIMITED.) half the traffic of the continent?’’ necessaries of life. Let there be free a i EAST SAGINAW, MICH. Then, if Government control is neces- competition for all, That ts the basis | | | sary to curb the railway aggrandizement of all true democracy, and is the only of power, is it not also necessary to measure that will prevent in this coun- control the vast monopolies that are try a war of classes. Pearman nee ne cmt SN SRE THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN GOTHAM GOSSIP. News from the Metropolis---Index of the Market. New York, August 3, 1895. weather prevails, as it almost always does in August in New York, or, at least, during part of the month. Buyers are here in full force and the market is in better condition all around than a week ago. Grocery jobbers are at length beginning to feel the influence of fall demand and, in some instances, sales- men are busier than they have been for weeks. The coffee market, both as regards Spot sales and exchange transactions, iS certainly strong. No. 7 Rio is worth 164%c., and holders are not urging sales even at this figure. Mild sorts, as well as Rios, are in good demand and bring full rates. Cucuta has advanced and sells from 1g@2oc., and Java is held at Glorious 21@22c. Of Rio coffee there are afloat 512,216 bags, against 355,736 bags last year. No change has been made in the quo- tations of sugars, but it does seem as though higher rates would be only a question of a very short time. Supplies throughout the interior are apparently light and, with every prospect of raws advancing, it would seem that purchases of granulated sugar at present prices would be% investments that would pay a good return, ~ Nothing is doing in tea beyond daily sales. It would seem as though the market was pretty well cleaned up on many sorts, but buyers show no anxiety to lay in stocks beyond immediate ne- cessities. Rice remains firm. Samples of new crop have been received here which show an elegant appearance, being clear, full grained and altogether equal to any. Stocks of foreign are rather limited. It is understood that the new domestic is offered at 5c. in New Or- leans. It will not be in plentiful sup- ply for some little time, however. It is going to be a great rice year. The people engaged in the canned goods business are smiling more broad- ly than for some time past. There is a firm market for almost everything, and particularly for the old standbys, corn and tomatoes. From all sides 1s heard reports of good fruit crops, which would seem to indicate that we cannot have much higher rates, but just now some quite large sales are being made, and brokers are growing rich, or partly so. New York State gallon apples have sold for future delivery for $2 and even for $2.95. Spot market, $2. Spot corm is worth 65@70c. for New York State, and future is quoted 7o@goc. Peaches show no change, and peas are decidedly ** off.”’ Salmon is firm, with a great variety of fish on sale. Spices are a trifle lower all around. Sales are running light, and some con cessions are made when necessary to effect transactions. Molasses is dull for the quality which is most frequently to be met with. We hear the remark daily that a really first class sample of molasses is hard to find. There is plenty of ‘‘as is’” stuff, which sells, when it sells at all, for rates which are way down. The supply of foreign is almost exhausted and holders ask full rates. Syrup is accumulating. ‘Trading is only moderately active. Quotations are unchanged. Fruits, both of foreign and California production, are moving off quite well, and for lemons there is an improved outlook. It is likely we shall have but one auction sale per week of lemons for some time now, and this will tend to keep the market in better shape than it has been. Fresh fruits are abundant and cheap. 3utter meets with a better demand than it did last week and 18'%c. is pre- vailing rate for best Elgin. Cheese is steady. Nothing new has transpired, and dealers are in a waiting mood. Small sized, colored, full cream State cheese is worth 844 @8% <—___ Write us for special prices on Stone- ware, Butter Jars, Milk Pans, Jugs, etc., unloaded directly from car this coming week. W.S. & J. E. GRAHAM, Grand Rapids, Mich. A GENUINE NOVELTY. MISSES’ AND CHILDRENS’ SCHOOL OVERS. SEND FOR SAMPLE Wales-Goodyears, (j, R. MAYHEW, Connecticuts. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Millers! Attention! We have for sa ea number of NEW PURIFI- ERS, FLOUR DRE SERS and SCALPERS. All Standard Machines at much less than the cos_ of m -nufacture: also two set- STEVEN'S ROLLS, DOUBLE, 6x12. smooth. One PERPENDICULAR BEEKER BRUSH MACHINE. Address SPOONER & HALL, Grand Rapids, Mich. Room 3. Powers’ Opera Huse BI'k. TO CLOSE UP AN ESTATE Good Furniture Business...... etl. @ i Established 1887. Always good growing business. Occupying new build- ing in prosperous city of 100,000 people. Large territory tributory to it. Well selected and complete stock of all kinds of Household goods. Yearly business of $50,000 can be done. Will be sold at a bargain. Address No. 1000, care MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Are You Looking .....f0r Business ? FOR SALE Nich. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Buildings, Machinery, Foundry and Boiler er 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, 160x 170 ft. Machine Shop, one story, 60x 65 ft. Foundry, 60 x 60 ft., two cupolas Boilerand Pattern Shop, two stories, 50 x 100 feet. Blacksmith Shop, i» rear, 59 x 60 ft., two forges. Engine Room, 33 x 20 ft. Engine and Boiler of 7 horse power capacity. Vacant ground for storage, 60 x 160 ft. Will] be sold cheap and on easy terms, to close an estate, WM. T. POWERS & Grand Rapids, Mich. By Wma. T. Powers, Survivor WANTS COLUMN. BUSINESS CHANCES. | aes SALE—CHLAP, COMPLETE sTOCK OF drugs with fixtures and lease of store on South Division street. Would take some real estate. John C. Dunton, Lyou and Kent street, Grand Rapids. O00 NOR SALE—OLD ESTABLISHED GENERAL merchandise store in Northern Michigan, stock consisting of groceries, hardware, drugs, crockery, school books, notions, ete. Will sell drug stock separately if desired. Large new building in course of construction. Address No. 821, care Michigan Tradesman. 821 OR SALE—HALF INTEREST IN A WELL- established drug store located in best town in Upper Peninsula mining district. Stock also includes stationery, blank books and wall paper. Cash sales, $8,000 per year. Will sell half in- terest for $1,500 cash and permit purchaser to pay for balance of interest out of profits of busi- ness. Purchaser must be able to take full charge ot business, as present Owner must remove to warmrr climate on account of ill health. Ad- dress No. 820, care Michigan Tradesman. 820 apes SALE—DRUG STOCK AND FIXTURES in live town, good trade. Stoek and fix- tures nearly all new. Will rent building and sell stock and fixtures on easy terms if desired. Only drug store intown. Elegant living rooms in building. Reason for selling, have other business, and am not registered. Address No. 818, care Michigan Tradesman. 818 pre SALE—DRUG, PAINT AND GROCERY stock. Nearest drug competition, eight miles, Cash sales, $100 per week. Rent $ 6 per month. Address Cash, care Michigan Trades man. 817 Kk YR SALE—OR WILL TRADE FOR PROPER- ty located near the corner of Hall and Madison avenue, astock of gencral merchandise, consisting of groceries, dry goods, boots and shoes, flour, feed, ete. Good reasons for selling. Bor particulars call or address on the premises’ 305 Central avenue, Grand Rapids. slg A BIG CHANCE FOR SOMEONE—JEWELRY 44 stock, tools and fixtures, to the amount of $1 300, can be bought for $550, with first class lo- cation. Address No. 8:3, care Michigan Trades- man. 813 \ JANTED —TO EXCHANGE DESIRABLE residence property or vacant lots located in Benton Harbor, Mich., for stock of groceries or general stock. Address Box 1296, Benton Har bor, Mich. 815 | eee SALE OR EXCHANGE—A FINE MILL propert ,40 horse water power: would make a good fish hatchery; exceilent spring creek: well located on railroad; store building, 20 x 90: hay scales; side track; agricultural ware house; saw mill and planing mill: two small houses: one nice large residence; all well rented except mills run by owner: excellent potato and wood market: plenty of hardwood saw timber near by. Exchange for farm or city property. Address W.H. N., care Michigan Tradesman. 811 | SALE OR EXCHANGE—SO ACRE FRUIT and stock farm ten miles from city, for stock of merchandise. Address L. & Co., 667 Madison avenue, Grand Rapids. 807 | gees SALE—THE DANIELS STOCK OF GRO ceries. Best location and cheapest rent in town. Strictly cash business and well estab- lished. stock worth about $4,800. Will take five-s xths of inventory, cash. Fixtures the best. Add ess Box 97, Traverse City, Mich. 797 a SALE—DRUG STOCK AND FIXTURES; corner location; stoe in good condition and business paying. Good reasons for selling. Ad- dress Dr. Nelson Abbott, Kalamazoo, Mich. 776 \ ] ANTED—PARTNER TO TAKE HALF IN terest in my 75 bbl. steam roller mill and elevator, situa ed on railroad: miller preferred: good wheat country. Full description, price, terms and inquiries given promptly by xddressing H.C. Herkimer, May bee, Monroe « ounty, Mich. 711 MISCELLANEOUS. \ JANTED—PINT AND QUART MASON jars. Would like to hear from parties who bought early and are located in sections where fruit ix scarce and have no call forthem. Edwin Fallas, Grand Rapids, Mich. 816 a. SALE -—FOUR (4) STANDARDCOUNTER marble platform Dayton computing scales; have been used but a few months; all in good order. Address Hoyt Seale Co., Atianta, Ga. 805 W E BUY ALL KINDS SCRAP IRON, METAL, ags, shirt and overall cuttings and rub- ber. Write for prices. Wm. Brummeller & Sons, 260 S. lonia St., Grand Rapids. ‘Phone 640. 804 NOR SALE CHEAP—COMPLETE SET TIN- ner’s tools. Address P. W. Holland, Chapin, 784 Mich. \ 7] ANTED—BUTTER, EGGS, POULTRY, PO- tatoes, onions, apples, cabbages, etc. Cor- respondence solicited. Watkins & Axe, 84-86 South Division street, Grand Rapid 673 OR SALE—#5,000 NICE CLEAN STOCK OF boots, shoes, clothing and dry goods at 50 cents cash on the dollar of the wholesale cost. Address No. 810, care Michigan Tradesman. 810 oe DRUGGIST JUST COM- meucing business, and every one already started, to use our system of poison labels. What has cost you $15 you can now get for $4. Four- teen labels do the work of 113. Tr desman Com- pany, Grand Rapids. For Bargains in Real Estate, in any part of the State, write €o......0..... 0. G. W. Ames 106 Pheenix Block BAY CITY, MICHIGAN reYololelelelelelelelelelelelelelelolololeoleoleleolololololejlejlejlojlejejejejeojelejejejejejejlejele) UNEQUALED. —. | VS The demand for Wt S ~— SS - i Roce =| ree Fenn) IT HAS NO EQUAL. is also growing rapidly. OOONDDNDNOONNN000000056 The GAIL BORDEN EAGLE BRAND Condensed Milk is not rivaled by any other brand of milk. testimony of Consumers, Dealers and Jobbers, and accounts for the largely increased sales each year. BORDEN’S PEERLESS BRAND Evaporated Cream Of course, this indicates merit Prepared and guaranteed by the New York Condensed Milk Company. For Quotations see Price Columns. This is the universal ABSOLUTELY PURE. ODDDDDDDDNDODNDNONDNNNDNDONNONNNONONGOONNO O00 00000000000! The Poor Merchant Fifteen Dollars for Four Dollars You Want It! You Have To Have It! The Law Says You Shall fiave it......... ~ 2,800 labels all in convenient form for immedi: ite use, | as illustrated below, with instructions for using. No} 00000000000000000000 label case necessary. They never curl. They never) get mixed up. | 3 eee ee BENE eR nn TRADESMAN © COMPANY'S | CLASSIFIED LIST OF 4 { | : S| | = |POISONOUS- DRUGS |- | | rovares S | | Because he is haunted with visions of unpaid book fiow wo U Us6 Than ‘ aan ae jaccounts which could have been avoided by the use of ipa ithe 5 Aen ee ih ina ill cuuTiON— 10 biter sysiem of Poison Labels with tis list, | = pelle eee ee eee | @ § 3 E Be AP [boos oupon Book System “f ae aot gt, « 6 arg £2 Beare nc of Sesame deh _ Bae - i a it sans Ny LC » oe g i Ten | : i 1d . . ib = Ly LP. of iwhich is now in use by progressive merchants every- eee Bp eee a | _— [_—— where. x Bri 1 St e < SVSTt Ss ¢ Ss ius : : rf : 1) Saves t e consi ed ding Si 5 SS ste cnc i eis Bi go Sa ) ¢ x dei Ss > “4 ( 5 + “a . ' 3 : + 7: t thie wWigation In tO i t W iS t t cx ‘ ee SSE 2 5 = = asa able t do w edg act S cS cust ‘ ne ' established by the merchant, as it is almost impossi \ ss k. There are 113 poisonous drugs sold, which must be labeled as such, with the Are not the advantages above enumerated su V the proper al itidote attached. Any label house will charge you 14 cents for 250 labels, ' : : a ‘ the smallest amount sold. C he ap enough, at a glance , but did you ever figure it out |CoUpon system: If so, order from the largest manufac rs of coupons Le ¢ 113 kin ids at 14 cents—S15.8 With our system you ¢ ret the same results with less ey detail for less than one-th hind ¢ the mone y. al wsrascuaguoslcngil ts la iia on Sent prepaid to any address, when cash accompanies order, for $4. Grand Rapids Grand Rapids ¢ ! ° ° Another Drop! + GLASS and CROCKERY 3 BO SO9SO9S6O49OO09994006666699666606669606666006 3 — Package of New Crystal Glassware. We can si you enough on every package of Glassware to more than pay the freight .. ae HY) PANS ile. 7 — oe ip sate pa A very attractive pattern, smoothly finished. T Roset ign. Frosted and figured al ed are scalloped and the whole make-up is br ghtande iti vating. “Our — Bargain” consists of the following: i Hl sets @ #2 25 € 38 1-6dz.7in.op.Bwl#2 00 € 31 2 00 4: 1-6dz.8in.op.Bwl 300 50 2 ” 40 20 1,dz.2bt].Casters 1 80 90 is dz. Cele . a0 Go 2dz,Salts&éPep 37 7A 144 dz. 8 in. Napps. 1 00 50 we 3 dz + n. Nal PS. 20 ik Total, $12 16 > : 2K) 46 Less 10 p.ct. a | M% a Hon ri r135 oe 1 ais s in. ev. Bowls 6 —— Packag #10 95 eee a ee Write for our New Illustrated Catalogue, 118 Assorted Package Glassware. NO. 1895 ASSORTED FOUR PIECE SETS. ‘> 3 Yt, = SUM Ary {y Any my ye A ses Butter, Spooner, Creamer, Sugar. We have especially arranged t is package to give our sustomers a good variety of small quantities of the be St se intng i-piece sets on the market, at the same time saving you 10 percent. Contents of package as follows: Sugar. 15 doz. No. 94 4 piece Sets. $ 56 6-1 doz. No. 49D 4 piece Sets .....86 00 #1 00 '4 doz. No. 15909 4 piece Sets,..... 56 — 1-6doz. No. 39D 4 piece Sets...... 4 00 67 #3 62 1-6doz. No. Alexis 4 piece Sets..... 5 00 83 Less Oper cost... 2... 36 Barrel, 35 cents. #3 26 “Mikado” Decorated Toilet Sets. Foracheap Toilet Set “Mikado” cannot be excelled. Asstd. ue. in 3 desirable cols , Pink, Pencil. Brown, in artistie ally arranged groups of flowers and foliage Good qui ality. Per Set of 19 pieces bee eee $1 75 Per Set of 12 pieces. ......-.. 2 O0 +H. LEONARD & SONS #0 TOOTH TODD EERE PP PN en en en PT PT eT eT eDeDvrDvrDrnD enn rnp enenn enn nny rne py nD pe rN eNE cilia aii 7AM NAAN AAA Adb 4A dddddbadddcdd Mdadddddd VASA AAA adds Wud ddaddaddddddddddddd’s i + 2 2. q by Investigate the Dayton Computing Scale. PAYS FOR ITSELF Money-Saving Scale Every two months and makes you 600 per cent. on the It prevents all errors in weighing and STOPS THE LEAKS in your business these hard times. to be without one. YOU NEED rt investment. You can not afford SEE WHAT USERS SAY. J. W. WHITELEY & SON, Iry G a, C ing, Groceries, etc BOSTON STORE. Dry Goods, Clothing, Groceries, ete. 118-124 State St., and 77-79 Madison St., CasH MERCHANDISE. Chicago, Dec. 31, 1894. GENTLEMEN: Dayton Computing Seale Co. , Dayton, O. Bonaparte, Iowa, April 22, 1895. In reference to yours of recent date regarding the Computing Seales which you The Computing Scale Co., Dayton, Ohio: GENTLEMEN: since November 24, 1894, in our butter, cheese sent us, permit us to state that they have ex- We have had your scale in use Ceeded our expectations, giving us the utmost satisfaction. We consider it one of our greatest conveniences in our store, and knowing it, as we and meat department. We find them todoev- now doand from the experience we have had actly what you claim. Our clerks can wait on fromits usage in the store, we would not dis- . pense with it for ten times it valu more customers and assure them accuracy in ev F : S Any ordi- nary clerk, with common school education, can ery respect. We can recommend them as the expedite business equal to two or three clerks, most economicaliscale in use for meat markets and groceries Yours truly, Boston STORE. For further particulars call or write THE COMPUTING SCALE CO., Dayton, Ohio. and we prize itas one of our foremost fixtures in ourstore. We consider and feel that ours has paid for itself in two months. Yours truly, J. W. WHITELEY & Son. an