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GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1896.

HUMILIATING RETRACTION.

Storrs Forced to Recant False State-
i ments.

As a result of the stinging rebuke ac-
corded the State Food Commissioner in
the last issue of the Tradesman, and in
consequence of an appeal to Governor
Rich by the aggrieved parties and their
attorneys, Mr. Storrs has made an ab-
ject apology to the Battle Creek manu-
facturers whose preparations he ma-
ligned and issued the following bulletin
to the newspapers :

Whereas, Complaint has been. made
about certain statements made
January Bulletin of the Dairy and Food
Commissioner in relation to Postum
Cereal and Rye-O, I gave what I be-
lieved to be within my proper duties in
the matter, such information as
thought the people were entitled to.

I am now advised by the Attorney-
General that I exceeded my _ duties
when I attempted to show that the sell-
ing price of an article was out of pro-
portion to the cost of the material of
which it was made. In making this
statement, no account was taken of cost
of manufacture, or the skill and knowl-
edge required in its preparation and the
many other items of expense necessary
to advertise and put the same upon the
market.

The language of the bulletin issued
in January would indicate that it was
offered as a counterfeit coffee. This
was not the intention, because, while it
may be used in lieu of coffee, the label
of the goods shows that it was not in-
tended to be either tea or coffee, and the
analysis does not show that it was
adulterated, or is unwholesome for hu-
man food.

It is the desire of this office to keep
within the express limits of the law,
and to serve the public as therein re-
quired ; and in a case like this, where,
inadvertently, errors have been made,
it is a pleasure to make the correction
promptly.

During the interview in Governor
Rich’s office it came out that the State
Analyst had made a gross blunder in
stating that Postum Cereal was made
entirely of barley. The facts are that
no barley at any time ever entered into
its manufacture in any way or shape.
This incident is significant, as showing
how little reliance can be placed on the
analyses or statements of the State
Analyst.

Although the law expressly prohibits
the State Analyst from giving any
manufacturer a certificate of merit or
purity for his goods, it will be noted
that the Commissioner overrides the
law by stating, in his retraction, that
‘the analysis [of Postum Cereal] does
not show that it was adulterated, or is
unwholesome for human food.’’ What
right has Mr. Storrs to insist that others
shall conform to the law, when he—
whose sole duty is to enforce the law—
ignores and violates it? If there ever
were any doubts in the minds of any-
one as to his personal unfitness to dis-
charge the duties of Food Commission-
er, such doubts are forever dispelled by
this unlawful action.

Referring to the ‘‘bad break’’ of the
Commissioner, the Detroit Free
Press of Sunday, in its leading edito-
rial, says:

If he had been the most ignorant or
even venal of public officials he could

in the.

 

hardly have gone farther from the line
of his duties than he did in this in-
stance. It is absolutely inconceivable
how a man of intelligence, with the law
before him, could have supposed for a
moment that he was charged with any
responsibility as te the protection of
the public from possible overcharge for
articles sold as foods. It was just as
much within the scope of his -duties to
point out to the public what profit they
are paying to the coal barons, or the
dealers in building materials, or
jewelry, or hardware, or any other ar-
ticle which the public buys. Macaulay’s

‘*schoolboy’’ ought to have known that
much; yet it never occurred to the

Commissioner, if he states the matter
fairly—as we believe he does—until he
was advised concerning it by the Attor-
ney-General. It is to be hoped that
hereafter, and so long as he continues
in the office to which he has been ap-
pointed, he will keep in_ pretty close
touch with the Attorney-General, and
consult that official upon all points as
to which there is the slightest room for
doubt or question.

The Ohio Merchant
portion of the editorial in last week’s
Tradesman, commenting thereon as fol-
lows :

So far as this paper is concerned, it
maintains that Commissioner Storrs
has no more right, or should have no
more right, under the constitution, to
express the sentiments he did in his
January report than he would have to
report that he had examined my dog
and found that he was of the wrong
sex. If Mr. Post, of Battle Creek, is
clever enough to concoct a_ preparation
of rye and other cereals, or shavings
and black-strap molasses, no matter how
little it costs to prepare, and that prep-
aration is absolutely harmless to the hu-
man system, and the American public
is fool enough to pay 2,400 per cent.
profit to the manufacturer, he ought
not to be interfered with. Of course,
this is not in accord with Ohio’s Fool
Food Commissioner, but it must be re-
membered that we live in an age of
absolute freedom, and that the spirit of
independence for which our ancestors
spilled their good blood still permeates
every nook and crevice of this broad
land. The moment that Mr. Post, of
Battle Creek, or Jones, of New York,
brings forward a preparation whose con-
stituents conflict with the health of any
consumer, then they should be _ placed
in the vise of public disapproval and
the clamps turned on. But not until
then.

February 9, John R. Bennett, State
Inspector, made the rounds of the job-
bing trade of Grand Rapids and in-
structed the jobbers to label all pan-
cake flours with a slip reading, ** Mix-
ture.’’ In view of the fact that Com-
missioner Storrs had written the Ameri-
can Cereal Co. and the R. T. Davis
Mill Co. two days prior to that date
that he would permit the goods now in
the State to be used without special
labels on the packages, the demand of
Mr. Bennett was not complied with.
The incident tends to show the lack of
harmony between the head of the de?
partment and the men who are sent out
to represent the department throughout
the State.

The prosecution of B. Desenberg &
Co., of Kalamazoo, which was begun on
complaint of the Food Commissioner,
ended in a fiasco at Lansing last Tues-
day by the withdrawal of the charge
against the defendant by Mr. Storrs.

reproduces a

 

The Food Commissioner, through In-
spector Bennett, has instructed the gro-
cery and meat jobbers who sell Cottoline
and Cotosuet to label each package
‘*Compound Mixture.’’ The manutac-
turers assert that their preparations are
not compounds of lard
in fact
of, or substitutes

contain no lard,
and are not sold as compounds
for, lard, and forbid
jobbers to place false and misleading
labels on their goods.
anteed the trade to defend any action
brought against any dealer by reason
of his selling Cottoline or Cotosuet
branded required by
sioner, and the trade

They have guar-

not
the Commis-
awaits the

as
now
outcome.

One of Mr. Storrs’ Inspectors recent-
ly inspected the spices of a large gen-
eral store in Northern Michigan, pro-
nouncing all the ground goods adulter-
ated. Satisfied that the Inspector was
not acting in good faith, the manager
of the store took a pound of whole pep-
per and bastily ground it ina small
mill in the drug department. He then
carried it back to the grocery depart-
ment and submitted it to the Inspector,
who looked at it under a magnifying
glass and hastily pronounced it one-half
cocoanut shells.

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Condemn the Food CommisSioner’s
Action.

Jackson, Feb. 22—At the regular

meeting of the Jackson Retail Grocers’
Association, held Feb. 21, a memorial
on the death of Geo. Stiles, a member
of the Association, and the acknowledg-
ment from the family were read and
the Secretary was instructed to enter
the memorial on the records and file
the letter.

The bills contracted for the fifth an-
nual social meeting, to the amount of
$65.93, were presented and audited.
Other current bills were considered and
warrants ordered in payment.

The President, in a_ brief address,
thanked the members most heartily for
the able and efficient manner in’ which
they labored to make the fifth annual
social the most enjoyable of any of the
winter socials held by the Association.

The action of the Dairy and Food
Commissioner, in attempting to regu-

late cest, profit and other details of
manufacture; the leading editorial in
the Tradesman relating thereto, and

the left-handed apology which was sub-
sequently published in the daily papers
were discussed at some length. The
opinion of the ‘Jackson grocers is that
the Food Commissionerzhas enough to
attend to, if he enforces the food laws
as enacted, without going®outside of his
legitimate province and attacking food
products which are not claimed to be
adulterated. The Jackson grocers are
trying hard to observe and maintain the
laws relating to pure food and are fairly
well satisfied with the laws if they are
enferced honestly.

The matter of the fifth annual holi-
day and excursion was brought up_ in-
formally and the consensus of opinion
expressed was to make this year’s holi-
day a red letter day in the records of
the Association. Several places as ob-
jective points for the excursion were
mentioned, but, owing to the length of
time before the event occurs, it was
considered advisable to postpone action
in the matter until later in the season.

A thoroughly enjoyable meeting was
had and _ the {best of feeling prevailed.
From the present outlook the Jackson
Retail Grocers’ Association will be
found very much alive during 1896
and a long time afterward.

W..H Porter, Sec y.

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

Bicycles _

The Distribution of Wheels.

The phenomenal demand has made
the bicycle one of the most profitable
lines for such merchants as are situated
so as to take advantage of it. Im-
proved methods of manufacture have
greatly reduced the actual cost, while the
price remains unchanged, leaving a
better margin, probably, than in any
other standard line. Of course, this
must be a temporary condition but it is
a windfall to such as can gather it.

To be sure there are a few high-
priced wheels widely advertised on
which the manufacturers allow a com-
paratively small margin. These are
justified in that they have chosen to
keep the advertising in their own hands
and this must be reckoned in the cost to
them. The fact that they can sell all
that they can make at the high price
they demand shows that they know what
they are about at least.

These wheels, being so widely adver-
tised, are naturally the first to come to
the attention of the inquiring dealer,
and when the small margin for sales is
named it conveys the impression that
there is comparatively little in wheels.
As a matter’of fact, however, there are
a great number of wheels practically
little, if any, inferior to these in every-
thing except the reputation gained by
extended advertising, on which the
margins are sufficiently generous.

The differences in the cost of build-
ing the,wheels in the qualities classed
as ‘‘high grade’’ are very small. The
rapid education of demand and the cor-
responding standard of accuracy and
quality in production have made the
actual differences exceedingly small; a
wheel, to sell at all, must be really high
grade

Thus the dealer has considerable
choice as tc the manner in which he
prosecutes the trade. He may prefer
to act simply as agent for a widely ad-
vertised .wheel on a small margin, de-
pending on the reputation and wide no-
toriety for sales; or, if situated so that
he can do so, he can do the pushing
himself, reaping a correspondingly
larger reward. In the latter case he
can rest assured of almost as little an-
noyance on account of dissatisfaction as
in the former, and what little difference
there may be will be more than compen-
sated for in the care and anxiety of the
manufacturer to make good any real or
apparent defect.

The margins between the cost of man-
ufacture and the selling price are suffi-
cient to pay for time, energy and money
to push the sales. While the demand
is so great that a dearth of supply is al-
ready being talked of, the consequent
rapid increase of competition makes it
necessary to use effort in selling. It is
probable that such effort this year will
be better rewarded than in future years.

NATE.
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An Ice Bicycle.

From the suggestion thrown out by a
boy who lashed an ordinary skate to the
front wheel of his safety and was enabled
to make good time over the surface of a
frozen lake, two enterprising young men
in Chicago have invented and patented
an ice bicycle and formed a company
for its manufacture. With the first
perfected model one of the inventors
made a mile in one minute and twenty
seconds, and this can be improved up-
on, the skill of the rider being the only
limit to the possibilities in the line of

records. The change from the normal
bicycle to the ice machine can be made
in five minutes. The® rear tire is de-
flated and the toothed band of steel
slipped over it. The tire is then in-
flated until the tension is sufficient to
hold the band firmly in place. The
vlade is holiow ground, rendering
lateral slipping impossible. The weight
of the machine remains unaltered. The
device is so cheap that cycling on ice
is pretty sure to become popular.
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Rails on Country Roads.

‘The latest scheme for good roads,
that of laying tracks of broad steel rails
along country roads and city streets for
the wheels of vehicles to run on, thus
greatly increasing the traction power of
horses and the general comfort and con-
venience of driving and trucking, was
suggested by Gov. Werts, of New Jer-
sey, in his last message. It apparently
is an elaboration and improvement of
a system of paving used in some for-
eign cities which has proved very satis-
factory. Gov. Werts’ suggestion, which
is really the proposition of Mr. Budd,
Commissioner of Roads, is to lay double
tracks of steel along the country roads,
filling in the space between the rails
with ordinary paving of macadam. He
says a horse will draw on such a steel
track twenty times as much as on ma-
cadam. The unanimity with which
drivers of all manner of vehicles in city
streets take to the car track clearly il-
lustrates the idea. Many of the streets
along the line of docks in Liverpool,
over which heavy loads of all kinds are
drawn to and from the ships, have long
slabs of granite, such as are used at
crossings, laid end to end in four par-
allel rows ali along the street, practi-
cally like car tracks. The rest of the
street is paved with Belgian granite set
in the ordinary manner. These wheel
tracks of granite slabs afford a perfectly
regular and smooth surface for the trucks
to run on, while the granite sets give a
good purchase for the horses. This
style of paving has proved of great util-
ity and convenience. It is much easier
for the horses than where the wheels
have to jolt over the small sets and they
can do much better work. It adds
much to public comfort, too, because
the trucking is almost noiseless. The
slabs wear better than the small sets
because there is no irregular wear by
jolting and scraping.

This system of paving is in use in
some of the streets about the docks of
London, in Antwerp and in many other
cities in Great Britain and on the Con-
tinent. Of course, steel rails would be
a great improvement on the granite
slabs in many respects. Perhaps the
granite has an advantage over steel for
use in crowded city streets, in that it
is nct more slippery in wet weather
than is the rest of the paving, while
broad rails of steel might prove treach-
erous for horses where there was much
crossing of teams. Gov. Werts, how-
ever, only suggested the use of steel on
country roads.

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Until the safety bicycle came into
use the outdoor sports for women were
confined almost exclusively to tennis,
croquet, riding, driving, shooting, boat-
ing and other amusements of the same
class, of which the great mass of working
girls and those employed during the
day could not take advantage. It seemed
as if there was no exercise or amuse-
ment at which they could pass the even-
ing hours and gain enjoyment and _ res-
pite after the day’s work. The safety
bicycle fills a much needed want for
women in any station of life. It knows
no class distinction, ts within the reach
of all, and rich and poor alike have the
opportunity to enjoy this popular and
healthful exercise.

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In repairing a single-tube tire a min-
ute or two of extra time to see the plug
set properly with cement may save a

 

good deal of future annoyance. It is

 

just as easy to make good repairs on
pneumatic tires as bad ones, and you
will be more than repaid by the satis-
faction of having the job done right.
First make sure that your plug has a
blunt edge patch of ample surface; the
larger the surface the stronger the mend
will be. Also try to have the puncture-
hole as clean as possible. If you haven't
the facilities for burning it out, a pen-
knife will serve the purpose, and then,
with cement of good consistency and
proper adjustment, your tire will be as
good as new.
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Little change in the line of frame
construction is to be seen in this year’s
models of some of the most advanced
manufacturers of bicycles. The results
of the last season have proved so_satis-
factory and demonstrated so clearly that
further change in general design is un-
necessary that the leaders in the trade
have given their attention to the perfec-
tion of detail and reduction of friction.
Extensive improvements in bearings
are noticeable features in the new
models, and smoother running qualities
and easier propulsion are the result.
ne
Perhaps the distinction of first having
used the bicvcle in war should go to a
man named Colliers. The cable dis-
patches did not give his first name.
He testified in Pretoria, at the trial of
those accused of sedition in connection
with the Jameson raid, that he had car-
ried a dispatch on his wheel from Colo-
nel Rhodes, brother of Cecil, to Dr.
Jameson, at Krugersdorp. While re-
turning with the reply, he was arrested
by the Boers.
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GRAND RAPIDS IN
CHAPTER V.
Written for the TRADESMAN.

1950.

In the first chapter of this series of
sketches, the writer introduced himself

. as the first to undertake the manufacture

of clothing for an entire retail stock in
Grand Rapids. My assistant and man-
ager of the mechanical part of the busi-
ness was a genuine artist in his line,
fresh from the best clothing emporium
in the city of Rochester, New York, the
late Carlos Burchard, afterwards so fa-
vorably known as the leading clothier in
your city. His genial nature, winning
manners and artistic skill were strong
factors in building up a successful mer-
chant tailoring trade in addition to the
ready-made stock. It will readily be
seen that for a stranger in a strange
place to attempt the manufacture of an
entire clothing stock was no light under-
taking. Mr. Burchard proved himself
equal to the emergency. In his jocose
way he insisted that a liberal use of
printers’ ink would bring in ‘‘the cat-
tle from a thousand hills.’’

Sewing machines had not, at that
time, found their way to Michigan,
and were but little used anywhere, for
that matter. Applicants for work were
plenty, but most of them had to learn the
entire lesson of putting a garment to-
gether. These raw recruits were tried
first on the cheapest articles manufac-
tured, such as cheap linen coats, over-
alls, etc. I bring to mind several who,
under Mr. Burchard’s tuition, devel-
oped into the best of workmen. Many
and frequent were the ludicrous mis-
takes made by the beginners. I recall
one that occurred: A woman who after-
ward became one of our most profitable
employes made her first effort on a

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discounts.

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Prices $100.and $85.
The Sligh is a Seller.
Write for territory and

dozen cheap linen coats. When she re-
turned them I knew by the twinkle in
Mr. Burchard’s eye there was _ fun
ahead. He broke into one of his  jol-
liest laughs. This brought an inquiry
from the lady as to the cause of his
mirth. He replied that he was laugh-
ing at the ludicrous spectacle the pur-
chasers of the coats would present
while standing on their heads to try
them on. Every sleeve was sewed in
wrong side up!

Those little embarrassments were
soon over. Good workmen began to
apply for work in response to our ad-
vertising. I recall one family of Hol-
landers by the name of Benjamin, every
member of which was expert with the
needle. The oldest son, Peter Benja-
min, the first to ask for a job, was the
only one of the family then in this
country. He was an excellent work-
man, every garment he made_ being
well finished and strong. I soon learned
that he was saving money to assist his
father and the other members of the
family to emigrate to this country.
With the steady employment I gave
him, together with some _ financial as-
sistance, he was able, in a few months,
to land the whole family in Grand
Rapids. The addition of this family
of industrious workers to our force
made things more lively. Peter Ben-
jamin afterward moved to Holland,
Michigan, where he engaged in busi-
ness. Some members of the Benjamin
family are in the clothing business in
Grand Rapids at this time.

Lewis Porter kept a clothing store,
on the lot now covered by the Lovett
Block, for the sale of Eastern-made
clothing, gentlemen’s furnishing goods,
cloths,"cassimeres and fvestings, which

 

he sold to be made up by the custom
tailors outside.

The only two in the city, at that time
were John James W.
Sligh, both Scotchmen, good mechanics
and the best of citizens. James W.
Sligh ended his useful life in his coun-
try’s cause. He was
patriot and honest man.

Mathieson and

every imch a

I leave my readers to draw their own
comparison between these small begin-
nings and the magnitude of the clothing

business now conducted in Grand}
Rapids.
The one-story wooden stores, then

confined to Canal and Monroe streets,
with their dim oil lamps, have given
place to imposing and costly brick
structures of aesthetic architecture,
brilliant with electric lights. The con-

trast in the manner of conducting busi-

| ness then and now is as clearly marked
/as tne outside surroundings.

In my next I shall write of the
manufactured for

styles of
goods then gentle-
men’s wear and their style
them.

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Cycling as a_ winter
greatly
winter,

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Owosso,

exercise has
increased in Eastern cities this
many riders persisting during
When ‘people be-
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is probable that it will be
found practicable whenever the weather
is suitable for walking.

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Around the State a

Movements of Merchants.

Fostoria—K. P. Pettit, bardware
dealer, has removed to Otisville.

Ludington——B. H. Gavitt has sold his
jewelry business to F. Van Antwerp.

Flint_E. O. & H. F. Pierce succeed
Pierce Bros. & Co. in general trade.

Holland—R. Oostema succeeds P. F.
Oostema & Co. in the grocery business.

St. Louis—Elias Shaw is succeeded
by the Shaw Grocery Co. at this place.
“Mendon—Friedman & Co. succeed
Friedman Bros. in the dry goods _busi-
ness.

Bay City—W. H. Mann succeeds ].

R. Mann & Son in the hardware busi-
ness.
Monroe—Chas. Kirchgessner, grocer

and dealer in provisions at this place,
is dead.

Concord -Chas.
chased the drug
Roche.

Pewamo--Mrs. John Robertson suc-
ceeds W. H. Triphagen in the grocery
business.

Brooklyn
chased the
Whitney.

Union City—N. E. Yesner, dealer in
clothing at this place, will remove to

G.

business

Foster has pur-
of Abigail

Anson DeLamater has pur-

grocery business of j. B.

Kalamazoo.

Harbor Springs—Fitch & Carpenter
succeed Regis & Carpenter in the gro-
cery business.

Harrietta—Jas. Z. Stanley has pur-
chased the flour and feed business of J.
Stanley & Co.

Chadwick—Jas. Chadwick has_ pur-
chased the grocery business of E. T.
3olster & Son.

Lake Ann—A. P. Hue!lmantel suc-
ceeds Huellmantel & Bunline in the
grocery business.

Cadillac—Harry Drebin — succeeds

Drebin Bros. in the dry goods and
clothing business.

Adrian—John D. Kinney succeeds J.
D. Kinney & Co. in the furniture and

crockery business.

Kitchi—Mrs. Jennie Van Slyck suc-
ceeds A. L. Handlin in the hardware
and grocery business.

Stanton—Oscar C. Ismond has_ pur-

chased the clothing and dry goods busi-
ness of Mrs. A.
Richland— Barrett have
their stock of groceries to M. E.
ter, who will continue the business.
“+ Lous—f. W. Bia & Co. sac-
ceed the estate of the late L.
Charles in the drug and stationery busi-

Jacobson.
Bros. sold

Bax-

Geo.

ness.

Marquette—Johns & Harris, meat
dealers, have dissolved. C. C. Johns
will continue the business in his own
name.

Calumet--Kaufman & Swanson, deal-

ers in fruit and confectionery, have dis-
solved, E. C. continuing the
business.

Swanson

Detroit—Billings & Drew, dealers in
mantels and grates, have dissolved.
The business will be continued by P.

A. Billings.
Quincy— David Friedman, of Fried-
man & Co., dry

goods dealers, has sold
to |

interest partner, Solomon,
who will continue the business.
Greenville— C. Bower & Co.
have sold their grocery and shoe stock
to Obetts & Knudsen, who will con-
tinue the business at the same location.
Hastings—E. W. Morrill & Co., dry
goods and clothing dealers, have
merged their business into a corporation
under the style of Morrill, Lambie & Co,

his

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Traverse City—The Bell stock of dry
goods has been purchased by Chas.
Rosenthal, of the Boston Store, and is |
being closed out at Mr. Bell's old |
stand.

Maple Rapids—Miss Flora Burnett

of Grand Rapids,
the business at the

S. W. Glover, jr.,
and will continue
same location.

Alpena—Geo. F. McRay, furniture
and general dealer at this place and
also at South Rogers, has sold his busi-
ness at the latter place to E. C. Spens
and Jas. Grovs.

Detroit—S. E. Parrish, formerly en-
gaged in the grocery business at
Ithaca, has purchased the grocery and
meat business of John Cooper & Son at
553 Baker street.

Zelba Peets, who has been the
commission business in Saginaw, has
taken a position with the Chicago Bak-
ing Powder Co., as traveling salesman
in Eastern Michigan.

Clare—Misunderstanding between the
partners of the Northwestern Medicine
Co. has resulted in the appointment of
C. H. Sutherland, Cashier of the Clare
County Savings bank, as receiver.

Owosso—Fred L. Webber, of Kala-
mazoo, has purchased the crockery and
bazaar stock formerly owned by the de-
funct A. L. Conger Co. and will re-
move to this city and personally con-
duct the business.

Lawrence—A. A. Conklin and W. E.
Cornwell have retired from the firm of
H. L. Cornwell & Co., general dealers
at this place. The business will be
continued by the remaining partner,
H. L. Cornwell, under his own name.

Minden City—Isaac Shulman, a gen-
eral merchant here who has been in
business about eight months, has filed
mortgages for over $9,100. His wife
holds the first claim, which amounts to
$4,000 and is uttered to secure an
alleged Ican.

Flint—C. F. Lay succeeds John
Leadstone as manager of Foster
Post's crockery and bazaar store
this place. Mr. Leadstone has_ re-
moved to Kalamazoo to take the man-
agement of Foster & Post’s new branch
store at that place.

Reed City—B. F. Cooper has traded
his hardware stock for two farms in
Hillsdale county, the new owner being
Edward Brearley, who has covered the
Michigan trade for the past five years
for the C. B. Cones & Son Manufactur-
ing Co., of Indianapolis.

in

fr.
«&
at

-H. W. Mann has sold an in-
terest in his wall paper, book and sta-
tionery stock to T. Van Dusen, sales-
man in the dry goods establishment of
Black & Son, and the business
will hereafter be conducted under the
style of H. W. Mann & Co.

Kalamazoo—The crockery and bazaar
stock of the A. L. Conger Co., which
failed recently, has been purchased by
Foster & Post, of Saginaw, who will
continue the business at its present lo-
cation, 136 South Burdick street, under
the management of John T. Leadstone,
who has for some time managed the
branch store of the firm at Flint.

Owosso

Geo. RK.

Mancelona—The partnership relations
of & Dietz Price, dealers in meats,
have been somewhat strained by the
voluntary retirement of Theodore A.
Price, who checked a balance of $790.75
out of the Antrim County Savings Bank
and has so far declined to ‘‘ whack up.’’
Mr. Dietz has sent his partner a com-
munication suggesting the selection of
five arbitrators to adjust the differences,
but Mr. Price demurs to such an ar-

 

rangement, justifying his action on the

alleged ground that his partner was too

careless with firm funds. C. L. Bailey
has been retained by Mr. Dietz and M.
W. Newkirk deals out legal love to Mr.
Price and the courts will probably be
called upon to adjust the matter.

Detroit—Phelps, Brace & Co. have
been reincorporated for the purpose of
carrying on the wholesale grocery busi-
ness. The company has a capital of
$250,000, of which $206,000 is paid in.
Tne stock is held as follows: W. H.
Brace, 9,000 shares; Calphurnia B.
Phelps, 4,500; Charles 8B. Phelps,
4,500; Wm. V. Brace, 2,000; Wm. i
Gridley, 200; H. B. Hudson, 200; W.
H. Brace, 200.

Manufacturing Matters.

Coral—Lincoln Swem succeeds C.
W. Hatch in the flouring mill business.

Detroit—Winfield & Haines succeed
Winfield & Kuhn in the carriage manu-
facturing business.

Detroit—The Wagner Tinware Co.,
not incorporated, succeeds the Wagner
& Ernewein Tinware Manufacturing
Co.

Shelby—-The Dunkley Celery Co., of
Kalamazoo, offers to locate a canning
and pickling factory here providing a
$1,500 bonus is raised. A committee
has been appointed to solicit subscrip-
tions and about $1,000 has already been
secured.

Saginaw—The Princess Manufactur-
ing Co. has contracted for twenty-five
new machines, to be delivered March 1.
The company commenced operations
the first of the year and reports busi-
ness so good that it is unable to keep
up with orders.

Ludington—The basket factory here
has secured the’ shingle mill and
grounds of the Aubrey Shingle Mill
Co., and increased the capital stock to
$15,000. The business is to be greatly
enlarged the coming season, this be-
ing deemed necessary by the ex-
traordinary increase in the fruit product
of this country.

Ludington—The canning factory here
is investigating the propriety of  start-
ing a branch at Scottville, so that fruits
and vegetables from the big farms may
be had without bruising and_ jolting
over roads. It is claimed that a fac-
tory can make a much better quality of
canned goods by taking the product di-
rect from the farm.

Lansing—The Lansing Pants and
Overall Co. has declared a cash divi-
dend of 5 per cent. on the business of
1895 and the stockholders have voted
to increase the capital stock of the cor-
poration from $25,000 to $50,000. It is
understood that most of the new stock
has already been spoken for. The com-
pany did over $100,000 worth of busi-
ness during 1895, which wasa very con-
siderable increase over the business of
1894. ,

Detroit—Instead of causing some of
the non-union cigar tactories to capitu-
late to the strikers, four union factories
during the past week have allowed their
union employes to go and supplied their
places with non-union help. The pros-
pect of the cigarmakers’ ultimately win-
ning in their effort to unionize the en-
tire city is, therefore, very much lessened
and trades unionists generally are de-
pressed over the turn affairs have taken.
It is conceded that there has been bad
management of the strike. Citizens
were appealed to for their sympathy on
the plea of child-slavery, and yet the
management, although having — six
months’ opportunity and upwards of 100
idle hands, failed to show a single in-
stance where the child-labor law was
being violated.

 

 

How Long Will the Tyranny Continue?

Detroit, Feb. 24—The union cigar-
makers of this city sowed to the wind
and reaped the whirlwind. Things
were running along smoothly, all of the
factories employing union men in the
manufacture of 10 cent goods and non-
union men on 5 cent goods, the pro-
portion of union men employed _being
much greater than non-union, owing to
the preponderance of Io cent cigars
manufactured. To all appearances
everyone was contented, as wages were
good and work was plenty.

The situation was not satisfactory to
the walking delegate element, however,
as the latter realized that they must fo-
ment dissatisfaction among the men or
go to work at the bench, which the av-
erage walking delegate very much 4is-
likes to do, as work is a thing he
abominates. Although there was no
grievance whatever over the matter of
hours or wages, the walking delegates
decided to raise the cry, ‘‘None but
union men shall be employed !’’ and the
poor dupes who look to their superior
officers for leadership took up the agita-
tion and voted to go out ‘‘on strike”’
unless the demand was acceded to. The
manufacturers insisted that they could
not pay the union scale for making 5
cent cigars and compete with the man-
ufacturers of other cities where union
prices did not prevail, but the men
insisted that they could and a long and
unsuccessful strike has been the result,
culminating in a most humiliating de-
feat for the men who were so foolish as
to quit work at the behest of the walk-
ing delegates.

Within the past week four factories
which have been running with union
men have been compelled!‘ to ask for
a reduction in the scale, in order that
they may compete with the factories
employing non-union labor. On the re-
fusal of the union to entertain the prop-
osition, the union men have been dis-
charged and non-union labor installed
in their places. At present writing it
looks as though Detroit would not have
a single union shop by March 1I—sim-
ply because the men followed the ad-
vice of the walking delegates that none
but union men should be employed!
As in the case of the street car strike
in Grand Rapids, several years ago,
the manufacturers turned the tables on
the men; and, as a result, no union men
are now given employment, except ina
few small shops of little importance
and in the short-lived co-operative fac-
tory established by the strikers a few
weeks ago.

Humiliating as the situation is to the
poor dupes who left steady work at
good wages to ‘‘vindicate a cardinal
principle of unionism’’ (that none but
union men shall be employed), the out-
come does not appear to havea salutary
effect on unionists in other avenues of
industry, who keep on striking at the
behest of venal and unscrupulous lead-
ers, only to find themselves supplanted
by men who are glad to take their
places at the same, and sometimes at
less, ratio of wages, while the strikers
walk the streets in rags and their wives
and children are supported by the poor
department of the city.

a _~<>-_9—<>__
The Opportunity of a Lifetime.

Do you want to get out of the mercan-
tile business and embark in the health-
ful and profitable occupation of fruit
growing? If not, have you a friend
whom you would like to assist by es-
tablishing him in the fruit business by
means of a moderate expenditure? If
so, why not take up with the offer of G.
W. Barnett, 159 South Water street, Chi-
cago, and secure his 60-acre place in
Berrien county? It can be had $400
down, the remainder of the $$2,000
payable in easy installments and low
interest. The farm has five acres set
to apples, cherries, etc., with buildings
sufficient for a beginning, plenty of
water, and other conditions which make
it possible to make of the tract one of
the best places in Berrien county. If
the farm is not large enough to suit, ad-
joining land may _ be obtained on rea-
sonable terms. There is still a chance
to get this good chance, but if you
want it you should lose no time in

making application to Mr. Barnett.

 

 

 

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

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Grand Rapids Gossip

Burdick & House succeed E. J. Car-
rel in the grocery business at 588 South
Division street.

 

 

 

 

W. E. Wilson has opened a grocery
store at Alma. The Musselman Grocer
Co. furnished the stock.

  
 

Volner Arrowsmith has embarked in
the grocery business at Sparta. The
Lemon & Wheeler Company furnished
the stock.

Speicher & Moir, general dealers at
Gobleville, have added a line of gro-
ceries. The Musselman Grocer Co.
furnished the stock.

 

N. & M. Friedman have purchased
the linen stock of Frank A. Worden, at
26 Monroe street, and removed the
goods to their store at 70 and 72 Monroe
street.

 

Charles Boyden has retired from the
firm of John Macfie, Son & Co, whole-

sale dealers in hardwood lumber. The
business will be continued by John
Macfie & Son.

E. B. Stevens and E. J. Moore have
formed a copartnership under the style
of Stevens & Moore for the purpose of

embarking in the wholesale and fresh
meat business at 33 Ottawa street.

Harry H. Burr, who has been asso-
ciated with J. W. Fales & Co., of De-
troit, for the past twelve years, has
purchased a half interest in the whole-
sale paper house of J. Weaver & Co.,
at 19 South Ionia street. The business
will be continued under the style of
Holmes & Burr.

Beach, Cook & Co. have taken pos-
session of the Lamoreaux warehouse
property, which they recently purchased
from the State Bank of Michigan, open-
ing up last week with a line of beans
and seeds. The line will be increased
from time to time as the plans of the
partners mature.

The I. M. Clark Grocery Co.’s loss
in the recent fire in the Old Houseman
block has been adjusted at $938.42.
The loss was caused entirely by water,
due to a door being left open between
the Old and New Houseman _ buildings,
This is the first fire loss the house

 

 

has

sustained in its history, covering a
period of about twenty-five years.
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The Grocery Market.
Canned Goods—-The demand _ for

canned goods has ruled dull for some
time, and holders find it absolutely nec-
‘essary to realize, and with the market
in its present shape, it has been neces-
sary to shade values all along the line,
except in the of a few articles,
which, by reason of extreme scarcity,
are held up well. Vegetables continue
in moderate demand. In tomatoes
there business at all at what are
called the market quotations, all sales
made being at lower than quoted prices.
In corn there is some movement in New
York State goods.
Provisions—The course of the market
does not offer encouragement to those
parties who have been talking better
prices for the near future. It would
seem strange, too, that the steady mod-
erate receipts of hogs have not added
some tone to the market; but the condi-
tion of business is so remarkably dull
that all efforts for firmness at once have
been abandoned. Europe is a_ heavy
holder of all products, while it is more
and more turning out home supplies of

case

is no

 

bacon, etc. Besides, speculation in
this country has been discouraged by its
numerous setbacks recently. The West
had thought that with the return of cold
weather hogs would have been moved
forward quite freely, and estimates had
been made of large supplies for the
past week. The developments, to the
contrary, as before remarked, have had
no influence to strength.

Currants—The market is unsettled
and prices are slightly lower, with

buyers showing no disposition to pur-
chase in a large way. The easy feeling
has been brought about by cables from
the primary market, indicating less
strength there and the possibility of
some of the cargo of the stranded Lam-
ington being saved in marketable con-
dition. The continued delay in render-
ing a decision in the California case
also influences buyers to hold off.

Raisins—Like all other dried fruits,
raisins are in light demand. The sta-
tistical position of the article is good,
but buyers are not inclined to take hold
of any large quantities, preferring to
place orders to meet current and press-
ing wants.

Rice—The demand continues good
for ail kinds of rice, there being rela-
tively a better request for Japan sorts
than for high grades of domestic, owing
to the fact that there ts little of the lat-
ter available. The mills of New Or-
leans have closed down and will remain
closed ten days from the start, and the
decrease in the supply has. stiffened
values somewhat. The market certainly
favors sellers. Advices from abroad
note firmness,and heavy shortages in the
crop are reported in Siam, Japan, Ben-

gal and Saigon, and it is said that
some of these will export little or no
rice. It would seem from this that Bur-

mah will be the main source of supply,
and some of the above mentioned
places may have to draw on that coun-
try for their own supplies. The planters
there will probably not fail to take ad-
vantage of the situation so that prices
may advance.
Oranges—There is a decided im-
provement in the market conditions.
Much of the frozen California fruit
out of the way and holders of good
sound stock are, therefore, sure to real-
ize better prices. Messinas and Va-
lencias showed an advance of 25@s5oc
at the auction sales last week, and, if
the weather is warm enough to warrant
shipping without danger of freezing,
there will be a lively demand anda
firmer feeling than now exists will be-
come manifest. If extremely low quo-
tations are received, be chary about
buying, as it is very likely the fruit is
juiceless and puffy and will prove to
be an eyesore until cleaned ‘out. Case
Valencias are selling at $5.50, which
makes them a_ good, cheap  orafige, al-
though the Seedlings seem to take bet-
ter with the trade.
Lemons —There
in prices, as the

is

is no change to note
weather has been too
cold to stimulate much of a demand
and arrivals have been of such a vol-
ume as to preclude the possibility of
advances, unless it be for now and then
an extra fine line which is desired by
such trade as are willing to pay liber-
ally for best selections. Prices will,
undoubtedly, rule low for a month to
come.

Bananas—There is some good fruit
cf this variety in the local market this
week and prices will vary from $1.25@
2 per bunch, according to size and con-
dition.

Foreign Nuts—There is a very light

 

demand and prices have been reduced
to a point that just covers the cost of
importing. When a

change occurs it

will have an upward tendency, so no |

risk will be assumed by taking on a lit
tle stock now.
Domestic Nuts
walnuts and butternuts have sold fairly
well up to the present but, owing to the
lateness of the season, dealers do not
seem [0 want any
neing interested
odds and ends.

more at any price,
in cleaning up the
- a

The Grain Market.

The wheat market
during the week. This was especially
true during the latter part of the week,
as there were two holidays, when the

Was Very barrow

traders were evening up their trades.
The Northwestern receipts are
off, the exports were large and

thing pointed to a firmer feeling.
there was no support given to the mar-
ket, which caused a depression of a few

falling
every
Still

points. The winter wheat movement
was as small as ever, even though the
roads have been good. The farmers

are not willing to part with their hold-
ings at the present low prices, so win-
ter wheat demands a premium of 34%@
tc over Mav price, which is something
which has not occurred before in years.
How long this state of affairs will last
is the all-absorbing ,question and only
time will sotve the problem. The vis-
ible showed a decrease of 016,000
bushels, being about what was calcu-
lated on. Even with this small weekly
decrease, the wheat stocks will become
abnormally small by next harvest, and,
unless all calculations are wrong, the
visible will decrease faster than here-
tofore. There was virtually no change
in the price of corn and oats, while
wheat is 2c lower.

The receipts during the week were:
wheat, 35 cars; corn, 18 cars, and 5 of
oats. The receipts of wheat
rather moderate, compared with
usual amount.

were
the
C. G. A. Vorer.

The Pure Food Show.

The pure food exposition now in
progress at the St. Cecilia building,
under the joint auspices of the Evening

Press and the St. Cecilia Society, is |
being well patronized and should be |

visited by every Grand Rapids grocer.
The exposition will continue two weeks,
closing March 7. The hall is open aft-
ernoons and evenings and each after-
noon Mrs. Lemcke, of Brooklyn, gives
practical demonstrations in cookery.
The hall beautifully decorated.
Among the exhibitors are the follow-
ing:

Horsford's Baking Powder.

Hopkins’ Steamed Hominy.

Koffa-Aid.

Quaker Oats.

Cottoline.

Cotosuet.

Highland Evaporated Cream.

Van Houten’s Cocoa.

Valley City Milling Co.

New York Biscuit Co.

H. J. Vinkemulder.

B. S. Harris.

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D. H. Powers, Cashier of the Oak-
land County Savings Bank of Pontiac,
will, in company with B. R. Moore, of
St. Johns, open a private bank at Utica
next April. The capital stock of the
new bank is to be $10,000. Mr. Powers,
although he will have the general over-
sight of the new institution, will retain

is

his position at Pontiac, Mr. Moore re- |
moving to Utica and giving the busi- |

ness his personal supervision.

Hickory nuts, black |

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PRODUCE MARKET.

Apples
quality Michigan and Ohio fruit.
at

$2.75@3.25 per bbl. for good
The

favorite varieties present are Ben

Davis, Greenings, Baldwins and Ro-
man Beauty.
Beans—Owing to light receipts and

the practical exhaustion of supplies at
has assumed

many markets, the market

in instances, ad-
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made. There has
in the volume of busi-

Perhaps the snowed-

1 firmer tone, and,
vances have
been no increase

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OCCr

ness to speak of.
up condition of tl
F
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lé country tS respon-
sible for the light

but the
more probable reason is that prices are

so low that farmers will not sell.

receipts,
I

Butter—Fancy roll butter is very
scarce and has advanced to 16c. There
is no particular change in ordinary
dairy grades, of which there isan ade-

quate supply.

Beets—25c per bu.

Cabbage--5o@z60c per doz. and scarce
at that.

Celery 1 3¢ per doz. bunches.
Scarce.

Cider-—12%c per gal.

Cranberries-- Barrel goods are about
out of market. Jerseys in boxes are
still in limited demand and supply at
$2.50 per bu.

Eges—The market on. fresh has
dropped to 12'4¢ again. A few sun-

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shiny days will send the price down to
1om@ 1c. |
Hickory Nuts (Ohio)
per bu., large, Si per bu.
Honey— Dealers ask 15@16c for white
clover and 13@14c for dark buckwheat.
Lettuce—15c per lb. Scarce.
Onions—-Spanish command about $1
per crate of 4o lbs. Home grown are
moving more freely and are a little
higher firmer, commanding 4Jo@
soc per bu.

Pop Corn

Potatoes
last week.

Seeds —Clover command $4.75@5_ for
Mammoth, $4.50@4.70 for medium,
$4.75 for Alsyke, $3.50 for Crimson and
$4.25@4.75 for Alfalfa. Timothy com-
mands $1.85 for prime and $2. for
choice.

Squash

Sweet
changed,
per bbl.

Small, S125

and

Rice, 3c per lb.

No change. to note from

 

ware per lb. for Hubbard.
Potatoes—The market un-
Illinois Jerseys bringing $4
and $1.35 per bu.
> o>
Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Asso-
ciation.

1S

At the regular meeting of the Grand
Rapids Retail Association,
held at Sweet’s Hotel on Tuesday even-
ing, Feb. 18, B. 5. Harris, chairman
of the special Committee on Rooms,
reported that Committee had_ se-
cured a long-time lease of the hall over
BE J. Prerrick’s store on Monroe street,
and that the necessary carpets, furni-
ture, curtains, chandeliers, etc., could
be obtained for about the same amount
as the Association would ordinarily pay
for rent in the course of a year.

On motion cf E. C. Jenkins, the re-
port was accepted and adopted and the
Committee instructed to furnish the
hall in the manner indicated by Mr.
Harris and have it ready for occupancy
by the next meeting of the Association,
which occurs on ‘Tuesday evening,
March 3.

It was decided to invite the grocers
outside the Association to attend the
next meeting; and the proposition of
E. A. Stowe to furnish a collation was
accepted.

There being no further buisness, the

Grocers

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meeting adjourned.
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Dr. Wm. H. Walker, well known
throughout Northern Michigan as the
owner of large cranberry marshes at
Glen Arbor, cied at his residence at
| Fond du Lac, Wis., Feb. 13, aged 76

years. The deceased was a pioneer of
Fond du Lac, having located there in
1845, when there were but seven build-
ings in the place erected by white peo

ple.

i
Gillies originated 5th Ave. New York
J. P. Visner, Local Agent.

Coffees.

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

   

 

Hardware

OVERCOMING COMPETITION

In the Sale of Inferior Goods by Irre-
sponsible Dealers.*

In the last days of the first month of
this year of hard times, | received a let-
ter from our esteemed Secretary, telling
me of the duty assigned me by the Pro-
gram Committee, adding, ‘“‘It is now
too late for you to back out, asthe pro-
gram is in the printer’s hands. Get up
something.’’ He probably knew of my
bashful and retiring ways and was fear-
ful lest I should shirk. But I assume
the task, not because I think myself
capable of doing the subject justice, but
that I wish to doall in my power to make
success. Noram |
fact, men in

hard
work.

our Association a
alone in this
our business do not hesitate to do
and oftentimes
Gentlemen, you have my sympathy at
this time, and | ask your kind forbear-

desire; in

disagreeable

ance for afew minutes, on account of
the fact that during the last fourteen
years I have given much attention to

Store arrangement, discounts, ‘‘talking
points, ’’ selling prices, and bad debts,
and very little to literary or pulbic
work. However, | welcome the forma-
tion of this Association, hoping it’ may
be the means of awakening our latent
literary powers and that in a few years
the orations, papers and methods of the
Michigan Hardware Association may
compare favorably with those of our
brethren in the older Eastern and South-
ern Associations.

During the last few years, and espe-
cially in these hard times, we find the
sale of inferior goods greatly increased.
With lessened incomes, Consumers must
and do buy cheaper goods. These goods
are not always handled or sold by irre-
sponsible parties. In the smaller towns
we have the’ ‘bazaar,’’ while in the city
flourishes the ‘‘fair.’’ In either case,
it cuts no great figure with our business
whether the competitor be irresponsible
or not—the effect on our trade is, prac-
tically, the same. The hardware men of
Kansas City are looking to the State
Legislature for relief, hoping to geta
law that will compel the large establish-
ments or ‘‘fairs’’? to drop hardware. |
do not think this the remedy. How
then? If in your locality inferior goods
must be sold, sell them yourself. Don't
push cheap or inferior goods. Carry a
full stock of straight, legitimate hard-
ware and sell it; then put in cheap
goods, according to the requirements of
your trade. Have the inferior goods
to make comparison with your best
goods, if necessary, and make the price
the same as your competitor and no
lower. Meet him on his own level. Do
not say that the staid and reliable hard-
ware dealer is never found in such com-
pany. Times have changed. William
G. Hibbard, of Chicago, says that the]
new ways, of doing business are not to |
his liking, but, so long as he continues
in business, there is nothing to do but
‘*keep in the procession.’’ Declare
war upon these irresponsible dealers.
Prepare for a campaign against inferior
goods. With your permission, | enumer- |
ate some of the weapons that you
should and must use in this battle if you
are to be the victor: First, enthusiasm.
Be enthusiastic in your business, of |
your goods and of your town. Thomas
W. Palmer said in Detroit the other |

 

night, ‘‘Enthusiasm, which is the one}
saving thing in life, is better than
knowledge and better than wealth. 1
want to say, whatever happens, don’t lose |
your faith and your enthusiasm, With |
enthusiasm and faith fled, man Is |
dead. Your wea pons—cannons,
as it were--are your goods, bought |
right, displayed properly, talked ear- |
nestly and sold at a profit. Buy goods to
suit all grades of economy. Select weap-
ons which will prove as effective as
those used by the other fellow. When |

lost
best

 

*Paper read by T. Frank Ireland at convention |
of Michigan Hardware Association, at sia

1896.

 

naw, Feb. 13,

life are those where education is

}archism and industrial

| is because it will not trust an

David went out to meet the giant, he
did not have a popgun, nor did he
carry an olive branch. His weapon,
while not the most modern, was. skill-
fully used and accomplished its pur-
pose.

Don’t cut the price of first-class
hardware to meet the price of a com-
petitor’s ‘‘junk.’’ Price cutting never
means success. Remember that people
have that consuming, everlasting de-
sire to get goods below the marked
price. Have goods that you can sell
them at their price. I am often remind-
ed of a circumstance which occurred a
number of years ago in an Illinois town
near my old home. An old Irish lady
had brought her butter and eggs to mar-
ket, exchanged them for the needed
groceries, and received the balance due
her in cash. Asshe passed down to the
door, she noticed an article she thought
to buy, so asked the price of the clerk.
‘Fifteen cents,’’ was the _ reply.
‘*The d—1 take ye! I'll gin ye forty.’’

ut, madam, I said fifteen,’’ said
Phil. ‘‘To h—i with ye! I'll gin ye
tin.’’ This only illustrates that some
people judge the goods only by the
price you ask them. To some, a first-
class plated spoon would appear dear at
5 per cent. profit, while the same _ par-
ties would call plain nickel spoons
cheap at 33'4 per cent. profit. Be hon-
est with them. Don’t trade upon the
credulity of the public. Have the goods
to suit their pocketbooks and sell them
for what they are. Any other course
will prove a boomerang.

Sell good novelties; they draw trade.
Small household novelties, — properly
pushed, have built up big establishments.
Be an up-to-date dealer. Be ahead of your
back number competitor who runs a
dust covered concern down the street.
Put your novelties in your windows.
Everybody knows you sell nails.

Another weapon must be grit. Have lots
of sand. Mark outa policy and follow
itup. Keep your temper. Don't get
mad. Don’t blow, whatever your com-
petitor may do. Never let him know
that you are paying a particle of atten-
tion to him. Do not advertise him or
his goods by talking about him or them,
unless it be ina friendly way. Make
his acquaintance. Be friendly and ac-
commodating.. Call on him and, while
you are talking weather or shop, keep
your eyes open. Go in occasionally and
buy some article which you are “‘just
out of.’’ Get all the ‘‘pointers’’ pos-
sible and, if you have a fair amount of
common sense and use the weapons
above specified, you need not be afraid
to go into this battle for trade against
‘‘inferior goods and irresponsible deal-
ers.

a
The bill reported by the Committee

ion Immigration providing for the re-

jection of all immigrants who are un-
able to read or write introduces fa mat-
ter that is worthy of ‘careful considera-
tion. The nations of Europe which
furnish the emigrants that are most
readily assimilated iyto one national
most
nearly universal, while the centers of
illiteracy and ignorance furnish the ma-
terial for recruiting the ranks of an-
disorder. It is
strange that this element in the prob-
lem of our national progress kas re-
ceived little consideration in the
past. It is certainly consistent that, if
we have the right to regulate the edu-
cation of our own children by compul-

so

| sory measures, we ought to have some-

thing to say about other nations’ rear-

|ing their young in such degraded igno-

rance to turn them in by hordes for the

| debasement of our civilization and the

affording of material for the use of the
unscrupulous municipal demagogue.
agen
Max O’Rell says that the reason why
the sun never sets on the British empire
English-

|man in the dark when there is land be-

longing to any other nation lying around
loose.

 

Advertising to a business is as _nec-
essary as oil to an engine and the latter
requires it continuously.

A factor has no right to pledge, de-
posit, or apply the property of his prin-
cipal to secure or pay his own debt.

Credit has done more, a thousand
times, to enrich nations than all the
mines of the world.—Daniel Webster.

In legal contemplation, a sale will not
be regarded as fraudulent for the reason
alone that the consideration is inad-
equate.

An unjust accusation is like a barbed
arrow, which must be drawn backward
with horrible anguish, or else will be
your destructicn.

No person can act as agent in regard
to a contract in which he has any inter-
est, or in which he is a party on the
opposite side to his principal. .

The rule is that, where a negotiable
promissory note is given and is accept-
ed in satisfaction of a present debt, the

 

note is regarded as money paid.

BSS wears SrASASSS
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Duplicating...
Sales Books

We earry in stock the following lines
of Duplicating Sales Books, manu-
factured by the Carter-Crume Co.:

J Pads

Acme Cash Sales Book

Nine Inch Duplicating Book
Twelve Inch Duplicating Book.

We buy these goods in large quanti-
ties and are able to sell them at fac-
tory prices. Correspondence  so-
licited.

Tradesman Company

GRAND RAPIDS.

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No simpler, easier, surer, quicker way.

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SPRING CLOSED JAWS-=--Open only at the right time.

NO STOOPING==Walk erect—plunge planter into the scil—press for-
ward as you withdraw it—seed is left in moist soil, not dry, as is
usually the case when seed is dropped by one man and left to be

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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

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SUCCESSFUL SALESMEN.

 

D. W. Johns, Traveling Represent-
ative Belknap Wagon & Sleigh Co.

David W. Johns was born October 4,
1858, in the village of Carlisle, Middle-
sex county, Ontario. He was of Welsh
parentage, his father having been born
in Wales and his mother in the Welsh
settlement near London, Ontario. His
ancestry is a source of pride to Mr.
Johns, as the Welsh people of London,
Ontario, are widely known for their
sterling worth and character.

When eight years old, Mr. Johns re-
moved, with his parents, to Sarnia, On-

tario, where he attended the common
and high schools of the place. Ambi-
tious to make a start. in life, he left

school before graduating and went to
work in the wagon and carriage factory
of Wm. Farr, determined to learn the

 

 

 

 

carriage and wagon manufacturing busi-
ness. After serving an apprenticeship
of three years, he went to London and,
during the year 1878, was employed in
the carriage factory of H. G. Abbott,
thus adding much to his knowledge of
catriage body building. He then re-
turned to Sarnia and accepted a posi-
tion with his former employer, Wm.
Farr, as body builder. In 1883, he re-
moved to Michigan, locating at Pon-
tiac, where he worked at the carriage
trade during the summer of that year.
He then went to Evart where, with his
father who had preceded him, he es-
tablished the Evart Wagon & Carriage
Vorks. For five years an extensive
business was carried of which he
had the entire management, and it was
thus that he acquired a thorough and
practical knowledge of the trade in all
its different branches. In 1887, his
father died, and a_ year later,
to the falling off of the logging trade
the Muskegon River, which the
town of Evart then so much depended
upon, he sold out his business and_ re-
moved to Grand Rapids, soon after en-
tering the employ of the Belknap
Wagon & Sleigh Co. in the capacity of
shipping clerk. He remained in this
position for six months and was then
promoted to the position of traveling
salesman.

on,

owing

on

Mr. Johns was married on May 11,
1881, to Miss Lucinda Morgan, of Ade-
laide, Ont., and, with their six child-

ren, four daughters and two sons, the
oldest daughter being now nearly 14
years old, they reside at their pleasant
home at 73 Ethel avenue.

 

 

Mr. Johns is a member of the
Wealthy avenue Baptist church, being
at the present time a member of the
board of deacons and trustees and for
several years assistant superintendent
of the Sunday school. He is alsoa
member of the Knights of the Grip.

His territory covers all the available
trade in Michigan, going as tar south
as St. Joseph, as far east as Owosso and
Lansing and as far north as the copper
country in the Upper Peninsula. He
attributes his success to thorough train-
ing and practical experience in the
business, his early familiarity with the
trade causing him to know it all
through in every detail, which enables
him to talk understandingly on the sub-
ject. No man can make a statement in
regard to a vehicle which he is not in
a position to verify or disprove. Mr.
Johns has no reputation as an expert at
cards or billiards, but puts into practice
the experience gained severalyears ago—
that upright dealing with customers and
frankness of statement are the only
things which will secure confidence and
respect. He also believes in the theory
that the salesman best who
conveys the impression that bis house
and himself are ‘‘up to snuff,’’
speak, without saying it outright. Sat-
with his success and confident
that his future is to bea bright one, Mr.
Johns has reason to worry over his

succeeds

so to

isfied

ho

present condition or discount his fu-
tare.
> 2 >
The nessa low price of

potatoes in North Dakota has led to the
unique experiment of using them for
fuel. To burn them requires about one-
third the quantity of wood which would
be used without them, the potatoes dis-
placing two-thirds. The wood is nec-
essary to bake and dry the tubers, when
they will burn readily and will dry still
more. It was found in the experiment
tried that the potatoes displaced other
fuel to the value of ten cents a bushel,
which was more than they could be sold
for. In localities where fuel is scarce
they would be worth as much as_ twenty
cents.

It is idle that the ‘inti of
large space in the daily papers to the
discussion of the movements of two or
three prize ring champions is in re-
sponse to a demand—that it pays or it
would not occur. But to {the average
reader the constant recurrence of the
uncouth names of the pugnatious wor-
thies becomes very tiresome, and it is
greatly to be desired, now that they have
had a ‘‘battle,’’ that they will retire
from public notice, at least long enough
for recovery from the present fatigue.
a

An ordinance has been introduced in
the Chicago city, council to thezeffect
that street cars must not stop for pas-
sengers when the seats are all occupied.
It will probably remain under consider-
ation for a long time before it is passed.

- > 22> -

It is reported that many of the Cubans
of Havana are sending their gold and
other portable wealth to this country, to
avoid the consequences of a termination
of the war either way.

—___—_>2>__-

The admission of the receipt of a let-
ter by a clerk in the office of a_princi-
pal who has authorized him to receive

his letters may well be deemed to be the

admission of his principal.

* There are but three occupations in
America in which, according to the
census, no woman can be found. They
are soldiers, marines and priests.

 

Hardware Price Carrent.—

~ AUGURS "AND BITS.

 

 

70 |

PATENT PLANISHED IRON
a Wood's patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 10 20
> Wood's patent planished, Nos. 25 to 27 9 20
eke n packages ‘4c per pound extra.

HAMMERS
Maydole & Co.’s, new list...... dis 33%
Kip’s Ls. «ne 25
| Yerkes & P lumb’s. _ ee “dis 40&10
| Mason's Solid Cast Steel. a. 30¢ list 70

| Blacksmith’s Solid ¢

 

‘ast Steel 1 Hand 30¢ list 40&10
HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS
Stamped Tin Ware.. new list 70&10
Japanned Tin War e oboe
Granite [ron Wart new list 40&10

HOLL ow w ARE

 

 

Pete. . .60&10
Kettles 2000. e seein GOK10
| Spiders eee oe. . GO&10
HINC iES
Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2,3... l ... dis @&10
State. .. ' per ‘doz. net 250
“WIRE ‘GOODS
Erent....... ee. SO
Screw ee Ss 80
noone... SO
Gate Hooks and. Eye a... Na “40
LEVELS
Staniey Rule and Level Co.’s............ dis 70
ROPES
Sisal, % inch and _— eee Miceees oye, |) GEG
ceniila a“ . ll 94

SQUARES

Steel and Iron......-- 80

(ry and Bevyels.... --...--..................
eae 20

SHEET IRON
com. smooth, com.
Noe wir .................. #2 60
Nos. to 17 oo 3 2 60
. z 2 80
3 75 2 90
ee 3 90 3 00
‘ eee ek 4 00 3 10
All iis "No. 18 and lighter, over 30 inches
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
SAND PAPER
bist acet. 1%, 36..__.. ...@i8 50
SASH. Ww EIGHTS
Solid Eyés...... .per ton 20 00
“TRAPS

Steel, Game. Lo , 60K10
Oneida C ommunity, Newhouse 50

Snell’s.. ee ee.
Jennings’, ‘genuine See ee eee. 2510
Jennings’, imitation ........-... SS
AXES
Mirss Quality. S. B. Bromze................. 5 50
First Quality, D. Bb. Bronze le 9 50 |
First Quality. S. B.S. Steel... .. ~....... 6 2
First Quality, D. B. ST 10 2
BARROWS
a ee OO te
Gareen ... 5... ee Se
BOLTS
Se Eee 60
—_! mew fing. 65
Plow. ole .40.%10 |
BUCKETS
wel pain --8 3 20
BUTTS, CAST
Set Looee Fin Geured......... .-.......... 70
Wreonueht Narrew........... ........ ....... 75&10
BLOCKS
Gudiasey Uaekie.. 1... 70
CROW BARS
(ast Steak per lb 4
CAPS
wvstn.. hl. per m 65
Hiek’s C. F..- ..- per mi dd
. ......... eae .-per m 35
as... per m 60
CARTRIDGES
Mi Bie. to
Central Wire. ......... Lo eo
CHISELS
Gocket Firmer......... ae 80
Soiemes: Wrap 8 80
“inet Comer. 80
eee gu
DRILLS
Morse’s Bit Stocks ... 60
Taper and Straight Shank.. 1 See So
Morse’s Taper Shank... _-............... 50a 5
ELBOWS
Com 4 picee,Gim...... -.....-..-.. doz. net 60
Corrgesica =  .-s  . dis 50
AGVOSENDIS dis 40410
EXPANSIVE BITS
Clark's small, $18; laree, @6................3 ae
ives’. 1 Sis: 2, 24; SG ee

FILES—New List
New American ............-.........._..
Nieholsonms......-..--..-
Heller’s Horse Rasps. .

GALVANIZED ‘IRON

TOK LO
ee ee 70
-6OK10

Nos. 16 to 29; 22 and 24; 25 and 26; 27. .. 28
List 12 i 14 15 Mm... 17
Discount, 70 /
GAUGES
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s.........--...- 60&16
KNOBS—New List
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings.... ......... 70
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings..........-. 80
MATTOCKS
Adze Wye..........--...-.... .. $16 00, dis 6010
Mans Bye... $15 00, dis 60&10
MumGe-.. $18 50, dis 20410
MILLS
Coffee, Parkers Co.’s. 40

40

Coffee, P. 8. & W. Mfg. Co.'s | Malleables. S
: 40

Coffee, Landers, Ferry & Clark

Coffee, Enterprise __ 30
MOLASSES GATES”
Stebbin’s Pattern. . a . 6010
Stebbin’s Genuine.. ee 6010
Enterprise, self- PeOGHGIMIN 8. | 288. 30
NAILS
Advance over base, on both Steel and Wire.
Gieel malin PASE... fj 2
Wire nails, base......-. Lec oe esos oe
10 to 60 advance eee ween ec cee 5U
SO 60
"Sanuac¢ 75
Ee 90
eee ere een ees 1m
a i... c-..-e--- 1 60
Fine 3 1 60
Ce 65
Coe S&S. ..:.......- eee eee ao
i ee ee 90
Pin ........-- Le ee eee yi
aes Sf. 90
i ee a 10
— a... 70
ose 5 ... 80
EE oo 90
Borrcl & ......_._.....:..-._....-_........ 1®
PLANES
Ohio Tool Co.'s, fancy.. Se ace
Seleuws Benen ..-.-- 1. 60X10
Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy.......-.-.------ @50
Boneh firstquamty.........-........-.....-. @50
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s wood......... 60
PANS
eee eee a 60& 10410
ee, pe es. Wk 5
RIVETS
von and Timed .... .......... ete eee. 60
Copper Rivets and Burs.......-------+-+-+ ..50&10

 

 

Scales!

Buy direct and save
middlemen’s profit.
Write for prices and
description before
Scales tested and re-

 

purchasing elsewhere.
paired. Satisfaction guaranteed.

GRAND RAPIDS SCALE WORKS,

39 @ 41 S. Front St., Grand Rapids.

 

Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton's s TOK104 10

Mouse, choker.................. per doz 15
Mouse, delusion. .00/0.00....... per doz 1 25
WIRE
Brigot Marece, et 7
Angealed Market................... W 65,
Copperca Market. ....................._... TOK10

Tinned Market. ee ee
Coppered Spri CE Se
Barbed Fence, galvanized ........
Barbed Fence, painted. .

= NAILS

.. aie sine
soe a ee dis

ae 10:10
"WRENCHES

Au Sable.
Putnam.
Northweste rm.

Baxter’s Adjustable, nickele Mc 30
Coe s Genuine....... .....-..... ae deue 50
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, w rought. Lo 80
Coe’s Patent, miaileapie..................... 80
MISCELLANEOUS
OO eee 50
Pumps, Cistem.............--....__.. Ta&10
Screws, New List.. 85
Casters, Bed and P late. . 0&10&10
Dampers, American. eas 40.410
Forks, hoes, rakes 2 nd all steel ‘goods.. 70
METALS~— Zinc
600 pound casks.................... ' 614
Perpound. «se 634
SOLDER
oe 12%

‘i he prices of the many other qual lities of solder
in the market indicated by private brands vary
according to composition.

TIN—Melyn Grade

10n0t IC, Chaveoal............... ie ee
14x20 IC. Chareoal ..... Leleceeeeeee ee, EC
20x14 TX) Charceal . _.................. 7
ieee Charcoal... |... 7 50
Each additional X on this grade, $1.75.
TIN—Allaway Grade
nt 5G Charcoal ...... 8... Le. 5
lume i, Coaneoal ...... -.... 5 25

jowi4 UX. Charcoal 00001). i

 

 

OE OE eee 6 2%
Each additional X on this grade, 1.50.
oo PLATES
14x20 IC, Charcoa!', Dean. i _-...... oo
14x20 IX, Charcoal. Dean. oe eee
20x28 IC, eer Dean.. ie 10 00
14x20 IC, Charcoel, Allzw ay rrade 4 75
14x20 IX, Charcoal, A llaway Gradc......... 5
20x28 1C, Charcoal, Allaway Grade........ 9 50
20x23 1X, Charcoal, Allaway Grade. ........ 11 50
i / BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE
14x56 IX, for No. 8 Boilers, | per pound... 9

14x56 IX, for No. 9 Boilers, |

 

COIN! CONN!
Should be neatly and ac
curately wrapped before
A banking. We make the
onLY device for doing it
properly.

SuccessFUL BANKERS
give these to their depositors. If yos prefer to buy,
ask any stationer for them or send to us for prices and
free samples.

ALVORD-BOLTON CO., MFRS.
29 GRAND RIVER AVE., DETROIT, MICH. U.S.A

BLACKSMITHS

Will do well to try our
BIG VEIN SMITHING COAL
It fills the bill.
S. P. Bennett Fuel & Ice Co.,

Grand Rapids, Mich.

COIN!

  
 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

Dev one to the Best Interests of Busi ness Men

Published a at the New Biodgett Building,
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When writing to any of our Advertisers, please |
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_ Michigan Tradesman.

SIOWE, Eniror.

FEBRUARY 26, 1896.

A.

WEDNESDAY, -

 

MR. STORRS SHOULD RETIRE.

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possesses any ncationus

Mr. Bennett, a druggist of a dozen or
fifteen years’ experience—but he is not
In a position to pass upon the chemistry

    

of foods, owing to his not having a
technical education. The other in-
spectors are utterly devoid of anv knowl-
edge whatever on food topics, as is
Be ened t by their work among the
wholesale and retz rade.

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a Of Storms selection of a State
Analyst but creditable,
inasmuch as he designated a young man
of little whose
have brought himself and the
as they

of

was anything

experience, analyses
Commis-
have con-
and

sioner into dispute,

flicted with the analyses older

reputable chemists who have devoted
their lives to the study of foods and
food products.

 
  

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ms supplying
onformed to
have been ut-
terly disregarded, costing dealers large
sums of money to recall goods which
were subsea pronounced adultera-
ited in the bulletins of the Com-
missioner
6. Mr. Storrs has exceeded his au-
thority in denouncing the preparations
lof two Battle Creek manufacturers,
lsolely on the alleged ground that large
profits were made on the manufacture
and sale of the preparations. In the
monthly bulletin for January, he caused
to be  published—probably on_ the

1

authority of his chemist—the statement
that the preparations contained certain
grains, which investigation disclosed
be incorrect. On being informed
by the Attorney-General that he had
exceeded his authority, and on being
threatened with prosecution by the
manufacturers he had wronged, he is-
sued a humiliating retraction, placing
himself and the State in the light of
unjustly pursuing innocent manufactur-
ers—at the State’s expense—apparently
for no real purpose, and prompted simply

gross ignorance.

to

by

7. Although the food laws expressly

prohibit
ing to the purity of any article of food

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land arrays himself

r their reg- |

had |

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He has |

brand- |

lawbreaker, thus rendering himself
liable to prosecution and impeachment,
it is time for the people to call a halt
and demand a change.

FOOLISH FINANCIERING.
The highest possible statesmanship
that which so establishes and con-
ducts the financial policy of a country
as to extend its commerce, develop its
resources, multiply its industries, in-
crease and keep its wealth at home,
and induce and create general prosper-
ity.

There
destitute
as the United States.

 

no great country so wholly
of this sort of statesmanship
The public pol-

IS

|icy forced upon the people by their po-
| litical representatives has had no other

result than to drain this country

| order to maintain the public credit and
| pay

of its
foreign
in

gold, to dissipate its wealth in
countries, aieaet the necessity,
ordinary

expenses, of continually

| borrowing money abroad.

-| it is considered that this is by all
| the

 

State Analyst from certify-

 

Mr. Storrs stated in his retraction that |
Postum Cereal and Rye-O are unadul-
terated and wholesome articles, thus

ng

ng at defiance the laws creating his
This act, in itself, ought to be
to warrant the Governor in
taking summary action in the premises.
ght of the above charges—ali
Tradesman is in a posi-
of which,

is sufficient for the re-
present Commissioner—
Tradesman calls upon Governor
undo the great wrong he did
the of Michigan by dragging the
office of Food Commissioner into the
mire of party politics and foisting on
the people a man who possessed no pos-

setti
office.

sufficient

In the lig
ia. the
stain,
Of pini 1on,
of the

of
tion to su
in its
moval
the

Rich to

and any one

State

sible qualifications for the position,
when appointed, and whose _ official
career has brought increasing disrepute

upon the adr ministration and the State.

Mr. Storrs’ official career has been
productive of little good to the people
at large, in proportion to the loss and
annoyance he has caused the manufac-
turer, the jobber and the retailer. When
the laws went into effect all were dis-
pused to obey them, and the same dis-
position is still manifest all along the
line; but when a man whose duty it is
to enforce them voluntarily violates
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This is ail the more astonishing ue
odds
richest producing country on the
xe. Here is a picture of the natural
resources of the United States, as
viewed by the Paris Review of Foreign
Commerce: ‘‘The continent colonized
hy the Anglo-Saxon race is better than
a storehouse of plenty, a cattle shed, a
cotton field, and petroleum well, to
which Europe comes for its corn and its
flour, its meat, its woven fabrics and its
lighting power. It is also a vast ware-
house which absorbs the surplus of in-
dustrial production. No other nation con-
sumes more manufactured products and
articles of luxury; none other absorbs a
greater quantity of foreign merchan-

99

glot

dise.

3ut, more than this, the United States
is one of the world’s chief gold pro-
ducers. Despite these enormous re-
sources and this vast trade, the United
States conducts its finances upon such
an execrable policy that the Govern-
ment constantly forced
money to keep up itscredit. It pursues
a system of issuing paper and silver
money, which it must guarantee in gold
in order to escape being discredited.

is to borrow

The vast exports of the United States
are chiefly in raw products, which do

inot bring high prices, while the im-

ports are nearly all manufactured arti-
cles, which necessarily cost much more
in proportion. Even then. the country
would not be drained of its wealth if it
were not for the fact that all the export-
ing and importing are done in foreign
vessels, which earn vast amounts of
freight money, and for the further fact
that the chief ambition of wealthy
Americans is to live and spend their
money in foreign cougtries. The Paris
Commercial Review makes a special
note of the fact that rich Americans
are in the habit of traveling extensive-
ly in Europe for pleasure, and that they
spend there large sums of money. They
leave there about $100,000,000 annually,
perhaps much more. As_ Europeans
do not go to America to spend their
sterling or their louis, and as
European capitalists do not place their
funds outside of their continent, the
balance of commerce, asa rule, is al-
ways unfavorable to the United States.
3ut there is also a constantly increas-
ing amount of money that has to be
paid abroad for interest on the public
debt, much of which 1s held abroad, and
which, at a rate of increase of $100,000, -
000 a year, will soon become unbear-
able. Any intelligent and unprejudiced

on the side of the |
‘tem, which was inaugurated by the Re-

|
|

 

observer of the operation of this sys-

publicans and adopted and carried on by
the Democrats, must be struck with the
overpowering stupidity of the so-called
statesmanship that maintains such a

policy.

 

TRADES UNIONS ‘VS. INDUSTRIES.

During the past few days there have
been an unusually large number of
strikes and lock-outs, caused by the re-
bellion of employers against the arbi-
trary dictation of the union delegates.
The cardinal principle of modern unions
is that the condition of workingmen is

to be improved by an _ indefinite in-
crease in the scale of wages, with a re-
duction in the working hours and a

limit to amount to work to be done by
the average workman, which must be
exceeded by none. In the application
of these principles there is no consider-
ation of industrial conditions—the limit
is the degree to which the employers
can be forced to submit to the dictation
and to the strain of costly production.

To unionism there is no future. The
continuity of an industry in any given
locality is of no significance. Hence

it will not scruple to put such a cost
upon production that the industry, con-

trolled as it is by the natural laws of

trade, must betake itself elsewhere.
This does not signify to the agitator,

for he is a migratory bird; but it is a
matter of very serious importance to the
rank and file of his poor dupes, many
of whom have family ties and homes
and cannot so easily look for employ-
ment eleswhere.

If, in the control of unionism,
were a moiety of common sense, or a
real desire to benefit workingmen, the
question of the welfare and perpetuity
of the industry would have considera-
tion. The employes would learn that
an advance of wages beyond what the
industry can properly stand and yield
fair returns to its projectors is as ser-
ious a calamity to them as to him. And
they would also learn that it is not well
to inflict humiliating and arbitrary rules,
unnecessarily, which will engender an-
tagonism on the part of the employer—
in short, they would learn that both
have interests in common and that they
cannot afford to be enemies. But those
who are led by unionism do not look
far ahead. If they can secure a Io per
cent. advance, or a ‘‘soft snap’’ by
shorter hours, it is the great thing to
be desired, even if it means enforced
idleness and starvation in a few weeks.

Most of the current strikes are the re-
sult of the reckless union policy. In
the clothing strike in Chicago the reck-
less demands and arbitrary dictation
had made the business unprofitable and
had become intolerable. The Detroit
cigarmakers had persisted in a scale
which was driving the industry into
other localities. But these considera-
tions were of no import to the walking
delegates, and the workmen failed to
use their intelligence to stop the de-
mands within reason and safety to the
industries.

These are essentially walking dele-
gate strikes, or lock-outs, as is the
great lithographers’ strike in New York
for recognition of their union. To the
‘del a. these are means of notoriety
and glory and profit withal—to the work-
ing men they are calamities, the extent
of which they little realize, and to the
capitalist and would-be investor in in-
dustrial undertakings they are a warn-

there

ing that he will do well to avoid the
risks of such enterprises, and so he

seeks less profitable, but safer, invest-
ment in Government and municipal
bonds. Thus this class of investments
while ‘‘indus-

are increasing in price,
are declining.

trials’’

 

 

 

THE TRANSVAAL PROBLEM.
Although there is no immediate pros-
pect of further trouble in South Africa,

it is generally recognized in political |
circles in Europe that the difficulty has |

After
trouble

not been permanently arranged.
all, the original cause of the
was the refusal of the Boers
Transvaal republic to accord foreign
residents reasonable rights. Although
the Uitlanders, as the foreign-born pop-
ulation of the Transvaal are called, con-
trol the industries of the country and
pay the vast bulk of the taxes, they have

no voice in the government and are
not permitted to control even the
schools. The hardship imposed by

this disfranchisement of the large ma-
jority of the peeple has naturally made
the Uitlanders very much dissatisfied,
and the raid of Dr. Jameson, ill-advised
and intemperate as it was, only served
to show the desperation which prevailed
among these people. .

Even Mr Chamberlain, in his recent
utterances, has freely stated that the rec-
ognition of the just claims of the Uit-
landers’is a condition precedent to the
complete restoration of tranquility in
the Transvaal. The Boers have as yet
displayed not the slightest disposition
to concede anything, but, on the con-
trary, have resented Mr. Chamberlain’s
advice.

Germany is, apparently, quite as
much wrought up over the Transvaal
question as is Great Britain, but Ger-
many has taken the very opposite side
of the controversy and is backing up
the Boers in their refusal to recognize
the Uitlanders. In the German Reichs-
tag leading political lights have as-
sured the public that Germany would
do all in her power to maintain the
status quo in South Africa. If the
maintenance of the status quo means
merely that the Transvaal is to remain
a dependency of the British Crown as
far as its external relations go, no fault
will be found with the German policy
-in London; but, if it means that the
Boers are to be encouraged in their re-
fusal to accord justice to the foreign,
born residents of the Transvaal, there is
sure to be more or less friction, par-
ticularly should Emperor William make
further attempts to communicate with
the Transvaal government over the head
of the British foreign office.

Owing to the feeling existing in South
Africa against the Boers, the Transvaal
question must remain a delicate one for
some time to come, and the attitude
Germany has assumed has greatly com-
plicated the situation, making it very
difficult of settlement because of the en-
couragement given the Boers to resist
the advice and persuasion of the British
government.

 

THE PANAMA CANAL AGAIN.

While Congress is dilly-dallying over
the Nicaragua Canal project a company
has been organized in Paris to complete
the Panama Canal. This corporation,
the Compagnie Nouvelle du Canal de
Panama, has just closed a contract with
the Lidgerwood Company, of New
York, for seven of the cableways and
hoisting machines to be used in excavat-
ing. These are the sort of machines
used so successfully in the construction
of the Chicago drainage canal, and the
placing of this order looks very much
like business.

The European nations are fully
aroused to the importance of imitating
the policy of England in developing for-
eign commerce and securing foreign

of the |

 

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| colonies.

That is the policy which has
| made Great Britain so rich and power-
‘ful that she is the envy, if not the
idread, of all the other great nations,
and they have determined to adopt her
means of acquiring wealth and great-
ness.

To this end France has been making
Touquin and Southeast
Asia, while all the nations, including
even little Belgium and Portugal, have
engaged in the dismembering and _ par-
titioning of the countries of Africa. In
order to facilitate and control commerce
as much as possible, several ‘ship canals
have been constructed and put in oper-
ation in Europe, while others are pro-
jected, and even an inland country like
Germany is making strenuous efforts to
acquire a great ocean commerce and
powerful navy.

conquests 1n

It would not be strange, under these
circumstances, if there should
France, interest enough in the

be, in
Panama
Canal to secure its completion; and the
fact that the American isthmus shall be
pierced by a company acting under the
protection and in the interest of a Eu-
ropean uation will detract seriously
from the prestige and reputation for
enterprise of the United States. As to
the Nicaragua Canal, it has never got
beyond the condition of a mere project,
and it seems to be rapidly falling into
the condition of a neglected and forlorn
scheme.

A SIGNIFICANT CHRISTENING.

The baptism of a royal babe is an
event of common enough occurrence in
Europe, where royalties abound, hence,
ordinarily, such events attract little or

no attention other than local. Within
a few days, however, there was. chris-
tened a royal babe in the little Balkan

principality of Bulgaria, and around
that event has centered a more lively
interest than probably would have ac-
companied the baptism of the heir of
the proudest empire of Europe.

A few days ago the little Prince
Boris, of Bulgaria, son of Prince Fredi-
nand, of Bulgaria, was baptised in the
orthodox Greek faith. Prince Ferdi-
nand had long resisted this demand of
the Bulgarian people that their future
ruler should be of the same faith as
themselves, but the pressure exerted by
Russia prevailed in the end and the
agreement under which Ferdinand was
elected to the throne was carried out by
the christening of his son and heir in
the Greek faith.

It is generally believed that Ferdi-
nand’s consent to the christening of his
son in the Greek faith was won by
Russia's promise of recognition, based
upon an understanding that Bulgaria
would co-operate in a friendly way _ to-
wards the success of the Russian policy.
It is pointed out as an evidence of an
understanding with Russia that Turkey,
the nominal suzerain of Bulgaria, has
asked the Powers to recognize Ferdi-
nand, a move which the Sultan would
scarcely have dared to take without the
knowledge and assent of Russia.

Ferdinand did not scruple to sacrifice
Stambuloff to placate Russia, and it
now appears that he has not scrupled at
sacrificing his personal inclinations
with respect to his son to further mol-
lify the Czar.

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Shoes and Leather_

RUBBER FOOTWEAR.
Some of the Changes in the Past
Half Century.

If the popular overshoes of the last
fifty years were to form in a_ procession
and file by in chronological order, it
would not only show the rapid develop-
ment of the rubber footwear industry,
but it would serve equally well asa
measure of the growth of our national

aesthetic taste.

The first rubber shoes ever worn in
this country came from South America
in 1820—a pair of very elaborate gilded
rubbers, which a Boston sea captain
brought home as a curiosity. The first
serious importation for selling purposes
was made five years later, and since that
time to the present the rubser shoe has
been an essential part of our domestic
economy. These early South American
shoes were exceedingly crude. They
were made in this way: The natives
moulded rough lasts of clay, dipped
them into the sap of the rubber tree and
dried them, one layer after another, in
the smoke of the palm nut. Salem,
Mass., was at that time one of the most
aggressive business centers in the
United States, and some of its shrewd
people thought that if they could not
make the shoes they could make the
next best thing—the last. So they ex-
ported to South America a large num-
ber of maple lasts, which the natives
took to very kindly, as an improvement
upon the clay moulds. These dipped
shoes were the only kind that proved
serviceable up to the time of Goodyear’s
discovery of the vulcanization process
in the early forties. They were, to be
sure, about equally thick i. all parts,
vamps, soles Snd heels. They were,
moreover, nearly all of the same size,
and were unlined.

When Goodyear, in 1843-44,had so far
perfected his process that he could
make shoes of vulcanized rubber, the
South American importations fell off,
and people began to use shoes of Amer-
ican make,as they were more shapely,
comfortable, and had the advantage of
a lining. Moreover, they were made in
regular sizes, although the introduction
of the half size came at a considerably
later date. These first American shoes
were simply plain overshoes in shape,
that is; the vamp and the counter were
about the same height. They were very
heavy and made the foot perspire most
uncomfortably. To avoid this the ‘‘San-
dal,’’ an overshoe with openings cut
across the vamp, was introduced. This,
of course, gave the foot more ventila-
tion, but it also let in the wet, and so
its usefulness was limited. After a few
years it was followed by the *' Imitation
Sandal,’ which did not have the open-
ings but had imitations of them in the
vamp, and was made much lighter than
the ‘‘Over.’’ This was very popular in
the late fifties, and remains a_ standard
shoe to-day. The Sandal, generally with
one strap, and sometimes with two or
three straps, is still made.

There was once a passing fad, or
possibly we might with more propriety
call it a ‘‘freak’’ of that day, which is
worthy of notice, and that was the call
for rubbers with a ‘‘duck bill’’ toe.
This toe first narrowed and. then flared
out wider than the rest of the sole, at the
same time being extended from one to
three inches longer than the foot. Rub-
bers were made that way to fit the leather
shoes worn at that time—a most amazing
style, as it seems to us in these days of
pointed toes.

About that time, in the late fifties, a
new overshoe came into vouge, which,
with various modifications, has _ re-
mained popular to this day. That was
the Arctic, invented and patented by T.
C. Wales, and made exclusively for
many years by the Wales-Goodyear Co.
It consisted of a shoe with cloth outside
and a cloth lining, with a layer of rub-
ber between. The most popular form
of this shoe for many years was the
‘*Congress’’ Arctic, with elastic goring
in both sides. In those days every
man old enough to vote wore high-

 

legged boots ; at least, that was the reg-
ulation footwear, and these elastic gored
Arctics went admirably with the boots ;
but when these boots went out of style
the ‘‘Congress’’ Arctic went with them.
The first Arctic made was lined like an
ordinary shoe and had a slit down the
vamp, which, of course, let in the rain;
that was superseded by the Arctic, which
had a flap buckling on the side, which
in turn gave way to the Arctic used to-
day, in which the two sides buckle over
the vamp, and which, when made with
snow-excluding gussets, is waterproof to
the very top.

The button gaiter—which remains
popular to this day—came into being
along in the fifties, about 1855, while
the ‘‘Alaska,’’ an outgrowth of the Arc-
tic, was of slightly later origin.

The ‘'Croquet’’ for women, now the
most popular of women’s shoes, ap-
peared about 1869, when the game of
croquet first made its appearance and
excited such a furore. It was introduced
by the Candee Co. and was first called
the ‘‘New Haven.’’ This shoe was a
modification of the ‘‘Over’’ in two par-
ticulars—it was cut higher at the heel
and lower in the vamp. The ‘‘Over,’’
which had been worn very largely up
to that time, did not adapt itself as well
to the French heels, which were begin-
ning to obtain among American women,
as the higher countered ‘*Croquet,’’
which immediately became popular and
has remained so to the present time.

A few years later, in the seventies, a
new rubber appeared, which commend-
ed itself exceedingly, particularly to
masculine ‘wearers, and that was the
self-acting shoe. When the large ma-
jority of male Americans had time
neither to eat, sleep nor dress, it was very
natural that the effort of pulling ona
tight-fitting rubber and taking it off
again should seriously impair the popu-
larity of rubber wearing. This new
self-acting shoe largely did away with
this objection. It was made with a stiff
counter and a stiff shank and witha
rubber lining at the heel, so that it
would cling to the leather shoe, and
then a small spur was attached at the
back, so that the rubber could easily be
removed by the other foot. This shoe,
which went on of its own accord and
could easily be sprung off by the foot
and yet remained secure when walking,
became immediately popular, and still
remains the prevailing men’s shoe.
The ‘‘Clog,’’ it might be said in _pass-
ing, was an outgrowth of the self-act-
ing shoe. The rubber lining at the heel
served to hold the rubber in place, and
permitted a much lower cutting of the
vamp than had_ hitherto been possible.
The ‘‘Clog’’ has proved to be a very
popular shoe, and is much favored by
people who are in a position to have a
varied stock of footwear for various
kinds of weather, as well as by those
who wear rubbers solely to protect the
foot from the dampness of the ground.

One extreme very often leads to an-
other, and the French heel that neces-
sitated the ‘‘Croquet’’ raised a great
stir among the hygienists, and they all
came out flat-footed—so to speak—
against it, with the result that a great
many women who themselves stalked
about on French heels wanted shoes for
their daughters and young children that
were absolutely without heels. This, of
course, called for ‘a heelless rubber,
which appeared along in the latter part
of the seventies, and is still popular,
and likely to remain so, for misses and
children.

In the early eighties the Candee Co.
made a distinct departure in the manu-
facture of rubber footwear, bringing out
a very high-vamped rubber, the inven-
tion of one of its selling agents, called
the ‘‘Elm City.’’ The vamp of this shoe
came up to the ankle, and afforded per-
fect protection in the most driving rain,
but, like many another good thing, it
was a little ahead of the public, and _ it
did not receive the instant favor it de-
served. Possibly this may be accounted
for in a certain measure by the fact that
those first rubbers made after this pat-
tern were made rather tight across the
instep. Whatever the cause, this shoe
did not enjoy its present wide popular-
ity until some years later when another

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The woman who allows her shoes to run down at the heels,
to split at the sides, and to commit other indiscretions, is
careless; but the woman who allows her rubbers to be
broken or split is criminal. From November until April
her overshoes are woman’s best friend. They keep her
feet dry on damp and wet days. They prevent her from
slipping on icy and snowy days, and their province of _use-
fulness is so great that they deserve particular care. When
they split or when the heels burst, they should be immedi-
ately thrown aside and a new pair bought. Nothing is worse
than rubbers which admit and retain mud and moisture.

W. A. MCGRAW & GO. - — Detrolt

Exclusive Rubber Dealers.

Have the most stylish line of FINE RUBBERS for LADIES that the world
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508, 509 and 510
Widdicomb Bld.

N. B. CLARK,
Pres.
W. D. WADE,
Vice Pres.
Cc. U. CLARK,
Sec’y and Treas.

  
    
 
      
 
      
   
   
 
    
     
   

We are now ready to
make contracts for bark
for the season of 1896.

 

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

11

 

company made a _ high-vamped_ rubber
much like the earlier Candee pattern,
but a little more roomy across the in-
step. The other companies, perceiv-
ing the excellence of this shoe, began to
make it, and now under a variety of
names—'‘Storm Slipper,’’ ‘‘ Protection
Slipper, ’’ ‘‘ Beacon Slipper, ’’ ‘‘Sensible
Over,’’ etc.—it is one of the most pop-
ular styles of rubber footwear, espe-
cially with women.

The development of the toe in rubber
footwear is quite interesting. From the
extremely broad-toed rubbers of the
fifties, rubbers grew more moderate
in that particular until] about twenty
years ago, when the comparatively nar-
row London toe came into vogue. This
predominated for fifteen years or so,
until about three or four years ago,
when the extremely pointed leather
shoes demanded a counterpart in rub-
bers. Now, therefore, the principal rub-
ber companies are all making rubbers
in razor and needle toes. One effect of
these narrow toes has been to_ play
havoc with all standards of size, for the
narrower the toe the longer the rubber
has to be made to fit the same size of
foot. For instance, an extremely nar-
row toe No. 8 rubber is sometimes as
long as a regular toe No. 11,

@ the rubber boot is an American prod-
uct. There is no record that any rub-
ber boot was imported from the South
American countries. Boots began to be
made in this country at the same time
with shoes. Hayward, one of Good-
year’s contemporaries and his chief an-
tagonist for inventive honors in the rub-
ber line, devised the hard heel back in
the forties, and from that day to this
the rubber boot has been a popular ar-
ticle of footwear, particularly in the
country, where there is much snow in
winter, and especially among farmers

and fishermen, whose callings keep
them out of doors in the worst of
weather.

The Lumbermen’s Shoe, now so popu-
lar in Maine and the Northwest and
wherever there are trees to cut, is an
outgrowth of the old women’s buskin
made back in the fifties--a laced shoe
lined with canton flannel and made to
wear directly over the stocking. This
shoe is fastened with one or two buckles
or by lacing through eyelets or iron
loops, but the one buckle ‘* Perfection, ”’
worn over a felt boot or woolen sock,
has for many years been the prevailing
shoe.

Different localities with different con-
ditions call for a different style of rub-
ber footwear. For instance, in the
Southwest, where the mud is dense and
sticky, and always pulling at the pedes-
trian’s leg, the ordinary rubber is very
liable to be pulled off and lost. To
avoid this rubbers have been made with
a strap coming over the ankle. This,
of course, takes more time to adjust,
but when the rubber is once on, it 1s on
to stay. Various other devices have
been contrived for holding the rubber
shoe on the leather shoe, but the strap
seems to have been the most successful.

The most popular general styles of
rubber shoe to-day for feminine wear
are the ‘‘Overs’’ and **Croquets,’” both
in heavy and light weights ; the high-
vamped rubber for driving rains, and
cloth-topped gaiters for the snowy days
of winter; while men like self-acting
‘Overs, ’’ and if they live where there
is a great deal of snow, and where every
man has to be his own snowplow, they
affect the buckle Arctic.

Of course, there is a great variety of
footwear made at the present time.
Each one of the big companies makes
over a hundred different kinds, but it
you had the privilege on the next stormy
day of stopping the great American pub-
lic and making it show its foot, you
would find that these five varieties—-the
‘*Croquet,’’ high-vamped stormy day
shoe, the Gaiter, the Self-Acting Over
and the Arctic—would lead all the rest.
—John P. Lyons in the India Rubber
World.

—____©£c

The spirit which prompts one to speak

ill of another in solicitude of your wel-

fare is born of selfishness. Of him be-

ware He has his hand on your pocket-
book or is preparing to put it there.

There Are Others.

There are genuine, reliable and _first-
class commercial travelers, and ‘‘there
are others.’’ The former go about the
country transacting business as men
among men, commanding every one’s
respect, good will and _ friendship.
They are ornaments to the profession,
and never dim the luster of their call-
ing. They form a strong connecting
link in the golden chain of commerce,
and are an inspiration to their fellow-
travelers. The latter class, however,
are a disgrace and an omen of evil.
How many things happen ‘‘on the
road’’ which are chronicled as the mis-
deeds of a regular commercial traveler,
but which, upon investigation, prove to
be but the acts of some reprobate who
is not entitled to assume the character
of one in a noble calling. He simply
uses the cloak of the commercial travel-
er to cover up his true colors, and thus
casts odium upon an honorable class.
Many are the cases where this has been
demonstrated to be true. Suppose some
man in any of the various walks of life
happens to get into trouble while away
from home and, to divert suspicion and
cover up his tracks, announces himself
as a commercial traveler under a_ ficti-
tious name, and from some prominent
town remote from his field of operations.
The world, without investigating, im-
mediately jumps to the conclusion that
another good man has gone wrong, and
in consequence an honorable class suf-
fers in reputation. Let the public please
remember that not all the fakirs, ped-
dlers, dead-beats and riffraff who get a
few mules from home, either for pleas-
ure or some questionable business, and
who get caught in the meshes of the
law, are genuine commercial travelers.
They have no affiliation with the genu-
ine commercial travelers, their associa-
tions, nor get any sympathy or consid-
eration from them. The only wish that
the genuine commercial traveler has for
the fake is that his *‘ punishment may
fit his crime.’’

__& @»—___
Unexpected Assistance.

The proprietor of a large store on
High street went to his place of business
at an unusually early hour this morning ;
'in fact, the sun had not yet risen when
he tarned the key in the door, says the
West Medford, (Mass.) Windmill. On
entering he was surprised to find a man
trying to open the door of the safe.

He stood and watched him for some
time, apparently deeply interested in
the proceedings, when finally the burglar
swung open the door of the safe with a
delighted chuckle, but, happening to
turn, he saw that he was discovered and
/became very much alarmed. He jumped
|up and was about to make his escape
| through a back window, when the mer-
| chant called to him:
| **J)on’t be in a hurry, my friend ; come
| back and sit down a while and smoke
a cigar while I straighten things up a
|

 

bit and then come to breakfast with me.
| You have done me a great favor.’’
‘Why, how’s that?’’ asked the bur-
'glar, in great surprise.

| **Well, you see, I had the combina-
ition of the safe ona bit of paper and
‘last night I accidentally locked it in the
safe and fergot how to work it; I spent
most of the night trying to get the
thing open and came in early this morn-
ing to have another try at it.”’

 

 

 

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OUR LEADERS.

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We have both, the WILL, and the WAY to serve you for 1806.

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Our Spring line
of samples are
being shown by
our representa-
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and the prices are
based on to-day’s

   

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agents for Lycoming and Keystone Rubbers. They
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THE MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

 

JANE CRAGIN.

How to Get Rid of Accumulated Odds
and Ends.
Witten for the TRADESMAN.

‘*Most of a groan when the
ground-hog sees his shadow,'’ Cy re-
marked to Wallace at the close of that
prophetic day, animal in
question had crawled back into his win-
ter quarters, ‘‘but I’m always glad
when he does it. You see, if he stays
out that means an early spring, and just
as sure as that happens, every fair day
after that means that spring has set in,
and the women folks at our place be-
gin to see dirt gathering on everything.
They are both hit at the same time |

‘Hit? What do you mean?’

‘‘Just what I say. Last year I watched
‘em. ‘Twas stormy all day, if you re-
member. First Jane would say that
she wished it wouldn’t hald up a = min-
ute, for she always ‘lotted’ on an early
spring, and Dolly would come out with
the price she’d give if it would just set

when the

in for a good old-fashioned storm, so
we could have May flowers early in
April.’

‘Waal, b’ gosh, that’s what I say.

What in thunder’s the use of carrying
the winter over into June, I should like
to know. You needn't undertake to tell
me that you like it, for I know better.
It’s better for business; anybody feels
better when we have seasonable weath-
‘tis you’re whimmy,
You didn’t

er: and—waal, all
Cy. What’s got into you?
used to be that way.”’
‘*Of course I didn’t, but you would if
your wife was in the store much. You
see, Wallace, it is a kind of instinct
and, as I said, the minute the sun comes

out after the second day of February,

those women begin to look cross and
find fault with everything they touch.
They'll go along and wipe the shelves

with their finger and then look at it and
a little sort of an ugly ‘Oh!’ and
Dolly says ‘ Mercy !’ every time her dress
touches anything. Ds know, Ben,
I’ve made up my mind that women are
full of swear as we men are.
and Dolly have days when they
dumb sight fussier than 1 am.
Jane says, “Humph!’ and Dolly
‘Mercy!’ and both of ’em will say it so
that I know they feel just as I do
| say ‘Damn!’ with one or two words be-
fore it. Jane jammed her finger the other
day ; and she out with a ‘Gracious
Peter!’ that deal more
than that. I say it’s just as bad to think
it as it is to say it; and when Jim and
I get mad and _ say right out what we
mean, you’d think there was somebody
dead in the a day or two aft-
er. That’s the way with ‘em. You have
to tell what they mean by the way they
act and ‘tain t ; but when
they know hot weather's on the way, all
's so dirty they can’t

give
you
just as
Jane

are 2
says,
when

came

meant a good

house for

always easy

at once the store

live in it, and that means a spring
cleaning. After they’ve gone around
touching things and looking at their

:
n
hands, there'll be a day when they can’t

stand it any longer, and they’ll both
conclude that to-morrow morning, rain
or shine, they’ve got to begin to clean

that store. '’

‘‘Waal, that’s what it ought to be.
You can’t keep clean, can ye, without
you use soap and water? Your store is
like a parlor,but I guess it wouldn’t be,
if the women
’n ’tis now when you were in here, and
if you bad about
women folks want to clean something,
bring ’em here. I'll set
work and be mighty glad to have ’em.”’

feel so

over

folks didn’t do it. If I|
remember, this store wasn’t any Cleaner |

it and the}

"em to|

There wasn’t any comfort in that and
Cy went to his own store, doubting
whether he would go over to the farm
and let them have the good time all to
themselves, or stay and get through with
it just as soon as they could. It was
well that he decided on the latter, for
he had hardly closed the store door when
Jane began.

‘‘There is no use, Cy, in putting it
off any longer. This store from cellar
to garret is as dirty as a pigpen, and
we've got to go at it to-morrow, bright
and early. Now let's go at it this time
with everything all settled beforehand,
so we shan’t have any dispute about
anything. You are always as cross as a
bear, for some reason or other, and it’s
as much as anybody's life is worth to
say a word to you. Tell us now what
you want done with all that pile of stuff
that isn’t worth anything and which is
scattered all over the store—odds and
ends that are forever in the way and
won't sell. I say burn ‘em up or give
‘em away. Get rid of ‘em some way.
Why not get ’em up into a pile and just
burn ’em?”’

‘It seems a great pity,’’ put in Dolly,
‘to burn them. Then they do nobody
any good. I shouid think it would be
better to give them away. There are so
many things that so many want. Why
not put them by themselves and from
time to time slip in this thing here and
that one there and so get rid of them?
What do you say, Mr. Huxley?’’

‘*Sell ’em. You makea bonfire of that
stuff and you’ll have the country up in
arms about it.”’

‘*Well, then, give "em away,’
Jane. ‘‘I believe that would be better.

‘Not much, ’’ was Cy’s response. ‘‘ Try
that, and in less than no time the
neighborhood would be by the ears, and
Wallace would get a good part of our
customers. You see,’’ and Cy’s mis-
chievous twinkle crept into his eyes,
‘‘women never know how to manage
‘such things. Your intentions are well
enough, in fact they are good; but
you’re prejudiced, and you let that run
away with your discretion.’’

‘How pitiful!’’ sighed Jane with
a sarcasm that was simply withering.

‘I’ve noticed that in both of you.
You want to do the right thing and ye
try, both of ye, but ye don’t seem to

%?

said

.”

know how.

‘*Oh!’’ exclaimed Dolly, ‘‘that is
such a pity. Won’t Socrates, the wise
man of Milltown, kindly tell us how? I,
for one, would be so glad to learn !’’

‘‘T knew you’d be; and I’m glad to
tell ye on that account. Now, then, the
folks ’round here don’t care so much
for gifts, especially that kind—they call
‘em truck—and they don’t want ’em
burned because that’s wasteful; and the
only thing to do is to have ‘em out in
sight, and let ’em beat you down on
the price.’’

‘‘Let whom beat you down?’’ asked
Dolly. j

‘Don’t, Dolly,’’ interrupted Jane.
‘‘When Cy thinks he has an idea, a
brand new one—and that’s what’s trou-
bling him now—don’t interfere with him.
Let him make the most of it. He’s go-
ing to bring out the idea now that folks
like to make bargains—-especially wom-
en folks—and that’s how to dispose of
these goods that he’s hung on to for ten
years or so! Go on, Cyrus. What you
say is good.

 

if you'll give it the sunlight of your un-
| prejudiced intelligence, we'll dispose
| of the stuff and provide space for some
| new goods !’’

Dolly and I have talked it |
‘all over in our prejudiced way ; and now |

Walter Baker & Co., Limited.

The Largest Manutac.ures:

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~ COCOAS an
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on this continent,
have received

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IN

Europe and America.
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labels and wrappers on our goods, consum-
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TRADESMAN 13

 

‘*T’ve got through.
idea, you’re all right.
gin right off. Jim and I will tackle the
back store now; and, Doily, you and
Jane better begin on the dry goods soon
as you two can get over talking about it
—or perhaps you can work and talk;
women can sometimes do two things at
once and do’em well. Then, when the old
stock is all cleaned out, we’ll have what
they call in town a grand clearing out
sale, and the way these country folks
will chuckle over their bargains and ad-
vertise for us will be a caution.’’

Now you have my
We'd better be-

The result of the clearing out was as-
tounding. A place was provided for the
condemned merchandise and was soon
found to be too small. The larger
space was soon filled and that was too
limited; and when the work was over,
it did seem as if the flames were the
only remedy. The back store disclosed
articles condemned by dirt and rust and
some which had been long forgotten
were now of no earthly value; and the
front store furnished a medley ot
as curious as they were useless and un-
sightly. Then the real work began,
Every article was made to look its best
and assigned a place on the ‘‘bargain
counter, ’’ a term then used the first time
in Milltown. Jane thought that it would
be a good plan to mark each article;
but, after all, Cy’s idea of letting the
customer have a good time in “‘beating
down’’ prevailed, and in due time the
fun began.

goods

‘*What in the name of goodness is all
this stuff piled up here?’’

‘*Goods, Mrs. Bettis, goods. Some
we've imported for the bargain counter.
Folks have been wanting bargains long
enough and I just sent for a carload.
How’s that piece of gingham for twenty
cents?’”’

‘Don’t you say a word to me about
dry goods. That Sid loaded me up for
the next ten years. What’s that old
apple-parer wuth that Noah left in the
ark? I suppose you'll be asking
quarter for it on account of the rust.”’

‘‘Waal, now, seeing it’s you, Mrs.
Bettis—’’

‘*You needn’t start in that way. I’m
too old and hombly. I'll give ye ten
cents and that’s more’n it’s wuth.’’

‘‘Oh, Mrs. Bettis, ye ain’t reasonable!
I’ll call it seventeen cents.’

‘*All right, you can call it what you

a

mine to, and I'll give jest fifteen
cents.’’
‘*You may have it; but if the Mill-

town store busts up, you’ll know why!
How’s this for a chopping- knife? and
how’s this for a chopping-tray, such as
your grandmother used to have? Jest
look at the edge of that knife.”’

‘*VYe-a. Makes me think of a hoe.
For the sake of my grandmother I'll
give ye ten cents for both on ’em!"’

‘Well, this is the bargain counter,
and I shall have to let ye have ’em at
your own price; but I better give ‘em
to ye. Here’sa fish-line I’m going to
throw in. There, give that to Bettis
and tell him that he wants to come over
before the bargain counter’s cleared
up. Jim, take these things out to Mrs.

Bettis’ wagon. You're sure you’ve got
all ye want? You know you won’t get

another such chance.”’

‘*That’s all, to-day.’’

It wasn’t, though. She hadn’t even
begun. She stopped on her way home
at every house, and told with exultant
joy the way she beat Cy Huxley down,
and ‘‘to put the button’’ displayed her
bargains. That did the business; and
Mrs. Bettis was hardly out of sight be-
fore there was a harnessing of the horse

 

and a hurried drive to Milltown to beat
down Huxley and secure a_ bargain.
When the goods of any value whatever
were disposed of, there was a ‘‘ throwing
in’’ of the rest; and from that time
Milltown, at stated periods, had _ its
bargain counter, which prevented the
accumulation of ‘‘stuff,’’ and proved
one of the most profitable departments
of the store.*

RICHARD MALCOLM STRONG.
> eo >

A new woman, very new,
talked about in Cleveland. She boarded
a Euclid avenue motor at Wilson avenue
by way of the rear door. Every seat
was filled and two or three men were
standing in the side aisle. She grabbed
strap after strap as she walked half the
length of the car, then tapped a promi-
nent business man on the back and said
in a loud tone of voice: “‘May I
your seat, The man
looked up piteously from his
paper and true heroic style,
saying: ‘‘Every inch of it is yours,
ma’am.’’ This convulsed the whole car
with laughter.
looked him

is being

have
addressed
morning

Sire

stood in

As she took the seat she
full in the face and said:
‘If you don’t get what you want, always
ask for it.’’ And the car, full of new
ideas, sped on toward town.

It is said the Chinese, as business
people, are far superior to the Japanese.
When a Chinese merchant gives his
word it is sacred; there is no use in
putting a contract in writing when deal-
ing with them, and if, in rare cases, one
defaults, his relatives or friends cheer-
fully comply with the obligation. On
the contrary, the Japs will break their
word whenever self-interest dictates, and
the only way to deal with them is by
written instruments. They are bright
and clever, but lacking in the solid and
enduring qualities of the Chinese.

—> :

A mistaken idea is the one of trying
to get a situation where a good easy
time is the desideratum. The sooner
this notion is gotten rid of the better for
its possessor. While it is not desirable
to go to the other extreme and think
that the more work is put a the
greater the chance for success, still of
two evils it is the lesser to feared.

‘Soft snaps’’ are mighty poor factors
for bringing out dormant ambition.
Where interest is lacking success is im-

7 Downy cushions have their
uses, but always reposing on one
saps vitality. Therefore, don’t ever
be on the lookout for situations which
hold forth too much of the ‘‘killing
time’’ inducement. A _ lifetime spent
in dawdling isn’t much credit to its
owner.
20+

E. K. Bennett, who sold jewelry on
the road for fifteen years, naturally

picked up much valuable experience
during that time relative to the best and
most approved methods of hotel keep-
ing, and, since he assumed the manage-
ment of the New Grand at Lansing, he
has been able to put into practical use

the experience thus acquired. — Mr.
Bennett has had the pleasure of wel-
coming many of his former associates

on the road as guests at his house, and
he still has room on his register for the
autugraphs of other tireless travelers
who wish to put up ata quiet hotel,
well kept in every respect and comfort:
able in all its appointments.
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An employer is not bound to abandon
the use of a particular machine or ap-
pliance which is in common use and
in a proper state of repair, merely be-
cause there are other machines or ap-
pliances in use that are better adapted
tor doing the work, or that may be
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Ceresota

FLOUR

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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

_ Getting the People

 

Business-Paper Adver-
tising.

Written for the TrapEsMAN. Copyrighted, 195.

Continuous

In continuity is strength.

In disconnection is failure.

The Builder of the Universe did not
build something, Monday ; and. build
nothing, Tuesday; and rebuild, Wed-
nesday ; and rest, Thursday.

He built something every day of the
week, and only rested when He was
through.

The forces of nature are continuous.

The tundamental principle of motion
is everlasting.

The brook which runs on forever is the
brook the fish live in.

The brook which dries up this month,
and is a torrent next monch, is the
brook folks try to get rid of.

The man who feeds his horse on Mon-
day, and gives him nothing to eat on
Tuesday, has a weak horse on Wednes-
day, and a dead horse on Thursday.

The child who goes to school on Mon-
day, and skips Tuesday, and attempts to
connect the end of Monday’s lesson
with the beginning of Wednesday's les-
son, is handicapped by conditions dia-
metrically opposed to progressive educa-
tion.

All things being equal, the store
which has been the longest time in some
one place is the store which does the
greatest business.

Change of base, and especially change
of business base, is only allowable un-
der conditions which make moving es-
sential.

Money is made in specialties and
bargains, but the fortunes of trade have
been made, and always will be made,
along the regular line of regularity: by
handling business to-day as it was hand-
led yesterday, and by handling business
to-morrow as it was handled to-day,
subject to the changes of the.ttimes, and
to the recognition of the conditions of
progress.

Continuous good is far better, and
more negotiable, than transient good,
however good transient good may be.

The most progressive advertisers of
the world have advertised continuously.

They advertise not for the fun of it.

They figure business on the hardest
slate with the hardest pencil.

All that they do, they do for profit
only.

Ninety-nine per cent. of successful
advertisers are continuous advertisers.

The man who advertises in January,
and discontinues his advertising in
February, must advertise more extens-
ively in March, in order to cover the
gap his foolishness has created.

It takes more advertising in March
to bridge the break of February than
it does to advertise in January, Febru-
ary and March altogether.

There are lines of goods which can't
be advantageously extensively adver-
tised during certain months of the year,
but advertising of those goods should
never be completely annihilated.

It can be reduced in size, for any ob-
ject, but it should be continuous, that
there may be no need, when extensive
advertising again begins, of connecting
the two advertising periods.

The continuity which regulates all
good business shouid be used in the reg-
ulation of advertising.

Advertising is no longer a luxury or
a side issue.

It is a commodity.

It never will be successful unless it is

 

 

 

 

handled the same way as are handled
other commodities.

In the continuity of advertising is the
good of it.

In the continuity of advertising is the
strength of it.

To break the advertising connection
is to Lreak trade connection.

Trade connection can be broken, ad-
vertising connection can be broken,
aud the house. still remain successful,
but the shrewd business man is not sat-
isfied with the minimum of success. He
is everlastingly striving for the maxi-
mum of success.

When he cuts expenses he cuts pro
portionately everywhere.

He does not stop advertising.

He advertises a little less, perhaps,
but he advertises.

He never allows the medium he uses
to go to press without the mention of
his name and of his business.

He advertises in off-season, in order
that the people may be better prepared
to appreciate his efforts in season.

He keeps everlastingly at advertising,
and wins.

N. C. FowLeER, JR.,
Doctor of Publicity.
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Tactless Clerks.
From the Dry Goods Bulletin.

The very first qualification in a clerk
ought to be tact, and a lack of this nec-
essary quality brands your help as in-
capable and positively injurious to
your business. A tactful clerk wins you
trade and this every day ; a tactless clerk
contributes to make your store more and
more unpopular every time he attends
to the wishes of a customer. One cus-
tomer enjoys a joke and comes to your
store because the witty remarks of a cer-
tain clerk harmonize with her disposi-
tion. Another avoids at every possible
opportunity your store because the clerk
who persists in waiting on her persists
also in trying to use the same art on
every customer. And perhaps you, as
employer, have failed to note the repug-
nance which the latter lady has for this
clerk and always call him. If your
judgment of men is so palpably in er-
ror, it will be to your profit to engage
at once a floor walker, or possibly bet-
ter, have a friend engage one for you,
for if your judgment concerning a judi-
cious selection of clerks for your trade
is so seriously at fault, it is highly
probable that you would err in select-
ing a floor walker, also.

The very first question which a_ clerk
directs to a customer contributes in a
prominent degree to the future position
of that same clerk in the estimation of
the customer. To illustrate this state-
ment a simple experience will be suffi-
cient: Happening into the largest retail
gents’ furnishing store of this city re-
cently, on inquiry for.collars, the pomp-
ous clerk chanted at us, ‘‘What size?’’
Now, that was not the remark to have
made by any means. Our search was
not for a particular size of collar, but
a particular shape, and it is also that of
nine out of ten visitors for collars. The
question which that clerk should have
asked was, ‘What particular style are
you looking for?’’ That remark, *‘ What
size?’’ was unnecessary, as he did not
have what was wanted, and he succeed-
ed in placarding himself in our estima-
tion as thoroughly tactless before he had
finished with us. Are your clerks suc-
cesses along this line or not? Self-ex-
amination on the part of clerks 1s de-
sirable.

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Paul Kruger receives a salary of $40, -
ooo a year, and is said to be worth
$5,000,000. His way of life, however,
is distinctly plebeian. A story is told
of some fashionable ladies who called
to leave their cards with the Presi-
dent’s wife. They discovered the dis-
tinguished lady standing on the door-
step with a half-devoured orange be-
tween her lips. One arm was imme-
diately placed akimbo, the orange care-
fully balanced, while the free hand was

 

stretched out for the cards.

Ceresota
William Rel

26-28 Louis St.

Will make you rich

if you sell enough.

Olney & Judson

FLOUR Grocer Co.

JOBBER OF

Paints, Oils, Brushes,
Varnishes, Etc.

PLATE and WINDOW GLASS.
GRAND RAPIDS, ICH.

 

New Wall Paper a Palit store

MILLER & MIDDLETON.

G. N. MILLER & BRO.

114 Tlonroe St.,
Gr-nd Rapids.

Successors to

 

Windsor Epatant papered prints, all dark
| work

Hamilton, Merrimac and Garners new
work, red prints

Indigo prints, all new work

B Indigo prints, all new work

C Indigo prints, all new work

Standard shirtings, all new work

Standard black and white, all new work

Lawrence L. L. sheeting

Arrow brand sheeting

Wickford fancy dress gingham

P. Steketee & Sons,

GRAND RAPIDS.

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IMPORTERS and JOBBERS.

Gents Furnishing bO0ds

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Their new Spring Goods, including White Goods, Prints,
Ginghams, Embroidery, etc., are very inviting.

GRAND RAPIDS.

 

TALKING THROUGH THE HAT

May be the proper thing, but we prefer
to talk about Hats. Our line of

Straw and Félt nats

Excels any we have ever shown. Write for prices.

Voigt, Herpolsheimer & Co.,

Wholesale Dry Goods
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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

15

 

 

THE COMFORTS OF GLD AGE.

Humph! That’s a cola subject for
this chilly weather. Well, we are hav-
ing some chilly weather over here in
this old Long Point country, just at
present; but there is a time coming—
and it is already within sight to many
of us—when it will be chillier than it is
now if we are not prepared for it.

Comforts of old age? Why, that’s not
a frosty subject. It is red-hot wiih
interest for the young man who is just
beginning to dream of victories won on
future battle-fields, and it is chock-full
of coloric for the man who is right in
it with his coat off and his shirt sleeves
rolled up. But it is of no interest to
the old man who can ne longer keep
step in the ranks of industry. With him
the die is cast. If he is a partaker of
the comforts of old age, it means that
his life has been a success; but, if he
is a stranger to them, God pity him!

The writer is at present engaged in
writing up manuscripts for a pioneer
work, and the data are gathered by in-
terviewing the octogenarians found here
and there. These old pioneers are found
in all sorts of places and in all sorts of
conditions. Among them are found the
fossilized remains of the merchant, the
manufacturer, the farmer and the _ pro-
fessional man of other days.’ Some of
these old veterans are hale and hearty,
well preserved mentally and physically,
and in the full enjoyment of the real
and solid comforts of old age. Others
are pitiable wrecks of humanity who,
by reason of the toughness of their an-
atomical fiber, have withstood the buffet-
ings of adversity for lo, these many long
years since they ceased to be of any use
to the world. Some of them were never
of any use to the world; and they are
now shoved off into a corner where they
sit in comfortable armchairs and medi-
tate on the mistakes of the past, and
suffer the terrible consequences of a life
ill spent.

Old age has its comforts as well as
middle life and youth. Youth finds its
comforts in hopes and _ aspirations;
middle life in achievement, and old age
in golden fruition. There are only three
steps from the cradle to the grave,
marking three distinct periods in the
full, natural life of man. The first
period is a time for choosing and pre-
paring; the second for action, and the
third for rest and retrospective medi-
tation. These steps are progressive—
that is, the first must be properly taken
before we can properly take the second,
and without which we cannot expect the
comforts belonging to the third and last.
If we neglect the first step, we are
shuffled on to the second where we are
jostled about by the active forces
around us, and if, perchance, we are
tumbled into a place of usefulness, we
may reclaim ourselves ; but, whether
chance so favor us or not, time soon
shoves us off the stage of action into an
obscure corner. where, for a_ brief
period, we sit in judgment on our past
lives. The result of this judgment
measures the comforts we get out of the
old armchair in old age.

The young man who idles away the
morning hours of his life in frivolous
amusements, without a care or a thought
as to what part he is to play in the great
drama of life, 1s not only robbins him-
self of the real comforts of youth, but is
nipping in the bud the comforts of
middle life and old age. A desire to
do and to be something of use to the
world is the bursting of the bud in the
development of true manhood; and,
when it leads to thorough preparation

 

for giving the desire a practical effect,
the youth is in the full enjoyment of all
the real comforts of this first period of
life. All so-called ** pleasures of youth’’
are false and deceptive. They are
false because, in the end, they prove to
be sources of misery instead of comfort ;

they deceive us because we never dis- |

cover their true nature until it is too
late to wholly make amends. The
youth who has chosen his part and
learned it thoroughly is ready for the
stage of action. He is no ‘“‘supe;’’ he
is one of the actors and is prepared
to play well his part. It matters not
what that part may be-—he has trained
himself for it; and, if he plays it for
all there is in him, in times of adver-
sity, when everything seems to be pitted
against him, as well as in times of
prosperity, when the winds are favorable
and all things come his way, he will
succeed. But, if he throw aside his
first choice because some other part
brings out louder plaudits, or because
the work seems lighter, cleaner or more
remtunerative, it will be the first fatal
step. This first mistake is the cause of
so many failures among our bright and
promising young business men.
when it 1s perfectly clear that a mistake
has been made in choosing a vocation,
especially where special training for
such vocation has been received, it is
better, and far more conducive to  ulti-
mate success, to stick to it than to aban-
don it for another. One of the three
steps in the journey of life has been
taken, and if this step could be retraced
another beginning might be made; but,
as that is impossible, the man who is
wise will stick to the calling chosen in
youth, the ca!ling for which he was
trained at the proper training period of
his life. The active period of life is
short, but it is long enough to ensure the
comforts of oid age to any man who
enters its portals fully competent to act
some useful part, and who takes up that
part and follows it with that kind of
perseverance that never gives up to any-
thing but death and success!

Life is short. The most that man
can do is to aspire, acquire and retire.
Retire he must; but, if he be a stranger
to aspiration and acquisition, he will
never enjoy the comforts of old age. It
matters not how elaborately the old arm-
chair may be upholstered—it will not
bring, of itself, the comforts of old age.
Money, alone, will not bring them, for
that may be the gift of another, or it
may be stolen. To enjoy the comforts
of old age we must sit under our own

Even

‘‘vine and fig-tree.’’ This means, of
course, success in life. But the grand

essential is a consciousness of having
lived a life of usefulness, of having
made the world a little better than it
was when we entered it.
EA.
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A New York undertaker has a big
black horse called Duke, which pos-
sesses a genuine mustache of long curly
hair on its upper lip. It was shaved off
once, but quickly grew again, and is
now as soft and curly as any man’s.
oe : > o>
The rule is that facts and circum-
stances which would naturally puta per-
son of ordinary caution on an inquiry
reasonably leading to knowledge of
the truth are evidence from which _ that
knowledge may be found.

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BADGES.

Rubber Stamp
Company.
99 Griswold St.

You take no chances —
We take ‘em for you.

Ceresota

FLOUR

Olney & Judson
Grocer Co.

 

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REMOVAL NOTICE

On February 1oth inst. we will remove our general office from the Ham-
mond Building to our new office and Wholesale Department building on
20th street and M. C. R. R., where we will be pleased to meet all of our
old patrons and new ones as well. It will be our pleasure to meet our
friends when they come to our city, and will endeavor to make their visit
both pleasant and profitable to them. We decided upon removing our
office from ‘‘down town,’’ where we have been established during the past
37 years, to be nearer the base of our operations, in order to give to our
business, in all its details, our close personal attention. It will be our aim
to maintain the high standard of excellence for Provisions which we have
so long enjoyed, and to improve where possible. Our motto will be ** Per-
fection.’" We respectfully solicit a continuance of the patronage of the
public, so generously bestowed in the past, and hope, by fair treatment,
prompt execution of orders and a high standard of goods, to merit a_con-
tinuance of it. Our office will be supplied with direct wire of the Postal
Telegraph Co., Long Distance Telephones Nos. 1 and 1335.
Very respectfully,

HAMMOND, STANDISH & CO.
DETROIT, Mich.

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ANCHOR BRAND

All orders receive prompt attention at lowest market price. See quotations in price Current.

F. de. DETTENTHALER, 117-119 Monroe St., GRAND RAPIDS.

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Cranberries, Figs,

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Established 1876.
We buy Beans in earlots or less. If beans tu offer

write us. Send sample.

MOSELEY BROS., 26-28-30-32 OTTAWA STREET

Grand Rapids, Mich.
Jobbers BEANS, SEEDS. POTATOES, FRUITS.

 

 

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fill orders promptly for Medium, Mammoth, Alsyke,
Alfalfa, Crimson Clover; Timothy, Redtop, Orchard
Grass, Kentucky Blue Grass SEEDS.

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THE MICHIGAN

 

TRADESMAN

 

_ Clerks’ Corner

A Lesson from Example.

The poor fellow was as blue as a
whetstone. Whether ‘‘the old man’’ had
been ‘‘combing’’ him, or whether
things generally had gone wrong, it was
hard to say, but a little interest mani-
fested never does any harm—there are
priests and Levites enough in the world
already—and instead of passing by on
the other side, there was a hearty going
to him and an attempt made to pour in
balm and oil. It was exactly what he
needed, and when the right time came,
it was found that he has tired and over-
worked, had been robbed of his sleep,
and, wholly discouraged, had made up
his mind that life wasn’t worth living.

These cases are not difficult, provided
the patient can be induced to use his
tongue ; and sympathy shown is usually
the best means to set in motion the ‘‘un-
ruly member.’’ It often happens, in
these periods of depression, that “‘the
nameless longing,’’ ‘‘the unattained
ideal,’ ‘‘the hope that is in you,’’
comes to the surface, and the being
stands exposed to the sympathy which
only that could touch. The boy’s life
had not been an easy one. He had
been born ina tract of country which
might be called a farm, if a piece of
ground with a cowshed and a dis-
couraged appletree could be called one.
He wanted to go to school, but ‘‘the
folks’’ wouldn't let him, and as soon
as he got big enough to do anything,
they put him out to work. The old life
of the boy on the farm was repeated,
a little harder in this instance because
he didn’t have any mother to take his
part—she had died years ago. Farm
work he always hated, and he made up
his mind, as soon as he could, to get
away from it. Almost as a matter of
course, he ran away from home, if that
could be called a home, and after the
usual amount of hardship, he found a
place in a country store, and had in the
rough all the rough there was init. He
learned to read from the ads. about the
store. He got a boy to show him how
to make letters with chalk on a box
cover; and so from one thing to another
he had managed to keep up after a fash-
ion. He had always wanted to have a store
of his own; but he had about made up
his mind that there wasn’t anything in
that for him. Everything seemed to
go against him and he was about ready
to give up.

That was a good place for a tear or
two, but none came. Then there was
a little period of silence and tlfe time
had come to say something.

‘There isn’t much comfort in the
saying that ‘Misery loves company.’
If there were, you would be one of the
happiest young men alive. You may
not know it and you may think that I
am ‘talking through my hat,’ but there
are a good many young fellows in the
world that would envy you, if they could
only have your chance."’

‘*My chance! Just say to ‘em, will
you, that I’m open to the lowest kind of
a bid.’”

‘‘That’s just it, boy. You are open to
a bid; but chances of that kind are not
for sale; and the very boys who would
bid pretty high, and are able to pay still
higher, are the ones that will never
have a chance. The fact is the rich
man’s son doesn’t ‘have any chance any
more. ”’

‘*What’s that?’’

‘‘I say the rich man’s son doesn’t

ave a chance any more.”’

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‘‘He may have mine if he wants it.
I’m ready to sell out or swap now.”’

‘*So is he; but do you think the boy
would be allowed to have his own way?
There is where the trouble lies. There
is many a_ boy witha rich father that
Heaven intended to make a man of and
money was what prevented it. So when
the time comes when there is going to
be a call for a man, Poverty takes the
order and in due time there’s your hero,
The orders came in pretty fast along
about the time the colonies were getting
for the American Revolution,
and I need not tell you how they were
filled. The war of 1812 showed that
there was a little of the old stock on
hand. Early in the sixties it looked a
little as if Poverty had reached the end
of her rope, but when the time came
there they were. ‘‘I want a first-class
American for a President of the United
States,’’ said the Government. ‘‘All
right, ’’ was the reply, ‘‘he’ll be on hand
when you want him,’’ and sure enough
a log cabin out West got the order and
the savior of the Union was duly in-
stalled in the White House.

‘‘For a while after the civil war be-
gan, there didn’t seem to be any gen-
erals that amounted to anything. Things
were looking blue. At last there was a
poor woman out in an Ohio cabin who
did her own washing and who thought
she’d send her boy to the tront. She
found him in a tan yard—good prepara-
tion for a successful general—and he
carried his business right along to
Vicksburg, and after that things began
to look rosy. So you see that a rich
boy doesn’t have any chance.”’ '

‘‘Oh, well, if you look at it in that
way, it may be well enough; but what
kind of a show is there for me, I’d like
to know, to get on in business?’’

‘*Well, now, let’s see. You are al-
most as poor as a boy of your size and
age ought to be for a start. The Stand-
ard Oi] men are our richest men and
every cne of them has known what it
means to go to bed hungry. The mil-
lionaires of the country, to a man, were
as poor as they could be, so you are
starting in all right; and the woods are
full of men, well-to-do, who didn’t
know where the next meal was coming
from when they started in. When you
get old enough to talk with these men,
you'll find that there were a good many
days when they were bluer than you are
to-day, but somehow they braced up
and buckled down to work, and if you'd
hear ‘em talk now, you'd think the only
time in their lives that is worth rentem-
bering was when they didn’t know
which way to turn, I was talking with
a Grand Rapids man, only last week,
who told me that, early in his life when
almost everything had happened which
could happen to put him back, and
there was a faint prospect of his being
able to pull through, a_ fire broke out
and burned up every blessed thing he
had in the world, except the nightshirt
he had on at the time, and I don’t
know but that was scorched a little. It
may be that he had a better chance than
you have, because the fire has spared
you so far; but you, probably, are will-
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Everybody has heard of the remark-
able career of George W. Childs. He
was a great deal worse off than you are,
because he didn’t have even a name,
for, when he was found on the doorstep
one morning, nobody knew what to call

him and he went by the name of
‘‘Georgiana West's child’’ until he
took that for his surname, writing it

with a capital letter and adding an s.
Do you want to begin so far back as
that?”

He didn’t think he did; and the way
he went back to his work made me_be-
lieve that another millionaire had start-
ed on a successful career.

UNCLE Bos.

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Commercial Travelers
Michigan Knights of the Grip.
President, S. E. Symons, Saginaw; Secretary,
Geo. F. OwEN, Grand Rapids; Treasurer, J. J.

Frost, Lansing.
Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Association.

President, J. F. Cooper, Detroit; Secretary and
Treasurer, D. Morris, Detroit.

 

Gripsack Brigade.

Many a strong man who could. stand
up in opposition to the iron will of the
new woman surrenders at once to the
baby.

Success on the road nowadays depends
upon an eternal hustle, and there is no
hope of ever hitting the bull’s-eye un-
less you shoot with that kind of a gun.

H. S. Campbell, formerly on the road
for the Ballou Basket Co., of Belding,
has engaged to travel for Morley Bros.,
of Saginaw. He will continue to reside
at Belding.

A good indication of intelligent pro-
gression in the commercial traveler is
when, in his leisure moments, he turns
to a publication devoted to his calling
to absorb its contents.

Idling or dreaming has no place in
the make-up of the modern commercial
traveler, for he attends to business with
all his might, with all his heart and
with all his tact and ability.

Borrowing money at Io per cent., to
put into business that nets about the
same, is much like the Irishman’s cut-
ting off the top of his blanket and sew-
ing it onto the
length.

Don’t make an appointment and_ for-
get about it, or fail to keep it, or per-
haps arrive behind the specified time.
It creates an unfavorable impression,
especially in business. Promptness_ is
a virtue in these days of broken prom-
ises.

Convince your trade that you appre-
ciate the favor of its patronage. Show
it that you are not annoyed at changes
of mind; that it is no trouble to show
your samples and that you are patient,
polite and good-natured under all cir-
cumstances and in return your trade will
reward you with business for putting
yourself out to humor and please it.

Don’t crawl when you have ‘‘made a
bad break’’ in refusing credit ineignor-
ance of a buyer’s ample means, but say
you are sorry and say it in a manner
which carries conviction of the sincer-
ity of your regret. Offer whatever
amends lie within the limits of your
self-respect, but don’t debase yourself
by ‘‘crawling’’—stand erect at all times.

Windy Williams (Detroit Cigar Man-
ufacturing Co.) writes the Tradesman
as follows: ‘‘R. S. Degolia, of Post C,
attended our recent social meeting and,
through mistake, put on an old hat he
had discarded a long time ago. After

bottom to increase its

the social was over, he couldn’t find
his hat. -He described it to us all and

started for home with the old hat; but
the first object which greeted him at
home was his lost hat. 1 told him he
could work the Post for most anything,
but not for a new hat.”’

Mrs. Clara Blatt, wife of William G.
Blatt, a well-known saleman for Pin-
gree & Smith(Detroit), died last week.
For the past year Mrs. Blatt has been
traveling with her husband through
California and the West with a view to
improving her health, but she returned
to Detroit January 12. Deceased was
married to Mr. Blatt three years ago.
The funeral was largely attended by the
employes of Pingree & Smith. Mayor
Pingree, J. B. Howorth and F. C. Pin-

 

gree sent an immense urn of pink car-
nations, pink roses and white lilies.
Mr. Blatt has the sympathy of the trade.

Cornelius Crawford has a new horse
—a trotting horse—of which he is very
proud, principally because the animal
cost him only a small amount and is
worth a large amount—a fact very dear
to Cornelius’ heart. So far he has been
able to pass every horse with a record
in the city, and he is now looking  for-
ward to a trip to Detroit, with a view
to humiliating the proud owners of
trotters in the metropolis and raking
in the shekels he will secure by means
f£ wagers with the purse-proud horse-
men of that city.

R. N. Hall, Cleveland:
commercial traveler is a character in
marked contrast with the roystering,
rollicking knight of the road who used
to ensanguine the towns along his route.
In these days of enterprise, push and
energy, the drummer has come to be re-
cognized as a commercial necessity, and
the sensible merchant greets him asa
friend and an essential factor in his
business relations with the wholesalers.
Those who used to look upon the com-
mercial traveler as they did a book
agent or a lightning rod peddler, and
agree that they were nothing but ex-
pensive solicitors sent out to worm
money from them, a_ service for which
the retailers had to pay, have almost
entirely disappeared, and he is consid-
ered a mutual friend who is not only of
convenience, but a money-saver to the
buyers, for he can see six or eight or
a dozen merchants and sell them bills
with as little expense as either of these
buyers would be at were they compelled
to visit the markets in person, to say
nothing of the loss of time which would
be occasioned by such visits, and thus
the expense of buying goods is reduced
to one-sixth or one-twelfth. Then,
traveling over the same territory from
month to month, he becomes familiar
with the interests of his customers, and,
with the honor and candor which char-
acterize the profession, he may usually
be relied upon as an adviser anda
counsellor in the selection or purchase
of a bill of goods. Black sheep have
crept into the fold, it is true, as in
every other profession, and the good
have had to suffer because of their prac-
tice; but the masher has had to go,
other objectionable characters have been
relegated to the rear, and the weeding-
out process has continued until the
great army of knights of the grip is now
composed of up-to-date business men
who seek only up-to-date business men.

The modern

William Tracy, who was stricken with
apoplexy last Tuesday morning while
sitting in a chair at his home in Flint,
died at 6 o’clock the same evéning
without having regained consciousness.
The deceased was a native of Genesee
county, having been born in Atlas
township in 1842. His parents were
Fitch and Charlotte Tracy, both of
whom are deceased. When the war
broke out William offered his youthful
services in defense of his country, but,
as he was under the age of 18 years, he
was not eligible to enlistment. Noth-
ing daunted, he found other means of
achieving his patriotic ambition, and
when the Eighth Michigan Infantry
started for the front he went along as an
attache of Major Lycn’s staff. On at-
taining his military majority, he en-
listed in company G of the regiment in
question and served in the ranks until
the close of the war, when he was mus-
trered out with the rank of second lieu-
tenant. In 1873 he was appointed post-

 

master of Flint by President Grant and
held the office until relieved by his suc-
cessor, John Algoe. During the past
twelve years he had been traveling for
Thorpe, Hawley & Co., wholesale con-
fectioners of Detroit, and in that capac-
ity he made many friends
quaintances throughout the State who
will learn of his demise with sincere
regret. He was well known and uni-
versally popular among the traveling
fraternity, and in the circle of his ac-
quaintance he was held in high esteem.
He was a member of the G. A. R., the
Knights of the Loyal Guard, the Knights
of the Maccabees, the Knights of the
Grip and the United Commercial Trav-
elers. In his death his widow and two
children, William F. and Harry, are
deprived of an affectionate husband
and kind father, and the community
loses a good citizen. The funeral was
held from the Presbyterian church on
Friday afternoon under the auspices of
the United Commercial Travelers and
the G. A. R.

and ac-

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Review of the Sugar Market.
Detroit, Feb. 22—The developments
in the market during the past week
leave little to the imagination as re-
gards the future of sugar. Holders of
raws apparently have every advantage
and appreciate fully the strength of
their position. The only sales of the
week were comparatively small parcels
showing 'c advance over former trans-
actions. While quotations are nominal-
ly 4%c for centrifugals and 33(c for
Muscovadoes, a few sugars are obtain-
able at ‘%c higher basis and 4%c for
centrifugals is predicted for the near
future. Foreign markets advanced
rapidly early in the week and, after de-
ducting the subsequent reaction, a slight
gain is shown tor all descriptions.

The Cuban situation is substantially
unchanged. Grinding has been resumed
in instances, but we learn of nothing
justifying any increased estimates.

Refined shows a gain of 1-16c_ affect-
ing nearly all softs and, while general
and sharp advances have been confi-
dently looked for from day to day, they
fail to materialize. Refiners appear
unwilling to re-establish the usual mar-
ginal difference between raw and re-
fined, preferring rather to take advan-

tage of the existing quiet to influence,

the weaker holders of raws, and _facil-
itate purchases of arriving and afloat
parcels. The average dealer has about
all he can do to meet current obliga-
tions and speculation is, practically,
eliminated from the refined market.
Feb. 25—-The week opened steady
and unchanged, with the exception that
Europe was a trifle easier on realiza-
tions sales. The next turn of the wheel,

however, is quite likely to be in the
other direction, as the general position
is unchanged and very strong. We see

nothing to influence us to change our
impressions as to the future of sugar.
W. H. EpGar & Son.
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Wanted Some Canned Elephant.

A Kalamazoo boy who had_ noticed
some package goods labeled with the
picture of an elephant subsequently
discovered that his mother had bought
some of them, and he expressd his joy
thus:

‘‘Oh, Mamma! I’m so glad you’ve
got some of that canned elephant. I
wanted some of it.’’

a
Not So Very Silent.

‘*Who is the ‘Co.’ in your firm?’’
asked Smasher of his grocer.

‘My wife.’’

‘‘Ah, she’s a silent partner, is she?’’

‘‘Well,’’ he replied in some doubt,
‘*she ain’t so all-fired silent, when you
come to think of it.’’

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If a man bores you every day with
his takk and attentions, loan him some
money. As a friend he will be out of
sight.

 

Flour and Feed.

The past week has been a busy one
for Grand Rapids mills, all of them
running at full capacity and booking
sufficient orders ahead to insure a con-
tinuous output for some time. Buyers
are not eager to make purchases, as a
rule, for future delivery, and the hand-
to-mouth policy has been pursued so
long that surplus stocks of flour in
many localities are reduced below  nor-
mal conditions, and the buying now for
actual needs makes a large volume of
business.

Exporters are taking hold more freely
and the flour market, in general, has
greatly improved, in spite of the ham-
mering given the wheat market during
the week by speculative bears.

The price of feed and meal is un-
changed for the week. The demand is
and a firmer feeling prevails.
Millstuffs are in good demand at from
5oc@s1 per ton better prices than last
week.

good

Wm. N. ROWE.
we OD

People brought up on bottles may
know that a man in New York who was
agent of a certain brand of English ale
for many years, and whose bottling was
preferred to that of the brewers, came
near ruining his business on one occa-
sion by getting hold of a lot of bottles
from a tenement district. Most of the
housewives in the cheaper neighborhoods
of the city use bottles as a substitute
for cans when they get in a supply of
kerosene, and it is well known that it
is a practical impossibility to remove
from a bottle the odor of the oil. Mc-
Mullen bought a supply of these bottles
and filled them with ale, and in course
of time they reached his customers. The
consequences may be imagined. They
nearly ruined him. You may _ scrub,
you may boil the bottles as you will,
but the scent of kerosene will hang
around them still.

 

Cutler House in New Hands.

H. D. and F. H. Irish, formerly landlords at
the New Livingston Hotel, at Grand Rapids,
have leased the Cutler House, at Grand Haven,
where they bespeak the cordial co-operation
aud support of the traveling public. They will
conduct the Cutler House as a strictly first-class
house, giving every detail painstaking at-
tention.

Bridge Street
...L1OUSE...

Corner of Bridge and
Kent Streets,

Grand Rapids, [lich.
Rates $1 and $1.25 per day.

Best House in the State
for the [loney.

E. FULLERTON & CO., Props.

We are opening the
Lamoreaux Elevator
and will be ready for
business this week.
Look for our adver-
tisement next week.

Beach, Cook & Co.

SEEDS

 

18

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

Drugs--Chemicals

STATE BOARD OF PHARMACY.

Cc. A. BueBEr, Charlevoix
S. E. PARKILL, Owosso
F. W. R. Perry, Detroit
Four Years— - A.C. ScHUMACHER, Ann Arbor
Five Years— - - Gro. GuNDRUM, Ionia
President, C. A. BuUGBEE, Charlevoix.
Secretary, F. W. R. Perry, Detroit.
Treasurer, GEo. GUNDRUM, Ionia.
Yoming Meetings—Grand Rapids, March 3 and 4.
i Detroit (Star Island), June 23.
Lansing, November 3.

MICHIGAN STATE PHARMACEUTICAL
ASSOCIATION.

 

One Year— - -
Two Year - -
Three Years— .

President, Geo. J. Warp, St. Clair.

a. oe _ §8. P. Warrmarkss, Palmyra;
Vice-Presidents jG. ©. Puriiips, Armada.
Secretary, B. ScHRouDER, Grand Rapids.
Treasurer, WM. Dupont, Detroit.

Executive Committee—F. J. WURZBURG, Grand
Rapids; F. D. SrevEeNs, Detroit; H. G. CoLMAN,
Kalamazoo: E. T. Wess, Jackson; D. M. Rus-
SELL, Grand Rapids.

The Drug Market.

Acetanilid—A quiet feeling has _pre-
vailed throughout the market, but the
undertone is steady.

Acids—Business in leading descrip-
tions has been fair, but mostly in job-
bing quantities, and no new features
have been developed to change the con-
dition of the general market, or cause
any important fluctuations in prices.
The popular brands of carbolic in pound
bottles are firm. Tartaric is moving
fairly.

Alcohol— Dealers a continued
average consuming demand for grain,

report

with prices steady.

Balsams—Central American copaiba
has continued fairly active and prices
are steadily maintained at the former
range. Tolu is also moving fairly on
consuming orders. Peru remains
lected and nominal. Canada fir
jobbing way is quiet.

neg-

ina

Cacao Butter—Is unchanged in price
and a moderate business is reported.

Cassia Buds—Continue to receive con-
siderable attention in a jobbing way,
with values of prime quality steadily
maintained.

Cocaine—Business has been of limited
volume and prices remain unchanged
and nominally steady.

Cod Liver Oil—The spot market has
not improved, notwithstanding the
strong tenor of foreign advices. A few
holders decline to meet the inside fig-
ures and seem confident that the situa-
tion will improve before the close of
the present consuming season. Cables
from Bergen report that market very
firm. The Lofoden fishery is cabled
very poor and of unsatisfactory quality.
By way of comparison it is stated that
last year 500 to 550 livers produced one
hectolitre of oil, while this year it re-
quires fully 600 to 700.

Colocynth Apples—-Have been selling
moderately in small lots, and, with
Trieste again scarce, prices have been
advanced.

Cream Tartar—The market is without
new feature, business continuing of av-
erage volume, with manufacturers’ prices
steady.

Cubeb Berries—-The demand is slow
and continued dullness prevails with
values somewhat nominal.

Cuttle Fish Bone—Is moderately ac-
tive for consumption with prices steady
for all descriptions.

Essential Oils—Aside from a contin-
ued fair jobbing trade, the market has
ruled quiet and the only noteworthy
change in prices is a firmer feeling in
wormseed.

Flowers—Interest in this department
continues to be centered chiefly in in-
sect, which are in brisk demand and

 

steadily hardening under the influence

of advancing primary markets.
Glycerine—A_ continued fair business

is in progress, with the demand chiefly

from manufacturing consumers, and
values are firm.
Gums—No changes of importance

have occurred in values of any descrip-
tion and the general market has ruled
quiet. Curacoa aloes are firm. Asa-
fetida is in fair request. Camphor is
strong at unchanged figures, with both
buyers and sellers operating cautiously.

Leaves—-The general demand has been
chiefly for moderate quantities, mainly
for short buchu and senna, but there are
no particular new features or quotable
change in values of any of the leading
descriptions.

Lycopodium—The market is rather
quiet, with only small sales reported,
but prices continue fairly steady.

Menthol—The market remains dull,
and dealers continue to quote the for-
mer range.

Morphine—A continued fair move-
ment is reported and the tone of the mar-
ket is firmer, but manufacturers’ quota-
tions are unchanged and based on the
old range.

Opium—Numerous cables from Smyr-
na and Constantinople, all indicating
increasing strength and activity, have
bad a stimulating effect on values here
and quotations show an advance of 5@
ioc per pound, according to holder.
Moderate sales have been made during
the week.

Quicksilver—The condition of
market is unchanged,
special activity.

Quinine—The demand from consum-
ers has shown further improvement and
a good business is reported.

Roots—Gentian continue firm at the
recent advance. Jalap is weak and
lower, owing to heavy arrivals of new
crop and a large stock of old carried
over from last year, the latter being
about one-third of the entire receipts.

Seeds—Inactivity has characterized
the market for canary and prices of the
various descriptions are without quot-
able change. Dutch caraway is rather
weak, owing to a further fractional
decline in Holland, but no sales are re-
ported and a quiet feeling pervades the
market. Coriander has been moving
fairly on consuming orders, but without
improvement in prices, holders being
free sellers at the former quotations.
California mustard has received rather
more attention and the stock of both
brown and yellow in first hands is very
light. Hemp and rape are unchanged
and without new feature. Shelled car-
damoms are very scarce and firmer.

Spermaceti— No business has trans-
pired in block, and prices are without
further quotable change.

Sugar of Milk—The ,active demand
shows no abatement, and, with stocks

light, prices continue firm.
—.. —~>-0

“Something Rotten in Denmark.”

Owosso, Feb. 21—-In your last issue I
see you are disposed to bring the Food
Commissioner to book for overstepping

the
and there is no

 

the rules of propriety and going out of

his way to interfere with legitimate
business transactions. I think he is
chargeable with sins of omission, equal-
ly reprehensible, in which the taxpayer
has an ipterest. In his December re-
port appears a long list of places
‘‘visited since my last report,’’ in
which the city of Owosso appears. By
diligent inquiry I fail to find a single
grocer who has seen or heard of him or

his agents in a business capacity.
W. H. S, WELTON.

 

A Poor Use of Valuable Space.

Every hustling manufacturer is nat-
urally doing his utmost to increase his
output, and he cannot be blamed for
utilizing the advertising facilities of
the druggist’s walls and windows for
his own profit. But we question the
benefit accruing to the druggist who de-
votes, without compensation, this val-
uable means of advertising—advertis-
ing which the manufacturer cannot buy
—to proclaiming the virtues of another
man's products. It is a great mistake,
and sooner or later the druggist will
regret it, just as he now regrets hav-ng
peddled patent-medicine literature in
the past. Wall and window space is,
or should be made, too precious to be
employed for the benefit of some one
else. It should be used for the display
of such articles and specialties as the
druggist markets himself. If others are
to profit by it, they should pay for it,
as they do for other advertising.

What has been the druggist’s experi-
ence in the past?) He has distributed
patent-medicine circulars and samples,
has invested capital, has virtually built
up the business. And now what thanks
does he get? Let the cutters answer.
Here, too, we have one of the chief
reasons why the patent-medicine * peo-
ple are so loath to shut off the cutter’s
supplies: he gives them so much free
advertising—his windows are jammed
with placards, his walls bear huge ad-
vertisements, his newspaper space daily
announces that such a nostrum can be
bought of Smith, the cutter, at cost
rates. What wonder that the cutter be-
comes the protege of the patent-medi-
cine manufacturer—and that the latter
desires to retain an immense amount of
advertising which costs him nothing
but profits him much? Ina certain
Western city one pharmacy occupies a
prominent store at an enormous rental ;
its main wall bristles with cut-rate an-
nouncements—all constituting a form of
valuable advertising which the manu-
facturers could not buy. But “why
should they buy it when they can get
it for nothing? All they are expected
to do in return is to retrain from shut-
ting off the cutter’s supplies; that is
the implied obligation.

At the present time a number of spe-
cialty-manufacturers are doing their ut-
most to prevail upon the druggist to
display their goods in cases and win-
dows, for the edification of the public.
In some cases prizes are offered for the
most attractive exhibit. While some
of the young birds in the trade may
be caught by this chaff, we trust our
readers will not be so shortsighted. If
the manufacturers want your windows or

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walls for advertising purposes, refuse.
Tell them you can use your windows for
displaying your own specialties and are
not disposed to give up one of your
most valuable possessions. Let the
specialty man do his own advertising.
Otherwise it will not be long before the
demand which the druggist creates
among the public will be switched off,
as the patent-medicine trade has been,
to the cutter and the department. store.
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No man has the right to sell his goods
as the goods of a rival trader.

Devil Rubber Stamp Co

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‘ Myristica, No. 1..... 65@ 80) Snuff,Scotch,DeVo's oa « strained... ; 6 70
i | Nux Vomica...po.20  @ 10 | Soda Boras.. ... ? @ 10|Spirits Turpentine. 35 40
Acidum Conium Mac........ 3@ 65) Scille@o........-_.- @ 50| 0s Sepia......... -.. 15@ 18) Soda Boras, ...- 7 @ = 10| Pai
eaeec ve $ s@g 10| Copaiba...... J Bigs) So Wolter @ 50 ra Saac, H. & P. Soda et Potass Tart. 26@ 28 | / a ee | ae
Benzoicum, German %5@ 80 Th ll. 150@, 1 60| Prunus virg.. ...... @ 50 ook a Saas @ 1 00 | on pm en 14@ 2 Red Venetian...... 1% 2 @8
Se a @ 15| Exechthitos ........ 1 20@ 1 30 ‘iiatiieen q. N 2ga a Soda, Bi-Carb....... 3@. 5| Ochre, yellow Mars. 1% 2 @4
Carbolicum 6) 36) Evigeron --.....-.. 1 20@ 1 30) Aconitum Napellis R 60 eee @ 2 00) Soda, Ash........... 34@ 4 Ochre, yellow Ber.. 1% 2 @3
De ace analy = o | Gunnar 150@ 160| com ay epesyS OV | Picis Liq., quarts... @ 1 00| Soda, Sulphas....... @ 2} Putty, commercial.. 24 2%@3
PUI 2. we ee eee ee - coo pee i ‘ ‘ » : s a 9 » > etrietiv 9 3 €
Citricum HG 46 Aconitum Napellis F 501 Picis Li s @ EIS |
Hydrochlor 3@ =| Geranium, ounce... @ 13 | Aloes SO) Bia. q., pints..... @ 85 | Spts. Cologne........ @ 2 60| Putty, strictly pure. 2% 2%@3
Nitrocum........... s@ 10 | Gossippii, Sem. = 50@ 60] Aloes and Myrrh.... 60 oo @ 50) Spts. Ether Co...... 50@  55| Vermilion, Prime
eancan 10@. 12 | Hedeoma.. .. 13@ 140] Arnica os 7: 50 Piper Nigra... po. Ms @ 18) Spts. Myrcia Dom... @200;_ American.. . 1I3@ 15
Phosphorium, dil. i @ 15| dunipera. ........... 150@ 2 00 Neen eR Caae eee 50 ad coma tg 35 @ 30 | Spts. ee aa @ 2 49| Vermilion, English. 70@ 7%
Fhosphi , 7 oo fl heweeele...... (0 ives 5) OA giana mean scot ny o iix Burgun........ @ 7 | Spts. Vini Rect. eb @ 2 54 | Green, Paris ........ 14 @ 20%
ta en — ' Limonis. |... som be ee = Plumbi Meet... 4... . 10@  12| Spts. Vini Rect. 10gal @ 2 57 | Green, Peninsular. 13@ 16
san cei Ly 40@ 1 Go Mentha Piper... oe 2 2h@ 3 00 Benen ‘scream aa @ Pulvis Ipecac et Opii 1 10@ 1 20) Spts. Vini Rect. 5gal @ 2 59) Lead, Red........... Ba@ SX
Tartaricum...._. 3q0, 49 | Mentha Verid. 26@ 2 Ol BeasginGe Bp I yrethrum, boxes H. lL Less 5e gal. cash | Lead, White........ 54@ 5%
ace ' Morrhue, gal. ..-.--- 2 00@ 2 !C| Barosma ccs 50 i & P. BD. Co., doz. .. @ 1s 10 days. | Whiting, white Span @ =
Ammonia Myrcia, ounce....... @ 50/ Cantharides...... _ 50 | Pyrethrum, pv...... 27@ 30 | Stryehnia, Crystal... 1 40@ 1 45| Whiting, gilders’... @
Aqua, 16 deg.....-_. 4@ 6 | Olive...... ow. =jfes @ Ca eeu a. 50 Quassie. asta e 8@ 10| Sulphur, Subl....... 2%@ _ 3| White, Paris Amer.. @ 1 00
Aqua, 20 deg........ 6@ 8] Picis Liquida. ..... lo, 12 Caeds ae ov | Quinia, S. P. & W. 37@ 42) Sulphur, Roll.... . 2@ 2%/| Whiting, Paris Eng.
Garmenss 12@, 14| Picis Liquida, gal... a a Ca ' ae 1 tt 49 | Quinia, S. German. 30@ 40) Tamarinds.......... a 6) ce... @ 1 0
Chioridam .......-.. 2G if} Rieimma N@ 96 Gaes gy Ae 1 ap Quinia, N.Y.. .. 85@ 40| Terebenth Venice. 28@ 30/U niversai Prepared. 1 00@ 1 15
rere, Rose a @ 100 yer ef ee : aa _— rictori 12@, 14 | ee boo 2@ 45) ‘ase
Rose, ounce........ 6 5000 8 BO) Deere oee : 90 | SaccharumLactis py 24@ 26} Vanilla....... ..-- 9 00@I16 09 | | es
a... emeen = goo ee j — = es oe. ais Salacin.............. 2 50@ 2 60 | Zinei Sulph......... 71@ 8%} No.1 TurpCoach... 1 10@ 1 20
Pe = 1 . Selena bea - oa —— Draconis... 40@ 50} Oils | Eiatra, Por... 1. 1 60@ 1 70
Mea ...:....-.... 5@ 50] Sontal... 2 50@ 7001 @ Sa he ea ae wor sapo, W........ 1... 12@_ 14) | Cone Body......_.. 2 75@ 3 00
Mellow ....-..-....-- 2 50@) 300) Succe er) | eae ee Cubeba.............. Me ESapo, Me 10@ 12} BBL. GAL. | No.1 Turp Furn.... 1 00@ 1 10
Bineic. Gigadde ce cane. @ © parse Acutitol Go Ss Sapo, G........... .- @ 15| Whale, winter....... 70 70 | Extra Turk Damar.. 1 55@ 1 60
oi aia po.18 13@ 15 eee @ 100 Digitalis : 20 Siedlitz Mixture.... 20 @ 22) Lard, extra......... 53 60 | Jap. Dryer,No.1Turp 70@ 7
eee... ..-.- m= me Pia “om 50 AS 5
Juni 6@, $i. _—- : Ergot See cee oes ce 0 e—e__——_—_———
> a oA 99 | Lyme, opt...._.... @ 1 60| Ferric ; = iii Te a
Xanthoxylum...... %@ 30 Theobromas ........ 15@ 20 —— -
Piso Pot i Gentian on ue it 60
a s otassium rentian CO... -.....
Gopaiba. .0.00...-. | 4a) BO Bi S Guiaea 50
@ 280 i BSED... 2... i 15@, 18 eke a ae =
Peru....--..--- it som 45 | Bichromate 11.2... ix@, 15| Guiaczammon...... 60
ee scar ai 73@ 80 | Bromide fa@, 4g} Hyoscyamus........ 50|
Olutan.. 02... HQ Va A | fe, | FOdine...__- 7 =
Car... 12@ 15 a a a aa | &—
r Cortex Chlorate..po. 17@19e  16@_—_ IS lodine, colorless. ... oe
Abies, Canadian.... iS Cyanide. 0/7 50@, 5d —. i ed =
Cassie ..........-.-- 12 | Iodide.. : 2 90, 3 00 a _ oe 50 — =3
Cinchona Flava..... 18 | Potassa, Bitart, pure 320 35 a ea 4 py i
Euonymus atropurp 30| Potassa, Bitart,com @ 15| Sux omiea........ ca a
Myrica Cerifera, po. 2) | Potass Nitras, opt... 8S@ 10| QPH------ -.-.---.-- | ae <p
Prunus Virgini...... 12| Potass Nitras........ 7@  9| Qbil, camphorated.. 7 a —~»
Quillaia, gr’d....... 10| Prussiate............ 25@ 26| Opil, deodorized.... i —
a|s nee ; | Giaeaia 8... 50
Sassafrag........---- 12 | Sulphate po .. _.... 1@ 18 Satan =) | oo —»
Ulmus.-..po. 15, gr’d 15 Radix iggy eee = >
Extractum Aconitvm........... 20@ 2%|Sanguinaria. ...... 50 | &— —
Glycyrrhiza Glabra. 24@ | Althe ....000000.000, 25 | Serpentaria ......... 0) =
Glycyrrhiza, po..... 23@, 20) Amehuca........:... 15| Stromonium... .... 60 — _
Hematox,15lb box. W@ 12] Arum po............. @ 2%/| Tolutan.............- 60 | =
Heematox, Is ........ io, « f4 |) Calamus .......... |. 20@ 40| Valerian ............ 50 = ae
Hematox, %S......- 144@ 15| Gentiana...... po 12 8@ 10 Veratrum Veride... 50
Hematox, 48.....-. 16@ 17|Glychrrhiza...py.15 16@ 18| Zingiber............. 20 | &— —
Beceu Hydrastis Canaden . @ 2 Tliscellancous > =
: ~ | Hydrastis Can., po.. @ 35! ther, Spts. Nit.3F 30@ 35 =
Carbonate Precip... 15] Heliebore,Alba, po.. 15@ 20| Ather Spts. Nit4F 31@ 38 ae —<—?
Citrate and Quinia. . 225) mula, po.. 15@ 201 Alume I ue eo— —»
‘ Citrate Soluble...... 80 Ipecac, Boe 1 656@ I 75 7. gro’ a. po. - of 4 = =
; Ferrocyanidum Sol. 50 | Tris plox....po35@38  35@ 40] Annatto 40@ 50 = ie - =
- Solut. Chloride..... 15] Jalapa, pre. Fo | petted o pe ci —»
Sulphate, com’l..... *| Maranta, \4s........ 35 hucienset PotassT 55@ 60 — <>
: Sulphate, com'l, by 35 Podophyllum, po.. 18| Antipyrin...... eer > il e a
4 bbl, per ewt. oo Meet 100] Antifebrin. .. Pe @ 15 ae
: Sulphate, pure ..... (net emg 125] Argenti Nitras, oz . @ 53 — ae
: Flora Rhei, pv.....--- — 135] Arsenicum.......... s@ 10 = —_
Arnica 12@ 14| Spigelia. ............ 383] Balm Gilead Bud ..  38@ 40] q@— Importers and Jobbers of a
Anthemis 2... «18@ «=. | Sanguinaria...po.15 | @ 15) Bismuth §.N. ..... 1 20@ 130] gp ae
Matricaria 13@ 25) Serpentaria......... 30@  35)| Calcium Chlor., 1s. Oo cae : @
ee ee ee BC 60 2 l4s
senega ae ste: KD Calcium Chlor., 6s. @ 10) @ ——
Folia Similax,officinalis H @ 40 pepe Chlor.. 14s. @ 2
Barosma.........--.- 20@ 30} Smilax,M........... @ 2%! Cantharides, Rus.po @ 1 00 i =
Cassia racusitel, Tin- Seiie 1... po.35 10@ 12] Capsici Fructus, af. @ 1b ee po
mevelly 00 0000 18@ 25| Symplocarpus, Feeti- Capsici Fructus, po. @ wb a a si
Cassia Acutifol, _ 55, 30 | Gus, po... @ 25) Capsici FructusB,po @ 6 —_ = — a
Salvia officinalis, 14 Valeriana, Eng. po.30 @ 25) Caryophyllus..po.15 10@ 12) @— ae
Se 12@ 20| Valeriana, German. 15@ 20} Carmine, No. 40..... @ 375] gs —<p
Ura Orsi... ..-.. -- S@ 10] Zingibera......_._-_- 12@ 16/CeraAlba,S.&F .. 50@ 55| @ =
Gummi Zingiber j. ......... 2@ 25] Cera Flava.......... 0 42) a
i a . Semen COGCOS @ 40 en —_)
Acacia, Ist picked.. @ 60 . | Cassia Fructus... @ ® =
Acacia, 2d picked.. @ 4| Anisum....... po. 20 @ 15) Gentraria..... cl a @ 10 o— CHEMICALS AND PATENT MEDICINES. —»
Acacia, 3d_ picked.. @ 30 Apium (grav eleons) 4@ | 16) Gegaeanin i a el. a
Acacia, sifted sorts. A = on See - an s Pinta 60@ 63 oe Dealers in —»
Acacia, po........ is 60@ pared... po. @, ole hi or Se ©
Aloe, Barb. po.200@28 H@ = 18 Cardamion........... 1 00@ 1 25 Caaiudca 1 2 : = -— os
Aloe, Cape .... po. 15 @® 2 | Coriandrum......... 8@ 10} Chondrus. : 0D 35 -<cS a
Aloe, Socotri..po. 40 @ 30| Cannabis Sativa.... 34@ 4] Ginchonidine.P&W 15@ 30 eo a
Aymmoniac.......... 55@ 60} Cydonium........... 7@ 1 00 | Cinchonidine, Germ 3146 12 al ae
Assafcetida....po.30 22@ 25| Chenopodium ...... 10@ 12! Gocaine " 5 OG 5 OF (a ’
Benzoinum .......... 50@ 55| Dipterix Odorate... 2 90@ 3 00} Gorks. list. dis. pr. ct. hy 65 an _—
Catechu, 1s Co. @ = ae setteeees & "7 Creosotum. ...... @ F l li d : ’ Laan
Catechu, } Bee oa @, fcenugreek, po.... .- @, ’ | #5 5 o
Catechu, % bos es am Ghia... 2%4@ 4 Greta, prop 79 : 5 e— J u ] Ine of staple ruggists sun —_P
Camphoree .. 65@ 68| Lini, grd....bbl.2% 3%@ 4] Greta’ precip........ : | d —»_
d 2 Jreta, precip... ...- @ 11] gm ries. —<
Euphorbium. “po. "35 @ 10 Lobelia eee eee ee 39@ 40) Greta, Rubra........ @ 8 ° —
Soumeae le Pe 1 = . a Canarian. _ : ecocus ce oe = We are sole proprietors of —p
Gamboge po.....-; L @ 70 Rape "ie 3 | Cudhear @ Al we 7 ': re : a ; _ <i
Guaiacum..... po. 35 @ p 35 Sinapis Albu... . 1@ 8 Cupri Sulph......... 5@ 6| eo W eatherly S Michigan Catarrh ae
Kino........ po. $2.50 @ 2 50| Sinapis Nigra....... N@ 12) Dextrine............. 10@ 12] g@— —»
) yo Spiritus Ether Sulph....._... T@ 90) ge Remedy. a
Ul a ee ar ws 9 59} Emery, all numbers @ 8
» 95 | Frumenti, W. D. - 2 00@ 2 50 ’ D - W - k d offe full ——
“ ey | Frumenti, D. F. R.. 2 00@ 2 2 Emery, po.. tees @ 6| ea c ave in stoc an OLCI a tu — BD
60 v Ot ate oa |
eo - | Frumenti . _ 1 25@ 150 are Moth... po. 40 30@, 35 .
Shellac, blenched.-. 400 45) Miniberis Go. 0... 1 dace 2 00| Eltke White... Re 15| a line of Whiskies, Brandies, Gins, —
gacanthN ......... D Juniperis Co...) .. 1 75@ 3 50 Gala @ 23 eo Wines nd R —P
Herba Saacharum N. E.... 1 90@ 2 10 Gambier Goes ae = P el a ums. —»_
Absinthium..oz. pk S51 Spt. Vint Galli. || |. 1 ae) 6 50) ee oer. | &— : i. —>
Eupatorium .oz. pkg [ae 1 35a 2 00 | Gelatin, French... 30@ 50 | a= We sell Liquors for medicinal —
i S Selina Moa Cu 25 2 00 | Glassware, flint, box , 10£10 | ge ——_
Lobelia. ..... oz. pkg 25 | Vini Alba 1 5@ 2 00) Less than box.... 60 | &— purposes only. —»
Majorum ....0z. pkg 28 Sponges Glue. brown 1@ 12|\ ie
9 Pi zo ve ¥ ’ WH... eee AG ~
eee oe ae 33 | wloridasheeps’ wool 5 sn 2 ap | Stee mbe. 0 Be 3] a We give our personal attention —
2. pke 99 | __carriage........-... 2 50@ 2 % | Glycerina...... .... Q@ 26) oS ——_
Fuser ee 5» | Nassau sheeps wool Grana Paradisi |!) @ 15] @=— to mail orders and guarantee satis- —
Thymus, V on. pkg 5 earrigge..........-. @ 2 00| Humulus............ 3@ 55] eS —)
~~ Magnesia Velvet extra sheeps’ Eyérese 0 hlor Mite @ 19|@ faction.
ie wool, carriage..... @ 1 10| Hydraag Chlor Cor. @ 6] eS : : - —»
Calcined, Pat..... .. 55@ 60 Extra yellow sheeps’ Hydraag Ox Rub'm. @ 9] se All orders shipped and invoiced ——
Carbonate, Pat) 20@ 2 wool. carriage. @ | Hydraag Ammoniati @ 99] &— : : ——_
Carbonate, K. &M. 20@, 25 | Grass sheeps’ wool, HydraagUnguentum 45@ 55] @&>— the Same day WE receive them. —
Carbonate, Jennings De carriage. @ | Hydrargyrum....... @ 60) se ~ . aa
teams — for glste nse. a & aeneneonels, Am... 1 = @,150| g&— Send a trial order. —<—p
Yellow Ree or eed ......... | @ 100) &— —_)
Absinthium........ 3 25@ 3 50 SIgte USE... ...._. @ 1 40 | Iodine, Resubi...... ig 80@ 39) oe an
Amygdale, Dule.... 30@ 50 lodoform.. ee @ 470) & —_
Amygdale, Amare . 8 00@ 8 25 | Syrups Ob jo @25| &— —
Ae S 10m 2 0 | Acacia... : @ 50)| Lycopodium........ 0Q@ 6) Se “oa
Auranti Cortex..... 2 30@ 2 40 | Auranti Cortes...... ao ww wace.............- 6 | S&S e —
Mereaeie-.)......... 3 O0G S 20 | Zimgiber....... ..... @ 50| Liquor Arsen et Hy- e— —»
Cc i ti 70@ 75] Ipeca @ 60 drarg lod a 2 —e
ajiputi............. @ | Ipecac..........---. @ ‘ ceecee sees Qo i) eo
Garyophyiii See cleans 60m | Ferrifod............ @ 50/| LiquorPotassArsinit 10@ 12| g@»— GRAND RAPIDS, IICH. —
Cedar...... a, 35@ 65} Rhei Arom.......... @ 50| Magnesia, Sulph.. 2@ 3) ea —
Chenopadii.......... @ 2 00| Smilax Officinalis... 50@ 60} Magnesia, Sulph, bbl @ 1%
Cinnamonil. ........ 3 10@ 3 20 | Senega........--..-- @ 50| Mannia,S.F........ 63
Citronella. .... .... 7@  80| Scilla.......... as @ 50| Menthol... ......... @ 5 50

 

 

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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

ROCERY PRICE CURRENT.

The prices quoted in this list are
dealers. They are prepared just before going to press an
possible to give quotations suitable for all
erage prices for average
those who have poor credit.
our aim to make this feature o

AXLE GREASE.

doz. gross
hire. ee 6 00
Cameron .............60 7 00 |
Dimond. ........_-...90 5 50

Pracers.... ie 9 00

IXL Golden, tin boxes 75 9 00 |
: TO 8 00

ce...
Paragon... .

5d 6 00

BAKING POWDER.

   

Absolute.
44 Ib cans doz.....- 45
ic ip cans@goz..........-.. oo
i ibeansdos..._..:.___. 1 a0
Acme.
wipeanesdoz........... 9
% lb cans 3 doz. 75
! ib cans i doz. 1 00
cx 10
Arctic.
Ib cans 6 doz case ...... 55
4 lb cans 4 doz case so
1 ib eans 2 doz case .. . 20
& ib ease i doz case ...... 9 W
JaXon
14 Ib cans 4 doz case.. ..- 45
> lb cans 4 doz case..... 85
1 lb cans 2 doz case.....- 1 60
Home i
14 lb cans 4 doz case...... oo
» lb cans 4 doz case AD
1 ibeans 2 doz case 0
Our Leader.
ag ib cane......----...-...- 45
ac ib Came. ......----_._... 7
. Gicame. |... Boe
Red Star.
ig Ib Cans...--.---- 40
Se eh 2
1 ibeans ..... st
BATH BRICK.
2 dozen in case.
American .......- 0
80

Eeypsish.

BLUING.

wale...

Arctic 4 oz }
Aretic 8 og ovais....--

Aretie pints round......-.-
Arctic No. 2 sifting box....
iftine bex....
ine box... -.

 
   
    

Arctic No. 3
Arctic No. 5
Aretic 1 oz
Mexiean liquid
Mexican liquid 8 oz...

BROOMS.

 

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Mo. 1 Carpet. _...-_._----. -.

No. 2 Car}et.
No. 3 Carpet.
No. 4 Carpet.
Parlor Gem ..-

Gammon Whisk.........-.
Fancy Whisk.. .-....-.----

Warehouse. ...-

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Ses

Wim OM IDOD
=

80

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Come DOGS
“2?
wt

CANDLES.

Hotel @ ib boxres....-..-

Star 40 Ib bDOKES...-.....-
Paratine ... le.
CATSUP.

Columbia,

Columbia, }; pints

pints......

CEMENT. _

Major's, per gross.

4 oz size
1 02 Size
Lig. Glne

1 oz size.

  

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Sch weitzer,imported

Schweitzer,domestic
Chicory.

Bulk y

Red
CHOCOLATE.

Waiter Baker & Co

German Swect..........
recone...

Breakfast Cocoa........

2 oz size...

m= 2 ozsize..

Leather Cement,

Rubber Cement.

conditions of purchase.

conditions of purchase,
Cash buyers or t
Subscribers are earnestly requested to point out any
f the greatest possible use to dealers.

for the trade only, in such quantities as are usu
d are an accurate index of the local market.
and those below are given as representing av-
hose of strong credit usually buy closer than
errors or omissions, as it 1s

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CLOTHES LINES.

Cotton, 40 f%, per doz......- 1 00
Cotton, 50 ft, per doz.......1 20
Cotton, 60 £6, per doz......-. 1 40
| Cotton, 7 f%, per doz....... 1 60
| Cotton. 60 ft, per doz.......1 ©
Jute, Git, per doz....._-.- 80

Jute, 2 ft. per doz.......... %

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| COFFEE.
| Green.
| Rio.
CS 18
|}Good .-...--- 19
| Prime Se:
Golem |... cs.
Penperry ...-___............
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Prone. ee
Peabercy ........_........_. =

Mexican and Guatamala.

 

Mair.
Gooa ...... 2
Fancy
Maracaibo.
Pome
Mite? 2... ee
Java.
OE ae 20
Private Growth. ........--_..29
Miandeeling ... 5...
Mocha.
feutanon ......_. 25
Arava ..-0. ee
Roasted.
Quaker Mocha and Jaya..... 32
Toko Mocha and Java........25
State House Blend. ...........2
Package.
Arte ...... ....... aa
Sere 18 95
IN 11D. PACKAGES. WITHOUT GLAZING.

#6 Fur Ounces Ner.
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8 | Cases 100 lbs.
: - 60 - { less 2c per Ib.
Casinets 120 Ibs. Same Price,
49 | 9OF Extra For Capinets.
08 neLaughtin’s XXXX......18 9%
1 gee Extract.

2 50] Valley City % gross ..... vb
OO aa 1 15
Humme''s foil 4% gross... 8

12 00 Hummei’s tin % gross... 1 43
ee COCOA SHELLS.
[20i> Bars... ....., 21%
Less quantity... _.-. __ oS
Pound packages... .. 4
i. ee oo
.. 18 00 CREAM TARTAR.
Parccely Pere .........-.... 30
Telfer’s Absolute .......- 30
_. 12 00 | Grocers’. . ......-..-..... B@S
CONDENSED MILK.
@ 12% eas to cane
@ wb 4 doz. in case.
@ 11%
@ 2
@ 2s}
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@ 11 |
@i 0 |
@ W%
@ 15
@ 2A
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@ 18 |
Q 2%
@ 14
N. Y. Condensed Milk Co.’s
5 | brands.
. a
| Gail Borden Eagle... 7.0
tae Go ~+ 6 So
ee | Daisy ... a ae
.....-23 | Champion ~ ash OO
--..--30 | Magnolia ..425
coeeae 41)Dime ......................8%

 

Peerless evaporated cream .5 75

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‘‘Tradesman.”’
% 1 books, per 0....-.-..-- 2 00
S 2 bOoKS, per 100........... 2 90
$ 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 HOOKS, per 100........_- 2 50
$ 2 books, per 100.......... 3 00
S 3 BOOKS, per H00.......... 3 50
#5 books, per 100.........- 4 00
$10 books, per 100.......... 5 00
w20 books, per 100..._._ ..-- 6 00
“‘Universal.’’
3 1 books, per 100..-....... 3 00
$ 2 books, per 100... .- 350
$ 3 books, per 100.......... 4 00
% > DGGES, per 100... ....... 5 00
$10 books, per 100.......... 6 00
#20 books, per 100.......-.. 7 00

Above prices on coupon books
are subject to the following
quantity discounts:

200 books or over... 5 per cent

500 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.

DiboOKS, §....... 0s

Spbegns... 6.0... ae

 

 

 

foteene.... ee 3 00
Syoeens.. .-. --- 6 25
ioe... ...... 10 00

oo an 17 50

Credit Checks.

500, any one denom’n..... 3 00
1000, any one denom’n..... 5 00
2900, any one denom’n..... 8 00
Ssccl pumen. . ..

Dried Fruits.
DOMESTIC.

Apples.
Sunared.... @ 4%
Evaporated 50 Ib boxes. @ 6%;

California Goods.

Bxs Bgs

Apricots... | i @

Binckpermmes.........-...
Nectarmes............_. O4@
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rears._.. . 84@

Pitted Cherries. es

 

Praomeies...........-..-
Raspberries.,.......-.-.-
Raisins.

Loose Muscatels.
SOTO. 8. @ 3%
Browse. .....--....... @. 3%
‘Minow. ............... ae

FOREIGN.
Currants.

Patras bbls. ...... ae
Vostizzas 50 Ib cases.... @ 3%
Schuit’s Cleaned.

2510 DOxeR. 0. aS
S01 pawen.....- =... a
1 th packares.......... @&
eel.

Citron Leghorn 25 1b bx @I3
Lemon Leghorn 25 Ib bx @I1
Orange Leghorn 2 Ib bx @i2
Prunes.
25 lb boxes.
California 100-120........ @5
California 90-100........ @5%
California 80-90......... @ 64
California 70-80....... @ 6%
California 50-60......... @ 74
Califormia 40-50......... @8
California 60-70......... @ 7%
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Raisins.
Ondura 29 lb boxes...... 7@8
Sultana 20 lb boxes | a
Valencia 30 1b boxes.... @74

FARINACEOUS GOODS.
Farina.
ee

 
 

3

: Grits.
Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s.......2 00
ominy.
Besrels |. 3 25
Flake, 50 1b. drums.......1 50
Lima Beans.

ss... _ @
Maccaroni and Vermicelli.
Domestic, 10 lb. box...... 60

imported, 25 Ib. box...... 2 50
Pearl Barley.

Penpire .__-- se 2%
@hester .. ............... ise
Peas.
eee be... 0
Split, pertb.........--. .:- 2%
Rolled Oats.
Schumacher, bbl......-... 3 60
Schumacher, % bbl.....-. 1 $2
Monarch, bbl........... .3 60
Monarch, % bbl.........- 1 63

Quaker, cases.......------ 32
Oven Baked.......... -.-- 32
febeside ..........-. ....2 oo

Sago.

Corman ......-.-.-. .--..-. 4
Bast India........... 3%
Wheat.

Cracked, bulk........---.- 3
242 lb packages..........-2 40

Breakfast Food.
Pettijohn’s Best........--- 3 10
Buckwheat Flour.

 

 

Exeelsior Self Rising.
Cane of 2G02............-
Five case lots.......... -- 1 75
Fish.
Cod.
Georges cured.......-- @ 4%
Georges genuine...... @ 6
Georges selected...... @ 6%
Strips or bricks....... 6 @9
Halibut.
Chunks. ......-..-.-.:-... 14
Strips...... ---.----------= 11
Herring.

Holland white hoop 8 2%

Holland white hoops ri 65
bbl.
Norwegian ..: .....------

  

Bound 100 Ths..-.....----- 2 55
Bound 4 ibs..-....-----. 4 30
eee 12
Mackerel.
No 1 100tbs......---- --.- 13 00
No.t @ibss.. ....- _-- 5 50
No.t WM ilbe .......-- -- 1 45
No 2100 ths... ......--.-. 11 %5
No.2 46105 ...-...- 5 00
oe wiee.......-. 1
Family 90 lbs........--
Family 10 lbs.......-.-----
Sardines.
Russian kegs.....------+-- 55
Stockfish.

No. 1, 1001b. bales........ - 10%
No. 2, 100 lb. bales......... 8%
Trout.

No. 1 100 ibs... ...--.--.-- 5 2
No t 4ips......-..-)-- 2 35
Mo. 4 i ibe......-...--.-- 68
Wo.1 6 ibe....-.--..------ 57
Whitefish.

No.1 No.2 Fam
ie... 800 700 300
op ie. 8. 350 310 145
ite. .....-- % 8 45

See... 2) 79 71 39
FLAVORING EXTRACTS.
Souders’.

Oval bottle, with corkscrew.
Best in the world for the

money.

Regular
Grade
Lemon.

doz
Fee... 75
408....-: 1 50

Regular

Vanilla.
doz
ra 1 20
Sez... 3. 2 40

XX Grade
Lemon.

Nh] 202 .....150
i 40z. ....3 00

XX Grade
Vanilla.

ELEGANT
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Jennings.
Lemon Vanilla
2o0z regular panel.. 75 1 20
4 oz regular panel..1 50 2 00
6 oz regular panel. .2 00 3 00
No. 3 taper......... 1 35 2 00
No. 4 7aper........- 150 25
FLY PAPER.
Tanglefoot.

“Regular” Size.
Less than one case, per box — 22
One to five cases, per Case.. 2%
Five'to ten cases, per case. 2 65
Ten cases, per case........ 2 55
“Little” Tanglefoot.
Less than one case, perbox 13
One to ten cases. per case.. 1 45

Ten cases, per case........ 1 40
FURNITURE
Cleaner and Polish.

Henderson’s ‘‘Diamond.’’
East Part. ito
ee 3 50
OUR fe. 5 40
Halt Gallion......-.-..- 7 7
amnOm oc 14 40

HERBS.
—... 15
Hoes 15
GUNPOWDER.
Rifle—Dupont’s.

com 3 00
Eiglr Wess... ... 8... 1%
urartenKeps.-........-...-* 1 00
i a a 30
a. 1p e288.) .-.t.  . 18

Choke Bore—Dupont’s.
Begs ......._.....°.) eae
Mair Mees... 2 2%
Quarter Kegs... -........ 12
tip cams... =

Eagle Duck—Dupont’s.
ers So 8
Bat Begs... ....0. 42
(QuarterKegs......-...-..._- 2 2
Pipearns.-..-; 45

INDIGO.

Madras, 5 lb boxes......... 55
S. F., 2,3 and 5 1b boxes.... 50
JELLY.
ib pals. 34
Qi 40
SeiD paiis... 60
LYE.

Condensed, 2 doz ..........1 20
Condensed, 4 doz........... 2
LICORICE.
Parc. 30
Galea ...5....2.50 5002 25
ecg 8 14
Hoot... 10

 

Mince meat, 3 doz in case..2 75
Pie Prep. 3 doz in case...... 27
MATCHES.

Diamond Match Co.’s brands.
Noe. 9 satpnur.....-...... 2. 1 65
Anenor Farior.............: 1 70
No.2 Heme... 3... 110
Hsport Parior.............. 4 00

MOLASSES.
Blackstrap.
Sugar house.......... -. J. Foie
Cuba Baking
Oraraary 0. 12@14
Porto Rico.
Prime... ee 20
Weney se 30
New Orleans.
Bole... 2s 18
Geen. e. 2
xtra eood.......-........ 24
Cece. 2
Pamey -.- 3s 30
Half-barrels 3c extra.
OIL CANS.

Crystal vaive, per doz..... 4 00
Crystal valve, per gross...36 00
PICKLES.

Medium.

Barrels, 1,200 count........ 3 25
Half bbls, 600 count........ 2 13
Small.

Barrels, 2,400 count........ 4 2%
Half bbls, 1,200 count...... 2 63
PIPES.

Clay, NO. 216..5.0.....2. 22. 1 70
Clay, T. D. fullcount...... 65
~~ a s............... 1 20
POTASH.

48 cans in case.
Babbitt’s.....

 

Penna Salt Co.’s....

 

RICE.
Domestic.
Carolina head............... 5%
Carolina Wot... ......... 5
Carolina No.2. ..........-: 4%
Broken: 3
Imported.
Japan. Not... J ..: 4%
Japan, NO 2... ........ aig
wane, NOt 5%
eave, NG. 2.0. 414
Pees 4
SAL SODA.
Granulated, bbls........ .1 10
Granulated, 100 lb cases..1 50
Lump, ppis..-.-. ........: 1
Lump, 145]b kegs..........1 10
: SEEDS.
SO 13
Canary, Smyrna........... 6
Caraway... 10
_Cardamon, Malabar...... 80
Hemp, Russian.......... 4
Mixed Eird.........: 0 |. 4%
Mustard, white........... 6%
ROBY 2. 8
ARO 4
Cuttle Bone.......00 =. 20
SYRUPS.

Corn.
Barres 15
Malt bbls... 1...

: Pure Cane.
Baie 16
eee 20. 20
Choice 25

SPICES.

Whole Sifted.
Mispiee
Cassia, China in mats.... i -_
Cassia, Batavia in bund... .15
Cassia, Saigon in rolls...... 32
Cloves, Amboyna........... 15
Cloves, Zanzibar............ 10
Mace Batavia... ....- 70
Nutmegs, fancy.:........... 65
Nutmegs, No. 1............ 60
Nutmers, No. 2.0. |). igs

Pepper, Singapore, black...10
Pepper, Singapore, white. . .20

Pepper, shot... 1
Pure Ground in Bulk.

Miispice N12
Cassia, Batayia ............ “AT
Cassia, Saigen... 35
Cloves, Amboyna........... 15
Cloves, Zanzibar............ 10
Ginger, African... 15
Ginger, Cochin... 20
Ginger, Jamaica... 22
Mace, Batavia.... ._... 60@65
Mustard, Eng. and Trieste. .20
Mustard, Trieste. -........ |. 25
Nutmegs, No, 2... 50@60

Pepper, Singapore, black9@12
Pepper,Singapore, white15@18

Pepper, Cayenne........ 17@20
Be 18
‘*Absolute’”’ in 141b. Packages
Bliswice. 3 8 65
Reyonamon..... .. 1... : 5
loves...
Ginger, Cochin: .-........- 75
Mace..... Gece eee 210
Pereaare %
Muamerps.... =. 2 10
Pepper, cayenne .... .... 75
Pepper, white .-..... 2... v5)
Pepper, black shot........ 60
Been... 1

S 50
Absolute ’’Butchers’ Spices.

Wiener and Frankfurter. ...16

Pork Sausage......... |, 5

Bologna and Smoked S’ge..16
Liver S’ge and H’d Cheese. .16

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64 10e packages ...........5 00

128 5c: packages......... ..§

32 10e and 64%5c packages.. .5000
Kingsford’s Corn.

20 i-lb packages............. 6%
40 1 lb packages............. 6%
Kingsford’s Silver Gloss.

40 1-lb packages............. 6%
Gib boxes... .... ck: 7
Common Corn.

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Common Gloss.

1-lb packages............... 4%

3-lb packages. . io od.. 2og

Gib packages .............. 54

40 and 50 lb boxes........... 2%

amrels, 2 kc 234
SODA.

PeSGS cs 5%
as “Rnglish ee 434
SALT.

Diamond Crystal.

Cases, 24 3-lb boxes......... 1 60
Barrels, 100 3 lb bags oo 2%
Barrels, 40 7 1b bags ee 2 50
Butter, 56 Ib bags........... 65
Butter, 20 14 lb bags........ 3 50
Butter, 280 lb bbls.......... 2 50
Common Grades.
oS ibsaeks..... ....... 2 60
@)5Jp sacks.... -..........1 &
98 t1-1b saens. .........%.... 170
Worcester.

50 4 Yb. caxtons.......-.-- 3 25

115 2451. sacks..... ...-... 4

 
 

60 5 Ib. sacks.
99 14 Ip. sacks.....
$910 10: SaeKS.........-..-

 

 

 

28 Ib. linen sacks............ 32

56 ID. linen sacks............ 60

olk im DParreis..-..........- 2 50
Warsaw.

56-lb dairy in drill bags..... 30

28-Ib dairy in drill bags..... 15
shton.

56 lb dairy in iinen sacks .. 60
Higgins.

56-lb dairy in linen sacks 6
Solar Rock.

56-lb sacks.. —— =

Common Fine.

Sariaw :.. -......-.-...-. 35

Manistee ...........-.-- 85
NUFF.

Scotch, in bladders......... oe

Maccaboy, in jars.-........., 35

French ee in jars 42

SALERATUS.

—" 60 lbs. in box.
Church’s . 1.3 36
Deiand’s 3
Dwiehts 0. .3 30
Taylor's. .-..6.3 00

TOBACCOS.
Ciga

G. J. Jakeaee: s brand
S€¢ wo = Cf 35 00

B. J. Reynolds’ brand.
Hornet’s Nest.. .35 00

B. & P. Drug ‘Co. s brand.
Quintette .... 5 00

Clark Grocery Go.’s brine
New Brick... -...-....- 5 00
AP.
Laundry.

Gowans & Sons’ Brands.
Crane... 3 10
German Family...... 2 i
American,Grocer “100s... . 32
—— yrocer 60s...... 2 6

ee 3 30
Mystic White..... _.....::; 3 80
Totes  .. —.. oo
Oak Teaf......-.- --.-.-. | ooo
Old Style. <.....---.--.-.- 2 55
Happy Day.......----.----- 3 10
Single box... = ----...- 3 2
5 box lots, delivered....... 3 20
10 box lots. delivered....... 3 10

Jas. S. Kirk & Co.’s —

American Family, wrp’d...3 33
American Family, plain.. 3%
Lautz Bros. & Co.’s brands.
Weme 3 35
Coton Oil.......... .... 9 @
oee........;........,. 4 00
ae... .....---.-.-.. 3 70

Henry Passolt’s brand.

    
    

Single pox.....-.

5 box lots, delivered .

10 box lots, delivered....... r

25 box lots, delivered...
a hompson & Chute’ s Brand.

 

 

Single os Per mann 3 25
5 box lot, delivered........ 3 20

10 box lot, delivered. ...... 3 15
25 box lot, delivered... .3 10
Allen B. Wrisley’s brands.

Old Country 80 I-lb.......-. 3 20

Good Cheer 60 1-lb.......... 3 90

White Borax 100 %-lb....... 3 65

ouring.

Sapolio, kitchen, 3 doz ..... 2 40

Sapolio, hand, doe iis) 2 40

 

 

a STOVE POLISH.

Nickeline, small, per gro.

Nickeline, large, per gro... 7 20
TABLE SAUCES.

Lea & Perrin’s, large..... 4%
Lea & Perrin’s, small.....2 75
Halford, intee ........_.- 30
Matlordemal....... .....2 %
Salad Dressing, large..... 4 55
Salad Dressing, 3mall..... 2 ©
VERMICIDE.
Zenoleum, 6 02............ 2 00
Zenoleum, qts...../....- . 400
Zenoleum, % gal.........-.. 7 20
Zenoleagm. gal... 12 00
SUGAR.
Below are given New York

prices on sugars, to which the
wholesale dealer adds the local
freight from New York to your
shipping point, giving you
eredit on the invoice for the
amount of freight buyer pays
from the market in which he
purchases to his shipping point,

    
 
  

including 20 — for the
weight of the barrel.

Domine 5 62
Cus boat... .5 @
oc. ............. 5 2
Powederca (2)... =
MAXX Powdered......... 37

Mould A......
Granulated in bbis.
Granulated in bags

Fine Granulated...........-
Extra Fine Granulated..... 5 EZ
Extra’ Course Granulated. ..5 12
Diamond Confec. A........5 00
Confec. Standard A.... ....4 8:
No. £........ oc oe OS
No 2........_.. -....... 4 62
No. 3s........ 4 56
No ¢......... 4 50
mo f...................... 4 44
Me Go. 4 37
Se 4 31
ho Ss... 4 2%
No oe 418
No. e... . 4 12
No. fs 4 06
no fC. 4 00
Wo. Fe. ........ -- ..3 94
No. fH .. ...-. e 3 87
No. ib. -.....- s. . 3 62
WASHING POWDER.
100 packages in case........3 35
WICKING.
No. @ per gross.........-.-... 23
No. 1, pergross........-.-..- 30
No. 2, per gross.......------- 40
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No. 3, ine lei ceeeeeeee:

Crackers.
‘Phe N. ¥-
as follows:

 

“Biscuit Co. quotes

 
  

Butter.
Seymour XXX .........-.-- 54
Seymour . 3lb. carton 5%;
Ramily MXM 0)... fol .. 54
Family XXX,31b carton.. 5%
Salicag SMe 5%
Salted XXX. 31]b carton... 5%
Soda.
Seda “NN o.- .. 5
Soda XXX, 3 1b carton. 6%
Soda. City....-..---------- 7
Cry giall Water... (0.00.00). 10%
Long Island W ‘afers....... 11

L. I. Wafers, 1lbearton’ 28

Oyster.
Square Oyster, aus. ....- 54
Sq. Oys. XXX. 1 1b carton. 614
Farina Oyster, XX ax... 514
SWEET GOODS— Boxes.
Autwals ...._...........-.. 1044
Bent’s Cold Water........- 12
pee Goes... 8
Cocoanut Taffy.....-...--- 8
oases a a 8
Frosted Honey. i.

Graham C rackers.. :
Ginger Snaps, XXX Yound. 64
Ginger Snaps, XXX city... Gs
Gin. Snps,X XX home made 6%
Gin. Snps, XXX sealloped.. 6%
Ginger Vanilla............ 8

 
 

Hmiperinis .........------..- 8
Jumbles, Honey ee
Molasses C eno poco see 8
Marshmallow 15
Marshmallow Creams..... 16
Pretzels, hand made ..... 8%

Pretzelettes, LittleeGerman 6%

Sugar Cake..........-.---- 8
Cnitamas ol
Sears’ Eammeh........------- 7%
Vanilla Square...........- 8
Vanilla Wafers 14

 
  

Pecan W afers

Candies.

~The Putnam Candy Co. quotes
as follows:
Stick Candy.

bbls. pails

Standard... --..- Coase 76

Standard Bee t4@ 7%

Standard Twist..... 6%@ 7%

a as 7%@ 8%

sases

Ruts 1. .........- @ 8%

Boston Cream...... @ 8%

Mixed Candy.

‘bbls. pails

Standard...........- 514@ 6%

Reeder 0... 05... 64@ 74

Rega. 6%4@ 7%

Conmserves..... ....- 614@ Th
SS es 7 @8

Kindergarten....... TH@ 8%
French Cream...... 9
Valley Cream....... @i2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

 

 
 

Crockery and
Glassware.

LAMP BURNERS.

No. 0 Sun i : $5
No. ft Sun Poa
No. 2 Sun 7a
Tubular 50)
security, No. I 6d
Security, No. : RA
Nut ra g ! mM)
Aretic ‘ i ib

LAMP CHIMNEYS~—Common.

Per box of 6 doz

 

 

No. 0 Sun 1 &}>
No. I Sun 2 00
NO. 2 Sun... 2 80
First Quality.
No. © Siwy > top
wrapped and | z 10
No. | Sum. erin top,
wrapped and 1 2
No. 2 Sun, top,
wrapped and lal 2%
XXX Flint.
No. © Sun, crimp top,
wrapped and labeled 2 we
NO. | Sun, crimp top,
rapped and label ed 2%
ie 2 Sun, Crim top,
wrapped and amelie 37
CHIMNEYS,
Pearl Top.
No.1 Sun —— and
labeled... Ce ee |
and
_..... oo
and
4 8S
Fire Proof—Plain vin
No. l Sun, plain bulb 3 40
Ne. 2 San, plain bulb......°4 40
La Bastie.
No. 1 Sun. plain bulb, per
Gee 0 1S
do. 2 Sun, plain bulb, per
doz Vo. 2 on
No. | Cri mp, per doz. 1s
No. 2 Crimp, per doz. 1 60
Rochester.
No. 1, Lime (66€ doz).... .. 3 50
No. 2, Lime (70e doz). 4 00
No. 2, Flint (80¢ doz).. 4 70
Electric.
No. 2, Lime (70€ doz) ....- 4 00
No. 2, Flint (60e doz) .... 4 40
Miscellaneous. Doz.
aunior, Hochester......... 50
Naiwaee 15
Dluminator Bases......... 1 08
Barrel lots, 5 doz. =
7 in. Pores ‘lain Shades..... 1.00
Case lots, 12 doz. 90

Mammoth Chimneys for Store

amps. Doz. Box
No. 3 Rochester. lime 150 4 20
No. 3 Rochester, flint 175 1 80
No. s Pearl top, or
Jewel glass.. 1s 3
No. 2 Globe Ineandes.
ie... 175 5
No. 2 Globe Ineandes.
flint .-. 4.20 5S
No. 2 Pearl glass... 210 6M
OIL CANS. Doz.
1 gal tin cans with spout.. 1 60
1 gal galv iron with spout. 2 00
2 gal galv iron with spout. 3 25
3 gal galv iron with spout. 4 50
5 gal Eureka with spout... 6 50
5 gal Eureka with faucet.. 7 00
Seal galyironAd& W..... 7 50
5 gal Tilting cans, M’n’ch 10 50
5 gal galv iron Nacefas.... 9 00

Pump Cans.

3 gal Home Rule. -10 50
5 gal Home Rule. 12 OO
3 gal Goode mough.. aa lo 50
5 gal Goodenough...... .12 00
5 gab Pirate King.......... 9 50

LANTERNS.

(no. GTUDNIAr........ ..
No. 1B Tubular. {2 6
No. 13 Tubular Dash . 6
No. 1Tub., giassfount.... 7 @
No. i2 Tubular, side lamp.13 00
No. 2Strect Lamp........ 3 75

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Fancy—In Bulk. | Oysters. <4
Pails | F. J. Dettenthaler’s Brands. Provisions.
Lozenges. plain..... @ 8% | Per Can. :
Lozenges, printed.. @9 | Fairhaven Counts.... 35@ The Grand Rapids Packing
Choe. Drops........ 114@13 |F.J.D Selects......  30@ and Provision Co. quotes as fol
Choe. Monumentals Geo, | Seleees -. 8... OO lows:
Gum Drops......... @oe (#.1.D_... 2G Barreled Pork.
Moss Drope.......-. @ 8 PGNOHS) 0 os. 2007 Mess 10 2
Sour Drops.......__- @6 | Standards............. 18@ suck 11 00
Porperials ........... ag | Mayorite |... 16, Clear back ‘ or
Fancy—In 5 Ib. Boxes. | Per Gal. | Shortcut... .. + 10 50
Per Box | Counts =... @2 wo | Pig.. 12 OU
Lemon Drops. . @50 =| Extra Selects....... @1 6 | Bean
Sour Drops.....__.. @50 | Medium Selects........ @I 30 Family ee
Peppermint Drops.. (60 Anchor Stand: urds. @1 10 D . 5
oc rr Meats.
Chocolate Drops.... 65 Standards ...... @ 1 00 | Bellies ie oo eu
H. M. Choe. Drops.. @i | Scallops i @1 7% | Briskets oe 6
Gum Drops......... 35 @o0 — @l1 25) Extra bhere 5
Licorice Drops. .10 @ Shrimps. @1 2% i

B. Licorice Drops (@50 Osear Allyn’: s Brands. ee Meats. :
faa » plain. @d5 Per Can. Hams, a cle laa i 972
Lozenges, printed . @b60 Commie 40@, Hams, ae ae ia
fmperiais Geo Extra selects......... 2@ | —senroi Se etc :
Mottoes . oe. @b65 Piain Selects.......:.. 2@ | Hams, 20 lb average. 4
Cream Bar...... o @:0 Lf. .ULUhULUL RG, Ham dried beef .-... i
Molasses Bar ....... @>d0 Medians =. 20 | Shoulders (N. Y. cut) oe
Hand Made Creams. 80 @90 | Standards 1Is@, Bacon, re o
Plain Créams....... 60 @se | Favorites ......... | ice | California hams : hia
Decorated Creams. @90 aaa ve
String Rock... |... @b6o | NewYork Counts..... @2 00 Cooked ham............ Ws
Burnt Almonds..... 123 @ Extra Selects... .. @1 7 | Lards.
Wintergreen Berries @5d Plain Selects. ......-.. @1 50 | Compound, In Tierces. $35

i Caramels. Lx &, Standards....... @i 2u| Family, In Tierces.. 51g
No. 1 wrapped, 2 |b. | Standards ........... @1 10} Granger ... 65
—o ee. @30 - | Musselman’s Gold Leaf. 6
No. 1 wrapped, 3 lb. 2 . | Worden’s Home Made ri

eee ai | Grains and Feedstufis Woriens White Cover 3
No. 2 wrap, F Ib. i | Cottolene oo . a5

Bowes an Wheat. | Cotosuet . 5%,
l Wheat. 68 | 55 1b Tubs... advance

i Winter Ww heat Po- | SO Tubs.......advance ‘
Fruiis. Local Brands. ain La Tia ura pape :
co i Palests oo ae b aa oa :
iain Second Patent............. 3 5 o = Test i advance
: ee TSC ae res an an
Fancy Navels aa Peete tea taieas 3 | 3 I> Pars.......udvanece 1
Re ea eae a TE eA : |
' : -: =) | Grane 2. 3 25} en
150-176-200... 2 OU Buckwheat ........... _.. 8 | Bologna .... - a
Fancy Seedlings Rye 2 70 | Liver. a 6
e176 S00 250| Snbject to usual cash dis- | Frankfort. a 7
ae cee ET 644
Valencias Flour in bbls., 25¢ per bbl. ad- | Blood .... TE i
MoO ok 5 50 | ditional, ce wi ones
emons. Worden Grocer € | Head eheese........... 6
Strictly choice 36vs.. @2 75 plagire og" nea Tr et 8 | i Beef
Strictly choice 300s.. G2 Ol Omiber us Son | Tp sii in

ee eee SS Quaker, 4s | aso Batra Mess 7 00
Sere oes... @3 50 | Quake r, bes... 3 85 | Bonele 10 00
xtra sos. @3 % iat Te nn
Fancy 3008.......... @3 50 Spring Wheat Flour. | Kits. 15 1 Pigs’ Feet.
Extra 300s oe @A 00 Olney & Judson’s Brand. 4 bbis so tha. : 1 po

eee Ceresota, i45.-...-.. 00} ts bbls, i 3 00

A definite price is hard to vanabinarty Se : . i tg bbls, 80 i ee 3 00
name, as it varies according to | Geresota. 14s 3 40 | Kits, 15 Ibs Tet ws
ea : a ~ <2.......... 7... i Gis. lt. >
size of bunch and quality of 1 bbl It :
fruit. Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand. | 4 ??0°: 40 Ibs.......---.- ae
Medium bunehes...1 25 @1 50 | Grand Republic, ‘ss. 26) 3 ee Oe ....------ 2
Large bunches...... 175 @2 25| Grand Republic, 148. 3 85], Casings. -

: : E Grand Republic, %s........ 3 7 | Pork -. : _- oe

_ Foreign Dried Fruits. i | Beef remnee C0 ti) 5
Fig-, Fancy Layers Lemon Ww heeler Co. o.’s Brand. | Beef middles......... 7

Ss 13 @ Parisian, 138..... 3 9 | Butterine.

Figs, Choice Layers a eee 2 S| Rolls, dairy.... ul 1044

Oy. ue an... aa stcecee - 3 19 | Solid, dairy...... ol 91,
Figs, — in lp meat. _. | Rolls, creamery ...
peas Rew is «= @ © | Granulated 222200 se ee

ates, Fards in I to eo a Eley gana gl " | C I .

boxes... @B8 Feed and Millstuffs. , -, | Comed + a > 00
Dates, Wards in 60 lb | St. Car Feed, screexed ....13 50] Gorned beef, 15 Ib..

cases _.. @6 | No. 1 Corn and Oats.......13 00] poast Haag | | ib
Dates, Persians, G. | Unbolted Corn Meal....... 12 75| potted ham, \s

M. K., 60 Ib cases... @5 | Winter Wheat Bran....... 1 OO pated) haw | ts.)

Dates, Sairs 60 lb | Winter Wheat Middlings..12 00 | peyiled ham ae
cases @ 4% | Screenings 11 | Heviledham, ‘4s...
= ——_—-| The 0. E. " Brown “Mill Co. | Potted tongue 4s
| quotes as follows: | Potted tongue '4s.......
| Corn :
lo. r |
| Car lots. : a |
i Less than ear lots.. yd Fresh Meats.
Almonds, Tarragona... @I13 ‘cue eal — 2314 | ce Beef
Almonds, Ivaca....... @ | Less than car lots......... 25. | Carcass ia 5 @7
Almonds, California, | a “ | Fore qu ee Mg :

: cia hs oi |. i | Fore arters.... ¢ bd
ae ace vs om | No. 1 Timothy, ton lots ...16 00} Hind quarters........ 6 @8
Filberts ee @o | No. 1 Timothy carlots Looe. 14 00 — ee 9 @ 10
Walnuts, Gren., new. @l2 | H E = | ~ssincieere ee : 8 a 12
Walnuts, Calif No. 1. @12. | 2 a a ae ee
Walnuts, soft shelled i ides and Pelts. —e : oo

Calif . @ tna UCC mao
Table Nuts, ‘faney.. @12 lowes | a a | Dressed i LT BI
Table Nuts, choice. @ 9% | Hides lt ni Ce eae £4@ of
Pecans, Texas H. P.. @s8 | i Lesion ease nnn Soe ee

Se ices ............ _.4 @> |Sheuider. ...... @ 6}
Hickory Nuts per bu., Part cured Ga aie | Lead Lard aw

ODIO «oa @! | frutl Cured...0. 22.20. —
Cocoanuts, full sacks @4 00] pv a ee Ts psec ee
Butternuts per bu.... @ 50] Kips. green a i @ 4 ae ater ee = rt
Black Walnuts per bu =@ | Kips, cured........... 5 @é ; Mean rn

Peanuts. | Calfskins, green...... 5 @6 Corea .............. 14@ 6!
Fancy, H. P., Game | Calfskins, cured...... 6 @ a

Gockel a @ 5% | Deaconskins ......... 2% @30 . .

Fancy, H. P., Game elts. Oils.

Roasted...... a 7% | Shearlings .. ..10 @ 2) —— i“ —
Fancy, H. P.. Associa- ! | Lambs .........--...-- 49 @1 00} The Standard Oil Co. quotes

tion Roasted... @ @4j|0ld Weol..... - -- 40 @ 75 | as follows:

Choice, H. P., Extras. @ ool. | Barrels.
Choice, H. P., Extras, Washe@ ... ......... 10 @17 | Eocene @Ii1 e
ote ........... @ | Unwashed ............ 5 @I3 an W. W.Mich.Hadlt Qo”
a 4 | eens | WW Michipan.......- @ $34
‘allow . Lot tcecc & @ 346 | Mien Test Headlight @ 8
Grease Butter . | @?Zz 2 oee....... i @ 9%

Fish ‘and Oy sters Seicmes -.....-_._- 1%@ 2 Deo. ‘Naptha oo. @ 8%

eee a Ginseng ..... . 2 50@2 | Cyainder ..___- 2. on Gao 1
Furs. | Bnpine..... oe 11 @21
Fresh Fish. Per It [Mink |...) «Sg 2 25) Black, winter... ._.. @ 9

: - | Coon... 2@ +‘%70| Black, summer. @ 8X |

— cece aston: = 7 | Skunk. 10@, From Tank W agon.
Ce S 5 | Re rT : 1% ne @ §
Black Bass.........- @ b | _ 2 inter.. 3 ; 4 oe W_Mich.Hal se

SUE 0 on | hat, ral Se iia a olf 2 | ie EC t (@, 634
a oapasiahas aay ae ee Red Fox............. 1 00m 1 26 DS. Gag... .- @ 7
Ciseoes or Herring.. @ © | GeavPox ._.. 40a, 60 | ah
eee. @ 12%| Grows Fox. .......... 2.00@ 5 00| Scofie a ee

fs : A | Cross _ ..... 2 00@ § | Seofield, Shurmer «& Teagle
Live a osesee @ ma] | Badiper 2.2 20@, 50}! quote as follows:

— Lobster...... = a Cat Wee. ....._._.. 40@ 0} Barrels.
ee y \Cat, HMon-e......... AG 20] Palneime ......- 2
Haddock... ae @ } Wise. 20... ... 5... 4 oo 6 00 | Daisy W hite...... i a ti
No. 1 Pickerel...... @ 9 |Lynx................ 1 00@ 2 50} Red Cross, W. W. a9
Pik y
~t ked White _ @ 8 | Maret... ..-....... 1 50@ 3 00| Water Whiite Halt... @ 8%
ned Ses nite...... @ ; Mier 5 00@ 9 00} Family He adlight.... @8
C Sel ae sea > - | Wolf 2.0.0 ..-..2- 1 00@ 2 00} Naphtha. ee @, 814
ta 16a 20 ior... ......- _ 5 0O@15 00 | Stove Gasoline... @ 9
ackerel ....-. Se = | Beaver... ........ 3 00@ 7 00 | From Tank | Wagon.
Shell Goods. | Opossum... 10@ 18} | Palacine ... a @10
Oysters, per 100....... 1 25@1 50 | Beaver cs astors s per ‘Ib 3 00@ 8 00 | Red Cross 5 @, 63%
Clams, per 100....... 90@1 00 Deerskins,dry,perlb 15@ 25 Gaediine.............. @ 7%
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LANTERN GLOBES.

No. 0 Tubular, cases 1 doz.

 

each, box 10 cents........ 45
No. 0 Tubular, cases 2 doz.
each box ip cenis....... 45
No. 0 Tubular, bbls 5 doz.
eae bbl de. ....._.. Fas 40)
No.0 Tubular, bull’s eye
eases 1 dow. ench........ § 2
LAMP WICKS.
No. 0 per erose.........1... 24
No. f per eroes.......... 76
No. 2 ber ¢TOSss AV
NO. S jer Sross..1.... 72... so
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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

MEN OF MARK.

Daniel Lynch, Manufacturer of Ex-
tracts and Baking Powder.

The earliest recollections of Daniel
Lynch’s life are located in Grand
Rapids, which, with the exception of
eight years, has been his home for
forty-two years. He was born April
18, 1852, in Newport, R. I., and came
West two years later. The family came
by lake to Detroit and thence by rail to
the nearest rail station, Kalamazoo, and
from there by stage. His father used
to relate, that after paying the fares on
the latter conveyance, he had to assist
its progress by walking alongside and
helping to lift it from the numerous
sloughs of despond encountered on the
way.

During his boyhood young Lynch en-
joyed the best facilities of the city
schools. After his course in the old
union school, he attended the academy
of Prof. Everett, which contributed so
effectually to the education of a large
number of our best citizens. His edu-
cation was completed by a course in
Burray’s Business College, an institu-
tion whose short career was not so wide-
ly known as that of the academy.

At the age of 16 the young man was
apprenticed to the blacksmith’s trade
in the carriage factory of the late
Arthur Wood. After remaining in this
capacity five years, he started in busi-
ness for himself, opening a shop on
West Bridge street, at the corner of
Mt. Vernon. Two years later, June Io,
1875, occurred the great West Side fire,
which originated in this shop. After
this loss, Mr. Lynch built and stocked
a grocery store at the corner of Second
and Grandville avenues, where he con-
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out and removed to the new town of
Blanchard, where he established a gen-
eral store. During the eight years of
his residence in this young town, in ad-
dition to his business, he was active in
local politics, filling most of the village
offices, and serving the county in the
capacity of Deputy Sheriff. At the end
of this period he again had the misfor-
tune of burning out, when he _ returned
to his old home.

In 1885 Mr. Lynch purchased the in-
terest of the estate of the late Chas. S.
Yale in the firm of Chas. S. Yale &
Co., manufacturers of flavoring extracts,
and formed a partnership with Fred D.
Yale, continuing the business a year
and a half under the style of Fred D.
Yale & Co. at 40 and 42 South Division
street. He then purchased the interest

of his partner and removed to 1g South
Ionia street, where he continued under
the style of Daniel Lynch until 1894.
Then, finding his room insufficient for
the rapidly growing business, he built
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ner of Island street and Ellsworth
avenue, a view of which appears here-
with, and _— he has since occupied.

May 12, 1875, Mr. Lynch was married
to Miss rica Condon, whose fam-
ily live in Walker township. They
have four daughters who live with them
in their pleasant home at 146 South
Lafayette street. Since his return to
the city he has had little time from his
business to engage in politics or other
affairs. He has purchased a large farm
about two miles south of the city, which
will some day afford him recreation and
profit.

Mr. Lynch has brought to all his busi-
ness enterprises an energy and appli-
cation which command success. This
has been especially marked in the last
venture, which he undertook when its
sales were about $18,000 per annum.
Under his administration the volume of
business has steadily increased, until
now it exceeds $100,000. His trade ex-
tends over most of the State, especial
attention being given to Western Mich-
igan and the Upper Peninsula, in which
regions his goods are household words.

ae
Did It Ever Occur to You?

That sugar represents about 20 per
cent. of your sales?

That the gross profit on sugar should
not be less than 4 per cent.?

That coffee represents about Io per
cent. of your sales?

That your gross profit should not be
less than Io per cent. ?

That syrups represent about 2 per
cent. of your’sales?

That your gross profit should not be
less than 20 per cent. ?

That teas ——— about 3 per cent.
of your sales?

That your gross = should not be
less than 25 per cent.

That tobacco represents about 6 per
cent. of your sales?

That your gross profit should not be
less than Io per cent.?

That cigars répresent about 3 per
cent. of your sales?

That your gross profit should not be
less than 25 per cent. ?

That canned goods represent about
20 per cent. of your sales?

That your gross profit should not be
less than 15 per cent. ?

That rice represents about 2
of your sales?

That your gross profit should not be
less than 15 per cent. ?

That foreign and domestic dried
fruits represent about 5 per cent. of
your sales?

That your gross profit should not be

less than 15 per cent.?
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exclaimed a customer a few days ago in our sample
room after he had closely examined our 14c Jap Tea.

‘*l was foolish enough to allow a Detroit firm to
inveigle me into buying five half chests at 19c,
and your 14c Tea is better value. Next order I
give comes right here.’’

 
 

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This is the whole story in a nutshell, and we will gladly
convince anyone in need of Teas that we can, and will, under-
sell any firm in or out of the State.

We have small line of Young Hyson that one of our com-
petitors had refaced to sell for a “Jap at 17@18c; we will close
them out at 11c, weigh 58 lbs.

We sent out over 300 samples of Teas and Coffees last week
at request of parties that read our ad. in Tradesman.

a Ten or twelve inquiries in one mail proves that our ads.
*eee@@ = are taking root (this is not meant for a pun on John).
ae We expect a great growth in our Tea department, and re-
-cee@ = uest our friends to name prices they desire Teas at.
=e Do not say, “Send full line of samples,” as it takes too much
teoe@ = time, etc., to put up over forty grades of Teas, apart from the

expense for postage, etc.
Over thirty failures among Michigan retailers during the
past ten days convinces us more than ever that “Cash is King.”
We will — closely by our text, cash with order in cur-

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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

Speculative Sugar Buying from the | to buy goods to much better advantage

Jobber’s Standpoint.

For some time it has seemed to be the
proper thing, on receipt of strong sugar
news, to write or wire the trade some-
thing like this:

‘Sugar market very strong; all ad-
vices point to a raise; advise liberal
ptrchases—-wire orders.”’

It has a very familiar sound, is an
old, old story and has a musty smell,
but it generally brings a liberal offering
of orders and the trade is, consequent-
ly, stuffed full of sugar. We sell in a
week enough to supply the trade for a
month. This naturally causes a re-
action and a dull sugar market, which
often leads to a decline, instead of a
rise—just the opposite to what we are
figuring on and hoping for. Both jobber
and retailer are carrying from two to

 

 

 

 

 

 

three times as much sugar as is really
necessary, and neither is selling a
pound more of sugar than he would if
he were buying and selling on the good
old plan, that is, as he wants it. The
jobber has to borrow money to do it.
The retailer often cannot meet his bills
promptly at maturity and, in conse
quence, is obliged to place himself un-
der obligation to his jobber and ask an
extension; and, to cap the climax, is
just about as liable to take a drop on
his sugar as a rise, as just what the
sugar market is going to do is “‘one of
those things that no feller can find out. ”’
Now, I really believe sugar is going
to be considerably higher within sixty
days. It looks very much that way, but,
supposing it is, and a dealer buys ten
or twenty barrels on speculation, what
does a rise of forty or fifty cents a bar-
rel amount to? Virtually nothing. It
is said, ‘‘Wise men often change their
minds.’’ I have changed mine. _ It
does not necessarily follow that I am
particularly wise, but I believe that I
am on the right track. Many a man
stumbles over a gold brick to pick up
one made of clay, and I believe that is
just what a majority of the trade are do-
ing when they buy speculative sugar.
My advice is to pay no more attention
to these alluring communications; to
stop chasing rainbows; to buy your
sugar as you need it and in quan-
tities which will enable you at all
times to supply your trade with bright
fresh stock. If you have any surplus
cash, discount your bills with it and
thus build up a gilt-edged credit. In
doing this you ‘‘kill two birds with one
stone.’? You save your discounts in
cold cash; and, in building up your
credit, you place yourself in a position

 

 

than your neighbor whose credit is in-
different.

Follow up this advice right along the
year around and | guarantee you will
make ten times as much money as_ you
will by speculating in sugar.

H. G. BARLow,

Sec’y Olney & Judson Grocer Co.
—_—__0—»——_—_

A PLEA FOR “THE OLD MAN.”
«1itten for the TRADESMAN.

As the years hasten on their acceler-
ating way I am becoming more and
more sensible to the fact that there is a
decided difference between youth and
age. It is not that I am any less youth-
ful in feeling, or that there is any real
change brought by advancing time—I
am just the same as ever—but in the at-
titude of my younger compeers there is
something which makes me think [| am
growing old; not that my young friends
are recognizing this fact by increased
deference and regard for the wisdom of
experience, for the manifestation of
such deference seems to have become
less common since the days of my
childhood.

But there is somehow a tendency on
the part of the young in their plannings
of pleasure, as well as more serious Con-
cerns, to quietly leave me at one side.
This is not a positive manitestation of
disrespect so much as, what seems to
me, an undue recognition of the conserv-
atism of age. And a feature of the
matter which gives me concern is that
there is a passive acceptance of the sit-
uation on my part which argues senile
indolence.

These pessimistic and gloomy thoughts
are emphasized by my observation of
the increasing tendency for age to stand
aside for the progress of youth. Some
of my young friends may attribute this
standing aside to a willingness on our
part to early retire from the activities
of life; but this is not the case. The
majority of us would much prefer to
continue in the exercise of the duties to
which we have become accustomed, our-
selves reaping the harvests sown by our
earlier energies. But, of course, we
have greater regard for the wishes of
our thoughtless youngsters than for our
own selfish inclinations and, when they
somehow make us feel that our room is
better than our company, we step aside
with a sadness which we will not in-
trude upon their notice.

This increasing tendency to retire
age seems a special feature of the youth-
ful, full-blooded rush of our American
life. It is the boast of one of our Western
colleges—I will not advertise it by nam-
ing it—that there is not an old man in
the faculty. It used to be the boast of
our Eastern colleges—it is yet—that the
faculties included the most that could
be obtained of age and experience, and
in the Old World this conservatism of
age is still greater. The pert boast of
these Western younglings means that
they have succeeded in retiring their
fathers, looking to the books for experi-
ence and substituting the brilliant smart-
ness of youth for the conservative wis-
dom resulting from a lifetime of study.

But I should not have mentioned this
matter here had I not noticed the tend-
ency in the business circles, where my
interests are more immediately con-
cerned. It is a pleasant thing and does
honor to a parent when a boy chooses to
follow his footsteps in an occupation. I
welcome my sons into my business—it
is for them I have been working these
many years, but when they somehow
manage to make me feel that ‘‘ my day’’
is a transpired period, that methods

 

have changed, and that, in short, I have
really borne the burden of life’s active
duties about long enough, I take the |
hint, keep my sadness to myself, and
trust that I may be able to give a_ word |

of counsel now and then which may save
the business from the risks I can but
fear from the ‘‘improved methods. ’’

It is pleasant when sons choose to
follow the avocation of the father, and
it is especially pleasant, and profitable |

as well, when the sons choose to join in|
the business established by the father |
and continue it with his advice and ac- |
tive co-operation. Few merchants will |
choose a pleasanter evening of life than |
the position in such a business, assured |
from the risks of youthful recklessness |
by the experience of alifetime. When
father and sons can thus work together
the business is almost always greatly in- |
creased in profitable returns, while too |
often the boys who are early anxious to)
‘*go it alone’’ have to learn the lessons
taught by mercantile failure and bank-
ruptcy. And how frequently are the
last days of the father saddened, if not
spent in poverty, as the result of these |
experiences. |

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lto continue

23

Children, your interests and happi-
ness are your parents greatest Concern.
Their tender regard for you makes it
possible for you, unknowingly, thought-
lessly, to hurt their feelings sadly by the
aggressive tendencies of

youth. They are just as ambitious as

| you are, though more conservative and

in the manifestation, but their
regard for you will compel them to ac-

prudent

| cept the slight of being set aside with-

sign. Usually the change is

accelerated advance of

| age, and the days of their lives are much

shorter than if they had been permitted

longer in their active
duties.

DER ALTE.

>3oo

The gain of the United States Gov-
ernment through the failure to present
the fractional currency of war timesjand
immediately following, for redemption,
The loss from the
use of greenbacks and treasury certifi-

is over $15,000, 000.

}cates has been, probably, still greater.

So that it will be seen that the saving

| to the Government is an amount of some

significance; but it all represents in-
dividual losses.

 

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GOTHAM GOSSIP.

News from the Metropolis---Index of
the Market.
special Correspondence.

New York, Feb. 22—The_ holidays
come so fast nowadays that we hardly
know where we are at. It is certain that
business men are inclined to think that
we are overdoing the matter of holidays.
The average holiday is the signal for
the bicycle procession and nothing more.
There is mighty little patriotism in the
matter, yet Senator Hill is trying to
add another holiday—Jackson’s birth-
day.

The grocery trade is doing well. It
is better than any other, and those who
are making this their life calling have
no great reason for dissatisfaction. The
weather has been so terrifically cold be-
tween these two holidays that trade in
some lines, like the fruit business, has
been almost suspended. It was a God-
send, however, to the coal men, who
now seem to have things dowr. solid in
the way of a combination. The con-
sumer pays the bill.

The genial manager of the Minne-
apolis Northwest Trade, Will S. Jones,
was in town lately during a warm spell.
He had on a chamois lined overcoat
and other paraphernalia suited to the
region whence he comes. To say that
he was wilted would be putting it light
ly. He was utterly collapsed.

Sales of coffee have been rather small
and confined mostly to everyday wants.
For Rio No. 7 13%4¢ Is still quotable in
an invoice way. The amount afloat is
484,130 bags, against 436,696 bags at the
same time last year.

While the market for refined sugar
remains firm, the amount of business
done has been rather lighter than last
week. Prices have slightly advanced
on some of the softer grades, but gran-
ulated is unchanged. Foreign refined
has been in good demand and nearly
all offerings are quickly taken at full
quotations.

The tea market is dull, with sales
few, and at prices indicating a product
that may well be called trash. Ceylon
and India sorts are holding their own
very well and rapidly making friends.

Spices are in rather better request,
and,as the supply is under the control of
very few parties, prices are’ firmer and
the outlook is certainly for nothing
lower.

Rice is well held, with dealers perfect-
ly contented with the prospect. For
Japan rice there has been an elegant de-
mand, while the better sorts of domestic
are bringing full rates.

Not much is doing in molasses and
the market is practically unchanged.
The principal sales are of the better
sorts, for which full rates are main-
tained.

Syrups have sold at full rates and it
is becoming evident that the output of
really choice stock is not excessive.
Buyers have no hesitancy in_ paying
rates asked and seem anxious, in some
instances, to fill up.

Canned goods are sleeping, and so
deep is the sleep that it would seem to
be a case of suspended animation—al-
most death. But spring is almost here
and there will be an improvement—an
improvement, that is, in the business of
the makers of canned gocds machinery,
for on every hand we notice new can-
ning factories being erected and the lo-
cal papers are full of glowing accounts
of the money to be made. They reason
exactly as Colonel] Sellers did with his
celebrated eye water, and seem to ig-
nore the fact that there is another fac-
tory on the face of the earth. They all
figure out what excellent returns will
come to the farmer, who will get $1 for
12 cans of tomatoes, etc. In time Ex-
perience, who is said to have some-
thing of a reputation as a_ teacher, will
have established schools all over the
country, and his schoolhouses will be
canning factories.

As stated, the cold weather has been
a bad thing for the fruit trade, as it
was almost impossible to make any
shipments. Quotations have remained
about unchanged. Some orders for
fair quantities have come to hand from
out-of-town dealers and, aS a warmer

 

wave strikes us, we may see an im-
proved demand.

Butter is in fair request at unchanged
quotations for the best sorts.

Eggs are in abundant supply and the
best will bring scarcely over I4c.

Cheese is selling well, and holders
are pleased with the turn of affairs. For
small size full cream 10%%c is the rul-
ing quotation.

Dried, fruits are moving slowly. For
fancy apples 614@63;c remain the pre-
vailing figures. New dried peaches,
5@7c.

Fresh domestic fruits are moving
with some greater freedom than pre-
viously.

Some Florida strawberries have made
an appearance and sell from 40@5oc
per quart—mostly green.

In most of the large retail stores in
this town the employes are allowed to
buy goods for themselves during a_cer-
tain time in the day, usually before the
regular business begins. They may
then go around to the different depart-
ments and make their purchases at a
liberal discount. The proprietor of a
large retail store has recently discov-
ered that a floor walker has been sys-
tematically robbing him by means of
this privilege and investing the money
realized from the thefts in real estate.
His- scheme was a simple one. He
would purchase an inexpensive article
for himself, and when the opportunity
came would wrap up a valuable article
with it. As his purchases were known
his bundles didn’t excite suspicion.
It was only when the proprietor’s de-
tectives discovered that this floor walker
was investing in real estate that he
was watched and his thefts discovered.

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PROSPECTS GOOD, TRADE WAITS.

That the money market should be-
come much easier during the time of the
withdrawal of so large an amount for
the bond purchase is a matter for sur-
prise and gratulation. While = spec-
ulative markets have been dull, there
has been a decided improvement in
feeling, and the movement of American
stocks has been upward.

But in industries the outlook is not
so favorable and the prices of com-
modities have averaged lower than ever,
breaking the record. There is no de-
cided improvement in any important
branch of business.

The dullness and reaction in the iron
trade still continue. Bessemer pig and
gray-forge are slightly lower and _ struc-
tural beams and angles have been
further reduced, to secure business.
Some furnaces in the Pittsburg region
have been banked. The demand for
car irons continues fair in Chicago but
other lines are dull.

The price of wcol is kept up by a
strong foreign market, but cotton has
declined a little and textiles are very
unsatisfactory, cotton goods having de-
clined fully 2 per cent., making 9 per
cent. since January 1, and at the re-
duced prices there is slow demand.
Dress goods are more favorable but
men’s woolens are badly demoralized.

There has been some advance in
sugar and coffee. Leather continues
firm and lumber and coal are quoted
the same. Wheat had a marked decline
last week, from which there is a de-
cided advance again this week. Re-
ceipts have continued heavy, which
accounts for the decline. Corn de-
clined a cent and for the same _ reason.

The showing of both bank clearings
and failures is decidedly encouraging,
the first showing an increase of 31 per
cent over corresponding week last year
and the last 276, against 381 last week.

+o -

Dan. C. Steketee (P. Steketee &
Sons) is rejoicing over the advent of
a g pound boy—‘‘all wool and yard
wide,’’ the fond father asserts—who
put in an appearance last Saturday
evening.

 

AN UNLAWFUL CONSPIRACY.

Now that public sentiment and fear
of the law have resulted in the prohibi-
tion of the riders embodying the perni-
cious percentage value clause on insur-
ance policies covering mercantile and
manufactuirng property, it is in order
for the insuring public to turn its atten-
tion to another unlawful institution—the
Michigan Inspection Bureau—whose in-
spectors arbitrarily establish — rates
which are rigidly maintained by those
companies which compose, and con-
tribute to, the monopoly thus created
and sustained. No pretense is made
that the rates are uniform, nor is any
claim put forth that the rates thus estab-
lished are based on the actual condi-
tions of the risks. On the contrary, the
inspectors are not at all backward in
admitting that rates are established on
purely mercenary principles; that the
rule of stand and deliver prevails; that
large stockholders in insurance com-
panies and large corporations having
the placing of extensive lines of insur-
ance are permitted to dictate the rates
on their own risks, while people who do
not happen to own large blocks of stock
in companies contributing to the sup-
port of the Bureau, and those who have
only small amounts of insurance to place,
are compelled to submit to higher pro-
portionate rates on their property, in
order that the reduced receipts for in-
surance from the other classes may be
equalized.

With a reasonable and equitable ar-
rangement by which the companies
could meet on common ground and
maintain rates to a reasonable degree,
no fair-minded business man could find
fault, but a system which makes flesh
of one and fowl] of another ; which raises
a man’s rate in proportion as he im-
proves his risk ; which bases his rate on
other considerations than those which
properly affect that particular risk,
should meet the hearty disapproval of
the business public, and the Trades-
man will be very much surprised if the
insuring public does not place the seal
of disapproval on such a system at the
next session of the Legislature by the
enactment of a law which will prohibit
the creation and maintenance of con-
spiracies of this character.

Oe
The Decline of Unionism.

Stanley Kieindienst, the noted trades
unionist, thus deplores the decline of
unionism :

The leaders of trades unionism can
perceive no moral purpose in the labor
movement. To them the union exists
for the sole purpose of creating an aris-
tocracy of labor by limiting the number
of persons who shall engage in each
particular industry, without regard for
the welfare of those who are excluded.
Believing that the tyranny of organized
labor must prevail, they promise more
than they can fulfill; hence we find on
every hand great numbers of workmen
who have at some time been active
trades unionists who cannot now, by any
means, be induced to join a union.
Why? Because they feel that they have
been duped. They know instinctively
that all the efforts that unscrupulous
leaders are capable of exerting toward
the betterment of the material condition
of trades unionists must inevitably
prove futile. Such combinations of la-
bor cannot successfully cope with the
gigantic corporations and trusts which
virtually control the entire field of in-
dustrial operation.

The ip ae upon which we formerly
depended for success with such implicit
confidence—the strike and boycott—
have proven ineffectual. The boycott,
once a terror to the capitalists, has lost
its potency through too frequent use up-
on trivial occasions, and to attempt to
defeat organized capital, intrenched
behind its millions of gold, with the
strike is about as foolhardy an under-
taking as hunting for grizzly bears with
a popgun.

 

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Advertisements will be inserted under this
head for two cents a word the first insertion
and one cent a word for each subsequent in-
sertion. No advertisements taken for less than
25 cents. Advance payment.

BUSINESS CHANCES.

NOR SALE—ONE QUARTER INTEREST IN

Evaporator and Cider Mill; good power for
any kind of manufacture: good buildings and
2 60-100 acres of land; good feed mill; good clay
for brickyard. Address I. L. Lanford, Mason-
ville, Mich. "a | SOG

NOR SALE—CLEAN D

best business street
Established sixteen years.
Grand Rapids real estate.
Reason for selling, other business. Address
No. 968, care Michigan Tradesman. 968
ANTED—TO EXCHANGE GOOD GRAND
zapids estate for stocks of merchandise.
Address No. 969, care Michigan Tradesman. 969
SOR SALE —100 ACRES OF GOOD FARMING
land three-quarters of a mile from town of
1,200 inhabitants—20 acres ready for crops in the
spring and 40 acres more can be cleared very
easily; cedar posts already cut to fence entire
farm; good graveled road to town, Will sell on
payments or exchange for stock of merchandise.
Address Lock Box 16, Manton. Mich. 959
PNOR SALE—A FIRST-CLASS BAKERY WAG-
on fitted with every convenience. Address
Steamboat Bakery, Manistee, Mich. £6

 

UG STOCK ON
in Grand Rapids.
Terms, cash or
Rent, reasonable.

 

 

 

 

NOR SALE, CHEAP—OLD-ESTABLISHED
bakery ana ice cream business with good
trade. Sickness, cause of selling. Address H.,
eare Michigan Tradesman. 962
r\OR SALE—THE STOCK OF BOOTS, SHOES
and rubbers in the store of A. R. Morgan,
Marquette, Michigan. As the stock must be
closed out, it will be sold at a bargain. The
stock inventories abont $7,000. Apply to A. C,
McGraw « Co., Detroit. Mich. 960
NOR SALE—SMALL LIVERY STOCK IN
good town with good trade. Reason for
selling, other business. Address, No. 948, care
Michigan Tradesman. 948

 

NOR SALE--NICE STOCK OF DRUGS IN
k Northern Indiana; town ef 600 in splendid
farming country: no pharmacy law; price,
$1,500. T. P. Stiles, Millersburg, Ind. 934

NOR SALE—CLEAN GROCERY STOCK IN
eity of 3,000 inhabitants. Stock and fixtures

 

will inventory about $1,500. Best location. Ad-
dress No. 933. Care Michigan Tradesman. 933

 

NOR SALE—STAPLE AND FANCY GRO-
cery stock, i:-voicing about $1,400, located in
live Southern Michigan town of 1,200inhabitants;
good trade, nearly all cash. Reasons forselling,
other business. Address No. 907, care Michigan
Tradesman. 907
VOR SALE—A FIRST-CLASS HARDWARE
and implement business in thriving village
in good farming community. Address Brown &
Sehler, Grand Rapids, Mich. 881

MISCELLANEOUS.

JANTED—EXPERIENCED GROCERY-
man. State experience, salary expected

 

 

 

 

and give references. Address ‘“‘Star,’’ care

Michigan Tradesman. 966

\ JANTED—POSITION BY YO NG LADY
stenographer and typewriter. Moderate

salary. Address A., care Michigan Tradesman.
964

[7 ANTED—CHEAP STOCK GOODS FOR

cash. Name prices. Address No. 965, care
Michigan Tradesman. / a 965

ANTED TO CORRESPOND WITH SHIP-

pers of butter and eggs and other season-

able produce. R. Hirt, 36 Market street, Detroit.
951

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_ SALE—FORTY FEE
partition with crackle glass and sliding
door, used only a few months. Will sell cheap.
Tradesman Company, New Blodgett Building,
Grand Rapids. 953
AY ANTED—SITUATION AS REGISTERED
assistant pharmacist, first-class references.
Address No. 940, care Michigan Tradesman. 940
AN EXPERI-
enced registered pharmacist familiar with
all details of retail drug business. Will accept
any kind of position. Address No. 913, care
Michigan Tradesman. 913
JANTED—SEVERAL MICHIGAN’ CEN-
tral mileage books Address, stating
price, Vindex, care Michigan Tradesman. 869
ANTED—BUTTER, EGGS, POULTRY, PO-
tatoes, onions, apples, cabbages, ete. Cor-
respondence solicited. Watkins & Axe, 84-86
South Division street, Grand Rapids. 673
J ANTED—EVERY DRUGGIST JUST COM-
mencing 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. Tradesman Com-
pany. Grand Ranids.

 

 

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Can make yours mine, if em-
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Goods man and up-to-date ad-
vertiser. Never slop over if you
have room in your concern for
another head. I will help it or
money refunded. Address

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