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CONGRESSIONAL DEBATING.

During the present session of Con-
gress there seems to have been an_ un-
usually full surrender of all questions to
unlimited debate. Whether it is that
there is more in the proposed legisla-
tion to give opportunity for oratorical
effort, or whether there is an unusual
liberality in giving opportunity for the
display of ambitious talent, the fact
remains that there is a vast quantity of
apparently idle and useless talking.

Some of the matters presented have
certainly given unusual opportunity for
jingo and buncomb, as well as patriotic
effort. The threatened Venezuelan com-
plications and our attitude toward Cuba
have been especially prolific of op-
portunity for all three kinds of oratory.
Indeed, in the Cuban matter the oppor-
tunity seems infinite.

Those who have patiently followed
the speech- making through the tedious
weeks have been impressed with the lit-
tle that has been said that was new. They
have wondered, as they have read the
axiomatic utterances which everybody
knows—the reiteration of platitudes and
the threshing over of old straw—-what
can be the reason for the delay of im-
portant legislation and the waste of pub-
lic time in such vocal pyrotechnics.

The explanation is to be sought in
the need of political prestige of the in-
dividual members of Congress. As these
debates are followed as a whole, the ob-
server is astonished at their resem-
blance to the Pharisee’s prayer, in that
they are full of vain repetitions; but
there are very few who thus follow
them. Each individual speech is made
for the admiration of the limited circle
of the constituents of each individual
member. Now, there are a good many
members in Congress, and it will be
readily seen that it takes a good deal of
talk to go around. There is a tacit un-
derstanding among the old members
and professional politicians that all are
entitled to an opportunity to play to
the gallery of their own constituencies.
But there are some members who do
not seem to understand this situation.
Occasionally, after a question has been
discussed to satiety, such an one will
make an honest effort to get action. But
such efforts are usually abortive—the
‘*member from Maine’’ or elsewhere
will interpose his objection and urge
that there must not be undue haste on
such important questions. He does this
to carry out the arrangement that cer-
tain ones shall have their opportunity
on the question. It doesn’t signify that
more than enough has already been said
—the additional speeches will be new
to the audience for which intended.

Occasionally, an inexperienced mem-
ber, urged by an unseared conscience,
will protest against this condition of

things. A decided sensation was
caused, a few weeks ago, by sucha
protest. But the protester was quickly

‘‘sat down upon, and he resigned
himself to the inevitable.

This element of obstruction in Con-
gressional work is not of recent origin.
It has long been an obstacle to action.
It is becoming more noticeable, how-
ever, for the reason, probably, that it is

 

increasing. In the present Congress _ it
has assumed such proportions that it is
becoming a very serious matter, as it
bids fair to prevent the consummation
of any considerable legislative work.

WHAT’S TO HINDER?

There is nothing which will touch the
average American in these United
States of America ‘‘down to the quick’’
so surely as to imply in his presence
that, as a whole, the Nation has but lit-
tle enterprise. They, the citizens of
the Great Republic, delight to talk of
‘‘the greatest country on earth;’’ they
like to ‘‘expatiate’’ on the biggest
waterfall, the largest lakes, the highest
mountains, and, with an overpowering
pride, they point to ‘‘the page of his-
tory, whose pen is all aglow, as it writes
what deeds were done by the fathers of
the greatest country on earth!’’ And
yet this nationful of enterprise has, for
the last two or three years, been won-
dering ‘‘how it is going to get along
with a large and increasing family on
its hands, if business doesn’t pick up
pretty soon, ’’ while business stands twirl-
ing its thumbs because Europe finds
fault with its meats and refuses to eat
its stuffed cheese, or, what
quarrels with England for
foraging for gold mines.

is worse,
eternally

What’s to hinder—and the question is
asked in all this
American enterprise from finding an
outlet in other countries, if it is idle
at home? Why not display a little of
the boasted Yankee energy by striking
out for itself in some El Dorado outside
of the home neighborhood? The
Promised Land is not too far off, in
these days of steam and lightning, and
the rewards would be great.

Is it gold and silver that American
enterprise is after? Six hundred and
fifty-three million dollars’ worth of gold
and silver has been taken out of this
modern El Dorado since the middle of
the sixteenth century! From 1801 to
1882, $122,000,000 worth of gold was
taken from one section alone, a section
where one may be said to ‘‘walk on
gold,’’ and where the gold veins are still
worked by the aborigines with the rudest
implements !

Is it coal mining which is the heart’s

seriousness—some of

desire? How wiil a coal mine with an
area equal to the State of Alabama
answer, with coal veins twenty feet

thick and sixty miles long?

Is marble wanted? Here are quarries
covering sixty square miles, from three
to forty feet thick, equal in texture and
ingredients to the celebrated statuary
and bandillio marbles of Carrara, which
an expert pronounces ‘‘the finest I have
ever seen in any quarry,’’ and which are
located only one mile from the sea.

Perhaps nitrate of soda, the demand for
which is increasing every year, is an
attraction. Asa_ possibility, how will
this do? The visible supply of these
nitrate deposits is 7,372,800,000 tons
of raw caliche, which is worth, to-day,
$37,000,000,000 gross in New York.
The net profit on the visible supply
would be $30,000, 000, 000—-an amount al-
most large enough to attract the atten-
tion of the Standard Oil Company.

 

Number 655

Where is this country, this veritable
EK] Dorado? The United States of Colom-

bia, South America; and the ques-
tion comes as a fitting close to this
article: Why isn’t the Yankee at work

there now—what’s to hinder?
GREATER PHILADELPHIA.

The again been at
work, and the old joke of a dead _ Phil-
adelphia is shattered beyond all recog-
nition. The city of William Penn has
been resting—napping, if you please,
like the Pennsylvania Dutch farmer—in
her chair; and, now that nap and _ rest
are over, the thrifty old town on the
Delaware is ‘‘arousing herself like a
strong man from sleep and shaking her
invincible locks.’’ Tru®& she may have
been asleep; but she has been dreaming
and, with an earnestness and an energy
becoming to her years, has determined
to realize the dream that has blessed
her slumber, and a Greater Philadelphia
is to be the result.

iconoclast has

It is not to be wondered at that, in
accomplishing this work, she will cling
to her old traditions. There wili be no
fencing in of the prairie with a ‘‘See
how big I be!’’ when the last rail is
laid; neither will there be a
‘*taking in’’ of the surrounding towns,
with an exultant, Now, then!’” but,
on the old theory of going slowly and
making the most of every foot of ground
in her progress, she is working ner way
towards the leading place in the line of
cities. An inland city, like Sterne’s
starling she has been shouting for years,
‘*[ want to get out!’’ and getting out
is exactly what Philadelphia has deter-
mined to do. <A short cut to the sea is
the means of accomplishing this—not,
as most suppose, New Jersey.
Not there lies the line of least
ance and greatest usefulness. That has
been found to be up tbe Delaware
twenty-six miles to the neighborhood of
Bordentown and on to the head of Rar
itan Bay. The route of this proposed
waterway is something over thirty-two
miles, from the Delaware to Raritan
Bay, and the cost, exclusive of the right
of way-—not heavy—is estimated at $12, -
500,000, an amount which covers the
extension of the ship canal north to the
Hudson.

Aside from the saving of $3,000,000
yearly to New York in her coal bill,
Philadelphia's wish for quick communi-
cation with the sea _ will be gratiged.
No longer will she be forced to zigzag
her way to the ocean. The time be-
tween the city and Europe will be
shortened. Much of the foreign com-
merce of Philadelphia, now from the
north, will be in direct line of travel for
ocean vessels bound to and from the
great inland port. The swamps and low
lands through which the canal will pass
will be drained and fitted for agricul-
tural and manufacturing purposes, and,
so heralded, the Quaker City will make
her triumphal march to the sea. Once
that march is made—and long before,
if signs are worth anything—there will
be a Greater Philadelphia, well worthy
of the name, and a city which will be
to Greater New York what that city now
is to Brooklyn.

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GRAND RAPIDS IN 1850.
CHAPTER XI.
Written for the TRADESMAN.

Any sketch of the legal lights of the
Grand Rapids bar in 1850 would be
incomplete unless prefaced with a pen
picture of the old courthouse :

At the west end of the old Bridge
street bridge stood a square one-story
wooden building, utterly destitute of
outside architectural ornamentation—not
even a tower or a bell. This was the
courthouse. Its general appearance was
that of an overgrown country school-
house. This uncouth building occupy-
ing this out-of-the-way location was the
result of a conflict between the super-
visors of the townships divided by the
river and the extensive real estate in-
terests on either side. None of the
county offices were located on the West
Sideand neither judge nor lawyers had
residences there. There was nothing to
shelter it from the burning sun or the
It stood on the open
The inside

winter blast.
plain, solitary and alone.
arrangements were more in keeping with
its legitimate uses. It stood end to the
street, its single door opening into a
vestibule at the left hand corner. To
the right, entering the auditorium from
the vestibule, were the judge's desk and
rostrum, at the rear of which a door
opened into a small private room. Still
farther to the right was the jurors’ con-
sulting room, which opened near their
seats and the prisoner’s dock. The
clerk’s desk and the witness stand were
on the rostrum. A long plain table in
front of the court accommodated the
lawyers. Imagine a courthouse situated
at least a half mile from the places
where the county and probate court
records were kept. You can then take
in the difficulties in the way of rapid
dispatch of legal business.

There were many notable cases tried
in this old-time courthouse, by some of
the most distinguished lawyers of that
early day. My memory reverts to one
of special local interest. It was the trial
and conviction of a prominent citizen
of Grand Rapids for the crime of arson,
the burning of the extensive tannery
owned by C. W. Taylor, at Coldbrook.
Hon. John Van Arman, formerly of
Michigan, then of Chicago, assisted the
prosecution as counsel for the people.
He was considered the best criminal
lawyer in the West, and was remarkable
for his close reasoning powers and im-
pulsive eloquence. Hon. Thomas B.
Church, of whom I shall say more here-
after, appeared for the respondent.
Associated with him as counsel came
that silver-tongued, persuasive orator,
Hon. Charles E. Stuart, of Kalamazoo.
It was a ‘‘battle royal,’’ lasting two
weeks, resulting in the sentence of the
respondent to fifteen years’ hard labor
in the State Prison at Jackson.

The Kent county bar, in 1850, was
only equaled by Detroit, in point of
numbers and legal talent.

George Martin was Circuit Judge.
His rulings were impartial, his courtesy
was uniform and dignified. That he com-
bined the elements necessary to a use-
ful judicial career was proven later,
when he was elected one of the Justices
of the Supreme Court and afterwards
its Chief Justice.

The late Judge Solomon L. Withey,
of the United States Court, was raised
in Kent county. Meeting in his youth
many formidable obstacles to success,
he surmounted them all and fought his
way, step by step, to distinction and
honor. Even his physical disabilities,
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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

bar his progress. He was studious and
painstaking, and was conscientious in
the discharge of all the duties incident
to his profession. Yet he found time
to store his mind with a fund of litera-
ture that lent a charm to his private
character. In the capacity of husband,
father or friend he was the same Chris-
tian gentleman. His appointment as
the first to occupy the bench of the
United States District Court for the
Western District of Michigan was a de-
served tribute to his judicial qualifica-
tions and moral worth. There are many
residents of Grand Rapids who will
verify all I have written and drop a tear
to his memory.

The late Judge John T. Holmes, who
was one of my traveling companions by
stage on my first visit to Grand Rapids,
comes next in my list. Many of the
Tradesman’s readers will recall his jolly
face and rotund form. His laugh was
contagious, his jokes were perpetual.
He, too, was made of the stuff from
which successtul pioneers are made. As
a favored friend the writer has listened
to his narration of the struggles through
which he passed in acquiring an edu-
cation to fit him for his legal studies.
With the goal of his ambition reached—
admission to practice—came the total
stagnation of business that followed the
wild-cat bubble that burst over Michi-
gan. Sickness, which proved long con-
tinued, invaded his home; yet through
all he exhibited a character for courage
and fortitude seldom met. Through all
this he was comforted and sustained by
a patient Christian wife, one of the
noblest of her kind. All these trials
past and difficulties surmounted,
years of successful practice tollowed,
which were rounded out by an_honor-
able career on the bench of the Record-
er’s Court of new Grand Rapids.

Edward E. Sargeant was a native ol
New England, born and bred in an at-
mosphere of profound scholarship. He
was cordial and polished in manner and
of a quiet and happy disposition. The
able partner of Mr. S. L. Withey, his
specialty was the thorough preparation
of all cases that came to the office, also
the general details of office work. His
was a frail constitution, with a tendency
to a cancerous affection of the lungs or
bronchial tubes, from which he died
early. Brave endurance of suffering had
developed in him a most lovable char-
acter. The writer enjoyed the pleasure
of being his nearest neighbor, and the
example of his resigned yet cheerful
waiting for the end of his sufferings
was one to be long remembered. His
eyes were closed in death at the home
of his faithful friend, Mr. Ezra T. Nel-
son, of your City.

Hon. E. S. Eggleston was also a
partner of Judge Withey for a time, but
finally drifted into politics and was ap-
pointed to a foreign consulate, a mis-
fortune that too often befalls rising
young men in the legal profession. He
never worked up a very lucrative prac-
tice.

Jobn Ball was the pioneer of the pro-
fession and the oldest in years; yet he
lived to see nearly all his brothers of
the old Kent county bar pass away. His
was entirely an office business. Con-
veyancing, money loaning and real es-
tate transfers occupied his whole time.
His was an eccentric character. Plain-
spoken, honest opinions came natural to
him and were often expressed in very
forcible English.

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gated cases. He was a safe counselor
and adviser. His financial success was
the reward of persistent industry in his
profession.

Last, though not least, in the list
comes the name of Hon. Thomas B.
Church. He was a giant intellectually,
as well as physically. His practice was
principally arguing cases from briefs
prepared by others. It was said that
he had a dislike for the minute details
necessary in the preparation of impor-
tant cases, but, the brief laid before
him, he grasped the situation witha
masterful mind. His reasoning and
eloquence were of the magnetic kind
that carried conviction to the mind of
the average juryman. Outside of his
professional life he was at home in all
the walks ot literature and science. The
political history of his own and_ other
countries was at his tongue’s end. By
nature a statesman of comprehensive
views, had his early ambitions been
realized, he would have been a_ power
in the councils of the Nation. His race
for congressional honors was a race
between Brains and Beef. But Beef
had the more money and, as a conse-
quence, won the more votes. The con-
test between the two candidates so far
as fitness was concerned was a_ roaring
farce. Mr. Church was the last of his
brothers of the Kent county bar of 1850
to pass away.

W. S. H. WELTON.

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THE BACK OFFICE.

The Rev. Dr. Parkhurst = says
that ‘‘one of the most expensive and
disastrous mistakes a young man _ ever
makes is in supposing that a decision,
a resolution, contains in itself the
means of working its own execution,
and that something besides power will
suffice to overcome power.’’

It is doubtful if the young man ever
supposes any such thing. He does, in-
deed, make decisions; too frequently—
much to be regretted—he binds them
with an oath; he makes the most sol-
emn resolutions, with his spirit, for the
time being, in the coarsest of sackcloth
and his penitential head in ashes; but
he knows—none better than he—that
these are only ‘‘shows of grief,’’ re-
pentance and, if need be, humiliation.
It is barely possible that he may hope,
in the depths of his penitence, that the
sorrow may atone, at least a little, for
what he has done; but, beyond that, it
is safe to conclude he never goes.

Year after year the wheels of time
slowly but surely turn around and just
so surely do they bring the day for
swearing off and resolving to lead a bet-
ter life. Do the few stainless days that
follow, hedged as they are by his own
decisions and resolutions, teach the
young man that the resolutions alone can
accomplish the work he laid out for
himself that first day of the year? Per-
sonal experience answers with a No,
be the questioner young or old.

Not many moons ago a young fellow
was filling the Back Office with the
fumes of the detested cigarette. Chance
and circumstance had established a cer-
tain degree of intimacy between them,
so that the elder man was sure that he
was not ‘‘rushing in where angels fear
to tread,’’ and when the right time came,
the question, ‘‘Why not make up your
mind to stop this dance with death?’’
respectfully asked, was as_ respectfully
answered: ‘‘The making up my mind
is easy enough, but it is the keeping it
made up that bothers me;’’ and the
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the young men of this day and gener-
ation. Other things were said in the
good-natured discussion which followed,
the matter being finally dropped with
this straightforward statement: ‘‘l
know that every word you say about the
habit is true; and, one of these days,
I'm) just going to stop it I haven't
made up my mind exactly when it will
be, because I haven’t made up my
mind that I really want to stop it. It’s
going to be hard work, and when I feel
equal to it I shall start in; but all the
good resolutions this side of tophet are
good for nothing when a fellow grap-
ples with a bad habit. It will be nip
and tuck—I can tell you that; but I can
recall enough of my Sunday School
training to be reminded that Jacob
wrestled with the angel and threw him,
and if he came out ahead with the an-
gel, I’m convinced that I can down this
devil. Never you fear for me.’’ Not
much dependence there upon the
strength of a resolution.

That young man of bibulous tendency,
too lazy to say his prayers, yet desirous
of going through his devotions with a
show of proper spirit, who wrote out his
prayers and pinned them to the wall
above his head and, on those occasions
when his latchkey was won’t to play a
hide and seek game with the keyhole,
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To Grocers in Grand Rapids and dealers generally:
Why pay enormous prices for “Entire wheat”
flour from the Eastern States when you can
buy it from a Michigan mill, equally good, at
a much less price? We have special machin-
ery for the purpose and would like to confer
with you on the subject.

WM. CALLAM & SON,

215-217 N. Franklin street,
Saginaw, E. S., Mich.

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FISHING OUTFIT

We have a full line of

Mackintoshes, Wading
Pants and Boots and
Rubber Goods of all kinds.

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We would also remind you that the dealer
who places his orders early for his fall
stock of Rubber Boots and Shoes, Feit
Boots and Sox, will have them when the
wearer wants them. We _ guarantee
prices. Ask for price list.

STUDLEY & BARCLAY,

4 Monroe St. Grand Rapids.

 

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Movements of Merchants

 

 

 

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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

Belding—S. E. Mikesell and Nevin
Lloyd have purchased of E. R. Spencer
the Cusser & Spencer grocery stock,
the firm name of Mikesell &
will continue the business.

hardware stock of B.

i yd
Fenwick—The
oree & Son
gnee, H. H. Howe, to M. A. De-
Vickeryville, who will con-
1e the business at the same location.
has
East

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tinu
Elmira—Jacob L. Weisman,
been conducting a ——— of

who
his

Jordan dry goods and shoe store here
under the style of Chas. Pizer & Co.,
has closed out the business here and re-
moved the stock to East Jordan.
Hesperia—The Barnhart Mercantile
|Co. has removed its general stock to
White Cloud, where its main store is

becke i¢ . Price & < succeed
Price Bros. in general trade.

Paris—Simon Fi sold his
general stock to Durkee & Rose

Lans Chas. A. Pray has sold his
grocery business to Henry Hunt

Lyons—F. E. Marcy has purchased |
the meat business of Vance & Barrons.

Haslett—Aaro Smith, grocer, has |
removed from Williamston to this place.

Battle Creek—W. C. Henry has pur- |
chased the grocery business of Cole
& Co

Iron Mountain—Swanson Bros., mer-
chant tailors, have removed to Glad-
stone.

Rockwood—Milliman & Mhller suc-
ceed Wm. Milliman, Jr., in general
trade.

Mt. Morris—J. D. Bentley has pur-
chased -the grocery business of H. E. |
Lamb.

Eden—Fay & Shaw, ge dealers,
have dissolved, Rolland A. Fay suc-

ceeding.

    

 

 

located. Ward Barnhard has leased the
store thus vacated and will occupy,same
with a general stock.

Burnip’s Corners—J. M. Gordon has
sold his stock of millinery te Jessie
Chamberlain, of Salem, who has re-
moved the stock to that place. Mr.
Gordon will continue his furniture and
indertaking business the same as_here-
totore
& Traverse City: -Hastings & Bugbee,
druggists, have dissolved eee
C. A. Bugbee having purchased the in-
terest of his partner, R. i Bese
who resides a Sparta. Mr. Bugbee
|will hereafter conduct the business in

Eaton Rapids—The Star Dry Goods
Co., incorporated, succeeds Jonas
Manche.

Monroe—Chas. | _ Meyer has pur-|
chased the grocery business of gGeo. |
Rambler

South Boardman—Albert Price suc-
ceeds Dagle & Price in the agricultural
implement business

Grand Ledge—Shane & Taber suc-
ceed DD. DD. Shar in the jewelry and | Cc
wal! paper business

Big Rapids—R. Peterson continues
the grocery business formerly conducted
by R_ Peterson & Co.

Hart—M. Kelley & Co. succeed Mar- |
tin Kelley in the clothing and men’s
furnishing goods cae

Reed City—C. D. Wood has com-
pleted arran for embarking in

his own name.

Bay City—Emma Rossman has ut-
tered two chattel mortgages on her
clothing stock. The first is to her son,
Harry L. Rossman, as trustee for cred-
itors whose claims amount to $2,212.92.
The second is in favor of Rosenburg
Bros. & Aronson, of Rochester, N.
[., Or $5,009.

Manufacturing Matters.
Saginaw—D. A. McGrath succeeds
the Metallic Curtain Pull Co. at this
place.

Bath—W. S. Hall, blacksmith and
wagonmaker, has sold out to Albert E.
Edwards.

Rogers—I. & M. Bertram succeed
|'Wilhelmina (Mrs. F.) Bertram in
seneral trade and the sawmill business.

Evart—E. C. Cannon has leased the
creamery for the coming season. He

the bakery business here.

Milan—Gauntlett Bros., dealers in ag- |
ricultural ouonaaemy have dissolved.
The business will be continued by Jos.
Gauntlett.

Fennville—_W. M. Bale & Co., gro-
cers and crockery dealers, have dissolved
partnership and are succeeded by Cad-
well & Tucker.

De “roit—_Lewis Mark, & Co., com-

ission produce dealers, have dis-

  

expects to commence business May 11.

Jackson—The Wayne Manufacturing
Co. is succeeded by W. J. Welling &
Son in the hammock manufacturing

| business.

Bailey—LaRue & Britton are putting

|in a line of machinery for the manufac-

| ture

solved. The business will be continued
by E. H. Hovey.

Tekonsha—] -W. Randall, dry goods
dealer at this place and also at Sher- |
wood, has sold his stock at the latter
place to Arthur W. Morris.

Palo—H. D. Pew, druggist and gro-

H. Mandeville,
goods and boot and shoe de -aler, have

of

cer, and C:
dry
merged their = ness under the style
Pew & Mand lev!
Chebovgan—F ‘i So. Brest
his interest in the grocery = of E.
J. James & Co. to E. J. James and taken
the management of the dry sda busi-

has sold

mess of FE. O. Penny.

Big Rapids—Al. E. Wells, tormerly
=ngaged in the hardware business, has
purchased the H. Goldstein clothing

stock and will continue the business
the same location.

Cadillac—The John
and undertaking
chased by ©. C.
Spafford, who will
at the same location.

Deerfield—E. H. Burnham has uttered
chattel mortgages on his general stock
to the amount of $6,000. Ira Z. Mason,
of the firm of Clark, Mason & Co.,
Adrian, is named as trustee.

at

irniture
has been pur-
Durham and H. B.
continue the business

Turner fu

stock

clothier and |

| Street,

fe

of baskets and will be in running
order in a short time.
-D. R. Salisbury,
years a retailer of shoes on Washington
has begun the manufacture of
bicycle shoes and other novelites in the
shoe line in the rooms over his store.
Hopkins--Fremont D.
a half interest in his cheese factory to
Leggett and the business will
hereafter be conducted under the style
of Miller & Leggett. The factory will
begin making cheese April 15. Cream-
ery machinery was put in last fall and

Owosso for fifteen

Miller has sold

ibutter has been manufactured daily
| since January I.

Muskegon---Frank Alberts & Co. will
start their mill at North Muskegon
about April 20 for the season’s run.
30th =the sawmill and shinglemi])
will be in operation and a full force,

engaged, will be employed.

\

a portion of which has been already

Nearly all
is from up the River and

the timber

| will be cut for other parties.

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'of which $3,000 is paid in.
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Detroit—The Detroit Iron
Works has been organized for the pur-
pose of manufacturing and dealing in
iron and wire goods, elevators, machin-
The capital stock is $10,000,
The in-
are Thomas L. Dates, 55
Meginnity, 185; El-
Robert Megin-

ery, etc.
corporators
shares; Grace B.
bridge F. Bacon,
nity, 5 shares.
Rice ake City Bank of Hastings
has purchased the whip factory (ex-
clusive of building) for a reported con-
sideration of $3,000. The Walters
patent, for which the factory paid $15,-
ooo, was sold for The Bank has
leased the building, grounds and ma-
chinery for a period of four months and
has started up for the purpose of work-
ing up the stock on hand.
Cheboygan—O. M. Clark, of the firm
of Clark, Farnham & Co., lumbermen
and sawmill operators at Ewen, has
purchased L. P. Swift's interest in
Switt Bros.’ saw mill, and the firm will
be known as Swift & Clark. H. W.
Swift and Mr. Clark were former part-

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$24.

ners in the lumber business at Big
Rapids. Mr. Clark is a thorough lum-
berman, having had fifteen years’ ex-

perience in the business. The firm of
Swift Bros. will continue, the firm hav-
other business interests here and
and successful operations

ing
also extensive
in California.
The Geneon, y Macht.
Sugar—Refiners report that the de-
mand ruled only fair up to Friday, when
there was quite a spurt, causing the in-

dependent refiners again to withdraw
from the market. They are heavily
oversold, although the trust refiners are

shipping all grades fairly promptly.
The market closed very strong and sen-
sitive Saturday and the general im-
pression prevailed that another advance
was close at hand. Monday the market
opened strong and Tuesday morningthe
expected advance was made, all grades
being marked up a sixpence.
Provisions—The course of the market
has been almost steadily downward dur-
ing the past week and a new record has
been made about every twenty-four
hours concerning ‘‘the lowest prices
ever known.’’ The holdings of lard in
Chicago had been estimated at about
126,000 tierces, but the actual number
of tierces is 130,009, which is a gain of
fully 32,000 tierces for the month. The

stocks of ribs are 28,000,000 pounds,
or an increase of 8,000,000 pounds,
while of new pork 129,500 barrels are

held, as against 122,000 barrels in the

previous month. It is this certainty of
large stocks against the uncertainty of
the future of the export trade, and_ its

present dull condition that causes the
pressure which results in low figures.
Spasmodic reactions have been followed
by increasing weakness. It is almost
impossible to get the countrymen into
speculative deals, and packers for the
most part have the market to them-
selves. The disparity between the
of hogs and the products con-
tinues, the former holding altogether too
high for profits to be turned on pack-
ing. The general distribution of sup-
plies to home consumers is regarded as
full at the low figures, but it is insuffi-
cient materially to help the position.
Prunes—While not quotably lower,
there is certainly an easier feeling on
prunes, due to the falling off in the, de-
mand, presumebly owing to the ap-
proach of warm weather. Sellers do
not make much of a show of confidence
and concessions would probably be
made on quoted prices. On the coast

prices

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an easier feeling is also reported, and
this may explain the lack of confidence
shown by holders of stock generally.
Canned Goods—No general improve-
ment to the demand for canned goods
has manifested itself during the period
under review, the inquiry for nearly
everything on the list, being moderate
and not of seasonably strong propor-
tions. In futures there is comparatively
little doing, and the outlook does not fa-
vor an eaily revival of interest on the
part of bwyers, who are adhering strict-
ly to their conservative policy and
purchasing almost entirely to meet their
actual wants. At a price which means

material concessions from prevailing
quotations, there are buyers ready to

pick up any desirable lots offered, but
sellers, as a rule, do not seem inc lined
to go below the already low prices that

prevail. About the only change of im-
portance that has occurred in values

during the week is a decline in canned
corned beef, which has been marked
down from 5c on 1 pound tins to 25c¢ on
14 pound tins. The decline is due to
the intense competition on the part of
packers. i

Tea—The demand has shown just a
shade improvement this week. It is,
however, not all pronounced, but just
sufficient to say that there is an im-
provement, and this is due entirely to
an increase in the orders from the coun-
try trade. Taken as a whole, the de-
mand is disappointing, as there is no
sign yet of a speculative feeling in the
article.

Lemons—During the period under
review the demand for lemons has been
exceedingly good, and prices, while not
higher, are somewhat stiffer. The low
prices have brought about some specu-
lative inquiry, and buyers are storing
goods, feeling that at present rates they
cannot lose.

Fish—-The demand for all kinds of
fish has been very quiet during the
period under review, and the market
has a downward tendency. The stocks
of mackerel are moderate. Codfish is

quiet and weak, although not quotably
changed. Herring is dull.
Currants—The market in an un-
settled condition, neither buyers nor sell-
ers being anxious to do business until
the duty question is settled. The de-
of the United States Court was
adverse to the importers,as was reported
last week, but just what action the lo-
cal customs authorities will take isa
question, and, as far as known, no in-
structions have come from Washington
regarding the stock on the Pocasset.
Stocks of barrels are concentrated.
Bananas—A marked improvement has
been shown in the demand for bananas
this week; while the local trade on
ripe fruit has been dull, orders for ship-

is

cision

ping stock have come in freely from
out of town, and prices have shown
quite an advance. The quality of the

fruit coming shows

Rice-—-There
mand,
oped,

improvement.
is a good,
but no new features

and orders are

steady de-
have devel-
coming in freely.
Japan varieties are in strong. demand.
‘Trade at New Orleans is quiet.

Poe -
Dollars for Cents.

Send 1o cents in stamps to Charles P.
Hill, Manistique, Mich., and get his
book on stock-keeping and you will
learn how to make money in your busi-

ness, where you now lose it.
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Gillies for New York Teas that are Teas
at nee that are een Visner.
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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

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Grand Rapids Gossip

H. Ziegler, meat dealer at 420 West

Bridge street, has discontinued busi-
ness.
Lily i ichelsdorfer succeeds Mrs. E.

Bieneman in the millinery business

126 Canal stre et.

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Miss Moxy Bake r has aocucd a mil-
linery store at Fowler. The stock was
furnished by Corl, Knott & Co.

Macham Sisters have opened a milli-
nery store at Lagrange, Ind. The stock
was furnished by Corl, Knott & Co.

Trask & Lawrence have embarked

the millinery business at Charlotte.
Corl, Knott & Co. furnished the stock.

 

Jacob J. Berg has embarked in the
grocery business at 281 Alpine avenue.
The Worden Grocer Co. furnished the
stock.

R. Johnson will shortly open a gro-
cery store at Alaska. The Olney & Jud-
son Grocer Co. has the order for the
stock.

 

The name of the Union Foundry Co.,
located at 34 and 38 Mill street, has
been changed to the Grand Rapids
Foundry Co.

 

Miss Cora Cook, late of Traverse

City, has opened a millinery store at
Lyons. The stock was furnished by
Corl, Knott & Co.

Henry Stadt has sold his stock of gro-
ceries at 281 Alpine avenue to Ritzema
Bros., who will remove it to their
at 86 West Leonard street.

store

J. N. Loucks has re-engaged in the
grocery business at Macatawa Park for
the season. The Lemon & Wheeler Com-
pany furnished the stock.

John Kloote has opened a grocery
store at the corner of Fulton and Dia-
mond on The stock was furnished
by the I. M. Cl: sie Cee Co,

A. A. Conklin, grocer at ‘ae ee:
has added lines of dry goods and milli-
nery. The Root & McBride Co. fur-
nished the former and Cori, Knott &
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Abram Black, Jr., and Burt Hilliard
have formed a copartnership under the
style of Black & Hilliard and opened a
grocery store at Holt. The I. M. Clark
Grocery Co. furnished ~ stock.

The article published in a last week’s
paper relative to the change made by
Watkins & Axe, commission and_ prod-
uce dealers at 80 South Division street,
was incorrect. It should have read
that W. A. Walters has been admitted to
partnership and that the business will

be continued under the style of Wat-
kins, Axe & Co.
At the ae meeting cal the Grand

Rapids Bark and Lumber Co., the cap-
ital stock was increased from $25,000 to

$40,000. The old directors were re-
elected and the former officers were se-
lected to serve the corporation for the

ensuing year: President, W. A.
Vice-President, C. F.
tary and Treasurer, Chas. A. Phelps.
In addition to its bark business, the
company has handled during the past
year, 3,000,000 feet of hardwood, the
same amount of hemlock and 125,000
hard and soft wood ties. The corpora-
tion has recently acquired 2,000 acres of
timber land near Thompsonville, which
it will lumber the coming season.

Phelps ;
Young ; Secre-

 

A. D. Plumb has removed to this
city from Rockford and taken the man-
agement of the Wolverine Spice Co.,
having purchased the stock held for
many years by Chas. H. Phillips, who
has retired from the position otf Presi-
dent and Manager of the corporation.
The present officers as_ follows:
President, A. D. Vice-Presi-

are
Plumb ;

dent, Henry D. Plumb; Secretary and
Treasurer, Will EK. Gill.
The Reeder Bros. Shoe Co., which

was organized as a stock company
about three years ago, will be dissolved
in the course of a few weeks, all of the
stockholders retiring with the excep-
tion of Geo. H..  J. PL and Milton
Reeder, who will continue business at
the same location as a copartnership
under a firm name to be hereafter de-
cided upon. In the meantime the leath-
er goods will be closed out as rapidly as
possible, the new firm carrying lines of
rubber goods exclusively. Whether the
new firm will handle rubber clothing as
well as rubber footwear will be decided
upon later.

The local manager of the Bell tele-
phone office: announces a reduction of
50 per cent. in rates, business phones
having dropped from $48 to $24 per
year and residence phones from $36 to
$18 per year. Heretofore the Bell peo-
ple have insisted that they could not
afford to do business for less than the old
schedule of $50 and $40 per year; but it
is now intimated that, if the present re-
duction does not avail, the price will
be made $1o flat, and that, if this does
not bring the people to time, free tele-
phone service will be given. This is in
line with the policy pursued by the
Bell institution in other cities, but in
only one instance—so far as the Trades-
information goes—has_ the Bell
been able to. stifle competition, when
the price of Bell phones was put up to
a higher rental than ever betore. The
competing company here is composed
of 300 Grand Rapids citizens, and the
people of Grand Rapids will stand by
their home company, even though they
are offered Bell telephone service free,
as they realize that the Bell institution
has taken nearly or quite a million dol-
lars out of Grand Rapids during the
past fifteen years and that, if competi-
tion is strangled, rates will up to
the old figures again. The reduction
in the price of phones does not apply
to the long distance Bell, which still

man’s

go

commands $72 and $84 per year for
stationary and desk phones, respec-
tively.
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Purely Personal.

F. F. Ward has removed to this city
from Kalamazoo and taken the position
of window decorator for L. Higer &
Sons.

Oscar Allyn has exchanged his farm
located on the River road in Walker

township fora beautiful home in Grand
Rapids at 415 Horton avenue, valued at
$4,500. He will take possession of the
new property this week.

Chas. E. McCrone,
connected with the (

for several years
Grand Rapids office
of R. G. Dun & Co., has taken the man-
agement of the Marquette office. His
successor here is O. A. Pound, who was
formerly manager of the Jacksonville,
Fla., office and removed to this city
several years ago to take the position of
manager of the collection department.
The vacancy in the collection depart-
ment has been filled by the appointment
of E. Clare Avery, who comes here from
the Detroit office.

 

Feed and Coarse Grain
for Cash.

The feed dealers of
meeting recently and
for cash
April 15.
the city

to Be Sold

the city held a
decided to
only on and after
This arrangement applies to
trade there being no
agreement on outside trade. The
close margins which feed is sold
nowadays have driven the dealers to this
action as a matter of self-preservation.
The following circular has been issued
to the trade, in order that all may
properly informed of the new method :

Grand Rapids, March 30 — the
undersigned millers and feed dealers of
Grand Rapids, desiring to do what we
believe to be for the best interest of the
trade we serve, would respectfully

sell

goods spot

only,
the
on

its products are cash commodities and

tail for spot cash only.

A custom has prevailed in this city
of extending more or less credit to retail
dealers and they, in turn, to consumers,
resulting in loss to both and the em-
ployment of unnecessary capital.

To assist in correcting this evil, we
shall, on and after April 15, sell coarse
grain, feed, meal, bran, middlings,
hay and straw to dealers for spot cash
on delivery only, and trust all retailers
will, so far as possible, do likewise for
the permanent betterment of the trade.

Another careless, unbusinesslike prac-
tice which results in constant we
desire to correct at the same and
ask your hearty co-operation. We refer
to the practice of loaning bags and
sacks “a storage purposes, and request
that all dealers handling millstuff, grain
or feed, provide storage bins or bags of
their own, on or before April 15... After
that date, when goods are delivered in
our bags or sacks, we shall ask that they
be either emptied at destination or paid
for. No bags will be loaned for any
purpose.

Financial conditions are such, and
margins of profit so small, that loss anc
waste must be reduced in every way
possible, and we ask you to kindly kee}
step with us in this reform movement.

~~ s & Son.
Thos. Wykes & Co.
Valley ee Milling Co.
G. H. Behnke.
Watson & Frost.
Smallegange & Goudzwaard.
Morris Dykema.
De Jonge & Van Heulen.
©. E. Brown Mill Co.
N. V. Henderson & Sons.
Bi = Caswell.
KF. Van Driele & Co.
C. GAL Voigt & Co.
Voist Milling Co.
Beach, Cook &Co.
A. Verhey.
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The Grain Market.

Wheat remained remarkably steady
during the week, No. 2 red showing an
advance of about 4c per bushel on Tues-
day’s close. While the situation war-
rants this advance, it was rather sudden
and took the trade by surprise. The
news was somewhat conflicting, but it
was mostly on the part of the crop re-
port. Ohio reports only 57 percent. and
Missouri 77 per cent., while Indiana and
Kansas report the crop to be somewhat
damaged, which caused the upturn, The
winter wheat receipts remain as low as
ever, while the receipts in the North-
west are about the same as last year.
The exports were of a diminutive char-
acter (being only 1,693,000 bushels), and
they will not be much larger until navi-
gation opens on the lakes, so that wheat
can be moved to the seacoast at a_ less
rate than the rail tariffs. The visible
decrease was only 725,000 bushels, while
a much larger decrease was anticipated.
The largest bull
crop report was the small world’s ship-
ment, which was only 4,650,000 bushels,
being 3,000,000 bushels less than the

loss
time,

land 5 cars of oats

be |
| be more
| trade

call |
your attention to the fact that grain and |
| everlastingly
should be sold both at wholesale and re- |

| incumbent

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factor outside of the |

requirements. This caused

sellers to turn buyers.

the early

but not
Corn and oats advanced
eac h.

Coarse grains followed wheat,
so strongly.
per
The
only

bushel
receipts were very small, being
8 cars of corn
The millers are pay-

cars of wheat,

ing 68c for wheat.
c. G.
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Local Show Windows.

A. Vorer.

Show window display 1s coming to

and
bringer

more
in the
The

secret of success in this, as

appreciated as a
icading retail stores
of the city. learn-
ing that the
in any other kind of advertising, lies in
the oft-repeated admonition to ‘‘keep
at it.”’ || In) the disteiets
location makes rents high it is
the thrifty merchant to
advantages of

proprietors are

where
on
e that the such location
are
this the

as fully realized as possible. Todo

window dresser must not relax

in his duties for a moment.

During the opening spring and Easter
trade much of the window work
has been very effective. The general
display all along the streets has been
fine and unusual ingenuity has
exercised in decorative display
1e Monroe street dealer
of devoting a

local

very
been
and novelties.
hit the
window last week to the repeated dress-
ing and undressing of a dummy. The
novelty of seeing the sham lady going
through the different steps of making
her toilet such an attraction that
there were crowds constantly before the
the

upon expedient

was

supervising the work with
interest. The fact that the
the dummy woman’s toilet
performed by a person of
gender, per-
son of the masculine made
vantage at
seemed to make ~*
the more amusing to

window,
greatest
mysteries of
were being
the opposite while another
persuasion
suggestions from a point of
the side of the window,
the all
the window gazers.

spectacle

For ingenuity and taste, as well as
constant industry, there are few, if any,
displays superior to that of the Treusch

r stere at the corner of Monroe and
Looking at the handsome
can hardly realize that all
its material is found in the tobacco and
igar trade. Messrs. Treusch evidently
appreciate this auxiliary to their busi-
for, with their characteristic
thoroughness, they are constantly re-
arranging and renewing the display. It
always presents a novel and fresh ap-
pearance to the passer-by, who generally
pauses to see what new combiuation has
An

was the

ciga
lonia streets.

display, one

hess,

been devised since he last saw it.
ingenious and taking scheme
formation of a large from smok-
ers’ implements, with lettering, which
was rapidly rotating without any visible
The curiosity of
many was aroused to such an extent that
they would enter the store to seek the
solution of the mystery. Such were in-
formeéd that the wheel was propelled by
‘Armstrong’ the informant
illustrating his answer by giving it an-
other whirl. Another having
good results was to change the exhibits
from one window to the other, the ar-
rangement being the same. Many were
attracted by the change and_ consider-
ably puzzled to account for the familiar
appearance.

wheel

propelling power.

an * motor,

scheme

There is, perhaps, direction in
which constant industry in trade is bet-
ter rewarded than in the arranging and
display of goods in all parts of the
salesrooms, but more especially in the
windows,

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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

The Story of Mary Juliette Flynn.
Written for the TRADESMAN.

Mary Juliette Flynn had a headache.
When Mary Juliette had a headache,

people said, ‘* Beware !"’ and got out of |

her way. You see, she had red_ hair,
and the freckles which go with it, anc
the temper, too. No, she wasn’t pretty.
Her mouth and chin were too heavy for
the rest of her face and she had irregu-
lar teeth and a pug nose.
was wedge shaped and
fiery locks had an ugly way of growing
down on her temples.

But was only aclerk ina

then she

department store at $5 a week.

The night before it had been rain-
ing and the snow had changed into
slush. The stove wouldn’t burn and

the milk had turned sour. By the time
her was ready, the tempera-
ture had risen to 90 degrees in Mary Ju-
liette’

She had a long walk before her. ‘‘l
declere,’’ she snarled, ‘‘I’m just too
tired of this life! What are
people made for, anyway, if they can-
not be rich or smart or something? I
had to be tormented all the time I was
a little girl, because of my round face
and the color of my hair. I hear
that Tom Burnell, this minute, say,
‘Halloo, Moon-face! What started you
off so early this morning? Oh! I
pose to give the sun a chance to shine.
Excuse me, Miss Jaly, but don’t let
the sun burn you up!’

‘I liked school well enough, but I was
mighty glad when Aunt Lois needed
me at home. But, gracious! that got
to be hard enough before I left her. I
had to up at five o'clock every
morning and rub and scrub all day. It
did as though Aunt Lois was
never young. She always wanted to
have things done her own way and, if |
did any of the work a little differently,
she would always say, ‘How dumb you
are, child, anyway! Why, before | was
your age, I did the washing and
ironing for a family of ten, besides
most of the When I was
only twelve, my mother left me alone
one afternoon, and | cut out and nearly
finished a wl
From that time on
too. |  deciare, aren't
much, these days! There are--
squalling again! Why don’t you take
a little interest in the work? There are
the peas to be picked and the carrots to
be weeded out, and you certainly must
help about your muslin dress, or else
you won't have anything to wear to
church come a Sunday. There, Willie
awake! You run and amuse him, whil
I knead the bread. I declare, the work’s
all behind. I wish I had somebody who
knew how to help.’

‘*My! Wasn't she mad when Bertha
got me the place here. I Jet her know
I wasn’t a charity patient any longer.

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But, am* I any better off here? I[
thought I should have lots of money to
spend but it hasn't shown up yet. Yes,

and I am expected to dress well, and
to do up my hair in the latest style—and
that takes time—-and to act smart, when
I am fairly starving! And then, there’s
nothing but boxes to look at all day!
I’m tired of the whole business! Go
out evenings and have some fun? Thank
Heavens, I don’t to that set.

a

belong

But I don’t see anything for me to doj
What am I here for, anyway? |
She |

but die.

‘Now, there Sallie Brown.
used to live just across the road from us.
We went
and she carried a tin dinner pail and

is

Her fcrehead |
short and her |

barefooted to school together |

But laws! about the time I was needed
'at home her father made a lot of money
out of a lumber deal, and then they
| moved into the city. Sallie wrote to me
after they got settled—how she was go-
| ing to a private school, and her father
| was giving her dancing and music les-
lsons. She didn't care to hear about the
chickens or the crops or who was the
new teacher in the schoolhouse at the
forks. No more did I want to know
what ‘our set? was a-doing, and so I
haven’t heard from her for long, long
years. Last week, her mother had a
reception for her ‘coming out.’ Coming
out from where, I'd like to know? I
wasn’t given a party when I came out
of the country. She is a young lady now
and has beaus, and people are telling
her how pretty she is and how good ;
but she don’t know me.

‘*And there is Gertrude Drake. She
was pretty and she had a mother. Her
mother had time to let her go to school.
She graduated and then she was sent here
to the Normal. She taught a couple of
years and then some lady got interested
in her and helped her to go to the Uni-

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versity. She’ll speak to me, but,
really, what is there to say?
‘‘Here I am to the store. I must

dust boxes and spend most of my time
on my knees—though I’m not in a spe-
cially prayerful mood, goodness knows!

 

‘‘Thank Heavens! It’s o'clock
and I can have something warm to eat.
My! wouldn’t Aunt Lois’ pie taste
good, and she does know how to bake
beans to a ‘T’. I’m sick of bread
and butter and eating alone. Guess I'l]
have some ham and potatoes and—oh,
yes, to-morrow is the New Year. I must

six

lay in a little something extra. I won-
der how Willie is. Wasn’t he cute

though, and I was mean to talk so to
Aunt Lois.

‘A whole evening to myself! I’m
tired enough to go to bed, And nobody
to talk to. I suppose I ought to think
on my ‘marcies,’ as Aunt Rach used to
say. Yes, and to-morrow is the time to
make good resolutions. But then, resolu-
tions, like the churches, belong to good
and rich people.

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‘*Such a dream as I had. My mother
was living, and she came to me, and
she put her arms around my neck and
kissed me on my forehead, just as she
to do. And she said, ‘Dearie’
(imagine my being called ‘Dearie’—
more likely ‘Darnie’!) ‘I want to have
a little talk with you. There is not an
hour in the day when I’m not thinking
about you and I am troubled. You're
barely twenty, and full of bitter
thoughts. People are not your enemies

the fault is with yourself. Now think
about it and see whether you can’t find
where !’ And, before I

used

So

the blame lies!
could say a word, I found myself wide
awake.

‘*Yes, it would have been lots better to
have laughed when the boys teased me,
and not have seemed to care; but then,
I was such a little girl. Yes, Aunt Lois
didn’t have any easy time with me, and
I didn’t take any interest in the work.
But am I any better now? It’s no good
looking back—I can’t be somebody
else and have money and all that sort of
'thing. What’s the use of trying to be
anybody or amount to anything? I’m
only a shoe clerk at $5 a week. What's
ithe use of living, anyway? There go
the bells a-ringing. It must be one
I must go to sleep, or I'll be

 

 

 

 

 

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wore gingham aprons just like me. | a worse sight’n ever in the morning.

Piec

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WIN, BRUMNMELER & SONS,

Manufacturers and Jobbers of

Dealers in Rags, Rubbers and Old Metal.
FPhone S640.

We have just opened
up a complete and well-
assorted stock of
choice Field and Gar-
den Seeds in Bulk,

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Our sap pails are full
size and are guaranteed

made. almost straight, which we offer at
So ae ee wholesale and retail at

conveniently. Our syrup
cans are double seamed,
both top and bottom, with
packed screws.
Prices lower than ever.
Send for price list of

p NO OLD SEEDS

bottom prices. This

stock is all new.

Highest market price paid for Beans.

BEACH, COOK & C0.,

128 to 132 W. Bridge St.,
Grand Rapids.

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Grand Rapids.

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‘*T might go up and see old Mrs. Gid-
dings this afternoon. T’would

stubborn and waited all these months.
And I believe [ will try and see what I

can make out of the shoe business.
What’s the matter of my studying even-
ings? I might take up book-keeping —

I used to love figures. And why not read,
too? There's the great Public Library,
which I pass every day, yet I’ve never
seen inside its doors.
‘It doesn’t seem possible that it is
only three years since I was so_ utterly
wretched and had that dream about my
mother. But, really, the time has flown.
I made up my mind to put my_ heart
in my work and to think more about
other people.
*‘It worked beautifully with the shoe
trade. Women learned to know me
and would allow no one else to wait
them. |

on
more than had my hands full.
But, when ladies would say a kind
word and send their friends to me, I
did not mind the backaches. And then
there was dear Mrs. Giddings to go
home to. She made me come and live
with her. If there is one perfect wom-

an in the world, she is the one. And
the book-keeping went finely. Before

six months I was installed as book-
keeper with the firm. My employer was
always saying that if I was nota firstclass
book-keeper, he would put me back i
my old place, and that, as it was, he was
strongly tempted to do so, for every cus-
tomer inquired for me and it was easier
to fill the book-keeper position than my
old one.

‘But the queerest part happened later.
It must be about a year and a half ago
that one of the agents came. Mr. Graves
called me down to the shoe department
—said the boys did not understand the
trade—and who should stand there as
big as life but Jim Bailey who used
to live near us at home! Imagine my
surprise, for I had not heard from him
in years. He was traveling for a Bos-
ton shoe house. It did not seem as
though we had ever been separated.
He asked if he might call. And _ ever
afterwards he came to see me when-
ever he was in town—and after a time

that began to happen pretty often. Be-
tween times, he sent me_ the dearest
letters. I would not have changed

places with any girl living, and—But I
hear his latchkey in the door, and I
must run, for the next thing he will be
calling upstairs, ‘May wifie?’ ”’

CAIDA &. UDBLE.

Berlin, Prussia.

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Indian nie men make a mess of
it when they attempt to work miracles.
A report comes from Western Oklahoma
that the various bands of the Pawnee
Indian tribe are encamped on Black
Bear creek and engaged in the wild
dances and revels of the annual medi-
cine making. Crazy Horse, one of the
medicine men, madea medicine which
he declared to be a protection from bul-
lets when applied to the body. His
brother volunteered to pose as a_ target
after rubbing the mixture upcn his
body. He fell dead at the first shot with
a bullet through his heart. Crazy Horse
barely escaped lynching and, a council
of chiefs being held, it was decided to
dispossess him of all his property, in-
cluding herds of horses and cattle.

+++ --

It is said that a secret society has
been organized in Washington which
represents that it will be able to bring
pressure to bear on the Government, so
that every one of its members will get
$900 in cold cash from the treasury.
Meanwhile the organizers of the scheme
get the ‘‘dues.’

tickle |
Aunt Lois mightily, though I’ve been so |

|

John and the Piano.

A Chinaman, who must have boarded
in a house where someone was learning
to play on a piano, lately returned to
| his own country and treated his coun-
tryman to the following description of a

piano: ‘*The Europeans keep a_ four-
legged beast, which they can make sing
at will. A man, or more frequently a
woman, or even a feeble girl, sits down

in front of the animal and steps on his
tail, while at the same time striking its
white teeth with his or her fingers,
when the creature begins to sing. The
singing, though much louder than a
bird, is pleasant to listen to. The
beast does not bite, nor does it move,
though it is not tied up.’
+02

Many people do not understand how
to indorse checks. This is explained
as follows: ‘‘Indorse by writing your
name on the back, about one inch
from the top. The proper end may be
determined this way: As you read
the check, holding one end in each
hand, draw the right toward you and
turn the check over; the end farthest
from you is the top. If, however, the
check is indorsed by another person,
it is proper to write your name directly
under his, even if he has written it
across the wrong end. Should your
name in the check be spelled wrong, or
an initial changed, and_ the check is
clearly intended for you, write your
name as the check has it, and under
the usual signature.

Se a

It is proposed to puta ~ ach on the
wandering musician of the hand-organ
variety in Washington City by imposing
a big license, which must be taken out
in June for a whole year, and fining
him for playing within two blocks of a
church, a hospital or a sick person.

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Don’t spread your net for big custom-
ers only. The size of its meshes may
be over estimated.

 

Our Spring line of Ready-made

Clothing

Includes all the latest Novelties in ad-
dition to our complete line of Staples.
Write our Mich gan Representative,
William Connor, Box 346, Marshall,
Mich., who will call upon you with
samples. We guarantee fit and excel-
lently made garments and prices guar-
anteedas low as can be made. Mail
orders promptly attended to by

MICHAEL KOLB & SON,
Wholesale Clothing [anufacturers,
ROCHESTER, N. Y.

Wm. Connor will be at Sweet’s Hotel, Wednes-
day, Thursday and Friday, April 15, 16, and 17.

The Bradstreet
Mercantile Agency

THE BRADSTREET COMPANY
Proprietors.
EXECUTIVE OFFICES—
279, 281, 283 Broadway, N.Y.
Offices in the principal cities of the United States,

Canada and the European continent, Australia,
and in London, England.

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GRAND RAPIDS OFFICE—
Room 4, Widdicomb Bldg.
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Hardware Price Current.

AUGURS AND BITS

en eee eas 70 |
Jennings cenuime ..............._....... 2a)
Jennies’, tmiitation ............ .. 60410
AXES
First Quality. 5. B. Bromze................. 5 oo
First Quality, D. B. Bronze............ 9 50 |}
First Quality. S. B.S. Steel... 6 2
Wirst Quality, D. B. Steel... .. 10 25
BARROWS
a $12 00 14 00
Garden net 30 00
BOLTS
Reve .......-- 14... es ote ue 60
Cc ee mew Mee |. 65
Plow. ee “4010
BUCKETS
Well wat ee oe
BUTTS, CAST
Cast Loose Pin, — Deleted. - 70
Wrought Narrow. i" .- aa lod
BLOCKS
Ordinary Tackle.. neeee 70
cROW BARS
Cast Steel. ........ .-per lb 4
CAPS
Diy s £10... .- ae _...-.... en Be 65
a. “cf ........................ = 5d
D. 4... oe 35
eel. ee  . per m 60
CARTRIDGES
OO oe Ok 5
Central Fire. ......... eo
CHISELS
Siemet Wammer sO
Soeuct Wromming.................... ........ 80
See tit. te 80
ot e.tt«Ci‘i‘¥N(NN..........-. su
DRILLS
Morse’s Bit Stocks .. 60
Taper and Straight nn OK 5
Morse’s ‘Taper Shank.. 0 5
ELBOWS
Com. 4 eee: cn. doz. net 60
Corrugated. . Bee eel. Oa 50
Adjustable Ee dis 40410

EXPANSIVE BITS
Clark’s small, = a #26. .-80&10
Bee’ 1. Se: 2 eo os ee ............-....... 25
FILES—New List

New Avscricam. .... 1. .- 7&10

Hienomeors.........-.... --.-........... - mM 70
Heller’s Horse Rasps.. «+. COD
GALVANIZED. IRON.

Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 25 and 26; 27. 28
List 12 13 14 15 im... i

Discount, 70—10
GAUGES
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s............-..60&16
KNOBS—New List
Door, — jap. rineings.... ......_.. 70
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings............ 80
MATTOCKS
Adze Eye.. Lee .. 816 00, dis 60410
Hunt — ee ees ee es $15 00, dis 60410
Hunt's. eae ce ! $18 50, dis 20410
“MILLS
Coffee, Parkers Co.’s. 40
Coffee, P. S. & W. Mfg. G 10. ‘s ; ‘Malleables. . 40
Coffee, Landers, Ferry & Clark’*...... 40
Coffee, Enterprise..........-... . 30
MOLASSES GATES
Stebbin’s Pattern............ ee
Ctobni s Gemume.._..-.__...__........._... 60&10
Enterprise, self-measuring ....... See 30

NAILS

Advance over base, on both ‘oe and Wire.
Steel nails, base. . a Looe 2 6
Wire nails, base..... oe

 

10 te G@ advanedc................ -.....,.... 5U
le es 60
Bama G@ ..........-..............-..-.. vb)
<..... 90
a 1 20
Se; 1 60
Fine 3 eee 1 60
Cae ee ene 65
ee ee ees. iD
i a ee ee ee 90
Pio 1 ........ . ..  .. 2D
i ee a 90
a 10
COO ee 70
aan 6... 80
Climeh ©... .... ee ween 90
Baer) ©... le
ee
Ohio Tool Co.’s, faucy.. <i. . e
ie ee ee 60410
Sandusky Tool Co’s, fancy.......-----+---- @50
Boneh frstquality.......-_..-.--..-..-.._-. @50
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s wood....... 60
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Fry, Acme . . - -60&10&10
Common, polished. . ee W& 5
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Iron and Tinned . oc. ee 60
Copper Rivets and Burs.. .-50&10
PATENT PLANISHED IRON
““4’? Wood's patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 10 20
“B” Wood's patent planished, Nos. 25 to 27 9 20

Broken packages 4c per pound extra.
HAMMERS
—— & Co.'s, pew fTist..........-...- dis 234
3 eee ag ac is 20
¥ en Be dis 40610
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel...........-. 30e list 70

Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel Hand 30c list 40&10

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HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS
.. new list 70&10
oe
.new list 40410

Japanned Tin Ware

HOLL ow Ww ARE

| Pots ke .. 60&10
mete ee ... 0&10
Spiders Dee ae .. GO&10
HINGES
Gate, Clark's, 1, 2, 3. oo . .-.. Gis 0410
aaa a“ pe er doz. net 250
WIRE ‘GOODS
Bright ...- uo . 80
Screw TL ce 80
a a sO
Gate Hooks and Eyes..... ' sO
LEVELS
Stanley Rule and Level Co.'s. .. dis 70
ane
Sisal, % inch and larger.. 4 6%
Manilla i. oe 9%
“SQU ARES
Steel and lron.......-.. ' 80
Try and Bevels....
Mitre ee
SHEET IRON
com. smooth. com.
Woe 10 14...................... a ae #2 40
Moe tity. ....... .. .......... Sap 2 40
Nee tot ee.. i 3 45 2 60
Nos, 22 to 2s...... ao 2 70
Nos. 2 OO ao 0 2 80
No. 22. ee eee eae ee 3 80 2 90
All sheets No. 18 and lighter, ‘over 30 inches
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
SAND PAPER
hist acct 1 86... dis 50

SASH WEIGHTS
Soria Myes......-...)..0.... per ton 20 00
Steel, Game. —
Oneida C ommunity, ‘Newhouse’ ...
Oneida Community, Hawley «& Norton's sTOK1OX& io

Mouse, choker........ .. per doz
Mouse, Gelusion,................ per doz i 3
WIRE

Brtent Marcet.._...-....-......... Te
Minpoel ad Mauwet................-........ 75
Coppered Market........- . 70410
Tinned Market. . 62%
Coppered Spring ieieey 50
Barbed Fence, galvanize ee 30
Barbed Fence, painted. : 95

HORSE NAILS
ee arenes Les
Putnam.
Northweste rn.

.. dis 40&1€
ee oa ne 5
Beet acencerea. « ..dis 10&10
WRENCHES

Baxter’s Adjustable, Hichclied,............. 30
(ies Genuine....... -...-..-.-. «4-.4----.-. 50
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, WwW rought Pees 80
Coes Patent, malieamie.....................4 80
MISCELLANEOUS
Mira @aged .....-......-..-.-...... 50
Pumps, Cisterm............ ......... 75&10
Serews, New List.. ae 85
Casters, Bed and P eT ele
Dampers, American. | 40410
METALS— Zinc
600 pound casks..... 614
Per pound.. oi 6%
“SOLDER |
EE oe 12%

The prices of the many other qualities ‘of solder
in the market indicated by private brands vary
according to composition.

TIN— 7 one
10x14 IC, Charcoal.. :
14x20 IC, Charcoal .

20x14 IX, Charcoal ....... ea

14x20 IX, Charcoal... hee
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10x14 1C, Charcoal . 5 00
MoU 16. Charcoal...... .-... .......-..... 5 00
10x14 1X, Charcoal . 6 CO
14x20 LX, Charcoal . .. to
Each additional X on this grade, ‘$1.50.
ROOFING PLATES
14x20 IC, Charcoa', Dean.................... 5 00
14090 1X, Charcoal Dean......... .......... 6 00
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Dean.......-. . ee
14x20 IC, Charcoal, All way Gré ee 4 50
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Gradc......... 5 50
20x28 1C, Charcoal, Allaway Grade........ 9 00

20x2 28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade......... 11 00
BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE

14x56 IX, for#No. 8 Boilers, |

14x56 IX’ for ‘No. 9 Boilers, ;PeT Pound... 9

Cow Butter and
Hen’s Eggs Sb

I can supply a limited number of —,
ers with choice butter and fresh eggs, and
solicite orresponde nce with merchants who
prefer to deal direct with the buyer, thus
saving the profits of the middleman. Al-
legan, Barry, Kalamazoo and Van Buren
counties are noted for the superiority of
the dairy products—I draw supplies from
all four counties. tn writing for quota-
tions, uae mention name of grocery
jobbing house with whom you are de aling.

A. B. CLARK,

Plainwell, Mich.

 

 

Scales!

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

elsewhere.
Satisfaction guaranteed.

GRAND RAPIDS SCALE WORKS,

purchasing
paired.

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

 

8 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

WHO?

     
   
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 

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1 upon
Ces i polit-
a ——— | And one of the most difficult things  jcai world drew a sigh of relief. With
suid to the Best Interests of Business Men ao : :
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Published at the New Blodgett Building. iream of the
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TRADESMAN COMI PANY

 

ONE. DOLLAR. A YEAR, Payable i in Advance.

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mankind
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say that you saw the advertisement in the losive ‘“Who!’’
Michigan Tradesman. OSIVE 10.
Cae a ae hing has gone
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WEDNESDAY, = == APRIL 3, 1896. that, instead of
ivilization over a
VALUE OF PAID CIRCULATION. political high-
I eae ee a slow and attended
purpose is that wi loes s thing | «. eine
AU al a oe oe a ae : - England has been
1 r : Ae ae patient, hard work and a lib i
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casu s i 4s ad ‘ 5 | of - For a =wspaper to attain}. * : a ee :
= rains t attent at < i : ' le - been made in the Celestial Empire dur-
foe a oe a restige and s a work of a i :
cae 4 » wav to secure tangible!, i ae c an i ime which has not resulted in
econ ae = aed Raat eR as time. the sa f many vears : :
results. This either ee ing a improved opportunity to

 

little nearer to the steps of the
once secured, was kept
and when, at last, the Eng-
ce at Pekin was looked upon
it was that somebody
that the British su-
been transferred to Russia
and cost of half a
scattered to the winds.
quickly. If
to indulge in such
might teach her a

arm of England
thrown around conquering
the arm was placed
the almond-eyed
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father, the Ameer of Afghanistan, has
been listening to the martial airs of
Russia with applauding hands. The
shadow of Turkey has lost its identity
the heavier one of its master, a
shadow which the sunset of the Powers
has lengthened till it falls upon the
At Belgrade the heart of
the populace has softened until Saint
hateful name

in

Petersburg is no longer a

to ear or lips; and those who ciaim to
be familiar with the footprints of the

Bear can see, in the troubles of Norway
and Sweden, the impress of the politi-
cal bruin’s well-known claw, so that the
Power supposed to be asleep and dream-
is not only awake, but is realizing
the dream which for centuries has been
the nightmare troubling the fitful sleep
of Europe.

ing

Who—and the question comes with
gathering force—is this wizard whose

wand is exerting its tremendous influ-
ence everywhere? It is the Chancellor
of the Russian Empire, an ease-loving
Prince, who ‘‘wished to bring Russia
into closer touch with the rest of the
civilized world’’—the Prince Lobanoff,
a man who accepted his present office
at the request of the young Czar and the
widowed Empress, a man who, during
the brief period he has been in office,
has shown himself to be ‘‘the one of all
others’’ to act as mentor and guide to
so youthful an autocrat as Nicholas II.

TRADE CONDITIONS.

The story of dulness was continued
throughout the week, the principal sen-
sational feature being the tendency to
hold up iron prices by combinations.
This week starts out with improved con-
ditions, especially in cereals.

Textile manufactures are still very
unsatisfactory. Lack of orders has al-
ready stopped a considerable propor-

tion of the woolen mill machinery.
Wool declined in price 71% per cent.
Sales in March were smaller than for

any other month since 1884. Reductions
in price have not succeeded in_ starting
the cotton demand and goods are piling
up in advance of orders.

The iron manufacturers seem deter-

mined to take control of the situation
by combinations. It is proposed to

restrict the output by compelling the
members of the pool who may exceed
their allotment to pay a penalty of $2
per ton to the other members. The

talk of organizing, as might be ex-

 

do in Abyssinia what England | pected, has served to stimulate demand
i¢ in India. Life has been looked to some extent. Minor metals continue
1S ling ire without limit) dull, except that tin has advanced to
2en paid for the consummation of|s73, <<,
‘'s cherished desire ; and, when The wheat situation showed a tend-
a a oO Abyssinia are be-| ency to improve last week, which was
ee with the dawn, long | ans by a sharp advance of about
yt | 10° ee laved by the | |three cents, corn and other grains fol-
“iy difficult : te Ge thie if Ac ae atic, without the Oss ofa single | jowing in sympathy.
there must be something connectl such & paper with cood adecrtichis ati the Abyssinian | There seems to be an improvement
with the a cement that will aid it! ¢,:- prices, and the announcements ap- Emperor ack upon the/jn trading on ‘change, in which con-
to gain entrance into the mi id. All are | .-aring in } he at.| italian st m pleased with the} fdence figures more than advance in
familiar with the multitudinous schemes | sention of glittering bauble which, as a symbol of/ prices. The Moore stocks, Diamond
used in the anr icements themselves | shem of th vassalage, has been placed about his | Match and New York Biscuit, continue
designed to accomplish this purpose neck, proclaims to the astonished world | on the gain. The former touched 180
se hemes which are, doubt ESS, of value The Se the hah nder whicl - has been wrought in Saturday, the highest it has ever been
ad — : — _ : xut little more — ws Departmen ws pm me Tce | —_— by a political magician of mod- | quoted, but there was a reaction of a
effective than hanaopills. and Manufactures is receiving a good] ern times. ifew points. Biscuit went up to 96, but
What ito accom- | deal of favorable attention at the hands It need not be said how dear to the |afterward declined to 94%. The usual
plish this answer iS|of ci 1ercial bodies in different parts heart of England are her precious pos- | s spring outflow of gold has been antici-
brief TI must ap-|of the country. It is remarkable that sessions in the East. She has toiled for | pated but has not yet begun.
pear in a ill carry it | these interests have not been recognized them, she has bled for them, and English | A Seetiile wecie hak Gas
with a direc interest to|by the establishing of such a depart-| hearts, to-day, are grieving for those | py the House i amubiaeel a ie
the mind of the customer. To do this before this. who have died there for them; but, even lon the bill providing for the creation of
effe ctually there must be a value attach- ———— 'there, the despoiling hand has been atja_ special commission on _ highways.
ing to such medium. After five weeks of € fort for the rec cog- | work. England is no longer the watch- | Since this measure has been under
For a newspaper to successfully fill | nition of the garment workers’ unions of | word at Cabul. At Teheran the influ- | consideration | there aa been such an
the position of an advertising medium Baltimore, the strike has been declared | ence of the English has been paralyzed, a sso

circumstances shall be more| and, while the Shahzada has been wear- |

off until
a circulation that is sa not through | favorable for renewing the effort.

the first essential is a paid circulation,

| measure as to demonstrate that the ques-

jing out his welcome in England, his/|tion is a live one.

 

 

 

 

 

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MUNICIPAL WASTE.

It would be generally considered the
greatest political heresy to suggest that
there are advantages in the forms of
government of other towns and cities
which make them superior in many re-
gards to those of this country. There
is on the part of the average American
citizen such an admiration for the theory
of absolute equality that a suggestion
involving the idea that a difference in
responsibilty and intelligence should be
recognized in the affairs of municipal
government would be considered as
amounting to little less than treason to
the American idea.

When our American cities are com-
pared with those of the Old World,
however, there is a difference manifest,
which argues that there is some factor
operative in the administration of
affairs in the latter which gives them a
decided advantage ; and it is a question
whether the advantages of our advanced
doctrine of equality are sufficient to off-
set the disadvantages we labor under as
compared with the more conservative
methods inherited from a less liberal
age in the Old World. There municipal
government has been an evolution. The
privileges of the aristocracy little more
than a century ago formed an absolute
and impassible barrier to the aspirations
of the plebeian classes. The revolutions
of France caused the violent destruction
of this barrier, but in the reorganiza-
tion of city governments the habits of
aristocratic prestige and plebeian ser-
vility soon practically restored the old
order again.

During the present century there has
been a real development of liberty and
equality. To judge from our American
boasts these are mostly monopolized in
this country, but as a matter of fact
there is fully as much real liberty in
England and in other of the European
countries as obtains here.

In the development of the municipal
administration, of course the advance-
ment from the lower ranks against the
prestige and position of the aristocracy
has been open only to those of ability
and fitness. Thus there has long been
a tacit civil service, and the desirabil-
ity of the positions to the incumbent is
security against any waste or careless-
ness which might hazard them. This
has made it possible for such cities to
do many things in the way of commer-
cial co-operation and the prosecution of
municipal enterprises which else would
be impossible.

In America things are different. The
principle of American liberty and
equality makes every member of the
vast armies of the ignorant off-scour-
ings of humanity poured upon our
shores by other nations the peer of any
person he may meet. Naturally these
acquisitions are principally for the ben-
efit of the cities, and become material
for the use of the demagogues best qual-
ified to control such elements.

The consequence is our cities have
become the paradise of demagogues.
The offices and positions which in the
Old World cities areappointive or elect-
ive by a select class of voters whose
position is above the reach of dema-
gogism are here elective, and the vote
of the most ignorant degraded pauper
outside the almshouse has as much _ in-
fluence as any. Thus those in munici-
pal position are they who can control
most of such votes, either directly or
through subordinate leaders.

The exercise of this control consti-
tutes the ring or machine politics,
which is the distinctive feature of

 

American cites. In a majority of these

the better classes have given the control |

of affairs entirely into the hands of such

leaders. The consequence is familiar
to all of us. The administration of
American cities is most hopelessly
wasteful. The ‘‘spoils system’’ gives

employent to hordes of the most incom-
petent incumbents. These, instead of
performing the duties they cannot do,
delegate them to others selected for
their political influence. The pay-rolls
are permitted to increase far beyond the
needs of the duties performed ; even in
some instances names are carried on
such rolls, in regular receipt of wages,
whose owners have long been their
graves.

Every work carried on by cities in
this country is wasteful. Constant dis-
closures are appearing in the
which demonstrate this fact. Thus the
difference in the cost of certain work m
the various cities is a reminder of  in-
creasing jobbery. For instance, in Mil-
waukee, which seems to be governed by
a class which represents more German
thrift and honesty than most American
cities, the cost of cleaning streets is
$8.50 per mile, while in Chicago the
same work is done at a cost of $18.50.

A consequence of this situation is
that it is impossible for any of our
cities to undertake municipal  enter-
prises requiring careful supervision or
economy in administration. The dis-
tribution of water is of a character to
require very little administration or em-
ployment in proportion to the magni-
tude of the undertaking, so that some
cities may venture this with reasonable
safety, although there is probably no
other class of engines operated in this
country which cost proportionally half
as much as those whose power furnishes
the aqueous circulation for our munici-
palities. In every other branch of in-
dustrial service private enterprise is
cheaper and more efficient than public,
and will continue to be so until we shall
have developed a more rationai system
of city government.

in

press

 

The commander in chief of the Salva-
tion Army, General Booth, has sent a
number of his best officers to assist
Commander Booth-Tucker and his wife
in their efforts to reclaim the disaffected
in the American ranks of the army. The
utmost efforts to accomplish this end
will be put forth, for the American di-
vision of the army is far more wealthy
and profitable in a pecuniary way than
the English. It is not very probable,
however, that their efforts will be in any
great degree successful, for there is no
great amount of Anglo-mania in the
classes reached by the army methods,
except such as are immigrants from the
English cities. It is out of the question
for the London headquarters to retain
its authority here and the best policy
would be for the aged General to ac-
cept the situation and form a_ friendly
alliance with the American army. But
this is not to be expected of British
obstinacy.

 

The Standard Oil Company is about
to try the experiment of towing freight
barges on the Atlantic, the same as is
so generally and profitably done on the
lakes. The first experiment will be
with a single barge in the tow and, if
successful, two more barges will be
tried. It is intended to keep the system
in operation as long as the weather is
suitable. Of course, it would be im-
practicable in stormy seasons. The plan,
if successful, will work a great saving
in freights.

|

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Into the future would en-
able almost anyone to
make advantageous
deals, but dealing in fu-
tures is not our business.

- We are, however, making

which are simply elegant.

“= CATHODE =,
—

reveal no imperfections in this superior piece of goods,
which is a very choice cake with a rich fig filling

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Try a box with your next order and convince your trade

that they do not have to go to the other dealer’s store to

ret the finest goods made.

This delicious cake is manufactured by

The New York Biscuit Go.,

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
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A BIG
MAN=U

facturing concern like ours can save you money.

We manufacture both Spring and Winter
Wheat Flour and sell direct to the retailer.

Send us your orders for small lots or car lots.

es
$$5

saved

Of course, you see the
point?
It’s big enough, isn’t it?

Our “Crosby’s Superior’ brand of Spring
Wheat Flour has given better satisfaction in
many places than any of the so-called ‘High-
est grades of Spring Wheat Flour made.”
There are reasons for it. We can name many.

VALLEY ITY JINLLINE C0.

Sole makers of the famous Lily White Flour,

Grand Rapids, Mich.

CCCCCOCCECE

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10

Getting the People

Art of Reaching and Holding the Peo-
ple by Advertising.

The more one writes advertising and
devises methods of ‘‘Getting the Peo-
ple,’’ the easier it becomes to make
your advertising attrac tive.

There are all sorts of possibilities
which arise with the opening of spring,
and just now is the time wher good ad-
strongly to the

 

 

vertising appeals most

public. The new woman and the old
woman both want new bonnets and
wraps. Most of them wanta bicycle.

It will soon be a fad for the merchant
to offer a bicycle with every spring bon-
net sold, or vice versa.

I believe that anything which savors
of bicycling, if legitimate, will ‘ Get
the People’’ easier this spring than
any other form of advertising on earth.
I don’t care what business you may be
in, or what kind of goods you want to

sell, if you mention “‘Bicycle’’ some-
where in your advertising, you've got
?em.

An enterprising carpet house in
Grand Rapids recently arranged with
an expert wheelman to ride against time

on a home trainer in their show win-
dow. The moment the ‘‘profesh’’
mounted the wheel, that moment the

crowd came, and remained. Of course,
while watching the gentleman’s extrem-
ities moving swiftly -up and down in
unison with the pedals, the monotony
occasionally prompted a glance toward
the well-decorated windowful of goods

surrounding, and every glance meant an
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AFTER AWL
A NAIL in the Shoe

Afflicts some persons more than
the death of a conjugal spouse.
The inside finish and perfect
manufacture of the De © omfort
Shoes sold in this city exclu-
sively by Ketchum & “Holdem
occasion many self-congratu-
lations and no weary references
to profane history.

JOHN EAST & CO.

 

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The increase of
The Liquor Habit
and the decrease of
The Marriage Habit

are subjects which command
increasing attention. The
immensely increased stock of
Spring Goods and the won-
derfully decreased prices in
those goods at Ketchum &
Holdum’s, on Fairview Ave.,
account for the increased
travel on the street cars.

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Mr. and Mrs. High Price
take pleasure in announcing the
divorce of their daughter
KATHYLINE GOOD VALUE
from
MR. FALSE AND SHODDY
Yankton, South Dakota,

April First, 1896.

Advice from reliable sources
states that it is now ‘good
form” to issue divorce cards
and that the above is correct.
Divorce gifts are becoming
common and express a deli-
cate attention. They ure,
however, not as yet avsolute-
ly obligatory. See our line of
Fine Jewelry and Watches

before making either wedding

or divorce gifts—it will be

money in your pocket.
SEPARATOR & CO.

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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

Offering a bicycle as an inducement
to purchase is far ahead of giving away
bronze clocks or any other article. From
the 3-year-old just able to walk, to the
octogenarian, each and every individ-
ual resident upon the civilized globe
secretly or openly cherishes a desire for
a wheel. Anda whole lot of ’em_ will
deny themselves necessities, to say
naught of luxuries, in order to gratify
their longing. Therefore, if you want
to ‘°Get the People’’ where the ‘“‘hair
is short,’’ in advertising, you can do no
better than to ‘‘give ’em wheels,’ no
matter in what form offered or dis-
played.

As soon as the Rontgen rays become
sufficently cheap to permit of their use
by advertisers generally, I imagine the
world of advertising will be turned
topsy-turvy. How easy it will be then
for the merchant to put his little “‘ray-
box’’ in operation and expose to the
public the fallacy of believing a rival’s
advertised statements, for I’ve no doubt
the rays will be brought to such perfec-
tion as to photograph the false as_ well
as reveal truths. And, then, think of
the disgusting, nauseating photographs
the druggist will be enabled to display
in his window, showing the action of
pure drugs on the human system, to-
gether with samples of the evil effects
of impure nostrums. Clothiers will ex-
hibit cathode ray revelations of the
shoddy materials in garments, and in
large type below will say, ‘* The search-
ing fluorescence reveals nothing shoddy
in our clothing.’’ The dentist will
show how easy it is to fill a tooth prop-
erly, by making a ‘‘ray picture’’ of well
and ill-filled teeth. The butchers will
vie with each other in the multiplicity
of their photographs, showing an entire

absence of disease or disease germs in’

the flesh offered for sale. 1 don't know
how they’ll manage about the sausage
—-probably won't take any pictures,
though ; cathode rays would reveal alto-
gether too large a collection and variety
of animal and molecular forms. No. I
don’t believe the time-honored sausage
is a good subject.

There are large and potent possibili-
ties in the X rays—let us hope the
thing won’t be carried too far in adver-
tising.

The German professor who has in-
vented a luminous paint for bill-board
advertising has either brought forth a
great blessing or an untimely curse on
mankind. Will the nocturnal felines
who nightly assemble upon the roofs and
hold their dismal wassail be frightened
into silence by the phosphorescent dis-
play, or will the terrors of the inferno
be heightened by the louder caterwaul-
ings of the animals when their vision
is assailed by the glittering letters? And
the young man who ‘‘dassen’t’’ go all
the way home with his girl on account
of disturbing her father’s peace of mind
—how can he kiss her good night in the
benevolent shadow of the bill-board?
Many a fond heart will break and many
an unuttered kiss will be charged to the
account of luminous paint.

But, leaving the ridiculous, there are
wonderful possibilities for the pro-
gressive advertiser in the strides
science is making during the wind-up
of the century. Every new discovery
gives the man of publicity something to
talk about and something with which to
embellish his ads. and make them
‘People Getters.’’ Read the daily
papers—every one will furnish you with
a new idea upon which you may elabo-
rate with surprisingly profitable results.

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IMPORTERS and JOBBERS.

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Their new Spring Goods, including White Goods, Prints,
Ginghams, Embroidery, etc., are very inviting.
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21b. Red Pitted Cherries 2lb. White Marrowfat Peas 31b. Hubbard Squash
3 lb. Strawberries 2 lb. Extra Early June Peas 3 1b. Cold Packed Tomatoes
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INTERESTING DILEMMA. -

How Society Is At the Mercy of Or-
ganized Labor.

It was decidedly hard on the High-
Clymers that, after carefully and suc-
cessfully planning their winter cam-
paign, which they had determined to
crown with the smartest and altogether
the most elaborate dinner dance of the
season, they should be made the vic-
tims of a social problem. It is a_ well-
known fact that the greatest suffering in
labor difficulties between tne employers
and employed falls upon those who are
not personally concerned in the contro-
versy. The H.-C.’s certainly felt that
they were the innocent victims of a
most cruel fate, in that their best laid
plans should ‘* gang aglee. ’* This hap-
pened through the most untoward chance
of their having selected the very night
for their grandest effort, in the way of
an entertaiunment, that had been chosen
by one of those *‘inconsiderate labor
unions’? for one of their periodical
efforts of self-assertion. In this partic-
ular instance it was the ‘‘culinary ar-
tists’’ that elected to take this method
of seeking redress for their grievances.

When it became bruited abroad that
the High-Clymers were about to give
not only the handsomest but the most
select function of the winter, and had
secured the most eligible people going
for their dinner dance, those who had
turned the cold shoulder to them when
they first tried to storm society felt that
they had made a_ mistake which it
would be difficult, if not impossible, to
rectify. ‘‘It is one of the most perplex-
ing problems of modern life, ”’ said lit-
tle Mrs. Lineage plaintively, ‘‘to know
how to discriminate between these new
people. First the question seems to be,
‘Shall we visit them?’ and before one
has really time to make up one’s mind,
the next query seems to be, ‘Will they
visit us?’ *’ And in. the case of the
H.-C.’s the question that was upper.
most in society after the invitations had
been sent was, ‘‘Who has been left
out?’’

The entertainment was to be at Z.’s,
whose lovely ballrooms and unsurpassed
cuisine are wont to insure the success
of any entertainment given under his
auspices. On the evening named the
guests arrived, and the scene was bril-
liantly beautiful. The best-looking
women in town were present, resplen-
dent in their most gorgeous gowns and
jewels. A whole forest of huge palms
and flowering plants decorated — the
rooms, which were artistically lighted
by rose-screened electric lights, while
the dining-room, with its round tables
beautifully arranged with a profusion of
flowers, elicited even a greater amount
of admiration. Mr. and Mrs. High-
Clymer were radiant ; nothing seemed
wanting to the complete success of their
entertainment, and consequently of their
social aspirations.

But after the soup had been served
came an ominous pause. The guests
began to feel that something was wrong.
‘What is the matter?’’ was asked at
the various tables. The men servants
were seen whispering to each other in
agitated groups; finally, the H.-C.’s but-
ler, who, with his own footmen, was serv-
ing his master’s table, approached the
latter with a scared face. After a_hur-
ried conference in low tones Mr. High-
Clymer with an apology rose and quit-
ted the room. With ghastly composure
his poor wife kept her seat, and _ tried
to look as if nothing unusual was_hap-
pening while the wildest imaginings
confused her brain. The guests who
were not at her table gave free rein to
their surmises, which were certainly not
charitable: ‘Their host had been sud-
denly arrested ;"’ *' His fortune had col-
lapsed like a pricked bubble.’’ **Z. had
refused to serve dinner unless his ac-
count was paid,’’ etc. Everything was
thought of but the true explanation of
the difficulty, which was a strike on the
part of the afore-mentioned heads of the
kitchen and their subordinates, with
which the unlucky host had nothing
whatever to do.

After a wait of ten minutes, which
seemed hours, Mr. H.-C. returned, and
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of the situation having been that that
unfortunate gentleman was obliged to
pay an enormous bonus over and above
the cost of the dinner, to induce the
‘*fraternity of the frying-pan’’ to post-
pone their attack upon their employer
until after the meal had been served.
Of course, a full explanation to all the
assembled guests was impossible, and
although at his own table Mr. High-
Clymer told of his dilemma, all sorts of
stories received credence, and the
charm of the entertainment was over.
The dance which followed was dull and
spiritless. Peopie kept together in little
knots and refused to be hilarious, and
the much-talked-of function which had
promised to be so brilliant was a dis-
tinct failure.

‘*A setback of several years for the
High-Clymers, I should say!"’ remarked
Mrs. Caustic, who had not been invited
to the dinner dance. ‘‘That is the
trouble with that kind of people; you
never can tell what they will do!”
‘*But he could not help astrike,’’ urged
good natured Mrs. A——. on re
turned the other lady, incredulously,
‘that is their story; but who knows
what the trouble really was !"’

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A Munificent Offer.

‘“Charley,’’ said the senior member of
the firm, as the young traveling man
came in, ‘‘I want to see you.’’

“"Wes. Sir.) /

‘You have been with us for some
time and you have done well.”’

‘*Thank you, sir.’’

‘*And we appreciate it. Let’s see,
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we are now paying you $14, are we
not?”’

“Ves, Sir.”

‘‘Well, I want to convince you that
faithfulness pays in the end, and I want
to tell you that we have decided to ad-
vance your salary.’"*

‘*Thank you, sir.”’

‘‘Now, I have watched you carefully
for some time, and from the first of
the month | have instructed my book-
keeper to pay you $14.50 per week,
which I hope will be appreciated. ”’

‘*T am awfully sorry,’’ said Charley,
as the tears trickled down his cheeks,
‘*but your offer comes too late. I have
just accepted a place with another firm
at $14.65 and was just going to notify
you.”’

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JANE CRAGIN.

Milltown Makes a Few Improvements.

The day after the dedication of the
new church at Milltown, Mrs. Bettis
came to the store to talk it over.

‘*T know it’s only Monday morning,
but I couldn't wait, and so I got up at
four o’clock and got my washing out the
first thing ; and as soon as He had swal-
lowed his breakfast, | tells Him to har-
ness old Kit, and here I be.”’

‘“*Twas a good time, and ev'ry
thing’s as nice and putty as can be:
but I says, goin’ home, ‘! don’t want
no more meetin’ houses in mine!’
Buildin’ on ’em does bring out the
mean streaks in folks, don't it? How-
somever, there it stands, the puttiest
meetin’ haouse that | know on, anywheres
and when we git some vines aclimbin’
all over it, and things fixed so it looks
ez if the Laud lived in it, it’s goin’ to
be a comfort to go in there and rest.

“Did ye ever see anybody, though
act quite so—thunderin’ mean, if | must
say it, as them there Bassetts. Once
or twice it did seem to me ez if 1
must git up right in meetin’ and bang
Amasy Bassett’s old head agin the side
o’ the house ‘til what little sense she
hed was spilled all over the floor; and
that night, when that little mincin’
Almeny stuck in her clack, ef da
be’n near ‘nough, I'd a sheok her liver
out uv her! Then them there Pelseys!
If that wan't the greatest perlformernce
that I ever went anywhere! I believe,
my soul, if Poll Pelsey hadn't a stopped
jest ez she did, I'd a dabbed ‘er with
some o’ that butter that Hile stole!

‘‘Waal, its’ all over with, and the
meetin’ haouse is put up jest where i
wanted it, and they may whistle all
they want to. J guess they'll come
raound fast ’nough when they see that
nobody cares anything about ’em.”’

It had been, indeed, a time which
‘tried men’s souls.’ The little box of
a building, which had served tor many
years the double purpose of church and
school had never been ‘‘beautiful for
situation’? and the first battle which
had been fought over the new. structure
had been in regard to location. The
only point to be made in its favor was
that the lot belonged to the Society and
as Amasa Bassett put it ‘‘thdat was so
much to start on and with that fer a
‘nuclis’ the church could go on con-
querin’ and to conquer.’’ The offer of
a new and a better site removed that
objection. Then the opponents to the
change, with many a‘‘waal’’ and ‘‘arter
all,’’ declared that ‘‘no new site could
never make up fer the old idee o’
goin’ up to Jerusylum and a worshipin’
in the same temple whar ver fathers
hev warshiped unto the third and fourth
gineration.’”’

That was an idea to touch the popular
heart, especially of that portion who
‘‘wan’t agoin’ to hev_ no new site;’’
and here was where ‘‘them there Pel-
seys’’ made a point.

‘*Seems ter me.’’ wailed Polly Pel-
sey, ‘‘ez if I never could be reckonciled
to the idee o’ movin’ the old meetin’-
haouse where par and mar and sister
Alviry used ter come and set under the
drippins o' the sanctuary, nohow; and
when | think as how long they’ve_ slept
and slumbered out there under the
shadder o’ this here old ark o’ Zion
which the Laud in his marsy hezz
planted here ter a wicked and a pre-
verse gineration, it does se-em jest ez
i-f I—oo hoo—’’ and the house resound-
ed with the woman’s sobs.

‘‘l, for one,’’ solemnly remarked

 

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
Deacon White, after a moment or two :
of respectful waiting for the sobs to sub-
side, ‘‘acknowledge and confess that

Mis’ Pelsey’s words hev met witha
corresponsible chord in my heart. Out OUR COSTS $5

there within sound of my voice lies my
father and my mother and my grand-
father, fer 1 don’t know how many gin- |
erations abaek; and, when | think o’ 0
pullin’ up stakes and pitchin’ my tent
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a day’s march nearer home, I can hear
ev'ry blessed one on ’em a turnin’ over

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They wouldn't like it, my frmen’s;
and, Sunday arter Sunday, as I seta
listenin’ to the Word, I like ter look
aout the winder and see the robings and
the blue jays a fightin’ over the juniper
berries that grows on the graves of my
loved ones, and I say with Mis’ Pelsey
and the large numbers of others within
saound uv my voice, ‘Don’t remove the
old lan’marks;’ but fix up the old sanc-
tuary with the money the Laud hez
pervided, and come up here with aour
wives and aour children and aour fam-
blies and lay aourselves upon the altars
which aour forefathers hev raised up
in the wilderness fer us, ter be a sign
and a guidepost fer the avenging angel
to see and pass over !’’

With the reference to the robins and
the juniper berries there were lively
manifestations on the part of Mrs. Bet-
tis. Josiah, who had seen the comical
side of the Deacon's remarks and was
wondering ‘‘why somebody didn’t say
suthin’ ter stop that there nonsense, "’
felt Mrs. Bettis’ elbow in his ribs and
heard her loud whisper telling him to
‘‘Git up and say somethin’ !’’ or she
would, a threat which was fuli of dire-
ful meaning and which accomplished
its purpose, for no sooner had the dea-
con ceased speaking than the burly
frame of Josiah Bettis arose.

‘‘T think, with the Deac’n and Mis’
Pelsey,’’ said he, ‘‘that the old folks
out there under the juniper ought to
have suthin’ ter say ‘baout this ,here
meetin’ haouse business. Take old Zeb,
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season, there was war in Milltown.
When it was over and the clouds had
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TRADESMAN 13

 

under a magnificent elm on one side of
the square to be converted into a com-
mon. When the spring opened the fol-
lowing year, it was apparent that the
time had come for further improve-
ments, and, finally, after matters had
been pretty thoroughly talked over in
the office of the Milltown store, there
was a full meeting of the Association in
the rooms upstairs, where it was dis-
cussed and decided what had better be
done.

‘‘Ever since the hotel has _ been
opened,’’ said the President, ‘‘the vil-
lage has been the favorite stopping-
place of a large number of first-class
traveling men; and, while I wasn’t fa-
vorable to the opening of that house at
first, I see I was mistaken and I’m will-
ing to say so. Now, I have something
else to say: Every once ina while, |
get a letter asking if there are any va-
cant houses to be rented here during the
summer, and, if there ain’t, whether
there are places here where board can

be had for grown folks and children.
Now, that means that people have

heard pieasant things about Milltown,
and I want ’em to hear more; and [ll
leave it to any you if a village is
what it ought to be which hasn’t a_ foot
of decent sidewalk and hardly a tree on
its single street. Now, I don’t want to
turn Milltown into a city—that isn’t my
idea, but I do want to see it a pretty
village, with shady streets and grassy
lawns well taken
blossoming in the
roses climbing over the
verandas shaded with and
and all that sort o’ thing. I think there
ought to be a decent road through the
village and a good many miles each
side of it; and I want to have it so that
we can go across the street without get-
ting knee deep in the mud in wet
weather, and without getting covered
with dust when it’s dry. We havea
church and a tavern and now we want
a good schoolhouse. Just fancy a fine
handsome schoolhouse on the side of
the common opposite the church! I
tell you, we must have these things, if
we’re counting on having a likely town
one of these days; and that’s what we
must count on.

‘*Now, what I want of you is to work
up the matter of sidewalks and tree-
planting ; and I want that last to come
first. What’s the reason we can’t make
a splurge on Arbor Day—there’s need
enough of it? I’m willing to do my
share—you know that; but I want the
folks here to wake up and do some-
thing for themselves. There isn’t any-
thing worth anything which doesn’t cost
something ; and I want to get our folks
to want these things so bad that they'll
be willing to pay something for them.
What do you say—shall Milltown have
an Arbor Day?’’

There was an unanimous vote in the
affirmative and the Society adjourned,
amid great enthusiasm, to meet at the
call of the President.

RICHARD MALCOLM STRONG.
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The recent split in the Salvation
Army has brought out the fact that the
organization owns some $4,000, 000 worth
of property, and that ‘‘General’’ Booth
owns it all. The manner in which
provides for his own children and the
lavish way in which he spends the
money contributed by people of small
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The Commercial Traveler’s Mission.
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Is the way he comes—the man who drums—
And everybody’s glad.

If sales go low and collections slow,
And the merchant's feeling blue,

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CREDULITY AND SCEPTICISM.”
Written for the TRADESMAN.

This is not the age of superstition.
We have relegated that to the Dark
Ages and, proud of our mental enlight-
enment—education having dissipated
the mists of prejudice and ignorance
that once held the world in thrail—

fondly cherish the presumption that

human nature has attained the acme of
mental supremacy. Yet even a casual
observation of mankind will reveal the
tact that no such optimistic conclusion
is possible. There are thousands, to-
day, in every walk of life, whose doubts,
based on ignorance, and whose beliefs,
controlled only by unsatisfied desire,
have no more solid foundation than the
superstition of former days. You may
find them every day, in the business
world, exploiting both with an earnest-
ness justified neither by reason nor by
the result of personal experience.

It is as common for intelligent men
to doubt
lieve without evidence, and both doubts
and beliefs cover a wide range of sub-

against reason as it 1s to be-

jects. They remind one of the old lady
whose seafaring son was entertaining
her with marvelous tales of adventure in
foreign lands. When he told of moun-
tains of sugar and seas of rum, of hor-
rid tragedies and hairbreadth escapes
from fire, flood and cannibal savages,
of tornadoes, wondrous birds, beasts
and sea monsters, she sat open mouthed,
accepting every word as truth. But,
when he dropped into commonplace
narration—and mentioned the well-
known experience of travelers seeing
fish flying from the sea and alighting
on the ship’s deck, she was quick to
reprove him for the sin of lying. ** My,
mother,’’ said he, ‘‘that is not half so
wonderful as the story of Jonah and the
whale that you always assured. me was
truce.” was her reply,
‘you know that there isa wide differ-
ence between the story of Jonah and
your flying fish yarn. I can believe the
first, because it is in the Bible; but no
man can make me believe that fishes
created to swim in the water ever fly
like birds; and I hope, for my sake,
that you will never repeat that foolish
story.”’

Now, George, ’’

No less credulous and skeptical are
the crowds that follow the traveling
healers of to-day. Doubting what ex-
perience has taught of practical thera-
peutics,and believing in the mysterious
incantations of an unknown conjuror,
they resemble the animal in the fable
that dropped his bone to grasp its
shadow. Schlatter and Burke, with a
host of imitators, are sure to drawa
miraculous draught of believers with an
influence almost as wonderful as that
displayed on the shores of the Sea of
Galilee.

gathers of every kind, so divine healers

And, as in fishing, the seine

weave the web of confidence over the
wise and foolish alike, since human na-
ture and animal instinct have much in
common.

Education does not tend to lessen the
tendency of mankind to discard the
material and tangible in favor of the
unknown and improved medicaments
of the
So, through our broad land, companies
of so-called doctors, with titles self-be-
stowed and remedies prepared for every
human ailment, appeal! to the thousands
of every age and sex who ever felt a
symptom of disease, however trivial,
and wherever they go they never plead
in vain.

Sometimes, a long-haired disciple of
Galen—thrice removed—will appear

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in small towns for a two weeks’ stay, ac-
companied by a brace of decayed farce
performers and perhaps a group of real
Indians, to attract attention. A tent
performance is given each night, with
variations, to crowds that linger to
catch the last war whoop or to deposit
their silver for a medicine to fit each
one’s diagnosis, based upon a most
learned(?) lecture sandwiched between
the acts. Not unfrequently, he induces
the resident druggist to stock up with
his remedies, in anticipation of the de-
mand that he asserts will follow these
advertising methods long aiter the pro-
prietor has left for pastures new. Some-
times, he even succeeds, by a similar
plausible inducement, in securing or-
ders from jobbers.

In daily observation of men in every
condition of life, we notice a similar
tendency to credulity. Almost against
one’s will, the first sight of a new move
suggests results favorable or otherwise.
The traditions imbibed in childhood
have a wonderful hold on the man, as
from time to time he meets psychologi-
cal evidence of their power to influ-
ence individual action. As a_ proof of
the innate propensity of the mind to ac-
cept blindly what can have no connec-
tion with reason, I may cite the fact
that, of all the free literature that cum-
bers the counter of the dealer, none are
so much in demand as advertising dream
books. Even a professor of the higher
branches of learning is not always ex-
empt from the mental frailty that con-
nects the carrying of a buckeye in his
pocket with its virtue as a prophylactic
against some bodily infirmity.

As to the doubting propensity of the
human mind in matters that influence
the action of individuals everywhere,
the evidence is continuous and over-
whelming. The business man meets it
every day of his life in customers who
distrust either the quality of his goods
or the value he has fixed upon them.
The druggist is confronted, often, by
unbelieving applicants for all sorts of
remedies, both solid and liquid. They
take especial pains to ventilate their
distrust of powdered drugs, ‘‘because
they are so likely to be adulterated,’’
and of spirituous liquors, also, and for
no better reason. They always insist on
having ‘‘the best,’’ in a tone insinuating
doubt, and not seldom they volunteer
the uncomplimentary assertion that ‘‘the
best is none too good.’’ The physician
is distrusted by legions of unthinking
people in their hours of ease and
health, or when suffering only minor
ailments. The lawyer is discredited on
general principles or ex parte testimony,
but the politician for cause, especially
when conditions adverse to the doubter
have soured personal ambitions. Yet
a blind faith in the wondrous ability {of
each sometimes gets the upper hand of
an unbeliever’s normal judgment, fas
occasion may prompt him to reverse a
too hasty decision.

The tendency to doubt the wisdom or
honesty of legislators is a mental proc-
ess by far the most common and _per-
sistent among popular sceptics. No
doubt, it is too often justified by facts
for one to rashly charge injustice upon
the persons compelled to entertain them
Still, there may be mitigating circum-
stances that condone many of the worst
acts of that branch of government,
since it is impossible for a private cit-
izen suddenly elevated to a position of
public responsibility to leave his per-
sonal prejudices, crude theories of leg-
islation, and ambitious projects on the
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Our Bob and May is the best grain shoe made. a

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Our Rochester Misses and Childs’ Dongola they all swear by.
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The Boston Rubber Shoe Company are making a great many new
kinds this season, embracing all the new styles in toes, including the
extreme 20th Century; also Boys’ and Youths’ Sandals in narrow toes
We will have them.
nearly all the specialties in bulk, and we will carry them in stock and
be able to take good care of any orders given us.
terms are as favorable as offered by any agent of the Boston Rubber
Shoe Co. Wait and see our salesmen before placing your order.

They are packing

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Payable December 1, 1896.

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Reeder Bros. Shoe Co.
are closing out their entire
Leather Stock of Boots
and Shoes. Come in and
see the bargains or see
samples of our men on the
road. We will do an ex-
clusive rubber business in
the future. Hold your
rubber orders until we see
you, as Lycomings and
«Keystones are the best.

REEDER BROS. SHOE GD.

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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

15

 

 

State or National capital. Besides, the
petitions he receives from cranky con-
stituents, and the lobbying pressure en-
countered every day of the session, are
enough to unhinge the best balanced
mind. Between the credulity of some
and the scepticism of others, common
sense, the natural guardian of the peo-
ple’s interests, is often laid on the
table, while folly or greed dictates stat-
utes for weal or woe, perhaps also for
subsequent judicial criticism and re-
peal.

In these days especially, when the
minds of men are stirred by the wor-
derful feats of inventive genius that
have drawn the latent forces of Nature
into the sunlight of observation and
made them servants to an endless chain
of progress, credulity and scepticism
find wide manifestation. Nor seldom
do they appear in one and the same
person. There are many who believe in
new theories of finance, new methods of
conducting trade, new schemes of
ameliorating the condition of the poorer
classes, none of which have any con-
nection with worthy precedent, but are,
for the most part, tentative and crude
in conception. Many are the ghosts of
old failures, now revived in hope that
the new air of progress will give them
power to produce more satisfactory re-
sults. Their supporters constitute a
class that distrust the wise lessons of ex-
perience and scoff at any reference to
the equities of the case by those who
revere the conservative policy that
guided our National progress to its
present advanced stage. Under our
form of government they have power to
work incalculable mischief to the busi-
ness interests of the country and, cor-
respondingly, to the happiness of all.
The will of the majority often fails to
secure expression, by reason of the vari-
ous schemes that are forced into prom-
inence by each discordant faction.
Clamor drowns the voice of reason, ob-
scures the main points of essential pop-
ular agreement and overturns policies
that have heretofore formed the basis
of true prosperity.

The business interests of the country
have suffered more harm from the dis-
trust engendered by false or exaggerated
charges against accumulated wealth,
both private and corporate, than from
accidents, poor crops or all other causes
combined. It is so easy for men to
believe, without reason, what appeals
to the selfish side of their nature that
the demagogue finds here a fertile field
to sow seed which ripens into panics,
strikes and violent methods of redress-
ing grievances, and which seriously
curtails the legitimate rewards of indus-
trial enterprise. As confidence is the
foundation of all successful business,
whatever weakens, without cause, the
faith of men in each other’s integrity is
an evil whose effects can hardly be
overestimated. When it crystallizes in-
to wild methods of class legislation, as
has been too often apparent, the condi-
tion is perilous to the rights of every
citizen. The security of the whole peo-
ple depends on the will of the majority.
If that will is wisely exercised accord-
ing to the principles of abstract justice,
we would have little cause to deplore
the credulity or scepticism that, to-day,
exerts such a powerful influence upon
legitimate business enterprise.

S. P. WHITMARSB.

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When you overpower yourself you are
indeed a powerful man.

Whenever your competitor begins to
call you a liar, you have him downed.

 

Clerks’ Corner

If the Shoe Pinches, Put It Gn.

‘‘T suppose you read that little story
in the Tradesman the other day about
the college dude who didn’t want to
take the blacksmithing which came in
the Cornell course because he didn’t
want to dirty his hands, didn’t you?’’

 

 

 

‘*Yes, why?”’

‘*Don’t yowthink there’s a little hint
in it for some of you clerking boys?’’

‘‘Hardly. We don’t stop for no dirty
job; I know I don’t and, while I don’t
have any dirty shafts to forge, as that
feller did, I'll bet I’ve forged just as
many in my line as ever he did; and
I hain’t seen any raising of salary, and
if I’ve climbed a round or two in the
old man’s opinion, he’s been mighty
careful to not let me know about it.
Do you know, you could knock me
down with a feather if the old man
should come down handsome some day
and say,’ Look here, now, Tom, that was
a mighty good job you turned out the
other day. I’m goimg to remember
that.’ There ain’t no danger, though,
I can tell you that.’’

‘ Humph!’’

‘‘Wkat you ‘humphing’ for?’’

‘‘Didn’t I hear a fellow of your size
say, the other day, that if there is any-
thing that doubles him all up, it’s a
fellow that is all the while trying to get
somebody to say something good to
him about himself? That sounds a
little familiar, does it?’’

‘*Oh, well, that’s a different thing.’’

‘‘Yes, I know it’s different, because
it is a little meaner thing than the one
you don’t like. Honestly, now, isn’t
the real reason why you want the old
drake, as you call him, to spoon on you
a little, because he may then be_ in-
clined by and by to give a lift to your
wages? Yes, I know that a fellow likes
to be appreciated, but when the Almighty
Dollar lies at the bottom of the liking,
we all know what it amounts to. The
drake knows that, too, and he does not
propose to do any preliminary quack-
ing. The point, though, I want to make
is this: The student did no end of
kicking about the blacksmithing, and
we can both of us tell, pretty accurate-
ly, what he said and how he said it; but
he did it—that’s the point—he did it,
and there isn’t a question in my mind
but that he was just as ugly about it as he
knew how to be, and that is ugly
enough. Then, when it was all over,
and he found out from some pretty
lively experience that he was wrong,
that the old drake was right, and that
he had made a blooming idiot of him-
self, did you notice how he went to
the professor and thanked him for mak-
ing the student do his work—did you
notice that?’’

‘‘Well, that wasall right, wasn’t it?’’

‘Certainly. Did you notice, too, that
the professor was pleased, although the
story didn’t say anything about that?”’

‘‘He must be a fool not to be. What
are you driving at?’’

‘‘Nothing ; only I wonder how Pro-
fessor Drake would feel to have you come
to him some day and tell him, in words
as plain as the student's, that you
want to thank him with all your heart
for his insisting ‘many a time and oft’
on your doing your duty; that just that
insisting was the making of you, and
that nothing gives you greater pleasure
than feeling this and saying this. I
believe it would make the old man feel
good. What do you think?”’

The fellow went off with a ‘‘Rats!’’

Appear on our books? If not, it should, q

étoy, as it would be proof positive that you
ty were selling the BOSTON RUBBER
SHOE Co.’s goods acknowledged to be
the best Rubbers in the world.

We sell nothing else.

DETROIT.

W. A. McGRAW & CO., |

  
  
     

 

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or ‘‘Rot!’’? I don’t know which; but
I want to say to you, boys, that there
are two sides to this question. It may
be a good thing for the boss to come
around once in a while, give you a fa-
miliar slap on the back and tell you
that he couldn’t get along without
you; but, unless he follows it with
something more substantial, it will be
hard work for you to keep up your
diminishing respect for him; and it is
that kind of fam liarity that breeds
contempt. The fact is, you are after
that raise of wages; and another fact is
that you will get it only in the same
stupid, old, stereotyped way: earning
it. That done, all you have te do is
to bide your time. It may be long in
coming, it may never come at all; but
you have the satisfaction of doing your
duty, and, better than that, you have
the intense satisfaction of never play-
ing puppy or fawning after compli-
ments which are as empty as the heart

that longs for them. |
UNCLE Bos.

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Advantages and Disadvantages of Bank
Credits.

The present commotion in banking
and commercial circles calls attention
more especially to the delicacy of the
business system of the country and _ its
sensitiveness to the slightest shocks.
The leaves of the aspen tree do not re-
spond more quickly to a_ breath of air
than do the minds of our business men
to rumors of disaster, however unfound-
ed or however trivial. As for real
causes for alarm, they seem to be _irre-
On their first appearance,
évery individual, every corporation,
and every financial institution hastens
to protect itself, regardless of the others,
like a frightened audience escaping
from a burning theater, acting like a
mob instead of a disciplined army.

sistible.

The reason of this lies in the enor-
mous extent to which credit enters into
our business transactions. For the most
part we buy and sell stocks, bonds,
merchandise, agricultural products, real
estate, and everything else which can
be bought and sold, not for money paid
down at once, but for promises to pay,
to be fulfilled ata future date. These
promises, like the fresh promises re-
ceived upon resales, the banks are ex-
pected to accept as the bases of loans,
and thus the aggregate of daily trans-
actions, in what are called good times,
goes on expanding in volume, present-
ing a superficial appearance of solidity
so long as it keeps in motion, but col-
lapsing as soon as anything stops or
even checks its customary course.
Usually this check is given by banks
rejecting the promises of a few dealers,
and it needs only that the rest of the
banks should do the same with the re-
maining dealers to produce a widely
spread and ruinous catastrophe.

An effectual remedy for the evi] would
be the abandonment of the credit sys-
tem altogether and a return to the
primitive mode of buying and selling
for cash only. Unfortunately, this rem-
edy would, itself, be an evil greater
than that which it would cure. We
should, indeed, have no more panics
and but few insolvencies, but, on the
other hand, enterprise would be fettered
and trade would be restricted to the
mere supplying of one another with the
necessaries of life. The rapid develop-
ment of the country’s resources, of
which we are all so proud, is due to the
liberality with which, for many years,
credit has been given to active, ener-
getic, and able men, and so furnishing

 

them with the means with which to ac-
complish results which otherwise would
have been unattainable. Deducting from
the gains thus made all the losses in-
curred by the credit system, an enor-
mous balance remains in favor of that
system, which it would have been folly
to lose. Mischievous as credit is, we
cannot dispense with it.

The only thing to be done, therefore,
is as much as possible to restrain credit
within safe limits. As there is a point
below which, if it be reduced, enterprise
stagnates, so there is one above which
its expansion is perilous. The difficulty
is to know when the danger line has
been reached, and to know it soon
enough to stop going beyond it. Look-
ing back over the events of 1893, for
instance, it is easy enough now to see
how the catastrophe of that year was
made possible by the inflation of both
the currency and of bank credits arising
from the operation of the Sherman act
of 1890, and by reckless speculation
in industrial and railroad stocks. As
subsequent events have shown, these
stocks were advanced in price by the
use of borrowed money until most of
them soared far above their real value.
It may be that they are now lower than
they deserve to be, but it is none the
less certain that they were then far too
high and were destined to an inevitable
fall.

The inflation which preceded the crash
of 1893 would not have been suffered
to become so great as it did, and, con-
sequently, its collapse would have pro-
duced less havoc, if the bank credits of
the country, instead of being dealt out
by many thousands of independent in-
stitutions, had been under the control of
a select few, managed by competent
men, not disdainful of receiving and
imparting information of the doings of
their customers. Had, for example, the
financial situation been communicated
in good season to all the banks of which
they were borrowing money, the true
value of their stocks would have become
known to the public much earlier than
it was, and, probably, the great losses
which purchasers of them suffered
would have been prevented. If, in like
manner, all the borrowings at different
banks by insolvent debtors could be
known to sonie central source of infor-
mation, a limit would be put to them
before they became excessive.

Against the craze for speculation,
which at certain periods seizes upon the
entire community and drives it into the
wildest excesses of speculation, no de-
fence has as yet been invented. It is
an ineradicable weakness of human na-
ture which must be endured like other
human weaknesses and its effects ac-
cepted with resignation. Here, how-
ever, that very sensitiveness to rumors
of impending evil which at this mo-
ment is making itself felt comes in to
check the rising madness and keep it
within manageable bounds. In_ these
days of electric telegraphs, when all the
world hears the news of the world every
twenty-four hours and oftener, the ebbs
and floods of popular enthusiasm oc-
cur more frequently and have a much
shorter duration than they otherwise
would. It is a true saying that a man
can be wiser than another man, but not
wiser than all other men; and when all
men pause to think on any subject their
judgment prevails.

MATTHEW MARSHALL.
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Michigan Knights of the Grip.

President, S. E. Symons, Saginaw: Secretary,
Gro. 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.
Windy Hawkins has the sympathy of
the fraternity in the death of his wife,
which occurred Sunday, leaving
small children without a
watchfulness and care.

Chas. L. Lawton (New York Biscuit
Co.) has given up his residence in this
city and taken up his residence in To-
ledo, that city being nearer the center
of his territory than Grand Rapids.

John J. Hansen, who has achieved
something of a reputation in Central
Michigan by reason of his skill in
handling bankrupt stocks, has gone to
Munising for the purpose of embarking
in the grocery and feed business.

The annual election fof officers of
Michigan Division, T. P. A., will be
held at the office of the Michigan
Tradesman, April 26, at 12:30 p. m.
Geo. F. Owen is President of the Di-
vision and Jas. B. McInnes is Secre-
tary.

The farmer oftentimes looks upon the
commercial traveler with eyes of jeal-
ousy on account of his up-to-date ap-
pearance, his sojourn in the best hos-
telry of the town, etc., but he little re-
alizes that this very same drummer has
his difficulties as well as he, but he does
not whine. Whining is foreign to his
calling, because he’s able to take care
of himself.

Too much time and energy that
might be devoted to better purposes are
wasted in repining. For such a thing
the commercial traveler has no time,
but, instead, teaches his trade to. think
little about what is unsatisfactory, to
cease sowing discouragement and_ to
meet every complaint of others with
the manly confidence, characteristic of
him, which alone lays the foundation
for a prosperous era.

The buyer who welcomes the travel-
ing salesman earns for his house the
reputation of being alive and enterpris-
ing, for every novelty handled by the
army of commercial tourists is shown to
him first, thus giving him a chance to
investigate every opportuniry to make
a drive. There are some buyers who
think they have fulfilled their duty when
they have purchased enough goods to
keep the stock in fair shape and buy
from the same houses as each season
rolls around. This policy begets a state
of affairs that sooner or later leads to
the loss of reputation to the house and
the stock never contains anything out
of the ordinary. Buyers should be com-
pelled by their employers to inspect
every line in the market and thus be-
come convinced that many good chances
and ideas are lost by giving the trav-
eling salesman, with his up-to-date
samples, the cold shoulder.

Albert C. Antrim (Alabastine Co. )
told a good many characteristic South-
ern stories on the occasion of his last
visit to the city, but one story in par-
ticular seemed to give him unusual
pleasure to relate. He said he was in
a small town in one of the Mississippi
River counties of the State, and while
waiting for a train struck up a conver-
sation with a colored brother who was
loitering about the depot. ‘‘Say, old
man,’’ said A. C., ‘‘what’s the pop-

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ulation of this burg?’’ After scratch-
ing his head a while, the negro replied :
‘*Reckon she am in de neighborhood
ob fo’ hun’red.’’ ‘‘Have you much of
a floating population,’’ inquired A, C.
once more. ‘*Now yer shoutin’, boss, ’’
said the darkey. ‘‘Ef yer am_ lookin’
‘bout fur a popylashun dat does mo’
floatin’ dan we does, yer has jess got ter
trabble back er de days uv ole man
Noah. We jess got ober one rise dat toted
us down de Mississippi, an’ it tuk usa
week er walk back, an’ I reckon ’twon’t
be mo’n anudder mont’ befo’ we'll be
takin’ de same trip agin. Oh, yes,
boss, in de floatin’ line dis is de mos’
unanimous popylashun yo’ eber will
cum across.”’

Bill Nye once made over a poor min-
ister into a successful drummer. A
Vermont minister wrote to him offering
him a lot of jokes and witticisms he
had collected that were not quite the
thing to ‘‘fire off’? in the pulpit, but
which would be invaluable to a humor-
ist. He was willing to retail them at
so much per dozen. ‘‘I wrote him up,”’
said Bill Nye, ’**in one of my syndi-
cate letters, inserting his letter anony-
mously, but just as itcame to me. A
week later came a furious epistle, say-
ing his parishioners had read it and
caught on, because of the mention of a
certain hall; that war had been declared
and he must resign. Two years later,

James Whitcomb Riley and I
were on a_ reading tour, we struck St.
Louis, and I hadn’t been in my hotel
an hour when a man’s card was brought
‘Show him up,’ I said to the bell
boy; then it dawned on me that it was
this minister. I am no coward, but |
was unarmed, so I rushed to Riley, cry-
ing, ‘For heaven’s sake, Riley, help
me, help me! Hunt up a revoiver, the
poker, anything. Here’s a man after
my pelt.’ Just then the door opened
and a tall, smiling, fair-haired chap
entered, who grasped my hand with a
cordial squeeze, saying heartily, ‘Mr.
Nye, I've come to thank you for the
kindest thing ever done to me. I was
of no use in the ministry ; now I’m one
of the most popular and — successful
drummers on the road.’ ’’

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The Hardware Market.

General trade is improving a little.
While no one is disposed to buy largely,
there is quite a demand for seasonable
spring goods and, if we have the right
kind of weather, it is believed that a
fairly good volume of trade will result.
Recent developments in the steel mar-
ket have produced a slight advance in
all raw material, which is gradually ex-
tending to the manufactured article;
and, while it is not reasonable to sup-
pose prices will rule as high as last
year, it is believed that values will be
higher on heavy goods.

Wire Nails—At present there is no
change, but manufacturers have given
notice of an advance for May of 15¢
per keg. While this brings them up
pretty high, it is claimed that the As-
sociation wili be able to hold this price
until July 1, if not indefinitely. We do
not advise overbuying at the present
price.

Barbed Wire—In sympathy with the
advance in steel billets, all wire has ad-
vanced $2 per ton and may go _ higher,

while

nie.

should another advance in billets be
made.
Sheet Iron—Orders are now being

placed for fall shipment and those who
place them now will, undoubtedly, save
$2@4 per ton by not waiting until later.

Window Glass—Is firm at the price
last quoted.

 

PRODUCE MARKET.
Apples—$2.75@3.50 per bbl.

quality Michigan and Ohio fruit. The
favorite varieties at present are Ben
Davis, Greenings, Baldwins, and Ro- |

man Beauty.

Beans—During the period under re-|

view there has been a fair demand both
for home consumption and export, and
values have generally been well main-

tained, although in one or two instances |

a slight decline has occurred.
Butter—Fancy roll is coming in freely,

quotations ranging from 15@16c. Fair
to choice dairy commands 13@t4c.

Factory creamery is in fairly active de-
mand at Ige.

Beets—25c per bu.

Cabbage—s5o@6oc per doz. for home
grown. Florida stock has
$3 per crate of about 3 dozen heads.

Carrots—Southern grown, 50c per doz.

Celery—13c per doz. bunches.

Cider—15@18c per gal. ; Crabapple,
20€.

Cranberries—Jerseys in boxes are still
in limited demand and supply at $2.50
per bu.

Eggs—About the same as a week ago,
handlers holding quotations fairly firm
at I0c.

Hickory Nuts—(Ohio)
per bu., large, $1 per bu.

Honey—Dealers ask 15@t6c for white
clover, 13@14c for dark buckwheat.

Lettuce—12'%c per lb.

Onions—Home grown are in faif de-
mand and ample supply, commanding
30@4oc per bu. Bermudas command $3
per Crate.

Pop Corn—Rice, 3c per lb.

Potatoes—The market is not changing
for the better. Buyers at Northern
points are getting all they require at 7c.

Radishes—3o0c per doz. bunches.

Seeds—Clover command $4.75@5 for
Mammoth, $4.50@4.75 for Medium,
$4.75 for Alsyke, $3.50 for Crimson and
$5@5.25 for Alfalfa. Timothy com-
mands $1.55 for prime and $1.75 for
choice.

Sweet Potatoes—The market is high-
er, Illinois Jerseys bringing $4.50 per
bbl. and $1.60 per bu.

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Jackson Jottings.

D. S. Fleming, of the Parker-Flem-
ing Co, has returned from his Western
trip, with his wife and daughter. They
greatly enjoyed their trip through the
land of fruits and flowers.

Losey & Haven have purchased the
grocery stock and fixtures of B. C.
Drake, 707 South Blackstone street, and
will continue the business.

Riggs & Winslow, 504 North Black-
stone street, have sold their grocery
stock and fixtures to Hoyt & Vedder.

G. A. Chisholen has purchased the
grocery stock and fixtures of M. Nielsen
921 East Main street, and will continue
the business.

James Greenwooc, grocer at 206 West
Trail street has taken a partner and the
business will be conducted in the future
by Greenwood & Eldred.

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After many contradictions and
amendatory reports it seems to be set-
tled that a combination has been formed
of all the important steel billet manu-
facturers of the country. This action
is, probably, an outcome of the combi-
nation which had been formed to put
ore ap to $4 and the other which had ad-
vanced the price of coke $1. These
operated to increase the cost of produc-
ing the steel about $3 and so were made
the basis of advancing prices from $17
to $20 per ton. There was a report that
the combination included all the manu-
facturers of other countries as well as
this but it was without foundation.

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Business men who buy Robinson's
Cider Vinegar are always to the front in
trade.

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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.

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Michigan Hardware Association
President, F. S. CarnLeton, Calumet; Vice-Pres-
ident, Henry C. Wrpen, De
Treasurer, HENRY C. MINNIE, Eaton Rapids.

 

Northern Mich. Retail Grocers’ Association
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Next Meeting

At Grand Rapids, Aug. 4 and 5,
1896.
Traverse City Business Men’s Association
President, Taos. T. Barus; Secretary, a. 6B.

Houtuiy; Treasurer, C. A. HAMMOND.
Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association
President, E. C
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WINCHESTER: Secretary, HOMER

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Owosso Business Men’s Association
A.D. WHIPPL

Treasurer, \

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Jackson Retail Grocers’ Association
President, Byron C. Hii; Secretary, W. H.
TER: Treasurer, J. F. HELMER.

Por-

Alpena Business Men’s Association
President, F. W.
PARTRIDGE.

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Lansing Retail Grocers’ Association
President, F. B. Jounson; Secretary, A. M
Darime:; Treasurer, L. A. GILKEY.

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Drugs--Chemicals

STATE BOARD OF PHARMACY.

Cc. A. BuGBEE, Charlevoix
S. E. PARKILL, Owosso
F. W. R. Perry, Detroit
Four Years— - A.C. ScHUMACHER, Ann Arbor
Five Years— . Gro. GuNDRUwM, Ionia
President, C. A. BuGBEE, Charlevoix.
Secretary, F. W. R. Perry, Detroit.
Treasurer, GEO. GuNDRUM, Tonia.
‘oming Meetings—Detroit (Star Island), June 23.
Lansing, November 3.

MICHIGAN STATE PHARMACEUTICAL
ASSOCIATION.

One Year— - -
Two Years—
Three Years—

 

President, Gro. J. Warp, St. Clair.
(S. P. WuirmarsH, Palmyra;
1G. C. Portus, Armada.
Secretary, B. ScnroupeR, Grand Rapids.
Treasurer, WM. Dupont, Detroit.
Executive Committee—F. J. Wurzpure, Grand
Rapids: F. D. Stevens, Detroit; H. G. Couman,
Kalamazoo: E. T. Wess, Jackson; D. M. Rus-
SELL, Grand Rapids.

Vice-Presidents

The Drug Market.
Acetanilid—The demand has contin-
ued light and wholly for small parcels,
with prices nominally steady.
Acids—The general movement has
been only moderate, but one or two im-
portant changes in prices have occurred
during the week. Pyrogallic has been
reduced. Manufacturers of salicylic
have advanced quotations, but limited
quantities in second hands can yet be
had at old figures. Carbolic continues
firm.
Alcohol

moderate

to find a
at former

continues
outlet

-~Grain
consuming

prices. Wood is moving steadily.
Arsenic—-There is a continued firm
market for prime English makes of

powdered white and the principal hold-
ers continue to offer sparingly.
Balsams—With the exception of a fair
jobbing business in Central American
copaiba, within the old range, there is
a quiet general market and there are no
new features of special interest except
a reduction in prices of Peru.
Beans—All are held witha
fair degree of steadiness, and there is
a good general inquiry from consumers.
Mexican vanilla active ina
jobbing way and firm.
Bismuth Preparations — Quotations
have been revised and showa decline.
Cacao Butter—A continued quiet mar-

varieties

continue

ket is noted, and prices remain nomi-
nally steady.
Cassia Buds—Dealers report a con-

tinued good jobbing demand, with val-
ues steady.

Cocaine improvement
either here or abroad, and the market
remains inactive and featureless.

Cod Liver Oil
turing consumers

-Shows no

-The ,large manufac-
are said to have
ered their immediate and nearby wants
and the only business reported is of a
moderate jobbing character, but,
withstanding

more favorable

coVy-

not-
the quieter condition and
the
eries in Norway, prices have a fairly
Holders generally,
however, are not anxious sellers, as

accounts from

steady

support.
In-
shortage
before the consuming season closes.

dications favor a considerable

Colocynth Apples—Are unsettled and
easier.
Cubeb. Berries—Remain dull and

nominal.
Cuttle Fish Bone
jobbing business is
prices steady.
Essential Oils
easier. Cajeput

A continued good

in progress, with
-Anise is slightly
is firmer and holders
have advanced quotations. Clove has
declined. Sassafras is stronger, and
natural has been marked up.

Flowers—The only feature of interest
in this department is a general reduc-
tion in American saffron.

fish- |

Glycerin-—Is finding a moderate con-
suming outlet at the cld quotations.

Gums—One of the principal features
of the market this week is the sudden
and unexpected decline of 4c per pound
in the price of refined camphor. The
revision of the quotations by American
refiners is in sympathy with a break in
the London market, and the important
change is attributed to forced offerings
of crude camphor by the English syn-
dicate. There is a belief that the for-
eign speculative holders have more
stock than they can carry, and that the
lower prices indicate a weakened posi-
tion, although the cables received are
not of that tenor. The situation is
somewhat mixed at the moment, but
later developments may clear up the
uncertainty. Arabic continues strong,
with first picked advanced. Kino is
strong, the recent cheap offerings hav-
ing been absorbed.

Leaves—There is a good demand _ for
short buchu and prices continue steady.
Senna of all kinds continue to harden
in price, owing to light stocks, together
with the disturbances in the Soudan,
which materially interfere with ship-
ments of new crop.

Lycopodium—The demand has begun
to improve, in anticipation of the com-
ing political campaign, and values are
steady.

Manna—The inquiry continues light
and wholly for small parcels, with
prices unchanged.

Menthol—Is weak and freely offered,
but buyers are not inclined ‘to operate
in excess of existing wants, which are
light and unimportant.

Opium—Business has been slow, and
during the week only small jobbing
sales reported. Cables from
Smyrna report sales at 8s., but later ad-
vices indicate a firmer tone, witha frac-
tional advance.

Quicksilver—Continues in limited
request, but prices are well sustained.

Roots—A continued firm market is
reported for ipecac with a good season-
able demand, and a fair business has
been done. Jalap is unchanged.
Jamiaca ginger is very frm, owing to
scarcity, nearly all recent arrivals of
new crop having been taken for export
to London. Senega is weak. Prime
galangal is very scarce and firm.

Salol— Manufacturers’ agents have ad-
vanced their quotations for bulk.

Seeds-——The general seed market has
not developed much that is particularly
| new or Interesting, and, as a rule, the
| situation has been quiet, with the lim-
|; ited transactions almost exclusively of
the jobbing order. All varieties of
canary, except Sicily, are dull, weak
and depressed. Dutch caraway is
cent higher in Holland, but supplies on
the spot are yet quoted on the old basis.
Cardamoms are very firm, with a fair
business reported. Coriander is barely
steady. Russian hemp and German
rape continue firm. Mustard of all
kinds are quiet, with California brown
showing a decline. There is no further
change in Italian fennel, which remains
nominaily steady.
| Spermaceti -The market has ruled
quiet without further change in_ prices.

Sponges—-No business ts reported,
and the market is characterized as_ dull
but firm. Latest advices from Florida
State that the fleets from various points
have started for the Rock Island fishing
grounds, but the outlook is considered
poor, owing to the recent numerous
storms. The disturbance in Cuba_ has
practically shut out that market, as lit-
tle can be done in the way of gathering,
| and latest reports from Nassau indicate
| continued high prices for all varieties.

Sugar of Milk—The market is steady
| under a continued active demand, with
| values maintained.

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Testing the Legality of the Rebate.
From the New York Shipping List.

As stated in last issue, a Cincinnati
firm of patent medicine dealers, having
a National reputation for cutting prices
and furnishing cut-rate stores with sup-
plies, has threatened to inaugurate an-
other war against the rebate plan. Pre-
vious litigation of the same sort was
fruitless and costly, but the firm in
question finds it more difficult to secure
rebate goods, and prosecution is now
threatened under New York State laws,
which provide against conspiracy and
boycotting. A great deal of bluster has
been indulged in, and lawyers engaged
by the prosecution seem to be very anx-
ious to talk tor publication and to give
away their plans in advance. Officers
of the National Wholesale Druggists’
Association came in for a good share of
condemnation, but they have stood such
fire in the past, and are not likely to
retreat in the present engagement.

What does this Cincinnati firm want?
To procure goods on its own terms. Sys-
tematic attempts have been made for
years by this concern to wreck the _ re-
bate system and to demoralize the whole
trade. No regard is paid to rebate con-
tracts, and the firm in consequence can
only obtain goods from manufacturers
and jobbers at long prices. The firm is
only boycotted on the rebate, which is
refused to all cutters. Not being able
to dictate terms to all the trade, it goes
from court to court to secure alleged
rights, and in the meantime the daily
papers are given information concern-
ing patent medicine combinations, to
prejudice the public mind.

It is thought that the proposed suits
are intended to frighten the manufac-
turers, with the view of securing their
goods on more favorable terms under
cover, but we believe it is a mild April
fool’s joke and hardly worth serious
consideration. All prosecution of this
sort reflects credit on the management
of the rebate system. With reference to
the legality of the action of the manu-
facturer who endeavors to guard his
terms under the rebate system, the opin-
ion of Chief justice Fuller, given in the
case of Fowle vs. Park,was that ‘‘ven-
ders are entitled to sell to the best ad-
vantage, and in doing so to exercise the
right to preclude themselves from en-
tering into competition with those who
purchased, and to prevent competition
between purchasers ; and purchasers are
entitled to such protection as is reason-
ably necessary for their benefit.”’

Soon after the anti-trust law was
passed the Committee on Proprietary
Goods got an expert legal opinion upon
the question whether the contract exist-
ing between the proprietors of ‘‘ patents’’
and the wholesalers who secured a_ re-
bate was a violation of the new law,
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Phosphorium, dil... @ 15|Junipera............ 150@ 2 00) assafcetida ......... 50
Salicylicum. ........ 5b@, 69 See teteeecees %@ 2 00} Atrope Belladonna. 60
Sulphuricum. ...... 1%@  5| Limonis............. 1 30@ 150) Auranti Cortex..... 50
Tannicum ......--.- 1 40@ 1 60 | Mentha Piper....... 2 2@ 3 00} Benzoin............. 60
Tartaricum.......... saa 40| Mentha Verid....... 2 6°@ 2 75 | Benzoin Co... 50
ic fi i Morrhue, gal....... 2 00@ 2 1C| Barosma ce 50
eae ee “2 a ‘
A Myrcia, ounce....... @ 50| Cantharides 5
Aqua, 16 deg........ 40) ClOnge 75@ 3 00| Gapsicum........ 5
Aqua, 20 deg........ 6@ §| Pieis Liquida......- 10@ 12] Gardamon........ a
Carbonas....-...-.- 12@ 14} Picis Liquida, gal... @ 35| Cardamon Co.... "5
Chioridum ...._... -- me 14) Bienes  .. N@ | Gastar... oe 1 00
Aniline Soe arini.......... cane ; = Catechu......... 50
cae | mOse, Gunce........ 6 50@ 8 5 Yj 5
Black... ... ..------ 2 0@ 2 25) Sueeini 2.2.0.2... 40@ 4 oo ntcpaa ene a ]
Brown ......---.--:- 80@ 1 00 WA Se e
r ey + on | Sains . eees 9@ 1 00) Columba 50
a 45@ _ 50| Santal..... 1.2.0... 2 50@ 7 00 Cub ee 50
Yellow) (000000200. 2 50@ 3 00| Sassafras re a 5
= Sassafras........-... 50@ 55! Cassia Acutifol..... 50
Baccz Sinapis, ess., ounce. @ 65] Cassia Acutifol Co : 50
Cubewe.......- po.18 13@ 15 Fius wee eee sense ees . = 1 . = ie ota 50
iperus.-..-.-... a sis vee et
xanthoxyluin ee 2@ 30| Thyme, opt......... .@ 1 60 Ferri Chioridum...
” Bal Theobromas ........ DQ AiGenien |...
—— Balsamum a Potassium Gentian Co..........
a en) i
Terabin, Canada.... 40@ 45| Bichromate ........ 1I3@ 1b | eee ae
Woisten. “"" gggp $0 | Bromide............. @@ 4) 2” ae aa
olutan........----- l Cea 129@ 15 | lodine...............
Cortex Chlorate..po. 17@i9e 16@ 18 | lodine, colorless. ...
Abies, Canadian.... 18 | Ovando) 0 30@ 5 + ohetis Sarees ease
Casati i Foam a $%e 462
Cinchona Flava..... 18] Potassa, Bitart, pure 30@ 33 Nu hg oe ee ze
Euonymus atropurp 30 Petosce, Bitext. com, | @ | 5 Opii omica........ 50
ica Cerifera, po. 2)]) Potass Nitras, opt... 8a Ol ees =
— Vv irgini.. ! oe i 12 | Potass Nitras........ '@ 9 . - ae horated.. =
Quillaia, os 10 | Ermssiace.......... .- | Sa eee ce 1a
ale pe Ee » | QUiNSHia ..... 8. 50
Sassafras. . 12} Sulphate po .- __..- 1Ib@ 18 Bac 5)
Ulmus...po. 15, rd en Radix _ . 50
Extractum Aconitvm...... .... 20@ 25| Sanguinaria . : 50
Glycyrrhiza Glabra. 2G 25] Althe ............... 22@ 2 | Serpentaria.........
Glycyrrhiza, po..... ova, | Amelmsa.......... 12@ 15] Stromonium... ....
Hematox,15Ibbox. 11@ 12] Arum po............. @ 2%| Tolutan..............
Hematox, Is ....---- 13@ 14| Calamus ..... .. 20@ 40] Valerian............
Hematox, %S . 14@_ 15| Gentiana...... ‘po 15 Iz@ 15| Veratrum Veride...
Hematox, 4s....... 16@ 1%|Glychrrhiza...py.15 16@ 18] Zingiber.............
Ferru Hydrastis Canaden . @ 30 lliscellaneous
. | Bydrastis Can., po. @ 35| ther, Spts. Nit.3F 30@
Carbonate Precip.. , 19 | Hellebore, Alba, po. 15@ 20) Ather, Spts. Nit.4F 31@
Citrate and Quinia.. **) | Inula, po. Loge || Sah C aiemeetere i i ne 24@
Citrate Soluble...... 80 Ipecac, po. ae 1 65@ 1 75} Alumen, gro’d..po.7 3@.
Ferrocyanidum Sol. 50 | Tris plox....po35@38 35@ 40] Annatto............ 40@
Solut. Chloride. .... 15) Jalapa, PP eee eee. 40@ 45] Antimoni, po....... 4@,
Sulphate, com’l..... “| Maranta, 44s. @ 35| AntimonietPotassT 55@
Sulphate, com’l, by az | Podophyllum, ‘po. 1b@ IS) Antipyrn ......... @1
bbl, per ewt...---- 35 ae 7@ 1 00} Antifebrin i @ 15
Sulphate, pure ..... “Rie cu)... @ 1 25| Argenti Nitras, oz . @ 5d
Flora Riel py. 7@ 1 35| Arsenicum.......... 10@ 12
vate om, «6 14| Spizehia. 35@ 38) BalmGilead Bud .. 38@ 40
; a Pe ma 1s@ 25 | Sanguinaria...po. 15 @ 15| Bismuth §.N. ..... 1 05@ 1 15
Ant ae vrettttcttt gee Oe Serpentaria......... 30@ 35] Calcium Chlor., 1s.. @ 9
Matricaria ....-- cm : Seniesa... 5x@ 60) Calcium Chlor., %s. @ 0
Folia Similax,officinalis H @ 40) Calcium Chlor., 4s. @ i
Barosma........----- 20@ 30) Smilax, M.......... : @ 2) Cantharides, Rus.po @ 6
Cassia Acutifol, Tin- LL Sei po.35 10@ 12/ Capsici Fructus, af. @ 15
mevelly...... ----- 18@ 25| Symplocarpus, Feeti- _ | Capsici Fructus, po. a s&s
Cassia Acutifol,Alx. 2@ 30 aus, pO... @ 25| Capsici FructusB,po @ &
Salvia officinalis, 4s Valeriana,E ing, po. 30 @ | Caryophyllus..po.15 10@ 12
Sad 45... .--.- 12@ 20|Valeriana, German. 15@ 20] Carmine, No. 40..... @ 37
Ura Ursi......-.- -. 8@ 101 Aingibera......_.... 129@ 16|CeraAlba,S.&F .. 50@ 55
Gummi @ingiper 3}. 60.0... 230 | Cera Fiaya.......... 40@ 42
Acacia, Ist picked.. @ 65 Semen eo e ¢
’ : S - | Cassia Fructus...... @ B
Acacia, 2d picked.. @ | Anisum...... po. 20 @ 15) Gentraria @ 10
Acacia, 3d picked.. @ 35| Apium (are od 14@ 16]! Getaceum............ @ 4
Acacia, sifted sorts. @ 25| Bird, Is..... 4  §| Ghioroform....__.. 60@ 63
Acacia, po.....-...-- 60a $0' Carui........ “po. “18 10@ 12 Chloroform, squibbs @135
Aloe, Barb. po.20@28 14@ 18|Cardamon........... 1 00@ 125) Ghioral Hyd Crst 1 15@ 1 30
Aloe, Cape....po.15  @ 12|Coriandrum.......... | 8@ 10) Chondrus........... 0@ 2%
Aloe, Socotri. -po. 40 @ = oe Sativa. - , a Cinehonidine,P.& W 5@ 20
Ammoniac.......... soo El oul eloped eae Xd 1 yo | Cinchonidine, Germ 3%@__ 12
Assafcetida....po.30 22@ 25| Chenopodium ...... 10@ | 12 | Cocaine. 5 05@ 5 25
Benzoinum ......... @ 5» Dipterix Odorate... 2 90@ 3 00) G orks, list. dis. pr. et. 65
Catechu, is......-.-- @ is| Penieulum. ....... @ 15] Greosotum. ... @ 3B
Catechu, '%S......--- @ 14) Foenugreek, po...... Sie pbl.7 @ 2
Catechu, 4s......... @ 16/Lini............-- a 24%4@ 4) Greta, prep.......... @ 5
Camphore .. 61@ 64| Lini, grd....bbl. 2% 344@, 4 Creta, precip........ 9@ 11
Euphorbium. “po. 35 @ Wi) tober .........--- 35@ 401 Greta’ Rubra... @ 8
Galbanum.......---- @ 1 00| Pharlaris Canarian. 34@ 4|Qroecus.............. 50@ 55
Gamboge po.....-.- 65@ 70] Rapa...... -- 4%@ 5] Gudbear ........0... @ 2
Guaiacum..... po. 35 @ 3 Sinapis an @ 8 Cupri Sulph......... 5@ «=
Hing........ po. $3.00 @ 3 co Sinapis Nigra.. See oe M@ ti pesiine 10@ 12
—. SST @ = Spiritus Emery, al i Aon os = .
ear a eal ue 5 on Prumenti, W. D: Co. 2 00@ 250] Saery, 2) mumpers
Opi. po. #8. i003.80 2 D2 180 2 2) | Frumenti, D. F. R.. 2 00@ 2 25| Emery, po..... ....- @ &
Shellac. jie pe : acs. 1 2@ 1 50 Preota (0 po. 40 30@ 35
ip _— hed... a +0 | Juniperis C 6.0. T.. 1 6@ 2 00 Flake White........ 12@ 15
ragacanth ..... —--. oe Juniperis Co........ 1 7o@ 3 50| Galla................ @ X
Herba Saacharum N. E.... 1 90@ 2 10 Gambier sees = a
inthium..oz. pk 25 | Spt. Vini Galli...... 1) 8) oO) | ee nets Ow rs ce o
Secenertoan OZ. wae 20} Vini — Le gees 1 25@ 2 00 Gelatin, French..... 30@ 50
oe 951 Vini Alba 25@ 2 00 | Glassware, flint,box 60, 10&10
Lobelia...... oz. pkg 25) Vint Alpa........... 1 5@ Te than © 60
Majorum ....0z. pkg 28 Sponges on wae Ox... “a a
Mentha Pip..oz. pkg = last 001 Glue, white ........ B@ 25
Mentha Vir..oz. pkg 95|Floridasheeps’wool | = = |G white |... .... 25
m pke 39 carriage. 2 50@ 2 Glycerina .. .. Be
oe ao ie so | Nassau sheeps “wool Grana Paradisi .... @ ts
. ay a ated 55 | carriage. @ 2 00| Humulus............ 25 55
Thymus, V.-02. PKB ~ | velvet extra sheeps’ Hydraag Chlor Mite @ %
Magnesia. wool, ——- _ @ 110 = — ong _—- @ =
id, Pat..... 5h)@ 60) Extra yellow sheeps’ ydraag Ox Rub’m @ 5
a aa a... 200, 2 wool. carriage.... @ 8| Hydraag Ammoniati @ &
Carbonate, K. & M. 207, 25| Grass sheeps’ wool, l HydraagUnguentum 45@ 55
Carbonate, Jennings 3@ 36 carriage........... @ 6| Hydrargyrum....... @ 60
Hard, for slate use.. @ %%\|Iechthyobolla, Am... 1 25@ 1 50
Oleum Yellow Reef, for midice 20000 ...  %@ 1 00
Absinthium........ 3 25@ 3 50 ae wee... ....... @ 1 40 oe Resubi...... 3 “— : 90
«. Dule 30@ +50 OGOLOrm..-......... 7
oe ee . 8 00@ 8 25| * Syrups bepelm - | ... @ 2 2%
Anisi. . 2 90@ 3 00| Acacia...........-- : @ 50| Lycopodium ........ 60@ 6
Auranti ‘Cortex.. . 2 30@ 2 40 | Auranti Cortes...... @ 50 mec... 6@ 75
Bergamii.........-.. 3 00@ 3 20| Zingiber....... ..... @ 50| Liquor Arsen et Hy-
Cajiputi............. @@ | Tpecac....-.--..--.. @ | drargied.......... @ 2%
Caryophylli eee 55@ 60 | Ferri Iod.. @ 50) LiquorPotassArsinit 10@ 12
Godan... ........ 33@ 65] Rhei Arom.. ote. @, 50| Magnesia, Sulph.... 2@ 3
h ii a @ 250! Smilax Officinalis... 50@ 60} Magnesia, Sulph,bbl @ 1%
Chenopadii...... 6
Cinnamonii. ........ 2 50@ 2 60 | Senega.........----- @ %SO| Mannia, S. F........ O@ 8&8
Gitropella. .... .... 7@ 80 Getlia..:... .... @ 50| Menthol... ...,..... @ 5 50

 

 

 

  
  
  
  
  
   
      

 

Morphia,S.P.& W... 1 7@
Morphia, S.N.Y.Q. &
ee ee a 1 5@
Moschus Canton.. @
Myristica, No. 1..... 6@
Nux Oo - po.20 @
Os Sepa... .....- 15@
Saar aaae. H. & P.
m Ce...
Picis Liq. N.N.% gal.
aon... @
Picis Liq., quarts.... @
Picis Liq., pints..... @
Pil Hydrarg...po. 80 @
Piper Nigra...po. 22 @
— Alba....po. 35 @
Pitx Burgun........ @
Plaumbi Acet........ 10@

Pulvis Ipecac et Opii 1 10@
Pyrethrum, boxes H.

\ Co., doz... @
Pyrethrum, pv...... 278
Quraseie 1... .. 8a
Quinia, S. P. & W.. 37@
Quinia,S.German.. 30@
Guinia, N.¥......... 35@
Rubia Tinctorum... P@
SaccharumLactis py 24@
Naigeme..... .. 2 H@
Sanguis Draconis.. 40@
ee 122@
Bape, M@............. 10@
pao, &........... .. @
Siedlitz Mixture....:20 @

 

 

= Gb Sinayes..........,... @ 18 | bara, No. 4.......... 40 43
Sina ' One. ........ @ 30} Linseed, pure raw. 37 40
1 90 — Maccaboy, De | Linseed, boiled... 39 $2
am: Voes.............. @ S| Neatsfoot, winter
80 snuff, Scotch, DeVo’s @ | Stramea....... 65 7
a0| Soda Boras.......... 7 @_ 10| Spirits Turpentine. 33 40
18 | Soda Boras, po...... 7 @ Wi "
Soda et Potass Tart. 26@ 28| Paints BBL. LB.
1 00| Soda, Carb.......... 1%4@ 2%| Red Venetian...... %2 @8
Soda, Bi-Carb....... 3@ 5| Ochre, yellow Mars. 1% 2 @4
2 GC Soda, Ash........... 34@ 4| Ochre, yellow Ber 1% 2 @3
1 00 | Soda, Sulphas....... @ 2] Putty, commercial... 24 24%@3
8 | Spts. Cologme........ @ 2 @ | Putty, strictly pure. 2% 2%@3
50} Spts. Ether Co...... 50@ 55] Vermilion, Prime
18 | Spts. Myrcia Dom... @ 2 00 Aveerican,,....... IQ «(215
30 | Spts. Vini Rect. bbl @ 2 49| Vermilion, English 0@ %%
7 | Spts. Vini Rect.'4bbl @ 2 54| Green, Paris ..... @ w
12 | Spts. Vini Rect. 10gal @ 2 57| Green, Peninsular. 1I3@ (16
1 20| Spts. Vini Rect. 5gal @ 2 59| Lead, Red. -_..... Oa oe
Less 5e gal. cash | Lead, w ee a 54@ 5%
12] 10 days. | Whiting, white Span @ 7
30 | Strychnia, Crystal... 1 40@ 1 45| Whiting, gilders’... @ 9
10) Suiphur, Subl....... 24@ 3| White, Paris Amer @ 100
42 | Sulphur, Roll.. 2@ 2%| Whiting, Paris Eng.
40 | Tamarinds. . a... oa 6 che... . @ 1
40 | Terebenth Venice. 28@, -) Universal Prepared. 1 00@ 1 15
14| Theobrome....... Le |
S81 Vania. 9 00@16 o Varnishes
2 @ | Zinei Suiph......... 7@ §| No. 1 Turp Coach... 1 10@ 1 2
50 | | Extra Perp........ 1 60@ 1 70
14 | Oils | Coach Body......... 2 73@ 3 00
12 | BBL. GAL.| No. ! Tarp Furn.... 1 @@ iI 0
15 | Whale, winter....... 70 70 | Extra Turk Damar.. 1 55@ 1 60
22 | Lard, Gxtra..._....- 53 60 | | Jap.Dryer,No.1Turp 70@ 7%

 

 

 

.HAZELTINE
& PERKINS @
. DRUG CO.

Importers and Jobbers of

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. Paints, Oils

Chemicals and Patent Medicines

Dealers in

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Varnishes

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Full line of staple druggists’ sundries.

We are sole proprietors of Weath-
erly’s Michigan Catarrh Remedy.

We have in stock and offer a full line
of Whiskies, Brandies, Gins, Wines,
and Rums.

We sell Liquors for medicinal pur-
poses only.

We give our personal attention to
mail orders and guarantee satisfaction.

All orders shipped and invoiced the
same day we receive them. Send a
trial order.

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TIME & PERKINS DRUG GO.

GRAND RAPIDS.

 
   
  

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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

ROCERY PRICE CURRENT.

The prices quoted in this list are for the trade only, in su
dealers. They are prepared just before going to
possible to give quotations suitable for all conditi

erage prices for average conditions of purchase.
those who have poor credit.
our aim to make this feature of

Subscribers are earnes
the greatest possible use to dealers.

press and are an accurate

ch quantities as are usually purchased by retail
index of the local market.
ons of purchase, and those below are given as representing av-
Cash buyers or those of strong credit usually buy closer than
tly requested to point out any errors or omissions, as It 1S

It is im-

 

 

AXLE GREASE.

doz. gross |
Ame... 55 6 00 |
actor (il......._-.-..00 7 00
2 ........... 50 5 50
racers .........____.29 9 00
IXL Golden, tin boxes 75 9 00
a. ll 8 00
Peracen, . _....._ -. 3p 6 00
BAKING POWDER.
Absolute.
14 Ib cans doz...... ------ 45
1% Ib cans doz.....------- 85
: 1 cane Goe.......---..- 130
Acme.
¥ lb cans 3 doz.......----- 45 |
i Ib cans 3 doz....-.-...-. We
i Meansidgo. _._...... 10
Bae ee 10

JaXon
14 Ib cans 4 doz case.. .-- 15

4 lb cans 4 doz Case..... 85
4 ib cans 2 doz case...... 1 G0
Home. |
14 lb cans 4 doz Case...... 39
14 lb cans 4 doz case.....-. 5d
4 Theans2?dozcase......
Lynch. :
i iD CanS.......--.-..----- 45
ip cans.....-...........- 90
.: Means. ......-..__.... § oe
Our Leader. i
4 lb CaMs.......- . 45
2 ip cams.....-.-.----- 5
a 150
BATH BRICK. i
American il ee
fae 80
BROONS.
Mo. 1 Carpet... --. -- rae.
Noa 2Carpet. _.... --..-- 2 ©
No. 3 Carpet. . + i
No 4Carpet.... --- 1 60
Parior Gem ..-... -- ee
Common Whisk oe
Fancy Whisk.. .. -.-- 1.
Warehouse. ae 50
CANDLES.

Hote} 40 it
Star 40 |b boxes.. ae Y
Parafiine 10
CANNED GOODS.
Manitowoc Peas.
Lakeside M«rrowfat...... 1 90

OXCS.......-

   

Lavesiwe EJ... - . toe
Lakeside, Cham. of Eng.... 1 40
Lakeside. Gem. Ex. Sifted. 1 65
CATSUP.
Columbia, ints. ........ Ze
Columbia, % pints..-.--....2 30
CEMrNT.
Major's, per g: Oss.
4 OZ Size 12 00
1 OZ S1Zc 18 OO
Lig. Glue,loz 9 60

Leather Cement,

lozsize.....12 0
2 oz eize.....18 &

  

Rubber Cement.

 

ys

me 2 Oz size 2 00

CHEESE.
ae G@
a @
Jersey @
Lenawee.. @ 12
cere. _..... @ 12%
Gold Medal...... 12
Brick... on @ i
fa... Ct @1
Leiden. os G@ w
Exmburper. -......).- @ 15
Pincapme............ @ 2
Sas pao. @ 18

Chicory.
Bulk 5
Red i 7
CHOCOLATE.

Walter Baker & Co.’s.
permet WCE... -.--...- ee
ae ee
Breakfast Cocoa... . 42

CLOTHES LINES.
Cotton, 40 ft, per doz.......1 0
Cotton, 50 ft, per dcz a
Cotton, 60 ft, per doz 12
Cotton, 70 ft, per doz 1 60
Cotton, 80 ft, per doz 1 80
oe, OTE, per doz........ so
Jute, 2 ft, per doz... _ Cc

CLOTHES PINS.

5 gross bOKes...... =

COCOA SHELLS.
re 2
Lom auentity............ o
Pound packages......... 4
CREAS TARTAR.
Strictly Pure, wooden boxes. 35
Strictly Pure, tin boxes...... 37

COFFEE.
Green.

Rio.
Boe
o3 ......... 19
Pam i |

(cs |... 21
Pessery .....--.--- 23
Santos.

| Fair on 19

(eoog

Pane 22
es 23
Mexican and Guatamala.
aa. ee
[Good .....----.--_--. 22
tay 24

Maracaibo.

Prase .  e
Se ee a
Java.

EE ————————————ee 25
Prigate Growilt.............. =

 

Mandehiime _..........-._... 28
Mocha.
ifaualion ....._......._._._
Aroulan ..........._.._ 2 ee
Roasted.
Quaker Mocha and Java..... a2
Toko Mocha and Java........28
State House Biend............ B
Package.
Avuciic. oe
Jersey  .. 19 45
fev 11. PACKAGES. WITHOUT GLAZING
96 Fur. Ounces Ner.

Cases 100 = Equality, Price
- 60° { less2c per lb.
Casinets 120 Ibs. Same Price,
@0f Extra ror CaBinets.
McLaughin’s XXXX.
a KOFFA-AID.7

19 45

 

3 doz in case... ... ....... 3

Extract.
Valley City % gross . 7
Felix % zross.... nog
Hum mei’s foil 44 gross...
Humme'’s tin % gross Ll«é

 

CONDENSED MILK.

4 doz. in case.

N. Y. Condensed Milk Co.,’s
branis.
Gail Borden Eagle.........7 4
Crown eee
Daisy 0
imapion ....... 4 50
Magnolia ..425
Dime .3

 

 

Peerless evaporated cream.5 75

 

COUPON BOOKS.

   

 

   

‘*Tradesman.’’
% 1 books, per 100.........-. 2 00
S 2 books, per 160. ........ 2 50
$% 3 books, per 100.......... 3 00
$ 5 books, per 100.......:.. 3 00
$10 books, per 100.......... 4 00
$20 books, per 100.......... 5 00
‘*Superior.’’

® 1 books, per 100.......... 2:

8 2 books, per 100.......... 3 00
$ 3 books, per 100.........- 3 50
% 5 books, per 100.......... 4 00
$10 books, per 100.......... 5 00
$20 books, per 0....-..--. 6 00

‘“‘Universal.’’

$ 1 books, per 100.......... 3 00
% 2 boows, per 0...-..-_-. 3 50
% 3 books, per 190........... 4 00
$ 5 books, per 100... . 2
#10 books, per 100... 6 00

$20 books. per O.......... 7
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.

20 bomen... 2 2.2. te 1 00
SOnOGES_......--.-.--_. 2 Oe
_ OO 3 00
SSO HoGns.........-..... 2. 6 2
SeINOGES......-...... 03.55 10 00

O00 bOGKS...... «....... a oe
Credit Checks.

500, any one denom’n..... 3
1000, any one denom’n. 5
#00, any one denom’n.
Steel punch. ........-

DRIED FRUITS—DONESTIC
Apples.

 

sundried (
Evaporated 50 lb boxes. @
California Fruits.
Apricots... ...2 3 ee
Blackberries ee ce
Nectarmes.....°........ 8 @7
Peacmes.. =. 5 @l14
a . 84@
Pied Cherries......-..-
Prone... ...-...--..-
Raspberrics........ ----

California Prunes.

100-120 25 lb boxes....... @ 4%
90-100 25 1b boxes....... @ 4%
80 - 90 25 Ib boxes....... @ 5%
70-80 2% 1b boxes....... @ 5%
60-70 25 lb boxes.. .... @ 6%
50-60 Zo Ib boxes....... @ 634
40-50-20 Ib Doxes.....-. @ 74
30 - 40 25 1b boxes... @ 7%

1g cent less in bags

Raisins.

London Layers........1 00@1 2
Loose Muscatels 2 Crown 3%
Loose Musesatels 3 Crown 3%
Loose Muscatels 4 Crown 5

FOREIGN.

Currants.
Patras bbis.......-..-._ a ee
Vostizzas 50 lb cases......@ 4%4
Schuit’s Cleaned 25 lb bxs@ 6%
Schuit’s Cleaned 50 Ib bxs@ 5
Schuit’s Cleaned 1 1b pkg@7
Peel.
Citron Leghorn 25 1b bx @13
Lemon Leghorn 25 1b bx @11
Orange Leghorn 25 Ib bx @l12
Raisins.
Ondura 29 lb boxes...... 74@8
Sultana 20 lb boxes......64@7%

 

 

Valencia 30 1b boxes.... @

 

FARINACEOUS GOODS.

Farina.

—< ................ 3
Grits.
Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s.......2 00
Hominy.
Bares 3

Flake, 50 1b. drums.......1 50
Lima Beans.

Bred | |... :
Maccaroni and Vermicelli.
Domestic, 10 1b. box.....-. )
Imported, 25 Ib. box......2 50
Pearl Barley.

Eeapire _....- .--- 2%
mene 14.@2
Peas.

iGreen, BH... 6... s. 90
Split: perip......_--.____- 2%
Rolled Oats.

Rolled Avena, bbl.......3 30
Rolled Avena, %4bbl....... py
Monaren, bbl.......-..- .2 90
Monarch, % bbl.......... 1 58
Private brands, bbl..... 2 6
Private brands, 4bbl..... 1 45
Quaker, cases........-.-.- 3 20
Oven Baked..............3 2
haomecsgo -(.. 0... ol 2
Sago.
ss ........... ...-.. 4
Bas, Ingia......-..-- oe
heat.
Cackes Oo. ._....... 2
242 ib packaccs......._-.. 2 40
Breakfast Food.
Pettijohn’s Best.........--. 3 10

Buckwheat Flour.
Excelsior Self Rising.
Case of 2a07....-..-._....1 90

 

 

 

Five case lots.......... .. 1%
Fish.
Cod.
Georges cured......... @ 4%
Georges genuine...... @ 6
Georges selected..... _s @ 6%
Strips or bricks....... 6 @9
Halibut.

COMneA. .................. 13
Saris. -.... 4... : 10
Herring.

Holland white hoops ke; 55

Holland white hoops bbl. 6 50

Norwepiam... .....--.-...
Round 100 ibs.......-....- 2 30
Eowud 2 ips.......-....- 110
Megieg. ...:. 12
lackerel.
No. 1200 Ibs. ......... -..- 13 00
O_O 5 50
No.t Mis -.....--..... 14
No. 2 eee tps... .----..--.- 11 7%
No.2 Bis... 5 00
Nas Mise -- 1 32
Family 90 lbs..........--.-
Family 10 lbs.....-.-..-..-
Sardines.
Russian kegs........-.-..- 5h
Stockfish.

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

Noe. 1100ibs =. -..._.-... 3.90
Noi Mite... .-... 2 0
No.t Siipe.-..-.....-... 70
Noe.! Site. ...:....-- 59
Whitefish.

No.1 No.2 Fam

$00 the. .....-- 72 66 300

Mie... -- 3320 30 13

_........ 88 $3 45

Sipe... fe 71 39
FLAVORING EXTRACTS.
CE ill ld) Jennings’.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
  
 
  
     

D.C. Vanilla
2 OZ... ...4 20

.o..... 1 50
4o2.. ...2 OO
Goz...... 3 00
No. 8...4 00
No. '0...6 00
Hi No. 2 T.1 25
ii] No. 3 T.2 00

I} No. 4 'T.2 40

20z.... 7%
j | 3 02Z....-. 1 00
i 4 oz.. ...1 2

 
 

}]ae FOR FLAVORING g IFT

1) Seancseance se]
]] “custanos easter a.

Ii No. 47.1 50

 
 
  

 

 

Souders’.

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

money.

Regular
Grade

2On...... v5)
208... ... 1 50

Regular
‘ Vanilla.
—o ih doz

OUDERS Sige. 120

 
 
 

i! 2
TLEGANT m= £02...... 2 40

XX Grade
Lemon.

_-—...... 1 50
4o0z. ....3 00

XX Grade
Vanilla.

Son... .: 1%
i 40s... ._ 3 50
FLY PAPER.
Tanglefoot.
“Regular’’ Size.
Less than one case. per box = 32
One to five cases, per case.. 2 75
Five to ten cases, per case. 2 65
Ten cases, per case........ 2 So
“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.”’

MAL fim... 2. 1
eee ee. Lowe e lee 3 50
www ee 5 40
inalt Galion.............._- 7 ©
alton... 14 40
HERBS.
meee... ..... 15
OT .
GUNPOWDER.
Rifle—Dupont’s.
cone. |. a
Mam Bees 1 75
QuarterKegs.......... oes 1 00
11> Gags... 30
% lb cans...... eo 18
Choke Bore—Dupont’s.
Meee 4 00
Bair Miers... 22
Quarer Reps .............. 13
Pip eames oo. 34

Eagle Duck—Dupont’s.

Rees .... oe
Half Kegs. 4 2
advterers................ 24
fipeans.... ...

INDIGO.

Madras, 5 lb boxes......... 55
S. F., 2:3 and 5 ib boxes.... 50
JELLY.
i> te pakiss. 33 |
i i Oetie cl a
oot pails... 1. 60
LYE.

Condensed, 2 doz .......... 1 20
Condensed, 4 dez..........- 2 2
LICORICE.
rece
Caer 25
Sicuy. et 14
Root... ._... .. =

MINCE MEAT.

   

Mince meat, 3 doz in case..2 75

Pie Prep. 3 doz in case...... 2%
MATCHES.

Diamond Match Co.’s brands.
No. 9 euinvar.............. 1 @&
Anoror Farior............). 1 70
Mo. > Heme... ............- 110
Export Parior.............. 4 00

MOLASSES. .
Blackstrap.

Sugar house............. 10@i2z
Cuba Baking.
Ordinary... ........-..... ge

Porto Rico. :
eo 20
OGY oe ce 30

 

New Orleans.

Mee... .. es . 18
Goad 8... 22
Misa s00d -...-.....-.. 24
oe 27
Pancy ...............-._: 30

Half-barrels 3c extra.

PICKLES.
Medium.

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

Barrels, 2,400 count........ 4 25
Half bbls, —— oount...... 2 63
Clas, NO. 26... 3... 1 70
Clay, T. D. full count...... 65
Cou, He.s...... .... 1 20
POTASH.

48 cans in case.
BabpitGs................... 200
Penna Salt Co.’s........... 3

RICE.

Domestic.
Carolina head....--........ 6%
Carolina Mo.1............- 5
Ceroling We 2.......-..._. 4%
ee

Imported.
gapan, HOt... 5
0. oot... ........
ee 4%
Saw OS... 414
go 4

SALERATUS.
Packed 60 lbs. in box.
Charen ss...
Deans .... 1... es
Dawe
Waviers.............. ...:.
SAL SODA.
Granulated, bbls........ .1 10
Granulated, 100 lb cases..1 50

 

Lump, POIs...
Lump, 145lb kegs.......... 110
SEEDS.
Amise . .... 1...
Canary, Smyrna.........__ 6
Caraway ........-... ....- 10
Cardamon, Malabar...... 80
Hemp, Hussian.......... 4
Mixed ird........ 02.20.) 4%
Mustard, white........... 6%
POuDy .....-:.0:.-.1.. 8
Meme 4
Cuttle Bone...) .. 20
SNUFF.
Scoteh, in bladders......... 37
Maceaboy, injars............ 35
French Rappee, in jars .... 43
SYRUPS.

Corn.
Barrels... 14
Malt Dbis..

Pure Cane.
-— ...... 16
OOM a 20
Ree et 25

SPICES.

Whole Sifted.

PIRPICe 8 9%
Cassia, China in mats....... 10

Cassia, Batavia in bund... 15

Cassia, Saigen in rolls......32
Cloves, Amboyna........... 15
Cloves, Zanzibar. ........... 10
Maco, Batavia ... ..: ....- 70
Nutmers, faney............2 65
users, OO. t,............ 60
Nutmegs, No. 2.... 56

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

Pepper, eng... 16
Pure Ground in Bulk.
ATISHICE i el 10@15

Cassia, Batavia ............°4
Cassia, GAieon.. ...........%

Cloves, Amboyna...........15
Cloves, Tausiter............ 10
Ginger, African.........-..15
Ginger, Cochin... 20
Ginger, dama@ica............ bo
Mace, Bathyia ... ..... 60@65
Mustard, Eng. and Trieste. .20
Mustara, Trieste. ......... _. 25
i tt, 40@.60

Pepper, Singapore, black9@12
Pepper,Singapore, whitel5@1s

 
 
  
 

Pepper, Cayenne... .... 17@20
Nase 18
‘*Absolute’’ in 1b. Packages
mie 8 65
CAnMaeOM I
Cloves... -.. . 7
Ginger, Cochin ‘@
Mace.......°. 2 10
Mereere.... 75
Nutmegs..... bee aps ee ae
Pepper, cayenne .... .... %
Pepper, wae ..........., %
Pepper, black shot........ 60
PR 1

50
‘*Absolute ’’Butchers’ Spices.
Wiener and Frankfurter....16
Pork Sansace.............,. 16
Bologna and Smoked S’ge. .16
Liver S’ge and H’d Cheese..16

 

 

 

 

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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

21

 

SALT.
Diamond Crystal.
Cases, 24 3-lb boxes.........
Barrels, 100 3lbbags......2

Rarcis, © 7 lb bags......2
Batier. S61) Daee......-..-
Butter, 20 14 lb bags........¢
Butter, 2001p bbis..........2 5
mimon Grades.
caer... C««w...... 2 60
60 5-lb sacks. . ee
98 11-lb sacks... Loon ao
Worcester.
co 4 ib. CArtoms......--... 3 =
115 ge Boies 2s of 4 00
Oo 6 1). seeus......- 5... 3
oo 04 1. SACHS..... .......3 90
S40 16 SacHS.............3 30
S815. timen sacks............ 32
Be ib. linen sacks............ 6D
Rui im parreis.............. 2 50
arsaw.
56-lb dairy in drill bags..... 30
98-lb dairy in drill bags..... 15
Ashton.
56-lp dairy in iinen sacks... 60
Higgins.
56-lb dairy in linen sacks . 60
Solar Rock.
56-1b war ee oe
Common Fine. i
Saginaw .....-..----------:- 85
Manistee .. ee
SODA.

Box Le
Kegs, English. a
STARCH.

Diamond.
6410c packages .....---..-# 5 00
128 5c packages.......-- 5 00

 

32 10¢ and 64 5¢ packages.
Kingsford’s Corn.

20 1-lb packages.....--..---- 64%
40 1 lb packages.. oe. Oo
Kingsford’s Silver Gloss.
40 1-lb packages. . eae
Gib boxes ...-...:--- ----- .
Common Corn. i
20-Ib DOXES.....----- ----<:- 5
40-Ib bOxeS....---.---------- 43
Common Gloss.
1-lb packages.....---------- 4%
3-lb packages....-.-- _..-.. 26
6-lb packages.....-.-------- 514
40 and 50 lb boxes........-.- 2%

 

Barrels 234
SUMMER BEVERAGES. _.
Thompson’s
Wild Cherry
Phosphate
“Bummer
Cane” con
tains 3 doz.
Me 8 oz bot-
tles, % 00.
One Big Bot-
tle Free. 24
yz. BOC size, 1
doz. to a case
4 00. Special
Soda  Foun-
tain Extract
per gal. #2 00.
Big Demon-
strator con-
tains 15 doz.
25e size, | doz
50c size, 1 jug
and fixtures.

See add.

} Lb eH ee
t aus HATS bd
} Ei erro ee

——-
Cigars
Joheon s brand

Cay

G. J.

 

Scy......-. .35 00
H. gl Drug © 0. *s ; brand.
Quintette .........--.------ 35 00
Clark Grocery Co.’s —
New Brick .-.......-.-..- 5 00
SOAP.

Laundry.

Gowans «& Sons’ Brands.
OE ee wee 2 8
German Family.......-..-- 1 8%

American Grocer 100s..... 3 00

American Grocer 60s...... 2 40
Mystic White..........---- 3 80
fides | ..... ee.
Oak Leaf......--- Se
Mla Sivie i) eo
Happy Day.....--.--------- 2 85
Single box.......- -------- 3D
5 box lots, delivered......- 3
10 box lots, delivered. vo 1
Lautz Bros. & Co.’s brands.
io... ...-.... ee 3 35
Cotton Gil......-....-.- 0 2
Marceiles............-..-..- 4 00
Master 3 70

 

Henry Passolt’ s brand.

 

stadia a eee 3 00
5 box lots, delivered... ..-. 2%
10 box lots, delivered.. "2 =

25 box lots. delivered....... 2%

3 ie
eg. |

 

 

 

 

 

Jas. S. Kirk & Co.’s brands.
Ame eek Family, wrp’d...3 33
American Family, plain....3 27

Thompson & Chute’s Brand.

  

Single vuX

5 box lot, delivered........ 3 2
10 box lot, delivered. ......3 15
25 box lot, delivered........ 3 10

Allen B. Wrisley’s brands.9
Old Country 80 1-Ib...... 3 20
Good Cheer @ 1-Ib......... 3.90
White Borax 100 %-lb....... 3 6

Scouring.

Sapolio, kitchen, 3 doz ..... 2040
Sapolio. hand, 5 G08........ 2 40
= E POLISH.
Niekeline, small, pergro. 4 00
a large, per gro... 7 20

E SAUCES.

Lea & P’ er Se ieee... 4 75
Lea & Perrin’s, small. 20
aor, wrwe...........° 3
Halford smail. 22
Salad Dressing, large..... 4 5D
Salad or See 2 &

NEGAR.
Leroux C ida :. ee ae

Robinson’s Cider, 40 grain.. 10
Robinson’s Cider, 50 grain. ..12

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
credit on the invoice for the
amount of freight buyer pays
from the market in which he
purchases to his shipping point,

 
 

 

including 20 pounds for the
weight of the barrel.
Domino... & 87
ne Boge 2...
Cuees ....-..-............
Powdered SE
M XXX Powdered....._.. -» 62
Mould A..............._....5 op
Granuisted in bbis... ...... 5 2
Granulated in bags.........5 2
Pine Granulated............ 5 oS
Extra Fine Granulated..... 5 a
Extra Course Granulated. ..5 %
Diamond Confee. A........5 =
Confee. Standard A.........9 FF
no ££... 4%
Ne: 2 487
No. S......-:. 431
No +... 46
No. >... .......- 4 69
mo 6... 4 62
No. 7 ..4 96
No. 8 ..4 OO
No, 9... 4 37
No. 10.....- _ 408
No. Mo... ..4 31
4 2
We. tao. 0..0..0.0. 2.2. _ +
No. i4........ 4 00
No. & 3
WASHING POWDER.
100 pac ee b= case ....._.3 do
KING.
No. 0, perg ics ee. oe >
No. 1, pergross...... 2 ee
No. 2, per grOss.....--.--.--- 40
No. 3 De RTO oes cae fs

    

Crackers.

The N. a Biscuit Co.
as follows:

quotes

Butter.
Seymour XXX. aM
Seymour XXX, 3 1b. “carton 5%

 

Family XXX.. - oe
Family XXX, 31b carton. 534
Salted XXX. oe
Salted XXX, 3 ib e: arton. 5%
Soda.
Soda XXX . 6
Soda XXX, 3ibe earton. 6%
Sida Gieg...........-....- 7
Crystal Mater 000000) 104%
Long Island W ‘afers.. oH
L. I. Wafers, 1 1b carton .. 12
Oyster.
Square Oyster, XXX. ..... 54
Sq. Oys. XXX. t Ib es urton. 614
Farina Oyster, XXX..... 514
SWEET GOODS—_Boxes.
Anamals ....-..-.-----.-... 10%
Bent’s Cold, Water......... 12
oo. Boee ...............- 8
Cocoanut Tafiy...........- 8
@ofree Cakes. .:-.....-..... 8
Frosted Honey~........-..- 11
Graham Cracker 8
Ginger Snaps, XXX round. 6%
Ginger Snaps, XXX city. 6%
Gin. Snps,X XX home made 614
Gin. Snps.X XX sealloped.. 6%
Ginger Vanilla.........-.-. 8
Priperiais,../000.-..-.--.... &
Jumbles, Honey. 1...
Molasses Cakes. . 8

 

Marshmallow LT 15
Marshmallow Creams..... 16

Pretzels, hand made ..... 84%
Pretzelettes, LittleGerman 6%
Sugar Cake..........-.---- 8
Sultanas ....-. Seiscc o---) oe
Sears’ Lamenh....:.....-...- a
Vanilla Square..........-.
Taniiia Waters ........... 1a
Pecan Wafers.........--+-- 15%

 

 

 

 

Candies.

Stick Candy

 
 

 

“bbls. pails

Pe) Me ae 64@ 7%

Standard H. H...... th 2@ i%

Standard Twist..... 644@ 7%

Cut boat... ........ 7M 9 6

Extra lt 2... @ 8

Boston Cream...... @ 8%

Mixed Candy.

bbls. pails

Stunaard ........... 5144@ 6%

Deader =............ 64@ 74

Reva: 644@ 7%

OOnserves..... ..... 6%@ 7
one |... ......... %? @s

Kindergarten... ... 744@ 8%
Freneh Cream.... .. @ 9
Valley Cream.. .... @i12

Fancy —In Bulk.

Pails
Lozenges, plain..... @ 8
Lozenges, printed. . @ 9
Choc. Drops.......- 1144@13

Choe. Monumeutals @12%
Gum Drops........- @a
Moss Drops.......-. @ 8
Sour Drops.-........ @8
Imperiais........ @9Y9

Fancy—In 5 Ib. Boxes.
Per Box

Lemon Drops....... @50
Sour Drops........- @a50
Peppermint Drops.. @60
Chocolate Drops.... @65
H. M. Choe. —— ais
Gum Drops.. .. 2 Gao
Licorice Drops. .....10 @

A. B. Licorice Drops @50
Lozenges, plain. @55
Lozenges, printed.. @b60
Ieperiale......._... @60
Mosocs..........._. @b65
Cream Bar ...._...- @0
Molasses Bar ....... (@50
Hand Made Creams. 80 @90

Plain Creams....... 60 @se

Decorated Creams... @90
Stree Pock......... @b60

Burnt Almonds.....12 @

   

   

Wintergreen Berries @5d5
Caramels.
No. 1 wrapped, 2 lb.

noses. ........ @30
No. 1 wrapped, 3 lb.

bOwes 000.0... (@A5
No. 2 wrapped, 2 Ib.
boxes .

‘Fruits.

Oranges.

Fancy Navels
Se 3
Fe-200.._..-.... 4 (

Fa aney Se edlings
16-16 A... 3 00
ee es cs 2 50

Lemons.
Strictly choice 360s..
Strictly choice 300s..

@2 7%

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Fish and Oysters.

“Fresh Fish.

 

 

 

Provisions.

The Grand Rapids Packing

and Provision Co. quotes as fol

  

 

Per a lo :
ne Ws:
Whitefish........... @ 9 Barreled Pork.
PVG ........+4... : @ 8 | Mess 9 50
Black Gass.......... @ 1b AG
Back ' 10 00
Halibut . ee 10 00
Cc iscoes or Herring. @ 6 |Shorteut.. .. 9 50
Bluetish. __ @ 12%| pig
2 o ig.. 11 00
Live Lobster....... @ 20 Bean
Boiled Lobster...... BO) mane
Coe @ 10 See aa
Magguck. |... 2... .. a & | ~* Salt Meats. i
No. 1 Piekerel...... @ 9 | a nes 6
Pike... . @ » | Briskets . ..... wee eens o72
Smoked White...... @ g | Bxtra shorts...... L 5
Red Snapper. @ 10 | Smoked Meats.
Col River Salmon. @ 3 | Hams, 12 1b average Qig
Mackerel : 16@ 20 | Hams, 14 lb average Org
Shell Goods. | Hams, 16 lb average 83,
Oysters, per 100....... 1 25@1 50 | Hams, 20 lb ave O72
Clams, per 100....... 90@1 00 Ham dried beef ......... 978 |
Oysters. Shoulders (N. Y. }. 614
J. Dettenthaler’s Brands. ae cle: 7 can ap o
Per Can. | California hams........ bh
Fairhaven Counts.... 35@ Boneless hams.......... S72 |
wo Db Selects. _. 30@, Cogeed Gam........... + |
— .............. 25@ In Tierces. Lards.
:. - Dee. 2@ Compound.............. 415
i .............. Bae Poy .................. 43;
Seenoards............. Is@, Granger _............. 6
Per Gal. | Musselman’s Gold Leaf.. 6%
coe a @2 00} Worden’s Hom Made 734
Petre Selecta.......... @1 7 | Worden’s White Clover 634 |
Medium Selects....... @i ai Cottolene .-........... 5 ;
Anchor Standards.... @i Wi Cotosuct ............._.. 5%
SUSEMIAEOS.............. 55 1b Tups.......adyance 2
ng @i 7% | 80 lb Tubs....... advance 14
Clamg 1... @i 25 | 501b Tins .......advance 4
Shrimps . @1 2 | 20 1b Pails.......advance
Oscar Allyn’s Brands. 10 Th Pails. ......advance
Per Can. | Gib Pais....... advance
Uxtra.Seleeie. 40@. 31> Pais..... advance 1

Mera Se@rcets ....... 30@ > F

Plain Selects... 23@ - Ps
= Bologna . Lo. 5

Exh... Ce. 22 Liver 6 |

Mediums 20 i ~

. aoa = Meeeort...... .. ie

Standards 18@ Pork 6%

Bavoriles ......... i 16@ Blood CO i

: : Per Gal. | Tongue ...........---

New York Counts..... @e 00} mona cheese (10). : 6
Extra Selects.. al ee a
tn Selects. . @1 50| Beef.

I X L Standards... @1 2u | Extra Mess....... - 6 W
Standaras (0000000007 @i 10} Boneless ...........---. 10 00
eee | ae Pigs’ Feet.

| Kits, 15 1bs............--- SO
Grains and Feedstufis 4 bbls, 40 lbs... 1 65
- a 1% Dbis, 80 lbs...-. 3 00
eat.
Whea GB | Kite, ip Ws.) 17.1... re
Winter’ Wheat Flour. big Obes, 401bs............ 0 oe
Local Brands. 126 Dbis, OO ibe. .....- 1.240
rin tis... 12 | Casings.
Second Patent... _._-.__- 3 foi Pore... .... % |
SGratent................... S Go | Beck roumide_........... a |
(Olean. 3 25! Beef middles.... . 7
ee TE Butterine. |
Buckwheat ........... ... 323) Rous, dairy............. 0 |
Ee 2 65 | Solid, dairy...... a 9
| Subject to usual cash dis- Rolls, creamery ...
count. | Solid, creamery

@3 00 |

Flour in bbls.,25e per bbl. ad-
ditional.

|

Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand. |

Coeker. 46 2. 3

Quaker, 248 e |
Quaker, ‘¢s..... 3

 

Spring Wheat Flour.
Olney & Judson’s Brand.

Canned Meats.
Comed beet, 2 Ib......
Corned beef, 15 Ib.....
Roast beef, 2 ib.-....
Potted ham, 18.
Potted ham, _
Deviledham, 48......-
Deviledham, ‘%S......
Potted tongue 4S.....

 

P otted tongue %45.......

| Ceresota, 3S a 3 8
Ceresota, 48 eee 3%
Ceresoq, '65................ 3 @|-

Fancy s0ue...-.-.... @3 25 |

Hxtea so0e........... @3 50

Fancy 3005.......... (@3 50

Eira gous .......... @A 00 |
Bananas.

A definite price is hard to
size of bunch and quality of
fruit.

Medium bunches...1 25 @I1 50
Large bunches...... 1% @2 2%

Foreign Dried Fruits.

Figs, Fancy Layers

20 10S...._...--.- 14 @
Figs, Choice Layers

10 Ib.. a @10
Figs, Naturals” in

bags, NEW...-....- @ 6
Dates, Fards in 101b

Boe @ 8
Dates, Fards in 60 1b

“8... ........ @. 6
Dates, Persians, G.

M. K., 60 Ib cases. . @ 5%
Dates, Sairs 60 Ib

Cases: a. @ 4%

 

Nuts.

Almonds, Tarragona. . @13
Almonds, Ivaca....... @
Almonds, California,
soft Sick. @12%

Bragele new....-..-.-- @ 9
Wrsperes ...........-. @10%
Walnuts, Gren., new. . @13
Walnuts, Calif No. 1. @I12

Walnuts, soft shelled
eee @

Table Nuts, fancy.... @12

Table Nuts, choice... @ 9%

Pecans, Texas H.P... @ 9
Hickory Nuts per bu.,
iOntg. 2. @1 40

Cocoanuts, full sacks @
Butternuts per bu.... @
Black Walnuts per bu @

Peanuts.
Fancy, H. P., Game
CoeRs .......... @ 534
Faney, H. PF-., Game
Roasted. ... 2-2... @7
Fancy, H. P., Associa-
tion Roasted Lee @i7

Choice, H. P., Extras. @
Choice, H. P., Extras,
Roasted ........ ..

| Grand Rept
name, as it varies according to | kepublic, i48..

Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s ee
Grand Republic, ‘4s.

 

Grand Republic, ‘9s.
Lemon & W heeler C o.’s Bre und.

 

 
 

} Eeemesdaee, 268. ........... 2. 3 85 |
Parisian, a oe Te 1 |
Parisian, % . 6

/ Entire Wheat Flour.
William C allam & Sons quote |
as follows, delivered in Grand |

Rapids:

Woee os 4 00 |

10 lb. cotton sac ks. . £@

Pie. ._ 2 i

RO . 30
Meal.

Bolted . bee |
Crandiates 00 2 00 |
Feed and Millstuffs.

St. Car Feed. screened -14 00
St. Car Feed, unscreened. .13 7% |
No. 1 Corn and Oats. 13 50
Unbolted Corn Meal....... 13. 00 |
Winter Wheat Bran....... 12 00 |
Winter Wheat Middlings..12 50 |
Seneenies ............-... 11 00}

The O. E. Brown Mill Co.
quotes as follows: |

Corn.
Car lots.....- 11. aoe
Less than car iota. 00 see

| Oats.
| Car lots....- 2314

| Hides and Pelts.

|
|
|
'

Less than car age UT 25
ay. |

No. 1 Timothy, ton lots ...16 00|

No 1 Timothy carlots. oo. M4 00 |

 

 

 

i
|
‘Pe rkins & He ss pay as fol-
lows:
Hides.
| Green... ..-..-... 3 @4
Part eured...-........ @ 4% |
Puli Cured. ........-.. 1 @5 |
| Dry 2... ............... 5 @i
| King, green........... 3 @ 3
Kips, cured........-.. 4 @5
Caliskins, green...... & @6&
| Calfskins, cured.... .. 5 @ 6%}
| Deseonskins .........25 @3e
| Pelts.
| Shearlings ............0 @ &
Lambs ene an a Ww |
Old W ob 40 @

 

| Easter L ambs....
| v

| Cares uss

| as follows:
| Eocene .

| W W Michigan........ @ 8%,

_ Fresh Meats.
Beef.
MFCaSS .....- bile 5S oy
waee quarters.....:..- 4@5
| Fond quarters........6 @ 8
1 heins No. 2........... 9 @W
[Hibs........... ..... 8 @ie
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| Leaf Lard... ' @7
Mutton.
Carcass 14@ 6%

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High Test Headlight. . @ 7%
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Deo. Naptha eee eae @ 84
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Bugine ..............1) Gel
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Kocene.......--.. dD 914
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Ss. Gae............. @ 7

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Paltacine .............. @12
Daisy White.........- @it
Red Cross, W. W...... @ 9
Water White Hadlt.... @ 8%
Family Headlight.. @ 8
Wanntha 2... @ 84
Stove Gasoline.......-. @ Ie
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Glassware.

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Security, No. 1. ba
Security, No. 2 8d
Neuter 4... aU
Arctic 115
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No, ! Sun 2 00
No. 2 Su 2 80
First Quality.
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| Wrapped os labeled 2 10
No. ft Sun, imp top,
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wrapped and labeled 3 7D
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Electric.
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No. 2, Flint (80e doz) 4 40
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Illuminator Bases (001), 1 00
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7 in. Porcelain Shades. . 1 00
Case lots, 12 doz. 90

Mammoth Chimneys for Store

Lamps. Doz.
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No.3 Pearl top, or
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No. 0 Tubular, bbls 5 doz.

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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

Bicycle

The Bicycle and Street Cleaning.
Written for the TRADESMAN.

Among the questions which are de-
manding consideration, resulting from
the rapid increase in the use of the bi-
cycle, is that of the proper care of
streets. The conditions which have
hitherto obtained seem to depend on the
hypothesis that the city streets are de-
signed, primarily, if not exclusively,
for the accommodation of vehicles drawn
by horses, except the special provision
for street cars. The standard of clean-
liness established is that to meet the re-
quirements of animal traffic, which are
not exacting. The only other consider-
ations are that the poisonous dust from
the pulverized filth shall be confined by
moisture so that it shall not bring dis-
comfort to pedestrians or intrude upon
the denizens of adjacent buildings or
work injury to the merchandise along
the wayside, and that the accumulated
filth shall be removed when the streets
have become so much like the slovenly
stable yards to which the horses are ac-
customed as to make excavation neces-
sary.

From time immemorial, the side-
walks, with channels cleared along the
crossings, have served the purpose of
the pedestrian—the rest belonged to the
horse. The advent of the bicycle has
changed this condition, but as yet little
has been done to adapt the street to its
new use. But the urgency of the de-
mand is such that in all the larger
cities of the country there 1s taking
place what may be termed a renaissance
of street cleaning. The subject is re-
ceiving wide consideration, and inves-
tigations and experiments are being
prosecuted on an unprecedented scale.
While the movement is more backward
in smaller towns, the subject is gaining
attention and will soon be a live one
everywhere.

The bicycle emphasizes the desira-
bility of cleanliness in streets. To peo-
ple of fastidious instincts the filth-cov-
ered pavements have always been an
abomination; but the idea that there
might be a remedy for the disgusting
situation was too remote for considera-
tion. In the use of the bicycle there is
such an intimate relation to the actual
filth that the question is forced upon the
attention of every wheelman; and, now
that bicycles already exceed in number
all other vehicles in the city streets, and
a few weeks will see the number great-
ly increased, a change in the situation
cannot be far distant.

It is still too early to predict as to the
methods that will be finally adopted,
but the requirements of the wheel will
not be met by the wetting-down system.
Filth must be removed. Whether that
removal shall be by mechanical sweep-
ing or by a system of street flushing is
yet to be determined upon. From the
results of the experiments tried in this
city so far, the probabilities seem to
point to the latter method. Flushing a
street cleans it. Sweeping leaves a res-
idue of filth which must be confined by
sprinkling. Sprinkling and the wheel
are decidedly antagonistic.

It would seem that a system of early
morning flushing of paved streets could
be devised that would be fairly eco-
nomical and that would obviate most of
the need of sprinkling. If this could
be done every morning, there would be
little need of sprinkling for the entire
day. Thus the cost of this brigade of
terror to pedestrians and vehicles might

 

be abolished and the cost applied to the
effectual removal of the cause of their
necessity. The only demand for them
then would be for the purpose of cool-
ness in intense hot weather; and it is
a, question whether their room would
not prcve more valuable than their com-
pany for this object.

The advent of the bicycle marked the
commencement of the era of general
road improvement. This will extend
to include street cleaning. The ad-
vent of the horseless vehicle will sim-
plify the task; and not many years
hence we shall look back upon the filth-
laden streets of the present with wonder
that their condition could ever have

been tolerated.

NATE.
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News of Gossip of Interest to Dealer
and Rider.

There will be more tandems built
this year than were put together in the
last three years. ‘A bicycle built for
two’’ is a wheel that meets with ready
popularity, for several reasons. It is
possible to be more companionable on
a two-seater. The wheelmen who ride
in pairs can converse along the road,
while on single wheels this is a difficult
occupation. Then, too, the exertion is
much less. Two men on a thirty-five-
pound tandem can cut pigeon wings
around cyclists on single wheels, and
then not half try. A woman who is not
able to guide the silent steed may be
escorted around the country without
danger of a mishap, or at least without
so much chance of it as though she
were riding a single wheel.

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The dog is not going to have things
all his own way, after all—at least not
in the State of Massachusetts. There is
a law there which provides that any
person may kill a dog that suddenly as-
saults him while he is peaceably walk-
ing or riding without the inclosure of
its owner or keeper. Riding, as used
in the statute, may not signify riding a
bicycle, but the courts would undoubt-
edly construe it to have that meaning
at the present time, especially as a man
on a wheel is more exposed to the at-
tacks of dogs than a man on a horse.
Dogs are certainly a great nuisance and
source of danger on country roads, and
a cyclist would apparently be justified
in resorting to almost any means to de-
fend himself in case of attack, but no
one would actually kill a dog unless
forced to do so. To disable him by the
use of ammonia or by some other
method would assuredly be justifiable.

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The manufacturer of the modern bi-
cycle encounters one of the most com-
plex and delicate problems known in
mechanical engineering. The reason
is that what scientists call ‘‘factor of
safety’’ is lower in the bicycle than in
almost any other mechanical product.
In high pressure of guns, for instance,
the factor of safety is even as great as
twenty, which meaus that the guns are
made twenty times as strong as is
theoretically necessary for the strain
they must bear. In ordinary guns the
factor of safety is twelve, in boilers it
is about six, in bridges usually five,
and in almost every construction of
machines it is at least four. These
wide margins of extra strength are con-
sidered necessary as an offset to errors
in theoretical computations or defects
in construction and material. With the
lightness of construction in bicycles
this factor is reduced to a very small
margin, being as low in some instances
as 1.25. This being so, one can read-

 

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King of Bicycles

As near perfect as the finest equipped bicycle factory in the world
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$80.

and

$100.

FOUR STYLES.
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If anything cheaper will suit you, the best of lower-priced wheels is Defiance;
eight styles for adults and children, #75, #60, #50, and #40, fully guaranteed. Send
for Monarch book.

Monarch Cycle Mig. Co.,

Lake, Halsted and Fulton Sts., =

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CHICAGO.

310 Woodward Ave., Detroit.
ADAMS & HART, Agents,

Grand Rapids.

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[ade by the only exclusive Tandem [Manufactory in the World.

TANDEM TRUTHS.

1. An expectant public is just beginning to realize the
pleasures that come from Tandem riding.

2. Long wheel base, excessive strain on the front fork,
clumsy steering, and many other disagreeable features have
heretofore made Tandems inconvenient and undesirable.

_3. The Tally-Ho, the result of careful experimenting, en-
tirely overcomes all these objections.

4. The Tally-Ho is distinctly a Tandem, and, unlike many
others, is not constructed of bicycle parts.

5. You should write for further particulars.

THE TALLY-HO TANDEM CO.

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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 23

 

ily understand why the makers of stand-
ard machines maintain such a rigid sys-
tem of inspection.
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One of the most popular topics of
conversation, when a number of people
begin to talk of cycling, is the high
cost of wheels and thezprobability of a
reduction in prices within the near fu-
ture. The favorite argument is that,
with the largely increased number of
bicycle factories “in the country, and
new ones constantly springing up, an
over-production must result, and, fol-
lowing the ordinary laws of supply and
demand, lower prices should ensue.
Were there only one grade of bicycles,
such a conclusion would not be far
wrong, but from the present outlook,
while there may be an over-production
of cheap grades, there is a strong prob-
ability that manufacturers of high-grade
machines will experience considerable
difficulty in supplying the demand for
some time to come.
reason for any outcry against the price
of wheels. In a wheel, the price of
which is maintained at $100, the buyer is
sure of obtaining his $100 worth, if not
more, while if he pays only $4o, the
chances are vastly against his getting
even $4o worth, gauging the proportion-
ate value from the $100 wheel.

* * *

There is really no

There is something new in chain ad-
justments. Riders who have had oc-
casion to tighten the chains on their
bicycles are well aware that not a little
skill is required to get the rear wheel
set exactly true. On some wheels there
is an adjusting screw, or something cor-
responding to it, on each side; on
others the adjusting is all done on one
side, and then the wheel has to be
‘*trued’’? with the eye or by measuring
the distance between the tire and the
rear sidebars of the frame. This has
been the general principle in all wheels
until recently. Now there is a bicycle
on the market in which the notches for
the rear wheel are cut on the under side
of the sidebars, so that the wheel can-
not be moved forward on either side.
Thus it is impossible for it to get ‘‘out
of true.’’ The chain adjustment is pro-
vided for in connection with the large
sprocket wheel, and by a simple appa-
ratus the chain can be tightened or
loosened much more easily than is the
case when it is necessary to loosen both
nuts on the rear axle and move the at-
tachments on one or both sides.

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Cyclists who think of going to Can-
ada will be interested in the new order
issued by the Customs Department in
reference to tourists’ bicycles, which
does away with the order previously in
force. The order prescribes that per-
sons bringing bicycles into Canada shall
deposit at the port of entry an amount
equal to the duty on the retail price of
the machine, with a full description of
the machine and a statement of the
place and date at which the bicycle is
to be taken out of the country. At the
place and date mentioned, the amount
of the duty will be refunded, but if re-
port is not made at the time named,
and if evidence of the exportation of the
wheel is not furnished to the collector
at the port of entry within fifteen days
thereafter, the duty will be :retained.
Such a provision will not encourage bi-
cycle tours in the Dominion, for a
wheelman is liable to change his _ plans
at any time, or circumstances may com-
pel him to cut his trip short, so that he
may not be able to depart at the point
and time previcusly set. It would seem
that a certificate setting forth the
amount paid should be sufficient to
cause its refund from the collector at
any point where the rider goes out of
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sell it alone, to say nothing
of the fact that it will pay
you to handle it, correspond
with us about

“THE GARLAND”

PENINSULAR WHEEL GD.

13 Fountain St., Grand Rapids.

Also agents for Sterling, Day-
ton, Phoenix, Ben Hur

For a Bicycle that has more
points of merit about it than
any you ever saw and with a
style and finish that would

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Agents Wanted.

We have wheels from #0 to #100. Cor-
respondence invited.

   

 
  
     
  
   
   
 

  

 

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Are you ‘‘in it’’ for Money?

If so, you should handle good, reliable

wheels--wheels with a good reputation.

When you sell a wheel you want to know
that it is sold, and that it will piease
your customer. There is no necessity for

buying an experiment. A good many
wheels are made this year for the first
time and are therefore experimental.

200 OO OSes:
Here Is Our Line

Every wheel in it has an

ESTABLISHED REPUTATION!

Helical Tube Premier
March
America
Monarch
Cycloid
Outing
Envoy and Fleetwing
Wolverine
Featherstones.

Write us for Territory, Prices, etc.

ADAMS & HART,

Bicycles and Sundries—Wholesale and Retail,

12 West Bridge St., Grand Rapids.

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In this part of the country,
things sometimes turn ° out
entirely different from what
they] would have done, had
they not been otherwise
from what you expected
they were going to be.

hoya
Mocha and Java

Never

disappoints — either
dealer orconsumer. This and
1s other brands of Dwinell,

Wright & Co.’s coffees car-

ried. constantly in stock by

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Grand Rapids.

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to do, we carry out to the very letter. A false adver- ira
tisement is suicidal and poor business policy. It tears Jxes
down a business, instead of buiiding one up. aS
Our offers are so tempting that our competitors say 29
that they cannot be, and will not be, carried out. Our ie
reply is, “Just try us and see.” es
We adhere strictly to cash and we are gaining new Rend
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customers every week. ‘

EOE business, decidedly so at the present time, with the
te heavy depression that is overhanging the business in- f of3

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terests of this country like a hideous nightmare.

Lent is over and we quote in the provision line for this
week, Morgan Short Cut Pork at $8.90; Clifton Family
Pork at $8.90; Heavy Mess Pork at $8.90; Nonpariel
Short Cut Pork at $8.90; Sunderland Short Cut Pork at
$8.90 per barrel.

Lard Compound, in 50 pound tubs, 4%2c;

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Pure Lard, in

50 pound tins, 6c.
] Sugar Cured Hams, mild cure, 83;c; Bacon, strips,
rt aes Picnic Hams, 646c; Shoulders, 534; Briskets, 534.¢;
Dried Beef, ham sets, 934 c.
_We renew last week’s offers on dried fruits.
We offer 225 boxes 2 Cr. L. M. Raisins at 3¢ per pound.
We offer 150 boxes 3 Cr. L. M. Raisins at 3'4¢ per pound.

We quote good Lemons 300’s at $1.95 per box.
We quote choice Lemons 300’s at $2.15 per box.
se We quote strictly fancy Lemons 30v’s at $2.40 per box

Cash with order in current exchange; local checks taken only

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

New York, April 4--The idiotic
young man who always puts on a light
overcoat April 1 is now admitting that
he made a fool of himself, for a colder
spell in early April has seldom been
seen. True, we have no snow eight
feet deep, as is reported from North-
ern Ohio, but it is so cold that there is
no fun in living. The weather has its
influence on trade, too. Nevertheless,
none of these things move us. This Is
the biggest town in America and of
course we devote a great deal of energy
to feeding this republic. People must
eat and grocers are here for the purpose
of selling them food products. Dry
goods may languish, boots and shoes
crow dull, hardware be slack, but the gay
and festive grocer has never any reason
to complain. This week we find a
spirit of general contentment hanging
over the jobbing district and dealers
actually report themselves quite  satis-
tied.

Coffee is duller than last week upon
the whole but the demand has been
pretty good and stocks in the interior
do not seem excessive. Orders are quite
frequent by mail and brokers seem to
be fairly active. It was rumored that
European dealers had cabled an offer to
sell some coffee here and a reply was
returned thet this country could send
the same grade abroad at ‘sc less than
the foreign offer. The invoice value of
Rio No. 7 here is 1334, it having takena

 

tumble of a little fraction. Amount
afloat, 449,969 bags, against 448,425 bags
at the same time last year. Mild

coffees are held firmly at full former
rates.

Sugar hesitates. Refined has advanced
1-16c sitce last report and the Trust has
made some large purchases of raw at no
advance. Quite a good many orders
come in but mostly of small character
and there is no difficulty in meeting
them without delay. Granulated is held
at 5 3-16c.

There exists a pretty fair demand for
rice and considerable favoritism is be-
ing shown at the moment for foreign,
especially Japan, the stocks of which
are now considerably depleted. Prices,
while not materially advanced, are most
firmly adhered to.

Molasses is meeting with about the
usual inquiry. The grades not up to
best are neglected, but the fine sorts
are taken quickly. Of course, trade is
not as active as at a later period in the
year, but dealers are quite well pleased
and the outlook is for a pretty good sea-
son. There is some new crop Porto
Rico here. which is. selling within a
range of 28@38c. It is very good, that
is, the better grades are.

Syrups remain so nicely balanced as
regards demand and supply that the
tone of the market varies scarcely a
hair’s breadth from one week to another.
There is certainly no great accumula-
tion of the best grades of sugar goods
and they bring prices which are tairly
remunerative. Choice to fancy. sugar
syrups are worth from 18@26c, the lat-
ret being the outside point reached.

The spice market is held day after
day in the same condition. Supplies
are fairly large, prices satisfactory and
demand even. No -anxiety seems to be
displayed either to buy or sell.

Teas are dull and listless, as-usual.
Thee little spark of vitality which
seemed to spring up last week has been
extinguished and the market once more
is asleep.

Canned goods are rather depressed.
Reports of new canneries being erected
continue to come in in a plentiful man-
ner, and one can scarcely take up a
country paper witbout seeing the famil-
lar announcement, together with a state-
ment showing the enormous profit there
is in the business. This latter point is
most ingeniously explained, however,
in the catalogue issued by makers of
canning machinery. It is clearly shown
that an independent fortune is sure to
overtake the man who puts $1,500 into
the machinery they make—and this ina
very few years. Beware of the state-
ments of the canning machinery maker!

 

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Butter is firm and the demand is al-
most excellent. Orders are from large
jobbers, however, and not for wants far
ahead, and if we have some real spring-
like weather we shall see a drop in the
market. Extra creamery is worth 2!c.

Home trade in cheese is fairly satis-
factory to dealers. Stocks are decidedly
low and the outlook is for a good firm
market from now on_ until new goods
arrive. There is a little doing in an
export way on a basis of about 6!2c.

Receipts of eggsare much smaller this
week and the tone of the market is
materially improved. It is likely the
advance is owing to the Easter holiday.

There are a good many methods to
gain notoriety here, but the most orig-
inal | have heard of is for a man to buy
a box at a theater and send one of his
menials into a cheaper part of the house,
so that the latter can call attention to
his master’s presence during the acts by
saying to the man next to him: ‘‘Do
you see that gentleman in the box?
That's Mr. Slickun, the celebrated
lawyer. Never heard of him? Why,
he’s at the top of his profession !’’ This
fake is not infrequently followed by
some fat fees.

Lofty offices overlooking the build-
ings and rivers are at apremium among
seekers after new quarters. In one
office the windows have been painted
over simply because the boss found he
was catching the habit from his clerks
of watching the ships instead of grind-
ing away at his desk. The marine
views to be obtained from the downtown
structures are certainly fascinating, and
in summer time they give a fellow that
tired feeling which cultivates a longing
for something else besides the daily
routine.

Herrmann gave a private exhibition
ina club a few nights ago. When he
had finished, the members surrounded
him and the spokesm2en stepped for-
ward. Ina graceful speech he told the
magician how flattered and _ entertained
they had been, and to commemorate
the event they bad decided to present
him with a ring. Herrmann’s heart
fluttered as the speaker raised his hand.
It came down suddenly on a bell on a
small table. Hermann blushed, de-
clared it was the best trick he had ever
seen, and paid the bill.

The small stores that were opened
here two years ago for the sale of
aluminum articles have grown into big
stores, and the trade is increasing every
day. Itis interesting to learn that nov-
elties are being added all the time to
their stock. I pass a couple of these
shops almost every afternoon, and every
time I inspect the show windows some-
thing new attracts. When aluminum
can be soldered and when prices drop a
few notches, cooks will be handling
lighter kitchen utensils and those peo-
ple who now carry bags filled with all
sorts of flasks and _ toilet articles will
tote lighter goods.

A detective in one of the big depart-
ment stores uptown said recently that
his experience with women arrested for
shoplifting was invariably the same,
whether the woman was a_ professional
thief or not. ‘‘There is always a denial
first,’’ he said, ‘“‘and that is immediate-
ly followed by emphatic threats of a suit
for damages against the firm unless the
woman be at once released. This hap-
pens generally in the little room to
which we take the women after they
have been positively detected, and it is
surprising to see the pertinacity with
which a woman will stick to the asser-
tion that she is innocent, even when the
stolen articles have been taken away
from her. We expect this naturally
enough from professional shoplifters,
but it is surprising in the case of wom-
en who have never been arrested be-
fore and may not be justly heid respon-
sible for what they have done. In those
cases where we know the woman is_ not
a professional and is probably suffering
from some mental irregularity, she
would probably fare very much better
after the articles have been returned if
she admitted her weakness and went
quietly home. But it seems a part of

the disease—-if it is that—to protest in-
nocence and threaten revenge, and none
of the women ever omit that feature of

 

it. One woman, for instance, was ap-

prehended in the store several times.
She was the wife of a rich man who
knew her peculiarity and had offered to
pay for whatever she took. She was al-
ways followed and7stopped in order to
enable us to tell what the extent of her
thefts had been. Every time that hap-
pened she maintained that she had
taken nothing and threatened to bring a
suit for damages against us. We saw
what she had taken, sent the bill to her
husband, and he paid it. In another
case a girl was arrested and a number
of small articles were found about her.
She had been watched for some time
and there was no doubt of her guilt. If
she had confessed—as she was a re-
spectable girl who had never been ar-
rested before—that might have ended
the matter. But her employer engaged
a lawyer and threatened us with a suit
of $20,000 for damages. For our own
protection, we had to press the case,
and the jury convicted the girl without
leaving their seats. ’’

The new woman, having had a_ shy
at almost everything that’s going now-
adays, has concluded that she wants to
be an office boy. The other day the
little owner of a golden head popped
into an office and surprised the man at
the desk by asking: Please, sir, do
you want an office girl?’’’ The sur-
prised gentleman told Miss Golden
Head that there was no vacancy, and
then she went on up to the top story of
the skyscraper, repeating the same
question to the occupants of offices and
meeting with the same success. But
the little new woman had determination
written all over her rosy face, and _ be-
fore she quits she'll probably inaugu-
rate a new era in office boys.

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Flour and Feed.

The market for the past week has not
been very active, yet the demand is in-
creasing, especially for flour. The
opinion is now quite general that at
present prices an investment is safe.
The stock of flour continues to decrease,
even more rapidly than wheat, on ac-
count of the fact that so many mills are
idle or are running simply for local
business.

Should any serious foreign complica-
tions arise, the price of breadstuffs
would be quickly affected and likely to
sell much higher within a short time.
The city mills have been running quite
steadily for the most part, losing now
and then a day because of an insuffi-
cient supply of wheat or a lack of ship-
ping orders.

The demand for feed, meal and mill-
stuffs has been good and prices are well
maintained. The city mills are well
sold ahead on millstuffs for the month
of April.

Wm. N. ROwE.
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Good Value.

_ American, Central Park and Lodi
Shirting Prints, 3% cents per yard.

P. STEKETEE & SONS.
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