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GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 1896.

What Capital Is Necessary?

We are often asked what amount of
capital is necessary to successfully en-
gage in and conduct a drug business.

Pleased, indeed, are we whenever we
can answer the questions of our readers
and correspondents in a way protitable
to them; but—well, it will do you no
good to be told that the capital neces-
sary toa paying drug business varies
from one thousand dollars to one hun-
dred thousand dollars, and then it most
always sometimes doesn’t pay.

But if you are an ambitious, self-re-
specting young man with a few thou-
sand dollars at your command, looking
for an honorable and moderately remu-
nerative calling in life, and prejudiced
in favor of the practice of pharmacy,
we Can give you, off-hand, one piece of
thoroughly sound advice: spend one
thousand dollars in getting the very
best education for pharmacy that you
can get for that sum of money, and do
not invest one cent in the drug busi-
ness until after you have completed
your educational preparation for it.
By that time you will knéw better what
to do with the rest of your capital.

A very thorough training for phar-
macy can be had _ in four years; one-
half of that time should be spent ina
first-class school of pharmacy, and the
other two years in a first-class drug
store. If you are not willing to spend
those four years in getting ready, don’t
think of becoming a pharmacist at all.

Mr. L., of Indiana, says he has three
thousand doilars and wants to go into
the drug business. He asks how to in-
vest that amount in the best possible
way, adding that he would rather start
a new and neat store than to buy out an
old one, and that there is nothing to
hinder him from becoming a druggist
in that State, since it has no pharmacy
law. He admits that he knows nothing
about pharmacy, but insists at the same
time that he has as much brains and
general education as any druggist he
ever met. We advised him in all ear-
nestness and kindness to use one-third
of his capital to take a college course
of two years’ study and laboratory train-
ing in a good college of pharmacy, and
on no account to engage in the drug
business for himself until after he had
seen at least two years’ regular service
in the shop of some competent phar-
macist; but he says he can’t wait. The
advice he received was the best possi-
ble; but it was not what he wanted.

When will the retail druggists learn
that strict pharmacy laws, suchas afford
sufficient and reasonable protection to
the public, will also save from the con-
sequences of their own foliy the would-
be druggists who are bound to start in
the business without knowing anything
about it, and, finally, will benefit all
who are in the business, because strict
pharmacy laws necessarily prevent a
reckless increase of the already stran-
gling competition?

—__—_> 2.
Memorial Day Advertising.

 

The value of window advertising for
the winter holiday trade has generally
been appreciated by merchants and _in-
genuity has been exhausted in getting

 

 

up displays representing Saint Christo- |

pher or Father Time and other sugges-
tions appropriate to the season. But
for some reason the other holidays,

while not deserving the attention in|

trade of Christmastide of course, are
not utilized to the extent they do de-
serve,

Memorial Day is especially available
for this kind of advertising. There is
a sufficient interest in the public mind
to make everything associated with the
day attractive. Thus displays of war
relics may be arranged in the store win-
dow, or in some portien of the store to
which the crowd may be invited by suit-
able announcements.

From this the exhibit may be elabo-
rated in any way ingenuity and means
may suggest. An effective display is
the representation of a sodded mound
decorated with flcwers and a flag with a
figure in G. A. R. uniform bending
over it. Variations of this idea may be
used as may be practicable, as_ the in-
troduction of a monument in place of
the mound, or otherwise.

Such advertising, to utilize its full
value, should precede the holiday as long
as it may and not lose its interest, say
two or three days. The novelty ofa
sodded space is very effective in itself,
and no great outlay would be required
to make such a display the center of at-
traction to considerable crowds.

- > 0. -

The architectural iron and steel work-
ers of New York City are making prep-
arations for another contest with the
Iron League. In the last two strikes the
League was victorious, but the work-
men hope to succeed by making prepa-
ration in the way of securing thefofficial
co-operation of similar organizations
throughout the country. A convention
of such organizations was recently held
at Pittsburg at which the principal
business was the preparation for this
struggle. A National union of structural
iron and bridge workmen was formed,
composed of nine organizations and
with a membership of 20,000 men. The
claim is made that the wages paid by
the members of the Iron League are be-
low those of comparatively small cities
throughout the country. Another strug-
gle of this kind on the old _battle-field
will be watched with much interest.

—___» 2.

The address from the throne at the
opening of the Spanish Cortes promises
autonomy in the governments of Porto
Rico and Cuba in the event of the sup-
pression of the insurrection in the lat-
ter. The system of sovereignty and the
conditions for its maintenance, how-
ever, are to be vigorously maintained.
The Queen Regent observes, diplomat-
ically, that the conduct of the United
States is correct and friendly, and that
the ties of interest and friendship which
bind them to Spain are constantly in-
creasing. The attitude of the Executive
may warrant this assumption, but close
attention to the sentiment of other de-
partments of the Government and of the
people in general might discover a de-
gree of sympathy for Cuba equaling at
least the cordiality felt for Spain.

 

 

Number 661

Flour and Feed.

The past week has been a very quiet
one, buyers being content to purchase
only for immediate wants. This feeling
pervades not only the flour, feed and
provision trade, but the volume of busi-
ness in all lines is confined to narrow
limits. The near approach of harvest
and the still nearer approach of the two
great political conventions attach to the
present a degree of uncertainty. Busi-
ness men, as a rule, are “expectant and
hopeful of better times, but are waiting
and trading cautiously until they have
something more tangible upon which to
build their hopes.

Very little change has occurred in the
price of flour. The output at various
points has been more or less restricted
for want of good milling wheat. The
crop damage reports are very numerous
which, if verified later on at the harvest
time, will stimulate values consider-
ably.

Feed, meal and bran are not now in
strong demand, as_ grazing lands afford
an abundance of pasturage and sales
at present are made chiefly in the
cities and towns. Prices are, conse-
quently, lower.

Wa. N. ROWE.
~~» 2~.—___—

It is most important that every com-
mercial traveler should occasionally
take account of himself and his re-
sources. He should test his strength,
his capacity—take a measure of his
stature, not in inches merely, but in
ounces of solid commercial worth.

A knowledge of your trade, how to
handle it and how to cater to all its lit-
tle peculiarities, is necessary in your
vocation as a traveling salesman. Re-
member that sugar catches more flies
than vinegar. This may be a rather
homely saying, but it is true not only in
fly catching, but in trade catching.

The Canadian government has adver-
tised for bids for a subsidy to a steam-
ship line between some English port
and Quebec in summer and Halifax in
winter, the arrangement to continue ten
years.

> 70.

The establishment of a central bureau
of police information, with headquarters
at Washington, is likely to be an im-
portant outcome of the recent conven-
tion of superintendents of police held
at Atlanta. The plan can be easily car-
ried out, an office being hired at the
National capital and a single clerk
placed in-charge. The expense, if
shared by thirty or more cities, will be
a mere trifle for each one. Such a
bureau will be a sort of clearing-house
for the police of the cities maintaining
it, and through it it will be easy for the
police officials in any city to obtain fin-
formation quickly regarding any crimi-
nal taken into custody. It has been
suggested that a bureau for this purpose
should be maintained by the general
Government, but the same object will
be accomplished by the co-operation
of the principal cities, without being a
burden to them.—N. Y. Tribune.

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It is reported that the Standard Oil
Company will close its great plant in
Cleveland within six months. Thus
that city will lose one of its greatest in-
dustries and 400 men will be thrown out
of work,

 

2

The March of Civilization.
Written for the TRADESMAN.

To one who reads the history of the
present time, as recorded by electricity
and print, the question naturally
arises, Is the greed of power shown by
the foremost nations of the world a_ le-
gitimate factor in promoting the great-
est amount of human happiness? Events
that have occurred within the dark con-
tinent of Africa prove clearly that the
autonomous powers of Europe, in their
foreign policy, are strictly counterparts
of individual human nature. Though
glossed over with ingenious phrases of
diplomatic pretense, the acts of each
government seeking a share of territory
therein recall a trait of character so
commonly exhibited in the pushing,
crowding world, that selfishly tramples
on the weak and unresisting units—the
trait usually called the spirit of enter-
prise.

It took centuries of warfare to har-
monize diverse interests springing from
race prejudice, to establish these gov-
ernments and to fix the boundaries now
acknowledged. Their permanence de-
pends, not so much on the justice of
final settlement, as on the fear that if
once rudely disturbed, the whole work
will have to be done over again, and at
an infinite expense of blood and _treas-
ure. Since each is compeiled to keep
large armies in fighting trim as a de-
fense against possible assault, and to
maintain the ‘‘balance of power,’’ this
pent-up force can only find a natural
outlet in the conquest of weaker and in-
ferior races, which is done under the
pretext of commercial or colonial en-
terprise. Thus France has acquired
dominion in Algeria and Madagascar;
Italy has essayed the same in Abys-
sinia, and Germany and Portugal have
secured portions of a common spoil,
while England has her lion’s paw on
detached portions of territory from
Egypt to Cape Town, wherever bluff or
brute can obtain a footing—al-
though, to hold all her conquests, scat-
tered as they are in every quarter of the
globe, it would require her to possess
not only the strength of a lion, but also
the peculiar structure of a centipede.

The check England has received in
one of her many schemes to absorb more
than a lion’s share of territory, espe-
cially where mineral wealth incites un-
usual greed, has revealed to the world
characteristics of a certain modern Civ-
ilization that might well befit the worst
kingly usurper of history. Since the
world has become morally enlightened,
and human rights are, consequently,
better respected, the thirst for conquest,
though strong as ever, is obliged to use
artifice to conceal dark purposes, and
thus avoid public scandal. Though
England, years ago, drove the Boers
from lands held by a better title than
her own, and compelled them to move
farther into the Dark Continent, where,
in time, a peaceful Republic was estab-
lished, this grasping power was still un-
satisfied. The presence of gold within
the Transvaal boundaries attracted
British cupidity, which, unappeased by
possession of the richest diamond fields
of the world, still coveted its neighbor’s
wealth. To seize it vi et armis was too
bold an act for the present age; and so
the South AfricanCompany was founded,
as a commercial venture to be the cat’s-

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company were able to lull the suspi-
cions of the Boers and to obtain valu-
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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

ing to develop Transvaal resources for
mutual benefit. The newcomers in-
creased rapidly as the richness of the
mines became apparent; but, after a
time, they began to chafe under the re-
striction of laws framed and executed
by a people they had always regarded
as lower in the scale of civilization.
Failing to secure concessions to claim
which they had no moral right, they
invoked the aid of military force, osten-
sibly in the employ of the South Afri-
can Company, for defense against sav-
age neighbors; and the Jameson raid
was the result.

Every true philanthropist may rejoice
that this bold attempt of brigandage
failed because of the sagacity and cour-
age of the Boers. The Emperor of Ger-
many expressed the feeling of all fair-
minded men living under Republican
institutions. The Boers may be, in the
world’s opinion, a rude and uncultivated
race; but the Republic they had _ estab-
lished was their own, to have and to
control, by a far better title than that of
the American colonies as against the
pretensions of the British crown. The
war of 1776 was a rebellion against the
tyranny of an acknowledged sovereign,
and was regarded by the world as_ jus-
tified only because of its issue in our
favor. Theirs was in defense of home
and of inalienable rights put in jeopardy
by those who had _ been trustingly ad-
mitted to share in the wealth, but not
in the political control of the Tarnsvaal
Republic. Every day brings confor-
mation of a belief that the lust of power
exhibited by Great Britain was the
original and predominant cause of the
trouble.

In contrast with the leading powers
of Europe, the foreign policy of this
Nation stands conspicuous for being
free from unjust and selfish territorial
aggrandizement. It is true that, in
early colonial times, force was neces-
sary to protect us from savage foes, and
afterwards to maintain our birthright
against the claims of a power that
abused its authority to oppress unwill-
ing subjects. Since then, with a popu-
lation twenty times greater, we have
stood as a Nation committed to the doc-
trine of ‘‘Live and let live;’’ and,
while willing to spend millions in de-
fense, have never wasted a_ dollar in
schemes of conquest. With one single
exception, every acre of territory in the
United States has been acquired by fair
and honorable negotiations—and even
the war with Mexico, by which we
gained territory, was not wholly un-
provoked, when its true history is un-
derstood.

The resources of this Nation have not
been hoarded, but have been given
freely —even foolishly—to millions who
had no reasonable claim to them by the
customs of other governments. Because
we believe in political and personal
freedom and all the prosperity that log-
ically follows, we have been willing to
share that freedom with people of other
lands, asking in return but loyal citizen-
ship. Who will say that, in the march
of civilization, this Nation has not
example for others to
follow? Our position on this continent
has kept us free from many antagoni-
zing conditions that, of necessity, sur-
European powers. In our com-
intercourse with the peoples of
both hemispheres, either civilized or

Savage, we have never imitated the
grasping policies of other first-class
powers, which are endangering the

a of the world and are outraging
| every principle of right, as well as that

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MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN 3

 

of universal brotherhood. It may please
the dispassionate historian to contem-
plate complacently the partition of con-
tinents and the seizure of islands by
force, or by fraud upon their inhabi-
tants— to call it the progressive march of
civilization and condone its cruelites
because, sometimes, good may come out
of admitted evil. But we on this side
of the Atlantic may boast that the in-
fluence of American civilization upon
the world at large is based on higher
principles of action; and in that lies
the grestest hope for the future of this
Nation.
S. P. WHITMARSH.
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The World’s Sulphur Supply.

If the sulphur deposits recently re-
ported from Louisiana are really abun-
dant, their discovery is a matter of im-
portance. Hitherto the chief important
deposits of elementary sulphur known
to the civilized world were those of
Sicily, the Italian mainland, Spain,
France, Transylvania, Poland, Germany
and the Island of ;Formosa. ‘The de-
posits in Formosa, now that Japan has
come into possession of that island, are
likely to be developed in the interests
of Japan’s military progress. Mount
Pinace, in the United States of Coolm-
bia, has a sulphur cap of nearly 1,500
square yards that gains annually two
feet in depth. There is a sulphur de-
posit at Solfatara in the Red Sea that
yields about 600 tons of sulphur annual-
ly, a mere trifle compared with the
commercial product of the world. There
are sulphur deposits in Armenia, high
in the sides of a volcano, which are
worked chiefly with the aid of the rifle,
great masses being dislodged with rifle
balls shot from a_ distance below. A

_ sulphur deposit in California was once

supposed to contain many thousand
tons, although the whole would be in-
significant compared with the annual
demand of this country.

Sicily has for a great many years sup-
plied the civilized world with sulphur.
The Sicilian deposits are amazingly
rich, but are worked with a reckless
wastefulness and almost total neglect fof
modern labor-saving devices. Even now
only a few of the mines use machinery
for hoisting the sulphur to the surface.
Boys from twelve to eighteen years of
age are employed in the others for this
purpose, and there is a curious custom
of paying the miners and premitting
them to hire for themselves carriers at
what price they may. Doubtless the
conservatism of the Siciljian peasant
has made it difficult to supersede this
crude method of getting out sulphur.

The Siciliar® method cf procuring
pure sulphur from the crude material is
wasteful in the extreme. A pit is dug
in the hillside, about thirty-three feet
in diameter and eight feet deep, and
this is filled up with the crude sulphur.
It is then fired from the top and per-
mitted to burn as long as it will. The
pure sulphur runs out below and is col-
lected in a stone vessel and then ladled
into damp poplar-wood moulds. These
moulds give the truncated cones of sul-
phur known to commerce, which weigh
from 110 to 130 pounds each. A pit
containing about 28,000 cubic feet of
crude sulphur yields in two months 200
tons of the pure sulphur. A large quan-
tity of the crude sulphur is thus con-
sumed in burning the rest, so that a
comparatively small percentage of pure
sulphur is obtained from the mass. The
method is, besides, most unwholesome
both to man and to vegetation. Strict
laws prevent the burning of sulphur
within a certain distance of human hab-
itation or growing crops, and the re-
gion where sulphur-burning is general
is a dreary waste. The scarcity of fuel
in Sicily has seemed to render neces-
sary this crude method of reducing the
ore.

More scientific methods have been
introduced at the sulphur deposits of
the mainland, where the ore is reduced
by the use of steam. Very pure sul-
phur is obtained by the use of sulphate
of carbon in reducing the ore. The
purest sulphur is obtained by distilling

 

|
Sicilian sulphur. Most of the Sicilian |
sulphur is used in the production of |
sulphuric acid. -

The production of sulphur in Formosa |
under the Chinese rule was a crown
monopoly. Whether it shall thus re- |
main under the rule of the Japanese or |
not, the system is likely to be modern- |
ized, and if the deposits are rich enough |
Formosa may become an important |
competitor with Sicily in supplying the |
needs of the civilized worlc. The ad-
vantage of the discovery of crude sul-
phur in large quantities in the United |
States would be the prompt application |
of thoroughly scientific and economical
methods to the reduction of the ore,
and it is probable that, were rich sulphur
ores developed in this country, sulphur
could be produced here as cheaply as
in Sicily, as the waste in production
would be so small. Sicily has over
three hundred mines. of sulphur, and
between twenty-five and thirty thousand
men are employed in the sulphur indus-
tries. They have for years past been
a disappointed and unhappy _ body of
workingmen, and the condition of the
industry is extremely bad. Some years
ago it was estimated that the sulphur
deposits of Sicily still contained 50,-
000,000 tons, which would mean a sup-
ply, at the present rate of consumption,
for over one hundred years. The dis-
covery of paying sulphur mines in the
United States would doubtless attract
hither more Sicilian immigration and
have an important effect upon the wages
and upon the whole sulphur industry in
Sicily.

0 -
The Hardware Market.

General Trade—In the line of summer
goods is quite active. The extreme
warm weather caused a large demand
for screen doors, windows, refrigerators,
ice cream freezers, etc., and it also
had a good effect on agricultural tools,
the demand being large for steel goods
and corn and potato planters, as well as
scythes, snaths and rakes. The demand
for corn planters has been so unusual
that some favorite brands are all sold
out and the manufacturers are unable
to supply any more, as their stock for
making them is all used up.

Wire Nails—The demand for wire
nails is not as active as in April, as
most of the dealers supplied their wants
before the advance was made and are
now only buying when their assortment
is broken. Prices are firmly held and
in some quarters there is talk of a still
further advance in June; but it is not
believed by the conservative mills that
such action will be taken. It is certain-
ly hoped that no further advance will
be made.

Barbed Wire—lIs firm and selling with
a good deal of freedom. The demand
keeps up wonderfully and all factories
are holding their price. There are no
indications of any change for the pres-
ent.

Sheet Iron—Many orders are being
placed for fall shipments, as it is be-
lieved prices will be higher then than
now.

Shovels and Spades—The more in-
formation we get on the recent advance,
the more we are convinced that the as-
sociation is formed t8 stay and will be
able to maintain prices, and make an-
other advance soon.

- ee

The House Committee on Coinage,
Weights and Measures has reported a
resolution authorizing and _ requesting
the President to take such steps as may
be appropriate to secure international
action between this and the other prin-
cipal commercial countries for the
adoption of a coinage for invoice pur-
poses which shall be current in all the
countries joining in the movement. The
commercial advantages of such an ar-
rangement are so obvious that it would
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QD ROME WAS
NOT BUILT IN A DAY

Neither was our present business; but months of hard, persistent
hammering, and a desire to please at any cost, have accomplished
much.

The best advertisement we have had is the continual growth of
our business, showing your approval of and confidence in our
ability to take care of the Rubber trade.

BOSTON AND BAY STATE RUBBERS

Nothing else with us but new, clean stock, the latest styles.
every width or size made, and a guarantee that your orders
will receive prompt and complete attention.

W. A. McGRAW & CO.

DETROIT, 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, Felt
Boots and Sox, will have them when the
wearer wants them. We_ guarantee
prices. Ask for price list.

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Grand Rapids, Mich.
508, 509 and 510
Widdicomb Bld.
[. B. CLARK,
Pres.
W. D. WADE,
Vice- Pres.
Cc. U. CLARK,
Sec’y and Treas.

     
    
 
    
     
     
   
 
     
 

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

    
   

 

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Movements of Merchants.

Elk—Wright & Massey succeed H.
A. Wright in general trade.

Sparta—The mortgage on the A. L.
Hinman drug stock has been foreclosed.

Mt. Pleasant—Theo. F. Scattergood
has removed his jewelry stock to Hicks-
ville, Ohio.

Detroit—Hodges & VanValin succeed
Sheldon & Hodges in the grocery and
meat business.

Homer--Mount & Doyle succeed
Frank Mount in the agricultural imple-
ment business.

Lowell—Yeiter & Wadsworth succeed
J. B. Yeiter in the furniture and un-
dertaking business.

Albion—Slowey & Jeffres have sold
their hardware stock and tinsmith busi-
ness to Geo. E. Dean.

Alma—F. W. Hooper & Co., meat
dealers, have dissolved, F. W. Hooper
continuing the business.

Hancock—Killian Yagle
the hardware business formerly
ducted by Mondlock & Yagle.

Hart—-Cameron & Van Wormer’s feed
store and Miss Drake’s millinery store
were recently consumed by fire.

Addison—Howd & Niblick, clothiers
and shoe dealers, have dissolved, H.
E. Howd continuing the business.

Kalamazoo—Mrs. A. W. Walsh has
purchased the grocery stock of Hartman
& Ackley, and will continue the busi-
ness.

Marquette—A. T. Emmons, of the
Emmons Bros. Hardware Co., has been
appointed Chief of Police by Mayor
Jacobs.

Hopkins Station—Dendel & Bechtold,
general dealers, have dissolved partner-
ship, the latter retiring on account of
poor health.

Ishpeming—A. W. Meyers has pur-
chased the general stock of M. A. (Mrs.
John B.) Meyers, who will embark in
trade in Chicago.

Shelby—C. A. Endahi has sold his
grocery stock to P. F. Ernst, who has
removed it to Ferry and consolidated it
with his grocery stock at that place.

Saginaw—Henry King, successor to
King Bros., of the Palace grocery and
meat market, has filed mortgages aggre-
gating $2,460 to secure his creditors.

Adrian—Henry J. Bowerfind has re-
signed his position in Millards’ drug
store, to go to Lansing and assume a
clerkship in the F. J. Williams drug
store.

Escanaba—Mary C. Ehnerd of Ehn-
erd & Williard, meat dealers, has pur-
chased the interest of her partner and
will continue the business in her own
name.

Kenton—Ralph Udell is now manager
of the Sparrow-Kroll Lumber Co.’s
general store. Mr. Udell was head
clerk for the F. J. Hargrave Co., of
Ewen, for several years.

Belding—J. H. Levinson, the Petos-
key Poo Bah, has abandoned this field
and removed his shelf worn relics to
Petoskey. The store thus vacated will
be occupied by Will Ricaby with his
jewelry and musical instrument stock.

Kalamazoo—Hall Bros. have _ sold
their drug stock to E. M. Kennedy &
Co., who will continue the business at
the same location. Mr. Kennedy has
been head clerk for Geo. McDonald for
several years and has an excellent repu-
tation as a pharmacist. Hall Bros. will
hereafter devote their entire attention to
the business recently established by
them, the manufacture of physicians’
supplies.

continues
con-

the State _

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

interest in the general merchandise firm
of T. H. Shepherd & Bro. to his brother,
who will continue the business under
the style of T. H. Shepherd. The re-
tiring partner contemplates engaging in
the grocery business at Otsego in the
near future.

Reed City—Frank Lampman, who
for the past fourteen years has been in
the employ of Stoddard Bros., has
traded his residence property here for a
half interest in the firm of H. H. Her-
rendeen & Co., hardware dealers and
plumbers, of Big Rapids, and took
possession last week.

Owosso—The attorneys in the case of
the Old Second National Bank of Bay
City against the Corunna Savings Bank,
garnishee of D. M. Estey, of the plan-
ing mill firm of Estey & Calkins, of
Bay City, that failed last winter, have
agreed upon an order in the case. The
sum of $2,900, a balance realized by
the Owosso Savings Bank above its lien
when the pledged stock of D. M.
Estey in the Estey Manufactuirng Co.
was sold, is to be turned over to the
Bay City Bank.

Manufacturing Matters.

Ludington—E. P. Rowe succeeds
Rowe & Cartier in the manufacture of
fruit packages.

Grayling—Salling, Hanson & Co. are
shipping forty carloads of white pine
timber to England.

Stanton—G. G. Hoyt has traded his
property in this city for a flouring mill
and residence in Remus, and will re-
move with his family at once to that
place.

Bay City—Lumbermen do not look
for a good year, but are inclined to be-
lieve that there will be considerable in-
crease in the volume of trade as the sea-
son advances.

Alpena—The old Potter sawmill is
being torn down. It was built in 1864
and went out of commission in 1892.
During its career it manufactured near-
ly 300,000,000 feet of lumber.

Republic—Munson & Peterson have
purchased the large store building
owned by Hart Bros. and have moved
their hardware and drug stocks into it.
They now have one of the finest busi-
ness places in the Upper Peninsula.

Grayling—The Dayton Last Werks
are running day and night, turning out
125,000 lasts a week. The lasts are
manufactured from maple timber, and
the company is shipping 1oo carloads

to New York. There are 150 persons
on the pay roll.
Manistee—The demand _ for cedar

shingles is unprecedented at this time
of year. Some of the mills have sold
their cut ahead for some time and two
have been running overtime all the
week trying to catch up on orders. Car
orders for shingles are coming in also
and one mill has been cutting 500,000
extra thick 5 to 2%inch for shipment
by rail.

Huron Bay—Mitchell De Haas has
purchased the interest of Mr. Powell,
of Marquette, in the sawmill here. The
mill is a profitable one, althoagh small,
having a daily capacity of 50,000 feet.
It is located on one of the prettiest bays
on Lake Superior, eighteen miles from
L’Anse, the nearest railway station.
This place was to have been a boom
town a few years ago, and would have
been had not J. M. Turner, of Lansing,
| failed so suddenly. As it is, there isa
lrailroad built thirty-eight miles to
|Champion, over which no trains have
lever been run, except construction
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Martin—D. W. Shepherd has sold his or not remains for the future to deter-

mine.

Bay City—S. G. M. Gates had a
quantity of logs hung up a year ago in
Pine River, Arenac county. They are
now being driven to the mouth of the
stream and will come to Gates’ saw-
mill here. Mr. Gates has finished driv-
ing his logs down the south branch of
Au Sable River to Roscommon, where
they will be loaded on cars and railed
to this city.

Saginaw--There has been quite a
spurt in the lumber trade and both in
the yards and wholesale lines there is
a more hopeful teeling. How long it
will last confounds speculation. The
general feeling is that the year will not
be a good one for business in any line.
Not in the last generation has lumber
been more sluggish than during the last
few months and any ray of hope is care-
fully nursed.

Detroit—The rumor that the Michi-
gan-Peninsular Car Works are to be
shut down is denied by Managing Di-
rector Charles L. Freer. About 3,000
men are now employed in the works,
and the business prospect is much as it
has been for some time, —bright one day
and dull the vext. Mr. Freer thinks
the rumor that the works were to be
closed came from the fact that the forge
had been shut down for repairs for a
couple of weeks. It is running again
now.

Saginaw—Last year the Flint & Pere
Marquette Railroad moved from the
Saginaw River a little over 225,000,000
feet of lumber. The total quantity
handled from all points by this com-
pany was 15,986 car loads, against 13,-
140 carloads in 1894. The shingles
handled amounted to 1,740 cars in 1895,
against 2,315 cars in 1894, and the lath
485 carloads last year, against 489 cars
in 1894. The logs handled last year
amounted to 61,255,320 feet, against
48,080,690 feet in 1894.

Detroit—Articles of association of the
Snedicor & Hathaway Co., boot and
shoe manufacturers, have been filed.
The capital stock is $75,000, of which
$31,350 is paid in. The shares taken
are held as follows: Joseph H. Ains-
worth, trustee, Toledo, 2,930; August
Ochs, Detroit, 100; Joseph H. Ains-
worth, trustee, 100; Clarkson M. Sned-
icor, five shares. The officers of the
corporation are as follows: President,
Treasurer and General Manager, C.
M. Snedicor; Vice-President, August
Ochs; Secretary, J. H. Ainsworth. The
company will manufacture a line of
goods similar to that turned out by the
former firm of Snedicor & Hathaway,
with additions.

AN if

T. P. A.

Arrangements for the Annual Conven-
tion at Terre Haute.

Terre Haute, Ind., May 15—-The
program for the week of the Travelers’
Protective Association national conven-
tion has been completed and the ar-
rangements are on a big scale. The
local committees are large and there are
no laggards on them. The finance
committee, which is composed of prom-
inent business men, has been very suc-
cessful and there is plenty of money to
carry out the plans of the local post of
the T. P. A., which is to be the host, the
first week in next month.

An important change in the program
is for the excursion at the end of the
convention. It had been intended to
go to Niagara Fails and Thousand
Islands, but the round-trip fare of $26
was thought to be tco much. The ex-
cursion will be in advance of the con-
vention and will include visits to Put-
in-Bay, Toledo and Detroit, at a cost of
$7.50. The special train will leave here

 

Friday morning, May 29. A stop of
several hours will be made at Indian-
apolis, where the party will be shown
cver the city and take dinner. On ar-
riving at Toledo, that night the excur-
sionists will go to Put-in-Bay by boat.
Saturday will be spent in fishing and
Saturday evening they will go to De-
troit by boat. There they will remain
until Sunday evening, returning to To-
ledo to remain over night, and back to
Terre Haute the next day.

The first session of the convention
will be called to order on Tuesday morn-
ing at 10 o'clock. The morning will be
given up to addresses of welcome and
responses. Mayor Ross will speak for
the city and Gov. Matthews for the
State. Other addresses will be made by
Col. R. W. Thompson, ex-Secretary of
the Navy; McLean, ex-Deputy Com-
missioner of Pensions. The determina-
tion of some members of the Executive
Committee that Eugene Debs shall be
invited to speak in this convention has
provoked a storm of protests all over
the country, and hundreds of members
have written that they will not attend
the convention if the arch traitor and
conspirator is permitted to take any
part in the proceedings. Responses will
be made by National President John A.
Lee, State President Isham Sedgewick,
of Richmond, Col. Harwood, of Vir-
ginia, Col. Adams, of Arkansas, and
Col. Graham, of Texas.

While this is occupying the attention
of the Travelers’ Protective Association
men, the ladies who accompany them
to the city will be entertained at the
Terre Haute club by a committee of
Terre Haute ladies. Tuesday night
there will be a big illuminated parade.

The committee has received word
from the posts in this State that all of
them will send delegations, and that
most of the delegations will bring a
band. Lafayette sends word that there
will be 200 men in line from that city.
Peoria and Decatur, Ill., will send del-
egates on a special train. The Terre
Haute city council has agreed to spend
$1,200 or $1,400 in illuminating the
streets, and the county commissioners
will decorate and illuminate the court
house. The merchants are having made
in secret surprising and novel designs
for the decoration of their stores. More
than thirty floats are being made. Three
large scatues in imitation of bronze are
to be erected on prominent street cor-
ners. One is of two traveling men
clasping hands, representing a_ united
South and North. Another is of a trav-
eling man standing on the world, with
the inscription: ‘This is my_ terri-
tory.’’ The third is of a traveling
man, with satchel in hand, ready to
start on atrip. These statues will be
illuminated with many incandescent
lights. At another street intersection
there is to be a large arch lighted with
800 incandescent lights. A novel dec-
oration will be a satchel four feet in
length, illuminated, and traveling on a
wire the length of a long square on the
main street, about twelve feet from the
ground. It will make the trip back
and forth from one side of the street to
the other.

Wednesday morning, while the con-
vention is in session, the ladies will be
driven about the city and to places of
interest .in the suburbs, escorted by a
local committee of ladies. In the after-
noon there will be a genuine clam bake,
under the direction of J. B. Dickson,
manager of the opera house, who will
bring the attendants and cooks from
the land of clam bakes. At night chere
will be a vaudeville performance at
Harrison park, where Russell Harrison
has a summer theater.

Thursday morning will be the last
session of the convention. That after-
noon there will be races and athletic
events at the famous Nancy Hanks and
Robert J. track. At-night there will be
a banquet and dance at the Terre Haute
House, where a dancing pavilion is to
be erected.

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The good salesman never forces any-
body to buy. He uses a better and
gentler method. He appeals to judg-
ment, to desire, to sense, and he wins
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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

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Grand Rapids Gossip

 

Cornelius Quint, grocer at 460 Grand-
ville avenue, has sold his stock to Milo
T. Jeffrey.

Chas. K. Gibson, grocer at 69% Pearl
street, has removed to 53 Pearl street,
Power’s opera house block.

 

Milo T. Jeffreys has opened a grocery
store at 460 Grandville avenue. The
Ball-Barnhart-Putman Co. furnished
the stock.

Chas. A. Laughlin, grocer and drug-
gist at the corner of South Division
and Sixth avenue, is removing his stock
to Cannonsburg.

Hugh T. Allerton and Wm. Hagg-
strom have formed a copartnership under
the style of Allerton & Haggstrom and
embarked in the produce and commis-
sion business at 127 Louis street.

Edgar C. Stiles and Chas. H. Phillips
have formed a copartnership, under the
style of Stiles & Phillips, and opened
a commission, wholesale fruit and pro-
duce store at 9 North Ionia street.

The Grand Rapids School Furniture
Co. has been awarded the contract for
making the fixtures for the new Fruit
Growers’ Bank, at Saugatuck, and_ has
also secured a $7,000 contract for fur-
nishing a court house at Denton, Texas.

A. V. Wood, formerly city salesman
for the Crescent Mills, and I. C. Barnes,
formerly engaged in the fish business
here, have formed a copartnership  un-
der the style of Barnes & Wood and em-
barked in the produce and commission
business at the corner of Louis and
Ionia streets.

The Grand Rapids jobbing trade nat-
urally feels elated over the election of
Amos S. Musselman to the position of
President of the Michigan ?Wholesale
Grocers’ Association, this being the
first time that office has ever been held
by a Grand Rapids man. In common
with the trade in general, the Trades-
man feels called upon to assert that it
considers the election of Mr. Mussel-
man a worthy honor, worthily bestowed.

Canal street will scon have a_regula-
tion department store, F. W. Wurzburg
having taken possession of the third
and fourth floors of the Grinnell block
and removed the partitions, so that he
will occupy, on and after July 1, four
floors and basement, each Soxioo feet
in dimensions. The dry goods de-
partment will be continued on the
ground floor, the carpet, drapery and
window shade department on the sec-
ond floor, while the third floor will be
devoted to cloaks, boots and shoes and
millinery and the fourth floor to crock-
ery, glassware and groceries. No change
will be made in the management or
ownership of the business, but the style
will be changed from F. W. Wurzburg
to Wurzburg’s s Department Store.

 

Chas. B. Metzger, who recently pur-
chased the plant of the Peninsular Ma-
chine Co., has decided to embark in the
manufacture of bicycles on a much
larger scale than was contemplated by
the Peninsular Co., baving ordered
material for 2,000 wheels, which he ex-
pects to complete in time for this sea-
son’s business. Mr. Metzger has also
added new machinery to the factory
equipment and will devote his entire
time to the business. He has retained
Matthew Lund as superintendent of the
mechanical department. Mr. Lund is

 

the inventor of the Garland wheel, own-
ing the only four point bearing in exist-
ence, and is well equipped, both by ed-
ucation and experience, to undertake
the successful manufacture of bicycles.

The dilatory tactics of the Common
Council in the matter of preparing the
new market for use are subjecting that
body to some criticism. At its session
of last week a resolution was presented
providing for a Committee on Market.
At the session this week another similar
resolution was offered and, after consid-
erable parliamentary sparring as to pre-
cedence of the two resolutions, they
were both laid on the table pending a
report from the Committee on Rules.
It will require considerable time to pre-
pare the market so that it can be used.
Diligence in getting the work under
way, however, would give enough time
tc make it available for most of this
season's fruit trade. It is to be hoped
that the deliberation which necessarily
attends the movements of great bodies
will not make it necessary for the city
to pay a year’s expense on a market not
in use, and especially when there is such
a crying need for relief both to the

streets and the produce men.
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Purely Personal.

Thos. Hines, bock-keeper for C. B.
Metzger, succeeds Ed. C. Stiles as
book-keeper for Bunting & Co.

Geo. W. Burt, special agent for the
Traveler’s Life & Accident Insurance
Association, has removed from Bay
City to Grand Rapids, where he will
make his future home.

Wiliard Barnhart and family arrived
at New York from Europe last Friday.
On account of the illness of Mr. Barn-
hart’s son, he and his younger daughter
proceeded direct to California, while
the elder daughter returned to this city
with the family of Hon. L. H. Withey.

Arthur G. Olney, son of the President
of the corporation, has taken a position
in the business office of the Oiney &
Judson Grocer Co., with the idea of
mastering the rudiments of the business.
Mr. Olney is a graduate of the military
institution at Orchard Lake and is well
equipped, both mentally and physically,
to enter upon an active business career.

The Tradesman was in error last week
in stating that Enos Putman represented
the Ball-Barnhart-Putman Co. at the
annual meeting of the Michigan Whole-
sale Grocers’ Association, at Detroit.
As a matter of fact, Mr. Ball expected
to attend the meeting until the last mo-
ment, when pressing business duties
prevented his leaving the city.

Chas. R. Young, who has been in the
grocery business for the past year at
739 South Lafayette street, has associa-
ted himself with the Haney School Fur-
niture Co., taking the position of ship-
ping clerk. Mr. Young will retain his
grocery buisness, having placed it iu
the hands of his father and sister, who
have had long experience in this line.

0

It is probable that the action of the
six railway brotherhoods which recently
organized a federation at St. Louis, in
excluding the American Railway Union
from representation or membership,
will result in the speedy dissolution of
that organization. This feature of the
movement is significant, for the reason
that the latter body has always stood for
strikes, disorder and riots, notably in
the case of the Northern Pacific, Pull-
man, etc. It argues that in the new or-
ganization a higher standard of indus-
trial ethics is to be recognized.

a das

The Dodge Club cigar is sold by F.

E. Bushman, Kalamazoo.

 

EVADING THE LAW.

Less Than Half the Hucksters Prop-
erly Licensed.

Although the Common Council re-
duced the license fee for peddlers of
fruits and vegetables from $31 to $21
per annum—which was the amount
fixed upon by the peddlers as being
equitable, from their standpoint—less
than half of the peddlers have come _ to
the front and taken out licenses, al-
though they have had a full week since
the new license fee went into effect.
Up to the time the Tradesman went to
press, only twenty-five licenses had
been issued from the office of the City
Clerk, as follows:

Frank Dowstra, 214 Thomas street.

C. Pel, 210 Bates street.

G. Van Eyk, 7 Bekins court.

Peter Dekker, 60 Doezema alley.

K. Vander Wal, 172 S. Prospect street.

R. Huizenga, 36 Baxter street.

Frank Top, 194 Henry street.

Nick Haaksma, 35 Frank street.

J. Schotanes, 60 Lydia street.

P. Prins, 837 East Fulton street.

Henry Yeths, 298 Eleventh street.

+ Koning, 198 Alley avenue.

. Althoff, 417 Logan street.

1 ‘Koning, 283 Logan street.

Frank Huizenga, 52 Lake avenue.

Israel Smith, 15 West Leonard street.

J. Fisher, 95 Second street.

J. Silverman, 22 Walbridge street.

B. Crohon, to Alpine avenue.

S. Sofran, 90 Jefferson street.

Jos. Levitt, 15 West Leonard street.

J. Vander Jandt, 695 No. College
avenue.

R. Robenstein, go Jefferson street.

A. Lobenski, 93 West Broadway.

J. Cohen, 17 Walbridge street.

Enquiry at the office of Superintend-
ent of Police as to why Officer Mooney
had not been instructed to arrest those
peddlers who have not yet taken out li-
censes was met with the reply that Mr.
Mooney had been devoting his entire
time to the enforcement of liquor anc
meat dealers’ licenses, and that on the
completion of that assignment he would
be directed to turn his attention to the
hucskters who are peddling without the
proper authority.

The records of the City Clerk show
that sixty-six peddlers paid the $31 fee
last year. It is expected that dice will
be about seventy-five peddlers in the
tield this year, and it is estimated that
about fifty hucksters are already plying |t
their vocation in the streets and alleys
of the city.

A deplorable feature of the situation
is the number of permits now being is-
sued by the Committee on Licenses.
The permit book on file in the Mayor’s
office shows that twenty permits have al-
ready been granted by the committee,
as follows (the date at end being the
termination of the permits) :

Vv. Schiemer, 140 Park ave. (vegetables), May 3,

Malcom B. Palmer, 447 N.
Sept. 3, 1896.

H. Mengerink, 90 Grandville ave.
May 1, 1897.

Henry — _Hart,
April 30, 1

John P. — 548 Plainfield ave. (notions).
May 1, 1897.

John Stoddart, Sprinf street (carry banner).
May 15, 1897

Geo. Wyngarden, 196 Tenth street (dry goods),
May 1, 1897

Lafayette (meats),
(notions),

224 Kent street (pop corn),

Pe Bearse, 101 Canal street (telescope),
Sept. 1, 1896.

J. M. Palmer, Clarendon Hotel (carry banner),
May 13, 1896.

S. Olthius, 225 Lake street (vegetables),
Sept. 1, 1896.

. E. Lemon, 31 W. Bridge (polish and bluing),

May 1, 1897.

John Ghyzel,
May 1, 1897.

Hiram Mulder,
Sept 1, 1896

Martin tiie 49 E. Fulton street (vegetables),
May 1, 1897.

Thomas Koster,
May 2, 1897.

Peter Klaassen, 497 Crosby street (vegetables),

. Huff,
Sept. 1, 1896.
Prank Sholes,
Aug. 1, 1896.

380 Turner street (notions),

63 Dexter place (notions),
East street (vegetables)
229 Henry street (pop corn),

233 Alpine avenue (soap),

 

Patrick Hartnett, 59 Williams st. (lead pencils),

May ?, L897.
Folker DeHaan, 161 Baxter street (notions),
Sept. 1, 1896.
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Desirability of Handling Pure Spices
Only.

Grand Rapids, May t9—Being im-
pressed with the value of your publica-
tion to the retail trade and noting the
many interesting articles you publish
in their interest, [ am prompted to
say a word through your medium. that
may be of service to them. I shall take
for my subject, | Spices,’ an article
suld by all grocers and one which enters
into the good living of all their custom-
ers. I wish to say first, that there are
spices and spices, viz., there are spices
that are rich, fragrant and aromatic and
which improve every article of food in
which they are used, and there are
others which are almost devoid of these
properties. The successful grocer uses
great care in selecting these goods and
always gets the best, while the slip-shod,
easy-going grocer takes what is offered
him and at the cheapest price, under a
guarantee, perhz ips, that they will com-
ply with the requirements of the pure
food law of the State. This may be true.
The goods may pass the test of purity,
but do not possess the ricb, aromatic
flavor of the finer grades. Does it pay
any grocer to sell cheap goods, simply
because he can buy tkem a trifle
cheaper? Most consumers want the best
and are willing to pay for same, and if
they find, later, that they have been de-
frauded, what do they do? Do they
take the goods back and enter a com-
plaimt) to the dealers) No. They) try
some other dealer and, when they find
one who always gives them good goods,
they stay with him. The grccer, him-
self, is often deceived, but he need not
be if he exercise care in buying; and
when some salesman offers him ground
spices at a less price than he can buy
them whole, he should scrutinize the
goods very carefully. Any good grocer

can by comparison, satisfy himself as
to the qualtites of ground spices, mus-
tard, etc., if he will take the trouble to
try. || he can do no other way, he can
take a sample home and test them as it
is used. A pure pepper, for instance,
can be made, and is made, by mixing
damaged Singapore pepper with East
India pepper (a long pepper used
whole only for pickling). It looks well,
but try it ona beefsteak. You would
not care to repeat the experiment were
you compelled to eat the steak. A pure
mustard can be obtained from the cheap

California seed, but mix it with water
and let it stand two or three minutes to
draw and then compare it with a mus-
tard made from the higher grades of
California or English yellow or brown
Trieste seed. The one has a rich,
pungent odor and will bring tears to
your eyes, while the other is almost de-
void of odor and has no pungency and,
after standing a few hours, is flat and
insipid. Any grocer can detect the
difference and need not take the word
of any salesman as to quality. The real
trouble is the indifference of the dealer.
He judges by the label, instead of the
goods.

Let every grocer qualify himself to
judge of the quality of the goods he
sells and, if he cannot do that, let him
employ an expert to do the work for
him. Who would buy a horse simply
because it was put up in the form of a
horse, or a cow simply because it
smelled of the stable and he was told _ it
was a cow? Again,let me urge upon the
grocer his duty to his customers by se-
lecting the best goods on the market.

A. D. PLuMB,
President Wolverine Spice Co.

—_——__>2_—__

Prices Reduced—Quality Maintained.
John Phillips & Co., of Detroit, offer
oak show cases, highly polished, seven-
teen inches high, of double thick French
sheet glass throughout, bottoms covered
with cotton plush, at $1.75 per foot—the
best show case made for the money. 664

—___> 2.
New Bank at Linden.

Dr. B. C. Sickles, of Ashley, has re-

moved to Linden for the purpose of es-

tablishing a private bank, to be known
as the Bank of Linden.

 

6

Politics and Store-keeping Not Com-

patible.
Stroller in Grocery World.

I recently called at a grocery store
whose owner 1s one of those fellows who
believe in mixing politics with his
business. I think that if anybody who

believes that this scheme is a good one
could have seen the condition of that
man’s business affairs, I did, he
would change his opinion mighty quick.

This grocer in a
Pennsylvania town, nearer to Philadel-
phia than it is to Pittsburg. He ought
to do a busi f at least $75,000 every

as

i ki
lives in good-sized

ness oO!

year. Judging by the fact that he was
unable, when I called there, to settie a

 

little bill of S10, and that he showed me

 

conclusively that he was unable, he
isn’t doing the half of that.

There was nobody in the store when
I got there except a small boy, who was

too busy locking at a dog fight in the
lane beside the store
anybody so unimportant as a Customer.
After several efforts | learned that the
proprietor was over in the city hall
‘tending a meeting of the ccunty com-
mittee. "’

Meanwhile several customers came in.
The boy waiied on them in a slovenly

sort of way, and flew back to his dog |

fight hardly before they were gone,

Once or twice he snapped out a surly |

answer when a lady asked him a ques-
tion. I wanted to kick him clear out of
the window, but I didn’t know how
large his father was, so I repressed my
wrath.

In about fifteen minutes the grocer
himself came in, heading a crowd of five
or six men.

‘*‘Come on in, boys,’’ he said, “‘we
can meet right here in the store.’’ I
afterwards found out that it was the
‘‘ ward committee. ”’

The meeting opened right in one cor-
ner of the store, and once or twice the
talk got hot. Lady customers came in,
and were waited on if the grocer wasn't
just then deep in some political debate
with another of the heelers. If he was,
the lady waited.

Evea while he
tomers he would put his oar in the con-

versation, yelling clear across the store
and paying scanty attention to the order

of the customer.
the midst of wrapping up ten pounds of
granulated sugar, one

at the mouth. He got so mad and
talked so loud that the sugar bag broke
open in the shuffle and the sugar poured
out all over the customer's pocket-book,
which lay on the counter.

By and by the gang of heelers left,
and the grocer got ume to talk to me.

‘You're quite a politician down here,
they tell me,’’ I said.

rion, wes,” | ne said, swelling per-
ceptibly with pride, ‘‘I’m a member of
the county committee, chairman of the
ward committee, school trustee, and
now the boys are talking about making
me assessor,’’ with a fat laugh.

‘* How’s business?’’ I asked.

‘*Very poor,’’ he said;
seems to have any money.
less than I did last year.’’

‘*nobody
I’m doing

I didn’t say anything, but I never
felt more like giving a man some
good advice in my life. I’m afraid,
though, it would have been casting
pearls before swine he must have
weighed at least 250 pounds.

———_--—~»> 0. er
Littie Likelihood of Further Competi-
tion.
From the Shoe and Leather Gazette.
The daily newspapers are filling

columns these days with reports more
or less true regarding the United States
Rubber Co. and its alleged troubles.
Nearly all of these articles refer toa
new rubber shoe factory which Joseph
Banigan, formerly president of the
United States Rubber Co., is claimed
to be about to establish.

In the rubber trade these rumors are |
discussed and considered by men
usually pay little attention to
paper stories of trade affairs.

who
daily
So late

to pay attention to}

was waiting on Cus- |

Once when he was 11 }

of the rounders |
over in the corner said something which |
excited his ire, and he actually frothed |

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

as the present week I. H. Sawyer, of the
rubber department of the Brown Shoe
Co., of St. Louis, received a letter from
a friend recently visiting Providence,
R. I., stating that Mr. Banigan had
purchased a large woolen mill and
would convert it into a rubber factory.
Where there is so much smoke _ there
doubtless some fire. A number of
influential men have been turned down
this season who will not lie still. How-
ever, Mr. Banigan denies that he will
oppose the company in which he is so
large a stockholder and all these various
newspaper stories are, after all, only
rumors of the vaguest sort, obtained usu-
ally from sources that are distinctly
prejudiced and naturally disposed to
largely magnify matters.

The establishment to-day of a dozen
new factories would not have the slight-
est effect on prices of rubber boots and
shoes this year. The equipment of a
rubber mill is a slow process that re-
quires many months to accomplish and

it is doubtful if a new company could
get in running order in less than a year.
Moreover, crude rubber has advanced
10 per cent. in price since April 1, and
\a4 new concern would be unable, were it
to start operations at the present time,
to compete with the old companies,
which are heavily stocked with crude
‘rubber bought previous to the rise.
| Events of the present, then, have no
bearing on to-day’s prices, and if any-
thing tangible comes from the mass of
rumors it can only be interesting to re-
itailers in its influence a year hence,
until which time the present conditions
|are positive of continuance. No hesi-
'tancy as to ordering rubbers need be
felt by any one.

There is one thing, however, which
retailers may be assured of in this con-
nection, there will be more rubber-
shoe factories built on paper than on
Mother Earth. The million-dollar ex-
periment of the detunct Para company
is too fresh in mind for any experienced
rubber man to care to tempt fortune by
jany Napoleonic — venture. Rubber
manufacturers are a_ particularly keen

is

/time before investing the vast sums of
| money necessary in this ‘business for the
purpose of fighting. A solid business
basis will not be lacking in any enter-
prise launched by an experienced rub-
| ber man.

- —> 2 >
To Clean Windows.

Choose a dull day, or at least a time
when the sun is not shining on the win-
dow ; when the sun shines on the win-
dow it causes it to be dry-streaked, no
matter how much it is rubbed. Takea
painter's brush and dust them inside
and out, washing all the woodwork _in-
side before touching the glass. The
latter must be washed simply in warm
water diluted with ammonia. Do not
use soap. Use a small cloth witha
pointed stick to get the dust out of the
corners; wipe dry with a soft piece of
cotton cloth. Do not use linen, as it
makes the glass linty when dry. Polish
with tissue paper or old newspapers.
This can be done in half the time taken
| where soap is used, and the result will
| be brigkter windows.

The compulsory contributions of the
German working people to the National
insurance funds have grown ina few
|years to enormous sums. The last re-
|ports show that the fund for insurance
lagainst accident was 94,300,000 marks
lat the end of 1894; that for insurance
| against illness, 113,643,000, and that
|for insurance against invalidism and
old age, 303,570,000 marks. The sum
| total of 510,000,000 marks, or more than
| $125,000,000, is so great that the Ger-
|

|
|

man government is embarrassed to find
satisfactory investment for it. The
‘last suggestion is that as much of the
| money as cannot be lent on real estate
shall be used to build model houses for
| workingmen, which shall be let at low
| rentals to industrial workers.

—__»0.___

| QOut-of-style goods should never be
| sold for other than what they are, for
‘the customer will sooner or later dis-
|cover that he has been swindled, and
| then his trade goes elsewhere.

    

set of men and they will consider a long’

  

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For a Bicycle that has more points of merit about it thna
any you ever Saw, and with a style and finish that would
sell it alone, to say nothing of the fact that it will pay

you to handle it, correspond with us about

“THE GARLAND”

 

o secure the agency for this wheel are invited to make prompt ap-
Correspond direct with the factory, as the Peninsular

Dealers wishing t
plication, stating territory desired.
Wheel Co. no longer holds the agency.

Cc. B. METZGER,

SUCCESSOR TO

PENINSULAR [MACHINE CO.,

Bo an
NOT THE WHOLE HOG,
UT THE GUT HOG

A HOGGISH TALK
FOR THE BENEFIT OF OUR CUSTOMERS

By special request we quote our provision list, prices
good until May 27:

 

rises

All brands of Short Cut, Family, Heavy Mess and Butt
Pork, $8.25 per barrel.

Pure Lard, 514 cents.

Comp und Lard, 414 cents in 50 Ib. tins.

Sugar Cured Hams, 8°4 cents.

Shoulders, 514 cents.

Picnic Hams, 5% cents.

Bacon Strips, 714 cents.

Armour’s Potted Ham, Tongue and Devilled Ham, 4s, 38
cents per dozen; 14s, 78 cents per dozen; 2 Ib, Canned Beef
and Roasi Beef, $1.60@1.75 per dozen, as to brand and quality.

Terms, cash with order in current exchange.

E JAMES STEWART G0,

(LIMITED)

SAGINAW, MICH. Bie

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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 7

 

 

Brown, Mrs. Jenks and the Eggs.
Written for the TRADESMAN.

Brown is baldheaded. Some people
say he has born baldheaded. The bald
head has nothing to do with this little
episode—f merely mention it by way
of describing Brown. Brown is a_ con-
firmed old bachelor. just why he never
married I cannot say. His neighbors
say it is because he is too stingy to buy
a license; but close observation of
Brown’s manners in speech and his gen-
eral deportment would leave the impres-
sion that the reason he never married is
because he never met a woman he thought
was good enough to be his wife. Brown
is a descendant of proud, aristocratic
ancestors, and he moves, acts and ex-
ists with a full consciousness of this—
to him—pleasant fact. Even the smile
that illumines his ruddy round face and
some of the adjacent territory where the
hair ought to grow shows, as plainly as
the handwriting on the wall of Belshaz-
zar’s diningroom, that Brown knows,
better than anyone else, that the blood
which courses through his veins con-
tains some of the same red corpuscles
that distinguished his forefathers in the
early days of the settlement.

Brown is exceedingly exact in his
habits, and, if there is one thing more
than another that will throw his liver
into a fit of sulkiness and disturb the
serenity of his mind, it isa hint from
one of his patrons that a flaw has been
discovered in his method of conducting
business affairs. To earn a dollar in a
manner that will bring down on the ‘top
of his bald head cool and refreshing
showers of praise from those who make
the earning of the dollar possible, and
then to cling to that cold dollar with the
tenacity of a drowning man to the oft-
quoted straw, is Brown’s only ambi-
tion, earthly or heavenly.

Brown keeps a general store on one
of the principal ‘‘four ccrners’’ of the
village, and the other day something
occurred there. If it had occurred in
any other store, it would have been
passed by as a common, everyday
affair; but it happened at Brown’s, and
it shows that even the smiling, aristo-
cratic, baldheaded, imperturbable Mr.
Browrr is not exempt from the trials and
tribulations that fall to the common lot
of store-keepers. It made Brown a
trifle ‘‘weary,’’ and he _ has_ been
‘‘tired’’ ever since.

A sun-browned, vinegar-visaged fe-
male on the down side of 40, accom-
panied bya homely, freckled-faced boy,
drove up in front of Brown's store with
a horse that wore a sad countenance and
looked as though he had just passed
through his twentieth winter on a diet
of rye straw; and in the wagon were a
dishpan, a market basket and a tin
pail, all full of eggs. :

‘*Good morning, Mrs. Jinks,’’ said
the bland Mr. Brown as the woman and
the boy came in with the hen fruit;
‘‘you have quite a lot of eggs for these
warm days, but I suppose they are all
nice and fresh?’’

‘Course they be!’
Jinks,

’

snapped Mrs.
with an air of injured inno-
cence. ‘‘Do ye ‘spose I’d bring rotten
aigs to the store to sell? Now, them
there aigs is all counted; there’s jest
ten dozen in that there pan, eight dozen
in that basket and five dozen in this
here pail. Bub, here, seen me count
‘em—didn't ye, Bub?’’ But ‘‘Bub’’
was examining the interior mechanism
of a newfangled mouse trap and did not
hear the question addressed to him.
Brown knew that Mrs. Jinks wasa
most difficult customer to get along

 

with, and so he put the eggs ona
counter by themselves, so that there
might be no occasion for dispute as
to the number of them.

‘*There are just 21% dozen,’’ said
Brown. ‘‘You must have made a mis-
take, Mrs. Jinks, in counting them, for
they fall short a dozen and a half.’’

Caen | Sivemgit 6 contemptuously
snorted the Jinks. ‘‘No, they don’t fall
short neither. I guess I know how to
count aigs—I’ve counted aigs all my
life—and I'll take my sollum oath that
I fetched jest 23 dozen aigs into this
here store—didn’t I, Bub?’’ Her ap-
peal to the urchin was made in vain,
for he was out on the sidewalk trying to
work up a jackknifetrade. Brown put
on one of his best smiles, and proceeded
to demonstrate the correctness of his
count; and, while thus engaged, the
smile on his face grew stronger—so did
the tongue of Mrs. Jinks. All at once
there was a explosion. It was the first
of a series of explosions that followed
each other in quick succession. The
first one came from the crate of eggs
that was being rehandled. It left its
visible effects on Brown's negligee shirt
front—its invisible effects were pain-
fully apparent to every one in the "store
who had not lost the sense of smell.
Brown rose up, and when the top of his
bald head reached high-water mark, he
was something terrible to behold. His
smile was all gone, and there was some-
thing spread all over his face that in-
dicated wounded dignity.

‘*Mrs. Jinks,’’ said Brown, ina voice
that suddenly checked al} merriment on
the part of the two or three disinter-
ested spectators, and changed their
feeling of cool indifference into one
of almost tearful sympathy for him in
his great tribulation, ‘‘take your eggs
and go!’

Mrs. Jinks stamped her No. 7 cow-
hide shoe upon the floor in a fit of rage.
She said she would take her eggs and
go, and would never come back again
either. She accused Brown of. stingy-
ness and everything else she could
think of, and charged him with trying
to steal a dozen and a half of her eggs,
and told him he put the rotten egg
among her eggs and broke it purposely
in order that he might the more _ effec-
tually succeed in his thieving schemes.
During this violent tirade, Brown stood
as motionless as a statue. It was the
calm that precedes the storm. The
growing darkness on his face showed
that even the self-contained bachelor,
Phineas Brown, Esq., could not, at all
times and on all occasions, preserve
the even tenor of his ways. Had he
chosen any other calling in life it might
have been different, but in a life be-
hind the counter experiences are en-
countered that would upset the serenity
of the Angel Gabriel. At last Brown
exploded.

‘*Take your eggs and go!’’ he said;
and to his credit be it said, he did not
tell her where to go with her eggs.
Not many fellows placed in Brown's
position would have made this omis-
sion.

‘*Take your eggs and go. You can’t
play any of your tunked little tricks on
me any longer. You have caused me
more trouble of mind than all the rest of
my customers put together. Your but-

‘ter is not fit to eat, and I am compelled

to sell it ata loss as grease, and your
eggs always fall short in count. You

soak your dried apples in water, and you
are always finding fault, and you are
never satisfied with anything you buy.
In fact, you are mean, tricky and dis-

 

your trade. Take your eggs and go.’’

Brown then relapsed into a statue |
again, remaining in that position until |
Mrs. Jinks and her eggs —minus the |
one that collapsed—had left the store. |
The strain of invective that flowed from |
Mrs. Jinks, mouth ceased not until the
innocent old horse had turned the cor-
ner, and then it gradually died away
in the distance. Poor Brown was crest-
fallen ; and he has been trying to gather
up his plumes ever since. All he said
after the piratical old Jinks had _ sailed
away was, ‘* That makes me tired !’’

E. A. OWEN.
— _~> 2+ - -

The bargain hunter is always with
you, and old-fashioned goods, if not
too old-fashioned, are legitimate prey
for those who want something under
price.

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Second Class mai] matter.

When

writing to any of our Advertisers, please |

|are very peculiar.
| states in which the women predominate,

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Michigan Tradesman.
F. A. STOWE, Eprror.
WEDNESDAY, - - - MAY 20, 1896.

NUMERICAL RELATION OF SEXES.
The present has been called **Wom-

 

an’s Age,’’ because women are making |

their way with extraordinary activity
and rapidity into trades, occupations,
and business and industrial pursuits
which were formerly monopolized by
men.

This state of things has largely re-
sulted from the fact that, whereas, for-
merly, the women were supported by
their fathers, husbands, brothers and
other male relatives, later years
many women have not only found it
necessary to maintain themselves, but
in not a few cases they been re-
quired to care for male dependants.

in

have

Naturally, a great social movement
of women out of home life, and into
business and even public careers, has
had the effect to arouse to independent
action many women who are not obliged
to toil for their own living, and thus a
great social revolution, set in motion
by a variety of causes operating in
concert, is rapidly approaching a cul-
mination, the consequences of which,
to politics, morality and religion, enor-
mous as they may grow, can be but in-
distinctly foreseen and imperfectly
foretold.

From the rapid and remarkable de-
velopment of the woman movement, the
inference would seem plain enough that
there is an excess of women in the pop-
ulation of the United States where the
evolution is most active. An examina-
tion of the facts, however, shows that
this inference is without real founda-
tion.

The truth is, as shown by the census

of 1890, there were then in the United |
States nearly a million and a half more |

of men than women. The fact most
remarkable, as shown by these figures,
is the excess of womer among the
negroes. The whites show an excess of
males in the proportion of 51.30 per
cent. to 49.70. The civilized Indians
show a preponderance of men in the
ratio of 52.04 to 47.96, while the wild
Indians on reservations have 50.33 per
cent. of men to 49.67. The Chinese
and Japanese are nearly all males, since
but few of their women have-ever been
brought into this country.

The statistics show that of the other
races native to the United States, or
domesticated here by centuries of resi-
dence, the males outnumber the females
in an average ratio of 51.22 to 48.78;
but the negroes violate this rule ina
most striking manner, showing an ex-

  

|
cess of women in the proportion of |

49.87 of men to 50.13 of women.
There are in the United States nearly

a miliion and a half more males than}

females of the human race; but, when
the distribution of the sexes is consid-
ered, it is apparent that the conditions
There are many

and others where there is an excess of
men. The States in which the women
predominate are: New Hampshire,
Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connect-
icut, New York, Maryland, District of
Virginia, North Carolina,
South Carolina, Georgia.

In all others men are in a majority.
Louisiana, however, comes nearest of
all to having the sexes in equal num-

bers, the males being 559,350, while the

females are 559,237, the excess of men
being 113. The states in which the

| deficiency of males is found are the old
_| States of the East, which have lost their
| men

in great number, party by the
civil war and partly by emigration to
the West. The men who went westward
to grow up with the country were in
most cases unmarried, although not a
few husbands took part in the migra-

ition, leaving their wives behind. Thus

| it
| but has an excess of men.

is not a Western State
Of the for-

that there

1S

eigners who immigrate to this country,

the greatest numbers are men, and they
help to create the disparity of the sexes.

It appears from the census of 1890
that there is an excess of women in the
cities and of men in the country. The
preponderance of women in cities has
commonly been attributed to the fact
that there they find greater scope and
opportunity for self-support, and this
is undoubtedly the true explanation un-
der the conditions which are impelling
the sex to extraordinary effort for self-
help. It must be noted that in the Old
World countries of Asia, except where
the female population is limited by the
general murder of the infants of that
sex, the excess of women is provided
for by the system of polygamous rela-
tions.

In Christian countries, where monog-
amy is the rule, there ought to be some
general distribution of the population,
so that there would not be communities
where there are thousands more of men
than women, or thousands more of
women than men. The superabundant
women of the Eastern cities wouid be
a grand blessing to the lonely and en-
forced bachelordom of the Far Western
States and Territories, yet there is no
provision in the social system of this
boasted age of civilization to accomplish
the exchange. A civilization which fails
to remedy such an evil is grossly defect-
ive.

A curious feature of the outflow of
gold from this country, during the pres-
ent month, is that none of it has gone
to London, France and Germany hav-
ing taken all of it. While the amount
exported seems large, some $12,000,000
having gone already, there is nothing
unusual or that need cause uneasiness.
In only two instances, during the past
ten years, has the import of gold ex-
ceeded the export, while in May of 1894
there was an excess of the export of
$23,000,000; in 1893, $15,000,000; 1891,
$30,000,000. It will be remembered
that, last year, the Treasury was under
the protection of the Belmont-Morgan
syndicate, which interfered with the
natural course of finance. Thus it will
be seen that there is nothing unusual
or that need cause uneasiness in the

 

present situation.

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

TRADE OUTLOOK.

Trade seems to have settled down to
a condition of waiting for something to
turn up. Political conventions and
their declarations of policy are so soon
to occur that there seems a disposition
to await the outcome. Crop decisions
are also causes of waiting and this dis-
position is increased as a result of iron
and other combinations. The fact that
unexpected demand has developed in
shoe and leether lines on account of
good demand for consumption indicats
that the caution which has so_ long ° ob-
tained in other lines may be foynd to
hold trade down until the needs of con-
sumers will put a new face on the
matter.

The most favorable reports come trom
boot, shoe and leather lines. The whole-
sale demand indicates that too much
caution has been exercised in buying
and stocks have run short. May trade
has been exceptionally good and there
is a disposition to buy more freely for
summer delivery.

The most favorable feature in the
iron situation is that there is a greater
demand, two to one, for steel rails than
last year. The general dullness at
Pittsburg, however, is even intensi-
fied. Bessemer pig is quoted still lower,
and the. general demand for finished
products is very slack. There is prom-
ise, however, in the outlook for struc-
tural demand.

Complaint still ccntinues that the
prices of cotton goods are too low for
the price of cotton. The tendency has

een for cotton to keep up, through
speculative interest, while the unprec-
edentedly low quotations on prints, etc.,
continue. These conditions are result-
ing in still further closing of mills and
in some cases reductions of wages in
spite of threatened strikes. Wool has
moved more freely, though with decline
in price.

In the stock market the tendency to
wait seems most marked. The Spanish
incident last week exerted a bearish
tendency, which was of short duration.
Among industrials the only ones show-
ing much activity are the Diamond
Match and New York Biscuit. These
have changed rapidly within a range of
eight or ten points enough to make
them interesting for speculators.

The ratio of failures keeps up, 265
against 267 last week and 210 in the same
week one year ago. Bank clearings
continue about the same and exceed the
billion mark.

 

WAITING FOR HARMONY.

The session of Congress now {drawing
to a close has been remarkable for the
number of measures’ introduced of an
industrial or econemic character and
for the small number of such measures
which have, or will at this session, be-
come laws. The industrial depression
early engaged attention and measures
for relief were prosecuted vigorously.
It looked as though something effective
would promptly result. But when the
political situation became manifest it
was found that the differences between
the two houses and between them and
the Executive was such that no decis-
ive action could be consummated. Thus
a truce of an agreement to wait for
other changes seems to have _ been
tacitly agreed upon; and such meas-
ures, after long discussion were left in
committee or buried between the two
houses.

This is the situation as to measures
for the relief of the Treasury, ‘and for

  
  

 

ruptcy bill seems likely to be left in

committee. The bill for the adoption
of the metric system, while not of so
immediate economic importance, en-
countered a satirical speech which
placed the matter in such a light that
no one seemed inclined to take it up
again—-it was simply buried under un-
reasoning ridicule.

The country seems to have accepted
the situation gracefully and to have re-
signed itself to waitng until there can
be more harmonious action. In the
long run the results may be more
beneficial than if there had been too
radical steps taken for the remedying
of temporary conditions.

 

A TYPICAL STRIKE.

The Milwaukee street railway strike
was of passing interest in that it was a
typical set-to between a municipal cor-
poration and unionism. Depending on
the influence of popular sympathy, the
strikers appealed to every possible
authority for interference and arbitra-
tion. Fortunately, there was sufficient
recognition of the danger of such inter-
ference on the part of the city council
to cause it to stand aloof. The efforts
of the State Board of Arbitration were
of no avail as to the position taken by
the company that it could not consist--
ently recognize the union.

The company found no difficulty in
supplying the places of the strikers
with experienced operators, recruited
from several different cities, including
about seventy-five from Grand Rapids.
Thus about 700 men were put to work
in place of 1,000 strikers, and the serv-
ice was soon restored, although the con-
tinued manifestation of public sym-
pathy by the patronage of other con-
veyances provided by the strikers great-
ly lessened the patronage, so that the
smaller number were sufficient tor the
work. The company adheres to its
proposition to keep those who have
taken the place of the strikers em-
ployed, but signifies its willingness to
take on the old men as fast as openings
may be found for them.

The results of a strike of this kind to
the rank and file of the workmen de-
mand the greatest commiseration; and
yet, if their misguided efforts should be
successful in the establishment of union
control over such industries, the results
would be so tar reaching that the suffer-
ing which would be caused by the in-
evitable contests to follow would be
many times greater.

Deen UE EEE REE

 

The continued depression and_irreg-
ularity of prices in cotton and woolen
manufactures seem to have no influence
in discouraging the establishment of
new enterprises in those industries all
over the South. As indicating the
rapidity with which the Southern de-
velopment of these manufactures is
progressing, an association of seventy
concerns has been organized at Atlanta,
called the Southern Textile Association.
It certainly looks as though this line of
industries is destined to be transplanted
to the warmer clime.

 

While speculative securities have
been very dull in the London markets
recently, it is significant that the inci-
dent of offering a block of $4,000,00¢
New York City 3% per cent. bonds
should have provoked a vigorous com-
petition, and that the prominent firm
which made the successful bid, in offer-
ing them at a price which would reduce
the income to 3 per cent., quickly se-

 

 

the increase of revenue. The bank-

cured an oversubscription to the bonds.

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

9

 

A DEMAND SUPPLIED.

An interesting illustration of the say-
ing that a demand will always create a
supply is tound in the methods of news-
paper illustrating now so generally ir
use. Within the memory of all who
have attained majority illustrations in
the daily press were practically un-
known, and in the illustrated weekly
and monthly papers the preparation of
the engravings, while limited in quan-
tity, constituted a very large proportion
of the cost. Until quite recently the
only practical method of producing en-
gravings for use in newspapers was by
laboriously cutting them in the surface
of an especially fine grained wood with
steel gravers.

Those familiar with the art of engrav-
ing remember that there was a great de-
mand for illustrations which could not
be supplied by the resources of wood
engraving. A few coarsely engraved
portraits of prominent men, with an oc-
casional rough diagram or map, were
about all that that costly process could
achieve for daily and
these, on account of the limitations of
coarse vrinting, were ugly, hard jooking
productions.

newspapers ,

The demand for some practical means
of artistic illustration became more and
more urgent. As a consequence, a large
‘number of ‘‘processes’’
which yielded more or less, generally
less, successful results, until finally one
of the first to be tried and abandoned
was taken up again and, through a few
‘‘kinks’’ in its management, became
practical. This has now about driven
all other methods from the field; and it
is an exception to pick up any daily
paper printed in this country without
finding a considerable number of illus-
‘trations by this process in its pages.

were devised

As might be expected, the growth of
the art element in this class of illustra-
tions was very slow. Fora long time, if
not, indeed, in the majority of cases
yet, the portraits and sketches were
laughably crude and inartistic. Re-
cently, however, a few artists have
taken hold of the work in a_ way to
make a revelation as to its possibilities.

It is a matter worthy of note that the
element of art in illustrating daily
papers has made the greatest advance
in the West. While the New York
papers content themselves with ama-
teurish delineations of the faces of not-
able men, the Chicago press has devel-
oped the highest grade of work in that
line of art in thiscountry. Some of the
artists engaged in this field have dis-
covered the fact that the process, in its
use in the coarsest methods of fast
newspaper printing, is peculiarly adapt-
ed to a strong, artistic handling. The
results of their work are remarkable for
the evident fidelity of the likeness in
the portraits, with the boldest treatment.

Thus this demand for supplementing
the text with graphic representation has
been the means of developing an in-
dustry of great magnitude, which seems
likely to create a new school of art in
‘*black and white.’’ While the progress
of the industry has been considerable,
the artistic features are only just begin-
ning to become apparent and the prom-
ise of future development in this line
seems almost unlimited.

 

A SLOW DEBTOR.

The little incident recently reported
from Washington relative to the allow-
ance to an old Texan by Congress of a
small claim of thirty years’ standing
is illustrative of the fact that, in spite
of a popular theory to the contrary, the

 

Government is one of the most dilatory
and unfeeling debtors in the world.

The country is full of slow debtors,
some because of unavoidable inability
to meet their obligations and others
from absolute meanness, but none of
them take their time in standing off a
creditor as Uncle Sam does. The city
of Washington is filled annually with a
large number of lobbyists, who are
lobbyists in no offensive sense, but are
there urging the payment of hundreds,
even thousands, of old claims that ought
to have been paid years ago. These un-
fortunate creditors who trusted Uncle
Sam on his reputation have gone year
after year to his representatives, seeking
common justice, but have as often met
disappointment. Many of them have
grown gray in following their claim,
and have lost money, strength and mind
in the ceaseless rounds and heartless-
ness and red tape of the Circumlocution
Office, and yet haunt the capitol and
department corridors as so many ghosts
of a former age.

Persons familiar with Washington
are familiar with these pitiable objects
of governmental misuse. There are In-
dian and border depredation claims,
French spoliation claims, claims for
materials furnished and_ services per-
formed, where the cause of action oc-
curred long years ago, that have never
been paid, and never will be, and_ that |
are yet honest obligations of the Gov-
ernment. Uncle Sam _ is not the high-
souled and scrupulously honest debtor
he is often supposed and reputed to be.
Salaries are generally paid promptly,
but, when the average citizen does the
Government a good turn at an opportune
time, or has his property destroyed
when the Government was_ responsible |
for its protection, not to get the cash at |
the time is not to get the cash at any |
time for years, possibly never to get it. |

 

 

The ideal man has been found at last. |

 

 

It has heretofore been supposed that
heaven was his home, and _ practical |

people have not wasted much time logk- |
ing for him on this wicked earth. An-
other reason that he has remained so |
long incognito is that no one knew just |
what an ideal man was like, or what |
they were looking for. Prohibitionists |
thought he didn’t drink or use tobacco, |
Club women thought he would stay at |
home and tend to the baby o’ nights.
Young girls thought he always treated |
to soda water. Rev. Anna Shaw, how- |
ever, had a distinct idea of what he |
was like, and the minute she saw}
Prof. Edward Griggs, of the Stanford
University, in California, she knew him
to be the ideal man she had been _look-
ing for, for more years than the census
taker wots of. She didn’t recognize
him by the strawberry mark on his arm,
but by his sentiments. He made a
speech on ‘‘The Modern Change in
Ideals of Womanhood,’’ and, as soon as
he finished, Rev. Shaw arose = and
triumphantly announced that here was
the perfect one of his sex, the ideal
man. This was greeted with tremendous
applause, as the audience was delighted
to be let in at once on the ground floor,
as it were, of such an important discov- |
ery. As Miss Shaw is a Michigan wom- |
an- albeit she now resides in Boston—
her judgment may be relied upon as ex-
cellent.

 

 

The exports of gold for the ten months
ending with April amounted to $86, -
290,157. The imports for the same
time were $30,301,054. Thus the ex-
cess of the exports of gold were $55,-
989, 103. The excess for the correspond-
ing time of the preceding year was

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DESPOT OF THE NAIL.

 

How One Man Controls a Vast Man-
ufacturing Interest.
From the Chicago Times-Herald.

In an office at 608 Sears building,
Boston, Mass., is a man whose power
is more despotic than that of the Pres-
ident of the United States, and whose
annual income is several times as large.
His word is sufficient to close one or
fifty large industrial establishments, to
throw an army of men out of employ-
ment, or to build up or partially destroy
the fortunes of many business men.

Of course, he is a multi-millionaire,
and it can be added that at his present
rate of progress he will soon distance
the illustrious Li Hung Chang, with or
without the peacock feather and yellow
jacket.

His title is a modest one and is not
paraded before the public. In fact, if
it were possible to conceal it, the exist-
ence of his office would remain abso-
lutely unknown, except to those directly

interested. To ever nail manufacturer
or jobber in this country he is known
as ‘‘commissioner’’ or treasurer of the

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nail pool.’’ All do not yet know that
he occupies a similar position with a
recently formed association, which
‘*boosted’’ the price of machine bolts
and nuts 50 per cent. last week. The
trade, however, is thoroughly conver-
sant with the fact that he succeeded in
‘‘boosting’’ the price of tacks 150 per
cent. a few years ago, at a time when
the trade was in an utterly demoralized
condition and the cost of manutacture
lower than it has ever been before or
since.

The title of ‘‘commissioner’’ is fit-
ting, as the man in question has a com-
mission to hold the pool of nail manu-
facturers and its prices intact. Inci-
dentally he receives a commission of 1
cent a keg on all the nails sold, as long
as he succeeds. This last little item
amounts to $6,750 a month, or $81,000 a
year, on the basis of allotment agreed
on for April. The allotment for the
current month is not generally known,
though it was fixed at a meeting held at
the Wellington Hotel in this city about
two weeks ago.

This little item of $81,000 per annum
is regarded by knowing ones as only a

little side line when compared with
the revenue from freight rebates. Out
of deference to the interstate com-

merce law, however, the latter question
is tabooed and the whole matter is a
subject of conjecture. It is neverthe-
less unquestioned that prices of nails at
all points in the United States are the
same as at Pittsburg, with the open,
published freight rate from that city
added. if a less rate is secured, or if
the nails are shipped from a mill near the
point of consumption, as often hap-
pens, the difference goes into some-
body’s pocket.

The benefits which haye accrued to
the general public from the practical
workings of this pool can best be il-
lustrated by a few figures. Less than a
year ago sixty-penny nails sold in Chi-
cago as low as 95 cents a keg. Their
price now is $3.30. Lathers’ nails,
technically known as ‘‘three-penny
fine,’’ sold then at $2.55, now at $4. 40.
These sorts represent extremes of com-
mercial sizes.

Practically all of this additional price,
ranging from $1.85 to $2.25 on a_ single
keg, goes to the nail manufacturers.
The jobber gets practically nothing, the
retailer gets little more and the consum-
er pays the freight on the whole trans-
action.

(he method of keeping the wholesale
dealer in line under this jug-handled
arrangement is simple but effective.
[here are only three or four mills out-
side the combination, and these are not
sufficient to supply Chicagoalone. The
treasurer, therefore,

that he is entitled to 10 cents a keg re-

bate, provided he buys of certain mills)

which the treasurer shall designate and
does not sell below the stipulated price.
As the payment of the rebate—on which
the commissioner meanwhile draws in-

notifies the jobber |

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

SPRAY PUMPS

Bucket and Barrel.
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| terest—is deferred six months, the buy-

er is in the iron grasp of the commis-
\sioner. The purchases of the buyer
|during the six months are necessarily
so large that he has, atall times, several
thousand dollars in rebates on deposit
with the combine. All this is lost if
‘the dealer buys of a mill outside the
association, and it can thus be seen that
the outside mills have a very hard time
selling their products to any buyer
whose needs are large.

The nail mills in the pool have been
kept in line heretofore by a ‘‘gentle-
man’s agreement,’’ which has numerous
additions and variations. The chief of
these is to cut down the allotment of
total production to the basis of actual
demands for consumption, apportion
this as nearly as possible among the
various mills, then deduct, say, 75
cents a keg from the price of every
nail made above that figure by any in-
dividual mill and give the 75 cents to
such mills as do not manufacture their
allotted total.

The basis of allotment is fixed every
month, and the pool alternates its meet-
ings between New York, _ Pittsburg,
Cleveland and Chicago. The last ad-
vance of 15 cents a keg was ordered at
New York in March and reaffirmed at
the April meeting in Chicago.

The pool practically guarantees its
prices for a month, but will not sell for
delivery more than a month ahead. It
also behooves every dealer to keep sold
up clese every month, as a part of one
of the clauses of its guarantee to the
jobbers reads: ‘*‘No abatement will be
made on any invoice shipped prior to
the first of the month, next preceding
the one in which the reduction is
made. ’’

The profits that the commissioner de-
rives from his nail business and its col-
laterals are presumed to be very much
larger than those he receives from the
recently formed ‘‘bolt association,’’ but
the particulars of the latter have not yet
floated to the surface. The only par-
ticulars so far known to the trade are
that the price has advanced 50 per cent.
within a week.

H. Parks is the ‘‘trade general’’
who successfully floated the scheme
which brought the nail mauanufactur-
ers out of a condition in which they
were losing money into a cdndition
where they are now coining it. He
is a fine looking but unassuming man,
and his work is as fine in its way as is
its projector. His inspectors have ac-
cess to all the books and works of the
men in the pool, and he is constantly
informed if any of the mills run ahead
or behind their proportion.

His prestige was gained as organizer
of the Atlas tack corporation, a con
cern which bought up the Taunton tack
company, Loring Parks, Field & Co.,
Shelton & Co., and many of the other
great corporations of the East. This
concern is now ina legal tangle, said
to have been due to trouble among the
managers, and the United States courts
have appointed J. T. Lathrop and James
P. Stearns receivers to adjust its affairs.
Both these. men have offices in the Sears
Building, Boston, the same building
which shelters Mr. Parks.

2-71.
The Drummer’s Leap.

cable car the other day telling stories.
The conversation had run to tales of
railroad accidents, and two of the men
had told of several narrow escapes they
had had. The third was silent for a
moment, and then he took up the thread
of the conversation.

‘While up the state yesterday,’’ he
said, ‘‘I jumped from the Empire Ex-
press while it was flying at the rate of
sixty odd miles an hour ’’ Then he
stopped and watched the effect of his
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then he added: ‘‘I was on the track
| when I made the jump.”’

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THE MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

11

 

Clerks’ Corner

A eas Not Essential to Success.
There is a good deal of human nature

in the young fellow who works just
over the way. There isn’t a lazy bone
in his’ body, and it doesn’t make any

boss is around or
if there is anything to be dene he
takes right hold and does it. He’s at
the store the first one in the morning,
and there doesn t seem to be anything
like getting tired about him. One can’t
see a young fellow like that without lik-
ing him, and one can’t like another long
without getting to know him better
and so, from time to time, there have
been occasional meetings between us,
until I think I know the boy pretty well.

difference whether the
not,

He improved on acquaintance but he
has been so careful not to ‘‘ get too thick
all at once’’ that I began to fear that 1
should never know him. The other day
however came d)wa handsomely—it
was probably due in part to. the spring
fever, in part to hard work and the rest
to the home feeling which, in the lan-
guid spring weather, lays irresistible
hold on a fellow—and then I knew that
the boy whom I had put down as a_ fu-
ture ‘‘man of mark’’ in the commercial
world doesn’t want to be that kind of
man at all. His dream is the life of a
physician and his ‘‘crown of sorrow’ is
the lack of a college education. What
would make that boy the happiest one
above ground is a diploma from the
State University at Ann Arbor; and
here, while I was thinking that he was
working to get his foot on the next step
of the commercial ladder, he was quar-
relling with the fate that keeps him
from having the only thing in the world
which, in his mind, is worth the having.

Well! The time to say something, if
it was ever going to be said, had come.
A single sentence, with him, was
enough, and here it is: ‘‘If a boy nine-
teen years old wants a college training,
the way to get it is to stop scolding and
go to studying.’’ This led to further
talk and some planning; and there is
going to be a physician, one of these
days, liberally educated, a success in
his profession, and that physician is

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the hard-working clerk just over the
way.
So much for that. But there is an-

other side to this question which will
bear talking about: This clerk isn’t
the only one who thinks that the best
part of the world is on the other side of
a college diploma, and that he never
can be anything until he gets on that
other side. The mistake lies in the be-
lieving that a college diploma is the
end and aim of existence, and that,
with that in hand, the rest of life is but
a holiday. It is no such thing. The
diploma tells this brief story: ‘'The
bearer has been allowed to pasture for
the last tour years in the college clover-
lot’’—-that’s all. It doesn’t say whether
the boy made the most of his opportu-
nities ; whether he had to wear a‘‘ poker’’
most of the time to keep him from
jumping the fence, or whether he stood
at the bars, dewlap deep in clover, and
bellowed until he got out. It says, sim-
ply, that he has had a chance to im+
prove the quality of the beef and, so, of
the animal—that’s all there is in the
diploma. I know of a barber who has
a diploma from a medical college; but
he found, after the precious document
was in his possession, that he could do
better cutting hair and shaving, and he
is doing so. Is that, my clerk, what
you want of a diploma and of the col-

s

 

 

lege training it is supposed to repre-
sent? I know of a college graduate who
is driving a street car for a living, and
who is said to be using his diploma as
a liver pad! Is that what you want of
yours?

‘*But a man with a
has
say.

college training
a better chance in the world,’ you
Yes, if he knows how to improve
it. Read this: Two boys went to col-
lege with just money enough to take
them through. In due time, with di-
plomas in hand and letters of recom-
mendatior to a large shipbuilding firm,
they asked for employment. ‘‘What
can you do?’’ asked the man of millions
of the first graduate presented to him.
‘I would like a_ place, sir, that will
comport with my acquirements.’’ ‘‘ Well,

sir, I will take your name and address
and, should we have anything of the
kind open, will correspond with you.

Good morning, sir. The other gradu-
ate was admitted. ‘What can you do?’’
‘Anything that a green hand can, sir.’
The manager touched a bell and a su-

perintendent came in. ‘‘ Have you any-
thing to put a man to work at?’’ ‘‘We
want a man to sort scrap iron.’’ And

the college graduate went to sorting scrap
iron. A week passed, and the Presi-
dent, meeting the superintendent,
asked how the new man was getting
along. ‘‘Oh,’’ said the superintendent,
‘he did his work so well, and never
watched the clock, and so [ put him
over the gang.’’ A year later, this man
had reached the head of a department
and an advisory position with the man-
agement with a salary of four figures.
His fellow student who was after ‘‘a
place comporting with his diploma’’
found it as clerk ina livery stable—
washing harnesses and carriages! Do
you think, boys, that the stable would
be improved any with the young man’s
diploma framed and hung up there?

And yet, if the graduate, with the
nonsense taken out of him, has found his
place and knows that he hus found it,
the real college training behind the di-
ploma wiil show itself. In the eyes of
men the work may be humble; but, if
the college graduate be true to himself,
the harnesses he cleans and the carriages
he washes will-+hint, in a thousand ways,
of the culture and the higher life, which
the commonest employment can never
hide. If you are longing for the cul-
ture and the higher life, fight for them,
boys, as Lincoln, and Grant, and Gar-
field fought for them and won them;
but, if it is only the miserable diploma
you are after, give up the struggle at
once, for, when it is over and the cov-
eted paper is yours, you will find, as did
the car driver, that it is fit only fora
liver pad—and not a first-class liver
pad at that.

UNCLE Bos.
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No Danger of Contagion.

Jorkins--I am going to have my bank
bills disinfected before I handle them.

Mrs. Jorkins—-For what reason?

Jorkins—To remove the danger of
contagion to my family.

Mrs. Jorkins—I never heard of your
family being exposed.
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The forcing of a sale against the
judgment and inclination of the buyer
reacts upon the seller.

 

 

Scales!

Buy direct and save
middlemen’s profit.
‘ Write for prices and
~ description before
purchasing elsewhere. Se~les tested and re-
paired. Satisfaction guaranteed.

GRAND RAPIDS SCALE WORKS,
39 & 41 S. Front St., Grand Rapids.

 

Hardware Price Current.

AUGURS AND BITS
Snell's.

eee “: 70
Jennings’. ' genuine io La. . 25&10
Jennings , tmitation .........- . 6010

AXES
First Quality. S. B. Bronze ................. 5 50
BPirst Quality: D. GB. Bronze......-_.......... 950

First Quality. S. B.S. Steel...

.. 6
First Quality, D. B. Steel ...... _ 1

 

Stamped Ti

| Granite lron Ware

 

HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS

We, ee ween new list 70&10
Japanned Tin W are. 20410
. new list 40410

HOLLOW WARE

 

Pe ... O0O&10
Metpes .......-.. .. GO&10
Spiders : . 6O&10
‘HINGES
Gate, Clark's, 1, 2,3 i wees. COCOA
eee per doz. net 2 50
WIRE: GOODS
Bright. i. 80
[sere Even... ol. 80
[Henan os 80
Gate Hooks and Eyes. oe Lee sO
LEVEL s
| Stanley Rule and Level Co.'s dis 70
ROPES
Mion, 4 inen wid TAPWer............... -... O96
Meo 8 v
SQUARES
| Sieel a lee. 80
(ny GHG MOvelg. 6. ese we
Mitre .. a
SHEET IRON
com. smooth. com,
eee $3 30 #2 40
1 Nos. 5 to 17 30 2 40
| Nos. 18 to 21... 2 60
Nos. 22 to 2t.... 2
Nos. 25 to 26 2 80
NO. 2: . eae ‘ 2 90
All sheets No. 18 and lighte r, over 30 inches

| wide not less than 2-10 extra.

SAND PAPER

86.

SASH Ww EIGHTS
Solid Hyes......

List acct. [9,” ..dis 50

.. per ton 20 00

“TRAPS
Steel, Game..... 60&10
Oneida C ommunity, ‘Newhouse’ e. 50
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton's 70&10& 10
eee per doz 15
Mouse, delusion. . . .. per doz i 2
WIRE.
Bright Market.. 5
Anneal: d Market. ....... — a 5
| Coppered Market...... oe .. 70&10
[Timed Marke: ™
| Coppered Spring Steel.........
Barbed Fence, galvanized .. 2 » 35
Barbed Fence, painted. 2 00

BARROWS
Sao. ..-.-.o12 OO 14 00]
Gar@em.... 6... net S|

BOLTS
SNe ae 2
eC a 65
Plow. a "40010 |

BUCKETS
Well, plain.. . Pee tase a oo
BUTTS, CAST
Cast Loose Pin, figured........ 70 |
Wrought Narrow. - &10 |

BLOCKS

Ordinary Tackle... a e 70
CROW BARS
Cast Steel. ......... -- per Ib t

CAPS
Biy's 1-10... .- Metceees «4... Der In 65
Picks. Fy... perm ad
Go... .._............ perm 35
OO per m 60

CARTRIDGES
Mim Fire... 5. . 0d 5
Central Fire. ee B& 5

CHISELS
Bechet mer. Ck 80
Socket Framing............ 80
socket Cormer............ eee eee eee 80
Seenet Sicus.. 80

DRILLS
Morse’s Bit Stocks ... i 60
Taper and Straight Shank.. oo. ee o
Morse’s Taper Shank...... . 0d 5

ELBOWS
Com. 4 piece, 6in. .-doz. net 60
Comuedica....._....-.... .dis 50 |

Adjustable .. ene ». dis 40&10 |
EXPANSIVE BITS

Clark’s small, $18; large, wo, ..-........ O&10

Ives’, 1, $18: 2, $24; 3, $0...... i 25

FILES— New List

Wew American....... ol.
Nienolson’s.........-.... bee ete - 70

 

Hellers Horse Rasps.........._.-...._.- 60K10
GALVANIZED IRON
Nos. 16 to 29; 22 and 24; 25 and 26; 2°. ... 28
List 12 13 14 15 16... 1
Discount, 75
GAUGES
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s........ . BUKIE
KNOBS—New List
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings.... ........- 7
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings............ 80
MATTOCKS
Meac Hye... -- 816 00, dis 6010
Hunt Eye.. _ . $5 00. dis 60410
fas. #18 50, dis 20410
MILLS
Coffee, Parkers Co.’s. 40
Coffee, P. 8S. & W. Mfg. Go.’s Malleables. 40
Coffee, Landers, Ferry & Clark’s...... 40
Coffee, ee Se eee ees 30
MOLASSES GATES
Stebbin’s iyo WM ... O0&10
Stebbin’s Genuine. ee |
Enterprise, self- -measuring . i _... 30

NAILS
Advance over base, on both Stee] and Wire.
Steel nails, base.. .
Wire nails, base.. eee cers ete sll. 3

. to 60 Se 50

Se ee 60
; and 6 5
4... 90
sg... 1 20
Bees 1 60
Fine 3.. 1 60
Case 10.. 65
enge & 8... 5
Com ©... es 90
Finish 10........ 'D
noe Ss... 90
roan €...lttCsi‘(‘(‘ NC. 10
EE ee 70
Clinch 8 ee 80
ss ©... titi... -o........... 90
ee eee 1%

PLANES
Ohio Tool Co.'s, fancy..
Sciota Bench
Sandusky Tool Co’s, fancy.

 

Benen festquality. a
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s wood......... 60
PANS
Mey Acme......--...-. 60&10K10
Common, polished. . ee W& 5
RIVETS
Iron and ‘Tinned .... ..-....... ---. ---.-- 60
Copper Rivets and Burs...........-----+++-- 60
PATENT PLANISHED IRON
“<4”? Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 10 20
“B” Wood's patent planished, Nos. 25 to 2 9 20

Broken packages 4c per pound extra.
———
Maydole & Co.’s, new list. ..dis 33%
Ne eas dis 25
Yerkes & Plumb’s. ..--+.....-. Gis 4a
Mason's Solid Cast istecd cuits 30e list 70

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

- &10 |

HORSE | NAILS
Te vane
is

i 10810

Au Sable. .......
Putnam.
Northwestern..

WRENCHES
| Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.............. 30
Coe’s Genuine,...... eee ae 50
Coe’s Patent Agric ultural, Ww srought . 80
(oes Patent, malleanie ..................., 80
peemunmasnenieed
Bird Cages ...... 50
Pumps, Cistern.......-.... -........ 75&10
Screws, New List.. 85

 

20x28 IX, Charcoal,

Casters, Bed and P late. . Someeie

Dampers, American..... 40K 10
METALS— Zinc”

600 pound casks.................... : 614

Ce 63%

SOLDER
“L@%.. 12%
The prices ‘of the many other qualities of solder
in the market indicated by private brands vary
according to composition.

TIN—Melyn Grade

LE eee $5 3
aso 10, Chaireoal ..... ................. . om
Cree ee Chareeg:..........,............... Oe
eee Cee... ......... se... 6 23
Each additional X on this grade, $1.75.
TIN— pesaieeed sap
Herd4 10) Ciiorecal.... ..-....... ..... 5 00
Meee tC Chareoe!...... ..... 5 00
10x14 IX, Charcoal . 6 00
Re CU ee ee 6 00
Each additional X on this grade, $1.50.
ROOFING PLATES
Mxme IC, Charcoal, Dean............-....... 5 00
eed 1 Chareoe), Dean......... «.-.-+.4-. 6 00
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Dean.. et ee uaa 10 00
14x20 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade. =
14020 TX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade......... 5 50
20x28 1C, Charcoal, Allaway Grade........ 9 00

Allaway Grade......... 11 00

- (BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE
4x56 or No. § Boilers, __.
14x56 IX. for No. 9 Boilers, § Pet round... 9

 

 

TINWARE.

We carry a full stock of

 

 

Pieced and Stamped Tinware.

Oe

WM. BRUMIMELER & SONS

Manufacturers and Jobbers of TINWARE.
Dealers in Rags, Rubbers, Metals, etc.

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260 S. Ionia St.
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

12

A COUNTRY DRUG STORE.

A country
nized quantity to the city pharmacist.
To conduct such a drug store witha
reasonable amount of success requires
more tact, patience and perseverance
than is generally supposed.

The usuai routine of store work must
be followed as closely in a country drug
store as elsewhere. The fact must be
remembered that one’s patrons some-
times go to the cities and while there
closely note the comparison between the
city store and the one at home.

One must be at all times ready to en-
ter into sympathy with every caller, no
matter what the subject may be, but
the line must be drawn at family jars
and the encouragement of loafers.

If one be located in a town boasting
of but one drug store, his stock must be
more comyplete than in the city where
he has a neighbor from whom to borrow
or buy; he must keep a small supply of
all the patents usually advertised, be-
side old-timers, and as good a stock as
is usuaily found in any drug store.
Nothing advertises a store like having
just what is wanted. We must also have
certain specialties for the doctor.

A country drug store should have
among its assets a good mailing-list,
with names of all heads of families and
prominent residents who call at that
post office for mail. A mailing-list for
all towns not over ten miles away should
also be at hand; it may be of no_ bene-
fit, but surely it will do no harm, for
the continual sending of advertising to
all will bring customers who would not
come to town for anything else but what
their attention has keen called to, as |
have seen demonstrated many times in
this village.

Having had many — experience

drug store is an unrecog- |
| store.
| knowledge is required in the country as

 

THE MICHIGAN

| in business in cities and country towns,

I find no difference in the running of a
The work is the same ; the same

in the city, with the addition of some
knowledge of diseases of animals, etc.

Frequently, something occurs during
the absence of the doctor; another doc-
tor from a distance who is not in sym-
pathy with our store might be called
in. To prevent it we give some remedy
to assist and quiet the patient until cur
doctor returns. We immediately tell
him what we have done; we work to-
gether, the doctor and I, and between
us we can hold the fort. It must be
distinctly understood that we do no
counter-prescribing—rather prefer that
the doctor do that. Of course we talk
up a remedy that somebody wants, but
when any one wants our opinion as to
who is the best doctor, why, of course,
the one who looks out for our store is
the only doctor in the world. We try
to succeed in keeping clear of such
gossip as one frequently hears in the
city, as of certain doctors and druggists
being on ‘‘the outs.’’ Such things are
absolutely uncalled for in the majority
of cases. Little differences and mis-
understandings can be settled by an_in-
terchange of views; the doctor and
druggist must work together. Letting
the general public become acquainted
with their differences has a very bad
effect from a business point of view,
does no good to either, but on the con-
trary does harm. I am not a physician,
but this I will venture to say for them—
there is not a sane doctor in the uni-
verse but will meet a druggist half way
if the proper diplomacy be used. They
expect to be humored, and unless the
druggist does it he will be the loser, if
not finally forgotten.

 

TRADESMAN

Now a city pharmacist would think
a soda-fountain a useless ornament and
entirely out of place in a country drug
store. So I thought when I came here
nearly five years ago. There was an
antiquated fountain in another store,

run in an indifferent manner. I set up
a good one, a Tuft’s Crusader, No. 2,

with twelve syrups, together with all
the et ceteras connected with a fountain.
Many thought I was doing a foolish
thing. I knew our town of six hundred
souls all told would not support such an
outlay. Well, I got out my mailing-
list and sent out six hundred and
more invitations to test the new foun-
tain. About fifty of the free invitations
came back; I sold a reasonable amount
of soda-water; the fountain is up yet,
and paid for itself long ago. One
must not forget that the people living
in the country have the same wants and
desires as those living in the cities. How
often does one hear the remark that
such a druggist has a good country
trade! That remark would never be
heard if the druggist in the country
kept a proper stock of goods to supply
everyday wants.

A great many country drug stores have
a large quantity of commissioned med-
icines on their shelves. My experience
in that line is that it is far better to
own what is in the store than to have
the space filled up with some one else’s
property. If the goods have any sale
or merit, a suitable supply can be easily
obtained from one’s jobber; and beside
that, should a fair opportunity be offered
to sell your store, you would not be
hampered in getting rid of the com-
missioned goods.

Now look at the difference in expense
of running a store in the country and
the city. I know of stores in two cities

 

 

doing but very little more business than
is done here; the rent of the one is $600,
the other $500 per year. Their store-
rooms are not nearly as good as we
have. Our rent is $100 per year, and
we don’t sell a drop of alcohol or whis-
ky, only on a genuine ~ prescription
from a doctor whom we know.

Occasionally drummers. will come
along with some proprietary articles
without a reputation. We cannot buy
of everybody. If we fail to give them
an order, -they sell to some one in town,
they care not whom if they are sure the
account can be collected. As soon as
the goods are on sale we get a small
supply and sell at cost, which effectually
shuts off annoyance from that quarter.
Besides that, it frequently brings the
manufacturer to time with a lithographed
letter-head and a beautiful type+written
explanation and promise to do better
in the future. The proprietors are the
managers of the incubator where the
cutter is hatched.

The business of the country druggist
would be greatly benefited if legislation
would step in and prevent the grocer
from handling drugs, spices and flavor-
ing extracts, which of right were once
part of our business, and which we
dream may some day be restored to the
trade. The dream would be realized if
the pharmacists could only be brought
together as a well-disciplined body, all
working as one and for the benefit of
all. Maybe it is but a dream.

SAMUEL H. HILt.

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sell, if the price is right; and if the
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Credits and Collections.
F. R. Boccock in Hardware Dealer.

It is not the purpose of this article to
go into any lengthy treatise upon the
topic of Credits and Collections, nor to
advance any novel ideas as to the sys-
tem that should be adopted in the con-
duct of a department for the considera-

| extensive to embrace as well the proper |

collection of accounts. They should |
dovetail one into the other, so as to}

|

|

tion of these subjects, but simply to}
give expression to some thoughts that |

have been given birth by careful study
and developed by ample experience.

The approval or disapproval of orders | past due?
is a problem that is extremely intricate | peljief in
So many houses 1 = et

wi any houses in the | Gcitjon that we conduct our own depart-
past, of high commercial standing, have |

and important.

been forced to surrender their proud po-
sition by losses entailed by overcon-
fidence in their customers’ integrity anc
worth, and by reason of lax methods in
the making of their collections, that the
subject has been raised to a prominence
worthy of its importance. There is
scarcely any department of a large busi-
ness so closely identified with its suc-
cessful management as that pertaining
to credits.

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So widely has this been re- |

cognized that the position of credit man |

has become almost a_ profession. A
man that would successfully handle so
important a branch must serve a f
ful apprenticeship, and devote himself
to the study with patience, devotion and
determination. To imagine *that any
one is adapted for this class of work is
a mistake that has been proven fatal in
practice upon more than one occasion.
It is an easy matter to simply approve
or disapprove an order, but to intelli-
gently analyze a man’s affairs, to know
the condition of that part of the country
in which a debtor resides, to learn as
to his character and business acumen,
how exacting his competition, what
his standing in his local community,
and various details entering into a
debtor’s success, requires adaptability,
system, tact, a wholesome regard for
details, and quickness in drawing con-
clusions. These qualifications are all
essential, and can only be attained and
perfected by natural ability, diligence
and practice.

There 1s one other essential, however,
to full success in the management of a
credit department. The credit man
must be utrestricted as tohis judgment
and have full power to act according to
his best beliefs. His judgment may be
accurate, and based upon the very
soundest reasoning and closest investi-
gation in the conclusion to decline
further shipments; yet the bill of goods
goes out, by reason of the counter deci-
sion of some member of the firm who,
owing to personal acquaintance, or the
flattering expressions of some salesman
as to the debtor’s standing, believes it
wiser to take the risk. Result, a con-
siderable loss. In how many instances
has this proven the case. This is not
business, and there is scarcely any
credit department that will not make a
better showing as to losses when its de-
cisions are respected and_ sustained.
The first great essential, therefore, to a
wise, judicious, and successful man-
agement in this department is the se-
lection of a trained and highly compe-
tent man for the position. The fullest
and most desired result of such manage-
ment will, however, depend upon the
second essential—that such a depart-
ment, once wisely established, be given
entire power, full independence, and
its rendered decisions subject to no in-
terference, but considered as binding
and unalterable other than by the credit
man’s own volition. No man_ holding
such a position and with full confidence
reposed in him will fail to recognize the
full responsibility resting upon him,
and act in every instance with a desire
and determination to best serve his
firm’s interest.

No credit department can produce
the best results acting merely as such.
Credits and collections must be coupled
together and managed by the same au-

thority. In many houses the mistake is
made of having collections under one

department and the approval of credits
under still another. They are bound to-
gether by all sense of logic, and cannot
be separated without more or less dis-
aster. The system perfected for the ap-
proval of orders should be sufficiently

faith- |

} account

make a consistent and efficient method. |
Is that system not open to question,
which is so largely adopted by promi-
nent houses, of placing a limit on an
and then filling orders to that
amount regardless of whether previous
shipments are not already past due, and
the bills thus being lapped? Is it nota
safer rule to adopt, that no shipment
shall be made while a former invoice 1s |
It is in accordance with firm
belief in the accuracy of the later prop- |

ment, and we can but report the very

best results. So long as it is generally

known that this is the rule of the house, |
there need be no fear of offense being |
given. The best accounts will never
be subject to this regulation, and the
slow payers, to whom the rule applies,
need at. the best to be watched closely
and placed under some restraint.

The consideration of this subject nat- |
urally brings forth discussion as_ to the |
enforcement of prompt payments. To |
the writer the value of a strict regula- |

tion in this respect is beyond question. |

Such a system should be adopted that |
provides for statements being promptly
submitted as accounts fall due, to the
consideration of the credit man, and by

| him treated according to his judgment, |

 

but never being out of mind until set-

tlement has been made. ‘True it is that

some customers may prefer to deal with |
other houses where they can take more |
time, and have more of their own way,

but the accounts thus lost are not al- |
ways a great sacrifice. Such customers

must either illustrate poor business

methods, or a deplorable financial con-
dition that prevents promptness in |
meeting their obligations. in_ either |
event the account is not satisfactory, |
and sooner or later the merchant will be |
forced to surrender by more competent |
and enterprising competitors. There |
are exceptions, of course, but the large |
percentage finally reach that end. Now, |
on the other hand, experience has taught
us that prompt collections increase |
sales. In the first place, such a regula- |
tion gives a house a prominence that |
commands the greatest respect. Such
methods rapidly become undertsood,
and the impression is created of inde-
pendence and exclusiveness. The name
of such a house asa _ reference by any
debtor is almost a guarantee of his
standing. ‘The consequence is that the |
best merchants throughout the country
seek to do business with a house of such
high regard.

In the second place, a larger business
even will be done with those merchants
who were formerly slow in their pay-
ments. Often a customer owing a house
bills past due will go elsewhere to re-
plenish his stock, rather than submit
himself, by sending in a new order to
his larger creditor, to a request for a
check. Let the account be paid up
closely, and a customer feels proud of
his relations, and orders without hesi-
tation as frequently as his demands _re-
quire. To-day competition is so keen
and goods are sold so close that the
margin of profit provided by the cash |
discounts is not to be sacrificed without
justifiable reasons. Merchants who per-
sistently decline to take advantage of
Such profits are certainly open to criti-
cism, and their accounts should be sub-
jected to close scrutiny.

We can scarcely conclude the ex-
pression of these thoughts without add-
ing a few lines relative to failures. Has
it not seemed during the last few years |
that failures have been growing more

 

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L. O. Barber.
C. B. Craw.

Gentlemen:

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Declared Honest by the Court and
all dealers and their customers.

Nothing is more important to the retail
Grocer than a perfect scale. Why waste
time and increase hability of mistakes by
using a complicated scale that must be
adjusted with absolute accuracy to every
change in price and which at best only
gives one-half the information sought?

 

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lack of capital? When affairs are such |
that almost any merchant, with a good, |
bad, or indifferent reputation, can fail
and offer a cash compromise of from 25
to 40 per cent. with a reasonable assur-
ance of its acceptance, is it not placing
a premium on such transactions? We}
heartily believe that creditors are alto-
gether too ready to accept compromise
settlements, especially from a certain |
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ever willing to compromise their in-
debtedness on such a basis as will per-

mit their proper continuance in_ busi-
ness. Such men create that commercial
confidence on which credit is based,and
should be supported by the combined
efforts of all dealers; for should that
condition ever arise wherein every fail-
ure is open to suspicion, the very foun-
dations for credit will have crumbled
into a broken mass, and cash be the
sole basis for all transactions. May we
do nothing to encourage such a fright-
ful catastrophe, but rather let us study
to preserve foster all that is hon-
orable and meritorious in our present
system, and that will surely prophecy
a better and more prosperous future.
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that no one noticed it while it was in.’’
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didn’t seem to until I took it out.’’
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Lawyer (in will -‘‘Were
acquainted with the deceased?’’
Witness—'* Yes, sir.’’
Lawyer—‘*Did she exhibit any signs!
of insanity?’’
Witness (promptly)—'‘Yes sir; she|
never went to a bargain sale.’’
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Shop-worn goods, goods a little out
of style and goods which are not in|
popular demand are not in any sense |
unsalable, as they can be sold, and their
sale does not injure business.

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ments of a desirable character. In con-
nection with his merchandising busi- |

-ss, Mr. Hoffman buys and ships -on-
siderable quantities of cattle to the Buf-
falo market, he being the first man who
ever shipped live stock in carlots out of
Antrim county.

Mr. Hoffman has never been married,
his home being presided over by his
mother and his father having |
passed away a couple of years ago. He
is an Odd Fellow and a member of the}
Masonic fraternity, in which organiza- |
tion he has filled the position of Past}
Grand Master.

Mr. Hoffman attributes his success to |
hard work and to his habit of giving |
people value received on every occa- |
sion; and those who know him best in- |
sist that he has correctly interpreted the
cause of his success.

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Nebraska Trade Journal: Rev. Sam
Jones never uttered a better thing than
when he named the traveling men ‘‘the
angels of commerce.’’ It is the good |
fortune of the Trade Journal to know}
many of these gentlemen, and no bet- |
ter, true-hearted men exist anywhere |
than they. Genial and companionable, |
as their business necessarily compels |
them to be, they are the most delightful |
companions on a journey, and they are |
welcomed everywhere. They are the|
barometers of business, and ‘‘the|
house’’ regards them as its most reliant |
support. The spirit of fraternity has|
been cultivated by them to a very great |
extent, and their orders are steadily in- |
creasing in number, and they are becom- |
ing the most respected by all classes of |
business men. They are good citizens!
—among the best we have. Although |
compelled to rove, the love of home is |
a distinctive feature in their ranks. In|
all the trades and industries the travel- |
ing men bear an honorable position, |
and many a merchant has amassed
wealth by the efforts of ‘‘the boys on
the road.’’ Many of these most suc- |

sister,

| cessful merchants have carried the grip |

themselves, and the experience they |

| gained while traveling has made them |
| pillars of strength in business and hon- |

in |
which they live. The Trade Journal
always takes off its hat with the pro-
foundest respect to the traveling man |
and the calling which he honors so con-

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—always the characteristic of the high-
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MRS. DRIFTER’S BANK BOOK.

Story of a Wckicun Who Wanted to.
Share Duties and Income.

Drifter and his wife had been chums,
in the truest sense of the word, ever
since their marriage. If he felt a yearn-
ing for an afternoon's revelry at the
base ball park, Mrs. Drifter was eager
to go along and share his hopes and dis-
appointments. To him all Mrs. Drift-
er’s hats, wraps and furbelows, when
exhibited for criticism, were ‘‘dreams,
my dear, simply great. No other wom-
an could have done so well on so little
money. ’’

So far so good. But when the Drift-
ers got the suburban fever and settled
upon their home in a cottage at Graves-
endhurst there came an interruption to
the comradeship. As Drifter says:

‘*The little girl was never one of your
know-it-all, self-reliant, head-cf-the-
firm women. Not much. She always
said that figures bothered her and_ that
when she wanted more money than |
gave her, or she could find in my pock-
ets, she’d ask for it. Some kind friend,
while on a shopping expedition with my
wife, threw a brand into the Drifter
circle. That night I got this piece of
information :

‘* ‘Drifter, every wife should take her
share of the responsibilities of the
household. Woman should not be afraid
to handle business ‘affairs. Experience
teaches us that woman is a better man-
ager of the home finances and—’

‘‘ *What the dickens are you driving
at, little one?’ I asked.

‘* “A woman loses her independence,
sacrifices her individuality and becomes
merely an ornament, a plaything, a—’

‘**Hold on! hold on!’ I gasped.
“Have you joined the Female Society
to Prevent Husbands’ from Caring for
Wives, or is this a notice of proceed-
ings for separation, Madam?’

‘* “Drifter,” came the measured reply,
“I have leaned upon you too much. I
must not only be a sharer in your pleas-
ures, but in your trials and—and—I—I
m-u-s-t have a separate bank account.
There!’

‘*Conversation flagged that evening.
The next morning I learned that Mrs.
Drifter intended to purchase the new
furniture for our Gravesendhurst cot-
tage, to buy groceries in quantities and
run the affair entirely on her own
plans.

‘* “Tt will give me something to do,’
she said. ‘The storekeepers wil) have

“more respect for me, too, and you won’t

have any bother at all about fitting up
the house or running it.’

‘*That day I devoted largely to  start-
ing my wife out on her adventures,
those of a young woman with her first
bank account. I wrote my check for a
round amount and handed it to the
cashier of a bank near our suburban
home, with the request that he enroll
my wife as a depositor. The usual
formalities were complied with and then
trouble commenced. With bank book
and pocket check book in hand, Mrs.
Drifter felt her new independence.
She decided to raid the bank at once.

‘« *T will draw some money out now,’
she said, sweetly.

‘‘IT let her proceed. She didn’t get
far. The old cashier kindly insinuated
that in the banking business it was cus-
tomary to realize upon checks or drafts
deposited on a new account before hon-
oring demands. He told her that her
husband would have no difficulty in
getting a small check cashed for her
shopping needs.

 

‘That nearly upset the little woman.
We went out. I took her to lunch.

I don’t think much of that
| she said. ‘Why, they’ve got the use of
my money, drawing interest
that and then to tell me to wait a day or
so. Perhaps you will lend me some
money until that funny old cashier finds
out who I am.’

bank,’

‘‘I gave her a few pointers as to the
checking out of funds; showed her the
importance of simple subtraction as ap-
plied to bank balances and dwelt at
some length on the necessity of enter-
ing on each stub the name of payee
and for what purpose each check was
drawn. I also advised her to call on
me from time to time to look over her
accounts. Then woman’s new sphere
of activity dawned upon me. Said my
wife:

"| Now, Drifter, dear, once for all,
do stop joking. You look over my ac-
counts and keep ’em straight? Not
much. I'll trouble you simply to give
me some more checks to put in that
funny little window there at the bank
and I will do the book-keeping. ’

‘' "Go it,” | remarked; and she’ did.
Well, the thing went along. I didn’t
monkey any with the books of my_ for-
mer chum. When at home together I
saw that there was a tired look about
her eyes, an expression which seemed
to say, ‘I wish the darned bank ac-
count was in a hotter place than Graves-
endhurst,’ but I let her new venture se-
verely alone. When necessary I handed
over checks for her to deposit. That
was all. She got the furniture, fitted up
the house, meanwhile getting thinner
each day and _ less companionable.
Finally a crash came. The telephone
rang with emphasis.

‘* *Mrs. Drifter is very sick, sir.
Keeps calling for you and _ saying,
‘*Come home, I give up, I’ll never do
it again.’’ I’ve been trying to find you
for an hour, sir. I’m so scared for the
poor, dear lady.’

‘*This from the new girl. Of course,
I got home as quickly as the street cars
could carry me. Then the secret came
out. Between sobs and moans I learned
that some grocer of whom Mrs. Drifter
had ordered a bill of goods had_ grossly
insulted her.

‘* ‘He insulted me, me, your wife,’
she sobbed, ‘the woman who has no
one to protect her if you fail her. Why,
why should a weak, frail woman have
to stand the insults of rude, rough men
when she has a husband who ought to
attend to all the business matters?’

‘*This was rich, indeed, but I didn’t
load my _ six-shooter and sail out after
the offending tradesman. I soothed the
little woman, assured her that I was a
brute to have allowed her to wrestle
with the worldly problems of trade,
barter and bills, and begged forgiveness
for having, as she said, imposed upon
her the whole work of furnishing the
house and worrying her poor, tired
brain with prices and figures and horrid
old bank books.

‘‘T found that the grocer’s insult con-
sisted in returning a dishonored check
drawn by Mrs. Drifter on her own and
only bank account for $53.16, and
marked plainly in red ink at the bank,
‘N. G.’ That was all except that the
grocer had written: ‘I return your
check. Evidently some mistake. Shall
I send the bill to Mr. Drifter?’

‘* “What does he mean by disfiguring
my check with horrid slang? Tell me.
How dare he put ‘‘N. G.”’ on one of my
checks? What can be done to him? Isn’t
it the same as forgery?’ asked my wife.

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‘‘T looked over her books, found
that her additions and subtractions were
sadly mixed and that two other checks
were due to come baci: aiso disfigured
with those horrid words ‘N. G.,’ for
she had overdrawn her account to the
tune of $208. And those stubs! Bless
her heart! she took me literally. She
tried to keep track of her expenditures
so as to give me a surprise in book-
keeping. She succeeded. To give you
an idea: Instead of filling out the stub
thus :

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For groceries.
Mrs. Drifter had actually endeavored
in every case to put down each separate
item on each bill paid by check. The
one given in payment of an order of
groceries was a dream. The order em-
braced everything from spaghetti to
roach powder, and the poor woman with
a new and separate bank account had en-
deavored to transfer all the items to the
stub. She religiously filled that stub in
her fine handwriting, then started in
and covered two sheets of note paper
and pinned those to the suffering stub.

‘‘She doesn’t. run a bank account|
now,’’ concluded Drifter. ‘‘And she’s |

gained ten pounds since becoming
again my chum and ‘an ornament’ to
the cottage at Gravesendhurst.’’—N. Y.

Sun.
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Used the Lice Killer the Wrong Way.
Written for the TRADESMAN.

He jerked open the door of the drug
store, jerked himself in, and then shut

it with a bang. Then he hitchingly

strode half the length of the store, |

walked up to the first space of counter
that was pot covered with a show case and
threw down a package with a force that
rattled the card of corn cure prepara-
tion off the show case onto the floor. He
rammed his hands into his pockets and
impatiently awaited the approach of
the proprietor.

The newcomer was a well-to-do farm-
er of the locality, one of the kind of
men who do everything with a rush.
He was one of those small, wiry, nervous
men, always on the go and of an impa-
tient temperament.

The stove which warmed the room
was back of the prescription case, out
of sight from the front. It was a cold,
blustry day and several of us were gath-
ered about it. The tiller of the soil
must have been aware of our presence,
for we were laughing as he came in.

Our friend, the proprietor, realized,
as he advanced from behind the pre-
scription case, that there was some-
thing seriously wrong. There was a set
expression to his face which indicated
to us that he was going to put forth an
extra effort to retain his irate Customer.

‘*How do you do, sir,’’ he said, with
a strain to appear natural.

‘*There, there, sir, there’s your dope
—take it—I ain’t no use for it—take it
and give me my money back, and,

mind you, sir, I don’t agree not to|

come back on you for damages be-
sides !”’
potatoes, each word being delivered in
a higher key than the preceding one.

‘*\Why—w-—what’s the matter?’’ asked
the bewildered druggist, picking up
the package and nervously commencing
to untie the string.

‘What’s the matter? shrieked
the now furious customer. ** You’ll think
there’s a good deal the matter by the
time you pay for three pullets and the
ninety-two point full-blooded — rooster
that your tarnel old mixture has killed

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for me!

ejaculated the man of corn and |

‘‘Must be some mistake,’’
suggested the druggist.

‘** Mistake!’ You’ll find there was, and
a mighty dear one it’ll be for you, too
—and.the very fowls I wanted to take to
the fair this fall. Come, no use looking
at the package—it’s the same measly
stuff you sold me,’’ said he, this last a
shade milder and extending his hand
in a manner suggesting the retrun of
his money.

‘TT don’t just understand it,’’ was the
hesitating reply.

‘‘Now, see here!’’ said the farmer,
again firing up; ‘‘if you stiff-necked,
| linen-collared, silk-necktied druggists
\think you are going to get us farmers’
| hard-earned cash for a little of your old

patent right lice killer, and kill off all

| our birds besides, I'l] just give you to
| understand that we'll make you band-
| box fellers sweat for it!’

The druggist threw the package down
on the counter, ‘‘chucked’’ his hands
into his pockets, straightened his
shoulders, drew a long breath, *‘gritted”’
‘his teeth, thought of all his resolutions
|to hold his customers, if possible, and—
| picked up the package again.
| ‘*Now, see here, my friend,’’ he be-
|gan in a tone that indicated an effort
/to control himself, ‘‘did you follow di-

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| ‘*Following them there directions ‘ll
| kill off the hens as_ well as the lice
|every time,’’ was the positive answer.
| Our friend turned the package about
| with one hand and scratched his head
|with the other, as if trying to study a
way out of the situation. Then he
i began reading the label on the package
half aloud, in a mechanical sort of way,
evidently hoping to gain time and_ find
a loophole out of which he could crawl :

‘* Use—brush-—and—cover—with—this
— the — walls — floor —-and—-roosts—of—
the—’’

‘*Eh?’’ come from the farmer.

‘‘It says to cover the floor, walls and
roosts of the henhouse with this prepa-
ration,’’ he answered.

Before he finished, the customer
grabbed the package and gazed at it in
blank amazement. Then he dropped it
on the counter with a dull thud, and we
heard him mutter, in no uncertain tone
something to the effect that he’d be
hanged if he wasn’t the ding dastedest
fool out of the insane asylum! ‘‘I just
glanced,’’ he continued in a shame-
faced manner, ‘‘at the big letters on the
label, and I declare if I didn’t go and
paint them there three pullets and my
ninety-two point prize rooster all
over!’’ Then he raised his head
quickly, as if he suddenly appreciated
his predicament, and whispered (but
not so low but that it reached the ears
behind the prescription case), *‘Say!
do you suppose the cigars would make
them fellers back there keep mum about
this?’’

‘*You might try it,’
{and he did.
| But there was one who didn’t smoke!
| ‘*Say!’’ said the druggist, after the
chagrinned hayseed had taken his de-
parture, wiser than on his tempestuous
|entrance, ‘‘I came pretty near getting
| mad there once. If I had, and had said
|what I felt like saying, I should have
ilost him; but now I have a customer
| dead sure—providing I never mention
jhens. Say! it pays a business man
|never to get mad.’’ And we all agreed
| with him.

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and dairymen in the country.

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many so-called standard goods.
That sells them.

he largest jobbers in nearly every city are handling

5th Avenue Java and Mocha Coffee.
O’ Donohue Coffee Co.’s entire line, 5th Avenue included.
That is why you find our coffee fast taking the lead
everywhere.

inney Salmon Steaks. All middle Cuts. Very
fine.

f it’s Canned Fruit you are wanting, the best packers

in California are Fontania & Co. We carry a full
stock and stand back of the goods.

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lines and they are all trade winners.

chant makes no mistake who has this line to offer his

LJ. SLARK GROCERY C0.,

GRAND RAPIDS.

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white oats in their package goods.

them, first, quality, best in the market, second, our
price sells them to every customer.

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Fallacy of Railway Competition.
Written for the TRADESMAN.

‘‘Railroad building in the United
States has been carried on beyond the
limits of existing or reasonably pros-
pective demand.’’ ‘‘That our trans-
portation facilities are greatly in excess
of our requirements is a fact now, if
never before, made prominently and
most disastrously manifest by the num-
ber of railroad systems which, as finan-
cial invalids, are either undergoing, or
just recuperating from, the heroic treat-
ment of reorganization.’’ These words
from a recent article in The Bond
Record indicate a condition that, if re-
alized, for some reason, finds very little
expression. The confidence in the po-
tency of the iron rail to bring prosper-
ity to any region, especially with
competition, is so great that those who
intimate there may be too much of a
good thing are accounted economic
heretics.

In the tendency of the American peo-
ple to avoid paternalism in government
is to be found one of the principal rea-
sons for the undue expansion of the
railway systems. The idea of leaving
economic questions wholly to the de-
cision of natural economic laws, instead
of estimating results to be obtained and,
by deliberation, adopting means to the
work, is in harmony with the spirit of
American liberty; but it is a tremen-
dously wasteful method, in this regard,
comparing with many other of the oper-
ations of nature. Many things can be
safely left to the care of the Great
Mother; but there are some things in
which her ministrations may be made
more economical by the exercise of in-
telligent supervision.

In the matter of the regulation of rail-
way traffic between the states there has
developed the necessity of a consider-
able degree of government paternalism,
which 1s manifested in the constitution
and operation of the Interstate Com-
merce Commission. The dealings of
this tribunal have been found to be of
vast benefit, and have demonstrated the
possibility and practicability of some
kind of intelligent supervision of trans-
portation economics. In some of the
states, too, boards of supervision are
being established for the regulation,
among other things, of projects for rail-
way extension.

But the great extension of all the sys-
tems was without regulation. The idea
of railways for the development of new

country, and old as well, became a
craze. And after the systems began to
extend it was found that there was a

monopoly in prices which demanded
some kind of regulation. To meet the
demands caused by some of the most
flagrant overcharges the state legisla-
tures early learned that, in granting
charters, and later by state laws, there
must be some limits provided. Thus
the very general provision limiting
fares to three cents per mile. This and
the provisions for physical safety were
about all that legislatures would venture
to do.

As there seemed to be a necessity for
further regulation, the public mind be-
gan to look for means to secure it. The
first to be suggested was competition.
The effects of this factor in the general
trade of the country at that time were
beneficial—‘‘ Competition was the life
of trade.’’ In many cases it is benefi-
cial now, but its rapid increase in re-
cent years has brought it to a point
where it may as appropriately be
denominated the death of trade.

In all those localities where the sin-

 

gle line of railway had a monopoly of
the carrying business the people began
to clamor for ‘‘competition.’’ No
other possible means could be suggest-
ed for the restriction of prices and the

regulation of methods of traffic. A
town with a single line of railway, not-
withstanding the fact that that was

more than ample for all transportation
requirements, was in a hopeless condi-
tion unless it could secure a competing
line. The result was the competition
craze, a continuation and intensification

of the railway development craze. This
was looked upon as_ the natural
economic method of regulation. Thus

in a short time there were provided
nearly or quite double the routes and
means of transportation that the country
warranted.

To what extent has the competition
proved beneficial? There is, of course,
no question that in many cases it has
served to prevent extortionate charges,
made possible without any regulation,
but in many more cases the remedy has
been found worse than the disease. In
the long run these things must be regu-
lated by the laws of supply and de-
mand. So that, with a given amount of
transportation to be done, the provision
of double the means required propor-
tionately increases the cost; for these
laws work both ways. For self-preser-
vation there must be combinations on
prices where the work is thus divided,
and these establish high rates for com-
parison and regulation of prices where
there is not actual combination. Thus
the effect of this competition, on the
whole, is a vast increase in the cost of
transportation —- certainly a wasteful
method of regulation.

It is easy, in the light of experience,
to point out ways by which these matters
could have been regulated more econom-
ically. The degree in which it has
been found practicable to regulate by
government action is sufficient to dem-
onstrate that railway commissions
might have prevented this tremendous
overgrowth and waste. Such commis-
sions could have decided what were fair
rates of traffic and these could have
gone to just roads enough to sufficiently
serve the needs of the country.

But now we have the railroads. About
all that can be suggested is a patient
waiting for the ‘‘country to grow up_ to
the roads.’’ This may be facilitated
by turning all the energy to be com-
manded in the direction of judicious
highway improvement.

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N. FULLER.

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Northern Michigan, Minnesota, lowa
and Dakota, there are hundreds of
charming localities: pre-eminently fitted
for summer homes. Nearly all are lo-
cated on or near lakes which have not
been fished out. These resorts are
easily reached by railway and range in
variety from the ‘‘full dress for dinner’’
to the flannel-shirt costume for every
meal. Among the list are names famil-
iar to many of our readers as the per-
fection of Northern summer resorts.
Nearly all of the Wisconsin points of
interest are within a_ short distance
from Chicago or Milwaukee, and none
of them are so far away from the ‘‘ busy
marts of civilization’’ that they cannot
be reached in a few hours of travel, by
frequent trains, over the finest road in
the Northwest—the _—— Milwaukee
& St. Paul Railway. A description of
the principal resorts, with list of sum-
mer hotels and boarding houses, and
rates for board, will be sent free on ap-
plication to Harry Mercer, Michigan
Passenger Agent, 7 Fort street, West,
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Bicycles _

BICYCLES AS TRUNKS.
Written for the TRADESMAN.

Gradually the bicycle is assuming a-
defined position and obtaining recogni
tion on account of its utility and the
prospect of universality in its use.
There are still many who criticise it
and claim that it is an intruder upon
the rights of pedestrians and that it
should be subjected to this, that and the
other annoying regulation, so that there
is a constant contest going on, in which
the victories for the wheel are more and
more frequent as the number in use
increases.

Perhaps the most bitter fight is that
with the railroads. At the first these
seemed inclined to show indulgence,
but there was something so peculiarly
unmanageable about the wheel, espe-
cially in the hands of the baggagemen
inexperienced in handling articles with
such a tendency to “‘go’’ in them, thata
decided prejudice early became mani-
fest, and in a short time the majority of
the roads refused to handle them as bag-
gage. The fight was long and bitter,
until the railroad men, as a class, came
to hate the wheel with a bitter hatred ;
and they have been active in striving
for its restriction in the city streets.
Thus the Vice-President of one of the
great railway
recently, objects to their use on princi-
pal streets and would not allow riders to
pass street corners without dismounting.
This is undoubtedly a manifestation of
the antagonism engendered by his _ con-
sideration of the transportation question.

But the increasing power of the wheel
through multitude is rapidly bringing
the railroads to time. State legislatures
have taken up the question. The New
York Assembly passed a law, not long
before its adjournment, requiring the
railroads of the State to carry wheels as
baggage. Ina recent speech Chauncey
Depew observes that the Legislature de
cided that, ‘‘instead of a vehicle, the
wheel is a trunk.’’ At first the railways
proposed to test the constitutionality of
such legislation, but after considering
the growing power of the wheel and the
universal antagonism they were likely
to encounter—an antagonism which
might manifest itself in unfavorable
legislation on other railway questions—
they seem to have decided to surrender.
Thus the Pennsylvania management-has
issued orders that the wheel shall be
transported as baggage over its entire
system. This surrender is likely to in-
volve the concurrence of all other roads
eventually, although the Western lines
manifest an inclination to continue the
fight.

NATE.
20 --
_News and Gossip of Interest to Dealer
and Rider.

A good deal of nonsense is talked and
some printed about the danger of slip-
ping on wet asphalt pavements. Anas-
phalt pavement that is simply wet is not
specially dangerous if one rides care-
fully and in a straight line, or as nearly
straight as possible. A sudden curve or
swerve is to be avoided most carefully.
It is when the pavement is muddy that
it is really dangerous. Then the rider
must exercise special caution to escape
a tumble and possibly some _ broken
bones. It is well to bear in mind that
the rear wheel of a bicycle may slip two
or three inches without producing se-
rious results, but a slight slip with the
front wheel may lead to a sudden dis-
mount ora fall. In crossing cartracks,

systems, in an interview

 

especially if they are wet or slippery,
it is wise to go at as nearly a right an-
gle as possible, at leasf with the front

wheel.
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One of the things that a man who has
had one or two wheels looks after, when
providing himself with a new mount, is
whether the wheel that he contemplates
purchasing is easy to clean or not.
There is a good deal of difference be-
tween the different makes in this re-
spect. Certain devices on certain styles
of bicycles seem designed to catch dust
and dirt and to make it difficult to get
rid of them. A rider with a new wheel,
it is usually noticeable, is much more
careful in cleaning and polishing it
than he is after it has been ridden a
year. It pays, however, to take good
care of a wheel all the time. A machine
that has been carefully looked after and
kept free from rust and other signs of
use can be sold for a good price or
turned in ata good advantage when a
new purchase is made.

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The most practicable plan of carry-
ing wheels in baggage cars seems to
be to have hooks suspended from the
ceiling of the car on which the bicycles
may be hung, the hooks being covered
with -rubber hose, in order to prevent
injury to the enamel of the machine.
There is one strong objection to this
method of dealing with bicycles on
which lamps are carried, unless they
can be hung up without being turned
upside down. In this position the oil
from the lamps would, of course, run
out and cause trouble. In many lamps
a sort of absorbent cotton is used in the
reservoir, which prevents the oil from
spilling by jarring, or even when the
bicycle is laid down on its side, but if
the lamp were turned bottom up a few
drops of oil at least would be likely to
flow out.

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‘*Have you any footless bicycle stock-
ings?’’ was the question put to a_sales-
man in a store where sporting goods
and garments are sold. The clerk looked
surprised, and there was a decidedly
incredulous smile on his face as he re-
peated the word ‘‘footless’’ and gave a
negative answer. ‘‘I have never had a
call for them before,’’ he said, with
the air of a man who knew it all. Yet
the footless bicycle or golf stocking has
been on the market for several months,
and is a great convenience. Many men
object to heavy woolen stockings in the
warm weather, and have good reason
for doing so. The footless stocking is
drawn over an ordinary sock, and has a
thin band of material to hold it in place
by passing under the hollow of the foot.

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Complaints are heard in reference to
the inaccuracy of cyclometers, not al-
ways with just cause. No doubt there
are some poor cyclometers on the mar-
ket, but the standard makes may be re-
lied on. It sometimes happens that a
rider goes out on his wheel on the road
where the miles are marked off with
posts, and fails to find that his record
agrees with the measurement of the sur-
veyors. He overlooks the fact that the
survey was made in a straight line, and
that it is impossible for him to ride in
a straight line, even if the road is
wholly unobstructed. Every time he
makes a swerve to right or left, or
turns out to pass another rider or a_ ve-
hicle of any kind, he is adcing to his
distance. In a run of five or six miles
it is thus easy to add a half-mile or
more, which, if inexperienced, the
rider may lay to the inaccuracy of the

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cyclometer. A cyclometer attached to
the rear wheel of a bicycle would meas-
ure the distance covered more accuarte-
ly than one on the front wheel, since
the .front wheel travels considerably

farther.

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Wooden handle-bars are having a
considerable vogue just now and

promise to gain rapidly in favor. I[n-
deed, the prediction is ventured that in
a year or two they will displace the
metallic cones as completely as wooden
rims have ousted those of steel. Some
riders have long wanted wooden handle-
bars, but could not buy them. Now
several manufacturers offer them for
sale, although the dealers do not seem

to have a large supply on hand. The
price is $2.50 to $5 apiece. The chief

advantage of them is that they absorb
vibration. Wheelmen often complain of
a numbness of the hands and wrists
after long rides, and even after short
ones over cobblestones. The wood is
springy, and prevents this after effect,
as well as adding to the pleasure during
the ride. ‘Then, too, there is a saving
in weight. A wooden handile-bar was
found to weigh 17% ounces, against
25% ounces for the steel one which it
replaced. This, however, is only a
secondary consideration. There is,
perhaps, little choice in strength be-
tween the two kinds. It is confidently
asserted that any accident which would
break a bar of elm or hickory would do
serious damage to one of hollow steel,
such as is in general use. The new
handle-bars are covered with cork where

they are gr rasped by the hand.
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The Merchant Saw the Joke.

A merchant bought a lot of suits of
clothes for a small amount of money for
the purpose of selling them at cost as
a ‘‘leader’’ or advertisement. The
suits were certainly a great bargain at
the price charged for them—s5. One of
the suits he placed upon a glass-eyed
dummy and stood it in his show win-
dow with an alluring placard about its
neck. Then he prepared for a great
rush of customers.

For several days he waited in vain,
The space before the window was
crowded almost every hour of the day
with people who looked at the suit,
laughed and went away. ‘‘The people
of this town don’t know a good thing
when they see it,’’ said the merchant.

One day a friend of the merchant
stopped to look at the suit. The friend
laughed, went into the store and said
to the merchant :

‘*That’s a great joke you’ve put on
that card, but I can’t see that it brings
much trade.’’

‘*Joke!’” exclaimed the merchant,
‘that’s no joke. That’s as serious a
proposition as I ever made,’’ whereat
the friend laughed more heartily.

‘“Come out here,’’ he said, ‘‘and look
at that sign.’’

Together they went forth. The crowd
stood back and the merchant read his
sign: ‘‘They won’t last long,’’ and
heard some one Say:

‘*T don’t see how a suit of clothes for
$5 could last very long. I suppose now,
that suit of clothes would fall to pieces
in about two weeks. Anyhow, that’s an
honest merchant.’

The merchant read that sign again
and interpreted it as the people had. In
about five minutes another sign took its
place, on which was printed, ‘‘ They are
going fast,’’ and they did.

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The Bicycle Now a Slave to Modern
Commerce.

The bicycle can no longer be termed
a luxury or a means of pleasure only,
for it has now become the slave of mod-
ern commerce. For many years the
wheel has been merely the plaything of
man, but henceforth it will be his slave.
It has already been called into the
service of trade, and the vista of its
possibilities opens out as wide as the
boundless future, and its number may
yet tax the multiplication table.

The past two years has seen the bi-
cycle and tricycle introduced as a_ fac-
tor in numerous lines of business all
over the country, and their success in
this first stage gives promise of a mar-
velous expansion in the future. It
opens up a new era in human _ ingenu-
ity, is another means of encouraging
energy, and _ is, therefore, an addition
to the sum total of man’s happiness.
The beginning of this transformation 1s
so overshadowec by the rapidly chang-
ing scenes of life that the casual ob
server may miss its significance, pos-
sibly the fact itself, but the bicycle is
evidently a new wheel in the machinery
of business that has come to stay.

Always the faithful servant of man, as
was the horse, the wheel has done
splendid work in its new field, and the
past year is a pledge that its capacity,
with the pneumatic tire, is almost un-
limited. Men who have made it a
study to watch its work and count the
cost have been moved to turn prophets
and predict that the time will come
when everybody and everything will be
run on pneumatic tires. They are prac-
tical men, but their prophecies, to the
unknowing and unthinking, may have
the color of the extravagance of dreams.
The thinking men, however, remember
the marvels of the last two decades, and
give the prophet a_ respectful and
friendly bearing.

The bicycle and tricycle carrier have
not been taken into business as a_ tran-
sient whim, or for the sport of the em-
ploye who uses them. The cycle has
proved a time and money saver. In the
work of the telegraph, postoffice and ex-
press, time is one of the biggest ele-
ments, and the cycle robs that enemy
of some of its power. In the work of
mercantile houses, the same as in any
other business, money is an all-impor-
tant consideration. The tricycle and
boy are taking the place of a man, a
boy, a horse and a wagon in the deliv-
ery of goods. The wheel doesn't eat,
as the horse does, while the boy pays
for his own shoeing, so that the cost is
as one to three. The tricycle delivery
is coming into more general use every
day, and, ultimately, the consumer will
receive the benefit of this saving of
horseflesh and human energy.

FRANK STOWELL.
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A prearranged railway collision is to
be one of the features at the opening of
a pleasure resort near Columbus, Ohio.
The Columbus, Hocking Valley and
Toledo Railroad has assigned two
thirty-five-ton locomotives which have
outlived their usefulness for economical
service, and to each of these will be at-
tached three old gondola cars anda
caboose. A _ siding 1,000 feet long has
been laid, connected at each end with
the main track, and the trains will be
started from points about half or three-
quarters of a mile from the middle of
the siding. A trial trip has shown
that a speed of forty-five to fifty miles
per hour may be expected. The en-
gines are to carry 120 pounds of boiler
pressure, and are to have the throttles
wide open. The event is being adver-

tised, and great crowds will in all prob-
ability witness the prearanged smashup.

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Michigan Knights of the Grip.
President, S. E. Symons, Saginaw; Secretary,
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Treasurer, D. Morris, Detroit.

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No haif-hearted knight of the grip
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Success on the road isn’t the result of
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quaintance’s sake. It comes because you
deserve it.

Don’t show importance and _irritabil-
ity if you cannot finish a customer in
time to make an outgoing train; don’t
attempt to force things, for such tactics
never pay. i

The lazy man on the road who lies
abed while the 6 a. m. train is pulling
out from the depot is just half a day be-
hind his competitor, who does not wait
for the 10 o’clock train.

Michigan members of the T. P. A.
hang their heads in shame over the re-
port that Debs is likely to be invited to
address the annual convention of that or-
ganization at Terre Haute on June 2.

Success in business means nothing
more than the use of good, sound com-
mon sense. It is the result of doing
things as they should be done, in the
most expedient and effective manner.

Sometimes a whisper can be heard
farther than a scream. The traveling
salesman who steps about noiselessly
‘gets there’’ equally with him who
heralds his coming with a brass band.

Don’t imagine, now that summer is at
the door, there is no opportunity for
good trade. There is business all the
time and the salesman who comes out
eventually on top is he who continues
the same efforts in June as he does in
December.

The old method of quietly sitting
down in your sample room and awaiting
your customers to come and look through
your line has all played out. You have
to get up and hustle if you want to be
in the lead, or eise you are going to be
left.

Don’t attempt to make a veteran on
the road believe that you are selling
‘‘immense quantities of goods, that you
are making electric light towns only
and that you have a girl at every stop-
ping place.’’ He knows better.

All things being equal, the law of
average allows the man who fishes eight
hours per day more fish than the man
who fishes but two or three hours a day.
The same law holds good as you go
along working your territory ; the longer
you work the more orders you will se-
cure.

Freeport Herald: Valda Johnston and
wife, of Grand Rapids, rode from
Grand Rapids to Freeport on their
wheels last Friday forenoon and returned
in the afternoon. Mr. J. is salesman
for a grocery firm in the Valley City
and travels independent of the railroads
most of the time.

 

Fora firm to compel its force of trav-
elers to economize at every point in the
matter of expense is ‘‘penny wise and
pound foolish.’’ The enterprising firm
is not niggardly in this matter, for it
knows that such a policy impresses the
customer with an idea of cheese-paring
meanness that leaves a very bad im-
pression.

P. Steketee & Sons’ salesman force
has been reinforced. The new man is
a hustler and means business every
time. He may be addressed, for the
present, care W. H. Van Leeuven, 559
South Lafayette street. It might be
added that the newcomer has a chance
to grow; he’s not one of the know-it-all
kind. Weight, 1o pounds.

Be decent in your relations with your
competitor. Don’t sneer when his name
is mentioned in your presence, and don't
make a_ holy show of yourself by abus-
ing him. It isn't so much the question
of the injury you will do him, as the
hurt you will do yourself. Be generous
and open with your competitor; some
day, who knows? you may be in need
of his friendship.

C. S. Kelsey, chairman of the Rail-
way Committee of the Michigan
Knights of the Grip, has been in corres-
pondence with A, J. Smith, General
Passenger Agent of the Lake Shore,
with a view to obtaining better trans-

 

portation facilities for traveling men
between Grand Rapids and Allegan.
As a result of the correspondence, an
order has been issued from the operat- |
ing department, directing that freight |
train No. 551 hereafter stop at Hopkins,
Hi'liards, Dorr and Byron Center on
signal for passengers.

F. E. Bushman, traveling represen-
tative for Ruhe Bros. & Co., of Allen-
town, Pa., has arranged with the Hazel-
tine & Perkins Drug Co. to {turn his
trade over to that house and travel for |
the company, the engagement to date |
from June 1. Mr. Bushman expects to |
call on his customers every sixty days, |
and, in order to be in constant touch |
with the business— it will be maintained
as a distinctive department by the Drug |

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company—he will remove his family |
from Kalamazoo to Grand Rapids, tak-
ing up his residence in the southern |
part of the city. Mr. Bushman is a}
salesman of judgment and experience |
and will, undoubtedly, achieve as large |
a measure of success in his new con-
nection as he did in his former relations |
with Ruhe Bros. & Co.

Annual Convention of the U. C. T. of
Michigan.

Saginaw, May 16—The annual con-

vention of the United Commercial

Travelers of Michigan was held here |

yesterday, the entertainment features
heing under the auspices of Saginaw
Council, No. 43.

The reports of grand officers and com-
mittee was most gratifying, the mem-
bership having largely increased dur-
ing the year. The following officers
were elected :

 

Grand Chancelor—H. U. Marks,
Detroit.

Grand Junior Chancelor—F. L. Day, |
Jackson. |

Grand Secretary—Edwin Hudson, |
Flint.

Grand Treasurer—George A. Rey-
nolds, Saginaw.

Grand Conductor—Dell C. Slaight,
Flint.
Grand Page—James J. Evans, Bay

City.

Grand Sentinel—John A. Murray, De-
troit.

Executive Committee—M. J.
Jackson; Herman Vassold,
Samuel Rindskoff, Detroit; Frank C.
Tentt, Bay City.

Moore,
Saginaw ; |

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Frank R. Streat, Flint; John A.
ray, Detroit; A. G.
George A. Reynolds, Saginaw.

Bay City was chosen as the next place

of meeting.
In the evening a reception was ten-

dered the visitors at the Hotel Vincent, |

followed by a banquet. At the conclusion

of the menu, Mayor Baum made a very |

happy address of welcome and Grand

Treasurer George A. Reynolds, of the |
i T. of America, responded to the |
Mayor in well-chosen language and_ in- |
whose |
brief but witty remarks brought forth |

uC.
troduced Dr. ©. P. Barber,

peals of laughter. Grand Councilor F.

R. Streat responded to the toast **Sub- |
ordinate Councils of Michigan.’’ He}

reviewed the history of the order and
eulogized its rapid growth. Samuel
Riudskoff spoke of ‘‘ The Commercial
Traveler, his present and future relation
to the commonwealth,’’ -which was
pictured vividly and contained a _num-
ber of practical ideas. J. J. Evans
made some quaint remarks on ‘‘Soft
soap and other soaps,’’ and John P.
Hemmeter sang two selections, receiv-
ing vigorous applause. ‘‘Saginaw Val-
ley, present and future’’ was responded
to by Samuel E. Symons. He eulogized
the many advantages of the city and
its resources, giving the number of its
industries and many practical facts,
concluding by urging that oppor-
tunities be improved and _— saying
that prosperity awaits its citizens
‘Gut’ Rate  Druggists |
sponded to by M. S. Brown, and
the evening’s entertainment was con-
cluded by Hon. C. L. Benjamin, who
was in his happiest mood, and respond-
ed in
toast, ‘‘ The Ladies.’’

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J. Ed. Blackall, who has rep-esented
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some time. He has had long experience

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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-

Representatives to Supreme Council—| tention.

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Drugs--Chemicals

STATE BOARD OF PHARMACY.

C. A. BuGBEE, Charlevoix
Two Years—_ - - S. E. PARKILL, Owosso
Three Years— - F. W. R. Perry, Detroit
Four Years— A. C. ScHUMACHER, Ann Arbor
Five Years— - - Gro. GunDRuM, Ionia
President, C. A. BuGBEE, Charlevoix.
Secretary, F. W. R. Perry, Detroit.
Treasurer, GEO. GUNDRUM, Ionia.
Coming Meetings—Detroit (Star Island), June 23.
~ Lansing, November 3.

MICHIGAN STATE PHARMACEUTICAL
ASSOCIATION.

President, Gro. J. Warp, St. Clair.

rs 4 _ 4S. P. Wairmarsa, Palmyra;
Vice-Presidents }@ ©. Pumps, Armada.
Secretary, B. ScHRoUDER, Grand Rapids.
Treasurer, WM. Dupont, Detroit.

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

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The Drug Market.

Acetanilid—Prices continue the same
and demaiid inactive.

Acids—Carbolic and are in
good demand and prices firm. Advanc-
ing prices for crude materials have
strengthened tartaric.

Alcohol—Unchanged. Wood continues
strong.

Arsenic—Increase in competition is
resulting in depressed prices.

Balsams—Copaiba in good demand
with strengthening prices. Tolu, Peru
and Canada fir dull, prices nominally
the same.

Beans—-Mexican
mand, especially from jobbers.

Cacao Butter—Dull. Prices the same.

Cascara Sagrada—Prices firm with
active jobbing demand.

Cassia Buds—Strong, as
limited.

Cinchonidia — Quotations unchanged
and supply in small lots only.

Cocaine Muriate—Dull. Prices un-
changed.

Cod Liver Oil—-The opinion seems to
obtain that the decline has about
reached its limit.

Cream Tartar—Quotations remain the
same with fair demand.

Cubeb Berries—Prices
with small demand.

Essential Oils—Foreign demand has
improved the situation except that there
is further decline in citronella.

Flowers—Unchanged. German cham-
omile continues scarce and will remain

oxalic

vanilla in fair de-

supply is

unchanged,

so until new crop the last of June.

Glycerine—Fair demand. Prices un-
changed.

Gums— Domestic refined camphor is
Japanese business Is
conflicting | re-
Aloes in
Chicte

in smal] demand.
better notwithstanding
ports as to foreign markets.
good demand for consumption.
dull and unchanged.

Leaves—Short buchu dull. Prices un-
changed. Senna strong at the im-
proved prices. The cholera scare in
Cairo has its influence.

Lycopodium -—— Demand good, espe-
cially for future delivery. Moscow and
Hamburg report stocks nearly exhausted.

Manna-—Situation unchanged. De-
mand only for small lots.

Menthol—Weak and
prices still declining.

Morphine—Prices remain
but the demand is better.

Opium—Foreign quotations
the same, but there is a .better feeling
in the domestic demand, although con-
sumption is not active.

Quicksilver—Prices unchanged with
quiet demand.

Quinine—Trade fair and prices firm.

Roots—Ipecac, demand continues un-
usually good for the season. Jamaica
ginger, foreign demand is creating a

irregular with
unchanged

remain

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

| scarcity, though prices are still un-
changed. Senegal, golden seal and ser-
pentaria, quiet and unchanged. Ga-
langal is slightly advanced on account
of scarcity. Gentian continues firm at
better prices.

Seeds—Canary dull, trade light.
Dutch caraway, prices have declined on
account of the condition of foreign mar-
kets. Celery, new crop, is lower. Rus-
sian hemp firm. Mustard, without
change and dull. Coriander, in fair de-
mand, but prices tending to decline.
German quince is scarce and prices
strengthening.

Sponges—The tone of the market is
firm on account of small stocks, but de-
mand is light for consumption.

Sugar of Milk— Unchanged. Business

moderate.

Druggists and Liquor-Selling.

It is seriously proposed in Chicago to
tax the druggists $250 per annum fora
license to sell liquors, on the ground
that liquors are actually sold by the
drink in many of the drug stores. The
daily papers argue that there Is no rea-
son why druggists and grocers should
not pay a liquor license tax so long as
the liquor dealers are obliged to pay it.

It is undoubtedly true that many
druggists in all large cities and in many
small towns do sell liquor by the drink ;
but that is no reason for imposing the
expense and disgrace of a liquor license
upon the whole trade. It would seem
to be an insult to the pharmaceutical
profession to class its members with
saloon-keepers and whisky-back-room
grocers.

Why would it not be best for all self-
respecting pharmacists, under existing
circumstances, to absolutely refuse to
sell or dispense any whisky, brandy,
gin, or wine, even upon the prescription
of a physician? These stimulants can
be obtained of as good quality from
wine merchants as from the drug stores,
and the total value of all the wines and
liquors legitimately sold by any phar-
macist can never amount to enough to
require the least consideration financial-
ly. If the medical profession and the
public have so little appreciation of the
guarantee of purity which goes with the
wines and spirituous liquors dispensed
by pharmacists, as to classify the drug
store per se with the saloon, the pharma-
cist should refuse to sell wines’ or
liquors for any purpose whatever. If
honest men are to be fined for furnish-
ing pure wines and liquors for medic-
inal uses, they can scarcely be blamed
for dropping the hot end of the poker.

Se
The Untruthfulness of Morphinoman-
iacs.
From Medical Press and Circular.

The mental and moral destruction
which occurs in a victim to the mor-
phine habit is a fact which unfortunate-
ly has been only too frequently demon-
strated. This point has led to some
discussion respecting the expediency of
rejecting the testimony in a court of
law of those who are known to be ad-
dicted to the use of morphine. One
authority has even gone so far as to Say,
‘‘I would not believe a man who is a
victim of the morphine habit on oath.’’
No doubt the moral obliquity as to
truthfulness present in such a person
would be perfectly uncontrollable, un-
der any circumstances, and unrestrained
even although he had sworn to tell the
truth. But before coming to any definite
decision upon the question of receiving
or rejecting the evidence of such a wit-
ness, it would first of all be only expe-
dient to determine what constitutes a
person whose mental and moral capac-
ities have been tainted by the use of
morphine.

 

The House Committee on Interstate
and Foreign Commerce has reported
favorably on the Mahon Nicaragua
Canal bill providing that the capital
stock shall be $100,000,000, of which
the United States Government is to
subscribe $70,000,000, in return for the
guarantee of the bonds to be issued by

the company.
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The Dodge Club cigar is sold by F.
E. Bushman, Kalamazoo.

 

Celery Booms the Gum
Trade.

The addition of Famous Kalamazoo Celery to
Chewing Gum has given this popular article an
added boom in public favor. J. F. Farnam, of
Kalamazoo, Mich., the most extensive grower
and shipper of Celery in the world, hus combined
the pure essence of celery with pepsin and pro-
duced a chewing gum that corrects and aids di-
gestion and has a pronounced beneficial effect
upon the nerves. It has all the elastic properties
and flavors that go to make chewing gum the
next thing to a confection and the,addition of
Celery and Pepsin gives it actual value and med-
icinal effect. Celery is one of the most potent
nerve remedies in existence and its constant use
co ‘pled with pepsin in chewing gum must be
productive of great benefit to the entire system
For this reason it has been highly recommended
for nervous disorders and stomach trouble Gum
chewing has been the target for every funny
writer in the land, but until something else can
he substituted that will give as much actual
benefit as Farnam’s C: lery and Pepsin Gum there
is no doubt but what the majority of people will
continue to chew and thereby have stronger
stomachs and better nerves. Dealers generally
have taken hold of this new gum because they
can readily see wherein it must inevitably be-
come the first in popular favor. The trade is
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q Cubewe........ po.18 13@ 15 a 1 5@ 1 90) pigitalis ....... .... 50 —
: Juniperus.......---- @ 8S). Seca we oY) Breet. 50 : Oe
Xanthoxylum.. .... 2@ 30 Essai veteceeee an 1 = Ferri Chloridum.... 35
Balsamum oe . 1S — | Gentian 50
: e Potassium Gentian Co 60
eee 45@ 50 " teas S
— Pes Sse. ee ee 50
s Terabin, Ganada.... 40@ 45 — ea 13@ 15 sierra ata =
Totatan. 00. l.... | 30 ee eatin aatss — <2... UU =e
Carb.. a 12@, 15 | lodine............... 75
Cortex Chlora po. 17@19¢ ‘oc | lodine, colorless... 75
Abies, Canadian.... ee ee ee ee 50
Cae. Sime... Sao a 4
Cinchona Flava..... 18 | Potassa, Bitart,pure 30@ 33 a os 50
Euonymus atropurp 30 | Potassa, Bitart, com @ Bi. ‘ 50
Myrica Cerifera, po. 20 | Potass Nitras, opt... 8s@ 10 ar be
Prunus Virgini...... 12| Potass Nitras........ 7@  9| Giil. camphorated 50
| Quillaia, gr’d....... 10| Prussiate....... .... 25@ 28 cm oe a ' =
Sassafras........---- 2| Sulphate po .. ..... im 62... : :
Ulmus...po. 15, gr’d 15 R Khatany. ........... 50
¢ ’ adix Rei... 50
; Extractum | Seonitvm 00000 00.. 20@ 25|Sanguinaria. ...... 50
; Glycyrrhiza Glabra. -4@ 2% POU 2@ | Serpentaria......... )
4 Glycyrrhiza, po..... SG, 3) Anchusa: ||. 12@ 15) Stromonium... .... Oo] | .
4 Hematox,15lbbox. W@ 12} Arum po............. * | Tolutan........ . 60
Heematox, Is ....---. 13@ 14/Calamus............ 20@ 40) Valerian ............ 50
Hematox, 4S..----- 14@ ~=«15| Gentiana...... 90 15) «12@~=C« | Veratrum Veride... 50
: : I aque
‘ Hematox, 148...--- 16@ 17|Glychrrhiza...pv.15 16@ 18} Zimgiber............. 20
: Ferru ie nes Canaden . @ fliscellaneous
’ il . ydrastis Can., po.. @ 2) Bther Sots. NiLSP : 35
Carbonate Precip... Sl gabe ites. Ge | mie Gee Bd ; oe = a
Citrate and Quinia.. 251 mnuls x@ <0) Ather, Spts. tar Sm «(Cc
3 Citrate Soluble go | inula, po... ..-..-. Io@ | Alumen....... |... 24@ 3
3 en cr es) nae = 1 = I . Alumen, gro’d..po.7 3@ 4
anidt s plox....po35@38 35@ Bonatio 0 i:
% a 13 | Jalapa, proc. WG al eG Importers and Jobbers of
, J... ] 2 gs. a i i ass’ 3d j
Sulphate, com’l, by Jen ae eo Ce
bbl, per cwt....... 35| Rhein ri 15@ 18) Antipyrin.......... @i4
i Sulphate pure ..... 7 thei .:.............. T5@ 1 00 Antvebrin ......... ag f
i > aa tei " ol @ = Argenti Nitras, oz .. @ 3
' Rhei, pv........ -. (@@ 1s) Arsenmicum ........ 1a
i Wawies 12@ 14 Spigelia. seteeeseeee, 35@ 38) BalmGilead Bud ..  3@
4 Anthemis........-.. 1s@ 2% Sanguina ria... po. 15 @ D| Bismuth SN. ..... § We I
i Matricaria .........-. 1s@ 25) Serpentaria......... 30@ 35 | Calcium Chlor., Is.. @
Folia Senega.............. 55@ 60) Calcium Chlor., Ys. @
i jis oe H @ 40 Calcium Chlor., 4s. @
_ ... Barosma.........--..- 5s ws ae , wc: arides, Rus
i Cassia Acutifol, Tin Sea po.35 104 re ace wae - @ : :
\ nevelly...... ----- 18@ 25| Symplocarpus, Feeti- Capsici Fructus, po. a
Cassia Acutifol,Alx. 25@ 30/_ dus, po @ Bic meaicl weet ae @
l, : 2G ¢ Gus, pO.........--. Gm apsic sb,p @
Salvia officinalis, 4s Valeriana,Eng. po .30 @ w Casein oo ts 10@ 2
; and %48...... -.... 12@ 2 Valeriana, German. 15@ 20)| Carmine, No. 40..... @ 3% : : , inl
en Orsi... .- s@ 10 — oe Pe 16} Cera Alba, S.& F .. 50@ = 55 fi emicals a ( Pale { AUTH BS
i Gummi Zingiber j. ......... 2a 2 | Cera Biaya........_. 40@ 42
= = Coceas ..-...... @
Acacia, Ist picked... @ 65 Semen ae =
1 : a Z _ | Cassia Fructus... .- @
eae 66 lRlaemGecca up wigs «6S Se Dealers in
Acacia, sifted sorts. @ 2 Bird, Is _ 4@, 6 Shia wearn is . @ eS
ee cas eS en 1 ee sa
i Aloe, Cape .... po. 15 @ 12| Coriandram....._.._ s@ 10 a — Hy dcrst.... 1 — , 4 e bs
> Aloe. Socotri..po. 40 _@ 30| Cannabis Sativa... 34@ 4 Ciachandean we oe
i Ammoniac.......... 55@ 60) Cydonium........... 75@ 1 00 peat a — Mg 5@
Assafeetida....po.20 22@ 25| Chenopodium ...... 100@ 12 Cocaine cone ssa 5 9
; Benzoinum ......... 50@ 55| Dipterix Odorate... 2 90@ 3 00] Gorks. list. dis.prct. va
3 Cateehu, is.........- @ 13) Eeeniculum......... lo eee — @ : e
i Catechu, | aa @ 14 Foonugreek, oo ae Se a a an arnisS eS
atechu, 14S......... G Lo SU) 4 eee a ra al SG
ae me eh, eek Se 4 | eee’ eee =
Euphorbium..po. 35 @ i0)| Lobelia... .._._- 35@ 401 Greta’ a @
— ee @ 1 = —— Canarian. 34@ 4 Ge ee 500
amboge po........ 6o@, Ui Rapa... 44@ 5/0 ae ‘
Gusiacum ce re = @ > aaewis Alpe 7@. 8 peep ae tee. 5 : TTT
ino. cease po. $3. @ 3 00 mapis Nigra....... ne F&F Hexiane i 10@
aa Soe a = = Spiritus Ether Sulph......... 1a. : sit :
Opii “po. 8.20003 10 2 254 2 39 | Frumenti, W. D. Co. 2 00@ 2 50 Emery, all numbers @ oy Hine of staple ina seesiees
.. - PO, $3.20@3. 5@ 2 30 | prumenti, D.F.R.. 2 0@ 2 25| Emery,po..... ..... | @ We are sole proprietors of Weath-
Sbellae...........-.. 4@ oO : | ei 40 ’ — )
Shellac, bleached... 40@ 45 a a 25@ 1 50! miske oo = s i erly’s Michigan Catarrh Remedy.
Tragacanth ......... 50@ 80 Sonieeds lees a“... = 4 We have in stock and offer a full line
a Herba Saacharum N. E.... 1 90@ 2 10 | Gambier............. 8@ of Whiskies, Brandies, Gins, Wines,
——— = pkg = - Vini Galli...... 1 75@, 6 50 a “ 300 and Rums.
upatorium .oz. pkg 20 | Vini Oporto......... 1 25g 2 00) Sera aac : 2dici
Lobelia...... oz. pkg 95) Vink Alba. 2.011)... 1 2x@ 2 09 | Glassware, flint, box 60, 10& We sell Liquors for medicinal pur-
Majorum ....0z. pkg 28 Sponges | ee box.... °@ poses only.
Mentha Pip..oz. pk 23 Glue, brown........ ¢ x Je gi : i
Mentha Vir..oz. DKE 95 | Floridasheeps’ wool | Glue! WHIEG 100... L@ x = SS
— — 23 | carriage........--: sua2ciahoum. mail orders and guarantee satisfaction.
TanacetumV oz. pkg 92 | Nassau sheeps wool at = Paradisi .... = All orders shipped and invoiced the
Thymus, V..0z. pk oe) Cammiage sa. @ 2 ot) 2@ » day i ;
y ; n F 6 Velvet extra sheeps’ Hydraag Chlor Mite @ — _ ae a oes
agnesia. wool, carriage. .... @ 1 10| Hydraag Chlor Cor. @ trial order.
Caleined, Pat..... .. 55@ 60] Extra yellow sheeps’ Hydraag Ox Rub’m. @
art gee _ 22 wool. carriage.... @ 8) | Hydraag Ammoniati @
‘arbonate, K.& M.. 20@ 25 | Grass sheeps’ wool, HydraagUngueutum 45@ 55 . : th
Carbonate, Jennings 35@ 36] carriage........... @ 6 aed reyrurm._..... @ 6
“ : Oleum Hard, for slate use.. @ 7%j\Ichthyobolla, Am... 1 25@ 15
‘ Absinthium 3 25@ 3 50 eae aie a. Resubi...... 3 seb 3
Absinthium........ 3 2@ 35 f BSE. ......... @, $ odine, Resubi...... ‘ @3°9
, Amygdale, Dulc.... 30@ 50 | Jeodoferm............ @ 4
Amygdale, Amare . 8 00@ 8 25 Syrups | epee @ 2° °
—— ge 2 = : ] os aaa : @ 50} Lycopodium........ 60@
<..... 2a! Auranti Cortes...... aS i eece............ 65@
; Bergamii............ 3 00@ 3 20 | Zingiber...... @® 35 i sen et Hy-
| eae fe 8 ee Ce GRAND RAPIDS.
Caryophylli......... 55@ 60] Ferrilod............ @ 50| LiquorPotassArsinit 10@
peau  hegeare 3a ‘ 65 Rhei Arom.......... _@ 50 | Magnesia, Sulph.... 2@
& a ee ; @ 2 = Smilax Officinalis... 50@ 60 | Magnesia, Sulph,bbl @
ss OS 2 4 eo —- ea oc @ 50| Mannia,S.F........ O@ 6
Dice a sles ‘ i eee ae @ 50} Menthol... ...... @ 5 50

 

 

 

 

24

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

GROCERY PRICE CURRENT.

The prices quote
They are pre
possible to give quotations sul
erage prices for average conditions of purchase.

dealers.

those who have poor credit.
our aim to make this feature of the greatest possible use to dealers.

d in this list are ‘for the trade only, in such quantities as are usually purchased by retail
pared just before going to press and are an accurate index of the local market. It is im-
table for all conditions of purchase, and those below are given as representing av-
Cash buyers or those of strong credit usually buy closer than
Subscribers are earnestly requested to point out any errors or omissions, as it is

 

 

AXLE GREASE.

doz. gross
Raere ee 00
accor Oll............- 60 00
8 kf 50
Frazer’s .. iD

IXL Golden, tin boxes 75

MMO WO VUi+tH
S

mea. 0 00
Poracon... ....._. ___op 00
BAKING POWDER.
Absolute.

i“ ib ecamsdez...... .----- 45
i ipcansdoz...........-. Se
. Pieecdec.....-.... .. 1 50

Acme. U
af Ib Cansadoz.........-.- 45
cc ip cankodgen._......_.. vb)
' heansidos........... 1 &
ac. 10
JaXon
i Ibeans4dozease..... ©
% lb cans 4 doz case..... 85
lb eans 2 doz case...... 1 60
Home.
14 1b cans 4 doz case...... ao
% Ib cans 4 doz case....-- 5D
4 ©ib cans 2 doz case....- 90
Lynch. :
ices.
cams... ae
Bae 1 20
Our Leader. I
ores
ieeans. |
[ memes... __.__.. «a oe
BATH BRICK. ll
pace -...._......... 0
Peete ee
BLUING.

 

1 doz. Counter Boxes... 40
12 doz. Cases, per gro...... 4 30
BROOSIS.

No tCarpe.  ..  . ca
Mo. 2 Caroet........ 2
No. 3 Carpet 1%
No. 4 Carpet 1 60
Parlor Gem : 2 30
Coamnon Whitk........__.. 85
Pancy Witek.. ............ 2
Warcnouse. ..............200
CANDLES.

Hotel 40 1b boxes........ .....10
fear so ip ORKER.. _...-....... 9
Peranmo... .... ko

CANNED GOODS.
Manitowoc Peas.
Lakeside Marrowfat...... 1 00

 

ieee J...

Lakeside, Cham. of Eng.... 1 40

Lakeside, Gem, Ex. Sifted. 1 65
CATSUP.

Columbia, pints..........4 2%
Columbia, % pints..........2 50
CHEESE.
ae... @ 9%

ee a 9
a 8
@ 9
ee @ 9%}
Gola Medal.......
a. ..........- @ 10
ae @1 00
an. @ 2
Dimspureer. ........ @ 6
Pamceppec........_.... @ 2%
ee @ 18
Chicory.
Bulk ee eee 5
Red ee 7
CHOCOLATE.

Walter Baker & Co.’s.
Prormnes ert ee
Oe
pecekrast Cocms..............22

CLOTHES LINES.
Cotton, 40 ft, per doz.. 1 00}
Cotton, 50 ft, per doz. to
Cotton, 60 ft, per doz 1 40
OCottion, 70 ft, per doz.......1 6
Cotton, 0) ft, per doz.......1 80
Jute, @ ft, per doz.. ' 80
Jue, fo Tt, per doz....... 95

CLOTHES PINS.

Soe bone...

COCOA SHELLS.
i 2% |
bees Guantity............ 3 |
Pound packages........ 4

CREASI TARTAR.
Strictly Pure, wooden boxes. 35

Strictly Pure, tin boxes...... 37
oo ol. ee

|
}
}

COFFEE.
Green.
Rio.
Fair So
i... .......
Prime
SCocen
Peabermy =...
Santos.
Mis
Geen
Pees ee
cee 23
Mexican and Guatamala.
ae lee
coon.
as «|| lr 24
Maracaibo.
eae le 23
Oe
Java.
mucwsor...._.._......_.. ae
Private Growth. ..............2e
Mandenine ................ 2
Mocha.
aon... 2
Arapen
Roasted.

brands.
Gail Borden Eagle......

 

Quaker Mocha and Java.....¢
Toko Mocha and Java...

State House Blend.....
Package.

Aeoacki...tCs«Citéis

—— 7...

19
19

5
95

LION COFFEE
tie {1 PACKAGES. WITHOUT GLAZING

3 Fou. Ounces Nev.

less 2c per lb.

Gases 100 “| cquality Price

60°

Casinets 120 Ibs. Same Price,

QOf Extra For Capinets.
iniLeugntin’s XXXX.....

KOFFA-AID.

 

9

9°

Baer tmcCase... 5 2
Extract.

Valley City % gross ..... %

Peltz 4% gross... 1 15

Hummel’s foil % gross... 85

Hummel’s tin % gross... 1 43

CONDENSED MILK.

4 doz. in case.

   
  

Re pen DENBED aye

=. X.

—..........

may.
‘Chempion ........
Magnolia

 

Condensed Milk Co.’s

Peerless evaporated cream.5 75

 

 

COUPON BOOKS.

   

‘‘Tradesman.”’
S 1 books, per 100.......... 2 00
$ 2 books, per 100.......... 2 50
% 3 books, per 100......__.- 3 00
* > books, per 100... _.. 3 00
20 Decks, per 100.........- 4 00
$20 books, per 100.......... 5 00
**Superior.’’
® 1 books, per 100.......... 2 50
S 2 books, per 100.......__. 3 00
® 2 books per 100.......... 3 50
S 5 bboks, per 100.......__- 4 00
$10 books, per 100.......... 5 00
$20 books, per 100......._.- 6 00

 

‘‘Universal.’’
S 1 books, per 100....._.... 3 00
% 2 books, per 100.......... 3 50
% 3 books, per 100......._.- 4 00
% 5 books, per 100.......... 5 09
#10 books, per 100...... 6 00

$20 books. per 100...... (ge

Above prices on coupon books
are subject to the following
quant’ ty 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.

Spoens, ..... .. - 1 00
PeBOGke 02) 00... ee

—Wobooks....._........ ... _ Se

eeeoes.................. 6 2

ee a 10 00
ino beoks...... -...... 17 50

Credit Checks.

500, any one denom’n..... 3 00
1000, any one denom’n..... 5 00
2000, any one denom’n..... 8 00
Steel puneh. ..............

DRIED FRUITS—DONESTIC

Apples.
Sonaried................ @ 3%
Evaporated 50 1b boxes. @ 6%

California Fruits.

Agrees... .-.-.. -.... 9 @li
aemkaermes.............
Nectarmes.............- 34@
Peaenes....._.......... > at
Pears... _............. Bae
Pitted Cherries..........
Pranmeres.. ......-....-

Raspberries... ....-
California Prunes.
100-120 25 lb boxes..... @ 44
90-100 25 Ib boxes....... @ 43%
80 - 90 25 1b boxes..... @
70 -80 25 Ib boxes. . .- @
60-70 25 ib boxes.. .... @
50-6025 Ib boxes....... @
@
@

4
49 -50 25 Ib boxes... . .. 714
30 - 40 25 1b boxes...... 734

¥g cent less in bags
Raisins.

London Layers........1 00@1 25
Loose Muscatels 2 Crown 3%

: 40 | Loose Muscateis 3Crown = 4
--6

Loose Museatels 4 Crown 5

FOREIGN.
j Currants.
| Patras bis... a
| Vostizzas 50 lb cases......@

Schuit’s Cleaned 25 lb bxs@

Schuit’s Cleaned 50 lb bxs@ &

Schuit’s Cleaned 1 1b pkg@
Peel.

IND ee
x

| Citron Leghorn 25 lb bx @I13

Lemon Leghorn 25 lb bx @ll1

 
 

Orange Leghorn 25 lb bx @12
Raisins.
Ondura 29 lb boxes......74%4@8
Sultana 20 lb boxes......7 @
Valencia 30 ]b boxes.... @
EGG PRESERVER.

Knox's, small sizve........... 4 80
Knox's, large size....-.....- 9 00

Biscuitine.
3 doz. in case, per doz..... 1 00
Farina.
Sale Zs
Grits.
Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s.......2 00
Hominy.
EE 3%

Fiake, 50 Ib. drums.......1 50
Lima Beans.
—s..lhltrtCSCSsCsC‘C‘(‘;’’SCWCNSC CSS
Maccaroni and Vermicelli.
Domestic, 10 Ib. box...... @

 

 

Imported, 25 Ib. box......2 50
Pearl Barley.
Beepire 60. ee
Cmemer 28 14%@2
Peas.

ee 90
Split, PEriD............... 2%
Rolled Oats.
Rolled Avena, bbl.......3 00
Rolled Avena, %bbl....... 1 ©
Moearen, Oo. ........-.- .2 85
Monarch. 4% bbl. _...._.-- 1 55
Private brands, bbl..... 2 6
Private brands, %bbl..... 1 45
Quaker, Cases............ 3 20
Oven Baled..............3 2
bakesge ........... ... 2m
Sago.

Se Ss 4
Past fe: 3%
Wheat.

Cracked. bulk... |... 3
242 1b packages........... 2 40
A Ta aa ater sm
Fish.
Cod.
Georges cured......... @ 4%
Georges genuine...... @ 6
Georges selected...... @ 6%
Strips or bricks.......6 @
Halibut.
—as .. 13
Straps. 2 10

Herring.
Holland white hoops keg. 55
Holland white hoops bbl. 6 50
Morweciam... ...-......:

  

 

Round 100 Ibs............. 230
Rouna 4 ibs............. 1 10
oe a 10
Mackerel.
Bo 1 eeis.......... . 13 00
No.1 ®Ibs...- -.-. oo
Not Mie... 145
Mo: 29 tbe. -.. nN =
No.2 ive. .:...... 5 00
No.2 ibs... ...-..-. iz
Family 90 lbs...... _.-
Marily 10 tbs. .........
Sardines.
Russion kegs. _...........- 55
Stockfish.

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

No. 1100 Ibs... -. 5 50
No.1 ibs. ............. 2 50
No.1 6m... .......-..._ 70
No.1 pe... 59
Whitefish.

No.1 No.2 Fam

ibs. ....... 77 68 2-9
Sits........307 30) toa
i ie........ 88 83 3
c—....... v1 33

FLAVORING EXTRACTS.

Jennings’.

D.C. Vanilla
[os..._. 12
30z,.....1 50
foz.. ..200
6oz..... 3 00
No. 8...4 00
No. 10...6 00
No. 291 2
No. 37.2 ©
No. 4T.2 40
D. C. Lemon

  

 

Ri2oz.... %
i} 3. 02...... 1 00
4 140z.. ...1 40
BOz...,.. 2 00
No. 8...2 40
| No. 10...4 00
iNo. 27. 80
No. 37.1 35

 

 

 

 

HiNo. 47.1 50

FARINACEOUS GOODS. |

 

 

Souders’.
Oval bottle, with corkscrew.
Best in the world for the
money.

Regular
Grade

Regular
Vanilla.
——o | Hil doz
m 208...... 1 20
OF... 5. 2 40

XX Grade
Lemon.

Sit] 20z...... 150
it 4o0z. ....3 0

XX Grade
Vanilla.

= S2Oz...... 1 75
i 4oz......350
FLY PAPER.
Tanglefoot.
“Regular’’ Size.
Less than one case, per box’ 22
One to five cases, per case.. 2 75
Five to ten cases, percase. 2 65
Ten cases, per case........ 2 55
“Little”? Tanglefoot.
Less than one case, per box 13
One to ten cases. per Case.. 1 45
Ten Cases, per case........ 1 40
FURNITURE
Cleaner and Polish.

Henderson’s ‘‘Diamond.’’

 

 

 
 

Eiagit Pane...) - 2 1 75
Prac ee 3 50
oun... ae
Half Gallon......... Roce
os. ........ 14 40
GELATINE.

Knox's Sparkiing............ 1 10
Knox’s acidulated...........1 20
GUNPOWDER.
Rifle—Dupont’s.
ee 3 00
a oe... 13
Quarter Kegs...... _...-.1 60
[come ¢
ib Gams... 18
Choke Bore—Dupont’s.
Kees
Holt Mees... 2 25
(Quarter Kees...) 1S
a _- oe
Eagle Duck—Dupont’s.
eS 8 00
Halt Hers... 4 2
Quarter Kees. ....... 2 25
1ipeams.. ee. 45
HERBS.
se 15
Mops 15
INDIGO.

Madras, 5 lb boxes......... 55
S. F., 2,3 and 5 lb boxes.... 50
JELLY.

Ip ib pals.....- 2. 5s... 33
fib palls.... 40
So ib patls.... .... ..:...... 60
LYE.

Condensed, 2 doz ..........1 20
Condensed, 4 doz........... 2
LICORICE.

Calabria ....... ee 25
mciy.
BOOt......- 10

MINCE MEAT.
Reta eo SS

   

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

Diamond Match Co.’s brands.
Ne. 9 sulphur... .-....-. .. 2 &
Anchor Farior.............. 1 70
No.2 Home..............:..1 0
Exoom Farier......../....- 4 00

MOLASSES.
Blackstrap.

Sugar house.......... - 1@12
Cuba Baking.
Ordinary... ......-_.. |. ag
Porto Rico
Prae. 2 20

OO ce

 

 

 

New Orleans.

ee ee. 18
GOOG es. 22
iatrageed. 24
metee 27
Waney ......_. Ss 30

Half-barrels 3c extra.

PICKLES.
Medium.

Barrels, 1,200 count........ 3 60
Half bbls, 600 count........ 2 30
Small.

Barrels, 2,400 count........ 475
Half bbls, 1,200 count...... 2 88
PI o
Clay, Noe. 216... ae
Clay, T. D. full count...... 65
Cob, Ne S..... 1 20
POTASH.

48 cans in case.
Bappigts... ee
Penna Salt Co.’s........... 3 00

RICE.

Domestic.
Caroline head. .....7....... 6%
ae Nef 5
Carolina Ne 2 |...
Brexen oe

Imported.
gapan, Noof 5
Japan. No.2... __. : 44
caves, MO. ee 4%
SAVa, NOS. 44
Pena ee a

SALERATUS.

Packed 60 lbs. in box.
Chureirs ........:) |. ot Soe
Deane s ....... 2 3 15
Dwienes. 8 3 30
MayaAONS.....00...01.. |. Sep

SAL SODA.
Granulated, bbls........ 1 10

Granulated, 100 1b cases. .1 50
ump, bbIs...... ....._._:
Lump, 145lb kegs..........1 10

SEEDS.
Bese 13
Canary, Smyrma.......- |. . 6
Caraway ......... 13. 10
Cardamon, Malabar ..... 80
Hemp, Russian.........- 4
Mixed Bird... ........., 4%
Mustard, white.......... 6%
Peppy ..... 8
eRe ee 4
Cuttle Bone... .... : 20 *

SNUFF.

Scotch, in bladders......... 37

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

French Rappee, in jars..... 43
SYRUPS.

Corn.
Bamein 14
Hale bois... 16

Pure Cane.
far 16
M006 20
CHOIe 25

SPICES.

Whole Sifted.
AgInpIG@e 9%
Cassia, China in mats....... 10
Cassia, Batavia in bund....15
Cassia, Saigon in rolls...... 32
Cloves, Amboyns........... 15
Cloves, Zanzibar... ........ 10
Mace, Batavia... ... ....: 7
Nutmegs, fancy..........__. 65
Nutmers, NO. 1............- 60

Muters, Mo. 2... .. ... Se
Pepper, Singapore, black...10
Pepper, Singapore, white. . .20

 

Pepper, shots. ....-.. .. 16
Pure Ground in Bulk.

mses 10@15
Cassia, Batavia ......... eae it
Cassia. Saigon... .......... 35
Cloves, Amboyna..........- 15
Cloves, Zaneiner............ 10
Ginger, African.......... 15
Ginger, Cochin......... 2

Ginger, Jamaica............ 22
Mace, Batavia.... ..... 60@65
Mustard, Eng. and Trieste. .20
Mustard, Trieste............ 25
es. 40@60

Pepper, Singapore, black9@12
Pepper,Singapore, whitel5d@18

Pepper, Cayenne........ 17@20
SHPO 2 18
‘‘Absolute’’ in (bl. Packages.
Allepice........ Sue ea. 65
Cinnamon... 0... v6)
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Ginger, Coehin............ vb)
Mace 2 10
Meneeee...  : v6
Nutmegs..... 2 10

Pepper, cayenne ......... %
Perper winte ...........
Pepper, black shot........ 60
Saigon. ......... SS 1 50
‘*Absolute ’’Butchers’ Spices.
Wiener and Frankfurter....16
Pork Sausage...... a 16
Bologna and Smoked S8’ge. .16

30 Liver S’ge and H’d Cheese..16

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SALT.
Diamond Crystal.

Cases, 24 3-lb boxes.........1 60
Barrels, 0 31bbags......2 %
Barrels, © 1% ibbags...... 2 50
Butter, 56 lb bags oe. 65
"Butter 20 1141p bags....._.. ..3 00
Matter, 2 (> bbis.......... 2 50
Common Grades.
1003 SHEERS. .... ......... 2 60
60 5-lb sacks... oe
OE a
Worcester.
50 4 Wh. efttoms...........3 25
115 21410. Gaees..... -.....- 4 00
60 5 Ib Sueks.. 3]
S204 Ip Seuss... ....... 3 50
$910 16. sackS............ 3 50
28 Ib. linen sacks 32

 

56 FD. kimen SdeksS............. @

Bulk m barreis............_- 2 50
Warsaw.
56-lb dairy in drill bags..... 30
28-lb dairy in drill bags..... 15
Ashton.
56 1b dairy in iinen sacks... 60
Higgins.
56-lb dairy in linen sacks . 60
Solar Rock.
56-lb sacks.. 2 2S
Common Fine.
Saginaw -.. --. 85
Mametee .......--.  ---s S
SODA
Boses 5%
Kegs, E <= toe. 434
ARCH.
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64 10c packages .......-.

128 5c packages.....
32 10¢ and 64 5e pack: Age S...5
Kingsford’s Corn.

 

20 1-lb packageS............. 6%
40 1 lb packages 64
Kingsford’s Silver Gioss.

40 1-lb packages....... . 64g
Gib bOxcs 2. iC
Common Corn.

Saib bokes......_.- _-.___. 5
4636 boxes... _..--. -- 434
Common Gloss.
1-lb packages ..... 2. 1%
3-lb —— ee 444
6-lb packages ..... 54
40 and 50 lb boxes 2%
Barrels 234

SUMMER ‘BEVERAGES.

Thompson’s
Wild Cherr;
Phosphate
“Hummer
Case” con-
tains 3 doz.
2e 8 oz bot-
tles, % 00.
One Big Bot-
tle Free. 24
oz. 50c size, I
ioz. toa case
400. Special
soda Foun-
tain Extract
per gal. $2 00.
Big Demon-
strator con-
tains 15 doz.
24e size, 1 doz
50c size, 1 jug
and fixtures.
See add.

1OBACCOS.
Cigars.

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H. & P. Drug Co.’
Quintette .........-.-..... 35 00
Clark Grocery Co.’s br and.
New Brick.. .385 00

— Spice Co.’s brand.
Absolute. ........... --.... 35 00

Laundry.

Gowans & Sons’ Brands.
Crow 2
German Family..........-.- 1 8
American Grocer 100s..... 3 00
American Grocer 60s...... 2 40

Mystic White..... .......- 3 80
Heotas .2.............. 1. 3 oF
Oak beaft......-.- ...... 3 0
Old Style. .....---...,;--..- 2 55
Happy Day.....--..--...-..- 2 85
Single DOx ..-....  -..-.-.- 3 00
5 box lots, delivered....... 2 9

 

10 box lots, delivere ed. -2 85
Lautz Bros. & Co.’s brands.
aoe... 3 2
Cotton Ofl.............. 19)

Marseies ....- 2.5... 1.

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Simgie poe. .....  ....... 3 00
5 box lots, delivered . 2 &
10 box lots, delivered.. Pec s 2 %
25 box lots. delivered....... 2 %

 

   

 

 

 

 
  
  
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

 

  

Jas. S. Kirk & Co.’s brands |
American Family, wrp'd...3 33 Candies. | | Fish and O Ss c
American Pamily, plain...327|° = —————~ J ters _ Provisions. Crockery and
Thompson & Chute’s Brand C y
‘ id. Stick Candy. Fresh Fish. Per Ib. | The Grand Rapids Packing Glassware.
aes bbls. pails | Whitefish .......... @ 8 — Provision Co, quotes as fol
Standard... 0)... O@ 716i Trout. |, a 8 ste ea ee
Standard i. Be 64@ 7% Black Bass...... he 15 Barreled Pork. LAMP BURNERS.
Standard Twist.... 6446@ 7% | Halibut. i / 1b@ =a rete eeee . Bio | No. O Sim... 156
Cut Loaf..... 744@ 8% | Ciscoe sor Herring a 4 Aa, Sy io No. § Sun...... Ll 50
Ae cases | Bluetish. a 6) een teste 930| No. 2 Sun... . |. a ~
Extra H. eee. @ 384 | Live Lobster....... @ 1b snortcut.. .. . Si) Tubular... .. Hee 50
Boston Cream...... @ 8% | Boiled Lobster. ... mn Pig...... 11 00 | Seeurity, No. 1... es
Mixed Candy. Cod . _. @ “teed la Security, No. 2 a 85
Siundurd 7 ac | His uddock. LL @ & amily TT Nutmesr .... 5)
Desa a @ * | hog 1 Pie ker re 1. . a 8 Dry Salt Meats. AVEUG......., Loo. 2
a a S| pice : il i.
Conserve. ...-. a@as | = sy a @ Bemies 11... a 6
Single box. a Seige. @ a ny 1d White. ..... a § biissen |. 5% LAMP CHIMNEYS—Common.
2 — lot, delivered........2 95 | Ribbon..... ...... a rite “na notte ee @ ; Extra shorts a : Sn Per box of 6 doz
AC box lot, delivered. ...... eso) | omen 000) @ ae Salmon. oo Smoked ka NO: GS 1 85
25 box lot, delivered........ 270 Out boat |... @ rt etn eh eaten @ 2% | Hams, 121b average . gy, | NO. 1 Sun.... settee es 2 00
Allen B. Wrisley’s brands. English Rock. @ 8% Shell Goods. Hams, 14 Ik = ; | No. 2 Sun........ 2 80
Old ¢ ‘ountry 80 1- 1b se Kindece wed cs: a9 Chysters, per I00..... 1 25.1 50 H: ly 161 ; ae if nicl N14, 7
Good Gheer6) 1b... | |. oe aaa, a a Clams, per 1a9.... _. W100 | ou aa p average ) First Quality.
White Borax 100 %-lb.......: Dandy Pan. ..... @io : Oysters. | Ham adieu i cei Ne, ¢ Sun, ¢ i :
Scouring Valley Cream. @13 F. J. Dettenthaler’s Brands. | shoulders (N.Y. cut) I Wrapped and label i 2 10
. : : ie ae . Per Can. | pean wing Se eT "a a
Sapolio, kitchen, 3 doz .....2 40 Fancy - - Bulk. Fairhaven Counts.... 40@ Bacon, clear....... .... g |No. 1 Sun, crimp top,
¢ | Calif a hi 5
Sapolio, hand, 3 doz ...... 2 40} Lozenges, plain @ $ Per Gal. | po ee ana OM | N ee led. a
TABLE SAUCES. Lozenges, printed... @ 9 Coumis .....- a Bonclees hams.......... ois = Som, Cree top,
Lea & Perrin’s, lar 175 | Choe. Drops 12 @l4 Extra Selects. a ree eer. 101g | Wrapped and labeled.... 3 25
ale s arge 4 ‘ seen ~ ul ae z hi a ih .
Lea & Perrin’s, cmatl ° = Choe. Monumentals @13 Medium Selects...... @ i Lards. In Tierces XXX Flint
alee) te ree Poe ca oon es Gum Drops.... @>5 | Anchor Standards.... « | ¢ — aa 4 | l
Halford’small....... 2... 2) | Moss Drops... @ 8% | Standards ............ | Family. mentee ee eee 43,| No. 0 Sun, crimp top,
Salad Dressing, large... 4 5 SOUEDrOpS.......__- @ 8% | Seauops ............ @ | Granger ....... 6 _wrapped and labeled.... 2 55
Salad Dressing Saati > 6 braperigis 0000. |. @g |Clams................ @ | Musselm un’s Gold Leaf.. 54 | NO. 1 Sun, crimp top,
ig, small... 3 7 Sheers. @125| Worden’s Home Made... + | _ Wrapped and labeled. 2%
ee Fancy—In 5 Ib. Boxes. Oscar Allyn’s Brands. | Worden’s White Clover 6% | No. 2 Sun, crimp top,
= . —. = = eee “10 | Lemon Drops.. ' @50 Per Can. | ‘ estas Me 51g wrapped and labeled 8 1D
tobinson’s Cie er, ‘grain . 101 Senr D ‘ > Comes oo. i | CeCOsGGE 2.06... de | + "
Robinson's Cider, 50 grain. 2 Pct ae. aa Extra elects i ae | 5) 1b Tubs...... advance "% | CHIMNEYS,
SUGAR Chocolate Drops.... @65 : lain Selects.......... = 50 ib Sc Sangre i Pear! Top
ee | es ee noe.) Eres @D | De ee ee cy Ra a0ib Tins ....... advance Wily or :
ao jah . — i ork | Gum Drops... .. : = @zo | Standards ...... Is@ j 20 1b Pails - advance ’ "' den a ee
ca ae ae ae =~ Licorice Drops 100 @ ’ 10 lb Pails. advance ; a ——<«...... 3 70
wholesale dealer adds the loc: 1 Spain ae ail vue NO. 2 Sul
ent toe Be a - —— \. B. Licorice Drops @50 5 Ib Pails -.s... 80 vance a . i, wr: Lp] pe ed and i
shipping point, giving you — plain... @95 Grains and Feedstuffs | — ar advance I No. 2 Hinge e, 2 Wray ap pped and sling
credit on the invoice for the peer: printed. @O0 - a Bol Sausages. | labeled. ! a 4 8s
amount of freight buyer pays | heli aaa @H) i Wheat. [Boles S|
from the market in oe he | Mottoes.._.__..._-. @65 Wheat... 64 | Liver.............-....5. oS 3 Fire Proof—Plain Top.
purchases to hisshipping point Cream Bar......... @0 | Winter Wheat Flour. | Frankfort.............. 74\1N
including 20 pounds aie the | Molasses Bar ... @50 |} Local Brands. (page i giz Sg 1 a plain bulb sa
weight of the barrel. | — Made Creams. 80 @90_ | Patents .................... 3 145| Blood ........ 2) No. 2 Sun, plain bulb... 4 <0
Cut Loaf 5 xy | Plain Creams..... _ 6) @so | Second Patent... .._.... Tongue .............. i
Domine 3 | ae = seiauanallee Go |Site: 5 | Head cheese....... 6 eee
Ce z, | string Roc : @eo iClear... | No. 1 Sun. plain bulk or
Pincaered : | Burnt Almonds... 12% @ lenny 5| Extra Mess asa 00 doz .... paurerRes ees is
XXXX Powdered........! », | Wintergreen Berries G55 aa coe Boneless .. a ee ae ee ne eee
MOUIG A | - [ae ee: Te Pigs’ Feet. _ at ----. 10
Granulated in bbls... >»! No.l wr arpa | Subject to nsual cash dis. Kits, 15 lbs ci a. NT) No. 1C rimp, pe wdoz.......15
-Granulated in bags....... oi. hain 2 Ib. one eo baa Mm bois, 401ps............ 1 No. 2 Crimp, per doz.. .. . 1 WW
Fine Granulated.......... 95 | ., DOXES ..-- 0+. - 30s Q: | Flourin bbls.,25e per bbl. ad- | 42 bbls, 80 Ibs... 3 00 e
Extra Fine Granulated. No. 1 wrapped, 3 Ib. | Gitions. — —
Extra Coarse Granulated... wee wt eewe nes ! @1o | Worden Grocer @o.’s Brand. | Kits, tbs... ...... ve No. 1, Lime (Go€ doz)...... 2 50
Diamond Confee. A.. | . 2 wrap, ed, 2 Ib. a et uo a Go ee Gps, She. 1 50 No. 2, Lime (70e doz)... .. 4.00
Confee. Standard A. > | JOXES .......--. | Quaker, ee S6)|% beis, S0lic..... =. AG No. 2, Fiint (le doz):. ... 4@
No. Ci 7|= —— | Sen sa 3 60 | is Casings. Electric
No <i | ing eat Flour. (rors 25 i
No. | "Fruits. | Olney & Judson’s Brand. | Beef rounds... 5 No. 2, Lime (ce doz) ..... 1 00
No. o oe a ; es, :38 Le, 400} Beef middles. . " No. 2, Flint (80e doz).... 1 40
| No. eresota, 44S...... 3 90 Butterine. /
No. Comics. GCeresotal tes 3 90 | Rolls, dairy. mi 10 Miscellaneous. Voz.
| No. Fancy Nayels Ball-Barnhart- Putman’ s Brand. | Solid, dairy...... oe 9 | Junior, Rochester 50)
No. Ea aM sen| ee te. a 4 00 Rolls, creamery ... ‘aes res : 2
o. 4 Pee Onan j Gre iC, 348.. . 3 90 | Solid, creamery ..- Hiwinaion Basca . >
No. | i Fancy Seedlings | Grand Republic, %4s........ 3 30 Canned M +t [iluminator Bases i 1 00
: |: neo eats. Barrel lots, 5d ‘
No. | Lo iG eo, 4 00| Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand. | Corned beef, 2 lb...... > 00 Ti P Ca ene ro
No. | Messinas 200s....... 4 50 | Laurel, a8. . 4 00 | Corned beef, 15 Ib 14 00 a ae
No. / 2 | gc Laurel, 24. cee 1) 3 90| Roast beef, Fi > OO Cane its TS Oa... .. ”
No. "3 gt | ons. Laurel, ! 38)}| Potted ham, 4s WD Mam .
y : ne | coe u _.. 28)| am, a... 5 moth Chimneys for
No. i. 3 62 | Strictly choice 360s.. @3 50 | Lemon & w heeler Co.’s Brand, | Potted ham, %s....... ome. i Be
WICKI ia. | ao 300s.. @3 50 | 4 mre SG8. jj... _400| Deviiediam, ‘4s....... No. 3 Rochester. lime 1 a 4 ox
. Ll | Manes 3608000000 @3 7 | Parisian, 4s.. 3.90| Deviledham, s.... 3 Sa es
Not aa. “vir++ BB] Paney 3008.......... @4 00 | Parisian, tos....-. 3 8) | Potted tongue 4s... nia
+ 5 el aa ag lg e Tytrea % ee er Bild [ : 1 Owe © py
| No.2 perevocs... 0 | Bextra oes 8... @A4 00 ao Entire Ww heat Flour. Potted tongue %45....... Jewel glass ie 1% 52
“4-2... eae yilliam Callam & Sons quote N ' ey
pereross. 0000 e| Bananas. = follows, delivered in Grand | — slobe Incandes. ne
a Petia, _. i Se eiciee | iMeea ie) || lan ee Tiean a2
C k _- —_— price is hard to co oo Fresh Meats. No. 2 Globe Incandes.
rackers. | ae OF tas cea pen of 10 1b, cotton sac cks. La 4 00 NOPP arl glass..... 3 0 : =
en at | 2 i ality . v No. 2 Pearl glass..... 2 !
Te TT | fruit. Ber reas tinien es - 38) og — 5 @7 .
_ Y. Biscuit Co. quotes | Medium bunches...1 25 @1 50) ®°0"7177 777° aa 3% | ocean og G { Ol. CANS.
as follows: | Large kt shes ws » 9 Mea | see o ‘
anne Large bunches...... 1 @225| poitea || 175 | Hind quarters........6 @8 i ! a with spout
: | Seeeeee ee : . 2 yal ga r 1 SPO ¢
Seymour XXX. 5y | Foreign Dried Fruits. | Granulated |. . 200} ae Pe meee tetrt ie a pal galy ao bl - -
eisiee ae . 2 . bt nit lh, S* Spo
Seymour XXX, 3b. carton 5% | Figs, Fancy Layers | St. ¢ reed. and Millstuffs. a eas sertipe intr a Me ad ae ee with sp out
: Family XXX. Sig eee ee 122 @ iN. or ee Oe =o 5 gal Eureka wi ith spout
F: umily XXX, 3 1b Carton. 54 Figs, Choice Layers : ty : onde and Oats.......18 On aa. e ye ; 5 gal Eureka with faveet.. 7 09
| Salted XXX.. :. Big | JO0lb............. a: @10 | Unboited Gorn Me a Hee | a 5 yal galy iron A & W 740
| Salted XXX. 3 Ib earton.. 5, | F igs, Naturals in | a a oe - | aed : 1 @4% 5 gal Tilting cans, M’w’ech 10 50
| | See, BOW... ... 1. maé¢ i. pane an... co oe ei ~ \/|5 gal galv iron N fuss 9 4
Soda. ; : ' | Winter Wheat Middlings na | DOHA |... « ee i -- 9
j i tates Bar } | iter Wheat Mid g : a. - e y
| Soda XXX 1... (Co Ib | Sereenings — a Se Shoulders. 0000 @ 5%
| 1OXxe : Creemings.-.......... ) 50 | 2 Pump Cans
| Soda XXX, 3 1b earton. 6% | oe in 60 It @8 |" The 0. EB. Brown Mill Co. | Leaf Lard @ 6! _
is 2 | Dates, Fards in 601b j _O. EB. Brown Mill Co. r ee r“¢* | 3e¢al Home Rule... .....K) o¢
| aa Wafer a a Lenses @eg | ane as ger | Careas — @. 7, | 2 gal Home Rule... 2 00
| Crys g eee ems ee wn et ; a bas. : ‘ i o / | Ue BASS ssccceee a i a Sl 4c i i ce
| Long Island Wafers....... 11 — Persians, G. il et rn a Raven Tae bs 1" 3galGoodenough.... . lu 50
| L. . Wafers, 1 Ib cart S M. K., 60 Ib eases. . @ 5% | oe ee 5 gal Goode nough ~ 00
| . Wa e pearton .. 12 Hates! Cares) ebb = | Less than ear lots......_- Sas, Veal. a 5 gal Pirate K ont 7 9 50
shee 0 ease | Oats. ahi a aga bal na i ball ul a
Square Oyster, XX. ....- 51 —— SS e* Pc = oo a. es LANTERNS
Sq. Oys. XXX.1 Ib carton. 614 a ee a. ae otc No. ¢ Tubular. a 5
Farina Oyster, XXX.. ea 1. : ve Oils. | No. 1 B Tubular.. "i O
| SWEET GOODS _Box ' ___ Nuts. | No. 1 Timothy, ton lots ...16 00 | — cS a ce me ee z
xes. ae ae en a No. 1 Timothycarlots..... 14 50 B No. 1 'Tub., gl: iss fount. | 700
a aa oo 1046 ee eee @13 Eocene arrels. al No. 12 Tubular, sid lamp 15 00
| Bent’s Cole MCE 12 | Almonds, Iyaca......- @ ae WT Mich Halt. © No. 3Street Lamp . % 75
| Belle Rose .... pee ero e. 8 | Almonds, California, i Hides and Pelts. a at W.Mich.tidlt papal ts ot
| Cocoanut Taffy. 8 | soft she ie od. @12% " Hist pa higan........ @ 8% LANTERN GLOBES
| Coffee ¢ afes. 8 Brazils new.........- @8 ia ry fxg Headlight @ 74 | No. 0 Tubular, eases 1 doz
| Frosted Iloney i. oo. i Filberts .......... @10 Perkins & Hess pay as fol- | pg pie we ccs @ 9% each, box 10 cents / 45
Graha m Crackers ......... Walnuts, Gren., new. @121% | lows: la ie oo Ree an sass a ar | No. 0 Tubular, cases 2 doz
| Ginees are, bo 8. ee 6% | W — Calif No. i. @12 Hides. lb a epg ea “0 ei each, box 15 cents 45
| Ginger Snaps, XXX city... 6% | Walnuts, soft shelled : Green... 3 a une ine ea ona G- No. 0 Tubular, bbls 5 : ’
| Gin. Sups,XXX home made 6% Ce a  |falecee... a |e winter........  @9 each, bbl 35. —
| ore Snps, XXX scalloped.. 64 | ‘Table Nuts, fancy.... @A2 Full Cured... _- -. 144@ 5% Black, summer. i. wl | @ 341 No.0 Tubular "bull's ‘eye.
| Ginger Vanilla............ 8 |Table Nuts, choice.. BT Signa | From Tank Wagon. | gases 1 doz. eacn 7 oa
| bmperiais .._. - le Pecans, Texas H.P.. @9 | Kips. green...........3 @4 ae i ' @ oo i!
| Jumples, Hosen n Hickory Nuts per bu., Kips, cured... |. 41¢@ 546 | XX W.W. Mich. Halt @ 0% LAMP WICKS.
| Molusses Cakes............ Ea @ Calfskins, green...... : @ Ds] D.S. Gas...... @ % . i
| Marshmallow -........ | e Cocoanuts, full sacks @1 00 | Calfskins, cured...... 54a 7 | ce ee i No. 0 per gross... . a
| Marshmallow Creams..... 16 Butternuts per bu.... @ Wenconskings 0... 25 @30 | s« ofield, ania & Teagle | No. 1 per eross... . oa
| Pretzels, hand mage ..... 814 | Black Walnuts per bu @ . elts. Lae gage ee eee erates 50
| Pretzelettes, LittleGerman 6% i Speers . ......... 10 @30 | Palaci Barrels. . oo 3 per oo as i ’ 80
PSaear Game U0 a Peanuts. Lambs ._.. ne ‘140 @1 00} alacine ............. @12 ammoth per doz.... 1
PSurtenas ........ 12 | FB: ancy, H. P., ¢ Old Wool.. ~- | Daisy White.. @l1
i. ee eerie pee: male a i Bi yame +6 5 aim a we i @ @ | Re ' ~
| Sears’ CR me bebe @ 5X “Wool — ( — Ww.Ww oe @9 | SELLY TUMBLERS. -Tin Top.
| Sears Zephyrette.. .....-..10 hoe Flags dee . sue le ater lite Halt. @ 3% | % Pints, 6doz in box. per
| Vanilla Square............ 8 aa ‘os : ves ea @lr | Family Headlight... @8 bon (hon G) ............. 1
Ll wana water 14 Wales! WP AReoeE oe asnec 2 @i | Naphtha ............. @ 814 | 44 Pints, 20 doz in bbl per
[oo e : 4 ancy, H. P., 2 ssocia. Tliscellaneous. Stove Gasoline @ 91 ' <
| Pecan Wate es 15% Hos Boasieat @i Tallow . LT c me. 5 4... @ 9 doz (bbl 35). i i
lm Coheed 10 Choice : .- a ono a From Tank Wagon. % Pints, 6 doz in box, per
ce, H. P., Extra 1
| ie ras. @ Grease Butter......... 1 @2. | Palacine )
| Mixed Pienic.............. 1044 | Choice, H. P., Extras Switches 1%4@2 | Red 1 s-weecweweeess @IO box (box 00). 1 90
Pineapple Glace...... aan 15% Roasted ........ i | Rene mica | Red Cross W. W.... @ 6% | % Pints, 18 doz in bb, Fer
a 2 50@2 Gasoune..........0..., @i% doz (bbl 35). 2

 

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GOTHAM GOSSIP.

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

New York, May 16—Trade during
the week has been quite good in the
jobbing grocery district. A good many
buyers have been here and a large
amount of merchandise has passed into
the usual channel. New York has been
somewhat handicapped by fear of be-
coming the second city in the country ,;
but now that her prestige will soon be
established as ‘‘having no superior in
point of size,’’ we may safely assume
that she will continue to reign supreme.
Brooklyn, however, will add in no per-
ceptible degree to the wholesale grocery
trade, for, with one or two exceptions,
wholesale grocers in Brooklyn are
‘*small potatoes. ”’

Sugar has met with a good even de-
mand during the week and prices’ have
fluctuated scarcely any. The supply
has been constant and few if any delays
in delivery have been noted. A fleet
of six iron canal boats from Cleveland
is here and will soon return with a full
cargo from the American refineries.

An average inquiry has existed for
coffee and prices have shown little, if
any, fluctuation. Perhaps it is putting
it rather strong to say that an average
demand exists, for inquiry shows that
trade has not been as large as in former
weeks. Rio No. 7 is held at 14c. Mild
coffees have sold in a somewhat more
encouraging way, although prices have
generally been kept private.

Teas are dull and lower, if sucha
thing can be possible. The auction
room attracted the usual throng of buy-
ers, but some slept and others listened
to the monotonous harangue of the auc-
tioneer. ‘‘This fine line going, going
—as fine tea, gentlemen, as ever grew
—gone, at 8% cents!" Time was, a few
years ago, when this auction was worth
going to see, and, occasionally, it was
as lively as.the Stock Exchange, but
those days have gone, never to return.
Ceylon and India teas are being readily
taken and at fair prices.

Rice is firm. You can bank on rice.
It is always, or nearly always, firm, or
at least steady. Holders make no con-
cessions, and would-be purchasers do
not argue. They can’t. They can only
take it or leave it. Between foreign
and domestic the former is having
rather the better inquiry.

In molasses the demand is moderate,
but available stock is held at firm rates.
Dealers in the interior seem to be pretty
well supplied and there have been few
buyers here.

Syrups are equally balanced as to sup-
ply and demand. Best grades are at
times rather difficult to procure and sell
at full figures. ‘°Off’’ grades are not
asked for.

Spices languish. They always do at
this season. Spring trade is as good as
could have been expected and frices
have not been lowered for some time.

Canned goods seek for buyers, but find
none except at the low prevailing rates.
There is stil] an abundance of vile mix-
tures on the market, the only attractive
thing about which is the label.

Fancy creamery butter is in fair de-
mand—only fair—at 15'4@16c.

Cheese is quiet. New State full
cream, 64 @8%4c.

Eggs are steady. Nearby are held at
rrc and Western at 9% @loc.

There were a dozen interesting res-
taurants near New York several years
ago which were known only to the in-
itiated, and prized accordingly, but
they have lost the charm that made
them popular with the New Yorkers
who sought them out. They were un-
assuming little restaurants run by ex-
cellent French or Italian cooks, and
New Yorkers who scught them out in
the country found them delightful be-
cause of their good dinners and the ex-
cellent service. Moreover, the fact
that, with the exception of a few of the
visitors, these restaurants were unknown
outside of the neighborhood where they
happened to be located, gave them an
additional charm. Several of these lit-
tle dining places were on Staten Island,

 

and others were near the Bronx River,
and along the Hudson. They made a
pleasant object for a little excursion in-
to the country, and the initiated found
pleasure in introducing their friends to
them. The bicycle has changed these
restaurants sadly. The army of riders
soon found out their advantages, and,
as a result, the proprietors are doing a
bigger business than they ever dreamed
of; but the old patrons are not pleased.
Instead of the excellent service of the
proprietor and his wife, there are
careless waiters, and guests from New
York are not a novelty enough to in-
duce the cook to serve the ‘‘specials’’
that were enjoyed by the old patrons.
They are suffering from too much popu-
larity.

‘*Paddy’s Market,’’ which was estab-
lished years ago when New York wasn't
half the city that it is now, still flour-

ishes on Ninth avenue on Saturday
evenings, and its hundreds of torches
light one side of the avenue from

Thirty-eighth street to Forty-second. It
is a series of bargain wagons for house-
wives seeking to lay in a supply of
food for Sunday It was in full blast
last Saturday night, and it suggested a
section of Essex street during business
hours. Carts stand along the curb as
closely as they can be crowded, and in
each is a loud voiced huckster extolling
his wares, which may be fish, flesh, fowl or
vegetables. Frequently cut flowers and
potted plants are offered for sale.
Prices below the regular market rates
prevail, and the crowd of buyers surge
back and forth, picking up a bargain
in meat here, a basket of vegetables
there, and waiting at the next cart to
hear the amusing or pathetic tale of the
huckster. They have a rough and ready
wit, those street venders, and they know
that they frequently make a customer
by a quick response to a casual remark.
This market is more like that to be
found in a country town on the market
day of the farmers.

‘‘For business reasons,’’ said an
Omaha man, ‘‘when I came last week |
registered at a Brooklyn hotel, and the
experience that followed shook my
nerves a bit. The clerk assigned me to
a 100m that was large and light, and in
every way satisfactory. There was the
usual hotel bureau at one side of the
room, and as soon as my baggage came
up I unpacked my clothes and laid
them on the bed preparatory to putting
them away in the bureau drawers. Two
solid looking metal handles were at-
tached to the top drawer, and as I
grabbed them to draw it open the sen-
sation that took possession of me made
me suspect that I had received a stroke
of paralysis. It was a fierce shock that
snapped my chin down hard. I released
the handles with difficulty and rang the
bell for aid. As I sat there waiting for
the hall boy I pinched my legs and
arms, and found that there was feeling
in each. I could walk, and I came to
the conclusion that if I had suffered
from a stroke of paralysis it was a light
one. The bell boy summoned the clerk,
and when the latter saw the room that |
was in and heard my story of the shock
he laughed and then apologized. They
had assigned me to a room frequently
occupied by the proprietor’s son, who
was a mechanical genius. To protect
the bureau drawer he had brought down
the electric light wire and attached it
to one of the metal handles. I got the
full force of the current, and my nerves
weren't right during the rest of the day.
I am very shy of Eastern hotel bureaus
now.

A congenial combination of young
men whose business hours are short,
and who cannot get away during the
summer for a long vacation, have solved
to their own satisfaction for several
summers past the problem of how to be
happy in hot weather. Each summer
they rent a large, comfortable sailing
vessel, that is dubbed a yacht by her
owner, although she started out in life
as a small freighter. She isn’t a slick-
looking boat by any means, but she is
roomy and a good weather boat. When
the young men who hire her get through
their work they go down to Bay Ridge
or the Battery or one of the piers where
they may have tied up in the morning

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ESTABLISHED 1876.

FIELD SEEDS.

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Egg Case Fillers for Cold Storage and Shipping. Write us for prices on Lemons and Oranges.
If you have any BEANS, mail us sample, Will be glad to trade at market price.

MOSELEY BROS.,

Wholesale Beans, Seeds, Potatoes, Fruits. 26, 28, 30, 32 Ottawa St., Grand Rapids, Mich.

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If you want anything in the line of salt. write to us for prices.
It will be to your advantage to do so.

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any deleterious acids, or anything that is not produced from the
apple, we will forfeit

ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS

We also guarantee it to be of not less than 40 grains strength.

ROBINSON CIDER & VINEGAR CO.,

BENTON HARBOR, ICH.

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Buy them when cheap and keep them absolutely fresh
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' display, the interest upon the value ¢

and go aboard. At a certain hour agreed

on in the morning they set sail, and
such members of the party as have not
appeared are left behind. Sometimes
they sail up the Hudson and anchor for
the night, and again they may go up
the Sound or down the Jersey Coast.
The skipper is instructed to lay his
course always in such a way that in
case of a dead calm his passengers may
row ashore in the morning and reach a
railroad or some other means of trans-
portation that will bring them to New
York in time for business. When the
wind is brisk they sail back to the city,
and go to work refreshed. They have
a good cook and skipper, and ee ex-
penses for the summer are not much
more than the expense of living ina
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This Is No Dream, Young Man.

The Canadian Journal of Commerce
discusses the ‘‘bright side’’ of business
failures... A strange theme, truly, but
not illy chosen! The ‘‘brightness’’ lies
in the resulting relief of that conges-
tion, engorgement, over-competition—
call it what you will—from which all
branches of trade, and notably the drug
business, are suffering. They are
‘‘overdone.’’ Young investors with
more ambition than capital and dis-
cretion have crowded in; profits have
been reduced, and in the stress of un-
due competition many perforce suc-
cumb.

No sooner does a_ clever, pushing,
saving clerk in a prosperous establish-
ment find he is owner of a thousand, or

even a few hundred dollars, than he
becomes anxious to run a business for
himself. Most young men have so little

experience they run away with the no-
tion that the difference between the
cost and selling prices of goods repre-
sents profit. A young clerk acquires a
knowledge of cost prices, and knowing
the sale prices are at an advance often
of 25 to 50 per cent., he supposes a
turnover of even $100 a week will lead
him on to fortune. Buoyed up by am-
bition, hope, and an earnest and often
most commendable desire to advance in

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the till isa
more than his business profits warrant—

serious temptation to spend

if he knew what they were. In ninety
cases out of a hundred the younger
store-keepers are wholly in the dark as
to what net profits they are making from
month to month.

Service is unfortunately becoming
more and more distasteful, and down-
right hard work is rerellent to the
young men of the day—except on the
lacrosse or football field. Burn’s fine
line,

“The glorious privilege of being independent,”
is utterly misinterpreted by young men
who leave service to find the most try-
ing form of slavery consists in being
chained to circumstances which are
dragging them to ruin. The weeding
out of large numbers of traders is no
certain proof cf business depression, as
it is largely attributable to far too many
being tempted to engage in business
without adequate financial resources.

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Preparation of Chicory.

The chicory root resembles the pars-
nip. It is long and tapering and white
in color. At the end of the growing
season the roots are dug, topped,
washed and dried in a kiln or dry-
house. The dried roots are sliced or
cut up into small pieces and browned
in a roaster to the condition of roasted
coffee when it is ready for grinding,
and used as a beverage in place of
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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

PERTINENT REASONS.

Why You Should Use Ebeling’s Spring
Wheat Flour.

Because from the same sack or barrel
you obtain a flour that will yield more
and better bread than can be made from
winter wheat flour.

The wheat that makes spring wheat
flour is grown in the rich and fertile
fields of Minnesota and Dakota—fields
which have for a long time been ac-
knowledged to be the richest wheat
growing fields in the world. We have
our own elevators throughout Minnesota
and Dakota, hence have the choice of
the best wheat grown.

In Pennsylvania, the early home of
the winter wheat flour, spring wheat
flours have for a long time held a_lead-
ing place. -In Michigan, Ohio, Kansas
and the Carolinas, spring wheat flour
is daily becoming more popular and
is now permanently established as_ the
leading flour.

The protessional baker has learned
that spring wheat flour is cheaper, be-
cause in his daily baking he finds that
spring wheat flour will produce from
forty to sixty pounds more bread to the
barrel than any winter wheat flour.

The housewife who uses but two
rels a vear gets equally as good results
from Ebeling’s flour, and for that reason
she is gradually turning from winter
wheat to the use of spring wheat flour;
but, above a!l things, the professional
baker and housewife are Jearning, not
only that they get more bread from their
barrel of flour, but that they get a
more healthful bread, because of the
nutritious quality of the wheat from
which spring wheat flours are made.

Most bakers and housge-wives hesitate
about adupting spring wheat flour, be-
cause they fear they will have to exper-
iment in order to learn how to make a
good loaf of bread. This, however, is
not the case, and after one trial they
will find it is much easier to bake from
it than from any winter wheat flour.

Give this flour a trial and you will
obtain the best and most nutritious
bread made. Write us for prices.

Joun H. EBELING.

Green Bay, Wis.

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Novel Advertising Trick Recalled.
From Fame.

Some recent attempts to secure free
advertising in the Gotham newspapers
recalls the trick played by a Chicago
house several years ago. One of the
partners went into court and asked for
an injunction to restrain the other part-
ner from sacrificing the goods in their
store at figures far below first cost.

The plaintiff said his partner had,
with some insane desire, marked all the
goods in the store down below cost.
Then he went into details and showed
how different articles were being sacri-
ficed, notwithstanding his protest and
asked the court to issue an injunction
and restrain the fractious partner.

It was a strange fight and the news-
papers took it up and devoted columns
to the novel case. The result was that
people on the lookout for bargains
flocked to the store and purchased
goods.

Day after day the hearing for an in-
junction was delayed and, finally, when
the free advertisement had been worked
to its end, the suit was dismissed with-
out prosecution, the whole cost to the
firm for thousands of dollars’ worth of
advertising being about $150 in attor-
ney’s fees.

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of the abolishment of days of grace on
commercial paper is made by the
adoption of a bill in Congress to do

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28

THE MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

The Grocery Market.

Sugar—The market was strong and
excited last week, owing to the receipt
of stronger news from Europe and the
fact that both trust and independent re-
finers were oversold. Contrary to ex-
pectation, a decline of ‘sc was an-
nounced Monday morning—all of which
goes to prove that the motives of the
trust are ’’past finding out."’

Pickles—The jobbers Shave advanced
their quotations 50c per bbl.

Pineapples—The quality of the fruit
is improving as the season advances.
There is, also, a decided improvement
in the demand.

Cheese—Arrivals of new stock are
coming in so freely that the price has
dropped ':@1c, with every prospect of
still lower prices in the near future.
The recent Trains have still further im-
proved the pastures, so that the output
of the factories is increasing daily.

Bananas—Without particular change,
so far as price is concerned, but the av-
erage quality of the fruit is steadily
improving. |

Lemons —The cooler weather prevail-
ing since iast Friday has had a_tend-
ency to check consumption, resulting in
checking the advance which had been
stimulated by the ‘‘ warm spell.”’

Canned Goods—In spite of
vent of new fruits and
the low prices ruling on both have in-
consumptive demand to
stocks in_ retailers’

the ad-

vegetables,

creased the
that extent that
hands are unusually low.

Coffee— Maracaibo is scarce and the
market is firm.
advancing, albeit the market is dull.

Raisins-——Late reports from California
indicate that the growing crop is likely
to recover form the recent frosts, owing
to the advent of warm weather and
needed rains.

Tea—Japans are lower than a year
ago. Several shipments of Jap grades
have aleady reached San Francisco and
a large number of vessels are now on
their way to this counry from Japan.

Molasses—-The shortage at New Or-
leans, which is now conceded on all
sides, is now reinforced by reports of
a shortage in the crop at Porto Rico.

Dates—Competent authoriites predict
higher prices later in the season, owing
to the fact that there is not stock
enough to last until the new crop is har-
vested and marketed.

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Fruits and Produce.

Rios are strong and

Asparagus—-30c per doz. bunches.

Beans—The market has been steady,
but without special feature.

Beets—5oc per doz. bunches.

Butter—The market is. glutted—so
much so that locai handers are endeav-
oring to find an outlet for the accumu-
lation by shipping East. Local dealers
are permitted to take their pick of all
offerings of dairy on the basis of toc,
while factory creamery is hardly more
active at I4c.

Cabbage— Mississippi, stock 75c ‘per
doz. Mobile stock, much inferior to
Mississippi, is held at 50c per doz.

Clover Seed- $5@5.25 for =Mammoth,
$4.85@5 for Medium, $4.75 for Alsyke
$3@3.25 for Crimson and $5.50 for
Alfalfa.

Cucumbers—4oc per doz. for Southern
stock and 5o0c per doz. for home grown.

Eggs —- Notwithstanding the large

stocks are accumulating and handlers
find much difficulty in moving them.
Local quotations are on the basis of 8c
in crate lots and 7%%c in § crate lots.

Green Onions—Scullions 5c per doz.
bunches. Silver Skins 12'%c per doz.
bunches.

Lettuce—7@8c per lb.
Maple Sugar—Fancy commands
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Maple Syrup—60@7oc per gailon, ac-
cording to grade and quality.

Millet—Common 60@65c;
65@7oc ; Hungarian, 70@75c.

Onions—Home grown are in fair de-
mand and ample supply, commanding
25c per bu. Bermudas command $1.56
per bu. crate.

Pieplant—Home grown is now in mar-
ket, commanding ‘4c per lb.

Pop Corn—Rice, 3c per Ib.

Potatoes — Mississppi stock com-
mands $1.25 per bbl. Old stock is dull
and quotations are nominal.

Radishes—In ample supply at 8c per
doz.

Spinach—-25@3oc per bu.

Strawberries—$2 per crate of 24 qts.

String Beans—s1 per bu.

Timothy—s1.65 per. bu for prime to
strictly prime and $1.75 for choice.

Tomatoes—$3.50 per 6 basket crate of
Florida stock.

Wax Beans—$1.50 per bu.

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The Grain Market.

Wheat has been very uninteresting
during the week. The trade has lacked
vim. There was no outside buying and
the local talent in wheat centers did
what is called a scalping business. The
world’s supply of breadstuffs is about
18,000,000 to 20,000,000 bushels less than
last year, but the fine weather, the small
exports and the large Northwestern re-
ceipts were, as usual, bearish influ-
ences. It is also reported that the
French crop will be exceptionally good,
so that France will do some exporting
instead of importing. The strong points
to be considered are the chinch bug, the
Hessian fly in the winter wheat states,
the small acreage seeded and the wet
weather in the Northwest, but there is
plenty of time yet for a good crop to
mature. The visible decreased only
about 854,000 bushels, when a_ decrease
of about 2,500,000 bushels was expected,
against 3,139,000 bushels for the corres-
ponding week last year. This all assists
to depress the market. We still think
we will see better prices when the new
crop comes in.

There is, virtually, no change in
coarse grains and they remain  station-
ary. However, they are very low and,
with the present outlook, we see no rea-
son why they should not go lower, un-
less there is a frost which will kill corn.

The receipts were moderate—wheat,
31 cars; corn, 7 cars and 5 cars of oats.

The mills are paying 64c for wheat.

C. G. A. Vorer.
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The Washington Star announces that
the two species of large water bugs that
have come to be called electric-light
bugs have put in an appearance around
the electric arc lights. ‘‘A most curious
thing about these bugs,’’ it says, ‘‘is
that before the introduction of electric
lights they were considered to be com-
paratively rare. They were seldom
seen, as they were not attracted by ordi-
nary light. When the arc light ap-
peared, however, the bugs became enor-
mously noticeable. Upon their appear-
ance in such prodigious numbers ento-
mologists were of the opinion that after
two or three years both species would
grow scarcer, but the numbers do not
seem to be decreasing in the slightest.
While neither the Belostoma nor the
Benacus is distinctly poisonous, both
have strong beaks, capable of inflicting
severe wounds, and it will be wise to
handle them with great care, if at all.
The very large black water beetle will

German,

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amount of stock going into cold storage | I _s

of about 1 to 100.’’
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In France the pharmacist must not
only determine whether the prescription
is in order so far as medicaments and
dosage are concerned, but must be sure
that it is written by one lawfully author-
ized to prescribe. A heavy fine has re-
cently been impcsed upon a pharmacist

7c | who neglected to observe the last part

of this rule.

 

The Depression in Pineapples.
From the New York Commercial Bulletin.

The depression in the pineapple-mar-
ket is attributed to three causes. First
of these is that the very high prices of
last month and for some time previous,
being followed by a reaction, induced
buyers to hold off in {the expectation
that prices still more favorable to them
would be made. Then came the rather
large receipts of the current week, three
steamers with a total of between 8,000
and 9,000 barrels. The arrivals coupled
with the cool weather, were enough to
keep buyers out of the market, but
added to this is the fact that the atten-
tion of the consuming trade has been
diverted to strawberires, which have
been plentiful and comparatively cheap,
the market being supplied by ship-
ments from the Southern Atlantic States,
from Florida to Virginia, inclusive. In
the West, similar conditions have pre-
vailed, liberal receipts of berries from
Southern Illinois, Missouri, etc., seem-
ing to have drawn attention away from
pineapples.

The receipts, while comparatively
large the past week, are, for the season
to date, fully 18,000 barrels less than
they were for the corresponding period
last year. This is attributed not so much
to the insurrection in Cuba as to the
lateness of the crop, owing to unfavor-
able weather. The influence of the in-
surrection, it is believed, will be felt
later and possibly immediately, as it is
stated that it is problematical whether
shipments from Havana can be made
with regularity and in sufficient quan-
tity to supply trade requirements owing
to the unsettled condition of the coun-
try. A letter received here from one
of the shippers states that no guarantee
can be given as to when shipments will
be made or what quantity will be
shipped. The war and its results have
discouraged the growers and shippers,
it is said, and although at the begin-
ning of the season prospects for a good
supply of Havana pines were very fair,
the outlook is now uncertain. The
planters are especially discouraged, and
it is said have neglected their fields
more or less since the early spring,
fearing they would be unable to market
their crops on account of the war.

The Bahama crop is also. several
weeks later than usual, but promises to
be a full one, and it is thought that
shippers there will send more than the
average quantity to this market to make
up for any deficiency in Havana or
Florida fruit. The first cargoes of Ba-
bamas are expected here about the mid-
dle of the month. There will be, it is
reported, about the usual quantity of
canned fruit packed in the Bahamas,
for although one of the large packers
has retired from the business, his place
will be taken by another. It is expected
that considerable quantities of pines
packed Florida style, in cases, will be
received here in addition to the bulk
cargoes this year.

The Florida crop has recovered _par-
tially from the effects of the frost blight
a year and a half ago, but there seems
to be still some uncertainty as_ to
whether it will be an important factor
in the market this season.

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How much of a factor the bicycle has
become in the business world is indi-
cated in a movement which has _ started
among assessment accident insurance
companies to advance the rates on all
wheelmen's policies. So great has been
the increase in the last few months in
the number of bicycle risks assumed by
the various companies that it has been
deemed advisable by several of them to
advance the rates for self-protection.
The assessment companies interested in
this movement are agitating two propo-
sitions, the adoption of either of which
would be satisfactory to them. One
plan that’ has been proposed is an
agreement to pay two-thirds of the ben-
efit of a policy to a bicyclist instead of
the whole amount as at present. The
other proposition is to increase the{rates
for wheelmen. It is said by the assess-
ment insurance representatives that the
existing rates, ranging from $12 {to $15
a year on policies paying $5,000 in case
of death and approximate sums for dis-

  

 

 

 

ability, are too low for accident poli-
cies, and such companies report that
they are losing money under these rates.
A call for a meeting has been discussed,
and the assessment companies that favor
a change will take acticn before long.
As an indication of the rush of business
in insurance circles accompanying the
growing popularity of bicycling, sev-
eral concerns report that they had three
times as many applications last month
as for April, 1895. George C. Sterling,
general manager of the accident depart-
ment of the Aetna ‘‘for Greater New-
York,’’ as he put it said: *‘ The bicycle
feature has made a great difference in
accident insurance. The business for
the present period surpasses that of _ the
same time last year threefold. I have
heard of the movement among assess-
ment companies to increase the rates
for bicyclists or to pay two-thirds bene-
fit of policies, but the Aetna will not
take such action. This company will
hold the old rates. This applies only to
men. No woman bicyclist, nor any
woman, for that matter, is insured
against accident.’’—N. Y. Tribune.
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bulldog tenacity, or in heroic manipu-
lation of the customer. It is in polite-
ness, discretion, advice, suggestion,
always as much in the customer’s inter-
est as to the benefit of the seller.

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