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for fall and winter wear, and our fall and 
winter line generally is perfect.
WM.  CONNOR, 20  years with us, will be 
at Sweet’s  Hotel  Grand  Rapids,  Oct. 31 
to  Nov. 3.  Customers’  expenses paid or 
write him Box 346, Marshall, Mich., to call 
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Perfection Time 
Book and Pay Roll

Takes care  of  time  in  usual 
way, also divides  up  pay  roll 
into the several amounts need­
ed  to  pay  each  person.  No 
running around after change.
Send for Sample Sheet.

Barlow  Bros.
Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

ASSOCIATE  OFFICES  IN  ALL  PRINCIPAL 

CITIES

References :  State Bank of Michigan and Mich­
igan Tradesman, Grand Rapids.
Collector  and  Commercial  Lawyer  and 
Preston National Bank, Detroit.

T he  M ercantile  A gency

Established 1841.

R.  G.  DUN  &  CO.

Widdicomb  Bld’g,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich. 

Books arranged with trade classification  of  names. 
Collections made everywhere.  W rite for particulars.

L.  P.  WITZLEBEN,  Manager.

The sensation of the coffee trade is

A. I. C. High Grade Coffees
They  succeed because  the  quality  is  right,  and 
the plan of selling up to date.  If there is  not an 
agency in your town, write the

A. I. C. COFFEE  CO.,

21-23 River St., Chicago.

Knights of the  Loyal  Guard

A Reserve Pond Order

A  fraternal  beneficiary  society  founded 
upon  a  permanent  plan.  Permanency 
not cheapness  its  motto.  Reliable  dep­
uties wanted.  Address

EDWIN 0. WOOD, Flint, Mich.

Supreme  Commander in  Chief.

Tradesman Coupons

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  OCTOBER  24,  1900.

Number  892

IMPORTANT  FEATURES.

Page.

2.  Taste  in  Display.
3.  Two Types  of Women.
4.  A round  the  State.
5.  Grand  Rapids  Gossip.
6.  The  Bnffiilo  Market.
7.  Bill  Nye  on  Shoe  Business.
8.  Editorial.
9.  Editorial.
lO.  Shoes and  Rubbers.
12.  Clothing.
13.  Dry  Goods.
14.  The  Meat Market.
15.  Coon  Came  Down.
16.  Hardware.
17.  H ardw are  Price Current.
18.  Village  Im provem ent.
15.  Window  Dressing.
20.  W oman’s W orld.
22.  The  New  York  Market.
23.  Capital  Is  Captious.
24.  Clerk’s Corner.
25.  Commercial  Travelers.
26.  Drugs and  Chemicals.
27.  D rug Price  Current.
28.  Grocery  Price  Current.
29.  Grocery  Price  Current.
30.  Getting the  People.
31.  Real  Estate.
32.  The  Morning  Market.

A  WORTHY  TEAM.

“ Can  you 

inform  me  how  to  put  a 
rough  top  on  lard  compound  to  imitate 
pure  kettle  rendered  leaf  lard?”
“ Draw  it  direct  from  the  receiver, 
not  cooled,  and  run 
into  packages  at 
about  160  degrees.  Spread  the  packages 
well,  so  that  plenty  of  air can  pass  be­
tween  them  and  allow  the  lard  to  cool 
quickly.  Leave  it  perfectly  ^uiet,  and 
when  cool  it will  have  the  desired crimp 
or  rough  top. ’ ’

The  man  who  asked  that  question 
and  the  man  who  answered  it  would 
make  a  team  that  the  Old Harry himself 
would  like  to  drive.  There  would  be  a 
hustling  business  carried  on  while  it 
lasted,  and  the  Old  Man  would  see  to 
it  that  a  lively  pace  was  kept  up  to  the 
very  end.  They  would  cheat  and 
lie 
and  steal  as  long  as  the  public,  their 
legitimate  customer,  would 
it 
and  then,with  an  earnestness  as  intense 
as  the  conviction  that  the  end  justified 
the  means,  they  would  claw  each  other 
until  the  financial  graveyard  hid  their 
offensive  carcasses  from  sight.

stand 

The  question  shows  a  man  who has 
been  doing  his  best,  so  far  as  eager 
study  is  concerned,  to  find  out  how  he 
can  do  some  systematic  cheating.  For 
days  and  wearisome  nights  he  has  heen 
scratching  that  dishonest  old  head  of 
his  and  every  experiment  just  misses 
it !  Do  what  he  may,  the  lard  has  so 
far  insisted  on  keeping  him  a  decent 
man,  and  finally,in  despair  at  the  “ loss 
upon  loss,”   incurred  by  his  inability  to 
clutch  the  “ almost,”   which  constantly 
escapes  him,  he  appeals  to  the  world  of 
villainy  to  help  him 
in  this  direful 
emergency.

Fagin  again  gives  himself  away;  for 
like, 
when  like  pitifully  appeals  to 
where 
is  the  ear  or the  heart  that  can 
remain  deaf  to this  call  of  kin?  The cry 
of  the  Artful  Dodger 
is  heard  and 
heeded.  The  world  of  crime  has  not 
been  ransacked  in  vain.  This  particu­
lar  form  of  swindle  has  been 
invented, 
carefully  labeled  and  packed  away, 
showing  that there  are  others  at  work  in 
this  special  field  of  knavery,  who  are 
willing  to  give  another  proof  of  the  fact

that  there  is  still  honor  among  thieves. 
The  answer  duly  comes.  There  it  is  in 
cold  type.  Just  as  explicit  and  as  full 
of  careful,  painstaking  detail  as  the  old 
London  thief  ever  gave  to  haunters  of 
his  nefarious  den.

The  remaining  thing  to  be  noticed  is 
the  utter,  matter  of  fact,  business  air 
about  the  whole  transaction.  Can  you 
inform  me,  Cain,  a  little  more  in  detail 
how  you  mangaed  to  put  Abel  out of the 
is  hardly  more  startling  than  the 
way? 
question,  evidently  considering 
itself 
respectable;  and  the  reply  was  not  ex­
pected  to  excite  undue  comment.  He 
wanted  to  know  how  to  do a little  cheat­
ing.  “ I  knew,for  I’ve  tested  the  thing, 
and  told  him.  That’s  all  there  is  to  it. 
Next!“

If  such  questions  are  to  be  asked  and 
answered 
in  the  papers,  commercial  or 
uncommercial,  of  the  country,  it  is  re­
spectfully  suggested  that  only  complete 
answers  be  given,  although  the  heavens 
fall,and  for that  purpose  such  an answer 
the  Tradesman  offers,  to  be  used  as  oc­
casion  may  require.

and 

Grand  Rapids  and  Traverse  City  are 
to  be  congratulated  on  their  narrow  es­
capes  from  granting  valuable  franchises 
to  strangers  who  were  undoubtedly  ac­
tuated  solely  by  a  desire  to  obtain  for 
nothing  something  they could dispose  of 
in  the  open  market  or finance  in  such  a 
manner  as  to  clean  up  handsome  for­
tunes  for  themselves.  The  attempt  to 
secure  a  fifty  year  water  franchise  from 
the  Common  Council  of  Grand  Rapids 
proves  to  be  one  of  the  most  gigantic 
swindling  schemes  ever  devised,  having 
evidently  been  concocted  by  two  men 
who,  while  apparently  competitors  in 
the  field,  were  in  reality  working  hand 
in  hand  to  obtain  for  nothing—except 
the  sum  alleged  to  have  been  spent  in 
bribery 
cajolery—a  concession 
which  would  be  worth  a  million  dollars 
in  any  money  market  of  the  world.  The 
scheme  to  obtain  a  thirty  year gas  fran­
chise  from  the  Common  Council  of 
Traverse  City  was  less  pretentious,  but 
it  involved  certain  features  which  gave 
it  a  suspicious  appearance,  due  to  the 
haste with which  the  promoter undertook 
to  obtain  the  concession  before  the  peo­
ple  had  been  given  time  to 
investigate 
the  matter  and  discover  how  one-sided 
the  proposed  franchise  was. 
Thirty 
years  is  a  long  time  to  tie  up  a  munici­
pality  to  conditions  which  may  be  per­
fectly  proper  this  year  or  next,  but 
which  may  not  be  in  harmony  with  the 
progressive  spirit  of  the  age  five,  ten  or 
fifteen  years  hence ;  and  those  members 
of  the  Common  Council  of  Traverse 
City  who  voted  to  postpone  the  consid­
eration  of the  measure  until  they  could 
find  time  to  post  themselves  thoroughly 
on  the  subject  have  undoubtedly  saved 
their  townsmen—and  their  townsmen’s 
children—hundreds  of  thousands  of  dol­
lars.

Sir  Thomas  Lipton,  who  wants  to 
make  another  effort  to  capture  the 
America's  cup,is  evidently  one  of  those 
natural  sportmen  who  love  to  be  de­
feated  simply  for the  fun  there  is  in  it.

GENERAL TRADE  REVIEW.

The  fact  of  the  continued  increase  in 
speculative 
activity  and  advance  of 
stocks  in  the  face  of  apparently  adverse 
conditions  can  only  be  accounted  for 
on  the  theory  that  the  long  period  of 
dulness  had  lasted  until  a  reaction  be­
came  inevitable.  The  only  reason  why 
surprise 
is  expressed  is  that  a  material 
advance  during  the  closing  weeks  of  a 
presidential  campaign  is  without  prec­
edent,  at  least  for  a  good  many  years. 
The  advance 
in  prices  seems  to  be  all 
along  the  line,  last  week  raising  the  av­
erage  of  railway  shares  $2.38,  indus­
trials  $2.64  a’nd  gas  and  traction  stocks 
§5.55  per  share;  and  the  current  week’s 
trading  is  with  increasing  activity  and 
a  more  rapid  advance.

As  the  election  draws  nearer  there 

is 
necessarily  much  complaint  of  the  in­
terruption  of  business.  Salesmen  have 
in  finding  their  customers  or 
difficulty 
gaining  their  attention  when 
found. 
From  force  of  habit  there  is  much  of 
putting  off  until  after  election,  but  in 
spite  of  this  interruption  there 
is  a 
strong  undertone  of  business 
every­
where.

The  long  period  of  price  reaction 

in . 
the 
iron  trade  is  being  followed  by  a 
degree  of  activity  which  shows  that 
stocks  had  become  much  depleted  and 
that  many  engineering  undertakings 
were  unduly  held  back. 
It  would  be 
natural  that  the  downward  movement 
should  carry  the  level  below  a  profitable 
basis,  but  the  movement 
is  being  so 
promptly  arrested  by demand that prices 
are  still  kept  at  a  level  affording  a  fair 
profit.  Among  the  lines  showing  most 
activity  may  be  named  steel rails,  struc­
tural  forms  and  materials  for implement 
works.  Prices  are  at  about  the  lowest 
level  of  the  decline,  but  what  changes 
have  occurred  are  upward.

increasing 

The  pressure  of  demand  in  the  textile 
trades  is  resulting  in  a  strong  advance 
in  cotton  goods,  while  the  raw  staple  is 
slowly  declining.  It  looks  now as though 
they  would  soon  be  on  a  parity  and  the 
manufacture  soon  become  normal again. 
in  activ­
Sales  of  wool  are 
ity  and,  while  the  aggregate  of  sales 
is 
much  less  than  last  year,  the  sales  then 
were  for  speculation,  while  now  they 
are 
for  consumption.  Woolen  goods 
trade  has  been  slow  on  account  of  the 
continued  mild  weather.  The  heavy 
boot  and  shoe  movement  still continues, 
with  urgent  demand  for  fall  and  early 
winter  trade.  Spring  goods  are  also 
beginning  to  receive  consideration.

The  increase  in  foreign 

indebtedness 
to  this  country  continues,September  ex­
ports  exceeding imports  by  $56,000,000, 
and  for  nine  months  the  trade  balance 
in  our  favor  on  merchandise  and  specie 
account  amounted  to  $441,045,465,  in­
dicating  that  the  calendar year  will  ex­
ceed  all  records.  Exchanges  through 
the  principal  clearing  houses  make  a 
better  comparison  with 
last  year’s 
phenomenal  figures  than  at  any  recent 
date,  and  the  gain  over  1898  at  some 
cities  is  worthy  of  note :  New  Orleans 
101.7  per  cent.,  Pittsburg  70.5,  Chicago 
32.1,  New  York  29.5,  Cleveland,  29.1, 
Boston.25.5  and  Philadelphia  24.7.

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TASTE  IX  DISPLAY.

Local  Instances  of  the  Lack  of  A rtistic 

Feeling;.

For  some  reason  not  easy  to  account 
for  it  has  been  settled,  labeled  and  put 
away,  as  if  it  was  one  fact  fixed,  that 
the  grocery  store  is  the  one  place  in  the 
world  where  taste  as  a  fine  art  is  not  to 
be 
looked  for  and.  if  found,  has  little 
to  encourage  it.  There  may  be  some­
thing  in  the  way  of  convenience,  care 
in  respect  to  appointments  and  fixtures 
fairly 
in  the  Muskegon  es­
tablishment 
the 
Tradesman ;  but beyond that  the  grocery 
and  all  that  belongs  to  it  is  a  question 
of  use,  not  beauty,  and  he  who  defends 
that  side  of  the  question  will  find  it  to 
go  heavily  against  him  in  fact  as  well 
as  in  theory.

lately  described 

illustrated 

in 

While  admitting  that 

the  question 
is  one  which  the  Fine  Arts  like  to  dis­
cuss  and  one  that  has  been  claimed  as 
wholly  their own,  the  Tradesman  insists 
on  entering  far  enough  into  that  terri­
tory  to  declare  that,  while  a  grocery 
store  may  be  a  financial  success  without 
attempting  to  utilize  the  beautiful  in 
any  form, 
the  chances  are  strongly 
against  it.  More than  that,  there  is  not 
a  grocery 
in  town  or  country  that  does 
not  depend  largely  on  form  and  outline 
to  attract 
trade—two  elements  that 
beauty  depends  on  most  for  attaining 
what  is  considered  its  best.  Nor is  color 
wanting.  Within  almost  a  stone’s  throw 
of  this  office  there  is  a  grocery  where 
form  and  color  have  been  largely  de­
pended  upon  for  pleasing  effect,  and  so 
much  has  this  had  to  do  with  drawing 
trade  and  retaining 
it  that  it  may  be 
put  down  as  a  generally  acknowledged 
fact  in  the  grocery  business,  as  it  has 
already  been  acknowledged  in  art,  that 
taste  and  not  material  is  the  basis  upon 
which  success  depends.

There 

is  nothing  which  beauty  can 
handle  in  form  and  color  lovelier  than 
dowers  and 
if,  as  has  been  claimed, 
material 
is  all  that  is  needed  to  make 
a  beautiful  cieation  the  flower garden 
and  the  hot  house—or,  rather,  the  blos­
soms  that  come  from  them—will  be  all 
that 
is  needed  to  attract  and  retain. 
With  that  for  an  admitted  fact,  we  are 
ready  for  an  illustration,  and  it  can  be 
found  right  up  here  on  Monroe  street. 
There  is  a  window  full  of  roses,  red and 
white  and  pink.  There  are  carnations 
of  every  hue.  There  are  greens  of  every 
degree  of  daintiness  and  yet  the  win­
dow  as  a  show  window  is  an  utter  fail­
ure.  Instead  of being  the  beautiful  pic­
ture  it  might  be,  with  the  finest  mate­
rial  that  an  artist  ever  worked  with  or 
could  ask  for,  without  the  taste  th  t 
knows  how  to  use  this  matchless  ma­
terial  the  blossoms  and  the  window  are 
as  neglected  as  the  thimbleweed  that 
insists  on  keeping  the  country  roadside 
is  the  material,  but  the 
green.  There 
taste 
lacking;  and  the  one  without 
the  other  offers  the  most  discouraging 
results  which  art or  industry  or business 
can  possibly  offer.

is 

On  that  same  street  there  is  a  grocery 
store—and  grocery  stores,  it  is  insisted, 
have  nothing  to  do  with  art.  All  sum­
mer  and  so  far  since  the  fall  came  in 
there 
is  a  man  in  there  who  has  been 
arranging  the  commonest  kinds  of  veg­
etables  and  fruits.  There  has  not  been 
a  morning  since  this  coarse,  ungainly 
material  began  to  appear  which  has  not 
seen  first  one  and  then  another  of  the 
passing  crowd  stop  to  admire the beauty 
which  that  artist  grocery  clerk  has  dis­
played.  There  are  reds  and  greens  and 
browns,  there  are  yellows  and  blues  and 
purples,  and  clumsy  baskets  hold  them ;

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

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Metal  Goods  and 
Hardware specialties 
Air Tight  Heaters, 

Stovepipe,  Elbows, 

Coal  Hods,  etc.

249*263  South  Ionia  Street,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

lessons 

but,  with  an  eye  to  the  beauty  in  home­
ly  things,  the  clerk  has  been  teaching 
his 
in  color  furnished  by  the 
vegetables  of  the  kitchen  garden,  and 
the  sales  resulting  from  his  object  les­
sons  are  a  convincing  proof  that  beauty 
in  a  grocery  store  pays.

There  was  a  wonder  in  July what taste 
would  do  in  that  grocery  when  the  fall 
fruits  came.  September  has  answered 
the  question.  A  peach  has  been  and 
always  will  be  a  peach,  but  what  added 
beauty 
it  tcrtik  to  itself  the  moment  it 
fell 
into  that  grocery  clerk’s  hands. 
How  common  the  grapes  are  when  they 
lift  their  plump  cheeks  to  the  sunshine 
of  the  market.  Concord  in  purple,  or 
delicate  Delaware,  or dainty  Niagara— 
they are  to  all  intents  and  purposes  only 
so  many  grapes;  but  when  the  artist 
places  them  as  his  taste  suggests  there 
is  not  a  prettier  window  picture  in  the 
city,  and  when  compared  with  the  flow­
ers  thrust  higglety-pigglety  in  the  flor­
ist’s  window  no  further  proof  of  the fact 
is  called  for  that  taste  and  not  material 
is  the  basis  upon  which success depends 
and  that  this  is  as  much  needed  in  the 
grocery  store  as 
is  in  the  artist’s 
studio.

it 

Great  Scheme  of a  Heavyweight  Hen. 

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.

J.  W.  Buchanan,  an  attache  of  the 
general  offices  of  the  Louisville  and 
Nashville  Railroad,  whose  home  is  at 
321  West  Market  street,  Jeffersonville, 
relates  an  unusual  incident  in  connec­
tion  with  an  old  hen’s  eagerness to raise 
a  family,  not  caring  whether 
it  was 
a brood  of  chickens  or not.

Several  times  the  hen  was  supplied 
with  a  setting  of  eggs,  but  being  a  hen 
of  extraordinary  weight  she  managed  to 
break  the  eggs  and  at  last  gave  up  the 
egg-setting  job 
in  disgust  after  Mr. 
Buchanan  had  placed  a  half  dozen  door 
knobs  under  her henship.  Along  came 
a  cat  with  three  kittens.  The  old  hen 
chased  the  cat  away  and  took  charge  of 
the  kittens.  The  real  mother  sees  them 
only  occasionally,  when  she  feeds them, 
but  when  the  hen comes storming around 
the  fur  flies  and  then  the  cat  leaves.

A.  BOMERS,

..Commercial Broker..

And  Dealer in

Cigars and  Tobaccos.

157 E. Fulton  St.
Representing

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

.  M. Brines & Co., Allegheny City, Pa. 
Parker T. Conrad, Richmond, Va.
E. R. Wiersema, Grand Rapids, Mich. 
G. P. Kramer, Grand Rapids, Mich.
Doc Andrus, 
Robin Hood, 
Three Sisters, 

Plaindealer,
Little  Barrister,
Old Pards, Eta

OUR  LEADERS 

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A 

Splendid 
Assortment

We  never  had  a  better  or  a 
larger assortment  of  robes  and 
blankets than  this season.
There's a  chance  to  get  here 
what  many  suppose  could  not 
than  New 
be  found  nearer 

York or Chicago.gOur prices are  full  of  pleasant 

surprises—they  enable  you  to 
■  ^  make  a  profit  and  a  satisfied 
customer at the  same time.

BROWN  &  SEHLER 

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Cajuuuuuuuuui^

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Big  Oregon  Onions.

From the Morning  Oregonian.

The Oregonian  received  yesterday by 
express  from  Grant’s  Pass  an  onion 
which  measures  15  inches  around  the 
waist  and  weighs  2  pounds  3  ounces 
avoirdupois,  and  smells  to  heaven,  or 
near  there.  By  mail  arrived  a  letter 
which  explains that  the  onion  is  a  sam­
ple  of  the  wonderful  yield  of  a  patch  of 
one  and  two-thirds acres grown  this  sea­
son  on  the  farm  of  A.  L.  Hazeltine, 
near  Eagle  Point,  Ore.  From  this patch 
800  sacks— 1,200  bushels  of  onions— 
were  harvested.  The  person  who  sends 
the  onion  writes  that  he  took  it  from  a 
sack 
forty-eight,  which 
weighed  100  pounds.  He  adds  that  he 
usually  tells  the  truth,  hut  did  not  dare 
to  write  even  the  truth  about  these 
onions  without  some  evidence  to  sub­
stantiate  his  statements,  and  therefore 
sent  the  sample  by  express.

containing 

Satisfactorily  Explained.

“ This,”   said 

most  wonderful  hair  renewer. 
own  preparation.”

the  drug  clerk,  “ is  a 
It's  our 
“ Well,  give  me  a  bottle,”   said  the 
bald  headed  man.  “ But,  say,  come  to 
think  of  it,  why  don’t  you  use  it?  You 
are  pretty  bald  yourself?”
‘ Before  Using’  clerk.'  The  ‘ After  Us­
ing’  clerk  is  out  at  lunch.  You  should 
see  him.”

“ 1  can’t  use  it.  You  see,  I’m  the 

A  Very  Gentle  H int.

“ You  will  find  religion  everywhere  in 
said  the  Rev.  Dr.  Speakmore. 

nature, 
“ There  are  even  sermons  in  stones.”  

“ Yes,  and  have  you noticed, ”   replied 
the  long  suffering  member  of  the  con­
gregation, 
the  most  precious 
stones  are  small,  and  that  they  have  to 
be  cut  before  they  become interesting?”

‘ ‘ that 

Good  Butter

represents  skill  in  manufacture,  but  no  amount  of 
skill  can  overcome  the  influence  of  impure  in­
gredients.

POOR  BUTTER

will  surely  result  from  using  poor  salt.  Every 
grocer who  sells

Diamond Crystal Salt

is  helping  his  dairyman  customers to  overcome  a 
whole  lot  of  difficulties,  as  well  as  helping them to 
produce  an  article  that  can  be  sold  and  handled 
at  a profit.  Now  that  leading  chemists  have  de­
clared  Diamond  Crystal  to  be  the  purest  butter 
salt  in  the  world,  it  should  be  easy  for  grocers  to 
decide  which  salt  to  sell.

Diamond Crystal Salt Co., St.  Clair,  Mich.

TWO TYPES  OF  WOMEN.

Differing  Methods  of  Straightening  Out 

Mistakes.

It  was  not  a  serious  offense.  Worse 
happen  every  day 
in  the  week.  The 
driver  of  the  delivery  wagon  had  tried 
to  deliver  some  goods  and,  not  caring 
to  leave  them  in  that  neighborhood  un­
less 
in  responsible  hands,  had  done 
the  only  safe  and  so  the  only  sensible 
thing  and  had  taken  them  hack  to the 
store.  As  luck,  good  or  bad,  would  have 
it,  the  wagon  had  hardly  turned  the cor­
ner  when  the  customer  came  home  and, 
finding  out  from  her neighbor  that  the 
goods  had  come  and  gone,  she  started 
with  a  very  determined  step for  the gro­
cery  to  see  about  it.

The  looks  of  the  woman  prepared  the 
beholders  for  what  was  coming.  Short 
and  fat  and  dirty,  she  could  hardly  wait 
until  she  had  reached  the  center  of  the 
store.  Then,  placing  her  hands  upon 
her  hips  and  turning  her  dirty  face, 
fringed  with  dishevelled  hair,  to  the 
"boss”   or  to  the  unlucky  driver,  as 
each  seemed  to  deserve  the  particular 
portion  of  censure  she  had  reached,  the 
woman  "made  things  hot"  for awhile 
for  the  objects  of  her wrath.  At  first 
there  was  an  occasional  attempt  on  the 
driver’s  part  and  then  on  the grocer’s  to 
justify  the  action  of  the  delivery  boy; 
but  a  woman’s  tongue,  where  anger  sets 
it  going,  if  not  hung  in  the  middle  to 
make  both  ends  available,  can  go  faster 
than  any  two  men’s,  whatever  be  the 
mechanical  adjustment,  and  they  stood 
impatiently  waiting  for  exhaustion  to 
bring  the  full  stop  which  nothing  else 
could.  Finally  when  a  c  owd,  attracted 
by  the  high-pitched,  angry  voice,  had 
gathered  and  the  woman  had  had  her 
say,  the  damage  was  promptly  repaired 
by  a  hasty  trip  to the  woman’s  home 
and  peace  reigned  once  more  in  that 
comer  grocery.

"H ave  many  of  ’em  like  that?”
"N ot  when  she  gets  fairly  at  it.  You 
see,  she  lets  her temper  run  away  with
her  and  then  she  is  sorry  for  it.  She’ll 
be  in  the  first  thing  in  the  morning  and 
want  to  make  up.  She  wanted  to  kiss 
Judkins  the  last  time  and  I'm  inclined 
to think  a  good  deal  of  her violence just 
now  is  due  to  the  fact  that  he  wouldn't 
let  her!  There  is  a  woman  over  here 
on  Shank  avenue  that  takes  the  cake  in 
things  of  this  sort.  There  is  nothing 
she's  ever  sorry  for,  unless  it  is because 
she  couldn’t  think  of  something  meaner 
to  say  when  she  had  the  chance.  There 
wasn't  any  getting  along  with  her.  She 
drifted  off  to  another grocer  and,  so  far 
as  we  are  concerned,  it  was  a  mighty 
good  riddance.  We  all  have  to  have 
’em 
in  one  form  or  another;  and,  if 
one’s  got  to  have  the  heaviest  part  of 
his  punishment 
in  this  world,  1  feel  a 
little  easier  about  the  rest  of  it  when  I 
live  through  a  time  like  this!"

*  *  *
Whether  things  run 

in  streaks,  or 
the 
whether  the  distemper  gets 
atmosphere, 
it  is  impossible  to  say. 
The  day  seemed  to  be  Blue  Monday  or 
Black  Friday  all  over  town.  A  store 
over on  South  Division  street  was  hav­
ing  a  good  time  cleaning  up.  They 
have  a  queer notion  over there that dirty 
windows,  full  of  dead  flies,  are  not  ap­
petizing  to  look  at.  The  floor,  of  an 
afternoon,  sympathizes  strongly  with 
the  boy  whose  mother  insists  on  wash­
ing  his  face  whenever  it  gets  dirty,  and 
the  clerks  fancy  they  have  a  good  time 
keeping  things  straight  and  free  from 
dust  on  the  shelves. 
It  was  a  comfort 
to  see  two  ladies  come  in  and  go  about 
the  place  without  taking  hold  of  their

in 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

3

skirts  as  if  there  was  a  chance  tc  get 
them  contaminated  if  they  should  touch 
anything.  They  bought  butter  without 
finding  fault  with 
it.  They  ordered 
peaches  without  eating  two or  three  of 
the  biggest  ones,  and  each  took  home  a 
paper  package  containing something  for 
supper.  The  quiet  was  a  pleasing  con­
trast  to  the  stormy  scene  above recorded 
and  there  was  a  growing  thought  that 
here  was  a  grocer  whose  future,  accord­
ing  to  his  brother  grocer’s  philosophy, 
would  have  much  to  do  with  the  hot 
end  of  the  poker.

This  conclusion  was  hardly  reached 
when  an  angry  customer,  not  many 
years  from  her  young  womanhood,  from 
which  she  had  brought  abundant  proofs 
of  its  loveliness,  came  in  with  a  pair of 
beautiful  black  eyes,  evidently  to  "find 
out  the  reason  why!”   With  some  varia­
tions  the  old  offense  had  been  given  in 
this  case.  She  had  left  the  house,  but 
the  nearest  neighbor  had  been  given the 
care  of  receiving  the  ordered goods ;  the 
man  had  gone  with  them  and  had  taken 
them  back  again;  they  were  wanted  for 
the  dinner,  which  depended  on  them! 
She 
looked  what  she  would  not  say; 
but  her grievance  had  been  stated  and 
she  waited  firmly  to  hear  the  explana­
tion ;  or,  if  it  should  come  to  that,  the 
apology.  Strange  to  say, 
it  was  the 
morning’s  offense  due  to  a  mistake  of 
the  customer’s  friend  and  not  to the  de­
livery  clerk.  He  came  down  from  his 
window-washing  and  said  what  he  had 
to  say  and  the  woman  went  away  satis­
fied  with  the  store  management,  but  im­
pressed  with  the  unreliability  of  neigh­
bors.

The  mistake  had  been  the  same  in 
both  instances,  due  to  the  same  cause. 
Womanhood  had  condoned  the  offense 
each  in  her own  way ;  but  one could  not 
help  wishing  that, 
if  mistakes  must 
happen,  to  good  breeding  should  be  as­
signed  the  duty  of  making  the  crooked 
straight,  when  there  are  just  two  ways 
to  do  it.

\oung men and women for useful life and profitable  employment.  Superior  methods  of  instruc­
tion.  Largo corps of able men teachers.  Occupies elegant building erected for  its  use. 
lias  had 
over 33,000 students in attendance now employed in different parts  of  the  world.  Has  more  stu­
dents in attendance and furnishes more situations to graduates than all other  business  colleges  in 
Detroit combined.  Elegant  catalogue  furnished  on  application.  Business  men  furnished  with 
competent bookkeepers, stenographers, etc., free of charge.

WILLIAM F. JEWELL, President. 

PLATT R. SPENCER, Secretary.

Business  University  Building,  11=13=15-17-19  Wilcox  Ave.

Brilliant  Making  Gas  Lamp

Are  not  expensive.  Everybody  can  use 
them.  Never  out  of  order. 
Always 
ready,  always  right.  Brighter than  elec­
tricity. 
Cheaper  than  gas  or  kerosene.
More  in  use  than  all  other  gasoline 
lamps  combined. 
Every  town  wants 
an  agent.

BRILLIANT  QAS  LAMP  CO.

100 Candle  Power

George  Bohner,  Agent. 

42  State  St.,  CHICAGO.

R U B -N O -M O R E

Handled by all  Jobbers.
Sold by all  Retailers.

SUMMIT  CITY  SOAP  WORKS,  Fort  Wayne,  Ind.

Both  Hands  Remained  Up.

Whatever  differences  of  opinion  may 
exist  in  regard  to  other  subjects,  those 
who  have  been  held  up  by  highwaymen 
are  unanimous  in  the  statement  that  no 
matter  how  few  the  holders-up  or  how 
many  they  held  up,  each and  every  man 
that  the  robber's  weapon  was 
said 
pointed  directly  and  solely  at  him.
Years  ago  in  California  a  commercial 
traveler was  on  a  stage  coach  that a pair 
of  bandits  went  through.  The  fourteen 
passengers were  all  made  to get  out  and 
stand  in  a  row,  with  their  hands  high 
over  their  heads.  One  burly  ruffian 
stood  guard over them with a double-bar­
reled  shotgun  while  the other engaged in 
the  pleasing  task  of  relieving  them  of 
their  valuables  and  spare  cash.  This 
particular traveler  was  nearest  the  man 
with  the  shotgun.

While  the  ceremonies were in progress 
his  nose  began  to  itch,and  instinctively 
he  started  to  lower  one  hand  to  scratch 
it. 
"Hands  up  there!”   came  the  stern 
order  and  his  hand  went  automatically 
back  into  place.  But  that  itching  re­
doubled  and  again  he  essayed  the  re­
lieving  scratch. 
"Say,  what’s  the  mat­
ter  with  you  anyhow?”   demanded  the 
highwayman. 
"Are  you  wishing  to  be­
come  a  lead  mine?"  "M y  nose  itches 
so  I  can't  stand  it  any  longer,"  tearful­
ly  explained  the  sufferer,  " I   simply 
have  got  to  scratch  it.”  
"N o,  you 
hain’t,"   ungrammtically  corrected  the 
knight  of  the  road,  " ’cause I'll do  it  for 
you."  And  with  that  he  proceeded  to 
scratch  the  offending  nasal  organ  with 
the  muzzle  of  his  shotgun.

From  present  indications  at Washing­
ton  the  cost  of  the  present  census  will 
be  $15,000,000.  No  previous  Federal 
census  of  population  has  been  so  satis­
factory or provoked so  little criticism  or 
censure  as  this  one.

Use  Tradesman  Coupons

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Around  the State

Movements  of Merchants.

Menominee—J.  C.  Rosenberg  will 

shortly  open  a  tea  store  here.

Allegan—W.  V.  Marsh,  of  Chicago, 

has  opened  a  confectionery  store.

Hillsdale— F. W. Parkhurst has sold his 

grocery  stock  to Chas.  H.  Jennings.

Monroe— P.  W.  Fishburn  will  retire 

from  the  grocery  business  on  Nov.  i.

Adiian— R.  J.  Clegg  has  opened  a 

meat  market  at  31  North  Main  street.

Marine  City— David  Roy  Lester  has 

sold  his  drug  stock  to  F.  H.  Holmes.

Munith—Schneckenburg Bros,  succeed 
Kutt  &  Schneckenburg  in  the  hardware 
business.

Detroit—J.  A.  Webster,  furniture  and 
hardware  dealer,  has  removed  to  Mem­
phis,  Tenn.

Bellaire—— Flanigan  Bros, 

succeed 
Miller  Bros,  in  the  dry  goods  and cloth­
ing  business.

Elsie—Swan  &  Courtright  have  pur­
chased  the  general  merchandise stock  of j 
H.  W.  Tuttle.

Applegate—J.  &  G.  Wagner have sold 
their  hardware  and  implement  stock  to 
N.  J.  Geoffrey.

Davis—Giddings,  Wright  &  Co. 
have  purchased  the  general  stock  of 
Davis  &  Switzer.

Berrien  Springs—Geo.  Kephart  has 
the  grocery  and  crockery 

purchased 
stock  of  I.  N.  Davis  &  Co.

Volinia—Huff  &  Wright  is  the  style 
of  the  new  firm  which  has  purchased 
the  general  stock  of  Abram  Cary.

Lansing—F.  Z.  Thompson,  proprietor 
of the Central meat market,  has  removed 
to  310  Washington  avenue,  north.

Sanilac  Center— E.  S.  DeCow  &  Co., 
hardware  dealers,  have  dissolved  part­
nership,  Edward  S.  DeCow  succeeding.
Jackson—C.  R.  Hawley,  of  Bay  City, 
has  purchased  the  Mrs.  Carrie A.  Moore 
dry  goods  stock  and  removed  it  to  that 
city.

Constantine— Milo  P.  Merritt  has  es­
in  the  general  mer­
in  the  Union  hall 

tablished  himself 
chandise  business 
block.

Saginaw—Wm.  Graham, proprietor  of 
the  Graham  Imperial  pharmacy,  has 
purchased  the  drug  stock of Mrs.  Martha 
Smith.

Owosso—J.  Harris,  of  Detroit,  has 
leased  a  store  building  and  will  engage 
in  the  bazaar  and  confectionery  busi­
ness  here.

Union  City—John  C.  Copeland  has 
engaged 
in  the  grocery  business,  hav­
ing  purchased  the  slock  belonging  to  S. 
G.  Newman.

Wayland—W.  A.  Truax  has  purchased 
the  general  stock  of  G.  A.  Truax  and 
will  continue  the  business  in the Grange 
store  building.

Wayland—Geo.  Burlington  has  pur­
chased  a  half  interest  in  the  meat  mar­
ket  of  Frank  A.  Burlington.  The  firm 
will  be  known  as  Burlington  &  Co.

Lansing—A.  M.  Donsereaux  has 
placed  a  clothing  stock  in  one  side  of 
the  Shank  grocery  building.  The  busi­
ness  is  conducted  by  P.  G.  Rogers.

Central  Lake— Dwight  and  James  S. 
Arnold,  of  Eastport,  have  purchased 
the  meat  market  of  Nelson  Cummings. 
The  style  of  the  firm  is  Arnold  Bros.

interest 

Vermontvi lie—Chester  M.  Ambrose 
has  sold  his 
in  the  clothing 
stock  of  Barber  &  Ambrose  to  his  part­
ner,  who  will  continue  the  business  un­
der the  style  of  Homer  G.  Barber.  Mr. 
Ambrose  has  purchased  the  grocery 
stock  of  W.  H.  Benedict  and  will  con­
tinue  the  business  at  the  old  stand.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Kalamazoo— Mitchell  Sternfield  has 
purchased  the  interest  of  his  brother  in 
the  bazaar  firm  of  Sternfield  Bros,  and 
will  continue  the  business  in  his  own 
name.

Sault  Ste.  Marie—The  Alf.  Richards 
Clothing  Co.  will  close  out  its  stock  of 
clothing  and  hereafter  conduct  an  ex­
clusive  hat,  shoe  and  men’s  furnishing 
goods  business.

Jackson—Clarence  H.  Bennett, 

for 
many  years  at  the  head  of  the  dry 
goods  house  of  W.  M.  Bennett  &  Son, 
has  opened  a  dry  goods  store  at  173 
West  Main  street.

Bellevue— N.  E.  Preston,  grocer,  has 
formed  a  copartnership  with  A.  J.  Fos­
ter,  of  Mt.  Clemens.  The  new  firm  will 
continue  the  business  under  the  style  of 
Preston  Ik  Foster.

Mendon—Wm.  Hawks  has  purchased 
the  stock  of  general  merchandise  of  A. 
R.  Dingman,  Agent,  and  will  continue 
the  business  under  the  style  of  the Men­
don  Mercantile  Co.

Manistee—C.  J.  Anderson,  druggist, 
has  purchased  the  premises  recently  oc­
cupied  by  J.  A.  Lindstrom  and  will 
open  a  novelty store, placing his  brother, 
Ilo  Anderson,  in  charge.

Freeport—Geo.  J.  Nagler  has  con­
verted  his  warehouse  into  a  cold  stor­
age  and  will  use  it  to  good  advantage 
for  his  dressed  poultry  business.  He 
will  handle  butter  and  eggs  next season.
Detroit— The  Merchant  Tailors’  Mis­
fit  Clothing  Co.  has  been  organized 
with  a  capital  stock  of  §5,000.  The  in­
corporators  are  L.  Cohn,  of  Sandusky, 
J.  Wertheimer  and  A.  W.  Schloss,  of 
Detroit.

Battle  Creek—John  Stringer,  who  has 
been  engaged  in  the  meat  business  for 
the  past  two  years  at  this  place,  has 
removed  to  Port  Huron  and  accepted  a 
position 
in  the  hardware  store  of  L.  B. 
Brockett.

Charlotte— The  A.  J.  Prindle  Co.  has 
opened  a  branch  boot  and  shoe  store  at 
Bellevue.  Charles  White,  a  salesman  in 
the  store  here  for several  months  past, 
has  been  given  the  management  of  the 
business.

St.  Johns— H.  W.  Morris  has  leased 
the  west  half  of  his  store  building to  W. 
R.  Osgood,  who  will  put 
in  a  line  of 
furniture  and  undertaking  goods.  Mr. 
Morris  will  occupy  the  east  store  with 
art  goods.

Saginaw— F.  W.  Roethka,  Bertha 
Roethka,  C.  L.  Roethka,  O.  T.  Roethka 
and  Mrs.  E.  Grauses  have  formed  a 
stock  company  under  the  style  of  the 
William  Roethka  Floral  Co.  The  cap­
ital  stock  is $25,000.

Lansing— Lane  ik  Knight,  of  Tecum- 
seh,  have  purchased  the  bazaar  stock 
of  W.  J.  Gonderman,  conducted  under 
the  style  of  the  New  York  Racket  store. 
Mr.  Gonderman  has  removed  to  Flint, 
where  he  has  another store.

Scotts—Wells  N.  Adams,  dealer  in 
hardware  and  harnesses,  and  Richard­
son  Bros.,  who  conduct  a  general  mer­
chandise  store,  have  consolidated  their 
stocks  and  will  continue  business  under 
tne  style  of  the  Richardson  Mercantile 
Co.

Portland—C.  F.  Powers  and  O.  N. 
Jenkins  have  purchased  of  Herbert 
Shafer  the  two-story  building  occupied 
by  the  Wm.  Ryan  bakery.  They own the 
millinery  store  on  the  south  and  expect 
in  the  near  future  to  erect  a  one-story 
brick  building  on  the  site  now occupied 
by  the  two  buildings.

H an u b ctn rin g  Matters.

Charlevoix—C.  Jones,  manufacturer 
of  confectionery,  has  sold  out  to  Chas. 
Hyers.

Perry— The  Perry  Glove  &  Mitten Co. 
expects  to  ship  goods  to  the  amount  of 
$60,000  this  year.

Manton—A.  Green  &  Son  have  sold 
their  saw  and  planing  mill  plant  to 
Martin  Northrup.

Detroit—The  manufacturing  concern 
known  as  the  Cooper  Handle  Co.  has 
removed  its  plant  to  Fenton.

Manton—Phelps  &  Baker  have  their 
new  grist  mill 
in  operation,  having 
begun  the  manufacture  of  flour therein 
last  week.

Detroit— The  Wolverine  Stove Co.  has 
been  organized  by  W.  H.  Strong,  F.  J. 
Martin  and  S.  O.  Van  de  Mark,  with  a 
capital  stock  of $20,000.

Manton—Truman  Bros,  have  sold 
their  sawmill  machinery  here  to  Mc­
Gregor  &  VanRanken,  who  have  re­
moved 
it  to  their  tract  of  timber  near 
the  Buttermilk  River.

Ludington— R.  G.  Peters  has  sold  his 
interest 
in  the  Butters  &  Peters  Salt  & 
Lumber Co.  and  the  name  of  the  cor­
poration  has  been  changed  to  the  But­
ters  Salt  &  Lumber  Co.

Detroit— The  Capital  Electric  Manu­
facturing  Co.  has  been 
incorporated 
with  a  capital  stock  of $30,000.  A.  Q. 
Bresler,  T.  G.  Rakestraw,  W.  J.  Bowen 
and  E.  A.  Bresler  compose  the  com­
pany.

Cass  City—A  new  business  enter­
prise,  known  as  the  Cass  City  Lumber 
&  Coal  Co.—  with  T.  J.  Anketell,  Pres­
ident  of  the  Anketell  Lumber  Co.,  of 
Chicago,  at  its  head—has  been  estab­
lished  at  this  place.

Adrian—This  city  has a new industry, 
which  will  be  in  operation  within  two 
weeks.  G.  B.  Kimball  &  Co.  have 
leased  the  Libs  building  on  North Main 
street,  are  placing  machinery  and  will 
manufacture  cigar  boxes  of  all  grades 
and  sizes.

Lawrence— The  Lawrence  Canning  & 
Packing  Co.  has  been  organized  with  a 
capital  stock  of $8,000 to  engage  in  the 
manufacture  and  sale  of  canned  goods. 
The  stockholders  are  E.  S.  Rockefel- 
low,  H.  S.  Bunnell,  G.  W.  Crawford 
and  C.  Rockwell.

Detroit—A  new  salt  manufacturing 
and  coal  enterprise has  been  established 
with  a  capital  stock  of $50,000  under 
the  style  of  the  Rogue  River Salt  Co. 
Those  interested  in  the  business  are  W. 
H.  Irvine,  L.  E.  Wise.W.  E.  Moss  and 
F.  B.  Tibbals,  of  Detroit,  and  H.  B. 
Brevoort,  of  Woodmere.

Vicksburg—The  Lotus  Creamery  Co. 
is  the  style  of  a  new  enterprise  recently 
established  at  this  place  for the  manu­
facture  of  butter  and  cheese.  Those 
interested 
in  the  company  are  W.  R. 
Southworth,  C.  T.  Richardson,  C.  H. 
Haines,  M.  Q.  Fenstermacher and J.  F. 
Goldsmith.  The  capital stock is $1,000.
Pontiac—An  incorporated  stock  com­
pany,  composed  of  George  Hodges,  of 
this  city,  and  several  leading  citizens 
of Detroit,  including  Geo.  Hifsendegen, 
has  established  a  vehicle  factory  here. 
Mr.  Hodges  was  formerly  of  the  firm  of 
Martin  Halfpenny  & Co.,  manufacturers 
of  vehicles.  He  has  purchased  the  ma­
chinery  of  the  latter and  removed  it  to 
the  building  now  occupied  by  the  new 
company.  Halfpenny  &  Co.  will  place 
a  new  outfit  in  their  Pike  street  build­
ing  and  continue  the  business  at  the 
old  stand.

Lansing-----Northrop,  Robertson  &
Carrier,  manufacturers  of  extracts  and 
baking  powder  and  dealers  in  spices, 
leased  a  building  on  Washington 
have 
avenue,  north, 
formerly  occupied  by 
Robson  Bros.i  and  will  remove  to  that 
location  about Jan.  1.  The  building  is

now  undergoing  extensive 
repairs. 
The  first  and  second  floors  will  be  used 
for  offices  and  warerooms,  the  third 
story  for  laboratory  and  workrooms  and 
the  basement  for storage.  The  annex 
will  be  utilized  for the  spice  mills  and 
baking  powder  manufactory.

Kalamazoo—The  Allen  Manufactur­
ing  Co.  has  been  organized  with  a  cap­
ital  stock  of  $6,000  by  Delano  Allen, 
Lynn  Allen  and  A.  B.  Schied  for the 
purpose  of  engaging 
in  the  manufac­
ture  of  strawboard,  berry  boxes  and 
egg  carriers  for  the  use  of  retail  grocers 
in  delivering  eggs  to  their  customers. 
Delano  Allen  has  been  elected  Presi­
dent  of  the  corporation  and  will  place 
the  output  of the  factory.  A.  B.  Schied 
will  serve  the  company  as Secretary  and 
Treasurer,  while  Lynn  Allen  will  un­
dertake  the  management  of  the  manu­
facturing  department.

Saginaw—One  of  the 

largest  hard­
wood  concerns  in  the  country  has  just 
been  organized  under  the  name  of  the 
Chicot  Lumber  Co.,  of  which  Col.  A. 
T.  Bliss,  of  this  city,  is  President,  and 
A.  F.  Cook,  also  of  this  city,  is  a  stock 
holder.  The  company  is  capitalized 
at  $300,000  and  owns  22,000  acres  of 
land 
in Chicot  county,  Ark.,  on  which 
there  is  standing  on  a  careful  estimate
200,000,000  feet  of  hardwoods with white 
oak  predominating.  A  band  mill  of
50,000 
is  being 
erected and will  he  located  at  Blissville, 
120  miles  southeast  of  Little  Rock  on 
the  Iron  Mountain  Railroad.

feet  daily  capacity 

Adrian—Some  weeks  ago  Ladd  J. 
Lewis,  of  Utica,  and  George  H.  Lewis, 
of  Warsaw,  N.  Y.,  came  to  Michigan 
looking  for  a 
location  for  a  knitting 
mill.  Their choice finally fell  on  Adrian 
and  they  made  a  proposition  to  some  of 
our  citizens  which  was  promptly  ac­
cepted.  All  required  was  that  a certain 
sum  be  raised,  to  be  expended  in  re­
pairing  the  building  now  occupied  by 
the  toothpick  factory,  which  the Messrs. 
Lewis  were  desirous  of  purchasing. 
In 
return  for  this  bonus  they  executed  a 
bond  for  a  like  amount  pledging  them­
less  than  forty 
selves  to  employ  not 
persons  ten  months 
in  a  year  for  a 
period  of  five  years.

The  Boys  Behind  the  Counter.

Eaton  Rapids—James  Caffery  suc­
ceeds  Charles  Carlton  as  clerk  in  the 
store  of  the  Knapp  Grocery  Co.

Imlay  City— Ray  Olin,  of  Caro,  is  the 

new  clerk  in  Holden’s  drug  store.

Lansing—John H.  Rose,  formerly with 
Robson  Bros.’  wholesale  grocery,  has 
taken  a  position  with  the  new  grocery 
firm  of  Christopher  &  Loftus.

Alma—A.  L.  Fisher  is  clerking in the 
shoe  department  at  H.  J.  Vermculen’s 
department  store.

Quincy— Whyland  Gregory  has  taken 
a  position  with Pearce &  Lyons  as sales­
man.

Calumet—Morris  Miller,  who  has 
been  employed 
in  Jacob  Gartner’s  dry 
goods  establishment  for  some  time past, 
has  resigned  his  position  to  take  a  po­
sition  with  E.  Haas  &  Co.

Eaton  Rapids—Fred  A.  Caldwell,  for­
merly 
in  the  employ  of  a  prominent 
Jackson  druggist,  has  been  employed 
as  prescription  clerk 
for  J.  J.  Mil- 
bourn.

Hillsdale—Ted  Prideaux  has  been 
employed  as  manager  of  the  Hodges 
drug  store,  recently  purchased  by  G. 
Watson  Sly,  traveling  representative  for 
Neison,  Baker  &  Co.,  of  Detroit.

Sparta—Wm.  Powers  has  taken  a  po­
in  the  meat  market  of  Morris 

sition 
Haas.

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5

Grand  Rapids  Gossip

The  Prodace  M arket.

Apples— Buyers  are  busy  picking  up 
orchard  stock  at  90c@$i  per  bbl.  for 
fruit  alone,  but  are  hampered  by  the 
scarcity  of  help  in  getting  their  pur­
chases  packed  and  marketed.

.Bananas—Are  practically  unchanged. 
Prices  are  steady,  with a slight tendency 
to  advance  on  some  grades.

Beets—$i  per  bbl.
Butter—Creamery 

is  strong  and  has 
advanced  y @ ic  in  the  Eastern  mar­
kets.  Local  dealers  hold  fancy  makes 
at  21c,  but  confidently  expect  to  be 
compelled  to  advance  to  22c  in  the  near 
future.  Receipts  of  dairy  are  heavy, 
but  they  run  largely  to  low  grades  and 
poor  stock.  Prices  range  from  13c  for 
packing  stock  to  15c  for choice  and  16c 
for  fancy  table  grades.
Cabbage—$1  per  hbl.
Carrots—$1  per  bbl.
Cauliflower—$i@i.25  per  doz.  heads.
Celery— 18c  per  bunch.
Crab  Apples—65@75c  per  bu.
Cranberries—Cap  Cods  are  arriving 
freely,  commanding  $2.40  per  bu.,  and 
$6.75  per  bbl.

Eggs— Receipts  ate  light,  but  the  de­
mand 
is  not  heavy.  Fresh  eggs  com­
mand  j6c  for  case  count  and  17c  for 
candled.

Egg  Plant—$1  per  doz.
Game— Local  dealers  pay  $1  per  doz. 
for  gray  squirrels,  $1.20  per  doz.  for 
fox  squirrels  and  $1.20  per  doz.  for 
rabbits.

mand  I4@I5C  for 81b.  basket.  The  local 

Grapes— New  York  Concords  com­

crop  is  practically  ail  marketed.

Green  Peppers— 50c  per  bu.
Green  Stuff—Lettuce,  60c  per  bu.  for 
head  and  40c  for  leaf.  Parsley,  20c  per 
doz.  Radishes,  8@ioc  for  round.

Honey— Receipts  are  large,  but  stock 
runs  mostly  to  dark  grades,  due  to  the 
wet  season.  Fancy  white  fetches  15c, 
while  amber  commands  ic  less.
Lemons—Are  in  light demand.  Prices 
are 
lower  on  some  grades,  but  fancy 
grades  show  a  slight  advance.  The  sup­
ply  at  present 
is  rather  large  for  this 
season  of  the  year and  it  requires  con­
siderable  effort  to  work  off  stocks.  The 
market  for  foreign  fruit 
is  quiet,  the 
competition  of  Californias  being  too 
strong  to  permit  much  activity.
Onions—Red  Globe  and  Yellow  Dan­
vers  have  advanced  to  40@45c,  while 
White  Globe  and  Silver  Skins  fetch  55 
@6oc.  Small  white  stock  for  pickling 
purposes  is  in  fair  demand  at  $2@2.50 
per  bu.  Spanish  are  held  at  $1.50  per 
crate.
Pears— Fancy  Kiefers  command 75c@ 
$1  per bu.  Cold  storage  Bartletts  are 
in  fair  demand  at  $1.25.  Common  va­
rieties  fetch  75@goc.

Pop  Corn—$1  per  bu.
Potatoes—30c  per  bu.  and  weak  at 

that.

Spring  chickens, 

Poultry— Local  dealers  pay  as  follows 
for  dressed: 
10c; 
fowls,  8c :  spring  ducks,  10c—old  not 
wanted  at  any  price;  spring  geese,  8@ 
ioc—old  not  wanted;  spring  turkeys,  11 
@i2c;  old  turkeys,  8@ioc. 
Spring 
chickens  are  in  active  demand.  Spring 
turkeys  are  not  yet  in  good  condition, 
on  account  of  being  peppered  with  pin 
feathers,  which  will  disappear  after  a 
few  days  of  cold  weather.

Sweet  Potatoes—$2.25  for  Virginias 

and  $2.75  for Jerseys.

Quinces—$ i @ i . 25  per  bu.,  according 

to  size  and  quality.  Fancy,  S i.50.
Squash—2c  per  lb.  for  Hubbard.
Turnips—$1  per  bbl.

The  Grain  M arket.

Wheat,  owing  to  the  fine  weather  we 
have  had  during  the  past  two  weeks, 
has  been  depressed,  especially  as  the 
visible  again  sh’owed  an 
increase  of 
to 
L335-000  bushels,  which  tended 
weaken  the  market.  Tired 
longs  also 
sold.  Prices  sagged  about  ic,  which, 
although  not  much,  caused  very  small 
sales  in  wheat  centers.  Foreigners  keep 
taking  wheat  and  flour  combined,  about
long
3,500,000  bushels weekly.  Just  as 

as  the  visible  shows  gains,  even  small, 
it  stops  buying  on  a  large  scale.  The 
question  is  asked,  How  long  is  this  in­
last?  We  are  of  the 
crease  going  to 
opinion  that 
it  has  spent  its  force  and 
that  we  will  see  smaller  receipts  in  both 
winter  and  spring  wheat 
in  the  very 
near  future,  so  those  who hang  on  may 
yet  get  a  margin  on  their  holdings.

Corn  showed  a  small  decrease  of 
about  1,000,000  bushels,  but  the  depres­
sion 
in  the  wheat  market  had  its  effect 
on  corn,  which  was  y2c  lower.

Oats  remained  about  the  same 

in 
price  as  last  week.  The  market  lacked 
snap.  Marketing  from  first  hands  has 
been  about  the  usual  quantity.

Rye  seems  to  be  more  enquired  for, 
but  at  last  week’s  prices.  There  is  no 
boom  in  that  cereal  at  present,  although 
the  German  crop  is  claimed  to  be  about
4,000,000  bushels  short  of  rye.

The  flour  trade  has  improved  since 
In  mill 
last  writing  at  steady  prices. 
feed  there  is  not  much  to  report.  The 
mills  are  sold  up.  No  large  supply 
is 
pressing  on  the  market  and  prices  are 
steady  at  $15  for bran  and  $16  per ton 
for  middlings.

Receipts  were  as  follows:  Wheat,  55 
cars;  corn,  10  cars;  oats,  12cars;  flour, 
2  cars;  hay,  2  cars.

Millers  are  paying  73c  for  wheat.

C.  G.  A.  Voigt.

Hidex, Tallow,  Pelts  and  Wool.

The  advance  in  hides  has  been  quite 
marked  during  the  past  two  weeks.  All 
stocks  and  all  grades  are  now  at  their 
best.  The  trade  demands  are  good  and 
the  markets  generally  are  active.

Tallow  and  greases  are 

in  fair  de­
mand,  with  fair trade,  but  with  no  ad­
vance  in  prices.

Pelts  are  not  plenty  and  are  wanted 
by  pullers,  but  the  asking  price  is  too 
high.  The  tendency  is  to  crowd  values 
up,  which  is  not  warranted  at  the  pres­
ent  market.

Wool  shows  up  in  more  enquiries  and 
a  looking-around  feeling  of  the  market. 
Prices  are  firmly  held,  awaiting  elec­
tion  returns,  holders  being  confident 
that  it 
is  coming  their  way.  Small 
manufacturers  buy  for immediate wants, 
which  gives  more  volume  to  sales.  No 
large  sales  have  been  consummated. 
The  offerings  abroad  were  not  suited for 
America’s  wants  and  have 
little  effect 
on  fleece  values.  As  the  time  for  wools 
to  move  approaches,  each  side  becomes 
anxious.  Holders  will  receive  a  loss  at 
the  present  ruling  prices.

Wm.  T.  Hess.

Mayor  Perry  may  not  be  an  ideal 
mayor  in  every  respect,  but  he  has  done 
the  people  of  Grand  Rapids  an  inesti­
mable  service  by  exposing  one  of  the 
most  nefarious  schemes  ever  concocted 
to  secure  a  franchise  from  this  munici­
pality  worth  millions  of  dollars.  The 
details  of  the  attempted  swindle  have 
been  fully  described  in  the  daily  press 
and  the  Tradesman  commends  its  read­
ers  to  a  perusal  of  the  facts,  confident 
that  such  perusal  will  confirm  the  state­
ment  that  too  much  caution  can  not  be 
in  granting  exclusive  or  ex­
exercised 
for  public  utilities 
tended  franchises 
immediately  capitalized  for 
which  are 
several  times  their  value, 
in  conse­
quence  of  which  the  people  are  com­
pelled  to  pay  extra  prices  for  the  com­
modities  handled in  order that the stock­
holders  may  receive  dividends  on  stoefc 
which  represents  nothing  but  the  greed 
and  avarice  of  the  promoters.

For  Gillies’  N.  Y.  tea,  all  kinds, 
grades  and  prices  v isner  both  phones.

The  Grocery  Market.

Sugars—The  raw  sugar  market  is  un­
changed,  but  has  a  weaker  tendency 
and  a  decline  of  i - i 6c  is  expected  soon. 
Ninety-six  test  centrifugals  are  still 
quoted  at  4^c,  with  offerings  very 
light.  Advices  from  Puerto  Rico  are 
that  the  weather  has  been very favorable 
to  the  new  growing  sugar  crop  all  over 
the  Island  and  beyond  all  doubt  a  very 
large  crop  may  be  expected.  Calcula­
tions  are  that  the  total  for  export  will 
be  105,000  tons.  These  are  declared 
very  conservative  figures  and  the  total 
yield  may  just  as  well  come up to  10,000 
to  15,000  tons  more.  Trade 
in  refined 
continues  quiet  and  the 
jobbers  are 
carrying  light  stocks  of  sugar,expecting 
a  further decline.

Canned  Goods—The  canned  goods 
market  during  the  past  week  has  not 
developed  any  marked  changes  in  any 
line.  There  has  been  a  steady  flow  of 
orders  for  all  the  staple  lines,  but  not 
enough  of any particular article  to  cause 
any  change  from  its  position  of  last 
week.  The  trend  of  the  market  is  to­
ward  lower  prices  for some lines.  There 
is  one  thing  sure  and  that  is  that buyers 
are  not  overburdened  with  stocks  and 
we  think  there  will  he  heavy  buying 
shortly.  Corn 
is  very  easy  and  goods 
are  being  offered  at  some  very  low 
prices.  String  beans  are  strong,  with 
all  grades  well  cleaned  up.  Peas  are  in 
fair  demand  at  unchanged  prices. 
limited. 
Offerings,  however,  are  very 
As  previously  noted,  the  apple  crop 
is 
large  and  the  canned  article  can  be 
produced  at  a  low  price.  The  quality 
is  better this  season  than  it has  been  for 
a  long  time  and  a  large  business  is  an­
ticipated  for both  sizes.  There  is almost 
nothing  doing  in  peaches  now.  Prices 
are  unchanged,  but  have  a  weaker tend­
ency.  Domestic  sardines  are  in  slight 
demand  and  offerings  are  scarce. 
Im­
ported  sardines  are  coming 
in  quite 
freely  and  prices  are  very  firm,  with  a 
decided  tendency  to  advance. 
Indica­
tions  are  that  the  fall  pack  of  salmon 
on  Puget  Sound  will  be  very  short.  Ac­
cording  to  a  letter  from  a  packer,  most 
of  the  canneries  are  being  run  at  a  loss. 
The  cohoes  packed  to  date,  it  is  stated, 
are  mostly  half-pounds,  with  the  excep­
tion  of  a  few  tails.  There  is  said  to  be 
little chance of the  fish  coming  in  in any 
quantity  now.  The  cheaper grades  of 
salmon  are  still  in  demand  for  export.
Dried  Fruits—There  are  further indi­
cations  of  improvement  in  the  dried 
fruit  line  and  apparently  the  regular 
fall  consumptive  demand  is  beginning 
to  set  in  in  earnest.  Orders  are  mostly 
for  small  lots  as  yet,  but  they  are  much 
more  numerous  and  the  aggregate  trade 
through regular consumptive trade  chan­
nels  is  decidedly  larger  than  for  some 
time.  The  raisin  market  is  unchanged 
and  the  demand 
is 
still  quite  a  general  expectation  of  an 
advance  on 
loose  raisins  very  soon. 
Prices,  it  is  thought,  will  soon  be  made 
on  Pacifies,  which,  it  is  expected,  will 
be  nearly  as  good  as  standards,  and  at 
the  same  time  quotations  on  the  present 
standards  will  be  put  up.  Reports  from 
the  coast  are  that  75  per  cent,  of  the 
entire  crop  is  practically  safe  and  that 
the  weather  continues  favorable. 
Inter­
est  in  prunes,  which  has  been  at  rather 
a  low  ebb for some time, has revived con­
siderably  and  they  are  meeting  with  a 
good  demand,  especially 
for  40-50S, 
which  are  hard  to  get  in  large  quanti­
ties.  Peaches  and  apricots  are  in  fair 
demand  at  unchanged  prices.  Currants 
are  very  firm  and  offerings  are  light. 
According  to  all  available  information,

is  small.  There 

the  situation  is  likely to gain in strength 
and  there  appears  little  likelihood  of  a 
decline,  which  it  was  thought  a  short 
time  ago  would  be  probable.  Jobbers 
at  the  moment  are  buying  only  in  a 
small  way,  evidently  feeling  their  way 
with  the  consuming  public  at  the  high 
range  of  prices.  Dates  continue  very 
active  at  full  prices  and  sales  amount 
to  considerable  quantities.  Figs,  both 
old  and  new,  are  meeting  with  a  good 
demand.  The  quality  of  the  fruit  re­
ceived  has  been  very  satisfactory  and 
should  tend  to  make  a  heavy  consump­
tion  of  this  article.  The  evaporated 
apple  market  continues  to  show strength 
and  with  seasonable  weather  an advance 
will  undoubtedly  occur.

Rice— The  rice  market is firm and  un­
changed.  The  demand  shows  some  lit­
tle  improvement  during  the  past  week. 
Stocks  throughout  the  country  are  much 
lighter  than  usuai  and 
it  is  expected 
with  the  advent  of  cold weather business 
■ will  pick  up  considerably.

Tea—The  tea  market  continues  very 
dull.  Buyers  show  no  disposition  to 
make  purchases,  apparently  having 
sufficient  supplies  on  hand  to  meet  the 
requirements  of  the  slow  demand.  The 
quality  of  new  crop  teas 
is  inferior, 
compared  with  last  year’s.

Molasses—The  molasses  market 

is 
unchanged 
in  price.  The  demand  is 
improving  somewhat  and  will  continue 
to  improve  as  the  weather grows  cooler. 
Offerings  are  very  limited,  as  stocks  are 
rapidly  decreasing.  The  corn  syrup 
market 
is  weaker  and  prices  have  de­
clined  y2c  per gallon  and  3c  per  case.

Nuts—-There 

is  considerable  interest 
in  nuts,  particularly  filberts,  foreign  al­
monds  and  pecans.  The  market  on 
Sicily  filberts,  which  has  shown  a  de­
cidedly  easier  tendency,  has  reacted 
and  the  market  is  again  advancing. 
Recent  advices  indicate  that  the  output 
is  not  as  large  as  expected  and it is pos­
sible  that  the  yield  may  not  show  even 
as  much  as  last  year,  which  was  a  short 
crop, 
giving  only  55,000  bags,  as 
against  an  average  crop  of  70,000  bags. 
The  new  goods  are  being shipped some­
what  earlier  than  usual.  Shelled  al­
monds  are  slightly  easier.  Brazils  are 
reported  y2c lower.  Reports from Smith- 
field,  Va.,  state  that  the  recent  rains 
have  done  much  damage  to  the  peanut 
crop  and  it  is  estimated  that  20  per 
cent,  of  the  nuts  will  be 
left  in  the 
ground,  being badly  rotted  by  the  heavy 
rains.

Rolled  Oats—The  rolled  oats  market 
is  stronger  and  prices  have  advanced 
ioc  per  barrel,  and  millers  are  still 
three  to  four  weeks  oversold  and  are 
offering  only  for shipment after Nov.  15.
Pickles— The  pickle  market  shows 
fair  de­

strength,  with 

considerable 
mand.

The  Kalamazoo Gas Co.  has purchased 
the  franchise  of  the  competing  gas com­
pany  in  that  city,  which  has  suspended 
operations,  thus  giving  the  former  cor­
poration  exclusive  control  of  the  field. 
As  a  result  of  this  purchase  and  the  in­
creased  confidence  in  which  the  institu­
tion  is  held,  both  at  home  and  abroad, 
the  5  per  cent,  bonds  of  the  corporation 
are  now  selling  at  par;  at  which  figure 
several  sales  have  recently  been  made 
in  Kalamazoo,  where  the  banks  are 
picking  up  the  bonds  for  investment 
purposes.  The  bonds  and  stock  of  the 
Kalamazoo  Gas  Co.  are  well  regarded 
by  Grand  Rapids  banks  and  capitalists 
issue— 
and  a  large  percentage  of  the 
$300,000 of  each—is  held  by 
in­
vestors.

local 

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

The  Buffalo  Market
A ccurate  Index  of  the  Principal  Staples 

Handled.

Beans— Receipts  continue  light  and 
with  a  fairly  good  demand.  The  best 
lots  are bringing stronger  prices.  Mixed 
and  imported  beans  are  slow;  marrows 
are  going  at  $2.1>@2.30;  medium,  $2(g 
2.15;  pea,  $2@2.20  per bushel;  white or 
red  kidney,  scarce.

Butter— Atlhough  sellers  are  getting 
rid  of  all  the  arrivals  of  fresh  creamery 
as  fast  as  received  and  at  better  prices 
than  quoted  last  week,there  is  consider­
able  more  business  being  done  in  stor­
age  and  renovated,  and  buyers  are  not 
inclined  to  pay  above  22c  for  regular 
best  fresh  and  22^c  for  extras.  Fancy 
Junes  are  working  off  quickly  at  2i@ 
22c,  and  renovated  at  18c.  Low  grades 
of  creamery  in  light  supply  and  selling 
at  comparatively  high  prices.  Some 
storage  dairy  is  coming  out  and  selling 
at  20c.  Creamery  extra  sold  to-day  at 
22j^c;  firsts,  2i@ 2i^c;  choice,  2o%@ 
21c;  fair  to  good,  i8@iqc;  Junes,  20@ 
22c;  dairy  extra,  20@2ic ;  choice,  19c; 

fair to good,  I7@i8c;  poor  to  common, 

all  kinds,  I4@ i6c.

Cheese— Fairly  active  demand 

for 
cheese  around  10c,  but  offerings  of  that 
class 
light.  No  common  here.  Fancy 
small  New  York  State  brings  12c,  with 
choice  at  i i @i i J^c  and  good  at  10c  per 
lb.  Western  about  cleaned  up,  mostly 
at  10c  for  good  stock.

Eggs— Market  decidedy  strong  on 
strictly  fresh  at  20@2ic,  and  good  to 
choice  at  iSigjigc,  while  storage  lots  for 
some  reason  are  freely  offered  at  17c  for 
finest  and  16c  for  choice.  The  differ­
ence 
is  considered  too  wide  and  it  is 
believed  an  advance  on  storage  will  be 
asked  this  week.

Dressed  Poultry—Active  demand  all 
last  week,  but  particularly  during  the 
closing  days,and  higher  prices  were  se­
cured  for  fancy  chickens.  A  small  lot 
of  young  turkeys  sold  at  I2@i3c.  Fancy 
ii@ n j£ c;  good  to 
chickens  went  at 
choice, 
Fowl, 
choice  to  fancy  medium,  10c;  fair to 
good,  9j£c.  Ducks,  young, 
io@i2c. 
Weather  has  been  warm  the  past  few 
days  and  receivers  are  advising  ship­
pers  to  continue  to  use  ice  in  fair quan­
tities.

ioj£@ nc;  fair,  10c. 

large, 

Live  Poultry— Market  stronger  owing 
to  active  demand,  everything  cleaning 
up  as  fast  as  it  arrived,  especially small 
coops  of  express  stock.  Young  turkeys 
went  at  io@ iic;  old,  8@gc.  Chickens, 
io@io>£c ;  choice,  9y2$i 
fancy 
10c;  small  and  mixed,  9@9>^c.  Fowl, 
fancy,  g@gYc;  fair  to  good,  8}4@gc. 
Ducks,  fancy  large,  8o@90c;  small  and 
medium,  6o<ii 70c  per  pair.  Geese, 
large,  8o@goc;  small  and  medium,  6o@ 
70c  each.  Pigeons,  per  pair,  i8@2oc. 
Although  there  has  been  a  decline  in 
meats  of  all  kinds  poultry 
still 
cheaper and  this  market  will  take  a 
much  larger  supply  of  fancy  poultry  as 
the  season  advances.  Ducks  wili  sell 
particularly  well,  also  fancy bright large 
chickens.

is 

Game—On'y  a  few  ducks  and  not  of 
a  desirable  variety.  Active  enquiry  for 
venison,  partridge,  woodcock,  squirrels 
and  rabbits.

Apples—Trade  in  fall  fruit  continues 
very  satisfactory  and  the  market  is  firm 
for  fancy  of  all  varieties  within  a  range 
of $2@2.50.  Greenings  and  other  win­
ter  apples  quiet,  although  quite  a  little 
business  is  being  done  in  selected 
lots 
for  cold  storage  around  $1.35© 1.50  per 
bbl.

Crabapples— Fancy selling at $i.75@2, 
and  fair  to  good  at  $¡@1.50  per  bbl. 
Trade  quiet.
Quinces—Liberal  supply  of  common 
to  fair,  but  strictly  fine  ripe  are  scarce. 
The  best  offerings  readily  bring  $2@ 
2.25,  while  others  are  slow  at Si@i.7S 
per  bbl.
Peaches—Few  really  good peaches  ar­
riving,  but  ali  sell  readily  at  what  is 
considered  a  high  price.  The  best  sell 
at  65@7oc,  and  common  to choice  from 
25 @ 50c  per  Yi  bu.  basket.
Pears—Light  demand,  still  the  offer­
ings  are  only  a  few  barrels  of  desirable 
Kiefferand  Duchess,  which  bring  about

$i.75@2  when  wanted; 
$i@i.5o  per bbl.

fair  to  good, 
Grapes— Market  stronger  for tray  and 
basket  lots.  An  enormous  business  was 
done  last  week  in  wine  grapes  at  $i8£3 
20  per  ton  for  black.  White  grapes 
quiet  at $28@32  per ton for fancy.  Eight 
pound  baskets  of  black  sold  at  g%i@ 
io}ic,  and  white  at  I2@i5c.

Malaga  Grapes— Liberal  supply,  kegs 

selling  slowly  at  $4.50  up  to $6.

Cranberries— Better  demand ;  quality 
improving.  Fancy  bushel  boxes  sold 
at $2@2.25.
Oranges—Jamaicas  in  bbls,  S5@5.5o; 
boxes,  §3.25@3.50.
Lemons—Weak.  Large  cases,  $3.75 
@4;  Messina  boxes,  $2.5o@5;  Califor­
nia,  S363.50.

Potatoes—The  farmers’  market  here 
cleans  up early  every  day  at 30@40c  per 
bushel  for fine  stock,  and  the  few  cars 
of  good  to  choice  received  here  are  eas­
ily  sold  at  the  same  prices.  A  few 
commission  men  managed  to  squeeze  a 
few  cents  more  from  store  when the sup­
ply  was  a 
little  short.  We  believe  it 
would  pay  well  to  ship  a  few  cars  of 
either  red  or  white  as  the  receipts  are 
not  expected  to  increase  much  in  the 
next  two  weeks.

Sweet  Potatoes—Fancy scarce.  Heavy 
supply  of  field-run,  mostly  large  stock, 
which  is  selling  slowly  at  $i.75@2.
Onions—Trade  brisk  and  receipts 
only  fair.  Quality  does  not  improve 
and  fancy,  good-keeping  yellow  would 
bring  more  money.  Best stock  here  sell­
ing  at  48@50c;  fair  to  good,  45@47c. 
Cabbage— Liberal supply at gi.SO@2.25 
per head,outside  price  for  large.
Celery—Another  rush  of  fancy  large, 
and 
it  is  impossible  to  sell  common 
stuff.  Fancy  is  not  bringing  above  30c, 
and  fair  to  choice, 
i5@25c;  common 
does  not  pay  freight.
Squash—Liberal  supply.  Hubbard, 
Horseradish— Firm;  S4.75@5.25  per 

Si4@i5;  marrow,  $8@io  per ton.
100  lbs.

Buckwheat  Flour— New  offered  at 

§2.5o@2.75.

Chestnuts—Higher;  lighter  receipts. 
Sales  generally  at  $4.50(^5.25  per  bu. 
for small  to  large.
Honey—Scarce ; 

fancy  white  would 
sell  at  20c;  No.  1  offered  at  18c;  dark 
all  the  way  from  io@i5c  per  lb.

Straw— Light  receipts;  firm.  Wheat 
and  oat,  $7.5o@8.25;  rye,  $9@9-5o  per 
ton  on  track.

Hay—Scarce  and  firm.  Prime,  $15.50 
@16;  No.  1, gi4,75@i5;  No.  2,  $i3@i4.

An  Obliging P rinter.

“ We’ll  send  you  these  circulars  early 

to-morrow. ’ ’

“ Can’t  you  print  and  deliver them to­
“ Goodness,  yes;  we’ll  send  them  to 

day?”
you  yesterday,  if  you  say  so.” ______

GOLD  MEDAL, PARIS,  1900
Walter Baker & Go.
COCOAS AND CHOCOLATES

PU R E ,  H IGH -G RADE

Their  preparations  are  put  up 
in  conformity  to  the  Pure-Food 
Laws  of all  the  States.

Under the  decisions  of  the  U. 
S.  Courts  no  other  chocolate  or 
cocoa  is  entitled  to  be  labelled 
or  sold  as  “  Baker’s Chocolate” 
or  “  Baker’s Cocoa.”

Grocers  will  find  them  in 
the long run the  most profit­
able  to  handle,  as  they  are 
absolutely pure  and  of  uni-
form  quality.

...

TRADK-MARK.  .  _ 

In writing  your  order  specify Walter 
Baker & Co.’s goods. 
If other goods 
are  substituted  please  let  us  know.

W A L T E R   B A K E R   &   CO.  Limited,

DORCHESTER,  MASS.

Established 1780.

You ought to sell

L IL Y   W H I T E
VALLEY  CITY  MILLING  CO..

"The flour the best cooks use”

G R A N D   R A P ID S .  M IC H .

fjt 

f or  Profit

tr /u M /e

at the

Old  Reliable

Grand  Rapids Business University

75,  77,  79,  81,  83  Lyon  St.

For circulars, etc., address

A.  S.  Parish,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

ROCHESTER  ACETYLENE  OAS 

MACHINES

$50 to $150.

Hotels,  Stores,  Cottages,  Shops 

and  Churches.
Safe and sure.

FRANK  P.  CROUCH,  Rochester,  N.  Y.

Agents wanted.

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T A B L E T S
HAKE  WASHING

EASY, i

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For sale by Olney & Judson Grocer Co., Ball- 
B arnhart-Putm an Co., W orden Grocer Co., 
Musselman Grocer Co.,  Lemon  St  W heeler 
Co., C lark-Jew ell-W ells Co., Daniel Lynch, 
Jennings E xtract Co., M., H. & W. P aper Co.

Y U S E A   M A N T L E S .

W e  are  the  distributing 
agents  for  this  part  of  the 
State  for  the  Mantle  that 
is  making such  a  stir  in  the 
world.

It gives  100 candle power, 
is  made  of  a  little  coarser 
mesh  and  is  more  durable.

Sells  for 50  cents.
Will  outwear  three  ordi­
nary  mantles  and  gives 
more  light.

GRAND  RAPIDS  GAS LIGHT  CO., 
Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

W.  C .  REA 

2 8   Y E A R S '  E X P E R IE N C E  

A .  J .   WITZIG

R E A   Su  W I T Z I G

COMMISSION  M ERCHANTS

In Butter, Eggs, Poultry and Beans

180  PERRY  STREET.  BUFFALO.  N.  Y.

References:  Commercial Bank, any Express Company or Commercial Agency. 

IM M E D IA TE  R E T U R N S

W HOLESALE

O Y S T E R S

In can or bulk.  Your orders wanted.

F.  J.  D ETTEN TH A LER ,  Grand  Rapids,

You keep Cigars.  Why don’t you get some you can’t  “keep?”

5c ADVANCE

CIGARS Sell

Don’t think they  are  cheap,  they  are  not.  Why?  Because  they  are 

good.  "Good” articles are never cheap.  TRY  THEM.

THE  BRADLEY  CIGAR  CO.,

Mfrs.  Improved  HAND  “W.  H.  B.”  MADE

10 Centers.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

W ATER  PROOF 

WOOD  SO LE  SH O ES

7

American  Jewelry  Co.,

M anufacturers and Jobbers of

Jewelry  and  Novelties

45  and  46  T ow er  Block,
Grand  Rapids,  M ich.

Aluminum Money

Will lacrease Your Business.

|   ....Try  a  Case of  Home Made  Rubbers....

!

We are now prepared to furnish the trade any of  the following 

Rubber  Boots and Shoes and  made by the

GRAND  RAPIDS  FELT  BOOT  CO.

Special  Prices  and  Better  Made  Goods are inducements we offer. 

♦

Men’s  Duck,  Friction  and  Wool  Lined  Short,  Heavy  and  Light  Weight  T 
,

Boots,  Hip  and  Sporting  Boots.  All  kinds  of  Lumbermen’s  Rubbers, 

Men’s  Light and Heavy Weight Arctics, Self Acting Overs, Wayne 

High Vamp Slippers and Alaskas, Felt and Sock Combinations.

Try a sample case of them.  Correspondence solicited.

STUDLEY  &  BARCLAY,

4  Monroe  Street,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH,  t

Price $1.10  net.

With iron rails on bottom, $1.25.

Oil Grain Uppers.  Sizes 6 to 12.  Best shoes for 
Butchers, Brewers, Farmers, Miners,  Creamery- 
men, Tanners,  etc.  This  sole  is  more  service­
able and cheaper than a leather sole where  hard 
service is required.
A.  H.  RIEMER  CO.,

Patentees and Mfrs.,  M ILW AUK EE,  WIS.

Cheap and Effective.

Send for samples *nd  prices.

C.  H.  HANSON,

44  S .  Clark  St.,  Chicago.  III.

^

1 Save  5  per cent.

It’s  5  percent,  in  your pocket  to  buy  rub­
bers  before  Nov.  i.  W hy  not  take  ad­
vantage  of  the  chance?

Lycomings— none  better— 25  5  per  cent.
Keystones— seconds  that  are  almost  firsts— 25  5-10  per  cent. 
Woonsockets,  25-5-5  Per  cent.
Rhode  Islands,  25-5-5-10  per  cent.

W i l l   V 131L  y u u   3 U U 1 1 .  
Our  agents  will  visit  you  soon.
W H i  

GEO. H. REEDER & CO., Grand  Rapids  1

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Bill  Nye’s  Way  of  Managing  the  Shoe 

Business.

1  have  received  the  following  letter:
Dear  N ye:  I  am  about  to  start  in  the 
boot  and  shoe  business.  My  friends  say 
I  am  cut  out  for  it,  have  genius  in  that 
direction.  Can  you  suggest  some  way 
to  get  going  and  stay  going  without  us­
ing  the  newspapers?  An  early  reply 
will  greatly  oblige, 

Reginald.

To  begin  with—stay  where  you  are ! 
Don’t  move!  Allons!  “ About  to  start" 
is  better  than  starting  without  the  aid 
of  the  press,  Reggie.

I  am  glad  to  hear  that  you  have 
genius—you’ll  need  it,  Reggie,  to  suc­
ceed 
in  any  direction,  unless  you  are 
bound  “ up  Salt  Creek,"  without  the 
genial 
and  necessary  assistance  of 
printers'  ink.

I  can  suggest a  way— 1  will  suggest  a 
way—a  road  as  plain  as  the  nose  on 
your  face,  Reggie.  I  take  it  for granted 
you  have  a  face,  and  that  the  nose orna 
menting  it  is  a  Roman  one,  and  not  a 
mere  road  in  your  physiognomy,  a  road 
that  has  been  traveled  by  more  unadul­
terated  failures  both  in  the  shoe  trade 
and  other  branches  of  business endeavor 
than that charming country ramble which 
Shakespeare  says  “ is  paved  with  good 
intentions.”  
It  will  bear  careful  con­
sideration,  and  is  as  follows :

The  first  thing  on waking in the morn­
ing  turn  over  and  go  to  sleep  again; 
this  will  rest  you  and  keep  you 
from 
getting  up.  No  self-respecting  shoe 
dealer  should  reach  his  place  of  busi­
ness  before  io  o’clock  in  the  morning; 
and 
it  might  add  to  his  dignity  not  to 
get  there  until  io  p.  m.

When  you  have  opened  the store bring 
in  the  hose  and  wet  down  the  stock  to 
make  sure  it  does  not  leak.

If  it’s  a  cold  morning,  wet  down  the 
walk  in  front  of  the  store,  so it’ll freeze, 
and  the  first  man  that  attempts  to  go  by 
will  fall,  like  Lucifer,  and  drive  his 
spinal  column  up  through  his  brains. 
This 
is  an  efficient  way  to  see  if  the 
man  who  attempted  to  go  by  has  any. 
Drag  him  into  the  store  and  send  for a 
doctor.  This  will  draw  a  crowd,  some 
of  whom  might  need  shoes  and  steal  a 
pair.

While  the  doctor  is  pushing  the man’s 
spine  back  to  place  and  sewing  up  the 
hole,  tell  the 
injured  wretch  a  funny 
story,  and  sell  him  a  pair of  shoes  that 
won’t  slip.  You  might  turn  the  hose 
on  the  crowd,  at  the  same  time  making 
some  facetious  remark  about  the  weath­
er.  By  this  time  lots  of  folks  will  have 
slipped  down  on  your  improvised  rink, 
to  their  great  merriment.  This  little 
stroke  of  business  can  be  dealt  by  you 
any  time  when 
is  not  freezing  by 
spreading  a  few  banana  skins  on  the 
walk.  Folks’ll  sue  you— if  they  don’t 
kill  you  outright—and  a 
lawsuit  will 
keep  your  name  before  the  public.

it 

When  the  excitement  is  over,  take  the 
best  pair of  shoes  in  the  store,if  you’ve 
paid  for  them,  and  get  a  big  hammer 
and  a  long  spike  and  spike  them  down 
to  the  sidewalk 
in  front  of  the  door. 
This  will  attract  attention  and  afford 
you  infinite  amusement  when  anyone 
tries  to carry  them  off.

When  a 

lady  calls,  don’t  jump  at 
“ business”   the  first  thing  by  asking 
her  if  she  wants  to  buy  a  pair  of  shoes; 
she  always  goes  to  the  drug  store  for 
them.  Ask  her  how  old  she  is;  if  her 
teeth  are  false  and  if  she  lives  happily 
with  her husband.  Then  introduce  the 
subject  of  shoes  carefully  but  firmly 
with  a  slight  innuendo,  as:  “ Ah! 
I 
see  you’ve  got  your  feet  with  you!”   or 
“ When  small  feet  were  given  out  in 
Maine  you  were  in  Texas!”   Try  a  line

of  Ella  Wheeler  on  her;  women  like 
poetry:

Laugh and the world laughs with you.
Weep and we all repine;
An extra sized shoe is the thing for you 
When your foot is a number nine.
When  she  flounces  out,  ask  her  if 
that’s  her own  hair  or a  switch.  Then, 
when  her  husband  or big  brother  comes 
around,  laugh  yourself  as  he  jams  your 
measly  head 
a  shoe  case. 
“ Laugh  and  he  will  laugh  with  you.”  
This  will  keep  the  town  talking  about 
you,  and  is  much  cheaper  than  adver­
tising  in  the  papers.

through 

The 

late  P.  T.  Barnum,  when  busi­
ness  was  dull  at  the  old  “ Museum,  New 
York,”   had  a  man  with  a  very  solemn 
face  walk  out  and  lay  a  brick  down 
in 
the  middle  of  the  street,  leave  it  there, 
walk  back  in  and  through  the  museum 
without  saying  a  word  or  cracking  a 
smile,  take  up  another  brick  and  lay 
that  down  by  the  first,  pick  up  the  first 
and  back  through  the  museum  again. 
This  he  repeated  until  a  crowd  had 
gathered  and  paid  to  follow  him  in  to 
see  what  he  was  doing. 
I  wouldn’t  ad­
vise  you  to  do  that;  they’d  call  you  an 
imitator.  That  you  don’t  want.  Be 
original.  Buy  a  load  of  bricks—have 
them  slylv  dumped  in  the  yard  back  of 
the  store,  and,  when  all  the  town 
is 
trying  to  sleep  after the  excitement  you 
have  already  caused,  carry  the  whole 
load  up  on  the  roof,  one  brick  at  a 
time;  thus  you  can  count  them  and  it 
will  perfect  you  in  figures.  Next  day, 
io  or  ii  a.  m.,  get  up  on  the 
about 
roof  and  begin  to  dance 
and  yell 
“ Fire!”   This  will  bring  the  town  to 
your  store.  Then  holler  “ April  fool!” 
and  throw  the  bricks  as  fast  as  you  can 
on  their  heads.  You  can  yell  “ April 
fool!”   on  the  ioth  of  October,  if  you 
like— it  will  add  to  your  eccentricity, 
increase  your  popularity  and  perhaps 
land  you 
in  the  cooler.  Keep  every­
body  talking  about you—that’s  the  key­
note  to  success.

If  you  see  a  little  girl  going  by  with 
a  bundle,  take 
it  away  from  her  and 
cuff  her ears  so  she’ll  run  home  crying. 
When  her  father  is  trying  a  different 
brand  of  shoes  on  your  pusillanimous 
carcass,  suggest  to  him  that  the  shoes 
you  carry  will  give  better  satisfaction. 
If  he  kicks  you 
into  insensibility,  pay 
no  more  attention  to  him.

Shut  up  your  store  three  days  each 
week,  leaving  a  big  placard  in  the  win­
dow,  “ Gone  Fishing,  will  be  backmost 
any  time.”   Then  from  behind  a  broken 
window  pane  which  you  have  knocked 
out  back  of  the  shutters,  you  can  enjoy 
the  comments  of  your  fellow  townsmen. 
You  might  close  up  altogether,  and  thus 
play  a  joke  on  the  sheriff,  who  was  just 
going  to  save  you  the  trouble.  Finally, 
when  you  are  too  financially  dead  to 
tan  and  make 
into  a  pair  of  75-cent 
brogans,  you  will  have  a  big  monument 
with

“ Adam  Failure”

in  the  latest  ecru  pattern. 

cut  into  it 
Yours  for  health. 

Bill  Nye.

Nothing;  Personal  Intended.

A  demure  little  maid  entered a Boston 
music  store  not  long  ago  and  the  clerk 
politely  asked :  “ What would you like?”
The  young  girl  fixed  her  blue  eyes 
upon  the  youth  and  calmly  answered, 
“ Take back  the heart  that thou gavest. ”
The  clerk  stood  aghast  for a  moment, 
until  he  suddenly  recollected  that  his 
fair  customer  had  merely  asked  for  a 
sheet  of  music.

This  might  be  called  the  Golden 
Age,  judging  by  the  great  demand  for 
gilt  effects  in  all  articles  of  personal 
adornment.

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

STATE  OF  MICHIGAN  \
j 

County  of  Kent 

'

in  the  office  of  the 

I 

John  DeBoer,  being  duly  sworn,  de­

am  pressman 

poses  and  says  as  follows :
Tradesman  Company  and  have  charge 
of the  presses  and  folding  machine  in 
and 
that  establishment. 
folded  7,000  copies  of  the 
issue  of 
Oct.  17,  1900,  and  saw  the  edition 
mailed 
in  the  usual  manner.  And 
further  deponent  saith  not.

I  printed 

John  DeBoer.

Sworn  and  subscribed  before  me,  a 
notary  public  in  and  for said  county, 
this  twentieth  day  of  October,  1900.

Notary  Public  in  and  for  Kent  County, 

Henry  B.  Fairchild, 

Mich.

to  the  far  off  temperate  zone—the  busi­
ness  runs 
itself  and  that’s  all  there  is 
to  it.

it  is  not  far  off. 

When  business  of  any  kind  reaches 
that  stage  the  end  may  not  be  in  sight, 
but 
It  is  beginning 
to  run 
itself;  and  self-running  means 
that  the  man  at  the  head  of  it  is  find­
ing  painstaking  too  troublesome. 
It 
does  not  pay.  More  money  can  be made 
in  something  else.  A  gentle  decline 
begins;  a  rotten  speck  appears 
in  the 
lemon  of  trade,  the  fruit  is  not  disposed 
of  and  pretty  soon  the  alley  receives  it, 
with  others  of  its  kind.  Too  much  care 
was  needed—at  all  events,  it  was  not 
received ;  indifference  and  then  neglect 
took  charge  and  failure  was  the  in­
evitable  result.

It  may  well  be  questioned if this same 
condition  of  things  can  not  be  found  to 
exist  in  the  management  of  the  orchard 
behind  the  fruit  market.  When  the 
trees  are  young  and 
in  good  bearing 
condition  they  seem  to  know  what  is 
expected  of them  and,  with  something 
between a  pat  and  a  promise  from  the 
producer,  in  the  matter  of  care, 
the 
boughs  are  ladened  with  the  choicest 
fruit,  which,  because  it  is  the best,  calls 
for  the  earliest  bidder  and  is  disposed 
of  at  the  highest  price.  That  is  the 
time  that  fruit  raising  pays  and  the 
proposition  to  sell  the  farm  is  laughed 
at.  The  time  comes,  however,  when 
there  is  a  falling  off.  The  peaches  are 
not  so  large  and  the  amount  this  year  is 
less  than 
it  was  last.  The  tree  is  on 
the  decline,  but  is  ready  to  go  on  with 
its  old-time  work  if  care  can  be  given 
to  it.  That  it  does  not  get.  The  dead 
limbs  are  not  disturbed.  The  soil  is 
left  unplowed.  Neglect  creeps  in. 
It 
is  too  much  trouble.  The  peach  insists 
on  the  care  that  only  the  best  can exact, 
and,  not  receiving 
it,  ceases  to  be  the 
is  too  much  trouble.  Let  it 
best. 
is  getting  to  he  an 
go.  Fruit  raising 
old  story  anyway. 
It  is  tiresome  and 
does  not  pay  any  longer.  The  highest 
bidder  takes  the  farm  and  the  price 
paid  shows  that  the  sale  is  due  to  the 
fact  that  the  demands  of  the  best  can 
no longer be  met  by  inefficient  manage­
ment.

It 

Can  this  kind  of business  be  given  as 
the  reason  why  Michigan  is  no  longer 
the 
leading  apple  center  in  this  coun­
try?  Are  there  old  apple  orchards,  with 
limbs  and  scraggy 
trees  full  of  dead 
branches,  where  the  neglected 
soil, 
wasting  what 
little  strength  is  left  in 
the  production  of  briers  and  golden rod, 
tells  its  own  unquestioned  story  of  fail­
ure  due  to  an  unwillingness  to  give  to 
the  best  what  it  has  every  reason  to  de­
mand?  Has  there  ever  been  a  time  in 
the  history  of  the  Michigan  apple  in­
dustry  when 
its  choice  fruit  was  care­
fully  looked  after,  carefully  harvested 
and  as  carefully  sent  to  market?  Was 
there  ever  a  time  when  the  Michigan 
apple—at  its  best  thtre  is  nothing  bet­
ter—wrapped 
its  own  paper  mantle 
as  the  lemons  are,  confirmed  the  belief 
in  the  buyer  that  he  had  bought  the 
best?  The  question  needs  no  repeating. 
The  time  came  when  “ Care  killed  a 
cat”   became  the  proverb  of  the  orchard 
owner. 
It  was  too  much  trouble  to 
pack  the  fruit  as  it  should  be  packed. 
It  was  too  much  work  to  pick  it  when 
a  shake  would  bring  it  down. 
It  took 
too 
long  to  give  it  the  careful  handling 
which  it  required;  and  the  idea,  started 
and  entertained  in  the  State  which  once 
was  first  as  the  producer  of  the  best  ap­
ples  in  the  world,  led  to  the  condition 
of  things  as  they  exist  to-day.

in 

Is  there  a  chance  of  Michigan’s  get-]

ting  back  her  old  pre-eminence?  The 
answer  is  suggested  by  a  question  be­
hind  the  first : 
Is  the  grower  ready  to 
work  for the  best  and  meet  its  exacting 
Is  he  ready,  with  the  best 
demands? 
that 
is  in  him  and  that  he  has  at  his 
command,  to  go  into  his  orchards  and 
give  to  his  trees  what  their  unkempt 
branches,  like  so  many  scrawny  hands, 
are  pitifully  begging  for?  Has  he  be­
come  ashamed  of  his  neglect?  Has  the 
constant  care  the  orchards  must  have  to 
thrive  ceased  being  too  much  trouble? 
is  the  gist  of  the  whole  matter. 
There 
The 
soil  and  the  climate  have  not 
changed.  The  Michigan  sun  is  as  ready 
as  it  ever  was  to  foster  the  cared-for 
fruit.  The  rain  and  the  dew  will  still 
drop  fatness 
if  bough  and  branch  and 
cultured  ground  are  ready  to  receive 
them.  Bring  back  the  old  conditions 
and  the  old  results  will  follow.  The 
markets  of  the  world  will  be  only  too 
glad  to  receive  their  old-time 
favorites 
and  more  than  one  delighted  dealer,  as 
he  opens  the  barrel  of  fruit  that is again 
a  joy  to  look  upon,will  be  glad  to  know 
that  the  old  painstaking  care  has  again 
returned  and  that  Michigan  again  as­
sumes  her old  place  as  the  leading  ap­
ple  producer of  the  world.

An 

instance 

is  at  hand  for  illustra­
tion :  A  much-run-down  New  England 
farm,  whose  apple  orchards  were  the 
principal  means  of  support,  was  taken 
in  hand  by  the  owner,  who  had  his  own 
ideas  about  horticulture,  although  he 
did  not  dignify them  with  that  title,and 
will  power  enough  too  carry  them  out. 
The  spring  he  moved  there  and  went  to 
work  the  farm  was  as  worthless  a  piece 
of  property  as  a  man  could  have.  The 
orchards  received  his  earliest  and great­
est  attention.  Saw  and  pruning  knife 
were  his  constant  companions.  Day  in 
and  day  out  the  brush  piles  grew  and 
when  the  work  was  done  the  trees 
looked 
like  a  modern  “ hayseed”   fresh 
from  the  hands  of  the  barber. 
It  took 
a  week  for  them  to  find  out  that  they 
were  the  same  respectable  citizens  of 
the  orchard  that  they  used  to  be  when 
they  were  the  pride  of  the  district  and 
the  township.  Given  a  chance,  they 
yawned  and  stretched  as  vigorous  man­
hood  does  when  he  gets  up  in  the morn­
ing  to  go  to  work.  They  laughed  when 
the  plow  stirred  the  soil  about  their 
roots.  They  shouted  and  clapped  their 
hands  when  the  farmer  came  with  loads 
of  compost  and  then,  when  the  warm 
rains  came  and  gave  every  thirsting 
fiber  to  drink,  every  tree  settled  down 
to  the  old  task  with  the  newness  of 
life 
and  the  result  that  same  fall  saw  was 
the  opening  of  the  old  market  with  the 
same  old  customers,  who  were  only  too 
glad  to  fill  barrel  and  bin  with  the  old 
favorites  they  never  expected  to  see 
again.

The  soil 

is  ready,  the  other  condi­
tions  of  success  are  ready ;  it  remains 
only  for  the  man  behind  them  to  say 
whether the  scepter  thrown  down  be­
cause  it  was  troublesome  shall  be  again 
picked  up  and  the  apple  again  be  en­
throned  in  Michigan  and  its  old  crown 
restored.

Chicago dealers  have  had  their  feel­
ings  hurt  by  Sir  Thomas  Lipton.  They 
sold  him  pork  they  did  not  have,  and 
he  is  unreasonable  enough  to  ask  them 
to ship  it  to  his  London  address  imme­
diately,  as  he  has  an  army  to  feed.

The  man  who  flies  into  a  rage  if  he 
has  to  sit  behind  a  big  hat in the theater 
doesn’t  mind  it  in  the  least  if  the  same 
thing  happens  in  church.

WHAT  EIGHT  MEN  DID.

The  Tradesman  delights  to  encourage 
home  industry. 
It  believes  in  the  gos­
pel  of  caring  sharply  for  its  own  door- 
yard.  The 
interest  of  the  close-by  is 
dear to  its  heart.  Whatever  is  going  on 
within  sight  of  its  chimney  smoke  is  of 
the  utmost  concern.  What  is  good  gets 
its  encouragement  and  its  hearty  sup­
port.  What 
it  condemns  soon  becomes 
aware  of  its  disapproval ;  and  first,  last 
and  all  the  time,  there  is  the  unshaken 
belief  that  prosperity  comes  to  a  com­
munity  and  stays  there  just  in  propor­
tion  as  first-class  business  ability  gives 
its  attention  to  the  matter  in  hand  and 
so  gives  to  the  public  undertaking  the 
intelligent  push  which  makes  the  pri­
vate  enterprise  a  success.

Eight  business  men  of  Middleton 
made  up  their  minds  to  make  that  vil­
lage  a  good  place  to 
live  in.  They 
drew  up  their  chairs  around  the  council 
table,  agitated  their  gray  matter 
in 
line  with  the  abundant  common  sense 
which  nature  has  endowed  them  with, 
crystallized  the  best  plan  which  read­
ing  and  travel  and  conference  with  ex­
perts  could  give  them  and  set  to  work. 
What  they  have  done  the  pen  of  the 
very-much-in-earnest  Secretary  has  told 
the  readers  of  the  Tradesman  in  an­
other  column  of  this  week’s  paper— a 
three  months’  record  which  can  not  be 
too  heartily  commended.  There  is  not 
the  hint  of  the  guidepost  in  a  single 
sentence. 
It  tells  plainly  what  they 
did,  not  what  they  ought  to  do or to 
have  done.  That  is,  by  no  means,  all. 
It  is  the  hard  knots  in  the  public  wood- 
pile  that  are  always  the  toughest  to split 
and  that  knot  these  sound  business  men 
hit  squarely 
in  the  center  at  the  first 
blow.  A  single  sentence  tells  the whole 
story:  “ The  surveying  was  done  by  a 
member of  the  Association,  every mem­
ber  doing  what  he  could  to  help” — not 
standing  around  with  his  hands  in  his 
pockets  and  finding  fault  and  making 
fun;  and,  later  on,  “ The  work  of  set­
ting,  painting,  etc.,  was  all  done  by 
business  men. ”

long?  Will 

Extend  the  work  of  those  eight  busi­
ness  men'to  a year  and  multiply  that  by 
ten,  after  “ shooing”   the  imagination 
out  of  the  council  chamber.  Will  the 
village  all  told  then  number  250  persons 
or  more?  Will  the  improvements  at  the 
end  of  the  decade  find  the  principal 
street  only  200  feet 
the 
streets  still be  fair to  look  upon and will 
they  be  as  full  then  as  they  are  now  of 
boys  and  girls?—happy  the  village  and 
the  home  that  has 
its  quiver  full  of 
them!  Will  there  be  then  only  the  one 
straight  street?  The  questions  are  too 
foolish  to  answer. 
In  five  years  the 
length  of  the  street  will  double.  The 
school  children  will  have  swarmed  into 
a  larger and  prettier  hive  and  the  Sun­
day  morning  bells  will  call  double  the 
number  of  worshippers 
to  church. 
Gratiot  county  mud  will  still  be  the 
same  old  article  and  will  be  still  the 
best  of  its  kind ;  but,  robbed  of  its  ter­
rors  and  kept  where  it  will  do  the  most 
good,  it  will  settle  down  into  the  pros­
perous  grower that  it  was  intended to be 
and  will  laugh  with  its  thrifty  owners at 
“ the  pastures  clothed  with  flocks”   and 
the  fields  covered  with  abundant  har­
vests.

It  is  to  be  hoped  that  those  eight  men 
will  not  be  weary  of  well  doing and  that 
the  remainder of the  community,  appre­
ciating  what  is  going  on  for  its  good, 
will  second  heartily  and  continuously 
every  good  move  made.

The  early  bird  catches  the  worm,  but 

the  early  worm  catches  the  fish.

DESMAN
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THE  DEMANDS  OF THE  BEST.
The  fruit  was  the  best  of  its  kind. 

It 
had  been  handled  with  care.  When  it 
was  opened  each  individual  lemon  had 
its  paper  blanket  about  it  and  was  as 
ready  for business  as  it  was  when  it  left 
the  home  orchard.  The  dealer,  know­
ing  he  had  a  good  thing,  used  it  ac­
cordingly.  He  put  it  where  it  would 
have  a  chance  to  show  exactly  what  it 
was—the  best.  He  took  care  that  its 
surroundings  were 
in  harmony  with  it 
and  so  made  one  article  of  merchandise 
help  sell  the  others.  There  was  not  a 
movement  which  did  not  tend  towards 
the  main 
idea—the  sale  of  a  good  ar­
ticle  at  a  good  price—and  when  the 
customer  for  whom  the 
lemons  were 
grown  and  packed  and  shipped—chance 
in 
and  fore-ordination  have  nothing 
common 
lines— looked 
upon  them  she  knew  her  own,  paid  a 
good  price  for them  and  they  were  de­
livered  that  morning.  “ It  is  a  pleasure 
to  deal  in  goods  like  that. 
It  is  pleas­
ant  to  buy  them,  pleasanter to  display 
them,  pleasantest  of  all  to  realize  the 
profit  on  them,  and  that  can  always  be 
done  if  one  is  willing  to  take  the  time 
and  trouble  which  the  best  always  de­
mands.

in  commercial 

idea 

is  an 

This  “ trouble”   business  is  playing  a 
great, 
if  not  the  leading,  part  in  the 
drama  of  failures  on  the  boards of trade. 
There 
in  too  many  men’s 
minds  that  somehow  business  is  a  con 
cem  which,  once  started,  will  run  it­
self.  These  lemons  carry  out  the  idea 
fairly  well.  They  all  grew  on  one  tree 
—it  is  a  tree  that  encourages  only  the 
largest 
lemons.  When  the  harvesting 
time  came  the  first  man  on  the  ground 
was  sent  to  gather them.  He  shook  the 
tree,  hustled  the  fruit  into  any  old  bas­
ket  and  hauled  it  to  the  packing  house. 
There  the  formality  of  wrapping  the 
lemons 
in  paper  was  hurried  through 
with  and  off  they  started  on  the  journey

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

9

WHAT TWO  MAXIMS TEACH.

There  was  an  old  man  died  the  other 
day  who  had  amassed  a  fortune  of  mil­
lions.  On  a  certain  occasion  when  he 
happened  to  feel  like  it  he  repeated  to 
an  enterprising  reporter a  few  maxims 
which  he  had  practiced  from  his  youth 
up.  They  are  all  short,  sharp  and  to 
the  point.  By 
living  up  to  them  he 
made  his  money;  and  among  them  are 
two  which  may  or  may  not  furnish  the 
secret  of  his  success;  but  they  give  a 
pretty  fair  idea  of  the  man  behind  the 
business  and  for  that  reason  they  are 
copied:  “ When  I  was  a  boy  on  my 
father’s  farm,  1  worked  hard,  utilizing 
every  moment,  for  there  was  plenty  to 
do;  but  if  I  had  any  spare  time  I  did 
chores  for  the  neighbors.”  
“ I  have 
never cared  a  cent  what  any  human  be­
ing  thought  or  said  about  me  or  my 
action,  so  long  as  I  was  satisfied.”  
In 
other  words  the  maxims  boiled  down 
mean:  “ Work  from  morning  until night 
and,  as  much  as  you  can,  from  night 
until  morning,”   and  “ Never  let  your 
self-satisfaction  be  disturbed  by  what 
people  think  of  you. ”

If  that  last  was  the  ruling  of  the  life 
just  closed,  it  will  make  as  little  differ­
ence  as  ever  what  is  said  of  it,  now  that 
it  is  over;  but  a  boy  who  begins  work­
ing 
like  that  may  die  a  millionaire 
with  the  chances  all  in  his  favor of find­
ing  himself  a  near neighbor to that other 
one  who  called  on  Lazarus  for  a  drop 
of  water to  cool  his  tongue,  with  just  as 
much  prospect  of  getting  it.  Life  in  its 
best development  does not consist  of  self 
denial  for the  sake  of  gloating  over  the 
amount  saved  by  niggardly 
living. 
Hard  work  and  a  good  deal  of 
it,  with 
prudent  management,  can  not  be  too 
heartily  commended  any  more  than  it 
ought  to  be  earnestly  practiced ;  but 
in 
those  days,  sixty  or  seventy-five  years 
ago,  “ all  work  and  no  play  made  Jack 
it  does  now 
a  dull  boy”   as  surely  as 
and,  if  carried  too  far,  made  him 
just 
as  mean  a  one.  Anybody  who  has  had 
little  of  the  experience  which 
even  a 
the  old  homestead  abounded 
in  knows 
what  the  boy  was  good  for after “ utiliz­
ing  every  moment”   all  day,  and  a  man 
with  a  boy 
like  that  who  would  allow 
him  to  do the  neighbors’  chores  for  lit­
tle  or  much  proves  pretty  conclusively 
that  more  than  one generation  of  “ near­
ness”   was  required  to  gather  up  that 
hoard  of  millions.  Consider  the  break­
fasts  of  fried  pork  and  Johnny  cake, 
the  dinners  of  boiled  codfish  and  pota­
toes  and  the  mush  and  skim  milk  sup­
pers  those  millions  are based upon ! And 
what  a  glorious  and  justifiable  evening 
up  there  will  be  at  the  banqueting  table 
of  old  Croesus’  descendants  when  once 
the  dollars  he  scrimped  himself  to  save 
go  rolling  down  hill!  Was  ever  a  trout 
brook 
that  boy’s  neighborhood 
whipped  by  his  fishline?  Did  snare  or 
trap,  set by  that  boy’s  hands,  ever  catch 
rabbit  or  partridge  or quail?  Were  the 
leaves  in  the chestnut woods ever scuffed 
by  his  exultant  feet  and did  their  brown 
nuts  or those  of  the  beech  and  hickory 
ever  contribute  to  his  winter  store?  No; 
and  how  glad  they  who  spend his money 
for the  play  and  opera  will  be  that  they 
did  not!  What  books  they  will  buy  that 
he  could  not  afford  even  to  read!  How 
they  will  make  up  for the  gems  and  the 
jewels  that  he  never allowed  to  tempt 
him ;  and  when  the  last  dollar  is  gone 
Justice  with  level  balance  will  exclaim, 
“ There!  That  one-sided  account  is 
settled  at  last!  So  much  for that  maxim 
and  its teaching!”

in 

It  would  be  a  task,  neither  pleasing 
nor edifying  to trace even for a little way

the  development  that  comes  from  an  in­
difference  to  “ what  any  human  being 
thought  or  said  about  me  or  my  action 
so  long  as  I  was  satisfied.”   He  is  not 
the  only  one  whose  life  has  been  thus 
uninfluenced,  and the simplest statement 
to  make  in  regard  to  it  is  that  that  kind 
of  self-satisfaction  has  never  so  far  in 
the  history  of  mankind  reared  a  monu­
ment  differing 
in  the  slightest  degree 
from  that  one  set  up  and  worshipped 
by  the  children  of  Israel  in  the  wilder­
ness  of  Sinai.

The  world  has  been  giving 

itself,  of 
late,  considerable  anxiety  in  regard  to 
the  disposition  by  the  millionaire  of his 
It  should  not  let  its  heart  be 
money. 
troubled.  Even-handed  Justice 
is  on 
the  constant  lookout  and  sees  to  it  that 
the  foolish  blood  which  gathered  shall 
receive  the  curse  that  comes  with  the 
foolish  spending.  Let  the  world  waste 
no  energy 
in  envying  that  scattering. 
It  will be  all  the happier  for not  sharing 
the  woe  that 
is  sure  to  come  with  it. 
The  maxims  will  for  the  most  part  be 
but  the 
idle  wind.  They  may  mean 
much  and  they  may  mean  nothing;  but 
American  manhood  to-day  has  higher 
ideals  of  life  than  the  following  of these 
can  furnish,  the  carrying  out  of  which 
will  be  the 
illustrating  of  the  higher 
teaching that “  it is  not  all  of  life  to  live 
nor all  of  death  to  die. ”

The  present  artistically  colored 

issue 
of  internal  revenue  stamps  is  to  be 
withdrawn,  and  the  new  issue  will  be 
admittedly  ugly.  There  is  reason for the 
change.  For more  than  a  year  past  the 
Treasury  Department  has  been  de­
frauded  of  thousands  of  dollars  by  the 
washing  of  canceled  revenue  stamps. 
Those  engaged  in  the  business  have  se­
cured  canceled  stamps  of  all  denomina­
tions,  washed  them  clean,  regummed 
them  and  sold  them.  Now,  however, 
the  Treasury  chemists  have  found  an 
olive-gray  ink  for the  stamp itself which 
will  fade  away  if  any  attempt  shall  be 
made  to  wash  out  the cancellation mark. 
Unfortunately  it  has  proved 
impossible 
to  blend  this  fugitive 
ink  with  any 
chemical!  producing  an  agreeable  color, 
and  beauty  has,  therefore,  been  sacri­
ficed  to  safety.  The  design  of  the  bat­
tle-ship  Maine  will  be  retained.

For  workingmen  the  walking  dele­
gate 
is  the  most  expensive  man  who 
walks.  They  have  been  known  to  give 
up  their  money  and  situations 
and 
homes  for  him,  who  can  do  nothing  for 
them.

There  are  some  drunken  men  who 
have  no  desire  to  make  a  home  happy. 
If  they  did, 
they  would  stay  away 
from  it.

The  young  man  who  saves  money  he 
has  earned  is  a  prince  beside  the  fellow 
who spends  money  he  has  not  earned.

The  constitution  of  the  United  States 
It  is  what  cheap  lawyers 

is  all  right. 
think  <of  it  that  provokes  discussion.

Emperor  William  claims  to  be  ruling 
it  is  a  serious 

by  divine  power,  and 
thing  to  say  he  makes  mistakes.

There  are  times  when  a  woman  does 
not  know  what  she  wants ;  but  that  does 
not  prevent  her  from  getting  it.

There  are 

lots  of  political  prophets 
who will  take  a  tumble  early  in Novem­
ber.

The right  kind  of  a  man  keeps  to  the 

right  when  walking  or  driving.

PROPER  PUNISHMENT.

One  of  the  problems  of  civilization  is 
to  find  a  punishment  to  fit  the  crime. 
We  want  a  penalty  for  wrong  doing 
sufficiently  severe  to  stand  as  a  warning 
and  mild  enough  to  meet  the  approval 
of  humane  sentimentalists,  and  between 
the  two  stools  justice  generally  falls  to 
the  ground  and  gets  lost  in  the  shuffle. 
Putting  a  tramp,  for instance,  in prison, 
where  he  is  better  fed,  better  clothed, 
better  lodged  than  he  ever  was  before, 
savors  as  much  of  reward  as  of  reproba­
tion,  and  even  when  we  do the  best  and 
the  worst  in  our  power,  and  hang  a man 
for  his  crime,  it  is  still 
inadequate  to 
the  case,  for  it  can  not  bring  back  to 
the  wronged  that  of  which he has robbed 
them. 
In  minor  offenses  deciding  on  a 
proper  punishment  is  quite  as  difficult 
as  it  is  in  great  ones.  Probably  the  rea­
son  why  we  let  so  many social  highway­
men  and  garroters  go  free  is because  we 
can’t  decide  on  a  punishment  to fit  the 
crime  of  those  who  politely  hold  us  up 
and  rob  us  of  our  time  and  money  and 
choke  us  to  death  on  their chestnutty 
old  stories. 
In  this  dilemma  the  world 
is  indebted to  an  Upper  Peninsular jus­
tice  for a  happy  suggestion :  Two  wom­
en  who  were  professional  scolds  were 
brought  before  him  for  disturbing  the 
peace  of  their  neighborhood.  They had 
quarreled  over  a  back  fence  until  the 
boards  had  fairly  sizzled  under  the 
warmth  of  their  language,  and  when 
they  appeared 
in  court  they  were  still 
having  such  a  hot  debate that the justice 
of  the  peace  could  not  get  a  word  in 
edgeways.  Thereupon His Honor ordered 
them  locked  up  together  in  a small room 
and  told  them  to  give  their  tongues  full 
swing.  For  an  hour they  needed  no  en­
couragement,  and  criminations  and  re­
criminations  flew  back  and  forth  fast 
and  furiously.  The  end  of  the  second 
hour  found  them  using  milder  terms. 
By  the  end  of  the  third  hour  they  were 
weak  and 
in  tears,  and  half  an  hour 
later they  fell  on  each  other’s  necks  and 
swore  undying  friendship.  They  had 
had  a  dose  of  their own  medicine  and 
they  were  cured.  Neither  will  ever  risk 
a  scolding  match  again.  What  a  pity, 
it  seems,  that  the  idea  can  not  be  ex­
tended  so  as  to take  in  all  the  malefac­
tors  of  society—the  people  about  whom 
we  have  all  thought boiling oil thoughts, 
but  whose  crimes  we  haven't  known 
how  to  punish.

THE  PARIS EXPOSITION.

The  time 

is  now  fast  approaching 
when  the  Paris  Exposition  of  1900  will 
come  to  a  close. 
It  is  now  generally 
admitted that  it  has  not  been  a financial 
success,  the  admissions,  large  as  they 
have  been,  falling  greatly  below  the  es­
timates. 
It  is  regarded  as  certain  that 
the  total  admissions  will  fall  much  be­
low  those  of  the  Chicago  Exposition.

The  French  people  have  spent  vast 
sums  of  money  in  carrying  on  the  E x­
position,  and 
in  the  mattei  of  exhibits 
there  can  be  no  doubt  at  all  that  it  is 
entitled  to  rank  with  the  very  finest  of 
the  great  world  fairs  of  the  past.  The 
site  has  probably  lacked  something  of 
the  picturesqueness of  the  Chicago  fair, 
and 
in  many  of  the  accompaniments 
and  facilities  it  has  fallen  short  of  the 
effort  of  our  great  Western  metropolis; 
but  in  exhibits,  whether  of  industry, 
agriculture  or  art,  the  Paris  display  has 
been  the  equal  of  the  best  displays  of 
the  past,  if  it has  not  actually  surpassed 
them.

The  failure  of  the  attendance  to  come 
is  probably  due  to 
conditions

up  to  expectations 
the  international  political 

which  have  prevailed.  Irritation  caused 
in  England  by  the  caustic  comments  of 
the  French  press  upon  the  war  in  South 
Africa,  as  well  as  some  ill-mannered 
caricatures  of  Queen  Victoria,  not  only 
induced  British  manufacturers  and 
tradesmen  to  refrain  from  exhibiting  at 
the  fair,  but  greatly  curtailed  the  num­
ber of  British  visitors  at  the  fair  itself. 
This  absence  of  British  visitors  un­
doubtedly  hurt  the general attendance.

On 

the  other  hand, 

there  was  a 
marked  increase  both  in  the  number  of 
exhibitors  as  well  as  of  visitors  from 
Germany  over  all  expectations.  Amer­
icans  not  only  exhibited  to  a  very  con­
siderable  extent,  but  they  also  visited 
the  fair  in  large  numbers,  a  fact  which 
has  helped  to  promote  friendly  inter­
national  relations.

The French  nation  is  entitled to  every 
cre'dit  tor  the  magnificent  scale  upon 
which the Exhibition has been managed. 
Money  has  been  lavishly  expended,  and 
the  outside  world  has  been  made  to  feel 
that  the  great  fair  is,  in  every  sense,  a 
national  undertaking,  in  the  success  of 
which  the  national  honor  is  concerned. 
This  patriotic  spirit  is  much  to  be  ad­
mired  and  commended.

Monarchsand princes  of  the  blood  are 
nowadays  to  be 
found  haunting  the 
antechambers  of  great  financiers  and 
bankers,  this  being  the  inverse  of  what 
happened  in  the  middle  ages  when  the 
banker or  money  lender  was  compelled 
to  grovel  before  the  throne  in  mortal 
terror as  to  whether  its  occupant  would 
not  cut  short  the  bartering  as  to  the 
terms  of  the  accommodations  by  throw­
ing  him  into  jail,  by  subjecting  him  to 
torture,  and  by  confiscating  all  his 
worldly  possessions.  There  are  two  rea­
sons  for this  altered  attitude :  The  first 
is  that  the  ruler has  no  longer any rights 
to  the  property  of  the  bankers  in  his 
dominions,  whose  possessions  are  safe­
guarded  by  the 
laws  of  the  land,  and 
who  can,  therefore,  afford  to  be  very 
independent.  The  second  cause  is  that, 
owing to the  appalling  increase  of  cases 
of  dishonesty  among  the  most  trusted 
officers  of  royal  and 
imperial  house­
holds,  the  royal  rulers  now  consider  it 
necessary  to  transact  their own  financial 
business,  even  to  the  extent  of  cashing 
their 
letters  of  credit  in  person.  The 
king  of  Greece,  the  King  of  Belgium, 
Prince  Ferdinand  of  Bulgaria, 
the 
Crown  Prince  of  Denmark— in  fact,  all 
those  rulers  and  regents  who  do  much 
traveling  abroad—now  invariably  visit 
the  bankers  themselves  to  present  their 
letters  of  credit  when  being  in  a foreign 
city  they  find  themselves 
in  need  of 
funds.  Their  letters  of  credit,  too,  are 
always  nowadays  made  out 
in  their 
own  personal  name,  and  to  such  an  ex­
tent  is  this  practice  carried  that the  fact 
that  the  money  deposited  at  Vienna  for 
the  shah’s  use  in  the  Austrian  capital 
should  have  reached  him  from  Persia 
in  the  form  of  a  letter  of  credit  drawn 
in  favor of  one  of  the  dignitaries  of  his 
household,  instead  of  in  his  own  name, 
excited  much  comment  and  remark  as 
to  the  risk  of  such  a  proceeding.

There 

is  a  cabbage  famine  in  Ger­
many ;  but  the  policy  of  the  German 
government  will  be  to  let  her  subjects 
die  for  want  of  sauerkraut,  rather than 
import  American  cabbage  for preserves.

The  man  who  cheers  himself  hoarse 
at  a  political  meeting  is  the  man  who 
shuts  his  mouth  on  election  day  and 
votes 
for  the  candidates  of  another 
party.

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Shoes  and  Rubbers
How  a  Chicago  Cobbler  Had  a  Good 

Time.

his 

In  the  basement  of  a  dingy  frame 
building 
in  a  mean  west  side  street, 
“ Old  John”   Bodie  kept  his  little  cob­
bler’s  shop.  He  had  been  there  ham­
mering  wet 
leather  and  pegging  and 
stitching  and  trimming  sole  edges  with 
his  keen,  well-worn  knife  ever  since  the 
oldest  resident  of 
the  neighborhood 
could  remember.  Day  after  day  his 
legs  had  carried  him  briskly 
bowed 
down  the  street, 
from  where  nobody 
knew,  to  the  scene  of  his  daily  toil,  and 
this  with  the  regularity  of  clockwork. 
At  8  o’clock  his  key  was  in the door and 
five  minutes  later  he  was  sitting  on  his 
well-polished 
spectacles 
stool, 
pushed  up  on  his 
forehead  and  his 
shirt-sleeves rolled  up  from  his  yellow 
hairy  forearms  attacking  the  heap  of 
dilapidated  boots  and  shoes  that  all  his 
industry  never seemed  able to diminish.
He  was  a  little  elderly  and  wrinkled 
man  with  the  tan  of  his  leather  in  his 
skin,  and  a  beard  that  seemed  always 
in  the  same  condition  of  red  and  gray 
bristle.  He  spoke  seldom,  and  then 
shortly  and  only 
in  reply  to  a  direct 
question.  Not  even  with  Mr.  Tickey, 
the  coal  and  express  man  who  shared 
the  basement  with  him  and  paid  the 
rent,  did  he  ever  become  confidential. 
Tickey  tried  to  draw  him  out,  being  a 
sociable  soul,  with  a  flow  of 
language, 
but  neither  politics  nor  religion  nor  the 
failings  of  the  neighbors  could  ever 
elicit  more  than  a  grunt  from  “ Old 
John.’ ’  So  it  was  all  guesswork  whether 
the  little  cobbler  was  married  or  single, 
democratic, 
socialist; 
whether  he  ever  experienced  an  emo­
tion,  a  hope  or  a  thought  beyond  his 
patching  and  pegging  and  the  scanty 
wages  that  this  brought  him.

republican  or 

Tickey’s  idea  was  that  the  old  man's 
soul  never  soared  above  leather. 
“ It’s 
all  he  knows  an’  all  he  cares  about,”  
he  said. 
“ Take  him  away  some  place 
where  he  couldn’t  never  punch  a  hole 
in  a  piece  of  calfskin  an’  then  draw  a 
waxed  end  through  it  an’  he’d  go  crazy 
an’  croak  inside  of  a  week. 
I  may  be 
right  or  I  may  be  wrong,  but  I’ve  b’en 
too  long  around  him  not  to  be  able  to 
size  him  up  about  right.

“ I  don’t  know  where  he  eats  morning 
an’  night,  but  I’d  be  willing  to  bet  $5 
that  it's  the  same  thing  year  in an’  year 
out,  f’r  it’s  always  the  same  thing  that 
he  eats  for  lunch  in  the  shop—a  hunk of 
rye  bread  an’  a  piece  o’  cheese  an’  a 
onion  an’  then  a  drink  out  the  little 
bottle  he  carries  down 
in  his  coat 
it  ain’t  whisky,  nor 
pocket.  No, 
nothin’  o’  that  kind. 
It  might  be  cold 
tea  or  coffee,  but  he  never  offered  me 
none  of  it,  so  I  can’t  tell  you.  What  I 
say  is  this: 
If  you  took‘ Old  John’  to 
some  hightoned  restaurant  downtown 
an’  give  him  a  bill  o’  fare  with  quail 
on  toast  an’  fried  oysters  an’ things like 
that  on,  an’  told  him  it  was  all  free 
gratis  an’  f’r  nothin’,  ‘ Old  John’  ’d 
say  to  the  waiter,  ‘ Bring  me  some  rye 
bread  an’  Swiss  cheese  an’  a  onion, 
that’s  all  I  want.' 
I  may  be  right  an’  I 
may  be  wrong,  but  I’ll  bet  on  it.

“ An’  then,”   said  Tickey,  “ you  can’t 
get  him  to  smoke  nothin’  but  that  plug 
tobacker  in  that  old  black  wood  pipe 
with  the  bone  stem.  Time  an'  time 
again,  I’ve  offered  him  good  tobacker, 
but  he  won’t  never  have  none  of  it. 
Oncet  I  gave  him  a  cigar,  an’  I  thought 
he  was  goin’  to  smoke  it  at  first,  but 
he  laid  it  up  on  the  winder  sill  with  his

threads  an’  wax  an’ 
leather  parin’s, 
an' 
it  laid  there  a  month,  an’  got  all 
dried  out  an’  covered  with  dust,  an’  I 
guess  it  would  have  be’n  there  yet  if  I 
hadn’t  reached  it  down  an’  smoked  it 
myself  one  mornin’  afore  he  got  there. 
An’  you  never  see  him  wearin’ anythin’ 
but  the  same  clo’es  he’s  wearin’  right 
now. ’ ’

“ I  guess  ‘ Old  John’s’  saltin’  down  a 
little  bunch  o’  money  somewheres, ”   re­
marked  the  man  Tickey  was  talking  to.
“ I  don’t  know  so  much  about  that,”  
said  the  expressman,  doubtfully,  and 
with  apparent  regret  that  he  was  unable 
to  support  so  enticing  a  theory. 
“ He 
may  not  live  high,  an’  there’s  always 
work,  but  you  don’t  make  much  profit 
haif-solin’  at  50  cents,  not  if  you  use 
good  leather,  an’  the  rent’s  somethin’. 
He  may  be  puttin’  away  a  little  stuff— 
as  like  as  not  he  is.  My  idea 
is  that 
he’ll  never  know  what  to  do  with  it 
anyway.  He  ain’t  like  you  an’  me.”

*  *  *

One  morning  a  well-dressed  young 
man,  whose  shoes  were  in  good  repair, 
but  who  had,  nevertheless,  the  air  of  a 
man  who  had  business  to  transact,  came 
down  into  the  basement  and asked “ Old 
John”  
“ Old 
John”   laid  down  his  hammer,  arranged 
his  spectacles  for  a  careful  survey  of 
his  visitor,  and  then  admitted  that  he 
was.

if  he  was  Mr.  Bodie. 

“ Mr.  John  Bodie?”
“ That’s  what  I  said.”
“ You  came  from  Glidden,  Pennsyl­

vania?”

“ Did  you  want  any  mendin’  done  or 
line?”   asked  “ Old 

anything 
John,”   rather surlily.

in  my 

“ I’m not  asking you out of curiosity,’ ’ 
said  the  young  man. 
“ It’s  business 
with  me.  We’re  lawyers—there’s  our 
card—and  if  you’re  John  Bodie,  brother 
of  Mrs.  Helen  Mackay,  of Glidden,  and 
you  can  give  us  some  reasonable  proof 
of  it,  there’s  about  $2,000  coming  to 
you.  You  can  come  up  to  the  office 
with  me  now  or  whenever  it’s  conven­
ient  for  you.  If  you  come  up  to-morrow 
morning  at 9 o’clock  we  can  get  your 
business  settled.  Will  that  suit  you? 
Very  well,  then.  Good  morning.”

And  the  young  man  went  out  and  left 

“ Old  John”   staring  at  the  card.

Tickey  came  from  out  of  his  dirty 
little  railed  pen  and  offered  warm  con­
gratulations.  He  wanted  to  see  the 
card,  but  “ Old  John”  tucked  it  into  his 
waistcoat  pocket  and  picked  up  his 
hammer  again.

it  your  own  sister?”   asked 

“ Was 
Tickey.

The  cobbler  grunted  something  that 
might  have  meant  yes  or  no,  but  its 
general  meaning  was  unmistakable. 
Tickey  felt  rebuffed,  but  he  persevered.
“ You  want  to  keep  your eye  skinned 
for them  fellers,”   he  cautioned. 
“ It’s 
an  old  trick,  that  legercy  trick.  Don’t 
'em  con  you  into  payin’  out 
you 
money  for  expenses  an’ 
legal  doky- 
mints. 
If  they’ve  got  money  of  yours 
they  can  use  that.  There  ain’t  no call 
for  you  to  pay  out  anythin’. ”

let 

It  was  good  advice,  but  the  cobbler 
was  not  grateful  for  it,  or  if  he  was  he 
concealed  his  gratitude  successfully  and 
drowned  all  further  conversation  in  a 
shower of  taps  on  his  last.  But  Tickey, 
returning  to  his  desk  and  watching  him 
saw  him  presently  pick  up  his  blacking 
bottle  and  with  the  inky  swab  carefully 
stain  the  soles  of  a  pair of  russet  shoes. 
Then,  perceiving  his  mistake,  the  little 
cobbler  impatiently  picked  up  a  knife 
and  pared  and  scraped  the  stain  off 
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Three  days 

Shortly  after that  Tickey  went  out  to 
give  some  directions  to  the  man  with 
the  wagon  and  when  he  came  back 
“ Old  John  ”   was  gone.
*  *  *
later  Tickey,  who  had 
been  in  his  glory,  holding  forth  to  the 
crowd  of  curious  neighbors  who  had 
come  to  wonder  and  speculate  and  gaze 
with  awe  upon  the vacant stool,  received 
a  letter  from  the  legatee. 
It  ran  as  fol­
lows :

“ Friend  Tickey  I  am  not  goin’  to 
cum  back  for  sum  tim  so  i  want  you  tu 
luk  after  mi  tuls  and  letther  ile  pay  the 
rent  the  same  as  bifor  so  now  1  must 
clos  from  yors 
trueley  John  Teed 
Bodie. ”

That  was  all  they  heard  of  “ Old 
John”   for  a  long  time,  except  for  the 
money  order  for the  rent  that  came  with 
another  short  misspelled  note.  Tickey 
wondered  and  talked  and  raked  about 
in  the  leather  scraps  for something  that 
might  afford  him  a  clew  to  the  mystery 
that  enveloped  the  cobbler’s  disappear­
ance,  but 
in  vain.  The  postmark  on 
the 
letter  showed  that  “ Old  John”   was 
still  in  town,  but  it  is  a  big  town  when 
you  want  to  find  something  that  the 
police  are  not  interested  in.  Within 
the  week  nearly  all  the  customers  had 
called  and  taken  their  shoes  away,  and 
the  basement  began  to  get  very quiet, 
for  the  express  business  was  not  what 
it  had  once  been  with  Tickey.

For,  after all,  if  “ Old  John”   had  not 
talked  there  had  been  nothing  to  pre­
vent  Tickey  from  talking  to  him,  and 
the  dull  tapping  of  the  hammer  and  the 
steady  swish  of  the  drawn  thread  had 
been  something,  to  say  nothing  of  the 
customers.  Once  a 
sallow,  hollow­
chested  man  with  dark  brown  thumbs 
and  forefingers  came  down  to  enquire 
whether  he  could  not  buy  out  the  stock 
and  the  lapsing  good  will  of  the  busi­
ness,  but  Tickey  had  to  send  him  away.
News  of  the  missing  man*  came  at 
last.  King  Fletcher came  down  into  the 
basement  one  morning  and  said  that  he 
had  seen  “ Old  John”   Bodie coming  out 
of  a  hotel  in  Wabash  avenue  dressed  up 
in  a  check  suit  and  plug  hat,  and  with 
a  carnation  in  his  buttonhole.  He  was 
going  to  speak  to  the  old  man,  but  he 
pushed  ahead  and  got  into  a  carriage 
and  drove  off  “ with  another  swell  guy, 
and,  hully  gee,  you  oughter  see  him!”
King  not  only  said  this,  but  he  sup­
ported  his  statement  with  strong  and 
strange  oaths.  “ D ’yer think  I  wouldn’t 
know  them  bow  legs  of  his,  even  if  I 
hadn’t  seen  his  face?”   he  exclaimed. 
So  Tickey  believed  him.

Dan  Coggins  saw  the  cobbler  next, 
and  not  only  saw  him  but  spoke  with 
him.  He  had  asked  after  Tickey  and 
the  shop  and  said  that  he  might  be 
around  after awhile.  Dan  corroborated 
the  details  of  the  plug  hat  and  the 
checkedsuit  and  carnation, and  added to 
that  a  gold-headed  cane  and gold watch, 
which  “ Old  John”   had  consulted before 
he  had  said  that  “ he  must  be  gittin’ 
along.”   Then  Tickey  saw  him  with  his 
own  eyes.

For  a  moment  the  expressman  dis­
trusted  the  evidence  of  those  reliable 
optics,  but  there  was  no  mistake  about 
it. 
It  was  “ Old  John”   himself—“ Old 
John”   shaved  clean  and  with  a  spread­
ing  shirt  bosom,  ornamented  with  three 
big  gold  studs  and  the  ends  of  a  blue 
and  white  necktie  coyly  tucked  into  it. 
“ Old  John”   with  a  large,  black,  clean- 
ashed  cigar  crushed  between  his  teeth 
and  an  almost  unapproachable  dignity 
of  bearing.  He  was  coming  out  of  the 
“ swell 
restaurant”   where  Tickey’s 
imagination  had  once  taken
glowing 

him;  but  Tickey  knew  better now  than 
to  suppose  that  he  had  been  dining  on 
rye  bread  and  cheese  and  onions.

“ How  are  you,  John?”   said  the  ex­

pressman.

The  former  cobbler  peered  at  him  for 
a  moment  and  raised  his  hand  to  his 
forehead  as 
if  in  search  of  his  spec­
tacles.  Then  he  recognized  his  old 
companion.

“ How  are  you?  How 

Tickey?”   he  said  graciously. 
everything,  and  how’s  the  shop?”

are  you, 
“ How’s 

“ Everything’s  all  right.  How  are 
you  makin’  it?  What  are  you doin’  with 
yourself  anyway?”

“ Just  taking 

life  easy.  Come  and 

take  something  with  me.”

He  led  the  way  into  a  gorgeous place, 
where  he  regaled  the  expressman  with 
potent  and  variegated  liquors,  the 
like 
of  which  Tickey  had  never tasted  be­
fore.  The  old  man  drank,  but  soon  re­
lapsed  into  his  old  silence  and  began  to 
respond  with  his  accustomed  grunts— 
until  Tickey  had  told  him  that  he  had 
a  good  chance  to  sell  the  shop.  Then 
“ Old  John”   broke  out  at  him furiously.
“ Who told  you  to  sell it?”  he shouted. 
I  never 
I  pay  you  the  rent, 

“ You’ve  no  right  to  sell  it. 
gave  you  no  right. 
don’t  I?”

“ Sure,”   replied  Tickey;  “ but— ”
“ There  ain’t  no  ‘ but’  about  it,”   said 
“ Old  John,”   angrily.  “ Don’t  you  dare 
sell  my  stuff.  You  take  care  of  it,  that’s 
all  you’ve  got  to  do,  and 
if  there  is 
charges  1  can  pay  ’em—understand?”

“ That’s  all  right,”   said  Tickey, 
“ I  ain’t  goin’  to  sell, 

shrinking  back. 
not  unless  you  tell  me.”

“ Then  that’s  all  right”   said  “ Old 
John.”   “ Now,  I’ve  got  an  important 
'ngagement  and  I’ve  got  to go,  Tickey. 
It’s  all  right,  though.”

A  month  from  that  time  Tickey  went 
down  into the  basement  and  found  that 
his  key would  not  turn  in  the  lock.  He 
turned  the  handle  of  the  door,  and  it 
opened,  and  he  entered  to  find  “ Old 
John”   sitting  on  his  stool,  whetting  his 
knife  on  the  oilstone.  For a  moment 
he  thought  he  saw  a  ghost and he started 
back  with  a  gasp, 
for  the  cobbler’s 
beard  was  bristling  in  red  and  gray  and 
his  arms  were  bare  to  the  elbows  and 
the  clothes  that  he  wore,  down  to  the 
patched  shoes,  were  those  that  he  had 
worn  when  the  young  lawyer  had  en­
tered  the  shop  before.  He  dropped  his 
spectacles  from  his  forehead  to  his  nose 
and 
looked  quizzically  at  the  express- 
man.

Tickey  said  the  first  thing  that  came 

into  his  head.

asked.

“ Did  you  have  a  good  time?”   he 

“ Old  John”   groped  in  the  scraps  and 
it 
looked  up  at

pulled  out  an  old  shoe  and  regarded 
thoughtfully.  Then  he 
Tickey  and  said:  “ I  had  a -----of  a
good  time. ”

Prevents Grease From   Dripping. 

From the Philadelphia Record.

There 

is  scarcely  a  household  where 
the  candle  has  been  entirely  banished, 
as  it  is  still  called  into  service  for  the 
exploration  of  the  dark  recesses  of  cel­
lars,  outside  kitchens  and  similar  dark 
corners.  One  of  its  great disadvantages 
is  that  unless  very  carefully  handled  the 
melted  paraffine  or tallow  is  apt  to  drip 
on  the  clothes,  carpets,  floors,  etc.

To  prevent  this  a  candle  holder  has 
been  devised  in  which  the  opening  for 
the  reception  of the  candle  is  supported 
on  the  gimbal  principle,  so  that  the 
candle  is  always  maintained  in  an  up­
right  position,  no  matter at  what  angie 
the  candlestick  is  held.  The  weight 
that  is  attached  to  the  holder  to  secure 
this  result  has  been  neatly fashioned  in­
to  a  match  receptacle,  making  a  very 
convenient  and  complete  outfit.

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Clothing

Im portance  of  Children’s  Clothing:  De­

partm ent to  the  Dealer.

The  retail  clothing  dealer  who  has 
been in  business  for twenty,  or even  ten 
years,  does  not  need  to  be  reminded 
that  in  that  time  the  clothing  trade  has 
witnessed  surprising  and  even  revolu­
tionizing  changes  in  methods  of making 
and  selling  goods,  as  well  as  in  styles, 
lines  and  materials  employed  for  male 
apparel.  New 
lines  of  business  have 
been  developed,  and  under the  pressure 
of  competition  such  changes  have  been 
made,  and  are  even  now  making,  that 
it  requires  all  the  dealer’s  time  and 
thought,  if  he  is  a  progressive  man,  to 
keep  up  with  the  changes  in  his  busi­
ness. 
loses  step  for  a  year he 
loses  what  he  may  never  be  able  to  re­
gain, 
try  as  hard  as  he  may,  and 
changes  are  constantly  being  made that, 
unless  he 
informs  himself  of  them  in 
time,  will  make  him  a  back  number  in 
his  business.

If  he 

Within  the  last  fifteen  years  practical­
ly,  a  department  of  the  business in male 
apparel  has  been  developed  that  is  of 
vital  importance  to  the  dealer  in  cloth­
ing,  but  of  whose  importance  the dealer 
largely  unaware.  We  refer *o 
is  still 
the  ready-made  trade 
in  children’s, 
boys’  and  youths’  clothing.  The  possi­
bilities  of  this  business  for the  retail 
clothing  dealer  have  not  been  properly 
appreciated  and  there  is  such  a  lack  of 
knowledge  of  the  proper  method  of 
handling  these  stocks  that  the  business 
has 
largely  been  allowed  to  slip  into 
the  hands  of  department  stores,  with 
the  result  that  a  large  part  of  the  men’s 
trade  that  formerly  went  to  the  clothing 
man  is  now  going  to  the  department 
store.
A 

leading  buyer  in  one  of  the  most 
important  department  stores 
in  New 
York  recently  said :  “ Our  department 
of  children’s  clothing  is  of  value  to  us 
if  for  no  other  reason  than  that  it brings 
trade  to  our  men’s  clothing  department. 
If  a  woman  is  successful  in  fitting  out 
her  children 
in  our children’s  depart­
ment,  she  reasons  that  our  store  is  the 
place  for  her  husband  to  buy  his  cloth­
ing,  and  sooner  or  later  he  is  almost 
sure  to  come  here  to  see  whether  his 
wife  is  right.  The  clothing  department 
in  department  stores  owes  its  success 
largely  to  our  having  been  able  to  get 
the 
trade  of  the  men 
the 
children’s department.”

through 

Of  the  substantial  truth  of  this  fact 
there  can  he  no question,  but  what  is 
the  clothing  man  going  to  do  about  it? 
The  objections  to  the  carrying  of  a  de­
partment  of  children’s  clothing  in  con­
line  of  men’s  clothing 
nection  with  a 
are  very  apparent. 
It  takes  as  much, 
and  very  often  more,  time  to sell a boy’s 
suit  on  which  there 
is  a  profit  of  two 
dollars  than  to  sell  a  man's  suit  on 
which  there 
is  a  profit  of  five  dollars, 
and  much  more patience and care are re­
quired  for  the  successful  handling  of 
children’s  trade  than  for the  handling 
of  men’s  trade.  Men’s  clothiers object 
to  carrying  more  lines  than  are  required 
for  men’s  trade,  and  are  doubtful  about 
their  ability  to  successfully  handle  a 
line  of  goods  that  is  largely,  if  not  en­
tirely,  bought  by  women.  They  ques­
tion  their ability  to  attract  women,  they 
are  timid  and  reluctant  about  a  line  of 
goods  that  strictly  falls  outside  of  the 
beaten  lines  of  the  trade,  and from  their 
ignorance  of  its  peculiar  demands,  and 
their  inadequate  appreciation  of  the  de­
velopment  that  the  trade  in  clothing  for

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

The  trade 

males  under  the  age of  nineteen  has  un­
dergone,  they  are  allowing  the  depart­
ment  store  to  monopolize  this  trade  ex­
clusively,  or  handling  it  in  such  an  in­
adequate  manner that  they  are  gaining 
little  advantage  from  it  for  themselves.
in  boys’  clothing  is  like­
wise  underestimated.  It  is  regarded  by 
many  men  as  a  line  that  is  carried  for 
the  sake  of  necessity  rather  than  profit, 
and  if  parents  desire  to  have  their chil­
dren  from  seven  to  nineteen  years  of 
age  fitted  out  in  well-fitting  stylish  gar­
ments,  it 
is  necessary  for them  in  the 
great  majority  of  communities  to  go  to 
the  merchant  tailor  and  have  the  gar­
ments  made  to  order,  because  the  cloth­
ing  dealer  is  not  : ble  to  supply  goods 
for  boys  proportionately  as  stylish, 
well-made  and  desirable  as  he  supplies 
his  men’s  trade  with.

in  the 

The  clothing  dealer  will  do  well  to 
remember that  far  more  attention  is  to­
day  paid  to  style  and  quality  in  chil­
dren’s goods  than  was  ever  paid  before. 
The  number  of  people  who  buy  their 
children's  garments  ready-made 
is  far 
greater,  even  in  small  places,  than  was 
the  case  even  five  years  ago,  and  the 
natural  result 
is  that  people  in  buying 
their children’s  garments  now  pay  great 
attention  to  style  and  quality.  This 
means 
long  run  that  they  are 
ready  to  pay  higher prices for children’s 
garments  and  that  an  opening  has  been 
made  for  the  sale  of  a  finer,  better 
made,  better  fitting  and  more  stylish 
line  of  goods  for  lads  and  youths  than 
could  formerly  be  sold.  The  clothing 
merchant  in  many  cases  has  remained 
oblivious  to  this  fact.  He  has  been  con­
tent  to  buy  only  what  he  absolutely  had 
to.  He  has  not  tried  to  anticipate  the 
wants  of  his  trade,  even when  they  have 
been  made  clearly  apparent,  and  he  has 
remained  steadfastly  convinced  that  he 
could  do  little  with  fine  lines  of  boys’ 
and  youths’  goods.  Consequently  here 
is  a  field  that  is  largely  undeveloped.

to 

lack 

insufficient 

themselves.  They 

As  a  matter  of  fact,  many  clothing 
dealers  are  not  in  a  position,  either  be­
cause  of  insufficient  capital  or  because 
of 
intelligence,  to  handle 
these  lines  of  goods  to advantage.  They 
are  practically  deficient  in  the  ability 
to  develop  a  new  department  of  their 
business,  or  they  are  so  inherently  con­
servative  by  nature  that  they  can  not 
step  outside  of the beaten  track  without 
loss 
the 
dash  and  nerve  to  make  an  effort  to 
keep  the  trade  that is going before their 
eyes  to  more  enterprising  merchants. 
But  as  many  dealers  are  obliged  to han­
dle  these 
lines  of  goods  by  circum­
stances  not  of  their own  choosing,  it 
is 
a  matter  of  importance  to  study  how 
they  can  do  so  to  advantage.  It  is  well 
for  them  to  consider  the  reasons  why 
they  should  be  ambitious  to  hold  all  the 
male  trade  of  a  family.  Every  mother 
and  father  wishes  her or  his  boy  to  be 
as  manly  as  possible,  and  nearly  every 
boy  takes  his  father  as  a  model.  It  is  a 
great  satisfaction  to  a  boy  to  know  that 
he  wears  clothing  “ just 
father 
wears,”   and  naturally  things  bought 
where  father  buys  his things  come  near­
er  to  satisfying  the  young  lad’s  pride 
than  if  they  were  bought  in  that  pre- 
seive  for females—the department  store. 
There  is  not  a  boy  who  would  not  pre­
fer  to  buy  his  clothing  at  the  store  his 
father  patronizes— if  he  can  get  what  he 
wants  there.  And  there  is  not  a  mother 
who  would  not  for  the  same  reason  be 
willing  to  patronize  the  clothier  if the 
price  and  material  are  right.  A  boy 
always  remembers  where  he  bought  his 
It  is  an  event  in
first  pair of  trousers. 

like 

important 

life  and  he  usually  has  a  kindly 
his 
memory  ever  after  for  that  particular 
store.  So  has  his  mother.  Naturally 
this  has  an 
influence  upon 
their  future  trade.  To  say  nothing  of 
the  convenience  of  purchasing  all  the 
male  apparel  of  the  family  atone place, 
most  people  prefer to  continue  trading 
at  the  same  place  as  their  children  ad­
vance  in  years,  and,  other things  being 
equal,  they  will  do  this  if  they  can  do 
it  with  profit  to  themselves.  This  is  a 
point  to  be  considered  by  the  retailer as 
he  weighs  the  advantages  and disadvan­
tages  of  a  children’s  department.  He 
should  look  at  the  matter  as  the  depart­
ment  store  man  does.  He  may  not make 
much  money  on  his  children’s  goods, 
he  may  be  obliged  to  give  a  dispropor­
tionate  amount  of  care  and  attention  to 
his  children’s  goods,  but  by  having  a 
well  conducted  children’s  department 
he 
is  winning  trade  that,  as  the  years 
pass  by,  is  going  to  be  his  best  and 
most  reliable  youths’  and men's trade.— 
Apparel  Gazette.

Hurry Orders

We’re  ready  with  practically  com­
plete lines of  our  ’‘Correct  Clothes” 
(Suits and Overcoats)  to  ship  imme­
diately upon  receipt of order, so that 
you  can  keep  your  line  intact.  A 
wire will bring goods by next  freight 
or express.

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Praise for 
the President

You  hear  it  everywhere  among  the 
dealers! 
I t ’s  the  best  selling  sus­
pender  ever  put  on  the  market. 
There’s  no  trouble  in  making  sales. 
The  demand  is  made  by  the  exten­
sive  advertising  now  being done  for 
them.  A ll  you  need  do  is  to  supply 
the  demand.

President
Suspenders

(Improved)

are  the  best  suspender  ever  made. 
They  are  better  now than ever.  This 
year,  new  features  have  been  added. 
Speak  to  your  jobber  about  them, 
or  write  to  us  direct.

C.  A.  EDGARTON  MFG.  CO.. 

Shirley,  Mass.

Voorhees  Mfg,  Co.

LANSING,  MICH.

W e  manufacture  a  full  line  of
Jackets,  Overalls 

and  Brownie  Overalls

W e  make  a  specialty  of  mail  order 
business  and  shall  be  pleased  to 
send  you  samples  and  prices.
W e  sell  the  trade  direct  and  give 
you  the  benefit  of  the  salesman’s 
salary  and  expenses.
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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

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Dry Goods

The  Dry  Goods  M arket.

Staple  Cottons—In  the  bleached goods 
end  there  has  been  a  considerable  bet­
ter  business  reported,  and  the  recent 
advances  are  obtained  without  a  ques­
tion.  Buyers  seem  to  feel  that  even  at 
the 
latest  quotations  bleached  cottons 
are  on  a  very  moderate  basis.  Wide 
sheetings  show  an  upward  tendency; 
several  advances  have  been  already 
made.  As  a  matter  of  fact,  however, 
for  present  delivery  there  is  nothing  to 
be  found.  Brown  sheetings  and  drills 
have  been  in  fair  request,  although  they 
show  no  particular change  from  our  last 
report.  Prices  rémain  absolutely  firm. 
Fine  brown  sheetings  are  steady,  and 
coarse  colored  cottons,  while  showing 
no  open  changes  at  the  present  writing, 
are  in  some  cases  reported  to  have  been 
quietly  advanced.

Linings—Cotton  linings  have  shown 
a  very  slight  improvement  during  this 
week,  particularly  in  the  staple  lines, 
where 
jobbers  have  been  producing 
somewhat  more  freely.  Kid  finished 
cambrics  are  apparently  wanted,  but 
buyers  are  not  willing  to  pay  the  mar­
ket  price  for  leading  lines.  The  cloth­
ing  trades  have  not  increased  their  pur­
chases  to  any  extent,  but  twills,  serges, 
Italians  and  other  cotton  linings  show 
an  upward  tendency,  influenced  by  the 
market  for  raw  material.

Underwear—Agents  report  that  they 
have  practically  completed  all  their 
spring  business,  although  a  few  orders 
are  still  being  booked.  The  spring 
season  seems  t3  have  been  an  exceed­
ingly  satisfactory  one,  in  spite  of  the 
fact  that  cheap  grades  of  balhriggans 
have  seen  perhaps  the  largest  business ; 
still  the  amount  of  goods  ordered  of  fine 
ribbed  and  other  lines  has  been 
in  ex­
cess  of  past  seasons,  so  there  is  nothing 
to  actually  complain  about.

in  hosiery  that 

Hosiery— Both  the  importers  and  do­
mestic  manufacturers  have  reported  a 
business 
is  ahead  of 
anything  they  have  ever  seen,  both  in 
men’s  and  women’s  lines,  and  they  fear 
that  a  heavy  shortage  will  be  the  result 
before  spring. 
In  fact,  a  number  of 
lines  are  entirely  out  of  the  market  al­
ready. 
Importers  are  hurrying  forward 
their goods  from  the  other  side  as  fast 
as  possible,  but  that  does  very  little 
good.  Prices  have  been  advanced 
in 
keeping  with the  market  for  raw  cotton, 
but  no  more  than  that.  Present  prices 
are  hardly  more  on  many 
lines  than 
enough  to  clear  the  manufacturer.

is  required  to  accomplish  it. 

Carpets— Business  is  still  dull  in  car­
pets,  particularly  so  in  the  wholesale 
trade,  where  little  or  no  activity  is  ap­
Some  manufacturers’  agents 
parent. 
are  still  receiving  a 
fair  number  of 
small  duplicate  orders,  which,  taken 
all  together,  make  a  good  showing.  The 
cut  order  jobbers  report  as  much  busi­
ness  as  last  year,  but  a  great  deal  more 
work 
In 
the  retail  trade  business  is  beginning 
to  improve,  and  as  the  warm  weather 
was  very  much  against  this  trade,  there­
by  holding  back  house-cleaning,  it  is 
expected  that  a  very  noticeable  and 
welcome  change  for the  better  will  be 
cooler  weather 
experienced 
comes. 
is  also  just  between  seasons 
in  carpets,  and  this  adds  to  the  dulness.
Rugs— In  the  retail  trade  rugs  of  all 
kinds  are  doing  very  well,  particularly 
in  the  larger sizes,  hut  in  wholelsale,  as 
with  carpets,  rugs  are  rather  quiet,  al­
though  some  manufacturers’  agents  re­
orders.
port  encouraging  duplicate 

when 

It 

Prices  of  carpets  for  the  new  season 
will  be  withheld  until  after  the election, 
when  the  samples  will  be shown.

Lace  Curtains— Medium  grades  of 
Nottingham  cuitains  have  been  receiv­
ing  some  attention  of  late,  as  well  as 
the  fish  net  varieties,  but  they  are  not 
lines  have  not  yet 
very  active.  New 
been  shown,  but 
it 
is  understood  that 
there  will  be  a  large  variety  of  new  and 
attractive  designs  to  please  the  trade. 
The  manufacturers  are  anticipating  a 
good  fall  season.  Five  years  ago  the 
market  called  for  ecrue  colors  to  the 
amount  of  one-half  of  the  production. 
To-day  the  proportion 
is  20  per  cent, 
ecrue  as  against  80  per  cent,  white. 
From  the  standpoint  of  capacity  to-day, 
Philadelphia  leads  in  the  production  of 
lace  curtains  three-fourths  as  against 
one-fourth  for the  balance.  Four  weeks 
ago  manufacturers  expected  a  slump 
in 
prices  until  within  two  weeks,  when 
the  outlook  became  more  favorable,  and 
instead  of  a  cut,  manufacturers  are  now 
confident  of  prices  being  higher  for do­
mestic  lace  curtains. 
In  chenille  cur­
tains  agents  who  handle  this  line  direct 
for  the  manufacturers  report  that  a  very 
fair  amount  of  business  was  done  in 
chenille  curtains  this  past  season.

The  Revival  of Brown.

One  of  the  most  interesting  features 
in  the  fall  color  scheme  is  the  marked 
revival  of  brown.  While  at  the  opening 
of  the  season  brown  was  considered  a 
moderately  promising  tone,  even  the 
most  sanguine  supporters  of  brown  col­
orings  could  hardly  have  anticipated  so 
marked  a  revival  of  these  tones.

In  all  woolen  dress  goods,  from  heavy 
tailor  suitings  to  tine  reps  and  crepe 
cloths,  in  the  various  fashionable  silk 
weaves, 
in  satin,  velvet  and  panne, 
tones  of  brown  are  leading  sellers.

While  green 

is  developing  the  favor 
that  was  expected  of  it  in  the  early  sea­
is  proving  a  good  second  in 
son,  and 
the  race,  brown 
is  the  present  leader 
with  high  class  trade.  The  dress  goods 
department,  the silk  department  and  the 
millinery  department  find  ready  sale 
for all  choice  effects  in  brown  tones.

it 

The  combination  of  fur  with cloth and 
velvet  on  wraps,  gowns  and  millnery  is 
adding  to  the  vogue  of  brown.  So  many 
of  the  most  popular  furs  come  in  the 
brown  tones  that 
is  difficult  to  get 
away  from  this  color  scheme  in  a season 
when  furs  are  to  be  so  pronouncedly 
popular  as  they  are  at  the  present  time.
The  color card  shown  at  the  opening 
of  the  fall  season  was  woefully  in 
lack 
of  novelty  brown  tones,  but  since  the 
development  of  so  much 
for 
brown,  manufacturers  of  high  novelties 
have  set  about  producing  new  and  de­
sirable  tones  of  this  order.

favor 

The  present  fashionable  list 

includes 
a  long  range  of  tones  shading  from  the 
most  delicate  tint  with  only  a  sugges­
tion  of  brown 
in  the  make-up  to  the 
deep,  dark,  earthy  tones.  The  tend­
ency  is  to  get  away  from  the  ordinary 
browns  such  as  tobacco  and  nut  tones 
and  go  into the  browns  that  hold  sug­
gestions  of  other colors.  While  the  new 
browns  are  not  exactly  what  may  be 
termed  fluorescent  they  partake  of  that 
effect.

Some  very  new  light  tones  of  brown 
are  the  champagne  tones,  so  delicate 
that  they  seem  at  first  to be a faint pink, 
yet  having  just  the  shadow  of  brown  to 
make  them  decidedly  new.

There  are  other  browns  which  have 
the  violet  cast  and  a  full  range  of  the 
bronze  browns,  which  reflect  a  surface 
suggesting  green.  Two  very  new  shades

of  brown  go  by  the  names  “ peat”   and 
“ mould.”   Both  of  these  names  are  ac­
curately  desciiptive.  There 
is  a  long 
range  of  reddish  brown  tones,  one series 
of  which  are  purely  mahogany,  and  an­
other  the  wine  browns.  These  are  both 
much  favored  and  are  equally 
fashion­
able.

The  revival  of  brown  probably  owes 
a  good  deal  of  impetus  to  the  present 
craze  for  gold.  There  are  no  other 
color tones  which  take  so  kindly  to gold 
trimmings.  Combinations  of  brown 
with  gold  are  less  glaring  than with any 
other  color,  not  excepting  even  biack. 
The 
light  tones  of  brown,  as  mode, 
fawn  and  the  champagne tints,  are much 
beautified  by  gold 
The 
touch  of  gold  enlivens  and  greatly  en­
hances  the  beauty  of  these  colorings. 
is  the  complement  of  the 
Thus  one 
other.  The  craze 
its 
corollary 
in  brown  shadings  for  dress 
goods  and  millinery  materials. — Dry 
Goods  Reporter.

trimmings. 

for  gold 

finds 

One  of Them  Might.

A  certain  doctor,  when  only a  begin­
ner  in  practice,  had  occasion  to  attend 
a  trial  as  a  witness.  The  opposing 
counsel  in  cross  examining  the  young 
doctor made  several  sarcastic  remarks, 
doubting  the  ability  of  so  young  a  man 
to  understand  the  profession.
“ Do  you  know  the  symptoms  of  con­
“ I  do,”   replied  the  doctor.

cussion  of  the  brain?”

Well, ’ ’ continued the attorney,  ‘ ‘ sup­
pose  my 
learned  friend,  Mr.  Baging, 
and  myself  were  to  bang  our  heads  to­
gether,  should  we  get  concussion  of  the 
brain?”

“ Your  learned  friend,  Mr.  Baging, 

might,”   was  the  reply.

When  the  Omaha  trading  stamp  con­
cern  closed  its  doors  it  failed  to  redeem 
over  500  books.

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M. W . O'Brien, Hoyt Post, Christian Mack, 
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if  it’s  anything you  need  in  the  line  of 
heavy  goods  for  Lumbermen’s  wear, 
that  we  have  made  this  a  specialty  for 
years  and  can  give  you  a pointer or two 
on  values.  W e  also  have  some  new 
numbers  in  the  Sweater 
line,  pretty 
goods  and  heavy.  Just  the  thing  for 
cold  weather.  Price  $24  per  dozen. 
Packed  one  in  a  box.

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The  Meat  Market

Purchased  Sausages  and  Shoes  a t  the 

Same Time.

and  he  bought 

One  evening  as  Mr.  Drinkwater  was 
on  his  way  home,  he  stopped  at  the 
shoe  store  where  he  dealt  and  obtained 
a  pair of  shoes  which  he  had  left  to  be 
half-soled.  The  dealer  made  them  up 
into  a  nice  square  package,  and  with 
them  in  his  hand  Mr.  Drinkwater  pro­
ceeded  on  his  way  until  he  came  to  an­
other  store  where  they  sold  German 
sausages.  For  a  man  with  no  German 
is  very  fond  of 
blood  in  his  veins  he 
frankfurters, 
three 
pounds,  which  the  dealer  made  up  into 
a  nice  square  package.  Shortly  after­
wards  he  met  two  friends,  with  whom 
he  joined 
in  conversation,  and  before 
long  one  of  them  made  a  suggestion 
which  was  favorably  received  by  the 
others.  Mr.  Drinkwater  was  not  a  man 
who  would  quickly  desert  his  friends, 
and  his  friends  thought  too  much  of 
him  to  desert  him  on  short  notice,  so 
they  clung  together  with  extended  con­
tinuity  and  Mr.  Drinkwater  clung  to his 
packages. 
Parting  with  his  friends 
after the friendship of each  for the others 
had  been  frequently,  fully  and  freely 
expressed,  all  of  which  took  time,  for to 
pretend  to  be  glad  to  meet  a  friend  and 
then  leave  him  in  a  hurry  looks  like  in­
sincerity,  and  as  neither  he  nor  his 
friends  showed  any  symptoms,  it  was 
somewhere  near  12  o’clock  when  he  of 
the  water-drinking  name  reached  his 
dwelling  with  his  two  packages  in  his 
hand.  Out  of  respect  for  the  frank­
furters  he 
let  himself  in  by  the  base­
ment  door,  and  going  to  the refrigerator 
raised  the  lid  and  laid  one  of  the  pack­
ages  on  the  ice.  As  the  family  had  re­
tired,  he  went  quietly  to  his  room  and, 
opening  the  door  of  his  clothes  closet, 
placed  the  other on  a  shelf  to 
lie  there 
until  he  felt  a  desire  to  put  on the newly 
soled  shoes.  His  wife,  who  was  awak­
ened  by  his  entrance,  sleepily  asked 
what  time  it  was,  and  he  answered  by  a 
guess  with  a  margin  in  his  favor,  and 
to  ward  off  any  conflicting  guessing  on 
her  part  he  mentioned  the  sausages  and 
asked  to  have  some  of  them  for  his 
breakfast. 
In  a  few  minutes  he  was  in 
bed  and  asleep.

The  next  morning,  while  the  girl, 
who  was not over ripe, was getting break­
fast,  Mrs.  Drinkwater  spoke  down  to 
her  through  the  tube  telling  her there 
were  frankfurters  in  the  refrigerator  for 
breakfast.

“ How  will  I  cook  them.ma’m?  Sure 
I  never had  to  dale  with  their  likes  be­
fore. ’ *

“ Put  them  in  a  saucepan  in  boiling 
water  and  don’t  let  them  cook  more 
than  five  minutes.”

“ Will  I  skin  them,  I  don’t  know?”
“ No,  no.  Put  them  in  just  as  they 

are. ”

Recollecting  a  late  and  lively  experi­
ence  with  crabs  which  had  been  put  in 
boiling  water  just  as  they  were,  Maggie 
determined  to  take  no  chances,  and 
tearing  open  one  end  of  the  package 
dumped  the  contents  into  the  pan  and 
quickly  clapped  on  the  cover.

“ Where  are  the  frankfurters,  Mag­
gie?”   said  Mr.  Drinkwater,  as  he  and 
his  wife  sat  down  to  the breakfast table.

“ In  the  dish  foruinst  ye,  sir.”
“ You  need  not  have  put  them  in  a 
covered  dish ;  but  never  mind.  Now, 
Mrs.  D.,  let  me  help  you. 
I  bought 
these  where  they  keep  the  best,  and 
you  will  like  them,  I’ll  swear.  What 
the  de—-”   he  cried,  as  he  uncovered the

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dish  and  gave  a  glance  at  its  contents. 
“ Maggie,  what’s  this?  What  have  you 
done?”

“ Sure,  I  did  only  as  I  was  bid. 

It’s 
bewildered  entirely  I  am  with  the  cook­
ing  in  this  country. 
If  ye  don’t  like 
the  broth  ye  needn’t  ate  it.  Sure,  I 
wouldn’t  throw  it  out  after the  missis 
bidding  me  not  be  wasteful.”

like 

“ But  she  never  bid  you  boil  my 
shoes.  Don’t  you  know  a  pair  of  shoes 
when  you  see  them?”

“ Sure,  I  thought frankfritters  was  the 
Frinch  forbrogans.and  were’n’t  they  in 
the  ice  box  with  the  other  ateables? 
If 
ye  don’t 
lave  when  me 
month’s  up,  and  I  after  doing  me  best 
to  plaze  ye. ’ ’

it  I’ll 

“ That  will  do,  Maggie.  You  can  re­
tire  to  the  kitchen,”   said  Mrs.  Drink­
water  in  a  kindly  tone,  and  as  the  girl 
closed  the  door  she  turned  to  her  hus­
band  with  a  severe  expression  and 
asked,  “ Now,  what  does  this  mean, 
Ionly? 

I  want  you  to  explain.”

to 

He  did  not  answer,  but  rising  hastily 
rushed  upstairs  and  the  next  minute 
came  down  two  steps  at  a  time  with  the 
other  package  in  his  hand.  He quickly 
tore  it  open,  and  as  the  surface  of  the 
sausages  was  exposed 
view  he 
dropped  into  his  chair and  roared  with 
laughter.

“ It  means,  my  dear,  the two packages 
almost  exactly  alike  outwardly  were  in­
terchanged.  But  we  will  have  them  for 
breakfast  yet. ”   And  he  carried them 
to  the  kitchen,  where  he  said  to  Mag­
gie,  as  he  slipped  a  bill  into  her  hand, 
“ You  need  not  say  anything  about  this 
to  the  girl  next  door.”

When  he  returned  to the  dining  room 
his  wife  said  solemnly,  “ Ic nly  Drink­
water,  the  next  time  you  have  occasion 
to  carry  shoes  and  sausages  at  the  same 
time,  1  trust  you  will  remember your 
name. ”

Honesty  in  Duty.

Let  a  man  model  his  career  upon  a 
basis  of  absolute,  undeviating  honesty 
and  he  will  not  have  to  seek  long  for a 
place  of  trust.  Let  him  always  be  in  a 
position  to  shake  hands  with  himself, 
for self-respect  is  as  good  as  the  respect 
of  others.  The  men  who  to-day  control 
great  business  enterprises  are  looking 
for those  in  whom  they  may place limit­
less  confidence.  The  world  stands  ready 
to  wait  hand  and  foot  upon  those  who 
have  proved  themselves  beyond  the  se­
duction  of  any  tempter.  Diogenes  look­
ing  for  an  honest  man  has not yet ceased 
his  searching, 
for  although  there  are 
many  men  who  are  honest  in  matters  of 
money,  there  are  many  more  who  lack 
honesty  in  matters  affecting  the  perfect 
performance  of  duty.  There  is  a  dis­
honesty  which  does  not  stoop  to  steal, 
but  which  pretends  to  a  faithful  service 
while  actually  shirking  work  waiting  to 
be  done.  That  is the  commoner  trans­
gression  of  commercial  ethics,  and  one 
to  be  avoided  by  the  man  who  seeks  to 
mould  himself  for  higher  things.

Robert  C.  Ogden.
Potted  Head  and  Brawn  Seasonings.

No.  8.

No.  9.

2  lbs.  pepper.
1y2  ozs.  cayenne.
I  oz.  cloves.
4%  IBs.  salt.

3  lbs.  pepper.
6  ozs.  ginger.
2y2  ozs.  cinnamon.
7  lbs.  salt.
6  lbs.  pepper.
6 ozs.  nutmeg.
3  ozs.  cloves.
4%  ozs.  cayenne,
II  ozs.  ginger.
15  lbs,  salt.

No.  10.

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15

COON CAME  DOWN.

How  a  Clerk  Added to  His  Income.
John  Carter  was  filled  with a  big idea. 
John  was  a  bright  young  fellow,  who 
had  recently  married  and  gone to live in 
the  town  of  Mapleville,  where  he  had 
secured  employment  as  a  clerk  in  a fac­
tory  office.  Since  his  marriage,  how­
ever,  John  had 
learned  that  “ two  can 
live  as  cheaply  as  one”   was  all  right  as 
an  aphorism,  but  was  false  when  one 
came  to  try  it,  and  had  spent  much 
thought  on  ways  and  means  whereby  to 
piece  out  his  modest  salary.

Mapleville  was  a  modest  little  town, 
possessing  a  water  power,  around  which 
a  group  of  factories  clustered,  and  was 
the  market  town  of  a  prosperous  farm­
ing  district. 
It  boasted  of  a  weekly 
paper,  the  Mapleville  News,  and  its 
main  street  was  lined  with  stores  which 
did  a  good  business  with  the  farmers 
and  the factory  population.  The  News, 
like  many  other  country  papers,  was 
run 
in  a  conservative  manner,  and 
changed  little  in  appearance  from  week 
to  week,  especially 
in  its  advertising 
columns,  where  many  of  the  town’s 
prominent  store-keepers were  conspicu­
ous  through  their  absence.

John’s  big 

idea  was  this:  Why 
shouldn’t  he  turn  his  spare  time  to 
profitable  account  by  writing  advertise­
ments  for  the  Mapleville 
tradesmen? 
People  in  the  city  made  big  money  at 
the  business,  and  he  could  write  the ad­
vertisements  all  right  if  he could induce 
the  merchants  to  hire  him.

He  took  his  idea  to  the  editor  of  the 
News,  who  received  him  affably,  but 
gasped  when  he  unfolded  his  plan.

“ You  don’t  know  our  merchants, 
young  man,”   he  said;  “ it  is  all  I  can 
do  to  get  some  of  them  to  pay  for keep­

ing  their  business  cards  at  starvation 
rates,  and  there  is  not  a  man  in  town 
who  would  pay  for  a  fresh  advertise­
ment  every  week,  let  alone  paying  some 
one  to  write  it.”

John,  with  his  plan,  which  seemed  so 
feasible  a  moment before, a trifle dashed, 
started  to  turn  away.

“ I  tell  you  what  you  can  do,”   volun­
teered  the  editor. 
“ Try  some  of the 
store-keepers  who  are  not advertising in 
the  News,  and  I’ll  give  you a good com­
mission  on  the  business  you  get,  and 
give  those  weekly  changes  good  ‘ set­
ups.’  ”   And  he  smiled  ironically,  as 
one  who  foresaw  the  outcome  of  the  at­
tempt.

A  visit  or  two  to  the  larger  stores 
seemed  to  justify  the  editor’s  pessimis­
tic  views,  but  John,  who,  as  has  been 
told  before,  was  a  bright  young  fellow, 
was  not  discouraged,  and  tried  a  plan 
which  he  had  in  his  mind which seemed 
promising.

Going  to  the  grocery  where  he traded, 

he  interviewed  the  proprietor.

“ Advertise  in  the  News?”   said  that 
person.  “ Huh!  I  had  my  business  card 
in  with  the  rest  of  ’em  for  a  year,  and 
it  didn’t  bring  me  one  penny;  no,  sir, 
not one penny.  It’s  just  throwing  money 
away. ”

“ I  have  an  improved  style  of  adver­
tising  that  will  pay  you,  Mr.  Scales,”  
replied  the  young fellow,  dashing  into  a 
carefully  prepared  exposition  of  the 
advantage  of  a  “  fresh-ad-every-week-I- 
write-it-and-put-it-in-the- News - for - a- 
dollar  plan. ”

Mr.  Scales  listened  grimly.
“ Sorry,  Mr.  Carter,”   he  said,  “ but  I 
don’t  see  much  advantage  in  your  way 
over  the  old  way. 
I’m  pretty  well 
known  around  here  without  ad— ”

“ I’ll  take  my  pay  in  trade,”   said

John,  “ and work  hard  to  produce  results 
that  you  will  see. ”

“ No,”   said  the  grocer,  “ dollars  are 

too  scarce— ”

your 

“ Make  out 

account,  Mr. 
Scales,”   smiled  the  young  man. 
“ I 
think  by  taking  Seed  &  Co.  as  a  cash 
customer  I  may  possibly  interest  them 
in  my  proposition.”

Competition  in  Mapleville,  as  else­
where,  was  brisk,  and  John  Carter  was 
a  good  customer.  His  prospective 
loss 
caused  the  grocer to  change  his mind.

“ Hold  on,”   he  said,  hastily.  “ While 
I  don’t  put  much  faith  in  your  notions, 
I’ll  try  the  scheme  for  a  few  weeks, 
rather than  have  you  go  away  mad.”  

Hurrah!  John  had  a  customer  for his 
side  line.  By  similar  gentle  pressure, 
he  interested  Mr.  Horns,  the  butcher; 
Mr.  Waite,  the  coal  man,  his  barber, 
and  several  other  people  with  whom  he 
dealt,  who  grumblingly  agreed  to  ex­
charge  goods  or  services  for  advertising 
on  the  weekly-change  plan.

The  writing  of  the  first  advertisement 
for each  was  a  serious  undertaking,  and 
the  midnight  oil  burned;  but  the  newsy 
little  advertisements,  with  a dainty  bor­
der thrown  in  by  the  editor,  looked  well 
and  read  well  when  they  made  their  ap­
pearance 
in  the  News  of  the  following 
Saturday,  and  the  advertisers  were  well 
chaffed  over  them—showing  that,  at 
least,  they  had  been  read.  As 
luck 
it,  some  business  followed 
would  have 
the  very  first  advertisements,  for a  fam­
ily  moving  in  from  the  city,  on  reading 
them,  hunted  up  the  scores,  as  a  matter 
of  course,  and  became  customers,  say­
ing,  “ I  saw  your advertisement  in  the 
News,”   which  helped  John  mightily 
with  his  clients.

Still  his  trade  in  advertisement  writ­
ing  was  limited  to  those  with  whom  he

was  able  to  “ take  it  out  in  trade,”   and 
John,  as  the  facility  for  writing  grew, 
sighed  for  clients  on  a  cash  basis,  and 
laid  a  trap  to  catch  them.

For  spot  cash,  he  bought  a  block  of 
space  in  the  News  for  a  few  weeks,very 
cheaply,  and  by  coaxing  and  arguing, 
induced  his  advertisers to take increased 
space  and  advertise  a  series  of  “ spe­
cials”   on  the  market  day  of  each  week, 
when  the  country  people  were  in  town. 
John  spent  his  best  efforts  to  make  the 
advertisements  extra  attractive,  and 
awaited  the  outcome  with  anxiety.

The  first  “ special”   day  came,  and 
the  business  that  was  done  in  the  com­
modities  which  each 
advertiser  had 
elected  a  “ drive”   on  surprised  them; 
and  many  people  who  ordinarily  traded 
elsewhere 
traded  that  day  with  the 
“ special”   folks  for  all  their  needs.

The  other  tradesmen  were  furious  at 
the  defection  of  their  customers,  and 
hung  out  big  signs  and  cut  rates,  but 
without  perceptibly  changing  the  state 
of  affairs.

A  second  and  third  “ special”   day 
followed,  with  ever  increasing  results, 
and  then  the  coon  came  down.  John 
found  in  his  mail  notes  inviting  him  to 
call  with  terms,  etc.,  from  many  of  the 
paper's  business  card  advertisers,  who 
now  wanted  advertising  on  the  weekly- 
change  plan.

John’s  side  line  was  established.  At 
no  greater  expense  than  a  few  hours’ 
work  weekly  and  the  wear  and  tear  on 
the  grey  matter  of  his  brain,  he  enjoyed 
a  pretty addition  to  his  income,  and  the 
problem  of  “ two  living  as  cheaply  as 
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The  Im plem ent  Maker.

Napoleon  once  said  that  every  square 
yard  of 
land  reduced  from  a  state  of 
nature  to  a  state  of  cultivation  broad­
ened  the  foundation  of  civil  liberty  just 
that  much.  This  sound,  economic  truth 
can  be  paraphrased  by  saying  that  with 
the  manufacture  of  every  additional  im­
plement  there  is  added  to  the  super­
structure  of  our  world-wide  reaching 
civilization  a  stone  that  lifts  it  that 
much  higher 
In 
earlier  days  the  tool  was  the  symbol  of 
industry  and  progress,  but  the  tool  has 
now  lost  its identity  in  the  mighty  ma­
chine  that  moves  its  thousand  arms  to 
toil  for  man.  But  the  implement  re­
mains;  it  is  wielded  and  used  by  the 
individual  and  it  is  his  companion  and 
agent.

into  the  sunlight. 

The  implement  of  to-day,  in  its  mag­
nificent  and  watchlike  niceties  of  con­
struction,  is  the  measure  of  man’s  prog­
ress  from  the  infancy  of  racehood  to  the 
present.  A  great  thinker  once  said  : 
“ Show  me  a  people’s  songs  and  I  will 
show  you  their  progress  in  wisdom.  ’ ’ 
Better  might  he  have  said:  “ Show  me 
with  what  aids  the  people  tempt  the 
fruitful  soil  to  yield  of  its  abundance 
and  I  will  show you  what  has  been  their 
progress  from  barbarism to refinement. ”
implement  maker 
stands  close  to  the  heart  of  humanity. 
He  appeals  to the  individual,  to  the de­
sire  to  advance,  to the  spirit  of  indus­
try,  to  hope  and  ambition.  He  is  the 
genius  of 
the  pioneer 
of  true  and  abiding  progress,  and  the 
arbiter  in  the  great  make-up  of  des­
tiny  for  good  in  the  onward  march  of 
all  peoples  to  our  ultimate  aim and end.

The  agricultural 

civilization, 

Industrial  Enlightenm ent.

The  probable  effect  of  American  in­
dustrial  energy  on  foreign  peoples  can 
not  be  easily  surmised,  because  of  the 
essential  differences,  racial  and  mental. 
When  future  philosophers  come  to  write 
of  the  grand  upheaval  which  occurred 
in  the  Nineteenth  Century  in  the 
intel­
lectual,  moral  and  physical  condition 
of  the  people  of the  United  States,  they 
will  write  of  it  as  the  greatest  sociolog­
ical  fact  of  the  ages.  We  can  not  esti­
mate  the  energy,  power and  magnitude j 
of  the  mighty  agencies  under  which  the 
United  States  has  advanced  within  a 
little  over  a  century  from  a  wilderness 
to  a  garden.

The  true  significance  of  that  mighty 
force,  which  has  surprised  the  world  at 
large,  as  well  as  ourselves,  is  that  it 
is 
to  penetrate  the  outside  world  and  work 
there,  not 
wondrous 
transformations 
necessarily  of  a  political 
character, 
much 
less  of  a  religious  nature.  This 
greatest  crusade of intelligence,  industry 
and  enlightenment 
on  the  part  of 
Europe  and  America  will  penetrate  all 
lands,  and  change  the  conditions  of  the 
peoples  through  industry,  creating  dis­
content  with  poverty,  and  stimulating  a 
desire  to  know  more  of  life  and 
its 
latent  energies.  The  spirit  of  unrest, 
which  was  born  in  the  Nineteenth  Cen­
tury,  will  be  a  mighty  crusade  in  the 
Twentieth.

It  is  well  to  keep  in  mind  that  in  the 
past  five  fiscal  years  the  farmers  of  the 
United  States  have  raised  and  exported 
$3,500,000,000  worth 
of  agricultural 
products,  figures  which  demonstrate  the 
value  of  our export  trade.

The  W onderful  Progress  in  Rakes.
One  of  the  most  interesting  features 
of  the  agricultural  implement  business

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

is  the  evolution  of  the  rake,  from a stick 
with  a  crooked  end  to  the  present  mas­
terful  stroke  of  mechanical  genius,  that 
almost  talks  as 
it  glides  through  its 
work.  One  of  the  foremost  mechanical 
experts  in  agricultural machinery,  when 
recently  asked  what  is  the  next  step  of 
progress  in  the  rake,  said,  “ To  sell  a 
rake  to  every  farmer that  needs  one. ”  
It  would  appear  that  skill,  ingenuity 
and  expertness  had  exhausted 
them­
selves 
in  perfecting  this  highly  useful 
implement. 
European  agriculturists 
have  always  admired  the American  rake 
for  its  extreme  lightness  and  the  thor­
oughness  with  which  it  does  its  work. 
The  struggle  among  rake  manufacturers 
would  make  quite  an  interesting  his­
tory.  The  present  masterpieces  repre­
sent  a  thirty-years’  struggle  of  skill 
against  skill,  of  gradual  evolution,  of 
refinement  upon  refinement,  until  the 
rake  of  the  past  few  years  appeared, 
ready  for  every  condition  of  crop  and 
able  to  meet  every  exigency  that  pre­
instant  changes,  its 
sented  itself. 
Its 
automatic  action, 
its  adaptability  to 
rough  land,  its  various  combinations, 
all  converge  in  a  degree  of  perfection 
which  leaves  nothing  to  be desired.  But 
to-day  there  are  scores  of  eagle eyes and 
brains  watching  the  rakes  of  this  and 
other  countries  as  they  perform  their 
work,  to  detect  some  latent  defect  and 
to  anticipate  some  little  improvement. 
We  agree  with  the  mechanical  expert, 
for  the  thing  to  do  is  to  sell  rakes,  and 
the  farmer  who  uses  an  old  make  in 
preference  to  one  of  the  newest  may  not 
be  doing  the  best  thing  for  his 
interest 
in  the  end.

R uskin’s  F irst  Lesson.

famous  books,  said  that  the  first 
he  learned  was  to  be  obedient.

Mr.  Rusk in,  who  wrote  so  many 
lesson 

“ One  evening,”   he  says,  “ when  1 

It  w^s  an  early  taste 

was  yet  in  my  nurse’s  arms,  I  wanted 
to  touch  the  tea  urn,  which  was  boiling 
merrily. 
for 
bronzes,  I  suppose,  and  I  was  resolute 
about  it.  My  mother  bade  me  keep  my 
fingers  back ;  I  insisted  on  putting them 
forward.  My  nurse  would  have  taken 
me  away  from  the  urn,  but  my  mother 
said,  ‘ Let  him  touch  it,  nurse.’

“ So  I  touched  it,  and  that  was  my 
first  lesson  in  the  meaning  of  the  word 
liberty. 
It  was  the  first  piece  of  liberty 
1  got  and  the  last  which  for  some  time 
I  asked  for.”

B etter A griculture.

of 

One  of  the  impulses  now  at  work  in 
agricultural  interests  is  more  scientific 
farming.  This  tendency  was  originated 
and  since  stimulated  by  the  high  de­
velopment 
implement  making. 
Splendid  implements  demand  scientific 
farming,  and  the  progress  made  in  this 
direction,  especially  in  the  Northwest, 
is  truly  encouraging.  The  awakening 
on  this  subject  is  also  due  in  a  measure 
to  our  agricultural  colleges,  but  the 
greatest  impulse  is  yet  to  come— is  now 
in  sight.  The  turning  point  is  due  to 
the  enormous  growth  of  our  export 
trade,  and  to  the  narrowing  down  of  the 
available  limit  of  fertile  territory.  The 
next  ten  years  will  develop  more  scien­
tific  farming  than  the  past  fifty.

W orld’s Coining:  Financial  Center. 

From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.

It  is  well  known  throughout  the  world 
that  the  United  States  is  the  one  great 
nation  which,  in  these  days,  has  a  big 
surplus  of  ready  cash  beyond  its  own 
needs,  large  as  those  are,  and  that  al­
though  the  needs  here  keep  on growing, 
the  surplus  is  increasing  at  a  still  faster 
rate.  The  rapid  approach  of  the  day 
when  New  York,  and not  London  or any 
other  point  in  Europe,  will  be  the  ac­
knowledged  financial  center of  the  na­
tions  is one  of the  most  impressive  facts 
in  the  social  history  of  the  world  at 
this  age.

Japanese  Diplomacy.

It  was  at  the  time  of  the  Paris  exhi­
bition  in  1867.  A Japanese embassy went 
to  Paris  to  treat  for three  free  ports 
in 
France,  in  return  for which  France  was 
to  have  three  in  Japan.  The  negotia­
tions  proved  short  and  amiable.

“ we  will  choose  afterward.”

“ Make  your  choice,”   said  Japan, 
The  Minister  of  Foreign  Affairs  se­
lected  Yokohama,  Yeddo  and  Hang- 
Yang.

The  embassy  made  no objection ;  they 

simply  smiled  and  went  on  their way.

Some  time  afterward  Japan  sent  word 
that  the  three  ports  mentioned  were 
agreed  to,  and  in  return  Japan  desired 
Havre,  Marseilles  and  Southampton.

This  last  name  gave  the  French  offi­
cials  fits.  They  never  laughed  so  much 
since. 
before,  and  certainly  never 
Southampton  a  French  port!  Oh, 
it 
was  too  good.  Gently,  but  unmistak­
ably,  they  explained  the  situation.

“ Why,  Southampton  is  in  England,”  

they  replied.

“ We  know  that,”   came  the  cool  re­
in 

sponse,  “ but  then  Hang-Yang 
Corea. ’ ’

Whereupon  the  French  officials  col­

is 

lapsed.

Metals  Not  Insoluble  in  W ater.

A  Russian  chemist  has  found  that 
copper  is  dissolved  by  an  alkaline  solu­
tion  of  gelatin,  the  copper  going  into 
the  solution  as  collodial  copper.  The 
old  rule  that  the  metals  are  insoluble  in 
water  is  being  widely  disproved,  solu­
tions  of  metallic  gold,  mercury  and  sil­
ver,  and  now  of  copper,  having  been 
prepared  quite  recently.  In all  these  the 
metals  are  in  a  very  fine  condition,  but 
are  true  metallic  solutions.

A  Masterpiece  of Mendacity.

“ That  Chinese  student  says he  enjoys 
life  of  George  Washington  more 

the 
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“ Yes.  He  just  remarked  to  me  that 
he  regarded  the  story  about  a  man's  not 
being  able  to  tell  a  lie  as  a  masterpiece 
of  mendacity.”

 

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Written for the Tradesman.

Proposals.

One  could  see  at  glance  that  the  man 
believed  himself to  be  a  very “ smooth” 
article,  and  that  his  mind  was  in  a  per­
petual  state  of  self-congratulation.  He 
opened  a  small  leather  handbag,  closely 
packed  with  printed  blanks  and  cards, 
all  neatly  sorted  and  ticketed,  and  sat 
himself  down  at  the  clothing merchant’s 
desk. 
It  was  easy  to  see  that  the  mer­
chant  was  in  for a  siege.

“ I  represent  the  Independent  Order 
of  the  Whole  Thing,”   he said,  watching 
the  merchant’s  face for some  expression 
of  approval,  “ and  I  am  about  to  organ­
ize  a  branch  of  the  order  in  this  city.”
The  merchant  glanced  up  from  the 
statement  he  was  drawing  and  dipped 
his  pen  into  the  inkstand  again.

“ What  can  I  do  for  you?”   he  asked, 

shortly.

“ We’ve  got the best society on earth, ”  
said  the  man,  “ and  want  to interest you 
in  it. 
If  you  go  in  as  a  charter  mem­
ber  it  won’t  cost  you  a  cent. ”

“  I  don’t  think— ”
But  the  representative  of  the  Inde­
pendent  Order of  the  Whole  Thing  did 
not  give  him  a  chance  to  complete  the 
sentence.

‘ ‘ In  towns  where  we  are  fully  organ­
ized, ”   he  said,  “ we  run  things.  The 
political  parties  hold  no  caucuses  there. 
We  fix  up  the  local  tickets  in  our  lodge 
If a  man  wants  to  he  mayor  he 
rooms. 
has  to  be  a  Whole  Thing.  See? 
If  a 
dealer  wants  to  succeed  in  business,  he 
has  to  be  one  of  us.  We  control  the  city 
council,  and  if  a  man  wants  to  have  his 
street  graded  and  paved  he  becomes  a 
Whole  Thing  and  the  work  begins. 
In 
our  society  you  see  the  only  anti-trust 
organization  on  the  face  of  the  earth. 
We  make  and  unmake  congressmen  and 
governors.  What  might  your age  be?”
The  agent  had  a  blank  out  and  was 
rapidly  filling  out  the  doted  lines,  hav­
ing  crowded  the  merchant  half  out  of 
his  seat  at  the  table  in  order to  make 
room  for  himself.

in 

“ Because 

“ I  am  twenty-one  years  of  age  and 
upwards,”   replied  the  merchant,  short­
ly. 
“ Why  do  you  call  your  society,  the 
Whole  Thing?”
it 

is  the  Whole  Thing  in 
any  town  we  get  into,”   was  the  reply. 
“ You  go  down  here  to  Fighting  Creek 
and  see 
if  we  haven’t  got  the  town. 
We’ve  got  the  biggest  membership  and 
the  biggest  lodge  room  and  more  men 
in  office  and  more  gold  braid  on  our 
band  uniforms  and  more  merchants  liv­
ing 
I 
can’t  tell  you  all  we’ve  got.”

steam-heated  houses—oh, 

“ I’m  a  member  of  thirty-nine  socie­
ties  now,”   said  the  merchant,  “ and 
each  society  was  to  make  my  shop  a 
ten-story  department  store  as  soon  as  I 
got  all  the  degrees.”

“ But  they  all  draw  trade?”
“ Yes,”   was  the  reply.  “ They  all 
draw  trade. 
I  can’t  tell  you  now  exact­
ly  how  much  some  of  them  draw,  for  I 
haven’t  time  to  look  over  my  bad  ac­
counts. ’ ’

“ But  the  Whole  Things  regard 

it  as 
dishonorable  to  owe  a  brother,”   said 
the  agent. 
“ And,  then,  suppose  you 
are  taken  sick?  They  care  for  you,  sir. 
They  sit  up  nights  with  you  and  hand 
in  dainties  and  take  you  out  into  the 
country  when  you  get  better  and  lay 
flowers  on  your  grave 
if  you  die  and 
give  your  family  enough  to  live  on  in 
comfort  and  see  that  your  children  are 
educated.  Of  course,  you  want  the 
in­
five
surance  degree?  You  can  take 

thousand 
Shall  I  make  it  that  amount?”

if  you  pass  the  examination. 

“ Oh,  they  sit  up  nights  with  me,  do 
they?”   demanded  the.  merchant. 
“ Do 
they  fill  up  with  the  wine  lunch  pro­
vided  and  go to  sleep  on  the  floor?  And 
leave  the  screen  doors  open  and  fill  the 
house  with  bugs?  And  mix  the  medi­
cines  so  that  the  doctor has  to  come and 
tell  whether to  give  a  brown  powder  at 
midnight  or  a  hot  foot-bath?  And  do 
they  come  down  to  the  store  the  next 
day  and  get  a  suit  of  clothes  on  credit, 
so  you  will  be  certain  to  remember 
them?  We’ve  got  numerous  societies  of 
that  sort  here  now.  Of  course,  we’ve 
got  good  societies,  too,  with  ladies  and 
gentlemen  for  members,  but we have the 
other  kind,  too. 
I  don’t  see  that  there 
is  any  room  for you  here.”

“ We’ ll  make  room,  sir.  We'll  make 
room.  We  have  men  of  capital  and  in­
fluence  interested.  And  why  shouldn’t 
they  be 
interested?  Suppose  you  get 
into  trouble  financially?  You’ve  got 
some  paper  in  the  bank  that  you  can’t 
meet?  Why,  the  cashier  is  a  Whole 
Thing,  and  there  you  are.  Suppose  you 
meet  with  an  accident  of  conviviality, 
as  the  great  and  good  Webster  used  to 
say,  and  become  confused  and  tangled 
up  on  the  way  home?  Up  comes  the 
wagon!  But  the  policeman  is  a  Whole 
Thing,  and  there  you  are  again.  No 
handcuffs,  no  police  judge,  no  name  in 
the  papers.”

“ In 

this  town,”   said  the  merchant, 
sadly,  “ the  bank  cashier and  the  police 
force  are  the  whole  thing  now.”

“ I  see. 

I  see.  Good 

joke.  How 
much  insurance  shall  I  put  you  down 
for?”

“ I’ve  got  twenty-six 

life  insurance 
policies  now,”   replied  the  merchant. 
“ Whenever  a  secret  society  agent  or a 
life  insurance  solicitor  has  nothing  else 
to  do,  he comes  in  here  and  catches  me. 
If  I  had  all  the  trade  those  fellows  have 
promised,  I’d  have  a  thirty-story edifice 
here,  with  an  elevator  running  a  mile  a 
minute  and  a  conservatory  on  every 
floor.  Well,  you  see,  I  haven’t  got  it. 
I  get  up  in the  morning  and  come  down 
here  and  build  the  fire  because  I  can’t 
afford  a  boy.  The  man  who  owns  this 
building  belongs  to  nineteen  secret  so­
cieties  that  I  do,  and  calls  me  brother, 
but  he  comes  in  here  the  first  of  every 
month  and  smokes  my  cigars  and  talks 
politics  until  I  raise  his  money  for him. 
I  stay  out  nights  now,  attending  lodges, 
until  the  neighbors  begin  to  cast  pity­
ing  glances  at  my  wife  and  wonder how 
she  ever  came  to  cast  her  lot  with  a 
drunkard. ”

“ I’ve  got  the  leading  men  of the town 
already,”   insisted  the agent,  “ and want 
your  name  to  close  the  list. 
I  came 
here  the  first  thing,  but  you  wasn’t  in 
that  day.  Our  receptions  here  this  win­
ter will  be  the  swell  events  of the  year. 
If  you  want  to  have  your  wife  and  chil­
dren  in  the  social  swim,  you  must  be­
come  one  of  us.  How  much 
insurance 
wili  you  take?”

“ Oh,  you’re  in  the  fashion  way,  too, 
are  you?”   demanded  the  merchant. 
“ You  go  around  and  get  women  in  the 
notion  of going  to  swell  receptions  and 
having  front  seats  at  the  theater  and 
wearing  better  clothes  than  any  one  else 
and  having  a  coachman  and  giving 
afternoon  teas  and  heading  charity lists, 
do  you?  Well,  I  can’t  stand  for  it.  My 
wife  can’t  go  without  me,  and  I  can’t 
go  because  I’m  not  dressed  properly. 
I 
have  but  two  suits  in  the  world  and  one 
is  a  lawsuit. 
I  have  worn  most  of  the 
in  stock  until  they  won’t  sell
clothes 

and  I’m  thinking  of  going  into  the 
second-hand  clothing  business.”
made  for  the  door.

The  agent  gathered  up  his blanks  and 
“ I  presume,”   he  said,  icily,  “ that 
you  wouldn’t  care  to  have  me  repeat 
what  you  say  about the condition of your 
goods?”

“ Of  course  I  should,”   was  the  reply. 
" I ’d  rather  you’d  say  I  was  bankrupt 
than  to  say  that  I  was  dodgasted  fool 
enough  to  join  another  secret  society. 
If  a  man  is  poor  he  may  get  rich,  but 
if  he 
is  a  confounded  fool  he’ll  never 
recover.  Good  day,  sir.”
The  Independent  Order of  the  Whole 
Thing  has  not  yet  secured  a  foothold  in 
that  city. 

Hardware Price Current

Alfred  B.  Tozer.

Augurs  and  Bits

Snell’s ................................................  
60
Jennings  genuine..............................................25
Jennings’ fmitation............................. 
50

Axes

First Quality, S. B. Bronze................  
First Quality, D. B. Bronze............... 
First Quality, S. B. S.  Steel............... 
First Quality,  D. B. Steel.................. 
Railroad.............................................  
Garden...............................................net 

'  Barrows

Bolts
Stove.................................................. 
Carriage, new li=* 
........................... 
Plow........... 
 
Buckets

Well, plain......................................... 

 

Butts,  Cast

Cast Loose Pin, figured..................... 
Wrought Narrow..............................  

Cartridges

Rim Fire............................................ 
Central F ire...............  

 

Com..............  7  c.  ...  6  c. 
BB................  ax 
...  7X 
BBB..............  S34 
...  7% 

X in. 

Chain

 
5-16 in.  % in. 
... 5  e. 
... 654 
... 6% 

Crowbars

Cast Steel, per lb................................ 
Ely’s 1-10, per m.................................  
Hick’s C. F„ per m............................. 
G. D.. per m.......................................  
Musket, per m....................................  

Caps

Socket Firm er................................... 
Socket Framing.................................  
Socket Comer.................s.................. 
Socket Slicks...................................... 

Chisels

Elbows

Com. 4 piece, 6 in., per doz................net 
Corrugated, per doz...........................  
Adjustable.........................................dis 

Expansive  Bits

Clark’s small, $18;  large, $26.............. 
Ives’ 1, $18;  2, $24;  3, $30.................... 

Files—New  List

New American................................... 
Nicholson’s......................................... 
Heller’s Horse Rasps.........................  
Nos. 16 to 20;  22 and 24;  25 and 26;  27, 
16. 
List  12  13 

Galvanized  Iron

14 

Discount,  70

7 00
11  50
7 75
13 00
17 00
32 00

60
70&10
50

$4  oo

66
60

40&10
20
X in.
... 43ic.
... 6
... 654

6
66
65
45
75

65
65
65
65

65
l  25
40&10

40
25

70&10
70
70
28
17

Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s.............. 
60&10
Single  Strength, by box.......................dis  85&20
Double Strength, by box.....................dis  85&20

By the Light............................... dis  85&

Hammers

Hinges

Maydole & Co.’s, new list.................... dis 
3354
Yerkes & Plumb’s ................................dis  40&10
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel...............30c list 
70

Gate, Clark’s 1,2,3.............................. dis  60&10
Pots..........................................*........  
50&10
Kettles............................................... 
50&10
50&10
Spiders...............................................  

Hollow  W are

Horse  Nails

Iron

Au Sable............................................. dis  40&10
5
Putnam.............................................. dis 
House  Furnishing Goods
Stamped Tinware, new list................. 
70
Japanned Tinware.............................. 
20&10
Bar Iron............................................. 2 25  c rates
Light Band.........................................  3 c rates
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings..........  
75
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings........  
85
Regular 0 Tubular, Doz......................  
5 00
6 00
Warren, Galvanized  Fount...............  
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s.............dis 
70

Knobs—New  List

Lanterns

Levels
Mattocks

Adze Eye................................$17 00..dis  70—10

Metals—Zinc

600 pound casks..................................  
Per pound..................... 8

754

15 
Gauges
Glass

Miscellaneous

40
Bird Cages......................................... 
Pumps, Cistern..................................  
75
Screws, New List.............................. 
80
Casters, Bed and Plate......................  50&10&10
Dampers, American........................... 
50
Stebbins’ Pattern............................... 
60&10
Enterprise, self-measuring................  
30
Fry, Acme..........................................   60&10&10
Common,  polished............................. 
70&5
Patent  Planished  Iron 

Molasses  Gates

“A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27  10 76 
“B” Wood’s patent planished. Nos. 25 to 27  9 75

Broken packages 54c per pound extra.

Pans

Advance over base, on both Steel and  Wire.

Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy........................  
Sciota Bench...................................... 
Sandusky Tool  Co.’s, fancy...............  
Bench, first quality............................. 

Planes

Nails

 

 

Steel nails, base................................ 
Wire nails, base................................. 
20 to 60 advance......... :......................  
10 to 16 advance.................................. 
advance............... 
8 
6 advance.......................................... 
4 
advance...................................... 
3 advance................ 
2 advance.......................................... 
Fine 3 advance................................... 
Casing 10 advance..............................  
Casing 8 advance.............................. : 
Casing 6 advance................................ 
Finish 10 advance..............................  
Finish 8 advance................................ 
Finish 6 advance................................ 
Barrel  % advance..............................  

 

Rivets

Iron and  Tinned................................ 
Copper Rivets and Burs.................... 

Roofing Plates

14x20 IC, Charcoal, Dean...................  
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Dean...................  
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Dean...................  
14x20 IC, Charcoal, Allaway  Grade... 
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Alla way  Grade... 
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Allaway  Grade... 
20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade... 

Sisal, 54 inch and larger..................... 
Manilla............................................... 

Ropes

50
60
50
50

2 55
2 55
Base
5
10
20
30
45
70
50
15
25
36
25
35
45
85

50
45

6 50
7 50
13 00
5 50
6 50
11 00
13 oo

8
12

50

25 oo

List acct.  19, ’86...................................dis 

Solid  Eyes, per ton............................  

Sand  Paper

Sash  W eights

Sheet Iron

com. smooth,  com.
$3 20
3  20
3  30
3 40
3 50
3 60
All Sheets No.  18 and  lighter,  over  30  inches 

Nos. 10 to 14  ................................ 
Nos. 15 to 17.................................  
Nos. 18 to 21.................................  
Nos. 22 to 24 .................................   3  60 
NOS. 25 to 26 .................................   3  70 
No. 27............................................  3  80 
wide, not less than 2-10 extra.

Shells—Loaded

Loaded with Black Powder.................dis 
40
Loaded with  Nitro  Powder............... dis  40&10

Drop...................................................  
B B and  Buck............... *................... 

Shovels  and  Spades

First Grade,  Doz...............................  
Second Grade, Doz............................  

1  45
1  70

8 00
7  50

54@54.................................................. 
21
The prices of the many other qualities of solder 
In the market indicated by  private  brands  vary 
according to composition.

Shot

Solder

Squares

Steel and Iron....................................  
10x14 IC, Charcoal.............................. 
14x20 IC, Charcoal..............................  
20x14 IX, Charcoal.............................. 

Tin—Melyn  Grade

Each additional X on this grade, $1.25.

Tin—Allaway  Grade

Each additional X on this grade, $1.50

10x14 IC, Charcoal..............................  
14x20 IC, Charcoal.............................. 
10x14 IX, Charcoal.............................. 
14x20 IX, Charcoal..............................  
Boiler Size  Tin  Plate 
noiind

14x56 IX. for No.8Boilers,) 
14x56 IX, for No. 9 Boilers, f per pouna“ 
Traps

Steel,  Game.......................................  
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s....... 
Oneida Community,  Hawley  &  Nor­
ton’s................................................  
Mouse, choker, per doz..................... 
Mouse, delusion, per doz...................  

W ire

Bright Market....................................  
Annealed  Market..............................  
Coppered Market...............................  
Tinned  Market................................... 
Coppered Spring Steel....................... 
Barbed Fence, Galvanized................  
Barhed Fence, Painted......................  

W ire  Goods

Bright...............................................  
Screw Eyes......................................... 
Hooks.................................................  
Gate Hooks and Eyes........................  
Baxter’s Adjustable, Nickeled.......... 
Coe’s Genuine..................................  
Coe’S Patent Agricultural, [Wrought.. 70&10

W renches

65
$850
8 50
9 76

7 00
7 00
8  50
8  50

10

75
40&10
65&15
15
1  25

60
60
50&10
50&10
40
3 20
2 90

80
80
80
8q
30
30

1 8

Village  Improvement
W hat  1»  the  Hock  Bottom   Reason  For 

I t A ll?

When  the  man  in  his unwashed blouse 
and  forgotten  finger  nails asked,  as  if  it 
were  a  hard  question  to  answer,  what 
all  this  talk  and  this  wriling  about  V il­
lage  Improvement  amounted  to anyway, 
it  was  evident  that  the 
rock-bottom 
question  must  have  a  rock-bottom  ans­
wer.  They  are  both  of  the  earth, earthy, 
and  both  must  appeal  strongly  to the 
senses  to  be  listened  to  and  understood. 
When,  then, 
the  Socratic  method  of 
answering  one  question  by  asking  an­
other  was  resorted  to  and  the  man  was 
asked,  “ What  is  the  use  of  eating  a 
good  fat  dinner?”   with  an introductory, 
“ Now,  you  are  shouting!”   came  the 
expressive  reply,  “ Because 
it’s  blank 
good!”   With  no  attempt  to  show  the 
incongruity  of  the  forceful  adjective 
and  its  antagonistic  word  a  little  ques­
tioning  brought  out  the  facts  that  it 
tastes  good ;  it  makes  a  fellow  feel  as  if 
life  was  worth 
living;  it  gives  him 
something  “ nice”   to think  of  while  he 
is  eating  and  a  long  time  after  he  gets 
through;  it  makes  him  strong  in  the 
legs  and,  while  it  lasts,  makes  a  better 
“ There  is  some 
man  of  him  anyway. 
sense 
It’ll 
wash.  Make  your  society  the  Village 
Improvement  Dinner  Society  and  I’ll 
join !”

It’s  practical. 

that. 

in 

It  is  a  good,  straightforward  answer, 
given  heartily  and  without  reserve  and, 
while  confined  to  a  single  sense  and  the 
one  generally  looked  upon  as  the  most 
sordid,  it  has  the  virtue  of  meeting 
squarely  every  condition  and  that,  too, 
from  the  man’s  own  practical  stand­
point.  Test  it  with  sound.  From  the 
world  of  harmony  prepare  a  banquet 
according  to  this  man’s  taste,  for  he  is 
to  be  the  guest. 
Its  chords  and  dis­
cords  will  please  him.  Again  he  feels 
as 
if  life  is  worth  the  living.  All  the 
next  day  and  for  days  afterwards  he 
whistles  and  sipgs  snatches  of  the  mel­
ody  that  has  pleased  him.  His  step 
is 
lighter  for  the  music  and  “ while  it 
lasts” —he  never  wholly  forgets  it—he 
is  “ a  better  man”   for  it.  Surely  there 
is  sense 
is  practical—so 
thought  his  mother as  she crooned above 
his  cradle—and  beyond  that  test  there 
is  no  need  to  go.

in  that. 

It 

Look  at  it  as  we  may,  the  Improve­
ment  Society  is  dealing  with  the  same 
facts  in  regard  to  sight. 
Its  object  is 
to  furnish  a  feast  on  a  larger  scale  than 
the  dining  room  can  give.  Nature  fur­
nishes  the  viands  and 
the  Society 
spreads  the  table  and  the  guest  comes 
and  partakes  and  calls 
it  good—with 
or without  the  forceful adjective !  Does 
the  meal  meet  the  other  requirements? 
The  man’s  blouse  may  be  dirtier  than 
it  is  and  more  of  the  soil  in  which  he 
works  may  cling  to  his  hands,  but  the 
morning’s  red  and  the  evening’s  yellow 
will  always  please  him.  He  may  make 
fun  of  spring  poetry—a  wholesome  sign 
—but  a  sprig  of  arbutus  stays  between 
his  lips  all  day.  He  cares  nothing  for 
your summer  landscapes;  but  he  stands 
by  the  pasture  bars  after the  cows  have 
passed  until  twilight  hides  the  picture 
made  by  the  spring  and  the  overhang­
ing  leaves  after the  sun  went  down.  He 
does  not  gush  when  the  maple  leaves 
turn  red;  but  he  never  hurries  by  a  cer­
tain  bend 
in  the  road  where  the  brook 
spreads  into a  pool  and,  stealing  under 
the  rickety  bridge,  skirts  the  cornfield 
“ when  the  frost  is  on  the  pumpkin  and 
the  com  is  in  the  shock.”   Complain  of

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

winter’s  dreariness  and, 
like  a  man 
whose  friend  has  been  abused,  he  will 
refute  with  winter  pictures  and  pleas­
ures  every  ungrounded  complaint.  An 
appreciation  of  beauty  is  there,  the  So­
ciety  knows  it  and  appeals  to  it  and  its 
work  is  done.

The  eye  does  what  the  ear and  the 
tongue  d id ;  but  life  is  more  than  meat 
and  the  eye,  Knowing this,  looks  out  for 
it  has  beautiful  sur­
it  and  sees  that 
roundings. 
It  cares  for  the  streets, 
smoothing  the  road  and  planting  the 
walks  with  trees.  The  picture  is  com­
pleted  with  well  kept  lawn and cared for 
church  and  school  house  and  when  the 
work is  done  and  looked  at,the  “ feller”  
feels  as  if  life  was  worth  the  living.  He 
has  something  to  think  of  when  busy 
with  other  things;  he  tires  less  easily; 
and  show  me  the  man  who  has 
in  his 
mind  all  day  a  beautiful  thought  and 
when  the  day  is  over that  man  will  be 
found  a  better  one.  Like  seeks  like  no 
more  surely  than 
it  begets  it  and  the 
children  of  the  good  have  always  the 
features  of  their  parentage. 
strong 
There 
is  sense  here  and  it  is  practical 
and  the  doubting  Thomas  will  find  it 
eminently  so  if  he  cares  to  become  a 
Society  member.

It 

Fun 

is  the 

is  often  made  of  the  newly  rich 
for  buying  so  many  pictures. 
“ A  man 
no  sooner  makes  his  pile  than he  breaks 
out  into  a  picture  gallery.  “ It  is  due  to 
the  inborn craving after ownership of the 
beautiful, with the hope  that  a  portion  at 
least  of  the  purchased  loveliness  may 
become  a  part  of  himself.  Shut  up  with 
these  he  hopes  soon  to  put  off the rough. 
With  them  to  look  upon  he  must  be bet­
ter.  No  man  can  think  of  the  bad  while 
his  eyes  are  feasting  upon  a half  un­
folded  rose,  and  the  Easter  lily  would 
lose  its  favor  as  the  flower of  Christen­
dom  if  it  failed  to  teach  its  sacred 
les­
lesson  of  beauty,  of 
son. 
purity,of  goodness,which  beautiful  sur­
roundings  are  intended  to  teach  and  the 
landscape  is  the  best  of  teachers. 
It  is 
better  than  the  art  gallery  for  it  is  al­
ways  changing.  Spring  comes and every 
morning  a  new  picture  appears  on  the 
canvas.  July  may  catch  upon  her  cam­
era  the  same  view  but  the  picture  is not 
the  same.  October  is  pleased  but  re­
paints  it  and  when  winter  removes  the 
leaves  and  covers  everything with snow, 
the  seasons  have  done  their  best  and 
humanity  has  been  bettered  by  it  at  lit­
tle  cost.
This 

idea  from  beginning  to 
end. 
It  has  taken  a  long  time  for the 
world  to  believe  it,  especially  the  com­
mon,  every  day,  working world.  Beauty 
has  been  kept  too  long  as  an  ornament. 
For  years  she  has  been  shut  up 
in  the 
parlor  with  the  haircloth  furniture  and 
the  family  album,  while  the  sitting 
room  and  the  kitchen  and  the  dooryard, 
front  and  back,  have  been  growing 
coarse  and  ugly  from  neglect.  Genius, 
weary  of  working  with  nothing,  has 
finally  rebelled.  He  has  pulled  up  the 
parlor curtains  and  let  in the  light.  He 
has  opened  the  door  and  out  into  the 
back  yard  he  has  invited  the  long  im­
prisoned  goddess  and  together  they 
have  been  working  to  brighten  up 
things.  They  have 
just  one  object  in 
view : 
to  give  beauty  a  chance  to earn 
her  own  living;  and  it  is  the  intention 
of  this  department  to  show  in  a  series 
of  papers  that  she  has  not only done that 
but  has  increased  the  happiness  of those 
about  her—her  long  acknowledged  mis­
sion—far  more  than  she  did  and  could 
when  she  was  set  up  on  a  pedestal  and 
worshipped  at  a  respectful  distance,

is  the 

New  Sleeping Bag  for German Troops. 

From the Philadelphia Record.

in  the  form  of  a  bag. 

A  German  manufacturer  has 

just 
taken  out  a  patent  for a  new  sleeping 
device 
In  order 
to  avoid  the 
inhalation  of  cold  and 
humid  air and  the  entrance  of  rain,  and 
insects,  and,  on  the  other  hand,  to  get 
sufficient  warm  air to enable  the  occu­
pant  of  the  bag  to  breathe  freely,  the 
headpiece  of  the  bag  has  been  provided 
with  a  number of  small  air  tubes,  cov­
ered  on  the  outside  with  a  kind  of  mos­
quito  netting. 
It  is  said  that  a  number 
of  these  bags  have  been  shipped  to 
China, 
to  be  tried  by  the  German 
troops.

Forgot  Himself.

Employer—You  say  that  your  habits 

are  all  correct?

Applicant—Yes,  sir.
Employer,  (after a moment’s pause)— 

Do  you  drink?

Applicant absent-mindedly)-Thanks! 

Don’t  care  if  I  do.

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Geo. S. Smith

99  N.  Ionia  St.

Phone iai4 

Grand Rapids, Mich.

M A K E R   OF

Store and Office 

Fixtures

We make to order only.  We make 
them right, too.  Maybe you wish 
to know more about  it;  if  you  do, 
send  in your p’^ns and let  me  fig­
If  I  furnish  plans I  C 
ure with you. 
charge  a  fair  price  for  them,  but  p  
they are right. 
jo

tn n n n n jT n m n m n ^ ^

The above cut represents our grocery display counter.  These counters should  be  seen  to  be  ap ­

preciated.  W e build them in three different ways, all  having a similarity in design.

N o.  i,  like above cut, is fitted with  plate glass,  has  16 display fronts,  and a  paper  rack  the  entire 
inches thick.  The  projectiles  both  front 
length,  below that sliding doors.  Quarter sawed oak top 
and  back are so arranged that the feet never  mar  the  wood  work. 
It  is  handsomely  finished  buiit  in 
loand  12^ foot lengths.  W ith  parties contemplating remodeling their  stores  w e  solicit  correspondence 
as  w e  w ill make special prices for complete outfits of store furniture.

McGRAFT  LUMBER  CO.,  Muskegon,  Mich.
G R A N D   R A P I D S   F I X T U R E S   O O .

Cigar
Case.
One
of
our

leaders.

Shipped
knocked
down.
First
class
freight.

wide. 44 inches high.  Write for illustrated catalogue and prices.

Discretion:  Oak, finished in light antique, rubbed and polished.  Made any length, 28 inches 
We are now located two blocks south of Union  Depot.

Cor.  Bartlett and  South  Ionia  Streets,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

No.  52.

W hat you need is the  Ideal Grocer’s Counter
Protects, stores and displays goods perfectly.  A solid substantial counter, in all 
lengths, which employs the space underneath to store and display goods.

Adds orderliness, saves time, space and  steps.  For  particulars  and  mighty  inter­
esting prices address the patentees and  sole manufacturers,

SHERER  BROS., 33 and 35  River Street, Chicago,  111.

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Window  Dressing

Unique  Ideas  Regarding  the  Display  of 

Furnishing Goods.

Handkerchiefs  make  a  very  useful 
accessory  for  a  glove  trim.  The  floor 
of  the  window  can  be  occupied by small 
“ T ”   stands  on  which  colored  bordered 
handkerchiefs  are  displayed  as  a  back­
ground  for  single  pairs  or  bunches  of 
gloves.  The  handkerchiefs  are  simply 
folded 
cornerwise  and  hung  on  the 
stands  with  butterfly  ties  or  gloves 
dropped  over them,  or they  are  folded 
in  curves  which  display  the  borders 
gracefully  with  gloves  depending  from 
the  ends  of  the  stand  or hanging  over 
the  center of  the  handkerchief.  A  half 
circle  of  crepe  tissue  paper  can  be  at­
tached  to  the  front  of  the  stand  and  the 
gloves  draped  over;  such  an  accessory 
would  be  very  useful  to  relieve the bare­
ness  of  a  plain  glove  display.

lounging  robe  spread  over 

Another  unit  for  a  clothing  window 
is  made  as  follows:  A  low  box  is 
laid 
on  the  floor  and  a  steamer  rug  or  hand­
some 
it. 
Back  of  it  is  placed  a  coat  stand  with 
an  overcoat  hung  on  it  with  the  skirts 
spread  out  on  the  rug.  On  one  side  of 
the  center  is  placed  a  vest  coiled  up 
and  on  the  other  end  a  pair  of  trousers 
laid  flat.  In  the  center a short coat stand 
is  placed  with  the  coat  of  the  suit  de­
pending  from  it.  A  silk  hat  and  a  pair 
of  gloves  can  also  be  introduced  if  de­
sired.  They  are  placed  at  either  side  of 
the  smaller  coat  stand.

Rings  cut  from  stiff  cardboard  can  be 
in  this  manner  in  a  neckwear 
used 
trim:  The  ring 
is  run  on  the  window 
bars  and  a  flowing  end  scarf  is  drawn 
through 
it.  The  ends  of  the  scarf  are 
again  drawn  through  another  ring  of 
paper  in  such  a  way  that  they  stand  out 
on  each  side  with  a  graceful  stiffness 
and  so  that  the  band  forms  a  graceful 
circle. 
This  same  arrangement  can 
also  be  used  on  T-shaped  stands.

Still  another  figure  can  be  made  as 
follows:  Three  pieces  of  stiff  wire  are 
arranged  fan-shaped  and  so  attached  to 
the  bars.  The  lower  ends  are  bent  into 
a  ring  shape.  Through  these  rings  the 
broad  ends  of  sdarfs  are  drawn  and  the 
bands  are  twisted  about  the  stem  of  the 
wires  until  the  small  ends  can  be drawn 
over the  bar  and  secured.

Where  rings  are  used  it  is a  good idea 
to  take  the  tie  at  the  middle  of  the 
band  and  draw  it  through  the  ring  from 
the  back  so  that  the  ends flare  out  on 
either  side.  Through  the 
loop  thus 
formed  a  collar can  be  drawn.

in  the  piece. 

Nothing  makes  a  richer  display  than 
fine  neckwear  silk 
If 
neckwear silk  is  draped  over  low  stand­
ards  in  the  window  and  a  single  collar 
displayed  on  the  top  of  the  pile  with  a 
tie  made  up  from  the  silk,  a  very  pretty 
and  elegant  effect  can  be  obtained.

Bolts  of  shirtings  can  be  utilized  for 
neat  and  appropriate  drapery  by  draw­
ing  out  several  pieces  and  bringing 
them  forward  in  loose  folds  on the  floor. 
Over these  folds  small  ties  can  be loose­
ly  tossed.

A  neat  background  for a clothing win­
dow  can  be  made  with  white  cheese­
cloth,  which 
is  draped  over  the  back 
and  sides  in  plain  folds.  Yellow  rib­
bon  is then  used  to cut  the side wall into 
regular divisions,  in  each  one  of  which 
a  coat,  vest  or  pair of  trousers  is  hung. 
At  the  crossing  points  of  the  bands  of 
ribbon  chrysanthemums  are  attached  to 
the  wall.

The  floor of  a  window  may be covered 
with  T-shaped  stands  with  goods  dis­

played  after this  manner:  The  head  of 
a  cane  rests  on  one  end  and  the  cane 
projects  to  the  right.  An  umbrella  sim­
ilarly  placed  extends  to  the 
left.  Two 
pairs  of  gloves  hang  from  each  end  of 
the  stand  and  a  bunch  of  gloves  is  fas­
tened  upright  on  it.
W hat One  Im provem ent  Association  Ac­

complished  in  Three  Months.
Middleton,  Oct.  18—Middleton 

is  a 
village  of  250  population  and  not  incor­
porated.  On  July  18,  1900,  eight  busi­
ness  men  at  a  meeting  formed  the  Mid­
dleton  Improvement  Association.  At 
their  first  meeting  among  the  many 
committees  appointed  was  a  street  com­
mittee  of  two.
The  principal  street  of  Middleton  is 
200  feet  long;  that  is,  the  business  por­
tion.  There  are  eighteen  lots,  22  feet 
front,  counting  each  side  of  the  street, 
which  are  owned  by  thirteen  persons, 
eight  of  these  belonging  to  the  Associa­
tion.  We  decided  to  pave  the  gutters, 
travel  the  streets  and  put  in  uniform 
hitching  posts.  Any  one  who  is  ac­
quainted  with  Gratiot  county  mud  can 
imagine  what  the  streets  were  in  wet 
weather.  We  had  no 
idea  how  we 
wanted  it,  nor how  much  it  would  cost, 
and  we  did  not  know  whether  we  could 
get  anything  out  of  the  owners  not  be­
longing  to  the  Association.

in  that 

The  committee  visited  several  towns 
and  brought 
in  their  reports.  From 
these  reports  and  from  trying  where  a 
wagon  and  team  would  stand,  we  de­
cided  to  have  the  grade  8  inches  fall  to 
200  feet;  the  gutters to  be  12  feet  from 
sidewalk  and  an  8  inch  fa ll;  the  wing 
to  be  3  feet  wide  and  3  inches  above 
gutter  stone.  The  surveying  and  setting 
the  grade  stakes  was  done  by  a  member 
of  the  Association  who  had  had  some 
little  experience 
line,  every 
member  doing  what  he  could  to  help. 
The  heaviest  part  of  the  work  of  grad­
ing  was  donated  by  the  Pathmaster of 
the  district  and  the  Highway  Commis­
sioner  of  the  township,  probably  three 
days’  work,  amounting  to $7.50  a  day, 
there  being  two  teams  and  drivers  and 
two  extra  men.  The  remainder  was 
done  by  shovels  handled  by  the  several 
business  men.  We  hired  two  pavers  at 
$1.75  a  day  and  board.  We  used,  on 
an  average,  5  inches  of  sand  to  lay  the 
stone 
in  a  cord  and  one-third  of  stone 
to  a  lot.  We  hired  teams  to  draw  the 
sand  and  stone  at $2.50 a  day.  They 
hauled 
in  a  day  three  loads  of  stone, 
averaging  one-fourth  cord  to a  load  or 
four loads of sand,  about a yard to a  load.
The  Secretary  collected  of  the  owners 
$15  for each  lot.  Some  wished to furnish 
stone  and  sand,  which  we  accepted, 
paying  them  for the  same.  The  paving 
of  the  gutters  cost  us $250,  which  would 
have  amounted  to $300  had  we  counted 
the  cost  of  labor  donated.  The  time 
taken  for grading  and  paving  was  two 
weeks.

About  the  middle  of  September we 
set  a  day  for a  gravel  bee.  We  sent  out 
invitations  to  farmers,  giving  them  a 
big  dinner  if  they  would  draw  gravel. 
It  was  not  a  success.  Only  two  teams 
responded.  The farmers  were  too  busy. 
So on  October  12  we  advertised  another 
It  was  a  success  in  every  way and 
bee. 
we  obtained  a  nice  lot  of  gravel.
The  hitching  posts  we  obtained  were 
oak  4x6,  7  feet  long,  and  cost  us $18  per 
M.  We  ordered  fifty  and  set  them  uni­
formly  each  side  of  the  street,  three  feet 
in  the  ground.  We  painted  them  black 
and  capped  them  with  sheet  iron.  The 
work  of  setting,  painting,  etc.,  was  all 
done  by  business men.
One  great  work  we  have  done  for  the 
town  is  to  unite  the business men.  They 
are  working  together  for  the  mutual 
benefit  of  the  town.

We  have  offered  inducements to facto­
ries  and  taken  other steps  to  improve 
existing  business  conditions.

Next  year  we  expect  to  set  out  500 
the 

shade  trees,  thereby  beautifying 
town. 

L.  H.  Moss,  Sec’y.

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common  stove  gasoline,  gives  a  100 

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dispense  with  gas  entirely  and  use  elec­
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the  rate  for gas  from  that  now  charged 
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Woman’s World

Crimes  Com m itted  By  the  Careless  Who 

Never Think.

A  great  many  of  us—and  we  are  not 
hard-hearted  people  either— read  with 
delight,  the  other  day,  of a Pennsylvania 
judge  who  had  the  courage  to  sentence 
a  man  to  eight  years  in  the penitentiary 
for  accidentally  killing  his  friend. 
It 
is  about  time  that  somebody  called  a 
halt,  not  only  on  the  fool  who  fools with 
a  gun,  but  on  the  other criminally  care­
less  individuals  who  go  on  their  devas­
tating  way  through  the  world,  breaking 
hearts  and  ruining  homes,  and  who 
think  they  have  sufficiently  atoned  for 
the  harm  they  do  by  saying  they  didn’t 
intend  it.  To  the  woman  who  agonizes 
above  the  dead  body  of  her  husband  or 
the  mother who  mourns  her  son,  it  can 
not  make  much  difference  whether she 
was  robbed  of  all  that  made  life  dear 
through  accident  or  by  design.

it 

in  reality 

In  all  the  length  and  breadth  of  con­
tradictory  human  nature  there  is  noth­
ing  stranger  than  that  we  should  take 
this  overly  charitable  view  of  careless­
ness.  The  simple  testimony  that  “ he 
didn’t  know  the  gun  was  loaded”   has 
been  accepted  as  handsome  apology  for 
murder  in  innumerable  cases.  To  say 
we  “ didn’t  think,”   the  rest of us regard 
as  a  blank  excuse  that  we  can  stretch 
over all  the  lesser  crimes  in  the  calen­
dar.  We  work  it  for  ail  that  it  is  worth, 
yet 
is  a  plea  for  pardon 
that  nobody  but  an  idiot  is  justified 
in 
putting  forth  in  his  own  behalf.  What 
reason,  that  anybody  ought  to  be  ex­
intelligent 
pected  to  accept,  can  an 
human  being  give  for  not  thinking? 
It 
always  reminds  me  of  a  colored  philos­
opher  I  once  knew,  who  meted  out  a 
stern 
justice  to  her offspring,  and  who 
was  particularly  severe  on  them  when 
they  dared to  offer the  excuse,  ‘ ‘ I didn’t 
think,”   by  way  of  a  panacea  for their 
shortcomings. 
“ Didn’t  think,  didn’t 
think,”   she  would  exclaim,  wrathfully, 
“ whut’s  de  good  in  havin’  a  thinker  ef 
you  don’t  wuk  hit?”
So  say  we  all,  brethren  and  sisters; 

what’s  the  use?

To  take  the  matter  up 

in  its  most 
practical  aspect  is  to  recognize  the  fact 
that 
it  is  other  people’s  carelessness 
that  lays  our  heaviest  burdens  upon  us. 
This  is  particularly  true  as  regards 
women,  and  there 
isn’t  a  mother and 
wife  and  housekeeper  in  the  land  who 
doesn’t  know  that  it  is  because  her fam­
ily  don’t  think  that  she  must  slave  at  a 
never-ending  job,  and  that  has  no  let­
up  from  year’s  end  to  year’s  end.  She 
spends  her  time  picking  up  clothes  off 
the  floor,  hanging  up  hats,  putting  back 
books  on  the 
shelves,  straightening 
chairs,  picking  up  newspapers,  arrang­
ing  the  things  other  people  have  dis­
arranged.  Nobody  thanks  her  for  it. 
Nobody  knows  she  does  it.  Her  hus­
band  and  children  are  of  the  opinion 
that  one’s  best  clothes  always  brush 
themselves  and  get  back  where  they  be­
long  by  themselves,  and  that  if  you  will 
only  give  a  house  time  it  will  tidy itself 
up  and  become  spick  and  span.  They 
never  connect  mother’s  tired  face  with 
the  process,  and  when  she  speaks  of 
being  busy,  “ Oh,”   they  say,  “ you 
ought  to  have  to  do  what  I  do, ’ ’  and 
they  wonder how  she  really  puts  in  the 
time,  with  so  little  to  do.

Every  now  and  then  some  dreamer of 
Utopian  vision  who  is  looking  a  mile 
backward  or  a  century  or two  forward, 
devises  some  wild  scheme  for the  light­
ening  of  domestic  labor and  solving  the

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

housekeeping  problem,  and  we  hear 
about  co-operative  millenniums  when 
we  shall  all  eat  out  of  the  same  pot  and 
live  in  barracks,  and  when  we  shall 
only  have  to  push  a  button  and  a  pater­
nal  government  will  do  the  rest. 
It  is 
the  folly  of  a  fanatic.  Domestic  re­
form  must  hegin  at  home,  but  it  never 
will  until  the  man  who  can  only  afford 
to  hire  one  servant  learns  to  pick  up 
his  own  dirty  collars  and  keep  from 
strewing  the  Sunday  paper  from  the 
basement  to  the  attic.  When  everybody 
in  a  house  acquires  the  habit  of  putting 
things  back  where  they  got  them,  we 
shall  have  fewer  over-worked  women 
who  are  the  victims  of  the  criminal 
carelessness  of  those  of  their  own  fam­
ily.

Even  more  to  be  deplored  than this  is 
the  lack  of  thought  we  show  in  our con­
duct  to those  of  our  own  household,  and 
whose  happinrss  or  misery  lies  in  our 
hands. 
I  often  think  that  when  the 
great  judgment  day  comes  for  each  of 
us  and  we  must  answer  for  the  deeds 
done  in  the  flesh,  we  shall  not  be  so  ap­
palled  by  the  one  or two  great  wrongs 
we  may  have  committed  as  by  the 
thousand  little  acts  of  criminal  careless­
ness  that  darken  our  past.  What  are 
those  husbands  going  to  say  who  took 
the  jewel  of  a  woman’s  happiness  in 
their  keeping  and  then  were  so  careless 
that  they  threw  it  away?

The  world  is 

full  of  heart-hungry 
wives  who  are  starving  for a  little  ap­
preciation,  a  little  love,  a  little  praise. 
We  don’t  recognize  it  as  a  tragedy  be­
cause  we  are  too  familiar  with  it;  but 
there  is  really  no  sight  sadder  than  that 
of  the  woman  who  spends  her  life  try­
ing  to  please  a  husband  who  accepts 
her  labor  without  thanks,  who  passes 
over  her  achievements  without  com­
mendation  and  who  growls  and  grum­
bles  over  every  mistake.  To  far too 
many  men  courtship  ends  the  lovemak­
ing,  and  the  marriage  ceremony  con­
verts 
into  the 
carping  critic.  They  are  not  bad  men. 
They  are  not  intentionally  cruel,  but 
not  all  sins  are  sins  of  comipission. 
Sometimes  the  thing  we  don't do  is  just 
as  cruel  a  wrong  as  anything  malice 
could  devise  and  fiendish  malignity  put 
into  execution.

the  adoring  admirer 

I  was  told  once  the  story  of  a  woman 
who  was  married  to  a  good  man,  but 
one  who broke  her  heart  slowly  through 
long  years  by  his  apparent  indifference 
and 
lack  of  affection.  For  nearly  half 
a  century  she  gave  to  him  a  ceaseless 
devotion,  unrewarded  by  any  word  or 
sign  that  showed  that  he  knew  or  ap­
preciated  the  work  of  her  hands  and 
brain.  At  last  the  time  came  when  she 
lay  dying,  and  the  gray-headed  old hus­
band  sobbed  out  to  her  all  that  had  lain 
silent  in  his  heart  so  long—the  love  and 
devotion  and  gratitude  and  admiration 
with  which  he  had always  regarded  her. 
The  woman 
eyes 
dimmed  by  years  of  weeping  and 
asked:  “ Why  did  you  never  tell  me 
this  before?”   and  the  man  answered: 
“ I  never thought  that it mattered 
and 
the  woman  said :  “ It  would  have  paid 
me  for  everything  I  have  endured. 
It 
would  have  made  my  life  happy instead 
of  full  of  misery.  Now  it  is  too  late,”  
and  she  turned  her  face  to  the  wall  and 
died.

turned  on  him 

It  takes  so 

flower,  a  word  of 

little  to  make  a  woman 
happy—just  a  little  love,  a few  caresses, 
a 
remembrance. 
Every  man  knows  that,  and  when  he 
neglects  to  give  them  to  his  wife  it 
is 
no  excuse  to  say  that  he  didn’t  think  of 
it.  He  doesn’t  forget  to  jolly  the  man

of whom  he  wants  a  favor.  He  remem­
bers  to  treat  the  customer to  whom  he 
expects  to  sell  a  bill  of  goods.  He  can 
remember  the  things  he  thinks  worth 
while,  and  surely  among  these  is  mak­
ing  his  wife  happy.  Let’s  be  done with 
men  pleading  the  baby  act  that  they 
didn’t  think. 
If  they  can't  remember 
any  other  way,  let  them  tie  knots  in 
their  pocket  handkerchiefs  and  every 
time  they  pull  them  out  at  home  be  re­
minded  to  pay  their  wives  a  compli­
ment.  To  marry  a  woman  and then  not 
make  her  happy  is  a  crime,  whether  it 
is  the  result  of  carelessness  or set  inten­
tion.

Another  place  where  we  deserve  to  do 
time  for our  criminal  carelessness  is  in 
the  way  we  talk  before  servants.  We 
discuss  the  most  intimate matters before 
them.  We  hazard  guesses  at  people’s 
motives.  We repeat  rumors  of  intrigues.

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goes  the  hat  must  go,  too,  to  advertise 
her  mistake  to the  world.

The  seriousness  of  the  situation  is 
augmented  by  the  fact  that  the  hat is  hy 
far  the  most  important  part  of  a  wom­
an’s  toilet. 
It  at  once  strikes  the  key­
note  to  one’s  appearance  and  provides 
the  frame  for the  picture one makes. 
If 
it 
is  chic,  appropriate,  becoming,  a 
woman  may  possess  herself  in  peace,  no 
matter  how  plain  her  frock. 
If  it  is 
commonplace, inappropriate,  dowdy,  in 
vain  does  one  strive  to  atone  for  its 
shortcomings  by  other gorgeousness  of 
apparel.  The  hat  has  killed  it  all.  It  is 
a  subject,  therefore,  worthy  of  the  ut­
most  thought  and  consideration,  and 
should  be  neither  an  accident  of  the 
millinery  shop,  an 
inappropriate  cli­
max,  nor an  ill-judged  ambition.

Important  as  all  women  concede  their 
head  covering  to  be,  it is  little  less  than 
tragical  to 
look  over  an  assemblage  of 
women  and  note  the  millinery  horrors 
of  which  they  have  been  guilty. 
It 
convicts  the  entire  sex  of  lack  of  good 
judgment,  as  well  as  good  taste,  for the 
truth  must  be  admitted,  far  too  many 
look  as  if  their  enemies  had 
women 
picked  out  their  bonnets  for  them. 
It 
is  depressing,  too,  as  illustrating  how 
little  we  know  ourselves,  how  little  ac­
count  we  take  of  grizzling  locks  and 
gathering  crow’s-feet  and 
increasing 
avoirdupois,  or else  surely  we  would  not 
buy  the  hats  that  emphasize  our  every 
defect  and  cry  out  with  clarion  tongue 
that  we  are  not  as  young  as  we  used 
to  be.

should 

In  all  good  truth  there  is  something 
almost  sardonic 
in  the  grim  jest  so 
many  women  play  on  themselves  every 
time  they  buy  a  new  hat.  What,  one 
asks  themselves,  can  a  rugged-featured 
woman  be  thinking  of  that  she  should 
pick  out  the  freak  hat  that  is  all  hard 
knots  and  nobs?  Why 
the 
hatchet-faced  woman  desire  to  aggra­
vate  her  misfortunes  still  further  by  ap­
pearing  in  a  structure  that  is  topped  bv 
towering  bows and upstanding aigrettes? 
Isn’t  there  something  actually  pathetic 
in  the  sight  of  a  poor shop  girl  putting 
her  pennies  in  imitation ostrich feathers 
that  are  bedraggled  after one  wearing? 
Most  incomprehensible  of  all,  what lack 
of  sense  of  the  eternal  fitness  of  things 
is  it  that  makes  elderly  women  cling 
with  a  death  grip  to  youthful  headgear?

It  ought  to  be  a  misdemeanor  punish­
able  by  law  for a  woman  over 50 to wear 
anything  but  a  bonnet.

Not  all  women,  of  course,  are  lacking 
in  good  taste  and  good  judgment.  Some 
have  the  tact  of  knowing just  what  suits 
them,  and  we  all  know  women  whose 
hats  always  seem 
like  a  visible  halo. 
We  can  never  think  of  them  without 
seeing  the  Gainsborough  that  was  the 
background  for  a  fair  young  face,or  the 
exquisite  toque  that  seemed  to  express 
the  knowledge  of  the  world  that  made 
some  middle-aged  woman  so  fascinat­
ing,orthe dainty little bonnet that always 
crowned  some  old  woman’s snowy locks. 
This  tact  every  woman  may  acquire, 
but  to  have  it  she  must  first  study  her­
self,  and  try  to  find  out  what  she 
looks 
like  to  other  people.  Buying  a  bonnet 
is  a  serious  matter,  and 
is  not  to  be 
lightly  undertaken. 

Cora  Stowell.

Heard  Him  Sigh.

“ I  have  been  sitting  on  the  porch lis­
tening  to the  sighing  of the  wind,”   she 
said  sentimentally,  by  way  of  explana­
tion  of  her  long  absence from  the  house.
‘ ‘ Yes;  I  heard  him  sigh,”   promptly 

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of  the  household.

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family 

is  that 

finances  at 

We  talk  as  if  the  maid  who  is  waiting 
behind  our  chair  were  deaf  as  the  adder 
of  the  scriptures,  and  dead  as  a  coffin 
nail,  instead  of  being  an  elongated  ear 
and  a  talking  machine  combined.  Then 
when  a  distorted  and  garbled  report 
goes  forth  of  some  family  happening 
we  wonder  how  on  earth  it  got out.  Per­
haps 
is  not  far  short  of  the  truth  to 
say  that  we  are  all  the  authors  of  our 
own  scandals  and  that  our own  servants 
are  the  disseminators.  They  get  a  word 
here  and  there  and  put  their  own  inter­
pretation  on 
it,  and  the  result  is  that 
reputations  are  ruined.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
X.  discuss 
the 
table,  and  Mr.  X.  remarks  that  they 
can’t  afford  so  and  so.  Listening  Mary 
Jane,  bringing  in  the  dinner,  picks  up 
a  few  sentences,  and,  by  the  time  she 
has  confided  what  she thought  she  heard 
to  Mrs.  Jones’  cook,  and  she  has  passed 
it  on  to  Mrs.  Brown’s  nurse,  all  the 
world  is  aware  of  a  rumor  that  the  X ’s 
are  toppling  on  the  verge  of  bankruptcy 
and  can’t  pay  their  servants.  We  de­
spise  the  base  rumor  we  call  kitchen 
gossip,  but  we  listen  to  it. 
It  makes 
and  mars  characters,  and  the  pity  of the 
is  our  own  criminal 
thing 
carelessness  that  lays 
its  foundations.
There  are  also  the  criminally  careless 
people  who  terrorize  society  with  their 
malapropos  remarks.  A  forbidden  sub­
ject  attracts  them  and  draws  them  on  to 
their  doom  as  surely  and  irresistibly  as 
the  magnet  does  the  needle. 
If  there  is 
a  tender  spot  in  your  soul  they put  their 
finger  right  on  it.  Let  an  old  maid  be 
present  and  they  get  funny  on  the  sub­
ject  of  women  who  are  trying  to  marry. 
Is  there  a  divorced  person  in  the  com­
pany,  wild  horses  couldn’t  drag  them 
away  from  a  discussion  of  marital  un­
happiness.  Has  somebody a son who is a 
black  sheep  and  who  has brought  shame 
and  sorrow  on  his  family,  they  dis­
course  on  forgery  and  betrayed  trusts 
and  prisons.  Of  course,  these  people 
always  excuse  themselves  by 
saying 
they  didn’t  think. 
It  should  never  be 
accepted.  People  who  haven’t  enough 
brains  to  think  have  no  business  in  so­
ciety.  They  should  be 
locked  up  in 
asylums  for  the  feeble-minded until they 
learn  enough  intelligence  to  keep  them 
from  wounding  other  people  by  their 
dangerous  conversation.  For  my  part,
I  would  preter to  be  killed  by the clean 
stiletto  stab  of  an enemy to being kicked 
to  death  by  a  donkey,  and  1  would 
just 
as  soon  have  my  feelings  hurt  or  my 
vanity  wounded  by  an  intentional  un­
kindness  as  by  the  blundering stupidity 
of  the  criminally  careless,  who  never 
think. 

Dorothy  Dix.

Buying: a  Bonnet a  Serious  M atter.
The  real  time  that  tries  a  woman’s 
soul  is  the  agonizing  moment  when  she 
is  called  upon  to  buy  her  spring  or  fall 
hat—when  she  must  decide  between  the 
rival  merits  of  toques  and  turbans,  pic­
ture  hats  and  rainy  day  fedoras,  and 
must  finally  and  irrevocably  make  up 
her  mind  whether she  will  indulge  in  a 
creation  that  will  make  her  pocketbook 
look  as  if  an  elephant  had  trodden upon 
it  or  will  adorn  her  head  with  a  topknot 
that  will  make  her  look  like  thirty cents 
herself.  This  does  not  apply,  of  course, 
to  those  lucky  mortals  who  can buy  bon­
nets  by  the  dozen,  and  who  can  chuck 
their  millinery  mistakes  on  top  of  the 
wardrobe  and  be  done  with  them. 
It 
refers  to  the  average  woman  who  can 
have  only  one  hat  a  season,  with  no 
possibility  of  divorcing  herself  from  it, 
no  matter  how  uncongenial  they  prove 
on  close  acquaintance.  Wherever  she

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The New York Market
Special  Features  of the Grocery and Prod­
Special Correspondence.

uce Trades.

New  York,  Oct.  20— For  the  present 
the  business  men  of  New  York  are 
whooping  and  yelling  and marching and 
singing  and  speechmaking  and  raising 
flags  and  banners  and  other  things. 
Broadway  is  becoming  a  festoon  of  red, 
white  and  blue and,  while  all  this  is  go­
ing  on,  we  have  as  good  a  trade  as 
could  be  hoped  for.  There  are  hosts 
of  out-of-town  buyers  here  and  they 
make  good  purchases.  Other hosts  are 
waiting  to  see  which  William  will  be 
next  President,  and  there  is  certainly 
some  quietude  on  this  account.

Coffee  has  been rather  dull  during  the 
week.  Advices  from  Europe  show  low­
er  rates  and,  with  continued  very  heavy 
receipts  at  both  Santos  and  Kio,  the 
situation  is  one  that  makes  for  a 
lower 
range  of  quotations.  We  have  Rio  No. 
7  at  the  close  quotable  at  8%c.  The  de­
mand  is  not  active  and  buyers  seem  to 
take  a  quantity  only  sufficient  to  mend 
broken  assortments. 
In  store  and  afloat 
there  are  1,017,283  bags,  against  1,350,- 
555  bags  at  the  same  time  last  year. 
Mild  sorts  are  quiet,  but  as  supplies  are 
rather  light,  holders  are  not  disposed  to 
make  any  concession 
to  effect  sales. 
Good  Cucuta  is  worth  io@ioXc.  East 
India  sorts  meet  with  little  call,  but 
prices  are  firm.

Little  business  is  being  done  in  teas. 
Stocks  in  the  interior are  thought  to  be 
rather  light,  but  there  is  no  anxiety 
whatever shown  by  buyers  to  take  more 
than  enough  for  present  wants.  Invoice 
trading  is  quiet.  The  quality  of  teas 
continues  good  and  few  parcels  are  be­
ing  rejected.

Not  a  single  item  of  interest  can  be 
gathered  in  the  sugar  market.  Dull  and 
featureless  seems  to  be  the  saying  with 
almost  every  house  visited. 
Buyers 
seem  to  think  they  are  safe  in  taking 
very  small  lots  and  act  as  though  they 
anticipated  lower  prices.  But  this  is 
something  that  no  fellow  can  find  out.
No  changes  of  note  have  taken  place 
in  rice.  Buyers  appear  to  be  pursuing 
a  waiting  policy  and  as  prices  here  are 
“ wobbly”   they are  inclined  to take  only 
enough for present wants.  Still  holders 
seem  satisfied  with  the  outlook  and 
think  their prospects improve every day.
The  spice  market  lacks  animation, 
yet  matters  might  be  worse.  As  the 
season  advances  holders  say  they  antic­
ipate  a  good  run  of  trade,  ana  it  is  to 
be  hoped  they  will  not  meet with  disap­
pointment.  Pepper  is  a  little  higher, 
being  quotable  at  i3%c.  Aside  from 
this  quotations  are  practically  without 
change.
Supplies  of  molasses  are  light  and 
prices  are  firm.  The  demand,  however, 
is  moderate  and  there  seems  to  be  an 
impression  that  we  shall  have  lower 
rates  before  long.  Good  to  prime  cen­
trifugal,  i 8@32c.
*  Syrups  are  quiet  and  unchanged. 
Prime  to  fancy,  20@26c.

Canned  goods  are  quiet  and  quota­
tions  on  many  things  are  nominal. 
In 
some  cases  holders  are  almost  forced  to 
sell  and  hence  make  sacrifices  in  price. 
The  firmness  which  characterized  the 
market  during  the  early  summer  seems 
to  have  melted  away.  There  is  said  to 
be  a  large  stock  of  New York  State  corn 
in  packers’  hands  and  if it is all cleaned 
up  quotations  will  take  a  tumble. 
It 
is  rumored  that  a  good  deal  of  this corn 
has  been  doctored  with 
bleaching 
agents.  The  demand  for  tomatoes  is 
exceedingly  slack.  New  Jersey  stand­
ards,  85@87j£c.  Gallons are  worth  $2.15 
@2.20.  Salmon  is  easier.  The  Colum­
bia  River  pack  is  likely  to  be  larger 
than  last  season  and  the  outlook is hard­
ly  in  the  direction  of  higher  quotations 
than  now  prevail.
Lemons  and  oranges  and  the  whole 
line  of  foreign  fruits  have  moved  with 
only  moderate  activity.  Lemons  are 
worth  from  $i.6o@2.50  for  360s,  and 
for very  fancy  300s  the  range  is up to $4. 
Valencia  oranges,  $5@6,  the  latter  for 
choice.
Some 

lines  of  dried  fruits,  notably

raisins,  dates  and  prunes,  are  meeting 
with 
increasing  demand  and  prices  are 
firmly  adhered  to.  New  seeded  raisins 
range  from  8j4@g%c  in  bulk  and  car­
tons,  respectively.  Currants  are  still 
meeting  with  good  enquiry  and  the 
range  is  from  I2@i3*,ic  in  barrels  up  to 
i4j£c  f°r  cleaned  in  cartons.
There  is  a  stronger  feeling  on  the bet­
ter  grades  of  butter and  choice  Western 
creamery  is  now  held  at  22@22j^c,  with 
an  upward  tendency;  thirds  to  firsts, 
i6@2oc ;  imitation  creamery,  I4^ @ i8c ; 
factory,  I4J^@i6c.
The  demand  for cheese  is  light,  but, 
as  the  supply  is  not  overabundant,  the 
situation  seems  rather  favorable  for  the 
producer  and  owners  of  factories  are 
pretty  firm  in  their  views.  Fancy  full 
cream  colored  State  cheese  is  worth 11c; 
white,  io^c.

Prime  Western  eggs'are  worth  21c; 
choice  to  prime,  i8@20c ;  fair to  good, 
i6@I7c.
Medium  beans  are  in  very  light  sup­
ply  and  readily  fetch  S2.20;  choice pea, 
$2. io@2.15;  choice  red  kidney,  $2.30.
Infertile  Eggs Preferable F or Commercial 

Purposes.

J.  Dixon  Avery  says  there  are  many 
things  pertaining  to  “ henology”   that 
would  be  very  gratefully  received 
if 
they  could  be  discussed  by  some  of  the 
scientific  people  of  our  agricultural  col­
leges.  He asks  which eggs  carry  better, 
the  fertile  or  non-fertile, in cold  storage. 
The  organized  study  of  the  hen  and  her 
product  seems  for  the  most  part  to  be 
deferred  to  some  future  and  wiser  gen­
eration  to  take  up  and  diffuse  among 
the  people  the  results  of their  research. 
If  the  time  ever comes  when  egg  rais­
ing  and  the  handling  of  them  until  they 
reach  the  consumer shall  be  conducted 
on  strictly  scientific  lines,  there  will  be 
no  place 
in  the  commercial  world  for 
fertile  eggs.  That  which  contains  life 
has  also  the  elements  of  death  and  de­
cay.  The  fertility  of  the  egg  is  to  carry 
out  the  perpetuation  of  species,  and 
is 
of  no  benefit  except  for the  purpose  in­
tended.  The  destruction  or transforma­
tion  of  the  body  of the  egg  is  accom­
plished  by  various  agents,  of  which  the 
life  principle  (fertilized  germ)  is  the 
initial  one. 
If  the  environment  be  fa­
vorable,  the  life  principle,  in  obedience 
to  the  law  of  conformity  to  type,  takes 
of  the  surrounding  material  and  with 
it  constructs  living  flesh  in  the  form  of 
its  progenitor,  but  if  the  natural or  arti­
ficial  course  of  incubation 
is  not  fol­
lowed  to  the  end,  the  germ  under  cer­
tain  conditions  becomes  the  seed  of  de­
struction. 
It  Is  safe  to  estimate  that  in 
go  per  cent,  of  worthless  eggs  incipient 
deterioration  took  place  directly  at  the 
If  eggs  could  be  put 
seat  of the  germ. 
twenty-four 
into  cold  storage  within 
hours  after  they  have  been 
laid,  as 
recommended  by  the  Secretary  of  Ag­
riculture  for  Australia,  there  probably 
would  be  no  bad  effects  from  the fertili­
zation  of  the  eggs;  but  this  is  not prac­
ticable,  and  we  know  that  under  pres­
ent  methods  many  of  the  eggs  have  un­
dergone  more  or  less  change at the point 
of  fertilization  before  they  reach  the 
storage  house,  and  this  causes  the  real 
trouble.  The  Secretary  of  Agriculture 
for Australia  has  reached  the  conclusion 
that  half  a  day  of  sunshine  on  a  fertile 
egg  has  injured  it  for cold  storage  pur­
poses.  Private  experiments  have  shown 
conclusively 
infertile  eggs  are 
preferable  for commercial  purposes,  but 
the 
task  of  revolutionizing  present 
methods  in  egg  production  seems  of 
herculean  proportions  when  we  reflect 
that  the  farmer  doesn’t  care  two  peas 
about  it,  and as  long  as  he  can  sell  any­
thing  with  a  shell  around  it  he  is  not 
likely  to  become  interested.— Egg  Re­
porter.

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Branch  Houses.

New York, 874 Washington st.

State Savings Bank, Ionia. 
Dun’s or Bradstreet’s Agencies.

Brooklyn, 226  Market avenue.

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Hermann 6. Naumann &  (So.

Wholesale  Butchers,  Produce  and 

ESTABLISHED 1890.

Commission  Merchants.

Our Specialties: Creamery and  Dairy  Butter,  New-Laid  Eggs,  Poultry  and  Game. 

388 HIGH  ST. E., Opposite  Eastern Market,  DETROIT, MICH.  Phone  1793. 

REFERENCES:  The Detroit Savings Bank,  Commercial  Agencies,  Agents  of  all Railroad  and 

Express Companies, Detroit, or the trade generally.

vJ.  B.  H AM M BR   &   CO.,

F R U I T   A N D   P R O D U C E   D E A L E R S

Specialties:  Potatoes,  Apples, Onions, Cabbage, Melons and Oranges in car lots.

References:  Third National Bank, R. G. Dun’s Agency, Nat’l League of Com. Merchants of U. S.

125  E.  Front  Street,  Cincinnati,  O.

W H O L E S A L E

Fruits of all kinds in  season.

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We Buy  and  Sell

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WHEN YOU WANT

A  good  produce  house  to  do  business  with  drop  a  line  to  us  and  get 

F.  d. SCH A FFER   &  CO.,
Leading  Produce  House  on  the  Eastern  Market. 

Potatoes,  Apples,  Onions,  Cabbage

In carlots or  less.  Consignments  solicited.  Write  for  terms  and  prices
Vinkemulder  Company,

Grand Rapids, Mich.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

CAPITAL IS  CAPTIOUS.

Why  I t  Undertakes  to  Avoid  Question­

able  Neighborhoods.

live 

When  the  grocer  whose  store  stands 
on  the  corner  in  a  disreputable  quarter 
of  the  city  undertook  to  secure  certain 
favors  wholly  in  the  legitimate  lines  of 
business,  he  was  met  with  a  firm  re­
fusal.  “ You  have,  it  is  true,  met  every 
commercial  requirement,  you  are  hon­
est,  so  far as  we  know,  and  we  have  no 
fault  to  find  with  you  as  a  customer; 
but  you 
in  a  most  objectionable 
neighborhood;  your  surroundings  are 
not  all  that  could  be  desired  and,  while 
we  are  willing  to  do  business  with  you 
generally,  so  long  as  your  accounts  are 
straight,  we  do  not  feel  justified  in  go­
ing  beyond  that.  Move into  another and 
a  decent  quarter or change  the  reputa­
tion  of  your  present  locality  and  we  are 
with  you ;  but  unless  one  or the  other of 
these  conditions  obtains  the  trade  be­
tween  us  will  be  necessarily  limited. 
Your  money  may  be  just  as  good  as  an­
other  man’s;  but  neither  money  nor 
reputation  from  that  quarter  is  desir­
able ;  and,  to  he  candid  with  you,  the 
proposed  investment  can  not  be  consid­
ered  a  safe  one.  Physically clean money 
can  come  from  very  dirty  business. 
Morally  the  statement  is  an  impossibil­
ity.  We  are  sorry  we  can  not  oblige 
you.”

The  fact 

is,  capital,  not  noted  for 
moral  squeamishness,  insists  on  a  cash 
business  when  the 
locality  is  in  any­
way  doubtful. 
It 
is  respected  only  in 
respectable  communities  and  where  hu­
man  life  is  lawless  and cheap it does  not 
find  a  safe  neighborhood  to  be  intimate 
with.

The  governor  of  a  large  and  influen­
tial  Southern  State  has  been  visiting 
New  York.  He  says,  frankly  and  hon­
estly,  that  it  would  be  for the  best 
in­
terests  of  both  States  if  New  York  and 
Texas  were  closer together  in  a business 
way.  He  says  that  there  is  every  condi­
tion  to  warrant  the  advantage  of  such 
commercial 
intimacy.  There  will  be
3,000,000  bales  of  cotton  to  dispose  of 
this  year.  Yearly  hundreds  of  thousands 
of  bushels  of  wheat,  corn,  oats  and  rye 
will  be  ready  for the  market.  Fruit  of 
every  kind  and rice  and  sugar are raised 
and 
for  prosperous 
business  relations  is  full  of the  greatest 
encouragement.

every  condition 

is  truth 

To  be  sure,  there 

in  every 
word  he  speaks  and  the  facts  are  not 
confined  to  the  all-powerful  now,  nor to 
the  great  commonwealth  of  Texas.  The 
whole  South  for  years  has  been  picking 
up.  From  utter  ruin  and  desolation  she 
has  left  poverty  and  almost  beggary  far 
behind  her  and 
is  standing  now  in  a 
brighter  sunshine  than  has  ever  blessed 
her  before.  Prosperous  as  she  is,her  re­
sources,  almost  wholly  undeveloped,  are 
foreshadowing  a  prosperity  beyond  the 
wildest  calculation.  There 
is  but  one 
condition  that  bars  her  progress :  She 
occupies  a  very questionable  neighbor­
hood.  She  not  only  continues  to  live 
there  but  she  does  not  improve  it.  Hu­
man  life  is  not  respected.  Blood  runs 
freely on the slightest provocation.  Law­
lessness  reigns.  Manhood 
is  at  a  dis­
count  and  passion  is  the  mistress  of  the 
hour.

If  there  is  one  thing  capital  looks  out 
for  it  is to  keep  as  far  off  from  such  a 
neighborhood  as  possible.  There  may 
be  cotton  and  corn  and  wine;  the  soil 
may  be  full  of  vegetable  gain  and  min­
eral  deposit;  climate  may'  throw  her 
mantle  about  it  and  ward  off  the  ex­
tremes  of  heat  and  cold;  thrift  may 
bless  every  comer  of  i t ;  but  the  man

with  the  money  wisely  shakes  his  head. 
Where  manhood  is  not  recognized  and 
protected  capital  will  never  make  his 
home  nor  will  he  risk  his  money  where 
such  a  condition  of  things  exists.  Put 
out  of  the  account  morality.  Let  not 
religion  even  be  mentioned.  Solely  on 
the  sordid  principle  of  gain let the ques­
tion  rest;  and  right  here comes the same 
old  reply :  ‘ * Get  out  of  your  neighbor­
hood  or clean  it  out  and  I  am  with  you. 
Refuse  to  do that  and  you  will  receive 
no  helping  hand  from  me.’ ’

Getting  at  the  Soft Side  of the  Grocer.
The  grocer  is  a  mighty  sight  more 

important  man  than  he  thinks  he  is.

And  some  grocers  think  themselves 

pretty  important.

The  grocer  is  such  an  important  man 
that  his  customers  make  a  business  of 
adopting  the  attitude  toward  him  that 
they  think  will  be  best  inclined  to  get 
his  favor,  which  means  the  best  service 
a; d  the  biggest  measure.

He  may  not  know  this,  but  it’s  true, 
all  the  same.  Some  customers  adopt 
one  attitude  toward  him,  in  their  every­
day 
intercourse  with  him,  and  some 
adopt  another.  Each  aim  for the  same 
end,  however,  the  jollying  of  the  grocer 
along  so that  he  shall  treat  them  well.

Now  I  call  a  man  whose  favor  people 

scheme  to  get,  a  great  man.

I  heard  several  ladies talking the other 
evening.  Housewives  are  very  apt,  I 
find,  to  talk  about  their  grocers  when 
they  get  together. 
It’s  an  important 
If  a  grocer  could 
housekeeping  detail. 
only  do  a 
little  scheming  himself,  so 
that  when  his  name  comes  up  in  these 
talks 
it  will  be  surrounded  by  a  halo, 
he  would  wear  a  plug  hat  oftener.

“ Say,”   said  one  of these ladies,  “ did 
you  ever  notice  how  Mrs.  Smith  goes 
on  with  Mr.  Blank? 
I  think  it’s  per­
fectly  disgusting !  Why,  she’s  as  famil­
iar  with  him ! 
I  suppose  she  thinks 
she’ll  get  Mr.  Blank  real  friendly,  so 
he’ll  give  her  better  things.”

Mr.  Blank 

is  the  neighborhood  gro­
cer,  and  Mrs.  Smith  is  a  young married 
woman  of  a  type  that  every  grocer  will 
I  heard  her  jolly  Mr.  Blank 
recognize. 
along  one  night,  something 
like  this: 
is  a  bachelor  of  uncertain 
Mr.  Blank 
age.

“ I  saw  you  down  town  with  her the 

other evening,  Mr.  Blank.”

“ With  whom?”   asked  Mr.  Blank, 

weakly.

“ Oh,  you  know.  When  is  it  to  be?’ ’
Mr.  Blank  protested  inarticulately.
“ I  always  said  you  were  a  great  man 

with  the  girls!”   pursued  the  jollier.
.  All  of  which  was  punctuated  with 
“ He!  He!  He’s”   on  the  part  of  the 
lady.

Mr.  Blank  blushed, 

smirked  and 

looked  conscious.

The  ladies  whose  conversation I heard 
the  other evening  didn't  think  this  was 
the  proper  way  to  reach  the  grocer’s 
heart  at  all.

“ Now,  when  I  go  in  to  buy  things,”  
said  one,  “ I  am  as  businesslike  as  1 
can  be. 
I  simply  give  the  order,  and 
have  no  conversation  whatever  with  the 
grocer or  his  clerks. 
I  believe  they  ap­
preciate  it,and  if  there’s  any  favoritism 
to  be  shown,  they’ll  show  it  to the  wom­
an  who  confines  herself  strictly  to  giv­
ing  her order. ’ ’

“ My  husband  told  me  the  other 
day,"  said  another  of  these  fair schem­
ers,  “ that  the  best  way  to  get  good 
service  out  of  a  grocer was  never  to  be 
satisfied.  Kick,  kick,  kick  all  the  time. 
He  says  he  does  that  with  all  the  peo­
ple  he  deals  with  and  they’ll  put  them

selves  out  to  please  him  a  good  deal 
more  than  they  will  the  man  who  is 
satisfied  with  everything.”

I’ll  bet  that  husband  is  a  regular  Mr. 
Bowser.  That  may  be  » good  way  to 
act  with  your wife,  but  I’ll  be  darned  if 
I  believe  in  it  for the  grocer.
So  these  experiences  went. 

If  I  were 
to  tell  what  all  of  the  women  said  I 
should  spin  my  column  out  so that  the 
editor would  refuse  to  print  it.  But  the 
point  of  all  of  ’em  was  the  same—the 
best  way  of getting  the  grocer to  smile 
upon  them,  to  the  end  that  he  might 
bestow  upon  them  an  extra  handful  of 
prunes  or an  extra  potato  or  two. 
It’s 
a  good  scheme,  I  admit  that,  for the 
grocer has  a  soft  side,  even  although 
it 
is  sometimes  under  his  hat.—Stroller  in 
Grocery  World.

Bill  Nye  on  Advertising.

When  a 

A  young  man  who  was  about  to  em­
bark  in the shoe business  wrote  Bill  Nye 
for advice  about  advertising  and  he  got 
the  following—and  more, 

in  return : 

lady  calls,  don’t  jump  at 
“ business”   the  first thing  hy  asking her 
if  she  wants  a  pair of  shoes;  she  always 
goes  to  the  drug  store  for them.  Ask 
her  how  old  she 
is;  if  her  teeth  are 
false  and  if  she  lives  happily  with  her 
husband.  Then  introduce  the  subject  of 
shoes  carefully  but  firmly  with  a  slight 
innuendo,  as:  “ Ah! 
I  see  you’ve  got 
your  feet  with  you !”   or  “ When  small 
feet  were  given  out  in  Maine  you  were 
in  Texas!”   Try  a  line  of  Ella Wheeler 
on  her;  woman  like  poetry:

Laugh and the world laughs with you.
An extra sized shoe is the thing for you 
When  she  flounces  out,  ask  her 

Weep and we all repine;
When your foot is a number nine.

if 
that's  her own  hair or a  switch.  Then, 
when  her husband  or  big  brother  comes 
around,  laugh  yourself  as  he  jams  your 
measely  head  through  a  shoe  case.  This 
programme  will  keep  the  town  talking 
about  you,  and 
is  much  cheaper  than 
advertising  in  the  papers.

23

Lambert’s 
Salted Peanuts

New  Process

Makes the  nut  delicious,  healthful  and 
palatable.  Easy to digest.  Made from 
choice,  hand-picked  Spanish  peanuts. 
They do  not  get  rancid.  Keep  fresh. 
We guarantee them to keep  in a  salable 
condition.  Peanuts  are  put  up  in  at­
tractive  ten-pound  boxes,  a  measuring 
glass in  each  box.  A  fine  package  to 
sell from.  Large profits for the retailer. 
Manufactured by

H ie  Lam bert 

Nut  fo o d   Go.,

Baule Greek. Mich.

Peaches,  Pears,  Plums,  Apples,  Grapes,  Etc.

Sold on commission, bought or contracted  for.  Write for prices,  etc. 

R.  Hirt,  Jr.,

Wholesale  Produce  Merchant, 

34  and  36  Market  St.,  Detroit,  Mich.

Cold  Storage,  435,  437,  439  Winder  St.

City  Savings Bank, Commercial  Agencies and trade in general.

REFERENCES:

We want

B E A N S

in carlots or less.  We wish to deal  direct with  merchants.

Write for prices.

* 
G.  E.  BURSLEY  A  CO.s  f t .  w a y n e ,  in d .

Beaps— Glovef  Seed

If  any  to  offer  mail  sample,  state  quantity  and  price  delivered 
in  Grand  Rapids. 

“ W e  are  always  in  the  market.”

Alfred  J.  Brown  Seed  Co.,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

BEANS— BEANS
26,28,30,32  Ottawa Street 

If can  offer  any 
WANTED— Beans in small lots and by carload. 
Beans  send  one  pound  sample  each  grade  and  will  endeavor 
to trade with you.

MOSELEY  BROS.

Jobbers  of  Fruits,  Seeds,  Beans  and  Potatoes

Grand Bapids,  M ichigan

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Clerks’  Corner.

One  W ay  to  Keep  Track  of a  Clerk. 

Written for the Tradesman.

liking.  He  soon 

John  Brown,  of  Brownville,  has  the 
best  store in that thrifty  village.  He  has 
been  bothered  about  to  death  by  his 
clerks.  There hasn’t  been  anything  they 
haven’t  done  and  won’t  do  again  if they 
have  a  chance.  Their  leading  idea 
in 
life  is  to  get  ahead  of  him  in  some  way 
and  so  far  they  have  succeeded.  For  a 
long  time  he  satisfied  himself  by  dis­
charging  them  when  they  proved  not  to 
his 
learned  that  he 
was  teaching  a  commercial  kindergar­
ten  and  that  other  store-keepers  were 
ready  to  take  his  pupils  by  the  time  he 
was  ready  to  graduate  them.  He  found 
that  his  old 
idea  of  taking  raw  hands 
and  moulding  them  into  his  pet  forms, 
while  it  did  carry  out  the  idea  of  “ clay 
in  the  hands  of  the  potter,’ ’  did  as 
surely 
the  kindergarten 
thought,  and  of  that  he  had  had  more 
than  enough.

carry  out 

He  made  up  his  mind  to  change  his 
plan.  For  some  years  now  his  show 
case  had  furnished  his  youthful  helpers 
shirt  studs and sleeve buttons.  His neck­
ties  went  the  same  way.  He  supplied 
at  less  than  cost  the  collars  and  cuffs 
which  none  of  them  had  when  they 
came  to  him  and  while  he  had  been 
willing  to  do  this  and  so  help  the  boys 
along  in  the  world—at  all  events  to  get 
started 
it—he  began  to  find  that  it 
was  only  so  much  patience  and  gener-' 
osity  thrown  away  and  he  made  up  his 
mind  to  have  no  more  of  it.

in 

He  noticed  that  the  two  clerks  he now 
employed  were  pretty  well  fixed  so  far 
as  goods  were  concerned  which  his 
stock  could  furnish,  and  he  noticed, 
too,  that  both  were  showing  those  un­
mistakable  sians  which  mean  an  early 
good  bye.  He  sat  down  and  made  a  lit­
tle  calculation—his  books 
furnished 
him* the  needed  data—and  he  found  it 
would  be  money  in  his  pocket  to  raise 
the  boys’  wages  and  save  himself  the 
trouble  of  breaking  in  another  pair of 
clerks  and  the  expense  of  supplying 
them  with  the  usual  outfit.

So  far  as  he  could  judge,  the  trouble 
seemed  to  be  in  the  fact  that  the  boys 
began  by  being  out  nights  and  getting 
into  the  kind  of  mischief  which  ends  in 
making  them  uneasy  and  discontented 
and  good  for  nothing.  Every  case  he 
could  think  of  was  traced  directly or in­
directly  to that  and  the  problem,  so  far 
as  he  understood  it,  was  how  to  prevent 
the  young  fellows  from  being  up  and 
out  at  night 
long  after  the  time  when 
they  ought  to  be  in  bed.

To  add  to  the  difficulty  Brownville

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

was  at  that  stage  of  its  existence  when, 
like  the  meeting  of  the  waters,  it  was 
neither  rivulet  nor  river.  A  big  clumsy 
gawk  of  a  place,  it  had  spread  itself 
over a  large  territory  and  had  a  frame 
like  a  giant,  which  the  years  in  time 
might  fill  up;  but  there  were  no  strong 
inducements  for  the  boys  to  stay  and 
grow  up  with 
it,  and  the  minute  they 
were  plumed  for  their flight  off  to  the 
city  they  went  and  the Brownville which 
knew  them  once  knew  them  no  more 
forever.  Like  most  places,  as  it  grew 
it  fought  vigorously  against  the  evils 
which  attack  the  growing  town.  The 
saloon  came  and  stayed.  There  were 
some  billiard  tables  set  up  and  they 
thrived.  Cards  began 
to  be  played; 
and  almost  before  the  people  knew  it 
the  young  folks  began  to  be  fast.  The 
Sunday  school  began  to  grow  thin,  and 
nobody  but  women  went  to  church. 
In 
a  word,  while  the  town  could  not  be 
said  to  be  going  down  at  the  heel,  it 
did  seem  to  be  a  bad  place  for a  boy 
who  was  inclined  to  fear  being  called  a 
“ wayback”   or,  what  was  far  worse, 
“ not  up  to  date.’ ’

Mrs.  Brown  w’as  in  every  sense  of  the 
word  a  helpmeet.  She  had  no  longings 
which  took  her away  from  her  husband 
and  his  calling  and,  while  it  had  been 
years  since  she  had  given  up  her  place, 
behind  the  counter,  she  never  cared  to 
look  beyond  the  horizon  which  shut 
in 
the  Brownville  store.  When,  therefore, 
the  question  was  asked  if  she  couldn’t 
take  the  boys  into  the  house,  just  as 
she  did  years  ago,  and  she  had  been 
told  the  reason,  like  the  devoted  wife 
she  was there  was  but  one  answer to  be 
thought  of  and  that  was  given  promptly 
and  heartily,  and  the  childless  woman 
made  up  her  mind  to take  the  boys  in 
and  do  for  them  and 
love  them  as  if 
they  were  her own  flesh  and  blood.

That  night  after  closing  the  store­
keeper  had  the  boys  stay  for a  while  for 
a  talk. 
“ I’ve  made  up  my  mind,’ ’  he 
began,  “ to  raise  your  wages,  boys. 
You’ve  been  doing  good  work  and 
you’ve  been  faithful  enough  to  please 
me  and,  while  I  shan’t  give  you  much 
more,  it’s  something,  and  it’ll 
let  you 
know  anyway  that  I  want  to  keep  you. 
There  are  two  conditions  that  I  want  to 
make  and 
if  I  raise  your 
wages—one  is  that  you  live  with me and 
the  other  is  that  you  are  at  home  nights 
by  nine  o’clock,  unless  I  know  where 
you  are  and  what  you  are  doing. 
I’ll 
give  you  good  board  and  each  of  you 
shall  have  a  good  room;  but  I  want  you 
to  be 
it  at  nine  o’clock  and  stay 
there.  Think  it  over and  tell  me  your 
decision  to-morr. w. 
I ’ll  raise  each  of 
you  io  per  cent.  Good  night.”

insist  on 

in 

The  boys 

left  the  store  on  air  and 
came  back  the  next  morning 
in  the 
same  frame  of  mind.  Mrs.  Brown  came' 
down  during  the  morning  to  report  that 
the  rooms  were  ready  and  that afternoon 
saw  the  transfer  of  bag  and  baggage. 
Everything  was  done  for the  young men 
that  could  be  thought  of  or  asked  for 
and  Brown  himself  was  forced  to  admit 
that  he  had  hit  on  the  only  thing  that 
could  ever  have  worked  with  those  fel­
lows.  They  were  honest  to  a  dot.  They 
were  industrious  to  a fault.  They  meant 
well  from  first  to 
last,  and  all  they 
needed  was  just  that 
little  bit  of  re­
straint  which  John  Brown  had  wit 
enough  to  insist  upon;  and  on  that  and 
on  every  night,  after  the  town  clock 
struck  nine  and  he  knew  both  boys were 
in,  he 
locked  the  only  door they  could 
get  out  of  and  put  the key under his pil­
low ;  and  every night Susan Brown heard 
him  say  to  himself  with 
infinite  satis­
faction,  “ There,  darn  ye!  With  the 
windows  fastened  on  the  outside,  and 
the  only  key  under  my  pillow,  you  can 
skin  out  and  carouse  all  night  if  you 
can,  and  I’ll  never  say  a  word!”

It  was  a  good  while  before  the  boys 
found  out  that  they  were  locked  in  from 
nine  o’clock  until  morning.  The  first 
thought  was  rebellion;  but  when  sober 
sense  came  to  the  front  and  they  saw 
what  an  advantage  the  rest  and  the 
home  had  been  to  them  they  kept  the 
matter  to themselves,  glad  that  “ Uncle 
John,”   as  they  learned  to  call  the  store­
keeper,  had  marked  out  the  way  and 
compelled  them  to  walk 
in  it;  while 
Brown  himself,  to this  day,  affirms  that 
“ the  only  way  to  get  along  with  clerks 
is  to  put 
’em  under  lock  and  key  and 
keep  ’em  there!”

Richard  Malcolm  Strong.

Make  a  Good  Showing.

Make  as  good  a  showing  of  your 
clothing  stock  as  possible.  Keep  the 
stock  as  neat  and  as  well  matched  up  as 
your  men’s  stock.  Men  usually  are  far 
better  keepers  of  stock  than  women. 
They  keep  it  cleaner  and  more  neatly— 
points  of  great  importance  in  determin­
ing  the  selling  of  goods  of  this  class. 
Stocks  should  be  arranged  so  that  the 
very  small  boys  and  the  large 
lads  are 
kept  as  far apart  as  possible.  The  boy 
of  twelve  or  fourteen  feels  that  he  is  no 
longer a  “ baby”   and  he  does  not  wish 
to  buy  his  clothes  where  “ babies”   buy 
theirs.  Consequently  it 
is  as  well  to 
keep  goods  for  boys  of  that  age  as  far 
as  possible  from  goods  for smaller  lads. 
This 
is  a  point  that  the  clothing  man 
should  pay  particular  attention  to. 
Different  mirrors  for  large  and  small 
boys  should  also  be  provided  for the 
same  reason.

Buy  within  your  means,  then  you  are 
sure  to  be  able  to pay in like proportion.

The  Modern  Commercial Traveler.
A  commercial  traveler's  life  is  not  to 
be  gone  into  for the  “ fun  of traveling. ”  
Travel  very  soon  loses  its  fun  when  one 
must  catch  trains  at  all  hours  of  the 
night  and  morning,  wait  for  hours  at 
stations  for  belated  trains,  ride  in  cold, 
illy-ventilated  cars,  snatch  a  bite  of 
food  at  such  eating  places  as  present 
themselves,  and  often  sleep  sitting  up 
in  a  “ day  coach.”   Yet  all  these  dis­
comforts  enter  into  the  life,  particularly 
at  the  beginning  when  a  “ drummer”   is 
given  the  small  towns.

And  even  after  he  is  years  “ on  the 
road,”   and  his  route  covers  only  the 
large  cities,  the  life  is full  of  hardships. 
The 
life  makes  one  keen—sharpens  a 
man’s w its;  it  develops  what  there  is  in 
him,  and  gives  him  experiences  with­
out  number.  No  class  of  men  are  more 
interesting  than  commercial  travelers, 
for their experiences  are  varied  and  in­
numerable ;  they  run  up  against  all 
kinds  and  conditions  of  people.  Each 
customer  is  an 
individual  problem  to 
be  handled  and  solved  in  a  way  best 
suited  to  the  individual.  The life makes 
one a keen  judge  of  men ;  it  gives  one  a 
knowledge of  the  country  and  its  people 
which  no  other  life  does  in  the  same 
period  of  time.  But  there  is  no  “ fun”  
in  traveling  to  a  “ drummer.”   Don't 
get  that  wrong  notion  into  your  head.

quick-thinking, 

Traveling,  as  a  commercial  traveler 
must  travel,  is  work,  and  the  hardest 
kind  of  work.  The  life  is  only  to  be 
commended  to  one  with  special  adapt­
It  takes  a  keen-minded, 
ability  for  it. 
a 
equable-tempered 
man,  a  man,  too,  of  robust  health  and 
capable  of  easy  adjustment  to  all  kinds 
of  conditions  and 
inconveniences,  to 
make  a  successful  “ drummer.”   The 
hardest-worked  men  in  the  country  to­
day  are  those  we  call  “ drummers.”

Selling  goods  in  the  face  of  modern 
competition 
in  all  lines  of  business, 
and  living,  as  they  must,  at  all  sorts  of 
hotels,  eating  at  all  times  of  the  day, 
they  are  a  class  to  whom not half enough 
credit 
is  given—and,  what  is  more  to 
the  point,  not  half enough  salary  is  gen­
erally  paid.

The  plow 

industry  of 

the  United 
States  has  grown  to  mammoth  propor­
tions.  While  a  plow  is  a  plow,  there  are 
differences  enough  to  make 
it  worth 
while  to  know  something  about the lead­
ing  plows  in  the  market.  The  reputa­
tion  of  our  plows  in  foreign  countries 
has  been  well  earned,  and  is  lasting. 
There  is  no  requirement  of  the  foreign 
trade  which  can  not  be  met  as thorough­
ly  as  the  requirements  of  our  home 
farms.  The  facilities  of  our  shops  are 
complete,  and  the  experience  of  our 
manufacturers 
covers  every  possible 
need.

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Commercial Travelers

Michigan  Knights of the Grip

President,  E.  J.  Schreiber,  Bay  City;  Sec­
retary,  A.  W.  Stitt,  Jackson;  Treasurer, 
O.  C.  Gould, Saginaw.

Michigan  Commercial  Travelers’  Association 
President,  A.  Maeymont,  Detroit;  Secretary 
and Treasurer, Geo.  W. Hil l, Detroit.
United  Commercial  Travelers  of Michigan 

Grand  Counselor,  J.  E.  Moore,  Jackson; 
Grand  Secretary,  A.  Kendall,  Hillsdale; 
Grand Treasurer, W.  S.  Mest, Jackson.

Grand  Rapids  Conncil  No.  131,  U.  C.  T.

Senior  Counselor,  J ohn  G.  Kolb;  Secretary- 

Treasurer, L. F. Baker.
Michigan  Commercial  Travelers’  Mutual  Accident  Association 
President, J.  Boyd  Pantlind,  Grand  Kapids; 
Secretary  and  Treasurer,  Geo.  F.  Owen, 
Grand Rapids.

W hy He Did Not W ant To Be a Boy Again.
“ There  are  two  conditions  in  life,” 
said  the  gripsack  man,- as he threw down 
the  paper  that  had  evidently  displeased 
him,  “ which  I  wish could  be  wiped  out 
of  existence.  One  of  them  I  have  lived 
through  and  the  other  I  hope  to  shun. 
From  the  time  a  human  being  is  fifteen 
years  old  until  he  is  old  enough to put  a 
stop  to  it  he  lives  in  an  atmosphere  of 
‘ You  ought  to  do  this  and  you 
‘ ought.’ 
ought  to  do  that.’ 
It  begins  at  home, 
in  the  school  house,  the 
it  goes  on 
church  takes 
it  up  until  sermon  and 
Sunday  school  are  unendurable  and 
then  the  world  at  large  takes  a  hand 
and  plays  it  for all  it  is  worth.  When 
the  time  comes  and  the  man  gets  all  of 
it  he  can  stand,  he  turns  with  a  * You 
just  mind  your  d—elightful  business!’ 
and the advice-receiving period of  life is 
over. 
It  isn’t  any  wonder the  nineteen 
year  older  wants  to  get  awav  from  home 
where  he  can  have  his  own  room  and 
his  own  night  key.  That  doesn’t  mean 
half  the  mischief  that  the  majority 
in­
sist  it  does;  but  it does  mean  that  man­
hood  has  come  and  with  it  the  desire  to 
get  used  to  its  responsibilities  early 
and  in  its  own  way.
“ If  I  am  not  mistaken  the  desire  to 
be  a  dispenser  of  advice  comes  at  that 
period  when  wickedness  ceases  to  have 
is 
charms  and 
its  usual 
back  pay. 
'The  devil  then  is  getting 
sick  and  so  a  saint  would  be,’  and  be­
cause  he  can’t  ‘ carry  on’  and  charge 
it 
up  to  the  future  any  longer,  he  tries  to 
balance  his  account  with  wholesome ad­
vice  to  the  next  generation.

insisting  on 

“ That  will  do  for  the  moral  side; 
and the  intellectual  is  just  as bad.  You 
‘ ought’  and  ‘ if  you  don’t’  are  the  sub­
stance  of  it  all  and  the  wonder  is  that 
the  sufferer,  boy  or  girl,  doesn’t  oftener 
‘ go  contrary’ 
just  to  show  that  the 
‘ ought’  and  the 
‘ if’  are  not  what  they 
are  cracked  up  to  be.  Until  I  got  dis­
gusted  with  it  I  used  to  like  to  hear  the 
first  old  codger  I  ever  worked  for  put 
on  his  glasses,  that  made  him  look  like 

Dogberry,  and  hear  him  tell  me  what 1 

‘ ought’  to  do  if  I  was  to  be  a  success  in 
business: 
‘ Before  a  young  man  can 
expect  to  get  along  in  business  he  must 
be  able  to  write  a  good  plain  hand.’ 
That  sounds  all  right,  but  that  old 
skezecks,  worth  §50,000  that  he  had 
made 
in  trade,  couldn’t  write  for sour 
apples  and,  by  jingo!  once  when  he 
went  to  charge  up  a  grindstone  to  a 
farmer  he  made  a  circle  with  a  square 
in  the  center  of  it.  Did,  for a  fact.

“ Another old  string  he  and  a  good 
many  others  like  to  harp  on  is  in  the 
same  line: 
‘ You  ought  to  write  a  good 
sensible  letter,  you  ought  to  speak  and 
write  good  English,  you  ought  to  add 
up  a  column  of  figures  right  straight  off 
and  get  it  right  the  first  time,  you ought 
to  make  neat  entries  in your  books,  and

if  you  don’t  you’re  going  to  fail  just  as 
sure’s  you  don’t  do  what I tell you.’  It’s 
all  right  enough.  A  man  that  knows 
now  to  handle  English  with  tongue  or 
pen  has  something  to  be  proud  o f;  but 
old  Dogberry  knew,  as  well  as  anybody 
does,  that  a  good  many  millionaires— 1 
guess  a  majority  of  them—can’t  write 
good  English  any  more  than  they  can 
talk 
it,  and  if  their  money-getting  de­
pended  on  it  they’d be  poorer than Job’s 
traditional  turkey.

“ Don’t  misunderstand  me— I’m  not 
crying  down  these  things. 
I’ve  a  hoy 
and  girl  who  are  up  in  that  line  and 
I’m  proud  of  them;  but  I  hate  and  de­
test  the  advice  that  the  Dogberries  are 
giving  and  1  always  break  a  lance  with 
them  when  I  get  a  chance.  They  do 
more  harm  than  good.  Their  lives  are 
too often  a  refutation  of  what  they  say; 
the  whole  thing  is  a  sham and  I’m down 
on  it.

“ What  young  folks  need  more  than 
anything  else  is 
less  advice  and  more 
practice.  That  mother  was  a  fool  who 
told her children  that  they  mustn’t  stick 
beans  up  their  noses;  and  the  doctor 
who  removed  them  ought  to  have  sent 
in  a  big  bill,  if  he  didn’t.  That  man 
with  a  smart  fourteen  year  old  boy  call­
ing  him  Dad  knows  on  general  prin­
ciples,every time  that  he  turns him over 
to  his  mother—or,  what 
is  almost  as 
bad,  to  the  street—that  the  boy  is  starv­
ing  for a  little  practical father-training, 
which  nobody  under  heaven  but himself 
can  give,  the  lack  of  which  during  the 
next  ten  years  is  going  to  make  his 
foolish,  old  paternal  head  a  great  deal 
whiter  than  it  is  now.  It  isn’t  the  num­
ber  of  dollars  that  will  do  the  mischief, 
but  the  not  knowing  how to spend them ; 
and  when  1  look  back  over the  dreadful 
time  I  had  learning  how, I wouldn’t  like 
to  be  a  boy  again  to  go  all  over  it 
again.  Drop  out.  of 
life  the  advice­
taking  and  the  advice-giving  periods 
and  I  haven’t  a  word  to  say. 
I  have 
lived  through  the  first,  and  I  have  made 
arrangements  with  both  my  children 
that  when  I  reach  the  other and  show 
signs  of  the  complaint’s  breaking out,  I 
am  to be  quietly  put  out  of  the  way.”

Gradually  Gaining Ground—Condemn the 

Lake  Shore.

Grand  Rapids,  Oct.  22— The 

local 
council  of  the  United Commercial Trav­
elers  of  America  is  fast  advancing  to 
the  front  in  point  of  numbers,  having  a 
membership  already  that  crowds  the 
hundred  mark  closely  and  a  nice  bunch 
of  applications  awaiting  their turn  at 
the  “ goat.”   The  boys  are  determined 
to  make  our council  the  leading  one  in 
the  State  and  are  fast  nearing  ihe  goal. 
Come,  all  ye  knights of  the  road,  and 
join  our  ranks!  We  want  to  extend  to 
you  the  glad  hand  of  good  fellowship 
and  protection.
At  our  last  meeting  our  Council  ex­
emplified  the  usual  generosity  of  travel­
ing  men  by  contributing  a  snug  little 
sum  from  our general  fund  to  the  U.  C. 
T.  sufferers  at  Galveston.

We  received  an 

invitation  from  the 
Knights  of  the  Grip  to  attend  their 
meetings  preparatory  for their entertain­
ing  the  State  delegation  here  in Decem­
ber,  for which  we  wish  to  say  thanks.

Every  member  of  our  Council  con­
demns  the  action  of  the  Lake  Shore  & 
Michigan  Southern  Railway  in  with­
drawing  from  the  Northern  Mileage 
Bureau.  We  may 
in  the  near  future 
feel 
it  our  duty  and  only  means  of 
effective  retaliation  to  ship  our goods 
over competing  lines  altogether;  but  it 
is  not  agreeable  to  a  small  minority  of 
our members  to  antagonize  the  interests 
or  progress  of  any  corporation  or  indus­
try  and  we  hope  for a  speedy  reconsid­
eration  and  reinstatement  of  the  North­
ern  mileage  book  by  the  Lake  Shore 
system. 

Official  Scribe.

Two  Good Traveling:  men  Stories.

It  is  said  that  on  one  occasion  a 
drummer and  his  family  were  gathered 
at  his  breakfast  table,  and  his  little  boy 
said:  “ Papa,  I  had  a  strange  dream 
last  night. 
I  thought  I  died  and  went 
to heaven,  and  when  I  knocked  on  the 
gate  good  St.  Peter  asked  me  who  I 
was.  I  told  him  I  was  a  drummer’s  boy 
and  he  gave  me  a  piece  of  chalk  and 
showed  me  a  very  high  ladder,  and  told 
me  to  begin  climbing  that  ladder.  And 
he  said  every  time  that  I  thought  of  a 
mean  thing  to  make  a  mark  on  a 
round  of  the 
ladder.  And  I  began 
climbing,  and  climbed  higher and high­
er  until  I  was  so  high  that  I  was  almost 
dizzy,  and  I  met  you  coming  down.”  
The  father,  with  a  startled  exclamation 
said. 
“ Yes, 
you  coming  down.”   “ What  was  I  com­
ing  down  for?”   “ More  chalk,”   said 
the  boy.

“ Me  coming  down?”  

St. 

Peter 

Good  St. 

A  drummer  who  had  been  a  book­
keeper started  to  enter  the  portals above 
without  knocking. 
Peter  said: 
“ Hold,  who  are  you?”   He  answered: 
“ I  am  a  drummer;  I  used  to  be  a book­
keeper.”  
said: 
“ Well,  if  you  were  a  good  book-keeper 
you  should  know  that  your  account  is 
you  make 
overdrawn.”  
“ How  do 
that?”   asked  the  drummer. 
“ It  is  just 
that  way;  the  books  show  it.”   “ Let me 
see  the  books,” ’  said  the  drummer.  He 
made  a  rapid  calculation,  and  saw  how 
much  he  was  overdrawn  and  made  an 
entry  on  the  other  page  of that  same 
amount  to  the  credit  of  Profit  and  Loss, 
which,  of  course,  made  the  books  bal­
ance.  St.  Peter  scratched  his  head, 
looked  first  at  the  drummer,  then  at  the 
books  and  said:  “ What  system  do  you 
call  that?”  
replied: 
“ The  double  entry  system.”   With 
considerable  dignity  St.  Peter  said: 
“ You’ve  made  one  entry  here;  go  be­
low  and  make  the  double  entry.”

The  drummer 

Gripsack  Brigade.

Chas  H.  Worden  has  removed  to  this 
city  from  Detroit  to  take  up  the  work 
of  introducing  Virginia  Brights  ciga­
rettes  to the  attention  of  Western  Mich­
igan  dealers.

Coopersville  has  no  hotel  and  needs 
one  badly.  The  lack  of  hotel  facilities 
is  a  great  drawback  to  the  town  and  a 
source  of  annoyance  and  inconvenience 
to  those  traveling  salesmen  who  would 
like  to  remain  in  the  place  over  night.
Alma  Record:  Chas.  E.  Silsbee,  who 
has  had  charge  of  the  clothing  depart­
ment  of  H.  J.  Vermeulen  during  the 
past  two  years,  has  resigned  to  take  a 
position  as traveling  representative  for 
the  Goshen  Shirt  Co.,  of  Goshen,  Ind.
O.  A.  Perry,  who  has  had  charge  of 
the  bicycle  department  of  C.  B.  Metzger 
for  the  past  two  seasons,  has  engaged 
to travel  in the  Southern and Gulf States 
for the Snell  Cycle  Fittings  Co.,  of  To­
ledo,  visiting  the 
jobbing  trade  ex­
clusively.

It  is  confidently  expected  that  there 
will  be  a  full  attendance  of  Grand  Rap­
ids  traveling  men  at  Sweet’s  Hotel  Sat­
urday  evening  to  take  up  the  matter  of 
effecting  preliminary  arrangements  for 
the  coming  convention  of  the  Michigan 
Knights  of the  Grip.

Eaton  Rapids  Journal:  Chas.  D. 
Buell,  formerly  traveling  salesman  for 
the  T.  M.  Bissell  Plow  Co.,  was  mar­
ried  Wednesday  to  Miss  Winefred  La- 
Fluer,  a  popular  young  lady  of  Hills­
dale.  Mr.  Buell 
is  State  agent  for the 
Moline  Plow  Co.  The  happy  couple 
will  make  their  future  home  in Jackson.
“ I  am an  admirer  of  the  commercial

traveler of to-day,”   remarked  a  promi­
nent  merchant  the  other day.  “ He  is 
the  very  essence  of  push  and  enter­
prise.  He  comes  to  me  with  a  happy 
face  and  a  glad  hand.  He  brings  good 
stories  to  amuse  me  and  a  fund  of 
knowledge  regarding  each  and  every 
market  which  is  not  alone  surprising 
but  interesting  and  valuable.  He  ap­
pears  just  as  much  at  home  in  a  village 
of  one  hundred  people  as  he  does  in  a 
city  of  twenty  thousand,  and  that  spirit 
of  cheer and  contentment  which  he  car­
ries  in  stock has drawn me.closer to him.
I 
like  the  drummer and  do  all  I  can  to 
encourage  him.  The  man  who  calls  on 
me  soliciting  trade  is  the  one  who  gets 
the  business.  He  has  every  shade  and 
discount  in  price  which  the  market  will 
stand  and  his  schemes  are  better  than  I 
could  do  in  his  own  house.  Fact  is, 
the  drummer  fills  me  with  ideas  of  en­
terprise  and  I  believe  that  it  is  through 
his  views  being  put  to  practical  use 
that  the  country  merchant  sells  thous­
ands  of  dollars’  worth  of  goods  which 
otherwise  would  not  he  sold on  the  mar­
ket.  Let  the  traveling  man  continue  to 
be  honest  and  worthy  and his confidence 
will  never  be  misplaced  among the mer­
chants. 
I  will  always  have a kind  word 
to  say  for  the  traveling  man,  for  I  like 
him,  and 
if  possible  would  encourage 
every  house  who  wishes  to  do  business 
to  extend  territory  and  place  more  men 
on  the  road.  The  man  on  the  road  al­
ways  deserves  my  orders,  and  those 
who  come  after the  business  get 
I 
always  will  save  orders  for the traveling 
men, and  feel  that ever;  merchant should 
do  likewise. 
It  is  a  mutual  good,  but 
the  predominence  of  benefit  is  always 
on  the  merchant’s  side,  for  we  absorb 
every  idea  which  the  drummer gives out 
of  his  large  business  knowledge  accum­
ulated  in  experience’s  true  school.”
Port  Huron  Merchants  Active  in  Good 

it. 

W ork.

Port  Huron,  Oct.  20—At  the  last  reg­
ular  meeting  of  the  Merchants  &  Manu­
facturers’  Association,  H.  C.  Hope  and 
O'Brien  Brothers  were  admitted  to 
membership.
It  was  voted  to  hereafter  sell  15 

pounds  of  sugar  for §1.

reported 

F.  C.  Woods 

that  the 
Buchanan  school  was  full  and  that  the 
accommodations  were  poor.  He  said 
there  was  no  playground  around  the 
school  house  and  that  only  four  grades 
were  taught  in  the  school.  Mr.  Woods 
said  a  number  of  families  would  take 
up  their  residence  in  the  tunnel  district 
if  they  could  find  houses  and  better 
sch  ol  facilities.  He  maintained  that 
there  were  not  enough  seats 
in  the 
school  room.
School  Inspector  Busby  was  present 
and  stated  that  all  the  necessary  seats 
could  be  obtained  if desired.

It  was  brought  to  the  attention  of  the 
Association  that  certain  members  had 
violated  their  agreement  and  purchased 
gift  goods.  A  motion  was  made  to  sus­
pend  all  members  who  did  not 
live  up 
to  the  agreement  of  the  Association. 
The  motion  was  voted  down.

W.  D.  Brown 

jumped  on  John  M. 
Hoffman.  He  said  that  he  was  build­
ing  an  ice  house  on  city  property on  the 
lake  front.  He  wanted some action taken 
to  restrain  him  from  going  ahead  with 
the  work.  W.  D.  Smith  also  condemned 
the  action  of  Mr.  Hoffman.  He  said  if 
the  aldermen  did  not  know  enough  to 
stop  him  that  the  people  should  take  a 
It  was  voted  to  ask  the  council 
hand. 
to  take  immediate  action.
It  was  voted  to  hold  a  smoker with re­

freshments  at  the  next  meeting.

It  seems  reasonable  that  when  the 
worst  comes  to  the  worst,  the  best  thing 
to  do  is  to  make  the  best  of  it.

The  man  who  saws  wood  and  does 

not  talk  would  do  well  anywhere*

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Those  Jokes  About the  Druggists.

Once  upon  a  midnight  dreary,  as 
some  fool  reporter  pondered,  weak  and 
weary,  he  said  to himself,  “ I  will  write 
a  joke  about  the  druggists.”   And  he 
wrote  the  one  that  came  out  in the  daily 
papers  about  twelve  years  ago  (and 
which  we  trust  our  esteemed  contem­
poraries  will  soon  quit  printing,  as  it 
will in time grow ancient)aboutthe drug­
gist  at  church  who  was  asleep  and  re­
sponded  to  the  minister’s  question  if 
there  was  no  balm  in  Gilead,  by  saying 
that  he  was  out  but  had  something  just 
as good.

History  records  but  two  other  jokes 
In  Homer’s  early 
about  druggists. 
youth,  which 
farther  back  than  we 
is 
can  reinember,  there  appeared  a joke  in 
the  almanac  credited  to  the  Jurassic 
age,  which  was  the  story  of  the  deaf 
woman  who  paid  the  druggist  five  cents 
instead  of  seventy-five  as  she  should. 
You'  all  know  how  much  the  druggist 
made  anyhow,  and we  will  let  that  pass. 
The  other  joke  regarding  the  difference 
in  price  between  a  solution  of  sodium 
chloride  in  aqua  pura  and  common  salt 
and  water,  has  never  yet  been  traced  to 
the  guilty  wretch  who  perpetrated  it, 
but  the  common  belief  now  is,  among 
druggists,  that 
it  was  coeval  with  the 
first  appearance  of  Adam  in  the  fruit 
business,  and  probably  was  one  of  the 
good  stories  with  which  the  other and 
smoother gentleman  beguiled  Eve 
into 
eating  that  which  she  should  have  left 
alone.

the  devil  himself 
them?”

if  he 

swallowed 

The  doctor  was  annoyed  and  pom­
“ I  don't  know,  my  lord;  I  never had 

pously  replied :
him  for a  patient. ”

From  the  bench  came  the  answer: 
“ Ah,  no,  docther,  ye  niver  had, 
more’s  the  pity!  The  old  boy’s  still 
aloive. ”

Few  men  are  so  constituted  that 

im­
pressive  airs  and  haughty demeanor will 
draw  them  trade.

Holiday  j! 
Everything at right prices
Goods

Our  line  comprises  all 

classes  of  Holiday  arti­

cles 

that  are  handled 

by  the  Drug,  Stationery, 

Toy  and  Bazaar  Trades. 

Dealers  can  select  their 

entire  stock 

from  our 

The  Drug:  Market.

vast  assortment.

26
Drugs—Chemicals
-  Dec. 31,1900
-  Dec. 31,1901 
-  Dec. 31,1902
  Dec. si, 1903 
A. G. Schumacher, Ann Arbor  -  Dec. 31,1904 

„  
- 
Geo.  Gündküm, Ionia 
L.  E.  Reynolds,  St.  Joseph 
Henry  Heim , Saginaw 
- 
Wir t  P.  Doty, Detroit.
.

M ichigan  State  Board  of Pharm acy

Term expires

President, A.  C.  Schumacher, Ann Arbor. 
Secretary, Henry  Heim , Saginaw.
Treasurer, W.  P.  Doty,  Detroit.

.

Exam ination  Sessions 

Lansing—Nov. 7 and 8.

Mich.  State  Pharm aceutical  Association. 

President—Chas.  F.  Mann, Detroit. 
Secretary—,1.  W. Seeley,  Detroit 
Treasurer—W.  K.  Schmidt, Grand Rapids.

Crippled  By  Reason  of  Defective  Educa- 

cation.

My  experience  on  the  Board  of  Phar­
macy  brings  me 
in  constant  contact 
with  many  pharmaceutical  cripples— 
young  men  who  go  hobbling  along, 
stumbling  and  blundering  because  they 
are  too  indolent  or too  self-indulgent  to 
make  the  effort  and  sacrifice  needed  to 
secure  themselves  a  pharmaceutical  ed­
ucation.  When  I  see  a  young  man  less 
than  30  years  of  age  with  no  one  de­
pendent  upon  him  for  support,  ignorant 
of  the  principles  of  chemistry,  knowing 
only  such  pharmaceutical  technique  as 
can  be  picked up in  the  drug  store,  with 
little  definite'  scientific knowledge of any 
kind,  and  he  tells  me  that  he  can’t  go 
to  college  because  he  hasn't  the  money, 
as  a  general  thing  I  do  not  believe him. 
If  he  has  a  thorough  determination  to 
master  his  profession  and  has  good 
health,  I  tell  him  that  “ where  there’s  a 
will  there’s  a  way.’ ’  Assiduous  indus­
try  and  rigid  economy  will  enable  such 
a  young  man  in  these  days  to  secure  a 
pharm aceutical  education.  H e m ay have 
lacked  early  advantages  at  school.  This 
loss  can  be  made  up  by  utilizing  his 
spare  hours  and  minutes.  If  he  has  had 
a  fair  preliminary  education  and 
is 
thoroughly  in  earnest  in  his  endeavor to 
go  to  college,  some  way  will  present 
itself,  provided  he  be  industrious  and 
economical.

it.  Even 

There  is  another  class  whom  I  will 
call  voluntary  cripples  who,  because 
they  do  not  like  some  branch  of  science 
which  is  essential  to  the  well-rounded 
pharmacist’s  education,  deliberately  re­
fuse  to  study 
in  college  I 
have  known  young  men  wlyi  found 
chemistry  difficult,  and  therefore  would 
skip  it  all  they  could,  and  others  who, 
claiming  that  they  were  not  going  to 
be  botanists  but  druggists,  almost  re­
fused  to  study  botany;  and  so with other 
subjects.  They  are  voluntary  cripples, 
because  they  are  willing  to  remain  in 
ignorance  of  a  portion  of  the  pharma­
cist’s  equipment  while  fair  students  in 
other  branches,  preferring  to  trust  to 
their  good  fortune  in  being  able  to  find 
some  one  who  can  help  them out,  should 
they  ever  need  assistance 
in  those  mat­
ters  which  they  have  failed  to study,  in­
stead  of  mastering  them  themselves. 
They  remind  me  of  those  two  men  who 
used  to  ride  tandem  on  a  bicycle  in  an 
Eastern  city.  One  had 
lost  the  right 
arm  and  left  leg,  and  the  other  had  lost 
the 
left  arm  and  right  leg.  By  dint  of 
long  continued,  presevering  practice, 
these  two  men  could  get  along  as  the 
average  man  by  joining  their  forces  to­
gether  on  a  tandem  wheel;  but  any  one 
can  see  that  for  all  cycling  purposes 
each  of  these  was  only  half  a  man. 
These  half-men  we  have  in our colleges, 
and  sometimes  in  our drugstores.  They 
are  voluntary  cripples,  because  they 
have  deliberately  refused  to  study  that 
which  was difficult or uncongenial.  How

much  better  for each  man,  when  he  has 
the  opportunity,  to  develop  his  powers 
in  all  needful  directions,  so  that  he 
may  become  a well-rounded pharmacist.
And  what  shall  we  say  of  the  young 
man  who,  by  cramming  with  quiz  com- 
pends, 
examination  questions,  and 
other  subterfuges  for  legitimate  study, 
supplemented  by  no  little  cribbing,  has 
managed,  partly  by  good  luck  and  part­
ly  by  cunning,  to  get  through  the  State 
board,  and  rejoices  in  the  possession  of 
a  certificate  as  a  full-fledged  licentiate? 
Too  often  he  thinks  he  knows  it  all. 
His  case 
is  the  most  hopeless  that  we 
have  to  deal  with.  He  is  like  the  blind 
man  who  has  no  sense  of  color.  He 
does  not  know  how  much  he  loses  by 
not  seeing  what  others  see,  and  it  is 
hard  for any  one  to  tell  him.  He  is  be 
vond  hope.  Unlike the  man  who  knows 
his  own  defects,  he  makes  no  effort  to 
overcome  them.

but 

But  there  is  another class  of  cripples, 
fortunately  not  so  hopeless,  whom  I 
often  meet  in  my  capacity  as  dean  of 
the  College  of  Pharmacy. 
I  refer  to 
to  acquire  a 
young  men  who  wish 
knowledge  of  pharmacy, 
are 
crippled  by  reason  of  their defective 
general  education.  For almost  a  gener­
ation  I  have  watched  such  young  men, 
and  have  seen  how  handicapped  they 
have  been  in  their  efforts  to  learn  their 
profession  after they  have  set  about  it 
in  good  earnest.  Often  we  see  them 
hobbling  along  as  indifferent  students, 
because  they  find  they  do  not  make  as 
good  progress  as  others.  This  discour­
ages  them,  and  after a  time  they  drop 
out  altogether,  having  wasted  time  and 
money 
in  a  fruitless  effort  to  build  the 
top  story  before  they  had  laid  the  foun­
dation. 
those 
who  never  were  disposed  to  study,  and 
consequently  made  but  little  progress in 
the  public  schools  and  less  in  a  school 
of  pharmacy.  Such  persons  are  not 
fitted  for  any  calling  in  which  success 
depends 
largely  upon  the  acquisition 
of  scientific  knowledge.  These  young 
men  sometimes  enter  drug  stores  with 
erroneous  views  as  to  what  will  be  re­
quired  to  make  them  successful  phar­
macists.  Being  averse  to  study,  they 
acquire  no  more  than  a  smattering  of 
knowledge.  It  is  scarcely  to be expected 
under these  conditions  that  they  should 
persevere  until  graduation.  Frequently 
they  drop  out  after  attending  college  a 
few  months.

I  am  not  speaking  of 

W.  M.  Searby.

Our  best  opportunity  of  serving  the 
future  pharmacists  occurs  whenever  we 
have  an  opportunity  of  inducing  youths 
to  postpone  entering  drug  stores  until 
after  they  have  completed  their  high 
school  course.  By  doing  this  we  not 
only  render  them  a  service,  but  also 
promote  the  cause  of  legitimate  phar­
macy. 
A Case of Poisoning toy Oil of \V intergreen.
B.  Pillsbury  in  the  Medical  Record 
reports  the  case  of a middle-aged  farmer 
who  took  two  ounces  of  oil  of  winter- 
green,  thinking  it  was  whisky.  The 
substance  was  taken  at  4  p.  m.,  and  he 
continued  at  his  work ;  two  hours  later 
there  came  on  a  copious diarrhea,  which 
continued  until  death. 
In  a  domestic 
way  mustard  was  given  as  an  emetic, 
with  the  whites  of  a  dozen  raw eggs  and 
a  little  water.  He  was  not  seen  by  a 
physician  until  9  p.  m.,  five  hours  after 
the  drug  was  taken.  He  was  then  found 
to  be  sweating  profusely,  with  a  sub­
jective  sense  of  heat  internally.  The 
following  day  the  skin  was  very  red 
and  the  itching  of  the  surface  was  in­
tense. 
In  the  afternoon  the  pulse  did 
not  intermit,  but  it  was  very  rapid 
Death  occurred  forty-one  hours  after thè 
wmtergreen  was  taken.

Opium—The  market  is  firmer and has 
advanced  5c  per  pound. 
It  is  believed 
that  prices  will  rule  higher,  on  account 
of  the  situation  in  the  prim ary markets.

Morphine— Is  unchanged.
Quinine— Is  firm  at unchanged prices.
Cocaine— Is  in  very  small  supply  and 
many  manufacturers  are  not  offering  for 
sale,  and  others  restrict  their  sales  to 
small  quantities.  An  advance 
is  ex­
pected.

Glycerine—The  consuming  season 

is 
now  on  and  the  demand  is large.  Man­
ufacturers  will  not  accept  future  orders. 
Another advance  is  looked  for.

Menthol—Continues  to  advance  and 

the  market  is  decidedly  strong.

Juniper  Berries—The  advice  that  the 
new  crop  would  be  short  has  been  con­
firmed  and  higher  prices  are  expected.
Essential  Oils—Clove  has  advanced 
2%c.  Erigeron  has  been  advanced  10c 
per  pound.  Cedar  leaves  is  very  scarce 
and  has  again  advanced.  Sassafras  has 
advanced  again.  Stocks  are  small  and 
tending  higher.  Wormwood 
is  very 
scarce  and  has  been  advanced.

Lemon  Grass—Has  been advanced,  on 

account  of  scarcity.

Linseed  Oil—Advanced  10c  on  the 
20th  and  2c  per gallon  on  the  22d,  on 
account  of  the  high  price  for seed.

The  Devil  For a  Patient.

Lord  Morris of  the  Irish Bench,  whose 
procedure  is  more  noted  for  wit  than 
for  judicial  dignity,  was  once  trying  a 
case 
in  wnich  damages  were  claimed 
from  a  veterinary  surgeon  for having 
poisoned  a  valuable  horse.  The 
issue 
depended  upon  whether  a  certain  num­
ber of  grains  of  a  particular drug  could 
be  safely  administered  to  the animal.  A 
doctor  proved  that  he  had  often  given 
eight  grains  to  a  man,  from  which  it 
was  to  be  inferred  that  twelve  for a 
horse  was  not  excessive.
yer 

eight  grains, 
docther,”   said  the 
“ We  all 
know  that  some  poisons  are  cumulative 
in  effect,  and  ye  may  go  to  the  edge  of 
ruin  with  impunity.  But  tell  me  this: 
the  twelve  grains—wouldn’t  they  kill

“ Never  mind 

judge. 

Refer  to  our  Holiday  cir­

cular  for  particulars  and
visit  our  sample  rooms
for  proof.

Fred  Brundage,

Wholesale Druggist,

32  and  34  Western  Ave.,

Muskegon,  Mich. ■I-G. UHEMiSIS, 
ALLEGAN. HIGH
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Advanced^  Opium, Oil Wormwood, Oil Sassafras, Oil Erigeron, Linseed Oil. Turpentine.

20®  22 
@  18 
@  30

Linseed, pure raw... 
Linseed, boiled.......
Spirits Turpentine.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Menthol.................. 
@400
Morphia, S., P. & W.  2 25® 2 60 
Morphia, S.,N. Y. Q.
& C. Co.................  2  15® 2 40
Moschus  Canton__  @  40
Myrlstica, No. 1......  65®  80
Nux Vomica...po. 16  @ 
10
Os Sepia.................. 
35®  37
Pepsin Saac, H. & P.
D  Co...................   @  1  00
Picis Liq. N.N.Vi gal.
doz......................  
© 2 00
Picis Liq., quarts 
  @100
Picis Liq.,  pints......  @  85
Pil Hydrarg. ..po.  80  @  50
Piper  Nigra., .po. 22  @ 
18
Piper  Alba....po.35  @  30
Pux Burgun....... 
@ 
7
Plumbi Acet............ 
10@ 
12
Pulvis Ipecac et Opii  1  30@  1  50 
Pyrethrum, boxes H.
& P. D. Co., doz...  @  76
Pyrethrum,  pv.......  
25®  30
Quasslae.................. 
8@ 
10
Quinta, S. P. &  W... 
40®  50
Quinta, S.  German..  39@  49
Quinla, N. Y............  39®  49
Rubia Tine tor um__ 
12®  14
Saccharum Lactls pv 
18@  20
Salacin...................   4 50® 4 75
Sanguis  Draconls...  40®  50
Sapo, W.................. 
12® 
14
io@ 
SapoM.................... 
12
Sapo G....................  @ 
15

Seldlitz Mixture......
Sinapis...................
Sinapis,  opt............
Snuff, Maccaboy, De
Voes....................
Snuff,Sco tch,i)e Vo’s
Soda, Boras............
Soda,  Boras, po......
Soda et Potass Tart.
Soda,  Carb..............
Soda,  Bi-Carb.........
Soda, Ash...............
Soda, Sulphas.........
Spts. Cologne..........
Spts. Ether  Co........
Spts. Myrcia Dom... 
Spts. Vini Rect.  bbl. 
Spts. ViniRect. Hbbl 
Spts. Vini Rect. lOgal 
Spts. Vini Rect. 5 gal 
Strychnia, Crystal...
Sulphur,  Subl.........
Sulphur, Roll..........
Tamarinds.............
Terebenth  Venice...
Theobromae.............
Vanilla...................
Zinci Sulph............
Oils

9®
9®
23@

3)4©

© 2 60 
50®  55
@ 2 00

1  05®  1  25 
2)4® 
3Î4
2)4®
8®
10
28®
30
60®
9 00®. 16 00 
7® 
8

Whale, winter.........  7o 
Lard, extra.............   60 
Lard, No. 1.............  
45 

B B L .  G A L.
70
70
50

27

78
75
76
79
60
54
48
55
B B L . 
]LB.
154  2 @8
154  2 @4
154  2 ©3
254  2V4@3
2)4  254 @3
13® 15
70© 76
14® 18
13® 16
6)4® 614
634® 634
@ 85
@ 90
@  1 25
@  1 40
1  10®  1 20

1  10®  1 20
1  60®  1 70
2 75® 3 00
1  00®  1 10
1  55®  1 60
70® 75

Red  Venetian.........
Ochre, yellow  Mars. 
Ochre, yellow Ber... 
Putty,  commercial.. 
Putty, strictly  pure. 
Vermilion,  P r i me
American.........
Vermilion, English
Green,  Paris........
Green, Peninsular.
Lead, red.............
Lead,  white.........
Whiting, white Span
Whiting, gilders’__
White, Paris, Amer. 
Whiting, Paris, Eng.
cliff...................   .
Universal Prepared.
Varnishes

No. 1 Turp  Coach.

Extra Turk Damar..

8
6@$
Aceticum  ...............
70® 75
Benzoicum, German.
@ 17
Boraclc....................
Carbolicum.............
30® 42
45® 48
Cttricum ......................
3® 5
Hydrochlor............
8® 10
Nltrocum................
12® 14
Oxallcum.................
@ 15
Phosphorlum,  dll...
Sallcylicum  ............
55® 60
154® 5
Sulphurlcum__7...
Tanntcum............... 1  10®  1  20
38® 40
Tartarlcum   ...............
Ammonia
4® 6
Aqua, 16 deg............
6® 8
Aqua, 20 deg............
13® 15
Carbonas.................
12® 14
Chloridum...............
Aniline
Black....................... 2 00® 2 25
80®  1  00
Brown.....................
45® GO
Red.........................
Yellow..................... 2  50® 3 00
Raccte
24
220
Cubebae...........po,25
8
60
.Tunlperus................
750
80
Xauthoxylum.........
50© 55
0   1  85
50
460
45
400
18
12
18

Balsamnm
Copaiba..................
Peru  .......................
Terabtn,  Canada....
Tolutan...................
Cortex
Abies, Canadian......
Cassia*.....................
Cinchona  Flava......
Kuonymus atropurp.
Myrica Cerifera, po.
Primus Virgin!.......
Qulllaia, gr’d ...........
Sassafras....... po. 15
Ulmus...po.  16, gr’d 
E xtractam  
Glycyrrhlza Glabra.  240  25
280  30
Glycyrrhlza,  po 
box  110  12
Hæmatox, 15 lb.
130  14
Hæmatox, Is.
15 
Hæmatox, V4s
17
160
Hæmatox, !4s......... 

15 
2 25
75
40
16 
2

Flora

250  30
"|
120
8©

Ferru
Carbonate  Precip...
Citrate and  Qulnla..
Citrate Soluble........
Ferrocyanidum Sol..
Solut. Chloride
Sulphate,  com'l......
Sulphate,  com’l,  by
* 
by 
bbl, per  cwt
Sulphate,  pure.........
15©
Arnica..................... 
Anthemls................   220
Matricaria............... 
300
Folia
Barosma..................  350
Cassia Acutifol, Tin-
nevelly.................  200
Cassia, Acutifol, Alx. 
Salvia officinalis,  14s
and %s................. 
UvaUrsi.................. 
Gummi
0   65
Acacia, 1st picked..
0   45
Acacia, 2d  picked..
0   35
Acacia, 3d  picked..
0   28 
Acacia, sifted  sorts. 
0
65 
Acacia, po...............   450
14 
Aloe, Barb, po.18020  12©
12 
Aloe, Cape.... po. 16. 
0
30 
Aloe,  SocotrL.po. 40 
0
60 
Ammoniac...............   550
30 
Assaf retida— po. 30  280
55
50®
Benzoinum.............. 
13
0
Catechu, is .............. 
14 
Catechu, 34s............ 
0
16 
Catechu, 14s............  
(S
73 
Campnorse..............  68®
40
Eupnorblum... po. 35  @
® 1 00 
Gafbanum...............
65®  70
Gamboge............po
@  30
Guaiacum......po. 25
®  75
Kino...........po. $0.76
60 
Mastic  ....................
40
Myrrh............po. 46
Opil__po. 4.80@5.00 3 45®  3 50
Shellac....................  25®  35
Shellac, bleached....  40®  45
Tragacanth.............  50®  80
25
Absinthium..oz. pkg 
Eupatorium..oz. pkg 
20
lebella....... oz. pkg 
25
Majorum__oz. pkg
Mentha Pip..oz. pkg 
Mentha Vfr..oz. pkg
Rue..............oz. pkg
Tanacetum V oz. pkg 
Thymus, V.. .oz. pkg 
Magnesia
Calcined, Fat...........
Carbonate, Pat.......
Carbonate, K. & M..
’arbonate, Jennings 
Oleum
Absinthium............   6  50® 
Amygdalae,  Dulc__  38®  65
Amygdalae, Amarae.  8 00® 8 25
Anisl.........................2  10® 
Auranti Cortex........  2  25® 2 30
Bergamil.................  2  75® 
Cajiputl..................   80®  85
Caiyophylli............. 
80®  85
Cedar.....................  
so®  70
Chenopadll..............  @  2 76
Clnnamonil.............. l  30® 
Oitronella...............  36®  40

25
39
22
25
55®  60
18®  20 
18@  20 
18®  20

H erba

7 00

2 20
2 85

l 40

10® 

Conium Mac............  60®  60
Copaiba..................  l  i5@ l  25
Cubebae..................   i  20®  l  25
Exechthltos............  l  oo@ 1  10
Erigeron................   i  io@ l  20
Gaultheria.............   2 00® 2  10
Geranium, ounce....  @  75
GossippU, Sem. gal..  50@  60
Hedeoma................   l  40® i  60
Junlpera.................  l  50® 2  00
Lavendula.............   90® 2 00
Limonis................. 
l  50@ 1  60
Mentha Piper.........  l  25® 2 00
Mentha Verid.........  l  60®  1  60
Morrhuae, |gal.........  l  20®  l  25
Myrcia...................   4 00® 4 50
Olive.......................  75® 3 00
Picls IJquida......... 
12
®  35
Picis Liqulda,  gal... 
Ricina.....................  1 00®  1  08
Rosmarini...............  
®  1 00
Rosa*, ounce............  6 00® 6 50
Succinl....................  40®  45
Sabina...................   go®  i  oo
Santal.....................  2 75®  7 00
Sassafras.................  60®  65
Sinapis,  ess., ounce. 
®  65
Tiglii.......................  1  50®  1  60
Thyme.....................  40©  50
Thyme, opt.............  
@160
Theobromas..........  
15®  20
Potass! am
Bi-Carb.................... 
is
Bichromate............ 
16
Bromide.................  62®  57
Carb  ....................... 
15
Chlorate... po. 17@19 
18
Cyanide..................  35®  40
Iodide.....................  2 60®  2 65
Potassa, Bitart, pure  28@  30 
Potassa, Bitart, com.  @ 
15
Potass Nitras, opt... 
7® 
10
Potass  Nitras......... 
6© 
8
Prussiate.................  23®  26
Sulphate  po............ 
15©  18

i5@ 
13® 
12® 
16@ 

Radix

Aconitum................   20®  25
Althae.....................   22®  25
Anchusa................  
io@ 
12
Arum  po................. 
@ 2 5
Calamus.................. 
20@  40
Gentiana....... po. 16 
12® 
15
Glychrrhiza.. .pv.  15 
16© 
18 
©  75 
Hydrastis  Canaden. 
Hydrastis Can., po..  @  80 
12@ 
Hellebore, Alba, po. 
15
Inula,  po................  
is®  20
Ipecac, po...............  4 25® 4 35
Iris plOX...po.35@38  35®  40
Jalapa, pr...............  25®  30
Maranta,  !4s...........  @  36
Podophyllum,  po...  22®  25
Rhei........................   75®  1 00
Rhei, cut.................  @125
Rhei, pv..................  75®  1  35
Spigelia..................  35®  38
Sanguinaria.. .po.  15  @ 
18
Serpentaria............  40@  45
Senega....................  60@  65
Smilax, officinalis H.  @ 4 0
Smllax, M............... 
<a  25
Scillse............po. 35
10@
Symplocarpus, Fceti-
dus,  po................
V aleriana, Eng. 1 >0.30 
@15®
__
Valeriana,  German. 
Zingiber a ............... 
14@
Zingiber j.................  25®
Semen

Anlsum.........po.  16  @ 
12
Apium (graveleons).  13@ 
15
Bird, is.................... 
6
4® 
Carul............. po.  18  12@ 
13
Cardamon...............   1  25@  1  75
Coriandrum............. 
8®  10
Cannabis Satlva......  4  @  5
Cvdonium...............  76®  1  00
Chenopodium......... 
10® 
12
D'ptenx Odorate__  1  00@  1  10
Foeniculum.............   @ 
10
7®
Foenugreek, po.......  
Lini........................   334®
Lini, grd......bbl. 334 
4®
Lobelia...................   35®
Pharlarls Canarian..  4%@
Rapa.......................  434©
Sinapis  Alba........... 
9®
Sinapis  Nigra......... 
li®
Spiritns

Frumenti, W. D. Co.  2 00®  2 60 
Frumenti,  1). F. R..  2 00® 2 25
Frumenti................  1  25®  1  50
Jimiperis Co. O. T...  1  65@ 2 00
Junlperis  Co..........   1  76© 3 50
Saacharum  N. E __  1  90® 2  10
Spt. Vini Galli.........  1  75® 6 50
Vini Oporto______  1  25® 2 00
Vini Alba................   1  25® 2 00
Sponges 
Florida sheeps’ wool
carriage...............  2 50@ 2 76
Nassau sheeps’ wool
carriage................  2 50® 2 75
Velvet extra sheeps’
wool, carriage......
1  50 
Extra yellow sheeps’
wool, carriage......
1  25
Grass  sheeps’  wool,
carriage...............
1  00
Hard, for slate use..
Yellow  R e ef,  for 
slate use...............
Syrups
Acacia...................
Auranti Cortex........
Zingiber..................
Ipecac.....................
Ferri Iod.................
Rhei Arom..............
Smilax  Officinalis...
Senega ....................
Scillae........................

@50®

1 40

Scillae  Co.
Tolutan. 
l’runus  virg.
Tinctures 
Aconitum Napellis R 
Aconitum Napellis F 
Aloes
Aloes and Myrrh.
Arnica 
Assaf oetida.
Atrope Belladonna.
Auranti Cortex.
Benzoin 
Benzoin Co.
Barosma......
Cantharides.
Capsicum...
Cardamon,
Cardamon Co.
Castor,
Catechu 
Cinchona 
Cinchona Co.
Columba 
Cubebae.
Cassia Acutifol.......
Cassia Acutifol Co...
Digitalis..................
Ergot.......................
Ferri  Chloridum__
Gentian..................
Gentian Co..............
Guiaca.
Guiaca ammon.
Hyoscyamus......
Iodine  .............
Iodine, colorless.
Kino 
Lobelia 
Myrrh
Nux Vomica.
Opil.
Opii, comphorated..
Opii, deodorized......
Quassia..................
Rhatany..................
Rhei........................
Sanguinaria...........
Serpentaria............
Stromonium............
Tolutan..................
Valerian.................
Veratrum  Veride...
Zingiber..................

Miscellaneous 

.¡Ether, Spts. Nit. ? F  30© 
ACther, Spts. Nit. 4 F  34®
Alumen..................  2)4®
3®
Alumen,  gro’d..po. 7 
A n n a tto ........................... 
40®
4®
Antimoni, po........... 
Antimonl et Potass T  40®
Antipyrin...............  
©
Antifebrin  .............   @
Argenti Nitras, oz...  @
Arsenicum.............. 
10®
Balm Gilead  Buds.. 
38®
Bismuth S. N..........   1 90®
Calcium Chlor.,  is... 
®
Calcium Chlor., 14s.. 
®
Calcium Chlor.,  14s..  @
Cantharides, Rus.po  @
Capsicl Fructus, at..  @
Capsici  Fructus, po.  @
Capsici Fructus B, po  @
Caryophyllus. .po. 15 
12@
Carmine, No. 40......  @ ;
Cera Alba...............   50®
Cera Flava..............  40®
Coccus....................  @
Cassia Fructus.......   @
Centraria.................  @
Cetaceum................   @  45
Chloroform............  55@  60
Chloroform, squibbs 
©  1  10 
Chloral Hyd Crst....  1  65@  1  90
Chondrus................  20@  25
Clnchonidine.P. & W  38®  48
Cinchonidine, Germ.  38@
Cocaine..................  7 05® 7  26
Corks, list, dis. pr. ct.
Creosotum...............  @
Creta............bbl. 75  @
Creta, prep..............  @
Creta, preclp..........  
9®
Creta, Rubra..........   @
Crocus.................... 
15®
©
Cudbear.................. 
Cuprl Sulph............  6)4@
Dextrine................. 
7®
Ether Sulph............  75@
Emery, all numbfc.s.  @
Emery, po...............   @
Ergota......... po. 90  85@
Flake  White..........  
12®
Galla................ 
ft
Gambler................. 
8®
Gelatin, Cooper......  @
Gelatin, French......  35®
75 &
Glassware,  flint, box 
Less than box......
11® 
Glue, brown............ 
Glue,  white............ 
15®
Glycerina.................  17 Hi®
Grana Paradis!.......   @
Humulus................. 
25@
Hydrarg Chlor  Mite  @ 
Hydrarg Chlor Cor..  @ 
Hydrarg Ox Rub’m.  @
Hydrarg Ammoniati  @ 
HydrargUnguentum  50@
Hydrargyrum.........  @
Ichthyobolla, Am...  66®  70
Indigo.....................  75®  1  00
Iodine,  Resubi.......   3 85® 4 00
Iodoform................   3 86® 4 00
Lupulln...................   @ 5 0
Lycopodium............   70®  76
Macls.....................   05®  75
Liquor Arsen et  Hy-
drarg Iod.............  
®  25
10® 
LlquorPotassArsinlt 
12
Magnesia,  Sulph__ 
2® 
3
®  1)4 
Magnesia, Sulph, bbl 
Manilla, S. F ...........  60® 
ft

13

Freezable 

Goods

Now  is  the  time  to  stock

Mineral  Waters,
Liquid  Foods,
Malt  Extracts,
Butter Colors,
Toilet  Waters,
Hair  Preparations, 
Inks,  Etc.

Hazeltine  &  Perkins 

Drug  Co.

Grand Rapids, nich.

Our  Holiday  Line  will  be  on  exhibition 

at  Lansing  from  Oct.  22  to  27.

2 8

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

GROCERY  PRICE  CURRENT

Guaranteed  correct  at  time  of  issue.  Not  connected 

with  any  jobbing-  house.

ADVANCED
Rolled  Oat« 
Sauerkraut 
Mop  Heads

DECLINED

Spring  W heat  Flour 
No.  1  W hite  Fish
Sisal  Rope

Package 

New York Basis.

Arbuckle.............................13 00
Dilworth.............................13 00
Jersey................................. 13 00
Lion.................................... 12 00
M cLaughlin’s XXXX 
McLaughlin’s  XXXX  sold  to 
retailers  only.  Mail  all  orders 
direct  to  W.  F.  McLaughlin  & 
Co., Chicago.
Extract 
Valley City 54  gross.
Felix 54 gross........................ 1 15
Hummel’s foil 54 gross........  85
Hummel’s tin 54 gross......... 1 43

Substitutes

COCOA SHELLS 

Crushed Cereal Coffee Cake
12 packages, 54 case..............1 1
24packages,  lease 
...... 3  50
20 lb. bags
Less quantity 
Pound packages............
id packagi
CLOTHES  LINES
Cotton, 40 ft.  per doz........... 1  00
Cotton, 50 ft.  per doz........... 1  20
Cotton, 60 ft.  per doz........... 1  40
Cotton, 70 ft.  per doz........... 1  60
Cotton, 80 ft.  per doz...........1  80
Jute, 60 ft. per doz.............   80
Jute. 72 ft. per doz.... ........
CONDENSED  MILK

COUPON  BOOKS 

4 doz in case.
Gall Borden Eagle.............. 6 75
Crown..................................6 25
Daisy................................... 5 71
Champion........................... 4 50
Magnolia.............................4 25
Challenge............................4 00
Dime................................... 3 35
50 books, any  denom...  1  50 
100 books, any  denom...  2 50 
500books,any  denom...  11  50
1.000 books, any  denom...  20 00 
Above quotations are for eithe
Tradesman, Superior, Economic 
or  Universal  grades.  Where
1.000 books are ordered at a time 
customer receives  sp e cially  
printed  cover  without  extra 
charge.

Apples

Credit  Checks 

Coupon  Pass  Books 
Can be made to represent any 
denomination from $10 down
50  books.......................  1  50
100  books.......................  2  50
500  books.......................  11  50
1.000  books.........................20 00
500, any one denom........  2 00
1.000, any one denom........  3 00
2.000, any one denom........  5 00
Steel  punch..................... 
75
CREAM  TARTAR
5 and 10 lb. wooden  boxes...... 30
Bulk in sacks.......................... 29
DRIED  FRUITS—Domestic 
Sundried........................ ©
Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes.654©  7 
California F ruits
Apricots........................  @10
Blackberries..............
Nectarines.................
Peaches.....................  9  @11
Pears..........................
Pitted Cherries..........  
Prunnelles.................
Raspberries.............
100-120 25 lb. boxes
90-100 25 lb. boxes.......
80 - 90 25 lb. boxes........
70 - 80 25 lb. boxes........
60 - 70 25 lb. boxes........
50 - 60 25 lb. boxes........
40 - 50 25 lb. boxes........
30 - 40 25 lb. boxes.......

California Prunes 
®
® 5 
@ 554 
® 6 
@   654 @ 7 
854

54 cent less in 50 lb. cases 

754

Raisins

2  00 
2  76

Citron

Currants

London Layers 2 Crown. 
London Layers 3 Crown.
Cluster 4 Crown............
Loose Muscatels 2 Crown 
Loose Muscatels 3 Crown 
Loose Muscatels 4 Crown 
9
L. M., Seeded, 1  lb  ...... 1054® 11
L. M.. Seeded, %  lb__  854®
DRIED   FRUITS—Foreign 
Leghorn................................. 11
Corsican................................ 12
Patras, cases.......................
Cleaned, bulk..................... 1454
Cleaned,  packages..............15
Citron American 19 lb. bx... 13 
Lemon American 10 lb. bx.. 1054 
Orange American 10 lb. bx.. 1054 
Sultana 1 Crown..................
Sultana 2 Crown.................
Sultana 3 Crown..................
Sultana 4 Crown..................
Sultana 5 Crown..................
Sultana 6 Crown..................
Sultana package.................

Raisins

Peel

Beans

Cereals

FARINACEOUS GOODS 
Dried Lima.........................   654
Medium Hand Picked 2 00@2  10
Brown Holland...................
Cream of Cereal..................   90
irain-O, small.....................1 35
Irain-O, large......................2 25
Grape Nuts...........................1 36
Postum Cereal, small...........1 35
Postum Cereal, large.......  2  25
24 1 lb. packages..................1 26
Bulk, per 100 lbs................... 3 00
36  21b. packages..................3 00
Barrels................................ 2 50
Flake, 50 lb. drums............... 1 00
Maccaroni  and Vermicelli
Domestic, 10 lb. box............  60
Imported, 25 lb. box...........2  50

H askell’s W heat Flakes

Hominy

Farina

Pearl  Barley

Common  .............................
Chester............................... 2 76
Empire................................3  15

Grits

Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s Brand.

MOLASSES 
New  Orleans

Black................................  12 <4
1«
F air.................................. 
Good................................. 
20
Fancy..............................  
24
Open Kettle......................25@35

Half-barrels 2c extra 
MUSTARD

...... . 

Satchel 
Bottom 

PA PER  BAGS

Horse Radish, 1 doz........... 1  75
Horse Radish, 2 doz...........3 50
Bayle’s Celery, 1 doz..........1  75
Union
Square
53
66
88
1  08
1  36
1  58
1  84
2  16
2 58
2 82
3 32
4 48
4 86
5 40

28
X .......
14........ .........  34
1........ ...........  44
2....... ..........   54
3........ ...........  66
4....... ...........  76
5........ ..........   90
6........ ...........1  06
8....... .......... 1  28
10........
.........1  38
12........
.........1  60
14....... .......... 2 24
16........
......... 2 34
20....... .......... 2 52

PICKLES
Medium

Small

Barrels, 1,200 count........... 6  00
Half bbls, 600 count........... 3  00
Barrels, 2,400 count...........6  00
Half bbls, 1,200 count........ 3  50
Clay, No. 216....................... 1  70
Clay, T. D., full count.........  65
Cob, No. 3...........................   85

PIPES

POTASH 

48 cans in case.

Babbitt’s .............................. 4 00
Penna Salt Co.’s................... 3 00

RICE

Domestic

Carolina head.......................7
Carolina No. 1 ......................"5*4
Carolina No. 2 ......................4%
Broken................................. 414
Japan,  No.  1................514@6
Japan,  No. 2................4*4@5
Java, fancy head..........5  @5(4
Java, No. 1...................5  ®
Table..............................   @

Im ported.

SALERATUS 

Packed 60 lbs. in box. 

Church’s Arm and Hammer. 3  16
Deland’s................................3 00
Dwight’s  Cow.......................3 15
Emblem................................2 10
1-  P ......................................3 00
Sodio.................................... 3 15
Wyandotte, 100 94 s ............... 3 00
Granulated,  bbls................  
so
Granulated, 100 lb. cases....  90
Lump, bbls...........................  75
Lump, 145 lb. kegs............ 
so
Diamond Crystal 

SAL  SODA

SALT

Common  Grades

Table, cases, 24 3 lb. boxes.. 1  40 
Table, barrels, 100 3 lb. bags.2 85 
Table, barrels, 40 7  lb. bags.2 50 
Butter, barrels, 280 lb. bulk . 2 50 
Butter, barrels, 20 141b.bags.2 60
Butter, sacks, 28 lbs............  27
Butter, sacks, 56 lbs..............  62
100 3 lb. sacks........................2 15
60 5 lb. sacks........................2 05
2810 lb. sacks.......................1 95
56 lb. sacks..........................  40
28  lb. sacks . ........................  22
56 lb. dairy in drill bags......  30
28 lb. dairy In drill bags......  15
66 lb. dairy In linen sabks...  60 
66 lb. dairy in linen sacks...  60 
66 lb. sacks...........................  28
Granulated  Fine...........»...1  05
Medium Fine.........................1 10

Ashton 
Higgins 
Solar  Rock
Common

Warsaw

SOAP

JAXON

A S KIRK 8 CO.'S BRANDS.

Single box............... ................ 3 00
5 box lots, delivered...........2 95
10 box lots, delivered........... 2 90

American Family, wrp’d__ 3 no
Dome.................................. .. 80
Cabinet..................................... 2 40
Savon....... ........................... 2  80
White  Russian.........................2 so
White Cloud,...........................4 00
Dusky Diamond, 50 6 oz.......2 00
Dusky Diamond, 50 8 oz...... 2  50
Blue India, 100 54 lb................. 3 00
Kirkoline................................. 3 50
Eos........................................ 65

10012 oz bars........................ 3 00

100 big bars (labor saving). .3 60

SEARCH-LIGHT
SILVER

Scouring

Single box............................ 3 00
’■'ive boxes, delivered.......... 2 95
Sapollo, kitchen, 3 doz.........2 40
Sapolio. hand, 3 doz............. 2 40
-V, per gross.................    10 00

W ashing Tablets
120 samples free.

Peas

24 2 lb. packages......................2 00
100 1b. kegs...............................3 00
200 #>. barrels.......................... 5 70
100 lb. bags...............................2 90
Green, Wisconsin, bu..........1  30
Green, Scotch, bu.....................1 35
Split, bu...... ................
Rolled  Oats
Rolled Avena, bbl.................... 4 00
Steel C ut,................................ 2 00
Monarch, bbl.......................3
.2 00 
Monarch, 54 bbl........
Monarch, 90 lb. sacks
.1  80 
Quaker, cases...........
.3 20
German.....................
East India................
354
Tapioca
Flake.................................   454
Pearl...................................  454
Pearl, 24 1 lb. packages......  654
Cracked, bulk.....................   354
24 2 ft. packages..................... 2 50
FLAVORING EXTRACTS 
Vanilla D. C..2 oz 1  10  4 oz 1  80 
Lemon D. C...2 oz  70  4 oz 1  35 
Van. Tonka  . .2 oz  75  4 oz 1  45

DeBoe’s

W heat

Sago

FOOTE & JENKS’

JAXON

Highest.  Grade  Extracts
Lemon
Vanilla 

1 oz full m. 1  20  1 oz full  m.  80
2 oz full m .2  10  2 oz full m. 1  25 
No.3fan’y 3  15  No.3fan’y.i  75

Lemon

Vanilla 

2 oz panel. .1  20  2 oz panel.  75
3 oz taper.. 2 00 4 oz taper.. 1 50 
2 oz. full meas. pure Lemon.  75 

2 oz. full meas. pure Vanilla.l  20 
2 oz. oval Vanilla Tonka__  75
2 oz. oval Pure Lemon.......   75

Big  Value

Jennings’

Arctic

Standard

Perrigo’s

FLY  PA PER

N orthrop  Brand
oz. Taper Panel__  75 
oz. Oval.................  75 
oz. Taper Panel.... 1  35 
oz. Taper Panel.... 1  60 

Reg. 2 oz. D. C. Lemon.......
No. 4 Taper D. C. Lemon . . . 1
Reg. 2 oz. D. C.  Vanilla.......1
No. 3 Taper D. C. Vanilla.. .2 08 
oz. Vanilla Tonka.............   70
oz. flat Pure Lemon..........   70
Lem.  Van.
1  20
120
2 00
2 25
Van.  Lem. 
doz.
doz. 
XXX, 2 oz. obert__ 1  25 
75
XXX, 4 oz. taper__2 25 
1  25
XX, 2 oz. obert....... 1 00
No. 2,2 oz. obert__  75
2 25
XXX D D ptchr, 6 oz 
1  75
XXX D D ptchr, 4 oz 
2 25
K.  P. pitcher. 6 oz.. 
Perrigo’s Lightning, gro__2 50
Petrolatum, per doz............  75
Sage........................................ 15
Hops.......................................15
Madras, 5 lb. boxes................55
“L F., 2,3 and 5 lb. boxes.......50
Doz.
5 lb. pails........................   2 00
15 lb. palls...........................   42
30 lb. palls...........................   70
Pure....................................  30
Calabria..............................   25
Sicily...................................   14
Root.....................................  10
Ondensed. 2 doz............... 1  20
Condensed, 4 doz................2 25
Diamond Match Co.’s brands.
No. 9 sulphur.....................1 65
Anchor Parlor................... 1  so
No. 2 Home........................1  30
Export Parlor.....................4 00
Wolverine...........................1 50

LICORICE

MATCHES

INDIGO

HERBS

JELLY

LYE

ALABASTINE

White in drums..................
Colors in drums..................
White in packages..............
Colors in packages..............
Less 40 per cent discount. 
AXLE  GREASE
doz.  grc
Auror" 
6
..55 
Castor  OH....................60  7
Diamond.....................50 
4
Frazer's,..,.................75  9
IXL Golden, tin boxes 75 
,9

.........  

Mica, tin boxes.........75 
Paragon.....................55 

9 00
6 00
Per Doz.
Arctic 12 oz. ovals...............  85
Arctic pints, round............. 1  20

AMMONIA

.1  00 

BAKING  POWDER 

Acme
14 lb. cans 3 doz.................  45
doz.
75
14 lb. cans :
doz.
1 
lb. cans :
Bulk.........................
.  10
Arctic 
6 oz. Eng. Tumblers.
Effg
14 lb. cans. 4 doz. case,
M lb. cans. 2 doz. case.
1 lb. cans, 1doz. case.
5 lb. cans. V'odoz. case.
T111e  “4OO”
5 lb. cans, 14 doz. in case.. 
1 lb. cans,  4 doz. in case.. 
9 oz. cans,  4 doz. in case.. 
3 oz. cans.  G doz. in case.. 
>4 lb. cans per doz..........
54 lb. cans per doz..........
1 
lb. cans per doz..........
14 lb. cans, 4 doz. case....
14 lb. cans, 4 doz. case__
l 
lb. cans, 2 doz. case....

El  P urity

.8 00 
.2 00

.1 20
.2 00

Home

Queen  Flake

M lb. cans, 4 doz. case.......   45
54 lb. cans, 4 doz. case.......   85
1 
lb. cans. 2 doz. case....... 1  60
3 oz., 6 doz. case................... 2 70
6 oz., 4 doz. case...................3 20
9 oz., 4 doz. case................... 4 80
1 lb., 2 doz. case................... 4 00
5 lb.,  1 doz. case...................9 00

Royal

10c size__
86 ! 
1  30 
M lb. cans 
6 oz. cans.
1  80
54 lb. cans  2 40 
% lb. cans 3 60 
1 lb.  cans.  4 65 
I  3 lb. cans. 12 75 
? 5 lb. cans.21  00

BATH  BRICK

American............................   70
English................................  80

BLUING

CONk h s c t )

BROOMS

Silllii;

Small 3 uoz.......................... 
,0
Large, 2 doz.................„* **  75
Arctic, 4 oz, per gross........4 00
Arctic, 8 oz, per gross........6 00
Arctic, pints, per  gross__ 9 00
No. 1 Carpet....................... 2 75
No. 2 Carpet........................2 50
No. 3 Carpet........................2 25
No. 4 Carpet....................... 1  75
Parlor  Gem........................2 50
Common Whisk..................   95
Fancy Whisk...................... 1  25
Warehouse......................... 3 50
Electric Light, 8s................ 12
Electric Light, 16s...............1254
Paraffine, 6s........................1054
Paraffine  12s .....................11
.........  ,...20
Wiaking 

CANDLES

..  ,. 

CANNED  GOODS 

Corn

Beaus

Gooseberries

Blackberries

Apples
3 lb. Standards........ 
80
2 30
Gallons, standards.. 
Standards...............  
75
Baked.....................   l  on@i  30
Red  Kidney............  
75®  85
String...................... 
80
85
Wax......................... 
Blueberries
Standard...................  
85
Clams.
Little Neck, 1 lb...... 
1 00
Little Neck, 2 lb...... 
1 50
Cherries
Red  Standards........... 
85
1 15
White......................... 
75
Fair.......................... 
Good....................... 
85
Fancy..................... 
95
Standard................ 
90
Hominy
85
Standard.................. 
Lobster
Star, 14 lb................  
1  85
Star, 1  lb................. 
3 40
2 35
Picnic Tails.............  
Mackerel
175
Mustard, lib ........... 
Mustard, 2 lb........... 
2 80
Soused, 1 lb.............. 
175!
Soused, 2 lb............  
2 80
Tomato, 1 lb............  
1  75
2 80
Tomato, 2 lb............  
Mushrooms
Hotels....................... 
18@20
Buttons.................... 
22@25
Oysters
Cove, 1 lb................. 
1  00 I
Cove, 21b................. 
180
Peaches
P ie..........................
Yellow....................  1  65@1  85
Pears
Standard................ 
70
80
Fancy......................  
Marrowfat.............. 
1  00
Early June.............. 
1  00
Early June  Sifted.. 
1  60
Pineapple
Grated 
1  25@2 75 
Sliced..
1  35@2 55
F air__
Good ... 
Fancy.

Peas

 

Strawberries

Raspberries
d...............
Salmon
Columbia River.......   2 00@2  15
Red Alaska.............
1  40
Pink Alaska............
110
Shrimps
Standard................
1  50
Sardines
Domestic, 54s..........
4
Domestic, 94s.........
8
Domestic.  Mustard.
8
California, 54s.........
17
French, Ms..............
22
French, 54s..............
28
Standard.................'
85
Fancy.....................
1  25
Succotash
Fair.........................
90
Good.......................
1  00
Fancy.....................
1  20
Tomatoes
r a ir........................
90
Good.......................
95
Fancy.....................
1  15
Gallons...............'...
2 45
CATSUP
Columbia,  pints...........
....2 00
Columbia, 54 pints........
....1  25
CHEESE
Acme.......................
@1214
Ambov...................
@1214
Carson City.............
@12
Elsie........................
@13
Emblem..................
@12
Gem........................
Gold Medal..............
@1114
Ideal.....................
@1114
Jersey.....................
@12
Riverside.................
@12
Brick.......................
11@12
Edam......................
@90
Leiden....................
Limburger...............
10@11
Pineapple...............   5( @75
Sap  Sago................
@18

CHOCOLATE

Waiter Baker & Co.’s.

German  Sweet....................  23
Premium.............................  35
Breakfast Cocoa..................   46
Runkel Bros.
Vienna Sweet............ 
  21
Vanilla................................  28
Premium.............................  31
Bulk.....................................  6
Red.....................................  
7

CHICORY

 

CIGARS

COCOA
Webb......................
Cleveland__
Epps....................................  42
Van Houten, 14s..................  12
Van Houten, 14s..................  20
Van Houten, Ms..................  38
Van Houten,  is
Colonial, 54s __
Colonial, 14 s.........................  33
Huyler.........
Wilbur, 14s...
Wilbur. Ms...
The Bradley Cigar Co.’s  Brands
Advance...............................$35 00
Bradley................................  35 00
Clear Havana  Puffs.........   22 00
“ W. H.  B.”..........................  55 00
“ W. B. B.” ...........................   55 00
Columbian Cigar Co.’s Brands.
Columbian..............................35 00
Columbian Special................. 65 00
Columbian Regalia.................65 00
Columbian Invincible........ 90 00
Fortune Teller .....................  35 00
Our Manager........................  35 00
Quintette..............................   35 00
G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s brand

H. & P. Drug Co.’s brands.

Lubetsky Bros.’ Brands.

S. C. W.............................   35 00
B. L.................................. $33  00
Gold Star..........................  35 00
Phelps. Brace & Co.’s Brands.
Royal  Tigers. 
......55@ SO  00
Royal  Tigerettes....... 35
Vincente Portuondo ..35® 70 00
Ruhe Bros. Co.............25® 70 00
Hilson  Co.................. 35®no 00
T. J. Dunn & Co.........35® 70  00
McCoy & Co...............35® 70  00
The Collins Cigar Co.. 10@ 35 00
Brown  Bros...............15® 70  00
Bernard Stahl Co....... 35© 90  00
Banner Cigar  Co....... 10@ 35  00
Seidenberg  & Co....... 55@125  00
Fulton  Cigar Co....... 10® 35  00
A. B. Ballard & Co....35@l75 00 
E. M. Schwarz & Co...35@ll0 00
San Telmo..................35® 70  00
Havana Cigar Co....... 18® 35  00
C. Costello & Co.........35® 70  00
LaGorarFee Co.......... 35@ 70  00
S.  I. Davis & Co......... 35©185 00
Hene&Co...................35® 90 00
Benedict & Co.......... 7.50© 70 00
Hemmeter Cigar Co. ..35® 70 00 
G.J. Johnson Cigar Co.35@ 70 00
Maurice Sanborn  ___50@175 00
Bock & Co...................65®300 00
Manuel  Garcia...........80®375 00
Neuva Mundo.............85@175 00
Henry Clay.................85®550 00
La Carolina................ 96®200 00
Standard T. & C. Co. ..35® 70 00
Star G reen....................35  ÒO

H. A'an Tongeren’s Brand.

COFFEE
Roasted

HIGH GRADE
. 
Coffees

Special Combination..........   20
French Breakfast...............   25
Lenox..................................  30
Vienna................................  35
Private Estate.....................   38
Supreme..............................   40

Less 3354  per cent.

Rio

Santos

Maracaibo

Common............................. 1054
F air....................................11
Choice..........................13
Fancy..................................15
Common..............................u
F air.................................... 14
Choice................................. 15
Fancy............ .................... 17
Peaberry...............................
F air.................................... 12
Choice................................. 16
Choice................................. .
Fancy..................................
Choice................................. 16
African................................1254
Fancy African.................  17
O.G..................................... 25
P- 6 .....................................29
Arabian............................... .

Guatem ala

Mexican

Mocha

Jav a

Cod

SALT  FISH 
Georges cured............
Georges  genuine........
Georges selected........
Grand Bank................
Strips or  bricks.........  6
Pollock.......................
Halibut.
Strips__
Chunks........................ 

H erring

@ 4%
@ s v
@ 5% 
@4 44 
@ 9 
@ 34k
..14
is

 

Holland white hoops,  bbl.  u   oo 
Holland white hoopsVbbl.  6 00 
Holland white hoop, keg.. 
80 
Holland white hoop mchs. 
85
Norwegian.......................
Hound 100 lbs....................  3 60
Hound 40 lbs.....................  1  75
Scaled.............................  1644
Bloaters............................ 
l 50

Mackerel

Mess 100 lbs......................  12 00
Mess  40 lbs......................  5  10
Mess  10 lbs......................  1  35
Mess  8 lbs......................  1  10
No. 1 100 lbs......................  10 60
No. 1  40 lbs......................  4 50
No. 1  10 lbs......................  1  20
No. 1  8 lbs......................  1  00
NO. 2 100 lbs......................  8 50
No. 2  40 lbs......................  3 70
No. 2  10 lbs......................  1  00
No. 2  8 lbs...................... 
82

Trout

Fam 
2 50 
1  30

W hite fish

No. 1 100 lbs......................  6 00
No. 1  40 lbs......................  2  70
No. 1  10 lbs...................... 
76
No. 1  8 lbs...................... 
63
No. 1 No. 2
100  lbs.... ....  7 25 7  00
40  lbs.... ....  3 20 3  10
10  lbs...
88
.... 
85
8 lbs__ .... 
73
71
SEEDS
Anise..............................
Canary, Smyrna.............
Caraway........................
Cardamon, Malabar........
Celery..............................
Hemp, Russian...............
Mixed Bird.....................
Mustard, white...............
Poppy..............................
Rape..............................
Cuttle Bone.....................

..'8
..60
.12
..  444 
..  444 
..  9 
..10 
..  ibi 
..15

SPICES 

Whole Spices
Allspice...........................
Cassia, China in mats___
Cassia, Batavia, in bund..
Cassia, Saigon, broken__
Cassia, Saigon, In rolls__
Cloves, Amboyna............
Cloves, Zanzibar. .*...........
Mace................................
Nutmegs,  75-80................
Nutmegs,  105-10...............
Nutmegs, 115-20...............
Pepper, Singapore, black. 
1544
Pepper,  Slngagore, white.
Pepper, shot.....................  1644
Allspice...........................
Cassia, Batavia...............
Cassia, Saigon.................
Cloves, Zanzibar..............
Ginger, African..............
Ginger, Cochin...............
Ginger,  Jamaica............
Mace...............................
Mustard..........................
Pepper, Singapore, black 
Pepper, Singapore, white
Pepper, Cayenne............
Sage................................

Pure Ground in Bulk

STARCH

Kingsford’s  Corn
40 l-lb. packages...............  6bi
20 l-lb. packages............... 
6%
6 lb. packages............... 
754
Kingsford’s Silver Gloss
40 l-lb. packages...............   7
6 lb. boxes.......................  7bi
45k
20 l-lb.  packages.............. 
40 l-lb.  packages.............. 
454

Common Corn

Common Gloss

l-lb. packages..................   454
3-lb. packages..................   454
6-lb. packages.................. 
5
40 ana 50-lb. boxes............  3%
larrels............................. 
354
STOVE  POLISH

SNUFF

SODA

SUGAR

Scotch, in bladders.............   37
Maccaboy, in jars...............   35
French Rappee, in jars......  43
Boxes.................................   554
Kegs, English.....................   45k
Below  are  given  New  York 
prices  on  sugars,  to  which  the 
wholesale dealer adds  the  local 
freight from New  York  to  your
^ ing point, giving you credit 
e  invoice  for  the  amount 
of freight  buyer  pays from  the 
market  In  which  he  purchases 
to his shipping  point,  including 
20 pounds for the  weight of the 
barrel.
Domino............................  6 00
Cut Loaf...............
6  15 
Crushed ...............
6  15 
Cubes...................
5 90 
Powdered............
5 85 
Coarse  Powdered.
5 85
XXXX Powdered............  6  90
Standard  Granulated......  5  75
Fine Granulated...............   5 75
Coarse Granulated......
5 85
Extra Fine Granulated
5 85
Conf.  Granulated........
6  00 
21b.  bags Fine  Gran...
5 85
5 lb. bags Fine  Gran...
5 85
Mould A......................
6  00 
Diamond  A..................
5 75 
Confectioner’s  A......... .
5 65
No.  1, Columbia A..........   5 40
No.  2,
..  O 4U
No.  3, Ridgewood A ...
..  5 35
No.  4, Phoenix  A........
..  5 30
No.  5, Empire A.......... ..  5 25
No.  6...................
fi  20
No.  7........................
..  5  10
No.  8.........................
..  5 00
No.  9................
4  on
No. 10...............
4 ftfi
No. 11...............
4 80
No. 12......................
..  4 75
No. 13.....................
..  5 75
No. 14........................
5 70
No. 15..................
fi 7ft
No. 16..................
fi 70
Corn

SYRUPS
Barrels......................
18
Half bbls.....................
....20
1 doz. 1 gallon cans........ ...3 10
1 doz. 44 gallon cans__ ....1  75
2 doz. V gallon cans...... ....  90

Pure  Cane

__  20
....  25

Good.....................
Choice.....................
TABLE  SAUCES
LEA &
PERRINS’
SAUCE

The Original and 
Genuine 
W  orcestershire.
Lea & Perrin’s, large.... ..  3 76
Lea & Perrin’s, small... ..  2 60
Halford, large............... ..  3 76
Halford, small............... ..  2 25
Salad Dressing, large__..  4  55
Salad Dressing, small... ..  2 75

TEA
Japan

Gunpowder

Young  Hyson

Sundried, medium........ ....28
Sundried, choice.......... ....30
Sundried, fancy............ ....40
Regular, medium.......... ....28
Regular, choice............ ....30
Regular, fancy.............. ....40
Basket-fired, medium  .. ....28
Basket-fired, choice.............35
Basket-fired, fancy..............40
Nibs.....................................27
Siftings.......................... 19@21
Fannings....................... 20@22
Moyune, medium................26
Moyune, choice...................35
Moyune, fancy....................50
Pingsuey,  medium..............25
Pingsuey, choice.................30
Pingsuey, fancy...................40
Choice..................................30
Fancy.................................. 36
Formosa, fancy....................42
Amoy, medium....................25
Amoy, choice.......................32
Medium............................... 27
Choice..................................34
Fancy.................................. 42'
Ceylon, choice..................... 32
Fancy.................................. 42
Scotten Tobacco Co.’s Brands.
Sweet Chunk plug..............34
Cadillac fine cut..................57
Sweet Loma fine cut...........38
Malt White Wine, 40 grain..  8 
Malt White Wine, 80 grain.. 11
Pure Cider, Red Star...........12
Pure Cider, Robinson..........11
Pure Cider, Sliver................11
WASHING  POWDER

English Breakfast

VINEGAR

TOBACCO

Oolong

India

No. 4,3 doz in case, gross..  4 50 
No. 6,3 doz in case, gross.. 7 20

WICKING

Rub-No-More, 100 12 oz .. ...3 50
No. 0, per gross............... ...20
No. 1, per gross............... ...26
No. 2, per gross............... ...35
No. 3. per gross.............. ...55

Fresh Meats

Beef
Carcass....................
Forequarters.........
Hindquarters.........
Loins No. 3.............
Ribs........................
Rounds...................
Chucks...................
Plates.....................
Pork
Dressed..................
Loins......................
Boston  Butts..........
Shoulders...............
Leaf Lard...............
Mutton
Carcass...................
Spring Lambs.........
Veal
Carcass...................

@ 8 

644@ 8 
544© 6 
744@ 9 
9  @14 
9  @12' 
514© 6 
4  @ 5
@ 6 
@  8*4 
@ 734 
@ 7bi 
@ 844
7  @ 714 

@10

P r o v is io n s
Barreled  Po rk

Smoked  Meats

Dry  Salt  Meats

Lards—In Tierces

©
@14 25
@14 00
@14  00
@16 00
©
(3H4  25

9
83k
8
@  lov
@  10
@  9‘s
,  @  93k
@  1144
@  7
1044@  H
@  7
@  11
@  11V
@  9
9
g

Mess...............
Back ...
Clear back...............
I Short cut..........
Pig..........................
Bean.....................
Family Mess.  ...
Bellies...............
I Briskets..............
I Extra shorts........
Hams, 12 lb. average.
I Hams, 14 lb. average.
| Hams, 161b. average.
1 Hams, 20 lb. average.
| Ham dried  beef....
I Shoulders (N.Y. cut)
I Bacon, clear...........
I California hams......
I Boneless  hams........
I Boiled Hams..........
I  Picnic Boiled Hams
Berlin  Hams.........
Mince Hams.........
Compound...............
Kettle..................
|  Vegetole...............
1 60 lb. Tubs.. advance
| 80 lb. Tubs..advance
I 50 lb. Tins... advance
I 20 lb. Pails, .advance
I  10 lb. Pails.. advance
I  5 lb. Pails.. advance
1  3 lb. Pails.. advance
Sausages
Bologna...............
Liver ......................
Frankfort...............
Pork  .......................
Blood.....................
Tongue...................
Headcheese.............
Beef
Extra Mess.............
10 75
Boneless..................
11  50
Rump.....................
11  50
\  bbls., 40 lbs.........
1  60
44 bbls., 80 lbs.........
3 50
Tripe
Kits, 15  lbs..............
70
44 bbls., 40  lbs.........
1  25
44 bbls., 80  lbs.........
2 25
C a sin g s
F o rk .......................
20
Beef rounds............
3
Beef middles..........
10
Sheep........
60
Butterine
Solid, dairy.............. 1244@1344
Rolls, dairy.............
13  @14
Rolls, creamery......
19
Solid, creamery___
18V
Corned beef, 2 lb__
2 75
Corned beef, 14 lb...
17 50
Roast beef, 2 lb.......
2 76
Potted ham,  Vs......
50
Potted ham,  44s......
90
Deviled ham.  Vs__
50
Deviled ham.  Vs__
90
Potted tongue.  Vs..
50
Potted tongue.  Vs..
90 1

Fish and Oysters

6ï j
44
á/  j
%1
1
53k
6
744
7V4
644
9
6

Canned  Meats

Piers’  Feet

_

Fresh  Fish
Per lb. 
White fish..................
@  10
Trout......................... @  9
Black Bass................ 9@  10
Halibut...................... @  15
Ciscoes or Herring.... @  4
Bluefish..................... @  10
Live  Lobster..........
Boiled  Lobster........
19
Cod.......................... 
Haddock...................   @  7
No. 1 Pickerel............   @  9
Pike...........................  @  7
Perch.........................  @  4
Smoked  White..........   @  8
Red  Snapper.............   @  9
Col River  Salmon__ _  @  13
Mackerel...................   @  18
Per gal
Counts..............................  1  7(
Ext.  Selects.....................  1 6(
Selects............................   1  4(
Standards.......................... 1  k
F. H. Counts........... 
35
F. J. D. Selects........ 
30
Selects.................... 
26
F. J. D. Standards.. 
22
Anchors..................  
20
Standards............... 
18
Favorite..................
16
Shell Goods.
Clams, per 100............
1 00 
Oysters, per 100__ ...
1  00

Oystefs  in  Bulk.

Oysters in Cans.

Candies

Stick Candy

I Standard.........
Standard H. H. 
Standard  Twist 
Cut Loaf...........
Jumbo, 32 lb..........
Extra H. H .............
Boston Cream........1
Beet Root................

Mixed Candy
Grocers.......................
Competition........
Special................
Conserve..........
Royal............
Ribbon............ [ ] ” '
Broken..........
Cut Loaf............
English Rock...."” " 
Kindergarten...
French Cream__
Dandy Pan..............
Hand  Made  Cream
mixed..................
Crystal Cream mix..

29
@ 8 

Dbls.  pails
@ 8 
@ 8*4 
@ 9 
cases 
@ 7bi 
(S1IO44 
@10 
@  8
@ 644 @ 7 
@ 7 yx 
@ 844 
@ 844 
@
@ 8% 
@ 9 
@ 9 
© 9
@ 944 
@10
@1544©13
@12 
@ 944 
@10 
@1144 @14 
@14 
@ 5 
@ 944 
©10 
@10 
@12

Fancy—In Bui 

San Bias Goodies.
Lozenges, plain 
Lozenges, printed.
Choc. Drops__
Eclipse Chocolates. ’.
Choc. Monumentals.
Gum Drops............
Moss  Drops........ ”
Lemon Sours..........
Imperials........... ‘ ”
Ital. Cream Opera... 
ltal. Cream Bonbons
201b. pails............
Molasses  Chews,  15
lb. pails........
Pine Apple Ice..
Maroons...............
Golden Waffles__

@12
@14
@1244
@12
@12
Fancy—In 5 lb. Boxes 
@55
@60
@65
@80
@90 
@30 
@75 
@55 
@60 
@60 
@60 
@55 
@55 
80  @90
@65
@65
@60

Lemon  Sours ...
Peppermint Drops. ’
Chocolate  Drops__
H. M. Choc. Drops.”
H.M. Choc.  Lt. and
Dk. No. 12...........
Gum Drops__” ” ”
Licorice Drops 
Lozenges,  plain..’." 
Lozenges, printed.  .
Imperials...............
Mottoes............
Cream  Bar 
. .
Molasses Bar__ ....
Hand Made Creams.
Cream Buttons, Pep. 
and  Wint.. 
String Rock......
Wlntergreen Berries 
Caramels
No. 1 wrapped,  3  lb.
Penny Goods...!.” "

boxes............

.

Fruits

@50
55@60

@
@@4 75 
©

4  00®5 00 
3 5uu4 50 
3 50@4 25 
.4  00@4 60

1  75@2 00
2 00@2 25 
Fruits

@12

@13
@
@

@
@
@ 5 
@ 5 
@ 5

@1844
@
@19
@1344@14
@15

©15
@14
@11@1344

@3 75 
@6 50

@ffl

534®
644@ 7 

744© 8

Oranges
Fancy Navels  .......
Extra Choice...........
Late Valencias.........
Seedlings.................
Medt. Sweets..........
Jamaicas............
Rodi.....................

Lemons
Messina, 300s..........
Messina, 3«0s..........
California 360s........
California 300s.........
Bananas
Medium bunches__
Large  bunches.......
Foreign  Dried 
Figs
Californias,  Fancy.. 
Cal. pkg, 10 lb. boxes 
Extra  Choice,  10  lb.
boxes,..................
Fancy, 12 lb. boxes.. 
Pulled, 61b. boxes... 
Naturals, in bags....
Dates 
Fards in 10 lb. boxes 
Fards In 60 lb. cases. 
Persians,  P. H. V ...
lb.  cases, new......
Sairs, 60 lb. cases....

Nuts

Almonds, Tarragona
Almonds, Ivlca......
Almonus, California,
soft shelled..........
Brazils, new............
Filberts 
...............
Walnuts  Grenobles. 
Walnut-. soft shelled 
California No. 1... 
Table Nuts, fancy.. 
Table  Nuts, choice..
Pecans,  Med...........
Pecans, Ex. Large...
Pecans, Jumbos......
H ickory N uts per bu.
Ohio, new............
Cocoanuts, full sacks 
Chestnuts, per bu...
Peanuts 
Fancy, H. P., Suns.. 
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Flags
Roasted...............
Choice, H. P., Extras 
Choice, H. P., Extras
Roasted.............
Span. Shelled No. 1..

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

WOODENWARE

Baskets

Tubs

B utter Plates

Clothes  Pins
Mop  Sticks

Bushels................................1  15
Bushels, wide  band.............1  25
Market...............................   30
Willow Clothes, large..........7 00
Willow Clothes, medium...  6 50
W’illow Clothes, small......... 6 50
No. 1 Oval, 250 in crate........ 1  80
No. 2 Oval, 250 in crate........2 00
No. 3 Oval, 250 in crate........2 20
No. 5 Oval, 250 in crate........2 60
Boxes, 5  gross boxes...........  65
Trojan spring.....................   85
Eclipse patent spring........85
No 1 common......................  75
No. 2 patent brush holder ..  80
12 S>. cotton mop heads__  1 25
Pails
2- 
hoop Standard.1  50
3- 
hoop Standard.1  70
2- wire,  Cable.......................1 60
3- wire,  Cable.......................1  85
Cedar, all red, brass  bound. 1  25
Paper,  Eureka....................2 25
Fibre................................... 2 40
20-inch, Standard, No. 1.......7 00
18-lnch, Standard, No. 2.......6 00
16-inch, Standard, No. 3.......5 00
20-inch, Cable,  No. 1............7 50
18-inch, Cable, No. 2............6 50
16-inch, Cable,  No. 3............5 50
No. 1 Fibre.......................... 9 45
No. 2 Fibre.......................... 7 95
No. 3 Fibre.......................... 7 20
Bronze Globe....................... 2 50
Dewey.............................. 1  76
Double Acme....................... 2 75
Single Acme.........................2 26
Double Peerless.................. 3 20
Single  Peerless.................... 2 50
Northern Qfieen.................2 50
Double Duplex....................3 00
Good Luck........................ 2 76
Universal.............................2 26
11 in. Butter........................  76
13 in. Butter........................ 1 00
15 in. Butter........................ 1 75
17 in. Butter........................ 2 so
19 In. Butter........................ 3 00
Assorted 13-15-17..  .............1  75
Assorted 15-17-19  .........
.2 50
YEAST  CAKE
Magic, 3 doz..................
Sunlight, 3 doz...............
Sunlight, 144  doz................   50
Yeast Cream, 3 doz.............. 1  00
Yeast Foam, 3  doz.............. 1  00
Yeast Foam, 1V4  doz..........   60

.1  00
.1  00

Wash  Boards

Wood  Bowls

Crackers

Grains and Feedstuffs 

W heat

W heat............................. 

W inter W heat  Flour 

73

Local Brands

Spring  W heat  Flour 

Worden Grocer Co.’s  Brand

Patents............................  4 50
Second Patent..................  4  00
Straight............................  3 80
Clear................................  3 25
Graham...........................   3 50
Buckwheat......................   4 75
Rye...................................  3 26
Subject  to  usual  cash  dis­
count.
Flour in bbls., 25c per  bbl. ad­
ditional.
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand
Diamond 44s.....................   8 85
Diamond 14s.....................  3 86
Diamond 14s.....................  3 85
Quaker 44s........................  3 95
Quaker 4ks..
Quaker 44s........................  3 95
Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s  Brand
Pillsbury’s  Best 44s.........  4 75
Pillsbury’s  Best 54s ..
4 65 
Pillsbury’s  Best bis
4  55 
Pillsbury’s Best Hs paper. 
4 55 
Pillsbury’s Best Vs paper.
4 55
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand
Duluth  Imperial 44s........   4 50
Duluth  Imperial 14s........   4  40
Duluth  Imperial 14s........   4  30
Lemon & Wheeler Co.’s Brand
Wingold  14s....................  4 7(
Wingold  14s....................  4  60
Wingold  14s....................  4  50
Ceresota 44s.....................   4  so
Ceresota l^s.....................   4  70
Ceresota 14 s.....................  4  60
Laurel  14s........................  4 60
Laurel  14s........................   4 50
Laurel  14s........................  4  40
Laurel 14s and 14s paper..  4 40 
Washburn-Crosby  Co.’s  Brand.

Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand

Olney & Judson’s Brand

i 

6

i

Co.

Soda

The  National  Biscuit 

Oyster

B utter

Sweet Goods—Boxes

quotes as follows:
Seymour..........................  6
New York........................   6
Family.............................  6
Salted..............................   6
Wolverine........................   644
Soda  XXX.......................  6*4
Soda, City........................   8
Long Island Wafers.........  12
Zephyrette.......................  10
Faust...............................  
7 >4
Farina..............................   <5
Extra Farina 
.................  644
Sal tine Oyster..................  6  '
Animals...........................  10
Assorted  Cake.................  10
Belle Rose........................  8
Bent’s  W ater..................  16
Buttercups.......................   12
Cinnamon Bar.................. 
9
Coffee Cake,  Iced............  10
Coffee Cake, Java............  10
Cocoanut Taffy.................  10
Cracknells.......................  16
Creams, Iced.................. 
8
Cream Crisp.....................  10
Crystal Creams................  10
Currant  Fruit............
...  12
Frosted Honey..........
...  12
Frosted Cream...........
... 
9
8
Ginger Gems, lg. or  sm ... 
Ginger Snaps, NBC...
... 
8
Gladiator  ..................
...  10
Grandma Cakes.........
...  9
Graham Crackers......
...  8
Graham  Wafers........... ...  12
Grand Rapids  Tea__ ...  16
Honey Fingers..........
...  12
Iced Honey  Crumpets ...  10
Jumbles, Honey........... ...  12
Lady Fingers.............
...  12
Lemon  Wafers............ ...  16
Marshmallow.............. ...  16
Marshmallow Walnuts ...  16
8
Mary  Ann.................... ... 
Mixed Picnic............... ...  1144
Milk Biscuit................. ... 
744
Molasses  Cake............ ...  8
Molasses Bar............... ... 
9
Moss Jelly Bar............ ...  1244
Newton........................ ...  12
Oatmeal Crackers........ ... 
8
Oatmeal Wafers........... ...  12
Orange Crisp............... ... 
9
Orange  Gem...............
8
.. 
Penny Cake.................. ...  8
Pilot Bread, XXX........ ...  744
Pretzels, hand made... ...  744
Sears’ Lunch............... ...  744
Sugar Cake.................. ... 
8
8
Sugar Cream, XXX__ ... 
Sugar Squares............ ...  8
Tutti  Frutti........  .  ... ...  16
Vanilla Wafers............
..  16
Vienna Crimp.............. ...  8

Oats

Hay

Corn

Meal

Feed  and  Millstuffs

Prices  alw ays  right. 
W rite  or  wire  Mussel- 
man  Grocer  Co. 
lor 
special  quotations.
Bolted..............................   2  00
Granulated.......................  2  20
St. Car Feed, screened__  17  75
No. 1 Com and  Oats........  17  26
Unbolted Corn  Meal.......   17  25
Winter Wheat Bran.........  14 00
Winter Wheat  Middlings.  15 00
Screenings.......................  t4  00
Corn, car  lots..................   4354
Less than car lots.........
Car  lots............................   261a
Car lots, clipped...............  2sv
Less than car lots............
No. 1 Timothy car  lots.
No. 1 Timothy ton lots.

Hides and Felts
@  8 
@  8 

The Cappon & Bertsch Leather 
Canal Street,  quotes  as

Co., 100 
follows:
Hides
Green  No. 1............
Green No. 2............
Cured  No. 1............
Cured  No. 2............
Calfskins,green No. 1 
Calf skins,green No. 2
Calfskins,cured No. 2
Pelts,  each..............
Lamb..........................
Tallow
No. 1.......................
No. 2........................
Wool
Washed,  fine..........
Washed,  medium...
Unwashed,  fine......
Unwashed, medium.

@ 614 
@ 514 
@ 7 
@ 614
@ 744
50® 1  25
.25®  50
@ 3%
@ 23k

18@20
22@24
12@14
16© 18

11  00
12 00

Pelts

Oils

Barrels
Eocene......................
©1144
©10
Perfection..................
XXX W. W. Mich. Hdlt @10
W. W. Michigan
@ 914 
Diamond White.........
@ 9 
D., S.  Gas..................
@1114 
Deo. Naphtha............
@1054@34
Cylinder.....................29
Engine...................... 19  @22

Black, winter...........  @1H4

3 0

Petting the  People

Striving  For  Something  Original  and 

Startling.

There  is  no  way  in  which  more  brain 
tissue  is  wasted  than  in  the  struggle  for 
originality 
in  advertising.  Usually 
the  advertiser  himself  is  forced  to  give 
up  the  struggle  and,  with  aching  head, 
go  to  the  poor  printer  and  plead  for 
something  new  and  catchy.  Usually 
out  of  the  generosity  of  his  heart,  some­
times  with  a  view  to  selling  space,  the 
publisher  takes  up  the  brain-racking 
task. 
luck  to  hit  upon 
something  that  catches  the  fancy  of  his 
patron  he  scores  a  success,  even  al­
though  his  production  be  utterly  worth­
less  as  an  advertising  factor.

If  he  has  the 

There  are  circumstances  that  make 
something  new  and  original  of  value. 
This  is  strikingly  illustrated  in  the  use 
of  Uneeda  by  the  National  Biscuit  Co. 
The  conditions  were  that  a  new  kind 
of  goods  in  a  new  kind  of  package  was 
to  be  brought  before  the  public.  The 
goods  in  themselves  and  the  principle 
of  air tight  packing  presented  features 
that strongly commended themto the mar­
ket.  The  double  play  catch  word  was  so 
suited  to  the  goods  that  it  took  the  pub 
lie  by  storm.

In  another  instance  conditions  were 
such  that  a  name  became necessary,  and 
the  fact  that  a  name  having  no  merit  in 
itself  became  a  success  tends  to  prove 
that  the  circumstances  controlled  and 
not  the  name.  An  advertising  agent, 
Geo.  P.  Rowell,  was  so  situated  that  he 
could  command  a  great  quantity  of 
publicity  in  various  ways.  To  utilize 
this  he  obtained  a  medicinal  tablet  of 
slight  alterative  quality  as  being  suited 
for the  general  public.  A  name became 
necessary  and,  lacking  the  ability  to 
find  one  with  attractive  or catchy  qual­
ities,  he  hit  upon  one,  Ripans  Tabules, 
utterly  worthless  in  itself.  The  condi­
tions  under  which  it  is  used  make 
it  a 
success. 
If  the  name  had  been  a  better 
one  the  success would have been greater.
A  good  name  or  catch  word  or  other 
advertising  device  may  be  of  great 
value,  but 
is  a  mistake  to  be  con­
stantly  striving  for  something  of  the 
kind  with  no  definite  plan  for  its  utili­
zation. 
It  is  better  for  general  business 
to  turn  the  attention  to  straightforward, 
simple  methods,  as  is  shown  by  the  fact 
that  the  majority  of  great mercantile in­
stitutions  are  turning  from  the  ultra 
startling  to  plain,  dignified,  unpreten­
tious  statement.  There 
less  of  the 
picture  element,  except  for the  purpose 
of  illustration,  and  less  of  the  expletive 
in  expression  and  more  of  common 
sense  English.

is 

it 

A  good  idea  in  advertising  well  car­
ried  out  is  that  of  W.  I.  Benedict.  Such 
an  advertisement  serves  the  purpose  of 
gaining  the  attention  and  interesting 
the  housewife  and  will  result  in  many 
calls.  The  increase  in  the  sales  of  the 
special  articles  may  not  amount  to 
much 
increase  of  the  profit  ac­
count,  but  the  aggregate  of  calls  gained 
of  those 
intent  on  buying  something 
will  be  an  important  factor  in  present 
and  future  business.  The  advertisement 
is  well  written  and  well  displayed.

in  the 

Another well-written  advertisement  is 
that  of  Geo.  W.  Wait,  and  the  printer 
has  done  his  part  pretty  well,  although 
his  work  could  be  improved.  The  par­
allel  rule  over  the  name  should  have 
been  omitted—the  white  space  is  much 
more  valuable.

Where  an  advertisement  can  be  set  in 
a  single  series  of  type  by  an  intelligent

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

FOR HOUSE CLEANING TIE!

Little  things at  Benedict s Prices

A m m o n ia .

T he  best and  strongest, in  p in t bottles,  1 0 c  
—for  cleaning  woodwork 
'iw   one  o r  two 
U blespoonfuls in a   pail of  water, and  little 
o r do soap  need  be  used,—for  the  laundry, 
4ise  a  tablespoonful  in a   pail of  w ater, soak 
clothes in  this w ater over  night,  and  they 
will be perfectly  clean  with  little o r ao rub* 
bing.
Tacks.

size you  may  need, 2  botes  |   oent.

Tack Pullers.

Only  7 c   for th e  best  10c one ever made

Picture Nails,

2 inches long,  porcelain head, with g ilt rim . 
l e   o r 6 for 5 c ,
Picture Wire,

Picture Frames.

W c  have a lew left,  will bold anything from 
a  photo te  ao 8 by  10  picture, n  bargain a t 
20c and  23c.

Furniture Polish

In  bandy siee  bottles, y e t  as  much  i_
generally  needs,  10c  mi*  th e   scratches 
and  cuts,  removes all  m ars and w hite stains 
from chairs, tables,  etc.

Silver Polish

Does it’s  work  well  and  quickly,  and  will 
not scratch.  2 5 c   bottle  enough  to  last a 
long tim e

Nail Brushes.

75 feet tinned, 8 strand, So.

Perfection  and  Diamond  Dyes  in  all  shades,  for  coiton  or  wool.

v of brU tles brush.)  A splendid 
l 10c and  one  with  6 row of bristles with
-----— V  — V IV«* Vi u rw u w  WILD
of b rin ies on each side  of brush, only
15c.

W. I. BENEDICT. DRUGS and  SUNDRIES. Balding, Mich.

Rough Weather is Coming 1

close fitting,  heavy  and  warm,  at  $1.10.  The 

Buy one of our  KNIT JACKETS and a  DUCK 
COAT, and  bid defiance to  it  The Jackets arc 

Coats are  heavy  Duck,  blanket  lined,  and  rub 
ber interlined, at $ 1.50.

GEO.  W.  WAIT,

OENERAL  STORE.

ROLLIN.  niCH.  j

ÍGrro cen es

Groceries arc cheaper  than 
ever  We  bought  largely 
aod  advantageously,  and 
p*opo>»e  to sell quickly am) 
quite as much  to your prof 
it as  to  ours  We  are  to 
th a t  c i u n t   a t   least,  be-

1  Fresh  and  Salt  Meats

L

Whci) you desire o

GOOD SQUARE MEAL 

fl glass of

FRERH SODA  WATER, 
ICECREAM  SODA,OR 
DELICIOUS GINGER 
ALE  on  the

Fourth Of July,

SUNDAY or any Say, 

You car) gat  It at tl>a 

OLD
R E L I A B L E
RESTAURANT
OF4*
S.  R.  EAR L

ConfectioneriefrvrFire Warfcfcx
Electric
lighting

May  in one sense be a 
luxury,  but in  anoth­
er  it is almost a neces­
sity. 
If your place of 
business  ov  residence 
is not already wired up 
call at  the office of the 
Electric  Light Co.  for 
rates

C. EMERY, 

ftanager.

WOULD  YOU
Buy  wood  o f  met 
|  woi>ld 
deliver 
I  also 
have hardwood  building Ium 
bet  planed and  sized  to  euil 
your building.

tbe  wood 

33

Drugs and  Medicines,

R odenbaugh 
B r o t h e r s . . .

Handle the  Best

It  Doesn*t  Pay  to  Handle  A n ything  But  the  Best

Paints,  O ils.  W allpapers 
And  B orders.—

awwwwp wwwwwwwmmwiwg 
I   N o L,ady  %

Should  buy a   Cloak,  Jack et  o r  Cape  until  she 
has seen our superb  line.  T he goods are right, 
th e styles aré rig h t, th e prices a re  right.  Maoj 
who during fair week  looked over th e  stocks  Id 
G rand  Rapids  bsve  bought  of  us  aod  saved 
money  by  so  doing  T he  larg er  th e town th e 
higher th e prices is a  fixed  law  of  trade.  This 
is em phatically true of th e cloak  trade.  While 
giving  you  just  as  desirable  and  up-kH iate 
goods we will  save you  from  ten  to  twenty-five 
p er cent, on your purchases.

I  Spencer  &  Lloyd. 
|
^UiUiUUIIUIUUUUUUUUUUUUUUlM

!» 

‘R ea d y   F o r   F a ll  T r a d e .

My  line of U d K   Shoes  is com­
plete.  Julia  Marlow’s.  Youngs’ 
foot  forms, 
turns  and  welts. 
There  are  shoes  and  shoes  but 
there are  im  better  »-hoes  to  be 
had tlwo 1  carry  in  stock

RUBBER GOODS,  SCHOOL SHOES

H.  R.  DICKINSON.

T lu t will  hold,  ttoy»’ full double 
soles.  Misses  and  Children's 
shoes  that will keep the feet dry 
School  Suits  for  all  the  Boys.

G EO .  W.  N O B L E

E V E R Y T H IN G

C O E SJfeto» .
that is  repaired,  and  everything re­
paired that  is repairable

Strictly first-class work 

W  Gleason, Jeweler

One Door East of Drag Store.

compositor,as in the  case of Rodenbaugh 
Brothers,  the  result 
is  attractive  and 
pleasing.  To  do  this,  however, 
the 
wording  must  be  made  to  fit.  The  ex­
ception  of  putting  the  “ because”   in 
gothic  is  hardly  noticeable,  as  the  face 
corresponds 
in  heaviness  with  the  rest. 
Then  the  peculiar  use  of the word makes 
the  change  admissible.

to  several 

I  have  shown  Spencer  &  L lo y d ’s  ad­
vertisem ent 
ladies  and  they 
uniformly  express  themselves  as  unfa­
vorably  impressed  by  it.  I  am  inclined 
to  accept  this  test  as  a  fair  indication 
that  the  words,  as  used  and  displayed, 
are  an  injury.  The advertisement  other­
wise  is  well  written  and  the  display 
is 
exceptionally  good.

improved 

Geo.  W.  Noble  shows  a carefully com­
posed  advertisement,  but  one  which 
could  be 
in  some  regards. 
The  worst  thing  in  it  is  the  use  of  the 
ornamental  type.  The  proper  use  of 
this 
letter  is  to  sell  it  for  6  cents  a 
pound—or  more  if  it  can  be  obtained— 
for  babbit  or type  metal.  Then  it  is  a 
mistake  to  display  the  beginning  of  the 
second  paragraph  so  as  to  make  the 
statement 
“ that  will  hold”   apply 
equally  to  “ rubber  goods”   when  it  is 
evidently  only 
“ school 
shoes. ’ ’

intended 

for 

It 

Deitz  &  Speicher  present  a  good  gen­
eral  advertisement  of  their  grocery  and 
meat  business. 
is  judiciously  dis­
played. 
It  is  well  to  avoid  big  words 
in  such  a  place,  but  if they are admitted 
they  should  at  least  be  spelled correctly.
The  next  picture  is  not  so  pleasant. 
S.  R.  Earl 
is  unfortunate  in  running  a 
July  advertisement  in  October and  also 
in  having  fallen 
into  the  hands  of  a 
compositor  who  seems  to  have  plenty  of 
good  material  at  hand,  but  who  doesn’t 
know  how  to  use  it. 
It  is  impossible  to 
criticise  the  wording  to  the  extent  of  its 
capabilities. 
it 
I  would  begin 
all  out  and  begin  again. 
by  getting  some  one  else  to  write 
it. 
Then  I  would  give  it  to  another  com­
positor  with  positive  instructions  not  to 
make  every  line  a  display  line  or to 
“ lug  in”  all  the  faces  in  the  office.

I  should  simply  strike 

C.  Emery  shows  a  well-composed  ad­
vertisement,  but  the  reference  to  luxury 
and  necessity  is  somewhat 
incomplete 
and  breaks  off  too  abruptly  to  another 
subject.

The  play  on  words  in  H.  R.  Dickin­
son’s  wood  advertisement does  not  seem 
to  me  to be  very  effectual. 
It  is  unfor­
tunate  that  the  third  sentence  uses  the 
syllable  wood 
in  such  a  way  that  the 
reader  is  lost  in  trying  to  determine 
whether  the  play  still  continues. 
It 
does  not  read  smoothly  and so the merit, 
if  there  is  any,  on  the  word  play  is 
worse  than  lost.

W.  Gleason  is  more  fortunate  in  his 
use  of  word  play.  His  advertisement 
would  have  been  much 
improved  if 
“ strictly  first-class work”  had  been  in  a 
smaller  full  face  type.  On  the  whole 
the  advertisement  is  a  good  one.

Light  From  the Sun.

According  to  Professor  Newcomb  the 
sun  gives  us  91,000,000,000  times  as 
much  light  as  an  average  star  of the first 
magnitude.  To  become  reduced  to  a 
star  of  the  first  magnitude,  the  sun 
would  need  to  be  removed  from  us  to 
302,000 times  its  present  distance.  Re­
moved  to  ten  times  that  distance 
it 
would  become  a star of  the  sixth  magni­
tude,  one  of  the  stars  just  visible  to the 
naked  eye.

Always 

remember 

that  your  best 
customer  consults  his  own  interests  in 
dealing  with  you.  Few  persons  are  so 
generous  as  to  perfer others before them­
selves.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Crockery and Glassware

AKRON  STONEWARE. 

Butters

% gal., per  doz................................... 
1 to 6 gal., per gal........................ . 
8 gal. each......................................... 
10 gal. each..................................  
12 gal. each......................................... 
15 gal. meat-tubs, each....................... 
20 gal. meat-tubs, each....................... 
25 gal. meat-tubs, each....................... 
30 gal. meat-tubs, each....................... 

 

45
5
48
60
72
1  05
1  40
2 00
2 40

REAL  ESTATE.

Its  Relation  to  Groceries  and  Boarding 

Houses.

In  storm  and 

The  business  man  that  is  forced  to 
is  the 
fight  the  greatest  competition 
dealer  in  real  estate. 
in 
calm,  in  good  times  and  in  bad  times, 
in  season  and  out  of  season,  his  field  is 
the  world  and  he 
finds  it  invaded  by 
every  vocation  under  the  sun.  Public 
and  private  enterprise  are 
in  league 
against  him,  and  while  public  and  pri­
vate  opinion  are  nominally  on  his  side, 
he  finds  himself,  however  glaring  the 
grounds  of  complaint, 
to  be  wholly 
without  legal  redress.  His  business  is 
honorable  and 
legitimate  and  yet  his 
only  real  ally  is  the notable housekeeper 
who  hates  him  and  respects  him  so  long 
as  he  keeps  his  goods  outdoors,  where 
she  insists  they  belong.  His  bitterest 
complaint  is  against  the  opposition  that 
comes  in  and  ruins  what  it  does  not 
care  to  buy.

located, 

A  case 

in  hand  is  among  the  semi- 
suburbs  of  Grand  Rapids.  The  lot  is 
is  made  beautiful  by 
finely 
in  the 
aristocratic  oaks,  aglow  to-day 
royal  colors  of  their  race;  but 
it 
is 
flanked  on  both  sides with unmarketable 
dirt.  Decay  has  with  both  hands seized 
the  once  ambitious  houses  on  each  side 
of  it  and  from  crumbling  chimney  top 
to  rotting  walk  has  sifted  down  the  dirt 
of  a  decade,  ruining  the  prospects  and 
blasting  the  hopes  of  one  of  the  pretti­
est  lots  in  town.  Redress?  There  is 
none.  Building  lots  are  like  men—they 
are  known  by  the  company  they  keep— 
long  as  the  unmarketable 
and 
those  neighboring 
real  estate  holds 
houses 
just  so  long 
will  the  dealer  find  himself  with  a  dead 
house  and  lot  on  his  hands.

in  its  possession 

just  so 

“ Two  desirable  rooms  for  rent  in  a 
desirable  neighborhood"  said  an  adver­
tisement 
in  the  morning  paper  and  an 
hour  later,  with  paper  in  hand,  the 
seeker of  rooms  of  that  character visited 
the  desirable  neighborhood.  The  paper 
had  stated  the  fact,  but  neighborhood 
and  house  and  rooms  were  found  to  be 
desirable  for  persons  who  desire  that 
kind  of  accommodation.  The  neighbor­
hood  was  down  at  the  heel  and  that por­
tion  of  its  exposed  person  was  covered 
with  untaxable  real  estate.  The  side­
walk,  with 
its  discouraged  trees;  the 
paling  of  the rotting fence ;  the crippled 
gate,  holding  itself  up  by  a  complain­
ing  hinge ;  the  sagging  doorstep ;  the 
grimy  door;  the  half-worn  oilcloth  car­
pet ;  the  woman  herself,  whose  frowsy 
head  and  grease-spotted  skirt  were  in  a 
better condition  than her watei-forgotten 
hands  and  face,  was  in  harmony  with 
the  run-down  heel—all  of  them  were  so 
densely  covered  with  the  unauthorized 
acquirements  of  the 
land  dealer as  to 
suggest  the  wonder  that  the  author  of 
the  easily  proved  theft  should  have 
evaded  arrest  so  long !

“ I  never  think  of  some  provision 
stores,"  said  a  dainty  housekeeper, 
“ without  a  shudder. 
I  don’t  know  of 
anything  which  the  board  of  health 
should  so  carefully  look  after  as  the 
places  where  things  to  eat  are sold.  Too 
often  it  is  dirt,  dirt,  dirt  from  curbstone 
to  cellar  bottom,  and  the  same  awful 
fingermarks  are  on  everything  you  buy. 
I  am  reconciled  to eat  my  peck  of  dirt, 
but  I  want  to  take-  it  straight!  The 
Micklejohns  discharged  their  cook  last 
week  because  they  heard  her say  that 
the  best  way  to  get  clean  hands  that  she 
knows  of  is  by  kneading  bread!  Too 
many  grocers  insist  in  making  up  in 
dirt  what  they  lack  in  the  article  paid 
for. 
I  wish  they’d  be  honest  about  it

and  we  should  know  what  to  expect. 
‘ Dirt  and  groceries’  would  be  truthful, 
and  the  novelty  would  draw  trade,  from 
the  simple  fact  that  you  get  the  same 
articles  and  are at  the  same  time  put  on 
your guard!”   The  list  might  easily  be 
lengthened,  but  it  would  only  furnish 
additional  proof  that  real  estate  has 
many  forms  of  developm ent  and  that  all 
except  the 
legitimate  one  should  be 
suppressed.

is  the  evident  stock  in  trade. 

If  the  housekeeper  is  unpleasantly 
affected  by  the  grocery,  her  affection 
would  become  alarming  could  she  know 
the  “ utter  inwardness"  of  the  average 
boarding  house  and  restaurant.  Here 
dirt 
It 
holds  high  carnival 
in  both,  with  a 
slattern  for  the  queen.  Dining  room 
and  dining  table,  curtain  and  tablecloth 
and  napkin,  tumbler  and  cutlery  and 
earthernware.are  smutched  by  her hands 
as if tar had touched them ;  and these are 
purity  to  what  comes  with  the  stuff 
brought  on  to  eat. 
If,  as  it  has  been 
asserted,  the  police  court  is  supplied 
with  business  from  the  patrons  of  these 
eating  places,  it  is  easy  to  understand 
and  why;  and  the  pity—the  everlasting 
pity  of  it  all— lies  in  this: 
that  good 
bread  and  good  meat  and  good  butter 
and  good  coffee— in  a  word  good, whole­
some  meals  without  dirt—ought  and 
should  be  furnished  for  the  money  paid 
for this  unwholesome  food  that  is  ruin­
ing  body  and  soul.

Let  us  hear  the  conclusion  of  the 
whole  matter:  Let  the  dealer  in  real 
estate  cling  to  his  legitimate  business 
and 
let  public  opinion— with  the  force 
of  the  law,  if  need  be,  behind  it— insist 
that  nothing  unclean  be  put  upon  the 
table  of  restaurant  or  boarding  house 
and  that  cleanliness  shall  take  the  place 
there  of  the  prevailing  filth  and  dirt.

Potato  Crop  Less  Than  Last  Tear.

The  potato  crop  of  the  United  States, 
according to the American Agriculturist, 
approximates  239,000,000  bushels,  or 
nearly  5,000,000  bushels  less  than  last 
year,  and  a  fairly  good  yield,  compared 
with  the  average  of the  last  ten  years. 
Extremes  in  climatic  conditions  were 
responsible  for holding  the  crop  within 
bounds.  The  total  area  under  the  crop 
is  p aced  by  this  authority  at  2,897,000 
acres,  with  an  average  yield  of  83  bush­
els  an  acre,  against  82  bushels  in  1899, 
73  bushels  in  1898  and  only  64  in  1897, 
when  the  crop  was  174,000,000  bushels. 
Opening  prices  at  leading  markets  are 
irregular,  much  the  same  as  last  year  at 
Chicago  and  furthe:  West, 
in 
Ohio,  and  higher  in  many  of  the  East­
ern  cities,  including  New  England.

lower 

Peculiar  Experience  With  a  Bean  Crop. 
From the Bad Axe Republican.

Mathew  Goodwill  has  had  a  rather 
peculiar  experience  with  his  bean  crop 
this  year.  The  plants  blossomed  and 
set  as  usual,  but  owing  to  the  dry 
weather the  pods  did  not  fill  and  soon 
began  to  wither.  When  the  September 
rains  came  the  plants  took  a 
fresh 
start,  blossomed  a  second  time,  the pods 
set  and  filled  and  he  is  now  harvesting 
one  of  the  largest  crops  of  beans he ever 
raised.

Florida’s  Orange  Crop  Large.

The 

latest  comprehensive  reports  of 
Florida’s  coming  orange  crop  are  made 
by  the  railroad  agents,  who  have  been 
making  a  careful  examination  in  order 
to  prepare  to  handle  the  shipments. 
According  to  these  estimates  the  totals 
foot  up  more  than  1,000,000  boxes. 
All  reports  pronounce  the  groves  in  a 
healthy  condition.  No  San  Jose  scale  is 
reported.

The  fortunate  man  is  he  who,  born 
poor or nobody,  works  gradually  up  to 
wealth  and  consideration,  and,  having 
got  them,  dies  before  he  finds  they  were 
not  worth  so  much  trouble.—Charles 
Reade.

Churns

2 to 6 gal., per gal..............................  
Churn Dashers, per doz..................... 

Mllkpans

Y% gal. flat or rd. hot., per doz............ 
1 gal. flat or rd. bot., each................. 
Fine Glazed M ilkpans
Vt gal. flat or rd. bot., per doz............ 
1 gal. flat or rd. bot., each................. 

Vt gal. fireproof, ball, per doz............ 
1 gal. fireproof, ball, per  doz............ 

Stewpans

Jugs

14 gal., per doz................................... 
% gal. per doz....................................  
1 to 5 gal., per gal..............................  

Tomato Jugs

14 gal., per  doz................................... 
1  gal., each........................................ 
Corks for 14 gal., per doz.................... 
Corks for  1  gal., per doz.................... 
Preserve  Ja rs  and  Covers
V4 gal., stone cover, per doz............... 
1 gal., stone cover, per doz.............. 

6 lbs. In package, per  lb..................... 

Sealing  Wax

FRUIT JARS

Pints........................................................ 
Quarts.....................................................  
Half Gallons........:.............................. 
Covers..................................................... 
Rubbers.............................................. 

LAMP  BURNERS

No. 0 Sun............................................ 
No. 1 Sun............................................ 
No. 2 Sun............................................ 
No. 3 Sun................................................. 
Tubular............................................... 
Security, No.  1................................... 
Security, No.  2................................... 
Nutmeg............................................... 

LAMP  CHIMNEYS—Seconds
No. 0 Sun................................................. 
No. 1 Sun................................................. 
No. 2 Sun................................................. 

Common

No. 0 Sun*...............................................  
No. 1 Sun................................................. 
No. 2 Sun................................................. 

F irst  Quality

No. 0 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 
No. 1 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 
No. 2 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 

XXX  F lint

No. 1 Sim, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 
No. 2 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 
No. 3 Sun, hinge, wrapped & lab....... 
CHIMNEYS—Pearl Top
No. 1 Sun, wrapped and labeled.......  
No. 2 Sun, wrapped and labeled.......  
No. 2 Hinge, wrapped and labeled__ 
No. 2 Sun,  “Small  Bulb,”  for  Globe
Lamps.......................................  

La Bastie

No. 1 Sun, plain bulb, per doz...........  
No. 2 Sun, plain bulb, per doz................. 
No. 1 Crimp, per doz..............................  
No. 2 Crimp, per doz..............................  

Rochester

No. 1 Lime (65c doz)..............................  
No. 2 Lime (70c doz)..............................  
No. 2 Flint (80c doz)” " .................... 

Electric

OIL  CANS

No. 2 Lime (70c doz)..............................  
No. 2 Flint (80c  doz)..............................  
1 gal. tin cans with spout, per doz__ 
1 gal. galv. Iron with  spout, per doz.. 
2 gal. galv. Iron with  spout, per doz.. 
3 gal. galv. Iron with  spout, per doz.. 
5 gal. galv. iron with  spout, per doz.. 
3 gal. galv. Iron with faucet, per doz.. 
6 gal. galv. iron with faucet, per doz.. 
5 gal. Tilting cans............................... 
5 gal. galv. iron  Nacefas...................  

Pum p  Cans

LANTERNS

5 gal. Rapid steady stream................. 
5 gal. Eureka, non-overflow............... 
3 gal. Home Rule................................ 
5 gal. Home Rule................................ 
6 gal. Pirate King..............................  
No.  0 Tubular, side lift..................... 
No.  1 B Tubular................................ 
No. 13 Tubular, dash.......................... 
No.  1 Tubular, glass fountain...........  
No. 12 Tubular, side lamp.................. 
No.  3 Street lamp, each.................... 
LANTERN  GLOBES 
No. 0 Tub., cases 1 doz. each, box, 10c. 
No. 0 Tub., cases 2 doz. each, box, 16c. 
No. 0 Tub., bbls 5 doz. each, per bbl.. 
No. 0 Tub,, bull’s eye, cases 1 doz. each 

31

GAS  AND  GASOLINE  MANTLES 

Glover’s Unbreakable and Gem Mantles  are the 
best, but we carry every  make.  Our  prices  are 
the  lowest.  Try  Glover’s  Mantle  Renewer. 
One bottle will make 100 old  mantles  like  new— 
removes all spots, etc.  90c per doz. bottles.

Glover’s Wholesale Merchandise Co.
Manufacturers.  Importers  and  Jobbers  of 

Gas and Gasoline Sundries.
Jobbers of Stoneware

G ran d   R a p id s,  M id i.

A warehouse filled with all  sizes.  We 
are ready for your trade.  Send us your 
orders.

Grand Rapids, Mich. 

W .  S. & J. E.  Graham,  Agents, 

149-151 Commerce St., 

We are taking orders for spring.

S A Y

WILL  M.  HINE,

THE  STATIONER,

Sells everything from a  pin  to  a  letter 
press that you  use  in  your  office.  Call 
or write. 

49 Pearl St., Grand  Rapids.

a^UULSLa SLSLSLSULSJLSISULSLJLSLSL SJUULO.

William  Reid 

jj

Importer  and  Jobber  of  Polished 
Plate,  Window  and  Ornamental

Qlass

Sj  Paint, Oil, White Lead, Var= 

nishes  and  Brushes

doz.
GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH,

6
84

45
6*4

60
5%

86
1  10

56
42
7

65
7
20
30

76
1  00

2

5 25
5 40
7 50
2 25
26

35
45
65
1 00
45
60
go
50

Per box  of 6 

50
66
36

1 
1 
2 

1 
1 
2 

L.  BUTLER,
Resident Manager.

50
60
46
T r o in n n r T n n n r in r r in n n r r a

2 00
2 15
3 15

3 CO
4 00
4 20

3 70
4 70
4 88
80

yo
1 15
1 35
1 60

3 
3 
470

3 
4 
1  40

3 75

1 58
2 78
4 85
4 25
4 95

7 25
9 00

8 50
10 60
9 95
11  28
9 so
4 95
7 40
7 50
7 50
14 00
3 75
45
45
1  85
l  25

50
76

75
40

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A SOLID  OAK
PARLOR TABLE

With  21-inch  top;  also  made 
in  mahogany  finish.  Not  a 
leader, but  priced the same  as 
as  the balance  of  our  superb 
stock.  Write  for  Catalogue.

SAMPLE  FURNITURE  CO:
Lyon,  Pearl  and  Ottawa  Streets 
G R A N D   R A P ID S ,  M IC H .

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Trees  Mitigate  Many  Evils.

Forests  of  shady  trees  mitigate  cli­
matic  conditions,  and  there  is  no  doubt 
they  attract  rain  showers.  Leaves  gen­
erate  oxygen  and  absorb  noxious  gases, 
forming  a  natural  antidote  to grievances 
of  crowded  cities.  Shade  trees  prevent 
sunstroke  and  also  prevent  ophthalmia, 
the  curse  of  lower  Egypt  and  Southern 
Italy.  Where  there  are  no  trees  the glare 
of  the  sun  on  the  sand  and  white  build­
ings  is  equal  to  its  shining  on  snow.

«Johnnie’s  Gunning.

Ecstatic  Papa— Here,  Johnnie,  come 

and  kiss  your new  sister.

will  you  buy  me  a  gun?

Johnnie  (four  years  old)— Nen,  paw, 
Ecstatic  Papa—A  gun?  What  for?
Johnnie—Well,  I  bet  I’ll  shoot  the 
nex’  stork  I  see  flyin’  'round this house !

Honors  come  thick  and  fast  some­
times.  A  week  ago  Henry  B.  Fair- 
child,  Manager  of  the  Hazeltine  &  Per­
kins  Drug  Co.,  received  notice  that  he 
had  been  appointed  a  member of  the 
Proprietary  Committee  of  the  National 
Wholesale  Druggists’  Association.  Yes­
terday  he  was  notified  that  he  had  been 
selected  to  act  as  chairman  of  the  Adul­
terations  Committee  of  the  same  organ­
ization.

Advertisements  w ill  be  inserted  under 
this  head  for  two  cents  a  word  the  first 
insertion  and  one  cent  a  word  for each 
subsequent  insertion.  No  advertisements 
taken  for  less  than  25  cents.  Advance 
payments.

■32

THE  MORNING  MARKET.

Closing  Days  of a  Most  Remarkable  Sea­

son.

The  silence  that  “ broods  with  the 
darkness  over  all”   this  morning  was 
rudely  shaken  by  a  trio  of  newsboys  on 
a  street  corner  who  were  using  for  em­
phasis  some  names  and  terms  often 
in  Sunday  school,  but  not  at  all 
heard 
adapted  to  the 
lively  barter of  news­
papers,  carried  on  with  the  evident  in­
tention  on  the  part  of  the  largest  and 
most  powerful  party  to  browbeat  and 
defraud  the  other  two.  Had 
it  been 
light  enough  to  see  where  to  hit,  it 
would  have  been  an  occasion  of  “ deeds 
not  words,”   but  the  friendly  dark  was 
too  dense  to  fight  in  with  comfort  and 
the  affair  ended  as  all  recent  contests 
of  the  prize  ring  have  done.

The  market  at  that  early  hour  is  best 
described  by  the  quotation,  “ Darkness 
there  and  nothing  more!”   As  the  eye 
became  accustomed  to  the  gloom,  the 
long 
line  of  posts  supporting  the  roof 
of  the  wagon  sheds  recalled  a  view  of 
London  Bridge,  seen  years  ago,  when it 
was  struggling  for  the  mastery  with  a 
London  fog.  The  remainder of  the  mar­
ket  place  was  as  quiet  as  the  Thames 
at  dawn,  the  occasional  market  wagon 
answering  every  purpose  for the  craft 
whose  hulk  and  canvas  peered  through 
the dark.

The  change 

in  the  weather,  while 
portending  rain,  brought  with 
it  the 
milder  atmosphere  of  a morning in early 
September,  so  that  the  few  producers 
then  there  found  extra  exertion  to  keep 
warm  unnecessary.  They  gathered  in 
occasional  groups  as  the 
locality  of 
their  wagons  allowed  and  stood  silent 
and  looking  at  each  other,  as  men  will 
when  neither  pipe  nor  cigar  quite 
reconciles  them  for the  sleep  the  early 
start  has  deprived  them  of.  A  house­
keeper—one  of  the  sort  who  believes 
that  fate  cheated  her  in  not  making  her 
a  man—buzzed  like  a  big  bluebottle  fly 
from  one  wagon  to  another,  pricing  but 
not  buying  and,  probably,  settling  down 
at  last  upon  a  basket  of something  that 
not  even  a  dago  would  carry  home. 
That 
is  the  kind  of  boarding  house 
keeper  that  a  board  of  health  agent 
should  watch.  She caromed  up  against 
the  young  fellow  whose  fun-loving  face 
and  contagious 
laugh  are  balm  to  sore 
eyes  and  ears  and  who  has  been  absent 
for  a  morning  or  two.  As  usual  the 
cushion  was  very  much  alive  and,  while 
he  said  things  to  her that  “ mortal  never 
dared  to  say  before,”   she  took  it  all 
in 
good  part  and  went  off  with  a  flirt  of  a 
— well,  not  very  dirty  apron  and  a 
“ never  more!”   that  fairly  outravened 
the  raven!

It  is  a  wonder that  heaven  does  not 
send  more  of  these  bright  faces  and 
brighter  hearts  to  pull  up  the  corners  of 
morose  humanity’s  mouth.  There  they 
were,  a  lot  of  sour-faced  folks,  hating 
the  weather  and  the  morning  and  the 
fate  that  pulled  them  from  their  warm 
beds,  and  themselves  most  of  a ll;  and 
there  they  stood  looking  at  one  another 
with  forbidding  eyes  when  a  cheerful 
“ Hullo!  everybody!”   rang  joyfully  out 
upon  the  morning  air.  Every  sleepy 
•face  brightened.  One  man,  who  had 
been  pulling  away  upon  a  pipeful  of 
ashes  and  who  sleepily  wondered  what 
the  matter was,  emptied  the  pipe  bowl 
and  “ loaded  up  again,”   with  a  hearty 
“ Ho,  Tom!  you  here?”   and,  older as 
they  were,  they  crowded  around  the 
bardv,  sun-browned  face  and  shook  his 
hand  as  if  they  wanted  to  renew  the  old 
miracle  by  simply  touching  the  hem  of

his  garment!  Then  the  sun  came  out— 
had  he,  too,  been  waiting  for that  hand­
some  face  to  cheer  him  up  a  bit?—and 
the  market  began  to  buzz  in  spots  and 
the  business  of  the  day  began.

It  couldn't  be  called  lively.  There 
were  peaches,  but 
it  was  easy  to  see 
that  they  were  ashamed  of  themselves— 
of  good  family,  but  the  rag-tag  of  a  dis­
tinguished  race.  The  pears, 
remem­
bering  the  treatment  they  had  to  put  up 
with  from  them  a  month  ago,  flouted 
them,  and  with  good  reason;  it  was fair 
weather  with  them  and,  while  the  Bart- 
letts  were  gone,  there  were  varieties 
which  have  a  flavor  about  them  that 
even  that  favorite  can not despise.  They 
did  not  make  themselves  common;  but, 
like  good,  respectable  pears,  kept  up 
the  family  reputation.  The  apple  is  the 
representative  fruit  of  the  nation. 
It 
keeps  on 
in  the  even  tenor of  its  way 
without  indulging  in  extremes.  A good, 
hardy,  rugged  race,  it  everywhere  holds 
its  own,  smiling  alike  upon  the  just 
and  unjust  and  as  glad  to  be  carried  off 
by  the  man 
in  rags  as  by  the  woman 
who  takes  it  home  in  her carriage.  Po­
tatoes  are  not  now 
indulging  in  ban- 
dinage  with  anybody  and  the  tomato  is 
as  cheery  as  it  was  earlier  in  the  sea­
son.  Happy  the  buyer  who  can  appro­
priate  enough  of  its  indwelling  spirit  to 
make  him  oblivious  of  the  fact  that
there 
“ gating 
licked. ”

is  such  a  thing  as 

it  happened. 

The  mild  morning  coaxed  more  wom­
en  to  the  market  than  have  been  there 
for  several  days.  One  was  so  much  in 
sympathy  with  old  Homer  as  not  only 
to  nod  but  actually  to  fall  asleep.  One 
fair  arm—the  sleeve  had  forgotten  its 
duty—was  doing  its  best  to  support  the 
sleeping  head,  which  under  the  circum­
stances  was  trying  to  be  reconciled  for 
the  poor  substitute  of  a  pillow.  Not  far 
off  was  another  face  not  sleepy  at  all. 
She  was  not  long  upon  the  market.  Her 
bright  eyes  brought  the  trade  moths 
early  to  her wagon  and  off  she  went, 
while  the  stupid  men  about  her  were 
wondering  how 
It  hap­
pened !  The  husband  who  let  her  come 
alone  knew  what  he  was  doing!  Best 
of  all  were  the  sunny 
faces  of  two 
happy-hearted  girls.  They  were 
just 
the  age  and  size  to  make  a  success  of 
climbing  trees  and  tantalizing conceited 
boyhood  by  beating  it  at  every  taken 
“ stump.”   Your  lively  girl  when  she 
feels 
it—and  when  doesn't  she?— 
will  do more  in  the  least  time to torment 
boyhood  about  to death  than  any  other 
agent  Nature  has  hit  upon,  and  these 
laughing  samples  on  the  market  this 
morning  will  never  “ let  up”   on  that 
sort  of  fun  until  long  after the  silver  is 
mingled  with  the  brown.  Heaven  help 
the  boys  and  the  men that  fall  into their 
merciless  hands;  and  may  the  homes 
they  both  will  one  day  gladden  be  a 
counterpart  of  that  part  of  the  morning 
market  which  their  bright  faces gladden 
now!

like 

New  Bank  at  Rockford.

Ernest  W.  Johnson  and  Earl  C.  John­
son  have  formed  a  copartnership  and 
will  engage  in  the  banking  business  at 
Rockford  about  Nov.  i  under  the  style 
of  Johnson  Bros.  The  partners claim  to 
have 
combined  responsibility  of 
$25,000 and  announce  their  intention  of 
conducting  business  along  conservative 
lines.

a 

Only  one  city 

in  Sweden  would  be 
classed  with  our  larger  cities—Stock­
holm,  which 
is  somewhat  smaller than 
Pittsburg.  Gothenherg 
is  about  as 
large  as  Columbus,  Ohio,  but  rhe  other 
cities  are  little  more  than  towns.

TT'OR  SALE— COUNTRY  STORE  SEVEN 
P   miles from railroad, buildings and  store  in­
voicing $3,000; good country; good roads.  Write 
for particulars to Box 76, Goblesville, Ind.  550 
\ \   ANTED TO EXCHANGE-CLEAN STOCK 
Vv  of boots and shoes inventorying about $2.500, 
with residence,  for  a  farm.  Address  Box  294, 
__________________ 512
Saranac, Mich.  
I|>OK SALE—$3,000 STOCK  GENERAL  MER- 
chandise;  clean stock;  cash trade.  Address 
Box 239, Argos, Ind. 
MO
IX IR  SALE—FRESH  STOCK  OF  GROCER- 
P   ies, inventorying about $1,200  in  live  town; 
fine location.  Reason for selling, other business. 
Address No  546, care Michigan Tradesman.  546 
IiX)K  SALE  OR  EXCHANGE  FOR  CITY 
.T  property—one-half interest in small capacity 
sawmill;  doing good business and  will  continue 
to do so for  twenty  years.  Reason  for  selling, 
other  business  which  requires  attention.  Ad­
dress Box 64, Boon, Wexford Co., Mich. 
544 
1A A  ACRES- FIRST-CLASS  FARM- LAND 
t v U within one-half mile of  depot and  school 
house for sale on reasonable  terms,  or  will  ex­
change for first-class  city  property;  good  loca­
tion, fine soil and plenty of timber.  Will sell  in 
40,80 or 160 acre lots, with or without saw timber. 
Address Box 64, Boon, Wexford Co., Mich. 
545
WANTED—2~ BAZAAR,  2  DRUG  AND  1 
grocery  in  good  outside  towns.  Clark's 
Business Exchange. Grand Rapids. 
533
A\T ANTED-» HARDWARE  AND  2  BOOTS 
" i   and  Shoes.  Must  be  bargains.  Clark's 
Business Exchange, Grand Rapids. 
538
J^OR  SALE—COMPLETE  22  FOOT,  TWO 
cylinder, 4  h.  p.  gasoline  launch;  in  water 
only two months;  regular  price  $650.  Will  sell 
cheap  for  cash.  R.  E.  Hardy,  1383  Jefferson 
535
Ave., Detroit, Mich. 
i pOR  SALE—ONE  SET  DAYTON  COMPU'C 
’  ing scales and one  medium-sized  safe.  Ad­
622
dress C. L.  Dolph, Temple, Mich. 
Ho t e l   f o r   r e n t   o r   s a l e —s t e a m
heat, electric lights,  hardwood  lioors,  etc.; 
located in Bessemer, Mich., county seat  Gogebic 
county.  Address  J.  M.  Whiteside,  Bessemer, 
Mich. 
Ij'OR  SALE —GENERAL  MERCHANDISE 
P   stock, invoicing about  $8,000,  store  building 
and fixtures.  Stock is in  Ai  shape.  Trade  es­
tablished  over  twenty  years.  Would  accept 
house and lot or farm  in  part  payment.  Splen­
did chance for the right person.  Reason for sell­
ing,  wish  to  retire  from  business  and  take  a 
needed  rest.  Address  No.  520,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 
pOR  RENT—A  GOOD  BRICK  STORE 
building centrally located in a good business 
town.  Address Mrs. E. F. Colwell, Lake Odessa, 
Mich._________________  
i pOR  SALE—DRUG  STOCK  INVOICING 
fifteen hundred ($1,500) dollars,  in  Southern 
Michigan.  Will retain half interest or sell entire 
stock.  Good place to make money.  Reason  for 
selling, have other  business.  Address  No.  515, 
care Michigan Tradesman.______________515
JpOR  SALE —  146  ACRES  OF  LAND  IN 
Marion  county.  Florida.  Over  100  acres 
cleared.  Suitable for fruit, vegetables and stock 
growing.  Price $15 per acre.  No trades.  L. D. 
486
Stark, Cascade, Mich. 
f 'OR  SALE  OR  EXCHANGE  FOR  GEN- 
eral  Stock  of  Merchandise—Two  80  acre 
farms;  also double store building.  Good trading 
point.  Address No. 388,  care  Michigan  Trades- 
man.______________________  
FOR  SALE—GENERAL  STOCK,  LOCATED 
at good  country  trading  point.  Stock  and 
fixtures will inventory about $2,000;  rent  reason­
able;  good place  to  handle  produce.  Will  sell 
stock  complete  or  separate  any  branch  of  it. 
Address No. 292, care Michigan Tradesman.  292
PARTIES  HAVING  STOCKS  OF  GOODS 
of any kind, farm or city property  or  manu­
facturing plants,  that  they  wish  to  sell  or  ex­
change. write us for our free 24-page catalogue of 
real estate and business chances.  The Derby  & 
Choate Real Estate Co., Lansing, Mich. 
259
fjpOR  SALE  CHEAP —$2,000  GENERAL 
stock and  building.  Address  No.  240,  care 
240
Michigan Tradesman. 

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MISCELLANEOUS.

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\IT A N  TED—POSITION  AS  MANAGER  OF 
’ ’  general merchandise stock in town  of 2,000 
to  5.000.  Fifteen  years’  experience.  Best  of 
references furnished.  Address B. A., care Mich- 
igan Tradesman.______ 
SITUATION  WANTED  BY  YOUNG  MAN 
of good address in general  store;  good  drug­
gist (not registered)  four  years’  experience  in 
country  and  city.  Address  Box  433,  South 
Haven, Mich. 
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\X7ANTED—SITUATION  AS  PHARMACIST 
vv  about Nov. 15.  Write No. 554,  care  Michi- 
gan Tradesman.______  
554
WANTED—BY  YOUNG  MAN,  POSITION 
in dry goods, clothing, men’s  furnishing or 
shoe store; seven years’ experience;  good  refer- 
ences.  Oscar E. Otis, Hastings, Mich. 
549
W ANTED—POSITION  AS  BOOKKEEPER 
by young lady who has had about  a  dozen 
years’  experience  in  store  and  office  and  can 
give  best  of  references  as  to  character  and 
ability.  Address No. 513, ca*-e Michigan Trades­
man. 
5]g
Notice  of Stockholders*  Meeting.
Grand Rapids, Mich. Qct. 24,1900.
The stockholders of  the  Clark-Rowson  Manu­
facturing Co  will take notice  that  a  meeting  is 
hereby called of  the  stockholders  of  the  above 
company,  to  be  held  at  the  BlsseU  Carpet 
Sweeper Factory at 10 o’clock in th» forenoon of 
Monday. Nov. 5,1900, for the purpose of  settling 
the  indebtedness  of  the  company  or  applying 
their assets toward the payment of  said  indebt­
edness, and for the further  purpose  of  settling 
up all of its affairs and disbanding the company.
T h e Cl a r k -Row son Ma n u f a c t u r in g  Co. 
By M. Sh a n a h a n , Secretary.

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BUSINESS  CHANCES.

i r»OR  SALE-HARNESS  SHOP  WITH  COM- 
plete  stock,  in  town  of  4,500  inhabitants, 
with only two harness  shops.  Best  of  reasons 
for selling.  Address Lock Box 792, Three Rivers, 
Mich. 
lAOR  SALE—THE  ONLY  MEAT  MARKET 
-T  in Grass Lake, Mich.,  population  1,000,  and 
will be increased by 200 workmen and families to 
work in the biggest cement factory in  the  coun­
try, now being erected. 
.John  Kalmbach,  Chel­
sea, Mich. 
Q ll  ACRE  FARM  IN  MONROE COUNTY  TO 
OU exchange for store or residence in  town  in 
Central  Michigan.  N.  C.  Kingsbury,  Milan, 
Mich. 
564
W Es:HAVE  AN  UP-TO-DATE  BOOT  AND 
shoe stock, invoicing  about  $7.000,  in  the 
best city in the State.  Can  be  purchased  at  a 
reasonable discount.  Chase &  Chipman,  Battle 
Creek, Mich. 
CUT  RATE  DRUG  STORE  IN  PATENT 
medicines, druggists’  sundries,  etc.,  will at­
tract  a  big  trade  in  a  town  of  6.000  popu­
lation. within fifty miles  of  Detroit.  I know  of 
the  right  store,  with  rent  nominal,  for  right 
party to give it a trial. 
If capital is limited, can 
have help.  This is bona iide in every way.  Ad­
dress at  once,  William  Connor,  Box  »16,  Mar­
shall, Mich. 
560
f f»OR SALE AT A BARGAIN—FINE  SUBUR- 
ban home of 10  acres,  orchard,  good  build­
ings,  near  school,  mail  route  and  proposed 
electric  railway;  or  would  exchange  for  desir­
able house and lot.  G.  H.  Kirtland,  1169  South 
Division St. 
569
i jH)R SALK-AT  A  LOW  FIGURE.  CHOICE 
100-acre farm;  line buildings, stock, farming 
tools  and  crops;  six  miles  southwest  of  city; 
would  take  good  house  and  lot  as  part  pay. 
570
G. H. Kirtland. 1159 South Division. 
Ba n k e r   w a n t e d —a   r e l ia b l e   m a n
with capital, wishing to invest  in  the  bank­
ing business, will find it to  his  interest  to  write 
L. H. Moss.  Secretary  Middleton  Improvement 
Association, Middleton. Mich. 
TX7 ANTED—A PARTNER  IN  AN  OLD-ES- 
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tablished meat market—a man  who under­
stands  the  business;  or  would  sell,  as  I have 
other business.  Only  two  markets  in  town  of
3.000  population.  Two  railroads  Address  No. 
553, care Michigan  Tradesman. 
■   STOCK  OF  STAPLE  GROCERIES  FOR 
sale in one of the best  towns  in  Michigan 
(Bronson).  Best location in town.  Best  of  rea­
sons for sellng.  Stock invoices  $1,200.  Will sell 
for $1,000 cash.  No  trades.  Write  M.  A.  Her­
rick, Durand, Mich. 
Ij>OR  SALE—A  CLEAN  STOCK  OF  HARD- 
ware about $6,500;  cash;  no  trade.  Write 
Lock Box 105, Hudson, Mich. 
Fo r   s a l e —d r u g   s t o c k ,  b e in g   t h e
only drug store in town  of  about  400  inhab­
itants.  Reason for selling,  have other  business 
Interests which must have  my  attention.  T.  O. 
Pattison, Millbrook, Mich. 
FOR  SALE—BAZAAR  STORE  AND  Fix­
tures in one of  the  best  business  towns  in 
the great fruit  belt  of  Michigan,  doing  a  good 
business;  must sell on  account  of  poor  health; 
552
only $350 cash.  Box 162, Shelby. Mich. 
Fo r  s a l e —n e w  s t o c k   o f   d r y   g o o d s,
shoes, groceries.  Good  cash  trade.  Rare 
opportunity. 
Investigate  at  once.  Box  365, 
Quincy, Mich. 

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