Volume XVIII.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  OCTOBER  31,  1900.

Number 893

DESMAN

American  Jewelry  Co.,

Manufacturers and Jobbers of

Jewelry  and  Novelties

45  and  46  Tower  Block,
Qrand  Rapids,  Mich.

^  

KOLB  &   SON,  the  oldest  wholesale  4 

clothing manufacturers, Rochester, N. Y. 
The only house In  America  manufactur­
ing all  Wool  Kersey  Overcoats  at  $5.50 
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 316, Marshall, Mich., to call 
on you and you will see  one  of  the  best 
lines manufactured, with  (it,  prices  and

*

Equality guaranteed. 

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

T h e  M er c a n t il e  A gency

Established 1841.

R.  G.  DUN  &  CO.

Widdicomb  Bld’g,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich. 

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

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A  Reserve  Fund  Order

A   fraternal* beneficiary  society  founded 
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uties wanted.  Address

EDWIN 0. WOOD, Flint, Mich.

Supreme Commander in  Chief.

Tradesman Coupons

IMPORTANT  FEATURES.

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Page. 
2.  Window  Dressing.
3.  Village  Im provem ent.
4.  Around  the  State.
5.  Grand  Rapids Gossip.
6.  The  Buffalo  Market.
7.  The  Meat Market.
8.  Editorial.
9.  Editorial.
IO.  Shoes and  Rubbers.
12.  Representative  Retailer.
13.  Two  Stores.
14.  Dry  Goods.
15.  Clothing.
16.  Hard ware.
17.  Hardw are  Price  Current.
18.  M inisters and  Money.
20.  W oman’s W orld.
21.  Crockery  and  Glassware  Quotations.
22.  The  New  York  Market.
23.  B utter and  Eggs.
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.  G etting the  People.
32.  The  Morning  Market.

AN  OUNCE  OF  PREVENTION.

Beating  the  air  is  not  an  exercise  at 
all  commendable 
in  commercial  gym­
nastics.  There  is  a  plenty  of  profitable 
activity  without 
it  and  in  the  depart­
ment  of  business  economy,  where  time 
is  money,  every  air-wasted  stroke  adds 
just  so  much  time  and  money  to  the 
wrong  side  of  the  account.  In  the  early 
lumbering,  when  the  waterfall 
days  of 
fixed  the 
locality  of  the  sawmill,  time 
and  strength  and  money  were  wasted  in 
hauling  the  logs  long  distances. 
It  cost 
too  much  to  transport  the  waste  mate­
rial.  Slabs  at  the  end  of  the  trip  were 
still  slabs  and,  when  steam  took  the 
place  of  the  waterfall,  the  first  move  of 
the 
lumberman  was  to  set  up  his  mill 
in  the  woods  and  leave  slabs  and  chips 
and  sawdust  with  the  remainder  of  the 
refuse,  and  so  save  what  had  before 
been  an  utter  loss.

it 

is 

in 

The  same  fact  appears  in  the  manu­
facture  of  cotton.  The  New  England 
waterfall  located  the  first  American  cot­
ton  mill  and  for  more  than  a  century 
the  raw  material  has  been  hauled  first 
by  muscle  and  then  iron  from the South­
ern  cotton  field  to  the  Northern  factory; 
and,  while  the  refuse  is  by  no  means  as 
extensive  as 
lumbering,  the 
practical 
idea  is  carrying  the  day,  and 
the  cotton  mill  of  the  South  is  the  re­
sult.

With  these  two  instances  it  does  seem 
as  if  the  grower  North  and  South should 
by  this  time  have  learned  their  lesson, 
and  yet  here  is  an  item  showing that the 
orange  grower  is  insisting  on  shipping 
the  slabs  of  his  business  to  market 
for 
the  sake,  it  seems,  of 
increasing  the 
freight  bill  and  of  adding  to  the  refuse 
pile.in  the  a lley :

A  good  many  Florida  oranges  are 
coming,  but so  far  a  good  many  of  them 
are  green  and  otherwise  unsatisfactory. 
There  is  a  fair  sale  for the  best of them, 
however,  at  good  prices.

it 

While 

is  not  possible  to  bring  the 
orange  orchard  and the  Northern  market 
together  and  while  objectionable  fruit 
will  occasionally  be  found  at  the  end  of 
the  expensive  trip,  that  “ a  good  many 
of  them  are  green  and  otherwise  unsat­
isfactory”  
It

is  due  to  no  accident. 

sometimes  happens  that  ‘ ‘ anything  will 
answer  the  purpose;”   but  rarely  in  the 
line  of  fruit.  The  green  and  the  unsat­
isfactory  have  but  one  destiny, 
the 
dump,  and  the  dealer  who  encourages 
that  branch  of  his  business  is  not  wise.
Admitting  that  the  shipping  of  unde­
sirable  fruit  is  by  no  means  due  to  in­
tention,  it  remains  to  be  inferred  that 
inexperience  is  experimenting  in  a  new 
line  of  business.  In  that  case,  it  is  easy 
to  see  that  a  costlier  man  at  the  head  of 
the  packing  department  would  soon  pay 
the  cost  of  difference  between  a  man  up 
in  his  business  and  his  opposite. 
It  is 
needless  here  to  insist  that  nobody  can 
calculate  on  the  weather,  the 
length  of 
the 
journey  nor  time  of  transit;  that 
there  are  a  thousand  conditions  that 
can  never  be  taken  into  account  in  the 
shipping  of  perishable  goods;  that often 
the  satisfactory,  for  causes  never  ex­
plained, 
the 
market 
is  reached.  Every  word  is  so 
much  fact  and  yet  these  are  the  very 
conditions  that  must  be  met  if  orange 
orchards  are  to  he  made  profitable. 
Freight  for waste is loss and the man who 
ships  that  kind  of  merchandise  should 
be  made  to  pay  the  freight  b ill;  and 
if  the  freight  bill,  under  the  circum­
stances,  does  not  show  that  incompe­
tency  as  a  fruit  packer  is  a  miserable 
failure  in  a  very  responsible  position, 
another  of  the  delusions  of  the  trading 
world  will  be  dispelled.

is  unsatisfactory  when 

for  the 

The  ray  of  sunshine  which  brightens 
the  item  offers  little  consolation  to  any 
but  the  incompetent  packer.  There  is 
too  much  of  the  “ Well,  we  didn’t  run 
behind”   about  it.  There  is  little  con­
solation 
in  the  fact  that  “ a  fair  sale 
for  the  best  of  them  at  good  prices”  
made  up 
lack  of  judgment  in 
shipping  a  lot  of  unsalable  goods  that 
had  to  be  thrown  away  after  a  big 
freight  bill  had  been  paid  for  carrying 
them  to  market. 
It  would  require  con­
siderable  cheek  for  a  carrier  to  put 
down  this  item  in  his  freight  b ill:  “ To 
several 
lots  of  nothing,  $25;’ ’  and  yet 
that  is  what  “ green  and  otherwise  un­
satisfactory  goods”   amount to.  The  fact 
is,  it 
is  a  costly  kind  of  commercial 
beating  the  air,  wholly  undesirable,  and 
the  quicker 
it  becomes  a  lost  art  the 
better it will be  for everybody  interested.

The  man  of  wealth  who  has  earned 
his  money  is  always  a  busy  man  and  a 
good  citizen.  The  rich 
loafer  is  one 
who  has  inherited  wealth,  and  the  acci­
dent  is  no  credit  to  him  as  a  man.

is 

Every  year 

leap  year to  a  queen 
who  must  choose  her  mate,  and  has 
suffered  the  surveillance  of  a  nation 
ready  to  kick 
from  her  doorstep  any 
young  man  who  came  courting.

There  should  be  a  civil  service  com­
mission  to  examine  bank  examiners 
who  say  they  examine  banks.

The  undertaker  can  afford  to  wait. 
He  knows  that  everybody  will  be  com­
ing  his  way  sometime.

Adam  had  a  family  tree;  but  it  did 
not  go  back  far  enough  to  hide  his  sins 
in  a  dim  distance.

GENERAL TRADE  REVIEW.
It  is  a  remarkable  thing  that  the 

Industrials  stocks  rose 

last 
weeks  of  a  presidential campaign should 
witness  the  culmination  of  a  decided 
boom  in  the  stock  market,  with  a  con­
siderable  advance  in  values  and  a  still 
increase  in  volume  of  business. 
greater 
The  reaction  taking  place  this  week 
is 
the  natural  result  of  too  rapid  an  ad­
vance  and  too  great  activity,  and  can 
not  be  attributed  to  the  political  situa­
tion  nor  to  any  of  the  usual  adverse 
in­
fluences,  as  everything  seems  to  be 
moving  toward  more  favorable  condi­
tions.  The  great  coal  strike  is  out  of 
the  way  and  other  industries  are  taking 
on  greater  activity.  The  reaction  is  a 
purely  speculative  one  and  the  expecta­
tion  of  resumption  of  the  forward move­
ment  is  pretty  general.  A  month  of  ad­
vancing  prices  took  the  average  of sixty 
railway  shares  to $74.12  on  Wednesday, 
which  was  within  $2.17  of  the  top  point 
in  the  Iasi  seventeen  years—September 
5,  1899. 
to 
$57.42  on  Wednesday,  a  gain  of  over  $7 
a  share  in  a  month,  while  traction  and 
gas  stocks  reached  their  best  point  on 
Friday,  gaining  $13.60  a  share  for  the 
month.
The 

industry  has  shown  more 
vitality,  and  confidence  in  the  stability 
of prices is  general. 
I’ig  iron  is  sought 
eagerly  by  manufacturers  who  have 
delayed  purchasing  until  their  stocks  of 
raw  material  are  insufficient  for  making 
goods  already  sold.  *  Railroads  have 
taken  supplies  of  all  kinds 
in  great 
quantity,  including  large  contract;  for 
rolling  stock.  There 
is  less  agitation 
for  cheaper  rails,  partly  owing  to  the 
in  billets,  which  puts  the  two 
advance 
more  nearly  on  a  parity. 
In  many  de­
partments,  such  as  ship  plates,  bridge 
material  and  structural  shapes,  there 
is 
less  disposition  on  the  part  of makers  to 
contract  beyond  the  end  of  the  year. 
Purchasers  are  ready  to  accept  former 
terms,  but  now  find  sellers  reluctant  to 
do  business.  At  Pittsburg 
last  week’s 
transactions  were  the  best  since  prices 
in  the  spring,  especially  of  fin­
broke 
ished 
forms.  General  improvement  is 
also  noted  at  Chicago  and  machinery 
shops  at  all  the  big  cities  are  crowded 
with  work.  Lumber  continues  in  a  firm 
position  and  few  concessions  are  made 
from  the  high  prices  recently  obtained. 
Arrivals  are  large  at  Buffalo  and  Phila­
delphia,  but  the  demand 
is  brisk  and 
stocks  do  not  accumulate.

iron 

Things  are  not  moving  quite  as 
smoothly  with  the  textile  manufacture 
and  trade,  as  the  widely  extended  un­
interferes  with  the 
seasonable  weather 
expected  winter  trade,  and 
in  cotton 
manufacture  the  break  in  the  raw  staple 
tends  to  unsettle  prices  and  delay  trans­
actions.  Wool  is  moving  more  freely  in 
Eastern  markets  and  prices  are  firmly 
held.  Boots  and  shoes  are  now  moving 
freely  and 
jobbers  exhibit  a  desire  to 
augment  their  depleted  stocks  without 
further  delay.  Demands 
for  prompt 
shipment  have  crowded  the  capacity  of 
shops,  and  resulted 
in  such  a  general 
rush  for  material  that  holders  of  leather 
and  hides  have  pushed  prices  up  vig ­
orously,  although  no  better  terms  are 
made  for  the  finished  product.

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Window Dressing

Effective  Method of Displaying: Umbrellas 

and  Underwear.

character, 

A  very  good  effect  can  be  secured 

in 
a  window  by  using  glass  shelves  which 
are  either  curved  or  straight  and  which 
are  arranged  in  step  fashion  in  the win­
dow.  But  instead  of  displaying  all  the 
articles  on  them  flat  or  on  supports  of 
the  same  height  or 
they 
should  be  displayed  on  supports  of 
different  heights  so  as  to  produce  a  cer­
tain  ¡regularity 
in  the  trim.  For  in­
stance,  at  one  end  of  the  shelf  a  pair  of 
socks  might  be  placed  with  their  ends 
hanging  over  the  edge.  At  the  other 
end  a  shirt  on  a  shirt  stand  might  be 
placed,and  between  on  a  stand  of  inter­
mediate  height  a 
its  ends 
tie  with 
spread  out  so  as  to  cover  the 
interven­
ing  space.  By  producing  a  studied  ir­
regularity  in  the  arrangement  of  the  ar­
ticles  placed  on  the  shelves  a  much 
prettier  effect  can  be  secured  than  by 
placing  every  article  in  identically  the 
same  position  on  every  shelf.

*  *  *

A  very  neat  trim  of  white  shirts  can 
be  made  by  hanging  them close together 
on  the  bars,  so  that  they  slightly  over­
lap,  with  black  ties  or  socks  hanging 
between  them.  Another  plan  is  to  run 
a  band  of  black  ribbon  over  and  under 
the  shirts  and  hang  from  it  black  but­
terfly  ties.

*  *  *

Peacock 

feathers  make  a  very  useful 
If  a  peacock  with 
accessory  for  a  trim. 
outstretched  tail  were  placed 
in  the 
center  of  the  window  on  a  low  stand 
and  surrounded  by  low  stands  covered 
with  silk  and  having  neckwear  and  col­
lars,  with  made-up  ties,  on  them,  a  rich 
and  simple  display  could be made.  Two 
or  three  feathers  tied  together  by  a band 
of  peacock  blue  satin  ribbon  and  at­
tached  to  the  corner  of  a  price  card  or 
placed  so  as  to  project  over  the  top  of  a 
shirt  stand  would  give  a  very  attractive 
dash  of  color  to  a  plain  display  of white 
shirts.  Peacock  feathers  tied  at wide in­
tervals  to  the  upper  bars  of  the  window 
and  attached  by  narrow  bands  of  ribbon 
could  have  twisted  about  them  small 
ties,  or  alternately  with  them  units  of 
neckwear,- collars  and  cuffs.

*  *  *

enough 
their  displays  of  underwear. 
After  we  have  had  a  trim  in  the window 
a  few  days  we  take  it  out  and  replace  it 
by  a  new 
line  of  goods  or  by  the  old 
line  made  up  in  different  units  of  dis­
play.  We  wish  to  attract  attention  to 
our  goods,  and 
if  they  are  not  any 
different  in  quality  or  price  from  those 
shown  all  about  us,  we  still  endeavor  to 
attract  attention  to  them  by  showing  as 
much  care  with  them  as  if  they  were 
something  new.  I  think  that  it  is  as im ­
portant  to  put  into  the  window  varying 
lines  of  goods  in  underwear  as  to  show 
different 
lines  of  neckwear.  Further­
more,  we  have  found by  experience  that 
it  is  particularly  advisable  to  make  dis­
plays  of  underwear 
in  outside  show­
cases  Women  passing  along  the  streets 
often 
in  this  way  have  their  ; ttention 
attracted  to  goods  that  they  would  not 
otherwise  see,  and  so  are 
led  to  buy 
garments  that,  had  they  not  been  dis­
played  outside  the  store,  would  not 
have  come  to  their  notice.  Every  fall 
as  the  cold  weather  comes  on  we  send 
out  to  our  patrons  circulars  calling  at­
tention  to  our 
fall  lines  of  goods,  and 
particularly  to  our  fall  lines  of  under­
wear. 
Then  we  display  underwear 
prominently  on  the  bars  in  the  window 
and 
It  is 
impossible 
for  anyone  coming  into  our 
place  to  escape  seeing  underwear.  By 
pushing  it  forward  in  this  way  we  are 
able  to  considerably  force  the  sales  of 
this  particular  line  of  goods.

in  the  interior  of  the  store. 

A  neat  display  of  underwear  can  be 
made  in  connection  with  sweaters.  The 
shirts  are  spread  on  the  floor  with  the 
drawers  placed  on  them  after  being 
made  up  in  this  manner:  The 
legs  of 
the  drawers  are  folded  up  and  then  the 
tops  of  the  drawers  are  drawn  back 
about  them  so  as  to  be  pinned  tightly 
back,  thus  making  a  stocky  lump  of  the 
pair of drawers.  Low  stands  are  placed 
about  the  window  with  the sweaters  dis­
played  on  them  in  this  manner:  The 
sweater  is  folded  down  the  middle  and 
then  draped  over one  end  of  the  stand 
and  the  arms  are  stretched  out  and 
fas­
tened  to  the  other  end  of  the  stand.  A 
pair  of  golf  hose  is  then  draped  over 
the  arms  of  the  sweater  with  the  em­
broidered  tops  placed  one  over 
the 
other.

*  *  *

A  neat  way  of  utilizing  a  pillar  in  a 
window  for  display  purposes  is  to  have 
brass bands  fitted  to  it  that  will  serve  as 
supports  for  the  bottoms  of  a  row  of 
umbrellas  that  are  placed  about  it  and 
kept  in  place  hy  a  band  tied  about their 
middle. 
If  the  umbrellas  are  changed 
from  time  to  time  so  as  to  show  a  vari­
ety  of  styles,  this  makes  a  very  satis­
factory  umbrella  exhibit.  Umbrellas 
are  articles  that  are  always 
in  demand 
on  rainy  days,  and  too  often  the  mer­
chant  does  not  have  them  displayed 
when  a  sudden  shower  of  rain  comes 
up.  They  are,  too,  neat  accessories  for 
almost  any  trim  of  men’s  apparel,  and 
for  that  reason  as  well  as  the  other  can 
wisely  be  given  a  permanent  place  in 
the  window.

As  a  rule  too  little  attention  is  paid 
to  proper  displays  of  underwea-.  Mer­
chants  think  that  as  underwear  for  win­
ter  is  staple  goods,  it  can  be  displayed 
in  almost  any  way  without  affecting 
its 
sales.  While  to  a  certain  extent  under­
wear  must  be  bought  by  everyone,  it  is 
still  true  that  a  considerable  difference 
can  be  made  in  the  amount  and  quan­
tity  of  sales  by  a  proper  display  of  this 
line  of  goods. 
A  prominent  dealer 
lately  said:  “ Many  people  make  a 
great  mistake 

in  not  varying

let  them 

It  is  said  that  during  the  Franco- 
Prussian  war  a  patriotic  French  dyer 
captured  a  couple  of  the  storks  of  Stras- 
burg,  and,  after  dyeing  them  with  the 
French  colors, 
loose  in  the 
city.  The  French  portion  of  the  popu­
lation  was  delighted  and  the  Germans 
proportionately incensed,  but the colored 
storks  bore  the  French  colors  high  in 
the  air  above  the  German  colors. 
It is 
suggested  that  the  same  idea  might  be 
applied 
in  a  modified  form  by  using 
those  inhabitants  of  our  cities  who  are 
a  general-  nuisance—the  English  spar­
rows.  A   window  might  be 
filled  with 
corn  husks  and  other products of autumn 
strewed  over the  floor,  with  two  or  three 
sheaves  of  wheat  for  the  food  of  the 
birds.  Some  twenty  or thirty  English 
sparrows  might  then  be  dyed  in  differ­
ent  colors  and  liberated  in  the  window, 
where  they  would  undoubtedly  attract 
much 
; ttention.  Any  druggist  could 
recommend  dye«  that  would  not  be  in­
jurious  to  the  birds  and  they  could  be 
applied  to  them  with  a  small  brush. 
If 
different  colors  were  used,  with  regard 
to  the  natural  markings  of  different 
species  of  birds— for  which  purpose 
colored 
illustrations  of  different  kinds
UI  uirus  wouia  De  ucvciiM ij— some 
often I pretty  and  striking  effects  could  be

necessary— some  ve

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

tained.  The  dyes  could  be  made  either 
fast  color  or  wash  color,  as  might  be 
desired. 
If  the  window  were  a  very 
high  one  or  a  very  large  one,  the  up­
per  part  or  the  sides  could  be  used  fora 
display  of  clothing  by  fencing  off  the 
enclosure  in  which  the  birds  are  placed 
by  fine  wire netting at  the  sides and top, 
which  would  prevent  the  goods from  be­
ing  soiled  by  the dirt  of  the birds.  Such 
an  attraction  would  be  very  interesting, 
especially  to  children.

Almost  Successful.

The  world  is  full  of  people  who  are 
almost  successful.  Here  is  a man who  is 
almost  a  lawyer,  but  not  q u ite;  here  is 
another  who  is  almost  a  physician,  but 
is  neither  a  good  druggist,  a  good  sur­
geon,nor a  good dispenser.  Another man 
is  almost  a  clergyman,  or  about  halfway 
between  a  farmer,  or  a  tradesman,  and 
a  clergyman.  Another is  almost  a  teach­
er,  but  not  quite  competent 
to  take 
charge  of  a  school  or  an  academy.  We 
meet,  every  day,  people  who  are  almost 
something,  but just  a  little  short  of  it.

If  these  people  undertake  anything, 
they  never  quite  finish  i t ;  they  never 
quite  complete  their  courses  at  school; 
they  never  quite  learn  a trade  or  profes­
sion.  They  always  manage  to  stop  just 
short  of  success.

We  encounter  people  everywhere  who 
are  almost  happy,  almost  philosophical, 
almost  religious,  yet  never  exactly  be­
long  to  any  class  or  sect.  They  never 
know  just  where  they  stand;  they  are 
not  quite  anything.

“ Almost”  

is  a  dangerous  word. 

It 
has  tripped  up  many  a  man  who  might 
have been successful if he  had  had deter­
mination  and  grit  enough  to  go  a  little 
further,  to  hold  on  a  little  longer.
No  Need  to  Make  Promises.

First  Politician—Why  is  it  that  your 
man  will  make  no  promises?  Just  look 
at  the  promises  our candidate has  made.
Second  Politician— Well,  you  see,  our 

man  expects  to  be  elected.

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plaster 
formerly  manufac­
tured and  marketed  by  the

T h e  A la ba stin u  Com­
pany,  in  addition  to  their 
world-renowned  wall  coat-
ing,  A L A B A S T I N E  
through  their  Plaster  Sales 
Department,  now  manufac­
ture and sell at lowest prices,
in  paper or wood,  in  carlots 
or less,  the  following  prod­
ucts:

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PlasticonBThe  long  established  wall 
■  American  Mortar Company.
S The  brand  specified  after 
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competitive  tests  and  used 
by the Commissioners for all
the W orld’s  Fair statuary.

The  effective  Potato  Bug 
Exterminator.

N.  P.  Brand of Stucco

(Sold with or without  sand. )

Bug Finish

Land Plaster

Finely ground and  of  supe­
rior quality.

For lowest prices address

Alabastine Company,
Plaster Sales Départaient 

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SU M M IT  CITY  SO A P  W ORKS,  Fort  W ayne,  Ind.

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COFFEES
MAKE  BUSINESS

Village  Improvement
Practical  and  Financial  Side  to  Beautiful 

Surroundings.

For  an 

illustration  of  the  fact  that 
there  is  a  practical  side  and  so  a  finan­
cial  side  to  beauty,  the  Tradesman  is 
glad  to  refer  to  what  the  National  Cash 
Register  Co.  has  done  along  these  very 
lines  at  Dayton,  Ohio. 
In  the  mind  of 
John  H.  Patterson,  the  President  of  the 
company,  it  had  long  been  more  than 
conjecture  that  business success depends 
to  a  great  extent  upon  the  personal  sur­
roundings  of  the  workman  and,  while 
is  his  castle  and  so 
each  man’s  home 
not  subject  to 
invasion,  it  is  possible 
even  then  to  influence  that  home  so  that 
it  may  be  a  counterpart  of  the 
indwell­
ing  spirit  wrought  upon  by  a  beautiful 
exterior.  What  he  wanted  was  work­
men  at  their  best  and  these  he  could 
not  have  under  existing  conditions. 
True,  the  finest  pond 
lily  comes  from 
the  blackest  m ud;  but 
the 
Divine  to  plan  and  carry  out such work­
manship  and  so  far  human  fingers  have 
not  been  found  to  equal  Nature’s handi­
work.  It  was  possible,  however,  to  take 
advantage  of  Nature’s  hint  and,  mak­
ing  the  most  of  sun  and  sky  and 
leaves 
and  vines,  in  this  way  so  fill  the  work­
man's  being  with  real  beauty  that 
it 
would  thrill  even  his  finger tips  and  so 
brighten  the  work  of  his  hands.

it  takes 

With  that  thought 

in  his  mind,  he 
proceeded  to  put  it  into  practice.  He 
began  with  the  rubbish— old  iron,  boxes 
and  barrels 
in  the  immediate  vicinity 
of  the  factory— and  sowed  the  ground  to 
grass.  Trees  and  shrubs  were  planted 
and  flowers  bloomed  and  it  was  found 
that  these  changes,  simple as  they  were, 
influenced  wholesomely  the  health  and 
the  daily  lives  of  the  workmen and their 
families  and  that,  as  an 
investment, 
the  outlay  paid.

This  conclusion  reached,  Mr.  Patter­
son  determined  to  go  a  step  farther  and 
wisely  placed  the  matter  of  adornment 
in  the  skillful  and  distinguished  hands 
of  John  C.  Olmsted, 
the  well-known 
landscape  gardener.  The  genius  who 
made  the  grounds  of  the  World’s  Fair  a 
memory  spot  of  never-forgotten  beauty 
came  and,  with  a  “ Come  forth’ ’  that 
even  Nature  was  compelled  to  heed,  un­
bound  the  beauty  that  only  his  cultured 
eye  could  see,  and  factory  ground,  cot­
tage,  lawn  and  even  the  backyard,  so 
long  despised,  put  on  a  garb  of 
loveli­
ness  until  then  unsuspected  there  and 
certainly  before  unseen.

took  root  and  began 

Thus  fairly  and  correctly  started,  the 
idea 
to  grow. 
Women,  naturally,and  men,  unnaturally 
but  kindly,  began  to  see  an  error  in 
what  they  had  before  believed,  that

A primrose by the river’s brim
A yellow primrose was to him
And it was nothing more; 

and  it  was not  long  before  the  error took 
wings  and  flew  away.  For  the  first  time 
in  their 
lives  the  mystery  of  “ green 
things  growing,”   of  leaf  and  bud  and 
blossom,of  shady nook and vine-guarded 
hammock,  of  pictured  garden  plot  and 
beauty-brightened  backyard,  was 
re­
vealed  to  them,  because for the  first  time 
in  their  lives  they  were  brought  under 
its  educating  and  refining  influence. 
They  knew  what  landscape  gardening 
meant  when  acres  and  square  miles  had 
been  brought  under  the  artist’s  touch ; 
but  here  was  their  own  neighborhood  a 
picture  of 
living  beauty  before  them 
and  here,  as  a  part  of  the  loveliest  pic­
ture  that  sunshine  ever 
looked  down 
upon,  were  their  own  little,  but  beauti­
ful,  leaf-covered homes  which  their  own

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

hands  had  brightened— a  part,  and  an 
important  part,  of  the  delightful  whole. 
From  the  expansive  landscape had these 
garden-plots  been  taken,  and,  breathed 
upon  by  the  spirit  that  had  brightened 
the  whole,  had  shown  how  the  general 
principles  on  a 
large  scale  not  only 
could  be,  but  had  been  adapted  to  the 
family  cottage  and  its  surroundings  and 
made  it  a  thing  of  beauty.

that 

these 

includes 

With  the  thought  thus  worked  out, 
with  tree  and  shrub  and  flower  doing 
each  its  best  to  illustrate  that  thought, 
the  National  Cash  Register Co.,  with  a 
gesture 
improve­
ments,  affirms  that  its  idea  means  just 
what  these  things  declare :  good  taste 
in  homes  and  planting;  neat  yards  in 
premises 
large  or  sm all;  clean  streets 
and  alleys;  simple  instruction  in  prin­
ciples  of 
for  all 
homes;  enthusiasm  for  the  neighbor­
hood ;  the  abatement  of  nuisances  by 
publicly  showing  what  and  where  they 
a re;  the  elevating,  rather  than  the  de­
basing, 
life ;  the 
cultivation  of  interest  in  the  moral,  in­
tellectual  and  physical  welfare  of  the 
entire  community. 
It  has  been  affirm­

influence  of  factory 

landscape 

effects 

It  has 
ing  this  for  five  years  or  more. 
succeeded  in  bringing  human  nature 
into  contact  with  the  beauty  of  inani­
mate  Nature  and  has  watched  the  de­
lightful  result.  The  displacement  of 
the  rubbish  and  old  iron  by  flowers  and 
leaves  has  made  a  charming  change, 
but 
it  falls  far  short  of  the  greater  one 
in  the  lives  of  the  men  and  women  who 
once  wondered  what  this  change  was 
for.  The  backyard  no  longer  means  a 
place  to  throw  things;  but,  better  than 
that,  it  has  suggested  so  pointedly  that 
there  are  nuisance-places  in  character 
to  be  similarly  cared  for  that  the  com­
munity  has  changed  by  heeding  the 
suggestion.  The  good  seeks  the  good 
no  more  surely  than 
it  repels  ihe  bad 
and  the  cleaned  street  and  the  cared-for 
alley  had  no  sooner  become  sightly  than 
they  began  to  teach  their  moral 
lessons 
to  the  thoughtful  and  the  unthoughtful 
about  them.  Cleanliness is  an  attribute 
of  beauty,as  certainly  as  form  and  color 
are,  and,  when  backyard  and  alley were 
fairly  overflowing  with  these  three,  the 
lives  they  came  in  contact  with  had  to 
be  better.  The  idea  had  to  grow,  and, 
given  a  chance  everywhere,  it  every­

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the 

where  brought  to  bear  its  influence  and 
has  made 
locality,  once  defaced 
with  tin  can  and  ash  barrel,  a  spot  so 
bright  and  so  beautiful  that  the  whole 
world  is  asked  to  come  and  see.
Tlie  Parson**» Guarantee.

A  good  joke  is  told  on  a  certain  min­
ister  of  the  gospel  who  lives  not  many 
miles  from  Grand  Rapids  and  who likes 
to  trade  horses  by  way  of  recreation. 
By  some  means  the  preacher  came 
into 
possession  of  a  horse  that  wouldn’t  pull 
at  all  when  he  came  to  a  hill.  The  par­
son 
found  a  purchaser  who  enquired 
particularly  as  to  age,  condition  and 
qualities  of  the  parson’s  steed.  At  last 
he  asked  if  he  was  a  tried  puller. 
‘.‘ It 
would  do  your  soul  good  to  see  him 
pull,”   was  the  enthusiastic  response. 
The  trade  was  made  and  in  a  few  days 
the  new  owner  came  back  and  claimed 
the  parson  had  misrepresented  the  qual­
ities  of  the  animal. 
it 
would  do  your  soul  good  to  see  him 
it  not  have  done  so?”  
pull,  and  would 
The  purchaser 
saw 
the  point  and 
dropped  the  subject.

told  you 

“ I 

Keep  your  credit  good  by  using  it 
sparingly.  It  is  like  your  bank  account, 
the  more  you  use  it  the  weaker  it  be­
comes.

i n s u r a n t ?   I l e p n r t n m r t ,

M I C H I G A N .

Lansing, Oot. 18,1900«

drand Rapids Fire Insurance Co«,

Grand Rapids, Mich«,

V«Fred MoBain, Seo'y,

Dear Sir— This morning Mr, Otis filed his report of the 

examination of your oompany and I am pleased to note that,in 
spite of the very large number of fires this year, your com­
pany is in good strong financial condition,  I am

Very truly yours,

Bie«H«H S 

Commissioner of Insurance,

The  Insurance  Department  at  Lansing is  making  an  official  examination  of  all 
It  has  recently  completed  an  examination  of 
Michigan  Fire  Insurance  Companies. 
the  Grand  Rapids  Fire  Insurance  Co.,  and  Secretary  McBain  has  received  the  above 
letter  from  the  Commissioner,  which  shows  that  our  home  company  is  in  good  finan­
cial condition.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

away,  who  will  discontinue  the  feed 
and  livery  business  and  devote their  en­
tire  attention  to  the  clothing  business.
Owosso— Fred  Carpenter  has  sold  his 
grocery  stock  to  B.  S.  Pitts,  formerly 
engaged 
in  the  drug  business  here  and 
later  with  Detwiler  &  Son.  Mr.  Car­
penter  has  accepted 
the  position  of 
manager  of  the  dry  goods department  of 
the  Tamarack  Co-operative Association, 
at  Calumet.

Durand— A  war  on  meat  prices  is  in 
progress  at  Durand.  On  Monday  one 
meat  market  reduced  the  price  of  sir­
loin and porterhouse  steaks  from  sixteen 
cents  to  twelve  and  a  half  cents.  His 
competitor  several  doors  away  immedi­
ately  purchased  $5  worth  at  the  reduced 
price.

beneau,  Capt.  Dulac,  F.  B.  Schott,  Otto 
K.  Bartley,  George  Chambers,  Albert 
Schott,  F.  L.  Wolf,  John  Priehs,  John 
Weber,  Jacob  Hubarth,  Jas.  Matthews 
and  W.  D.  Wilson.

Saginaw— The  plant  of  the  American 
Fibre  Co.  is  rapidly assuming  shape  for 
the  manufacture  of  its  product,  about 
40  men  being  employed  in  overhauling 
the  engines  and  boilers,  refitting  the 
building  and 
installing  the  machines 
and  reservoirs.  The  building  which 
will  contain  the  big  ovens  where  the 
ware  is  to  be  baked  is  now  under  con­
struction. 
long.  A 
100  horse  power  electrical generator  will 
operate  the  pumps  of  the  salt  wells, 
which  are  to  be  operated  in  connection 
with  the  factory.

It  will  be  165  feet 

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Around  the  State

Movements of Merchant«.

Lyons—Greenhoe  Bros,  have  engaged 

in  the  meat  business.

Clare— Janies  O ’Connor  has  engaged 

in  the  grocery  business.

Kalkaska— Mrs.  J.  H.  Durkee,  baker, 

has  sold  out  to  S.  Stevens.

Owosso— Fred  Carpenter  has  sold  his 

grocery  stock  to  Stephen  B.  Pitts.

Detroit— Chas.  Protiva  has  sold  his 

grocery  stock  to  Fred  W.  Schwartz.

Thompsonville— N.  A.  Egbert,  of 
Clare,  has  opened  a  flour  and feed store.
Tecumseh— E.  J.  Peters  is  succeeded 
jewelry  business  by  Gaston  & 

in  the 
Son.

Easton— C.  E.  Underwood,  of  Owosso, 
the  grocery  business 

in 

has  engaged 
here.

Eaton  Rapids— I.  P.  Roberts  has  en­
gaged  in  the  flour,  feed  and  provision 
business.

Bad  Axe-----Bartley  Bros,  succeed
Henry  Bartley  in  the  furniture  and  un­
dertaking  business.

Pontiac— Victor Sheppard  and  George 
Nusbaumer  have  purchased  the  grocery 
stock  of  W.  Elevier.

Battle  Creek— James  G.  Redner  has 
and  crockery 

purchased  the  grocery 
stock  of  Wm.  G.  Murphy.

West  Bay  C ity— A.  McDonald  con­
tinues  the  grocery  and  meat  business  of 
McDonald  &  Owen  in  his  own  name.

Lansing— Edmund  Moore has engaged 
in  the  grocery  business  at  this  place, 
having  purchased  the  stock  of  W.  H. 
Maguire.

Big  Rapids— A.  R.  Morehouse  has 
sold  his  grocery  stock  to  A.  Farladeau. 
who  will  continue  the  business  at  the 
same  location.

Allegan— Burrell  Tripp  has purchased 
the  furniture  stock  of  Oliver  &  Co.  and 
will  add  a 
line  of  crockery  and  house 
furnishing  goods.

Turner— The  general  stock  of  Wede- 
meyer  Bros,  has  been  taken  by  the Wm. 
Barie  Dry  Goods  Co.  and  Symons  Bros.
&  Co.,  of  Saginaw.

East  Jordan— Elmer  Richards  has  re­
tired  from  the  meat  firm  of  Richards 
Bros.  The  business  will  be  continued 
under  the  style  of  Richards  &  Co.

Sault  Ste.  Marie— P.  C.  Keliher,  the 
veteran  grocer,  will  discontinue  the  re­
tail  business  and  engage  in  the  whole­
sale  grocery  business  exclusively.

Big  Rapids— F.  W.  Joslin  has  pur­
chased  the  M.  A.  Wells  &  Co.  clothing 
stock  of  John  T.  Clark,  receiver,  and 
will  continue both stores  for  the  present.
Petoskey— L.  VanAlstine  has  formed 
a  copartnership  with  E.  H.  Gilbert,  of 
Grand  Rapids,  and  engaged  in  the  har­
ness  and  agricultural  implement  busi­
ness.

Owosso— Edwin  S.  Lusk, formerly  en­
gaged  in  the  shoe  business  at this place, 
and  later  in  the  employ  of  D.  R.  Salis­
bury,  has 
leased  a  store  building  and 
opened  up  a  line  of  boots  and  shoes.

Owosso— Macauley  &  Co.,  wholesale 
milliners  at  Detroit,  have  begun  suit 
against  the  millinery  firm  of  Sturtevant 
&  Shehee  in  the  sum  of  $500  to  collect 
a  debt  due  them  to  the  amount  of 
$318.40.

Bay  City— The  Bay  City  Dry  Goods 
&  Carpet  Co.  is  spending  about  $20,000 
in  the  improvement  of  its  store  build­
ing,  which  will  include  a  new  elevator, 
enlarged  windows,  hardwood  floors  and 
a  third  story  to  the  south  store.

Buchanan— H.  O.  &  E.  B.  Weaver, 
proprietors  of  the  Hub  clothing  store, 
have  sold  their  stock  to Wenger &  Hath­

Hillsdale— The  grocery  and  meat  firm 
of  W.  H.  Croose  &  Co.  has  been  dis­
solved,  Mr.  Croose 
Geo. 
Schick  will  continue the  business  in  his 
own  name.  Mr.  Croose  will  devote  his 
entire  attention 
to  stock  buying  and 
shipping,  which  he  has 
followed  as  a 
side  line  for  some  time.

retiring. 

Charlotte— M.  Heyman  &  Son,  meat 
dealers  at  this  place,  have  dissolved 
partnership  on  account  of  the retirement 
of  M.  Heyman 
from  active  business. 
Henry  Heyman  has  formed  a  copartner­
ship  with  Charley  Bicker,  for  many 
years 
in  the  employ  of  the  firm,  and 
will  continue  the  business  under  the 
style  of  Heyman  &  Bicker.

M anufacturing Matter«. 

Onaway— The  Huron  Handle  &  Man­
ufacturing  Co.  has  been  organized  with 
a  capital  stock  of  $50,000.

West  Bay  City— The  Michigan  Land 
&  Lumber  Co.  has  increased  its  capital 
stock  from  $5,000  to  $25,000.

Jackson— The  Puritan  Cereal  Food 
Co.  is  the  style  of  a  new  corporation  at 
this  place.  The  capital  stock  of  the 
enterprise  is  $100,000.

Montague— Olsen  &•  Youngquist  have 
purchased  the  roller  mills  at  this  place 
and  will  conduct  the  business  in  con­
nection  with  their grist  mill  at  White­
hall.

Lakeview— Frank  Hess  has  discontin­
ued  the  stave  manufacturing  business  at 
Ithaca  and  formed  a  copartnership  with 
his  father-in-law,  Fred  Sreaves,  to  con­
tinue  the  grocery  and  crockery  business 
of  the  latter.

Sarensen, 

N orrisville-N . 

formerly 
with  the  Michigan  Starch  Co.,  of  Trav­
erse  City,  has  leased  from  Charles  Nor­
ris  a  half  interest  in  the  roller mills  and 
formed  a  copartnership  with  John  Nor­
ris  to  continue  the  business  under  the 
style  of  Norris  &  Sarensen.

Grass  Lake— The  Grass  Lake  Cream- j 
ery  Co.  has  declared  a  7  per  cent,  div-  j 
idend.  This  is  the  first  dividend  since 
the  fire  of  two  years  ago.  The  machin­
ery  and  repairs  are  all  paid  for,  and 
hereafter  with 
fair  success  a  semi­
annual  dividend  will  be  forthcoming.

Jackson— Ground  has  been  broken  for 
the  erection  of  a  new  factory  building, 
130x50  feet 
in  dimensions,  on  Ganson 
street,  in  which  to  manufacture  hard­
ware  specialties,  including  the  metal 
parts  for  carriages  and  agricultural 
im­
plements.  The  new  enterprise  will  be 
conducted  under  the  style  of  G.  A.  Mc- 
Keel  &  Co.

Mt.  Clemens— The  Mt.  Clemens Lum­
ber  Co.  is  now  fully  organized  and  do­
ing  business  in  the  old  yard  of  William 
Dulac  &  Sons.  The  company  is  com­
posed  of  the  following  substantial  cit­
izens  of  the  town :  Francis  P.  Ullrich, 
Thomas  W.  Newton,  John  P.  Martz,' 
Oscar  O.  Lungershausen,  Louis  Char-

The Grain  M arket.

Wheat  has  been  dull  during  the  week. 
Fine  weather  was  the  rule.  Farmers’ 
deliveries  were  good 
in  the  Southwest 
and  in  the  Northwest  as  well.  The  ex­
ports  from  the  United  States  were large, 
being  about  5.000,000  bushels.  Still  the 
visible  showed  an  increase  of  1,460,000, 
which  had  a  depressing  tendency,  but 
the  reported  damage  in  the  Argentina 
finally  caused  a  halt  in  the  downward 
course,  so  cash  wheat  closed 
to-day 
where  it  was  a  week  ago  to-day.  While 
December  options  were 
lower,  the 
outlook,  notwithstanding  the  large  vis­
ible,  is  for  firm  markets,  as  the  condi­
tions  are  such  that  the  heavy  receipts 
are  about  over.

In  our  own  State 

The  prospects  for  winter  wheat  are 
not  promising  at  the  present  time,  as 
the  Hessian  fly 
is  reported  in  Ohio  as 
bad  as  last  year,  while  similar  com­
plaints  also  come  from  Kentucky  and 
Kansas. 
it  has  not 
its  appearance  to  any  extent  as 
made 
yet,  owing  to  the  late  sowing.  Should 
the  Argentine  damage  be  more  pro­
nounced,  we  will  yet  see  better  prices 
in  the  not  far  future,  especially  as  the 
Russian  as  well  as  the  Danubian  and 
Hungarian  crops  are  short— so  much  so 
that  part  of  Russia  is  threatened  with 
famine  in  parts  where  wheat  is  usually 
plentiful.

ij^c 

Corn 

is  fully 

lower  than  at  the 
corresponding  time  last  week.  The  rea­
son  therefor  is  the  fine  dry  weather. 
New  corn  has  made 
its  appearance 
earlier than  usual  and,  notwithstanding 
the  visible  showing  a  decrease  of  770,- 
000  bushels,  the  market  sagged  off,  as 
above  stated.  At  present  prices  look 
very  weak  in  the  corn  trade.

Oats,  not  to  be  outdone  by  corn,  fol­
lowed  suit  and  dropped 
ic   a  bushel, 
which  is  still  too  high,  taking  the  large 
amount 
into  consideration. 
We  predict  lower  prices  for  that  cereal.
Rye  has  held  its  own,  50c  for  choice 

received 

in  carlots  being  the  going  price.

Flour  was  very  steady.  The  demand 
has  not  been  as  pressing  as  heretofore, 
owing  to  the  apparent  weakness 
in 
wheat,  and  buyers  are  holding  off.  For­
eign  bids  are  below  value  at  present. 
However,there seems  to  be  considerable 
doing.  The  city  mills  have  orders  to 
run  full  time  yet.  Should  wheat  prices 
firm  up,  the  demand  will  be  very  much 
stronger,  both  for  domestic,  foreign  and 
local  trade.

Mill  feed  is  still  in  good  demand  at 

full  prices.

Receipts  have  been  nom inal:  55 
cars  of  wheat,  5  cars  of  corn,  9  cars  of 
oats,  1  car  of  flour,  2  cars  of  beans,  2 
cars  of  hay,  8  cars  of  potatoes.

The  mills  are  paying  73c  for No.  2 red 

wheat. 

C.  G.  A .  Voigt.

Northville— The  Northville  Improve­
ment  Association  has  secured  the  Fisk 
&  Olds’  shoe  factory,  and  the  company 
will  move  here  early  next  month  and 
expect  to  be  ready  for  business  by  De­
cember  20.  The company,  toTiegin with, 
will  employ  fifty  hands,  which  number 
will  be  increased  to  too by another year. 
Besides a  cash  bonus,  the  company  will 
get  free  light  and  free  water for a period 
of  five  years. 
I hey  will  occupy  the 
large  three-story  brick  near  the  depot, 
formerly  used  by  the  Globe  Furniture 
Co.  as  a  finishing  room.  The  Associa­
tion  has  also  induced  the J.  A.  Dubuar 
Manufacturing  Co. 
to  build  a  40x80 
three-story  brick  addition  to  its  plant, 
and  the  work  has  already  commenced. 
The  manufacture  of  air  guns  and  some 
other  novelties  will  be  extended  and  an 
increase  of  twenty.  to  thirty  men  will 
result.

interest 

Detroit— The  case  of  the  Old  Sol 
Cigar  Co.  against  the  Flint  Cigar Co. 
to  restrain 
the  use  of  the  registered 
trade  mark  or  cigar  label  of  “ Old  Sol’ ’ 
is  under  consideration  by  Judge  Hos- 
mer.  Sol  Aberdee  maintains  that  he 
registered  the  label  and  used it  with  the 
firm  of  W.  E.  Braman  &  Co.,  or  the 
Flint  Cigar  Co.  Subsequently  he  sold 
out  his 
in  that  company,  but 
claims  that  he  retained  all  the  rights  to 
that  cigar  and  label.  For  a  while  after 
he  left  the  company  they  still  made  the 
“ Old  Sol,’ ’  but  ceased  later,  as  he  de­
manded  that  they  take  his  picture  off 
their  boxes. 
the 
“ Original  Old  Sol.”   This 
led  to  so 
much  confusion  that  when a man wanted 
a  cigar  he  would  ask  for  the  “ Sol  with 
whiskers  on,”   meaning  the  “ Old  Sol”  
with  Aberdee’s  picture,  or  he  would 
ask  for  “ Sol  without  whiskers,”   mean­
ing  the  “ Original  Old  S o l."  The  Flint 
company  applied 
for  registration  on 
the  names  “ Old  Sun”   and  “ Old  Son,”  
and  “ Original  Old  Sun,”   and  “ O rigi­
nal  Old  Son,”   but  were  only  granted  it 
on  the  last  two.

they  made 

Then 

Large  Potato  Crop  in  Oceana County. 
Shelby,  Oct.  28— There  is  a  big  po­
in  Oceana  county.  Farmers 
tato  crop 
are  very  busy  digging  the  tubers  now. 
The  quality  is  very  fine  and  the  crop  is 
unusually  large— an  average of about  100 
bushels  to  the  acre.  They  are  a  little 
green  to  ship  yet,  as  the  weather  has 
been  summerlike,  but  the  first  frost  will 
harden  them  up. 

J.  H. Chapman.

Crusades  have  been  legion  in  Boston 
and  New  York  against  unsightly  adver­
tisements,  both 
in  town  and  country.
A  Boston  club  offers  a  prize  for  the  set 
of  twelve  photographs  which  will  best 
illustrate  the  disfigurement  of 
land­
scapes  in  the  way  indicated.  The  New 
York  Central  Railroad  has  taken  up  the 
matter  with  the  object  of  protecting  the 
scenery  along  its  route.

Sadden  For  Her.

Neighbor— Good  morning,  Johnny. 

How's  your  ma?

Johnny— She’s  pretty  well  for her. 
Neighbor—And  how’s  your  pa?
Johnny— He’s  pretty  well  for  him. 
Neighbor—Your grandma’s dead.  She 

died  pretty  sudden,  didn’t  she?

Johnny— Yes,  pretty  sudden  for  her.

More  than  $100,000,000  worth  of  India 
(rubber  has  been 
the 
l United  States  during  the  last  four years.

imported 

into 

A  curious  case  of  loss  of  memory  is 
from  Wornrs.  A  small  land- 
:ported 
owner  was  struck  by 
lightning  while 
plowing,  the  flash  passing  through  his 
iat,  leaving  a  hole  as  large  as  a  fist, 
then  down  his  neck  and  through  the 
plow  handle  into  the  ground.  The  vic­
tim,  who  was  ill  for several days,  finally 
recovered,  but  he  has  entirely  lost  hi's 
memory.

The  campaign  spell-hinders  will  be 
out  of  a  job  for a  spell  after  the election 
is  over.

Grand  Rapids  Qossip
M.  Millard  has  purchased  the  grocery 
stock  of  B.  L.  Millard  at 31  East Bridge 
street.

Taylor  &  McDuff,  proprietors  of  the 
so-called  Cut  Rate  meat  market  on 
Wealthy  avenue,  have  suspended  opera­
tions  for  the  present.

G.  A.  Johnson  has  sold  his  grocery 
and  confectionery 
stock  and  bakery 
business  at  38  West  Leonard  street  to 
Mrs.  Rosa  M.  Castor.

Wellington  R.  Lawton  has  sold  his 
grocery  stock  at  58  Second  street  to  B. 
Fred  Idema,  who  will  continue 
the 
business  at  the  same  location.

J.  G.  Jourdan  has  engaged in the  drug 
and  grocery  business  at Fruitport.  The 
drug  stock  was  purchased  of  the  Hazel- 
tine  &  Perkins  Drug  Co.  and  the  gro­
cery  stock  was  furnished  by  the  Mus- 
selman  Grocer  Co.

Peter  Cooper  has  sold  his  interest 

in 
the  grocery  stock  of  Cooper  Bros.,  at 
418  West  Bridge  street,  to  his  brother, 
who  will  continue  the  business  under 
the  style  of  Sebastian  Cooper.  The  re­
tiring  partner  has  taken  the  position  of 
Grand  Rapids  representative  of  the 
American  Importing  Co.,  of  Chicago.

Representatives  of  the  local  wholesale 
grocery  trade  and  allied 
lines  enjoyed 
a  trip  to  Holland  last  week  as the guests 
of  the  Holland  Sugar  Co.  The  pro­
gramme 
included  dinner  at  the  City 
Hotel  and  a  visit  to  the  beet  sugar  fac­
tory,  where  the  process  of  converting 
beets 
into  granulated  sugar  was  wit­
nessed  and  explained.  The  factory  ap­
pears  to  be  a  model  in  point  of  system­
atic  arrangement  and  careful  attention 
to  details,  the  product  moving  along 
from  one  stage  of  manufacture  to  an­
other  without  stoppage.  The  output 
is 
superior 
in  quality,  being  even  more 
uniform  than  the  output  of  last  season, 
which  was  manufactured  under 
the 
auspices  of  the  construction  company 
which  erected  and  equipped  the  plant. 
Although  the  acreage  planted  to  beets 
by  the  patrons  of  the 
factory  is  no 
larger  than 
last  season,  the  yield  is  so 
much  greater  and  the  returns  so  much 
more  satisfactory,  that  the  management 
confidently  expect  that  the  acreage  will 
be  doubled  another  season.

The  Produce  M arket.

Bananas— Are 

Apples— Michigan 

fruit  commands 
$i.75@2.25  per  bbl.  A  considerable 
portion  of  the  crop  must  be  moved 
quickly,  owing  to  the  prevalence  of  the 
so-called  bitter rot,  which  indicates  that 
the  fruit  so  affected  will  be  short  lived. 
Local  handlers  are  purchasing  New 
York  fruit  for cold  storage.
stronger 

and  some 
grades  have  advanced  again  5@ioc 
per  bunch.  There 
is  a  constantly  in­
creasing  movement,  due  to  the  small 
supplies  of  other 
fruits  which  have 
passed  out  of  season.  Although  the  ar­
rivals  have  not  been  as  large  as  last 
year  at  this  season,  the  condition  of  a 
large  proportion  is  better  than  it  has 
been  and  prices  are  showing  the  effect 
in  substantial  advances.

Beets—$1  per  bbl.
Butter—Fancy  creamery  is  strong  at 
21c.  Receipts  of  dairy  are  heavy,  but 
they  run  largely  to  low  grades  and  poor 
stock.  Prices  range  from  13c  for  pack­
ing  stock  to  15c  for  choice  and  16c  for 
fancy  table  grades.

Cabbage—$1  per  bbl.
Carrots—$1  per  bbl.
Cauliflower—$ i @ i . 25  per  doz.  heads.
Celery— 18c  per  bunch.
Cider— io@ iic   per gal.  for  sweet.
C ranberries—W alton  fruit  com m ands 
$2.50  per bu.  box  for  fancy.  Cape  Cods

are,]  held  at  $2.40  per  bu.  box  andr$7 
per  bbl.

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.

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  de­
mand 
limited.  Fancy  white  com­
mands  15@ i6c,  amber  goes  at  I3@i4c 
and  dark  buckwheat  is  slow  sale  at  10 
@12C.

Lemons— Are  dull.  Trade 

is  light, 
most  buyers  wanting  only  small  quanti­
ties.  The  condition  of  much  of  the for­
eign  fruit  is  very  unsatisfactory,  but  the 
California  lemons  are  giving  good  sat­
isfaction.

is 

is 

Onions— Red  Globe  and  Yellow  Dan­
vers  have  advanced  to  5o@55C,  while 
White  Globe  and  Silver  Skins  fetch  60 
@650.  Small  white  stock  for  pickling 
purposes 
in  fair  demand  at  $2  per 
bu.  Spanish  are  held  at  $1.50  per  crate.
Oranges— A few Florida  oranges  come 
into  market,  but  so  far  the  quantity 
is 
too  small  to  make  any  impression.  The 
improving,  however,  and 
quality 
there 
likelihood  that  the  entire  crop 
will  mature  earlier  than  at  first  stated. 
With  Jamaicas,  Californias  and  Flor­
idas 
in  market  and  a  few  from  other 
producing  sections  there  promise  to  be 
lively  times  this  fall  and  winter.

is 

is 

Pears— Cold  storage  Kiefers command 

$1^1.25  per  bu.

Pop  Corn—$1  per  bu.
Potatoes— 30c  per  bu.  The  market  is 
beginning  to  strengthen,  on  account  of 
reports  that  stock  is  rotting  badly,  es 
pecially  in  the  Grand  Traverse  region.
Poultry— Local  dealers  pay  as  follows 
for  dressed: 
10c; 
fowls,  8c;  spring  ducks,  9 c —old  not 
wanted  at  any  price ;  spring  geese,  8@ 
ioc— old  not  wanted;  spring  turkeys,  11 
@ i2c;  old  turkeys,  8@9C.  Spring chick­
ens  are  coming  in  freely.  Spring  tur­
keys  are  not  yet  in  good  condition,  on 
account  of  being  lank  and  bony.

Spring  chickens, 

$2.75  for  Jerseys.

Sweet  Potatoes—$2  for  Virginias  and 
Quinces— $ i @ i . 25  per  bu.,  according 

to  size  and  quality.

Squash— 2c  per  lb.  for  Hubbard.
Turnips—$1  per  bbl.

Hides,  Pelts, Tallow  and  Wool.

Hides  remain  firm  and  sell  freely  at 
the  advance,  with  asking  prices  still 
higher.  Stocks  are  kept  well  cleaned 
up.  The  demand  is  above  the  supply. 
The  past  year  has  proven  remunerative 
to  tanners  and  their  products  are wanted 
for  the  trade.

Pelts  are  in  good  demand  at  higher 
values,  on  account  of  better  quality  of 
stock  and  the  increased  demand.

Tallow  has  more  enquiry,with  a slight 
advance  on  edible.  No.  1  soapers’  stock 
remains  firm.  Trade 
fair  on  all 
grades.

is 

Wools  do  not  change  in  value.  No 
large  sales  have  been  made  and  small 
manufacturers  are  buying  to  fill  present 
orders.  The  volume  of  sales 
is  small. 
Both  sides  are  awaiting  the  outcome  of 
election.  The 
in  London 
now  control  the  market  on  this  side.

low  prices 

Wm.  T.  Hess.

The  interest  which  farmers  are  taking 
in  dairy  products  means  a  great  deal  to 
the  manufacturers  of  dairy  supplies. 
The  growth  of  population,  the  rise  of 
cities  and  towns  throughout  the  regions 
heretofore  devoted  to  agriculture,  the 
increasing  demand  abroad  for American 
dairy  products,  all  help  to  increase  the 
demand  for  those  products  in  accelera­
ting  proportions.  The  mechanical  ap­
pliances  for dairy requirements are year­
ly  improving,  and  the  opportunities  for 
profitable  development  of  this  interest­
ing  adjunct  to  agriculture  are  widen­
ing.  The  next  step  will  be  the  appli­
cation  of electricity to  dairy work upon a 
large  scale.

The  Grocery  Market.

l/%c 

Sugars— The 

raw  sugar  market 

is 
weaker  and  prices  have  declined  %c, 
making  96  deg.  test  centrifugals  now 
AHc-  Refiners,  however,  have  fair  sup­
plies  on  hand  and  seem  indisposed  to 
buy,  their  ideas  being  about 
lower 
than  the  present  price.  The  refined 
market  is  quiet  and  buying  is  only  of  a 
hand-to-mouth  character  in  anticipation 
of 
lower  prices  for  the  entire  list,  ow­
ing  to  the  weakness  of  the  raw  market. 
The  beet  sugar  campaign  is now  on  and 
the  trade  are  taking  largely  of  sugar  of 
Michigan  manufacture.  The  product 
turned  out  this  year  is  very  fine  and  the 
majority  of  it  is  fully  equal  to  the  best 
Eastern  refined  and,  at 
the  10  cents 
difference  in  price,  is  monopolizing  the 
business.

Canned  Goods—The  canned  goods 
market,  like  all  others,  is  characterized 
by  the  waiting  tendency  incident  to  the 
coming  election. 
Immediately  after  the 
election  we  think  business  will  be  much 
more  active  and  any  increased  demand 
will  cause  higher values in several lines. 
The  tomato  market  is  quiet,  but  shows 
no  change  in  price.  The  market  is 
in 
good  condition  and  we  think  will  soon 
begin  to  do  better. 
Corn  continues 
easy,  with  very  little  interest  shown  by 
the  trade.  Peas  are  firm  for  good  qual­
ity  goods,  but  the  market 
is  quiet. 
Baltimore  peaches  are  easier.  String 
beans  of  the  best  grades  are  wanted  by 
some  buyers,  but  goods  are  very  scarce. 
The  salmon  market  is  firm,  but  quiet. 
There 
is  some  enquiry  for  almost  all 
grades  of  salmon,  but  only  small  sales 
are  made,  as  stocks  are  so  very  light. 
is  very  firm  and 
The  sardine  market 
prices  are  advancing.  Some  interest 
is 
taken 
imported  sardines,  owing  to 
buyers’  desire  to  get  in  before  an  ex­
pected  further  advance.

in 

vastly 

A  good  cold  snap 

Dried  Fruits— There  is  considerably 
less  activity 
in  the  dried  fruit  market 
than  was  the  case  several  days  ago  and 
jobbers  are  bemoaning  the  falling  off  of 
retail  buying,  which  early 
last  week 
seemed 
to  be  starting  up  in  earnest. 
The  disappointingly  warm  weather  and 
the  prospective  election 
together  are 
causing  the  mischief  apparently,  al­
though  the  consensus  of  opinion  at­
tributes  the  prevailing  dulness  to  the 
atmosphere  rather  than  the  political 
conditions. 
that 
should  act  as if  it  meant  to  tarry a while 
undoubtedly  would 
improve 
trade.  At  present  there  can  hardly  be 
said  to  be  any  special  feature  to  the 
market.  There  has  been  a  good  de­
mand  for  raisins,  although  the  demand 
has  not  been  as  brisk  as  it  was  a  week 
ago.  Seeded  raisins  are  moving  out 
freely  than  any  other  line  of  do­
more 
mestic  dried 
fruits,  while  all  raisins, 
California  and  imported  on  spot,  are  in 
quite  good  request.  The  crown  loose 
muscatels  are  in  great  demand  and  it  is 
stated  that  the  market  on  this  grade 
is 
firmer,  owing  to  reports  from  the  coast 
that  the  percentage  of  two  crowns  this 
year 
is  showing  a  shortage,  running 
only  about  I2@i5  per  cent.  The  currant 
market  is  somewhat  weaker  and  prices 
have  declined  %c.  Trade  in  dates con­
tinues  very  good.  Hallowis  are  going 
out  freely  at  full  prices.  More 
interest 
in  Fard  dates.  New  crop 
is  noted 
Smyrna 
figs  show  an  increased  demand 
and  some  large  sales  have  been  made. 
California 
figs  are  doing  better,  also, 
and  are  selling  quite  freely.  The  out­
put  of  figs  in  California  this  season  is 
estimated  at  160  cars.  Evaporated  ap­
ples  are  in  light  demand  just at present, 
owing 
largely  to  the  continued  warm

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

5

weather.  With  the  advent  of  cooler 
weather,  much  better  business 
is  ex­
pected.

Rice—’There 

is  no  particular  change 
in  the  rice  market.  Business  is  moder­
full  prices  are  realized  for  all 
ate  and 
grades.  Some  dealers  anticipate 
lower 
prices,  while  others  believe  there  will 
be  no  changes  for  some  time  to  come.

Tea— The  tea  market 

is  still  very 
in  business  is  ex­
latter  part  of  November. 

dull,  but  a  revival 
pected 
Prices  are  steady,  but  unchanged.

the 

Molasses— The  demand  for  molasses 
is  not  very  brisk,  owing  somewhat  to 
the  warm  weather  prevailing.  Prices, 
however,  are  firmly  held.  Advices  from 
New  Orleans  note  somewhat  freer  ar­
rivals  of  new  crop  molasses  and  it  is 
expected 
lower. 
Buyers  are,  consequently,  purchasing 
only  small  lots  to  meet  current  wants.

that  prices  will  be 

P ish—Codfish 

is  becoming  scarce  at 
Gloucester  and  prices  there  are  higher. 
The  scarcity  of  fish  is  said  to  be  due  to 
the  fact  that  most  of  the  fishing  vessels 
are  going  for  mackerel,  which 
is  more 
profitable  to  the  fishermen  than  catch­
ing  cod.  The  demand  for  codfish  has 
been  very  heavy  and  no  lower  prices 
are  looked  for.

Nuts— Nuts  show  more  activity,  par­
ticularly  Tarragona  and  Ivica  almonds, 
filberts  and  Brazils.  Returns  from  all 
districts  indicate  that  the  crop  of  C ali­
fornia  walnuts  is  running  below  early 
estimates.  Some  records  show  a  loss  of 
25  per  cent,  in  delivery,  as  earlier  esti­
mated.  This  would  make  a  total  output 
of  but  400  cars.  Based  on  these  condi­
tions  large  operators  are  extremely  con­
fident  of  the  November  market.  The 
market  on  Tarragona  almonds  has  made 
a  slight  decline  and  it  is  claimed  that 
this  deciine  brings  the  price  down  to 
quite  a  little  under  the  cost  to  import. 
Some 
in  filberts  and 
new  Naples  walnuts.

is  taken 

interest 

Rolled  Oats— Millers  are  still  heavily 
oversold  and  for  prompt  shipment  are 
holding  prices  at  the  last  advance,  but 
for  shipment in  three  weeks  are  making 
some  slight  concessions.

The  Cloven  Hoof of the  Hell.

Before  the  Kalamazoo  people  were 
sold  out  to  the  Michigan  Bell  Co.,  they 
were  getting  good 
telephone  service 
with  granular  carbon  or  long  distance 
telephones  at  $24  for  business  places 
and  $18  for  residences.

The  following  official  announcement 
was  made  Octoher 27  as  to  Kalamazoo 
rates,  the  “ common”   service  being  that 
obtained  over  the  old  Blake  transmitter 
telephone:

Long  distance  business,  $48.
Long  distance  residence,  $36.
Long  distance  two-party business,$42.
Long  distance 
tw o-party  residence, 

$30.
I  Common  business,  $36.
Common  residence,  $18.
Common  two-party  business,  $24.
Common  two-party  residence,  £15.
Thus  a  business  man  must  pay  50  per 
cent,  more  for  poor  service  and  double 
for  good  service  than  he  did  for  good 
service  under 
independent  ownership!

fivhlence  of Genius.

“ My  w ife,”   said  Mr.  Snickers,  " i s a  

truly  remarkable  woman.”

“ We  all  know  that,”   we  said;  “ but 

do  you  wish  to  specify?”

“ Yes,  sir.  She  wrote  and  sold  a  story 
the  other  day,  and  she  spent  only  once 
the  money  she  expected 
receive 
for  it.”

to 

For  G illies’  N.  Y. 

tea,  all  kinds, 
grades  and  prices  v isner  both  phones.

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

The  Buffalo  Market
Aeon rate  Index  of  the  Principal  Staples 

Handled.

years,  and  while  marrow 

Keans— The  market  is  higher on  mar­
row  and  medium,  but  only  steady  on 
pea. 
It  appears  that  growers  were  in­
duced  to  raise  more  of  the  latter  variety 
by  the  high  prices  prevailing  the  past 
few 
and 
medium  are  scarce  this  year  there  is 
plenty  of  pea  to  be  had  at  easy  prices. 
Marrows  are  selling  at  $2.3032.40  for 
good  to  fancy;  medium,  $2.1532.30; 
pea,  fancy,  $232.20  per  bu.  No  white 
kidney  offered. 
few  red  kidney 
would  sell  at  $1.7532  if  fancy.

A 

Butter— Fresh  extras  are  scarce  and 
the  majority  of  sellers  are  asking  23^c 
for tubs  and  24324^0  for  prints.  This 
is  considered  too  high  by  buyers  who 
even  supply  the  best  class  of  customers, 
and  there 
is  a  general  hunt  for  some­
thing  to  take  its  place  at  a  lower  figure. 
Junes,  fancy  renovated  and  some  extra 
nice  storage  dairy  are  being  offered  and 
holders  report  an  active  business  at 
better 
than  recently  quoted. 
Crock  butter  and  low  grades  of all kinds 
are 
light  supply.  Rolls  are  scarce 
and  in  good  request.  Quoted:  Extra 
creamery,  23323KC;  good  to  choice, 
21322c; 
16318c; 
dairy  fancy,  2oj^@2ic;  fair to  good,  17 
@ i8c;  crocks,  fancy,  20c;  fair  to  good, 
I7@ i8c ;  poor  butter,  all  kinds,  I3@ i4c. 
Rolls  sold  at  18c  for  fancy,  and  i6@i7c 
for  fair  to  good.

common 

prices 

fair, 

in 

to 

is 

fairly  active 

Cheese— Trade 

for 
good  to  choice and  prices remain steady, 
fancy  full  cream  small  selling  at  1 1 ^ 3  
i2c;iOod  to  choice,  io@ i i c ;  common  to 
fair,  8@9C.

is  getting 

Eggs— Receipts  are 

liberal  of  fresh 
freely. 
and  storage  are  coming  out 
into 
storage  quite 
Trade 
lots  are  not  giving 
generally  as  fresh 
satisfaction.  State  and 
the  best  of 
Western 
to 
choice,  i8@ igc;  seconds,  10 3 11c;  stor­
age,  fancy, 
17c;  good  to  choice,  15® 
i6^ c.

fresh,  20c;  good 

strictly 

Dressed  Poultry— With  a  heavy  sup­
ply  of  dressed  and 
live  and  warm 
weather  prices  were  lower,  especially  at 
the  close  of  the  week  when  it  was  evi­
dent  the  market  could  not  clean  up  ex­
cept  at  liberal  commissions.  Chickens 
went  mostly  at 
iicw h en   extra  fancy, 
good  to  choice,  q^@ ioc.  Fowl,  fancy, 
g ^ ^ io c ;  fair  to good  8j4 @gc.  Young 
turkeys  sold  at  n @ i2c  for  the  best 
lots 
‘down  to  8c 
for  thin  and  old  stock. 
Ducks  if  fat  and  fancy  were  not  quot­
able  above  i i @I2c.

Live  Poultry— Receipts  of  express 
liberal,  but  would  have 
stock  were 
worked  out  at  close  to 
last  week’s 
prices,  but  freight  receipts  began  to 
arrive  and  the  market  broke  from  i@ 
i'Ac,  and  at  the  close  on  Saturday  was 
still  lower.  Even  ducks  sold  down  be­
low  expected  prices  owing  to  the  flood 
of  chickens  and  fowl.  The  break  will 
no  doubt  check  receipts  and  it  is  pos­
sible  will  place  the  market  in  better 
shape  for 
future  business.  Turkeys, 
young,  sold  at  9310 c;  chickens,  large 
fancy,  9c;  good  to  choice,  8@8% c; 
small  and mixed,  7@7%c.  Fowl,  fancy, 
8>^c; 
Ducks, 
fancy,  per  pair,  75@8oc;  small  and 
medium,  50365c per  pair.  Geese,  large 
fancy,  80390c  each;  medium,  55365c. 
Pigeons,  per  pair,  15320c.

fair  to  good,  7@8c. 

Game— Scarce.  Partridge  quoted  at 
$7@8  per  doz.  Woodcock,  $435  per 
doz.  Rabbits,  4o@6oc  per  pair.

Apples— Fancy  table  fruit  is  scarcer 
than 
last  week  and  in  better  demand. 
Snows  sold  up  to  $3.5034,  but  the  bulk 
of  fancy  brought  $3  per  bbl.  Other  se­
lected 
fruit  sells  at  $2.50@2.75, 
Good  to  choice,  $1.75(652.25 ;  common  to 
fair,  $131.50  per  bbl;  winter apples, 
$i.50@i.75 per  bbl.

fall 

Crabapples—Season over.  A  few  8  to 

12  lb.  baskets  are  selling  at  io@i5c.

Pears— Quiet  and  weak.  Duchess  and 
Kieffer  offered  at  $i-5o@2  for  choice  to 
fancy.

Peaches— Light  receipts,  but  demand 

is  slow  i,t  15325c  per  8  lb.  basket.

Quinces— Few  really  fancy  in  market 
such  brought  $1.7532  per  bbl.  I

and 

It 
half  of  them  showed  the  black  rot. 
starts 
in  with  a  black  discoloration, 
looking  a  good  deal  like  a  bruise,  and 
in a  couple of  days  the  potato  has  rotted 
almost  entirely  away.

The  Starch  Co.  had  planned  not  to 
start  the  factory  up  until  later  in  the 
season,  until  they  had  at  least  80,000 
bushels  on  hand,  but in order  to  prevent 
loss  they  will  begin  work Monday morn
iDg’ 

.

Calcutta  sends  a  story  of  a  new  mode 
of  stealing  jewels.  A  youth  attired 
in 
a  new  suit  entered  a  jeweler’s  store 
and  asked  to  look  at  a  parcel  of  dia 
monds.  He  went  to  a  window  to  get  l 
better 
light  and  presently  the  largest 
stone,  valued  at  10,000  rupees,  disap­
peared.  An  assistant  saw  the  youth 
carry  his  hand  to  his  mouth  suspicious­
ly.  He  was  arrested  and  treated,  but 
the  diamond  did  not  appear.  A  later 
examination  revealed 
in  the 
man’s  throat.  At  the  trial  an  old  crim i­
nal  described  the  habit  Indian  thieves 
larynx  by  a 
practice  of  dilating  the 
is  swallowed  and 
round  bullet,  which 
brought  up  daily  until  the  pouch 
is 
made 
like  a  bird’s  crop.  Thieves  use 
this  as  a  temporary  storage  place.

the  gem 

J im ’s   T o a s t e r

T O A S T S   BREAD  O N   A 

G AS  O R  G A S O LIN E  S T O V E

The wire cone Is  heated  red  hot in  one  minute 
The bread is then placed around in wire holders 
Kour slices can be toasted beautifully in two min­
utes.  Write for terms to dealers.  It will pay you.
HARKINS  &  WILLIS,  Manufacturers

ANN  ARBOR,  MICH.

A  M O N E Y   M A K E R

Rest  rooms  for  farmers’  wives  are  be- 
ng  established 
in  some  towns  in  the 
West.  They  are  located  in  the  business 
center,  and  are  made  cosey  and  com­
fortable  with  easy chairs,  lounges,  books 
and  magazines.  Some  offer  tea  at  the 
nominal  price  of  three  cents  a  cup. 
These  rooms  are  sustained  by  women’s 
clubs 
in  the  cities,  or  the  merchants  of 
the  cities  contribute  to  them,  with  the 
dea  that  they  help  to  draw  trade.

The  family  of  a Government inspector 
of  meats  and  live  cattle  in  the  Chicago 
stock  yards,  who  died  during  the  Span- 
ish-American  war  from  disease  con­
tracted  in  the  yards,  are  about  to  apply 
to  the  Government  for  a  pension of  $100 
a  month,  alleging  that  he  died  through 
his  zeal  in  protecting  American  soldiers 
from  the  danger  of  eating  meats  unfit 
for  consumption.

Y U S E A   M A N TLE 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.

i - v  

,
w a s h i n g ’
T A B L E T S
H A K E   W A SM IK

.E A S Y .

’or sale by Olney & Judsou Grocer Co., Ball- 
R arnhart-Putm an Co., W orden Grocer Co., 
Mnsselman Grocer Co.,  Lemon  &  W heeler 
Co., Clark-Jewell-W ells Co., Daniel Lynch, 
Jennings Extract. Co., M., B. & W. P aper Co.

Tradesman 

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Grand Rapids, Mich.

W HOLESALE

OYSTERS

In can or bulk.  Your orders wanted.

C.  REA

D E T T E ftT H A L E R ,  Grand  Rapids,
REA  &  WITZIG

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

C O M M IS SIO N   M E R C H A N T S

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IM M E D IA T E   R E T U R N 8

A.  d.  WITZIG

Common  to  fair  in  liberal  supply  at 
@1.25  per  bbl.

Grapes— Feeling  is  easier.  Offerings 
of  anything  except  fancy  are  accumu 
lating.  Wine  grapes  are  beginning  *- 
drag  at  $ 14@ 18 
for  black  and  $20@ 
for  white  per ton.  Basket  Concords, 
lbs, 
tawba,  14@ 15 c;  pony  Catawbas, 
n c.  Malaga,  per  keg,  $4.50@6.

iog^i i c ;  Niagaras,  I2@ i5c;  Ca 
io@ 

is  light. 

Potatoes— Farmers’  receipts  are irreg 
ular  and  commission  men  with  fancy 
white  stock  are  forcing  a premium when 
the  supply 
It  seems  diflficul 
to  get  potatoes  moving  this  way  in  car­
loads 
in  sufficient  quantity  to  supply 
the  demand.  Everything  sells  on  ar­
rival  and  at  strong  prices  compared 
with  other  markets.  No.  1  white  stock 
40342c;  No.  1  red,  38340c;  No.  2,  a 
kinds,  35@37c.

light. 

Sweet  Potatoes— Lower  and  in  liberal 
supply.  Fancy  packed,  $2.25  per  bbl 
cloth  tops,  $1.50© 1.80.

Onions— Higher;  active  demand  and 
Fancy  good-keeping 
receipts 
stock 
Fancy 
yellow  sold  easily  at  55c ;  fair  to  good 
45@5oc ;  red,  40345c  per  bu.

is  particularly  wanted. 

Celery— Receipts  continue  large  and 
market  easy.  Choice  to  fancy,  25@3oc ■ 
fair  to  good,  i5@2oc  per  doz.

Cabbage— Heavy  crop  and  prices  low 
Large  head  sell  at  $1.5031.75,  and 
medium  at  $i@ i.25  per  100.
Squash— Good  demand ; 

light  offer 
ings  of  fancy.  Hubbard,  $12314  and 
marrow',  $8@io  per  ton.

Horseradish— Light 

receipts;  good 

demand  at  $4.5035.50  per  100  lbs.

Buckwheat Flour— New in bulk  is sell 
is  light 

ing  at  $2.2532.50,  but  trade 
owing  to  warm  weather.

Chestnuts— Lower  on  liberal  receipts 
Sales  generally  are  at  $4  per  bu.  for 
fancy  and  $3.5033-75  for small.

Popcorn— A  few  sales  of  ear corn were 

made  at  232/^c-per  lb.

Honey— Fancy  white  is  bringing  183 
20c;  No.  1,  17318c;  No.  2,  15316c 
dark  10312c  per  lb.

Straw— Firm under light  offerings  and 
good  dem and;  wheat  and  oat  selling 
at  $7-75@8-25 ;  rye, $9310  per  ton  track 
Buffalo.

Hay— Slightly  easier; 

in 
creasing.  Timothy  loose  baled,  $15.50 
3 1 6 ;  tight,  $15;  No.  1,  $14.50;  No.  2 
$13314;  blue  grass,  $13314  per  ton 
track  Buffalo.

receipts 

Black  Rot  Playing:  Havoc  W ith  Grand 
From the Traverse City  Record.

Traverse  Tubers.

A  dangerous  rot  seems  to  have  struck 
a  large  number  of  the  potatoes  dug  this 
fall.  The  Michigan  Starch  Co.  reports 
that  over  half  of  the  potatoes  they  have 
received  have  been  troubled  with  the 
disease,  and  buyers  are  having  a  good 
deal  of  trouble  with  it.

The  Starch  company  recently  pur­
chased  over  8,000  bushels  of  first-class 
stock  at  Northport,  Omena  and  Sutton’s 
Bay,  but  before  it  could  be  shipped  the 
rot  struck  it  and,  instead  of  shipping  it 
to  Chicago  they  were  obliged  to  turn 
it 
into  the  starch  factory  for  manufactur­
ing  purposes.  A  few  days  ago  they  had 
2,000  bushels  of  No.  1  stock  loaded  on 
the  cars  for  shipment  to  Chicago,  but 
this  also  rotted  and  had  to  be  unloaded 
and  turned  into  the  factory.

The  rot  is  a  disease  due  to  late  rains 
and  prolonged  warm  weather  this  fall. 
The  Starch  company  w'ould  warn  farm­
ers  who  are  planning  to  put  their  po­
tatoes 
in  pits  for  the  winter  to  watch 
thei.i  very  closeiy  for  signs  of rot,  and if 
they  have  stoclc  which  is  beginning  to 
rot,  it  would  be  well  to  bring  it  in 
im­
mediately,  as  the  factory  can  use  pota­
toes  which  have  not  rotted  too  badly. 
Many  farmers  who  would  otherwise  find 
their  stock  almost  a  complete  loss  are 
congratulating  themselves  on  this  outlet 
for  their  poor  potatoes.

Many 

farmers  make  it  a  practice  to 
turn  the  culls  over to  the  children  of  the 
family,  to  make  what  they  can  from 
them,  and  one  bright  little  fellow  has 
already  this  fall  earned  over $25 on culls 
which  he  has  sold  at  the  factory.

The  Michigan  Starch  Co.  received 
over  8,000  bushels  Friday,  3,000  by  the 
Crescent  and  Columbia,  3,000  by  rail, 
and  nearly  2,500  by  wagon,  and  over

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

7
LILY  WHITE

You ought  to sell

"The flour the best cooks use”

V A LLEY   C IT Y   M ILLIN G   C O ..

G R A N D   R A P ID S .  MICH.

For  Profit

at the

( e d u c a t e
Old  Reliable
Grand Rapids Business University 

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

For circulars, etc., address

A.  S.  Parish,  Grand  Rapids,  Midi.

ROCHESTER  ACETYLENE  GAS 

MACHINES
$50 to $150.

other  merchantsrwho  use 
large  quanti­
ties  o ffic e   ¡ were  not  so  happy  and,  so 
that  the  same  dose  will  not  be  dealt  out 
to  them  next  summer,  have  formed  a 
company  and  will  make 
ice.  Already 
so  many  customers  have  been  secured 
that  its  success  is  almost  as  certain  as 
is  the  defeat  of  the  old  company. 
It 
would  pay  butchers 
in  many  cities  to 
follow  the  example  of  the  Altoona  mer­
chants.

How  to  Prepare  Tripe.

After  washing  the  tripe  with  plenty 
of  clean  water,  place  it  in  a  tub  of 
clean  water,  to  every  gallon  of  which 
has  been  added  half  a  pound  of  quick- 
stone 
lime.  After  having  been  in  the 
liquor  for  twelve  hours,  scrape  it  to  re­
the  black  specks.  Then  rinse 
move 
It  can 
well  with  plenty  of  cold  water. 
be  preserved  for a  considerable 
length 
of  time  if.placed  in  water  every  night 
to  which  has  been  added  a preservative.

How  to  Make  French  Sausages.

Use 

io  pounds  of  beef  to  every  5 
pounds  of  pork.  The  finer  you  chop 
it 
the  better.  To  this  add  5  pounds  of 
back 
fat  ot  bacon,  cut  to  the  size  of  a 
hazel  nut.  Season  with  ground  white 
pepper,  saltpeter,  thyme,  bay  leaf  and 
into  beef  casings, 
salt.  Stuff  tightly 
and  tie 
lengths,  and  boil 
until sufficiently cooked.  These sausages 
can  be  smoked  if  desired.

in  15-inch 

In  the  battle  of  life  indolent  am iabil­
for  patience  and 

ity  often 
achieves  accordingly.

passes 

The  Meat  Market

Meat  Chunks  as a Measure of Civilization. 
Written for the Tradesman.

The  master  of  the  cleaver  was  filling 
orders. 
The  pouring  rain  precluded 
the  possibility  of  a  customer  and  he 
was  taking  his  work  easily  and  think­
ing  “ out  loud”   as  it  went  on. 
“ There 
is  a  piece  of  meat  that  1  hate  to  let  that 
woman  have.  She 
lives  up  here  on 
Nomatter  avenue  and  has  an  old  man— 
that’s  what  she  calls  him— and 
five 
young  ones— that’s  what  I  mean,  young 
ones.  She’ll take that piece of meat —you 
see  what  a  beauty  it  is— and  she’ ll burn 
it.  Then  she’ll  cut  it  into  chunks  and 
the  cubs’ ll  go  at  it  and,  after  they’ve 
little  stomach  will 
downed 
stick  out  as 
if  a  big  popcorn  ball  had 
got  in  there  somehow!  Bright  children, 
and  the  old  folks  mean  well,  but  that’s 
the  way  they  were  raised,  if  you  can 
call 
it  that,  and  that’s  the  way  they’re 
bringing  up  the  children.

it,  every 

like 

“ You  don’t,  probably,  look  at  these 
things  as  Id o ;  but there’s more training 
in a good roast than  people think there is. 
There  was  a  woman 
in  here  the  other 
day,  a  high-flyer— I  don't 
that 
sort—but  a  woman  way  up,  and,  after 
she’d 
left  her  order,  she  happened  to 
see  a  roast  put  up  like  this  one  and  she 
said 
it  was  fine  enough  to  be  the  sub­
ject  of  a  painting.  That’s  right.  Well, 
now,  it  would  make  that  woman  sick  to 
see  this  roast  chopped 
into  chunks; 
and  I’ ll  tell  you  right  here  that  this 
chunk  business 
is  altogether  too  com­
mon.  Take  the  family  that’s  going  to 
claw  into  this— animals,  every  one  of 
them— and  after  they’ve  been  brought 
up  to  chunks  they  won’t  have  anything 
else.  You've  seen  folks,  haven’t  you, 
that  never  shut  their  mouths  when  they 
eat?  They  make  the  same  noise  pigs 
do.  You’ ll  find  that  meat  chunks  and 
that  kind  of  eating  go  together.  What 
I’ m  after  is  that  a  coarse  way  of  eating 
at  the  table 
leads  to  a  coarse  kind  ol 
living,  and  1  think  that  you  can  take  a 
likely  piece  of  meat 
that” — he 
it  as  if  it  were  the  cheek  of  his 
patted 
own  dear 
it 
brought  on  and  carved  as  it  ought  to  be 
carved” — he  wasn’t  thinking  of  his 
baby  then!— “ and  keep  those  children 
from  being  cannibals  quicker  than  any 
other  way  I  know  of.

little  baby— “ and  have 

like 

if  you've  been 

“ Notice  now  and  see  i f   what  I  tell 
you  isn’t  so.  A  chunk— these  folks  I’m 
talking about  call  it a  “ hunk” — of  meat 
usually  goes  with  a  chunk  of  bread. 
Where  that  happens  the  children,  more 
than  half  the  time,  eat  both  with  their 
fingers  and, 
’ round 
among 
’em  as  much  as  I  have,  you 
needn’t  be  told  that  the  fingers  nor  the 
rest  of  the  hands  are  any  too  clean 
when  they  get  down  to  the  table.  Hair? 
Humph !  Hasn't  seen  a  brush  or  comb 
for  a 
fortnight  and  the  mother’s  head 
won’t  feel  one  to-day  until  after  dinner. 
What  kind  of  a  dining  room  do  you 
think  they eat  in?  I guess  it  is  ‘ hunky!’ 
and  that’s  what  you’ ll  find  all  over  the 
house. 
It  is  a  part  of  the  chunk  bring­
ing  up.  Well,  now,  what  I  say  is  that 
let  this  piece  of  meat  go  into  that  house 
andjfall  into  civilized  hands 
it  would 
work  a  change  right  straight  off.  The 
man  wouldn’t  sit  down 
in  his  shirt 
sleeves.  H e’d  have  a  carving  knife  that 
would  carve,  not  hack.  I never  yet  have 
seen  a  man  who  knew  how  to  carve  do 
it  where  there  was  a  dirty  tablecloth. 
With  the  roast  on  the  platter,  it  isn’t  in 
the  middle  of  the  table  where  the  chil­
dren  grab  for  a  chunk  with  dirty  hands,

but  a  nice  tempting  piece  is  placed  on 
a  clean  plate  and  the  child  is  taught 
how  to  eat  it  without  a  single  hint  of— 
well,  of  a  hog!  The  table  is  the  breed­
ing  place  of  the  family  in  more  ways 
than  one  and,  when  a  likely  roast  like 
that  is  cut  up  into  chunks,  you  want  to 
fight  shy  of  that  breed!

“ Talk  about  carpentering  and  sewing 
and  all  that  sort  of  thing  in  the  public 
schools!  Cooking  is  the  only  one  of  ’em 
that’ ll  ever  amount  to  anything  and 
carving 
is  the  first  thing  that  ought  to 
be  taught  after  the children have learned 
how  to  Cook  meat  without  having  it 
brought  on  raw  or  burned  to  a  cinder. 
I  suppose  I’m  prejudiced  and  all  that 
sort  of  thing;  but,  somehow,  I’ve  got  it 
into  my  head  that  the  dinner  table  is 
about  as  good  a  sign  of  a nation’s  civ i­
lization  as  anything  I  can 
think  of. 
Anyway,  if  somebody  could  take  this 
meat  up  to  that  house  and  do  with  it 
what  ought  to  be  done  with  it  and  the 
thing  could  be  carried  on  for  a  year, 
I’ ll  bet  all  the  meat  they  would  eat  dur­
ing  the  time  that  at  the  end  of  the  year 
they  wouldn’t  be  the  blamed  hottentots 
they  are  now.”

It  is  not  often  that  civilization  is  thus 
measured  by  the  meat  chunk ;  it  is  pos­
sible  that  the  butcher's  philosophy,  to 
pass  current,  needs  touching  up a  little; 
but,  looking  at  it  as  we  may,  there 
is 
enough 
it  to  warrant  the  assertion 
that  “ there  is  much  reason  in  his  say­
ings.”  

R.  M.  Streeter.

in 

Minor  Notes  of Interest  to  Meat  Dealers. 
From the Butchers1  Advocate.

lives 

Don’t  talk  politics  in  the  shop.
Spring  turkeys,  the  advance  agents  of 
Thanksgiving,  are  arriving.  The price 
is  a  little  high,  but  the  goods  are  worth 
the  money.

The  champion  truth  ignorer  has  been 
discovered.  He 
in  Bay  City, 
Mich.,  and  tells  this  little  yarn  about  a 
butcher  who‘ runs  a  shop  in  that  city: 
“ He  can  tell  the  moment  a person  steps 
into  his  market  just  what  ails  him,  and 
has  cured  more  people  of  dyspepsia 
than  some  of  the  doctors— merely telling 
them  what  is  best  for  them  to  eat,”   and 
still  he  runs  a  market.  How  foolish! 
Doctors  get  $2  per  visit.

The  Butchers and Grocers’ Clerks’ A s­
sociation  of  Chicago,  which  started  a 
Sunday  closing  movement  some  months 
ago,  which  movement  had  the  endorse­
ment  of  a  large  percentage  of  the  em­
ploying  butchers  and  grocers,  is  spread­
ing  the  gospel  of  Sunday  closing  into 
the  suburbs  of  the  big  Western city,  and 
is  having  great  success.  It  is  confident­
ly expected  that  a  Sunday  closing  meas­
ure  will  be  introduced  at  the  next  ses­
sion  of  the  Legislature  of  New  York 
State,  and 
if  the  butchers  and  grocers 
will  work  for  its  passage  there  will  not 
be  much  likelihood  of  failure.

The  Butchers’  Union  that  made  itself 
the 
laughing  target  up  in  Buffalo  sev­
eral  weeks  ago  has  transferred  its  stage 
of  operations  to  Utica,  where  it  is  per­
forming  a  farce.  This  time  it  is  after 
a  firm  that  conducts  a  retail  market. 
The  firm  employs  union  men  and  dis­
plays  a  union  card,  but  its  market  is 
located  in  a  building  that  was  not  made 
by  union  men.  For  this  reason  a  boy­
cott  was  placed  on  the  market,  but  the 
proprietors  refused  to  vacate  the  non­
union  made  building  and  prospered  in 
spite  of  the  boycott.  Realizing  that 
it 
has  been  acting  very  foolishly,the  union 
has  sent  representatives  to  Utica  to  ar­
range'to  remove  the  boycott.  We  ad­
vise  the  retail  firm  to  remove  the  union 
card  at  the  same  time.

Give  a  trust  enough  rope  and  the 
it­
chances  are  in  favor  of  its  hanging 
self.  Altoona,  Pa., 
in­
furnishes  an 
stance  proving  the  assertion.  The  ice 
company  doing  business 
in  that  city, 
having  the  field  to  itself,  asked  an  ex­
orbitant  price  for  ice  during  the  sum­
mer  just  closed,  and  its  directors  were 
jubilant  when 
the  season’s  earnings 
The  butchers  and
were  announced. 

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Since  then  the  chuckle  has  changed 
quarters  and  a  good  many  times  before 
the  season 
is  over  and  the  goods  are 
worn  out  that  sound  of  triumph  will  re­
ceive  its  immediate  curse  from  the  lips 
that  at  first  rejoiced,  and  the  cheated 
“ hen”   will  come  to  the  same  old  coun­
ter  as  she  did  to-day  and  cackle  her 
triumph 
in  the  very  face  of  the  clerk 
who  declared  the  merchandise  to  be 
“ goods  that  will  wash”   when  he  knew 
they  wouldn’t,  and  who 
is  now  to  the 
best  of  his  ability  furnishing  the  tradi­
tional  curse  to  every 
roost-returning 
chicken

it 

That 

look  as 

It  begins  to 

to  “ bring  on 

if  the  subject 
matter  in  the  school  of  moral  must  be 
changed.  Honesty  and  its  lessons  have 
been  harped  upon  until  the  tune 
is  as 
tiresome  as  a  worn  out  ragtime  melody. 
It  is  as  trite  as  the  old  story  of  Elisha 
and  the  mocking  children,  and  modern 
trafficing  humanity,  after  disposing  of 
a  counterful  of  “ goods  that will  wash,”  
turns  defiantly  to  the  duped  public  and 
tauntingly  tells 
its 
bears! 
is  the  trouble  with  the 
cheats  of  the  world.  They  simply  know 
it  time  and 
better.  They  have  tried 
again.  A  fool  cheat  only  is  caught. 
It 
s  the 
forger  off  his  guard  that  suffers 
for  his  sins.  Hang  the  honesty  policy! 
Hang  the  children-eating  bears!  They 
are  both  myths,  one  as  improbable  as 
the  other.  Trade  is  trade,  a  bargain  is 
a  bargain.  Between  buyer  and  seller 
there 
is  an  endless  war  of  wits  and  he 
who  beats  is  the  “ best  fellow .”  
It  has 
always  been  so  and  it  always  will  be  to 
the  end  of  time.

TRADESMAN

NOTEWORTHY  HUSKING  BEE 

If  there 

is  one  assertion  more  gen­
uinely  and  generally 
acknowledged 
than  another  it  is  that  this  is  a  selfish 
and  a  heartless  world;  that  republics 
are  noted  for  their  ingratitude  and  that 
the  communities  and  the  men  who  are 
full  of  the  milk  of  human  kindness”  
are  few  and  very  far  between.  Looking 
out  for  No.  1  is  the  universal  law  and, 
while  the  city 
is  talked  about  as  the 
gathering  place  for  the  quintessence  of 
all  uncharitableness,  it  never  has  and  it 
never  can  hold  a  candle  to  the  stingi­
ness  that  holds  the  countryman  in  its 
relentless  clutch.  As  men  would  do  unto 
you, do  ye  even so unto them and see that 
ye  get  your  work  in  first,  is  the  law and 
the  profits  everywhere,  and  the  city  that 
can  get  ahead  of  the  country  in  apply 
ing  that 
the  profits  has  yet  to  be  heard  from.

law  and  making  the  most 

With  that  for  an  undisputed  fact,  the 

following 
the  desert  where  no  water  i s :

item  comes  like  a  spring 

Mason,  Oct.  24— George  Bowden,  wh( 
ives  on  the  Hawley  farm  in  Vevay, 
sick  with  typhoid  fever.  Yesterday  h. 
neighbors  and  a  number  of  Mason  mer 
chants, 
including  bankers,  hardware 
ryen  and  grocers,  united 
in  a  husking 
bee  at  his  place  and  cared  for his  crop 
of  com,  amounting  to  1,000  bushels. 
Dinner was  served  to  the  huskers  by  the 
Hawley  Ladies’  Aid  Society.  Mr.  Bow 
den 
is  a  young  Englishman,  who  ha.-, 
gained  many  friends  by  his  pluck  and 
perseverance  since  coming  to  this  city 
some  years  ago.

industrious 
that  crop  was  ready  for  his 
It  was 
hands,  the  fever  palsied  them. 
a  clear  case.  The  priest  had no occasion 
to  pass  by.  The  Levite  saw  no  signs 
of  falling  among  thieves— a  good  many 
have  their  doubts  about  the  thieves  in 
that  story !  a  man  whom  all  knew  had 
been  stricken,  and  the  kindness  which 
makes  kinsmen  of  us  all  came  and  took 
care  of  him.

Two  facts  are  emphasized :  The  world 
does  love  its  neighbor  as itself;  and  the 
man  who  does  his  best  is  sure,  when 
misfortune  comes,  of  having  a 
loving 
neighborhood  husk  his  corn!  Happy 
the  man  and  happy  the  neighborhood 
in  this  period  of  the  world  thus 
who 
practice  and 
illustrate  the  law  and  the 
prophets.

THE  UNCONQUERED  BOERS.

According  to  all  accounts  from  South 
Africa,  the  Boers  are  giving  the  British 
no  end  of  trouble.  While  it  is  true  that 
the  war  is  over,  as  far  as  all  concerted 
movements  are  concerned,  large  num­
bers  of  the  burghers  remain  unrecon­
ciled  and  are  operating  in  small  bands 
over  a  wide  stretch  of  country.  Their 
iperations  are  confined  largely  to  cap­
p in g   weak  convoys,  stopping  railroad 
traffic  and  cutting  telegraph  and  tele­
phone  wires.  As 
the  entire  country 
sympathizes  with  them,  they  find  no 
difficulty  in  securing  supplies  and  shel­
ter.

GOODS THAT  W ILL  WASH.

The  words  were  pronounced  with  the 
emphasis  that  produces  conviction,  but 
they  feil  upon  doubting  ears.  There 
was  the  usual  lingering over  a  promised 
delight,  a  testing  of  the  cloth  with  con 
scious  fingers,  an  undertone  of  “ Do 
you  think  I'd  better,  M inervy?”   fol 
the 
lowed  by  a  decided  “ N o,”   and 
looking 
women  went  out,  Lot’s  wife 
back  when  they  reached  the  door. 
It 
was  an  illustration  of  the  homely adage, 
“ Curses,  like  chickens,  come  home  to 
roost,”   and  both  clerk  and  country 
woman  thought  of  it  when  the  sale  was 
pronounced  off.

It  makes 

stood  before 

little  difference  where 

it 
happened,  but  the  woman— she  with  the 
“ No” — had 
that  same 
counter,  in 
front  of  that  same  clerk, 
and  heard  that same  statement  and  be­
lieved  it,  to  find,  later,  when  the  goods 
came  in  from  the  line,  that  they  would 
wash,  oh,  yes,  but  that  the  color  at  the 
same  time  would  wash  out  of them;  and 
that  was  “ all  she  ever  wanted  to  know 
about  that  feller! 
I  wouldn’t  b ’lieve 
him  ’ f  I  heard  him  in  heaven!”   an  em­
phatic  way  of  saying  that that particular 
clerk  will  go  straight  home  to  his  father 
when  he  dies!  The  first  was  a  bargain 
that  was  not  worth  lying  about,  the  sec­
ond  had 
inducements,  but  the  chicken 
came  crowing  home  to  put  an  end  to 
the  bargain  and  verify  the  proverb.

It  is  submitted  that  that  same  experi­
ence  is  too  often  repeated  in  the  realm 
In  Chicago  and 
of  business  every  day. 
in  New  York  it  has  happened  at 
least 
twice  (  !)  and  those  four  chickens  have 
done  more 
interesting  traveling,  aven­
ging  the  cheating  at  every  stopping 
place,  than  the  dishonest  money  made 
would  pay  for  ten  times  over. 
The 
clerks  chuckled,  as  they  passed  the 
goods  to  the  package  counter  and  again 
when  the  change  was 
returned  and 
placed in  the  cheated  customers’  hands.  1

cares 

Let  all  this  be  changed.  Grant,  with­
out  discussion,  that  the  old-fashioned 
nonsense  is  a  failure  and  come  down  to 
good,  common,  dooryard  sense.  The 
dollar 
is  the  bottom  fact  of  trade  and 
the  multiplication  of  it  the  only  prin 
ciple  that  business 
anything 
about. 
If,  then,  there  is  a  chance  to 
take  advantage  and  double  the  dollar, 
go  ahead ;  but  what  a  doubly  something 
fool  that  man  would  be who,  in doubling 
his  dollar,  should  double  his  chance  of 
never  doing 
it  again.  That  is  killing 
the  goose  which  lays  the  golden  egg 
nd  the 
fable  says  that  a  woman  did 
that!  Let  not  a  hint  be  given  that  dis­
honesty  is  in  the  deal,  it  is  now  a  ques 
it  pays  to  double  the 
tion  of  whether 
dollar.  Cheat?  No  such  thing. 
If  the 
'ntention  is  to  double  that  dollar  and 
by  this  method  it  can  be  done  but once, 
s  that  the  way  to  get rich?  Stop prating 
about  morality  and  come  down  to  busi­
ness-does  it  pay?

Experience  long  ago  settled  the  ques- 
on,  and 
if  there  were  not  a  church  or 
Sunday  school  in existence  the  answer 
ould  still  be  an  emphatic  No.  Hea­
itself 
thenism  itself  and  covetousness 
and  selfishness 
in  every  contemptible 
development  would  applaud  the  nega- 
ve  as  the  soundest principle forgetting 
gain;  and  every  one  of  them  would 
condemn 
the  clerk  who  hasn’t  wit 
nough  to  see  that  when  he  sells “ goods 
that  will  wash”   they  must  do  what  he 
says  they  will  or  he  will  smart  for  it. 
here  is  no  religion  about  it,  it  is  sim- 
ly  a  matter  of  business-of  dollars  and 
cents,  of  profit,  of  gain— and  the  clerk 
who  can  not  see  how  the  principle  ap­
plies  to  dress  patterns  has  no  business 
behind  the  counter  and  the  sooner  he 
changes  his  business  the  better  it  will 
be  for  him  and  for  the  trading  world.

A   man 

living  on  Easy  street  should 
be  satisfied,  without  going  around  the 
corner  to  borrow  trouble  on  Restless 
avenue.

This  little  clipping  serves  to  empha 
size  exactly  what  the  Tradesman  has  a, 
ways  said  and  believes:  that  while  the 
assertion  with  what  follows  is  generally 
and  genuinely  acknowledged,  it  is  not 
true.  The  world  is  not  inhuman  to  hu­
manity,  and there  is  no  better  time  than 
now  to  reiterate  the  fact,  when  Galves 
ton  has  been  taken  good  care  of  by  the 
Samaritan  world  and  the  neighborhood 
of  Mason  to  a  man— because  they 
love 
their  neighbor 
as  themselves— have 
husked  his  corn  for  him  and  so  done 
what  they  could  to  restore  him  to  health 
and  strength.  There  is  no  denying  that 
there  are  priests  and  Levites  to-day,  as 
there  were 
in  the  olden  time.  It  is  a 
fact  beyond  dispute  that  occasionally 
an  undue  proportion  of  both  seem  to 
have  settled  in  the  same  neighborhood, 
it  would  be  a  community  well  worth 
going  to  see  if  even  Mason,  her  fingers 
yet  tender  with  husking  corn,  has  not 
men  among  her  people  who  have  some­
times  been  charged  with  “ passing  by 
on  the  other  side”   when  occasion,  like 
the  man  maltreated  by  misfortune, 
called  for  a  helping  hand.  For  all  that! 
however,  when  real  suffering  shows  it­
self, 
the 
masses,  stand  ready  with  oil  and  wine 
to  help  the  fallen;  and  it  need  not  oc­
casion  comment  if  among  the  heartiest 
huskers  at  Mason  the  priest  without  his 
frock  and  the  Levite  without  stopping 
to  look  or to  consider  settled  right  down 
to  business  and  did  as  much  busking  as 
any  two  Samaritans  in  the  crow d!  The 
fact, 
in  both  and 
when  that  manhood  is  touched  he  will 
husk  corn  or  do  anything  else  to  help 
the  suffering  about  him  and  that,  too, 
for  the  sake  of  that  rule  which  those 
no  more  charitable  than  he  insist  that 
he  has  forgotten.

Samaritans,  who  are 

there  is  a  man 

the 

is, 

It  is  rather to  the  point  that  the  sick 
man  “ has  gained  many  friends  by  his 
pluck  and  perseverance.”   He  has  been 
doing  his  level  best.  He  has  asked  no 
odds.  He  has  taken  the  world  as  he 
found  it.  He  has  plowed  and  planted. 
The  thousand  bushels  show  that  he  has 
taken  care  of  his  crop  and,  just  when

While  the  British  commanders  are 
treating  these  marauding  bands  with 
severity,  and  are  using  every  effort  to 
xterminate  or  capture  them,  the  pro­
cess  is  necessarily  a  slow  one.  So  an­
noying  have  these  attacks  become  to 
the  British  that  Lord  Roberts  has  re­
sorted  to  severe  measures :  Wherever  a 
is  attacked,  the  property 
British 
of  the  neighboring  Boer 
is 
either  burned  or  confiscated,  or  the  men 
re  deported.  Even  these  measures have 
pparently  not  sufficed  to  restrain  the 
burghers  still  in  arms,  as  attacks  upon 
the 
lines  of  communication  are  as  fre­
quent  as  ever.

farmers 

force 

if 

because 

it  could  be 

So  exasperated  have  the  British  be­
come  at  the  constant  activity  of  the 
Boers  that  threats  are  now  made  to  for­
cibly  deport  all  suspected  of  disloyalty 
or  caught  with  arms.  Such  a  measure, 
even 
justified  by  the 
exigencies  of  the  case,  would  be  bad 
policy, 
of  the  unfavorable 
effect  it  would  have  upon  the  civilized 
world.  England  should  not  forget  the 
fact  that  sympathy 
for  the  Boers  was 
universal;  even  in  this  country pro-Boer 
fmpathy  was 
There 
exists,  moreover,  at  the  present  time,  a 
strong  anti-British  sentiment  all  over 
urope,  which  would  be  quick  to  de­
nounce  the  deportation  of  the  Boers  as 
an  act  of  barbarism.

strong. 

very 

Great  Britain  will  shortly  have  to face 
new  danger 
in  connection  with  the 
closing  scenes  of  the  war  in  South  Af- 
ca.  President  Kruger  has  taken  pas­
sage for Europe on  a  Dutch  warship  and 
proposes  to  proceed  to  Belgium,  via 
Marseilles  and  Paris.  The people  of  the 
former  city  are  already  preparing  a 
grand  reception  to  the  exiled  Boer Pres- 
dent,  and  the  French  government 
is 
preparing  to  receive  and  entertain  him 
if  still  the  head  of  an  independent 
state. 
Such  demonstrations  are,  of 
course,  the  outcome  of  strong  anti-Brit- 
sh 
in  France,  and 
night  easily  assume  the  proportions  of 
*er,ous  affront  to  Great  Britain. 
It 
11,  therefore,  be  seen  that,  notwith­
standing  her  triumph  over  the  Boers, 
England  has  not  yet  escaped  all  the 
dangers  necessarily  associated  with such 
a  war,

feeling  prevailing 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

MISSION  OF THE  TRADE  PAPER.
Every  man  knows  whereof  he  affirms, 
or  should  know,  and  when  the  assertion 
is  one  to  occasion  surprise  there  must 
be  some  good  reason  to  account  for  it. 
When,  then,  it  is  stated,  with  the  voice 
of  conviction,  “ that  the  average  busi­
ness  man  doesn’t  care  a  d— n  for  any 
reading  stuff  unless  it  tells  him  of  a 
new  scheme  to  wring  an  extra  percent­
age  of  profit  out  of  his  customer,’ ’  the 
statement  must  stand  as  any  honest 
conviction  should,  although 
it  may  he 
wholly  at  variance  with  the  listener’s 
experience.

feels  safe 

If  by  “ average”  

The  first  thought  that seeks expression 
in  regard  to  it  is  one  of  environment. 
There  are  business  men  and  business 
men  and  there  are  localities  and  locali­
ties. 
is  meant  the 
average  business  man  of  a  particular lo­
cality,  familiarity  with  that  locality  is 
needed  to  settle  the  question.  M ichi­
gan  can  furnish  a  pretty  fair  average 
article  in  this  direction  and  the Trades­
in  saying  that  of  the 
man 
7,000  subscribers  who  peruse 
its  col­
umns  every  week,  the  majority,  while 
having  an  eye  out  to  any  extra  percent­
age  of  profit  which  may  be  had  for  the 
taking,  do  care  considerably  for  the 
rest of the  “ stuff”  that  this  paper  places 
before 
its  readers.  For  a  publication 
unfortunate  in  its  environment,  and  es­
pecially 
if  that  includes  the  patrons  of 
the  paper,  it  may be  a  question  whether 
that  publication,  as  an  organ,  has  not 
double  duty  to  perform— teaching 
its 
subscribers  the  need  of  it  and  making 
them,  willy,  nilly,  to  read  and  to 
like 
to  read  what 
is  weekly  placed  before 
them.

There 

is  no  need  of  presenting  here 
the  trials  and  the  disappointments  at­
tendant  upon  such  an  undertaking. 
Business  men  are 
like  their  brothers 
who  have  a  living  to  make.  They  do 
not  want  to,  and  will  not,  spend  a  dol­
lar 
in  trade  unless  they  can  see  a  small 
percentage  of  profit  in  the  transaction. 
is,  for the  time  being, 
A   trade  journal 
so  much  merchandise. 
If  by  paying  2 
cents  a  week  they  can  make  4  cents, 
the  publisher  is  justified  in  urging  his 
claims  as  the  helper  he  really  is.  With 
that  fact  to  start  with— and  it  is  all  he 
will  ever  get— his  problem  is  how  to  in­
crease  his  circulation.  There is  just  one 
w a y :  make  the  publication  so  necessary 
to  the  skinflintest  skinflint  of  a  sub­
scriber  that  he  will  howl  for  his  copy 
the  moment 
it  comes  from  the  press. 
Easily  said?  Very;  and  the  realization 
comes  only  after  a 
long,  wearisome, 
discouraging  series  of  hopes  and  des­
pairs  and  heartaches;  but  it  will  come. 
itself 
Just  as  surely  as  the  paper  makes 
felt,  it  will  come;  and  when— it 
is  a 
question  of  time,  often  a  long  one— it 
does  come,  it  is  the  something  beside 
the  list  price  that  makes  the  subscrip­
tion  a  permanency;  and  that 
the 
something  which  must  be  carefully 
looked  out  for. 
it 
furnishes  something  to  read;  it gets him 
to  reading  and  so  keeps  him  at 
it,  and 
the  difficult  task  is  done.

In  the  first  place 

is 

to  contemplate. 

While  the  Tradesman’s  experience 
enables 
it  to  look  with  kindly  eyes  on 
the  average  business  man,  it  does  not 
is  not 
deny  that  the  worst  extreme 
pleasant 
These  ex­
tremes  are  confined  to  no  locality.  The 
more  we  see  of  them  the  more  intensely 
we  admire  and  love  the  dog.  They  lie 
to  save  a  nickel  and  grovel  in  the gutter 
to  those  better  fixed  than  they. 
In  the 
catalogue  they  go  as  men,  but  nowhere 
else,  and  yet  they  are,  like  the  rest  of 
Their
us,  chasing  after  the  dollars. 

methods -are  not  ours— let  us be thankful 
for  that—and  we  may  go  a  good  ways 
around  to  get  rid  of  meeting  them ;  but 
they  are,  after  all,  not  the  general  aver­
age  business  man  and  there  are  grounds 
for  hoping  that  this  shadow  of  the  ex­
treme,  black  and  clear  cut  though  it  be, 
will  grow  beautifully  less.

It  is  a  long  lane  that  has no turn.  The 
average  business  man,  from  the  civ il­
ized  standard,  may  be  a  tough  nut  to 
crack ;  but  there  are  many  reasons  for 
believing  that,take  him  all  in  all,  he  is 
a  better  man  than  he  used  to  be  twenty- 
five  years  ago.  He  knows  more ;  he 
travels  more  and  so  sees  more ;  there  is 
a  little  less  of  the  mean  and  the  sordid 
in  him  than  there  used  to  be ;  the  world 
at 
large,  by  refusing  to  have  less  to  do 
with  him 
is  doing  much  for  him ;  his 
own  children  are  entering  the  league 
against  him,  and  now,  if  the  man  can 
be  induced  or  forced  to  read  more  and 
do  better  thinking— the 
inevitable  re­
sult— the  period 
is  not  far  off  when  he 
wil  take  the  place  of  the  dog  in  the  ad­
miration  and  the  love  of  his  kind.

in  their 

ifs  and  a 

ifs  are  standing 

BACKBONE AND OPPORTUNITY.
There  are  too  many  men  in  the  world 
looking  for  an  opportunity. 
who  are 
Affairs 
immediate  neighbor­
hood  are  not  exactly  to  their  liking.  A 
link  of 
in  the  way, 
any  of  which  might  be  overcome  or 
removed  were  it  not  for  its  dependence 
upon  the  remaining  ones  in  the  chain 
of  circumstance  shutting  them 
from 
unparalleled  success.  The  Klondike  is 
the  place;  and  they  go  there  to  find 
more 
longer  chain.  Then 
Nome  beckons  and  they  are  there ;  but 
the  ifs,  singly  or  together,  are  too much 
for them ;  and,  finally,  like  the  knight 
looking  for  the  Holy  Grail,  they  go 
home  to  find  chances  thick  as  autumn 
leaves  all  about  them,  every  one  of 
which  is  begging  for a  little  backbone, 
or  something  resembling  it,  to  turn  the 
opportunity  to  profitable  account.  The 
is,  backbone,  not  opportunity,  is 
fact 
wanting  and  the  very  ifs  which  are 
in­
tended  to  spur  faltering  manhood  to 
success  are  so  many  obstacles  that  a 
good-for-nothing backbone can  not  over­
come.

There 

is  a  country  store  not  a  thous­
and  miles  from  this  office  where  the 
proprietor 
is  constantly  telling  what 
great  things  he  would  da  and  what 
enormous  profits  he  would  make  if  he 
had  the  capital  and  the  chance.  The 
fact  of  the  case  is,  he  has  both  right  on 
his  counter.  Unless  he  “ has  got  a 
move”   on  a  single  pile  of  goods  in  his 
store  where  they  have  lain  until  the  soil 
of  the  ages  has  almost  hidden  them 
from  sight,  right  there 
is  the  place  to 
begin.  The  very  effort  to  move  them 
would  exercise  the  vertebra,  physical 
and  moral,  and  would  lead  up  to  grand 
results.  He  would  begin  to  look  into 
things.  He  would  start  in  on  a  study 
of  dead  stock 
its  relation  to  profit 
and  loss  and  he  would  slowly  but  surely 
come  squarely  upon  the  fact  that  a  dead 
storekeeper,  buried  under  a  mausoleum 
of  unsalable  goods,  which  a  lack  of  en­
terprise  has  allowed  to  accumulate  on 
his  hands,  is  getting  closeiy  to  that 
point  where  only  the  trumpet  of  trade’s 
judgment  day  can  get  him  again  above 
ground.  If he  is  not  too  far gone  to  hear 
that, 
there  are  hopes  of  him.  Face 
cloth  and  shroud  will  be  thrust  aside. 
The  doors  of  his  tomb  will  swing  wide 
open.  Life  will  come  in  and  death will 
go  out.  The  clink  of  silver  will  startle 
the  silence  of  the  till.  Advertisements 
will  call  attention  to  the  fact  that  Laz­

in 

arus  has  risen!’  Bargains,  unknown  be­
fore  in  that  region,  will  startle  old  cus­
tomers  and  start  a  stampede  of  new 
ones.  There  will  be  a  grappling  with 
existing  opportunities,  equalled  only  by 
Jacob’s  wrestling  with  the  angel;  and 
the  backbone  of  the  resurrected  store­
keeper  will  so  get  the  better  of  existing 
conditions  that  fortune,  that  has  so  far 
kept  her  back  to  him, will  turn  towards 
him  her  shining  face  and  place  in  his 
hands  the  reward  due  to  the  strength­
ened  backbone  that  struggled  with  op­
portunity  and  mastered  it.

There  has  been  a  dreadful  condition 
of  things  in  the  city  of  Baltimore.  The 
bonded  debt  was  §40,000,000. 
Taxes 
were  §1.98  per  hundred  valuation.  For 
years  the  city  had  been  living  on  bor­
rowed  money;  and  where  the  thing  was 
going  to  end  experience  was  afraid  to 
declare.  The  first  law  of Nature  insisted 
on  taking  a  seat  at  the  municipal  coun­
cil  board  and  on  being  heard.  A 
man  was  put 
into  the  mayor’s  chair 
who  is  neither  a  rascal  nor  a  fool.  He 
scattered  the  politicians  with  a  whiff 
and  called  men  about  him,  irrespective 
of  party,  who  were  anxious  to  do  their 
duty  without  having  in  sight  a  commis­
sion  or  a  rake  off.  Recognizing  the  fact 
that  the  office  was  a  trust,  he  took  his 
conscience  with  him  in  taking  his  seat. 
He  examined  caiefully  every  item  on 
the  schedule  of  estimates  presented  for 
passage  and  approval  and,  without  em­
barrassing  any  department,  cut  off 
§771,500.  He  overhauled  the  street 
lighting  account  and  saved  a  yearly  ex­
pense  of  §200,000.  He  walked  into  the 
city  water  department  one  day  and  a 
small  army  of  lazy  and 
incompetent 
clerks  and  assistants 
fled  before  his 
stinging  lash  and  gave  place to a needed 
number  who  were  willing  to  earn  their 
salt;  and  so  from  department  to  depart­
ment  he  went,  bringing  his  indomitable 
backbone  to  bear  upon  the  facts  as  he 
found  them,  and  to-day  the  very  oppor­
tunities  which  challenged  him  with  an 
impudent  “ What  are  you  going  to  do 
about 
into  submission, 
are  applauding  the  backbone which,  de­
termined  as  they  were,  they  could  not 
overcome.

it?”   whipped 

We  hear  a  great  deal  about  the  power 
of  circumstances.  That they  often  have 
great 
influence  can  not  be  denied ;  but 
it  can  be  said  on  the  other  side  that 
somehow  it  happens  that the prize which 
is  worth  the  winning  comes  only  after 
tremendous  opposition  where  the  back­
bone  has  showed  its  superiority  to  op­
portunity  in  the  ratio  of  a  hundred  to 
one. 

______________

According  to  late  authorities,  it  is  a 
mistake  to  suppose  that  the  Indian pop­
ulation  of  the  United  States  is  decreas­
ing. 
It  is  declared  to  be  slowly  grow­
ing  now  that  tribal  wars  are  at  an  end 
and  the  red  man  has  learned  not  to  get 
into  trouble  with  Uncle  Sam.  Poor  Lo 
is  becoming  a  self-supporting  agricul- 
turist.

his 

The  man  who  paws  over  a  plate  of 
sandwiches  with 
dirty  hands, 
sampling  them  and  seeing  what  is  in 
them,  is  a  vulgar  sample  of  man,  and 
his  methods  do  not  give  appetite  to 
others  who  might  want  a  sandwich. 
It 
is  only  railroad  eating-houses  that  can 
get  even  with  such  people.

A  soured  old  bachelor  says:  “ If  men 
had  a  right  to  whip  their  wives  as  they 
used  to,  there  would  be  no  divorces  and 
a 
lot  fewer  women’s  clubs.”   He  is 
wrong  about  that.  Every  woman  would 
keep  a  big  club  handy  and  make  it 
warm  for  wife-beaters.

9

APPEALS TO  PREJUDICE.

In  every  presidential  campaign,  and 
very  often  preceding  state  and 
local 
elections,  there  is  a  great  deal  of  talk, 
on  the  part  of  those  who  manipulate  or 
speculate,  about  getting  the  Irish  vote, 
the  German  vote,  the  Welsh  vote  or  the 
Jewish  vote.  Sometimes  even  they  go 
so  far  as  to  talk  about  getting  the  Ro­
man  Catholic  vote  or  the  Protestant 
vote.  Out  in  the  Northwest  there  is  al­
ways  more  or  less  talk  about the Scandi­
navian  vote. 
In  the  South  they  might 
talk  about  the  colored  vote,  hut  the 
negro  is  not  encouraged  a  great  deal  to 
exercise  the  elective  franchise  in  some 
quarters,  and  when  he  does  deposit  a 
ballot  it  is  pretty  sure  to  be  of  the  R e­
publican  order,  so  that  there  is less  con­
cern  about  getting  the  black  vote  than 
any  other  of  anything 
like  the  same 
size.  All  sorts  of  clap-trap  are  resorted 
to  to  prejudice  this  or  that  faction. 
indulged  in,  and 
Misrepresentation 
anything  reckoned 
fair  and  reasonable 
which  promises  to  influence  votes.

is 

This  anpeal  to  prejudice,  either  race 
or  religion,  is  exceedingly  dangerous, 
and,  more  than 
that,  decidedly  un- 
American.  There  is  no  difference  in  the 
eyes  of  the  Government  between  the cit­
izenship  of  a  Roman  Catholic  and  that 
of  a  Presbyterian  or  Methodist.  Each  is 
entitled  to  the  same 
freedom,  and  in 
this  country  one  man  is  as  good  as  an­
other  so 
long  as  he  behaves  himself. 
There  ought  to  be,  and  there  is  in  fact, 
no  such  thing  as  the  Irish  vote,  the Ger­
man  vote  or  the  Welsh  vote.  There 
come  to  the  shores  of  the  United States 
every  year  tens  of  thousands  of  Irish­
men,  Germans  and  Welshmen,  and  peo­
ple  of  other  nationalities.  They  can,  if 
they  wish,  after  a  certain  probationary 
term,  become  citizens  of 
the  United 
States.  Certain  rules  and  regulations 
are  laid  down  to  which  they  must  con­
form.  Once  they  are  naturalized,  they 
are  American  citizens,  with  the  same 
rights  and  privileges  as 
the  native 
born.  By  the  very  act  of  accepting  cit­
izenship  here,they  have  renounced  their 
citizenship  abroad  and  their  allegiance 
to  another  government  and  another flag. 
It  is  their  business  and  their  duty  to  do 
what  in  their  judgment  will  behest,  not 
for  the  Irish,  the  Germans or  the  Welsh, 
but  for  the  United  States  and 
its  peo­
ple.

so 

of 

lines 

thoroughly 

these  opportunities, 

There  is  no  good  reason  under the sun 
why  all  the  Germans  should  be  on  one 
side  and  all  the  Irish  on  another,  and 
stirring  up  prejudices  and  factionalism 
along  these 
is  exceedingly  dan­
gerous  and  reprehensive,  and  ought  to 
be  discouraged 
that 
neither  side  would  venture  to  indulge 
in  it.  Foreigners  come  here  presump­
tively  believing  that  the  United  States 
offers  facilities  and  advantages  worth 
acquiring,  and  having  availed  them­
selves 
they 
should  make  the  most  of  them  for  the 
promotion  of  the  general  welfare.  The 
questions  of  national  policy  should  be 
decided  in  accordance  with 
individual 
conviction  and  belief.  Foreign  born 
citizens  of  the  United  States  should  not 
suffer  themselves  to  be  like  a  flock  of 
sheep  and  jump  over  this  fence  or  that 
one  because  some  leader  does.  Main­
taining  and  encouraging  race  feeling 
here  ought  not  to  be  indulged  in  under 
any  circumstances. 
is 
bound  to  be  pernicious  and  harmful. 
The  elective 
franchise  is  an  American 
privilege  and  an  American  duty,  and 
has  no  connection,  direct  or  remote, 
with 
in  any  other 
country.

former  residence 

influence 

Its 

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Shoes  and  Rubbers
W hy  Shoes W ear Away—Explanations and 

Remedies.

It  would  seem  from 

As  a  general  thing  shoes  wear  away 
on  the  outer  side  of  the  sole  much  soon 
er  than  they  do  on  the  inner  side.  The 
outside  of  the  sole  will  often  be  worn 
entirely  through  while  the  inside  is 
in 
tact. 
this  as 
some  walked  on  the .outside  of  the  foot 
and,  consequently,  wore  away  that  side 
of 
its  under  covering  sooner  than  the 
inside;  but,  as  a  matter  of  fact,  this 
not  the  case,  for  the  same  man  may 
wear  off  the soles  of  one  pair of shoes  i 
this  manner  and  wear  off  those  of  the 
next  pair  only  across  or  on  the  inner 
side  of  the  sole.

If  a  man’s  legs  are  misshapen  at  the 
knees,  producing  what 
is  popularly 
termed  bow-legs,  it  would  appear  that, 
when  walking,  the  outside  of  the  sole 
of  the  shoe  would  first  strike  the  ground 
and  that,  as  a  consequence,  this  side 
would  be  the  first  to  wear  away. 
If,  on 
the  contrary,  he  was  knock-kneed,  the 
reverse  would  apparently  be  the  case.

But,  as  a  matter  of  fact,  whatever 
may  be  the  form  of  the  legs, unless  there 
is  actual  malformation,  the  sole  of  the 
foot  strikes  the  ground  in  walking  per 
fectly  evenly,  and  the  pressure  of  the 
foot  is  precisely  the  same  upon one  side 
as  it  is  upon  the  other.

The  fault  then,  evidently,  lies  in  the 
construction  of  the  shoe.  This  fault 
we  will  endeavor  to  explain.

When  the  weight  of  the  body rests up 
on  the  foot  in  standing  a  line  marked 
around  it  will  give 
its  exact  profile 
This,  then,  determines  the  form  of  the 
sole  of  the  last  required  to  fit  this  foot.
It  is  necessary  that  the  outline  of  the 
last  should  conform  to  it  very  exactly 
in  order  that  the shoe  made  on  such  last 
may  be  absolutely  free  from  any  lateral 
pressure. 
is  followed  the 
foot  will  rest  naturally  upon  the  shoe, 
there  will  be  no  strain  in  any  direction 
and,  as  a  consequence,  the  sole  of  the 
shoe  will  wear  away  evenly  across.

If  this  rule 

As  a  general  thing,  shoes  that  run 
over  do  so  on  the  outside,  and  it  is  an 
idea  altogether  too  prevalent  that  the 
cause  of  this 
is  the  want  of  sufficient 
space  on  the  outside.  But  this  is  not 
the  reason.  The  exact  opposite  is  the 
cause.  The  want  of  room  at  the  ball 
of  the  foot  on  the  inside  is  the  cause 
of  a  shoe  running  over  on  the outside  of 
the  foot.  When  there 
is  not  sufficient 
room  on  the  inside  of  the  fore  part  of 
the  shoe  for  the  ball  of  the  foot  to  rest 
naturally 
it  will,  whenever  its  weight 
is  brought  to  bear  upon  it,  force  the 
upper  leather  over  against  the  opposite 
side.  As  the  sole  of  the  shoe  can  not 
be  forced  in  a  similar manner,  it  will 
be compelled to  over-ride  it,  running the 
shoe  down  on  the  outside  by  so  doing.
line  drawn  lengthwise  through  the 
sole  of  a  last  from  the  center  of  the  heel 
through  the  center  of  the  shank  does 
not  divide  the  sole  into  two  equal  parts.
It  leaves  about  two-thirds  of  the  width 
on  the  inside  at  the  ball,  and  one-third 
on  the  outside.  With  a  less  allowance 
than  this  on  the  inside,  the  foot  would 
be  pressed  by  the  upper over  against 
the  other  side,  in  which  case 
it  would 
inevitably  cause  the  upper  to  overlap 
the  sole  on  the  outside.  This  is  the 
principal  cause  of  shoes  running  over 
on  the  outside.  When,  which  is  more 
seldom,  they  run  over  on  the  inside,  the 
reverse  is  the  case.

A  

When  a  last  requires  to  be 

increased 
jn  size  over  the  ball  or  instep  by  means

If 

it 

increasing 

of  what  is  termed  “ leathering  up,”   the 
added  pieces  of  leather  should  noi  be 
placed  indiscriminately  across  the  top 
of  the  last,  for  such  a  proceeding  would 
inevitably  destroy  its  proper  propor­
is  the  size  of  the  ball  that 
tions. 
requires 
leather 
should  be  so  placed  as  to  increase  the 
bulk  just  where  it  is  the  thickest.  This 
is,  of  course,  on  the  inside  of  the  top, 
about  one-third  of  the way across.  Suffi­
cient  room  must  always  be  allowed  for 
prominent  great  toe  joints  or  they  will 
always  force  the  leather  across  and  over 
the  outer  edge  of  the  soles.

the  added 

If, 

in  planting  h 

The  running  down  of  the  heels is usu 
ally  the  result  of  the  manner  in  whicl 
the  wearer  walks.  If  the wearer is accus 
tomed  to  take  long  steps,  the  back  of 
the  heel  will  first  strike  the  ground, 
and  it  will,  consequently,  wear  away  at 
that  point  first. 
foot,  his habit is to  hold  his  toes  straight 
forward,  the  heel  will  wear  off  directly 
at  the  center  of  the  back,  and 
if  he 
turns  his  toes  outward,  as  is  generally 
the  case,  it  will  be  worn  off  first  on  the 
outside  of  the  back.
To  prevent  this 

fault  as  far  as  pos 
sible,  the  heel,  at  the  point  where  it  ii 
accustomed  to  wear  away  first,  should 
be  trimmed  off  perpendicularly  with 
the  seat  of  the  heel.  This  will  insure  a 
much  longer  period  of  wear  to  this  part 
before  the  fault  is  apparent,  although 
does  not  entirely  correct  the  evil. 
A 
double  row  of  steel  nails,  and  various 
other  contrivances  have  been  used  for 
this  purpose,  but, 
finer  and 
more  dressy  kinds  of  shoes,  they  all 
have  their  objectionable  features.

for  the 

Shoes  that  fit  the  feet  snugly,  without 
being  sufficiently  tight  to  cause  discom­
fort  to  the  wearer,  and  which wear away 
evenly  across  the sole,  will  perform  half 
again  more  service  than  ill-fitting  shoes 
made  of  the  same  stock  and  with  the 
same  workmanship.

The  upper  leather  to  shoes  generally 
breaks  first  where  the  creases are formed 
across  the  ball  of  the  foot  in  walking. 
The  constant  motion  of  the  leather  at 
this  point,  the  grain  being  bent  against 
itself  at  every  step  taken,  weakens  it 
here  sooner  than  at  any  other  point. 
Often  a  shoe  that  is  comparatively  good 
n  all  other  parts  will  have  to  be  dis­
carded  on  this  account,  the  vamp  only 
¡howing  signs  of  wear.

The  remedy  for  this  defect  is  avoid­

ance  of  wrinkles  in  the  vamp.

Of  course  the  spring  of  the  last  will 
vary  according  to  the  height  of  the 
heels.  A  shoe  with  a  half  inch  heel  will 
require  considerably  more  spring  in  the 
last  than  one  w ith  a  heel  from  an 
inch 
and  a  quarter  to  an  inch  and  a  half. 
On  this  account,  slippers  and 
low  cut 
strap  shoes  require 
lasts  with  a  great 
deal  more  spring  than  congress  gaiters 
or  any  style  of  high  cut  uppers.

it, 

In  cutting  slippers  or  strap  shoes  the 
spring  of  the  last  must  be  increased  so 
to  insure  the  sides'of  the  upper  hug­
ging  the  foot. 
In  this  class  of  footwear 
the  shank  must  also  be  very  full  and 
broad,  so  that  when  the  weight  of  the 
it  will  be  slightly 
body  rests  on 
reed  upward,  thus  causing  the  toe  and 
heel  part  of  the  shoe  to  bend  down- 
'ard.  This  will  cause  the  sides  of .the 
pper  part  of  the  shoe  to  press 
inward, 
causing 
foot  in  a  proper 
manner.  Such  a  slipper  will  always 
feel  pleasant  and  comfortable  on  the 
foot,  while  one  that  is  what  is  general­
ly  termed  slipshod  will  never give satis­
faction  to  the  wearer.— O.  W.  Boyden 
in  Boot  and  Shoe  Recorder.

it  to  fit  the 

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The “ Y E R M A "  is an  exclusive product of our own  factory  and  combining 
as  it does the best  materials and workmanship, produces a shoe far excelling 
the so-called  Cushion  Shoes now on the market.  Our  salesmen  carry  sam- 
pies.  Ask  to see them.  The process  by which  this shoe  is  made  makes  it 
possible to  use much  heavier soles than  are ordinarily  used  in  turned  shoes 
and reduces to a minimum  the possibility  of  its  ripping.  The  cushion  is 
made by inserting between  the sole  and  sock  lining  a  soft  yielding  felt, 
serving  the double purpose of keeping the feet  dry  and  warm  as  well  as 
making it the most  comfortable turned  shoe ever made.

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Exclusive  Manufacturers.  Milwaukee,  WIs.

THEY  ARE  DIFFERENT

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From  other  Leather  Tops. 
If  you  haven’t  seen  them 
let  us  send  you  sample 
prepaid.
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11

PEOPLE  WITHOUT  FEET.

Thè  Shoe  Man  W ould  Not  Encourage 

Them.
Written for the Tradesman.

There  was  to  be  a  charity  fair in town 
and  the  ladies  of  the  Red  Flannel  Shirt 
and  Walking  Shoes  for  the  Poor Society 
were  out  in  force.

Anything 

from  a  pint  of  sweet  cider 
to  a  coal  stove  was  effusively  received 
by  the  winsome  canvassers  and  good 
care  was  taken  that  every  merchant  was 
given  an  opportunity  to  contribute.

of 

I  chanced  to  enter  a  shoe  store  just 
behind  a  deputation  composed  of  a 
smiling  widow 
forty,  acting  as 
chaperon,  a  brunette  society  belle  in  a 
rustling  skirt  of  beautiful  silk  and  a 
crimson  shirtwaist,  and  a  pert  young 
miss  with  a  tidal  wave  of  blonde  hair 
piled  high  over  something  undistin- 
guishable  at  the  top  of  her  head  and 
touching  her  ears  with  a  surf  of  sunny 
brown.

They  had  the  merchant  backed  up  in 
a  corner  and  the  widow  had  a  notebook 
ready.

' * Now,  Mr.  Blank,  you  surely  must 
the  smiling 
“ We  haven’t  met 

contribute 
widow  was  saying. 
with  a  refusal  on  the  street.”

something,”  

The  merchant  shook  his  head.
“ Isn’t  he  horrid?”   asked  the  pert 
young  miss  of  the  brunette,  with  a  most 
entrancing  giggle.

“ Just  aw ful,”   responded  the  belle.
“ Oh,  he’s  going 

to  do  something 
handsome,”   said  the  widow,  after  a 
moment. 
“ Just  see  how  we  have  given 
our  time  for  days  and  days.”

“ I’m  sorry to  disappoint you, ladies, ”  
said  the  merchant,  “ but  I  can’t  quite 
see  my  way  to  helping  you. 
I  have  my 
own  ideas  of  charity,  and  if  you  know 
of  deserving  people  who  need  shoes  and 
are  not  able  to  pay  for  them,  kindly 
send  them  to  me. ’ ’

The 

ladies  talked  and  talked  until 
the  sun  went  behind  a  cloud  and  the 
interior  of  the  store  took  on  a  hue  of 
mourning  and  the  widow  became  red 
in  the  face  and  the  silk  skirt  rustled 
like  the  first  sweep  of  a  storm 
in  the 
forest  and  the  blonde  hair  fell  about  the 
ears  of  the  pert  young  miss,  but  all  to 
no  purpose.  The  merchant  looked  them 
calmly  in  the  face  and  would  not  yield. 
At 
left  the  store,  with  their 
noses  in  the  air  and  a  swish of garments 
which  announced  their  determination 
never  under  any  circumstances  to  enter 
it  again.

last  they 

I  was  alone  in  the  store  with  the  mer­
chant  now  and  waited  for  him  to  make 
some  comment  on  the  scene  I  had  wit­
nessed.

“ There  goes  a  right  down  cheeky 
“ I  suppose  they 

lot,”   he 
thought  they  could  tire  me  out.”

finally  said. 

“ It’s  none  of  my  business,”   I  said, 
like  to  hear  your 

“ but  I  really  would 
reasons  for  refusing.; ’

“ In  the  first  place, 

“ Reasons  enough,”   replied  the  mer­
chant. 
the  pro­
ceeds  of  the  fair,  if  there  is  anything 
left  after  paying  the  extravagant  bills 
they  are  running  up,  will  be  given  to 
the  genteel-poverty  pets  of  the  mana­
gers,  while  the  deserving  poor  will  re­
In  the  second 
ceive  little  or  nothing. 
place,  I  don’t  approve  of 
ladies  going 
into  public  places  on  begging  expedi­
tions. 
In  the  third  place,  I  don’t  pro­
pose  to  go  into  competition  with  my­
self  in  the  shoe  business.”

“ All  good  reasons,”   I  said,  “ but  I 
don’t  understand  the  point  you  make 
about  competing  with  yourself.”

“ Last  year,”   replied  the  merchant, 
“ the  ladies  held  just  such  a  fair as  the 
I  gave  a  case  of 
one  now  proposed. 
children’s  shoes,  believing  that 
if  they 
were  not  sold  at  fancy  prices they would 
be  distributed  among  the  poor.  Other

merchants  gave  goods  with  the same no­
tion  in  their  heads.  We  all got  fooled.”

“ I  am  still  in  the  dark,”   I  said.
“ They  put  the  shoes  on  sale  at  fancy 
continued  the  dealer,  “ and 
prices,’ 
sold  a  few  pairs.  Then  trade 
fell  off, 
and,  instead  of  keeping  them  and  g iv ­
ing  them  out  as  a  proceed  of  the  fair, 
the  managers  kept  marking  them  down 
until  they  had  them  below  cost.  Then 
fast  enough,  knocking  my 
they  sold 
trade 
I 
hear  their  prices  quoted  to-day  as  fair 
prices  for  shoes!  If  that  isn’t competing 
with  myself  I  don’t  know  what is.  They 
won’t  catch  me  again,  even  if  they  do 
become  angry  and  go  somewhere  else 
with  their  trade. ’ ’

line  to  smithereens. 

in  that 

“ Did  they  do  the  same 

in  other 

lines?”   I  asked.

“ Of  course  they  d id ,”   was  the  reply. 
“ They  sold  neckties  that  cost  28  cents 
for  25,  and  socks  that  cost  12  cents  a 
pair  for  10.  Some  of  the merchants went 
there  and  bought  back  their  own  goods 
in  order  to  do  away  with  the  competi­
tion.  Nice  thing,  that!”

“ You  might  have  done  the  same 

thing. ”
“ I  didn’t  find  out  about  it  until  it 
was  too  late.  As  soon  as  1  discovered 
what  was  going  on  I  went  to  the  man­
ager  and  rebuked  him  in  my  mild  and 
timid  way. 
I  believe  he  ordered  me 
out  of  his  little  cheap-john  real  estate 
office  and  that  I  retaliated  by  tossing 
an 
inkstand  at  his  head  and  changing 
his  sickly,  pimply  face  to  a  beautiful 
black.  Oh,  that  was  a  great fair. 
I be­
lieve  that 
if  anyone  had  contributed 
gold  dollars  the  ladies  would  have  sold 
them  for  ninety  cents.”
The  merchant  went 

forward  to  wait 
upon  a  customer,  but  was  soon  back 
with  more  to  say.

“ Merchants  everywhere,”   he  said, 
“ are  bored  to  death  with  the  cry  of 
charity.  Just  as  quick  as  they  take  in  a 
dollar  some 
long-haired  man  or  some 
short-haired  woman  comes 
smirking 
after  it.  I  could  give  away  every  dollar 
of  my  profits  if  I  tried  and  the  charity 
beggars  would  want  the  capital  next. 
It’s  getting  cold  weather  now  and  I’ ll 
bet  I  have  a  dozen  calls  to-day.”

Even  as  he  spoke  the  door  opened 
and  a  natty-looking  young  fellow,smok­
ing  an  expensive  cigar  and  carrying  an 
atmosphere 
imported  perfumery 
about  him,  sauntered  in.  The  merchant 
went  to  meet  him.

“ Hello,  John,”   said  the  fellow,  fa­
miliarly,  “ 1  want  you  to  give  a  couple 
of  dollars  to  help  Fred  Johnson.  Got 
run  over,  you  know,  and  has  to  have 
his  feet  cut  off.”

“ Not  much,”   replied  the  merchant, 
with  a  grin. 
“ You  must  think  I  am 
here  because  I  like  the  business.  Give 
a  man  money  to  have  his  feet  cut  off? 
I  should  say  not!  What  would  become 
of  the  shoe  business  if every man should 
have  his  feet  cut  off?  Tell  me  that,  will 
you?”

The  young  man  began  to  cough  and 

of 

turn  red.

“ It  would  be  a  nice  thing  for  me  to 
put  my  name  down  on  your  paper  as 
encouraging  the  man  in  having  his  feet 
cut  off,  wouldn’t  it  now?”   continued 
“ If  1 
the  merchant,  with  a  sly  grin. 
sold  hats  I  presume  you  would  come 
in 
here  and  ask  me  to  subscribe  to  a  fund 
for  the  encouragement  of  people  with­
out  heads.  You  take  your  man  over  to 
the  hospital  and  have  his  feet  fixed  up, 
and  I’ ll  give  him  a  pair  of  shoes  when 
he  gets  out. 
If  they  are  pretty  bad, 
have  ’em  sewed  on.  Pay  money  to  re­
duce  the  percentage  of  possible  custom­
ers ! 
I  thought  you  were  a  friend  of 
m ine!”

The  young  man  sat  down  on  the coun­

ter  and  began  to  laugh.

“ You’ re  a  corker,”   he  said. 

“ You 
ought  to  edit  the  smile  department  in  a 
yellow  newspaper.”

“ I ’M  do  well 

if  I  live  through  this 
“ If  I  give 
job ,”   said  the  merchant. 
you  half  a  dollar  will  you  try  to  have 
that  man’s  feet  saved?”   with  a  return 
of  his .bantering  manner.

The  solicitor  replied  that  he  certainly 
would,  received  the  money  and  went 
out.  Then  the  merchant  sat  down  and 
helped  me  make  merry  over  his  own 
joke. 

Alfred  B.  Tozer.

For  Holiday Trade

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GRAND  RAPIDS.

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When  it  gets down  to

“Hard  Pan  Shoes”

we’re  right in  it.

We make them  ourselves.

every time.

Made solid.  Made for hard wear.  Made to give satisfaction 

If you don’t already carry them  in stock  it wdl  certainly  pay  you  to 

do so.  You can’t go wrong on  our own  make

“ Hard  Pan”
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MAKERS  OF  SHOES. 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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Men’s  Duck,  Friction  and  Wool  Lined  Short,  Heavy  and  Light  W eight 

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GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.  *

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Medaiie  that  West  Grand  Forks, 
in 
North  Dakota,  had  inducements  in  the 
way  of  business  which  it  would  be  well 
to  consider.  They  were  found  strong 
enough  to  listen  to  and  they  were  taken 
advantage  of  for  two  years,  when  Man- 
celona,  Mich.,  made  an  offer,  which 
was  at  once  accepted.  That  was 
in 
1890,  and  the  last  ten  years  affirm  that 
the  change  was  not  a  mistake.  So  pros­
perous  has  been  the  business  in  Mr. 
Medalie’s  hands  that 
it  has  expanded 
into  a  branch  concern  in  Bellaire.

lack  of 

In  tracing  this  tall  oak  from  its  tradi­
tional  acorn 
it  will  be  noticeable  that 
not  a  single  commercial  cyclone  has 
been  too  much  for  it.  There  have  been 
storms  and  no 
threatening 
weather;  but,  when  the  oak  reaches  far 
down  and  clutches  the everlasting rocks, 
what  matter  if  the  clouds  are  black  and 
the  wind  blows  and the descending rains 
beat  upon 
laughs  at  the  one, 
wrestles  with  the  other,  watches,  exult­
ant,  the  fleeing 
foe  and,  strengthened 
by  the  struggle,  dares  a  renewal  of  the 
contest  whenever  it  seems  best.  There 
has  been  no  failure— there  has  been  no 
fire!  On  the  even  tenor of  its  way  the 
business  has  gone,  as  it  promises  to  do 
until 
its  tireless  manager gets  enough 
of  it.

it? 

It 

12

REPRESENTATIVE  RETAILERS.

Phineas  Medalie,  General  Dealer at  Man- 

celona  and  Bellaire.

In  the  line  of  descent  it  is  a  source  of 
pride,  even  in  democratic  America,  to 
look  backward  and  forward  and be glad. 
That 
is  the  condition  of  things,  so  far 
as  the  subject  of  this  sketch  is  con­
cerned.  Born 
in  Kurland,  Russia,  on 
May  24,  1849—a  day  he  celebrates  with 
the  English  Queen— he  is  proud  of  his 
parentage  and 
is  convinced  that,  if  he 
dbes  not  reach  the  apex  of his ambition, 
the  result  will  be  due  to  no  taint  of 
blood.  His  father  was  a  natural  born 
schoolmaster.  Aside  from  a  remarkable 
fund  of  information— the genuine  teach­
a 
er’s  stock 
memory  as  discriminating  as 
it  was 
tenacious,  and  the  conscious  possessor 
of  a  skilful  pen,  the  father  assumed  the 
training  of  his  hoy  from  the  first  and 
carried  out  in  the  family  what  theories 
Froebel  carried  out  in  his  school.

in  trade— blessed  with 

favorable 

Having  reached  his  majority  under 
such 
there 
were  fairer  promises  for trained  brains 
and  empty  pockets  in  the  United  States

circumstances, 

In 

life. 

is  as 

fortunate 

Mr.  Medalie 

in  his 
social  relations  as  he  has  been  in  his 
business 
his  wife,  Nanie 
Frank,  a  Bavarian  by  birth,  he  found 
the 
life  and,  with 
five  boys  and  two  girls,  who  know  what 
a  real  home is,  he  has  all  that  the  future 
can  ask  for  to  make  the  fairly history as 
fair  as  the  past  has  been.

light  of  his  home 

Five  organizations  greet  Mr.  Medalie 
with  the  glad  hand.  He  is  a  Mason, 
an  Odd  Fellow— is  there  luck 
in  Odd 
Fellows  as  there  is  in  odd  numbers?— a 
member  of  the  Maccabees,  a  Knight  of 
Pythias  and  a  member  of  the  Sons  of 
the  Covenant;  and,  while  he  does  not 
say 
it,  there  is  more  than  a  suggestion 
that  each  one  of  these  societies  got  the 
best  of  the  bargain  when  they  “ took 
him  in !”

Siberia  Exporting:  Butter, 

rom the British  Food  Journal.
In  the  minds  of  most  people  Siberia 
is  connected  only  with  eternal  cold  and 
convicts,  and 
it  will  surprise  many  to 
learn  that  it  produces  some  two  million 
tons  of  grain  every  year  and  since  the 
completion  of  the  Trans-Siberian  R ail­
way  quite  a 
feature  has  been  made  of 
the  exportation  of  Siberian  butter.  Last 
year  no  less  than  5,500 tons  of  this  arti­
cle  were  carried  over  the  2,000 miles 
covered  by  this  line.  That  it  is 
likely 
to  prove  a  lasting  source  of  income  is 
proved  by  the 
fact  that  the  Russian 
government  has  granted  10  per  cent,  re­
duction 
favor of  Siberian 
butter.  Owing  to  the  low  temperature 
at  which  it  is  produced,  and  which  pre­
vails  in  the  districts  through  which it  is 
carried,  there 
is  no  necessity  to  apply 
refrigeration  methods  for  preservation.

in  tariff 

in 

An  enterprising  merchant  at  an  Eng­
lish  watering  place,  having  noticed  the 
eagerness  with  which  people  at  the  sea­
shore  pick  up  shells,  recently  secured  a 
wagonload  of  mussel  shells  and  had  his 
advertisement  printed  on  each  one. 
Then,  under  cover of  darkness,  he  had 
them  scattered  along  the  beach,  and 
thereafter  his  name  was  on  the  end  of 
everybody’s  tongue.  There is  as  yet  no 
law  in  England  against  this  form  of  en­
terprise,  and  the 
likely  to  be 
widely  copied.

idea 

is 

industry 

A  curious 

in  some  of  the 
provinces  in  China  is  the  manufacture 
of  mock  money  for offering  to  the  dead. 
The  pieces  are  only  half  the  size  of  the 
real  coins,  but  the  dead  are  supposed 
not  to  know  the  difference.  The  dummy 
coins  are  made  out  of  tin,  hammered  to 
the  thinness  of  paper,  and  stamped 
out  to  the  size  required.

than  under  the  dense  shadow  of  the 
Russian  Bear  and  April  20,  1870,  saw 
Mr.  Medalie  on  one  of  ihe  piers  of New 
York  with  the  Old  World  and  the  A t­
lantic  behind  him,  penniless  but  not  in 
debt,  and  the  New  World  before  him, 
ready  to  give  him  of  her  best  if  he 
should  insist  on  that.

Chance  or 

circumstance— it  makes 
little  difference  which  to  the  will  that 
will  have  its  way— took  the  young  man 
first  to  Toledo,  where  H.  Stettiner  gave 
him  something  to  do. 
It  was  only 
something;  but  it  was  a  beginning,  the 
only  condition  determined  success  ex­
acts,  and  after  five  months  of  it  the 
City  of  the  Straits  offered  something 
better  and  the  offer  was  promptly taken. 
The  stay  at  Detroit  was  not  a  long  one, 
nor  was  that  much  longer  at  Flint  and 
Lapeer.  West  Branch, 
in  Ogemaw 
county,  he  found,  more  to  his  lik in g : 
and,  when  the  statement  is  made  that 
he  built  there  a  store  for dry  goods  and 
clothing  and  occupied  it  for  two  years, 
there  comes  to  the  hearer  a  thought  of 
the  empty  pockets  on  the  New  York 
pier  with  a  wondering  How?  The  Yan­
kee  calls  it  gumption  and  faculty, which 
the  West  has  simmered  down  to  “ g it.”  
It  is  not  a  matter  of  spelling,  however, 
and,  when  the  two  years  were  over,  he 
took  “ it”   with  him  to  Cadillac  in  1876 
and,  cheered  and  urged  on  by 
it, 
opened  a  store  for  dry  goods,  clothing 
and  millinery.  Twelve  years  of  thrift 
went  on  when  rumor 
reached  Mr.

NEW  SCOTTEN  TOBACCO  CO. 

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Store and 
House  Lighting

For  the  perfect  and  economical 
lighting of dwellings  as  well as  stores 
The Imperial Gas Lamp  fills  the  bill. 
It  is  also  safe,  being  approved  by  In­
surance  Boards.  The Imperial burns 
common  stove  gasoline,  gives  a  100 
candle  power  light  and  is  a  steady, 
brilliant  light,  with  no  odor  and  no 
smoke.  Every lamp  is  fully  guaran­
teed,  and  it  is  made  in  various  styles 
suitable  for  different  purposes.  The 
Imperial Gas Lamp  makes  the  ideal 
light  for  Lodge  Rooms,  because  it 
can  be  burned  as  low as desired;  does 
not  smoke,  and 
is  perfectly  safe. 
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ending  there  a  wearisome  journey—the 
dust  of  travel  still  clings to everything— 
and  it  was,  literally,  too  tired  to  move. 
It  had  certainly  not  moved  since  then 
and  the  journey  had  ended  months  ago. 
A  washhoard  almost  barred 
the  en­
trance;  but  its  silent  sarcasm,which  the 
dirt)  floor  intensified,  was  accepted  as 
an  apology,  seconded,  as 
it  was  un­
doubtedly  meant  to  be,  by  a  mopstick, 
very  much  out  of  place  behind the door. 
Years  ago,  when 
life  was  younger,  an 
attempt  had  been  made  for  a  commer­
cial  dance  of  Virginia  Reel,  the  calico 
on  one  side  of  the  store  and  the  rough 
goods  on  the  other,  with  a  clear  passage 
for  “ down  the  m iddle,”   but  “ the  cares 
of  this  world  and  the  deceitfulness  of 
riches”   choked  the 
intention  and  the 
passage 
is  filled  with  a  little  of  every­
thing  from  the  enchanted  circle  where 
the  stove  stands  to  the  offending  wash­
board  at  the  entrance.

With  much  tacking  a  voyage  of  dis­
covery  was  made  up  one  channel  and 
down  the  other,  but  it  ended  in  the  con­
viction  that  the  old  had  not passed away 
and  that  the  style  of  storekeeping which 
had  done  its  worst  for  fifty years to send 
its  best  patrons  to  the  city  is  still 
in 
existence,  proving  by  actual  fact  that 
commerce  in  that  village will never hold 
up  its  head— say  nothing  of  thriving— 
until  there  has  been  a  first-class  funeral 
there.  Death 
find  the 
shining  mark  it  likes;  but  thrift  could 
not  stand 
in  that  store  five  minutes 
without  uttering  the  heartrending  cry, 
familiar  to  the  ages:  “ How  long,  O 
Lord !  How  long !”

there  will  not 

squire 

twitched 

In  the  midst  of  the  desolation,  there 
flashed  a  living  picture  upon  the  gloom 
in  the  back  of  the  store,  which  memory 
alone  could  produce.  The  old  box  stove 
was  the  center  of  it. 
It  was  cold  and 
black,  but  recollection,  more  quickly 
than  kerosene,  lighted  the  fire,  opened 
the  stove  door  and  revealed  the  old  un­
broken  circle. 
The  wiseacre  of  the 
neighborhood,  fat  and  dirty,  sat  in  the 
same  old  chair  with  the same old pipe—  
he  must  be  used  to  the  smell  of  sulphur 
by  this  time !  On  an  upturned  keg  sat 
the  he  gossip  of  the  village,  who  punc­
tuated  his  sentences  with  oaths  and 
liquid  attentions which  the  hot  stove  re­
sented.  The  thin,  nervous  figure  of  the 
whiteheaded 
and 
squirmed  and  held  his  own  in  the  dis­
cussions  of  state  and  neighborhood  and 
meeting  house 
in  his  same  old  corner. 
The  storekeeper  was  in  his  place  on  the 
counter,  which  he  covered  with  the 
amplest  measurement  of  his  ample 
anatomy,  while  a  certain 
fair-haired 
lad,  whom the  village  philosopher  again 
and  again  affirmed,  with 
forceful  ex­
pletive  for  some  unappreciated  boyish 
to  be  “ the  devil’s  own 
pleasantry, 
brat!”   was 
looking  out 
for  business 
close  by.  One  may  not  be  materially 
bettered  by  the 
forced  admission  that 
the  philosopher  was  right,  but 
the 
completed  picture  was  well  worth  the 
ride  and  the  visit  for  all  that,  the  inter­
vening  years  softening  the  outline  and 
securing  forgiveness  for  the  good-for- 
nothing  storekeeper  who  has  made  the 
replica  possible.

TWO  STORKS.

“ Look  on  This  Picture  and  Then  on 

If  knowledge 

That.”
is  a  remembrance  of 
differences  contrast  is  its  best promoter. 
At  all  events comparison,  although often 
odious,  is  never  partisan  and  the  un­
prejudiced  can  look  and  learn  and  form 
its  own  conclusions.  The  comparison 
in  this  instance  began  with  the  door­
step,  where  the  young  grocer  with  a  re­
cent  hair  cut  and  clean  shave  and  clean 
shirt— is  there  a  better  sign  of  prodigal 
prosperity  than  this 
in  the  middle  of 
'the  week?— was  talking  with  a  friend. 
“ Use  the  ’phone?  Surely.  Just  at  the 
right  there  on  the  counter.  Talk 
it 
dumb  if  you  want  to .”

it  has  thoroughness  for 

The  men  on  the  doorstep  were flanked 
on  either  side  with  vegetables  and 
fruits 
looking  as  clean  and  wholesome 
as  the  grocer  himself,  and  they  made  a 
fitting  introduction  to  the  inside  of  that 
thrifty  grocery.  The  first  fact  notice­
able  here  was  the  abundance  of  goods. 
The  shelves  were  loaded  and  the  floor 
space  verged  to  the  crowded  point,  and 
yet  there  was  method  in  it  all. 
It  was 
easy to  get around and evidently  no  time 
was  lost  in  reaching  for  things  and  es­
in  trying  to  find  them.  The 
pecially 
sweeping  out 
in  the  morning— ten  to 
one  that  store  is  swept  oftener  than once 
job,  but  the  hand 
a  day— is  no  fancy 
that  did 
its 
watchword  and  lets  no  dirt  pass.  The 
windows?  They  understand  their  busi­
ness.  The  spiders  long  ago  found  out 
that,  unless,  they  wanted  to  starve  to 
death,  they  would  have  to  open  up  else­
where.  The  flies  have  not  been  able  to 
tell  the  difference  between  the  grocery 
hordes  and  the  Boxers  and,  unlike  the 
missionary  in  China,  have “ vamoosed”  
the  territory.  The  consequence  is  that 
the  big  glass  windows  have  settled 
down  to  work  and,  clear  as  the  country 
air  of  the  October  noonday,  they  let  thé 
daylight  pass  so  that  goods  in  that  store 
can  be  seen without  turning  on  the  elec­
tric  light.  The  whole  interior  is  full  of 
‘  Buy  something!  Buy  something;”  
and,  if  the  men  who  pay  the  grocery 
bills  at  that  establishment  are  wise, 
they  will  do their own  marketing.  The 
average  woman 
is  no  safer  there  than 
she  is  at  the  fall  opening  of  a  millinery 
shop ;  and  a  prudent  husband  will never 
let  her  go  there  alone !

The  road 

from  that  grocery  store  to 
the  next  one  visited  winds  through  ten 
good  miles  of  fine  October  landscape. 
It 
is  bordered  a  good  part  of  the  way 
by  maples,  who think  they  know  the  full 
capacity  and  the  possibilities  of  the dye 
tub,  and  by  oaks  who  are  positive  that 
if  inanimate  nature  or  any  part  of 
it 
ever  did  typify  the  proverb  that  “ Igno­
rance  is  bliss,”  especially  in  the  matter 
of  reds  and  scarlets,  the  maple  family- 
as  a  whole  do  just  that !  The  sunshine 
did  its  best  to  intensify  the  family feud, 
while  the  wind,  not  even  by  a  whisper, 
let 
it  be  known  which  side  it  was  on. 
The  lake  and  the  river  were  doing  their 
level  best  to  induce  both  parties  to 
in­
dulge  in  a  little  wholesome  reflection; 
but  the  quarrel  went  on  during  the 
whole  ten  miles  with  never  a  single  let­
up.  In  the  village  itself,  there  was  open 
war.  The  ground  was  fairly  deluged 
“ with  redder  stains  than  the  poppies 
knew”   and  up  to  the  very  steps  of  the 
village  store,  where  refuge  was  sought, 
there  were  blood-splashed  leaves.

Inside  there  was  conflict,  but  of  a 
different  kind.  Not  an  article  met  the 
sight  which  was  not  at  war  with 
its 
neighbor.  Each  had  the  appearance  of

is  well-to-do.  The  school  house  indi­
cates  common  care  and  enough  of  it. 
The  town  hall  is  neat  and  has  the  air  of 
self-respect.  The  meeting  house— what 
a  good  old-fashioned  word  it  is and  how 
much 
it  can  be  made  to  m ean!— stands 
with  some  dignity  a  little  back  from the 
road 
its  own,  the  very 
its  blinds  hinting  of  rural 
green  of 
is  needed  to  make 
sanctity.  All  that 
life  desirable  there 
is  a  country  store 
worthy  the  name.  May  Heaven  look 
down  upon  that  suffering  spot  and  give 
it  soon  the  single  blessing  it  needs  and 
craves! 

in  a  yard  of 

Saunterer.

W orking Together.

“ Dr.  Dosem  and  his  wife  seem  to  be 

in  league  together,  don’t  they?”

‘ ’ How  so?”
“ Why,  he  is  trying  to  hoom  his  new 
dyspepsia  cure,  while  she  is  running  a 
cooking  school.”

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The  best  thing  that  could  happen  to 
little  village  is  a  store.  There  is 
that 
for  one  not  many  yards 
a  good  place 
away. 
It  should  be  in  the  hands  of  a 
man  who  hasn’t  gone  to  seed  and  hung 
out  his  pods 
the  milkweed  that 
creeps  up  for  protection  to  the  very 
door.  It  need  not  be  a  grand  affair,  but 
it  should  be  neat  and  nice  and  thrifty, 
and 
it  would  be  all  three  in  the  right 
hands.  The  village  itself  shows  that  it

like 

The above cut  represents our  Bakery Goods  Floor Case  No.  i.

These cases are built of quarter  sawed  white  oak  handsomely  finished  and  fitted 
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We guarantee every case sent out by  us to be first class.  Write for prices.
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we will  make special  prices for complete outfits  of store  fixtures.

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Dry Poods
The  Dry  Goods  M arket.

from 

Staple  Cottons— In 

common  with 
other  lines,  staple  cottons  show  a  very 
small  amount  of  sales.  The  orders  are 
not  many,  and 
individually  they  are 
small,  both 
spot  and  outside 
sources.  Practically  all  orders  are  for 
immediate  shipment,  and  very  little  are 
seen  for  forward  delivery.  Prices  are 
well  maintained  and  no  concessions  are 
found  in  any  direction. 
Brown  sheet­
ings  and  drills  are  firm  at  present  writ­
ing,  even  although  occasionally  a  large 
order  could  be  booked  at  some  slight 
concession.  Sellers  have  too  much  con­
fidence  in  the  market,  however,  to  ac­
cept  anything  of  this  kind.  Light­
weight  brown  goods  are  firm,  although 
the  present  demand  is  light.  Ducks  are 
dull,  but  prices  well  maintained.  The 
same  is  true  of  bleached  cottons  for  all 
purposes,  either  for  the  manufacturing 
or 
trades.  Prices  are  easily 
maintained,  and  what  orders  are  com­
ing  to  hand  secure  full  rates  without 
question.  Wide  sheetings,  flannels,  etc., 
are  firm.  Denims  are  steady,  and  the 
demand  keeps  fully  up  to  the  supply,  it 
being  in  a  little  better  proportion  than 
other  cotton  goods.  Other coarse  colored 
cottons,  including ticks,  plaids,  checks, 
etc.,  are  firm,  and  moderate  business  is 
being  transacted.

jobbing 

Linings— There  has  been  practically 
no  change  in  the  condition  of  the lining 
market  from  our  report  of  a  week  ago. 
While  the  demand  for  linings  is  less 
this  year  than  it  was,  yet by  comparison 
with  the  last  five  years,  say,  it  will  run 
about  the  same.  The  clothing  trade  has 
not 
its  amount  of  business 
and,  consequently, 
from 
that  source  is  quite indifferent,  although 
the  tone  continues  not  only  firm,  hut  in 
some  directions  shows  signs  of  stiffen­
ing.

the  demand 

increased 

Printed  Fabrics— Printed  calicoes  at 
the  present  time  show  but  a  compara­
tively  small  amount  of  business  being 
transacted.  Buyers  find  themselves  un­
able 
to  do  anything  except  by  such 
goods  as  may  be  in  stock.  Sellers  are 
feeling  that  they  prefer  at  the  present 
time  to  withdraw  from  the  market  en­
tirely.  They  have  been  delaying  the 
setting  of  fixed  prices  on  account  of  the 
uncertainty  in  the  cotton  and  yarn  mar­
kets,  and  what  orders  are  accepted  are 
on  the  “ at  value’ ’  basis.  Fancy  prints 
show  no  business  beyond  what  is  neces­
sary  in  the  way  of  filling  out  stocks,and 
only  two  or  three  agents  are  taking  or­
ders 
light  fancy  prints. 
These,  however,  will  show  more  busi­
ness  shortly;  probably  by  the  middle  of 
in  these  lines  will  be 
November  trade 
good. 
flannel 
effects  are  well  sold  up,  prices  being 
exceptionally  firm.  Ginghams  are  quiet 
in  both  staples  and  dress  styles.

Percales  and  printed 

the  new 

in 

Dress Goods— The developments of the 
week  in  connection  with  the  dress goods 
market  have  not  been  as  favorable  as 
could  be  desired.  There has been  a  very 
fair  attendance  of  buyers,  but  as  a  rule 
their  orders  have  been  lacking 
in  vol­
ume.  Here  and  there,  however,  some 
fair  sized  orders  are  reported. 
very 
Some  makers  of  standard 
lines  of 
staples,  such  as  Venetians,  broadcloths, 
etc.,  report  their  orders  quite  satisfac­
tory. 
instances  some  of  the 
smaller  mills  which  have  been previous­
ly  engaged  entirely  on  some other  goods 
have  been 
the  apparent 
popularity  of  the  Venetian  and  broad­
cloth  to  bring  out  goods  of  that  charac­

induced  by 

In  some 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

ter.  Naturally 
in  some  instances  these 
goods  have  not  come  up  to  the  standard 
of  the  product  of  those  mills  which 
have  been  making  these goods for years, 
and  consequently  they  do  not  draw  as 
well  as  the  well-established 
lines.  On 
sackings  some 
fair  orders  have  been 
booked,  but  the  volume  of  orders  ac­
cumulated  has  not  come  up  to  expecta­
tions  entertained  by  most  manufactur­
ers.  The  average  buyer 
is  still  very 
much  at  sea  regarding  the  fabrics  that 
he  should  buy,  and  he 
is  therefore 
awaiting  developments,  and 
agents 
claim  that  if  the  buyer  could  get  away 
from  this  uncertainty,  there  would  be 
little  difficulty  in  getting  current prices.
Underwear— The  heavyweight  under­
wear  business  has  been  only  moderate 
in  the  retail  circles  and,  naturally,  in 
other  departments  of  trade.  The  retail­
ers  have  not  cared  to  place  orders  for 
duplicates  until 
their  present  stocks 
have  been  reduced,  and  they  have  quite 
large  stocks,  most  of  them,  under con­
tract  which  are  being  or  will  be  de­
livered  soon.  These  are  many  of  them 
from  orders  placed  nearly  a  year  ago 
for  delivery  at  the  present  time.  What 
the  duplicate  heavyweight  business  will 
amount  to  is  now  very  problematical. 
While  the  retailers  have  been  having  a 
fair  business  during  the  days  that  were 
cool,  they  have  such  a  satisfactory  sup­
ply  that  the  business  must  be  large  be­
fore  they  will  enter  more  orders.  They 
are,  however,  placing  orders  for  spring, 
or  else  have  already  completed  these 
orders,  many  of  them  feeling  that  for 
fancy  underwear  and  specialties  they 
may  run  short,  unless  their  orders  are 
in  very  early.  Specialties  have  been 
ordered  in 
large  quantities,  and  a  most 
delightful  assortment  of  fancies  is  un­
der  contract.  Lightweight  ribbed  union 
in  for  a  fair  propor­
suits  have  come 
in  fact,  the  orders  are 
tion  of  trade, 
larger  by 
than  a  year 
ago.  One  trouble  that  exists  in  the  un­
derwear  business  with  both  the  retailers 
and  the  manufacturers  is  the  grade  of 
goods  being  sold.  This  is  partly  a  fault 
of  the  retailer,  or,  in  fact,  largely  his 
fault,  for  not  explaining  carefully  the 
qualities  and  advantages  of  the  higher 
cost  goods  to  his  customers. 
It  the  re­
tailer  understood  a  little  more  about  the 
manufacturer  and 
the  position  of  the 
garments,  he  would  be  able  to  talk  more 
intelligently  and  turn  the  tide  of  trade 
towards  a  higher  grade  than  he  does  at 
the  present  time.  A   little  effort  on  his 
part  would  raise  the  average  all  over 
the  country  to  the  benefit  of  all  con­
cerned,  the  consumer 
The 
trade  is  getting  ready  to  look  at  fall  un­
derwear  for  1901. 
It  will  be  remem­
bered,  as  mentioned  above, 
that  a 
year ago  this  time,  a  great  many  orders 
had  been  placed,  and  by  the  1st  of  De­
cember,  a  number  of  mills  were  com­
pletely  booked 
for  this  season.  This 
year,  however,  the  same  necessity  for 
hurrying  the  orders  does  not  exist. 
It 
is  rather  a  detriment  to  the  trade  to  do 
this  unless  there 
is  a  good  cause,  and 
it  is  apt  to  demoralize  affairs  in  the end 
if  it  is  in  any  way  overdone.
importers 

are  busy 
with  their  fancy  hosiery  at  the  present 
time,  and 
in  spite  of  some  talk  that  is 
occasionally  heard  in  the  trade  of prices 
being  cut  in  the  near  future,  there  is  no 
possible  chance  of  such  a  contingency. 
Naturally  the  election  has  upset  affairs 
somewhat,  particularly  with  the  domes­
tic  manufacturers. 
It  seems  as  though 
the  hosiery  end  of  the  business  had fall­
en  off  more  than  any  other  department 
of  knit  goods,  although  why  this  should

Hosiery— The 

considerable 

included. 

firm 

be  so  it 
is  impossible  to  say.  There 
seems  no  reason  to  doubt  that  hosiery 
will  remain 
in  price,  and  that 
those  who  will  place  orders  now  will  be 
perfectly  safe  in  so  doing. 
In  regard 
to  the  styles  in  fancy  hosiery,  practical­
ly  everything  that  is neat  and modest  in 
effect  is  wanted,  although  there  is  some 
demand  for  high  colors  in 
large  pat-
terns.  Open  work  lace  effects  for women 
are  excellent,  and  have  made  black 
goods  once  more  exceedingly  popular. 
There  is  not  expected  to  be  any  partic­
ular  change  in  the  market  for  about  two 
weeks,  or  possibly  a 
little  more,  and 
then  there 
is  a  chance  that  the  market 
will  make  an  advance.

Carpets— Manufacturers  of three-quar­
ter  goods  continue  to  lead  other  lines, 
and  while  manufacturers  of  ingrains 
have  practically  wound  up  their  busi­
ness  for  this  season,  and  completed 
samples  for  next  season,  tapestry  and 
velvet  manufacturers  are  at  work  on 
duplicate  orders.  One  factor,  affecting 
all  markets  at  this  time,  is  the  near  ap­
proach  of  the  presidential  election.  No 
one  seems  to  care  about  pushing  busi­
ness  until  sure  of  the  result. 
The 
wholesale  trade  in  carpets,  as  well  as 
in  rugs,  is  still  quiet,  while  in  the  re­
tail  trade  there  is  some  improvement 
noticed,  both 
for  carpets  and  rugs. 
There  was  an  advance  made  Oct.  15  on 
tapestries  of 
i^ c   per  yard  by  a  large 
Eastern  mill.  The  new  lines  of  tapes­
try  and  velvet  carpets  will  be  shown 
after  November  15.

Art  Squares— This  line  has  shown  up 
better than  any  other this  season.  There 
improvement  in  demand, 
is  a  steady 
and  the  art  square  has  come  to  stay. 
It 
is  constantly  increasing  in  popular  fa­
vor.  Ingrain  manufacturers  fully  realize 
this  fact,  and  those  who  are  not  al-

ready  equipped  with  art  square 
looms 
know  that  in  order  to  be 
in  the  swim 
with  other  ingrain  manufacturers,  and 
have  something  to  fall  back  on  when 
regular  lines  are  slow,  they  must  put  in 
looms.  Each  season  finds 
art  square 
the  number  of  new 
looms  put  in  for 
this  work  exceeding  the  number  put  in 
for  regular  ingrains.

Novelty  in  Signs.

Here’s  a  new  and  catchy way for mak­
ing  window  signs,  that  is  for  marking 
on  the  plate  glass :  Paint  on  the  glass 
the  letters  desired  with  a  white  paste  or 
Take  strips 
a  transparent  mucilage. 
inch  wide 
of  cotton  batting  about  an 
and 
letters  by  sticking  the 
strips  to  the  glass  where  the  mucilage 
has  been  applied.  This  makes  a  very 
neat  letter  and  people  are  apt  to  wonder 
how  the  cotton  stays  in  place.  You  can 
make  the  cotton  wave  by  turning  on  it 
an  electric  fan  breeze.

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Prices  from  $6 00  to  $21.00  per 

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Jobbers of Millinery 
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Prices:  $4 50,  $7 and  $9 per  doz.

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There  were 

month ;  the  air  turned  cold  and  crisp, 
and  the  retail  stores  began  to  look  live­
ly.  The  weather  was  just  cool  enough 
to  make the  public feel  that heavier  gar­
ments,  both  outer  and  under,  would  be 
very  comfortable,particularly  when  they 
were  out  in  the  early  morning  or  even­
ing. 
faint-hearted  mer­
chants,  who  felt  some  uneasiness  about 
the 
stocks  of  heavyweight  clothing 
which  they  had  purchased,  but  their 
fears  were  for  the  most part undoubtedly 
groundless.  That there  was  a  little  over­
buying  by  some 
is  very  true,  but  not 
more  marked  this  year  than  in  any  past 
year.  There  are  always  a  certain  num­
ber  who overestimate the amount of busi­
ness  coming  to  them,and  it  is  always  to 
be  expected.  On  the  whole,  however, 
we  believe  the  buying  was  of  a  fairly 
conservative  nature,  and  that  no  more 
was  b  ught  than  will  be  wanted.

Of  the  business  that  has  been  trans­
in  winter 
acted  up  to  the  present  time 
reveals  the 
weight  clothing,  enquiry 
fact  that 
the  grade  of  the  garments 
bought  has  been  higher  on  an  average 
than  for  several  seasons  past.  True,  the 
same  suit  at  $15  a  year  ago  will  cost the 
purchaser  more  this  year,  but  the  con­
sumer  seems  not  only  willing  to  pay 
this,  but  taking  the  country  through­
out,  seems  willing  to  do  even  better. 
The  political  situation 
is  undoubtedly 
affecting  the  wholesale  trade  to  a  con­
siderable  extent,  merchants  not  feeling 
that  they  want  to  risk  a  great  deal  un­
til  they  know  what  the  outcome  will  be.
After  election,  if  the  weather  is  sea­
sonable,  there 
little  doubt  but  there 
will  be  a  resumption  of  business  on  a 
good  sized  scale.

is 

Ready  For the  Dog.

Tom— You’ve  been  leaning  against  a 

whitewashed  fence,  haven’t  you?

D ick— No.  Why?
Tom— Your  coat tails  are covered with 

white  dust.

Dick— 'Sh!  I ’m  going  to  call  on  Miss 
Pechy.  Her  father,  you  know,  keeps  a 
bulldog.  That  white  dust  is  arsenic.

15

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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Almost  every  one  of  the  —«  
blankets  in  our  large  stock  ^ 3  
is the  kind  that  will  bring 
business  to your  store,  be-
cause  they 
look  so  well, 
and can  be sold  for  such a 
reasonable price. 
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Everything from the cheap-  ^ 3  
est  kind  to  fleece  down 
plaids, etc.

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lady.  H e’ ll 

her. 
“ John,  you  come  here  and  wait 
on  this 
look  after  you, 
madam,”   is  not  the  way  to  do  it.  By 
leading  her  to  the  other  salesman’s 
stock  and  then  saying,  “ I  will  call  the 
man  who  has  charge  of  this  stock  and 
who  is  familiar  with  it  and  he  will  be 
able  to  show  you  a  better  assortment  of 
goods  than  1  can,”   the  salesman  makes 
a  graceful  way  of  escape  for  himself 
and  does  not  spoil  the  other  salesman’s 
chances  with  the  customer. 
But  the 
man 
in  charge  of  the  department  must 
take  account  of  this  necessity  of  turn­
overs.  Otherwise  the  salesman  will  too 
often  spoil  the  other  man’s  chances  of 
making  a  sale,  that  he  may  not  be  crit­
icised  for  failing  to  make  a  sale.

Women  will  often  ask  odd  or  whimsi­
cal  questions  or  ask  for  styles  and  de­
signs  that  are  outlandish. 
In  such 
cases  they  should  be  answered  as  far  as 
possible  with  consideration.  If a  woman 
asks  for  something  that  the  merchant 
does  not  have in  stock  she  should  not  be 
told  that  it  is  probably  home-made  or  a 
bad  style,  or  so  on,  but  she  should  be 
if  she 
led  to  look  over  the  stock  to  see 
can  find  something  that  resembles 
it. 
In  this  way  she  often  discovers  gar­
ments  that  are  more  to  her  taste  than 
the  ones she  set  out  in  search  of.

Woqien 

receive  suggestions  more 
gladly  than  men.  They make  out  shop­
ping  lists,  which  they  frequently 
lose, 
and  they  are  glad  to  be  reminded  of 
things  that  they  are  apt  to  need.  This 
is  a  point  of  importance.  Men  object 
to  having  a 
list  of  things  dinned  into 
their ears.  Women sometimes appreciate 
heroic  treatment  in  this  respect.

As  women  like  to  shop,  the  fact  must 
be  taken  account  of  by  the  man  who 
deals  with  them. 
It  is  fatal  policy  to 
treat  them  brusquely  if  they  fail  to  buy. 
More  time  must  be  given  to  them  than 
to  men.  Customers  are  often 
lost  by 
neglect  of  this  point,  which  is  a  most 
important  one 
for  the  clothing  man  to 
remember.  Very often a woman  who is in 
a  bad  state  of  health  will 
look  at  gar­
ments  and  see  nothing  that  satisfies her. 
is  advisable  to  quietly  take  one  of 
It 
the  garments  she  has  seen  and  show 
it 
to  her  again.  Very  often  she  does  not 
recognize  it.  Her  judgment  has  modi­
itself  since  she  first  saw  it,  or  she 
fied 
failed  to  notice  it  the  first  time  that 
it 
was  presented  to  her. 
If  she  says  that 
she  saw  it  before,  admit  it,  but  say  that 
there  are  some  points  about  it  that  you 
think  she  failed  to  appreciate  before, 
and 
lead  her  to  give  it  a 
careful  examination.  The  more  close­
ly  she  can  be  led  to  look  at  the  goods 
displayed  the  better  the  chances of mak­
ing  a  sale  are. 
If  a  woman  shows  evi­
dences  of  great  fatigue  it  is  well  to  dis-
tract  her  attention  for  a  time  from  the 
direct  business 
It  rests  her 
and  relieves  her  and  increases  her  con­
fidence 
in  the  salesman  who  is  not  too 
eager to  make  a  sale.— Apparel Gazette.

in  this  way 

in  hand. 

Clothing

How  to  Handle  the  Children’s  Clothing 

Department.

In  some  cases  stock  can  best  be  ar­
ranged  by  sizes  and  in  other  cases  by 
styles. 
If  stock  is  arranged  by  sizes  it 
is  convenient  in  showing  goods,  but 
it 
is  more  difficult  to  keep  the  run  of  the 
movement  of  stock,  and  lines  that  are 
not  selling  well  are not quickly detected. 
If  stock  is  arranged  by  sizes  it  does  not 
present  as  attractive  an  appearance  as 
if 
it  is  arranged  by  colors.  By  this 
method  of  arrangement  customers  in­
specting  stock  on  the  pile  always  see 
it  against  a  background  of 
its  own 
color,  which 
is  a  great  advantage.  A 
suit  with  blue  trimmings  shown  against 
a  suit  with  green  trimmings  is  not  and 
can  not  be  shown  to  good  advantage. 
The  salesman  should  always  take  ac­
count  of  these  peculiarities  of  color 
in 
showing  his  goods.

All 

the  departments  of  children’s 
goods  should  be  placed  as  near  to  one 
another  as  possible.  People  are  thus 
often  reminded  of  something  that  they 
need  or  something  that  they  wish  to 
buy,  as  it  has  been  brought  to  their  at­
tention.  Careful  consideration should  be 
given  to  the  display  of  goods.  They 
should  be  brought  to  the  notice  of 
customers  by  mentioning  them,  and, 
what 
them 
prominently  in  sight.

is  better,  by  displaying 

The  salesman  can  never  keep  too 
prominently  before  his  mind  the  fact 
that  the  physical  condition  of  a  woman 
customer 
is  far  more  variable  than  the 
physical  condition  of  a  man.  This  is 
a 
fact  of  the  first  importance.  To  say 
nothing  of  the  anxiety  and  worry  to 
which  mothers  with  small  children  and 
sturdy,growing  lads  are  subject,  and the 
nervous  timidity  and  sensitiveness  that 
a  woman  feels  in  an  unfamiliar  place, 
a  woman  is  subject  to  physical  disturb­
ances  that  at  times  convert  the  most 
amiable  women  into  the  worst of cranks. 
It  is  safe  to  say  that  unless  the  sales­
man  keeps  this  fact 
in  mind  he  will 
often lose  sales  and  drive  away trade.  If 
a  woman  comes  into  his  store 
irritable 
and  difficult  to  please  he  should  remem­
ber  that  the  same  woman  on another day 
might  be  so  pleasant  that  he  would  not 
he  able  to  recognize  her.  Consequently 
too  much  consideration  and  patience 
can  not  be  shown  women  customers. 
The  salesman  should  cultivate  patience 
above  all  things. 
If  a  woman  comes  in 
who  is  irritable  and  languid,  she  should 
be  at  once  provided  with  a  seat  and 
goods  brought  to  her.  She  should  not 
be  obliged  to  stand,  moving  up  and 
down  counters  and  to  and  from  mirrors.
She  should  be  made  to  feel  at  home 
and  relieved  of  any  feeling  of  nervous­
ness  or  responsibility  as far  as  may  be. 
This 
is  only  possible  if  the  salesman 
has  some  sort  of  appreciation  of  the 
difficulties  under  which  she 
If 
he  is  a  tactful  and  considerate  man  the 
little  attentions  that  he  shows  will  be 
gratefully  appreciated  and  the  woman 
will  prefer  to  come  to  the  store  where 
she  has  been  made  to  feel  at  home  and 
enabled  to  do  her  shopping  with  the 
least  worry  and  fatigue.

labors. 

Turnovers  are  much  more  necessary 
in  waiting  on  women  than men.  Women 
often  take  an 
instinctive  dislike  to  a 
salesman  and  it  will  be  impossible  for 
him 
Consequently 
whenever  a  woman  will  not  purchase  of 
one  man  she  should  be  tactfully  turned 
over  to  another  man  in  a  way  that  will 
not  spoil  his  chances  of  success  with

to  make  a  sale. 

Voorhees  Mfg.  Co.

LA N S IN G .  M IC H .

We  manufacture  a full  line  of
Jackets,  Overalls 

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

Situation  in  tlie  Clothing Trade.

From the  American Wool Reporter.

The 

last  of  September  and  the  first 
week  in  October  was  a  bad  time  for  the 
retail  clothiers.  The  weather  was  un­
seasonably  warm,  and  a  considerable 
portion  of  the 
time  was  damp  and 
rainy.  Business  fell  off  to  a  consider­
able  extent,  and  just  at  the  time  that  it 
should  have  been 
full  swing,  pre­
paratory  to  the  colder  weather of winter. 
Naturally  much  disappointment  was 
felt,  and  many  complaints  were  heard. 
Nevertheless  the  trade  so far from losing 
heart,  kept  up  a  splendid  show  of  cour­
age,  knowing  that  there  must  be  an  end 
of  the  bad  weather,  and  a  beginning 
of  the  steady  cold  season.  To  their  re­
lief  this  came  in  the  second  week  of  the |

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Hardware

How  Robert  W atson  Solved  the  Problem  

of I^ocal  Competition.

The 

little  town  of  Stratford  (never 
mind  what  state) 
lay  basking  in  the 
glare  of  the  early  morning  sun.  The 
stores  along  Main  street  were  just  be­
ginning  to  open  up,  and  teams  and 
men  were  starting  away  for  the  haying. 
A   young  man  stood  upon  the  edge  of 
the  sidewalk,  with  one  hand  resting  on 
the  brand  new  hitching  post,  intently 
regarding  a  newly  painted  store 
front 
and  clean  and  shining  expanse  of  show 
window.  The  sign  over  the  door,  read­
ing,  “ Robert  Watson,  Hardware,”   also 
partook  of  this  general  air  of  newness. 
In  fact,  its  gilt  letteis  looked  as  if  they 
had 
known  even  a  single 
night’s  dulling  air.

scarcely 

“ I 

think 

“ There,”   thought  young  Robert  Wat­
son  to  himself, 
I’ ve  done 
everything  that  should  be  done  to insure 
success. 
I’ve  bought  my  stock  as  ne^r 
right  as  1  know  how,  and  my  seven 
years’  experience 
in  New  York  trade 
should  certainly  count  for  something. 
And  I’ve  got  the  store  fixed  up  in  nice 
shape  and  my  goods  properly  arranged. 
The  next  thing  is  to  begin  business. 
I 
wonder  who  my  first  customer  will  be 
and  what  he— or  maybe  it  will  be  a  she 
— will  buy.  Wonder 
if  it  wouldn’t  be 
a  good  idea  to  return  the money, just  for 
luck. 
It  would  make  talk  and  so  be  a 
sort  of  a 
little  advertisement  for  me. 
Who  is  this  old  duffer  coming  along  the 
street?  Seems  to  be  heading  this  way. 
Guess  I ’ll  go 
inside,  get  behind  the 
counter,  and  so  be  ready  to  receive 
him,  if  he  really  wants  anything,  in  a 
businesslike  sort  of  a  w ay.”

All  this  while  the  “ old  duffer”   was 
slowly  drawing  nearer.  He  whom  the 
young  merchant,  in  the  sadly  irreveren- 
tial  style  of  the  present  day,  had so  des­
ignated  was  an  elderly, 
farmer  ap­
pearing 
individual,  who  carried  his 
four  score  years  of  age  as easily as many 
men  of  half  his  time  of  life.  As  he 
drew  opposite  the  new  store  he  came  to 
a  standstill,  looked  all  over  the  outside 
very  attentively,  drew  a  big  bandanna 
handkerchief  from  his  coat-tail  pocket, 
blew  his  nose  with  a  snort  that  could 
have  been  heard 
for  a  mile,  and  pro­
ceeded  to  nod  his  head  and  chuckle 
aloud,  as  if  mightily  amused over some­
thing.  Catching  sight  of 
the  young 
storekeeper  through 
the  big  pane  of 
glass  in  the  show  window,  the  old  man 
entered  with  a  brisk  step  and  sat  down 
upon  a  nail  keg.

“ Good  morning,  sir,”   b’egan  Robert 

Watson,  advancing.

“ Mornin’ !  mornin’ !”   replied  the 

“ Anything  1  can— ”   began  the  store­

other.

keeper.

“ No,  sir,”   interrupted  the  newcomer 
explosively;  “ don’t  want  to  do  any 
tradin’  with  you  just  this  minit.  But, 
say,  ain't  you  hardware  people  kind  of 
rushin’  things? 
is  a  right 
smart  sort  of  town,  but  it  don’t  seem  as 
if  it  needs  three  hardware  stores.”

Stratford 

“ Why, 

“ Three?”   put  in  the young man ques- 
tioningly. 
there’s  only  Mr. 
Gardiner’s  and  my  own.  Of  course,  he 
is 
long  established  here  and  will  con­
tinue  to  have  the  bulk  of  the  trade  most 
likely,  but— ”

The  old  man  interrupted  the  speaker 
with  loud  chuckling  and  other  signs  of 
evident  amusement.  At  length  he  said : 
“ My  name's  Joshua  Skinner.  Every­
body  knows  me  ’ round  these  parts,  and 
so  will  you 
if  you  stay  long  enough.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Now  I 
like  your  looks,  and  I  want  to 
tell  you  plump  and  plain  that  there’s 
trouble  ahead  for  you. 
I  saw  you  when 
you  come  up  here  a  little  while  ago  to 
look  around.  Sure  enough,  then  there 
was  only  Sam  Gardiner’s  hardware 
store,  but  we’ve  had  a  sensation  since 
then,  and  I’m sorry  for  you.  Dinged  if 
I  ain’t. ”

“ What  do  you  mean?”   demanded 
Robert  Watson  in  some  astonishment, 
and  with  doubts  as  to  the  complete  san­
ity  of  his  early  caller.

“ Only  th is,”   put  in  Joshua  abruptly: 
“ that  Sallie  Terhune  has  had  money 
left  her,  and  what  does  she  do  but  get 
the  blamed 
fool  notion  in  her  head  of 
starting  a  hardware  store  in  this  town 
with  it.' ’

“ H ey!”   ejaculated  the  young  man.
“ G ittin’  interested,  ain’t  ye?”   put  in 
the  old  gossip.  “ Yes,  sir,  that’s  what’ s 
the  matter.”

“ But  now  that  I’ve  opened  up  she 
may  change  her  m ind,”   put  in  Robert 
Watson  sm ilingly.

“ Change  her  mind !”  croaked Joshua ; 
“ why,  man  alive,  you  must  have  been 
so 
intent  upon  getting  things  to  rights 
here  that  you  couldn’t  see  anything 
else.  Why,  she’s  starting  plumb  even 
with  you. ”

“ What?”  

yelled 

the  young  store­

keeper.

“ Yes,  sir,”   went  on  his  informant, 
looked 
“ she  hired  that  other  store  you 
livery  stable, 
at  down  by  Johnson’s 
bought  her  goods  last  week,  and  opens 
up  this  very  morning,  with  nobody  to 
help  her  but  a  younger  sister. 
I  vum 
if  it  don’t  beat  everything.  Three  hard­
ware  stores  all  a-booming  in  Stratford, 
and  not  more  than  enough  trade  for  two 
of  them. 
I  tell  you,  you’ve  got  to  git  a 
hustle  on  if  you  want  to  win  out.”

“ I  may  be  mistaken,  but  I  don’t  be­
lieve  she  can  sell  at  as  low  prices  as  1 
can,”   put 
in  Robert  Watson  sturdily.
‘ ‘ I  bought  low  down  for  spot  cash,  and 
I’ve  had  my  eye  teeth  cut  in  the  busi­
ness.”

“ Just  so,”   commented  the  old gossip, 
“ but  Sal  is  pow’ rf’ l  popular  with  the 
church  folks  and  sich.  At  equal  prices, 
I’m  afraid  she’ll  draw  the  trade  every 
time. ”

“ E er—is 

she— er— is  she  a  young 
lady?”   queried the  storekeeper  tim idly.
“ Somewhere’s  between  sweet  sixteen 
and  sour  sixty,”   dryly answered Joshua.
“ O h,”   replied  Robert,  picturing  an 

angular  old  maid  in  his  m ind’s  eye.

“ You  take  my  advice  and  have  a talk 
with  her,”   went  on  the  old  man;  “ Sal 
Terhune  has  got  a  heap  of  sense,  even 
if  her  father  was  a  noodle.  Maybe  she 
might  offer  you  a  lump  sum  to  git  you 
out  quick. ”

“ I  don’t  propose 

got  out 
quick,”   protested  Robert;  “ I’m going 
to  stay  where  I  am  and  build  up a  busi­
ness. ’ *

to  be 

I 

“ You  are?”  

incredulously;  “ well,  a 
just 
willful  man  must  have  his  way. 
thought  I ’d  give  you  some  advice. 
I 
figure  that  you’d  do  better  to quit  right 
now,  even  if  you  have  to  lose  a  couple 
of  hundred  dollars.  However,  you’ re 
your  own  master.  I  guess  I ’ll  trot  along 
to  Sal’s  and  see  how  much  sh e’s  tak­
ing  in. ”

And  with  a  nod  of  his  head  the  old 

gossip  ambled  off  down  the  stre»t.

The  next  few  weeks  were  the  most 
anxious  ones 
in  Robert  Watson’s  life. 
He  had  not  gone  into  business  for  him­
self  in  this  country  town  without  much 
thoughtful  preparation  and  care.  So  far 
as  he  could  see,  up  to  the  very  moment 
of  opening  store for the  first  tim e,every­

thing  had  looked  propitious.  And  then 
came  the  totally  unexpected  blow  of 
finding  a  rival  store  opening  up  upon 
the  very  same  day.  And  that  his oppon­
ent  was  a  woman  seemed  a  double  ag­
gravation  to  him.

“ Why 

in  the  mischief  couldn’t  the 
old  maid  put  her  capital  into  a  grocery, 
ice  cream 
or  a  fancy  work  store,  or an 
parlor,  or  something 
like 
that?”   he 
kept  saying  and  thinking  to  himself  a 
thousand  times  a  day. 
“ What  ever 
started  her  into  such  a  completely  un­
feminine  occupation  as  the  hardware 
business?”

first  train 

Robert  Watson  was,  ordinarily,  a  so­
ciable  and 
friendly  young  man,  but, 
probably  on  account  of  the  distractions 
attending  his 
launching  out  into  busi­
ness  at  Stratford,  he  made  very  few 
friends  or  acquaintances  for  some 
little 
time.  For  one  thing,  he  did  not  give 
himself  the  opportunity.  He  attended 
strictly  to  business  from  early  morning 
until 
late  at  night  on  every  workday. 
On  Sundays  he  had  formed  the  habit  of 
taking  the 
to  Bridleport, 
about  twenty  miles  distant,  and  spend­
ing  the  day  with  his  married  sister. 
Thus 
it  came  about  that  the  Stratford 
people  and  he  were  complete  strangers, 
exsept  for  coming  to  purchase  at  his 
store.  And  the  Stratford  people,  like 
the  average  people 
in  any  other  small 
town,  were  not  specially  disposed  to 
trade  with  one  who  appeared  to  want 
nothing  of  them  but  their  money.  But 
Robert  Watson  worked  a  lever that drew 
them  to  his  store,  regardless  of  whether 
or  no  they  liked  the  proprietor  socially. 
He  undersold  his  competitors  in  every­
thing.  At  least,  he  undersold  the  newly 
opened  hardware  store  of  Miss  Sallie 
Terhune.  Squire  Gardiner’s  long  estab-

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Nails

lished  and  easy going  emporium  was  an 
entirely  different  matter.

“ The  squire  has  a  line  of  customers 
that  he  can’t  lose  and  that  1  don't  want 
him  to  lose,”   the  young  merchant  had 
concluded. 
“ T hey’ve  traded  with  him 
so  tong  that  they  are  all  in  debt  to  him 
and  likely  to  stay  so.  They  must  keep 
trading  with  him  or  get  into  trouble. 
What  I  want  is  the  floating  cash  trade 
of  the  town,  and  that's  just  what  I  in­
tend  to  get.  I’m  sorry  for  the  old  maid, 
but  I’ m  not going  to  submit  to ruination 
just  out  of  politeness.  She’ ll  quit  as 
soon  as  she  finds  that  she  is  not  paying 
expenses,  and  won’t  be  out  a  great  deal 
then.’ ’

And  the  young  merchant smiled grim­
ly  as  he  thought  of  his  own  profit  and 
loss  account  growing  steadily  larger  on 
the  wrong  side  of  the  ledger  after  each 
day’ s  sales  totals.  For  Robert  Watson 
had 
found  an  opponent  apparently  as 
determined  as  himself  to  catch  the  trade 
of  Stratford  town.

The  cutting  war  had  begun  on  lawn 
mowers,  and 
in  common  justice,  be  it 
said,  had  been  commenced  by  the  fem­
inine  dealer.

“ $2. io. ”   But 

Noticing  the  many  rough  and  uncut 
lawns  of  the  town,  Robert  Watson  had 
put  in  a  nice,  medium  priced  line,  and 
used  them  as  a  sort  of  feature.  He  put 
a  row  of  them  outside  on  the  sidewalk 
one  morning  and  hung  a  placard  on  the 
handles  announcing  the  special  price 
of 
in  spite  of  this 
tempting  offer,  no  sales  were  made. 
With  an  idea  of  what  was  the  matter, 
the 
he  mounted  a 
telescope  behind 
counter  and  pointing  down  the 
long 
street.  When  nobody  happened  to  be 
about  he  took  a  look  at  the  feminine 
opposition  premises. 
Sure  enough, 
there  was  a  row  of  mowers  out  in  front 
placarded  “ $2.00.“   With  an  inward 
groan, 
the  young  merchant  took  his 
marking  pot,  went  outside  and  made 
his  own  price  $1.90.  He  sold  a  couple 
at  this  figure,  but  on  taking  another 
look  through  the  telescope,  caught  sight 
of  a  figure  in  a  calico  dress 
in 
changing  her  price  to 
the  act  of 
“ $1.80.”   He  quickly 
followed  suit 
with  $1.70.  And  so  it  went,  until  even 
the  children  bought  lawn  mowers  with 
their  odd  pennies  and  people  used  them 
to  lean  against  outside  doors  and  to  dry 
it  was  with  lawn 
clothes  on.  And  as 
mowers,  so 
it  went  with  half  a  dozen 
other  lines,  until  Robert  began  to  figure 
on 
just  how  long  his  slender  capital 
could  stand  the  strain.

just 

“ I ’ll  stick 

it  out  until  the  old  maid 
gives  in  or  I  go  broke,”   he  would  stub­
bornly  insist  to  himself  on  the  rare  oc­
casions  when  he  dared  add  up  the  loss 
account  in  his  ledger.

But  although  it  seemed  like  an  age  to 
him,  it  was  only  three  or  four  weeks 
after  his  first  opening  store  in  Stratford 
that  something 
important  happened. 
That  is,  it  turned  out  to  be 
important. 
is  often  the  case,  it  seemed  of  little 
As 
moment  to  him  until  afterward. 
It  be­
gan  by  a  friendly  call  from  one  of  the 
local  pastors  and  an 
invitation  to  a 
Sunday  school  picnic.

“ Very  much  obliged,  but  I’m  afraid 

1  can’t  g o ,”   remarked  Robert.

“ Another  engagement? 

I’m  sorry. 
We  don’t  see  much  of  you.  Not  at  all, 
in 
fact,  except  when  you  are  behind 
your  counter,”   went  on  the  dominie.

“ I  have  no  other  engagement,  but 
I’ve  got  to  attend  to  business,”   blurted 
out  the  young  merchant.

“ Business!”   ejaculated  the  minister. 
“ You  don’t  mean  to  keep  open  on  the

glorious  Fourth?  Why,  man alive,  where 
is  your  patriotism?”

“ By 

jingo! 

I  beg  your  pardon,”  
cried  Robert;  “ I 
forgot  all  about  it. 
I’ ll  accept  your  invitation  with  pleas­
ure.”

And  the  eventful  morning 

found  the 
young  man,  in  company  with  a  number 
of  others  of  his  own  age  and  of  both 
sexes,  proceeding  by  team  to  some  pic­
turesque  waterfalls  that  are  of  much  lo- 
calcelebrity.  The  wagons  were  merely 
farm  ones,  cleaned  up  for  the  occasion, 
with  planks  put  across  for  seats.  The 
lunch  was  packed  in  baskets  and  pails, 
and  stewed  anywhere  that  room  could 
be  found  for  it.  Robert,  through  some 
misunderstanding,  had  only  reached  the 
meeting  place  at  the  last  moment,  and 
the  introductions  had  been  hurried  and 
incoherent. 
It  was  not  until  they  had 
gone  several  miles  that  he  realized  that 
he  was  sitting  beside  a 
lovely  girl, 
whom  her  companions  addressed  as 
Evelyn.  She  was  dressed,  like  her  com­
panions,  in  white,  and  she  seemed  to 
Roher’  the  most  charming  young 
lady 
he  had ever  met.  The  attraction  seemed 
to  be  mutual.  They  laughed  ai d  talked 
together  like  old  friends.

At 
length  Robert  stopped  abruptly 
and 
looked  around.  He  felt  uncom­
fortable.  He  realized  that  the  whole 
wagonload  of  young  people were regard­
ing  them  attentively.  Then  the  truth 
came  to  him  like  an  inspiration.

“ You  are  Miss  Sallie  Terhune,  my 
in  the  hardware  trade,  are  you 

rival 
m t?”   he  enquired.

“ I’m  afraid  you  did  not  pay  much 
attention  when  we  were  introduced,”  
the  girl  said,  laughing  mischievously. 
“ I  assent  to  the  latter  part  of your ques­
tion,  but  not  to  the  former.  Only  some 
of  the  old people call  me  by that hideous 
name.  Uncle  Josh  Skinner  just  delights 
it  because  he  knows  it  teases  me. 
in 
My 
is  Evelyn— Evelyn 
Terhune. ”

real  name 

There  wasn’t  much  said  or  done  out­
side  of  an  ordinary  flirtation  at  that 
picnic,  but  nevertheless  the  price  cut­
ting  war  between  the  two  hardware  es­
tablishments  came  to  an  abrupt  close. 
Moreover, 
folks  openly 
talk  of  a  partnership  that 
is  to  be 
formed  by the  two  proprietors.  And  in­
stead  of  for  a  term  of  years,  the  young 
couple 
intend  to  contract  for  life. — P. 
W.  Hart  in  Hardware  Dealers’  Maga­
zine.

the  Stratford 

imperfection 

in  the  plate, 

A  college  student  visited  a  Philadel­
phia  photographer  the  other  day  and 
sat for  his  picture.  When  the  plate  was 
developed  the  astonished  photographer 
saw  plainly  on  the  young  man’s  fore­
head  a  clearly  defined  death’s head  with 
crossbones  beneath  it.  Thinking it  was 
some 
the 
photographer  arranged  another  sitting. 
Again 
the  skull  and  crossbones  ap­
peared  in  the  picture,  and  the  mystified 
photographer  was  fairly  struck  dumb 
with  amazement.  Then  he  noticed  the 
smiling  sitter  and  finally  induced  him 
to  tell  the  joke.  The  trick  simply  con­
sisted  of  painting  on  the  forehead  the 
grim  design  with  a  solution  of  bisul­
phate  of  quinine.  This  is  invisible  to 
the  eye,  but  shows  pure  white  to  the 
camera.

camel. 

By  way  of  a  joke,  some  one  recently 
sent  to  a  New  York  society  belle  a  full- 
grown 
The  young  woman 
promptly 
accepted  the  gift,  which, 
every  evening  after  the  theater  crowds 
have  dispersed, 
led  by  a  colored 
servant  up  and  down  Broadway  for  ex­
ercise.  For  the  first  night  or  two  not  a 
few  revelers  were startled into temporary 
sobriety  at  the  sight  of  the  ungainly 
animal  swinging  along  the  roadway.

is 

Augurs  and  Bits

Snell’s ................................................  
Jennings  genuine..............................  
Jennings' imitation............................. 

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

Barrows

 

 

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

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

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

Buckets

Butts,  Cast

Cartridges

Chain

60
25
50

7 00
11  50
7  75
13 00
17 00
32 00
60
70&10
50

$4  00

65
60

40&10
20

>4 In. 

■Com..............  7  c.  ...  6  c.  ...  5  c. 
BB................  854 
BBB..............  854 

5-16 In.  % in.  % In.
... 454c.
... 6
... 6V4

...  754 
•••  754 

...  654 
...  654 

Crowbars

Caps

Cast Steel, per lb................................ 

Ely’s 1-10, per m.................................  
Hick’s C. F., per m............................. 
G. 1)., per m........................................ 
Musket, per m....................................  

Socket Firm er................................... 
Socket Framing.................................  
Socket Corner....................................  
Socket Slicks...................................... 

Chisels

Elbows

6

66
66
46
76

65
66
66
65

Com. 4 piece, 6 In., per doz................net 
66
Corrugated, per doz...........................  
1  26
Adjustable.........................................dls  40&10

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.........................  

Galvanized  Iron

Nos. 16 to 20;  22 and 24;  26 and 26;  27, 
List  12  13 
16. 

14 

Discount,  70

16 
Gauges

Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s.............. 

Glass

Single Strength, by box.....................dis 
Double Strength, by box...................dis 
By the Light............................. dls 

Hammers

Maydole & Co.’s, new list..................dls 
Yerkes & Plumb’s. 1...........................dis 
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel...............30c list 

40
26

70&10
70
70

28
17

60&10

85&20
85&20
f>5&

3354
40&10
70

Hinges

Hollow  W are

Gate, Clark’s 1,2,3...............................dls  60&10

Pots..........................................•........  
Kettles............................................... 
Spiders...............................................  

50&10
50&10
50&10

Horse  Nails

Au Sable..............................................dis  40&10
Putnam.................................................dls 
6
House  Furnishing Goods
70
Stamped Tinware, new list................. 
Japanned Tinware.............................. 
20&10
Bar Iron.............................................2 25  c rates
Light Band.........................................  3 c rates

Iron

Knobs—New  List

Door, mineral, jap. trimmings........... 
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings........  
Regular 0 Tubular, Doz...................... 
Warren, Galvanized  Fount............... 
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s.............dls 

Lanterns

Levels
Mattocks

76
86
6 00
6 00
70

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

Metals—Zinc

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

754
8
40
76
80
60&10&10
60
60&10
30

Miscellaneous
Bird Cages..................................
Pumps, Cistern............................
Screws, New List........................
Casters, Bed and Plate................
Dampers, American...................
Molasses  Gates
Stebbins’ Pattern.......................
Enterprise, self-measuring..........
Fry, Acme..........................................   60&10&10
Common,  polished............................. 
70&5
Patent Planished  Iron 
“A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27  10 75 
“B” Wood’s patent planished. Nos. 26 to 27  9 75

Broken packages 54c per pound extra.

Pans

Planes

Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy......................... 
Sciota Bench...................................... 
Sandusky Tool  Co.’b, fancy...............  
Benob, urst quality............................ 

¡¡0
80
60
80

Steel nails, base...............................  
Wire nails, base................................. 
20 to 60 advance.................................  
10 to 16 advance.................................  
8 advance.......................................... 
6 advance.......................................... 
4 advance.......................................... 
3 advance.......................................... 
2 advance.......................................... 
Fine 3 advance................................... 
asing 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... 

Ropes

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

Sand  Paper

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

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

Sash  W eights

Sheet Iron

2 55
2 15
Base
5
10
20
30
45
70
50
16
25
36
26
35
45
86

50
46

6 50
7 50
13 00

5 50
6 50
13 00

II  00

8
12

50

25 00

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.................................................. 
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The prices of the many other qualities of solder 
In the market Indicated by  private  brands  vary 
according to composition.

Shot

Solder

Squares

66

$850

8 so
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18

MINISTERS  AND  MONEY.

In tim ate  Relation  of the  Two  Factors  in 

Civilization.

The  influence  of  money  on  character 
is  always  an  interesting  study,  for  there 
is  a  very  close  relation  between  a  man’s 
money  and  his  character.  The  raiser 
stamps  the  effects  of  his  niggardly  ways 
on  his  pinched  face  as  accurately  as  on 
his  account  books,  while  we  instinctive­
ly  associate  the  broad  open  face  with 
the  kindly,  generous  heart.

In  selecting  ministers  as  a  study  of 
this  question  I  am  aware  that  it  may 
seem unlikely  to  prove  very  interesting, 
for,  as  a  rule,  ministers  and  money  are 
not  very 
intimate  companions.  Our 
banks  are,  I  know,  glad  to  welcome 
ministers  among  their  customers  and 
find  them  generally  able  to  understand 
the  laws  of  banking  sufficiently  well  to 
enable  them  to  keep  track  of  their  de­
posits,  even  if  they  are  sometimes  weak 
as  to  the  proper  method  of  withdrawing 
them.  We  smile  sometimes if one proves 
unable  to  distinguish  clearly  between 
a  check  and a  draft;  and if  he  asks what 
is  to  do  with  his  draft  after  he  has 
he 
secured 
it,  we  are  ready  enough  to  tell 
him  without  imputing  to  him  any  unus­
ual  ignorance.  But  no  bank  ever  figures 
very  largely  on  the  daily  deposits  of  the 
minister  as  a  source  of  revenue,  and 
if  he  comes  as  a  borrower  we sometimes 
enquire  carefully  as  to  his securities  be­
fore  making  a  loan.

But 

infancy 

if  the  minister  does  not  have 
much  to  do  with  money,  perhaps  this 
very  lack  of  it  helps  to  the  development 
of  his  character.  Usually  the  minister 
is  born  amid  humble  surroundings  and 
has  from 
impressed  upon  his 
mind  the  need  of  carefully  guarding  his 
resources,  and  as  he  advances  through 
the  ten  or twelve  years  of  study  neces­
sary  to  become  a  minister, during  which 
time  he  must  live  on  $120  a  year,  the 
habit  of  carefully  guarding his resources 
is 
impressed  upon  him  so  firmly  that 
when,  at 
length,  he  finds  himself  in 
charge  of  a  church,  with  a  wife  and  an 
ever  increasing  number  of  children  de­
pending  upon  him,  he  knows  how  to 
make  his  $500  or  $600  salary  go  farther 
than  almost  any  other  man  in  the  com­
munity.

it 

is 

It  would  be,  however,  a  great  mistake 
to  think  of  all  our  ministers  as  growing 
up  amid  such  humble  surroundings. 
Often  they  have  around  them  every­
thing  that  wealth  can  offer,  and  in  such 
cases,  too, 
interesting  to  notice 
how  their  money  affects  their  minister­
ial  character.  Sometimes 
it  must  be 
confessed  that  an  abundance  of  money 
unfits  the  man  for  such  work.  But  such 
a  result  generally  comes  from  having 
wealth  thrust  upon  him,  rather  than 
from  growing  up amid  its  surroundings. 
When  the  minister  is  so  unfortunate  as 
to  be  mentioned 
in  the  will  of  some 
wealthy  parishioner,  or  to  marry  a  very 
rich  wife,  it  frequently  happens  that  he 
soon  after  finds  himself  afflicted  with  a 
throat  disease  or  something  of  the  sort 
and  sinks  down  into  a  sort  of  book­
keeper to  his  wife.  But  quite  as  often 
the  result  is  just  the  reverse  and  wealth 
enlarges  the  man  and  extends  his  in­
fluence.  The  present  Treasurer  of  Yale 
College  is  a  minister  whose  private  for­
tune  amounts  to  several  million  dollars, 
but,  besides 
looking  after  the  tremen­
dous  financial  interests  of  the college, he 
is  also  the  pastor of  a  large  church  and 
gives  himself  as  heartily  to  the  care  of 
his  people  as  if  he  had  nothing  of  his 
own  to 
look  after.  Another  minister 
has  devoted  his  great  fortune  to  build­
ing  up  a  theological  seminary  for the

education  of  ministers  and  shown  the 
world  a  noble  example  of  a  man  whose 
money  has  expanded  his  heart  and  mul­
tiplied  his  power  for  good.  Such  cases 
are  by  no  means  rare,  for  many  of  our 
noblest  charities  have  had  their origin 
in  the  unselfish  use  which  ministers 
have  made  of  their  money.

learning 

equipment 

Still  more  conspicuous  has  been  the 
illustration  of  this  principle  on  the  part 
of  those  who  have  had  very  limited  re­
sources,  but  have  generously  shared 
them  with  others  or  used  them  to  build 
up 
institutions  for  the  public  good. 
Harvard  College,  the  noblest  university 
of 
in  America,  had  its  origin 
in  the  gift  of  700  pounds,  made  by  the 
Rev.  John  Harvard,  to  found  the  first 
college  in  the  New  World.  Yale,  scarce­
ly  second  in  size  and  its  equal  in  mag­
nificent 
for  training  the 
minds  of  our  young  men,  had  its  origin 
in  a  meeting  of  ten Congregational min­
isters,  who  were  unable  to  contribute 
any  money,  but  gave,  each  man  of 
them,  some  books  out  of  his  small 
ibrary,  which 
his 
wealth,  to  form  the  nucleus  of  what  has 
now  become  one  of  the  great  consulting 
ibraries  of  the  world.  Dartmouth,  too, 
is  founded  upon  the  self-devotion  of  a 
minister,  who  gave  his  life  to  teaching 
young  men,  almost  without  any  pay  for 
his  services;  and  all  over  our  land  you 
may  find  colleges  and  museums and hos­
pitals  and  art  galleries  which  have 
sprung 
the  scanty  resources  of 
some minister  whose heart has  responded 
to  the  cry  for  better  things  which  con­
tinually  comes  from  the  needy  world 
around  us.

represented  all 

from 

This 

is  needed 

lack  of  money  has  its  influence 
on  ministerial  character  in another w ay; 
You  have  all  noticed  that  whenever  a 
man 
for  a  public  beggar  a 
minister  is  chosen.  What  would  become 
of  all  our  tract  societies  and  our  Bethel 
missions  if  it  were  not  for  our  minister­
ial  beggars  and  their  persistent  appeals 
for  money?  Now  this  relation  of  minis­
ter and  public  beggar  is  not  a  mere nat­
ural  affinity  between  them, as  you  might 
suppose. 
It  can  be  explained  by  the 
law  of  environment  more  easily  than  by 
the  law  of  heredity.  The  minister lives 
in  an  atmosphere  full  of  such  influences 
and  he 
feels  their  exhilarating  effect, 
just  as  a  man  feels  the  effect  of  breath­
frosty  air  of  an  October  morn­
ing  the 
ing. 
It  makes  him  keen  to  discern  the 
wants  which  others  do  not  see,  so  that 
when  you  find  a  minister  after  you  for 
a  subscription  to  some  missionary fund, 
or  some  Dorcas  society,  you  are  not  to 
look  upon  him  as  a  public  nuisance  to 
be  dismissed  without  a  thought,  but  as 
one  whose  keener  moral  instincts enable 
him  to  detect  a  public  need  which  you 
have  not  yet  discovered.  Such  men  are 
often  angels  in  disguise.

How  keen,  also,  do  such  men  become 
to  detect  the  humbugs  and  frauds  which 
infest  society.  The  numberless  book- 
agents,  the  stranded  men  and  women 
who  need  a  few  dollars  to  reach  home, 
the  persons  who  are  deaf  or  blind  or 
have  sick  ones  dependent  on  them,  the 
pious  sneaks  who  think  they  can  use 
your  money  better than  you  can,  and the 
thousand  other  cranks  whose  mission 
is  to  live  on  the  credulity  of  society,  all 
naturally  gravitate  towards  the  minis­
ter,  who  soon  becomes  an  expert 
in 
treating  them,  to  the  great  relief  of  the 
public.

It  would  not  be  fair  if  I  did  not  add 
that  no  amount  of  such  experience  will 
make  a  successful 
financier  of  some 
ministers.  We  all  have  known  minis­
ters  who  could  not  tell  the  difference

Who  Made 

the  Mistake?

This  is  the  question  asked  in thousands  of  stores  every 
day  when  the  cash  fails  to  balance.  At  last  we  are 
able  to  tell  you  positively  which  one  of  your  clerks 
made  the  mistake.  We  do  this  by  providing  a  sepa­
rate  cash  drawer  for  each  clerk  in  your  store.  The 
money  he  takes  in  is  added  on  a counter inside the reg­
ister  under lock  and  key  and  accessible  only  to  the 
proprietor.  The  cash  in  his  drawer  must  always  agree 
with  the  total  on  his  counter. 
In  this  way  a  mistake 
in  the  cash  is  easily  traced  to  the  one  who  made  it. 
We  also  give  you  a  grand  total  of all  the day’s receipts.

These  wonderful  registers  are  the  crowning  triumph  of 
years  of  experimenting  and  a  large  expenditure  of 
money.  We are the only concern who ever succeeded in 
making  a cash  register of  this  type,  and  as  we  own 
and control  the  fundamental  patents,  no  other  concern 
has  the  legal  right  to  make  these  registers. 
If  you 
will  drop  us  a postal  or  call  on  our  representative  in 
your  city  we  will  gladly  give  you  further  information 
about  these  wonderful  registers  This  will  place  you 
under  no obligation  to  buy.

National  Cash  Register  Co.,

Dayton, Ohio

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.,  office,

Saginaw ,  Mich.,  E.  S.,  office,

180  E ast  Fnlton  Street. 

Room  503,  Bearinger  Building. 

Menominee,  Mich.,  office,

Chicago,  III., office,

701  Main  Street. 

48-50  S tate  S treet. 

D etroit,  Mich.,  office,

Ft.  W ayne,  Ind.,  office,

165  Griswold  S treet.

31  Bass  Block.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

between  a  copper cent  and  a  silver  dol­
lar.  The  one  is  worth  just  as  much  to 
them  as  the  other. 
If  they  have  one 
dollar  they  are  always  ready  to  spend 
ten,  and  when  pay-day  comes  they  are 
in  nowise  troubled  if  they  have  nothing 
with  which  to  meet  the  demands of their 
creditors.  Very 
likely  there  are  bank 
cashiers  who  have  notes  bearing  the 
signature  of  some  minister  well  known 
in  the  community, which they  have  kept 
for  a  long  time  in  that  choice  collec­
tion  of  notes  which  they  honor  by  put­
ting  them  in  a  separate package marked 
“ Past  D ue,”   and  as  they  occasionally 
turn  them  over  they  wonder  what  pos­
sible  relation  there  can  be  between  such 
notes  and  money. 
If  this  were  confined 
to  ministers  we  might  say  it  grows  in 
some  way  out  of  the  profession,  but, 
is  found  in  every 
alas,  such 
condition  of 
life  and,  like  many  other 
diseases,  there  has  not  yet  been  dis­
covered  any  specific  which  is  warranted 
always  to  cure.

ignorance 

But 

is  pleasant  to  note  that  the 
it 
minister 
is  gradually  becoming  accus­
tomed  to  the  use  of  money.  When 
Bisl op  Asbury,  the  grand  old  pioneer 
Methodist  bishop 
in  America,  lived 
mainly  on  horseback  and  carried  his 
worldly  possessions  in  his  saddle-bags, 
he  had  the  magnificent  salary  of  $50  in 
cash  per  year.  A  congregation  which 
could  promise  $200  was  regarded  as  a 
great  prize,  and  if  they  could  add  the 
promise  of  free  fire  wood  and  a  dona­
tion,  it  became  almost  a  paradise.  Out 
of  this  came  many  heavy  expenses,  as 
at  the  ordination  of  a  minister 
in 
Massachusetts  we 
like 
these:  For  breakfast,  30  bowls  of  punch 
and  10  bottles  of  wine,  and  for  dinner 
44  bowls  of  punch,  28  bottles  of  wine,  8 
bowls  of  brandy  and  cherry  rum without

find  charges 

limit.  Under  such  conditions  it  could 
hardly  be  expected  that 
the  minister 
would  become  a  great  financier.

But  those  days  have  passed.  The 
minister  does  not  now  have  to  provide 
such  refreshments  for  those  who  attend 
his  ordination,  and  the  old  donation,  so 
favorable 
for  neighborhood  gossip,  so 
welcome  to  the  blushing  maidens  and 
their  bashful 
lovers,  and  so  lavish  in 
remnants  of  spare-rib  and  chicken-pie, 
which  the  minister  was  expected  to  eat 
with  a  grateful  heart  after  the  donation 
was  over,  is  now  rarely  included  among 
the  perquisites  of  his  office.

salary,  the  minister 

In  place  of  such  a  fluctuating,  inade­
quate 
is  begin­
ning  to  come  into  his  true  place  as  a 
wage  earner,  and  the  salary,  running 
often  into  the  thousands,  gives  him  an 
opportunity  to  ask  what  he  shall  do 
with  his  money.  The  churches  are  be­
ginning  to  learn  that  it  pays  to  educate 
their  ministers 
in  this  way,  although 
there  are  still  too  many  churches  which 
adopt  the  same  financial  policy  as  that 
its  higher 
which 
lately  reported 
authorities  as  follows: 
“ The  parish 
just  added  four  acres  to  its  grave­
has 
yard  and  hopes  for  a  large 
increase  of 
revenue  from  that  addition.”   When 
our  churches  offer  their  minister  a  sal­
ary  of  ten  thousand  dollars  a  year  with 
a  fine  house  free  of  rent,  with the  added 
pledge  that  this  shall  continue  as  long 
as  he 
lives  and  be  given  afterward  to 
his  widow 
leaves  one,  then  we 
may  expect  to  find  them  becoming  as 
strong 
in  financial  matters  as  they  now 
are  in  other  respects.

if  he 

to 

There  is  one  other  point  in  this  rela­
tion  between  the  minister  and  money 
that  ought  to  be  mentioned : 
I  refer  to 
the  minister  as  opening  the  way  for 
others  to  make  money.  Ministers  are

generally  educated  men.  They  know 
more  or  less  about  geology  and  agricul­
ture  and  those economic questions which 
concern  the  public  welfare.  Hence  we 
find  that  ministers  have  been  pioneers 
in  geographical  discovery,  in  chemistry 
and  all  those  questions  which  lie  at  the 
basis  of  moneymaking. 
I  might  men­
tion  the  opening  of  Africa  by  David 
Livingstone, 
the  pioneer  missionary, 
who  carried  his  compass  and  chart  in 
one  hand  and  his  Bible  in  the  other  un­
til  he 
learned  the  secret  of  that  dark 
continent,  which  until  that  time  had 
yielded  nothing But  slaves,  but  which  is 
fast  becoming  the  center of  a  vast  com­
merce  which  is  enriching  the  world.  Or 
I  might  mention  Whitman,  who  went 
through  the  wilderness  which  then  cov­
ered  the  northwestern  part  of  our  own 
country  and  by  his  personal  observa­
tions  demonstrated 
its  fabulous  wealth 
and  secured  its  retention  by  the  United 
States  as  a  home  for  millions  of  our 
people.

Many,  too,  are  the  men  who  have 
gone  from  the  ministry  into our  legisla­
tive  hails,  like  one  of  our  Michigan 
congressmen,  and  there  shown  their  ca­
pacity  to  solve  great  questions  of  state 
which  concern  not  our  country  alone but 
the  whole  world.  Such  cases  may  show 
us  that  if  the  minister  does  not  himself 
handle  much  money  he  does  yet  often 
open  the  way 
for  others  to  do  so,  and 
thus  becomes  entitled  to  consideration 
by  those  who  reap 
the  harvests  for 
which  he  has  prepared  the  soil.

J.  W.  Beardslee.

The  great  increase 

in  the  volume  of 
money  in  the  United  States  during  the 
past  twelve  months  promises  to  give  an 
impetus  to  business  next  year  in  manu 
facturing,agricultural mining,commerce 
and  export  which  will  be  reflected 
in  all  business  channels.

19

The  Dust of Ocean.

From the Mariner.

A  “ dusty”   ocean  highway  sounds al­
most  incredible.  Yet  those  who  are  fa­
miliar  with  sailing  ships  know  that,  no 
matter  how  carefully  the  decks  may  be 
washed  down  in  the  morning,  and  how 
little  work  of  any  kind  may  be  done 
during  the  day,  nevertheless, 
if  the 
decks  are  not  swept  at  nightfall,  an 
enormous  quantity  of  dust  will  quickly 
collect.  Of  course,  on 
the  modern 
“ liner”   the  burning  of  hundreds  of tons 
of  coal  every  twenty-four  hours,  and  the 
myriads  of  footfalls  daily,  would  ac­
count  for  a  considerable  accumulation 
of  dust,  but  on  a  “ wind-jammer,”  
manned  with  a  dozen  hands  or 
less,  no 
such  dust-producing  agencies  are  at 
work.  And  yet  the  records  of  sailing 
ships  show  that  they  collect  more  sea 
dust  than  does  a  steamer,  which 
is 
probably  accounted  for  by  the  fact  that 
while  the  dust-laden  smoke  blows  clear 
of  the  steamer,  the  large  area  of  canvas 
spread  by  the  sailer  acts  as  a  dust  col­
lector.

Definition  of Contingent  Fee.

An  Irishman  went  to  a  lawyer  with  a 
case,but  the  attorney  wanted  a  retainer. 
The  Irishman  was  poor,  and  finally  the 
lawyer  said  he  would  take  the  case  on  a 
contingent  fee.

It  was  settled ;  but  the  contingent  fee 
the 
part  of  the  agreement  bothered 
ignorance  to 
client.  He  confided  his 
his  friend  Paddy,  and  asked  for  an  ex­
planation.

“ A n’  it  is  them eanin’  of a contingent 
fee  yer  after  knowin’ ?  Shure,  I’ ll  tell 
ye.  A  contingent  fee  means  that,  if  ye 
loose  the  case,  the  lawyer  gits  nothin’ ; 
if  ye  win,  yer git  nothin’ . ”

A  hardware  dealer  received  an  order 
by  mail  as  follows:  “ Pleas  to  send  a 
key  to  this  lock  and  I  want  two  brown 
nobs  to  put  on  my  pere  of  drowes  large 
as  you  got  and 
if  you  got  a  brass 
brotches  a  bout  50  cents  and  a  quarter 
tin  of  gun  pow  der  and  I  pay  for  then 
wen  I  com.”  
It  turned  out  that  by 
“ brotches”   a  beer  cock  was  meant.

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Woman’s World
G reat  and  Growing  Com radeship  Among 

Women.

Are  women  antagonists  to  other  wom­
en?  Does  the  woman  at  the  top  of  the 
ladder  always  seek  to  bar  the  way  to 
the  woman  who  is  trying  to  climb  up, 
and  does  the  woman  at  the bottom  try to 
pull  down  the  woman  at  the  top?  There 
seems  to  be  a  very  general  belief  that 
she  does.

A   Washington  newspaper 

recently 
quoted  a  prominent  Government  official 
as  saying  that  the  reason  that  women 
were  practically  debarred  from  receiv­
ing  promotions  to  the  higher  places  in 
the  Government  service  was  because 
they  were  held  back  by  their  own  sex. 
“ Some  time  ago,”   the  gentleman  went 
on  to  say,  by  way  of  illustration,  “ there 
was  a  woman 
in  a  certain  division  of 
one  of  the  departments  who  was  so 
highly  thought  of  she  would  have  been 
made  chief  of  her department,  but  as 
soon  as  her  prospects  became  known her 
fellow  women  clerks  entered  a  protest. 
They  declared  that  they  would  not  work 
under  h er;  that  they  would  a  thousand 
times  rather  be  bossed  by  a  man  than  a 
woman,  and  that  they  would  not  permit 
her  to  ‘ lord  it  over  them,’  so  her  pros­
pects  of  promotion  were  k illed .”

So  far  as  conditions  exist  in  the  Gov­
ernment  departments— which  are  most­
ly  occupied  by  disgruntled  ladies  who 
have  seen  better  days  and  who  feel  that j 
their country  owes  them  a  living,  which 
they  are  trying  to  collect  with  as  little 
work  as  possible—the  official  may  be 
in  his  strictures.  They  may  in­
right 
dulge 
in  a  petty 
jealousy  that  would 
resent  the  success  of  one  of  their  num­
ber.  The  mistake  is  in  thinking  such 
a  state  of  affairs  universal.  Out  in  the 
broader  world,  where  women  are  fight­
ing  the  battle  of  life  in  the  open,  there 
is  not  a  day  when  we  do  not  see  some 
woman  stretch  a  helping  hand  to  a 
struggling  sister,  and we  can  but  protest 
against  the  sweeping  statement  that  the 
greatest  obstacle 
to  women  securing 
equal  recognition  with  men  comes  from 
the  antagonism  of  their  own  sex. 
It 
may  be  that  Mrs.  Milliner  intimates 
that  Mme.  Modiste’s  Paris bonnets were 
only  imported  from  around  the  comer, 
that  Miss  Mezzo  Soprano  sneers  openly 
at  Signorina  Fazzantis’  efforts  to  reach 
high  C,  and  that  Mrs.  Newrich,  who 
has 
into  society,  turns  up 
her  nose  at  the  Parvenues,  who  are  still 
battering  on  the  outer  gate  with  their 
money  bags,  but 
these  incidents  are 
characteristic  of  individual  rivalry,  not 
the  sex  feeling. 
It  isn’t  on  record  that 
men  devote  much  time  to  praising  their 
competitors’  wares  or  booming  trade 
for  the  opposition  house  across  the way.
Neither  should  it  be  urged,  as  prov­
ing  the  point,  that  most  women  prefer 
to  work  under  a  man  rather  than  a 
woman.  We  are  the  creatures  of  habit, 
and  it  must  be  borne  in  mind that wom­
an  has  been  subject  to  man  from  time 
immemorial.  We  are  all  used  to  being 
“ bossed”   by  husband  or 
father  or 
brother  and  to  deferring  and  giving 
way  to  some  man,  so  it  carries  with  it 
none  of  the 
little  sting  of  hurt  pride 
and  suggestion  of  submission  that  we 
feel  when  we  are under another woman’s 
authority.  Men  recognize  that  some 
men  are  born  to  serve  and  some  to com­
mand.  Every  woman  is  imbued  to  the 
backbone  with  the  “ I  am  as  good  as 
you  and  know  as  much  as  any  other 
woman”   doctrine,  and 
it  is  this  which

just  broken 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

overpraise 
it  and  to  make  nu untains 
out  of  mole  hill  achievements.  Every 
woman who  knows  enough  to  collect  her 
own  rents and which  is  the  business  end 
of  a  check  we  herald  as  a  female  Na­
poleon  of  finance;  every  woman  who 
can  rise  in  meeting  and  make  a  speech 
without  reading  it  off  of  a  be-ribboned 
paper  we  proclaim  an  orator;  every 
woman  who  digs  an  essay  on  the  A n­
cient  Byzantine  Empire  out  of  the  en­
cyclopedia  can  sell  us  tickets  to  hear 
her  lecture;  every  woman  scribbler  who 
can  write  an  article  we  can read without 
going  to  sleep  over  we  celebrate  as  an 
It  takes  a  deal  less  in  the  way 
author. 
of  performance  to  make  a  woman 
fa­
mous nowadays  than  it  does  a  man,  and 
all  this  exploiting  and  blowing  of trum­
pets  is  done  by  other  women,  mark  you, 
not  by  men.  Of  course,  we  may  have 
our 
little  club  squabbles  and  rivalries 
for  office,  hut  that  is  neither  here  nor 
there.  Human  nature  is  human  nature, 
whether  it  is  in  petticoats  or  trousers. 
Men  are  not  always  altruistically  anx­
ious  for  some  other  man  to  have  the 
best  places,  yet  we  hear  nothing  of  the 
antagonism  of  men  for  each  other.

As  a  matter of  fact  there  never  was  a 
more  baseless  fabrication than the theory 
that  women  regard  every  other  woman 
jealousy,  and  are  al­
with  suspicious 
ways  waiting 
like  a  cat  to  pounce  on 
each  other  and  give  a  scratch.  Let  a 
woman  have  the  misfortune  of  having 
all  her  property  swept  away  from  her.

Crushed  Cereal  Coffee  Cake.

Better than  coffee.
Cheaper than  coffee.
More healthful  than  coffee.
Costs the consumer less.
Affords the retailer larger profit. 
Send for sample case.
See quotations in price current.

Crushed  Cereal  Coffee  Cake  Co.

Marshall,  Mich.

Ballou  Baskets 

flre  Best

Is  conceded.  Uncle  Sam  knows  it  and 

uses them by the thousand.

W e make all  kinds.

Market  Baskets,  Bushel  Baskets,  Bamboo  De­
livery Baskets, Splint Delivery Baskets,  Clothes 
Baskets,  Potato  Baskets,  Coal  Baskets,  Lunch 
Baskets, Display Baskets, Waste  Baskets,  Meat 
Baskets,  Laundry  Baskets,  Baker  Baskets, 
Truck Baskets.

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Uneeda
Biscuit

makes 
the  woman  who  is  set  above  her.

it  so  hard  for  her  to  give  in  to 

from 

just  been  raised 

It  must  also  be  admitted  that  one  has 
to  learn  the  art  of  “ bossing,”   and  that 
woman  is  still  very  new  at  it.  There  is 
no  martinet  in  discipline  like  the  man 
who  has 
the 
ranks,and  it  may  be  possible  that  wom­
en, who  are  just  beginning  to  have  other 
women  than  servants  under  their  con­
trol,  may  be  a 
little  tyrannical  and  a 
trifle  too  fond  of  flashing  their  author­
ity 
in  other  people’s  eyes  to  be  alto­
gether  soothing  and  agreeable,  but  this 
is  a  fault  that  will  pass.  Besides,  it  is 
already  offset  by  so  much  added  sym­
pathy  and  comprehension  of  woman’s 
needs  that,  prejudice  aside,  it  is  prob­
able  that  the  woman  boss  is  every  whit 
as  easy  to  get  along  with  and  as  pleas­
ant  as  the  man  boss.  The  fault  lies, 
too,  just  as  much  with  the  employe  as 
the  employer,  for  we  all  know  that  a 
woman  will  take  with  meekness  and 
humbleness  of  spirit  a  criticism   from  a 
man  that  she  would  resent  all  over  if  it 
came  from  a  woman.

is  given 

Probably  there 
the  sex 

is  no  other 
fling 
against 
that  has  done  more 
harm  than  this  charge  that  women  are 
always  standing  ready  to  antagonize 
other  women  and  to  give  a  stab  in  the 
if  they  get  the  chance.  Unfor­
dark 
tunately,  some  color 
to  the 
story  by  foolish  women  themselves,  who 
are  always  saying “ If you want a friend, 
choose  a  man,”   or  “ If  you  want  to  ask 
a 
favor  of  anybody,  go  to  a  man. ’ ’ 
People  don’t  stop  to  think  that  the 
speakers  don’t know  what  they  are  talk­
ing  about,  and  that  they  are  basing 
their  rosy  theory  of  the  worth  of  mascu­
line 
friendship  on  the  fact  that  men 
pay  them  compliments  and  send  them 
candy  and  violets.  They  have  never 
been  in  trouble  and  have  not experience 
enough  to  know  that  a  man's  friendship 
for  a  woman 
is  a  fair  weather  flower 
that  blights  under  the  salt  rain  of  tears 
and  perishes  at  the  very  mention  of 
sickness  and  sorrow.

This 

isn’t  to  say  that 

in  a  case  of 
want  a  man  won’t  give  money  just  as 
quickly  as  a  woman.  He  will,  and  by 
the  same  token  he  packs  the pocketbook 
and  has  more  to  give  than  a woman has, 
but  no  one  can  deny  that  men  have  a 
greater  horror  and  a  more  cowardly 
shrinking  from  facing  the  unpleasant 
things  of  life  like  sickness  and bereave­
ment  and  sorrow  and  death  than  women 
have.  Let  a  woman  hear  that  a 
friend 
has  met  with  some  great  loss  and  her 
first  thought  is  to  go  right  to  her  and  at 
least  weep  with  her.  A  man  may  be 
just  as  sorry  for  the  bereaved  one,  but 
he  will  walk  two  miles  to  keep  from 
meeting  her  and  having  to  behold  her 
sorrow. 
1  once  heard  a  silly  girl  make 
the  old  stereotyped  remark  about  going 
to  a  man  for a  favor,  instead  of  a  wom­
an.  A  man  of  the  world— a  man  whose 
vast  knowledge  and  experience  of  life 
had  taught  him  only  pity  and'tender­
ness  for  human  nature’s  weaknesses— 
was  also 
listening  to  her,  and  I  shall 
never  forget  the  reproof  of  his  reply. 
“ A  woman’s  best 
is  always  a 
woman,”   he  said,  and  then  he  added 
gravely,  “ I  am  sorry  for  any  girl  who 
hasn’t  women  friends  and  who  says  she 
doesn’t  like  women.”

friend 

It  always  seems  to  me  that there could 
be  no  more  comprehensive  and  unan­
swerable  refutation  of  the 
that 
women  do  not  antagonize  women  than 
is  offered  by  the  spectacle  of  the  glori­
fication  of  woman  that  we  see  on  every 
hand.  So  far  from  resenting  other  wom­
en  s  success 
tendency  now  is  to

fact 

the 

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Jobbers of Stoneware

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are ready for your trade.  Send us your 
orders.

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press that  you  use  in  your  office.  Call 
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or write. 

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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.

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

M i l k p a n s
: gal. flat or rd. bot., per doz. 
gal. flat or rd. bot., each__

Fine Glazed M ilkpans
Vi gal. flat or rd. bot., per doz............
1 gal. flat or rd. bot., each.................

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

Stewpans

Jugs

V4 gal., per doz.................................
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1 to 6 gal., per  gal..............................

Tomaio Jugs

% gal., per doz...............
1  gal., each....................
Corks for V4 gal., per doz. 
Corks for  1  gal., per doz.

Preserve Ja rs  and  Covers

S4 gal., stone cover, per doz...............
1 gal., stone cover, per doz..............

Sealing  Wax
5 lbs. In package, per  lb...............
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It 

Ninety-nine  times  out  of  a  hundred  it 
is  a  woman  who  goes  to  her  and  cheers 
her  up  and  thinks  of  some  way  for  her 
to  make  a  living.  Let  some  girl  show 
phenomenal  talent. 
is  sure  to  be 
some  woman  who  gets  up  the  benefit  to 
raise  money  to  send  her  abroad  to  study 
art  or  music.  Ask  the  woman  writer 
who  sai  i  the  words  of  encouragement  to 
her  that  kept  alive  hope  and  ambition. 
Always  a  woman,  because  men  seldom 
think  of  these  things.  More  than  that, 
three-fourths of  the  time  there  is a wom­
an  hehind  a  man’s  generosity,  remind­
ing  him  to  do  the  things  he would never 
have  remembered  on  earth 
left  to 
himself.

if 

them. 

is  really 

far  beyond 

Among  working  women  this  spirit  of 
is 
good-will  and  mutual  helpfulness 
still  more  apparent,  and  I  think  no  one 
who 
in  touch  with  them  will 
accuse  them  of  antagonizing  each  other 
and  trying  to  stand  in  each  other’ s way. 
On  the  contrary,  I  have  seen  nothing 
else  in  life  I  thought  so  beautiful  as  the 
charity— the  blessed  charity  that  gives 
itself  as  the  gift—that  you  see  so  often 
I  know  a 
extended  amongst 
teacher  who  works 
her 
strength, but  who  still  finds  time to teach 
poor girls in  her  specialty,  in  order  that 
they  may  command  better  salaries. 
I 
kn< iw  a  little  dressmaker  who  sits  up 
nights  over  her  weary  needle  to  make 
pretty  frocks  for a  shop  girl  too  poor  to 
pay  her.  I  have  seen  a  woman  give  her 
beautiful  voice  in  concerts  whose  pro­
ceeds  were  to  give  some  other  woman 
the  advantages  she  could  never  have, 
and  so  it  goes  in  a  thousand  unnoticed 
Is  there  any  antag­
ways  all  about  us. 
Isn’t  it  whole-souled 
onism 
generosity?  And  isn’t 
it  time  to  stop 
that  old  fiction?

that? 

in 

is,  there 

The  truth 

is  a  great  and 
growing  comradeship  among  women. 
As 
long  as  we  are  built  in  the  selfish 
way  we  are,  we  shall  all  want  to  roost 
on  the  top  rung  of  the  ladder  ourselves, 
but 
if  we  can’t,  we  are  glad  to  give 
some  other  woman  a  boost  up.  There  is 
no  true  woman  who  doesn’t  rejoice 
in 
every  other  woman’s  success,  and  take 
part  of  the  credit  for  it  to  herself.

, 

Dorothy  Dix.

Fallacious  Theory  of  the  A ttraction  of 

the  Opposites.

One  of  the  time-honored  platitudes 
to which  we  all give  more  or less of cred­
ence 
is  that  we  are  most  attracted  to 
people  who  are  our  opposites  and  who 
possess  the  qualities,  mental  and  phys­
ical,  that  we 
lack.  This  belief  is  the 
corner-stone  of  the  professional  fortuner 
teller’s  art.  The  seeress  always  begins 
her  divinations  by  assuring  the  short, 
dark  woman  that  she  will  marry  a  tall, 
blonde  man,  while  her  sister  who  is  a 
daughter  of  the  gods  divinely  tall,  and 
most  divinely  fair,  is  given  to  know 
that  somewhere  down  the  pathway  of 
life  a  swarthy  individual,  with brigand­
ish  hair  and  piercing  black  eyes, 
is 
waiting  to  capture  her  heart  and  hand.
Mild  and  serene  temperaments  and. 
stormy  and  passionate  natures  are  also 
supposed  to  have  irresistible  attractions 
for  each  other,  until  the  wonder  is  that 
every  family,  with  its  high 
lights  and 
its  shadows,  its  good  and  bad  qualities, 
so  admirably  balanced,  isn’t  the  scene 
of  a  mutual  admiration  society  and  the 
abode  of  perpetual  peace.

No  one  who  notices  the  number  of 
pocket  editions  of  women  who  are  mar­
ried  to  big  husbands  and  the  hosts  of 
scrawny 
little  men  who  are  tagging 
around  in  the  wake  of  their  big  and 
buxom  spouses  can  deny  the  attraction

of  opposites  so  far  as  physical  appear­
ances  are  concerned.  When  it  comes  to 
those  who  are  our  antitheses  in  mind 
and  disposition,  however,  the 
theory 
doesn’t  seem  to  work  out  so  satisfactor­
ily,  and  a  rather  forcible  illustration  of 
this  has  just  been  given  by  a  New  York 
woman  who  has  left  her  home  because 
after  twelve  years  of  persistent  argu­
ment  she  could  not  convert  her  husband 
to  her  way  of  thinking  about  religion 
and  woman’s  suffrage.

Of  course,  there 

is  always  something 
to  be  said  on  both  sides  of  a  question 
and  one  can  point  out  that  where  the 
husband  and  wife  take  radically  differ­
ent  views  of  every  subject  they  are  sure 
to  escape  the  ennui  that  afflicts  so many 
married  couples.  Conversations  could 
never 
languish  where  one  could  start  a 
redhot  argument  at  a  moment’s  notice. 
There  are  husbands  and  wives  who 
yawn 
in  each  other’s  society  because 
they  feel  they  have  threshed  out  every 
subject  of  talk.  This  could  never  be 
the  case  if  the  wife  adored  Wagner  and 
the  husband  could  only  endure 
the 
negro  minstrels,  where  he cared  only  for 
the  daily  paper  and  she  was  a  Brown­
ing  devotee,  to  say  nothing  of  the  gin ­
ger  that  would  be  infused  into  the  sit­
uation 
if  she  was  a  free-silver  Bryanite 
and  he  swore  by  Mark  Hanna.

Such  a  state  of  affairs  would  be 
piquant,  but  it  needs  only  the  most  ele­
mentary  knowledge  of  human  nature  to 
assure  us  that  it  would  not  be  harmoni 
ous.  In  reality  we  have  a  certain  vanity 
that  attracts  us  to  people  who  are 
like 
us,  not  different.  What  we  call  sym­
pathy  is  merely  the  same  point of  view, 
and  without  that  there  can  be  no  affec­
tion  or  happiness  in  a  household.  The 
opposite  opinion  may  be  interesting, 
hut  it  is 
likely  to  be  also  very  aggra­
vating.  What  we  want  is  somebody  to 
agree  with  us,  not  contradict  us,  and 
certainly  no  one’s 
ideal  of  a  happy 
is  a  place  that  is  the  scene  of  a 
home 
It  is  all  very  well  to 
perpetual  debate. 
the  attraction  of  op­
theorize  about 
posites,  but 
it  is  safest  to  marry  a  man 
who  has  the  same  politics  and  religion 
and  likes  the  same  kind  of  cooking.

Cora  Stowell.

Largest Grape  Growing  Region. 

Contrary to  the  belief  of  many people, 
the  largest  grape-growing  region  in  the 
world  is  not  the  champagne  districts  of 
Prance,  neither  the  sunny  valley  of 
Southern  California,  for  Western  New 
York  owns  the  title  by  virtue  of  50,000 
acres  now  given  over  to  grape  culture. 
In  the  Keuka 
lake  region  of  Western 
Central  New  York  there  are 30,000 acres 
n  vineyards,  and  the  other  20,000  acres 
are 
in  the  Chautauqua  belt.  The  two 
districts  are  made  one  by  a sort of grape 
sthmus,  which  runs  down  toward  the 
southwest  corner of  the  State.-  The har­
vest in  these  great  vineyards  amounts  to 
nearly  7,500  carloads  this  year.  That 
means  more  than  22,500.000  nine-pound 
baskets  of  grapes  or  nearly  three pounds 
of  the  fruit  for  every  man,  woman  and 
in  the  country.  To  harvest  this 
child 
gigantic 
requires  the 
services  of  between  6,000  and  6,500 
pickers,  most  of  whom  are  women.  The 
women  are  preferred,  because  they  pick 
the  fruit  more  rapidly  and  pack  it  more 
neatly  than  the  men,  who  are  only  em­
ployed  to  do  the  heavier  work  of  haul- 
ng,  lifting  and  driving.  Many  of  the 
girls  come  from  the  inland  districts  of 
Pennsylvania,  Northern  Ohio,  Southern 
New  York  and  even  farther  away.  A 
good  picker  usually  gets  from  80 to  90 
cents  a  day  when  she  boards  herself  or 
$3  a  week  and  board  for  working  ten 
hours  a  day. ”

fruit  product 

Let  Fortune  do  her  worst,  whatever 
she  makes  us  lose,  so  long  as  she  never 
makes  us  lose  our  honesty and  our  inde­
pendence. — Pope.

LAMP  CHIMNEYS—Secondi 
Per box

of 6 doz. 
1  60 
1  66 
2 36

0 Sim.
1 Sun.
2 Sun.

0 Sun......
1 Sun......
2 Sun......

First Quality

Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 
Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 
Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab.

XXX  F lint

Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 
Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 
Sun, hinge, wrapped & lab.......
CHIMNEYS—Pearl Top
I Sim, wrapped and labeled.......
! Sun, wrapped and labeled.......
: Hinge, wrapped and labeled__
! Sun,  “Small  Bulb,”  for  Globe 
Lamps........................ ..............

La  Bastie

Sun, plain bulb, per doz...........
! Sun, plain bulb, per doz............
Crimp, per doz..........................
! Crimp, per doz..........................

Rochester

Lime (65c doz)..........................
: Lime (70c  doz)..........................
: 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.. 
5 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................................
6 gal. Home Rule................................
5 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, 15c. 
No. 0 Tub., bbls 5 doz. each, per bbl.. 
No. 0 Tub,, bull’s eye, cases 1 doz. each

I  50
1  60
2 45

2 00
2  15
3  15

3 ro
4 00 
4  20
4  no
5 01 
4 88

1  35 
1  60

3 75
4 40
1  40
1  58
2 78
3 75
4 85 
4 25 
4 95 
7 25 
» 00

8 50
10 50
9 95
11  28 
9 50
4 95 
7 40 
7 50 
7 50 
14 00 
3 75

46 
1  85 
1  25

A  SO LID   O A K
PARLOR TABLE

With  2 1-inch  top;  also  made 
in  mahogany  finish.  Not  a 
leader, but  priced the  same  as 
as  the  balance  o f  our  superb 
stock.  Write  for  Catalogue.

SAMPLE  FURNITURE  CO:
Lyon,  Pearl  and  Ottawa  Streets 
G R A N D   R A P I D S ,   M I C H .

GAS ANI)  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.  yoc per doz. bottles.

Glover’s Wholesale  Merchandise Co.
Manufacturers,  Importers  and  Jobbers  of 

Gas and Gasoline Sundries.

Grand Rapids, Mich.

2 2

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

uce  Trades.

from 

long  sustained 

New  York,  Oct.  27— The  coffee  mar­
strength 
ket  has  taken  on  additional 
since  last  week  and- we  have  had  some 
advance  in  quotations,  owing  partiy  to 
firmer  quotations  from  Europe and small 
receipts  at  R io  and  Santos,  with  firmer 
markets  there.  Whether  the  advance 
will  be 
is  a  question. 
At  the  close,  No.  7  is  quotable  in  an 
invoice  way  at  8j^c.  The  amount  of 
Brazil  in  store  and  afloat  does  not  vary 
last  year,  being  1,138,254 
much 
bags,  against  1,291,057  bags  at 
the 
same  time  last  year.  Speculators  have 
been  doing  rather  more  business  than 
usual  and  an  advance  of  about  10 points 
has  taken  place.  The  market  for  mild 
character. 
grades 
Offerings  are  not  very 
large,  but  this 
does  not  seem  to  affect  the  situation and 
good  Cucuta  cannot  be  named  higher 
than  9?^@ioc.  East  India  growths  are 
quiet  and  practically  without  change.
Jobbers  are  not  giving  large orders for 
sugars,  evidently  being  determined  not 
to  be  caught  with  large supplies on hand 
in  case  another  drop  comes.  General 
demand 
is  very  sluggish,  the  grocery 
trade  generally  seeming  to  be  pretty 
well  supplied.  Refiners  are  not  giving 
long  guarantees  and  the  National  Co. 
extends  the  same  to  Nov.  15.  As  re­
finers  seem  to  have  sufficient  raw  ma­
terial  to  work  on  for  the  present  the 
market  for  raw  sugar  is  very  dull.

is  of  an  average 

Spot  business  in  teas  has  shrunken  to 
the  smallest  possible  proportions  and 
for  the  moment  there  is  nothing  what­
ever  of  interest  to  chronicle.  Dealers, 
however,  seem  to  be  confident  of  higher 
prices  within  a  short  period  and  some 
of  them  advise 
liberal  purchases  on 
present  basis.  Buyers,  however,  are  not 
responding  to  the  appeal  with  great 
avidity  and  seem  to  be  “ layin’  low.”
Orders  for  rice  are  not large,  but there 
are  a  good  many  of  them  and  altogether 
they  form  a  good  total.  Quotations  are 
practically  without  change.  Prime  to 
choice  Southern,  SH@5HC-

Spices  are  unchanged.  Buyers  are 
not  paying  much  attention  to  the  situa­
tion  and  the  immediate  outlook  is  for  a 
continuation  of  this sort of thing.  Stocks 
are  not  large,  however,  and  cold  weath­
er  may  cause  some  improvement.

The  weather  has  been  too  warm  to  al­
in  the  molasses 
low  of  much  activity 
line,  and  yet  the  situation 
is  not  dis­
couraging.  Prices  are  generally  firmly 
adhered  to  and,  as  stocks  here  are  light 
and  supplies  reported  as  coming 
in 
rather  slowly,  sellers  feel  that  they  will 
soon  have  a  “ good  thing.”   Quotations 
show  no  change.  Syrups  are  dull.  Sup­
plies  are  not  large,  but  there  seems  to 
be  enough 
to  meet  all  requirements. 
Prime  to  fancy  sugar,  20@26c.

Canned  goods  buyers  show  no  dispo-* 
sition  to  buy  round  lots  and  take  only 
enough  to  fill  gaps.  Some  concession 
is  reported  to  have  been  made  in  some 
cases  where 
it  was  necessary  to  move 
stock.  There  seems  to  be  very  little 
canned  corn  carried  over  this  year,  and 
the  new  stock  enters  the  market  in  good 
shape,  and  yet  there 
is  considerable 
pressure  to  sell.  Maine  No.  2  is  worth 
70c  for  standard  here  with  fancy  stock 
85c  f.  o.  b.  Portland.  Demand  is  slow 
.for  tomatoes  within  a  range  of  82j£@ 
87y2  for  No.  3  N.  J.  standards.

Lemons  are  dull  and  the  supply  of 
oranges,  being  limited,  causes 
inactiv­
ity  in  that  line.  Prices are practically as 
last  week.  The  very  warm  weather 
has,  perhaps,  caused  rather  more  firm­
ness  for 
lemons  than  would  otherwise 
have  been  the  case.

Apples  are  plenty  and  cheap.  Of 
course,  for  strictly  fancy 
fruit  the  de­
mand  is  good  and  prices  are  well  sus­
tained.  The  supply 
is  abundant  for 
medium  grades,  and  the  same  is  true  of 
many  other  fruits,  such  as  quinces, 
whole  baskets  of  which  seem  to  be 
full 
of  knots  and  holes.

Dried  fruits  are  dull  and  prices  are 
low.  Raisins  are,  perhaps,  an  excep­
tion,  as  the  holiday  trade  will  soon  be 
in  full  swing,  and  this  important  staple

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Full 

must  be  dealt  with  graciously.  Prunes, 
dates,  figs,  etc.,  are  selling  fairly  well.
The  butter  market  is  well  cleaned  up. 
Arrivals  are  not  very 
large  and,  with 
good  demand,  matters  seem  to  be  in 
sellers’ 
favor.  Best  Western  creamery 
is  worth  2 2 c.  This  seems  to  be  about 
top,  and  the  goods  must  stand  the  test. 
Imitation  creamery  is  worth  from  14 l/t 
@ i8c;  Western  factory,  i4/4@i6c.
large,  colored, 

fancy 
State  cheese 
is  worth  i o ^ £ @ i i c .  The 
market  is  rather  quiet.  Exporters  are 
doing  about  all  the  business.

cream, 

The  egg  market  is  steady.  Best  West­
ern  stock  is worth 2 1c;  other grades from 
i6@I9C.  The  weather  is  warm  and  the 
supply  is  large  enough  to  prevent  any 
“ egg  fam ine.”

The  bean  market 

is  strong.  The 
light  and,  with  a  good  de­
supply 
mand,  sellers  are  having  the 
inside 
track.  Marrows  range  from  §2. io@2.50, 
latter 
for  choice;  pea,  choice,  $2.10; 
choice  red  kidney,  $2.55@2.6o.

is 

Receipts  of  Jamaica  oranges  since 
Oct.  1  have  been  18,200  barrels  and
7.500  boxes,  against  15,000  barrels  and
2.500  boxes  during  the  same  time  last 
year. 
191,300 
bunches,  against  240,000  bunches  to  the 
same  date  last  season.

Receipts  of  bananas, 

is  thought  that  the  world’s  visible 
supply  of  coffee  will  show  an 
increase 
for  the  month  of  October  of  from  550,- 
000  to  600,000  bags.

It 

B utter By  the  Yard.

From  the Southern  Agriculturist.

Probably  Cambridge,  England,  is  the 
only  place  in  the  world  where one would 
be 
likely  to  find  butter  sold  by  linear 
measure,  but  here,  in  accordance  with 
the  old  custom,  it 
is  sold  by  the  yard. 
For  generations  it  has  been  the  practice 
to  roll 
of  Cambridgeshire  dairy 
folk 
their  butter  into  lengths,  each 
length 
a  yard  and  weighing  a 
measuring 
pound.  Deftly  wrapped 
in  strips  of 
clean,  white  cloth,  the  cylindrical  rolls 
are  packed  in  long  and  narrow  baskets 
made  for  the  purpose,  and  thus  con­
veyed  to  market.

The  butter  women  that  in  white  linen 
aprons  and  sleeves  preside  over  the 
stalls  rn  the  mart  have  no  need  of 
weights  or  scales  for  dispensing  their 
wares.  Constant  practice  and  experi­
enced  eye  enable  them  with  a  stroke  of 
the  knife  to  divide  a  yard  of  butter  into 
halves  or quarters  with  almost  mathe­
matical  exactness.

The  university  people  are  the  chief 
buyers  of  this  curiously  shaped  article. 
In  addition  to  being  famed for its purity 
and  sweetness,  Cambridge  “ yard  but­
ter”   is  eminently  adapted  for  serving 
out  to  the  university  students 
in  the 
daily  commons.  Cut  in  conveniently 
sized  pieces  and  accompanied  by  a  lbaf 
of  the  best  wheaten  bread,  a  stated  por­
tion  is  sent  around  every morning to  the 
rooms  of  the  undergraduates  for  use  at 
the  daily  breakfast  and  tea.

Going  W est  and  Northwest.

The  best  line  west  of  Chicago,  if  you 
are  going  to  any  point 
in  Montana, 
Idaho,  Washington,  Oregon,  Kansas, 
Nebraska,  Colorado,  Wyoming,  Utah, 
Nevada  or  California,  is  the  Chicago, 
Milwaukee  &  St.  Paul  Railway.  D i­
rect  and  short 
lines  between  Chicago, 
Sioux  City,  Omaha,  Milwaukee,  La 
Crosse,  St.  Paul 
and  Minneapolis. 
Solid  vestibuled,  electric  lighted,  steam 
heated  trains;  free  reclining  chair cars; 
the 
compartment  and  sleeping  cars; 
finest  dining  cars  in  the  world. 
If  you 
contemplate  a  trip  West  or  Northwest 
call  on  any  coupon  ticket  agent  in  the 
United  States  or  write  to  Harry  Mercer, 
Michigan  Passenger  Agent,  32  Campus 
Martius,  Detroit,  Mich.,  saying  where 
you  are  going,  about  when  you  will 
start,  how  many  there  will  be 
in  the 
party,  and  full  information,  with  maps, 
time  tables  and  rates  of  fare  will  he 
promptly  furnished  free.  Be  sure  to  ask 
for  your  tickets  via  C.,  M.  &  St.  P. 
Railway.

Buy  for  cash  and  ;ave interest.  Never 
give  credit  if  your  note  is 
in  bank,  as 
your  dependence  upon  your  debtor  may 
cause  your  downfall.

Qeo.  N.  Huff &   Co.,

WHOLESALE  DEALERS IN

Butter,  hggs, Poultry, Game,  Dressed M eats, Etc.

COOLERS  AND  COLD  STORAGE ATTACHED.

Consignments  Solicited. 

74 East Congress St., Detroit, Mich.

G R A S S
S E ED ,
PRO DUCE,
F R U IT ,
E T C .

P O U L T R Y ,  EG GS, E T C .

W e handle everything  in  the  line of  Farm  Prod­
uce  and  Field  Seeds.  Our  "Shippers’  Guide,”  or 
"Seed  Manual” free on  application.
Established

50-162  8herlff 

1884  THE  KELLY  CO.,

Street

Cleveland,  Ohio.

References:  All mercantile agencies and Park National Bank, 

j y  WANTED:  1,000 Bushels White Rice Pop-Corn.

F. CUTLER & SONS, Ionia, Mich.

WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

B U T T E R ,   E G G S   A N D   P O U L T R Y ,

Write or wire for highest cash pi ice f  o. b.  your station.  We remit promptly. 

Branch  Houses.

New York, 874 Washington st.

Brooklyn, 225 Market avenue.

ESTABLISHED  1886.

References.

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

Hermann 6. Naumann & Go.

Wholesale  Butchers,  Produce  and 

ESTABLISHED  1890.

Commission  Merchants.

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

Fruits of all  kinds  in  season.

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 a m m e r   &   o o „

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.

W H O L E S A L E

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

125 E.  Front Street,  Cincinnati, O.

WHEN  YOU  WANT

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

honest  quotations.

F.  J.  S C H A F F E R   &   CO..
Leading  Produce  House  on  the  Eastern  Market. 

D E T R O IT ,  M IC H .

*We  Buy  and  Sell

Potatoes,  Apples,  Onions,  Cabbage

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

Qrand Rapids, Mich.

Highest  Market  Prices  Paid  Regular Shipments  Solicited.

98  South  Division  Street, 

Qrand  Rapids,  Mich.

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Butter  and  Eggs
M arketing  W estern  Dairy  Products 

Eastern  Markets.

in 

Elkhart,  Ind.,  Oct.  26—An  egg 

laid 
on  an  Illinois  farm on Sunday is poached 
in  New  York  and  served  on  toast  on 
Wednesday for  dinner.  It  is  not shipped 
by  mail  or  express  either.  Nowadays 
the  railway  mail  service  men  are  wont 
to  say  that  a  letter  will  reach  such  and 
such  a  town  for  such  and  such  a  deliv­
ery  within  a  given  time.  So  will  an 
egg  or  a  pound  of  butter.  A  box  of 
eggs  will 
leave  Chicago  at  7 :i5  p.  m. 
Sunday  and  will  be  delivered  by  the 
third  delivery  in  New  York  on  Wednes­
day.  This 
is  all  accomplished  by  the 
great  dairy  trains  which  have  become 
marvels  in  the  matter  of  marketing  the 
products  of  Western  farms  in  Eastern 
markets.  A 
train  consisting  of  from 
twenty-two  to  thirty  loaded  cars  of  but­
ter  and  eggs,  each  car  having a capacity 
of  twenty-five  tons,  is  run  through  from 
Chicago  to  New  York  in  sixty  hours. 
The  famous  New  York and  Chicago  fast 
mail  on  the  Lake  Shore  road,  which 
is 
ladened  with  orders  and  returns  for  the 
Western  dairymen,  is  seemingly  little 
faster  than  the  Red  Line  dairy  train 
which  rushes 
in  the  opposite  direction 
over  the  same  tracks  carrying  the  prod- 
uts  for  which  the  mail  train  is  filled 
with  orders  and  checks.  Considering 
the  difference  in  tonnage  and  the  num­
ber of  heavy  cars  in  the  train  the  dairy 
flyer  seems  as  marvelously  fast  as  the 
train  which 
in  Uncle  Sam’s 
service  and  every  day  in  the  year  cov­
ers  the  1,000  miles  from  the  Atlantic  to 
Lake  Michigan  in  twenty-four  hours.

is  kept 

Nowadays  a  string  of  cars  are  hooked 
together  in  Chicago.  They  have  all  of 
the  modern  equipment  of  passenger 
coaches,  there  being  a  force  or  air  from 
the  locomotive  to  the  dinkey.  They  are 
hustled  out  of  Chicago  with  all  of  the 
speed  of  a  train  of  a  higher  class  and 
they  are  kept  going  until  they  reach 
New  York.  That  this  is  so  is  owing  to 
the  foresight  and  ingenuity  of  two  men, 
both  of  whom  are  now  dead.  One  of 
them  originated  the  plan  of  dispatching 
such  products  and  the  other  invented 
what  railroad  men  from  one  end  of  the 
country  to  the  other  call  the  “ freezer,”  
but  which  to  the  commercial  world  is 
known  as  the  refrigerator  car.

To  William  Kasson  is  said  to  be  due 
the  credit  of  expediting  freight,  and 
William  W.  Chandler  was  probably  the 
originator  of  the  idea  of  an  ice-box  on 
wheels.  Before  the  days  of  refrigerator 
cars  and  fast  freights  no  railway  corpo­
ration  would  allow  any  of  its  cars  to  go 
beyond  its  own  line  for  fear  they  would 
never  be  seen  again.  The  rolling  stock 
was  kept  in  sight  by  means  of  the  par­
ticular  gauge  of  each  road.  Thirty-five 
years  ago  there  were 
four  different 
gauges  between  Chicago  and  New  York 
and 
in  consequence  there  were  three 
transfers  between  these  points.  The 
time  in  which  to  reach  the  Eastern  sea­
twenty  days  to  two 
board  was 
months. 
forward 
when  Kasson  noted  the delay occasioned 
by  the  transfers.  Just  previous  to  the 
war  he  organized  a 
large  force  of  la­
borers  and  distributed  them  along  the 
line  where  such  transfers  were  made. 
He  then  solicited  business  “ to  be  taken 
care  of”   and  “ dispatched”   at  several 
points.  This  movement  was the first that 
ever  got  the  name  of  fast  freight  and 
Kasson  cleared  something 
like  $10  a 
ton  on  his scheme.  His dispatch reached 
Cleveland,  Columbus,  Cincinnati,Louis­
ville, 
Indianapolis,  St.  Louis,  Detroit, 
Chicago  and  other  points  of  the  fast- 
developing  West.

There  was  a  step 

from 

contrivance 

In  the  meantime,  unto  the  butter, 
cheese  and  egg  world  was  born  a  com­
mercial  Moses.  W.  W.  Chandler,  who 
had  commenced  railroading 
in  Ohio, 
had  turned  his  inventive  genius  toward 
a 
in  which  perishable 
freight  could  be  preserved for  some con­
siderable  time.  He  took  into  a  car  shop 
a  lot  of  discarded  freight  cars  and  fash­
ioned  them 
into  freezers.  They  had 
double  sides,  roofs  and  floors.  Between 
they  were  packed  with  sawdust.  There 
in  the  floor  between  the 
was  a  hole 
doors  for  the 
leakage  of  water,  where

the  box  was  put  after  the  car was loaded 
and  the  load  trimmed  down  to  the  door 
ways.  The  butter,  at  that  time,  was 
made 
in  rolls  and  shipped  to  Chicago 
in  nail  keys  and  shoe  boxes,  when  i 
was  repacked  in  firkins  by  the  commis 
sion  men. 
In  those  days  it  used  up  the 
price  of  seven  and  three-fourth  pounds 
of  butter  to  market  100  pounds.  Now 
somewhere  near  two  and  a  half  pounds 
will  carry  a  hundredweight  in  the  finest 
modern  cars  at  a  speed  about  as  fast  as 
the  swiftest  mail  train  of  to-day.  For 
merly  it  required  seven  days  of  twenty 
four hours  each  to  get  the  product  to  the 
New  York  market,  while  to-day  it  i 
done  in  two  and  a  half.

Think  of  the  magnitude  of  this  great 
dairy business  when  it is considered that 
nearly  all  of  the  railroads  are  bringing 
into  Chicago  the  product  of  thousands 
of  Western  farms  by  the  carload.  Some 
years  ago  one  carload  for  one  point  was 
a  big  thing.  Now  there  are  more  than 
twenty  cars  for  one  market  in  twenty 
four hours.  Then  shippers  were  limited 
to  20,000  pounds  to  the  car,  while  to 
day  a  good  freezer  will  hold  twenty-five 
tons.  The  Lake  Shore  people  have  ex­
tensive  re-icing  plants,  where  the  cars 
are  re-supplied  with  ice  en  route.

In  most  cases  special  crews  of  men 
are  reserved  to  run 
these  Red  Line 
dairy  trains.  They  are  among  the  most 
experienced  men  in  the  employ  of  the 
Lake  Shore  company.  Stops  are  made 
only  to  change  crews  and  locomotives. 
Now  and  then  it  becomes  necessary  to 
set  out  a  car  of  dead  freight  and take on 
a  car  of  perishable  matter,  but  these 
are  the  only  delays,  aside  from  acci 
dent,  which  a  dairy  train  has 
in  its 
thousand-mile  run  to  Father  Knicker 
bocker’s  great  market.  By daylight  the 
Indiana-Ohio  line  has  been  crossed  and 
the  train 
is  soon  within  the  limits  of 
Toledo,  then  Cleveland,  after  which  the 
great  steel  highway  along  Lake  Erie 
is 
taken  and  traversed  to  Buffalo.  Then 
through  the  Empire  State,  itself  a  great 
producer  of  dairy  products,  the  train 
rolls  swiftly  marketward,  until  it  strikes 
the  New  York  Central  &  Hudson  River 
line  at  Albany  and  scuds  down  along 
the  old  historic  shore,  reaching  Gotham 
on  the  morning  of  the  third  day  out 
from  Chicago.

No  Competition  in  Live  Poultry  in  New 
From the New  York  Commercial.

York.

There 

is  practically  no  competition 
in  the 
live  poultry  business 
in  New 
York  City.  The  business  is  controlled 
by  a  combination  of  dealers  and  the 
combination  has  up  to  this  time  been 
strong  enough  to  keep  out  all  competi­
tors  and 
prices. 
This  combination  controls  a  business 
that  amounts  in  the  aggregate  to  about 
§3,000,000  a  year  and  prices  are  kept 
up  to  a  figure  which  leaves  the  combi­
nation  a  very  handsome  profit.

absolutely  control 

The  Greater  New  York  Live  Poultry 
Dealers’  Association,  which  was  organ­
ized  in  April,  1899,  is  the  organization 
which  binds  together  the  dealers  who 
control  the  market  and  it  has  for  some 
time  been  claimed  that  the  combination 
has  strong  political  backing  which  en­
abled 
it  to  secure  exclusive  privileges 
and  to  bar  competition.

Some  time  ago  the  Arthur  Jordan Co., 
one  of  the 
largest  firms  in  the  United 
States  dealing  in  live  poultry,  made  an 
effort  to  break  into  the  business  in  this 
city.  This  firm  has 
its  headquarters 
n  Indianapolis  and  does  business  all 
over  the  country. 
It  made  two  efforts 
to  obtain  a  permit  from  the  Board  of 
Health  to  establish  a  live  poultry  mar­
ket  in  New  York  in  the  same  part  of 
the  city 
in  which  the  markets  of  the 
firms  which  are  members  of  the  combi­
nation  are  located. 
Its  efforts  were  un­
successful  and  the  firm  was  loud  in  its 
claims  that  it  was  the  victim  of  a  polit- 
'cal  conspiracy.  A   letter  from  Mr.  Jor­
dan,  the  head  of  the  firm,  said :

“  There  is  not  the  slightest  doubt  that 
the  speculators  and  holders  of  permits 
to  kill  poultry 
in  New  York  are  in  a 
combine  to  control  prices,  and  the  com­
mission  merchants  have  now  formed  a 
separate  association,  so  that  the  live 
poultry  business  in  New  York  at  pres­
ent  is  completely  controlled  by  two  or­

ganizations.  Call  them  trusts  or  what 
ever  you  please,  competition  is  now 
eliminated,  and  the  combine  fixes  the 
price of all live  poultry  going  to  Greater 
New  York.

“ The  matter  of  my  permit  is  now 

in 
the  hands  of  my  attorney  and  suit  will 
be 
instituted  during  the  October  term 
of  the  Federal  Court  in  New  York. 
I 
am  advised  that  the  Board  of  Health 
will  be  forced  to  either grant  the permit 
to  me  or  rescind  all  other  permits 
granted  on  the  lower  East  Side  of  New 
York  City.  All the  facts  concerning the 
poultry  trust  will  be  brought  out.  Nu­
merous  affidavits  are  already 
in  my 
possession  which  disclose 
the  actual 
purposes  of  the  trust.

“ The  main  evidence  of  the  existence 
of  a  trust  was  brought  to  the  attention 
of  the  Board  of  Health.  Every  one 
familiar  with  the  Tammany  organiza­
tions  in  New  York  will  understand  why 
the  Board  of  Health  was  not 
influenced 
I  was  informed  that 
by  that  evidence. 
an  assessment  was  made  of 
about 
$5,000  and  used 
in  defeatirg  my  ap­
plication.  Where  this  money  was  used 
I  do  not  know.

issuing  of  my  permit. 

“ When  the  Board  of  Health  voted 
there  was  a  majority  of  one  vote against 
the 
1  have  no 
doubt  that  $10,000  or  $20,000  might  just 
as  easily  have  been  raised  among  the 
members  of  the  live  poultry association. 
George  Brown  stated  to  the  Boardof 
Health  that  to  allow  shippers  to  send 
their  poultry  direct  to  the  market  them­
selves  in  New  York  would  ruin  the  live 
poultry  commission  business. 
I  think 
he  was  right.

There  are 

two  unnecessary  profits 
between  the  shipper  and  consumer  in 
the  New  York  live  poultry  market,  and 
when  I  secure  this  permit  these  two 
profits  will  be  eliminated,  as  it  is  my 
intention  to  ship  direct  to  the  jobbing 
butchers,  leaving  out  both  the  commis­
sion  merchant  and  speiulator.  The  pre­
tense  that  the  business  of  the  Arthur 
Jordan  Co.  is  a  trust,  with  headquarters 
at  Indianapolis,  is  all  rot.  Our  busi­
ness  was  built  up  by  the  parties  who

now  own  and  control  it  and  it  is  in  no 
sense  a  combination  of  different  inter­
ests  to  monopolize  or  control  the  busi­
ness. ’ ’
The 

indignation  of  the  firm  against 
the  combine  seems  to be  dying out, how­
ever,  for  Dallas  Flannagan,  the  attorney 
who  represents  the  Arthur  Jordan  Co., 
recently  remarked:  “ The  condition  of 
the  matter  at  present  is  just  th is:  We 
have made  two  efforts  to  get  a  permit  to 
establish  a  live  poultry  market  from  the 
Board  of  Health  and  the  trust  has  suc­
ceeded  in  preventing  us  from  doing  so. 
The  Board  has  finally  ruled  that  there 
must  be  no  more  live  poultry  markets 
established  below  Thirty-fourth  street. 
This  practically  shuts  us  out.  There  is 
no  use 
in  trying  to  sell  candles  in  the 
Pacific  Ocean  and  there  is  no  use trying 
to  sell  live  chickens  in  any  part  of  the 
city  except  the  parts  where  the  popula­
tion  is  of  the  Jewish  faith.  For religious 
reasons  they  prefer  to  buy  their  poultry 
alive.

“ We  made  preparations  to  fight  the 
matter  in  the  courts  and  we  may  fight  it 
lo­
out  in  the  courts  yet  and  enter  the 
cal  business  and  break  down 
trust 
prices.  Just  at  present  we  are  doing 
nothing  in  a  legal  way,  however,  as  ne­
gotiations  are  pending between the com­
pany  I  represent  and  the  trust  to  take  it 
in. 
If  it  can  make  these  arrangements 
it  would  be  foolish  to  fight.

“ I  do  not  know  just when the negotia­
tions  between  my  client  and  the  trust 
will  be  concluded,  but  until  they  are 
nothing  more  will  be  attempted  in  a  le­
gal  way. ”

Children  playing  with  matches caused 
ninety-one  fires 
last  year.  Cigars  and 
cigarettes  caused  912;  electric  wires 
lights,  750;  boilers  and  engines, 
and 
lightning, 
387; 
incendiarism,  6,744; 
2,760;  spontaneons  combustion, 
1,235; 
six  were  due  to  the  sun’s  rays.  The 
causes  of  13,127  fires  were  not  discov­
ered.

Money  is  the  root  of  all  evil,  but  we 
all  keep  on  rooting  for  it  just  the  same.

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

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

Wholesale  Produce  Merchant, 

34  and  36  Market  St.,  Detroit,  Mich.

R.  Hirt,  Jr.,

Cold  Storage,  435,  437,  439  Winder  St.

R E F E R E N C E S :

City Savings  Bank, Commercial  Agencies and  trade in general.

B E A N S

We are  in  the  market  for all  grades 

If  any  to  offer  send  good  size  sample  and 

we will  make bids for car lots or  less.

We are also in  the market for Clover,  Alsyke,  Pop  Corn.  Write  us.

A L F R E D   J.  B R O W N   S E E D   C O .

G R A N D   R A P I D S .   M I C H .

W e want

B E A N S

in  carlots or  less.  W e wish to deal  direct with  merchants.

Write for prices.

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

BEANS— BEANS

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

M O S E LE Y   BROS.

Jobbers  of  Fruits,  Seeds,  Beans  anrl  Potatoes 

26,28,30,32  Ottawa  Street 

Grand  Rapids,  Michigan

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Clerks’  Corner.

Not  M aking tlie  Most of an  O pportunity. 
Written for the Tradesman.

It  was  a  stormy  October  day.  The 
wind  and  the  rain  had  been  evidently 
disgusted  with 
youthful  depravity’s 
previous attempts to celebrate Halloween 
at  Springborough  and  had  started  in 
early  with  the  determined  purpose  of 
“ showing  ’em  how.’ ’  They  came  down 
early  upon  the  store,  but 
found  no  en­
couragement.  Not  a  blind  was  loose 
and  even  the  back  door,  that  could  al­
ways  be  depended  on  for  at  least  one 
good  bang,  was  as  firm  and  immovable 
as  the  everlasting  hills.  As early as  ten 
o ’clock  it  began  to  pour  and,  forgetting 
the  usual  let-up  for dinner,  it  kept right 
on  for  an  hour  or  two,  until  there  was 
no  more  chance  for  a  customer,  man  or 
woman,  to  venture  out  for  the  remain­
der  of  that  day  than  there  was  for  them 
to  escape  a  drenching 
if  they  should 
undertake 
it.  Old  Man  Means  made 
the  most  of  the  opportunity  to  write  up 
his  books  and  Carl  late  in  the  morning 
had  straightened  out  the  back  store,  so 
that  now  he  began  whistling  what  the 
storekeeper  called  his  graveyard  tune 
and  to  beat  the  time  on  the  window 
pane  with  his  fingers.

For  some  reason,  never  explained, 
that  particular  air  had  the  effect  of  a 
rebellion  upon  the  usually  controlled 
nerves  of  the  storekeeper  and 
for  a 
while  whistler  and  whistled  to  were 
hardly  aware  of  any  mental  disturbance 
when,  as  if  he  couldn’t  stand  it  an 
in­
stant  longer,  Old  Man  Means  slammed 
the 
lids  together  with  a  desire 
to  know  if  that  infernal  whistle  and  the 
more 
infernal  tune  could  be  stopped 
without  both  being  landed  together  in 
the  puddle  in  the  middle  of  the  street.
“ Isn’t  there  anything  that  you  can 
busy  yourself  with?  A   read  you  can 
book,  or  a  file  you  can  saw  or— or  any­
thing?”

ledger 

By 

that  time,  however, 

the  good 
man’s  equanimity  was  restored  and, 
coming  around  from  his  desk,  he  took a 
corn  popper  from  under  the  counter that 
had  often  seen  service  on  similar  days 
and  directed  Carl  to  bring  on  his  corn.
After  the  crunching  of  the  snowy  ker­
nels  had  gone  on 
for  a  time  and  the 
corn  hunger  had  been  somewhat  ap­
peased,  he put  the  half  filled  popper  in­
to  the  boy's  hands, remarking  as  he  did 
so: 
“ I’ve  been  watching  you,  Carl, 
for  a  week  or  two  and  I’ m  wondering 
why  I  don’t  see  you  interested  more 
in 
something  that’s  going  to  be  of  service 
to  you  by  and  by.  Young  men  don’t 
know  much  and  can  t  know  much  any­
w ay;  hut 
if  there’s  anything  to  you, 
you  are  going  to  look  back  upon  this 
getting  ready  time  and  wonder  why  you 
didn’t  have  sense  enough  to  turn  it  to 
better account.

“ You  seem  to  be  well enough satisfied 
with  being  a  business  man  and, 
if 
that’s  so,  you  are  exactly  where  a  young 
lawyer  and  a  young  doctor  are  when 
they  are  struggling  to  get  into  practice.
It  is  more  than a dull time— it’s despair­
ing ;  and 
for  ten  good  years  some  of 
them  have  to  wait  for  their  chance. 
That 
If 
they  spend 
it  doing  nothing— there’s 
where  my  dig  at  you  comes in— no read­
ing,  no  study,  nothing  which  tends  to­
wards  culture,  they  are  going  to  be  sec­
ond  class— or  worse—all 
their  days. 
They  can  manage  to  scrimp  along  and 
they 
get  through 
never  take  a  high  place 
in  the  com-

is  their  test  time,  I  call  it. 

life  somehow;  but 

munity  because  they  don’t  know enough 
of  the  things  the  world  wants.

“ That’s  what’s  the  matter  with  the 
schoolmaster  over  here.  He  reads  Latin 
like  a  house  afire,  but  he  reads 
it 
through  his  nose.  You  can’t  stick  him 
on  a  Greek  root,  but  he’ ll  stand  all  day 
with  his  hands  on  his  lips  like  a  wash­
woman  and  with  one  foot  on  a  chair 
learning 
without  ever  fancying  that  his 
only  makes  more  conspicuous  his 
lack 
of  that  real  culture  which  the  boys  and 
girls  need  most  in  this  neighborhood. 
Now  1  believe  that  a  storekeeper,  while 
he  can  get  along  with  the  m ultiplica-1 
‘ thumb’  and 
tion  and 
‘ three’  must  have 
something  more 
than  that  to  be  what  the  community 
has  the  right  to  expect  and  to  demand 
of  him.  He  can  measure  potatoes  and 
calico  without  caring  much  about  spell­
ing  and  it  doesn’t  make  any  particular 
difference  in  this  neck  o’  woods whether 
he  says  caow  or  cow ;  hut  it  does  make 
a  difference  to  his  own  life  and  the  life 
of  the  village  after  shutting  up  time 
fool  or  a  man  of  cul­
whether  he’s  a 
is 
ture,  and  I  say  that  genuine  culture 
what  the  country 
to-day 
more  than  anything  else.

the  rule  of 

is  needing 

the 

smaller 

the  big 

“ You’ll  hear  more  or  less  about  there 
being  room  at  the  top. 
The  theory’s 
all  right  and  the  practice  is  all  right; 
but  I’ve  found  that  it  takes  a pretty v ig ­
orous  shaking  for  even  the  big 
lumps 
of  the  sugar  bowl  to  get  there  and  I’ve 
a  homely  idea  that  the  world  is  just  as 
well  off  with 
fellows  down 
among 
the 
grains.  Culture  in  the  parlor  and  cul­
ture  on  a  pedes^l  and  culture  on  the 
heights— anywhere  except  down  among 
people  where  it  can  do  the  most  good— 
has  been  the  maxim  of  the  world  too 
long.  A   student  on  one  end  of  a  log 
and  good,  old  Mark  Hopkins  on  the 
other  end  is  the  college  that  is  training 
the  world,  and  everybody  knows  that  a 
boost  is  better  than  a  pull  up  any  day— 
there’s  more  to  it.

lumps  and 

thing 

for  the  next 

“ The  fact  of  the  case  is,  getting  on 
is  simply  getting  ‘ good 
in  the  world 
and  ready’ 
that 
comes.  You  can  hang  around  the  sta­
tion  all  day,  but  you  never  can  go  any­
where  without  you  have  a  ticket,  unless 
you  beat  your  way  and  that  isn’t  the 
kind  of  man  we  are  talking  about.  A 
man  has  to  get  on  the  right  train ;  but 
I’ve  noticed  that 
it  doesn’t  make  any 
difference  to  that  sort  of  blunderhead 
what  train  he  boards— he  never  ‘ gets 
there.’  That’s  what  I  want  you  to  look 
out  for,  Carl.  Get  something 
that's 
worth  reading  or  studying  and peg away 
3t 
it.  The  trade  paper  will  keep  you 
in  touch  with  the  business  world— your 
common  sense  will  make  you  say  yes 
to  that— and  the  rest  of  the  time  you 
want  to  take  in  building  up— building 
up!  There  isn’t  any royal  road  to  learn­
ing  nor  to  anything  else,  as  I  look  at  it, 
any  more  than  there  is  a  chance  of  the 
doors  opening  to  a  man  until  he  is 
ready  to  enter  them. 
That  getting 
ready  can  be  done  right  here  as  well  as 
anywhere.  Then,  with  all  your getting, 
if  you  get  understanding  enough  to  be­
lieve  that  real  success  in  life  is  doing, 
‘ without  flinching  and  with  utter  faith­
fulness,  the  duty  that  stands  next  to 
you.’ you’ re  going  to  be  the  man  of 
the  community  wherever  you  are  and  I 
am  going  to  be  mighty  proud  of  you.

“ Let’s  have  another  popperful  of 

corn.”  

Richard  Malcolm  Strong.

If  you  think  you  do  not  need  friends 
you  either  have  too  high  an  opinion  of 
yourself  or  too  low  an  opinion  of  your 
friends.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

W hy  He  Backslid.

“ A 

little  over  four  years  ago,”   said 
Smithson,  “ I  made  up  my  mind  that  I 
was  smoking  too  much. 
It  didn't  seem 
to  affect  my  health  in  the  least,  but  I 
thought  it  was  a  foolish waste  of  money, 
and  I  decided  to  give  it  up.”

“ A  very  sensible  idea,  indeed,”   re­

marked  Brownlow.

“ So  1  thought  at  the  time. 

I  figured 
out,  as  closely  as  1  could,  how  much  I 
had  been  spending  each  day  for  cigars 
and  tobacco.  That  sum  1  set  aside  each 
day  and  started  a  banking  account  with 
it. 
I  wanted  to  be  able  to  show just ex­
actly  how  much  1  had  saved  by  not 
smoking. ”

* ‘ And  how  did 

it  work?”   enquired 

Brownlow.

“ At  the  end of  twelve  months  I  found 

that  1  had  $265  in  the  bank.”

“ Good!  Could  you  lend  me— ”
“ And  a  few  days 

later,”   interrupted 
Smithson,  “ last  Thursday,  in  fact— the 
bank  failed.  You  haven’t  got  a  cigar 
about  you,  have  you?”

M any  Shin plasters  Still  Out.

It  has  been  recently  estimated  that 
there 
is  still  outstanding  more  than 
$15.000,000  of  the  old  “ shinplasters”   or 
fractional  paper  currency.  No  doubt 
much  of  this  has  been  destroyed,  but 
private  collectors  are  believed  to  hold 
great  quantities  of  the  bills.  They  are 
still  redeemable  at  face  value,  although 
they  are  no  longer  legal  tender.

An  enterprising  farmer 

in  the  Em- 
menthal,  Switzerland,  has  broken  away 
from  all  the  old  customs  that  have  dom- 
nated  Swiss  farming.  He  has  turned 
the  force  of  a  convenient  stream  into 
po».er  and  generates  an  electric  current 
strong  enough  to  run  a  planing  ma­
chine,  a  fruit  crusher,  a  threshing  ma­
chine  and  a  pump.  The  peasants  come 
from  miles  around  to  gaze  in  astonish­
ment  at  a  farm  house  and  stable  bril- 
iantly  illuminated  with  electric  lamps.

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. 
W e 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

The  Lambert 
Nut hood  60.,

Battle  Greek.  Mich.

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The  Guarantee  of  Purity  and  Quality 
—  in Baked Goods.  Found on every pack- 
.  age of our goods.

Good  goods create a demand  for them-  — 
selves. 
make  on  one  pound. 
make in the year.

It  is  not  so  much  what  you 
It’s  what  you 

National  Biscuit Co.

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Michigan Knight« of the Grip 

Pretarvnt,A E'w  ' 
Bay  City;  Sec-
Q.tç 7 GouldTSaginaw.  JaCkS°n;  TreaSUrer’

Michigan Commercial Trarelen’ Association 
p™s*d®n‘'  A-  Marymont,  Detroit;  Secretary 
and Treasurer, Geo.  W. Hill, Detroit.
United Commercial Travelers of Michitran 

Grand  Counselor,  J.  E.  Moore,  Jackson • 
Grand  Secretary,  A.  Kendall,  Hillsdale: 
Grand Treasurer, W.  8.  Mest, Jackson.

Grand Rapids  Council No. 131,  D. C. T.
Counselor, J ohn  G.  Kolb;  Secretary- 

ireasurer, L. F. Baker.

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

who  hails  from  the  East  accosted  a  well 
known  citizen  standing  at  the  corner  of 
Front  and  Superior  streets  yesterday, 
asking  him,  “ Where  is  the  depot?" 
In 
response  he  received,  “ There  you  are," 
the  gentleman  designating  the  structure 
sought  by  pointing  his 
finger.  The 
questioner  gazed  at  the  building  and 
then  flared  up  in  these  words,  “ I  think 
you  would  have  the  decency  to  answer 
a  civil  question.”   The  Marquette  man 
was  amazed,  but  managed  to  assure  the 
second  party  that  he  was  not  “ joshing 
but  that  he  was  in  reality  directing  him 
to the depot.  “ T h at!”   said the stranger, 
as  he  apologized  for  his  warmth,  “ that! 
Why,  the  Pennsylvania  road  wouldn’t 
put  coal  in  that  building."

Gripsack  Brigade.

Ovid  Register: 

is 
traveling  in  the  Southwest  for  Voorhees 
&  Martin,  proprietors  of  the  Ovid  De­
vice  Works.

Chas.  Walters 

Jackson  Patriot:  E.  E.  Johnson  h... 
resigned  his  position  as  traveling  sales 
man  for  the  Franklin  Mills  Co.,  Lock 
port,  N.  Y .,  and  taken  a  similar  posi 
tion  with  the  Quincy  Roller  Mill  Co, 
of  Quincy,  Mich. 

,

Joseph  Vandervest,  for  the  past  two 

years  clerk  in  the  shoe  store  of  Rice  . 
Cossler,  of  Cadillac,  has  engaged  1 
travel  for  the  Herold-Bertsch  Shoe  Co 
covering 
the  Upper  Peninsula  and 
Northern  Wisconsin.  He  is  getting  out 
his  samples  this  week  and  will  start  out 
on  his  initial  trip  about  Nov.  12.

Ypsilanti  Sentinel:  Bert  Goodel  has 
resigned  his  position  in  the  Davis  gro 
eery  store  to  travel  for  the  J.  B.  Ford 
Co.  Mr.  Goodel  has  been  employed 
by  the  Davis  store, 
formerly  Harris 
Bros.,  for  many  years,  and  he  has  many 
friends  who  will  regret  his  departure 
from  the  city.  He  expects  to  make  Wis 
consin  towns.

Detroit  Free  Press:  The  Detroit  and 
Cleveland  police  are  making  a  com 
bined  effort  to  locate  H.  S.  Bidwell,  1  
traveling  salesman 
in  the  employ  of 
Glick,  Moyer  &  Co.,  of  Cleveland,  who 
was 
last  seen  in  this  city  last  Wednes 
day.  On the  same  day  he  wrote  a  lette 
to  his  wife  and  addressed  it  to  the  fam 
ily  home,  89  Eastman  street,  in  Cleve 
lad,  telling  her  that  she  would  never see 
him  again,  as she  was  too  good  for  him 
A  Bay  City  dispatch,  under  date  of 
Oct.  27,  is  as  follows :  An odd  meeting 
took  place 
in  the  lobby  of  the  Fraser 
House  to-day.  Two  commercial  travel 
ers  of  the  name  of  J.  W.  McKenzie, 
have  been  traveling  over  the  country  for 
seven  years.  They  have  each  received 
and  opened  mail  belonging  to  the  other. 
One 
is  stout,  the  other  slim,  but  both 
genial,  good  fellows.  When  they  found 
each  other’s  name  on  the  register  they 
sought  acquaintance  and  sat  down  and 
swapped  stories  and experiences for sev­
eral  hours.

John  T.  Watkins  (Musselman  Grocer 
C o.)  has  returned  from  Europe  and  re­
sumed  his  visits  to  his  trade.  Although 
he  was  born  in  England,  he  considers 
that  country  far  behind  the  American 
in  everything  except  the  health  of  the 
people.  He was raised  near Nottingham, 
which  is  still  using  horse  cars,  although 
it  is  a  city  of  400,000  inhabitants.  Mr. 
Watkins  visited  the  Paris  exposition, 
where  he  found 
little  to  commend  and 
many  things  to  condemn.  He  is  espe­
cially  severe  on  the  craft  and  avarice  of 
the  French  people,  who  treated  their 
visitors  with 
the  same  consideration 
that  the  gambler  does  his  victim.  As 
an  instance  of  the  disposition  to  plun­
der  foreigners,  Mr.  Watkins  relates  the 
circumstances  attending  a  luncheon  he 
purchased  on  the  exposition  grounds. 
He  sat  down  beside  a  Frenchman  and 
motioned  to  the  waiter  to  duplicate  his 
companion’s  order.  When  the  meal 
was  finished  the  Frenchman was charged 
a  franc  and  a  half,  while  the  American 
was  taxed  three  and  a  half  francs.

The  Boys  Behind  the  Counter. 

Battle  Creek— Fred  Larmour  succeeds 
Mark  Seligman  as  clerk  in  the  drug 
store  of  Charles  E.  Humphrey.

Constantine— Milo  P.  Merritt  has  a 
new  clerk  in  the  person  of  Arthur  E d­
ward  Wilson,  of  Marcellus.

Glen  Arbor— C.  G.  Wareham  has 
taken  the  management  of  J.  O.  Nessen 
&  C o.’s  mercantile  and  lumbering  op­
erations  at  this  place.  Mr.  Wareham 
hails  from  Bear  Lake.

Petoskey-----Roy  Streeter, 

formerly
with  A.  D.  Baughman,  at  Charlotte, 
has  taken  a  position 
the  clothing 
store  of  S.  Rosenthal  &  Sons.

in 

Saugatuck— C.  £.  Bird  has  taken  the 
management  of  J.  Bright's  drug  store.
Ishpeming— Hugh  Sparks,  who  has 
been 
in  the  employ  of  J.  Sellwood  & 
Co.  for  some  time,  has  resigned  his  po­
sition  and  gone  to  Duluth  to take charge 
of  the 
fancy  grocery  department  of 
Henry  Folz.

Quincy— George 
succeeds 
red  Me'len  as  clerk  in  the  hardware 

Bowles 

store  of  James  Pope.

Manley  Jones,  chairman  of  Post  E,  is 
in  receipt  of  the "following  letter  from 
President  Schreiber:  “ By  virtue  of  a 
resolution  of  the  Board  of  Directors, 
adopted  at  the 
last  regular  meeting  of 
the  Board,  held  at  Saginaw,  Saturday, 
Sept.  1,  authorizing  the  President  to  lo­
cate  the  next  convention,  I  accept  your 
kind 
invitation,  in  behalf  of  our  order, 
feeling  that  the  travelers  of  Grand Rap­
ids,  as  well  as  the  citizens  at 
large  of 
your  beautiful  city,  will  do  all  in  their 
power  to  make  the  convention  an  un­
qualified  success  from  every  point  of 
view. ”

Marquette  Mining  Journal:  The  lat­
est  story  on  the  South  Shore  depot  here 
will  bear  repetition.  A   traveling  man

Ovid— Chas.  Porter  has  resigned  his 
position  at  Jillson’s  and  gone  to  Chesa- 
ning  to  take  charge  of  the  Clark  shoe 
store.  Frank  Clark  returns  to  Ovid.

Bay  City— W.  E.  English,  formerly 
manager  of  H.  G.  Wendland  &  Co. ’s 
carpet  and  drapery  department,  has 
accepted  a  similar  position  in  Barie’s 
new  dry  goods  store  at  Saginaw.
For Campaign  Use  Only.

“ I  suppose  you  have  to  lake  care  to 
be  absolutely  accurate  in  your  calcula­
tions, " s a id   the  man  who  was  watching 
the  statistician  work.

N°. ’ ’  answered  the  man  of  math­
“ These  figures  are  for  cam­
ematics. 
paign  purposes.  What 
is  expected  of 
me  is  to  be  convincingly  inaccurate,”

The  Only  Solution  Is to  K ill the Cook 
It  is  related  with  every  assurance  of 
probability  that  a  despairing  commer­
cial  traveler  who  loved  his  country  and 
his  coffee,  on  contemplating  the  tepid 
concoction  that  the  untidy  hand  maiden 
of  the  much-serving  Martha  had  placed 
beside  his  plate,  asked  with  resignation 
in  face  and  voice  as  if  seeking  for  in­
“ May  I  venture,  madam, 
formation: 
to 
if  this— this’ ’ — language 
failing,  he  tapped  his  cup  with  his  tea­
spoon— “ is  tea  or  coffee?" 
“ Certain­
ly,  sir,”   was  the  exultant  reply,  glad 
that  the  question  was  easy,  “ a  little  of 
both!”   Thanking  his  Heavenly  Father 
that  he  had  not  been  betrayed 
into 
drinking  the  villainous  compound,  he 
yet  went  out  at  odds  with  the  world  and 
found  at  sunset  that  it  had  been  a  da} 
of  failure.

enquire 

With  so  much  depending  upon  a  cuj 
of  coffee  it  is  pertinent  to  enquire  if  i 
is  not  possible  for  human  stomachs  tc 
rebel  against  the  imposition  that  is  reg­
ularly  supplied  to  it  and  to  insist  that 
good  coffee  shall  at  a  reasonable  price 
be  furnished. 
It  is  strongly  insisted  by 
the  average  housekeeper  that  the  pa 
trons  of  country  hotels  should  not  ex 
pect  high  priced  coffee  for  the  morning 
meal.  Java  and  Mocha  at  35  and  40 
cents  a  pound  make  a  good  cup  of 
coffee,  but  they  are  not  within  reach  of 
the  country  hotels,  any  more  than  other 
high  priced  foods  are.  Again,the  whole 
matter  is  one  of  fancy  rather  than 
fact. 
A  few  epicures  who  think  of  only  what 
they  swallow  can  tell  the  difference  be­
tween  Mocha  and  Java  or  a  blend  of 
both.  The  majority  of  coffee  drinkers 
know  no  difference  between  these  and 
| Maracaibo  and  many  a  boarder  who  in­
sists  that  “ you  can’t 
fool  him ”   will 
praise  a  cup  of  Rio  which he declares  is 
genuine  Java.  The  man  who  expects 
coffee  should  also  expect  to  pay  for  it 
and  right  there 
the  whole  question 
hinges.

is 

admitted 

it  doesn’t. 

It  seems  so,  but 

It  is  a 
pretty  generally 
fact  that 
coffee  well  worth  drinking  is  not  in  the 
majority  of 
instances  a  question  of 
price.  A   good  article  can  be  secured 
from  what  is  often  considered  an 
in­
different  berry.  Indeed,  it  is  doubtful  if 
real  Mocha  ever  cheers  the  American 
senses  with  its  matchless  aroma.  Java 
is  found  oftener  on  the  American  table 
and 
just  as  often  the  insipid  stuff 
mixed  with  tea  that  was  offered  to  the 
outraged  boarder.  Candor  willingly  ad­
mits  that  beans  and  chicory  and  bran 
and  brown  bread  are  palmed  off  upon 
an  unsuspecting  public— and  it  makes 
little  difference  what  that  kind  of  pub- 
in­
sists  that  in  ninety-nine  cases  out  of  a 
hundred  the  real  reason  for  poor  coffee 
s  the  cook.  Nine  families  out  of  ten 
have  no  idea  what  real  coffee 
is.  A 
gallon  of  water  and  a  tablespoonful  of 
coffee  (?) 
is  put  on  to  boil  and  if  it 
looks  too  strong on  pouring it  is diluted. 
That  and  the  dirty  cup  of  the  ordinary 
hotel  finish  the  business,  and  all  day 
long 
“ stratagems, 
schemes  and  spoils”   go  on !

c  drinks—but  it  at  the  same  time 

consequent 

the 

looked  after. 

It  is  submitted  then  that  the  cook 
should  be 
If  it  be  true 
that  a  poor  grade  of  coffee  well  and 
carefully  made  will  give  better  results 
than  a  good  grade  put  through  an  in­
different  process  of  preparation,  it  is 
wrong  not  to  insist  that  the  cook,  or  the 
party  responsible  for  her,  him  or  it, 
should  be  held  strictly  to  account  for 
the  swindle.  From  first  t o j a s t i t i s a  
matter  of  carelessness  and  indifference. 
Good  material  or  bad  comes  on  unfit

for  use.  Commercially,  it  is  cheating. 
Physically,  it  is  debilitating.  Mental­
ly,  it  is  discouraging and,  morally,  -it  is 
highly  provocative  of  profanity  and  so 
productive  of  wickedness.  Coffee,  as 
heaven  intended  it  to  be,  is  a  blessing. 
Spoiled,  as  it  usually  is,  it  is  a  univer­
sal  curse;  and  a  long  suffering  human­
ity  seems 
to  be  reaching  that  point 
where  the  only  way  out  of  the  awful 
condition  of  things  is  to  kill  the  cook.

in  a  car 

<Jueer Things  Noticed  In  Traveling.
Did  you  ever  notice,  when  the  trains 
reach  the  terminal  station,  how  the  pas­
sengers 
line  up  for  the  front 
door? 
It  is  only  the  occasional  passen­
ger  who  backs  out  of  the  car and  so gets 
ahead  of  the  waiters  at  the  rear  end  of 
the  queue.  The  others,  the  normal  pas- 
sengers,  seem  to  feel  that  so  long  as 
they  are  headed  right  they  are  making 
the  best  possible  progress.

long  at 

When  you  see  a  passenger  occupying 
the  middle  of  the  seat,  evidently  in  the 
hope  that  nobody  will  offer  to  share  it 
least  as  there  is 
with  him,  so 
another  empty  seat 
in  the  car,  don’t 
you  feel,  just  out  of  spite,  like  making 
him  move  over  to  give  you  room,  even 
although  every  other  seat  in  the  car  is 
empty?  Of  course  you  do.  The  only 
reason  you  don’t 
is  that  you  hate  to 
punish  yourself  by  having  to  sit  beside 
him.

Can  anybody  explain  why  it  is  that 
the  lame  man  is  always  in  such  a  hurry 
to  get  at  the  door, when  the train reaches 
its  destination,  so  as  to  delay  every­
body  else’s  getting  off?  Perhaps  his 
ameness  is  due  to  an  accident  resulting 
from  his  trying  to  leave  the  car  before 
is 
t  stopped,  and  his  present  purpose 
to  prevent  the  possibility  of  a  similar 
accident  to  any  of  the  passengers.

is 

When  you  have  a  nice,  comfortable 
seat  and  all  the  other  seats  are  full, 
why 
it  that  that  woman  persists  in 
standing  right  beside  you,  or,  even 
worse,  just 
front  of  you  where  you 
can  not 
look  up  without  catching  her 
eye  fixed  upon  you  There  is  standing 
room  elsewhere 
in  the  car.  Why  will 
in  standing  just  where  she 
she  persist 
3oes?

in 

is  not  going  to  mind  that. 

How  comical  it  is  when  a  man  polite­
ly  offers  to  raise  the  window  that  a  lady 
has  tried  ineffectually  to  open  herself ! 
How  confidently he takes hold of  i t ! 
Its 
resistance  to  the  gentle  exertion  which 
he  first  gives  to  it  rather  surprises  him, 
but  he 
It 
rather  pleases  him  that  he  has an oppor­
tunity  of  showing  his  strength.  He 
smiles 
in  a  self-confident  way  and  lifts 
first  with  a  fair  expenditure  of  strength, 
then  with  all  he  has.  But  the  window 
won’t  budge. 
It  has  a  steady  job  and 
does  not  mean  to  quit.  The  man  shows 
annoyance;  his 
is  reddened  from 
forehead  to  neck,  and  downward  as  far 
as  can  be  seen;  he  scowls;  his 
lips 
quiver  with  unspoken  profanity!  He 
hates  to  give  up,  but  he  has  to  do it and 
he  retires  in  a  bath  of  perspiration,  his 
face  full  of  swear  words  and  with  every 
It  is 
eye 
very  funny;  but  there  is  one  person 
in 
the  car  who  can  not  appreciate the joke.

in  the  car  fixed  upon  him. 

face 

Safety  In  Numbers.
is  safety  in  numbers,”   said 

“ There 

the  trite  conversationalist.

“ There 

is,”   answered  the  man  who 
talks  on  politics. 
“ If  you  can’t  con­
vince  a  man  by  your  argument  you  can 
always  silence  him  by  quoting  a  lot  of 
statistics  that  he  knows  absolutely  noth­
ing  about. ”

Never  decry  your  opposition. 

It  is 
tangible  evidence  that  you  feel sore over 
his  power  to  secure  trade  from  ycu.

2 6

Drugs—Chemicals

M ichigan  State  Board of Pharm acy

Term expires
-  Dec. 31,1900
- 
Geo.  Gundrum, Ionia 
-  Dec. 31,1901 
L.  E.  Reynolds,  St. Joseph 
Hbmey  Heim, Saginaw 
-  Dec. 31,1902
- 
Dec. 31,1903
Wir t  P.  Doty, Detroit - 
A. G. Schumacher,  Ann Arbor  -  Dec. 31,1904 
President, A. G.  Schumacher, Ann Arbor. 
Secretary, Henry  Heim , Saginaw.
Treasurer, W.  P.  Doty,  Detroit.

Exam ination  Sessions 

Lansing—Not. 7 and 8.

Mich.  State  Pharm aceutical  Association

President—Chas.  F.  Ma n n, Detroit. 
Secretary—J.  W.  Seeley,  Detroit 
Treasurer—W.  K.  Schmidt, Grand Rapids.

Medicated  Salve  Pencils.

Salve  pencils  are  much  used  in  Ger­
many  for  the  local  application  of  rem­
edies  for  various  skin  diseases.  These 
pencils  are  generally  about  four 
inches 
from  a  third  to  three- 
in 
length,  and 
fourths  of  an 
inch  in  diameter.  The 
following  directions  for  their  prepara­
tion  are  taken 
little  book  by 
Roderfeld,  entitled  “ Winke 
fuer  die 
Pharmaceutische  Receptur. ”   The  mass 
from  which  the  pencils  are  made  con­
sists  of  the  follow ing:

from  a 

Resin,  5  parts.
Olive  oil,  40  parts.
Yellow  wax,  45  parts.
Where  there  is  more  than  10  per  cent, 
of  a  solid  or  powdered  medicating  sub­
stance  to  be  added  a  corresponding 
amount  of  wax  should  be  omitted. 
In 
pencils  containing  carbolic  acid,  creo­
sote,  creolin or lysol,  powdered olibanum 
should  be  substituted  for  the  resin.  As 
much  as  20  to  25  per  cent,  of  these 
drugs  can  then  be  incorporated  in  the 
larger  proportion  of  the 
mass. 
liquid  medicaments  is  to  be 
incorpo­
rated 
in  the  pencils  a  corresponding 
amount  of  olive  oil  should  be  omitted.

If  a 

The  pencils  are  formed  by  pouring 
the  molten,  medicated  mass,  previously 
cooled  as 
far  as  practicable  without 
making 
it 
impossible  to  pour  it  into 
paper  moulds.  These  moulds  are  made 
by  wrapping  waxed  paper  about  a  stick 
from  a  third  to  three-fourths  of  an  inch 
in  diameter,  pasting  the  edges  of  the 
paper  and  fastening  the  end  with  seal­
ing  wax.  When  filled  with  this  oint­
ment  mass  the  moulds  should  be  set 
aside  in  a  cold  room  for  several  hours, 
and  the  pencils  then  carefully  removed 
from  the  moulds. 
It  is  a  good  plan  to 
wrap  each  pencil,  when  finished,  in  tin 
foil.  Below  are  given  several  formulas 
for  preparing  these  pencils:

Creolin  Salve  Pencils.

Yellow  wax,  40  parts.
Olive  oil,  30  parts.
Olibanum,  20  parts.
Creolin,  10  parts.

Carbolic  Acid  Pencils.

Yellow  wax,  50  parts.
Olibanum,  20  parts.
Carbolic  acid,  cryst.,  3  parts.
Chrysarobin  Pencils.

ingredients 

Yellow  wax,  40  pans.
Olive  oil,  36  parts.
Resin,  5  parts.
Chrysarobin,  20  parts.
Triturate  the  chrysarobin  with  one 
part  of  olive  oil  as  fine  as  possible. 
Melt  the  other 
together, 
and  when  nearly  cold,  add  the  chrysa­
robin  and  o il;  mix  thoroughly  and  pour 
into  moulds.
Removing  Bed  Color From  Carbolic Acid.
This  coloration  is  often  caused  by  re­
action  of  hydrogen  peroxide,  this  being 
formed  during  the  slow  oxidation  of 
metals 
the  presence  of  moisture. 
Prof.  Walter  reports  that  in  many  in­
stances  the 
iron  present  in  green  glass 
containers  was  the  primary  cause  of  the

in 

iron  contained 

red  color.  Chemically  pure  carbolic 
acid,  when  stored  in  green  glass  con­
tainers,  very  soon  shows  a  reaction  for 
iron.  This  establishes  the  fact  that  it 
dissolves  the 
in  such 
glass. 
It  was  found  that  when  green 
glass  containers  were  coated  inside with 
a 
layer  of  paraffin  the  acid  stored  in 
them  remained  unchanged  after  three 
months.  The 
introduction  of  a  small 
crystal  of  ferrous  sulphate  caused  a  red­
dening  to take  place in  three  days, while 
the  addition  of  hydrogen  peroxide 
caused  the  red  color  to  appear  in  two 
days.  Pure  carbolic  acid  stored  in  non- 
paraffined  green  glass  containers took on 
a  red  color 
in  ten  days.  This  would 
seem  to  prove  that  the  acid  dissolves 
the 
iron  present  in  green  glass,  which 
iron  in  the  presence  of  air  and  moisture 
is  slowly  oxidized  with  the  formation  of 
hydrogen  peroxide  and  the  red  color 
referred  to.

it 

To  prevent  this  action 

is  recom­
mended  that  the  acid  be  kept  in  small 
bottles,  a  small  amount  of  powdered 
stannous  chloride  being  added  to  the 
fused  acid  before  rebottling.

To  restore  the  reddened  acid  melt  on 
a  water  bath,  mixing  eleven  parts  of 95 
per  cent,  alcohol  with  eighty-nine  parts 
of  acid.  Allow  the  resulting  solution  to 
cool,  and  when  the  greater  part  has 
crystallized  out  pour  off  the  excess  of 
liquor  and  drain  the 
The 
crystals  are  pure  white,  and  on  melting 
yield  a  colorless  solution. 
If  any  color 
remains,  repeat  the  operation.  For  five 
pounds  of  the  acid  use  ten  fluid  ounces 
of  alcohol. 

B.  L.  Bryson.

crystals. 

lemon 

(which 

How  Are  Freckle-Removers  Made?
Among  the  substances  used are lotions 
containing 
juice  or  citric  acid, 
with  or  without  glycerin,  “ Lac  Vir- 
gin is”  
is  the  milky  fluid  ob­
tained  by  mixing  compound  tincture  of 
benzoin,  1  volume,  with  rosewater,  15 
volumes),  and  preparations  containing 
mercury  salts,  etc.  The 
latter  have  a 
mild  escharotic  action,  and  are  consid 
ered  more  truly  effective  than  anything 
else.  They  should  be  applied  very 
cautiously,  however.  Ammoniated  mer 
cury  has  a  more  gentle  and  safer action 
than  corrosive  sublimate,  and  is  there 
fore  to  be  preferred.  The  following  is 
a 
lotion  of  this  type  in  which  ammo 
niated  mercury  might  be  substituted  for 
the  corrosive  sublimate  and  the  a c id :

Mercuric  chloride,  0.25  gm.
Hydrochloric  acid,  4  cc.
Sweet  almonds,  15  gm.
Glycerin,  12  cc.
Benzoin  tincture,  1  cc.
Bitter  almond  water,  to  make,  120  cc.
Bleach  the  almonds  and  beat  to  a 
paste  with  the  glycerin,  to  which  add 
gradually  90  cc.  of  the  water.  Add  the 
tincture  slowly  to  this,  constantly  stir­
ring,  and  finally  add  the  acid  and  cor­
rosive  sublimate  previously  dissolved 
in  the  remainder  of  the  water.  Fifteen 
cc.  of  cologne  water  might  be  added 
with  advantage.

Another  substance  which 

is  recom­
mended  and  has  the  advantage  of  being 
unirritating  and  non-poisonous  is  sul- 
phocarbolate  of  zinc.  The 
following 
lotion containing  this  is  suitable for tan, 
freckles,  chapped  skin,  etc.,  and  has 
been  found  quite  satisfactory :
Zinc  sulphocarbolate,  1  gm.
Glycerin,  12  gm.
Rosewater,  90  cc.
Cologne  water,  20 cc.
This  last  will  often  be  found  satisfac­

tory- 

H.  W.  Sparker.

Good  listeners  often  listen  attentively 
so  they  will  know  exactly  when  it  is
their turn  to  put  in.

The  D rug Market.

Opium— On  account  of  reports  from 
Turkey  of  continued  drought,  prices  are 
very  firm  and  have  advanced  10c  per 
pound  in  a  week.

Quinine— There 

is  great 

interest  i 

the  Amsterdam  bark  sale  to  be  held 
on  Thursday. 
In  the  meantime  the  ar 
tid e  is  quiet.

Cantharides— Chinese  are  out  of  the 
market.  Russian  are  scarce  and  have 
been  advanced.

Cocaine— Stocks  in  the  hands  of  man 
ufacturers  are  very  low  and  prices  are 
decidedly  firmer.
Glycerine— Is 

in  good  demand  and 

firmer.

Cyanide  Potash— Has  declined,  on 
account  of  lower  price  for  yellow  Prus 
siate  potash.

Sassafras  Bark—On  account  of  small 

offerings,  has  advanced.

Essential Oils— Peppermint is steadily 
advancing. 
Sassafras  continues  high 
and  is  scarce.  Cedar  is  very  scarce  and 
has  again  advanced.  Wormwood 
i 
very  firm  and  higher.

Buchu  Leaves— Are  easier.
Ground  Flax  Seed— Has  been  ad 
for 

vanced,  on  account  of  higher  price 
seed.

Linseed  O il— Is  very  firm  at  the  ad­

vance  of  12c  per gallon.

Is  It a Wise  U ndertaking?

A   correspondent  of  the  Pharmaceu­
tical  Era  recently  declared  that he could 
borrow  sufficient  money,  amounting  to 
$3,000  to  $4,000,  to  buy  or open  a  phar­
macy.  He  said  he  would  have  to  pay 
interest  at  the  rate  of  6  per cent,  per 
annum,  and  he  asked  whether  such  an 
arrangement  was  a  safe  undertaking. 
The  editor  replied  that  “ the  undertak­
ing  may  be  safe  enough  where  the  con­
ditions  are  most  favorable, but  under  or­
dinary  circumstances  and  in  a  general 
way  the  consensus  of  opinion  among 
successful  druggists  seems  to  he  against 
the  policy  of  beginning  a  drug  busi­
ness  with  an  indebtedness  of  this  char­
acter.  Of  course,  the  proposition  might 
be  highly  successful  in  some 
localities 
and  under  some  conditions,  but  before 
assuming  such  a  responsibility  the  in­
dividual  should 
the 
chances  for  success  and  the  difficulties 
in  the  way  of  obtaining 
it.  The  man 
in  business  with  a  large  indebtedness 
hanging  over  his  head  is  ha  dicapped 
to  a  burdensome  degree,  and  the  aver­
age 
individual  would  think  long  and 
hard  before  deciding  to  assume  in  this 
day  of  small  profits  and  sharp  compe­
tition  the  proprietorship  of  a  drug  store 
on  any  such  terms.  But  after  all  this 
question  is  a  many-sided  one  and  can 
be  answered  in  many  different  ways.”

consider  well 

Boot  Beer Extract-

The  so-called  root  beer  extract  is  pre­
pared  by  various  formulas.  The  follow­
ing  is  a  typical  one :

Sassafras  bark,  1  oz.
Pimento,  1  oz.
Wintergreen,  1  oz.
Hops,  %  oz.
Coriander  seed, 
Dil.  alcohol,  a  sufficient  quantity.
Percolate  until  10  ounces  of  tincture 

oz.

are  obtained.

The  extract 

is  added  to  carbonated 
water  when  drawn  in  the  proportion  of 
half  a  teaspoonful  or  more  to  one  glass. 
If  more  “ body”   is required,  the  extract 
is  to  be  mixed  previously  with  a  little 
syrup.

D rug Clerk  Held  for Child’s  Death.
Samuel  Levine,a  drug clerk  employed 
by  Lazurus  Dillon,  druggist  at  216  Clin­
ton  street,  New  York,  has  been  arrested, 
charged  with  being  responsible  for  the 
death  of  Anna  Kreiger,  10  months  old, 
of  242  Madison  street.  Abraham  K rei­
ger,  father of  the child,  went to  Dillon’s 
drug  store  Sunday  morning,  Aug.  26, 
and  asked  for  a  small  quantity  of  cam­
phorated  oil.  Levine  was  on  duty  and

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

it  was  because 

waited  on  Kreiger.  Kreiger  took  the 
liquid  gi-ven  him,  and  his  wife,  Annie, 
poured  it  on  the  child,  Annie,  who  was 
troubled  with  a  rash.  Immediately  the 
child  began  to  cry,  but  Mrs.Kreiger, 
prefuming 
it  did  not 
like  the  rubbing,  poured  on  more  of  the 
liquid,  and  when  she  saw  the  child’s 
skin  began  to  shrivel  and  blister,  she 
for  Dr.  M.  Rosenthal,  of  200 
hurried 
Madison  street.  After 
looking  at  the 
child,  he  examined  the  contents  of  the 
bottle,  and  said  it  was  a  strong  solution 
of  carbolic  acid.  The  child  suffered 
great  agony  from  the  bums,  and  the 
mother  was  treated 
for  injuries  to  her 
hands.  The  infant  died  early  Wednes­
day  morning,  Aug.  29,  and  Levine  was 
arrested.  He  was  held  on  the  charge  of 
homicide  pending  an  investigation  by 
the  coroner.  Dillon  would  say  nothing 
of  the  case  except  that  Levine furnished 
what  Kreiger  asked  for.

Never  start  a  man  who  looks  as  if  he 
hadn’t  much  to  say,  he’s  merely  bottled 
up  awaiting  his  chance.

1 

(

Holiday 
Goods

Everything at right  prices

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 
vast  assortment.
Refer to  our  Holiday  cir­
cular for  particulars  and 
visit  our  sample  rooms 
for proof.

Fred  Brundage,

Wholesale  Druggist,

32  and  34  W estern  Ave.,

Muskegon,  Mich.

Ginseng  Wanted

Highest price paid.  Address

Peck  Bros.,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

IFG. CHEMISTS, 

ALLEGAN, MICH

Perrigo's Headache Powders,  Per- 
rigo’s Mandrake Bitters,  Perrigo’s 
Dyspepsia  Tablets  and  Perrigo's 
Quinine Cathartic Tablets are gain­
ing new friends every  day.  If  you 
haven’t already a good  supply  on, 
write us for prices.

FUMI6 EXTIM MD 011116611118' SUNDRIES

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

2 7

W H O LESA LE  DRUG  P RICE  CURRENT

Declined—Kuch1tfI^avesrc'yan\de1\)ta?h. reppern,int’ Flaxseed-

@  50

Menthol..................
Morphia, S„ P. & W. 
Morphia, S„ N.Y. Q.
&C. Co............ .
Moschus  Canton__
Myristica, No. 1......
Nux Vomica...po. 15
Os Sepia..................
Pepsin Saac, H. & P.
D  Co..................
Picis IJq. N.N.Vi gal.
doz......................
Picis Liq., quarts__
Picis Liq., pints......
Pil Hydrarg. ..po.  80 
Piper  Nigra., .po. 22 
Piper  Alba.. ..po. 35
Pilx Burgim............
Plumbi Acet............
Pulvis Ipecac et Opii 
Pyrethrum, boxes H.
& P. D. Co., doz...
Pyrethrum,  pv.......
Quassia*....................
Quinia, S. P. &  W..! 
Quinia, S.  German..
Quinia, N. Y............
Rubia Tinctorum.... 
Kaccharum Lactls pv
Salacin...................
Sanguis  Draconls...
Sapo, W..................
Sapo M....................
Sapo G....................

@  4 00 
Seldlitz Mixture......
2 25® 2 60
Slnapls...................
Sinapis,  opt............
2  15® 2 40 
Snuff, Maccaboy, De
@  40
Voes....................
65®  80
Snuff,Scotch,De Vo’s
® 
10 
Soda, Boras............
35®  37
Soda,  Boras, po.... 
Soda et Potass Tart.
@  1  00
Soda,  Carb..............
Soda,  Bi-Carb.........
@ 2 00 
Soda, Ash...............
@  1  00 
Soda, Sulphas.........
@  86 
Spts. Cologne..........
@  60 
Spts. Ether  Co.......
@  18 
Spts. Myrcla Dom... 
@  30
Spts. Vini Rect.  bbl. 
7
@ 
Spts. Vini Rect. V4bbl 
10®„  
12 
Spts. Vini Rect. lOgal 
1  30®  1  60
Spts. Vini Rect. 5 gal 
Strychnia, Crystal...
®  75
Sulphur,  Subl.........
25®  30
Sulphur, Roll..........
Tamarinds.............
8®  
10 
40®  50
Terebenth  Venice...
39®  49
Theobromae.............
39®  49
Vanilla...............
12®  14
Zinci Sulph.........
18®  20 
Oils
4 50® 4 76
40® 50
12® 14 Whale, winter...
... 
10® 12 Lard, extra.......
@ 15 Lard, No. 1......... ... 

20©  
22 @  18 
@  30

9®  11
9@  11
23®  25
2
1V4® 
3® 
5
4
3S4@ 
2 
@ 
@ 2 60 
50®  55
@  2 00

®

@1  05®  1  26 
2 Vi®  4
2k@  3Vi 
8®  
10 
28@  30
60®  66 
9 00® 16 00

BBL.
70
60
45

Linseed, pure raw... 
75 
Linseed, boiled.......  
76 
Neatsfoot, winter str  54 
Spirits  Turpentine.. 
48 

78
79
60
56
Paints  BBL.  LB.
Red  Venetian.........  1%  2  @8
Ochre, yellow  Mars.  1^ 2  @4 
Ochre, yellow Ber . ..  1%  2  @3 
Putty,  commercial..  2Vi  2Vi@3 
Putty, strictly  pure.  2Vi  2Vi@3 
Vermilion,  P rim e
American............ 
13® 
ib
Vermilion, English..  70®  75
Green,  Paris........... 
14®  18
13® 
Green, Peninsular... 
16
Lead, red  ...............  6Vi@  6Vi
«@  6V4 
Whiting, white Span  @  88
Whiting, gilders’....  @  90 
White, Paris, Amer.  @  1  25 
Whiting, Paris, Eng.
cliff...  .................  @140
Universal Prepared.  1  10®  1  20

whit2

6

V a r n i s h e s

No. 1 Turp  Coach...  1  10®  1  20
Extra Turp.............   1  60®  1  70
Coach  Body............  2 75® 3 00
No. 1 Turp Furn......  1  00®  1  10
Extra Turk Damar..  1  55®  1  60 
Jap.Dryer.No.lTurp  70®  75

Freezable 

Goods

• Now is the time to  stock

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

n
r

Hazeltine  &  Perkins 

Drug  Co.

Grand  Rapids,  nich.

w
m
m

Our  Holiday  Line  will  be  on  exhibition 

at  Lansing from  Oct. 22 to 27.

Acid ii in

Aceticum  ............... $  6@$  8
Benzoicum, German.  70®  76
Boracic....................  @  17
Carbolicum.............  30®  42
Citricum..................  45®  48
3® 
Hydrochlor............  
6
8®  10
Nitrocum................ 
Oxallcum................. 
12®  14
i&
Phosphorium,  dll... 
® 
Sallcylieum............  
55® 
eo
Sulphurlcum...........  134® 
5
Tannlcum................  1  10®  1 20
Tartaricum............  38®  40

4®
1 m
12®

Ammonia
Aqua, 16 deg............
Aqua, 20 deg............
Carbonas.................
Chlorldum...............
Aniline
Black........................  2 00® 2 26
Brown.....................   80® 1  00
Red.........................   46®  60
Yellow.....................   2 60® 3 00
Baccie
Cubebae.......... po,25  22®  24
Juniperas................ 
Xauthoxylum......... 
Hal »am urn
Copaiba..................   60®
Peru  ....................... 
®
Terabln,  Canada—   46®
Tolutan...................   40®

6@
75®

66 1  85

18

15

24®
28®
11®
13®
14®
10®

Cortex
Abies, Canadian......
Cussi;c.....................
Cinchona Klava......
Kuonymus atropurp.
Myrica Cerlfera, po.
Primus Virglni.......
Quillala, gr'd..........
Sassafras.......po. 20
Ulinus..  po.  15, gr’d
Kxtractum

(ilycyrrhiza  Glabra
Glycyrrhlza,  po. 
. box
Haematox, 16 lb. !
Hiematox, is........... 
Haematox, V4s......... 
Haematox, 14s......... 
Ferrn
Carbonate  Preclp... 
Citrate and  Quinta..
Citrate Soluble.......
Ferrocyanidum Sol..
Solut. Chloride........
Sulphate,  com’l......
Sulphate,  com’l,  by
bbl, per cwt.........
Sulphate,  pure........
Flora

Arnica.......................  
Anthemis................   22®
Matricaria............... 
30®

15®

Folia
Barosma..................  33®
Cassia Acuttfol, Tin-
nevelly.................  20®
Cassia, Acutifol, Alx.  25® 
Salvia officinalis,  Vis
12®
and V4s................. 
UvaUrsi
‘ 
"  ~ 
8®
Gnmmi 
Acacia, 1st picked...
®  65
Acacia, 2d  picked...
®  45
Acacia, 3d  picked...
®  35
Acacia, sifted  sorts.
®  28 66 
Acacia, po...............   45®
Aloe, Barb. po.l8@20  12®
14
Aloe, Cape__po. 16. 
®
®
Aloe,  Socotrl..po.40 
Ammoniac...............   66®
Assafoetida— po. 30  28®
Beuzoinum..............  60®
Catechu, is .............   @
Catechu, V4s............  
®
Catechu, 14s............  
®
Campnorae..............-  69®
Eupnorbium... po. 36 
®
Galbanum...............
65®
Gamboge............po
Gualacum......po. 26
@
Kino...........po. $0.75
M astic....................  @  60
Myrrh........... po. 46 
@ 4 0
Opii__po. 4.80@5.09 3 45®  3 50
Shellac...................   26®  36
Shellac, bleached....  40®  46
Tragacanth.............   50®

H erba 
Absinthium..oz. pkg 
Eupatorlum..oz. pkg
Lobelia....... oz. pkg
Majorum__oz. pkg
Mentha Pip..oz. pkg 
Mentha Vfr..oz. pkg
Rue..............oz. pkg
Tanacetum V oz. pkg 
Thymus, Y.. .oz. pkg 
Magnesia
Calcined, Pat...........  65®
Carbonate, Pat.......  
18®
Carbonate, K. & M..  18®
'arbonate, Jennings  18® 
Olenm
Absinthium.............. 6
7 00 
Amygdalae,  Dulc__
66
Amygdalae, Amarae.  8 oo® 8 26
Anisi.......................2  10® 2 20
Aurantl Cortex........  2  26® 2 30
Bergamli.................  2  76® 2 85
Cajlputi..................   80®  85
Caryophylli............ 
80®  85
Cedar.....................   60®  86
Chenopadti..............  @ 2 75
Cinnamonll.............. l  30®  l 40
Oitronella................  36®  40

Conium Mac..........
60®  60 
Copaiba.................
1  16®  1  25 
Cubebae...........
1  20®  1  26 
Exechthitos__...”
1  00®  1  10 
EGgeron............ ;  i  io@ i s
20
Gaultheria.............   2 00®  2  1
10
Geranium, ounce.. 
ok 
eranium, ounce...
i
@  76
Gossippii, Sem. gal.
50®  60
Hedeoma........
1  40®  1  50 
Junípera............
..  1  60® 2 00 
I.avendula  .........
90®  2 00 
Limonis..............
.  1  60®  1  IK)
Mentha Piper__
..  1 40® 2  00 
Mentha Verid....
..  1  60®  1  60 
Morrhuie, )gal....
..  1  20®  1  25 
Myrcla..............
..  4 00® 4 50 
Glive..................
76® 3 00 
Plcis Liquida......
10® 
Piéis Liquida,  gal
@ 3 6  
Ricina.................
..  1  00®  1  08 
Rosmarinl...............  
^
1  00
Rosae, ounce............  6 00® 6 60
Succlnl...................   40®  46
Sabina...................   90®  i oo
Santal.....................   2 76® 7 00
Sassafras.................  60®  66
Sinapis, ess., ounce. 
@  65
Jí?1» ......................   1  60®  1  60
Thyme, opt..............  @  1 60
Theobromas..........  
15®  20
Potassium
15®  is
Bl-Carb.................... 
Bichromate............ 
15
52®  57
Bromide................  
Carb 
.................... 
12®  15
Chlorate... po. 17® 19 
16®  18
Cyanide..................  34®  38
ÍpdW®.....................  2 60® 2 65
Potassa, Bitart, pure  28®  30
Potassa, Bitart. com. 
®  15
Potass Nltras. opt... 
7® 
10
Potass  Nitras......... 
8
e@ 
Prussiate................   23®  26
Sulphate  po............ 
i5@ 
18

Scillae Co.................
Tolutan...................
Primus  virg............

Tinctures 
Aconitum Napellis R 
Aconitum Napellis F
Aloes ................
Aloes and Myrrh__
Arnica....................
Assafoetida..............
Atrope Belladonna..
Aurantl 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  Chlorldum....
Gentian..................
Gentian Co.............
Guiaca.
Guiaca ammon
Hyoscyamus......
Iodine  .............
Iodine, colorless.
Kino 
Lobelia 
Myrrh
Nux Vomica..........
Opil.........................
Opil, comphorated..
Opii, deodorized......
Quassia..................
Rhatany..................
Rhei........................
Sanguinaria...........
Serpentaria............
Stramonium............
Tolutan..................
Valerian................
Veratrum  Veride...
Zingiber..................

Radix

© 

10@ 

Aconitum................   20@  26
Althae.....................  22®  25
Anchusa................  
io@ 
12
Arum  po................   @  25
Calamus.................. 
20@  40
Gentiana....... po. 15 
12® 
15
Glychrrhiza.. .pv.  15 
16® 
18 
@  76
Hydrastis  Canaden. 
Hydrastis Can., po..  @  80
Hellebore, Alba, po. 
12® 
15
Inula,  po................  
is®  20
Ipecac, po...............  4 25® 4 35
Iris  plox.. ,po. 35@38  36®  40
Jalapa, pr...............  25®  30
Maranta.  >4s ..........   @  35
Podophyllum,  po...  22®  26
ghei... 
................   75®  100
Rhei, cut................   @  1  25
Rhei, pv..................  75®  1  35
Spigelia..................  35®  38
Sanguinaria... po.  15 
18
Serpentaria............  40®  45
Senega....................  60@  65
®  40
Smilax, officinalis H. 
Smllax, M...............   @  26
Scillae............po.  35 
12
Symplocarpus, Foeti-
dus,  po................   @  26
V aleriana, Eng. po. 30  @  25
Valeriana,  German. 
15@  20
Zingiber a ............... 
14@ 
16
Zingiber j................   25®  27
Semen
Anisum........ po.  15 
@ 
12
Apium (graveleons).  13@ 
15
Bird, ls.................... 
4® 
6
Cand.............po.  18  12® 
13
Cardamon...............   1  25®  1
Coriandrum.....
8® 10
4  @ 5
75® 1  00
10® 12
00® 10
@ 10
7® 9
4® 5
4V4@ 5
35® 40
4Vi@ 5
4‘/j@ 5
9@ 10
11® 12
Frumeuti, W. 1). Co. 2 00©  2 50 
Frumenti,  D. F. R..  2 00® 2 26
Frumenti................  1  25®  1  50
Juniperis Co. O. T...  1  65® 2 00
Junineris  Co..........   1  75© 3 50
Saacharum  N. E ...  1  90® 2  10
Spt. Vini Galli.........  1  75® 6 50
Vlni Oporto............  1  25® 2 00
Vini Alba................  1  25© 2 00

Dipterix Odorate...
Foeniculum............
Fcenugreek, po......
Lini............ ..........
Lini, grd......bbl. 4
Pharlaris Canarian.. 
Rapa......................

Spiritns

Sponges 
Florida sheeps’ wool
carriage...............  2 50© 2 75
Nassau sheeps’ wool
carriage................  2 60®  2 75
Velvet extra sheeps’
wool, carriage......  @  1  50
Extra yellow sheeps’
wool, carriage......  @  1  26
Grass  sheeps’  wool,
carriage...............   @  1  00
Hard, for slate use..  @  75 
Yellow  R eef,  for
slate use...............  @140
Syrups
Acacia....................  @  50
Aurantl Cortex........  @ 5 0
Zingiber..................  @  50
Ipecac.....................   @  60
Ferri Iod.................  @  50
Rhei Aram..............  @  50
Smilax  Officinalis...  60®  60
Senega....................  @  50
so
Scillae......................  

eh 

Miscellaneous 

dither, Spts. Nit.? F  30® 
dither, Spts. Nit. 4 F  34®
Alumen..................   214®
Alumen,  gro’d..po. 7 
3®
Annatto...................  40®
Antimoni, po..........  
4®
Antimoni et Pi  '
Potass T  40®
Antipyrin
Antifebril)  ...........
@
Argenti Nitras, oz.
®
Arsenicum...........
10®
Balm  Gilead  Buds
38®
Bismuth S. N..........   1  90@ 2 00
Calctum Chlor., is...  @
Calcium Chlor.,  54s..  @ 
10
Calcium Chlor.,  14s..  @ 
12
Cantharides.Rus.no  @  80 
Capsici Fructus, a t..  @ 
16
Capsici  Fructus, po.  @ 1 5
Capsici Fructus B, po  @  15
Caryophyllus.  po. 15 
12®  14
Carmine, No. 40......  @ 3 00
Cera Alba...............  50®  55
Cera  Flava..............  40®  42
Coccus  ...................  
®  40
Cassia Fructus.......   @  35
Centraria.................  @ 
10
Cetaceum................   @  45
Chloroform............  55@  60
Chloroform, squibbs  @  1  10 
Chloral Hyd Crst..,.  1  65@  1  90
Chondrus................  20©  25
Cinchonidine.P. & W  38@  48
Cinchonidine, Germ.  38®  48
Cocaine..................  7 06®  7 26
Corks, list, dis. pr. ct. 
70
Creosotum...............  @  35
Grata............bbl. 75  @  2
Creta, prep..............  @ 
5
Grata, precip..........  
9® 
11
Creta, Rubra..........   @ 
8
Crocus.................... 
is®  18
Cudbear..................  @  24
Cupri Sulph............   6V4®
Dextrine................. 
7®
Ether Sulph............  75@
Emery, all numbers.  @
Emery, po...............  @ 
6
Ergota..........po. 90  85@  90
Flake  White..........  
12®
Galla.......................  @
Gambler................. 
3®
Gelatin, Cooper......  @
Gelatin, French......  35®
75 &
Glassware,  flint, box 
Less than box......
Glue, brown............ 
n@
Glue,  white............ 
15@
Glycerina................   17 Vi®
Grana Paradis!.......   @
Humulus................   25®  85
Hydrarg Chlor  Mite  @ 1  00 
Hydrarg Chlor Cor..  @  90 
Hydrarg Ox Rub’m.  @ 1  10 
Hydrarg Ammoniati 
® 1  20 
HydrargUnguentum  50©  60
Hydrargyrum.........  @  86
Ichthyobolla, Am...  65@  70
Indigo.....................  76®  1  00
Iodine,  Resubl....... 3 85® 4 00
Iodoform.................  3 85® 4 00
Lupulln...................   @ 6 0
Lycopodium............   70®  75
Macls.....................   66®  75
Liquor Arsen et  Hy-
ararg Iod..............  @  26
10® 
LlquorPotassArsinit 
12
Magnesia,  Sulph__ 
2® 
3
Magnesia, Sulph, bbl 
®  lvi 
Mannta, S.  F ...........  60®  60

2 8

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

GROCERY  PRICE  CURRENT

Guaranteed  correct at time  of issue.  Not  connected 

with any jobbing house.

ADVANCED
Maple  Bowls
Egg Cases
Egg  Case  Piliers

DECLINED

Pickles
Round  H erring
Evaporated  Apples
Rolled  Oats

ALABASTINE

White in drums..................
Colors in drums..................
White in packages.............
Colors in packages..............
Less 40 per cent discount. 
AXLE GREASE
doz.  gro
*uror2 
..55 
6
7
Castor  Oil......... ........60 
Diamond..................... 50  4
Frazer’s .......................75  9
IXL Golden, tin boxes 75 
9

.........  

Acme

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

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

AMMONIA

BAKING  POWDER 

Arctic
Egg

94 lb. cans 3 doz.................  45
94 lb. cans 3 doz.................  75
l 
lb. cans l  doz.................l oo
Bulk.....................................  10
6 oz. Eng. Tumblers............   90
% lb. cans,  4 doz. case.......3 75
94 lb. cans,  2 doz. case.......3 75
1 lb. cans,  1 doz. case....... 3 75
5 lb. cans, 94 doz. case........8 00
5 lb. cans, 94 doz. in case__8 00
l lb. cans,  4 doz. in case__2 oo
9 oz. cans,  4 doz. in case__1  25
S oz. cans,  6 doz. in case__  75
M lb. cans per doz.............  75
14 lb. cans per doz.............l 20
l 
lb. cans per doz.............2 00
94 lb. cans, 4 doz. case.......   35
94 lb. cans, 4 doz. case.......   55
1 
lb. cans, 2 doz. case.......   90

The  “400”

£1  P urity

Home

JAXON

Queen  Flake

14 lb. cans, 4 doz. case........  45
14 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., l doz. case.......................9 00

Royal

10c size....  86 
14 lb. cans  1  30 
6 oz. cans,  l  80 
14 lb.  cans  2  40 
a lb. cans 3 60 
1 lb.  cans.  4 65 
31b. cans. 12 75 
5 lb. cans.21  00

BATH  BRICK

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

BLUING

C o n d e n s e d
B tu if f G

Small 3 doz..........................  -w
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 so

BROOMS

CANDLES

flectric Light, 8s ................12

lectric Light, 16s...............1294
Paraffine, 6s........................1094
Paraffine  12s ......................n
Kicking 
................20

.. 

CANNED  GOODS 

2 30

75®

Peas

Gooseberries

Blackberries

2 80
i8@20
22® 25
i  oo
i  80

Apples
3 lb. Standards........
Gallons, standards..
standards...............
Beans
Baked.....................   l  00@1  30
Bed  Kidney............  
85
String.....................
80
Wax........................
85
Blueberries
Standard...................
85
Clams.
Little Neck, l lb......
1  00 
Little Neck, 2 lb......
1  50
Cherries
Bed  Standards...........
85 
White.........................
1  15
Corn
Fair........................
75
Good.......................
85
Fancy....................
95
Standard................
90
Hominy
Standard.
85
Lobster
Star, 14 lb................
Star, 1  lb.................
Picnic Tails.............
Mackerel
Mustard, lib ...........
Mustard, 2 lb...........
Soused, lib ..............
Soused, 2 lb............
Tomato, 1 lb............
Tomato, 2 lb............
Mush rooms
Hotels....................... 
Buttons.................... 
Oysters
Cove, 1 lb................. 
Cove, 21b................. 
Peaches
P ie..........................
l  65@l  85
Yellow.................... 
Pears
Standard.................
70
Fancy......................
80
Marrowfat..............
1  00 
Early June..............
1  00 
Early June  Sifted..
1  60
Pineapple
i  25@2  76
Grated.................... 
Sliced.......................  1  35@2 55
Pum pkin
7o
F air......................... 
Good....................... 
75
85
Fancy.....................  
Raspberries
Standard.................. 
90
Salmon
Columbia Biver.......   2 00@2  15
Bed Alaska.............
Pink Alaska............
Shrimps
Standard................
Sardines
Domestic, 14s..........
Domestic, 94 s .........
Domestic,  Mustard.
California, 94s.........
French, 94s..............
French, 94s..............
Standard.................
85 
Fancy.....................
1  25
Succotash
Fair.... 
90 
Good.. 
1  00 
Fancy.
1  20
Tomatoes
Fair 
...............  
90
Good... 
...............  
95
Fancy.. 
-,............  
1  15
Gallons.
.............................. 2 45
CATSUP
Columbia,  pints................... 2 00
Columbia, 94 Pints................ 1 25
Acme
31294
Amboy...............
@1294
Carson City.........
@12
Elsie....................
@13
Emblem..............
@1294@1294
Gem....................
Gold Medal.........
@1194
Ideal..................
@ 12
Jersey.................
@1294
Riverside............
@12
Brick..................
14@15
Edam..................
@90
Leiden...............
@17
Limburger...........
13@14
Pineapple...............   50
Sap  Sago...............  
19@20
CHOCOLATE 

Strawberries

CHEESE

Waiter Baker & Co.’s.

Runkel Bros.

German  Sweet....................  23
Premium.............................  35
Breakfast Cocoa......................45
Vienna Sweet.................. 
21
Vanilla.............................     28
Premium..................  
'  31
CHICORY
Bulk...............................  
Bed............................... ;;;; 

?

COCOA

CIGARS

Webb................................ 
30
Cleveland.............................  41
Epps....................................  42
V an Houten, 94s..................  12
Van Houten, 94s..................  20
Van Houten, 94s..................  38
Van Houten,  is..................  70
Colonial, 94s  .......................  35
Colonial, 94s ........................   33
Huyler................................   45
Wilbur, 94s..........................  41
Wilbur. 94s..........................  42
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 ltegalia............ 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@  80 00
Boyal Tigerettos....... 35
Vincente Portuondo ..35@ 70 00
Ruhe Bros. Co............25@ 70 00
Hilson  Co.................. 35@110 00
T. J. Dunn & Co.........35@  70 00
McCoy & Co...............35®  70 00
The Collins Cigar Co.. 10@  35 00
Brown  Bros...............is®  70 00
Bernard Stahl Co....... 35@  90 00
Banner Cigar  Co....... io@  35 00
Seidenberg  & Co....... 55@125  00
Fulton  Cigar Co....... 10@  35 00
A. B. Ballard & Co... .35@175 00 
E. M. Schwarz & Co..  35@110 00
San Telmo..................35@  70 00
Havana Cigar Co........18@  35 00
C. Costello & Co.........35@  70 00
LaGora-Fee 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  OO

II. Van Tongeren’s Brand.

COFFEE
Roasted

_ 

HIGH GRADE

Coffees
Special Combination... 
French Breakfast.... 
Lenox .........
Vienna.......................
Private Estate...............
Supreme........................

....  20
....  25 
30
....  35
....  38 
....  40

Rio

Santos

Maracaibo

Less 3394  per cent.
Common.....................
F air......
Choice... 
Fancy...
Common
F air......
Choice... 
Fancy... 
Peaberry
F air......
Choice...
Mexican
Choice...
Fancy................... 
Choice... Guatem ala
African..
Fancy African...........
O. G...................
P. G. .... 
Arabian.. Mocha

Jav a

5

miz

...13
15

14
...16
...17
...13
...12
...16

it

...17
...29

P earl  Barley

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

Grits

Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s Brand.

Peas

Rolled  Oats

24 2 lb. packages................. 2
100 lb. kegs.......................... 3 00
200 lb. barrels......................5 70
100 lb. bags.......................... 2 90
Green, Wisconsin, bu..........1  30
Green, Scotch, bu.....................1 35
Split, bu...... ........................  3
Rolled Avena, bbl................3 85
Steel C ut,........................   4 00
Monarch, bbl.......................3 60
Monarch, 94 bbl....................... 1 95
Monarch, 90 lb. sacks..........1  75
Quaker, cases......................3 20
German...............................  -4
East India............................  394
Flake...................................  494
Pearl...................................   494
Pearl,  241 lb. packages......  694
Cracked, bulk......................   394
24 2 lb. 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

Tapioca

W heat

Sago

FOOTE & JENKS’

JAXON

Highest.  Grade  Extracts
Vanilla
Lemon
1 oz full  m.
2 oz full m. 1 
No.3fan’y.i  75

1 oz full m. 1  20
2 oz full m.2  10 
No. 3 fan’y. 3  15

Vanilla 

Lemon

2 oz panel  . 1  20  2 oz panel.  75
3 oz taper..2 00  4 oz taper.. 1  50

Jennings’

A rctic

2 oz  full meas. pure Lemon.  75 
2 oz. full meas. pure Vanilla. 1  20 
2 oz. oval Vanilla Tonka__  75
2 oz. oval Pure Lemon.......   75

Big  Value

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.
Valley City 94  gross..............  75
Felix 94 gross....................... 1  15
Hummers foil 94 gross........  86
Hummel’s tin 94 gross....... 1  43

E xtract

Substitutes

Crushed Cereal Coffee Cake

12 packages, 94 case.............1  75
3 50
24packages,  lease 
 
COCOA  SHELLS
20 lb. bags...................... 
294
Less quantity................. 
3
Pound packages............ 
4
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...............  95

CONDENSED  MILK

COUPON  BOOKS 

4 doz in case.
Gall Borden Eagle..............6 75
Crown..................................6 25
Daisy................................... 5 75
Champion........................... 4 50
Magnolia.............................4 25
Challenge............................4 00
Dime................................... 3 36
50 books, any  denom...  1  50 
100 books, any  denom...  2 50 
500 books,any  denom...  11 50
1.000 books, any  denom...  20 00 
Above quotations are for either
Tradesman, Superior, Economic 
or  Universal  grades.  Where
1.000 books are ordered at a time 
customer receives  sp ecially  
printed  cover  without  extra 
charge.

Apples

Credit  Checks 

Conpon  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.....................
CREAM TARTAR
5 and 10 lb. wooden  boxes......
Bulk in sacks....................... 29
DRIED  FRUITS—Domestic 
8 undried........................ @
Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes.  @6 
Apricots....................   @10
Blackberries..............
Nectarines.................
Peaches.....................  9  @11
Pears..........................
Pitted Cherries..........  
Prunnelles.................
Raspberries.............
-  California Prunes
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......

@ 594 
@ 6 
@ 694 
@
894
94 cent less in 50 lb. cases 

California  Frnitg

794

Raisins

Citron

Currants

London Layers 2 Crown.
London Layers 3 Crown.
2  15 
Cluster 4 Crown............
2 76
Loose Muscatels 2 Crown 
Loose Muscatels 3 Crown 
894
Loose Muscatels 4 Crown
L. M., Seeded, 1  lb  __ 1094® 11
L. M„ Seeded, 94  lb__  894®
DRIED   FRUITS—Foreign 
Leghorn..................................n
Corsican................................. 12
Patras, cases.......................
Cleaned, bulk......................<4
Cleaned, packages.............. 1494
Citron American 19 lb. bx... 13 
Lemon American 10 lb. bx.. 1094 
Orange American 10 lb. bx.. 1094 
Sultana 1 Crown.................
Sultana 2 Crown.................
Sultana 3 Crown..................
Sultana 4 Crown..................
Sultana 5 Crown..................
Sultana 6 Crown..................
Sultana package.................

Raisins

Feel

Beans

Cereals

FARINACEOUS GOODS 
Dried Lima.........................   694
Medium Hand Picked 2 00@2  10
Brown Holland...................
Cream of Cereal..................  90
Grain-O, small...................1  35
Grain-O, large....................2 25
Grape Nuts...........................1 35
I’os turn Cereal, small...........1 35
Postum Cereal, large.......  2 26
241 lb. packages..................1 25
Bulk, per too Tbs...................3 00
36  2 lb. packages........... 
. .3 00
Barrels.................................2 50
Flake, so 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

Standard

Perrigo’s

FLY  PA PER

Reg. 2 oz.  D. C. Lemon...
No. 4 Taper D. C. Lemon 
1  52 
Reg. 2 oz. 1). C.  Vanilla...
. 1  24 
No. 3 Ta|>er D. C. Vanilla 
.2 08
2 oz. Vanilla Tonka.............  70
2 oz. flat Pure Lemon..........   70
Van. 
1  20 
1  20 
2  00 
2 25
Lem.
doz.
75 
1  25

Northrop  Brand 
Lem.
2 oz. Taper Panel....  75
2oz. Oval.................  75
3 oz. Taper Panel.... 1  35
4 oz. Taper Panel.... 1 60 
Van. 
doz.
XXX, 2 oz. obert.... 1  25
XXX, 4 oz. taper__2 25
XX, 2 oz. obert....... 1  00
No. 2,2 oz. obert 
  75
XXX D Dptchr, 6oz 
2 25
XXX D D ptchr, 4 oz 
1  75
K.  P. pitcher. 6 oz..
2 25
’errlgo’s Lightning, gro.. .  2 50
’etrolatum, per doz............  75
Sage........................................ 15
Hops.......................................15
Madras, 5 lb. boxes................55
S. F., 2,3 and 5 lb. boxes.......50
Doz.
51b. pails........................   200
151b. pails...........................   40
301b. palls...........................   68
Pure....................................  30
Calabria..............................   25
Sicily...................................   14
Root....................................   10
ondensed. 2 doz............... 1  20
ondensed, 4 doz................2 25
Diamond Match Co.’s brands.
No.  9 sulphur.................... 1 65
Anchor Parlor...................1 50
No. 2 Home........................1 30
Export Parlor.....................4 00
Wolverine...........................1 50

JELLY
• 

LICORICE

MATCHES

INDIGO

HERBS

LYE

MOLASSES 
New  Orleans

Black................................  1294
F air.................................  
ir,
Good................................. 
20
Fancy.............................. 
  24
Open Kettle......................25@36

Half-barrels 2c extra 
MUSTARD

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

Satchel 
Bottom 
...  28 
...  34 
...  44 
...  54 
...  66
76
5 ....................  90
..1  06
6 
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.............4 60
Half bbls, 600 count.............2 75
Barrels, 2,400 count............5 50
Half bbls, 1.200 count..........3 30
Clay, No. 216..............................j 70
Clay, T. D., full count........  65
Cob, No. 3...........................   85

PIPES

POTASH 

48 cans In case.

Babbitt’s .....................  
Penna Salt Co.’s................. ["..'3 00

4  00

RICE 
Domestic

Carolina head.......................7
.  594
Carolina  No. 1 .............. 
arollna No. 2 ........ 
44?
Broken.........................'.'.'.'.'.45
Im ported.
Japan,  No.  1.................594@6
Japan,  No. 2.................494@6
Java, fancy head.......... 5  @594
Java, No. 1....................5  @
Table..............................   @

SALERATUS 

Packed 60 lbs. in box. 

Church’s Arm and Hammer. 3  is
Deland’s...............................   00
Dwight’s  Cow.....................’ ’ ” 3 16
Emblem................................... 2 10
.................................’."3  00
Sodio...................................     i6
Wyandotte, 100 94s...................3 00
SAL  SODA
Granulated,  bbls.........  
80
Granulated, 1001b. cases...  90
Lump, bbls.................... 
76
Lump, 146 lb. kegs............ 
go
Diamond Crystal 

SALT

Common  Grades

Table, cases, 24 3 lb. boxes.. l  40 
Table, barrels, 1003 lb. bags.2 86 
Table, barrels, 40 7  lb. bags.2 60 
Butter, barrels, 280 lb. butt.2 50 
Butter, barrels, 20 141b.bags.2 60 
Butter, sacks, 28 lbs... 
07
Butter, sacks, 66 lbs.........¿2
100 3 lb. sacks.......................     15
60 51b. sacks.......................    05
28 10 lb. sacks.................. ] 1  96
561b. sacks.......................  40
28  lb. sacks.......................  22
66 lb. dairy In drill bags......  30
28 lb. dairy in drill bags......   15
66 lb. dairy In linen sabks...  60 
56 lb. dairy in linen sacks...  60 
66 lb. sacks..........................  28
ranulated  Fine.................1  oa
Medium Fine.......................1  10

Ashton 
Higgins 
Solar Rock
Common

Warsaw

j  

.  SOAP

JAXON

Single box...........................3 00
5 box lots, delivered..........2 95
10 box lots, delivered......... 2 90
•¡AS. S  KIRK 8 CO.’S BRANDS.
American Family, wrp’d__ 3 ro
Home..................................2  80
Cabinet.......................... 
2 40
Savon............................. .".'2  80
White  Russian......................... 2 80
White Cloud............................. 4 00
Dusky Diamond, 50 6 oz.......2 00
Dusky Diamond, 50 8 oz.......2 50
Blue India, 100 94 lb.............3 00
Kirkoline................................. 3 50
Eos........................................ 65

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

100 big bars (labor saving). .3 60

SEARCH-LIGHT
SILVER

Single box................ 
3 00
Five boxes, delivered.......... 2 95
Scouring

Sapolio, kitchen, 3 doz.........2 40
Sapolio. hand, 3 doz............. 2 40
T-V, per gross......... ...........10 00

W ashing Tablets
120 samples free.

 

M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N

2 9

SALT  FISH 

Cod

Georges cured............  @ 4%
Georges  genuine........  @
Georges selected.......   @ 5k
Grand Bank.................  @4*
Strips or  bricks.........  e  @ 9
Pollock.......................  ® ‘SH
Strips......................................14
Chunks........................ 
[15

Halibut.

 

H erring

Holland white hoops,  bbl.  11  00 
Holland white hoopsKbbl.  6 00 
Holland white hoop,  keg.. 
80 
Holland white hoop mens. 
85
Norwegian.......................
Bound 100 lbs...................   3  15
Bound 40 lbs.....................  1  55
Scaled............................. 
Bloaters............................

16

Mackerel

Trout

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 50
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
No. 1100 lbs...................... 6 00
No. 1  40 lbs...................... 2 70
No. 1  10 lbs......................
76
No. 1  8 lbs......................
63
No. 1  No. 2 Fam
2 50
1  30
40
35
Anise 
9
Canary, Smyrna............... ..  4
Caraway  ......................... ..  8
Cardamon, Malabar......... ..60
Celery............................... .12
Hemp, Russian................. ■  4 hi
Mixed Bird....................... ■  4hi
Mustard, white................
.  9
Poppy...............................
.10
Rape................................
.  4*4
Cuf tie Bone...... ................
.15

100  lbs...........  7 25  7  00
40 lbs..........   3 20  3  10
10 lbs..........  
88 
85
8 lbs...........  73 
71
SEEDS

.......................

White fish

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................  
35
Pepper, Singapore, black.  15K 
Pepper,  Singagore, white. 
23
Pepper, shot.....................   16K
P ure Ground In B ulk
Allspice...........................
Cassia, Batavia.................
Cassia, Saigon..................
Cloves, Zanzibar...............
Ginger, African...............
Ginger, Cochin................
Ginger,  Jamaica.............
Mace.................................
Mustard...........................
Pepper, Singapore, black. 
Pepper, Singapore, white.
Pepper, Cayenne.............
Sage.................................

STARCH

Klngsford’s  Corn

40 l-lb. packages...............  6K
20 l-lb. packages...............  olí
6 lb. packages............... 
7K
Kings ford's Silver Gloss
7
7%

40 l-lb. packages...............  
61b. boxes....................... 

Common Corn

Common Gloss

20 l-lb.  packages..............  4%
40 l-lb.  packages..............  4*4
l-lb. packages..................   4K
3-lb. packages..................   4K
6-lb. packages.................. 
5
40 and 50-lb. boxes............ 
3k
barrels............................. 
3*
STOVE  POLISH

No. 4,3 doz In case, gross..  4 so 
No. 6,3 doz In case, gross..  7 20

WICKING

Rub-No-More, 100 12 oz .. ...3 50
No. 0, per gross............... ...20
No. *, per gross............... ...25
No. ?, per gross............... ...36
No. 3. per gross............... ...66

SNUFF

SODA

SUGAR

Scotch, in bladders.............   37
Maccaboy, in jars...............   35
French Rappee, in jars__ _  43
Boxes..................................  514
Kegs, English....................... 4M
Below  are  given  New  York 
prices  on  sugars,  to  which  the 
wholesale dealer adds  the  local 
freight from New York  to your 
shipping point, giving you credit 
°n  the  invoice  for  the  amount 
of freight  buyer  pays  from  the 
market  in  which  he  purchases 
to his  shipping  point,  including 
20 pounds for the weight  of the 
barrel.
Domino............................  e  00
Cut Loaf...................  
6  15
Crushed................. 
’  6  16
Cubes...............................  5  90
Powdered........................  b 85
Coarse  Powdered.  ...
5 85 
XXXX Powdered......
5 90 
Standard  Granulated.
5  75 
Fine Granulated..........
5 75 
Coarse Granulated......
5 86
Extra Fine Granulated
5 85
Conf.  Granulated........
6  00 
2 lb.  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, Windsor A.......
5 35 
No.  3, Ridgewood A....... .........
5 35
No.  4, Phoenix  A..............  530
No.  5, Empire A...............   525
No.  6................................  5  20
No.  7................................  5  10
No.  8................................  6 00
No.  9...............................   4  90
No. 10...............................   4  85
No. 11................................  4 go
No. 12...............................   4  75
No. 13................................  4  75
No. 14..............................   4 70
No. 15.....................  
4  70
No. 16................................  4 70
SYRUPS

Corn

Barrels........................... 
;g
Half bbls...................!."...” 20
1 doz. 1 gallon cans.......... .  3  10
1 doz. K gallon cans............1  75
2 doz. *  gallon cans............   90
Pair-...................................  16
Good...................................  20
Choice...................... .***“   25

Pure  Cane

TABLE  SAUCES
LEA  &  
PER RIN S’ 
SAU CE

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
Willow Clothes, small........ 5 50
No. 1 Oval, 260 in crate.......1  80
No. 2 Oval, 250 in crate.......2 00
No. 3 Oval, 250 in crate.......2 20
No. 6 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 1b. cotton mop heads__  1  25
Pails
hoop Standard.1  50
2- 
hoop Standard.1  70
3- 
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-inch, 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  75
Double Acme...................... 2 76
Single Acme........................2 26
Double Peerless..................3 20
Single  Peerless................... 2 50
Northern Queen................ 2 50
Double Duplex................... 3 00
Good Luck........................ 2 75
Universal............................ 2 26
11 in. Butter........................   75
13 in. Butter.......................1 00
15 in. Butter........................ 1 78
17 in. Butter........................ 2 50
19 in. Butter........................ 3 00
Assorted 13-15-17................. 1  75
Assorted 15-17-19  ............... 2 50
Magic, 3 doz........................1 00
Sunlight, 3 doz.....................1  00
Sunlight, lhi  doz.................  50
Yeast Cream, 3 doz..............1  00
Yeast Foam, 3  doz______ 1  00
Yeast Foam, IK  doz...........  50

YEAST  CAKE

Wash  Boards

Wood  Bowls

Crackers

Grains and Feedstuffs 
W heat............................. 
73

W heat

W inter W heat  Flour 

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 25
Subject  to  usual  cash 
dis­
count.
Flour in bbls., 25c per  bbl. ad­
ditional.
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand
Diamond Ks.....................   3 85
Diamond * s .....................  3 85
Diamond !4s.....................  3 85
Quaker ks........................  3 90
Quaker 14s........................  3 90
Quaker Ks........................  3 90
Clark-Jewell-Wells  Co.’s  Brand
Pillsbury’s  Best k s .........  4 75
Pillsbury’s  Best 14s.........  4 66
Pillsbury’s  Best Ks.........  4  55
Pillsbury’s Best ks paper.  4 55 
Pillsbury’s Best ks paper.  4 55 
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand
Duluth  Imperial 14s........   4 50
Duluth  Imperial ks........   4 40
Duluth  Imperial Ks........   4 30
Lemon & Wheeler Co.’s Brand
Wingold  k s ...................   4 60
Wingold  k s ....................  4 50
Wingold  Ks....................  4 40
Ceresota k s .....................   4 65
Ceresota 14s....................  4 65
Ceresota k s .....................  4  45
Laurel  k s ........................   4 60
Laurel  14s........................   4 50
Laurel  Ks........................   4 40
Laurel its and *s paper..  4  40 
Washburn-Crosby  C’o.’s  Brand.

Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand

Olney & Judson’s Brand

1 ! ^  

^

W/SaMRK crassrcoS. 

COLO  M U M .

The Original and 
Genuine 
Worcestershire.
Lea & Perrin’s, large.......   3 76
Lea & Perrin’s, small......  2 50
Halford, large..................  3 75
Halford, small..................  2 25
Salad Dressing, large......  4 55
Salad Dressing, small......  2 76

TEA
Japan

Sundried, medium..............28
Sundried, choice.................30
Sundried, fancy...................40
Regular, medium................28
Regular, choice..................30
Regular, fancy................... 40
Basket-tired, medium......... 28
Basket-fired, choice.............35
Basket-fired, fancy..............40
Nibs..................... 
27
Siftings.......................... 19@21
Fannings....................... 20@22

 

Gunpowder

Oolong

Young Hyson

English Breakfast

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
India
Ceylon, choice.....................32
Fancy....................  
42
TOBACCO
Scotten Tobacco Co.’s Brands.
Sweet Chunk plug..............34
Cadillac tine cut..................57
Sweet Loma tine 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, Silver................11
WASHING  POWDER

VINEGAR

 

The  National  Biscuit  Co. 

8

Soda

Oyster

B utter

Sweet Goods—Boxes

quotes as follows:
Seymour..........................  6
New York........................   6
Family.............................   6
Salted..............................   6
Wolverine........................  
tsy,
Soda  XXX.......................  6V4
Soda, City........................   8
Long Island Wafers.........  12
Zephyrette.......................  10
Faust................................ 
7*4
Farina.................................  6
Extra Farina 
................   6%
Saltine 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.....................  
Cream Crisp.....................  10
Crystal Creams................   10
Cubans.............................  11*4
Currant  Fruit..................   12
Frosted Honey.................  12
Frosted Cream.................  9
Ginger Gems, lg. or  sm...  8
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
Imperials.........................  8
Jumbles, Honey...............  12
Lady Fingers....................  12
Lemon  Wafers.................  16
Marshmallow..................  16
Marshmallow Walnuts__  16
Mary  Ann........................ 
8
Mixed Picnic....................  11K
Milk Biscuit.....................   7K
Molasses  Cake.................  8
Molasses Bar...................   9
Moss Jelly Bar.................  12k
Newton.............................  12
Oatmeal Crackers............ 
8
Oatmeal Wafers...............  12
Orange Crisp...................   9
Orange  Gem.................... 
8
Penny Cake.......................  8
Pilot Bread, XXX............ 
754
Pretzels, hand  made.......   7K
Sears’ Lunch....................  7K
Sugar Cake.......................  8
Sugar Cream, XXX......... 
8
Sugar Squares................   8
Sultanas...........................  13
Tutti  Frutti.....................   16
Vanilla Wafers.................  16
Vienna Crimp..................  
8

Meal

Feed  and  MillstuOfe

Prices  always  right. 
Write or wire Mussel* 
man  Grocer  Co.  for 
special quotations.
Bolted..............................   2 00
Granulated.......................  2  20
St. Car Feed, screened__  17 75
No. 1 Corn and  Oats.......   17 26
Unbolted Com  Meal.......   17  25
Winter Wheat Bran.........  14 00
Winter Wheat  Middlings.  15 00
Screenings.......................  14  00
Com, car  lots..................   42
Less than car lots............
Car  lots............................  26k
Car lots, clipped...............  28*
Less than car lots............
No. 1 Timothy car lots.
No. 1 Timothy ton lots.

11  00
12  00

Corn

Oats

Hay

® 6k 
@ 5K 
@  8

Hides  and  Pelts
The Cappon & Bertsch Leather 
Co., 100 Canal Street,  quotes as
follows:
]
Green  No. 1. 
Green  No. 2. 
Cured  No. l. 
Cured  No. 2.
Calfskins.green No. 2
Calfskins,cured No. 1
Calfskins .cured No. 2
Pelts
Pelts,  each..............
Lamb.......................
Tallow
No. 1........................
No. 2........................
Wool
Washed, fine..........
Washed,  medium...
Unwashed,  fine......
Unwashed, medium.
Oils
Barrels
Eocene.....................
@11K
@10
Perfection.................
XXX W.W. Mich. Hdlt  @10
W. W. Michigan......
@ 9K
Diamond White........
@ 9
D., S.  Gas.................
@11 k
Deo. Naphtha...........
@10k
Cylinder.................... 29  @34
Engine..................... 19  @22
Black, winter............ @11*

@ 6K
@ 9
@ 7K
50@1  25
...25®  50
@ 3k
@ 2k
18@20
22@24
12@14
16® IS

Fresh  Meats

Beef

10k@   11

@  104 
@  10

@10
8  @ 9

Dry  Salt  Meats

Smoked  Meats 

@  !5i4
@  11K
@  9

@14 25 
@14 00 
@14 00 
@16 00 
®@14  25 
91%

Carcass............ ......   6k@ 8
Forequarters.........  6k@ 6
hi® 9 
-  ~
Hindquarters.......... 
Loins No. 3............
9  @14 
Ribs........................
9  @12 
Rounds.....................
@  7 hi 
ChucKs...................
5K@ 6 
Plates .....................
4  @ 5
Pork
Dressed..................
®   6 
Loins......................
®   8*4 
Boston  Butts..........
®  7-a 
Shoulders...............
®  7% 
Leaf  Lard...............
®   8 K
Mutton
Carcass...................
7  ®  7% 
Spring Lambs.........
Veal
Carcass...................
___ Provisions
Barreled  PorlF
Mess........................
Back.....................
Clear back...............
Short cut...............
Pig..........................
Bean........................
Family Mess............
Bellies.....................
Briskets..................
Extra shorts............
Hams, 12 lb. average. 
Hams, 14 lb. average. 
Hams, 161b. average. 
Hams, 20 lb. average.
Ham dried  beef......
Shoulders (N. Y. cut)
Bacon, clear............
California hams......
Boneless  hams.......
Boiled Hams..........
Picnic Boiled Hams
Berlin  Hams.........
Mince Hams
Compound...............
Kettle......................
Vegetole .  ............
60 lb. Tubs.. advance 
80 lb. Tubs.. advance 
50 lb. Tins... advance 
20 lb. Pails, .advance 
10 lb. Pails..advance 
5 lb. Pails.. advance 
3 lb. Pails.. advance 
Sausages
Bologna..................
Liver.......................
Frankfort...............
P ork.......................
Blood......................
Tongue...................
Beef
Extra Mess.............
10 75
Boneless..................
11  50
Rump.................
11  50
Pigs’  Feet
y* bbls., 40 lbs.........
1 GO
!4 bbls., 80 lbs.........
3 50
Tripe
Kits, 15  lbs..............
70
hi bbls., 40 lbs.........
1  25
hi bbls., 80 lbs.........
2 25
Casings
ro rK .....................
20
Beef rounds.........
3
Beef middles..........
10
Sheep..................
60
B utterine
Solid, dairy..............  12K@13K
Kolls, dairy..............  13 @14
Rolls,  creamery__
19
Solid, creamery......
18K
Corned beef, 2 lb__
2 75
Corned beef, 14 lb ...
17 50
Roast beef, 2 lb.......
2 75
Potted ham,  k s ......
50
Potted ham,  Ks......
90
Deviled ham, k s __
50
Deviled ham,  k s __
90
Potted tongue,  ks..
50
Potted tongue,  Ks..
90

Lards—In Tierces

Canned  Meats

Fish  and  Oysters

Fresh  Fish

Candies
Stick Candy

bbls.  pails 

Mixed Candy

Fancy—In Bulk 

@ 8
@  8 
® Shi 
® 9 
cases 
@ 7hi 
@ 10*4 
@10 
@  8
@  6 K 
@ 7 
®  7%. 
® 8* 
@ 8K 
®
® 8k 
@ 9 
@  9 
@ 9 
® 9 K 
@ 10
@15*/,
@13

Standard.........
Standard H. H . 
Standard  Twist 
Cut Loaf...........
Jumbo, 32 lb...
Extra H. H __
Boston Cream. 
Beet Root.......
Grocers...................
Competition...
Special................
Conserve......... 1""
Royal............  ......
Ribbon............* **”
Broken............
Cut Loaf.........
English Rock.." ."!’ 
Kindergarten...
French Cream...
Dandy Pan..............
Hand  Made  Cream
mixed..................
Crystal Cream mix.!
San Bias Goodies..
Lozenges, plain__
Lozenges, printed..
Choc. Drops........
Eclipse Chocolates..’.
Choc. Monumentals.
Gum Drops..........
Moss  Drops......
Lemon Sours.........
Imperials............ . \\
Ital. Cream Opera ".
Ital. Cream Bonbons
20 lb. pails........
Molasses  Chews,  is
lb. pails..........
Pine Apple Ice...’.’!.’
Maroons............
Golden Waffles......
Lemon  Sours..
Peppermint Drops'.
Chocolate  Drops__
H. M. Choc. Drops 
H. M.Choc.  Lt. and
Gum Drops......" " "
Licorice  Drops!......
Lozenges,  plain.
Lozenges, printed...
Imperials............
Mottoes..................
Cream  Bar....!.”.’.!!
Molasses Bar........”
Hand Made Creams.
7K  Cream Buttons, Pep!
and  Wlnt.......   v
7U- 
String Rock__
Wlntergreen Berries 
Caramels
No. 1 wrapped,  3 lb.
Penny Goods!!.’!!!"
Fruits
_ 
Oranges
Fancy Navels  ......
Extra Choice...........
Late Valencias.........
Seedlings.................
Medt. Sweets..........
Jamaicas...............
Rodi....................’
Lemons

@12 
@ 9K 
@10 
@iik @14 
@14 
@ 5 
@ 9K 
@10 
@10 
@12
@12
@14
@1-JK
@12
@12
Fancy—In 5 lb. Boxes 
@56
@60
@65
@80
@90
@30
@75
@55
@60
@60
@60
@55
@55
@90
@65
@65
@60

@50
55@60

@@5  00

Dk. No. 12........

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

Messina, 300s..........  4  oo@6 00
Messina, 360s..........   3  5j(g4 50
California 360s........   3  so@4 25
California 300s.............4 oo@4 go
Medium bunches__  1  75@2 00
Large  bunches........  2  00@2 25

Bananas

Figs

Foreign  Dried F ruits 
Californias,  Fancy.. 
@
Cal. pkg, 10 lb. boxes  @
Extra  Choice,  10  lb.
boxes,..................  
Fancy, 12 lb. boxes.. 
Pulled, 61b. boxes... 
Naturals, in bags.... 

@j2
@13
@
@

Per lb. 
%  10

White fish.........
Trout...........................   @
Black Bass..................  9@
Halibut........................  @
Ciscoes or Herring__  @
Bluetish.......................  @
Live  Lobster...............   @
Boiled  Lobster..........   @
Cod..............................   @
Haddock.....................   @
No. 1 Pickerel..............  @
Pike.............................  @
Perch...........................  @
Smoked  White..........   @
Red  Snapper...............   @
Col River  Salmon
Mackerel.................. 

@  13
_
Oysters  in  Bulk.
Pe
gal.
Counts..............................
Ext.  Selects.....................
1  60
Selects............................
1  40
Standards...........................1  10
Oysters in Cans
F. H. Counts...........
F. J. D. Selects........
Selects ....................
F. J. D. Standards..
Anchors..................
Standards...............
Favorite..................
Shell Goods.
Clams, per 100............

100 
100

@
@
@ 5
@ 5
@ 5

Fards in 10 lb. boxes 
Fards in 60 lb. cases. 
Persians,  P. H. V ... 
lb.  cases, new......  
Bairs, 60 lb. cases.... 
Nuts
Almonds, Tarragona
Almonds,  Ivlca......
Almonos, California,
soft shelled..........
Brazils,....................
Filberts 
...............
Walnuts  (4 renobles.
Walnut-. soft shelled 
California No. 1...
Table Nuts, fancy..
Table  Nuts, choice..
Pecs is,  Med...........
Pecans, Ex. Large...
Pecans, Jumbos......
Hickory Nuts per bu.
Ohio,  new............
Cocoanuts, full sacks 
Chestnuts, per bu ...
Peanuts
Fancy, H. P., Suns.. 
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Flags
Choice, H. P., Extras 
Choice, H. P„ Extras
Roasted...............  
Span. Shelled No. 1..  7%®  8

Roasted...............   6K@ 7
@ 
@

5k@

3 0

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Petting  the  People

Confining  Styles  in  Type  to  the  Needs  of 

Business.

I  remember  in  the  early  days  of  the 
great  newspaper  there  were  a  few 
like 
the  New  York  Herald  which  would  not 
admit  any  display  type  to  their columns 
except  two  line  letter  for  the  initials  of 
want  advertisements.  Compared  with 
the  display  of  the  present,  such  a  paper 
presents  a  strange  appearance;  but  it 
is  a  question  whether the  change  to  the 
admission  of  so  much  that  is  outlandish 
and  ugly  is  much  of  an  improvement.  I 
recollect  that  in  the  display  of  capitals 
and  white  space  there  was  a  remark­
able  degree  of  clearness,  and  certainly 
the  page  as  a  whole  could  not  be  unfa­
vorably  compared  with  much  of  the 
modern  method  of  display.  There  was 
a  harmony  of  design  and  a  dignified 
appearance  of  plain  statement  which 
was  much  more  pleasing 
the 
conglomerations  of  the  present.  And  it 
is  to  be  noted  that  the  best  practice 
in 
display  approaches  more  nearly  to  the 
early  idea.  Of  course,  there  was  not 
a  scientific  plan  of  advertisement  writ­
ing,  proportioning  and  display— the  art 
was  crude  then— but  from  the  force  of 
limitation  to  one  style  the  general  re­
sult  was  made  better  than  the  crude 
mixture  of  later  days.

than 

in 

For  many  years  the  idea  of  harmony 
in  design  as  to  type  faces,  rules,  bor­
ders,  etc.,  has  been  recognized 
job 
printing,  although  the  practice  has  not 
deferred  to  it  as  fully  as  it  might.  The 
advertisement  compositor  has  been  still 
more  slow 
in  adopting  it.  For a  long 
time  there  were  certain  cast  iron  rules 
of  display  which  made 
it  practically 
impossible  to  handle  copy  which  must 
be  followed  as  set  down,  without the  use 
of  type  of  varying  extensions.  The 
principal  thought,  after  deciding  upon 
the  heaviness  of  the  main  display  lines, 
was  how  to  make  the  lines  of  a  certain 
fixed 
length.  To  meet  this  require­
ment  a  guess  was  made  as  to  what 
would  make  the  line,  without  regard  to 
style,  and  if  it  was  found  that  a  fit  did 
not  result  from  the  first  trial,  something 
else,  entirely  different,  was  taken,  and 
so  on  until  it  “ came 
in .”   The  result 
was  a  balanced  display,  but  a  mixture 
of  designs  fatal  to  artistic  effect.

In  the  modern  development  of  type 
designing  it  has  been  found  that  each 
series  of  new 
letter  faces,  to  be  made 
complete,  must  have  a  corresponding 
condensed  and  expanded  series.  At  first 
glance  this  would  seem  to  greatly  in­
crease  the  quantity  of  letter  faces neces­
sary  for  an  advertising  outfit,  but  while 
is  doubtless  some  increase,  it  is 
there 
not  very  great;  that 
is,  to  produce  a 
corresponding  result,  for  in  the  old  days 
it  was  necessary  to  lay  in  a  great  num­
ber  of  styles  to  get  material  to  meet  the 
cast  iron  demands  of  display  and  length 
of  lines.  Now  an  advertising  office  may 
be  made  complete  without  the  neces­
sity  of  drawing  upon  every  school  of 
design  that  has  ever  contributed  to  the 
typographic  art.  One  consequence  of 
the  great  diversity  of  adaptation  in  the 
new  designs  is  that  an  advertising  out­
fit  may  be  complete  and  have  an 
indi­
viduality  in  design.

Of  course,  the  demands  of  an  exten­
sive  advertising  plant may  make  it  nec­
essary  to  put  in  a  great  variety  of  de­
signs  in  type  faces,  ornaments  and  bor­
is  not  necessary  or  desir­
ders;  but 
able 
In 
fact,  the  variety  of  design  in  the 
large 
plant  is  an  obstacle  to  good  results  un-

in  a  small  or  medium  plant. 

it 

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...SOMETHING  NEW. ..

Double  Wear  Rubbers

Manufactured  by  Lycoming  Rubber  Co.

They give  men  and  ladies double  wear on the  H E E L ,  where  they 
nearly  always  give  out  first,  and  Boys’.  Youths’,  Misses’  and  Chil­
dren s double wear on  toe and  heel

A  New  Line  of  Gentlemen’s 

Fine  Shoes.

Don t  forget the Whang  Leather  Shoes  for hard  wear,  mud  and  wet.
Just  received,  our fall  Tine  of  Drew,  Selby  &  Co’s  make  of  Ladies- 
Misses  and  Children’s  Shoes,  made  expressly  for  us.  They  are  the 
the  nobbiest  shoe  we  can  buy  for  the  money.
P*®* ?Tear’  n'ces* 
J

Call  and  see  them  all. 

P H  IN  S M IT H .

¡ ^ “ Unsurpassed  in  merit  by any cereal  food. 
I S 1" Lower  in  price  than others.
I2P"Makes dishes fit to set before a king.
£ ^ ” A trial is sure to make you a regula customer.

Walsh-De Roo
Wheat  Grits.

Nutritious—Delicious—Easily  cooked.

BUY  GROCERIES

Where you know you  will get absolute­
ly  the best quality of goods.  You can’t 
afford  to buy  iioor food,  no mutter how 
cheap,  and  when yon can got  the  best 
at the same prices,  it  pays you  well  to 
be on  your guard.  Our  goods  are  al­
ways fresh,  clean  and  pure. 
If  you 
find  them otherwise,  our  cash  register 
will  work  backwaiil and the  money  is 
yours for the asking.  We want to give 
you the best actual  value for your mon­
ey  of any grocery in  Nashville.

OurChiua  display 
Have you seen  it?

; enticing.

E.  B.  Townsend  &  Co.

Trust 
Not  In

Leaky  Pockets

It  is  wasteful  economy to  try  to  get  along 
without a pocket book  or  purse.  Pockets  can 
easily  leak  as  much  as  a  money  holder  will 
cost, and they often leak more.  A good pocket 
book or purse does not cost a great  deal  if  you 
get it here. 
It lasts a long time and is a source 
of saving and satisfaction while it lasts.

We have all sorts of pocket books.
Can suit you as to style, size, 
quality and price. 
. 

• 

.

VERY  OFTEN

I  hear  people  sat  they  will  not  wear 
fffasKPs because they are not  beoomiag 
to them.  They  have  tried them oa a 
great many times but they never look­
ed  well  in  them.  The trouble is they 
have never tried the right kind  W hat 
looks  well  on  some  faces  may  be  ms* 
becoming on others.  There are
tW  Glasses  and  Glasses.**E$
They  are  made  with  oval  springs. 
Grecian  springs,  bar  springs,  square 
springs.  There  are  plain guards, off­
set  guards,  fan  guards  ana  hundred« 
of others.  There are straight temples, 
full  riding  and  half  riding  templet, 
and small  lenses, a thousand  different 
styles and combinations.  I  have given 
considerable  study 
to  this  subject. 
W ith  my  experience  I can aid  you  in 
selecting  the  most  becoming  shapes. 
1  know  I  can  give  you  glasses  that 
look well and are suited to your face.
W.  F. GUILE & SON.
MONEY  REFUNDED

F o r every  cane  of  Scalp 
Disease  th a t  th e

Standard Balm 

and  Soap
w. J .  HOLLOW A V  and 
W .  H.  GOODYEAR.

Does  Not  Cure, 

Made  to  Order

Glasses

J T  
f v f   order  glasses 
A  

The  complete  satisfaction  and 
comfort  given  by  our  made-to* 
is  making  ear 
optical  department  daily  more 
popular,  because  the  frames  fit 
so  perfectly  and  they  are  more 
becoming  than  ill-fitting,  ready 
the  price 5a 
no  more  than for tufcrinr goodb.

JL  made  goods,  ami 

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A. Ii.  FEXER .
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Specialty. 
J e w e le r-O p tic ia n , 
.
Good 
W ttch  Repairing.  7 2   M «m   S t m t

_  

Fur  Garments

We carry  a full  line  of  Domestic 
and  Imported  Furs  from  which 
we  fill  orders  on  short  notice, 
eith er for  ladies  or  geollemen 

W e Can Repair

your worn o r out  o f style  furs  so 
they  will  look  like new  ones,  and 
th e expense is small.  A t any  rate 
call and see our fine furs.

WESTERN  FUR  MFRS.

I f  y o u   w a n t 

to  

liv e 

y e a rs  
y o u   m u st  b u ild  
s tro n g   e n d u rin g  b o d y   b y

to o  
a 

Eating

HealthfuL

foods

and such being the  case you can­
not  afford .to.  trade  elsewhere, 
when such goods are  offered  to

Lyman’s  Book  Store.

T U B .  C O M M E R C I A L .  B A N K .

itb  the  larger  ones.

I N T E R E S T   R A I D   s t the  rate  of  «  p er  eear. 
aIO N B V   L O A N E D   on  real  estate  and  good  collateral  securities.

W JV f.  R   S A N D B L .L ,.  C a s h ie r .

L F .  ATCHISON

T he  U p-to-date Grocer.

We Haye Closed  Onr Soda 
Business for the 
Season

lee 
b at  w ill  contlnne  to   m ake 
cream and lees for clty delivery eil 
w lnter;  also  lee  cream  can  be  oh» 
talned  ln  bolk,  by 
th e  plnt  e r 
q e a r t  a s  osnal,  e t onr drug  störe.
EILENBÜRG  T   REYNOLDS

MUMISTS

less 
in  the  hands  of  a  man  of  good 
judgment 
and  sufficient  experience. 
For  the  smaller  outfits,  careful,  system­
atic  selection  along  the  line  of  certain 
most  suitable  styles  will  give  a  compar­
atively  small  number  of  founts  and  yet 
enough  to  meet  the  needs  of  the  work. 
With  such  an  outfit  a  compositor  who  is 
familiar  with  the  principles  of  adver­
tisement  setting— and  no one else should 
undertake  this  work— can  produce  as 
strong  and  artistic  a  result  as  though  he 
had  access  to  the  greater  variety;  and, 
unless  he 
is  prepared  by  a  wider  ex­
perience  or study,  the  result  of  his  work 
will  he  better.

In  succeeding  articles  I  shall  take  up 
some  of  the  features  of  advertising  de­
sign,  such  as  the  new  principles  of  dis­
play,  unity and  individuality  in  design, 
borders  and  ornaments,  etc.

should  be 

The  advertisement  of  Phin  Smith  is 
evidently  the  work  of  one  who  does  ad­
vertisement  writing  in  addition  to  other 
duties  which  leave  but  little  time  to  at­
tend  to  details  of  expression.  The  ad­
vertisement 
is  generally  well  written, 
but  the  use  of  “ men  and  ladies”   in first 
paragraph 
the  same  as 
“ Boys’,  Youths’,  Misses'  and  Chil­
dren’s ; ’ ’  that  is,  should  be  capitalized 
and  have  the  possessive.  Men  and 
ladies,  used  together,  is  not  good  taste 
unless  they  are  intended  to  designate  a 
kind  of  goods  as  the  other  names  do. 
The displayed  line of gentlemen’s shoes, 
in  this  kind  of  an  advertisment  would 
seem  to  demand  that  something  be  said 
about  them. 
“ They  are  the  best  wear, 
nicest  fit  and  nobbiest  shoe”   is  a  very 
in  the  trade  expres­
common  mistake 
sion,  but 
is  not  correct.  The  sen­
tence  would  be  stronger  and  it  would be 
is  the  best 
better  English  to  say,  “ It 
wear,”   etc. 
“ Call  and  see  them  all”  
rounds  out  the  wording  euphonically, 
hut  customers  are  more  likely  to  be 
in­
terested 
in  seeing  the  goods  they  are 
apt  to  need.  The  display 
fairly 
good,  but  the  periods  should  have  been 
left  off  the  “ Something  New”   line.

is 

it 

The  Walsh-DeRoo  M illing  Co.  has  an 
jyhich  aptly  expresses 
advertisement 
something 
likely  to  interest  the  buyer 
readably  and  well.  The  amount  of  mat­
ter  is  well  proportioned  to the space and 
the  display  is  good.

C.  B.  Townsend  &  Co.  show  a  care­
fully  considered  advertisement,  which is 
above  the  average  in  both  writing  and 
composition.  Uhe  urging  of  quality, 
instead  of  cheapness,  is  becoming  more 
and  more  effective. 
I  think  the  s  yle 
of  the  border  might  be  improved  and 
yet 
it  makes  a  striking  advertisement 
which  catches  the  eye.

Lyman’s  Book  Store  is 

in  a  mourn­
ing  border,  but 
is  well  displayed  and 
will  gain  attention.  There  is  a  ques­
tion  whether  the  reference 
leaky 
pockets will  strike  most people pleasant­
ly.  There  is  in  it  a  little  too  much  sug­
gestion  of  shahbiness,  and  not  every 
one  likes  to  be  called  shabby.  An  ad­
vertisement  must  be  a  pleasant  invita­
tion  to  the  store, to  do  the  best  work.

to 

The  Commercial  Bank  gives  a  digni 
fied  little  advertisement  which  is  mod­
estly  and  well  composed.  The  use of the 
same  style 
in  all  display  is  good  and 
the  type  sizes  are  well  selected.

The  advertisement  of  W.  F.  Guile  & 
Son  is  generally  well  written,  but  while' 
the  compositor  has 
evidently  taken 
care with his work,  there are some things 
he  could  do  better.  The  display 
line 
“ Very  Often”   should  have  been  small­
er and  the  dash  below  it  omitted.  The 
“ phists”   have  no  place  in the  “ Glasses 
and  Glasses”   display  line.  The  use  of

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31

the  singular  personal  pronoun  in  a  firm 
of  more  than  one  member  strikes  the 
reader  as  a  little  strange.

I  have  never  been  inclined  to  favor 
the  "m oney  refunded"  idea  as  in  Hol­
loway  &  Goodyear’s  advertisement,  for 
it  seems  better to  have  no  question  as 
to  the  claims  of  an advertisement.  The 
return  of  the  money  is  a  small  matter 
to  the  disappointment  of  failing  in  the 
cure.  The  offer  will  not 
induce  as 
many  people  to  buy  as  a  strong  claim 
for^the  remedy  which  may  be  made 
if 
it  deserves  it.  I  never  liked  the  border, 
for  to  the  average  eye 
its  roughness 
seems  an  imperfection.

A.  L.  Fexer  writes  an  attractive  ad-j 
vertisement,  but  some  of  the  statements 
might  be  improved. 
"T h e   price  is no 
more  than  for  inferior  goods" should  be 
modified,  to  have  any  meaning,  as  " is  
no  more  than  is  often  charged  for  in­
ferior  goods."  As  a  general  rule,  in­
ferior  goods  are  sold  at 
lower  prices 
than  the  other  kind. 
In  the  display  the 
ornaments  are  too  heavy  and  the  words 
"Specialty  Good”   should  have  been 
omitted  and  "W atch”   put  above  " R e ­
pairing. ”

Western  Fur  Manufacturers  write  a 
is  com­
careful  advertisement,  which 
posed  with  good judgment.  The  change 
of  sense  and  the  expression,  " a t  any 
rate,  call  and  see  our  fine 
furs, " a r e  
weak'.

R.  Guy  Brownson,  a  striking  ex­

ample  of  overloaded  border.

J.  F.  Atchison  shows  a well-displayed 
and  attractively-written  advertisement.
I  note  the  careless  punctuation  which 
puts  a  comma  before  the  relative  and 
omits  it  after  "stron g.”

Eilenburg  &  Reynolds  show  a  well- 
written  and  well-displayed  advertise­
ment. 
It  should  not  run  too  long,  how­
ever.

Caesar’s  Secret of Success.

Caesar  made  it  the  one  rule  of  his ilfe 
to  be  always  in advance  of  his  enemies, 
so  as  to  meet  them  in  battle  when  they 
least  expected  it.  This  was  the  secret 
of  his  great  success.  He  led  his age  by 
always  being  in  advance  of  it.

This  rule  is  true  to-day in  every  busi­
ness  calling.  The  man who leads  is  usu­
ally  the  man  of  courage. 
It  is  courage 
that 
is  the  one  quality  needed  by  nine 
men  out  of  ten.  Be courageous  and  you 
increase  fourfold  your  chances  of  suc­
cess.  Exercise  your  own 
judgment: 
rely  on  your  own  convictions;  keep  a 
tolerably  clear  head;  and  don’t  be 
afraid !

Nearly  every  business  man  likes  to 
deal  with  men  of  courage.  They  will 
give  such  men  better  terms,  they  will 
grant  them  larger  credit,  and  they  take 
fewer  chances  in  doing  so.

Ashed  to  Pay  For  Bis  Bees*  Damages. 
South  Haven,  Oct.  27— One  of  the 
most  peculiar  suits  at  law  ever  brought 
before  any  court  is  soon  to  be  tried  in 
Van  Buren  county  between  two  neigh­
bors  and  old  friends.  One  of  the  men, 
H.  D.  Burrell,  of  South  Haven,  keeps 
about  sixty  colonies  of  bees.  The  other 
is  a  peach  grower.  A  few  weeks  ago 
the  latter  complained  of  the 
former’s 
bees  destroying 
the  early  Crawford 
peaches,  claiming  that  the  bees  came 
into  his  orchard  in  large  numbers,  bit 
holes  in  the  fruit  and  rendered  it  un­
marketable, 
for  which  he  demanded 
$200.  Prof.  J.  M.  Rankin,  of  the  A gri­
cultural  College, and  the Entomologist of 
the  Agricultural  Department  at  Wash­
ington  will  be  called  as expert witnesses 
by  the  defense  in  a  suit  for  damages.

Em ployer’s  Liability.

Clerk— I  have  been  in your employ for 
many  years,  sir,  and,  as  I  was  married 
yesterday,  I ’d 
increase  in  my 
salary.  .

like  an 

Moneybags— But,  my  dear  sir, 

this 
is  not  responsible  for  accidents 

house 
happening  to  its  employes.

it 

is  anything  but 

Innate  Depravity  of  Inanim ate  Things.
One  of  the  mysteries  that  nobody  has 
ever  satisfactorily  explained  is  the  de­
pravity  of  inanimate  things.  We  need 
a  kind  of  moral  Sir  Isaac  Newton  to 
take  this  subject  up  and  discover  what 
is  the  attraction  of  gravitation  towards 
the 
iniquity  that  always  prompts  a 
collar  button  to  roll  under  the  bureau 
and  that  makes  bread  fall  on  the  but­
tered  side. 
It  looks  as  if  it  ought  to  be 
just  dead  easy  for  a  chair  or  table  or 
stool  to  be  good  and  to  keep  on  doing 
its  duty 
in  the  sphere  of  life  to  which 
it  has  pleased  Providence  and  the furni­
ture  maker  to  call  it,  without  any  hu­
man  lapses  of  virtue  by  the  way,  but  it 
isn’t.  Everybody  has  had  experience 
with  deceitful  chairs  that 
lured  them 
into  sitting  down  on  them,  just  in  order 
to  collapse  and  bring  confusion  on  a 
bashful  m an;  of  tables  that  went  out  of 
their  way  so  they  would  trip  you  up; 
while  a  three-legged  stool,  as  a  first  aid 
to  profanity,  has  no  equal  on  this  sinful 
earth.  A  clock  will  sit  upon  the  man­
tel  shelf,  with  a  face  so  open  and  hon­
est  and  innocent  it  would  take  in  Sher­
lock  Holmes  himself,  and  lie  to  you  by 
the  hour.  We  all  know  houses  where 
we  got  a  glad  hand  and  a  warm  "W e l­
come"  from  the  door  mat  and  the  mar­
ble  heart  from  the  people  who owned  it, 
and  on  whom  we  should  never  have 
dreamed  of  calling  but  for  their  hypo­
critical  door  mat.  Nobody  will  pretend 
that 
temper  that 
makes  chimneys  smoke.  They  will  be­
have  like  angels  for  months and months, 
and  then  suddenly,  without  rhyme  or 
reason,  they  begin  spouting  soot  and 
sulphur  until  they  turn  everything  into 
a  realistic  study  of  the  inferno.  You 
send 
for  a  man  who  comes  and  pries 
and  pokes  and  breaks  the  slates  on  the 
roof  and  sends  you  in  a  bill 
for  $3.50, 
but  nothing  does  any  good  until  the 
chimney  gets  over  its  sulks  and resumes 
business  on 
its  own  account.  Sewing 
machines  are  as  subject  to  hysterics  as 
a  woman,  and  have  "sp ells”   when  they 
can  neither  be  reasoned with nor coerced 
int >  doing  their  d''ty.  There’s  no  use 
in  sending 
for  a  doctor.  Just  let  ’em 
alone  and  they will  have  it  out  by them­
selves  and  bob  up  serenely  the  next 
day, 
to  go  to  sewing  again. 
Razors  go  on  a  strike,  as  any  barber 
w ill  tell  you,  and  positively  refuse  to 
work  any 
longer.  Only  people  who 
wear  spectacles  can  realize  the  deep, 
fiendish,  malevolent  delight  they  take 
in  hiding  themselves  away 
in  secret 
places,  where  you  never  put  them  and 
would  never dream  of  looking. 
In  this 
wicked  world  of  things,  however,  there 
has  been  one  article  that  has  always 
looked  upon  as  beyond  reproach 
been 
and  above 
hairpin. 
Humble  and  inconspicuous,  yet  invalu­
able,  its  modesty  seemed  only  exceeded 
by 
is  a  distinct 
shock  to  find 
it  figuring  in  the  police 
news  as  an  accessory  to  crime  and  to 
learn  that  a  talented  young  man  who 
was  arrested  last  week  in  St.  Louis  for 
robbery  attributes  his  downfall  to  the 
evil 
In  his 
early  boyhood,  he  says,  his  mother 
locked  him  up  in  a  closet. 
In  despair 
he  threw  himself  on  the  floor,  where  his 
hand  came 
in  contact  with  a  hairpin. 
The  hairpin  suggested  to  him  to  pick 
the 
lock.  He  did  so  and  escaped,  but 
alas,  he  had 
formed  the  lock-picking 
habit,  that  has  now  landed  him  in  the 
penitentiary.  But 
for  the  corrupting 
association  of  the  hairpin  he  is  confi­
dent  he  would  have  been  an  honest  and 
honorable  citizen.  The  attention  of  the

influence  of  a  hairpin. 

its  worth,  and  so 

suspicion—the 

ready 

it 

guardians  of  the  young  is  called  to  this 
incident.  We  can  not  be  too  particular 
in  such  matters  and 
if  the  hairpin  is 
demoralizing  our  youth,  it  must  go.  We 
leave  it  to  the  young  women of  the com­
munity  to  say  if  it  is  right— if  it  is  safe 
— for  them  to  go  about  with  a  whole  kit 
of  burglar’s  tools  stuck  in  their  pompa­
dours.

New  $5  Counterfeit.

lacks  a 

A  counterfeit  of  the  new  silver  certifi­
cate  that  bears  the  portrait  of the  Indian 
"O nepapa”   has  made  its  appearance. 
The  most  noticeable  defect  in  the  coun­
terfeit  is  the  portrait  itself,  wherein  the 
right  cheek  shows  white  spots,  the 
left 
eye 
lifelike  appearance,  and 
the  .mouth  has  a  smile  upon  it.  The 
back  of  the  note  is  a  darker  shade  of 
green  than  the  genuine  bill  shows.  The 
shade  of  blue  in  the  numeral  V  at  the 
left  end  of  the  note,  in  the  seal  at  the 
right  end,  and  in  the  Treasury  numbers 
is  lighter  than  it  should  be.

BRILLIANT 

GAS  LAMPS

Are n o t expensive;  an ybody  c a n  h av e 
tht*m  an d   g e t  b rig h te r  lig h t th a n   elec­
tric ity  o r g as, sa fe r th a n  kerosene a t ab o u t 
1  10  th e  cost.  One  <]uart  tilling  la sts  18 
h o u rs, g iv in g  m ore lig h t th a n  a  m am m oth 
R ochester lam p  o r  5  e le ctric  bulbs.  Can 
be ca rrie d   ab o u t o r h u n g  anyw here.  Al­
w ays re a d y ; n ev e r o u t o t o rd e r: approved 
by  th e   in su ran ce com panies.  T hird y ea r 
an d   m ore  BRILLIANTS  in  use  th a n   all 
o th ers com bined. W rite  an d  secure agency 
fo r y o u r d istric t.  B ig profits to  agents.
Brilliant Gas Lamp Co.,42 S ta te S t.c h icag o
A .  B O W E R S,

..Commercial Broker..

And  Dealer in

Cigars and  Tobaccos,

QRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

157  E.  Fulton  St. 
Representing

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

Plaindealer,
Little Barrister,
Old Pards, Etc.

OUR  LEADERS 

Michigan  Fire  and  Marine 

Insurance Co.

Organized 1SS1.

Detroit, Michigan.

Cash Capital,  $400,000. 

Nat Surplus, $200.000.

Cash  Assets,  $800,000.

D.  W h it n e y , J r ., Pres.

D .  M .  F e r r y ,  Vice Pres.

F. H.  W h it n e y , Secretary.
M. W.  O ’ B r ie n , Treas.

E. J. B o o t h , Asst.  Sec’y. 

D ir e c t o r s .

D.  Whitney, Jr., D. M. Ferry, F. J. Hecker, 
M. W . O’Brien, Hoyt Post, Christian Mack, 
Allan Sheldon, Simon J.  Murphy,  Wm.  L. 
Smith, A.  H. Wilkinson, James  Edgar,  H. 
Kirke  White,  H.  P.  Baldwin,  Hugo 
Scherer,  F.  Ä .  Schulte,  Wm.  V.  Brace, 
James  McMillan,  F.  E.  Driggs,  Henry 
Hayden,  Collins  B.  Hubbard,  James  D. 
Stan dish, Theodore  D.  Buhl,  M.  B.  Mills, 
Alex.  Chapoton, Jr.,  Geo.  H.  Barbour,  S. 
G.  Gaskey,  Chas.  Stinchfield,  Francis  F. 
Palms,  Wm.  C.  Yawkey,  David  C.  Whit­
ney, Dr. J.  B. Book, Eugene Harbeck, Chas. 
F.  Peltier, Richard P. Joy,  Chas.  C. Jenks.
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WATER  PROOF 

WOOD  SOLE  SHOES

Price $ i . io   n e t.

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.  R IE M E R   C O .,

Patentees and Mfrs.,  MILWAUKEE,  WIS.

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G R A N D   RAPID S,  M ICHIGAN

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with  weariness.  The  lanterns  that  still 
burned  under  the  dashboards  showed 
clear  flames  and  uncharred  wicks  and 
the  lack  of  yawning  which  tells  its  own 
sleepy  story 
indicated  that  there  had 
been  no  loss  of  needed  sleep.  Twelve 
year  old 
impudence  was  looking  for  a 
chance  to  assert  itself  and,  as  if  to  fur­
nish  the  needed  opportunity,  a  neigh­
bor  coming 
out, 
“ You  up  this  early  in  the  morning?”  
was  greeted  with  “ Ye  know  I'm  always 
up  early!”   That  was  the  surly  reply; 
but  type  can  never  express  the  doubly 
compounded  quality  of  that  doubly  con­
densed  nasal  tone  that  fairly  out-Yan- 
keed  the  matured  New  England  article 
ten  to  one,  taken  at  its  best.

in  cheerily  called 

In  the  midst  of  the  stagnation  that 
had  settled  like  an  enormous  pool  over 
the  whole  Island  down  she  came  like 
Aurora  in  her  chariot,  only,  unlike  that 
charming  goddess,  she  insisted  on  com­
ing  alone  and  doing  her  own  driving. 
There  she  sat  in  the  middle  of  the  seat, 
a  generous 
load  behind  her,  a  Scotch 
cap  resting  upon  her  flaxen  hair  like  a 
crown,  her  bright  eyes  piercing  the 
gloom  of  the  dawn  like  the morning sta 
and  her  fair  young  cheeks  tinged  with 
the  flush  of  unclouded  sunrise. 
The 
sober  smokers  took  out  their  pipes  to 
look.  The  young  fellow  who  had plowed 
his  way  through  mud  and  darkness  for 
got  them  both  in  this  sudden  burst  of 
sunshine.  The  night  had  gone  and  the 
day  had  come  and  the  queen,  careless 
of  her  acknowledged  allegiance,  as 
i 
she  were  unaware  of  it,  rode  straight  to 
her  stall,  unfastened  the  cords  that  held 
down  the  sheltering  canvas,  stood by her 
wagon 
joy  of  living  and 
smiled  a  hearty  greeting  to  every  face 
her  coming  had  gladdened. 
happy  omen  for  the  day  and  for  the 
market  and  with  the  radiance  of  that 
young  face  resting  upon  it and brighten 
ng  its  darkest  corner  it  seemed a fitting 
time,  under  pleasing  circumstances,  to 
bid  good-bye  to  the  morning market un 
til  the  coming  of  another  year.

in  the  very 

It  was 

for  it  to  fertilize  small  seeds.  The tube 
of  the  red  clover  blossoms  is  usually  so 
long  that  only the  bumblebees  are  ngu- 
lar  visitants  and  are  able  to  reach  into 
these  tubes  successfully.  The  bumble­
bee  is  not  a  native  of  some  countries  or 
some  islands,  and  in  Australia  the  red 
clover  failed 
to  produce  seed  until 
bumblebees  were 
imported.  When 
there  were  sufficient  numbers  of  them 
the  plant  could  be  depended  upon  for 
If  bumblebees  were  still  more 
seed. 
numerous 
in  the  United  States,  much 
larger  yields  of  clover  seed  might 
expected  than  we  now  obtain.  A  bum 
blebee’s  nest  should  never  be  wanton _ 
destroyed. 
It  was  formerly  taught  that 
the  world  rested  on  the  shoulders  of  the 
m jthical  Atlas;  but  a  successful  old 
farmer  says, 
“ I  can  prove  that  the 
world’s  prosperity  rests  on  the  bumble 
bee :  The  world  can  not  prosper  with 
out  the  farmer’s  product,  the  farm 
not  be  productive  without  clover,  w 
can  not  raise  clover  without  seed,  and 
we  can  not  have  clover  seed  to  any  ex 
tent  without  the  bumblebee,  because 

this 

insect  that  carries  the  pollen 
from  flower  to  flower,  securing  its  de 
velopment  and  continuance.  S o,”   he 
adds,  “ let  us  know  and  protect  our 
friends. ”

So  far  as  regards  most  kinds  of  fru 

their 

blossoms 
fertilization  depends 
principally  upon  the  honeybee  alone 
and  therefore  there  can  never  be  an 
oversupply  of  this 
insect,  for  without 
their  co-operation  a  small  crop  of  fruit 
inferior  in  every  respect,  may  be  ex 
pected. 

Frank  A.  Howig

The  question  of  spontaneous  combus 
tion  of  hay  has  recently  been  investi 
gated  by  one  of  the  officials  of  the 
United  States  Weather  Bureau,  who 
states  that  fermentation  within  moist 
hay  may  raise  the  temperature  to  374 
degrees  Fahrenheit,  at  which  tempera 
ture  clover  hay  will  ignite.

The  man  who  does  not  stand  up  for 
his  own  town  is  not  much  better  than 
the  one  who  lays  down  in  its  gutters.

5go

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 fide in every way.  Ad­
dress at  once,  William  Connor,  Box  346,  Mar­
shall, Mich. 

ings,  near  school,  mail  route  and  proposed 

iiKIR SALE AT A BARGAIN—FINE  SUBUR- 
ban home of 10  acres,  orchard,  good  build­
electric railway;  or  w’ould  exchange  for  desir­
able house and lot.  G.  H.  Kirtland,  1159  South 
Division St. 
Fo r sa l e—a t  a   lo w   f ig u r e ,  c h o ic e
100-acre farm;  fine buildings, stock, farming 
tools  and  crops;  six  miles  southwest  of  city 
would  take  good  house  and  lot  as  part  pay! 
G. H. Kirtland, 1159 South Division.____   570
B
ANKER  wanted- a  reliable I man
— '  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. 

539

571

sawmill;  doing good business and  will  continue 

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 - 
only $350 cash.  Box 162, Shelby. Mich. 
552  ’
1jX)R  SALE—FRESH  STOCK  OF  GROCER- 
ies, inventorying about $1,200  in  live  town- 
fine location.  Reason for selling, other business 
Address No  546, care Michigan Tradesman.  546
t i*OK  SALE  OR  EXCHANGE  FOR  CITY 
property—one-half interest in small capacity 
to do so for  twenty  years.  Reason  for  seUing, 
other  business  which  requires  attention.  Ad! 
dress Box 64, Boon. Wexford Co.. Mich. 
544
4-ftO ^ £ ES  f ir s t -class  f a r m   l a n d
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. 
546
Fo r  sa l e—c o m pl et e  22  F o o T r r w o
cylinder, 4  h.  p.  gasoline  launch;  in  water 
only two months;  regular  price  $650.  Will  sell 
cheap  for  cash.  R.  E.  Hardy,  1383  Jefferson 
A m , Detroit, Mich. 
535
FOR  SALE—ONE  SET  DAYTON  com put- 
ing scales and one  medium-sized  safe.  Ad­
dress C. L. Dolph, Temple, Mich. 
Ho te l  f o r   r e n t  o r  sa l e—stea m
heat, electric lights,  hardwood  floors,  etc.; 
located in Bessemer, Mich., county seat  Gogebic 
county.  Address  J.  M.  Whiteside,  Bessemer. 
Mich. 
523
L ° r  s a l e — g e n e r a l  m e r c h a n d is e
1  stock, invoicing about  $8,000,  store  building 
and,fixtures.  Stock is  in  Al  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- 
'ng,  wish  to  retire  from  business  and  take  a 
needed  rest.  Address  No.  520,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman.____________ 
g§)
F O R   r e n t—a   good  b r ic k   st o r e
1.  building centrally located in a good business 
town.  Address Mrs. E. F. Colwell, Lake Odessa, 
alien. 

5x6

522

515

farms;  also double store building.  Good trading 

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.  615. 
care Michigan Tradesman. 

FOR  SALE-DRUG  STOCK  INVOICING 
F'OR  SALE  OR  EXCHANGE  FOR  GEN- 
eral  Stock  of  Merchandise—Two  80  acre 
point  Address No. 388,  care  Michigan  Trades- 
man. 
Fo r  sa l e—g e n e r a l  sto ck,  lo c a ted
,countfy  trading  point.  Stock  and 
nxtures 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 
A  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. 
^OR  SALE  CHEAP —$2,000  GENERAL 
stock and  building.  Address  No.  240,  care 
Michigan Tradesman. 

259

240

330

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THE  HORNING  MARKET.

The  Tradesman  Bids  I t  Goodbye  For  this 

Season.

The  somber  morning  was  sobbing  a 
sad 
farewell  to  the  brightest  October 
that  has  gladdened  us  for  many  a  year. 
The  trees  were  standing  disconsolate 
and  the  leaves  that  the  rain  had  beaten 
to  the  ground  were  soiled  and  sodden 
Mist  brooded  on  the  slumbering  ci 
and  the  darkness  that  rested  like  a  pall 
upon  both  was  hardly  brightened  by  the 
electric  lights  that  seemed  like  funereal 
tapers  above  the  dead  month’s  bier 
The  silence  was  broken  only  b y a sin g l 
footfall 
street  after  street  was 
threaded  with  no  louder  sound  than  that 
as  it  fell  upon  the  carpet  of  damp  dead 
leaves.  On  the  corner  where  the  street 
turns 
the  office  market  sent  its  beams  of  light 
across  the  way  in  order  that  no  wagon 
unseen  should  enter  the  precincts  of 
trade.

into  the  market  place  a  lamp 

and 

The  first  glance 

indicated  an  unoc 
cupied  waste.  The  mist  and  the  clouds 
and  the  cheerless  morning  were  doing 
their  best  to  bar  back  the  day,  but  as 
the  eye  became  accustomed  to  the  gray, 
it  soon  saw  that  an  occasional  cart  was 
in 
its  accustomed  place.  Not  a  peach 
wagon  appeared. 
It  was  an  easy  guess 
that  there  were  apples  under  now  and 
then  a  protecting  canvas,  but  there  was 
no  use 
in  exposing  them  to  the  raw 
chill  morning  with  not  a  customer  ii_ 
sight.  By  actual  count  there  were fifteen 
growers’  wagons  scattered  over  the  Is 
land  and  the  three  or  four  which  chance 
had  huddled  together  only  made  more 
apparent  the  loneliness  of  the remainde 
and  the  wide  stretches  of  solitude  be 
tween  them.  The  market  for the  sea 
son 
is  dead  and  past  all  hope  of 
resurrection.

it 

The  sullen, 

forbidding  atmosphere 
had  evidently  affected  the  spirits  of  the 
few 
farmers.  Not  cross  exactly,  but  a 
look  which  strongly  suggested  that 
the 
amenities  of  the  market  had  better  be 
closely  adhered  to.  The  solace  that  the 
pipe  is  sure  to  furnish  was  strongly 
in 
evidence  and  out  of  the  possible  fifteen 
Vesuviuses  there  were  ten  in  full  blast. 
When  the  Dutchman  has  fairly  settled 
down  to  business, 
is  a  matter  of 
record  that  it  is  safer  to  let  him  alone, 
and  with  him  a  season  with  his  pipe 
is 
one  of  the  most  serious  affairs  of  life. 
The  pipe  and  the  Hollander,  and  the 
German  and  his  lager,  are  prototypes of 
determined  earnestness.  It  is  unalloyed 
happiness  too  sacred  to  be  betrayed  by 
a  smile,  and  whether  enjoyed  at  home 
or  abroad,  nothing  trivial  or  even  amus­
ing 
is  suffered  to  interfere.  So  where 
the  wagons  were  grouped  the  pipes 
were  filled  and  lighted.  The  somber 
gloom  of  the  morning  laid  its  wand  of 
contentment  upon  every  placid smoker’s 
face  and 
it  made  little  difference  then 
whether  the  coming  customer  was  afar 
or  at  hand.  Let  the  world wag.  Some­
they 
time  between 
would  be  at  home,  without  the 
load  or 
with 
it  would  make  but  little 
difference  which.

then  and  sunset 

it,  and 

One  younger  than  the  others,  whose 
pleasing  features  still  plainly  told  of 
Dutch  descent,  nodded  “ Good  morn­
ing”   and,  when  questioned  as  to  the 
difficulties  of  the 
journey,  shook  his 
head  with  a  most  expressive  “ awful 
dark 
pretty  muddy.”   There 
was  no  need  of  wasting  sympathy  for 
any 
long  distances  taken  this  morning.
It  was  dark  and  there  was  mud,  but  the 
horses  showed  no  signs  of  exhaustion 
and  their  owners  were  not  overcome

and 

Value  of Bees  as  Fertilizers. 

Written for the Tradesman.

A   few  miles  east  of  Big  Rapids, 
Michigan,  are  several  valuable  cherry 
orchards,  and  a  few  miles  distant 
from 
these  were  two  or  three  large  apiaries, 
From  time  to  time  the  owners  of  the  or 
chards  complained  that  there  were  al 
most  as  many  bees  as  blossoms,  and 
they  traced  most  of  them  to  the  apiaries 
n  question,  and  also  asserted  that  their 
crop  of  fruit  was  being  lessened  and 
that  the  orchards  would eventually  be  of 
no  value.  So  much  was  said  upon  the 
subject  that  one  or  more  of  the  apiaries 
were  either  largely  reduced  or  disposed 
of  and  removed.  The  following  two 
years,  although  the  cherry  trees  were 
ipparently  healthy  and  bloomed  abun­
dantly,  the  fruit  was 
less  than  half  a 
crop,  showing  that  the  blossoms  were 
only  partially  fertilized.

It  has  been  known  for many years that 
11  bees  play  an  important  part  in  the 
fertilization  of  flowers  of all  kinds,  both 
wild  and  cultivated.  The  bumblebee 
equally  valuable,  although  not  as 
numerous. 
It  works  mostly  upon  the 
wild  flowers,  as  may  be  known  by  the 
fference  in  the  flavor  of  their  honey. 
Probably  the  most  important  work  these 
ild  bees  perform  for agriculture  is  up­
on  fields  of  clover.  There  is  abundant 
proof  that  this  plant  will  not  produce 
good  seed  without  the  co-operation  of 
the  bees.  While  the  wind  will  bring 
about  the  fertilization  of  corn,  grain 
and  some  forest  trees,  it  is  not  possible

A   young  man  who  has  “ the  gift  of 
gab”   is  bad  off  when  it  comes  to  him 
without  the  gift  of  common  sense.

A   man  with  a  poor appetite  thinks  he 

must  have  rich  food.

Advertisements  w ill  l>e  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.

BUSIN ESS  CHANCES.

."•OR  SALE  AT  A  BARGAIN—ELEVATOR 
_  and  feed  mill 
located  twenty-four  miles 
south of Grand  Rapids  in  country  town;  good 
paying business.  For  particulars  address  Box 
'75, Bradley, Mich. 
576
W ANTED—TO SELL HALE INTEREST IN 
a good drug business to a  graduated phar­
macist with good  references.  Geo.  M.  Jordan, 
Reese, Mich. 
574
■  RARE  CHANCE  FOR A  LIVE BUSINESS 

n an.  For Sale—The  best  established  dry 
goods and clothing store in  one  of  the  liveliest 
cities of 4,000 in  the  iron  district  of  the  Upper 
Peninsula;  elegant stock, invoicingabout$i2.000; 
doing  good  business;  best  of  prospects;  good 
reasons for selling;  store  «5x80,  with  up-to-date 
furniture for  sale  or  at  reasonable  rent.  Will 
not exchange for  farm  property.  Address  No. 
573, care Michigan Tradesman. 
FOR  SALE—FRESH.  CLEAN  STOCK  OF 
dry goods in one of the  best  cities  in  Min­
nesota;  10,000  population;  prosperous  money­
making  concern;  capital  necessary  to  run  it. 
$10,0 0 0 $12,000;  will not trade  for  real  estate; 
best  chance  in  America.  For  particulars  ad­
dress P. O. Box 2280, St. Paul, Minn. 
FOR  SALE—A  CLEAN  STOCK  OF  HARD- 
ware about $0.500;  cash;  no  trade.  Write 
Lock Box 106, Hudson, Mich. 
Fo r sa l e—n e w  stock  o f  d r y  g o o d s, 
shoes, groceries.  Good  cash  trade.  Rare 
opportunity. 
Quincy, Mfch. 

Investigate  at  once.  Box  365, 

555

573

577

551

MISCELLANEOUS.

YX7ANTED—MAN  TO  WORK  IN  MEAT 
TV  market and grocery store.  Must be steady 
apd  sober.  Address  No.  575,  care  Michigan 
Tradesn an. 
575
WANTED  BY  EXPERIENCED  MAN- 
Position as clerk in  general store.  Refer­
ences furnished.  L. D.  Miles,  Wayland,  Mich.
572

YirANTED—POSITION  AS  MANAGER OF 
J \   general merchandise stock in town  of 2,000 
to  5,000.  Fifteen  years’  experience.  Best  of 
references furnished.  Address B. A., care Mlch- 
igan Tradesman. 
ANTED—SITUATION AS  PHARMACIST 
about Nov. 15.  Write No. 554, care  Michi- 

5^

gan Tradesman. 

554

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otice of Stockholders*  Meeting.
,  Grand  Rapids, Mich. Oct. 24, 1900. 
The stockholders of  the Clark-Rowson  Manu- 
U Jake notice  that  a  meeting  is 
hereby called of  the  stockholders  of  the  above 
company,  to  be  held  at  the  Bissell  Carpet 
Sweeper Factory at 10 o’clock in the forenoon of 
if?1» 
6> 19°fi' for the purpose of  settling
the  indebtedness  of  the  company  or  applying 
their assets toward the payment  of  said  Indebt- 
®“D„e.®s’,apfi lor the further  purpose  of  settling 
of its affairs and disbanding the company. 
,V iB„c uark-Row-son Manufacturing Co. 
T M. Sh a nah an, Secretary.

